jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Very nice, that helps a lot.

Still, though, this feature really should be part of HN proper, especially since it's so simple to implement. I think a lot more attention would hit posts that aren't already at the top, which would encourage people to write new posts instead of responding to whatever happens to be above the fold.

It's not going to fix the comment quality problems, but it would give a bump in the direction of wider, shallower comment trees, which will probably help a bit (deeply nested comments tend to either meander off topic or degenerate into arguments between a couple of people).
Which btw, should be attributed to top management and middle management, respectively.
You should always look on page 386,549 of the 8 million search results. That's where the best results can be found.
> I completely disagree with his stance on vaccinations but I also disagree that he's some sort of major source of disinformation.

Just to play with this a bit. Joe Rogan is unvaccinated himself, and he at least has recommended young people not to get vaccinated.

In the meantime ICU beds are/have been occupied by overwhelmingly unvaccinated people (proportionally) pushing out other urgent medical care, all over the world.

I agree that we can't blame everything on something/someone specific, but JRE is the biggest podcast on the planet, so I think it's fair to say he's probably one major source (among others).
There is nothing magic about the process. There is a number that represents the replacement value of the item, and it's computable. I pulled the number $1,000 out of a hat. I don't know what Hermes' profit margin on each item is. I assume its high, in that price >> replacement cost. I use that not as moral leverage for the analogy, but because digital products have a similar situation where price >> replacement cost.

My point is that it's ridiculous to make a categorical distinction between digital and physical goods based on the premise that digital goods have a zero replacement cost while physical goods have a non-zero replacement cost. It makes it seem like as long as a producer is not out the replacement cost, then stealing a product is okay.
Houston actually famously doesn't have zoning, but they do have minimum parking requirements and an infinite amount of land, so they still ended up with sprawl. I believe they're improving their laws now.
Ah not much, around 1.7 bitcoins. Bought them pretty cheap (<$300) in the recent weeks because I wanted to take the bet. Turned out I lost the bet. But that's not a big deal, I made around 1 bitcoin profit through btc.sx.
What about groovy/grails? It's still java but with a lot of the modern toys.
Diapers.com: Then, to fill an order, the first available robot simply finds the closest requested item. < That's AI.

Google: "what is the color of grass" is equated to "define:color of grass"

Web definitions for color of grass
a primary color between yellow and blue in the spectrum, like the color of grass
encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/green.html - Definition in context

So yea it's stupid AI, but they are both still AI.

PS: Decoding a natural language queries structure is considered AI. "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" to a map location is more than just a search for web pages.
Why is this 'appropriate' rather than unjust slander against conal and mauke?
I ended up writing a fair bit of screen scraping this year. By far the best way I have found so far is using http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/. I have tried yahoo pipes but scraping HTML with regex is a bad idea. I've also tried dapper but didn't find it reliable enough.
The chart doesn't account for the operational value of Bing for Microsoft.

If you want to search MSDN, Google doesn't get to sell advertising or skew the search results to fit their business model or for that matter track what you're searching. Likewise, searches from MicroSoft IP addresses using Bing aren't tracked by Google either.
I don't follow. Why would this be interesting?
Funny because the next book I'm going to read is Nassim Taleb's "Dynamic Hedging" which I'll try to apply to my volatility trading. IMHO, Taleb is an expert in finance not in life in general.
This is incredible. Such technology with a RPG adventure game would open up a new genre of exploration games!
You mean "home shopping", like on TV where you call "right now" and you get useless stuff... Kickstarter is purely a marketing business, many backers still don't understand it.

The client is the project creator, not the backers. Since Kickstarter makes money on successful marketing campaigns.

Apparently, they are still doing well

https://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats

Good for them. I will never back anything on that platform because I find it exploitative. Kickstarter claims they can't do any due diligence and it's up to the backers. But how can a backer assess the viability of a project if Kickstarter themselves can't? How many bakers know anything about industrial production, supply chain, ... The project creator can lie to the face of backers for half a decade, of course most of them are completely ignorant of what producing goods entails, for instance:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stillalive/polygons-the...

4 years to produce a basic measuring spoon, and counting...
Because the Internet has plenty of well captioned drawings of daikon radish drawn as a bipedal humanoid. D’oh!
Great article, Suhir. Very well written and informative :DD

I would like to help point out some typos and missing words, and I made this PR[1] so you can easily see the diff. I hope this is useful, but also feel free to ignore these suggestions

[1] https://github.com/chenbobby/editing/pull/1/files
I need to fly on an A380 before they become dinosaurs.
> If AlphaProof generated a long and unreadable proof...

Then how would anyone be sure it isn't wrong?

It was great that while Goldston and Yıldırım were wrong, their work proved to be useful. A lot of people are glad that Riemann (and Fermat) didn't their problems!
They're pushing out a model train club? That's full moustache-twirling evil.

