skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’re saying much the same thing, it’s just that I find your and GP’s use of the absolute “pretty awful” to be hyperbolic and something of a loss of perspective. Remember what we have here: a free, actively maintained, accurate, comprehensive and advanced corpus of expository writing on mathematics. Adjectives that are missing there are “intuitition-rich”, and “helpful for undergraduates”. I do understand if you are disappointed with it. As noted, I (undergrad level) don’t approach it with an expectation that it will be my favorite reading on a topic.
Don't miss Graeber's appearance in the first thread I listed.
I like templates, because to date there is not a popular language that can do compile time stuff it can do. And no joke, some of the stuff you can do is quite amazing.
I think this highlights a problem separate from machine learning, block chain, and similar vs the tried and proven technologies and a long standing one: attempting to solve via understanding vs seeking the simple solution to avoid thinking about it.

Ironic that machine learning is 'simple' but that seems to be the case at times especially with the 'throw block chain or machine learning at it' approach when a proper algorithm could do it far more efficiently. The funny thing is that both approaches have their place. If turning it off and on again fixes a rare issue faster than following every instruction to machine code you are better off restarting it occasionally - unless it is a critical application where doing so will cost millions of dollars or lives.
According to this StackExchange answer https://cs.stackexchange.com/a/50356 the speedup is best expressed as a function relating the two algorithm's run times. So if there's a constant factor of 2, then that's "twice as fast", but if the relationship isn't linear (e.g. 2^(2n) = (2^n)^2 is a quadratic function of 2^n) then the speedup is named correspondingly. So 2^(2n) -> 2^n is quadratic speedup, while 2^n -> n or n -> log n are exponential speedups.
I don't want to risk spoilers. Any Game Of Thrones fan will relate to that concept.
> Meanwhile, some in the coffee industry are clearly worried. ''The fact that Coke is promoting cola in the morning will only serve to boost its position in that segment and take away from the coffee market.'' said Steven L. Gregg, program coordinator for the Coffee Development Group, a Washington-based organization that promotes coffee consumption in the United States.

I guess that's true, but it looks like the coffee industry managed to convince people to pay a lot more for coffee ($5 latte vs. $0.20 can of coke), so I guess the shift worked out for them.
You're the kind of intellectual this article is about
i followed the roguelike scene a bit when i was younger but i've kind of stopped paying attention to it since i no longer as much free time for hobbies.

what are the coolest roguelikes from the last ~5 years?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindGeek
This doesn't help if the spending is fraudulent, either because the CC is actually stolen or because it will be disputed or what have you.
Another fun thing is that you will learn a lot more about your customer base if you do the research and write those heuristics yourself, vs. having ML do them. A business that understands the behavior of its customers is much more competitive than one which delegates that understanding to a black box. I don't contend that ML has no valuable (even transformative) applications but it's not a substitute for personally understanding every detail of your market.
Thanks for the info. I forgot about that guideline. Too bad I can't edit my comment.
Lot of Microsoft astroturfing going on here at HN nowadays. Every day there are 2-3 positive stories about Microsoft. Or maybe they have just become a great corporate citizen suddenly? It's less likely though.
In my limited experience, Google has worse support than facebook (when it comes to advertising agencies). They simply don't care because you are a tiny multimillion euros company and they are THE GOOGLE.
He mischaracterized at least three seperate jobs in the posted article.

He mischaracterized the worth of compliance personnel, corporate lawyers, and PR team members.
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Submissions like these aren't allowed; you need to wait for the next monthly thread. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
"My husband would never pay for porn when he has me! Grabs phone to file a chargeback for JOLLYGIRLZ PLC"

"Honey..about that..uh..well..I..ummm.. porn is disgusting!! Thank you dear!"
The Straight Dope from Cecil Adams is like lots of that neat content that was essentially the internet before the internet.

Books and mags like MAD Magazine, Nintendo Power, comic books and more were where you learned about life and it's cynicism, sarcasm and fun aspects, some with great write-ins.

Malls/bookstores where you socialized, record stores and movie theaters where you got your pop culture.

Arcades, convenience stores like 7/11 and video/game rentals to entertain yourself and play with others, bike your way over to the nearest adventure.

Bulletin boards, mailing lists, IRC and message boards of the early internet were really great and in-depth.

All of that greatness is turning to vaporwave nostalgia.

So long Cecil.
Professionalism would require it to be an actual planned approach and not simply 'hair on fire' behavior in response to the knee-jerk reactions of others.
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But the SQL approach at best only answers which item type to present the customer.

How does the query make a good decision on the specific item?
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Flagged as a dupe. Is that right? Struggling to find a previous one and I was curious to read the comments.
> The tube sites have killed the content business; this is a shrinking industry. I agree, the content is better than it ever has been before.

