skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If nobody made their own language, we wouldn't have any languages, and you'd have to write in machine code.
Marketing may or may not be in scope, depending on one's goals with a language. Some might use it for internal projects and not see a need for external uptake. Others might eventually want more attention but may prefer more organic (word of mouth) growth.
SpaceX faces South Texas review, the Angara A5 costs too much
You have an unfortunate view that the ad attribution business is predicated on rational choices by advertisers.

It’s more similar to investment management business. You could likewise say it’ll be easy for competitors to prove a firm is having bad quarters of portfolio underperformance, yet firms with bad track records consistently keep getting new business. Why is that?

The underlying business proposition is more like consulting and blame protection. You can always fire your ad attribution partner and claim their “number crunching” was bogus to save your own ass. You don’t pay them to give you actionable ad strategy or performance measurement, just like eg the investment board of a pension fund doesn’t hire an investment manager to actually get higher returns.

You pay them to make it look like you, the board member or the ad account manager, did all you could and any failings are down to uncontrollable poor performance of your vendor, which you then look like the good guy for firing, or look like the visionary for jumping ship to sexy AI solutions then jumping ship back to “classic” solutions when the AI solutions predictably don’t work. You do this for a while collecting bonuses and protecting your job, at the massive expense of the pension fund or advertising campaigns you are supposed to oversee, then you quit or get fired and play musical chairs to fail up into the same role at the next place.

In many companies that run advertising, the ultimate choice of what ad spend to pursue is an unbelievably political shitstorm. There are arguments for spending on generic brand awareness (which has no goals related to attribution at all) vs ambitious “creative” ads & extravagance like Super Bowl ads, vs scientific ad experiments on defined cohorts of users.

Nobody knows about (or gives a shit about) actually tracking the performance of all this beyond doing a bunch of headless chicken scrambling around to make some spreadsheets and slide decks to keep a job or argue for a bonus.

To the executives a layer up it’s either a big cocktail party of all the different styles of pursuing ads and business is good and they don’t really care, or else it’s a needless cost center when business is bad and they give grain offerings to the advertising gods to decide what to cut.

But nobody is seriously pursuing quant advertising. That is all just fluff branding. And this play by Apple is more of the same, just branding for professional services through using their anti-competitive moats around iOS.
I've always found entropy to be one of the most depressing things in science.
Your investors will prevent you. Consider the history of the Panama Canal. The American consortium only succeeded because they brought insect-borne diseases under control along the construction site. The French tried to cover up the difficulties they encountered in their attempt, and there was a massive scandal when it all came to light.
Wait until you start doing email ... oh wait, mu4e ... never mind.

Wait until you start reading news ... oh wait, elfeed ... never mind.

Well, you get the point ;-)

Just don't install a kernel - emacs already comes with an OS :P
By replacing competitors with their own "tracking free" ad tech
Scott Alexander on the Value of Pseudonymity
I know Alice and Bob are mega-classic foo/bar-style example names, but I also feel like it brings an unnecessary implication to use gendered names as examples when talking about hiring.
Cyrus was the Messiah, too, but nobody pretends he was descended from King David. In any case, Jesus fails most of the Messianic criteria of Second Temple Judaism. Early Christians had to significantly revise their concept of Messiah to get Jesus to fit. Indeed, the NT makes light of the fact that Jesus was not the Messiah the Jews were expecting, although it implies they were wrong.

In any case, the basis of Christianity is that Jesus was God incarnate, died for the sins of the world, rose from the dead, and will come again to judge the living and the dead. Some early Christian polemic about interpretation of then-centries-old prophesy isn't core to that. It's a problem for fundamentalism, but that's an entirely separate issue.
I even got uMatrix.
How are you spending that $80 billion? Divided by 700 million people, that's only $114 per person. I don't see how that would lift those 700 million people out of extreme poverty.
As the author of another open source GUI builder tool (https://github.com/zubairq/pilot) I think that the simplicity of tools like Guietta really make it easy to play around and build things fast, so I like it
Why does that offend anyone?
Its just a terminology to describe behaviour of two components.

It doesn't endorse or propagate slavery. I have never heard of an argument that HDDs have masters and slaves so people should too.

If I kill a child thread, does it mean I am 'pro choice' now?

Does creating white-list or black-list makes me become racist?

Those are just word, meaningless and powerless. What really matters is context and intentions, a social nuance that it seems like was thrown out with bath water long time ago.
Why not?

Programming languages are not a solved problem (or parsing, or diagnostics, or...).

We are today, barely, getting practical solutions to how write safely, fast and ergonomic (for example, rust) and yet:

- Compiling performance is abysmal in most compiled langs (except pascal family)

- And errors...

- And debugging...

- And interactive compilers...

