skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is SimilarWeb and how do they know that? Because I have a hunch that they are pulling the numbers out of their asses just so they are mentioned in articles from shitty blogs like this one.
We sold the app in its entirety, which did include data, to a startup run by a former employee. It didn't really get going and the servers are all wound down, so I assume the data is gone into the ether for good (I am 90% confident on this last point - I will confirm).
i just signed up. what's wrong with spotify?
About 2010, I realised that siloing the internet is basically the only way for nations to remain fully sovereign — can’t enforce laws on copyright, libel, porn, personal data protection, un-accredited education, scams, hacking, gambling, false or misleading advertising, unregulated political advertising[0], indecent communications, malicious communications, menacing communications, nor treasonous/seditious communications, when the people doing it are in a country you don’t have a treaty with.

This is not to say I “want” this — what I want is for everyone in the world to be one big happy group of friends, but I don’t know how to get there from here, and silos look to me like the next thing that will happen.

[0] I don’t know how it works in most places, but in the UK there are Rules: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/who-regulates-political...
Motorola: How. Much. Is. One. Plus. One?

Pentium: 3

Motorola: That. Is. Not. Correct.

Pentium: no, but it's fast!
Or: Every year this is realization hits a new cohort of people, as it has for decades.
Also, protesters shouldn't rely on the "I didn't know" excuse for protesting illegally. If this is indeed real it might be the OPP's way of covering their ass when they start arresting everyone. In which case they don't mind being recorded handing out the pamphlets to certain prominent protesters.
Maybe he bought a house in the neighborhood. Maybe he really likes writing COBOL. Maybe his spouse works there as well. Maybe he is simply extremely risk averse.

There are a number of good reasons somebody might decide to stay put, even if it might be more lucrative or exciting elsewhere.
> when requested by warrant

I think that's the difference. Facebook could be forced to keep all PII in the EU for the purpose of protecting peoples data from unlawful (EU) use but still have to surrender it to US law enforcement. Would that violate the EU law?
Amphorae were widespread and commonly used for all sorts of things, so much in fact that it seems there was a "standard" set of sizes and manufacturing processes, and there's one notable mound in Rome [0] made primarily with one type of amphora that, the theory goes on to explain, was too burdensome to recycle, so it was simply discarded in an orderly manner. This is pretty much in line with the standardization that happened with modern freight containers and allowed a substancial economic benefit, so the comparison is really on point.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Testaccio
I was using a number with Uber Eats and one day they decided they didn't like my provider any more. Needless to say their service wasn't worth trying to figure out why they have a problem. I swear it feels like some sort of conspiracy to make sure major telcos get paid.
I get how this probably reduces spam a little, but it's another one of those things like capchas that can be a massive impediment for legitimate users, but barely a speedbump for actual spammers.
It's going to be hard to get close to BEAMs scaling story. I think you could build something on top of, like, nats.io and get similar scaling semantics. But centralized DBs are brittle for this kind of platform. Redis and DynamoDB are great ... just not for this.

This is extreme and maybe true. The best way to make TypeScript scale like BEAM might be to build a TypeScript -> Beam compiler. :D
Very few of the maths textbooks I've read have had the answers to the exercises in them.

Well it's been a while - by my recollection is that (at fresh and sophomore level at least), the better textbooks always did have answer keys in the back (at least for a significant subset of the problems). But as we all know -- the better textbooks are few and far between. And college is filled with lousy textbooks that get thrown at students for who knows what reasons.

To the extent that they think lousy textbooks are the norm.
I think you are describing two different activities.

You can make something, and

You can engineer something.

If what you are building is a complex distributed software system, if you are not aware of algorithms and the implications they have on the system, then you are not engineering, you are just making. And whatever it is you are making is going to fail a lot sooner that if you were aware of the algorithms and the implications.
>do we really want the ability for anyone anywhere to anonymously fund any political movement?

Like how western nations fund color revolutions and ideological shifts in countries where the majority of citizens are against such funding? Either accept that true liberal (free) democracy means foreign influence to the point of possibly destroying the democracy, or accept that both sides do it relentlessly in a game of power.
>"Weeding out" is what college admissions should be doing, not the departments. When the departments weed someone out, they've wasted at least a year of their life and a year in tuition, and demoralized them.

Admissions can't weed people out, they can only copy the weeding that highschool has done. If you rephrases the question that way, as in, "should highschool teachers be responsible for college admissions," then the idea of letting people join a major they haven't proven themselves capable of doesn't sound so bad after all.
The negative reactions are not about the feature. It is about the crappy Google support.

> if there's any.

Have support.
It could be that meaningful, but sometimes it's not.
A 200% increase in the weekly baseline? That’s… not actually all that much. Basically 2 extra weeks worth of cancellations. It’ll make the KPI look bad, but 70k cancellations doesn’t seem material when you have almost 200m users.
What's the difference between Simula One, Simula One Tethered Edition and Founder Edition?

