skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, choosing EF Core is one of my biggest, if not THE biggest, regrets on the project I'm working on. Not because of the way it's packaged but because.. it's a heavy-weight ORM that stands in the way of using the database as a database.

I want to write my queries in SQL and automatically map results to classes or even maps with correct types.
Ethical Ad-Tech is the future funding model for publishers and bloggers
Godot 3.2
As a counterpoint I'd argue that these movies are usually also successful in countries where they are screened in non-English. Those voice actors are usually unknown to the general audience (one could argue that they are often the associated voice for the given big name actor but that's not always the case).

At least in Germany, animated movies are rarely advertised as "featuring X" whereas in the U.S. I saw the names of the voices in advertisements.
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> Monty Python is specifically mentioned in the Jargon File:

That just reinforces that things were named after Monty Python rather than Monty Python creating the tech!

> We're just going to have to agree to disagree here.

You haven’t actually disagreed with my point though.
>, they managed to obtain a `PURCHASE` event from Macy's

interesting.. they could use that to predict earnings..
https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/zoom-zero-day-4-million-...
Not necessarily, because:
They can already see what the other major platforms in this space are doing, and learn from it.
They are already a large company that has other income with which to support this service through its initial growth.
They can hire/poach people from these existing companies to help give them a kick start.

I know just saying it makes it sound easy, but responsible executives and teams should be capable of doing better.
try https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=ocaml

the algorith is non-deterministic, so if you follow the link more than once, you get a different spatial arrangement each time.

some are very pleasing, with identifiable clusters, and others are just a seemingly random scatter of names.

also interesting: https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=lostredditors

(no lines are generated here; is this a feature or a bug?)
That's a good point. I've lived in places where my "cold" water was likely ~20 degrees Celsius in the summer. Warm enough that I honestly wished it were a bit cooler at times after exercising. Other places it's been pretty close to freezing.
Why events are a bad idea for high-concurrency servers (2003) [pdf]
Probably due to both subreddits going on trolling raids on each other.
My approach is that there are a few things that the default answer for should be "no" and then you have to justify (maybe just to yourself) why they're appropriate in this case. Macro Fu in C, template meta-programming in C++ and rewriting from scratch are all examples of these.

In this case I am avoiding the 'throw it all away and start from scratch' approach. It would be infeasible for the intervening period. I am putting together an approach that would get us there in a year or so, but we can lop off smaller chunks to rewrite (the existing architecture is a series of daemons, which helps us there).
> You must log in to continue.

Nah, I will pass.
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I have such trouble trying to figure out which of these many algorithms that are released will end up having a significant impact on a 5 year horizon. But this I have a rare hunch about that it could be quite significant (at least the direction in which it's trying to push).
I found https://www.codetriage.com/ helpful when searching for projects.
That would actually be illegal in a lot of places. Not sure how it would be in the USA but in most countries in Europe that wouldn't fly.

They would be allowed to ask questions about your medical history, but medical records themselves are an absolute no go.
When would you really need this complex library over the native methods supported by Array?

I know there are overhead to convert map and set into array but it should be fine for non huge data set.
Hey, what kind of things do you dislike about the CodeReview SE and what would you like to see in an improved code review system?
Are you using TLS over TCP to route to the DBs?
I don't actually care all that much and I like my luxuries. Do I "need" the Google account? No. Do I want to tell every person and business currently using it that I've changed email? Also no, that's a huge amount of work. Likewise for facebook, which is now down to once-a-day-ish use for coordination with a specific group of people whom I do not want to do the work of moving all of them off Facebook too.
I just recently bought a used iPad that still got the iPadOS update and what I noticed is very ambivalent.

PRO:
- The device is light, has a nice screen and good sound. I can use it to read documents that need color, watch videos and browse the web all in one device with acceptable performance
- The battery has enough capacity for the pad to work for days without recharging
- You can use pencil 1 as an input device (I would not have bought one without support for pencil)

CON:
- While apps like browsers (Safari, Firefox) look like the desktop versions they are just poor copies without the full potential. Without Add-On's my browsing experience is very limited in comparison to the experience on my computer
- No Adobe Suite like many people wanted it while you can run Apps like the real PS on a surface
- No native terminal, seriously? I live in a terminal and e.g. consume news via newsbeuter
- Support for USB thumbdrives and mouse have just been added recently while competitors allowed much easier access much earlier. This "walled garden" feeling diminishes the experience a lot for me. I hoped for the iPad to be more like "a real PC/Mac" and this is one of the major reasons I never bought an early model or a new one.

My dream iPad would be more like macOS because as someone coming from Linux it feels already "walled" enough for my taste.

