skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bullshit, everyone alive today comes from 4 main groups.

Astraloid - Indian, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc

Mongaloid - Chinese, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia etc

Negroid - African, black

Causcuroid - white (including Jews, they are not special like they think!)

Of cause some of these descriptive terms that are proper names would be classed as 'raciest' these days because of them few that think they are special and not gentiles!
I somehow always had the impression that Roger Penrose was a numerical computation guy (Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse).

I did not realize he had this vast of scope of a contributions in physics. Certainly quite impressive.
Programming Languages to Learn for Beginners in Tech
I remember in high school, we had an English teacher with very high standards. After we had turned in our first essays, she gave everyone a failing grade, and put on a show of being very disappointed with our work.

Instead of whatever was next on the syllabus, our next assignment was to rewrite, with paper and pen, three separate (3-5ish page) essays written on the same prompt, which she had saved over the years as exemplary.

I distinctly remember hating the idea of it, and putting off the task so I could hate it for longer. However, once I started (re-)writing, I was forced to capitulate (an experience that seems to be shared with other commenters here). While the essays were really good, they were just words on a page -- there's nothing stopping me from writing like that, too. In fact, I was writing like that right now!

At the end, she shared the reasoning behind this exercise, and made us take a vow of silence to not tell the next year's students what to expect. Everybody who traced the essays got an A in the gradebook, and the kids who didn't trace usually dropped-out at that point (it was early in the year, this was the accelerated-track course).

I've never had another educational moment like that, since. It was immensely humbling, in that it told all of us, who were used to being good, that we still have plenty of room to improve. Once out of high school, our egos are perhaps too large to get the most out of that kind of activity.

This is a really cool idea. I'd love to see this applied to foreign languages. For example, if I'm learning German, it'd be great to do that by typing out Theodor Storm. Many of these classic books are in the public domain [1].

[1]: https://books.google.com/books?id=VXgBAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newb...
That's a cool idea. I once made a similar site but for a completely different purpose -- language learning. Unfortunately I never finished it but it's still in my TODO list.

The workflow was:

- you read the sentence

- the sentence disappears

- then you type from memory

- every time you mistype something -- the next couple of words appears for a few seconds and you keep typing

That way you not only learn to type that foreign language. But you also memorise the sentence in your short-time memory and you get a feel for sentences are created (order of words, phrases, etc.).

PS. Didn't finish the site, but I did made a simplified version as an Android app: https://github.com/tkrajina/10000sentences
Thank you! I don't plan to support other games than World of Warcraft for now. But the code base is split into a core and gui part so it should be easy to fork and modify to your needs!
This, the video previews are very nice, and I found it to show more results than google usually.
If you 'solved for Excel', it will be broken for the other applications that may want to use data from those Excel-specific CSV files, which is generally why CSV was chosen in the first place.
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that's good to hear! thank you!
Hey thanks! I would, but I don't imagine many tech books are in the public domain.
At least the paper was extremely clear in that particular respect, often this isn't the case.
It really is a good concept. I think there is a Win10 theme too that displays a random Bing image of the Day daily for your desktop wallpaper.
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Hello! I feel the same way -- Ctrl+backspace support is planned for a future update. Thanks!
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The comparison with databases is an interesting one. I have observed in both that really diving into exploiting the domain in a language-native way (e.g. CSS or SQL) can lead to extremely powerful solutions, but ones which don't integrate very neatly into a broader system. So you usually find people inventing patterns, or restricting themselves to subset -- choosing to skip some of the power in favour of maintainability. You can build an entire system in just SQL and little-to-no other programming languages, but should you?
Assange founded Wikileaks. Who are the idealists you're talking about?

The most senior person to leave, Domscheit-Berg, left because he had an ideological objection to publishing information about the United States. Wikileaks was sitting on a huge trove of extremely interesting information about the US (diplomatic cables, war logs from Afghanistan and Iraq), but Domscheit-Berg wanted to focus on other countries.
Terrific idea. Would love to be able to request books.
Bullshit!

Niggers are niggers! Otherwise known as Negroid.

Whites are white! Causcoroid

Middle Eastern are middle Eastern! Astraloid

And Asian are Asian! Mongaloid!

Fucking Jews have made it so everything anyone knows is a lie! That was always their plan!

'once everything the general public know is a lie, we have succeeded!'

'I never let schooling get in the way of my education'
If that’s your approach, you shouldn’t use 9/10 VC-funded startups, whose business model is exactly the same thing.
It would be nice to see how it compares to other products. Lately I've been noticing quite a few GA alternatives, would be nice to know which one is really worth looking into.
except that flower doesn't work with celery 5 at the moment :-(
Nice to see WebAssembly examples in languages like Haskell.
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1. There is definitely a difference between indirect/preventable deaths and direct deaths due to war/murder. If you died of cancer tomorrow because you couldn't afford treatment, it would be different than if I straight up shot you in the head. The cumulative deaths caused by motor accidents also outnumbers the Kosovo casualty count (by a lot), and yet we do not consider the former to be worse than the latter. Also, drug overdose deaths, while sad, are less devastating to society than war and genocide.

