skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's probably a good ("good") argument to be made that you shouldn't get your underage prostitutes via a famous spook's daughter, but those are not the contentious parts of the story; they're the facts.

You should instead be thinking: She's purveying wildly illegal services for rich and high-profile people, and her father worked for an intelligence agency. In the unlikely event the IC wasn't involved in the beginning, why would they not approach her post-hoc?

You don't need "cover" to be a good spy. You just need information and contacts. Cover is a tool to get those, because most people aren't as dumb as Bill Gates.
Thinking in public will usually lead to evolution of your thought. While they are forgettable when done in private.

It will be better if you get ignorant of public insults.
> Of course, that means I’m not going to go through the effort of other useful-to-a-few and more-useful-than-entertaining videos that I found no video on...But no, not going to waste my time unless YT cuts me in on the revenue.

Why wouldn't you post something just because you won't make a bunch of money off of it? Was that your entire goal with the video you made about the mic issue you had?

What's the reason you post comments here? Is someone paying you to do that? A lot of my favorite things online were put there by people who were just creating and sharing useful things with others because they were passionate and helpful. A few dollars a month would be a nice bonus, but most people will continue to contribute to the internet without any expectation of getting anything in their bank accounts for their time. Production values might suffer for it, but for most people uploading a video to youtube does not require a huge investment in time money and effort.

I love that people are able to create content and make money on youtube, but the idea that people should/have/will stop sharing with each other unless they're getting paid is strange. It's the people who most concern themselves with how much money they can make on youtube that end up flooding the internet with the worst output. That's how we got things like clickbait, homogenized content, algorithm gaming, the nightmarish videos on Youtube Kids etc.
Philip K. Dick had some ideas:

The End of Genetic Privacy in the Blade Runner Canon -
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9731365/
Specialization is for insects. -- R. H.
Rust vs. C++ advanced string formatting
Wouldn't B double sharp just be C? I guess they'd need to call it "B triple sharp", which is just getting silly.
I’m not sure how the laws work but from reading that justice.gov link, anti poaching agreements are illegal and are actually enforceable, right?
Buried ruins of a long gone civilization, maybe?

With instructions for their 'gone enabler' engraved in dura-marble?

SPACEDRIVE! :-)
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Melbourne is on Port Phillip Bay, nearly 2000 square kilometers in size.

The government banned commercial net fishing in 2015, so the bay is now only for recreational fishing.

I understand it had revived the ecosystem.

https://amp.theage.com.au/national/victoria/bay-of-plenty-po...
A great deep dive doc about how crypto is masking as a giant Ponzi scheme.
And yet it says a lot that people stayed, I'm not sure it says whether the python 3 move was necessary more than it says something about developers in general.
As for how he treated people he had actual power over, I would call the label of “bully” quite appropriate
He would make a lot more if not ppl blantly copycat’ing him and his work.

Primitive Life, Primitive Tools, Primitive Technology Ideas…

Youtube should take those channels down or force them to change name due to how SOE works.
Right, maybe nobody shares it outside of video format.
For the ones (like me) who don't / didn't know what a Pineapple Express is [0]: a lot of water coming from Hawaii, via clouds.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple_Express
What disappoints me the most is that people treat him as an inventor, when he invented nothing, his engineers did.

Dennis Ritchie as an example deserves way more respect than Jobs the buffoon.

But if you make "pop" devices to be sold to the layman, you are great in the public eye.
"Chitterlings" always looks to me like a description of a sound made by a Lovecraftian horror, tbh.
What is "value" ?

Is gold more useful now than 20 years ago?
More desirable?
Has gold as a material been improved?

Most of the increase in "value" is something artificial like inflation / scarcity due to increase in population. But that's not value, that is only indeed economic forces only mildly related to gold itself.
The idea of compilers and interpreters providing backward compatibility options to support programs written using older dialects did not originate in Javascript.
> Make the database query using SQL directly, and then inject the results into the HTML template to be delivered to the browser.

This is what I do for the most complex queries, where translating them to the ORM would be a time consuming pain. What I do normally is think in SQL and write in the ORM language. After all the API of the database is SQL, not the ORM, and I already know SQL.

In this way it's obvious that you have to write includes(:comments), because it's a join, and it's obvious that the original

object.votes.count

would generate one query each time it is called. I write the separate queries and compose the results instead. I'm not using BatchLoader or other gems. Using directly the ORM is enough.

If this query turns out to be important for the performances of the application, I'll think about a way to write it with a single query in SQL to make the database do all the work. Then translate it in ActiveRecord or leave it in SQL if it takes too long. Sometimes it's not obvious how to do it, a problem common to all ORMs of all languages.

