skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more noticeable for niche topics, which google tends to struggle with in general.

I remember trying to google something about Sufism and its relationship to mysticism and the occult...and google brought up a bunch of results from right wing conspiracy websites claiming that Islam was related to the "New World Order".
"Amazon's rejection".

Interesting way to phrase what happened.
"I'm getting notes of dried robin's blood, old dirty cashews and just a hint of a robot's bathwater."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eopL9kmMhvw
I would position D on a spectrum between Go and Rust.

Go is roughly where you would end up if you trimmed down D to its bare bones: a pretty fast GC language with a native runtime that can do some memory manipulation if needed, where the focus is on providing a single idiom that works for every task.

D is more like the C++er's take on that idea. It has templates, it has annotations galore, lots of convenience features, lots of low level features, and it's gradually repositioning to depend less on the GC and get some similar "manual but safe" memory functionality of Rust. It can be a bit intimidating, but you can be productive with it relatively quickly if you write Go-like code, and add the extra stuff in gradually. That gives it leverage as a language that really grows with your project and lets you go into fine-grain detail where you need it.

Rust is like Go in that it's at an uncompromising extreme of the memory-safety spectrum. Borrow checking(and its resulting patterns, which are typically considered idiomatic in modern C++) is in at the core and it's not going away. This makes it great for code that needs to scale out to the extremes of something like a web browser, where the codebase cannot "do one thing well" anymore and needs tight control over resources, concurrency, and safety all in the same package.

There are reasons to find any of these three unfavorable - the harshest critics might say Go is "braindead", D is "a mess", Rust is "too strict". I believe all three are here to stay.

I would also lump in Zig here as a second axis of the equation. Where the other languages all have ambitions about memory safety, Zig makes no bones about being unsafe: it aims to be a direct replacement to C, which cleans up every other aspect - areas where the standard is unclear, where more checks around boundary conditions are possible, and where modernization would be of immediate help, e.g. a compilation system that does not involve the C preprocessor or header files. Zig isn't hostile about memory safety - there's willingness to explore it, but the approach is conservative. This positions it as the ultimate "low-level library" language, where the programmer goes in with a straightforward goal and can reasonably expect to know what every last byte does.
A NON-QWERTY keyboard at that. With random number arrangement? That's insane.
It's quite common in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kin...

My ISP does the blocking slightly - the DNS response is fine, but they inject a redirect into the HTTP response.
> Capitalism has failed in a way.

That's not to say that capitalism is thus refuted as an economic model. All it means is that someone hasn't been doing an adequate enough job (probably regulators or lawmakers, in this case).

Capitalism's success is always a function of adequate rule of law, economic regulation, social trust, and personal generosity. Where those are present, it absolutely trounces other models.
Drug legalization (regulated) can be a solution. Also, if things start to improve in Mexico migrations will disminish more, although with Lopez Obrador probably things will get worse.
From the article: "[Alta Vista] broadened the use of boolean operators in search. Like some competing search engines, it supported AND, OR, and NOT."

My recollection is that Alta Vista supported boolean operators, but defaulted to OR while Google defaulted to AND. So searching Alta Vista for something like "$CommonWord $UncommonWord" would return results with high-ranking pages for $CommonWord that drown out all the low-scoring pages for $UncommonWord, whereas Google would return results that match the intersection (which would actually be relevant to the user's query). I'm convinced this default might have made a bigger impact on Google's success than any PageRank magic.
> Amazon isn't some two-bit startup which has no VC funding

So Amazon is at lower risk of bankruptcy and a higher credibility of eventual return of those investments?
You should have a look at JSF (Java Server Faces) that explored, and failed miserably, in the same context for the last 15 years or so. (Probably less, dunno)
"[..]" was a list of all the problems that frustrated people before the stepped process.
Can you justify your statement? Wavefunction collapse would certainly implies there can be multiple coexisting states. Only one is observed by "your" reality.
People without H-1B visas are LEGALLY allowed to apply for green card. H-1B has nothing to do green cards. Green cards have existed for decades before H-1B visas were introduced in the 90s. I don't know why you keep lying about this when it is factually incorrect. People have been immigrating to the US before H-1B visas existed. Jerry Yang and Sergei Brin immigrated to the US before H-1B visas existed. They had green cards before H-1B visas existed.

Also, H-1B visas have nothing to do with silicon valley. They were created in 1990. Silicon Valley had existed for decades before 1990.

Zuckerburg already has offices and employees in beijing, bangalore, st petersburg with H-1B in place.

