skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a less cynical level, intuition is highly non-transferrable.

This is a fantastic insight. I have been so frustrated trying to reach people monads over the years. People complain that Haskell is only intelligible for those with a math background. Now I understand why!

It’s not because Haskell requires you to know the underlying abstract algebra and category theory to grok monoids (in the category of endofunctors). It doesn’t! It’s because people who have studied math in undergrad have developed the skills to take a bare, abstract definition and work through a few examples on their own to build an intuition for the concept. Regular people for the most part do not do this! Most people are used to having everything explained to them and not used to learning anything really abstract which requires effort to understand. This is where their frustration comes in, just as it does for first year math majors at a rigorous school.
I like background noise on my headset, so i always listen to comedy channels, youtube, netflix, online broadcasts. Not so loud, just enough to block the outside world.
I'm fascinated by the vikings so I've always wondered if these waterways (especially the eastern one) were as easy to use 1000 years ago.

Also they forgot the modern waterway Göta Kanal in Sweden.
Most loved and hated algorithm
> if your app uses FB login, you need to add Apple Login

Also don't do that (social login etc), if you want low maintenance.
Wow. That sounds like a downright responsible way to do business.

Hedge funds always love to claim that they fix companies and make them healthier, but most of them have a reputation for looting them, loading them with debt, and then dumping them at a temporary profit. It's good to see that Warren Buffet actually tries to make businesses healthier.
So true, and E2E doesn't matter if they force a patched binary that also sends the data to the government. This is EXACTLY what the Australian laws saws they must do, oh and it is a gag order so they can't disclose it. I think it is going to come down to this kind of attack. If you want to see your product in their country, you have to let them patch binaries. Look at what is happening in China right now with Hearthstone and the NBA and more. CEOs don't want to walk away from $BB of revenue and the growth they need to get their next bonus.
Bots Evolving to Better Mimic Humans May Prove Harder to Detect in 2020 Election
Most landlords are taking in (far) less than a $30MM in gross receipts per year though, right?

(That’s the SBA cutoff for “small business” in property renting; NAIC business codes 5311x0.)

https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2019-08/SBA%20Table%...
I've read elsewhere that such move might be deliberate, by complying to Chinese demands, but also drawing a lot of attention to the situation.
We are in some kind of Stone Age of The digital age...
Viewed in a vacuum with no context or history, one could believe this is a bureaucratic oopsie. However, the long and clear history of the South and Republican disenfranchisement makes it pretty clear the origin and intent of this law. To ignore that would be very naive.

The evilness is using loopholes (poor bookkeeping and a strained reading of the ballot measure) to suppress the vote and tyrannically hold on to power. Referendums get tampered with by legislatures all the time but most measures aren't concerned with voting rights.
Linode Data Corruption and Issues
Here's the email I received from Linode today:

Hello,

I'm very sorry to inform you that there was an issue on the host that your Linode resides on which resulted in the loss of your Linode's data. Our administrators have attempted to recover your Linode's data, but have not been successful.

Due to the severity of the issue, the Linode is unrecoverable and we are unable to migrate it to a new host. Please accept our deepest apologies. We do have measures in place to prevent this kind of data loss but unfortunately, those features could not prevent today's failure.

While we understand that no amount of money can make up for lost data, we have gone ahead and credited your account for 3 months worth of service for the Linode that was impacted. This credit will be automatically applied towards future invoices.

We recommend redeploying your Linode from any external backups if they are available. While unlikely, you may be able to recover some data by rebooting your server into rescue mode and performing a file system check. I've provided the link to our documentation for assistance:

Booting Into Rescue Mode

Performing A File System Check

This is certainly not the experience that we want you to have while on our platform, nor is it the level of reliability we want you to expect from us. We can assure you that we will be performing a further investigation of this to better prevent further similar incidents. Please let us know if you have any questions for us.

Kind Regards,
Mark
Linode Support Team

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It happened that our server hosting exitmist.com service lost all our data and leads that we've collected.

How would you react to the situation?

What is your experience with Linode?
SUNY stony brook has several laureates https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/provost/faculty/awards/aw...
Have you got any success using jsoup with proxycrawl? I contacted them but they cannot help with scala
A lot of things are taxed multiple times. I pay income tax, then use that taxed income to purchase a vehicle which carries a sales tax, and for awhile I even paid a tax on the value of that car annually. Same money being taxed multiple times. All recurring property tax can be viewed this way.

Inheritance or gifts should absolutely be taxed as income to the person receiving.
My son has lately been claiming that the thumb is not a finger, and he can explain why. I'm not sure who to believe anymore.
>>Surveillance finance. One's ability to engage financially (e.g. borrow in Libra) will potentially be determined by their social graph and online activity.

