skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been reading Alan Watts' "the way of Zen" recently and this point forms a strong central pillar of his explanation. What we think of as our mind or our self, the conscious mind, seems to be basically a paper thin director on top of all the real functionality which is much more powerful and evolutionarily much older.

Relatedly, our use of language to describe and identify things and phenomena falls prey to the map-territory relation in a way that can warp our thinking. But I can't do his explanations justice, I can only recommend picking up the book if you're interested in these kinds of cognitive paradoxes.
> One way to get around this would be to eat your candy bar or whatever in the store.

That would be theft or criminal damage.
Interesting so land area of world / 8000 gives 1 Glensanda per 18600km2. Area of UK is 242000km2 so we would need about 13 Glensanda sizes quarries in the UK. Of course it would be fairer if were weighted by amount of harm done to the climate per country, so we should have more per km2 than an undeveloped country, but even so doesn't seem like that large an impact.
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Programming is fun for programmers, we don't get charged to play with computers. :)
It's not just average video quality, it's that (as far as anyone can tell), the algorithm optimizes for expected value of total watch time, as opposed to optimizing for just the likelihood of watching the next video. Basically, the recommendations behave as though they "hope" that you will go down a conspiracy or outrage rabbit hole and binge 12 hours of garbage.
If anyone is interested in this topic, the phrase to search for is "soil food web".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_food_web
I've never really understood the common concern that arises when some established character's race/gender/other-intrinsic-trait is changed (even if it's a different person in canon), where the proposal is "now it's not the same, just make it something new and leave the existing brand name unchanged." I totally understand not wanting a beloved character to change that dramatically, but after enough decades it just seems like a rational thing to try as a story writer. Why start a new universe when we have an existing one that, while quite worn, still has loads of great pre-existing characterisation, lore, and recognition?
It has gotten better over the years in some ways even if it feels like it also got worse. I recall pages of "ads and useful lookimh search result keywords" being more common in the past.
Casual racism, because fuck yeah.

Italy has a pretty big space-related industrial sector, and excellent academic standards in some fields. It might not produce geniuses with the same frequency of the past (Galvani, Volta, Marconi, Fermi and so on) but it's not some random backwater.
The Amazon Prime Day strike could be a turning point for workers' rights
Two points.

The slap on the wrist from the DOJ didn’t lead to decreasing dominance on Microsoft. Google/Facebook/Apple competing did.

A search engine is not life or death. Google doesn’t stop anyone from creating a website and reaching consumers other ways.
> But many readers in Pakistan have come to me and asked how I uncovered it all. It’s almost frightening to think that people read a work of fiction full of fantastical happenings as a piece of history. A retired spy chief once cornered me at a party and said, “Son, you have written a brilliant book, but who were your sources?”

This dynamic should be familiar to anyone who works at the art of telling stories. People want pretty-sounding stories to be true and will believe in them regardless of any evidence to the contrary. Even if important aspects of the story are demonstrably, verifiably false, they'll seize on some other aspect of the made-up story to believe in the truth of it.

I think this is the underlying dynamic behind the motte-and-bailey rhetorical tactic: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-bri...

Once every three weeks or so, my father catches me up on the latest in the alt-right scroogery. There's always some grand reveal just over the horizon, and the time shifts from 'real soon now' to 'in a few years', to mine and draw out that human feeling of being in on the conspiracy as much as possible.

That's the real feeling being sold here. Certainty in a realm in which there can be none. They're willing to overlook countless bits of evidence that there can't be any certainty here either, just to keep the magic of the feeling of seeing things from a higher perspective alive.

On a lighter note, a friend and I often refer to the concept of the mondegreen, misheard lyrics or dialogue that winds up being more iconic than the original. One audience member for the play on which the term originated, upon learning the original reading, refused to accept that it was ever different from how she heard it.

It's a form of audience participation in storytelling and is probably older than civilization itself.
Sure, but the shift is also within the U.S. over time.
To support a strong public education system and hold a sensible position on gun control used to be something Republicans did as far as I can tell.

There has been a definite shift to the fringe. Both in the plutocratic direction, with the one-dollar-one-vote philosophy, and also in just a general nutcase direction (see the NRA).
In terms of remote work, only one thing matters — work! This is amazing because the ordinary question “What have you done today?” replaces many others such as: “What time did you come?”, “Why are you late?”, “What did you do today?”, and so on. Teamwork becomes result oriented, not process oriented.
Lets at least try to be fair here though: hosting the amount of content YouTube hosts, and delivering it to viewers, is not inexpensive.

