skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I alone in really disliking Towards Data Science?

While their articles always look nice, their content is all written quickly by data scientists wanting to polish their resume with the ultimate aim of rapidly generating content for TDS that will match every conceivable data science related search. This post clearly exists solely so that TDS can get the top spot for "Word2vec explained" (which they have). As evidence of this tactic you can see that there already is a TDS post "Word2vec made easy" [0], offering nothing substantially different than this one.

The problem is that content is almost never useful, it just looks nice at first skim through. The authors, at no real fault of their own, are just eager novices that rarely have new perspective to add to a topic. It's not uncommon to find huge conceptual errors (or at least gaps) in the content there.

I personally encourage everyone at every level to write about what they can, but the issue is that TDS has manipulated this population of eager data scientists in order to dominant search results on nearly every single topic they can cover related to DS, which has made searching for anything tedious.

Compare this post to the fantastic work of Jay Alammar [1]. Jay's post is truly excellent, covering a lot of interesting details about word2vec and providing excellent visuals as well.

I'm assuming TDS will fold as soon as DS stops being a "hot" topic (which I think we'll be in the relatively near future), and will personally be glad to see the web rid of their low signal blog spam.

0. https://towardsdatascience.com/word2vec-made-easy-139a31a4b8...
1. https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-word2vec/
I don't think comparing food safetey or toxic chemicals that hurt your health to the design, usability and accessibility of a data export is very valid. The parent argument was not about not having to export data at all. It was about how well designed it was.
isn't this just about a volcano?
It's just a joke, light only takes 3 nanoseconds to go a meter.
> Land ownership should never be perpetual. It should be time limited.

Ownership of anything by a person is already time limited - limited to a human lifetime.

> If land is properly allocated to everyone

Let’s imagine every person in the world should have an equal holding of arable land (ignores lots of other factors, but whatever!). Assuming 8 billion people and 1.6 billion hectares of arable land, works out to 5 people per hectare.

To be fair, USA needs to a double its population (≈ 2.3 times to 760 million). New Zealand needs to approximately halve it’s population.

For other countries, find your arable land figure (it is in Hectares, left most column of main table is 2016 figure) from https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/arable-la... and multiple by 5 to get the fair population and compare that with the actual population.
Bahaha, I'm glad you and your kid had some fun with it :D
That's thinly veiled name-calling - the laziest rhetorical trick when you're out of arguments. Saying "everyone who wears a blue shirt is a liar" isn't much different than saying "nice blue shirt! btw, you're a liar."
This reminds me of the Danmere Backer, which was for backing up data to VHS tapes.
The user experience problems of quadratic voting
Too bad, that hits really close — my monitor is a Philips BDM4065UC.
IMHO, as a user first and dev second, "things entirely controlled by 3rd parties" aren't a bug, they're a feature. That means someone else gets to jump through the hoops to make it work, not me. The vast majority of useful & fun things on a computer are made by corporate 3rd parties, not GNU & Linux volunteers.

Whether it's Netflix, games, Office/Photoshop, obscure drivers, whatever... I can just run an app and expect it to work, and if it doesn't, it's not my problem. I'll wait a while and someone else will fix it.

I don't have to tweak obscure config files or apply patches or sideload package manager repos.

MacOS, and to a much lesser extent, Windows, mostly stay out of the way and and let my apps and sites take center stage. Linux fails that basic test most of the time, favoring purity of ideology over basic user needs. When I have to jump through hoops to get some trivial device working or an app that takes 3 seconds to install on any other OS, that doesn't say to me "this is a great operating system, I can write my own hack to fix this", it says to me "this still isn't ready, two decades later".

I use Linux at work all the time and it's a great workhorse, but at home, I don't want an operating system whose primary selling point is that it requires even more of my time.
That thing is COM, which is a small subset of C++ ABI. Technically it’s about the same as on Windows, i.e. C ABI with extra first argument for this pointer.

