skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some pinball machines have electromagnets under the playing surface that will ocassionally activate, but those usually don't specifically direct the ball into the outholes. Magna save on say Black Knight, is there for the player's benefit.

Some tables have an electromagnet under portions of loops to hold and release balls for specific modes, for example on Twilight Zone.

Other tables have electromagnets in more open parts of the playfield like Stern's BatMan with the electromagnet on a crane, and as I recall, SpiderMan has an electromagnet feature. There's some that use an electromagnet to get randomish motion near the flippers, but they usually pull the ball upwards, not downwards.
> a few minutes to twenty minutes.

How about minus one second and plus 169 minutes? (It was the first of the Hobbit trilogy).
> 10% of the total ads somebody sees

I have a special reserve of hatred tucked away for advertisers who take up that much of my consciousness. It's top-shelf, cask-conditioned hatred. Rare, excellent stuff.
>there aren't enough good PMs to go around. My belief is the number of people cut out to be a good product manager scales linearly with the size of the population. You need certain personality traits and other qualities that can't be taught. You can mint mediocre PMs in school, but you can't make good ones that way, let alone great ones.

there aren't enough good software developers to go around. My belief is the number of people cut out to be a good software developer scales linearly with the size of the population. You need certain personality traits and other qualities that can't be taught. You can mint mediocre SWDevs in school, but you can't make good ones that way, let alone great ones.
What does happiness have to do with material progress?

There are happy monks and unhappy billionaires.

Humanity must push forward on all fronts.
> An industry that fails to regulate itself is regulated by the government.

While this is often true, that doesn't mean it's actually an improvement.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320123470_The_Relat...

The problem is climate change has become a motte and bailey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy). If we do come up with evidence that rising temps aren't all that correlated to CO2, then we just change the target to 'yeah but it causes ocean acidification' or 'natural disasters are increasing' or 'yeah but it kills coral reefs'.

At this point, I'm not sure there is any possible experiment or evidence that would actually change most people's mind on climate change. It has become a cause to support rather than a theory.
You can't resolve it because it's manual formatting that's not part of the auto format rules, that's the point! And this doesn't depend on braces vs whitespace, manual improvements are possible in either case, so your argument against {} vs space flexibility doesn't have the benefit of forcing machine executable style
I'm not at all convinced of the author's argument. Mediocre people in any level of an organization will produce mediocre results. If that person is in a position of leadership, their mediocrity might reach further. I don't see how anything the author said is specific to a PM role.
I wonder if this is the first time the author has heard from Vercel.

I suspect Vercel never wanted to host this persons content given the amount of legal requests they likely had to deal with.

It probably would have been better business from Vercel to reach out and say,
“Hey, it costs us too much money in legal fees dealing with your content. We’re not Amazon. Can you move somewhere else?”

Asking the question and not waiting until it’s too late to deal with it would have been the way to go.

Vercel has known about this site for a long time. Seems a weird way to deal with it, and tells me that their CS team don’t do much proactive support.
Once we get settled at our new house, I plan to send out some postcards with a quick note on them. It's been a pretty big move.

I figure that's enough of a lost art that someone might actually think "oh cool" and either pin it to the cork board or add to a shoebox of keepsakes.
isn't a theory just a hypothesis that's supported by research? the article mentions the published research about this theory (or hypothesis, I suppose)
Using the vision feature for OCR is like using an LLM for math: it might work, but we already have a lot of tools that are hyper-optimized for the task.

There is practically no chance the new feature uses vision because that'd be _insanely_ slow and expensive for any reasonably sized document. They're likely using Azure's LayoutLM derived tech to get out text, then using embeddings to answer on questions
They'll have your data regardless if you pay for the service or not. And nothing is free, they need to pay for the service, now, if you do pay for the service they should enable more privacy.
"See, I met a man who told me once, 'Sincerity's the key. And once you learn to fake it son, you're gonna be home free!'"

-Dennis DeYoung, Styx, "Fallen Angel" (Anecdotally, may have been referring to a quote by comedian George Burns)
If you are a reader, you probably have more books than the entire corpus of ancient Greek writing.

We still make lots of paper books. Some will be buried in places they survive. If civilization doesn't completely collapse, somebody will collect books.

If we really cared about preservation, we could archive things better. Like printing books on something that won't degrade. Or inventing archival data storage. I can see focus on preservation happening if there is a near collapse of civilization.
For the first year or so, pretty much everyone who's learning is going to need the romanization alongside / above the Hangul. It's probably always going to be true that more than 2/3 of your potential customers -- 2/3 of the people who come to the website looking to see if this is for them -- will be in this category.

