skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool, I've been thinking on this topic a bit lately. Crawling is indeed not that hard of a problem. Google could do it 23 years ago. The web is a bit bigger now of course but it's not that bad. Those numbers are well within the range of a very modest search cluster (pick your favorite technology; it shouldn't be challenging for any of them). 10x or 1000x would not matter a lot for this. Although it would raise your cost a little.

The hard problem is indeed separating the good stuff from the bad stuff; or rather labeling the stuff such that you can tell the difference at query time. Page rank was nice back in the day; until people figured out how to game things. And now we have bot farms filling the web with nonsense to drive political agendas, create memes, or to drown out criticism. Page rank is still a useful ranking signal; just not by it self.

The one thing no search engine has yet figured out is reputability of sources. Content isn't anonymous mostly. It's produced and consumed by people. And those people have reputations. Bot content is bad because it comes from sources without a credible reputation. Reputations are built over time and people value having them. What if we could value people's appreciation relative to their reputability? That could filter out a lot of nonsense. A simple like button + a flag button combined with verified domain ownership (ssl certificates) could do the trick. You like a lot of content that other people disliked, your reputation goes down the drain. If you produce a lot of content that people like, your reputation goes up. If a lot of reputable people flag your content, your reputation tanks.

The hard part is keeping the system fair and balanced. And reputability is of course a subjective notion and there is a danger of creating recommendation bubbles, politicizing certain topics, or even creating alternative reality type bubbles. It's basically what's happening. But it's mostly powered by search engines and social media that actually completely ignore reputability.
They have the most anonymity-friendly signup flow I've ever seen:

1. Literally click a button on the homepage

2. Here are the automatically generated credentials for your new account, which you can load up by sending any amount of cryptocurrency (perfect for emptying out an old wallet)

I don't even bother renewing, that's how easy it is to make a fresh throwaway. Which they encourage!
I get what you mean, and I agree with you that Discord shouldn't be a company's primary support system. I also haven't heard of any companies that do this.

The issues I described come up when you have a community that occasionally offers help. For example, there might be a Discord devoted to a game mod. People can gather there to hang out with the mod developers or just talk about gaming. They sometimes answer newbie questions, too. If you come to take advantage of their generosity, you should do it with the right attitude and respect-- just like if you show up at a game shop in real life hoping someone will teach you how to play Dungeons & Dragons.
I'm the same age but didn't have Internet before the late '90s. MSN Messenger and ICQ were the big chat platforms of my time. I rarely chatted with strangers, although there were several city-based or activity-based rooms on mIRC where that could be done.
From what I can tell, Facebook’s internal research on mitigation is leaning towards studying the connections people have to determine the threat profile - not just the individuals posting habits.

Can’t say more, because it’s a guess based on posts and job requirements.

So front/standard moderation is outsourced and more advanced threat detection is looking at large coordinated networks.

It’s a huge pity that the state of the art in modern troll combat is behind NDAs.

I’ll also admit, that as poor security through obscurity is, it’s a useful speed bump here.

It’s kinda odd to contemplate how this space will evolve.
I mean...lots of businesses in tech are dependent on VC funding without any plans for sustainable business.
The space race was possibly the pinnacle of the principle that government spending can accelerate technological progress in particular fields by raining money on those fields. The progress puts it way ahead of what could be expected and occurs to the detriment of sectors from which the money was taken.

We now have a good understanding of just how far ahead we pushed ourselves beyond what market forces were going to pursue: 50-60 years, which is pretty cool.
Mullvad is from Sweden. Not only spelled differently but has different laws and legal system too.
Hi, It'd be nice if you could add a OpenSearch description document for your site.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch
What makes this different from something like gensim? They have vector search for doc2vec embeddings.
I passed a GPU into mine to get around the slow graphics.
> Isn’t Reddit that killed forums like 10 years ago?

Unfortunately, yes. I love reddit, but it suffers from a major issue that most forums didn't suffer from: homogeneity of thought, with little options for those who go against the grain, either in general or on one particular issue. If you have an unpopular opinion amongst a subreddit's members, your comment is ignored at best or goes to the bottom of the pile, never to be seen by anyone. How is this healthy for discussion?

Even if you were to go on a forum made of members with a completely different set of ideals and opinions, unless you were a jerk about it, your voice would be just as "audible" as everyone else's. Everyone could have their say and not be silenced just because they were outnumbered. And you weren't writing just to get the most upvotes, or having to tread super lightly in the hopes that you wouldn't offend anyone or have them downvote you instead of actually, you know, responding to you telling you why you're wrong.

