skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could believe that, if I were living on a college campus. But no, I'm using a residential ISP, and every geoip site I've checked in the past agrees re: my ISP.

I recall in the past when I was on a university connection, I was also greeted by some sort of affiliate banner indicating that I was getting access through the university.
Web browsers can be restricted using the iOS parental control system.
> Because you can't?

> Good luck trying to launder it when every transaction is logged and easily queryable.

I buy something for someone, they pay me back in normal money or XMR.
Oh there's a great history of story telling on my father's side of the family. He's 94. There's a solitary photo of him sitting on his great grandfather's knee when he was about 5. He has an astonishing memory (that I'm afraid to actively doubt for a number of reasons, mainly though, he's the oldest person I know and nobody alive could corroborate or deny anything he says). He's recently been on TV, being interviewed about his time as a steam train fireman. An example of the amazing stuff he knows... My mother grew up in a large country house that her family somehow inherited. (Honestly, I have no idea and neither does she - they were broke, like most people, but they were rattling around in this large house, and totally mismanaging the land). It was built by a decendent from a French Knight who landed in Ireland in the 1100s during a conquest. There's next to no information about the family, beyond what you might find in Wikipedia about the Knight, and a few generations of the family before they blended into the population. Still, they retained status (justice of the peace, and owning a large estate) and were definitely wealthier than the locals. But the last of that line was Richard DeVerdon, who only had a daughter, Elizabeth. She died at the age of 18, in the year 1845. I was doing some research on the matter an found a large headstone in an ancient graveyard a few miles from our house. My mother knows next to nothing about her family history, and there are few records from the time. Talking to my father opened up a surprising story from his side of the family. My great great great grandfather was a young boy living high on the hills above the graveyard. His own father was ill in 1845 and could not go out to the end of the field to look down to the graveyard, so he asked his young son to go out and look down at the funeral procession and come back to describe what he saw. It's probably why the boy remembered it so vividly. It was a huge funeral, because the young girl was heiress to the estate. He related it directly to my own father when he was a boy, as they stood in the same field looking down at the graveyard. And my father told it to me simply because I asked if he knew anything about the De Verdon family, and the girl's death. It astounded me that I could barely read her name from a very worn headstone, but he could give me a description of the funeral procession that he got from someone who saw it with his own eyes in 1845.

Still hope the old man wasn't just trolling me.
If they had a $600k household income they'd have a more expensive house and exactly the same problem.

Anyone who works for a living either has to save a large chunk of their income or risk everything going to pot if they lose their jobs. I can't feel too bad for this couple because – unlike many Americans – they literally could save half their take home income and still live comfortable lives by most people's standards.

They don't need a five bedroom house. They've chosen to take on a certain degree of financial risk by taking on a large mortgage rather than saving.
Places like this ask about your dietary restrictions during either the reservation or before the beginning of service. The chef will make on the fly adjustments based on each diner's needs.

My brother and I went to Eleven Madison Park back in 2016 and mentioned my allergies ahead of time. Not only did they plan alternatives for me, they even included them in the printed out menu that they give to each diner as they leave as a memento of the meal.
"A reminder that Elsevier made
$6 BILLION selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and made more profit than Amazon, Google and Apple every year for YEARS...

And paid the academics who wrote the articles $0
And paid the reviewers of the articles $0"

Source: https://twitter.com/DrJessTaylor/status/1390798132632596488?...
Do note that Windows Update may just not offer a major update because such as Windows 10 2004 because of concerns about driver compatibility. It happened to me because Microsoft and the manufacturer of the PC didn't come to an agreement about driver compatibility. Windows update gave me warning about updating to the new Windows 10 version (to 2004 or 20H2), but there was no update for it in Windows Update, I had to download the update manually to get it installed. Also had to do that manually for a previous version as well.
Given that you can delete/download first party apps from the App Store now, including Camera, doesn't that imply that Apple can update first party apps remotely now? If so, Clips and Camera are treated the same, Camera just happens to come with the device and Clips doesn't.

The real answer is probably that Clips is onloaded onto demo units at retail stores, and they don't want the first user to deny permission and prevent everyone else from using the app.
Oh hey, another person making a pipeline for EHR records. I wonder how many of these have been remade by now.
Cool! What is it about that library that made it stand out compared to other libraries in the same space?
So a few weeks ago I started an overnight copy of some files to my APFS encrypted backup disk. I came down in the morning to fine the filesystem corrupted.

iBooks won't sync ePub files I add manually.

<A bunch of other niggles, too many to list>

Now we find out Apple cares more about its image, than quality.

