skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27029353.
Problem is it's very difficult to tell who's serious and who's not in today's world :-)
> But to claim Inktomi and AltaVista matched Google Search results I think is rewriting history, when Google launched, the difference in quality was quite obvious and striking.

Yes, that would be a foolish claim. Fortunately I made no such claim.

The differences at launch were indeed striking, much as they had been with HITS. That was in 1998. Four years later, at the time the article you linked to was posted, Google's market share was... 16%. While at that point they may have dominated mind share and brand value, they didn't dominate the market. That would come later.

Google's situation in 2002 was that they were no longer such a clear cut winner. Per the article: "Google much like Inktomi, must re-evalutate what it’s currently doing... ...search is going strong but the Penguin update has raised a lot of questionable results to the surface". Their search quality was already faltering. Of course, in the next twelve months, they'd literally gain as much market share as they'd garnered in the entire history of the company (and yes, that was a one time leap in market share).

I'll say it again: most of the market share gains came from the distribution channels. The cost of getting customers to switch was gigantic compared to the cost of just presenting them with your search engine first. The number of people using the Internet was growing by leaps and bounds then.

> There's still the possibility of someone upstaging Google, by building a search engine that not only indexes the Web, but has the reading comprehension to understand it, and understand queries from the context of gained knowledge.

That's been tried and failed. The technical difference didn't garner the market share needed to support it. I wouldn't say it is impossible for it to happen, but the odds are long, and ultimately the market largely does not appear to care.

> But you can't displace Google with a 2% improvement in results.

I guess it depends on how you are measuring 2% improvement, but by conventional metrics of the time, a 2% improvement now would be well neigh impossible to achieve. Again, that's part of the problem: the head of search engine queries have effectively been optimized to the point where there is little room for improvement beyond tiny fragments of the tail that amount to a percent or two of the average person's search history.
I started a meet up for local digital or tech entrepreneurs to find, learn and take their next steps together. It was a mix of techies, marketing folks, business folks. Didn’t matter as long as you were ready to learn and do your next step.

It was less of an event and more of a community of acquaintances who were good at welcoming strangers. Many of us became good friends.

Space was public venues, and once folks got to knowledge other, other suggestions of who had access to space came up pretty easily.

Today, I’d probably pick something semi different like airmeet and use it for a virtual meetup to gauge interest.

Sometimes restaurants or libraries have dedicated rooms that can be booked.
But that’s only for BLE, right? Or does it also support Bluetooth Classic?
Isn't your floor not "rent falls to the construction costs" but "rents fall to the point of the best alternative investment to construction"? Which is going to be a (much?) higher floor?

(I suspect that residential property ownership and use will also break the math here a bit, where the primary purpose of the purchase is not as a money-making investment, but instead as a place to live, so competition for that will also push up the floor of land prices.)

You're still gonna potentially need a lot of tax revenue for stuff like advanced healthcare assistance, so in terms of flattening out cost of living why not just go with a straight wealth tax?
One forgets how hard it was to climb the mountain once one has climbed the mountain.
And there is precident of isps injecting/replacing ads on non-https requests.

This is not a theoretical issue which could technically become real, it's actually being done.
I keep work and personal devices separate as much as possible and turn off notifications.

My phone is the one device that “crosses the streams” (I don’t want to carry two phones). As it’s my work phone it only has work apps plus some essentials for when I am out and about (Map, Music, Fitness etc apps).

“Scroller” apps are strictly on my personal tablet which has weekly time reporting turned on.

If I’m using my personal tablet in a way that is causing problems then I either put the tablet out of the way or set a time limit. If it’s really causing problems I’ll ask my partner to enable parental controls or hide it.

You also need professional help if possible.
Unfortunately getting help may take some time as support services are overloaded.
As an immediate step the Coursera Yale Science of Well Being course is good. Do the workbook and other assignments, especially if they are tough to do at first.
many words, but just from the title one could have guessed the conclusion "them must be rayciss"

the only thing worse than pseudo-science is pseudo-science motivated by political agenda of the day.
> Canada's brightest, healthiest, and wealthiest will just hop over to benefit from the more favorable conditions there after reaping the expensive taxpayer funded social benefits

The bulk of Canadian taxes are paid by the "brightest, healthiest and wealthiest" [0], so the expensive social benefits Canadians enjoy are largely funded by extracting taxes from these people, not the other way around.

Thus, I can hardly blame them for moving to a place where they don't have to subsidize others as much.

[0] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=111000...
>A site without a user facing login really doesn't need SSL. And SSL is pointless on said site if it's for instance a Let's Encrypt.