I have another major concern but that is based on the evidence about consumption, climate change etc. and of course Apple itself can probably not do much about it (can they?):
What happens to the device when it is obsolete (e.g. no major OS updates and security patches)?
It would be really awesome if they would open up to after market solutions to reduce waste and keep their products running so one can install linux on it.

I know this is a wild dream in a world that is driven by maximizing profit. Let dreamers be dreamers ;)
Could you go into detail? Or explain what that means? It sounds interesting, but none of the words seem connected.
People in developed countries that belief an inconvenience like being woken up by construction noise is a "violation of human rights" can not comprehend what real violations of actual human rights are
I see, that's kind of what we gathered from looking at the queries too. People are asking all kind of general questions, so we either have to make it more clear that this only relates to the FAQs, or actually add functionality to answer more general questions, e.g. by using more data from the website. We're looking into the second option right now. Thanks again for the follow-up!
I don't use Facebook, but I do use Messenger as I have a couple of close family members who refuse to use anything else. I've just logged into Facebook (which has no history as I've purged it[1]), and still there are 5 apps sharing my activity with Facebook. These 5 apps are all on my phone, so I guess Messenger is also sharing back to FB. :(
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[1] Shameless plug: https://github.com/Jaruzel/DeleteFacebookActivity

[Cross-posted from the other thread]
My doctor also recommended cold showers (or at least ending with a minute of cold) as a means of stress management. Apparently it stimulates some nerves and reduces the stress damage somewhat. Possibly related to lower inflammation too. Anecdotally I do feel better when I do it and miss it when I don’t.
are credit cards different from debit cards in this regard? Do some credit cards not sell your transactions?
Makes sense -- the grid storage system I read about was indeed the one they built for the Australian wind farm.

I think there's a big gap for both types of storage - fast dispatching for intraday demand variations, replacing gas peakers, and more static storage as in the OP for multi-day gaps in renewable production such as periods of high pressure during winter when wind speeds and irradiance are both very low.

Can't wait to see how this market develops.
Specifically, how do you do it on a normal Android device? Is it even possible to do this on an iOS device that's on 4G or someone else's wifi? Do iOS devices have the same "leak"?
It breaks often for kids too. But we see this as natural. "Of course he broke it. He's just a stupid kid." But we expect adults to be responsible and not break things.

To learn you need to be able to break things.

As a sidenote, we see that opposite for social skills. Tolerance for mistakes has gone way down, it's not safe for today's kids to experiment and fail so they don't learn them as well.
It would be nice to have some kind of impenetrable bubble to make certain works happen regardless of protest. Some people just want to frustrate any progress.
Same here on debian, but only if I use chrome - doesn't work well on firefox for me.
Same at mine. I can see how optimizations like this at least make the most sense at a pediatrician's office, where you're likely to be holding a cranky baby in one arm as you try to check in.
I have downloaded an app called RoboKiller and it has worked well so far. I used to get spam calls from Russia, India and Indonesia at 3 am in the morning and wake me up. After downloading the said app these calls have drastically even though once in a while a spam call gets through.
I can't believe that this stuff is acceptible, or even legal. The fact that you're tracked off-Facebook (for instance), even if you're not logged in or on Facebook is not just creepy, but borderline abusive.
> “ Machine learning (ML) exacerbates this problem because any model trained with said data may have memorized it,”

Yikes, that’s a really draconian scare tactic way to frame it. It clearly is meant to exacerbate misunderstandings of how statistical modeling actually works.
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In case of Facebook, one has to wonder, is this a move towards consumer privacy, or a way for Facebook to clear cache so they could build a more up to date profile of you.
CDC recommends P95 for health care providers. I seriously doubt they are not effective. I’m sure P100 is marginally more effective but on marginally.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/hcp/infection-cont...
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No, if it's data they can collect it's data they can sell.

Can't sell cash transactions yet!
How do you cope with constant reCAPTCHA prompts? I get prompted by Google when using search, because it thinks I'm a bot if I'm anonymous enough.
Thanks!

The basic idea, on and off for close to five years. Started out experimenting with shell session persistence (solved[0], but not quite), then prototyping a browser-concept and playing with browser-extensions, then settling on the OS-level...

[0]: https://github.com/EivindArvesen/prm
Currently working on 2 projects which would solve problems for me:

- a jdbc driver for interacting with google sheets

- a cross OS application which lets you share easily data

The first one is almost done and requires mostly documentation and some clean-up. It supports at the moment simple SQL queries like select * from, insert into foo() Values () and an update where I currently not remember the syntax. It also has already a Datagrip integration.

