skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with you that figuring out the cultural fit and applicability is super important. I learned a lot firsthand about this while trying to set up a decision support tool (with a supervised learning algorithm underneath) for a few teams in NASCAR back in 2012 [0].

[0]: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/big.2014.0018
Yes, but more specifically, large retailers track the way books sell and order authors based on prior success. So if an author has a down book it can trigger a spiral where the big stores order less and less. Amazon isn't impacted by this in the same way because technically everything is on their shelves, but the B&Ns and the like of the world it does (and before they went under Borders as well).
Leonardo Da Vinci then?
I've been using Mudrex[0] to rent bots to put my crypto to work. They have been very good and open about everything.
Creators are active in discord server answering questions.

[0] https://mudrex.com/
I once served as a PM for a startup in the observability space.

Monitoring is a brutal industry, as engineers love to build monitoring products. There is a long tail of hundreds of monitoring startups catering to every wim that are backed by only a small handful of engineers.

On the other hand, integrating a monitoring product into a company large enough to pay for the product is extraordinarily expensive. The DevOps team might want to have end-end visibility, but they can't add the library support required to make the deal work. Supporting one companies specific libraries is unlikely to pay off for other companies.

When it comes to distributed tracing, the value proposition depends on convincing every dev team in the company that this is the best solution for monitoring.

Larger companies have an easier time "cross-selling" these features, and can sometimes win deals by simply having the capability even if its never used.
Perhaps they didn't fit a search criteria? Got examples we can see?
Amazing project! It's the tool that I've been missing for many years. I was a contractor for almost 7 years and most of my clients were small companies that were paying for software to avoid hiring extra staff that would crunch numbers and tell what they mean. Setting up a dedicated BI tool is often overkill, compared to the actual reporting a small business needs. This is the perfect tool for a Djangonaut to set up raw SQL queries and allow users to interact with them.

edit: Added Djangonaut mention
If it's truly for a life-saving purpose then a little bit of paperwork shouldn't stop them from using it.

And you might think it's sad, but I'm not shedding a single tear for the police who don't have access to $50k missiles and air support. This too, is coming from a 2A supporter.

> "If there's anyone that's time-proven competent at tactical equipment handling, it's law enforcement"

This in particular is a strange claim. Most cops spend the bare minimum time at gun ranges that is required of them. If there is anyone that is well trained with any sort of grenade, I expect it to be soldiers not police officers. And on that note:

> Methods: Ten years of data were extracted from Dallas Police Department records. LEOs who were involved in a shooting in the past 10 years were frequency matched on sex to LEOs never involved in a shooting. Military discharge records were examined to quantify veteran status and deployment(s). Multivariable logistic regression was used to estimate the effect of veteran status and deployment history on officer-involved shooting involvement.

> Results: Records were abstracted for 516 officers. In the adjusted models, veteran LEOs who were not deployed were significantly more likely to be involved in a shooting than non-veteran officers. Veterans with a deployment history were 2.9 times more likely to be in a shooting than non-veteran officers.

> Conclusions: Military veteran status, regardless of deployment history, is associated with increased odds of shootings among LEOs. Future studies should identify mechanisms that explain this relationship, and whether officers who experienced firsthand combat exposure experience greater odds of shooting involvement.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30281075/
As an aside, I’ve recently been onboarded into a heavy Java ecosystem (backend, Java 8). What are the best resources to follow for growing in this language - and not just mapping patterns from one language to another?
I'm really impressed with that work
I typically say “cactopodes”
How we created the perfect storm for pandemics
What is your expectation what a state actor like the EU should do to protect it's citizens infrastructure?

Rely on a third party like the US which has secret courts and gives a shit about EU citizen privacy, their property or their lifes?

Or give it in the hands of the industry? Which only has one motive: making money.

Or leave it unregulated with no safety for no one?

DNS is about trust. We need trust into this thing. And honestly: i would not trust DNS offered in China and most likely also not the US, or 99% of the carriers
Interesting to see this posted now. I only have anecdata, but it seems like the past year of eternal wfh has left a lot of people burned out and quitting or reducing hours.

Very much the opposite of this view from 15 years ago of people who were energized by long work weeks and lots of time spent traveling for work and in offices.
Opportunity abounds in the defi crypto space. Being a liquidity pool provider on a usd stable coin pair yields ~40% apy currently[1].

[1]https://app.beefy.finance/
If you're familiar with any other harm reduction efforts, pretty much the same arguments are made against all of them.

Take for example needle exchanges. People who run needle exchanges are not asserting that people being addicted to heroin is a good outcome, only that people being addicted to heroin and also having to share dirty needles is worse.

