skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Now I can't open FB in the public... :/

Just poison the data. Break their algorithms by going on a bit of a virtual shopping spree. You wont even have to buy anything, just place in cart and cancel later on. Get those targeted ads replaced with ads for machine parts, woodworking tools, craft supplies, coffeemakers, etc. Make sure you ARE logged in when you do this, so that these results have a higher priority for the algorithm to pull. Some products will also COMPLETELY poison your profile, just like a runaway slave throwing red herring. Anything related to pregnancy or impotence will do this. If they want data, give it to them. Drown them in it.

PS. I wind up shopping for parts for my job on my phone all the time, I know this works. Even when you dont have the accounts connected, they do.
That always bites people. `lstrip` and `rstrip` take a set of characters to be removed not a prefix/suffix.

>>> "foobarbaz".lstrip("fo")
'barbaz'
folks shouldn't be trying to get rid of those towns wholesale, just price in the risk and the externalized costs appropriately. easier said than done of course, as our legislative and regulatory apparatus has been broadly subjugated to real estate interests.
I arrived 4 weeks after the last case of the ebola epidemic so probably around May 2016. Liberia is (as far as i heard) not really comparable to SL, Nigeria or most other "more civilised" african countries. Even black colleagues from Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Kenia who were deployed at the same time experienced a culture shock (though not quite as extreme), so neither "africa in general" nor the racial background can explain the experience, i think it was really a uniquely weird place on earth. But the country life is probably quite different to Monrovia so there may be a huge gap in experience of people you met that just drove through some nature and village. As i had to work all the time anyways i did not mind the rain too much and it was usually on time like a clockwork and maybe one or 2 hours a day max. As far as my understanding goes, there was no such thing as real tourism, you could not just book a flight to Liberia without family ties or an invitation by an NGO or Government with a reason, but that may have been due to lockdown from ebola.
P.S. It doesn't matter if you never personally load a CSV into Excel. You need to ensure nobody upstream or downstream from you does either.
OP. it's been 7 hours and you haven't answered why or how you use email address data.
> If you can't trust judges you're in a lot of trouble.

They're just humans. They are not to be trusted by default until they prove otherwise.
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> It’s a valid concern that your car manufacturer will use the interior cameras to blame a crime on you.

Don't see when they would ever be responsible for a crime legally, outside of being 'blamed' in dozens of national news headlines; the current legal landscape has continued to uphold that you are responsible for the car even when it's trying to drive itself.

Even with Navigate on Autopilot, you have to continuously apply force to the wheel to prevent it from nagging at the driver. The feature mentioned in the article would be used if regulation increased to require the car use a camera/similar system to determine if a driver is inattentive while autopilot is enabled.
In poor Eurozone countries like Slovakia or Greece this notion was not received favorably when switching to euro, maybe it has improved since. Supposedly it would hurt the poorest if it's impossible to buy basic food items for unrounded price (in Slovakia the popular bagel-"rožok" has cost 4 eurocents in 2009, currently 7 cents).

Likewise, that it is not possible to get 5 euro notes, only 10s at least from most ATMs also caused complaints.
You can deprecate an optional field and reserve the field number, but if you reintroduce use of that field number with a field of a different type that is not backward compatible. Types can be changed if they are binary compatible, but in that case they haven’t actually changed, because the binary format is the canonical format.
> There certainly have been a few times when I was expecting to drive but clearly wasn't fit to and had to make other arrangements.

My example (and experience) wasn't about starting to drive. It was about being 4 hours into a 7-8 hour drive. The slow degradation of attention while sitting in a static position while watching static scenery go by for hours at a time.

> And, in the gentlest possible way, if you were unable to recognize that you were so tired that you were likely to fall asleep while driving and make another choice, you were demonstrably unfit to drive at that time.

Part of being unfit is sometimes not easily recognizing you're unfit. If you start in a perfectly fine shape, but degrade slowly over time, it can be hard to note the exact moment when things have gotten to a point where you should stop. And the whole point of my post was that recognizing this point, especially if it's over time and a slow degradation, can be hard if you've never experienced it before.

> I can't argue rationally against such an irresponsible and selfish position

Well, I don't think the people in this little corner of the discussion it are arguing that. People definitely shouldn't drive while impaired. I just think we should also consider, and see if there's a way to help, people that don't have enough experience to know when they're flirting with that state, for whatever reason it may be. Hopefully that at least some people here aren't arguing for allowing impaired people to drive is some consolation and reduces your stress at least a little. :/
Please don't break the site guidelines with name-calling and personal attacks, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is. We're trying to avoid a culture where people pick on others like that.

