jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Seconded, this book caused me to do more research to cover my ignorance than any text book I've ever picked up, but I absolutely enjoyed every minute of it. I also think Anathem is Stephenson's best book by far.
Thanks for that. I always thought that definition was somehow just very, very wrong, but it kept getting cited by people who didn't really care what the definition was.
One way of distinguishing between the two would be that user experience is the cognitive interaction with features. If you start with a basic web app, then add a user chat feature and then a group chat feature, ux would be how new and existing users interact with those features and your entire application.

Put another way, user experience encompasses the design aspects and the behavioral aspects of an app, as where features include the different components that make up the overall user experience. Its the interaction with the existing features that compose the ux.
They go hand in hand frankly. Also I feel they both deserve equal and adequate attention. If you build something and it is missing features you are failing, same as if you build something and it lacks a user experience you are failing. However which is more noticeable? I would say it depends on the feature.

Ultimately, whether smart or dumb an end user will know if the user experience is lacking. If a feature is missing though a user might or might not notice. Depends on the feature.

Features are built to provide one part of the user experience, the UI itself is what provides the overall user experience which is to an extent dictating by the features required.

Make sense?
It's great for a teacher to screw over the people who've learned to study in exactly the way teachers like him have trained them to study?

That's a long way to go for a little intellectual arrogance.
Nope. Of course if my ISP was in Pyongyang, it might be a different story.
Wow, just curious about the implementation. Do you use some sort of heuristics in determining political posts or excessively complaining posts?
Site is down, my little project got it though:

http://viewtext.org/article?url=http://lemire.me/blog/archiv...
That is a pretty common overflow. 171! overflows a 32 bit float.
I've lived in a city, I've lived in a suburb. I like the city far better. I disagree with your point on resources.

Energy wise, the people in the city use far less. But that is mostly becuase they have smaller apartments and use less heat. Give everyone in the suburbs 800 sq ft and then run the comparison again.

You definition of "resource" is a little strange. Would the pebbles in the asphalt on a street in NYC see more tires run over them per year than the pebbles in the asphalt in the suburbs. Probably true. When you look at the cost of maitaining a mile of road in NYC and compare it to a mile of road in the suburbs, the difference is striking. You are spending 10x+ for everything in the city because it is a logistics nightmare.

Even something as simple as a dedicated fiber line for a business, in the suburbs they can just run a line underground easily. In the city, it is a major problem becuase everything underground is already filled, so it comes down to getting a permit to run a line through the underground manholes (an existing, and very limited, resource) and it can be difficult if not impossible.

Not to mention compare a house made of 2x4s, plywood, to one made of steel and brick. Wood grows back. Steel doesn't. Steel also uses an insane amount of energy. And construction in the city is very time consuming, energy consuming, and expensive.
Clever way to get karma from re-submitting old pg essays, bhavin. =P
I think there are two ways to blog: altruistically or narcissistically. If you're blogging altruistically you're blogging for others primarily and yourself secondarily. If you're blogging narcissistically you're mostly blogging for yourself.

Most of the great blogs that I visit are all done altruistically. They are well maintained, post useful information, and very rarely waste my time. They also require a huge amount of effort on the part of the blogger because they really have to do work to gather and present interesting and useful information for their readers.

What a lot of the press has referred to as blogging is "narcissistic." Instead of coming up with interesting information and vetting it for their readers they mostly just spew whatever thoughts they had that day onto the page. It doesn't take a huge amount of effort, but the signal to noise ratio is also very low.

With the rise of Facebook and Twitter, narcissistic blogging can happen more in the sphere you want it (your friend group). Narcissistic bloggers are usually doing it for attention and their friends' and acquaintances' attention is more important than strangers'.

Altruistic bloggers, on the other hand, have useful information to present so they want to present it to as large an audience as possible. While I think we'll see more narcissistic bloggers moving to Facebook and Twitter in the future, hopefully the altruistic bloggers will continue putting the time in for the public.
I had a License for 1password from when it only supported Windows but now I prefer to use LastPass. I work on 3 computers so it's alot easier this way
Is Tumblr a blog? It's growing like crazy. OTH, Posterous growth as a blogging platform seems to have peaked, which may explain their pivot to Groups, which is a social networking and media sharing play, the heart of Facebook and instagr.am.
I wish someone would create a wordpress plugin that puts a Facebook publishing tool at the top of your blog and makes it that easy.

Over in the Drupal community, there's been a guy trying to do this for Drupal, but he's been at it for more than a year and doesn't appear to be close to finishing any time soon. It's a real pity.

