skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many people have the wherewithal to encrypt their content? Even if some have the technical capability, how many are willing to take the reduced quality of life required for what is probably a low probability risk?
Can someone please explain the purpose of a logging library (woof, log4j, etc)? There must be something beyond writing text to an external file, possibly with different error levels, that I'm missing. This is a serious question. I truly do not understand what you gain by depending on an external library for this (seemingly) simple operation and would appreciate some insight. Thanks!
Always optimizing for Scalability. We are often taught to design applications and systems that are scalable even when they don’t necessitate such design. This introduces unnecessary complexity that becomes more challenging to work around. I am slowly realizing that applications often reside on a spectrum of correctness vs scalability and it is up to the designer to select where within that spectrum they expect their application to be based on the problem being solved and the business requirements
If you don’t mind the heavier weight / newer version requirements, dataclasses from the standard lib also seem to solve this problem.
I was surprised by the table showing 177,000 listings for one and 700,000 listings in the other.

Ideally they could both share data and mirror each other for both registrations and stolen bike listings, for the most effective use by people who may be unaware of the other entity.
Some good stuff here. I’ll add my $0.02.

David Brooks talk on meaning (and how financial/social freedom isn’t as great as you think) https://youtu.be/iB4MS1hsWXU

Paul Bloom and Sam Harris talk about PB’s new book The Limits of Pleasure (hedonism, happiness, meaning…)- https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/waking-up-conversations/t...

SH opinion on meaning, paraphrased: a narrative you can tell yourself and others about what you are doing. (Watch out for philosophical pseudo questions) Mindfulness & Meaning -- from the Waking Up app. Click on the link to listen now.

https://dynamic.wakingup.com/course/2e0d71?source=content%20...

Thanks for listening. Best of luck.
“We’re shipping to the US” – inside China’s synthetic opioid networks (2020)
In comparison to what? I've found that it's very responsive in a repl/notebook for interactive work (especially with Revise). It's not good for running short scripts, but if you have something that's doing some real work, the compilation often isn't a big deal.
I think your first sentence is a bit premature considering the study. Its forgivable to post this because it's so early but seriously, this was done in test tubes.

"One major caveat of the current study is that we used an in vitro assay system and the pseudotyped viruses but not the real viruses were used in the assay."
It’s an allusion to the time of the year.
g, do you think the 4% thing is even a realistic recommendation today? I also having doubts that index fund investing is even beating inflation in the long run. SPY VOO etc are just 2 of the giant monetary sinks being fed by passive investment through retirement funds, pensions, etc. being cap weighted smooths out the supply from the continuous influx of new money. its growth is an indicator of monetary supply.

I hope folks that have been playing that game are going to be ok when things go a bit strange. Ive never been more bullish on the orange canary in the coal mine.
Don't bikes have serial numbers?

How hard is it to just publish the list of "found" and imponded bikes, that everyone can see?
I don't have any advice about what you should do next, but what you're experiencing is common amongst people who've become rich "overnight". Look at the difficulties Notch, the creator of Minecraft, had with his success, or the co-founder of RxBar: https://marker.medium.com/what-really-happens-when-you-becom...

7.5M euros is definitely more than enough for one person, but at least it's not in the range where now you feel responsible to do something big and positive with the money.

As others have said, use your free time to explore other aspects of life that may interest you. Try new things, and don't disclose your riches to others. If I were in your shoes, I would try as best as I could to spend time with regular people. The challenge now is to remain grounded as a human being since you no longer have the routine of chasing a paycheck. That said, finding a job might still be useful just so you do have personal development. Obviously, the hard thing will be as soon as you encounter difficulties in your job, you can easily just walk away from it instead of trying to grow.
> Postgres implicitly creates a transaction for any query modifying data outside of one.

I should clarify. I meant holding a transaction for the duration of the message.
Sometimes I've had the same intial screen with the code applied only to be told after trying to place the order that my account was not eligible for the promotion. I was sent back to the same screen with the appropriate amount (without the promo applied).