The second project shall work wireless and with minimal setup. The original idea was that devices search each other in the local network (via broadcast) and connect then. Further ideas which rised while development where:

- play sound on another device (which I initially thought would be super easy but seems like it is not)

- provide a possibility to define outside applications (like you provide a configuration file how I communicate with your application and this lets you show information on other devices)

- Not just device-to-device but also something like groups

- messaging with other devices

- more communication possibilites, ie via (outside) IP or Wi-Fi direct
Reddit tries to keep a lid on brigading, it's actively policed. Surprising to see this as a major component.
What sort of climate do you live in? Here we have very hot summers and I enjoy my cold showers then. However Winter is long and cold, we don’t like to run the heating too much (bit wasteful if you can just stick on a jumper and thick socks) and warm showers are invaluable to recharge before work after a cold morning walk with the dogs
How can phone apps with no permissions get my phone number?

> except installing vpn based firewall

So they can send the data instead?
... And?
I feel like signatures are completely meaningless at this point. Applying a picture of someone's signature to a document they didn't sign is certainly shady, and I hope is found to be illegal. But I think we're pretty far gone on signatures being any sort of authentication mechanism. Already you can "e-sign" all sorts of legal documents with no verification of your identity whatsoever. (Meanwhile, one time my bank did check my signature when I was withdrawing what seems now like a tiny amount of money. They decided it didn't match, and then I had to submit a new signature sample before I could have my money. This was after showing them a driver's license, passport, and entering the PIN on my debit card in front of the clerk. Several years later, different bank, I wrote a check for $30,000 to a doctor by logging into my bank with an 8 character no-capital-letters-allowed password.)

I feel like the direction that the standard is going is that you are assumed to have signed something if you benefited from signing that document. So you can't slip through the cracks by not signing something, it's just assumed that you signed it now. This fake signature is just an acknowledgement that signatures are useless. "If we issued you insurance, you signed every form. Prove otherwise." And my feeling is they will probably prevail in court on that, because signatures died a long time ago.
For long-term disability insurance in Germany, they can ask for permission to get information from your doctors for conditions you've revealed during the application process, and deny coverage if you do not give them permission.

Omitting said conditions would be grounds for non-payment of benefits if what made you unable to work is in any way related to a condition they asked you about and you didn't reveal.
Unless you use a loyalty card at the same time ;)
Hacker news, where everyone proves the point by recommending a dozen different solutions.
Yeah, I make similar trade-offs. The sunk cost of a few TV shows purchses keep me from closing my Google account. But I won't let it anywhere near my phone.

I think the process of honestly asking the question is more useful than the actual answer. Life & society is full of compromises.
https://stripe.com/docs/api/events/list

> List events, going back up to 30 days.

If you're able to go further than that you may be paying extra for it.

Now, if you have the event id then you'll be able to pull it, but you can't simply list them out unless that documentation is lying.
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In many cases, the terms of service of a company include provisions that usage data of the products will be analyzed for research and experimentation purposes, which are often considered necessary for the health of the business (and thus even meet GDPR requirements for this data capture & use).

For example, a company couldn’t remain competitive and serve customers or continue existing if it can’t perform a/b testing on new features or changes, or look at descriptive statistics about which types of customers use which products. Creating statistical models to answer these questions or to have aspects of a product that personalize based on these data is a routine matter of business operation. Rightly or wrongly, the terms of service are usually enough to allow the business to use data this way, and often label it as critical for the operation of the business.
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Pystencils – speed up your stencil computations on numpy arrays
> Watching the ~11 years of Python 2 to 3 adoption has been somewhat painful

this portrayal of the python 2 to 3 migration does not represent the majority of the community! and yet we keep hearing it over and over because "large" codebases were not migrated on time.

this migration was a software engineering problem. i hope by now, people have learned to write dumb code and avoid clever tricks whenever they can. performance and clever tricks get tied to languages, OSes, & hardware versions. python is no exception!

not saying don't do them. just saying know what you are getting into.

again, the issue is not entirely due to breaking changes. but python made it too easy. c++ for example would have given people such a hard time that they wouldn't have even bothered. python's was too permissive.

i have seen the python 2.7 codebase that shipped with the original appengine. it always felt like traveling to a different world whenever the debugger gets into their code...
Take news for example.

Instead of sending a HTTP GET on 'https://news.com/what-is-NDN.html', which must be answered from the server 'news.com' with https cert for prove.

You'll send an interest package '{title: what-is-NDN, type: news, cert: a-public-key}', which can be answer by any node having the data. Be the data source or someone that already got it (like BT download-and-seed sharing)

(The cert is optional, if you can trust an information from anyone)
Separate user accounts is kind of the naive (and not quite complete) solution to the same problem.

Not really a smooth experience in my opinion, doesn't map quite as well to the concept of "working context" as I think of it.
Also, you'd have to maintain your list of users, and manually sync any settings, etc. - whereas with Cleave, I'm planning on implementing white- or blacklisting of applications on a context-basis (and system settings etc. are implicitly shared).
> THE FINAL PRODUCE IS THE ULTIMATE MANIFESTATION OF THEIR PLATONIC IDEAL FORMS

How's the taste?

