skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There are plenty of people who like each other that have nothing in common. The idea that the reason people like people is because they are like them just feels ridiculous to me, but maybe I am an outlier. Personally, the more someone is like me, the less I like them.

Yes, you are an outlier. There is a very large amount of studies that show that people like people that are like them.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026540750809670...
When you're having a large-group "stream of conversation" in meatspace (in the lobby of convention hall, say), subgroups within the conversation will break off temporarily to form smaller "huddles" that step slightly away from the group, focusing on one-another rather than the group, to have a temporary "sidebar" conversation.

Content from a "sidebar" conversation is usually taken far enough away from the larger group that it's not bothersome/interrupting the topic of the larger group; but—unlike a whispered aside—these temporary sidebar conversations are still public conversations, and they leak enough signal to the larger group that if someone in the larger group focused on the sidebar conversation, they could pick up the general topic of what's being discussed, and choose to join the sidebar discussion themselves.

Hey, that's threads!
I've seen Elasticsearch set up for applications that would have equal benefit from just using the postgresql db's full-text search they already have access to.

The additional complexity is usually incurred when the data in postgresql changes, and those changes need to be mirrored up to Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch obviously has its uses, but for some cases, postgresql's built in full-text search can make more sense.
What's more likely - Chelsea's hacker news goon squad is here to brigade you, or nobody is interested in reheated Rush Limbaugh mid 90s slop?
I’d have run away when Elop took over.
As a side note (and a fully conjectural query), do you think that the desire of control of a branded monoculture in the work place is one of the reasons for the push to bring employees back to the workplace?

You can separate the culture of Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter as easily as any brand, like Nike and Reebok. Those cultural brands are surely dissolving without the guiding hand of in office guidelines.
> I never got into any of this

What is wrong with the simple light switch on the wall?

Home automation sounds cool and all, but every time I look into it I realize that the switch does everything I need perfectly fine and doesn't have bugs. I'm not saying there are no uses for home automation, but most of them are overstated.
I live in a recreation state, and to provide some numbers there are well over three times as many registered boats in my home state than there are naval O-6 rank ship captains. Just in one state.

Admittedly "beaching" a nuclear air craft carrier is more important to the USA than a local bubba beaching his fish trawler on a sandbar; but to bubba as an individual, its more important not to beach his fishing boat as avoidance of beaching his fishing boat is actionable for bubba, whereas watching TV reports of a naval accident are not.
> They barely advertise and have huge brand recognition.

The show rooms they have at most higher end shopping malls are definitely an advertisement. I'm with you on Sennheiser though.
This is being used beneficially at some superfund sites- they basically wait for some natural microbe to emerge that neutralizes or otherwise treats the prevailing contaminant, sample it, figure out how to maximize it's metabolism, then devise a way to assist the in situ conditions to become ideal. Maybe some wells, pumps, plants, or chemicals are installed/introduced, and then it's just a monitoring expense.
It's surprisingly easy to commit a federal offense: https://twitter.com/CrimeADay
Interestingly, that party and the people in charge of the "tech policy" are all Indians aren't they? [0][1]

It makes sense they would pitch offshoring and low cost for programming since they saw it working for their country.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagmeet_Singh

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navdeep_Bains
Well the notoriety of buying it didn't exactly help Shkreli's situation much, did it? If you want wealthy people to take an interest in buying it, it seems sensible.
The wheelchair version actually came out before the Segway.

https://news.yahoo.com/the-i-bot-a-mission-to-revolutionize-...
Someone tell this to the assholes who are getting in their Teslas drunk because 'they arent really driving' (seen it twice already)
I, like many people, downvote anything that says something of the nature "I anticipate downvotes", lest you think I downvoted for political reasons
What is it with the Right Wing that they just can't tell the truth anymore?

The article clearly states:
"While the prototype is pricey, city officials said the actual replacement cost would be about $3,000 to $4,000 per can, according to the report."

However, the headline is some Right Wing Fever Dream of Liberal Damnation that is not close to the truth. Also, what is the Right Wing realistic solution to this problem? As usual, they have none.
Just wait until all of your power tools come with a subscription to make them usable.
By that definition wouldn't a regular RNN or LSTM also possess awareness?
I like this guy. Everyone is making fun of him for "not understanding" but what better way to gain understanding than direct experimentation. Yeah, he could study other people's work, and recreate it...but following a recipe, well, you end up baking someone else's cake.
Sorry this made you upset
And this is the best argument to bring back old school banner ads that were just an image without any third party js, or tracking. Advertisements don't have to work NOW they have to work eventually.

