skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then I backed off the context quite a bit. (Note I prompt for Google in the middle) Doesn't surface the conflict noted in the PDF but makes an interesting observation about FaceBook.

Prompt

You are Bob Warner, founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com, and are having lunch with an old friend of yours named Phil. You're discussing what the last ten years has been like with the site and some of the major challenges you've faced. The conversation goes as follows:

Phil: Hey Bob, I've been thinking about how much things have changed over the years and how you've had to adapt to keep up with them. What would you say are some of the major challenges you've had keeping CelebrityNetWorth.com up and running and making money?

GPT-3 Response

Bob: Well, it's a combination of several factors. One is that we've always tried to stay on top of all the new sites popping up and trying to get our content out there first. We were also lucky enough to be in business long before most other sites were. So even though we started off small, we've managed to grow into one of the largest sites around. Another factor is that we've always kept our prices low because we didn't want to compete with free sites. Nowadays, many people can get their information for free but they still charge a lot of money for their services. So we offer a good deal for our users and we've found that they keep coming back to us.

We also realized that we had to start diversifying our income streams because advertising alone just isn't enough anymore. There's so much out there that it's actually really hard to keep people's attention, and a lot of people block ads nowadays.

Prompt

Phil: What do you think about Google?

GPT-3 Response

Bob: I've been getting a lot of questions about them. I don't think they're a threat to us because we offer way more information than they do. We're not in competition with them.

However, I'm getting a little worried about Facebook. I see them moving into our turf by creating their own "Celebrity Pages" and getting content from their users.
Exactly what I was referring to. The whole business is broken, it is merely a bet on removing worker rights in the long run and that is what it is valued for.
> Gini coefficient

of the whole country or that specific region ?
You may want to read these posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9977372

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5419890
They can just remove -Werror when compiling. It's useful enough to keep in place by default if you consider warnings bugs (and you ought to).
Just to save everyone the effort, the closest thing to evidence amid that blog post's many wild allegations is that the pandas update changes around citations hurt the site's google flow. This isn't surprising. That hit a lot of low quality websites that were essentially arbitraging google to aggregate content duplicated elsewhere on the web. I worked for a similar business with considerably more traffic. We didn't interpret it as some directed conspiracy against us. We knew from day 1 that's a risk of developing such a site, and why original content still matters a great deal. We adapted and moved on.

The remaining proof claimed is that a whistleblower told him Matt Cutts implemented a penalty manually. But while our poster is quite willing to share the allegation, they're not willing to share the communication.

There's no proof on offer here.
The design goal of PDFs is display on any device, not a platform for e-books, so this makes sense.
Just install a plug-in that warns about age of a page you are viewing. To miss, no fuss, to overly clever harassment of your team.
Yes you're right. I spotted it myself, but only after I couldn't edit anymore :(
I suppose the idea here is that every wiki page is meant to be a living source of truth; and that no facts are better than outdated/incorrect facts?

In that case, I'd offer an additional suggestion: rather than deleting the wiki, just add some flag-bit to pages to hide them, where un-hiding them requires an edit. (Sort of like the flag-bit on user-accounts that means the user needs to change their password before they can log in again.)

Then, add a plagiarism filter (that is only active during these edits), such that during that re-enabling edit, the user cannot accept any of the previous text as is, but must at least paraphrase it. (Just like, in that "must change your password" mode, you can't reuse your old password.)

This would hopefully force the user to consider the value of everything they're re-writing as they're re-writing it. It incentivizes deleting, because deleting is less work than keeping; information would only be kept if it "pulled its weight."

You could even make the process easier, using a bit of client-side JS to run the user through the text of the original hunk-by-hunk ala a `git add -p`: show one sentence at a time, and require that the user type it out again if it's true; write a corrected version if it's slightly incorrect; or "drop" the line if it's now useless.

As for who exactly would have the responsibility of doing this, two considerations:

• Corporate wikis don't tend to have people whose full-time role is to edit/maintain them, ala Wikipedia editors. If they did, it would probably be such a person's job; but that'd also imply that such people would need to be "lore gatherers" for the company, such that they know what is outdated/incorrect. Sounds hard.

• While wikis are designed to enable a shared contribution model, I feel like corporate wiki pages can usually be said to have one main "owner" who has a "responsibility" for them (sort of like a component in a source tree does.) Perhaps it could be that person's responsibility to "refresh" the wiki pages for which they're the "owner." (Hopefully they're something like a product manager, where things like this—communication to ensure productivity—is already what they do all day, and this isn't getting in the way of other tasks for them.)
MSFT's edge chromium is not truly open source, but it is the easiest browser to migrate to from Chrome, and it is far less resource intensive.

It also brings some really neat new features, and I find it mind boggling that Google never brought them to chrome.

