skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was an experimental feature slapped together by pg in 2009, and has been largely forgotten about ever since. The motive then was to see if there was any difference if you filtered out newer users. There wasn't then, just as there isn't now.

Its continued existence is just a historical artefact.

As far as I can see it's not linked from anywhere in the UI, and is only occasionally referenced in comments.

Nothing to be miffed about!
Apple refuses to implement standards that make web applications usable on mobile devices, even though Chrome and Firefox have supported them for ages.
I have noticed a change in tone on ars over the last few years, but I don't think this is fair. unless you think all tech review sites exist to sell hardware (true from a certain perspective). their hardware coverage is still pretty objective and I don't notice much obvious bias.
None of those other things are nearly as profitable as drug markets, or nearly as widespread. Drugs are a uniquely effective excuse for massive government interference into people's personal lives, and that interference also happens to be self-funding.
Or, you know, change the school year so that it occurs in the time of year with the most light.
>Go to any small hardware store in Northern California and you'll find a display of turkey bags near the front for bagging pounds of weed.

And the pawn shop will have sawzalls for stealing cats.
Not much can be done when most bitcoin is mined in China off coal power and the idiots that wrote the Paris agreement on climate change gave China a free pass to pollute the world.
I'm confused by the word "attempt". If it was just an attempt why is the site down?

Is it taking the site offline that thwarted the attempt? Or was the attack successful and they are working on mitigation and restoration?
I absolutely agree, and would like to add that the C example further reinforces this
You're in the minority and pretty much exercising your first-world privileges to dictate what you think the service should do. It's intended to work for everyone across the world, no matter how poor, and I'm 100% sure people from India or Brazil would leave it completely if they had to pay to use the app.

Having non-targeted ads and, potentially, premium features that you can pay for is an optimal middle ground for an app of this size.
REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC
What's remarkable to me is that the ranking is almost the same.

If you used

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(statistics)

to sample possible top pages you would see #1 and #2 are pretty stable but around #10 or so you see some variation.

So it's not clear to me that the oldsters have different preferences from the youngsters.

When you aggregate preferences it converges to a statistical average of 'voters'; typical users like you and me are already an aggregate of preferences (there is music that i like, software i like, business i like, etc. that are basically disjoint) like the body thetan aggregates that Scientologists say we are.

If you look at the top submitters on HN that are exceptional in the volume of articles they post you see their preferences are very typical and it is hard to tell a difference between the % of articles that they submit on (say) "deep learning" and that appear on HN as a whole.

It's like the way that almost any stock market portfolio you make is going to converge on the SP&500 if you add more stocks and wait long enough.

More salient, however, is the distribution of articles submitted in 2021 as opposed to 2008; "deep learning" was talked about hardly at all in 2008 even though Geoff Hinton was giving talks at the time where he was sketching the idea out.

It is not obvious to me that oldsters have significantly-different preferences than youngsters (w.r.t. chance) and I'd put the burden of proof on those who say it exists.
In addition, on the /classic page,

There is less:

- Up-to-date tech

There is more:

- Nostalgia/Parenting content ( A Calvin and Hobbes
guide to parenting? )
> correlated

"correlation does not equal causation"

It appears as if we have different mindsets, and that's okay. It seems like we both agree there's a problem, but may differ as to the cause/solution or way to lessen the problem, and only wish the best for everyone. I'm pretty sure neither of are going to change our thoughts about guns based on this thread here.
You seem to be conflating "Jews" with "Israel" on the basis that Israel is "the only national home of the Jewish people".

What does that mean exactly? The Jewish race, or the Jewish religion?

Do American Jews not count because they are not in the majority and/or the race/religion isn't specifically written into law?

In any case, the result is indeed the same: that Israel cannot be criticised.

But people are not criticising Israel because "they care for Jews", but rather for who they don't care for.

TLDR; If You want to defend Israel, or attack its attackers; Do so without ad-homs, straw-men and/or unreasonable maxims.
Run a private instance? We haven't had trouble with that approach.
For example. Dave Hoskins (shadertoy)
To get the triangle look comment out #define ADD_DITHER and press the Compile (play) button.
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MsX3WH
Eric Schmidt was a developer - he wrote lex.
Scott is wrong about the short narrative here: a bridge company wanting to build a bridge would love an insane shorter from goldman; it would cheapen the base cost of acquiring an asset the builder knows will be worth a lot later.

If instead the tokens aren’t fungible and cant be sold after the initial auction then the only instruments will be virtual, a sort of prediction market, and again the bridge builder would benefit from engaging in those markets.

If the bridge builder was already going to fail then there would be incentive to sell short the virtual token and the market would therefore have added some prediction value: I don’t think it is broken like Scott suggests.
What to eat on a low-carb diet
The OODA Loop in context of cryptoanarchy
https://youtu.be/gTtbkguROdk?t=358
Would allowing only paid subscribers to comment help keep comments open?

