skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I being really stupid here? I keep getting 13/27, both by Baye's Theory

P(BTB?∩B?BT | BT??∩??BT) = P(BT??∩??BT | BTB?∩B?BT) · P(BTB?∩B?BT) / P(BT??∩??BT) = 1 · (1/28 + 1/28 - 1/196) / (1/14 + 1/14 - 1/196) = 13/27

and by listing out all the combinations

Boy Tuesday │ Boy Tuesday Boy Any
────────────┼────────────────────
B Mo B Tu │B Mo B Tu
B Tu B Mo │B Tu B Mo
B Tu B Tu │B Tu B Tu
B Tu B We │B Tu B We
B Tu B Th │B Tu B Th
B Tu B Fr │B Tu B Fr
B Tu B Sa │B Tu B Sa
B Tu B Su │B Tu B Su
B Tu G Mo │
B Tu G Tu │
B Tu G We │
B Tu G Th │
B Tu G Fr │
B Tu G Sa │
B Tu G Su │
B We B Tu │B We B Tu
B Th B Tu │B Th B Tu
B Fr B Tu │B Fr B Tu
B Sa B Tu │B Sa B Tu
B Su B Tu │B Su B Tu
G Mo B Tu │
G Tu B Tu │
G We B Tu │
G Th B Tu │
G Fr B Tu │
G Sa B Tu │
G Su B Tu │
I tried it out with a HTTPS website that requires a client certificate and could not get it to work on your online demo debugger thing. Is this supported? This would be a really useful feature for complex web scraping that I am sometimes required to do at my job.
Why is learning 20 inscrutable icons harder?
Ah, that helps.

I struggled with this because I didn't see the first choice as relevant to the final outcome. It is easy to see the game as restarted somehow when the 50/50 choice is presented.
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The do that to me all the time and also tell me there is suspicious activity on my account when I login and there is no way to turn off these "features"
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But, I'm advertising for him:

djb's tools and standards are better than NIST's standards. he is my DIST!
To get an impression of what it looks like from the ground:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=westland%20lichtver...

It's difficult to compare the real-life view with pictures (just like the aurora). And it isn't always as bad. But on cloudy, cold nights, it can have an apocalyptic feel to it.
RethinkDB is not offline first. It runs queries on the server-side, not on the client.
There is horizonDB which can replicate with RethinkDB but the project is dead with no commits since the rethinkdb company gave up.
I would consider the Ant Death Spiral to be a pretty bad traffic jam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0HoqjxfvJ4
Well, that doesn't really solve the mystery. The German "für" doesn't have any closer connection with loops than English "for".
I will tell you even more -- in Russia it is dominant practice that code comments are written in English as well, though could be written in Russian. You never know who will work with your code tomorrow.
Solar power as in stove with parabolic mirror - probably yes, solar power as in photovoltaic panel - probably not. The reason is that you can build one yourself and you can't the other.

No dependency during usage is less bad but you're still depending on manufacturer - and you want to avoid dependency.
Personally, I find Gmail's spam filtering to be excellent.

In the past year or so,. I've had a single false positive, and zero false negatives.
I've lived in several places where this practice is common and none where it remotely works - it's totally ignored. Where are you based?
As many other said, with the usual amount of keywords it's really not worth it. It's a bit like Italian words for musical theory. International communication beats the slight learning curve by far.

Now, if the natural language has some influence on the semantics of the programming language, it might be useful enough. Doubt it, as most natural languages' grammar is way harder than either English or your average programming language. The only attempt that comes to mind right now would be Lingua::Romana::Perligata[1] and that's just an esolang layer.

Now, for political or philosophical reasons an artificial language might be considered. Like Esperanto or Lojban, but I haven't seen something like this, either (I'm not counting Klingon).

[1]: http://users.monash.edu/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html
As discussed elsewhere in the thread, the few dozen keywords are a different matter (and are just memorized to mean "make the computer do ..."), but having useful error messages from your compiler helps get stuff sorted out more quickly.

There are, to this day, people who get in trouble when their computers reply to them in English, including coding folks. I bet they were (and are) thankful for initiatives like yours, but they won't have the vocabulary to tell you.
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I was thinking `tmux attach`, but...yeah?
Well (a) is simply wrong. Proof of works has flaws (energy wasting/tends to centralize) which can not be fixed. But others have fixed these flaws by not using PoW.

Yes there are people telling that PoW and Bitcoin is the best and all other systems are flawed. They are called Bitcoin Maxis, their arguments usefully fall flat when you apply logic. They don't even agree with each other about which Bitcoin is the real Bitcoin.

>BTC is still the most successful cryptocurrency

How do you measure success of a cryptocurrency? Also being the first gives huge advantage for "success". Like Whatsapp which is probably the most successful instant messenger but does that mean it's the best? It takes time to dethrone something like Whatsapp or Bitcoin just having the better tech isn't enough to instantly make everyone switch.

