skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm using Vim, either with multiple tabs and splits and a terminal buffer, or within a terminal multiplexer. The latter is slightly less consistent with controls but has the advantage that I don't accidentally start Vim recursively, which is usually not desirable.

Recently I started using NeoVide to run NeoVim in a graphical frontend that otherwise still looks almost identical. I'm not sure whether I'll keep using it long-term, but it seems even snappier than before. I guess terminal output just can't quite compete in terms of latency.
Databricks raises $1.5B at $38b valuation
Ah, I see, lamdera isn’t a “we’ll change Evan’s architectural decisions” kind of fork, which seems to be much of the source of contention.
You don’t have to buy anything from a company that doesn’t make what you’re looking for. You’re welcome to buy an Android phone.

Apple has a multi-decade history of following their values. The tradeoffs of these values are well documented throughout history - obviously there are pros and cons.

What I don’t get is why people want every company to bend to some arbitrary set of values. You then end up with the same product experience everywhere.

I for one like the fact that Android and iOS take very different approaches to a mobile platform.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28219296 (it had become massive and this one can stand on its own).
If f(p) = cp^2 then f(p^2) = c(p^2)^2 = cp^4 which is square the running time, ignoring constant factors.
This is more interesting to me as I'd never suspect it was generated art.
While I agree that "no comprehension at all" seems harsh, I don't think anyone would jumble things up between moon and mars unless they got the fact wrong in the first place.

These knowledge cards are pretty useful, but they shouldn't be taken as the source of fact (at least right now) unless one opens the link to check where that card is extracted from.
is your system able to provide historical winning bids for similar or near similar contract proposal?
> Why do we need strong ID so often anyway?

... To prevent identity theft?
I think I saw it here, but perhaps elsewhere...

If you want a weird ride, ask Google 'how many raccoons fit.' A bit NSFW.
From the article:

The real money comes from the illegal movement of ordinary goods, like fuel and consumer imports. In size and sum, the informal economy dwarfs international aid.
Your explanations here are pretty vague and feel like they're trying to say "do your own research (on my claims)." I'm not saying you have to cite chapter and verse, but know that when you're gettin pushback here that actual factual details might help, because it seems clear that force of personality doesn't.
One of the things that bothers me about modern Google search results is that I can't be sure the other person I'm telling to google something will even see the same results as me. Results change over time, sure, but google can't help but try and tailor results.
Yes, that's called rejection sampling, and it's the only way to produce truly uniform output if the range doesn't evenly divide the input range.

However in a setting of say finding buckets in a hashtable which isn't a power-of-two size, this would amount to potentially computing multiple hashes. In certain scenarios, that may be unacceptable for computational reasons. If strict uniformity isn't required, the approach presented here may be good enough. It won't be exactly uniform if the range isn't a power of two, but it'll be equally close to uniform as modulo reduction is.
I have started to tell people that you can’t defeat reality. If you want you can have a shorter deadline but we will just miss it most likely.
Why does it matter ? If google can work, i think any name can work.
> Marc Andreessen is getting very close to saying the quiet part out loud. This is the clearest statement I've seen to date from a venture capitalist that white collar offshoring is almost certainly going to accelerate due to the shift towards remote work brought on by the pandemic.

If anyone isn't hiring international remote right now they are losing a huge opportunity. Lots of people are looking at jumping ships, and western companies can outbid almost anyone for top talent.
You put too much faith in Google. https://www.google.com/search?q=when+was+running+invented has been telling you the story of the 18th-century genius Thomas Running for years.
Why did Ankrom wait that long to tell the world? After seven years, the statute of limitations runs out and he can’t be arrested.

How accurate is that last part? Aren't there cases where the clock starts ticking from the discovery of the offense, and would the active attempts to hide it be a factor?
The main databases the NSA has are far too large to be easily leaked.

Even blueleaks was <1T (~300GB iirc) and many people had trouble downloading it. I am sure many IC databases are several hundreds or thousands of times larger even without indices.

It's not like you could just throw up a 4000TB torrent for a 7z of all of the north american phone call metadata for last year.
How Howie Mandel Is Aiming to Bring Interactive Content to Cinema Screens
I might argue there is no UI/UX being presented on sourcehut, just the presentation of data in different colors and some buttons. Maybe that's a feature, less is more, I can certainly appreciate it, but the GitHub UI is good and it's why nearly everyone is copying it, like the visibility feature on sr.st.
The other thread demonstrates a similar attack with pictures of dogs.

The same questions still apply. Why would you save tons of pictures of dogs to your photo library? Why would pictures of dogs look like child porn? Why would Apple reviewers think pictures of dogs are child porn? Why would the NCMEC think pictures of dogs are child porn? Why would law enforcement spend time arresting someone for pictures of dogs?

