skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happened is arguably more stupid: by filling up the disk, 1) they definitely noticed, 2) I couldn't get what I wanted, and 3) I couldn't clean up the logs after it. Thankfully I had covered up my steps (or, more probably, the sysadmin was ashamed to see he had been hacked and chose to fix it and say nothing).
No, I think you and a few other people read me wrong.

You see these people going around in a flap, all heat, little light. Meanwhile there's other people in the office quietly getting on with things. The noisy one is compensating for inability with visibility.
Allow me to nerd out a little, since my other love besides development is severe weather.

The forward flank downdraft or rear inflow jet of a linear convective system/bow echo can see winds of 50mph+ rather commonly. The more interesting part IMO, is the rear flank downdraft, because it is closely related to tornadogenesis and can also have winds up to 100mph. The RFD is co-located with the hail core in a supercell, so some hail will get caught up in this wind that exists even when there isn't a tornado.

Now terminal velocity of your average baseball-sized hail is roughly 100mph, but you can imagine with 100mph horizontal winds that there can be a strong non-vertical component to the hail in certain portions of the storm. I've personally been hit by smaller 1-2" hail that is traveling nearly horizontal, and I've seen evidence of larger hail impacting at the same angle.

It's a safe assumption that the larger the hail is the more damaging it is, but not all hail is created equal! Depending on how accretion happens and the warmth of the atmosphere, you can have very hard 1" hail that damages cars, and very soft 2.5" hail that doesn't damage cars. My personal rule of thumb is that you need to be wary of anything 1.75"/golf ball or larger.
Wait, this is just for dummy code for demos? I've been using at work for our production system. I figured the compiler would catch any mistakes...
Blogs= spam

Paid articles = ???
We have just one history. There's a real danger of over-training or over-fitting the data.
Pointless meetings are just a part of meetings. Imo you can't have valuable meetings without pointless ones. Knowing how to best minimise the toil is key.
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Without trying to be sarcastic myself, is this sarcasm?
I agree. Unfortunately OAuth is impractical for this project, as it requires registering your application with Google.

Instead I've done my best to make clear how it works[0][1] and what is stored[2].

As mentioned in a sibling comment Google does not have a good track record with similar projects. AFAIK the only project that provides similar functionality is youtube-dl[3], which works the same way.

Important to note is that this functionality is optional; you do not need to log in with Google to store subscriptions or preferences. The main benefit currently is that it will automatically sync subscriptions with YouTube, otherwise I would recommend creating a new account on Invidious and then importing subscriptions from YouTube.

0. https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/8wvazc/invidou...

1. https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/blob/8af87f1/src/invid...

2. https://invidio.us/privacy

3. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/76e510b/youtube_...
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Pricing things with a better underlying risk model is likely to lead to more profit, or at least, a more predictable profit.
Do you mean the Bee-Watcher wants to know what to tell the Bee-Watcher-Watcher?
> That's like looking at language that has both if/then/else statements
and switch statements, and asking "do we really need both?".

Not sure if that jab was intended or not, but Python, one of the most
popular programming languages in the world, doesn't have a switch
statement, probably for this exact reason. Python programmers use
chains of if/elif*/else? statements.
Just install a low power CPU. You can get one on eBay delivered for a little more than USPS 1st class shipping. Most of my devices, including my NAS, consume 25-35w, so up to 15w additional consumption, as checked with Kill-A-Watt.

Ever do a tiny load of laundry to get one shirt clean? You've just used something like a year of computer running.

Do you run your air conditioning while your refrigerator exhausts into your kitchen? I call that a kitchen heater. You're heating a cooled space.

I find for whatever reason, tech people all worry about the energy consumed by tiny devices.
If you're after precision, it's not really a product launch. It's more like a pre-release for developers and testers.
Maybe scrap HS2 and spend the money on this instead? Seems a better use of however many billion we're up to and would probably make more of a difference...
I'm new to ML and seeing approaches & explanations like yours is really helpful. Currently in an Introduction to Deep Learning course on Coursera and reading through notebooks outside of a strictly academic setting is enlightening. Thanks for sharing
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That sounds great and is something that is already considered to some extent in the current software architecture. Can you name one exact feature that you would like to add?
Also, feel free to reach out to us via email. We would be happy to help you write the first plugin/extension :)
Do you prefer ads or paywalls?

Nobody's ever happy..
They couldn't put out a worse message.

I very much support their search for an alternative to monetarism (surely now completely discredited), the inevitable gross inequality of pure capitalism, the failure of markets to deliver good societies, and so on, but this just reeks of a return to "old socialism".
Like the old adage : "Excel isn't done until Lotus won't run.'
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Wow this (and the similar California effect) are a great name for exactly the "feeling" I was talking about. I'll use this from now on. Thanks.

