skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to use two character because you might join similar named tables or the same table multiple times.
why, so you can find one that is more receptive to your badgering?

the problem is that you're badgering someone

i'm a software engineer and I barely even care about web or mobile apps. i barely install or sign up for anything.

just let people do what they want
Microsoft went exactly the same route. After certain critical mass of PMs were achieved, things went only downhill. I am not saying engineers somehow are superior but the fact is that there is no real hiring criteria for PMs so overall talent pool gets very diluted very quickly. Good PMs like Spolesky are worth gold but there is no way to identify them during interviews. Now that Google has 6 versions of chat programs, GMail UX that is mess, Maps that are stagnant - you can see same outcome that Microsoft saw.
Great work. Adding these to my domain blocklist now. Much appreciated.
Fixed, thank you. Was more worried about the background removal process working correctly.
I have found https://firebog.net/ to be a good source for generally non-disruptive lists, which you can pick and choose from based on your needs. Hope this helps.
“Forever ever? Forever ever? Ever, ever?” - Kanye West
> For a list of domains that should not break anything, use telemetry-domains.txt

For sure, because it's empty.
It’s unfortunate that dbus is used instead of a kernel-level IPC mechanism; despite how difficult it is to work with directly, Mach IPC is one of the hidden gems of NEXTSTEP through the Darwin family of platforms.
it depends on whom do you stand for? as a US-based remote developer, like in this Quora thread, you for sure don't want to work via Turing/Andela/Upstack/... for a US employer, right? because Turing/Andela/Upstack/... are withholding more than 50% of your income as their profit, that's why these kinds of agencies can get high profit / high funding and high valuation from Crunchbase link you can see;

https://www.quora.com/Has-anyone-tried-Turing-Is-it-any-good...

> TL;DR: they are OK but they take more than 50% of your paycheck forever and give you practically zero benefits for it. It’s better to avoid them and wait for another opportunity.

If you're with entrepreneur mindset want to hire, or standing as US employer point of view, you'll more probably like to hire 3 oversea's remote role than a single US-based, or only hiring 1/10th in the US to manage rest of all overseas;
as I've shown in the LA based software company;

If you are already the top earning ones ($500k+), you have no concerns for yourself, but for next generation new graduates, I have seen this trend of a US company would rather hire overseas via those agencies instead of hiring the US based, I am seeing a pessimistic future for them

As of 2021, there may not be many US companies seeing this opportunity to cut R&D costs yet, but as the list of Crewscale/Turing/Andela/Upstack/... growing longer and longer, many of them are aggressively reaching to US employers for upselling remote devs (overseas), then majority of US employers will be able to see

Another example here: Invision is another US employer (New York based), back in 2019 their major hiring were still US-based W2 employment, forward to 2021 they are seeing the great opportunity to hire via upstack...

https://twitter.com/upstackhq/status/1374826625108426764
Most users never even change defaults let alone install extensions. There is no described option to disable FLoc in the browser. Why not. Surely the design decision not to include an option to disable FLoC was intentional. That's the point I was making.
In this case I needed to download about 1k files of size ~ 10mb. Doing this with multithreading was so much faster than downloading all the files sequentially.
Building the epub myself on Ubuntu was an involved (but educational) experience.

As the guide in the Github repo says, you need to install Pandoc and Calibre. However, you also need ImageMagick, which is not mentioned in the guide.

You also need XeLaTeX, which has the package name texlive-xetex instead of just xelatex, for some reason.

pdfunite requires poppler-utils.
The concept is interesting, and they have had some successes.

There's some handwaving about trust. They claim resistance against Sybil attacks, which is the biggest problem in anonymous distributed systems. That's where someone creates large numbers of phony identities to spam email, create link farms, and abuse reputation systems. If they could actually do that, they'd have a huge win. It's the basic reason P2P systems fail. They have a paper on how they do that, "On the Sybil-Proofness of Accounting Mechanisms in P2P Networks"[1] That's more important than this paper.

The other paper is analyzing Tribler, which is like BitTorrent.
"Agents gossip about their transaction partners and inform others about their trustworthiness. Agents’ respective transaction histories are disseminated along the network. From this information agents can aggregate an approximation of their peers’ reputations such that free riders and otherwise uncooperative agents can be identified." Much of this is aimed at balancing the "seeders" and "leechers" of a file-sharing system.

Their TrustChain system is a more distributed blockchain-like system. Everybody has some chained blocks, and there's overlap, but nobody has all of them. The goal seems to be that most forgery is detected, but not all of it. In exchange for being only approximate, the system goes faster, uses less storage, and scales bigger.

All this is buildup to addressing the question of whether a group of nodes can cooperate to increase their reputation. The Sybil paper is a whole thesis on this, and heavy going. They're trying for a graph theory result.

