skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
building lots of datacenters
Its also very unlikely that an AI click is equivalent to a human click — humans will spamclick to ensure the action goes through, while the machine can do it once with full confidence
MDX
They’re too awkward to throw at every problem, but they are definitely useful for things like serialization. The ergonomics could be improved, however.
Your first sentence was “Or... Zuckerberg is lying.” That is a claim.
is F logarithmic or something.?
Yii Framework 2.0.16 is released
strong has been around for a long time.
I’ve been using reader mode for months and love it. I set it to auto open all links in reader mode and now hardly ever look at the styles version. It’s amazing how much more readable websites become with the extension. I’m also a UX designer, hows that for irony.
Why don't they just make a modern version that emulates the function?
People need to start seriously considering doing everything they possibly can to get tech monopolies completely out of their lives.
This is a great book. I read it a couple years ago and I remember a couple takeaways that apply well to AB testing:

1 - Monitoring tests on an ongoing basis and then calling them as soon as they hit some confidence threshold (like 95%) will give you biased results. It's important to determine your sample size up front and then let the test run all the way through, or at least be aware that the results are less reliable if you stop early.

2 - Testing for multiple metrics requires a much larger sample. If you run a test and then compare conversion rate, purchase amount, pageviews per session, retention, etc. etc., you'll have a much higher error rate since the more things you measure, the more likely you are to get an outlier. You either need to run a separate test for each metric or increase your sample size a lot to account for this effect (iirc the math for exactly how much is in the book).
I think I had heard of Flattr before but wasn't really aware of it. From your comment, has their usage waned?
A supremely amazing collection! Succinctly written, and a joy to read. The curation is fantastic. Some would disagree with the choices, but the task was herculean. (e.g. geometric group theory is not really represented there - but one can't expect to have all of mathematics in 60 pages!)

I ended up going through the list, categorizing these theorems into know/don't know/should know categories. Time well spent.

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Mandatory "Hey, there's a typo there" note:

In #77: HOMFLYPT polynomial's list of authors is missing Y: David N. Yetter, a professor in Kansas State University. Hope this omission will be fixed!

I learned knot theory and did research with Yetter in 2007 (which resulted in a paper on Vassiliev Invariants, a subject also mentioned in #77); that was a pivotal point in my life.

Besides mathematics, Yetter's other major interests, to my knowledge, are Orthodox Christianity and anime.
Keepass can auto type and some extensions can prefill without pasting
I can't speak to other countries.
gzip is only a happy medium if your other candidates are 7z (LZMA) or bzip2, which are both stronger but slower compressors. bzip2 is essentially obsolete (off the pareto frontier), and LZMA is good but slow so will only be best if your transmission speed is low.

Near the space/time tradeoff point that gzip lives, however, it is thoroughly outclassed by more modern compressors such as zstd or brotli with the appropriate settings.
thanks for the response. I will add my name to the waitlist and look forward to discussing at a future date.
Episodes of NY Times “The Daily” Now Come with Transcripts
The software has some interface to the physical controls.
This was a bit of an eye opener on how much information Robert Mueller's team has and could be an indication of what is in the many sealed indictments in the DC citcuit given he flipped Sam Patton.

On the Brexit side it's probably time to stop and step back to investigate whether the vote was unduly influenced with foreign cash or interferance.
I went to college in the USA, and I understand that undergrads are often put into classes far outside of their expertise. Still, I expect college students to be able to count to 6 and understand fractions. Even the remedial algebra students I helped in high school weren't that bad.
Here's the one I use [1]. My Pakistani bank also does every single thing mentioned lol.

1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-fuck-with-pas...
Not sure, but if the 57m EUR fines continue monthly for noncompliance? Weekly? Perhaps that will do more to turn their course..
Article misses the point. It's not the fear of being denounced for being inappropriate. It's the fear of being denounced even when you behave appropriately.
I switched my browsers to using DuckDuckGo as the default search engine and almost miss never Google at all. Any time I do miss Google, I just manually navigate to Bing and use that instead.
Incorrect. I was there the moment this flipped. It was actually with a bang, not a whimper.