Judging by the screenshots, this could be the case so I will hold my judgement.

Edit: Just wanted to make this clearer, a way to reproduce this would be:

Take screenshot of code applied.

Place order.

App tells you the code didn't apply and sends you back to the order screen with the full price displayed.

Place order.

Take screenshot of receipt.

Boom UberEats scammed me!

Not necessarily saying that OP is lying but I am too cynical.
> I think perhaps you didn't understand what I was trying to express. What you experienced is normal and the correct and expected way network providers will deal with a problem like that. I tried to express that.

As mentioned. I thought that it was normal, i was just curious if there was a better way that's.. less stressful :p
The thing I find surprising about high-end bike crime -- it seems easy to crack down on -- if there's any desire to do so.

Acquire some bait bikes, then put some 40mm GPS trackers somewhere unusual in the bike (the chain stays?), maybe this requires a bit of surgery, but this seems like a relatively small cost. Then raid whatever warehouse they end up in.

I guess there's no real political will to do this.
Have you considered writing a GB emulator in this style?
I’m sure some cloud provider would love to slap wolfram features on to their existing service offerings as a value-add.
A millipede with 1,300 legs has been found in Australia. It's a new record
Note to new readers: it's written so well, it's actually very easy to underestimate. Quite a few things which seem to be weaknesses are very much on purpose (main character's personality is one of them). I could go on but it's not at all a spoiler-friendly book - suffices to say that at some point the author posted the equivalent of "are you daft?!" to the readers in the book notes.

You may also want to take a peek at the Contents. The plot will catch you too fast to notice, but most parts of the book are meant to teach a certain lesson. And yes, there exists the no-fiction version, but it's quite a bit longer and drier :)
Why should a customer pay for bad app design? The app allowed the code to be applied to that specific restaurant. Then backend refused it and customer pays the difference. In what world is that acceptable?
pour les encourager les autres
level error!

account deposit: $100

was the message from the bank teller to the account, not from you :)
It's an industry standard. Folks better adhere to it or else they might get into legal trouble.
I briefly looked at the article but don't see anything actionable from what it said.

I could buy lead testing kits and check out all of my mugs at home. It looks like that would cost around $40 a test which seems a bit high for checking every mug I own given the low risk indicated in the link.
Hello. Article author here. Hit me up if anybody has questions.
The Research and Analysis Branch of the OSS employed more than a thousand social scientists (including Marcuse) as information analysts, people who came out of academia for a while to aid the war effort vs. the Nazis. Many later went back to academia.

Implying without further evidence that therefore academic social scientists are secret saboteurs, part of a spy agency conspiracy, is defamatory nonsense. Whatever anyone thinks about Marcuse per se, this kind of cheap anti-intellectualism is deplorable.
Delusions that "CIA did it" are of course common, but it's also true that it's extremely common for people to say you're delusional or paranoid when you describe things the CIA has admitted to in public.

Take a look at the findings of the Church Committee, or at Operation Condor, Operation Mockingbird, the coup in Iran (admittedly a CIA operation), the CIA fomented strikes and civic unrest in Chile after Allende's election, Gladio, the "Jakarta Method", etc.
GitHub == Microsoft and has been for a while.
No. Funded projects also contains bugs.
Accountants, traders, executives, bankers, etc all have strict rules designed to avoid the appearance of impropriety. However, it seems that members of congress are held to a much lower standard.
A single partition is intended to be processed, more or less, in by a single worker. If one of those messages, for whatever reason, ends up being really expensive, or flaky, you can't move on until you've handled it.

That's head of line blocking.
Sometimes the USB cable which connects my iPhone to my Honda Civic degrades. I have to replace it every 6 months or so.

It doesn't kill the connection, but audio quality goes down very noticeably. Replacing it with a new one seems to fix it for the next half-year. Is this real? Whats the mechanism behind it?
>I think this can all be true. ER doctors say avocados are one of the most dangerous fruits because of knife accidents.

