skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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As usually EU bureucratic gibberish. Nothing good for us, another regulations, another free market limitations. F*ck EU.
I read this a few years ago and noticed it contains several turns of phrase that survive to this day. Quite an achievement for any poet.
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Whilst it uses an older version of CNoEvil, and I haven't updated it yet, the largest application is probably evilshell [0].

There's also all the examples [1].

[0] https://git.sr.ht/~shakna/evilshell

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~shakna/cnoevil3/tree/master/examples
There's no specifics mentioned in that article, other than new commons data standards across the industries (good idea IMO).
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Here is the cover of the (part of the) poem sung by British heavy metal band - Iron Maiden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7zk4as9kzA
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Is the definition of US markets based on where the exchange is headquartered?

The internet has made global crimes interesting, that's for sure. I would have thought the crime would have to be prosecuted in the criminal's home country given that's where he was doing the work from.
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> Range, performance, the hope of self-driving, the supercharging network (Which is much bigger than people think!), and of course, the fact that they look like normal cars.

The self-driving bit is a risk either way, but I think Tesla is dangerously close to losing out on both the “looking like a normal car” and potentially the performance factor if they’re serious about Cybertruck.
I believe it's cheaper connectivity, due to the network monopoly in the US. For European hosting providers, traffic tends to be cheap or free. For Amazon, you'll pay through the nose for egress traffic.

And when we tried to rent a Verizon 1gbit dedicated line to our Boston office, they quoted us $15k monthly.

In Germany, we paid first €199 then €499 for a dedicated 1gbit fiber line from 1&1.
Every recent graphical OS has support for key management though, whether it is the key store on mac, the credential store on Windows or the key management tools that come with KDE or Gnome (I believe both share somewhat of an API).

It might be due to Pidgin's age but in modern programs storing this data in plain text should be a last resort for systems that don't do secret management for you.
My problems with IOS music app are
1) full-text search is bad - often can't find what exists
2) it is slow - For You tabs take forever to load even on fast WIFI/LTE connections
3) navigation is not convenient - I like playlists and it takes a few taps to reach them.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

The basic premise is fine: If you have a simple problem, using simple tools will give you a good result. Here you have text files, you just want to iterate through them and find a result from ONE line that's the same in every file, collate the results. No further analysis required.

Every problem in the world can be solved by a bash one-liner, right!?

There's an interesting dichotomy with bash scripts: One school says any bash script over 100 lines should be rewritten in Python, because it's overcomplex already. Another school says any Python script used daily over 100 lines should be rewritten in bash so there are no delusions about it being easy to maintain.

The original article is from 2013, and doesn't try to do any optimization (I guess, the original article is unavailable at the time of writing of this comment), so it would be an interesting question to see what you could do at the Hadoop end to make the query faster. I would imagine quite a lot.
Did you really mean twenty megabits?
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Cybertruck is going to be an Edsel-type blunder if they keep pursuing it. It’s obvious that Elon is a car guy because the Tesla cars all look slick and sporty but he’s obviously not a truck guy and I think he’s utterly misunderstood the market with Cybertruck.
Not in mine. All that stuff you build out of cloud provider tools still needs care and feeding.
sure, I didn't mean to imply that lack of basic understanding caused the financial crisis, but watching the movie (the Anthony Bourdain skit) and not having any knowledge of this stuff the first thing you'd think is: how could the soup be rated higher than the fish leftovers?

Understanding the probability bit explains that the trick depends on different modeling, not just on repackaging.
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They are currently testing a non reflective coating on one of the satellites in the latest batch, and are consulting with the astronomical society.
Matrix seems to be the future now.

The present is, however, Slack.
I’m not worried about photos of myself that I upload, but am somewhat worried about photos of me that other people took. For example, there exist photos of me hanging out with my friends who are wearing kink gear, and some of those photos have been posted online. Everyone involved is having a good time and everything’s legal. Some of my coworkers might find the photos offensive, but those people aren’t browsing through kink photo galleries, so they aren’t going to see them. But I don’t want these photos to come up if you search for my name online. I also don’t want to engage in some censorship war trying to get them taken down.

Facial recognition tech, used in this way, seems to throw a bomb into a fragile peace where people can coexist with each other despite having incompatible values.
Just wanted to jump in here and say that for numerical computing Julia’s ecosystem of libraries are absolutely fantastic! DifferentialEquations.jl alone was worth switching to Julia!

