skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently we launched a free survey tool, which was built in just 48 hours. This is a retrospective on why we built it, how it went, and more :)
Then just post about your IDE on Elixir forums. I'm not interested in seeing any ads on the Internet, and I certainly don't want ad companies that are following me on random websites to know that I'm a programmer who is interested in Elixir or any other data about me.
This always seemed like a back door way to finally have the web finally embrace a micropayments business model.

By this point ads, and the tracking scripts associated with ad networks, have grown so large that they may cost more in bandwidth than they generate in sales. People are famously hesitant to pay for content, but in this case it’s “free” if it means dumping the ads.
I wouldn't be surprised...
This has not been and never will be the case because of leverage. A master baker can serve maybe a 100 people with an oven, a developer can serve 100 million with a RaspberryPi. Short of violence-enforced "equality" this simply can't happen.
I found the book much clearer and engaging than the film, tbh...
A fair number of Web frameworks have OSS A/B or multivariate testing tools: https://github.com/topics/ab-testing. In the Ruby world, splitrb (https://github.com/splitrb) and vanity (https://github.com/assaf/vanity) are popular.
Precisely what I recall now -- the reason behind it I had forgotten. Thanks!
The recent "Nobody" is a good twist on action, as well as "Hardcore Henry" is interesting. When the storyline takes unexpected turns, or uses clichés as bait and does not follow through on the cliché can be fresh. In general, a feature length film is too short to do many literary works justice, and serialization does a far better job relating a quality story. For example, Netflix's "Ozark" would not be called "action" in the feature film sense, but the intellectual violence in that show is far and above stupid gun/car/fist violence. Films like "The Congress", "Terminator 2", and "Tropic Thunder" represent the best the Hollywood feature film system can produce.
SF got what they voted for - a progressive utopia. At some point, there have to be repercussions for crime.
I'm Dutch and I live there (born and raised, I've seen way too many examples how drugs can screw people over because of being raised in Amsterdam). Nevertheless, it doesn't matter whether I live there or not. Experimenting with psilocybin is not easy, even when you're experienced with weed and alcohol.

Here was my thought process:

First time: I did half, that went amazingly well

Second time: I did a full dose, and I had the suicidal bad trip experience

Third time: full dose, got into a bad trip state again (just bad trip). I recognized the experience and knew what would happen, how to deal with it. It was completely fine. It was a wonderful experience.

Fourth time: potential explosive dangerous situation with the other person who used it (also did it 4 times, 4th time together with me as well). Crisis averted, having a tripsitter in this case (like in the second case) was an absolute must.

These experiences has happened in a span of 3 years, spread out quite evenly. I took it because of the research on psilocybin.

Truffles has been my first psychedelic. Ultimately, for me it has had positive effects.

It is what it is. Be careful, have a tripsitter. Not having a tripsitter was the biggest mistake I've made.
lets build an app for that
To me, this sounds kinda like the following:

- XNU was born from a fork of the Mach microkernel

- When the microkernel hype simmered down due to them being way too slow for '90s machines, NeXT bolted on lots of chunks taken from BSD to speed up XNU

- After 20+ years, computers are fast enough to run true microkernels, so Apple is bringing them back again

So it's finally time for microkernels to shine again?
I thought is was a deliberate pun. Maybe something along the lines of "The city of Paris is trying to develop parkour and capitalize on it", with the bet being used in a business sense. Turned out there is nothing looking like a bet in the article and it is just a poor choice of words instead.

"Paris sportif" really means "sporty Paris". "Sports betting" would translate to "Paris sportifs" (plural) or "Pari sportif" (singular). It is quite subtle, that's why I expected it to be a clever pun.
> If Nature wasn't kind, how did we make it for those hundreds of thousands of years?

The majority of humans died. Sometimes almost to the point of extinction. The ones who got lucky or got the right genes survived at least long enough to pass their DNA on to the next generation. Which is the one thing natural selection optimizes for. When you say "we" made it across hundreds of millennia, you're excluding the countless evolutionary dead ends that far outnumber the rest.

Nature isn't kind to us, and we aren't immune to many of its dangers because on average it's not enough to kill us before we can create offspring.

We rely on technology to handle the rest. Like avoiding sickness because even when not deadly it's not pleasant.
I usually did not either. However Netherlands and Germany have been an exception. In the Netherlands every mobile provider shoo me out of their shop refering to yallo or libera. I had an apartment and was staying 2 months, so this wasn't the issue. And Germany was essentially the same except I only tried with 3 or so providers.

Most tourists still pick one of the shitty providers available at the airport or train station and go with that. Some of them provide a faster verification do you can walk out having internet, in Austria if you buy internet at a supermarket (it's uncomplicated there) it can take a few hours to verify.

