skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely agreed. It is really easy to be a shitty, lazy colocation/hosting/VPS hosting company. It is somewhat more effort and more difficult to be a proper one. Margins are so thin in the hosting business that it would be own version of a personal hell... I feel a lot better about operating symmetric gigabit last mile residential services.
Baudrillard uses the word "cooling" for this phenomenon circa 1980 and I'd expect it to be known throughout the fandom of French theory. See also "Cooling out the Mark" by Goffman and numerous thinkers that he inspired:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling_out
If you don’t want to use Google Analytics, respect your users’s privacy, while still getting feedback on visited articles, you can always self-host a first-party Matomo instance.

You can, for example, disable its tracking cookie, anonymize IPs, make it deactivate when seeing DNT requests, and it would still work fine. Session tracking would be much less accurate of course, but you didn't use that anyway, and even if you did, be grateful that tracking is still possible.

Matomo is cheap to self-host and easy to maintain, via its Dockery setup.

Cloudflare entering this space is cool, as it would save people from self-hosting stuff, further bringing cost down. But they are still a third-party that you, and your visitors, will have to trust.

Did you know that Cloudflare sets a tracking cookie in every response, on every website, with no way to turn it off?

After seeing that cookie, with no clear explanation to how it is used, my trust in them was shaken. Now they are getting into analytics, so I guess I now know why it's there.

And therefore my worry as a user. You can block requests to Google Analytics, but blocking requests to Cloudflare essentially means blocking the Internet. Checkmate content blockers ;-)

[0] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-U...
Update: #10, ~10 hours, 261 points, ~410 readers.

Edit: #12, ~11 hours, 276 points, ~445 readers
> When algorithms judge everything we do, we need to protect the right to make mistakes.

This is better expressed as saying when your behavior is reduced to metrics, you distort your behavior to match those metrics. An extension of Goodhart's law [1] to social behavior, as we become more capable of deriving metrics to assess social behavior.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law -- "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes" or "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
The long trains you mention are called unit trains. They move from point A to point B as one unit. Typically the unit trains will be of all one type, e.g. tank, grain, container.

The trains with mixed types can be unit trains but they can also have intermediate stops where cars are added or dropped off.

The optimizations the rail companies perform to maximize the freight movement (and profit) is very interesting.
XML 1.1 was considered a failure by W3C and it is not recommended that anybody use it.
> On a different topic: is there any data for salaries in other fields for the same companies (FAANG and similar) ? It'd be interesting to see how much earns, for example, a lawyer in such companies.

The government requires that companies publicly report salary data for H1Bs. You can google for that data. Here's one site https://h1bsalary.online/
The one time I took Empire Builder, from Leavenworth to Seattle, it was 4.5 hours late. Luckily I had decided to spend the day in Seattle before catching my flight..
no you're right. I was able to read the article in full and it doesn't say anything like that. the only thing it said about the math department was that they were going to allow students to apply for "lenient grading" if they felt their studies were negatively impacted by the george floyd killing.

to be fair, there is a subset of leftist thought that advocates placing lived experiences above statistical arguments. you can see this play out on social media where people are scolded for not being fully convinced by an individual's personal story about {insert macro issue}. the argument here is not that math itself is racist (how could it be?), but that the study and application of it can be. in other words, if statistics is disproportionately studied by an already-dominant subset of society, its application will likely lead to conclusions that more or less support the status quo.
The US excess mortality rate from Covid-19 is substantially worse than Europe’s
The issue isn't that they don't have a different rationale, it's the particulars of what that rationale is built on. "State dependence" alleviates suffering when implemented in earnest, "self-empowerment" perpetuates inequality and privileges luck and momentum over innovation and (paradoxically) moment-to-moment hard work.

In America, there has always been one side on the right side of history and one on the wrong, as far as health and happiness go. People and institutions switch sides, but the sides exist all the same. It comes down to how considerate you are of your neighbors, here and abroad. It's baffling that such a rich society continues to engage interpersonally with a scarcity mindset. Bootstraps are a myth; give until you can't and then ask for what you need. If we still then have racial issues, class issues, gender issues, religious issues, then the problem goes deeper than economics, and we'll need to face that with the same level of compassion.
Many non-identifying white supremacists have white supremacist adjacent ideals such as xenophobia.

It's very hard to support with a straight face that the acceptance of the confederate flag in the south does not have racial overtones.
Care to elaborate on how football and basketball fit into your view of "higher education"?
The state and the government are not the same thing; the police is and always has been racist and is the enforcers of state power, for example.
There's too many parts trying to do too much. The seals leak, the sliders bind, the whole thing is large and difficult to maneuver. It's better to remove the filler assembly and just pour out, maybe using a funnel if the target is small. Roads and good intentions I guess.
This is also happening in K12 schools. Seattle, which has a famously far-left leaning school system, is creating a plan to inject ethnic studies and progressive ideology into math classes: https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/new-course-outlin...
The first book I wrote incorporated a lot of existing blog posts. There was still a lot of glue to write, holes to patch, and various updates/fixups.

