skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, I understand what you mean when it comes to Google -- the web essentially becomes locked into a particular proprietary solution to finding information. I definitely still have hundreds (maybe into the thousands?) of bookmarks of sites that store information I care about.

But I don't think this tool deserves the same sort of mixed feelings. I don't think this replaces structure -- there's still value to having a conceptual mapping of where documents are stored, and for grouping sets of documents together. It's just that having a structure doesn't help if you don't know where in the structure something is stored. This sort of tool is a bottom-up approach for the times when the top-down approach doesn't work very well.

Do you have similarly mixed feelings if sometimes, even with my carefully-crafted set of bookmarks with all their nested folders, I use the search tool to find the bookmark I'm looking for? It's the same idea. Sometimes a top-down structure is beneficial. But sometimes things get misclassified, or you forget about some piece of the structure, or you aren't familiar with some new structure, and in those cases, having bottom-up tools are immensely useful. There's no risk of vendor lock-in here. It's just a difference of approach in information retrieval.
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It doesn’t make me a fan of this notation, but multiplication isn’t necessarily commutative, either.

Matrix multiplication is a simple example (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutative_property#Matrix_mu...)
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> Thomas Kurian is an empty suit.

Well if they need someone to wear his suit but yell in an angry Australian accent to get it done, I'm available at reasonable rates.
Honestly curious what's the thing that "[GPLv]3 forces people to do" in context of those cases? IANAL but interested in perspective of choosing license for some of my current and future works
How is it vendor lock-in if the internal code base that was never built in a way to work in the outside world can't just be taken and dropped on Github?
An app that provides ready access to extremely vulnerable people is likely to have an incredibly huge abuse potential.
We are being bitten by vendor lock-in, once again
"Have you tried allulose?"

I have, actually. It's ok, but I find it a lot less sweet than sugar, so I have to use maybe 2x to 3x as much as I would regular sugar.. add to this that it's probably 10x as expensive as sugar and it is just way too expensive for me.

Not to mention that at least the brand I tried was a lot finer than ordinary table sugar, and was closer to powdered sugar in consistency. This is ok for some applications, but not others.

I found tagatose to be much, much better, as it's virtually indistinguishable from sugar for me. It's also way more expensive than sugar, but at least it's comparable to sugar in sweetness, so you only have to use about as much as you'd use of regular sugar.

Tagatose also doesn't have any weird aftertaste to it, unlike stevia, for instance. Overall, it's by far the best sugar substitute I've ever tried, and would highly recommend it.
Clearly a project built for the sole purpose of getting a promotion and then move on. I wonder why would they ever even consider building this thing oO.
A000-0000-0000... not sure what to do with it :)

If it's indeed the end, nice game!

edit: although, I still haven't found the Anne's location
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Pretty much all governments have a history of maliciousness and/or incompetence. Well I think it unlikely they would allow it. It is certainly in the realm of possible scenarios.
I can definitely see in modern cpu array scanning being faster than pointer chasing but I wouldn't have expected that to survive insertion with 50K move wow!

And if you not doing ordered insertion you wouldn't have to move the data in the array anyway, you would keep track of the size and jump to the end, so not sure I understand the binary search comment.

The next question is at what level of growth the waste of empty space in the array becomes too much. Some kind of data structure (tree/linked list) with largish (whatever size applicable for modern cpu) as probably mentioned in other comments does seem the most versatile approach while keeping the performance. Or perhaps the handling of that data structure might overwhelm the array advantage?
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No? We're getting bitten by vendor lock in.
It's a bit unclear why it's particularly worrying that women might eventually have a suicide rate of X if a trend continues while men actually do have a suicide rate of X and have had that for decades.
I have used Brain.fm for a couple of years now and recommend it to others. I can't comment on the scientific claims because that is not one of my areas of expertise. However, I CAN tell you that when I need to really focus on a project, I always turn it on (with headphones only, as that is the way it is supposed to be experienced) and it allows me to get into 'the zone' very quickly, and I find that I can stay in the zone for long periods of time. It does help that there are several 'genres' of focus music (I tend to use classical, electronic music and piano focus the most).
I have not used it much for relaxation or sleep, only focus.
(I am not employed or otherwise associated with Brain.fm, just a satisfied user)
I confess the complaint is more geared at JS. That said, I suspect I just burned heavily on the xhmtl fiasco. Combined with how much has been added to CSS, I would more expect that pages made years ago would just violate so many current best practices that are practically required practices.

