skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thru-hikers use it for six months at a time. It's safe enough for emergency use for someone with no preexisting thyroid issues.
To be fair, one would also think that releasing a self-driving system that drives into the back of a semi at speed would be a PR/Marketing nightmare, but it hasn’t slowed Tesla down.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/05/feds-autopilot-was-acti...
> With that said, it appears there is the ability to share music socially - which seems like p2p sharing.

Which is fine as there is plenty of music that is allowed to be shared free.
I'd love to see Poetry take off. I'm watching it pretty closely.
"Hello Guido thanks for coming in, we would like you to open up visual studio code and create a sudoku solver that can solve this partially filled out board"
Maybe that deserves some reflection rather than dismissing it as "cancel culture."
One difference I noticed from my memory of watching it 20 years ago is in the original video there was a delay between the visual of the explosion and the audio, which makes sense because of the distance. In this version, they appear to have synced them up.
Better not move to NuGeT.eXe
It does the job, but aurora postgres lags behind mysql when it comes to features. Failovers are surprisingly slow, too. You're pretty much stuck with cloudwatch for monitoring, which has significant lag.
if you ever want to check out whats the latest on svelte, i help run Svelte Society, the official-ish community org around Svelte:

- https://twitter.com/SvelteSociety

- https://youtube.com/sveltesociety
Trump's stunning abdication of leadership comes as pandemic worsens
GP comment was objecting to "stupid" package managers. Maybe they think pip is stupid, because it's unquestionably a package manager.
I think this was in response to this:

https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
Why is it fascinating if it's not a false dichotomy? Google is not a startup. It's like saying that you're puzzled because companies operating from a garage are not held to the same standards than a fortune 500.

When Google tries to be disruptive in an emerging niche, it does it with a backing (brand & money) that could effectively snuff the smaller (and more willing) competition that it finds already operating in the arena. It enters as the 800lbs big G, smashing everything in its wake. Then sometime later, loses interest and goes home with its ball, leaving its users and the surviving smaller competition to figure out what's next.

Edit: If the service truly represents a dead end, why not sell it?
"The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. In my dreams, I often make plans for the service of humanity, and perhaps I might actually face crucifixion if it were suddenly necessary. Yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone for two days together. I know from experience. As soon as anyone is near me, his personality disturbs me and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he’s too long over his dinner, another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I hate men individually the more I love humanity." - from Brothers Karamazov
pip in virtualenv. It is solved problem.
I’m taking a cheap shot here, but the people maintaining Skype at MS certainly don’t do it. And there are such examples at other big companies.
I definitely resonate with the guilt aspect. The emotions stirred by work, in general, have been a struggle for me. Emotional work is one of the most productive ways I've found to mitigate and reduce the effects of diminished motivation (especially from depression and its cousins).

I've talked about it some in the past, re: MKP and other men's support groups along those lines (or just a solid group of friends). Much of it is just recognizing the emotion(s) and putting myself into a place where I can express/vent it properly.

Along those lines actually, has anyone else noticed a boost/burst of energy/productivity/etc after the elections last week? I think thats a malaise that hasnt really been talked about much (yet).
A perhaps stupid idea for you: bring newspapers, museums / art galleries together and convince them to fund a company that sells a large display like the one seen in the article to the masses - and instead of just the front page of the NYT, you get, say, a painting, or something else, every few hours.
His Twitter actually says "Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft"
All cause mortality means the rate of deaths from all causes. You measure the effect of something else, in this case exercise, on this rate.
Multiple Google accounts is against ToS though afaik
Yup. But the more people believe we are already there and give up, the faster we accelerate.
Google uses a lot of Python and I'm sure they'd be happy to have him, for instance
That's really cool! Thank you!
That solves that one DNSSEC problem for you, but no mainstream operating system deploys a local DNSSEC-validating recursive cache, and something like half of all Internet usage comes from mobile/tablet devices where you can't do that at all. Realistically, to a first approximation, nobody is going to do this.
> or also on rural third world country roads?

I drove 40,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina and 54,000 miles around Africa [1].

From experience, I can tell you the vast majority of vehicles sold in the developed world wouldn't last a couple of months on 'rural third world country roads'. The potholes, corrugations, mud, dust and everything else are intense.

For eg, this is how I crossed the Democratic Republic of Congo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV8V3GdOcPU

[1] youtube.com/theroadchoseme
This comment really just drives home the nail of how awful the state of interviewing, and especially the mental state of some interviewers, in this industry with a backhoe bucket.

