skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Product idea: A program that makes your web app masquerade as any language that you choose! It rewrites and hides your .php extensions, and replaces error pages to make them look appropriate for the chosen technology stack. All the actual js is obfuscated & compiled to WASM to hide the shameful use of jquery/react/angular/vue/whatever is no longer the 'in' tool. You can switch technologies with the push of a button!
FIPS 140-2 level 3 128GB flash drives are available for $223.39[0]. I don't know why you'd pay $1,665.

[0]: https://www.cdw.com/product/kingston-datatraveler-4000-g2-ma...
It depends.

Rule based systems are great if you have people with deep domain understanding developing the rules.

Unfortunately, those people are rare, so most rule-based approaches fail to perform well.

However, most recommendation systems suck unless you get someone who knows what they are doing to build them.

In terms of business value, I would be very hesitant to make strogn statements like the above (in both cases, actually).
Twenty years makes it feel longer :) Maybe that was how long it took to get out there.
Haha, that's one way to look at it. Seriously though, that is in fact a
positive attitude towards the content that can vastly transform the experience of the posts for the better.

It's the old question of liking something despite knowing it's (probably) fake:
Usually it doesn't hurt, and can in fact mean that literally nobody got hurt.

But there's a general tendency of such content attracting hatred:
If it does not explicitly identify itself as fictional, people don't like the idea of it being believed to be true.
This looks like it's only for personal and non-public certs in a commercial context.

From their Terms and Conditions:

" ZeroSSL is for your personal or internal business use only and must be in compliance with all applicable ZeroSSL policies, laws, rules and regulations. As well as this, no third party rights can be violated or infringed upon through use of ZeroSSL. You may not use ZeroSSL for any commercial purpose including but not limited to selling, licensing, providing services, or distributing ZeroSSL to any third party unless you have received the express written consent of ZeroSSL beforehand."

https://zerossl.com/terms/
The big bucks allows them to stave off any competition & maintain regional dominance. I'm aware both Google & Facebook have portions invested in Jio. Maybe they need some of their expertise in extracting value out of this data.
Vemödalen: The Fear That Everything Has Already Been Done
I feel you, it is horrendous seeing your work being torn up like that. Having anything public-facing on the internet feels like running a liqueur store in a bad neighbourhood.

I am the co-founder of a SaaS in the higher-ed-tech sector (universities, 300+ of them). Going to make sure we implement support for Fathom (in addition to GA, GTM, Matomo) and reach out to our customers. Hope it helps a bit. Our users would also benefit from stuffing less data to G.
If you like bonkers comics, you should check out Krazy Kat. The main characters are a police dog, a mouse that is a very accurate brick thrower, and a cat of indeterminate sexuality which sees the bricks as a sign of affection.

The cat is not heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or asexual. It changes from strip to strip. Also, it speaks in a verra verra raff lengwidge.
Crossing the Rubicon & 100 True Fans
Hints of twisted light offer clues to dark energy’s nature
I guess capitalist state is an oxymoron. Either you have capitalism or a state.

"What Is Capitalism?
Capitalism is an economic system in which private individuals or businesses own capital goods. The production of goods and services is based on supply and demand in the general market—known as a market economy—rather than through central planning—known as a planned economy or command economy."
https://twitter.com/WolfieChristl/status/1331222157347741704...
At home I need about 20 TB of storage (without counting redundancy). I'm not rich enough to do that with SSDs.

And fwiw, HDD go up to 18 TB nowadays.
There's a difference between "it's unlikely I could ever be an engineer" and "I can't pass Algebra 1".

High level math and things like number theory do require a certain creative intuition that is harder for some people to learn than others, but if you can follow a recipe, figure out who has the right of way at a stop sign, or follow the rules while playing a card or board game, then you can get through Calc I.

