skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I think there's two antipatterns and a pattern here.

Antipattern one is the one where you just get on the treadmill and churn, baby, churn. Constantly replacing things, spending way too much resources on tech and not enough on meeting customer needs. This is sort of the "new sports car every two years" model, or as a certain person who hates this site enough to make linking to him pathological calls it, the Cascade Of Attention Deficit Teenagers model. Nothing stays around long enough to enter long-term maintenance, because you keep chasing after the hot shiny thing instead of having the discipline to maintain a mature product even though maintenance isn't fun.

Antipattern two is where you don't have the resources to do maintenance or to chase after the shiny thing. This is basically treating the code as a monument, or as a museum exhibition -- every time a new feature is done, you hang it in the museum, and then you go work on the next feature. The problem with this approach is that Someday The Bill Comes Due. A dependency that you have hits EOL and nobody's made a new version in three years. You spend your time writing code to duplicate features that your language's standard library added four years ago but that you don't have access to because you haven't updated your stack in eight years. New features get harder and harder to add because it gets harder to reason about what any one piece of code in the program actually does, or everything is bottlenecked by the one guy who understands the codebase. Your bus factor is one if you're lucky and zero if the bus came.

The pattern is treating your code like a house. It needs upkeep. If you just leave a leaky bit of plumbing long enough you're going to have a flooded basement, so you bite the bullet and you fix the plumbing when something happens. But you don't trade in for a new house every two years either. You have a project list and you tackle it as best you can and sometimes you take a few days off work for a big project like painting or what have you. And you build equity that lasts.
The Streaming Video-on-Demand War Is Going to Get Bloody
> Null certainly must exist at the target level.

Why? If anything, null must not exist at the target level- having a dedicated region of memory just for "accesses here are bad" at 0x0 isn't ubiquitous, and even having that at all isn't guaranteed (especially in embedded, where you might not get memory protection!).

Modern operating systems have to keep userland from mapping the 0x0 page because it turns out programmers just cannot keep themselves from dereferencing NULL, and that's often exploitable when done from the kernel.
The El Paso Shooting and the Gamification of Terror
That seems like a pretty lame business model. Like why bother?

Though I guess that question answers itself, it seems logical to the predictably solipsistic VC community, who then throw money at it.
There is a universal limit in the speed of light. It could be considered a technological limit as well, in that no technology can likely actually be built to overcome it.

Even though there are plenty of vague handwavy theories about warp drives with exotic requirements like negative mass, the Fermi Paradox seems to suggest that no solution for FTL is practically feasible.
Travel might be terribly expensive and slow even for advanced species, so the concept of "resources" would be meaningless.

Or maybe they've come, but only in very small numbers. They radio home and leave for the next system to explore.
In megacities we should probably just ban cars.

Taxis should exist for the disabled or high profile targets.

In most of the world by land mass though cars aren't really an issue other than splitting nature corridors and maybe stuff like microplastics from tyres (it seems plausible for that to be fixed).

I have heard the idea floated that we should clump together in one continent or something and rewild the rest of Earth. I don't see that ever being politically palatable, but it is out there.
It's not so much "funny" as a rather obvious consequence of the principal
That's not what satisfactory means.
My cassette recordings of the John Peel show from the late 70s and 80s are priceless. Most of the tracks are on Youtube these days but that can't capture the selections and John Peel's legendary commentary between each track. I hope to pass them on to my grandchild one day.
El Paso Gunman Allegedly Posted ‘Wildly Anti-Immigrant' Essay Online
Corporations as generally conceived are not anti-market interventions. A union backed by the state imposing a rule that violates an employer's contracting rights by 1. preventing them from negotiating with workers outside of the union, 2. preventing them from firing workers who unionize or strike and replacing them with new workers, is.

These are blatant anti-market interventions that give any group of workers that unionize an effective state-backed monopoly over their employer's labor force.

The conspiratorial narratives about opposition to such state-backed monopolies being nothing more than Big Business trying to mislead and exploit the little guy, and such monopolies being in the public interest, is nothing more than economic quackery, on par with anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories about vaccination being a harmful practice that is only widely promoted because of the nefarious influence of Big Pharma.

The economic reality is that these rules create rent-seeking and reduce economic efficiency. They will destroy Amazon's dynamism.

