skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if the snarky replies to you have actually read the PDF -- some of the EGREGIOUS grammatical errors should've at the very least set someone's spidey senses tingling about the legitimacy of the takedown notice (or, "Website Take Down", in its own words).

Some choice selections (with my comments in parentheses) :

> (The whole section under "Misusing Reddit's API" is clearly written by someone for whom English is not a first language.)

> Breaking Redditquette (Redditquette?)

> You must "Take Down Redditsave.com and its services" within 3-4 days otherwise- We are
going to file a lawsuit under trademark infringement US law U.S.C. § 1063 section. (The totally random quoting and capitalisation doesn't make sense)

> As Redditsave.com misused the Media API and costs Bandwidth of Reddit servers, we need a "Compensation Penalty" of 1,000,000 or 1 Million American Dollars. (The totally random quoting and capitalisation doesn't make sense, and legalese wouldn't call it "American Dollars" imho)

> If you failed to pay the compensation will face strict verdict from USA Jurist section. (Gibberish)

> Then, We hardly advised to takedown the mentioned services also. (Gibberish)

In addition, I don't quite know how the bot works, but Reddit don't really obfuscate their video URLs (or use a "rolling cipher") -- it's a plain set of .mp4 links that you can access from looking at network requests in your web dev console. But even after that, you can just guess the mp4's URL from the "v.reddit.com" URL. Give it a go -- go to something like https://v.redd.it/wr3u5cij3la71, then try various bitrate combinations: https://v.redd.it/wr3u5cij3la71/DASH_720.mp4, https://v.redd.it/wr3u5cij3la71/DASH_480.mp4, https://v.redd.it/wr3u5cij3la71/DASH_240.mp4

SaveVideo is not open sourced I believe, but I'd guess they look at the video page, get the various bitrates from the settings (or just cycle through the limited options and see what doesn't 403/404), and just direct-link to those URLs. With this knowledge, the following charge in the PDF should've tipped them off as well.

> To our knowledge, the URLs indicated provide access to a service (and/or software) that circumvents Reddit's rolling cipher, a technical protection measure, that protects our members’ works on Reddit from unauthorized copying/downloading.
Tell that to my old colleague in Brazil, dead at 38 from COVID. Or to one of my first co-workers, back in 2005, dead last year at 45.

None of them obese, the 45 years old guy was running half-marathons.

Please, don't say this kind of shit, it hurts people like me who don't fit your fake narrative for no good reason.
It is quite amusing that the old Imperial system of using fractions everywhere is actually more compatible with binary computers (provided the denominators are a power of 2)
Say “the Islamic regime” a few more times, I don’t think everyone got the subtext
That was in 1988, quite a lot has happened since then. In the aftermath of it, Gaddafi was cowed and sanctioned. Libya became less far provocative and accepted blame for the incident. By the mid-00s, it seemed like the demise or reform of oppressive regimes like Libya was inevitable. America took Libya, still under Gaddafi, off it's list of state sponsors of terror. Gaddafi's reputation never really recovered though, and that reputation probably played a role in his eventual death (nobody cared to save him.) It seemed as though other leaders of repressive regimes were laying low, hoping the same wouldn't happen to them.

What we are seeing now seems like a return to form. Obviously all of this falls well short of the political violence seen in the 20th century. That's not an interesting observation. By that standard, literally everything after WWII has been a huge nothing-burger. That shouldn't stop us from observing worrying trends in the present.
The Japanese were fanatical and vowed to fight to the very end. There is also the story where they found a couple of Japanese soldiers who didn’t realize the war ended and maintained their post for several years after the surrender. Who knows how long a ‘bit longer’ would be. And a land invasion would have been devastatingly long drawn out conflict.
I. Will. Not. Drink. My vegetables. Will not.

Sure, come at me that tomatoes are a fruit. Still not drinking them.
I'm glad we're finally humanizing the metaphorical David in the online privacy debate. The guy who built his business on [checks notes] tracking your online behavior.

