skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An implicit sentiment of the post is how hard "big data jvm" systems are to learn and work with, as an individual developer.

The open source tools of old were all "apt install" and begin. These "ageing modern" big data systems were hacked together on the massive data centres of internet giants and very poorly packaged for use anywhere else. This has created high barriers to entry for would-be junior data engineers.

I support any system, eg., this one, which brings back this ability to scale naturally up from a one-dev-machine prototype.
> I really don't understand all the cynicism around a private space race considering all the potential good it could do.

That line of reasoning is deeply flawed, because we would have got this kind of things in a much cheaper way without doing all the senseless space race (especially the one driven by governments) for absolutely no proper reason or vision. At least now with SpaceX there are tons of actual space-related applications, but NASA had none.
Japanese houses have terrible insulation. If you let all the hot air inside your house of course you'll need aircon.
> The internet is what brought you piracy.

Piracy was brought by microsoft and MPAA. Microsoft had a lot to win and they used piracy to consolidate market share. They never went after people except in some rare cases for publicity.
MPAA made sure that you cannot buy movies. In eastern europe they did not even had distributors but they were screaming bloody murder.
Unlike Ruby Python doesn't have great facilities for writing making implicit APIs like this:

with Table():
header(...)
row(...)

You can do something like this but I'd recommend against it as it involves a lot of magic and has trade-offs which make it an uncommon choice. Instead you'd do something like:

with Table() as table:
table.header(...)
table.row(...)

This follows through to your template API as well. So you'd want to construct an object that represents your template, and have methods on that to add a table. For example:

page = sierra.Page(...)
with page.div(...), page.add_table() as table:
table.header(...)
table.row()

print(page) # __str__() should return the raw HTML response

This simplifies things, and you can use an in-memory StringIO object rather than a file. You can then return this string to flask as a text/html response and avoid Jinja2 entirely.

Also don't use CamelCase, please! It looks very unpythonic.

However you're really trying to create an API for producing a tree of nodes (some of which might logically map to individual tags, some of which might not) which are then serialized to HTML.

I'd recommend looking at how you can use BeautifulSoup for a lot of this. BS4 contains a lot of classes and functions for creating trees of HTML-like nodes, so you could use this rather than a StringIO object and directly writing "<div>" and having to support all of the attributes as method arguments. You could just use "soup.new_tag(element, *kwargs)" and only do something "special" when handling pandas dataframes or other stuff (like ol/ul tags).

Check out the BS4 documentation and methods for tree manipulation here: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/
> currently trying to teach my kid programming

For some reason my kid doesn't like programming robots at all and prefers building interactive worlds (like pokemon etc.). We bought an older version of RPG Maker on Steam for just a few euros. They quickly learned how the event system works (which is very powerful and has state variables etc.).

For more traditional programming, writing a text adventure in python or BASIC also found their interest. Kind of this (I obviously helped with the 'while True' line):

room="kitchen"
while True:
if room=="kitchen":
print("You are in the kitchen. There is a door on the left and ...")
command=input()
if command=="left":
room="bedroom"
...
elif room=="bedroom":
...
There needn't even be a confounding variable, the direction of causation may simply be reversed: not personality traits -> superager, but superager -> personality traits.

Sounds quite plausible to me that having a good memory at old age leads to a more active and engaged lifestyle leading to happy people that appear less neurotic and more extrovert.
If time is infinite, it means that everything *must* already have happened *or* can be assumed to have happened, including game over and game restart.
In those days?

Right now it's even easier. You don't even have to crack it, just select "I'll do this later" when you have to fill in your license code.
I was working out how to put a p2p wifi antenna on the local 800 year old church just last week as part of a modernisation
What the article doesn't mention: Julia Reda, who "unearthed" the report, was an MEP for the Pirate Party at the time. She left the party in 2019 to protest against the nomination of a candidate who was under investigation for sexual harassment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Reda).
This is such a weird and uninformed take. For one thing, nobody discussing it is believing anything from Donald Trump or Joe Rogan. Neither have anything to do with the discussion at all. Just like the lab leak hypothesis - which Bret was also a year early on, while folks like you were still dismissing it out of hand because of some error in your own perception that this investigation was related to Trump. Also, Weinstein is in fact a doctor and a scientist, and so was his guest, Robert Malone, who invented mRNA vaccination. And Bret has been correct far more than Fauci, and earlier than Fauci, if we are keeping score.
> filled with mud

As I understood there was mud layer that prevented the divers to navigate near the bottom (no way to tie a string as to anchor point to not get lost in zero visibility, no way to feel where the bottom is, etc.). But not so much mud that only the narrow passage was left.

> And as said in the beginning of the interview, they feared the kids would be dead any day

They would be dead if they did not find them on the last day, as it was considered to stop the search. Once the kids were found and supplied with food they had enough time to plan, prepare, rehease, re-check and execute the rescue.
Deep learning app scans Lego bricks to find out what you can build
This is important to be aware of, because with every browser extension you install, you are trusting one more person to continuously and forever say "no" to being offered essentially free money.
If you look for waste all you see is waste.
Not sure. Probably quality? The thing with majlis is that they’re always full of dust and a nightmare for allergic people, so perhaps the roche bobois are cleaner also?
I feel exactly the opposite way. The space used to be an area where only the governments, the most tyrannical, beurocratic and evil entities on the planet, prevailed; now it's increasingly free and open to private enterprise. I just can't fathom how one could sympathize with NASA that's kept afloat with taxes, and not with people who fund it out of their own pocket and thrive for it to become profitable.
Not a lot. Notably, phase 3 trials of the various covid vaccines generally show that they work, and regulators have been reluctant to approve vaccines that appear to only marginally work (in fact, regulators have gotten stricter about this; in 2020 there was the general expectation that a vaccine that was 50% effective would work, but in practice a number of candidates hitting that sort of level have not gone forward, because the alternatives are so much more effective).
I swear by push ups for this purpose.
I don't know him personally, but Igor Carron, the CEO, is legit. See, e.g., his well known compressive sensing blog [1].

1. https://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com
This is great, and this also means that it's possible to artificially create an environment of scarcity to the plants, which apparently is great for our longevity, like David Sinclair pointed out [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmRzeD4_41M&t=314s
Are there open-source data sets of cdr's available?
The real story is a ton of supermarkets have special chicken menus on Christmas.
Thanks. That's great feedback. I updated the post.
Convenient "return" policies also make buying easier. I have frequently bought things both on Steam and for my Kindle only to try them out. Fifteen minutes later I know whether to keep or "return" them.

I would never have made many of my purchases without that option.
I do not know about apple lossless but amazon has "up to". "Up to" is not lossles. It only _could_ be. There is no indication what codec they use. So paying more for something "up to" makes no sense.
How is nuclear a good complementary source to renewables? You complement renewables with a source of flexibility, not another source of inflexibility.
Beta amyloids plays a major role in Alzeihmer, there is a drug that delay Alzeihmer by 66% by doing just that. It's cringe that people that have no expertise in Alzeihmer just regurgitate the refuted claim that beta amyloids are debunked.
If the accusation is ludicrous enough, the "artistic license" defense can work. Alex Jones has used it. Tucker Carlson has used it. Rachel Maddow has used it. There's a difference between serious factual reporting and shitposting on Twitter. The fact that some readers might not be able to distinguish the two may be disturbing, but it should not guide jurisdiction.
And my experience is 100% contrary. All my schoolmates were playing pirated games (there were no others in Russia, even if it's difficult for you to imagine that). But as soon as Steam appeared, we've switched to Steam and started buying games legally. I own 292 purchased games in Steam (I've just launched Steam to check this number), around 15 in Origin, 5 in GOG and around 10 bought in Epic.
People: no need to downvote someone for asking a question.
I tell people to not install browser extensions except for a tiny set of anti-track and and anti-ad extensions such as decentraleyes and ublock origin.

Anyone remember the AOL days when you’d visit your uncle and he’d have more space taken up by toolbars than content? Don’t let it happen to you!
In hindsight, it seems like the fight against piracy, was really an effort to make it harder to access certain types of information and have people funneled to certain sources.

The fact that it used to be easy to access all kinds of useful data, and now you can't isn't an accident, The Internet is still the same, the governance around it isn't.

People believe they have access to free thought, speech and completely objective information. Really though, your world view became limited, bias, censored, crafted and curated.

People who truly hold alternative views are often banned from the few places left Joe Sixpack would try find important, unbiased, real (sometimes controversial) information.

The Internet was real freedom for a brief while, and it was fucking great!
Yay let's decincentivise research for cures to neurodegeneration! Please people, see the bigger picture..
One can argue about why the decline wasn't as fast, but the the comment I replied to misrepresented the development and then tried to blame Islam and Egyptian culture while pointing to muslim Bangladesh as a comparison, without addressing how Islam is relevant as a cause in Egypt but not Bangladesh. It's not a good starting point for discussing why. It gets worse when considering that had it not been for the few years of reversal a decade ago, Egypt would have been on track to similar levels as Bangladesh.

