skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The missing context seems to be that is a revert of an earlier commit last week [0] that switched the "default" network used in the help documentation from freenode to libera.chat.

0: https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/1ba48840a112dfacf13cbb...
I've worked to Inktomi/Yahoo search ~2000-~2015.
Any query that is accurate across the whole index is going to be very very expensive.

In order to return fast results, there are caches and precomputed results in almost every level of a web search query.

But an accurate count implies that you will bypass all the caches and count every single document for every single query term. That's very very expensive in both CPU and memory.

We had special internal keywords that disabled caches and produced accurate results. All of them came with special warnings that querying too fast with these special options could bring down the whole search engine. A constant worry was the new employee that knew very little, learnt these keywords and then ops were dealing with crashes across ten of thousands of machines due to out of memory.

As to the fabrication. The number are not random numbers. They are estimates based on what we think is the best approximation of the real numbers.

We had done internal research to compute the best approximation function.

Also, it's very difficult to figure out what is real and what is fake from the outside.
I was involved in
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/10/business/worldbusiness/ya...
Yahoo was 100% correct on their claims. I run the queries myself. But external researchers could not verify the claims because all external queries were hitting caches. So they were trying unique queries in order to estimate the index size which end up having a lot of problems.
How we test Wi-Fi – Revision 11
Divisive Covid ‘lab leak’ debate prompts dire warnings from researchers
Is this actually a standard, or would that have to be implemented like some sort of "extension"? And if so, wouldn't that break down the "universal" nature of the beast? As in a Dell laptop won't be able to communicate with an HP power brick (unless said extension becomes at-least de-facto standard)?

As I've commented elsewhere, I wonder if, at that point, there still is that much of a point in sticking with USB-C for what seem like fairly specific applications.

I mean, if we're at the point of carting around such a monster of a laptop, will an additional, dedicated, power-only connector make that much of a difference? Don't get me wrong, I'm actually somewhat tempted by such a thing, but just because it would be easy no move around, not for actually carrying on my back all day every day.
> ILOM processors designed by deranged engineers.

As opposed to what? But seriously, why do all ILOMs suck and are there any exceptions?
Interestingly the pricing indicates that they had a $10/month plan at one point:

> Do you have an Essential Plan membership? This older membership type has been retired, but remaining accounts are grandfathered in at $100/$10 at this time. Contact Helpdesk (at the address shown at the footer of this page) to upgrade to our contemporary Membership offering.
Some people who have an agenda against the "left" feel like everything is a witchhunt nowadays.
USB-PD supports 5, 9, 15 or 20v at between 0 - 5 amps. Higher power typically needs a thicker gauge wire.

There are definitely "charge-only" cables being marketed.

Two markings with each having multiple variations. You will have a dozen plus combinations, that will only get more complex.
nerd wars
This is still bad reasoning.

In a pool of one hundred people, where one is an abuser and nine are false accusers, you'll have one false denial and nine real denials.

If it's nine abusers and one false accuser, you'll have the opposite ratio.

Without demonstrating which toy world applies, you can't know what's going on.
SICL is definitely not "viable" today, in that we are still
not at the stage where we can generate a native executable.
But we are making good progress. Register allocation is
close to being done. Code generation is next. We recently
programmed ASDF so that it can participate in the bootstrapping procedure, so now, it will be easier to load additional libraries into the target environment, like
Eclector, Clostrum, Trucler, Cleavir, and the systems
they depend on.

I am not going to be a regular participant here, so if
you have any questions, it would be better to show up
on the #sicl IRC channel on libera.chat.
Andrew Lee is a pretender to be Crown Prince of Korea, which kinda sorta makes it state seizure of community property. But I think OP probably meant it in the sense of taking a controversial stand... which it wasn’t until this commit.
I think it's awesome that Sam and Co. are doing this. I can imagine variations of GPT predicting bio-tech, medicine, human relationships, environment, politics and more. Many of the companies tapping into GPT3 are just scratching the surface. I love that they are funding some big bets.
WTF? I live in Florida and bought an entire house plus utilities for half that cost.
I feel like there is a huge market for something as powerful as confluence but not as terrible as confluence.
You assume the dying trees did not reproduce.
In the past it used to be the Google "discussions" search which would bring up the same content except across all the unique niche vbulletin forums that existed. Once bots started gaming those for SEO it was sadly removed from Google.
Good on your for clarifying and not being another useless downvote!

HN should remove the downvote button, but the hivemind might lose its cohesion then
The ideas themselves aren't but it appears the paper was a blatant copy, image by image, and this IS a copyright violation.
On the Road: The Woman and the Car (1909)
It's not spam if people here find it interesting.
Right to Repair Laws Proposed This Year. Apple Have Ensured None Have Passed
Sovereign Arcade: Currency as High-Margin Infrastructure
How is that any weirder than WASD for FPS games? That was only codified a few decades ago on modern qwerty keyboards.
This collusion is prevalent among Brahmin caste in South Asia since 700 BC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_(Hinduism)
I have taught robotics enough to have hurt myself in front of a classroom while demonstrating a safety feature. Nothing serious, everyone has a good laugh.