Likewise, I'm not asserting that little kids using Facebook products is a good outcome, only that it may be less bad than other outcomes.
"The federal agents were armed with a warrant allowing them to seize property belonging to the company as part of a criminal investigation—and even though the warrant explicitly exempted the safe deposit boxes in the company's vaults, they were taken too. More than 800 were seized."

Whether the warrant should have been issued is one debate worth having. But the other problem is that the FBI didn't even follow the terms of the warrant.

If law enforcement (at every level) won't follow the law even in procedural matters, we're 100x worse off than most people thought.

A thoughtful person will also ask: "Wait, when did the FBI begin undertaking clearly illegal activity? What other investigations have been tainted as a result?"
I mean, few startups in any area make it big and remain independent. It's probably just that startups in this area are more visible to you because their products are ones you might use.
Incidentally, the etymology of the term "histone" seems very hazy.

From Wikipedia:

> The word "histone" dates from the late 19th century and is derived from the German word "Histon", a word itself of uncertain origin - perhaps from the Greek histanai or histos.

Does anybody have more information on how it has been coined?
Completely agree with this, if I open a 50mm to f/1.4 I usually don't care about extreme sharpness, I want the shallow DoF. I'm a Pentax weirdo, I have a couple of old 50's - one of them is even AF.

(OTOH if I open a 200mm as wide as it goes I definitely do prefer it sharp - different scenario.)
Black and Queer AI Groups Say They'll Spurn Google Funding
The most important bit, now that everything is soldered on, your Data is now tied to your Devices. There is no way to get it back. And generally speaking Apple dont fix the their machine anymore. They only offer to swap of new logic-broad. Which is why every single fix is crazy expensive.

I can understand why having non-removable memory in the name of thinness, structure integrity and some other reason such as profit margin. But having user Data as hostage, and Apple is increasingly doing do across all of their product line are user hostile.

If they even offer a services to have those Data back with a small service charge I would have given them a pass. Except they dont. They want you to buy a new device.
Leaving aside the quarantine means leaving aside the single most important factor in the last two years.
It depends on how it's implemented. These systems can work, but they require very tight coordination & buy-in from faculty as early as the procurement stage. Schools that just buy & force them on faculty don't achieve much.

The types of messages faculty get like that are usually a check-in where they're asked to give a status report for each student. This can be a quick good/ok/bad type of thing, or it can be something like a brief survey. My personal opinion is that the first option is best: These systems should put as low of a burden on faculty as possible. I really minimalist implementation that is almost as good is to ask faculty to only flag students in trouble.

What this should do, if the college has properly implemented it, is trigger the advisor to reach out to students struggling to determine 1) Why and then 2) What can be done to help: tutoring, assessment of whether the course is really required, determination if the course can be withdrawn from if not required or if the student is beyond the point of recover, or should have taken a pre-requisite or lower-level course in the subject first, etc.

If your college has not communicated this sort of thing to you, they are doing it wrong. I would still encourage you to do what is asked unless it is a very large burden. If that's the case, reach out to the advising unit overseeing these initiatives to understand how they're using it. But if it's not too much of a burden, even if they've done a poor job communicating with faculty, it may trigger a meaningful intervention with the student. Even if it doesn't, it will still allow collection of data that can be analyzed to determine trends, the significance of whether these activities by faculty correlate with student success, etc. And if they do, that will then be used to feed back into the advising process that these things are actionable to the benefit of students.

These systems can work. In my current job, after implementing such a system we saw first-year drop outs decrease by about 6%.
I find the notion that somebody "Invented" the white race ridiculous at it's face. Nobody invented the white race, there is no conspiracy from the rich. It's a silly, stupid idea I don't know why people entertain it.
And banking officials told us random seizures just aren’t happening.

Regardless if it happens or not, that is the single stupidest statement for anyone to show as proof. Of course the bank is going to say their service is secure and nothing bad ever happens. That is basically Apple's response to "touch disease" back in the day. If you are going to call yourself a fact checking site, you need to do some actual fact checking.
Seems rather pointless since it would be totally unenforcable. As if North Korea, the #1 producer of counterfeit US currency worldwide, is going to respect IP rights. Likewise with Russia and China.

The same logic applies to the US too, by the way. I don't think the NSA thought too hard about e.g. whether backdooring Cisco routers was in violation of any IP laws - I doubt they'd care much about the contents of LICENSE.txt. Complete exercise in futility.
eBPF on Windows
The Network Nervous System
> Newton might've arrived at it geometrically

That's funny, because calculus is derived from calculating the area under a curve. :)
Reading the docs it looks like if you have a read-replica of your primary database you could set `EXPLORER_CONNECTIONS` to only contain the read-replica and achieve some additional safety that way.

