skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no reason why diversity in the market should depend on diversity in engines, other than this is frequently used by engineers as an argument.

Engines are about as relevant to diversity in the browser market as semiconductors are to diversity in the phone market. It's irrelevant for the end user experience, and arguably a waste of resources and time.

Browsers which can't compete on actual features and services that matter to users and instead try to distiniguish themselves through technical implementation details will probably die out, as the marketshare of Firefox shows.
I think it's possible to have good discussion on places that are very loosely moderated, but it's not as simple. And I don't think it can work on sites like 4chan where user have no identity
Many governments (including the one that occupies my country Switzerland) drove economies into the ditch. These governments won't admit that this was wrong from the start. Now they have to pretend the USA is too dangerous.
Safari does not use Blink
If QM were a tool, it would be a hammer with a corkscrew for a handle. Sure, it works if you can manage to swing it, but it's really hard to grasp -- has awful mental ergonomics. What distinguishes a true theory (as a mental tool) from a bag of tricks: having that underlying model that we can wrap our minds around.

Some physicists claim it's inevitable because we don't have direct sensory access to quintessential quantum behavior -- we can only have intuitive models for classical physics. I don't buy it -- the human imagination is quite powerful.

I suspect that a superior theory (1) will be mathematically equivalent to QM (2) may suggest obvious extensions that are not equivalent, leading to testable predictions (3) won't result from merely reshuffling equations -- it'll take some serious inspiration.

Another hunch: the decoherence approach is barking up the wrong tree. The lesson of Schroedinger's cat is that realism doesn't emerge from a non-realistic theory. It seems like locality has a better chance of being an emergent property.
We checked out a drill from the dorm office (could also get DVDs and stuff) and attempted to drill from inside of a closet into a beam that crossed the hallway. The beam seemed likely to be hollow so the idea was that then we could run a cable across and have glorious gigabit instead of the 100 Mbps that the dorm switches provided. But the exploratory drilling in the first closet was not rewarding.
Ah yes, when a competitor offers a product at negative profit just to drive you out of business is capitalism... except when you do it another country you call it colonialism.
New Thin-Film Technology Uses Sustainable Components for Solar Panels
By all means make the default behaviour apply security updates, but that is very different to forcing updates of all types no matter what.

In any case, for users who do have some idea of what they're doing, OS security updates are probably a relatively low priority today. Frequent robust backups, proper firewalls, and applying security updates to any applications that pull content from remote sources are likely to be more important in practice. If you get to the point where you're relying on your OS to protect you, you've probably already gone wrong at least once. Most desktop OSes won't do much to protect you against threats like data exfiltration anyway, because the security models are nowhere near sophisticated enough.
Given that our networks can generally handle 2GB movies now, can you imagine streaming a 4K movie, but instead of using 20GB it only takes 2GB?
Was there a control study on virus detection of incoming tap water as well as virus detection of the outgoing waste waters?
5. There is a way to get in touch with the moderators, appeal any censorship and have a civil conversation to clarify any misunderstandings. Just like the good old forums in fact, where moderation was benevolent and tried its best to resolve issues.

Compare that to mainstream social media where moderation is a cost center, outsourced to people in atrocious working conditions with no good understanding of the subtleties of the language at hand or the topic being discussed, and has no incentive to make the platform better. The platform itself has no incentive to encourage good discussions and mediate conflicts, its only incentive is to keep people looking at ads and the mediocre moderation is just there to keep the law at bay. Any "good discussions" that arise anyway are just a side-effect.
This is pretty accurate.

I'd also throw in "Don't use static functions" and "Write declarative code".

Honestly, I think getting rid of public getters and setters goes a LONG way toward more reasonable objects.
FB is terrible as it puts your aunt Mabel, your 3rd collitch GF, some guy you bought weed off of in HS, and some dude you met at an industry mixer together with 100 of your closest pals and lets them fling poop at each other. You can quit; I did. Don't miss it!

Nextdoor is great; lets me know what the neighbors are doing and helps me pick out great local services. Some dudes above pointed out you need some common interest for it to work: being a good neighbor counts as a common interest!
Had exactly the same experience.
Returns don't matter. People always compare strategies to the S&P 500's return, but it doesn't make any sense. In finance, strategies are compared on their Sharpe ratio, not on their returns. This is because leverage can be applied to make the returns better. For example, if you had a strategy that, unlevered, returned 5% with 2% volatility, that would be pretty amazing. If you wanted, you could lever up 4x and get around 20% return and 8% volatility (though, it's not that simple, since you are going to pay a volatility tax, but we'll ignore that).

