skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To offer some help for 2 and 4, you can get a script out of a notebook with jupyter nbconvert <notebook.ipynb> --to python, which you can even include as a cell that starts with ! since that will run shell commands.

For part of 3, there is global search and replace accessible either via Edit -> Find and Replace or Esc-F, and it includes case sensitivity toggles, regex search, and the option to change the current cell or globally.

For 1, I think there are some plugins that can make that tidier, but I've generally just accepted that if the people I'm presenting to don't want to see code then I'll just need to make a set of slides out of the whole thing.
For electronics at least I can't remember the last time user reviews drove my purchase. I always look at specs/benchmarks, reviews on tech sites etc., and then go to the vendor with a fair idea of what I want.
>That is exactly what I was referring to. DAO was an "investment" with an unspecified way to make money, it was essentially a gamble.

The DAO was supposed to be a VC firm. If you want to say that the DAO was gambling then so is all Venture Capital.

> The funds in it were a majority coming from ethereum foundation members. The reason that they were 14% of all ethereum at the time was that at the time something like 85% of ethereum in existance had been premined by the ethereum foundation (at the moment it's 75%).

What a laughably stupid thing to say. Ethereum did an ICO before that term was a thing, mined a shit ton of ETH and sold almost all of it for Bitcoin. By the time the DAO was a thing the Ethereum foundation controlled ~12M ETH, which did not overlap with the ~11.5M ETH in the DAO (The funds were for the development of Ethereum, not speculative purposes). There was an additional some 60M ETH from the initial sale + ETH from newly mined blocks, not in the DAO and not part of the ETH foundation.

>Most people who opposed the fork also stayed with ethereum because the ethereum foundation, which they'd collectively invested millions in, announced it would not support the fork.

The Ethereum foundation announced it would not support what exactly? If you mean Ethereum Classic well that is not a fork of anything - but a continuation of the original DAO chain. 11% of people voted against the Ethereum fork and presumably did not migrate (or likely just used both).

>in fact, it announced that the fork wouldn't even exist-- which caused companies like coinbase hundreds of thousands in losses from replays due to not being prepared for it

Er, what? Assuming you are referring to ETC, which again is the original chain, the Ethereum Foundation does not have the power to determine its existence or non-existence. The original chained continued to be mined and supported by nodes.
Yeah, that depends entirely on the company and – most importantly – you current boss. Also, I don't think ADHD is a protected class so, even if accommodations are made, the next boss that comes over can totally do the PIP thing.

For anyone reading this: if you ever find yourself placed in a "PIP", leave. That's like being inside a black hole's event horizon, you'll never come back.
You realize the number quoted there is a reasonable estimate (if not an underestimate) of the number of infected, right?

Here is a thread on what Weibo was saying two weeks ago, when Weibo users thought that Hong Kong was overreacting to the outbreak (images in simplified Chinese [1], again, the images are hosted on LIHKG, but you can search Weibo to verify).

The fact that disease-related information is censored, hence the misjudgement of the public, is named a reason for the spread of the virus [2].

[1]: https://lih.kg/1835161 "【回顧】兩星期前既微博"

[2]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-censorship-helps-spread-...
Wow, SSD prices bounced back after December. I think most people were (and still are) expecting $100/TB to be the new baseline.

https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B078DPCY3T?context=searc...
If possible, Micro Center or Frys. Frys is somehow profitable but with dwindling stock at every California/Nevada location I’ve been to recently (maybe an indicator of higher prices?), but Micro Center is great.
Kind of sad. It would be much easier and cheaper to build this with today’s equipment and computing power.
On desktop just using Qt under open-source terms is a pretty good option, unless you really need one of the GPL-licensed add-ons. The announced change for the LTS versions tries to make that a bit less attractive, but for many it's not going to be that much of an issue.
You can get a REPL attached to a notebook in jupyter. When you open a console in jupyter-lab you have the option of attaching it to an already running kernel. Using the notebook interface you can connect a console using `jupyter console --existing`. By default this connects to the most recent session, but you can also specify a session by passing a token.
I use Jupyter Lab with Python every day. It's where I do my initial data exploration and cleaning. Jupyter Lab is not perfect, but most of these findings seem like they are more issues of inexperience with technology and programming, not computational notebooks.
That's certainly possible, but it's not likely (in my experience working with CDS features). These sorts of alerts are pulling data from all sorts of different places, and there's generally at least some engineering effort involved in setting up new "categories" of alerts like this.
I am disappointed that this article isn't about black,floating,triangular aircraft with bead-on-a-wire exhaust.
I'm not an app developer. Would this be technically doable on Android? Isn't there already support for running certain apps in a sandbox/container?
Doesn't really work for corporations. (See: Dieselgate). They don't get caught for years, if ever.
Which is none? Anyone can walk up to you on the street and take your picture.
I was kinda shocked to learn that long-haul natural gas pipelines are more efficient than long-haul power lines. They also tend not to fail during ice storms.

