skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That actually would be very smart targeting - especially given Amazon actually asks you for a reason of return. So they could target people that said this vacuum doesn't work or they need a different model, etc. by offering them similar one but from other manufacturer, etc. But I don't think this happens, and it's require developing much more sophisticated models than dumb "bought together" ones they seem to be using now.
This is an interesting analogy which might be helpful; but I don't think taking it down to an atomic level is useful, since it breaks the analogy. Time means just as much to a single atom as it does to your entire hand, the speed limit and "increase in drag" (in the context of this analogy) is the same. The hand takes more energy to accelerate than a single atom does, but that's not because of temporal dilation--it's just the normal old classical inertia.
We're downvoting you, but there is a valid point: many of those things are also bad. The false narrative that started the Iraq war had bi-partisan support and was popular with the public.

Treating everything as if there were only two sides is part of the problem. But I see dissent within the democrat party over these issues - and not within the republican party, who have supported everything that Trump has said and done.
I use Nord in vim. I wasn't aware of the GTK theme. I'll check it out!
Not sure, but, my educated guess is that it will be more efficient as they improve Rosetta 2 to do this on demand instead of pre-translating every app on the store every time Rosetta 2 is updated.

Even if that means the users have to retranslate, that's still essentially "free" (to Apple) distributed compute.
Hey there fellow AoE II player!

Cool, to hear from some decent player. What time did you play? Around 2002?

Since I was a 2k player at the time, let me assure you, that the top dudes at the time (Koven, Sheriff for example) were already so called pro gamers who got payed/sponsored and they were exceptionally good.

The true story is, that many folks above 2k+ did what was called "points trading" back then. Koven once stated, that they got payed according to their rank in the official ladder.

So he also had to defend against cheaters, un-sync games etc. He was always top notch, but he had to adjust his rating accordingly, due to cheaters.

Almost all at the top did points trading. Smurf accounts, the system, some refusing to play against weaker players, or some playing DM to get points faster. Also some game "hacks", like the farming bug etc. that gave you the edge in early FLUSHing games.

So take this: 1850 is extremely good in RM 1vs1. 2k+ players are exceptionally good at micro-management. A skill to be learned.

I was part of CN, you might remember this clan from our most famous player, Lightning_CN. Greets to Force, Gwenny etc. where ever you are! :)

PS: There is a book from L_Clan_Chris at Amazon. Some knowledge bites to digest.
Does the representation theoretic perspective / harmonic analysis also explain why the Laplace transform works? I would be interested to know if it's possible to pick a different compact group from S1 to recover the Laplace transform
Google Earth VR has existed since 2016 I think, it's normally the first thing I show people that want to try VR. You can be like Godzilla sized in famous cities, go see your childhood village, visit the world, it's a really great experience.
Interesting point on Indian dairy co-ops. The NZ dairy industry, has from the very beginning had a strong co-op focus as well as being concentrated on exports, even as its beginnings in the nineteenth century.

Despite great pushes over the last forty years this remains in modern form to the present day and is seen by NZ farmers as an essential part of their success, as this has allowed them to pool resources and invest in the vertical integration (transport, factories, shipping) to compete overseas.
A similar structure also exists in other countries (US with DFA milk, Denmark & Sweden with Arla are also in the top ten global dairy companies)

Until the early 1980s, NZ also operated a very protectionist trade policy dependent on access to traditional markets which ultimately failed badly. This experience and the (painful) resulting changes is a major reason why NZ is such a proponent of trade agreements and multilaterality more generally on the global stage.
I am not sure how accurate that analogy is, ( I guess most analogy are not made to be 100% accurate anyway ) but it explains the problem or help creating the image in my metal model far better than any thing else.

Thank You.
> ローマ字ひろめ会 (Romaji Hirome Kai […])

Rōmaji, not romaji¹. The macron (long dash above) over the vowel indicates that the rō is a long vowel sound (roughly twice the length of, for example, the ma or ji following it). The purpose of romanization is to get text that can be pronounced roughly correct by someone not fluent in reading Japanese kanji and kana.

