skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This service is looking less and less appealing by the week. I go to the movies often (6-10 times per month) but I've yet to sign up for MoviePass. The weird restrictions - you have to be within so many feet of the theatre, you can't purchase IMAX or other premium tickets, etc. - made it a deal-breaker for me. I've been an AMC Stubs member for a few years and while I'm still not convinced that AMC Stubs A-List would be worth it for me I definitely know that MoviePass is not something I'll be looking at going forward.

It's still so baffling to me how many people fell for their business scheme. They were losing money from day one (I know they had a service before but for all intents and purposes let's just say their service 'began' last year when they started offering the $10/month plan). In what world is that sustainable? Well, now we're seeing the effects of that: price hikes with little to no warning (the article says that the prices will go in effect for everyone on their next billing period), blackouts on popular movies (unless movie studios pay $$$$ of course), and surge pricing (none of these things were made apparent that they might occur during all of MoviePass's promotion). Can you imagine if other companies tried to pull this? Say Netflix dropped their streaming price to $3.99 per month. They then get millions and millions of new subscribers. But their network gets bogged down so they start saying 'oh, you can't watch that movie now because there are too many other people watching it.' Or, 'sorry about the $3.99 thing, we're raising our price next month to $9.99 to handle the demand.'
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The reason this website currently crumbles under the load is probably because the content is stored in a database, re-queried for every request, even though the content wil hardly ever change. Might be something else to look at ;)
Or only allow paying Prime members to leave reviews. That would cut out the fraud pretty darn quickly.
That has its tradeoffs.

The product has value, and solves the problem at hand in a unique way.
I don't think anyone is making a case for any given language being without quirks, but I think it's highly relevant how easy it is to stumble upon them.

If the quirks reside mostly in parts of the language only touched in really advanced expert use, it's generally not a problem because the people who venture there will know what to look out for. If your language has a quirky while statement on the other hand, it's something everyone will trip over.

E.g. Python's default mutable argument thing is fairly common to trip over (but on the other hand the behaviour is consistent and predictable once you know it), but monkey-patching builtins is not quite as common and definitely in the realm of "don't touch unless you know what you're doing".
Aren't there already filters to block the user from seeing any more posts from a certain source, see less posts from that friend, unfollow friend completely, etc? I guess they could refine it into categories like politics, but that'd hit a lot of gray areas. Their strategy recently has been to de-emphasize links altogether, but that does nothing about the crappy shared posts from spam pages.
> (.ogg)

TTA usually. There is an Ogg Vorbis torrent about a tenth the size, but I'm not sure it's being kept in sync with the original TLMC.
Thanks for the downvotes for literally posting a question I've asked interns in the past. Always important to remember the reflexive cultural conservatism of HN's audience.
Here’s When $100M Venture Rounds Took Over
It helped a lot to learn as much as I could about the way planes "operate". I have a physics background, but rather that dealing with fluid mechanics, lift, etc, what really helped me was understanding the day-to-day operations of planes and pilots - what all of the lights and sounds mean, why certain small parts of the plane are designed the way they are, etc. The YouTube channel "Captain Joe" helped me a lot with this. It really shows you how much thought, planning, and effort goes into making sure your flight is safe and smooth.

My advice is learn and think about this on the ground, when you're not getting ready to take a flight, or at the airport, or on a plane - that way you're not having a psychological response and can think more rationally about these things. There's nothing worse than having a panic attack on a plane and having your companion urge you to think about probabilities :p
You assume the human mind is only as powerful as a Turing machine, which is just conjecture.

In general, understanding what a program does requires knowing whether it halts. For example, what does this program do when given input another_program?

if halts(another_program):
print "program halts."
else:
print "program does not halt."
Scott is famous enough that people reading this article are more likely to remember the author as "Scott's student" than the author's name. Additionally, having famous and successful students has great career benefits when they champion your ideas (even when uncited).
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My approach has been (1) to filter the reviews by critical reviews and read them quickly - that has tended to show the real problem that the shallow 5-star (or 1-star) reviews hide. The aggregate rating (4.5 stars) is totally useless now. I also look at the product's fakespot rating when I remember to do so.

1: when I have to buy from Amazon, i.e. none of my other options such as Walmart (90 day returns, fast shipping with no membership), Best Buy, etc. have the item
DRAMeXchange hasn't updated their newsfeed in about two months
> Reputable firms try to correct for the biases you mention

The problem with that is you hve to measure how those biases change; even if you somehow of a good baseline adjustments, when you get new better numbers is it the regime being more popular or people being more afraid that criticism of the regime will be detected and punished?