Giving a select group of workers a temporary wage boost at the expense of the industry that sustains them is the same short-sighted policy implemented in the post-war era, which saw workers see large wage gains, and then saw the industries that employed them suffer massive bankruptcies and contractions.
Back in the early 2000s, I could call up my internet provider (Bellsouth) and talk to an actual, technically trained person who could intelligently diagnose and fix problems with my service. Now, I get someone who parrots back my problem descriptions without understanding them, insists I perform useless steps that could never help, then shrugs and tells me a technician has to come to my house. That's if I can get through the phone system that forces me to use voice commands.
what’s your instance type? t3.medium in EKS gives me 11 pods capacity by default.
We have managed to at least ballpark numbers for many of the terms in the Drake equation.

Planets are common.

Given the speed with which life evolved on Earth it's also probably common.

That leaves four barriers:

1) Multi-cellular life. Looking at Earth that took billions of years--it's likely a hard barrier to cross.

2) Intelligence. It took hundreds of millions of years but there were a lot of steps, this doesn't seem like evidence that it's all that hard.

3) A term not in the Drake equation--effective lifespan of the biosphere. This is the main argument of the Rare Earths hypothesis. Most planets do not remain stable enough for intelligence for long enough for it to arise. Looking at our own world we can see that we have already used up 99% of that time, we barely eeked under the line. (We have only about 50 million years before solar warming can be countered by lowered CO2, after that we have several hundred million more habitable years but they won't be friendly to big, slow-evolving animals of the sort needed for intelligence.) This very well might be a substantial barrier.

4) Intelligence is destructive, species that can communicate do not remain in that state for long. Note, also, that a species that can communicate probably can in an eyeblink of galactic time do interstellar colonization. Even by slowboat they should spread across the galaxy in at most a few tens of millions of years. Also, once a species has reached this point it would be almost impossible to destroy--thus we can conclude no species in the history of the galaxy reached this point.

The product of these terms must be infinitesimal. Either we have been extremely lucky so far, or we are facing an almost insurmountable barrier to survival in the near future.
AMP is also bad, because the technical steering committee is 3/7ths Google employees[1], with the rest made up of similar platforms that use others' content, like Twitter and Pinterest.

So content-producing organisations are increasingly strong-armed into building websites the way the platforms want.

Also, having large tracts of the web built using the same small set of severely limited components means we get dull, samey websites susceptible to the same hacks or bugs where things like interactive features are much more difficult or impossible.

I wrote about this and more here: https://unlikekinds.com/article/google-amp-page-speed

[1] https://github.com/ampproject/meta-tsc/blob/master/README.md
I don't understand the conclusion:
"But if we understand that user identity and user data are drivers of ad pricing, and that the terms that Google and Facebook are able to extract from independent publishers drive the health of the wider news ecosystem, it is impossible to continue to make this argument today."

Earlier, the article explains pretty well how tracking increases the CPMs that publishers can achieve. In the author's example, cross-site tracking increases CPMs by 200%.

This seems like a benefit to the "health of the wider news ecosystem". If the author believes Google/Facebook increase the pie for publisher, why then say that they "extract from independent publishers"?
One thing I don’t understand here is whether AMP = google?

I hate privacy abuse as much as anyone, but I thought it was a standard for less insane HTML pages that any “renderer” could show. Didnt cloudflare etc do this?

Basically can someone ELI5 where the actual hate comes from (aside from being annoyed because you use google search)? Because I am all for news sites being anything other than what we get today (20mb of js ads and tracking crapware etc)

edited for clarity in my questions
I just noticed that I wrote "intents" incorrectly and it is too late to edit it. Uggh. Please forgive me.
Most of my peers had maybe a single class worth, if that, of programming experience by the time they started college to pursue CS. I would say the majority didn't. I wasn't at a university with heavy focus on computer science, so maybe it depends on the institution and the caliber of students.
You do realize that was a quote from the pg blog post I linked, correct?
> That directly contradicts point 2. Apparently there's a potential for preventing 6+ billion dollars of lost revenue.

But not in a single budget anywhere in the company.

And, it's all about MY local budget. You're asking ME to put a couple of devs on something that might pay off half a million dollars. Maybe. And, if it doesn't those devs could have been deployed elsewhere.

Uh, yeah, no. Not on my watch. I'm going to put those devs on something that might get me a bonus or promoted, thanks.
It’s not about implementing it more efficiently in a universal sense, it’s about making fewer unnecessary trips to the kernel and back. Context switches probably introduce more jitter than your userspace hashed timer wheel.
I like cars and own quite a fast one.

Having said that, the way you explain this sounds like some sort of extreme first world problems thing. You don't need any of that, it's just convenient.

