skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ll echo a recommendation which I found productive:

Copy a favorite blog post or a few paragraphs from a book chapter by typing them yourself.

It is a very interesting exercise, makes your brain take in the words and digest them in a different way.

In your case retype one of your coworker’s docs.

Some other sources I’d recommend for this: Seth Godin’s blog, Dan Lyon’s Lab Rats book. Efficient, energetic and energizing writing with a high signal to noise ratio.
Yeah, in the Steam age the demos have been mostly killed. I guess "Let's Plays" have replaced them? Personally, I still value getting my hands on the beast myself.
Is streaming killing the radio star?
This may be true as well. One thing money has going for it, versus impact on society, is that we can measure it.

Might not be a great metric, but we as a society have failed to invent and value a better one.
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You can also double tap and drag while holding the second tap, i'm OK with trackpads but what i find limiting is the area vs resolution ratio, if i set the resolution high or speed low to have more precision i need to lift my finger several times instead with the mouse i'm only limited by the size of my desk, also since i use an intellimouse i have 2 extra buttons and I don't wear my laptop, one thing that i hate about new trendy aesthetic minimalistic trackpads is that they have no clearly defined boundaries so i have to drag my finger across the whole palmrest to find it without looking.
QuadrigaCX death debacle gets even weirder
The purpose of the project was to find the founder free porn.

It succeeded.

Not all people are seeking strictly financial rewards.
Furthermore I'd venture to say it's quite the opposite as in there is no programming language called Object Pascal, but only a paradigm and Delphi, FPC and Pascal For Windows are direct implementation of Pascal with Visual Object in mind.
Yes! I needed someone to confirm that people used to call it "fads" before memes.
China's IC Production Forecast to Double Over Next 5 Years
OP here.

> I'd love to see the actual numbers. The screenshot OP posted suggests they've been running A/B tests with 115 + 108 users, which is just not a big enough sample to derive any conclusions.

The screenshot is from the intercom.com website. Not related to our own experiment, which was run outside intercom.

I'm having trouble finding the actual raw experiment results, but I would imagine it covered 10s of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of participants, running for a month.

Regarding the other comments: yes, maybe we were doing it wrong. But we've given it way more attention and though than "hey, can I help you?" and really tried to target specific events etc. And also, we're a B2C so volumes are high but customer lifetime value is relatively low, which increases the acquisition costs.
Python is there. About a fourth of the way in from the left, immediately left of the "Squeaky Family" (light blue box).
Traffic signal green is already optimized for colorblindness: the green looks white, so it is unambiguously distinguished from red and yellow. What do you propose as better?
This point in particular ... a properly written '6 page' anything can take a week of planning, writing and editing to produce!

I think we need more details!
I'm a big fan of hundredrabbits or, as they are also known, [rekka and divine](https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/), and my Playnite Library has a section called "Gamedev Tools" that is filled with all the Borgesian wonders that they have made, including Orca. To find out more about their awesome stuff, like how the freaking built many of these tools while on the ocean, literally sailing around the world, [here's their site!](https://100r.co/)

I'll let you explore on your own, but I will offer here some links to my favorites that they have made. (Including more music related apps for those who like Orca!)

FORMAT
------
>Itch.io or download page, and...
>Short description, and git instructions...
>`git clone`/`npm install` if available.

*

Marabu

- [Marabu](https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Marabu)
- Open source tracker built on [Soundbox](https://github.com/mbitsnbites/soundbox). (Also, look into [Super Collider](https://supercollider.github.io/)!
- `git clone https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Marabu.git`

