skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few applications that can read WhatsApp database. I used one couple years ago to run some analytics on my chat, but don't remember now. I'm fairly certain it is still around and works, though.
Thanks for the link, but again you're taking the exception as the rule. Most countries don't work like that.

(it's also possible that social security is deductible before income tax is levied as per this site but I'm not looking too deeply into it: https://expatcenter.ro/tax-guide/ )
It works fine. I've been doing it for ages with no problems. Note that I added node_modules, etc. to the ignore file so that it's not always syncing thousands of tiny files, which always tend to take a long time for some reason.
There may be some political slant to this article but I found it genuinely interesting with some largely unknown facts.
I don't think you understand what historical figure means.
With the $400k, they should forget the down-payment, move somewhere with reasonable real estate, and buy two houses outright.
It saves a character in code golf, but as others have pointed out, it's unsafe.

a if b else c #+1 byte
a and b or c #buggy
(c,b)[not a] #ok in general
a and 1or c #-1 byte if b is a constant
(b,c)[a] #-4 byte if a is boolean
I don't think you need to be "progressive" to be against NASA firing someone just because they are gay.
Thomas Sowell has broken this down very well over the last 50 years.

https://www.hoover.org/research/affirmative-action-around-wo...

https://www.commentary.org/articles/thomas-sowell-2/affirmat...

And of course the Bible on the subject: https://www.amazon.com/Discrimination-Disparities-Thomas-Sow...
I too am dismayed by how older models of thin laptops lost DIMM sockets for increasingly diminishing amounts of thickness removed.

I ended up going with the below because I wanted a 360 degree touchscreen Ryzen laptop that I could upgrade the HD and RAM...and I felt like I was searching for a needle in a haystack. Shame on you Dell for never offering Ryzen in your convertibles. Shame on you HP for soldering RAM in your new Elitebook line.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/HP-ProBook-x360-435-G7-laptop-...
> Plus for systems-level scripts

I still tend to use it for that.
> But before we could connect to another emulator, we needed to understand how the connection actually works. GameCube games will actually encrypt the GBA binary that is sent to the various games, and the way it does this actually posed a bit of a problem for Dolphin early on. The encryption process took place on the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) under a special microcode that we refer to as the GBA microcode. Now this may sound weird, as most people consider the GameCube/Wii's Digital Signal Processor (DSP) specifically for audio emulation, but sometimes it could be used for other tasks. In this case, it is used to encode the executable sent to the GBA as a weak form of obfuscation.

woah!
There is a small amount of signal loss from the extra connector pair. This is normally fine, but if your monitor+cable situation is already flaky, there is potentially risk there. We would recommend picking up a cable designed to higher protocol standards or using a shorter cable if you see issues.
But so many people use scaling at the OS level which means none of their desktop apps have icons perfectly pixel-aligned anyways. Because even different "lower/normal" DPI screens have significantly different physical pixel sizes and are viewed at different distances, and people choose a setting that makes interface text legible.

The notion of logical (UX measurement) pixel size and physical (monitor) pixel size should just be considered to be totally decoupled at this point. Sure sometimes they perfectly align but as a developer you have zero control as to when that happens.

So it's not worth even trying anymore. Just use hi-res assets designed to still be legible at standard resolution and forget about pixel alignment.
> Now to figure out what they say

This should be interesting to the Earth Species Project. https://www.earthspecies.org/
Well they acquired musical.ly (buying it's very young audience).

from the wiki:

"TikTok was launched in 2017 for iOS and Android in most markets outside of mainland China; however, it only became available worldwide after merging with another Chinese social media service, Musical.ly, on 2 August 2018."
In the 1980's I attended an amazing talk by Lynn Conway. She described how with Carver Mead she had popularlized VLSI design methodology, using her studies in anthropology for insights into deliberately fomenting a revolution.

