skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, there's definitely a BIG lag between when you do work (engineering, marketing, etc), and when you see results (revenue). Like months. You really have to be self-driven and have some faith that the work you're doing now will pay off down the road.

There's a quote, "Do nothing, and nothing happens", and it's super true in the early days, before you hire people. If you don't work, your company makes literally no progress whatsoever. This is motivating. Like, everything relies on you, so show up and get it done!

I think a lot of VC-backed companies only get 1-2 years of seed money to try their idea. It took us 1.5 years to make our first dollar, and another year after that to get to profitability. If we were venture backed, we might not have had enough traction to raise our next round, and would have had to call it there.

Similarly, I don't love the "lean startup" approach of trying a bunch of stuff quickly. If you pick a good starting point (big market, competitive differentiators, etc.), and spend years at it, you're bound to have some success. Just due to the sheer fact that you're willing to commit more of your lifetime to solving that problem than anyone else is. That's what worked for us at least.
We also get frequent bored calls. The elderly get no visitors and all other activities canceled too.
DO NOT DRIVE. What you are doing, and what others in comments are also doing, IS IRRESPONSIBLE.
i first heard about "in anger" from David Nolen, an American https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o01g6C7jWg&feature=emb_titl...
They do mention that it’s more efficient than lru_cache, which isn’t surprising since cache is a lot simpler (just throw all the values in a dict keyed by the args).
Sure: what's the value in $, engineer time, number of clients calling, etc, where this is a good tradeoff or a bad tradeoff?
While I am not in the habit of defending Microsoft, I think it should be pointed out that it wasn't using "Excel" that was the biggest problem, but using "13-years obsolete format for Excel". Not that there was any reason to be using Excel for this, but it's a bit unfair to blame Microsoft for something they never claimed XLS could do, and provided a much better capacity in XLSX 13 years ago.

Again, it's hard to cry too many tears for Microsoft, but it does seem a bit off-target to blame "Excel" for this...
I use a setup with a previous generation of that keyboard. I really wish they'd go back to the version I have that has a built-in palm rest.
Jupytext:

> Jupyter Notebooks as Markdown Documents [MyST Markdown, R Markdown], Julia, Python or R scripts

https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext
It was created by Microsoft Research and introduced the Virtual Actor Model as a novel approach to building a new generation of distributed systems for the Cloud era.

Hmmm, getting a very strong Microsoft Enterprise Library vibe.

The Microsoft Enterprise Library is a set of tools and programming libraries for the Microsoft .NET Framework. It provides APIs to facilitate proven practices in core areas of programming.

Packed full of Best Practices and more Enterprisey than Kirk, it was inscrutable to me.

Based on the novel Virtual Actor Design model, I assume Orleans is Design Patterns all the way down.
Lord, thank you for this comment. The structure looks like a death trap and the physics of its construction make very little sense. Be careful everybody!
That's what you believe, is there evidence to support your two claims? I don't think HN should be a place where people state their "beliefs" about quantitative statements without providing a single number or citation.
I follow the practice of bloodletting all the time, at the blood bank! For serious reasons though, it's a win-win for both the donor and recipient. Donating blood is especially good for men who have high iron. There's no good way of lowering this besides good 'ole blood removal.
How do you generate deep fakes? I'd like to play around with that.
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson comes to mind not necessarily because of truly realistic physics or astronomy, but that the physics of the situation are a sort of puzzle that come to make a lot of sense as things progress.
Great idea thanks! Are there any other Generative models that are (relatively) easy to use? I find generative AI the most interesting.
huh ... Seems like the patents might be expired?

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8131597
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6199048
> that's rock solid (so no need to unit test anything)

that is crazy talk, the amount of user error that can happen in an Excel spreadsheet means that you would need to do crazy macro work in order to maintain the integrity of the data
What is

`public static void main(string args)` but an "annotation"?

You can stick "untyped" code in any language. You just have to annotate things with `Object` and cast them.
It looks like its still CSE, based off of the URL and the outdated design language before material (<2014? https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/cse/create/new)
I've seen the results of this first-hand when a big rig about 10 car lengths ahead of me on I-5 abruptly began moving from the right lane through the center median and into the lanes of oncoming traffic.

He slammed into a pickup truck and killed that truck's occupant.

I had to be called in as a witness of the incident by the victim and trucking company's attorneys.

I think there's a strong difference between (rightfully so) blaming the companies that force this environment and the people who are just trying to make a living safely.
The service we offer is called the Girlfriend Experience, which means spending time with an escort will feel similar to spending time with a girlfriend.

Normally I tend to think of these services as manipulative -- feeding off of, and most likely helping perpetuate (rampant) insecurity among men when it comes to dating and relations (driven in no small part by generations of abuse and neglect during their formative years).