I used to work as a math tutor when I was in College, and tons of the students who would come into the tutoring center seemed to have a sort of math-phobia. They'd been saying that they just "aren't good at math" for so long that they couldn't bring themselves to try. If you could convince them that they could do what you were asking them to do, it was pretty straight forward to walk them through the math itself.

My wife is a special education teacher now, and experiences the same phenomenon. She has students who really do struggle, but for a lot of them, it's just a matter of convincing them to actually look at the problem and the tools/patterns they have been taught.

Is is incredibly destructive when people (including teachers) present math as some sort of black magic that they won't touch with ten foot pole. There are a lot of students out there for whom math isn't necessarily immediately intuitive, or who simply had a rough school year at the wrong time and fell behind. When those students hear others dismiss mathematics it validates them doing the same, and the next generation looses one more potential scientist.

As you may have noticed, this is an issue close to my heart.

/end rant
Ironically anyone intent on committing murder get to conceal carry at will.
Top User Frustrations on Web
But a buffer helps you flatten the curve. Which is most important in slowing nonlinear processes.
movers-n-packers/goods shipping company is a front end to a sophisticated intelligence gathering &e spionage program of china. Just like how HUAWEI is threat to US. Nobody is dying by banning bunch of games, chill !!
It's the back- and frontend of MANY services, like apache foundation, and add FreeNAS it's even much more.
Does the PS5 use FreeBSD?
It's just a popular target, as in "Rust Evangelism Strikeforce". Typically, it's a good sign when people start poking fun.
including the next sentence "On every step, we saw 20% performance improvements."
You are paying extra for the service the gas station is providing which is that they shipped and stored the batteries in a location close to your home. The gas station is probably also open longer than the big box store.
It’s Not Just You: Garfield Is Not Meant to Be Funny (2013)
You can do this with Slack as well. There's no sophisticated UI (yet), but the history is there.
How dare India??? right ?
iMessage Apps are the most powerful vehicle for growth out there today
Instead of a download link, when someone sends you an iMessage App you get a special type of message that:

1. Updates live

2. Is customized to the content (not generic download link)

3. Is interactive for those that have the app

4. Opens on-screen App Store page when tapped by people without the app (no leaving iMessage)

Plus there is no create account or add-friends workflows needed, since it’s done for you by iMessage.

These characteristics of the platform have driven insane growth for my app, Polls for iMessage.

Warning: The platform is riddled with bugs, it's extremely unstable, and the documentation is shit. Good luck.
But, but Microsoft in 2020 is not the same Microsoft than 20 years ago.
> Machine learning is a set of techniques developed to attack modeling problems that traditional algorithms couldn't solve. So if the algorithm was developed and used before computers it definitely isn't machine learning

I think that it's important to note here that this was the set of problems that computer science researchers didn't know how to solve.

In the early days, they mostly ended up re-inventing statistical methods.

And to be fair, a neural net is just a bunch of linear models joined by a non-linearity. In that case, it's essentially stacked logistic regression, which was invented before computers.
The Long History of Algorithmic Fairness
The guidelines mention:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. [1]

Put this way: if you didn't use that swearword, I'd have upvoted you. With the swearword, I can't.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Native Chrome on the M1 performs about 80% faster than x86 Chrome running under Rosetta.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/google-chrome-is-ava...
Phil Spencer: Xbox streaming to come to smart TVs in next 12 months
... as was their intent all along.

In the absence of legal prohibition of collection (complete with harsh penalties) the data will get collected.

Sadly, this is the world mankind decided (or was led to) live in.
When I was writing that post, I had actually added a second paragraph, that basically said "I hope there were some standard mechanisms for the hardware to refuse mounting without a password or some other verification system". I eventually deleted it because there might well be something of the sort already, in the bowels of TPM specs and similar.

