skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My local area also has several outdoor colonies that are managed (Neutered, health checkups, etc) because they realized that leaving fixed feral cats in place and taking care of them prevents other feral cats from taking their place and breeding further.
So... a dark pool? Oy vey.
So your suggestion is to create some sort of DSL then publish your components in Angular, React, and every other library that's requested?
Love Shinzen! His Outline for Practice was fundamental in me discovering that there are different meditation maps that present different flavors of “progress”/“realization”

https://www.shinzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/AnOutline...
“It’s impossible” - I agree it’s almost always too strong.

However, remember we’re discussing the creation of trillions of bitcoin. Even if it occurred, do you really believe the chain would remain? It would be forked. I just can’t imagine a chain being totally compromised and its users being okay with it - both would need to be true.
Still waiting for MSE and fullscreen API support in iOS Safari for better media support without having to roll out an app. Both have been available on iPadOS for a few years now.
The reason why there are so many cars is because people find them convenient and there are many objective benefits to owning a car compared to whatever you propose (sharing cars or public transport).

You personally might not find these benefits useful, or they might not outweigh the disadvantages (which BTW are subjective). But every person is different.
A few months ago, I compiled this list to come up with cheap, mostly EU-based VPS providers:
https://gist.github.com/derhuerst/4ef9a832e031bf82d6e640e2dd...

It doesn't take into account though:
- update guarantees
- quality of customer support (I had very bad experiences with Scaleway for example)
- score normalisation across many instances, to compensate different loads on VM hosts into account
Kicking Off a Pipedream Workflow on a Full Moon (Because Why Not?)
One of many possible reasons they are doing this is to practice for a deadlier disease and develop a playbook of what works, what doesn't, how to feed people, how to quell unrest, etc.
Aside from the visual clues you mentioned, I like to use the example of a screen door or vertical blinds. Most people have the experience of inadvertently focusing on these things a bit wrong and "feeling" that the objects are much closer or farther than reality. Computer vision can make the same mistakes easily, and in fact can often perform much worse than human vision. Backlit scenes are difficult, frontlit scenes are more difficult, and scenes with a lot of repetition and few large features are almost impossible. Examples of almost impossible scenes are backlit beach on a sunny day and cloudy day while skiing, and all kinds of conditions while driving, such as frontlit or sidelit with a wet road.
Cool effort! Does seem like a lot of thinking went into this. But, a few points:

"Through trial and error (and, of course, pattern-fitting) we crafted a scoring system that could correctly identify over 65% of the spam accounts."

65% is not actually very accurate for a binary classifier...

"Applying this model to the ~44K random, recently-active accounts provided Followerwonk produces a quality score for each account, visualized below:"

Many real twitter uses are likely not to be "active" aside from reading stuff. So this methodology would clearly overestimate the number of spam/fake accounts (which all would be active).

Also, this is an important point:

"The other potential critique is our spam/fake follower calculation methodology. Because we crafted it in 2018, based off sample sets of purchased spam accounts, it’s likely that more sophisticated spammers and fake accounts go unidentified by our system"

The features collected are certainly outdated by now.
This is why we have C bindings. Let performance things be performant and readable things be readable.
Yes I had equity. I'm fine working on unreasonable things to an extent. On the one hand in an early startup you have a lot of input on how things should work. On the other it can be hard to push hard against an owner's idea when you're in no position of power

The company was acquired at an early stage by another private company.
You don't burn the Green Ammonia, you use it as a chemical feedstock or as a transport medium for Green Hydrogen. For heat or motion you use electricity.
I have been using Firefox & macOS for about the last 4-5 years. I primarily use it because I enjoy the bookmark sync between my Mac and linux desktops and because I try using open-source software as much as reasonably possible.
However I will used a closed-source product when I feel it is better than the open source option. (E.g. MS Excel)
It seems like Safari has been rapidly improving as of late. Any recommendations to try it again over Firefox? Would be a bit annoying to find some sort of "bookmark sync" solution again, but something good probably exists out there.
Everything is handled in process, you can find some examples in the runtime test cases.

