skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why exactly is MDN considered a more authoritative source than w3schools?

MDN would, I suppose, be a more authoritative source on what Mozilla thinks. And, presumably, a less authoritative source on what everyone else thinks.

The principle difference as far as I can see is that w3schools gives me the same information in 3 pages instead of 10.

My suspicion is that google cares less about what you think, and more about what everyone else thinks.
I don't wish they'd bring back cursive; I wish they would teach shorthand. If I would have learned shorthand in the 2nd grade, it would have made every single class I took after that better, because I could have taken much better notes.
I use Excel's "/, Q, <search>" frequently, because I'm often searching for a feature whose name I remember, but whose place or existence in some menu or panel of the Ribbon is ephemeral or not memorable, often changing with window size.

If only activating the search box weren't so slow!

It feels like I'm starting a moderately large app and waiting for it to load (while still being faster than clicking through Ribbons and opening various subpanels by clicking on teensy "arrow in a corner" widgets).

I'd expect it to be a tiny array of text held in memory for instant access, with no perceived delay between when I finish typing "/Q" and the search interface appearing.

But then, I'd also expect the first search result to be selectable by just hitting <Enter>. Having to use an arrow key to navigate down one, then press <Enter> is unfortunate, especially when using an MS Surface's keyboard's half-size up/down arrows.
> I will bet you that, in practice, they simply avoid collecting against anyone who demonstrates ability and financial resources to enforce their rights. This is one for the history books of borked equilibriums. We devoted substantial efforts to pro-consumer legislation to address abuse of (mostly) poor people. We gated redress behind labor that is abundantly available in the professional managerial class and scarce outside of it, like writing letters and counting to 30 days. (People telling me they were incapable of doing these two things is why I started ghostwriting letters for debtors.) We now have literal computer programs exempting heuristically identified professional managerial class members from debt collection, inclusive of their legitimate debts, so that debt collectors can more profitably conserve their time to do abusive and frequently illegal shakedowns of the people the legislation was meant to benefit.

That is such a common pattern. Growing up, I saw the same happen with the German welfare system: there's enough of a social safety net in that country that no one would have to be homeless. But, to access the social safety net, you have to navigate some minimal amount of bureaucracy and paperwork.

That bar isn't very high, but if you have at least that minimal skill with paperwork literacy, you are also much more likely to have a job and much less likely to need the welfare.

So all in all, Germany still has homeless people, despite welfare programs generous enough in principle that no one needs to be homeless.

Addendum: Singapore has an ingenious system to ration the amount of subsidies you get on hospital bills without any bureaucracy. The basic idea is that when you go for a hospital stay, you get to pick how much etxra creature comforts you are getting, like your own private room vs an open word with many beds. The copay for the fancier options rises 'progressively' enough, that the absolute amount of government subsidy goes down. People tend to self-sort voluntarily.

The medical care you receive is the same for any of the options.

I can imagine an argument that this is somehow against the dignity of poor people to put them into comparatively crowded wards, and that everyone should get the same treatment (like eg the British NHS does, modulo the option to go to a private hospital for enough money). But I suspect many of the poorer people are happier to put up with that 'indignity' than with paperwork and privacy-invading bureaucratic means testing.

In total, adding up private and public expenditures, Singapore spends about half as much on healthcare as a proportion of GDP than the UK does, which spends about half as much as the US. Medical outcomes are no worse in the cheaper systems.
Maybe the Cyc team could provide some generalization tips.
It sounds like the WebGL initialization thing is ridiculous. They better fix that.

But aside from that, collecting a minimal fee seems fair enough to me. If paying 20 cents per sale of your successful game is ruining your life, maybe consider investing in some of the open source game engines.
Me too.

I've used it in every startup I've worked at.
actually, i had enrolled my ipad air for apple care, specifically to reserve the right to complain, some day, when i am no longer happy with the port feel.
Even though we have calculators, learning to multiply in your head is a valuable skill. Why because you can use it even when the power is down.

Handwriting similarly. You can write even when there is no computer around, or when power is down. I also believe the argument that it enhances motoric-skills.

And reading? Do we really need to learn reading when we can just ask Siri to read it out loud for us?

Computer-skills of course are valuable too.
Windows here, but thanks.

But it really puzzles me how that feature needs wifi. Regular TCP/IP has everything you need to discover devices on the network and connect to them. What exactly is 802.11x adding here?
That ... wouldn't be USB lol, if every version has a different connector it's not... universal lol
Phenylephrine is a straight up scam. It shouldn't be sold as a nasal decongestant anywhere. In Australia you practically have to undergo an interrogation to get pseudoephedrine, and if you fail the test (which has happened to me, because I said the word 'pseudoephedrine'), they direct you to phenylephrine instead - which does not work.
Weren't there reports back in the Occupy Wall Street days of people organizing to buy up debt like this and then just forgive it all?