3D printering has also led to some pinching and burning here and there. Worth it!
This is absurd. The “mob” that “ruined” his life did no such thing. Multiple accusers had credible accounts, media did scrutinize their accounts and determined that one wasn’t credible while others were. He wasn’t “cancelled”, he has a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the most powerful country in all human history. This “mob” theory is ridiculous. Yet one of his accusers was so afraid for her life she went into hiding. This is exactly why I’m opposed to penalizing accusers.
The London Underground rents out Aldwich for filming. About 20 films have been shot there.
This is a nice tool. Is there an advantage over a static site generator like hugo with a documentation theme? I mean despite the fact, that this explictely targets documentation...

e.g.
https://themes.gohugo.io/doks/ or

https://themes.gohugo.io/hugo-geekdoc/
Piling on here - My impression of your snippet here is that GroupBy() and Values() both construct (potentially very large) temporary arrays on the stack.

Maybe Haskell and F# can elide this kind of thing, but it's not something the Go compiler is going to do.
But what if all I want is to park hundreds of millions I managed to steal from eastern state run power company? I dont care about gains, I dont care about rents. I simply know that I wont lose money buried in land/buildings. I already have tens of millions in prime Manhattan commercial real estate, all vacant obviously.
AI is the new bogeyman but greedy power hungry scumbags are still the real danger
I grew up in the largest man-made woodland in Western Europe (Landes forest). I don't know about these organisations but I can say that "planting trees" is not enough, there are very different ways of doing it. So I always take it with a pinch of salt.

Let's the bad example of the Landes forest. It's a monoculture, all of the trees are the same: pinus pinaster. A "forest", usually shaped like a rectangle is just a block of pine trees having the same age. Everything else is cut, removed, because it would slow down the growth of the trees. At 35 or 40 years old, the entire block is erased. After that it's like a minefield, till the new trees are planted.

Now is that a good forest? Well it depends what you hear by "good forest". Wildlife is very scarce, because animals depend on an ecosystem, and not just one type of tree. To hide, to eat, to reproduce, to protect themselves etc. So, sadly, you will hear more birds in a town or city that in that kind of forest.

Is it resilient? Absolutely not. Since all trees have the same age, and the same weakness, these forests are very vulnerable. It takes one parasite (bark beetles or pine processionary for instance) to wipe out kilometers of forest. When usually trees in the middle of the forest are different from the one bordering it to resist to strong winds, here when a strong wind blows it can destroy an entire corridor (you can actually see the corridor) in the forest.

Does it consume a lot of carbon? Well, I could not find accurate numbers for that forest. I hope so. But is it sustainable? Hell no.

If you ask me, the best solution, instead of planting trees, is to just buy lands and let trees grow by themselves. It starts a bit messy, but after a few decades, the forest becomes self sufficient and resilient. And most importantly: full of life.

Now the greatest irony, at least in France, is that it's illegal. If you buy forests and plan to leave it alone, you'll be blamed to have "too much biodiversity". This is not a joke: it's called "Plan simple de gestion".
I wonder if this is the official stance of the project itself, since this commit was authored by a person who hadn't made a single commit for more than 5 years.

https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commits?author=GeertHauwaerts
Clarification as I totally misunderstood your comment (possibly due to not knowing the relevance of the term basin here): The BBC article covering this article describes this as being caused by deforrestation / dying trees. Part of the Anazon rainforrest is still a carbon sink and as a whole it is as well. But for how long?

Note that the scientific paper (at least at the time of the BBC article) is yet to be published.
> In September 2012, Salon sold The WELL to a new corporation, The WELL Group Inc., owned by a group of eleven investors, who are all long-time members. The CEO was Earl Crabb, who died on February 20, 2015. The sale price was reported to be $400,000

That means in order to recoup their investment, the WELL would need 2,666 paying member-years, to say nothing of expenses along the way.
>You would place the sheet so the next letter you wanted was lined up where it should be over the page you were making, and then rub over the letter with a burnishing tool until it came loose from the font sheet and stuck to the paper underneath.

Then the web came along and used up all the "w"'s!
A lot of people already live that former reality. Try to have a professional from Hong Kong tell you what they really feel. A student and child won't have any issue with that. A professional deriving benefits from corporate life is worried about the network of people snitching.

More similar to someone in the west offering their thoughts on Israel or Palestine. There are consequences for your ongoing standing in society, or ability to have any standing in society, no matter whether your own government is involved in those consequences or not.
"When exactly was that? Because you know, humans are apes."

