skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love all these "back in my day.." and "how do I replicate my [very limited, and - no doubt - wildly incorrect memory of] childhood for my kids" type posts

Because they all-too-often display a vicarious hubris that some how some way my [limited] memory of childhood is the Only True Way™ to experience childhood, and must be replicated for every successive generation

Nostalgia is great - but I do not want to force my kids to go through the stages I had to to get to where I am now

I want them "standing on the shoulders of giants" to be able to do the next Great Thing™

Or for them to decide to do something totally different - because I don't want them following in my career and hobby footsteps because I do it, but because they actually want to do it

Socrates bemoaned this self-same behavior in children ~2400 years ago: "The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

Don't mistake your biased nostalgia as some kind of Thou Shalt Do Thus™ for the next generation

Surely there are positives of how you learned something, but that doesn't mean it is the One True Way™ to learn
You can fix most people, or you can just abandon one idea because it's incompatible with how most people are.

Tough choice, but I think I'll opt in for the latter.

Uh! Oh! But if not democracy, then what? Then fascism and corporatocracy - what we have had for as long as you've been alive. You just don't know it :)
The middle part was designed to come off cleanly, although that is pretty much an inherent feature of these designs and not necessarily a deliberate choice.
First result:

> The CDC is finally recognizing 'natural immunity' — legislators should follow suit

> The Hill on MSN.com|1 day ago

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/the-cdc-is-finally-...

This just confirms their point, the vaccine passports in the US don't have any allowances for natural immunity - it's vaccine or nothing.
> I think the author went too deep into details here, as this crowd is full of people who are going to be able to rip pieces of this article to shreds.

No doubt here! I know there's a lot of nitpicking, but that's just my experience so far. I wanted to make it clear by removing all "we" or "you" words from the post to make sure I'm not saying my opinion is the definitively right one :)

> Rails is not the only choice that does so.

Absolutely, the only two reasons I went with Rails is because Ruby looks beautiful to me and I was following the news in Rails world for years.
Ironically your response is the tone-deaf and stupid one here.

The person you're replying to isn't arguing for people to be using "Jim's shady internet bank" or a random buddys bank, they are discussing the ability of current trusted actors to act as custodians and insurers for cryptocurrency-wallets, hiding the scary and difficult aspects of cryptocurrency, while operating on top of an open-source, trust-less, publicly auditable, open base-layer like a blockchain.

They are saying it's possible to regard cryptocurrency as a base-layer for economic transactions, and that without it it's basically not possible today to leave the traditional banking world behind if one wants to maintain a digital presence. Don't you think it should be? Why should an individual be forced to have someone else be custodian for their wealth?

Cryptocurrencies also aren't really finished yet, there are a lot of improvements to be made before it is possible to replace the existing financial infrastructure and maintain its scale.
Both jokes made me laugh and wouldn’t it be great if everyone could just CHILL?
Going to hide, this one as I think it was unclear, and post a new one. Also, it was posted too late at night I think.
Ha ha ha. I think that they know them. But in desktop there are many ways to change it with extensions or even browsers other than Chrome. So they don't give it a try
> ...microtargeting and segmented audiences...

Asking out loud:

Is voter profiling basically k-means clustering?

Given the USA's FPTP elections, k=2. (Per Duverger's Law.)

Quick peek at wiki wrt Spain's govt, featuring a parliament and using plurality block voting, apparently yielding k=7.

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I've also participated in politics (campaigns). But I have zero idea how our consultants do their profiling and targeting. Closely guarded secrets.

I recently read Jill Lepore's book If/Then about the history of Simulatics Corporation and their initial voter behavior modeling efforts and opinion polling. One of my takeaways is that Cambridge Analytica is just the 2016's iteration of the evergreen quixotic effort to model, predict, shape voting behavior. As you said, just like marketing.

I couldn't find the initial research papers online. (I haven't yet made the pilgrimage to my uni's library.) Nor do I know how outfits like dataforprogress.org work.

Would love to find a primer on this stuff. Because I have questions.