Say what?
With enough time I 100% agree but considering the flys have not adapted for centuries to biting zebras with their stripes I’m skeptical this will happen any time soon.
Maybe. If so it might be in their interest to publish the decision making process.
From the article:

> “The stereotypical image we might have of a meme is the image with captions at the top and bottom,” says Wark. “But memes have gotten a lot weirder over the last few years. Many don’t really have a punchline like a joke does [...] “A program that can classify these [memes] with a 92% accuracy rate could be extremely useful for meme consumers with visual impairment,” she says.

A large part of the memes I see day to day have no text whatsoever, and their humor comes from the context of the conversation they are being applied to. Many are simple edits whose meaning I think would be near impossible to convey through language.

And why memes? They might provide a good set of data for building algorithms that can truly grasp the context of content while parsing it's meaning, but most memes require you to be part of an in-group, have knowledge of their history and their values, and even then, a single meme could be a humorous homage for one group of people, and a mocking joke for another.
Passive backplanes are a convenient way to organize modular machines with multiple boards. I really don't get why someone would want this, however. We already have motherboard and chassis standards and upgrading them is trivial.

And I retro-envy you. ;-)
I can relate to everything you are saying. I have 2 kids now that came when my dog was about 4 years old. Things that (could) become an issue with dog ownership.... being waken up repeatedly during the night, not being able to take certain vacations without having to find accommodations or boarding the dog, development of long term issue like diabetes, complications like vomit/pee/poop in the house, no longer being able to board your dog many places if they are receiving insulin shots, and unfortunately... trauma from end of life care and decisions. A couple weeks ago we euthanized our dog who started having progressively worse seizures in less than a week time period. The most traumatic part of it was that she recovered partially on anti-convulsive medication. She already was getting older for her breed mix and had limited sight from cataracts and deafness so there were concerns about quality of life. I had to decide between spending increased time and money to keep her alive and potentially investigate the cause for some unknown amount of time, something that would be done for a human, or letting her go to avoid further pain/seizures for her and progressively more disruption to my family's life. I'm still not completely comfortable with the decision I made. The experience makes me not want another dog for which I would have to go through the end of life experience again.
As someone who made the opposite move (Bay Area -> London) I found that I started suffering from hay fever for the first time in my life.

I think that any move to an area with a sufficiently different mix of pollen can cause problems for your immune system.
All your peers are doing it and improving their social credit scores. Do you want to fall behind your peers?
I went to SUNY Binghamton for undergrad. Great school and exciting to see!
For ACID guarantees?
Pardon me for asking a really dumb question: but do you have a positive item charge - CGS? Because I'm sure one can get a great demand by selling a $1.00 for $0.90 but that's not a business model.
Agreed.

Lifting and shifting is hard. It's harder when you do it in a careless way.
Beware that this can strip colour profile information and lead to incorrect rendering of your image.

I'm not quite sure how to address that properly.
Interesting followup: I just tried to permanently delete my Blizzard account and the request is being denied regardless of my method of verification. The SMS passcode verification claimed on first attempt that it was denied "Due to too many attempts". Makes you wonder if they're intentionally breaking the delete account flow in hopes of weathering the storm.
These things happen to computers. You should have been taking backups. Any data loss is on you. Seems like Linode responded reasonably, in my opinion.

I would react by rebuilding my server(s) and restoring the backed up data.
why is it considered pejorative? Learning off better players is a smart strategy imho.
Isn't a rule that says people of one skin color are not allowed to have a voice in and of itself such a power structure?
> it’s only illegal to spoof your number for fraudulent purposes

Seems like you’re gettig bogged down in semantics sir
No, it isn't. It's cessation of economic activity that is demanded.
That click-away behaviour is easily addressed by using VLC or mpv to play content. Either with video (and in PiP mode if you like), or audio-only (which I generally prefer).
I'll chose TempleOS for my go-to "paranoid schizophrenic philosophy" daily driver over CollapseOS anyday, and I'm atheist.
Doing God’s work.
There's certain events that can escalate strategic competition to conflict. Like in WW1, the "powder keg" was set by the strategic competition between multiple countries in Europe and the way the balance of power was distributed. The assassination of of the Archduke did not create this powderkeg, but it triggered it.

The "powder kegs" today are mainly the competition between the United States against China. There's also regional competition / "powderkegs", like Europe and Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran, India and Pakistan.