There is no reason, imho, why we shouldn't strive to "encrypt all the things", including buses, so that data is guaranteed to be available only to fully-trusted chains. This should obviously be configurable by administrators, with destruction guarantees when options are relaxed. This will not be for everyone (and yes, it will likely always be weak against the $5-wrench attack), but for people who really need it (like deployed troops, whose default opsec practices are typically too lax to be left to humans).
If you don't know what you're talking about, don't talk about it and make yourself look stupid.
I don't disagree with any of that. Indeed, there are many policies and behaviors that probably fall into the "better safe than sorry" category--given how much noise and uncertainty there is in the data--although even possibly reasonable people will vehemently disagree about what precise policies/behaviors that applies to. (As you see from voting patterns and discussions here.) And, yes, I also agree that face coverings under at least many circumstances fall into that category.

At the same time, there are different tradeoffs because different people (and governments) are approaching risks and rewards differently even if the facts were known with high certainty.
It's always a disappointing state of affairs when people skip simple models. If nothing else, a nice baseline like the one described in this article should be constructed before using ML techniques to serve as a comparison point.
I see stories like this a lot. It seems great to us when we can write down everything in the task tracker and skip the short meetings. It's always helpful when digging things up later on, identifying issue history and communicating with other people who are directly working on the issue with you.

But there are a lot of other people who have other full time jobs to do and they will not have time to dig through all of those meticulous notes, no matter how productive you're being. If you don't take the opportunities to communicate regularly, you become invisible to those same people.

When they make an assumption and a decision that you aren't working as hard because you're not reporting in, even if you have the documentation showing everything that you've been doing...at that point it's now become a confrontation. To convince those same people who's good graces matter that you are correct, you have to point out to them that they were wrong. That becomes a no win situation for you.

Excessive meetings are clearly bad, but meetings that are intentionally short are often done so out of respect for everyone's time. Attend them. Communicate. Brag on yourself. Talk about the interesting problems that you're solving. Communication reassures people of progress even if your natural inclination is to go into a hole and come out the other side with a finished product.

There's an old expression that summarizes all of that pretty cleanly.

"Out of sight, out of mind."

Been seen.
Launching TabTrum – an extension to deal with messy tabs
TabTrum is a light and fast Chrome Extension built to address the twin issues of having multiple tab combinations for Work, Research, Recreation, etc. and having the device's memory taking a hit due to having umpteen tabs open.

This was a hobby Project that I started a couple of weeks back. Would love to have some feedback. Cheers
Yes, there was. It was just called statistical modelling.
Maybe the road has been (mis)designed for faster speeds? Wide, straight roads have a "natural" high speed limit. The slightly counter-intuitive solution is to make residential roads narrow and winding, which makes drivers slow down. Or at least it should have road bumps.
A lesson in creating and using niche business DSLs at scale
It's less an issue of our code, and more an issue of third-party APIs from our partners getting deprecated. And Angularjs, where upgrading to angular or rewriting in react doesn't really do anything for end users, but if we want to keep showing up in search results then the writing is on the wall.
Urgh, yeah, that's terrible. (This screen, for example: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnlzZBFWEAYsco9?format=jpg&name=...)
"Why the heck is this still legal anyway?"

Because the bosses run the world, as people seem to like being bossed around.
Mobility scooters have to be the slowest form of personal transportation. Since you arent getting exercise, it is that much harder to keep you core temp up. Depending on just how cold it is, that could change an unpleasant trip into a dangerous one.

Also, super specific to type of disease or disability, but my arthritis is way worse if I get cold. My hands are practically useless for half an hour after if I don't properly bundle up.
I wasted roughly a month trying to get machine learning working for a game.

Unless you seriously need it, and have a massive budget to match, basic boolean logic will probably get you where you want to be faster.

I wouldn't advise any solo developer to use machine learning unless that's the entire product. It's very easy to make an insanely difficult game without it
>Surveillance capitalism renders behavior so that it can be parsed as observable, measurable units. Once it’s rendered as behavior it is turned into data and that’s the data that I call 'behavioral surplus’.