Depending on the ISP is trust worthy. In this day and age, none is trust worthy. Any network between server and browser can alter the content if it is NOT ssl encrypted. In US it is very often you see Verizon (not to single them out) modify the http content before they deliver to you. I guess it all comes down to if you want to get the actual content that is unmodified by the network routes between you and the server.
Totally agree with your characterization of the nature of the "theft", which is why I put it in quotes.
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Quality from India? Kinda joke and a hard one. Hindu are so dump that they think they are best top quality all knowing professionals can make everything have specialist. Interesting where are Hindu hackers are there Hindu hackers? Do they exsist or it's another joke? So they could hack some lab and get some legit data on vaccines formula to produce Hindu Shiva Vacine
Yes, that's true. But your argument also applies to those other social networks I mentioned which do offer ad-free premium subscriptions, so clearly there must be some reason it's worthwhile for those companies to offer paid plans.
This is basically a very light version of a reactive notebook like this one https://observablehq.com/demo
On a societal level it would lead to a burning planet.

(Yea, yes, I know NOT A CRYPTO Spews out a months worth of car riding per transaction)
Sure. The point is it’s not one click to download like other vendors.

It’s an active and intentional hurdle, it could just link to the file of the snapshot and allow you to DL.
Looks like the EM drive is officially dead – experiments fail
Interesting!

Yes, Tesla/Elon -- would have an interest in chip availability(!) -- perhaps in the future even to the point of investing in their own chip fab...
yeah it is a techy thing. Most people who are not techy use "WWW", we just got to go with this. Edit your web server config to handle that.
The story that you're telling leaves out the number one reason why the death penalty is pursued more in some places than others: political will. Simply put, those places that have the resources and political desire to pursue the death penalty do, those that don't, don't. Pro death penalty places this year are more likely to have been pro death penalty places last year. That's all the study concludes.
I use graphql extensively at work, because it requires it. I wouldn’t use graphql if my use case was sufficiently solved with REST. And in most cases, it is. Saying graphql will take over rest is like saying apples will take over bananas.
The compound interest explanation was particularly intriguing. In part because I haven't fully grokked the discrete-vs-continuous interest difference yet (also haven't tried very hard -- just remember being a bit surprised by some things mentioned in Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance). I liked the intuition of simply "owning very many such bills" reducing to the expectation.
I spent a while on this path - removing apps, hiding others, setting personal time limits or other restrictions on my phone usage. At each step on the way, all I learned is that I need to go further. Short of getting rid of your smartphone (which I have now done), the most effective thing I found was to make sure you put your phone in some fixed place in the house where you won't typically look at it (a shelf in the kitchen, in my case), ideally with it turned off. Even then, I would find after a few days that my phone was back in my hand and I had been wasting a lot of time on it.

There are no easy answers, sorry. You'll always find a way around any lockdown you do.
> capable of causing the end of the world

I really think you give humans too much credit here. The world has been here for billions of years, and will be here for billions more. Even if we bombed ourselves to extinction, in another million years there'd be little more to mark our passing than some fossils and a few hunks of concrete.
You expect BTC to reach $20 trillion market cap, nearly the size of the US GDP?
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> And to own a car.

Who wants to own a car? Between tolls, parking, insurance, maintenance, and the sticker price, it's a large hole in the ground that I throw money into.

I do want to be able to use a car... To go out of town a few times a year.
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No, obvious in foresight too. If you asked me which places are likely to give the most death penalties this year, I'd just give you the list from last year.

I know that something being dressed up as SCIENCE makes us want to think it's profound. But most of the time, research findings are steaming piles of worthless crap that people pretend are insightful because their careers depend on it.
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"The person causing change should pay for it" seems equally reasonable as a starting point. Perpetual growth has problems of its own.

California's mistake may be ONLY protecting homeowners from newcomers bringing change, and leaving renters out to dry.
Brilliantly put. And moreover, regarding some comments nearby, there was an original commandant in the penal colony who instituted the penalty, and developed the machine. Maybe he knew why?

Over time, the machine has broken down, and all concerned have forgotten what the point of the machine exactly is, but the practice continues, the creaking machine grinding on.
You're right, in fairness. It's gruelling sometimes. Five years of on-off hobby programming with Rust and I still fight the borrow checker with every other function. How to implement things in a way that makes Rust happy is often not at all obvious. But the idea does seem useful enough to keep persisting at it.
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> Could easily see Canada become the agricultural leader of North America.