There is a kind of anti-pattern in tools of this kind where the people building them already know some of the basics and so leave them out. It shows up in tools for Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew... I've studied quite a few languages and so have been the beginner over and over.
> I think HN should [...] stop hyperbolic ones from hitting the front page

How could we do that?
There's also a small herd in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-24-mn-791-st...
When are people gonna learn you need to keep domain ownership, DNS, and where you host your website fully separate.
Someone who pays for a YouTube ad knows some people will block it. And advertisers do not value consent.
Keyboard Maestro v11: What's New?
Old YouTube used to. I assume banner ads were deemed useless.
What is Hacker News used for?
Hacker News (sometimes abbreviated as HN) is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by the investment fund and startup incubator Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Maybe its just that youre not sure what HN is all about!
Laid-off masses have a message for Zuckerberg, Benioff: We'll never come back
You might find this interesting:

https://patrickcollison.com/fast
I'm all for Apple reversing their long-standing decision to make device batteries non-user-replaceable - an original decision which I personally loath, and one where the EU will most likely force Apple's hand anyway by requiring batteries to be user-replaceable.

But excuse me while I throw up in my mouth a little with this "Blue Ocean" nonsense. Apple makes an original, user-hostile decision for the sole purpose of increasing planned obsolescence and to make them more money, and then when the winds shift they might go back the other way - but, again, they'll likely be forced to anyway. No need for poetic blog posts.

I suppose we're owed another "Blue Ocean" missive about how Apple led the way with Lightning connectors and then found another Blue Ocean with ... USB-C. Puhleeez.
Tips on Reading Mathematics[1]:

- Be an active reader. Open to the page you need to read, get out some paper and a pencil.

- If notation is defined, make sure you know what it means. Your pencil and paper should come in handy here.

- Look up the definitions of all words that you do not understand.

- Read the statement of the theorem, corollary, lemma, or example. Can you work through the details of the proof by yourself? Try. Even if it feels like you are making no progress, you are gaining a better understanding of what you need to do.

- Once you truly understand the statement of what is to be proven, you may still have trouble reading the proof—even someone’s well-written, clear, concise proof. Try to get the overall idea of what the author is doing, and then try (again) to prove it yourself.

- If a theorem is quoted in a proof and you don’t know what it is, look it up. Check that the hypotheses apply, and that the conclusion is what the author claims it is.

- Don’t expect to go quickly. You need to get the overall idea as well as the details. This takes time.

- If you are reading a fairly long proof, try doing it in bits.

- If you can’t figure out what the author is doing, try to (if appropriate) choose a more specific case and work through the argument for that specific case.

- Draw a picture, if appropriate.

- If you really can’t get it, do what comes naturally—put the book down and come back to it later.

- You might want to take this time to read similar proofs or some examples.

- After reading a theorem, see if you can restate it. Make sure you know what the theorem says, what it applies to, and what it does not apply to.

- After you read the proof, try to outline the technique and main idea the author used. Try to explain it to a willing listener. If you can’t do this without looking back at the proof, you probably didn’t fully understand the proof. Read it again.

- Can you prove anything else using a similar proof? Does the proof remind you of something else? -

- What are the limits of this proof? This theorem?

- If your teacher is following a book, read over the proofs before you go to class. You’ll be glad you did.

[1] Reading, Writing, and Proving: A Closer Look at Mathematics By Ulrich Daepp and Pamela Gorkin.
ipfs or torrents integrated into the browser. The "sharing economy" and p2p were huge back before corporations figured out how to get it under control and corral people back onto centralized, ephemeral streaming platforms.

Instead of a "like" people could give a video a pin, and then they'll have their own offline copy as long as they want it, and also help share it.
So you're saying that the dude fired in 'Office Space' for bringing the specs from customers to engineers was necessary?
But cost effectiveness makes it sound like you can fix it by throwing money at it. The point is that you cannot fix it, even with infinite money, because you will reach zero users before you reach 0 fraud.
> Navigating these types of situations is a skill that can be developed.

It's difficult to practice something where failure means disaster.
Mine was more of a general comment on these types of systems rather than an explanation for what you are going through. I have no clue why they are treating you in the way you describe. It might be interesting if you could ask them why they haven't referred you. Even more interesting if they gave you an honest answer.