Simula One: headset + compute pack, works standalone

Simula One Tethered Edition: just the headset, needs a host PC

Simula One Founders Edition: headset + compute pack, works standalone, has extra bling (and potentially slightly better specs as they can make more lead time vs cost tradeoffs)
There are docker instances for Factorio, I think I made my own at some point.

But someone should figure out how to simplify the Clustorio installation into a docker-based one. Then everyone could enjoy 60k SPM giga-bases. Even better add auto-scaling to spin up a new EC2 instance when UPS drops below 60 on any node in the cluster.
Same here, I'm probably considered an alcoholic because of the ammount of liquour I drink per week/month but I can work out every single day and stay in great shape but come friday and saturday I do empty quite a few units. Stopping the weekend urge is hard.
I wrote Elasticsearch CLI just to scratch my own itch, as for certain tasks I just prefer to stay in the terminal. It's written in bash, uses curl under the hood and provides zsh completions for index and alias names.

https://github.com/szajbus/elastic-cli
Could you just downgrade yourself without the company's consent? A upgrade seems fraudulent, but a downgrade...
does this distinction matter at all, in any way to the point they were trying to get across?
I thought it was over a million?
How do you fit the huge title?

> Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes Among Adults Hospitalized with Laboratory-Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Infection During Periods of B.1.617.2 (Delta) and B.1.1.529 (Omicron) Variant Predominance — One Hospital, California, July 15–September 23, 2021, and December 21, 2021–January 27, 2022

I tried to pick something from their summary which might fit here

> What are the implications for public health practice?

> COVID-19 vaccination, particularly a booster dose, continues to be critical in mitigating the health care burden of the Omicron variant.
It depends on the company. In my company (100,000 employees, but in IT less than 3,000) "senior" can be a college student, even "senior manager" can be a 22 year old college student, while "director" is the lowest level manager (with people reporting). They changed the titles recently saying "we have to align to the market", but it was to compensate the low salaries with high, meaningless titles.

For example a colleague was hired as an electrical engineer in a manufacturing plant in Germany. Because she did not speak German well enough (she is an immigrant), they gave her the position of plant IT manager with "senior manager" title. She is not even an IT person, just graduated college in EE, she does not know to write a line a code if her life depends on it. But hey, she is a senior! that is the point of the article.
"Sorry about that brief outage, the biters got closer than I realized and I had to scramble to rebuild the defense system before they overran our Aurora cluster."
I worked at a company where there were lots of managers, directors, and coordinators. And just as many people under them. When I reached the top of my band I had to hire someone. Not because there was more work that needed to be delegated but because I had to move up to the next title "manager" and needed at least 1 person to manage.
Israel evacuating relatives of embassy staff in Ukraine
I’m not young but HN has an international readership and you have to factor in that for people coming from countries where a heavy focus is put on mathematics the average level in the US is hard to fathom. I learned how to solve quadratic equations during my second year of highschool and by the end of it I could basically do it in my sleep, same things with basic derivation. It’s the same for everyone around me.

The idea that you might not know how to do it as someone working in a STEM related field wouldn’t come to me.
The DRMs
(though that's probably not an explanation to a spike in traffic to cancellation page)
Isn't this already a solved problem, though? I have tools that are "free for non-commercial use, pay $xxx for commercial use." Sure it's an honor system (until you need support!), but so is any other licensing method.
When you've had the same account for 20 years, they can probably assume you are an adult.
I used to smoke as a teenager, but I found it effortless to quit and never once considered smoking once I reached adulthood. At the same time my mother has tried to stop smoking countless times, and even now -- with COPD, requiring oxygen supplementation, and unable sometimes to make it up a short flight of stairs -- she still hasn't been able to quit despite trying many times. Weird how that works.

(Also weird: she hid her smoking from us, though obviously everyone knew she smoked. She always smoked holed up in her bathroom. I suppose I always knew where I could steal a few cigarettes!)
If the language implements them as lazy iteration, then I think take_until would be effectively equivalent to break, with early exiting behavior.

List.where(…).map(…).take_until(…)
disagree, google is not any better. (IMO google is the worst now, same as microsoft was once upont a time)

Also Amazon is worse than FB towards open or free software
Ask HN: How do you stay focused when working at home?
Using a throwaway for (I think) obvious reasons.

Like a lot of people, since the pandemic started I have been working from home.

I have a lot of trouble focusing or completing work this way, to a point where there will be days (weeks?) where I accomplish nothing at all other than showing up for meetings that I don't care about. I know a lot of people say they are more productive working from home, and I would like to be too, but that's just simply not been the case for me.

I'm currently on several medications, and am talking to a psychiatrist, and the meds (Wellbutrin + Lamictal) do help a little, but they are insufficient.

