skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you live in a place that is wooded, you must have a firebreak or or be within a firebreak perimeter unless your housing can mobilize in 1 hour, such as a RV / tent, etc"

Thinking of how to deal with edge cases is not hard people.
Not at all. You can only use it through a proprietary API.
And I strongly believe apathy will be the death of freedom.

This is a needlessly negative outlook. Click the link, support the EFF. Educate your friends and family.

Defeatism is not a compelling philosophy.
How do you find and hire the best people?
A library to display an interactive editor for any graph-like data
In general it looks neat I think. But I wish they did not block me from typing while the bot is responding. I understand why they might want to do it that way but to me I find it a bit jarring and uncomfortable.
All-in-One Collaboration Tool for Remote Teams
There are tools you can hack together for remote work. Then, there are remote-native tools: tools built by and designed for remote teams.

Our team enjoyed the freedom and flexibility of working from anywhere—but we were also frustrated about having to hack together multiple tools in order to GTD.

Few of the communication, collaboration, and project management tools in the typical "remote stack" felt like they were designed for remote teams. Virtually none were designed by remote-first teams.

We ended up constantly switching between a handful of different tabs and tools just to complete the basic functions of our day to day work. To paper over that fragmentation, we rely on group chat—a noisy, technological reflection of the open office's worst tendencies.

Then I found Taskade. Started using to collaborate with a distributed team and using the project board feature. Been a month and nothing has caused a major concern. So, looks like it gonna stick with us for long.

Taskade is one simple tool that allows teams to manage projects, brainstorm ideas, write product specs, and video chat together seamlessly, with everything syncing in real-time across all devices. ️

The team is live on PH today - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/taskade-3-0

Matic

P.S.: I'm not a hunter or part of the team, just a user.
My use case would be to style markdown exports and it's really a pain to add divs everywhere and it screws with the timelessness of your document. A few years ago I used js to achieve full bleed.
Does quickchat generate confidence scores on the responses? Curious because if it did you could say if confidence < 70% route to human.
You can do the same in mypy by generating a stub file: https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/stubs.html
I have the same experience with the sennheiser and then a set of Bose QCs, they both fell apart within a year. However my beats studios are now coming up on two and a half years and they aren't showing any damage. I know which ones I'd buy again if I had too.
I used to do migrations between library systems, and often they'd export from the old system as CSV. One rule I gave them was "never open this file in excel", because they'd always try to be helpful by tidying something and I'd end up with scientific notation ISBNs, dates that were in one form if they could be coerced into US-style infix, otherwise left in the original form, barcodes losing zeros, etc. etc.
My problem with programming is that I don't even want to look at the screen, type on the keyboard or use a mouse.

Constantly translating my thoughts and ideas manually through my hands and eyes directly is annoying.
That's where I expected the article to go, and I was slightly disappointed when that avenue wasn't explored.
Just Google around for techempower benchmarks for speed. You don't have to rely on some random opinion on the web.

C# gets more features every year than F# because C# is still trying to catch up to F# 1.0. F# 5 got good updates this round (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/f-5-update-for-august/)
I've been a Banks fan for a long long time - if you liked the Culture series you might like the Neal Asher Polity series. They aren't quite as well written as Banks - but they do make up for it with a lot of action and some superbly crafted scary beasties (Hooders being particularly terrifying).
Thread on floating point representation and random numbers in Python
I considered multiple selections a bit of a gimmick in sublime text and various emacs/vim extensions but the way it works in kakoune feels completely different.

Think about vim (and kakoune) as basically a highly interactive language for editing text. At least at a conceptual level something like diw is basically a function (d) applied to data (iw). Vim is completely scalar. The type of all the functions is more or less something like string → string. Kakoune is the APL of text editors. Multiple selections are an array of strings to operate on. It automatically maps the function (editor commands) over every selection. I find this extremely attractive and powerful.

At least for me kakoune blows all other editors out of the water. It really is quite good.
What do you do when the model is wrongly confident though?
China avoids the problem of figuring out how to spy on US-controlled Internet services, by making their citizens use domestic products instead.
It's only important to break thinks like matrix if you want to catch dedicated criminals. If you're just trying to sway elections and blackmail people then Facebook (WhatsApp) , Gmail, etc more than covers what you need.

Plus if you really really want to know what's happening there, call the NSA. They'll send a few chaps to join the matrix dev community. Or they'll use other tools to access the machines in question. And you can do that to the 0.01% of people that actually switch after mainstream tools become insecure in a way you can't when there are billions of people using encryption by default.
> It isn't clear what piece of software was behind this "automatic process".