Once upon a time I made this library https://github.com/const-me/comlightInterop/ The native side of the interop is idiomatic C++, here’s an example https://github.com/Const-me/ComLightInterop/blob/master/Demo... The C# side of the interop is implemented through the built-in C interop, here’s the relevant part of the library https://github.com/Const-me/ComLightInterop/blob/master/ComL... I’ve tested Linux version of that library on AMD64, ARMv7, and ARM64 CPUs, but only with gcc compiler on the native side.
Agreed. Hopefully the mods will replace the link.
- Your neighbors share your sexting sessions.

- Any joke you make can be misunderstanded by the HOA.

- Someone can see and post your salary in a big sign in front of your home.
I was just in Azores a few months ago and was seriously considering the move there. Truly one of the most naturally beautiful places I’ve even heard the chance to see.

I hope that everyone is able to stay safe and get through this alright.
~~Couriers~~ Carriers shouldn’t be in the business of selling phones at all, but that’s a different discussion entirely.
I always thought the idea was to mirror the terminology of the online gaming community, but I'm interested in being corrected if that's wrong.
> Ultimately I think it’s because the internet is just too big!

I would disagree actually. I think the majority of searches people do and the solutions they would be satisfied with require only indexing major sites. Create a better UX attached to PageRank of the top 10-100k+ Alexa ranked sites and you'd have a competitor that could focus on other improvements.

At the bottom you could search Google or DDG if you want more niche results.

I.e., optimizing UX of the p90 searches would be enough for people to move and the p90 of searches are happy with a pretty narrow range of sites. (You could insert value prop of: no ads, no tracking, and crowd-sourced refinement -- i.e., realtime upvote/downvoting -- of the top results, previews, caching, more knowledge graph stuff on the right side, deeper metadata processing of top sites (i.e., avoiding the need to 'site:*'), or some other revolutionary UX like a one sentence hypothesis solution of exactly what the person is asking for again upvoted/downvoted for refinement -- Google does this but there is a lot of room for improvement). It's fun to think about. There is an order of magnitude in both precision and accuracy that can be improved for huge swaths of common questions people ask on Google.
Exactly. But that will something additional they will have to buy (and install, and maintain) if GDPR would include to "make it instant and pretty for you to look at all the data.". Because that is what the parent discussion was about.
I know.

But I assume they're strongly correlated.

I.e. people who are against virture signaling want to get rid of it, because they got nothing to signal, and it makes them look bad in relation.
I'm super productive in Zig, I really like the language.

Documentation is lacking, so you're going to be reading the stdlib code. There are bugs. The current focus is on building the new stage2 compiler (going from C++ -> Zig implementation) so there are things that need attention that don't get it, yet.

I would not suggest anyone learn C first if they don't have systems programming experience. I'd go for Zig, Rust (or Go, if you just want to dip your toes into the land of pointers) and depending on how comfortable you feel. If you start with one and find it super frustrating, try another, the difference between them is huge. You might personally feel more productive in one, leading to you learning more.
I had the recollection that at least in terms of earthquake risk, the mid-Atlantic region is not nearly as bad for severe earthquakes as the Pacific, since the mid-Atlantic is an expanding / divergent fault. I.e. material gets pushed up gradually and the plates are politely moving away from one another. This is supposed to be less catastrophic compared to subduction where big stresses build up and get released suddenly when things break. Is that generally right?

But of course, that is just the earthquake part, doesn't speak to the volcano or tsunami risk of big mountains erupting or falling into the ocean. I guess this current story is about the possibility of lava/ash, like what happened to the suburbs downslope of Kilauea or Soufriere Hills in the last couple years.

Edit, actually watching one of the videos linked by other commenters, it looks remarkably like Molokai and people living (gulp) at the bottom of steep drop-off/valleys.
You see a "standard CV" as an oppression tool. I see it as a tool to give control over their data, back to the users.

