skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a parent, but I can totally see why as it is a free method for entertaining/potentially educating your child that requires extremely little involvement (time cost to the parent).
I have mentioned that several times before, but I always believed that FB's but also Google's metrics are at least borderline fraudulent. Inflated by bots and apps that simulate DAUs and clicks.

I only have anecdotal evidence from Google, where I was frequently charged over my campaign limit on ad clicks that I could never validate on my own site. I believe FB is same.
Woah that's a significant update then.
Boggles my mind why youtube will NOT let users(parents) whitelist channels. You almost always end up with the same set of “black hole” videos.
Facebook could still be doing it... There is no third party auditor of their ad analytics. And you can't create one either, because you can't scrape a walled garden like Facebook the way you can scrape the internet.

The only thing that's true is the data you are measuring yourself, which would be web traffic, conversions etc. Although it's not inconceivable that a fraudulent actor would send bit traffic with (e.g. Facebook) referrer tags to your site to make you think you were getting greater reach with your ads than you were.
At my company, my boss felt the same way, and he pushed everyone to work long hours. I campaigned to work remotely part time, saying I'd get more done. This was routinely denied until eventually I left and worked for them as a consultant.

In my first month as a consultant, I got way more done than anyone else, and my boss was so surprised that he announced how much I got done at a company meeting (apparently I outperformed everyone).

Managers need to realize that some people thrive when they're able to set their own hours and completely eliminate distractions for hours on end. And no, just because I can work from home doesn't mean someone in India can do my job (we tried that, and it failed miserably).

We absolutely need to break this culture. I get way more done in less time when working remotely.
Are those numbers adjusted for inflation? It isn't mentioned in the article. If they aren't, the conclusions are suspect.
I personally suspect that’s why Twitter has failed to deal with their bot problem, fixing it would make their usage metrics plumit.
https://www.feld.com/archives/2016/10/venture-deals-third-ed...
This book? Thank you
Indeed, and since it uses the Signal protocol I'd suggest it's the best option for a wide variety of practical circumstances.
Uber has other dependencies on play services beyond the location api. The Uber mobile site works though.
Thanks for your input, sounds like we're done here.
The general mix is probably about the same as ever. Streaks of otherwise are probably just random; that of course is how randomness works.

Complaints like this go back about as far as HN does. I wrote a thing about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869.
Doesn't implementing diff and fuzzy patch operations that work on your data structure (not plain text) solve that? It worked fine in my specific case.
Right, exactly. Are you saying "this survey" is not anonymous?

-edit-
Clarification: I don't believe an anonymous survey with yes/no question is the same as a survey that ask for detailed answers that can potentially be identifiable. Hence this survey is not the same as what Doreen is alleging. (it's not the small elite circle part that I was disagreeing.)
> An engineer that takes something simple and makes it more complex for no reason other than job security or to look smart is the worst kind of engineer.

I don't think most people set out do do this, most complexity comes from attempting to simplify things. A develop will see two similar bit's of code and try to stuff the commonality into a base class. In their minds it's simplified because there is less code but then when someone else picks up the maintenance it's more complex because now the logic is distributed. Then the requirements of each diverge slowly and over time each simple change is hacked into more code paths of this distributed logic. Eventually most simple changes take time because you have to be sure you're not breaking other potential code paths.

On a more macro scale, complicated architecture is another symptom of this over optimistic pattern matching that humans are susceptible to.
Gotta hand it to Facebook, at least they’re consistent with one thing: being deceptive.
HN has 5M visitors a month. Well, 4.5M at present. It fluctuates some.
> It's not actually implemented as a scannerless parser, but the grammar API mostly abstracts away the parser/lexer distinction.

Any aspects of the 'not' part of 'mostly' which one should bear in mind?
I wonder if you can reproduce the inflation by ultra-targeting a number of hand picked users.
You've misinterpreted the license. What it says is that the licensOR (not the licensEE) is a non-profit. That is, by publishing your original software under the NPOSL, you claim that you are a non-profit organisation. That's it.