- And ... (thousands of other stuff)

Somebody must try to do this stuff, because if not, forever will be at mercy of C, C++, JS, the shell, unix, etc. Who wanna the cobol effect forever?
Cockpit:

https://cockpit-project.org/

Less fancy but gets the job done. Happy user.
LIGO is so sensitive it shudders with the quantum noise of light
>Life can most certainly be viewed as a counterforce to entropy.

Sure, as long as we qualify the terms correctly. That is, you need to decrease the resolution of what you mean by 'entropy' because each one of your examples actually increased entropy moreso than inaction would have.

Regardless, this goes against the author's point, because in each case 'work' needs to be done to reverse the entropy of a local system (e.g. scattered nuts) at the expense of the larger system (squirrel heat emitted into the universe)

>I certainly see my life as a constant battle against entropy, an adult's life consists pretty much 80% of putting things in things.

Sure, with proper qualification that is one way to look at things. This works because of the resolution that we care about. Namely, we don't care about heat generated from our bodies, or smart phones, or nuclear reactors, accelerating global entropy, but we certainly care about dusty rooms.

Again, it seems like the author disagrees with this view.
Ask HN: How to grow a community as a software developer?
I want to grow a community but I don't know where to start. What are the best sites in 2020 to post articles about programming, math, etc. I really appreciate any help(tips, sites, etc) you can give.
Are you going to pay them more later if they then choose to move somewhere more expensive?
Everything Software Engineers need to know to become a great Technology Leader
There has been a clear divergence, even accounting for the expected lag in death rate.

The daily case count and daily death count initially look like two of the same curve simply shifted — as you might expect.

Since approximately mid-April that has no longer the case and they are fundamentally different curves.

You can see it here if you scroll down to where the daily charts are one above the other;

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-c...

Something big changed (or several smaller somethings) mid-April to cause this divergence.

If the case count measurement is no longer measuring actual positive cases, that could be a big part of the problem.
Hard disagree. WebASM and emscripten is the way away from JavaScript, into a better future where code is more cross platform and more performant.
Redaction systems exist and are used for exactly this purpose. It's entirely possible to be transparent and protect citizen privacy.

I work with a company that provides this type of technology for FOIA requests so I'm fairly familiar with it :)
It is absolutely partisan to characterize their actions with the phrase "in complete denial", without acknowledging that there are serious and fatal consequences of any lockdown that must be weighed against the benefits. These governors are probably making a good-faith judgement call which (while perhaps in error) is about as far from "denial" as it is possible to be. What else but partisanship could motivate the ridiculous claim that governors belonging to one political party are flatly ignoring the risk of additional infection?

To me personally, the tone comes across as way beyond partisan. It is smug, disgusting bullying.
Profits are value to business. Profits require revenues.

We are well passed the second internet bubble where Instagram et al can get billion dollar valuations on market share alone. There needs to be a business plan to generate revenues and profits.

So what us Apples business plan for identity? If it’s to add value to iOS and MacOS by providing convenient privacy secure logins to customers, I hardly see that as forcing themselves into the business.
Show HN: Lexen.fun
Hello! I would like to present my side project lexen.fun - a place for chatting and meeting people.

It was also a valuable learning experience for me - HTML/Javascript/CSS and SvelteJS (big fan!).

First time creating something from the ground up, hope you enjoy.

- No ads
- No email/phone/social registration
- Multilanguage
- Public chatrooms
- Users can can create/delete their own chatrooms
- Optional password-protected chatrooms
- Share chatroom links
- Big collection of emoji (also markdown support)
- Browse and add GIFs
- Browse and add Youtube videos
- Support for Avatars
- Online presence system
- Block/unblock participants
- Private messages to one or more users inside chatroom (using '@@')
- A simple help chatbot
- Text formatting options
- 'Mention' system (@) or (@@)
- Optional sound notifications
- Optional control of external images
- An area for contact and feedbacks
- A profile area to change Avatar and/or user password
- Mobile friendly
- Static site, without server side layer
- Lightweight

Development tools (which I highly recommend):

- https://svelte.dev/ (frontend)

- https://sapper.svelte.dev/ ('export to static site' feature)

- https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore (persistence layer)

- https://firebase.google.com/docs/database (for online presence system)

- https://github.com/zurb/tribute ('mention' system)

- https://github.com/joeattardi/svelte-tabs (the tabs in emoji/GIFs/Youtube)

- https://github.com/kaisermann/svelte-i18n (i18n)

- https://github.com/joeattardi/svelte-click-outside (control of click area of some components)
They seceded from the union, which is an act of treason.
The brain is not an algorithm and can’t be described as such.
Repo with same name as username and a README.md adds it to your profile
> I don't understand why there's so much pushback

Many reasons, including a very (distorted) US centric view of the world, going overboard with emotions instead of rationality (words are generally tied to context), and now people have to walk on eggshells or they'll lose their jobs if they speak the "wrong" word.
The google results for that are pretty sparse - what are the criteria to be eligible to volunteer?
Would you say it's an editor lock-in?

