skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Different units: traffic of visitors vs people running sites. I think we confuse them.

Yes we do. All. The. Freaking. Time.

It’s availability bias: most of the web sites we visit are popular and big and complex and have had to solve serious scalability issues. Most of the web sites we make have few visitors and are small and simple and do not have any scalability problem beyond the occasional aggregator hug.

Likewise, most of the software we use is big and complex and used by many. Most of the software we make have less than 10 users. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon… are everywhere, but a stupidly small proportion of companies in the world are as big as they are.

Mike Acton urges us all to "understand the data". That includes how much data we’ll be processing. How many request per days are we expecting? Are they evenly spaced, or will there be spikes? What’s considered acceptable latency? Stuff like that. Remember, the Pirate Bay at its most powerful only needed 4 rack servers, on top of each other. Very few of us will exceed the capacity of even a single server.

It’s not always easy to see, because the front page of HN (and the front page of pretty much anything for that matter) doesn’t feature the ordinary. So we only see the extraordinary, and get the impression that we have to measure up to that.
" it is absolutely not okay to have to denounce yourself if you have done nothing wrong."

There are cases where offence is highly subjective and in some of those scenarios it's just polite to say sorry and move on. Not as admission of having done anything wrong, but just as a matter of recognizing the other persons position.

Obviously we don't want to get caught up in individuals aggravated and systematic abuse of that, i.e. to see everything as a slight, but it's definitely worth considering.

I speak a little bit too loudly - not too much but a bit.

Rarely someone will ask me to be more quiet on a plane. Sometimes rudely. I just say 'sorry' and move on. There's principle here other than just getting along. If it was 'removing a statue' I would think a little bit harder about it.
Bet my life I can build that for half the cost. Anyone wanna get into business?
It is an interesting argument, and indeed the pandemic has shown a lot of weak points in policy enforcement and government’s effectiveness, but all this could be selectively enforced upon you, and these are things that are quite easier to enable than to disable, so I think that prudency is warranted.
Citation strongly needed on forensics bring generally sound.
Ah fair enough, thanks for the insight. I've worked in a heavily regulated domain for the past few years and just wanted a change to something different. Perhaps I'll still give it a shot if nothing else turns up.
Yup. I think that fucking up the education of children, especially those from low socio-economic status backgrounds, is worse than the deaths not doing it causes.

It is not that lockdown is bad or wrong. It is that I do not agree with all the things which were hit. I acknowledge there is a price to keeping education open but I believe it would have been worthwhile.

Perhaps you missed my point? Governing is about more than keeping the most people alive.
Nope, you are looking at an article from the right-wing, anti-lockdown, COVID-sceptic Telegraph ;)
Did the club members have to install an app, or were you able to get the data some other way?
I've considered this before, but never ironed out details. What would it entail? Magnets/IR/Beacons of some type marking roads and lanes? And each car would need them too I guess. It doesn't sound insurmountable, especially if the auto manufacturers worked together on speccing it out.
> Well, people who put "success of the company" at highest priority usually not become manages.

Right, that’s exactly the situation I’m complaining about. (That seems to indicate some kind of problem with aligning incentives in companies, because in theory from top to bottom we would want to achieve alignment of rewards and career success with actions that lead to company success.)

I generally agree with everything you wrote.
What the consequences of an ever-tighter control over identity to the intelligence community will likely be interesting, and it's already presenting problems.

Among possibilities:

- Individuals not closely associated with the IC will be increasingly utilised (knowingly or not) for intelligence work.

- Intel collection will shift from human intelligence to technical / signals intelligence (humint vs. sigint). This creates its own knock-on effects.

- Active development of countermeasures and practices, including creating and deploying cultivated identities and personas online, possibly with cooperation by online services, possibly through manipulation of them.

There's some existing coverage of this, e.g. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/27/the-spycraft-revolution... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19970339) https://archive.is/vlJYo
IMAP is basically a file access protocol (think FTP), but the "files" are emails. You don't have to just pull from an INBOX and save emails in Sent (that's done over IMAP, not SMTP), you can read/create/modify anything anywhere, so some apps save notes to IMAP for some reason (to replace "self-emails" I guess).
hehe I guess I missed it? Thank you. never spent long enough on the app to tweak the settings, even though I think I tried to look up the preferences and couldn’t find it there
Apple's Ecosystem Growth Is Accelerating (2020)
A fun thought experiment: how can one own and use two phones without the authorities being able to correlate their ownership?