At least it's the best argument from the advertisers side.
Most amazing thing to me is that it is built and maintained by a single developer.
Microsoft Reports Record Revenue, Topping Expectations
I'm pretty sure the work started before Kubernetes was released, and even then, it wasn't clear that was going to be the de factor orchestrator.
> is to add PENNIES (not dollars) to their sales every day

How much growth has Coca-Cola seen on their specific "Coke" line of products? How many people who don't already drink Coke, Coke Zero, or Diet Coke are going to be influenced by a (probably very expensive) TV advertisement reminding them that Coke as a brand of sugary drink exists?

I feel like if they ever wanted to save millions and millions of dollars, they could just stop advertising.

Something something Sriracha
"While there’s no suggestion in court papers that Wenig knew of the plot, prosecutors say his angry emails triggered the scheme, and they play a central role in the narrative spelled out by the government.

"Take her down," Wenig is alleged to have written in response to a post by the blogger."

That would be the smoking gun, but who's alleging it? Article didn't say.
Well, it's … mumble … yet another blog post… :-)
The Thermocline of Truth
Slack has the option to "reply in main channel" as well as have it show up in the thread. This allows people to surface something important in the thread that should also be in the parent channel.
To prevent the buyer from becoming a target for crime.

If people know who has it, they might try to extort him or worse.

I don’t see any reason the information needs to be public.
Yeah, I hadn't needed to target safari as a supported platform until I was building a public facing website (as opposed to intranet tooling), and this was an amazingly frustrating feature to work around. Solidified my hatred for safari, that's for sure.
>Can they not go through existing news media?

Unfortunately "news" outlets are little more than publicity arms for political parties now, much like Twitter. There's a good reason why the majority of Americans don't trust the media.

>The results go on to show that 59% of Americans said they agree with this statement: That “most news organizations are more concerned with supporting an ideology or political position than with informing the public.” And 61% of Americans think that “The media is not doing well at being objective and non-partisan.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andymeek/2021/02/20/fewer-ameri...
So, YouTube?
From my own (admittedly limited) experience with riding a Segway and my own (day to day) experience with a child that can't sit, stand or walk, I would guess that it is a) difficult to get in and out and b) difficult to balance and steer.

Extra mechanical stabilizers are in the way when you finally are on/in and without the Segway was really stubborn and threw me and others off in the beginning. A person without proper sense and ability to balance, will have big problems getting onto it and off again with just the gyros running. Also balancing is a really difficult thing to do if you have the problems that forced you in a wheelchair in the first place.

For people who are ok with the upper part of the body, and can lift themselves onto the machine, you might be right though. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a "used Segway" market that is cheap enough to attract hackers trying out new things with them.
Similarly, the only game I play on my phone is a card game, and ever since I visited my company's website to check on something, our Google ad is shown between hands almost 90% of the time. I never click on it, so you'd think they'd stop showing it after the 500th time (it's been weeks since I visited the website). Is that just a ploy by Google to overcharge us for advertising?
Anything wider than 32in won't fit through many doors.
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What you're doing is similar to what I call Maintenance-Driven Development (https://taylodl.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/maintenance-driven-...). Put your testing effort in things that are likely to fail and don't insist on 100% code coverage, not even close. For example, I hear people complain all the time about how stupid it is to test getters/setters. So don't write tests for them (even better, don't implement them - but that's another story!) They're not likely to fail. Maybe if a code's cycolomatic complexity score exceeds a certain value then test it (consider refactoring to reduce the complexity too!) In my decades of software development experience I can tell you most developers have a good "feel" for what needs to be tested and what doesn't. Listen to them - they're usually right. If they're not then you'll catch it on the break-fix.
> Car brands are the obvious example of brand advertising.

Car commercials crack me up. Nissan is running commercials lately in the US on how dynamic, sporty, and fun to drive reckless/fast their cars are on TV.
Hey, CTO of Aufero here. Aufero is a software solution that helps people release software with less risk and more customer satisfaction. It's focused at putting software releases in the hands of product, not development.

We just launched, so we're very interested in your feedback.
Lol, don't wonder too hard. This is a pattern with the feds. If you go out of your way to piss off the public and be a flippant asshole to Congress, you're gonna have a hard time. Long before they announced any charges, I had a conversation with my dad about how the feds were likely to cook something up on this guy.
I agree with you on large national/international brands; however most of the brands that I see on cable TV in the U.S. aren't similar to Coca Cola. They are a fitness device that I have never heard of. They are a dry good that I didn't know existed. I would love to provide an example, but I can't remember any of those brands.