Nowhere does the license say that you can't use the code outside non-profit orgs. In fact 17.d says very clearly that if you're not a non-profit, you are allowed to distribute your modified works, but under the original OSL license, not the NPOSL. So you can use, modify it and distribute it, only with a complication in the licensing.

The other amendment the NPOSL adds is where the original OSL gives a grant of patents and a warranty of provenance, and the NPOSL explicitly doesn't, because it's designed for non-profit companies, which have no money, so it's intended to reduce legal exposure.

It's a Free Software license in my opinion, and I bet you a drink that Stallman and the FSF would consider one too, even if they would not recommend using it.

Also note that the license's author is Laurence Rosen, who was General Counsel of the OSI, knows more about software licensing than most people, and who explains the details and rationale of the NPOSL in [1]

[1] https://rosenlaw.com/OSL3.0-explained.htm

If you have any other license that's OSI-certified and you think is non-free according to the principles of the FSF, I'm interested in learning about it.

One thing to take into account, though, is that the OSI is a certification body, and the FSF isn't.

Thhis means that the list of Open Source (according to the OSI) licenses is closed and published on their site. The FSF gives a set of principles and also publishes a list of licenses with some analysis, but the FSF's list is non-exhaustive, nor does it pretend to be. There are infinite potential free licenses that the FSF will not list, because its doesn't count license certification as one of its goals.
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It looks like they have an "interpolation syntax" that works with either JSON or hcl. I guess that's a separate but related mini-language?

https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/interpolation.ht...
google can't even get analytics to agree with their advertising platforms
> is it actually good?

While it may be, I found it difficult to get into. I felt like I was reading a long rant that was peppered w/ interesting facts here and there. I put it down years ago with the intent to try again. I've not gotten back to it yet.

A book I recommend that does touch on the S&L scandal is Lying for Money (Dan Davies). The Outlaw Bank (Beaty & Gwynne) was also an awesome read.

As for the greater topic of white collar crime, it's a key ingredient of the cake, forever to be baked in. My professional advise to folks is simply to be aware of that and act accordingly. Can't say much more than that on the matter.
Alter Tech Fellowship: interested in creating impact in the developing world?
I am interested in working with some sort of life coach as well.

Maybe check out the Work Gym from Ultraworking? The basic idea is that everyone brings their own work, and a moderator guides everyone through a structured process for getting things done. Lots of highly motivated people there, and I’ve been really productive on these sessions.

https://www.ultraworking.com/the-work-gym/
I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm warning you of some of the possible weaknesses in your argument that you're in a protected, safe place. And I do this only because I've made the same assumptions a couple of times and paid the price for not figuring it out sooner.
I had to smile at that picture, because I'm in a very similar one in my high school yearbook - 3 of us around a teletype. It's a shame about Ric Weiland. I have no idea what happened to the two other guys in my picture.
MySQL isn't the best possible test. Compile Android instead. That builds Chromium (twice, IIUC) and Java.

For bonus points, collect discrete perf data from each component build.

Apparently the conversion tool can fold in multiple datasets into a profile. It would be interesting to see whether an aggregate profile would produce the same level of efficiency as opposed to dedicated profiles for each major tool.
PingCAP Launches TiDB Academy to Teach MySQL DBAs about Distributed DB
> borrowing implies issuing bonds, which will lower interest rates

You have it exactly backwards.

Issuing bonds means selling bonds. Selling bonds or anything else puts downward pressure on the price.

When price of a bond falls, its yield (interest rate) rises.
This comment gave me a thought: maybe the reason that employees rebel against these systems has less to do with the implied lack of trust, and more to do with the loss of autonomy?

