skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can understand I didn't want to spend thousands to start out a hobby I wasn't even sure I'd get into. If it lasts me a year that's good enough. My next step would be doing my own build.

You're looking at this one, right? https://viribusbikes.com/products/emb-a277-rd?variant=406754...

I have no illusion that it's the best bike in the world, but it certainly works for my combination of roads and bike trails. I wouldn't put it on some crazy steep obstacle course or huge jumps but I wasn't looking to do any of that anyway.

But what's the big deal about a triple front deraileur?
I agree but we should have started a recruitment campaign for more nurses etc. We’re not really doing anything it seems. We should be trying to do more. My relatives in the healthcare industry are all overworked and complain about staffing shortages. Seems like this is a bigger issue than just COVID. It’s out for-profit healthcare system…
Sharing zipped files of PDFs amongst people is quite possibly a copyright violation. Do you have distribution licenses for all the material you ar referencing?
You literally just described their own comment back to them.
I don't quite see it that way, although maybe we read the problem as something different. Suppose the rate limit is 500 per second; a client makes a burst of 500 requests in one second, sleeps two seconds, then another burst of 500. Isn't the author's planned approach going to end up doing a bunch of bogus work?

- putting 500 timestamps into a queue
- inspecting 500 queue entries and removing each
- putting 500 new timestamps into a queue
I'm not sure that calculation makes sense. If someone has already lived to 77 he probably has a much higher chance of living to 78 than the average person. And if someone has lived past 78 does that mean he's lost negative years of life?
> sending low-open-rate

This is a great theory. I'm subscribed to a bunch of Substacks, and most send fewer but longer posts which I always open and read. While others treat their Substack like a Twitter feed and send out lots of short posts a day which I hardly ever open.

Alex Berenson has already sent me 3 mails today, and the day isn't over yet...but there are other lesser known people who send far more. And some of those others are crypto/forex/finance writers who by the nature of their content, spam filters may view more suspiciously.
The US can literally choose to never default on its debt, regardless of how much money it actually has.
Oh hey! I wrote this article.

Because some people seem confused what the point is -- the point is that right now there are a lot of blockchain/NFT/"metaverse" games that are making ridiculous bank by doing big presales of virtual plots of "land" on the basis that they are going to turn into big UGC-based platforms to rival Steam, Roblox, etc.

I conduct an analysis that looks back over the 30+ year history of MMO's and find that anytime we see true "land-like" assets in multiplayer online games, we also tend to see digital "housing crises" that have a lot of eerie parallels to the ones we see in the real world, and they play out in ways that closely match the predictions of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Henry George.

This is interesting for several reasons:

- It suggests that these big blockchain/NFT/"metaverse" games are headed for trouble long term as their user growth stagnates

- It gives us a place to learn lessons about policy interventions that might have something to say about the real world (Henry George's Land Value Tax was independently re-derived from first principles for use in EVE, and it ended the recession that plagued their early launch days)

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TL;DR -- virtual land presales are a great way to make a quick buck and leave your investors holding the bag, but they're not a great way to build a sustainable creator-driven UGC platform.
Your first question and answer is against medical ethics. If you’re a physician you know that terminating pregnancies based on a non-specific but sensitive screening test is inappropriate (do no harm).

However, you are correct in your second statement - there are much more specific follow up tests which improve diagnostic accuracy.

Medical utilitarianism should never be so cruel and gruesome as to eliminate 85 healthy and wanted pregnancies in order to find and eliminate 15 genetic aberrations.
Part of the degradation was when they got rid of URLs. I had a really good bullshit detector function in my head. The URL would go into it, and an intuition would pop out that it was a bullshit link. Now I can't do that.
It would be cool if I could take my existing browser history, aggregate by domain, sort by frequency & then create the necessary xml for the programmable search. Maybe with a pick & choose UI so I could decide which sites I wanted.

Right now, looking at your allow-list config, it feels a bit custom to you, but if I had an easy way to limit search to the sites I myself know and trust, I could see how that would be useful.

I know I could probably pick it out of my browser's history UI & poke it into Google's Programmable Search UI, but that seems like a hassle and a half.
what the process to get that type of change request merged? I suspect it's complex to find reviewers for such a broad change set.
I think you're fantasizing quite a lot here.

'Polite' has nothing to do with 'fear' of gunslingers.

And 'common, middle class politeness' is just a behaviour along the same way as not farting, swearing scratching your balls.

"you're just not allowed to talk about them because then it would acknowledge class"

No, nobody is worried that you're going to bring up class.

There are some PC taboos which if broken, will cause some people to be upset, but that's more or less social politics, not class.