I've been wanting to move away from Apple for a while, but this finalises it. I'll be doing one final upgrade to the ARM chips, then putting effort into moving away. Including funding projects if needed.

This is a really bad look for Apple. It's clear they're not worthy of my trust.
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An ABI is a contract. If it wants to say that a pointer is an immutable reference, all it needs to do is to say "this pointer is an immutable reference", and specify what that means. It is up to those who follow that contract to follow those rules.

You ABI could say a pointer may only be accessed on Wednesdays if it really wanted to.
Indeed. The horrible phrase is 'copyright transfer agreement', which is typically a condition of being published. My experience is that the better journals are more of an arse about copyright. I've just written two book chapters and spent maybe a day getting permissions to reuse published figures, sometimes including my own (!) in other works.
We can and do start with things like that. E.g. bubble.io can be good. People also often start with Excel, or Google Forms and Google Sheets. Or just use a tool like pencil and go more design-first.
It still baffles me that we don't have a Web app for messaging without all the fuzz of being part of a major network or corporation.

We could even make a Peer-to-Peer based thing
The best work I've ever done was for one of the biggest energy/agg companies in the world. They wanted an outside contractor to build something from scratch and ignore their normal corporate bureaucracy. They thought it was insane how much better the system we (I) built for them was than their normal in house tooling. The crazy part was the solutions were mostly just normal cloud tech. Postgres, DynamoDB, some AWS tools. They paid over a million dollars (nothing to them) for a set of tools that weren't technically advanced at all.

In my experience, the problems are a result of the manufactured constraints on the physical hardware/sensor devices. Mountings and power and connectivity. Receiving data from an array of devices into a shared storage system for analysis is a well solved problem. Receiving data from multiple sensors on a fixed interval, when the sensors may be made by different companies/work totally differently, is where the complexity lives. Combined with each company trying to build their own awful closed source proprietary data system on top of their sensors, you've got a really terrible time.

> SQL turns out to be really slow for this kind of data

I think this is just poor modeling. SQL is just fine for the work you're talking about.
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We "hoarded" grain because we transitioned from hunter-gatherers to an agro lifestyle in order to brew beer from that grain, so cats and beer are natural allies.
How do you find these small town gems in the US?

I've lived in a very expensive city and a medium cost of living city in the US and the lower quality of restaurants is the biggest difference for me.

There are some very famous and very expensive restaurants, but even those places have been disappointing too frequently. It's often something really basic like the food being too salty.

This wasn't as much of a problem in the very expensive city. It's unlikely that my taste buds have gotten more sensitive because I lived in the more expensive city at a younger age and taste buds get less sensitive as you get older to my knowledge.

Almost every attempt at finding a small town gem has not really worked out for me in the US.

In countries like France, I know that I can find small town gems just by checking the Michelin guide. I can go to Vonnas (population 3000) and find a great restaurant just by checking the Michelin guide. I would love to do that in the US.
Got a Thinkpad during one of their sales last year for $1300 that had a generation old i7 and 48gb of RAM. Had the Dolby HDR 4K screen and a bunch of other odds and ends as well.

Didn’t look if there was an option without Windows preinstalled since it was for my wife.

Added bonus: lots of ports, onboard HDMI, onboard ethernet

If you need something now probably not a huge help, but if you’re not in a rush might be worth keeping an eye on.
Lol this is not the most financially rewarding. There are plenty of other fields that have higher average salaries. I don't even make $100k.
Initial, yes, but this was first uncovered in Oct 2015. That seems like long enough to fix it.
I was pretty shocked by the bad quality of the Cognito JS library (which is now superseded by the Amplify JS library, afaik). The API design itself was really bad and error handling was based on parsing the textual messages of the HTTP responses (or at least something along those lines). In general I really do like AWS but it made me reluctant to suggest Congito to any of our clients (as opposed to say Firebase Auth which has a nice API and just works).
Is anyone else bothered by the fact that the coffee example as drawn has been contrived to make the throughput of each approach different.

In the “low latency” example, heating and dripping are sequential, when you can obviously be heating water for the second cup, while waiting for the first cup to drip. Increasing the total time by two units.

In the “high throughput” example, heating double the water only takes one third more time rather than double the time. Decreasing the total time by one time unit.

So if you eliminate these contrivances both approaches take the same amount of time. Meaning they have the same throughput, but one has lower latency to first cup. So obviously the better approach.

I appreciate the article isn’t really about the best way to make coffee, but using a broken example does detract from his point a little.
> Would it be too crazy to make a law that you only pay tax when your political party wins the election?