The Greater Seattle Area has had whole areas without power for days or weeks within recent memory. It's not just an issue for old or rural areas.

Putting all of your eggs into the electricity basket can get people killed. We should work on addressing these problems (or accepting energy diversity) sooner rather than later.
So they have fixed the last big hurdle to btrfs adoption in the small (single node) NAS space and are just sitting on it (violating the GPL). I urge any Synology user to write them to send you the Linux kernel source then upload it somewhere... though, their last Linux kernel drop seems to have been in 2017, so not much hope there...
And I'd be fine with that whenever that would happen by a person organically making the decision to do so.
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> When they started shipping unwanted malware together with

> Java was when I decided to remove Java from my toolset.

Would just like to say, OpenJDK is quite a solid step-in replacement for Oracle's Java: https://openjdk.java.net/

I've used it in production, I've built apps that I then _had to_ use Oracle's Java (without problem), using older and newer versions have been very stable - would very much recommend. I had one issue 8 years ago between versions, but nothing since.
I think a lot of offered advice here is very good. Do you exercise with any regularity? If not I would strongly suggest it. Exercise had a powerful effect on the brain at well as the body and can help you regulate yourself. Also, be sure to get some sunshine. Vitamin D is very important.
Saw only recently that Judea Pearl was a guest on Sam Harris' podcast: https://samharris.org/podcasts/164-cause-effect/.

The preamble is depressing, since the episode aired right after a mass shooting, but Pearl gives a brief overview of his thinking.
Did you see that Discovery Channel show where they documented the building of a giant oil platform for oil extraction in the North Sea? All of the things (and forces) they had to deal with... wow.

The North Sea has a -lot- of energy in it, and climate change will probably accentuate that.
> It's best to think of the notebook as a REPL.

With sections of the history easily replaced.

> So you'd want to run `del foo` on the old name.

And then delete this line, because if you leave it in it'll break when you try and run the file all the way through.

> Notebooks are REPLs, and it's better to get used to that than to try to enforce some confusing time traveling.

Do you mean by treating them as append only and never rerunning any cells?

> In fact, this is a good counterexample. Why should the notebook delete the old variable name? What if its value is a thread currently executing?

The notebook has no idea if it can or can't, but that doesn't mean that leaving it in is good it's simply the only realistic option.
Year End Survey: demand for govt. transparency increases no. of records requests
Supposedly it's mostly in the form of vegetable oils. (Consumption of animal origin fats, including butter, is actually down.) Based on that, I could hazard a few guesses:

My first would be that a lot of it is that increases in the availability of vegetable fats that are solid at room temperature (originally thanks to hydrogenation, now thanks to more refined palm and coconut oils) means that it's easy for food manufacturers to add more fat to packaged foods without them seeming greasy.

There's also the whole "Mediterranean diet" thing fueling the perception that olive oil is a health food and making us feel comfortable drizzling it all over everything we eat. It's perhaps relatively healthy compared to other fats, but it's still darn near the most calorie-dense food possible.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if the amount of french fries that get piled on one's plate as a side at restaurants has doubled over the past 50 years.

Heck, even avocado toast. Avocados are way more available than they used to be. Everyone thinks of them as a healthy food, but they're chock full of fat.
Do you have some sources for this? Because the Wikipedia article on phage therapy appears to directly contradict you.

Directly after the paragraph about its discovery by an Englishman and a Frenchman:

> A Georgian, George Eliava, was making similar discoveries. He travelled to the Pasteur Institute in Paris where he met d'Hérelle, and in 1923 he founded the Eliava Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia, devoted to the development of phage therapy.

Georgia was part of the USSR at the time. It appears to be the first reference to any actual therapy.

In any case it's a pretty tight schedule from the discovery of bacterophages in 1915/1917 to the formation of the USSR in 1922.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

Edit:

Found something here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3442826/

> From its first field trials as a prophylactic against avian typhosis (Salmonella gallinarum) in rural France in 1919 [...]

I'm gonna file that under kinda, but not really.

