skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in no way does it deal with customers conversion, retention rates and all those things.

Those metrics would only be meaningful if the average visitor knew how fast websites and computers can be, and if there are well-known alternatives to your site. Having standards is preferrable to aiming for mediocrity imho.

YouTube probably has decent retention rates but it's a bloated pile of UX hell that people use for a lack of alternatives. Maybe that's why Google manages to make it even worse over time without realising they're digging a second Mariana trench of quality.
Your examples seem pretty extreme, and I would say they are definitely not normal. I'd guess the leadership and engineering quality at this company is sub-par and they probably don't even realize the extent of the problem.

With that said, my experience is that security issues get taken care of when they are very dangerous, or only after the main product tasks get done. Fixing minor issues in a (NEW) product/company that might not survive the year is a comparative waste of time... survival comes first usually.
He can build a clone
> What are good use cases for AssemblyScript?

> Computation-heavy logic like image manipulation, hot game logic, specialized algorithms, emulators, compilers and the likes are great use cases for WebAssembly, and as such for AssemblyScript as well. In some situations it may also be preferable to ship bytecode instead of minified JS, or just the ability to utilize a TypeScript-like language may open up new opportunities, for example for embedded scripting or plugins.

That doesn't really answer the question of why you would want to use AssemblyScript instead of eg C++ or Rust.

It's not as if you get any of the benefits of Javascript, except for a familiar syntax.
The King James Version of the Bible on Project Gutenberg – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10

EPUB with images: 1.7MB

Plain text version, compressed with xz: 1.1MB
3 characters purely selected for marketing reasons. It could also be named WHCRST or any other name.
"Content commentator" would be more appropriate for many of them - when their streams are so reliant on other people's 'content' (gaming streams where all the footage comes from a game, or discussion of TV/movies with many clips, or political pundits commenting on news stories from elsewhere)
Yeah, I'm starting to think Chalopin modeled Dr. Claw after his dream job.
I wonder how this compares to North Korean rates? Same people genetically but vastly different culture and system at this point.
more than many other risks, e.g. falling victim to a terrorist attack.

Organize your life depending on humans, not corporations.

Only humans care once you're in need.

And pay for what you use. There is no free lunch, let other live, too.
Nappucino: Way to Take Afternoon Nap?
And that single HTTP request is 9.5Kb in size. The guy seems to be practicing what he preaches!
Electric vehicles like Teslas still have transmissions. They just have only one gearing.
I don't mind a false color image and they're clearly labeled as such, but the sonification description was flat out wrong and it's not the first time. At best the PR people really don't understand what they're looking at, but the people doing the spectral analysis do, and they oughta know better.
How do you even measure "contribute equally to household duties"? once you open a door to inequality in a marriage it's a slippery slope, next the higher earner can rent a cleaning help for their half of the work letting the other one do their work alone...

Socialism, you do what you can and get what you need, might not work great on large scale bu I do think it should be used at a family scale.
Don't forget Microsoft Research. I mean, OP has been working on their PhD for four years now (albeit part-time).
I think it's more like smoking or alcohol. It's a socialization tool that harms you. People who didn't get hooked don't quite feel the relief of stopping.
It sounds like a hormonal anti-conceptive side effect.
Over 1k Companies Have Curtailed Operations in Russia – But Some Remain
I am thinking of trying it out. Sounds logical.
Care to expand any of those acronyms?
Sure, you can buy it. But should you buy it? Especially when there are far better and much cheaper alternatives.
This company was trying to do something like that: https://www.rpxcorp.com/

Intellectual Ventures started out that way but quickly went on offense.
That's a claim that they made in 2006. Could there be a reason why Amazon said that a slow website would have a massive impact on ecommerce sales back then? Was there some other Amazon product that would greatly benefit from people believing they had to use the fastest hosting service possible for their online store?

Coincidently, AWS also launched in 2006.
Which makes it even more disgusting. IV is what wrecked the reputation of a lot of people for me.
It’s basically the first time we’ve automated perception of vision as it relates semantically with language.

In terms of theory, such systems are candidates for a generic perception engine you might use in say, a robot with cameras, speaker and a microphone.

Perception is just one aspect of intelligence, but this research ultimately makes it possible for a machine to encode data semantically.
I didn't know 'Hypergiant' and 'off-net' were the correct academic terms, but if I understand correctly, this is basically about eg Netflix installing a netflix content streaming server at your ISP. It seems to make perfect sense for them to do so, especially for relatively static content, IMHO.

It's a neat trick to scan the certificates to out these servers, but I'm not really convinced these 'deployments change the structure of the internet'.
I was downvoted in my other comment, so I think I should explain what I meant.