*
Left

- [Left](https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/left)
- A minimalist text editor.
- ```
git clone https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Left.git
cd Left && npm install
npm start```

*
Ronin
- [Ronin](https://wiki.xxiivv.com/#ronin)
- Self described as a cross between Vim and Photoshop. This one is definitely worth a look.
- `git clone https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Ronin.git`

*
Markl
- [Markl](https://markl.100r.co/)
- An upcoming game with a very hundredrabbit's vibe.
- `git clone https://github.com/hundredrabbits/markl.100r.co.git`

*
Paradise
- [Paradise](https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/paradise) and an artsier [link](https://wiki.xxiivv.com/#paradise) too.
- 'I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.'
This one is very interesting, as if you were born in a command line with symbolic links disabled. A text adventure game, I'd say, but loosely.
- ```
git clone https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Paradise.git
cd Paradise && && npm install
npm start
```
I didn't say the other problems with a lack of privacy don't matter. I asked when else does a lack of privacy matter most. It matters most when you receive a direct and immediate threat as a consequence of your lack of privacy.

Jeff Bezos is finding out the hard way what a lack of privacy means. If he had had actual privacy he wouldn't be in this position in the first place.
Good points, you can also approach it with an engineering view. Act in order to reduce time spent and create tiny tools to distribute the effort onto other agents (users and their computers) so that when they interact with you, part of the work is done.
No problem at all. Spotify has every right to do this.

The original comment seems to argue that ad-blockers are morally wrong, which I disagree with. Ad-blockers are a morally neutral technology, even if they hurt some company's bottom line. Companies that dislike this reality can deploy technical countermeasures, like Spotify is doing.
Is it that hard to find the sponsored text and infer the structure from the surrounding elements (regardless of what that structure is?) Some basic knowledge of the DOM tree structure could make the algorithm very adaptive to any changes like this
Spotify has a really crap mobile app both iOS and macOS.
Memes are older than that. Joshua Schacter has a site called memepool before starting del.icio.us.
> The only engineering hires that don't go through team selection are domain experts hired for a specific team/role ahead of time.

Is this a significant fraction of hires? Because I find it really odd to waste the time of a say an embedded software engineer trying to teach them React when they're pretty set on working on something else anyways…
I find it weird how many people are ok with 4chan but freak out about Gab.
Both are pretty scummy, to be honest. I don't see why they can't share the blame.
I'm talking about the Free Software movement. I have a moral right to use ad-blocking technology, or any other software on my own computer.

Spotify can refuse me service if they have a problem with this (no free music), but they can't make me feel guilty for blocking ads.
I’m not sure I understand. Is this saying that any code which takes an input and maps it to an output can be given a target variable and an input range- and this package will determine what input minimizes distance to the target?

E.g.
f(x) = x + 1

Go find me what input minimizes distance to 2?

Edit: and the reference to ML is given only because that’s a common use case for non linear optimization?

Edit 2: based on parent's edit [a] I think I've got it right above. Basically this won't allow us to optimize anything that wouldn't have been possible to optimize before. But it will be a much less painful experience. Just implement it and then define the input space + target. I do feel like there will be a grey space of thinking "is this a good program for optimization?" but its a really cool idea nonetheless.
You really have no idea what you're saying, and obviously have no serious experience.
> Google Analytics is free, but Google uses the gobs of data about Internet usage it gets from tracking half the Internet for it's own purposes

Does anyone have a source on this? I attended a talk from someone from Google Analytics a few years back, and they claim that Google doesn't use any data they get from analytics for ads targeting. Not sure if their policies have changed.
Yeah it was not a democracy since politicians were allowed to be bought under the name of free speech.
I love the books page - borrowing that idea.
You're making some big leaps in your interpretation vs what's actually being said. I don't see a single comment saying she should sell because money is all that matters. A few comments are saying if she sold it to a housing developer that would create more housing - which is objectively true - and then asserting that more housing would be a good thing given the housing shortage - which is a value judgement you are free to disagree with, but not at all the same as saying profit is all that matters.
It's irrelevant, because the publisher can deploy DRM in such a way as to make ad-blocking attempts illegal and easy to trace

How can they detect me covering the screen, looking away, or just not listening? How can that be illegal?

It's a cat-and-mouse game, and the mice will always win. Ultimately you'll get to the "analog hole of adblocking" situation anyway (user simply takes the headphones off or closes eyes or looks away etc.)
Sure, but that regex doesn't have lookahead/lookbehind?
> And if you did take such a job, how long do you think it would take you to get the budget and approvals from all the auditors necessary to fix everything?

The only people who think auditors are bad are the ones trying to pull something an auditor would catch.
Spray foam insulation nightmare: What can happen if it's not installed correctly
"Who can say how much Randi Zuckerberg is worth?"

"She believes she is worth all her money, she believes she is more than Mark's sister, she believes she has valuable opinions. Anyone who disagrees is a hater. You're just jealous. "No, she's a fool!" Then how come she's so rich?

Those who are enraged by her are actually suffering from the same delusion she is [..] The standard criticism of her is that she didn't really do anything to deserve her money-- "she got rich because of her brother"-- but this is a profound disavowal of the reality: she got rich because of timing-- even though her job at Facebook was trivial, she was there from the beginning and got paid in stock options. What's interesting is that no one makes this criticism of her, because that's what her haters believe is supposed to happen to them.