I also favor more direct use of fixed positioning. The rube goldberg machine people make in order to get their squares where they want is borderline crazy.

Edit: And, I should say that I agree on the tooling point. I don't see any technical reason it should be hard to make a web page. Getting my kids to create 3 files to get started, though, is less than promising. :D
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> the press releases claim that they are similar to what is typical of other vaccines.

They are much, much, worse but typically subside in a day and at most two. The side effects are bad enough that there is worry people won't show up for the second dose.

Still going to have it, myself.
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> Huge win-win, can't come soon enough.

This is probably going to sound gross, but for me it's the allure of not having to bite into bone fragments or tendons. I'm one of those types of people where if there's an eggshell, piece of bone, stem, or anything else that's an unintended guest in my food, I will find it.

I don't mean for this motive to sound selfish, but it would be nice to be able to enjoy something of the sort (e.g. ground beef) without it becoming meat-flavored chewing gum.

Joking aside, I think the potential for a high degree of consistency in terms of texture and flavor would be another bonus.
(Disclaimer: I'm one of the engineers at Materialize.)

> How does a company get funding for a feature that has already existed in other DBs for at least a decade? ... It's a cool concept but comes with huge caveats.

I think you answered your own question here. Incrementally-maintained views in existing database systems typically come with huge caveats. In Materialize, they largely don't.

Most other systems place severe restrictions on the kind of queries that can be incrementally maintained, limiting the queries to certain functions only, or aggregations only, or only queries without joins—or if they do support maintaining joins, often the joins must occur only on the involved tables' keys. In Materialize, by contrast, there are approximately no such restrictions. Want to incrementally-maintain a five-way join where some of the join keys are expressions, not key columns? No problem.

That's not to say there aren't some caveats. We don't yet have a good story for incrementally-maintaining queries that observe the current wall-clock time [0]. And our query optimizer is still young (optimization of streaming queries is a rather open research problem), so for some more complicated queries you may not get the resource utilization you want out of the box.

But, for many queries of impressive complexity, Materialize can incrementally-maintain results far faster than competing products—if those products can incrementally maintain those queries at all.

The technology that makes Materialize special, in our opinion, is a novel incremental-compute framework called differential dataflow. There was an extensive HN discussion on the subject a while back that you might be interested in [1].

[0]: https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize/issues/2439

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22359769
Certainly ethical vegetarianism is a very specific counter culture against European/American agriculture.

I just happened to come across a mean farmer in my language bragging about a “tadpole massacre” in their ricefield that happens when the field is drained in an appropriate season, a very conventional, not at all industrial, pesticide free, yet apparently a cruel method for unwanted animals, used to produce entirely vegetable products.

Conventional ethical vegetarianism don’t offer a consensus around such animal cruelty involved in vegetable produces, it’s completely out of sight and out of scope.

I believe this is a solved issue in trains of philosophy/religions from India, where some groups of people have practiced partial vegetarianism for millenniums, which I suspect to be the actual upstream of various vegetarianisms, and the layman’s versions of it say you should accept the sin, reasonably try to minimize harm to all life, and leave animal processing to (enslaved) butcher classes. The slavery part is kind of creepy, but the former two parts solves this classes of controversies beautifully.

As you can see, most, if not all, known branches of vegetarianisms are specifically crafted rebellion movement against certain parts of western agriculture, and I think thus they are moot in other contexts.
Does anyone know if the Internet Archive has any plans to scrape the content? Poly is not only a critical component of several VR apps I use, it's a repository of some incredible Tilt Brush artwork and part of the history of modern VR.

I'm dreading the imminent upcoming news about Tilt Brush itself. And Google Earth VR which is a true cultural treasure.

And just finally - in case it isn't clear - fuck Google.
Beautiful. I hiked a few of the mountains in 2014 and miss New Zealand every day. The only thing this site misses is the sheer scale. There’s something about sitting at the base of a mountain and feeling so incredibly small that can’t be replicated virtually.
TSMC is killing it. I feel like it would be a strategic investment for the US to take a much larger stake in it and hopefully bring some of that fabrication talent stateside with Intel waning.
Yes, but what about the people who did? Here's the thing, Google is a big company. When a big company offers a service or product you expect a long shelf life so you can justify the time/money investment to use it. If you stumble across an open source or just some other random project by a single dev, you have an instinctive expectation that the project could die at any time. Thus, you invest your effort accordingly unless you're a hobbyist that enjoys the exploration (which is not most people).

