skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it would be useful. Not sure if $1B+ range. I don't care if people fake it as long as there are some real experiences that do not get hidden.
Awesome, that's really good to hear! Happy user here - I was recently on the lookout for a simple hosted blogging platform for a personal project, and write.as fit the bill perfectly.

Will PRs for WriteFreely generally make it into Write.as?
my original phrasing was 'shattering', maybe i should have left it that way. but i agree. one of the best essays i've read on the subject:

https://www.gwern.net/The-Melancholy-of-Subculture-Society

> The otaku & hikikomori recognizes this dilemma and he chooses - to reject normal life! He rejects life in the larger culture for his subculture5. It’s a simple matter of comparative advantage; it’s easier to be a big fish in a small pond than in a large one.6

[...]

> As ever more opt out, the larger culture is damaged.7 The culture begins to fragment back into pieces. The disconnect can be profound; an American anime geek has more in common with a Japanese anime geek (who is of a different ethnicity, a different culture, a different religion, a different language…) than he does with an American involved in the evangelical Christian subculture. There is essentially no common ground - our 2 countrymen probably can’t even agree on objective matters like governance or evolution!

> With enough of these gaps, where is "American" or "French" culture? Such cultural identities take centuries to coalesce - France did not speak French until the 1900s (as The Discovery of France recounts), and Han China is still digesting & assimilating its many minorities & outlying regions. America, of course, had it easy in starting with a small founder population which could just exterminate the natives.
Atari ST: First Impressions
I think it's also the case that for a lot of people, sadly, having certain tools legitimizes their jobs.
"Negative effects on technology" according to who, by what metric, and what technologies would be stunted exactly?

GDPR isn't going to slow down research projects into new approaches to OS design, or physical hardware development. No one is stopping their generalized AI thesis work over customer data laws.

The entire media coverage of GPDR and to an extent Brexit, seems like big business throwing a tantrum akin to a spoiled child. Flinging themselves on their bed crying that their entire life is over because they can't stay out past midnight.

All these reports are investment graphs and earnings reports. Slight to moderate downturns at a time of record highs in the market. Thinly veiled blackmail and ultimatums by those that have against those that have-not. "Let us do whatever we want or it would be a shame is something happened to your 401k.(or your research grant for that matter)"
Ah, thanks! So it's not non-nativeness at fault :) Just that I'm some-one with out the knowledge you assumed.
This article would be better if it was called "connection pool sizing for MySQL". If you had a better database, you would have to worry way less about configuring pool size on the clients.

The proper way to do this would be for the server (i.e. database) itself to have maximum active transaction limits and ways to setup quotas for different use cases, especially as your company gets large, and you have many different use cases mixed in the same database. Basically the queue should exist mostly on the server, and clients shouldn't have to worry about overwhelming the server. If server queue gets large, server should start rejecting requests faster, and clients would do a backoff and retry with a delay based on that instead. This also makes sure server can't be easily overworked if you have one misconfigured and misbehaving client.

Lot of issues with many idle connections in MySQL are specific to MySQL itself and its implementation. In MySQL the perf drops not only when you have many active transaction, but even when you have many just many connected idle sessions. This is why there are tons of different random "MySQL Connection Proxy" projects that exist in the open source.
Yeah, but I guess it could be worse... they could be working on "civilian control systems" in the "defense" industry. Now they just spy, FUD, astroturf, and Psyop for brands and corporations. Govts and lobbyists can hire them!

It's probably best not to discuss crypto-coinage in this context.
Gradient Descent Finds Global Minima of Deep Neural Networks
Here's a real-world example from a client who uses Qualtrics heavily. At regular intervals following vehicle purchase, an automotive manufacturer sends surveys to vehicle owners asking about their perception of the quality of the vehicle, issues that may have come up, features that were not explained properly or don't work as expected, etc. We're talking hundreds of thousands of surveys a year, each with 20+ branching questions. The surveys themselves are built in Qualtrics (something that it is quite good at), managed by Qualtrics (yes, survey management is a big deal), and the top-level data analysis of the survey results is done in Qualtrics as well to determine if there are problematic trends that need to be addressed, more issues than in previous years, segments of customers who are for some reason perceiving quality differently than others, opportunities to redesign or better market things in the future, etc. This data is directly used to update products, training, marketing, etc. at the company.