Events that could have triggered these powder kegs/massive conflicts have calmed down a bit (relatively). The biggest ones have been when U.S vs North Korea rhetoric was at a tense high (China is heavily involved with NK and would likely get involved in any war there like they did in the 1950 Korean war), India-Pakistan (two nuclear powers bordering China) had some conflict on their border and were a the brink of war for a bit there (India is big competitor to China, Pakistan its big ally), and to a lesser extent Iran. If conflict were to arise in Iran, it would have probably been another middle eastern war (lots of money and death, few results), it would likely have Russia involvement like in Syria, and potentially China (although china like the money approach to influence, as they have put money towards influencing countries like Iran, and to a lesser extent Afghanistan and others).
nice chicken/egg problem!

- "Ask Questions" should be Green
- "Answer Questions" should not be Red, but rather a complementary color like Orange, Blue, Purple, or Pink ;-)

best of luck. What is your #1 method for getting Companies/Demand aware of this?
Do the lenders lend that $1B to the pizza company, or did they lend it to the hedge fund, which then transferred the debt to the pizza company? If the latter, I think the hedge fund should be considered the lender to the pizza company so they're on the hook when the pizza company goes bust.
She wanted to create the site the day before parent orientation. She ended up not doing the site because she figured it wasn't worth the time to make something that the parents wouldn't even visit as the parents of her students are mostly not involved in their children's education.

My main argument against using Google Slides is the URL was not going to be easy to remember when telling parents. I pointed her to things like wordpress or wix that would allow her to have a free account but also would allow her to have a URL that would be easy to communicate. She didn't want to spend any money on a domain name either.
No I don't, but 6 billion people is a lot of attention to spread around. Why?
Not as easily. As I understand it, with Mobile BankID, the attacker goes to the bank web site and then asks the victim to authenticate with their BankID app.

With the real BankID, the computer accessing the bank web site needs access to the smart card. Exploitation is still possible of course, but the bar seems higher.
Yeah, that's kind of what I've expected. However, having the police report often helps when dealing with the bank if there is any real fraudulent activity. It shows them you're serious.
> When I read the thread now, it's obviously full of red flags. I was successfully manipulated, and whilst I'm certainly not as clever as all the people pointing out they would have caught this from sentence one, I believe I'm also not the lowest hanging fruit in terms of a target :-)

I think it's soo easy to spot scams because 99% of them are so shit, poor spelling, talking nonsense.

If scammers simply spell checked their scams I would fall for them all.
she was a very good writer. "Against Interpretation" is a reasonable collection of essays to look at and they are mostly pretty accessible.
Yes, except for the time when the AI is located in (a) datacenter(s) that is not on the same continent as you and it was trained to recover from power outages or even catastrophic events in the location of the datacenter (backup & recovery to another location(s)).

But yeah, I'm not talking about the nested ifs "AI" we have today.
ACID guarantees have nothing to do with relational vs non-relational. FoundationDB is one example of a non-relational key value store that none the less provides ACID guarantees.
How is that semantics? Fraud is already illegal literally everywhere, so spoofing your number for fraudulent purposes will obviously be a part of that crime.

If this is intended to defend your original claim, you’re being utterly ridiculous. You made a specific claim about caller id spoofing, not fraud.

For example, If you’re spoofing a random number for telemarketing calls that’s just not fraud.
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In my ex-field of interest, https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/ is the go-to blog for papers.

Usually after reading what he writes I don't even read the paper because nearly all papers massively overstate the importance of their results and it takes a ton of reading to parse out what little thing they did and how it contributes to our existing massive knowledgebase.

I think scientists use complex language to make it harder for other scientists to figure out how wrong they are.
The lesson to be learned here, and the one they admittedly already knew in advance, is if you do a lift and shift to AWS without changing your processes to be cloud native, you will always spend more.

Unfortunately, I’ve met way too many old school netops guys who got one AWS certification and all they knew was how to log into the web console and duplicate their colo infrastructure, charge their client a lot of money, and call it a day.

That being said, I’ve used a lot of CI/CD tools and OctopusDeploy is by far my favorite.

Even though my company is very much a “pay someone to do the undifferentiated heavy lifting” type of company, OctopusDeploy is so easy to use and maintain, I am not sure we would migrate.
Cookie monster eats data from Sesame Street store
> without the mental illness.

"But if the collapse magnitude is right, then this project will change the course of our history, which makes it worth trying."