Now you have to upload the same data to LinkedIn, Angels.co, Hired, and hundreds of other services. With an open standard, you could update your data just once.

We are not robots, we are humans who work to live, and we shouldn't have to build our CV every time we look for that work.
> It pushes you to become a better person

I'm sure this is true, I've noticed a lot of the best football playing kids in my son's circles are short, and often immigrants.

> There is no chance you can be unfit, fat or awekward

This is just as true if you're tall. You don't get away with being fat or awkward if you're tall. The only thing is that, ceteris paribus, it's more desirable. It doesn't really cancel any other shortcoming.
I didn't even count those. But they exist too =/
For me Firefox’s UI design started going off the rails with Australis and Photon, where its UI began to be a major component of Firefox as a brand. I much preferred v1-v4 where Firefox felt more focused on being a tool that fit well into your desktop instead of trying to stand out.

I’m sometimes tempted to try to start a Firefox fork that returns its UI to a “smaller part of a larger desktop” look and feel, but then I remember how impossible it would be to maintain that over time. Wish Gecko was still embeddable so one could just write a new UI and not have to keep patches maintained.
Is Ruby Gems a first party thing now? I remember, back in the day, being tangentially involved with creating a Ruby package manager before Gems had become the de facto standard.
Maybe?

When searching for something on HN, I get much better results using Google and site: rather than using the embedded algolia search.

I would have to think that this would be true of a corporate data set as well.

Their api might be what sets them apart, though. I’m not sure… not in that space.
The difficulty curve on the first game was monstrous - every track was trivially easy compared to that brutal ice world.
A very tough question. I feel that it might be quite hard to lure a curious person into Computer Science, who doesn't know anything about the field yet.

One of the books I liked (since I actually studied Linguistics in my Bachelor's) and what drew me towards CS was "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" by Charles Petzold.
A Central-Bank-Issued Digital Dollar Could Enable a Dark Future
Where are the young adult games?
For whatever it's worth, while there are plenty of reasons to be concerned about sustainability and resource consumption, this particular type of natural disaster has absolutely zero to do with humanity.

This is very much something we understand quite well. You're seeing volcanic activity on a volcanic island on a plate boundary. Basically, this is the geological "normal" for this area that's been going on much longer than human civilization.

It's fair to be worried about increased human population in areas that are affected by this, but it's not in any way something caused by civilization's toll on the environment or even something we "don't understand" in some way. There's _tons_ that we don't understand in detail, but the broad brush strokes of volcanoes at a mid ocean ridge is something we understand relatively well. Note that the evacuation is beginning _before_ the eruption due to both local seismic monitoring of the sub-surface and space-borne monitoring of deformation at the surface.
Why not simply search for "False." with Algolia then ?
My current pseudo comes directly from the game! :)
Hey all - author here. This amazing feat of engineering uses a hardcoded list of adjectives, and apparently pegs at 100% when the full list is consumed. Here's the sauce: https://git.j3s.sh/poop.is/tree/master/main.go

I've restarted it and I'm working on making it more resilient, lol. I didn't expect so many hits.

Truly the crappiest link shortener.
What is the process of getting all my data collected by GOOGLE and MICROSOFT?
With yabai I have tiling window manager on MacOS and 100% keyboard driven development, like I would have on i3. It’s more difficult to setup than on Linux but I had too much drivers-related problems with Linux (Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi mostly) to run it daily. Also homebrew seems to be better than any package manager on Linux. Maybe pacman is good enough.
Assuming someone has ever used that link you should have that data as well and with potentially even more relevance than google because you can see which pages are most often visited through external links.
Thanks for that, never occurred to me to look for game soundtracks on Spotify until now, https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6gcAU0fyq74s3oUomwfo?si=...
One advantage I could see is a vertical tab bar mode that’s more visually consistent with the standard horizontal tab bar. Could even animate seamlessly between those modes.
Exactly you can but then your query has multiple places to examine if you want to know what out you should expect. By having it all in the where clause it can read a little better.
GeologyHub has a short video on the situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTxhIEYICWw

Note the risk from landslides onto coastal flat areas.
Heh, but it needs explicit http:// or https:// in front :)
Lifespan by David Sinclair would be my recommendation if you want to energise someone for molecular biology/ biotech
What technologies are more performant for web development than Nginx and PHP?
I would like to know if there is any way to make dynamic websites that perform better than NGINX and PHP, I accept any programming language, even C++

I have tried CGI and C++ but it is extremely slow compared to Apache and PHP. I understand that Node and Python are also slower than PHP.
I still have a month to go before 40; I'll see which group I belong to then.

However, right now, I can't tolerate screens with lower PPI than Retina.
For me the key point to understand what's going on(assumming I got it), is that the hidden layer "has" to produce similar representations for words that appear in the same contexts so the output layer can predict them.

The intuition behind doc2vec it's a bit harder to grasp. I understand the role of the "paragraph word": it provides context to the prediction so in "the ball hit the ---" in a basketball text the classifier would predict "rim" and in a football one "goalpost"(simplifying). But I still don't get why similar texts get similar latent representations.
Thank you, amazing to read these comforting responses especially from an actual geologist!
Code by Charles Petzold then doing Nand to Tetris has given me an abiding (though amateur) fascination with computer architecture, which lead to building a 6502 machine and reading about lots of other architectures.
The benefit of this approach is that it's an addition to PageRank, not a replacement. You don't need massive adoption of the social part I think cause you can link to eg HN, which already links to other sites. It's simply extending the backlinking concept to add personal pages.

Most long tail queries work well enough with Google and indeed most of the benefit of this approach would be in the head where ranking matters more.
Furthermore nothing prohibits users from liking domains, not just individual URLs.
> affordable large monitor with 120Hz refresh rate

This year, I went through four different monitors to find one that works. Stay away from IPS panels, they all suffer from "IPS glow", which is visible when using high contrast colours (i.e., a bright window on a dark desktop background will blast a translucent white "overlay" above and below the window). "Smart" 4K TVs are untrustworthy, IMO (e.g., Samsung is known for spying/spyware and inopportune ads, making them a hard pass).

The ROG STRIX XG43UQ was the only display I could find that runs at 120 Hz, works with a KVM switch (IOGEAR 2-Port 4K DP), has a 16:9 aspect ratio, offers 4K resolution, uses a VESA 100 adapter, and is suitable for programming. The OS must be instructed to render using BGR instead of RGB, which Linux supports. The panel has some subtle horizontal glow in rare high-contrast situations, but it's nowhere as noticeable as IPS panels.

Depending on your definition of affordable, it runs for about $1,300.

https://rog.asus.com/ca-en/monitors/above-34-inches/rog-stri...
What are the generation-defining stats of today?
Removing icons from the menus has been one of the most puzzling decisions they made. In the year or so since its removal, using their menus has been a real struggle, and I can see there's even an entry on Mozilla Connect Ideas for it: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/bring-back-menu-icons/i...

As for the 'curvy' tabs, I can't say I was a fan of it, even in Chrome, it feels like a waste of space and draws attention to it. The straight tabs, even the 'button' tab is a lot better in being out of the way.
Myth: TLS Is Too Heavy for Low-Powered Devices (2016)
The parent argument was about "to make it instant and pretty for you to look at all the data." - not GDPR in general, which I fully agree with and like very much. It is a very different thing if you give users the power to get their data, or want to force companies to present that data in a way laypersons can understand and "like".
I bet Linux, whatever distro you use, wasn’t right for you to begin with; but you made it yours by tweaking it to your liking.

