skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The website has all this time been incorrectly labelled “by our automated tools” as spam, according to the spokesperson. “Our apologies for the inconvenience.”

It seems the large tech companies just have a policy to automate as much as possible and if it impacts some folks unfairly, that's just how it works and they've no interest in dealing with it unless it gets PR. Otherwise screw those little people.

I had a domain through blogger that I registered ages ago on the blogger site. Google started emailing me that it was expiring and directed me to Gsuite.... but I don't have a Gsuite account and google didn't make one for me...

The domain didn't appear in my Google domains account.

Google had just pointed blogger domain users to Gsuite and called it a day.

Google was no help, I never got a response from the handful of ways (none of them good) trying to reach out to them.

Finally I found the old registrar google used behind the scenes and they let me renew the domain.

I never heard back from google other than all the spam about my domain expiring and asking me to login to Gsuite... repeatedly.. sent to an email without a Gusite account.. someone just flipped a switch and screw everyone I guess.
And no ecosystem to speak off, while that standards committee is making sure that GPGPU programming is the next killer application for C++.
Anyone know if anyone has followed up on Caroline Thompson's work after she passed away?

"The Chaotic Ball: An Intuitive Analogy for EPR Experiments"

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9611037
Are there any plans/possibilities to "upstream" this to 9front (or wherever is appropriate)?
How Intercom applies ML in product development
Like I mentioned - my memory is pretty hazy about the specific speedups.

Yes, N^2 to NlogN feels like it should be a bigger factor, but remember that constants in front of this matter. You are replacing 2-level nested but very straightforward loops that rip through cached memory at blazing speed without any disruption to CPU pipelines with a single loop that involves quite a bit of condition checking and array element swaps (cache is busted, pipelines are busted - conditions are very hard to predict). You gain some, you lose some.
If you're doing content marketing, then this case study from Apollo Digital is very useful: https://apollodigital.io/blog/seo-case-study
I read stuff on FB occasionally but almost never post. The last time I posted anything I was instantly logged out because apparently my single comment was "unusual activity on my account."
Thank you for the Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle quote. I my mind, I heard it spoken as if by Sherlock Holmes himself.
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> but placing something to public domain is easily interpreted as explicit "please plagiarize"

I've never heard of anyone interpreting public domain as any such thing. Whenever I get an idea from the SQLite source code for example, I have never for even a single moment ever considered plagiarizing it.

If public domain were really treated as you say, then movies and TV shows about Sherlock Holmes wouldn't begin (or end) with "Based on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle." They'd just say, "Sherlock Holmes was conceived, written and created by Foo Johnson." But of course nobody does that, because plagiarism is unethical.
As an ML engineer for Intercom, I wrote this post about the principles we follow when developing Machine Learning products.

Happy to take any questions!
You have at least convinced me that anyone using it would need to know very well what they are doing and what is going to happen behind the scenes. And that it's better suited to the higher-level languages (node, ruby family) rather than those that give you more fine-grained control over processes.

You've also convinced me that it's better as syntactic sugar for splitting into true separate processes behind the scenes, rather than a first-class language construct. This would solve many of the issues you raised. But I do still think there's value in such a concept.

Perhaps it could be a good fit for serverless functions. You write it as one function, but it happens as two, and the developer doesn't have to worry about the glue code.

In terms of jumping to the right place in the code, several languages have the concept of continuations, it doesn't seem like a huge leap to something like this.
Moderation is labor, and you get what you pay for. Given how notoriously mental health threatening Facebook moderation has turned out to be, adding unpaid moderators with no health care benefits and especially no mental health protections seems the exact wrong direction for Facebook.

That said, I absolutely agree that the answer is likely one of checks/balances/as much transparency to the adjudication process as possible, and yes Facebook has a lot to learn there from existing governmental technology.
I wouldn't say modeling is horse shit. It's really marketing surrounding modeling that's horse shit.

Modeling is actually very very useful but is too often oversold, which drives me bananas. It's especially bad in the world of data driven or data intensive models because that's trendy and sells software, hardware, and services. The problem is that various forms of modeling are complex and therefor expensive and convincing people to invest in furthering the domain results in these poor public misrepresentations and overselling.

Modeling gives us ways to abstract reality and attempt to predict the future or find patterns we might otherwise miss. Sometimes it works, a lot of times it doesn't, but when it does it's great. Everytime--its expensive and people need to feel they didnt waste their money.
Polar Adventure: A text-based adventure game written with logic programming
Though I see your point, I don't really agree.

'Foreign' mostly means 'Foreign'.

There just aren't a ton of Texans looking to buy up property in SF because 1) inequality, much as we may not think it's good in the US, is actually not that extreme and 2) places with extreme inequality and hyper concentrations of wealth tend to also be very corrupt places where private capital is likely to take flight.

