skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My humble advice for this situation. It might seem over the top. If you think its excessive you likely don't know the scope of how deep the rabbit hole goes. For those trying, don't do this alone. Addiction of any kind is real and you need support. Don't underestimate the need for support from others.

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I'm assuming you have the circa 2020 version of the nokia 2720 flip. It has a hotspot. Thats now your mobile internet. And your main phone. Take the sim out of your iphone.

Get a cheap android phone. Don't put a sim in it. Thats now your "serious app only" phone. Set it up to use your nokia's hotspot. No games. Any time you pick up this phone its for serious actions only. Linked to goals or real achievement. Not for instagram etc.

Your iphone is now your distractatron. It has games, instagram, facebook, whatsapp, etc. put a sim card in it with $30 prepaid or whatever amount works. Disable the mobile data in settings. Don't use it for calls unless you must. Its internet should be via wifi or the nokia. Get someone else to check regularly on the prepaid plan. Log all the times you use the credit. You'll forget where the nokia is one day so the iphone still needs a sim. Remember its not for calls for awhile - Don't use it unless you must.

Now you have three devices and you know exactly in a tangible way when you're goofing off. It seems like a lot of effort. Plan better. Schedule. This will be a new experience.

Activate parental controls on all devices.

Don't think that isolating yourself will help with addiction.

Real progress might involve just the nokia but practical considerations will cause you to drift back to the iphone. Obvious cause of drift will be needing navigation because you're lost.

I don't recommend any of this as a permanent situation. Its to clean up and make things obvious as you detox.
> But in 2001-2002, I remember Google having a significantly better search experience. And it was massively better than all it's competitors from the 90s.

Yup, I would say it was better through most a good chunk of 2002, which garnered it [checks notes]... about 16% market share at that point. If you include the AOL traffic, that'd be 21%. To put that in perspective, MSN's search market share grew by more than that entire share just in 2003.

> A large factor were the snippets, which gave you a decent indication if the result was relevant before even clicking. Before the other search engines copied that feature, they would just show the contents of the meta description tag.

Yup, the impact of that UX was huge. It really improved conversion rates. Everyone else figured that out pretty quickly and adopted that.

> It also seemed to index a much wider range of sites and ranked them better.

Really, it was the ranking function. As their competitors rapidly discovered, having a broader set of sites actually made having a good ranking function so much more crucial.
Tech is the new gunpowder. USA and China government understand how to prioritize and plan this. The European Union needs a 5 to 10 year tech plan like this older Chinese one: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11684
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I would probably qualify (3) with 'in counties that choose to implement it' which would make your model (which I agree with) fit the observations in the abstract.

I wouldn't think most counties decide to implement the death penalty based on number or types of crime (aside from 100 year outliers) as 'life in prison without possibility of parole' is also satisfactory in most cases. I would wager that the first execution in most counties occur after a specific election rather than a specific crime.
It hit 532,000 km/h at its fastest speed, or ~0.05% the speed of light.

1% of the speed of light would be 10.8 million km/hr
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“ Supporters of IQ testing have been quick to point to correlations between IQ and job performance as evidence of test validity. A closer look at the data and results, however, suggests a rather murkier picture.”

TLDR. IQ tests measure the same thing that academic tests measure. It is debatable if IQ corresponds to job performance.
I think the mistrust came before the contemporary communication.

Especially in the US. A pro-agrarian/anti-development conservative strain goes back to the original colonies.
The shell represents the Fibonacci sequence.

Double entendre or meta?
That implies that a company like Facebook would somehow value your privacy when you are some kind of premium user or paying customer.

This is something I really doubt.
Title is misleading.

From https://about.gitlab.com/remote-work-report/ :

"Project background

...

Fielding: February 12 - March 10, 2021

Sample: N=3,900

* Adults 21+ years old

* Will work remotely or have the option to work remotely post pandemic

* ..."

So 1 in 3 employees who will work remotely or have the option to work remotely post pandemic would quit their job, if not offered remote work.
I think it's even more degrading than that. Canada basically exports healthy, educated, wealthy people to the US for little in return (well, other than being best friends with the world superpower anyway).

