jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You are correct. I knew that google was showing brands like the redfin example, but when I saw the opensearch xml document, I assumed it was a way to relay more meta information to google.

It appears that the actual purpose of the opensearch xml document is to describe the search engine which exists on the homepage of airbnb.com. That explains why more sites don't do it. It isn't actually relevant unless you are running a custom search engine.

We have updated the blog post, and I'm sorry for the confusion about this point. Still, I very much believe in the takeaway message that it is important to craft a strong title for your website.
Also, it might not have even gotten to the level of talking heads. It could have been covered up. Assange said that WaPo had the Collateral Murder video for a year before WikiLeaks did, although WaPo has denied that.
Why is college tuition even considered an expense that parents have to shoulder? If you're rich enough and you want to pay the tuition, then that's just great, but is it really so bad to imagine that someone hovering around 20 would work for something useful for themselves? Sure, it's nice to have rich parents who will pay your expenses so you can "focus on school" (heh), but it's by no means a requirement.
The first is an issue of formality, but outside of genuinely formal situations, balking at "no problem" is ungracious, even dickish. (In some cases, it'd be the same even in a terribly formal situation.)

The change-in-the-hands thing is a little more defensible - in some cultures, putting the change on the counter (especially when someone holds out a hand) is considered to convey that you think your customer is too beneath you to touch. It's been known to come up now and again in the US, especially between people of different races/ethnicities.
Quite a few people I know started coding because of gaming. I started when modding and building forums for Halo.
Lior Pachter is one of the great thinkers and communicators in computational biology. I never miss one of his talks, they're always energetic and enlightening.
I was assuming a deterministic scheduler, but sure. I wasn't aware that hardware RNG's were commonly used by kernel schedulers.
Perhaps compared to HN. But I would characterize Reddit (as characterized by what's voted up into default visibility) as fairly open-minded, even compulsively contrarian. While a large proportion of the up/down-voting is from petty agreement, there is still a strong enough core of "productive discussion" voting to overcome it. Especially with knee-jerk outrage stories, there's as much skepticism as I've seen in any online community (and more apparent reservation in judgment than I see in many fairly reasonable people I know personally). There's a lot of good research that gets done (when possible), and it's usually voted above the froth very quickly. Sensationalism will almost always get called out hard.

I really can't conceive of any way a forum (online or afk) with sufficient mass (with the accompanying noise, groupthink and trolling that any community of people will pick up) to accomplish the things that Reddit has/may yet could turn out any more reasonable.
Old news that I didn't know: You can opt out of the backscatter machine, but you can NOT opt out of finishing the security screening (i.e., the patdown), once you've put any luggage on the belt. So says the Supreme Court: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/08/court-says-trav/
Racialist generalization.

There is a "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" aspect here, and frankly the TSA's, and the average anxious air traveler, have an appreciation of irony I could only describe as absent. I wouldn't be surprised at being asked to turn it inside out. Or surprised at a Middle Eastern college student raising a cry of profiling/discrimination.
Underneath the box it says "New .COMs only $11.99* per year". most people will see this and not notice the missing "m" until they realize they've been charged $30 for a less valuable domain. Nice.
I accidentally downvoted you (phone). You're perfectly correct, as anyone who's just missed a flight will attest.
Serious topic, but some humor.

Best response to give your TSA patdown-partner when he asks if he can feel around your crotch area:

"Who do you think I am, a U.S. Senator?"

(joke credit Adam Curry at No Agenda)
The mob rule is extremely distasteful to watch IMHO, and it's certainly a very specific community now - liberal, pro-drugs, anti-consumerism etc etc. There's a lot of knee-jerk reactions and short-termism - outraged one day, forgotten the next.

They can get their users to 'do good' in the world, but can they make any money yet?
I did some work on this in JavaScript a while back: http://garythom.as/myo/julia/

(Images are not uploaded, all in browser)
>> As an owner of iPhone 2G I attest that was completely true.

It really depends on what you compare it to. I owned a Treo, a Sidekick and a few windows mobile devices in the years before the iPhone. All had worse battery life. Yes, Blackberry and feature phones were much better. But they weren't modern smartphones either. The iPhone was the first to combine truly impressive software, a large screen and 8 hours of active use in one package. My Sidekick was dead by 2 pm; my windows mobile phones needed a battery swap around noon.
Touché. Now, just to figure out how to sell our honest and genuine services to them.