I'm not proud of this, this isn't me bragging "look how little work I do!", and I don't want any pity, I just want people who are "good" at working at home to tell me what they do to stay focused. It's getting to a point where managers are giving me the "we're just concerned" speech, and I do not blame them for that.
"Unlike the Sun, which will evolve into a red giant in 6.5 billion years and reach the end of its life at an age of about 10 billion years, Proxima will stay on the main sequence for another four trillion years due to its low mass and low energy production."

They laughed at me when I bought investment property on Proxima Centauri b, but who'll be the one laughing in 10.000000001 billion years?
I re subscribe every month to help their numbers.
This already exists: Google's recently-published LaMDA dialogue model [1] is trained to consult a calculator for arithmetic questions and consistently succeeds at it.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08239v2
+1 for Dsri Seah's tools!

Their Emergent Task Planner kept me on track for years, and I still go back to it when I feel like my day is spiraling out of control. It's a great companion to my existing digital productivity tools.

https://davidseah.com/node/the-emergent-task-planner/

(edit: name correction)
Yeah the immersion is surprisingly good - like when I go through a cloud and droplets accumulate on the canopy, my brain gets tricked into thinking I'm smelling moisture.
> teacher's solution guide

If the person teaching a maths course needs to look the answers up, you are just fucked.
I created an RSS-to-Email service. I used another hosted service for a long time but slowly fed up of some of its missing features. I considered running rss2email but wanted it to be really easy to add new feeds from anywhere, even my phone.

I would run it just for myself, as it is already much better than the alternatives but decided to run it as a service so that others can enjoy. I have a handful of users but don't plan on making it big, ideally it will pay for itself and maybe a nice dinner from time-to-time.
Thanks. I googled it and watched some vids. That does look compelling.
An important part of my workflow[1] is similar to this approach. I believe it's got a lot of potential if done right. One concern I have is the lack of file upload support (I only see images) and that querying relies heavily on tags. WRT the latter, it didn't work until I was able to create new projects that only held notes related to a specific project/topic. The current trend of dumping everything into one big database and hoping for the best when it comes to review and retrieval just does not work for me.

[1] Based on what I can tell from the linked page, which doesn't give a ton of detail.
This is extremely uncharitable. It was buried, but the husband consented to this.

> “You can do it,” [The author's husband] said. “But it’ll be boring. We’re in a pandemic. I never go anywhere.”
Does this mean we can't use VPN anymore?
I think what they mean by this is that EdgeDB's query language should not be coupled to Postgres, but EdgeDB itself should use Postgres specific SQL features to maximise performance - so you couldn't drop in MariaDB without changing code in EdgeDB, but in theory you could write another backend that takes the same queries and uses MariaDB or MongoDB or something custom under the hood.
You have the right intuition. From my point of view, I can easily find higher level ways to scratch my building, thinking, tinkering itches.

I'll have cycles where I'll choose lower levels. For example, most recently I purchased a classic hp rpn programmable calculator and have had fun working through the manual, doing exercises, solving problems with it, and of course, learning to program it.
Did not know there were that many Neil Young and Joni Mitchell fans.

I wonder if there's any studies on the stickiness of cancellations. There were reoccurring pushes to delete Uber since 2017, but not sure how often people went back anyway.
Wow! Where has this been hiding? And looking forward to trying csv.vim.
UK nationals told to leave Ukraine
Sounds about right. We'll replace our lizard overlords with robot overlords.
I think they were hungry.

I guess a better teacher could argue that the way they killed the pig was important to the message in the book.
Nice rant, but it has nothing to do with the app itself. Just use JS, done.
It is keeping the most popular podcast in the world on its platform, despite the host breaking Spotify's TOS on the subject of COVID misinformation.
Posted link goes to login, this might be the intended link:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-already-sentient
I've been waiting a long time for "the cloud" bubble to pop but it might take a recession.
Could Unix Happen Today? Brian Kernighan Looks Back and Forward
The TL;DR quote:

"Instead, I think the stronger point here ... is that the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West – while it was a catastrophe for those people living at the time – was less a product of ‘hoards of barbarians’ coming over the frontier ... and instead a product of actors within the political system, within the empire, tearing it apart out of the pursuit of their own interests, deceived by the assumption that something so old could never simply vanish…until it did. The consequences of their decisions and of their failure to recognize the fragility of the clockwork machine that suspended them above the poverty to come (and that it was already damaged) were great and terrible."

But I highly recommend walking through all the data and discussion of exactly what that clockwork machine was. And then think about if/how today's society is different.
I'm in the process of exporting my playlists. I've been paying for the service since 2011 hate to see them go but I have more playlists, three of them, with Neil Young than I do with Joe Rogan, none. Maybe I'm just an old foggy that likes classic rock, I don't care, I go where my music is. As much as I hate to do it I'm moving my stuff over to YouTube Music.

https://github.com/sigma67/spotifyplaylist_to_ytmusic
They have a bunch of Chrome extensions that spy on what users are visiting online, and use that data to sell their product to marketers.

