skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SEO hackers to outstrip any single team

SEO hackers are taking advantage of Google's biggest weakness: they are an advertising company that makes money on search ads.

If search were run by a nonprofit like Wikipedia or the Internet Archive, it could be made to filter out sites with ads on them. SEO hackers would have no way to get their foot in the door unless they drop all of their ads, removing their own revenue source. This would create a space on the internet for non-commercial activity to flourish without ads and all of the tracking garbage that comes with it. A form of cultural ad blocking that, in the long run, could be a lot more effective than the technical arms race of client-side ad blockers.
Yes.

1. I get fascinated by some idea, start dumping notes about it, and over time turn them into a text - often in burst sessions where I output a lot of text, and then it either goes immediately up, or (if I care more) I let it lie for a few days, and then review and edit it.

2. Back when I was a kid and was learning programming to make games, everyone in the local gamedev scene had a "dev blog", so I wanted to have one too.

3. I don't. Every now and then I feel I finally have something to write about (see point 4.), and when that feeling becomes overwhelming, I sit down and craft a post.

4. I didn't. The main struggle I have now: I feel I have nothing to write about that isn't already written much better by people much smarter than me. I don't feel the need to write for myself only - I have a folder named "mind-dumps" full of .org files, into which I stream my thoughts regularly. So if I want to publish something on my blog, I have to feel it's a contribution to the greater web of information. Curiously, I didn't have this problem as a kid - I'd just write down the things I've learned, mostly to show off to my friends who also had dev blogs and also wrote about things they've learned.
I don't really buy the idea that Anonymous were not a group to begin with. They had to have some organization in the beginning coordinating things and developing their marketing strategy. And regardless of the fact, if it even is a fact, that it is just a name applied to any number of possibly unconnected groups it is still a label that describes a group of people. A swarm of bees is a swarm of bees no matter which bees are present.
As far as I can tell, the people burning everything down aren't even particularly likely to be black, efforts to spin this as some kind of necessary fight back against racism by people who've been suffering not withstanding. The folks cheering it on and advocating for this to their audiences definitely aren't - they're largely white, middle-class techies and journos and other well-off educated folks who aren't worried about their own communities burning.

The real pain - at least on the inter-generational poverty and deprivation side - is that in six months, the average American small business isn't going to exist in heavily-black neighbourhoods, and that probably won't change much in six years, and other businesses are probably going to be pretty thin on the ground there too. Apparently some places never recovered what they lost in the sixties race riots.

Though I expect that the consequences of the police actions to stop this will also be anything but temporary. It seems to take years of careful work to rebuild trust between police and the community they serve, and to restructure policing to be less hostile and dangerous.
Recipes are a good example. Not only am I confident that Google isn't providing the most useful or authoritative results, it's easy to see that they have forced authors to morph their content into a terrible cookie cutter format. Scrolljacking, obnoxious ads, and pages upon pages of introductory text are the norm. At this point I often use image search and just guess at how they made it rather than try to slog through the results.
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Musk is planning for a solution that drives as good as the best driver in bad weather.

Adding LIDAR and other solutions, is currently bullshit. I don't think there is proven hardware to see past extreme bad weather.

But that is not what Tesla is doing. They want their solution to work in conditions where humans can drive ( eg. Heavy snow, but not a snow storm that blocks every sight)
The Wikipedia page you linked to disagrees with your assertion that almost every country in the world has it.

"In many countries – especially English-speaking countries such as Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States – there are no government-issued compulsory identity cards for all citizens."
We have a preprint up of our paper that details the design of Multicore OCaml along with a range of performance comparisons: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11663

In terms of performance it varies. The benchmarks in that paper it ranges from a 20% slowdown to a 20% speedup - most macro benchmarks are <10%. There's also still some more performance work we can do to chip away at that further.
Some AI Advances in the Last Decade May Have Been Illusory
Someone at Google forgot to eat their own dog food :P
Seems overcomplicated to me, but congrats for the effort!
The last time I tried poetry, it had dependency problems. The maintainers acknowledged it and resolved it with a patch, but somehow it was not working. This was at poetry 1.0.0b3
Twitter just declared war with the federal government. The employee are effectively asking Zuckerberg to divebomb his own company. Zuckerberg has been in those congressional hearings.

He knows exactly why he doesn't want to get in this splashzone. Cause what twitter did is so far over so many lines I can see them being the same after the FCC starts making rules for them like ISPs in 60 days.
Unless I completely misremember that article, the article says nothing about not going to college at all. I don't think I'd use that paper to conclude that highly talented individuals will have similiar income outcomes regardless if they go to university or not. The credentialing effect is likely very important

That being said- strongly consider going to a place that is willing to throw scholarship money or special programs at you. The financial aspect of that advice should be obvious, but buy in from the school into your education can mean better access and sponsorship from professors as well
>show that support for these kind of relationships grew much faster after they were made legal in all states in US.

Because the people who were on the "no" side of things weren't really affected by it (because the were never going to do those things anyway) and the sky didn't fall when other people did. You see this same thing happen every time a state loosens its abortion, gun, alcohol, drug, etc, laws. People say the sky is gonna fall and then it doesn't.
How about a board game?

