skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why the example starts with all those verbose calls to run_until_complete(). Why not do this?

async def main():

db = DB()
await db.connect('db_name', {
'host': 'localhost',
'port': '5432',
'database': 'db_name',
'username': 'db_user_name',
'password': 'db_user_password'
}, default=True)

await db.connect('other_db_name', {
'host': 'localhost',
'port': '5432',
'database': 'other_db_name',
'username': 'db_user_name',
'password': 'db_user_password'
}, default=False)

db.connection('other_db_name')

db.default = 'other_db_name'

await db.stop()

asyncio.run(main())

Am I missing something ? It's using asyncio.run() in other examples, so it assumes 3.7+ anyway.
> The copy of the backup on Google drive/storage (whatever they call the app backup) is completely unencrypted.

Any idea why they do that, instead of applying exactly the same encryption? Also, is there any place where this is documented (where I can point people to that ask me the same question)?
Sure, many generals who didn't start the wars they fought.
The real question right here. When will the US government finally take Linux seriously and invest heavily in it instead of relying on Microsoft solutions?
not got anything against SSRIs or self-medication but given their low success rate & the withdrawal symptoms they can create, this isn't necessarily something I'd recommend
Thanks for the great story.

I’d love to hear more about why the real was successful. Wikipedia makes it sound like it was just luck that Brazil had positive trade balance in the years following its introduction.
This is so on point!

In case anyone thinks this is about "an old grandpa that sits on his porch and just enjoys life" or something like that - it's not. The last three lines are exactly what good leadership is.
> I was wondering about Dutch, where the verb is "beslissen". But from what I gather from a (superficial) search, that comes from "beslitsen", which again comes from "splitsen" (breaking apart).

Do you have this source? all I can found is that it's from Middle Dutch “slissen” which meant “to end” but it isn't terribly well sourced.
Spinach is a fictional plant, it was described by Linné as sort of a joke but then everyone just went with it.

But seriously, you described three layers of misconceptions in this comment thread, how is anyone supposed to know "the real truth" about anything food related, if spinach alone is such a hard subject?
Disagree. We clearly benefit from identifying patterns, and statistics is a powerful tool. Do we sometimes misclassify? Sure. But if we stopped to talk to everyone in the city we'd get nothing done.
Maybe I phrased it badly. I think he's viewed too positively / heroically even, I think that's not warranted at all. And his actions should be re-evaluated.

But I'm not a historian, just a guy who likes reading and I haven't read anything yet that justifies for example when a modern day French Presidents honors Napoleon.
Re-spinning a board, LOL. Dude, there's copper substrate shortage on the market, people have delays getting their already ordered PCBs delivered.
Thanks for the details! Mistborn is going on my list to read next.
I was put off by the bad writing. Good writing is really wasted on me, I mostly care for it to be sufficient enough not to get in the way of enjoying the story. In my opinion Malazan does not reach even that level, which is too bad as I enjoyed the word building and the most of the characters. For the most part it reads like a DM recounting their D&D campaign (which I understand it is exactly what it is), but what might work (or just be overlooked) on an interactive RPG session doesn't necessarily work on a book.

The first book was very bad, the second book was actually much better and I enjoyed it (I assume the editing was much more extensive), but the third book was again barely readable and put me off the series.

I might start it again at sometime in the future, because it is definitely something I would otherwise enjoy. I think I read somewhere that the third book might actually have been written before the second, which gives me hope.
I read the first book and like you thought it was just interesting, but it was the juxtaposition of book one and two that made me go “i have to finish this”.

* not really a spoiler, it happens at the very start of book two [rot13] *

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some bits are a drag, some are so cheezy, but you just roll with it and it’s a fun ride with some amazing high points.
> There was an awkward moment where a junior dev was trying to answer but a tech lead was trying to tell him "don't break the rule".

Funny, that would be the easiest way to get me to stand into a desk and make a "liberating speech", then drop the mic and leave the company.

That is not a development practice, it's a cult
I see, noted as well. Thanks!
Very very good point
Cherrypicking only parts of history you like to be remembered is something totalitarians have always enjoyed. It's always a bad idea if you believe in freedom, human rights and democracy, no exceptions.
But, can you allow some nodes to queue messages for a longer period of time?
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Sometimes, streaming makes sense. When I was at a FAANG, we had a sampled streaming database with nice plots (kinda, ugly but functional).

This was incredibly useful as it allowed teams to figure out what had happened in prod without needing to wait for the next day's batch jobs.