[..] even her haters want the money to mean retroactively they were already deserving of it, this kind of fortune has bypassed reality testing and instead creates a new reality, it uses the truth in order to lie: of course I'm not rich because of my work product, duh, you can't measure a human being's value based on his labor. I'm rich because that's what I'm worth. "Isn't that specious reasoning?" Oh, dear, sweet, earnest, Lisa, I want to buy your rock.*

And so the hatred of her, like all hate, is revealed to be a defense. To her haters Randi is a buffoon, a step above relationship expert, she is too glaringly undeserving of that money; Randi is an obscene counterexample to the logic that the payout mirrors value and self worth. She is a narcissistic injury for everyone else. So she's disparaged in a specific way: she doesn't deserve all that money because she got it from her brother."

- https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2014/03/who_can_know_how_muc...
The only languages left appear to be Java, php, and ocaml
Python is just to the left of the Squeaky family. It has arrows from CLU and Perl.

I find it odd that Julia doesn't have an arrow from any of the Lisps. Also, C++ only has an arrow from C. I think Stroustrup cited work he did in Simula as a major inspiration for C++.
There is certainly no consensus that it's the preferred style. Some designers prefer this explicit (and more verbose) style but others prefer the less verbose one (with default first, business logic next, and reset values at the end).
No they don't. And I think that we have a right to block ads that to block any and all ads that we receive.

Conversely, any (non-critical) service has the right to stop showing us ads or serving us in any other way.
Anyone hawking wares and/or services in the vicinity of that place will prosper.
> It is pretty arrogant to criticize almost all software architectures on earth.

Almost all software is programmed with modern languages, which all (imo) have extremely lackluster support for concurrency. It's not a symptom of the programmers, but the tools they work with. Who uses Ada these days?

Locks should only be used when other protection mechanisms are too slow.

Semantically, the critical region protected by a lock is not connected to the lock in any way. This can make debugging races super difficult, and you have to rely on everyone to lock everything at the right point.

Juggling multiple locks in complex concurrent processes is difficult, and prone to bugs.

I struggle to think of where a lock is required, barring the extremely hyperoptimised hot paths within operating systems, or similar applications.
Consciousness without the concept of self is general consciousness. Like animals or infants. A consciousness that can experience and react to the environment, but has no idea of itself.

Consciousness with the concept of self is self-awareness. It's a more "advanced" form of consciousness. Where the consciousness is aware that it is conscious.

I might be wrong, but that's how I understand it.

As for the self being an illusion, we don't know for sure, but I think that's the most likely case.
It's a disgusting place full of pretty much the worse the internet has to offer, but it was for a while a haven for people who simply weren't accepted by any other social group in the world, to no "fault" of their own. Be it a shitty situation at home (tons of foster kids on there in the old days), broke ass young adults, suicidally depressed, autistic, whatever, whoever just could not fit in, they had humans they could interact with, which is demonstrably imperative to human health.

Bad actors would do bad shit there due to the very nature of the site. Probably, the misfits could have found some other, healthier, place to congregate. But they didn't, and so 4chan was important, to many people.

It's a shame it got weaponized by bad actors. There was once a day when such attempts would be met with "4chan is not your personal army." Unfortunately, the bad actors got smart enough to figure out how to turn them into an army anyway.

Beyond that, I believe it's important for social / cultural / political structures I disagree with to exist in small "gardens," left to their own devices - both as a living example of "yup, x or y doesn't work, go to 4chan to see what it results in," but also because sometimes it does work, and it's important to keep those traditions alive.
Treeverse, visualizing and navigating Twitter conversations
So what do you do now? Clean up beaches? Work with the poor? Public defender? Something similarly saintly I presume...
I'm so sorry about this formatting. It's my first comment and I couldn't find any syntax rules so I just went standard markdown. Not a good idea. In any case, I've tried to edit it but it won't allow me to make changes, and I apologize for this. I was not hasty, and this took me an hour to write up.
You might try burnerapp. It does a lot of what you want, but it's $4.99/mo or $3.99/mo paid annually.
if she sold it to a housing developer that would create more housing

Maybe. In that neighborhood, it would likely be very expensive condos, which would likely not be rented by someone already living in New York. I really doubt the extent to which all this new luxury construction is actually easing the housing problem, versus just creating additional demand akin to what happens when you add a lane to a highway.
Agreed, but this is the default attitudes of most HN comments - to criticize or nitpick something small.
PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years
Wow that is incredible. Nicely done!
> The problem is that unrestricted movement disrupts culture and lowers a lot of social statistics all at once - in a way that can be really disruptive to the host culture.

So, free movement inside the UK should be restricted? The UK should be divided by countries and block free movement?
And what happens if two cities have different cultures?
I'm different from my neighbors and I feel I have more in common with people from other countries, how to done that? My country is Christian, but I'm an atheist. I am disruptiny the country culture. I'd that bad?

Global communications and exchange of people and ideas has brought riches to the world that were impossible to think of one century ago.

Tribalism has a romantic appealing, but it's based in the falacy of the Noble Savage.

You are right that there is people that will abuse the system. But, that is true for any system. So, is better to try to improve it instead of throwing it away without an alternative.

