skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, at a really low CPM. Not trying to justify the awful practice of user tracking, but why would I pay you $3.00 per thousand impressions if you’re going to be showing my ad to demographics that will rarely buy my product?

Companies want to optimize their marketing dollars, so they’re going to pay pennies if you don’t track users.
Not a document and why are you editing it?
Computers cut the ads out of the page with no effort.
Ask HN: How best to introduce young children to computing?
I have a four-year-old child who I'd like to gradually introduce to computing. I don't have ambitious dreams of creating a coding prodigy; I do remember a (late) childhood of games and tinkering and would like them to be able to explore the possibilities.

How have my fellow HN readers attempted this? Games first? Edutainment <shudder>? Start with an emulated Apple II and advance the state of the art at twice real-time from 1977? I'm at a loss. Your expertise or war stories would be appreciated.
Just what we need more MFA spam - did you not think even for on second about the ethics of what you are doing.
I just realised that having the keypad on the left is actually a great idea, solves the problem of wanting to keep the mouse closer to the main section of the keyboard, while keeping the keypad. Also, the keypad placed on the left can double as a cheaper alternative to those expensive gaming keypads. Anyone who is not into DIY could achieve the same by combining a TKL (tenkeyless) keyboard and a stand-alone USB numeric keypad.
I've wondered if I should be nervous about brominated vegetable oil in food. I mean, it's not new or unusual, but I feel like if it was just invented, we'd all be rather skeptical, no?
Funny how much complexity you have to introduce by just getting rid of the parentheses.

I later learned that MLISP functioned as a preprosessor for a normal lisp. Don’t know about the macro facilities, perhaps someone can chime in with details?
A huge part of the backslash actually happened here on HN when they originally proposed the pure (like Adobe and 90% of other companies) SaaS model.

So Jetbrains model is an improvement over most other companies but it is not as consumer friendly as the old licensing model.

I would love to have the old model back(buy now with 12 months of updates) but that ship has sailed.
>Unlikely; emotional expressions seem to be innate and hard-wired into the brain

Nope. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/emotional-...
Yea, pretty much 100% the web is destroying news. Everyone wants a free ad supported product now and the only way that model works is if you get enough page views. So news websites have to prioritize content that generates views, rather than good reporting. Which is slowly killing journalism.
“Looks Like This Domain Isn't
Connected To A Website Yet!“

Hm.
I solve the latter with a Kensington trackball with a nice, generous scroll wheel.

Pity it lacks a third mouse button. I've considered glomming a button to the front (cable) side with some Sugru...
Aaaand back to cable it is :)
The settlement seems to be quite low (~£100K/victim) in proportion to the damage inflicted.
I view it as a Perl 5/Perl 6 thing. I don't want to invest in Vim, because supposedly Neovim is the future. I don't want to invest in Neovim, because it's still being developed, and with the way plugins are created using Message Pack, it seems like it has to be slow. My response: do other things with my time.
Floating windows is kind of a big deal.

Imagine not having a full screen spell check suggestion window, but instead a little context menu that pops up where you can pick a suggestion while still being able to read the original buffer that you're trying to spell check. Sort of like what Sublime Text had forever.

Or little snippets of helpful text for git specific details or inline documentation for auto-complete.

I've only been using Vim for about 8 months but floating windows is something you severely miss having previously used other editors like VSCode. Now with them in tact, it will unlock all sorts of great features and UI wins. I wonder how long it will take for plugins to start adopting it.
- On a touch screen including a laptop you can scroll with your finger.

- Space scrolls down several lines.

- Scroll wheel

- Up and down arrows scroll down a line at a time.

- Page up and page down scroll down almost an entire page leaving what was the bottom-most section previously now the topmost section so that readers aren't disoriented or lost. Some apps let you configure this overlap size.

- If you like vim you can add extensions to your browser and use j and k.
- Home and End keys go to the very top and very end respectively.

- Windows you can hold down middle mouse and drag to scroll. This isn't common in linux where people rely on middle mouse paste but is possible to configure

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/101867/make-mouse-m...

On Mac this is apparently called "smart scroll"

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/64115/enable-mouse...

If you just want it on chrome there is an extension

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autoscroll/occjjkg...

In general however you do it grabbing the scrollbar in chrome is inefficient. You must grab a smallish UI element on the side of your screen. Your keyboard and mouse are always at hand.
Prime Video is just the crossed l video part of your prime subscription. I'm not even sure you can get a PV subscription separately.
There’s no need to be so aggressive.
Only vacation. I think 20 is the legal minimum on full work day vacations that the company must give if you work 5 days a week. On top of that there are 14 national holidays. Normally companies in Germany give their employees 28 to 30 days, so 25 isn't that great.