What alternative funding model do you propose?
I'd say it's more bad UX testing and bad project management over implementation or infrastructure. A well designed feature-set can be architected a nearly infinite number of ways.
Not beating a dead horse about something isn’t the same as sweeping it under a rug.

I’d rather not have every single bit of communication contain a reminder of some past horror.
Thanks! That was a total reading comprehension failure on my part.
Shutting down GPS would be a good way to avert the upcoming attack on Area 51.
Thats an interesting point. I suppose the female variant of womanizer is a "maneater". It will be cool to see what directon they go with her. But it wouldve been even cooler if she made a name for herself with a name or code that hasnt been used before or isnt as ubiquitous. The way it is presented it seems like a low effort way to raise up minorities for social justice.
There is the fraud of university education. Student loan debt is not dischargable in bankruptcy. The government can garnish your Social Security payments when you’re 65 to pay off your student loans. I’m very optimistic that this fraud is finally coming to an end.

There's a lot in this speech.
So now we have to keep track of a whole constellation of aliases. Great.
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IIRC, Bond has retired before, and the plot of the book or movie starts with M convincing Bond to come out of retirement to help his replacement fix some crisis. IOW, they've done this before, IIRC.
Sorry to hear that.

What are your thoughts on a cashless society, given your experience.
Fun timing to read this, this last weekend I was playing around with making my own search engine to understand better how ElasticSearch and Lucene work.

It occurred to me that the two most powerful things Google has to work with are records of clicks, and the time users spent on the webpages Google returned. I've argued against Google monopoly before because I can throw together a web crawler and search engine in a weekend, so it's not like it's a hard market to enter.

> According to W3Techs, Google Analytics is being used by 52.9 percent of all websites on the internet

This is the real problem though. When a search engine sees a new query, it uses everything it's got to assert which pages the user wants, but with Google Analytics, they can test their assertions constantly to see if a user actually wanted that web page. Then your future queries could be compared against previous queries that were validated by a user spending several minutes of active time on the returned page.

I'm sure Google's algorithm is great and all, but I really think this is what sets them apart.
The problem in this case is with the plight of the ditch digger, not the value of conscription.

EDIT: also, you left off this bit: "...provided the ditch digger turned soldier doesn't get maimed, killed, or psychologically damaged fighting a war for his elite masters."
that definitely would help.
Thief? Sounds like a collector.
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> I wonder if they actually get meaningful results from MTurk participants

I bet they do. One thing not really touched on in the article is that one of the task qualifiers is “acceptance rate”, i.e., how many of your task submissions were accepted by the person that created the tasks. And that number is usually 99.9% acceptance (of _all_ results you’ve ever submitted) or higher. There is a very strong incentive to not get any kind of rejected submission, because it can quickly tank your MTurk profile and shut off lots of opportunities.
> Photos have emerged of a repainted 737 Max in Ryanair colours outside Boeing’s manufacturing hub, with the name 737 Max replaced by 737-8200 on the nose.

Now I'm worried about boarding any 737
https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/u-boot-marvell/...

That's the init code for the network chip. I tried removing it, the code compiles, but the board won't boot w/ it(I imagine due to something unrelated).
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I'm not convinced that is the case.

I really think there is a difference in "look at this market share" and critical thinking about how Uber can get to sustainability.

I think the whole tech company IPO is a weird otherverse that isn't as much about the future as folks think.
There are tons of projects with serious sizable open source index, for ex, http://commoncrawl.org/. Even crawling 15B pages on AWS is not super expensive on your own using well established OSS tool chain. Bing already provides APIs if you don’t want to do crawling.

Web index, while important, is by no means most important part of search engine (which I had say is relevance). The OP article is written by someone who has little clue that search engine involves massive amount of technologies besides index and even relevance - everything from spell correction to recommendations to query rewriting to answers to segment specific searches like images/video/maps/local/product/news/entertainment/events, so on and on and on. This is above and beyond the gigantic infrastructure needed to run all these at scale, speed and cost effectively. All of these needs to work harmoniously with each other and designed keeping in mind weaknesses and strength of each component. For example, index for news must be refreshed almost in real time and relevance needs higher emphasis on location.