Cold calling? Anybody with similar experience? I’m genuinely interested.
And unfortunately, which you switch from the main part of desktop iTunes to the iTunes store, all the problems return in force. I once mistakenly bought the no-choir version of a song I was looking for because I couldn't see the whole title.
It took forever to boot. When I dropped mine and broke its disk I then swapped in a 6GB disk and it took even longer, around 2 minutes. I went back to an mp3 discman instead before getting a Mac mini in 2005, which opened my eyes to the fact that Apple made more than just pretty devices, they cared about UI and paid attention to details like having different volume settings for headphones. I then bought a 60gb iPod w/ video and haven't looked back.
Some people have a very narrow experience, but within that experience, they can actually be pretty darn good programmers.

I worked with a bunch, none of whom ever ventured outside of Visual C++ and SQL, and who would never have even heard of Ruby or Python or Clojure. Despite this, they could still knock out pretty decent real-World code.

In that case, it can be difficult to filter out the bad ones, just based on general conversations, without asking people to actually code on a blank board.
Fred Wilson is one of a very small group of investors that has actually achieved any exits to recycle. The problem isn't that investors aren't recycling their returns, it's that they aren't making any returns.

So the next thought is that investors are somehow to blame, but no. It's entrepreneurs who aren't creating businesses that generate good investments. The core problem here is that we need to create more good businesses.
It's certainly possible without Siemens' help, but my assertion is that the government would have gone to Siemens first anyway, because that's how the government works. A small group of hackers could have banged out Stuxnet, but if you accept that it was created by the US and Israel, then it's pretty reasonable to presume it was contracted out to some security firm, who were given the information they would need by Siemens, via the gov't.
Frankly, I don't see why they don't do something like compiling purely to ES6 and then having the transpiling to ES6 handled by something like Babel.
The difference is that those improvements where matched with an unprecedented growth of a relatively wealthy middle class that opened up for the creation of a service sector to take all the laid off workers. There doesn't seem to be any such new sectors being created this time around.

At the end of the day I too am reasonably optimistic, but your comparison the the events of the 19th century are too simplistic.
This seems interesting:

> The menace to our people of vehicles of this type hurtling through our streets and along our roads and poisoning the atmosphere would call for prompt legislative action ...

Is this really so off-the-mark? Or have we just got used to vehicles being the kings of the streets, displacing pedestrians and filling our breathing air with pollutants?
But it has a lower TDP.
Thanks.

No, it's attached very securely to the desk so it doesn't rattle.

If I play hip hop with a lot of bass and turn it up loud you can feel the bass hit as you'd expect to, but nothing on the desk shakes, it's pretty sturdy. Besides, I only turn it up that loud when my wife and I are hanging out in the living room, not while I'm working.
While it's certainly no surprise, it's fascinating to see the discussion focus so candidly on the root of the issue: whether economical and political expediency trumps justice (as set out in the law).

At least we can stop pretending that our court systems are impartial arbiters of truth.
Google Schmoogle - Peter Norvig is a powerhouse name and Google gains in prestige for having Peter Norvig, not the other way around.
Many editors will periodically check for remote changes (especially when switching away from and back to the editor) which can cause pretty annoying slowdowns.
This is what makes you sad?
Well, I'm guessing they are firing the entire sales force and costumer care people. It's redundant in their view and they have been blaming them for Sun's issues. Oracle really wanted the engineers it seems but they aren't doing a good job at keeping them around.
indeed. this is a cross-post.
Smart phones were available in the US for ages before the iPhone, yet Jobs' and Apple's star power helped them to become more widespread. The whole "reality distortion field" can be used for good if it's to help spread adoption of interesting technologies, imo. I think the fact that it's coming from Apple will help adoption, even if the implementation is the same or even worse.
URL normalization/canonicalization is already a hard work but chopping off URL to avoid dirty words in any language looks also difficult. How could we implement that?

First, we need to know the existing dirty or vulgar words in a specific language (and maybe a region). Do we have WordNet for that? in any language? with a classification, a dirty word is not the same as an insult but sometime an insult can be a dirty word. I don't know any good reference of that. There are some websites with insults but a good dictionary...

Now if we look at the algorithm to do so, you will also need to know the language used in a page. It's often fine to have a French speaking page including a chopped off URL containing "cum" but not for English.

Wait a minute? Is this a problem really important? At the end, it's the only way to publish a recipe on HN...
Interesting, although I'd have probably also put some examples for Python or Perl in alongside the C and C++ examples.
The iphone ecosystem is much larger, at least within the circle of people whom I will have to apologise to for dialing them up and showing them various parts of my body.
That's an interesting comment. I'm still trying to 'work out' the Hacker News crowd (even though I've been here almost two years!).

I've submitted plenty of things that get to #1, or front page, but can't seem to find much consistency in what people like / don't like. Not as obviously as Reddit/Digg/Slashdot, anyway - which is a good thing! I'm very pleased that HN isn't as one-dimensional as some other sites; it's what keeps me coming back.

