skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I'm just doing what I'm supposed to

Then you are a total and complete failure.
On iOS Safari?
It's an inline SVG image. That alphanumeric soup is the coordinates of the points (and handles) of a line. Scroll past that, and you get the website.

I have no idea why they made the SVG image inline but the CSS style external, though. That same image is used on every page.
Mozilla removed the normal settings toggle a while back, so your options are to manually set javascript.enabled in about:config or use an extension. I agree in general that extensions aren't great, but I trust uBlock.

I think Chrome actually is fine although I don't know of a keybinding for it: Don't they still have a toggle right in the site menu (click the icon to the left of the URL to toggle all kinds of these things)?
I have to be honest, when IKEA launched the Sladda, I had high hope that they'd sell a zillion of them so I could pick one up barely used for a pittance in a couple years. Sadly, that seems to have not happened, and we'll have to wait a bit longer for the belt drive to become commonplace :-(
That gets somewhat confusing, since we tend to call it Pennsylvania Dutch, and the area as "Pennsylvania Dutch Country."

So it surprises me to discover that the language is connected to Germanic Switzerland.

As much as Kors was seemingly mistranslated to course instead of cross, Deitsch was apparently mistranslated into the word Dutch instead of German.

And people make fun of the Scandinavian quirks in Minnesota. Uff da!

Thanks for the correction. This error-prone history would make for a great YouTube documentary.
Why are landing pages so incredibly uninformative?

In practice, I spend under two minutes to click around and see if can 'get' it. What does it do especially well? What's the syntax look like? If you are brave, what doesn't work well?

No idea why this exists or why I would use it. Bad website. No cookie.
Can't you open a normal online store that doesn't rely on Amazon? You could try shopify, or etsy, or sell on eBay? Or make your own?

Otherwise I feel it's a chicken and egg. It's like saying we need Amazon or a similar big known marketplace so that customers can find you and buy from you, but at the same time, we don't like the concentration of power it brings.

So if nobody tries to open an online store on their own anymore, what then?
I learned programming via BASIC (not QBASIC, on a Modular One https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Computer_Technology_Limited)and I agree it is a great way to learn how to write code (look at all those little kids who used to dodge into WHSmiths in the UK and write small, rude programs!)

But the thing that always pissed me off was that it did not support proper functions (one-liners, yes) to the extent that I wrote a preprocessor in BASIC that did support them (rather badly).

One thing I have always stressed to the many people I have taught is "Write functions, write lots of functions, you cannot write too many functions!"
Very anecdotal
He said iOS, not macOS. Most iOS devices don't have a keyboard to do combos like that.
> How do you draw a line on the screen in Python?

Using only stdlib:

import turtle
turtle.penup()
turtle.pencolor(colour)
turtle.setpos(x1,y1)
turtle.pendown()
turtle.goto(x2,y2)
I hear you. I do. How do you get 20 teams working on disparate codebases, and probably languages, to share their knowledge across teams? How does a team working on Java benefit from something someone found in Django from another side of the company? Organizations need standards. Developers require it. We want the thing we are programming against to not change right? We want our codebase to build when we say build. All tests green. Happy. Productive. Engineering leadership needs to organize standards around engineering culture and tooling, it could be championed by a team that did it, or by research. It doesn't matter. What matters is that leadership facilitates communication into what is working, what isn't, why, and what can we do about it?

At the micro-level, tools help, no doubt about it. At an org level, communication helps (documentation is a form...). Even if using different tooling, concepts and strategies are the same. This isn't to take away from the argument that this tool the OP posted is pretty awesome.

If you want change, be the change. Evangelize the tool through your org, not just your team. If your org is silo'd, break those barriers down with a friendly lunch-n-learn or lightning talks session. We tout empathy for our customers, how about empathy for our coworkers too? Others may have the same pain...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/23/how-elon-...
> Hey, enjoy the ten new folders we've littered your home directory with! They all start with capital letters: designed for typing convenience in a case sensitive file system.

This bothers me too. Is there some history to using capital letters for home folder names? It seems really out of place in case-sensitive file systems.
Not always for the other folks involved.
Safescript blocking scripts by default didn't do the trick. Using Ublock Origin to block javascript did though.
in reality there is all kinds of importing happening under the radar, so in a sense those based outside the EU are not complying with the same requirements as those based in the EU, in practice.
I have looked a several charts, and that is not an honest comparison. A derailleur will not be 1.5% energy loss across all gears. And I've not seen a chart for an internal hub that had 15% energy loss across all gears.

If you actually take a look at your derailleur system, you'll notice that a) the chain is not straight in all but a few settings, b) it has a somewhat complicated arm with an extra sprocket to keep the chain tight. And it is harder to protect it with a guard, so you end up with more dirt in the system if you use it every day.