OTOH, most companies don't need something this complicated, and I'd imagine you could do the same with MySQL/Postgres if you're not at FAANG scale.
I don’t know where you get (3) no more efficient jobs, but (1) and (2) is actually a good thing.

If more work and more hours make your bosses more money, they should pay you more, if they don’t, this work is wasted on making your bosses more money and cheapens the value of the work for the rest of us. If you realize this and stop working overtime, that is also a good thing. More time with your family, at your local chess club, the pub, or in your personal code repos.

I think the myth of (3) unions stagnate job efficiency is a result of bad union practices (I don’t know of examples but I’m sure there are plenty) then of solidarity. There is nothing inherent about a union that will make job efficiency stagnate.
What app did you use? What was good and bad about it?
This was promising but they sort of stop innovating
https://spritz.com/
On the other hand, I expect this whole mess to propel technology way forward, especially the microchip market. Everyone can now see that there is extreme demand for it and what is compatibility and standardization good for.
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Depending how (fast) they read, it can be as little as 150h of reading, which is a month or 3 depending how much time they can devote to it.

The audiobooks are 390h total (16 days 5h according to Wikipedia). If your commute takes an hour each way, that’s less than a year even if you only ever listen to it while commuting.
I'm referring to the general sense of leaving a legacy to next generation(s), which may include improvement of the world we're commonly living in, however one may imagine such improvement. (I'm not getting more specific than that, as that is the origin of all politics.) Personally I don't reckon the lack of desire for something better in the world to be necessarily nihilistic (that's more like "the end of times" option, in the "all improvement has already been achieved" sense), but I must say, it's a bit funny that you see the world "good enough", considering the current pandemic if nothing else.
This might say more about how having an anxiety-free mind allows for better and more consistent focus, than it does about specific medicine having a direct effect on reading speed.
I always said this, C is so huge that it make no sense to try to "replace" it, you'd better make sure you can easily consume that ecosystem

That's a step in the right direction! I love D!
You don't need EE for that, just reasonably competent embedded programmer with a logic analyzer. But that's typically the difference between embedded programmers and "normal" programmers.
Broad plan for .NET's native AOT support
I think healthcare is 3 fold:

1. Is that it is just out of control in the US, but there are also some valid reasons, like,

2. Aging population. As people get older, they need more medical care, so an aging population will have higher average healthcare spend than a young population.

3. Advances in healthcare tech. We can treat more things, so there are more things to receive healthcare services for. And we can also treat things for longer, at great expense. Something along the line of: 10 years ago you could live with disease A for 10 years at a cost X. Now you can live for 20 years at cost X^2.
So what? Many governments have nuclear weapons arsenals but they don't make it legal for everyone to buy or manufacture atomic bombs.
A German song I'm fond of includes a line that roughly translates as "Every decision is a mass murder of possibilities".

This seems a lot more apt given this etymology, even if it doesn't work for the German equivalent.
I think you are missing the point I'm trying to make.

You can violate CHSH by giving a non-local distribution (That's what happening with the distribution you provide).

But there is more than one way to skin a cat.

You can also violate them using the mathematical trick as I suggested above.
This trick to replicate the result seems a lot more plausible than non-locality.

> not obeying the axioms of probabilities.

That's exactly what I blame the experimenters for.

By ignoring that they are conditioning on the hidden variable, they are treating what is a "conditional probability" exactly the same way as it if was a "standard probability". Which is a big no-no from the math standpoint.
You started your comment with

> The article makes a very strenuous effort to make a point about something something racism in rock that sounds a bit boring and trite to my ears

This is very dismissive.

Then in thread you follow it up with stuff like:

> So why didn't the black grassroots ever sprout an analogous new rock scene, instead of turning towards the mainstream, big stage, light show, for-profit music that comes from black artists for the last few decades?

They did. You are simply ignorant of it. A large part of why you are ignorant of it is exactly because they were fenced away from the distribution channel by powerful publishers that ultimately only wanted reproducible results within predictable lanes. Because of the flaws of American society those lanes were very much racially defined.

This is what punk rock looked like in the 1970s. Note it was both racially integrated and willing to put a black woman in front: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6BHh_0pX_4

How did that very sort of new rock you demanded of black musicians disappear? Not because they didn't try, but because they did, and were fenced away from the means of reaching a mass audience vs the industry allowed white folk that played the same music, and even then white punk was fenced away in similar way (though not equivalent).

> Why Rihana and Beyonce, rather than a new Jimi Hendrix? Female, even. Why is Rock 'n' Roll pretty much dead to black kids, nowadays?

