skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another bit of trivia I always found interesting... approximately zero people per year die in elevator crashes. That basically isn't a real thing that happens.

Of the very small number of people who are killed by elevators, they are almost all elevator technicians / maintenance people who are in the shaft doing repairs and have some kind of accident.
friendly to coloured people, try not-the-USA? come join us in literally the rest of the world bro.
I think dril is an interesting case in this - the creator has been outed, but many just don't care and refuse to read and find out who it is. The mystery is the appeal.

I don't want to know who dril is.
Absolutely! We think about security on multiple levels.

For our threat model, we focus on _companies_ using Slack, Discord, and Teams, though our efforts apply to communities, etc. For the sake of this question, I'll focus on companies using Slack, but most of it applies to the others.

Even without Abbot, if someone gains access to an employee Slack account, they can do immense damage. So it's very important for companies to enforce good security on Slack such as 2-factor auth, etc. If you use Abbot, that's even more important. To interact with Abbot in chat, a user must be logged into your Slack organization. So we encourage customers to take their Slack account security seriously.

Now it may happen that a Slack account is compromised despite a company's best efforts. So the next level of protection is the ability to protect skills using Abbot's access control. You can restrict skills to a limited set of users. That makes it possible to follow the principle of least privilege and reduce exposure of the most sensitive skills.

Finally, despite our best efforts, there may be the case where someone gains access to a privileged account. Abbot logs every interaction it has with users, whether through the Bot console (in the website) or via chat. So if someone does somehow get access, you can audit what activities they took, what secrets they accessed.

It's also important to look at security from the perspective of a skill author. To create a skill, a user has to be a member of the "Members" role in https://ab.bot/. This requires that they are a member of the associated Slack organization and have logged into https://ab.bot/ with their Slack account (we don't implement our own authentication).

An Abbot Administrator can choose to let anyone in the Slack organization automatically be added to the "Members" role when they log in. That may be appropriate for smaller high-trust companies. For larger companies, administrators may want have tighter control on access to the website.

Skill authors are encouraged not to embed tokens and other secrets in the code for skills. Instead, use the secrets management built in. There's also a proxy link feature for certain cases where a secret is embedded in a URL and you don't want the secret exposed even to skill authors.

That's where we are today.

In the future, we'd like to integrate with Active Directory, LDAP, etc. for managing access to the site and skills. Also, we know that many systems people want to access are going to be behind a firewall. So we are looking into onprem options, but those may be further down the road.

If you have some ideas on where we can improve or areas we should be thinking about, we are definitely interested in hearing about it. This is very important to us.
Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Virulent Pathogens (2015)
Band-limited oscillators and filters are a basic building block of digital synths. It's surprising how many software instruments exhibit annoying aliasing.

Though it's also nice to be able to turn on aliasing to get more digital grunge.
$411 for a 7-day rental (the cheapest total in your screenshot) is quite a bit more than $40/day, last I checked. Further, there's simply no way to fit a family and luggage into a Kia Rio-sized car. Cheap/free upgrade? Sure, but not economy to van/SUV, more like economy to intermediate.

I'll grant you that insurance isn't necessary (or even advisable), however plenty of people feel more secure getting the (very expensive) protection given the risk of driving an unfamiliar car to likely unfamiliar locations.