Something more in Félix d'Herelle's biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_d%27Herelle

> The first patient was healed of dysentery using phage therapy in August 1919. Many more followed. At the time, none, not even d'Hérelle, knew exactly what a phage was.
I think this complaint applies to the original LVM2 snapshots, not the new thin ones.
Energy diversity in a carbon constrained world mustn't embrace fracked natural gas. Methane leaks cause warming, and burning it still makes unacceptable levels of CO2.

Diversity is valuable but we should install district heating systems and hydrogen pipelines and whatnot, not fracked gas plants.
Most states transportation departments publish spreadsheets with itemized costs for recent bid lettings, as well as quarterly summaries with stats by item number. You need to be familiar with the items specs to know exactly what's included (ie installed cost vs material provided cost, etc), but it's a start.
I wonder if they are lesser quality or worse specs. External hard drives often don't even show the performance characteristics other than capacity on the boxes. This is different for internal drives from what I recall.
This is better expressed as "consider performance from the start". Don't make it your #1 priority and don't ignore and neglect it either. Do sensible things:

1. use hash (or ordered) collections rather than scanning large-ish arrays

2. use reasonable database schemas and indices for queries

3. similarly consider correctness (e.g. constraints)

4. one place where earlier versions can skimp are sometimes algorithms to be replaced by better ones. Think of this as 'doing things that don't scale' which is fine for an MVP but do have a plan for how this will be updated if you're fortunate enough to need it.

5. good fore-thought is to offload work to the client in the design which does scale better.

6. don't do any/much caching early on and make choices that are compatible with adding caching later
Here’s a direct link to the Tickler Puzzle Four of a Kind notebook discussed within: https://observablehq.com/@dmaynard/tickler-puzzle-four-of-a-...
> I think it is a good thing that notebooks separate instructions and re-execute manually by default. The cost of the alternative is just too high.

Maybe add a "lock" toggle so a user can block a cell from being automatically executed? The heavy numeric setup tasks could then be gathered in a few cells and locked, leaving the lighter plotting & summary stats cells free to update reactively.
It's an easy thing to miss though, because you also then need to delete the line of code you used to delete the old object/name so you have no record of cleaning up after yourself.
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Really? What massive changes? I use it regularly but haven't noticed anything massive.
A similar but more structured (though perhaps Hound supports a similar feature set) code searching tool is OpenGrok [1]. It's a bit more setup as it uses Apache Tomcat, but once it is setup it has an incredibly fast and useful code querying tool with really useful abilities to x-ref functions/structures, highlight uses of variables, and integrates git info as well. If you've ever used elixir.bootlin.com to go through the Linux source code, opengrok is effectively a more feature packed open source version of that. I highly recommend taking a look to anyone who spends a lot of time digging through code.

[1] https://oracle.github.io/opengrok/
Then that needs to be fixed. We can’t just accept that companies are above the law.
Does ipv6 use nat, though? Firewalls for certain, but nat? Have you got an example?
I totally agree. Beyond the obvious privacy gains (which I am very much here for) I'd love to be able to take on different virtual personas within some of these apps just to understand the media landscape of people other than myself. It's always a bit of a trip when to see how the web experience changes when I borrow my girlfriend's laptop, and she's pretty similar to me in the great scheme of things.
Isn't the cost difference between running fiber to base stations and running fiber to individual homes enormous? Just based on the economics: a fiber-lit base station serves anyone nearby with a mobile device, while the infrastructure to support FTTH is a risk (and, apparently, an unprofitable risk) based on how many homes sign up.

I don't think base station backhaul and FTTH are comparable investments.
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This thread really surprised me - I learned about arity when learning about ternary operators, which are pretty universal - you can find ?: in all sorts of languages. I think I was learning about C when I first got a detailed explanation on the subject.
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I want to let you know I am going through a similar situation. I did not quit work but I am taking a break from my work.

Have a wall or separation between work and life; find balance. Do not make work a priority in your life, separate the two.

Ask yourself brings you joy and happiness and just do it. Work does not define you, it should be a means to bring about joy and happiness.

If work is a place where you cannot achieve balance or a really negative place, I would work there until you find a better environment.

If work is a positive place, focus on what you have, reach out to people, ask them if they felt the same way and how they manage those feelings.

I wish you the best of luck on your search to find balance in your life.
> Twitter’s suspension of Grindr’s ad account pending “investigation” is an attempt to deflect blame, and lawmakers shouldn’t be fooled.

Actually being fooled by special interest propaganda into enacting legislation that benefits said interest at the public expense is the definition of a lawmaker.
it doesn’t sound like it was a new category...just some new piece of logic that would trigger “prescribe opioids!” when the doctor typed something in

why would you think these sham alerts rely on actual data that was “new”? these were probably as simple as some if statement that said “if patient over X age and in pain and lives in Y state then show alert”
They mean that if you do overwhelm your metabolism or fail to learn motor skills as a child, you may be ruined for life.