It sounds like debts are sold in such bulk that there's no way to do something very targeted, like starting an org in your town to buy debt from your ZIP and collecting contributions to cancel your neighbors' debts, but if these debts are already only worth 5¢ on the dollar to the sellers, it seems like it would make quite a news story if you could.

If I could buy up $2000 of my neighbors' debt for $100 and remove that burden from them? I think I would, at least occasionally.

But even if you don't assume goodwill, if the whole community knew the plan was to buy and cancel everyone's debt, you could probably get the debtors themselves to band together to do it!
Very few people are dying of COVID-19 anymore. There's no valid reason to change human culture and social behavior just because we now have five endemic coronaviruses instead of four.
I never understood why people say things like this and then turn around and shit on the apple laptops for using usb-c for everything.

I don't think people earnestly and legitimately think usb-c should be used for everything, and the cost of doing so is incredibly high (despite it being rather convenient if all your cables are $25 10gbps/240w 3-meter cables or whatever), it's just a convenient wedge for android fans to argue against iphone.

again, ask those same people what they think of the usb-c philosophy on macbooks and boy you're gonna get an earful. the common factor is always "this guy really hates apple" not "this guy really likes usb-c". they never do, when the chips are down.
So something like Wine can be developed for Linux with focus on gaming.
That's not accurate:

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

Fill this out every month: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-access/f4070_accessible.pdf
I've seen a bunch of uncertified lightning cables on Amazon, but not any power-only USB-C cables, despite looking through a lot more USB-C listings.

I have no idea what fraction of the USB-C cables are certified, but they're not broken. They have the wires because people want the wires. For such a basic feature, this is more effective than certification.
That's defined by the phenomenon you're investigating.

In the case of six-sided dice, there are precisely six categories, ideally with even odds of occurrence. With the lottery jackpot given, there are eight categories, with highly asymmetric probabilities and values.

In real-world cases, you might be trying to distinguish two cases (treatment and control in a medical experiment), between multiple particles or isotopes (say, with physics or chemistry), amongst different political divisions (countries, states or provinces, counties, cities, or other), between political parties or candidates (which raises interesting questions over which and/or how many to include in consideration, in turn dependent on voting procedures, overall popularity, and impacts of non-winning candidates or parties on others), on multiple products, or on different behavioural characteristics in some domain (e.g., highly-active, occasionally-active, and lurking participants in online fora).

There are times when categories are well and unambiguously defined. Others in which where you choose to draw divisions (say, in generational groups, or wealth or income brackets) is highly arbitrary. Even where there are a large number of potential categories, choosing some limited number for specific analysis (2, 3, 5, 10, etc.) and lumping the remaining into "other" may provide clearer insights and fewer distractions than choosing a large number of divisions.[1] In other cases, a very small number of individuals may account for an overwhelming majority of activity or outcome. I'd strongly argue that in this case, the analysis might be somewhat poorly focused, and that activities and outcomes rather than individuals are of greater interest.[2]

What's key is to match your sampling and sample sizes to the phenomenon being studied.

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Notes:

1. Power law distribution / Zipf functions often mean that a very small number of participants has highly disproportionate impact or significance.

2. This is often the flip side of power law distributions. If we look at all book titles, there are a huge number of individual items to consider; there are roughly 300k annual English-language "traditional" publications, and over 1 million "nontraditional" (self-published, or publish-on-demand) titles. But if your focus is instead titles by percentage of revenue or number of sales, a top-n analysis (5, 10, 20, etc.) often captures much of the activity, frequently well over half. This is typical of any informational good: music, cinema, blogs, social media posts, etc.
I love this. I’ve been saying this to everyone I can: those who learn to use and fine tune this technology will be much more successful than those protesting its existence. It’s a tool and like any other tool, there’s a market for specialists with additional domain expertise (historian, screenwriter, etc…)
I commute through Penn Station three days a week, I can't understate how terrible it is for commuters.

Every morning when I exit the train to a blast of heat on cramped platforms, wait in line for my turn to weave up a tiny staircase, into the aging waiting halls with hoses routing ceiling leaks into trash cans, zig zag through a labyrinth of low-ceiling corridors, giving a wide berth to half-naked mentally ill people, to a side exit (since the main exit has been closed for months, and finally, as icing on the cake, I jump over a permanent puddle created by construction barriers RIGHT at the crosswalk where THOUSANDS of people exit the busiest train station in the entire country, I think about the line:

“One entered the city like a god. One scuttles in now like a rat.”
I don't personally feel like I notice many ads online. Maybe they are subtly influencing me but mostly I seem to avoid them. Yes I have an ad blocker but I still see ads or open things in an guest or incognito window or something which doesn't have an ad blocker. I don't think I can name an ad I've seen in the last year. Maybe a few years ago there was that Nintendo ad that took over all of youtube. Maybe I've seen a movie ad on IDMB once that caught my attention. Mostly though, it's just background noise that I tune out.

