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Re:Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam
on Saturday January 20, 2024 @11:41AM (#39069391)
The extension uBlacklist allows you to do that (https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs).
Re:Ask HN: What's Happening at Southwest?
on Thursday December 29, 2022 @11:13AM (#34174115)
Lorin Hochstein's take on it: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2022/12/28/southwest-airlines...
Re:What free, ad-supported Uber rides might look like
on Thursday December 29, 2022 @03:45AM (#34170769)
(2015)
Re:Tell HN: Uber has blocked my account for years, won't tell me why
on Monday December 19, 2022 @09:31AM (#34052426)
Indeed they don't.
Re:Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI
on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @01:28PM (#32928391)
At the start, the "Nous établissons" part, for example. You wouldn't write that if you were starting scratch from French.
Re:How Complex Systems Fail (1998)
on Monday September 19, 2022 @08:34AM (#32897479)
The Career, Accomplishments, and Impact of Richard I. Cook: A Life in Many Acts (September 12, 2022) https://www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/blog/2022/09/12/richard...
Re:Olga Tokarczuk – Nobel Lecture – Literature Prize 2018
on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @06:46AM (#32396151)
I've never understood how people can have much to say about a book they read in a translated version.
I read a lot of German writers translated in English, and even though I really enjoyed some of them, I don't think I can really judge anything but the plot and maybe the translator skills. Otherwise it'd be like watching a movie that has been dubbed and commenting on an actor's performance.
Re:It is time to stop teaching frequentism to non-statisticians (2012)
on Thursday August 04, 2022 @10:57AM (#32343771)
It's taken from Laplace's Essai philosophique sur les probabilités, not far from the subject at hand.
Re:Argentina’s black-market USD rate climbs 24% in two weeks
on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:12PM (#32255269)
"As of 2022, the Japanese public debt is estimated to be approximately US$12.20 trillion US Dollars (1.4 quadrillion yen), or 266% of GDP, and is the highest of any developed nation."
Re:Bayes Rules – An Introduction to Applied Bayesian Modeling (2021)
on Sunday July 17, 2022 @11:10AM (#32127480)
Review by Christian Robert, a statistician: https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2022/07/05/bayes-rules-book-r...
Re:Starship is still not understood
on Thursday October 28, 2021 @09:22AM (#29025804)
Why not to do both?
Re:Malfrats/xeuledoc: Fetch information about a public Google document
on Sunday March 21, 2021 @01:49PM (#26532326)
Re:Teacher creates ingenious exam question to find cheaters and catche...
on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:58AM (#25714266)
It's from the Mirror so you can't really expect more.