If the boss isn't around to watch you all the time, you get judged by your results at the end of the day. If you're being watched all the time, you get judged by how closely you adhere to every asinine rule that management makes up.
SuperSimpleSongs are good too.
That is awesome, thanks for sharing.
By showing youtube kids video to their child? Com'on, you're extrapolating and pushing it beyond the point.
Thanks. I didn't bother to qualify the remark, though I figured it was likely outdated or inaccurate info. Glad to see better data posted here.
This sounds somewhat like AllSides:

https://www.allsides.com/
Heh, I'll offer to be anyone's life coach on here if they're interested. Free initial consultation to see if there's a fit :)
Hmmmm, does that make it pre-processing on hcl? If so I guess that makes a little more sense.
This perception has also been around forever: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157485.

Presumably it's a mirage, since "turning into Slashdot/Digg/Reddit" would hardly have been a steady state.
I do too of course. He learns colours with food, objects we play with AND TV.
Can you do that on a PS4 though?
Thanks for tracking that one down.

Summary: the FFTW people claim they weren’t trying to be malicious, and after DJB called them out publicly (when his private emails didn’t work) they eventually entirely removed djbfft from their benchmark summary pages.

* * *

For many use cases, it is possible (and helpful) to stick to power-of-2 sizes of FFTs, because these are significantly faster than arbitrary sizes. In some cases it is fine to not re-order the terms at one of the ends because it only matters that the order is consistent internally, not with some external spec; this can also save a bunch of time.

But for other contexts it is of course important to handle any arbitrary lengths including those that aren’t products of small primes, and input/output terms in a canonical order. FFTW tries to be reasonably fast in every possible context by doing fancy runtime code specialization.

I’m curious if anyone has a page with updated benchmarks for various sizes of FFTs on modern CPUs and maybe GPUs, testing whatever FFT libraries out there are still being actively maintained (including those which limit themselves to power-of-2 sizes). CPUs have changed some in the last 10–15 years (more SIMD, more important to optimize for cache, etc.), and GPUs are a whole lot faster now.

The FFTW benchmark site still doesn’t have anything more recent than ~2005 as far as I can tell.

* * *

One more thing: if anyone knows a simple and fast WebAssembly FFT implementation (ideally with benchmarks shown for common web browsers / CPUs) I would love to know about it. Just power-of-2 sizes would be fine.
It's not just the type of share - a single bid/buy transaction does not necessarily reflect the value of the rest of the shares.

Saudis need to park tons of cash somewhere. They might be willing to pay a premium for the safety of an American company. A hedge fund may not.

Valuation of a company by using a small sample transaction is always a roughshod thing.
Bots exist, but is it Google's fault? Fake views are often bought by site owners wanting to get more profit.
This is a lot of upfront work, and signing up for continuous maintenance, computing costs, dealing with vendor-specific oddities, and a host of other concerns. Whatever is gained from this (being able to sign AWS phobic clients) must be substantial.
> What would they accuse Apple of...using their dominance in iPhone operating systems to force themselves to include their own store?

Yes, why not? Or that rule only applies to Google?
There's also tons of downsides to working in an office, like unproductive interruptions and ridgid schedules.

When I started working from home, I got way more done, and I attribute that to a combination of almost no distractions (slack is way less distracting than physical interruptions) and flexibility. I work most of my hours early in the morning (6AM-1PM), then I go outside for family time, and then finish up in the evening if I have work left to do. I'm happier all around because I get higher quality family time, and I believe this translates to more productivity when I'm working.

I'm available during office hours on slack regardless, so I'm able to help my co-workers when they need it. I've responded to slack at the park, shopping, etc, and I my coworkers don't notice a difference (I see them in person for lunch occasionally because we're friends).

It's not right for everyone, but I think it can really improve productivity for those it does work for.
The US has a debt problem but it is nothing compared to what the article is speaking of. The US has tons of assets, a low tax rate (which could be raised in the event of a debt problem) and a pretty resilient and diverse economy. China is not a diverse economy and have tons of black pools of debt.
Kids will adjust to whatever their circumstances are though. If you just pull all media, kids will complain for a few days, but eventually just get used to it and play with their real toys. Hell, kids don’t even really need toys to have a good time, take those away and they’ll go dig in the dirt, jump off couches, and make pillow forts.

