skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a central bank study that showed debit is the cheapest. Then cash because of the time spent counting, going to the bank, or hiring an armored car service. Employee theft and robbery risk are also issues. Tax evasion is not a valid savings.

Cash handling costs can’t be eliminated until the store goes card only.
This could be excluded by looking at the activity on the accounts that increased-- if the amount of responses increased, are those responses by newly active accounts?
I completely agree, and as something I want to pass on to my kids and grandkids, I wanted something made with the utmost attention to detail and quality. Honestly, the story about this watch will probably come from being around for 50-100 years after I'm gone, it's got a mechanical gong alarm that sounds like the "class is over" bell from the 80s. The second I heard that I was sold. So I spent my first signing bonus on it... not super inspiring, this isn't the watch from pulp fiction
I get that the pork and shellfish thing is about avoiding trichinosis and other food-borne nastiness, and the tattoo thing to avoid infection and sepsis, but what's the context for the other ones? assuming you mean "there's a good real-life reason for this" rather than "in the religious context of the time".

Covering your hair maybe makes sense if there was a lice problem, but I can't think of a decent reason to prohibit wearing of mixed fibers.
They may have deleted their account. Certainly many people said they would if Musk bought Twitter. Perhaps they did.
Github actions does not support M1 architecture yet so I could not build wheels for it. Support for self hosted runners is coming soon so I will buy an M1 machine and set up a runner myself.
What’s the argument against this becoming an “Eron using the shredders” situation??

I’m with you, this definitely sounds like normal population fluctuations - but I am curious, what would make the above not true?

Edit: a comment on the controls or logs in place are a thorough and appropriate counter for what I’m looking for here.
I'm not sure about for humans, but I know the byproducts of sugar beet processing are usually used as animal feed. Wouldn't surprise me if you could do something similar with carrots, although the nutritional profile might mean that they'd have to be mixed in with something else to avoid slowly poisoning the livestock.
some influential people are aware of the dark sides of competitive gymnastics; also Anti-Doping is a formal thing now, too late for many males that fell for steroids
Folks in the Andes have been freeze-drying potatoes (Chuño) for many centuries and claim it has a very long shelf-life.

https://perudelicias.com/chuno-freeze-dried-potatoes/

Never tried it myself.
Hopefully greater things.
> Had he not become the most famous turncoat in U.S. history, his remains might have been interred in a grand or historically meaningful tomb, visited by thousands every year. Arnold's betrayal, however, overshadows any contribution to American independence, and his tomb is visited by only a dozen or so every day.

What’s the difference between thousands a year and a dozen a day? Sounds to me like he did pretty well in terms of building up a following...
No, the point is that the fight undermines Boaler’s use of the racism / equity card which she uses in response to critics of her work.
I dunno, I would not expect to join or leave in droves so quickly --even before signatures on the deal have dried. But possible, I guess --just seems unexpected, if true.
I think they are covering their tracks and removing the bans, shadow bans, and censorship before Musk takes over and revealed it.
> The failures should be relatively rare; when I say relatively I mean on the level of natural node failure.

And exactly how rare do you believe this to be?

In my experience, node failures at scale of hundreds to thousands of nodes are monthly to weekly, if not daily. Generally speaking, stability is a normal distribution. Young, new instances experience similar failure rates as old instances. If you have any sort of maximum node lifetime (for example, a week) or scale dynamically on a daily basis then you'll see a lot of failures.
But how will Musk, or actually his bankers, recover 44B and make a profit on a microblogging service?? And what will it look like when the do?
It’s fun to learn about all these new formulas, and the testing in excel is great for long term spreadsheets that are reused, but I wished it was mentioned how this task is so dead easy in Excel.

Assuming column A has the values and B1 is set to 0. You just need in B2…
=IF(A2>A1,B1+1,B1)

And then fill down. If you want the total, take the max of column B. Count is just =ROW() in this simple case or use the count function if you think someone will insert rows above.

