skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We don’t often value experience because, you’re right, often times fresh eyes do bring useful insights.

This isn’t quite what I’m getting at. Even in an office environment, I bias towards valuing experience over naive and idealistic attempts to fix everything that’s wrong.

My point is closer to: those fresher experiences are ephemeral and also an important signal alongside deeper experience and institutional knowledge.

Office environments are also full of inexperienced people trying to fix systems they don’t understand.

My point is not that inexperienced people should be taking over, but that people in positions to institute change should be listening to newcomers along with seasoned veterans. I don’t see this as an either/or stance.
There is a difference though. Apple does at least some amount of malware scanning during notarizarion and they have your credit card/some personalia on file, which means that they can go after you.

I know, stolen credit cards, etc. But at least it’s something (App Store would be better due to sandboxing).
> If the intervals overlap, the difference is not statistically significant.

Demonstrably false. Obvious counterexample: the study in the OP, which has overlapping confidence intervals and a statistically significant difference.

Proof: just calculate the 95% confidence interval for the difference between the two means. You can figure out what the stddev was from half the confidence interval divided by the z-score for a 95% confidence interval, 1.96, and you get 1.02 and 1.30 for the two groups. Then the confidence interval is:
(10.4 - 6.3) +/- 1.96*sqrt(1.02^2 + 1.30^2)
gives [0.86, 7.34].
This does not include 0, therefore the difference is significant.

> The probability that a sample mean for a large sample is above the 90th percentile is massively lower than 10%, and depends on n.

I was trying to give a basic intuition about normal distributions with a simple example, the distribution of one sample is a simpler example of a different normal distribution. Yes obviously the distribution of an estimate of X given lots of samples is not the same as the distribution of a single sample, I never claimed it was.
OTOH, those other languages have decent ecosystems.
How the data center site selection process works at Dropbox
The big difference is that saashup offers developers a platform to host they applications to third party people.

The platform is free for the developper to host the applications, the only one who is paying is the person which use your application.
I don't think these examples are bad. From a clarity standpoint, where you have multiple people looking at your experiments, the first one is quite bad and the second one is much more informative.

Requiring a user problem, proposed solution, and expected outcome for any test is also good discipline.

Maybe it's just getting into pedants with the word "hypothesis" and you would expect the other information elsewhere in the test plan?
Congrats to the author! Marginalia is a great service. I hope they find a way to make it viable to keep going, either through donations or some other model.
“ The digital emissions from this story are an estimated 1.2g to 3.6g CO2 per page view”

I’m a little surprised that the emissions are so high per page view. I’ve never looked at co2 emission calculations for web pages before, but this seems a little high.
The thing is, that to human knowledge it is currently the only viable way to handle the situation. But still it is not a solution.

A solution would be to make it non-hazardous. But there is no viable way to do it right now.
> I am so sick of these shoesalesman trying to get you to adopt their platform which runs on another platform which runs itself on wishful thinking and startdust.

I think you misunderstood basically everything about this post. The author is not saying to adopt the author's platform, the author is saying that beyond a certain scale, every org is actually building their own internal platform whether they elect to view it that way or not: the author is arguing the opposite of what you describe in this sentence.

> You dont get people who do "DevOps" fresh out of college or people that have been barely using a computer for some time. You get the dudes with experience, but every time someone with experience makes up one of these buzzwords like "platform engineer" "lord of the box" or whatever, tons of people just assume the role without having the experience.

did you even read the post? From the post:

> We have an industry-wide shortage of expertise in the cloud space, a great IDP should have safe, dependable building blocks for designing cloud services quickly.

The ... entire argument is that you need strong foundations and reusable building blocks, and those things take expertise to build specifically because most product engineers do not have or want that expertise.

Your whole argument is describing something the post isn't saying.
Disingenuous from the get go. This device starts at 3x000.
How much did apple watch/iphone v1 start at?
I'd accept that it's not losing a lot of users, but I can't imagine it's gaining any?
I can tell you how I saw it happen first-hand from my "biased" viewpoint.

It was 100% career-bullshitters within the org wanting to make a name for themselves by "introducing" something that the clients wanted and was a "big gap" for the consultancy. They latched onto this buzzword, and at the same time it was combined with clients latching on to it as well from all the hype it was getting in conferences, talks, articles, and other places where bullshitter evangelists push their drug. Never mind that in every sales meeting with clients we "promoted" this buzzword - so no wonder they "asked" for it.

Had one of my projects burning for a year as a result, where we were told by leadership to rely on a "platform engineering" team that had a ready-made platform. Meanwhile it was just a bunch of arcane priests that knew some awful-looking JS/JSON inside a YAML templating language, running on some weird platform tool that manages K8s. Found out about the mess when I inquired after a month where this ready-made "platform" was, and they said they were still "bootstrapping a K8s cluster in AWS", then waited another 2 months for them to "bootstrap" the QA and production environments. Meanwhile the platform engineering team was led by a career-bullshitter and they had just a bunch of guys that basically did some bootcamp courses, certs and minor experience in "Their Chosen DevOps Tech".