What is a wedge issue, really? The stuff Karl Rove is famous for. Did he identify wedge issues? Or did he just recycle tropes and use advanced targeting? Or maybe it's case-by-case? Like racial animus is evergreen whereas angst over abortion became a fault-line over time.

How malleable are the clusters? Ezra Klein in Why We Are Polarized argues there's some kind of feedback loop happening. People sorted, adopted the positions of their new cluster mates to align more closely, then became polarized. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Can we do the opposite analysis? Identify unifying issues to counterbalance the wedge issues?

Sorry, I could go on, but this is enough for now.
I've been doing forks of modules and using replace to use them in my code base extensively. I had 0 problems, it works marvelously.

If you're doing some kind of global find/replace on fork, then something's definitely not right.
I thought that it's meant look imprecise which communicates that it's not final.

similar idea and discussion from RoughViz: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21648968
yes but nixos requires a degree in nixos. let me know when it's accessible by mere mortal nerds who have enough new tech to stay on top of that "getting a degree in adminning my OS" is too prohibitive
Explain how banking is decentralized while also explaining the role of central banks, as well as the Bank of International Settlements. Hint: Traditional Banking is centralized.
Found the guy who does formatting for BBC.
Sorry! I was saying that 2.4 is between 2.0 and 3.0, whose logarithms are .3010 and .4771. The distance from .3010 to .4771 is .1761, or .18 to two places, so if we linearly interpolate .4 of the way from .3010 to .4771, we get .3010 + .4 · .1761 = .3010 + .0704 = .3714. Doing it with two-place logs, we get .30 + .4 · .18 = .37. The correct value for log₁₀ 2.4 rounds to .3802, so the linear interpolation is not very precise.

In fact I happened to make an error in the mental interpolation that coincidentally was in the right direction: I estimated .4 · .18 ≈ .4 · .2 = .08, giving me the more correct .38 by luck.

It is of course true that if you factor your numbers you can get better precision with fewer table entries, as you did. But I think it's easier to mentally routinize linear interpolation between table entries so you can do it instantly than to mentally routinize factorization. Such mental linear interpolation was commonplace when using physical printed books of logarithm tables because it easily gives you, say, 4-place precision out of a 3-place table, allowing you to use a book that's one tenth the size and contains one tenth the incorrect entries.

Even very small amounts of memorization can give you lots of logarithms if you do mental work with them. With just log₁₀ 2 ≈ .3010 (and log₁₀ 10 ≡ 1), we can easily derive log₁₀ 5 ≈ .6990, log₁₀ 4 ≈ .6020, log₁₀ 8 ≈ .9030, log₁₀ 2.5 ≈ .3980, log₁₀ 1.6 ≈ .2040, log₁₀ 1.25 ≈ .0970, etc. If you additionally know log₁₀ 3 ≈ .4771, you can easily get 6 = 2·3, 9 = 3·3, 1.2 = 6·2/10, 1.8 = 9·2/10, 2.4 = 1.2·2 (as you said), 1.5 = 5·3/10, etc.

Equal temperament takes advantage of the fact that 3 is very close to 2 to the 19/12 power, about 0.3% larger; note numbers are frequency logarithms to the base of the 12th root of 2. Unfortunately that isn't very helpful if the numbers you need to calculate with are given in decimal form...
I believe seroconversion symptoms happen weeks after infection. And testing for HIV is effective at that point.
FWIW, I would say that it's difficult for a Thompson NFA on its own to beat backtracking in non-pathological cases. So I actually think your prior is still mostly correct.