Or Italy, if you arrive in Venedig you find ads for internet packages everywhere. I actually needed to go to the mainland to buy a a normal SIM. As no one on the island acknowledged the cheaper packages available.

My point is, it's complicated

Source: I've spent months (if not years) with my laptop In Europe and Asia and internet always was the #1 priority. I also do not know if things are better today
What do you make of the documentary on AlphaGo where the AI did seemingly suicidal and incomprehensible moves to the human masters but won in the end, baffling everyone? https://youtu.be/WXuK6gekU1Y
Very eager to blame it on Trump too I'm sure.
What we need is some code to turn a human to a mouse.
Sure! I don't intend to shill, so, here is something useful: a link to his github repo for the book.

https://github.com/rasbt/python-machine-learning-book-3rd-ed...
Man, wait till you come to Florida and see Publix.
> front runner for NY DA intends to not prosecute minor offenses

Bragg is a far cry from Boudin. He is, as a former prosecutor, leading in a field that had Boudinesque candidates, e.g. those with zero prosecutorial experience.

I would actually highlight him as an example of the sort of compromise that seems lacking in San Francisco.
Yes, air-exchange heat pumps have been around forever. But they're usually of the all-the-way-on or all-the-way-off type in the US. Newer systems use variable refrigerant flow and variable fan speeds to save energy, so they run more proportionally to the heating/cooling load. They have a higher up front cost so production builders don't put them in, but custom home builders will.

In cold climates you eventually hit an efficiency wall with the air-exchange units and need to use a ground-source heat pump, with glycol pipes being run deep in the ground to exchange heat. And/or also have a supplemental source of heat that only comes on during the very coldest periods (oil-fired furnace, natural gas, cast-iron stove, or even resistance heat).

In hot climates you can increase the efficiency of a heat pump by adding water mist, making it a hybrid swamp cooler. Evaporating water will take out a bunch of heat energy.

As was mentioned, insulation is key otherwise you're just spending money on heating or cooling the outdoors. Walls, door, and windows that don't have thermal bridges, controlled air exchange with the outdoors (ERV energy recovery ventilator units), and so on.
There is a known problem with Youtube both excessive recommending in the same category and driving people to more extreme videos.

If you watch a surfing video, even for a few seconds, expect a lot of surfing videos to pop up in your recommendations for a long time. This has gotten slightly better over time in my experience.

The larger problem is extremism. Watch a video about a vegetarian dish, get recommended vegetarian dish and lifestyle videos, watch those, get recommended veganism videos, watch those, get recommended PETA and animal activism. It kinda works like a funnel.

Might not seems that dangerous for your favourite topic, but now replace the topic with conspiracy theories, religious extermism, radical feminism, anti-government armed resistance, self-harm and suicide, anorexia etc. etc.
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> […] I think we place largely the same expectations on people to conform, the only difference is in how the enforcement is applied.

Yeonmi Park, a defector (escapee?) from North Korea, was surprised in what could and could not be said in the US when she went to university:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7CPqROtanA

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Yeon-mi
> Bonus points of you can do it while blaming mental health AND justify our decreased spending on mental health. The mic is yours.

This along with rest of your snide comment indicates to me that you have some pre-conceived incorrect assumptions about me and therefore I am not entertaining you.
You're Testing What?
You can't address societal problems before you address your own problems.

And who is "we"?

You should always ask this question when you see the word. Most people use it incorrectly because they falsely assume it includes people who would prefer to not be included in their statement.
i.reddit.com for the win!

Really, though, I’m part of the problem. The product I’m working on is a heavy JavaScript-based content editor. It’s definitely a much better UX than the lighter weight previous version. But we made the user-facing content pages Preact-based simply to keep our stack consistent. We’re a small team, and that’s been a real time saver.

Hopefully, we’ll get around to optimizing things in the future, but it’s not something anyone other than the dev team cares about.
Agreed and agreed.

For search based advertising we use the search query and location (taken from the country the user chooses in settings - and that can be "None" in which case we just use the search query). The language of the search query could be used rather than IP. Key for us is to never store IP and never pass on any part of it.
Here in the UK I am paying around £23 for truly unlimited, including unlimited hotspot usage (no, not the type with an actual limit in the smallprint).

For a period of about two months I was tethering my smart TV to my phone while the broadband was being upgraded and was a bit shaky. I was using around 200GB a month.

I would never want to go back from unlimited.
Even though it’s probably a lot of wasted time (they read proposals ahead etc), I think it’s a good idea to ban phones entirely in parliamentary chambers. The opposition should be granted the attention. People watching should see people debating or listening, not sleeping or looking at their phones.