Read replicas are pretty easy to set up with most managed database products (Cloud SQL, AWS RDS), so that would be a very lightweight way to add some ad-hoc querying capabilities in prod that won't keep you up at night.
I'm going to dramatically oversimplify things and just blame John Boyd for this.

John Boyd was an Air Force officer who came up with the OODA loop theory. Basically, a pilot in air combat loops through the stages of Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act, and if a pilot is capable of iterating through this loop faster than their opponent, they win. Some people realized this same theory could actually explain combat more generally (particularly maneuver warfare) as well as business and everyday life.

John Boyd's magnum opus was a slide presentation of several hundred slides, which took several hours to present, which he never allowed to be abridged or summarized in any way.

John Boyd was influential and I don't even think he was a complete crackpot, but the military's tendency to overuse PowerPoint and develop vague theories-of-everything as their operational doctrines reminds me of him. I don't think they pull it off as well as he did.
Following the first paragraph, all of this is for lack of a better word flamebait. You absolutely can be upset about how people name things, how they identify themselves and so on, but surely you can also make your argument in a reasonable manner.
I have an uncle in his 70s. The other day he gave me some shrubbery to chew on coz of a toothache. I was like yeah-yeah let me humour him. Shock on me! The thing worked! Numbs the pain. In fact, any part of the tongue had a numbed feeling similar to the feeling you get when the dentist injects you.. I believe there’s probably a lot one can learn from the connected with nature older folks
I've used mypy and pyright. Mypy generally "just works" for all the Python idioms I use, while pyright is less reliable.

Pyright's VSCode integration, Pylance, provides a great auto complete experience. So I use Pyright for autocomplete in VSCode and mypy for type checking.
For accuracy, please note that those people were more upset that the king exempted a company he had a stake in from that taxation (East India Tea Company), mostly in order to make up for some disaterous business dealings that threatened to los him and his friends a lot of money.

Much of the rhetoric was dressed up as against taxes, but really all of the actual action was against unfairness in government (especially the lack of taxes). A worthy goal, and a decent reason to revolt. But I wish current politics would occasionally get the facts right.
And an entirely irrelevant factor for the future, which therefore should be left aside.
It's very hard to imagine how other people experience it, because people's experiences can be so wildly different. My wife can carry on conversations while solving problems and getting her work done. It helps her think. She can also talk all day, quite literally, conversing without pause from the moment she wakes up until the moment she closes her eyes, without feeling that it takes any extra energy. If anything, talking is a bit easier than not talking, and it frees her brain to work more creatively and systematically.

Me, I'm exhausted by conversations that last more than a few minutes, and talking interferes with my ability to think. I have to tell my wife sometimes, "Look, I know you shared this new piece of information with me half an hour ago, but we've been talking about it the whole time since then, so I haven't processed it at all. I don't know how I feel about it. I haven't thought about how it changes things. I'm just trying to force out utterances at the expected conversational rhythm until we stop talking and I can engage with the new information."

These two experiences are so far apart that it's very hard to comprehend someone on the other side. In fact, I think it's even harder for someone like my wife to understand someone like me, because I've had it drilled into me from a young age that my way is not the normal one. Lots of people seek professional help because they are too much like me and want to be more "normal" like my wife. Vice-versa, not so much.

My wife loves me and has been living with me for almost five years, but she is still working to internalize the fact that these differences are real. She still has to fight with her gut-level assumption that I experience conversation much like she does, and if I don't partake, it reflects hostility or indifference, and if I say I can't, I'm malingering. If she still has to consciously override that reaction, imagine a management layer of extroverts whose only exposure to introverts is through managing them. To them, it just looks like some people are adapting and thriving, and others are obstructing and malingering.
> Average photographers can certainly benefit from better gear to a degree. But for many people (myself included) a $300 lens will work as well (or even better) than a $3000 one. Which I think is the point the original commenter was making.

I agree somewhat, which is why I mostly use a cheap lens, and an ancient EOS 60D. However, I think the $3,000 lens is a red herring. The vast majority of lenses sold are kit lenses or cheap plastic. Because whilst there is an awful lot of average photographers, not all of them are millionaires. Now, to actual millionaires $3,000 are probably worth less than $300 for me, so I don't see how I would have a moral high ground.

Honestly, this is a made up problem. Some people prefer working on composition, some are better at capturing subtle lights, and some have a technical mind. These people still buy camera and take pictures, as a hobby. So why wouldn't they be called "hobbyist photographers" like the rest of us? And why does it have any importance whatsoever?
A comparison to the recent past and not the most successful French authors of the 19th century. For every Dumas making $200,000-$400,000 there was probably a hundred authors you've never heard of making $2000. And the market has changed so much since the mid-19th century as there is way more alternatives for people's time like movies, TV shows, video games, etc. with completely different distribution methods because of things like the internet enabling people to get content out for free.

