skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That moves the money to be spent on SEO instead of going directly to Google, doesn't it?

No. In most countries doctors and drugs don't need any SEO, because the doctor is provided by the health service, and the doctor picks the drugs based on clinical indication.
Clearly, the reason why Saab went under. The buttons cost too much!
A Haskell programmer wrote a tris in PureScript
I believe civil engineering part of nuclear reactor is it's easiest parts.
First of all, kudos for quantifying your results instead of hand waving them. Yes, your results look like a ~60% improvement in conversion rate from the A to the B test, with a p value of 0.02 and a statistical power of around 80% for a two-tailed test. So that's good.

However context is important - at this level of significance you'd expect to see a similarly strong, but ultimately spurious, effect going from the A to the B test about 1 in 50 times.

Since you're not working on something safety critical, that's probably an acceptable false positive rate for you. But generally speaking, and in particular here since the absolute numbers and changes are quite small, I would be wary of trusting such a result. It seems promising but inconclusive. Maybe run a few more tests with disjoint (or nearly so) samples of visitors?

There are a few other things that could possibly confound the result - off the top of my head, your screenshots look like different pages between the A and B test. I'm not sure if that's how you ran the experiment or if you just happened to use two different page screenshots, but that would typically disqualify the result and require another test.
Your thinking is a fallacy, because a union uses the same principle that the republican party uses to maintain control: solidarity.

I'm curious why you would want to opt out of a union in the first place, since unions generally double workers' wages. I live in the right to work state of Idaho, which has some of the lowest wages in the country, especially for things like farm work. I realize that this is a bit of a straw man argument though, which doesn't touch your main point.

I'm having trouble thinking of a case where a union charges more in fees than it provides in additional wages, benefits and other protections. So I think my main point is that you are fixated on a motivation that doesn't exist. It's like being angry that you must pay for a stamp to mail something through the post office, even though that costs a fraction of what UPS or FedEx cost. You're free to work somewhere else or use those other services.

Maybe someone else can answer this better than I can. I really do want to understand why unions are so controversial, because I've only experienced the downside of not having them. Like when I was moving furniture 20 years ago and the warehouse charged $34/hr and only paid us $10/hr, even though we were doing all of the work. My feeling is that had we been unionized, we would have made at least $17/hr.
Rare Malignant Cancer Diagnosed in a Dinosaur – Royal Ontario Museum
I million people will be very hard.

But the first starship missions will drop 100 tons each to the surface of Mars at a cost of a few hundred million dollars each. And they will send dozens of Starships that first trip, building an camp with over a hundred explorers and scientists the first synod.

They will have thousands of tons of equipment and supplies, and their habitats will have multiple redundancies and be easily repaired.

Mars is far easier to survive on than the Moon, for example. The temperature ranges are far milder, Mars reaches 70 degrees Fahrenheit at its equator during the day. The day is the same length as ours. There is adequate solar for power, tons of water, and a plethora of other easily accessible resources from CO2 to Iron.
Hmm, is there anyway to configure tor to reduce the number of hops in order to improve performance? It seems like multihop Tor is overkill for this use case. Wouldn't solve the problem with sites blocking Tor I guess.
NYC sets up quarantine checkpoints as it toughens state travel restrictions
That is a fantastic plugin although unfortunately it's not (yet?) available in the new mobile Firefox - nor any equivalent. It's still there for the old version if you haven't been force-upgraded.
I find the MySpace comparison tired:

* MySpace, at its peak, had around 75 MM MAU.

* Facebook's core properties (Insta, WhatsApp, Messenger/Big Blue) have around 2.6 billion MAU.

Even if I just consider FB core + Messenger, Facebook is roughly 20x larger than MySpace. Facebook, as a core product, also is growing in non-US markets, even though it has saturated the US markets for years.

MySpace and Facebook just aren't comparable anymore.
Ever heard of redesign? Vine needed it. TikTok didn't win against Vine because of it was new. It had better UI, UX, better features better strategy overall.

Somebody could make new Facebook but people wound't move to it cause Facebook has 15 years head start and gigantic social graph.
You wrote your comment on social media.
If something is so latency sensitive and crucial making the java garbage collector such a hindrance, why not start writing parts in C++? It seems to me people end up getting into a situation where they are fighting with the java gc to try to get low latency with huge heaps and constant allocation when it really is not difficult to control memory allocation in modern C++.
If my experience with users holds true, they'll abandon the quest at the first obstacle and the USB will harmlessly sit in a desk drawer for the rest of time.
Censorship laws became onerous after 2009 riots. FB/Twitter/Google didn't want to comply either due to politics or cost or combination. If they did, China wouldn't need Aurora to hack dissent gmail accounts, Google would just hand it over legally. Incidentally, after west started ML / mass human moderation Google and Facebook considered returning to Chinese market because it was now cost effective. Oh both companies kept ad sales open and were selling billions per year - they were free to operate in domains where they comply to local laws.

