skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a friend, who knows African politics--esp old French colonies pretty well. He also says same thing about West African CFA francs. I know enough monetary economics to see what is going on.

Yes, West African CFA is pegged to Euro, now. Earlier, it was pegged to French francs. One disadvantage: countries don't have economic freedom/flexibility to finance public debt. If a country issues its own currency (not pegged to any Western currency), it has flexibility to issue/print money to finance public projects the way the Federal reserve in the USA is doing right now, by buying corporate bonds and treasury notes, etc. The flexibility that the US Federal reserve, the ECB, the Bank of Japan have, can't be exported to African central banks by the mere fact of having own currency; there should be demand for such currency. Today, every Chinese, every African, every Indian, every Latin American (almost 75% of the world population) wants to hold assets in USD, EUR, etc, but not in Kwachas (Zambian currency), not in Turkish Lira.

If a currency is not hard pegged, if a currency is issued by a local sovereign central bank, then you can see run away inflation as you can witness in many African countries. This inflation is also bad, and that forces moneyed-locals to keep foreign currencies instead of local currency.

The solution: good governance with local currency, not hard pegged to any Western currency. Without good governance, local currency will lead to bad outcomes.
It's not just kind but application.

It's heartbreaking and happens at least once a year, that someone near conventional agriculture/horticulture is posting a desperate for advice in every forum they know about because some asshole upwind let a cloud of 'cide drift over their horticultural masterclass of a lot, and everything is shriveling.

Recompense can be hard to get. Maybe we need an ACLU meets EFF for biodiversity.

Let's ignore for a moment any agenda to ban monocultures, and look at not just the kind but the density. Pollinator species would be doing better if the monocultures weren't so seemless. We need a mosaic of habitat and to reduce the distances between the ones we have. But it's an uphill battle to maintain them in the face of drift and runoff (really I think we shouldn't be cultivating hilltops, that would be a start, and simply dodges the runoff problem)
It's actually worse. If you expressly set the format of a column to text, then put 01/01 in it, you still get Jan-01 and a field value of 46000ish.
Just gotta say: amazing!

My follow up question would be: are you able to compare your results to actual photogrammetry data to see how good your reconstruction performs?
"Oh yeah, you want a seriously righteous hack, you score one of those orbiting satellites, man. You know, satellites they use to like, do cosmology, and look for oil and stuff?"
The World’s Smallest Violin and the Tiny Musicians Who Play It (2017)
I can confirm that lab mice in our mouse house are alway huddled up together.

Our lab studies E. coli, and mice require pre-treatment to permit intestinal colonization by E. coli. However, about 2 in 5 mice are colonized without antibiotic pre-treatment. I wonder if these are the the colder and more stressed out mice (outside the cuddle puddle).
> I like to say "I like cooking", but most of cooking is drudgery: peel carrots, potatoes, break down chicken, trim the meat, manage food portion and storage.

Totally. I love cooking. But when I say I love cooking, I mean I love standing over a pot or pan, stirring, tasting, seasoning, and sauteing. Prep work is the worst part, and also often the part that takes the longest.
It is difficult to die of a Vitamin D overdose, though not impossible. Here is what happens: Vitamin D increases calcium absorption from the intestines. Over time, if you are taking too much Vitamin D, your levels can get very very high over time. Vitamin D is fat soluble, so you don't just "pee it out" like some water-soluble vitamins. It stays in you long-term. Eventually your calcium will rise. It can rise slowly, but you will get symptoms. Common symptoms would be fatigue, brain fog, insomnia, headaches, and kidney stones.
If you are at levels where you could potentially die from Vitamin D overdose, your calcium levels will be high enough that you will feel acute symptoms of markedly elevated calcium: like vomiting and confusion. Someone will end up taking you to the hospital, because you will become unconscious. At that point you will be given IV fluids and the calcium will drop. You could die, especially if you have other health issues, but more likely it would be treated and you would get released.
The effects of Vitamin D toxicity are related to the high calcium levels that it causes.
Cheaper devices also tend to be less environmentally-friendly.
I'm on the fence, so to speak. have lived in subs with and without HOA, and mostly haven't noticed much of a difference. we did get a curt letter once about a trashcan "visible from the street" but they didn't followup when I asked for more info. Depending on what street you're on, it might be visible against the back of the house, but it wasn't visible from the front street, which is all I'd assume we'd care about.

