skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But if we can't distinguish the results, do they really matter? After all, the whole point of changing how we work is to get a measurably better result. If it's not better, why change? (of course, assuming there's a positive effect at all). Something cannot be at once very important and unnoticeable.

It can be at once very important and poorly understood. I'd draw an analogy to the state of mathematical analysis in the era of Riemann and Cauchy, where no rigorous basis for the techniques existed; skilled practitioners could and did produce correct theorems, while unskilled students applied the same techniques and produced nonsense. So even when there was ultimately an underlying rigorous reality (as we found out decades later), in practice being able to work effectively was far more a matter of individual flair and taste.

I feel like that's where we are with software development practices at the moment. We all know there's a huge variation in productivity, but to even measure them - much less explain the causal factors - is still a black art. (I'd think the same would be true of artists or research scientists - anyone whose work is fundamentally about original innovation. I'm sure there are techniques and approaches that make an order-of-magnitude difference in productivity, but no agreement about what they are)
If the customer specifies QoS, why not? There are 6 reserved bits after HLEN in a TCP packet header, which could be used to annotate the priority of the stream - one for low-latency but also low bandwidth (=Whatsapp, messengers, gaming, VoIP), and one for bulk transfers (=high latency acceptable, high data volume).

Default would be the first so that networks may only have special treatment for apps that explicitly opt in to say "i'm ok to wait a bit" like Netflix, Youtube and friends.
My go-to sources for crowdsourced "is it just me" while waiting for official status page updates are:

* https://twitter.com/search?q=Google%20login

* https://downdetector.com/status/google
"The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. ... Each interval is known as a pomodoro, from the Italian word for 'tomato', after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer that Cirillo used as a university student."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
On the flip side, a lot of countries that the United States trades with peg their currencies to the US dollar. See the last section (Why Countries Peg Their Currency to the Dollar) of https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-a-peg-to-the-dollar-33059... and https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-a-petrodollar-3306358 for details.
China has surpassed US last year in terms of consumption of retail goods.

China's advantage is no longer cheap labor TBH...It hasn't been cheap for a long time now.

America is unique and important...But so is China.
Could it just be that bootleg operations are scanning in the books with cameras rigs, and then using tesseract or some similar OCR to parse the text back out and then running it through Microsoft Word spell check to manually resolve conversion errors?
I saw the Hindenburg disaster video on Encarta, which was an intro to how articles and media could be put together. It amazed me at the time.
> Memory safety is much less of an issue than it used to be.

This is demonstrably false: https://twitter.com/LazyFishBarrel/status/112900096574140416...

Additionally, new "safe" C++ APIs aren't: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34729

Apple's iOS 12.4 release fixes 37 CVEs, 28 of which are memory unsafety (75.7%).

Microsoft's statistics corroborate this: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...

Importantly, none of these sources show any improvements over time. If we saw meaningful improvements in "modern C++" codebases, I'd be much more willing to accept "modern C++". As it stands, there is no such evidence that "modern C++" provides any demonstrable benefits regarding memory safety.
Unless Softbank is willing to lend said money unsecured to a limited liability SPV without a personal guarantee. I can't imagine that all these people are taking on personal debt to invest in the vision fund.
Fearing data privacy issues Google cuts Android phone data for wireless carriers
Yeah, I remember some of the historic reviews from Leonard Maltin and Roger Ebert in it being incredibly informative. Particularly where they had good video excerpts of the reviews from their respective syndicated television review segments. (Remember when TV News used to have regular movie reviews? It's almost strange how in the 24/7 news channel era we've lost more types of segments than we've gained.)
Looks fun, anyone play previous versions?

The trailer was hilarious without sound. Watching guy fall out landing module, or they wreck their entire space ship.
When are we going to open up to `.s#`
The question was if it’s possible to pay with cash for illegal products/services.

You keep dodging and dancing around easy and obvious answer - of course yes!

Now the question becomes - why is it so hard for you to admit that cash is being used for illegal purposes?
My focus at the moment is renovating Proximity 2 (which I released on Xbox 360 and iPhone almost a decade ago) and cleaning up a bunch of stuff in it, including the code. I've been trying to make a sequel for awhile, being distracted by life and what tech to use, whether it should be 3D, what features it should have, etc, and the fact I'd have to start from scratch (I thought) since I had done it in XNA (and old native iOS) originally, but then stumbled upon Monogame and got the XNA game running again in less than 24 hours, so I'm going to get it back out there in the world.

It's a lot harder to find the time while juggling work and family responsibilities and a new serious hobby of board game design (I have one game signed by a publisher and have gotten interest in several other designs of mine), though, but I've made good progress.