I'm not clear on this, but the crux of the argument seems to be that in the seeder/leecher scenario, they can create a system where the cost of faking being a good seeder is higher than the cost of being one. This seems to depend on a cost metric which is internal to the network. If the benefit to the attacker is outside the network (sales from spams, higher reputation for a product or candidate), this might not work.

Good ideas there. They don't claim to have solved the general case, but they're trying.

[1] https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid%3A6b4011...
"Advertising is psychological manipulation at its worst"

Hyperbole is unbecoming.

Off the top of my head I'd say grooming someone for sexual abuse is a significantly worse form of psychological manipulation. I speak from having experienced both, and only one has had a catastrophic effect on my life.
It's possible the request is authenticated/secured with a VPN, by requesting IP address(es), with an encrypted header, etc. There are multiple ways to authenticate an HTTP request. Maybe there's some authentication happening not visible in the API docs.

If anyone on the public internet can access that URL and post a request that seems like a bad idea.
I think that likely shows the problem, rather than anything else.

(I'm going to assume you mean that number nationwide)

75%, or roughly so, nationwide would be one thing if it was evenly distributed. But as you noted, the issue is tied to politics (I think more than you imply, but doesn't matter). We also know political affiliation is not evenly distributed.

So, a number like 75% mask compliance makes it possible, and frankly very likely, that there are areas with substantially lower rates.
In the sciences after tenure, you have to bring in grant funding to keep your lab running and your postdocs and students paid. Summer salaries for faculty and teaching load reductions are funded from faculty grants as well.

While conditions of tenure vary from university to university, there are institutions where tenured faculty could give up all research and retain their jobs, but they will never get promoted beyond associate professor, get a raise, etc.
Polite rewrite:

“The events that have transpired demonstrate that Jack Ma experienced a disconnect between the power, freedom, and relevance he believed himself to have had and the reality exerted by the Chinese government. This could be viewed as a lack of foresight, exceptional hubris, and inability to interpret ground truth on Ma’s part.”
I don’t know that’s the whole question, though: I know that I, personally, would be unwilling to pay a subscription fee for every site I’ve gotten information from. I wonder how many people would choose advertising if the choice is posed as ads or content subscriptions/micropayments.
Here's [1] Cory Doctorow's take on why this wasn't actually some capricious treatment by the CCP over some minor infraction

[1] https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1324391639628959745
I'm not aware of a supported API in the AWS Go SDK for this, but there is a sketch here: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/tree/main/example/service/...
pretty naive argument and distinction as well.

when did the argument move from "advertising bad, tracking data always bad, targeted advertising terrible" to "if Apple does it then I'm good with it"?

It'd be a lot cooler if you could respond to my actual argument without namecalling and putting words in my mouth. For one thing, it's rude; for another, it doesn't contain much of a counter-argument.

You said the distinction between what Apple does and Google does is 'thin'. The distinction is Apple does this in two specific services of their own, one of which is completely optional and in both cases, the cohort bucketing and tracking can be turned off. Google is putting it in the browser people use to do just about everything on the internet. A roughly similar thing would be Apple adding cohort bucketing to Safari. They haven't. These seem, to me at least, some significant distinctions. Why do you think they aren't?
I run these: https://www.github.developerdan.com/hosts/

Of course the PiHole default ‘Steven Black’ list is also a combination of many well maintained lists and so even if you don’t add lists, his project is regularly adding new sources.
Ask HN: How do you get the word out about a niche language?
I may be getting ahead of myself here, but I've started work on a programming language that I think might have some real potential one day (unlike past, toy projects).

What I don't know is how in the world I'll drum up interest once the time for that comes, beyond posting it on GitHub and linking it on hacker news. I don't have a big Twitter following or anything, I've never spoken at a conference, etc.

How did languages like Elm, Zig, and Crystal get the word out at the very beginning? Anyone with suggestions or firsthand experience? Is there a blog post I can read?
At the risk of fanboys downvoting this, I think world won’t be better place if Jobs went on to be CEO of Google. He would have locked everything down, imagine all of the massive open source just never coming out, Google Brain never existing, all the free products only available on Android and no where else.
This is potentially really lovely for some workflows in fantasy mapmaking where GIS data is extremely unlikely to exist.
It’s not so much about who was left out, but rather about who was put in. Some of the people on the list had pretty much zero impact on mathematics.
I have to disagree on Einstein, without the field equations it's doubtful psuedo-Riemannian geometry or so-called "Einstein manifolds" would be so big in math. There is also his work on Brownian motion and diffusion. Even if you deny he did "mathematical research" his importance for mathematics justifies him being on a timeline of mathematics .. imho
Sources?

That just seems like hyperbole actually, and from a biased opinion or vested interest.

Brave seems to handle privacy very well considering the choices available, and has made a number of good privacy decisions from what I can see after watching browsers evolve for 25 years. I have switched to using Brave and installing it for those I support.