Where would we be if not for this stick-it-to-em person, who wants to defend his life's work of fingerprinting our web browsing to assist in targeted advertising?
here you go https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
I feel a bit differently about it. Learning Rust is a longer process, but after it's done, it can do everything better than Go (faster, safer, less code). It can also do things that Go cannot.

People choose Go because they are incapable of making that initial investment. Maybe they know too little and can't wrap their head around the necessary concepts (a CS curricilum should teach one everything that's necessary though), or they know too much and they don't want to learn new things anymore.

I see these programmers as vunerable and confused, and easy to take advantage of. They need something they can feel comfortable and proficient in, and Go provides that. Unfortunately Go is also tied to one corporation and its internal politics.

And so the quality of life od these poor souls is being sacrificed because of someone's strongheaded opinions within their organization. The tragedy is that the Go community is prone to take the words of the Go team as the words of God. And they adapt their mindset to match. So they take on the arguments of the Go developers, and start using them, not realizing that in reality they're arguing against themselves, their comfort and productivity.

Generics, algebraic data types, type inference for lambdas, namespaces, immutability, non-nil pointers, tuples, better error handling, all of these things would improve Go user's lives, even if they don't realize it themselves. But it would be a hassle for Google to add them.
Maybe. It's true you would save a certain amount of interpreter overhead and some refcount. How much that would help is not clear to me. So really I just see any speedups pure speculation honestly. Besides the interesting question isn't really whether it speeds up or not (it obviously will speed up at least a little bit with any non-sane implementation), but how _much_ it speeds up. If you gain 1% honestly who cares. If you gain 30%, then that's more interesting. And how close can you get with this more general version in C to the version in the blog post that is using a simplified implementation without all the extra features.

Anyway I am curious to know the answer, but I don't personally feel like writing out the implementation. If you do, I'd be interested in seeing the results.
I get that a lot. A DM arrives, there's a red blob with a number next to the sender's name, but the actual message doesn't appear.
I used xlwings in a variety of settings over the years, and it was my go-to when building the first two prototypes of our Excel commodity price sync functionality. We hit a performance wall pretty quickly due to the nature of our use case so we moved to Excel's C API and built our own add-in. This move took a lot of effort to get right, the C API has a tendency to punish you hard (crash Excel) for the smallest of transgressions. xlwings allowed us to prove the concept pretty quickly and without fear of crashing Excel before committing to C.

Don't mean for this to sound like a testimonial for xlwings (I guess, it kinda is) - it's been very useful for us so I had to share! It's a great library, has great documentation, and I can't recommend it enough. However, if you're after low latency* for real-time interactions across a large dataset, you'll need to look elsewhere, or roll your own.

* under 2 second response; you're dealing with Excel after all!

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>> Even assuming the forecast 5x increase in "renewables*"

> I don't know where these figures come from /../

There is a link to a well respected statistics site right above the line you are quoting, so if you don't know where the figures are coming from, that says a lot.
It's not, actually
Ask any student of etymology and they'll give a similar answer.
Nah, many people especially those not in the US care far less about Trump than this is making out to be the case. Every country has its political spectrum, and the discussion easily being political or becoming attached to one’s political stance doesn’t necessarily have much to do with one particular politician.
What do you use instead of SQL DB?
That's pretty impressive. I'd love to read a write-up about what you changed and how you analysed the problem.
Discord buys Sentropy for its AI powered moderation tools
Sounds like tomato juice manufacturers should calibrate their juice to taste like you're 30.000 feet up.
Why have you decided to eat all your meals standing up?

