skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/612/

Progress bars are much better than spinners in many cases though, even if they lie, at least I get a rough estimation how long something is expected to take, and if it gets stuck.
I've found in apple world progress bars seem to lie more ( not that others don't). Worst of all are the progress bars that take forever to get to the end, then, start a new progress bar. Multiple phases with multiple progress bars is pure evil!
What’s the actual use case for this? Do people have so much trouble connecting devices at the edges of their properties? And if you had, would you ask from your neighbour to connect the device to their network?
For scientists studying ‘disaster fatigue,’ this has been a year like no other
I can see in the article you linked that Weinstein is using said claims in his public perception campaign, but I can't find any other resources about the "some people" part. Maybe I'm not in the know about the film industry, but I'm not seeing a lot of consensus that he was a paragon of feminism. Or, as far as high-profile feminists go, I wouldn't suspect him.
I've worked on 5 fortune 500 companies and every single one worked like that.

This was far less true at smaller companies where the owners/founders were directly involved.

Are there large companies where it doesn't work like that?
I suspect fake progress bars do pretty well in a/b testing for page abandons, versus nothing at all. Especially if they show more "done" than not. I don't like it myself, but perhaps it's comforting to those that don't know better.
Took a look at Cloud Mercato reports for compute, and the tl;dr is that Hetzner is so much better value than anything else that it's not even funny. And if you have to use one of the big three, use GCP.
But to reiterate what has been stated every where else over and over: for most regions in the US, there are at most 1 provider with usable speeds available, and they get to do whatever they want with their customers.

There are many regions with hardly any competition, and the lucky few areas with 2 or more usually comprise of another high speed provider that changes in lock step with the local #1, and a bunch of smaller providers on DSL or some other old technology.

Wireless is even more capped, high latency, and, thanks to the FCC, can be more privacy invasive or restricted than land line internet.

It's not all roses in the US.
Or selection bias — people only speed-testing their new fast internet plan?
Work in a startup - you'll be able to grow personally and professionally more then anywhere else and really skip ahead of the pack.
When you're older find that mid-size company that balances risk, pay and technology.
> For anybody who needs the speed, they are transferring large amounts of data. If you can't transfer large amounts of data, what good does the speed do?

It saves a lot of time. Having a new update/game or sharing large files in minutes instead of hours matters. Why not just start download earlier? Foresight on a long timescale takes a lot of brainpower and is pretty stressful because cost of miss is high. I will start this download and go get water is a whole lot better than I will queue this update and and it will be done in the morning.
Python with `requests` library let me automate / test far more efficiently than any GUI tool
The ABA does not do anywhere near as good a job of protecting their market. There are far more law school slots each year, and that's reflected in salaries for lawyers, a huge portion of which are well under $100k/year.
Only peripherally related, but today i read a post by a former MSNBC producer, Ariana Pekary, about why she left, and how US cable news in particular is broken [1]:

> Context and factual data are often considered too cumbersome for the audience. There may be some truth to that (our education system really should improve the critical thinking skills of Americans) – but another hard truth is that it is the job of journalists to teach and inform, which means they might need to figure out a better way to do that. [...] Therefore, it’s particularly notable to me, for one, that nearly every rundown at the network basically is the same, hour after hour. And two, they use this subjective nature of the news to justify economically beneficial decisions. I’ve even heard producers deny their role as journalists. A very capable senior producer once said: “Our viewers don’t really consider us the news. They come to us for comfort.”

[1] https://www.arianapekary.net/post/personal-news-why-i-m-now-...
Adding Maya Lin's Eleven Minute Line: https://www.sartle.com/artwork/eleven-minute-line-maya-lin
Progress bars are just a tool that needs the right material to work on. I realized that when i tried to progress bar-ify a recursive task.

I think it's more sensible to find a UI language that can seamlessly incorporate a progress bar and a dumb spinner with some note on what's going on. Which one is shown/used will depend on the task that is being loaded. Different words for different things.
This reminds me of #SmashTheStone from a few years back when the 4chan community came together track down and prevent 9gag from burying a meme-carved rock.
Video from the internet historian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzFykQv6Q08
That is very true, not to mention gigabit cable services probably rarely have anyone achieve those speeds very often. My guess is that most cable companies unlock the DOCSIS channels necessary, but node over subscription means that your only shot is to download a huge amount at 3-4a.m.
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Also, prices aren't stationary. For an equity security, you are predicting the price for a company that is compounding capital over time. You can predict the price for the company at one point, the relative valuation for the company (for example, against peer group) may not change in one year but that company is investing their capital at X% so you get price growth.

