skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes merchants/retailers almost always decide prices. In fact some variant of "pricing is at the sole discretion of the retailer" is a standard email signature and PPT/Doc footnotes of many sales people in most manufacturers.
I was under the impression unsold plants were taken out back and destroyed and evidence returned to the vendor (usually a photo and the UPCs). When I worked at a store that sold books and magazines we would rip the covers off and send those back, the rest going into the trash.
I think the premise falls down with the example given about programming languages because in engineering everything is a trade-off. Cobol is not Go and would have made design choices based on not just Instituional Knowledge (or lack of it) but also because of the world at that time, the reality of hardware and software etc.

Sure, GoLang could learn something like "don't make things nullable" but it would be easy to say, "yes I know that, but in our case, this creates a benefit because of X"

Just like people who believe in TDD, DDD etc. they might all work, but that doesn't mean they are objectively the best way to do things in all circumstances.

I think the better target is learning how to think and analyze more effectively so we know what we are trading off more clearly.
Would improve mine would be intelligent text parsing of dates with feedback.

e.g. : "2 feb" and it says "2 feb, 2022, 6 days from now"

write "3/2/2022" and it refuses to validate, but lets you select "2 feb, 2022" or "3 mar 2022" to replace to continue.

Date pickers are horrendous UX, IMHO for so many reasons. Text is so much better.
We specifically needed SOC2 compliance. Annoying, but necessary.

I see you're working on it, that's great!
People are refuting it now but China thought that mail was dangerous around 9 days ago:

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/coronavirus-china-disinfects...

Also packages contain cardboard which is often host to roaches and other plague spreaders, but we both know you were referring to a specific virus.
Genuine question, can you explain what's upsetting to you about it?

To "throw the baby out with the bathwater" is a common idiom in America, meaning roughly to discard something valuable along with other things that are inessential or undesirable.

I can't figure out any interpretation of the statement which is offensive, so I'm guessing there's something getting "lost in translation" between countries or cultures here that I'm hoping you can help me understand.
>The Muslim rules about women that the Taliban abide by are a lower level of civility. Full stop.

And exactly what rules are those? If you're gonna call people less civilized at least have the decency to be specific. Muslims make up 25% of the world population and many Muslim women find modesty to be an empowering personal choice. I know many myself. The idea that they're brainwashed or uncivilized just echoes of the colonial mentality of "these brown people are uneducated and they need to learn to be like us". You're toeing the line as close to Islamophobia as possible while simultaneously acting as a women's rights champion.

It's so strange that men can disqualify women's voices in the name of feminism, like women with unpopular opinions aren't valid. I don't agree with the Taliban but without clarification it seems as though your just implying that people who believe modesty is a virtue in women are uncivilized. It's amazing that this kind of speech is acceptable, when we can all recognize similar criticisms coming from conservative voices as problematic
I completed all of the material between January and May last year, looking at the timestamps on my disk.

One of the requests on the course was to include time taken for the assignments as part of the submission. This was part of the (locally run) grading script, so even though I didn't submit I still completed it, luckily.

There were 11 assignments, and each took 5-10 hours apart from a few I got stuck on - I've got one assignment listed as being 30 hours (and I still remember the frustration. I nearly got to the point of emailing the course creators to ask for help but figured it out in the end as part of it was my aforementioned compiler bug).

On top of this there are two lectures a week (often ran over time with questions) so about 3 hours per assignment and some reading material.

I had used C before this course and was very rusty. This caused me to make some mistakes in the beginning, like pulling in standard libraries rather than using the ones as part of XV6, that someone new to C would likely not have made.

So in total I'd say 36 hours of lectures, 10 hours reading, 100+ hours doing assignments.
Wow, this is a fantastic idea. Give this guy all the funding. We just need to integrate crypto mining and call it WebNG.
Doesn't make sense, because the vaccine does not prevent infection. Meaning the vaccinated are getting infected at same or higher rates than unvaccinated, and spreading it just the same. Current data for Ontario. 3rd graph. Case rate per 100k.

https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data?fbclid=1
It's absolutely true. There is a LOT more to tape storage than meets the eye.

Let's say you're using LTO tapes as an archive. Did you know LTO tape itself is abrasive, but that abrasive is meant to wear over time with the intended use of the cartridges, which was backups?

If you use new tapes a single time, the abrasive doesn't wear and destroys the tape heads. You will go through a drive head at month, running the drives 24/7. I had a library used as a genomic storage archive with 8 drives (always write, almost never read), and two were constantly out of service, as we averaged two head replacements from IBM a week.

This is much less a factor on use tapes that have been run through a drive a few times.
This promise is already overdue as much as global warming action.

It won't happen until people demand it.
Exactly, through recall this was Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government, so Nick Clegg (you might have head of him) may have a claim.

