skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Indian' in this case is the geography, not the demographic. They explained that, albeit with a lot of words. 'Scammers from India' would've taken care of the whole thing. Or if they wanted to gird their loins / show their work a bit more, maybe something like 'scammers with Indian IP addresses.'
Can you uninstall desktop safari? How about mobile safari?
Article about coding platform for kids
I had a mailing list ~1500 people for a keto newsletter.

I also worried about mailing too much, not mailing enough etc. and saw the same churn.

The way I thought about it is you want a group of CORE 1000 fans. So people that unsubscribe are not CORE, and they naturally fall off.

Open up to your community, have one-on-one conversations, and you'll get feedback on what makes sense for your audience.

Provide value and keep the feedback loop going, and don't worry too much about the natural churn.
The way most candidates should handle something like this, is to put out a book. Then reporter's questions can be addressed by saying, "Well, I wrote a book about it last year, and apologized for my past behavior, you can read the details there."
Couldn't you simply do something like

>>> from guietta import _ as underscore

to fix this?
Feels like perhaps some sort of intent-based subscription would be good. I quite like the feature of prompting for clipboard stuff since copy and paste is awful on iOS.
not to mention and speaking as a human, human activity is the only justifiable reason to support entropy gain. Like, what else is enthalpy worth to us? so the universe can be here longer without us? (assuming we had any say in the matter)
I like your comment.

Plus then you wouldn't need to give apple 30% of your money, and spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on an Apple product, and pay for their dev kit.

"Win win win"
India is also a huge market, also one with huge growth potential.

People living in advanced economies growing at 2% do not seem to realise that the growth that they need for their survival actually come from developing countries growing at 6-7% actually adding assets, or store of value.
Wait till you find out how many animals are killed by lions and spiders each year.
How is the state of virtualization these days? Is Virtualbox or VMware better?
I came across this seven years old reddit thread[1] which generally advocates VMWare and proclaims Virtualbox as "sluggish". But that was seven years ago, are the state of things the same these days? What would you recommend to a beginner who is still learning virtualization?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/19appt/virtualbox_vs_vmware/
> The second wave happened

I think there's an argument that what we're seeing in the US isn't actually a second wave at all; it's stepped first waves in different places. Rates in places like Florida never really went down all that much. The US probably shouldn't be considered a single entity for these purposes.

(To be clear, I would expect that there will be a real second wave in the US at some point, I just don't think that this is it)
From acquisition to full conviction [audio]
> Statistics has probably done more damage to the world than any other discipline, by giving a sheen of respectability to fake science in fields like nutrition, psychology, economics, and medicine.

I think it's unfair to represent the class of people that misrepresent their findings (charlatans and liars) as a problem with statistics. I'd blame that on poor understanding of statistics and the publish or perish mindset of academia.

> the statisticians either didn't understand the mistake, or liked their cushy jobs too much to yell loudly about the problem

You're obviously not someone that considers themselves a statistician. I do, and we have been basically telling everyone that would listen that there are huge fundamental issues with the way many scientists hinge their whole careers on p-values and similar things. Whether that message has been properly received is another story. The American Statistical Association has even published multiple official statements cautioning against the use p-values, the 0.05 cutoff, and using a single quantity to assess the impact and validity of anything.

See [1] The ASA's Statement on p-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose and [2] Moving to a World Beyond "p < 0.05".

[1] https://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.201...

[2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2019.1...
To your third point, a recent study funded by the Gates Foundation estimates excess deaths over the next 6 months caused indirectly due to the virus response;

> While the COVID-19 pandemic will increase mortality due to the virus, it is also likely to increase mortality indirectly. In this study, we estimate the additional maternal and under-5 child deaths resulting from the potential disruption of health systems and decreased access to food.

At the low end they predict 250,000 excess child deaths and 12,000 excess maternal deaths, and at the high end 1,150,000 excess child deaths and 56,000 excess maternal deaths due to decreased access to health care and food.

The number of missed vaccines and cancer screenings alone multiplied worldwide turns into a massive hit to public health.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-1...
That’s a really cool approach though! Maybe an updated version would be to have a headless browser shadowing your browsing and indexing the rendered HTML - there would still be some gaps though.
I don't think so. This is a very simple implementation of lambda calculus showing as simply as possible how on two operations, abstraction and application, can be built the data and control structures at the bottom of a programming language: booleans, pairs, lists, recursion, numbers. Everything else being syntactic sugar. In theory.
Really love Zim wiki and have been using it for over a decade. Sadly, the move to py3 and gtk3 broke it for non-linux platforms. macOS how has a huge wealth of [reported] bugs that break common keyboard shortcuts at the OS level and introduced a lot of performance problems. This isn't the fault of Zim as these are all bugs from gtk3 where it seems like the priority for non-linux bugs is 0. Meanwhile, Windows no longer has a prepackaged installer as the maintainer stopped doing that post transition.