Although I spent a long time optimising numerical code with Numba the speedup I got (whilst significant) wasn’t really comparable to the speed of a Julia implementation.
"an engineer codes what someone else thinks they want" seems a fairly damning indictment of our industry although I think the author meant it tongue-in-cheek.

Lack of ownership of responsibility is still quite a big roadblock for many companies.
Weddings historically have been considered one of the happiest, most spirited and fun occasions in life. Any banquet or festival implied a break from work for many and a chance to eat and drink better than usual. They were displays of excess and festivity when such only came a few times a year or less. People wrote about them the way someone might write about taking an overseas vacation today.

I think the placement at the wedding is to contrast the horrowing nature of the tale. Setting a story at a wedding would instantly evoke a specific feeling in an audience similar to setting an event at a house party might instantly evoke a feeling in a modern reader (not the same emotions obviously).
Sorry, I realize those excerpts in my earlier comment don't really convey what I intended. The paper does talk about about how the various improvements over the years were changes in just a few (or even just one) amino acids in the molecule. It's a large molecule, nearly 6000 daltons (for reference, the limit for what we call small molecules is around 1500 da), so there's been a lot of opportunity for tinkering.

FWIW, the full paper is available at https://sci-hub.tw/10.1056/nejmms1411398
Was there a wedding occurring at the motel?
You seem to put all drugs in the same basket, you say it yourself "I never done drugs".

Well I can tell you what you described doesn't apply to psychedelics, things like "Until you don't have the drug anymore, in which case you're left with an anxious person who can't cope with difficult circumstances."

There might be a very few people addicted to LSD / shrooms, but I've never seen it myself, I tried both multiple times and never felt a sense of addiction. I want to do it again, but it is very different from cannabis, with cannabis I feel very much the addiction.
he won because people were afraid of what Shorten and his cronies were saying they would do, in my mind it's a bit of a 'stuck in between a rock and a hard place'
I mean, no, they didn't actually occur, that is the good part.

That doesn't let Ross off the hook for attempting to make them occur.
Yeah, I was giving an example since I don't have any good ones atm.

Maybe someone knows some regular work that isn't automated or will be incredibly easy for a dev.
I was comparing with ChaosCloud:
https://www.chaosgroup.com/cloud

For EC2, one would need to rent licenses for the V-Ray renderer plus V-Ray tends to be heavily CPU-cache- and memory-bound, so exactly the parts that get slow if you enable the Intel security fixes. Due to c5.9xlarge being Xeons, they are like 80% slower than a comparable AMD CPU.

BTW, calculator.s3.amazonaws.com quotes me $1119 per month for a single c5.9xlarge, so I'm not sure how you would reach $8/day when I see $37/day.
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Never smoked. The walk to a Melbourne CBD coffee place seems to have the same function of socialising with colleagues. It's definitely something we look forward to, and we have some seriously good coffee places as well.

It's a shame we have to walk past / through so many people smoking on the sidewalk though. It really is quite a disgusting habit.
The author is experimenting with 1.75Gigs of data. At that scale sure, a local machine will be faster. Hadoop's real use-case though is when your data doesn't fit in memory and even this is kind of debatable. It makes sense to measure the performance with some prototypes and then make a final design rather than just use whatever AWS offers. Besides packaged services in AWS are also a bit more costly than basic services like EC2 instances and network goodies.
Why this and not PgBouncer?
Sure it’s nice and maybe it’s worth 50k/month if you’re running Uber... but grep and sed together can get you quite far.

Admittedly for the histogram you’d have to cut and paste into a spreadsheet but yeah, hardly something you need in real time (probably more for a postmortem presentation to management.)
Hey, CNoEvil should still work with this as well. They're compatible. Insane to combine, but compatible.
Let's remember that sometimes one man's science can be another's religion.

Applying the label "science" doesn't remove any of the uncertainty associated with many so-called "scientific conclusions."

In this regard, psychology is not all that different from climate change.
This honestly sounds more like an issue of social policy.

The big ISPs make things like municipal broadband very hard to bring about. This leaves connectivity of these communities in the hands of an executive many miles away, and they will always place more attention to the massive profits of bringing 5G to people in rich cities (themselves included) than servicing low or even no-profit markets.

At this point some level of internet access could and maybe should be considered a public utility.
> So here we are, with all of these people on your public FB. None having signed or even given verbal authorization for any sort of release. And now FB starts running FaceRec on all the information you just gave them. To top it all off, my family and I don't even use FB. Never have. So it really can't even be claimed that we consented to facial recognition via the terms and conditions of service.

> I only outlined all of that to outline this, just because a person's image is in public doesn't mean that the person consented to the image being public.