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Orangina is probably the first product that springs to my mind with this, "shake the bottle, wake the drink". Jaeger-bombs is one such rendition in the UK amongst late-teens/20-somethings.

Although, maybe crepes suzette (and similar flambé at the table dishes) are an earlier version, where ordering a particular dish caused the waiter to come to the table and prepare it for you, https://youtu.be/Xu9xq0Rj-KU?t=82.
"Missile Defences" base structure was available to build right away, so that was at least a hint :)
It's not about getting rid of the village, but legislating that the town needs a gravel firebreak around their city limits, which might get rid of the 'we are in the middle of a forest' feel that they are going for. Somewhat like building codes so people don't live in toothpick houses that burn away or shake away in a flash.
Disregarding popularity, why should I switch to C#/dotnet from PHP/Go/Ruby?
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Fair points.

My friend Woozle noted a few years ago an epistemic paradox:

> Our present epistemic systems are undergoing kind of the same shock that the online community underwent when transitioning from BBSs and Usenet to the commercial web to social media.

> We were used to a very high content-to-BS ratio because it took a certain amount of intelligence and intense domain-interest for people to be there in the first place -- and we've now transitioned to a situation where many people are there more or less accidentally and (the worst part), because of a high percentage of the population being present, there is now substantial power to be had by influencing the discussions that take place.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5wg0hp/when_ep...

Shoshana Zuboff put this more succinctly, in the 1980s, in her Thid Law:

> Every digital application that can be used for surveillance and control will be used for surveillance and control.

And you can find far earlier examples, say, Sun Tzu's "On the Use of Spies" (book 13), and of course "All warfare is based on deception."

So yes, the practive is not merely modern, and not a passing fad.

"Build it and they will come" turns out to be a curse.

Non-dominant cultures may advance by out-surviving adversaries. The Angles were subordinate to the Romans, the Song Dynasty and Poland to the Mongolian Empire, Egypt and Persia to Macedonia. Direct combat is expensive and risky.

But an utter failure at self-preservation (or in securing suitable patronage) tends to end badly. To invoke another mid-century classic, Huxley's Island. "Here and now, boys!"
Instead of feeling bad, pitch in money when you can, but even better pick one you could contribute to and contact the maintainers asking how you can help.

Then you're giving back and improving the software along the way, I don't think you'll feel bad when you're contributing time to an open source project.

The tech world runs on open source, use it and give back when you can.
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It works for math at the scale I use it.

Excel is great in my industry (slot machine game/math design). It is fantastic for doing game calculations and there are reasonable ways to do error handling/checking for correctness.

I could say the same about programming a web app without writing tests/spending some time on system architecture. It looks fine until it doesn’t work.

In both instances of development (I argue constructing an Excel workbook in my line of work is very similar to programming) there are ways to mitigate risks by doing things similar to “writing tests”.
Eww.. This isn't new in 3.9, but is mentioned in the dict section as an existing quirk of sets I didn't realize this:

>>> {0} | {False}
{0}
>>> {False} | {0}
{False}
I am surprised that Dark Forest is not on the list given they have a whole section on alien life. I now judge all first contact stories against Dark Forest.

It does have Gateway on the list which had implausible black holes - so I don't think the plausibility bar is high.
Meta-Labeling and Stacking
As many discussions can be found online on ensemble learning, especially stacking, meta-labeling has rarely had enough study.
Very cool, thank you for sharing.

> It's much more advanced and functional than React already.

I’m sure this is true, but I can’t imagine there’s much of a community around it? The thing is with React you have a huuuuuuge community and ecosystem. You can share code with React Native. It’s so deep...
The problem here is structural.

> None of that is an excuse to get behind a many thousand pound piece of equipment and not be able to control it.

The choice many people are presented with is: Get in car while tired vs miss a day of work and get fired.

That's it. They have no option of public transportation, walking, no other option. It is pretty obvious what action people are going to choose. So the solution here is to make sure that people aren't put into that position. We could talk about autonomous vehicles, work from home, flex hours, etc. But the fact is that when you present people with this choice you should expect them to choose driving while tired. This does not mean that it is safe or what they should do. This is not condoning the action. This is just saying that we should expect people to make that choice.
Durable Functions are not in the same category as actors. Each durable function exists to serve a single request; the model is request partitioned instead of data partitioned.

Durable Functions are great for deterministic synchronization across calls to other Azure Functions. Fan-out, fan-in, function chaining, and similar tasks are best done using Durable Functions[0].