Leading to such wonderful talks summarized as: "Oh you want to explore the Hashicorp stack and weigh pros and cons? Fuck you, it's a poor-man K8s, we know better, shut up and stay in your lane."

Never again.

From that point on, this function 100% stayed within the dev team's control. Architecture, platform-ing, SRE, devops, whatever you want to call it.
How about we reprocess it and use it as nuclear fuel. IIRC France is the only country that does this. We just don't like the kind of reactor needed.
Yes, as I said, that is not what is happening in this instance.
This is an "old man yells at clouds moment." Eventually you either give up on expecting the media to be a purveyor of good or, at a minimum, frame an argument such that laymen have a thoughtful view on an issue OR be perpetually frustrated - yelling at clouds, so to speak. I realized I had to choose the former for my own mental health. The incentives of 24 news cycle media in no way align with a healthy society. Best to accept that truth and move on.
Depending on how bad it goes, it's unavoidable without upending your (current) life. Sure, let's assume things don't go too bad and you just avoid properties at close to sea level right next to the ocean. That's fine.

But what if you're expecting for things go real bad? Do you rule out living in NYC completely? Do you preemptively move out of Florida leaving all your family behind? The issue is that this is not a swift "now the bad thing happened and it took us all together" crisis. For the better or worse, humans are actually reasonably ok with dealing with situations like that.

This is a "your life is going to suck at some indeterminate point in the future, maybe, and depending on where your roots are, maybe you can avoid it at the cost of continuous great personal expense" crisis. No one can possibly be well prepared to deal with that and I'd wager that's where the incredible frustration around climate change comes.
Holland is also pretty damn flat
> the world runs out of cheap uranium very quickly.

Citations ?
Martinus Evans, the 300-pound marathon runner leading the 'slow AF' club
I agree that outcome is worse. However, both extremes are bad. The optimal approach would be to do a little bit more work upfront, pick a "better" thing (where "better" is at least more than the next sprint or 3!), and use that.
Uranus’s hidden polar cyclone, revealed
Or people deemed to not deserve access to services (the entire nation of Russia recently). Or people who were cut off from payment processing, like Wikileaks.
Pretty cool, congrats!
For the collaboration part, Mondragon sounds exactly what you're looking for.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

As for creating the worker owned businesses, I would recommend requiring every business that receives tax breaks or government contracts of any kind be equally owned by the workers.

That is public money and it should be used for the people's businesses. Don't worry, private businesses are so efficient, they don't need government help! Bootstraps.

Another idea is turning every post office into a bank and they only issue loans to local worker co-ops?
Calling any modern software "janky" is just truth in advertisement.
Webflow CMS is expensive, I can see a small business starting out with Webflow and getting locked in. I can't see a more mature business doing this, as they'd want hosting flexibility. WordPress page builders don't have any hosting lock-in.
I came here to ask the same question and say this. I can’t believe that Money Stuff is free.
It was such a big screwup they had to backtrack on one of the changes, resulting in 2.7 -> 3.3 being easier than 2.7 -> 3.0
I take it users will be able to vote out Admins and the CEO as well?
What the author is missing(my bias, I am currently writing some app design books):

1. It's not puzzles alone, but puzzles in their subject of interest.
2. The underlying math is reachable if its presented as a puzzle in their subject of interest.

Some puzzles are more sneaky, how many know that the game monopoly is an economic game about cash flows?
> almost no chance of coming true

I agree, with caveats.

The worst case emissions scenarios (RCP 8.5) are not likely to happen because we'll hit economic limits that prevent us from accessing every last drop. We're already past peak conventional oil and dipping into the low EROI tight oil. At some point in the future, there will be plenty of oil left but it will be the bottom of the barrel, too expensive to access at a profit. So even if we technically have enough carbon in the ground to spike CO2 to those levels, economic incentives and availability of alternatives are likely to prevent it long before we get there.

That said, I think we're underestimating the impacts of even low emissions scenarios. Even if we stopped all CO2 emissions today, we're locked into a wild ride of feedback loops for the next century or more. A low carbon future doesn't free us from climate impacts. I'm not saying we should give up on mitigation but we certainly can't ignore adaptation - no one is "fixing" climate change without a time machine.
But may not be better than shutting it all down.
You really have to be able to build samples based on the first part of the hypothesis: you should test 4 groups for a crosstab. (Also, homogeneity may be an issue.) Transitioning from qualitative to quantitative methods is really the tricky part in social research.