California's done this with emissions.
When it gets bad, I'll stop going.

But right now I am still getting decent results.

I don't use Facebook anymore, yet we had some hysteria about that being manipulated.
The reason to avoid (ostensibly good Labour) government overreach is that you can't trust the Tories when they're in power.
Try to ask around Stack Exchange or whatever, I'm certain some people have been running the BEAM on the second generation Threadripper chips (this one being pretty much just a better 16c Threadripper on a consummer socket) since they've been so popular for productivity/compilation.
Pff. My mother's a modern woman. We text and email.

(I feel bad I don't phone more often)
Perhaps that listing all the excellent reasons for why some tech is 'better' than another does not translate into said tech being used.
Can anyone explain to me why the Heroku model is so singular?

It’s an interesting process, but it’s not one that has been emulated by competition as far as I’m aware. Which seems like it would make it harder to switch vendors.

And yet they have been around for ages.
"free"

okay but where does the money come from?
daily scrum + sprint planning + backlog grooming = micromanagement

Micromanagement looks a lot different to me.
Prefer Rust to C/C++ for new code
Unbelievable. As I read the article I kept expecting him to die during one of his feats, but somehow he lived to be an old man. Incredible.
you can say that about anything
> Calling it now: not happening. Just like half of their current election promises.

Do we still have the list of things that the Tories under David Cameron promised Scotland? What happened to that?
What kind of functionality do you want to add? The software is written in a modular way and it is not too hard to extent it. Please reach out to us via email and then we will help you to extent the library.
Fairness would involve treating everybody the same, rich or poor.

You don't like the poor, you just hate the rich.
This is outright false, no basis in fact whatsoever.
when she was 14
"can't"

At this point, I don't trust the NSA at all. There's always some wiggle room in anything they say, and I'm fed up with it. This isn't how a free society operates...
> If 5 is False, it means all of the above 5 - 1, 2 , 3, 4 are True

That is incorrect. "Not All False" does not imply "All True."
Why such bad grammar?
Not sure I'd call it a 'bad bad practice' for a user to do it voluntarily, but it's unnecessary.

I think the above commenter is thinking about the requirement a user to change a password on a timed basis. There's been a good bit of research done in this area, and the consensus is that it just causes most people to stick a number at the end of their password anyway, making the policy completely worthless at best, but it often leads to people writing their passwords down.
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Extremely rarely. Probably the thing I do the most is write the implementation as I think it should function, then write the test to meet the result I want, and correct from there. Sometimes the test requires a correction and sometimes the implementation does.
From memory, I think the tallow is used to lubricate the rollers in bag making machines. Though if that were the case I'd expect dogs to do the same. Those dummies will eat anything.
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At least, apart from numbers, which all are rendered in Roman numerals.
The product of two iterables is a list of pairs of each item in the first iterable and each item in the second iterable (same as set product in math):

[a, b] × [c, d] = [(a, b), (a, c), (b, c), (b, d)]

The number of elements of the product of two iterables is the product of the number of elements of each. You can similarly have a product of 3, 4, etc. iterables.

The repeat keyword argument to product specifies that we want not a product of several different iterables, but the product of an iterable with itself N times. So we pass a tuple of all possible boolean values (True, False) and ask that it be raised to the 6th power, giving us all possible 6-tuples of all possible boolean values.
Same here, but working with that assumption:

Yes. And we might have too I'd say. Given the defacto monopoly they have, I think it is reasonable to agree that they fulfill a public utility function and thus need to be held to a higher standard. This should however be done through regulation, cause that is why we have governments.
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We are just entrusting our minds to Social Networks, so that's not that far from being acceptable
My take on tests is that they serve two purposes:

1. As a security system for your code

2. As a tool for thought, prompting the application of inverse problem solving

Both of these have costs and benefits. If you consider the metaphor of the security system, you could secure your house at every entry point, purchase motion sensors, heat detectors, a body guard, etc. etc. If you're Jeff Bezos maybe all of that makes sense. If you're a normal person it's prohibitively expensive and probably provides value that is nowhere near proportional to its cost. You also have to be aware that there is no such thing as perfect security. You could buy the most expensive system on earth and something still might get through. So security is about risk, probability, tradeoffs, and intelligent investment. It's never going to be perfect.

Inverse thinking is an incredibly powerful tool for problem solving, but it's not always necessary or useful. I do think if you haven't practiced something like TDD, it's great to start by over applying it so that you can get in the habit, see the benefit, and then slowly scale back as you better understand the method's pros and cons.

