skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a supervisory/executive

Yes this is how it is for me. I can eat the bagel without consulting him, but he speaks out the words of this post that I'm writing or any email/report. When I'm on autopilot like driving or playing a game/sport I don't hear him. But if I want to think about plotting a different route or a changing in strategy, the voice will talk me through it.
> Is IBM even relevant anymore or are they simply another McKinsey type consulting firm Who happens to sell mainframes to banks?

They are perhaps one of the biggest Government/Military Hardware contractors in the US, so sadly: Yes.
It depends on the target language. I think the driving force behind the protobuf3 simplifications were to make working with Go better. Go pretty much required dropping the 'required' and non-zero-value defaults. Which annoys Python developers and similar with access to a None, nil or NULL value. It is particularly visible on my main code base, where I'm dealing with SQL with NULL, to a Go gRPC server which needs specially handle all those NULLable columns, via protobufv3 to Python clients which generally now can't tell if the original data was an empty string or NULL (because the solution to that is worse than the problem, which is annoying but manageable). protobuf3 is designed to be cross language, which in this case meant going to the lowest common denominator rather than making it work harder.

Yes, I would love if there were set/unset bits available. Even if it was awkward.
Please clarify whether Chargebee supports custom hybrid plans (e.g., Per Seat + Usage models in Stripe terminology, which, correspondingly, would approximately be equal to a combination of Per Unit + Volume + Tiered models [1]). If Yes, please create or point to relevant documentation; if No, do you have plans for implementing such capability?

[1] https://www.chargebee.com/docs/plans.html#pricing-attributes
Huh. Thanks.

I guess that it's been that many years since I used Usenet.

If stuff is really gone, that would suck. Because I've read that Google has the only comprehensive Usenet archive, acquired with Deja News, supposedly going back to 1982.
What do people do without a monolog when they are asked to count something silently? Isn’t keeping track of the current number a form of monolog?
Circulating money does create economic value in far multiples of the initial amount. It's well established military spending has an impact on GDP far more than the amount itself.

Funds are never 'spent' as such, the money always circulates around even if you do buy metal platypuses - someone is going to get a salary and spend it somewhere or invest in their future by buying things that improve their productivity.
sure, but it’s the more interesting discussion to have, and it’s what I was pointing out. Plausibly the majority of the resources spent on this program could in fact have gone to more useful programs without affecting baseline capability. Plausibly the could not ... but it’s not clear anyone who should be asking that question, is.
Seems like n=3 really helps to get good results. With n=2 it was a bit hard to see that it actually followed the pattern.
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What are your best technical writing tips for beginners?
Do you have any source for that? Cotton farms have taken significant flow and effected the river itself. But I've not seen anything that links these farms to the bush around the region.
Not having the source code sucks, but it's not a showstopper ; some videogame preservation websites have managed to workaround this issue.

It's possible to play "Prince of Persia" in the browser (through DOSBOX recompiled to Javascript).

It's even possible to play the original Windows 95 (!) Pinball in the browser. Seeing the Windows 95 cloudy boot sequence in a Javascript canvas is disturbing. The game isn't as smooth as native, but it's definitely playable.
( https://classicreload.com/win9x-3d-pinball-space-cadet.html )
Fully agreed. I was like this (overthinking what if’s) for many years, and the amount on energy spent on this left me spent to actually go and live in reality. The upside was having a plan for nearly whatever life threw at me - but discarding hundreds of alternate plans.
Now as I grew older I have learnt to be much looser with life steering, as we are not in full control anyway. Just have a general direction of what you want to do, and spend the rest of your energy here and now...
No, tiers comprise slicing the application horizontally by technology, basically, ie. "All database stuff here" and "all frontend stuff here". To me that's like "let's put all the house sinks in one room to ease repairs for the craftsman".

Services is more like feature folders? Where you define everything you need related to a VERTICALLY sliced part of your application, ie. Products, or whatever.
This was drilled into me from a very early age but I do have a habit of not being consistent with it. I often take for granted that there's those who don't have English as a first language and may not know the most common acronyms and initialism of WTF, AFK and otherwise. I'd have put MSP in that category and assumed it was more common.
Agreed. I didn't say the theory was invalid, just that it has limits!
I remember when I had the same realization, it wasn't just that some people couldnt have internal conversations it was that some people were unable to feel empathy and others felt too much.
We are not the same and its quite a shock to realize
It's not necessarily either-or. I have an internal monologue for most things but much of my math and programming thoughts are conceptual.
Absolutely! Radio for me has always been the primary way I discover new music, whether that's back in the day listening to John Peel or Patrick Forge, or nowadays lots of WFMU.org (a decades old New Jersey free-form station) and NTS radio.