If the goal is just one cell, then use sum as an array formula

={SUM(—-(A1:A1999<A2:2000)}

Or use IF in a similar manner, there’s probably dozens of ways to do this. If it were more complicated, sumproduct could be used which has a summing reduce built in. And I’m sure that excel’s Arrays could serve the purpose of the Pair that was invented here, if that is really needed.

My point here isn’t to poke holes in the fun exercise but to emphasize how excel’s dynamic programming makes these problems easy solvable by just about anyone. I don’t see a future where everyone is complaining about their coworker not using currying in their latest spreadsheet.
reminds me slightly of git-annex but with pretty on top.
If you don’t supply `-m`, `git` will pop open your `$EDITOR` with the new commit message. You can use whatever tools you like to wrangle text in there. I use vim, so it’s just a quick `gq<motion>` to format everything.
It does update type hints as well!
Robinhood Cutting 9% of Full-Time Staff
No monopoly gets to 100% by simply existing, people chose to go toward that company... until it was so big that no one could compete with them any longer.
Are any of these numbers statistically significant? 10,000 followers change.. is that meaningful if you have 10M+?
Biden is looking at forgiving some federal student loan
I doubt this will impact their popularity/notoriety. Anecdotally, quite a few of my coworkers from my old retail jobs are still obsessed with celebrities despite being, shall we say, just as human and as imperfect role models as the majority of us less well known people.
It’s also a real phenomena right. Company not just growing but exploding, times are bountiful, extra heads get hired.
Thank you! Appreciate the comments and feedback, that's a high priority item I plan to add soon!
I agree. I really dislike Slack and Discord compared to forums. Being able to keep a topic in a confined thread and then bump it to the top when there is activity is so useful.

Slack does have threads but you never know about updates unless you're already chatting in the thread.

Slack just feels like email before threads got grouped together.

Don't get me wrong, Slack is a great chat tool for small groups and it's a bonus that others can search it. But forums are far superior for large groups and long lived conversations.
Multi-Tap Network Packet Capturing (2010)
Twitter says mass deactivations after Musk news were ‘organic’
That doesn't explain the losses from left leaning accounts.
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It'd be an interesting to look at that, no doubt. Do they publicize that information in their quarterly reports?
I don't know if this makes any sense but have you thought about a way to migrate from Slack to a forum?
That would be somewhat a kneejerk reaction before seeing how the new ownership manifests itself --but you could also be right. Hard to say unless TWTTR provides some data to give people the background to these numbers.
You just have to search for a brand that for some reason isn't flashy on the used market. I have a late 2000s JLC Master Compressor, you (could) get them for a couple grand used, like I did. Not sure about the prices now. I freedive with mine, I fix cars with it on, but if you know about the movement it's a watchmaker's watch.
A "public venue for online speech" will turn into a lowest-denominator cesspit. Happened before, will happen again. And if Musk is the principal owner, he better have good lawyers.
Given the publicly announced feature freeze, it wouldn’t surprise me if the pro-free speech faction within Twitter has been able to achieve a level of control sufficient to start disabling banlists and other suppression systems.

I greatly doubt this is an Enron style paper-shredding exercise.
> 1. Make it so the only merge strategy allowed on a repo is "Squash and Merge", so each PR = 1 commit in main branch

Please don't do this. It erases history that's really useful for tracking down the cause of bugs.

There's plenty of ways to use git log to filter commits if a pretty history is your goal.
Sell access to trolls & bots.
Aside from being a native app which is faster and more reliable, and works without an internet connection, and you can be confident that Office will always open a document you've been sent as intended with all features. Aide from that, the main missing features are in excel. Sheets is missing hundreds of functions and lots of customisation/features in its charts, pivot tables, and data analysis functionality. It also can't handle large data sets (30k+ rows) which you'll run into regularly with any kind of data logging.

It is possible you will never use these functions, but the entire professional world runs on excel sheets and registers (even though there is probably a tool somewhere that would work better for individual use cases). The universal compatibility is very valuable and the cost is negligible for businesses.
> without really understanding how calculus works.

