skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's not inconsistent, although I can see why it reads that way. Currently, you are proposing to draw a line between two cases, A and B. One is intuitively bad (to some people), the other is intuitively good. If we all agreed that the line absolutely needed to be drawn somewhere between them, and if we also agreed that there was no clear way to draw it, we'd have no choice but to pick some vague language and just trust judges to apply good judgement. (This is often the case when laws appeal to what a "reasonable" person would think.)

However, I am suggesting that we simply not draw the line between A and B and have them both be legal because:

(1) The "bad" one is actually not that bad, both morally and efficiency-wise, especially when we clearly announce "this behavior is going to be legal, so everyone needs to be careful and protect themselves"; and

(2) there are other places to draw the line that are not so hopelessly disputable.

Since I am suggesting we put the line somewhere else where it can be made unambiguous, we are not forced to rely (nearly as much) on court interpretation.
Isn’t the more intense number the 35,000 parameters?

Why pick on the 40 algorithms?
As ghaff mentioned, it’s the very definition. COBOL is still used by some old banks, but you’d still say it’s popularity has “withered.”
i read somewhere when comparing a financial advisor, managing one's portfolio vs an index fund - There was no discernible higher return with the advisor managed portfolio vs the index fund.
Hundreds of Christians in Nigeria ‘slaughtered’ by Islamist militia this year
There is obviously a tradeoff between risk and speed. The article provides evidence that speed is increasing. I don't think the article provides any compelling argument that approvals are too fast. Do you?

I thought the FDA summed it it up well in the article:

>“We would expect every once in a while that we would be wrong,” with an accelerated approval, she said. “Otherwise, we aren’t taking any chances, we are still making them wait too long to get their hands on this therapy that will extend their lives.”
Mammals > fish.

Not surprising.
Nice! It sounds like you put some thought into fit and finish.

I'm just unclear under what conditions would one want to flush the OPcache? I've written countless lines of janky PHP experiments and never run into a problem with caching. The only time I can think of flushing it would be on an off-site server where you don't have the ability to reboot or restart PHP. Does PHP wipe the OPcache and start over once it gets full?
If any of that would be the cause, Windows Phone would be a massive success.

Don't let your fanboyism blind logical thinking.
And yet.. How many people do you know with a Roomba? Driver assistance in their vehicles (lane keep and adaptive cruise), the list goes on. It's incremental.
The Eighth Day of Creation
ahh yes.. i see blockchain is still the flavor of the month term, to throw out there, for pretty much any domain.
Your dismissal underestimates the qualifications and pedigree of an established and excellent populariser of "cool" scientific topics.

Sure he goes for clickbaity articles now and then, but he's pretty good at them in my experience, and your summary is both incorrect (there is no "current" over that distance scale) and leaves all explanation out.
The HR “industry” uses the term “robotics” to mean any sort of automation. Screen-scraping is robotics. Excel macros are robotics.
The algorithms probably aren't that great, and more of them would likely have diminishing returns. Adding substantially more false positives could actually be a bad thing.

As someone else mentioned. The 35k parameters is skeptical. Taleb and Tversky and Kahneman have good evidence that most algorithms are better with less parameters. The more parameters, the more noise.
> I don’t know of any attacks on surfers. Which seems odd.

It's not just humans that they don't attack. Orcas have cultural food preferences and tend to hunt only the prey that they grew up eating.
https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra

Dijkstra seemed to think that it's a mistake to define operations directly on arrays, as opposed to on individual elements of arrays. Of course, this would also rule out nearly every modern language, since map/reduce/list comprehensions all fall into this category. Then again, Dijkstra hated almost every language out there. At least he's consistent.
For example there are 3 String methods to take a substring (substring, substr, slice) (there's even 4th way in proposal: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-slice-notation)

The last added one is slice, and actually simplifies things, with its consistency with Array.prototype.slice, and replace the old ones

I agree it's annoying to keep old methods for backward-comptibility
It sounds like what you’re saying is: the best way to hack a test is to actually learn the subject.

Thus, the best way to learn is to be in love with the subject.
A good book on great whites and the Farallon Islands is The Devil's Teeth. It covers the islands, the birds, seals and great whites but there's very little in it on orcas if I remember correctly.
True, it‘s just worth bearing in mind that deviating from the ordinary school system can indeed work.. kids will not automatically fail miserably if they don’t do tests or homework. That was the belief my mother (who was a teacher) ingrained in me, and I actually have to convince myself on a regular basis that life without the standard school system could also work out.
We have more recent data on closer objects. It’s a sequence of thin shells that expands as you go backward in time, or a 3D light cone aimed backward in 4D space time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone
If you try to optimize them and you deal with a black-box, then yes.
Not necessarily, there are lots of private schools which do things very normally.
I’m guessing successful in the sense that they had a product come to fruition
>Proper vaccination is entirely invisible.

