skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did not succeed yet and iOS was indeed holding me back to use Java (or Kotlin, my preferred JVM language). Since a few weeks I've ditched my iPhone because of to the upcoming CSAM scanning changes and I'm back on Android.

By dropping iOS as a requirement, Kotlin/JVM is feasable again for all my personal target platforms and I've decided to use that as the main language for my system.
Cuba to authorise and regulate cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin
> ...and the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

Institution --> Institute, IIRC?
A reasonable person will hopefully understand the difference between a disagreement and abuse and (reasonably) act accordingly.
It is the persons who depict themselves as reasonable on woke mailing lists and forums who will make you pay if you don't affirm their religion every day.

They are also pushy (which is never accepted as a grievance) and dominant KPI grabbing assholes.
Are there relevant studies on the effectiveness of advertising?

I remember spotting such study.

I still wonder if advertising is always worth spending on, beacuse google and facebook make a big amount of money with it, but I'm still skeptical when I see the actual amount of people "engaging" in ads, when you see how much it actually costs.
I feel like I'm sitting behind a control panel of a nuclear reactor. I press a button, and something (or nothing) happens...I read the text and don't understand 90% of it. I'm afraid to press any more buttons and I have no idea what I'm doing.

I quite literally feel like https://i.imgur.com/57bKUlt.jpg

However, if this works for you...then great :-)
I’ve only read part of the IJ once and still recognized it. Very peculiar book.
That's odd. I've just closed 5 browser tabs on this.

Was this post sparked by the same tweet I saw?: https://twitter.com/cyberia__/status/1432001406899134469?s=2...
> But this also means brittleness and failure under unexpected load. Is this how you want your healthcare delivered?

Let's look at something simpler. The US government has proven itself inept at distributing gasoline, which it did in the 1970s (as in long gas lines in some areas and gluts in others). The oil companies, before and after, have been remarkably adept at providing plenty of gas for anyone who wants to buy it, despite refinery explosions, pipeline disasters, etc.

Before government got in the US healthcare system, the system worked well and costs were reasonable.

Internet services run by free market companies seem to be remarkably not brittle.

> "efficiency" often means ignoring maintenance needs.

The government has been ignoring maintenance for decades. The Seattle government ignored the bridge maintenance while they blew through all the money on various progressive causes, and now the bridges are shut down because they're not safe to drive on.

Government run farms have never in history been able to feed a country. The free market farms in the US fed the US and the USSR. (Kansas wheat was exported to the USSR that desperately needed it.)
> Then there really is a tendancy of software engineers to exit the profession in the 35-45 time frame.

Where do they go?? I’m tired of the daily BS I have to put up with as a developer but don’t know where else to go. I don’t want to be any kind of manager (double and triple booked meetings aren’t my thing).
It's like a battle in your head and the odds are in the favour of your native language, unless you speak the language you are learning more than your native language. Then you can turn the tables.
A Quine Made with Love
Are you using it on mobile? It's meant to be used on desktop.
The quote is entirely true and pithy.

It is just using the words "reasonable" and "unreasonable" in a completely different context, where they don't mean the same thing as in a discussion of people who are attempting to get along in good faith or not.

On a side note, human reasoning happened long before there was a precise definition and set of frameworks, and continues in most cases without a direct connection to either. "Reasoning" has a different meaning in different contexts just like "reasonable".

Most words have a cluster of meanings depending on context.
The author clearly states that it is a super simple project but I didn't fully understand your comment until I viewed the Python script: https://github.com/calganaygun/MDcat/blob/31c9a4eb29c53d764b...

I kinda agree that they could improve the README to mention use of the GitHub API:

A super simple script which uses the GitHub API to convert your markdown files to GitHub styled HTML site.

Nice project!
...but the same people stuff their own products with ads and analytics.
Instead of "find -maxdepth 1" there is "fd -I -d 1" which in my experience is faster as it uses multiple threads https://crates.io/crates/fd-find
Rekowl – Note-taking app with spaced repetition
Thousands of police and military on the streets maintaining "order". People essentially under house arrest and not allowed to assemble or travel. And now this.
Including Reddit's audience as "tech savvy" is an outright lie. Reddit is one of the most popular websites in the world. (And even if it weren't, it doesn't take much browsing to see how non-tech-savvy its audience is. It's basically Facebook at this point.)
> ical via RSS

What's "via"?

I have done event feeds in both, but never together.
Can you make this for Android?
That's only how it works now. It's an obsolete way to operate our energy markets. Carbon neutrality will require electrifying large markets that currently aren't electrified. That overall market is much larger than the current electricity market. By the time even a small portion of that market has been addressed, most electricity generation will long be renewable. That's happening a lot faster than some people seem to think/hope for. Existing gas/coal plant generation will be a tiny portion of that market. And there won't be a whole lot of new capacity going forward. Arguably, new gas plants are already a very dubious investment.

