skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> don't really relate to the vast majority of internet users.

It's not that they don't. It's that you don't care.

Because why should you care about something that doesn't meaningfully increase ad revenue or sales? Why should you care that the 2 extra seconds of pageload on a fat pipe, and a fraction of a cent of extra electricity burned, when multiplied by a million of your US users add to over 500 man-hours and few kilograms of coal wasted. Not to mention the site being unreliable or unusable in trains, rural areas and larger buildings in which an user doesn't have Wi-Fi access.

And the problem wouldn't be as big if it was just you. The problem is, everyone else thinks the same way, so all the waste mentioned above adds up. All because people are too lazy to not put useless gunk - which often requires more work to add to your site than to refrain from using it in the first place.
This should be clear in the first blog line, it is not a public service and it says "TL;DR: Install it".
That's likely just their age. Doesn't make it evidence of any change.
It turns out cats are really good at intermittent reinforcement, too :)

I don't know about tricks, or teaching cats to go somewhere they don't want to. I do know that it was fairly straightforward to teach our cats that kitchen surfaces are off limits. Taught them when they were ~2-3 months old, and they never forgot. For 20 years.

Same goes for "humans are not climbing posts".

It seems in general easier to train "don't" than "do".
i'm wondering which features would ideally make it over to Matrix? it feels there is parity already (other than perhaps defining PFS messages as 'exploding'?)
I am sysadmin/devops what machine learning tools and topics would you recommend to learn for that field?
>The system is likely capable of distinguishing a lit green light from a sign painted like one.

I doubt it. It's not even clear that it shouldn't treat a painted green dot like a green light.
Indeed. If you can get such differences in taste from the same variety and same exact tea plant, then the differences between different plants of different varieties in different countries harvested at different times to be processed different ways will be even greater, will they not? Making it even more foolish to not try to test different kinds of teas, and your criticism deeply misguided.
i don't think there's reason to go for the conspiracy here.

Firstly, the effect of drug use in indigenous cultures may be limited (strongly) by culture: smaller communities having much stronger social controls on individuals' behaviour, which may in practice result in rules for drug use (and consequences for misuse) much like our's, just not in writing.

Secondly, there seems to be a mechanism by which a culture develops shared methods to handle drugs by various means. See for example the difficulty indigenous cultures have had again and again in adapting to alcohol – compared to western cultures' relative benign[0] relationship with alcohol. Even within western cultures, there are differences in adaptation, with good adaptation usually being anti correlated to level of regulation. From the jewish and southern European cultures where 8-year old get a glass of red wine with lunch to the inebriated inanity that is the UK at last call.

[0]: "relative" being the operative word here – alcohol obviously is a huge burden on western societies, in direct health effects, domestic violence, traffic deaths etc.
So... did these tube AB designs have particularly asymmetrical lobes to their gain curves? Otherwise I don't see where these even order harmonics are getting introduced.
> almost no one would do the same for a video of dubious quality and content, certainly not in the 90s.

Umm. Porn?
>I'll say what I hear a lot of startup founders saying now -- YC is just not the same anymore. It's lost its appeal and exclusiveness factor. People are just turned off from it.

Surely they're also saying why as well? Not much help without the why, otherwise just hearsay.
> Well, I have seen exactly that sentiment.

Then surely you can provide a reference to it.

> it's also a counterexample to "most C++ written by experts doesn't have memory safety issues that matter in practice".

This is "most C++ written by experts"? At least you're willing to back off your initial ridiculous assertion somewhat. This one isn't much better though.

> I haven't brought up Rust here.

Oh come on, you can't be serious given your advocacy for Rust.
Why is this on HN? It's literally the first result you get if you Google regex.
I mean, the source is, I had dinner with the guy for a school dealio and he said he didn't really like computers and had grad students to do all the programming. GEB is full of mathematical content, but it isn't hung up on computers as machines and concrete things.
> But saying that backreferences cannot be supported by a pattern matching engine that uses something other than backtracking is like saying that because there is no general algorithm no prove any given program P halts, then no program can be proven to halt. But that's trivially demonstrated to be untrue. ∃ ≠ ∀

Yeah, sorry, I mixed up the sense of the quantifiers a bit. More accurately: "If you are interested in regexes that use backreferences, or look-ahead/look-behind assertions, or similar things, then your regex engine must support a backtracking strategy, or you need to rewrite all the regexes you care about to not use any of these."