She opened the talk with a map of birdwatcher observations, detailing the concentric circles of technology spread across England as blue tits taught each other to peck open foil caps:

"In the early 20th century, milkmen would deliver milk to British doorsteps, in bottles that were sealed with foil caps. Then, in the 1920s, homeowners started noticing holes in the foil. The culprits were blue tits. They had learned to peck open the bottle caps to drink the layer of cream beneath. The behaviour quickly spread. By the 1950s, it seemed that every blue tit in Britain knew the technique."

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/scientist...
Interesting. SpaceX sent it to the recycling, and Tim’s office wrote a letter back. I wonder if SpaceX saw it as a possible Trojan threat. If you really want to find someone you could use registered mail and use this to confirm their location, even hidden inside of something else. I wonder if this might lead to shippers actively scanning for this as a security precaution.
At a previous employer, our approach was to give candidates 5 options and ask them to select 3 to complete. One was fizzbuzz, another was "reverse a string", and I forget what the others were. But they were all around the same basic level of complexity... basically just trying to ascertain "can this person fundamentally code something".

We gave them as much of a headstart as we could too: a dedicated laptop with an IDE already running, a "skeleton" program for each of the five options already in place, etc. All they had to do was finish the program in order to produce the correct output. The only thing we didn't really allow was using the Internet to look up answers (the machine in question had its network connection intentionally disabled). I think we usually gave about 30 minutes for this, but even that wasn't a hard cutoff that was strictly enforced.

Despite that, it was sad how many people not only couldn't complete this test, but frankly didn't even come close.

Note that the "skeleton" code was in Java, but this was for positions that were specifically advertised as expecting Java experience. IIRC, we also later added a Python version. And frankly, if somebody had come in and said "I can do this, but can I use (R|C++|COBOL|Brainfuck|Whatever)?" I'm pretty sure we would have said "Yeah, sure, have at it. We just want to see if you can code."
Isn't GPA even easier to game than SATs?

-- Private schools can curve more leniently so its pay to play

-- Rich schools tend to have more AP/Honor courses which inflate weighted GPAs

I went to one of the best public schools in America and it was not uncommon for someone to take 100% AP/Honors and get a 4.5+ GPA.
I've found careerexplorer.com to be a helpful tool for career planning and exploration.

Knowing where I stand and what my values are also helps when it comes to navigating the professional environment.
Physicists must be the dumbest hypocrites on earth. On one hand, they claim rationality and on the other hand, they build weapons for worthless fanatics whose soul is less valuable than termites.
>Cramming all those people into cardboard "luxury" apartments where their kids have to listen to their neighbors fighting or banging sounds like a great way to end a population by ending parenthood. Which is exactly what is happening.

It's really hard to take your post seriously when you diverge into paranoid conspiracy theories like this one.

Nobody is being forced to live in an apartment. Nobody is even being asked to live in an apartment (except by a few politically inert eco-activists). We merely want people to be allowed to live in apartments! In many areas, families compete for houses with groups of adult renters, the latter having 3-4 incomes, because apartments are so underprovisioned. This of course is no good for people's ability to raise children, but my faction isn't loony enough to pretend it's a secret genocide.

Meanwhile, urbanists are in fact aware of and regularly lament[1, 2] the low standards for sound insulation and build-to-code reality of contemporary multi-family construction. But when we propose raising the standards, we get complaints from conservatives that "the free market will take care of it" (even though it obviously doesn't).

1: https://reddit.com/r/urbanplanning/comments/oivn68/sound_pro...

2: https://reddit.com/r/urbanplanning/comments/kk1m1n/townhouse...
I really think the answer for all of those kinds of questions should be "I'd use Google to find the answer". I mean who would try and solve a problem like that without searching for a solution first?

Edit: http://mathpuzzlewiki.com/index.php/Soda_machine
For one, it has nothing to do with programming. Also, nothing to do with time management, people skills, or anything else that programmers do on their job.
The inability to pay for college is more an artifact of the insane increase in college prices than it is the pay. Inflation hasn't been kind on minimum wage, but the effect is less drastic than the increase in college prices.