But yes, internal hubs are heavier, generally somewhat less efficient, and better protected against the elements.
The point is that while that is your choice, it might not be some one else's.
Ahh, QBasic, gateway drug into programming for many of us.
yeah, and we've seen how well that has worked for innovation and entrepreneurship.
A similar and larger set I've found compelling:

"20 Diversion Tactics Highly Manipulative Narcissists, Sociopaths And Psychopaths Use To Silence You"

https://thoughtcatalog.com/shahida-arabi/2016/06/20-diversio...

The list from TFA borrows strongly from logical fallacies: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Logical_fallacy

The Greeks compiled an early list of bullshit arguments that must die: http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/sophist_refut.1.1.html
Ancient webserver that didn't serve the correct mime type for svg?
I honestly just don't understand what you're trying to say.
Because others already questioned the first part, I’ll question this:

> the set of observations it offers is vast

Actually, in an experiment there is always only one observation at a time. That we group multiple observations together is kind of arbitrary and relies on the hope that the experimental conditions are the same and therefore one experiment is analogous to the next.
I think this is just semantics; whether you read the parent comment as describing a hypothetical and fair coin with 50% chance for each state, versus saying that a god-like entity could reduce this to a deterministic computation via replaying the coin flip exactly (eg. same ambient air conditions, position of coin on finger, exact sequence of muscle nerve activations..) and that because that's impossible for you to do you just assign the minimum-information-content-probability to the coin flip (50%)
Fascinating how far afield those progressions lead before returning home!
Do either of those deal with YouTube ads? The old iOS ad blocker I've been clinging to has stopped blocking YouTube ads recently.
In context, this is about continuing to support pre-existing light vs dark mode rather than removing it; meaning the non-trivial stuff has already been solved and implemented. If done correctly, continuing to support it should be trivial. Whether it is in practice...
It's so true for me. 4 years ago I was just unable to work in new company where they forced me to use Mac (never used it before). I had very hard tasks and this MacBook Pro looking all sexy and shiny but unconfigurable. I'm using Linux since 10 years and Windows since 25 years. I always used "Power Tools" to configure my Windows instance, Linux has also many tools to change settings. Now in that advent of Apple Silicon I just made sight (because Apple just did beautiful revolution) and told myself "it's sorry it will never run Linux"
> I see it’s equivalent to a Beta distribution.

It's not.

The beta distribution is p(x) ∝ x^(α-1) (1-x)^(β-1). x is in the bases.

The continuous Bernoulli distribution is p(x) ∝ λ^x (1-λ)^x. x is in the exponents.

As https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06845 says:

> the continuous Bernoulli is not a beta distribution (the main difference between these two distributions is how they concentrate mass around the extrema, see appendix 1 for details)

The appendix is available here (under "Supplemental"): https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2019/hash/f82798ec8909d23e55679...
Good to know that you live in a privileged place and access a fast internet connection. Most of the places don't have that kind of bandwidth [1] to download 600 MB of file in 40 seconds. Also, Bazel needs a huge amount of RAM because of JVM and runs a daemon process in the background to speed up the build duration. Running a background JVM daemon process is a NO for me and Bazel wastes system resources.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_...
That ain't what I'm saying. Every inch of land on Earth has been "reused" many times over, too. That doesn't change the fact that there's a finite amount of it, and the possession of any quantity of it is at the expense of everyone else needing it. Same goes for water; yes, the water itself doesn't magically disappear, but of the 1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers of water on this planet, if you're storing a trillion of those km³ for yourself in water tanks, that's a lot less that other people can use.

That is: as defined above, consumption ≠ destruction, but rather consumption = possession.

(This ain't even mentioning the distinction between actual potable water v. water contaminated with salt or outright toxins - and the resulting labor and energy costs of converting the latter back into the former. It also ain't even mentioning the labor and energy costs of moving water from where it's abundant to where it's scarce.)
Is this not true for Windows too though?
It obviously depends on the Basic version but I think it's hard to argue that Python is simpler than Basic in general (e.g. OO, FP are quite complex topics for newbies) plus all the libraries - it's a lot for a beginner to take in.

I do think that there is an interesting point around whether you could usefully define a subset of (say) Python as a better first language. I've not seen anyone do that but seems like might be worth trying.
Not something I know a lot about, but modern CPUs tend to be too complex for current formal verification techniques, and often have bugs, no?

e.g. https://www.zdnet.com/article/amd-owns-up-to-cpu-bug/ , https://www.extremetech.com/computing/254750-amd-replaces-ry...
I drive two 27-inch 4K displays at 3840x2160 on my 2019 16-inch MacBook pro.
This has never been true if your computer ran "creative" software.

Video editing, music creation tools almost never used "the standard platform GUI toolkit" (even Apple has/had their own internal kit used for apps like Logic).