Now a hybrid NFA/DFA (or a "lazy DFA") that does subset construction at search time using a Thompson NFA can definitely beat out a backtracker. A lazy DFA will generally match the speed of a fully compiled DFA, and is about an order of magnitude faster than a Thompson NFA simulation:

[andrew@frink regex-automata]$ regex-cli find nfa thompson pikevm "@$medium" '(?m)^\w{30}$'
build pike vm time: 6.584596ms
create cache time: 278.231µs
search time: 7.798138892s
counts: [3]
[andrew@frink regex-automata]$ regex-cli find hybrid dfa "@$medium" '(?m)^\w{30}$'
parse time: 24.256µs
translate time: 20.202µs
compile nfa time: 5.966991ms
nfa memory: 486196
build hybrid dfa time: 3.137µs
hybrid dfa memory: 486196
create cache time: 21.793µs
search time: 406.746917ms
cache clear count: 0
counts: [3]
[andrew@frink regex-automata]$ regex-cli find dfa dense "@$medium" '(?m)^\w{30}$'
parse time: 22.824µs
translate time: 15.513µs
compile nfa time: 6.000195ms
nfa memory: 486196
compile dense dfa time: 106.35009ms
dense dfa memory: 4501024
dense alphabet length: 117
dense stride: 128
search time: 448.568888ms
counts: [3]
$ ls -lh $medium
-rw-rw-r-- 1 andrew users 280M Jul 14 2021 /home/andrew/data/benchsuite/subtitles/2018/OpenSubtitles2018.raw.sample.medium.en

(This is using an yet-unreleased tool as part of ongoing regex development.)
First, not rude at all, you make a good point, but my point is, if OP wants to monetize it / make it a business, my unsolicited tip (not that I am some startup guru or anything, just a armchair wannabe) is that even though you go for a niche, you can bring in verticals adjacent to your niche, instead of just fitting a product to the market, you can actually generate new demand by expanding the market. E.g. The chances to convert a keyboardist who can play into becoming a synth head and therefore potentially a paid user are higher than let's say a doctor, so if you already have a musician visit your niche synth website, give them a link, maybe they'll get hooked and you gained a new customer.
The problem is the freeloaders of the internet far outweigh the people that want to pay for services. Until that changes, we will continue to see the internet dominated by targeted advertising. Honestly, it will be interesting to see what happens to services like DDG. I think it will be a true test of what the world wants, an extremely well funded machine like Google or a more lean privacy centric tool. Capitalism is an interesting thing though. Targeted advertising naturally brings in more money (back to the freeloaders point)
> Where there's code, there are bugs. I don't want that in my money, thanks.

Yeah, money should be data, dumb configuration, not code.

Add another, completely separate layer on top of that, for the code.
When the author's PayPal, Square Cash, Amazon Smile, Ko-Fi and Flattr accounts all get shutdown, for no reason whatsoever, they will crawl back to using cryptocurrencies and stablecoins for donations.
> But I am watching that culture to see if anyone has solved all of this in an enticing way.

Yeah, it’s called a rental.
>> The web thrives on linkage.

It does, but a business never wants you to leave their site so outbound links are considered bad. Oddly, they love inbound links which would be outbound for someone else. Some people extend this to their blogs, as it is definitely important for SEO using the original page-rank algorithm.

Now that I think of it, having no outbound links is a great way to rank a page as less useful in some sense.
Count me as a P-Zombie. I think the reason that consciousness is a hard problem is that it's largely used as a word referring to nothing in particular, and as such can be argued about endlessly.

The real problem is locality. Why am I located in me instead of in you? Why is it so much easier for me to see out of my eyes than it is for me to see out of yours? What's the connection between my perspective and my body?

The idea that self-awareness/consciousness ("I am me") is the big problem is weird. I have no problem locating that in the material world. If I program a computer to poll all of its peripherals, report on its RAM and processors, and adjust how it runs its programs based on that, that's as much self-awareness as I have, if not more.
> When I began to teach 3D vectors two years ago, I realized I first had to teach it to myself, because I’d never actually learned it. My college courses skipped straight to “n-dimensional vectors.”

This sums up why I disliked higher level math classes in college so much. We never actually did anything _useful_ with the math, we never actually applied it to real life, we always just rapidly advanced to the general case ("n-dimensions"), took a test, then moved onto the next topic.
My word, that is so much nicer. I wish people would stop doing this.
I'm fairly sure we are due a political swing back towards the left in the UK, and my expectation is we are going to see increased calls for the re-nationalisation of various national infrastructure and services, including energy supply.