Sick leave does not count towards any of those, if you're sick then you don't go to work and you still get paid - as simple as that. If you get sick while on vacation those days then count as sick leave and not vacation.
An earlier partner of mine went to such a conference. “Women in computing.” There was a show of hands who wanted to be a programmer etc; basically none did except my partner. She left feeling more of an outsider.
https://i.imgur.com/oreqrA1.jpg
With the BurstHeapMemoryBenchmark, I wonder whether the effect is driven by the concurrency of G1/Shenendoah/ZGC, not greater efficiency.

If the code doing allocation is single threaded, then parallel/serial GCs could have stop the world pauses, while the other collectors would continue allocating while the GC runs.

That's a real effect. It means that sometimes you can improve the throughput of a process with a lot of sequential work by allocating extra-CPUs and using concurrent collectors. However, that's something of a niche case--more often, you choose between throughput and lower pause times.
Or just use the mouse to point and click in the same time. With laptop mousepads it's just moving a finger. Most devs aren't writing that much code and all these Vim efficiencies are vastly overstated.

I've seen many Vim/Emacs-only devs being easily beaten in speed by others using modern IDEs that have tooling and functionality (auto formatting, refactoring, templating, etc) focused on actually getting things done.
If I remember correctly when they first announced they were moving to a subscription based model a few years ago years ago there was a backlash from customers and they listened to customer complaints and modified the model to be what it is today. Another plus to them in my book for doing that.
You can survive for a long time doing bad or evil things. The theory stipulates a need to gauge health for a probabilistic outcome. For this correlation it has two parameters, time and health.

It also describes survival for non-alive, non-mechanical items. Implying no physical moving parts. There would be an interesting argument as to whether something that does not move can be judged as travelling across time, with or without being necessarily good? Surely to measure the success of an idea or thing you are also in part measuring the actions of creator or consuming humans, which muddies the water on the central non-alive point.

As an aside why is Taleb related stuff so popular here? I've only heard of him from one other place but he shows up a lot on HN.
So why do we let people tell us it can’t be done on the internet?

Precisely.

There is an entire multi-billion dollar industry built upon instilling fear in advertisers that their ads might not be fully "optimized," whatever that means these days. Google is at the head of this list.

Amazingly, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Pepsi, Boeing, and every other large non-tech company managed to become enormous companies by advertising in significantly less targeted ways through newspapers, television, radio, billboards, magazines, etc...

The notion that ads not targeted by Google or Facebook are wasted money is a lie invented by the targeting industry to keep itself in business.
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I use LeechBlock on my browser to set a maximum time I can use some websites, according the day, hours...
(typically restrict myself to go too much on news site during the day)..;
Okay, I think individual posts should be linkable now. Does https://timd.one/blog.php#pc-build work for you?
The mixtape law might also be part of it, but are those mixtape websites legal?
Can a USR command damage a ZX Spectrum?
Why would anyone listen to ads on youtube? Do they not know how to use software?

Regarding quality, most music is listened to in traffic, or on the bus, or while working, or as background in a store, or while exercising, or.... I think it should be pretty obvious that the majority of the time, quality is just not a factor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera
There’s nothing common sense about knowing the limit on how much money you can carry (in one specific form), or kinds of foods and drinks which are allowed. The very nature of a border is that what is common (or common knowledge) on one side isn’t common on the other. Every day I see drivers in my state perform acts which are legal in other states but not here, and US states are much more similar than most nations.
Bing Maps Make the Revived Flight Simulator Eerily Realistic
Eclipse project = IntelliJ module

Eclipse workspace = IntelliJ project
Wow, I did not think from that perspective at all. Thank you for giving an in-depth overview too. I need to think of some way that works as a value add for the newspapers and provides a better reading experience for users.
Lawyers for QuadrigaCX clients seek exhumation of late founder's remains
Keybase
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/rgisbr; my proof: https://keybase.io/rgisbr/sigs/ucMrmGcAeB9Qpt9aikV897Kzxd2XgpQ6cN6SilsAiE8 ]
This has always been the case in physical news as well. You live and die by your readership (views). Real money always came from ads.
Duplicacy Backup Scripts
My guess is that it's a much smaller group of investors and executives that control the movie industry, with music creation ownership and distribution being much more distributed.
>But there is no objective measurement or axiomatic argument.

This is what I was getting at; the statistical argument isn't convincing at all, because it's very common for people (including academics) to value fashions and trends. I'm not saying that Bach is valued because of the orthodoxy of music theorists, I am saying that it being a possibility discounts the inherent authority we give to a music theorist's opinion.

>The scale in aesthetics is one of development and cross-correlation of techniques, ideas and experiences, and one can only understand these is they have the knowledge and have made the connections.