Another book was from scratch and I did spend a fair number of work hours on it--with the OK of management--supplemented by some (but not outrageous) nights and weekends. It probably ended up being like a part-time job for about 6 months plus additional time spent back and forth with the editor--which wasn't actually a lot.
What you said is true.

However, the Assyrian Empire and NeoBabylonian Empire, are both Iron Age empires that emerged after the Bronze Age Collapse. So any sources about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon would not have been affected by the Bronze Age Collapse.
Pi-hole. Works like a charm. Also does the same for every device in your house. Moreover, if you don't mind spending an additional $5 a month, set up your Pi-hole in a Digital Ocean droplet and you can blocks ads everywhere YOU happen to be, even on your mobile device.
Aren't you worried that there's really no model that you can't support with that logic, no matter how dumb it might be?
Yes.

In what you just said:

Some = everyone who hasn’t already made it to the a higher tier.

This removes the incentive for anyone to work out how to defeat an incumbent who is using the strategy, since they are forced to stop using it by law and not because a better alternative has emerged.

Indeed you might even expect it to become more virulent.

Imagine if Apple knew in advance that at some particular arbitrary revenue level, they would no longer be allowed to operate a store.

That would create an even stronger incentive to lock in their advantages through other means.

It might well have tilted the playing field in a direction where Apple chose to adopt Facebook style addiction dynamics as a strategy or risk being outcompeted by someone who did.

The way out of the Apple walled garden is for someone to build an alternative that is better.

There are many promising ways to do this.
Well, if you go far enough back in history, it went frmo 0% Hindu and random other tribal religions to mostly Hindu, right?

That's the problem with "going far enough back in history", depending on how far you go, you can get rid of anything (even people), so you either need to provide bounds on how far you go back and why, justifying it, or you might as well not bring up that argument at all.
It's hard for the web to become "obsessed with HTTP", because web is HTTP.

Pedantry aside, as soon as web/HTTP became The Internet (protocol of choice), you are right that the rest was bound to happen.

However, exactly the fact that it wasn't too constrained and allowed a lot of messing around (including with HTML, compared to eg gopher which was more semantic) is what made it "win" over all the other protocols except maybe email (and even there, >50% of people read it with web clients).
That's exactly me! The reason I know that everyone else has bad taste is because all of my favourite products end up failing in the marketplace and getting pulled off the shelves.

- Sent from my Xperia Compact
If you like that, check this out: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d7eddj/4chan-does-first-g...

Obviously I in no way support the politics of the people responsible for this, but from a pure "this is the power of a crapton of bored nerds with nothing better to do" standpoint it's both amazing and terrifying.
Search engines don't always bring up reputable sources.

Case in point, perhaps?
> I was never able to gain an inch on his argument until I asked him why he has curtains on his living room window.

I'm not doing anything wrong, but I still close the door when I take a dump. The idea that someone wanting privacy means it is nefarious or wrong is ridiculous.
This makes me think about some of the reviews I read for a book that came up in an article I read back in the end of May

https://www.amazon.com/Unheavenly-City-Nature-Future-Crisis/...

Search them for future and time and you'll hit upon the main thesis quickly, eg:

Banfield carefully defined class membership, not in terms of income status,
such as government statistical poverty levels, but in terms of orientation toward the future, or time preference.

I can't say I ever heard such an idea so clearly stated before. I still haven't dug into the argument too much to know one way or another or be able to offer much in way of a critique, but it's caught my eye and attention enough to make it a reading TODO.
Spoofing distorts the market by making it appear that there is much more liquidity and demand or supply. Distorted markets are, theoretically, bad for various reasons. Commodities markets are underpinned by the idea of real price discovery happening: supply meeting demand at an agreeable price. Fake supply or demand undercuts this goal.

Algorithmic traders just happen to be the ones taken advantage of here because they move fastest. If there were no algorithmic traders and everything was done manually the distortion in the market would still exist. An imperfect analogy: imagine you go out to the gas station to buy gas and see that there is a line of cars at the gas station charging $2.00/gal but there is no line of cars at the gas station charging $2.01/gal. You go to the $2.01/gal gas station, because you see that there's huge demand and you need gas now. As you drive back, you pass all of the $2.00/gal cars and realize they are all empty. You've been cheated by spoofing.