Do you have a partner or kids? What impact has this choice made on them?
As a programmer I used to suffer from wrist and thumb pain long ago, tried many different keyboards as well.
Eventually, for this and other reasons, I decided I should type _less_, and started to look for a less verbose programming language than C which was my goto language at the time. I settled on a ML-like language for its terseness and performance. The pain went away (alongside my collection of fancy keyboard) and I had even forgotten that I experienced such a pain.
Other factors might have helped of course (maybe I started to exercise more? I also tried to learn the guitar at the time, also in an attempt to fight the pain).
So, YMMV, but in any case I wanted to let you know that there is no fatality in this.
As someone who uses both python and Rust what I want is basically cargo but for python. So a solution that easily lets you create, run, build, publish, install python packages or software — something that has dependency managment and testing built in and is extendable with extra modules. Stuff that every python dev needs to do a hundred times a month.

Poetry comes close but it is quirky at times, and it isn't the official standard.

I understand that everything I mentioned would also be possible with the standard tools, but I don't get why the things nearly every python dev has to deal with were designed to be so convoluted, so developer-unfriendly, so unpythonic. Good tooling like this is not only about comfort and ease of entry, it is also a way to encourage best practise.
After reading that the Brooklyn author is indeed of Iranian origin, this story made a lot more sense.

It seems that middle east regimes think they can control any of their citizens no matter where they live.

I wonder if the US will impose sanctions on Iran, or if the US administration is not that eager to send that message.
Pi comes out in the limit of flat spacetime.
I really don't like Jai's presentation because there is essentially no text material is available and thus much harder to discuss anything. For the posteriority the actual demonstration is available here [1]; it shows that it is a multi-staged compilation model like Zig, which is very useful and also quite limited.

[1] https://youtu.be/iVN3LLf4wMg?t=1903 (or, seek to 31:43)
Sourcegraph PM here. Both Scala and Cobol are supported out of the box through search-based code intelligence (https://srcgr.ph/3xDPYcs). We don't currently support RPG and PL/1. We also offer precise code intelligence (https://srcgr.ph/3hBPnlT) that's powered by the LSIF protocol, this requires some setup and is currently available for Go(https://srcgr.ph/2U847Ac), Java(https://srcgr.ph/3r7quBT), TS/JS(https://srcgr.ph/3B57DMy) and C++). We have an easier path to supporting Scala in the future due to our Java indexing work, at the moment we don't have a concrete timeline for it.
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Maybe you are to young, but at that time ~nobody was aware that content on YOUR device could be altered or deleted from the outside, that it was 1984 was just the cherry on the cake.
Slide for Reddit has that.
At least that's the claim. I don't think that Google's search results are that much better than Duckduckgo's, at least for queries where I'm not searching for local businesses.
I don't know, but I do wish π was the same in every font, so I could distinguish it from n, or a square missing its bottom edge.

https://imgur.com/a/VBXLVA6
REvil ransomware gang's web sites mysteriously shut down
In your other comment, you wrote in a kinda magic-wishful-thinking way "you can only get pregnant if you really want kids". That is a contradiction to baby = egg + sperm.

If a woman has sex without some kind of fertility awareness, she gets pregnant. If she knows when she ovulates and avoids sex during that time and 5 days prior, she might not get pregnant.

Thing is: female libido is highest when the fertility in a cycle is the highest. So biologically speaking, women have to actively fight their hormones if they want to avoid pregnancy.
The training sets are biased because of the :fundamental: limitations of current digital imaging technology. Ergo -
Because everybody knows what 'kidnapping' means, and everybody knows that it's a crime. Not everybody knows what extraordinary rendition means, or that it's a crime. The general public not knowing or caring what "extraordinary rendition" means was even used as a joke in the tv show Archer.
> Apple decided to "blow up" the world of web advertising and only started "thinking about what to replace it with later."

https://i.imgur.com/eIzXgaL.png
1) It's formula for time dilution. It's not applicable for a warp drive, because Alice will be shielded from relativistic effects, so no time dilution will occur. Alice's space will be dragged at speed > c, but Alice will live a normal life at normal speed, like a passenger in a supersonic airplane is protected from supersonic effects.