Adding 1080p support, adding localization support, adding support for more players, adding more modes and maps, adding a single player mode, adding achievements, cleaning up the UI, and hopefully sneak in a few other things. Maybe online multiplayer, but not sure if I can support that yet (maybe a later version of it will have it).

This year has just been too crazy to hope to get it finished, but I'm hoping to get it released on at least one platform (probably PC to start) by the end of the year next year, then as many more platforms as I can after that.

Here's a video of the Xbox game if you're curious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqe0hS7AvOE
Cars are a big one. But, also, just by keeping their currency low compared to the US Dollar, the Chinese put a naturally high tariff on everything.

The Chinese, by being labeled a "developing country" in the WTO agreement are allowed to have unequal tariffs on imported goods.

Really, it's not one thing with China, it's a list of problems:

1) Artificially controlled (and low) currency, making Chinese goods cheaper than American goods.

2) Specific tariffs on American goods (cars)

3) Industrial espionage of technology (Huawei)

4) Trademark theft (Apple and other luxury brands have literally fake stores all over China)

5) Intellectual property theft (DVD's, movies, ect..)

6) Geopolitical rivals. They often refuse to cooperate with US led efforts around the world.

7) Domestic Chinese political oppression. China is a police state and getting worse.

I think Americans are finally done with it. Why should we put up with all this? For cheaper cell phones?

What we can get from China, we can get from other countries without all the bullshit.
I browsed the article and have a basic understanding of statistics, no need to get patronizing.

The article does not state the variance of this IQ test and does not state how many subgroups they analyzed and whether they corrected for that or if they a-priory were planning on analyzing gender.

Picking subgroups until you've found one that is statistically significant is a well known technique in P-hacking.

Other problems:

- The IQ score for girls is 5 points higher on average than for boys in the study group

- Fluoridation has the opposite effect for girls, the average IQ was 1.5 points higher. It is really strange for a chemical to have a completely different effect on young girls and boys. Statistical variance is much more likely

- The average IQ score in the sample was 107, well above the average 100

- Parent IQ was not a variable, only the very roughly correlated high school diploma or not and household income.

"Extraordinary claim require extraordinary evidence", and this study seems to at best be an indication that further research is needed rather than iron-clad proof of this effect.
While it's a tough process I believe it helps prepare us in life for the big tragedies of having to let go of close loved ones. Whether they are 2 legged or 4 legged. It's better to love and lost then to never have loved at all.
Agreed, thrift.books seems to be the most reliable way to get a nice physical copy of an older book.
So you're cool with a cop that is biased against black people using their dog as a pretense to search them? Oh, and, yes, a police search is invasive and demeaning. I suggest you try it before you discount it.
Oh god I can still hear the music
I guess it's ultimately what - if anything - the law in question (or whatever it may reference) defines a "computer" as (legally).

Maybe the definition on the books says a computer is a device with a screen and a keyboard, and maybe other input/output devices like a printer or a mouse. Maybe it says something about typing on a computer, or sitting down at a computer, or such? It probably doesn't do anything like reference what the technical definition of a computer is (and funnily enough, if it did - even that would likely be wrong, and exclude things like analog computers, relay machines, mechanical differential analyzers, and a whole host of other things which historically and otherwise are "computers").
here's the context: https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/19/twitter-is-blocked-in-chin... (h/t idlewords)
I remember a period where Compton's was coming bundled with a lot of CD-ROM drives, but Encarta felt so much better. We'd have multiple copies of Compton's floating around and would have to struggle to find that valuable Encarta CD.
The other weird thing is that Twitter is seen as a global information platform but the value system imposed on it is very US-centric. Likewise for Facebook.

The whole "interference" in US elections on Facebook, for example, was quite possibly blown way out of proportion compared to all the other "interference" happening around the world on Facebook.

For example, why was Facebook called to testify in front of US Congress, but not testify in front of Beijing for spreading misinformation about China?
Nice if you can get rid of dependencies and threads.
Amazon was breakeven by year 7 of its existence (2003). They never went "decades" losing money.
There's lots of differences at a high enough resolution of analysis.
Source OP deleted the post. Is there a mirror?
Honestly, the Model 3 and the Taycan will probably be miles apart. Some of my own reasons for wanting to wait for the Porsche instead of getting a Tesla:

Handling: There is no way the Tesla will handle similarly to a Porsche. Steering feel, cornering, road feel. Porsche is the king of handling for a reason, and I'm anxious to see what they can accomplish with the low CG of an electric vehicle.

Consistency: The Porsche can keep doing pulls from 100% down to 10% charge consistently with no performance degradation. This was actually Porsche's main focus, an actual electric track car.

Fit and Finish: Again, anybody who's seen both a Porsche and a Tesla up close will know it's not even a competition.