[1] - https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit/blob/master/tests/runti...
Wow - to say this is a major major result in an understatement. This is going to turn GPL litigation on its head, and allow more activist type folks to pursue cases aggressively. On the developer side I can see a move away from GPL - as adding third parties into this is going to be pretty unappealing for some developers.

I think historically distribution of source code was seen as a condition of the copyright license (which meant copyright holders enforced), not as a separate contract right available to third parties (which would mean users and other can go after a variety of claims).
I worked as a PM on internal developer productivity at Google for a few years. As I've said in previous comments, compared to my former colleagues, I'm an infant in this area, so take this with a heaping of salt. (Opinions my own.)

I do not believe in the possibility of a "General Theory of Productivity," and management-by-numbers-alone is actively harmful, but I do believe in the possibility of measuring productivity in a useful way. Even "bad" metrics like commits per engineer per week can be useful at the right granularity, e.g., to do high-level velocity forecasting over a large, representative group of engineers during different times of year.

If you're wondering: different metrics are suited for different use cases, but as a baseline, I think the DORA metrics[1] are a reasonable starting point.

1. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/using-the-...
Can you share the accounts please? Sounds interesting.
> Bitcoin difficulty adjusts every 2000 blocks

It's 6*24*7*2 = 2016 blocks, the number of 10 min intervals in 2 weeks.
> imagine actually liking to write software

I assumed you were being sarcastic, but re-reading your post and looking at the replies, I guess you're being serious here - I do actually like writing software. I'm not pretending or fooling myself - besides playing music and raising vegetables it's one of the few SFW activities I actually enjoy. I tolerate meetings because they're part of the price to get to write software and actually get paid to do it. What I don't enjoy are the unreasonable expectations around how long things ought to take or how predictable software development ought to be.
A lot of desperation like Elon Musks' "send me your crypto and I will double it", which screams "buy as much crypto as you can to double it so that we can fix my problem with losing billions".
From experience, upgrading a custom CMS with handwritten SQL (that had grown organically for around eight years) from SQLite to Postgres basically involved only double-quoting non-lowercase table/column names.
Embeddable pricing and checkout table (by Stripe)
You may already know of it, but if you want differential-equations-in-JAX then allow me to quickly advertise Diffrax: https://github.com/patrick-kidger/diffrax (of which I am the author, disclaimer).
If I write

WHERE x IN (SELECT ...)

what the heck is the result of evaluating the inner query, in the outer expression?

Maybe I am missing something, but the exact meaning to vary a lot across different databases. Some seem to have a standalone "table" data type, while others don't.
I'd donate, but the well over half a million dollar salaries they pay themselves isn't a good look:
https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/824506840
I'm not sure. Wouldn't the introduced waves cancel out then?
Is there something similar available for fish?
Not really. If social and extroverted people provide more value to the company, they should get better performance reviews and paid more.
Theory #4: The performance is actually fine, but the developers were given a project to improve performance in order to keep them around for hot fixes in a codebase they know well and to mentor junior employees.
> The Chinese vaccines do provide substantial protection against the most severe outcomes

I would not be surprised if this was true, but is there any independent evidence of that?

> The bigger problem though is that a significant proportion of elderly people remain unvaccinated.

Yes -- in part because of what I mentioned in the previous comment.
Yeah it’s an interesting point. Wrt Python, I’ve tried writing ML in many different languages for this exact reason, but at the end of the day community is everything.

Pythons community in the ML space is pretty incredible. Trying to recreate all the libraries in another language is no small task, then you also have the issue that Data Scientists don’t want to write in complex languages.

In events like this, improving the language can start to look like the best option.
Is it a cryptocurrency? Then it's a scam.
The catch is that you're comparing VPS prices to IaaS prices. They're similar and can be used for many of the same things but are not the same.

