skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so interesting. I'm an avid CSGO player for decades, and watching the cat and mouse battle between cheat creators and Valve has been fascinating. In the last few years, Valve has been pushing for ML-centric approach of cheat detection (vs more intrusive client-side solutions that competitors like Valorant have). And the community feels negatively about that because it hasn't been so effective in the short term. But now after reading this, I understand why. The only way to combat ML-cheats, is with ML detection..
So since the late stone age? When you understand "standard" as an agreed upon common practice, that is. Without that we wont have the pyramids (any of those regardless of continent).
Again I'm not sure where you got that, I have not heard any Red Hat or Fedora developers say that's the focus. In fact if you follow GNOME development, there are various other directions that people are pulling in. It might be the case coincidentally for some things, but that could be yet another one of those happy afterthoughts.
My issue is that your example doesn’t actually support the thesis (see my previous post). So if you can’t produce an example that supports your thesis then it’s going to be hard to persuade just about anyone.
The political awakening of Melinda French Gates
Do you actually need any of both? I mean, just publish your app, make it free, wait a couple of months to see if it actually gets traction and IF so, then sure go for an LLC or Corp or whatever. Otherwise why all the hassle on an app you don't know yet if it's going to be successful or not?
As your 2nd. reference shows, there are many objective facts to base a decision on, but drawing any particular line ultimately has an irreducible arbitrary element.

Also, when defining spaceflight, one could add an orbital velocity requirement - after all, a falling brick is not normally considered to be flying (even the phrase 'flying debris' implies some lateral motion.)

What counts is being able to persuade other people. It looks like the 80km faction is succeeding with the FAI.
I don't know, talking to anyone who went bankrupt because of medical bills would stamp a bigger impression but oh well, it's a circlejerk at this point in my opinion. Everyone keeps pointing at the fruits while ignoring the root of the problem.
If you try reading an Excel file via SSIS you are out of luck. You can't turn of the auto guessing feature.
The "Is Zelda an RPG?" hell threads come to mind.
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/ohk6b7/r_r...
Exactly. I would be okay with having only one child if everyone else did the same globally. But there's no point whatsoever if my unborn children will be just replaced by migrants from some society/culture where people have a lot of children, making room for more births in their country of origin.
From what I see, they charge you for hosting if you don't do it yourself. $4/mo for a blog. It seems that you can have themes and newsletters and other stuff that are not available in the free version. I'm still looking at what the self-hosted version can do.
An Open Letter to Those Who Hate and Want to Destroy the World
The problem there is just technological: the problem with movies and video was the unavailability of good enough codecs/large enough media+bandwidth. Otherwise BBS would have been a hell of a party for those too.

For software my local BBSs, very very far from any rich country, somehow managed to get every major software release a few days before launch day. Yes, before. It was all one huge global network already, just a bit asynchronous.
I wouldn't be so fast in claiming that the "Nationalist" faction was worse:

- Bombing of Cabra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Cabra

- Sinking of SS Castillo de Olite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Castillo_de_Olite

- Paracuellos Massacress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracuellos_massacres

Edit: However, fighting because of what faction was worse in a conflict that ended more than 80 years ago is nonsense. This comment was made only to remind all that both factions made war crimes.

Franco supporters' oppression aginst the losers side ("Republicans" and Communists) was worse after the war, from what I know.
Yeah I use Doom as well, but I've bogged it down with too many extensions and not enough time spent trying to load it smartly.

Running it as a systmed service helps (to avoid starting up a new instance vs. connecting to the service).
Binary files in Pijul (mathematically sound version control system)
I have always been fascinated by our ability to make these sorts of tradeoffs, but I also worry that making this tradeoff in the first place is an intermediate compromise taken in favor of a more fundamental rework of a problem space.

If you find yourself rolling dice to figure out if something is in a set or not, you may want to step back and look at how you track membership and identity things.