One of the values I've found is that it does provide a way to collectively prevent certain eyesores. I don't really want to have someone with 5 cars in the street on in their driveway for extended periods of time. Having a BBQ party? Sure - have 15 cars there for a few hours. Want to collect cars and work on them and leave cars 'in repair' out the street for weeks at a time? I'd rather you didn't, and would rather there be some agreed upon process to resolve those disputes.

I do understand some HOAs have people that get power hungry - grass being a 1/4" too tall, etc. That's generally bullshit, and I think there's probably other things going on in those cases where the HOA issue is the public face of some other private neighbor disputes going on.

Oh, we did have a letter once or twice about "your lawn is not kept properly". We have a lawn service and they got delayed, then it rained heavy for 3 days, and they were backed up again, and... we had really long grass. It was cut the moment someone could cut it at that point. Nature happens. If the worst that came out of that was a $50 fine or something... meh.
In my haste to reply, I didn't even realize that you wrote and submitted the original article. Thank YOU for your beautiful message that inspired all of this thought, reflection and tears.

Your nephews are lucky to have you in their lives. I'm lucky to have been able to read something so beautiful that inspired so much more beauty.

Take good care, stay healthy and thanks for being genuinely good. People like you have enriched my life throughout the years and that's a debt I will never be able to repay.
AWS AppSync Releases Direct Lambda Resolvers for GraphQL APIs
Chief Medical Officer of Intel talking about what hacks look like on people's genetic information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY
> Programmers love to complain about Excel

In Apache POI HSSF/XSSF (Java Excel API), the HSSF actually stands for "Horrible Spreadsheet Format".

As a fun example, note that we need isSheetHidden() and isSheetVeryHidden() functions. (http://poi.apache.org/apidocs/4.1/org/apache/poi/ss/usermode...)
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Have you thought of making some of these but "for cash"? Like compete 1v1, stake crypto, and make money? We've played around with this concept but never actually launched it
this looks really cool.
I'm not am ML chap, but always wondered: Can these kinds of algorithms also give you dimensional data? For example, can I 3D-print one of these models with any accuracy?
+Infinity, -Infinity, NaN (quiet, signaling, miscellaneous).
This looks amazing! Congratulations. What was the most challenging aspect of this? I'm curious to see how you performed edge detection on the transient objects and were able to isolate them so cleanly. For some reason, the paper isn't loading, so feel free to say it's explained in detail there.

Do you plan on releasing code?

Congrats again. This is very cool research.
why do you think the vc have not thought of that? also, why do this over like the shl micro angel?
Thanks for posting this - I've been down that road. I regularly have to parse about 20GB of JSON split up into 8MB JSON files - tried this library but was sad that it didn't help. I'm currently using threading in nodejs and that has helped quite a bit though, parsing up to 8 of those files at a time has given me quite a performance boost - but I always want to do it faster. Switching to using C just isn't really a viable option though.
Verizon the television channel curator should be enabled and encouraged to stop carrying harmful content.

Verizon the broadband provider should make no determinations based on the content of any message they carry.
It says they ended up at 100 million daily active users. The fact that they could deploy that capacity in 60 days should terrify their competitors.
I've found corner drops to be the bane of all phones.

It took a lot of good drops to crack my screen, and I think I'll be able to go for a month or two before I swap in a replacement. (No screen protector or case)

I don't really see why the glass needs to go so far down. There's a large buffer of space before the screen actually starts
Appears to be proprietary based on the look of the website - what's the price range for this?
1) Will it allow me to diff AWS RDS Aurora/MySQL serverA database schemaA against AWS RDS Aurora/MySQL serverB database schemaB ?
2) Are there APIs to initiate and view/parse these diffs that you generate or is it all through UI?
I used to work in school IT.