Everything may as well be invisible if you refuse to look at it. There have been very, very few studies done on the long term effects of vaccines. All the general public knows is that the CDC [1] assures them that they "know there is not a plausible biologic reason to believe vaccines would cause any serious long-term effects." [2]

The widespread belief in the correctness of this almost entirely untested hypothesis is worth tens of billions of dollars per year to private corporations, by the way.

[1]: https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/452654-for-...
[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/tools/parents-guide/par...
Thanks! If you try it out, let me know what you think and feel free to let me know if you run into any problems.
Nasdaq has about 3500 listed companies, so that's only ten parameters per company. Not that many. If you're talking about running the algorithm per market participant then it's an even weirder claim.
To add on to these great suggestions I'd also say speak to people. Go on Italki or HelloTalk. Caveman brute force a 5 min conversation if you have to but imo speaking asap is essential and using the resources above + a frequency list can get you through the the first 5 minutes of conversation very quickly.

I think a lot of language learns focus too much on vocabulary and grammar when starting out but they don't take the time to drill/ use the vocabulary they are learning in actual conversation. There is no point in passively knowing 1000 words if you can barely use 100 in an active conversation.

Another resource that I like but wouldn't recommend it unless it was on sale is the mimic method. Learning the phonetics and how to hear/create the unique sounds of your target language is really important but it's too expensive for what you get imo.
Google didn’t “beat” Microsoft at Office by any definition.

As far “winning” mobile. $23 billion in 7 years and they still pay Apple a reported $8 billion a year to be the primary search engine on Apple devices. Apple has made more money from Google than Google has made from Android.

Android definitely didn’t “win” against Apple. The entire Android ecosystem is a profitless race to the bottom.

As far as Google Drive, like Jobs said about DropBox, storage is just a feature - not a product. MS gives away 6TB of One Drive space with the $100 a year Office 365 subscription. Office 365 has much deeper penetration that Drive.
Wouldn’t that prevent people with less money from buying their way up to the top? In other words, the ones with the most money (not startups, mom&pop shops, etc) would be the only ones at the top.
ML in HFT has been super effective, if you don't take ML to just mean deep learning.
Easy to see when comparing diet with life expectation throughout the world.

Carbs bad, fat actually alright.
Not necessarily true. I admit it’s a lifestyle change, but it can work quite well if both parents are freelancers.
What if you tried to sort an array of objects or functions?
Show HN: Zero latency networked snake game
G'day folks!

I built a zero client-perceived latency snake game that runs remotely, supporting concurrent players.

Specifically this is implemented using the "validator" adapter. The idea is that the server delivers a signed token to the client including the positions of the fruits, and the starting position of the snake. The client must then record its tick movements (x, y) until it reaches one of the fruit. These are then sent back to the server, which instantaneously runs the given simulation to check that all moves are legal. This process then repeats with a newly generated fruit and token.

You can see a demo of this functionality on my site: https://tomarell.com
I didn't just follow it closely, I directly discussed it with Brave developers here and on Twitter at the time and I've continued to have to deal with their fraud for the last year. In their issue tracker an employee specifically called out me blocking them over this[0] to justify continuing to spoof their User-Agent. I am unfortunately still involved by having to burn more volunteer developer time and effort to block them.

You claim I didn't make an honest or thoughtful criticism, but you didn't support that by disputing any of my facts or reasoning, and your only defense of Brave is that they were caught too early to successfully defraud anyone. Whether the money was taken directly from end users or indirectly from speculators in their ICO is irrelevant. They falsely represented themselves to users as site owners and they continue to evade responsibility by falsely representing themselves to site owners as different users. It is tediously prudent to want nothing at all to do with a company that does business through misrepresentation as a standard practice.

[0] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/4641#issuecomm...
Between income taxes, corporate taxes, sales tax etc. most people with jobs give up half the money they make to the government anyway, so that makes sense.
So you just assumed that parameters are defined company-wise?
Right now it requires an iphone. They've been slowly reducing the need to have one until pretty soon, maybe v5, won't require one
Because when things aren't used, organizations such as, say, Google tend to stop supporting them over time.
What process is Maxigesic being approved under? I assume an aNDA, which is for generic drugs.