Whether this is paternalistic or not is up for debate.
> do we honestly believe JK Rowling has made an effort to converse with, understand, and empathize with trans women?

I don't agree with JK Rowling's take on these issues. But I actually think she likely has made at least some effort to do this. Some of her open letters certainly mention her knowing trans people and sympathising with their experiences.

Although in general I think the gender debate is a prime example of neither side listening to the other. There is a group of people who aren't listening to trans people when they say that they have gender feelings which are important to them. But equally trans people aren't listening to other people when they say that their physical bodies are important to them.
IMHO most of the article is based on bad attribution. Culture of conformity and risk-aversion is primarily an (intentional, not side) effect of social retribution / punishment and fear of it. Transparency / lack of privacy is just a factor that makes social retribution easier, not a primary cause.

As transparency has its own advantages (it leads to high-trust society), perhaps should rather support freedom of speech as a fundamental societal value. If i believed that expressing myself would not lead to losing job, losing housing and being shunned by friends, why would i self-censor in my self-expression?
That happens if email is opened via clients like Thunderbird. For gmail, image will be served via google proxy servers.
I haven't said that. Nor that they have monopoly nor that all of them are like that.

But the ideological subgroup specifically who throw around "listening to other viewpoints" a lot tend to be the kind who seriously engage only with view points comfortable to them. As in, there is talk about uncomfortable viewpoints, but their idea of uncomfortable viewpoint is someone telling them they are superior and they disagreeing cause they are more egalitarian. Which is not uncomfortable at all.
My opinion: no, do mute, as just another adhd kiddo, man those police sirens will bring me down in no time. I get what you're saying though, and I recognize there's value in folks getting to know a little bit of each other's situation -- but I think we can just let each other know of our situations verbally when an event rises to the level of a certain importance, and minimize the unimportant sounds as much as possible.
> Implementing an HTML tag that will attempt to charge you money is wrong on so many levels.

Just a quick clarification. The HTML tag doesn't charge you anything. It just indicates that the website participates in WM and provides a location on where the website can accept a payment.

You still need to subscribe to a Web Monetization provider that actually makes the payment and calculates the amount.

You have 100% control over whether you want to participate in Web Monetization or not.
You're right, but everytime I'm searching for magic cards I want to see them in scryfall. It gives you so much more information about the card that I'm okay with having to fix a typo

Being able to see price, reprints, legality, etc is great

Also, the best part about scryfall is it's searching paramaters. If I want to see the most expensive red creature cards currently legal in standard, I can do `!mtg color:r sort:usd legal:standard type:creature` and it's right there

It's made building decks so much easier for me with these easy text searches, as someone who loves being able to do things with a keyboard rather than selecting these parameters using a mouse on something like Gatherer

https://scryfall.com/docs/syntax
I took this to a bit of an extreme, using a Sennheiser broadcast headset into a USB sound card. I also added a hardware mute button inline, with a big clicky button with which you can easily tell the mute status (and mute/unmute) regardless of which window is up front. It also lets you pipe your own voice back into your ear, which can be a bit more comfortable listening wise. It really takes the guesswork out of quality and makes it much easier to use, especially when you might have to use 4 different conference applications in a day, and can't quickly recall where the mute button is in a particular one.
How is that what I just described? That's another 3rd party analytics system. The difference from GA is that you have to pay for it. Your data is still leaving your site, and being stored on a 3rd party. That means having 3rd party JS includes. That means it gets blocked. Did I miss something in buried text for a 1st party version?
The spike protein makes it for virulent, but is also a "feature" that the immune response can attack. Double-edged sword really.
And adding + to the name
yesplorer is using the time honored "won't somebody think of the corporations?!" deflection.
We do backport all kinds of things, and we also the vast majority of things land on all editions.

This one is tricky for a few reasons that don't apply to most things.
This was said in a glib manner, which may be the reason for the downvotes, but it is completely true. This is how the Heterodox Academy defines itself:

>Heterodox Academy is a group of 4,100+ educators, administrators, & graduate students who believe diverse viewpoints & open inquiry are critical to research & learning. [1]

Does anyone think that a person who joins a group focusing on promoting "diverse viewpoints" is going to have a representative view of sharing controversial opinions? This is a wildly biased population of people to be answering this question.

[1] - https://heterodoxacademy.org/
> Zoom may be great for quality, it's terrible for human rights

Sorry, as someone who is completely out of the loop, can you explain what you mean?
It isn't at the software level, FP16 goes through the tensor cores on Turing onwards:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13973/nvidia-gtx-1660-ti-revi...)
Agreed. If you’re just learning or building hobby stuff, you can use Colab, Paperspace, or any number of other services for free or very cheaply.
You've misunderstood me entirely.
It's very difficult for accomplished person in the tech field to find an activity that pays better than just getting a job at a top tier company. People who choose to do something else must have other reasons.
I don't mind ads so much on my tv (it's a tv after all) as the notion that they will substantively change the quality and behavior of a device after point of sale with no means to revert or refund the purchase.