Dampfkraft is knowledgeable on these topics, which makes the complete absence of macrons in his romanized words doubly conspicuous.

1: Unless you are using it as a loanword in English, but here it was a literal romanized transcription.
I've set out on a similar journey in the past couple of years, but been very much doing it 'in the dark' by focusing on learning and watching a lot of tactical videos on Youtube (mainly agadmator's and GothamChess's channels) which have given me a new insight into various chess theories.

I have a paid Chess.com account (same username as my HN handle), but still lack the confidence to really engage a human opponent 1 on 1. Maybe next year, once I have really got opening books and endgame theory down pat. I still make too many blunders in those parts.
> Bill stopped what he was doing, fetched the sources for emacs (using ftp), found the source of the bug, fixed it, and sent off a patch.

That would be far more difficult if the source code was in a poor state. Some libraries are easier to patch than others, I can think of a couple of libraries I've wanted to quickly patch and soon (not soon enough) realised that it's unpatchable because it's a mess (or perhaps even worse, is too clever by half and has far too much indirection and not enough comments) and would need extensive surgery.

That's not to diminish the strength of your story about Bill Schelter but only to point out that it's easier to do your best work if others are doing theirs.
A long while back, I dedicated my time to Tetris (on Gameboy). I surely spent less time on that than would have been necessary for chess, but it is amazing to see what progress is possible. I could play level 9[heart] without an end (in infinite play mode) or up to high 3 (6 rows of waste on bottom). When moving a brick to the left or right edge, the gameboy would make a long beep instead of individual blips. No idea how I could move my fingers that fast.

It is fun. For chess in contrast to Tetris, there is even a good chance for it to stay fun -- Tetris is a bit too simplistic for that, I think.
I don't understand your argument at all. Again, every single electric car(including my own) has a regenerative mode, where the car applies gentle resistance to the electric motors when you lift your foot off the throttle - I can absolutely guarantee that if you drove one you wouldn't see any difference between this and engine braking with a manual. It provides the same level of safety in slippery conditions as a manual would.

The reasons why trucks don't usually have automatic transmissions is that the torque needed to move such a huge mass would destroy nearly every traditional hydrokinetic transmission, only recently dual clutches have started getting good enough to be installed in trucks, and indeed most new tractors you can buy now from Volvo, Mercedes or Scania are all automatic. It has nothing to do with safety, it was a technical limitation. And for braking trucks have a separate engine retarder that has nothing to do with the transmission.
You're right in that the article doesn't quite "explain" it .. and it cannot be explained relative to normal newtonian "intuition". Working with Maxwell's equations to understand how electric fields can transform to magnetic fields and vice versa, working out the "wave equation" and seeing the speed of electromagnetic waves emerge from the equation independent of the reference frame was what nailed it for me.
>You're not really talking about Linux. You're talking about mime types and xdg-open, the de-facto default way Linux desktop environments (not to be confused with distros) handle default applications.

Yes, but the github page this post is about is making that same mistake.

> Meanwhile in Windows the default behavior is to hide file extensions which I think is actually the worst of both worlds.

Oh yes, terrible, I can't believe I actually forgot about that. I've modified that on every Windows computer I use.

Thanks for the info! I'll keep this in mind when I eventually switch to Linux like I've been meaning to for a while...
I thought about learning chess and what it actually involes when i watched the new netflix show.

i came to the relisation that it actually involes becoming good in a very very big search space by having a lot of experience and being fast in calculating and remembering chess moves.

Especially when i see how many people read up on grand masters, i came up with the theory:

The normal person is running behind or trying to 'just' learn the fast pre found and pre tested moves from a handfull of people who actually played/thought those moves through.