What is the scenario where someone can be harmed reputationally or criminally because of a hash collision attack, where the same attack could not be performed more easily and causing more damage by actually using real CSAM images?
I'd imagine Google's position is that no one ever searches for this in earnest, and so it doesn't really matter what the answer given is. They want to maximize what percentage of actual searches give a correct answer, rather than what percentage of possible questions do.

On the other hand, it's a dangerous game. You never know when current events might make a previously never-searched question with a wrong answer very popular.
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28219296.)
For said future posterity: https://i.imgur.com/EhPpnYX.png
> And if those pumps fail (e.g. power outage), all of a sudden everyone is dealing with sewage backflow.

While disgusting...this would have the side effect of those being repaired very quickly I imagine.
I don't hate Christianity.

The Taliban is not Islam.
Serenity’s LibTLS is Serenity-specific code.
Lift station or pump station, I believe.

https://htt.io/resources/lift-station-basics/
> It will depend on whether the people who have left the workforce can be lured back

That's the short term view. The long term view: are those societies having enough children?
> I don't see the point of this angst or doom and gloom of the Musk variety until we are anywhere near that.

I think that if we get near that point it will become an unstoppable affair. For now it seems we are heading into an unknown and unclear direction. Creating artificial consciousn bodyless humans may not be possible but imitations of it surely will come around.
> Moderna, which innovated the concept of mRNA vaccines, it was a classic venture capital company. That company would not have existed without venture capital, these vaccines would not exist without venture capital.

Interesting. I commonly hear asserted that breakthrough fundamental inventions don't come from capitalism.
I am just an alum, and have no insight into YC's thoughts, and I don't even know if FocusMate applied (I assume by your question they did). I would also add, that I'd hope they'd apply again, as I have a strong pro-YC bias. But I find this is an interesting question, both for the general pattern, and also because I am interested in productivity boosters and did end up paying for Flow Club but haven't yet tried FocusMate.

1) There's a Francis Darwin quote that is relevant "In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs." I hope to explore that idea in an essay someday, for now I'll just share the quote. I am not trying to make a prediction here. Getting into YC is not convincing the world. No one has done that yet in this market. I know some of the people involved in Focus Mate and absolutely think they could be the #1 player, but assuming a big market is there it's certainly game on and who was first is a rounding error and the rest comes down to execution. It's a wide open field.

2) I did YC with AirBnb and at the time CouchSurfing.org was indeed a decently known thing in some circles. For every YC investment I'm sure you can find multiple "really good implementation of the concept".

3) This is still very much early innings in this space. As an investment, it's very hard to predict whether Flow Club or FocusMate or one of the other 8 will be the big unicorn (if any). A lot of it will come down to the founders. Even if there does turn out to be a huge market, some may take an early exit (Facebook v. MySpace, for example). As an entrepreneur I generally opt for the small earlier exit, but as an angel investor I try to avoid investing in people like me (both to hedge and b/c of power laws of returns).

4) A friend had brought me to SoulCycle once and so I totally get the "Peloton for Work" angle. So that's what led me to give Flow Club a shot. And I have found it very productive a couple of times per month. The coach and music have been great. For me the FocusMate style was intriguing, but it was just slightly below the threshold where I would give it a shot. Could those be 2 different markets with one being 100x bigger than the other? I have no idea but seems small things like that could actually make a big difference.
You are likely thinking of the Xerox Star aka the Dandelion which was a product of Xerox Business Systems (a spinoff from the PARC work). I didn't look too closely but if one of the packs has XDE on it (the Xerox Development Environment) then you'll get the same windows experience that was demonstrated to Steve Jobs back in the day. I'm pretty sure you could run XDE on the Alto (my wife worked at XBS while I was at Sun and there was a lot of cross mingling of technical people at various social events but my memories of exactly what the Alto was capable of are more limited.) We had a get together once over at the office and booted mazewar on six or seven Altos and that was a lot of fun.
Curious - what is your preferred Git platform? We're about to migrate away from Bitbucket for... a lot of reasons.
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Olivier here, author of the map and founder of the company behind it. We're working on adding more countries on the map. Check again in a few months and hopefully we'll have more of them!
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I think the conditional display of the fact box implies they are in fact asking whether there is a good (enough) answer. They are just getting it wrong here.
No law so far ever required single form of ID to vote. All voter ID laws require some form of ID, which could be of many forms - driver license, citizenship id, passport, military ID, handgun license, special voter ID, and so on. There are many forms of ID that are accepted (and if you don't have any, as much as a copy of a recent utility bill and a signed affidavit may exempt you from the requirement). This is nowhere even near establishing a single nation-wide ID system, or even a state-wide one.
Congrats on the beta launch!
Given that most computers are already backdoored before you buy them and that they spend more than 1 week with the manufacturer I would say that this is an argument against electronic election machines.

