skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But they do the returns if you ask.

Only if you notice within the return window. They wouldn't refund our purchase of The Wire box set (when DVDs were still a thing) unless we got it "authenticated" as being a counterfeit by HBO, and even then they were extremely difficult about it.
This looks really cool - there goes the rest of my weekend testing this out! The JS game world has been missing a straight-forward editor like this... there are 3rd party tools that are very powerful (like Tiled), but having everything integrated is just... fun! And that's pretty important when you're making games!

[Edit: if the person who created ct.js is around: I just booted it up, and it looks nice and simple - but I think I'd make the default "empty" project be populated with a minimal texture and room... you should be able to launch a game and see what this software is about instantly: like Blender's "default cube".

This could be disabled for experts if it's annoying to delete things, but it would really encourage beginners and tire-kickers to dig in rather than having to figure out how get started and go through tutorials]
NYCs Underground Rubber Rooms
I was wondering if this was going to be a commentary on GPT-3 (it's not), since much of the latest hype has a similar feel as ELIZA. Of course the verdict is still out as to what extent GPT-3 "understands", but it's clear that the spooky realism we feel when interacting with it is partly due to our imposing anthropomorphic interpretations, just like ELIZA.
AWS has varying degrees of vendor lock-in, which electricity companies generally don't have.
I'm only passingly familiar with SQL, can anyone explain?
But...that’s who this article is discussing: homeowners who are listing their properties for sale in higher numbers.
Somehow asking a contact for a recommendation or search result has never felt right. I have many friends I value very very much and yet I don't share their political views, I don't like their technology preferences and I sure as damn don't agree with their musicsl tastes.

Right now I'll settle for a centralized search engine/service that works like Google did before all the crazy, like before Amp, and before penalizing non-mobile-optimized sites, and so on.

Federated search scares me because it might constrain search results by being tainted with a localised world view.
Wouldn't this cause filter bubbles? And could open up privacy abuse because all your history is available?
>Search is probably something where there could be creative use of the p2p decentralized technologies.

Has this been attempted before? does it have a name?
I don't know why people are downvoting you. I think you're right. I agree with his general point (I expanded a bit on that here [1]), and I also agree that people often overlook that general point since it is so convenient to do so. But otherwise, the specific examples he wrote (and the other assertions he made) seem to me to be incorrect.

But, as you said, he is a good story teller. Like Taleb. Getting the moral across is more important, even if sometimes the wolf eats little red riding hood in malformed renderings.

[1]: https://notgpt.com/2020/08/16/long-lived-systems/
The issue is not the fact that Google owns the web. It is that the web itself has become decimated to the point where a company like Mozilla does not have a future.

Facebook, Uber, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Whatsapp, etc. None of them are optimized for Google index.

Most top consumer internet applications don't take place in your browser.
Poster was suggesting high state taxes were to blame, but if that was true, one would also expect that trend to extend to other cities in the same state. If it’s due to remote workers as you suggest, then it should also apply to cities with a high population of tech workers and headquarters like San Jose. According to the article, it doesn’t. This makes the state tax argument hard to defend.
I am genuinely concerned for the November election.

Even putting the dismantling of the USPS in the most favorable light, president Trump has managed to convince a chunk of his base that this year's presidential election will not be legitimate. We may end up in a situation where Donald Trump loses and part of the country truly believes the Biden was elected illegitimately.

I'm not sure what will happen, but it won't be good for our democracy.
> But if you were to use a teleporter to see these objects with your own eyes, they would match what is in the “photo”, right?

No. Very likely not.

The photos may be of wavelengths of light that the human eye can't see, so scientists shift (and stretch/shrink) those into the visible spectrum.

That means the photos could contain something you can't see with the naked eye.

If you were to teleport there, you would (probably) see something, but the colors likely wouldn't be like in the photo.

This video has a pretty good explanation of what's going on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSG0MnmUsEY
Smalltalk's Successor
Could you speak more about using solr as a primary DB? Or did I misunderstand how you were using it?
Electric companies can switch off your electricity, and not much else.

Amazon can read your secrets.
But people do have to understand at least at a high level why the announced result matches what the voters put in. The whole point of a voting system is not to pick a winner, but convincingly show that the loser(s) lost.

Undermining trust in the voting system is an old trick. Unless the voting system can show such allegations to be wrong, its results will remain disputed.
Re: fair acompli

Respectfully, not really. Arguably search is much worse now than in 2010.

What if someone could come up with a simple search that could easily understand “hey this is a paywall” or “hey this is a paywall but somehow securely and with privacy I checked and you have a login to this site in your password manager” or it could do time based searches better than “last day / last week / etc”.