If Google and Mozilla aren't going to step up their "managed browser" game then we're going to continue seeing MS and Apple dominate education. It's not like school IT depts like running IE, but it's basically the only browser you can lock down.

"But you shouldn't lock down kids' browsers, and let them have blah blah..."

Okay look, I don't actually give two shits if little Marcus wants to browse Pornhub on his school laptop, we're honestly not paid enough to care. But we do have administration breathing down our necks, school policies to enforce, and angry detached parents to appease.
The authoritarian Left is just as much a concern as Trump. Consider China with the... Wait, you already said China.
htop may be the original enhanced unix tool.

micro is an editor with sane keybindings.

An alias with inotifywait is what I use to watch the filesystem.

ddccontrol and sysfs can change brightness of monitors.
"Freedom of speech" is not the same as "freedom to lie on Youtube".

Let's say I want to say something pro-China. I have the freedom to do that (even, at the moment, on Youtube). But that's not an influence operation.

Let's say I want to consistently say pro-China things, with an idea of moving US opinion and policy, while pretending to be, say, a housewife in Dayton, while I'm really in mainland China working for their government as part of an ongoing campaign. That's an influence operation.
Interestingly, the new Apple watch will supposedly have a pulse oximeter of sorts [1]. I was looking forward to that. Now I wonder how it biases as well, especially given the wide distribution of apple watches and them being used as a defacto emergency health monitoring device [2]

[1]: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-watch-6-blood-oxygen-mo...

[2]: https://9to5mac.com/2020/07/01/critical-heart-disease/
I’m not doubting you, but how is that even possible? How do these people visit any other website? I don’t think much works in IE8 nowadays.
Partially.

You know, your PC has BIOS/UEFI and PCIE busses and other ways for kernel to discover what it is really running on, which drivers to load and so on.

ARM devices have none of these (except for servers, where Redhat had enough clout to say, that if your ARMv8 server has no UEFI, it will have no RHEL). Not only they add up to energy consumption (it is extra hardware, after all), they add up in the BOM as well (again, it is extra hardware). So we are stuck with kernels targeting only a known hardware (which today devicetree describes to some degree) and where a poke on a wrong port could mean that the entire device hangs. And after all, no consumers base their decision on whether a third party can replace the operating system, so why make a worse (=worse battery) and more expensive (=more BOM) than the competition?
Since this library doesn't cover any actual books, I'd love to hear from current/previous founders:

Which books had the biggest impact on your startup endeavours?
I can't imagine any scenario in which resistant, ideological people convinced people are out to take their guns will respond poorly to attempts by people in NY to dissolve the NRA... /s
IE11 still accounts for 3% of our audience. We're B2B HR/performance management.

Still too high of a % to ignore.
I found it to be perfectly adequate. Just like Zoom. Neither stood out and I'm perfectly fine with that.

Some of my fellow employees asked for a company wide Zoom license at the beginning of WFH so out of curiosity I looked to see how much Zoom costs. Turns out it costs about the same as all of G Suite which honestly surprised me (in how expensive Zoom is).

https://zoom.us/pricing

https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html
Surely there must be a solution to this problem which involves neither privatization of massive amounts of personal data nor vicarious baptism.
Nowhere near as bad as Endgame... so yeah, a little culling is good for the herd, right? /s
Beware the IDEs – With Video
Don't Let Politics Derail Your Happiness
VCs are in a different business with a different model. VC is always great for the VC, not always so much for the founder. So this is a great alternative
While hunting, 3 rapid shots usually means distress or "need attention". e.g. you slide down a hill and screw up your ankle and knee -- fire off 3 rounds.