Actually the credit should go to the brilliant and dedicated people in GDS doing great work; though I do not know enough to pick out names. The UI/UX and implementation was first class from the get go.

As a Brit my life is made remarkably easier as a citizen and startup entrepreneur. The benefits to the UK ecomnomy are enorous but not measured. In contrast my personal experience of govt engagement when setting-up and running startups in US between 1991 and 2013 were painful. And would have been very painful without help (thank you YC).

Finally if we are going to give leadership credit it should go to Francis Maude [0]. He happened to be my local MP, so I met him quite a few times, and he was most helpful and astonishingly effective in helping us navigate two big challenges we had in facing down, shall we say, "unethical quango-business partnerships". A remarkable, thoughtful man and effective operator, who was in government over three decades [1].

[0] https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2012/10/16/gov-uk-the-start/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Maude
There might be a point if you interleaved data and/or had a much higher amount of EC, such that you could recover from isolated bad blocks.
Gist of the article:

> Dr Hurley-Walker said the observations match a predicted astrophysical object called an ‘ultra-long period magnetar’.

> “It’s a type of slowly spinning neutron star that has been predicted to exist theoretically,” she said.

> “But nobody expected to directly detect one like this because we didn’t expect them to be so bright.

> “Somehow it’s converting magnetic energy to radio waves much more effectively than anything we’ve seen before.”
They even mentioned a 250 y.o. (nwow dead) Tortoise in the article
the risks of owning a sailboat

> The Evelyn Roberts, a Hans Christian 42, almost directly opposite to me decides to sink. The owner is stuck in the USA and is not allowed through Malaysia's closed border. He has no insurance!

> The cause of sinking is simple. The hose on the galley sink came off. That is why boats have seacocks. By turning a handle through 90 degrees the Evelyn Roberts would not have sunk.

http://blog.mailasail.com/wildfox/posts/2020/11/15/559-evely...
Why the Moral Machine is a Monster - Abby Everett Jaques

https://robots.law.miami.edu/2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/03...
>If you as a normal software engine write a topological sort algorithm you likely failed your job. Your job is to use existing topological sort algorithms designed by people specialized in that area, implemented by people which are specialized in implementing and fine tuning algorithms (it's its whole own field of expertise, and overlooked field tbh.).

What standard library ships with it ? I can remember multiple times I've need to implement topological sort in various languages - mostly to detect if there are cycles between dependencies or order actions, it's rather simple, introducing a third party lib for such code is in the leftpad territory and writing a generic interface to generalize graphs would be clunky in a lot of languages.
Isn't there a risk of nicotine, cigarette toxins, and human origin pathogens entering the crow's digestive system from them carrying these cigarette butts around in their beaks?

Also a bunch of crows eating from common food sources seems like a way to spread disease among crow populations.
Yes, he left location hints on GA, we grabbed his stash and are selling it now...
FWIW, like everything else in life, you only learn how to do something, and get good at doing something, by doing that something. You say you tried, but then follow up with "I never did it at X".

Take notes. Fuck it up. Figure out why your attempt wasn't useful to you. Take more notes. Rinse, repeat, and you too can eventually take notes that are valuable to you.

EDIT: One thing I forgot - taking and reviewing notes takes time. Dedicate time to both steps, and to identifying how to improve.
Sounds like you are wanting top tier talent. In this case I agree then recruiters and job boards are not by themselves going to get you top tier talent.

My suggestion is to look at compensation / benefits package. If you have a great benefits package then you are more likely to attract that top tier talent you are looking for.

Of course this is going to cost, great candidates don't come cheap.

Look at paying £100k+ for the best.
Not at all. I worked on HA and distributed systems for 10+ years and the best distibuted designs are by far the simplest.
What did he tell you when you met?
Myocarditis Cases Reported After mRNA-Based Covid-19 Vaccination
The tapes compress themselves. There's no real need for file compression.
I wonder how their costs fare against the competition. (sorry, cloud space isn't my forte)
https://admin.london.cloud.service.gov.uk/calculator
Hopefully my reply above gives you enough details to do some planning. The time taken to solve the assignments is probably quite individual though.

One thing I would say is that it was a fairly linear amount of learning, so even if you only complete part of the course you can learn a lot.
> Unfortunately, viruses don’t change to become less severe. It’s true that Omicron is less severe than Delta. And, it’s an obviously attractive scenario if this virus continues to mutate to be less and less severe. But it’s not guaranteed. That’s because mutations are random.

Nope. See Cholera that spreads via contaminated water supply versus Cholera that spreads person to person. Given random mutations, natural selection and emergent pressures take hold. That so many people who ostensibly believe in evolution don't actually understand the mechanisms of it is a continuing personal frustration of mine.
> This isn't that complex.