Everything you stated is an outright lie. Why are you doing that? There are plenty of ways to defend H-1B visas without resorting to lying.
Now for someone to properly 'dockerize' the browser so that you can flip a switch on and off for those holes you actually need, or rather, the ones you aren't willing to live without.
There are some jobs that Americans literally will not do. Another poster here brought up nursing, which does in fact pay well and has good benefits. But no one is training to be a nurse, and so we have a lack of people qualified to do the job. The only solution is to bring in qualified labor, because training the labor force requires years of effort and upending cultural inertia.

There are some jobs where I agree, the pay and benefits are not good enough to bring in labor. Using immigration as an excuse to pay people less in those situations is bad and is fixed by ensuring labor laws protect even illegal immigrants and companies that exploit them are punished.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Considered Paying Billions for Unity
Movement semantics actually existed for vector assignment since the original C++98 STL specification.

Movement semantics didn't exist in the language per se, but they were supported back then by std::swap and std::auto_ptr. Today, it is far easier to represent movement semantics with RValues, std::move, and std::unique_ptr.

But yeah, std::vector's assignment operator was originally at least std::swap based and therefore efficient.
Neat project! We indeed support nesting in LiveView :)
That would be BLTEntly annoying. Sure we could build a blocker for it to manage consent.
Navy reactors have completely different design parameters, one of which is the use weapons grade fuel...
Related, something that really hit me and this community hard on suicide: https://gizmodo.com/the-agonizing-last-words-of-programmer-b...
Until Google implements DNS over TLS and does cert checking.
Missing 2018 in the Title.
Maybe if they did a better job at securing their systems and card security requirements there wouldn't be as much fraud that they are liable to cover? Their systems are broken. CC fraud is at a high. They're having to pay out more, decreasing profits. Answer? Raise fees and keep the broken system in place so they don't have to spend millions/billions to fix their problem they created. Being able to use a RFID/NFC reader in close proximity to someones wallet (like in their back pocket, standing ahead of you in line) and being able to charge their card without even touching it is not a very good thing lol. Chip cards are pretty cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmoE1mDz_cM

I can't find the other demo/video where they were just walking up to people and making charges in realtime by rfid scans.

One of the first thing I do on chip cards is cut the antennae trace on the chip. I don't need or want that convenience. Swiping the mag strip on the card isn't that hard for me, and never was.

They recently (last year?) raised limits (at least Visa) for the amount you (or someone) can spend without requiring a signature. It doesn't make me feel good that if my card is stolen someone can charge up to $1k on it without a signature. I don't know when the last time a merchant asked me to see my identification to see if it matched the name on my card.

This will just raise the price of all goods since merchants figure the cc fees into the prices of all products, whether you're paying with cash or card.

Meh, it's easier to just raise fees than fix the real problems directly affecting their bottom line: Fraud.
You need to watch a high-quality copy to get the full effect

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6t9skr0ua4le5ma/whelmer46a_5m.mkv?...

View it projected large (like 6-10 feet tall). Use good speakers too.
> We already know that renewables can handle the entire grid. There are plenty of papers out there exploring this matter.

This is all inherently speculation. If you assume the current cost trends continue, maybe everything is fine. But what happens if you scale production by a factor of fifty or more? Do raw materials prices for things like lithium or rare earth metals go up due to demand? Do average operating costs rise once the most cost effective installation sites are already occupied and the low hanging fruit has been picked in general? Are we analyzing numbers from existing installations that have selection bias in favor of factors that the remaining sites don't have, e.g. lower vs. higher population density?

Doing a long-term analysis on something with this level of complexity inherently has large error bars. Even if "everything will be alright" is a likely result, we still need to address the non-negligible probability that it isn't.
The Tony Conrad is definitely the stuff. I'd love to see a hq version. Vimeo and Youtube really degrade it.
There are many developed countries with negligible immigration, compared to the US. Why not follow their example on how to solve this? Other countries make a fine example when extolling the virtues of socialized medicine, so why is this area an exception?
I suspect it's to keep people from using Pi-holes or other DNS level adblockers. A non-ultra chromecast will totally ignore the routers preferred DNS unless you blackhole 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, then it'll fallback to the DNS server you actually want it to use.
Rents have been doing better over the while haven't they?

Still have a massive shortage of housing to buy. :/
The problem is that frauds are fat-tailed. The vast mayority of them are small, but most harm comes not from them but few huge ones where there is no economy of scale to offset it.

If one increases the number of transactions, then it can be depending on fraud distribution details that harm from big ones increases disproportionately and makes average cost of transaction higher.
Wealth IS the accumulation of resources and it is naturally unequally distributed. From Oxford's Dictionary: "1 An abundance of valuable possessions or money." "1.1 The state of being rich; material prosperity."