As long as there's favorable compensation and tax policies on the US side, Canada's brightest, healthiest, and wealthiest will just hop over to benefit from the more favorable conditions there after reaping the expensive taxpayer funded social benefits (healthy upbringing, affordable higher education).
There's this common misconception that sans user input a site is fine without https.

Unfortunately this is not the case. Site security serves not only the purpose of protecting user input, but also ensuring that the data you are receiving has not been altered, ammended or replaced.

At the low level it stops an ISP injecting their own ads or tracking, at the high level it prevents the injection of malicious code downstream from the site itself.

Things like link-replacement, javascript injection, altered text, and so on make even read-only style sites untrustworthy over plain http.
Not just WFH but now that everyone is ramped up for large remote meetings, this could/should dramatically reduce the need for business travel.

Pre-pandemic I traveled cross country somewhat regularly for meetings that could easily be done remotely. Sure there's some value sometimes in hallway conversations, but not enough to justify flying around whimsically blowing vast CO₂ in the middle of a climate crisis.

Someone should just make a more random hallway-conversation feature in Zoom or whatever. Or maybe we could normalize doing lunch together and casually chatting on zoom for certain important remote meetings (but not even close to all, please lord).
Last quarter, they made $9.27 per user[1, slide 4], however that's not evenly distributed. They made $48 per user in US and Canada. But even that isn't evenly distributed.

The users who are likely to pay for the subscription are also the most valuable to advertiser because they have disposable income. Some Facebook users see ads for luxury cars, real estate, and vacations, while other users see ads for dollar stores and dropshipped junk. FB earns much more in their auction from that first set of users, but those will be the first users willing to pay to opt out of ads.

Dynamic pricing would probably offend both audiences - "what do you mean the algorithm thinks I'm worthless?" "what do you mean that I'm worth thousands of dollars to you?"

[1] https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2021/FB...
https://archive.is/r5lZi
2 days ago:

Ignoring Docker updates is a paid feature now? (https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1388586550682861568)

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27013865
This author, Casey Newton, seems to be trying to push a narrative that Basecamp damaged itself by banning politics at work. But the anecdotes in here convince me that Basecamp did the right thing. The people involved in this exchange with Singer seem unhinged - demanding that someone declare that white supremacy exists at work? This type of cultish demand-oriented discourse is unacceptable in professional organizations and even the rest of society. It creates an unnecessarily hostile workplace, and the lack of nuance in their stances really just shows a lack of mental balance or ability to deal with any differences of opinions.

Let’s be honest - the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) committees that have appeared in companies and governments all over are simply a Trojan horse for far left progressive politics, and a vehicle to take over an institution by making a particular political ideology the official religion of that organization. DEI groups and policies usually serve to prevent any actual diversity, labeling dissenting thought as racist and coating their own racist policies (for example race or gender based hiring/promotion) in vague terms like “justice”. Usually those participating in DEI efforts are so distracted by it that they add no actual value to the business, and I’m sure the third of the company that joined that group at Basecamp were no different.

I’m betting Basecamp will pull through just fine without such toxic employees, and am glad to see companies like Basecamp and Coinbase take steps to keep from having their workplace and company weaponized by activists to serve divisive ideological purposes that have nothing to do with the company’s business.
> Who even needs that crap…

Apparently, about a billion people around the world.
It's simple : GPT-3 doesn't have anything it wants to communicate. If you've taken some message from the comment, it's either written directly by a human, or some human has looked through god knows how many GPT-3 outputs until they found one that actually sounds like their message.
We can make a better disaster film script than that. How about some rare second generation females survive then turn out to be far more potent disease carriers and rebuild a population of super mosquitoes in their place.

Mosquitoes are buggers though.
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This one is more aimed at everyday business applications, including mobile apps and web apps.
>"Thus I began designing the font of my dreams. Some might find it beautiful, some might find it ugly. But I love it. It is the first iteration of the font and I'm happy with it. I did a lot of work on these fonts and I find then usable for now. The base font for my design was the original one that I recovered from the ET4000/W32i ROM. Then I tried hard to remember what the old fonts looked like. I also drew inspiration from the ATI VGA Wonder 16 ROM font."

PDS: I think they're awesome!

