skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google largely killed this when they moved to https by default, but I missed reviewing what search terms visitors used to visit my site and then creating content to answer their actual questions, instead of guessing.

But the web was a much smaller place/time back then.

Oh, and seeing people search for my uncommon name...
In the U.S. market for human bodies, almost anyone can dissect and sell the dead
While that is a solution, I don't think it is the solution. Another non-solution would be removing all Internet access. Ransomware problem solved, a whole bunch of other problems created.
It's infuriating when Google prefers the documents that ignore some of my keywords even when there are plainly pages that include them all. I get the sense that there's an over-weighting of broad semantic match, to the detriment of lexical match, in their current ML model, whatever form it is now. It's harming quality for a segment of technical users like ourselves but might be "better" in the aggregate over all users, according to at least some of their internal quality metrics.

Back in the 90s, search engines were driven largely by sparse vector representations of the documents such as TF IDF vectors before latent semantic indexing, topic modeling, and other dense vector representations like sentence embeddings entered the fray (not to mention non-content features that use the web graph, click stream, etc.). A lot of NLP applications use a mix of dense and sparse features but it's hard to get the balance right in a way that works for all inputs. Google's pendulum has swung too far in the "dense" direction, as it certainly seems "dense" a lot more often lately!
Ransomware provides a useful service and should be legal. Businesses with poor security practices deserve to be punished for their negligence.
I think the issue here is really simple. Google has learned that it is more profitable to infer the intent of a query & tell people what to think up front based upon a carefully crafted set of advertiser criteria. It is difficult to appease your paying customers when you give the non-paying customers direct access to the most likely match for their query and allow them to draw their own conclusions from the information.

Put differently, there is a conflict of interest inherent in the very nature of Google's business. It can only become a steeper death spiral from here if the motive continues to be profit above all else.
why evenn care about JMAP. better support EWS/ActiveSync. JMAP is still in such an early stage and no matter if proprietary or not, there is still no protocol out there that does the same things than EWS/ActiveSync.
What really astonish me is they sometimes give me straight up malvertising fake domains, like “general-<word>-info. xyz” second or third from topmost these days! wtf.
You can see some statistics for the Czech Republic (population is about 10.7 million) at [0].

Vykázaná očkování celkem = Administered total

Vykázaná očkování za včera = Administered in the previous day

Osoby s ukončeným očkováním (dvě dávky) celkem = People with complete vaccination (two shots) total

Osoby s ukončeným očkováním celkem za včera = People with complete vaccination in the previous day

[0] https://onemocneni-aktualne.mzcr.cz/vakcinace-cr
I'd be fascinated to see how the US states of California, Washington, Texas, and Massachusetts would score on that index.
I agree. I don't think YouTube is a lottery ticket. If you have a decent idea, understand how people in your niche consume content and are willing to put in the work then you can do alright. Having a meteoric rise might be lottery, but mostly it's recognizing what people want and knowing how to "market" it to them.

The hardest part is putting in the work. Being your own motivator and then working away at something is very difficult in the long run.

I'd also like to add that $10k a year in numerous countries is decent income.
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This is what Google has been trying to do, right? As they keep scraping more and more information out of the sites that they index and then provide thumbnail answers in the results page, there's no reason to click on anything.

If I google for the weather in Chicago, I'm not going to click on a link to weather.com for it, because the seven day forecast is right there.

If I google for information about a person, Google scrapes Wikipedia and puts that right in the results page sidebar.

Flight information, bus schedules, anything that looks like a calculation, a whole bevy of other things, Google just preempts any results and shows inline at the top of the search page. Why would you click through to anything?
Microsoft will allow Seattle-area workers to return to the office
Thanks!

We're very aware of them, tried to capture it a bit here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26542607
I like the author’s follow up. It provides good insight into what FI/RE can turn into and it also helps both people that are thinking of FI and both people that don’t know what is/hate the concept.

There is something deep in there about social bonds and being able to relate to people. As long as most people work themselves to death, people that go the FI route will always feel ostracized/left out. It’s just how social things work :(

I also like how the author recognized the issues that were cropping up and actually course-corrected. I find this highly unusual and I am really happy it worked out.
Why do you feel the need to disparage people who may watch movies based on comic franchises? Whatever comparison you want to make, it does come across as "man yells at cloud".

Also, you're basically claiming that spending that money does unlock some special level of imagination inaccessible to "the plebes".

