skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the communist version, which is freedom from choice.

Bullshit.

> Communist principles are against true individual freedom, which must take into account the society that we live in and the rights of those we live with, because we don't live in a vacuum.

Even worse bullshit. It's not communists who confuse freedom with the state not doing things.

> And the GNU has fully bought into communist principles, trying to enforce limitations of freedom on individuals in the name of ultimate greater freedom for all.

You just criticized them for not doing that.
From the Perl 5.30 documentation:

> WARNING: Subroutine signatures are experimental. The feature may be modified or removed in future versions of Perl.

https://metacpan.org/pod/perlsub
To your point...even if you do want eventing, you can do it inside of a monolith and not involve the network at all, which will save a good amount of pain.
I'm pretty sure that's wrong or the wrong data point. Livestock is the largest source of methane emissions and methane plays a larger role in climate change.

Not to mention that eating less meat is just karmically/ethically way more optimal, regardless of what the data says.
I'm interested in reading more about this area of work.
Can you share your project page if it exists or any foundational papers in this space
Louis has done so much to keep the fire hot under Apple when it comes to Right To Repair. He's even gone to state legislatures to demonstrate why RtR is required in the modern world. "Mad Props" to Louis.
Is it fair to say that if you know the min and max values for your dataset, the DDSketch (fast) is strictly better than HDR Histogram for applications where lack of runtime memory allocations and add performance is critical?
You shouldn't let this one event drive whole conversation.
> And I hate them.

It's hard for me to think of them as anything but "fuck off boxes" after cursing them dozens and dozens of times.
You can take your data out before that.
Hello everyone. I just launched JustUseApp.

Here is Why I created this: Most review sites (if you've noticed), spot mostly splendid reviews for any given SaaS/business app because the reviews are either paid for or incentivized, thereby gaming the spirit of Reviews. I am changing this by collating Reviews from as many unbiased sources as possible (starting with the AppStore and Twitter), and predicting with a 90% accuracy, whether an App/SaaS is good or not.

Let me know what you think of this approach. Thanks.
This is correct. Note that both of our founders are from the Firefox team originally. Our CTO, Brian Bondy, originally built the first Brave prototype on the Gecko engine. Unfortunately, after much testing, it was clear that a modified Chromium would be the better route forward. You can imagine this was not a decision taken lightly, as both of these individuals have lived and breathed Gecko/Mozilla for years prior.
Please don't speak as if you give a single damn about publishers. """Your""" adblocking system blocks the ads that publishers get revenue from, you're simply saying, YOU CAN ONLY MAKE MONEY THROUGH US. WITH OUR VIRTUAL WORTHLESS CRYPTOCURRENCY. With enough users, your worthless cryptocurrency won't become worthless anymore.

The entire business model is disgusting and should be illegal to be honest.You're rebranding an entire huge project called Chromium and simply blocking revenues for publishers and wasting ads of advertisers unless they advertise and see ads THROUGH YOU and publishers get revenues through your worthless crypto-currency/
I think you meant to say -- Type 1 is a false positive, and type 2 is a false negative.
It isn't, at least for me specifically. I don't much care being lectured at.

That said, and although I think he takes a lot of things too far, I also think that (in general) it's useful to have someone articulating one far pole of the debate about user freedoms. I suppose the counter-argument is that extremism causes some people to tune out entirely but I don't really buy that's the case here.
People buy busses because they're busses.

Almost noone buys a phone because it's super locked down and some company decides when it's too old and can't install apps from the app store anymore.
Nice summary. Tooltips are great for self-guided discovery when there's a cursor; what about touch interfaces?
Only Stallman would begin a "reasons to not use Google" post with a rant about modern webpages requiring JavaScript, as if there aren't a million higher priority reasons TO DUMP GOOGLE.

I can't help but feel that having such an extremist as the face of the FSF has greatly hindered it in its mission.
This is what I meant by "registration", for the case when the subject isn't changing.
perhaps :).