The reason why relative valuation models are more effective is the same reason why most sports betting models use current odds as an input. Prices contain information but, in my experience, these methods aren't totally effective because they often miss important information about the company itself (big price moves happen because relative valuations are wrong). Value or quality appears to do fundamental work but is often woefully blind (for example, there are proven accounting issues with value strategies...does your average quant understand this? No. Have they ever read a set of accounts? No. They have no hope. None.)

Just imo, I think quant strategies are almost totally worthless beyond liquidity provision (even a strategy like front-running news in FX...humans do this better, and I know people who are still making tons of money doing this). I think there is massive value in that mode of analysis but the people who make the most are always going to be people who know the fundamentals better (I think firms like Marshall Wace that are doing this synthesis will move ahead) because that information is often not in the price at all.
A number of commenters seem hung up on the actual measurement of information, which I think is a little ancillary to the point (which I think is valid). So I'll add that I think the author's point here is that the press has shifted from focusing on surprising news to reiterating things we already know, because that is a good way to reassure and flatter their audience.

Consider a headline like, "Trump says illegal immigration is a big problem." He's said that many times, it's very unsurprising that he would say it again, and hence it contains very little information. However, each time he says it, it affords the press that agree with him a fresh opportunity to talk about why he's right, and the press that disagrees a new chance to talk about why he's wrong.

That is the point here - that what we call "news" has shifted from spending most of its energy informing us of things we don't know towards reinforcing and emphasizing things we do know. If that trend is true, then certainly it represents a reduction in information (in the Claude Shannon sense as well as the everyday sense).
How You Pay for All the Ways Amazon Cuts Corners
15 or 20 mbps up is about the theoretical maximum on cable because of how the spectrum is allocated by cable companies. Cable TVs didn't need much upload compared to download.
And women out of hand rejecting more than 95% of all males sends what message exactly? That’s not a sweeping generalisation of men?
I think I'd rather just have predetermined steps/milestones. Think about it...what does 71 percent really mean? Would you get excited when it goes it 72? It's just an opaque, useless metric.

If instead I can see something like...step 1/5, downloading package... that's far more meaningful, at least to me.
Can confirm, they work great for users. We had a system where some old things were traditional POST+redirect and the rest was all React with progress bars, disabling buttons when submitting, etc. Users demanded we make everything use progress bars because it's "faster". Our p95 DOM render was 400ms so it wasn't "slow" to begin with. I'm confident it really was the progress bar.
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I just checked, it's off by default for me currently. Maybe they'll change the default in the near future.
Whatever Apple is doing for iOS and MacOS updates isn’t cutting it...
> Waterson ended Calvin and Hobbes at the end of 1995; slightly early for moving online but not by much.

Dilbert was the first syndicated comic online that same year. As for whether Waterson could/would/should have done the same, why would he if he was ending the strip anyway?
> The other big problem is, a huge part of the country still has basically no internet.

Infrastructure isn't free and while it's hilariously embarrassing to have slow speeds in "rural cities" (i.e. actual cities that just don't happen to be on the coast) simply due to capitalism doing it's worst - living in the middle of no where is an expense on society.

It falls into the same camp as people who live in hurricane areas - the government bailing you out once so you can move is a fine idea (and the government needs to be providing sufficient funds for these people to actually relocate) but living in remote areas and living coastally in the south east come with lots of benefits to you... and costs for everyone else.

I am A-OK with folks who insist on living in the middle of nowhere paying for it.

Oh I'm going to add a big old caveat for people who were forcefully relocated - if you're living on Rosebud Indian Reservation then relocation really isn't an option.
Absolutely. Hence:

> Comcast is often a monopoly

I live in Seattle and we had a Comcast monopoly for something like 15 years until 2017 or 2018. I do not mean to suggest that real competition exists in most places or that anything about the situation in general is rosy.
quick skim of paper, looking at final stats - 4.5Byr out of 5.5Byr planetary habitable timezone looks like a Pareto distribution - it took 80% of the planet's lifespan to evolve intelligent life; leaves me optimistic
I think his transphobic and downplaying covid tweets got him called a jerk. Oh and the pedophile accusation against that guy that rescued the kids from the cave. I think he was a jerk for that one.

I still respect him though.
NYT and WaPo digital subscriptions tripled since 2016
> see American Red Cross and Haiti.

FTFY. The Red Cross is a reputable organisation that does wonderful work across the developing world. The American Red Cross is the corrupt one.
fyi airflow 2.0 ships in the next few weeks, we're made a lot of improvements https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCi-q9vYo4x-PESoBcXN0...
I have read Airflow 2.0 release addresses lot of long-term cirticisms of Airflow. Hope anyone here experience with Airflow can illuminate us.
> I wonder when that was, cause pop culture has always cared about that in one way or another.