This is, in my opinion, the biggest use case for Qualtrics - customer experience research based on surveys or data gathering methods managed from within the platform. You can think of it as Survey Monkey on steroids with some SPSS-lite data analysis functionality built in.
I pay for service, and I'd be comfortable paying (though not very much) for my secure text message service the same way.

But I underscore that the service is what's important here and that's what I'm willing to pay for, not the calls. Imagine you find that your phone company, without you noticing, actually dropped 20% of your incoming calls. You didn't pay for those calls so who cares right? No, you pay for service, delivering other people's calls to you reliably is part of that service.

I pay for YouTube Red or whatever it's called now, same rationale. I pay, I get the service. YouTube doesn't make videos about Minecraft, TLS, US law, or whatever, but the platform I watch them on needs paying for somehow and I'm damn sure I don't want to watch adverts.
Millennium Cohort Study
Why do you think it didn't work? I've had the same experience, but with trying to move friends from telegram to signal. For me, I think it is because telegram is such a better experience from a UI standpoint. Signal is getting better, but it still feels clunkly.
Hard to find any energy denser fuels than the ones they already use for main propulsion.

But yes, with a hybrid one, you could decouple the rotation rate of the turbine and the pumps. They have different optimal points. Or you could have more pump stages with different speeds. Some engines use gears for this purpose (NK-33). Some engines use two turbines, one for each pump (SSME). Also startup would be nice and easy.
its data
https://www.kp.ru/daily/26061.3/2969912/ if you read Russian has even better descriptions of what cosmonauts were receiving.
We don't always get to choose the wars we fight in, but we always have a choice in the way we fight the battles.
That's okay, the atmosphere on Mars is thin so sound isn't as loud / doesn't carry as far.

(I think, I don't actually know how these things work)
Pyproject.toml: the future of Python packaging – Brett Cannon (podcast)
I upvoted your comment for its poignancy.

If people reading this don't understand your comment, then please reread it and post a question.

Honestly, I faced this so much when I was in tech that the stress level became ridiculous.
Brett Cannon discusses the changes afoot in Python packaging as a result of PEP 517, PEP 518, starting with "How did we get here?" and "Where are we going?"

Discussed:

flit
Poetry
tox
Continuous Integration
setup.py, MANIFEST.in, etc.
pipenv
what's with lock files
applications (doesn't go on PyPI) vs libraries (goes on PyPI)
workflows
dependency resolution
deployment dependencies vs development dependencies
will lock files be standarized
multiple lock files
requirements.txt
When I point out obvious problems such as that I'm told to stop being negative.
I think online advertising is mostly a hoax, with very few exceptions. I usually dismiss anything that remotely resembles an ad and just shut it off, even if it was really interesting. So I tend to think that the companies that pay for ads online are the ones paying for the cost of browsing the Internet for free, so I hate ads a bit less after that :)
The HTML Canvas Guide
If it supports inline HTML (not entirely clear to me), then you could try using markdeep[0] to render HTML offline, then copy the output to the editor.

EDIT: just tried, does not work without KaTex being loaded

[0] https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
Easy to setup programmable web forms and surveys for non-experts. Apparently it is big business. One thing I think is interesting is that I'd heard of SurveyMonkey before but never about qualtrics.. even here on hackernews. Maybe because qualtrics was outside of the valley? Yet clearly a unicorn and a very successful exit.
That would not be "defeating" GDPR, but cooperating with the spirit and intent of that law.
Maybe if you're looking at non-syntax indicators like pace of speech, posture adjustments, facial expressions, etc. But NLP is still a major unsolved problem. AI simply isn't strong enough at understanding meaning especially in broken English or slang (ex. "Nah, I ain't done it.").
downvoted because...?

seriously try the search it just returns some json lol:

https://www.artic.edu/collection

(in other words there aren't "50,000 high res works online" if nobody can actually see them...)
I have this vague suspicion that social media will die out with our generation because of this.

It came along when we were all high school/college or so, and this big platform to refind old contacts was a surprising new experience.

Then all of collectively went into the workforce and suddenly had public images to manage and so the whole thing very quickly became yet another advertising channel via tragedy of the commons.
Here’s how you can make better use of JavaScript arrays
This is probably exactly what I've been looking for as a blogging platform.