The agricultural leaders of <anything> are countries that are nearly universally dirt-poor.
This gets really fun when you add in more architectures. If I recall correctly Midnight Sun CTF had a challenge that asked for shellcode that worked on x86/x86-64/ARM/ARM64/MIPSLE. The technique is the same, if more difficult: a header that quickly peels off and branches to an architecture-specific block, but also doesn’t encode something invalid or likely to crash. I’ll have to see if I have that header somewhere…

Edit: found it, it's \xeb\x16\x00\x32\x10\x00\x00\x3a\x0f\x00\x00\x2a\x19\x00\x00\x14\x31\x00\x01\x04\x00\x00\x00\x00. Here's how it looks on each architecture:

x86/x86-64:

0x0000000000000000: EB 16 jmp 0x18
0x0000000000000002: 00 32 add byte ptr [edx], dh
0x0000000000000004: 10 00 adc byte ptr [eax], al
0x0000000000000006: 00 3A add byte ptr [edx], bh
0x0000000000000008: 0F 00 00 sldt word ptr [eax]
0x000000000000000b: 2A 19 sub bl, byte ptr [ecx]
0x000000000000000d: 00 00 add byte ptr [eax], al
0x000000000000000f: 14 31 adc al, 0x31
0x0000000000000011: 00 01 add byte ptr [ecx], al
0x0000000000000013: 04 00 add al, 0
0x0000000000000015: 00 00 add byte ptr [eax], al

ARM:

0x0000000000000000: EB 16 00 32 andlo r1, r0, #0xeb00000
0x0000000000000004: 10 00 00 3A blo #0x4c
0x0000000000000008: 0F 00 00 2A bhs #0x4c
0x000000000000000c: 19 00 00 14 strne r0, [r0], #-0x19
0x0000000000000010: 31 00 01 04 streq r0, [r1], #-0x31
0x0000000000000014: 00 00 00 00 andeq r0, r0, r0

ARM64:

0x0000000000000000: EB 16 00 32 orr w11, w23, #0x3f
0x0000000000000004: 10 00 00 3A adcs w16, w0, w0
0x0000000000000008: 0F 00 00 2A orr w15, w0, w0
0x000000000000000c: 19 00 00 14 b #0x70

MIPSLE:

0x0000000000000000: EB 16 00 32 andi $zero, $s0, 0x16eb
0x0000000000000004: 10 00 00 3A xori $zero, $s0, 0x10
0x0000000000000008: 0F 00 00 2A slti $zero, $s0, 0xf
0x000000000000000c: 19 00 00 14 bnez $zero, 0x74
0x0000000000000010: 31 00 01 04 bgez $zero, 0xd8
0x0000000000000014: 00 00 00 00 nop

For x86/x86-64 you'll notice the code is identical; we had a separate polyglot specifically for it to detect 64-bit and branch away. (0x40 is inc eax on x86, and a REX prefix on x86-64.)
I think this is badly missing the point. I think two very specific things happened here:

First, the executives absolutely clamped down hard on a discussion about workplace behavior. I think their attempt to cast this as “political” is deeply cynical; discussing how people behave at work will always be in bounds, even if it touches up against issues that are politicized. The initial trigger here was a discussion about the list of “funny names”; there’s no easy way to sweep that under the rug as off topic, since it’s explicitly at-work behavior.

Second, they did an end run around the employees. Announcing the policy to the world, and implying that the Basecamp workforce was having a problem focusing on their jobs was an asshole move destined to blow up in their face. Nobody likes feeling crapped on by their boss, especially not in public like that.

Honestly, it didn’t have to be about politics. Treating employees like that, especially ones with options, is typically not going to go well.
No problem.

> Is dissociative identity disorder a subset of schizophrenia?

No.

> Is there a simple way to tell the difference?

Yes. DID is what is colloquially referred to as having a split personality or multiple personalities. The easiest way to remember this is that a person with DID has multiple, alternating streams of experience and affect that do not share memories or volition.

Schizophrenia is more like what we might call "madness". Believing wildly untrue ideas, being out of touch with reality, having hallucinations,... these are some of the symptoms of schizophrenia.

So they're not really related.

I guess some folks with DID could have a personality who is also schizophrenic, and that would make for a difficult diagnosis and treatment, I'm sure.
By the way, I meant to say it’s an area of science that is not very well understood. Sure the concepts of connecting computers to our brains have been around for a long time, but these guys are actually trying to do it, and pioneering modern techniques and research.

Kudos to that I say. At the very least they are pushing the research in this field forward. At best if they are lucky, they will achieve things we’ve only dreamed of. Literally making science fiction a reality.

And honestly isn’t that the point of every company Elon creates? Yeah I get it, he’s a weird, sometimes annoying personality. But I’m glad he exists. His creations are literally pushing us into a areas of technology we never thought possible. And it’s happening right before our eyes.

I think the hate on Elon has gone too far. We need to learn how to separate ourselves from our own personal opinions, and appreciate what his companies are actually attempting, and more often than not making reality.
I had a few amusing tactics. Even with 'professional best practices' (debatable), the human element was still vulnerable.