Mind that 3/5 doesn't meet the criteria of a binary test. In statistical terms, you do know nothing, this is still random. Moreover, even if metrics are suggesting that some users are spending considerable time, you still don't know why: it's still an assumption based on a negligible sample. So, the first question should be really, how do I operationalize the variable "user is disoriented", and, what does this exactly mean. (Otherwise, you're in for spurious correlation of all sorts. I.e. you still don't know why some users display disorientations and others not. Instead of addressing the underlying issue, you rather fix this by an obtrusive button design, which may have negative impact on the other group.)
That feeling when you walk out of an office for the last time, to work on your own thing is exhilarating. I had my moment like that back in 2014 and can still remember it.

Congrats to Viktor and good luck!

Going to go and try your search engine now.

Previous discussion of the search engine a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35611923 (196 comments)

Many other posts and blog posts over the last couple of years: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=marginalia.nu
When you write code, do you also ignore edge cases to keep things simple?
Yeah it especially doesn't make sense since most of Bloomberg is paywalled. Even the web view of Money Stuff is paywalled I think? But the newsletter is not.
I agree to in way that this is currently the only viable way to handle the situation. But it is not a solution.
Absolutely nothing, it's weekend.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazushige_Goto who was one of the few programmers to actually be qualified to use Goto.
most well-run companies are always looking at ways of getting rid of dead wood

So get a job at a badly run company. Find a huge multinational which works in a wide variety of fields and apply for a job in a department without clear deliverables. Send lots of emails, attend lots of meetings, be friendly to everybody and always look busy. If anybody asks, you're mostly working on a vaguely defined internal project being run out of the Singapore office at the moment.
do you refer to Reddit data? Or Common Crawl before 2022?
This is not how it works... i have been there, and the thing is you have to pretend you are doing something extremely demanding which justifies your salary. This basically becomes your job, and comes with surprising stress, since you are essentially constantly faking something that may be uncovered.

Glad I took a salary hit and went on to do something I truely enjoy....
free email forwarding?
I've seen this phrase a few times and absolutely love it: "teach kids, not subjects"
Yeah, I decided to use an "Arduino" 10MT "PLC" board as my I/O extender since it comes with optically isolated inputs, 4-20mA analog input and a 24VDC power input, all of which I can use. At the improbable price of $22.75!
> "A lot of your coastal historical cities are going be be underwater and parts of your country will become uninhabitable, meaning you and everyone else will need to move elsewhere" is absolutely horrific.

Which cities and what timeline are you talking about? Sea level has risen like a half a foot in the last 70 years. That's not all that fast.

Meanwhile, places like Netherlands are increasing their land area over that time.
Oh.... my... I can see why! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurs_(TV_series)#Series_f...
An Atlas V can get 400kg to the nearest star (well any star) by launching on a solar escape velocity -- see New Horizons. An expended F9 has a similar payload I think.

You'd have to construct a container that would survive a failure - so an explosion of the rocket (on the pad or during launch), or a failure in LEO where it would have reentry. That container would then need to be able to be recovered no matter where it landed on that failure -- so things like floating would be important, and some form of control over landing so it didn't crash onto someones house. Or in an inconvenient country. Obviously it has to stay in one piece.

Now sure, much of that shielding doesn't need to go beyond LEO, but it leaves very little room for the actual payload.
> good intranasal sars-cov-2 vaccine boosters

I like USSF's Qyndr vaccine candidate, it's an oral one. For mucosal immunity I've read that it doesn't matter whether the vaccine is targeting the upper-respiratory system or the gut.
Sam Altman is on the board of Reddit, with all the peddling he is doing with US congress to limit other companies from building a "competitor", I think he is the one putting pressure on Reddit to stop API access, to hinder others.
I wouldn't even be surprised if that was true.
Slightly more plausible alternative: cessation of fossil fuel subsidies.
"I make the systems IT uses"
Can Any Distance Outpace Strava?
So paying criminals.

Before anyone says paying criminals for illegal drugs is a victimless crime, remember that a significant portion of the illegal drug trade is run by the cartels and other organized crime organizations which do victimize people.
But it’s _not_ abhorrently bad. There are so, so many high quality platforms out there which exist solely to teach coding. It’s not 1990 where people learn C++ from a textbook anymore, the bar for good programming education is actually incredibly high now.

