skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent an hour and a half today tracking down and explaining how to use sump and transfer pumps to a friend of mine near Mt Vernon, WA. I've lived in a place that floods for almost 9 years so I take for granted that people know how siphons and various pumps work.

There was only two pumps available in all of whatcom county, from what I saw. Even the harbor fright was out of everything.

Btw if you don't have a pit to put a sump pump in, you want a transfer pump that self primes. The prices are insane right now, but generally $60-100 for 300GPH 100VAC. If you're willing to be careful and mitigate damage to dirt from water, you can dig a hole for a 5 gallon bucket and drop a sump pump in it. You might have a wee bit of standing water under your house but it's better than 3" of water.

My house is 6' above grade, and 3' above the pad, so I don't worry much, once when it rained 28" in three days there was 3" of water on the road out front but I didn't need to go anywhere. A couple days later I did a drive about and so many people had their homes flooded near the farmlands.

Stay safe and pay attention to your local authorities about closures and warnings, and don't cross water on the road, especially if you've never seen the road dry. A large flooding can wash away the road, too, so just stay off the roads if you can!
Typically it is important for a hash function to be fast, because it is on the critical path.

This hash function builds up a very long dependency chain, so takes about as many clock cycles as lines. It is generally better to keep dependency chains short and independent.

In this case, it would be better to start three or more separate expressions, and xor them together at the end, so they could execute in parallel, maybe 3x as fast.

But if you have an AES instruction, a couple of rounds of that are probably better and faster than what you would invent.
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Probably not to be honest. Even Covid just made the industry bigger. Only issue is that crafty might be a bit bare ;)
The attacks on Fauci are despicable. Note that he's anything but a weaselly political hack, but he did get replaced by one during the Trump reign. The man has more integrity than the bulk of that particular administration.
I'm paying for premium for years now and I've never seen or heard a single advert. What exactly are you talking about?
> suggesting Word .DOC was going to replace all text files

Outside of the tech world, it pretty much did.
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So I'm about halfway through and just have to say thank you, it's really great entertainment and I just love the setting!
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I’ve published a tool that will scan a JavaScript project and report any affected packages.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/audit-pack-age
The take away here is: there is no obvious evidence in this data that coffee and tea cause stroke or dementia.

So if we were worried about that, at least there is no obvious relationship.
Most scientists/doctors believed at one point that ulcers were caused by "stress". My father lost half his stomach to an ulcer surgery. Nowadays ulcers are cured with antibiotics in the span of a week. Don't put much stock in what crowds "believe" to be true, _especially_ when _not_ believing it means they can't work in their field.
The interesting thing is that assuming that there is a confounding variable that correlates with coffee consumption which is the real cause of the effect, the correlation can still be useful in some contexts.

For example, while that would mean that simply increasing coffee consumption wouldn't directly lower your risk of dementia and stroke, we can improve our assessment of the risk of a certain patient developing these conditions by asking whether they consume coffee. Even though the coffee isn't the cause, since it correlates with the cause, we still get information by doing that.
The conclusion of the article deals with this very question.
condo fees also cover walls out insurance, many utilities, neighborhood upkeep, etc. given you're already paying these yourself in SFH, it's not quite apples to apples to say full HOA fees would be ON TOP of all of that.

i'd subtract whatever your water/trash/sewage bills are from "typical" HOA rates in your area, and subtract typical difference in home vs HO6 insurance rates, then get to net to compare.
Green tea is predominant in China, Japan and Korea, as well as much of Southeast and Central Asia. Moroccan tea is usually green as well.
When being pedantic, at least write it correctly: 4.8 kN/m² or 4.8 kNm⁻²

I was pleasantly surprised that an American article had metric units with sensible conversions in most cases.
That's fine, since the height is well-known, you can convert that to an angle using nothing more than some high school trigonometry.
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I always wonder whose pockets are being lined with the loan payments. The bank just loans other peoples’ money to you and charges you for it. The way it’s set up there’s almost no risk for the bank and they do almost no work to get all that money.
Not really many open source project such as nextcloud, mattermost are easy to host your self, or the hosting provider provide it as an app.
Exactly – this is currently a regulatory problem, and blockchains, decentralized identity, etc. won't solve anything in this space. On the contrary, it will by definition enable identification in some types of data.

This makes me conclude that these types of solutions are really more about portability and making some sort of political point (the only thing users realistically control is first party authorization – nothing else); They certainly don't have any security or privacy-related guarantees.
I think the reason pessimists carry the day for legitimate reasons is simple - those promising sunshine and rainbows tend to be the same one's picking your pocket or try to turn you into a puppet to be disposed of when no longer useful. Another of pessimism's virtues is that it breeds preparation. Unlike cynicism it can persistently endure pleasant surprises as well.