I was talking about the immediate term though. Right now it's a gaming device(s) that's cool but lacks content. A "killer app" in the immediate sense is something to justify the current cost and drive the loop of users->content->price/performance->users.

To get to your endgame, there will need to be reasons to buy devices before the tech matrix level. No sales, no production, no advancements. For now, the driver is gaming & and (in theory) biz-applications.

My guess is that gaming+exercise is the next breakthrough, in terms of moving units and driving the loop.

Anyway... escapism, underground culture, sex(porn), travel, alter ego is arguably the endgame of every personal computing device. Most of us do all these on PCs & phones.
Windows wasn't like that.

Yeah, and it was an absolute disaster. Until very recently (Win7, roughly, or perhaps Vista) near every Windows install -- unless it had been locked down by an administrator, or maintained by a power user -- was an absolute cesspool of malware and outright spyware. The average Windows machine was literally unsafe to use.

That's fine for you to want it, but don't impose it on me.

Essentially what you're asking for is a return to the world where some of the most common consumer devices in the world could only be safely operated by power users. Except it would be even worse today, since smartphones are so much more essential and offer so much more information about us (biometrics, location services, mics, cameras, etc) that can be harvested and exploited.

I (a power user!) sort of miss those days too. It's not like I ever had malware.

But in general, that wasn't working.

What do you think about compromises (like macOS, and Android) where non-blessed software is disabled by default, but can fairly easily be sideloaded?
Apple Invites Media to September 10 Event at Apple Park
Thanks. My point is that I want to create as high quality software as I can, and decrease support to zero. I want to get paid for doing tests. I want to add fault tolerant mechanism to mask failures,etc.

However, if my pay is based on support, I have an internal conflict.

There is something to be said about code review (which was the original Linus argument). However, I should not expect quality reviews from non paid developers.
I actually read 100+ messages under the story before posting what I did. I doubt it would have been acceptable for me to post those comments here.

Her sexuality is mentioned in the first paragraph "after her estranged wife alleged she stole her identity and accessed her bank account without permission during a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station."
A new Christian science university with 'b all over it'
I also developed a website young (mid teens), which was essentially a "beautiful/unique website ranking" based on visitor submissions and upvote/downvote system. I had the essential pieces done and launched the website, super excited as my first real project.

I decided to toss on Google AdSense to see if I could potentially monetize the website by putting a single picture advertisement on the right side of the website. I was starting to generate some money (small, but exciting for a young developer). I was talking to my high school friend about what I was doing and how AdSense worked. Unbeknownst to me, he later visited my website and clicked the ads repeatedly expecting to make me hundreds of dollars... well, my account was shut down.

I tried to plead my case, Google didn't care at all. I was "banned" and a small fish. Years later (in my early 20's) I considered revisiting the idea of monetizing a site I had for an online community. I tried to appeal to Google again lifting the ban and was denied.

I was effectively banned for life from using Google AdSense as a young teen because of a friend "trying to make me rich" without him knowing the repercussions. I know there are alternatives to Google AdSense, however, Google was the one that payed the best. Still irks me to this day when I think about it...
That's simply false. They don't do ad replacement.

You have to volunteer yourself to receive ads and they come in like system notifications, not anywhere near the content.
I misinterpreted the comment to mean a 2D reflection is a 3D rotation, in general. Thanks for pointing out the comment was about this specific case.
Exactly it. An ICO was done and it is openly traded, there is going to be fluctuation whether up/down it is still an FX risk for receivers of BAT. Until we see more goods and services payable with BAT, it will a problem
The existence of garbage brands with terrible reputations that rich people are willing to pay for doesn't mean cars as a whole aren't great. There are of course great brands like Toyota or Honda out there, which most consumers prefer en masse.
You can email him, he responded within days every time I've ever emailed him.
None of those examples are "tooltips".
Every single company did stupid things in the past (not just CE/ITC companies; but the builder that built your house too, for example). You can be outraged by many things all of them did. By choosing, what you are or are not outraged, you are just rationalizing your preferences.