Only considering raw, natural resources, are they not distributed unequally around the world? Some regions have naturally more forests than iron deposits, for example.

If you dissolved society (perhaps a la hunter-gatherers) would not there still be differences? Perhaps one is faster and would collect more berries than his brother, etc, etc...

You are correct in that there might policies that might lead to increased wealth and others that will reduce it. However how would you propose to "police" superyachts?

Furthermore, what makes you think that consumption and the fulfilling of human needs (including superyachts; billionaires must need them otherwise nobody would build them) is not behind technological innovation? I was going to say Economics might substantiate this claim, but I think it is self-apparent. Otherwise what would be the driver of innovation?
My Start Page from StartMe
The foam is really bad - not smooth or creamy and plenty of bubbles
Only if we don't have to tip them...
They are approximations using approximate data which isn't being checked for validity trying to predict consequences 50-80 years out.

I am not taking it literally I am not even taking it seriously.

Again I am well aware of the literature you still haven't been able to show actual proof of any claim of us having 12 or approximately 12 years left to avoid some catastrophe you haven't even substantiated what catastrophe or show that we can't deal with it.

There are plenty of scientists who think Hansen is wrong and it's certainly been wrong that New York would be under water by 2010 as it was claimed by some. In fact, all claims about our inability to deal with climate change have so far been wrong.

What do you mean what's in it for climate scientists? Their livelihood exactly the same as you claim is in it for the oil industry and which is in it for the Greentech industry. What do the scientists who are skeptical about the claims have to gain from this? You are only applying ill intent to one side not the other. There is plenty of NASA scientists who are skeptics too.

Of course, I can separate the two when it comes to what I can do something about and what I can't. I can do something about whether someone should pollute in my backyard I can't do anything about whether China decides to build yet another coal factory.

I would really urge you to spend the time and dig into this. Read both sides of the argument and then tell me that you don't come back much less confident in anything you hear.
you’re right about it not being emergent, it’s been an emergency for a very long time, as evident by loss of life and crime that could have been prevented had they acted decades sooner

if you want to nitpick on word etymology we could say that if 2000 people cross the border illegally each day then it’s a new emergency every morning...

every time an American or victim of trafficking and abuse gets killed or harmed due to this Wild West of a border is the result of an emergency that was not properly addressed
The service Plastiq will send a check to your landlord funded with a credit card for a 2.5% fee. It’s not worth it to buy miles, but definitely worth it to earn a signup bonus where the rewards are worth 10%+ of the minimum spend requirement.
Hence why I explicitly mentioned Linux.

Also Aix uses the same model as Windows.

Finally, .NET Assemblies are versioned, and Microsoft has introduced Application Manifests around Windows XP.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/sbscs/appli...

So it a matter of actually taking the effort of specifying the versions that the application works with.
> was only 10% of the expected tax revenue

That's 10% too much.

> But because of poor numeracy and a poor understanding of the conditions of the break or the nature of tax deductions, a lot of people had sticker shock at the $3b number.

Or people understand and are still outraged at the giveaway to a trillion dollar company.
Another, more human, take on this from Barista Hustle:

https://baristahustle.com/blog/the-death-of-the-death-of-the...

TL;DR (I watched this a couple of months ago, so this is an attempt a remembering the thesis. I also don't know if I agree or not that this is a good future, but it is the future presented in the video) -- the robots are coming, which is going to give us push-button coffee. There will still be people there to give you a human experience, and they'll get to focus on that experience instead of being split between making coffee and talking to you.
> Am I missing something?

Probably just a sense of humor
Choose login method first = frustration (users may not remember what IdP they used)
Stepped process = drop in complaints
I hate to be morbid but it's not exactly difficult for any announcement to coincide with the anniversary of a shooting.
Yes, privacy, plus it's a DNS cache that's running on your local network, so your DNS resolution is faster. Its also customizable (you can add/blacklist/whitelist specific domains from the control panel).
You have to get the data out of the text form. Unicode passwords mean all text entry forms on all browsers using all operating systems must be returning identical data, or at data that can be normalized to be bitwise identical without discarding the accents.

While that may be doable, it would require aggressive testing to actually work... for a feature that's a. not necessary and b. of interest to a tiny minority of users.

And users have to get text into the form. You're allowing users to shoot themselves in the foot if they use accents and then using a keyboard without those accents or one where entering the accents is very tedious.
This makes Visa complicit in the fraud, they are passing the costs onto the consumer and the businesses while they take a bigger cut.