It really bums me out when people reach for this kind of "how are you not getting this" slight. You could have just explained the reasoning without implying that the asker is an idiot. You're just making yourself harder to hear.
This NFT Will Steal Your IP Address
Well I think it's a case of expectation management then... Work has many sides. Drudgery, dread, friendship, fulfillment, passion, being bored out of your mind. And money of course too.
Still extremely popular (as in the norm) on Usenet
>The integrity of a set of related keys requires that either all keys exist, or none exist.

Using a Key-Value DB to store relational data eh - that never leads to problems.

Their solution isn't any better because the API does not guarantee a particular order or atomicity of key expiration - so great that it works for you now[1], but next version may change the behavior.

[1] Does it work though? Are you really really sure?
Refactoring, design patterns SOLID principles and other smart programming topics
I've had to conclude she is a legit maker, but I don't like the clothing at all (I find it distracting from the making) but certainly not a reason to deplatform (or making a nude female body model). I do think a more likely interpretation is that she dresses that way for views, but since she has vehemently denied it and given explanations, I will simply override my distaste for the clothing.
The smart people whether for/anti Crypto are talking in a measured tones or taking a small short/long position in a diversified portfolio and staying quiet because its very hard to put down how things will be 5-10 years from now.

The idiots are running around screaming ponzi scheme or taking short-term leveraged positions.
I couldn't finish watching that. Rough.
Holy shit, Geraldo's hair and mustache are beautiful too. 80s, you had your moments.
brooo go back to bed lol
As far as I can tell, the board didn't exactly ban the book as much as they opted to remove it from the mandatory curriculum for middle schoolers. And mostly over trivial things like bad language and mentions of sex. I have a copy of Maus in my house and haven't asked my middle school daughter to read it yet because it's a lot to handle.
No that's the entire point of calling it a 'magnetar'. These things convert the magnetic field into radio waves. That's the only thing that is being emitted and 'observable'. This specific specimen matches a theoretical variant that has an ultra long cycle.
My strategy was: minimise casualties to kids, people and then pets. If the choice is between equal damage to pedestrians or passengers then pedestrians take precedence. All else being equal don't intervene.
We already had a work reform subreddit, it was called ChapoTrapHouse
Seems like everyone is just guessing at this point. She's in this thread right now, why not ask her? Everyone is fighting over one another for women's rights while ignoring the actual woman
In Argentina, inflation is a way of life
Why would you quiz on language specific syntax?
Micron to shut down DRAM chip design team in Shanghai
Meanwhile, this shark has been swimming around the Atlantic since 1627:

https://www.captain-planet.net/uploads/2018/10/67241603_3621...

~~Kids~~ Tortoises these days...

https://www.captain-planet.net/400-year-old-shark-found-in-t...
Demystifying Machine-Learning Systems
There are many historical accounts of freemen in England choosing to become serfs. It wasn’t freedom, but they had real protections. For example they couldn’t be sold individually only the land they where bound to could be sold, which was a major protection keeping families from being broken up.

They may have owed their lord specific quantities of uncompensated labor, but conversely that meant they had socially and legally protected free time.

Also, Serfdom largely disappeared in Western Europe well before America was a thing. “In England, the end of serfdom began with the Peasants' Revolt in 1381. It had largely died out in England by 1500 as a personal status and was fully ended when Elizabeth I freed the last remaining serfs in 1574” “ Serfdom was de facto ended in France by Philip IV, Louis X (1315), and Philip V (1318).[6][7] With the exception of a few isolated cases, serfdom had ceased to exist in France by the 15th century. In Early Modern France, French nobles nevertheless maintained a great number of seigneurial privileges over the free peasants that worked lands under their control. Serfdom was formally abolished in France in 1789.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_serfdom. Various exceptions did exist but it simply wasn’t that common in Western Europe.
Right, if time to solve were included in the shared results, you’d be able to pick up on skill variation a lot easier, and players would start to regard speed as something to improve at. I think it would make the game more interesting (not that it isn’t already).
> There is a name for this: Single System Image. There is no need to write the operating system layer - Linux works well.

Wouldn't a true SSI need to include some version of software-implemented distributed shared memory, which in turn would need to be achieved by involving the kernel? Linux now has process checkpoint and restore which will actually work seamlessly if all resources are properly namespaced ("containerized"), but not yet DSM, so far as I can tell.

(The only alternative I can think of would involve hacking around the debug infrastructure to "attach" to other processes and somehow handle VM faults in userspace, which sounds positively terrible.)
I don't know about that particular role, but I can say that many people work in public service knowing full well they could probably double their salary in the private sector, but do it anyway. Mainly because of the large amount of annual leave and a pension that is unbeatable in the private sector, but also the opportunity to do really interesting work in genuinely unique environment, rather than work for another food delivery startup.
Yes indeed, although it seems like there must be drawbacks we're risking, for instance:

1. If this takes the crows out of the workforce, are we missing out something else they could be trained to do?

2. What are the risks the crows could start getting smart and stealing things that will be treated as litter, or stealing actual litter from bins? What if they learn they can harass people on the street for their "litter"? :)

3. Would it be better for the economy to give a humans jobs doing the cleanup vs supervising crow learning / reward?

4. Is it right to use crows like this? Are we impacting their ability as wild animals to survive independent of humans?
Fortunately, lately I don't see any new article from the USA praising MMT.
> There are cultural differences, I put my smokes out and bin them

There always has to be a Swede saying stuff like this.