Uber was sponsored by Baidu in China. Baidu is much more resources than any competition / incumbents at the time. Your article suggest regulations killed the industry for everyone, i.e not biased against Uber (and Baidu).

>The country’s first nationwide regulation of the industry was truly bad news for Uber and, if followed to the letter, bad news for the entire industry.

...

>In selling its China business to Didi Chuxing, Uber is getting out of its China operations at the right time and at a reasonable price.
Maybe it was vegan mayo? Oh wait, 1999.
This sounds very similar to Safari blocking/deleting cookies?
So if I create an test.slk file on my desktop, then rightclick > open with, and select an app like Sublime (to be sure no other office apps like LibreOffice), to open all files like this in the future by default, will that solve this problem?
AWS single region SLA isn't 5 9s though. If you want 5 9s in the cloud, not even multiple AZ is enough - you need to go multi region or even multi cloud.
Interesting but a there's a decent chance of correlation not causation. Unhealthy people and people over 65 (i.e. those most susceptible to serious COVID complications) are the same group that are most likely to be Vitamin D deficient. The primary source of Vitamin D is sunlight. People over 65 tend to stay indoors, etc. People with darker skin are also more prone to D deficiency due to increased melanin, but also have higher rates of obesity, more likely to suffer from diabetes, are more likely to live in cramped conditions, etc.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447083/
https://www.cantonmercy.org/healthchat/42-percent-of-america...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6075634/
Re: single datacenter. At the basic level, you need a second datacenter with enough machines to provide your service (or a emergency version at least), replication of data, and a way to switch traffic. It's doable, but expensive in capital and development. If you're dependant on outsourced services, they also need to be available from both datacenters and not served from only one. In an ideal world, your two datacenters would be managed by different companies, so you would avoid any one company's global routing failure (IBM had one recently).

Re: multiple servers. Power supplies fail, memory modules fail, cpus fail, fans fail, storage drives fail. Sometimes those are correlated --- the HP SSDs that failed when the power on hours hit a limit (two separate models) are going to be pretty correlated if they were purchased new and stuck into servers at a similar time and then on 24/7. Most of those failures aren't that correlated though. Software failures would be more likely to be correlated though, of course.

The key thing is to really think about what the cost for being down is, how long is acceptable/desirable to be down, and how much you're willing to spend to hit those goals.
Lack of innovation you say? in Europe?... :S
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Reels’ inclusion in Instagram makes the UI confusing for me. Right now it only feeds me three or four videos that are peppered in my discover feed when I scroll down so I have to swipe up to refresh for more videos:

https://imgur.com/a/jDtYbVP

Why not have a separate section dedicated to Reels content instead of having it interspersed with photos and regular video posts?
Deta provides you with integrated backend services, like a database (already) or files (soon).

Disclaimer: Deta is the main project I'm working on now; yarc is my most recent side project.
I generally don't buy Samsung devices. That being said, I think the stylus is a great standout feature. The Note 20 Ultra has a stylus latency of 9ms, which is huge!
I use cookie quick manager.

It can delete all cookies on closing browser (except the ones you have 'protected' in the addon settings like reddit and YT)

You cab also edit cookie values and change properties, etc
>HN ran, and may still run, on a single bare metal server.

HN also has downtime fairly often.
Official announcement: https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/introducing-i...
> One of the biggest operators is the US Navy which has been running reactors in military vessels for decades without incident.

AFAICT, none publicly acknowledged since a bunch in the 1970s, but that may mean less than it seems since the US government has a history of covering up nuclear incidents for decades (like a whole slew at the Hanford site from the 1940s-1980s that weren't acknowledged until the 1980s.)
First off, it doesn't let you share media or most of the more advanced functions if the car is in any form of motion.

Second... are you kidding me?!

A driver deciding to look down at their screen to share media while driving would be blamed... on the infotainment, is that a joke?

By that logic you're also allowed to look down at your cupholder and count the crumbs that have accumulated, that's a terrible design and the cupholder should be mounted at your sightlines.

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Normally I'm in the "putting screens in is adding unnecessary temptation" camp, but please.

Personal culpability is still a concept.

MB kept all the stalks that make sense, they kept the steering wheel buttons, they kept physical buttons for stuff specific screens. They did fine for the parameters they're playing with, which is "Tesla has made not sticking a giant touchscreen in your car not seem futuristic".
To me, the most infuriating trend in web design is adding a crazy amount of padding to everything and increasing the font size! The old TS website packed a ton of information into a single screen, but it seems like I need to scroll quite a bit in the redesign before I see the same amount of information.

Zooming out to 75% improves the experience, but honestly I feel like I'm going crazy!
> 2. Reset the rocket equation in LEO by doing in-orbit fuel transfer.