Good luck.
I agree with most of your comment. However, when you say

> You need material proof, and there is none.

I would like to add the the old adage holds true - absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. (Also, this is more for the god as an almighty person in the sky type of case. For a person who considers the natural elements as god, it is simply different)
That is probably why they are asking…
> But tbf I get it if you want to be an opinionated hosting provider and not host 12ft. No worries here, just restore my other projects and give me my domains back and we chill

Why would you want to continue to do business with them? Unless of course you built your site in such a way that they are your only (practical) hosting option, which seems like a bad approach no matter apps you're building.
For Japanese, the browser extensions Yomichan[0] (Chrome-clones and Firefox) and 10ten[1] (Safari macOS/iOS, Chrome-clones, Firefox) function similarly. There’s also several community-built tools that are made to work with these extensions like mokuro[2] and subadub[3].

[0]: https://foosoft.net/projects/yomichan/
[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/10ten-japanese-rea..., https://apps.apple.com/us/app/10ten-japanese-reader/id157354..., https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10ten-ja-read...
[2]: https://github.com/kha-white/mokuro
[3]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/subadub/jamiekdimm..., https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/subadub/
I think that Big O / little o are both more approachable and provide a richer understanding than limits. See, for example, https://micromath.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/donald-knuth-calc... to see Donald Knuth agreeing.

As an example of the conceptual richness, pick up a Calculus book and flip to the problem section for L'Hôpital's rule. Without using any special rules at all, attempt to write them out in o-notation and observe that you generally don't need L'Hôpital's rule to work them out. It is possible to produce examples that can be calculated by L'Hôpital's rule, but not by simply understanding o-notation. But it isn't easy, and you're unlikely to find them in textbooks.

It is probably true that as you go on, limits are more useful in higher mathematics than o-notation. But o-notation is far more useful in most subjects that use mathematics. Given how easy it is to master limits if you know o-notation, why not teach o-notation first?
I'd like to see every visit for a chronic illness attended by a medical professional, the patient who is paying for the visit, and another patient who is farther along in the progression of that chronic illness.

The input of someone who has been there and seen their disease progress farther is valuable.
This is simply wrong. For instance, when buying medicine, I make it a matter of honor to buy "the generic version of brand X, please". It can even be the same price. I would NEVER, EVER, buy the one that uses a gimmick and advertise itself. Ads are just like hypnosis, they work on the gullible/dumb share of the populace.
Perhaps the author just doesn't understand the difference between managers and leaders? (many people don't) https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Naz6pvFqGfk/VQ2JxTNg0UI/AAAAAAAAH...
Domains and hosting are usually seen very differently. Your domain is a lot closer to property, while the hosting is commonly shut down anytime it is seen as inconvenient by the provider.

If you combine them on the same provider you risk loosing access to the former because you lost the latter, the providers that host all the services also tend to have blurred lines between disabling one service and disabling your whole account.
You still have ads despite paying YouTube not to show you ads. They're hardcoded into the videos themselves now. You're also tracked and profiled by Google which is an indignity unto itself.
> Of course, a relationship does require some effort

Which is true, and true for most things. Here's my "Being There" analogy:

If you aim to grow a garden, not watering, tilling, weeding or caring for it at all could have mixed results. A moderate amount of effort and you have a bountiful harvest. If you're putting extensive effort, and nothing is growing, it means the conditions aren't right for what you are doing. The seeds are bad, the soil is bad, the climate may not be right. You aren't going to win any favors from the universe forcing a good outcome out of bad conditions. The effort you put in is meaningless.

The sweet spot lies in a moderate amount of effort, but only contingent on cycles of positive feedback that justify that effort. Human beings have evolved to respond to those feedback cycles with dopamine precisely because it naturally encourages more effort. There are some things of course you can't rely on that paradigm (like you can't build half a semiconductor factory and expect it to produce half as many chips), but in those areas where instincts are insufficient, one shouldn't go on hunches or pithy aphorisms: there has to be scientific thinking behind the effort you put in or you're just flailing blindly against the universe.
Writing a tickets is usually not owned by engineering. Some engineering managers may do this work, but it’s usually owned by Product while Engineering helps refine and turn tickets into actionable work. Engineering also doesn't negotiate features. Engineerings job is to help product determine LOE and help Product prioritize requirements for a future release. Again, strong engineering leads can do this work, but I believe Product Owner should hold these responsibilities.
That is amazing and it is great to see there are people out there fighting the good fight (while others ask: "but where's the benefit!? if there's a backdoor, everybody is still going to get the backdoor!").