This experience does come with a price tag of at least $1,000 per booking, resulting in a multi-million dollar annual turnover.

So it's really more just about soaking the rich then?
In that case go for it + best of luck!
The rise of substack
You're right, but if you asked me to do something in GnuCash which I never used or do the equivalent in Excel with formulas I'm already familiar with, I'd go with Excel in a pinch.

This is why Excel is so well known, because once you get the hang of it, it becomes a great tool for something small.

It scales poorly though.
The Future of Money Is Open – RippleX
I'm sorry but you seem to not understand what data integrity is if you think Excel is a perfectly acceptable solution here.
Let's swap the vaccine example with something more showy.

You seem to be saying that Crocs users have a serious chance to die out in one or two thousand years (after all 30 or 60 generations are peanuts). I'm sure the effect is real. I'm not holding my breath though, because seemingly humans posses another mechanism which can mysteriously mask the trait of i-like-ugly-shoes within just one or two generations. (And with almost no one dying out?)

Just like it didn't take 30-60 generations for the trait of i-hate-suspicious-injections to die out.

I avoided the word "evolution" in hope of achieving understanding at least about the territory if not about the map.
From what I understand, Ultra-Pasteurized != UHT. It seems to come down to the hermetically-sealed containers, or something

> Though Ultra-Pasteurized milk is processed to be free of spoilage and harmful bacteria, it is not considered sterile because it is not hermetically sealed (i.e. canned), thus, it requires refrigeration. ... 30-90 days ... until opened

My ordinary American supermarket carries a ton of carton organic milk (refrigerated), and I think most of it is U-P.

[1] https://foodsafety.foodscience.cornell.edu/sites/foodsafety....
Hello, tons to unpack here!
- We do not support existing .pdf files, but defo in our radar
- We didn't think too many people will have archives of html files, we could very well be wrong. Not supporting this currently but something we could do based on our architecture
- We support searching for title/publications/authors etc, will definitely add searching within content too at some point

Current focus is to be able to streamline our processes and tech so we can indeed deliver some books facilitating a proper reading experience.

Jotting down all feedback, hope we had more resources to build more (hope we will eventually get this chance). any other ideas or thoughts, feel free to contact me directly at yorgos@myscreenbreak.com
An alternative hypothesis is that legal complexity breeds demand for lawyers. But even that is obviously too simple: The highly regulated EU has fewer lawyers than the laissez faire US. One would have to dig into the incentives of tort law, patent law, etc. to find specific drivers of complexity.
VR motion sickness comes pretty much entirely from games which require your body to move with a controller rather than actual movement. If you are just using it as a virtual monitor then its very unlikely you will feel sick.

The real problem is no VR headset has a resolution high enough to come even close to what a normal monitor would provide dpi wise.
You're right, T&C are not laws.

They better figure this out and release some good VM support because I have very little interest in buying all of their stuff just so I can run my build.

I did get the VM to work eventually and have been experimenting with builds on that. The VM is slow so I'm starting to lose interest in doing any more grunt work for an extra 10% of revenue. Ah, who am I kidding. I'll do it because I'm just as greedy as they are.
Less developed the country is, the higher growth rate it can have.

Number of lawyers can be used as a indicator fore the level of development in the the economy.
Does anyone know of resources or groups with a focus on educationally conveying a feel for foundational biochemistry mechanics: extreme violence; random; crowded; with locality and concentration enhancement?

For instance, there's a video of simulated viral icosahedral capsid assembly, where the panels are tethered together to maintain proximity, so you get to see realistic assembly and disassembly and reassembly, temporary misfits and irreversible fails, and just a whole lot of flailing and slamming around until something clicks. It's ok for showing 10 nm scale object violence, but I've never seen anything good for 1 nm or 100 nm scale violence. And for concentration enhancement, I've only ever seen nice slides in research talks.

Given how pervasive related misconceptions are, it'd be interesting to have a page to point to where the best available misconception antigens are slowly accumulated.
You can run Orleans on a single host or many. In fact I believe we do have a host in production running Orleans by itself that is the equivalent of a $5/mo DO box. Resource usage scales with network activity in my experience. I think there are benchmarks around, but generally the scaling factor seems similar to conventional networking models.
Biology is unusual among sciences in that a five year old can ask questions it can't answer.

To get an idea about what life processes are like, you need to read endocrinologists like Robert Sapolski or Robert Lustig.

A lot of processes only work because there are so many moving parts each pushing only a little of the way, so that when something is wrong it doesn't all collapse.
So 13,000 at the bottom of the ocean is a good start?
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Wow... I haven't thought about `Microsoft Enterprise Library` in years. That awoke a long forgotten memory.
Jupyter/Jupyter > Wiki > "A gallery of interesting Jupyter Notebooks" lists hundreds of notebooks:
https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/A-gallery-of-interes...

