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by massaman_yams 6y ago
1. Identify a large number of email newsletter signup pages that don't use captcha and which either send an opt-in confirmation message or a welcome message on signup. 2. Identify a target for some kind of account takeover attack. (Ass
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by massaman_yams 6y ago
Interesting conclusions, but small sample size: N=20. Vitamin D at normal doses is quite safe, though, so I'll be supplementing my intake now even if broader long-term study shows this to be ineffective for C19.
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
No. My original comment wasn't worded well, sorry. See my clarification above.
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
A handful of friends/acquaintances on fb - so, no, sorry. It's clear they're less informed than most, and I've certainly seen plenty of more appropriate responses along the lines of what you describe. To clarify a bit: i
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
Politically, yes, there was/is a cargo cult. Both for those convinced it's a cure, and the anti-cargo-cult opposing party convinced it's somewhere between useless and actively harmful. From a medical practice standpoint, you
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
The URL is a little misleading here; when scanning the frontpage it appears the project is associated with Google, when it's really just a Colab notebook. Maybe the Github repo would be a bit clearer to link to: https://gith
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
Wasn't clear you were saying it uses copy just like pgsync uses copy. I read it as you making the distinction between the two.
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
This uses COPY for export & import: https://github.com/ankane/pgsync/blob/master/lib/pgsync/tabl...
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
One-way, yes. pg's COPY command can't do upserts, this can. The primary use case for this appears to be ETL. Pg_dump is more backup-oriented and optimized for larger operations, vs. a bit more fine-grained in most ETL processes.
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
It's batch sync, not streaming or replication. By default, appears to dedupe based on PK.
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
I send between 500 and 1000 per month through mailgun. On high-usage months, I will pay around $1. Even if I sent 5000 messages one month, I'd pay around $4. This is not even close to a significant cost.
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
No. Botnets are large and broadly distributed enough to render protection methods based only on the IP or IP block ineffective. They're commonly used for mailbombing attacks such as those described here: https://www.wired.co
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
One thing known to speed alcohol metabolization is fructose. That's not to say consuming fructose will make you "sober", though, as the first metabolic byproduct of alcohol - acetaldehyde - also has CNS effects. https:/
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
Or, you can look at the (say) 6 month sales cycle for an enterprise platform, and the internal political wrangling that may be required to get approval for the line item, as significant hurdles to moving forward with an ETL project. There a
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
Right, AutoML != AGI.
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
Built-in regularization, probably, plus cross-validation. These techniques aren't new; they're included in a number of ML libraries already - just not at this level of automation.
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
I did it with a Pi, HomeAssistant, smart bulbs, and some Python, but it was not as good or as reliable as I'd like. I wanted the lights to know what temperature and brightness to turn on to based on a schedule, but there wasn't a
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
Sending text-only is probably a weak spam signal as far as Gmail is concerned; for the majority of mail to the majority of recipients (though yours may be exceptions), HTML email - even if very basic - offers better layout/design optio
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
And if you read the rest of that mailop thread, you'll see that the broader IP reputation of the /24 where your IP is located is a key part of whether or not your email gets delivered. I would venture to guess that a substantial p
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
Sometimes fractious? Ha. There's so many cranks there that 95% of the messages are not worth reading, even if most are well-intentioned.
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
Let's assume he's on the spectrum for the sake of argument. If you miss some indirect signals, that's one thing - but when you're explicitly told specific behaviors are inappropriate, and you keep doing them anyway, bein
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
Labeled as 5% but actually containing 40%, sure. Labeled as 35% but containing 40%? No, because those are functionally identical for most consumers.
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
Clearly you don't have the full picture. This isn't about a difference of views; it's about a long-standing pattern of inappropriate behavior, including (but not limited to) overtly and deliberately staring at women's br
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
I was thinking along the same lines; but there's a potential problem in that this provides an incentive to mislabel a beverage's ABV to get a lower tax rate. That's probably solvable-ish by fining companies found to have an A
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
From the report linked to in this commment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20833229 "There is moderate evidence that cannabis or cannabinoids are effective for: • Improving short-term sleep outcomes in individuals
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
I use the same helmet when commuting and on longer/faster rides.
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
yep - using the pg_trgrm extension. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgtrgm.html
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
Only if you're biased towards accepting those kinds of arguments already. There are social explanations for the effect that, in my opinion, both better explain it and don't suffer from the slightest appearance of racism.
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
Thanks for sharing! This looks much more practical than HoloClean.
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by massaman_yams 7y ago
It's slow, first and foremost; while I'm not 100% sure on the internals, I think that's because it's doing these operations on js data structures in browser, so pandas would be up to a few orders of magnitude faster out

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