Most new capacity will either be new players (e.g. Tesla is planning to be a virtual power provider) in the market without a sunk investment legacy or existing players that compete on divesting/isolating their sunk investments the fastest. Either way, this pushes a lot more renewable energy in the market. That in turn accelerates the demise of more expensive things in the market. Including plants that are still under construction which were financed under the assumption that they would operate for a few decades at high price points for energy. I don't think that industry can afford a major drop in cost for renewables. Yet that seems exactly what might be happening.

https://www.rethinkx.com/implications Rethinkx published an interesting perspective on this recently. They point out that the financial incentives of new technology are making this happen much faster than many incumbent players have planned/hoped for. They are calling out a feasible date of decarbonizing 90% by 2035 using existing technology depending on how governments incentivize and stimulate scaling and deploying that. It's a very aggressive and provocative timeline. But the reasoning behind it has some merit. We can haggle about how far they are off but I doubt it will be measured in decades.
Fashion sure has changed a lot over the years. Used to be unthinkable for a man (or even a woman) to venture outside without a hat on.

Even if you look at TV shows from the early 90's, you will see fashions that will never be worn today, women's dress was definitely more modest and conservative.
>Finally we elected somebody who wasn't really either one of those, and progress on the endless war front began, but of course that president didn't have the Guardian's support.

The Guardian, like most of the Western media had decided that, because Obama was black and therefore "oppressed" he was the Messiah, before he even set foot in office. Instead he turned out to be "just a very naughty boy", like most other US presidents, before and since.
1. yes, the index represents the dimensionality

So[0,1)^1 is a line interval, [0,1)^2 is a unit square and [0,1)^3 is the unit cube, and [0,1]^d is a d-dimensional cube.

2.Only one boundary can be included

It includes 0 but not 1 because it can only the context is usually that practitioners want a region where one edge will wrap to the opposite edge.
Thus they treat [0,1)^2 as if it is actually a 2-dimensional torus.

thus the the 2 boundaries acutally map to the same point, so you can only include one of them.
In our case as we are using x %1 = fractional part of x, the fractional part could be 0, if x=3.0, but it could never be exactly 1.

3) the mapping from the circle to the surface of the sphere is described here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_azimuthal_equal-area_p...

the entire top edge of the square maps to the north pole, and the entire bottom edge maps to the south pole.

4.) t0 is the first point, t3 is the 4-th point.

Hope that helps!
First and foremost, software is not the be-all-end-all of your life and frankly everything else in the world.

Find something you enjoy that's not software and then apply software to it. Model rocketry? Juggling? Etc.
"All in all, the difference in stats would mostly come from people blocking the Google Analytics script. Google Analytics is listed on many blocklists while the Plausible proxy runs as a first-party connection and is not."

So what exactly does Plausible do to avoid being blocked in the same manner? What prevents GA from doing the same?
Collecting telemetry is essentially doing an impromptu social science study, and it suffers from the same problems - collecting good data and making correct inferences is a difficult task, and it requires specialized skills. Social scientists are trained to do this, and yet they still fail more often than not[0]. A random business trying to run product development off automated metrics? They don't stand a chance.

This is not to say the data is useless - it's just worth remembering that, unless you have strong statistical background, you're probably reading your data wrong, so your metrics should be treated as weak evidence at best.

--

[0] - It's not snark, it's a corollary of the replication crisis. This is a hard job.
Or just use Firefox. Android of course, your screwed on Apple.
Too many leaps of faith and too many appeals to authority.

Wirth's quest for one true small language led to an array of languages that only show that no, you can't have too simple of a language, or you will end up with a system that is too complex because of the language. The ones I remember from a very long discussion a decade or so ago:

- the meaningless distinctions between functions and procedures

- the very many iterations on loop constructs (in some of his languages there are three loop constructs with different rules. For example, you can break early from only one of them)

IIRC in Oberon BlackBox the necessity for complexity is just swept under the rug where system modules are allowed operations that are not available to user modules (IIRC it was function overloading and exceptions? I could be wrong).

In many ways Go is following Wirth's path of confusing language complexity, problem complexity and solution complexity. Yes, you can a wonderfully simple language with very few constructs. But if you have to write thousands of lines of boilerplate code to handle a problem, you haven't solved complexity. You've offloaded it onto the programmer.

As for "OMG, Wirth wrote an OS in Oberon, he was onto something"... Menuet OS is written in assembly, fits on a floppy disk, and can boot near-instantly on a 200 Mhz processor [1]. Does this mean we should ditch all the bad complex languages and switch to assembly?