Consumers have insatiable needs and are never satisfied. It’s not clear someone can’t create something unimagined yet that’s vastly technically superior based on solely focusing on customer experience. Even if you just assume NewEngine(tm) is venture backed and can lose money in the short run until it monetizes later it should still theoretically enable it to be closer to consumer desires than Google which has to post quarterly ad revenue figures to wall street and the SEC.
I've been thinking about this for a while. It's infeasible for any one person to run a Google-scale web crawler -- but if millions of people join in?

I've used file sharing software which has the same "tree style" query forwarding. I think latency would be the big issue though, we're used to getting a result instantly -- and the right result too (Google does a lot of extra work knowing what you actually mean, not just keyword search).
So what, we just sit around passively and wait for something to happen to Google and friends?

Doesn’t that strike you as a poor move?

I don’t see why we should be relegated to put up with another x-number of years of these companies behaving (arguably) badly, just so things can change and they can be replaced with another company that will do the same thing.
It's easy to miss native desktop apps until you look at how bad most gui frameworks are.

The Mac is particularly a sad case. It seems that 90% of vc money goes to firms that use macs for software dev, but only 10% of users use macs.

It is like a world where everybody wants to write Spanish but people only read italian. And like the usual Girardian situation, the people involved have no perception at all what the situation is.
When it comes to privacy telegram is not great. The privacy is handled by splitting the cryptographic key in to multiple segments and storing it in servers located at different countries making it harder for any single government to force to provide without involving legal process that has to go-through multiple countries. This sounds not that bad in theory but in practice any developer knows you need the entire key on a single machine to process the data which means every server that processes the data has the entire key and any government can intervene and spy on the message.
> And the income tax is by far the highest, currently at 13.3%

If you’re earning over $1,000,000 per year, yes.

SF median income is below 100K.
This joke is even listed as an example of a maths joke on wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_joke#Stereotype...
Why encourage different amounts of electronic voting than mail in paper voting ?
There are only 78 days until the election. At this point, even the appearance of meddling with the mail before a record mail-in election is unacceptable.
> however I believe if it wasn't about Google someone else would dictate the game.

Always worth reading:

https://stratechery.com/concept/aggregation-theory/
But what is the fastest known UNBOUND star that does NOT orbit a black hole? As of November 2019, it was S5-HVS1. Its speed is over 1,700 km/s or 1,056 mi/s. That's about 0.57% of light speed. S5-HVS1 will be flicked out of the Milky Way. The previous record-holder was US708, a white dwarf travelling at 1,200 km/s or 746 mi/s.
> The media has clearly latched onto a storyline of a mass exodus from American cities, but the reality is probably much more complex.
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But isn't the point of the article that San Francisco specifically is seeing an exceptional exodus? The story even mentions San Jose as a regional counter example to the observations being made of SF.
Wow, I can't believe I haven't seen this before. This looks absolutely incredible!
Indeed, if you find e.g. PHP too slow, you can switch to Python for speed. To Python. For speed. Compared to PHP.
That sounds great! What are the winters like? Does it snow there? Do the roads ice up?

I’ve always wanted to buy some land there to recreation. I’d love any advice you want to share.
Is it possible to crowdfund an ARM based hosting?
If it’s sorted wrong it’s routed wrong.. bit pedantic
Your assumption is wrong - FBA means that 'Sold by Amazon' will often be supplied by a third party, so you have to dig through all the offers to see if any are FBA.
Mainly I use it when people send me documents to proof/ comment on.

Learning org mode is on my todo list. (Ironic?)
Simulation software companies for the aerospace industries would fit the bill. I know CAE in Montreal hired both mechanical and software engineers.
I thought about something like this in a more broader spectrum.

Also completely judgment free, if not even with a little bit of envy.

Do you know people who have strong hobbies? Like not just building sometimes a lego set but having a basement full of it, sorted etc. Only doing this for a long time as well.

Or people who dress very strongly: Punks, Certain Type of homosexual people,Hippies, Antifa, Nazis.

I was and still not sure what my thing is and i have the feeling that i'm going thorugh my life looking a little bit left, a little bit right. Hardcore fetishes don't bother me but don't have an appeal that i would do it. Wearing stuff like artsy stuff is entertaining to look at but i wouldn't put the effort into it.

But what is the difference to those people who get stuck? Yeah thats what i call it basically. Stuck people. They have been Antifa for 20 years. They go to work, don't throw in window but still a little bit alternative. More extreme, more passionate about those kind of things perhaps?

I'm not an expert at all in Transgen etc. and yes i personally from my simplified worldview, i would probably not risk an op if i would feel different. I would perhaps (and of course i don't know that) just sit it out?

When i see Transgen people on hacker events, they created a subculture.

I'm a nerd but i always wanted to play with all the other 'normal' kids and a subculture is effort and perhaps group thinking and group pressure.

And on the other side, they have their crazy cool lego sets, and train models and are experts in a niche. They know exactly what they will do for the rest of their lives. I will continue to look left and right and just continue.