I think this is the key. No, calculus isn't incredibly applicable in day to day life. But understanding how it works builds critical thinking skills that absolutely are. Math should be about critical thinking, not memorizing. Common core seems to be moving us in the right direction.
Yes I am working on it actively I will have the version ready sometime this Friday. Discord has been taking longer than Slack since their API's isn't as intuitive and their threading model is a bit tricker since not everyone uses Discord threads. If you sign up on Linen.dev happy to reach out once Discord is ready to get some feedback.
Or teach them gunsmithery. You’re right.
This reminds me of the time I "temporarily" fixed a memory leak in our servers by writing a cron job that rebooted them every 20 minutes. And then I forgot about it.
Why does this have to be some conspiracy theory or anything to do with the algorithm?

Elon buys Twitter, people who left the platform rejoin when they learn that news.

The story doesn't have as much impact when you look write it this way:

Popular conservatives see follower count go up by ~1% after announcement that Musk has bought Twitter.
You may not own the physical footprints, but you have a fundamental right to the personal data encoded in them. A corporate service collecting footprints, offering insights and analysis about those who made them, creating maps and profiling their interests based on where they walk, does concern the basic right to data privacy, even if the whole thing is analog, and not out-sourced, and uses no cookies. This is why i compared it to licensing. A musician may not own every physical record, but they have rights to the music they created. Not a perfect metaphor, but good enough to better understand the concept.
Update: Pax cheerfully replaced the first 5 units, but claimed 'accidental damage' for the 6th (which is absurd; cosmetic damage from normal use only)
I agree with this. Oftentimes I am experimenting around (obviously on a separate branch) and use commits as checkpoints. Not every commit is a perfectly polished state. Using separate branches and then squashing when it is ready, gives me the freedom to experiment without constraint, and then clean things up when it is ready
It doesn't literally mean chore. It means a code change that you do regularly but is not major, and usually doesn't require much work (update dependencies being a good example).

> Chore: A routine or minor duty or task

Rather than

> Chore: An unpleasant or burdensome task
Indeed, a similarly 'modern' house of the 50s has (too) small window between the kitchen and dining.

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

Interesting how much things change.
In the UK, Parliament is sovereign. As such, the British Monarchy can be abolished by an Act of Parliament. It is the popular will of the people that prevents that happening.

That the British people should choose to maintain the monarchy, or that Canada and Australia should choose to have the Queen as their Head of State, confuses outsiders (particularly Americans) no end.
8 bushels (400 lbs) of corn/maize per human year for pure calories.

200 bu/acre yield for corn/maize nowadays, so

25 people supported by an acre of industrial agriculture.

43560 sq ft in an acre.

Intensive dirt farming would require 2000 sq ft/person, at a minimum, fudging up for protein and nutrients. Looks like a decimal error on their part.
I abhor “Squash and Merge”, because I do take time to make good commits. They each pass tests, they have messages, and I rebase fixup commits away. For me, a merge commit is semantically meaningful (it even gives me a place to put who reviewed it in the merge commit message).

This probably seems like a whole lot of work for no benefit. However, I can’t tell you he number of times I’ve been on crappy plane wifi, hit `git blame` on some line and been able to comprehend my state of mind making a change years in the past.

Git history is a form of communication.
Yeah, difficult to answer, Pop! Is the answer, I'm a RHEL person, so I stay faithful, but Pop! is really nice with all those small changes.
Is there a summary of the CMF that removes all the bureaucrateese? I didn't get very far through that molasses. I had to scrape it off with my trusty strigil.
I have no idea how this sort of thing works at Twitter's scale, but is there a remote chance that some kind of huge cache got rebuilt?
> what would your approach be to address the issue of huge groups of kids underperforming what they are actually capable of?

Huh? Are you suggesting that removing upper level maths classes helps kids achieve their potential?

