skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Tabula – Extract tables from PDF files
With that kind of traffic I'd be tempted to take the site offline for a few days to see if some prominent services had an outage due to relying on it.
The Thailand story was a cover for the NSA buying a huge number of drives for the new data facility in Utah.
I don’t know.
Maybe there’s a hash value for the code that you can look at to make sure it’s the right code.
Haven’t personally looked into this.
Yeah, you did the same what Google does to content creators... :)
"The vaccines made by Johnson & Johnson, Moderna and Pfizer contain genetic instructions for the spike protein, and it's up to the cells in our bodies to make the protein itself."

A little bit OT, but that's not true for Janssen.
Done. I've posted a sample usage, it's in a reply to a comment a bit further down.
Similar to "this Monday" and "next Monday"
I can attest. I have two friends who were hired on the spot at places that were desperate for workers. One makes $8/hr, the other makes like $10/hr. No breaks, no benefits, no scheduling regularity.

The company I work at has no trouble finding employees, but I have a well-paying swe position.
The political dynamics are very different if China invades after US recognition of Taiwan rather than before. (Especially if they station a tripwire force there like in Estonia).
Interesting question and I'm looking forward to the answer too!
This is in Argentina, cowboy. /s
I think good documentation should help the user build a mental model. Keep explanations to the point in general, but insert short reminders about previous concepts (with cross-references to s detailed explanation) to keep them in the reader's mind. Some redundancy in documentation is a plus.

If you always include at least a summary of what the user is expected to know, it lets the user read the documentation nonlinearly without getting completely lost when they hit an unfamiliar concept.
Too bad for the NSA that they couldn't use Chia mining as the cover back then. /s
In the early to mid 90's, Maxtor was my go-to hard drive for any build. They went downhill after that, sadly.
Hitachi bought the IBM plant. IIRC they just took over the shop as-is
In my experience being humble, I most frequently get

“Whaaaaaaaaaat you never heard of that, its so popular, everyone’s into this”

I just wait patiently and stare, maybe an occasional “ah, mmm”

and then eventually say “so can you tell me about it”

and really the answer is no, most people can’t articulate themselves and provide filler instead

it’s usually in relation to anything someone is passionate about, or an assumption they have that supports their passion. such as a social norm or ideal, not just engineering
Yup, scary beasts. If you get sucked out of the kayak, the only way to escape those is to get rid of your life vest and try to catch the outflow deep underwater.
At least according to anecdotes.
Ah, you are reasoning from your own anecdotal experience to say that something is unlikely because you haven't yourself observed it.

Maybe you should try an experiment?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-happened-when-a-man-sign...
Simple math says it's wrong. 500k people died of covid in the USA, most over retirement age. Drop in the bucket of employment.
That's what I assumed the article would be about too. Happened just as I started seriously getting into PC building. Haven't trusted Seagate since.
This model was really bad, but he wasn’t wrong in general - while consumer drives have a higher failure rate, you can’t pretend the enterprise version can’t fail - and if you’ve built your system to withstand failure, whether 2 or 5 fail every year makes little difference if you have competent IT.

I do make an effort to source them from as many different batches as possible, though - based on a DeskStar (“DeathStar”) experience a couple of decades ago. And there have been occasional bad batches for many models.

(The iirc 500MB DeathStar and this 3TB seagate are special in having mostly bad batches)
I just added a photo to the Wikipedia article: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ST3000DM001_as_exter...
Oh it's great. I've never seen it before
Some languages, like French, make the distinction not on the prefix but on the noun used to refer to the period:

* bimensuel/elle : twice a month

* bimestriel/elle: every 2 months

And trimestriel and semestriel for every 3 and 6 months respectively.

It's strange that English left this ambiguity in usage when the semi- prefix exists.
As a programmer I've realized that one of my special skills are that I read the docs.

It's such an understated skill.
If you're thinking of the same article as I am, it was indeed Backblaze:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/
They were attacking fishing boats (they didn't have a navy because there was no real government, so these attackers were pirates). The Somali pirates should get more respect from most hardliners. This is basically people grabbing guns to protect their land and create a livelihood instead of lying down to die.
Good luck having random user to do that.
Quant funds hire theoretical physicists and mathematicians because it’s the math part in “financial mathematics” that is hard, it’s just easier to teach a mathematician finance and Python/C++, than taking an average finance major or developer.

It’s definitely not the case that they want people to reinvent the wheel. Options pricing for example is a Nobel prize winning discovery.
Well that fits the use case I described,

> WebGL seems to be stuck into basic 3D visualizations for items on virtual shops, cool effects and some demos.
That was BackBlaze

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/
>Schedule time off

You lost me there. When I worked shit retail jobs I was actually laughed at when I tried to schedule 3 days off a few months in advance.