But it is weird, what becomes popular and what doesn't. For example, I submitted this particular story, which I was a bit unsure about (like you say, more suited to Reddit), but still people vote it up.

Other times, I can submit content that I think is genuinely interesting/fascinating, that is much more technical and comprehensive than this rather silly BBC/URL story, and it doesn't get a single vote. Maybe it's the time of day / day of the week.

On that note, does anyone know of any data repositories for Hacker News front page items? An API or raw-data download that can be analyzed? I remember someone a few months ago doing some analysis on the best time of day to submit, but was wondering if there was any public data out there, or whether I should start spidering/collecting my own?
The flip side to that, as a person currently dissolving his marriage of 10 years, is that it's a LOT harder to find a 'loyal friend for life' than it is with some other quality you prefer. It's also easy to rationalize how _easy_ it would be to love someone _forever_ when you're in the throes of new love, and just as easy to chalk up blame when that passion dies.

I agree with the sentiment, I really do, and my (soon to be ex-) wife and I are still really good friends, but not only is 'find your best friend' not _necessarily_ a magic bullet, but it's also a lot harder to ferret out than, say, 'large breasted' or 'wealthy'.

Though, it could just be my bitterness talking. :'(
Sorry, add "tax" to your query. But if it doesn't come up this time, I'm sure you can find Feld's post yourself.
Isn't anyone else curious about this "long now foundation"?

I mean for one thing the bet is just as much about the turing test as it is whether or not you believe this foundation is going to exist in 2029.

It also seems like they take all the bet money and then invest it while they're waiting to pay out. Seems like a pretty sweet deal.
Perhaps a laser could be used to first reliably replicate the original pattern of an LP into digital form, then one could feed that pattern to a real tonearm needle somehow, vibrating it suitably, in a nondestructive manner.

Like some kind of "fake vinyl", except the actual musical data could be downloadable.

This way one could stream/download vinyls while still playing the music with all the small imperfections which create warmth and the vinyl sound (=crackles of noise and static and wow and flutter and the harmonic distortions and so on).
What visa is Amazon proposing to sponsor you for?
That was pretty specific to the DC-10: A money-driven design decision had the cargo door open outwards to allow more cargo to fit inside. A design flaw meant that it was possible to close the door without fully locking it.
And people laugh when I refer to the drawer next to the stove as an L1 cache!
So, perhaps there is a valid reason for China to refuse to give the raw data on early COVID-19 victims to the WHO, but I have to say, as a reader who's never been particularly impressed by the possibility of it being lab-created, I have to say this is not a good look for China.
HN is reflexive with downvotes. It's not personal.

A response of "Trump did thing, Biden undid thing" after a comment of "US should do thing" can be interpreted as support of Trump and criticism of Biden.

This is not a good thing to be true. Thus, it is downvoted.
My kids already invented that. If you want theirs, come ask. Includes unlimited eye rolls and muttering.
Cool, glad both sides of the aisle are willing to consider all possible origins. It shouldn't be a political statement to want the most accurate answer to a health-question, and maybe it won't have to be anymore.
These aren’t even remotely similar cases and mentioning the Rittenhouse case here is an unnecessary and unhelpful distraction.
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And it is the last line of last page of the document. Imagine reading through the whole thing and coming to the last page just to see the last sentence saying that.

I think it is more of a spec, and discussion of implementation ideas for a language than a manual of implemented language.
The article is much more convincing than what you reduced it to.
This is a good project, especially as the subjects are paid.

I'm interested to see what the outcome would be. I'm not sure that advertising is the worst part of FB, I strongly suspect its other users.

I am very interested in the "recommended" findings. I think that for all but a few, they reflect their own world view. However that's a hunch
Well there are different ways of looking at impressing your friends.

Funny but I have two replies to my comment, one saying they became proficient at programming by competing with their friends in games programming and discussing together how their work could improve. And your reply taking a completely different direction about showing off with cars and women.

It seems the morale is that youths like to show off, regardless if it's with a car or with their code.
BSD jails? I'd be quite confident running possibly dangerous code in one of the most restricted jail configs. Processes can't interact, can't access outside their given directories, can't modify devices, etc.
I worked at SK too, leaving to pursue my studies. I always wondered what happened in the end, so thanks. I assumed the crew at least got something from the buyout - damn I'm really sorry for them that they didn't.
If we upvote this story to the moon, will it come true?
Way less frequent. I'm usually jumping between Germany and India and whenever I'm in Germany it feels like I'm always getting a popup on every site I visit for the first time.

A lot of the same sites don't bother to throw the popup when I'm browsing from India.
More or less. As far as i know gVisor work with a host process that serves as a proxy for the os syscall and the child process dispatch the calls to the parent process through IPC which in turn execute it.

