skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nearly all sites want traffic, which search engines provide.

You don't seem to grasp the problem of indexing. If search engine fetches 100M pages but only brings 100 users it's a net loss for the website because of server costs. This means that a marginal player cannot index a big website.

I'm aware of at least one website from top20 that actively blocked crawlers other than Google citing this as a reason. And this website has tons of high-quality ugc that ranks at the top on many nontrivial queries. A huge blow to search quality when absent.

Having said that, it's true that for big search engines the issue is mostly distribution. However for small players it's distribution AND indexing and in the end they have to resort to buying the search results from big players.
Been using it for well over a month now. I started after giving up trying to hack Firefox into giving me vertical tabs.
With Floorp I have vertical tabs that I can un/hide (using the mouse gesture feature).

The end result gives a much cleaner interface where I can focus on page content and not surrounding UI.
The built in mouse gesture plugin (which can be added to Firefox) takes me back to early Opera. I forgot how much I enjoyed using them.
> More police presence means more recorded crimes.

The article in the headline implies the opposite: statistical inference of future crime location -> more cops in said location -> no crime in said location.

It should be fairly easy to back out an out of sample data set for this - ie predicted crime location where the extra cops didn't get deployed and see if that lines up with empirical observations.
I don't believe that is anybody's guess on what may be happening with the NIST ECC curves. Ordinarily, when people on HN say things like this, they're confusing Dual EC, a public key random number generator, known to be backdoored, with the NIST curve standards.
I was asking you to take a little distance from the TS-world and use your experience (and maybe emphaty) to look about the pros of JS. Preferrably a list that pleases the TS community. The fact that JS is an "universal language" and runs natively on browsers and Node is a definite one, but then again.. this was a question for you.
Yikes.

The relevant code is a textbook example of how to make an inscrutable mess of string processing in C. You can do better, even in C, with some care and better hygiene. But the language does not prevent you (or hell, even discourage you) from creating such abominations.
> In fact we know from your first post in this thread that when you're personally impacted by crime you quickly change your tune,

That's actually not what I said. I was disclosing a potential bias but I never said that I "changed my tune".

I was mugged about two month ago and had my expensive iPhone stolen out of my hands. I filed a police report and reported the phone stolen to Apple, but I very explicitly said that I didn't want to press any kind of criminal charges on the off chance that the phone is recovered and the thief was caught.
Can you ping me to explain 'not saving your connection by default'? That sounds like a bug or a bad UX decision as it does save in recent connections, even if you don't explicitly save it.

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You would have to go out of your way, imo, to build a model this stupid. If the claim is that all areas have equal arrest potential, then this should be easily detected in the model. If the modelers were so stupid that they failed to account for the presence of police when estimating the rate of/probability of/total quantity of arrests then sure, they’re just stupid people making stupid models. Or intentionally making stupid models.

But it would be very easy to do something like to predict the probability that a cop makes an arrest given they went to each area. And if there’s no difference in the areas, it should not matter how many times they went there. The rates should be the same.

It seems likely that the models were right and that it’s way easier to make drug arrests in these areas, which was kind of baked into the original premise. So it’s not clear why blaming the modeling is an issue here.

The problem is the externalities of the policy. Not some mode overfitting. Like would you blink if I told you the probability of being able to make a drug arrest in a poor area was 20% higher? Probably not. Does that need to mean that you only go to the poor area? No.
I get served shorts that are essentially soft core porn on a regular basis.

Featuring yoga poses, back lit crotch shots, and women wearing electrical tape on the cat walk.

I cant seem to make them stop no matter what I do. Probably because I coach a womans sport and watch a lot of that sport on youtube.

"Oh you watch womens sports, you must want to see these videos of models wearing nothing but tape!"
Yeah, if we're dismissing the possibility of direct physical violence with the wave of a hand, why not wave the hand a second time and dismiss the possibility of gasoline theft?
> So thus, the more hoops you put into your process to try and stem the tide of the hoards of desperate unqualified applicants, the more you disproportionately screen out the highly qualified applicants who have better things to do and better opportunities to pursue.

