skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Competition isn't a magic wand. Lawyers fees are a market structure problem. A market can work in an efficient competitive way but requires many factors to operate that way. Customers need information, and a market where individual customers only make infrequent, non-standardized, often non-public transactions is pretty terrible for creating information customers can find and act upon. That the transactions are also non-reversible and "sticky", or difficult to change midway trough a case is also not great for a competitive market.
There are croissant-based-pastries that are high in sugar, but a standard canonical croissant is savory not sweat. It’s basically just butter, flour, water, and yeast.
Thanks a lot for the long through reply. It sounds like I might want to give VMware Fusion a go if I want to play around with Linux on my MBP again.
> To be sure, jobs could become scarce, unemployment skyrocket — always in motion the future is....

The problem with that plan (go back to work if investments tank) is that the risks are correlated; if the market crashes, jobs become scarce.

Your primary and backup plan are likely to fail at the same time.
E.g. there could be a cache that (incorrectly) returns a reference to a cache item without any locks being held by the client and reuses cache items on eviction. Then if an eviction happens before the client is done with an item, there is a data race between the client reading the item and the item being updated into the new, unrelated, cache entry.

Although, if that were the case, I'd expect various partial mismatches to also happen.
Hmm. I didn’t consider it like this, but the new Transbay Transit Center has trash cans of a similar design all around the rooftop park. They are enclosed, but the enclosure is completely transparent so you can easily see in the bags.

Honestly there’s a number of good reasons you might want that design though, e.g. needles have been an issue around San Francisco.
Randal Schwartz saved more than that by enabling caching in a template for one of Yahoo's properties near LA.

So it really is possible.

As a DBA, I routinely save that (and more) by doing query performance tuning. I aim for 500x-1,000x faster on physical hardware, and 10,000x in the cloud, thanks to EBS/pSSD latency.

And not using Hadoop.
Basically optimizing for everything but good user experience.
Maybe, but the code in question was released 5 years before Rust was first released.
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I.e. "scofflaws" - a person who flouts the law, especially by failing to comply with a law that is difficult to enforce effectively.
Regarding the "do some digging" task, I expect that obliges HR to go out and talk to people in order to solicit dirt (I mean ask for feedback outside the normal performance review channel) on the target.
The best way to beat a fobia is to face it head on. 1st start by posting your code and let people review it. Learn from the feedback and know that some are just criticizing because they want to feel better about themselves. The more you do this the more you will be able to distinguish between good and bad feedback .

Also there very few perfect coders. Just about every one can benefit from a little code review.

I remember reading the google founders where considered poor programmer but they sure figured out how to change the world. It's not how you code but what you do with it.
The climate is ever changing.

Is it possible it is the driest year on record for reasons outside of human impact?

Do we understand weather patterns enough to be confident in the conclusions?

Could the driest year on record be a random event?

This author seems to be reaching a conclusion first, then finding data to support that conclusion. Any time there is a superlative, we can conveniently apply the climate change label to it.

How about some humility?

I try to take these in good faith, but the author’s bio descriptions and stated employment at left leaning organizations are also reasons I approach this with skepticism.
Actually, the real title is

> A plume on Betelgeuse

Nasa itself links to https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0927d/.
> VR hardware has the greatest possible leverage and impact

Highfidelity tried to do that and it failed miserably. I think their major problem were the controls - they refused to add text chat and people felt incapacitated in a social environment. Second life, with its old graphics, still does it 100 times better using just a screen

- https://forums.highfidelity.com/t/going-out-staying-in-judas...
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I would install logmein or some remote access program that helps. Also helps to buy them a router with a cloud stored configuration. I mean that opens up some issues but all in all saves a lot of time.
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> It's all about the metrics. Profilers are your friend.

In my experience, profilers are not used nearly enough. They also tend to be used when systems are at or near crisis already.

It's way more valuable to have profilers run at on every build (or at least every deployment) to see if there's regressions. Having performance metrics in production to continually track key metrics is critical. All software is built with assumptions that impact performance and all of a sudden those can be invalidated. There's a lot of O(N^2) code that's just fine right up until it explodes.

Some examples I've run across:

- A query API that could contain metadata saying "throw away this result and re-query with these values instead" that worked great for years because it only impacted a single-digit percentage of queries. One day the users decided to really start using this feature, and found that the impact of executing a query that took 100ms and running another 100ms query was way worse than doubling the average.