Is it possible to automate that morphism, i.e., is it possible to build a wrapper around RE2 that converts (in suitably bounded time) a regex using backreferences to RE2 if the language described is in fact regular, and prints an error otherwise?
YESSS!! ever have your 4G connection drop to shit? well imagine like that but like 24/7 on your wired connection, that's what many people live with today :(
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Exacty which indigenous culture is pro-drugs? Some certainly promote some very specific practices that have long been part of thier culture, but that is hardly an endorsmemt. From austrailia to canadas north, indigenous groups are being hammered by alcohol an opiod epidemics, hammered harder than the non-native populations. None of them would ever promote increased drug use.
So how does this compare to Slack's free tier? Is there a user limit, channel limit, message history limit, etc.?
> While someone may have spent several hours waiting for a key software installer to download, almost no one would do the same for a video of dubious quality and content, certainly not in the 90s.

I vividly remember waiting hours to download a video in the '90s. The Spirit of Christmas short that spawned South Park, and that news story about the exploding whale, were viral videos that predated modern video sites by many years. You'd download it off of an FTP server somewhere. At one point, the majority of my hard drive was devoted to half a dozen videos that I'd show to everyone who came over.

Basically, watching a video on your computer felt new and exciting and worth waiting for. I'd never do that today even if I were stuck on a slow pipe, but at the time it was oddly compelling.
They marked it with the 'Scheduled Stop' in the top left, and it seems like the passenger is fiddling with some controls as well? I assumed this was to simulate a pick-up/drop-off, or was just a waypoint in the trip?
I've had this happen once, and it was not a pleasant experience. (Try setting a breakpoint on your own brain sometime and see how much you like it.) Kenneth Reitz, who wrote Python's requests library, went crazy[1] (his words) and had a similar experience, though his was psychosis-induced rather than fever-induced.

> The earth represented an "ideal" logical volume of data (life), and the universe was the collective storage LUN. I was using Amazon's Dynamo algorithm to replicate life, with eventual consistency, throughout the universe by watering plants in the garden. Now, Amazon actually uses Requests to perform all internal API control operations for AWS, effectively making my code partially responsible for the operation of the internet itself. See the theme? [...] I was very keen to have the doctors and my family look up the Dynamo whitepaper, to prove the legitimacy of my quest.

1: https://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/mentalhealtherror-an-exc...
New Azure Managed Disks
Thank you for this list! I wondered if this kind of thing had been done before. MHTML seems especially interesting. I'll have to test browser-compatibility for my use case.
I spent like a week downloading individual music videos over 28K. People will do a lot of things
aka Signal, but more meh?
this isn't limited to coke. most people would be shocked b how many functional heroin, meth and crack users there are

in general, using drugs isn't illegal. using drugs and not being wealthy enough to insulate yourself from the consequences of that choice is what is illegal
They included an annotation that says that it was a "scheduled stop".
Re: slightly to the right, an anecdote—when I got laser eye surgery, I felt a short jolt of pain when my left eye was lazed that I didn't feel in my right. I mentioned this afterward; the nurse said that this is very common, it's always the left eye that hurts more (regardless of which eye is done first, etc.), and nobody is quite sure why.

That's all to say: the wiring of our optic nerves and visual cortices are seemingly quite symmetric—but there's more to the eye than its connection to the brain.
> If we accepted your handwaving, people charged with actually robbing someone's home and people charged with downloading half a season of Glee would face the same sentencing standards.

Can you expand on this? Seems like a non-sequitur.
Twitter shadow banned the following October 3, 2016 Tweets.

When Twitter shadow bans Trump’s tweets, the public can no longer see any of the tweets, and only users who replied or re-tweeted the tweet’s can see said censored tweet — or if one knows the URL/web address of the tweet, one can see said censored tweet.

Here are the URL/web address for each one (take note that hardly anyone has re-tweeted or liked any of them):

1 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310159029929164...

2 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310169110512844...

3 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310189686931865...

4 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310199677763993...

5 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310258445835059...

6 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310293901541785...

7 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310319354682982...

8 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310326233334579...

9 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310332776455372...

10 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310355505802035...

11 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310364900626022...

12 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310376225670348...

13
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78311897524063437...

14 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310707632728473...

15 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310703437579059...

16 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310698609518592...

17 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310693494141747...

18 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310688129214873...

19 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310681660759654...

20 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310677261353779...

21 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310667172372070...

22 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310662430296064...

23 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310656690386944...

24 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310649831437926...

25 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310642792563507...

26 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310637147865497...

27 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310628659011174...

28 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310624594729779...

29 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310615727554969...

30 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310620140387532...

31 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310603770010828...

32 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310592824973721...