It would have been hard to avoid ten years ago. Unless you use both phones very infrequently (which is of no use to most people) I think it's nearly impossible now.
Thanks for posting. I've come out guns blazing on this issue but I think - as in a few other cases - it is time for me concede a bit:

If such a system should be built they surely have gone out of their way to preemptively secure it.

I'm still very much of the opinion that we need people both in police, politics and in tech with balls - or whatever the equivalent is for women - to tell people that we cannot just interfere with everyones right just to hopefully maybe catch a few more baddies, but again:

If such a system needs to be built, this is an amazingly well thought out system.
Ribbons were actually introduced into the OS on Windows 7, after their appearance on Office.

The Hilo sample for introduction to programming in C++ makes use of the Ribbon.
They can try their luck again at having you give access.
Obviously, you can quibble about what the cutoff distances are. It doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of travel is under 42 miles.

As for speed of filing up, that's insane. One undisputed benefit of ICE cars or PHEVs is that gasoline refill is (a) everywhere and (b) significantly faster per mile.

Going from an empty tank to a full tank often takes less than 5 minutes, counting time getting on/off the highway.
'In practice' is correct, no?
CGI is awesome! My Go vanity URLs are served over CGI. The overhead is fine because only Go proxies access them once in a while and the only import is templating using Jinja in Python.

Deployed: https://k.malhotra.cc/go/

Code: https://hn.malhotra.cc/git/cgi_k-malhotra-cc/tree/script.py?...
I wasn't talking about any comment in particular but the fact that you do this so often. Perhaps you don't mean it to come across as supercilious, but I would say it does.

I appreciate your reply though, because I was too harsh (I regretted it later and almost got up to edit it but was too tired). Sorry!
Legal drugs, or illegal (in japan)?
Thanks. Could you expand on the 'real repl', what do you mean exactly? For me live coding is also important, which I do for python in Ipython so I can run the scripts, access all the modules and do what I like in the repl; if I want persistent change I have to copy it in a script before closing the session though. Is this similiar to Janet or what am I missing?
How do you handle sync to mobile with Syncthing? Obs mobile only supports iCloud and their own sync service.
The next step isn't "forced farm labor," that would indeed be a non-sequitur. A most likely next step is putting someone in jail over a tweet (already happening in the United Kingdom). It takes three or four more steps to get to forced farm labor.
Pretty interesting read and it does make sense intuitively. My few thoughts after skimming it that I'd like to learn more about:

Does these scores correlate to scores 10 years later/etc, or should we expect these children to recover?

> However, since all study visits take place in a clinical setting, parents
less concerned about the pandemic, and those with strong social support networks, may have been
more likely to participate than those with greater concerns.

This seems pretty impactful to me. If you consider that people more worried about the pandemic were avoiding doctor visits, and the study showed parent's education reduced the effect they saw...

They kind of glossed over the fact that children born just before the pandemic didn't have lower scores. I'm curious about that since the first few weeks/months for newborns they are not leaving the house much, so a pandemic shouldn't have changed a whole lot there. Why were they immune if the stages were they would've expected to start leaving the house (4+ months) were taken away, just like babies born during the pandemic?
Emacs org-mode, the org format, and the general ecosystem (agenda view, org-roam, and lots of other things) don't really care how you structure your data, so you can choose between:

* a bunch of very focused small files
* a single large file
* some combination of the two

So, for example, I might start off with my "todo.work.org" file and having something like:

* Partner Integration
** <Partner name>
*** APIs
**** Query API
***** Quirks
****** TODO Confirm API only works on Tuesdays
**** Purchase API
*** Tasks
**** TODO Read the documentation
**** STRT Email about feature
**** DONE Complain about horrible APIs in Slack

The built in "folding" support (collapsing/expanding) is pretty good, so you can easily toggle between seeing the whole hierarchy of the headings, the content, arbitrary levels of nesting (i.e., show only headings 1 & 2 levels deep and hide everything else).

The TODO/STRT/DONE entries can be placed anywhere in this hierarchy, and org-mode will take note of them and allow you to build up Agenda views of some/all of your TODOs. So you can ask org to give you a list of tasks filtered by some criteria (e.g. scheduled for this week) - but across many different files.

You can "quickly" jump to arbitrary headings and start building onto the hierarchy. You can "narrow" your view on a sub-heading and the entire edit view becomes only about that sub-heading (so I could narrow my view to just "APIs" and everything below it).

If you want to edit the hierarchy, it's basically a matter of going up and adding some headings ("** HEADING") and using shortcut keys to indent/un-indent (promote/demote) headings.

I find this works really well for me. Allows for brainstorming, keeping notes without pre-organizing them, collapsing irrelevant details when not needed, etc.