If the current system is untenable, then I would force all students to have one "tutor" period. Everyone has to take a tutor period, so the social stigmatization you're worried about it not a factor. This way, kids gets extra help in their "worst" subject (decided by some combination of grades / introspection/ parental involvement).

This way, the kids who need more help in math can get it, without pulling down the kids who belong in more advanced classes.
Fighting games and RTS tend to have a ton of carryover, with players like ChrisG, Sonicfox and Justin Wong competing in every new fighter release.
Where did that happen? The comment you replied to emphasized “system level stuff”. The comment before that emphasized “shells”.
Is this sarcasm? Because, if so, that's funny!
> In the 1980s it was Japan.

We lost entire industries of good paying jobs in consumer electronics and appliances to Japan, Taiwan, and Korea. It wasn’t the total eclipse people predicted—in part because our population control evangelists helped derail Japan’s development—but our shift to software and IP didn’t replace the kinds of jobs we lost.

Finance, insurance, social, and professional services will keep our GDP numbers afloat long past the point where the real economy has been surpassed. A better comparison is Britain. Once the real economy moves, most of the ancillary services do too. Banking and insurance keeps Britain going, but it’s actually kinda poor compared to America. (The US is to the UK as the UK is to Hungary or Poland.)
> I run memcached at a large scale

I don't believe you run it at the scale Slack does.

The people at Slack who decided to use Mcrouter (and created Mcrib) have experience running Memcached, Mcrouter and Nutcracker in production at two of the biggest web properties in the world.

Trust that they know whereof they speak.
These "changelog generators" look to me like barking at the wrong tree, automation for the sake of automation, and attempt to skip the "boring" work of communicating changes by replacing it with "interesting" work of massaging git history, inventing microformats, etc. Why bother with separate changelogs at all then when you can see changes in `git log`. Just write good commit messages! /s
Does that mean you could make carrot wine?
If those numbers were padded by fake accounts, it does.
The story I had heard was that it was characteristic of a competing tribe, but doing some quick googling right now it looks like the reason is more likely to be that such garments were reserved for priests - not sure why this rule didn't apply to them. At any rate, I am far from an expert on the Torah or Bible Old Testament, so maybe someone more knowledgeable can talk about what we think the reasons were for this law at the time.
Looks like the Eichler I once owned in Palo Alto
I like this post. I know people are offering their alternative conventions which they have various rationales for preferring, but I've followed the conventions this post advocates for years, and they haven't done me wrong.

This post describes a widespread standard practice. People never complain about my commit messages and they don't have trouble understanding them.
I know that Ruby on Rails is still very much relevant for consultants being paid big $ to fix the disasters left by self-declared “Ninja” developers after they quit and move on to try again from scratch at another company ;)
Though I don’t think I am really the best coder out there, I was taught by a senior to use proper Git Commit messages which I usually follow only. I am however quite frustrated by my team mates who end up re-using the same commit message essentially for bugfixes.
Product Analytics from Scratch
Bedside stuffed animals and borderline personality
no those are not the only criteria, see gdpr.eu/article-4-definitions
I don't suggest Fedora, since it's more advanced. (I might get shot saying this...) Difficult where I need to start.
>If over twelve years of math instruction you can't figure out how to teach the average child algebra, trigonometry, logarithms, and the very basics of calculus, I would advise the educators to look into why their peers in other countries are managing to accomplish these feats

Their peers in other countries are working with culturally and genetically different populations. Intelligence is 70%+ heritable, you do the math, as taboo as it may be. Then add in the difference between a culture that prizes academic achievement versus one that is ambivalent or worse, prioritizes sports or music over education, and you have more than enough to explain the divergence between nations, as well as demographic groups in the US.
Everybody I've seen modifies the squash message in a professional setting. After all, that's the one that everybody else will see. Commits on your feature branch don't really matter and the entire branch can be deleted afterwards anyways
Exactly, why should they? Seems like a meaningless bar created for no practical reason, just like 90% of the other stuff everyone learns in school.
Both zq and jq seem like black magic to me.
They also badger community members who have no say in the matter to upgrade.
At that point education won't matter period.
The problem is companies acting like masks are an aberration: if you work in construction, or around your house, then there's plenty of moments you're not wearing gloves but can't or shouldn't take a respirator off (or it's far more involved then taking off a glove).
The notation exists because it can be applied to the field, because the field can be applied to reality. It's not solely invention.