Twitter deleted the following October 3, 2016 Tweet:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78310138456448204...
A Biologically Plausible Basis for Back-Propagation
Panama Canal Sets Monthly Tonnage Record
> Vincennes believed it was shooting down an attacking Iranian fighter

This was due to gross incompetence/negligence. This was a Ticonderoga class frigate equipped with the (then state of the art) Aegis weapons system [1] - capable of knocking down an Exocet missile out of the sky with a hose of lead.

From the linked article:

"The Aegis system was involved in a disaster in which USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988 resulting in 290 civilian deaths.

It was determined by a formal military investigation[17] that the Aegis system was completely operational and did not have any maintenance problems. The investigation ruled that if the commanding officer had relied on the complete tactical data displayed by the Aegis system the engagement might never have occurred. Additionally, psychological effects of the crew subconsciously manipulating the data to accord with a predefined scenario greatly contributed to the false identification."

Aside from the fact that the captain of the Vincennes was in Iranian waters (without authorisation - and which the US Navy lied about on formal reports), plus the reports of his rising aggression from colleagues working with him, should push this into a military disciplinary matter, along with demotion or discharge.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_Combat_System
Medoo 1.2 is now released
High paying customers are going to have high speed connections. No one will talk about it, but it's discrimination. If you are on a slow connection, they don't want your kind on their site. If you try, they will mock you for not knowing your place.
Announcing the Programmer's Compendium
“Synthetic controls” give researchers a better statistical tool to test vaccines
Please don't get driver's license.
I've worked in or near operations for my entire career and if it were not for $30K/yr cost of medical insurance it would be much cheaper to hire 4 people than 3. With 4, when someone is sick or it takes months to replace someone who quit, obviously experience shows 3 can handle the load of 4 much easier than 2 can handle the load of 3.
Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as 'unreliable' source
> Did most of the web suck when we were on 28k or 56k modems?

Yes! Pages loaded in 10 to 20 seconds.
Lately my Pixel has been achieving sub KBps speeds on very good Wifi connection (laptop in same room 100MBps), and it reminded me of the old days with dial-up on win 98 -- but worse. The estimated download-time for the LinkedIn app (70MB... gg) was a whopping 6 months! What a great way to get me to guzzle up my mobile data.
I also use an add-on called Decentraleyes. It caches various common scripts from popular CDNs within the add-on itself so your device doesn't need to make any network requests for them. It was originally meant as a privacy to but the caching seems to be at least as valuable.
Because the way the license works, lots of *BSD users, specially companies selling routers, never contribute anything back.

Also the lawsuit with AT&T did not help.
Branding for the companies. I guess that what he meant.
No problems here with uBlock Origin and uMatrix.
This is a hilariously difficult question, and I think stuff4ben provided a great answer.

I'm going to start naming my web servers:

web-server-load-balancer

web-server-1

web-server-2

web-server-3
His response comes with a citation. So I'd say there are plenty of people here who enjoy science and the Economist's reporting.

Without data, any opinion of this subject is bound to be based entirely on society's collective opinion or individual anecdotes. Within those limits, I'd argue that "people that enjoy that shit" are actually more reliable.

I believe the partition made by the the post you're replying to gets pretty close to my anecdotal reality. I'm somewhat convinced that heroin/crack/meth are addictive and that alone will always scare me off. Whereas LSD/mushrooms/ecstasy have almost no potential for addiction.

And, yes, having experienced them tends to make you run around telling people that it's part of the human experience – much like I'd tell people that they'd miss something essential if they never got slightly drunk on white wine watching the sunset on a beach.
In my opinion (mostly Debian user with a bit of FreeBSD playing), people use Debian as a server for the same reason a lot of people like MacOS over Linux - It Just Works.

1. For many years, the only way to install software was ports. Now if you're a full time sysadmin with time on his hands, it's great. But if you just need something up and running fast (and if you don't know your software internals, and don't know if you'll need perl's FLAG_ABC) , it's horrible.

It just feels like Linux in the 90's (been there), where recompiling the kernel/freex86 was a right-of-passage into Linux hackerdom. Nowadays, most of the time it's just not worth it.

2. apt vs ports/pkg. This is actually the biggest thing keeping me on Debian - stable + backports.

If I'm running my server, I want things to be stable. Now I know that there's no other project the size of Debian, which can backport security fixes to two year old software (and sometimes four year old software), but there's nothing like apt update && apt upgrade and 99% of the time have everything update without a hitch.