The mybinder.org Grafana dashboard lists the most popular notebook repos in the last hour:
https://grafana.mybinder.org/

Jupyter/Nbviewer > FAQ > "How do you choose the notebooks featured on the nbviewer.jupyter.org homepage?" :

> We originally selected notebooks that we found and liked. We are currently soliciting links to refresh the home page using a Google Form. You may also open an issue with your suggestion.

https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/faq#how-do-you-choose-the-noteb...

Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6AlVvC7KagENypGTc...

Here's the Nbviewer source code. AMP (And https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle / Book / CreativeWork metadata) could be useful.
https://github.com/jupyter/nbviewer
Wow, amazing to see this after a whole decade! I worked on this as an intern way back when it was a nascent project in MSR.

Going through the documentation, this is a complete trip. I see some of the original concepts are still intact, but the ergonomics are completely different now. Awesome!
The literature in high impact science journals also makes for great science fiction stories.
Depends on the socioeconomic status you come from. In my experience, it's "fewer jobs = ...

Working class, immigrants, and service jobs: "kids leave school to support the family"

Middle class: "kids work their ass off at school so that they're one of the few to get a job (and failing that, move back into the parent's basement until the job situation improves)"

Upper middle class: "kids go to grad school, law school, or med school to wait out the poor economy and come out with a good credential afterwards"

Wealthy: "kids call up their daddy's wealthy private equity friend and get funding to buy up a struggling small company, fire half the workforce, goose the profits, and unload it on the public markets before anyone realizes that the business's core function isn't functioning anymore."

I've met all of the above, and definitely know a lot of folks that went to law school because they weren't sure they could get a job upon graduation. (Although a more common reason for that is that they don't know what they want to do...law school is a really attractive option for liberal arts grads whose coursework doesn't really line up with anything that makes money.)
Your friends uploaded their addressbooks, knowingly or unknowingly (e.g. regular use of Instagram, FB Messenger, or WhatsApp, or the FB App would make that seem completely innocent)

So they know "John Smith" whose friends with "Joe User" on Facebook, has an email address for "Joe User" that is different than the one listed for "John Smith"'s account; now they have both. That's part of their business.

Personally, I own a domain. Every retailer, website, etc. I interact with gets their own email address. I have no doubt Facebook knows some of them, and can maybe even connect some of them to my profile -- but it's not certain.

P.S: I don't even use facebook myself.
>Holy shit, how much does it cost to rent out your crystal ball for a few hours?

$300 per hour, I bring my own crystal ball, runes, chicken bones or voodoo doll based on customer requirements.
There are many things in life that cannot be simpler without losing some level of choice that we value, I'll grant that.

Nobody who has ever dealt with the United States Government, or any US State government, can tell me with a straight face that the principle is absolute.

Or, put another way, I'll gladly give up all the choices that lead to misery every time I deal with the IRS or DMV in exchange for things to be as simple as they are in other countries I've visited.

Choice is not the only cause of complexity.
Possibly the computer you were using was not able to keep up a consistent frame rate or your experience is with one of the oculus dev kits which were low spec.
Your service did not work as advertised.
I asked for https://ku.ag/ to be shortened but it got prolonged to https://ku.ag/5q6w9v1hnp*o

Also I noticed that you generate a new link each time. Why?
This is not Data Oriented Design, far from it. I find it confusing that the term use here is "Data Oriented Programming".
Very interesting and relevant Twitter thread from patio11: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1312972409809428480
This is exactly my question. Why? Do they get paid per case or something? Are there kickbacks?
That's heavy.
All communication in Orleans is asynchronous, similar to communication in gRPC, so in .NET world, you're using async/await with methods that return Task/Task<T>/etc. The boundary there is hopefully apparent: async calls can incur IO and have a cost and the 'async' keyword can hopefully make that cost apparent to the developer.

References to grains are represented by interfaces and if the machine you're communicating with fails, the grain will be re-activated on a surviving host the next time you need to call it. In other words, they are location transparent and the application won't get stuck in some failure state when a machine crashes.
My alternative to catching up on longform articles when I don't want to read them on a screen is to just use Pocket's text-to-speech functionality and go for a walk.
Feel to email me if you guys want to do a case study! (julien at serpapi.com) We'll be happy to help out!
Just go on his twitter and see it for yourself - this is the kind of stuff he keeps tweeting about!
I get that there’s some value-add on the owner’s part by taking on the capital risk, but in this case it seems like it’s mostly an illusion. After all, the servicing company’s business (assuming they don’t own any of their own machines) is entirely dependent on having access to other people’s machines. Your risk might as well be theirs, plus they don’t have assets to leverage.