The 'non resident buyers' in SF/Van/Toronto are going to be from China, India, Russia, some other places like that, not Texas.

Obviously, it takes on different characteristics, depending on.

Florida is a domestic getaway and retirement spot for Americans, so it's a different kind of place.

Non high-growth places like Van and Toronto have large foreign populations which act as points of entry. Chicago, Montreal, Portland ... do not.

SF/Valley has a very unique characteristic of IPO Winners and 'local super high net worth' individuals that's hard to factor - and of course, it's not NY with the possibility of rapid expansion.
I'd say the issue with Reddit, in the context of this discussion, is that it doesn't work. For whatever reason you like, Reddit doesn't delegate the community to its moderators. It delegates the responsibilities, but not the rights. Reddit still has an overarching "community standards" and is thus, at that level, still just one big community, with the accompanying failure. The attempt to solve that with subreddits was a good try, and solved some things, but it doesn't get around the sorts of problems being discussed in this overall thread.

(I'm only talking about what the case is, in this context, not why, nor judging it at the moment.)
this article makes many valid points but I would have loved to read a version that was written without use of the terms "AI" or "artificial intelligence", as I think it would have been clearer and more interesting.
R in general and especially loops are slow; slower than even Python. Making a function and applying it on a vector is a simple way to boost performance. Also recursion seems[1] to be faster than iteration.

Seeing the code in article, it can be that a part in that speedup is because R is used and not only of a better algorithm.

[1]: https://predictivehacks.com/a-comparison-between-iteration-r...
What are the other, more “high brow” ways, to approach monetization?
That's a lot higher than I thought it would be. Oddly enough, I have a friend in Clyde Hill (not Seattle, pretty good schools) who sends his daughter to private school in Queen Anne.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is how people in South Seattle deal with living in South Seattle, or in downtown (e.g. capital hill), the schools really aren't great there. The schools don't get good until you hit Queen Anne, Magnolia, Ballard, Wallingford, Green Lake, north of UW (Roosevelt is where all the UW professors send their kids), but then they aren't so great again in north (of 85th) Seattle (not as bad as South Seattle, however). I'm not sure how even the reputation of South Seattle is either; my cousins went to West Seattle high school and they had pretty good experiences.
“If you care about latency, you shouldn't be using TCP” – Signals and Threads
Barely going to touch those language claims; I've written production systems in two of those, and Java, your preferred stack. They all can share memory efficiently between units of concurrency; this just seems like another example of you claiming your own limited knowledge as being truth.

In terms of building real world systems - oh, but I have. Over a decade of building distributed systems, across 5 different companies. In domains that cared about correctness. You have a data point; a weak one. "This worked for me". Which I'm not arguing against (well, I'm nuancing it a bit; it worked sufficiently well to not cause business issue, which is a different metric than system correctness, but somewhat immaterial).

What I'm arguing against is your claim that "This will work for everyone" and "everything else is too complicated".

Which you've been unable to refute. In fact, you've been unable to even provide evidence for your own position (beyond the aforementioned "it worked for me"), let alone the counter claim.
Dropbox Goes Virtual (remote) First
We now know that antibody seroprevalence studies missed many of the mild cases. This is naturally difficult to quantify.

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3364

So the actual IFR is probably lower than the numbers you cited.
That sounds a lot like the "Find the point nearest to this one on a 2s plane" interview question. Neat.
Exactly thanks, sorry cannot edit it now!
>Japanese students learned Korean even quicker than the Chinese students - in addition to using Chinese words, Japanese and Korean have the same grammar structure ( Subject Object Verb ) whereas Chinese and English are different (Subject Verb Object)

I've never found this a convincing reason as to why a language is difficult to learn. Word order is learned once while vocabulary, speaking and listening need to be learned and refined consistently over many years. All of these become harder the further the target language is from the ones you already know. Would French really be significantly harder to learn if they said 'Je le ballon frappe'?.

I also think this applies to some other 'hard' qualities of languages, like pronouns and alphabets (i.e. not logograms). Conversely, freedom in how you approach grammar in a sentence makes it harder, not easier, because while you're able to structure a sentence how you like it makes it harder to know what sounds idiomatic and it increases the number of forms you need to listen and read for.

Tangential thought: one of the reasons that vocabulary is annoying can be presented in CS terms. Imagine reading a sentence like 'Do you want to foo the bar?'. From the context you can probably understand what kind of words foo and bar are but you don't know what they mean. Yet they're the most important words in the sentence. This isn't a coincidence: the least common words in a sentence tend to be those with the highest entropy. If there was another word that carried the same meaning but was more common, the author would be more likely to use it. So it's not enought to learn 90% of the words, you need the niche words too.
Oh, it has been my experience after decades in American tech spaces, that the rest of the world has much, much more to offer than can be viewed from those shores.