The NYT seems like one of the last remaining organizations that offer moderated comments on its articles. The Guardian UK dumped comments a long time ago (except for sports).

Comment spam and hate speech is a huge issue that I'm surprised anti-spam tech has not been able to address. The cost of human moderation is why websites, blogs and community groups ceded their audience to Facebook a decade ago. We've been paying the price ever since.
Unless you happen to be part of the privileged part of the world living nearish the meridian, good luck to having the calendar date changing in the middle of your waking hours and all the confusion that that would entail.

For the unlucky rest of the world it also means that things like public holidays and suchlike either weirdly start and end in the middle of the (solar) day, or alternatively you'd have to specify that all holidays etc. actually start and end not at midnight (UTC), but whatever time actually corresponds to some time in the middle of night, which basically means reintroducing time zones through the back door.

Also the link K2L8M11N2 posted.
Is it common practice now to take open source techniques and ship them as proprietary software? I'm seeing a lot of Photoshop tools which I just saw in Two Minute Papers a couple months ago...
What is the cost to the EU of standing up to FB? Why is this an invasion? How is the Australian clash of news monopolies remotely like Austria upholding the law? How is this criminal law enforcement?

You're not making much sense to me, tbh.
What was in the email that caused such a change in heart?
> But who is “your” company and how do we pick the “niche”?

Turns out, this is a common problem.

Friendly Challenge: imagine 3 very different future niches for your team. Leveraging your interests, experience/expertise.

Mix in the Clients you'll serve, Products you build, and Problems you solve. Each version would have a 5 year plan. Start a discussion -- which one energizes your team?

More on this subject by the authors of Design Your Life
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SemHh0n19LA

Highly recommend their book! PM me if you want to discuss.
Boyd's famous OODA loop (observe-orient-decide-act) is probably the most misunderstood and misused diagram of practical significance in decision making. It is to decision-making what the five elements (earth/fire/water/wind/ether) model from alchemy is to modern chemistry. Or what Freud's id-ego-superego model is to neuroscience ... Though the terms and concepts of the OODA loop are intuitive and coherent at least at a first pass, there is fundamentally no way to use them entirely safely without making gross errors. Just as there is no way to do modern chemistry using alchemical concepts without making gross errors. Or trying to do neurosurgery based on an id-ego-superego map of the brain without making gross errors.

https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/the-use-and-misuse-of-t...
Ziz iz a gud aidi.
I get deep satisfaction from modeling business processes into software and seeing the system up and running. And, the more I do this and the better I get at it, the gap between my models and the actual thing become ever more apparent. I think getting good at software can lead you down a couple of paths -- either coming to think that everything can truly be modeled in software given enough time and resources, or growing in humility and realizing the limits of software and the unbridgeable gap between models (however useful and impressive) and larger reality.
The skia-compute project is now Spinel, and is under Fuchsia. It is very interesting, perhaps the fastest way to render vector paths on the GPU, but the code is almost completely inscrutable, and it has lots of tuning parameters for specific GPU hardware, so porting is a challenge.

Skia has a requirement that rendering of paths cannot suffer from conflation artifacts (though compositing different paths can), as they don't want to regress on any existing web (SVG, canvas) content. That's made it difficult to move away from their existing software renderer which is highly optimized and deals with this well. Needless to say, I consider that an interesting challenge.
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Note that it's the 'confounder' not an internet boom cofounder, though that's also true.
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
>You're talking about using other people's services, infrastructure and registered users.

You sound a lot like someone who is against net neutrality with this statement. Does ATT or Comcast have to allow all content through their network or not? Why can't they regulate what goes through their infrastructure? Twitter has a near monopoly on their type of service, similar to ATT or Comcast. What makes it ok for Twitter to regulate but not more root services? What about DNS? Can the registrars regulate who can register a name? Why?
Did any one person say both of those things?
No, the answer is "Anyone infringes on those rights."

It just so happens that some "Tech Giants" fit into that category.
Right. As a builder, the point is to be able to choose what you include and what you don't.

I'm sort of a "semi-lazy" builder who is happy to have motherboard RGB, Wraith coolers, and Sapphire lit up on my video card, because I like the lights, but wouldn't put in the effort to get them if they weren't included.