What do you mean by this? If you want to propel a mass M to delta-v V, you need a certain amount of initial mass. Dividing it into stages is already taken into account. If you split the lower stages into multiple trips, you might change the mass per trip, but you don't change any of the total early-stage mass required, right? Doesn't the rocket equation still apply in exactly the usual way?
Why not just remove it with inspect element?
Right at the end of the first sentence of the article.
> This makes maintaining code over time significantly easier, as allocation becomes a hidden implementation detail.

You say that, but there seem to be no end to the stories of people spending enormous amount of time fighting the gc. It is not difficult to avoid heap allocations in other languages as well as freeing them deterministically.
CBS bought Westinghouse and began licensing out their name to all sorts of companies. I have a "Westinghouse" TV that is made by another company. That lighting company you linked appears to be an old family business that licenses the name as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Licensing_Corpora...
The title seems to imply that it needs a touch screen device. It seems to work just fine on my desktop with a mouse.
Vitamin D has been endlessly promoted as a treatment for many diseases due to evidence from observational studies, but hundreds of millions of dollars in randomized controlled trials have never demonstrated it to be effective for any disease except rickets.

There was just a large trial published in JAMA [1] examining its effectiveness for depression given solid observational data. It was not at all effective.

The reason that Vitamin D is associated with many diseases but is not causative for anything is that Vitamin D level is highly correlated with other metrics of health such as socioeconomic status, active lifestyle, nutritional sufficiency, etc.

We are wasting our time and money looking at Vitamin D again and again and again.

1. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27689...
Loads now :)
That reminds me of the Pixar incident where Toy Story 2 was accidentally deleted while in production and had no working backups.

Luckily one employee was working from home (rare at the time!) and had a copy of the entire movie on her desktop computer. Which they very carefully moved back to the office and were able to restore from that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MAedEXri7c
Sounds like a good idea would be to somehow run the embeds in their own isolated container? Not sure how feasible that feature would be to implement.
Even if you make sure that a credit card can't be wedged in, it is usually possible to put something flexible like an X-Ray film between the door and the frame. It takes longer, but the strike can be pushed eventually if you are persistent! The real solution is to not have a latch like that where security matters, like the front door.
Not a bad idea, but handing over credentials is tricky. Then many databases are setup in a private network, so you can’t access from outside environment.
We don't need a constant source, we need a source that can supply a variable load.
Maybe you've never driven in flash floods, with hectic traffic and rain volumes that can shift between moderate and severe almost instantly. If you suddenly lose visibility, I think it's much safer to be able to flip your wiper dongle up to max than to slow down or try to pull off the road in an already chaotic traffic situation.
First thing that came to my mind was..

"Guys, guys, Galileo wasn't actually cancelled. He just found out that free speech has consequences." @KonstantinKisin

Good luck!
Well did he do many years of engineering work? It’s perfectly valid to become a chemical engineer, demonstrate knowledge in electrical engineering, and then become an electrical engineer without a degree. This is an accepted path.
It’s not a concern for me.
If you can solve one NP-complete problem efficiently, you can do the same with any problem in NP. This is the crux of the Cook-Levin theorem [1], which lies at the heart of complexity theory.

Now, while it's true that RP doesn't guarantee the correct answer 100% of the time, it does guarantee that the failure probability is bounded for every instance of the problem. This allows us to efficiently amplify the probability of having the correct answer to be arbitrarily close to 1. So in practice, RP and co-RP (and for that matter, BPP as well) are basically P for most practical purposes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook%E2%80%93Levin_theorem
You could have the best of both worlds - flexible but tactile controls if you had a small screen on every button. This has been done in a keyboard years ago: https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/maximus/
It's easy to say this but flipping through channels could be 30s straight of garbled images, followed by learned behavior to flip channels slowly.

I recall reading about TVs with multiple tuners to resolve adjacent channels when flipping, but I don't remember if they actually made it to market.
Palo Verde uses cooling ponds filled with grey water. Per Wikipedia, it’s the largest generation plant in the US. It’s not an impossible problem.

Around 2008-2010, ORNL published a paper describing how the cheap electricity and waste heat from a nuclear plant could be used to capture carbon from the air and create carbon neutral fuels for transportation. So again, if we were looking at a holistic picture, we could definitely improve the overall climate situation with nuclear.
If you only make decisions based on science you can pretend problems aren't real without a scientist's approval, and you can pretend solutions to those problems are bad if there is even a tiny bit of counter-evidence that supports your viewpoint.

And if you make decisions based on anything other than science, is the final outcome going to be any better?

I admit that something that we might call "misuse of science" is a real thing, and a problem. But I don't see any solution that in any way involves de-emphasizing the importance of science in decision making.
Yes.