My point was that there is no “we” when we speak of humanity as a broad aggregate this way. There are specific constituencies—for instance, Bolsenaro and his supporters in Brazil—who are blocking the policies that most of us want to implement to stop climate change. It’s not “we” who are the problem, it’s “them”.

If you blame humanity in the aggregate you misdirect your energies and misidentify the solution.

The thing to do is to apply the appropriate political levers to weaken and oppose the constituencies who prioritize status-quo fossil-fuel energy policies over civilizational stability and the well-being of life on Earth. Blaming all of humanity is the equivalent of giving up and doing nothing, and makes the problem worse.
I hope not, I genuinely enjoy driving, I love the feel of shifting gears in my Type R. Plus, in a lot of cars, Type R's are a good example, they have a really high red line, you can squeeze a lot of revs out of the engine. But the gear indicator tells me to shift up at around 3000rpm. Which is more fuel efficient, for sure, but where's the fun in that? I want the option to drive like a lunatic from time to time and get the most out of the engine. I've never driven an automatic, so maybe that's still possible somehow. But I love the interaction with the engine you get from a manual.
Marriage is 50/50, no?
I don't rally get what the US made illegal in this case? The name? The instance?
It is trivial to fork tornado.cash and deploy it as hurricane.cash, is that legal then?
I'd suggest you pick an open source compiler and try to improve it. The people reviewing your work approximate those interested in the same area, some of those are probably employed to do so. That'll give you a list of potential employers plus people who know who you are if you decide to apply.

LLVM / MLIR / GCC all have significant numbers of employees working on them as well as volunteers, partly because hardware companies employ software devs to make them work for their hardware. I'm not as clear who funds front end work, seems to be big companies that like internal tooling.

Compilers are great. Exciting is in the eye of the beholder though, you'd have to expand on what interests you before we could guess a more specific direction to try.
Sorry for the off topic, but the amount of dead comments in this post are halirious high. I guess it's in the top 5 in HN history?
GOG sells new games, too! Just pointing it out so other readers know its an option.
Let's name the elephant in the room: No government is going to make a significant part of the workforce work in (unproductive) elderly care. Societies will eventually start to just get rid of their old, first encouraging life-ending treatment, and eventually enforcing it if there are not enough takers.
STDs are short-term distractions :) best phrase I learnt today/
I'm probably misunderstanding (not a law guy) but that seems like a strange mechanism - members of that group transfer legit patents to the patent troll, on the condition that the troll doesn't sue them. This seems to be arming the troll with the tools to attack outside groups - making it somebody else's problem is not the same as eliminating the problem.

I'd rather see the Cloudflare approach, beat the barbarians back from the gates then destroy the troll's IP inventory with examples of prior art.
Solar feed in tariffs made a lot of sense initially when they helped bootstrap the market for solar panels but now panels have gotten so cheap the costs of rooftop solar are dominated by installation costs we really should reconsider where we allocate our money to achieve the highest reduction in in emissions.

I have more sympathy for the regulations requiring solar on new buildings since it is far cheaper to install while the roof is being built than to retrofit later.

But as a renter who pays for these subsidies through my electricity bill and cannot benefit from them I want to see the maximum amount of renewable generation built out for the cost added to my bill. Utility scale solar works out 1/3rd the price of residential, or roughly the cost of the residential subsidy alone.

Distribution accounts for only 5% or so of the cost of electricity. It is far more cost effective to build utility scale solar in the desert than on individual roofs.
How is latency avoided? I've not paid attention to streaming games or looked how it works. If your mouse input needs to go via the internet to control the 3d character on screen, how is there not a noticeable lag compared to a local rendering of the game?
follow no rules except maybe your own.

The reduction of freedom has a cost as well. Not in the very visible form of shattered skulls but more hidden in the form of lives not lived and pills of various colors.
doesn't swift use inclusive indexing? 1...10 includes 10
I don't know if these exist on the market for consumers, but the way that the big superchargers work around this is to co-locate battery storage, so they can trickle charge from the grid and then fast charge to the car.

If you're going to need to spend 10K it feels like you could possibly better spend that on solar and/or batteries.

Here's a portable charger which claims that it costs the same as a home charger install: https://www.zipcharge.global/

And less geekily, you may just not need a level 2 charger or a full speed level 2 charger:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2019/12/11/dont-s...
They serve as a signalling mechanism all right; they signal that their owner has no taste, and doesn't care.
You can choose not to purchase, to an extent. You will likely use Amazon, microsoft and google at work in most industries. In many, avoiding paying them is highly limiting. I suppose you can also avoid paying the post office

Even if you manage to avoid paying them.... good luck avoiding using their sites, sites hosted by them, or collecting data for them. Good luck avoiding their payment systems, communication platforms, etc. This isn't like avoiding Mcdonalds. You need to be on John Galt's mountaintop to avoid these monopolies.