The study cited by the OP has an interesting appendix [0]. It shows the depths they went to in order to conduct the study. The level of ads are also dissected into national, regional, and local ads. If you look at the final table in the study which shows all the categories of brands examined, I would challenge anyone to remember a brand or product they saw on TV related to many of them. Dough products? Eggs?

Maybe I have seen an add for a paper product (top category of advertising), but I can't remember who that would be. Bounty... maybe?

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downloadSupplement?do...
It's not only not realistic, it's not good for kids. They need time that's not observed by their parents to grow and develop as autonomous individuals.

Also, I find watching my daughter's dance practice boring, and I feel zero guilt for that. I'd rather read a book while she dances, and focus on her when I can actually play with her.

The author is not a better parent than me, or than the other moms she's criticizing. She can feel smug if she wants, but I'm very confident in that.
I wouldn't say it's post-Trump. Online discussion boards have long been home to armchair contrarianism. I will say that these days it's couched in "devil's advocate" and alarmist "your freedom is at stake!" type language.

Or, in this case, temporarily embarrassed hedge fund managers that do not wish to have such a fate befall them.
Endless growth on a finite planet is an impossibility. A reasonable population size is more conducive to a good quality of life for everyone.
"Let's take this offline"
Are you aware of the drama between Shkreli and Hillary that I was referring to?
It's their job to know
The number of companies who could drop their advertising to $0 yesterday and still significantly outsell Tesla can not be counted with my hands.
Case-Shiller: National House Price Index increased 16.6% year-over-year in May
Re #2, it's a Debian package now which makes it super easy to get running on Debian systems (and probably Ubuntu). I suspect there are also docker images which can also make it very easy to get it up and running without dealing with python deps (I feel you as a non-python-dev, it's really hard to get python apps to run).
Yup, always note your concerns and objections via email and make sure to CC the appropriate people.
Multicore is coming along, you can read the latest news here: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-june-2021/8134

In terms of performance, there is this paper https://kcsrk.info/papers/system_effects_feb_18.pdf where on a single core async OCaml and effect OCaml are close to Go's net/http, and there is also this project https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/retro-httpaf-bench but I haven't see any results from it.
Yes. More so.
One thing that jumps out at me is that it seems they didn't use any Postgres connection pooling. They mention that going above 100 concurrent connection would bump them into a more expensive Postgres plan, which really only makes sense if you don't use a pool.

My first instinct is that the number of requests seems really low, but I have no idea about the complexity of each request. To me that is kind of a crucial information to actually evaluate anything in the blog post.
It's used all the time everywhere. From the CCP surveillance, to forced police searches, to normalizing lack of privacy in apartment living, the examples are endless.
This is getting downvotes, but it is true Shkreli got his bail revoked for offering $5000 for every strand of hair collected from HRC.
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Ah yeah, my bad, just call it a prosthetic and it's totally period-appropriate.
Best argument against using biometrics I've seen (out of the many good arguments against using biometrics).
If the hottest company in auto is spending 0 on ads are ads really that valuable to auto industry ?
He was prosecuted because his ego meant he alienated the fuck out of everybody, including what should have been his allies.

If he'd been just a bit less outspoken theyd probably have left him alone.
Yes. Even though they were "implicated in some of the text messages captured by the FBI":

Defendant Devin Wenig, then Chief Executive Officer of eBay, and Defendant Steven Wymer, then Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer of eBay, consistently tracked EcommerceBytes' reporting, and became increasingly enraged by what they perceived as the Steiners' negative coverage of eBay and the upper echelons of the corporation.

"Natick couple terrorized in eBay pig-mask campaign sue auction giant"

https://www.universalhub.com/2021/natick-couple-terrorized-e...
"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest? With a sword, ideally."
> https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/896/censorship

> Censorship occurs when individuals or groups try to prevent[1] others from saying, printing, or depicting words and images.

In the example I gave, Stanford is not showing up to your house to take signs off your lawn. So according to your very definition, they aren't "trying to prevent you from saying, printing, or depicting words and images," they are literally just kicking you off their lawn. You just repeatedly state these things are equivalent, when they are not, as I explained multiple times, and then you post a link to information that has not censored. Frankly I don't even want to argue about whether said link has been deplatformed or not, because it's not censored, and it's just me and you at this point, with zero progress.

[1] prevent, v.

1. keep (something) from happening or arising.