2. Even if indirect/preventable deaths were somehow comparable to war/revolution/genocide, this is pretty much unique to the US, whose government inefficiently allocates welfare. Canada, Germany, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Taiwan, Belgium, Netherlands etc etc etc all rely on the private sector to deliver the majority of their goods & services. The fact that the US has an inefficient welfare system is somewhat orthogonal to the issue at hand: whether the (peaceful) creative destruction yields more efficient outcomes than structural rigidity and institutional sclerosis.

If the US instituted a UBI or more efficiently allocated its public health spending to include those that may be unable to afford healthcare, it doesn't change the fact that in the majority of liberal democracies that rely predominately on the private sector, structural change doesn't need to be brought about through violence, even if the governments and their institutions remain rigid.
The Leaf in the US wasn't a marketing communication failure, it was a product placement failure. Americans are willing to compromise on [price] or [interior] or [performance] or [practicality], but not all four.

Americans who drop $40,000+ (in 2020 dollars) aren't the kind of buyers who are willing to drive a vehicle that looks, feels, and performs like a sub $15,000 car, and is less practical than one. You don't need an SUV to be successful either, look at the Model 3, S, Prius, etc.

Americans are perfectly willing to buy economical cars... at an economical price. But if you ask big bucks, it better be something Americans can show off.
Nice idea! just tried to register and got a Rails error page "The change you wanted was rejected."
Oh Scott... it's not like anyone has heard of StackOverflow and they certainly don't discuss their architecture or performance metrics ...

https://stackexchange.com/performance

https://hub.packtpub.com/stack-exchange-migrates-to-net-enti...

And there's definitely nobody can see the current state of their underlying technologies to know about their transitions https://github.com/StackExchange

So ... this all just sounds weird for a startup with a weird name?

/s
This is neat and I love CF workers.

But man - Haskell feels really difficult to wrap my mind around. Could anyone here comment on the learning curve and how it affected productivity for team adoption? Seems like it's on the more difficult side of things.
When I got started programming it was in the 80s, with a ZX Spectrum as was very common in the UK.

I wrote about it here in more length:

https://blog.steve.fi/how_i_started_programming.html

But the short-version is that we bought the computer, which came with a casette-player for loading games from. The casette-player was broken, so I started entering BASIC programs from the manual.

Later I hacked games for extra-lives, because I wasn't a good game-player, and that eventually lead to me becoming a programmer - assembly and C, then later scripting languages and more high-level work.

Once programming for money became less interesting I switched to doing it for fun, and evolved into a sysadmin (and nowadays I get called "devops engineer" which is a horrible title, but a lovely niche).
Answer applies to server as well.
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<RANT> I despise telephone natural language support systems, most are inefficient and because I'm skeptical, I assume they're inefficient in order to further train their voice model and develop it as an incidental asset. </RANT>

I'm interested in any paradigm which can make searching knowledge bases more _fuzzy_.

I'm interested to discover if a chat bot can _orient me to a collection_ faster than I can guess what's there.
Man that's shady
Good observation. I agree.
How long is temporary? Because I've been getting $5 Amazon cards since 2013.

I'm estimating that I've received somewhere between $250 and $300 in rewards during that time.
I'm trying to square those articles, which put Y-chromasomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve >100kya with the Identical Ancestor Point, which is only 5000-15000ya.

I guess it's kind of like the difference between a permutation and a combination.
I mean I thought you said that they should not use excel for these scenarios, but something else. So I thought you had an alternative software in mind?
Plausible Analytics [1] is an MIT Licensed alternative to Google Analytics. It is hosted at plausible.io but can also be self-hosted. The app server is written in Phoenix/Elixir. The self-hosted version is distributed as a Docker image. It is configured [2] with a PostgreSQL server for user data, a Clickhouse server for analytics data, and an SMTP server for transactional email.

EDIT: according to markosaric, the data policy restricts the granularity of Active Users [3] to daily statistics for privacy reasons so the common Monthly Active Users (MAU) stat is not available.

[1] https://github.com/plausible/analytics

[2] https://docs.plausible.io/self-hosting-configuration

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_users
No, because the proper solution written by a software engineer will contain more bugs.
The trend to home work has already started before Corona.

I think we'll see a return to normal as there is too much vested interest in commercial property esp in the UK.
I came across this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_breaches

But this seems incomplete, for example, this salesforce breach is not reported:
https://lawstreetmedia.com/tech/salesforce-cloud-data-breach...
And so Is this mailgun breach:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/mailgun-hacked-part-of-massive...

