skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends how you look at it. I'd say that if you value brand based on its recognition and not on its revenue/profit then Walmart is not one of the most valuable brands in the world. Just looking at the Forbes list i really doubt that MasterCard is less recognised around the world as SAP or Walmart, or Home Depot (operates in 3 countries) is more recognisable as Gillette or Ford... Forbes list should really be called "Worlds most valuable companies" not brands.
Slack has an entire app ecosystem layer in it these days, not to mention they've never really trimmed down the electron fat. Slack hasn't been a contender for "well made" in quite a few months.

NYT should be a relatively simple website. Sure, they have some very nice interactive stories and we'll give those a pass, but even just plain text articles load an amazing amount of cruft. It's text, just send the damn text.

Everyone else being bloated isn't an excuse.
Because its considerably faster, they claim. https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/
https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust

They rewrote ublock origin in rust, and its native to the product, not tacked on. Shady business model aside, they are making technical contributions to the world.
as expected...

I asked a question about how an immutable ledger, with public consensus, deals with the reversal transactions as ordered by the rule of law. Do you have an answer for that?
Hmm, good point.

I'm about to move to Vermont and Green Mountain Power will be my power utility. It's good to hear this!
> voluntarily subjected itself to more Nitrogen after losing consciousness.

How can you argue it did anything voluntarily if it was not conscious?

I'd think it was merely subjected to more nitrogen because it was unable to move away, no?
I think that there are two pathologies. The first is that alot of programmers have very specific and utterly unshakable views on what constitutes good or acceptable code. These are rooted in their experiences, but often have no foundation in terms of evidence or science (because there is very little good research on this).

The second issue is politics; there are a lot of people who hate the idea that data science or science can provide inputs to policy decisions (in business and government). I see modern political groups as :

- traditionalists : protecting what they have, policy aimed at preserving status quo

- capitalists : untrammeled use of capital power to maximize capital return

- idealists : interested in a higher causes/morality (as they see it) and unconcerned about other impacts or concerns

- technocrats : concerned about taking the highest utility actions (measuring utility in various often unconnected ways).

Capitalists have held the whip hand for 50 years, idealists (trade unionists, safety campaigners, ect) have been in full on retreat, traditionalists have managed to align with capitalists (by co-opting them with nice things like country estates). Technocrats have swayed in and out of influence; the crisis of 2009 really smashed up peoples faith in economists for example, the first gulf war really brought logistics and management science to the fore... but the war on terror has smashed this up now.

Data scientists are mostly technocrats but often are compromised/partially capitalists (because... money). In every case that I have seen where capitalists are thwarted by data science they react with fury - because at the moment they are very unused to being thwarted.

Recently though idealists have been grabbing more of the mic, and have a large contingent of data scientists of their own - ie. university scientists. This is why climate change modellers are so hated!
From two seconds of Googling:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978044453...

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/19/4/318/2749842

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2008-02717-005
>Who would opt-in to those?

The OP's approach doesn't depend on people opting into legal ads. You can use ML/regressions/whatever to extrapolate the best people to show which type of legal ads based on their interests, even if those interests do not include "Legal". There doesn't even need to be an opt-out option at all. I don't think consumers would mind, since opt-outs reduce the service's advertising revenue which in turn increases the cost of the service. Almost no one wants to pay more money.
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How do you fix the deadline and scope without estimates?

Within my teams, estimating doesn't appear to have downward pressure. Team members appear to want to estimate correctly because they want to have a realistic and steady workload. Driving down estimates means their workload goes up (at least in the short term, until our average velocity adjusts).
If they're avoiding all third-party data, can they do better than user-submitted preferences plus observed behavior on the domain? It seems like anything else should count as third-party.
My team still uses F# and a few others do as well
Nitrogen is largely viewed as the more humane option compared to CO2
Many defects have been identified. A small collection are linked to from here:

https://lockdownsceptics.org/second-analysis-of-fergusons-mo...
A day in the life of two Indian students under lockdown
The article makes it look like Germany shared data with Azerbaijan - was that the case?
Many of the audience segments aren't interests, they're demographic and psychographic information. Per the excerpt below, would you willingly provide investable assets (ie, net worth), marital status, level of education, or family size?

If not, presumably the "large team specifically to support this year of a dozen people" that NYT assembled has built a system to infer those things about you.

This is NYT trying to stay competitive in light of CCPA (which state will adopt it next? my guesses are NY, OR, MA, or WA) and GDPR. First-party audience segmentation is now all but required for larger publishers.

