skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can actually see this happen to a lot of brands over time that were once trusted for quality and are now kind of garbage

You can see this in Silicon Valley as well with the number of startups that are absolutely worthless but have exorbitant valuations because because they came up with a metric that everyone fell for.
How does this article apply to SSC's fanbase working up into a lather at the NYT?
I'm curious how much of the USA's annual gasoline consumption is just neighbors blowing leaves back and forth among each other's yards until brownian motion eventually moves them all to the storm gutter, which promptly becomes clogged.
The compute intensive methods are likely to deliver results much faster.

http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
Completely fine to bow out, and if you don't reply to this comment I won't infer that it means you agree I'll assume you're still bowing out.

But if you sometimes write health articles, I feel it worth saying: health articles should be written having understood the proven science and convey it to people in an easy to understand way of what is or isn't proven, not by people who assume their connecting the dots is right before the research shows that.

I haven't read any of your articles, for all I know you're a fantastic writer on those subjects. But your HN comments specifically have not been written in the way that health articles should be, which is why people are giving you flak. And on that subject, sorry that you feel attacked here - it certainly wasn't my intention, nor I think the others', we just aren't in agreement.
along these lines, https://regex101.com is consistently a godsend for writing regex.
Also known as a storm in a teacup
This is a side effect of organisational structure, imo, less so personality.

Modern companies have an increasingly "court politics" culture and structure. Many roles are unique, and organisational structure is constantly changing. "Senior Customer Advocate can mean something prestigious one day, something menial the next, and be eliminated as a role the following week.

These dynamics are constantly negotiated in meetings, group emails and such. One or two meetings can turn someone from pivotal to "what does he actually do here?" People are highly aware of, sensitive to, and responsive to status dynamics. Status uncertainty is a major source of anxiety.

"Know your place" was a slogan of anglo society for many centuries. We tend to interpret that, from our modern liberal/republican perspective, as horrible. It's a tool of patriarchy, class suppression, etc. That is true. It was. But it also played on realities of human psychology. We are status seeking and are happier when our status is high, but we have natural coping mechanisms to deal with a low-but-secure social status. Insecurity of status is highly anxiety inducing.

That's where that insufferable, over-zealous tail wagging comes from. It's also why you notice it especially when people are on holiday. They're not present to monitor and defend their status. That status really is insecure. They could really lose it over a vacation.
Maybe, Google should be forced to create a separate tab for the knowledge graph and other tools. like they are doing it for images, the news, or videos. when I want to search the web, I want to search the web.

Because I see the issues with this. I also think those information have a value for users.
English needs maybe 4-5 five words to describe a particular snow condition (hard crust but underneath soft and wet), Inuits have one single word for that exact snow-condition therefore a higher information density (for that situation)
Not doubting these points, but you should always cite peer-reviewed or otherwise verified sources. It makes all the difference between a fact and an opinion. This is especially true when contradicting a widely held belief. Without a verifiable source, these are just "interesting hypotheses".
If you want to make unambiguous statements of opinion, don't use language that implies statements of facts. See also: E-Prime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
Tricky. It does feel anti-competitive but at the same time their info is usually also the best. So a strong argument can be made that it’s 1 based on merit
A significant chunk of what devs are paid for is the donkey work. Making every dev significantly more productive increases the supply of dev power relative to the demand, dropping the price.
The article suggests a lack of ACE2 cell receptors in young people could contribute why the disease isn't as hard on them.
Modeling the problem for devs is actually not the hard part, the math is somewhat simple for the accounting part (time value of money gets more fun, but I digress). The hard part for me still is undoing years of language baggage associated with words like Debit and Credit, which Increase and Decrease things that are treated as negative or positive depending on pov. In almost every case, I interpret the meaning wrong, and have to reparse.

Look at this sentence from another comment: "If your banana is for consumption and you pay cash: Then debit Food Expenses (decrease equity) and credit Cash (decrease assets)."

It flies in the face of our habitual, naive, and common use: "I'm crediting cash? But I spent it! Shouldn't I debit cash, debit is lowering? No? But if I have credit, I have more! No? Is that Comparative Literature class still available to switch into? No?"

The categorization are not always based on logic that is commonplace, and has legacy trappings. The terminology is different from what a naive reader might expect.

To be fair, many sciences have evolved this way. But like the French phrase "false friends", words that sound like one thing in another language but have a total different meaning in their own tongue, I think the struggle is to adjust mindset to the new meanings of words we use frequently, more so than the concepts of balance and systems of equations.
1) Doesn't it make sense for them to do that? After offering the search engine for free for ages (not that paid search engines are a thing)

They've made a fortune so instead of saying they've "offered it for free" let's point out that they are not a charity. Google became famous for saying that they will list the best SE when ranking, not Google properties or ads.