Google has the focus of a 12 year adhd kid who just ate a whole birthday cake, unless when it comes to data collection. Google doesn't produce quality products anymore. They found their niche and pretend to do other things to try continuing that "do no evil" lie of a mission statement they used to have.

Here's the lesson, you can't trust google with anything. You base your personal or business infrastructure on Google you can expect one of two things:complete privacy invasion or they're going to destroy whatever you're using because they never took it seriously in the first place.
Well... not you, or me. Unfortunately, I can find a dozen UX designers and project managers who do, in fact, want these things, and advocate and whip developers to add these things under the pretense of "cohesion" and "brand intuition" and other such terms that lead to someone (not me) being promoted.
Is that after clicking the download button on the linked page in the OP?
This is great. I have 100+ ebooks/pdfs of programming and textbooks of which I've been extracting the index pages of. My intention was to always make some sort of search index out of them. I will definitely be trialing this (initial few searches seem promising!)
I would love to have a way to bootstrap LLVM. This looks promising but I'm guessing a C++ frontend is much more challenging than writing this backend.

gcc used to be the missing link, but they switched to C++ and now you can't bootstrap it with something like tcc.
Right, I am not sure why I thought that the slide rule predated logarithms.
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I think one benchmark should be would "is this animal be better off to have never been born than the conditions we let it live in?"

And a second is "how much better or worse is this animals life compared to a similar animal in the wild?"

My personal opinion is anything that doesn't meet the first benchmark is evil. Anything that is between the too is in a gray area. And anything past the second I don't need to feel too concerned about, or I'd describe it as ethical husbandry.

It's clear that there are plenty of chickens whose lives are soo terrible that don't meet the first benchmark and their extinction would be preferable to their current experience
Just wait for it to come back with less fanfare - removing usernames from a 10 person company isnt really anonymizing anything - which everyone working for a small company giving "anonymous feedback" knows.
The answer is that they almost certainly built it with almost nothing hanging in the center, and without the dish below it. Once the basic platform was in place, then they hoisted up all of the components to build out the 900 ton platform (actually, that took years and years as equipment was added to upgrade it).

So, in essence, doing a replacement of all of the cables would need to start by essentially disassembling the thing completely and then rebuilding it.
I admit that JS brings a whole lot of simplicity to situations that would be tedious otherwise. The problem is that the maliciousness that can exist with js can sometimes outweigh it's usefulness.

Looking at HN, which uses js for voting, can be replaced with the olde-school form submission method (at increased page reloads etc), so clearly JS is doing us a favor.

But many sites we visit are consume only (blogs and news) and the rest are generally what we interact with only very infrequently (HN, fb, twitter). It's a rare site that actively needs js (excluding all those react/vue architected sites) that doesn't need human interaction on the first place (eg slack and chat sites that need streaming/comet server responses)

Random thought: Maybe we could investigate a methodology of "jit" for js in response to human interaction. Browsers already do this to limit access to the clipboard functionality. That is, js will run only if the user clicks on a button, etc, but is otherwise dormant (even document.onload would be delayed until first click). Anything else would require permission to run. Of course, this would break the web as it exists now.
I wrote a tool for visualizing mongodb records as a network of nodes. I find it really helpful to work with a visual representation of relations or connections. If you're working with hierarchies or references in mongodb, give it a shot.
For example: "It may be necessary − by law, legal process, litigation, and/or requests from public and governmental authorities within or outside your country of residence − for Apple to disclose your personal information. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that for purposes of national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary or appropriate."

Why would I want my health data uploaded to an Apple server to be shared with governments?

My data should live on my own devices, encrypted, and unaccessible to anyone other than myself.
What are the chances?
6 consecutive numbers when 6 balls are picked from a set of 50 balls?
Ref: https://www.nationallottery.co.za/about/how-to-powerball

(Actually, the 6th ball - the "powerball" is picked from a set of 20 just to complicate things)
I think former users of Picasa and Reader (ouch!) might amount to more than 5%.
What a great talk, thank you for sharing.
The incompetent leadership, contagious disease, and false beliefs described in the first paragraph are par for the course in human history.

The author opened with a list of things that seem impervious to the ramping complexity, instead of vulnerable to it.
Yea, and honestly, huge money grab for big pharma. Over 100 companies started working on vaccines. They got huge amounts of money, knowing they didn't even have to be successful.
>3. Developed country with great logistics.

Wait post Brexit to see if you change your mind about that one.
Wild animals also kill for sport, and rape, and steal, and eat their own babies.

