skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt you're the only one, but that's a very narrow-minded view of the world. Do you also feel that eyeglasses, hearing aids, and other personal assistance devices are 'useless' just because you personally don't need them?

Someone who is capable of using autocode - who has the technical capability to write code - may not need something like Zapier.

On the other hand, it took me 5 minutes with Zapier to set up a fully automated system that takes a line from a spreadsheet and populates a calendar, sends a calendar invite, and sends some follow up emails for a charity thing I run. It saves me tons of time, and I never have to think about it, nor did I have to write a single line of code against an API that will change shortly for I forget how all of my code works.
This is definitely possible - we've only looked at deaths.

One point to note about the 57 deaths number. There's also an argument to be made that you should apply the same burden of proof to claims that car seats reduce fertility, and that car seats reduce car crash fatalities. In other words, some people are skeptical of our methodology, which is totally fair. But if you subject the hypothesis that child car seats reduce car crash deaths to the same level of skeptical prior, the evidence in favor of saving lives is much, much weaker than the evidence on fertility, in our opinion.

The 57 deaths is our best point estimate from the regressions, but in the vast majority of specifications you can't rule out an effect of zero. By contrast, we find pretty strong evidence on the fertility reduction, that we think is fairly tightly identified compared with other competing explanations.
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Split of LibreOffice Online from the Document Foundation
No, $10 for a cable with significant amount of power is unreasonable. If you ever dealt with some power cables, you'd know that 1 meter of the highest quality copper power cable for continuous delivery of say 15 amps (3 x 1.5 mm^2) shouldn't cost more than $0.6. And that's enough for 300 watts of power given 20 volts. But you probably will never see that much copper in a USB-C cable, at best you'll see third of that and with a flimsy insulation, which costs two orders of magnitude less than $10.
I wish there were legal protections around this. Using a standard plug means it should accept the standard for that plug.
> just

gist

(in case you've ever wondered why gist.github.com is so named)
Also if your switch battery ever gets really really low, you can’t charge it with anything other than the OEM charger.
And better yet, should the airline be in trouble it will be able to void or devalue unspent points. It is like a debt you might be able to write off in the future so there's got to be a present value of that which is baked into the valuation.
Haven't finished reading the paper yet, but it is not entirely obvious that when participants are being directed on how to choose, they are paying as much attention as when they have to choose for themselves. That seems like a possible confound.

And the GPS analogy also suggested itself to me.

In fact, when the GPS gives me bad advice and I turn the wrong way, I seemed to have learned more from that too...
> The compression is achieved by using the probability of the next word computed by the GPT-2 language model released by OpenAI.

Does this mean that as the model evolves (I assume it's not static) there could be a chance of decompressing a blob of text and having it say something different to the original?
Which is why the government should not have granted access.

That being said, there is another thing to consider: whether that access was for legitimate purposes. Thunder Bay is in a unique position since it is a hub for travel and shipping to isolated communities. This has implications, one of which is the poor access to health care in those communities since these are small fly-in only communities. If the police were called upon to enforce public health measures, access to the database could be interpreted as legitimate from the public health perspective. That being said, I don't know if this was the case. This does not explain Durham region either.

(I was working in one of those isolated communities during the H1N1 outbreak. Keeping H1N1 out of those communities was a major concern.)
> what is "advertiser friendly" as opposed to not advertiser friendly.

This is a good question, as it gets to the heart of the conversation IMO. Thinking here, things that are advertiser friendly would probably both trigger a strong sense of identity (which can be exploited by advertising campaigns) without alienating other groups. Many conservative viewpoints push for limits to identity, seeing diversity of viewpoints as antithetical to what makes a good life, hence why many conservative viewpoints aren't as monetizable.

That's just me thinking out loud. If you see any flaws in my thinking or have any better theories, I'd be happy to read them.

> advertiser friendly websites do better because people who like to make money using websites participate and drive up engagement.

This is called astroturfing, and embodies what I consider to be the worst of Reddit. It provides people with a sense of community, but in reality it's just corporations trying to push a narrative to make money.

My conversation was started in good faith, btw. Not to say that my logic was/is flawless though.
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I don't consider being aware of your data distribution to be "hacking the engine". It's part of a good DBA's job. For any data set of appreciable size you can't treat the data as a black box. Even if you're not clustering the underlying table in postgres the performance of your indices will be heavily affected by data layout.
Pocket Pussy
Yes, the dollar sign literally means peso (aka "pieces of silver") -- "PS" where "P" lost its curved part, and only vertical bar left, written on top of "S".
> At this point all the US-domestic carriers are charging their bank partners over 1 US cent per point.

I had the impression that the value of an airline mile to the consumer was 1 cent. That would make paying more than a cent nonsensical.

Did airline miles suddenly become a lot more valuable?
The spec drives the implementation. The greater the complexity of the spec, the fewer implementations will get it right, and those that do will be expensive.
My local lumber yard offers free delivery.