Hell my first job was at a place where they would not tell you your schedule over the phone or over the internet and they would change your schedule the night before they wanted you there. Unless you were willing to drive to the store every day, even on your day off, you would never know about new shifts you had assigned and would subsequently be a no call no show.

The managers used this so they always had a safe reason to fire someone. When you did something they didn't like but was protected by store policy or legality, they would just fire you next time you missed one of these sudden shift changes.
This is giving me ‘would you kindly’ vibes from Bioshock. :P
The Trivium was a field of study for students at university in the middle ages. "Trivial" has also been said to refer to something only of interest to a student of the trivium.

I'm surprised wikipedia doesn't have that theory.
> A naval blockade would harm China more than conquering Taiwan would help China

Agreed. And not just iron ore, military and civ populations need to be fed:

There's also the fact that most of China soybean supply comes from imports (around 90 percent of its soybeans are imported from the international market and are mostly used in oil and animal feed)… China would have to be able to deploy/resupply some sort of protection for those ships for any cargo imported.

There's lots of different avenues that can be pursued by a varying number of state/non state actors, that will have varying levels of impact and feasible response to such, so I really find the thinking "ww3 is highly unlikely so, [x] actor/nation state can do w/e it wants with no material consequences" really lazy…
Yes wages should go up, but the driver of this increase is temporary (global pandemic and fear of it). But once you raise wages, you're kind of stuck there. I think if we can get through this year without going crazy with wage increases we can keep inflation at bay and COVID will go away. So what they're saying is that benefits need to get less and less generous as fear of covid gets lower and lower. The former should follow the latter until those terrible jobs don't looks so bad to some people. And that means some people will land at the bottom rung of the economic ladder and obviously not be happy about it.
I was somewhere with no internet connection and an old laptop with Golang on it. I needed a string similarity function. Remembering vaguely hearing there was some kind of 'distance' algorithm to do this I hit on the idea of treating the digits a multiple dimensions and calculating the pythagorean distance. If you fancy a laugh I suggest you try this approach, the numbers get astonishly huge very quickly. I started taking the logs of numbers and even then getting overflow errors. I wished I'd seen this!
Source for this claim? Sounds entirely like unfounded speculation.

(Wikipedia page on the facility in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center)
> Problem statement: the Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring the difference between two sequences

Another variant is "I have a bunch of words (a dictionary) and one query word, and want to find all words from the dictionary that are close to the query word".

This leads to another interesting class of problems, because you can do clever things where you precompute search structures (e.g. Levenshtein automata [0], [1]) from the dictionary. The similarity queries then run (much) faster. In production, performance matters.

We recently merged a PR like that into Gensim [2].

This gave a ~1,500x speed-up compared to naively comparing all pairwise strings with Levenshtein distance. A difference between the training step running for months (=unusable) and minutes.

[0] http://blog.notdot.net/2010/07/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Levensht...

[1] Mihov, Stoyan & Schulz, Klaus. (2004). Fast Approximate Search in Large Dictionaries: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/J04-4003.pdf

[2] https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/gensim/pull/3146
I don't know if Backblaze's usage predates it becoming the common way to describe this practice, but it's definitely caught on. For example see any deal post on an external drive on reddit /r/datahoarder
> there’s _plenty_ of legal limits to free speech in the US

Not really? The limits are essentially directly inciting violence, directly threatening, and knowingly aiding someone in the commission of a crime (ie literally coaching someone else on how to break the law). That's not "plenty", that's really the bare minimum (and exactly how it should be, from my perspective at least).

Edit: Crap, just realized I forgot about our ridiculous obscenity limitations. Those shouldn't exist IMO, but to be fair about the only thing that's managed to run afoul of them so far is literal bestiality porn. (https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/413/15/) (https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/535/234.html)
It also gives the employers the ability to point towards any deviations from being available on short notice as a reason to legally fire people. You either give up your life to your low level job or you provide ammo for them to remove all of your legal protections because you aren't being fired for a legally protected reason, but because you violated policy or weren't flexible enough
Tabula – liberate data tables locked inside PDF files
This is why my meetings are called "fortnightly".
Maybe a part of RES? https://redditenhancementsuite.com/
I can’t speak for you and wouldn’t dare. I can only say that when I said verbatim these exact words what I was describing was “passing”. And in similar terms with neurodivergence, “masking”. I wasn’t accepting myself, I was accepting that I had a certain access and aptitude to be someone else for some social purposes. And even then, not really. Just kinda sorta.
Were they Fireball SE maybe? http://www.redhill.net.au/d/74.php

"In the case of the Fireball SE, the mounting of the [power] socket was so flimsy that it was all too easy to break the PCB and thus ruin the drive. (With most other drives, you would have to be a gorilla and a drunken one at that.)"
Nuro’s Pizza Robot Will Bring You a Domino’s Pie
As someone pointed out on a podcast I listed yesterday, wheels get reinvented all the time, as not every whell fits all travel purposes equally well. :)
> Yes, I've noticed people say "taxes" when they mean "income taxes", but it's not possible to dodge property and consumption taxes like that.