Engineers love ruining physics but at very least they can still be ugly rather than bloated.
In the US debit networks have cheap fees but merchants don’t want to buy more PIN pads. There’s a lot of inertia behind the waiter/employee physically running the payment - often through highly integrated POS systems that would have to be entirely replaced to upgrade the card reader.
I didn’t know Homebrew was so successful on Linux that someone would think it’s a Linux tool; that surprised me

(Homebrew started on Mac OS X)
It does print a message when something can't be hot reloaded.
For example changing base classes dynamically is impossible to achive in Python so this is not supported and a full reload is needed.

You can go a long way without fully reloading though in many cases.
jeez if this helps with performance lag then I'm all in.

looking across lots of different storage locations can be deeply frustrating.
Interesting viewpoint, thanks for sharing it. I disagree, but at some point it becomes a personal perspective, so ultimately a point of philosophy.
Most of the industry is going this way and it's awful.

Framework and similar are looking better and better.
Ah memories. We have a web service in IIS which is used to generate some HTML and take a screen grab of it to generate images to display of some data.

The library was created in .net framework 2.0 and no longer exists or is maintained. It’s been on the list for 8 years to replace…

It has a memory leak which causes IIS to consume gigs of data over time, resulting in IIS completely restarting itself and causing all hosted sites to go offline for 30s. so I set the IIS pool to recycle every hour and it hasn’t caused any issues in ~ 5 years. Due to this I feel like it’s dropped even lower in priority. :(
It appears that some accounts are losing lots of followers. Are these people all quitting Twitter?

https://socialblade.com/twitter/user/hillaryclinton
https://socialblade.com/twitter/user/berniesanders
https://socialblade.com/twitter/user/senwarren

If these numbers have been artificially manipulated, I hope Musk nails them to the wall.
Likewise the odds of drawing the ace of spades from a deck of cards is not 1/52.

It is extremely close though.
Can't we use Structured Equation Modeling or ML to cluster seasons based on actual data?
If you convert this to percent changes it's not particularly interesting.

- @TuckerCarlson +62,083/5.1M = 1.2%

- @JoeRogan +63,313/8.6M = 0.7%

- @DonaldJTrumpJr +87,296/7.7M = 1.1%

- @tedcruz +51,405/4.9M = 1%

The liberal examples all have lower numbers of people unfollowing and higher numbers of people already following. So all of their changes are less than 1%. Hilary Clinton's change is 0.05%... not particularly wild.

So, for starters it's not the mass migration to/from the platform the raw numbers look like.

In addition I'm sure there is some relationship to the number of existing followers you have and the rate that you acquire/lose them. That is, it's reasonably to say that the rate you add followers grows until about 10M and then slowly starts to shift to you slowly losing followers as you head back towards an equilibrium point.

I doubt that latter explanation really explains these numbers away, but there is a fair bit that I would want to see controlled for before jumping to the "conservatives are rushing towards the platform while liberals flee!" explanation.

edit: I do want to clarify, that I don't at all doubt that something is happening. Obviously Twitter going private is going to change the userbase. Just that the raw numbers, at least for me, make the effect seem more much dramatic than it is.
Whoever can solve applying topic change-point detection (e.g. https://aclanthology.org/C18-1212/) to wide-ranging Discord and Slack channels, and put together a novel UI for discovering probable thread-intentions there (for both closed and open communities) would unlock an incredible repository of human knowledge. There's a massive opportunity here.
Common wisdom in the 70s was 2 acres (8000 sq m) to support a family of 4 with a healthy diet from a diverse and robust selection of crops in a temperate climate. Apples, potatoes, corn/maize, wheat, beans, and fill in the rest as you wish.