Charge Time: The Porsche will charge twice as fast as a Tesla, which (assuming you can find a fast enough charger) is pretty cool for quick recharges.
Game saves are stored in the console's internal memory. You couldn't put your save on an SD card if you wanted to.
These are journalistic organizations. Not tech companies selling ads. Sure, newspapers sell a ton of ads, but they tend to balance the news and the commercial sides way better and more delicate than your average SV tech corps.
From flouride was assumed... humor noted ;)
You can try looking at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/global/time-series. The specific claim that July is the warmest month ever might be due to the fact that July is the warmest month of the year, so even though the anomaly isn't as high it was still the warmest month.
In a world (like ours) with limited bandwidth, you sometimes want to limit flows in a way to produce the least harm. Throttling different streams has different effects on user happiness.

For instance, if you are 100 Mbits over capacity, you could either:

(a) Throttle 100 users Netflix streams, which drop from 1080p to 720p

(b) Throttle email, it backs up causing hour-long email delays.

One is obviously less harmful.
What technique are you using to digitize these books? I'd be interested in digitizing a few books I have.
Missouri council member chooses Dr.Seuss over the bible for swearing-in ceremony
I’m not going to argue against that the UN has been used by the permanent Security Council members to push their political agenda.

But, you’re making the claim here that the convention on human rights was a tool to influence nations in a faux-democratic way. Could you tell me what in the human rights convention makes the world a less democratic place? And why is it bad to have some framework in place that for example covers the human rights abuses China is comitting against the uighurs? And what would be the alternative, just letting countries violate minorities who pray for other countries to do something?

Because, again, we’re talking about China here, a permanent member of the Security Council. It’s supposed to uphold these values of human rights across the world, but it violates them instead because it wants to, is that not something other countries should condemn then?
It only looks like p-hacking if you go in with the belief that the results can not possibly be correct, and even then Hanlon's Razor would make me reluctant to accuse them of p-hacking.
Google Sign-In Is Down?
Anyone else seeing 500 errors in your apps that use google sign in?
I have this observation as well. Many lifestyle ideologies fall apart like this in practice, I think. The one I’ve found work for me the best is Eckart Tolle’s “The Power of Now.” If you forgive its aloofness and smirkiness, I really do believe finding a sense of joy in doing what you do, even mundane things, can really help your mood and stave off procrastination.
Imo this is just good old fashioned quality control. When you can't trust your wholesaler you randomly sample the shipment and test it, rejecting the whole shipment (or exact penalties) for product outside an acceptable threshold.

The publisher could supply a manuscript. It could be compared against the manuscript database (note: not with a checksum), and if it's too similar to other copyrighted works then it should flagged for manual review, and rejected if identical. That way you leave the door open for new translations/editions from different publishers, which should be treated as separate products.

Then when the shipment of physical books arrive, you sample them via OCR + text differences and if it's outside your standards, reject it.

But like the article mentions, that's expensive.
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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..."

~ Ralph Waldo Emmerson
That might be the context, but this is very clearly an attempt to prohibit any foreign influence in the upcoming US 2020 presidential election. I'm also not sure I trust Twitter to apply this fairly when the election kicks into high gear next year.
Wikipedia is less and less reliable for anything but the obvious. I know top universities advise users to avoid using it as a reference, and rightfully so. Encarta or a realiably curated source of knowledge would be quite useful!
Yes, and we get very close to that with some connections.
If the Chinese protect their domestic market from American companies, then there is no point to staying on good terms with them.

Look what happened to Google. Google made all these concessions to the CCP and still got fucked.

China can't dangle the carrot of the Chinese market if they don't let American (or Japanese or European) companies have decent access to them.

China teases access, then pushes out the company after they steal their technology and intellectual property.

The world is finally wising up to this scam.
With a little bit of investment, the Civilization game series could be leveraged to replace that feeling you got from Encarta.
> So, interesting and all, but it ignores the main reason for the advice to build it first, then optimize for performance, which is that if you build everything for performance from the beginning, you end up with a lot of code that is optimizing for performance of something that isn't the bottleneck. In other words, performance that doesn't show up in the user's experience, because something else is the main delay.

This isn't a question of optimizing something that doesn't need optimizing. It's about making fundamental choices from the beginning that are optimized and won't need to be optimized later.

It's the choice between using native code v.s. electron to build your app. You can make the argument that electron might be better for various reasons, but if you choose to go native, that's an optimization step you are taking.

Basically, you are saying "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" without including the rest of the quote and misreading what Knuth wrote.

> We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.

There are certain fundamental things you can do, optimization you can do before you ever write the software. This comes from experience.