There's still no "objective" reason to value a piece of art with particular technique, ideas expressed, or experiences relayed (or within the artist) over another. The 13 year old doesn't have the refinement, but it's unclear why refinement has anything to do with assigning artistic value - and even then, we can point to a great many techniques and ideas expressed in Harry Potter. That Bach's technique has more development and history behind it has no clear bearing on how I ought to judge the artwork.

The "scale in aesthetics" seems to be just as arbitrary as the claim that we ought to judge artwork by how many wizards are depicted in it. Why should techniques and ideas matter more than the number of wizards, if the wizards bring pleasure but knowledge of the techniques does not?

Harry Potter fans are more the 13-year old kind because 13 year olds don't have the idea that the enjoyment of artwork should depend on techniques, ideas and experiences, or rather, the partcular techniques, ideas and experiences one finds in Bach, despite different ones in Harry Potter. The fact that 13 year olds aren't part of that orthodoxy yet is good - they are expressing their freedom to value things apart from what high society tells them to.
Thanks for this comment. I was just about to close the tab, having read over the comments for the past couple days and finding mainly my age with kids my kids age or younger/childfree comments. Yours was the comment I was looking for and I see myself really asking these questions now about time management now. Actually as I type this out, my kids have converged on me in my office to play with random things around. Building the foundation of my values is something I never really did, or thought about, I always just approached life as a thing I did in the moment. I now see my inability to schedule-in time for exercise as the beginning of "time management" problems I'm already running into. What did you mean by, "values"? What kind of things should I be be figuring out now that my kids are 4 and 2? One thing that has gotten better is my marriage seems to be much more stable now that we're done "making babies", so I feel I am on the right track there--being nice, listening, being helpful beyond what I would do for myself.
Is this something that only neovim had? My suggestion plugins in nvim pop over just below the cursor.
I don't know of any direct comparisons of JVM and Go GC efficiency.

However, the biggest difference is that there's only one Go GC, while there are several supported ones for Hotspot. With the exception of CMS, which is deprecated, those collectors occupy different niches, meaning there are times you'd use each of them.[0]

The Go collector is optimized for relative simplicity and low latency, and currently tolerates significant overhead to hit that target.

[0] Maybe Shenendoah and ZGC are close enough that they're just direct competitors? Perhaps they're even designed to supercede G1? I'm not quite sure about that, but even so, it would leave at least 2-3 options, depending on whether you include Serial/Epsilon as serious options.
I really liked playing with Legos when I was super young (idk maybe 5 to 12?) I feel like that primed me a bit in terms of assembling various components to achieve an end-goal. Actual computing stuff? Consider that young saplings don't have the intellectual maturity to actually grok computers until much later.

Sorry my comment doesn't help more.
There aren't, there are at least 7 (that I know of) in my city: Uber, Lyft, Cabify, FreeNow, Bolt, Taxify, MyTaxi.
You can usually get a usable preview on the Apple bookstore.
"Things I wont work with" is a great concept that tech should borrow from chemistry. Some things, while they carry possible returns on investment, are simply not worth the risk.

I wonder what "Things I wont work with" would be for tech. I can imagine particular technologies (e.g. predictive policing) or types of data (e.g. I refuse to put digitized therapist's notes on the internet).
Yes, it's only now a feature with Vim 8.2.

Edit: Or maybe only "officially" now with the new floating window API instead of having to roll your own code.

In any case I really appreciate what Neovim is doing to push Vim into adding features. I hope one day they converge into a single tool.
That's possible with intelliJ as well (at least in the pro version)
Did you come across the word “Tnetennba”?
Who told you that?

A streamed copy of is still a copy for purposes of copyright laws.
I've always wanted a mechanical keyboard with the layout of the Apple magic keyboard, couldn't get use to the windows key position and missed the fn key. Always thought about building my own
Economies of scale at work
I don’t understand the relevance of that argument in this context.

Computers can cut ads that do tracking out of the page with the same effort they can cut out anything else from the page.