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12743/battle-helms-d...
Are you planning a murder?

Lets cut to the chase. Just because we cannot decide right now what is acceptable or not for all possibilities in all contexts doesn't mean we cannot make guidelines and use our discretion in context. All rules, all laws, all prescriptions and otherwise are limited, imperfect judgments that we can adapt to a complex world.

Indeed, it will very much be possible, like with every other rule, law or prescription to misapply guidelines about speech, harmful or otherwise. Mistakes can be made and they should be righted when they are recognized. Given the absolute transformation of speech in the past 30 years in our world we are very much going to make a lot of new mistakes that in retrospect will be seen as foolish. That's ok, we have to figure things out somehow.

Most people would agree that this is a reasonable state of affairs for all the many ways we deliberate and compromise about how society should be run. But when we talk about speech in praticular, its effects, when and where it's appropriate, when it can and should be limited, a certain kind of person who will obstinately and resolutely refuse any such nuance comes swarming out. For example, the kind of person who thinks that it can only be called free speech if it's completely unbridled. As if every right has to be absolutely limitless in order for it to be considered a right.

You're probably not that kind of person. What would you like to discuss?
One thing I worry about is manipulation of topic assignment. That said, the impact may be limited.
You can sleep in your car but you can't drive your house.
PressureNET (now defunct) was the earliest crowdsourcing phone barometer platform that I remember hearing about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PressureNET
I once encouraged everyone looking to learn Linux to install Gentoo. The Gentoo forums contained a wide variety of troubleshooting and debugging information including a wide variety of not just system configurations, but software build configurations.

Then I encouraged them to uninstall it once they realized they're fighting gentoo eccentricities, rather than learning about unix build systems. But you learn a lot about unix build systems in the time, and the journey to that understanding is what's important.

I think Arch has overtaken that role in many respects, except instead of forum posts it's a wiki and a whole lot more are design decisions optimizing for something different rather than eccentricities optimizing for "That's how it was done".
Progress in RAM prices dropping every few years has really slowed. I’ve got a 2013 MBP with 16GB of RAM. 7 years later, I’d expect 16GB to be in the base model.

Adding extra RAM adds years to the life of a computer.
Some amazing comments on this thread. Thank you!

If you're looking to take an actionable step to help with racial injustice consider supporting the Equal Justice Initiative. (eji.org). Inspiring org and a leader we would all be proud to support. I donated and my grad school class is pooling in together to do the same.

I'm also talking to my children about the role they can play in quelling racism when they see it. I need to do better myself. Change starts with us.
1. Almost any non-trivial task I perform, I open a file in my code editor (Sublime) and start documenting what I'm doing (order and notes about the process) in Markdown.

If I think it's interesting and/or would be helpful to share so others don't have to spend the time I did trying to figure out how to do the same thing (half the time yes, half no), I'll copy and paste the markdown into a new blog post on my Drupal-powered blog, jeffgeerling.com.

If I have the time, I'll spend 10 min to 1 hour cleaning up the text and getting it to 'publish'able form, and publish the post. Every so often, if I think it's a post worth sharing more widely, I'll hold off on publishing until mid-morning US Eastern time on a weekday as around that time seems to give my writing more traction if posted on HN/Reddit/Twitter/etc. Otherwise many articles just go into the void, but get picked up by random obscure Google searches.

2. I started writing in high school, just posting journal-style updates. In college I started posting some of these on a Xanga blog. Then I switched to a generated HTML blog, and for the past 8 years I've been using Drupal so I can easily edit on my phone as needed and have comments built in. The hardest part is writing, it's always hard to put down words that I'm okay with publishing. And choosing whether to actually publish what I write or not. It's also hard to keep comments from being horrible spam mess, which is why most people don't allow them. I think they provide a ton of benefit (especially for old content that would otherwise get stale and worthless) if you moderate them like I do, though, so I keep them.

3. I stay motivated by finding my own blog posts in Google Search after Google Search—so many times I have to solve the same problem over and over again. The blog is kind of my brain dump, over time, so I devote less of my memory trying to remember random complex processes and more time doing new things.
> If libraries weren't an ancient concept that preceeded copyright law they'd be illegal today.

You can easily see this if you look at more modern medium: Gaming.

nVidia created a service where we could play games we bought on their machines. The publishers immediately sued and demanded that we be prevented from playing our own games on those machines without paying extra.

Copyright law now has become cancer - just like real cancer, the original base might be something that provided important value, but has now started feeding on the creativity of society and killing progress and freedom.
The disconnect between the expectations of impact and the real impact of big tech experiments on the populace is perpetually surprising.
Is this something that made it into the public WebKit sources? Would be curious to see the commit for that :)
Because underscore-functions aren't truly private, I have once seen an upgrade from 2.7.8 to 2.7.13 fail. A commonly-used package was importing one from a core python module.
Maybe the idea is to encourage Panasonic to pay Google to get their result on the first page.