This analogy doesn't apply. Avocados don't lunge at unsuspecting people with knives while they're not looking.
You could if you trained for it. You would probably be maimed after, though. That said these monkeys are more like 1/10th your weight
They use the serial number as a means to identify that you are actually the owner. Denver has a system where if you register you bike with the city and your bike is found they'll notify you.
And you can't even hit the back button. Incredible.
A while ago I was perusing the hillside communities in Lima, Peru on Google Maps [1]

It's pretty rough. But it made me wonder if some of these now quaint hillside communities in Italy would have felt more like Lima. Now they've reached a certain mythic quality, but at one time the higher up you were probably the lower class (because access is annoying and difficult), and what is now well maintained may have been more crude and decayed.

Another bit of weird hillside architecture [2]

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@-12.0647469,-77.001966,3a,75y,1...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/@-12.0658476,-76.9996591,3a,75y,...
Web scraping can be a viable business. It depends on what you're scraping and who your customers are.

Are there a couple thousand people who would pay for a SaaS offering? Then it's a business. The real goal would be identifying a hair on fire problem that you are in a unique position to solve. That's always the problem, and it has nothing to do with web scraping in particular.
I came here to ask the same. Pascal files are laid out in such a manner that the "implementation" section of the file is ready for compilation to bytes and any forward references just mean that it's code ends up later in the exe.
Typical runtime speed has only ever been fractionally slower than c/c++.
Smalltalk is IMO super readable, it's just not familiar or standard. To me, unreadable languages are languages that rely heavily on symbols. The obvious extremes would be perl or APL. In those, if you don't already know the symbol it's pretty much impossible to figure out. In smalltalk, it tends to read like english so you can usually understand what it's doing even if you're not entirely familiar with the syntax.

To be honest, I find this is actually the hardest thing I grapple with when I look at mathematics that I'm not familiar with. A lot of times the concept and the equation are simple, but if I'm not familiar with what a specific greek letter is supposed to represent it's completely impenetrable. Not that I'm saying we have to change math, but I always found that was the biggest obstacle for me.
Tons of boosted goods land on Facebook Marketplace. It's also where shoplifting rings tend to dump their goods.
If it helps, I think it could be because people value more the things they struggle to obtain. Going from zero to 7.5 million is life changing, and you might be thinking "why struggle anymore hen I can live comfortably?".

I can relate a bit. I studied my career in another city, so I had to take a bus at 5 am every day to attend class at 7 am, studied and did homework until 8pm, and took the bus back to be at 11pm in my home city. It was brutal, but I was young and it felt good to accomplish my goals with my own effort.

A semester later, I got the opportunity of a cheap rent with a couple of roommates, and my motivation tanked. Stopped attending classes, became a night owl, wasted my time playing games, watching TV, reading, and taking long walks. Fortunately I was able to study and pass the finals thanks to the great friends I made in the first semester. Without them I would have failed.

I asked my roommates "what's your motivation to attend school?", and they told me it was their parents; they wanted to proudly show them their university degree. I had no such motivation, and didn't even desire that much the degree myself.

Years later I understood that motivation comes from your own 5-10-20 years plans. I didn't bother then to make a life plan, it would have helped me tremendously with taking school seriously. I suspect you did make a life plan, and that plan boiled down to make a lot of money. Now that you have a decent sum of money, it's time to adjust your plan. How do you see yourself in 5, 10, 20, 50 years from now?
Where is this streaming option available for $500? I do not see it on nfl.com If it is subject to blackouts, it does not count.

https://www.nfl.com/ways-to-watch/
All of this sounds great, but it is nearly 450 bucks!!! I’d like to get one, the only turnoff is the price
These are what i'd say, as someone who has tinkered with it a lot but uses python/C++ for $day_job:

- immature web/network services stack. For better or worse the lang seemed to focus on more number crunching throughput early than reliable distributed data processing, but the latter is a much larger market and what most enterprises care about.