Edit: somebody called saila gave an example of such a query in the comments one hour before I wrote my reply.
I'm working on bringing Speech to Text and some contextualization for Police/Fire/EMS Scanner projects.

I host P25 monitoring appliances that I've built and have hosted in a few different cities (that I have apartments at) and want to know if there's a fire/police/EMS call near my house without having to listen to the scanner 24/7.

I basically just want to know if it's safe to walk my dog or if I should wait 15-20 mins.
I thought about the ARkStorm prediction when I saw the forecast. https://weatherwest.com/archives/16626
Right now we are looking at the effects of HIMARS rocket artillery in Ukraine. Each rocket costs over $50,000. Cruise missiles cost over $1 million. Many nations can produce rockets, but cannot produce them cheaply. Despite the US and Russia having global strike capabilities, this stuff doesn't come cheap. If they were cheap (say via continued investment in space exploration), you basically have a win button for any global conflict. There's literally no reason rocket artillery has to cost over 50 grand in the grand scheme of things. In a total war, we could probably get it down to less than $2000.
Right, I understand, and it's really really cool, but something's got to give chief. It boils down to time management and priorities I guess. Think of all the important stuff you had on your plate 10 years ago and how many are relevant now. For me personally, if I don't need it for my day job it gets lower in priority.
That Nixon character sounds so evil. How does one decide to veto the clean water act?
> There are now college professors floating the idea that pedophilia ought to be socially acceptable

There might be a nuance that I'm missing; are they talking about the physical act (which should remain as illegal and socially unacceptable as it now is), or the sexual orientation which is typically also labelled the same?

Because society has already decided that who a person is sexually attracted to is not a choice, so it's a dangerous path to be on if we are going to punish people for something that we already decided that they have no control over.
> But it feels like the country has turned rotten. You feel it any time you interact with a customer service person. Restaurants, stores, especially any kind of "gig economy" service like getting food delivered. They hate serving you and hate their job.

A couple months ago I opened up Facebook and saw ads for this company [0]. I immediately think "oh it's just a sham designed to peddle as many ADHD pills as possible" like 5 seconds later (because I'm cynical at this point, sorry). Of course the company denies all wrongdoing and is firmly committed to "helping people" or whatever

This dynamic right here: this fake smile in the public's face, all of this fluffy marketing bullshit about "wanting to help people", this is the American disease right here.

America might look nice and economically developed from the outside, but it's full of maggots like this on the inside. Much like the above corporation

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftc-launches-probe-of-cerebrals...
If you get engagement and constructive criticism, i think "sharing your thoughts" on public forums like Twitter helps. But most of the times people just engage by liking the tweets, i would ideally want comments.
Yup, around a hundred:

https://twitter.com/linusgsebastian/status/16094698614949519...
It's not a race to the bottom. It's a race to the point where Supply&Demand curves intersect.

P.S. if it was a race to the bottom, consider that only 1.5% of the labor force works at minimum wage.
> I've heard of people using non-standard garbage collection extensions instead, long before C++11.

Anyone using Unreal C++, Managed C++ (.NET 1.0) or C++/CLI (.NET 2.0 onwards).
What you're describing is still a rack and pinion system, but likely to wear much more aggressively. I would be happy to be proven wrong, but my gut instinct is that such a system would wear out very quickly, because due to the involved forces, the sprocket teeth would wear out the holes really quickly.

Film, I would assert, works because the teeth just need to align the film; force transfer just uses the filmstrip itself.

Gear teeth are a reasonably complex design - settled, for the most part, I think, but still non-trivial - and do their job very well. It's a lot of "meshing together heterogeneous surfaces to maximize force transfer" problem solving.
The thing is, a business is already paying for (example from my bank):

- bank account fee
- online and mobile banking fees
- card "membership" fee
- individual payment fees
- ATM fees
- incoming card payment fees
- [probably more]

And the bank is already making money by lending out my money to others and charging interest. I'm not saying none of those fees are justified, but at some point you have to ask: have they not taken enough??
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So, are wealthy foreigners allowed to build their own house in Canada (after procuring the land, permits etc)?

(Just asking whether it's theoretically possible).
Trying to make an academic article dashboard for personal use.

Something that would let me select a couple of academic journals and display latest papers published in them, along with abstracts.

I can't even find a free API to reliably get abstracts. After spending an hour reading the docs and failing to understand the monetization model, I refuse to use Elsevier's APIs.