Yes, in general, but even more particularly in a system featuring either some degree of direct democracy or supermajority requirements and/or appointed decision makers whose term extends beyond the elected officials that appointed them so effects of past control extend beyond an election loss or separation of powers where there is no single “the election” that determines current control of government (the US, at the federal level, has the last two, and most US states have all three.)
There is a bit of progress towards open standards: e.g., MIAPPE, BrAPI. But you're right, we have a long way to go. Programmers and software/hardware engineers are sorely needed but ag struggles to attract them, and the startup model is not very well suited for the space imo- we need to build a collaborative ecosystem of open source tooling that farmers, biologists, breeders, and others in ag/plant sciences can hack for their particular use case

Check out Phenome Force, they do weekly webinars featuring the open source/DIY tools people are building: https://phenome-force.github.io/PhenomeForce/
Unfortunately there is very very little information (last I looked) on the web about tuning down a jvm methodically and sensibly.
Which was kinda ok, until the moment they started going after the people who are creating the Journals' IP and value / reputation.
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An old boss of mine had a rule - he never ate at a restaurant that had pictures of the food, either on display, or in the menu.

Interesting that the study cited says that pictures of the food make you mentally taste it.
One of my favorite Mexican restaurants in Austin is just a walk up window with anti-theft bars on it:

https://goo.gl/maps/dDpAuAfpW41BANxS9
Website that does the FFT to your uploaded image
website: https://particlo.org/20

video: https://youtu.be/inZWrNewQzA

the video shows how these programs inside the website could be used
Just had a golden idea of how to get inventory online. You crowd-source it by rewarding customers to log inventory. Essentially customers are setting up their own little drop-shipping stores with inventory found throughout retail stores around them. Let me know if anyone is interested in helping with this
10 coffee pots aren't cheap either. It's not a free lunch, just the answer to the question "how do I get both low latency and high throughput".
> The fact that materials and practices are not entirely overhauled to make it easier for the average student, is just amazing to me.

I think school curriculum is just fine, and already covers the points that you are trying to make, but better.

A much bigger problem is that there are few teachers competent to teach math in this way, because there is a shortage of math teachers, because teachers are significantly underpaid for the high-level skills you are touching upon.

The math curriculum, as it is in most countries, is fine. The "Common Core" maths principles begin with "1. Make sense of problems".

Algebra is done with letter variables with good reasons: the process of solving a problem involves translating reality into a mathematical model, doing the mathematical work abstractly in a standardised way, then translate back into reality.

A main purpose of algebra is that you don't have to hold your model of reality in your head while you do the mathematical work, which would quickly lead to cognitive overload on harder problems. [In computer code, the opposite is true - since you have a computer to do the mathematical work, you want to be always focussed on the model]
As the article said:

> How much does delay cost?

Hum, nothing. Those people expect a quick answer just because they want it. If it had real costs, you wouldn't be complaining.

> How likely are we to learn something that will change our approach?

If you learned something useful about the thing you are working on from the interaction, you wouldn't be complaining.

> How likely are external forces to change our approach?

If the conversation changed the entire thing you were working on (aka: we are canceling your project, you are supposed to do some Y now), you wouldn't be complaining.

If those messages didn't fail all the tests for when latency is important, you wouldn't be complaining about them. That validates the article, instead of detracting form it.
For the most part, it looks like it. I don't see how you're being more productive though.
The problem that arises with a lot of these "pull data from sensors, pump it into a database" is schemas and data integrity have to be kind of a second-class problem behind storage. When you can't push an update to whatever is ingesting data, and that ingestion tool is also ingesting with an invalid format, you can't just ignore the data (or fix the problem). So your store has to accommodate semi structured and unstructured data gracefully.

I do not agree that SQL is "slow" for these types of problems. I've built a number of systems that support this issue effectively. You _could_ use a tool that has schemaless/unstructured data as a first-class feature, but if your goal is to reduce complexity a Postgres instance is just fine. As with all data projects, indexing is important and needs to be thoughtful (from the beginning). For sensor data, it's also a good idea to think about data retention and removal policies immediately (keep your metrics/aggregates, move raw data to cold storage after a while).
Normally, I would assume it would be at least written on a blackboard somewhere. That said, outside of the US, my sense is that there's less attention paid to food allergy concerns so, if you have anything of note, it's mostly on you to be pro-active and careful.
How much like an FPGA would it be to use DRAM for the lookup tables, and very basic CPU for routing?
For quick turnaround, the Keurigs and Nespressos have always been the best low volume quick turn around solution for me, but at the price point, the quality just isn't satisfactory for me. Obviously not the most eco-friendly (last I checked).