This again comes across as very judgmental, and an utter failure to understand what the article was telling you. You are blaming black musicians for not prevailing in a genre that was overtly hostile to them, when the people hostile to them held all the power. Then you're just asserting your own taste about Rihana and Beyonce.

Strike the phrase "female even" from your future discussions on this topic. No matter your intent that's going to read really wrong.

And specifically about Beyonce, I don't really see how you can watch this video and then assert she ain't punk rock as fuck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDZJPJV__bQ and that has nothing to do with compositional taste of the music. This is where black American music went exactly because of all of the issues the article is describing.

Jimi is celebrated exactly because he was such a rare achievement in that era. The true tragedy is there's 10k Jimi's out there that never got a shot because of race, no matter their interest or ability.

I'm trying to be charitable here, but so far all you've done is ** on black musicians you don't like, and then criticize the history of black music for not being what you naively expect. That's what I meant with my comment.
> @employers of HN

That sounds all nice but why would they do that when they can find people who accept to work longer for less?
"the Cistercians are an ancient order that broke away from the Catholic Church in medieval times" (in the abstract).

No way, sorry. If you start saying this, you have proved that whatever follows is totally unreliable.
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The issue with the WTP argument is that Netflix isn't a singular good - there are many replacement goods (Hulu, Disney+, Prime Video) that push down the price via competition. The lack of raw materials makes this competition especially good at keeping prices low.

Now, if the oligopoly within video services (or anywhere else) would conspire to raise prices together - that'd be a different story. We've seen this in other digital goods. The Apple and Google anti-poaching agreements come to mind.
This is a misunderstanding of the situation. Napoleon largely “started” his wars because the rest of monarchical Europe was conspiring to have him removed.
It's accepted as normal in Norway to wait for up to two years for a specialist. If your need is urgent you'll get it much quicker though.

If you are a white-collar worker you'll usually have a private health insurance so that you won't have to wait in line for public care.
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I just made a python package that does everything you are offering but for free. And yes it does direct links to youtube and twitter.

pip install transcribe-anything
transcribe_anything <YT_VID> out.txt
The example is using BigDecimal class where arithmetic operators don't work, you need to call .negate() on the object, or multiply again BigDecimal("-1"). Negating inside a loop will give different result than multiplying at the end in return line. Nevertheless, you're adding ANOTHER operation to the line which is already complex and hard to read.
I always take any opportunity to recommend The Napoleon Bonaparte Podcast. Over a hundred hours about his life and times.

https://napoleonbonapartepodcast.com/
Apropos of nothing, but found out that the zig compiler can run C++: https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1391468499676008451?s...
These shapes in the spiral are explored and explained a bit in the classic Tesla spiral hoax too.
https://www.conquermaths.com/news/post/index/395/The-Mystery...
Ten years ago I wrote a bunch of articles in a niche of my interest. One in particular was very complex, I spent a whole month doing research for it, posted citations for everything. When I came back a few years later it was unrecognizable. Now it barely has anything of what I wrote in it. So I know how it is to see your work trashed and how difficult the 'pro' editors can be. That's why I don't write there anymore, it's like writing on sand.

Even so Wikipedia is still one of my top 3 sites. I'm doing NLP and I see the Wikipedia corpus used in hundreds of papers. It's useful in many ways.
Not only that but UK farming is subsidised quite heavily. A farm with 71 sheep isn't viable without those subsidies.
That's why they build it into everything, so you won't have a choice but to buy it.
Well he wouldn't have been kidnapped in the first place if we disincentivized ransoms!

This is a bizarre and emotive discussion, so I'm not sure how much more it's worth saying, but I will leave you with one final question. What law could you possibly make and what "severe criminal penalty" could you possibly impose that would be greater than the natural law that parents would do almost anything to protect their children and what a parent would suffer if they lost a child? I don't believe anyone could ever implement the policy you've been advocating effectively, and at that point, the entire deterrent argument collapses anyway.
Some standards define a frequency response of the whole measurement chain, including things like the frequency response of your sensor and anti aliasing filter. An FFT is the easiest way to deal with that.
Yeah, it's one thing to question how historical figures are portrayed, and another to support actively erasing historical figures who did bad things by present day's moral standards.

I think it's best to remember history as it is, no worship or mixing it with present-day politics needed. Learning from history can be useful, but actions of historical individuals should also be seen in context of the world they lived in.
I'd assumed fft was just a dft with O(n log(n)) performance - am I missing something?
That would work against network tracking of the actual connection, but that is not the main means of attribution and tracking culprits.