I do listen to algorithmic radio sometimes, if I'm in the mood for something specific, but it doesn't feel the same as having a live DJ playing records.
Avast’s Shutdown of Jumpshot Will Harm the Web and the World
It's about CHOICE

Like so many things, when you have a choice partaking an experience is positive; or else you'd go do something else.

Voluntary is to Forced as Alone is to Lonely
> Yeah, because the achievement was part of the meta-achievement What A Long Strange Trip It's Been

This severely weakens the case that it was a problem that needed to be fixed; if you're getting the Valentine's achievement because you want What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been, the extra waiting time you suffer from not getting Valentine's the first time around is lowered. (Because you would have had to spend a lot of that time waiting anyway, for the other calendar-based achievements that you didn't already have.)
Same happened to me.

I knew the significance the moment I saw the `<?php` but force of habit, I had already pressed shift + F5 by the time my brain registered. Somehow never got the code again, maybe some sort of load balancer was leaking something that was cached but just barely.
I always thought 'free tier' was meant to make development and testing feasible without incurring big charges.

Having a big free tier is just a growth hacking technique, and it worked: people know the product and developeed integrations.

But, all marketing tactics have a beginning and an end. If the market is mature, and it's ROI is not good enough or has decreased dramatically, it will end soon.
Paul Graham on Being a Noob
I'm starting to think that I have a weak minds eye. I can not easily mentally visualize ideas, but I do feel them.

When I am thinking about something new there are no words, images, etc. just feeling my way through ideas. It feels kind of like acting on instinct. For example if I am wrestling with an idea I get an impression of "resistance". Feeling my way through the path of least resistance from impression to impression.

I do say words, or see flashes of images but only for ideas that I have already felt out. Words are kind of a breadcrumb trail so that I can retrace the exact train-of-thought that I had taken before and images like mile-markers.
People without an internal monologue: Are you able to listen to a spoken sentence and then replay that sentence in your head? Do you have any audio-type memories?

If so that's basically what it's like for the rest of us, just with the words rearranged into whatever sentence we're thinking.
UFOs are a useful analogy. Let's just consider the "flying saucer" class of UFOs that people sometimes claim to see, but let's imagine we live in a world where Flying Saucers aren't just a figment of the imagination but are also mass produced by many companies, built by hobbyists, owned in large numbers by governments and all manner of organizations. Flying Saucers are regularly flown by all these people for reasons ranging from test flights to reconnaissance to just plain fun.

Now, in this world some people will mistakenly spot Flying Saucers for the same reasons that people on Earth. In fact, spotting Flying Saucers will be even more likely because everyone will recognize they are real.

Now, in Flying Saucer world, suppose that 93 people, including police officers, over a period of weeks, spotted and reported, sometimes repeatedly, a group of Flying Saucers flying in a pattern - something that it's well known Flying Saucers can do.

Would you conclude that these people are all mistaken and caught up in mass hysteria?
The mass production of high end gaming rigs is only going to continue if the market continues to buys them. If thin-clients become the new standard, they will cease to become an option. If you have a hard time ponying up for the funds for a high end gaming rig today, think of what it would take to buy a million dollar super computer because all the high end PC manufacturers have all gone out of business.

Calling my argument "poorly thought-out" is rather rich when you haven't thought about the ramifications of a the success of a thin-client model, and the bust of the PC market.
4chan were discussing this a while back and came up with the NPC (non player character) meme.
I created http://poyo.co/soundcloud2 as an extremely bare-bones extrapolation of how I find music on sound cloud, and it's fun to use. It build a little graph of the top-likers of a track, and their top-likes.. you can then go to one of the other songs by double clicking and starting the process again. You often find yourself far from your bubble of music.
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Also it seems that not all people are able to visually picture thoughts or memories in their head.

This really confuses me... How do you even remember things like that? As spoken words? But what if you also happen to not have the inner voice??
I'm kinda looking forward to see Bazel gone as well, in a few years. The Tensorflow of build systems ;).

It also seems there is something strange going on with open source from Google. Maybe it is as simple as a mismatch of impedance between their monorepo and the outside world, which they don't maintain. Or maybe it is something else.
Some years ago I wrote my email in a forum, available to crawlers. I’ve been getting spam ever since.
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Not trying to cargo cult, but what about the 12-factor stance that shared code is an anti-pattern?
> I'd like to know what the usual rate of false drone reports is in a typical town. Is this an average number of reports? More than average, and if so, why?

This is a false premise. You can extend the anthropic principle to observe that, given the existence of an average rate of false reports, either every town has exactly the average rate of false reports, or some have more. But that's a purely logical dichotomy; only the second option is actually possible.