"west coast culture is a lot like being around revolutionary marxists who make a point of being rude to wait staff because they think civility is bourgeois oppression,"

I don't want to upset you but this is a ridiculous. I respect creative contemplation, but this is nowhere near reality.
So in other words you didn't actually own it.
The best thing about zotero is that becuase it is open source, you xan customize it a lot. You can even add sci-hub addon that lets you get the pdf from sci-hub for non open source sources. So if I 'm interested in a paper for reading, citation or anytjing else I just add it using one click (using browser extension) then it is ready for reading. I can do bibrex (using the addon). I can use zotfile which give much functionality, I add iPAD sync and highlight the paper and then extract that to zotero.

Sci-hub addon of course ia not even listed or recommended by zorero community (for obvious reasons) but this mix is very good punishment for elsevier for all the horrible things they do to science. And how even their Mandeley is evil now.
Github issues are cloned now by SEO sites.
Beside of having more and more ads in the search results (which I think mostly driven by the pandemic because of significant revenue loss in 2020 Q2?), I think the web itself is the most significant offender of this problem. Not only those annoying SEO (which makes the problem exponentially harder), now more and more quality contents are going beyond unsearchable walled gardens. Basically almost all web sites from mid-sized tech companies now require some sort of sign-in by default and if you try to crawl it at scale, you'll get banned. Perhaps Twitter is the only significant exception to this trend.
Why not work on it and release in smaller batches though?
Russians don't smile, show cues of empathy, they are serious, they are candid, which can come off as 'snobby'.
Observablehq notebooks are reactive but JS only. Jupyter is becoming a standard but the lack of a DAG for reactivity and the difficulty in version controlling them are serious limitations.
It's fast and simple but not a good heuristic. It's like judging a car by how expensive it is. It has nothing to do with how the thing performs.

Optimising for size is such a waste of time in this day and age. I know I would rather choose a 5 MB statically linked binary than a 5 KB dynamically linked one, because they take pretty much the same amount of perceived time to transfer over the internet, yet the smaller file might take more of my time because I need to find and install missing dependencies.

On the list of priorities for language developers, size optimisation is towards the bottom, unless we're talking about embedded but we aren't.
Good point. I bought a wireless router, didn't like it, got another one a month later. I imagine the odds you'll buy a wireless router in the next month if you bought one in the last month are way higher than almost any other signal you could find.
I'm not necessarily saying I don't believe you--obviously you'd know more about working there than I would. But can you explain to me why in 2010 if I googled "evidence the moon landing was faked" I got a huge list of conspiracy sites, and now if I Google the same query I only receive articles and websites alleging the exact opposite of what I searched?
Yes that was a five year old HN post so it was the crop of SO clones from 5 years ago. They constantly change.

Example from now:

https://coderedirect.com/questions/190779/changing-the-color...

They even have the same url fornat and everything.

Actual result

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11862315/changing-the-co...

Here I took a random SO post and searched for a sentence in an answer. This result is in the top 5 results (in this case the real SO result was above - but not rarely the impostor sites are above)
Yeah - why not just tell them?

You know, like IRL. What this is supposedly about.

Again, the question referred to the target performance, not the optimal performance.
Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)
I generally agree but just to clarify I didn’t say overbuild—just more than our current capacity which seems to be admittedly inadequate for the current crisis. We have no flexibility.

Look at how many fewer deaths there are in countries with universal healthcare. Maybe when we don’t have to pay useless middlemen like insurers then we can spend the money to hire more healthcare workers. I think it’s just our for-profit healthcare is always going to provide the bare minimum for the highest cost—-and is woefully unprepared for this pandemic.
As I understand it, you pay the deposit to Ford first then you work with a dealer to finalize the sale. If all dealers are marking them up (they are) then your choice is to lose the deposit or pay a markup.

Edit: Actually it looks like the Ford deposit was $100 and refundable. This must be a separate dealer deposit. I am not sure if it comes before or after price agreement. Dealers are sketchy as hell so could be either.
I think global warming is caused by spending! Maybe plant a garden? or contribute time to a landcare (tree planting) group?
At the end of the day being shortsighted doesnt matter. They are a publicly traded company that pays their top employees in options. If the problem of spam becomes too difficult they will focus on milking the cow until it dies just like every other massive company that came before it.
Most Midwesterners have access to cheap, healthy food like frozen chicken, canned vegetables, potatoes, apples, and eggs. Especially if they get on SNAP (food stamps). The real problems are more cultural. A single large soda or a few cookies can contain more calories than a whole meal.
somebody better tell Cantor...
Living with someone with depression can be taxing on your own well-being, especially without a support group. Being supportive, always saying the right thing, etc. You absolutely need to find time for yourself. In my case, exploring new adventures on my own, always with an open invitation, sparked hope & excitement in my partner.
I miss citeulike. I used to pay for their upgraded service.
Yep, until there is a planet threatening asteroid or an alien invasion or a clusterfuck of a climate crisis. It is easy to see coming together for an immediate crisis but I don't understand why a slow moving trainwreck crisis doesn't convince everyone that we're all human beings in this together and that we as a species would be better off in the long run to be on the same team.
More Unix koans: http://catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/unix_koans.html

Unix nature:
http://catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/
But really, mostly just of willingness to study.

