skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever this kind of leaks appears, some minority of people get outraged for a few days, and it ends like that.

For a change, I'd like to finally see some consequences for such behaviour. Some action to actually limit influence of lobbying from big corporations.

But honestly, I just don't see this happening, as long as some distant government is allowed to take important decisions on its own. Maybe the only balance against lobbying would be if more countries had some form of Swiss-like direct democracy. Not perfect, since people can also be influenced through various means, but it's much harder to "lobby" people to vote for something that is not in their interest that to "lobby" a group of politicians that don't care about people.
Here is a JavaScript implementation by Fil:

https://observablehq.com/@fil/sliced-optimal-transport
You're optimistic if you assume that a carbon tax will not be made useless via some loopholes or other means.
If you live in London, you can/could go into the store, buy the trousers (34" length?) and have them tailored within the day (can't remember if there is a charge for it). If you're outside of London (not sure if the Oxford, Manc stores do it), you're out of luck :(
Might the too low price be a signal that the cap wasn't set nearly aggressive enough?
Observable HQ: SQLite Support in Notebooks
I just thought the other day that we won't need schools as much in the future. Teachers could just record material, or use pre-recorded material, to teach students online.

And then young people could take jobs earlier, in their teens, and learn about the world and find out what their interests are instead of regurgitating the same answers for the same old assignments over and over.

Find an interest, turn it into a job, be a bit happier.

Or just study and settle for something, either way I think there should be more freedom for young adults now with the internet.
> No disrespect, but this is probably the worst reason to make any decision. Do you also reject good diet and exercise because of the "be healthy!" crowd? Do you reject antibiotics because of the "infections are bad!" crowd?

Of course not. If I get a dangerous bacterial infection, I'll take an antibiotic, but that doesn't fit with the situation I am responding to. I'm not sick with the coronavirus. I don't believe it will kill me or even seriously effect me.

More importantly, for me. I don't like people pressuring me to do something for which they can't give 100% solid reasons. It's like a gf saying, don't have another beer now, you've had enough. I am more likely to have another beer after that. I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm like, "fuck u". I don't say that, but I get another beer, because it's my life, and a part of having a life is resisting control by people who think they know better.

Also, what is "good diet"? I know what works for me, and it's not what "the authorities" have been saying since the late 70s

> Worse, as a teacher, you're exposed to children who would bring the infection back into their homes. Do you want to be the reason some kid's mother or grandfather dies from covid?

This is exactly the sort of stridency I react negatively to. As far as I know, I haven't had it. Maybe a third of my pupils have. Maybe half of the families of pupils in my class have had it. About 5% of my colleagues have had it, including my boss who literally sneezed on me two days before she tested positive.

I get tested twice a week and would obviously isolate if I had a positive test, so I really don't think I'm going to kill anyone's grandma.

> I don't know what this means, but if your first reason not to get vaccinated was silly, this is downright ridiculous.

Well, as openly acknowledged, my first reason has to do with my personality and my allergy to controlling narratives. But if all the crap about this virus that the "lockdown/vax" crowd spreads is true, they would happily embrace both the Chinese and Russian vaccines and use them to supplement their own Western vaccines. Something else is going on, and I suspect it's profit and politics (which in the West, is apparently now the same thing).
I was the exact same way in college. I remember saying to a professor one time that whenever I was inside studying hard I would look out the window and say, "What am I doing? I should be outside in nature, enjoying the beauty of the world for the short time I have here." But when I would go outside, I would immediately say, "What am I doing? I should be inside studying so I can make something of myself and contribute to the world!"

No matter what choice I made, some other choice always seemed like the mature decision, and I was perpetually stuck in either a childish pursuit of good grades on paper, or a childish avoidance of work while I frolicked outside. I just couldn't win.
Who sabotaged it this way? What are those choices? The people in states with large government spending, like NY, NJ or CA, would sure like to know how to avoid waste.
> As others have asked though, how does this effect side-loading?