From the article:

> Those segments are broken up into 6 categories: age (age ranges, generation), income (HHI, investable assets, etc.), business (level, industry, retirement, etc.), demo (gender, education, marital status, etc.) and interest (fashion, etc.)
at a bear minimum we need something like FRAND for safety devices that require safety related patents to be licensed fairly, non-discriminatory and with reasonable fee's
Absolutely agreed that the same inefficient companies are trying to grab the federal money once again. The difference this time is we have Communications Union Districts in place in many parts of the state that have veto power over proposed broadband projects in their region.

As for LEOS internet, the elephant in the room for this technology is vulnerability to solar flares and Kessler syndrome. Long term viability of satellite super constellations is seriously in doubt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
I called it "probably" the worst lisp. I enjoy very much working with elisp, and almost 100% agree with your characterization of it.

But it is a fairly clunky language with all it's let, letstar, letdash, letstardash... You know what I mean. I am no elisp history expert, but I believe that is due to it's age and how easy it is to extend.

And just to reiterate, I have never felt limited by it, I really like it, I would not change it and it solves the domain problem just fine.
It can really depend how you write it. In some instances you can just throw things together and it can look a fair bit like you might write it in what many would consider high level languages.

On the other hand, there are times when you really need to get into the nitty gritty of things for performance reasons, and it ends up feeling quite low level.

For example, here's a Rust program which does the same as fqcnt_py1_4l.py: https://gist.github.com/Measter/d31abe88b5e318ba98856bf6f047...

It's longer than the Python version[0], I'm going out of my way to not allocate for every string. But, and maybe I'm biased here, it doesn't really feel like it's low-level code.

[0] https://github.com/lh3/biofast/blob/master/fqcnt/fqcnt_py1_4...
Aren't EULAs are enforced by the CFAA? Isn't that why Aaron Schwartz is no longer with us?
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700,000 pigs alone would need new homes per week.
If their competitors were writing their applications in C++ or Perl, it probably would have made a noticeable difference to their iteration speed. Writing a web application in C++ (especially in 1995) would not have been too efficient.

I'm sure that they had a good understanding of their customers, but the language had to have made a difference as well. These days, we're writing web apps in languages like JavaScript and Ruby, not C++, so the difference would be a lot less significant.
Everyone was moved to Walmart teams last year. It's a Walmart office now
Barring a technical blunder why does anything have to be leaked in a "here are the customer segments we offer, give us an ad and we'll show it to our users and give you a report on impressions and clicks" model?
And you could use Facebook and disable every tracking feature and hope they're honest.

When someone does shady things in one area.. they probably do them in others.
Do you want tshirt sizes or fibonacci?
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If the top categories apply for most people by default, then there's no reason to have people opt-in or track them.
The difference between Adblock plus and uBO doesn’t affect my point. Most people are fully capable of installing an ad blocker, and tons do.

I guess I get people wanting to piss off those who run ads, but that applies to ad blockers as a whole. That’s not an argument for Brave specifically.
Go into the market for a mildly big ticket item other than a house and do some searches or browse some websites with privacy blockers off. You'll get start getting "relevant" ads.

I went to a e-bike manufacturer's website a couple months ago and they chased me around the internet with ads for like a week.
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That's an impressive changelog. I'm excited about the new ARM SBC drivers and seemingly improved RPKI flow for OpenBGPd. I should try running a toy route server on an RPi4 with OpenBSD/OpenBGPd, or a full DFZ router.
$499 seems to be targeting the consumer market. I see this will overtake Google Glass / Oculus if it's executed well enough.
A lot of the basic rhythms and tempos (aside from the ones directly taken from west African music via American blues) were mimicking locomotives / steam engines.

Personally I think distortion does a good job of conveying emotion / passion as it intuitively gives you a sense of “wow they are really pushing stuff beyond it’s intended limit”.
I would. Because at the pure end imperative->declarative spectrum, you lose turing completeness.

It is certainly less imperative than the equivalent C, that's for sure.
The guy was known throughout Hollywood to be someone you wouldn't leave a friend alone with because he might well rape her. So, yeah, it's possible he was sincerely confused by affectionate text messages... but it's a lot more likely he's a manipulative sociopath who knew how to get his victims to damage their ability to accuse him in the future.

I wouldn't work for a rapist or sexual harasser, but I know plenty of people who care more about their careers and they probably would. That doesn't justify raping or sexually harassing them. And even if they tried to mitigate the damage to their careers by playing along with the abuse, that would still not justify or mitigate the abuse.
True, but to me the difference is the focus on the user rather than the platform. If somebody mails a package of child pornography to someone else the news doesn't attack the Post Office. Since it'd be government-run I wouldn't have a problem with each account being tied to a specific social security number. A true federal public utility that doesn't have to worry about crossing borders.
I mean if we're going to engage in silly pedantry, critter means animal.