And grind, grind, grind, grind, grind.
From a Clojure perspective, here are a few things to think about and explore to help understand where the power and value of macros lie.

1. Clojure does not have all of its various conditionals as language built-ins. There is a single conditional construct built in to the language, if. The rest are all defined in terms of if. Function arguments are eagerly evaluated in Clojure. How do you write a short-circuiting function in Clojure? (when predicate consequent) as a function must evaluate both the predicate and the consequent. If consequent is slow to calculate then your whole when expression is as slow as consequent, even if predicate is false and we do not need consequent. when is a Clojure macro based on the if special form.

2. core.async is a mere library.[0] This implements CSP (same idea as Go's channels) and async programming (the sort of stuff that needs compiler support in other languages such as C# or Go) as a library. If Rich Hickey didn't write core.async, you could build this control flow yourself for async programming. In fact, you can create arbitrary control flow mechanisms using macros. Common Lisp's entire object system can be implemented in macros.

3. The only special forms in Clojure are def, if, fn, let, loop, recur, do, new, ., throw, try, set!, quote, and var. The rest of what you would consider the core of Clojure consists of functions and macros. Much of the control flow functionality is implemented in macros.[1]

The core of macros is that they allow you to evaluate arbitrary user code at compile time. Clojure code is represented as native Clojure data structures (the same is true for all Lisps). The entire standard library which you are accustomed to using to manipulate standard data structures is available at compile time to transform the data structures that represent your code. I can't explain this better than Rich Hickey does in [1], so I encourage you to watch the linked section of that talk.

[0]: https://youtu.be/yJxFPoxqzWE?t=560 See this video for an overview of core.async. Later on he talks about the stuff that is implemented as macros in the library. This link starts up when he's talking about C# style async.

[1]: https://youtu.be/P76Vbsk_3J0?t=1333 See this video for an overview of the core of Clojure. The link starts with an overview of Clojure's data types and data structures (skipping the intro for the reasons behind Clojure). This leads directly into the evaluation model, which is based on the data structures of Clojure. Watch through ~1h:30m to get an overview of what macros are used for in Clojure's core.
Sadly have to agree with this. And it’s not only security too. The amount of bad advice on r/SRE for example is worrying :|
National Emergency for Child Mental Health
Depends on the requirements. If it's enough that the client doesn't make >N requests within the same "calendar second", then counting in bins is enough, no need to store timestamps. But then you could have a client send N requests in the second half of second k and N requests in the first half of second k+1, so you'd have a 1 second period (that spans two "calendar seconds") with 2N requests allowed. Since such rate limits are often not extremely exact, just an order of magnitude, this quantization/rounding effect may be negligibe and the speed may be worth it. But maybe not always. The original problem statement did not say that it's fine. Probably it's a good sign if an interviewee asks if this would be okay too.
I believe this impacts BB10 as well. So my beloved Z30 will no longer work.

It does not impact any of the BB branded Android phones though.
I’ve recently used their reviews for doors, roof shingles, and washing machines.

YouTube isn’t even a similar product. I assume all reviewers are paid and have no idea their methodology.

I like CR because their methods are defined and they don’t have any competing agendas (ads, sponsored posts, product placement , etc)
Let’s say you are working on a paper with 6 coauthors for a major medical journal, hypothetically. Dr. So and so in Russia, another in Japan, a third in California, and a few others. Would you mind reviewing this draft? Oh, yeah, by the way, you need to install Zotero before you can edit the references. How do you think that is going to go? How about dealing with a graphic designer in Hungary who can’t copy the text out of the document because there are weird hyperlinks that copy out with the references and don’t work with the InDesign. Oh, and the PM at DDB says the citation manager crashed and could you please resend the PDFs. I have worked with some big name journals and there are major interoperability issues that make this software undesirable for publishing in many scenarios.
It's a rough problem, though.

Let's consider that writing a book, in terms of typing, doesn't take that long. However, the perception of value is proportional to the size of the book: are you going to pay for 10-20 pages of information?

Now, let's consider the cost of researching that information. In some cases, it can be the output of years of doctoral research. In others, it's "only" six months of dedicated research. That's six months to research an idea, find evidence, challenge it with alternative explanations, test its efficacy, and determine the best way to present that information. (We won't even talk of the issues of marketing and the other parts of a book that don't involve writing it.)