I think the difference here vs something like say owning a building and hiring a property management company is the negligible value of the machine compared to operating costs. The capital portion is such a small piece of the puzzle that just owning the capital and contracting out everything else isn’t going to be competitive. I think this is borne out by TFA, which doesn’t describe any owners working the way that parent suggests.
It’s also already an established part of the set syntax - it’s been possible to ^, | and & sets for a while now (symmetric difference, union and intersection). While not all of those make sense for dicts, | for union does and is quite intuitive.
Agreed. My favorites are Diaspora, Distress and Permutation City. I like his short stories and I also liked Quarantine which got a mention in this list but its certainly not the only one with with really solid science in it.
Yeah, wasn't Venice a republic for close to 1,000 years?
What ultimately did in Venice was Napoleon conquering all of continental Europe.
I would counter to say your supposition would depend on how those lawyers are employed. If they were corporate lawyers I would struggle to see how a glut of those would tend towards the aspects of society you've listed. I wonder what the ratio of employment of lawyers looks like.
Happy to see that there are more people out there sharing the same desire for online content on paper. We only share content for personal use after being 100% sure that user originally has access to said content (hence using extension vs urls)
Are you interested in a cure for cancer, eternal life or free energy?
That's far easier said than done for most people though.
Schrems 2 – EU-US Privacy Shield Ruled Invalid
This post advises Auth0 customers who process EU personal data of the likely immediate effects of the Schrems 2 decision on their use of the Auth0 Platform
That is seriously impressive, congratulations on your success! Did you guys set off to build this particular product as soon as you left your previous job, or did you have some pivots along the way?
The number of IP lawyers is a very small fraction of the total number of lawyers.
Hadoop Ingestion
For Cloudera customers who are not using NiFi, what are you using for ingestion to Hadoop? Flume is getting deprecated, and I am wondering on my other options.
We know way less than we don't know. And much of what we think we know is wrong.
Israel has the most, followed by the US
https://twitter.com/pankajghemawat/status/575654688491708416
Since you're an expert on both, do you mind discussing which of the two you like better? And the reasons behind it?
It's also consistent with the set notation, which makes it easier to remember. Dict keys already kind of work like a set, this extends the behavior to deal with the values as well.
Yes, but thinking that it's a specific issue is misguided. This is how the web works and it is extremely hard to change it. By default you do send your IP, and other metadata, to a server who can do whatever they want with it. You can either refuse this reality and try to invent a new set of internet protocols, or try to fix them on the client-side with VPNs and browsers that randomize metadata, etc. Not super practical though.
Better get used to these bars, kid.
The alternative is to pay professionals to do it for them.
There are plenty of new small industries where everyone is copying each others ideas and making better products... all until someone hires a few lawyers and starts sending out threatening letters, and suddenly all innovation stops because everyone would prefer to keep making current products than to make new products and be bankrupted by a lawsuit for copying someone else's ideas...

There are many times in my career that I have seen that as soon as lawyers get involved, all innovation stops.
Could you get a DAB or digital radio instead? Though I suppose the speaker quality wouldn't be as good.
No they are saying it's more efficiently that lru_cache with a finite maxsize. Implementation-wise it's identical to using maxsize=None. See source: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.9/Lib/functools.py#...
It's kind of useless.

I don't have an FB account, and have about ~300 email addresses with different retailers etc. But some of them have my phone out of necessity. And so do my friends who use WhatsApp. Which means FB know my name, and what I buy from those retailers that share their data and have my phone number. I've recently pondered getting a trunk so I can give a different number to every retailer, like I do for emails.

There's very little one can do to avoid FB, when they've managed to turn 30% of the world (literally, and closer to 80% in the west) into snitches on you. Stasi would have been envious. And FB happily provides it to any government who would just ask.
Can you swap on it?
And I'll add that my main feature request for Pocket is its inability to grab data behind some paywalls / PDFs. I want my data in this one place because I want a uniform way to read and highlight. I've developed a workaround where I manually copy the plain text of the site / PDF, do a little processing, upload an HTML version to my personal web server, then save in Pocket. But this is pretty cumbersome.
I use that function on walks and while washing dishes.
From command line use

psql -H

Alternatively

\pset format html
I hope the sentence is that he is forced to follow through on eating his d!#k
My opinion is biased, as a core developer, but I do not think it's packed full of design patterns. Orleans and the core team are relatively unopinionated on design patterns that developers employ. I'm much more concerned with developers writing code which cannot perform well at scale, or which becomes unreliable at scale, where machine failures are common, than I am with whether or not something fits some set of prescribed design patterns.