Like being a musician and only doing covers for 30 years while never playing/creating something themselfs.

AI became a tool by 1. no longer needing Grand Masters to find the next level and 2. being accessable to everyone which could create new pockets discovered by AI/through AI (compute power) and being learned individual.

How much real strategy is there for two really good players? Or is it more of an 'he is going for this move, i know this kind of moves and i need to intervine through moves so the opponent gets forced to play my moves'?

Also: Quite impressive the dedication, respect!
> Targeted ads are not that different from telling a friend about something you saw or heard of because you know that they might be interested.

Oh please.

Targeted ads are like following people around, tracking everything they do, then interrupting them as they go about their business to interject your commercial "message" about something you think you can sell them for a profit, regardless of genuine need.

They are absolutely nothing like interaction between friends.
Good that the Indian govt for opting out of this. Till the Chinese can respect our sovereignty and treat us as equals in trade, no free market access should be given to them and existing access should be withdrawn gradually.
Ask HN: Why there is little talk about hardware acceleration in DBMSs?
I was looking for some hardware acceleration examples in database systems for a while [1] e.g. with FPGA, GPU or CAM but couldn't find much. Just today I've encountered this article from Alibaba [2] in which they state that according to them they developed the first hardware accelerated database system which is used in production:

"This marks the first time that hardware acceleration was applied to the storage engine of an OLTP database".

Doing hardware acceleration seems very logical in database systems and I'm wondering why any FAANG or similar company didn't do it before. Unless I'm mistaken?

[1] original HN question - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25006725

[2] https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/new-insights-into-x-engine-the-new-storage-engine-of-rds-for-mysql_596209
Noyb files complaints against Apple's tracking code “IDFA”
How do you know it's related to their advertising team? I buy a lot of stuff on Amazon (mainly because their delivery is - usually = reliable, their selection is good and their return policy is generous) but I can't remember the last time I bought anything by clicking on an ad. That didn't happen for many years at least. In fact, I'm not sure I ever bought anything on Amazon by clicking on an ad, if you exclude affiliate links and people just reviewing stuff and then giving Amazon link.
It's pretty unlikely it was circulating then (why wasn't it detected) and there are much more likely explanations: contamination and the possibility of antibodies being from other related coronaviruses.
Trump says Biden won election but he still refuses to concede
In Germany, its about 25% of the cars which don't have a regular parking spot only, I would be surprised if the numbers in the UK would be vastly different.

However, everywhere where in-street parking is regular over night, there should be power outlets at the street side. They are quite common in the scandinavik countries, as even ICE cars used to be plugged in over night for heating the motor.
> Eventually I decided that I no longer wished to prioritize the game over other things

This is what I unfortunately found as well. I reached Legend in Hearthstone (The top rank, no clue what percentile it was) a while back and top 3-5% in StarCraft II a couple of years ago.

In both games I stopped playing shortly after reaching that level because the time investment just didn't seem worth it to me. I love games, but playing at a very high level requires a lot of practice and focus.

I don't really think it's possible to play competitively and do much else because of the time investment required just to stay at your current level, let alone improve. I love games, but it's hard to justify when I could be doing something more productive with my time.
There's a quota, if you read a few more it will start prompting you

Opening in an incognito window works though
This is ok. I don’t know why everyone should only use one OS for everything. Or one language, or one text editor. It has never been easier to use multiples, in parallel.

I personally use Linux and iOS. My main pain point isn’t Linux but apple lacking proper API to access iCloud services from Linux, or anything than Apple OSes really.
I try not to spend too much time "expecting".
I think this is a common problem on Nvidia. Firefox used to crash for me all the time coming out of hibernate. You can try Nvidia's solution.[1]

[1]: https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/455.38/READ...
I think it's because measurement, metrics and estimates are so hard in software engineering.