Definitely giving this a go.
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The big news to me is that while the FPU AVX doubled in size to 256-bits, they will NOT be downclocking like Intel currently does. That should offer a very significant performance advantage until Intel is able to fix their 10nm process.
don't waste your time with that.
If someone is really close to me, I don't mind them tagging me in stuff like that. But if we're just acquaintances, I hate it.
That's not how they get you though.
They get desperate people to do it, then build momentum in the number of people with it. Then sooner or later everyone has one.
Available on Amazon and I would assume supplements aisle of drug stores. Dose for OCD seems to be up to 2400 mg.
So nanoinfluencers are people with small following on social media that are given free products in return of advertisement.

Reminds me a type of sponsorship in sports and hobbies. The brands or shops select some individuals and give them access to their collection at advantageous price (say -30% of retail price, but not free), in exchange of simply wearing or using the stuff. Similar idea of "influencers" as advertisement platforms.

Next step: startup providing an API for influencers as a service.
"Yeah, but I guess it could be worse... they could be working on "civilian control systems" in the "defense" industry. "

They are working very hard on building up the infrastructure and technology needed for total population control. The needs of an advertising company and an authoritarian government are very similar.
'Beware the Smart Home' by Miranda Hall
I interpreted what was said as saying Qualtrics provides a solution that has more flexibility and functionality than Excel. Excel's limitations are much more apparent in "enterprise" class companies.
One day this war is going to end.

There has to be a point of saturation where the culture as a whole turns back to some version of authenticity. Clearly it's not going to be the millennials, perhaps the next generation will figure it out.
In an ideal world that'd be great, but for single-dev projects you can more effectively deliver features if you just pick a database and stick to it.

It's a shame it's MySQL (I'm in the Postgres camp these days) but MariaDB isn't awful and for such a tiny project it doesn't matter.
Write.as looks like a great platform. Just started exploring it. Would be great if there was a free plan for open source organizations and authors, so we could make use of the Snap.as service as well. That'd be enough to get me off of Medium.
Old article, dead language. Most current version is 0.4.0 which can be found at: https://github.com/witheve/eve-native which saw an update 10 months ago.
You’re always “locked in” to your infrastructure. People have this brilliant strategy of thinking they have this brilliant strategy of avoiding “lock in” and again they get the worse of both worlds. They end up spending more to avoid lock-in and they aren’t taking advantage of what thier provider has to offer.

At the end of the day, changing your underlying infrastructure is so risky and usually not worth the cost benefit analysis, it’s rarely done.
He says this is the first case of regular expressions on a computer, which I believe, but I'm not hearing anything about runtime optimization or compilation.
They fall flat because they aren't keeping up with poorly made products that have all their budgets put into advertising.

We can keep flipping this as long as we want. At the end of the day, it sucks that companies get a bigger (short-term) reward by dumping more into advertising and marketing than into the product itself.
See also: vaccination.
Don't forget that while Americans got von Braun and his brains, Soviets got not only von Ardenne (who was quite bright anyway) but also everything from rocket (and other) factories) that wasn't nailed to the floor. Whatever was nailes has been moved together with floors.

By all indications, von Ardenne worked on quite a few projects, and it is quite interesting that the Soviet Moon project that ran when Germans were allowed to go home, ended in nothing much more than a few spectacular explosions.
Ask HN: Which piece of knowlege was most surprising for you?
In terms of information theory the most valuable pieces of information are those that surprise us most [1][2].

For example I wasn't really surprised while reading HN featured article "The healthiest people in the world don't go to the gym" [4], because the results of research presented there were close to my expectations (due to the model that emerges from all my previous knowledge).

On the other hand Libet's experiment [3] regarding consciousness was very surprising for me - because it's results are counterintuitive and if I was asked to guess them I probably would't be right.

Which facts are/were most surprising for you?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_content
[2] https://plus.maths.org/content/information-surprise
[3] https://qz.com/quartzy/1452630/the-healthiest-people-in-the-world-dont-go-to-the-gym/
[4] http://www.informationphilosopher.com/freedom/libet_experiments.html
How to Hide Categories on WooCommerce Store?
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"browsing for free"
>who's browsing for free?
> there have been very usable and capable dev environments available on the iPad

Usable and capable compared to what?

There is some stuff but it is always way inferior to anything on comparable platforms. That isn't obvious for MacOS, but certainly for iOS. Not that I am a huge fan of Android. It has a lot of similar problems.