Also, ethics aside, the comment above was referring specifically to processing, not the act of killing. Killing is comparatively fast and far less messy. Butchering/processing a 300lb carcass is where the real effort lies.
Starting with a rock. So, essentially, the whole tech tree.
I get the resistance to whitewashing, but the terminology of 'processing' seems more accurate. Killing the animal is only the beginning of the process and is generally the least time intensive. Properly butchering an animal while maintaining food safety, producing the proper cuts, etc. is a process that requires tooling and expertise.

I would hope that everyone understands that creating a final meat product involves killing, but we shouldn't trivialize the process requirements just to drive an emotional point home.
Chrome+uBO isnt necessarily the better option, as far as raw performance.

https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/

https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust

Using Chrome+uBO+uMatrix and Brave side by side, Brave just works better. Less knobs to fiddle with, sane defaults. Sure I love the power of uMatrix, but it comes with its own time sink managing it. Brave, out of the box, performs correctly in most situations, and switching from default to blocking all cookies, javascript, and fingerprinting is only a click each (and thats the advanced mode.)
PG calls it a Paradox because no one (not even the Lisper) can know whether their language is Blub.

You are right, though, that the Lisp community read the essay and internalized that all other languages are Blub. In my opinion this led them to collectively dismiss, for far too long, Dictionary Literals in every dynamic language which has eaten Lisp's lunch in the marketplace in the last two decades. Objections were raised ("you need homoiconicity for macros!") and everyone assumed they were valid and stuck with Common Lisp's woeful hash table interface and the loop macro keywords, insisting all the while "oh, that's a DSL, you could implement that with Macros"[0].

And then Clojure implemented Map literals and - what do you know - Clojure still has Lisp Macros!

[0] Efforts in this direction thankfully forthcoming: https://github.com/inaimathi/clj
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Is the processing happening remotely? I can't use any software that sends data (especially communications) of premises.
I once worked with a high level executive that left EasyJet and praised the company on how lean and small the team was. Apparently too lean and too small.
OK sorry, Yes creating a map/set using the small-size optimization is internally doing a sort.
US law applies worldwide when it comes to this sort of stuff... You can bet if you started producing these chips and selling them to Iran, you would either be arrested and child porn found on your laptop, or have an 'accident'.
This project looks very promising!
I sadly can't find the video right now (there are other clips available on Youtube). The experiment involved putting some food in a gas chamber into which the pig could stick its head. The pig voluntarily went for the food and the chamber was filled with Nitrogen. The pig lost consciousness and fell backwards away from the chamber. Now breathing air the pig regains consciousness and after fully waking up goes right back to the food.
What is the 'safe' keyword?
What, in your opinion, does the word "gaslighting" mean?
When SimCity Got Serious: Story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery
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Hi YC Community,

We are officially live with our next version of the Within Health product - telehealth platform around the radiology patient journey!

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I would love to see Intel get into contract manufacturing. We need more competition in that space and Intel's position no longer makes sense in the current environment.
Thanks for the amazing response so far. I just closed off the second day and just read all your responses.

Day 3 will see a lot of incoming change :D

It's a lot of info, but here is what I digested and what I'll experiment with:

- 25 min. of skill building time

- Work is work, I have a life outside of that. In fact, one of my own tips is to be playful at certain times to lighten the mood. Living a life outside of work really helps with that to stay playful and keep team spirits up.

- "Take care of your health. Eat well and exercise. Sleep is important."

- Admitting ignorance

- Feel responsible for the company (I read the discussion, I figured I might try the other side if feeling responsible has mixed results)

- Keep separate apps and notebooks

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Working at Triply in Amsterdam:

If you're interested in working with Triply -- and me ;-) -- and can work in Amsterdam, medior/senior software engineers are still looked for [1].

We're focusing on improving the developer experience for using linked data and creating linked data (sets). As I understood it, the whole topic is too academic, Triply is changing that by making it more UX friendly for developers and data analysts.

[1] https://triply.cc/career (I'm not sure if they do remote)
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Ralph was the initial name of the project, from the film the invisible man. More about dylan history:(1)

Ralph used prefix notation, dylan infix notation. Here you can find an implementation of ralph:(2)

From (2): Ralph is a Lisp-1 dialect that compiles to JavaScript. It is heavily inspired by an early version of Dylan (also known as "Prefix Dylan"), as described in Dylan – An object-oriented dynamic language.

Also (3) is about a Lisp to Dylan translator. There is also norvig lisp to dylan translator cited in (3).

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Dylan_programmi...

(2) https://github.com/turbolent/ralph

(3) https://tim.pritlove.org/2003/11/10/converting-lisp-to-dylan...
Or we just don't eat meat..... no that's too crazy! Moron.

