jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It doesn't seem obvious that the fundamental models of reality would just happen to match up with the mathematical constructs that we humans have come up with.
Most websites are not designed for you, the 0.5% of users who are running some personalized style sheet override. They’re designed for the other 99.5% of people who don’t even realize that’s possible.
The challenge is that there aren't really any good alternatives.

The alternatives suggested (Plausible, Fathom, etc.) are fine for hobby projects, blogs, etc. but they don't support any of the modern analytics required for commercial usage.

If you're running a business then you need an analytics solution that supports attribution modelling, cohorts, funnels, etc. and there's just no great competitors.

(I'd happily invest if someone's building one!)
I have a fantasy about the linguists returning to place formal logic back where it belongs - towering over the collapsed heap of probabilistic-blackbox-cat-picture-classifiers. A constrained natural language system would then be loosed on the Federal Register, steadily chewing through a 100 year mess, identifying clauses that violate the growing model's internal coherence, and suggesting potential constraints where global satisfiability is possible. It is a nice dream.
Thank you for sharing!! This can act as an insiration and a guide to many who are thinking about making a similar step, but don't.
I think it's actually easier today, because of the large amount of free well made educational resources out there, stack overflow, raspberry pi, instant IDEs from just typing in a URL, scriptable and popular online games like roblox and more. While in the past you had books you had to buy and if you were lucky, some help on IRC and basic on your computer, that you were encouraged to use to get some basic games on your computer if you were a gen X kid.
Just no. Ignore the hyperbole in the article and the crux boils down to this:

- Using GA means you're paying for your analytics with your users' privacy.

The product is 'good' iff (if and only if) you're willing to accept those economics and ethics. You want analytics; that suggests they has some value to you. You don't want to pay cash money for it. That's your choice.

But it's not free. Your users are paying for your analytics with their data.

GA is far from a charity. It's a key part of the surveillance machine at the front end of the advertising pipeline.

>They think of all the users, not just corporations.

Yes. They mine users to sell ads to corporations. If you use GA, you are deciding that you're willing to support that. Google gives you analytics, you give them your users' data. Simple as that.
Because "Bitcoin skeptics" isn't funny or entertaining writing? I'm sure the author knows what tone works for their audience. Not everyone wants the completely antiseptic take.
I listened to a discussion with Perlroth on a podcast where she said things that implied strongly that exploits, in general, writ large, were leaked NSA tradecraft. I don't have even 1/5th the skin in this game Halvar does, and I found it offensive enough to yell out loud in my car, just at the implication.

In reality I think it's kind of an embarrassment how much CNE technology goes the other way, from industry and research to the IC. Not for moral reasons (though: I would have ethical problems selling bugs to attackers of any sort and am thankful I don't produce the kinds of bugs that have this market) so much as "it's not that hard to do this work and we should be getting more for our tax dollars".
This is awesome! Does it do other conversions than weight? mol/lengths/surface/volume/energy?
But you’re the one whose decided to dedicate so much attention to it. If it’s a prediction you don’t agree on just ignore it

The fact that it’s touched a nerve is more interesting to me
That amount of funding should not be hard to come by. Several people on HN, in fact, fund projects of that sort of size (< $10K). If the worst comes to the worst soft launch, blog about your needs and then see what comes :)

(my gut instinct is you could probably get by on cloud hosting that is a lot cheaper - and which scales with demand - at least initially; but you know your product)

The key takeaway: none of these are unsolvable problems. Startups have come to the market on shakier grounds and succeed.
Unfortunately, most college students have been misled for years about their degrees. I know 3 people with degrees in drama and theater who were told by every professor, advisor, and student loan officer that what mattered was having any 4 year degree, regardless of what it was in.

I think that's a relic from the time when just having a degree did matter, but those days are over, and people are just starting to realize it. That being said, there's still a big problem with the ridiculous amount you have to pay for a degree these days.

Part of that has to do with the enormous fixed costs of running a college. For example; every walking path at a Maryland college I attended must be kept clear of snow and ice at all times. Including in the middle of a blizzard. This results in a friend of mine (and his whole department) working 16 hours a day during all snowstorms to keep the paths clear. During a blizzard, he makes hazard pay the first 8, then overtime hazard pay the second eight, and sleeps on campus. He paid his mortgage this year with just snow crew money.

So clearly cutting costs and unnecessary "services" would help. Cutting executive salaries would help too. But until student loans can be discharged in bankruptcy (thus forcing lenders and schools to actually cut tuition to match the value of a degree) nothing is likely to force schools to make the hard decisions.
It just doesn't seem to be worth the cost to me. I don't have a problem with restricting foods or calories as I can cook up something tasty with almost anything, but as shown in the example at the end of the article, lifestyle seems to suffer.