Still, glad to see prices coming down. I paid $80/day for 3 days in June and $75 (after a discount) in July.
Or perhaps https://youtu.be/OIW4F285QjA
Reminds me of how lambdas got added to mainstream languages like Python, Java, and C++, when various other languages like Lisp, Smalltalk, SML, etc. had had them decades before.
I am so disappointed this article didn't even touch on AoE2 - it has a pretty amazingly well tuned approach to this problem with extremely finely targeted (except back when camels were technically boats cough) bonus damage system. To compare it to SC2 is hilarious - SC2 has more hard counter systems than most games (both visibility and flight are common uncounterable attributes) and yet for all that countering tends just to be a question of how much and how wide the splash damage is when attacking tightly packed formations. High level SC2 eschews huge portions of the roster since they're essentially irrelevant - AOE2 definitely has strong preferences but most of those units get to see action pretty regularly... except the siege tower.
UC San Francisco used to run disability inspiration porn ads showing a plodding exoskeleton that would go about maybe 1 mi/day? My wife would joke that in the time it would take the exoskeleton to get her to the front door, she could used her power chair to walk to Starbucks, order breakfast, and bring it home. Has society put limits on what she can do in her chair due to crappy architecture, yes. Would a practical exoskeleton fix that, we doubt it.
That is pretty far-out, conceptually.

But in practice I assume there would be little need for that right? If you have the socket already and you get the same socket again from somebody else, would that give you any new capabilities?

If a socket is shared among multiple actors, can a same message be read by all of them? Or does the first reader "remove" the message from it?
A wheelchair can be much better than nothing and still be far inferior to a potential exoskeleton. I use a wheelchair whenever I leave the house, and I am not a fan. There are so many places I cannot go: anywhere that requires stairs, the beach and most other places that are unpaved, anywhere without curb cuts, any foreign country that doesn’t have accessibility laws, anywhere with a hill that’s even a little bit steep. I would happily pay $100k for a really great exoskeleton (if what’s in my imagination could be made real, anyway).
Having gone through it, while it's true you need more calories after the baby is born (I breastfed and pumped exclusively and was told it's about 500 calories per day vs 300 or so extra prior to birth) the strain on your body is lessened because you are producing a single item (milk) going to one part of your body that's drained periodically.

In contrast, by the third trimester of pregnancy, your total blood volume has increased by approximately 50% (3-4 pounds of additional blood), not to mention an extra 2-3 pounds of retained fluid, 2 pounds of amniotic fluid, and 1.5 pounds of placenta. All told, this is another ~10 pounds on top of the baby. Additionally, the mother / placenta is performing all respiratory and blood filtration functions on behalf of the fetus (the kidneys don't really do much prior to birth other than produce urine).

> https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/pregnancy-week-...

Personally, while breastfeeding and newborn care was exhausting, it felt more akin to training for an athletic event vs having another entity symbiotically tied to my system like pregnancy.
Mergers, twists, and pentagons: the architecture of honeycombs
I use a Corsair M95 mouse. I've programmed the side buttons for copy and paste, select all, refresh, and the activitation of my drop-down Tilix terminal. There are also the default forward/back and dpi buttons. It's more for productivity as opposed to programming though, as I use Vim for programming and all the commands are already easily accessible from the keyboard. The browser controls and copy and paste buttons are great for cases when I have a hand on my mouse but the other is not on my keyboard.

The downside of this is that I oftentimes tap the side of the mouse when using a different computer (and realizing that there's no button to press) thanks to muscle memory.
I appreciate you putting out an alternative link.

Unfortunately I cannot access archive.is (shows a Cloudflare page with Google reCaptcha).

Why not using the more well known archive.org instead?

Also IIRC archive.is is hard to access for some users depending on the DNS server they're using.
You make a very interesting point.. I'd say that overall the better the search algorithm the more likely users would keep using your search product in the long term.

However, the algorithm needs only to be noticeably better than the next best competitor. There may be a disincentive to release a cutting edge search technology until it's necessary to stave off competition, and if you've achieved monopoly, well, perhaps there's no innovation necessary.
Not keyboard shortcut but I’ve found a trackball which you can rotate the ball for scrolling super comfortable. Way better than the spin wheel on a mouse. And given how much scrolling happens on webpages it gets used a lot
The Art of Removing Spaces from a Python String
> In the past.

“This is a photograph of me when I was younger.”
I think about this every once in a while. I've grown up playing those games and others like them. I remember how cool the world seemed in World of Warcraft when it first came out, but once I realized players had mapped out the entire game and knew where everything was it really took away from the mystery of it all. This is part of why procedurally generated content interests me. No one else has played through the exact same Minecraft seeds that I have (or at least I don't think so, I'm not 100% sure how it works).
And notably it can have a validity to it that other averages don’t.