His project: http://drupal.org/project/facebook_status
When I visit that page it tells me "OpenStreetMap powered by mapquest". Shouldn't that kind of be the other way around? I mean, in this case, mapquest is using the maps from Open Street Map, so IMHO, I'd say that OSM is powering Mapquest here.

Not that it matters much.

I do love Open Street Map though, also because it's so easy to contribute. I could very easily improve the map around where I live. One particular street for example has been closed off two years ago and OSM is still the only map that gets it right.
Sounds like a bunch of dickheads.
IMO Signal/Moxie "advises" this project, so to me this seems like their way of cashing out (I'm assuming they hold the majority of coins), given that Signal itself is a not-for-profit organization. At least that's what I'd do if I were Moxie.
Ridiculous, they'll just move to websites that ignore takedowns and life goes on.

Sometimes wonder what goes through the heads of people at these companies. A lot of the parts you'll find on these sites are nearly impossible to buy without purchasing a much larger component they are embedded in.

Having repaired a few late model cars this stuff is mostly cosmetic and it's a hard justification to buy say a full console dash for $150 simply because a knob broke off, so it stays broken.

I'd honestly pay car manufacturers good money for nothing but 3D CAD models of various parts. Seems like a decent add on for them, especially for older cars which they barely make anything on.
That ticket-in-advance thing is a part of the problem. For some unclear reason, some European countries let ticket prices skyrocket if you want to just go down to the train station and grab a train.

How is this a good thing?

And don't tell me it's important for planning loads: The schedules are mostly fixed anyway, and the usage doesn't fluctuate that wildly. In some countries, like the Netherlands, this is not a thing, and the national train (NS) behaves just like a city metro: You wave your pass walking on to the platform, and wave it again on the way out.
one could also eat less and receive the same nutritional benefits. today's giant chickens do not seem to be nutritionally dense, flavorful and the unnatural steroids and estrogen levels are certainly worse consumed, than not
When they first acquired confluence it was great. Now I can’t stand it. Is so slow now. So clunky.
I hated it at first. But the more I look at it, the more I like it. It's crazy and totally memeable, like a cross between Guy Fieri, Cosmo Kramer, and Jeff Goldblum.

I bet they'll get a ton of sales from people buying it ironically. Which, when you think about it, is why many people buy trucks in the first place - very few are buying it for utility.
Did these guys really think people would buy it when their excuse is a literal cliché? What’s next? Did a dog eat their homework?
Charlie Munger spoke at the Daily Journal annual meeting. There wasn't a live audience this year and it felt stiff and uncomfortable.
I said.

> The don’t collect this data. How could they monetize it?

Your answer is essentially -

“in principle they could build tracking into all their software”

You seem to be suggesting that their plan is to fein interest in privacy to undermine all the tracking companies first, and then reverse their stance and become a super-intrusive tracking company.

That seems very far fetched and weirdly conspiracy like.

Also obviously not true, given that they have been lobbying for privacy legislation.
It's hard to square that attitude on non-interference abroad with a killing by Saudi on Turkish soil of a man resident in the US for things he wrote in a US newspaper.
Fair enough. But if his letters are not so insightful anymore, whose are?
I think investors over the past year have grown so accustomed to something new and shiny and revolutionary coming every week to get excited about that they've forgotten that making money in markets successfully is about a long term focus and a LOT of boring details and unsexy businesses.

I, like a lot of people LOVE trading stocks and derivatives, and trying to beat the market -- more so as a hobby and as an opportunity to learn more about the more esoteric components of financial markets and how things operate. I've been doing it for over 15 years and I've paid my dues in terrible trades, and seen some great plays work out. The process of options pricing, managing ex-dividend dates and options, derivatives plays, trading styles like position and swing etc all are enormously fun to learn the nuances of. It's a fascinating world.

At the same time, the vast majority of the money that I save for retirement is your standard run of the mill dollar cost aversaging (DCA) into targeted funds based on my risk tolerance, age, and retirement objectives. Really boring stuff that works over 20 years, not 3 months.

Buffet is one of those guys that gets less sexy when volatility is increased, and more realistic when things are boring and people are licking their wounds.

Berkshire is going to be just fine. And they're doing just fine.
I wish PyTorch would utilize CPUs more effectively out of the box. The last time I tried to run some DNN training on CPU (last summer), I was disappointed to find that only one single core was used on my Ryzen machine. Yes, GPUs don't have as much memory bandwidth or compute as GPUs, but this is still leaving a lot of performance on the table.
It’s certainly theoretically possible that people generally don’t consider the effects of taxes and after-tax returns in the inter-linked areas of investing, employment, and new business formation activities, but that doesn’t match my own personal experience nor the behavior of others I see making those decisions.

I find it incredibly hard to believe that increasing the amount by which we tax away the prospective rewards of being successful in a business doesn’t have a negative effect on propensity to form new or expand existing businesses.
Ooh, sounds interesting. I'll have to look up the details. I currently do this after a search with / and regex (if it is a bit complicated)

:%s//replace/gc
They are not "executed". They are displayed to user.
Indeed. When it comes to technology, I think resiliency and robustness in general should trump almost all other concerns.

It would be nice if HTTP were extended to accommodate the inverse of the Upgrade header. Something to signal to the server something like, "Please, I insist. I really need you to just serve me the content in clear text. I have my reasons." The server would of course be free to sign the response.
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Start jailing and fining them?
I know it sounds silly to most people, but this is a modern equivalent of "going cold turkey." Many of us are addicted to our network connections, which is tolerated and even celebrated because it's a tool that can also be used productively.

For some people, not being able to get online once you leave the office (if you're lucky enough to have such a clear work/life divide) can be the best thing for leading a healthy life.

So many people see the benefits of "cord cutting" but forget that replacing cable with WiFi is a problem of having six in one hand and half-a-dozen in the other.
> NumPy which requires installation of our fork of upstream numpy...

At some point in the past, there was a "numpypy" -- does that name still describe PyPy's fork?

Does the numpy team see a forward path where they can take some of these changes back upstream (presumably some/all of the changes could support CPython and PyPy)?

Anyways, keep up the great work! I'm always happy to see my code scream on PyPy for a "free" speed boost.

IMO numpy support is probably one of the few barriers other people see to utilizing pypy more.
The TV news discussed the procedure used in the US, a flight attendant waits in the cockpit for the pilot to come back (I imagine this is done elsewhere too, but they weren't clear about that).
What happens when a pilot has had a heart attack and there is only a co-pilot? Averting and intentional maneuver could also hamper the ability to fly the aircraft and given that these incidents, while they result in huge loss of life, are incredibly rare. As such the cost/benefit is not there.

But fuck that co-pilot.
This looks very good, did someone try it out?
Yea, Meerkat was shut down for spammy practices apparently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207271
I may be mistaken but I believe airline cockpits were made to be able to lock out people from entering in the event of a terrorist activity to take over the plane. This was initiated after 9/11.
i'm sure top gun had one so it must be true
Indexes are created where you told them to. So, if you include an arbitrary field, it's probably not going to be indexed to start with. And yes, query is for indexed fields.

I guess, we can have another type of behavior where all new fields are indexed. It doesn't sound like a "clean way" to me, however some developers could desire that
Why would you assume these organisms would breathe?
Oh come on. It's not THAT bad.

I don't even remember what I was doing at 2 (in fact most studies indicate this is impossible). This girl has the potential to live a pretty awesome life, and no one will F_k with her as well. She could even end up as this guy's prodigy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zGnxeSbb3g
We know what Earth-like life looks like, and some of the indirect evidence it leaves, so we know how to detect it. This means that we can actually build an instrument that looks for it.

We have no way of detecting non-Earth-like life because we have no idea what we're looking for. It's simply not a tractable problem. I mean, if we found something walking around, or even radio signals, we could guess that's life. But detecting chemicals in samples of sand? We haven't the first clue what sort of tests to even run.
Take a look at Qifang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qifang) which was the efforts of another LSE student to tackle the Chinese student loan market.
for now... I'm working on an offline version :)

and thanks for the nice comment!
Great, time to watch "I'm legend" again.
I've never seen "hotel industry propaganda" but the effects on market were debated and often very doubted.

Now it seems there is evidence.
Most astronomy is done with computers. It should be easy for a computer to ignore or subtract all known satellites. If you only get 900 exposures of some new comet instead of 1000, that's still plenty. And we'd need many orders of magnitude more satellites to make 10% of astronomical photos unusable.

I hear the astronomy argument all the time, but I just don't believe it. If satellites are ever cheap and plentiful enough to make that kind of difference, the astronomers can launch a thousand Hubble-style space telescopes and timeshare on those.
Same for fiction. I used to read a lot as a kid, but it tapered off as I switched to non-fiction. 5 years later, I'm now coming back to it.

There's something about fiction that makes things click - it's the story standing in for experience :)
How about a debt snowball?

Pick a level of effort that can be applied to tackle the debt, and start with some of the smaller things, working to the bigger things. You often get more bang for the buck on the smaller things, and it can help energize the team.

Try to figure out why the debt is accumulating and fix the habits that are increasing debt. For alerts, as new features are completed, have a checklist for them so that they get reviewed and the feature is not complete until the alerts are necessary and proper. What is the criteria for start and end of alert? Does the alert automatically deactivate?

For tests, how is a feature being merged without adequate test?

You may need to set different expectations for your leadership as to how long things take as you're no longer cutting corners and also making up for previous cutting of corners.
I'd say that's a bit of a false dilemma. Countries like South Korea and Taiwan have dealt with this problem far better than other countries despite having very few lockdowns [1,2]. Instead they have made use of government funded distribution of free masks and testing and now have a low or declining number of active cases [3,4,5].

[1] https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/30...

[2] https://chinapost.nownews.com/20200317-1094238

[3] https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3869320

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_T...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_S...
This is an instance where on the one hand, a globally coordinated response doesn't do all that much. Korea doesn't seem to need any special help from Italy, for example.

On the other hand, global coordination by medical researchers is both critical and, I expect, frantic. The speed we've progressed from identification through sequencing and then on to Phase 3 antivirals is nothing short of jaw-dropping; this is the most amazing response to a disease we've seen in however many thousand years f recorded history we have.

We may also have to wind back the easy availability of travel after this too. This is probably going to become a 1 in 30 years style event if the travel networks don't change. Good thing to coordinate on, but an issue for the future.
curious. i don't have a machine to mix the dough. the only way to get everything mixed evenly is to start kneading it...
When it overwhelms healthcare it does decimate populations. This is happening in Europe and looks like it will happen in many countries.
No billionaires here, interestingly enough.
Speaking of rent, you can often negotiate that as well! When I was living in an apartment, any time there was a rent increase, I would go into the leasing office and ask if they could do anything about the increase. I always walked away with knocking around $100 off the monthly rent.
Make it work then make it fast and efficient.

People complaining about how slow and expensive brand new models are to train are ignorant of the history of machine learning and of engineering in general.
This comment greatly depresses me. You are pretending as if batteries are volatile bombs. They are not. They can generally handle temps of upto 55 degrees fine. And guess what. They include thermal sensors.

This mod is so low risk for the battery it might as well be almost 0.
Even if we trust the science, the results of those experiments don't necessarily correspond to a political policy in a straightforward or 1-to-1 fashion.

I think a lot of the science today is not easily reproducible, which makes it hard to trust.
A very general piece of advice:

Try to find a small and unusually talented team doing what you want to learn, and get hired by them. There is no substitute to learning from smart/experienced people.

(This is after learning the basics + the intermediate stuff.)
Imagine a world where you, personally, pay $300mm a year to financial professionals in your employ to help you manage say ...$10bn

Let’s say you take that $10bn and manage a portfolio with ~30% a year volatility.

So you pay $300m to manage a bunch of assets that move around by ~$3bn a year.

All of a sudden paying $500k for a speech, a dinner, and a the start of a relationship with a top 10 government policymaker, seems like a bargain.

Same reason Clinton and Obama can do the same after the leave office. Part wisdom, part networking.

Doesn’t have to be nefarious to be a good investment when your business is that scale.
There's software called ArchiveBox, it's not a thing they made up. Or are you aware and you were asking how to use it?
Rust while nice still has to catch up with 30 years ecosystem of tooling.

Many game studios won't bother using it if it doesn't come on the console vendors devkit, just like it happened with C, C++, or middleware like Unreal and Unity.
Hmm. Maybe you read a different article from what you linked.

"Our results indicate that both the prices of wines and wine recommendations by experts may be poor guides for non-expert wine consumers."

"Much to my mortification I was dead wrong, as was everyone else in the room. The proprietor chuckled and informed his room… that the wines were actually the same wine; one was just warmer than the other."

If anything, this article confirms the conclusions of the original. Again from your article:

"Rather, this test simply showed how easily our perception of things is influenced by suggestion."

This doesn't contradict the original conclusion, it confirms it.
Click-to-play on plugins often breaks sites that use Flash ads as overlays. The ads often have the "close this ad" in the Flash code itself, making it impossible to kill the ad layer without activating the plugin. (In my more cynical moments, I wonder whether this behavior is by design.)
Into space, or into orbit? The two are vastly different in terms of energy required.
if you didn't have a web ring you weren't shit!
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