It also stopped being true (or became less true) when cross-platform development became important to some developers and some users, meaning that deeply integrating your application with whatever system a particular platform had was less important than making sure it ran reasonably consistently across platforms.
The mini is their cheapest computer. The Air has been their entry level laptop for the last several generations. The 13” Pro has had 2 versions since 2016 - a low-end 2 port model, and a higher end 4 port model.

Every device with an M1 available today is Apple’s lowest-end (and least expensive) offering.
Depends on the IGH. Nuvinci and Schlumpf definitely can.

The efficiency (like all other marginal gains in cycling) is important for racers or long-distance tourers. For everyone else it needs to be considered against the maintenance burden required to maintain an exposed drivetrain which needs to be cleaned, lubricated and adjusted in order to maintain its relative efficiency.

And weight...
I believe that Samsung co-designed the memory with their interface block, and then it was effectively codified as the standard. Most other companies had to wait for the standard to be formed before they could start work on their IP. This gave Samsung a huge head start.
My Gates carbon belt is like new after 8 years riding my Schindelhauer Siegfried. I seem to remember 10 years quoted when I bought it.
The other reason to home can was to time-shift your produce. Fruits & veggies ripen at certain times of the year (pumpkin in the fall, for example) and if you want to enjoy some later you'll need to have some stored away, because fast global produce transport didn't exist yet.

Something I was surprised to see is in short supply is playing cards.
I'm not sure, but thanks for the rabbit hole.

I would guess a yes though, given the slogan found on Wikipedia and that Cue is assoc & comm.

https://cuelang.org/docs/concepts/logic/
> Basically, this is a really hard problem, since you can measure bandwidth only indirectly

What do you mean? My ISP knows which package I bought and how congested the tubes are, and how full the datatanks are.
I'll cop to $5000 bicycle unfamiliarity and preferring to own one bike at a time. I guess the era of standardized chains is past. So I stand corrected. Thanks.

My current bike a late model Brompton, I am familiar with the extents to which other bespoke components is possible and a deliberate choice over something by Bike Friday.
> Twice now I've ordered a single pack of 2 light bulbs for about $3 and had it shipped to my door for free.

I can't tell if you think this is excessively bad or excessively good? Seems reasonable to me - they're just a couple of bulbs?

> I don't really care vs Amazon's 2-4 days

Isn't the big thing about Amazon is that it's next-day shipping? I don't live anywhere near a major city and Amazon still manage to deliver to me in about ten hours now.
> Purposely believing in something that you know is most likely to be incorrect is difficult to me. In this case you have to think illogically on purpose in order to have any chance at succeeding.

I think that's mixing up cause and effect. People who succeed usually have reason to believe they will. Don't work on your belief; instead, work on your ability. You'll know you're ready when you think you can, realistically, succeed (though best to start as soon as you can do what you'll definitely be able to, and think you might be able to handle the rest, because learning as you go is often much more effective than trying to prepare for hypothetical eventualities ahead of time).

And it's a lie that you need to believe you will succeed. You just need to act like it. Be invested, and don't quit until you actually can't go on any more (unless there's an actual dead-end, like you've got a business with 70% of your target audience as customers and still can't afford to feed yourself with it). Though you might not need to compensate for this particular cognitive bias, if you're already practised at it.
Why so much hate?

I'm not sure if it's appropriate to wipe out the comments about Holodomor on the Holodomor rememberence day.
He was a great, humble guy. When he said he'd email you back (when I was a perfect stranger), he meant it. RIP Tony Hsieh
I think this is one of those preach-to-the-choir HN topics. Like, you may feel joyful if you're the type that likes fiddling with gizmos and wants to know how everything works, but that's not everyone.

Most people, they want it to just work (tm).
> every time I think there’s a slight chance of me getting other people sick I order my basics through them

What if you get the delivery guys sick?
I (a Brit) was confused by the apparent use to mean "unimpressed" but I stumbled upon this:

> Note: The use of nonplussed to mean "unimpressed" is an Americanism that has become increasingly common in recent decades and now appears frequently in published writing. It apparently arose from confusion over the meaning of nonplussed in ambiguous contexts, and it continues to be widely regarded as an error.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonplussed
Thanks, I appreciate it.

It does say they've been doing random sampling. They also say that randomly sampled longitudinal surveys are the best predictors. They also list (p32) all the other data sources that are used to estimate R in different studies - including case numbers from tests taken by symptomatic members of the general public.

Section 7.1 Case Numbers notes that Pillar 1 tests aren't a good predictor, Pillar 2 and 3 can be useful but (heavily paraphrasing here if you'll excuse me) the results need to be adjusted and hedged.