An ape can leave its group and move to a different territory and not have someone else decide his life for him.

If there is no path for being able to attempt self sustenance, to be able to live and grow your own food, to be able to choose what social group you want to be a part of, you are stuck in the game - you have to make money, whether you like it or not.

All other living creature on earth can get by just fine without having imaginary against their name in a database. The cruelty is in the fact that society holds and hoards all the resources that will let you live and will make those available only if you have those imaginary numbers. It is presented as being for the greater good of everyone, but in essence the whole system is put in place so people that don't have resources can be pressured to do the dirty work of the people that have the resources.
I think it's a little ironic that someone who hasn't seemed to have committed to the codebase of irssi for years has decided to come in and put their foot down in such an aggressive way.

Funny, I feel like I JUST saw something like this happen somewhere else...
I don't get the general "we are not political" idea.

Everything is political. The conscious decision to stay put is as political as everything else.

What they want to say is: "We don't want to get involved in this and save our face while doing so"
You’re right. It was a bad, rushed example on my part.

I was effectively trying to say “Imagine a scenario where the wrongdoing was basically certain”, for the purposes of focusing on the ‘backing up friends with a public statement’ part of the situation.

I know that in reality this (probability of guilt) can’t readily be uncoupled from the result (the statement) but I asked people to imagine a situation of certain ‘guilt’.
"Wow this could be like 1984", says person living in the scenario described in 1950 their whole life
Also: put a limiter on your audio bus if you're exposed to such risks regularly. Don't play sounds directly, but open them from a host program that can apply VST/AU/... effects, and make sure there's a (brick-wall) limiter at the end.
Not sure where you’re getting these numbers from, but where I grew up a million dollars would buy less than 100 acres of good farm land.

Seems similar on the west coast where I live now.

By my back of the envelope calculations, 3000 acres of good farmland would cost around 15 million easy.

https://extension.umn.edu/farmland-rent-and-economics/farmla...
I would not expect any steady-state forest to be a net carbon remover. But it is a large sink.
X86 - that seems like a long and seemingly dangerous position these days.
I'd be happy to help, if someone wants to take the lead, and there is buy in from the maintainers of Regexr.

I believe my contact is available in my profile. Otherwise, I'm really not hard to find on the internet. ;)
This is politics in the sense of "office politics". Not everything is a right vs. left divide.
The trust is gone. Making mouth noises and putting words on pages won't help much.

Want it back?

Start by dissolving the entity created post fact.

The root trouble here is someone thought, somehow owning the open work of many was a good idea, and it is not. That work was done because it was needed and the use value to everyone was high. This did not indicate money should change hands, particularly hands having little to nothing to do with the value or the work!

You won't catch me on Leenode again.

Edit: On second thought, don't! It will not help at this point and maybe it is best for everyone to carry on as they see best.

Over time, most will center on the lower risk, higher value, higher trust option. As they should.
So if I were to name the people who have sexually assaulted me, here in a comment—which I’ve already said I’m terrified to do even though they don’t have an audience here to my knowledge—but if I did so, just said so to an audience, I should be legally liable to prove it? Because I didn’t keep it private?

Can you not see how harmful that is?
I would say the imperative version is easier to read in this article. The functional version doesn't really illustrate the benefits of functional programming very well, IMHO. I think there are two issues that reduce the effectiveness of the example:

1. Both examples contain a bunch of extra logic that has nothing to do with the difference between the two styles. For example, the code that converts users to that `UserLevelPoints` struct takes up a lot of space in both examples and is essentially the same in both. I think it would have been better (for pedagogical purposes) to just return the users (or perhaps a simpler struct containing a level and a user).

2. Both examples still have all the verbosity that is typical of imperative code, since it's still Go after all.

If one were to write the same function in a syntax which was designed for functional programming, the result might look something like this:

topUser = head . sortBy points
topUserPerLevel = topUser . values . groupBy level

I find this vastly quicker to read and understand than either of the examples in the article. But that relies on me knowing the functional-optimized syntax (e.g., that the `.` operator is just function composition), and for most imperative programmers that is the main hurdle. Since I am familiar with both styles, I can tell you that this would take me about 6 seconds to understand, whereas understanding each of the examples in the article took me at least a minute to even read the code, let alone understand it—and if there were bugs I wouldn't have noticed.

In contrast, with the simple functional version I provided, I can read it in seconds and be reasonably confident that it is correct (assuming all the pieces fit together in a valid way, which a type checker can check for me).