How long should it take to do X? If X is building a shelf, servicing a power plant or designing a car headlight I would imagine at least within the field the order of magnitude is pretty clear. Sure, better tools and experience may make someone twice or thrice as fast or the new guy is taking double the normal time, but such spans fit neatly into the human brain.

But now observe how neither of these statements seem off:

Getting my new web-based CRM tool written and published took me the whole afternoon.

Getting the new web-based CRM tool written and published took us 24 months.

Now add to that the fact that nobody really understands software top-to-bottom (or at all) and it is no surprise that everyone is confused all the time, builds weird mental models of things and skills while vaguely striving to achieve the first scenario and not the second.
You describe one possible way to do targeted ads, and probably the worst way in order to support your point, but this does not represent targeted ads in general.
Call me weird if you must, but I would prefer a globe rotate in the same fashion as the planet does: around the poles.
Ah, so 17 percent of consumers must work in advertising.
This is not really an accurate analogy sorry.
What is really happening is that everything (atoms etc..) are made of fields in which disturbances/patterns travel at the speed of light. When an object is moving through space, the fields have to move extra far to cover the distance through space, as well as to do the usual oscillations/vibrations/movements that give timing effects. This is where time dilation comes from. It's best understood with the reflecting-mirror-as-clock thought experiment.
I once needed a locksmith to come let me in my front entryway. Incredibly, he approached with an long plastic sheet and wedged it between the strike and the edge, quickly opening the entryway. I wasn't even mad about it cost $75, I learned in a cool new stunt that day and furthermore figured out how uncertain some doors are.
No, I'm suggesting that the problem of dirt and sweat smells is solvable with basic cosmetics, and doesn't require such ridiculously huge fragrance sector. What's propping it up is advertising - both directly, and by maintaining fragrance as social signalling mechanism.
Status quo with regard to labor rights and the environment. As the subtitle says, it is unambitious in scope.
This is a lost battle. Every news website does this now. Even reputable newspapers who would never consider adding a pointless photograph in print have it as a requirement for every online version of the same articles.

I find it insulting to me as reader. Perhaps they should offer a toggle for it in the user settings.
I'm a fan of John Bartholomew myself. You've probably encountered his youtube channel. GothamChess is streaming on twitch all the time.

I've also set out to improve my chess, somewhat casually, over the last year. About an 1800 rapid player on Lichess (~1500 on Chess.com), their ratings differ.

As far as openings, I like the courses on chessable.com.
> Saying "windows is worse" doesn't really mean Apple is fine here.

That’s why I didn’t say that.
>I have so many packages, they are free and safe. I've tried Windows recently, have to install software from the web. It is scary.

If you write it this way (without details) then how people can argue?

What's so scary? I think I'm using 99% of my software from an actual vendor sites and never felt that way. Also using things like virustotal.com.
Hit-Level Unsampled Google Analytics to BigQuery Without 360
Related but not entirely the same model: Boosting Stop-Motion to 60 fps using AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFN9dzw0qH8
"Most people use Windows on the desktop because it's the default"

That's just a stereotype, and that's not true. I keep using Windows (hardened and almost isolated Parallels instance of Windows 7), because Linux has serious lack of software I need.

I need fully functional MS Office, including API bindings for data import to Excel, and no, Libre Office Calc does not have even 20% of features I need. Of course, I need 3rd party addons, like Grammarly for MS Office.

I need Enterprise Architect, modeling software of that class simply does not exist on Linux.

I need Photoshop (I have one since old good times when Adobe offered lifetime license), I use it occasionally and not 100% effective, but nope, there are no functional open-source alternatives for Linux with the same comfort of use.

People don't use Linux not because it is not pre-installed, they don't use it because it's a totally foreign ecosystem. Doing a fully functional ports of software people use under Windows would've probably moved 1% share of Linux on desktops, but it does not happen, partly because open-sourse software designers do not recognize the problem, partly because it's an immense amount of work, impossible without huge financial and human investments with unclear outcome.