Also key for this, you can add UUIDs to individual "nodes" (headings) and those IDs persist with that heading, even if you move the heading to a different spot in the hierarchy (a different heading in the same file, or a different file). So your links (to the UUID, instead of the heading text or file) can be resilient to the restructuring of your data over-time.

There's really a whole lot to org-mode, and it didn't click for me until I watched some YouTube videos, but now I really hate that it offer so much great functionality - but it's tied to Emacs and ultimately feels clunky and slow as a consequence.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Socialism_(Germany)

138 years and counting.
It's the required semantics of the IEEE floating point spec's absolute-value operation. This does mean that abs() doesn't behave like eg addition in that it won't set fp exception flags for signaling NaNs, or canonicalize NaNs, or set a flag to note that this was a denormal number. But at the language level "follows IEEE semantics" is probably overall less surprising.

chs() ("flip the sign bit") is the other operation that's defined as effectively just an operation on the representation rather than a "do a real floating point computation".
I think CloudKit is the name of the one that bear is using. It’s part of “iCloud”, but a different service (not the iCloud Drive). It seems to work well.

Obsidian has a few options, but can use iCloud Drive. As you note, it’s a bit hit or miss. Files take a while to sync. Sometimes the desktop won’t bother downloading a file. Hard linked files don’t seem to sync at all. (Obsidian’s paid sync service works well in my experience.)
> If you're held under gunpoint, that script that wipes your entire hard drive will only make your day worse.

Then I'll just use a script that doesn't make it look like I deleted everything.
I think "party of the rich" type narratives are more just wonky narratives and ideology.

There's no reason that money isn't a temptation to any given politician, let alone party, and despite funding one round one way ... the folks in power will attract money regardless. Even if only because they're in power.

I remember a GOP chairman making a big deal about how he was going to wall street to do some fund raising after they had an election cycle where they got less from those folks than they expected and more money went to the other party. He publicly stated "We want to see if they have any buyer's remorse." .... It was pretty clear it was an ongoing competition.
I can testify that similar daily routine works and can keep you inspired and on fire. However take enough rest and watch out for burnout!

It worked wonders for me until I realized my research subject is going to shit and that I science is not really my think.
What you're describing is dysfunctional manipulative unprofessional infantile nonsense - sometimes also known as "Corporate Cringe".

Go to YouTube and search for "josh fluke corporate cringe". His channel is becoming more popular as he exposes this crap.
This narrative has been on-going during the pandemic. Easy to follow the money - https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/conservati...
Was a good story :).
or you know, just a vm disk image that is deleted with the duress password.
Autonomous driving systems do not need to be door-to-door. They also can't require taking over control on a moment's notice. But, systems that can fully autonomous for long stretches of highway driving seem useful.

They just don't address use cases where people aren't able to drive at all. Which are interesting to a lot of people but they may just not happen for a long time.

There are people who just want cheaper Ubers but there are others who are fine with handing off long boring sections of highway driving.
The best advice I can give is to start investing into it early on.

For example, I try to make sure my team understand that I have always team's best interest in mind, that I am first to admit if I make a mistake and that I am always ready to evaluate my position as new information comes.

It goes really a long way to help in a difficult situation but it also prevents a lot of difficult situations from happening in the first place.

It also tends to make other team members and management to be on your side which may help in a lot of situations (but not always, not with the most stubborn people).
When I argue with people, I use the term "lockdown" to exclusively mean government-imposed lockdowns.

After we've witnessed the experience of northern Italy in February / March 2020, most informed/reasonable people concluded that the situation is more serious than previously indicated, so it's obvious that people's habits would change. People are somewhat rational, after all.

But arguably self-imposed/-chosen changes in human behaviour can both better account for individual differences (in health, exposure, and risk aversion) as well as respond much faster to short-term, local changes of the situation, compared to government policy.
> My HOA recently approved an environmental stewardship policy and plan. Among the requirements: plant natives first.