>>and playing an important role in building the internet? For most, all the internet they know is thanks to Google

Even if you said is true, another one would have done what Google did. By the way, internet as we know it today, would have happened without Google. In fact, MS and Apple did a LOT more for the internet...a computer in every home and all.
Don’t you need to be able to distinguish it from reality in order to convince yourself it’s a dream? Otherwise, aren’t you just dreaming of lucid dreaming?
While Bitcoin Rallies to $11K, Keep Cool and HODL, It’s Just the Beginning
What on Earth Is Static Regeneration?
No, I wouldn't do the same. Maximize profits? Yes, sacrifice core values and even social stability to acheive the goal? Nope. Be deceptive, do things against people's will? Nope.
ShardingSphere 4.x Sharding Concept SQL
Im guessing the alternatives get better the more you use them.

Otherwise there are a lot of alternatives like :
Bing
Duck Duck Go ( as you mentioned )
Startpage
Yandex
> The US has 10-20M people 'off the books' working for crap wages, no health insurance. That is a huge part of why everything is so cheap in America.

You assume that middle class Americans are willing, available and able to do those jobs when paid higher wages and benefits. In my many years I have yet to find “Americans” doing roofing jobs for example.
Lots of apartment buildings have street level storage usable for bikes and trailers, eg in gated inner courtyards or dedicated bike storage rooms. But trailers are not very attractive vtargets for theft anyway because they are cheap and there aren't that many trailer users.
Give me a break. Google hasn't been a net positive for the internet in nearly a decade. And cry me a river about their "free" search. They're worth over $600 billion, much of which they acquired by selling out their users' privacy. These days, Google is a blight on the world, and deserves all the criticism lobbed at it.
The guardian you know this is going to be impartial...
Even the old Greeks complained how their youth is worse. It’s been quite a few generations since and we are still moving on.
Win what exactly?
Bitwarden Review
This has always bothered me. In the US there is no way I have seen beyond running your own business to negotiate the time spent working. When I started in the work force I thought taking a smaller salary for 4 day work week would be a reasonable tradeoff but everyone thought I was nuts. I have tried over the years asking for more vacation or shorter weeks for a pay cut but workplaces are just not equipped to handle those sorts of requests. The system here does not value free time in the same way it does money.
Duck is a front-end for Bing. Why not use Bing?
There is still no proof for this but some scientists suggest people over 80 years old came in contact with a similar virus when they were young and now their immune system is overreacting (like when the second sting of a wasp can be much worst that the first).

In the Netherlands they found out by coincidence that some people who have a broken TLR7 gene don't fight the virus so the virus hits them very hard.

So there may be multiple reasons.
Yeah it makes sense, however I don't think we should be grateful* that Google played an important role in building the internet, since for Google it is about control and that's where the problems begin.

*not that this was your point
Good one!
It approves that work-life balance is just a myth if someone wants to - really - achieve something. What do you think about that?
I'm not a person who uses to return products, and I had mine for just two weeks. It was constantly reading/writing to disk. All the time. It wasn't indexing: the QNAP system has a lot of small services and some of them write logs to disk or do god knows what. Given the particular architecture of the NAS processor I wasn't able to install cli tools to analyze the problem further, but at this point I realized the NAS wasn't doing what I wanted in the first place: ease my life and allow me to automate backups.

I ended up adding one of the disks to my PC and the other to a home server.

I must admit though that the QNAP solutions look very helpful if you disregard the abusive disk R/W activity and the inconsistent UI. You may be able to set up complex backup schemes quite fast with it.

If you are interested in virtualization and advanced usage, be sure to get one with an ARM processor at least, because it may be difficult to get packages for it on other obscure architectures.
I think you're getting downvoted because you're not allowed to imply unions and protective labor laws drive up the cost of labor in this country.
> How much does it cost you to have a locked box in two secure locations?

Well, I live in a home, already have the boxes for all my papers (Social Security Card, Passports, Birth Cert, etc.) and I have at least one person I trust who lives in a separate home, so nothing.

> And I don't need to go to government agents, I'm just talking about simple robbers. Say for instance family members who figure out you have Bitcoin and want to take it from you.

...which my system protects against just fine.
FTA

> How a search for “Linux” has changed. In 2000, Google only returned “organic” results, ads, and a category header. Now the top of the page is full of Google products and “answers.” Source: 2000 screenshot/Archive.org

2000 screenshot: https://mrkp-static-production.themarkup.org/graphics/google...