At least when I subscribe to a SaaS and they roll out changes I dislike, I can choose to stop paying them and move to a competitor.

Non security updates should always be opt-in.
A common theme in distributed filesystem conversations is the idea of "socializing" the costs of intermittent loads. If I 'pay in' a little more than my mean traffic capacity, then my surplus during low traffic cancels out some of my peak traffic. Peak shaving and trough filling.

If you are doing business in India, you get payed in rupees. If the workers are in India, you just pay them in rupees. If you have to exchange currencies you end up with several types of friction that just create headaches and potential losses. If you periodically cash out or inject cash it's easier to deal with than on every transaction.

Denominating file replication services in a "coin of the realm" just seems like the same sort of rationale.

One of the problems with capacity planning is that you get punished for being wrong in either direction. You bought too much hardware or not enough, too soon or too late. With an IPFS or a Skynet, putting your hardware online two months before you need the capacity at least affords you some opportunity to make use of the hardware while your Development or PR team figures out how to cross the finish line.
I hope they keep the Salt Cloud stuff open, that was handy for driving on-prem hypervisors that weren't running vSphere. (Although, it gives a good reason not to buy vSphere, I guess).
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Government always are full of con people who take advantage of weak laws, strong lobbyists and lots of money being spread around. Regulators (or even tax agencies) are weakened by politicians who want to enrich themselves, and everyone hopes it's the next person that gets caught. Bernie Madoff got away with his fakery for an eternity. These folks almost got away with it too (one is still on the lam). You have to have watchers (and someone to watch them, and hopefully a press that also watches).
This is why I try to find dumb TVs though it is getting harder and harder to do that
"There is none of the indoctrination you speak of"

Defunding an area of study because the ruling party doesn't like it sure looks like state propaganda to me. Funding coming from the government makes that easier.
Chanced are, they would have "fixed" it for me. By accepting ALL EULA's. iirc, I could accept half before updating.

Edit: also, it was a gift.
Setting Thunderbird to default to only loading plaintext has been great for discovering sites that use trackers. Sometimes I'll sign up for a weekly newsletter, read it, but the hidden tracking isn't loaded. Inevitably, I'll get an email a few months later with instructions for unsubscribing since their tracking isn't showing that I read any of the emails.
Back end for Motorola 6800 series CPU (M68k)
Here’s from someone who only bought the supposedly highest recommended ones and had several failures before I switched to usb. Maybe roughly average 10-20% failure/ year uptime for something that has heavy log writing?

A thing people tend to forget is temperature. Keep them cool and they have higher chances of surviving longer.
Ask HN: Best Recipe Search Engine?
Is there a "Product Hunt for recipes"?

I want to be able to filter by time to make and by ingredients required.
I read somewhere previously that the USA (and Canada) largely prioritise (bulk) freight over passenger travel when considering rail transport. Freight trains are given priority over passenger trains, when passenger trains having to wait for, yield to, and let freight ahead of then.

Further the tracks in NA are designed to carry weight rather than for speed. The design considerations are quite different.
>That's assuming there's no return on the investment, of course.

Was there an assertion that there isn't a return on investment? Asserting that the inevitable outcome of rampant income redistribution is systemic collapse is compatible with "investment in personnel has returns"

Forcing the most productive workers to subsidize the consumption of unprofitable workers always leads to failure. "How am I to eat when I only grow 10kg of wheat a year but need to eat 11kg? We should use the state's violence to take 1kg from the farmer who grows 20kg and eats 12kg, Now I can grow 13kg of wheat for every 12kg I eat! A net gain in production!"

It's a misallocation of capital, simultaneously (the apparent) investing in the more profitable producer would have been better and (the non apparent) that deluding the worker into believing farming 13kg of wheat for every 12kg increases the price of the input goods and input labor for other industries.

Marxist Communism's argument is essentially: "While capitalism's losses are privatized, the fact that the profits are also privatized causes everyone to suffer. Instead of allow bricolage economics, the state's central planners will be to sole source of investment and sole consumer. Profits will be nationalized but losses will also be nationalized."

Having that state be the sole investor in an economic -- a monopoly on entrepreneurship -- dooms it to failure. It does not mean "investments [even centrally planned ones] don't returns"
Some hosting providers let you pay the bill for another person. Have done it in the past when I saw a domain expiring. I think GoDaddy may be the same.