I would love to understand more what type of shades are out there and why.
No, they will be inclined to not use that device and use one that does not ask weird questions.
True, that’s why in some markets the electric companies have been split into transmission companies and delivery companies. You buy power from the delivery company and the transmission companies are paid to maintain power lines.
I thought the Planck constant somehow tied in with the smallest unit of length allowed. Sort of like the pixels of 3-space.
While requiring X11 forwarding, maybe https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ with a framebuffer would fit the bill?
On a percentage basis. 1% of $1m is still way more than 4% of $150k
This is by design.

They want your canonical web page to be AMP.
Firefox mobile is good but not as convenient for using Google maps
Let's not sit around and speculate. Do you have any data to back up your claim that sorting machines undermine election security? If there's any truth here then surely states that have been voting by mail for decades would have noticed.
That’s fine. As far as old workstations go, I prefer Sun’s logo. https://www.famouslogos.org/logos/sun-microsystems-logo
anonymous, verifiable: chose one.

I would chose verifiable.
Or https://www.netsurf-browser.org/, reducing the attack surfer for remote content to compromise you.
> how the homeless have made many areas of the city uninviting

That's a very ugly sentence.

Its is not "the homeless" who made the city uninviting. That is like saying "the sick made this hospital uninviting".

Homeless people need help. They are people in distress.

Those who made the city uninviting are self-centered voters, who apparently can't give two shits about the situation, and keep voting people into power who don't do anything to help those who need help.
Suppose I'm a bad guy with Trump, I command the credit card company to issue 1 million fake cards with names which are passed away in last century. Ask my agents to sweep these cards and vote for me. How could you civilians prevent these things from happening?
Even within a given category of method of suicide, men are more successful. If you look at countries where gun suicides are pretty much nonexistent, men still "successfully" complete suicide at a rate approximately 10x that of women.

That should be taken as a sign that "suicide attempt" numbers shouldn't be taken at face value as evidence that women have it harder than men.
> No, they will be inclined to not use that device and use one that does not ask weird questions.

Weird questions that they got asked already on their Windows machine as part of BrowserChoice.eu?

They're only "weird" because this practice of forcing your own browser (IE, Edge, Chrome, Safari) down the throat of your users has become commonplace.
Regarding sale of verifiable votes. Why not regulate the sale and tax it ?
Unfortunately, Amazon commingles their own items with the third-party sellers.
Not at all! It's just funny how different brains work. He has a very valid point from an engineering perspective.
I had a few days to think about it and looked up the Wikipedia article for the monotonic limit theorum family and figured out what my confusion was about. I don't accept that theorem applies; and I don't think this game converges to a real number.

Real numbers have a least upper bound [0]. This game doesn't describe something with a least upper bound (assume the least upper bound is U, Bob will then pick a number < U as the upper bound, this contradicts - in the limit there is no upper bound unless the players agree to cooperate). I don't think the game describes a Real number - I think it describes some other mathematical object.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least-upper-bound_property
> What _specific_ problems do you believe privatization would solve?

For starters, unlike what we’re seeing today, mail-in ballots would be processed without issue because there isn’t a political incentive to hobble it. As long as there is a market need to reliably deliver ballots, privatized carriers will process them.

> Would delivery costs go down? Why?

They certainly could. The private sector is often better at allocating resources than the public sector, because of the superior efficiency of competition and the pricing system as compared to central planning.

I can give you a couple concrete examples.

NASA's planned SLS moon mission is a bit of a disaster — way over budget and way behind schedule. Because the boosters aren't reusable, each launch is expected to cost $1B (with a B) dollars — EACH launch! Meanwhile SpaceX's target cost-per-launch is $50M.

In Washington DC, the average government school spending per student is $31,280. The average private school tuition in DC is $23,959.

Finally, privatization would allow for greater funding (through greater investment). Today, the funding of USPS is limited by the political process.

> Literally every law passed, every action taken by the government, etc changes the current system

That’s not what I mean by “changing the system”. What I’m saying is that as long as the postal service is tightly coupled to the political process by being “government run”, and the government in question is polarized as to whether it should even exist, then it will produce sub-par outcomes relative to its private counterparts. There is literally no law you can pass to change this save for changing who is allowed to vote/participate in the government, or by decreasing a public agency’s democratic accountability. Those all require Constitutional changes (“changes to the system”) which are almost impossible in the current climate.
Doesn't seem to support property-based testing, which is my default go-to for automated testing, so I'll give it a miss.