You need to look back at the recent past and not just the most successful authors to see what the trends are. Is a random sampling of 100 authors from 2000 making more than those in 2019? Has the total number of books sold sharply declined?
I think you're right -- if only because it's probably the most viable path to growth.

If your value prop is 'we're stable and you can trust us', and your buyers are 'large enterprises that don't like to take risks', your biggest impediment if you have a great product is that you aren't part of a company like ServiceNow.

What's the saying? "The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets innovation."

Even harder when you need enterprise proof-points...
Got it. Thx
What could that possibly look like in practice? Something beyond legalized prostitution?
I'm talking in terms of success. Of course any French writer of the 19th century is better than Dan Brown.
> I would be very curious to see a company that really make it big and remain independent in this area

Proofpoint (PFPT) is a big security / compliance company. Market cap is about half that of Datadog.

Crowdstrike (CRWD) is another big one. Twice the size of datadog.
If it boggles you then I take it you’ve never used HP Service Manager
I guess phpMyAdmin is out of fashion these days ;)
Developing legal contracts like software applications (2016)
What were you editing the output with? Did it have accurate lens compensation?

Even just fixing the vignette some lenses add is enough to make pictures no longer depressing. If the lens adds chromatic aberration that's quite difficult to fix though.
I see a lot of people talking about rental properties and I don't think there's enough talk in favor of rental properties so here's my shot at it.

My philosophy of being a landlord is not to bank on appreciation, but rather find houses where the mortgage is well below what tenants are paying for. How do you find those kinds of houses? You buy dilapidated houses, renovate them and then rent them out. If you don't want to go through that work, there are middlemen called "turnkey providers" that renovate houses and then sell them to investors for a profit.

From there, you can decide whether to manage the property yourself (less passive) or hire a property manager (more passive). If you hire a property manager, they do all of the busy work associated with owning a house like finding tenants, collecting rent, evicting tenants. They do not get paid unless there is a tenant on the property so it's in their best interest to find you a good tenant.

The thing I like most about rental properties is four fold:
1) Positive cash flow (rent minus all operating costs)
2) Depreciation (in the US, you can depreciate the cost of the house--not land--over 27.5 years which usually makes the cash flow stated above tax free)
3) Principal payments (part of the mortgage the tenant pays goes into the principal of the property--usually around 30% of the first payment goes to principal if you put down 20% and it only goes up from there)
4) Appreciation (the house & land usually appreciates at pace with inflation)

Graham Stephan talks about this in his YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8wNUaBgZTk

Also remember, the longer you hold the property, the higher the rent will be while your 30 year loan will stay flat. This makes holding property much more appealing later on but with higher repair bills as well as things start to break.

There's a lot of advantages with owning homes IF you do the math correctly. Here's a video of Brandon Turner, the owner of Bigger Pockets, discussing how to analyze rental properties for the math to make sense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uogn4qtZ8U

Also, if there's a downturn in the market, usually people that own homes move to rental properties.

If you're interested in rental properties, I'd suggest the bigger pockets forums where you can read about everyone doing this type of stuff:
https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums
It took me a long time but I finally got over the never-ending desire for ever sharper lenses. 50mm is a general purpose lens. Not like macro or super-telephoto. Sharp enough to get the gist of the image without being distractingly blurry is good enough.
1. What happens if the government requests access to the servers and the enabling of logs as a matter of national security?

2. It seems like you're simply going to store 1,000 of the latest messages on your server. In a less active chat room could be weeks worth of history.

In short, you're claiming privacy is your selling feature. However, it doesn't seem very secure, so it's not going to appeal to people that are serious about security. As for casual people, if I'm a Discord user, does this sound like a great sales pitch?

1. Private messaging is removed.

2. Chat history is reduced to minutes or weeks depending on room activity.

3. I need to pay for sharing images or voice.

I think you'll struggle with this concept. If you said your goal was to make ephemeral chat rooms, so people could be more carefree with their messages, I could understand the selling point. But, instead you're talking about a watered down Discord in exchange for some security theater. I don't see the appeal for anyone there.

Lastly, let's say I'm wrong and you do start gaining traction and you're on to something. What prevents Discord from adding that same feature, and giving chat room owners the ability to limit history? How do you compete?
On the bright side, the motherboard’s solder was reflowed.
Ants don't have a pernicious ability to build progressively better technology in an attempt to escape the kitchen work top and conquer the refrigerator. Or, rather, they do, in the sense that they are life and life has this tendency, at least in the one case study we have access to.