It seems to be getting harder to get motherboards without anything included, though I haven't specifically tried to shop for that. There still seems to be enough variety in cases, coolers, RAM and video cards to avoid RGB included in those components. Prior to Wraith coolers, there were always those builders who would get a crappy included cooler with their CPU and throw it in the trash to buy a proper quiet, efficient CPU cooler. Here I'm glad they are including a cooler that meets my needs, and I'm not having to shop around for a second purchase.
This is definitely the most interesting part of the article for me:

Incidentally, this problem set the scene for a wizard duel between two computer scientists several decades ago. In 1986, Jon Bentley asked Donald Knuth to show off “literate programming” with a solution to this problem, and he came up with an exquisite, ten-page Knuthian masterpiece. Then Doug McIlroy (the inventor of Unix pipelines) replied with a one-liner Unix shell version using tr, sort, and uniq.

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg...
> That’s almost 13,000 objects for each person in the world, or 50 objects for every one of the roughly two trillion galaxies (according to this 2021 estimate) in the Universe.

That’s mind boggling to think about. I wonder how much paper would’ve been needed to store 100T objects on paper. It’s like the new Library of Alexandria.
The very first link in the post is to https://osblog.stephenmarz.com/, which is the author's tutorial on doing so. You should check it out!
I use GitHub and Bitbucket fairly extensively and I find Bitbucket painfully slow at times (eg. 7.38s to load a page just now with a whopping two open pull requests on it, whilst somehow transferring 8.8MB of crap; the equivalent page on GitHub is about 6 times better on both fronts) and the UI only ever seems to get more clunky. I fear the tight integration with JIRA is slowly infecting it with JIRA-esque problems.
End Daylight Saving Time
That's just more words for corrupt
I still don't understand how a long TOS with a "click here to agree" passes legal muster. If I said here, "By reading this comment you agree I have a right to come into your house and eat all your food", any attempt I made to enforce that would be laughed out of court.
So, would you look for culture fit at a different stage of the hiring process or not at all?

I'm open to any kind of feedback
Can we update the title? 100T reads as "100 terabytes" instead of "100 trillion" (as per the source).
The story is about history. The main source to this story worked as the personal European Parliament assistant to Jean-Marie Le Pen [0]. Some Le Pen quotes from that year below [1][2]. Showing this strong support for the most famous holocaust denier in the country is not what you do if you want to be taken seriously as an amateur historian [3].

It shows disrespect for history. It's the historical equivalent of showing your support for the Pi Bill [4] as an amateur mathematician.

I can see the potential for some worthwile signal in the noise cloud this man has generated though. With some luck, proper archaelogists and historians may be able to do their jobs using the lead he has generated. If he hasn't damaged the site too much, that is.

P.S. With my initial comment, I did not have the intention to suggest that Malinowski was doing this in order to further the cause of the Rassemblement National, Putin or Jean-Marie Le Pen.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Le_Pen

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/08/jean-marie-le-... . "On fera une fournée la prochaine fois", when asked about jewish French singer Patrick Bruel.

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/jean-marie-le-... . "Monseigneur Ebola could sort that out in three months."

[3] ...or a human being, but I digress

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
> S3 is designed to provide “11 9’s” (99.999999999%) of durability

Has anyone lost data on S3 or know anyone who has?
The worst part of living through a few cold, powerless days in Travis county is now having to listen to insufferable fuckheads like you wax on about the "fetishes" in our government.

Texas isn't actually all that conservative compared to a lot of states, it's just a stereotype. The three big cities, which make up a huge portion of the population, are racially diverse and politically Democrat.

For instance Texas has mandatory annual vehicle inspection and front plates, regulations that don't exist in some states in the Midwest.

I do hope we address the winterization gaps in our infrastructure because the state regulations, which are stronger than the Federal ones, weren't enforced, but we can do it without the comments from the peanut gallery.

The other grids have suffered blackouts in the last thirty years, too. I remember one in the nineties in part of the Eastern grid that lasted two weeks that family lived through, and blackouts in the Northeast and California in recent memory.

Get off your high horse.
After the Firefox mobile upgrade, I dropped Firefox on all platforms and switched to Vivaldi. So far it's pretty good. It's Chromium based too, can sync settings, passwords, etc. to all platforms and, important for me, has a built-in ad blocker on mobile (unlike Chrome).
They really are artificial humanoids (less artificial and more humanoid than most characters and most viewers would like), with enough additional inanimate components to obtain enough of a giant mecha "look and feel" to cause a wrong first impression. But let's avoid excessive spoilers, since the nature of EVAs is a major plot issue.
>If it's so universally bad, why is it legal in all of those countries?

I don't know.

I guess because nobody in power wants to change it?

>And it wasn't always considered bad.

That's not solid, we live and try to measure this against _now_, we also learned form our mistakes and improved.

>Maybe one day we'll all conclude that calling different gender and sexuality mental illness is bad and Amazon will have been on the right side after all.

Both outcomes are possible, so they're either ahead of time or just yet another censors?