2020 screenshot: https://mrkp-static-production.themarkup.org/graphics/google...
I don't know why everyone else is saying yes. No, in practicality you can't. The window is way too short for most contracts, let alone TOS agreements.
The fact that it "makes sense" for companies to become evil monopolies when they are capable of doing so is a problem. It's like a big hole in our economic system where everything breaks down and grinds to a halt.
I guess you know this, but what I really meant was AOT for any dotnet apps - not specifically for UWP or whatever sandboxed, designed for touchscreen thing Microsoft is trying to push.

What many have been waiting for is the ability to AOT for both Windows and Linux.

I recall Mono had something like this around 10 years back, but it was a bit flakey. Not sure if that still exists in some form.
Interestingly, they couldn't break into Enterprise Search (their Google-in-a-box product failed).
It takes two sides to make a war. I think the idea in the article is that one group reacts to the other group which forms a doubling down.

Dodging difficult questions is a skill most politicians seem to possess, in comparison.

So in the feminist example it's not that the feminists publicize a certain ambiguous case, it's that they double down when criticized by the out group. This strengthens the in group and amplifies the message.

Another issue is "what is publicity?" . What does it mean? Is getting something in the news or blogs or trending on twitter an aim in itself? How does the publicity machine work? What gets eyeballs, attention, etc?
Is activism a form of marketing primarily?

Is activism just a capitalist activity selling something? Is there a conflict with activist who want to change things. Is attention activism at odds with the political process, or could it be the primary way most people do politics?
> It seems to me like it helps keep the white-collar workers on the side of management, rather than realizing that they actually have a bunch in common with the less well-paid worker.

This is especially pernicious given that fundamental facility and process design decisions are made by the 'white-collar workers'. I wonder, for example, how bathroom or break-room access in Amazon fulfillment centres would change if the tech people shared a coffee or equivalent with people that work in pick+pack on a frequent and regular basis.
Fiduciary duty is to the shareholders. There is a misconception that you are not a shareholder. Do you have a 401k? A pension? Any investments? Everyone benefits, even if you're only getting a few dollars from the dividend payment.

Rates are at historical lows, sitting on piles of cash is bad business. Those massive capital expenditure projects are as cheap as ever.. the point is to encourage spending when the economy is struggling. If you want to blame someone you should blame the fed for years of artificially lowered rates.
Excel functions
I don't see why you should. If there's anything I've learned, emotions are probably the best indicator when hiring. A lot of bad decisions were made by trusting the paper and trying to give the person a chance because of it.

I don't try to turn it off. Instead I just write empathic rejection emails when necessary. I always reject with a reason, sometimes it's inexperience, sometimes it's a sloppy cover letter, sometimes there was just someone better. It's a bit mean to say I rejected someone because of typos in their resume, so a nicer way is to reject all resume screens with a link: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/08/sorting-resumes-2/

Interview as many people as you have the stamina for. Often the best people are those who barely passed the bar, so a wider bar could help. But try to keep the screening brief. Maybe a half hour chat and then rejection letter to those who didn't make the cut that day.
Shortly after 2008 I had a similar experience, land lord kept hounding me for rent (poor college student) and one day I get a Bank of America representative asking where my landlord was. He informed me the house was in foreclosure and told me to stop paying rent. This was thankfully after Obama signed the act to prevent evictions for renters.

Out of the wood work my landlord comes threatening eviction if I don't pay rent, he lived on the other side of the country so I wasn't really concerned. Got 3 more months of rent free living in a brand new house...
Think of it as the difference between having two monitors and having one monitor where the bottom 1/8th to 1/2 randomly gets hijacked. Two monitors are also more expensive. My method has its trade-offs as you note, but I find having an uninterrupted flow through the main text while having access to the notes on an as desired basis works best for my enjoyment and comprehension. Without my method endnotes are so frustrating I almost never use them, and about half the time when I think ok this time it's worth it to context switch, it turns out not to be.

This all comes down to Tufte's idea of letting the optic nerve do the work. A glance requires almost no conscious brainpower, this is why thumbing through a book you've read works so well. Thus I can glance over at the footnotes pages and decide if I care to read the note without even slightly interrupting my flow reading the main text.
Google Search is an information-search tool — and results often come as websites (the usual search result links), but also as widgets. Google can absolutely be the curator and a provider of information.
Wondering whether there is an androgynous TTS voice that sounds neither male nor female.
Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores
First paper that came to hand:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3533457/
This just depends on the area.
The Anki Database format (.anki2) is documented here: https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/Database-Stru...
Practical experience matters even with high tech processes. People who live out in the abstract design space miss small but important details.
Most people who grew up in Yugoslavia are fond of it, and they rarely factor the wars in their opinion. That said, prewar Yugoslavia was 1000x better than anything Warsaw Pact.
The problem is that website are commodities. The future for original high quality websites is that they should not allow search engines to crawl their content and slowly become a brand which people trust. Stop relying on search for traffic. Be an app, websites for marketing only.