Was superfish stupid mistake? Yes, it was. Does it mean you should condemn the company for the rest of eternity? Probably not.
"you live long enough to become the villain" is usually a case for every large corporation
That's a very anthropocentric view, and not how the timeline works. Unicellular organisms are also smart in a way computers can't exactly replicate. They hunt, eat, sense their environment, reproduce when convenient, etc. All of these are also intelligent behaviours.
Would you please tell your CEO to stop the shilling campaign on 4chan? this thing has become so smelly that you should stop it once and for all.
No you can't. When Google blocks your login, there's no way to get your data out. This happens constantly with someone posting on Hackernews as their support channel when this happens to them.
Nice work!
Averaging percentiles is well-known to give terrible results.
Glad to see more people, taking this problem serious, and providing viable alternatives!

A note on Accuracy:
At Circonus, we have been using a version of HDR-Histograms [1] for many years to aggregate latency distributions, and calculate accurate aggregated percentiles.
Accuracy was never a problem (worst-case error <5%, usually _much_ better).

If I read your evaluation results correctly, you also found HRD-Histograms to be as-accurate or more-accurate, than DDSketches, correct?

The differentiator to HDR Histograms seems to be merging speed and size, where DDSketches seem to have an edge.

One thing that is not immediately clear to me from reading the paper is, how much of the distribution function can be reconstructed from the sketch?
E.g. for SLO calculations one is often interested in latency bands: "How many requests were faster than 100ms?" [2].

Is it possible to approximate CDF values ("lower counts") from the sketch with low/bounded error?

[1] https://github.com/circonus-labs/libcircllhist

[2] http://heinrichhartmann.com/pdf/Heinrich%20Hartmann%20-%20La...
Stallman is the diametric opposite of Google. As such he is ground zero of the opposition. He raises awareness and has concrete if impractical solutions. The truth we seek is, IMO, somewhere close to the Google/ad network and Stallman/privacy concerns nexus.
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Thanks for publishing this. I admit I have only skimmed the paper and plan to look closer later today. My first critical thought was "I wonder why section 4 doesn't make comparisons to t-digest?" I think of t-digest as the most common mergeable streaming modern quantile algorithm in practice. Why didn't you include it in your comparisons?

Either way - looks very promising, I am excited to take a closer look and possibly use this. Thanks!
So, the first tutorial on the list that you recommend has this page for functions[0]. It's more or less the same as GP's link.

YOU are the one misinforming, it would seem. Granted, I don't work with perl (5, never tried 6) for about 15 years, but most criticism of it seems to align with my experiences back then.

[0] http://mvp.kablamo.org/basics/functions/

Edit: The second [1] also recomends the @_ method, and the third [2] the shift method. Did you even read your own links?

[1] https://perlmaven.com/subroutines-and-functions-in-perl
[2] https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/perl/ (search for subroutines)
Yes, it was stupid. Should that mean you are never going to buy thinkpad again? Probably not.
If those improvements align with your customers' goals then yes, you can pay rent with them.
Exactly. In VR (current-gen), this can be gamified to make it more fun and addictive. Instead of turning up the music and yelling encouragement like a spinning class, you can be chased by bears. Add in social/multiplayer features (help friend escape bear), and it could be savage.
No, all languages do not have such oddities. That's a false equivalence. And it doesn't excuse Perl's bad design or justify its intellectually bankrupt TMTOWTDI philosophy.

Python's philosophy of "There should be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it" is diametrically opposed to TMTOWTDI, and Python's vastly more successful than Perl because it's much easier to learn, read, use and maintain. Can you name any schools teaching Perl as a first programming language, like so many teach Python?

Forcing you to look punctuation up in the reference documentation is even worse than having to memorize it. Pausing from reading code to look up punctuation in the manual slows you down by orders of magnitude, and knocks you out of the flow. Random punctuation is not easily memorizable or mnemonic or searchable or indexable.