If the unfamiliar syntax prevents you from grokking the example I provided, it's reasonable to assume it's just some clever code golf that should be discouraged in production code. But please resist that temptation; this is actually what good code looks like. It's simple, not repetitive, and there aren't many places for bugs to hide.
Wut? This number is plenty convincing to me.
EU has an eIDAS law about qualified signatures and timestamps for years with even an original open-source implementation from EU. You can add it to the PDF and keep it on your machine. It's verifiable by any court in the EU because it's "unbreakable". We use it for every document when communicating with officials and I think more people should do that. You don't need cool blockchains and stuff when you have cryptography.
What are the alternatives to email? I found the emails a life essential thing, also because you can generate your pgp key and store it on your computer without rely to third part service for encryption.
Hyperscan may be idiosyncratic but is quite an accomplishment, and by all accounts the fastest there is, kudos!

Do you know of any resources describing how to handle 'difficult' constructs in DFAs? Capture groups, zero-width assertions, and high-trip-count loops are examples: these are all straightforward in pcre-style backtracking, but require novel techniques in DFAs. Some of these techniques are research papers (tagged DFAs), some are yet-to-be-written papers (re2 drives the loop "one ahead" for zero-width assertions), some are open questions. What's the path forward here?
I think you are saying San Francisco should embrace greater density in order to solve its problem. That's pretty short-term thinking.

Start here: San Francisco, for very specific geographic and regional reasons, will not have sufficient housing in the next century, and it will continue to have growing homeless populations. Solve for a 50-year horizon.
Past threads; I'm surprised there hasn't been more - unless I missed some:

The Epic Saga of the Well (1997) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9892633 - July 2015 (5 comments)

What the WELL's Rise and Fall Tell Us About Online Community - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7754986 - May 2014 (1 comment)

Users of The Well buy The Well from Salon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4554354 - Sept 2012 (8 comments)

Salon Sells The Well to Longtime Members - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4552281 - Sept 2012 (4 comments)

The WELL, Birthplace Of Online Movement, Is Up For Sale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4470137 - Sept 2012 (13 comments)

The WELL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1552413 - July 2010 (5 comments)
> Everything is political.

I wouldn't go that far. Irssi could have not taken a political stance, by ignoring what happened and not committing last week's change. But now that that's done, reverting it was political too. You can avoid a political issue, but once you ring the bell, you can't un-ring it.
am learning UI design at the moment would be curious to hear recs on what you think I should be learning to not make bad UIs
There is actually an app that translates those cryptic ingredients into “good” and “bad”, in Germany at least:

https://www.codecheck.info
> then liberate all that carbon when they die and are decomposed. No carbon ever leaves the biosphere.

No. They liberate very little.

Bury or sink wood and it will stay put.
An Open Letter to the So-Called Good Cop
I fail to understand, how can something built on KaiOS have privacy at its core ? [1]

"We also use your personal information to help us create, develop, operate, deliver, and improve our products, services, content, and advertising to improve your user experience continually."

[1] https://www.kaiostech.com/privacy-policy/
> Because you couldn't trust anyone, not your friends or family. Everyone was part of a big network out to get you, so you were sort of locked in your own head.
Have you seen Twitter?
I learned all about salinity and it's effects on our land in school in the 90s, it was a very big issue to us even then. The cause for us at the time was deforestation over the decades.

I welcome anyone to jump on to Google Maps and take a wander across the Australian coastal areas, then wander inland. Marvel at just how much land was cleared for agriculture. It's a patchwork quilt of farmland.

We only have 25 million people, so to have cleared so much land is truly saddening. We cleared land we couldn't even farm. Clearing the land was our first order of business when settlers arrived.

The good news is there are numerous national parks, growing every year, and revegetation is something we are doing a lot of. Let's hope it's not too little too late.
Eric Carle, author and illustrator of The Hungry Caterpillar passed away
Agree with first paragraph, less with second. I’m pretty experienced in CS. You do some research for six months and we’ll have a line meeting, I’ll know if you’re actually working on things that matter rather than boosting your CV.
exactly this. prolly committed by an old cis white man
That's why I said it's a social contract.
I don’t think you realize how small 14,500 acres is.

Also, that’s nearly 12k per acre for every acre, even the ones you can’t farm. That’s a very good price, hard pressed to find a farmer who wouldn’t sell for that.
> But more or less you realized that state capacity is quite limited

From what I remember (it's been a while) this was actually also the case in the book. It's not like Big Brother watched you every time, and most of the time he didn't. But he could be watching anytime. That was the whole point of it.

I lived under Stasi and yes, the means where limited, but just the threat alone was enough for most people to be cautious. If you are a target and your phone is recorded 1% of the time, you will get caught eventually, it is just a matter of time. A few relatives of mine requested their Stasi-documents and there were quite a lot of personal episodes and details in these protocols. Who visited whom when or what they talked about.

And as another commenter mentioned, Stasi had your neighbours, friends and family too. That's actually harder to leave than your banking apps. Especially if you can't even leave the country.
They are more orthogonal than dictatorship and authoritarianism though
I think I care either way, there is something about that cup of hot black coffee while digging into an unsolved problem.