> Instead, what you get is code that is much longer, and more complex, and therefore harder to update, and more likely to be buggy.

No, this does not have to happen. In fact, if you build it first and worry about optimization later, you're more likely to end up in this state.

> How do you know what spots in the code it's worth it?

Experience. You get that from experience with code. And you can't get that experience if you are frequently changing jobs.
Great steps. Propaganda machines are alive and well, and moves to limit their influence are a powerful sign for democracy. It's meaningful that a company would decline business in defense of a principle, so I'm proud of Twitter for taking a stand today.
I know. That’s how we do it too. You don’t see any benefits in instead of Python wrappers + C++ just do Rust? Especially in handling large data like voice iff there was a good ecosystem and toolbox in place?
You are onto something which had been bothering me yesterday.

I have a Chinese room mate who yesterday showed me images/videos 'anti-protester'and exclaiming how he wanted to be part of. Note in the past and still continues to be against the Chinese government and expresses disapproval of them.

I found it very odd of him to side with the anti-protestors because 'I love China and these protestors hate Chinese'. I told him, the people of Hong Kong are protesting against the Chinese government and the government does not represent the people. He further added, "people in China love the government". "If people don't like the government, they can kick them out".

I told him I am pretty sure they can't because the regime is not communist but instead totalitarian. Even a month ago, he told you can't speak anything against the government even if you wanted to because of their "3 generation threat".

So your comment must be part I missed in my mind, the Chinese national who sympathize with the government here in the US shouldn't be protesting at all. The government they support, it is against any type of protest and unrest. Can it be said that pro-Chinese government individuals don't really have the right no matter which type of environment they live in?
I think they also bought common stock?

During private fundraising, investor (vs founder) stock generally has preferred rights when the company is sold and/or liquidated. There might also be restrictions on who and how someone can sell their common shares. This depends on the investors and the terms that were negotiated during fundraising.

So common stock generally is sold at a discount because it doesn't have any of these protections, and it's basically last in line to receive any payout.

However during IPO, often preferred stock converts into normal common stock so that it can be sold to Joe Smuck (or their pension fund institutional) investor.

Hence it's an arbitrage play; you purchase common at say a 30% discount in a late round and then sell it on the market for full price.
DSL (VDSL2) can and does go over 100 Mbps.
I will be adding books to the list now too, but the number of categories I won’t shop for on Amazon has ballooned in just the past couple of years. It’s amazing to browse the reviews of brand-name products ranging from kitchen gadgets to yard tools, to even board games, and see customers saying things like “much cheaper plastic than the one I bought at Target” or “huge downgrade in card printing and game piece quality.” It’s not impossible that some of these might legitimately be massive cost-cutting measures by the OEMs, but I have to think most are the result of Amazon’s rampant counterfeiting problem.

In fact, I don’t think I really even have a product category blacklist anymore; it’s more of a whitelist. The only thing I will buy at Amazon are products that should be impossible to fake (beyond the industrial design), like an iOS device.
That was definitely a strong point of Cinemania -- it integrated a bunch of different types of information about a movie (plot description, cast list, video and still images, reviews of it by respected critics, etc.) into a cohesive, unified interface.

Contrast this to IMDB, which has some but not all of that information (no reviews, for instance), and what it does have is presented in a clunky, siloed fashion. It works, but it's not something that's absorbing to just browse through the way Cinemania was.
I was always curious whether or not these other encyclopedias could function as good sources for Wikipedia articles?

Personally I believe more universities should be publishing websites/wikis ala Encyclopedias like this [1] that provide good foundation sourcing for their particular fields of work and original content like video, graphics, and photos (ideally creative commons, especially the ones with public funding).

1. https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/cephalopods
Contact them with that suggestion, I am sure they would appreciate it and most likely do not read HN.

Do some good like they're trying to!
Then just do away with 4th amendment, rather than pretending that cops respect it.
Seeing this in NYC
> unleash the full scale of their creativity

What if their creativity is about making amazing stuff with limited resources?

You suggest giving essentially unlimited resources, seems like a good way to use badly that creativity.

I remember when I wanted to do 3D on Flash before Sandy3D. I had a 500 mhz P3 processor at the time, with a a crazy 368 MB of RAM. I learned/did much more interesting things on that machine than when I upgraded to some much more powerful computers.

Constraints are pretty great ways to be forced to learns and move fast.
I never mess interactivity when browsing Wikipedia. I love that WP is text-based, so that I can read it in my own preferred tempo. I rarely watch videos since to me they always feel too slow compared to reading text. I understand on an intellectual level that Youtube is a great platform that provide lots of value and entertainment to lots of people, but I never feel that greatness since it’s not something that I personally appreciate. Oh well, to each their own :)