Search is not free and no one has figured out if someone just can provide index and someone else can provide relevance and everything can just work as efficiently as before (data point: each query consumes 0.3 Watt-hour of energy at Google).
Yeah it seems like this would spawn a lot of weak competitors who only exist because of the protections and would die off the second they're cut off from the API.
We don’t need fMRI. There is plenty of opportunity to experience the conditions first hand.
I don't necessarily think re-inventing the wheel every so often is the way to go on some things. When it comes to search, you want to type in your query, and search. It doesn't really get much simpler than having a search box, and I am having a hard time understanding how that can be innovated upon. I am however not saying it CAN'T be done, I just don't see why or how it would be.
I'm guessing this is a reference that's going over my head?
Is Strava a more reliable partner in keeping this data safe than Google?
One thing to understand here is just how cheap it is for us to send our recycling/garbage overseas. All of those shipping containers coming over here need to get sent back with something and its not like Vietnam is buying an excess of American goods. So we end up paying next to nothing for this.
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> The "fun" may be to earn a little extra money doing menial tasks.

That the pay is fun (or enables fun) does not make the work fun. Here mturk was named a potential "hobby", that's just ridiculous to me.

> Just the other day there was a discussion here about EVE online and how much menial management is needed in the game to set up for a small amount of fun PvP combat time. What's the difference between that and doing some mindless menial tasks for a couple extra bucks to go out on the weekend?

You could argue that EVE setup is "work" required to enable some "fun" play. I don't think anyone would consider EVE setup (just the setup) as a hobby.
As someone who would love to get into firmware development, I'd like to ask if you have insights into how possible it is to break into the field. I'm considering going back to school for a CE degree, but I've heard anecdotally that due to the small size of the subfield, it's almost impossible to get a job without being very well connected and / or from a top school
that feel when isitmax8.com is already taken
Via API access you'd be effectively getting access to the index _plus_ the derivative search quality improvements _based on_ user data, even if you're not getting user data itself. That would certainly open the door to competition, especially on a niche basis e.g. you want to build a platform dedicated to drones - you can combine drone reviews and news with videos plus e-commerce results. The result could be awesome in sparking all kinds of small business building on Google's API.

> 2) 20 years of experience fighting SEO spam.

That's probably a key issue here though. Providing an API potentially makes it easier for spammers to identify ways to boost their content in a well automated manner.
To be fair, the poster he replied to doesn't either. The only people living in deep poverty in the US are actively avoiding the help that is available to them. It has been argued that the poor in the US have it worse than the poor in Europe, but in neither case are they are in deep poverty.
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I think you meant Many languages?
They are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Change_Of_Address
The voice is key to making sense of the words in our brain
Didn’t know about OGL, it does look suitable for this purpose.

To (partially) answer myself, contrary to what I implied CC-BY does cover this base if (for example) the creator of the dataset accepts a note in product’s “About” documentation as sufficient attribution.
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You may not know this but ditch diggers also like to have a peaceful life and live to see their children grow up. They value life as much as anybody else.
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I moved coasts and renovated an old house last year. And consequently I've spent a LOT of time on Ikea's website and at our local store.

I'm stunned at how terrible their online experience is. The parent article summarizes a bunch. But Ikea misses out on basic blocking and tackling ecommerce items like product descriptions, dimensions, related products in the collection, inventory levels (not always accurate), etc.

It makes me wonder how much money they're leaving on the table with that experience.
Fair enough. Not everyone will leave their family behind, not everyone will get a visa. But the "rich shores" have a massive statistical advantage in terms of talent because they attract skilled people from abroad, with little migration in the other direction:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/37-percent-of-silicon-val...
Before the redesign, in my circles of non-tech friends, Reddit on desktop would scare them off. They thought it looked really old and ugly. The new design is really to capture those people.

That said, I hate new Reddit with a passion and still use the old design.
It's not an issue...so long as the replacement is worthy. But many times it's used as a marketing gimmick to prop up a bad story.
How so? As a gay man, I’m not encouraged by the story of his abuse. If anything it serves as an oppressive reminder that some people will always irrationally wish me harm.