I can make pretty much the same argument for say, vim or emacs, and say that plain markdown + fugitive/magit hits the sweet spot.

I am just trying to understand where's the vendor lock-in thing coming into the picture here.
It apparently doesn't need any further training: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#gwern-branwen
So, is this like a Scrivener clone? Scrivener is awesome and one of the things I miss when I dumped MacOS altogether.
Creating a programming language is nothing like building a new standard to replace all the others.

If anything, it's like writing a new novel. Why would anyone do that, when there are so many already written?
One thing I remember from that book that drives me crazy is the bit about push vs. pull door handles. You see handles that you intuitively pull on both the push and pull sides of doors all the time. (Our HQ building is one of them. I'm usually only there once or twice a year and I can never remember to pull or push the handles on both sides of the elevator core.
I think gathering and reporting the metrics is an additional lag.
Pokemon Theme Rendered in Windows Task Manager (1792 Threads)
Forer effect material was written by humans, one might note... But there was a paper just the other day on more rigorous evaluation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14799
> Things people are interested in discussing on stay on the front page, things they're not fall off.

I like this. So currently on the homepage, and individual user (nest) pages the list of content has two sort options, "hot", and "new". The "hot" sort takes into account the message activity of the post similar to what you described. The effect is that active posts bubble to the top, and even old posts can become current again (anti-gravity) if the activity picks up once more. I think about how humans interact in real-life group discussions, where there is no "voting" on a discussion happening. The "voting" in real-life is in the form of the size of the discussion and how many people it attracts. If you put 100 ppl in a room and gave out a topic, the most interesting discussions would naturally form and people would be attracted to those.
Not available for all. A previous post got flagged since people were asking for examples so posted this one with my own profile as example.
“Forcing” only makes sense in the usage by a butt hurt competitor seeking to monopolize the market. For consumers it’s “opening” the market with a superior safer solution.
But what about content quality? Movies are mostly rubbish at the moment. Either redone old stuff or comic related because of the torrent effect - it's the only way studios can make money.

There's an argument that music has gone downhill also because of it. You either do well as a band with the first two albums and translate that into tour money or you are gone. I can't imagine that a lot of artists that don't make tour money like Enya would ever emerge these days - no matter how good their studio stuff is.

Quality series creation driven by money flowing from streaming services is one of the few bright sparks in quality entertainment these days other than gaming. If everyone decides to pirate the crap out of that we end up essentially with middle of the road rubbish as we basically are at the cinema now.

I get the frustration about needing to have so many services, it feels like we have just uninvented cable to reinvent it again (I'm waiting for places to start selling packages of streaming) but the benefit at least has been in programming.
The states list is based on the one recognizing German licenses, not the rigor of the tests.
Comments from VCs on why successful companies wouldn't work
I'd be particularly interested if anyone has tried both org-roam and zetteldeft and can compare the two.
I'll copy my response to a comment made earlier:

Hmm, I had a look at it and though I like the top layout, what's missing is automatically playing the next item. I can't just hit play, resume doing something else and when the occasional good song pops up add it to my favorites, a playlist or just open it in a new tab and play the whole album.

Maybe my way of discovering music isn't normal, but I think Soundcloud and Jamendo did it pretty well. I could have music playing for ages and keep adding to my favorites and playlists without actively having to know any artist.

---------------

The /tag/ page worked only for the highlights, but "all electronic releases" would only play one song and I couldn't play the next song (Firefox 77). In theory though, that's more of what I'm looking for, so thumbs up.

Not sure how long the discovery part has been up, but to me it seems new.

Also, Soundcloud's feature of playing similar songs from the track's page was very nice. That would also help a lot with music discovery.
I see it as the opposite... the ad industry are specifically worried here that people are going to be given the choice, and they believe that the peoples' choice won't be good for them.
Understanding Why Sales Forecast Accuracy Matters
I agree with this one. People that have side projects are generally driven: they are more eager to com up with ideas and are motivated to pursue ideas and projects that they find interesting. Which is great if their ideas are being pursued, and only a distraction if their dayjob needs them to focus on something less exciting or even something they have a distaste for.
Scrivener is not Mac-only anymore! https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/download
Another option that may be useful: transform a custom syntax to an existing language.

And while you are at it, why not try to write a parser to reverse the process? :)
Hi. I read the essay "Pandemic Woo" which is linked in your profile.

Is seems like your position is that:

--COVID response strategy based on invalid "post-modern science",

--the conclusion that the disease death rate is order of one percent is incorrect

--and therefore, the policy response is grossly disproportionate and harmful.