Not denying it's possible to grow food very efficiently indoors but a vastly oversimplified opinion is that plants need sunlight to be tasty. Is this wrong?
> it seems unreasonable to store enormous amounts of renewable energy in a device that itself has to be replaced after a certain number of cycles. The device used for pumped energy storage -- a tank (to simplify greatly) -- basically never needs to be replaced.

It's a fair point but I think that you oversimplify the pumped hydro case. Pumped hydro also has quite some electronic components (turbines/motors), electronics, and other moving parts (valves, overflows). I can imagine some of these components require semi-regular maintenance (hence the maintenance shaft in the diagram on the website of OP).

You'd really have to run the numbers to see which costs more to maintain in the long term.
Depending on where you live this can ruin your apt/house and accelerate growth of mold because the humidity will be so high. At least you have to vent regulary (which might be challenging as you can't heat up fast if you don't do any extra heating).

Just saying, I have seen it happening as a tenant wanted to save on heating costs...
Uhm, no, not at all. Nothing about subverting, only diverting a bit maybe, or reallocating resources - let nations do what they are great at, keep their subscribers alive, sane and healthy (yeah, core healthcare should probably be left to nations, not the private sector).

And the government structures of mega-corporations will by necessity dilute into some techno-algorithmic-cyber-socio-capitalism thingy that would likely be uncomprehensible to us from our current view point. Authoritarian regimes as you can see in the world today rise mainly in small nation states! Also in places with low-information-bandwidth! You can dilute autocracy out of existence in a big enough entity where the decision making is technical by necessity because it needs to optimize a numeric output: profit. (Reason: the complexity of technical decision goes beyond the computing capacities of one mind, so you get dilution by technical necessity... true, not "democracy" by any means, but something that could be mathematically similar enough to it.)

Anyway, if other ways to keep communication and transport infrastructure out of the hands of nations could be seen maybe they'd work better. The point would be to enact "separation of powers" at the next scale/level of humanity - separate "communication, transport/mobility and trade powers" from "government and administration powers". (Separating mobility part would also "open the market" and create healthy competition between governments as some people start moving around and "shopping" for a better nation. Over time, you'd end up with better products in the "states & nations" aisle of the world supermarket.)

The end game is increased freedom and prosperity opportunities for all. It's just that I don't think that we're going to get this by looking at what worked or didn't work in the past - the future will not be at all like the past, we may not have reached "the singularity" or whatever, but we're staring at a big dark wall of unpredictibility regarding the future, and our previous experience is mostly worthless at seeing through it, we need to really really think far outside the box at how we can get what we want.
Apparently my website is complicit in this... I'm disgusted with and ashamed of myself.

https://i.imgur.com/Wz7O8HU.png

Edit: typo complacenet to complicit, thanks Zarel.
So which package manager is NOT horrible when it comes to handling conflicting dependencies? Esp. when combined with developers specifying wrong constraints for dependencies, either out of cluelessness or carelesness?
Reading (PDFs, ebooks, etc) and light photo editing. About to get the pencil so I can do some sketching.
Curious if you've thought about this as a browser extension where it injects what you've saved into the main reddit feed. For example, one saved item per refresh. So you naturally rediscover and engage with items you've saved in the past, with a decent algorithm to help prevent any fatigue from seeing the same item too many times.
>occult chronic pulmonary embolism

like ... magic?
You need to study more. You're too ignorant to be judging whole ecosystems as "shit".

http://0.30000000000000004.com/
“ Published in The Independent, 24 May 2004.”

16 years later coal generated electricity is still huge and 80% of the world’s electricity is still generated by fossil fuels.

I imagine if we’d used nuclear instead, the world would have bought itself an extra decade or two to solve the problem.
People passed down complex oral culture with no "practical use" – myths and stories – very reliably over dozens, maybe hundreds of generations. We became very good at using rhythm and rhyme as error correction mechanisms to ensure a low frequency of replication errors. But anyway, forest fires simply wouldn't have been that rare in the first place.
AnyDesk works flawlessly on Linux. It's used at my company for customer support, in a mix of Linux, Mac and Windows workstations. It supports multiple monitors and provides packages for major distros.
I also think database specific backup makes more sense.

Some people recommend filesystem snapshotting but wouldn't that make recovery a slow process because you have to load up the entire database even if you just wanted to look up on data of a small table?

Maybe backing up only small tables as SQL dumps while keeping a file system snapshot would be a good compromise.
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You have basically had, in my opinion, the perfect career so far. Well done! :)
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