I've tried hacking my way around this but to no avail. It's gotten to the point that I've finally started seriously looking and testing alternatives. Nothing has come close to replicating the feature set and UI workflow.
If you used to send it every episode, it's likely a chunk of those subscribers are relying on those emails to tell them your episodes are up. I'd honestly worry about losing eyeballs because people missed episodes they weren't notified of.

EDIT: Also note that the subscribers you are losing for sending too many emails probably weren't watching anyways, which is why they unsubscribed. Value your real connections and don't worry about losing people who have already lost interest.
I still browse to https://old.reddit.com

It's actually still so much better to pinch and zoom on the old site. The new one is super janky and totally broken on mobile. The app is just a pain to use anyway.
If you don't mail them, then they're not subscribed to anything.
Apollo is also maybe the only iOS app I have used that put real thought and effort into idiomatic 3d touch/pressure/etc UX patterns. It's lovely and pro was like $3? $5?
Nah, be more concerned about spam/bounces.

You are weeding out soft fans.
There’s a whole field around 1 called explainable ai. Interestingly, one of the SOTA techniques, SHOP values, comes from economics (game theory).

Regarding the article, I think it was a good read, but as a data scientist on a research at Amazon, there’s a reason our interviews have shifted from stats-heavy to more cs-heavy: the ability to actually implement and maintain analytic products is just more useful. (Note, this isn’t across the board - we still hire PhD-level candidates to do research).
To be fair, there are clearly the plates set on the other side. The painting is supposed to catch the moment when some of the apostoles stood up to get together with their comrades. you can see some of them standing behind the back of the others, not sitting.

Also, the apostole on the Jesus's right is clearly a woman...
There is a few more competitors today, though.
Imaging missiles typically have the sensor mounted on a gimbal so the target can be centered in the image even when the missile body is not pointed at the target. But yes, the line-of-sight to the target will generally be off of the missile boresight.
Yes all the value is there but it's not the way you think it is (in the internet age)

Think how much money there was (and is) in liasing ad agencies with Media buying/planning (this is the department's name)

Think how well the companies will treat you if you, let's say, want to place an ad in the Superbowl, or at a TV prime-time slot

The ad agencies are the true customers of the TV companies. Who do you think gets all the pampering (and possibly kickbacks)?
I totally see your point.

> To me it's primarily a report of the commenter's experience as a dalit, and a very interesting report actually.

The generalization without evidence is the problem. We should not give into false generalizations just because they are "interesting." This is the kind of thing over time leads to things like "All Xs are bad."

My point is that generalizations (false, true) of groups tend to incite emotion that end up dragging things down.

Appreciate the response here and your moderation.
Nice.

FTR, Also Pyslvs-UI may be useful for 2D kinematics analyze and you also could use its core ("pyslvs"; and based on SolveSpace[2] solver) module written in Python.

[0] https://github.com/KmolYuan/Pyslvs-UI

[1] https://github.com/KmolYuan/pyslvs

[2] https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace
I’m talking about the aggregate number. Buildings, cats, ...
Our total footprint. I’m not sure of the exact wind turbine impact. It’s a rapidly growing form of energy.

But that really is my point, people brush aside all the small impacts and we damage the environment in many small ways that really add up

As for birds, the Audubon has some information.

“ Wind turbines kill an estimated 140,000 to 328,000 birds each year in North America, making it the most threatening form of green energy. And yet, it’s also one of the most rapidly expanding energy industries: more than 49,000 individual wind turbines now exist across 39 states.”

https://www.audubon.org/news/will-wind-turbines-ever-be-safe...
That's an unkind response to a valid counterpoint. None of us have any idea of these people are voluntarily off the grid or not, or if they were presented with the option of be tracked if they would. Maybe they wouldn't care to be tracked by a credit bureau, but would like a rescue mission to be mounted if there were a natural disaster that impacted them.
The bit about it being opt-out was surprising but not in any way "hidden". It's literally the first thing in the email after the explanation of what Project Lighthouse is.
An anecdote I know, but I recently converted from Chrome to Firefox and am actively distancing all of our technology within away from Google.
The confirmed deaths are a known undercount, and cases going up faster than testing also indicates that the confirmed death count will be more of an undercount, because fewer (proportionately) of the deaths due to the disease will be confirmed.
I am, in fact! Good guess! I was actually referring to the related project Gallowbraid. Caladan Brood is great too. Ironically, I heard about both of these bands from a friend in Germany.

https://gallowbraid-northernsilence.bandcamp.com
Recent take-home interview assignments
If I understand it correctly, the Anderson et al study[1] basically said, “We looked at all (3?) noteworthy genetic features and they’re definitely naturally evolved and non-optimal for infecting humans.”