Exactly. Asking me to upload a resume, and then data entry all the facts from my resume into form fields, just so that a company can not even reject me, basically tells me that I will be expendable drone #88238875 if I get a job there.

I feel a little bad that sometimes the recruiter probably fills the form out for me if their process requires is, but at least they actually intend to follow up on me as a lead.
I thought that the Cloudflare tunnel was the very expensive pay-per-gb "argo route". Really nice to know that they offer a simple and free reverse proxy, thanks!
No, there's no ideas. It's already trivial to devour the works of many good writers for the cost of an internet connection and the capital outlay of 'a laptop'.

Piracy is killing the motive to work. I've seen it happen countless times and nobody says a thing about it.

How about copyright becomes so pervasive and all enforced that massive corporations like Disney cannot bully the small fry into legally moving into their turf.

Copyright is an hellish nightmare because it used by big corporations to devour, rather than used to emancipate every single person.

ChatGPT ravaging and pillaging the internet was the last straw for "faith in freedom".

I'm putting all my faith and work into walking on water, establishing the cleansing task of getting out from under the sawblade.

People think to write is to compile and package in on itself like a computer program or a spirit-sucking business seminar. Typing on keyboards does that to a man.
Not necessarily. I'm saying a government that takes measures to mitigate increasing the extremes of common acts that lead to destructive behavior can be more stable.

E.g., I'm not sure the current trend of increasing access to gambling will lead to a more stable society, although it increases freedom. There's a balancing act there too.

What I'm not saying: the current policies are the best ways to mitigate those risks in order to increase stability.
Cite your sources. I live in an area surrounded by them and I don't seem them as a blight on our landscapes - in fact, many are erected on land that was otherwise virtually unusable scrub. More and more we are seeing farmers / ranchers that are finding ways to erect solar and wind plus still make use of the land for productive agriculture. There is a small contingent of vocal types in my area who are opposed to both solar farms and wind turbines, and it's the same group that is opposed to everything that smacks of progress.
Yeah I've noticed people mixing them up. They happened around the same time, so I can excuse it a bit.

The problem with the NIST ECC curves are that we still do not know where the heck that seed came from and why that seed specifically.
InfluxDB is an open source time series database written in Rust
Gatekeeping concerts now are we? I think the Sphere is awesome and I'm sure can accentuate great shows.
Hmmm I tried using Arc and I just don't like it. The sidebar feels really cluttered and unnatural. I like having the full width of my screen.

I feel like Arc gives me OCD about organising my spaces and folders etc. I'm happier to just close chrome when I get to like 15 tabs and start again.
The renewables sector is crashing
If you want, sure, but I think the reason he was mentioned with a negative connotation might be more to do with the murders he committed.
Fortunately polkit can't be abused to do something like privilege escalation, right [1]?

Ok, I'll drop the snark. Do you know of any distributions that approach your idea seriously and ships absolutely no setuid binaries? Ideally they also make sure the user won't install an external package that ships setuid executables.

It's certainly technically possible, you just need to mount everything (including `/`) as nosuid. But even `su`, `sudo` and... `pkexec` need suid to work. So I don't think it's easy to have a usable linux environment with zero suid binaries. Or am I wrong?

In case of this bug, since the bug is in ld, my educated guess is that even one suid binary is be enough for the privilege escalation attack to work.

[1]: https://github.blog/2021-06-10-privilege-escalation-polkit-r...
Correct but I probably wouldn't have felt the need to mention that in this memorial thread.
You and me both, this and the "AmazonBasics is creating cheaper copies of best selling items". That's literally what Walmart (GreatValue) or Costco (Kirkland), and basically any brick and mortar store has been doing to improve their margins in the last 50 years.

As a customer I am not harmed by this, if anything I win because the intermediate sellers between the Chinese factory that actually makes the stuff and me is replaced by Amazon who is willing to accept smaller margins.
See Koblitz and Menenzes:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1018.pdf
>At this point, it feels quite strongly to me that he is trying to interpret every action in the most malicious way possible.

