skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Torrent is still very centralized. The average user just downloads and seeds torrents made by a few torrent curators on each site. Becoming an uploader on a torrent site is a big privilege/responsibility that few people can take on.

Other older platforms like Napster or DC++ (which actually still exists) let people share their own collection at the click of a button. This gave access to a really really long tail of rarities that perhaps only a handful of people were interested in, while torrent sites are mostly mainstream content.
Is it legal to allow tracking by default and omit people with `navigator.doNotTrack` enabled?
I'm pretty sure Ansible doesn't _require_ python on the target machine as I've run Ansible before with servers that didn't have python on them.
Wikipedia just has far less active users than Facebook. As in, number of users actively creating content. The amount of content on Facebook is also orders of magnitude higher than Wikipedia. And the friction in creating content is also much lower on Facebook.
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Tip: When your voice just won't cut it, whistle.
Then you never knew it? Perhaps what you were taught wasn't long division. My kids were not taught the same math that I was taught in the 80s.

My 17 year old was struggling with the division algorithm they were teaching in Elementary school at the time (late 2000s). I can't remember the details but it was something I had never seen before that was a step up from throwing poop at the wall.

I showed her how to do long division and she still uses it to this day. It's simple and there is a history of work to easily identify errors.

The homework scene from The Incredibles 2 really hit home for me. I feel like book publishers development new methods or ways to teach the methods as a means to sell new editions of books, not because the new ways are better. This causes a rift in society because people no longer share a common understanding of a subject.
Napkins Maths.

Intel make roughly $20B from Datacenter this year, and the estimate was nearly 50% goes to the HyperScaler, which is AWS, Azure, Google, Alibaba etc.

And AWS owns more than 50% of the HyperScaler market, so that is at least 25% of Intel's DC revenue going to Amazon, roughly $5B per year.
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Climate denialist piece recommending that "We urgently need to [...] invest in gas".
Given their monopoly power, this is beginning to sound increasingly like a tax on businesses.
Ask HN: Buffer/Hootsuite for a Product Launch?
I was working on a product idea for last couple of weeks and thinking about ways to launch a MVP. After some research I found out Hacker News, Product Hunt, Reddit, Indie Hackers are the most prominent mediums to launch.

Launching on each of the above mediums separately and then engaging with audience is not an easy task to do. I believe there should be a single platform which should enable founders to schedule their launches, engage with audience and see how their launch is doing in numbers.

I tried to look for such platform but I could not find any. Have you guys seen/used any such platform before? If not then I’m gonna work on it. At the very least, it should solve my problem.
Only one os-level window per workspace is supported AFICT. It's possible to tile editors within this window, bit you can't detach an editor.
Wikipedia built a culture in which editors who lean towards truthful informative are encouraged, and a userbase which values that. This is only possible with non-profits having strong voluntary and academic participation. Nobody will dedicate quality time for a closed for-profit network like Facebook.

But I feel that the bigger problem is that people want fake news. Most people have a hard time living their everyday lives; fake news which supports their choices and viewpoints is a release, and it makes them feel good. And networks do a good job of surfacing similar content once they gauge one's interests.
If you get stuck you can whistle a little higher! I screeched my way up to C6 before I had to tap-out then whistled my up to C#7. Now to figure out a way of getting the final notes...

OK I gave up and cheated. The full list is here [0] (warning, spoilers!).

[0]: https://pastebin.com/cv9KwayL
If you do this, 2 and 2 will always make 4, no matter what level you go to.
Freedom of speech as a legal concept certainly impacts platforms. Platforms can choose to enforce their own rules that are more restrictive than strictly what the law requires, and in doing so they are making market-based choices. However, they can’t choose a set of rules less restrictive than what is legally allowed in a jurisdiction and expect to still be able to do business for long. You could claim that’s a market decision too, but it’s one driven by laws around freedom of speech.
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You are assuming that we know what "ruining .org" means for everyone. We don't.

From an investor's perspective "ruining .org" means the asset won't produce return on investment. From your or my perspective it may be something entirely different.
I wonder if advancement in orchestrator will shift the balance. There is a lot of effort into putting human knowledge into software, so that it can react to unexpected situation and self heal. K8s operators to be specific.

If this software works well enough, what would be the competitive advantage of AWS?
Gigster is in many ways a market place, connecting Customers to Freelancers.

Pivotal does services, but also has products they offer the services around, makes the majority of money from licenses.
Reminds me of Paul Falstad and his excellent circuit simulator tool. He originally wrote it as a Java applet, then gave permission to an Iian Sharp to have it rewritten in HTML5: https://www.falstad.com/circuit/
Languages like J make this distinction: `=` is equals in the mathematical sense [1], while `=.` and `=:` are the assignment operators (the former being local and the latter global) [2].

Although the assignment operator and the equals operator are similar there is a preference to have the equals sign retain its original meaning.

1. https://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d000.htm
2. https://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d001.htm
.org was moved from Network Solutions / Verisign to PIR by ICANN. ISOC can (apparently) sell PIR without affecting the .org contract.
At my kid's school they start teaching division as "sharing" - a kid has 10 pieces of candy he wants to share with 5 friends; how many pieces can he share with each friend. Later they describe it as repeated subtraction - how many times can his 5 friends take a piece of candy from the pile of 10 pieces.
> Now it gets a bit more complicated in the real world since stocks are not independent from each other

This is also where I get frustrated.

I'm taught about the CLT but every place I think I might use it, the samples aren't really IDD when you look hard enough, so it doesn't apply.

Computer benchmarking (which is where I'm usually trying to apply statistics) is the classic example. One iteration changes the state of the computer for the next iteration. They aren't remotely IDD, but people still try to claim the CLT. Seems like all their stats beyond that point is broken.
From the “Why I Voted to Sell .ORG” article

> This transaction will put that bigger mission on a solid footing — so that the Internet Society can provide much more substantive help to nonprofits than merely leasing domain names, and with more continuity over time.

I’m really disappointed in this perspective - the mission is now growing outside of its current operations (ie conquesting) AND will now have a slug of cash which they’ve never properly managed before.

The Internet needs them to be conservative stewards but they want to grow outside of that.

Further more the article goes through “protections” that are in place for Ethos to keep prices reasonable. The issue is these protections aren’t all contractually obligated and even those written are weak.

Of course private equity is going to get a return on capital on $1B invested. Their incentive is to push the boundary as far as it can possibly go to find the profit maximizing point.

Would love to hear more arguments for and against.
> While I am sure there is some engineering student out there griping about having to take a psychology course, they don't seem to complain as much as when non-mathy people have to study math.

This is the underpinning of every conversation where engineers say college is a waste of money. If anything, I see engineers complaining more loudly about taking any course that isn't directly related to engineering. This not only includes the humanities, but also things like business.

> While neither Laplace transforms nor Shakespearen analysis are necessary to live, the former is probably more useful than the latter.

Learning Shakespeare is typically tied to learning how to communicate through reading, writing, and comprehension. IMO, that is much more generally useful than learning anything about a Laplace transform.
Ok, but do you see what I mean about how that part was just sitting there without any explanation? That's why I find it hard.
I was taught math via spatial properties and it wasn’t until I came back to it from a logical perspective that I was able to understand it.

Just another anecdotal data point but my experience was completely opposite yours.
You have to make your first payment via credit card so it's not anonymous unfortunately.

joepie91 maintains a list, but it looks like it's a couple of years out of date: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/bitcoinvps.html
Ask HN: Are there *any* good JavaScript libraries
Every JS library I've seen (currently using moment) seems extremely simplistic with very few primitives for working with time.

As a former Java programmer, I'm used to having all of the following (in the standard lib no less!):

* instant: a point of time

* duration: time amount, e.g. 500 seconds

* period: time interval amount (e.g. 3 days)

* offset: time difference from UTC

* timezone: regional offset system

* local/offset/timezone date: date

* local/offset/timezone time: time

* local/offset/timezone datetime: date and time

For example, I work with a lot of legal calendar events (local date) and contract durations (period), yet everything I find requires awkwardly couching it in terms of instants.
How does it compare to kdb performance wise?
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Great work!

So this is mostly on Google's implementation? Or is RCS insecure in general?
Ah, yes, the ‘raw’ and ‘script’ modules can work without Python, so I guess this makes 75dvtwin's workflow possible.

(https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/i...)
They want to pressure you into giving consent for their advertising & stalking crap, although I have doubts any of this actually works; I bet the tracking bullshit loads by default, does its business, and only gets unloaded when you refuse but the damage is already done.

This behaviour is against the GDPR, not only does consent should be explicitly given (so don't pre-tick the checkboxes or favour the accept button over the refuse one) but also should be given freely so it should not be more inconvenient to refuse than to accept, and finally, no tracking until consent has been given - this includes "strictly necessary" stuff (no it isn't strictly necessary) like Google Analytics.
Well thank God: wasm.org already forwards to webassembly
> I have a hard time explaining to my children how addition of fractions work.

The best way I found to learn fractions was through carpentry. Measuring and cutting over and over quickly builds the intuitive sense of how fractions work.
DNT is going away and has already been removed from some browsers because the advertising industry used it as an extra signal to fingerprint browsers.

Regarding the regulation though, tracking is forbidden until explicit consent has been obtained.
When ICANN was founded, the DNS was almost entirely monopolized by Network Solutions who sold domains for $100 per year. The process was very manual and time consuming (think old-style TLS certificates). ICANN’s purpose was to break up the monopoly by setting up the two-level registry/registrar system, by creating more TLDs, and by taking away some TLDs. Verisign, through various acquisitions and sell-offs, the descendent of Network Solutions, and still dominates.
Life expectancy was the same for both genders in 1900 (in Europe at least).

We’ve just made continually more progress for women than for men. Nowadays for example: lots of research on female cancer (twice more funding than male cancers, for the same incidence and mortality) and domestic violence, little budgets on suicide. Lots of money for equality at work where women are fewer, little money for boys massively dropping at school. Practically no help if you are a man facing a male-specific issue, which is why a lot of them engage in the army or in Daesh (depending which side they tilt towards), and practically all killers you know are boys victims of harassment, absent father syndrome and on the spectrum of autism, with no help from the social fabric.

Men live shorter not because it is nature, but because we’ve made less progress for them.
You are missing which "technology" is causing that. Is OVB[0] a reason to abandon insurance?

[0] https://www.echo24.cz/a/wmYCb/kvuli-skandalu-padaji-v-ovb-hl...
> (in Robert Metcalfe’s infamous expression, cross-platform web browsers & the Internet would reduce Windows to a “poorly debugged set of device drivers”)

Compare the number of platforms nowadays which (to varying extents) treat Linux as a free set of buggy device drivers.
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And I had him as a professor later, at Northeastern. He said it turns out it's really easy to convince someone you're crazy, and then really hard to convince someone you're actually not.
This is another paragraph that works for me:

The point is: what are you trying to show? The point is: what is your point? If you can get that straight in your head, and put it up front at the beginning of your document, you will be able to proceed in a straight line. You will know what things are essential, and what things are distractions or detours. You will know when to stop writing: when you have demonstrated your thesis. If your thesis committee makes unreasonable demands of you, you will be able to tell them: "(a) My thesis, as stated, is a solid advancement of the field, and (b) I have supported my thesis. This is all I need to do to graduate; your requests are above and beyond this threshold. Cancel them and give me my degree."
So you know the how, but not the why. The why knowledge is genrally more valuable, because basic principles are reused over and over, while the how changes often.
And its hard to recover from a how change, if you do not know the background whys applied. Thats why university focuses so much on the whys, and doesent give a fuck about the hows.
Hows can be learned fast.
Hows can even be deduced if you know the whys.

If you now a recipe to brew beer - you can create your own brew.
If you know about microbiology of fermentation, you can deduce why the recipe sometimes doesent work...
That has to be a joke, maybe meant to keep your attention. He has made cuts so why else would he have kept it in?
Standard deviation is a form of variance that has the same units as the mean. Whereas the variance has square units.

This means the quantity of mean/variance depends on your choice of units, whereas the quantity of mean/standard deviation. Is constant no matter the units.

Why do we care about variance? Because it is a nice and linear property. This means it is easy to calculate and manipulate.

Moreover, the variance / standard deviation very nicely describe a Gaussian distribution (bell curve). This is a very important distribution because of the law of large numbers. Because we see bell curves so often, it is nice to have tools (std.dev) that work well with these curves.

It should be noted that, in optimization problems, there can be reasons to try and minimize something other than variance. We tend to pick the variance / std.dev because it is familiar, easy to work with, and very efficient.
Notably, the derivative of variance tends to be linear, which makes it pretty efficient to use in gradient descent.
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I love his style. He makes it fun.
Can you get hardcover Print-outs of the Linux man pages, syscalls or other sections? Huge printed manual sections on shelves appears to be a thing of the past...
This is what it looks like: https://imgur.com/a/yLD5sLn
https://google.github.io/closure-library/api/goog.date.html
Conversely I have been immediately impressed with the way my first grader is being taught math.

It’s completely different than the way I was taught so I have to invest in figuring it out but it’s led them extremely quickly through multiplication & division and into algebra.

I’d characterize it as “multi-algorithmic”. They come at it from a variety of algorithms, assumedly so that each student can find one that works for them.

As someone who had to teach themselves a different algorithm than I was taught many painful years later this resonates.

Perhaps the rift was always there and you ended up in the lucky side of it?
It is nothing to do with book publishers, but new federal mandates for "Common Core" curriculum as part of the No Child Left Behind legislation.
Well might be overkill, but considering its HN: Unreal Engine
This looks like it could be a huge turning point for the understanding of matter at temperatures we love.
Yes this argument explains why the military-industrial complex and war media constantly bombard us with the constant message of, "FEAR! KILL! FEAR! KILL!" They gotta send the kids to college, you know. Remember the Maine.
It mentions not having the typical side effects of opiates like addiction, respiratory depression, tolerance, etc.

I'm curious, though, if it induces euphoria like opiates do.
Personally, I enjoy the material on databases—but if I’m being honest, the main reason I watch the first lecture is to find out what sort of trouble Andy Pavlo has gotten into.
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No, we have never used IPs or servers from them (this is publicly verifiable as our VPN IPs are public), and have no business connection with them today. Verified by Mozilla and the European Commission as well when they audited ProtonVPN, details here: https://protonvpn.com/blog/is-protonvpn-trustworthy/
They're referring to the number of times to subtract 35 from 350. Do it 10 times and you end up with 0, there is nothing more to divide and so 10 is the answer.
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It sounds like you've memorized the very specific notational steps. But if you would have to come up with an algorithm for doing division using only integers with multiplication, subtraction and comparisons, you would come up with some equivalent to long division.
The weight of a Model X (2.5t) and the Truck's 1.6t payload is easily above the 3.5t gross a European car licence is limited to.
Exactly - done in order to fake volume - so it looks like your exchange is doing a lot more business than it really is. Also to manipulate the bitcoin price on your exchange, although it would be difficult to make significant moves due to arbitrage.
So an illegal alien should talk to non-immigration officials for the public good or should not?

This isn't really a question for the individual, this is a question of government policy. The US decided to force other government institutions to help immigration and a hotel collapse that might have been prevented is not prevented.
Or that they could be walk around the city and connecting to different wifis or maybe the person's connection is poor and keeps dropping and reconnecting. I'm sure there are plenty other legitimate use cases where the IP changes frequently.

Also, bear in mind that blocking people from using it is not in disney+ interest. They do it just so they can prove in court they are following the copyright agreements they have. But if someone "hacks" the system, they are not incentivised to put in resources to fix the hacks so they can have less paying costumers.
The behavior of PAT is, though. You can sniff packets and confirm that it behaves the way I'm describing.
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Right, that is how statistics usually is done. Note however that you don't need IDD, independence is enough. So you assume independence, from that CLT follows which means that standard deviation is all that matters. Then the real world deviates from this based on how much your distributions fails to be independent.

I'd assume that computer benchmarks have very low correlation between runs, unless you leak ram or your components don't keep a stable temperature. So in that case the CLT seems to apply just fine.
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My experience is that modding/addon communities for almost any community type software seems to fall into two categories:

1. The type mentioned here, where everything's about upsells and trying to get people to buy premium versions of seemingly 'free' themes and plugins (or what not).

2. The 'nickle and dime people for every cent' setup, where any theme or plugin, regardless of size seems to have a price tag slapped on it. XenForo and IPB have this problem, as does OpenCart.

It's depressingly rare to find a piece of software where the modding/addon/theme/extension community stays a place filled with passionate community members sharing things they're interested in/work on as a hobby rather than those trying to make a buck off everything.
Maybe its just me, but I don't think pedestrians buy expensive trucks designed by geniuses.
> A strictly rational agent will always free ride on a public good.

True in the general case of course, but there are arrangements that can be used to mitigate this. Crowdfunding with a threshold mechanism, ala Kickstarter, is one of these - reaching the crowdfunding threshold is a stable equilibrium. The intuition is that if every funder's contribution is critical to the threshold being reached, the funders are essentially "matching" each other's contribution, and thus providing a successful incentive even in a strictly rational sense.
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> In their new study, Yankner and his colleagues report that the brains of long-lived humans have unusually low levels of proteins involved in excitation, at least in comparison with the brains of people who died much younger. This finding suggests that the exceptionally old people probably had less neural firing. To investigate this association in more detail, Yankner’s team turned to C. elegans. They compared neural activity in the splendidly long-lived daf-2 mutants with that of normal worms and saw that firing levels in the daf-2 animals were indeed very different.

> “They were almost silent. They had very low neural activity compared to normal worms,” Yankner said, noting that neural activity usually increases with age in worms. “This was very interesting, and sort of parallels the gene expression pattern we saw in the extremely old humans.”

Does the low neural activity correlate with a less active experience of the world? Are you experiencing your state with the mute button on? I'm no neurosurgeon, but if this is the trade-off, perhaps living longer by using this REST gene might result in a less rich, dynamic, and textured experience? Might it mean living a life like this is less 'fun'?
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