As the article says at the end, clearly the Torys are not going to do this, and Labour will be very quiet about this as they need to play the middle ground if they have any chance of gaining a majority. But, if they were to win in the next general election we will see increased calls for them to act on the aspirations of the left of the party to nationalise these things.

It will be an interesting time.
Joel Coen's “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, Reviewed by Ethan Coen
You could compare Red Delicious to Granny Smith and a programmer will come along and say it's an unrelated variety. The problem is even if you want to use a larger library/framework, there are over ten thousand to choose from. The JS ecosystem is built upon the Unix philosophy of "Do one thing and do it well." So there is a reason React is not a framework and that is not your fault. If you do not use a Rails copycat, you are left with many decisions for packages. Nobody has time for that so everyone just uses what is most popular. So the comparison is fair, it's just a comparison between philosophies.
Oh, very good...
The best approach I've heard to solving climate change involves a carbon tax. High gas prices are a proxy for that. It's already driving discussions people just weren't having before - how can I make my home more energy efficient? What can I do to save energy? In many ways, high energy prices are a positive thing for society (in the long run).

The problem is, of course, that high energy prices are a huge negative for those who can't afford them. All the proposed carbon tax schemes I've seen are a carbon tax and dividend - you tax carbon, and redistribute the profits to those who can't afford the higher prices.

Right now, we've got the carbon tax, but the dividend is going into the pockets of oil companies - exactly the people you don't want to be building up cash reserves in the fight against climate change.

The other issue we have in the UK (and maybe elsewhere) is that the cost of energy is borne by the tenant, but the cost of renovations would be borne by the landlord. This means that landlords have no incentive to improve the energy efficiency of their houses, and tenants have no ability to. We should be changing that - make landlords of energy inefficient houses pay for it.
Show HN: I ported my original 'Jumpy' for Atom over to VS Code (“Jumpy2”)
No, they were very effective at preventing symptomatic covid. This can mean either preventing infection or not preventing infection but just stopping symptoms. The trials that came up with that 94% efficacy never tested for which of these two outcomes it was, and it turns out it was mostly the second one, which allows for asymptomatic spreading.
At Amazon, the target was between 4 to 6% when I was there, but it was applied at the larger department level, not individual teams. It was perfectly fine to have a team of 10 where nobody was on a PIP (yes, such things exist!), but when it came to my entire 250-person department, all of the managers were in a room together ranking every employee they had and using "data" (peer reviews and results delivered, mainly) to fight over which employees got into the top and bottom tiers.
I think it all goes down to the explosion of popularity of javascript, it is a bunch of tools made by a relatively new to tech people, for relatively new to tech people, still trying to understand/learn how to do things properly , it is not an attack, it is just an opinion, many new technology at their dawn have had the same issue
But none of that is true... transactions still require middle-men, and decentralised finance is fundamentally incompatible with financing. So we are left with "programmable money"... whatever that means.
There is a gap in this reasoning though. "X% of employees are not worth their salary" does not imply "mandatory firing X% employees is good for the company".

In particular quotas flow down into teams with zero percent of people who should be fired. The effect on the remaining 100-X% employees morale is negative.
Yeah, whenever I see others scrolling through content at Facebook, I can't help but wonder who would voluntarily subject themselves to so much garbage information. It is similar with Twitter, which I use for "science communication". But the amount of miscellaneous memes and low quality click bait ads that one has to endure is almost physically painful.
Bolt CMS
Last time I was in the US was in 2014, and I recall it was pretty cheap to eat out. Not surprised if costs went up drastically since then.

I travelled from South Africa to Chattanogga to have my very first American BigMac, and it was delicious! I was probably just very hungry, though. ;-)
> I imagine it won't be long before Coinbase, for example, will warn you against transferring to wallets which aren't held by one of the big providers.

Perhaps, but I'm not sure if that answers my question.

Cryptocurrency networks are decentralized on their own, but I'd say the way we generally interact with them is not. It sounds like we agree on this point.