Could you build an actor model on top of Durable Functions? Possibly. I'm not sure why you would do that, though. Azure Functions are already pretty expensive.

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/durab...
Which will be priced so high or offer so little that nobody will buy it. See: Earthquake Insurance in california.
Alternative theory:

There are people with money/power, their primary skill is knowing how power/money works and knowing other people who also have this skill.

There are regular people, their skill is learning to do whatever people with power/money decide is important.

The reason managers get to decide salaries, who gets promoted, etc, is because managers mimic the power/money class, engineers mimic regular people.

That's all that's happening here. Feel free to replace money/power people and regular people with aristocrat/pleb, master/slave, clergy/believers, cult leader/cult follower, ubermensh/human, etc.

It's really all incredibly boring because regular people who graduate to money/power, quickly adopt money/power beliefs and the cycle continues.

(Author of this article should read a little Karl Marx, he's re-inventing Das Kapital)
Why not DeadOps?
California does not do fire management properly. It's old info, just not applied because tourist boards complain about the controlled burns.
He’ll say he would have but national TV isn’t allowed to film in prison.

I think he still has 85 days or something.
McAfee, the marketing nightmare that just keeps on giving. I genuinely don't understand why McAfee the company hasn't changed its name yet.

In the meantime, some greatest hits:

How to Uninstall McAfee (NSFW-ish) https://youtu.be/bKgf5PaBzyg

The McAfee guide to bribery in the third world http://www.whoismcafee.com/the-travel-guide/
If you miss that relaxation, try out some prism glasses. Great for zero-next-strain reading while supine.
F-16 autopilot saving an unconscious pilot's life:

https://youtu.be/WkZGL7RQBVw
There's also Akka.NET which is probably a better comparison: https://getakka.net/
LOL I thought I was going crazy.
me too! I've recommended them to so many people at this point (including another commenter upthread). kindle landscape mode is great for prism glasses, just at the upper bound of what their vertical FOV can hold.
> Why trust the randomizer?

Moreover, what if the randomizer picks one out of 297 judges, 235 of whom are known to be biased? Then it doesn't help much.
Linux has implemented hrtimer [1] a while ago and it can easily achieve sub-ms precision. You can just try some benchmark with nanosleep() on your system. It works in a similar way to the PIT you described, although I don't think it tries to offset the delay from interrupts.

What I want to say is that we already have precise timers usable on modern hardware; as for why Windows doesn't use that properly, I have no idea, but I can guess that's some technical debt in the scheduler.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2006/ols2006v1-pages-333-346....
>A friend (who is a descendant of slaves) once told me that one reason hairstyles in particular are are such a sensitive subject, they were literally the only piece of culture/heritage people were able to bring with them on slave ships.

Music, culinary practices, agricultural practices, etc. are all pieces of culture that African slaves brought over from Africa.
None of the Microsoft frameworks are like that, especially compared to the enterprise mess of Java or constant spaghetti of JS/Go.
SF/RA is pretty much in maintenance mode. SF Mesh is dead. But Orleans 4.0 is going to make virtual streams custom data adapters easy to write (they say.)
Aesthetics is one reason, but having houses much more efficient energetically, or shadow in summer is a must in some areas. Trees are not a caprice always, they made the homes much more confortable and pleasant. They provide food also.

So, why if instead to chop them (and having each house slurping energy like an entire city), we just search a way to reduce the fire hazard in the trees, and include them in the mix?

The absence of safe areas or escape roads seems a fixable problem.
Thank you For the perfect description of the problem that I’ve been trying to articulate. What’s the solution, tags and good search capability?
Which is why I was curious - it seems that a domain mostly serving videos and images would be classified as a content server.
I am well aware that correlations can be spurious, but they can also be related. I’ve noted a very strong correlation between my use of a hammer and the number of nails in my wall...
Reminds me of my days working in fiance. I was basically a broken record that just repeated: Excel is not a database
So, for example, before exposure to the West, Japan was mostly egalitarian? Or China? Or India? Or the Aztecs? No significant oppression was going on there?
the people who keep this issue alive are people who take a delight in it, it being something that people like me think is really stupid. When I hear murder of crows or the term "terms of venery", I roll my eyes and throw up a little in my mouth.

It's not a big issue to me, but my impulse upon hearing about the topic is simply the opposite of the people who keep it alive. It's more twee than is an American, such as myself, using the term twee.
All previous major spreadsheet screwups were costing money (largest being $6 billion in losses due to a excel formula mishap) , but this one is playing with lives :(

5 – London Olympics Oversells Swimming Event by 10,000 Tickets

4- Banking powerhouse Barclay’s accidentally bought 179 more contracts than they intended in their purchase of Lehman Brothers assets in 2008. Someone hid cells containing the unwanted contract instead of deleting them.