It’s quite possible that people were objecting to the general expansion of powers/policies of the HOA and the “environmental stewardship policy” rather than this specific clause. (I’m not the type to willingly buy in an HOA area, so I can sympathize, even if I’m fine with this one clause.)
That doesn’t mean anything at all. It could just be random. You’d have no way to tell which of our theories are true. None of these lockdowns were proven to work prior to everybody jumping on them.
The author is not confused, it's like an actually enforcable version of "use it at your own risk" because it includes legal risk. It's clever and funny
Hard to find yes. More conspicuous? I don't think so. Lots of people have old cars, and the median car age keeps climbing.
As a specific policy:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/nstic-analysis-identity-pri...
Thanks. Out of curiosity, do you still live in Japan? Or, if not, what do you miss it the most?
I think the real innovation would be having my car be equipped with a bunch of sensors and cameras, and then have a well paid dedicated remote driver in a third world country doing the driving for me. I'm only half joking.
You started a flamewar (about game engines, god help us) and perpetuated it.
Haven’t seen Craft mentioned here but amongst almost all of the other already mentioned apps, Craft feels to me like it’s got the whole pack. Native apps, cloud sync that works, option for iCloud sync or offline storage, blocks that turn into pages, multi platform, Markdown, etc.
This is also very typical for regular alarm systems with a keypad.

A PIN disarms the alarms system, the same PIN + 1 disarms the alarm system and notifies security.
Some Norway Maple cultivars are more invasive than others. The main problem with them though is that they release allelopathic chemicals from their roots which inhibit the growth of other native plants, trees, and fungi.
Oh really?

https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/
Machine Learning datasets for a Sunday experiment by paperswithcode
I have some old VBS ASP code around and it uses hungarian notation(!)
True, folks are very familiar with JSON, but it does have problems, and the best time to pick the best solution is before one has to deprecate a lesser solution. Computing is built atop a pile of decisions which made sense at the time and cannot be changed now due to compatibility (spaces in Makefiles, anyone?): there is no time like the present to simply choose to do the most correct thing.

'But folks won't use it!' Well, they might not. But if one gives folks a choice between the capability they need using an unfamiliar technology and not having the capability at all, they will learn the unfamiliar tech.
> pump enough power

Problem is you’re fighting path loss which is exponential with distance, whereas the power of your emitter is scaling linearly.
Hmm. Reading signs automatically could be added to human driven cars, I think.

Eg. Putting the current speed limit on the speedometer
If someone thinks mandating vaccination is anti-freedom it just means they have no clue what freedom is.
Haha, in my case I’m using the term “freelance” interchangeably with “consultant” or “contractor”. I’m absolutely expecting to pay market rate and looking for professional work, just not in a position to hire someone full time.

Regarding personal recommendations, that’s a good point, I was racking my brain for UX designers I know, but I bet some of my engineer and product manager friend might know someone they could recommend.
There's no social framework to do anything other than treat an elderly person that breaks their hip, never mind a legal one.

That's a cost that is incurred towards the end of life without any 'trying to prolong life' involved, a surgery to do the repair is frequently going to immediately make the person more comfortable.

And there's all sorts of similar things that just happen more often to older folks.
The seeds spread during floods and can last 15 years before sprouting. What a nightmare. We’ve got it down river, not much in my town. I’d actually love to see it in person.
Please don't break the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Particularly because:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I am just an interested layman, but I have found Historians as prime examples of academics who get this balance right. This, to me, seems to be because they have to squarely level with their own biases and preconceived ideas of what they are studying from the outset.

Once that is addressed upfront (whether it is personal preference, or cultural bias/context), the authors are able to both express themselves more freely as well as be more critical of their own perspective.

I think other social sciences researchers are more OK with this idea, and unfortunately STEM researchers seem to go out of their way to assume they have no perspectives or biases, as the assumption is that 'pure research' is unable to be tainted by such things.

To expose my own personal bias, I find this article to be very heavy handed and reactionary.
Statutory damages can apply, but in the US statutory damages for copyright infringement require registering the copyright prior to the infringement.
Very interesting. I'll try it out with electrolytes. What did you take as electrolytes supplement?
Wait a minute, how CGI is preventing anyone from reusing connections? The web server doesn’t have to cut connections between CGI requests, the same way it doesn’t have to cut connections between the delivery of two different static files.

Maybe current web servers are written in such a way that they do cut connections between CGI requests, but I’d be surprised if they really have to.
least reliable is the battery. In texas, 60 month batteries only last 3 years. One day you try to start your car and it simply wont start. Thus requiring a jump start. I know what to do here, but many people I know have to get their car towed.

I carry a portable jumpstarter because you just dont know when your car will refuse to turn on.
While parent isn’t correct in their assumption, this was also my first thought after reading the article and I appreciate the ensuing discussion.

I hope others will take the entire thread into consideration before downvoting.
This is a left libertarian (leaning of the editor of Spiked) dunking on the left, so it still applies.

Not surprising, to be honest. The mainstream left is increasingly less libertarian (especially because of cancel culture).

Can't say HN feels particularly pro free speech though.
Every rental agreement I've had says "rent goes up 5% at renewal" which was yearly.