The only place I actually notice is Amazon, since it seems to often insert things I don't care about
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I already cited why I don’t believe the sources I could find as well as those you provided are reliable of a common experience as they’re clearly designed to be market research among those people who regularly upgrade smart phones. That’s a much more useful metric if you’re a smart phone company than a census style survey. They aren’t trying to make a social statement but optimize their release cadence. What people do who don’t upgrade regularly or buy their products new aren’t interesting to them, so they aren’t designing these surveys to capture people not already in their product cadence orbit. But, I suspect I can guess which you consider more reliable.

I’d not the median household income is 70k, which means half of all households make less than that. The median personal income is $40k.

Again, we aren’t getting remotely close to 99% of people are upgrading every 2-4 years.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/16gqv1s/unity_plan...
HN moderation and necromancy have much in common.
It is a technological problem, and will be solved as such.

We "don't do it", because the currently offered solutions are insane. Expecting people to reduce their consumption will just not work. It's an uphill battle against human nature.

The solutions to global warming will likely look like a bunch of mirrors in the deserts or in space.
That, or it's straight-up done with malevolent intent, for some unknown reason, because I genuinely can't fathom this decision-making.

Counting online uses in combination with demo installs means that any game that makes enough money and puts out a web demo (which is a totally valid option on places like itch.io) will have to pay whenever anyone loads the demo. No potential for abuse here, especially since reloads and reinstalls will be counted as new installs.
Not all of them, and not all Lightning accessories.
adding stories to geocities
How is that cooler than an asteroid impact creating a volcano? You must be chemist or something.
Unpopular opinion: VB.NET was superior to C#, especially in code-readability.

I've coded in dozens of languages, including a long spell as a video game developer writing x86 and C++. VB.NET was my favourite development language and I wrote some insanely complicated code in it.
FWIW (not much, admittedly), I once wrote a morphological parser in Prolog (mostly, there was some C code for dealing with bit-level operations). About the time I finished the project, the version I was using (Arity Prolog) went out of business. The owner made it freely available, but from what I could tell that version was buggy. The parser eventually got re-written in C, and is used to this day.

Prolog seemed a good fit, as I wanted to find all possible parses of words, and the backtracking mechanism solved that. I also need to handle morphosyntactic features (like person and number), and Prolog's unification algorithm provided exactly what was needed.
Charging a fee based on sales would be reasonable. That's what Unreal Engine does (5% of gross revenue after the first $1 million).

Charging a flat fee per installation, even for games that have already been developed and released (many of them for free), is insane.
That is the exception not the norm though. Non violence is one of the strongest tenets of Buddhism.

Bhikkhus, even if bandits were to sever you savagely limb by limb with a two-handled saw, he who gave rise to a mind of hate towards them would not be carrying out my teaching.

— Kakacūpama Sutta, Majjhima-Nikāya 28 at MN i 128-29

So it is quite hard for the red pill movement to co opt Buddhism and thank goodness for that.
That reminds me of the time I went to my favorite local restaurant for my annual complimentary dinner and received a bill the following month for $150 then received another bill several weeks later for a further $175.
It would be more sane if it was per sale, but they are talking about per install.
Thank you for posting this. I had to go look for your HuggingFace data sets to find the labeled variety you produced with GPT-4, but other than that, everything was easy to follow.
You don't understand, the language says _per install_ not per sale.

This seems to include re-installs, multiple devices, new computers. I wouldn't have batted an eye at 20 cents per sale. Per _install_ is catastrophic.
I wonder what actually moving your hand to draw the characters does for the brain and associating the characters meaning. I definitely feel writing by hand is more intimate and it’s easier to think, but I’m a lot slower to write and my hand cramps often.
I can't imagine that a black box "you'll find out eventually I guess" pricing scheme would be acceptable for these same big whales of game development that they want to target.
They've accepted it because it's the worst possible choice. It's bad, so nobody uses it, so it's rare, so it must be premium.
That would be the frequentist interpretation. A Bayesian would say that probability is to be interpreted in belief that an outcome will occur. Neither is really right or wrong, it depends on what you're modeling.
If we’re analyzing some kind of heavily repeated task (e.g., a sordid night of us glued to the blackjack table where we play a lot of hands or data transmission over a noisy cable), a frequentist interpretation might feel more sense. However if you’re talking about the probability of a candidate winning an election, you could take a Bayesian view where the probability asserts a confidence in an outcome. A radical frequentist would take umbrage with an event that only happens once.
However, I suppose, depending on your election rules and model (e.g., a direct democracy), you could interpret the election winner in a frequentist manner: the probability of winning is the rate at which people vote for the candidate. For a more complicated system I’m not sure the frequentist view is as easily justified.