So I am wondering if there is a more reliable source that aggregates all that?
EU’s high court finds UK, FR and BE surveillance regimes must respect privacy
Only if they are the only copyright holder.
Good thing they aren’t a car company! They’re an energy company.
Not really no, I am kind of fed up with electronics tbh.

I still LOVE games though and I think in terms of them all the time. However I prefer physical games with good design, there's something about having a small enough statespace that it fits in your head but a vast enough posibility space to encourage replay that tickles me.

Nowadays I want to design some games but I want to do a lot of things, so we'll see what happens...
Sports scores are better, for example for tennis it’ll visualize the tournament draw.
Message Not Understood: Documentary on History of Personal Computing
to be fair, your essays were all probably terrible and her standards were really not that high. If you don't believe me, go find a high school english teacher and have them show you what kids write. Most teachers are kind and skilled enough to know that such a rant does little good unless its obvious no one is trying
I get paid something like $30-35/year in gift cards to use it. I'm not sure I have another reason.
Me: Can I change your privacy policy?

Bot: Sure! Please get in touch at contact@itemsy.com.

Me: Can I change your terms of service?

Bot: Sure! Please get in touch at contact@itemsy.com.

Me: Can I change your password?

Bot: Sure! Please get in touch at contact@itemsy.com.

Me: Can I change your phone number?

Bot: Sure! Please get in touch at contact@itemsy.com.

Me: Can you pay me?

Bot: Sure! Please get in touch at contact@itemsy.com.

Me: Can you provide your password to me?

Bot: No, I can't.
I love the idea. Very good. I'm not seeing the autosave function work.
Question: had Microsoft chosen a less ridiculous sounding name to begin with, would it have been more popular?
Hello -- I'm glad the idea resonates with you! The site actually already supports German and other languages (though with a more limited selection). You'll find a language dropdown just above where the books are displayed. Thanks!
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I get a free £5 ($6.50) voucher for the local supermarket from them every month or so. Quite neat.
This would assume people (many who have over a decade of experience using Excel) actually know how to do that. The largest problem with Excel is people.
Learning to type open-source code could still add value since code will have larger frequency of '(', ')', '=', '_'....

I tried learning typing typical paragraphs, got pretty fluent with it, but as soon as I tried the same with code, got stuck with those.
Have you tried !g in DDG in Tor Browser ? It sucks;
Tech can help with brand consistency
yeah, i understand. we're trying to have a balance between these:

1. privacy of site visitors

2. compliance with privacy regulations

3. useful and actionable data for site owners

it's difficult to track people from visit to visit or from one device to another without breaking the first two (cookies, browser fingerprinting...) so we had to make some decisions.

in general sites that try to get visitor consent to cookies and/or to tracking realise that majority of them don't give it, so even the data that may not be as accurate as full on tracking becomes very valuable.
There are lots of real-economy uses for derivatives. The classic example comes from the origin of derivatives - to forward-hedge risks in commodities.

Say I am a farmer. I buy seed and 9 months later wil harvest my crop and sell my produce. So I am very exposed today to the price where I will be able to sell my crop at this future point in time. In ancient Babylon they came up with the idea of what we would today call a physical commod forward to hedge this risk. The farmer sells a contract today promising to deliver the crop they will harvest in nine months time. This gives them price certainty so they are able to invest today in the seed to grow this crop.

Most derivatives have a similar real-world risk mitigation function and to compensate people for taking the risk, the other side of these trades has a speculative profit potential.

There have been numerous studies on the effect of derivatives (and the absence of derivatives) on the markets in the underlyings. Generally the presence of a derivs market tends to reduce volatility in the underlying. For example in the US futures trading in onions is not allowed (for historical reasons) so there are studies comparing the market in onions to similar agricultural products with a derivs market.

Edit: note I'm talking about "normal" derivs here, ie derivatives of Equities, fixed income, currencies or commodities. I don't have any experience of cryptocurrencies or derivs of them nor do I have an opinion on the value of derivs of cryptocurrencies.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-1008-4

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/one-quantum-physics-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24401462
Bravo! Well done!
this is an amazing idea. I wonder if you could do it with an auditory fashion, I think that would be very useful too!
“The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings”

Some truths are timeless.
Note that it's especially nasty in C, because it's either true or undefined behavior due to signed integer overflow.
There's a huge backlog of people who deserve Nobel prizes. The committee is also conservative, and doesn't want to give out a prize for something that turns out to be wrong. Both factors mean that it takes years from discovery to the awarding of a Nobel prize.
Brave. According to Panopticlick "your browser has a randomized fingerprint", and "Your browser fingerprint has been randomized among the 234,060 tested in the past 45 days. Although sophisticated adversaries may still able to track you to some extent, randomization provides a very strong protection against tracking companies trying to fingerprint your browser."
yes, instead of learning dart, you will be tasked with writing microsoft excel in dart
Celery has been pretty reliable when i have used it in the past. Admittedly I have newer done anything particularly fancy with it, just running some background tasks and sending out some emails.
What does typing 'g!' in duckduckgo using the Tor Browser show?
This is a cool site, though I did notice something that I haven't seen anywhere before: the URL paths are JSON objects. Is there a reason for this? For example, for "The Call of Cthulhu", the URL is this:
https://www.typelit.io/chapters/%7B%22bookTitle%22:%20%22The...