Maybe ten or fifteen years in the future, paying to Google (or Facebook, or...) will be the only way to have your web page delivered to anyone.

I mean, why should Google display your page to anyone for free, if someone else is willing to pay to have their page displayed instead. It's not like people are going to switch en masse to something else, just because Google results become slightly less relevant. And when paying becomes the new normal (e.g. it will become normal to pay to have Hacker News on the first page for "Hacker News"), the results will return to be more relevant again.
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I've heard of
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This one is also interesting
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Defendants in US federal courts plead guilty in about 90% of cases: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/11/only-2-of-f...

Whether that is due to “very good reasons” or the possibility
that prosecutors have many options of how many charges to bring and what degree of charge is debatable.
Sometimes you want to make a slow website that doesn't fit well on a phone screen?

Sometimes you should have the choice of making a slow web site that doesn't fit on the phone screen. A large corporation shouldn't dictate how you present your information.

Sometimes you want to put a document on the web without having to pay someone to run on Google's treadmill of changing standards and policies for the rest of your life.

I'll take a crappy-looking web site with good content over an SEO-pumped disaster that provided no information.

Craigslist, eBay, and dozens of others didn't get to be huge because of their good looks.
I was being hyperbolic in that question, to be sure. It's probably better asked as:

When will the publishing industry finally accept that it exists in a world where counting copies made doesn't work as a business model anymore?

Technology isn't going away. The business models will have to change. Some businesses will fail. Some creators will have tragic outcomes. Some works will never be created. Entire classes of works might never be created again.

re: "...took my output without permission..." - I choose not to deal in "intellectual property". I've arguably left money on the table by not. I've chosen not to pursue projects that involved selling licenses for "intellectual property"-- projects that had a decent shot of profitability.

Under the current terms of US copyright I consider it a tainted and morally questionable business. It's not one I want to participate in.

I also have deep moral concerns with the idea that a creator should somehow be entitled to be paid again and again for work done once.
Perhaps I can guess some causes of the irritation. Let me start by saying that on Windows conda is probably an improvement.

On Linux, however, I do not see much benefit, unless you frequently install large binary C library based packages.

To me it feels cleaner to compile these packages from source. You are sure to have no glibc mismatches etc.

Conda, despite its advertising, does have library issues. C Libraries are shared between environments, compiling inside an environment can lead to surprising results when stale libraries are in the miniconda path.

All in all, it feels like a second OS shoehorned into the user's home directory. Compared to apt-get it is really slow and bloated.

It feels too intrusive on a Unix system.

Also, I'm not sure if the repositories are secured in any meaningful way.
I think WebAssembly System Interface will address using other protocols.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI
>> How exactly would I create/redeem this basket in kind?

>You can't.

Thank You.

As to your earlier point about AP, the bar is pretty low in SPY because I used to work at desk that was one ;)
Police Killing Fewer People in Big Cities, but More in Suburban and Rural US
But that has always stood in media and on the metaphysical soap box. Which is why media companies haven't been able to censor politicians and its illegal for politicians to block you on social media.

Look at the AOC law suit. She tried silencing people on her private social media but because she is now in government she got sued immediately.
Aren't you the bootlicker in this situation? You know what will help black people have a voice? Not giving government and corporations more power to censor people.

If you are against institutional racism, then stop giving institutions the power to perpetuate it. In one breath you say black people need free speech and to have their voices heard. Then the next thing you say is that institutions should be given the power to censor and silence anyone who has the wrong opinion. Right now you feel as if the culture is on your side and your opinions are the right ones, so you won't be affected by such censorship. One day you will find out harshly that culture changes, and your opinions now will be the wrong ones.
What do you mean tricks exhaust? It's a loophole, so it will work until the laws are changed to close the loophole. It makes no different to the landlord or tenant if the base rent is dropped, or the effective rent is dropped (assuming everyone can do basic math)
1. I write something when I'm in the mood and have done something tech-related I think others would stumble upon.

2. I just made a github page for my domain. Easy.

3. Going back to 1, it's all about my mood. If I've done something that I think others would benefit from, I'll probably do a quick write-up.

4. I've always been writing on the internets, probably because I'm deaf and have always turned to the internet for communication.

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Uber, Lyft suspending service in some cities due to curfews
Try this as a way of thinking about it....

ISR's are random events that preempt your scheduler.

Deferred Service Routines run in the same thread as your scheduler.

It's excruciatingly hard to write (correct) code that can be interrupted and have it's internals monkeyed with at any clock cycle.

Thus the ISR/DSR handoff is a way of sequencing events into a manner the scheduler can handle sanely.

Most ISR's are written to be preemptible, it ack the interrupt and enable interrupts. Thus the chance of losing an event is very small.

The larger your isr the more you're into the realm of "excruciatingly hard to write (correct) code".

Your scheduler may be very simple... eg. only one thread as you described above, but my point applies.
I didn't know courts had that option - thank you!
Unless there are nipples involved.
I think the key word there is compulsory - I've lived in a couple of those places and it was pretty easy to get a drivers-license level of ID document without too much trouble (and without having a drivers license of my own).