One example was that my school refused to give out the Wi-Fi password as a form of security, so they'd demand to manually type it in themselves on your machine. A simple keylogger and now the whole school just ignored that rule for a few months.

Another is that while they tried to block things like SSH, VPNs, etc... to get around the school's internet filtering, turns out you could just run SSH over port 80 and have a tunnel out :)
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Not using a short-term bank account doesn’t necessarily mean investing in something higher risk. There are savings accounts that offer real return in exchange for some restrictions (e.g minimum balance). Buying bonds or funds of bonds is also a very low risk investment of the same kind.

For a lot of people repaying other debt like mortgages can be an efficient form of saving.
I don’t understand the case exactly. Is it that there’s room to innovate (like WeavAir, the startup they feature early in the article) or that there’s unmet demand (what the article references with COVID semiconductor shortages)? Certainly innovations can create markets on their own but I don’t see a temporary shortage as being some kind of opportunity to break into the industry. What would they do - build fabs? And if so why would they be able to do that any faster than others? Where will Canada get all the talent something like that requires, not to mention the capital? The article later focuses on winning niche portions of the semiconductor market - which may be feasible if they innovate ahead of others. But it’s easy to wish for that and hard to realize it, especially given all the barriers to business in Canada (tax policies etc).
That's just one of many examples. As my previous comment suggests, I'm replying to a very specific part of the parent comment.

"FBI says man killed in Missouri wanted to bomb hospital amid coronavirus epidemic"

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-says-man-killed-mis...
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Generally, this means US remote.
Oxitec's GMO mosquitos were previously released in Brazil (450,000 during 2013-2015) and lead to unplanned genetic contamination of the local mosquito population, https://gizmodo.com/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-are-bree...

> tests conducted by Oxitec prior to the experiment suggested that around 3 to 4 percent of F1 offspring would survive into adulthood, but it was presumed these lingering mosquitoes would be too weak to reproduce, rendering them infertile. These predictions, as the new research shows, were wrong … portions of the genome from the transgenic strain had “incorporated into the target population,” ... anywhere from 10 to 60 percent of mosquitoes analyzed featured genomes tainted by OX513A … the Oxitec scheme worked at first, resulting in a dramatic reduction in the size of the mosquito population. But at the 18-month mark, the population began to recover, returning to nearly pre-release levels. According to the paper, this was on account of a phenomenon known as “mating discrimination,” in which females of the native species began to avoid mating with modified males.
Isn't it
I've only used nvm so far (it was enough effort to get the team to adopt one such tool, and nvm was the main one at the time), but as far as I can see the main differences are speed, native Windows support, and being able to specify both the Node and npm/Yarn versions — that latter point is an important part in getting reproducible results across machines as well. Additionally, at least nvm does encourage pinning to a major version, allowing people's minor/patch versions still to diverge. (The upside I suppose is that that can save you quite a bit of disk space with relatively manageable risks.)
> It really doesn't matter how many anecdotes or criticisms from urban designers get posted here, because the important part is that an enormous number of people want to and do live in Houston, which is tautologically better urban design than any city which to which people have been unable or unwilling to move.

Only if "perpetual population growth and sprawl" is your definition of a good time.

If you look at the prices in SF, people are willing to spend enormous amounts of money to live there, does that mean that it's tautologically better designed than cities that can't command such prices?
I just do not understand Ivan’s logic. The VC industry is currently laden with cash; many deals are landing at the upper end of their target range or even oversubscribed. This has been going on all year.
Ran the same program and input on my phone.

Time elapsed: 0d 0h 5m 38.2s
Oh hey, I did something like this for DEF CON CTF one year, with eight architectures all slammed together: https://www.robertxiao.ca/hacking/defcon2018-assembly-polygl...

That was definitely fun to put together.
Why winter instead of people filling in the gaps that exist in their processes?
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You're right, shut down the economy and destroy the poor end of town's livelihoods. Gotta save grandma.

Disingenuous statements aside, the people in charge of policy clearly don't care enough to follow the rules themselves. They've put covid patients in nursing homes, ignored their own lockdown rules and intimidated people at religious worship. There's no doubt in my mind that we were deliberately lied to about the severity of this virus
I think announcing policies on the company blog without telling employees first is always going to go poorly. You don’t have to be an “activist” employee to feel slighted by that.
Wonder what the "but they're private companies" crowd's take on this one will be.
I've used something very similar in the past, called SimpleFlake[0], which is essentially a 64 bit version with the same principles. I've used it in Lisp, C, C++, Clojure, Python, and Rust. It's conceptually simple, and fits in a 64bit int, which is natively available in a lot of databases.

[0] SimpleFlake - https://github.com/SawdustSoftware/simpleflake/blob/f2b51f76...