It’s not hard to “distract toddlers”, my daughter is three and LOVES to help cook. She fries eggs pretty well and I figure the worst that’ll happen is she’ll burn herself (which she hasn’t). Given the right opportunities and structure children can actually be much more helpful than we give them credit for, especially in the USA we’re just sort of taught that children are useless ingrates that are wholly incapable of the most rudimentary tasks (I mean I was certainly treated that way).

It’s a self fulfilling prophecy, the more constantly stimulated the kid is, the more difficult it is for them to pay attention when it’s important.
Google, in fact, might have destroyed a market by making Google Maps "free".

Which is a good thing if it results in more people getting quality services. gcc and Apache destroyed the market for commercial compilers and web servers; should they have been prohibited?
I agree very strongly. My MIL was letting youtube auto-play and she didn't notice things were not quite "Moana" or "Elsa" before I turned it off abruptly, causing other family drama. This was in the middle of Elsa-Gate, of course.

Anyway I don't have time to teach caregivers how to use social media (YouTube) so I just teach my 5 y/o she's not allowed to watch youtube without me.
Hungary gender studies ban draws university anger
"The ERE [Enterprise Rules Engine] truly represents the absolute worst kind of software. It was as if its architects were given a perfectly good hammer and gleefully replied, 'neat! With this hammer, we can build a tool that can pound in nails.'" - Alex Papadimoulis
Also the reason why reddit went through the redesign. It lets them hide ads in the infinite scroll and pretend that people looked at them.
This paper follows the same reasoning as in http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00071213/, so it invariably arrives at the same bogus conclusion "Most OT algorithms have been proved incorrect". Please feel free to explain if you feel otherwise, but quoting yet another publication doesn't really help its case here.

What did catch my eye in this paper is that the authors claimed to have used CoWord as a case study (and of course, claimed that the theorem prover showed CoWord doesn't satisfy TP2). I worked on CoWord, and it was never open-sourced so how the authors got hands on CoWord's transformation functions (which were inside a compiled C++ binary OT-engine) for evaluation is truly troubling. Care to explain?
People have been saying this literally since HN started. In fact the HN guidelines used to include a line asking people not to post about it ("it's a semi-noob illusion"). We removed that guideline for brevity a while ago, but maybe we should bring it back.
Clicks should at least show up on the server the ad is linking to, bot or not.
This post does a comparison to 3.5.x (and Julia).

https://nextjournal.com/sdanisch/fastr-benchmark
Jinni.com was an amazing movie/tvshow recommendation service. You could enter the movies/shows you've enjoyed (or just choose one particular) and it would recommend you other movies/shows you may like and specify in what particular aspects are these similar to your choice/preferences. I haven't found any alternative nearly as good so far.
You know honestly I don’t have a good answer for that. On the one hand I feel like we’re intelligent enough to rise above partisan or two sided politics but on the other hand we’re not intelligent enough to realize what the true implications of some of the platforms we’ve built are. And we’re definitely don’t have the forethought to understand that our platforms will and should be used by people we don’t agree with.
The entire anti-shaming movement seeks to legitimize all choices. It’s wrong.
Sure, defaulting on obligations is always an option.

Who would be hurt in this scenario? Who are the lenders that don't get paid back? Are they banks? Ordinary citizens saving for retirement?

When those people don't get paid back, what are the second-order consequences? Is there a cascade of defaults when they can't make good on their obligations?
IMHO having a camera over your head is just one (small) step worse than working in open-plan offices. It got popular only for one reason, for just like cameras it gives the management that false sense of control.
The article mentions the boondoggle with the census, but left out the equally/worse mismanaged saga with Queensland Health (which put IBM on a ban list of sorts for Queensland government projects). This is interesting, to say the least.
> Is there no way to criticize GPL without being considered a dead-weight parasite?