With the VPS, you'll be responsible for a lot of the things that the IaaS provider would otherwise handle. However, you can install Dokku/etc. on your VPS and run your own self-hosted IaaS and approximate what you would get from DO/Heroku.
Does McDonald’s exit from Russia count as a partial restoration of the “Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention” [1]?

[1]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/26/mcdonalds-peace-nagorno...
It's hilarious that so many people have these crazy timing techniques and use their hands or a swatter

Use a spray bottle to get its wings wet, I usually use Windex or a multi-surface cleaner, then get a paper towel and kill it as slow or as fast as you want
But you only need to write the destructor once.
Given the large civilian graves, the bombing of shelters, the forced deportation of Ukrainians to Russia, the theft of children…there doesn’t seem to be a reasonable argument that this isn’t genocide.
The mental model of eink "has very poor refresh rates" is outdated. There are Eink displays on the market by Dasung and Onyx which easily do 40FPS refresh. The Modos project is using the same display modules and dithering algorithm as these monitors.
Perhaps there can be a difference between search engines for answering specific questions, and directories where one may browse a broad range of topics without any goal in particular.
You asserted it was impossible; it isn't. It's merely, as I said, extremely hard.
A US migrant from a Schengen country here, that moved here for family reasons, and I absolutely concur.

I’m currently on my third application for a permanent residency. First one got obsolete, second was denied because of a technical error, and the current one was filed in last August and is still pending. I have been in active process since April 2020. I have close to a thousand pages of filing documents, several thousand dollars, countless stressful moments, a couple of missed weddings of siblings back home, etc.

I am currently waiting for a my I-131 and am not allowed to travel back home unless I can prove it is an emergency (and then only for 3 weeks), and I am not allowed to work (though, rumors have it that illegal work is not enforced for spouses of citizens). You file an I-765 for work authorization which is handled along your I-131. The current average waiting period for that is 10.5 months... I’ve waited 9.

I don’t recommend this for anybody.
Interesting how fig.3 omites Europe, North America, Russia...
It’s known to happen and there is absolutely no way to test how often it happens, so this kind of handwaving is opinion masked as science. And it doesn’t really matter, because the lockdown tactic only works with COVID-zero, not with COVID-one. So even if only one infection spreads from wildlife, you’re back at square one and you can start your lockdowns all over again. And don’t think you can just detect the infection before it spreads because a large proportion is asymptomatic and even if it is not, the spread starts before the symptoms.
I'm no physicist either, I just like to ask questions :)

How does the demon attain the knowledge of what is "fast" and "slow" without continuous observation (and thus interaction) with the particles. Velocity is just function of position over time, so the demon needs at least 2 samples to make the most basic approximation. Where is the entropy for doing that coming from? How does the interference of the measuring apparatus factor into the whole process - what if the sole act of measurement changes the state of the particle from "fast" to "slow" or vice versa? Do we need to measure twice? But what if the second measurement causes the transition it was meant to detect?
Take is easy
The $5 droplet includes the equivalent of $90 worth of AWS egress, although it is accounted somewhat differently.

An equivalent low usage machine on AWS in us-east (t3a.micro - 1GB / shared CPU) on spot instead costs around $2.16, almost 57% less.

So this is where bandwidth becomes interesting, especially in combination with an external CDN.

Say if you're hosting 100 low volume client sites where each client gets its own instance (sensible security choice), DO you'd be paying $284/mo. more than equivalent AWS config, or you could treat the $284 as a bandwidth allowance, leaving 3.155 TB egress in aggregate across all clients before DO/AWS are breakeven again.

If some/many of those client sites consume a lot of bandwidth, the equation quickly changes, but you need to start looking at edge hit rates of an individual application before attempting to make a meaningful comparison.