- A system where you could configure plugins to make "pretty" URLs by running a list of regular expressions. Again, this worked great for years until both the number of URLs and the number of plugins increased and the 25% of the page generation time was spent running regular expressions.
I was just eyeing the game on my steam library early in the day. Fantastic title, shame he went on to produce so few follow ups.
With saas products you can call bullshit on these situations. The second time you are presented with a demand to produce feature X by date Z you can take a look at the results of the previous time that you were told that feature A needed to be done by day B and show exactly how many customers used that feature on the due date and exactly how many new customers signed up at that time
I have done this for a couple decades and it works great. I have been able to confront businesses that have either sold or leaked or otherwise mishandled my information. They never admit to selling my info (this may change with recent laws), but it sends a message that their behavior will be seen. It is also a great way to nullify the source of spam that makes it past the regex filters. (S25R methodolgy)
He should just attach a Tile to it for next time
Ah, I haven’t really got into that territory with mapnik. But to the second point, yes you should just generate a bunch of Raster tiles. And before doing this, ask yourself if you really need to.

If this isn’t a huge project, Mapbox is an easy packed solution. Otherwise, there are dozens of really good tile providers already.
I'm personally using chaos-toolkit with the kubernetes and istio drivers. I haven't dug too much into this yet, but will. Thanks for the hard work!
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I'm sorry but this is ridiculous. China was 20% of overseas tax revenue for the British Empire, and the US wasn't selling any notable amount of opium

Pointing out that there were more casus belli than what you think doesn't mean I believe any of them justified the wars. But, Qing China objectively saw the British Empire as lower than them, and objectively refused diplomatic channels that might have avoided this mess due to their perceived racial and cultural superiority. As in many things, it wasn't completely one sided. And yes, the flayed and tortured British Officiers for no reason but to see them suffer.

You are completely clueless as to naval military technology of the time. Steamships did in fact have sails. They only used their steam engines in war situations.

The steamships used in the Opium Wars were literally iron ships. The were superior in every single way to Chinese ships, which literally could not counter them at all. It was total naval domination due to technology, nothing else.

Yes, the fact that the Chinese central government had terrible intel due to the nature of their terrible feudal bureaucracy played a role. However, the British were able to beat down fleets and armies far far far bigger than their own, repeatedly, in enemy territory. Plainly, they won because they had iron ships with the steam engine. That is the product of industrialization.

Your perceived notion of the industrial revolution is wrong, that what you say is the start of the industrial revolution is actually after the end of the industrial revolution.

Also, tea, porcelain and fine china are either raw resources, in the case of tea, or artisan work. They aren't industrial goods at all, and are the hallmark of a poor economy. China in the last 50 years is absolutely not that. While a lot of their goods are of lower quality, they are industrially produced goods, not artisan goods. That's because the CCP, even since Mao, for all their faults, recognized the mistakes of the Qing and began to mass industrialize.
> This writing style is useful for beginners.

The most useful writing, for both beginner and expert audiences, puts the most important content first, with supporting details later. Dispersing the lede late in the article serves the author/advertisers, not the audience, and is independent of whether the content contains context for beginners or a narrative style.
>In each of these cases, I brought these issues to HR

Well there's your mistake. It's like going to the other guy's lawyer saying you're building a case against him. Better go for the jugular because they sure will.
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You can almost think of fat free milk as juice with protein. both lactose and fructose require the liver to metabolize to glucose. The fat free milk, has some protein to help slow down the absorbtion of the lactose, so it’ll be a slower carb than pure juice. The fat slows down the carb even more since the glycemic index of a food tends to be anti correlated with the proportion of carbs to other things (including non soluble fiber). More fat slower carb. Generally the slower the carb the slower the insulin response as well. And it’s insulin that triggers cells to ingest glucose. Which means the faster the carb the faster the blood glucose rollercoaster. And the more frequent the urge to eat, potentially leading to obesity (and increasing issues with insulin resistance).

Now having said all that I personally suspect whole milk is the way to go, but I don’t know the actual proportion. I’d expect whole milk to be correct for calfs, and if you really wanted to be correct for children, you’d look at the fat content of breast milk.
I like that. It bothers me when people say “I have $5k, and I’ll invest $1k of it every month for 5 months to average my ins”.
Google shutting down Xiaomi access to Assistant following Nest Hub picking up strangers' camera [1]

>"We’re aware of the issue and are in contact with Xiaomi to work on a fix. In the meantime, we’re disabling Xiaomi integrations on our devices."

...

>It appears Google isn't taking any chances when it comes to this issue, disabling Xiaomi integrations entirely. We reached out for further confirmation that this would mean a blanket disabling of all Mi Home products and were told that is the case.

Pretty annoying they have to mess up all my other devices, but at least it's being addressed.