2) It's an unsolved problem because formula is defined for [0..c] only and for EM communication only. For a•v = c² it predicts dT=0, so time will stop for unshielded Alice, like it stops for photon, so she will not be able to communicate at all. For a•v > c², the formula is not defined at all (it is the unsolved problem). In reality, we expect to see Cherenkov radiation. In theory, according to this formula, EM processes should go in reverse, which is not possible at all, because it requires all photon emitted by Alice to reverse their direction and hit Alice at her new location.
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Of course controlled burns have been known about for centuries - these are not mysteries! But why in the modern age do we NOT control burn - that is the question.

Putting aside the climate change being out of control, can we try to consider this from a 'perception management' perspective.

If there are lots of huge fires that would create the impression in the news of huge climate change issues, would it not? But, would that be a fair assessment, if the huge fires have been orchestrated by a failure to do what we have known about for centuries?

I don't think so.

But using this issue to create the impression of climate is what is happening - eg the fires last year is Australia. These were framed as another massive climate change issue, not as a governmental failure (to undertake controlled burns). The effect is that we wring our hands over another massive climate change issue going unaddressed, whereas what is going on is a contrived situation that is framed on climate change.

TLDR: These fires are *not* climate change - its only *portrayed* as climate change.
Is Snowden already forgotten?
Doesn't matter where it's hosted, NSA still knows who downloaded it.
> Eventually Camp 2) will be seen as the correct one.

That sounds somewhat overly deterministic. The situation is always evolving and you can’t predict what will really happen especially with new variants etc. Of course you may argue that no variant will ever be so dangerous as to warrant lockdowns in a country whose population is largely vaccinated, but a problem as this article pointed out (accurately or with exaggerations) is that if a large portion of the population refuses to be vaccinated, how things will play out doesn’t seem certain.
Isn't this 2020 news?
What's peculiar about this is the FAA says it's not a safety problem. So why is it intervening?

As far as I can tell, the problem is the gap between the bulkhead and the fuselage is larger than spec. This means that it'll take more airflow to pressurize the cabin.

There are always going to be leaks. The idea is that if all the joins are at the adverse end of the tolerance, meaning more air leaks, there must be enough pressurization air to keep it pressurized. But this is rarely the case, so one part being larger than spec should not cause a problem.

Parts get delivered out of spec sometimes, and they get bounced to engineering to evaluate if the design as a whole will still work.

I.e. it shouldn't actually be a problem unless the other joins are near the limits of their tolerances.

So, what's missing from CNN's reporting is why they are demanding a rework. The local newspaper, which should have a better handle on the situation, doesn't do any better at reporting this.
iOS app of Projectium appears in App Store before release
PostgreSQL: Limit vs. Fetch First Rows with Ties
Apple finds it increasingly difficult to convince people to upgrade their phones each and every year. I expect that hardware revenue will be declining over time and will be replaced with revenue generated from services like AppStore, Music subscriptions, iCloud, TV, games and more.

You can see this trend quite clearly already: in 2012 Apple generated only 6% of its revenue from services while in 2020 it was 20%. Services tend to be also more profitable compared to hardware.
Book author and xlwings creator here. Thanks for posting this link! Funny enough, about 10 days after sending the book to the printer (March 11), Microsoft updated the feature request ("Python as en Excel scripting language") on their UserVoice page with a comment that looks like official support could eventually happen: "Thank you for the continued interest in this space. While we don’t have specific plans to announce at this time, we have been researching the topic, conducting customer interviews, and are working with the Python team at Microsoft so we can build a plan that we think can address the scenarios you told us about and ensure it can run wherever Excel runs." Fingers crossed! See https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-...
The missing partition made it nearly unusable for me as well. Thankfully, I eventually found a solution at https://www.userchrome.org/firefox-89-styling-proton-ui.html... since then I’ve had no problems.
The author worked really hard to avoid mentioning climate change, but then there's this at the bottom of the article:

> "Global sea level rise will have been at work for another decade. The higher seas, amplified by the lunar cycle, will cause a leap in flood numbers on almost all U.S. mainland coastlines, Hawaii, and Guam," a NASA news release stated.