Though I agree: most of present-day software is extremely bloated and inefficient.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MenuetOS
I really want to make that DNA test but I do not want third party having my DNA because I believe that third party may harm me in some unexpected way.
Nice that Marko did a follow up by writing this blog post. A few months ago (in May), I also asked myself the question of "How plausible are our web analytics?", and I was able to see the same phenomenon [1]. Many people in my audience block client-side web trackers.

One option would now be to host a plausible proxy on-premise. But I didn't have time to try that out yet.

PS: We're paying plausible customers and our stats are publicly accessible [2].

-1: https://rugpullindex.com/blog#HowPlausibleareOurWebsiteAnaly...

-2: https://plausible.io/rugpullindex.com
I have to scroll this far to read that someone is as happy as I am about the news!
Rural Kansas is dying. I drove 1,800 miles to find out why (2018)
> Scientists are not meant to create code that ends up on production.

You might be mixing up the terms. I don't think that the point was about "scientists" in general, it was about "data scientists". The first is a common term used to describe someone who does science in some professional capacity. The second one is a very broad job title within software which very often includes writing code that ends up in production - at some data science roles that might even be your main responsiblity.
I agree with your basic point, but would add that the word "passion" has a deeper meaning that the hot-blooded, short-lived version.

Something you are truly passionate about is something you are willing to suffer a great deal for.

Passion's Latin root is passio, to suffer and endure hardship. For example, the passion of Christ.
> better, morally, than optimizing ad revenue

This wanting to be "better morally" than your fellow citizens is a disease. It seems to be one of the root problems afflicting Americans these days.
> You can leave out properties from kernel to be done by OS apps.

Doable on Linux as well. If this is better for performance this most likely already would have been implemented. Besides this is not concrete. With concrete I mean things that are known to be implemented with M1 that for example Asahi won't be able to replicate.

> You can make hardware based submodules, such as DCP interface on M1 macs, main target of discussion on Asahi Linux (https://asahilinux.org/2021/08/progress-report-august-2021/).

This is just hardware. Even so this example is a non-starter since DCP will be supported by Linux.

> You can add own instruction sets for own purposes. Something which is hard to add for Linux kernel.

It's actually not hard. It's trivial if you add compiler support(which Apple most likely would for, you guessed it, LLVM). There are actually some custom instructions on M1 afaik, mostly used for being able to run X86 more efficiently.

> https://www.quora.com/Why-are-iPhone-processors-more-efficie...

Where the top 4 points being pure hardware. Point 5 being about specific design decisions done in Android which doesn't mean anything. Point 7 even says that the most likely performance increase would be custom co-processors which again is pure hardware. I'm not sure what this link is supposed to achieve but it arguments are opposed to Apple being better because of Software hardware magic.

> https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-iPhone-need-so-much-less-...

This link again mentions the design decisions why Android is less responsive. The main culprit mentioned on why Android uses more RAM is that Android implemented by vendors have a load more bloat. This has nothing to do with magic hardware software combo. This is Android from vendors being trash.
The idea is not so much of clicking on high quality content ads, but sending visits to high quality content pages and click on the ads of those pages, to get them more money. Would obviously stop working if the sales after the ad click are not made.

But, hey this isn't a gameplan, this was just a "what if" :D
This assumes that for some reason you don’t need electricity at night
This one didn't age well. Specifically the statement:

4. “You should clean and disinfect frequently used objects such as mobile phones, keys, wallets, and work passes to stop the coronavirus from spreading.”

We now know it had very little effect, if any.
One of the reasons for mobile apps is that adblocking is disabled. Explains why Reddit promotes it so much.

Similarly, wrapping websites like Discord or Slack in Electron also gives the website owners full telemetry and tracking that they can't get in a tech savvy browser.

Would an always on VPN, a remote pihole be the only way for privacy?
thank you for these kind words. ;)
Might as well stop the whole damn thing :). For the better internet health
> Could we just harness the power of the IQ120+ people and feed all the rest of the population?

If I buy some sneakers, they'll be sewn by a low-paid worker in a poor country, shipped by low-paid sailors, trucked to warehouses by low-paid drivers, picked and packed by low-paid workers, and driven to my door by low-paid drivers.

It ain't Facebook programmers on six-figure salaries who are feeding the rest of the population.
Last time I checked you could configured click frequency in AdNauseum.
The peer to peer part definitely didn't age well. And the Java part too.

Nobody likes bombastic claims, but these likely go from marketing than from architects. It's important to see beyond the marketing and recognize the engineering thinking and potential behind technologies.
I recently used this to do a POC at my day job. I was able to demo a machine learning tool quite smoothly to executives.

Later it was implemented in production with a regular stack (Flask + Vue).