Tech parks in Europe abound! Today I ran into an SAP developer on the bus, just by random.

I think the bubble of US tech-centrism is quite limiting. All good devs should spend a few years abroad.
> I'd say the best way to learn would be Japanese, Korean, then Chinese (what I did).

Why? I speak Chinese and used to be fluent in Japanese. I find my Chinese (and English + katakana) a huge help when visiting Japan in recent years.

What's your rationale for this ordering?
I am skeptical that the labor market for high quality tech talent is as large in the rest of the country or that it is that tied to COL. The US vs not US gap seems much larger than the HCOL vs LCOL for senior IC jobs.
How did we end up in a place where we need react, react-helmet, and graphql to build a static blog?
I would assume UGC sites like youtube are an entirely different beast.
> Well maybe it's what everyone else wants.

It's not what I want either, and it's not what most other Linux users I know want either.

It's copying the behavior of MacOS, plain and simple, and I disagree with them doing that. I don't use MacOS because I don't like MacOS, and the last thing I want is MacOS-like Linux.
Many of my friends who own large companies are explicitly saying they will never rent offices again. As a founder/CEO this is an obvious move.
Do (non)measurements taken this way 'collapse the wave function' anyway? Or can you only get information that is still open to change during the actual measurement?
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> The XML parts of our pipeline are in maintenance mode and we would love to eventually deprecate and remove them, or ...

It sounds scary. I hope he meant core changes, not API

> ... or at least replace them with something that generates less security bugs. Increasing the capabilities of XML in the browser runs counter to that goal.

> By "XML parts of our pipeline" I mean "everything implemented using libxml and libxslt".

I have one example. Have you known HTML parser is faster than XML [1]? Yes, awfully bloated HTML parser [2] is faster.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1481080

[2] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html
well the name, it's a gas saber :)
My only feeedback is go for nextjs, at least trailingSlash is solved for you by default so you don't screw up https://nextjs.org/docs/api-reference/next.config.js/trailin...
The EU has a combined GDP more than 10x that of Russia. Russia has some advantages -- having one of the world's biggest nuclear stockpiles means that they basically get to pick their conflicts, and being an arms exporter means their military R&D is in some sense subsidized by other countries, but still, that's a pretty big deficit to make up. And they have notably not picked any conflicts that the EU would find existential.

They are just set up differently. The EU doesn't have a central military, so they can't do foreign adventures very well, and as a result they don't invade places very often. But this could be seen as a good thing...
I appreciate the sentiment, but that is probably better reserved for personal interactions than internet pile-ons. There are lots of factors we don't know. Also, if we're to be honest with ourselves, internet pile-ons don't arise out of compassionate concern for the other. That's a justification that gets tacked on.

It's moot anyhow, because the main reason not to have threads go that way is that it does bad things to the community. Each time it happens, we deepen the pathways towards making HN nastier and more toxic, and since those are the default paths already, we need to consciously cultivate the opposite.
This is a Google Tech Talk I gave about this about 8 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc

It is based on this (unpublished) paper:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf

The key insight is that measurement and entanglement are actually the same physical phenomenon. A measurement is nothing more than a very large network of mutual entanglements.
It is interesting to analyse this in lieu of metaphysics of Kant and later, Schoepenhauer. I won't say I master the subject addressed by these philosophers. Far from it, I only scratched the surface and am just an amateur of the art.

But regarding the world within itself, or the world outside of human perception, there might not even be distiction between things we perceive so clearly as things in themselves, like the river bed and water, or air and trees.

All we perceive is a byproduct of experience and natural preconception of concepts like time and space. It doesn't mean, however, that what we perceive is false. It serves a orientation purpose and helps us guide ourselves in this world towards maximizing quality.

In this respect, paranormal activities might well be explained by outside phonomena. But just as separating what we normally perceive from what they really are has no practical purpose for us as humans (such is human experience, it imbues everything with human perception), observing such activities under the pure branch of rational observation misses entirely the point.

It doesn't really matter if those ghosts were real. Its effects were real not only in your psyche but also in the world (it evoked emotions in you that led you to selling the house). In this particular human aspect, they were subjectively quite real.
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And SF is the worst large city for dating in the world.
Dating is horrible in the Bay Area unless you grew up in the Bay or don’t work in tech.

If you’re an outsider you’re considered a gentrifying techie so you already eliminated mostly anyone who is from the Bay. So now you have to date other outsiders and guess what, most of them work in tech. Most people who work in tech are male.
If the trick to good SEO is simply adding a plugin, wouldn't everyone do it, then it becomes meaningless for crawlers to differentiate content?
Next question: how many resources?
The page I linked to was mostly intended as a nice example of Webmentions being used in the wild, but I also thought it made a nice point about the risks of centralized systems versus decentralized ones.