Sticking to a narrative where Google's monopoly/monopsony represents free choices between free people is idiotic.

I'm not going back to the voting thing again. It's beyond stupid.
wow, that's kinda insane and almost looks more fun for those of us short on words.
Weekrise tries to look minimal and simple at the surface but it has some tricks up its sleeves, like task rollover, repeated tasks, digest emails, analytics and an integrated pomodoro timer and more.
I think it's specific to SD. [Square brackets] increase the weight while (simple brackets) decrease the weight. In the cucumber case I used them to force the model to take into account the less believable part of the prompt, because otherwise stable diffusion often ignores such parts.
My Python package for analyzing Telegram chats
The Education Schools Project
yeah, I could see that.

web3.js is a super bloated library and will be added more frequently unless a team does a more optimal version from scratch

https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/issues/1178
I do know that. But...

Assuming you can even get to the antenna without special tools... you're just going to cut the antenna so short that the radio can't get a signal? On a hunch?

What if the SOC in your vehicle has to download a rolling encryption key every week in order to activate?
AML = anti money laundering

CYA = cover your ass
I talked to police when I and my girlfriend were victims of a robbery. I have a few friends among lawyers (judges, attorneys and prosecutors). All of them say that the reason the police don't go after theft is that even if they catch them the courts are going to release them back or slap them on the wrist. Repeated thieves only go to jail if you collect series of cases and then they are back into it after half a year or whatever sentence they get.

The paper you linked doesn't mention aggressive, proactive policing. It wasn't tried anywhere in the Western world. It mentioned punishment comparison in UK, Sweden and US and is about general crime. All those countries have similar punishment and attitude to theft.
Meanwhile countries where they cut hands or has done so in recent past has very little theft.

I tend to agree it's more important to catch thieves than punish them harshly but the point is we are not doing either so I vote for people who at least acknowledge it's a problem.
Some things at certain scales are just not the main priority.

This means security might not be valued, but that is a risk the business is taking in order to more resources towards the multitude of problems start-ups face...
Correct. I sued a party in Germany, won the case, got awarded 10K in legal costs (which actually was quite high, but it was a complete travesty) and another 25K in damages as well as annulment of whatever the suit was about.

Then the party I sued absconded to the US (he already had a house there and his family was already living there) and simply never returned.

The real legal bill was 50K. But at least the annulment stood and that was the main thrust of the suit.
this core. Know your partner. Usually means about comparable sizes.

Few friendships between ants and elephants.
Yes the clutch becomes your BFF. But can you really say that a manual is not for daily use ? It certainly helps when dealing with ice & snow.
Look at his questioning in COVID-related oversight hearings, there's a lot of grandstanding - given that he has a medical education it's disappointing that he leans so heavily on rhetoric instead. I would not be at all surprised to see him vote against a cannabis legalization bill, citing some obscure technicality or averring that it doesn't go far enough. We might even find out this session.
Read „she has to“ as: she is innately driven to
I think from a purely mechanical point of view, this is the case, meaning that if you have two cars, one with manual gearbox and one with an automatic gearbox, both driving at the same speed with the same gear ratio, the one with the automatic gearbox will likely use slightly more fuel. But even this might not the case at all possible speeds. But at some speeds when the car with the manual gearbox is using the wrong gear, it might use much more gas. The problem with the manual gearbox is not in the gearbox but the human using it. First of all, not all drivers know when is the best moment to change gears and even if they know, they are not always able to change gears at the right moment. When you are turning on a crossing and accelerating, switching gears can be difficult.

Also automatic gearboxes can change gears usually much faster than humans. Operating the clutch is hard and when not done in the correct way, letting the clutch slip too much, waste energy.

Taking this all into account, in many cases, an automatic transmission might be more efficient.

I have been driving cars with manual transmissions all my life. My current car as indicator lights telling you when to change gears up and down. I often find myself skipping gears, especially when accelerating in the city, I often skip fourth gear. The car has six gears and you should already switch to the fifth gear when driving 50Km/h. My first car only had four gears, and the fourth gear was only used when driving over sixty. If a car has more gears it also means that you have to shift more often, which might make driving less efficient in city traffic due to the many more moments you shift slightly at the wrong moment.
This was my very first thought - TCP/IP behaviour isn’t carved in stone, just make your server send more data at the start!
I use the Mac app Focus for this, even though you find it gimmicky I have it set up in the same way as you do on the most part.

I have a whitelist, rather than blacklist, so only sites that are related to doing productive work are allowed as well as apps. But the application has a break feature, which gives it out in five minute chunks, so if i want to stop and look at anything other than work, I have to go into the menu bar and select break and then i get five minutes.

Once that is up, it resets and I have to go back in and do another five minutes, this limits my time and makes me more aware. I can also set a max time for the overall amount of five minute chunks I am allowed if I want to get more restrictive.