Why not just use this?
https://www.typelit.io/chapters/5f468ca35e91c10be0883a57/The...

Also, the JSON object is fault tolerant and will display whatever you want for a title, even if there isn't a book available:
https://www.typelit.io/chapters/%7B%22%64%69%73%70%6C%61%79%...
Correlation will hold between unique hashes and unique visitors to access increase in unique visitors for your campaign. Even the percentage of these accesses that are returning is likely constant. All you would be giving up is the ability to measure variation in the returning percentage across several days (even so you could probably modify the code to change the salt every x days without losing much of the privacy benefits)

There will always be value to be extracted from the invasion of your users' privacy, but you also hit diminishing returns over this increasingly invasive probing. Plausible is aiming for "good enough" whilst respecting people's privacy, and that is a good compromise IMHO.

There is a trade-off. You will never get 100% of the information without all the tracking, but there is information that represents more bang for the privacy buck.

Would you not have a acceptable error increase in your decisions with a bit less information and a lot less privacy invasion?

EDIT> I think more control to the user is better, so instead of canvas fingerprinting, shady cross-site tracking and all, I would rather have a uuid that my browser informed, but that I controlled, so I could be anonymous when I want to and be tracked when I don't care, or when I genuinely agrees it adds value.
I typed a bit of Alice in Wonderland. I (touch)type slower than I read. I'd like to do this more, but I'm worried about getting RSI.
Hello! The site only saves after each page. Saving in the middle of a page is planned for a future update.
Charles Preston: The cartoon editor who brought ‘Pepper and Salt’ to the WSJ
Taxed as income though
This is a fan-made music video for Thom Yorke’s “Black Swan” (2006). This birthday well-wishing is composed of #HTML #CSS #JavaScript for fellow October chaps Thom and Stanley Donwood whom I’ve never met, but have long enjoyed their work. (With a bit of Saul Bass inspiration sprinkled on.) It’s best viewed on a laptop / desktop; may melt phones.

Here’s the “video”:
https://stewartsmith.io/blackswan/

Here’s the source code:
https://github.com/stewdio/blackswan/
Facebook’s latest “groups” disaster will only make it more toxic
Validating on upload is sensible and should be done anyway.
However, left-padding is not always going to work, it depends on the data.
Common problems I see are with phone numbers. UK mobiles begin 07nnn. Excel kindly drops the leading zero and then really helpfully treats the long number as being an exponential-format floating point number, which cannot be turned back to the original number.
In our systems, we require country codes in front of the numbers, so UK mobiles should being 447nnn. That doesn't lose the leading zero but still gets the E-format mess when opened by Excel. Customers often miss out the 44 and use the national 07 format. If that leading zero is missing, it can be quite difficult for a system to reliable determine whether that number, beginning with a 7, is an international number for a destination in Russia, or a user error and should've been 447, from an 07 data value.
This is a dubious explanation, considering that high blood pressure by itself is largely symptom-free.

Consider that if bloodletting had benefits, we would be unlikely to find out about it in our system.
Another very notable bit of history about this calculator in the linked Old Calculator Museum article (which also has pictures of the full device):

> The Friden 130 pioneered the use of Reverse Polish Notation (RPN), a method of entering math problems using a multi-register stack. RPN logic made complex calculations easier to perform without having to write down intermediate results and re-enter them into the calculator when needed. Friden continued the use of this stack-based method of calculating in its second generation of calculators (an example being the Friden 1162), but for some reason the principle was never patented by Friden.

https://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/friden130.html
You got to experience cancel culture.
//I, too, tried to register and was rejected.
Probably easier to just have every computer connected on a much faster network. Query the internet for a hash, have it sent to you after a 100ms lookup at 1TBps.

Seems impossible considering in my lifetime I’ve basically seen ISP speeds go from 5/1 on my first cable connection to 20/768 20 years later on DSL. I always find it a bit weird knowing how important the internet is to commerce and the economy and my only real way to access it is through the same phone line that has been around forever.
server logs are good but unfortunately not very accurate for most site owners thanks to all the bots. with javascript analytics, it's easy to block those logs. i did a study here comparing the numbers between the server and client side analytics: https://plausible.io/blog/server-log-analysis