Then why is so much porn still being made if there's so little money in it today?
Those would be the all caps rooms (COBOL, FORTAN, LISP).
Yeah, everything in Germany seems to be set so that you don't move (and I'm not just talking about houses, but pretty much every other type of contract) for a long time.

Also for some reason they love integrated appliances. It seems their biggest fear is someone walking into their kitchen and finding a fridge there.
It would have been a surprise if he were hanged on Friday, because he believes he wouldn't be hanged at all.
Most data is relational. Even if you think it isn't relational, it probably is still relational.

Also if you think you have unstructured data but you need to interpret every bit of that data, then it's not unstructured.
It’s tier 2 https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html
Thanks for the details.

> That ship has sailed; there’s not much money in porn anymore

That’s interesting, and would be the very reason small creators would move to a patreon backed model. The logic is similar to how youtube and podcast creators diversify to patreon as the platform revenue can’t be counted on.

Also the impact of Patreon’s policy goes beyond porn, to take an extreme example, educational content involving sex in any graphic way would also get banned.

I wonder what happens next. Would moving to direct peer to peer payment with a one to one link between the creator and the “customer” be a workaround ? Then when volumes get big enough there would be ashakedown again ?
What makes you think those simpler policies would work? The real world is complex and messy because people are complex and messy. It's like looking at the Windows or Linux source code and saying it "would have been better solved by having better simplier policies in place." It's superficially true in that you could have simpler designs that accomplish any given function of those operating systems. But for the most part e.g. Linux evolved the way it did for a reason, and almost none of the 20+ million lines in the source tree are "bullshit code."
That first link with the story about a sale is really depressing.
This was also the tradition in Switzerland, but it has been relaxed significantly in recent years, most likely as the result of the addition of many out-of-country residents. Most Swiss nationals still assume that they can only move on moving day, but the ~25% of foreigners simply never accepted that and move freely whenever convenient.
When I read the part about downloading the dataset from Github, my first reaction was "Can't Microsoft afford to host downloads themselves?", and then I realized they own Github now...
That is the whole point. You're sitting on a (claimed) solution to an unsolved problem in literature. That is antagonistic to science. Publication and collaboration is literally part of the definition of doing "research" or "science." It's not just about solving any unsolved problem out there. If you're not sharing your solution by publishing it and opening it up for examination and discussion in an established forum, it means nothing. Just think, if you had published that solution, maybe someone else would have read it and been inspired by it and thought of an even better solution, or made a connection to another unsolved problem. Or something like that.

It's also very telling that you say you only work on problems that are directly relevant to a software product, and that you chose not to publish because of the time commitment. It seems you only consider the personal gains and sacrifices involved; it's intellectual masturbation. The spirit of research is about something greater than yourself.

You're not a researcher, and you don't conduct research. You are a very good -- excellent -- software engineer.
This actually builds on my point. In the abstract, I can certainly appreciate the ideas here. But in the abstract it is fairly unobjectionable (still useful!) wisdom.

So, what purpose do the wisdoms serve in this context? For you, they served the entire takeaway value of the article. But their relation to the thesis was something like philosophical fortune cookies. They operate in that future space where the thesis has been auto-accepted and the audience is now advised by the author how they can prevent falling victim to the threats they are now afraid of.
> You can't make insinuations of astroturfing or shillage on HN without evidence.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:dang%20astroturf&sort=byDat...
Legalization along the lines of what we're currently doing with alcohol and tobacco.
It is also not confirmed that it is a sole author... "The true identity of Adams, whether a single individual or a group of authors, has remained unknown."

Keeping an authorship pseudonymous successfully for 40+ years is rather unusual. I'd argue saying it is a sole author is at least as speculative as saying it is a group.
Thank you! Your comment is so much better than the two pages of fluff this article is made of.
Don't they only accept actual money now, via ACH or debit card payments?
Rogue Legacy was fun.
You’ll get the coffee machine out my cold, dead hands. It’s 35kgs too, good luck.
Agreed, both are theories but should not be presented as facts.
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He cannot logically conclude that. He can only conclude that either he won't be hanged or his hanging might not be a surprise.
> the ones who were more likely to do a chargeback would log in, download much of the site's content in a few days

I download a lot of that content too (sans the chargeback). I like to have it available locally, even when the internet is down, when the site decides to take a particular video down for whatever reason, or even when my account expires. And paying for it makes it just a little more likely they will continue to produce more of it in the future.
Seriously, the two aren’t related. Microsoft has had public projects on Github for a couple of years now with more important projects being made public regularly.