(I've had good experiences with QuickCheck for Haskell, Hypothesis for Python, ScalaCheck for Scala, JSVerify for Javascript)
As a non-programmar, what are some web standards dictated by google that make it worse for me, the uninformed user? Im sure they exist, but I don’t know them.
The first time it's difficult. I was able to get into ketosis by diet alone when I was doing workouts, so that helped a lot to overcome the first 1-3 days (basically, massive headaches on the first day and feeling weird until the 3rd day). Also, breaking the fast was basically a week-long broth and vegetables, then I switched over to mostly salad as food. Obviously, if you don't move, e.g. due to COVID-19, it's difficult to keep yourself in shape; for that I recommend a daily routine of 30-60 minutes on an indoor fitness bike or rowing machine and avoiding sugar/starch.
I posted a while ago about how chilling it was to me how dysfunctional Google Search (and really, every search engine) is these days. It is still your best-bet "front door to the web," and it's been fundamentally broken by the pivot towards ML-based natural language search (e.g., dropping of whole search terms to fit the model of what it "thinks" you're searching for), its bias towards recency and "brands," and its inability to properly index the content on platforms like Facebook.

The result is that large swaths of the web are essentially inaccessible. It's contracting. I feel it as acutely as amnesia.
Why not just buy directly from Anker? https://www.anker.com/store

Generally that is what I try to do for anything I want to buy — get it from the producer directly. Sometimes it is prohibitive in some way (e.g. shipping time or cost) or more expensive but most of the time the experience is perfectly fine and I can be totally confident in what I will be getting.
Yes but that's why they're classified as a utility
> Firefox mobile is good but not as convenient for using Google maps

Agreed, but I think the native Google Maps app is superior than any browser experience.
The ToS might as well force people to promise away their firstborn and people would still upload photos.

Platforms have ToS that are non-negotiable and almost nobody reads them. The plaform knows this and that users upload photos without proper permissions and instead of warning users, they make it very convenient to agree (or even preselect it), otherwise it couldn't use the data in an almost-cover-your-ass way.

Note: I don't use these services, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Yeah, I think we’re saying the thing. Administrators didn’t arrive at this attitude by chance; the DOJ’s positioning in combination with related activism sent a strong message that they were supposed to.
> I’m willing to believe that there could be an actual reason for doing this

At this point, there's no excuse for even the appearance of attacking the postal service before our record mail in election.
You could make a case that all the 'social' platforms serve a fundamentally different need than the Web. Those are all more about immediate communication of lots of relatively ephemeral, low-information messages. The Web is more suited to publishing more enduring, long form and complete information.

Fusing the two never seems to work well. See blog comments for an example.
Microsoft is overtaken by who exactly?

In desktop & laptop Windows still holds a 87% market share.
You could try https://www.bogleheads.org
You should report the scam ad to the website, not to google. The website has chosen to serve this ad on their site (by whatever means) and thus it is their responsibility. If this means that ultimately nobody can use certain rogue ad servers that show scam ads (such as google), so be it.
Taking a family gap year – FAQ
It is surely fraught with peril to just say "well here is an explanation that makes sense to my gut", especially when applied to controversial topics.
The traffic gets so bad in the keys though. Especially on weekends.
The concept of AMP makes a lot of sense. It does speed up browsing and prevents sites from being terrible. The prloblem is that the implementation isn't great and it's Google driven. But the concept is sound.
> how do you turn the damn AMP off?

Use DuckDuckGo.
What do you think could be actively done to "stop Google"?

Dont use AMP? Well you will lose money / power.

Dont use search? Maybe miss out opportunities. How can I as marketeer convince my clients as Google traffic is 90% source of income?

I get your point but I'm not sure what could be done without harming economy (aka people).
voting != elections. everyone agrees that voting on elections is not wise. but direct vote for deliberation (for example on laws) works great
is coercion really a threat on a large scale in the US (I'm sure in other countries it is). But if the onl way to know my vote is to have my random identifier, if I dispose of my random identifier, they can't know my vote.

i.e. I feel we can both have total anonymity if a person desires, while also having verifiability.

as an example: a random uuid is assigned to me and my votes are printed out on a slip of paper with the uuid (and with a cryptographic signature to verify that it was produced by a voting machine). I can choose to burn the paper and no one can know how I voted or I can keep the paper and anonymously verify that my vote was recorded correctly (i.e. download the whole set of uuid -> vote mappings).

if the number of uuids submitted at each polling place is recorded reliably (i.e. observers from multiple sides having agreed upon counts), you have a good belief that no votes were added or removed.

if every voter who chose to keep their slip is able to verify their vote is recorded correctly you have a good belief that the votes weren't manipulated (assuming enough people verify their votes).

yes, there are issues, vote buying / coercion, but I'm just not convinced that those issues are severe enough or probable enough (at least in the USA) to want to avoid simple steps that will make people more comfortable with the election outcomes.

i.e. make the punishments harsh enough for anyone caught coercing / paying others for their votes to make it unlikely to happen at a scale that will negatively impact things.

but perhaps I'm naive about this.