Let's say the jury is still out on that one? :D
Most european car rides are perhaps under 15 minutes, so...
The thing to understand about China is that domestic alternatives to international products, especially in 'sensitive' industries (basically anything technologically significant) is ALREADY a core government goal and a major cornerstone of their tech, IP, and political policy. The CCP has stated on many occasions--going back years--that their goal is to eliminate any reliance on non-Chinese firms. This has more urgency in some industries (eg semiconductors) than others, but the ultimate goal is the same.
It's important for those with a large following to speak out on these topics too. Not everyone has to be in the streets protesting. Some people can use their influence and following to spread the message further than it would otherwise. He used his platform to speak out, at risk of harming his livelihood and ability to do business in China. Meanwhile, you've done even less. Don't be a hypocrite.
> Why would you bother with a relational database at that point? That sounds like it’s not normalized.

It's non-1NF, though they sometimes (based on expected cardinality) normalize that aspect via a trigger, using the application-accessed table as, in effect, something of a write-through denormalized materialized view. It's not an entirely unreasonablev way to use an RDBMS in and of itself.
because they didn't know what they were doing - I can say this as this is what the blog shows, they don't understand databases and customers (including me) have suffered this
Often bias on Wikipedia is more easily revealed by what was removed rather than what was added. If you really want to see what's been covered up, check the edit history and the talk page. "Wikilawyers" are good at invoking whatever community guideline they can to get things added or removed.
There's people who will hardcore boycott them though. I for sure wont be playing Diablo 3 finally (I know, I'm super late). I'll take my money elsewhere to someone who shows they cares about the basic freedoms.
Ah, okay. To me that's what my laptop keyboard is for, but I think I understand better now.
Grammatical and structural complexity is a problem that should be corrected. However, the use of specialist terms and abbreviations is not a problem so long as they are understood by the audience for the paper. The example given is OK if understood by interested biochemists.
> retail investors

I don't think the target is retail investors, at least not directly.

This is an unprecedented time when it comes to two things:

* The amount of money flowing into index ETFs that don't really discriminate what they buy

* The globally low interest rates leaving huge funds seeking returns anywhere they can find them

All they need to do to get a ton of interest is fit the criteria of some of the broad index ETFs (e.g. be listed within the S&P 500) or be more attractive than the competition.

I also don't think it's the assets/companies that are worth as much, but rather that currency has lost a ton of value - exponentially more than any of the reported inflation measures.
Going to the cloud won't save you money.

Going to the cloud lets you scale beyond your own data centre

Going to the cloud can be cheaper if you use the elasticity and make good use of PaaS services (servless,paas, etc)
It's certainly a conundrum. Depending upon the type of account involved, there has to be some reasonable medium between

1. Accounts/resets performed because you asked nicely and maybe provided some laughably easy-to-obtain information and

2. Showing up at the Twitter office in San Francisco with notarized copies of your birth certificate, latest utility bill, Social Security Card, etc.

And that happy medium will doubtless be both vulnerable to a determined targeted attack and a sufficient PITA for some users that they'll end up losing access to an account.
Do you think that the blanket itself might have some kind of influence on preventing biting insects? /sarcasm
A while ago, while talking to a friend about game design, I had the realization:

Players will quit over issues they see in a game, even when in actuality those are non -issues.
> The West gambled that economic prosperity would usher in an age of Chinese liberty, if not actual democracy

Early on, not without reason. The outcome of the Cold War seems to be to the democratic-capitalist West's favor. It seems to me that as we move closer to contemporary times, this ideological component starts to take a backseat as businesses grew increasingly reliant on China's affordable export economy.
For generally improving writing, I'm a big fan of "The Art of Scientific Storytelling" by Rafael Luna. It's a short, focused book that walks you through writing an easy (well... easier) to read scientific manuscript.
Popularity evolution of programming languages since 2004 (Source: PYPL)
I have a streaming multimedia app that I want to launch. It ingests from the client, does some transformations, then sends it back to them (or to other parties) in realtime. It's pretty novel though - Snapchat adjacent.

I can't do it clientside. Nature of the problem.

I'm writing it in Rust, so it's relatively fast. But throwing thousands of people at it will still require extreme scale. I'm going to use K8S horizontal autoscaling. This will be obscenely expensive.

I'm not sure I can afford this. But I think a month of successful demonstration will get me funded (or bought out). So in theory my costs could wind up getting paid. Maybe.

Do I risk launching this and potentially having $100k multiples of AWS bills? I can't afford that. I don't want to deplete my life savings or potentially go bankrupt.

Could I put it on a corporate card as an LLC and do my best to make it work? Then fold without harm or fowl if it doesn't? Is that unethical? Could I get sued?

All that said, I'm almost certain that a successful demo at scale with the Internet thrown at it will get me money. It's a really cool and novel product. People will be talking about it.

What should I do? Advice will be very appreciated.