The difference is that ads without tracking remove the incentive for the user to block them. This is why people don’t cut ads out of the newspapers before reading. If the ads in newspapers were cameras, analogous to the tracking used in online advertising, you’d see people expend that effort. Just as you see people blocking ads online.
You can try the homework assignments. They aren't trivial and you'll probably learn a bunch more by not being spoon fed the answers. Admittedly, the only bummer is not having someone review your work.
Must have had really fun making those sound effects.
Can you expound on that? Can you paraphrase the doctor's suggestions?
Not sure what you are experiencing, but, anything with the prime label is indeed included with your Prime subscription, no extra fee.
You know, philanthropists really need to invest in higher level free education for non-CS sciences. We have tons of free resources with tremendously beautiful animations on data structures and state-of-the-art machine learning, but the same can't be said for bio and chemistry. This is holding back the biotech industry. People can't make educated judgements about stuff like Mercury Thiomersal because that level of organic chemistry understanding isn't covered well by existing resources like Khan Academy. Hacker News and Silicon Valley loves disruption and "Move fast break things" Uber-style. How about democratising medical education? The cheapest, fastest way to improve healthcare in developing countries is to break the whole "apprenticeship" gatekeeping system that plague medicine and pharmacy. There is no FDA in Africa to bring down the hammer on you making videos on low-cost quality control for orphan drug analogues when people are dying due to corruption, incompetence, and poor medical practices. The level of biochemistry knowledge on HN is amazingly poor, every thread on CRISPR and gene drives reads like the infamous parable of the blind men and an elephant.
Here in Chicago, half my team bikes or walks to work and the other half takes public transit. Most everyone over age 30 or 35 can scrape up enough to own a property on a rather average tech salary. Other than the intolerable weather during the month of January it really is a fantastic alternative to the coasts.
None, I would suggest pushing on the stabilisation of generators ;).
Why you Shouldn't Go to Slush – Interview with EU Investor
I try to apply this to my own work, nowadays I work with financial software in South America, and I have the power to suggest what to use and what to avoid. I decided, and yet to know if it's a good idea or not, to instead of worrying about leaking data, not collect some types of data at all.
I solve this by remapping keys in software and then swapping the key caps - building your own is really fun but it isn’t required!
Yeah, the bromine ion has half life in the body of some weeks, and can cause some neurologic problems,but the body eventually expels it away. I would be worried, but is, not in my primary list of food risk
Yes because renting an Airbnb is the same thing as living in your own house.
>Once again, this is not about explaining individual behaviors with precision. This is about distribution statistics. Explaining consistent differences in populations which undeniably exist. This kind of research is absolutely critical to understanding and correcting social inequities that, ironically, people fear will be exacerbated by such inconvenient truths, as you put it.

But we already do this kind of research. We know why Polynesians tend to be good wrestlers and so on. We have actual genetic causal mechanisms. But when it comes to personality traits and complex behaviors - the field of psychology is just not up to par. For instance, neither does g nor the big five have any real physical existence beyond statistical artifacts from test taking. To attempt to draw conclusions based on them is like drawing social pol based on one's choice of cooking oil/butter - and yes, there are GWASses about that: twitter.com/SbotGwa/status/1134916742629744641

Genetics isn't wizardy. Your genes are not your soul. If you want to prove something has a genetic basis you need to show what it is - what genes code for what protein, which pathways it is involved in, how it interacts with the environment, and how eventually down the line that may affect behavior. That's what "genetically caused" means. Otherwise it's just blackbox magic - maybe fine for psychologists but absolutely not for geneticists.

>None of these topics have such significant potentially negative consequences for social inequity. They all fit neatly within socially acceptable bounds.

Global warming, fitting in socially acceptable bounds? You mean the one phenomenon that castastrophically threatens our way of living and whose only way of fixing would require a total upheaval of social structures? Do you think things like the Green New Deal are socially acceptable to most people? Have you seen what governments do for oil? Seriously now.
Kailh low profile choc switches are a thing, but their key travel isn't that short.
No it is not "normal" but for people who suffer from it, it is very debilitating.
I think the original commenter knows full well what an array is.

Vague justifications like "can cause problems" is probably exactly what he's referring to, in fact - people who know that inserting elements into an array is "slow" and end up making large and complex code as a result. Yes, it's O(N) on the length of your code, but the point is that for a couple of megs of text, O(N) is perfectly acceptable.

At least on a desktop, that'll fit in L3 cache which these days is around 175GB/sec. Or to put it another way, inserting that single char can probably be done at around 40,000 times per second. Which is faster than I can type, at any rate.
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)

boclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/in-depth/ssris/art-20044825
>> How is this different from say particle physics?

It is different in the sense that particle physics quantifies concepts that are not correlated to how someone feels about them, or how someone answers questions in a questionnaire.

And I don't see how I misunderstood the studies we're discussing. They handed people questionnaires asking them how they think or feel about things. I don't see how any concrete evidence about anything can be found in this way, other than how people fill questionnaires.

But the claim is never "X people fill this questionnaire in this way". It's always along the lines of "X people are more agreeable" etc. This is misleading.
"I can legally stream almost any song I can think of"

Maybe your taste in music is more mainstream
I started out a biochemist before I discovered computers. This article is rofl funny. "invigorate itself all over the ceiling..." yeah, got the t-shirt. That's why they took away my bunsen burner and gave me a mouse.

Seriously.... fellow programmers, designers, entrepreneurs. What are the things you won't work with?

For my part:

Web code written in any language without a well-integrated string data type. strcpy() is a target painted on my back if I did that.

Anybody who claims they've got amazing new data- or media= compression technology and wants funding for it.

Transferring peoples' data from a protected realm (like a HIPAA-covered pharmacy system) to an unprotected realm (like direct marketing).