The FDA has a massive backlog for generic drugs, while novel drugs (NDA) don’t.
That’s the big issue. We‘re thinking about Karate/swimming/chess etc courses, but ideally you would have access to a community of unschoolers. Some big cities have this, but currently not an option for us.
Once nice thing about calling scripts robots is it makes swearing at a computer feel slightly more reasonable/statisfying.
Ask HN: How are other VCs dealing with this?
The character set is not Dijkstra's complaint. His preferred language, ALGOL 60, also uses characters like × ÷ ≤ ¬ ⊃. ASCII wasn't really the definitive standard it is now when Dijkstra wrote that APL was a "mistake" in 1975.
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> it's usually fairly obvious to people

Except it's not, which is the whole point.

Half the country cries foul based on observational samples but without systemic proof, and the other half of the country says they're inventing stories and cherry-picking irregularities, and that there are just as many irregularities in the other direction to cancel them out.

And the average citizen, of course, has absolutely no idea what to think. Both sides sound entirely plausible. And even if there was manipulation, nobody has any idea if it changed the outcome by 0.1% (a few bad actors) or by 10% (the president directed it), if it was enough to tip an election or not.

By introducing foolproof technological verification, all this goes away. And I don't understand how you think this doesn't exist -- isn't this HN post just one example of multiple proposals?
I’m always skeptical of these articles, but this is accurate:

>many of whom will lose their jobs -- not necessarily because they are replaced by machines, but because they are not trained to work alongside algorithms,”

The story with technology is about adaptation, not replacement. Teams, departments, technologies have come and gone out from under me in about 15 years in the software field.

One could say I was replaced by software (or cheaper devs elsewhere) when I was laid off or when teams I was on were eliminated. But if I wanted to keep getting a paycheck, I had to adapt to something else in demand.

That’s life and these sensational articles generate clicks but it happens in almost every private industry.

You have to adapt and grow or else you’ll wither.
my bullet is not murderous enough :(

I guess the Condor is done in the US.
So the 'environmental damage' you were talking about affects people selectively based on their citizenship?
Alternatively it could be seen as retreating from the Larry and Sergey experiment.
> The problem here is that you're waiting for an entrepreneur to say this, which is the wrong kind of person to expect this from.

I agree and can’t help but wonder if this is why we’re seeing more and more developers trying to make money from their Open Source projects.
> Carbs bad

But Japan.
Punctuated equilibrium
It’s been over a decade since Google abandoned reader. RSS is just a check box in most CMSs.
Funny to read and enjoy this article this morning...

Open up HN again this afternoon for a quick work break...

And find my eyes IMMEDIATELY glancing at my karma score in the top right before anything else.

Perhaps PG should practice what he preaches and rip that out of the UI?

I would encourage it... damnit... I just looked again.
The selling point of AMP is that it's a mobile-friendly web component framework. If someone uses AMP for their website, and as a result you get a better mobile experience, it's hard to see how that's not inherent to AMP.
> Languages like Smalltalk or Lisp can have it both ways...

You seem to be suggesting that Smalltalk implementations are a whole lot faster than current Ruby ?

They are a whole lot faster than Matz's 2008 Ruby 1.8.7 but so is current Ruby:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
While I advocate for non-lead ammunition, the story is a little more complex:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/2/lead-ammunit...
All this assumes that time is a single thing (sort of gigantic X-axis with "t") that works for everyone in universe equally.

What if we have multiple (billions) of realities with their own t-axis and with us being only one of these with our own timeline?
Once in a while there will be a unicorn that will spread from mouth to mouth simply because its better then everything out there.
iPhones were originally an accessory to iTunes. What you complain about is all software. Software is changeable.
I wouldn't say I assumed anything. I would just say that the statement about number of parameters and algorithms is incoherent, or at least so vastly underspecified as to communicate no meaning.
"Understanding" part seems rather optimistic.
For your self-hosted SaaS needs, Yunohost is awesome.

One-click install of many apps and services – but more impressively one-click upgrades as well. Nice, user-friendly, very little maintenance required. Self-hosting for people who don’t want to do system administration.

I’ve been running a Yunohost server for the past three years, adding and removing various services on the fly. Love to use it, and the great work of people behind this.

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But ceph has the bluestore backend that doesn't go through the file system.
DDG absolutely is a search engine; It’s a system (engine) that lets you search. From Wikipedia[0]:

> A web search engine or Internet search engine is a software system that is designed to carry out web search (Internet search), which means to search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query.

Just because they don’t do the crawling like Google and Bing doesn’t mean they aren’t a search engine.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine
I love these lists. That said, it reminds me of the apps that come with inexpensive Cpanel type hosting where many of the same apps are one-click installs. Would be awesome if static ips for home were easier & cheaper.
Breach causes year after year? Same old, same old: web injections and phishing
For anyone who enjoyed this, a lot of these ideas were really well discussed a few years back in Neil Postman's "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" (1969) and John Dewey's "Democracy & Education" (1916). As you can see these books are over 50 years old. These ideas aren't new, which goes to say how long we've known this and what little have we done.