Determinism (testability) is such a wonderful thing. Sure, you can make these filters appear deterministic in controlled setting (i.e. a recorded log of system inputs), but there's no way you could tell me how the execution would flow in a real world situation with live data wherein you cannot anticipate future events.
Because in Excel 1900 is a leap year.
Yeah I was thinking of this the other day with my YouTube usage. Me (and most I know in my generation) open any YT video with content we don't want marketed towards us in a private tab. Had someone comment on it when they were looking over my should the other day - and I realized that I just do it instinctively these days. Not even sure when I started or if it was a conscious decision... my generation just grew up with these algos and learned how to play them i guess
I had to pay retail prices for some care that insurance didn't cover. Sucked.
UTC is the successor of GMT, there's no difference other than the name.
"little known"
The reason that we use R or Python or any programming language over applications is integration, capacity, performance or control of process. When I'm asked to replace a spreadsheet it is usually based on the sheet being to large to be performant or it is very buggy, and can't be relied on. I.e. CFO got crushed in a meeting because of a bad excel/googel sheets formula. Lately, I've been thinking about what the "Rust of spreadsheets" would be like... It's really a big problem now.
The article is a bit one sided. I think it ought to acknowledge the good things about excel. For example it lets you more directly interact with the data and see intermediate results.
Price transparency will only help by putting pressure on providers for PR purposes, but it will not cause free market dynamics because much of the health care sector is not a real market. Take stitches, who would actually shop around before having the stitches done? You would go to your usual hospital and pay whatever the price ends up being. All urgent care is not a market from the point of the patient, because there is no real opportunity to choose providers. Insurers have to follow the patient or be blamed for not supporting out of network care, so insurers have little market shaping power either.
From what I learnt when my 90 y.o. grandma was slowly approaching her death, getting to the toilet and wiping afterwards are two significant challenges for someone with bad arthritis. So that drone better be rather versatile - or our medicine a lot better in prevention and treatment of arthritis.

There is some evidence that stem cells can alleviate arthritis, so we may yet benefit from better treatments thereof.
The tidyverse packages are pretty great that is true, in particular dplyr was useful. I don't want to sound like I'm just someone against R for the sake of it. There were things I liked, but I just walked away from the project uncertain what the benefit was in using R. There's a solid chance i'm wrong.
There isn't a direct way to import from WordPress so far, but there is an open API [0] you could use to move your blog. That's the tack we took for our Hugo import tool [1]: just taking posts from a previous blog, parsing out the metadata, and publishing via the API. For WordPress, you'd also just want to get the posts converted to Markdown for the best experience in WF.

As for exporting your content, yes you can do that at any time. Everything is downloadable as JSON, CSV, or a zipped archive of plain text files.

[0] https://developers.write.as/docs/api/

[1] https://github.com/writefreely/hugo-importer
We'll reword it, so that it's more clear what we do. We definitely don't want to mislead people. On the contrary!
It's weird how, when you read the study, or even the first concrete sentence they say about it, it actually says something very, very different

> It concluded that one specific category, blockbuster movies, is negatively impacted by piracy, with ten downloads leading to about four fewer cinema visits. Overall, that reduced sales for certain films by about 4.4 percent on average.
AI Will Never Be What You Think
That's not my experience. I was out of state and needed medical attention. I was on Medicaid. Urgent Care straight up wouldn't accept my out-of-state Medicaid plan and suggested I go to ER. They too didn't accept out-of-state Medicaid, listed me as having no insurance, and billed me full-price for the some of the services. There was no discount for paying on the spot. I paid for those initial services and got more bills from the doctor and other departments. They never accepted my out-of-state Medicaid but eventually "gave me a discount." I paid some of it myself but told them if they wanted the rest to bill Medicaid.s
Also, if you need to do something (even once) and have to know how you did it three months later, write a script.
Code size, if it causes iTLB misses, is a problem. If a program has lots of hot code sparsely distributed that’s an opportunity for optimization. On the other hand I expect Facebook to have a handle on this issue, in light of their BOLT and general maturity of their tool chain.
I love their cameras but the app is so abysmal. Whenever I connect over vpn to access the cams remotely it goes effectively into a boot loop. I hate it. I keep reporting the crashes on android but no updates come.
US hospitals operate on 2-5% margin on average? https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/tumultuous-yea...

according to this some manage >15% and profits are best ever https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlaszewski2/2020/02/05/pro...
Housing prices weren't included
That’s a switch though, not a router OP is building. And I doubt this heavy duty thing uses less power than OPs setup (and we’re taking in a thread complaining about power usage)
Yeah most of the reasons explained in the article are too abstract for a beginner to understand. Visibility for example. If Excel is doing what the user needs, they might naturally question why they need to see under the hood. It might even be a positive that you get less visibility with it. Excel is exposing a smaller surface for the user to understand. Once you have a more complex task those guardrails are going to feel constraining, but until then Excel works well enough.
> It is easy to say educate women but when there are so many women less resource/finance it is hard to scale.

There are many problems in life that are hard. The difficulty level of the problem can not be used an excuse. You can decide to avoid tackling hard problems and let someone else take care of it if it's "too hard".

> I think this is correct way to handle population. India is largely overpopulated anyway. And there is constant pressure on resource.

What number would make India "not so populated"? How do you come up with this number?
In my case, there was no discount.
Bitcoin as a Hyperobject
The Hook Up youtube channel has a number of review videos of different types of cameras in different price ranges with lots of examples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MoynorQ3y0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZJX8CKR5KI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGRgZWb5zx0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXD82epDPE4
Are they actually going into space? I have read that they fly up to an altitude of 80 km. Doesn't space first start at 100 km?
It doesn't seem that the self-hosted version has any restrictions. And it doesn't seem hard to setup either. Optional mysql, reverse proxy or just give it the certificates and you're ready.
Having countries with more unemployment, worse vaccination rates, or higher house prices doesn't make the situation "good".

You are cherry picking statistics to say that Spain is better than other countries. Being better off than Afghanistan doesn't make you a great country.

The thing is that the self-called Spanish left has disappointed its voters and blamed every problem on Franco and male sexism.
I think the relationship between unions and a company are more complicated than voting on issues and automated strikes when the company doesn't agree to the vote.

Union leadership can certainly become overly bloated and disconnected from it's members, but I don't think it's trivial or currently possible to replace all centralized union management with an app. It would be possible to use an app for union leadership to poll workers more easily to keep a better & more current watch on their needs and problems.
Sure, classic CGI is one process per request, but even on php-fpm or apache prefork/mod_php each process will only work for a given maximum number of requests, thus refreshing periodicaly. Also, if any of these workers is killed (say, by the OOM-killer), none of the concurrent requests will be affected. Also, the overhead of parsing is almost zero when you have the opcache extension loaded.

I'm not a huge fan of the language, but the PHP runtime wins me by its simplicity and robustness. I work daily on a codebase that has hundreds of millions of page hits per day and 100k QPS during peak hours running on LAMP with a very few servers. We face challenges like everyone else does, but we never had outages because of the languange/runtime.
It is engineering. We do all the same things engineers in other fields do. It’s a recognized discipline by many licensing organizations around the world. It’s engineering and there’s no need to wring our hands about it.
I fear catastrophe but at the same time the human species has been reduced to near extinction before.

We have to innovate and embrace technology otherwise other humans will do it and make our bloodlines extinct. It just sucks that doing so carries so much tail end risk and future generations have to settle that debt.

It’s so hard to predict the future though. What if what we really need is more humans to increase the probability of solving the problems that are causing the climate to change.
We can prolong life of small concrete structures if no rebar is used. Without rebar, concrete cannot tolerate high loads, but its lifespan is dramatically increased, from a few decades to potentially millennia. It is, after all, a kind of artificial stone.

Concrete without rebar can be used for construction of small buildings and those would last a long, long time. Much longer than anything made of timber. A 20-generation home of sorts. Remember that once the timber rots away or is burnt, the trapped carbon gets released again.
If you have zip codes, don't store those in a numeric type (doesn't matter if it's Excel, R, or any other system)

Zip codes aren't numbers, they are strings that happen to contain only numeric characters
R and Excel are not the only alternatives. There are also visual, node-based data transformation tools such as Easy Data Transform, Knime and Alteryx. They can do 95% of what R can do, but are much easier to get started with.
The trick is to claim being homeless.
Combining the binary size with the compressed data size is fairly typical when measuring compression schemes. Otherwise you end up in situations where people game benchmarks.

E.g., from [0]:

Compressors are ranked by the compressed size of enwik9 (109 bytes) plus the size of a zip archive containing the decompresser.

[0] http://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html
Instagram is a closed source, proprietary app developed by a megacorp. Freedom has nothing to do with anything on that app. Or so I'm told...
One thing that helps keep the brain fresh: Meeting and talking to younger people. And intelligent people. Former‘ll keep you mentally fresh, latter will challenge your thinking.
Oh, for sure there are permanent copies, you can go to your profile to find them. But I actually kind of like that too, I like to be able to privately look back through my old memories. Just don’t want a permanent public record.
It's almost like academics are normal people who participate in the world, and not monks in an ivory tower like we so often read here!
The javascript is used mostly to drive the shell GUI, it shouldn't be taking seconds off all your mouse clicks. If there is really bad slowness, you should consider reporting that as a bug, it may not be the javascript that's at fault. The performance shouldn't be any worse than a typical lightweight web app running in firefox. That is of course if you ever end up using GNOME again for whatever reason.

I don't understand why you have to wonder what it's doing, the javascript is all self-contained and hosted locally. It's not using npm or anything like that. And the extensions are pretty much the same as any other app you use that supports plugins.
Can confirm. When I started working in academia, we built very sophisticated Excel models. But every new project would ask form ever more sophisticated sheets and workarounds. Once the calculations took more than a few minutes, I moved on to macros. But at that point I realized that I am using Excel as nothing more than a data container. That finally pushed me to learn Python and I felt never more liberated. Whenever I supervise PhD students now, I push them hard to learn programming early on. I am pretty sure never has any one of them had regret for following my advice. It simply adds a few degrees of freedom to their work.
Well, in Portugal it is illegal to call yourself Software Engineer like on US after 6 month US codecamps.

It is a professional title and while it isn't usually validated, thus only those that sign projects with legal liabilities do make the final exam, every single university in the country is only allowed to have certified engineering degrees.