And I've noticed people say "immigrant" when they mean "illegal alien".

> I suppose cutting down on rent by living 6 to an apartment does evade property tax, but that is called efficiency.

It's also called increased competition for housing and jobs, by someone who is in the country illegally, aka "illegal competition".
I guess that working with more primitive terminals would make easier to use to drive UIs on embedded targets. The "terminal" Ftxui sees becomes just some LCD-painting primitives.
Key takeaway: stay humble. In my career, I have been antiquated in the past (Flash developer), so I have learned that going to someone and asking what they know is usually a better path. I also call out good contributions from other teammates, because that is what being alive is about.
My multiplayer online standard data: https://github.com/tinspin/fuse

You can try the database here: http://root.rupy.se
Wow apparently Bitwarden is already set as the autofill service. So it does seem like the Android implementation is not quite as polished as the iOS. Although I'll definitely have to teet a device from a different vendor to be sure it's not some issue Xiaomi has added in...
I'm sorry that leftists on HN don't understand facts.

Let me know if you have any questions, so you can stop looking sorry.

AMA.
What’s the difference between “constant time” and “constant time amortized?”
The dot is not moving though. By the time you have it in another surface FTL it is a totally different dot.
No. Two amazing emulators got sued out of existence - and paved the way for legal existence of hundreds of emulators since.

In no way are emulators a target these days. The ROMs are. By your own admission - the emulator war was won.
The CCP is bad (for example see the Uyghurs) but the Holocaust was much worse, best not to compare to it.
I don't think "good" vs "bad" has anything at all to do with "platform" vs "problem".

It's really a question of "essential or extremely useful to the project goals" vs "fun/satisfying for the person being clever". That's the distinction we should focus on.
Oh, that's a cool package. I find it strange that the least compatible implementation of sass is used by default by so many packages.
Right, I'm using the most recent C++ standard via GCC on STM32 parts now.
> the existence of such laws codifies the avenue of their corruption

As a practical example, consider China's recent "security" law that allows only "patriots" to run for political office.

For something a bit closer to home, looking at various ToS and codes of conduct reveals how wildly definitions of "hate speech" vary in the US alone.
https://www.wired.com/story/nura-ai-startup-self-driving/

a chase vehicle comes with it so dont get any plans for free pizza, and a free delivery wagon
Science needs review articles which can be a) updated b) peer reviewed c) attributed to the authorship

Wikipedia solves a but isn't great for b or c.
"Would it work" sounds like you are on the same team as the other party and trying to concede something with them. I think that's why it's received better than "Why not" which sounds like you are surprised and don't understand why the other party doesn't want to use your solution or worse it suggests that you think the other party is stupid and it's not understandable why they use another solution but you are sill trying not to say it out loud in suggesting the good solution.

Pretty sure there are subtle differences between speakers of different languages once English is translated/understood.
Meaning is what we make it. If anything is meaningful then one must start with one's own experiences (and if they only mean something to oneself, well, that's fine too).
I find it interesting that so many of the results are very long. I suppose it makes sense, a post that contains a lot of words is more likely to contain any individual phrase than a post with fewer words. Or is it just the case that HN comments were longer on average 5-9 years ago?
I guess Go's arbitrary precision numbers are a bit of a pain to work with.
Thunderfoot is only two of the links and there are other similar, less sensationalized sources which show the same result, that Hyperloop and Boring Tunnel are both grifts. Regardless of whether you like Thunderfoot or not, his arguments about hyperloop are correct. Elon erased all signs of it from his web presence, and sold it off like a hot cake. The cities that paid for the boring tunnel express instead got a lame tiny tunnel Tesla death trap. Where is your substance of argument other than pedantry about Thunderfoot who sure, is sensationalist and dramatic, but says nothing wrong about Hyperloop nor the Boring Tunnel..
I think I understand your meaning actually
I am old and I cringe when I see most of the 'modern stuff'. It is just simply a minefield and dangerous to use. I work in banking and have to sign off on everything used for decades in the future potentially: not much of what is in these frameworks on frameworks on bugs on frameworks qualifies even basic scrutiny but devs do want to use them because they read on hn/reddit it is the new thing. Painful struggle

Edit: I do not mean to say people should stop making new things or trying to improve upon older ideas; just saying most this stuff needs huge ALPHA/experimental stamps on it.
As an Aussie, I was amazed to learn that most Americans had never heard of fortnight (or maybe knew exactly what length of time it is). I guess the funny thing is that it is a non-obvious contraction of "fourteen nights" - and not "forty nights".
A mining & oil tycoon flies his private 787 over some fishing vessels to complain about ecological damage. Pot... Kettle...
Trying to get into game lighting was pretty hard because of the "Just simply" style of teaching. There is so much assumed knowledge, and it can be hard to figure out exactly what your missing knowledge is.