Not with this attitude. "Why can't you just make the case for me?" There aren't many ways of reading this that offer honest intent.

> Is there no case for not releasing code (immediately) than greed?

You tell me what you had in mind. Security POCs come to mind. But since you didn't immediately point that out I think it's unlikely you had it in mind.

> Are profit/loss the really the only concern for a project that can’t/won’t release code?

I guess pride and/or selfishness?
Someone wrote Popcorn Time under those same conditions...
Isn't this what SAD/SOG would be doing?
Ask HN: YouTube down?
Combat zone exemption.
> Three years ago, HackerNews seemed (to me) to be a forum for intellectuals to discuss things business/tech-y.

Had you read the site guidelines then (or now!) you'd know that the very first thing they say is that HN is about more than this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
China appears unified because their government stifles freedom of speech and thought, with reeducation camps, etc.
And are you really, really successful or the rest? :)
This implies that complexity is something that is only arrived at by putting in more "work", while a lazy person, that puts in less effort, comes up with a simpler solution. I disagree. Simplicity is extremely hard; much much harder than complexity. Simplicity takes many hours of design and redesign, to realize which parts are out of the scope of the problem domain and which parts are not.
Yeah - having some problems myself.

https://outage.report/youtube
Don't forget they also need to appease their dealer networks and work out over the air updates when the car is built by thousands of parts contractors.
Right, but they seem to be really good at not paying site owners who do that...
Move Aside Lithium, Vanadium Is the New Super-Metal for Bigger Batteries
Comparatif articles sport
Is this company legit imploding?
What does the /?pbjreload=10 mean?
At this point they might be "too big to fail".
I strongly recommend you don’t let your toddler watch at any type of media on a screen if possible.
Amiga personal computers were amazing, that's a pity there is no active development in the Amiga world nowadays and an Amiga is not a viable alternative to a modern PC/Mac.
The problem with "it's not personal, it's just business" is that business is always personal.
Peanut butter and jelly reload.
Yup, this is all I get when I load it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/thbiecwx04on7d5/Screenshot%202018-...
It's a funnel. You can drop out along the way but if you're not in it from the start then it's close to impossible to enter into it.
I love that Heraclitus quote and it’s interesting to hear how training turns “targets” into “fighters”.

However, I still wonder about the psychology of the mercenary asassin. Who are they, what stories do they tell themselves to justify their actions and does the 160k buy them peace of mind?
They are lying to you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12657116
On a side note, if you use instagram, I'm not sure if you've noticed, but literally every 3-4 pictures is an ad now. It's so annoying, they're completely ruining the experience and it affects my retention rate and my will to come back.
Yeah, and then "Following its creation, Popcorn Time quickly received positive media attention, with some comparing the app to Netflix for its ease of use. After this increase in popularity, the program was abruptly taken down by its original developers on March 14, 2014, due to pressure from the MPAA" [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_Time
A popular alternative I've heard here a few times is the "lottery factor".

How many devs could win the lottery and retire to a desert island while we still retain working knowledge of it.
As you get older it makes sense to remove your older work experience and education. Companies don't like paying for health care and want to be know their on-boarding costs can be reimbursed.
There's another article on the front page that pollution increases the risk of either getting or accelerating Alzheimers, I forget which. Either way, if you live in a city, getting aerobic exercise out of doors is probably counter-productive when done for the purpose of cleaning your brain. In that case, indoors at a gym might be an option, if it's well ventilated and fresh air is filtered first.own.
Thanks. I actually misread their comment as the inverse of what it meant.
I mean, if I’m in a business with my friend and he hasn’t been working on said business for 2 years, even though he has a bunch of equity, I’d also start to think about maybe making that situation a bit more fair.

Probably not without them involved, but you can at least discuss the possibility at some point.
Very much the opposite. Firms will overprice a stock hold it up for a few weeks by creating an area of support (buying) and then dump the shares to joe six pack until they don't need to prop it up.