Downvoted because the cynicism and not paying attention.
>That's not to say I like SEOs

Even that has a skewed reputation as bullshit, which only used to be deserved. Now it's a much broader group of people who add a lot more value than 2010 SEOs did, by a mile.
In New Zealand that’s how you get rid of stuff. You put it on ‘the council strip’, which is a bit of grass between the house and the road, theoretically owned and maintained by the council.
It was very mainstream, at least amongst students at the time.
I totally thought it would be an article about the old Java swing gui library, but I think I like what it was actually about better.
"Even the most practical man of affairs is usually in the thrall of the ideas of some long-dead economist" - Keynes.

That's the trouble with looking backward to Marx or Smith for guidance. Both predate the Industrial Revolution reaching full speed. The basic problem of their era was making enough stuff, just as it had been for millenia. Today's basic problem is that we don't need that many people to make all the stuff. Neither Marx nor Smith addressed that problem. Keynes said it might be a problem for generations after his. Well, we're there.

We've also conquered scale. One of the assumptions of capitalism is that lots of people working for their own self-interest would outperform a central planning system. It looked that way in the days of the USSR. Big companies had trouble getting out of their own way. General Motors, once the biggest company, had to operate as a bunch of independent companies under one corporate umbrella just to make the thing manageable.

That's no longer true. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Alibaba, Apple, FedEx, UPS, AT&T, and WalMart are all very centralized. It doesn't seem to hurt their performance. They don't compete on price - they define markets and platforms, and dictate terms. They're able to change rapidly compared to monopolies of the past - each of those companies is quite different than a decade ago. Computers and networks have made this possible - deployment at scale works far better than it did even twenty years ago. Even for companies with physical products.

Economics for the 21st century needs to start dealing with these issues, not rehashing the 19th century.
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Are you in Montreal or elsewhere in Quebec? I think Montreal is uniquely attached to both lineages and cultures. That is part of what I love about this city and part of why I chose to immigrate here.

(Oui, le français faisait fortement partie de ma choix. Or, à Montréal je peux utiliser et maîtriser le français en tant que langue primaire et commune sans abandonner l'anglais et les cultures dont il est lié.

// Translation for everyone else on HN:

Yes, French was a big part of my choice. However, in Montreal I can use and master French as the primary and common language without abandoning English and the cultures linked to it.)
I wonder if I ever heard about Microsoft Maps before. What is the state of it? Who uses it?

So I tried www.bing.com/maps. The first thing that surprises me is that it tries to set 5 cookies from google.com and one from www.google.com

What is the reason for Microsoft to allow Google to track everybody who uses their maps?
Yes, the keyboard was insulting. Ironically, today's keyboards are mostly chiclet keyboards, but they hide it with a normal keyboard facade.
> DVDS got phased out.

Good. Between DRM, regions, anti theft videos and scratches, I’d given up in them before there was a good alternative.
There has already been issues with the EU, where they have required (or considered requiring) them to use local content.
Just tested it on an edge connection in the German country side:

Hacker news:

- first load: 6 seconds

- next loads: 3.5 seconds

Serverless:

- first load: 26 seconds

- next loads: 7.5 seconds
Sure. Start here and follow the sources. Portugal's results from their drug law shift in particular are strong evidence.

(the first bit of the linked article is, well, clearly written for the huff post. But the meat of it well worth the read)

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6506936
Indeed, someone must come up with a final solution to the Caucasian question.
Back when I was graduate student, I developed a massive library of DjVu scans. Now, I find myself using Cloud Convert or djvu2pdf to make PDFs out of them on a slow on-going basis. Hardly anybody has DjVu readers on their machines now, especially with the advent of mobile.

Actually, now that I think about it, the slide started all the way back in 2010 when I couldn't find a decent DjVu viewer for the iPad.
(shameless plug) perhaps we can gather some ideas here? https://github.com/gpestana/brain-dump/issues/2 :)
It depends. A city like Xiamen has clean air, Shenzhen is ok, Shanghai is worse than Shenzhen but nowhere near as bad as Beijing.

If you are young and will just be there a few years, go for it. As soon as you start a family, you’ll probably need to leave for various reasons.
When I look for an information I usually google it, then click on the first link, get what I need, and close the site.

It's especially true for a documentation website.

Even if I browse a little, it will be swift clicks on 3 to 4 pages to get to what I'm looking for. The enormous initial loading time is far from amortized.

Bottom line, if your site is just displaying text like a doc, a wiki, etc., making it an SPA is ridiculous.

Just use old school techs, and offer a zip for download.
you say that but then what about inflation .. that is worse than 4% tax now as it hurts poor more whose most savings are in cash form, and inflation doesn't really affect say land value, it automatically adjusts. While person with $3k saving becomes poorer.

I forgot to add... to me ideal is this.

- no artificial inflation.
- fixed currency rate.
- taxes on wealth only.
- interest free limited loan by government. (ie. you can borrow x amount of money in lifetime, x increases if your wealth increases)

That's perfect to me.