But I cannot understand enthusiasm for Apple while it restricts access to almost any part of their software environment.
>each with 20+ branching questions

I just recoiled in horror at the thought of my car company asking me to fill out a survey like this and mentally closed the window on it.
If anyone is looking for a "picoinfluencer" opportunity, my fantasy football team is seeking a new sponsor. There are 9 other 24-32 year old tech workers in the league and my team is currently 8-2.
Here's a one year old source, the British Medical Journal, last reviewed this October : https://bestpractice.bmj.com/topics/en-us/987

Thr authors list the risk factors: employment as nightclub bouncer, professional male dancer, professional wrestler, or law enforcement officer. BMJ is highly reputable.

So the reason smalltown police act like BOPE in Rio is that they want to look buff like a male stripper! They don't want to be the arm of the law, such work is dirty, boring and tedious, their goal is to look sexy with their guns, their kink escaped from the bedroom into the streets!

No wonder that they have a recruitment problem, regular people won't join Anabolics Anonymous, only slightly troubled weirdos and high school bullies will come. It makes you very pessimistic about police violence and proper discipline in the force, they won't ever improve unless they solve their drug abuse problem first.
I would suggest a minor adjustment, they fall flat due to a lack of visibility and public acceptance. Advertising is only one such way to achieve that. Unfortunately advertising is capital-driven and there is only partial overlap of products that make the world better and capital. There is also a significant amount of overlap between products that don't make the world better and capital.
There are two ways to fix this problem, one is to find ways to drive more capital to products that make the world better, the other is to find better ways to drive visibility and acceptance that don't revolve around capital.
Yes, one way to "defeat" GDPR is to comply with the spirit and letter of the law by not performing routine automated surveillance.
Category Theory Cheat Sheet
I've decided to make a cheat sheet of elementary notions in category theory, along with simple theorems thereof.

https://github.com/alhassy/CatsCheatSheet/blob/master/CheatSheet.pdf

Any feedback would be nice :-)
I’m really concerned that I never heard of those brands before. Besides the obvious annoyance caused by these ads, is there any guarantee those no-name products (as far as I’m aware none of them are a household brand at least not in the UK) are safe?

I can see shady fly-by-night operations using these “influencers” to shill their dangerous & non-compliant shit and possibly get people hurt. Sure, they can also be buying conventional ads but (I hope) most people are wise enough not to fall for them or at least carry out due diligence where as it being posted by a “friend” (I’d say anyone that sells out their followers isn’t really a friend) inherently gives it legitimacy.

We’ve already got this situation with multi-level marketing schemes using social media to shill their garbage (most is crap, and some is outright dangerous with multiple reports of nasty side-effects) and con new victims, I’d rather not see this expand even more.
Otherwise read as "turns out that you make less money if you aren't allowed to sell people's private data off".

What else is new?
I see that Postgres has 3rd party projects related to pooling as well, like PgBouncer. Is MySQL's approach particularly worse than other databases?
The cost differential is at least a full order of magnitude. Nylon SLS machines are available at a $10K price point. Metal (usually titanium) SLS machines are typically well over $100K. Cost of material is also usually an order of magnitude difference. The former is something you might see in a makerspace or college lab, but the latter is going to be restricted to corporate production environments for some time.
How much better is it that Grafana?
It’s not suspicious, it’s oil. The US government has been pretty transparent about that for decades. Africa can’t precipitate global instability the way the Middle East can, they just don’t tick the boxes for military intervention.
I think this is because people do what's comfortable for them. A lot of technical founders don't want to go outside of their comfort zone when that's exactly what they need to do to help their product succeed AND grow as a person.

Edit: This regards all forms of product promotion, not just paid ads.
> I trust the EU to respect my rights far more than some startup

This is an odd statement to continue seeing, given we’ve now seen GDPR weaponised by an EU member to stifle journalists investigating corrupt politicians [1].

We need regulation protecting privacy. The debate is whether GDPR does that effectively (i.e. causes the intended effects) and efficiently (i.e. with minimal undesirable side-effects). Saying “if they get bankrupted by GDPR...then their business model [is bad]” is extreme because it assumes without evidence GDPR’s efficiency.

[1] https://www.occrp.org/en/40-press-releases/presss-releases/8...
Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18084054
Er, no. What happened is you have no idea what you're talking about.
Bitcoin transactions are only breakable by quantum computation once you reveal the public key behind an account's fingerprint (for example, by signing a transaction).

So you can avoid quantum attacks by making every transaction split your funds between the recipient and a new address which you control (this is also a good practice to avoid having your payments being tracked).
Intel has already been caught with their pants down claiming bloated performance numbers for their chips...