I spent almost my entire childhood brought up on crappy public transport (e.g. not London, Tokyo, etc) in a medium sized town. Things like "staying overnight" just barely ever happened. I wouldn't have remembered it even if they did, so who cares?
> World Wide Web

> Research on the Web seems to be fashionable these days and I guess I'm no exception. Recently I have been working on the Google search engine with Larry Page.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/
It's usually just drivers trying to meet quota, not thieves.
“Unsatisfactory” is an opinion-based comparison. If you find something that satisfies your desire, it’s satisfactory. I’d say your argument is more based on whether the results are more accurate, or “better” in some more concrete way.
Nah it should have a voltage regulator.
If you don't load the js, the amp specific tags don't work. So, for example, no images.
Yeah, but you aren't everybody. That attitude doesn't accomplish anything.

Google gains control by finding problems and solving them their way. You can't gain that control back by dismissing those problems. if you want to reduce Google's control you have to solve a problem (that affects other people, not just you) before they do, or in a better way than they can.
There are not more than 65,000 Chinese characters in common use today. Indeed, a college graduate from this region would probably only recognize 1/10th that number, even from Taiwan or Hong Kong (where a greater number of traditional characters are used). If the goal is simply to encode one point for each character in use today, 16 bits is very likely sufficient.

That's not what Unicode does though. Unicode encodes many duplicate characters (because they are duplicated in a national encoding standard and the round-trip compatibility requirement). Unicode also includes every possible variant that is of cultural or academic interest, including dead languages and so-called "ghost characters" that are actually printing errors in old paper dictionaries or census data, but now allocated a code point. And this is before we say anything about emoji...

So from today's perspective 16 bit encoding space is laughably small. But it is true that basically any message meant to be consumed by the general population, including CJKV languages but notably not emoji, can be fully represented with characters found on the BMP, which can be faithfully encoded in UCS-2.
Policy of leaving us alone is likely. The reasons are also likely to be mundane. Too far away. We are possibly too far behind or we are so sufficiently behind that bringing us up to speed won't help them or us. Besides, in our primitive ways maybe we have something they lack. Some aspect of diversity.

A more interesting answer is they are simply horrified or disgusted: look up "They're made out of meat!"
They aren't just less relevant - they are less complete. One specific example: their coverage of academic sites. As an experiment, I have entered the titles of several papers and they failed to show up in the results.

It's not just academic journal articles either: their results are, by and large, less complete - it's what initially led me to do the experiment in the first place.
> Any kind of organisation at semi-galactic scale implies FTL communication at the very least, which violates everything we know about physics.

Never thought of the practicalities of that, so thanks for bringing it up.

I think you're overstating things. Sure, they wouldn't be able to watch the Superbowl at the same time or hold elections in the same decade. It would be a very different and slow moving kind of civilization than what we know.

But I don't see how that means it can't exist, in some form.
The issue with fossil fuels isn't how much there is left, it is how much more CO2 we can release into the atmosphere while keeping the place livable. More generally, the larger the economy the more energy we degrade, and the more entropy we generate (in the form of pollution and environment destruction).

Our economy today is possibly already too large for our long term survival, and event if it isn't I'd rather we avoid crossing the threshold unknowingly.

But off course no one ever died in a fire they themselves had started. Let's keep on fanning the flames.
FPGA with limited clock speed?
Clicking around, the last class he taught was with another student... Larry Page.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/349/
FWIW you do build forts in the woods in Fortnite.
Right, but why not let my electric car or water heater take part in that market?

Instead of spinning up a natgas turbine, why not let my water heater or car charger take a break as a part of the market?

There are some grid level implementations of this (install our thermostat that we can remotely turn off to get a 5% rebate), but these seem to work around the primary problem: we pay an average price for electricity, not the actual price.

And if it all works based on grid frequency, the system could even work offline: water heater sees frequency drop and takes a random break between 1 and 60 minutes.

Or variable-frequency drive AC drops 10% in intensity, or increases by x% when frequency is getting a little high.
This comment and a lot of its children are about DDG vs. Google. But that's not this point.

That some techies avoid Google, won't kill AMP. That does not mean I am against it, I use DDG as default engine and fall back to Google only if I tried different queries and scrolled down and still can't find it, and I recommend DDG to everyone. But this question is about killing AMP, which this won't significantly help towards unless we can get non-AMP search engine market share a lot higher than it currently is.
Really interesting that with the benefit of hindsight - the German Energiewende stared circa 2010 and their progress on carbon emissions seems to have stalled. Ironic that that was the short term effect of transitioning to use more renewables.
Not on a UTF-16 platform.
Oh but it's smugness all the way down, thou holier of holies. ;)
> democratic states are consistently better than non-democratic ones

Union wages are consistently higher than non-union wages, so we have evidence that unions are an improvement compared to direct relationships with employers.