Embeds aren't broken, they just appear text only.

When you block twitter embeds , you can't like the tweet without opening the tweet in a separate tab.

You can't do both. Either have the like functionality, or block it.
>Angela Davis

Microsoft casually promoting an unrepentant communist[0] who helped murder a judge.[1] Very cool!

[0]: Read how she felt about the Berlin Wall and political prisoners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis#Other_activities_...

[1]: She bought the guns used in the Marin County Civic Center attacks, including the shotgun pointed at the judge’s head seen here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ec4s2LjVAAE_mtD?format=png
We used to have one server for a website I was a content guy on - it was in a standard PC case, plugged into a switch in the IT team's office (this was not a tech-centered org).

The main IT guy went on holiday and one of the cover guys from another office decided to tidy up. He unplugged the server and thought (and told me after his thought process) "if anyone was using it, they'll let us know".

This was the one, single box for the whole website - no one else was monitoring (even though the central office had a proper, dedicated web team) and the assumption was I was sysadmin.

An hour later I'm sprinting down the corridor to find out what the hell happened and why I can't even SSH into the box.

We put a sticker on the case saying not to unplug it after that...
Supplementing with vitamin D should be easy enough to test. Given that most people get their necessary vitamin D by going outside, couldn’t the presence/lack of this vitamin be an indicator of other lifestyle choices that may affect the person’s ability to fight off the disease?
Douyin is a mix of lots of things but you barely realize that. It has one main surface - the feed. IG on the other hand, feels like several unrelated things stitched together
I appreciate your argument. What I was trying to point out was that the obsession with car modding is why films in the Fast franchise, even a decade after the first one debuted at the box office, still do extremely well. They're sheer entertainment, just fast driving with some plot points to justify the next action sequence.

What didn't land for you, maybe for more people, was that documentaries, classical and jazz, etc. are not as appreciated because they require some effort to understand and thereby appreciate. That was my point about wishing a textbook would top the bestsellers list and not yet another book shilling apocalyptic hypotheticals about Donald Trump that the author always has some magical cure for. It's like self-help politics, but The Secret is "impeach Donald Trump", every time. It's easy. It's low brow after the first dozen books, as it only intends to satisfy helpless aggression in readers. And while it's nothing new, I wish people were as enthralled with a book teaching math or chemistry or accounting. You know, stuff that's useful to people.

If someone wants to write a book about the process of governance, that's one thing. But if it's another pseudo-analysis-by-way-of-emotion book, it's disingenuous to suggest an anti-Trump political commentary is any more useful today than anything written by Ann Coulter.
I'm fine with non free thanks both for the links and the tips!
I dont think that reproducible builds are perfect or solve every problem. I still think they are worthwhile though because they allow for a better audit trail, and every step that is auditable makes it easier to pinpoint at what step something bad happened.

Sure users arent likely to verify them. I still think there is value in after the fact being able to determine - clearly this binary came from this source code artifact vs clearly this binary was substituted as it doesnt match the source code. Its not perfect but it helps reduce the places where an attack can take place with nobody noticing.
Mobile app idea #91: Finding Good Eats
Everyone's intention is to profit, even the con artist, but the buyer and the seller are providing and receiving goods, meaning they actually have a reason to be involved in this specific trade. One party produces oil, a second party consumes oil, and the third party is just there to take his cut because he thinks he's smarter than everyone else.

It shouldn't be surprising when one of these parties isn't trusted by the other two...

It's essentially scalping. Do you trust the people who buy concert tickets in advance and sell them to you at a 100% markup? They're serving the exact same role in society as these market players. No one likes them for a very good reason.
Barry Simon, the mathematician who helped to reshape physics
Another example in the "bad!1" category is the flash chips in one of the control units. They had logging enabled, and over time the control unit killed its own flash chips by overwriting them too often. Needs the entire unit changed, or finding someone who'll solder fresh chips in.

Where a traditional design would have taken care to run entirely from a read-only storage, and if there is logging needed, to log to an extra partition that doesn't stop the system from working if it becomes unavailable.
Just a slight correction: this prototype is 30m tall. Still absolutely bonkers how big this is and ALSO that it's not the full height yet.
So, not only are developers working on open source projects in their free time expected to maintain and provide support for free, they're now also expected to pay in order to provide baseline security for their users?

If NPM or any other package repository introduced this, do you think maintainers of commonly used open source projects wouldn't feel obliged to pay up? Generally immediately after a traumatic event such as having their phone stolen.

Even if you never plan to update your package, you can't fix a security vulnerability without spending money.
Sun shines 24x365x4B at this planet, but some solar panels are in shade for some time. World network of solar panels can power this world 24x7.
FB and Twitter aren't owned by someone?

Also, if bot farms can sway elections I would either want them to be pliable to more than just Democrats and Republicans.