The "typical" calorie restricting individual presented at the end of the article is woman who is 5'6" tall and weighs 110lbs. She mentions that she gave up running so she didn't lose too much weight. That's not a lifestyle I find fulfilling nor does it seem healthy. She had to cut out physical activity to keep from wasting away.

I want to run around with my kids, go to the gym (I enjoy my time there), jog and play soccer (twice a week). I like being active and my life would be much poorer if I had to give it up just to stay at a "healthy" weight.

Edit: I'd also like to add that I get the same exact benefits of "improved mood, sleep, mental clarity and memory" by choosing the foods I eat carefully, but I do not control the calorie intake. I eat when I'm hungry until I'm full.
LOL. All states except Montana have at-will employment, albeit that the nature of exceptions varies across states. Where do you live?
It's also about how fast you can go through a work out. I would do a lot less lifting if I used free weights; machines let me change weight fast.

Of course, I'm 48, and when I was 18 I would have laughed at what I just said, because I was powerlifting. But my needs are different now. I do 30 minutes of interval training cardio, and 20 (or so) minutes of weights. I do 2 (maybe 3) sets. The first one is about 12 reps, where I do 4 warm-up reps, 4 at medium weight, at 4 at just-below-what-I'm-lifting-that-day weight (depends where I am in my cycle). I need machines to be able to change the weight "on the fly." Then I do a second set to failure (again, how many reps depends on how much weight I am pushing that week). This quick routine gives me the workout that I am looking for at this point, and I can get it done in the time I am willing to commit (4 days/week).

If you don't know what I mean by "where I am in my cycle" (I'm male so it's not that) check out this link:

http://www.deepsquatter.com/strength/archives/tomdesign.html

The only problem is I may be running out of weight on some of the machines. I'll deal with that problem when I get there, though. The more likely result is that I'll lay off the weightlifting for a while and have to "rebuild" before that happens (if, say, I start sailing alot).

Edit: typos
You're thinking too hard.

It means if you install Windows 10 during the free period, it will be as if you bought a normal Windows license.
You can always quit and find another job. Not a big deal nowadays.
The full URLs provide the source of the problem causing the block. It doesn't mean they won't crudely cut the entire domain.
Forgive the question from an outsider, as I don't use Julia to know if there's already an obvious answer to this question

What's wrong with the IntelliJ plugin for Julia? https://github.com/JuliaEditorSupport/julia-intellij#readme
>I'd place these at $60k-$100k: enough to live on, but not enough to go into it for anything other than love-of-science.

Why shouldn't universities be able to compete for labor with corporations?

>A university president might hit $200k.

University presidents aren't scientists, nobody would take that job "for the love of science."
It has been shown that this virus can survive on surfaces for 3 days.
Yes, that's what I said. That's why I disagree with the claim that it would be as easy to rent while I'm not claiming it would be completely unrentable.
aaaand silence. I should have known better than to ask.
Economic contraction can be countered by government spending in the short term. For instance in the UK the government has pledged to pay up to 80% of unemployed workers wages during this crisis. There will certainly be a hole to dig out of later, but it means no binary choice between economic contraction and people dying.
I think the parent's phrase "sufficient technology" was meant to be interpreted as more than my "brain uploading and emulation"—i.e. an infinite Matrix landscape, synchronized with a doorway in the real world, that would gradually quantum-de-/re-materialize them as they progressed further into or out of it, so that, on the outside of the door, they were real people made of real matter, but ten or fifteen feet inside they were completely virtual. Assuming a wide-enough door, you could bring in your house, your car, whatever else you'd like, and bring them out again if you wanted to live a mortal life. (But, if you got your leg blown off in reality, you could always go in and, sufficiently digitized, apply a patch from a record of your previous body and walk back out, good as new.)

The problem with speculative fiction is that it needs a technological conflict. Worthwhile utopias don't do that.
I recently discovered Ronnie Dahl's YouTube channel. He covers offroading / overlanding / adventure vehicles from a variety of perspectives. Relevant to this, he has multiple videos about how to and not to upgrade a vehicle for serious offroading.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChz00vupzP_mNPIYD8GSmBw
... and probably not much else. I love the way I can type in whatever combination of ingredients I happen to have in my pantry, and get a bunch of free recipes with those ingredients. I doubt that would have happened without internet advertising.
Author here. It is Nginx with ModSecurity. It looks like your client uses HTTP/1.0 which I blacklisted as HTTP/1.0 doesn't make sense nowadays as it originally didn't even support Host header for virtual hosts. HTTP/1.0 is often used by badly-written web scrappers.
Scaling not just technically either, it's also the engineers. Most Web engineers have had their minds bent to the request response model with databases.