This page says they take many studies as input to the official R, including studies that look at test figures in the general population - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-r-number-in-the-uk

Section 8 of the rs paper specifically says that longitudinal studies should be used on a much wider scale than they are being, because of asymptomatic transmission. So in August, there was not enough random longitudinal testing, and an over-reliance on studies based on case numbers!

My controversial comment said that early on, access to testing would have skewed things, making R harder to confidently estimate (better wording this time?). I.E. Pillar 2 and 3 tests were not available to the non-essential members of the general public early on.

Is it fair to say that makomk's comment "one of the main things used to estimate the value of R is randomly sampling ... regardless of symptoms" is broadly true (now) - but that my comments about poor early access to testing skewing early R estimates is also broadly true? They're both supported by the paper you linked, imo.

Edit: To be clear, I was wrong about there being no access to testing without symptoms, as at least some random longitudinal testing was happening early on - just not enough, according to the paper you linked.

Thanks for reading ;)
There are also ways to track you on the front end without JS but I think "This website will not… track you" is just a promise from the not something that followed from the lack of JS anyways.
Photokina will be suspended until further notice
I'm a moderator of a popular crypto subreddit. Is there someplace that I apply, or do they reach out only if they're interested in me?
Anne Applebaum's "Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine" is another one.
I get why everyone is wondering whether this is autogenerated jargon, but I think the basic thrust of this is that machine learning algorithms work better as they use larger and larger vectors for representation. I'm pretty sure is just a well-known thing in ML, although the projects listed here may be pushing vector size farther than most.

So for instance, a typical NLP algorithm (although not GPT-3, IIRC) might represent a word as a 500-float-long vector, which is the same as saying the algorithm considers each word as a point in 500-dimensional space. This turns out to have weirdly useful properties, to the point where directions in this 500-dimensional space start to have semantic correspondences (e.g. [0], still one of the coolest things in ML, IMHO.) You can't do the same trick with a 3D space- the algorithm doesn't have enough to work with when all it knows about a word is three numbers.

Another cool example- in gradient descent, you're constantly trying to find the lowest point in a "fitness landscape"; in a 3D landscape, you might easily find yourself in a "valley" where every direction is worse than you currently are (a local minima), and you won't know where to go. In a 500D landscape, it's unlikely that you'll find yourself in a valley where all 500 available directions lead somewhere worse. So the algorithm will be much less likely to get stuck, and this effect gets more robust the more dimensions you have.

[0] https://colah.github.io/posts/2014-07-NLP-RNNs-Representatio...
We have a variation of this article literally every year now.

I'm not sure what my reaction is supposed to be. Surprise? Disapproval?

This is exactly what I'd except a colossal global retailer to be doing in the run up to Christmas. And I say this as someone who once spent a couple of unpleasant months toiling in an Amazon warehouse.
I wanted to make a classic BASIC interpreter for Repl.it, and as I was slowly evolving it -- making line numbers optional, adding labels etc -- I discovered that I was reinventing QBasic!

Docs: https://docs.repl.it/misc/basic

Source: https://repl.it/@amasad/pg-basic
You are absolutely right. Thank you so much for sharing this!
Nevertheless, it wasn't the heroin that caused this particular incident (although no doubt heroin causes lots of problems of its own!).

From the article:

> An unknown toxin, probably something in the substance that had been added to the heroin to make it go further, was wreaking havoc in Jake’s brain
you can always add a swap file ... that makes your life easier so you don't have hangs, and you don't need to repartition.

I use swap files all the time with things like raspberry pi's and such because I don't want to mess with the sd card partitions, but still from time to time it's good to have that swap fallback since the memory onboard is limited.

Swap files are super easy to set up, take up no "brainpower" and disk space is cheap these days.
This is not correct. See above.
Ditto, but the M1 laptops officially only can do one display. People have hacked around it but I’d rather wait.
Plenty of folks here, dare I say most that use it at all, use it to censor posts and comments bearing opinions or facts that they just don’t want to read about.

Here’s an example - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25110502
""It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life."" - J.L. Picard
> In the world of taarof, politeness holds the place of honour. In its name, people refuse when they want to accept, say what is not meant, express what is not felt, invite when it is not intended, replace bad news with false hope. By doing so, they try to say what they “wished it were” – without ever admitting that it isn’t.

Maybe it’s my Americanism, but I’m absolutely happy this is not how it works here. “Yes is yes and no is no” works better for me.
On my own site, any JS flourish has a noscript fallback. There's nothing major there in the first place, but it makes me happy to do that.

The other rule is that the JS is all hand-written. No frameworks or other dependencies.
Chrome blocks Youtube ads, too, after you install Ublock Origin on it.
Using Arch Linux+X11+i3 WM. I believe I can configure pretty much everything. Didn't try to change the cursor though, but I can't think why it wouldn't be possible.