At the end of the day, any practice or discipline should be tied to values. If you don't know WHY you're doing it and what you're getting out of it, then why are you doing it at all? Maybe as an exploratory exercise, but beyond the learning phase you should only do it if you understand why you're doing it.
I think people are forgetting what it is like to be a child and learn as a child. Putting words on-screen doesn't matter if children cannot read. And children like to move around and interact with both people and objects in the real world.

I found that my kids hated all online learning products until they were at least 10. And then once their reading and writing ability was advanced enough to consume online content, it felt like overnight they loved the ability to research a problem online and learn independently, but they still want someone in the room to answer questions when the online content doesn't make sense. And they still hate most products because now they are too slow, or too inflexible, or something just isn't right for them.

In short, the systems that are being designed by adults don't have product/market fit because they aren't doing usability testing with students. They aren't respecting how children develop, how they communicate, how they learn, etc.
I hope you learned and not just to use 'df' more often.
For those who can't see the article:

>The practice of creating blacklists for certain types of sites or searches has fueled cries of political bias from some Google engineers and right-wing publications that said they have viewed portions of the blacklists. Some of the websites Google appears to have targeted in Google News were conservative sites and blogs, according to documents reviewed by the Journal. In one partial blacklist reviewed by the Journal, some conservative and right-wing websites, including The Gateway Pundit and The United West, were included on a list of hundreds of websites that wouldn’t appear in news or featured products, although they could appear in organic search results.

Gateway is trash and I'm not sure what United West is but they can't say they aren't blacklisting political sites at this point. Pretty big challenge for them ahead of the bipartisan AG investigations and 2020 elections.
From what I understand about TDD it's more about getting the design right then testing for bugs.
Everyone's in the confessional booth here admitting dogmatic test-first-test-everything's not so hot in practice, which is nice, but how long until it becomes safe to answer with anything other than some variation of "love testing, it's always great, I love tests, more is better" when asked how you feel about testing in interviews?
Breaking changes have been fairly minor and I haven't found them to be an issue for the project. It's also possible to anticipate most changes early (compile with `crystal --warnings all`).

I'm not sure I would recommend it for something on the scale of Apple or Microsoft, but for a personal project like this I've found it a very enjoyable experience.
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This also includes the Pax app (used for vaping canabis flower) having nothing to do with any of the e-juice related incidents lately. Pretty broad stroke :/
This is great!

But how do you make [will be making] money?
Where were you in my intro linear algebra courses?
Not only do those things make meetings more productive, they increase the overhead to calling a meeting.

We don't often celebrate making things harder to do, but adding friction to something that's happening too often can help bring it back into balance. That's especially true for things with large "multipliers". An unscripted meeting might take one hour for the person calling it, but eat 10 hours of other people's time (plus interrupt them). Adding an hour of prep and summary for the caller lowers that ratio a bit so everyone has a more similar view of the meeting.

That's rarely grounds to make things harder with no benefit, but meeting prep has very solid benefits. Even in terms of time wasted, a clear agenda keeps meetings from dragging on, and routing minutes/summary after the fact avoids repeating discussions or inviting people who only need to listen.
That's not actually what happened here, not to say rent-seeking won't happen in the future. R&D stopped well before acquisition, and since acquisition the main focus has been making the product scalable, reliable, and expanding to business users.
Perhaps you are being overly dismissive of the "extroverts" needs in the situations you are describing...

Some might just "complain", but others feel safer being vocal in a group of people.

You mention understanding that some of the quietest people have the most to say behind a screen, well, I imagine there is a non-insignificant group of people who feel much safer talking it out within a group where there isn't a written record and they can judge the crowd's reaction immediately.

I wouldn't consider myself anywhere close to an extrovert and I would consider myself more candid in spoken communications at work, even when my whole team is present.

Just my 2 cents.
> the asynchronous “always on, always connected” style

Nit: I've always heard this called synchronous, since in this style work is performed immediately, rather than queued up to wait for execution at a scheduled time.
Forgive me if I'm missing the point of your question, but isn't the answer obviously ads? Even if they couldn't be blocked, at least they don't prevent me from accessing the content. I guess ideally there would be ads with a pay option to remove them, but that's just from a consumer point of view.

Regardless, I realize we shouldn't be complaining about paywalls in comments. I just wanted to address your question.
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It could be rephrased that way without changing the answer, but I don't think it would be any harder that way. You can still start with question 1 and continue downward to logically deduce the answer.
I don't get the title. How is 50 hours a week is not busy?
It makes sense for Google to blacklist news/featured results. I don't want "Occupy Democrats" showing up in the news feed any more than I want Gateway Pundit there.