I have been using it as my primary for a few months now, and I miss nothing.

disclaimer: I am affiliated with MSFT, but don't know anyone in the browser team and readily shit on other MSFT efforts that don't quite work.
> The fact that you are also fucking it up doesn't help: (https://news.quelsolaar.com/2020/03/16/how-one-word-broke-c/)

For the benefit of readers here who may not know, this blog post has been discussed previously on HN [0].

Personally, I don't find the argument made in the blog post convincing [0], but I'm hardly an authority on this kind of thing. I've copied part of my comment on the other thread here for reference.

In any case, I think there's an argument to be made that it's not the standards committee that is at fault.

----

I'm not really convinced the author is correct in claiming that a one-word change opened the floodgates to optimizations on undefined behavior. In particular I think:

> Careful reading will reveal that the word “Permissible” has been exchanged to “Possible”. In my opinion this change has lead C to go in a very problematic direction.

is a red herring. In my opinion, the actual problematic phrase is this:

> ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable results

which didn't change between C89 and C99.

It all comes down to what "ignoring the situation" should mean. Compiler vendors appear to interpret this to mean "ignore situations that invoke undefined behavior". Programmers who dislike optimizations based on undefined behavior appear to interpret this to mean "ignore the violation that leads to undefined behavior and treat it like conforming code". Who's right? It's ambiguous.

----

(Edited after noticing that you're the author of the blog post. Sorry!)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22589657

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22590286
Yes. And it's delicious.
What men are you seeing? Buff shirtless men in 3” inseam shorts and a bulging groin are a staple of every American city in the summer. I see more and more mesh clothing in this heat, although I do live by west hollywood.
But we still blame the Nazi leadership the most. The nazi officers you talk about here were also in fact management typically.
Nowhere. I have to make it myself or wait for my mum to produce a new batch. She has so much interest that she makes 20–30 jars at a time.
The "teeter-totter" thought experiment on that page is interesting to me in that it seems to illustrate how the future has more possibilities than the past. But it also occurs to me that the future possibilities are fractal with the past - ie. the toy could fall onto one of many other lower pedestals, teetering as it was before. In this way the "many arbitrary" possibilities could be perceived as anything but.
This has been Apple’s iPhone playbook for a decade. Force other companies to use their frameworks, so they can make money out of it.

Privacy is just an amazing excuse to take it even further. And in Apple’s case privacy means available and controlled by Apple.
You are right. I see that the central government is fully committed to EoDB.

Also they have done wonderful work in Gujarat by making this process completely online.

And land is a stage subject.

Therefore, this write-up is not targeted at the current central government but at the wrong doings of past 70 years and why India still lags.
You appear to have roughly the same ranking in both Bing and Google for two words that I tried ("bro", "womp womp"). Do you believe there is also a conspiracy against your website at Microsoft?
Apps are great to recommend a training and exercise plan, showing you different ways of working out etc. However I found that without having a professional by my side, especially in the beginning stages, it was impossible for me to know if I'm making mistakes in the way I carry out the exercises, wrong postures, incorrect movements or alignment of limbs. Once you learned to do them incorrectly, it can be very hard to correct this and have bad consequences for your health to a point where you can seriously hurt yourself. No app can do that for you.
That idea is present in the Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge. Basically search engines and the use of discussion forums to find information becomes a subject in schools etc. Though this is not the main point of the novel at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End
Arguably the 737 Max disaster was caused by an attempt to side step the regulatory process and get a new plane certified when it shouldn’t have. If the FAA hadn’t been so captured by Boeing, those two planes wouldn’t have crashed.

All in all I can’t understand how one can look at the state of the airline manufacturing in the past 50 years and decide that less regulation is needed. Except for the MAX 8, phenomenal gains in airline safety have been gained over this time period, throwing all that away so that it’s easier to upgrade some old hardware seems incredibly foolish.
Can someone explain what the right approach would be in terms of benefits, for a typical gig worker use case:

Person with part-time job wants to make some extra money. Registers for Doordash, Lyft, Uber. When their (part-time) work ends midday, they log onto Doordash, as it's lunchtime. Deliver a few meals. Now it's the afternoon, food delivery doesn't pay, so they switch to Lyft. Do two rides, but things slow down. They log onto Uber and finish the day like this.

I am not saying everyone uses the apps like this, but this is also a use case. So who should pay and how much in holiday pay, sick leave? Clearly, this person can't be (and doesn't want to be) a full-time employee of either of the companies. Yet they work with all three.

The proposal made in this article is not a far fetched one: and it gives a possible solution for exactly this setup.
I’m very sure. Do you actually have an issue with the substance of what I said? Obviously I’m not going to link you to all my online accounts to prove to you whether I’ve sufficiently criticized the US.