You also have to have memorized the ASCII order of punctuation to index through the manual, which is different than how punctuation is arranged on the keyboard! Is a comma or underscore less than or greater than a double quote or back quote, and why should I care?

How exactly do double quotes imply "LIST_SEPARATOR"? Shouldn't it be $, because comma is the standard list separator, instead of $" which looks like it could be "STRING_DELIMITER", or does $, mean something completely different? And how am I supposed to remember all that? It's totally arbitrary, annoying, and off-putting.

Now tell me how Perl is any more powerful by having twice the number of ways necessary to express the every concept?

Perl pointlessly has twice as many inane pieces of syntax to memorize or look up, to do the same number of things. There is no upside to that, only cost. And that's one reason Perl is dead.
Related news.yc discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14038044
People hate on Joe Rogan but I think he is an excellent host, the podcast has people from all perspectives on and he manages not to offend any of them, most come on subsequent episodes. I'll take a Rogan interview over some opinionated bullshit clip from CNN/MSNBC/FOX.
Have you not tried PowerShell? You can automate pretty much anything you want in Windows with it. I made a career out of it.
I feel exactly the same: I've been using DDG for 7 years now for privacy reasons, but I have been using !g (ddg's shortcut to search on google) a lot because ddg was often lacking useful results. But I've now noticed that Google itself has become a poor search engine too!

Nowadays, I still use !g when out of luck with DDG, but 90% of the times, Google don't give me the answer I'm looking for either. And I don't feel it's because DDG improved that much but because Google declined.
Yes, one of Paul Alan’s gifts to the world should help:

https://alleninstitute.org/
Uphold is working hard to acquire the bitlicense for New York. They shared on Twitter earlier this month that they hope to have this resolved soon.

It's worth noting that Creators also have a referral program whereby $5 in BAT can be earned for each user brought to the Brave platform. brave.com/refer

Thank you for your incredible patience and participation. We hope to see positive developments on the bitlicense front soon. Please do let us know if there is ever anything we can do for you in the interim.
Political polarization may be less about ideology than luck
You need to support it if you want to properly support removable SD cards.

Microsoft managed to make their patent encumbered exFAT file system a required part of the SDXC card spec, just as their much-abused patents on FAT32 were expiring.

I guess it is gracious of them to partially undo the damage they've done, now that they have given up on Windows Phone.
What Ethan Zuckerman Could Teach Googlers About Debate Culture
Imagine if you flipped on debug logging and suddenly your queueing system gets DDoS by log messages, causing more errors and cascading effects, taking down your product. It’s always a good idea to separate the two.
Being in the vaccine industry.. we take that term to mean reduced stress, back to normal life, and dollar signs.. :P
> The FDA approves that ingredients are “safe” to consume

Only for food and drug ingredients. The FDA has no such process for supplements. They FDA only evaluates supplement products after public health concerns arise from a product already on the market.

"FDA is not authorized to review dietary supplement products for safety and effectiveness before they are marketed.

If the dietary supplement contains a NEW ingredient, manufacturers must notify FDA about that ingredient prior to marketing. However, the notification will only be reviewed by FDA (not approved)"

https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/what-you-...
That's like saying Fascists and Communists are polar opposites. They may disagree completely on economic policy, but they're both authoritarian assholes. Stallman is only for "freedom" as long as it's his complete and unwavering vision for his personal freedom, damn everyone else.
Thanks for sharing your real world experience. For the sake of clarity, is that a million monthly figure for your entire site or for just Brave users? If the former, would you be willing to share the number or percentage of Brave users?
I'm interested in this as well. I bought an ion air cleaner 20 years ago and it welded the dust particles to the walls wherever anything was touching the wall. Had to repaint. Not sure if there are models that work.
The ship also cleans itself.

