skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not an engineer but I am an architect and I have worked closely with engineers on skyscrapers. Drilling all the way down to the bedrock is risky. When you drill a deep pile you need to use bentonite slurry to stop the pile collapsing in on itself, the pile auger is withdrawn and then a long pipe is used to introduce concrete from the bottom of the the pile which should displace the slurry out of the top because it is less dense than the concrete. However, this process doesn’t always work and you get bentonite inclusions in the concrete which are found when the pile is tested ultrasonically afterwards. I don’t remember the stats but lets say it’s something like 1 in 10 piles fail the test when you drill to 50m deep bedrock through clay. You then have to drill two more either side of the original pile and bridge over the defective pile but these each have the same risk of inclusions, so there’s an increased risk the workaround will fail. As you can imagine this can get pretty complicated and expensive quickly. As an architect I was involved because we needed to have a backup plan for how the basement would be reorganised if there were a lot of piling failures requiring extra bridging structures.
This is not all of Europe, though Germany is known for this shenanigans (but on the other hand this gives you a confirmation of when you cancelled it if you send it Advice of Receipt)
Coefficient – work with all of your data from spreadsheets
Jump Point Search: Fast a* Pathfinding for Uniform Cost Grids
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/04/27/apple-go...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/google-faceboo...
It's actually not, as it can induce temporary blindness if you overdose on it.
So how to learn this? I used Emacs for a couple of years long time ago, but while the experience was ok, it didn't last. Is there a book/or blog about the magic you mention?
Oh yeah, this is a real win for consumers now that a large proportion of them are locked out from using their credit cards on Amazon.
You certainly find this kind of thing in numerous beginner books, but I’m skeptical that it’d be of much use for complex scores, or for someone with mastery of sight-reading. We don’t tend to do the same for text, after all. That said, it is easy enough to miss a dynamic marking and plough through a section at the wrong volume. That one might be worthwhile!
How would one go about trying to get this law enforced on a company? I live in California where this tactic has supposedly been illegal for 3 years already, but when I go to cancel my AT&T internet subscription, I still can not do it online and am forced to call.
That happened but didn't take assets into account. People that still had them profited very well. There was also a "Lastenausgleich", the English article is quite bad though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lastenausgleich

Especially the quote about it being the source of the rapid growth period is a bit ridiculous in my opinion.
Yeah, I agree, that in the case of a pandemic, the health authorities interests are pretty well aligned with a member of the general public. However, there are always issues in this kind of situation when the authorities got it wrong. In a political environment, changing course is seen as an admission of being wrong, and a loss of face. So we continue on with the initial policy. We are currently facing this problem as all experts seem to agree that covid will be endemic, but we are still flailing around with (increasingly half-assed) prevention measures as if we are still going to stop the virus. I disagree that pursuing herd immunity was a bad decision. With every day the pandemic drags on, Sweden's decision is looking better and better.
"...everyone still PCR positive by day 7 so it was impossible to compare groups"

Eh, isn't this what a PCR-test does: detect RNA?
A medicine doesn't magically remove virus RNA. It might break down the virus or block it's ability to reproduce but the RNA will still be detected.
Do check out Causal.app , looks like this use case might be interesting there.
Supposedly they are not buying everyone off. Look, 2008 happened, why couldn't similar thing that happened in financial industry happen in medicine industry?

The motivations, rushing of everything could be just aligned enough to cause all of this. Safety studies excluding some participants, some important data. All you'd have to pay off is to exclude certain data, for which there are ALREADY reports coming out for. For example Maddie de Garay's injuries excluded, there's report of someone else's vaccine injury being excluded from the original study.

BMJ coming up with the article of falsified data etc.

The way Pfizer reportedly conducted side effect studies. E.g. asking participants to report their side effects on 7th day in the app without any freeform text or custom symptoms - only predetermined symptoms. For any custom symptom you had to contact the doctors, who may have just ignored you or determined your symptoms to be irrelevant since they didn't have motivation or time to deal with you.

Pfizer just pressuring subcontractors just enough for them to provide data that favours vaccine safety, and there's just not enough time to double check everything so all of it just flies by.

Mainstream media has reported absolutely none of it. None of the excluded participants, nothing about the BMJ article. Nothing about how Pfizer conducted the studies. Everyone is clueless about that. There's already so much PR built towards hating "anti-vaxxers" and considering them uneducated and unintellectual, so the word "vaccine" is already associated in everyone's mind as something good, safe and effective. The PR is already there, you just have to work out something that you could call "vaccine", and help out people in the current very desperate situation.

Very few are actually closely looking into the data and there are actually plenty of scientists and doctors talking about it, but they are getting debunked using very superficial arguments and just finding anything slightly wrong or misleading about what they are saying and they are immediately considered "debunked".

Similarly during 2008, very few people were predicting this crash and everyone just wanted to pretend together that everything was going well. All the experts, economists etc. And human anatomy is somehow simpler than financial system?
Yeah beyond the cringe of thinking a Ph.D really means anything, its just highlights the pure lack of Lucene knowledge.
It's the solution to the "Unregistered HyperCam 2" problem.

In simplified words, it's a screen recording software that also lets you stream to twitch and other streaming portals. In practice it does way more than that though.
Sure, but think about it like this:

Your DE has 10 features and 10 users, we decide we remove any feature that is only used by 1 or 0 users.
We look around and find that
1 feature F1 is used only by user U1 , we remove F1 and we push user U1 to go away.

2 feature F2 was used by 2 users but now that U1 left , F2 is used only by 1 user, so we remove F2 and kck out the user U2 , we left with 8 users now from 10 and 8 feature

3 feature F3 was used by 3 users including U1 and U2 , but since we kicked this 2 users ut only U2 left using it , so now we remove F3 , kick out user U3 (U3 regrets now that he was a dick to U2 and U2 accusing them of beeing snowflackes and using it wrong)

4 ... repeat until you reamin with 2 users, the designer and the developer (the dev uses other DE on his personal machine anyway)

My second point, GNOME team should just pause and reflect at Apple, see that vision without a connection with users is wrong, Apple has sales numbers and other ways to detect when their big ego vision dude has messed up but GNOME needs to reflect (not change, not implement features just reflect), are we going to far? how do we know when our vison dude has gone too far since we don't have sales number and shareholders keeping the bullshit in check?

There is a chance that GNOME vision is wrong and it can take much more years then it took Apple to do the "courageous" thing and undo the stupidity and replace the vision individual.
Most of that wikipedia article is devoted to pointing out that most of the time "argument from authority" is legitimate.

And to the extent that the article does say that even a legitimate authority needs to present an argument, in this context, they have!

Like the situation here is medical experts have said "hmm these studies that appear to show ivermectin's effectiveness are fraudulent and suspicious".

Like, with the exception of the complete theory that ivermectin studies in some nations are naturally confounded by the presence of worms, the arguments he's made about the unreliability of the ivermectin data is the mainstream argument about the unreliability of ivermectin data. He even cites a number of experts whose analysis he sometimes relies on!
Should not you only use anonymous / pre-paid / virtual / revocable credit cards for those operations?
Maybe they just finally had the courage to call streamlabs out on this.
The German title of his book is "Ermüdungsgesellschaft" which literally translates to "fatigue society". Han lives and works in Berlin, as a professor of philosophy I am not sure if he writes in German or English tho.
I'm adding to what bradlys has written in response.

Women, marriage, love are different things. We should not let these be confused together. A push back against marriage is not same as that against love, and nor against women in general.
STM32G0 is as already the lowest end current MCU line from ST (if you ignore the STM8 line of 8-bit MCUs)
There would have been no carnage with polio. Vaccines have a demonstrable and long lasting effect and the disease is more severe for all age groups, so people would have taken the vaccine.

Polio, measles etc. are entirely different.
> Well, it's still what you do every time you create a new project.

Yep, and it is a pain in the ass when the package you want to use creates a dependency conflict. Luckily, at that stage I can still search for an alternative with little to no cost.

> Ok but many packages won't be installable at all anymore, because people pin different versions instead of maintaining their packages by continuously integrating upstream releases.

And some packages won't be installable anymore because they use deprecated APIs, or were only compatible with Python 2, or expected certain files/folders/programs to be present on the system and they aren't anymore. Packages go into abandonware all the time, removing version pinning doesn't fix that.

> Instead, you should be upgrading your code to support the newer numpy version. Seriously, try it out, you'll be spending less effort at the end of the year.

Thank you for telling me this, I will be relaying to my clients that they need to upgrade their systems to newer Python versions to get new features, surely that will go well.

> I wait for CI or users to report that a new release isn't compatible so I can fix it as soon as possible, in which case we temporarily pin versions, instead of piling up tech debt until it's so huge the whole project becomes trash.

Well, I prefer to not have my program crashing in client environments because someone decided to update a package and break things.

> piling up tech debt until it's so huge the whole project becomes trash.

Waiting to release on new dependency versions until those versions are tested is not tech debt. I mean, semantic versioning was done with this purpose precisely: to signal which upgrades are just bug fixes and you should upgrade ASAP, which ones are new features so you can upgrade without too many problems, and which upgrades break compatibility and you should test it thoroughly in case something broke.

If living at latest release works for you and dealing with dependency issues on new installations is not a problem, then go. But other systems will require that a certain release installs dependencies on a consistent manner. Some of my dependencies are automatically upgraded and tested before release, others are pinned because they always break things and I only upgrade manually. But once a version of a package is released, that one goes with version pinning because I prefer to avoid the risk of a client installing the software and having to explain them than "oh, it's just that this dependency released a new version that broke things and we didn't specify the version that our software needed".
I'd love to see a drill down of how exact the credit card scheme works regarding fees.

Like who is paid what exactly by whom. Is this somewhere available?
Have you tried turning your charger off and on again?
BTW, you can build a lot of interesting things with jQuery alone.
It also works in legalese

> Party A must satisfy all the following condition to receive a premium:
> EOF

As there were no conditions to satisfy Party A was able to satisfy all of them and is entitled to the premium.
Moldy Data and Dashboards
We put all our purchases on credit cards here in the UK (London) - but pay them off monthly. Amex Gold and Barclays Platinum Visa (it has 0 overseas fees, but a bit of a stingy limit. mostly just used where Amex isn't accpeted). Amazon lets you spend Amex points, so guessing the tie up runs deep. Best not to read into fights between gods.
https://archive.md/n2PU8
Coffee does not really affect my sleep. I know this for 2 reasons:

1. I periodically go off coffee, for various reasons, but frankly never notice much difference to my sleep quality.

2. I have 2 kids that deprive me of sleep much more effectively. Or, put otherwise, no matter how much I drank during the day, I fall asleep like a log. And then it's not coffee disturbing my sleep, but crying children.

I can see though that coffee abuse _could_ lead to sleep deprivation and related issues. But it's like alcohol could lead to alcoholism, but doesn't have to. Though, incidentally, apparently deliberate sleep deprivation is one method of tackling depression - so it's not all bad.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-sleep-depriva...
Upvoting everything you have said.

Feeling sorry for you too.
But so far only on it debit cards, it still offers visa credit cards.
It used to be the case that HTTP was used by web browsers (clients) and web servers to exchange mostly textual content. During those times, HTTP was used as a pure application-layer protocol, riding on-top of TCP (a transport-layer protocol).

These days HTTP is used for everything. Server-to-Server API calls, binary data transfer, IPC, etc. A lot of these things get implemented on-top of HTTP though. HTTP is used much more as a transport-layer protocol now, an abstraction layer on-top of TCP.

How did we end up here? It appears that there was an organic need to build an abstraction layer that's easier to work with than TCP, which is probably seen as too low level and much more difficult to work with. Browsers supporting HTTP out-of-the-box with AJAX made this a widespread practice.

These abstractions come at high costs though.
> that do one thing well

And sometimes even something the language already does, but the author didn’t know.
This is brilliant and will make design a tiny bit easier. The creator is continually producing helpful, and really cool resources to make development easier. Smashing work.
Has this been confirmed by Amazon? I received this notice and another one last week about my payment method expiring for one Amazon service but not any of the others on the same card. I couldn’t confirm that one either and it had the distinct whiff of phish about it.
Does it feel like living on the Titanic?
I don’t consider this vendor lock in; more other-vendor lock out. Which is not to say it is necessarily better or worse - it’s just different.

For a company with internal IT or IT capable people, that’s a small hurdle if running the software is not too hard.

For a company with all IT outsourced, this is a deal breaker.

It will likely stop the behemoths (AWS, GC, Azure) from capitalizing on that product though.
You are talking about the ancient definition of comedy, you just don't like comedies and want more tragedies. Wholesome does not just mean that the good people wins at the end, it means that there are no bad people to begin with. If there is a problem it isn't caused by some evil guy, it could be that a tractor broke down or that a harvest failed and people has to work hard to solve it, evil people aren't wholesome so stories containing them aren't wholesome stories.
Why? I think he has a point. We live in a society that is geared around profit. That is literally how our society functions. Economic activity is incentivised by the profit motive, important national metrics like GDP focus primarily on profit driven output and growth, even engineering or medical problems are often framed in economic terms like cost/benefit. I think it’s silly in this kind of context to ignore the profit motive.
>Actual medical science, and science in general, doesn't make claims beyond what we know for certain

What would you say about the FDA's recent approval of aduhelm? Do we know that it works "for certain"? Or is the FDA not part of the medical science establishment?
It actually has content in Catalan. "Crear compte" and "Iniciar sessió" are Catalan for "Create account" and "Log in".

Edit: fix typo and now I realize these texts are returned according to the browser's locale. I'm Catalan, so that's why I see them in Catalan :)
Ask HN: Selling 7 figures ARR SaaS vs. growing it yourself
Our bootstrapped SaaS is growing at 3-5%/month and recently reached 7 figures. Was launched 4 years ago specialized on an under-served niche that for most it was too small.

Since then that segment grew and lots of competitors appeared on the market, some grew a bit faster than us because they had better marketing (we did no marketing) and a bit better UI/UX, even though we were the first.

In the last year, 2 of the new competitors that are close to our size got acquired and even if we had no plan to sell it, I'm wondering if we shouldn't do the same mostly because of the extra help in hiring, managing the business, etc.

we're only 3 people, the business is very profitable but hiring is very challenging. As far as I know, those acquired businesses got access to an already built team of designers, developers, marketers and sales people..... something that will be hard for us to do. I'm afraid that our competitors will eat us alive with those resources at their disposal and when we are prepared to sell the business, we'll be too far away from them.

Any ideas on how to handle this? Is there a way to do both, like a partial exit and get access to an already built team?
A number of people (myself included) would perhaps pay less attention to ivermectin as in covid drug if crowd would really take it and do studies instead of just publicly mocking people who are trying to look into it"

A number of people—probably not including myself, if I'm honest—would take this statement more seriously if it wasn't a complaint that a thing which has already happened, and continues to happen, isn't happening.

Seriously. There are trials for any number of medications underway, including Ivermectin. There is, at the point, no evidence whatsoever to suggest it is being unreasonably withheld in any way. The cult of "magic miracle cure" that has built up around this one particular drug is fucking terrifying
There might be something going on with Visa in the UK. I've noticed that all the bank accounts I've had that used Visa for debit cards for many years all seem to have switched to Mastercard recently. Presumably they wouldn't overcome this much inertia unless there was a substantial financial incentive. If card issuers are finding that their costs are too high, chances are payment processors are as well.
Denmark has a standardized national debit card. Physical stores are not allowed to charge a fee, but online stores are (typically DKK1.50/$0.25). Works great, but obviously only for stores in Denmark. They are almost always combined with a Visa debit card on the same card for a yearly fee (typically DKK150/$25).
Eh, Russia kind of has a thing =/
Nowadays its name is just Open Build System :)
Visa would lose face if they charged the end user with transaction fees, so the merchant pays it instead. Then the merchant delegates the transaction fee to the user, but thankfully nobody knows about that.
>That would mean 37% of the global Netflix subscriber base watched this movie in the first few days after release. That is literally unbelievable.

why? and some people will watch it multiple times, also if hours watched is just the straight calculation of all the time spent watching the people who go back and watch a scene over again would also count.

I would expect it to be a straight calculation of all time watched, easier and probably the best calculator of value for Netflix.

>but the total viewers would likely translate to at least the 2nd biggest opening ever for a theatrical release.

I would expect that streaming movies get a larger amount of the available audience to look at them if they look reasonably enjoyable than movies in theatres.
Thanks for the Hoffmann link - I just watched the first three videos. That was fun.
It's not, because there's no real receipt confirmation.

They ended up chasing me for 3 years over 20 euros when I moved to the UK. At least here in Sweden, credit checks aren't really a thing thankfully.
What would the consequences be of subscribing to something with a disposable card, then deactivating that card instead of formally unsubscribing? Can companies send your information to a debt collector or somehow force you to pay since you didn't cancel? Can it affect your credit score?
I love using Typescript, but I only ever use interface and enum. What extra benefits would I get from using other features than those? What am I missing out on? :)
This is true for traditional "contracts", e.g. phone, apartments, gyms, etc, but these generally also involve paperwork when signing up (though in some of these cases you can sign up online and then have the confirmation mailed to you).

This is definitely not the case for websites or apps and I'm pretty sure what the NYT is doing wouldn't amuse German consumer protection agencies.
Sweden, the country where the authorities apologized for messing up, that Sweden?

People on average gained 10 kg? Really, I have no idea where you get this nonsense but clearly you are not interested in a factual debate but in one that gives you what you want: the ability to ignore this pandemic as though it doesn't exit.

There are no ICU beds for the gerontocracy, there are simply ICU beds, and there is a limited number of them, they will have a COVID patient in them or someone else, and in case of surplus they might be free.

The medical authorities and the politicians should not be confused.
> apparently deliberate sleep deprivation is one method of tackling depression

Briefly and temporarily, but efficacy quickly drops off with near-term repetition. As (apparently) with psychedelics, it's good for a temporary change of perspective that can be leveraged with the right techniques into lasting improvement, but much more of an adjuvant to therapy than a therapy in its own right.