Serious pivot: there are a lot of hobby, public-service, and charitable organizations which could use permanent, cheap space with minimal features: woodworking and craft groups, maker spaces, library branches, model train clubs, indoor community gardening, political party offices, various service organizations. Why is there no efficient strategy to get them into the large number of empty mall spaces?
I took the flags off your comment; your point is the kind of thing I meant in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26880612 about how society is divided on this category of putdown.

On HN, fortunately, we have a simpler playbook than the Big Book of Social Norms Worldwide, which is impossible to make consistent. It's at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, and I think that the rules "please don't call names" and "eschew flamebait" suffice for us all to just avoid the Karen thing here.
I think being able to plan an invasion, literally or metaphorically, is a master skill. Putin in Ukraine, protesters in Ottawa, and market-disrupting visionaries can change the world in ways few of us think ourselves capable of, but grasping greatness is just a matter of unlearning learned helplessness and taking the first step toward it when the whole world says no.
There is no extra allocation. No matter how you do it, you will need at least one allocation to hold the result of combined strings.
Just released episode of Fresh Air on China's surveillance state: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/05/953515627/facial-recognition-...

Xinjiang is the laboratory for these new surveillance technologies.

Just in case anyone else wants to scare the shit out of themselves about the prospect of some sort of techno-totalitarian future for the Chinese people.
"Nachts ist kälter als draußen."
Not sure if this really works in English: "At night is colder than outdoors."
>When new people join a channel in your discord server, they call see the full chat history so they can get fully caught up.

FYI there is a permission to disable this for a channel
Nothing there says that the hardware must be ready at or after 10ms. It simply says that software can't ask for anything before 10ms is up. Software has to wait 10ms, and then might have to wait longer.
Life sentence for a 15 year old who didn't provably kill someone seems excessively harsh. Heck, the teen that did provably kill someone throwing a rock over an overpass didn't get life (he got 3-20)[0].

I have a slightly unpopular stance that death penalty is appropriate if there is overwhelming evidence of an unrepentant killer. I don't see any value in keeping them around in prison, especially if they will continue to have a negative influence on peers in prison for decades.

But other than that, I think even life is inappropriate in most cases, and especially for teens who don't really understand the impact of their actions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Interstate_75_rock-throwi...
It seems Zuckerberg has a higher chance of inflicting pain on Apple than either Microsoft or Google.

Google doesn't know what they are doing. They have so far shown nothing, zip, zero in strategy and vision. And their execution aren't that good either.

Microsoft, despite the new direction are somewhat better in execution. But it is arguably much the same as they were in the 90s. I guess Steve Jobs put it best, the lack of taste.

If you think the criticism is hash, that is because the comparison is relative, it doesn't mean they are bad in absolute terms, it is just Apple is on another level with strategic play and execution. ( Apple started their Qualcomm play in early 2014, and likely even earlier off record before they sued Qualcomm in 2017 )

Both Google and Microsoft are busy expanding their Cloud business. All while Apple is slowly squeezing all the money out of all online Ads as an industry ( cross site, targeted or not ). Moving the most lucrative user ( iPhone user ) away from Ads and web to Apps. Collecting more Raw Profits Per User with Google Default Search Engine. i.e Apple is increasing the cost of Google doing online business while taking away their revenue generating opportunity. This is a double squeeze. And using iPhone, iPad as leverage to slowly move Fortune 500 Enterprise towards using Mac. It actually isn't as far fetch as people may think when Java and Office works perfectly on Mac M1.

But Apple isn't perfect. It has its own Achilles heel. App Store Revenue, Google Default Search Engine, and Monopolistic behaviour. Today, the iPhone has 66% market share in the United States, 75% of U.S. App Store revenues, and over 80% of time spent on the mobile internet. If Zuckerberg plays his cards right, aiming at the first two item alone is close to 50% of Apple's Net Profit. And he doesn't even have to do it himself or using Facebook to do it. He just have to fund it.
It feels like Balaji Srinivasan and Sam Altman are taking much bigger hits in this article than Scott Alexander is.
Not frequent, but happened in the past. Example United 811 -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_811
Well, it's no surprise that people optimize to the metric that's available, right? Private labs aim to make production things. Public labs aim to collect grants.

The only real hope for modern science is a business with a long-term view. That's because that business is only rewarded if their thing works.

If there was ever a time when public academics worked for science, it is no longer that today. Now it is occupied by grant vultures. This makes sense since we never rewarded science. We always rewarded a proxy. And in any sphere where you do that, eventually the proxy becomes the target as more sophisticated strategies evolve and each generation of participants gets better at optimizing against the proxy.
I do not think that fighting against against harassment, death threats, ect, is really the gotcha argument that free speech proponents would say is a huge contradiction with their beliefs.