[1] feedshttps://www.androidpolice.com/2020/01/02/uh-oh-xiaomi-camera...
I'd definitely give chase. To me, it is worth dying for. Not because of the laptop, but out of principle for vigorously fighting these ridiculous crimes. We all need to collectively fight back against crime or it will be normal (as it is now).
Oh, I meant more about data analysis. Typically you don’t import raster tiles unless we’re talking about imagery.

But as far as like roads and boundaries, you should always work with the raw vectors.
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This is 4th blog post in a sequence and I have not yet read the whole thing - but it looks like it is spot on: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/does-big-business-ha...
TIL.

Glad I was able to give you an idea, thanks for explaining. It’s cool to learn a little crash course on this.

Good luck!
I wrote about the same yesterday. Prevention is always better but if it's too late, understanding addiction is important before you go grabbing his phone and throw it away in a reactionary way.
Addiction usually comes as a consequence of something else wrong with your life - could be your "friends", school/home or expectations.

I remember it was hard to make friends with similar interest in school due to the secluded rural area. I couldn't fit in and I wasn't willing to (parenting might have eased here). I had "friends", everyone believed that and I did too but I didn't interact beyond the usual classes and was isolated emotionally. It was hard to open up and I resorted to online silos where I could talk freely and was emotionally rewarded. It was addicting because even if I had friends irl, I wasn't getting any reward from talking to them. My brain didn't register it.
I didn't like them but I couldn't move places or have new friends somehow that were more aligned with my interest.
It was an inevitable escape.

[1] Role of lifestyle in substance addiction

[2] Problems arising from smartphone addiction

[3] Alternate to blaming smartphones for addiction

[4] General overview and tips on smartphone addiction

1)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4326198/

2) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6449671/

3) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0014...

4) https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/reading-between-the-...

self plug) https://notably.cc/#/note?id=oz9fMjsOa

Edit: Tried to make links descriptive. No markdown for links :(
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I "recieved [sic] a scientific training" as well, and I choose not to call people names for trying out new ideas. Given the state of cosmology these days, all the questions and recent and unexplained phenomena, an open mind towards new hypotheses (yes, and encouraging following them up with tests ... in a non-snide way) is important.

"The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from.... Fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources." - Sagan
If you haven't played this game I strongly recommend it. It's on GOG. It's on old emulators too but the graphics and input handling can be pretty rough and unforgiving.
I don't understand what the motivations for this are...does someone really think this will create revenue? Maybe by going viral or just through shock value?
https://imslp.org/wiki/Rhapsody_in_Blue_(Gershwin%2C_George) scroll down to For Piano (Gershwin) and make sure to choose an edition that's not copywritten in the U.S.
Sorry for my pun. Thanks for the link.
Harassment is difficult to document. If it's not documented and there are no witnesses willing to corroborate (i.e. if you can't sue), to HR it doesn't exist.

Anecdotally, I've also seen people complain of harassment when e.g. someone complemented them on their looks when wearing a bikini at a company event in Hawaii. So while I in general have no sympathy for HR, they do end up in such bullshit situations from time to time.
Deniable encryption is part of a few encryption solutions (probably more than listed below). [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption#Software
The point is that using a device in this way guarantees a meltdown everytime it has to be taken away. And at the age where they can actually start managing their emotions and reactions, this approach remains a handicap for these poor kids.
Next step is to make it a 45 minute youtube video.
I've seen you pop up a few times now, and I'm interested.... and down the street! Leaving this comment in case it makes to just, say, meet up at a coffee shop in AK or somesuch.
Mostly a thought-experiment here:

There's a class of people+situations where there's a communication asymmetry. For example, someone in a position of authority can create a press conference and deliver communication to hundreds or thousands, and people can't contest and deliver communication back to all listeners in an equally timely manner. So these situations are one-sided and prone to be abused as propaganda delivery mechanisms.

Why can't we require speech in these specific situations to follow a couple rules:

- Statements of opinions must be preceded by a notice that X is your opinion, for each statement.

- Stating things that are provably incorrect is a violation of law.

- Statements that encourage behavior that is against the law is a violation of law.
Don't see why it would risk creating extra finder windows the user didn't want. If I click safari, and safari is not open, it opens a safari window. If I click it again it doesn't open another safari window, it just activates my current window. If I want more than 1 safari window, then I right click and click new window. I don't see any reason finder shouldn't behave the same.
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Oh, I'd never seen that... thanks for the heads up.
Unless there was an obvious reason for the break then there could easily be another "nearly broken" fault in the cable e.g. if break was due to stretching.

A partial break has the risk of local overheating.

So perhaps you should biff the cable anyway if it is likely to be unsafe?