Personally think Google should get rid of them as they are a travesty to online privacy.
Aliens are just another automation problem, and are really no different than working on the factory itself.
an exercise of "write a function in Java that factors a quadratic." is neither computer science nor programming.

The course described doesn't seem to match your description of comp sci either.

Which matches my experience of a technical course in Waterloo. They need to update their pedagogy.
I wanted to dogfood and experiment on most of the things, from design to SR algo.

My primary goal was to make something i wanted, which means lots of experimentation across the board. I also want to make a very general purpose/flexible system where you can tweak the underlying SR algo based on the type of knowledge. Ie i want to store music scores, as well as units of fact, and the SR algo or logarithms should support either.

Pulling content (Reader) seemed the hard part to me, mostly because of legality concerns.
Any ideas why this service is in the kernel? https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/tipc.html doesn't seem to give provide the motivation.
Improving IoT Apps with Analytics
Seems it got delayed because of deployment issues: https://www.playlostark.com/en-us/news/articles/launch-updat...

> Due to deployment issues the Lost Ark launch is unfortunately delayed. We hope to have this resolved in a matter of hours, and we appreciate your patience. [...]

Off-topic, but what a bland and generic MMORPG. Is there any unique selling point for the game at all?
A hiring manager friend at a Seattle unicorn once asked me to look over resumes. I didn't have a full grasp of how prevalent these "consultancies" are and was puzzled by all the jargon-filled, similar-looking resumes from people who were clearly working for "consultancies". Now I know, they were all looking for a ramp off! Some (many?) may even make great hires, but it' s hard to tease them out by looking at those resumes.
The numbers being called out greatly exceed 3 and 6. Unsure what inflation would have to do with cancellation numbers unless you are arguing that the cost of the service has inflated more greatly than the income of its users. However, the story did seem to give context for what is driving these numbers, and inflation was not one of them. Can you elaborate on why you think it is due to inflation, rather than what the article cited?
I don't use personal domain and that makes it almost impossible to transfer to another provider. Also if you, use SSO it could make things even more complicated.
> For context, the entire market cap of crypto is less than a third of $AAPL.

I agree with your comment but maybe you meant to say “a third less”? Crypto is ca. 70% of AAPL mcap.
Cloudflare acquires cloud-access security broker (CASB) Vectrix
I disagree with that. Even if someone fails all their classes in their first year the experience will teach them much more about life than any job would. The real problem is that US universities cost a lot of money so the cost of failure is insane.
They own a number of popular browser extensions which feed them data and provide them a good "sample" of web traffic

It can be surprisingly close
I canceled my premium subscription because of all of the Joe Rogan episodes they deleted.
At Apple, they do that for you when you leave!
Sugar may not be a drug, but for some reason I had no trouble stopping smoking and have been unable in 40 years of life to quit overindulging in sugar despite many efforts to do so.
> baby-hospital visits are brutal. It's about 8 hours of waiting (usually in the middle of the night) with a screaming child while staff ignores you and then finally says there isn't a problem.

Add to that that depending on your health-care plan, it could cost you thousands of dollars!
A Dictator’s Marginalia: Stalin’s “signs of attention”
Tailwind CSS also has super nice documentation. Really quick omnisearch, and covers basically everything in-depth with good examples, and what CSS is generated from each class.
>courses based around lectures that are literally someone standing at the front of a lecture theatre reading from a text book in a monotone for an hour

Those are my favorite courses!

Then I can stay at home and read the text book myself

It is much better than professors who want everyone to engage in their lectures, so they do not give out lecture notes, and if you miss one class, you risk failing the exam
Theoretical computer science predates modern computers by decades. Everything else is just implementation details.
Unrelated to this (bad) story, I wish there was more competition in that field. AFAIK it's either Spotify, Google, Amazon or Apple. Am I missing any others?
The funny thing is that I might assume a CEO/CTO at a small startup has less experience than a "Chief Software Architect." My assumption would be that the executives are founders and that there's not a minimum experience requirement for founders.
Your app can certainly request whatever data in whatever format from whatever server it wants. Making substantial changes to the app's functionality using this channel is disallowed.
Someone told me that by examining smart meter data by amount, time and duration different appliances could be identified. He was rather surprised himself by the level of detail.
Not just keeping, but paid $100 million for exclusivity.
"Outcomes Among Adults Hospitalized with Covid during Delta/Omicron waves"

Does that fit?
A useful tool for what? I haven't used nicotine in a long time, but from what I recall the impact was basically zero unless I hadn't smoked in a while.
>Vaccines had / have controlled groups where an increase in mortality can be observed.

Sadly this was not the case. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/19/9691430...