E.g. in this case you can calculate the motion of the center of mass from the forces applied to the object. The same can’t be said for other averages.
Light on when you get home before opening the door, red shift at night, automatically turn off when leaving etc.

Ac follows same logic. I have a scene called good night that turns everything including the tv off
I've been leaning more towards extensive tracing and automatic error-based rollbacks than writing lots of tests. It seems to make more sense with the tools available today.
I'm just relaying my wife's opinion. She's kinda tired of people presuming that her life isn't great because she's in a wheelchair and that everything would be better if she could walk.
Depends what you mean by anti-establishment.

Even most hardcore anarchists believe in some form of cooperation. Just because you criticize parts of an establishment doesn't make you anti all kinds of establishment.

You can both be anti establishment and supportive of some parts of it.
Does it??
>I'm typing this in the office without a mask because we quashed the outbreak.

I'm typing this in the office without a mask because I'm vaccinated. I'm also going to nightclubs, bowling, travelling internationally to most places I like.
Not only is this a really cool idea, that sensor is awesome! I love that you can get something like that for $30.
Dashlane’s white paper did a good job explaining. I have not explored others in depth.
I would then think the problem is not with the "cram-schools" but with the universities who accept students based on rote-learning.

The solution then would not be to forbid the cram-schools, but the universities which apply that kinds of bad acceptance criteria. No?
Exactly. Every car company just needs to appoint Elon musk as it’s CEO.
2x speed, prob not as bad in real time
I get those from time to time. Isn’t just solving the captcha enough to reach the page?
Methane production requires nearly a total anoxic environment. Even trace amounts of oxygen are enough for substantial suppression. Decaying roots, even if they were deeper, would be exposed to at least a little oxygen throughout the early decay process (unless continually flooded with water). Once the roots have decayed to a stage where they are more decay resistant, there would naturally be even less local oxygen, but they would also be in a state not favorable for substantial methane production.

The chemistry seems complicated. To create methane, you need hydrogen, which is a byproduct of previous anaerobic microbe activity. Think lots of fresh plant material decomposing in an anaerobic environment.
If you click activate windows it says its not a genuine copy, greys out and starts spitting out DLL errors haha, nice easter egg.
These UIs definitely look outdated, but somehow they seem better than current Windows UIs. Not, sure if it's nostalgia or if there's something there.
More Covid variants have emerged from immunocompromised hosts, research shows
This is subject to survivorship bias, though. These days it's certainly easier for things to go viral, but things can only go viral if they get found in the first place and, crucially, if those who found it choose to share it. Maybe the clout economy of instagram etc. increases the odds that people will expose such things for likes, but I personally know of at least one fantastic, incredible (, almost certainly illegal) thing in the woods in my hometown of Pittsburgh that I'll never tell anybody for fear of it becoming popular. Look for it yourself. :P
Karen diplomacy
Yeah, probably. I assume they're cheap enough. My issue is that I am always short of time and spend what spare time I do have with him playing Lego, Minecraft, Halo, etc. Can't really fit in a project getting yet another device up and running, troubleshooting inevitable issues, etc.

Found myself spending 1-2 hours yesterday looking for Mac games that would work on the 2007 iMac when I realised it was idiotic given the kids already had access to decent games on iPads, Apple TV, PS4, 360, original Xbox (Fuzion Frenzy!), Wii, mini classic Nintendo, etc.