If this creates a problem for those in the chamber then perhaps the solution is shortening the sessions and removing redundant sessions like reading proposals that everyone could read beforehand, and instead focus on efficient debate and voting.
The medical industry has obvious motive to unreasonably hype up the healing power of shrooms, because they are illegal to distribute and use, and their dosage is uncertain. If they are judged effective, they will only be distributed by big pharma in specific, approved preparations and distillations.

> what motive would the average person have to unreasonably hype up things like the healing power of shrooms?

It's something to hang a personality from.
Did it have boolean operations like add, subtract, and cut?
The entire debate is a bunch of rich, privileged tech bros who invaded our home, and then did nothing but whine and moan.

I don't move to Austin or Miami, or some other dump, and spend all of my time bitching about the rednecks. No, I stay my hippy ass in Oakland where I belong, and I love it. It's heaven. I know everybody on my block, even the homeless people.

If you can't do the same, that's fine, the bay isn't for everyone. Please leave.
Children are power when you have limited alternatives.
This. We can be more elfish with a personal force field allowing us to sleep in the woods without freezing to death or being eaten. Or we can achieve the same with genetic/genomic manipulation. And we will learn to become immortal over time.

In any event, it's technology that will make us more elvish. When we choose so, and some people will. It's also technology that will give us access to huge amounts of energy without destroying nature and it is technology which will allow is to live out in space leaving our original world as pristine as it can be.

If you ask me this piece is about optimism vs pessimism wrt technology.
Century ago United States tried to ban alcohol, and it simply didn't work - it is way too easy to produce it from innocent food products. Exotic mushrooms or artificial drugs are much easier to ban.
That's interesting. I'd accept my statement being a class attack, but racist? You've not met a very diverse set of Karens - they observe no boundaries of gender, or "race" - they are simply intolerant and self important. Regardless of their origin.
Link doesn't work. This one does: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/haiti-president-jovenal-moise-...
Terms is how we communicate, hence my use.

If you ask me, I'm calling a spade a spade, and Carney is saying a dog turd is cake. But I think its great you engage in the conversation - we can then establish what each of us means by whatever term, and proceed. You will not get any such satisfaction from Carney and his ilk.

I'm providing more concrete terms for others to potentially investigate, instead of the evocative, idealistic ideas we are provided.

We are told 'progress', 'society', 'justice' etc - these mean whatever you like. But who is stating them? What do they mean by them?

What is justice to person who represents the governance structure? What is progress to someone who heads up a corporation?

These are terms we all use, but the idea behind them means exactly the opposite by those who govern us, to what we commonly understand.

Ultimately, its for us all as individuals to understand what those terms (and other) mean to us, and to then do the research to see if that is the usage that those who govern us also have. That is the work for any individual to do.

Of course, no one checks what is meant - no one. Yet it is all out there. The mistake we make is to assume we are on the same page.
DNA study finds rare gene variants that protect against obesity
Are you using “self-insured” as a euphemism for “just eats the losses”? Because it’s not really insurance if there’s no risk pooling, and a large retailer is a single entity—who are they pooling risk from? Individual stores? That would make sense only if they are franchises.
I wonder what you're referring to because Finland doesn't really have counties.
Ontario has 14 persons per square mile. The population density of ALL of Western Europe is 181, ten times greater, Netherlands is 521. Ontario is quite a bit closer to other "less dense" provinces than most countries used for comparison.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/canadian-provinces-and-t...
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/european-countries-by-po...

I'm not posting enough references here, but this whole conversation has been so limited in facts and proportion.

The point is the government wants carriers to provide service everywhere, which includes places like Nunavut, 0.019 persons per square mile.

There are local initiatives, and some are really fantastic, but it's difficult to bootstrap those everywhere.

Go to https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/comm/fourprov.htm and search for Nunavut and see who comes up.

These prices need to come down, more competition and local initiatives need to happen, and more innovation for systems like mesh networks. It is particularly upsetting when ways can't be found to share infrastructure. But if providing access to every Canadian is the goal (rather than for every person in a city at a cost less than a bag of groceries) there is probably some logic to the existing system.

Some people will say "just pay for Starlink everywhere," but it's really not ok for a country's access to be owned by another country (as long as Musk is still on earth), wired ultimately has advantages, and there are probably benefits to supporting wired infrastructure, and competition and choice are important.
MVNOs are not allowed in Canada. The 3 carriers have even paid for economic studies that state it would be devastating to the the telecom market and innovation. They also own media conglomerates, who 'independently' agree.

MVNOs would only disrupt their ability to buy sports teams. This does come up in elections, but so far they have gotten away with window dressing.
The link worked for me just now.
You're completely missing the point. The code style doesn't matter as long as it's consistent across the codebase.
I was happy with no children, now I have a child I'm happy in a different way.