It doesn't.

APKs are still the end format.
When I was first taught Java in college I didn't find out about hash maps for a while because it was considered too advanced for beginners (ohh scary templates!)
> A bit like finding out a convicted murderer was jaywalking on their way to the scene.

Given the seriousness of the climate situation and the importance of carbon tax as one of the solutions, I think that in your analogy, all the things Exxon has been caught doing in the past are the jaywalking part.
Most people recycle passwords. You can say they are doing the wrong thing but it's the reality. When that recycled password inevitably gets pwned, 2FA makes the account more secure.
I'm so glad to hear about this. I was beginning to think widespread use of smartphones was actually decreasing technical literacy and making it harder to learn. They're almost too easy and don't expose their inner workings as readily as desktop computers.

Now that you mention it, I bet there's actually a wealth of educational content on YouTube and TikTok that serves to counter this. Technical insights for any interest.
The carrier hasn't been shared with the reporting website so far as I can tell.
> A lot of them get advice from the internet or their parents that tends to be overly cynical and often dated. When we review resumes we often have to remove Microsoft Word and Excel from the qualifications section of programmer resumes because they heard from the internet or a parent that they’ll be rejected by automated HR software without those keyword. I still see people trying to keyword stuff their resumes with 6pt white text at the bottom (don’t do this)

Why is this a bad idea? I've had my resume auto filtered out in the past and the keywords at the bottom seem to have helped. I don't try to hide it in white-on-white text, though. I have an explicit section (though in a very small font) titled something like "automated scanner keywords"
Just to be clear, I wasn't recommending GHB as something people should try over alcohol :) It was just the first drug name that came to mind that has some similar effects and that's quite popular as a recreational drug.

Gabapentin I don't think is nearly as popular, though a couple of years ago I was told that it had become a hugely popular drug in UK prisons for some reason.
There has also been speculation that mind altering gases inspired the prophecies of the Orcle at Delphi:

"Recent geological investigations have shown that gas emissions from a geologic chasm in the earth could have inspired the Delphic Oracle to "connect with the divine." Some researchers suggest the possibility that ethylene gas caused the Pythia's state of inspiration. Traces of ethylene have been found in the waters of the Castallian spring, which is now largely diverted for the town water supply of the town of modern Delphi. However, Lehoux argues^ that ethylene is "impossible" and benzene is "crucially underdetermined." Others argue instead that methane might have been the gas emitted from the chasm, or CO[2] and H[2]S, arguing that the chasm itself might have been a seismic ground rupture."[1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_oracle#Fumes_and_vapor...
Which should be done anyway. YouTube dropped the ball on that one.
She sounds like some kind of villain from Parks and Recreation.
What's OWS?
Autogenerate APIs for your existing databases
> Providers have been known to reset accounts with just SMS 2FA

But this turns the 2FA into 1FA, and that "1" is just an SMS.

Using SMS as a second factor is great, using it as an only one, is not.

If someone hacks eg linkedin (again), and gets all the passwords, they can just hack literally millions of accounts on other services just because of password reuse. SMS 2FA prevents that very effectively.

But I agree that companies use things made to deal with "issue A" to deal with "issue B", even if the thing is totally inappropriate for "issue B". I've heard from people that some places in USA use SSN, date of birth, mothers maiden name, etc. to authenticate and verify the user (instead of doing stuff in person with an ID card)... most of those things are (almost) impossible to change, and once someone knows them, you're fscked. Same with fingerprints as means of authentication... once someone makes a mould, you're done, because they can use them, and you can't change them.
They may not be authors of the question on SO, but to find that question you need to search for it, and it is not uncommon that doing so takes more than one research/thread parsing. In the end, finding the relevant SO answer is not unlike asking a good question in the first place.
De-Googling: Migrating from Google Photos to Nextcloud
Google appends a very easily identifiable per-app random string, which was probably somebody's dream to farm 2FA codes.