Living in Stockholm I see THOUSANDS of cigarette butts lying around on the ground, all the time.

Reminds me of when I was walking a local street behind some Swedes and an Englishman (some sort of business group) and the English guy stepped in some dogshit and all the Swedes were like "Oh you're so unlucky because EVERYONE in Sweden picks up their dog-dirt"

To my eternal shame I didn't say anything. This street me and the kids call Bajslagsgatan (street is really called Roslagsgatan) - the approximate translation for our nickname would be DogShit Street.
I cannot recall any commercial software I've used in the last quarter century or more wherein a new release did not bring a host of fixes and features along with it
It does sound reasonable but will they invest in the resources to make this easier to those in the trenches. For example, I'm wondering why any DoD software would have the need to reach outside it's own internal repositories for it's dependencies. Repositories that have the adequate resources allocated to vet it's offerings for security vulnerabilities etc. Or are they going to make every Program Manager responsible for assuring their devs aren't reaching out to NPM or Maven Central?
Been doing this since 2015 now on a 40ft mono(hull). Currently wintering in Sicily. Picked up a wife along the way.

If you aim to do this on a budget like us, you best be good at fixing things. Plumbing, rigging, engines, fibreglass repairs, more plumbing, sewing, electrical and electronics problems, etc.

The reward is remote anchorages where you're away from everyone else and getting absolutely unenthusiastic about yet another spectacular sunset.

Also dramatic moments in storms, dragging anchors, other boaters being incompetent and inconsiderate, many great friendships and a spirit of community amongst other liveaboards like none other.
Now I’m curious. How many rolls of toilet paper is a two years supply?
Link to paper "Natural Language Descriptions of Deep Visual Features": https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11114
The mechanics of this will be interesting.

Will Apple hide the current role of a merchant account internally, and push cleared payments into your Apple Cash balance? What will the fees be like? And so on.
The New Operating Manual for Fintech-Enabled Marketplaces
> Obviously not scientific (until now, haven‘t even read the article yet of course)…

It's still not either scientific or science, any more so than anything you've written. It's just conjecture. There is no new evidence in the paper. It is as "scientific" as a plausible sci-fi story.

> If there is a god, it must be a god to the universe.

Why would you assume this? Why does a god need to be an omnipotent controller of the entire universe?

For the vast majority of human history, most humans were polytheistic (and, like Hindus, they still are) or henotheistic. Monotheism and an omnipotent "one true God" are pretty new concepts.
Look up the term Exobrain[0]. It's related to externalism[1], defined as: "Externalism, the philosophy of the mind's existence outside of the brain and body".

> The extended mind model suggests that cognition is larger than the body of the subject. According to such a model, the boundaries of cognitive processes are not always inside the skin. "Minds are composed of tools for thinking" (Dennett 2000,[23] p. 21). According to Andy Clark, "cognition leaks out into body and world". The mind then is no longer inside the skull, but it is extended to comprehend whatever tools are useful (ranging from notepad and pencils up to smartphones and USB memories). This, in a nutshell, is the model of the extended mind.

Note taking is my 'other brain' that I use to get things done. I casually glance at past notes, and am often shocked how much progress I've made all due to these notes. I don't get everything done, but that's not the point. The point is to get thoughts out of your system and into notes so you can organize your life better.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exobrain

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externalism
I would forget Bezier and go straight to Catmull Rom. They're convertible.
Medium and good developers usually look at well known (at least locally) companies for a job. Small companies are generally known for lower salaries, less expertise and sometimes strange owner or management, so the problem you have is lack of reasons for people to apply.

Advertising on your own web site has a very low reach if you are just a small company; who do you think will look this way? At least post it on some job sites; also post in local community groups, like local Facebook groups, if any, unless you are in a large city where this will not work. You can also use LinkedIn, but I don't know what is the cost in UK.
The abstract of the article suggests it is a magnetar, which depending on your mood could be counted as a type of pulsar, though it's probably more sensible to label both as types of neutron stars.

> By measuring the dispersion of the radio pulses with respect to frequency, we have localized the source to within our own Galaxy and suggest that it could be an ultra-long-period magnetar.
What is that nonsense? I literally restart apps in a rolling fashion on VMs all the time, no Kubernetes needed and no downtime in sight. This includes a full reboot of the VM itself.