Why does spending a dollar in a statistically futile pursuit make you able to fantasize about beating remarkable odds but a lightning storm doesn't send you into a cowering fit?
If this deep connection is the bad stuff, what is the good stuff?
QOP/QH are not the point, they're ways to reach the existing memory corruption. Without the memory safety issue you can reach QOP/QH are not useful.
Instagram's manipulation of users is making the market ripe for another photography platform to step up. I've tried a few alternatives. Flickr has decent functionality, but is overpriced and lacking in social features. Right now I host my own photo galleries, but there's a lot of friction to the workflow, and it requires some technical knowledge that not everyone has.
Yes. This makes surfing the web harder and will result in more centralization within proprietary walled gardens instead of federation via protocol mechanisms.
The trend of circumstantial evidence continues to favor the lab leak hypothesis. In contrast there is no new circumstantial evidence favoring the natural origin hypothesis.

Reported last year...

US investigating 'hazardous event' in Wuhan lab in October
Alleged 'hazardous event' occurred days before Wuhan Military World Games in October

Plus, genetic drift research shows virus first cases in October.
The zero-click queries that I've done have been for fairly simple facts that I think most of us would agree should be zero-click.

What are some examples that I could try that show results that you think should require me to click through?
> Languages evolving and borrowing good ideas from each other* is not the same thing as hyperbolically sneering at some of the most popular programming languages in the world because they're supposedly all converging into one single language, which they never were doing and never will do.

And yet PHP, Java and C# MVC web apps looks all the same in both syntax and structure. Same syntax for interfaces, classes, namespaces, entity models, query builders, controllers, views and so on. A modern Symfony application looks almost the same as a Spring one.
The factories needed to be set up last year, before the vaccines were approved.

IIRC, there were well over 20+ vaccines in the USA alone that were being developed. I dunno about other countries... it turned out that the mRNA (Pfizer / Moderna) and adenovirus (J&J / AstraZeneca) seem to have been the fastest at production.

Everyone who spent $Millions on other vaccines are still waiting for those tests to finish. Only if you were lucky enough to pick Pfizer / Moderna / AZ / J&J are you actually winning in the vaccine race right now. At this point, its looking like if you bet on the wrong vaccine, you lost your entire investment.

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USA spent billions on building "all the above". We have millions of AZ-doses sitting on the shelves, waiting for final approval (final tests just finished this past week).

UK ordered 4-doses per person (when only 2-doses are needed, and even though its not known if children can safely take the vaccine yet). That's another reason why UK is so fast: they aggressively bought extra vaccines at an extreme rate. UK plans to either sell, or donate, those extra vaccines later on.

By buying so much extra vaccine, UK ensured that they are at the front of the line when it comes to vaccine supply from the various companies.
> So did Stallman.

They don't see it that way.

> His justification is basically that has no trouble with rhythms so he self-diagnosed himself as not having asperger's.

Stallman said he didn't have most of the characteristics of Asperger's. Rhythm was just an example.

> I would suggest reading this subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535390 and more specifically this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26538554

BAP doesn't change the issue of unqualified people diagnosing someone they don't know. Or using it as an excuse.
Is there an option to request for more persistent storage? From the website, I inferred that each 8x GPU machine comes with 2TB SSD storage? Would I be able to request for another 2TB without requesting for more GPU instances?

Also, I am assuming that requesting more GPU instances allows me to access more persistent storage?
Yes, I haven't been in the Java world for almost 10 years now, so I can't comment too much on that, but it seems like Java improvements & Kotlin have vacuumed up the reasoning for using something like Scala. When I used it 12 years ago, the core Java language itself was terribly anemic.
Wow! Seeing a live volcano so up close is on my bucket list. What an amazing experience!
There are two issues: UK and US nationalism preventing companies to shift finished products to the EU in case of production troubles, while the EU has been slow to impose restrictions in the other ways. This meant that when the AZ plant in Belgium got production problems the EU had to take the shortfall alone instead of it being distributed on all customers: the upshot of this is that UK has simply gotten more vaccines than the EU.

The second problem is largely national: some countries have been slow to use the severely reduced deliveries they have gotten (possibly because their schedules were screwed up by the shortfall). The national governments have been really happy to pretend the national programs are perfect and there aren't large stockpiles of unused vaccines in their countries, and to blame all the tardiness on the shortfall "from the EU".
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A "liberal" is supportive of capitalism, despite nominally calling for some regulation. Liberalism is broadly in the tradition of Adam Smith. The US Democratic party is primarily liberal.

A "leftist" believes in abolishing capitalism, either through enormous reform, an inherent collapse, or radical action. Leftism is broadly in the tradition of either Karl Marx or Pyotr Kropotkin. There is no significant leftist party in the US, although the SWP and CPUSA still nominally exist.

X believed that true racial justice is unachievable under capitalism. He was distrustful of liberals because he believed their attempts at gentle reform would hold back the "true" path to racial justice, placating his Black compatriots to the realities of capitalism and the necessity for revolution.