Another thing to look at is correlation to the market. The less correlated to the market your strategy is, the more valuable it is. This is because investors like uncorrelated strategies. For example, lets say you have n strategies, each with a volatility of sigma and mean return of mu. Allocating all of your money to one strategy or two or all of them won't change your return, it will still be mu. But if the strategies are uncorrelated, and you equal weight each one, your vol will be sigma/sqrt(n) and your return will be mu. This is the essence of Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT): add as many uncorrelated assets that you can.

In no particular order, here's a list of things that matter when evaluating an (equity) strategy: turnover, size of alpha being exploited, Sharpe ratio, correlation to market and sector, correlation to style factors (value, momentum, oil, etc), and net exposure (long or short).
Two patients die in now-halted study of Audentes gene therapy
The crime problem non-whites have is cops committing crimes against them and getting away with it.
Property prices would be lower if they were not much of an asset. If we taxed land so the value of land was close to zero.

If we don't tax land and amenities and jobs remain concentrated in large urban areas, imho there is a risk ubi will be absorbed into land prices, meaning idle rentiers win yet again.
The problem is that people sometimes want to be nasty, hurtful or obtuse. This warning will not do anything because 1) people explicitly want to be noxious and 2) there is no consequence for breaking the rules anyway.
In which someone shits out 5000 words about statically serving files over http... I mean ffs. Is there even a hint of self awareness?
Not to overanalyze, but there's probably a minimum bar for each leg of that stool. And once you're over it, investing more time and white won't move the needle.

Ok overthinking it. There are probably different "formations" of the stool. Imagine each axis on a scale from 1 to 10. A 10 topic and 10 timing can get by with as low as a 4 writing talent. A 7 topic and 2 timing can make up for the gap with a writing talent of 8.

End ramble.
Yes. The problem though is as soon as the vulnerability used in the exploit becomes public Sony pushes out a patch.
Arguably, it became that after the Eternal September in 1993, when the hoi polloi joined in via AOL.
School shootings where children are being gunned down are vanishingly rare.
The World Is Getting Better (2019)
how often?
Well, either quantum needs fixing or GR does (or both). QM is extremely difficult to understand, GR is easier to grasp. I think it's a clue.
As far as my brief research shows, Harry Beck came up with his original tube map design in 1931 (which is actually quite different to what we know it as today btw), while the first printed circuit board was invented in 1936 by Paul Eisler. Thus while it's possible that Harry Beck was inspired by circuit diagrams, it's surely not possible that he was inspired by (printed) circuit boards.
When Charter hooked up a building for me, they used a horizontal bore to get from their pedestal at the corner of the lot to the wall I wanted them to come in. I've also seen horizontal boring used to lay new fiber along a highway right-of-way, because they wanted to switch back and forth from one side of the highway to the other. You've probably seen these machines before. [0]

[0] https://www.ditchwitch.com/directional-drills
Encryption laws damage potential: Atlassian
Well, that's the problem.

CS classes teach you to "think like a computer", and computers "think" imperatively.

OOP is inherently a declarative paradigm.

CS classes don't prepare you to think this way. So we get fancy pants CS hotshots writing "objects" that are really just functionally decomposed into classes, and we call the instantiation of those classes an "object".

I would go so far as to say OOP is NOT science. It is philosophy.
Just look at FB's stock over the last week. Wew lads, this is actually pretty big. From ~245 to 215 at market close today.
well, they'll be taking on more risk if that money ends up not being enough to support early stage startups. And, it makes the deal even more difficult to swallow for hardtechs/biotechs/moonshots, and potentially making it worse for those companies could decrease diversification opportunities? still a better move for YC than the companies getting funded
Yes draconian surveillance to keep the status quo. Your choices scrutinized by some faceless figure to keep things as they're 'suppose' to be(or worst yet to carry out an agenda).
I suspect being outdoors makes a huge difference.

If the protests were a hotspot for new infections the states that are doing contract tracing should show that. I haven’t seen any evidence of it.
Safari uses WebKit and Nitro, Blink is a fork of WebKit and there has been a fair amount of divergence.
Hard to do that when they've given millions the Republican party. I know they like to think they play the middle, but Facebook as a company has favored Republicans, historically.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It sounds like a lot of fun! I love the idea that there’s one metric ($) to measure the effectiveness of your strategy/code.