Sometimes we all need to be exposed to things we don't like. Yes, the upvote/downvote tree system may have largely solved the "asshole forum member" problem, and that's great. And for some things, the upvote/downvote system is awesome. Finding a solution to a problem? On a forum you have to go through most of the posts - on reddit, the best answer is probably going to be at the top.

But at what cost? Reddit just feels like a form of censorship to me - even when politics aren't what's being discussed. Just because the government or a corporation isn't the one directly doing it, doesn't make it a good thing suddenly.
> It's also become completely clear that the delta variant can (and will) both a) infect and b) spread in the vaccinated population.

It isn't clear at all that delta breakthrough infections result in superspreading. There are documented cases of transmission chains of breakthrough infections, but I haven't seen any instances of single individuals with breakthrough infections creating superspreading events. By preventing the worst symptoms and reducing the amount of viable virus and duration of breakthrough infections, transmission is almost certainly reduced by some amount. It may be a substantial amount. Literally nobody knows. People are assuming that since transmission isn't reduced to zero that we have to assume it isn't reduced at all, which is almost certainly false.
I like to work with engineers who don't write buggy code. Do you? How do you avoid hiring them?

Experienced engineers know that this is a hard problem and don't mind demonstrating basic competence. If you don't ask me to code, it's a hard pass from me -- your team has no filter.
I feel like the threat model for consumer VPNs doesn't include state actors
Going through this exact same situation myself. No, developing the app is not the hardest part. If you build it, they won't come. Much better to hire/find a cofounder with a marketing background instead of YOLOing money into the advertising dumpster fire as you learn how it works.
I shiver at the thought of maintaining a bespoke C HashMap
As I had to convince a former colleague, fast but wrong is useless. I can make a very high performance program if correctness is irrelevant. Correctness is the requirement (at least from my professional work), and performance is necessarily secondary. That doesn't remove it as a requirement, but if I'm giving wrong results quickly then planes aren't flying (worst case, they're burning up on the ground and everyone is dead). Performance is obviously important because I've mostly worked on real-time systems. But I can take a correct program and make it fast much more easily than taking a fast but incorrect program and make it correct.

I guess if your work has no consequences correctness can be discarded or rendered a secondary criteria for your programs.
> Whoops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act

So? That was in 1967. Do you think nothing has changed since then? IIRC, I don't even think the NRA was even much of a gun rights organization until later.

You need to work on your gotcha skills.

Look at this:

Here's the featured video on the (now defunct) NRATV youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84A_fRQfTAE

tl;dr: black guy criticizing Biden for gun control and stuff like his previous opposition to school busing.

An for completeness, this looks like a channel they had for women: https://www.youtube.com/user/nrawomen
but also why haven't we empowered physicians to recommend other ways or reducing severity that requires hospitalization? Exercise, vitD, C, Zinc, etc? that hasn't been said anywhere and even if they don't "prevent" covid, they are definitely going to reduce the need to go to the hospitals from other things (incl if you catch covid)
Why do you think they have a right to sovereignty? They lost a civil war (and wouldn't exist without US intervention), Taiwan is a Chinese province. I doubt you would be making this claim if they were still being ruled through dictatorship by a Chiang.

Edit: You can downvote me without exploring the question, but most of the world does not recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation.
Since recently, it's possible to use Hermes https://reactnative.dev/blog/2021/03/12/version-0.64
It is simplistic labeling, and I am generalizing from what I've seen. I agree it starts from escapism in many cases. From what I have witnessed it's escaping boredom and/or pain, two things that life has much of. It's a dangerous attitude (obviously).

I'm not arguing your second point, but suggest you consider that some drugs are more difficult to quit and are therefore more addictive than others. I'm arguing that people who have problems with drug addiction will likely add more legal drugs to their stack rather than curb use.
I'm a Common Lisp user, and I would like to refine your claim. I don't think that many true "language features", like borrow checking and a static type system, can be implemented in a Lisp (without writing an entirely new language on top - Lisps are generally Turing complete, so you can always write an interpreter for another language on top, but I would claim that at that point you're not "extending your Lisp" so much as making a new one).

Instead, what Lisps seem to excel at is allowing you to implement syntactic sugar. For instance, you can easily write CL macros that give you JSON/hashtable literal syntax, list comprehensions (pretend LOOP didn't exist), foo.bar to access struct elements, and infix notation - those things that people think of as being "part of the language" but don't give you any new capabilities (e.g. closures, a MOP, multiple-value returns, conditions).
The American lifestyle is engineered specifically to fit a style that, whether intentional or not, promotes deep and debilitating loneliness.