I'd rather not rely on corpos/people in power believing that they're "ahead of time".
I’d Much Rather Be in Florida
I'd say that an even larger reason for federal-level law enforcement is the mobility that modern means of transportation brought. When the US was founded with its vision of autonomous states, there was not much mobility between states. It is no accident that the boom in the use of US marshals, postal police, and the Secret Service came with the building of the railways, making for crimes that spanned across states, for instance, while the FBI appeared in the automobile age.

Once you get national-level police that inherently see themselves are superior to and unaccountable to state-level bodies, then it is no surprise that they might want to wield that power, and that might have happened even without those foreign wars the US was involved in.
In my case my blackout curtains are not to help with sleep. They are in my living room, where the only good spot for my TV is opposite a window that can get a lot of sunlight.

When watching TV the bright reflections in the screen from that window can be quite annoying, especially during darker scenes. During parts of some days you can actually see a reflection of the sun itself in the TV screen, making it hard to see even bright scenes.
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> It’s like the new Library of Alexandria.

Presumably the Library of Alexandria didn’t have access control lists
I remember many people on Hacker News being appalled that it could go as high as 2% of global revenue, and that others here pointed out that 2% global revenue was merely the maximum, and that most fines — especially the initial ones or for relatively minor breaches — would be much lower.
Hi HN! I'm working on codeamigo.dev, a project designed to help developers learn coding topics interactively.
Codeamigo is a "decentralized" codecademy. Anyone can create lessons on any topic they wish. For now, I plan on approving the lessons before they are published. I believe that we have amazing educators in our community and that learning interactively is more efficient and enjoyable than through blog posts or videos.

Each lesson is made up of steps, and each step is made up of checkpoints. A checkpoint is one or more jest tests that run in the browser against the user's code.

For now, the app only supports JavaScript, but I hope to expand that offering in the future to more languages.

I look forward to any and all of this communities feedback!
Wire services like reuter or AP are still fairly decent since it's mostly a straight reporting of events.
Doesn't work on Safari / iOS.
Really? Tell me: what is the typical time your patients wean their calves? Because it literally cannot be 8 months, because then there is no milk left to sell. So what is the weaning period, and what are the calves fed before they start grazing?

EDIT: Nevermind, I just went through your comment history. You seem to be a lot of contradictory things. Like, both male and female.
Good advice, we can be positioned like that if this is what companies need. I am just not sure if they really need this. I called this option "Adrenalin shot for your business".

You can't make the product on time? You don't have manpower but need/want to launch this? We are here for you to boost your flow without over-hiring.

Need to validate the need haha
Here are my results with JavaScript (node.js v14.15.4) added:

Language | Simple | Optimized | Notes
------------- | ------ | --------- | -----
`wc -w` | 0.17 | 0.16 | `wc` reference; optimized sets `LC_ALL=C`
`grep` | 0.53 | 0.54 | `grep` reference; optimized sets `LC_ALL=C`
Go | 0.82 | 0.29 |
C | 0.83 | 0.20 |
Rust B | 1.10 | 0.28 | also by Andrew: bonus and custom hash
JavaScript | 1.29 | | no readline
JavaScript | 1.81 | | with readline
Rust A | 1.55 | 0.30 | by Andrew Gallant
Python | 2.14 | 1.17 |
Ruby | 3.59 | |
AWK | 4.28 | 1.22 | optimized uses `mawk`
C++ | 6.68 | 0.83 | "optimized" isn't very optimized
Shell | 42.60 | 9.50 | optimized does `LC_ALL=C sort -S 2G`

Btw: is there something wrong with my shell?

//with readline
const rl = require('readline').createInterface(process.stdin);

const wordCounter = {};

rl.on('line', (line) => {
let words = line.toLowerCase().split(/\s+/).forEach(word => {
wordCounter[word] = (wordCounter[word] || 0) + 1;
});
}).on('close',() => {
let output = Object.entries(wordCounter)
.sort(([,countA],[,countB]) => countB - countA)
.map(wc => wc.join(" "))
.join("\n");
console.log(output);
});

--------------------------------------------

//without readline
const wordCounter = {};
let lastChunk = '';
process.stdin.on('data', chunk => {
let words = (lastChunk + chunk.toString().toLowerCase()).split(/\s+/);

if (!words.length) return;
lastChunk = words.pop();

for (let word of words) {
if (word) wordCounter[word] = (wordCounter[word] || 0)+1;
}
}).on('end',() => {
if (lastChunk) wordCounter[lastChunk] = (wordCounter[lastChunk] || 0)+1;

let output = Object.entries(wordCounter)
.sort(([,countA],[,countB]) => countB - countA)
.map(wc => wc.join(" "))
.join("\n");
console.log(output);
});
And look what happened...
Teaching AI to See Like Humans
The grep version searches the input for "foobar" [1]. Hence, it doesn't solve the problem.

[1] https://github.com/benhoyt/countwords/blob/eb2a8adf21c895907...