Yes, FreeBSD is more elegant (why couldn't GNU/RedHat have just modeled ifconfig rather than ifconfig, ifup, ip, etc.). Yes, FreeBSD's man pages are amazing (which is quite important, as there's not as many FreeBSD blogs around), but if you're learning a new system (coming from Windows), Linux isn't that much harder to learn than FreeBSD.

EDIT

And RedHat?

They work like Oracle - You pay them, and they'll hold your hand, and (unlike Oracle) they release their software under an OS license.

If you're a non-tech Fortune 500, that's very important.

Note, by the way, that those two distros have the vast majority of GNU/Linux installs.
> Horses on highways would cause accidents.

You are right, they are not the best, but people make do: http://www.mapministry.org/news-and-stories/amish-buggy-acci...
Well... Lauren Shin says it's being used that way.

Please note that she is a Forbes Contributor - a blogger, in other words.

> Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.
If you've ever traveled internationally, you'll know that a lot of English-language sites become unbearably slow to use over mediocre hotel wifi, let alone cellular. Lightweight sites like HN become relatively MUCH more pleasant to use.
I wonder if the technology to convert sugar to ethanol exists in the 1960s, which would probably involve yeast. Even turning it to charcoal using sulfuric acid would be better. (background: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-in...)
The problem is that thanks to the way the license works, not all companies do upstream their changes.
Thank you. Audacious I also used quite a lot, but it's been so long I completely forgot the name :)
As a JS hater....

I completely agree. I think the problem is that bad designers are misusing a good tool. It's like salt: If I add a little to my meal, it makes it better. If I add a LOT of it to my meal, it doesn't keep getting better.

Unfortunately this causes a knee-jerk reaction to anything JS. Although I don't think JS is to blame, I think the hatred of JS comes from a good reason.
This is an awesome way to interface with your calendar. But for me (on Safari 10 on a 2015 MacBook Pro), zooming (via scroll) was too slow (like, 1. do 2 finger scroll on trackpad; 2. wait 3 seconds for it to finish the animation 3. scroll in more because it didn't go far enough). Maybe I'm too caffeinated or maybe there's some Safari/Mac related thing making it slow, but I would need much faster zoom-in/zoom-out for this to be usable.

But otherwise, super innovative!
It's not a quirk. There were studies done during WW2 that aimed to maximize production. They found that increasing work beyond 8 hours increased productivity for a few weeks, then it fell off below what was produced in 8 hours.

They found production was maximized with an 8 hour day, interspersed with occasional longer days.
Cup made a subtle statement about a certain political persuasion, and I asked if that political persuasion was offensive.

Not sure if I understand your issue with my response which tried to get at the root of his statement.
Appears to be mostly lack of image optimization (and he loves gifs). A common issue with blogs.
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People doing business on someones content - no, that's not OK.

Copying someones work for your own consumption? Nothing is wrong with such behavior. Nor with non-commercial sharing. Not until you have disposable income. Then consuming and not chipping in is meh.

Legal positivism is has it's stronger sides, but this is victimless crime.

And what about your views? :)
It's too late to disable loading heavy things at that point - the loading is already started.

Do the opposite, start loading heavy things if the page loaded quickly.

A clean way would be to set one of two classes, connection-slow or connection-fast, on the body element. Then you could use those classes in CSS to choose the correct assets for background images, fonts and so on.
Cuban is wrong when he says programmers will be replaced any time soon. AGI is still pretty far away, but machine intelligence doesn't have to be general to make a huge dent.

"The accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, give the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, can not continue"

- John von Neumann

I would argue that the intelligence explosion has already occurred. Human affairs as we knew them when that line was uttered have been fragmenting and crumbling all across the world.

The internet itself, the current 10 billion or so machines networked together have resulted in a fundamental change in the human condition.

All of us are operating with amplified brains now. We have access to knowledge from the entire corpus of human information at the touch of our fingers, or now with our voice.

I would say human intelligence is already machine amplified.

The runaway reaction has already begun.
8.5 wasn't released until years after Win 95, though.
Passwords for social media accounts could be required for some to enter country
Given GM's partnership with Lyft, makes me wonder if Uber should be concerned.
The original designers of the interstates didn't want the roads to go through the downtown areas. The idea was for the high-speed roads to go near cities, and have spur roads (3-digit interstate numbers that start with an odd number) connect them - like the design of the original Autobahn.

But there was a coalition of mayors and municipal associations that pressured Congress to have the roads pass through their towns (jobs! progress!). President Eisenhower was not amused, but he found out too late to change the design.

A consequence of this was the bulldozing of historically black-owned property to make way for the new roads.
Isn't that the norm for chat apps though? It's not like they're breaking anything... people are just expecting something that doesn't really exist?