Given the long and detailed history of various governments and government agencies purposefully attempting to limit the public from accessing strong cryptography, I tend to agree with the "assume malice by default" approach here. Assuming anything else, to me at least, seems pretty naive.
Model solar panels as dark grey mirrors.
Haha. One could even say that

> cops used it to disproportionately targeted low-income communities of color

Is a better use of the term “predictive policing”.
Thank you Ryan, I’m really glad to hear that you enjoyed it!
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> Most poor people do not commit crimes, which is what you would expect if that statemebt is true.

No this does not follow from what I said. "Group A is more likely to do X than Group B" is very different from "The majority of Group A does X". One is a comparison between two rates, and the other is a comparison of one rate to an absolute threshold (50%).
I would sell my first-born to see a Kraftwerk concert inside the Sphere.
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On the surface that's similar to how it's done here (BC Canada) but you have to look a bit deeper at the math. Otherwise you'll fall into the same sort of faulty reasoning as the "I don't want a raise to bump my tax bracket" people.

For the most part, property taxes are not a fixed percentage the way that, say, sales taxes are. The rate floats, and that is important.

Property taxes generally go to the municipality, which sets its budget based on its planned expenses (sewers, road maintenance, etc). The city decides it needs, say, $100 million for the next year, and let's say all of it will be paid for by property taxes.

Then they calculate the total appraised value of all of the property in the city. Let's say that's $100 billion.

From that budget and that sum, they derive a property-tax percentage for this year: 0.1%. Now if your property is worth $1 million, you have to pay $1000.

Because your property tax rate is 0.1% and your property is worth $1 million, you might expect that if your property doubles in value to $2 million, your property tax will double. This is true if your property appreciates while the total value of the city property remains $100 billion.

But most likely, if your property value has doubled, it's due to macroeconomic or region-wide trends that have caused everybody else's property value to double. Thus the total property value is now $200 billion, so your property tax rate drops to 0.05% to meet the city budget, and you still pay $1000.

This makes sense, because your tax should not increase unless the city budget also increases.

If your tax has increased, the culprit is your city budget; property values are irrelevant, because they only determine how the tax burden is divided up, not how much there is.

If property values were much lower, the tax rate as a percentage would be much higher, and that's generally the case. Municipalities offering similar services, but where properties are more affordable, will have higher property tax rates. Therefore, if you need to invest $10 million in property for whatever reason, you'll pay a lower tax rate on that $10 million in an area where property values are high relative to the municipal budget, than in an area where property values are low relative to the municipal budget, even though the latter will probably buy you more total property.
Good news, if people don't like it they won't go and smaller concerts are still legal.
Yes, for those pgroll migrations that require a new column + backfill, starting the migration can be expensive.

Backfills are done in fixed size batches to avoid long lived row locks, but the operation can still be expensive in terms of time and potentially I/O. Options to control the rate of backfilling could be a useful addition here but they aren't present yet.
It prevents them from ever being a problem being flown near a house
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You can build a SLURM cluster out of UltraCluster nodes in AWS. Money comparisons can be misleading because many people ignore ancillary expenses in running an HPC facility.
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Are there many 10000+ person shows where you don't wind up watching the screen rather than the band? I'd rather everyone just accept the draw for a show of that size is a combo of the set and the potential mass hysteria of a load of fans packed into the one space than anything else.
I recently finished reading SciFis Delta-V and squeal Critical Mass by Daniel suarez. Loved this kind of hard scifi. in the second book he went into great details on how the first orbital station and complementary moon/asteroid mining platform was build and incrementally deployed. Definitely recommended if you are into it. It seems quite within the the reach of our capabilities, We just need to find a economic model that allows it.
I'm not sure why you are saying this. I never claimed my ideas are inherently correct, I didn't try and provide a syllogism or proof or anything, I just said what I believe.

I agree they're not terribly common. That's fine if people disagree.
There is a wind farm by the highway east of Seattle. I enjoy looking at them when I drive through that area.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Horse_Wind_Farm
Couchsurfing has a lot of events nowadays. I don't use it, but some friends occasionally invite me to things they find on it.