Also, as others have pointed out, teenagers tend to be less reliable employees. One part of that is that they don't need the job, at least in an "I might starve and be homeless if I get fired" sense. Another part is that if they're only working for the summer, they're unlikely to have time to become exemplary employees.

As a society, I agree it makes sense for teenagers to be able to pay for their own education with reasonable work. As a business, I don't think I would see that as my problem to solve directly, and probably not one I could even afford to fix even if I wanted to.

The average in-state tuition in the US (so sticking to the cheaper side) is $10,440/year. There's roughly 10 weeks of summer break, so 400 hours of work assuming a 40 hour work week. You need to make $26/hr after taxes and save every penny of your paycheck to afford that tuition bill. Average out of state tuition is $26,820/year; you'd need to make $67/hr after taxes to pay for that over summer break.

Again, those are after-tax numbers, so you'd have to make north of $30/hour pre-tax to be able to pay for in-state tuition. I just don't see that happening.
Back in the old day, we were charged by the maximum bandwidth. Not quite scalable maybe, but it definitely won’t bankrupt you if you’re not careful.
> People in power today would much rather do something that seems to promote “equity” than make an evidence-based choice that could lead to accusations of racism.

"Wokeness" and CRT are steps back in logical and rational discussion. Sometimes the truth hurts, and instead of plugging our ears, shouting "LALALALALA", and denigrating the purveyors of said truth, we should accept the truth for what it is and look to the underlying causes.

The modern western allopathic medicine treat-the-symptoms-with-drugs school of thought pervades more than just healthcare.
NASA probe determines Mars' internal structure
We have hardware kill switches for both the camera and the microphone. You can actually also remove that module entirely if you'd like. We published a guide on how to replace the webcam (so you would just stop after the removal steps): https://guides.frame.work/Guide/Webcam+Replacement+Guide/87?...
I have recently released a Python Course on Primer[1]. It is interactive, incrementally guided and completely free for Python-I.

You can checkout the content of the course without signing up as it is also an online book. [2]. The book is around 440 pages and it will take mostly 12-15 hours for your son to complete. And you can understand where he is getting it wrong by reading and analysing his conversations. (For an easier way to do this, Multiplayer mode is in roadmap)

Benefits of using Primer:

- Automatic flashcards generation

- Personalized Book generated at the end of the course from conversations, notes and questions

- Stores conversations so that he can revisit and resume after giving up for a while.

Its a bit new platform therefore, I have written an introduction post about Primer as well which you might find interesting. [3] [4]

EpicPython seems to have an integrated Python environment which is definitely something of a plus as it makes it easier for a learner. Primer doesn't have that as it is intended to solve a different problem altogether.

On a sidenote, I will very happy if your son chooses Primer to learn Python. Its less than a week since I launched Primer.

[1]: Primer Website: https://primerlabs.io

[2]: Python-I Online Book https://primerlabs.io/books/python-i/

[3]: Introducton to Primer Blogpost: https://primerlabs.io/blog/introducing-primer/

[4]: Introduction to Primer Comics Based Blogpost: https://primerlabs.io/comics/introducing-primer-comics/
No. The incorrect statement was about erasing people from history books, not from a telescope.
If you provide a sufficient lip on the hole such that the minimum side is larger than any of the four diagonals it would work.
You were supposed to expect them to fail his interview because he didn't give the "right" answer (manhole covers are round so they can't fall in the hole). Instead, he completely disagreed with the "right" answer, but did so in a way that was incredibly convincing. So, they decided his primary value was not in his intellect (leading him to a job in engineering), but in his ability to convince people of things (leading him to a job in marketing).
Request interceptors are simply subpar. I understand the motivation, which is prevent adblockers themselves from spying on you, but in practice I would prefer to be able to install uBlock origin which is excellent on desktop and Android.

The Safari WebView restriction means there is no browser choice.

I cannot put any trust in iOS supporting WebExtensions in a meaningful way, given their track record of undermining web technology - but hopefully I will be proven wrong.
I sync my android phone to my laptop using syncthing. Works great, and the ignore patterns below prevent annoying access warnings.