Source: literally every long-term economic comparison of wages done for the last 50 years.
Some of the records are over 1k chars wide, and we need stuff near the end.

Though if one had to decode the line from UTF-8, you're iterating anyway so...
The one thing that, I think, we can be totally certain of is that neither Larry or Sergey are business geniuses. I can't actually think of more inept business leaders...even in that rarefied category of utter incompetence that is the dual share class crew, they look pretty bad (worse than Zuck even).

Page, in particular, seems to have a real talent for finding creative ways to light big piles of cash (other people's obv) on fire.

Yes, Brin seems genuinely intelligent and the work he, presumably, did on Pagerank obviously had tremendous business value. Everything that I have read about Page suggests that the only distinct idea he has ever had is that he is a genius (the story about the monorail at Michigan struck me as the grandiose, self-important delusions of a privileged infant...that he tried to do this as an adult, and then again when he was in his thirties is...just sad).
I had no idea Wolfram was older than Google
My experience has been that customer support numbers are great at conventional issues. Anything like an address change, return under warranty, or similar will probably go fine.

The issue with that is, I'll rarely call them for such a problem. Companies tend to let you fill out some form on their website for such an issue these days.

Sometimes calling with an oddball problem goes okay because you hit an excellent person on the other end, but often they're clueless, and the whole thing becomes a struggle.

This is, I suspect, made worse by call centers having metrics around call time. They want to get rid of you quickly and move to the next call.
He didn't proofread his resume and is rich beyond our wildest imagination. Maybe this actually counters your argument.
>especially in embedded, where you might not get memory protection!

Or where there's perfectly valid memory mapped to address 0
How do I stay up-to-date as a data scientist? [video]
I'm sorry if that's really your view. There are both divisions in corps and people who think beyond a single bonus. I wish we started calling this out as "culture at Amazon enables thieves" rather than - here's a list of excuses why they can't do it.

At the very least, the higher ups with the view of the overall budget have the power to start projects like that which assign the budget as necessary.
Google search takes 7 seconds on certain queries
I moved over to DDG this week because I got added to some sort of Google A/B testing that was really annoying with no opt out (when logged into my Gmail account search results no longer showed the URL, which was bad for so many reasons). There's specific types of searches that Google is better at, but DDG is close enough that I don't mind making it my default
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It does show that your parents involvement in your teaching plays a part, as does being in the right place at the right time and culture of the country you reside in. I'm not knocking his own effort either. When you look at the developments and achievements coming from the US, you have to wonder why does the rest of the world get it so wrong?
The browse then pickup concept is an old one. Service Merchandise and Best did it years ago. They’re out of business so maybe it didn’t work so well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalog_merchant
I spent two weeks in Bialystok in the 1990's learning Mizar from Andrzej. He was a fascinating person (unfortunately he passed away two years ago). He was trained as a topologist (under K. Borsuk, a well-known Polish mathematician) and got interested in linguistics. He told me that he started working on Mizar as an automated translation system 'from mathematics into English' and someone suggested that he added a proof checker. I think the result is very elegant. I always liked the way Mizar proofs look. Also, working on some relatively simple proofs, I got to appreciate how much is left unsaid in most mathematical papers. Some details I would consider trivial were anything but. I wish only that Mizar was GPL'd but according to Andrzej himself he wanted more control over his creation. I am not sure I would agree but I certainly respect his choice.
Yes, but also, if you wish to stop (including stopping on the right after crossing a junction in order to turn left), you raise a hand straight up.
Cutting edge theories concerning the space-time continuum and practical approaches to interstellar travel aren't really my bag, but Einstein said "Time is an illusion" and Stephen Hawking apparently did a lecture on the common fictional idea of a "warp" drive and that it's not necessarily a nutso concept.

I haven't bothered to read it, but it is available online:

http://www.hawking.org.uk/space-and-time-warps.html

I'm content to mostly limit my exposure to such topics to having my mind periodically blown by my adult sons, then fairly promptly forgetting most of what they said. Physics just isn't really my thing.
I've has the same experience; firefox has been comparable to chrome in functionality but ddg is just awful compared to google. Maybe it'll get better as time goes on...
In most states, going 10 over is not a criminal offense (most traffic offenses != criminal offenses since the mid-1970s in the US, which is why you can usually pay the fine remotely, no court, no lawyer, no jail). It is a criminal offense in VA. And the police use it to selectively harass people.

Anyways, that was just one example. Reckless driving ("you pulled away from that light too fast" even when you were slower than the minivan in the next lane), illegal lane change ("I saw you swerve" even when you didn't), and other statutes are used to pull over anybody the police want with impunity.