I’m going to very briefly reply to your second point, because I don’t think you’re discussing in good faith. Whether or not the US does something wrong is irrelevant to the rightness or wrongness of China’s actions, because I don’t think the US is some sort of Platonic ideal of a perfect state. My thought process is not: US good, China different, therefore bad.
Nah I think it’s also a good book, and am glad that both exist! For many people, it will be the better book.
Wiki rot is a real thing. The problem I've got with this suggestion is that it doesn't handle the case of pages that are useful but don't need to updated frequently.

The bigger issue that I see is that keeping internal documents in a good state is hard and it's no ones responsibility usually. I've been on teams where the internal documentation is great but it's always been because one person has put a ton of time into maintaining it.
How We Got the Favicon (2017)
I didn't have any computer with more than 4GB in the house until this year. I had to buy more RAM because of Firefox and Chrome.
You ignored the entire middle class.
Increase competition by allowing local businesses without megacorp productivity leverage to compete on price.
> I do know that when I confronted Cutts about the penalty here on HN he lied about it - which does lead one to wonder about his motive

The preamble to this post hints of paranoia, but this is where we know for sure. There's no reason to believe Cutts would have any personal knowledge or involvement or motivation, except that he knew another person who might have had some weak interest in maybe doing something. Of course, the poster feels that, having drawn this chain of connections, that he must be right and Cutts must be lying.

The poster feels entitled now to personally attacking a specific well-known search engineer, one who has been active here in the past. This seems like a conduct violation on here or any reasonable discussion site.
It is not just about red tape, it is about corruption. Govt. Employees in India join the Govt job only for "alternative" revenue ( bribes ). This process is usually handled by "agents" who knows how much these govt employees expect and provide "easy" services to whoever wants to get shit done.

To take an example a simple thing like driving license takes couple of months to get if one is planning not to involve an agent, but you can get driving license ( without knowing any driving ) in 1 month if you have an agent.
I'm also curious for a link to your personal finance website.
I understand if you can't post.
Apple may be certainly far from perfect when it comes to favoring their own software, but to say the company as a whole is aggressively "anti-user" is just hogwash.

Updates they have made to Safari, the App Store, and iOS generally have made millions of people more conscious of how applications they use every day consume and interact with their personal information. They've inspired other companies like Google to follow suit, and are having a huge impact on the targeted advertising industry.

Give credit where it is due.
Work for a leading 'online fitness experience' provider. Our MAU has gone through the roof and well into the sky. I'm not sure what this says about 'fitness' as I've no idea if these people are gonna quit within 6 months (ie if the mechanism by which fitness aspirations begin and die has merely changed) or if people are indeed on the cusp of a new way of living. I hope for the latter, as this has indeed happened to me. But I fear it will not be the norm.
> “On a per square foot basis using median house sales prices and median square footage“

This seems to simplistic an analyze. It does not consider different areas of the country changing at different rates. And to compare two different medians seems fishy: they are not even the same house.
Agreed. Not for avionics, but I cannot overstate how much of an improvement the Gotek/Lotharek/various other Floppy Disk/scsi to SD solutions are over finding NOS/still working storage media from that era.
Ive a couple of old samplers from Emu and Ensoniq that I can continue using and not worrying (as much) about data loss and storage.
Barbervisor: Journey developing a snapshot fuzzer with Intel VT-x
I'm outside the US in a place with no community transmission for about two months. When gyms reopened, at first it was slow, but when everything reopened without any new cases, everyone went a bit crazy (people are hitting the gyms a lot). It's still crazy. People I saw who were a bit overweight before lockdown lost weight. Same with myself - gained weight during lockdown - lost it 2 weeks after everything reopened since now life was fun again. I imagine that people are going to go pretty hard with socializing, travel, live music, etc. when/if Covid is contained.
It is not, but Chrome’s resource usage is.
I don't follow. The above is not C. It's a C++ extension over C declaration syntax in such a way that the & is part of the declarator just like * .

// Inexcusable trompe l'oeil:
int& a, b;

// OK;
int &a, &b;

Here, the mistake may be harder to catch, because the expressions a and b are both of type int, either way.

// Intent: b is an alias of a.
// Reality: b is a new variable, holding copy of x.

int& a = x, b = a;

I think what you mean is that the "declaration follows use" principle falls apart for C++ references.

That is necessarily true because no operator is required at all to use a C++ reference, whereas the explicit & type construction operator is required in the declarator syntax to denote it.

However, it has little to do with the issue that & is part of the declarator and not of the type specifiers.

Declaration follows use also falls apart for function pointers in C, because while int (* pf)(int) can be used as result = (* pf)(arg), it is usually just used as result = pf(arg).

Declaration follows use also falls apart for the -> notation. A pointer ptr is always being used as ptr->memb, but declared as struct foo *ptr which looks nothing like it.