I honestly never understood why anyone (except these who manufacture them) would support their use.
But at the same time, I think it's doing a really good job of what it's trying to do. Google search is not trying to be a repository for all the world's information. It's just trying to get people to what they're
most likely looking for or show the most related things. Given the significance of the moon landing and the fact that no one has set foot on mars I find it unsurprising that it brings up info on the moon landing. It's seems better to assume what the user is likely looking for especially when (at least my) Google searches often take the form of "moon land neil year". I can just type things like that out, stream of consciousness, and the majority of the time I get what I'm looking for immediately.
Depends on the language (I don't use it for Java), but for Scala and python I definitely prefer it. I'd definitely recommend using TMux with Vim, I've mapped my tmux navigation to mirror Vim's window navigation, and I can keep a terminal and REPL open and easily copy-paste between Vim and my tmux windows.
Thanks easton
I want my phone to be closer to a video game console than a multi-purpose computer.

I’m glad iPhone gives me that option.
I just watched the 10-minute video posted in this thread, and learned something new. His final process step was to spray a light mist of gray paint over the entire sign, to mimic the patina of the other ones sharing the gantry.

To me, that's when this went from guerilla engineering to art. Or better yet, both.
Shit happens

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For future visitors after Google fixes the bug: at this time, Google gave the same response that you would expect if the query mentioned Earth’s moon instead of Mars. This is also probably true if you ask Google the same question as an “Okay, Google” search. It’s a big info box that says when the moon landing was, shows a photo of an astronaut on the moon, and so on.

Edit: corrected, thanks :)
Was it really that baffling? As a genre, film noir tends to have a twisting storyline and this was a particularly good one. But compared to, say, a Christopher Nolan or Charlie Kaufman film, this was a walk in the park.
More likely on Apollo 10
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/5...
Re: Microsoft/Office 365 - I was referring to their development to shift to cloud first strategy. They still haven’t made online collaboration as seamless as Google yet - but given them not wanting to break backward (onprem/file) capability, they are doing a good job.

I do agree Teams is trying to be a jack of all trades master of none at the moment.
I would like to see more evidence contact tracing works in absence of lockdowns and other social distancing measures. Early advocates pointed to South Korea as evidence. And now:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/29/once-a-covid-s...

My sense is, at the very least it doesn’t scale.
Is this a feature or a bug?
Bank fraud (a better name for it) generally does need strong ID, but the vast majority of transactions in which people are demanded to show ID to transact have nothing to do with this.

You only do bank loans, mortgages, lines of credit and the like a few times per year.

Your ID is demanded so often in the USA there is even a hand signal for it that everyone knows (a C shape made with the right hand held up at eye level).
For that matter, so does this:

when did neil armstrong set foot on earth
I haven't looked into GaN power adapters. I think they use the same control ICs but GaN transistors, but I'm not sure. Maybe someone else here knows more?
It’s bad enough reading self-described A+ high IQ “players” bitching about stupid managers, customers, and users. It’s worse to see that hubris and arrogance turned on co-workers. So much to fix, with only you to do it. I’m guessing you won’t last long because no one will want to work with you.
I totally sure it's very much possible, but even if this database only exclusively contained CSAM it's still very much possible for human to match false-positive since Apple can only show their snoops your photos and likely they will be compressed to some 360x360 or whatever.
My gut reaction is that it looks a lot like centralization. And centralization almost always wins, and almost always for the worst reasons.

I can easily see peoples questions being buried/deleted/marked as "nofix" or other passive aggressive stuff like that.

I can easily see people who aren't on the project being less likely to have input than they would on SO.

I can also easily see a lot less discovery happening.

But all of these things that make a Q&A into yet another virtual fiefdom are exactly what will make it win out: it will be the developers own little fiefdom; they'll be there more.
How did you dark mode-ify your Google?
When someone has a long history of abusing HN, the standards are different. Normally I'd just post a warning in cases like this. Actually, even if this were the first time this particular account had posted abusively, I'd have used a warning rather than a ban. But there are enough abusive comments in this account's history also, and this comment was a particularly clear case of reverting to a long-established pattern.
Ask Google how tall Elon Musk is. You will get 188 cm and conversion of 5 foot 10 inches which is way off. Two websites in the results that feed Google have the conversion wrong. Bad data is all over the place and copied over and over even simple incorrect conversions.
I do remember it, it’s just very weird that Apple hasn’t cited it as a motivation.