It's the difference between a lang only having Matlab or R ceiling vs python-like ceiling.

- poor static compilation or static analysis story. this is what a lot of people needing to put code in production need.

It's also standard expectation now with a lot of dynamic language code (python or js) that aims to be in production.

- for certain types of realtime uses, more direct control of memory is doable, but you have to jump through hoops. Again, determinism is very important.

- historically, compile times were quite horrid. part of this was llvm, part of it was julia. It's gotten way better in 1.6 and 1.7, but compilation results need to be cached more than just precompilation.

however, all being said, I love the lang! There is a lot going for it especially how the package ecosystem works. There is also a lot of innovative projects.
> Personally the distinction between subroutines and functions always struck me as overly math-centric thinking

Not really, many programming languages generally considered math-centric are perfectly fine with functions returning (or taking) a unit type of some sort, category theory (and even its predecessor abstract algebra) has a lot of use for initial and terminal objects, etc.

It’s more like mathematicians used to be vaguely uncomfortable with non-referentially transparent things when computation as a mathematical object was new. They realized the error of their ways pretty quickly, all in all, but a realization such as this can take decades to make its way through layers of educational materials.

> I don't quite get why [ = for equality] remains contentious

Because it’s a huge problem when teaching, even if it isn’t for competent practitioners. Maybe it wouldn’t be if we put CS (and graphs, and games, and lots of other things utterly lacking in prerequisites) in elementary-school mathematics where it belongs, but if wishes were horses I’d have a racing franchise by now.
I have not, but I would imagine it to be full of news? That's not the case for you?
Thought it was going to be that post about the resturant that cancelled and Uber Eats took the money anyways, funny that it happened more than once
Did any of these open-source projects that lag behind had a budget that at least was of the same order of magnitude of their proprietary counterparts? I don't think so.

OBS is another counterexample that is heavy on GUI and absolutely superior to similar solutions (where they don't just fork it and hide it).

Proprietary and open-source modes share the same challenges. 1. Developers need incentives and it has to be sustainable. Money is the biggest of them but reputation, fun and self-realization also matters. 2. Organization and scale. A team of experts supported by staff can do a lot more than a single developer. But a large corporation is inefficient and can fail to deliver. 3. Momentum. It's difficult for a software to compete with large established softwares like AutoDesk, MS Office and Photoshop even if delivers the same features and performance.
I was wondering the same, but a recent explanation made sense to me. The idea is to have the ability to control logging of third-party libraries. You might want to see some log messages but you don't want everything spamming stuff into stdout.
Personally, I consider Mexico, Canada, and most of America as North America with the Caribbean, and Central America being separated.

I wouldn’t call Malaria etc wildlife, mosquito’s on their own are harmless.
I’m going to “agree” but put my own spin on it

So we avert drone war and consume our way off the environment cliff? Or die before but leave the sludge for the future?

I mean, front row seats to heterogeneous droid swarm mayhem sounds fun.

An “I love my job, disposable consumerism, to prop up other peoples grandparents imagined value to society when many in my family got fucked” is not really helping the “but my American civic life story!” crowd. When it was decided in the 80s business taxes were too high, so sad. So is your so called net worth.

Paraphrasing Thomas Jefferson; the dead do not rule the living.

Madisonian philosophy is that we do.

But Jefferson saw servicing generational story of debt as the whole problem in human history.

Adam Smith also agreed; he wrote the powers that be would need insure equality of condition to avoid manipulation of a free labor market (the only market he wrote of).

Somehow we just get Madisonian policy and tall tails of success in a gender and race biased recent history.

If the US wants respect and drone weapons it’s culture should have to prove it’s as capable of behaving responsibly as any other.
I wish I could migrate to Linode... but they don't support VPCs in Europe though.
Yes, but usually the first thing thieves do when they steal a bike is grind away the serial numbers.
I think the mere fact that use of log4j is so wide-spread answers your first question. It's not that simple to do it (well) yourself.