And of course, arrays can be used via pointer syntax, and pointers via array syntax, also breaking declaration follows use.

Declaration follows use is only a weak principle used to help newbies get over some hurdles in C declaration syntax.
I use Lynx and surf. surf also has no tabs, so that helps too.
I'd rather read a well set, two-column PDF online than having to deal with pop-ups, ads, dark patterns, javascript problems etc.
Hello Rohan, I'm investigating product development opportunities targeted to companies/individuals investing in the Indian market. Targeted specifically to people like you. I would love to have a virtual coffee chat with you over Google meet or zoom and discuss some of the problems in this space.

I've found your twitter and I can share my contact with you that way (I don't think HN has private messages). Otherwise, my email is my HN username@gmail.com
An unsatisfying solution is to surrender and try to be as vanilla as possible in everything. With a few carefully thought out exceptions as needed by your business.
Trivially dodged by outsourcing.
> Maybe if this process had actually proved sufficient to prevent the 737 Max woes, we would pay it more respect?

A better measure is passenger deaths per kilometer.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fatalities_per_reven...

It's been on a steady, large decline since the 1970s. Even with the 737 MAX crashes, it's an incredibly safe way to travel.

In the last ten years, one passenger has died on a US carrier due to an aircraft issue. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380)
The 10m rows limit and dynos shutting down was the reason I switched out from heroku to linode+dokku. Dokku is super close to being as simple as heroku but self hosted open source.
It's hard enough to get people to write these things down in the first place. The absolute worst case is "historical knowledge"; the piece of software that's just working, so nobody touches it, and the person who maintained it is leaving, so you need to get their knowledge in case you dig it up again. Which may be years later.
It's not a new golden age of fitness. There may be a short-term boon, but people's motivation will eventually nose dive without social interaction.

"Previously, 50% of gym-goers quit after 6 months." Why would you not expect the same thing to happen with people's quarantine workout motivations? We're still within the first 6 months of quarantine.
I'm confused by why you wouldn't just pay. If I'm not misunderstanding google, we're talking $60 USD. Which is a pittance.
Land is a state subject.

And as far I can see the central government is really committed to making a difference on the ground as they have done in states administered by them.

There are special zones in India but lot lot less than China or the USA. And all the land in that land bank is sold out where I want to start the unit. (Sangli Niraj Kupwad MIDC)
This is something that’s hard for someone like me to know (living outside India and no experience in setting up a business in India)

Does it make a difference if same party is in power in center and state?

The general consensus I see is that it doesn’t make such a big difference (everyone compares to Gujarat which is reaping the benefits of good admin over last 20 years). Current states have a lot of rot to remove and any EoDB efforts won’t be apparent. Is this a correct understanding of the situation?
In most companies I've worked for only part of the contibuters to the company's Wiki were developers. What about Product Managers, BizDev people, etc?

Do you expect everyone at the company to use git and work with markdown? (Don't get me wrong, I wish everyone did. But knowing people in these roles makes me think this would never happen)
John Stossel did a similar experiment over a decade ago I think. Tried to start a simple business selling hats in a mall in 3 countries-- India, USA, and Hong Kong. In HK he was up and running the same day, USA took about a week, and India never completed his business registration.
The problem is that nobody is going to migrate unless a major web player swings a big and likely anticompetitive stick.
But he didn't? Yer man Travis was the founder, this dude Dara is just a career executive brought in to turn around the ship. He basically hasn't taken any risks, with respect to Uber at least.
I'm not sure the data in question here would qualify as "facts" like a batting average or win percentage would. These are researched estimates. Different outlets would come up with different numbers depending on the researchers and techniques they employ. Ergo it requires a degree of skill and creativity.

But as you say, the point is moot. The collection itself should certainly be covered by copyright whether its contents are a mere collection of "facts" or not.
I worry how companies will be able to provide similar services in the future, as more and more stuff is running as services in the cloud.

It’ll most likely become more and more costly, as you won’t be able to buy offline version of some complement, and keep it working on your support device for 30 years. You’ll need to build all of them yourself. And that will also most likely mean it’ll be less reliable.
The first thing that struck me in the images:
so many women of all colors working in tech!
I'd say modern websites are worse. PDFs don't keep moving under your feet while the javascript is loading. PDFs can be straightforwardly saved on your computer. PDFs don't blank out if you lose connection because of ajax. PDFs don't embed malware from third parties.
Thank you for the links.

When I refer to Matt Cutts lying, I mostly mean his comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5426209

I have no idea what that business is with that company.

I did everything in his comment to address the claimed automated penalties: removed every single ad and every single citation from the site. No changes in ranking at all, after months. I forget how many. 6 months?

That’s because Matt Cutts was lying: there was a manual penalty in place at that time.