The iPhone came out. Before the iPhone DSL was a thing, making big-ish pages was a thing.

Suddenly your pages had to be downloaded on a 2g connection. Eventually 3g, and 3g today is seen as insanity, but back then was the best we can get and still only few could get that.

We started to minify the hell out of our code. Every byte was critical. CDNs were used to speed every bit of our site up. Google came out with their research that you have ~150ms to serve content before it stops feeling instantaneous.

Boom.

Eventually tools came out to make all this so easy, why wouldn't you do it.

And thus here we are today.

I was using the internet when AltaVista was a thing. Searching was SLOW! If you wanted to find something online, grab a cup of tea, because its gonna be a while.
I think you can be anti-FB while still recognizing that it's a powerful force in the industry and the world. Hell, I'd say that many are anti-FB because it's too powerful a force in the industry and the world.
Why Electric Cars Struggle in the Cold–and How to Help Them
It seems that no-one knows exactly where it's from. Was in use in the 1890s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statist...
In which countries is messaging still a revenue source? In the UK you usually get unlimited SMS mesages on even the cheapest plans... (and everyone is using whatsapp or facebook messenger anyway, which is probably why)
How to Create a Damn Good Unique Value Proposition
2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14192946

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7024651
I've ridden in an i3 a lot (good friend owns one) and I own a Model 3, and they are _completely_ different cars. They both have 4 tires and will get you from point A to point B, but that's about it.
My advice is to look at the statistics. Commercial flying is much, much safer than any other mode of transport.

Do you get scared when you drive to work? Or take a train? Both are more risky. (Driving significantly so.)

More specifically... The pilots have extensive training, modern airliners have fail safes everywhere, and the amount of research and engineering spent on aviation safety is mind boggling.

See: http://airlines.org/dataset/safety-record-of-u-s-air-carrier...
Good point. I was being too loose with the language. But IME the two groups tended to mix. For example, John Bolton traveled in neoconservative circles during the run-up to the Iraq War even though he's rather Machiavellian.
To get started with an Arduino you install the IDE and plug it into a USB cable, load Blink and hoorah your first program is already running. By comparison a PI is far more mucking around https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/raspberry-pi-se...
>dead obvious, but somehow needing to be constantly re-explained

Because it's not all 'dead obvious', maybe?
Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics
They are luxury, but not silly.

Aluminum disintegrates in acidic food. It has been associated with Alzheimer's disease. It can crack.

Wood can not be cleaned, it splits, and it even has slivers.

Plastic melts or burns. Plastic cracks. Plastic gets discolored, often by foods that contain both oil and tomatoes. BPA has been a problem, and the substitutes in BPA-free plastic are sometimes suspected of being worse.
This website is cool, but I'm honestly a little lost to what exactly it is.
Madison isn’t called “The People’s Republic of Madison” for nothing.
I dislike having anything on my wrist (or fingers, to the chagrin of my wife...). I don't mind having a wallet and phone in my pocket, however.
Away from Keyboard 12: Laura Gaetano doesn't want to be a manager
> We're looking at a ton of downsides with almost no visible upsides.

Now that's not quite true. We've maintained the idealized (idolized?) Musk as an infallible visionary an engineer.

(I say this as a huge Musk fan - I think his image/public perception play a big role in keeping Tesla afloat in hard times.. even when those hard times are caused by less-than-stellar tweets)
thats the kind of problem i work on (millions per sec at peak). everything is a queue and we stream from servers via kafka and into processors into redshift, more or less. Its free once it's moving around in AWS, but redshift and processors get expensive and im interested in reliable ad hoc solutions... but havent seen it.
> what communities have you seened ruined by "some minority of users politicising it for attention?"

Twitter (and to a lesser extent, Tumblr).
That https link throws a cert error.
The relationship we're actually talking about is proportional using your definition. Rent is proportional to housing prices, all else equal.

If all else isn't equal, i.e. you change interest rates or tax rates, then you're changing the constant. But they're still proportional with the new constant. You're only changing the ratio, not the nature of the relationship.
Nest Cams Hijacked in the Name of PewDiePie and North Korea Pranks
U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers
Just like every example of a communist regime wasn't true communist, and hence failed!
Who is "we"? You and I? Or "most people", the "average person", some abstract thing that doesn't even exist, determined by numbers? To shorten it extremely: Nobody has the right to piss away the future of humanity. If they do, they simply cease to be relevant to me, by definition. I will gladly fight them, but not ever ask for their permission or advice. Resistance to systematic mass surveillance and what hangs off that is not just a mere "social norm" like whether short or long skirts are acceptable. This is way more complex and important than all of the light-weights that don't consider it combined. Just being alive and wanting to be left alone with whatever apathy one ended up with isn't anything in the intellectual or moral arena.
> As someone who grew up in rural Wisconsin, I can tell you that there has always been a streak of anti-intellectualism, but the past few years it has transformed into something even worse.

Not just Wisconsin. I grew up in a rural town in the South, and it was horrible. I'm back there teaching and it's even worse, if such a thing is possible. The only light I see is that a vast majority of the non-"yee yee" kids are fairly left-leaning, and nobody actually questioned me when I mentioned global warming yesterday. Shame is, those kids usually get the hell outta Dodge and never return.
They exist, but they just don't have the same charm. You can find them pretty easily in places like Japanese arcades.
This would have to be the case. You can't trust an Android device to not have anything between the keyboard app and the messaging app.
Have you used them? What's their cut?
Interesting set of charts here:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-30/tesla-shares-viole...
Wow, Apple's services business (consumer focused) is $10 billion a quarter now.

To put that in perspective, Amazon's entire AWS cloud business, which is enterprise focused, is at around $7 billion a quarter.
Well, that’s pretty much like training a neural network, except that the integration of the matrix coefficients happens not from the immediate output data, but from data which was output by the network millions of epochs ago.
The Pitfalls of Facebook Merging Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp Chats
“We believe we will offer in a year's time a complete cure for cancer.“
Interestingly, I don't know a single person who uses FB Messenger. Plenty who use FB, just not messenger. It's SMS, iMessage or WhatsApp.
I had been involved in a really hairy service interruption that involved hardcoded urls into an sdk (http://a.com/b.js), and a.com was remapped to a brand new web service / target which no longer had the file.
As if it's not enough, the server returned 301 permanent redirect with 60 day ttl to http://c.com. Our traffic dropped 40% because of that mistake (not 100 because in previous couple releases i have changed that url to be something that's widely used and had no risk of getting messed up, but old clients still had the urls embedded).

As if that is not enough, the IOS library for some reason had implemented "hand rolled "caching with a lot of hardcoding.

To fix the issue... i made c.com homepage also serve b.js at the bottom.

There is no way in hell this would be committed and tested within qa timelines of either a.com set up or c.com setup.

It's rather complex to fully explain without giving more context on what it is but when traffic drops 40% and you are generating 5M$/day.... You do whatever to bring it back.
> "Or... Zuckerberg is lying."

> "I didn’t claim he was lying."

Sure seems like you did...
A procedural win would be if Musk can convince a court that they don't have jurisdiction (eg, the diver should have sued somewhere else), or that there's some other reason to throw the suit out.

I believe his lawyers were recently advancing the argument that the First Amendment lets you lie about people on twitter, so it doesn't matter if all the twitter claims were lies. If that argument works, that would be a procedural win, aka "it doesn't matter if I did it, because X".
Yeah, I've read them too. But you're not saying that it's a challenge the industry will face, you're saying the death is a fait accompli, and the entire traditional auto industry is not real competition to Tesla (your words from your linked post).

I don't need to wait ten years to decide that you're wrong; even if your prediction turns out to be correct (which it might), assigning a 100% probability to this outcome is absurd, and if you could reliably do this you'd be a trillionaire.

Since we're reading the tea leaves via business school curriculum, what about a little Prisoner's Dilemma?

Let's assume that consumer demand exists for EVs (which Tesla has basically created single handedly), and EVs aren't profitable when slotted in to the cost structure of a traditional dealership due to the lack of maintenance. Dealers try every trick in the book to steer customers away from EVs.

Why wouldn't a percentage of dealerships defect, rebrand and focus exclusively on EVs? They'll enjoy abnormally high sales, and be profitable on the margins from new car sales alone. Dealerships that insist on only selling ICE vehicles will stick around for a while, but nobody will start one, and the number will be reduced by attrition. The total number of dealerships fall and the EV transition is completed over a few decades.

So to be clear: you assign a zero percent probability to this happening?
I think the poster was using deliberately provocative words to call attention to the emotional angle of the debate, not making those judgements themselves.
I remember I was in the NRI section of a SBI bank in Kolkata maybe ~20 years ago and we needed to get a travelers cheque transaction completed before their closing (bank strikes happen often so timing was critical when we were there, after days we were finally able to get into the bank to do business). Anyways, we were discussing things and the bank manager learned that I was good at computers and I kid you not, he asked me (a customer) to help him with some errors that his computer was making. I obliged because at the time I just didn't care and wanted my transaction to go through. IIRC there was a .com/dll/ocx error, nothing wanted to mess with by looking for a file, trying to run regsrv32, etc. Luckily a reboot fixed the problem ..but yea you can see how screwed up things are there. Things have definitely gotten much more strict recently but I'm sure there are still lots of these shenanigans happening amongst employees
>compete solely based on the merits of the technology or service itself

This is an extremely simplistic view of national and international economies. The information asymmetry between producers and consumers that exists for almost every product or service should be enough to disqualify the idea that people judge products/services solely based on their merits.
Luckily Apple makes products for both use cases.
I haven't worked through the grunt work myself, but I'm fairly certain it's basically not possible to design a completely fingerprint-proof browser so long as a browser includes a programmable Turing machine via Javascript, not to mention network request statistic info etc, all of which are used by completely legitimate websites to improve their experience & performance.
Well yeah, our leaders don't care nearly as much if you go and do shady shit for other leaders as they do about you exposing their own shady shit to the general population. Don't assume the US government is ever going to act in good faith about this kind of stuff.
Did the author specify “finitely axiomatizable”? Because neither Peano arithmetic nor ZFC are finitely axiomatizable, for example.

Also, “not finitely axiomatizable” doesn’t mean “having infinitely many truths in the (?) model”. Not sure what you meant by that.
I started using DDG everywhere in December after reading a story how Google tried to steal a MIT researcher's work.

I thought they "Do No Evil," were all about corporate and social good? That's the image I once had!
Fyi, military pilot here, there are a handful of mil aircraft that can reverse thrust in flight. A great too for dropping down fast to avoid low/slow flight over hostile areas. There might be a relationship between that ability and this problem.
but conversely you might have the contrarian town geniuses also interacting where they would not previously. so I guess it depends on the relative size of the 2 groups and their respective probability of being ostracised in their home environment
Winamp3? Wasn't that the one everyone hated? They did release an Alpha for Linux[1]. If you were talking about Winamp 2, have you tried xmms?

[1] https://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Winamp-for-Linux/97273...
That was of a different era where politics anb religion wasn't discussed in mixed company. Now you need to yell which side you are on as virtual signage.
> if you want to run an app downloaded outside of the App Store, you have to explicitly go to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Allow apps downloaded from: anywhere.

You can just right click the app and choose “Open”. That deliberate action will allow you to open an app from an unidentified developer without changing your Gatekeeper preferences.
Visual Effects !! lots of python and C++ to generate amazing pictures, lots of CPU power (50k+ cores on prems in a big studio) and I/O transfer (100 tbs a day)
Moderation is definitely key to dealing with that issue.

For me, as with HN, I don't like the inherent stress of commenting on submissions before they fall off the front page. The earlier one comments, the higher the chances of getting eyeballs/responses. After that short ~24 hour window, people may still read the comments, but submitting new comments seems futile.

As opposed to older "style" forums, even today, threads often stay open, allowing people to post months or years later to revive "dead" threads.
There are degrees of this. Many comments manage to remain civil and substantive despite the divisive topic. This is exactly what the site guidelines call for: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
> the scandals had planetary coverage, therefore I would still expect to see some kind of impact

You mean you'd expect a meaningful drop. Why? I expected very little consequence. People know Facebook doesn't cost them a monthly fee to use, they realize it's a huge entity that runs advertising to pay the bills. Everyone using the Internet these days is familiar with advertising online. The bulk of the users are precisely the ones that aren't shocked by the privacy scandal. They get to use Facebook and don't have to pay cash for it, they know the deal even if only broadly. Despite the endless attempts by the media to portray all FB users as ignorant.

Target had a huge scandal of stolen customer information. They didn't lose a big part of their sales. Equifax isn't going out of business. Few consumers stopped using Windows over Microsoft's business tactics in the 1990s or after. Walmart used to particularly pay their employees terribly and were pretty vicious cutthroats with suppliers and competitors (still are), outside of a tiny group none of it stopped people from shopping there. Amazon is guilty of a lot of that same behavior over the last two decades.

There's a required threshold for how bad Facebook's behavior would have to be, to turn the average user off of their 'free' service. They haven't got near that level yet. For most people it's a useful social utility that connects them to everyone they know and they don't have to pay money for it. Users will put up with a lot accordingly.
If the "spirit" of the law, is at odds with the letter of the law, and the letter of the law is an attempt to do things that are not constitutional, then it doesn't really matter what one calls someone over following the law.
Dating of hominin discoveries at Denisova
Here it is with piping so you don't have to litter your working directory:

curl -s https://duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=example.com | grep -m1 "'result-link'"

curl -sd "q=example.com" https://duckduckgo.com/lite/ | grep -m1 "'result-link'"
Audiomonster's music on Ice by TSL was phenomenal. https://youtube.com/watch?v=JaG1vIkmhk4 the first track was worth removing the disk to be able to listen the whole thing. I believe he now scores movie soundtracks.
Much of the discoverability of “fun, weird” stuff came from the “surfing” aspect of the web, Google vastly reduced that.

One must not forget that Google is actively optimising search results away from the "weird stuff" and blocking users that try to dig deeper into the results to find it, insulting them with the accusation that they're a bot (a bit ironic, considering that if you behave "like the billion other mindless drones" you don't get singled out...) and presenting them with endless CAPTCHAs.

On the other hand, Bing still feels a bit like the "old school" search engines, and I've had better success finding the rare and niche "weird stuff" with it; apparently you can even find stuff horribly beyond legality, which is not surprising given how "dumb" it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18876361

I'd say the "fun and weird" Internet is definitely still alive; but the efforts of search engines to "clean up" their results have basically resulted in censorship and hiding of the less popular parts.
This kind of selective thinking/reporting has definitely hurt credibility of the "intellectuals". Who has the time to figure out how you lied or wrongly implied certain things with your data?
I think you’re mostly right, except there is a downside—it’s just too long term to be an effective feedback loop.
Except that it was awfully one-sided and appeared to be labeling actual people directly (those in r/wisconsin)
This story is about life insurance, not health insurance.

That Iron Triangle assumes that you have an efficient system. If you have a wasteful system (say, you pay twice as much per person as other places do without any advantage in quality or access) then you can reduce costs without hurting other things.