However, whether a decentralized system is accessed through a centralized layer or vice verse, the result is a service that is not fully decentralized. If any entity, such as a bank, third-party banking service provider, cryptocurrency exchange, etc., is involved at any point, that entity effectively has some control over what happens on the associated decentralized system. This results in an at least _partially_ centralized system.
cure and treatment are two totally different things
I actually eat McD's specifically at least once while traveling internationally to see how much it changes. Anecdotal but its been my experience the core items taste and appear strikingly similar everywhere, and that's ~10 data points across the world.
Spotify Has Changed Music Libraries Forever (2021)
Shipyards will build a range of different vessels. In your mind would it be ok for them to accept a contract to build a tanker instead? If so, why does the purpose or owner of the ship matter?

Is it not just a shipyard building ships?
From what I got, the majority of the actual short would be hidden in some method of put-call options shenanigans (not sure what it is now, but there was at some point the equivalent of 2 times the float in $<2 puts a year out)
Passing new laws to forbid smoking, eating too much, not doing enough exercised, etc. would be so much more restrictive, compared to taking few vaccine shots and wearing a mask in some places. Vaccines help reducing hospitalizations for all these groups at once, right?
> Banks are already subject to competition from other banks.

They are also in a cartel with the other banks, the sense that you can't access the financial system at all without one of them. For example, charges to send payments internationally are often vastly more expensive than the actual cost to the banks. They can do this because they aren't competing in this kind of niche area.
Megaflash Lightning Records
> but Rimap’s conclusions will be driven by proper scientific process and not Australian emotions or politics

Whether they turn out to be right or wrong, this was classless
> Here is a Reuters link for those who don't want to tap anything running a .ru TLD with a ten foot pole, which should be everyone.

Because?
China joins Russia in opposing NATO expansion
I think the main Thing here is that Rails is the de facto standard, the 'golden hammer' of Ruby based apps, and there is no space - or developers - for alternatives.

The JS ecosystem as we know it today started years after Rails (Rails was 2004, Node's oldest version on their releases page is from 2011), and only really took off after NodeJS came to prominence with frameworks like BackboneJS, Angular, then React and the rest in the early 2010's, and it went along with Github and the emergence of everyone and their dog building libraries and frameworks.

The attitude was different; instead of big opinionated but inflexible frameworks, people wanted to pick and choose. This was exacerbated by React that emphasized NOT being a framework but just a rendering layer.

Pick ANY one-size-fits-all framework in the JS space and you will see "bad" decisions that people don't like.

The closest thing to a full JS framework at the moment is probably Angular, which feels bloated and overly complicated (annotations, component / folder structure / file naming) or Express (stringly typed? I haven't looked at it in forever).
Sure. And I think what makes Rails and Django shine is they have sound default answers.

I’ve yet to see anything in Node that feels like a stable 1:1 replacement. Next.js is excellent, but you still need to sort out a lot of pieces on your own.
Regarding that last chart, I changed it to "US Income" and got a different story. It looks like US Income has largely kept pace with the big mac.
When do the desperate acquisitions start?
If they are generated ad-hoc by members of the public and agreed to not by coercion. In the case of the UK open banking initiative, it was largely a collaboration between large banks and some fintech providers after being mandated by parliament. Hardly the Linux mailing list or a Python enhancement proposal.

edit: Not sure why I'm being down-voted. If you believe that government created and mandated "open protocols" are really the same as decentralized protocols, imagine what it would be like if the US government forced every major institution to use the backdoored Dual_EC_DRBG they created instead of a sane cryptography protocol. A government enforced "open protocol" is not open at all if you're forced to use it.
And people living in oppressive regimes have access to free network infrastructure? That's news to me.
He probably wants to avoid having a discussion with trolls and astroturfing 42 supporters who have trouble filling in blanks.
Check out www.carbonmapper.org

This is already a thing using Airborne data:
https://methane.jpl.nasa.gov/

And California is already trying to regulate some of the emitters:
https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/methane/ab1496-rese...

CarbonMapper is planning to launch 30 satellites in partnership with JPL and Planet for 30m resolution from space.