Blacklists in the search results themselves would be problematic.
Even in Star Trek, there were admirals, and there were ensigns. There were First Chancellor of the Planet, and common folks.
I'm really excited about a true Linux, non-Android, phone, but how far are we from something that's actually usable? There's Pinephone and Librem 5 on the horizon, but any news about their release comes with a lot of caveats. "Early adopters and developers only, experimental software, use at your own risk," etc. I'll happily buy one once it can reliably be used to make and receive calls and text messages and browse the internet, but how far away is that?
John Cleese taught us that in the 70's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meetings,_Bloody_Meetings
This is easy : I have an ad blocker, so I’m happy with ads.
I think we have already fixed the plot naming. Did you see that in the video?

About the communication: I can understand that. We try to communicate clearly that we both are commercial and support Open Data. It's not easy, however. Especially when people see you for the first time.

According to your perception, where could we be more clear on the communication?
There's a good chance your local library carries a subscription. Sometimes even online subscriptions. Take the article title/date with you and I'm sure you could get a hold of it to read in-depth.

I know here in Toronto, our library subscribes via Pressreader which gives access to a large number of periodicals and newspapers.

https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEDB01...

Or try an aggregate service like Apple News where you pay a little more total but get wide-reaching access to a large number of pubs.

edit: Sorry, it doesn't look like Pressreader has WSJ, but they do have a large number of other American pubs. Apple News+ has WSJ, I believe.

https://www.pressreader.com/catalog/usa
Actually, all our initial users are professional data scientists who work at least 10-20h per week with pandas. This is also reflected in the pricing.

They like the opportunity to not always have to write the code and just reach it via the UI. So they have a smooth workflow without inspecting the data in Libre Office/Excel or having to google so often.

However, what they especially like are the data exploration and visualization features because they save them a lot of time. You can see a video of those here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0a58h1OCcg
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Well, to create a well-enough formalized method of control for the AI-

As part of a 1,000,000 year long project, 1,000,000 groups of 1,000 human babies (with different groups having different gender ratios) are installed on remote habitable planets and raised from birth by genderless robots, tabula rasa. They grow up and form languages and societies that last for 1,000,000 years. Robots are used to observe their choices and outcomes. The distribution of cultural traits is gathered as data, and cultures which create good outcomes for individuals in accordance with their preferences and for society as a whole are noted as benefit-maximizing. Additionally, the degree to which each society deviates from mean gender-bias characteristics is noted, and the degree to which these gender-bias expectations mold the choices of each individual to a degree greater than mean gender-bias is noted. This data is used to train the "sorting hat" robot which will be used in the example in my original post.
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Not often. But when you're implementing something that needs a lot of iteration, a test case that you never commit can be a good alternative to copy-pasting statements into REPL. Then as it comes together you can just clean up that garbage test and turn it into something worth committing.
Ads. The social contract of the web was: link aggregators bring traffic to websites which need views to ad-support themselves. WSJ doesnt need it. (This article is not available on archive.is or anywhere. You actually need to pay to see it).
I was raised Mormon since birth. I recently recovered from it a few years ago. But I can tell you that MLMs are INSANELY POPULAR among Mormons (especially the female crowd). I could go into detail about why, but it basically boils down to a few key factors:

- Mormons have huge community networks.

- Mormons are gullible (this will feel offensive to current Mormons, but unfortunately it is true, the entire relgion basically requires you to believe in very crazy stories that are easily proven false if you question them even a tiny bit). And once a leader has been built up to be a "trusted leader" they are taught to follow them without question.

- Mormon women are mostly homemakers (the church largely enforces or "encourages" this), who are looking for ways to support their family or themselves. Work from home schemes that require little work are very attractive to them.

- Mormons have huge families with generally only 1 primary earner. So they often need the extra money. Get rich quick schemes tend to do well within Mormon communities for this reason.

- The Mormon religion is organized nearly identical to an MLM, with layers of free labor. The big worldwide Mormon "rallys" (called "General Conference") is almost identical to a rally for an MLM. If you have been to both, it is hard to tell them apart.

I have been involved in MLMs (through other Mormons in my area) before and the line between MLM and Mormonism is pretty blurry. Mormonism is basically an MLM selling you eternal life (just requires 100% obedience to their laws, and 10% of all pre-tax income you make during your lifetime). So for Mormons who have grown up that way, the MLM atmosphere is very comfortable and familiar. They trust it more than the standard corporate structure. MLMs roll through Mormon communities like wildfire for those reasons.

I have been personally invited to more MLMs as a Mormon than most people reading this even know existed. It is a pillar of Mormon culture.