People should be concerned about losing their jobs, losing wealth, etc. And look for the causes instead of using a straw man.
"Destroying the neighborhood?"

Get over yourself. She was there first. And there's no doubt that the douchebags who move next door will start complaining about some longstanding aspect of her business.

Just like yuppies who moved next to the 100-year-old HQ of the Salvation Army in Chicago and started bitching. Or the douches that move into overpriced shoebox condos next to car-repair shops in L.A. and then whine about the smell of paint.
It's a big issue because "There are somewhere between 600,000 and 1,000,000 books published every year in the US alone, depending on which stats you believe." - Forbes.

You aren't going to preview / skim literally millions of books which exist to find the ones worth reading. You can't.

I've managed to read about 60-90 books a year for the last 6 years

That's, what, 8 hours worth of book publishing in the USA, in 6 years?
Maybe were, but not are.
They have both.
And then you’d switch to an img tag
A superweapon is a convenient thing to blame one's surrender on. But if you look at the discussions the Japanese war cabinet had behind the scenes these days, it's clear that they were worried about an imminent Soviet invasion just as much as the bombs.
> Since the mid-2000s, right after it became available, I started using Google Analytics for almost every website I built (whether it be mine or someone else). It quickly became (and remains) the de-facto standard for website usage analytics and user tracking.

I ask everyone to consider is whether they actually need analytics at all. I think in many cases the answer is "well, no, but it's nice to have…". Sure, it would be nice to know how many people visit my personal website, but I don't think it's worth sending extra JavaScript to people for, or dealing with the risk that I may be collecting more information than I actually want.
Potential Chemical Exposures from Spray Polyurethane Foam
Same goes for HN. Even with throwaways, the point system serves as this “corrective” barometer, that you’re expected to notice, even care about, and supposed to strive toward.

But perhaps most pathetically, even the moderators are brainwashed by it, as if the positivity trends of some mob are the smartest ruler to obey.

So, what if I disagree with the mob, and what if I’m right?

Well, the eigenstate of schroedinger’s cat tells us that there’s some degree of probablity that excuses us from ever taking that bet, so you can eat this hellban and lap up the antikarma like it’s the secretions of your wildest fantasy.

Enjoy the vacuum of the echochamber. In space, no one can hear you scream.
> Miska Simanainen, one of the Kela researchers behind the Finnish study, ... says that while some individuals found work, they were no more likely to do so than a control group of people who weren't given the money.

There is a quote from a participant but the quote is much more convincing.
DoorDash (YC s2013 [0]) says it stands behind its pay policy, which uses tips to help cover what it owes delivery drivers, similar to the policy Instacart reversed this week .

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/
How is Youtube a net negative for humanity? It generates value, it teaches skills, it provides entertainment, it provides careers, and youtube kids is keeping an entire generation of parents sane.
They're few, but here are the formatting rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
What you're saying has been true for politics and business, not culture, education or even news, who mainly stayed at the left of the spectrum overall. That's what is changing imo right now, and I see that positively.
Their Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

> And we also use data about the ads you interact with to help advertisers understand the performance of their ad campaigns. We use a variety of tools to do this, including Google Analytics. When you visit sites that use Google Analytics, Google and a Google Analytics customer may link information about your activity from that site with activity from other sites that use our ad services.
Can someone explain to me where these "malverts" come up? I use two chrome profiles, 1 with an adblocker and 1 without, and browse pretty often with both, and while the experience without is undeniably worse (slower, bloated, garbage on the page), I've never gotten malware.

What is this stuff and where do I find it?
A potential huge impact of this advance is inspiring further research into peptide-based drugs; this is a whole new paradigm with the potential to be comparable or better than the small-molecule drugs we currently focus on, but the poor marketability of injections has kept most pharmaceutical companies from being very interested in them.
Piwik isn't bad!
If I took a copy of Stephen King's next book off his editor's computer and post it for free online before he sold a single copy, would it be a nasty rhetorical truck to call that stealing/theft/piracy...?
Shows up fine for me. You might not be close enough to his network or not logged in.
Some Interesting Facts About Chat Bots
You could try getting a 3.5mm stereo cable, cutting the end off and using that as your physical mute button. Not sure if that routes audio to the "headphones" at the software or firmware level, but anything reading volume levels would still see it set to whatever level the OS is at.
at the bottom of your .bashrc ...

export PS1="\033[0;32m\u\033[0m:\033[0;33m\w\033[0m\[$(tput sgr0)\] "

if you don't like it, just delete it!
Not very possible. There are typically extensive business continuity plans with multiple geolocation backups. The auditors should be making sure every financial is doing their diligence in this area. I can tell you that at the credit union I work at we test our disaster recovery plans frequently including remote working, backup office space, alternate data centers and cold storage data backups. We also structure our operations to run live from multiple locations. We might be better than most but in a real disaster most financials would be able to recover financial information with a minimal amount of data loss.

If you are talking about actual nuking then the story might be different. Not all backups can survive an EMP. I expect the biggest problem would be getting people to care about bringing the system back up. I think food and shelter would be of primary concern.
About the Windows history, he considers relevant and includes FreeDOS in that timeline but not ReactOS?