This study seems to draw the exact opposite conclusion.

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
No love for these spying apps, but pretty sure PIA should not be throwing stones after climbing into bed with Kape. Or maybe this is part of a PR strategy?
Careful with that. I used Alien Blue for a similar reason; before reddit just straight up bought it and deprecated it.
I am no more infantilizing people than pointing out that most people can’t change the oil in their car. It’s a speciality where most pay a service fee to get it done for them. And they go about their lives just fine.

Publishing a webpage with 1990s tooling is roughly in the same category of complexity.

It is far easier to pay Wix, or even better, to use one of the myriad photo sharing sites like Instagram, Flickr, Or Facebook. Which is why they’re so successful, and why the internet is a far more widely used and useful platform today than it was 20 years ago. It’s a disservice and carries no virtue to insist on unnecessary complexity for those that really could care less about computers or how networks work.
Gwern is a prodigious blogger. Absolutely prodigious.
Is it time for Mac users to move to Windows?
it's in the paper

https://github.com/facebookresearch/tabert
I on the other hand thought of this:

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2309:_X

(I don't try to troll the discussion)(it's just that XKCD is where many my mind runs to on some trigger words)
Or Apollo if you are on iOS.
You're right and it may be something I do in the future. I have a process that's working out quite nicely right now.
Until a few hundred years ago, a quarter of children died before reaching a year of age. Traditions of not naming children until they reach a certain age milestone are likely outgrowths of societies processing that reality, as opposed to attempts to stay out of databases.
Look - if I go out of my way (read; not missing a checkbox to opt-out) of a mailing list it’s because I’m interested. My interest may wane because I decided down the road that it was no longer a fit or I found another way to get the content that doesn’t contribute to making my inbox a mess (this a less a problem these days as Zoho has an option to automatically shunt newsletters to a dedicated folder, but I don’t like grooming it all the time either).

Unless people are flagging you for spam, it’s just a lack of continued interest - which is expected and frankly useful, as it weeds out those that aren’t as engaged.
I think you are missing something obvious here. Pain does not exist in any objective sense, it is a construct created by the brain in response to certain stimuli as a survival mechanism. If you were creating a simulation of a human body to use in medical experiments then surely you would not give it a brain that functioned in any meaningful sense.

I would not say that a body incapable of feeling pain is an "inadequate replica". A human or animal under anaesthetic does not feel pain - are they inadequate. You can certainly perform surgery on an unconscious person, and you can administer medications to them.

[edit] I should have added that I am totally in agreement that we are not even close to being able to simulate a human body with any degree of accuracy.
That sounds wasteful. Just use some good erasure coding on the individual apostles.
https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-m4-v2/
A compiler is an error reporting tool with a code generation side-gig.
Note that ward is in Java and gets data via an abstraction layer[1] and should work on Windows, Linux, macOS, Unix (Solaris, FreeBSD).

[1] https://github.com/oshi/oshi
Parents, Children with Autism Struggle with Mask Mandate
I don't think that matters. Like really, at all. I think the first thing you'd have to come up with is a service that sells drm free, so people can actually get what they paid money for. When I "buy" digitally from either amazon or google, there's no way I'll ever see an mkv file or anything like that. When "buying" video digitally, I don't ever get the feeling that the stuff is really "mine". When I buy from bandcamp, I can download a flac and archive it. That music is mine. When I get it from google, I can view it from their website. That movie is not mine.

And let's not pretend that sales would go down. Music is sold like this for a long time, just like copying without permission unfortunately didn't kill Hollywood all this time.
I figured but you never know. Sarcasm doesn't translate well over the internet.
Not if they want cross platform support.
I agree with you. I once followed OCW to learn stuff. Then it evolved into edx. I remember taking Anant Agarwal's EE course sequence and found it wonderful. Notable courses were always from MIT on edx. But now in the last year I have found edx to have SO MANY courses, like you said the microsoft technologies (which I found a bit shallow and unnecessarily split into a lot of courses) it becomes confusing and exhausting trying to find something. In addition, edx has become a paid model where you lose access after a couple of weeks, and you usually don't have access to assignments even when you audit now.

I have let go of edx and moocs and now fish for online university courses which are put up on their websites. Notable ones are MIT, UCB, UC (davis/san diego i don't remember, but one of them puts up all videos as podcasts), CMU (some videos), Brown, etc. Then you have top profs putting up stuff online, like Sedgewick, Pavlo, etc. Personally I feel this is the way forward, pick and choose courses online directly from universities, instead of mooc platforms, for each subject. There is this github repo - https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses/blob/master/R... which lists out a lot of courses. Occasionally, if you browse enough, you might find some rare links like these courses on database systems - https://bigdata.uni-saarland.de/datenbankenlernen/ and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDIJAkbAr53I4fggNsbzdrA/pla...
The public announcement really make it sound like an acquihire, but in practice it sounds like an acquihire without the hire. Really what Google is after are the patents that North bought from Intel[0].