EDIT: Downvote to your heart's content! Truth is not decided by consensus. What I said is true, even if you don't like it.
State wide broadband is extremely hard to do.

If you look at all the successful community broadband initiatives in the US, they are almost always at the city/county level.
i don't even see the point of keeping votes anonymous

Judgement is potentially a problem.

But, beyond that, seeing votes could lead more timid team members to simply wait for the tech lead (or a boisterous team member) to vote and follow along.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200519153036/https://www.nytim...
Earlier HTML had tags that styled elements. The community decided it would be better if styling was left to CSS and HTML simply described document structure. This way styling lives in one kind of file instead of two different places.

I wouldn’t recommend using it for big or professional projects, but I guess it’s fine for personal stuff. Like the other comment said it’s an obsolete tag. Browsers tend try hard not to break old HTML but not sure that’s guaranteed to always be the case.
Fantastic news for WSL2 users who want a consistent way for testing Linux GUI applications on one platform without installing another distro or dual booting on their PC. Interesting enough, it includes GPU acceleration as well.

Sounds like I can easily do all the Linux development I need to do on Windows 10 then, even possibly compiling the Linux kernel, knowing that it is well supported by Microsoft.
Assuming universal ethics onto a human is the subject of whole fields of study. Doing so onto something that isn't even from the same evolutionary tree seems silly. An alien evolved from predators might find vegetarians merely dinner and not worthy of talking to.
A bit off topic, but this pattern is the worst. It happened to me with Hellosign. I signed up for the free trial and never remembered to cancel. I saw the charge last year and thought “oh well,” then forgot to cancel again this year. I literally did not login even once for a year, but then like clockwork they charged me $140. What annoyed me is that it seemed like they intentionally went radio silent for a year, so as to not remind me I was using their service. I received no marketing emails, no pre-billing email, and no receipt. They just silently charged me $140.

To their credit, they refunded me when I complained about this.

Personally I think it should be illegal to renew annual subscriptions without some kind of reminder that the bill is coming up, or an opportunity to cancel at some point, especially if you never even used the service. Heck, I might go so far as to say that annual billing should not be allowed.
Where can I find a recent unbiased analysis of OpenBSD vs Debian security?
> Have you ever lived in a neighborhood with ongoing FTTH, or even FTTC, installation? I assure you that there is certainly a problem with having that done multiple times. That's just the making-lives-shitty part

I was around when AT&T ran the fiber in my old neighborhood. One day, they put pulleys on the poles. Another day, they pulled the fiber over the pulleys. The worst part was waiting for service to become available even though the neighborhood equipment was installed.

The couple of days with lots of trucks in the neighborhood was somewhat disruptive, but not that much more than trash day with a couple garbage trucks driving slowly through the neighborhood.

That still doesn't make it likely to get competition this way. AT&T seemingly only installed fiber because Google had announced they were going to, but Google never actually did, because it was too expensive (capital cost + regulatory requirements + pole access)
With 6 million subscribers, just looking at which articles people read gives a pretty good indication of what they are interested in. They don't need to do better.
Yes, good point. Must be contributory.
I asked:

>Can you link to some pre-registered studies of impact of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance?

None of the studies you linked are pre-registered.
UNICEF is now predicting 6,000 child deaths per day due to food and medical supply issues.

It turns out you need an economy to fight the virus.

All these knock on effects will be great learnings. Probably will turn out that future policy will be a local function of population density, public transportation usage, etc.
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It's called processing because killing the animal is just the first step. Next you have to systematically dismantle their body and cut up the usable bits into manageable chunks, which (I'd assume) is a bulk of the work. Personally, I think the word processing is more vile in this context than simply killing. That said, I also eat meat, so I can't really say much.
That's fair, it just sounded a bit too clinical.
Silly thing to pick on. I like a drink with co-workers, but totally understandable not to at work, especially as a lot of their workers definitely couldn't because it'd be dangerous.

Or do you think it should be one rule for the richly paid programmers, and another for the low paid warehouse workers?
> You can use ML/regressions/whatever

But do you not feed that with all sorts of data you aggregate about the user?
Legalizing psychedelics.
What a bizarre statement. Do you have a point?
> this error was due to the recent automated systems purged COVID-19 misinformation and that Podcast Addict was unfortunately caught in the crossfire.

Typical Google at this point. Maybe I don't understand the scale, but wouldn't it make sense to have _some_ kind of human in the loop? Given some criteria, perhaps an app has existed for >5 years, meets some threshold number of users, etc. maybe it's worth getting a human opinion before doing something as drastic as banning.
I find it interesting that different methods are used for death penalty and for farm animals. You should think that whatever is considered as humane for one should be ok for the other.