The key reason is that a game lasts... minutes to hours (ignoring most MMOs), so the state machine makes sense and the risk of failure low. Web devs have to use a database which has state for years.
And Goethe lived to 73, not unusually old for a poet. It's a bit like Peter Townsend writing "My Generation" with "Hope I die before I get old", then turning up age 60 or so to play the Super Bowl halftime show.
I know exactly how big the world is, thanks. The guy personally built a new workstation for Linus Torvalds and sent it to him.

Maybe the world's a bigger than you imagine.
Shame on Gamestop management for not doing a secondary offering. Tesla did this a few times in the past 18 months to raise like $10-12 billion dollars.
was going to say this.

feels kinda weird that wifi marketing speek is taken at face value two decades into the bullshitting with theoretical maximum agregates.
Yes, in one sense an algorithm doesn't editorialize, not being intelligent, but humans can write an algorithm to editorialize for them. The editorial decisions are made while designing the algorithm.

And if Facebook, knowing that outrage drives engagement, chooses to run an algorithm that displays the most engaging content, aren't they also choosing to display the most outrageous content?
They've always built the ugliest notebooks in the business but their commitment to features and performance is unmatched, at least since IBM sold the ThinkPad brand. I'm not sure any other company would've been bold enough to put an optical disc drive directly under the touchpad. They still include physical mouse buttons as well as VGA and ethernet ports, which are all becoming rare.
I was under the impression that there are far less psychotic arsonists than people entering the prison system for petty crime.

I read that some nordic countries have programs that are more focused on rehabilitation that seem to work relatively well for those who want to atone for their mistakes and be better. In terms of implementations, I believe solutions exist.

The problem IMHO is that there's a deep culture of polarization and punitiveness in the US. Consider for example someone who gets arrested for drug possession. In many parts of the country, it's not at all uncommon for people to think that junkies should rot in jail. Treating it as a public health issue doesn't even cross their minds. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that many people subconsciously think that once a person enters the prison system, they can be discriminated forever as if they were sub-human.

But if as a society, there's never a notion of change/forgiveness, how is one expected to leave the vicious cycle?

When it comes to child development, it's fairly well documented that chronically punitive interventions don't work. This same line of research needs to be more broadly publicized for adults as well. I don't believe there can be change in the penal system unless society can first get over the hollywood idea of "bad guy in jail == happy ending" and realize that in real life, things keep rolling after the movie credits.
That is... almost not horrible?

If he had said anything other than "in sql" it would be the correct answer.

"I store all dates in spreadsheets in ISO format"

"I prepend ISO dates to marketing campaign names so I can easily sort them in the horrible web frontends that doesn't have a sort by date option"

"I start all my blog entries with ISO dates..."

I mean, just... so close!
It's been done before. I consider it a passive dark pattern.
Ads began in 2007, over 13 years ago.

I purchased my first FB ad in late summer 2007. Not sure if that’s also when it opened up.
Tim - sorry for any confusion - lets finish this discussion offline.
If it's for work I'm not interested in, in a place I'm not fond of, the name of the company making the offer likely isn't enough to hold my interest.
A long time ago I worked in a finance/trading environment and we had GPS clock receivers in our datacenters that synced from satellites. While they weren't that expensive I would imagine at Google's scale they would might be. Is there a reason Google wouldn't have used this same technique if it achieves the same accuracy?
It's a simple question and it deserves your honest answer.

How many dead people are you expecting?
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It was definitely popular. It used to be the go to solution on r/AndroidDev for people wanting a simple backend solution without having much experience. Everyone switched to Google Firebase after Facebook shut it down.
It is being used in several countries already (US and Europe, not sure about Asia). If you are interested in details, here is a video of a conference call at UCSF:

https://youtu.be/bt-BzEve46Y?t=3194
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Note that even with Google Cloud Spanner (last I checked anyway), the distributed consistency model was only available among machines within the same datacenter, as orchestrating transactions across regions would be latency prohibitive. I think you can get cross-region read replicas but that's all. (And I may even be mixing that up with some other cloud database).

So interplanetary, yeah one planet is going to be the central transaction handler and everyone else is going to have to deal with it. So likely things that require transactions, you'll have to have enough cash in the bank in your Mars account if you want quick transactions, and expect wiring money from Earth to take a while.

Coming back to the current day, if you need low-latency global transactions just here on Earth, then that's probably how you'd have to design it. You prime each region with a certain account "limit" of whatever it is you're transacting to use in local transactions, and when that limit gets low you transact some more from your central data store back into your regional account, or something along those lines. It'd be a two-stage thing.
No no, but the what if someone down the supply chain is being exploited and as the end user I’m responsible
> then porting all the major libraries

Yup, this was a gradual process, but by now everything I need is ported, even Django.

> now the bright idea from the core dev team is to focus on pushing Python3 as the default install on distros. They all failed. Python3 as default on most distros won't do anything either.

It worked on me: When Arch Linux made it the default I figured it was finally time to adopt it for my various everyday utility scripts, which resulted in me successfully pushing for it at work as the implementation language for several projects.
Go has inheritance, including confusing method resolution orders and everything :

http://golang.org/ref/spec#Struct_types

("AnonymousField" is the name they give to it. But it's inheritance. Badly executed and doesn't fit well in the type system, but that's par for the course for Go)

I don't get where these statements keep coming from. Well, I do, to an extent : the Go authors keep claiming these sorts of things, but I don't understand why. They're not true. There is no complex language feature that Go does not have. Go has inheritance, Go has generics (simply inaccessible for everyone except the language authors, like in modula-2), Go has polymorphism (simply inaccessible for "mere" users). Go has return-value polymorphism. Go has type parameters, both in types and functions (again, inaccessible for users of the language, but it's there).

Everything is simply built as custom compiler code that's inconsistent and riddled with unexpected edge cases, none of it worked into the type system itself. This is the real reason for resistance against these language features : working them into the type system would be a necessity, and isn't possible without breakage because they're not consistent.
Ya, you aren't supposed to work with tourist visas, and you should be paying taxes in your country of residence on your income. Things can get pretty shady, and you really don't want to wind up in a Thai jail!
I think of it somewhat like researching a topic and starting with Wikipedia. It's just a really good start.

There are a lot of very smart people here and I think it was a great idea to come here. If the OP is smart enough to not take everything said as a cure, they could very well gain some very valuable bit of knowledge that could lead them on the right path; just like starting with Wikipedia.
Some of your features are great, but my personal view is that your solution is suitible for people who don't understand how to get the best out of their websites. I'd far rather maintain full control over the features I do/don't have, and full control over the database and how I access that data.

Still a nice service for some, though :)
I do not think you understand what I am saying.

In half an hour I took a fifth of the battery. With everything turned off. Even if there was some residual background stuff we missed, that is not acceptable performance. It wasn't flash, it wasn't fancy HTML5 demos, it wasn't even super-complex pages... it was regular web use. Sites like reddit, this site, my tumblr, etc. Some twitter on the side.
Well, the SC2 beta phase one ended two days ago. With all this feedback, I wonder if Blizzard would make any changes to Battle.net 2.0 before the official release date (7/27). Usually Blizzard is very receptive to the feedback of the fans, but I think it's too late and too much work to get Battle.net 2.0 to a state where the author would be satisfied before the release date.

In any case, I expect Blizzard to refine their products after release until they are perfect, just like they always have. Hopefully, they will continue to refine Battle.net 2.0 as well.
Uh. Where's the line, Joe? On the one hand, Highlights(r) for Children isn't can't have to publish this. On the other hand, any Creative Loafing alt-weekly should fall over itself to serialize it. And, it's not racy enough for Playboy.

Where along that spectrum would you dictate that Apple run its business?
Heh. But the course you're referring to is 4 day IAP (January, the Independent Activities Period) course and clearly wasn't for credit.

There are some formal, frequently with a small amount of credit, more serious courses that are taught during IAP, like 6.092 "Introduction to Programming in Java" or even (as captured by OCW in in 2009) 6.096 "Introduction to C++".
>That’s why your game is region-locked. Got friends in Europe? Too bad. You can’t play with them. Blizzard has international Starcraft tournaments to sell.

You know, even with online-play only I might have been compelled to buy SC2, eventually after the price comes down.

But without international play I will have no choice but to schedule when I play around when other people are playing. I stopped gaming regularly when I entered college, and now it's something I do every once in a while, when I need to disappear from life for a while - it's not scheduled, and I don't want to have to worry about scheduling unless I'm scheduling a LAN party. - also an impossibility.

So no dice. I'd rather hack on 0 A.D.
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