The crypto thing is 1) easy to turn off, 2) an attempt at a possibly better business model where users aren't just sold with it. Regardless I simply turn the crypto setting off.
nice

I wish they would add some of the arab mathematicians

algebra is an arabic word

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_in_medieval_Islam
Off topic, but... does anyone know of a forum for exploratory discussion of science education content?

For examples, discussion of a web app with interactive physics equations with order-of-magnitude sliders showing user customizable landmarks and stories. Or sketching out a thorough mechanistic introduction to friction, building on an assumed firm grasp of nanoscale, as a supplement to the usual Amontons' law of large objects sliding on pig fat. Or exploring approaches to creating that firm grasp of nanoscale. In middle or primary school. Or supplementing Kindergarten taste and texture and perceptual material properties with Ashby-like charts of rheological quasiproperties (slimy, sticky, crunchy, chewy, etc). And so on, and on.

Like HN but for science and engineering folk with an education focus, education researchers, curriculum designers, etc. Any thoughts?
That site seems to be pretty buggy. https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ has more visitors and seems to have a wider collection.

With Safari on macOS I get a score of ~1/8500. Not amazing, but certainly not catastrophic.
s5cmd[0], written in Go, performs cp in parallel to/from s3 too. I've been using it for some time and it's plenty fast.

https://github.com/peak/s5cmd
I like how they just EOR'd the data and called it a day =)
As CCP does more and more of this, rich Chinese will start feeling agitated about their government. If they only revolt and elect their own government where actions of thuggery are not ok, they will finally be free.

I know a lot of chinese don't care about the government but such actions of stealing wealth is literally how a lot of revolutionary democracies were formed.
Chromecast devices can do this too.
There title submission is incorrect, it should be "What to say (and not to say) to someone who is sick"
What dependencies? OP wants to replace a bash/sh script, not left pad a string.
Unfortunately I haven't. If someone wants to benchmark this solution I'd be glad to hear about that!
> live in Chicago but with the way things have been going lately I've been considering moving back,

I live in chicago( south loop/pilsen ) too. What has been going on lately that is making you consider the move?
> and so some Italians

Selling the Bernoulli clan a bit short here.
Two failure modes things can fall into, without adjusting the economic system:

- The big central site that has no choice but to monetize you, because otherwise its investor funding will run out

- An overly complicated and geeky system trying to recreate the efficiencies of centralisation without centralisation, and trust without trust (and generally, getting the wrong sort of trust, see Schneier). Ends up being a vicious wild west if it catches on at all, because that centralisation was doing something useful.
> S3 single stream GET throughput is throttled to ~40MB/sec

More like 80MB/s
Israeli data shows South African variant able to ‘break through’ Pfizer vaccine
I'll speak from perspective of average CS in E. Europe

people who were the best at my year were mostly focused on jobs / real world software development and just wanted to get degree, so just pass the exams and projects effortlessly

but I've been studying at weekends, so I may be biased.
Anyone with $40 USD can buy a used 10gb ethernet card and wire it with cat6.

I don't know why you think there is some 'limit of thermodynamics' or that someone needs to 'invent new physics'.

Every computer for 15 years has come with a 1gb ethernet port.

2.5gb usb ethernet dongles are $30 USD and can be hooked into a $35 rasberry pi. A 2.5gb switch is around $120.

I don't know where you got these ideas, but they wouldn't have made sense two decades ago, let alone today.
On my mac the H1 is an absolutely hideous cursive font in bright yellow that looks like it's from the 90s. The CSS says `font-family: "Staatliches", cursive;`.
Big discussion a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26749350
It does exist, but it's 80MB/s nowadays.
I was taught to always use the maximum thrust possible when taking off.

Save a buck or two on fuel and lose a whole plane? Absolute stupidity.

In the unnamed country where the software is programmed, the title "Miss" is used for a child and "Ms" for an adult female.

Cultural differences can be deadly and very expensive, just like using 'Imperial' measurements when 'Metric' measures are expected.
Minkowski is another huge one.
Doesn't the startup world fetishize that kind of schedule?
if you're only looking to make 1k i wouldn't build a saas

i'd build bootstrap themes and sell them on sites like themeforest etc

any similar kind of thing you can sell, a wordpress plug-in or something that does something people are always looking for

you'll have your 1k in short order
The 1977 flu pandemic was very likely a lab escape. From the NEJM:

> The reemergence was probably an accidental release from a laboratory source in the setting of waning population immunity to H1 and N1 antigens

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra0904322

About 700k people died worldwide. That's more than a typical flu season but not grossly so, and it's impossible to say with certainty what kind of flu season would have occurred naturally without the escape.

https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2018/01/19/you-re-...