One way is to look at any tools and artifacts used/deployed - it's not common that only "off-shelf" tools are used, and as soon as there's anything custom, most likely it's not a one-off thing that never ever appears anywhere else; if you got it from someone, that's a potential lead; if you wrote it yourself, you're likely to use it (or a modified version) elsewhere, so if you make a mistake in one "gig" then it can relate to all your other activities as well.

Another is people - those things are often not done alone, and people talk, especially if they get detained for something else. And last but not least, the money trail sometimes leads to results as well.

But the key thing is that even if you do everything securely enough, it can work once or a couple times if you're careful enough, but nobody is careful enough to sustain proper opsec all the time, everyone makes mistakes every now and then. These things often take years to resolve, but the legal system has sufficient patience to link something done five years ago to a mistake you'll make next year.

There's sort of an asymmetry for an attack - that if the defender closes 99 vulnerabilities but leaves one, that one is enough for an attacker to get in; but there's a similar asymmetry for detection; if the attacker hides their trail in 99 ways but leaves one, that one is enough to find them afterwards.
It's not that older studies tended to be more accurate. It's that peers worked together in seclusion via lots of back-and-forth letters and collaboration over years, only "publishing" when they and their peer group were sure they had something worth sharing with the wider community.

This is how science was done up until some time in the 1970s. This is how real groundbreaking science is still done. The publishing prestige economy is of little actual value.
I switched to One Finance (after trying several other banks like Monzo, Qube Money, Douugh among others). I really like the simple interface, and it's pretty similar to Simple in terms of functioning. In some ways, it's better. There isn't the goals/expenses feature, but I'm pretty sure it's on their road map. I'm able to use the pockets feature for now. They allow scheduled transfers between pockets. I just have to calculate before what needs to be added to each pocket I made (like the percentage of my income) to correspond to goals/expenses. Scheduled transfers to pockets that act like goals receive an end date and an amount transferred each time to reach the goal. Scheduled transfers to pockets that act like expenses don't receive an end date and receive a fixed amount of my income on the days I receive a direct deposit.

Like the cash envelope method of budgeting, they also allow you to select which pocket the current transaction will come from, so you can use specific pockets for different categories e.g. a pocket for groceries/food. The system would be more useful if transactions could be categorized automatically like Simple allowed you to do with goals/expenses. However, I found Simple's categorization to not always be accurate. I ended up categorizing a lot of transactions on my own.

It's also pretty cool that each of the pockets also has separate account numbers and virtual debit numbers (if necessary). I linked each of my credit card accounts to separate pockets independently.

Btw, I withdrew all my money from my account out of anger as soon as BBVA announced the transition haha. The whole thing was very confusing to me. Simple's product is far superior to anything of BBVA's or PNC's. Both companies should have been transitioning in the opposite direction to Simple's product and system. This whole process started after BBVA announced that their US operations would be acquired by PNC. It's pretty stupid too. No one I know decided to stick with their account. They definitely lost a lot of customers.
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I can't find the link now but I remember reading a study that showed that mildly depressed people have the most realistic outlook on the world.
Obvious caveat that automatic transcriptions are not a replacement for manual transcriptions. They're better than nothing but the problem with mistakes in automated transcriptions is that they can entirely change the meaning of a statement in ways that are not necessarily obvious if you don't listen to the audio at the same time.

They also struggle with domain specific jargon depending on what data they were trained on. While manual transcriptions will mark ambiguous utterances as such (or ask for additional information), automation can create a false sense of certainty while just "guessing" whatever it matches most closely. This is a hard problem and unlikely to be solved soon.
I don't have Japanese costs, but they are lower, and deal with worse earthquakes than CA
Nope, 4% of global demand not met is very much a crisis.
Read less, and read with a problem in mind.

If I were reading about about Rust, which I am not familiar with, I'd be focused on what's different about Rust relative to languages I am familiar with and what problems the authors say it solves. How might I solve X with Rust? I'll read the introduction deliberately, toward what is the intention of the authors for readers of this book, and look at both the table of contents and index in terms of seeing what's there. Then I'll skim, and dive in where it's relevant at the time.

Tacitly, I am viewing a non-fiction book here as a searchable index of concepts and examples vs as a purely linear narrative.
> In 1994 hyperinflation was finally tamed when the current currency, Real, was introduced. It was the culmination of an ingenious plan that actually worked.

What was the plan?
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> However, even in the Java side, the example could be done with reduce alone, I think.

That’s my point: teeing itself is not aggregate/reduce. If after the branching the streams differ in size, reduce no longer applies, for example.