3-utsourcing specialists Mouchel had to endure a £4.3 million profits write down due to a spreadsheet error in a pension fund deficit caused by an outside firm of actuaries

2- Canadian power generator TransAlta suffered losses of $24 million as the result of a simple clerical error which meant they bought US contracts at higher prices than they should hav

and the Biggest one is. -

Basic Excel flaws and incorrect testing led to JP Morgan Chase losing more than $6 billion in their London Whale disaster.

https://floatapp.com/us/blog/5-greatest-spreadsheet-errors-o...
In the real world, people can't be "proven trustworthy". They're given their positions of authority in the absence of proof of untrustworthiness, and they hold those positions until said proof comes along (i.e. disbarment, judicial impeachment) or until they retire.
The tech pipeline problem misrepresents the pipe
California's become used to rebuilding to address threats following earthquakes. It will come to do so to wildfire..

It won't be governments which remove these towns. Or at least their structures.
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Nothing is wrong with a 1 cent coin. It's just inflation has eroded it's value. The US penny for instance had the same purchasing power as a quarter today in 1913.

Also the japanese yen is an entire currency were each unit is a cent.

The problem is that eventually if your solution is to just throw out low value currency your just gonna have to throw out more because inflation.

The proper tool is to rebase your currency once you have accumulated enough inflation through numerous decades.
I mean, I don't get why there is one-person-per-coin anyway. They already have one-off runs for special commemorations so it's not like there's fear of confusion (or fear of counterfeit). Keep one side standard and put all kinds of people on them.

Though, one president might decide to out their own image on the coins.

It'll be weird in Canada when we replace the queen on our coinage...
Right, I'm not sure what your point is. You can always add more fields, so being unable to change the type of a field isn't a problem, since you can introduce a new field and start using it. You cannot however, stop using a required field. The best you can do is set it to a nonsense value and leave a comment saying "well we need to set this to something, but we don't actually use it anywhere.

Because to be sure of that you can remove it, you need to be sure that every storage system and every piece of middleware and every since thing that links your proto anywhere in the world that you might care about is upgraded, otherwise if they encounter a new message they'll crash.

If you only have a single client and server, and you control both, this is doable. If you don't have that though, you cannot.
The 1/8 dollar was a feature of the old Spanish dollar (hence the term "pieces of eight", the eight pieces being known as "bits" -- "two bits" is then a quarter), which is where the Americans got it in the first place. In fact, up to 2001 American stock exchanges expressed prices in 1/8 and 1/16 dollar increments (apparently 1/16 was only introduced at the NYSE in 1997).
As a Jew in New York (although not in any of the zip codes cited by deBlasio[0]), I'm less skeptical than the author.

I don't see this as targeting any religious or ethnic group (look at the population of the zip codes, they are by no means dominated by just one religious/ethnic group). I see it as healthy caution to prevent the heart-rending scale of sickness and death we saw in March and April.

The author may not remember the overloaded hospitals, the refrigerated trucks brought in to hold the dead bodies as the morgues filled up, and the pervasive feeling that everything was about to come crashing down. But I do.

And I don't want to see that again. Which is why, even while new cases/hospitalizations/deaths[1] came way down and stayed there, the lack of effective treatments and/or vaccines make COVID-19 a serious risk to everyone, especially in a place with the high population density (27,000 persons/sq mi[2]) that NYC has, I continue to practice the "Staying the hell away from everyone else"(tm) maneuver.

The metrics in place for determining that action (>3% positive tests for seven consecutive days) should be taken to reduce interactions (in this case, closing non-essential businesses and schools) aren't new, nor are they necessarily inappropriate.

The author does make the point that those 3% may be a small number of cases, but given the exponential growth (as we saw earlier this year) of COVID-19 cases, I don't see a problem with erring on the side of caution.

I will say that the author makes an excellent point WRT using zip codes as borders:

"How can someone say with a straight face that we will be locking down one area and the area across the street is safe and doesn’t need to be shut down? How can anyone seriously make such narrow borders?"

That doesn't seem to be a great (at least in NYC) way to divide things up.

All that said, while I'd prefer not to see schools and businesses (Cuomo, apparently, agrees about the businesses, see [0]), I'd rather have things closed than returning to the nightmare we had earlier this year.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/04/nyregion/nyc-covid-shutdo...

[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page

[2] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/planning-level/nyc-popula...