Sure there are days/weeks where nothing goes well, where you hear "I don't want you, I want mommy", but there are moments when you get the reverse, and even little things make you smile.

For example I was walking our child to daycare last week and had the following conversation:

"Daddy, what plant that is?"
"It's a rose"
"It has spikes"
"The spikes are called thorns, every rose has its thorn.."

So then I had to stop the walk, so I could pull out my phone and we could listen to the song. Moments like that are worth a lot of getting puked on.

Never had children? I'd have been happy, but I'm glad I did. Not everybody needs to, and the world would definitely be better place if relatives didn't ask every couple "When are you having children?", the moment they began living together, or got engaged.
HackerNewsie: OH NO! THERE'S A POOR BLACK PERSON ON MY STREET! POST ON NEXTDOOR! CALL THE POLICE!

Oh. He's delivering my postmates. Make sure to video tape him in case he's casing my $2m condo.
AMD's New MI200 128GB GPUs Will Power Setonix Supercomputer
>Then just post about your IDE on Elixir forums.

Not all users of Elixir hang out on Elixir forums. There are plenty that spend the majority of their time on the internet elsewhere.

>and I certainly don't want ad companies that are following me on random websites to know that I'm a programmer who is interested in Elixir or any other data about me.

Why not? Systems can become more efficient if they know you better.
Do the Polish telcos also all operate in these spaces?

- Newspapers

- TV stations/channels

- Radio stations

- Content streaming services (a la Netflix)

- Land-based telco (phone, cable, fiber)

- Wireless telco

Each of the providers in Canada does all of those things to some degree or other and because they own news outlets they wield a lot of political influence. Combine that with the fact that most of the people who have been in charge of our telco regulator have ties to these media conglomerates, it becomes pretty clear it's a captured market. So much so that it's newsworthy when someone actually doesn't just rubber stamp everything[1]. It also means external competition is limited to being unprofitable, so newcomers who enter the market don't tend to stay long and generally just get bought out by the incumbents.

It's a mess and no political party seems to think it's an issue worth pursuing.

[1]: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/c...
You will never in a million years find an insurance carrier to underwrite a policy that covers shoplifting in Union Square. If you do, please let me know, I want to short the hell out of their stock.
Don’t see what this has to do with tech.
The author is a person I would never argue with.
In my opinion the main problem of the using of psilocybin, LSD and other psychedelics in medicine is unpredictable effect that depends on not only the status of a pacient but on entourage too. One time you have a good trip, but next time you get into TRUE HELL.
I didn't miss anything. The gratuitous complaints about lack of racism and sexism discourse come from Lehmann, not McHugh. And Lehmann spends plenty of time holding forth about Seven Habits from his own point of view, saying that he doesn't even see the spark of good in it that McHugh does.

Feel free to reread the relevant section of the article and my comment if you "missed" any of this.

The rest of your comment is just sloppy, incorrect description and speculation about what I wrote and what you assume I think, so I won't bother responding to that. However, I did note that others were able to grasp that I didn't attack wokeness per se, only articles written from a mindless, robotically woke viewpoint. So you might ask yourself why you didn't grasp this and instead chose to immediately draw tribal lines by speculating about what I think is "un-American".
> Does anyone in Data Science use Kotlin or you are targeting because it is low hanging fruit for the JVM along with Scala? Are you also targeting android development as a goal?

I know a few folks have been doing that, and arguing quite convincingly for its benefits for DS, e.g. Thomas Nield in this talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8GYPG6pt5w

(There are more similar talks on the tube)
We've had providers pop up that have only served the major cities, where people would get a lower fee but have roaming if they go basically anywhere outside the ultra-dense areas. The rates were still astronomical compared to many European countries.

Providers in Canada are a cartel in every definition of the word. The three major cartel members can "compete" in a province and amazingly all have identically bad pricing and policies. Then they go to Quebec or Manitoba (or maybe it was Saskatchewan?) where there is a location-specific alternative and their pricing is significantly better.

Having said all of that, I should be fair and note that some of the providers have "infinity plans" now. So if you got a Rogers 5GB plan and have used 5GB by day one, you still have free data for the rest of the month at a speed of 512Kbps (again, amazingly all three of the major providers have identical policies). Which is still an entirely workable speed for a lot of things.
Ask HN: Alternative YouTube recommendation engine?
The general consensus on HN seems to be that the Youtube recommendations are subpar. You can watch a seemingly benign video and suddenly Youtube assumes you are interested in going down the rabbit-hole on some unrelated fringe topic.

Has anyone worked on an alternative to the default recommendations engine?
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