So in next decade we can blame the moon instead of admitting the flooding could be caused be climate change?
I do like the ideas in that presentation and I'm confident that they can be realized in the Netherlands, the acceptance and the experience to make it work is there and widespread not only among officials but also in the population. But...

It's a fairly flat country. Ideal for bicycle riding. What works well there, is not practical in other regions with a vastly different hilly or even mountainous topography.
I had the ErgoDox EZ for a while, switched it out for a redox (https://github.com/mattdibi/redox-keyboard) which I find is perfect for me. It is a lot smaller and just removed all the keys I was not using on the EZ anyway and shrunk down some of the others.
This even extends to the hardest problems in mathematics and science. Solve the Riemann Hypothesis for real? Good luck getting the community to actually take a look at your paper and award you for it. Us problem solvers like these "pure" fields because we idealize a world where the work indisputably speaks for itself. Unfortunately without the sales and connection bullshido, no one will ever look at your profound work to see that it is world changing. Yeah, fuck everything about this. That's why Coq and Lean and all the other formal systems are ideal. I solve a problem, the system validates it. Now listen Clay, give me the motherfucking million!
Just this weekend, I read this passage (p.219) in Making Of Prince Of Persia, by Jordan Mechner [1], where his colleague tries to dissuade him from tuition, and rather learning on the job:

Deborah had this to say about NYU: "They say it's a three-year program, but it really takes five years. You can expect to spend $2000 on your first-year film, $10,000 second year, and $20,000 third year. Add that to three years' tuition, and you've spent a hundred thousand dollars. What I would do, if you have the wherewithal - I mean, three years and $100,000 - is spend those three years working for free on every film shoot you can. At the end of it, you'll know how a film gets made; everybody will owe you favors, so you'll have a crew; the equipment rental places and the labs will know you, so they might give you a deal too. Take the $100,000 and make a feature! Then you'll be a filmmaker." She sighed and said: "But no one ever does that. They come around like you're doing, and ask a lot of questions, and I tell them what I just told you, and then they go off and enroll in the program."

1. https://jordanmechner.com/store/the-making-of-prince-of-pers...
Yeah, that's bullshit. For NSA-proof personal tech stack you'd rely more on tamper-evident blocks that's all. Also, security in depth and security through obscurity are much more applicable if you're a person and not an organization. Finally, +20 years head start does not mean much if you distrohop and FOMO into bleeding edge stuff like a tech podcaster.
If you read it and understood it, can you show us how to apply this formula to the warp drive, please? I cannot ask Einstein, obviously.
It is alreay thing, I mean it is not once or twice when people have watced in awe when I google some obscure thing.
Matrix has the same, except we call it /sync these days rather than /events, and it long-polls :)
Can you actually get a Bloody Mary on a flight? Or will they just give you a cup of V8 with a splash of vodka in it?
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I am uncertain as to the reason for your flippancy, but neither of your comments has been substantive or serious. I tried to give you a meaningful response, but perhaps you never sought one.
Electrochromic nanostructures with high chromaticity and superior brightness
I wonder how people using a keyboard like this handle numbers and function keys?

My daily keyboard is an OCZ Vortex 3 which has a dedicated numbers row and above that a row with ESC/F1-12. I cannot imagine using a keyboard that does not have these two rows. Mainly because my IDE/Vim/Tmux configs are heavily customized to use F1-F12 and <C-$num> for common actions.
mac is extremely common in the developer world I don't know why you would think that it's "weird"
Which, incidentally, is the very same challenge IT, or Product Development, or HR face.

Trying to think in silos and making departments fight each others is a faulty approach. If you want to transform business, change has to come from/to be accepted by the top.
Tell that to someone on minimum wage or have a terminal disease
> But now, see, how most people just don't understand the concept of very large/small numbers and can't interpret what it means exactly.

I think the argument is that this particular form of innumeracy should no longer be acceptable if you're making decisions where this matters. At a minimum, this would be police officers, judges, lawmakers.