> it gives us a reliable way to verify the binaries we ship are faithful to their sources

That's the thing many don't understand: it's not about proving that the result is 100% trustable. It's about proving it's 100% faithful to the source. Which means that should monkey business be detected (like a sneaky backdoor), it can be recreated deterministically 100% of the time.

In other words for the bad guys: nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
A couple of platform providers have burned me so bad that I will absolutely move my business and tell others about my bad experiences.

In 2008, GoDaddy let an associate transfer StrategyWiki.org and a bunch of other domains out of my account while I was on a college trip with no internet. I'd spent half a decade building up these projects, and they were stolen away without my knowledge. GoDaddy offered no recourse or apology. The guy that performed the heist was 15 years my senior and from a family of lawyers, which he absolutely threatened me with if I tried to fight him. Even though GoDaddy ownership has changed, I do not like them to this day.

Over the past few years, I maintained a personal Netlify account for hosting a bunch of personal websites. When I started building my startup on Netlify, they moved my personal websites out of their free tier (despite them being in a different account) and into a paid plan. They started charging my card (which I wasn't aware of), and when I changed my billing info they deleted my websites entirely. There was no option to restore them, and their support was incredibly rude. They kept telling me what I had to do to undo their mistake without offering to do it themselves.

Netlify is horrible. Rude and unhelpful.

I was just about to move over to Vercel, but if they're no better than Netlify, I may as well stay put.
Currently, in the same boat. Grad school + full-time job + TA work (I know I'm an idiot for doing TA work on top of this). I have no social life, I barely have time to cook.
Spoonbill software has a selection of freeware games which may be suitable. http://www.spoonbillsoftware.com.au/sightedgamers.htm
Numerous technological advancements have been made as a result of the space race, but asking for justification on spending money on scientific inquiry is just going to come to whether or not you support science generally.
> never quite caught on

It was quite normal in 70s 80s and even 90s; all the ms sql, db2, oracle and as400 systems I encountered in those days had all or almost all logic as stored procs. Very large ones.
It is till it isn't. When ACME2 is sunset and ACME3 comes along. The next time LE's root cert changes. The next time any part of the incredibly complexity hidden by and within acme clients breaks because of an update on your system. The time you host your abortion clinic site and get sued in Texas. Or your scientific journal article mirror gets attacked by big publishers, they won't go after you when they can just put pressure on LE to drop you and you become unvistable.

Putting all your chips in one basket, even such a benevolent and great one as LE, is a bad idea. Even dot .org was almost lost to private equity and went nasty. LE as it becomes more important becomes a juicier target for all forms of pressure and less useful to human persons.
You're right. But then again, lots of scaffolding gets discarded when an arch gets constructed also.
Well, most of my mails are forwarded to Gmail, so I only need a solid forwarding service with outgoing smtp. This is what forwardemail.net offers
> To take the obvious example of using exactly what Popper was trying to oppose. the current Chinese communist party's claim that capitalism will eventually transition into socialism once a certain level of development is achieved, it is a prediction, it will be falsifiable later. Clearly it is still not science.

I think this is the point on this issue, right? It can't count as falsifiable later, or still not science, unless they describe what they mean by "socialism" specifically enough in advance - which I think is a pretty nebulous constraint? Not sure about it. Definitely, there's a lot of (reasonable IMO) theoretical controversy about what 'welfare capitalism' has to do with proper socialist ideas, even though it's usually given the label 'socialist'.

I've also been wondering things like what working scientists do, and what this thing is that we call science generally - non research related stuff like teaching, or using science to do better engineering, and what the connection is between the two.

Is there still a place for any variation of falsifiability?

Bonus cheeky request: do you have any recommendations on modern philosophy of science?
No. Learn2Science.
> - The final decision of whether an account is in violation of any of these acceptable use terms is at the sole discretion of Vercel.

Seems like it's not safe to host on Vercel, then. They're giving themselves absolute control with zero recourse.

Looks like you're opted into arbitration too. Classic hostile, anti-consumer behavior.

Don't they know who they exist to serve?
Future archeologists are going to know lots about our consumption from all the food and drink containers.

Some written items, like street signs, are going to last a long time.
Well any ISP is using a 10gig connection at some point upstream. But that doesn't mean everyone would be justified in advertising 10 gig speeds.
The

Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Combined Volumes: 1, 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, and 4

has over 5000 pages!

[0] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...