A lot of hunting regs also limit you to 2+1 rounds (2 in mag, 1 in chamber) for sporting purposes, so firing off 3 rounds also implies you're deliberately emptying your gun.
I think you misread: most of mainland Europe including Germany use dd.mm.yyyy or something else that is reasonable sane even if it isn't sortable like yyyy-mm-dd. Or am I wrong on this? Norway at least use mm.dd.yyyy and never mm/dd or mm.dd.yyyy
I'd like to check out Runnaroo but our enterprise site blocker blocks it due to its having the web category 'Uncategorized URLs' - so I can't get to it where I need it most! Right now I use DDG so whatever they're doing is good with our site blocker.
Fair, but nevertheless: https://www.americanbanker.com/list/new-banks-this-year
What Computer-Generated Language Tells Us About Our Own Ideological Thinking
Hack-a-sat is going to be a fun time this weekend. Far enough outside most of our domain knowledge that you have to learn quick and on the fly.
Sure, if there is one thing history has taught us it's that humans will not be contained. Humans break free, expand to new territories and crash through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh… well, there it is.

Humans will find a way.
Finally. It's such a simple idea, I've been waiting for a long while. Is there something like this that takes more profiles into consideration?
I would say you are right the classrooms are more worrisome, especially since I doubt the desks are being wiped down between students.

I would say that the hallway is still worrying. It isn’t just students walking past each other. I’m sure they are bumping into and brushing up against each other. In my experience it is hard to avoid when you are rushing to your next class in a crowded hallway.
How Much Can I Save, and at What Cost?
I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir, but you can't put down seed and weed & feed in the same season - you'll kill your seedlings. It actually says this on the bags of weed & feed.
When you look at the macro trend, platinum has trended gold since the 80s... until around 2014 where it started going the other direction. https://www.macrotrends.net/2541/platinum-prices-vs-gold-pri...
Even if oil and gas disappear, pipelines are here to stay
You are right. Few do. If people cared about the environment that much, they would have lobbied for laws against planned obsolescence. Me buying 5 phones or even 500 won't make a difference to the environment. Laws forcing phone makers to support their phones for a minimum of x years might. Clearly, our society is not interested in that. Why should I then go out of my way to inconvenience myself to do something that will make zero difference? No reason to at all.
That seems like a crazy low limit compared to the traditional spreadsheets I'm used to.

Is there some special meaning of "record" in their vernacular?
Those tools are definitely vastly powerful. Have you used either of them?

TBH, I haven't, but judging from our current post-Informatica users and by reading questions on Informatica/Talend official user forums, I concluded that the diffing problem (to be specific – not only schema, but data diffing) is not directly addressed by them (the answers are in the realm of "there is no diff feature but you can write SQL..."

In general, we see data stacks becoming increasingly modularized and tools more specialized. For example, there are at least 20x more teams using OSS like Airflow/Luigi/Dagster for managing their data pipelines (and 2-5 other tools for the rest of the workflow) than using end-to-end platforms that you mentioned. We see Datafold as a regression testing tool in a modular stack.
Are you looking to sell something to consumers, or to businesses?
I think your argument is _almost_ right. You should be applying that logic to the total "market cap" of the asset, not to the unit price.

In particular, the huge bull run in crypto happened because mass retail and institutional money came into the market, bidding the price up. Arguably, if TSA agents are already bought into bitcoin (the implication being that TSA agents, as a class of people, are very unsophisticated investors) there isn't a lot more money waiting on the sidelines that could flood the market (not completely true, as there are still untapped pools of institutional money).
Hi. Here's what you can do:

- Start a company and build product for enterprise. The amount you get paid as a company vs. as an individual is not even comparable.

- Learn to sell more, or hire someone who can, and then learn to sell. Someone who can ask for a price you would never ask without blushing, blinking, sweating. Most engineers I've seen have a problem with sales and you don't know what's valuable for clients. I was in meetings where the client ignored features we spent weeks on, and was amazed by a feature we implemented in a day. One colleague engineer who tagged along was just amazed: "From all the features, they loved that?". Sometimes the amount of engineering you spend on something and the value it has to someone are two independent variables.