I really just want to thank you for putting this useless mentality on display.
Any of the other FAANGs or unicorns. I doubt that the paycheck is his primary motivation, but I could be wrong.
DryIoc whenever it’s up to me to choose one: https://github.com/dadhi/DryIoc

I’ve also used Autofac in projects where it was already in place - I don’t hate it but I like DryIoc better.
“Vaccinate the Hubs”: The Network Science Behind Ending the Covid-19 Pandemic
Don't buy the copy, buy the original: https://www.trifacta.com/
Light skinny fonts that are hard to read. The absolute opposite of how text on a documentation site should be.
Auto magazines/blogs, enthusiasts, etc.
Wow, so much salt. It was a joke.
Sure but what remedy would push Google out of the way?
I'm not excluding him. New Jersey finance/politics used to be a success story until the 80s and it's been an unmitigated disaster ever since.
Isn't that effectively the result of a typical `setup.py -> pip compile -> requirements.txt` flow?

The setup.py file contains a human readable designation of requirements and then `pip compile` generates a requirements.txt with all deps' (and deps of deps') versions specified.
What were the previous examples of this?
We use poetry for apps in production. At this point I think that's the winning solution and as it continues to grow and improve I think it will overtake all the others in this respect.
He was genuinely psyched on climbing for sure. As for "competent", I mean, he got up stuff but I'd say he was basically a 5.10 climber. He bragged about climbing everything in floppy Mythos and got really worked up about "unnecessary" bolts, so that might tell you what kind of climber he was.

What I mainly remember is that he sort of spewed info about how great he was with ten minutes of meeting him. He clearly had a personality disorder of some sort but I can't really say what it was.
Tennis is also an outdoor sport that allows you to keep distance while getting a great workout, but the outdoor part may or may not be applicable in the winter depending on where you live.
One more thing I was thinking about is that I don't think people are uploading things to YouTube just to have YouTube be declared as outdated in a few decades in preparation for the next form of media. The implicit expectation that most casual producers have is that the videos will remain on YouTube "forever," which really means some vague amount of time that doesn't have to be thought about in the short-term. This is a major difference from television because YouTube can be used for personal expression, major productions broadcast on television are archived by the studios because the finished product is not restrictively large in terms of data, and I don't think people would be happy if the millions of hours spent producing their independent content will be all for nothing in a few decades. To keep all of that content alive in the future, YouTube either needs to continue to exist or the content needs to be mass-migrated to the next form of media.

But what would that form of media be, and what would be the justification for creating an entirely new media platform to succeed YouTube? I find it difficult to imagine what it would look like at this point in time.

People made a big deal about archiving Usenet when everyone started moving away from it. If YouTube has to be archived I don't see how it can be completely accomplished without people who have used youtube-dl in the past gathering up whatever they happened to save before it went down. There's hundreds of millions of hours of video already on YouTube, and unlike Usenet archives only a few large entities have the money and infrastructure to warehouse the entirety of that data.

Saying that YouTube will pass on because media companies always pass on almost sounds as if YouTube is a ticking a time bomb, and after enough time passes we'll inevitably lose a lot of things that brought us value en masse, and the scale of loss will be far greater than in the past because of the breadth of content and the sheer ubiquity of YouTube.
Benford's “law” does not detect voting fraud
Kubernetes 101 livestream series starts Nov 18th
For most pet cats, no. In my own experience with a pet cat, if he really wanted to run away, he could have. The opposite would happen. He'd sneak out when we weren't paying attention and then we'd accidentally lock him outside. We'd eventually hear the meowing and let him back in.
I originally signed up to google music because it was the only music service that played well with steam's browser so I could listen to tunes while DMing in CS:GO. I didn't want to run browsers or any other programs because of the potential for frame drops. Youtube music works alright, but hopefully they continue to improve the terrible interface and ideally have the ability to play the audio track only of songs. I don't like the videos running while listening to random remixes/mashups that only youtube has since it will cause frame drops.
Top of my wish list would be a python <-> VSCode experience at the typescript level of quality.

Interesting that mypy is a Dropbox (GvR’s previous gig) whereas Microsoft has a competitor python type checker, pyright [0]. Anyone have experience with it?

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/pyright
Hollywood thinks new Mac mini 'could be huge' for video editors
A lot of shelters and rescue groups feel the same way. But, there are a lot of dogs who will get along just fine in an apartment.

One surprising example would be greyhounds. Yes, they are racing dogs, but, they generally are only interested in running for a couple minutes a day. The rest of the time, they're gentle couch potatoes, who make ideal apartment dogs.
Discover Weekly was rather boring for me. It was about 6 weeks before I heard a song I hadn't heard before and only one musician I hadn't heard before in the 3 months I used it.

I had much better success with Pandora when I tried it, but it still wasn't exactly deep cuts.
We need to shift our focus from competencies to agency – by Esko Kilpi
Call Python from R: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/reticulate/vignettes...