If they had led with that, we’d be having a conversation about the evildoers in Congress rather than Cupertino.
I've seen SaaS products like this before. https://truthantowers.com/ had one about five years ago.

Selling into the government is not just organizing the data to make the sales process more approachable but it's knowing the process for each sale.

I have a consulting business in the space (https://www.govsoft.us) and won't blind bid on opportunities. We only work on a bid where we know some of the stakeholders.
See also: engineers who think that engineering considerations trump all other business considerations. You need to know when it makes holistic sense to rewrite, or ship a hack. There are a lot more people at the decision-making table than just engineering.
LOL. I'm imagining cavemen walking briskly away from elephants and bears Olympics-style because running simply hadn't been invented yet.
For a real change, the other side needs to pitch in too (having attempted to work with them, I am rather pessimistic).

The crux of the problem is similar to all large organizations- the power of the purse and people doing the procuring have different motivations and objectives than the people the things are being procured for.

Ostensibly, there are good reasons for this- avoiding graft, ensuring standardization among procurements, etc etc.

The downside is that what gets bought isnt what is needed, often costing more and doing less than if the people doing the work had more control over their own budget.

I have encountered a number of businesses that exist only to help other businesses win government contracts. Automating some of that might help bring in a bit more competition, but I suspect "dramatic change in efficiency" will be a taller order.
You can not create a bank that does not verify identity according to a myriad of KYC regulations. You'd be heavily fined and most likely jailed if you do. Not sure about healthcare providers, probably if you're something like a massage therapist, there are no such requirements, but for a larger one there are probably regulations too.
arguing that we should embrace ambiguity.

This is probably my most despised media trend of the 21st century, and that's saying something.

"You decide how it ended"

"You decide if she lived or died"

"Their motivations for doing that are up to you"

"It means whatever you want it to mean"

It's an excuse for lazy writing and for being too cowardly to make decisions.
Lambda variant: Prevalence, transmissibility, vaccine effectiveness
Yes, I'd imagine the number of people searching for the year Neil Armstrong went to Mars because they for some reason are extremely deluded about history is much, much smaller than the number of people who type "mars" when they meant "moon"
The Sacklers threaten us all with a good time
When did Halley's Comet collide with the moon?

Awesome. I must of been busy that day, I would of remembered that.

edit: its been fixed. here it was: https://ibb.co/myxWK3C
Sure you shouldn't go out of your way to violate the suggestions on the list, but you also shouldn't be afraid to publish a project just because you haven't meticulously gone through it and checked off every item
So this is definitely going to be used for character assassinations right?
> ...if the query mentioned Earth instead of Mars

Did you mean to say "the Moon instead of Mars"?
This is how you end up with Microsoft. Supporting any and all use-cases instead of focusing deeply on the few that matter.
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The best B-tree resource is SQLite3's documentation of its B-tree on-disk format.
Pretty sure you meant the moon. I would guess he first stepped on Earth closer to his birth date (although I'm guessing his first steps were a few months after ;))
Bottom right of Google.com -> search options -> appearance. Or go here: https://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en&fg=1#appearance
AI-driven content will become the next scourge of humanity, just like engagement-driven social media feeds and internet ad tracking. Thanks, big tech.
I'm similarly bothered by rolling updates of any software. If something changes, there's no version number to see what documentation is applicable. There's no way to test on a different computer to see if it's my local environment. There's no way to roll back to a previous version to see if one of them broke.

I understand the advantages of A/B testing from a development side, but it makes for a miserable user experience.
I recently received this feature as well. They are probably rolling it out gradually.
I've never had a good experience "pre-empting" comments that will inevitably be used to derail your thread.

In any case, I was mostly thinking that it has to be a form of privilege to feel like a particular slippery slope hasn't happened yet. I think about how the word "privilege" is used, and its more like "exemption from some inconveniences that aren't obvious". Your post about people not noticing that civil courts and agencies have these power over assumed rights is a decent example of that.
Why would the government do a better job at digital security than TMobile?
You ignored the monopolist patent troll stuff and the part where the poster's company was sued by RV for zip code search, but yeah good summary.
> What I don’t get is why people want every company to bend to some arbitrary set of values.

It's not an "arbitrary set of values" - it's called consumer rights.

And just like your right to free speech, right to vote, right to be treated as an equal and not be discriminated because of some part of your identity etc., consumer rights have been hard-won rights too.

Apple can customise their products as much as they want, but not at the expense of our rights. They can, and should, operate within that limit, as otherwise these rights becomes meaningless and leads to abuse.