Any recommendations or hints on where to get started (assuming I’m decent with python/pandas etc)?
Yeah, I'll give that a whirl. And after posting my comment, I discovered that Microsoft is closing all their stores, so no real-life meetings with Microsoft's version of an Apple Genius will be possible anymore...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23651672
More importantly they no longer do the stupid region locking & on the Switch for example you can even buy digital games from other countries eshops.
Another possibility is that it's just Pennsylvania...
Washington State seems kind of weird to pick for your example. Unlike many other states which do not allow municipal or county broadband at all, Washington's just prevents governments from offering it retail to consumers. They can offer it wholesale to resellers who can then use it to provide retail broadband.
It’s very difficult to make the sort of comparison you are making because it ignores the key difference between the two societies. That is, one is based in Confucianism, which values social harmony, while the other is based on the the protection of individual liberty.

It’s certainly the case that China has less “social discord” because of censorship. To what degree it would have been self-enforced without that censorship is another question entirely.

Consider Japan. Japan is a de facto totalitarian state with individuals and groups enforcing cultural norms independent of government backing. It has censored media, but not nearly to the extent that China does. It has very little social discord, despite an economy that has been stagnating for more than a generation.
If the mayor of a small town threatens on Facebook to murder people, should that be left alone, since, after all, violence is what government does?
We were at 6/0.768 for ~$90/month. 60ms latency. We switched to a local WISP and got 10/2 for $65/month, with 20ms latency. And the WISP's service is usually a bit faster than what they say as opposed to CenturyLink...
Ms stores were a really sad sight at the malls when not positioned far enough from Apple stores. Maybe they should try Xbox store or something else that does not remind ppl of work
Fair. And I think that would work for the day to day stuff. You would probably still need a central depot (basically a wal-mart) to get things in to town efficiently. It would probably need a road, but we could limit things fairly well.

But that's why I brought up mattresses.
"Actually, many months my PnL graph looked something like this: (this is generated to get a point across, but my real data looked extremely similar):"

I'd love to see the actual data
My kid brother has received a few boxes through a Summer program at his school. They’re form the Atlas line and are pretty fun. We did one just this morning and it’s a good bonding experience.
Thanks for that extensive explanation. I'm not working there anymore.

First we had no test and everything was crap.

Then we did scripted tests and things got pretty good.

Then things got worse, because of the regressions, when one person did the tests for too long.

In the end we settled for students for a semester each, because they were really cheap and didn't want to do that job for long anyway.
Yes, but it's not a hidden variable (at least not in a prepared system).
The guy was quite down on his time in Australia, and the aggressive policing he was expected to do. He contrasted that with his time in the UK and (particularly) in NZ the role seemed to allow more tolerance and leeway and was described by him as 'progressive'. The NZ police aim seemed to be to get compliance without police charges or fines by engaging in a less combative manner.
He described quite harsh measures taken for minor disruptive behaviour and property damage (eg graffiti) in Australia.
He had a low opinion of the way children were managed in all three countries. Police had little option but to lock young kids in cells when found out and about late at night in NZ. He had previously had the ability to get social services in the UK could house a child for a night. This was theoretically available in NZ, but never was in practice. So when they found a kid out in the small hours, if they couldn't find their caregivers, the kid had to go to a cell.
He was very down about this.
I left with the distinct impression that in order of severity of policing (for want of a better term) it went from a relatively relaxed and easy going NZ to UK then a quite severe and punitive Australia.
It would be interesting to know if this is borne out by others impressions/data.
"The law says that you must always follow police instructions."

out of curiosity, which law is this or where does it say that?
It would be nice if landlords provided shelter for the sake of providing shelter, and grocers worked for the sake of feeding people, too.

And somehow, I've never seen anybody suggest that since Daniel Ek and his team love music so much, they should forego worldly possessions and work for the sake of bringing music to the people.
The hinge first looks neat but it makes the folded Book quite think. Really not a good design. In general I am having lots of problems with my work Surface Book 2. It constantly runs out of USB resources even with the dock and multi screen setup are quite finicky. Sometimes one screen doesn’t wake up until I reboot the whole setup. For its premium price I am quite disappointed.
FPTP voting is a the problem, sure, but mandatory voting solves nothing.
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Curiously, you just listed a lot of good reasons to do YC. Until the last few weeks of the program you will be encouraged to focus on your business except for the Tuesday evening talks and short meetings with the partners. As this is remote you won't even have to waste time traveling to Mountain View from wherever you live.

Then at the end you focus on demo day which I promise you is the most concentrated and efficient way to meet investors and raise a round on the terms you are looking for (caveat being I don't know how it works remote). Then it's back to grinding on the company. The further along you are by demo day the easier and more efficient your raise will be.