Oh my mesh looks weird in engine, must be.. normal maps, materials, mesh isn't manifold, scene lighting isn't set up, global illumination.. skybox.. light not emitter.. you have to bake stuff? Oh but not in this mode.. Just light the damn cube!
That's interesting because the person I spoke to also said that they've reduced the daily number of work hours. Not because productivity was high but because stress was high due to the pandemic & perhaps working conditions at homes.
This results in absolutely delightful documentation with things like embedded DSLs (I have suffered slight trauma from Ruby ones) where the documentation contains 90% incomprehensible voodoo incantations that exist just to make the DSL look pretty.
I think it works when people speak out loud but it doesn't when it's a written conversation.
40 Communication Skills To Know
https://www.thesuccessmanual.in/communication-skills-guide
I knew that looked familiar...
https://i.imgur.com/ITCFzeu.png (order: middle, bottom, top). Lucky me (not sarcastic, DOA is far from worst-case scenario).
Some items have already reached post scarcity though? Take books for example. New books still have scarcity. A copy of any already written book however is effectively free when provided over the internet. The marginal cost to produce a copy of said book for another person is an infinitesimal percentage of a penny
Let me make it easy for you: fuck cops
Failure to clock in and out properly can result in termination.
You are arguing against a science fiction concept used as figure of speech

Are sure coffe beans wouldn't be free if we had Dyson-sphere leves of free energy providing magic-like stuff like replicators? Because that is a context in which post-scarcity is used literally
As I have learned in offshoring projects, that is a matter of scale, you just need to scale the amount of juniors carring stones, the quality is overrated as long as the product line (completly unrelated to software) keeps working.
Easy Data Augmentation for Text in NLP
> Before you ask, no, there is no such thing as a stealth radar fishing boat.

China: "Hold my píjiŭ."

We're living out a Neal Stephenson novel.
Yet another example of temporal ambiguity is the notion of “bringing forward” or “pushing back” a deadline. The sense employed is the opposite of the ordinary use i.e., moving “back” into the past or “forward” into the future.
My lengthy driving experience in and around the New York area has more than convinced me that widespread inability to merge would make roundabouts here extremely difficult to implement. The few that do exist are usually littered with people who have stopped completely or are trying to cut across three lanes of traffic because they don't know what they are doing or where they are going.
Apollo Guidance Computer was light years ahead (2020) [video]
I'm not familiar with data center tools or terminology. What is a tazer in this context?
I’ve always used the term trivialization to describe this. I once gave a manager feedback to stop doing it, granted theirs could be characterized as being overly optimistic in their report’s capabilities.

In response they bought a shock bracelet to negatively reinforce the behavior. They adjusted really quickly. Haha. I really miss that manager.
Do keep in mind that there's a difference between reading and writing code.

You might very well need experience and domain-level knowledge to write the code, but often you can still make it readable to beginners.

Of course, 'often' doesn't mean always. See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root for an example of code that falls in this gap.
I have a recording from one of my drives which I believe was a failing Deathstar. Not a pleasant sound to experience.

https://r-1.ch/hdd.mp3 (warning, loud)
Tony Elumelu: Reigniting new wave of investment in Africa
Thanks for sharing! nice job!
Having a landing is crucial, at least simple, for beginning. I would like to see intro and how it works before sign up
> lettergram is also a guy who believe he pays over 60% in taxes

I'm sorry, but it's not a belief, I've estimated it fairly accurately and you can as well.

Effective tax rate (from my income):

Income Tax:

- 26.72% Federal

- 4.33% Social Security & Medicaid

- 4.95% State

Investments:

- Investments 15-45% (EDIT: on capital gains)

Additional Tax Burden:

- Sales: 10% (of goods purchased)

- Property: 2.35% (of home value)

- Inflation 4% (of wealth maintained)

Then there's all these others fees & excise taxes: licenses, fuel, tolls, alcohol, tobacco, firearms, etc, etc.

Finally, you have import duties on any goods you or any company producing goods for you are importing, typically 0-10%.

You may think tolls are something cheap, but it's $3-5 per toll (I pass 200-500 a year). Licenses for my vehicle(s): $500. Fuel: $0.392 tax per gallon.

Fuel Taxes: https://www2.illinois.gov/rev/research/taxrates/Pages/motorf...

Toll Rates (cars): https://turnpikeinfo.com/toll-calculator.php?road_name=tri-s...

Toll Rates (trucks): https://www.illinoistollway.com/documents/20184/86147/2020+T...

Freight Duties Estimator: https://www.freightos.com/freight-resources/import-duty-calc...

EDIT: Previously said: "on investment revenue"