The only system that can't be endlessly manipulated by conglomerate/old money/corporations/lobbyists.
I just can open this djvu file with a viewer and display foreground, done. I can focus on reading it, which is the whole point of me accessing this file. I don't have to process a bloated PDF version with any other tools you just don't even know, me neither.

Exactly, in this planet we still can read, for instance, books printed by Gutenberg, yet try to convert some Word files rotting in a low-density macintosh floppy from 25 years ago. Paper beats everything else because it's a passive medium that lasts centuries and comes with all the hardware you need. A computer file needs a whole ecosystem and being copied around often.

Will we even use files in 2068? I don't know. Maybe in 2047 PDFs will be out of mainstream support because 99% of customers will be using the next better format or workflow.
No comments here addressing why PDF is still so slow at rendering?
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That is why I disable custom fonts. Everything on the web is one of two fonts for me, sizes 9-14. I've been doing it for a decade and it makes websites so much better.
It just mentions you can. The doc should do only that: without tooling.

It's a react tutorial, not a webpack/babel tutorial.

I'd even say you should start with a toto list exercice with only react.createElement, and only move to JSX later.

Using CodePen do show you full-gear examples is dishonest IMO.
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In this view of the world (where the prisoner can play "I expect to die today" exactly once, there is actually not a Nash equilibrium where the executioner is guaranteed to win.

In other words the judge's sentence can't be guaranteed to be carried out.
Please keep generic political and national flamewar off Hacker News. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological arguments. Those are deeply repetitive and therefore off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Race-war comments aren't allowed here. We ban accounts that post them, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
choose a multi-cloud option

The economics don’t work out if you are trying to do this with just vanilla VMs across AWS, GCP and Azure and managing yourself. You either do it the old fashioned way renting rack space and putting your own kit in, or you make full use of the managed services at which point - by design - you are locked in.
I’ve been doing something very similar to this for about ten years. I did experiment with using Anki for it, but ended up with a more manual approach involving wiki software and manually rescheduling when I’d read a chapter again. Anyway, can highly recommend.
I've re-opened it for editing for you and will happily delete my comment if you take that bit out.
This is an amazing story. Truly inspiring, thank you.
How many software with the pun about déjà vu ?

DJV View http://djv.sourceforge.net/

WinDjView https://windjview.sourceforge.io/
tldr; because poor ventilation
Djvu certainly may fall out of use some day, but I think you are greatly underestimating how popular the format is if you really think think there won't be programs around to read it. It's not an obscure format, and there are widely used open source libraries to do so.
> No, that’s not survivorship bias, the reason is more careful selection (for third-party built-in libraries like C++ standard library) or better design (for first party libraries like .NET framework or JRE).

"More careful selection" is exactly what I meant by survivorship bias, i.e. the only language features we encounter (outside one-person pet languages) are those which managed to survive this selection process. Rejected proposals aren't as visible, and we'll never know about all those ideas which were never even proposed due to their low chance of being selected.

Libraries don't have this selection pressure, so we can see many more of bad ideas, poor implementations, throw-away experiments and learning exercises.

As for better design, this is another survivorship effect: after a feature is selected (e.g. "we're going to add exceptions"), those features go through critique and consensus-building processes ("should they work like this? how should this edge-case be handled? etc.") which weed out low-quality suggestions and (hopefully) spit out generally better designs.

Libraries don't undergo as much scrutiny and collective-ownership, unless they become popular.

> I claim that’s impossible in practice

I never claimed it wasn't. Still, I'd point to projects like Boost for C++, Rails for Ruby, Numpy/Scipy/Pandas/etc. for Python, etc. as examples of third-party libraries which offer features comparable in quality, stability, etc. to that of language built-ins (but not necessarily their own language's features; e.g. C++ is way more stringent than Boost, but Boost's API may be more stable than e.g. Nim's).

> Collective bodies, like committees or markets, are terrible at designing things.

Like programming language features? ;)

> You’re probably replying to someone else’s comment?

Oops, you're right about that part; apologies!
Is this downvoted for the typo (which I like) or something else?
Both Cogmind and Caves of Qud are really good
No, sctb and I are pretty avid Arc programmers. We were Lisp programmers before that, so it was a natural step.
OK. This was only my interpretation. I don’t have any goals or anything against the author. I actually like some of his art writing. I just think the article delivers a bold misrepresentation of it’s central figure; also one of the most studied persons of the 19th century. It seems silly that’s all.
Here's that line again: "He will not know the day of the hanging until the executioner knocks on his cell door at noon that day".

The judge not only said that the prisoner will be surprised, he also said precisely when the prisoner will be surprised, which is noon on Friday, for Friday execution.

It does not matter if he gets surprised by the absence of the knock on Thursday. All that matters is that he would not be surprised when the knock happens on Friday.