But what part of this would, even hypothetically, give you a cause of action against Facebook? What's Facebook supposed to have done wrong? You have a cause of action against your friend who illegitimately provided your photos to Facebook, not against Facebook who relied on the legal assurance your friend provided that he had the right to post those photos.
In France 75% of our electricity is produced with nuclear power, and we're able to dynamically change its power to follow demand (though we also use hydro power plants to deal with shorter term variations). And we have one of the cheapet electricity in Europe.

Unfortunately that is changing, because governments want to reduce the share of nuclear down to 50%. But that's a political choice and not a technical limitation.
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yep, it's in Russian though: https://news.mail.ru/society/40378912/
Something I've always wondered...

In my accent (I'm British, with a classic 'semi-posh'[1] accent) and I say 'Marin-err' however when reading the poem, it seems to me that it supposed to be 'Marin-ear' so as to rhyme with 'hear'.

Back in 19th century, did people pronounce it differently, or is Coleridge bending the pronunciation to force the rhyme?

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[1] Home Counties, for you other brits.
Yes you can and we are exactly doing this since quite a while. Actually a lot of companies do this.
Yeah, I'm a frequent "step outside for some air" guy during gatherings and I like stepping out to talk with the smokers!
Why not? It's a democracy, not a nomocracy.
Common sense, and knowledge of previous behavior.
I agree with the sentiment of the parent comment. Not because I have a huge passion for astronomy, but because I think we're prioritizing things in a wrong way.

We're prioritizing yet another billionare's networking business over the capacity to study our night's sky. Much like other types of pollution, this is something that could stick around for hundreds of years, even after all its utility is gone.

Cell towers, like most structures, can be brought down, repurposed, updated and altered. We can't do nothing about satellites, and don't know how to clean space pollution.
Since the 80s it has been an integral part of society (at least in the UK and US) for citizens to invest their own money on the stock market — where “owning shares is as common as owning a car”:

https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106145

Having protections in place to guard against market manipulation is a facet of this policy where all citizens are now traders (and not just a select group of well educated, well steeled stock market professionals.)

I don’t defend this policy, but I see why the former leads to the latter.

Another good reason to enforce a level playing field in capital markets comes about from another backbone of the 80s and 90s: placing national infrastructure like power, water, and pensions in the hands of private companies traded on the stock market, who need some form of protection on their share price.
Which part of Spain are you referring to? Because at least in Valencia I was surpassed to find a ton of cctv in public spaces like parks and busy streets.
Then switch to the AMD based c5a.9xlarge which is even cheaper.

And you can reach $8/day using Spot or Reserved Instances. Not sure where you get $1119.
I'm curious, why? Looks pretty easy to get the binaries.
The BBC only shows a very zoomed out video though, so you don't actually see the new bit, making it an article about new resolution illustrated at pretty low resolution -_-
The live version from 'Live after Death' is better imho.
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Hi all,
I need your advice on quite a tricky situation. My cofounder has a 70% share and I've a 30% share of our LLC. Recently, we've have fallen out as she asked me to decrease my shares in return for assigning IP (copyright of the code) to the business. We are in a civil law country.
She and her friend developed code before the company was incorporated, however the IP assigment mentioned nothing about her friend, and my delay in signing the document (due it to it being fundamentally not in my interest) aggravated her further. Since then, we've lost trust in eachother and it's impacted our working relationship. She has suggested that we part ways in 6 months meaning that I would leave the business. She is the technical co-founder and I look after Finance/Sales/ Marketing. Our 2019, first year revenue was $300,000 and our estimated 2020 revenue is $850,000 (using >70% confidence level of revenue) with c.30% recurring annually. We don't have a vesting or cliff schedule in place (I know....). Given the blood & sweat of the last 12 konths, I don't want to leave the business but am also conscious that her mind seems made up, and working effectively together going forward is probably not going to happen. One of our larger contracts is a software development project with a 1 year warranty. The project would go live in 6 months, and the warranty would last for anther 1 year. She has suggested splitting the profits from just this deal (70/30) but making allowance for warranty period, and that the company would have expenses.
What steps should I take to negotiate my exit?
Thanks,
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> I am very happy to pay for Heroku, exactly because I don't want to be the poor guy getting up in the middle of the night to restart Apache.

As an employee I am also happy if my company pays more, so I don't have to be awaken in the middle of the night.