SARS-CoV-2 is certainly worse. The 1977 flu pandemic is still a lot of deaths, though, and surprisingly little-known.
Thanks for posting. This can be very useful, especially for personal local use. The "README" needs a bit more polish.
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I'm still trying to get over how awesome Google's 2014 Little Box Challenge was. Only a 2kW inverter, but one team (the Red Electronic Devils) managed a 14 cubic inch design. All the technical approaches are documented, as a part of the competition. A good number of extremely interesting ultra-high efficiency inverter designs!!

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2016/02/and-winner-of-1-million-li...
I’m not really talking about access as the computer sees it: most of the code I write that processes strings ends up doing things like splitting at new lines and stripping off the trailing space of each line. Or getting the length of the string or similar things that require efficient access to a semi-arbitrary offset into the string.

For the type of string processing code I find myself writing, linked lists are the wrong data structure because they tend to turn O(n) algorithms into O(n^2) ones: this can be mitigated by things like skip-lists, and is complicated by things like Unicode. But, personally, I tend to think that the biggest issue is not the performance impact of non-local storage of the string’s contents (which can be mitigated by techniques like cdr-coding). The problem is that string processing code, in my experience, tends to assume getting a predetermined offset into the string is relatively low cost.
> I think the weight of many opinions across time gives these things a certain solidity.

You think that and actively look for consistency in the reception history of everything you categorize at true art, or you hope that such a hypothesis would pan out if you happen to do that work at some point in the future?

I ask because at least in the domain of music, my (admittedly limited) knowledge of the reception history of various pieces doesn't leave much room for the consistency you'd need to determine whether anything is kitsch or not. More importantly, the historical reception of many well-known cases hinges on what (I believe) you'd consider completely irrelevant factors.

For example, Taruskin has a chapter from his book "On Russian Music" about Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony, showing that the reception history of the work teeter-totters based mainly on what the general acceptance was in a given period/area regarding homosexuality. (Note: the commentators didn't say this explicitly, and probably didn't realize they were doing it-- other scholars had to go back and piece together the pattern based on the data available.) In this case, one ascribing to your hypothesis/theory would be forced to reserve judgment on the "kitschiness" of that symphony based essentially on the results of arbitrary biases from a long gone era.

The messiness of reception histories and meaning in art makes me suspicious of a statement like, "Kitsch offers shallow emotional gratification with no investment." I've studied art and music closely enough to realize I almost never have the information necessary to make that judgment.

Then in film there's Quentin Tarantino's eye for composition and story-telling in Blacksploitation and Kung Fu movies. Cases like that are all over the place.

Hell, there are two young goofballs who are purposefully misreading the very reason John Coltrane wrote Giant Steps-- instead of improvising atop the chord progressions to show their musical prowess they turn it into through-composed video-game speed run music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWqH4h5CQyQ

Is that kitsch? Are you sure?
That is what most companies do. When you have an over supply of backend engineers but need frontend engineers no one looks for more backend engineers. Their stack has a weakness of frontend engineers and they find the one that strengthens it the most.
That's what my small python package does (https://github.com/NewbiZ/s3pd). Definitely not perfect (not saturating cores because no use of event loop per process) but download is split in multiple processes and stored in shared memory.

I've been able to saturate 20GB NICs on Ec2 with it (32 cores)
> NZ had swine flu just 10 days after the USA.

Correction, NZ had its first cases of swine flu connected directly with travel to Mexico, the epicenter of the pandemic, 10 days after the USA identified its first cases which were community spread. In other words the virus had been circulating for some time in the United States already and just happened to be observed then. Case in point. The US/Mexico border is the most crossed border in the world with 350 million documented crossings annually and undocumented crossings in the 6 figures annually. Each crossing is another chance that the virus gets in and starts spreading domestically which is why the first case was community spread and not associated with travel to Mexico.

> Covid19 reached New Zealand before Berlin.

Maybe the first detected case but considering that Germany had its first detected case in late January in Bavaria a full month before NZ's first case, again directly associated with international travel, the virus very well had opportunity to have already gotten to Berlin and elsewhere undetected.

> Even back in 1918 the flu pandemic reached NZ in months at a time when that journey by ship wasn't much faster!

This was the massive demobilization from WWI with a rush of repatriation from the epicenter of the pandemic which had been active in Europe for some time, Spain was just the first country to admit it had an epidemic. Again, my case in point, NZ was infected long after most of the rest of world because NZ is out of the way. Thank goodness it is.
I picked S&P because it's one of a handful of widely reported indices and it was created roughly in the same era as the original vanguard index fund, not by cherry-picking data.

Your statement that major index funds all underperform the top hedge funds is tautological, of course the ones that beat the averages are the top funds. What I'm genuinely curious is: how many hedge funds were there in 2001 and how would you identify the top ones?
Don't worry, there will be some soon... https://github.com/geerlingguy/internet-pi