Most people who support free speech, would probably also agree that it is good to give people tools to protect themselves from harassment.
> high volatility makes active trading MUCH more profitable

Or much more loss-making, depending how lucky you are.
>Both extremes concentrate power eventually (in the state or in megacorps). Somewhere in the middle, you have an open and capitalist market, but the government keeps large cooperations in check, and the population keeps the government in check.

What in this middle ground would prevent Apple from buying FoundationDB? I can't see this happening in any middle-ground countries like Europe.
Why not 16k? Microsoft has never done too well with the forward looking bit. We were stuck at 1080p because software did not support more, and there was no demand for monitors and vice versa. Cell phones and Macs validated the market, and 5 years later, MS starts to catch up. 8k displays are now coming out, so Microsoft adds support without looking forward another few years.
Where do you spend it, out of interest? What comparable places are there for chatting on nerdish things like this?
> I would say "using other people's names in confusing ways that border on impersonation should maybe be illegal" ...

I think this is a textbook example of trademark infringement all wrapped up in a nice neat little package. It shows how brand protection shouldn't really care about the intent of the infringing party. It's so overt I'd have to assume it was due to naivety, but that doesn't make it any less damaging.

The fact that it just doesn't "feel" like a service that might follow from the team who brought us Slack-the-team-chat-product just serves to establish Slack Technologies' ownership of their brand, and their need to protect it. If their marketing and PM teams have seen this, I'm sure they're cringing.

That's not to say that it doesn't offer value. I'm sure that if the branding issue wasn't so overt, we'd all be cheering it on as a Show HN style MVP.
Given a global deanon attack against Tor, the DoJ absolutely would have rounded up the members of the dozens of child abuse related hidden services. The fact that only a single site was compromised indicates it was most likely an insider attack against the SR2 servers.
Long before everyone has driverless cars—and not long after cars are silent enough for this sort of thing to matter—we'll have cars that are at least smart enough to know when there are pedestrians nearby and beep at them. (Or possibly even only play engine noise when approaching them.)
If you're in the bay, use safeway delivery. They do perishable s, beer, and all.
Misunderstood; I thought you were defending the confirmation prompt in the software itself.
Check out http://teamtreehouse.com they have pretty good lessons and their longest video is around 10 mins long so it is easy to take a break when you need to or deep dive for hours when you have the stamina. Coding is something that requires perseverance. It always helps to have a project in mind when learning a language or tool
That, and bottled water in the gift shop will cost you 8 times the equivalent volume of gasoline.
It's fascinating to think about Symantec's motivations for creating that very well-produced, streamlined video. It basically plays like an ad for Stuxnet, the growth of which represents the creation of a new market for Symantec.
Main issue is one of scalability: they get a few conscripts covering their one airport and they're done.

Given some of the crap I've seen/faced going through various Israeli checkpoints though, it's just not a system I would want to see implemented in my own country. Anyone can feel free to disagree, but personally I think people should be able to travel freely within their own country without being treated as criminals (or sexually assaulted to prove their innocence, of course).
I feel the same way about some of the bigger subreddits, but if you spend some time to find the good ones, the site improves dramatically.

However, one unfortunate thing is that the programming subreddit isn't (in my opinion) part of the signal. It's just as full of intolerable sniping and general assume-the-worst behavior as anywhere else on the web.
There's a commercial extension of Seaside, where they've put all of the Smalltalk development tools and made AJAX webapps out of them. Basically, you can set things up then do everything through the browser. (Webvelocity)
I think it depends on the specific discussion. The front-page articles for the bigger subreddits are just too crowded to have any sort of nuance a lot of the time. But if you're interested in specific topics and are subscribed to smaller subreddits, you can have really good back-and-forth with no pitchfork-waving.
I agree to a point. But clucking your tongue and ignoring it is also not the answer.

The way to get less of an undesirable behavior is to make it lead to undesirable outcomes. Unless there is some other operative reason, you're right in another way - we don't have to care where that (dis)incentive comes from.

The firm owners are ultimately responsible - they are responsible for hiring the execs responsible for the firms' actions. Fine the criminal company so hard that shareholders of their future potential employers will think twice about the risks they might impose on their savings.

Of course, this is a national security concern, and so TBTF. Man, isn't the US a great place, if you're filthy rich?
Mithriljs is great, I used it even before using Reactjs and it's the easiest UI framework ever.
Who's offering 2-3%?
You're equating fabrication with NYT incorporating anonymous sources into its reporting. Those are worlds apart. It is completely fine to use anonymous sources if you can authenticate their material.

Some sort of myth seems to have been created that news reporting can't use anonymous sources. It's not only wrong, but not disclosing sources is an absolutely foundational accepted element of journalism.
I wish :) I’m 37, with 2 kids (6 and 3).
That sounds like a pretty sane way to set a limit that by definition should not be exceeded.