He did a substantial amount of advocacy with the Socialist Workers Party, so he was obviously fine alongside white people as long as they shared his economic beliefs. MLK also shared many of these beliefs ("Letter From Birmingham Jail", "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?").
Minsky’s wife denied the allegations.

https://nypost.com/2019/08/09/jeffrey-epsteins-alleged-sex-s...

You will have to dig out the 2019 emails yourself, I didn’t bookmark them.
I imagine it enables Google to enforce location based licensing for where you can listen to certain songs at a given price point.

Listening to a song in the forest is free, listening to it in a bustling street costs 10¢ per play because you're performing it to people walking by
The blog post from Microsoft about the return: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2021/03/22/the-philosophy-a...

And the bit from the article about what Microsoft is planning to do:

> Starting next week, Microsoft employees will have the option to work from home, in the office, or some combination of both, DelBene said in his blog post. Data from the company’s other offices worldwide, many of which have already reopened in a limited capacity, indicate that most employees are still choosing to spend less than 25% of their work time at the office.
I think this is just flamebait. Uses emotionally charged words without any other substance. Both the comment and responses to it (including this one) add nothing to the discussion.
A lot of the European countries are all at a similiar point, most likely cause the vaccines were procured together. Spain, Italy, France and Germany are virtually identical, on a per capita basis.

Hungary is a little ahead, as they are also using the Russian vaccine. But still behind the US.
nice picture you have uploaded

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Through royalties and donations[0]. You say this like something nefarious is going on. But also consider that Mozilla has a net income of 90 million/yr[1]. The income levels between these two companies are extremely different and thus they can operate in different ways and under different conditions and saying "how does x make money" and not taking this into account is just a bad question. Their goal isn't to be Google and to be a trillion dollar company.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/041315/how-m...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
Nobody has ever realistically said all should make the same. Even the USSR had different pay for different skills. Money hording is unacceptable.
The AZ was the second vaccine to be approved after the Pfizer one at the beginning of December, and then Moderna was approved days later.

All of the vaccines passed through the standard clinical trials and phases and were approved by the MHRA using the same process that would be applied to any other vaccine.

The vaccine testing and approval was fast because layers of bureaucracy were removed (e.g. writing proposals, securing funding, finding volunteers).

It's not fair to say that the UK rushed either the approval or the rollout. It's a bit like saying Usain Bolt rushed to win the 100m. Someone has to do it first. The UK approval process is one of the most stringent in the world.
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> Some, including the U.S. Treasury, have promoted the idea of making it illegal to pay a ransom, though the idea has not gained widespread support.

That's probably the only solution, besides the obvious ones like actually protecting the systems.
E pluribus unum!
https://youtu.be/uFr6R8E03UQ
Corruption, incompetence, differing priorities, mismanagement, bloat, misallocation, probably a mixture of a bunch of factors really.

It will still generally find itself in the hands of people with less wealth than the richest portion of society, but it almost always stops much higher than the bottom run.
> Or rather, how does one avoid getting into this situation.

IMO, the problem is technical debt. Most likely, in the majority of these cases, the engineers working on the system knew perfectly well that it was a mess, was very difficult to learn how to maintain, and many parts were dangerous to modify. Most likely they told management multiple times that this was a problem and what the consequences of it would be. They would have refused to budget resources for improving it, so everyone either saw the writing on the wall and quit, or gutted it out and learned how to manage the system eventually. Maybe the system limps along for a while longer, but it's only getting worse and the knowledge needed to maintain it more siloed and specialized. Eventually you lose a key person, something breaks that nobody left can figure out, or maybe the whole thing just implodes like the main story here.

To avoid it, you must understand the pattern, hire good technical people, and give them the resources needed to improve the system in an orderly fashion.
"Severely behind" the country doing the most vaccinations per day, but not on a general comparison. (Though yes last week the amount given was lower)

I completely agree the EU could be doing a better job, but in terms of general comparison, it's not doing bad

(It's doing better than Canada/Australia/Japan) for example.
I don't think there is anything really wrong with FIRE itself. What I do think is that many people working towards FIRE don't know how to be happy and think that work is the only thing between them and happiness.