Folder Type: Send Only

Ignore Patterns:

Syncthing/**
Pictures/.thumbnails/**
Android/data
Android/data/**
Android/obb
Android/obb/**
On the Hotel California Effect

If it's expensive to move data out of AWS, it's not just about making it hard for customers to leave AWS. It means that any third-party service that wants to sell to AWS customers must also use AWS.

For example, Snowflake can't really run its own data centers. They need to rent from AWS. If you're a company on AWS, you won't want to spend $0.08/GB sending things to Snowflake.

The high egress cost gives Amazon a lot of power to keep the third-party ecosystem within AWS and without as much negotiating power on things like EC2 costs. Snowflake can't say to Amazon, "if you don't give us a great discount, we're going to move our operations to DigitalOcean" because Amazon would just say, "no you're not. Your customers aren't going to pay $80/TB to load things into Snowflake when you're charging them $23-40/TB for storage. They'd be paying 2-3.5x your storage costs just to load the data into your system!" Yes, I'm sure that Snowflake does get a discount from AWS, but having less negotiating power can make discounts smaller.

There are other reasons to want a third party to use AWS if you're on AWS. Still, the egress pricing seems to make it very hard for third-party tech providers not to use AWS if their customers are using it.
Hi, I run clippingmagic.com (a SaaS to clean & prep ecommerce product shots) so this could be a great fit for us - we've talked many times about integrating with the platforms, but...

A few comments & questions:

1. https://tryapollo.com fails to provide a secure connection?

2. Viewing https://docs.tryappollo.com/docs/introduction on mobile leads to the sidebar getting hidden - may want to copy your ToC into the How To Use This Doc section to not make it look like you have three doc pages total ;)

3. https://docs.tryappollo.com/reference#fetch-products - do I provide a "cursor" or a "page"?

4. The "media" object type is not separately documented. Based on the "Create a product" form it's {src:string, type:string} - what are the valid string values for "type"?

5. When I update a product, do I have to include all fields, or can I include only those I wish to update?

6. How do I append another product photo? How do I insert one? How do I remove one?

7. https://docs.tryappollo.com/reference#fetch-variant goes to the wrong spot on the page, it goes to Collections API section.

8. Ditto all questions for products also for variants (page vs cursor, media & how to do narrow updates to it).

9. https://www.tryappollo.com/pricing - your pricing page has as of right now no clear indication of your intended business model. Charge a fraction of revenue? Fixed $x/install? Something else?

10. Continuation of service: building an app is a non-trivial commitment. What happens if things don't work out for appollo?

Thanks!
N-acetylcysteine, or NAC, is an over-the-counter compound that can be purchased at your local health food store

Not for long. The U.S. just reclassified it as a drug. [1] I have a few bottles of it, but when they truly expire I will have to make my own.

[1] - https://proteanutrition.com/2021/06/08/fda-changes-in-usage-...
It looks like Cloudflare cut egress pricing for workers unbound to $.0045 per GB, but that’s still half of AWS or “40x markup” for me in Canada.

The original workers model of pay per execution is incredible. IIRC I figured one run is the equivalent of 6KB of egress at AWS. Is there a point where Cloudflare will start charging egress on those if I transfer too much? I want to use it for something, but don’t like the “free bandwidth until you hit the invisible limit” side of things Cloudflare has going.

1. https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-unbound-ga/
Thanks for answering! I noticed that after my posted my comment - the dedicated websites for each country (or at least language) sounds great.
Congrats again!
> We'd love to be able to use the cloud

why?
Good news! We do have hardware kill switches for both the camera and microphone: https://frame.work/blog/1080p-webcam
There is a project called Earth Species that tries to decode animal communication using deep learning. https://www.earthspecies.org/
Should just move to somewhere in Montana with fiber. Buy a house with a forest attached to it and only one person need to work making $100K to live the same life.

The downside being lack of good sushi restaurants anywhere near, but ones got to make choices.
Really?