That is, you need to put together 600 pages of research. You can then distill it into 200 pages or 20 pages. If you distill it into 20 pages, people will think it is less valuable. That is, you spend more time and get less out of it.

(It's something I struggle with. I am part way into research that could increase the productivity of non-great (that is, average or worse) developers 5-25%. The core idea can be explained in 5 pages. The extended idea takes 20. However, it's currently a hypothesis and doing the work to prove it out is estimated at 3-4 months of solid work.

How would I present that information? I can say it wouldn't be a 20 page article or blog post because it's not monetizable. So, how do you change that business model?
As the RFC email clearly explains, they were experimenting, restarted multiple times and to go quite deep into it until they got to a point where this was worth announcing as something that might be worthwhile to merge.
Notability is sort of a bad metric since it’s incredibly subjective. And we’re not just worried about extraneous inclusions in 2021, we’re also concerned about missing data points for previous years - there’s no real statistical correction for “my inputs are biased in unknown ways”. You need to do real analyses with better quality data (i.e., national death registries) to find a ground truth to compare to. But good news, since this is quite a hot topic I’d expect that people are already looking into that.
The "algorithm" I wrote in this post is a formalized version of some problem solving techniques I picked up from the classic book "How to Solve It"[0]. In particular "working backwards". You start from the goal you want and see what you know that is applicable to getting you to goal.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It
Seems like a good article but I got bored and distracted halfway through...
Most of this thread assumes this increase is directly due to dying of Covid; does the data support this? Or is the increase because of other CoDs?
I tried clicking on the link with these words: "The BSD Packet Filter: A New Architecture for User-level Packet Capture". The link appears to be an unsecure website that my internet browser preevented me from going on.
Severo Ornstein's "Computing in the Middle Ages" [1] has plenty of detail on the development and lab usage of the LINC. He claims it as the first personal computer.

Wes Clark presents "The LINC was Early and Small" at the ACM Conference on the History of Personal Workstations in 1986.[2]

[1] https://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/BookDetails/230036-Com...

[2] https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-1986-acm-conference-on-...
So I should probably have written 'some Brits'...

Anyway, if someone can't hear the difference in that sample, load it in to an audio editor, and see that (in a time / amplitude graph) the two words have different shapes.

I've not got a tool for graphing the frequency content to hand, so can't easily see how those would be distinguished.
> You have to have an awfully good reason to add 100k lines of code to a project... And I don't think merely shaving 50% off the build time is enough.

In Ingo's post, he points out that the main speedup is coming from the fact that the expansion after the C preprocessor step is a LOT smaller.

That's a lot of decoupling. As someone who had to go rattling over the USB gadget subsystem, I can tell you that running "grep" with "find" was the standard way to find some data structure buried in a file included 8 layers deep. Having those data structures in files actually mentioned by the file you're working on would be a huge cognitive load improvement as well as make tool assistance much more plausible.

Even if this particular patch doesn't land, it lights the path. What types of changes need to be made are now clear. How many changes are required before you see the improvement is now clear. With those, the changes required can be driven down into the maintainers and rolled out incrementally, if desired.
Did Jpost Get Hacked?
What he said is this:

> Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.

This is not suggesting that anybody’s right to vote should be revoked. It’s pointing out that women have typically voted in opposition to libertarian/capitalist policies. And he might not like this outcome, but not liking something is not the same as saying it shouldn’t exist.

I’m not a libertarian and I’m opposed to many of Thiel’s viewpoints, but we can have an honest discussion about what he has and hasn’t said.
Politics encompasses everything. And people can switch religion too. So thats not really an argument protected rights are finite and not subject to change.

Also, Lets not pretend politics isn't the reason companies are banning and denying service to people.

They clearly banned her for her right leaning politics, and used terms like "misinformation". Its clearly forcing their politics onto the public by not allowing counter views, the politics that do include race, religion, and other aspects of life.

Civil rights like openly protesting for the opposite political party is indeed being squashed.

This is the same excuse thats used to silence preachers/priests who talk politics, as if the 2 are not the same.

Civil rights is politics. California knew this when they added political association to protected classes.
i think that was their point
I've seen that sort of thing a lot too over the past decade or so. These content farms aren't new, but still surprising. I can't imagine Google likes them, and they seem trivial to prevent: just compare the contents, and only show the best/most popular/most reputable site.
Would that not make the middle man service guilty, not the buyer who probably has no idea about US law?
Here is a short (5 min) video explaining E-Graphs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap29SzDAzP

There is also a longer (30 min) video that goes into details.

I recommend watching them!

Also consider this blogpost: https://blog.sigplan.org/2021/04/06/equality-saturation-with...