Timers seem to be the key for me with anything though to be honest.
They mention in the article that the 14 kb performance cliff applies to compressed size - I believe 32kb is the uncompressed size here
That's easy in Sweden, I simply ask "do you have Fiber at the house" and the answer is mostly yes
The article feels like it's about a decade out of date. These days the issue has largely shifted from manual vs automatic to ICE vs hybrid vs full electric, with the obvious consequences for transmission type.
Insanity in one sentence.
Some popular sites have alternative interfaces, e.g. Twitter → Nitter. They are a much better user experience if you just want to lurk. Configure your browser to automatically redirect:

• https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect#custom-inst...

• https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ (use for Imgur → Rimgo until Privacy Redirect has it)
I had trouble parsing this argument. You lost me way at the beginning:

> For economy to work beyond pie fallacy you need situations where most of the economy is driven by people who make wealth by creating things out of nothing.

It's unclear whether you're trying to propose an alternative model here ("beyond?") or are expanding upon something you call a fallacy but still use as the basis of your argument.

> Almost any where, where you need a raw material as an input to make a thing, the supply of that is limited, and therefore subject to these demand-supply issues(predatory behaviour/rent seeking).

I don't see how rent-seeking fits into that, so I'm going to assume you're talking about predatory investments here. Why we are fixating on goods and specifically on acquiring them for some process I don't know either.

> But on the short run, everything even in knowledge economy work, money is made literally by moving it from person A to person B. Hence A wins at the expense of B.

The other way around maybe? Does either make sense? If I invest in your company, I am giving you money: Am I winning or am I losing? Am I behaving predatory? Are you?

To most people the answer can be found by looking at the transaction in a broader context, you don't seem to even care.

I get that predatory is ill-defined in economics, but your interpretation of it seems to be useless at best. If "predatory investment" means the same as "investment" to you, then predatory is not a useful qualifier in this context. You'll have to come up with a new word to describe what others simply call predatory.

The only way for your construction to make any sense would have been to show that all investments must be made with the goal of rent-seeking and/or be predatory, while both terms each would describe only a subset of investments.

There is no point to having this conversation if we don't even share the same useful terminology.

But even if we sorted that out, the argument likely would still be incomprehensible to me. I wouldn't know where to add the words "Therefore all forms of investment are either predatory or rent-seeking." if you held a gun to my head.
Resources for mathematician turned SW engineer?
Hello!

I have a background in mathematics, and I am currently embarking on a career as a SW engineer. I have some experience working as as a software developer previously, and I am familiar with many CS concepts. However, I feel that I want to brush up on this knowledge and build a more solid base for myself.

Thus, I am interested in some resources to learn/re-learn more about CS, everything from foundational concepts to more practical (e.g. how does a computer work at the hardware level). Any resources particularly ”geared towards” mathematicians would be especially interesting!

Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance!
if the kdramas are indicative of their society, they believe kissing will make you pregnant ;-) seriously, they should take a page out of japan's playbook- legalize pornography and establish a contest to encourage economic and population growth :-)
Same thing happened to SUVs. It's mostly "i want a bigger car than my neighbour" kind of thing , and now there are many more SUVs, driving in a sedan around them feels a bit intimidating, as you are worried they may not see you well enough on the road. It's a downward spiral. Now people want something even bigger on the outside and they go with pickup trucks.
I know, right? The Dutch version of Wikipedia says he's worked at Microsoft since 1992. You're bound to hear some interesting stories during that time.

(Somewhat surprisingly, the English version of Wikipedia does not have an article about him. Raymond Chen (Microsoft) redirects to an article about the now-defunct Microsoft Developer Network, which mentions him once, in passing.)
Is nobody really doing anything irresponsible anymore, en masse? where is the party, hookup, pregnancy and carry-to-term scene? is that not happening, or is the party, hookup scene all just that risk-free right now - even when pregnancy occurs

because the latter suggests that people really just don't want kids, and possibly never really did

its hard for me to think that all of society uniformly is successfully planning for children now, instead of many children being a bunch of accidents that the parents just go along with
The missing piece for me in any renewable puzzle is evidence. At a grid level (either state or national) has anyone actually figured out how much storage we need? Based on say a P90 worst case, what % of power is down, for how long, and how much storage do we need to manage that?

Or any such similar study. Traditional power gen is much easier. Plonk it down and essentially it works (with various stabilisation mechanisms in place). Renewables however take a lot more planning.
You replied to a thread about a photography website. I don't think 720p images are the norm for that use case.

In any event, I don't think the AVIF result at 250 KB is acceptable for photography either: https://0x0.st/o93a.avif - There's a ton of smearing and blurring that's very obvious when you're viewing the image at full size.