The reasons for dominance of pessimism culturally are also cynical - negative campaigning tends to work well and it is easier to find something disliked by many diverse subfactions than something unclaimed and liked by many. Plus it is easy to tear down compared to building something.

Hollywood's lack of science optimism has another obvious reason aside from anger at being disrupted by competition from newer technology. It requires far more creativity to come up with something plausible, optimistic, and having a problem that you can hang a plot and spectacle upon than making some shallow nonsensical dystopia which makes as much sense as using nuclear fusion reactor powered robots with energy weaponry are used as overseers for coal miners with pickaxes. Which leads into my next point. What has generally been a death knell for darker aesthetics and genres is inability to be taken seriously anymore; whether by overexposure with a lack of variety and/or a biting parody. It probably affects them worse because there are far more ways to make a "neutral" genre like say Western, than a darker one say a slasher film - the emotional ranges are inherently more limited by definition.
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TypeScript also makes it easier to work with good code.
That's science working as intended: theories getting replaced by better theories. There is plenty that we are probably going to find out more about in the future that will invalidate some of what we believe today to be true. But that's fine, as long as we stick to the scientific method that will all come out, even if it takes a while. Science has brought us further in 400 years than anything that came before. Right now it has given us vaccines, which are the best way to deal with COVID-19, and the anti-vaxx crowd and the pro-hydrochloroquine and pro-ivermectin crowd show large overlap.

Fortunately during the polio years we didn't have the internet, the carnage would have been incredible.
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They still don't get it at all. They should do a reading of the Unicode identifier security guidelines together, probably at their yearly conference gatherings.

The mixed scripts guidelines would have prevented the silly "forbid Cyrillic" solution. Cyrillic alone is fine, but cannot be mixed with Greek, eg.
Bidi or homoglyph attacks are only a tiny part of the story.
I have no idea why this comment would be downvoted other than disgruntled property owners.
> When is/was HTTP ever really extended?

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

Only a few of those existed in the 1.0 spec. The rest evolved in practice. You can add your own without asking anyone else. Libraries don't have to be changed. Your payloads are your business. Encodings are flexible and negotiable.

> i think HTTP only really won because of those.

It's proven to be a predictable, stable, extensible, compatible, generic information exchange protocol. If it's won, it's because of that.
People have a right to be upset about inflation
I think OS miss the ability for an admin to log into a user context. I am very hardline defender of privacy and in principle I support privacy advocates already preparing my pyre for even suggesting that of course.

But if we are honest an admin can already access relevant data anyway and you do indeed need to use a user context to access certain settings of some applications. This is especially true for less digitally affine users.

There are workarounds (Windows->Run as...), but that is sometimes insufficient.

About an admin using your user account to start the nukes? That is mostly possible anyway in the usual corporate Windows configuration. He could just change your AD password and log in as you. I would recommend that approach anyway and then force the user to set a new password and informing him why you sabotaged his workstation would also be nice. Far more secure than having the holy grail Excel file.
TypeScript can't help at all, it vanishes before the code runs.
> however the inputs and outputs are still fully visible on-chain.

And intermediate states are not visible, thus it allows full off-chain transactions.
> WW84 was the biggest HBO Max exclusive to date.

im not sure that's a comment in your favor ;) ww84 was pretty bad. i imagine it drove some signups, but not as many as hbo would have hoped for

> People did signup to watch that movie and therefore their subscribers were a self selected group who are not a representative sample that we can just multiple by 5.

Yeah, my bad. It's actually * 12.

"HBO Max accounts jump to 17.2 million"

At the time, netflix had 208 mil. So, it gets even more believable that netflix is accurately representing their numbers - their audience is so much larger than competitive streaming services, that they can in fact drive record breaking traffic.
What struck me reading through those memos is that Packard wasn't just going through the motions or (overtly) looking to finagle HP procurement deals, but that he was actually approaching the job like a professional manager, conducting dialogue between the executive and legislative branches in an effective and informed way.

1970s: Captains of industry take time away from their companies to act as public servants and provide useful advice and experience at top levels of government

2020s: Captains of industry flame US Senators to a crisp on Twitter
Because people will happily discard evidence that contradicts that which they want to believe. There is apparently something attractive about 'miracle cure suppressed by vested interests' that pretty much guarantees its spread. All you need to do is plant the seed with some gullible people and they'll run with it and parrot it to everybody that will listen, doing a boatload of damage in the process.