Which means that any serious attempt at addressing why would have focused on the causes of that reversal rather than attempt at blaming a culture that did not prevent several decades of continuous drops.

> After all, with the concentration of people in the Nile delta, everyone had to be aware of the fact that their country is becoming dangerously overcrowded by 1990 at least. Possibly sooner.

The only place where attempting to address population growth by government intervention appears to have worked at scale is China, backed by decades of campaigning and authoritarian government intervention. We simply don't know of any effective non-authoritarian method of having large-scale impact on population growth short of economic development.

So this is largely moot. Yes, people have known for a long time, but have not had means to do much about it.
The sister of my grandmother is like this. Travelled the world, stuck in San Francisco at some time, now 97 years old. She is connected via tablet, computer, smartphone, and we discuss world politics every week. She frequently changes her point of view based on new information, which is incredible to me. She is able to reflect, question herself and others and it is entirely beyond me how her brain can work like this with her age.
I just had a look at the list, and I feel that looking at 'dams' is pretty misleading. The point is to look at capacity, no? I mean, nobody in their right mind cares if somebody builds a dam that has a capacity of half a cubic kilometer.

So it's a weird dialogue: on the one hand, the only relevant dam, capacity-wise, is the GERD. On the other, there are patently plenty of other damns in the Nile river basin.

(Obviously, anybody who is more aware of the issues here should correct me - my feeling is that Ethiopia and Egypt are being weirdly bellicose over an issue that is totally solvable to mutual satisfaction.)
Elon Musk reserves ticket for Virgin Galactic flight
Giving your all for the next generation is inspiring. Minimum economic stability is so important, as is being healthy and able to enjoy life with others. Don't really know what to say, except I hope that over time you're able to stick to the known foundations of body and mental health (that I know of): good sleep, aerobic exercise, healthy diet, fulfilling relationships.
I've read the whole study.

TLDR: Correlation, not causation.

Basically, they found that Customer A spent $100 on games, and consumed 50 units worth of Piracy.

But Customer B spent only $30 on games, and consumed 10 units of piracy.

They then concluded that piracy lead to more consumption.

The obvious rebuttals are:

1. More voracious consumers of games will probably buy more and pirate more anyway

2. It sucks if you are one of the pirated games (eg. singleplayer, non-DRM), who loses out from this equation

3. Its great if you're eg. Fortnite or Steam, where pirated games serve as the enticement to join the ecosystem, and when customers do eventually spend, it comes to you given your huge size.
The BBB's from 1986 didn't bring piracy to this person in the 2000's. Internet did.
I installed solar myself last year. I was able to buy 320Wp panels for 160€. Last week I bought some for my parents and they were 370Wp@119€.

The frustration quickly lessens when you think that prices 10years ago were nearly 5-fold
Writing an autobiography.
But they did brake laws. And even when they could not find anything they could have found somebody who was "raped". /s
They are in the ad business. They're just not as successful as Google. For example they sell ads for App Store searches. They used to run an ad network called iAd for use in iOS apps but it just wasn't successful so it was discontinued.

Apple makes money on devices, but they also make boatloads on selling apps, subs and micro transactions in the App Store such that they have incentives to keep that as closed as possible to keep consumers going through them and only them for mobile software needs.
Yeah. To be fair. The people who pirate were likely never going to buy it in the first place.

Like FIFA games. I've never bought one even though Ive been playing for years. But I grew up with no money to buy them amd when I did have the money, the game was all about microtransactions. So its still a no.
Hydrogen is highly explosive at almost all concentrations in air, extremely easy to ignite, and leaks through most widely-used materials. It's much worse in all these aspects than common fuels like gasoline, LPG, natural gas, etc.
Powering a whole house at night takes a lot of batteries. There's not enough battery production on Earth to even accommodate that.

My car has enough capacity that it could easily do it . . .
I was going to reminisce about a print catalogue that we had in Australia when I was a kid, when I realised that it actually still exists, possibly even still in print form?

https://www.innovations.com.au

Lots of equally hilarious garbage in here. I used to love it when I was young. My grandma would get them delivered in the post.
Get prescribed Adderall
You're right, its not dropping: its rising

Egypt fertility rate 2006: 3.01

2018: 3.28

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...

Contrasted against neighbours Jordan and Saudi Arabia which show much more consistent declines and are now both down to aobout 2.3.
> No one would expect it to be included in Netflix subscriptions

Wasn't a large reaction to disney doing this during the pandemic "I already paid for the service why should I pay again"?
Your price is good.

15kW will produce ~450MWh in 20 years (1500 hours of sun per year, varies between countries).

20k$/450MWh is 4cts/kWh which is pretty good IMHO
I don't use Facebook anymore, but in the past... I guess?