It seems like you are arguing about facts not values, and you think the disease death rate is not really order of %1. Is this what you mean?

I'm also asking because I have heard many heated statements about "post-modern" science around here as of late that wherein the speaker seems to treat that concept as common knowledge, and then walks off without explaining themselves, but I don't really understand what they are on about.
Even the NYT COVID tracker page has the following note;

“In the tallies shown on this page, The Times is now including cases that have been identified by public health officials as probable coronavirus patients.”
Except the terms you chose specifically applied to a known subset/race of humans globally. Slavery was not limited to African Americans.
> Apparently since about mid-April the CDC decided that the COVID Case Count would include not just positive tests, but also “probable” cases.

This is easy to compare with the past data:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Looking at the 7 day moving average:

April 20: around 30K cases per day;
May 20: around 24K cases per day;
June 12: around 22K cases per day;
July 2: 47K cases per day

Doesn't fit at all with the "mid-April" hypothesis. The number of cases stayed for quite a while below 30K, only to surge very recently.

Also see how the curves for different states differ, and note how it's completely different from the shape of the curves following the tests:

https://covidgraph.com/usa/#daily

Also: "Adm. Brett Giroir, the man Trump appointed to oversee testing, testified at a House hearing Thursday that "this is a real increase in cases" and not just attributable to increased testing. "There is no question that the more testing you get, the more you will uncover," Giroir said Thursday. "But we do believe this is a real increase in cases because of the percent positives are going up. So, this is real increases in cases." Giroir said the U.S. is not flattening the curve. "The curve is still going up," he testified."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/coronavirus-updates-arizona-bar-al...
Trendlines Trading Strategy Explained
When you can get fired for something you do in your spare time because another employee says it bursts their bubble, then we’ve crossed into a realm where individuals are no longer free to express themselves because their life, liberty, and ability to pursue happiness is at stake. Yes I know that’s from The Declaration of Independence and not The Constitution.

FFS my roommate’s company banned custom emoji in Slack because some committee got trolled by 4chan into thinking :pepe: constitutes hate speech. I’m not making this up...
It sounds like that, but I don't think it's really true. I think that only means that with the previous tradeoffs available, they chose to keep being tracked. No reason not to try something new and maybe they'll choose something different.
>Apple makes almost all of its money by people giving them money directly and them giving you stuff.

The story used to be "they are making money on hardware", then when that peaked it became "they are making money on services", once they peak in that market it's going to be "they are monitizing the content delivered through the ecosystem to provide a curated and safe experience" - it's all about showing growth an keeping stock prices.
It’s easy to see what Apple is doing here it’s what they’ve always been doing increasing privacy protections for their users to add value to their platform and sell more iPhones and Macs.

Apple is shown repeatedly they don’t care about the advertising market and would gladly burn their offerings to the ground if they impeded their privacy efforts one iota.
The New Turing Omnibus
Which by definition makes it harder to monetize ads.
> but Congress cannot taking away a company’s free speech rights, per the constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Court.

This is not quite correct. Corporations used to be bound by their own charter until Congress relaxed those restrictions. Congress makes the rules under which corporations can operate. The Supreme Court ruled on how the current rules should be interpreted against the Constitution, but those rules are fairly arbitrary.

In any case, I'm not even suggesting "taking away their free speech rights".

> I would much rather have corporations decide which speech is allowable on their platforms than have the government decide which speech is allowable.

This is a false dichotomy.
No way, religious organizations all over the world pay for anything related to archeological "findings" related to biblical stories. It may even be true that people working in the field are not religious themselves, but financial incentives don't need that to operate. Suddenly a little figment becomes a piece of "Solomon vast empire", instead of just the remains of a small village in the middle of nowhere.
That IP space is not routable.
Relax, Bob is transgender. You can't make assumptions like that without asking for pronouns first. Duh. :D
I'm sorry, your comment explaining why deep learning & GPT-3 do not truly understand anything is more poorly reasoned and explained than GPT-3's explanation why GPT-3 does not truly understand anything: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#why-deep-learning-will-never-tru...

While it's true that recent natural neural net models like ixvvqktiwl may sound superficially coherent and like they 'understand' things, we can see by comparison with artificial neural net models that they aren't really doing anything we'd call "natural intelligence"; it's advanced mimicry at best, just elaborate pattern matching.

I get that it's very easy to create these natural neural net models and be carried away by excitement, and it can even be profitable (witness the many VC-funded startups which use natural neural nets as a core technology), but we should remain skeptical of any claims by those natural neural net models, much less their promoters online, that they are 'intelligent' in the strict definition of the word.
Abolishing minimums does allow you to do things like build a nice compact downtown with lots of parking on the edges. Drive to downtown, park, walk a hundred yards to your destination.