Downloading a MagPi issue to take a look. Might spark something in him - he reads Minecraft books for ideas, so this might be a logical step up.
Sylvanas straight up removed the lich king from existence, so that one was a lie lol.
The article says they are in the proof of concept stage.
There is also Windows 93: https://www.windows93.net/
Information loss / maximum likelihood only applies in special case distributions. E.g. take a distribution of variable X and the arithmetic mean might be the appropriate average. But then if you look at sqrt(X) then the appropriate average would be RMS.
Biochar is interesting. It seems to be dependent on the temperature your pyrolysis occurs at and likely many other variables. It also encourages microbial growth that can help sustain and even add to the carbon content. There are studies that show it can sequester carbon from dozens to hundreds of years potentially, and patches of "terra preta" found in the Amazon are found to be self regenerating (growing at 1cm/yr) and were originally set down between 450-950BCE. Fascinating stuff.
Exactly. Even our most obsolete soda flavors could cause untold chaos if they fell into the hands of the Russian government.
Frankly low 6 figures sounds low for a software job. How do you attract talent at that level?
I think this is a really important point. Solo RTS is very engaging even if you actually suck at it. The layers of complexity required to be good are basically unfathomable unless you grind against competitive players and understand the various local maxima of the metas.

Competitive RTS is very stressful. I would say, more stressful than other competitive games as mistakes, or rather, the absence of great moves, compounds quickly into a disadvantage.
This page is so well done. All physical and mechanical problems should be taught this way. I just loved playing with the sliders. I felt like I didn't even need to read the text to understand the concepts. This could be a great alternative teaching style for bored kids.
The Moonlander is great.

I have Cmd+Shift+R (Refresh) and Cmd+Alt+I (Dev tools) on the two big red keys. On my navigation layer I have distinct keys for emacs navigation: C-x [, C-x ] (page forward/backward) and ESC f, ESC b (word forward/backward).

And I have Ctrl+Cmd+Space (MacOS emoji picker) on a single key.

My layout: https://configure.zsa.io/moonlander/layouts/4DrXo/XxmmW/0
> Compare that to a shooter

I wouldn't claim they're quite so opaque, but Quakelike FPS games have a similar problem. They appear to be about shooting, but in fact at least 50% of the game is resource control (and even the combat itself is more nuanced than a new player realises). So when you're a new player losing to an experienced player, it can be super confusing and demoralising. Confusing because you probably don't realise why they are dominating you so hard and what you can do to stop it; demoralising because even if you persist and improve in one or two areas, it'll barely make a difference to the scoreboard. (You've improved your aim and learned to time items? Great, but the other guy knows the maps extremely well and can move around them far quicker than you, knows exactly how to position himself in a fight and when to use each weapon, dodges in unpredictable ways while predicting your own dodging and firing patterns, and so on. Meanwhile your newfound realisation that the armour and health items matter, and increasing ability to keep track of their timers, is making your routes through the map more predictable.)
How fun. If you delete the c:/system folder the system gives you a blue screen of death.
I used to live nearby and would walk past the machine every day on my way to work and way home. Over time, all (?) the options went from specific flavors to the "MYSTERY" option, but I always attributed it to them just getting lazy about filling it with specific flavors.

I remember that one day it just disappeared. They were redoing the sidewalk and had to put the machine away and it never came back.

I'm pretty sure the locksmith owns the machine, but it's fun to pretend it's a mystery. :)
Summary: hyperventilating about blackmail potential from certain apps while completely ignoring the culture they created that makes such blackmail possible. Plus some China fear-mongering.
This makes me like discord less
Talking about compartmentalization, the earnestness of you anti-fizzy-dinkers struck me as a little silly, and then I realized that outside of childhood I avoided carbonated beverages and sort of hold a mental prohibition on them for some of the reason you allude to. I do enjoy the rare root beer or ginger-ale, though.

Now, where did I put my cigarettes?
I work all day on a command line. I just have a bunch of two character aliases which are about as easy to type as a a keyboard shortcut at least.
ZomboDB scratches an itch in a way I find fascinating, though I have yet to do more with it than shoehorn it into a prototype that was a bit square-peg-in-a-round-hole. It is in my catalogue of technologies I hope exploit someday. And I hope you're enjoying the work and making some $$$ too.

While I'm here might I ask, are you finding the hosted PostgreSQL services (AWS, Azure, etc.) growing or shrinking your market opportunities? Also, does it play nice with Citus?
Recently my bosses boyfriend got busted via apple messages on his computer for having an entirely separate life AND kids with another woman. He even gave them both the same pet names!

She was traumatized but once she dumped him and was able to laugh about it she was very surprised at how he had the time to keep up both lives. He would even go with them each to visit their families on separate weekends, when he told the other girlfriend he was traveling for work. Helped them both install furniture, do chores around the houses, volunteer coached one of the kid's basketball teams.

My biggest takeaway was "why the heck would anyone ever want to do that, and how would they have enough time?"
Not a bad plan but I’ll share my approach since it contrasts with yours.

I worked in big tech for a few years. Hated it. My work is very important to me and I do not like working on projects where I have no creative control or autonomy.

So I started working fewer hours. I was an hourly contractor and got down to 30 hours a week with nothing more than grumbles for my manager.

I’m a generalist in my field (robotics) and “full stack”. I wrote a manifesto [1] and handed out 250 copies at maker faire etc. I wrote about my dream.

Someone shared my dream and could pay me for it. To lower cash flow requirements I only work about 20 billable hours a week. I can survive just fine on that. My billable work is part of my dream and the rest of the week I work on hobby stuff which is all also in furtherance of my dream. 100% of what I am working on is open source.

My story is certainly unique. I don’t expect you to meet someone who will help fund your dream. But I basically got very good at my craft and then found a part time work arrangement that allows me to spend a lot of time working towards other personal goals I have.

And I don’t have to stay stuck in a damn corporate office.

So yeah, instead of negotiating ever higher wages, consider negotiating ever more flexible schedules.

[1] http://tlalexander.com/static/zine.pdf
The median bounty hunter isn't an SFBA software developer.
I’ll just say that I know I’m old because I’d get made fun of for using a mouse at all for dev work back in 2008.
Enterprise AI development platform DataRobot raises $300M, acquires Algorithmia
That does look amazing. But I'm not sure I should be seeing myriad facsimile of younger deniro...

If Deniro appears as Scorsese wanted him to appear then the deep fake (that I do find subjectively better) is actually aiming at the wrong target. It seems like a flawed comparison.
Author seems to be encouraging private donors, not governments. Given that, I don't see why we couldn't have both.
if you feel that way, you might want to check out the serenityos project. it's a custom unix with a classic windows interface
Now I'm curious what this is: https://staging.windows96.net/entry/
Hmmm, I wonder how Flowdock's threading implementation compared with Zulip's?
If biochar is made with 80% or higher fixed carbon it has half life of >500 years in active agricultural soils.
I think the entropy curve of RTS games tend to be poor. The most addictive games have a random start with different elements and a fair bit of luck (think battle royale and roguelikes).

RTS games tend to have a standard opening minutes setup where you just do your own thing and then follow a flow chart of how to progress based on how things develop.

If you're playing someone decent, and are not a top tier player, you don't actually get to experiment and do interesting things so much as try to execute better on your original book of plays.
I have an Expert mouse and like this more than I thought I would.
Sure, I don't know your exact business, those numbers were just guesses. Still, if you are doing half of your stated capacity (50 requests per second), then a single database write every 5 seconds reduces that traffic 249/250. Much of it depends how often the data needs to be read.

This is a common pattern, however. The easiest thing to set up is to do a customer database query for every request, while the far more efficient option, in many, many cases, is to cache the 1000 most-likely queries and serve up static or pre-rendered data. Not cache like one update per day, but perhaps one update per minute. Only you and your team can decide whether it would cost more to serve up a few free ads (over a customer's budget) because the cache was a minute or two old, vs doubling/tripling your infrastructure costs in order to make the system more precise. Sounds like you've got a good roadmap for making that decision.
Creators Shouldn't Own Their Creations