- Get an attorney who'll draw your contracts and make sure your company doesn't get abused. Clauses to protect you. To make sure you get compensated for the opportunity cost of an exclusivity contract, and to make it constrained in space, time, and limited to some entities. Obviously never sign something before they read it. The contracts you're handed were probably written by people from a legal department, so it's good to run it through someone cut from the same cloth.

- Amicable relations. Always deliver. Build a reputation. Repeat customers are a thing. Recommendations are definitely a thing. This can be very profitable.

- Network. The energy it takes is considerable. To be able to positively pitch your services, build relations, follow up on enquiries, spread good vibes... Build relations, build trust... And sometimes, sometimes, you might have to do a solid to a relation in a large enterprise to get in, but when you get in, you get in. Again, this can be profitable.

- For hiring, surround yourself with people you can learn from, who can complement you. Your objective is to grow the company.

- After servicing many customers, you'll learn patterns. You can sell a product many times over.

I'm excited for you. All the best!
The problem is that 'necessary' to the people driving the Georgia decisions seems to be 'necessary to support my beliefs and my fiscal policy', not 'necessary for the best good of all'.
Maria Popova created one of the most amazing jobs in the world. She loves reading, learning and talking about about what she's read. Now she gets gets paid very well to read whatever she wants every day.

It's a fantastic site, too. Along with Tyler Cowen and a few others, she plays a big role in helping me filter and decide what to include in my much smaller reading budget.
Aggregating many restaurateurs at a single kitchen, and encouraging families to order from that kitchen, a bundle of meals, could save significant money on delivery.

And landlords could also offer their own delivery app, for more savings.

For a restaurant brand owner, leaving that kitchen means leaving those bundles and customers. And replacing him(for many customers), is a possibility.

That's one way landlords could gain some lock-in.

Also, even without significant lock-in, landlords that may have many kitchens, could have significant purchasing power of food ingredients. Even if they earn only a single digit percentage on that, food ingredients have rapid turnover, so yearly ROIC is significant.
I’ve left about a third of my garden as a wild “meadow” and it has been full of flowers and bumblebees all summer. Even the municipality has left some lawns in the parks uncut for the benefit of wild flowers and bees. (Sweden btw)
Can't say I notice a difference, most platforms just take your webcam data and forward it so I don't get why people report different qualities? Never had to use zoom luckily but between Wire, Jitsi, Hangouts, BigBlueButton, and two others whose names I don't remember right now, it always depended on people's mics, cams, and WiFis (and sometimes available CPU if my crappy work laptop had too much to do in the background to en/decrypt the streams).
Much needed! Analysts struggle with this all the time - trying to explain why an analysis is off and having to manually debug every column in a new database
As a pretty strong defender of the 2nd amendment, I really wish the NRA weren’t the face of it. Don’t know if that means the government should be dissolving organizations, but it seems like a good opportunity for someone new to step in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb2zkxHDfUE&t=696 "When Spreadsheets Attack!" by Stand-up Maths
Clicking connect with "Quickbooks" results in a "500 - Server Error" fyi.

But, interesting model. How does this deal compare with getting a loan from a bank (e.g. SVB)?
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The standard just says if you're going to have $feature, this is what it has to look like. A web browser on a platform with no concept of notifications can still be standards compliant.

A browser with no support for DRM can still be standards compliant too.
> But if you already understood monads, can you imagine how annoying it would be if every resource, discussion, article, etc. relating to them started with a pages-long introduction on What is a Monad?

I agree that it would be unreasonable for every article that uses monads to describe what they are. But I don't think it would be unreasonable for every one of them to link to another article that does explain them.
> rate limiting

This shouldn't be too hard. We use Kong which has rate-limiting plugins

> Analytics. Don't need anything too complex

I've never used Firebase's analytics, but it seems like we could do something fairly simple if there is enough demand for it. There are already some very feature-rich self-hosted tools in this space (like PostHog) though. Any reason why you wouldn't want to use those tools?