Maybe they've cared of their own white-western culture sensitive issues, but not much about anybody else's, especially not about foreign cultures perceived as less civilized...
Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth
Because people use it. It's been around a while and has an ecosystem around it. (This is the interesting thing about AWS, they keep the focus on what people do use, rather than some opinionated idea of what they should use.)
You are implying that carbon-offsetting is some sort of sham that doesn't do what it says it does. Can you please provide sources to backup your claims?
Am I the only one who initially thought the whole set up was very small? I.e. it prints A6 pages and the dumpster is a box. But then a guy ran into the frame because the paper got stuck and I realised it's actually a full sized dumpster...
>I'm quite bewildered, that you actually prefer a self-serving deals over everything else he could do

Notice that this is weasely phrasing. I didn't say I prefer it over "everything else he could do". Nor I spoke of any kind of "self-serving deal".

I literally said "I'd rather have self-serving deals for golf courses than the nth trillion dollar invasion...".

He did less invasions and wars than Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama, more self-serving deals of the cheap kind, and less self-serving deals of the trillion dollar Wall Street bailout kind.

He also spoke about globalization's issues and losing jobs to China, which was not allowed to do in polite company before...

>While one person takes care of a self-serving deal for golf courses, the other person would sit down and educate themselves on topics like climate change, education and current education system issues etc.

And how did that worked out thus far, up to 2016? Wasn't the climate getting all worse, education all the worse and college more expensive under the last, say, 10+ last of your presidents?

Did any of those things got suddenly or especially bad in 2016-2020?

>Otherwise it would mean that a President isn't relevant at all.

Well, politicians are not that relevant in corporatism.

It's only when they try to do anything besides business as usual, even as lip service, that they become somewhat relevant (e.g. slow down outsourcing of jobs to China, stop the war machine and intervenionism, cater to the middle class, as opposed to the welfare-level poor and the 10%, and so on).
Lots of people home watching TV over an internet stream. So, incentive to fix things.
Thanks, was looking for it few weeks back and found you'd need to load up your own models.
The OKCupid data science team released some interesting data on this stuff a long time ago (but still interesting and relevant) that backs up your experience that Asian males have it tough. You have to head to the archives to find the articles - "How your race affects the messages you get": https://web.archive.org/web/20140728212935/http://blog.okcup...
> If you exclude branches, integer division, and memory instructions, it's easy to perfectly model your program's performance.

Assuming you're right about that, those seem to me like very big caveats.

Also, wouldn't thermals-based clock throttling be a factor as well, assuming that we're talking about wall-clock performance instead of clock-cycles performance? I'd be surprised if their impact on program performance is easy to perfectly model.
It would be nice if they were accurate, but with my limited experience making them, I don't expect them to be. I've actually had the fact they are there screw up rendering.
They're all connected in some capacity, but AMA does not accredit medical schools.

* LCME accredits M.D. Schools

* D.O. Schools have their own accreditation (not sure what it is)

* AAMC runs the racket of "MATCH" to appoint graduating medical students to programs (and strip most of their rights as employees).

* ACGME accredits Residency Programs.
And original Interface builder was developed in Lisp :) [1]

[1] https://paulhammant.com/2013/03/28/interface-builders-altern...
4K movie seeking on consumer devices can be dramatically faster when you increase from 50mbit/s to 400mbit/s, even though you'll still download just as much movie as you would on either speed. We're talking the difference between 5-10 seconds of buffering and beginning playback immediately. Video game updates also accelerate dramatically, allowing more efficient use of free time.

Incidentally, here's anecdotal data from a family of two adults and two children from today's Comcast thread (where I assume you're participating, given the comment), that shows that they have stayed below the 1.2TB Comcast threshold for over a year, even through the pandemic, while not making any effort to stay under that threshold since they aren't on Comcast: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25200882

Just because there are data caps on some providers is no reason to tolerate unnecessarily slow internet connections. The speed of the connection is an effective and measurable stand-in for the modernity and capacity of the infrastructure delivering internet to that area.

Sadly, latency isn't a popular measure for Internet connectivity, and as my year of testing uncovered, 50mbit down and 5mbit up is more than sufficient for downloading + 4k streaming + zoom all at the same time, as long as your router has smart shaping/queueing capabilities and your connection has stable latency in that scenario.
Do you build the desk, or you only design them?

Is the keyboard integrated to the desk, or I can use my own keyboard?
> If Googlers don't get their way with the Rust language team, they'll just attack the language team head-on, or bypass them.

We work directly with Google folks. This has not been our experience in any way. Likewise for other large companies interested in specific Rust features or improvements.
Also there's not much foresight you can apply when an online game gets a required updated 5 min before you want to play it. And these days it's only going to get more common.
"March 14th 2020" is perfectly fine both when spoken and written. It's not easy to sort lexicographic by programs, but that's not the most important aspect.