The last project I looked at this for included several high bandwidth sites with good edge hit rates on an external CDNs, and AWS still came in significantly cheaper
Explaining Git Diff to Myself
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00UCI9ODE/ref=tmm_kin_swatch...

Really hope you enjoy it :)
Can you just read the thread?

We are specifically talking about people who signed up to be a beta tester.
I want the inverse of this tool to audit it. I'll give it a specific account, and it identifies it as fake or not. Let me run some spot checks and accounts I know (and myself), and I'll find out if I can trust their numbers.
If people react to the Luna ponzi by exiting crypto or not entering crypto, the price will continue to fall.

...hey, wait... that also sounds like a ponzi.
It might be a better idea to return low quality results than nothing at all. The idea is that it's pretty obvious when the bot is banned when it receives no results at all. Having to look at the results manually to determine whether one is banned is a much more time consuming endeavor.
Do you also think that we should get rid of all of the plants and animals that humans have engineered through selective breeding?
Pinky promise
I got an email that explains the changes.
Petition for a Third-Party Equipment Law on Fiber Optic Broadband
Thank you for making the effort to type out such a clear explanation.

Covid further ratcheted up my hopelessness in people's ability to maintain the most basic grasp on how reality works. But in the early days, it was insanity-inducing to try and reason with friends who though the solution was a super-easy "just have every single person lock themselves inside with 100% compliance for two weeks and poof".

It's an unfortunate consequence of the complexity that allowed society to become so unimaginably rich that many people are so detached from the reality of what it takes to make everything work; it's even more unfortunate that these people vote.
That is very thought provoking.
Except the defer stuff is in addition to the "writing the destructor" part.

When you have defer, you still need to write code you'll be deferring. That's what the destructor is, no more. `defer` is strictly additional overhead.

Furthermore:

1. If you're just composing in destructible objects the compiler does the work for you, if I create a struct which contains a File, i don't have to do anything, rustc will make my struct implicitly Drop and release the `File`. If you do that in Go... you have to remember to write a deferrable method which'll close the underlying file.

2. You're only defining a type once, and you're thinking about its invariants right there, it's a lot easier to remember those invariants when creating the type than every time you're using an instance.

Unless you have linear structural subtyping and the compiler forces you to do it. Then it's fine.
The operative word here is “active” for the lawyers to get away with false stats.
To be fair, they do admit this:

"Are you challenging Twitter’s earnings report, saying that <5% of mDAUs are fake/spam?

We are not disputing Twitter’s claim. There’s no way to know what criteria Twitter uses to identify a “monetizable daily active user” (mDAU) nor how they classify “fake/spam” accounts. We believe our methodology (detailed above) to be the best system available to public researchers. But, internally, Twitter likely has unknowable processes that we cannot replicate with only their public data."
That’s not what ditching means.
To expand on the "interfaces are not enough" part: Defining an interface on an abstract type only gives you that a implementation exists, not that it is correct, i.e. that the specific implementation for a subtype guarantees the same properties the interface specifies.

On top of this, you really want to be alerted to when you expect more of an interface than the interface guarantees - this is what happened in the case of `1:length(A)` being assumed to give the indices into `A`, when the `AbstractArray` interface really only guarantees that a given set of methods exists.

I feel like these sorts of issues more or less require more formal models being provided & checked by the compiler. Luckily for us, nothing in this space has been implemented or attempted in & for julia, while there are a lot of experiments with formal methods and proofing systems being researched right now (TLA+, coq,..). There are of course a lot of footguns[1], but the space is moving fast and I'd love to see something that makes use of this integrated into julia at some point.

[1]: Why specifications don't compose - https://hillelwayne.com/post/spec-composition/
I gave up after about 1,5 years which included a while year of almost daily body scans die about half an hour an even a full on Vipassana retreat. While my practice seemed to improve somewhat i simply didn't perceive any benefits within my psyche. It would not even calm me down. In the end it just didn't feel like it was worth the time investment.