>"This is my Micro-Labs Tseng Labs ET4000/W32i ISA card. I find it very beautifully laid out.' [...] "The card clocks are built around the CHRONTEL CH9294 dual PLL graphics clock generator integrated circuit. These are still available on various sites. The RAMDAC is an AT&T ATT20C490-80 part. These are also available on-line. The ET4000/W32i chip is also available on-line. Which makes me think: what if I'd build my own VGA card? I still have the Tseng Labs datasheets catalog and this VGA controller along with a sample schematic is described in depth. I could improve that design by using modern memories which would be cheaper and easier to source. But this is another topic. For the moment it is only food for thought."

PDS: I think it's a great idea!

Excellent article, all in all!

Well worth re-reading in the future!
Sure, "decent" translation as in novels etc will continue to be hand-crafted, but the vast majority of translation is low-end bulk stuff like business reports and technical documentation, paid pennies per word. I know one (former) professional translator, and dumping text into Google Translate was always her starting point.

Interestingly, her job got harder when Google rolled out the new deep learning models, because instead of outputting visibly broken garbage that kind of flagged itself for checking, it now tends to produce beautifully formed sentences with subtle but often critical fuckups (wrong sense of a word, missing negation, parsing a pronoun incorrectly, etc) that can affect meaning.
Like with functional programming, I'm not sure it's hard, exactly. Maybe it's not so hard if you learn it from the start. It is very different, though. Most programmers are not used to the idea of carefully tracking where, and how, their data ends up in a program. Many high-level languages do heavy lifting to abstract that away as much as possible. Is it on the stack or in the heap? Is it a copy or a reference? How many references to it are floating around? You don't need to worry about that. The implementation will juggle that for you.

Rust is targeted pretty much as a C replacement. And the thing is, you have to do the borrow checker's work when you program in C too.

You must know whether it's copy-by-value or a reference. If it's a reference and it needs to be a copy, you must do that manually. You must know how many threads are accessing something by a reference, and you must guarantee that more than one thread is not writing a non-mutex variable at the same time. You must know when your objects are created, where they go (heap? stack?) and you must track those objects over their lifetime, and then you must free them at the end. (Or tell a garbage collector about them, and remember to run the garbage collector periodically.)

Except a C program still compiles when you don't get that right. And then it segfaults. Rust's borrowing model ends up enforcing much of that as language policy, rather than just good programming style. It's a bit like how you have to cast types explicitly in many languages (including Rust, of course). Any implementation can wrap an integer used as a pointer to guarantee you're not pointing into dead memory. But when the compiler knows the type explicitly, it can often generate fast unwrapped code that is safe and will not crash. All of this comes with explicitness which is burdensome to the programmer, unfortunately.

Sometimes you need to state, explicitly, what should be obvious to allow the compiler to show something is correct and fast. In this regard, Rust is, at least, nicer than C, even when you have to fight the borrow checker. (In my opinion.) Which is probably why it's growing so fast. I don't expect it to displace more than the C niche of systems programming, though.
This is excellent. This is exactly what I always wanted. It’s unavoidable that this happens, unless Facebook accepts that one group of users subsidizes another. There are real concerns about “privacy as a class issue” but I can’t see how the solution is to ensure lack of privacy for everyone.

Adding a premium tier and blocking access on iOS for the standard tier when tracking is disabled seems like an easy fix.

Obviously, if there is a discrepancy between what people want to pay (say $1/mo in developed countries and a lot less in poorer countries?) vs what FB makes per used from ads, this poses an existential threat to their business. Which is also delicious.
> The only difference is who you believe morally right.

This is also a theme frequently explored by Kafka. Especially in the machine short story I mentioned. People who believe they’re “right” in sentencing a person to death will come up with all sorts of ways to justify their amoral actions and Kafka created several characters who do.
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If sales prices of land deviate from zero, and the land value tax is meant to take the full amount of land rent, that's when the land tax is too high or too low. This can also be estimated by the replacement values of structures versus transaction prices. The devil is in the details of quickly changing markets, however. But with a full LVT markets would change far less quickly because there would be far less speculation, and less of a bubble on land prices, because more land would be opened up to the desires of society as a whole instead of the desires of the few rentiers holding it.