My theory is that they will do both, raise fees and eventually get better security, so this is how Visa will double their profits.
>one of the primary reasons for AV's demise -- we didn't update our primary index for several months just as Google [...] I'd say that our failure to maintain a high quality index was directly caused by our loss of focus,

Do you believe Google's strategic decision to use commodity computers and hard drives gave them any competitive advantage (cheaper cost, scaling, etc) compared to DEC Alpha servers?

As an outsider, it seems like Google could iterate its data centers faster and cheaper and therefore, their web crawlers were cheaper to run (also run more frequently), also cheaper to store terabytes of data, and also cheaper to service search queries.
> Some people misunderstood that the $3B was a credit, not real cash being gifted to Amazon.

If the government gives me a 25k deduction on my taxes, does that not end up as money in my pocket?

I don't understand why this is different for Amazon? How is being able to do business without paying the associated taxes not a giveaway?
You can actually get decent milk foam these days with automatic frothers. James Hoffman reviewed an automatic espresso machine, and said that he finds little excuse anymore for subpar latte foam when you can achieve such high quality in a domestic machine.

https://youtu.be/fRBOxyu2b2Q?t=319

Edit:
What I mean by this is that we have the current technology to do "decent" latte foam and that anything else should be considered a short cut, human or robot derived.
Mark (the author) is working on yuri.ai (https://yuri.ai), a deep reinforcement learning platform for games. Drop him a line or sign up if you are interested!
I don't think Newsmax is the best source of news on this, you might as well have linked Breitbart.

As far as the defund ICE movement, it's just a small movement by a small set of people (namely AOC whom conservatives think is their modern red herring), lets not generalize and say all left leaning people want this when in reality they most likely don't, but you have to understand ICE has been abusing its power and it has also pushed to help create a massive private industry of private prisons housing "illegals" in which you could say should be defunded or more regulated since it's not properly handling people humanely nor are they helping the situation at hand.
Agree, Amusing Ourselves to Death is really good. I like the idea about how reading books impacts how deep we think. Also His comparison of the Lincoln Douglas debates to modern presidential debates. Not a long read either, about 200 pages I think. I bought a copy from a bookstore closing, which fits the theme of the book sadly.
What was your job ?
> then break it down vs jobs

No.

No giveaways like this. None. Zero. If Amazon wants welfare for jobs, then tell them to screw off and let another company come in that will employ people without handouts.
Yeah but the people getting the points aren't the people paying those fees. It's mostly a wealth transfer from the poor to the well off. It's grotesque, and I think they should be banned.
Not the person you replied to, but that's what I imagine he/she is getting at. What I think of when someone mentions a Unix UI library is something like Qt, which provides a number of conventions, such as:

- Standard layouts

- Standard input and display components

- Standard event and message handling

- Standard user interactions

- Standard color themes

Which is great for developers to set up an initial UI, but makes every application look the same and takes a lot of work to customize in a way that's consistent with the defaults.

On the other hand, building a complex, feature-rich UI requires a lot of skill both in terms of implementation and design, which is less than common. So that Qt UI will be functional and predictable to users, even if it was not very well thought out, and the broken web UI will be useless to everyone.
Speaking purely hypothetically, it's easy for a customer to carry both a Visa & MC, so if stores more frequently took only one or the other, customers would respond accordingly. Like they already do with AmEx, or when traveling internationally (where MC has a big leg up).
The problem here is you are falling in the same trap as the Google engineers here.

Why would ______ want to do _______ with their ______ device?

You can make a locked down device that only does a very limited subset of functions, but you really should make that known to the user before hand. "This device requires access to $X servers to function".

If you have secret requirements that go far beyond user expectations, expect that your users might get pissy about it.
You don't need to fly close to a million miles to get a million "miles"/points. Miles are based on spend now, not on distance traveled, so it's easy to rack up a million when you're flying business or first class.

As an example, let's say you're a regular business traveler flying a $5k business class round-trip from NYC to London on American Airlines. You have the highest status level which gives you a 120% bonus on miles earned. Each dollar spent on the flight thus earns you 11 miles, so that one round-trip is worth 55k miles. Source: https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-program/miles/aadvantage-...

But wait, there's more. Of course you also bought the $5k flight on your AA credit card, which gives another 2 miles per dollar spent, which puts the total up to 65k miles earned for one 7k mile round-trip flight. Or maybe you put it on your Chase Sapphire Reserve card, which gives you 3X Chase Ultimate Rewards points for travel spending, so 55k AA miles + 15k UR points. Now imagine that you're doing this trip several times per month and the miles/points add up very quickly; you can get to a million in no time.