It's also the way civil engineers recommend speed limits be set. I think the current number they use is 85th percentile.
Why don't you share what you need assistance with?
The inverse doesn't work. Musk has not yet demonstrated he runs a profitable company. That's the bar which Jobs, Gates, and many other CEO's have shown which Musk has not yet shown.
Even those with opinions that match the mainstream (the vote was valid) are getting threatened:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/us/election-officials-thr...
I red this in some book I forgot the name of, so I can’t cite anything. But it was explained that female strips everything except for the DNA from sperm. This way there’s minimal risk of infecting the egg with the pathogens the sperm can carry. I’m not sure if it’s true just for humans or other organisms as well.
A peaceful separation is the only tenable long-term solution.
I think you are wrong. While the cost of authoring and distributing content are cheaper than ever and anyone can broadcast to the planet trivially, the ability to actually bring attention to your content has never been more scarce. It is deeply controlled and manipulated by huge confirmation-bias-as-service platforms in every recommender system, personalized ad system, and content feed across the mainstream internet.

Your fellow citizens deserve more credit. They have brains. They really can and almost always do form adequate understanding of reasonable takes on new information.

But when their eyeballs are subjected to consumerist bidding wars and ranking algorithms to inflame, to stoke fear and insecurity, to render feelings of inadequacy, and they are so thoroughly manipulated, then you get information monoculture.

We need information diversity and information vitamins. Instead we’re allowing ourselves to be spoonfed information junk food.
I don't think "News" should include criticism. There is a very important place for it along with news, but I think it is important to keep them as separate concepts. Honestly, right now what is presented as mainstream "news" is probably best described as entertainment.
He did not present a dichotomy. He said one is more important than the other, and that is correct.

We used to teach our children to "have a thick skin." "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words can never hurt me." When someone took offense we told them to "grow up."

Being offended, especially on behalf of someone else, is useless. Teach people not to take offense. They'll be happier.
The President of the United States can’t admit that he lost, and is evidently willing to throw an entire country and political system under the bus in the service of his ego.

One side effect of this personality type seizing power is that the Overton window has been inflated into a vast, festering portal through which our worst nightmares can crawl out. I doubt it was his intent, but it is the result.

You’ve almost got to admire the raw primitive energy and boundlessness of that level of id. How very sad that it has been employed to such feeble ends; it will ultimately have to be crushed for democracy to prevail.
That would be shot down in the boardroom.

A chicken fryer would compete with KFC, while a chicken heater would heat KFC-fried chicken.

(maybe an enterprise version with franchise-enabled deep-fried deep-learning chicken?)
Whether it is the lack of an ORM or lack of a "algorithm" that pleases you, this comment has made my day :-).
I agree that this is happenong in these comments. I also think that the people who support IP laws are more likely to find legal yet adjacent actions dodgy -- if you didn't support physical property laws you might find taking an legally abandoned yet possibly lost item dodgy, whereas somebody who doesn't believe in physical property laws is unlikely to have any objection to this.
Yes, although a quick search reveals that Oxford considers this a US usage so it was probably not the ideal choice for a title.
> Stack Overflow

... which licenses its content with CC by SA 4.0[1] and has a public API.

Other licensing models of content will vary.

[1] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333089/stack-exchan...
Obstructive and disruptive are intensely subjective labels. Anyone who doesn't get what they want can say "oh, I should've gotten it, but I was disrupted and obstructed and that was very unfair". As an American, Brexit really drove this point home for me; the two largest British parties have both been insisting for years now that they're trying to drive Brexit forwards but the other side is unfairly obstructing them.

"Criminal" is less subjective, but I just don't think it's true. I'm unaware of any kind of criminal behavior that Republicans get accused of but Democrats don't.
*for a very limited value of mighty....
I'll admit that it's not much of a strategy, but I don't read email on my phone. (I'm not being snarky or sarcastic, btw. Of course, if you actually really need to be responding to email in real time then I'm afraid I cannot help.)

My philosophy about this can be summed up as: If it's important enough you'll call me (... and you'll call me again if I don't pick up the first time)... and I'll take your urgency VERY seriously. If you invest effort into communicating with me, then I'll reciprocate. If you're just firing off email... nah.
least-Fun simulation ever, but i'm sure the creators did alot of research into troop movements to paint this picture so great job.

The only thing that it doesn't take into account the weapons we've developed since then. Like Cyber, Anti-Air "Iron Dome", satelite responses, etc.

It's crazy how many zero-days are hoarded instead of fixed. It's crazy how interconnected and reliant on technology we are.

Take out a city with a nuke, that's really bad. But disable wifi, electricity, water, oil or any other nessecity and instead of destroying that city you watch that city destroy itself.
Because its far easier to launch a missle than to catch a nuclear weapon mid air. It wouldn't even prevent damage or loss of life. nuclear weapons are big enough to affect airplanes even