>You just made a string of assertions without explanation, so why do you think these things?

You have any specific question? I don't really know what I should explain. If you are interested in alternatives to PoW you should lookup XRPL Consensus (Federated Byzantine agreement) a variant of this is also uses by the Stellar Consensus Protocol. Then there is PoS which is the most known alternative. DPoS is building on top of that idea. Then there is PoWeight, Tangle, Hashgraph and some other less popular and/or not (yet) working ideas/theories.
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I've used Jenkins in a few places, right back from when it was Hudson. Back then I was amazed at the concept of CI in general so it was pretty great.

Over the years I've worked with most of the major players, most recently Gitlab CI. The one thing that makes it hard to go back to Jenkins is the poor quality of the plugin ecosystem. So many are abandoned or buggy that any upgrade comes with a breath and a prayer.

I'm probably gone for good. Appreciate everything they did for the industry but there are more robust choices around.
That's how I got through the SAT…
This entire thread kept me up last night. Revisiting it this morning, there's a ton of well expressed, clear, opinions and facts here in this discussion. On the other hand, the amount of information expressed in the issue, does not nearly contain enough of what's in this HN thread.

Good morning. If you commented yesterday, express your product needs for zero telemetry and trust here:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5672
One of the early sins of office file formats, translating formula symbols not just in presentation but right down in the persistent form.

If memory serves me right, back when MS Office macro viruses were the threat du jour, there was already a bit of a remedy in place for those formats that would translate the formulas and macros of incoming files from a different language version of the same software. This caused secondary waves of "mutated" viruses that had crossed multiple language barriers and came back slightly different but still working, foiling the efforts of checksum based virus scanners.
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And it fills a niche that previously had other offerings in it, but that have since disappeared.
> Now that I think about it, languages that aren't subject-verb-object probably find OOP insane.

I'm not sure if that's true in this generality. After all, "agent.doSomeThingWith(object)" is not a declarative sentence, it's a command. So you'd have to look for languages where imperatives don't have subject-verb-object (as an acceptable) order.

I'm sure there exist some, but at least I would expect them to start with the agent you are commanding.
In python it makes sense but when you have `for(let i=0; I<length; I++)` it makes less sense
Mir publications (in English and other languages) were very popular in many countries of the world where they were affordable and available. It was one of the best things to come out of the Soviet era. They were excellent across the board. It is fashionable nowadays to badmouth everything "Soviet" but their focus on educating the masses in Science & Technology was farsighted.

See my responses in this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21346272 where i am exhorting people to bring them back into print :-)

From the above same thread, link to the archive - https://archive.org/details/@mirtitles?&sort=-publicdate&pag...
Yeah, the pain whenever I have to remember what HLOOKUP is in German.

And a similar feature made CSV even worse.
If you mark such posts with <humor> it will be easier for users to down vote them.
Bias in a medical algorithm favors white patients over sicker black patients
It is generally pretty easy to figure out if you are talking to someone from the US because they so readily and zealously advertise US-based products (Netflix, Amazon/AWS, Apple, etc).
I used to always associate 'math smarts' with 'code smarts'. Spent most of my life telling myself that since I was bad at math I had no hope learning how to code. Now I'm 2 weeks into a coding bootcamp after losing my job and am realizing they are complete different parts of the brain.

I believe in myself more with every push to heroku. maybe I will do a Calculus class next and prove to myself I can learn anything. Anyone have recommendation on an online calc course for the math-insecure?
The principle is sound, but the ants actually obey the rules whereas (in the UK at least) a small contingent of human drivers will ignore the limits, speeding up and slowing down between enforcement cameras. This concertina effect from just a small number of drivers is enough to slow the entire flow of traffic.
Well, and after that, they should have closed your account.

You were obviously not the customer they were going for.
Move the scenario from Monty Hall to a street trickster, then this interpretation makes a lot more sense than the original one since a street trickster is unlikely to try to increase your chance of winning.

As for the game show, nothing says that he needed to give this choice every time, it was just some random thing he did to make it more interesting not an important part of the show.
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Gmail always marks the emails from my veterinarian, who has {business_name}@gmail.com, as spam. It's slightly irritating. However, seeing the mails that come in to our sales endpoints, gmail addresses are responsible for a huge percentage of the obvious spam.
Someone should tell them, that their bodies are running on electricity...
God bless you all.
we are also happy with waf, wich gives us a lot of flexibility (e.g., use python libs that are not build-related) and use a language that the team already know.
(https://waf.io)
If only he'd called it WeAg or WeFarm and spruiked it to SoftBank he'd be a billionaire by now.
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> A lot of timeless wisdom is also obvious.