These days i will pay attention to my breath at times when i cannot fall asleep. And that's about it.
I’ve long wanted to write a proxy server that would translate MySQL ddl/sql to PostgreSQL using the actual logic/code stripped from both engines. Iirc, when I looked into it the Postgres syntax was available more or less as an OSS standalone module but the MySQL backed was trickier to isolate so I gave up on that. That would let me move the PHP parts of our website (WordPress, vB/XenForo, etc) to match our custom appliances all running on postgres.

Amazon did this in reverse; if I’m not misremembering their Postgres support is actually a shim that translates pgsql queries to those compatible with their Aurora db, a MySQL derivative. I don’t know if they only support the subset of operations that can be translated one-to-one or if they also added some core features to support Postgres-specific functionality.

An interesting case is going from SQLite to anything else - you can actually just create a VFS (SQLite storage abstraction plugged directly into the library/engine) to store the underlying data on a remote MySQL/PostgreSQL db altogether without translating anything. Reads and writes would continue to go through the SQLite api but end up stored on the rdbms of your choice, locally or remotely.
Wow, this looks absolutely nice! It looks clean and neat as well!
I also used to hate shaving. I've switched to "classical" Timor Solingen razor recently ($25) + hard soap. While shaving took me some more time initially (+5 minutes every other day), overall quality of life was improved. This is single piece razor, so changing blades is as fast, and it gives better results than 5 blade heads. And much reduced plastic waste is also important to me. I don't know from where this myth of how faster or better "G* Mach3" (or similar) razors are, but sure the marketing department of those companies did a good job.
I've done a couple of these.

Once, I did the take-home assignment, which took around six hours. I submitted it by linking to a public GitHub repo titled "Company X Take Home Assignment".

I ended up taking a different position and the original company asked that I take down the repo. I told them that since I did the work on my own time, I own the resultant code and declined to take it down. They sent me a nastygram from their in-house lawyer.

I responded with an invoice for $900 - six hours at $150 / hour. That got me a phone call scheduled with their lawyer. I figured they either owned the code (in which case, they should pay for it) or I owned the code (in which case, they had no legal right to demand that I take it down).

The next day they sent me $500 over PayPal and I took it down.
That's smaller than "a few GB", so no problem ;)

SQLite can get tricky, if the database files get bigger. But up to a few GB there should be no problem at all (SQLite supports up to 281 TB though)
Emergent bartering behaviour in multi-agent RL
All of that is true.

But even if web3 was 100% decentralized it still would be an expensive inefficient P2P.
Good idea, chocolate for instance is always in then "absolutely not" category, but if you dig a bit deeper you find that a dog such as my own (50 lb) can consume over a pound of milk chocolate without cause for concern. https://www.petful.com/pet-health/how-much-chocolate-toxic-d...
A lot of tourists and foreigners come to Canada and say they want to try Tim Horton's because they've heard it's quintessentially Canadian.

I have to always correct them and tell them it's not Canadian.
Purchased FSD does transfer to a new owner, unless you sell to Tesla.

If that class action happens, the most you can hope for is a settlement that allows you to either transfer it to your next car or get a comically tiny payout.
> Thanks for repeating Russian propaganda word for word.
> In reality...

So, you are completely disregarding Russia's point of view, even though they stated it clearly, and are substituting your own interpretation of events. What makes you think that you understand Russian motivations any more than Russia itself?

From Russia's point of view, NATO is encroaching. How blind must one be to disregard that?
“industry experts” - capitalist sponsored charlatans
“democratically elected officials” - corrupted by corporate greed
“Government that is concerned with the rights and freedoms of a society to have access to technology and infrastructure for the benefit of everyone” - which planet do you live on?
This concept is almost the same as

trx = new DbTransaction();

...

trx.commit() or trx.rollback();

It's easy to be missed, but it's hard to detect without manually remembering where to put it in the correct place.
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_(novel)