This is basically also how Chrome works, except that it serves otjer api's.

On Fuchsia, apparently the OS attach a binary which is a program on its own, to the binary that is executing and that in its "manifest" tell it will need a linux syscall proxy, which is this starnix that get stitched to the executable doing all calls in the same process.

On Fuchsia case this will end to be much more efficient because there will be no IPC communication involved just jumps on the code sector.
People absolutely are adversarial in these situations. Google rankings are valuable, so people try to game them, and google tries to fend them off with algorithm changes.

You can’t wave a wand to stop that. I’m describing the world as it is, not advocating how it ought to be.
For the interested. Here is an online lecture from the author of the paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJoe4qH6kLs
Great post, thanks! I saw Growing Neural Cellular Automata document you describe a strategy to get the model to learn attractor dynamics. I was kind of reminded of Deep Equilibrium Models (https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01377).

Is there a relationship between these models and do you think these root finding and implicit differentiation techniques could be used to train Cellular Automata too?
Yes they were annoying to me, and that's why I remembered them.

Upvotes might not mean much, maybe other information addicts saw a dense page and "ooh, endorphins, upvote".

After a certain point it just got exhausting to follow. Reading is simple, but looking at images so I can agree with the conlusion he made tasks the brain.

Oh, the moat article even has footnotes that scrolls to the end of the page and you then have to click back... god damn, how!!!

If he was in a conference room presenting a slideshow (each image being a slide), how long would his presentation be? At what point does he lose the majority of the audience? At least with slides people usually point out what they want you to pay attention to, and they don't do 7 slides of examples for one point (like the "look, Google Maps has outlines of buildings!" in the moat article).
Sony's Magic Cap had a skeuomorphic interface as well. I always wanted to try it, given that Bill Atkinson was involved, but I never had the chance.

The Wikipedia page has a screenshot for those who haven't seen it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Cap
This is necessarily the case given that a teacher having to divide their attention between twenty students and the current priority structure of our schools.

But is it? Don't we all remember that "one teacher" who seemed to give us that little extra attention or push when we needed it the most?

Good teachers (at least my good ones) all seem to understand the attention-tool intuitively, but it just became glaringly obvious to me raising my three children and seeing young children behave badly to obviously get their parents attention, and many parents obliging them without thinking.

The rather odd part, for me, was, when mentioning this to parents in social groups, I was often looked at like I was nuts...like the idea of bothering a well-behaving kids with attention was beyond the realm of reason.
Wow, that's really cool! Never seen that before. (I implemented many of the Rosetta Code tasks in Nim)
Serious question: Has anyone tried this out on actual children? How did it go? Maybe children can more easily accommodate the number of arbitrary elements and rules the game requires, because as an adult, I find the alligator motif actively confusing.

Using concrete names, people, chocolates rather than abstractions usually helps a lot in teaching, because it leverages existing mental models and reduces the cognitive burden of tracking abstract tokens and behaviours. In this case, the alligators and their eggs behave so differently from anything familiar (egg hatching to whatever the parent ate?!) that I find the cognitive burden increases to the point of giving up. IMHO, for adults, a straight-up explanation with abstract symbols would actually be easier to comprehend.
The pricing is extremely non-competitive: $4/sq inch for a single copy. For my last PCB order (230mm x 145mm), JLCPCB was $67.18 for 10 boards, ordered on 2021-02-18 and delivered on 2021-02-23.

Patchr is quoting this for 7 day production time for a single board:

Price Estimate: $206.80

* Not including tax

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I think this is maybe not the best type of post on HN that I'm about to make but I'll do it anyway... I really liked your story, thank you for sharing it.
I think you're confusing "value to humanity" and nerd porn.
This discussion is in terms of value to WhatsApp users ( average-joe user) to SpaceX users ( niche rich-audience / billion dollar agency )
It's easier (well, certainly simpler) and less powerful. The system certainly can be simplified a lot if you don't need memory safety.
With the amount of effort clearly involved in such an operation, I think it is fairly safe to say that no, everyone is not going to start doing this now.
If I were him, I would put most of my money in life extension technology.
Jacuzzi on the torch of the statue of Liberty
One can't image how hard a small little object falling from a few dozen meters can hit you. That's what the helmets are for ;)
“commonly known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party
To contradict your suggestion that Germany does not see any bike usage at all: In a somewhat recent survey (2019) 44% of people claimed that they were using their bicycle as a transportation method more than once a week (up from 38% in 2015). 61% were using their car as a transportation method more than once a week (70% in 2015). There were more sales of bicycles last year than diesel cars.