Meetup still runs strong in some areas.

For a time, FB groups carried the burden, but that fount's since dried up.
*edit "doesn't require a craniotomy" - the procedure is a thalamotomy.
What are your opinions on pylons?

https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/images/f/f7/Pylons-50...
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First one that came up in Google from a source with a TLD that I trusted. Feel free to do your own research, I don't believe you will find much substantial disagreement with the older study but if you do please pass it on to me.

edit: here's a more recent meta-analysis helpfully linked elsewhere in the thread which confirms the findings
https://sci-hub.se/10.1086/655357

Punchline is:

"""

Across all studies, social disorganization and resource/economic deprivation theories receive strong empirical support; anomie/strain, social support/social altruism, and routine activity theories receive moderate support; and deterrence/rational choice and subcultural theories receive weak support.

"""
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The author here has clearly never been to an EDM concern with lasers.
I think you get my point exactly but you disagree with it. That's fine. But companies are sitting on cash reserves of trillions of dollars. Do you think that a profitable company sitting on its profits is a brake on economic growth?

Right now companies are saving up profits in their bank balances. I think if you increase the tax they pay then those balances will grow more slowly and the tax money will flow into the economy via the public sector. You think the companies will spend less but I'm not sure why companies would scale back operations?
How would I fit this into an alembic workflow?
I don't think the "these finalist teams are trustworthy" argument is completely watertight. If the US wanted to make the world completely trust and embrace subtly-broken cryptography, a pretty solid way to do that would be to make competition where a whole bunch of great, independent teams of cryptography researchers can submit their algorithms, then have a team of excellent NSA cryptographers analyze them and pick an algorithm with a subtle flaw that others haven't discovered. Alternatively, NIST or the NSA would just to plant one person on one of the teams, and I'm sure they could figure out some clever way to subtly break their team's algorithm in a way that's really hard to notice. With the first option, no participant in the competition has to that there's any foul play. In the second, only a single participant has to know.

Of course I'm not saying that either of those things happened, nor that they would be easy to accomplish. Hell, maybe they're literally impossible and I just don't understand enough cryptography to know why. Maybe the NIST truly has our best interest at heart this time. I'm just saying that, to me, it doesn't seem impossible for the NIST to ensure that the winner of their cryptography contests is an algorithm that's subtly broken. And given that there's even a slight possibility, maybe distrusting the NIST recommendations isn't a bad idea. They do after all have a history of trying to make the world adopt subtly broken cryptography.
I wonder what tiny bit of the world he could have improved by repurposing the time and energy it took to write that.
Thank you for the heads up! I’ve gone ahead and fixed this.
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I had to send some bad RAM under warranty as well. Another upside with socketed RAM is that I was able to buy a small stick of RAM and get my machine going (although with constrained memory) until I received the new pair, which was a minor inconvenience.

Having soldered RAM would have meant shipping the entire system back, then find a spare system and the trouble of setting up all my softwares until then.
Correct me if I'm wrong, everything is also being done out in the open for everyone to see. The NIST aren't using some secret analysis to make any recommendations.
Didn't the ship sail on this back at the ZOO TV tour?
Fair enough. I guess it depends on what the goal for writing systems is: a system that is easy to teach helps increase literacy but that hardly mattered to many empires throughout history who would rather the rabble not be able to read.

The fact that alphabets are easier to use for technology like the printing press, telegraph, typewriters, and computers is purely a historical accident. I'm sure you could (if people didn't already) come up with an encoding scheme based on stroke order/position to transmit traditional Chinese over the telegraph so it's not like that was an insurmountable problem.

FWIW l I'm a fairly fast reader and I recognize word shapes for regularly used words. Pretty sure that's a common technique regardless of the writing system in use.
I don’t think you can have a 1m^3 of wood. Life is not Minecraft.
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This is common practice with 3rd party/used sellers of books. It has been going on since the early 2000's and started as an excel spreadsheet that would go out and look up a price for you, match or go a penny lower, or raise prices when there was no competition. It doesn't surprise me that Amazon did the same. Why wouldn't they do it?