2. make (someone or something) unable to do something.
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Speaking from experience, the “culture” at Microsoft and Google (at least) definitely varies more between teams and divisions than between those two companies on-the-whole.
It's not a question of belief, it's more a question of who is speaking - him or the state propaganda? We had the same in communist Eastern Europe - you publicly said things that you thought were ok and assumed anyone with ears can be an agent of the regime. Privately you might have thought something very different, but why end up in prison and cause problems for your family?
> A few months after rolling things out to production we encountered some issues with AppService.

I’d be curious to hear more about this. Was is just degraded performance or something else?
They've given that choice to servers that are labeled "Community Servers" at least (giving them until mid-August before it is forced on by default) which will help some of the largest servers, but yes they maybe should have given that a wider option to the medium/smaller servers too.
>> (iirc Samsung is currently making chips in Texas actually, but that's relatively recent)

Samsung has been making chips in Austin, TX since late 1990's and by mid-90's the company was making most of Apple's APs there -- remember when Tim Apple defended its China outsourcing practices by pointing out that "the engines" of their portable devices were in fact made in the US in a rare CBS interview in early 2010? Apple quickly switched to TSMC in Taiwan after that.

It seems like Samsung in turn turned their Austin production to mostly memory production lines (and some logic chips for Tesla) after Apple left for China/Taiwan.
AOE2 gets balance and content patches about once a month.

It's remarkable on its own that a 20 year old game is still getting balance patches. I suspect this is a due to a mix of evolving strategies, a changing skill-level distribution, and feedback loops from subtle changes, catalyzed by added units and civs.
Recently, I saw a paradigm that I liked. Instead of seeking candidates for "culture fit" seek them for "culture value-add". In other words, a candidate may fit the culture now, but not necessarily in the future. The value-add paradigm forces one to think about the direction in which the current culture should grow.
Those aren't great examples.

SpaceX and Tesla absolutely have marketing in the forum of a crazy CEO that makes the news a lot. SpaceX fancy rockets gives him a platform to spew crazy shit all the time and the media loves it.

Beats makes inferior products and yet has twice the revenue of Sennheiser. That's because of marketing.
Yes. It happens a lot when pointing out privacy consciousness to a layman. Not that I do that often, but when I do, it's the overwhelmingly disproportionate response. Only followed by something about being worth it for the convenience.
Probably worth the electricity to conserve water in California.
Yes. it's an Exabyte.
But the study is about TV advertising effectiveness, and the OP mentioned it being very valuable in the auto industry. I just pointed out that the hottest brand in auto industry is spending 0 on TV or any ads for that matter.
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I think I addressed both of those points already.
Someone in another thread suggested that this is basically what you expect to happen when a bunch of college kids from well off families leave school and form a startup: They want to pretend they are still in college, but now getting paid for it.
My personal money-shot: "the center of buoyancy is just the center of gravity of the displaced water." Very clear, very cool.
You mean zero-sum. Advertising is a zero sum game.

I can't find the tweet but someone referenced the fact that if you lump traditional and digital media together, the TAM of advertising has basically been stagnate for decades. We just think its grown because FB/Google/etc have gobbled it all up.
If you are looking to do semantic search (Cosine similarity) + filtering (SQL) on data that can be represented as vectors (audio, text, video, bio) I suggest, https://github.com/ankane/pgvector
But that's a patently sexist retort. Peter and Sue are equally responsible for Ron's abhorrent behavior.
We have some great work coming that allows lighter weight consumers to scale to that level and beyond. Happy to chat with folks on how we can make that work today.
Don't most major cloud providers offer multi-region replication to start solving the Europe/Asia latency issue?
Not a strawman at all, it's a very common attitude if you are not on HN or in a similar bubble. I heard it in person (verbatim, actually) about 5 days ago.
#3 is because there are middlemen that don't count. The middlemen in dairy want you to buy their brand of milk. However the guy who owns the cows sells to whichever dairy gives the best deal (the big farms all have a contract with one dairy to supply only them, but there are enough small guys who sell to who ever they can). The guy who owns the cows wants you to buy milk and doesn't care what brand it is.

The same applies to the others you named: sure there are brand, but there is something large below the brand that doesn't care what brand, only that you are eating.
This totally ignores what happens to dead biomass in the very long term. It turns into coal. If that's not sequestering carbon I don't know what is.
No, nothing is ever "100% caused by" any one thing, but it seems dishonest to act like there's no discernible link between record wildfires and record heat and drought.
There's nothing Haskell specific about those concepts. In fact, the first three where developed by mathematicians long before Haskell even existed.