I will probably use Crossref's API and just not display abstracts at all. I will put links to publisher's site and to Sci-Hub in the dashboard items.
> Such scenarios don't seem too far fetched

They kind of do though.

> A bunch of people could be doing political activism at some location and be tracked down

Considering political activism is usually in groups out in the open, how practical would be to find the people participating via DNA tests (of what? maybe if they spit on the ground?), compared to the already existing and used phone geolocation and face recognition? Yes those can be protected against by not carrying a phone and wearing a mask/balaclava, but one can also take steps not to leave any DNA residue of use.

So I think it's pretty far fetched, and if you're concerned about your government abusing political activists (within reason of course, coup plotters are also technically political activists but not the type one wants to protect) there are better things to do than to focus on one specific impractical avenue of recognition that could lead to abuse.
JetBrains - good mention, it's a move in the right direction. I too am eager to see this space mature.

I am strongly in favor of text config + lightweight GUI in multiple editors/IDEs; that's the underlying idea with Lama2. Just as in the document markup space, there is room for multiple solutions with slightly different application areas here as well.
I wish I'd had an opportunity to use Phoenix in production before I got out of web dev, because the way the Ecto ORM obviated this entire class of error was beautiful. Instead of lazy loading, there's a neat grammar for preloading the entire graph of related records that you want.
where does this exactly store the data? and is it manageable?
I agree. Yet still most people doing scientific computing will end up with 17 installations on their system. I was just being facetious about the state of package management :)
The no operating system part is super compelling to me...

How would one go about accessing something like basic network sockets using the zero lib? I assume there's a lot missing there.
There's no sharp/flat note between B and C - "B sharp" would be C.
IMHO: Early versions of Python 3 were outright inferior, and IIRC couldn't handle raw bytes, because "everything should be Unicode". Except, not everything is Unicode. So people went to port, and couldn't. This compounded a problem with libraries, to create a situation where transitioning was risky. Better yet, eventually the Python devs decreed that everyone should move already... so they were going to stop making new 2.x feature releases, and only issue big fixes. But to the folks already hesitant to change, that sounded a lot like "Python 2 will be super Stable for forever".

So IMO, basically what should have happened is accounting for valid use of features that 3 wanted to kill, and actually offering a path forward, from day one, so everyone could do a migration and actually have it work.

Edit: Also (but connected), 3.0 (and IIRC a couple thereafter) should have been marked as release candidates, because they were.
I think the biggest issue was that they named the executable same. They backported few things from python 3 to 2.7, and recommended to use `sys.version_info` and `__future__` for making code run in both python. If they said they would never rename python3 executable to python and python3 is not python, it would have been easier for everyone.
I do not care what the current social panic is and how they like to call things.

If you put yeast in a jar and some sugar in it, the yeast is going to consume all the sugar and grow until there's no more nutrient left, and then just die.
Yes, I've seen the documentation for this, although I personally am not a emacs user, neither are my team mates.

With Lama2, my approach is to separate the language from the various editor extensions. Keep the language simple/lean and then build extensions/integrations to different text editors & IDEs on top of the core.
The solution is to win by a wider margin. Or schmooze the refs!
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And that is in the infamous anti-worker US; though I think you meant unenforceable (the companies wouldn't be able to use the legal system to enforce them)

In the rest of the world Steve Jobs / Apple would have been in a bigger trouble just from the start of the emails.
It's not that people misunderstand you, it's just that your made scenario doesn't make much sense on multiple levels. What sort of party has a restaurant or a store, especially when in opposition to an authoritarian regime? What sort of authoritarian regime wouldn't just surveil/round up opposition as thet the usually do?
Love this. I have often thought about doing the same thing, but using the audio feeds from broadcastify perhaps.
> The code was inserted in three different places within the song and the team decided to transmit one simple message: "19 people rescued. You're next. Don't lose hope." After eight months, the song was ready for its first broadcast

Was there also rescuing going on during the development of the song?
I truly do not understand what you’d use that space for? Your house has more space per person than our entire house has in total (800 sqft, for 3 people). I mean, I can imagine enjoying an extra 200 sqft, but that’s about it.
This is the correct stance to take. I've been to other countries where tipping hasn't been implemented, and the service and quality has _always_ been worse than in the grand USA.
Well, this looks like fun! `Bflat build` doesn't seem to support .csproj files, so testing this on existing code wasn't a huge success for me right away (and of course the trivial stuff always works), but definitely worth looking into later.