As a small business owner with limited resources and liquidity waking up once a month for 50K savings looks like a good deal.
My entire point was that in this case, I can not avoid it, it is my only option. Beggars can't be choosers and all that.
Shopify is associated with e-commerce shops. It would be much bigger news if this would be about an app for core e-commerce journeys, but Spotify builds Apps mostly for the merchants or in-store use cases where customers physically are already paying for a product. Performance matters less in such use cases as merchants or customers are already locked-in in the purchase flow and a drop out would be more costly for them (no sale). This is in no way comparable to AirBnb use cases.

The use cases they migrated to React Native are rather simple - a list of orders, which customers will choose to use in order to get the status of their order - the customer's need is very high and optimization here does not bring much business value (conversions). The POS use case is stronger due to the expected responsiveness that is required, though it can degrade slowly over time and will not be noticeable (boiling frog) like in phones.
I've been waiting for this release for years and I hoped for one thing and one thing only - for pandas to have a proper way of dealing with NULLs. And it does have it... OPTIONALLY.

It's great that the whole thing with extension arrays, custom types etc. has lead to this, but when the devs have, after 10+ years, the biggest chance for a backward incompatible change, this is the one to make. By making it optional, they are fixing it for the very few that know of its existence.

I love pandas and a sizeable part of my career depended on it - and while I don't use it anymore (partly because of the NULLs), I wish it the best and I hope there will be a future release with this breaking change.
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This may help you in california: http://dpss.lacounty.gov/wps/portal/dpss/main/programs-and-s... It's not much money but its 250 ish a month to start. If you can get on welfare then do it now and make a little progress forward for now.

See if you can contact someone there or go to a hospital and ask for an emergency case worker, they have all the contacts to help deal with emergencies including malnutrition if you are running out of money for food and help.

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Upwork pays as well if you are looking for freelancing jobs that will get paid out. Again the rates are relatively low but it would be something. https://www.upwork.com/freelance-jobs/node-js/

Put up a go fund me or whatever and I think people here would want to help you out.
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Am I missing something, or is it insane that there are companies profiting and hacks thrown together to decipher how much you're going to pay AWS at the end of the month?
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>Evolution isn’t a force.

In a way it is, it goes towards more complicated ways of perception. I wounder if there is any example where some species became less complicated compared to it's ancestors?

>so that makes it rather easy to beat at whatever goal we set for ourselves

Since worked wonderfully for billions of years without "real" goals, wouldn't it be a mistake to try to set goals by ourselves?
biometrics of the face, body or eye are mostly simple algorithmic transformations of photographic images. I find it hard to believe that "biometric data gathering" of Illinois residents can have massive civil liability without effecting all public photography and publishing thereof.

there's also the catch-22, that if an entity is pursuing legal collection outside of Illinois (for example of the Flickr dataset from the IBM case) it has no way of knowingly excluding Illinois residents without identifying them by using an (illegal) facial recognition dataset in the first place.
Point is, though, someone being hypocritical doesn't make their argument wrong - claiming that it does is a fallacy [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
As usual, this will provoke the disagreement between the Iverson “notation is a tool for thought” camp (of which Jeremy and myself are members), and the opposing “code should always be easy to browse for the uninitiated” camp - at least, that’s how I understand that side.

Somewhat related - Stevan Apter’s remarks about style for K programming (circa 1995 - K1, I think).

http://nsl.com/papers/style.pdf
The US has google, Russia has yandex, China has baidu. Europe is the only major economic area that has failed to create a tech giant, and I tell people here in Europe that if this plan to create a common data market "works", instead of wasting €10b, I'll stop complaining about the European innovation environment.

While regulation is a problem, I think the European public innovation funding system through government grants is a bigger problem. Almost any R&D is partially funded by grants, which means any innovation idea also has to be sold to a board of bureaucrats. There will also be rules affecting things like the maximum salary they will reimburse per employee, which means businesses won't pay for top level talent. Finally, the whole process is a huge waste of human resources on both the companies' and government's side, to the extent that it has spawned a cottage industry of professional proposal writers who take sizeable commission.
My dad had heart surgery ~16 years ago, due to the effects of smoking. He quit from one day to the next, and didn't touch tobacco at all after that, started working out, cooking and eating healthier food, started playing the drums again, he got a new lease on life.

He passed away a couple of weeks ago at the age of 62, due to heart issues, a delayed consequence of smoking and a traditional diet heavy in saturated fat. Living clean(-ish) for 16 years doesn't completely absolve you of your unhealthy habits earlier in life.

Don't start smoking, don't let your diet get shitty and full of saturated fat and sugar. Otherwise it will suck later in life, and sometimes sooner than you think.