They probably mean a semi-automated process within excel, where each tab is a days extract or something similar and they are using external references to other sheets. In any vaguely up-to-date version of excel the way you would do this is via 'get and transform' which does not have any of these limitations (including the 1m record limit that the news article suggests).

The funny thing is that the latest versions of Excel are brilliant at aggregating and analyzing data and are more than suitable for this task if used correctly (i.e. using PowerQuery). It's just that way less than 1% of users are aware of this functionality - I would assume that even most hacker news readers probably don't know about PowerQuery/PowerPivot, writing M in excel and setting up data relationships e.t.c.
>Burke dubs this the “Leonardo syndrome,” a defect in polymaths whose intellectual restlessness prevents them from finishing things properly.

no, No, NO! It is NOT a "defect"! It is the very heart of the matter. Once the interesting parts of the problem are solved, when it comes to mere drudgery of "routine" execution is when polymaths lose interest and move on to newer, exciting things. That is what keeps their creativity fountain bubbling. This is a natural way to use limited energy and time towards unlimited learning.
I was ready to vote you down, but the article was hilarious at the end. Would read again, it's absurd comedy at the end.
I recommend reading the passage on Spengler in Poppers 'The open society'.
Patrick Radden Keefe published a good review of this legal battle in the New Yorker in 2012 [1]. The decades-long litigation felt long-in-the-tooth when that article came out and the fight continues still…

[1]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/01/09/reversal-of-fo... “Reversal of Fortune”, New Yorker 9 Jan 2012
Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070385
From what I've seen, you can buy a house in california w/ a mortgage without earthquake insurance. Why is that possible then?
The unspoken elephant in the room is obviously it doesn't even have to be your face that is being animated in the video call. You could swap out the first keyframe image and appear to be any other real person during the video call with the same fidelity. Sounds great for corporate espionage and lurking on calls that you shouldn't be on.

I don't think it's fair to call this video compression as much as real-time photo-realistic animation via motion capture.
It's unlikely this was done by a developer in reality, and it's more likely to be a data analyst that was called a developer in the press release.
I used to hold office hours. these were calendars scheduled times where anybody could bother me, I would continue working if nobody was in. I encouraged people to just swing in and chat about problems, or to use it for tea. teams does not support this as a scheduled feature, to have a meeting that everybody is invited to but is not constantly notified about. I no longer hold office hours
Also long numeric ids are rounded by Excel.

And fucking with dates.
I rather like the explanation for the lack of FTL travel/communication around here in Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought books (first two are some of the best SF novels ever written, third one is pretty awful).

Edit: Added "around here" - which is quite important.... ;-)
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Not bad actually:

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With so many replacements products, it has never been easier. A replacement is at hand within a few meters of the animal derived product in most modern supermarkets. Also, Youtube is full of inspiration of how to replace any animal derived product. It's never been easier.

I think its more the will, than the ability, that's needed. And if someone considers some products "too hard to switch away from" then, just keep buying that one and skip the others.

Dont like cruelty to animals? Then stop buying it. It's that simple.
I'm interested, is there any urls to read about this package?
> The EARN IT Act cynically uses crimes against children as an excuse to hand control of online privacy and speech over to state legislatures

I like the idea of federal legislature ceding power to state legislatures.

Additionally, it looks like encryption is offered more protections in this bill, Considering federal laws preempt state, especially with regard to telecommunications, I do not see what the risks are with passing this(regarding encryption).

The bill ammends Section 230(e) of the Communications Act of 1934.

> CYBERSECURITY PROTECTIONS DO NOT GIVE RISE TO LIABILITY.—Notwithstanding paragraph (6), a provider of an interactive computer service shall not be deemed to be in violation of section 2252 or 2252A of title 18, United States Code, for the purposes of subparagraph (A) of such paragraph (6), and shall not otherwise be subject to any charge in a criminal prosecution under State law under subparagraph (B) of such paragraph (6), or any claim in a civil action under State law under subparagraph (C) of such paragraph (6), because the provider—

“(A) utilizes full end-to-end encrypted messaging services, device encryption, or other encryption services;