From what I've been told the current employees won't even be offered to interview at Google, much less hired. They might keep some of the folks around until the support for their existing products end, but if they do it will be from their offshoring development center in Canada. Only the patents and the tech is really going to Mountain View. That paints a pretty dark picture of the business; it seems they didn't improve a lot on the tech that they got from Intel. Google is paying a premium to make sure the patents don't end up at Apple.

No words on the founders either, that typically means they won't be part of the AR team at Google. Else it would have been announced.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/19/intel-abandons-vaunt-smart...
Wait, you’re blaming humans when animals get diseases? I mean sure, we could have an impact, but animals are no different than humans, they get ravaged by epidemics.

Think about human life before current medical care. A million different things trying to kill you. No different for an animal.
The reason is less important than the methods.
[meta] The magic of HN: For a while this was right underneath an article about a bot framework, which made me think it was gonna be a "show HN" along the lines of "Botswana: a new bot framework." (Obviously quite sad what it actually turned out to be.)
Unsubscribes are part and parcel of running a mailing list.

If you want to reduce them:

(1) make sure your content is important to the largest fraction of your audience

(1a) make sure each mailing contains at least something for all of your audience

(2) don't mail too frequently

(3) gracefully deal with unsubscribers, confirm that you have unsubscribed them on the page, do not send them more email

(4) really delete their email addresses, don't keep them around so you can mail them or sell them in the future

(5) make sure that your sign-up message matches the content of the thing that will be received

(6) of course, double opt-in every sign up to ensure that it is really the person subscribing and not some joe job.

(7) there will always be a fraction of your new subscribers that immediately unsubscribe after receiving the first email; this is called 'first contact churn' or some variation on that theme. This is perfectly normal and tends to be much higher than the churn from users longer in your system.

(8) Your list is as valuable as the engagement with your audience. People that do not engage with your content - whether you mail them or not - might as well not be in your system to begin with.
WW1: Why was women's football banned in 1921?
If clipboard is mostly copy text, paste text into form field it shouldn't have anything to do with an app, there is no need for the app to have clipboard access, this should be managed by the OS. Only if you have "take license key from clipboard" or something like this, the app should ask for a one time permission as you've said.
Check-boxes for opt-out are illegal in Europe. And should be elsewhere.
> It's cute but probably just a consequence of a content editor at Barclays who has copy-pasted some old content

It's unlikely that a content editor would be able to do this, given the industry.
So "grandfathered" is considered offensive now by the idiotic pc crowd? What's next? Where does this stupidity stop?
I've had the opposite experience trying to get python and/or ruby not to trash my global environment and various things wanting the system to be setup for their versions and libraries. I like that NPM by default makes all dependencies local and npm lets you include your dev dependencies local to that project.

Note: I know their are magic incantations for python and ruby to get them to make everything project local but they aren't what python and ruby do by default.
Shut, and I cannot emphasize this enough, the entire fuck up dude. Seriously. This "white people were slaves too" shit is a horrible take.
Jan Gullberg - Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039304002X

Amazon.com Review
What does mathematics mean? Is it numbers or arithmetic, proofs or equations? Jan Gullberg starts his massive historical overview with some insight into why human beings find it necessary to "reckon," or count, and what math means to us. From there to the last chapter, on differential equations, is a very long, but surprisingly engrossing journey. Mathematics covers how symbolic logic fits into cultures around the world, and gives fascinating biographical tidbits on mathematicians from Archimedes to Wiles. It's a big book, copiously illustrated with goofy little line drawings and cartoon reprints. But the real appeal (at least for math buffs) lies in the scads of problems--with solutions--illustrating the concepts. It really invites readers to sit down with a cup of tea, pencil and paper, and (ahem) a calculator and start solving. Remember the first time you "got it" in math class? With Mathematics you can recapture that bliss, and maybe learn something new, too. Everyone from schoolkids to professors (and maybe even die-hard mathphobes) can find something useful, informative, or entertaining here. --Therese Littleton
Rewriting anything complex and actively used from scratch is not a good idea and the problems have been hashed out may times.

Having said that, angularjs and coffescript is a terrible software stack in a dead ecosystem, the best course of action is probably incremental rewrite - React is really good at that because it starts out as a small rendering library and you can incrementally replace stuff like routing etc.
Agree that you should never rewrite from scratch. However, I believe that almost 100% of rewrites are not actually from scratch: even if not a single line is reused, there will be plenty of experience serving as a foundation.

I'm not implying that's always the case. Besides, in some cases, past experience is deliberately not taken into account -- I'm aware of a handful of systems written in procedural languages which performed not that great and were replaced by naive object-oriented implementations. Went really bad.