The Federation is a post-scarcity society. They've figured out how to change matter into energy and back again. That does change a lot of things. We don't get to the Federation without solving scarcity.

And while no one is being paid to be on that ship (although that is debatable as there does seem to be some form of currency that individual Starfleet members receive and use), there is competition to be on that ship.

Being on that ship is the compensation for the work. Being one of the few selected to essentially be in this sort of elite class is the privilege.

And even on the ship, there are differences between crew members. The captain's quarters are better than the lower officers. The captain has his own private office just off the bridge.

And being a television show and work of fiction, they get to gloss over a ton of stuff. The acquisition and creation of the materials to build something like the Enterprise is as much a fantasy in the work as is the fact that they can replicate Earth-like gravity in the middle of space.
The whole premise of mobile apps is flawed. It’s sad to me that we shifted away in favor of mobile installation and fragmented platforms.
It opens you up for a trial.

claimant - I told Mr Big at home that he should divorce his wife so he can help me with this incoming baby...then BOOM I am on the night shift.... => probably gets over summary judgment motion.
Catalogs are regional, so you aren't downloading every possible ad. You're downloading a ~3MB or so file that has ads for your region. Others in your region download the same catalog, which prevents fingerprinting.
If anything i see it as the revenge to chrome
Enabled for new users by default. Existing users currently need to go to Preferences and set the cookie setting to “Block tracking” rather than one of the other options to get these benefits.
Thanks. But that ship has sailed.

I do not want to see what my face looks like, now.
> And the GNU has fully bought into communist principles, trying to enforce limitations of freedom on individuals in the name of ultimate greater freedom for all.

Just read this twice.

GNU has some issues. But it is definitely not this.
That's true,,intenships really helps.
Can't you just charge different prices for Official Apple Certified parts vs aftermarket. Should keep your profit margins the same.
If you're talking about the first link [0]: the conclusion of that study stated:

The major finding of this study is that TSH values are higher with a higher fluoride concentration in the drinking water, even for generally low fluoride concentrations. This is seen both in cases of untreated hypothyroidism and in controls.

...

cases tend to have higher TSH values (greater impairment of thyroid function) with higher fluoride concentrations in the water. Controls, with normal thyroid function, also have higher TSH values with higher fluoride concentrations, even though their TSH values are still within the normal range.

Table 2 illustrates the effect, showing a markedly increased level of TSH among people with an existing thyroid illness.

Do you dispute that finding?

I spent about 10 minutes looking up other studies on the topic, and pasted them here [1].

The first three found significant links between fluoride intake, iodine level and thyroid function.

The fourth study found a link between thyroid disorder and water fluoridation in different regions in the U.K., and included comparisons between fluoridated and non-fluoridated water areas.

The fifth, from Canada, claimed to contradict that U.K. study, however from reading the study in detail, it doesn't seem they compared fluoridated areas with non-fluoridated areas, and it's not clear there was a significant variance in fluoridation levels in the water samples tested. But it also didn't specifically look at the effects of fluoride intake on people with pre-existing thyroid disorders, the way the first study I referred to [0] did.

Having read and contemplated these studies, my take is that it’s probably the case that ordinary municipal water fluoridation is fine for people with healthily functioning thyroids and healthy levels of iodine.

However for people with low iodine and/or existing thyroid illness (which is likely to be largely the same group of people, given how crucial iodine is to thyroid function), municipal water fluoridation may exacerbate the illness, and impede recovery if/when diagnosis is made and treatment commenced.

Can you point to anything unscientific about what I've said, or about my decision to minimise fluoride intake, given that I know I have low iodine and that related thyroid impairment has been a major factor in my many-years-long debilitating health condition?

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5805681/

[1] https://pastebin.com/KGiUBYLv
Why spiky shapes seem angry and round sounds are calming
They bug me because usually the type just gets thrown away and the case sold to hold knickknacks. But I hadn't thought about the lead dust they contain. Excellent point.
https://christine.website/blog/v-vaporware-2019-06-23