At a minimum, you could unfollow people/pages that were too low signal:noise to be worthwhile, and mute the ones that you wanted to follow but not here from. Crude, but easy way to ditch a lot of the noise.

But people didn't really use those basic tools. They just followed... everything... didn't mute the annoying family they were obliged to friend, and complained when their feed sucked.

It's hard for me to imagine Facebook et. al. providing useful controls that people will actually use that doesn't reduce down to "give us some signal and our AI will magically figure out the right thing". And basically that's the extreme version of what they have now.
there is also the DOT language for schematics from AT&T
It's great if you have a steep hill nearby. Otherwise it can be very expensive to construct.
I could give up Apple completely, except for their phones, and the Ipad.

I will probally live long enough to see a better phone than Apple.

It's the Ipad that companies need to jump on. There just isn't any real competition. The head of Amazon's fire devices shouid be fired immediately. They get it wrong in every aspect, with every new devise.

(I am glad Apple takes security very serious, and kicks out questionable apps. I could care less they take 30% for the right to get on their platform. That piece if mind is worth paying more.)
It won't work as in it won't stop climate change. If one area stops emissions (especially an already low emissions area like European concrete) it doesn't make much difference overall.
It's closer to 75/dollar right now!
PUBG Mobile New Update to Feature Elon Musk’s Tesla Elements
Dancing into the Job Market
Pretty scary thing here for me is that basically all the lessons from 1910 to 1950 are being forgotten. No political faction is ever really extinguished - the same ideas gain or lose power over time. There is always ongoing balancing between liberty and authority, the power of the individual vs. power of the army vs. power of the community.

But based on the generally forward motion of time, there aren't going to be many enough people floating around who can sensibly identify which brands of ideology are the dangerous ones.

As Orwell quite eloquently identified - there are some ideas hiding in socialism that are legitimately dangerous if they become ascendant. They were so thoroughly crushed through the latter part of the 20th century I'm not sure the body politic can recognise them any more.

The acquiescence of basically everyone to the building digital security state is also alarming.
AFAIK post-1989 Iran had a huge drop in fertility coupled with government intervention:

" The decline was slow until the government population policy was reversed and a new family planning program was officially inaugurated in December 1989. Total fertility rate fell sharply after 1989, dropping from 5.5 in 1988 to below 2.8 in 1996, more than a 50 per cent decline in 6 years. The own-children estimates of fertility for Iran based on the 2000 Iran Demographic and Health Survey show that the TFR has declined further and reached replacement level (2.26) during the period 1998-2000. The figure for the year 2000 is 2.17."

Source: https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.deve...
I'm close to 60, now around 50 I noticed things were going south and I wasn't to happy about it. So I did some research and made lifestyle changes - nothing startling, ate well and started an exercise program. Now I feel like I'm 40 again.

I have some friends who I've known since high school, now some have health issues and its how they respond seems to make a difference. Some just take the pills the doctor gives them and accept the ageing process and complain about things. Others, like myself, fight tooth and nail to do whatever they can. Of course you can only fight so much - the genetic hand you're dealt, but, I believe your attitude to ageing is really a factor - if you accept it, or fight it. Which sort of aligns with the personality traits they observed. You're only as old as you feel as the saying goes.

I know one lady for example who has had two cancers and was forced to use a walker for a while but is going again, whereas her husband was showing me all the pills he takes - due to being overweight and eating poorly. He has accepted his fate, she has fought against it.
You're making the implicit assumption that they would've bought the thing either way, just chose not to because they could get it for free, which might not be the case.
Hey, speak for yourself. I've been speaking out against such practices for years in the same way that I'm speaking out against Copilot.

If you use "but there are other horrible things!" as a justification to trivialize one horrible thing, what do you think the outcome is when that strategy is applied to the world at large? Bingo, "nothing matters" and no consequences ever follow malicious behaviour, because there's always something else that's also bad.

Don't do this.
Umm, heard of long covid? My neighbor has had it for a year. Don't want my kids to get it...
In the 90s and early 00s, the pirated software was like weed. If police didn't find anything on you, they'll get your computer and charge you with piracy. That time everyone had something, Windows or Norton Commander etc. I read about people having counted each file as a separate charge, to make them look like big fish. There were instances they counted expired trials too...
Autopilot already suggested that it could steer your car without any user behind the wheel (it did not). Now there is a new term that suggests something even better, because it is "Full".

Most people assume that because something is easy for them, it should be easy for computers as well. It is not. You are in possession of hardware that took ages to develop (the process is called evolution) and it is not at all easy to mimic that in computers.