Calling R from Python: https://pypi.org/project/rpy2/

I'm not sure I'd ever mix the two directly myself; I'd compose my application as separate R and Python communicating somehow. It seems cleaner.
Office suite automation with Python would be great across the board. The external python libraries that do this are pretty clunky and VB scripting is a hot mess.
Please no. Excel is great when it stays within its lane and use case and doesn't try to be everything. Jupyter is okay-ish is some places but in general is way overused. Mixing them together would be a move in the wrong direction and a bit of a mess.
Crypto AG was a CIA front. That's a real thing that happened.

How can we be sure no one is using the tech without using the tech?

(And, once someone somewhere is using the tech, why not solve all crime? Why have the illusion of privacy, and permit e.g. kidnapping, rape, murder?)
Here's the thing:

Fines are a fast and easy political win against these "evil foreign tech giants". Just like rent seeking.

Bootstrapping an ecosystem capable of spawning and growing global market leaders is hard. And it would require some very unpopular measures.

- Weak/Non-Existent non-compete

- Make it easier to hire and fire employees

- Competitive approach to retaining talent

- Lower tax rate for tech companies instead of endless government grants/subsidies

The last one in particular is critical. In some EU countries, you can already justify your 5th employee's complete salary having a dedicated "accountant" whose only job is to apply for government grants.
Isn't that just F#?
"We have so far followed a very crude pyramid-like classification of competences... The name of the problem is not low-skilled people, but the low-skilled occupations we have created. It is a design fault!" -- I found myself highlighting almost every sentence in this post by Esko Kilpi. I read this post several times this week and every time it made me stop and think about how I do my work, and the type of discussion I'd like to have with my teammates about it.
It is perfectly reasonable for the control group to be following standard guidelines. In all medical trials, for example, the control group usually follows the current standard of care. Why does that stick out?
Conda works well.

Have never used cargo - what can cargo do that conda cannot?
I think it really depends. I could see continuing working for someone longer in an IC role if no one is breathing down my neck to do things I don't really want to do and, especially, if I could negotiate flexibility in terms of time off, etc. I'm actually pretty close on both those things today and, post-COVID, I could see making adjustments more in that general direction.

ADDED: As Denvercoder9 writes, some companies/groups can be pretty good about being hands-off a senior person who they want and also know doesn't need the job. Others, of course, are not. Certainly many Sun folks did not sit well with Oracle.
OK, but what about before that?

Space itself was expanding faster than the speed of light? There had to be a time when that was not true, because as you go back earlier in time, if that continued back far enough it would mean the diameter of the universe was negative. That's clearly absurd.

But that leaves you with all this mass, inside the Chandrasekhar limit, but the universe not expanding faster than the speed of light. And then it starts expanding.

All this presumes that time can be thought of as extending back before the big bang, which I don't know if that's actually a valid idea.

I have heard the claim that the laws of general relativity allow for a white hole as well - a singularity from which things go out, instead of things going in. That may be an accurate picture, or at least a decent model.
This package installed 47.4MiB of node_modules. Yikes.
He already worked at Google from 2005 to 2012, although they might be interested in having him back.
Git has conditional includes based on path[1]. My configuration is like:

On ~/.gitconfig

[user]
name = personal
email = personal@example.com

[includeIF "gitdir:~/workspace/"]
path = ~/work.gitconfig

Then on ~/work.gitconfig

[user]
name = workname
email = work@example.com

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#_conditional_includes
Decentralised Systems – SwayDB
Interpreted languages with no compile time it seems.
The current gen iPhone chip using the same cores literally outperforms anything Intel makes on a per core basis.

Zen 3 slightly outperforms the iPhone chip, but it runs it's clocks slower to stay inside a 5 watt power draw.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...

So, yes. Expect it to outperform Tiger Lake and Zen 3, at least on a per core basis.
https://pastebin.com/raw/PbFCZc6K
> An official package manager with great dependency resolution would be fantastic.

Need something like cabal. And a package index.
It should be noted that by using WiFi (or Bluetooth) triangulation you can actually get much higher location accuracy, like a foot or two

30 feet sounds like cell tower triangulation.
Any guess on what a major FOSS dev grosses? It has to be at least $700k. $1.5m/yr? $3m?

About $200k/yr+, it's a good idea to find a lawyer or similar talent agent to workout the compensation package because they have the skills and can get away with things a hire cannot. I've done this before, it saved time, and ended up with a better package.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm still hopeful for Python integration with Excel. That would be a real gamechanger, depending on how tight the integration is.
That'd be ZIP64 -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)#ZIP64
If I want to buy a mainstream pop song for a couple bucks and download an mp3, what website should I go to now? Amazon Music, I guess? iTunes works but requires a client, and as far as I can tell Youtube Music doesn't have downloading anymore...
I used this recently to take my music out of Google Play Music and import into iTunes. The downloads were pretty slow, but it worked fine!
It's a package manager in the vein of "old-school" package managers that came from Linux distros and whatnot. It maintains a global dependency chain across your entire machine. This can be good for security fixes in that you only have 1 copy of a package & everyone references it. This is not good for development because it doesn't provide a sandbox'ed environment for you to do development in (ala cargo as others have mentioned). It also causes issue if you try to install 2 packages but they rely on incompatible versions of a popular package meaning you have to choose which package you want installed.