Alternative new search engines are needed that allow for embedding/iframe/integration of global web search results in any 3rd party website free of cost. Then the new search engine should share ad revenue with the website that embeds their results+ads. Google does not allow that, but there is a real opportunity here. Embeddable global search engine that websites would like to integrate with.

A search engine that website would love to integrate. A search engine that websites would advertise themselves because they win too. Unlike the current scenario where only Google wins.
Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support
> I know there's the sentiment of fear/hate/etc about Google taking over but...
> 1) Doesn't it make sense for them to do that?

There isn't any point being fearful/hateful/etc about stuff that it doesn't make sense for someone to do. If someone is acting against their own self interests it makes sense to speak persuasively. And they will likely stop doing it in time even if left to themselves.
Thanks. Waiting for your feedback :)
This has been an interesting conversation with several people. I am really surprised how much negative numbers are confusing or interpreted as my idiosyncrasy.

> I’ve seen financial accounts quite more complex than two lines

Definitely.

For hundreds of years the convention has been columns. Credit values in the right-hand column, debit values in a left-hand column. The column is the label of which type of money it is. Most accountancy software (other than very simple personal tracking apps) use this when displaying.

Your printed bank statement probably does (and it may label the columns credit and debit as well, though never line by line, iirc). Mine did back when paper was the thing.

Digital bank statements usually do use negative numbers (DB being negative, as I've been saying). You are used to seeing this, but not used to thinking in your own accounting terms rather than theres. Which is fine. But there is a reason that accountancy education has to undo that assumption.
> And then another example, if you've lived in the UK for any time, you come to believe that cars are supposed to make the constant diesel-level cranking noise even at idle. And then you go across the channel and find that miraculously, cars can actually be manufactured to be quiet.

Huh? We drive the same cars as them. The steering wheel being on the right doesn't make it several decibels louder at idle.

Diesel cars are everywhere in Europe. They're not as bad as they once were but, yes, they are generally awful.

The loudest "normal" traffic noises I've ever heard, by far, were in Paris at the Arc de triomphe. I didn't have an SPL meter with me, but that would almost certainly be above safe working levels for more than a few tens of minutes.
Interestingly, outrage has two definitions: 1. injury or insult, 2. the anger and resentment aroused by injury or insult.
I don't think this is an overestimation of intelligence. That ability is itself intelligence.
I think he knows that he is not performing well. But he also says he does not want to give up coding, because then he would "lose something"
Pat basically ran on Trump's platform (albeit with vastly different style and rhetoric) but 20yr before anyone wanted to vote for it. It was the 90s. The world was a happy fun place free of the USSR. Why wouldn't the US want to be involved in the world? Why wouldn't the US want to do the maximal amount of trade with everyone. Optimism abounded. Isolationism and pragmatic "we'll serve ourselves fist" policy doesn't do well when everyone is feeling optimistic.

I expect to see a resurgence in isolationist policy in the near future because the world is seen as a crappy place now. China and Russia are widely viewed as threats we need to hedge against and the middle east is widely viewed as a source of inextricable quagmires and nothing good. People are not happy about how things are at home. Regardless of the balance of power between the parties and which parties own which branches there is a lot more looking inward in the near future.
The usual retort is "the scripting language is rarely the bottleneck" as well as "developer time is more expensive than hardware".

Between these two get-out clauses, aren't you talking about a very small minority of use-cases? Those where the scripting language is the bottleneck and the problem can't simply be solved by spending a few $ more on your VPS?
Kneeling on someone's neck for 9 minutes is inexcusable no matter what was said. In my opinion the most important aspect of the murder of George Floyd is the other cops who stood by and watched while their colleague committed murder. That was the thing that directly contradicted the prevailing 'it's just a few bad apples' narrative among the general populace, because it showed as clear as day that if a 'bad apple' feels like murdering you, their supposedly good colleagues will do nothing to stop it. The apathy to the suffering is staggering.
For a start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras#Atrocities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_19...
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Many of them save me extra clicks which is convenient. Google translate, maps and search has no competitors that even come close in terms of quality. I will get mad when those products have better alternatives but it's not the case. Build better alternatives and I'm on board. In the end, Google is a business - I would promote my own shit on the first vertical as well.
One thing that pisses me off is the AMP ordeal but, other than that, I extract value from Google.

I am on Google to find results to my questions - I want the quickest exit and that's what they provide. If they fail to do that they back down trust me, these guys watch "the numbers" carefully.