By making 2fa codes per-app identifiable, the situation was only made worse.
How Long Covid Keeps Us Sick
Pandora's box is opened and all pro copy&paste developers will use it.

Don't get me wrong, nothing against Copilot, as long as you understand the code and you know what you are doing. And yes, most devs did not know that, but they think they are the kings.
Startups are insisting on K8s experience despite targeting a market that will never need more than a single server if they write the application properly.

I look at "if you've got 100K servers..." and ask "why does anyone needs 100K servers?", rather than "how would I manage that?".

Each layer adds complexity and reduces performance. Less layers are better. Write Unikernel applications
AI News in First Half of 2021: A Digest
I've never made any real money as a hobby. Maybe $50 building a website for someone as a kid. I tried with an android app but decided just to make it free since it wasn't making money.

Excluding the rare possibility of making a top tier app, I feel like it's a more lucrative option to do yardwork. I'm a beekeeper and would guess I can average $500/yr with that.
You don't deserve those downvotes. I think you ask a great question!

I chose to have kids, but one of my best friends chose not to have kids. I sometimes regret it (though never seriously), he deeply regrets it. He had a lot of cool stuff and got to travel the world for many years, which I always wished I could do too. He was always doing fun stuff, even as simple as going on beer runs on the weekend (literally the club he was in would drink beer and go running. They had a blast). In his early 50s his wife was diagnosed with terminal cancer. During that period both he and her went through profound regret. She would pass on nothing, and he would be completely alone when she was gone.

I also firmly believe that there is a level of growth/maturity that you can't reach without going through the crucible of kids. I have never met a person who didn't say that having kids was one of the hardest things they ever did but helped them grow and see life in a different way like nothing else could.

Also don't forget the Michael Scott reason for having kids: they can't say no to being your friend[1]

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/DunderMifflin/comments/20u728/i_wan...
Note that this evaporation time assumes a universe at absolute zero. That 10^80 years can't even begin until the CMBR cools enough, perhaps 10^40 years.

Admittedly that's an eyeblink compared to the evaporation time scale, but it does mean that we won't observe any evaporation until many orders of magnitude longer than the universe has existed.
Way too many ads on that webpage
How would that explain 50% yoy increase that the article mentions? Number of active iphone users seems to grow a lot slower than that.
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Many thanks. I feel like I ought to have been able to figure that one out...
Boo hoo, they lost some board seats! What a world!!

We treat pot dealers more harshly than these fucks. Give me a fucking break. I'm sick of it.
My parents still did stuff with cheques in the 90s, iirc. Actually paying bills and being paid with them, running a company.

I think the last one I saw was some government agency refunding me 2 odd EUR in the early 00s and I forgot to cash it in for like a decade. (This is all in Germany.)
Cheese is not necessarily lactose-free. It depends on the type of cheese.

tl;dr, cheese has less lactose than milk but not necessarily 0%. As a rule-of-thumb, softer, crumblier, fresher, tangier cheeses, and yogurt, should be expected to have less lactose than harder, longer-aged firm and elastic and sweeter cheeses, but again not necessarily 0%.

Now for the long version.

Fresh milk has a sweet taste thanks to the lactose it contains. Lactose is a complex sugar composed of two simple sugars, glucose and galactose. When cheese or yogurt are made, lactic acid bacteria (LAB) ferment the lactose in milk and produce lactic acid (hence their name). Lactic acid lowers the pH of the milk and so the cheese or yogurt ends up more acidic, therefore tasting tangier, than the milk used to make it. Lower pH also affects the texture of the cheese: as a rule, more acidic cheeses are softer and crumblier whereas less acidic cheeses are firmer and with a more elastic texture.

The cheesemaking process controls the extent to which fermentation is allowed to continue and acidity to develop. Some cheeses, like cheddar, are salted to stop (rather, slow down) the activity of LAB and arrest the development of acidity. Others, like fresh goat's cheeses, are left to ferment all the way. Yogurt is allowed to ferment all the way also.