As another commenter said, it seems obvious to you because it's been incorporated into our culture.

For instance, I lived in Turkey for a few months, and I had a Turkish roommate who was a devout Muslim. He gave me an English translation of the Qur'an to read, and I gave him a Turkish translation of the New Testament. He decided he would come and show me the places where it must have been changed (since Islam teaches that Jesus was a prophet, but what he says in the New Testament obviously doesn't match what Mohammad said).

What was the first place he found that was obviously changed? Matthew 5:38-39: "You have heard it said, 'Eye for eye, tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them on the other cheek also."

Well, there's a good example for you: Either that seems like good advice, in which case you certainly got that from your culture; or it doesn't, in which case it's worth chewing over to get some wisdom out of it. :-)
maybe not serious, but excel functions are translated I think ?
I agree that it is the least worse browser, hence I'm using it. Though, that will change once Addon support is added to qutebrowser.
I remember when my uncle showed me his Sony mavica. You could just take pictures, take out the disk and put in it your computer and the files where there. Viewing your own pictures on a pc was almost magical, as until digital cameras became common digital pictures were just pretty rare (I only had some stock pictures that came with software). Funny thing I still prefer the "put card from camera in computer" method to transfer pictures with my DSLR
I found it ok on iPhone 6, both experience and speed wise on a fairly modest ADSL, but given what they do I can’t be sure I saw the same page as you!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Rutishauser

I don't think it's much more intuitive in German than in English, probably goes back to the "for each" quantor.
Ask HN: What's the cheapest stand-alone camera that's better than the OnePlus 7?
Short version:

What is the cheapest stand-alone camera that takes pictures of better quality than the best cell-phone camera?

<joke>If you think this is off-topic, let me remind you that this is an optimisation problem</joke>

Slightly more context:

My smartphone's (Xiaomi A1) camera broke, and I am trying to choose between buying a new phone (OnePlus 7, 560-700 euro-ish) and buying a standalone camera. I don't need a new phone - the one that I have works. I do not care about photography, it's just that I would like to have _something_ decent to take pictures with when I travel. Repairing my phone's camera is not something I want to do since it was a bad camera to begin with. That puts me squarely in the category of "smartphone upgrader" in terms of what camera I want to buy.

So what is the cheapest camera that gives slightly better images than the OnePlus 7, while being (considerably) cheaper than this phone? My budget is around 350 euros.
As long as you think there is a moral difference between eating and not eating animals, why would a religious vs. non-religious choice matter?
I’ll put that on my “to-read” list as well. Thank you.
You're wording is interesting and has me thinking. Why think of these words individually, with their individual characters, as a burden of the English lexicon, and instead think of the words as an image in their entirety. So thats it's almost programming by picture.
In cases such as these it really isn't useful to just name a company and not a location, because MediaMarkt is not homogenous. There can be and are big differences between separate stores and that makes your anecdotal report really weird for everyone that doesn't shop at the store that you do.
>>> King James was a protestant ruling about 70 years later
I think it was people's doubts about his protestantism that led him to commission the bible - James' mother was Mary Queen of Scots, a catholic who was executed for a supposed plot to depose his predecessor Elizabeth I.
> I kinda believe you need a religion to preserve knowledge and wisdom like this for so long.

Depends on how high you set the bar for 'survive'.

We have a few of the writing of Euclid, Archimedes and other Greeks, and mostly they weren't preserved for religious reasons.
I wouldn't be visiting any Saudi embassies if I were him.
Probably should have tried their web chat service instead of the phone. I, ah, am aware that they are trying to phase phone support out.
The main issue is that a search for "mouse" or the like takes you to the new Settings panel for mouse instead, which has some options but not all. A small "Additional mouse options" link under a "Related settings" heading then takes you back to the old Control Panel mouse settings, where you can actually change the speed.

Your search was good, and got you straight to the old Control Panel version. But the fact that the settings are split over two not-fully-overlapping systems is a bit ridiculous, and confusing.
I so badly want to get off the C/C++ build system roller coaster. I've gone from make to autoconf to various IDEs to CMake to Meson, and have looked at a bunch of others but never made the jump.

Eventually fatigue sets in, you pick a tech, and stick with it even as the tech fades into obscurity and nobody can figure out how to build your project anymore, let alone integrate it :/
There is an even better way to prevent this, and that's not having chrome installed at all. Firefox used to be bad, but now it really is not strictly worse in any category.
Since they seem to have confused "majority" and "monopoly", I suspect that they really didn't know, but thought they were being sarcastic.
I think I share this sentiment, even if I can't put my finger on what it is. It would be thoroughly depressing of course if work were (or I wanted it to be) everything. Perhaps academia is the answer, a pursuit of understanding for understanding's sake. I expect working academics would say it's no different though, the Product is just exchanged for the Research Grant.
It's just compression, since nobody wants to bother repeating the long version frequently.
IDK if Excel functions can be called a "serious programming language", but their local names are driving me nuts.
Thank you for not being evil.

Please allow me to export notes to txt.
One of the dumbest comments I've seen on HN.
You could float the idea of it, and you might also think that to float a ship means the process by which it is landed in the water when coming out of a dock?
May I ask what software you use mostly?

I just checked couple of programs I have open on my computer right now and the floppy as save icon is very used still; tortoise svn client, adobe reader, excel, winscp, notepad++, eclipse, all more or less up to date and showing floppy icon.

Hell, if someone put me sitting in front of a program I never used before, and said do this and that and save it, and all I was only seeing was picture of usb stick, or ssd drive, or a cloud, without "Save" written anywhere, I am not sure how long I would be looking for the "save" command :)
Not to mention Settings vs. Control Panel.
> If it wasn't meant to be public originally, I don't want it to be public. It does not respect the original author's intention.

People die. Humanity lives on. At some point, the author dies, then their relatives die, and when they're all dead twice over, this stuff becomes relevant as a way for the future generations to have a glimpse at the realities of life of their ancestors.

I.e. history. If we were to respect what you wrote, we wouldn't have history.
Or just average. There's contextual dependencies in most speech, and (as displayed in this subthread) not every speaker of a language has the same context. It's a fallacy to think that if you lack context for one of the examples, you will automatically score less than average -- other people may miss context for things obvious to you.
OT: Interesting blog you’ve got there.

I’ve seen Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems book recommended here a few times before, but your review really pulled the trigger for me, so thanks!
Compare https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/08/gay-rites-are-civil-ri...
Chinese money has always been round. Ironically they were called 方穿 (square through) money. They were there since the warring states era.

Article is about the etymology of yuan (circle) and it's derivatives like yen and won
You know you can set a rule to send nothing to spam? Or to whitelist certain senders/domains/subjects?
Does the idea of a future historian poring over your e-mails make you less willing to send those e-mails today?
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They’re great cards and easy to write drivers for. I still use one in one of my thinkpads for wireless because it used to be the only card supported by 9front and plan 9 back in the day.
He was a pioneer in this field. he introduces this term in 2003.
Sounds like something a plugin for the Tor browser could easily do.
> We'll be finally able to traffic jam free when autopilot will make us slow appropriately in high density conditions, avoiding accordion-like brake/accelerate/brake cycles

No, because each vehicle has different acceleration and deceleration rates. Watch any road with an incline and you will see congestion develop relatively quickly before the incline.

And a traffic jam is inevitable when the bandwidth of a road has been exceeded. Each vehicle needs a certain amount of space in front of it, and behind it. The faster it goes, the more space it is, as well as if it’s heavy. This means for a given number of lanes, at a given speed, there exists a max number of vehicles. Once this maximum is exceeded, speed must drop as it is no longer safe to travel so close to vehicles in front and behind, and so bandwidth also drops. Hence, traffic jam. The different accel/decel rates contribute to the congestion also, as vehicles need varying amounts of time to fill the space in front of them.

Bottom line, there is no solution to traffic jams other than reducing space needed to travel
Per person (trains instead of cars), or increasing speeds (not possible in cars on current roads without exceeding acceptable safety risks), increasing the number of lanes (space is usually not available), and the easiest option, reduce the number of vehicles traveling the road via variable tolling based on congestion (currently the best option in my opinion).
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Donald Knuth made his own translation (of some part of the Bible): https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/316.html
This is the exact reasoning I used to justify using Auth0 at my current job, and it’s the same logic I use to justify the maintenance time I put into my own Django library and using Auth0 for all my personal projects from now on.

They know what they are doing better than I do and their current pricing suits my needs fine.
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It would have happened anyway after a certain density of vehicles is exceeded, since each car and truck had different accel/decel rates. Especially if there is an incline anywhere.
I just remember the post not long ago ""The “mail is hard” myth" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20851880
How many users do you have on your platform? If there are many, how do you provide "customer services"?
RE chicken scratch, we have a very similar saying in Poland - "pisane jak kura pazurem", meaning "written like a chicken with its claw would".
Because they are tiny and can be unreadable at perfectly normal font sizes.
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Bringing value to the company is more than just the hours you see a person doing the work.

For example, if you were able to complete your tasks in 50% less time and spend the rest of the time reading Hackers News, should your salary go down by 50%?
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Thanks - goes to show how anglo centric I am.
Some of the "archetypes" mentioned inside remind me of https://www.gwern.net/Complement "Commoditize Your Complement".
Maybe I don't underestand something, but how is this different from just hotwiring the scooter and stealing it?