So a higher than average rate of false reports doesn't actually need a "why" behind it.
Justin O'Beirne's commentary on the latest apple maps update
The pros and cons of jira all depends how you use it
Switch sales top 52.48 M, Pokemon Sword and Shield sales top 16.06 M
Yet to start with Europe.
Microsoft is hiring compiler developers for .NET CORE (F#) in Prague
If you send them at scale it’s almost free. What you as a consumer pay for sending text messages has no relation to the cost whatsoever.

Remember that you can send and download enormous files from all over the world for free, and these are just less than 140 byte packets.
Azure Stack Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
When to Overcommunicate
> I've see death certificates posted online with "viral pneumonia"

Would that not be a proper reason for a corona virus caused death? Or does it have to be specific if the exact cause is known?
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Did you every try meditating? Most styles (that I know of) involve trying to quieten the mind, or train you not to grasp onto thoughts and run with them. Instead just let them arise and fade away. That's assuming you would be interested in changing this. (It's certainly beneficial when someone has annoyed you and you can't get it out of you head for the rest of the day).
Yeah, if I remember right they couldn't open source parts of it because some parts had other licenses in it. I'm recalling (but I could be wrong) that they wanted to in 2011 or so... but couldn't because of that. Don't remember the source though.
Using https://gitlab.com/thart/flowanalyzer at the moment

However thinking it would be far easier to write something from scratch
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I'm not asserting initialism vs acronyms. I'm talking about the grammar of "Who did".

If you actually meant the World Health Organization, you'd have to interpret that as "World Health Organization did". This is obvious incorrect, and rather should be "The World Health Organization did". So there is no way for your daughter to have interpreted what you said as talking about the World Health Organization, whether initialism or acronym.

> Sorry if I took you away from fact checking open mic night. :-D

No, I wasn't distracted at all. Thanks for the concern, though.
One of my favorite effects of spending extended periods in solitude is how much more I appreciate being around people afterwards.

It's akin to how nice a hot shower feels after spending a week backpacking in the wilderness.
> thinking more is very useful for all the others.

Is it? Buddhist monks would likely disagree with you.
The article links to https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/ad... and https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/ad...

These CVEs only mention Azure Stack, while the Article suggests Microsoft acknowledged the flaws had also affected Azure public cloud:

> Check Point did not attack the cloud itself, but used the offline Azure Stack, a near perfect replica of the cloud environment. With the vulnerabilities detected, they then confirmed with Microsoft that the same ones would apply to the cloud itself. Yes, said Microsoft, patching the holes and paying Check Point a bounty.
My point was different: it's that some of the so-called military spending is in reality simply a way for the federal government to fund research it wants done, without any relation to actual (direct) military applications.

The sad reality is that it is easier for people to accept a massive military budget than to accept a large National Endowment for the Sciences, or to accept direct government grants for a strategy of technical development (that would be 'government interfering in the market'). Of course, this reality was created through a lot of fear-mongering propaganda, and through a lot of anti-"socialist" propaganda.
> When you want to take what’s someone’s property and make sure you want to ‘allocate’ it to someone else who wants it..it’s called redistribution.

No one's property is taken, they'll just sell it on the market to whoever can pay the most. That's not redistribution, it's called markets (what America is build on).

I think we fundamentally disagree on economics, so I doubt we'll come any useful agreement here unfortunately.

However, one thing I wanted to note is that Milton Friedman, one of the most libertarian modern economists thinks property tax is the best tax [1][2]. If a libertarian economist thinks a policy is good, yet you're comparing the policy to authoritarian socialist countries and re-education camps, you may want to consider that your mental model of economics/definitions of common words is extremely off base from how everyone else uses it. The Conservative Party in UK did the same thing, where they called land value tax (essentially what I'm arguing for here) a "Marxist tax grab", even when Marx opposed it!

In general, using words to mean the exact opposite of what everyone else considers them is not a great strategy.

Even ignoring that, I think claiming that property taxes are the "same thing" as re-education camps is a fairly tone-deaf statement to make (and one most readers would consider wrong), and it only serves to weaken the rest of your argument.

[1]: in his words, the "least bad tax", but that's equivalent, since he considers taxes to be required

[2]: see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS7Jb58hcsc
The reason why Keras became so popular is that it borrowed a lot of concepts from Lua Torch (which predates even Theano). And anyone who worked with Torch immediately sees it reading Keras code. But Torch was Lua and naturally it received less recognition than it deserved. Your will not lose anything by simply moving to PyTorch.
You are right in the idea that context (down to the title of a film) matters. However I think they meant something else there. I make films myself and context matters for everyone. But there is a class of people who cannot enjoy a film if they don't get it. If there isn't a clear didactic lesson to be learned in the end or a unifying functional theory that explains all of the films elements they are unable to enjoy the thing.