Some of this has been mitigated with virtualenv but having a project express it's packages & have that automatically reflected in the environment.

Finally, Cargo to my knowledge actually lets multiple dependencies exist (even within the same project!!!) so that you can have a dependency like:

dep1 -- dep3 <= v1.6
/

< my awesome project> -------- dep3 >= 3.0
\
dep2 -- dep3 >= 2.0

That's not possible if you don't have the right language hooks because module resolution needs to be aware of the version of the library (i.e. when you go `import numpy`, it actually needs to be aware of the package it's being imported from to resolve that correctly).

Now whether or not it's a good idea to support this kind of dependency stuff can be controversial. In practice though clearly it does cause problems the larger your codebase gets as you're more likely to have some nested dependency chain that's time-consuming to upgrade so you'd rather move faster than make sure you're only running 1 version of the dependency.
Where is the best place to live where creating things that truly make the lives of your community better gets rewarded sustainably?

Where people show each other simple respect regardless of the color of their skin, their gender, and their personal beliefs that do not infringe on the reasonable rights of others? Where weapons in any form are left at the gate?
Well the paper clearly states that they interviewed 6966 septuagenarians and 5114 of them "declined to participate".
A tip you might want to consider if the storage on phones becomes a non-issue for you: ditch the standalone MP3 player with the nice DAC, and just get a high-quality Bluetooth DAC like the Fiio BTR3 (which honestly sounds just as good as my home stereo) that you can pair with your phone.

I used a standalone MP3 player for years in addition to my phone, because I couldn’t find a phone with a decent DAC, but now the existence of Bluetooth DACs means I have less to lug around.
Yah, a "humane tyranny" if such a thing is possible.
Helsinki nails it every November with this banner
Being big is what makes economically interesting to do lobbying, regulatory capture, and tax optimization.
it's average in comparison to the many similar papers i read (and wrote) during my mba program. he's doing the same thing, except instead of turning papers in to professors, he's blogging about them. some are better than others, but this one is certainly below average. any manager for whom such information is critical will either have an mba, or have access to similar (and likely much better) strategic analyses (e.g., the strategy group at any mid-size or larger company).
> so Python developers resort to hacks like virtual environments to get work done

It's really hard with many deps, it's why cabal (for instance) moved away from a global model.
My minimalist .vimrc in a VIM appreciation post – maybe it is useful
"The Strip", the book that this is excerpted from, is _really_ a great, fun read.
For another perspective, two blockbuster drugs could have been funded from start to finish.
Why not use Pycharm?
The biggest difference between Macbook trackpads vs the best for Windows is the super low hysteresis of pointer motion vs finger motion. I recently bought and returned a Microsoft Surface Book with "precision touchpad". The main reason for returing it was that pointer control feels sluggish compared to the Macbook and its pointer speed was too slow even at its fastest. The best Dell touchpads are no better and Lenovo trackpads are even worse.

I understand that this may be because PC touchpad hardware reports jitter, sometimes higher than it really is, and this causes the Precision Touchpad software to increase the hysteresis. Macbook touchpads have low jitter and the driver is tuned to benefit from it.

If anyone Microsoft with input into the Precision Touchpad reads this, why don't you fix it or work with your licensees to fix it?
> We will just have to figure out other ways to stop the terrorists.. (or stop creating them in the first place)

Not bombing their countries would probably go a long way toward this. The US spends far too much money dropping explosives on brown people.
A wonderful video that references several children animes of that time, including the Moomins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJSk3sh3zlo
We still have Idris and ATS.
Agreed. VBA makes by fingers and eyes ooze gangrenous pus.
Does anyone know why they decided to blow up the whale? I mean, the consequences should have been obvious to anyone. Where did they expect the pieces to go?
Android Platform Migrating to Bazel
Conda works slightly better than pip, which is a pretty low bar. Python package management is probably the absolute worst thing about that language.
> Is Norway full of septuagenarian gym rats and cross-country skiers?

Compared to the rest of the Europe, yes.

Article based on Eurostat data:
https://qz.com/922865/people-in-nordic-countries-exercise-mo...
I'm firmly in the camp that exercise is extremely beneficial. Likely one of the most beneficial things one can do (with not smoking and eating a diet high in fruits/veggies low in processed carbs).

We (society/physicians/etc) need tools to get people to exercise. This is more a study of how effective one of those tools might be (ie supervised exercise vs recommendations). If supervised exercise is no better than recommendations, I find that pretty disappointing. Because as we all know, recommendations don't work very well, or at least most people don't adhere to them.