>These data are subjected to sophisticated analyses to manufacture 'prediction products,' and are then sold into what I call new 'markets in future behavior.' Huge revenues flow from these new markets.

>The logic of this new capitalism is that we are raw material resources. We are not the 'ends' of the process but rather the 'means' of the revenue process. It is 'about' us, but not 'for' us.

https://sciencenode.org/feature/shoshana-zuboff,-part-two-re...

The oil analogy works for me.

>You can fly in tech and talent, pump oil, keep the rulers happy and not concern yourself with the local population.

Check.

>(Data's) value, for advertising and influencing, is linked to the population’s productivity and power.

You can still sell oil in Tonga, a country with very low GDP, but you won't make as much as if you sold out somewhere else. In fact if you're selling oil and you leave out the niche cases, you are losing money.

>Finally, data are ephemeral in a way oil isn’t. You can’t barrel up bytes in the middle of the ocean.

Places have tried to make laws to make data ephemeral, because it is generally not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
When I was an intern at Apple, I somehow finagled my way into some long-time manager’s backyard cookout. A lot of Apple old-timers were there, including Blaine. Really neat guy and a great raconteur. That’s when I realized engineers of that era were cut from a different cloth.
I last used Lalamove to ship some furniture home from IKEA. I'm not entirely sure what the CCP wants to do with this information, but they're welcome to have it.
I stopped supporting Ethereum when they abandoned code is law, and arbitrarily rewrote the rules to protect against the DAO hack.

It's fine to protect against theft, but it's not fine when it's only enforced arbitrarily and only when the core developers themselves are affected.

This is the whole premise behind the irreversibility of cryptocurrencies, that the only fair thing is to never do it, and when you abandon that why not go all the way to a centralized database?

Ethereum is therefore not fit to be a currency, and should be treated as a world computer experiment.
https://www.parity.io/substrate/
Erm... when the trains are late in the US it can be by hours (NY -- Boston), or even a day or so (on the transcontinental route).

Amtrak gets severely outcompeted on most routes by a somewhat informal "chinatown" bus network.
He Raised $160M to Transform the $280B Professional Education Market
>why it's not terribly controversial to "recommend" seat belts

Yet this was not always the case. Growing up wearing seatbelts was the exception, not the norm. Much less the law in some places.
Part of the reason they're not occupied though is they were setup for library caretakers and have full after hours access to the library so it's kind of sketchy to just rent them out on the open market because without a lot of work the tenant would have to have the keys and security codes for the library.
It was real to me until the last paragraph. Everything else read real in the style of a repentant founder.
I'm not disputing that. But it seems like it's lost some of the C10K type usage as the Linux network stack and libraries have gotten better.
Role-playing a dragon can teach an AI to manipulate and persuade
Then a longer to run hash function, like 256 times sha256 with a secret salt. It's reversible in theory but it will take a lot of resources.
> Once you get to 50-100km away from the city center, then your options look very bleak.

I'd say that at 100 km you're no longer talking about that city's public transit anymore (for a city this size). At 50 km I'd maybe agree with you. That's also a bit of what I meant to indicate with the Swiss trains comment – the (heavy rail) train services indeed aren't great around Oslo.

> I live in Copenhagen myself, but I grew up 100km outside of Copenhagen. Using a car to go back and forth from there to Copenhagen takes approximately 1 hour each way. Using public transportation all the way takes closer to 2 hours. Using a combination takes 1h 30min on a good day.

But then again, in fairness, at 100 km outside of Copenhagen you're halfway to Germany! It's getting to be a stretch for a commute anyway, is it not?

> Banning cars from cities seems to only think of people who lives inside it and not how difficult it will be for a lot of people already "taxed" with hour long commutes because of stupidly expensive housing combined with centralization of workplaces.

Well, in return, those people do get vastly cheaper housing (I'm well aware that suburban housing around Oslo and Copenhagen is still very very expensive, but once you start hitting the 100 km range that certainly stops being the case).