Perhaps some people feel “empowered” by a victim mentality, but that doesn’t seem very socially progressive to me.
I feel like we probably spend too much time playing around with the idea of 10x engineers. It's definitely true there are more effective engineers and less effective engineers, but I really find it funny that there's always a focus on the 10x engineer. Partly because it's impossible ot judge a 10x engineer truly, and partly because it almost always is accompanied by a story about how the 10x engineer only works on one specific type of problem, almost never in a way that adds value to a customer. What you really often have is a 0.95x engineering team - where one engineer has the 10x reputation and the team as a whole is performing 0.95x. Meanwhile the 3x team contains a number of '10x' engineers operating at 4x and making sure everyone else is the team is around the same level as them.

What I hope we can all agree on is that in every day life we're a long way past the point where a single engineer is going to make or break your company by being 10x. It's far more important to be making sure that a team of 10 is working at 3x or a team of 100 is working at 1.2x.
Anyone who wants to learn more about the history of pedestrianism, long-distance walking and latterly ultrarunning should check out Davy Crockett's Ultra Running History website and podcast [1]. He covers George Wilson in a two-part episode about 1,000 mile attempts [2].

[1] - http://ultrarunninghistory.com/
[2] - http://ultrarunninghistory.com/1000-milers-1/
I mean, sans Electron, you basically described my current static site model using Hugo and NetlifyCMS.
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This comment reminds me of getting flamed on forums for hotlinking images from some guy's website... Times have changed.
Well written! I really think this is the way to go and the way we have to go. When the computers stop getting faster we will keep improving the experience by using the resources we have more efficient.
Google doesn't have market dominance in the same way that Verizon doesn't have market dominance in a specific region because you can also get dialup.

Technically correct, but not truthful.
well considering the complaints I read about Google's search quality going down for users on HN all the time I have a theory that highly technical users are adversely effected by the search improvements so an improved search engine targeting that group would essentially be one searching on what you typed.

I also happen to think that is the search engine I would prefer. I think I could build that pretty quick if I had the api access.
> Programming is fun for programmers

Bull. If this was true trey would line up to join our company and I could charge them at the door for working with us.

Some programming is fun. Sure. Many part of my work are fun. But I'd rather do other things with my life if money was not an issue.
Will this prompt some fliers to avoid 737-anything or Boeing-anything?
Yes. https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/cc3qnt/whats_...
Do people do this?

Or do you mean queries forwarded by home assistants trying to parse inputs?
> My personal opinion is that the Kinesis Advantage is not the most biomechanically sound design

I agree. I use an Advantage, and while it's certainly better than traditional keyboards, I think it has a couple of flaws in terms of ergonomics:

• the keywells are not rotated inward and the distance between them is not adjustable. Therefore, unless your shoulder width is exactly right for this keyboard, you have to rotate your hands in- or outwards

• the thumb clusters are too far away. For me, if I relax my thumbs, they drop right in that little space between the space/backspace keys and the keywells.

• the thumb clusters are also too high, making it somewhat painful to rest the thumbs on the keys for longer periods of time

• the tenting angle is insufficient
My search for a bookcase starts on ikea.com, where I navigate to the bookcase section, in the hope to get an overview of the different series. I find instead a listing of all 257 bookcase products, including accesories, such as hinges and extra shelves. The full listing not give me an overview, however, and I do not find anything useful.

An impatient customer could have given up at this stage

This is thinking from the perspective of someone who can take advantage of a logically structured site. I can tell you that when engineers think this way, the result is usually serviceable as a first pass, but product comes back with requests that make you rethink everything. To play devil's advocate, I can guess the goal with this first page of results might be to show enough different kinds of results that users will keep pressing "Load More" until they find what they want. Imagine somebody comes to the site for parts for their bookshelf, searches for "bookshelf," and sees nothing but complete bookshelves in the first page of search results. They aren't going to scan the page for links to the product category they're looking for. They aren't going to "Ctl-F parts" like an HN reader. They might not even search for "bookshelf parts." They might give up right there. So product tells us we have to make sure that the first page of search results contains some bookshelves, some parts, some accessories, at least one result from each product category. That way the users will be enticed to mash "Load More" again and again until they see what they want.

Or maybe it's some other quirk of behavior that makes this design better. Or maybe they've put no effort into the design at all. I wouldn't presume to know, but on balance my money would be on engineers already having offered to make changes like the author is requesting, and product/UX rejecting those changes in favor of the current version.