Also, the survey you link doesn't actually describe any method of correcting for biases; implicitly, I suppose you could say that the art of options (some vs. a lot of confidence) and how they are treated (only “a lot” really treated as a positive signal) is a weak effort to mitigate the of bias at issue.
Check Regel. It's very flexible and allows you to generate code for different programming languages. It can also work with binary data. Its main application is generation of optimized network protocol scanners.
It's not binary. I can name _many_ governments far less corrupt than China. Humans will always be corrupt to some degree; the amount and type of corruption present in a government is what makes all the difference.
> They need data to produce the product

[citation needed]

There's no reason they need to use Javascript to track user behavior down to "how long have they read this article".
As I mentioned in another comment, I find the lack of personal space to be the biggest anxiety provoking element of flying, which raises my baseline anxiety enough that I can become extremely anxious once you add the relatively small amount anxiety I experience from just flying. Under different circumstances, my anxiety is far lower and I don't cross the threshold into "anxious", for example, when I'm in business or first class, or I otherwise have plenty of room to myself.

I wonder how widespread an increase in flight anxiety is as airlines add seats to planes and increasingly fly planes at max capacity.
I dare to disagree: 10MB for a single-class-app is "as dire as some make it out to be".

For comparison: Doom 2 came on 4 1.44MB floppy disks, Duke Nukem 3D on 13. Full games, including all assets....

going into a quiet corner for some weeping
My problem with airplanes is claustrophobia. After years of fairly-regular flying the claustrophobia suddenly grew intense --- and it has stayed at that level --- after being jammed into a non-reclining back-row middle seat on a flight from Istanbul. Fortunately, I discovered the person seated next to me just happened to be a therapist. She kindly volunteered to get me through the flight by talking to me and distracting me from my surroundings. (What a sweetheart she was!)

Of course, I can't travel with my own therapist so now I take a half gram of Lorazepam at the start of each flight, a drug that magically removes my fears. I also always get an aisle seat.
It's cached and, I promise, hasn't crumbled under heavy load for years. I don't know what's going on but I've asked for more resources. It does make me sad and embarrassed, though, so that's something.
I see what you mean but I don't think it justifies "as such it's imperative Scheme is used". I'm by no means a fan of Python but its syntax not much more complex than that of a lisp and on top of that it supports infix notation which will probably be easier to write and read for beginners since it more closely matches the mathematical notation they're undoubtedly already familiar with. Even the function evaluation matches mathematics better: f(x) instead of (f x).

Rewriting SICP using Python instead of lisp does seem like a rather boring and thankless job but I'm not sure that reading through SICP in Python would be much worse than using Scheme.
It’s called dysgraphia, brother. Join the club!
It's still available if you dig around on Adobe's site.

Despite having the full creative suite I still turn to Fireworks for quick jobs sometimes when I need to do a fast crop or slice job, or put together a simple 'constructed' image element.
> It also goes along with the idea: pay for a bigshot attorney, get out of murder charge. Be poor accused, get public defender and a guilty charge.

Fun fact: the government wins almost all of its cases against the "bigshot attorneys" too. The DOJ secures a conviction in 90%+ of white collar, official corruption, and organized crime cases, comparable to the conviction rate for narcotics convictions: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao/legacy/2011....
> NYT needs to know how long you spent, on which articles, etc. They need data to produce the product and you can only achieve that with javascript tracking pixels (Server logs aren't good enough).

No they don't. They really don't need to know any of that. They don't even get a pass on tracking because they're providing a free whatever - I pay for a subscription to the NYT. The business, or a meaningfully substantial core of it, is viable without tracking.

It would be nice if the things I pay for didn't start stuffing their content with bullshit. What and who do I have to pay to get single second page loads? It's not a given that advertising has to be so bloated and privacy-invasive. Various podcasts and blogs (like Daring Fireball) plug the same ad to their entire audience each post/episode for set periods of time. If you're going to cry about needing advertising then take your geographic and demographic based targeting. But no war of attrition will get me to concede you need user-by-user tracking.

You want me to pay for your content? Fine, I like it well enough. You want to present ads as well? Okay sure, the writing and perspectives are worth that too I suppose. But in addition to all of this you want to track my behavior and correlate it to my online activity that has nothing to do with your content? No, that's ridiculous.
I've never known Scott to be anything but unfailingly modest, both in person and on his blog. What specifically are you referring to?
Valid against what threat? As seen with Stuxnet, even that is not enough...if your opponent is determined enough.
Yes totally this! It's called exposure therapy and apparently has good therapeutic outcomes for specific phobias.