The other way of looking at this is imputed rent, the amount of money that somebody would be willing to pay to rent out their own home. Well, in theory it would be that amount. In high-demand areas, homeowners' actual imputed rent is higher than they would be willing to pay, because the act of buying property and paying low taxes let's then live in their place for far less than somebody else would pay for the same privilege. Which is how opportunity get hoarded, and how rentiers take over local governance structures.
Oh, that's right. There's some option to build all modules as static libs or include them in the main .a ... sorry, I forgot about that.

Did GTK3 or GTK4 ever become relocatable on Linux?
1) what about setting up parental controls on your iOS device so you can't install other apps? Then give the master pswd to someone you trust. Would that help?
2) I would strongly advise seeking therapy, as your problem IMHO requires systemic solutions to address the root causes. Cheers.
I find it hilarious that Apple would take 30% of that fee if they start charging.
Something I find is underemphasised in this type of material is the equivalence between computing the value of an integral and the sum of functions of random variables. This is a very useful intuition for framing various problems in efficient ways.

This article brings it up, but only as a "look at what you can do with MC methods" and not "here's this fundamental relation that's really important."

There's lots of useful understanding about importance sampling and related techniques that seem obvious when you look at it as an integration problem.
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Love this kind of thing. Can you add a lua target?
Most people don’t have the options that programmers do when it comes to jobs and homes, especially people who live in Houston.
If a company is monetizing your data then they aren't stopping with the free users.
I believe joins work without simultaneous pushing. One side can build first, the other side can probe in a pushed fashion after but not necessarily simultaneously.

“Trigger” is not necessarily the relationship, between build and probe sides though it could be. The DAG paths that produce/push the probe can be triggered by the completion of the build. “Happens after” is more strictly apt.
If a species produces an excessive number of males, then it becomes advantageous to produce more females to mate with them, so evolution is always nudging them back to a 50:50 ratio:

https://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ridley/tutorials/Adaptat...

So I guess the idea behind genetic engineering is to destabilize the ratio and wipe out the species faster than natural evolution can respond.

I would suggest reading "The Selfish Gene", which covers a lot of topics like this.
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The article makes this specific claim,

> Democrats, surveys have shown, are more likely than Republicans to prioritize walkable neighborhoods with good public transit. Republicans, on the other hand, prize neighborhoods with more Christians and larger houses.

Followed by the graph lifted from the paper, with the intro "When deciding where to live, Democrats were more likely to prioritize ..."

The article is implying these lifestyle choices are why Democrats and Republicans live in different places. But that is contradicted by the study which says that while Democrats and Republicans do indeed express those preferences, those are low priority and that the higher priority things which predict where people will move, Democrats and Republicans agree on.

That's my first issue, that the article is misstating the study.

Separately, the article claims:

> Middle-income Democrats who can’t afford a single-family home should still be able to raise their children in a duplex with a front yard. And young, lower-income Republicans shouldn’t be priced out of the cultural amenities that city life provides.

But, I don't follow this reasoning. Is there evidence of Republicans who would live in cities but for the cost? Isn't it more likely there are Democrats who would rather live in cities but for the cost? Similarly, aren't there likely to be more middle-income Republicans interested in those duplexes?

The article seems poorly reasoned to me.

I think Biden should try to help Democrats and Republicans alike and not worry about how this influences where folks end up living.

Partisan districting is a whole separate issue that needs to be addressed separately, independent of housing policy.
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Uh oh, somebody might be about to have a discussion with problematic opinions. Call the leftist Sharia patrol, quick! They're well-practiced at flagging nasty old threads like this.
Sort of? Depends on who is the subject. 'Kafkaesque' doesn't just mean bureaucracy is bad but that it alienates the individual.

Most defendants would probably expediency more alienation if the likelihood of a death penalty depended on which county tried them. Actually, The Trial itself references circumstances very similar to this.

On the other hand, if there was some super depraved criminal that had a chance of walking free due to bureaucracy, then a individual on the prosecution side could be subject to disillusionment and alienation.

So sure either side can be Kafkaesque but since it's more a one vs many i.e the individual facing society, the defendant's situation is more likely to be the loosing end.