LAB activity generally stops at a pH of 4.6, at which point most LAB become inactive, but that doesn't mean that all of the lactose is consumed when that pH is reached. It depends on how much lactose was in the milk to begin with and how fast the fermentation advanced during the making of the cheese. In making Italian Cacciota cheese, a warm-room technique is used to bring the curd to a temperature near the optimum of the LAB culture, so that all the lactose is consumed quickly and the cheese reaches its target pH of 5.2 (so higher than 4.6), in a relatively short time (hours rather than days). "Washed curd" cheeses like Gouda, have a step in their make where whey is replaced with water, to "wash out" the lactose and stop the fermentation, so that the cheese retains its milky sweeteness. Acidity can also decrease (pH increase) during ripening. Some bloomy rind type cheeses like camambert start out quite acidic, with a low pH under 5.0 but their pH increases while they age because the molds and yeasts on their rind (that give them their characteristic white coats) consume lactic acid and release ammonia (which, being basic, raises the pH back up).

So it's not always easy to know how much lactose is in cheese and yogurt and it's not even an absolute rule that more acidic taste means more complete fermentation and so less lactose. Certainly, cheese can still have lactose. Less than milk, but not 0%. The safest bet is to look at the ingredients listed on the packaging, which sometimes (but not always) will list the amount of lactose.
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Who dreams of being a trash collector? Taking trash to the landfill.

That is why your dreams will fail: there are unexciting things that need to be done for society to function.
Ok, I'll bite. What's the first?
My dad would 100% start a transaction like this. For bonus points he might even write the X in ALL CAPS.
I'm not adding an extension from a Google drive link, are you insane?
I have only used datalog in the form of Clojure and Datomic on a consulting job about ten years ago.

I used to be a huge Prolog fan, but I don't think that anyone has paid me to do Prolog develop in over 20 years. My largest Prolog project was porting a prototype AI planning system that I wrote in Common Lisp to ExperProlog. It took about 6 weeks to prototype the system in Common Lisp, and re-writing it in Prolog only took about two weeks.

I noticed last month that someone was offering an online Prolog course using Swi-Prolog. That might be a good place to start.
It goes without saying that there is an exception to every rule, and it's a strawman to assume that I believe otherwise. By "professional job", I should have qualified that I mean careers traditionally dominated by men (e.g. business, lawyers, doctors).
> But this turns the 2FA into 1FA, and that "1" is just an SMS.

Sure, but the fact that an explanation exists is unlikely to be of help if you get your account compromised by this.

> If someone hacks eg linkedin (again), and gets all the passwords, they can just hack literally millions of accounts on other services just because of password reuse. SMS 2FA prevents that very effectively.

Hacking a specific service is much harder than simjacking. Use an alternate method of 2FA (a FIDO2 USB key would be best).
I think on the whole, stackoverflow has vastly improved overall global code quality.

Even if you just limit it to people largely taking solutions wholesale from SO, I still think that it’s a good jumping off point. Of course it’s a mistake to not make any modifications or look deeper than the whatever is in the snippet, but the snippet is often much better than what a noob would come up with.

Also, it’s an opportunity for learning new patterns that you might not have come up with yourself.
> The 2FA craze is overblown, for most applications a random password with length 16 would be completely fine.

Yes, but its very hard to enforce a requirement that a password actually be random; meanwhile, it is very easy to enforce the use of 2FA.
My previous apartment only accepted check and money order. My last job used to do the same for customers, but I was part of an effort to provide a system for card payments so that’s no longer true.
Have mathematicians concluded that an Indian solved the Riemann Hypothesis?
> The intent and origination is not 5G confusion, but rather 5GHz's increased bandwidth due to a lower noise environment in the average user's house

Then why write 5 GHz as “5G”, dropping the unit?
None. Board members are typically already owners, either by being founders or investors. Giving away more equity just to have one more person at the table is counter-productive.