Between hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectine you are (worldwide) probably looking at a few hundred thousand extra people dead because they (or in some cases their leaders) chose to believe that bullshit rather than to get vaccinated.
Real wages* have been roughly flat for quite some time. That statement covers 1 and 2 above, yet people often include both as if the second one represented a new problem in light of the first. You’ve included a third statement which restates/clarifies a portion of #2.

All of those statements are true, provided you’re talking about real wages, but then those are closer to 1.5 independent facts than 3.0.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
For the spectators, here is the comment I am thinking of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29235165
Seems to be a very basic social network based on concepts from an old protocol called finger. This website seems to replicate it as a bit of nostalgia.

As you might know, finger is an old protocol (actively used well before my time) which in essence showed information about the users on a server running a finger daemon (usually a Unix-like system).

As I understand it, when you queried for information about a user, a piece of the information you got back would be the contents of a ".plan" file in the user's home directory.

In this file a user could provide what we now call "status updates", which would then be promulgated by finger. You might have put your location, or what you were working on.

To avoid doubt, you can do all of this on the website and don't need to actually use the finger protocol at all. But for true nostalgia you'll need to use the finger command - which works!
This article is a nice counterpoint to what's felt like a trend of Scott's writing (outside of psychology) increasingly becoming contrarianism in search of evidence. Many pieces he's written in the last 1-2 yrs feel like he'll use some back-of-the-envelope calculation to get some ballpark (associative) estimate of some relationship and then base a worldview around it (or work backwards from the latter to the former), decades of causal inference and economics literature be damned. I guess maybe the delineation is social science vs medical science topics. When he's in his wheelhouse he's great to read.
The digital equivalent of "Gaius was here"? I'm confused as well.
In my opinion it should be an argument, especially for people who don't have that expertise.

Also, even the "moderately convincing" evidence is in my opinion not nearly enough. It might be if Covid-19 were a modestly important disease with only a few labs and clinics running working on it. But it's not. Throw enough shit against the wall, eventually something will stick by chance. This is a globally distributed experiment, and it is impossible to control for publication bias and all quality issues...

The only reason to think why Ivermectin should work against Sars-Cov-2 is because it has shown some action in cell cultures at ridiculously high doses, and maybe there have been other anti-viral interactions in the literature. For widespread use, there needs to be more and better evidence, especially given the currently available vaccines and treatments.
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> If the average watch time was less than the runtime, that means more people watched the movie for at least some period.

I'm suggesting some of this total watchtime is not meaningful (<1 min watch time) and may still contribute to a significant proportion of the total watch time.

You assume all the watch time is meaningful.

You also assume there are no users with multiple accounts.

I think these two assumptions are not very reasonable, and can explain why you find your own estimate "literally unbelievable".
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My step-son was recently prescribed a small one off dose of ivermectin by a dermatologist to deal with a rather resistant case of scabies he acquired at a sports tournament.

It took the pharmacy a couple of days to source, because signficant controls had to be put in place around prescribing it due to well, I'm just going to say what I think - the amazing capacity for the Internet to deliver dumbassery to people who are open to it, thanks to the algorithms implemented by Google and Facebook.

The current dominance of algorithmic social media is going to make a fascinating history book one day. Right now it feels somewhat dystopian how easily misinformation is spread online because it yields a high engagement metric.
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The lack of basement and associated parking makes the architecture incredibly alienating too. Almost everywhere you go, it's all parkades, garage doors, staircases and gates - absolutely insane.
Probably not, and probably slower besides.
I think you’re thinking of the Lightning Network. Bitcoin transactions are atomic, they don’t have intermediate states.
Well, at least the parasite endemic among humans sure is in decline now
The UN's "one-time appeal to billionaires"[0] seems like it has sensible goals, and it includes about 10% devoted to "design, scale up and manage the implementation of efficient and effective programmes". Hopefully they want to be agile, rather than commit up front to a rigid plan.

[0] https://www.wfp.org/appeal-billionaires-famine
Prices for condos there range from $750K to $3.3M

I suspect they are undervalued, but I wouldn't live there. Not because of the tilting, which appears to be on its way to being fixed, but because it strikes me as a soulless sardine can.

https://www.highrises.com/san-francisco/millennium-tower-con...
Tbh nowadays you can learn CS concepts online just as easily. College is not for learning anymore, it's for getting a degree and networking.

So the question becomes: how do I learn this stuff? In your case you want to learn specific data-structures for cookie-cutter interviews, you can probably just research and do HackerRank.