I had a professor who got people jobs at big corps and he said, many of them failed the assesment, so he had to talk to higher ups.
Classical mechanics includes everything that's not quantum, including general relativity and the Navier-Stokes equation. It is not a suitable term for Newtonian mechanics because it already refers to a much larger category.
> I'd rather have someone I can work with.

> I almost never look at a candidate's resume/CV.
> I don't have time to peruse your GitHub profile or past projects. I don't even have time.

So you want someone you can work with, but you don't want to spend a couple of seconds to look at who you're talking to. Which is, you know, sort of the most basic of things necessary to get an actual relationship started.

This goes both ways. If you don't even want to spend a few minutes to assess whether the resume or the projects are interesting to you, then why on earth would the candidate spare you any time or energy?
The off-line version of this (Merlin) worked great in the Boundary Waters in June. Detected visually-verified grouse, vireos, woodpeckers, trumpter swan and bald eagles on Nina Moose and Agnes lakes.
Congratz! It's really nice to see fellow Brazilians featured here.

I'm very skeptical about most startups business models but looks like you folks check two important boxes of my imaginary list:

[x] solving a real problem

[x] plenty of room to grow (generalist b2b)

I hope to see more of Portão 3! Best of luck for you :)
It explains in the joke how it's possible to fit a square cover into a slightly smaller square hole. The easiest way is to position the cover vertically and across the diagonal. The lip that the square cover rests on would have to be impractically large to fully prevent the cover from fitting into the hole.
We have a deep dive on the webcam here: https://frame.work/blog/1080p-webcam
I think the University of Texas has one of simplest and most egalitarian admissions policies that I have seen. If you graduate in the top 10 percent of your class, then you are guaranteed admission to all state funded universities.

As a Californian I find it quite ironic that many policies in “conservative” Texas (ex. university admissions, property tax, income tax) are more much more progressive than what we have in “liberal” California.

If anybody from Texas has a different perspective on UT admission policy (I am sure it has its pathological edge cases) then I would be curious to hear.
im on year two with a USB-c phone and the only issue I have is having to pick pocket lint out of it every couple of months.
Tangent but: I sometimes feel like programs that just work like this don't get traction because they don't provoke as much discussion, search volume, etc. A complex mess that needs to be constantly babysat creates a cottage industry around it and gets discussed a lot, but something that works is like the quiet kid who sits in the corner and gets A's and that everyone ignores

Kubernetes is today's poster child for this. The Hashicorp stack can do just about all the same things, but it just works so there's no cottage industry of consultants and no market for as-a-service implementations. Why promote something like that?
Yup. My second or third month at my first job, I accidentally knocked out internet access for thousands of people for a couple of hours because I deleted something in production rather than in dev. It was terrifying and I was sure I would be fired.

Rather than being canned, of course, the team managing the tool that allowed me to delete the resource learned the following:

1) people should not be able to delete things without confirmation in production

2) it should be very obvious which environment you're in

3) normal humans shouldn't have access to production except for operations folks.

That's the value of blameless post mortems.
I have Windows, Android, and Linux devices in my shares, I've yet to encounter issues.

Someone indicated they did have issues if you do a case only rename between a case sensitive (Linux) system and a case insensitive (Windows/Mac) one. I've never done this myself, but I guess that's one to run into. Also the usual caveats with any program, like that you won't be able to sync con.py to a Windows system, regardless of which program you use.
Dollar General Breaks into Health Care
Thanks! I'm in the phase where my eldest is old enough to have opinions about which books to read, but too young to have those be interesting ones (though some are fun to read, like Fox in Socks).
Try it with Safari - it doesn't work. Safari only maximises the window vertically and not horizontally. That is why I said there is no consistent way of maximising windows on macOS.
The touchpad PCB acts as a passive signal passthrough for both the keyboard and the fingerprint reader, so that we can have a single cable going from the Input Cover to the mainboard.
> combined with -T, it's given me a lot of peace of mind, which I miss when using PHP.

Try Hack? It's not too bad and the typing can be added piecemeal.
Super Cruise Hands-Free Towing in the 2022 GMC Sierra Is Like Commanding a Train