Which is weird, because the same people usually enjoy watching a sunset without explaination, have no problems liking a Van Gogh without knowing why precisely he painted crows over the field and let's not even talk about music.

Some people see it as an insult if your film isn't 100% self explainatory or at doesn't at least pretend it by smuggling the more ambigous ideas in the guise of something else (like good hollywood films).

For people that watch films in that way, the whole enjoyment of a film is connected to the feeling of having it deciphered. However — this way they are missing a big part of what is possible with the medium. Like if you'd only listen to music you can rationally explain the existence of each note for. Some things have no valid explaination, they just are. Stalker is one of these. Like the crows on Van Goghs field, you don't really need to have them explained to you to have them touch your soul. Not every soul will be touched by the same thing — but let's at least try.
While I do play out a lot of conversations and branches in my head, my imagined lines of conversation never really play out in reality. I find for example that my imagined conversations are a lot more hostile, I'm always imagining having to battle and batter my coworkers and managers to explain why things are the way they are - but in person I find that not only are others nicer than I imagined they would be, but I am too. I'll plot the cutting things to say, but in reality I realize that such things would be wholly inappropriate and undeserved and I don't really want to be mean anyway.

For me, this tendency is more of a problem online. This is because I can simply plot out a conversation and then write it the way I planned. It's something I need to be mindful of, to restrain my inner-jerk not just in person but online too.
Bicycles are very popular in many places in California; UC Santa Barbara has an amazing bike culture.
>If you care about housing and live in SF [...]

What people don't seem to understand is if you live in SF you probably have housing that's working for you.

Lots of people can't live in that city. Guess what? If they don't live there they can't vote there. I'm not sure why but even as people decry NIMBYism they seem to think there's some groundswell of support that's somehow suppressed.

At this point we should just make Fresno really desirable too or something.
I see your point, but I think the fact that drones unequivocally exist makes it more likely that people will mistakenly attribute something they see but don't understand to them, not less.

Ultimately, I make no conclusions on this particular case; I merely state that I find it completely plausible that a large percentage of those 93 people were mistaken and caught up in mass hysteria, especially after reports have been in the media.
> deaths / (deaths + recoveries)

How does that produce a meaningful number?
If you got 1000s of infected people, and 1 dies... The formula would be 1 / (1 + 0) = 100%. What does that mean?
> I don't like the idea of "understanding" a film. I don't believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art.

I think it depends on the work. Take the tv show The Wire. There is a lot to understand and learn from it. I found doing so really worthwhile (for multiple reasons).
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Thank you for saying this. Environmentalism is an old fashioned imperialism dressed up in new clothes. "Some" people who think they are better than others decide that "denser" housing is somehow better and when someone disagrees with them obviously those people are too selfish for protecting their own interest and not accepting the vision of these masterminds.
it might be more accurate to say (as a hypothesis), is that whatever this "inner monologue" thing is, people don't seem to experience it the same, even if it does exist/not-exist
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Same. I'll be driving along or walking down the street and my mind will wander to "I wonder what Franklin would think about cars. How do I even explain how they work? And let's not even get into cellphones." Faraday is another common target. It's always someone I could picture having a beer with, rather than some interminable boor (I imagine) like Newton.

The "tour" description is perfect; I'm always explaining or showing the person around or something. I imagine there's some ego component here; I only have a popular-science level understanding of these things, and my explanations would only be interesting to someone from the past or otherwise detached from society (which is also something I think about).

This all manifests as a bit of a mind game or thought experiment; it's not as though I'm actually conversing with the person. It's almost entirely one-sided: me imagining how I might explain the world to someone smart and curious but without any modern scientific knowledge.
How do you store the video? Do you archive to lower res? I imagine 5 years of video recordings adds up pretty quickly.
Maybe these are easier:

Arnold Schwazenegger: "I'll Be Back!"

Aqua Lene: "I'm a barbie girl, in a barbie world. It's fantastic, it's all plastic!"
Coincidentally I was just looking at gleamviz the other day (I was googling around for accurate modeling programs). Sadly when I tried the linux version, it segfaults after some Qt error.
The Murray-Darling river system covers most of NSW and Victoria, so it's not hard to intuit that a drier river system will result in drier conditions in NSW and Victoria. I don't have a source which says "the fires were predominantly caused by the drying of the river system", but given the geography it seems more unlikely (at least to me) that it didn't have a significant impact.