Examples of the latter would be spam (as mentioned elsewhere above), and coordination problems when trying to upgrade the standard in potentially backwards-incompatible ways. Hopefully the continued adoption of Webmention will prove that these risks are manageable.
> Since you're calling 3.77x the population-adjusted rate of WWII combat deaths "mostly normal"

This is an example of how statistics can mislead. Why not select the worst 119 days of ww2 and compare it to 119 days of covid? After all, most of 1366 days of ww2 didn't involve actual fighting. Also, are we including definitive covid deaths or "covid related deaths". Because if we included "ww2 related deaths and not just combat deaths", then I suspect that ratio would plummet towards 0.

> I would be curious to know what rate of death you would consider abnormal.

I guess it depends, but spike in deaths every now and then is normal even if it looks abnormal. It may sound counterintuitive but that's just life.

Your statistical analysis is intentionally dishonest. You cherrypicked the time frame and example to fit your agenda. How about try another set of data - the US combat deaths on D-Day ( 2500 deaths ) and extrapolate that to 119 days and population adjust and enjoy. Funny how that makes covid look like a walk in the park huh? But if I did that, it would be just as intellectually dishonest as your example.

Also, almost all of the combat deaths in ww2 was young healthy men whereas covid seems to afflict predominantly older people - almost all of them 45 and over. So not quite apples to apples right?
Apple announces smaller HomePod mini
Blades author here. Just added it to AUR for more convenient install for people who are not Rust developers:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/blades-bin/
The main motivating example given is rent vs. buy scenarios for a family minivan. I feel that the author may be biased by the last 7-8 months, during which, the rationale behind having two cars has largely vanished.

Another example given is the yard. Interestingly, usage of the yard would have shot up for a family with young children during this period. Here, again, I assume the author knows that a yard is a multipurpose area: playing, lounging, working during parts of the day (laptops make it easy to camp out in the yard for part of the day), swimming (assuming a permanent pool or an above-ground pool). If you use the yard for some combination of the activities above, then you would almost certainly not be able to substitute the neighborhood park for it.

On the whole, I do not see how the 'You are not using 95%' premise itself holds here.
I used to run ultra marathons, when you push your body to the limit like this, you do run into limits and deficiencies, not chronically but during hours of running and this extra overdosing does help the body function better
I really wish the Apple presenters would stop waving their arms... since I noticed they were doing it, I can't stop seeing it:)
It's not that easy since the T2 chip runs a derivative of iOS which requires codesigning. The only problem is that the T2 rarely reboots which means that erasing any modifications from it might be difficult (as far as I am aware long pressing the power button for 10 seconds should be enough to reset both the T2 and Intel though).

It is impossible to untethered persist a modified version of MacEFI without another exploit on the T2 since it has to be signed by Apple and the signature is properly checked.
The difference is that in fictional works these devices might harm fictional characters, but in the real world this can maim, disfigure and blind actual people causing actual and pretty nasty suffering. There are safety regulations for this kind of equipment, at least where I live there are.

I find troubling the mindset in which fictional devices, societies, persons and universes aren't perceived clearly as just narrative tropes meant for making the narrative where they're contained work.
>>* From what I can tell, my Korean friends have an easier time picking up Japanese than English.*

I think it also helps that Japanese and Korean sounds share similar sounds, where as English has sounds that are difficult to pronounce for native Korean/Japanese speakers. My mother still has a hard time pronouncing the English "V" and "Z" sounds.
What % of the 49% are single issue voters? I think their economic policies are the last reason why voters support Republicans.
> There is one (perhaps two) month with excess mortality. "very high excess" is not a term I would use...

The mortality this April was 13% higher than the next highest value in the table. 29% higher than the next highest April value in the table. If you really have a problem with "very high", we can agree on "high". But we do agree that (a) this is not just an accident but caused by a real-world cause, (b) that real-world cause is Covid-19, and (c) the spike could have been avoided or at least flattened. Yes?

> good, you are part of the group I wanted to reach.

If you really want to reach us, a good way would be to tell us what you really want to tell us. If what you want to tell us is that Sweden did everything right at all times, you'll have to argue a bit more explicitly.

> no more than usual have died in Sweden this year

Yes. Looks like after its disastrous April Sweden managed a good turnaround.
As someone who lived in SV 30 years ago... I moved to Portland. And yes, property values here have risen quite a bit since then. And many moved to Seattle where prices have risen even more.

Changing your question a bit: Given that prices here in Portland (and Seattle) are relatively high now (though not nearly so much as SV) what are some other lower cost alternatives on or near the west coast? Maybe Spokane. Possibly Olympia. Eugene? Though now we're getting into smaller urban areas.