Trust me, you can tweak macOS to your liking, as well. I used to be a Linux lover, but after trying for almost a decade, for my desktop needs, I’ve given up on Linux, and adopted macOS.

macOS is a POSIX environment, and you have almost the whole GNU ecosystem available to you, if you want.
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I'm glad there are some hold outs. It's a great technology it's just not been adopted as much as git. I had to learn git as most job ads specified git.
In my mind "Peak HN" or "Stereotypically HN" has always been this very distinct display of arrogant superiority while pedantically nitpicking some minor fault in OP's comment. Like, someone writes a five paragraph post, clearly an expert in some topic, and the first reply is "Ackshually, you are wrong: You said 'all' in paragraph 3, sentence 12, where you should have said 'some' because I can easily point out a counterexample. Therefore your entire five paragraph post is invalid!" I think it's a pattern all of us (or should I say most of us) have seen...
and APPLE?
How to write a linter using tree-sitter in an hour
At $WORK we serve billions of requests a month on with nginx, php-fpm, and Percona.

In total I think it’s something on the order of ~1000 application servers (nginx/PHP) that are specced to handle 28 concurrents, and 200 Percona instances of varying sizes. A big HAProxy cluster sits in front of the whole thing and cloud flare in front of that.

A whole bunch of memcached servers spread around too. By far the biggest bottleneck is the MySQL servers at the moment, so we rely heavily on memcached to keep requests away from the DBs.
“Orbiter Council” to guide open-source development
and WALMART
What operation are you benchmarking/trying to optimize?
It says in the article that 8 people were killed in the eruption of 1808, more than 200 years ago. From Wikipedia, the most recent significant eruption in the Azores was in 1957. No one was killed.

People have been living in the Azores since the 1400s.

I'm willing to bet that the risk from volcanic eruption in the Azores is considerably less than the risk from, say, traffic accidents in a major mainland city.
> the book starts by saying that it's a benefit to the developer to have one language front and backend

I also cringed at that premise. JS sucks a lot, having it on both sides would make things worse. Yes TS can help here, but only so much. You cannot make up for a languages design mistakes by bolting on a type system. Also: making a SPA-like browser app makes thing think about the state of the application twice! This comes at huge cost. Simple page-to-page applications with SSR are waaaay easier to build an maintain.

When I do browser apps I prefer a strong-typed API spec from which I generate (1) client libs and (2) server stubs. This gives me some safety guarantees over the API barrier.

Using a language like Elm with an "elm-graphql" generated client lib is a bliss. Compile gQL queries in a type safe manner: if it compiles it runs. I feel there is soo much more "tao" (simplicity, peace of mind, zen, less moving parts) in this approach than in the JS-article I just read.
Just a faster alternative than php in general
I have been using Lepton since the beginning. Currently browsing this page with Lepton! Thank you for making the theme and a detailed history of FF theme.
> display resolution has reached "good enough" fidelity

Ehhh it was only a couple of years ago that 4K became affordable at 120hz. I would absolutely buy a 5K display if one with decent input lag and no DP compression existed.
> I don't mean to start a fight between friends! :-)

Nah it's fine ^_^ we both know we have a difference of opinion there, and we balance eachother out on that.

> Sorry, I mangled that with a run-on sentence, didn't I!

Hah, maybe a bit! Thanks for clarifying, that helps. We'll definitely take those comments into consideration when we work on updates to the docs!

Thanks for the kind words <3
You are probably right. But a small angle to tilt the screen may help if the screen is not a main screen.
Any Chinese person coming to the US is from the most privileged class. The Chinese commoner isn't even able to move freely around China.
Fine.

New York City's heating system is powered from the "waste heat" of nearby electricity plants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system

Not that NYC is particularly unique on this matter, plenty of different cities do this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating

As such, New York City's heating is practically free (repurposed "waste heat" from the nearby power-plants).

Your definition of "100% efficient" is rather... bad. Both heat pumps, and NYC Steam Heating systems are far above 100% efficient by your definition.

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There's plenty of ways to go "above 100% efficient", when it comes to BTC-as-a-heater idea.
if that's the case then i wish he told us about those.