I’m of the opinion that coding just something not everyone is going to like, just as I’ve never enjoyed painting or basketball. I don’t think there’s a lack of good tools, we just started with an incorrect premise that it’s possible to design a tool that makes someone like something that they assuredly don’t.
Did he CEO address any of the concerns the mods are fighting for?
They can kill all 3rd party apps if they want, but all the mods are asking is for the functionality these apps are providing and Reddit is unable to provide. Instead of focusing on that or propose a plan for that, they are going over and removing the biggest fans of the site? Mods love the site so much that they spend huge amounts of their time for free making Reddit viable/usable. Now Reddit decides to punish them? Boneheaded move like Elon.
This is why anyone serious about "protesting" the changes should be deleting their account and overwriting/deleting all their comments and posts. Does it suck for the future, and for anyone trying to use that wealth of collective knowledge? Yes, of course. But that's also the only way to really hurt them at this point. Subreddit blackouts are completely ineffective, and drops in traffic with resultant dips in ad revenue are momentary blips. It's scorched earth or nothing.
In this case, they're not teaching software engineering. They're teaching CS/programming. Having to figure out finnicky tools gets in the way of that.
This one of the main things about cobol people don't understand; all memory is statically allocated, there is no dynamic memory allocation. Well there can be, but not generally. No call stack, no heap. In reality, cobol, the 85 standard and before was really very primitive. The new standards have changed this obviously, but no one uses those. The terminology this person would have understood is "working storage".
I think someone should make a movie out of this fiasco
That's very different from "stop letting them buy gas" - It doesn't punish people for continuing their current standard of living nor forcibly reduce it and it doesn't immediately destroy the value of gasoline passenger vehicles, in fact it may increase them unless charging infrastructure catches up in those places.
I think in this context, grammatical correctness is irrelevant, and what you actually want is just raw text as written by real humans from all walks of life.
>Next, they'll hand over fan-built communities to the entities that own the IPs they're dedicated to. Eg. r/starwars to Disney, r/startrek to Viacom/Paramount, etc.

This is obviously not going to happen, and insinuations to the contrary are just sour grapes. The fact that this could even be upvoted speaks poorly to the Redditization of HN.

>Aaron Swartz is rolling in his grave.

He has been for years. These same powermods have been at the forefront of demanding changes that undermined his vision.
I have been to reddit, and it is a decent place to find answers, I even answered a few questions. But to me, it is a fancy USENET with pictures. It also may have the added ability to profile you based upon what you do on it.

But, I use USENET more, to bad people would not bring it back or make adjustments to it. You can have moderation there too. But I think there is a lot bureaucracy involved with creating a mod group (outside of alt). Maybe with a bit of work, it could be made easier to use.
I love devices like this with full-travel keyboards. In the pursuit of the almighty thin, we've sacrificed great keyboards.
My recollection of the details is fuzzy, but I think a common solution to this is connection draining. You set up your deploy to bring up the new instance and direct all new traffic to that one and then hold the old one open until all sessions/connections end.

Can't remember if/how that routing was accomplished in the BEAM (Erlang/Elixir VM). It's definitely possible but you might have to implement it yourself.
This feels like a brainstorming exercise where you come up with a few bizarre ideas to open your mind a little.

And you’re right, just because someone had an idea doesn’t make it a “plan”.
On Rust and Rust Tooling
The data is already there.

People will get bored with manipulations and they can just ignore current timespan.

Even currently, creative individuals is 0.01% of users which is easy to spot with simple heuristics especially given such a small percentage and the fact that false positives don't hurt.

Detecting automated / fake content and silently marking it is probably 90% of what coders do there even without the drama. I think they are pretty decent at it.

Even if they couldn't distinguish fake content, there's a good chance neither could its buyers so nobody cares.

I just think it's a bad fight to choose.
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Good riddance. The moderators are the worst part of Reddit. Just pay someone to do their job.
> private meetings and communications

Private meetings aren’t private after the CEO posts a completely mischaracterized version of said meeting already. Canada is also a one-party consent state, so he was fully in his right to do everything he did.

> I can't expect much of a relationship with reddit to survive after the fact.

It’s funny that this is the straw that caused you to think the relationship was over, and not the obvious and easily disproven libel that the CEO kept doubling down on.

Anyone that looked at the situation objectively could see who was clearly in the wrong, and it wasn’t Christian as you keep implying. Reddit completely torpedoed their relationship at every single turn and at this point has quadrupled down on it.
Im curious what percentage of living expenses are covered by the project for the author. I have a few products generating over 50% of my yearly expenses and am feeling like going full time is almost a possibility now.

A bit too nervous to pull the trigger just yet
I'm not sure I follow, honestly. If you are trying to hold colloquial use to a technical measure, good luck. Even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_naming has "While COVID-19 refers to the disease and SARS-CoV-2 refers to the virus which causes it, referring to the "COVID-19 virus" has been accepted." Meaning, that ship sailed.

More, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19, clearly talks about people having the disease but not being symptomatic. Such that you may be building a false divide? Yes, the virus is different from the disease. That does not imply that you only have the disease if you have symptoms.
Serious question. How much time per week do moderators spend providing free labor for Reddit? Why do they do it? Is it like a fun hobby?
You can’t read it reliably on the phone and it requires a paywall passer online, and recently (in may) it stopped being delivered to my inbox.