I know some people who just hate exercise. I think they has no habit of movement of any sort. Likewise, people who were fat or weak as a child have no baseline sense of what it feels to be healthy - and neither do their bodies cells.

So kids can handle more sugar, but if messed up the consequences are worse.
The discussion was about per-person costs, so per-acre revenues are irrelevant.
Interactive Latency Numbers
Pretty sure the UK National Grid does not have interconnects and pricing between Scotland and England in the same way as between UK and interconnect partners in the EU. It's part of the same grid. Scotland has no choice but that some of it be fossil unless and until England and Wales are fully renewable also. Northern Ireland and Orkney do have interconnects.

So they can monitor total renewable generation, and total consumption, but can't have influence on what the shortfall is made up by. I've no doubt the grid will move toward more locality as it redesigns for a smart grid suitable for 100% renewables, and Scottish independence might provoke formal interconnecting.

For now they are both in the same 'house'.

Edit: I find myself newly suspicious of that site's agenda as he links to Watts Up With That, a notorious and extreme denialist site in his blog role. His phrasing may have been carefully chosen to downplay and minimise the achievement. He seems to have a fair time in the oil industry from his about page.
Knowledge > credentials. Hope it doesn’t get you too down, sometimes the only winning move is to not play.
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Does the data actually show that women working in research produce less accurate results than male researchers? Without seeing any solid evidence I feel obliged to be skeptical of this. Furthermore not every field diversified at the same rate or during the same time period. If what you're suggesting is true, I would expect to see a correlation between when a field diversified and when the quality of that research fell. Even if there are other factors in play, if the signal is there you should be able to measure it. And if the signal is immeasurable then I think it may as well not be there.
>Are there any engineering blogs that talk about using BEAM/Elixir/et al in production?

Blogs from the Discord team pop up occasionally. They're primarily an Elixir shop with some Rust thrown in (via NIF w/ Rustler)

https://blog.discordapp.com/tagged/elixir
Just as unstable on Arch as of a month or two ago.
It does mean some interesting work is being done using hydrogen as storage, and for the ferries (not sure how far along the hydrogen ferries are).
I think there is more to privacy than just disabling personalized ads, which is the reason I'm not bothered by them. I'm more concerned about personalized search results and filter bubbles. But I also think it is totally fine that the system works for you and you get value out of it.
Doing that systematically is called stalking.
Hard Disks sure, but I've gotten a reasonable choice of SSD's even one that was faster than any SSD I've owned thus far.
Or an app that provides a link to a remotely hosted desktop or mobile environment to surf / run apps from.
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I'm sorry, but you clearly haven't heard of unary, or base 1, which is probably the earliest counting system which 1 is 1, 2 is 11, 3 is 111, etc. Tallymarks. You are correct base 0 would make no sense, however.

But yes please explain to me the very thing we're talking about which is exactly what I was referencing when pointing out that using 0 as an identifier rather than a value is moderately counterintuitive.
Is there opportunity for cross-pollination of your research with the spreadsheet literature?
Meteor.js is my favorite too. They seem to have got renewed sponsorship now from Tiny ([Tiny acquires Meteor | TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/02/tiny-acquires-meteor/))

The last 2 months have seen more activity after a pretty long silent period.
Do you think the food you buy at the grocery store is less than six or seven days old? It's not.
> One more time, what mobile phone owners need is an intermediary layer in the mobile OS where they can either manually or programmatically (via e.g. a random number generator) lie to higher-level application layers about the phone's data.

On Android, if you install Xposed, there's XPrivacy [0], which essentially had this premise. Unfortunately, it only supports versions 4.0.3-5.1.1 (and is no longer maintained).

I haven't been following the rooting community for a while, so someone can probably correct me if there's a better alternative now, but I believe the replacement is XPrivacyLua [1].

[0] https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacy

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/xprivacylua-xposed-module-pri...
What are you saying? Do you oppose emissions controls because Volkswagen lied? If I rob a bank despite that being against the law, perhaps that makes you think bank robbery should be legal.
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Doing data science in an IDE would be terrible. With a notebook, you get the chance to load the data, view it, clean it where needed, view it again, analyze it, model it and do anything else you need to it. An IDE means that you can't use the previous output to guide your next operation in a direct fashion like you can with a notebook.
Looking to build an inexpensive DAS array. Any other good ideas for storage/connectivity?
Scotland is also coal power-free.