Is that worth 7%? Lots of founders think so. In our batch we had a company that had more than $8MM revenue previously that went on to raise millions on an uncapped note that converted really high. Pretty sure it was worth it to them.
What specific positions does the democratic party hold that you consider to be extreme and unrepresentative of a majority of the electorate?
That sounds right, according to the famous toilet lid story: https://twitter.com/DrPhiltill/status/979583605637877760

> 13. This is just conservation of energy. The initial potential energy was mass times height times gravity. Divide by the 1/20th second that it "rings" out the pressure waves (the sound), and that is acoustic power. Divide by surface area of the toilet bowl lid to get energy flux.
There are a lot of things I like about tidal but I had constant network issues even with lossy playback. Tracks were skipping and pausing and taking forever to start on the same network that works flawlessly with other services.
As a technologist I'm surprised that you need this processed explained to you.

It's progressive improvement. It's trial and error, without this process we'd never ever make progress.
People keep referring to the NY Giuliani era, but I think it's time to read Freakonomics and discover the true reason of the crime decreasing and it was definitely NOT Guiiliani's master-skills in public administration. Whatever grace he ever had, he lost it when he showed the world his true colours recently.
Trouble is, we haven't figured out a way to scale "good moderation"

I’m not so sure we need it. Isn’t it okay if we have different, small communities with different interests? Like I’m not sure if society actually needs a community as large as Facebook.

Sure, Zuck believes in it, but I think he’s somewhat naïve for doing so. Different people need different spaces.
I would think neutron stars accumulating material from a binary companion ought to be reasonably common. Unlike white dwarfs, they won't be able to blow themselves apart in supernovae, so they should just keep accumulating mass until they collapse into very small black holes.
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Do they speak about strange stars[1] (quark stars with strange quarks)?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_star
Hardly anything needs any tweaking to get working these days.

Modern Linux distros are much better at getting the OS and a lot of hardware up and running. Unfortunately, until the same can be said of applications, it's not going to be a viable alternative for many Windows users.

This chicken-and-egg problem is what is really keeping Linux off most desktops, and again rather unfortunately, it would probably need someone very well funded to start backing the effort to make it competitive enough to bootstrap a mass migration. Realistically, you'd probably need to create some Linux-based game-changer applications and/or to get emulation to the point where users can run applications written for other major platforms such as Windows or macOS to run as if native and without any legal problems. We're still a long way from either of those things being achieved without some sort of spectacular investment plus enough time for it to be turned into software.
>No one in this thread seems to be up to date on that. Everyone is complaining about the Windows 10 of 3-5 years ago, completely unaware that things have changed a lot.

Because when you have wide ranging issues like that it takes a lot of time for people's opinion to change. All it takes is for a user to be burned once by this system and they might end up remembering and anticipating these issues for decades. MS reaps what they sowed.

>so Microsoft do what's best for the user, whether they like it or not.

And over the years this builds up an anti-MS/Windows sentiment that will be very difficult to get rid of.

I tried running a weaker machine on Windows for my parents. They ended up not using the computer at all, because every time they started the machine it would do something update related. Even just the things in the background made the computer unusable. There aren't prompts for things like that. They would rather go and pay their bills in person than use the computer because of the updates. I didn't know it was that bad, but actually trying to use it myself I understood.
The fact that making certain decisions can be hard in some cases is not a good reason for simply refusing to make those decisions at all.

It’s hard in some cases to determine whether someone murdered someone, or stole from someone, or committed fraud, etc. That doesn’t mean we just throw up our hands and say it’s foolish to ever try to determine whether any rules have been broken.

Fraud is a particularly good example here, because it literally involves making reasonable interpretations of someone’s speech. And I’m pretty sure you can’t weasel your way out of a fraud conviction because of technicalities with the way you phrased something.
tbh... does that matter? until they ship no-reboot-updates, their (hypothetical) effort doesn't do much for me....
Poverty includes more than just household income. In particular, many of the comparative areas you mention provide: safe schools, libraries, extended family resources. Population density is also a huge driver of violent crime rates.

Of course poverty isn't the only factor. But it's a hugely important one.
"Datta" as a surname (Indian origin) has a very different meaning[0] - "granted". Time for a stronger theory I suppose, "nominative determinism holds across homonyms" :-)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutta
Disable Javascript. For example,

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=

works without Javascript
No service will ever compare to how awesome Oink’s Pink Palace was. It just worked and it had everything. No blackouts, no licensing windows, no format issues. Just all music.
A global study on Covid-19’s effects on the brain
I would have gone amz way and formed a sugar water company and a logistics company by now just to remind Coca Cola and Uniliver who they really are.
Original submission (with 41 comments) from 6 years ago, with the original URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8446932

Also, people should notice the "update" mention and shoutout to another blog post by Daniel Walsh, which went further into the math (and so parts were taken from Daniel's post to build the update section).

http://danielwalsh.tumblr.com/post/54400376441/playing-detec...