If you want to learn more interesting CS concepts (or you're getting bored doing HackerRank stuff, or you want to learn actually practical skills), I recommend building a side project. Side projects are how I learned most of the CS stuff I know, and I learned way more from side projects than from college. Alternatively you can look at existing open-source projects and try to learn / contribute to them.

The side project can be whatever you want. I made side projects to try and fix problems that I encountered. For example a toy HTML builder.
> Ivermectin is being tested in large RCTs, as it should. If it works, it will be used. If it doesn't, it won't.

In the meantime, pharma companies can extract their profits from the more expensive vaccines.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but genuinely curious why these trials are so far behind the vaccine trials?
Netflix's model is shoving content down the user's throat, not providing them good content¹. And they're madly successful at that: most the movies on their top list are arguably garbage, but they're up there because they're the most pushed to the users.

I'm always on the border to close my Netflix account precisely because of that - a side effect of the Netflix interface is that it makes it hard to manage content; I'm staying just because I need to learn a new language.

¹=I don't imply that there is no good content at all.
The slow guy that still kept paper records would win this.
This isn't an accident or a simple case of being wrong: this is a case of a fairly orchestrated campaign. That it has a lot of footsoldiers that aren't aware that they are being used is a real pity and a problem. The big question to me is how will we deal with the next round of bullshit cures that is undoubtedly waiting in the wings to play on those exact same feelings? Are people going to do this again, or will they wise up after having been played twice already?
> I don't see it. When is/was HTTP ever really extended?

Most recently, HTTP/2 has become a concern that HTTP servers and clients have required substantial work to implement, but it is easy to say this is a separate protocol from HTTP, because even though it shares the same ports, a client that doesn't speak HTTP/2 when speaking to an HTTP server will not have to deal with them.

HTTP/1.1 wasn't like that, and neither was HTTP/1.0.

The original HTTP "0.9" was really a lot like finger: You would open a port, send a single line identifying the resource you wanted, and then the content would come back, and the connection would close. HTTP/1.0 added headers and some (text-based) framing to this, and fortunately there weren't many clients to upgrade.

Sometime in HTTP/1.0 people started talking about "pipelining" and the need to change the protocol to support this. The "Connection" header was introduced to identify this change - no other header had ever before meant anything to the web server (except when acting in some capacity as an application header), and misunderstanding the Connection header led to hung clients and slow response. This was made more annoying when the defaults changed for HTTP/1.1 -- now the "new" protocol was the default, and thus hung even more clients. I personally find this very funny because there is absolutely no need for a "pipelining" protocol- sockets are actually quite cheap, but most of the http server implementations and most of the http client implementations were badly written, and it may have been difficult to do better (assuming they knew how to do better) -- and so regardless, what was once an HTTP-compliant implementation was suddenly not.

HTTP/1.1 also introduced an "Upgrade" header, which was a kind of "trap door" to add extensions-- hopefully to avoid this kind of problem in the future, but it is complex, and many HTTP implementations simply added support for the "Connection" header and were find for a couple decades where today we are still shaking out clients that don't support Upgrade properly (and never noticed because servers vary on when they use it).

These "extensions" are the sort that everyone had to cope with- and because the protocol was carelessly defined, it was easy for implementations to get it wrong in a subtle way. Most of the other extensions (e.g. DAV, CONNECT, etc) are much easier to ignore simply because they're more "obviously" an extension.

> I think HTTP only really won because of those (HTML/CSS/JS).

HTTP won for a lot of reasons, and being easy to implement "mostly (or sufficiently) right" is a huge factor that I don't think should be ignored: Yes, many clients got it wrong and noticed years later, but "fixing" those broken clients was pretty easy, and the fact that people don't have to start over to gain increased compatibility or features is attractive in a way that should be studied by protocol designers trying to invent the next amazing thing.
There is a sane middle ground between tiny and bloated, though. I don't see how using a false dichotomy justifies the issues we're complaining about.

Especially when most of those packages are almost never used by themselves, and are instead part of a meta-package with dozens of dependencies.
Am.i missing something? Solve world hunger sounded like a one and done deal... This is sounding like a once a year deal... Distribution of food to the end user is mostly the plan... That's sounds very much like the giv man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man to fish he eats for life... It sounded like musk was thinking the second, not the first...
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Thymalin is by far the most effective treatment, people 1re simply too scientifically illiterate to realize it
The big news here is not only the publicly available top 10, (only available while logged-in before, and re-shared by scrapers). It's also the worldwide weekly viewing hours, a metric tailored for Netflix investors (an equivalent to the social networks' "engagement"). And the fact that you can download all the data directly on the website in Excel or TSV format without any scraping or Netflix account.