“(B) does not possess the information necessary to decrypt a communication; or

“(C) fails to take an action that would otherwise undermine the ability of the provider to offer full end-to-end encrypted messaging services, device encryption, or other encryption services.”.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/339...
To add to this point, the latest article says that they started building a replacement to the spreadsheet two months ago, so I think that reinforces the speed of a spreadsheet implementation vs anything else in the public sector!
Ahhhh, so this is the power of GPT-3. Writing nonsense articles is great, but it seems to all apart at the slightest attempt at interaction.
They are not supposed to, but this is the real world. Not the ideal one. I know at least one corruption scandal where judges (2) were getting paid to deliver verdicts in certain way.[0]

That was so egregious that it broke the news.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
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https://dev.to/abhiprojectz/ultimate-questions-answered-in-1...
Plants can feel pain. Please eat rocks.
I wouldn’t bet against a USA-RoW split any more. ~90% of internet users are outside America now, and even accounting for income differences more than 2/3rds of the money is outside the USA.
I’d argue that if you are living in a warzone, life is simple too. Just in a completely different way.
Clean before the trip, clean after trip? It probably depends on the cat, but in case of ours, the litterbox can stay untouched for a week before it starts pooping outside of it.

(However, we always arrange for someone to take an active care of the cat, including cleaning its litterbox, if we have to leave for more than 3 days.)
Interestingly, before they added the iOS-style fullscreen mode, the "maximise" button on Mac OS X would actually just fit the window to the content, rather than the screen.

A common frustration to those used to Windows or Linux, while the Mac folks were equally confused about why people wanted full-width windows with miles of empty space on either side.
Tox makes it easy to run the test suite on multiple versions of python.

https://tox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
I've switched from PHP/Node.js to .NET/C#. And that's awesome!
Developers Leverage WebAssembly for Powerful Browser Applications
I'm not sure cities are the place to find peace and quiet.
> Type hints don't help performance either because the interpreter discards them.

With CPython they don't. Cython actually uses annotations to optimize the generated code.
"Wife teases"!
Politics can be Luddites too? They see the world is moving forward, and as it's escaping the reach of their small grabby hands, they enact the "Earn IT" act as an attempt to return the times where their little grabby minds were able to watch and control others.
Interesting that the essay fails to mention his support of Mussolini or that he considered Judaism to be an disintegrating element and that Jews are guilty of "money thinking".
Stuff like this gets posted here all the time, it's quite hard to miss really. We (HN readers) like this kind of content.
> Recently a local data center provider in Central Texas was found to be a major nexus for Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) material. Data Foundry, formerly known as Texas.net.

There’s CP on usenet? shocking

> It also now appears to have been a major collection node, codenamed WAXTITAN, for the NSA's BOUNDLESS INFORMANT program

You have no idea if this is true, you’re just speculating based on the appearance of a single Data Foundry IP address in a leaked NSA slide which you don’t understand.
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CDC says virus can spread indoors in air beyond six feet
While I agree with the general sentiment that excel is normally misused, like in this case, it's also capable of handling huge amounts of data thanks to powerquery and powerpivot (1,999,999,997 rows per table, 2 billion tables max, docs say). You can't load the data in the grid, you need to use the data model. Using powerquery properly also solves most problems about excel guessing types wrongly when importing csv and other external data. If strongly recommend any excel user to learn powerquery and powerpivot.
> Does your circle call it "S Q L" or "sequel"?

squeal, obviously.
"How is that different from what the US does?"

? They are quite different.

Facebook is a social network. On occasion, with a warrant approved by an independent Judiciary, an agency may request on a case by case basis, information relating to a specific concern for which there are specific indications warranting a search - much like the search of your car or home.

WeChat is a control, censorship and surveillance network.

- WeChat, like >90% of Chinese companies, has CCP party apparatus that work within the company who overview protocol to ensure loyalty to the CCP agenda. The US 'equivalent' would be the CIA having staff at Facebook to intercede in policy decisions and to make sure 'The Man in the White House' has his policy objectives met.

- WeChat censors everything. If you, right now, start saying something negative about Xi, it will likely get censored by one of the massive army of censors. The US equivalent would be 100% of Facebook posts going through a 'large office in Virginia' where President's political operatives oversee censorship.

- WeChat censors anything they want, for whatever reason. Winnie the Pooh comparisons to Xi? Banned. References to Tiannamen or Hong Kong protest? Banned. The US equivalent would be Facebook banning all memes mocking Trump, and of course, banning any and all activity related to BLM, social justice, protests, any kind of history that contradicts the ruling American party's official view of the world.