I do think it's important to understand that humans are animals, and that they are not uniquely immoral within the animal kingdom, but the fact that something happens in nature isn't sufficient in order to morally justify it. Humans ARE unique in their capability to reflect on the morality of behavior at a high level.

Where I think your argument is strongest, as I said, is in response to the claims that humans are uniquely malevolent, as if most species aren't constantly maximizing their acquisition of resources within the boundaries of their capabilities. That just doesn't mean that we have carte blanche on all behavior we can observe in nature.
The wiki article uses historical data, not 2020 numbers.
I recall someone blurting out in horror on a forum that, gosh, a fourth of homeless people are women. How horrible. (I would later see this as an "aghast!" infographic in a newspaper)

It's a bit like the UN's tweet in "support" of International Men's Day. Read it. It's bitterly amusing.
Ok that explains the Baguette
One a related note there is one program that I absolutely miss on Linux called everything (on windows).

The closest I can find is mlocate but it does not have a GUI but more importantly it does not index my Windows or NTFS drives.

Would appreciate any suggestions if someone knows something like 'everything' for Ubuntu.
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I'd much rather read an article than watch a video.
Europe in general has much better telecom/internet services than most other areas of the world, both in pricing and performance. I'm really jealous of you guys..
If your team cannot manage a postgres, rabbitmq, etc install, then you need to find higher caliber employees.
Sure why not! I think there are many men in America that find Japanese and South Korean women very attractive, and would connect with them.

About 4% of the US population has suicidal thoughts (source CDC)

Its not leprosy, these are just thoughts. That will go away for most people. Or might come and go, same way as you might get sick at some points in your life.
Not quite. A substantial number of people in the UK live in poverty - between 20 and 25% [0].

This has been made worse by terrible political decisions, such as Brexit [0]. Specifically, austerity and political decisions (not limited to corruption) is linked to 130,000 preventable deaths [1]. Those same "budget cuts" for austerity exist while money is sent to "consultants" to "help fix things".

Not everyone in the UK has it well. The government, quite frankly, is fairly shit. And corrupt.

[0] - https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14901

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/01/perfect-sto...
Agreed. As stated in my other reply, I think HTML and CSS have been oddly stable in that older stuff will still work. But, you are punished if you still write pages like they used to be written.

An amusing case of this recently when I was ordering a book from Tufte's website. Perfectly fine and workable page. My gut is it would get roasted if created in any of the CR cultures I've seen where we developers run the show.
Some things can be done in parallel, yes, but a large chunk of the speed comes from literally skipping some animal testing and ALL long-term longitudinal studies.
We simultaneously criticize Google for not innovating, and for taking bets that don't pan out long-term. Pick a lane?

Perhaps the problem here is simply Google needs to more loudly tag their products with "Beta"? I remembered in the mid-aught's, every google product was "in Beta."
They have a real problem finding developers that will want to work on it. You don't get promoted at Google for maintaining a product that isn't growing.
How is it FUD?
Simply having this surveillance tool come out the door shows that there is little or no consideration for people's privacy during the planning and development process.
This place is a drop in replacement for r/asd.
Yep, clicking is iffy on Firefox/Mac here too.

Nice work, but as an old gamer I'm wondering if throwing the graphics in some established game engine wouldn't have made it work more consistently :)
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No ripgrep-all through the package manager:

$ sudo dnf install -y ripgrep-all
[...]
No match for argument: ripgrep-all
Error: Unable to find a match: ripgrep-all

Rust's package manager fails:

$ cargo install ripgrep_all
[...]
failed to select a version for the requirement `cachedir = "^0.1.1"`
candidate versions found which didn't match: 0.2.0
location searched: crates.io index
required by package `ripgrep_all v0.9.6`

Quick search on the web shows that more people have problems with cachedir version.
Two suicidal people dating each other? I'm struggling to imagine how this could be a good idea.

Honestly, I don't see relationships as any kind of solution to suicidal ideation. Even when only one of the partners is not suicidal, the relationship has a good chance of ending very badly for both of them.

People who are suicidal need a therapist, not a date.
As someone who is in this field (work at a company that does secondary market transactions), I'm very curious as to why this explosion of growth is happening. I see two examples that aren't directly related to the articles point of money looking for high growth opportunities in a low interest rate environment

1) Increasing capital in the private market has lead to a decrease in value of this benefit of being public (raising large capital rounds)

2) Decreasing regulatory barriers for participation in the private market

I'm curious as to how other HNers who may work for these companies feel?