The other problem is that extremely frugal people are going to have a harder time making and maintaining friendships, because people bond over activities that cost money. I would argue that being able to quickly and systematically create deep, high-quality relationships is as important if not more important to FIRE than actually having the money.
>>Google results have gotten dramatically worse over this last decade

I have ZERO doubt in my mind that a Google search update that decreases their ad revenue would be rolled back and metrics tweaked to make it so. So...
So much second this. It actually feels like it is getting slower on each upgrade, and more buggy. Am I the only one who finds that the "go to next unresolved" button now often goes into an inconsistent non-working state that requires a (slow) refresh? Given that I spend most of my time on GitLab reviewing, this is a real pain point for me.
She read about it in People.
Not being a gitlab user I'm surprised its notification are worse than github's, because it's not like github's notifications are any good. Between the comment notifications which don't link you anywhere half the time (possibly on inline comments? I never remember) and the update notifications which give you a completely empty diff on a push force, it only serves to signal that something happened on this thing you don't even care about.
>"I really miss Forum search in Google"

I absolutely hated when they did remove it. I was able to sort of mitigate it by adding "forums" and "discussions" to search terms but it is not the same of course.
The new UI is great! It keeps the programmers occupied so they stop messing with the old UI that I actually want to use.
security should be enforced in one place in a way that's applicable to all programs, no matter their packaging.

How do you do that without placing contraints on said packaging, though? Will you just blanket-restrict all packages to the strictest security measures? i.e. no network, no access to persistent storage, w^x on all pages? Or will you only provide token security because all features are useful to some apps, and you can't know beforehand what features the app actually needs?
Exciting to see alternatives popping up.

I’d be curious to know the feature parity in percentage with Jira features. Jira is for better and worse.. deep and complex to handle a lot of depth and complexity.
Umm... I didn't say he was doing nothing...

But to further clarify -

My point was that work/income generation can add meaning and validation for lots of folks. Even the author hints at this - his writing wasn't taking off, no one was reading what he wrote, and he was getting discouraged.

I dabble making music. I'm pretty good at it by hobbyist standards, but if I ever tried it "full time" no one would pay me and I'd never get huge. That's just the breaks in creative endeavors. My point is that I'd need a heck of a lot more validation and affirmation in my life than making music no one listens to. I suspect the same is true of the author and his writing.
Kidnapping provides a useful service and should be legal. Schools, kindergardens and parents with poor security practices deserve to be punished for their negligence.
Yes, a complete lack of interoperability would make it really hard for criminals to target them.

However, a complete lack of interoperability would make it really hard to, you know, interact with other businesses and systems.

This isn't throwing the baby out with the bathwater so much as drowning the baby in the bathwater.
> I had a contractual obligation to assist

Did they have a legal reason to think so?
I'm not sure this is news?

In December 2019, there were about 1.4 million existing homes for sale. [0]

That same month, there were about 2,000,000 active real estate agents [1]

[0] https://www.nar.realtor/blogs/economists-outlook/existing-ho...

[1] https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics/quick-real-e...
> Even so, the freedom to... saw/split/stack firewood when the weather was perfect, build a movie nook for my wife, go on bike rides on a Tuesday afternoon in a warm breeze, take our dog on a long, leisurely walk at a local park, read a book in the shade out on the deck...

I had a job where I could do this. On any given week I worked normal(ish) hours, but I had pretty close to full control over when and where I worked, with significant autonomy on what and how. I spent most of my afternoons outside unless I really felt like working on my project. At the same time, being at a company gave me resources, teammates and scope I would have struggled to recreate working on my own open-source projects. I had just come off a one-year break and I ended up enjoying working more than I did not working. It's a real shame that we can't have more jobs like this; it requires giving people a level of trust and autonomy most organizations can't stomach.

If I could arrange a role like that into the indefinite future, I'd have absolutely no questions about working well into my 60s, and not at all thanks to a "lack of creativity".
I've had friends with trust funds, who just seem to dither around in life. "Making music" they never release. Picking up little "pass the time" jobs. And these are people that aren't living "leanFIRE"

It seems like such a nihilistic way to live. You're just floating along the stream of life. Things worked out for you, but you have no further passion or inclination to improve the world? No problems you could set yourself to solving?

As much criticism as Elon Musk gets (he's certainly not perfect), the path he took is the only thing that makes sense to me in that position. He didn't take his wealth and begin doing angel investing in new CRUD app startups, he wanted to solve real problems humanity faces.

Not everybody has that amount of money or skill, but it's surprising to me how many people's alternative to having a day job they're forced to do is just complete leisure time 100% of the time or picking up arbitrary hobbies.

In this guy's post, like with writing, it sounds like he wasn't actually passionate about it. There are plenty of places to post serialized fiction as you write in online and get feedback (Royal Road, Substack) but it sounded like the measuring stick he was judging himself was becoming a very popular/famous author, not actually writing great stories. It seems just like a different version of the treadmill he was talking about with other people.
Yes, but the UK is so far ahead with jabs/person that it's going to make a the bigger difference.

The volume of jabs will dictate the outcome more than the 1-now-1-much-later or 1-now-1-soon strategies.