Adapting cities to be car-friendly make them sprawly, congested or pedestrian-unfriendly. Or all three.
So I guess the authors of the Elements of Statistical Learning aren't "real" researchers then?

For reference, the authors of that book (the best book about ML in general) were all involved in the development of S and R.
"Topic" illiteracy is acceptable because people can only know so much. Nobody ever talks about the illiteracy in terms of 'trees are air.' or 'lasers are focused light' both of which are not common knowledge. Most people think Trees come from the ground and lasers are focused sound.

"Scientific Illiteracy" is almost always not about knowledge but rather political policy. Or in his words "scientific facts people may remember."

That's why Amy Coney Barrett's vague non-answer is being construed as science illiteracy. While Kamala Harris is being portrayed as the winner. ACB is not giving any answer, she outright says she's keeping her nose out of the political issue. There's no answer whether or not she believes in climate change.

>Inappropriate claims like this by politicians who want to be on the right side of science but who can’t be bothered to think about what it implies don’t help.

I think this illustrates the problem. This isn't about scientific literacy, it's about politics. This has nothing to do with science.
Not that simple. I have a hunch that network effects play huge role too. Chances of london having two orders of magnitude car/pedestrian interactions more than also are not low. So the chances of fatality per interaction could be comparable. But you have shitload more of them in london since everything is bigger there so you clock more miles.
my guess is that new magic will be a bit more "magical" than htmx

htmx is focused on improving HTML in an explicit manner, while dhh has typically leaned towards convention over configuration, so i'd bet that it will be more livewire-ish
If you're not able bodied enough to ride a mobility scooter you probably shouldn't be driving a car.
It seems to me that they were looking for any excuse to cut OP out of any equity to keep more for themselves.
Bosses pay for lobbyists that fight regulation to keep shit like this in check
It means orders of magnitude less. The part of the blockchain that proves your transaction was valid is now (oversimplifying here) just a boolean check instead of running a hash algo over and over
The Case for Asking Sensitive Questions
Give the script to everyone you know as well.

Automated metrics deserve automated data.

Garbage in, garbage out.
I have to call this out as google didn’t back this claim up readily. Do you have a source? I Cabot believe an aluminum plant could make
Enough money off of Bitcoin mining to subsidize its operations like that at first blush.

I’m very interested in reading about it though
Planting trees you won't create faux sector for CC, fueled by taxes and subsidies, where business could strive.
You have to consider OP might have been misled by the Amazon Sales team to buy their $3k per month DDoS protection.
> I suspect that newspaper cartoonists who knew that 1/3 of their strip might get lopped off, or the panels reshuffled, from paper to paper may have a more inherent understanding of the work itself as being modular.

Perhaps, but then again you have Bill Watterson.
I'd consider taking a communication course or two at a community college or university.

And, perhaps joining some sort of group that requires communication-- Toastmasters is one well known one.

Communication is a skill in-and-of itself. Sales & Marketing work generally teach communication involving expressing the benefits of thing to a potentially interested party. If you're able, perhaps try to get into some sort of part time sales/marketing role, such as helping out at a farmers market booth on the weekend.

Also, check out some college communication textbooks. They have a plethora of interesting advice and strategies.
> I suspect that newspaper cartoonists who knew that 1/3 of their strip might get lopped off, or the panels reshuffled, from paper to paper may have a more inherent understanding of the work itself as being modular.

This was something Bill Watterson hated and eventually Calvin & Hobbes got popular enough he dictated that newspapers had to print the whole thing or nothing. That's why some papers printed it squished down to a smaller size.

It sure seems like he should have taken his work online. No format restrictions, publish on your own schedule. He was popular enough to blaze a trail for the new generation but he threw it away instead. That's his choice but seems like a missed opportunity.

FWIW if they printed comics as half page color prints weekly (and not just gag strips) I'd subscribe to that. As newspapers were dying they seemed to cut back on that sort of thing though.