However to answer your question more directly, the expected value is just another name for the average or mean of a random variable. In this case, the variable is your profit. Assume we’re betting a dollar per toss on coin flips and I win if it’s heads (everyone knows heads always wins, right?). The expected value is probability of heads * 1 - probability of tails * 1. If the coin is fair, the probabilities are the same so the expected value is zero.

Aside: sequences of random variables that are “fair bets” are called martingales and are incredibly useful. It’s a fair bet because, given all prior knowledge of the value of the variable thus far, the expected value of the next value you witness is the current value of the variable. You could imagine looking at a history of stock values. Given all that information, it’s a martingale (and thus a fair bet) if given that information your expected profit from investing is 0.
So I make wine, and I do wine tastings and liquor tastings.

The first thing to know, unless you're getting gut rot shit made from petroleum, is that all of it gets you drunk, which is what you're after. Wine, beer and liquor are lifestyle items. If they sold you this stuff on it's actual pitch you'd just grab the bottle closest to checkout and leave. So they have to differentiate themselves with lore, stories, stereotypes, whatever. But at the end of the day, it's all booze. What's the difference between a Jack Daniels drinker and a belvedere vodka drinker? How they view themselves, the type of person they want to portray themselves as and the stories the ads for the bottles tell. People will rationalize that they like it after thefact, and make all kinds of excuses to avoid admitting to themselves that it's vanity and they want to be seen doing it. Made 100% sustainably by an ancient family recipe triple distilled in copper pots using geothermal heat from a volcano in Nicaragua, its all a bunch of bullshit. Just get what tastes good to you and forget about the noise.

I make wine, as a hobby. And I'll tell you, I'd rather drink my simple as hell fruit wine than any of that smoky shit the cute girl at the grocery store tries to sell me with samples. The entire wine tasting world is a sham, I don't mean most, all of it is a giant sham. And for those of you that do wine tastings and buy it, it's easier to fool someone than to convince them that they've been fooled. Just get what tastes good to you and forget about Tue noise.
Thanks. It could be, but I'm certain when I chase them I don't chase money or privilege. I don't care about $$ if it's interesting.

Maybe I chase them for proving I'm smart as the other commentor said? But I don't really believe I'm a smart guy.

But I agree with what you said. I'm probably a guy who doesn't really know what I want to. (unless I want to frustrate myself)
You and I might as well be the same person.
Stop repeating unsubstantiated rumors as facts. PoC||GTFO
I've only ever seen Phenylephrine once, and we didn't bother buying it. The name itself sounds like the cheap knockoff that it is.

It's easy to get pseudoephedrine here (but harder to get straight-up ephedrine), but you can't buy the entire store's stock. The only formulation that is behind the shelf is when it is the only drug in the pill. That's probably for the better. But in mix formulations like in most sinus medications, they're on shelf like everything else.
> The point is more that back then, science wasn't nearly as commonplace.

Have you even seriously studied the history of science? Are you seriously referring to the 17th century with a lack of science? The reality is that science was flourishing, and had been extremely popular for centuries, even millennia, before that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_clergy_scient...

The Renaissance was in full bloom, Leonardo da Vinci was already dead and his legacy was being explored in depth, Galileo lived until 1642, the grand cathedrals and basilicas of Europe were being built. In fact, for millennia before this, great buildings such as the Hagia Sophia, the Pyramids, the ziggurats, the Mayan and Aztec Temples, these are all feats of engineering and science. In Arizona, the Hohokam people had built a network of canals, hand-dug with no machinery or even animals, to irrigate the arid desert land that they then cultivated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohokam

If these are not feats of science, if these do not demonstrate a most commonplace culture of science, then I don't know what to tell you.
I <3 Protohackers, and I'm being way behind the challenges, good reminder to pick them up again for some real-world experience...

Nice to see the Rust angle here, coming from Python I'm also trying to pick up that a lot more these days, and it's just quite a different mindset that needs more anchoring in real world use, like here, to stick.

Tooting my own (failed) horn, a similar, just one-challenge writeup from last year: https://gergely.imreh.net/blog/2022/09/programming-challenge...
Do they actually need everything? Some kids tend to hoard all their school papers when it could be cleaned out and put in an archive binder/folder at home.

Does the curriculum require they carry textbooks in daily?
> malevolent intent, for some unknown reason, because I genuinely can't fathom this decision-making.

sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malevolence.
this exactly was super interested and then clicked and the page that shows what to actually do after getting data collected being blank feels like... ya this is a dead project where they couldnt explain wtf to do with it lol

maybe not but thats how it came off
Is there a better/comparable mouse for use on Mac OS?