As corporations grow larger and more mature, board members may be compensated, but that is typically cash.
I can't do this. I simply can't imagine that grid in my head fully populated; I have to keep going back to the text. If I concentrate extremely hard, I can kind of keep one or two of the words pictured in my head for a millisecond.
I really hope the term "DuckDuckGo it" or simply just "Duck-it!" catches on!
> But it was daily, and you weren't allowed to tell anyone else. You just didn't respond to any requests for that day.

I'm 100% certain I've worked with people that did this. I never realized they were DR visionaries
These mutations do have a lot of spread outside of China. For example Fig. 1 of this paper (http://www.medgenetics.ru/UserFile/File/Borinskaya%202009%20...) shows a high incidence of ADH1B in the Middle East.

Is it really required that these genes are equally selective everywhere? If the adaptation theory were true, that would depend on how widely available alcohol was, as well as how harmful it is to lose the extra calories from rotting fruit, etc. No particular reason to think it would be equal everywhere.
If they didn't have to even try to persuade the imperfect agent of the people to let them do what they want, they would stop doing what they want on their own?

Smart!
I'll try to give my perspective, though it's mostly expanding on em500's [1] 3rd paragraph. I think you're asking the wrong question about prophet - most users don't care "how good is it?" but instead "is it good enough?", and then "how easy is it to use?"

Prophet solves a broad class of easy problems that a lot of ordinary businesses have: you have several years of basically regular data (sales or page views or store foot traffic) that you know has yearly/weekly/daily (if you have sub-daily data) cycles, and you want to give a reasonable prediction to the business so they can plan for the upcoming week/month/year. And you want to remove the periodic effects so you can see the underlying trends.

Imagine someone, lets call them Bill, who might be called a data scientist, or business analyst or just assistant operations manager, for a medium-large business. Bill has the last 5 years of sales/views/traffic data in the database (anything before that is in a bunch of excel spreadsheets on the share drive), and knows just enough python to be dangerous. Bill can probably explain an R-squared value but is not an expert at statistics by any measure. He wants to fit the data, but has several problems:

1) the weekly trend does not line up with the yearly data, as the year starts on a different weekday.

2) Those damn public holidays, some of them occur on a specific date, some of them on the "first Monday of the month", and some of them seem to change almost randomly year-to-year.

3) The reporting system was down for a couple of weeks in June and Feb last year, and the numbers for the first few years were copied from excel, so sometimes are missing the first or last day of the month.

Prophet comes by default with yearly/weekly seasonality. Prophet comes out-of-the-box with a simple way to import holidays, and even a way to specify your own. Prophet doesn't require any cleaning, or special procedures to deal with missing data. And it is quick and easy to use, and get nice-looking, broadly reasonable graphs out (with the above mentioned, consistent data). And that solves the business problem.

And Bill's probably heard of it because it is (a) popular already, and (b) has Facebook's name attached.

That's my take as to why, even if it is not even close to the most accurate method, Prophet is so broadly popular.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27697274
I had this idea too. Wrote some code to scrape data from my school's badly designed website and it significantly improved my quality of life. Really made me think. What if we had a huge library of scrapers for every single website out there? We could build custom clients and have full control over everything. If people can maintain absurdly huge adblocking databases, surely something like this would also be possible.

Nice to know about Weboob. No idea what the community was like but it's nice to know I'm not insane for thinking about stuff like this.
But is what you learned correct? Anyone can claim to be an expert and put together a lecture. That doesn't mean what they are teaching is correct.
Leveraging the Law of SaaS Gravity
> Hacking a specific service is much harder than simjacking. Use an alternate method of 2FA (a FIDO2 USB key would be best).

If you have someones linkedin email+password, how is it hard to "hack" into their facebook account, if they use the same email+password combo there?