I don't even say about technical issues, like total lack of backward compatibility, it's mostly a headache for techies like us.
Don't you mean overestimating?
Private electricity consumption is only a small part of the total electricity consumption. While private consumption might be doubled when switching to electric cars, 20% total increase is a reasonable expectation (in Germany it would be somewhat less than that).
Do you prefer his youtube channel or his twitch stream?
Palantir moves its HQ from Palo Alto to Denver...

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/20/palantir-denver-hq-ipo-dir...
It’s good leverage for all the parties involved. For example, they can make another TPP with the US but on more advantageous terms
I propose my assumption instead of your own. Humans would exterminate the animals that started to rebel and even if it's an entire species.
which ads?

I do ask seriously - I'm using Win Pro and I'm not sure what you're talking about

recommendations of installing Microsoft Chrome?
Makes a lot of sense. There is no reason HyperKit would fallback to software virtualization when hardware support is not available because it's always been available for supported x86 Macs.
Maybe the region doesn't need US leadership ... just a thought ...
The world is burning.

This summer was the third very dry summer in germany. A dryness i haven't seen before.

A dryness which hurt the trees outside of my window as they did not get enough water, which i also have not seen.

But don't get me wrong. Knowing whats going on is stressful, reading irrelevant drama and not reading about people who are changing and trying to change the world is frustrating.

Instead of reading about new and less co2 producing stuff, i read about an idiot trump who plays kindergarden tantrum on the highest political level. The level which should give a direction and guidance.

And yes i'm not from the USA but if 'not even' the USA can do it, i can't expect a lot more countries not to do it.

At least my country is reasonable boring and smart (yes germany go germany :P)
Haha! You're awesome man!
At least they haven't confused the caption text and the alt text like most sites. "For Rachel, diving into this pool would be like swimming in potent bleach" actually adds to the article. It seems like for most sites these days you'd get something like "People swim in a public swimming pool" as the caption.
Yep, if I liked one book by G. R. R. Martin, it makes sense to suggest I would like another one. If I bought one Samsung tablet, it's much less likely I'd need another one a week later, unless that one was defective. They should introduce more information about goods - but it's probably too expensive to model that, and they get paid handsomely anyway, so why bother.
You can turn automatic updates on or off. If they are turned on, they are automatic.
Your name checks out ;-)

On a serious note: Lashing out is not "feedback"!
oh fuck you .... just kidding
They were supposed to fit in a belt buckle!
Screen tearing is a thing of the past with Wayland. Granted, not everyone can use it yet.
Distortion shares a root with torsion, twisting.

Scaling something evenly is not distortion, nor is placing it upside down, or otherwise changing its orientation.

There is no sense or perspective in which the orientation of a globe can be said to distort the shape of its features.
Did you watch the presentation? He stressed that VLC is only C at its core. Of course whenever they interface with Qt they call into C++, maybe also in some other plugins.
> How is that even any worse?

Tracking, targetting, data collection. Mass scale cyberstalking.

> Remember, we are talking about the ads themselves, not data collection

From the article -

"A massive majority of consumers believe that using their data to personalize ads is unethical."

The article appears to be all about the data collection.
Oh boy :|

My relationship is a giving and taking on both sides.

We talked through a lot of things and still do even now after nearly 10 years.

A real relationship is not a one person show.
I don’t think this take is quite right. In the early/late game, sure it can end up being memorization. But the game has so many states that the mid game tends to be quite complex and there is a lot of skill (calculation/tactics ect.) which is really not memorization
> why is the /ʧ/ sound romanized as “ch”?

There is no [tʃ] in Japanese, but English speakers approximate [tɕ] as [tʃ], so writing it as ⟨ch⟩ allows English speakers without knowledge of Japanese to do their best attempt at pronouncing e.g. someone's name. Given the dominance of English in international communication, it's no surprise Hepburn won. "Makes sense to English speakers" is a feature, not a bug.