Also, I have fallen in love with the fold down rear seat on my Civic. You can fit surprisingly large objects in the car with the seat folded down.
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The company probably dosen't want to support a somewhat esoteric(in comparison to the sprawling empire that is x86) architecture that will compose .5% of their users and make 50% of the fuss. I'm a linux user, I know how it feels.
Also the basic premise of the argument doesn't even hold AFAICT. The size of government since 1984 has shrunk from 9.7 million to 9.1 million in 2015. So the government has shrunk despite supposedly being in the era of big government. This is despite a growth of nearly 100 million people in the US.
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Interesting. I personally would never pass up an opportunity to save myself ~20hr a month by automating a business process for free, or nearly free.
sure, if you're familiar with the pinout, you can tell whether the data or power lines are completely missing. there was still no guarantee that any arbitrary cable would work with whatever fast charge implementation you were using. you would likely get 0.5A trickle charging at least, but the device could also just refuse to charge at all.

from my perspective, USB-IF has taken a bunch of random shit that manufacturers were going to do anyway and made them proper (though optional) parts of the spec. I understand it didn't work out perfectly, but I don't really understand why they are getting so much flak for it. I'd much rather have a bunch of cables and devices that at least try to meet an official spec than to have a bunch of proprietary implementations that make no effort at being compatible.
Is it closed ?

Because I've had my MBP plugged in for the last 6 months, driving 2 external 4K displays on one side, power-in on the other, and an OWC 10Gigabit dock in the last port.

It's cool to touch, but I have the lid open (I use the LCD as the third display). I've read of people saying it gets hot when the lid is closed...
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I tried some cheaper, smaller hubs for my ~2018 macbook pro 13", and nothing worked well. They either didn't work with an external monitor, or they did but they interfered with wifi.

I finally bought a CalDigit TS3 Plus. It was way more than I had hoped to have to spend on a hub, but it has worked without issue for over a year now.

https://www.caldigit.com/ts3-plus/
Ultimately I'm not sure it matters if we detect a supernova that will kill us within a year. That's not enough time to do anything about it, but enough time for worldwide panic and massive suffering before we all die anyway.

We'd really need to know at least 10-20 years out. Enough time to rally the world to find a solution but not enough time that it ceases to be a concern (like thousands of years).
On a recent project we decided to use the term “main” instead of “master” for our primary branch.

At first I was like “ugh” - not a big fan of that kind of language change, but then I was like, well, if it does matter to some people, what is my investment in this particular term anyway?

I could see how it gets trickier as a company policy, as opposed to something chosen collectively by the group.

Nonetheless, with everything going on in the world right now - and I say this as an advocate of free speech and of freedom of expression in art - this seems like such a small thing to stress about.

Tbh if this is your big fear then I’d say maybe read more news?

Being excoriated for an honest slip Of the tongue or absent mindedness is a different story though and there are definitely people that do that.

In some ways I think the conversation to be had around changing how we use certain language is equally or more valuable than the change itself :).
Trust me on this: no company is going to take a 3% hit to their net profits after taxes as a happy event.

The agencies are quite ready but it would take a pretty stupid management to step in front of that train willingly. Note that H&M was adamant that they would cease to collect this data (as they should be).

The only case I know of where there was a multiple-repeat-offender the eventual fine was 250K for a violation involving a single individual (hospital employees in NL thought it was 'fun' to peek on the records of a minor celebrity).
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Do you see banks getting robbed left and right and banks/governments not caring enough to take action against it? And is it being made your problem or the bank's problem when they do get robbed?
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My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison
The Lighthouse score is just a detailed and useful metric for troubleshooting, but not the only one we monitor. I included a chart from our Core Web Vitals in the end, which monitors the performance of all pages indexed by Google and uses actual usage data from a wide sample of users (Chrome User Experience Report).
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We value tenacity, humility, ingenuity and soul. In my interactions with my colleagues, these shine through on a daily basis.

I'm working on the platform and integrations team as a Backend Engineer, and we're also hiring full stack engineers, front end engineers and mobile engineers. We have two offices (in London and SF), and for the right candidate we'd be open to sponsoring a visa or supporting a remote role.

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It will, but looking at the SQL Server implementation[1] it looks like they're already aware of that.

[1] https://github.com/rmalayter/ulid-mssql
LD_PRELOAD strikes again! I learned about LD_PRELOAD last year from another HN post, and I'm not saying it's a silver bullet for instrumenting binaries on Linux, but it does seem to come in handy.

Edit: a SO question about "the LD_PRELOAD trick":
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/426230/what-is-the-ld-pr...
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We’re looking for 4 senior analytics professionals to join our Massachusetts-based Data Science team. The desired candidates will work to enable Dell's Global Business Operations & Sales organizations with data-driven insights that support our game-changing quota planning and business transformation efforts. The roles will be remote - so location in the US is negotiable.

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Super cool. When will you support Dropbox and Google Drive?
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I have an Anker hub/dock (HDMI, ethernet, USB-A), and it works fairly well. A bit noisy for a lower quality (i.e. poor power filtering) USB sound card. It does not provide USB-C power pass-through, however.