Voila is really empowering for e.g. data scientists that are comfortable in a jupyter environment but aren't js wizards.
Running locally, I just love the reactivity it provides: you don't worry about sync between front-end and back-end, everything is propagated through websockets I believe (Jupyter is Tornado-based).

However, for production you might want to use another tool, since it (currently) executes every session in isolation, so every time an user connects it re-runs everything from scratch. Moreover, the round-trips to the server can be slow if you are e.g. in a different continent so this degrades the UX.

Here is an example of a small ML app I built with Voilà (this will probably crash due to HN hug of death™), and JAX on the backend: http://grad-descent.herokuapp.com/
>> You have to completely comprehend your idea in order to fully realize it.

This is a gem.
> I don't see why you need 2-phase for virtual functions.

I might be misremembering the "for virtual functions" part, but the inability of C to call Impl's constructor directly in the presence of a derived class can sometimes force you to delay some of the initialization until after Impl is constructed. ("Necessary" might be too strong here, in that you could find some other workaround too.)

> often necessary to keep the cose base complexity under check.

Hmm... I'm not sure I agree. A pimpl-like idiom can be necessary for solving a few very specific problems, which are explained in [1] better than I can here: (a) ABI stability, (b) slow compilation, and (c) exception safety. There are other niche cases I can think of (e.g. "I need fast/atomic swapping like a reference type, but copying like a value type"), and even those might have better solutions, but none of them really has anything to do with code complexity... they're either domain requirements you either have or don't have, like in (a)/(c)/(d), or they're workarounds for slow toolchains, as in (b). But unless you have requirements/constraints like these, I have a hard time recalling any common situations where pimpl would be the best solution, especially if it's for taming complexity.

[1] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/213264
Holmes Arrives to Trial with Prototype for Black Box That to Prove Her Innocence
only 58% of us? I thought that number would be much closer to 99%
That's still a lot of yachts, if they aren't all in the multimegabuck class.
>That'd just end up costing the high quality content providers money.

I always click on Taboola bitcoin scam links for that exact reason. It's like scambaiting an algorithm.
It’s only a “non-issue” if you’ve no consideration for others. With R(t)>>1 your children presumably spread it to others unless they were completely quarantined immediately after exposure. And the children/adults they infected likely spread it too.

This exponential spread makes it quite likely someone died from the infection chain rooted in your children.

This is why the “unmask the kids” movement I see from other parents is complete nonsense. While it’s nice that kids are at less risk of severe cases, it only matters that they can transmit the virus.
what is the real goal of this project ? seems rather than serving communities, tapping and exploiting the deep-entrenched water resource ? who pays and who exploits this ?
> So what exactly does Plausible do to avoid being blocked in the same manner?

It seems they serve plausible from the same server as the origin website (first party), probably under an unique name, which means you need to block the script manually on every domain instead of simply blacklisting `plausible.io` (for example).

> What prevents GA from doing the same?

That's a good question. Probably ease-of-use (no need to explain how to host it, easier updates) and the lack of need to do so. YouTube, for example, could also make it _far_ harder to block ads by simply sending a single video stream, but they don't for some reason.
I know that very well, I had to pay it because there is no BAFÖG for foreign students. Just felt it might not be an important enough detail to explain BAFÖG to the international audience.
The UI feels exactly the same if you are using a landline.
> First, it only refers to the US, while the headline makes no such qualification.

Yes the title should be "Land-Based Wind Market Report: 2021 Edition Released" but it still won't say US cause it's not in the title.

> Second, this refers only to electricity generation, which is roughly 25% of US energy use, or 20% if you include energy embedded in imports, mostly fueled by fossil fuels in China.

Of course it's only about electricity generation?

> Third, this refers only to gros capacity. For those who have been asleep, the effective energy capacity is far lower for renewables than for stable power sources due to intermittency.

That's what you usually mention when you build something that generates energy. Nothing unusual here either.

> inb4 By referring to facts you have shown you are clearly on the wrong team.

What's with this unhealthy polarization? What teams are you talking about?
Sure. Norway would be fantastic but it is such a different place that it would compare to being in Alaska or Montana. Major cities in the US, like NYC average around a 30-50 (probs more like 30) on the iqAir score. That is nuts. Barcelona has many, many days on 80-90.

The US, mind you, is not helped by the forest fires of the last few years in this ranking. They really skew things in California and the US as a whole. These forest fires though can be attributed somehow to the building of the interstate system and therefore sort of does add to the wider point.

Europe is pretty bad because of the diesel engine cars. If you change that, air quality will improve dramatically.
How do you collect your analytics?
When I was in the army recently there was a rule that was weird to me. Always have your hat on outside but as soon as you get inside take it off. I've definitely been yelled at because of forgetting to take off my hat or put it on, all in all pretty weird.