That said, I do agree that there is a problem with large dependency trees. It seems building a simple hello-world app with Maven ends up downloading about 1/2 the internet. :)
I know you're insinuating that the restrictions work. That's a very bold claim. Two things I'd like to know about the restrictions:

1) Do they actually work

2) Are they worth it (cost/benefit)

You say "the end of each wave aligns neatly with restrictions" - can you prove that it's not just that the restrictions follow the waves? You know, correlation doesn't necessarily mean causation. I haven't seen any real discussion of this by governments, they just claim it works.

Obviously each country does restrictions their own way, but I feel like the concept of "lockdowns" is pretty ubiquitous, and if you're going to do something that seems stupid, you should have a lot of supporting evidence for its efficacy. So far I haven't seen much persuasive evidence in support of lockdowns or masking, but people keep throwing it at me like it's gospel. They don't seem to think Sweden or Florida are real, or any of the other places that never did lockdowns.

Meanwhile, there's plenty of evidence that lockdowns are putting millions of people into starvation. I haven't seen any governments put out cost/benefit analysis, probably because it wouldn't look very good.

I wonder honestly whether you, and others like you, are arguing in good faith. The truth is I'm not necessarily against many of the restrictions - if it turned out they were actually appropriate and worth it. The problem is that the way you argue, the incentives involved, and the reality of the outcomes, I don't believe a fucking word you say. You'd have to provide indisputable evidence at this point, and you'd have to really make me want to hear it.
If they are hesitant, then they should be better trained. There are enough "moves" to subdue and fixate someone without suffocating or killing them. The real question should be: Why is police in other countries capable of doing this?
chainstays seem like it would be a hard technical problem since cutting open/accessing the inside of a chain stay would greatly weaken a bike. and on road bikes/hybrid bikes the chainstay diameter can be quite narrow.

Some sort of GPS+LTE data modem and battery might be easily integrated into a seatpost based tracker, or stem, or combined stem-bar unit. A bit tricky since either aluminum or carbon fiber structural components are RF opaque.

maybe mounted in one of the areas in the downtube or seat tube that's designed into modern road bikes for ultegra/di2 internal battery mounting, or related to power meter crankset mounting.
"competency only found in the upper tranches (say top 1/3) of students in high school.

yet not a single one of these things has the slightest to do with technical aptitude"

?? Aptitude is definitely correlated with academic performance. There is no debate there.

I'm sure on your journey you've taken enough stats to grasp that your personal anecdotal experience doesn't count for that much? I mean, being last place in school, absent all the time ... would it be reasonable for you, the Uni, or anyone to believe that you were 'well suited' to Engineering, or at least more suited than those with good grades, GPA yada yada? It's great you did well, but you must agree that wasn't likely.

In the aggregate, both GPA and SAT are highly correlated with Academic performance in University, so you're arguing against the wind here. [1]

(Do I really even need to provide a data point on this?)

And you must know that being 'Last Place' in High School would preclude most kids from even being accepted to Eng. programs, let alone Uni.

Students who do poorly in High School generally won't succeed in Eng. programs - let alone be accepted in the first place.

Everyone knows this, and it's why they use Grades and SAT as a primary means of admission.

And FYI raw aptitude can't be taught but all sorts of other things can i.e. having basic mathematical literacy and just 'keeping up' from grades 1-9, means that kids have the confidence and opportunity to participate in 'STEM' things which they would be blocked from doing otherwise. Peers, Mentors, points of Inspiration also give kids the extra energy and ethos to work through the issues they might not otherwise care about, in effect, there's a lot of 'passion' hidden inside 'aptitude'.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/prestoncooper2/2018/06/11/what-...
The average adult can't lift 18kg with one arm, even with improper posture? That's pretty sad if true.