I no longer care about quick. I like good quality coffee and tend to take the time and machinery to make a cup to suit my tastes, usually espresso based, sometimes a French press. It likely borders on snobbery to an outside observer, but it's just me being picky and personal preference. I don't really care what someone else drinks or doesn't.
You should check out Le Guin’s appreciation of LOTR in ‘a wave in the mind’. Both Le Guin (esp Earthsea) and Tolkien really work well being read aloud and reading her breakdown of the rhythms of the opening sections of LOTR was a revelation to me.
My main point is doing this is to have the canonical link, not the best-looking link.
Just hodl for this latest cycle of insanity to blow over and people embracing vanilla html+js+css.
What’s wrong with brewing twice as much and then pouring it into two cups?
FWIW there is some commentary on this today on the Columbia "statsmodeling" blog:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/05/08/blast-from...
Presumably because the financial institution sends the email directly to your email provider via SMTP while your wife sends the email to her email provider via a mail client protocol like POP3 or IMAP, and then her email provider forwards the email on to your email provider via SMTP at its leisure
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Optimized for multi-core safety in a safe way, but given the safety of the actor idiom may incur in more copies, it cant be compared to the speed of a implementation that are more complicated to implement, but will perform better at the end giving you can customize better for that particular scenario.

With C++ and Rust you will be able to implement this in a more optimized way as you can look for approaches that avoid copies which can be the main factor of a slow implementation, specially in multi-threaded scenarios.
Just thought of an awesome way to get inventory data by crowd-sourcing it. Sort of creating a game for consumers
Are you so dense that you cannot understand that the Kotlin compiler can do gasp different things depending on different settings?

It can do stuff android doesn't support if you set the bytecode target level to > 1.8

It's like using modern Javascript features but providing a polyfill for older browsers.
There exist regexp that matches invalid html parsing regexps /.*/
There is a spectrum of replica quality in the watch world. Some watches are very obvious to spot while others would be impossible to spot from a photo. There is also the concept of a frankenwatch: a watch that is a blend of original and non-original parts. Assuming the builder has done their research and due diligence with part selection, you would likely not be able to identify a frankenwatch from an original if they were sitting right in front of you. As a result, all watch exchange forums that I have visited have suggest that authenticity of a purchased watch be verified from a authorized dealer for that brand.

To expand on this, serious watch collectors will keep service records from authorized dealers as proof of authenticity. For example, many models of Rolex have “service” parts that differ from the parts originally used in the model. Pricing general follows the hierarchy: original parts > oem service parts > non-oem replacement parts. The pricing gap between each of those steps can be in the tens of thousands. So if eBay authenticates a Rolex as original and you later on find out it has some non-oem replacement parts, you’ve likely lost a significant amount of money on that transaction.
Software has never been their forte, unfortunately.
This is not working, I'm only getting S shape pieces.
Weren’t you pontificating on stock investment strategies? I’m going to need bonafides.
My fist visit in Albania 20 years ago: "we produce and use olive oil, but is it not as common and cheap as sunflower seed oil (most used in the area), so don't think we can replace all oil with olive oil because that is not possible".

Mediterranean diet includes olive oil, but it does not exclude sunflower seed oil. Maybe CNN is not such a good source of information of habits of people across the globe. Even people that I know owning olive plantations and processing installations don't consume a lot of it, they can't afford to.
In 1983 the US military hived off MILNET, their portion of teh interwebz. Perhaps it's time for infra to do likewise. Too simple?
Similar menu for Quo Vadis in Soho, literally just the dish name, no bloviated descriptions https://www.quovadissoho.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/A-...
When do you byte swap?
> i think mostly because this is even more complicated than the approach taken

I understand that SQL is considered simpler if you have code-golfed it into one line, but the procedure of simple random sampling is much simpler than generating a 2D map of points and finding the nearest one.
Study: Mild Covid-19 infection is unlikely to cause lasting heart damage
Ok, please put all your savings into shorting an index of all current solar companies
Renaming Coq
> I was pretty shocked by the bad quality of the Cognito JS library (which is now superseded by the Amplify JS library, afaik).

Subsumed within rather than superceded, AFAICT—in fact, I’ve had to use notionally outdated documentation (actually, I think it was actually Stack Overflow answers, but...) for the former to fill gaps in that for the latter, so I’m relatively certain of the relationship.

AWS SDK APIs tend to mix poor design with poor documentation, often being extremely leaky abstractions on top of the HTTP APIs, which themselves aren’t masterpieces of either design or documentation.