I am aware of similar practices in other countries as well.
Williamhill.com Scam or Legit?
Fun with display specs - the 2012 Galaxy Note:

5.3", 800x1280

The 2021 Galaxy Note 20 Ultra:

6.9", 1440x3088

But note that the original Note is 83mm wide, while the 20 Ultra is only 77mm.
WAIT. All these words on SO and here have been written because people don't know to change the column type from "General" to "Text"?
If we could reforest Sahara, a lot of CO2 would be trapped in that new forest. Probably enough of it not to worry about climate change for a long time.

Of course, reforesting Sahara is a tall order. Even Israelis, who are arguably very good in reforesting semiarid regions, only have limited experience in this regard.
> You write plain, simple, procedural code, no threading or any other cleverness needed

Using sockets in a synchronous fashion is one way to block for an indefinite period of time. Once a TCP connection is established, there are failure modes where nothing will notify you that the connection has been lost until you try to write(), and even then after minutes in the worst case. Using sockets without timeouts is nuts. The BSD sockets API doesn't give you timeouts.

>I wasted several months with the wrong approaches on Windows first. I used WinSock2 with IOCP (asynchronous completion ports)

If you'd used Boost ASIO you'd have gotten Windows IOCP under the covers for free.

I honestly don't see an argument here. Defaulting to these low level primitive APIs is an act of hubris. Boost has HTTP, TLS and Websockets as well, all under the same async I/o model. Even HTTP/2 is available under asio via nghttp2
The German system is fun, because while we call one part "public" (rather gesetzlich in German, which describes it much better) and private. Thing is, even the public (gesetzlich) part is run by private companies, they just have to offer a stanrdadized, regulated product at a set and regulated cost, they can offer additional services on top, they can even charge a couple of bucks more. They cannot decline anyone so (exept fringe cases like freelance artists for example, or others with their own profesion-based models) or exclude prexisting condition. Private providers can do that, that's why it is potentially cheaper when being young, but can be quite costsly when people get older. Which is the reason why I always stayed in the public model, less hassle overall.
To be fair i think a lot of the anxiety and heart racing issues come from the way the weed was grown (and not washed properly after fertilizing). CBD seems to lessen this issues. As far as I can tell well grown THC heavy cannabis also never gave me negative effects by itself.
I still think it was inaccuracy. Once I was bored enough to dig through all the ad settings. For those who don't know, there's a section called "interest settings" that's buried inside of "category settings" in ad preferences. "Interest settings" has a list of interests Facebook has generated based on your activity.

My list contained things like "Calvinism", "angels", "church growth strategies", "sermon topics", "contemporary Christian music", "Southern Baptist Convention", etc. Based on this list, a Baptist church which embraced Calvinism might think I would be a huge fan.

I've never once interacted with a FB post which talked about these things positively. Only from the critical groups. But the algorithms aren't sensitive enough to pick that up. Had the interests listed "News about Southern Baptist Convention" or "Critiques about SBC", then that would have been accurate. But simply listing "Southern Baptist Convention" mis-labels me as being positively interested in the subject and their churches. Same goes for the other topics. While the list is more or less neutral, it implies positive interest.

At any rate, FB gives you the option to delete these things from your interests list. I did so. Religious ads went away for a little while. They came back as soon as I interacted with one of my critical groups. Apparently, FB is keeping a shadow list of interests I cannot edit. Which is a shame. They should listen to me. I occasionally click the ads when they're nothing but Raspberry Pi accessories or art books.
There was a failed coup by the PSOE and left-leaning political groups in 1934: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_1934

The Second Spanish Republic was a failed try to make a modern country whithoug having some kind of agreement between different political parties. All political parties were extremely polarized, the first coup failed (1934), and the second one (1936) succeeded.

The civil war started 40 years of iron-fist totalitarian right-leaning regime (allied to USA). Fortunately it's been 50 years since that ended, although some politicians (soem in PSOE and almost all in Podemos) like to bring the topic up again, and again, and again... Only for divisive reasons and electoral motives.
Stream "live" for 10 minutes now with just a static image. Definitely should take some things from SpaceX's book, re: making a dynamic "We'll be live soon" screen.

Edit: Youtube stream is properly live now. 12 minutes of "dead air".
You can absolutely make hi-color images which are close to visually indistinguishable from the 24 bit originals, by using a good dither matrix. GdkRgb did this well over 20 years ago, back when "CRT" meant a display technology, and the fuzziness made the dither patterns melt.

If you were doing it really carefully, you'd use a corrective gamma function, as dithering in a nonlinear colorspace is not an identity transfer function. Alternatively, you can do error diffusion in a linear space. But at 5 bits, the effect is fairly subtle.
My school library had maybe 3 foot shelves dedicated to scifi/fantasy.

Today I can buy the most obscure books I want on Amazon.

Maybe that is why we have more taxonomies now.