Quite interesting that this is literally the first time I've come across this project, despite it being in a space I'm interested in and even having been discussed here previously...
Indeed -- curse you, irregular standard note structure!
What comes after Copilot? Tensai, have a conversation with your codebase
For whatever reason “learnings” is being used instead of lessons.
Central Bank Digital Currency - A new kid on the block.
Works on blockchain but very different than Bitcoin, Ethereum
> So why would anyone decide, much less how would one justify to a corporate overlord, to spend all the time and resources to refactor their code, upgrade libraries (assuming the libraries themselves upgrade), update build systems, perform extensive regression testing, and everything else, just for a version that would be EOL one year after what they just upgraded from?

The longer you delay upgrades, the bigger the delta, the more work it will be to update. Instead of doing two medium sized updates, one today and another one in 2030, you'll be doing a huge one in 2030. That might be a trade off you might be willing to make today, but you might regret it in 2029 when you're halfway through a multiyear migration project where all feature work is on hold.
No, Humans Are Not Causing a “Sixth Mass Extinction”
In doing so, it would be great if you could provide details around extension safety. I've heard that some extensions may not play nicely in combination with others, and it would be really nice to know how one is to vet extensions for use in production.
200 years? that’s a very very long time. NASA is going back to moon by 2025. i think there will be humans on mars by 2035... 2055 LATEST
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What's keeping exceptions out of Zero?

Is there a simpler way you could achieve Try/Catch semantics and throw-like flow control, without having to check return values after each function call? eg. Even though VB6 lacks exceptions, I built such a framework for it out of primitives like "On Error Goto" (and helper tooling that would automatically wrap and instrument functions to propogate the Err details). It sounds a bit heavy but was in fact really slick in practice.
I see the usual exercise and other self improvement activities listed which are all good for your physical and mental health. What I see is among the self improvement and tasks most forget to take time to enjoy the day or reward themselves, this mostly comes as an afterthought or compensation for some heavy task done.

I would suggest to add this to your list of tasks and make sure you take a certain amount of time everyday to indulge in any activity that brings you pleasure or makes you happy. This is often neglected, so make this a priority equal to the other things. Make sure you don't miss out on this more than a few days.
This may be listening to music which you enjoy, watching some funny show, enjoy some great food on some days, if you enjoy trekking or other physical activity ; just make sure you make time in your schedule to indulge in something that makes you feel happy or satisfied.
looking at weedmaps, there are a few places with 1 oz in the $20s.

$25 FA Ranch Mangolicious at Electric Lettuce [1]

$28 Blueberry Muffin at Floyd's Fine Cannabis [2]

if you're willing to travel, $20.83 Pineapple Upsidedown Cake at THClear [3]

[1] https://weedmaps.com/dispensaries/electric-lettuce-northeast...

[2] https://weedmaps.com/dispensaries/floyd-s-fine-cannabis-on-w...

[3] https://weedmaps.com/dispensaries/thclear-lebanon/menu/park-...
The old thermostat is placed quite far from any place I could plug in a transformer to... (otherwise, yes, that would have been the solution)

My current setup has the relay right next to the furnace, where there's plenty of mains lines to tap into for continuous power and this is fine since it doesn't measure anything and just gets commands from hass.
This is interesting, but is from 2015, title should be updated.
You can think of payments networks as secure messaging infrastructure where the operator says “you can trust us that this payment is legit” to varying degrees of certainty and with varying degrees of fraud protection.

Debit networks (oversimplification) are basically ATM networks where your bank gets a note saying “user” supplied their card and pin to authorize a withdrawal of $X. This is why you can also pull out extra cash on these transactions. Banks ofc want to be reimbursed for the onerous task of giving you your own money, so they usually charge a consumer-facing fee for these transactions.

Credit (really Visa/Mastercard) transactions tell the bank “user” gave us their card and a signature, our fraud algorithms tell us this is probably fine, and we’ll settle this payment in bulk with the rest of your users’ purchases in 1-3 days. Banks, again wanting their cut, are paid via merchant-facing fees (interchange and merchant discount rate).

Stores keep the debit option up because some people like to draw extra cash and they get the benefit of not paying the fee even though their prices already incorporate the cost of credit card processing.

That is also why all the “financial advice” sites say to run things as credit, but honestly I’m not sure how current the above is given recent regulations.
Is "billionaires not using correct capitalization and punctuation to appear too important" a thing? Elon Musk seems to do the same thing, and it always surprises me.
strings, bytes, utf-8 and more have continued to stymie me while converting code over.
Hm but you are saying the same as me, that "The people looking for freelancers rarely post". I never said they don't look at the freelancers who are looking, I haven't tried it myself so wouldn't know that. It's nice to know that happens though
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