The real question Graham poses here is: what is the point of schooling? At the moment, it teaches and conditions people to "hack tests" as Graham puts it. So people continue to do that throughout their lives.

It also conditions people to think there is a "correct" answer to problems. Which in the open-ended nature of the real questions we have to grapple with in life is a complete lie. A teacher will rarely say: "It depends."

What passes for "education" today is really just "training" and very far removed from real learning. People only learn about things that interest them. And you learn by asking questions, which most of the time will lead to further questions to which you will only ever find tentative, temporary answers. Not that different from how scientists treat their "solutions" to big questions as tentative.

What can we do to change that? Change schools. It's the one place where we have kids kept for 15 years by mandate! It's the biggest lever we have to change perceptions and attitudes. Remove tests and grading. Learning will free up when that happens. It's remarkable what happens when at the beginning of the year the teacher gives everyone an A. Let go of the idea that permeates American society that everything needs to be measured. Some things do, but things like intelligence can't and shouldn't.

I know the immediate response is that this is unpractical. And to that I ask why? Because we need a way to control? Control what? What district is "performing" better? When was a score on a math test a true measure of human potentiality?

We need to go back to core questions as to what is the point of schools and what is worth teaching and learning in today's world. The world has changed immensely, but our "curriculums" are the same. The only difference is we use tablets and Microsoft Word to hand in assignments.

I agree with Graham's conclusion. When we liberate ourselves from these useless idealogical metaphors we will free people and society up to stop hacking tests and start living.
That is not a good reason though. The spec could just decide on the wire format like with strings and numbers, and clients would have to translate into the date type of the language or platform.

The reason JSON doesn't have dates is simply because JavaScript doesn't have date literals. You can write new Date(...) in JavaScript, but allowing that in JSON would have opened a whole can of worms.
I think the one thing that is great about the Pinephone is how cheap it is. It's not Luke the raspberry Pi cheap, but it significantly lowers the barrier for entry for folks to work on it.

I do also think that the last post on the Pine blog showed that the pinephone can make phone calls (Ubuntu Touch?). I'm hoping that the Pinephone and Librem5 will be able to cross pollinate on things like calling, texting, etc.

Edit: I also wish that the Pine foundation could allow you to make a donation when you buy it, and that could fund development to make it more mature.
> regulations are increasingly forcing businesses to write at least some parts of their last will and testament.

Human persons do this. What happens to our data? Our hardware that depends on the cloud.

Small software companies have source code escrow because large customers require it. Large companies not so much, even though vc backed startups are more at risk.

We tend to think companies outlive people but today it feels the opposite. Growing jobs for endineers.
The point is that you have to pay 20x for the convenience of one pill.
What does each of those 200 dimensions represent/encode?

This is a very interesting and pragmatic design. I tried a couple of queries and the results were great for most of them, but not so much for esoteric ones, or for queries involving names, which makes sense according to the implementation specifics outlined in their blog posts.

I never heard of this company before, and I am very interested in IR technologies( https://github.com/phaistos-networks/Trinity ). I am glad they are trying and it looks like they have a chance for something great there.

Ahrefs.com is also working on a large scale web search engine, but other than their CEO announcing it on Twitter, there hasn’t been any other update since.
hmm...this 4 Billion queries number comes from where?

Looking at Stackexchange most of the sites have less than a million (possible?) queries(questions). Stackoverflow, probably the largest, has 18 million questions. Wikipedia article count is about 5 million.

Is the assumption that people are coming up with 1000 different ways to query every possible result endpoint?
Yeah, that matches my experiences here.

It's such a programmer fallacy.

We need renewables yesterday, but instead of slowly pushing what we have now and what works, the lure of the shiny highly technical and complicated solution that promises to solve everything causes us to completely miss every deadline imaginable.

We need to be finished with leaving fossils behind in 10 years, and put all our resources into that, instead of researching nuclear reactors for 30 years and then starting to deploy those for another 10.
Would it do the worker or the franchise owner (who on average makes between $65K and $150K a year) any good if the company was out of business?

What if capital wasn’t chasing after money losing startups where the VC partners take 20% management fees no matter how badly the fund performs - much of that money coming from public pensions?
Been running my mail server on Linode for almost 2 years now. Fortunately I've yet to run in any issues. Having setup all the stuff properly from day 1 probably helps (TLS, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS).