skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with much of this.

I believe the antidote to this is simply acknowledging small communities curate the best content, so essentially marry many small decentralized communities on a searchable platform. Anonymous but karma/identity weighted profiles, curating and debating lists of their favorite things around a single topic.

Aggregate them into a single master index with nice UI, then pay out equitably based on performance.

There’s a lot of questions on preventing spam and fraud, and I think the further away you get from “high ticket products” the more you avoid that problem, but it can’t be worse than Google: in one you’re relying solely on magical AI and links, the other you can have as much magical AI and links as you want, but you also have user accounts which maybe invited each other and can vouch for each other at a cost, votes that can be weighed by all sorts of factors, and basically a much richer graph of self-moderating people to back the index.

Working on something like this at the moment!
> because simply not having sex with them would be fine, but only if you know it

Not having sex with them is fine whether you know it or not. Sex is always a risk.

> What this legislation seeks to do is to remove criminal liability for someone who knowingly transmit HIV without telling their partner.

You should read the article before arguing about it. Here is the first sentence:

> "The Illinois Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would repeal a law that left HIV-positive people open to felony charges for failing to disclose their health status to partners before unprotected sex."

Note that the law criminalizes failing to disclose HIV status, not "transmitting HIV" (which is highly unlikely even for unprotected anal sex, and essentially impossible if using a condom).

> If you have HIV and you don’t tell your partner, how are they able to make the decision not to have sex with you?

The same way people decide whether to have sex with any stranger. There are three options:

A) Take the risk. You are fully informed of the risks of having sex with strangers. It is your choice. It's not like the HIV+ person is making a decision for you.

B) Use a condom.

C) Choose not to have sex with someone until you're confident that they have no sexually-transmissible infections.

The government shouldn't force people to disclose extremely sensitive medical information in any situation.
> It can’t sequester carbon if it also biodegrades

This is misleading. Trees in a forest store carbon as long as the forest exists. Individual trees might degrade (or be trapped underground), but new ones are born.
You seem to be under the impression that people answering questions on SO are subject matter experts.
Right click and Inspect the element and you can see that it's using Fira Mono.
Except the viral load is decreased if you’re vaccinated https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-crucial-vacci...
I suggest we replace all of that complicated stuff with a simple, optional textfield where the user can talk extensively about his pronouns, why he sexually identifies as an attack helicopter, why his genitalia exhibits quantum behavior, why his gender is located on the higher end of the fractal when the planets are aligned a certain way, and whatever else that person has to say.

That way no one would be left behind. No feelings would get hurt. Easy to implement. Easy to discard for those not interested. Lots of entropy to characterize your gender etc.

I suggest we label this textfield the "special snowflake field", and make it 4096 characters long. Although there is a case to be made for making it 64K, if that can help people feel safe and included.
It's weird to pretend this is about "one's medical history" when it's clearly about minimizing risk of harm to others.

People need to accept the reality that spreading a disease is causing harm, and that preventing people from causing harm is a core function of the rules of society.

Spreading disease is unique- unlike assault or robbery or rape or murder it doesn't require the harmer to intend to cause harm, so many people resist accepting that they are hurting other people.

We need to update our societal understanding of causing harm to understand it includes harm which was unintentional, unknown, or done passively.
Geofoam is expanded polystyrene.
I'm kind of curious why he's so concerned about this? They've never managed better than ninth most relevant and in most cases they didn't even make the first page of result. Any advertising person will tell you, if you aren't in the top 3 results (basically the top result now that paid ads automatically get the top 2 spots on nearly all searches) your odds of being seen and clicked on drop to almost nothing.

Are they potentially doin harm? Sure. Have the successfully managed to trick anybody with this? I'd be extremely surprised if they're getting more than a dozen people clicking through from being the ninth result in a day,and when people see they've been redirected to an advertisement the majority of people immediately click away.

This isn't like clicking on a fake prorn site that redirects to cam girls with viruses hidden in all the downloads. It's random unrelated searches redirecting you to blatant ads for cryto currency. The kind of people who are young enough to know what crypto currency is and how to buy it, also know how to spot a redirect to a fake website.
It's pretty crazy how expensive a simple sprint planning meeting really is if you have 5+ engineers.
> For those outside of Australia, we are are currently in the early stages of vaccine roll out, 14.1% fully vaccinated.
Consequently we are still using the blunt instruments of lockdown to solve our problems.

Presumably that 14.1% represents the vast majority of people who were at serious risk of severe illness or death from Covid. If the vaccines are effective against preventing serious hospitalizations and deaths, then this should have eliminated the possibility of the hospitals becoming overcrowded and stressed. The original justification for lockdowns was to prevent that from happening. What's the justification now?
At Maggie Daley Park, one of the project’s defining challenges was to find a material that could sit above an underground parking garage, which could only support a limited weight. In addition, the park’s design brief called for “a complex landscape that offers experiential range” with varied character, scale, and seasonal attributes. To build any kind of varied topography and support the planned winter “ice ribbon” and play spaces, it was necessary to use a fill material that was lighter than soil. Geofoam, at approximately 1/100 the density of dirt, was the obvious solution.
It's only 3 months, sounds like the right thing to do for now.
Yeah. Because it's hard to deal with that at an individual level. Most people don't want to be the ones giving things up while other people ignore it. They may want to choose public transport instead of a car, but that's hard without a massive investment, which doesn't happen when a lot of people portray that as unnecessary.

One straightforward route to fixing all of that consumerism is a carbon tax. People will consume less when it costs more. But no carbon tax will be passed, because of denialists.

You can reduce your own consumption, and a lot of people do. But that's not sufficient, and it gets less sufficient every day. The longer we took to act, the bigger changes were required to deal with it. And it was the denialists that prevented action.

Industry played a big part in convincing them, but they made the individual choices to believe corporate shills over scientists. So yes, I blame them.
I use newsinslowfrench.com for this very reason. They have a whole library of grammer lessons and language learning courses, but the main product really is that every week they produce 4 "news broadcasts" actually talking about news of the week by native speakers. In addition to the general listening reenforcement, each weeks script emphasizes a particular element of grammer and comes along with that topics lesson. They product both a speaking slow and speaking at a normal speed version so you can start with the slow one to get an understanding of what is happening, then listen to the actual speed lesson and have a chance. It's an awesome program, but it doesn't scale to other languages in the way that some general-purpsoe learn all the languages startup can.
> * Speaking and listening are related skills yet speaking is much harder than listening, and both are much harder than reading (for the vast majority of languages).*

I’ve always found speaking and reading to be far easier than listening—especially keeping up with native speakers of a foreign language.
I've heard these sort of arguments before. Pretending shitposting is some sort of gateway drug is a nonsense. They will find one person that might have been sucked in out of 1000s.
This page has more technical info:

https://docs.couchbase.com/server/7.0/release-notes/relnotes...

For example:

> The Community Edition license provides for free deployment of Couchbase Community Edition for departmental-scale deployments of up to five node clusters. It has recently been changed to disallow use of XDCR, which is now an exclusive Enterprise Edition feature.
640 Pages in 15 Months
Having the photo AND the connection to the true identity is the important part. Photos are everywhere. The identities are everywhere. The link between is worth a lot.
People would be doing this no matter what choices Google make because of how universally used it is. What choice do you think Google could make which would avoid that?
See also the questions that amount to "Why aren't you using the operating system/language/framework/library I'm actually familiar with, so I can answer you and get points?"
I invested too, doesn’t mean it was necessarily a bad investment. You gotta take risks if you want to get in early on potential huge gains. Luckily I didn’t put too much in. Let that be a lesson to anyone, don’t invest into speculative companies unless you’re willing to lose it all.
It's great to unveil such 'scams' and have investigations like this for everyone to see. I'm glad I shorted them before all of this. So we'll see what happens next.

Now the next great scam we all want answers for and we need to talk about is that misleading contraption called FSD.
Going to? I've been including "reddit" in the majority of my google searches for years now.
I have this as a bookmarklet and I use it frequently when pairing for ephemeral notes:

data:text/html, <html contenteditable><head><title>ScratchPad</title><style>body{font-family:monospace}</style></head>

I like having the title so I can see it in the tab and the font setting makes cutting/pasting code look better.
> Correct - and lead oxide is not tetra ethyl lead, or the nasty lead salts. It isn’t great, but it is also not that much worse than elemental lead from a mobility or toxicity perspective.

No, the dominant lead compounds found in soils are much more hazardous than elemental lead. They are much more easily absorbed orally, and elemental lead isn't a realistic inhalation hazard unless you work in an actual smelter.

> It’s also a bit disingenuous to use someone LITERALLY BURNING AND VAPORIZING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF LEAD, at a huge and industrial scale for a very long time time, as a safety comparison. Of course that is going to make a giant mess. Whoever let them build houses there without it being remediated should be in jail.

The neighborhood is around a hundred years old. The smelter operated in the late 1800's. Who do you propose should be jailed?

> you essentially have to play every day in a literal superfund site with probably 1000x or more the worrisome levels before it really becomes a serious problem?

No, the vast majority of lead poisoning in kids happens in ordinary households. The most common sources of lead in thee poisoning cases are paint dust and chips, dust from vinyl miniblinds, leaded glazes in dishes, stuff like that.
Boot environment is just a fancy term for root filesystem clones created from snapshots.

Fyi: snapshots are read-only. Normal, read-writable filesystem can be created by `zfs clone root@snap newroot`.
I like the part where everyone quits and makes more room for me at a higher comp
This is true. Killer robots push societies in the direction of being more hierarchial, for the reasons you state.
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Not to mention, depending on the size of the company / org, all hands meetings can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars.
If you have fun fooling around with electronics - as I do - you probably play a lot with microcontrollers. One of the first things you learn, is that these tiny beasts (from the ATtiny all the way to the ESP32) will suffer from brown-outs if you try to drive too much current from them.
Sure, but is that a good argument? We used to make mistakes because we did not know better (for a long time anyway) so now, even though we do know better, we can let everyone make the same mistakes? Out of some weird sense of avoiding time-travelling hypocrisy? How far does that go?
Environmental impact is complex and has multiple dimensions. Obsessing over carbon is dangerous.
Glad to see something like this. The calculus I took in college was very difficult to learn with a professor who seemed to use extremely outlier/difficult problems on tests that were hard to make sense of when the classes were spent learning the basics but not applying them to any difficult problems.

That, coupled with his inability (or refusal) to actually explain any kind of homework problems when asked- or he would start to, and then never give enough detail for us to make sense of it, made me hate calculus and math became such a sour point for me that I completely changed majors. After 2-3 really bad math class experiences in college, I realized I was spending time and paying money to get nowhere.

Now I find myself wanting to relearn these concepts somewhat out of spite, but more out of just knowing what I missed out on. I ended up going into graphic/web design and development and not getting enough from my classes to even think about employment. By the time I graduated, everything I learned was outdated (CSS tables for layout anyone?)

I wish I had either changed colleges or stayed the course despite the pain and gone into programming. One of my biggest regrets, but it's okay. I'm mostly happy where I am now, doing other stuff that is IT-related. Maybe someday I'll be able to get back into math and programming on a significant scale and do something with it.

The very first page after the prologue of this book (https://calculusmadeeasy.org/1.html) speaks to me more clearly than entire semesters of math classes did back then.
YouTube search is regressing quickly. They're losing there too.
>"blank page is exactly what I want to see"

I literally couldn't agree more. I can't stand how bad searching has become.

While we're at it, you know what else I really hate? How google switches the order of the buttons for Images, News, Shopping, Video, etc. on EACH QUERY. Who in the world ever thought this was a good idea?
Where do you see a "omg, there's something not absolutely sober and enterprisey, such as an easter egg" complaint?
Um, this is expanded polystyrene, just with a fancy "polite" name. Per TFA:

Despite its uncanny appearance, geofoam is incredibly prosaic. Essentially, it’s polystyrene. Expanded polystyrene (EPS) geofoam — the most common type — is made from small polystyrene resin beads that contain microscopic cells filled with a blowing agent, which expand when exposed to steam under controlled pressure and are molded and fused into a brick shape.
I really wish someone made an in depth tutorial for nnn. Have the feeling I am only just scratching the surface using it.
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I run dozens of events a year. Online and even now in-person. I don't have any "space" issues with virtual events. Which platform that you're using has registered attendee limits (vs. actual live attendee limits) and how does a no-show at a virtual event take away space from someone who is going?

All the streaming / event platforms I use charge based on actual viewers and attendees or active users on the platform. If I had a limit of 100 live, I could literally have 1000 people registered with 900 no-shows and that wouldn't be any issue. The no-shows are not taking anything away from the shows.

The only reason to manage no-shows is to manage active engagement. And that's more of a community building thing than a platform thing.

Virtually, from what I can tell, is managing Zoom events, which are entirely online events, so live in-person attendee limits don't seem to be a factor here.
None of us will know what font you are seeing on your system.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/whatfont/jabopobgc...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/zjm-whatfont/
Makes you wonder what happens when AI can write "passing" articles. Useless to the reader, but too close to tell for the crawler.
Aren't Google bosses aware that vaccinated people still get sick and can infect others?!
If we as humans can recognize a spam page, why can't the machines?

I think that many of these automated aggregators have come a long way. On the better sites, it's not immediately obvious that the page is spam, until I've read some way into it and notice patterns in the language and a lack of "meat".
... especially if you fly them cross-country and put them up in hotels. (I've read some stories.)
I'll add my (32/M/USA) perspective as someone who subscribed to duolingo plus last month. I'm learning Arabic ahead of a _potential_ move with my spouse to an Arabic speaking country.

First Duolingo is fun to use. I didn't enjoy classroom based learning in high school. Duo gamifies the process really well, it's on my schedule, and I have a concrete reason to want to learn. Duo has been reducing my time on social media as well, always a bonus when picking up a good habit.

The $7/month premium subscription was worth it. I'm investing 30 minutes a day in the app, and ad-free means I can get through more lessons. I have unlimited lives so my learning isn't interrupted if I struggle on a hard lesson.

I'm not expecting to become fluent on Duo alone. But I think I'll get a great handle on some basics. My wife is already fluent, so that's helped me speak and figure out some things I struggled with.

I also tried the Rosetta Stone app. I didn't think that one was fun, it throws you into hard content quickly, so I haven't been using it. If our move happens, I'll enroll in a more traditional environment, and I may take a second look at the Rosetta Stone app. For now I'm happy that I have something that's making me increasingly comfortable with the idea of speaking Arabic.
I was nineteen when the game came out and I got that joke. It's an important part of selling the broader joke that the world of Monkey Island is probably more of a pirate-themed amusement park, owned by a faceless corporation, than it is an actual world.
I used to mention this to my binge drinking buddies in college when they wanted me to kill more than a few brain cells with them. In general moderation in all things.
> I can't adblock that as far as I know.

Yes you can. uBlock's element picker [1] allows you to hide arbitrary portions of a webpage, and I assume (?) other ad blockers also allow you to insert custom rules.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Element-picker
I love that song but never knew that the DotA song derives from it. Neat!
No, it's more like, "Why do people literally float a few inches off the ground when they lick an aspirin then take a sip of whiskey?"

If that input indeed did cause that result, you'd expect a forum of human beings to have responses like this:

"Holy shit that result was most surprising! I have to re-evaluate my entire life now. Just curious, though-- what made you decide to lick aspirin and sip whiskey?"

Any response that didn't explicitly confirm the result would be signalling to the world that they are either a troll or a boring contrarian.

Similarly, `man` isn't ever supposed to output `gimme gimme gimme` as reported. That is surprising behavior. And that surprising behavior is trivially reproducible by the likely harmless act of setting your machine to the time specified and running it.

Thus, the fact that this reported case was actually a feature of `man` outs all the people who posted non-sequiturs as low-effort cranks. (Low-effort because they didn't even take the time to run a trivial test.)

Edit: just to be completist about it-- I suppose a respondent in either case could simply challenge the veracity of the report. But that's not what we're talking about here AFAICT.

Edit: to make a steelman argument here-- maybe not cranks, but people who have, for whatever reason, fallen prey to the act of low-effort crankiness.
By “nobody” do you mean literally nobody or nobody that isn’t otherwise marginalized?

There is such a thing as medical induced bankruptcy in the US. There are bill collectors who collect medical debt. I would be utterly shocked if those prebills were not used to scare and shock certain groups of people. Nor would I be surprised if there are modern indentured servants paying off an impossible debt based upon them in some jurisdictions in the US.

Maybe generally, if you’re employed, white, speak English, etc… you’ll never pay that stuff
> 'same rights'

I said 'same rights and same obligations'.

You aren't equal (as in indistinguishably, truly equal) without both.

But a nice attempt to frame the conversation. [Do they send you on courses?]
Well if a Deli can be worth 100 million...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/15/theres-a-single-new-jersey-d...

Maybe all these valuations are correct and its the dollar that is going the direction of the zimbabwean dollar ?
https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/P1-BA632_ZIMDLR_DV...
IMHO it’s both. Obviously people spend a lot of effort reverse engineering Google’s ranking algorithms because it’s profitable but some of it, at least from the outside, seems self-inflicted.

Image search has been useless for me for a long time because of Pinterest. Many times Pinterest will show you an image but when you click on it it takes you to a page with completely different content. Maybe Google has a good reason for not penalizing Pinterest, but it’s weird to me that they are not more aggressive in sanitizing the quality of their searches.
Staying as far from business as possible while still keep a thin line of contact with it, IMHO is the best way to live a programmer's life. Even when programming low-level systems such as Operating System or Compilers one still keeps a thin line of though of real world business through communicating with your users.
I Interviewed Austen Allred from Lambda School
To dream about the world that they are about to experience, that's truly amazing. Imagine that the newborns are not aware of the dangers, cope with their surroundings, and become familiar with them.
This is implemented for Arch Linux with bieaz or zbm; and Ubuntu with zsys.

bieaz: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Arc...
zbm: https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu
zsys: https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys
> when his only experience was pouring concrete driveways

In NL we call this 'has affinity with the core business'.
Is anyone else really weirded out by the fact that the 'scent' you are attracted to is actually from the bacteria on the other person?
Technical solutions to social problems don't usually work, why would this be different?
The company name alone should have been a hint that they were building on Tesla's hype.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
Exactly. It is not a good argument 'we used to do the same'. We did that because we were ignorant of the consequences. So we can pay brasil to stop it instead of send in the army, but letting them do it because we used to is just weird.
I don't think it matters whether or not you think Uber was acting responsibly or reflexively. The point is their program is done while Tesla's, which has seen far more fatalities, continues unabated.