Great comment!
Please look at the limitations of the study before spouting shit about how "people need to listen to science"
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Ouch you tell me!! A couple of our customers use high tech products manufactured in China and Japan, for which the manuals were badly translated from the native language to English, and then we have to mop it up from English to French, for example. It is very labor intensive to decipher what the intent is and then to translate it into direct French sentences, in the style most readers are expecting. Thanks for pointing it out! Again, I doubt a machine could do that kind of work.
I bought Quickbooks from Amazon a couple of years ago and what actually showed up was a very clearly burned DVD with "Quickbooks" hand-written on it. Best case was I'd received a pirated version of the software. Worst case is who knows what kind of malware might have been on that DVD. Had no choice but to leave a 1 star review to warn others but that really doesn't help anyone who wants to know if Quickbooks is good software to run a small business on or not.

Between this and a few more incidents, I no longer buy anything on Amazon where getting a valid OEM brand version of an item is important to me.

The good news is that for the few years I was pretty much Amazon exclusive the rest of the internet got really good at ecommerce too so it's a much better ordering from other companies online now.
What I think is difficult is that most people think a website should be an experience.

The client wants this, the designer wants this, the marketeer wants this and even most users want this.

So that's how huge headers with high res photo's are born.

After that the site must be online asap and the developer doesn't have or take the time to load images responsive.

Combine this with a framework that takes 200ms to init and we are where we are now.

(And then ofcourse there is the marketeer telling you to include a script from x,y and z.)

With the right tools you can build a fast web, but I think most developers are not experienced, lazy or just don't care.
(You don't need to include 0.5MB of FontAwesome when you only use 2 icons...)

And yeah: AMP is a joke.
Yep, it's this: https://www.dragonframe.com/product/dmc-16/

It's what controls all the steppers and some of the lights it looks like.
> As a consequence, we show that Kerenidis and Prakash’s quantum machine learning (QML) algorithm, one of the strongest candidates for provably exponential speedups in QML, does not, in fact, give an exponential speedup over classical algorithms.

The comparison is fair and the author is giving a metric to compare the algorithms too.
That's basically https://arxiv.org/. The pre-print copyright (i.e. before editor/review comments) still belongs to the author so they can post it.
Does the default log file list the locations of sectors that failed to read? There's also a question of interpolation for obliterated sectors. Many would prefer there to be no data than interpolated data because that's a much more obvious failure mode.
The piece was written by a journalist. Journalists know how to write for a general audience. That means making the story about a human being. The general public loves reading stories about prodigies. They don't care at all about the "quantum advantage" of this or that algorithm.
I thought it was taking a poke at quantum computing by putting the emphasis on his age. But that could be straight up projection on my part - I admit to having serious doubts about both the relevance and practicality of quantum computers. Yes, how I interpret it is influenced by my own bias ;-)
I wonder how relevant the NT kernel is nowadays. My impression is the kernel as a foundation is that it is a thing of beauty. Unfortunately, the windows structures atop it are eternally collapsing and rotted in parts.

With the introduction of the windows subsystem for linux, the whole edifice is coming down, threatening to bury the NT kernel and render it obsolete.

It seems Microsoft has capitulated and competition has been reduced to "'Doing Linux' better than linux". Which is to say, "We surrender! There is no plan. Start migrating away from our legacy tech; here is a path."

What's the point in continuing development on and for Windows if it no longer offers (and demands) technological distinctiveness? There is no point.
I used to get moderately anxious when experiencing turbulence while flying.

I tried a several different strategies that I researched, but I completely eliminated my anxiety by imagining that I was riding in a big Greyhound bus and we kept running over some really big pot holes in the road.

It seems silly to me, but it works great for me. I feel totally calm even during pretty heavy turbulence.
I wonder what these figures would look like if you include $100M+ IPOs as well. Would the trend flatten out (which would be due to the shift towards remaining private longer among other things) or would we still see the upward trend?
The article sounded like the silly Stratfor ramblings by Friedman, but in a kind of reversed way, where USA ends up suffering. In the Stratfor fiction, USA grows and flourishes, while varyingly imaginative scenarios emerge all over the globe, harming others. This article was kind of the opposite.

Certainly the pax americana is at the end of its road, because of e.g. the costs of upkeeping the military, but will USA somehow implode and shrink to irrelevance and vanish completely? No, I don't think so.

China is emerging as the next big power. However, I am not so sure it will stay as a cohesive whole during this development as it reaches its peak. I believe technological advancements and ever-increasing interaction with other, continuously developing and changing cultures are incompatible with an increasingly tighter grip of the population (via e.g. the social credit system). Free flow of ideas & communication and an ever tighter "police state" in the physical world do not mix and will eventually collide, destructively. From extreme to extreme, then balance.

Long story short, I think in the future the world will be a multipolar one and this will be the "low energy state" of the global system. All of the current top players will eventually take a hit of some kind, and become different from what they are today, but not disappear nor sink into a Mad Max style world full of oblivion and despair.
The problem of optical drives is the size limit and the time to make them.

They can contain malicious code just as well as a thumbdrive. The concern with USB is the firmware, and the thumbdrive pretending to be a HID device or having an extra partition with malicious code.

Purchasing many similar drives of a well known brand in a random supermarket is a reasonable alternative.

Just keep them for 1 year before using them, in case an exploit becomes popular - but this is extremely paranoid.
If this worries you go ahead and disable WebGL too.
> changed the order from prepaid to cash on delivery without asking me and went through with the order

Hah, joke's on them. When the item arrived I'd honestly say, "I didn't order that," and shut the door without paying.
I can't imagine a better way to ensure the business suffers in the long term. (coming from an American who see's how poorly run government institutions are)
>> Statistics and ML/AI math is all the rage these days. What they depend on is correct math.

Statistical applications might benefit from more precise rational numerics, but machine learning and AI are piles of imprecise heuristics ... There is no benefit to using slower and more precise numerics there.
No.

US security agencies have been clear that Russian intelligence interfered in our election to support Trump.

Putin admitted just two weeks ago that he wanted Trump to win.

Generalized unrest was one goal. Electing Trump, however difficult that might have seemed, was another.
This is only my experience, but personally I haven’t really found anyone who fits this “politically fractured and agitated” description in the real world.

People in person don’t really seem to care as much and are generally somewhat moderate/centrist and are perfectly capable of talking about these issues without reflexively hating the opposition.

The one thing everyone does seem to agree on is that they hate internet mobs and political extremism on both sides.

I don’t know. Regular people still seem pretty damn reasonable to me. I think the problem might be that we’re taking a very narrowly defined demographic (people who argue rudely with strangers on the internet) and extrapolating from that as if their sentiment represents everyone at large.

Media sources do this as a justification to report on population sentiment and create big narratives arcs out of it. Twitter and Facebook’s scale and visibility makes it very convenient for them.

But I really think the “write nasty comments on the internet” demo is too narrow and specific to extrapolate anything meaningful from it at all (unless perhaps you’re a psychiatric researcher...)
That makes zero business sense and will never happen. It isn't Facebook's responsibility to teach people how to identify advertisements or posts trying to sway their opinion.
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I've had loads of fun with FlightGear. Its free & open source. The selection of aircraft and some of the graphics are not as nice as the alternatives, but I've heard the realism is hard to beat.

http://home.flightgear.org/
You’re right about the problem: web pages tend to scale with the size of the organization serving them, not the size of the content. But this is the failure, not a defense.

It’s a big problem on mobile and the reason I read HN comments before the article.

> NYT employs 1,300 people
And this is an example of trolling done right and for the good of (mostly?) everyone :-)
Not an issue if you have low abandonment of subscribers but an issue if everyone exchanges papers that way. You get a lot of value out of being able to search all the journals in one place. Also what happens if the author is dead or has dropped off the face of the planet.
Why Modern Computers Struggle to Match the Input Latency of an Apple IIe (2017)
If the human mind is non physical, then it is might be a halting oracle.
That is not why their stock crashed. You’re spreading even more Facebook PR propaganda.
I mean, mental health in this country has long been neglected, but I'm not sure that explains it all.
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You know how building wider roads doesn’t improve commute times, as it simply encourages people to drive more? It’s that, but with bytes and bandwidth instead of cars and lanes.

That's the core insight. Higher availability of resources leads people to consume more of said resources - in tech, typically for more and more abstraction layers to deal with hardware of ever growing complexity to make the lives of developers easier, but at the cost of stagnation or regression for some metrics. See also: "Why Modern Computers Struggle to Match the Input Latency of an Apple IIe"

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/261148-modern-computer...
Some companies lost close to half of their followers. Looks like a good sign of cheating. It's interesting that Twitter lots 12% of followers, I guess following Twitter is the first thing that comes to mind to bot makers when they try to make accounts look real.
It's a very broad definition of "manipulating people" that includes recommendation algorithms. The problem, as stated, seems to call for an implementation of a perfectly benign strategy for recommending content.

Clustering users by their ratings of various titles is the kind of thing any hobbyist statistician might do to help their friends find movies they like using online data sets.

There are methods to use data to improve people's experiences, and sometimes corporations employ those methods.