- WeChat is used used to identify networks of civil antagonists. Have you said something about 'Hong Kong'? Well, you're friends are going to be tagged and more likely monitored. The US equivalent would be government operatives sifting through the Facebook DB all day, using that information to monitor your friends messages, because you said 'Black Lives Matter'.

- WeChat is used for a host of other things including payment etc. meaning the breach of privacy is considerably more significant. Everything you buy, everywhere you travel etc. tracked and monitored at all times.

[1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/10/which-me...
While I on the whole agree, there are some cases where its unavoidable. You could be coming home late from work, and you can't power nap in the car park there as the lock the gates, so you need to drive to a location where its safe to park and nap. Its admittedly an edge case, but its not unlikely by any stretch of the imagination.
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Last I played WOW was burning crusade and that was 2007-08. Amazing times for sure.

Curious how the game evolved over time.
There's a ceiling to happiness, though, that's predicated on your tolerance of death and suffering around you. You can't punch through it without advanced technology. But I guess people could instead live their lives stoned on their local mushrooms to achieve the same feelings of happiness.
"Everything the NSA does is legal and above board. That's why we need a special law allowing us to do illegal things without consequences."
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And will just be banned and blocked
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My consumer ISP allows me to host servers. I can add on a static IP for a few bucks a month and as long as I don’t break any laws they’re cool with it.

Previously I had “business class” internet but that is just the name of the plan. Anywhere there was cable I could get business class plans.
Using FreeRTOS multi-tasking in Arduino
I think the correct answer to this is:

- Create an API that exposes the data from the data you need

- Consume that API from your static site.

As others have mentioned, there are tools out there that help you in implementing the API fairly simply. The reason you shouldn't just connect to the database from the browser is primarily security - you should build your API to be a gatekeeper, and expose only the data you need to expose.

How you consume that is up to you. You may find you have some issues with things like CORS, depending on how you set this up - but these issues can usually be worked around.

[edit: Note that depending on why you want a static site, e.g. if bandwidth costs are your big limit and you don't want your API hit with every request, you might find that setting up an automated worker to scrape your data and deploy it makes life easier - assuming that all your visitors to a page will want access to exactly the same data. In fact, if you save it as JSON with a filename ending .js, prepend "window.page_content = " to your file as part of your worker, then you can load your database content at the top of your page in a simple script tag and use that data in the rest of your page.]
>and then the users of that platform would simply stand out in ISP logs making it actually easier to spot them.

Yeah no.

Encrypted data would still be flowing all over the place, if our bad actors use VPN's to hide their traffic then it would become impossible for ISP's to see what they're doing or using.

In addition, even if you can pinpoint who's using encrypted communications, unless you can prove they're actually engaged in some criminal practice, it won't do you much good. With EARN-IT the responsibility is on the encryption providers, so those two random devs who made the app. You can't tell what the users were talking about since communication is encrypted, you can't really prosecute any of the users for anything besides maybe using those apps if it becomes completely illegal or you can prove that the app is only used by criminals and no one else.

Now you can potentially go after the devs, assuming of course you can figure out who made the app, and assuming these people are in a place where US laws apply. The global nature of the Internet makes things very difficult. If a Swedish team develops and encrypted communication app and distributes it on their website, are they still required to comply with US laws? If they prevent US citizens from downloading the app with geoblocking but people get around it with VPN's, are they still required to comply with US laws?
Is reduce() bad? – HTTP 203
27.5MB, of which 27MB is five GIFs. Please don’t use GIFs like this. Use videos: they use less bandwidth, use less power, look better, and annoy your “I don’t want videos to autoplay!” users less.
No. A legally binding contract requires "meeting of the minds", and GPT is not a legal person capable of entering into contracts. You need actual mutual agreement, not just the presence of a facsimile.

You can't edit EULAs with the browser debug tools either.
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I have a list of companies I'd like you to consult for. Coincidentally, they're companies I'd like to work for, and I've quite enjoyed building proper database solutions which replace incredibly hacky/terrible Excel (or Excel adjacent) solutions.
What about Burmese cats - which act pretty much like cat shaped dogs - at least in terms of sociability and playfulness.
Once you've agreed on who the eligible judges are, you can just have the plaintiff's lawyer and the defendant's lawyer meet up in a room and roll dice. This isn't a technical problem requiring advanced cryptography, it's a social or political problem.

Also, your method is biased towards lower-number judges when the number of judges is not a factor of the range of the output of your hash function. Use an existing library instead.