The problem is that the existence of both MM/DD/YY and DD/MM/YY makes dates less than the 13th of the month ambiguous. People do seem to get hung up on not going from smallest to largest unit (or the other way around), but the ambiguity is the real problem in my opinion. And of course it becomes a tribal thing, "the other guys are wrong about their format, we should keep ours and drop theirs". The best thing would be to just drop MM/DD/YY and DD/MM/YY in favor of _any_ format that is universally understood as unambiguous.
if you like YAML-based DAGs, you can do that in Airflow with the dag-factory extension https://github.com/ajbosco/dag-factory
Author here. Anyone have thoughts on my data-driven approach described as Solution #2?

Basically: tell me how long it took other people.
Cox and SuddenLink have caps too. At least for some of their plans. In some cases you can pay extra for unlimited.
Physicists could do 'impossible': Create and destroy magnetic fields from afar
Such a bar is fine imo, especially considering the ratio of effort to return, and much preferable to a spinner. Even if the relative size of various tasks is totally random and disproportionate, at least when the bar fills up, even a pixel, you know forward progress is still being made. The spinner will just spin forever, whether it is deadlocked or not.
Good point. I imagine the average is going up because the already fast speeds in cities are just getting faster with fiber and faster cable connections.
Precise maps of millions of quasars show our place in the cosmos as never before
Centurylink now offers fiber gigabit to the home for about $65 or so a month.

It happened because a former mayor (Ed Murray, who has since left office after a personal scandal) made it easier for ISPs to build out their networks and removed homeowners and neighborhood groups from the process which previously allowed them to block things like communications boxes on sidewalks.

At the time, a bunch of local columnists moaned about this "corporate giveaway"[1] -- but it's pretty clear in retrospect it was the right move.

1. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/mayors-centurylink-giv...
I need to see whats out there. Still using Xfinity in the suburbs and it's pretty meh, terrible upload making wfh a pain.
Oh they’re obsessed about you as a customer. Like a stalker.
> Who cares? With everything capped at 1 or 1.2TB of transfer per month, there's no point to having internet any faster.

What? I definitely care how fast my internet is regardless of my bandwidth cap. For most people, internet consistency and speed is a more noticeable metric than data caps. Speed effects video/audio call quality, page load times, etc.

Look, i get annoyed at data caps. I've taken multiple comcast employees to task over it. But the idea that speed is irrelevant when caps are present strikes me as pearl clutching.
> The point of national parks isn’t to preserve wilderness for the sake of preservation. The point is recreation.

The national parks service philosophy is very preservationist. They advise people to follow guidelines that are literally called “leave no trace”. Their mission statement uses the word preserve in the first sentence. Hell, part of the reason why Big Bend national park never became an international park (among many others) was because the parks service disagreed with the laxer, conservationist approach that Mexican authorities favored.

>The point is recreation. This is why they are full of artificial modifications like roads, trails, and sometimes attractions with shops and bathrooms.

Those modifications are done carefully to have as little impact on the environment and a lot of types of recreation are completed banned in national parks, hunting being the obvious one. The use of vehicles (including bicycles) is completely banned in federally designated wilderness.

What steps did whoever installed this take to make sure that this thing isn’t going to leech metals into an ephemeral watering hole used by wildlife?
Well, the East-Asian variant of the EDAR gene seems to have been strongly selected for: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/science/studying-recent-h...

Like most genes, it affects all sorts of systems at once, so pinning down which of its changes from the ancestral type are most responsible for the selection is a very difficult problem. Empirically it has clearly been a successful variant, though.
That's one more confusion vector. I for example use Git for like 10 years now and I didn't know about this option. It didn't even occur to me that it could exist.

So basically, I am proving the article's point.
Try living in Los Angeles. Every other movie has some local detail pretending to be somewhere else.
And if you're ever going up the highway east of the Sierra Nevada, be sure to stop in at Lone Pine's film history museum. The Alabama Hills just west of town have been stand-ins for every western state, as well as Mars, Afghanistan, the entire Middle East ...
It's disconcerting to be watching a movie and seeing known landmarks pop up on alien planets, or see Mt. Whitney in the background of a shot in the "Himalaya."
Progress bars work best when they are analyzing repetitive tasks analyzed either in series or in parallel without overhead. If I'm doing something 10,000 times, and if there's no overhead on parallelization or finishing steps. I can be reasonably certain that after 7,000 times, 70% of the time has passed and 30% remains. Maybe there's some step by step variability, but chances are it's dominated by the fraction of iterations complete.

Progress bars work worst when they are combining extremely disparate steps. You might need to run 10 functions, but if one takes 0.1 seconds and one takes 45 seconds, it makes little sense for each step to be counted the same atomically or to present each as 10% of a progress bar.

The absolute worst case scenario is when you depend on an external resource about which availability is unknown but highly variable.