You have to deliberately live in a very abnormal way to avoid it.

Most Americans have very little contact with strangers outside of their workplace. It's a real tragedy.
> More importantly, mailing lists rely on etiquette (netiquette) to function well. This is essential for any interactions between responsible adults. But nowadays people have been trained to expect coded rules. They are used to operating in a playpen where they can test the boundaries with no consequences, like children

I think netiquette breaks down the moment you have a diverse group of participants. (Early Usenet) and (Fidonet) were comprised of very knowledgeable participants of very similar cultural milleus. Usenet was mostly scholarly, young, white, and male (the standard demographic of academics at the time, I'm not trying to insinuate anything more than that), and Fidonet was more diverse because it was less tied to academia but was also very specific. That's not to say something like netiquette couldn't be enforced, but I also think it's correlation and not causation that early Usenet and Fidonet had meaningful conversations; I've been in Discord/Matrix rooms with mostly highly educated people with similar outlooks on life and they rarely require moderation, even with varying strong opinions.

> Discord is just the latest regression in a long line of distilling what it means to have discourse into a few easily managed rules. It's ironic because, on the face of it, Discord with its huge array of "stickers", "emojis" and "fun" attachments etc. seems like it should be more expressive and allow for deeper discussion. But, in fact, by pushing aside language, etiquette and training in favour of emojis, canned phrases, and strict rules we get shallow, repetitive, and, frankly, boring exchanges. Great for mindless drones to do bullshit jobs, I'm sure. Bad for deep and enlightening discussion and debate.

This just comes off as angry and elitist. Discords are there for regular people to engage in conversations. I don't think putting up these barriers to engagement is relevant for anything other than selecting for technical trivia or ability. If you want to actually select for a good community, I agree that moderation is important, but not using technical barriers. I'm glad the internet is such that nowadays I'm not just talking to some other person who is interested in heavy metal, anime, gaming, and programming (as it was until the late-90s for the most part).
Your choice is your own, but what made you want to stay with PIA after the takeover?
When it comes to globalization the problem lies in imbalanced trade. If there is no imbalanced trade whatsoever, then globalization cannot cause problems.

Trade surplus nations work more than they should. Trade deficit nations work less than they should. That has strong implication on where "all the jobs" end up.

My favorite example is Greece. "All the jobs" have moved to Germany.
Sergey Levine on Robot Learning and Offline RL
Around 15 to 20 years, houses start to need expensive maintenance- new appliances, perhaps siding or roofing if you've had a rough run or it was poorly installed, etc.

If you are unable to sell the house and don't have a nice savings cushion, you need to look at a HELOC to pay for it.

Since sellers often pay real estate agent fees and some others, you need a pretty decent sale price above what you owe on the mortgage just to break even... And then money for moving costs and a down payment on wherever you go next.

Edit: it is also not uncommon to take out a HELOC to pay for sprucing up a house- flooring, new kitchen, etc- if you are struggling to attract any buyers at all. I've known people in smaller towns go into debt just to sell their house because they had to move for a job. They even tried renting it out for awhile since noone was buying, and the renters ended up trashing the place, so that made it even harder.
Mine, too.

And the company appending "AI" to the name doesn't that help much, given that the original Media Lab was co-founded by Marvin Minsky, one of the founders of the general field of AI. The Media Lab was also where Minsky continued to work on AI until he passed, not that long ago.

(Disclosure: Am alum of the Media Lab, from many years ago, and this "branding confusion in the market" doesn't affect me like it might some people currently there.)
I see your point, but argue you've misidentified the two audiences.

One audience matches your description and is the invested reader. They want that blogger's story telling. they might make the recipe, but they're a dedicated reader.

The other audience is not the recipe-searcher, but instead Google. Food bloggers know that recipe-searchers are there to drop in, get an ingredient list, and move on. They won't even remember the blog's name. So the site isn't optimized for them. It's optimized for Google.

"Slow the parasitic recipe-searcher down. They're leeches, here for a freebie. Well they'll pay me in Google Rank time blocks."
I always thought it was the rise of porn
Is the signup form broken?
>Why not?

The feedback mechanism for identifying errors is failure as is the incentive to correct them. Otherwise, we end up in a privatize the profits, socialize the risks situation. As we currently are.

For example, I bid for land for commercial real estate. I have been outbid by another developer who assumes they can pay more for the land because their labor costs will be lower for the business. They want to bet they can get away with paying bottom tier wages, whereas I want to pay higher wages. Or have more redundancies or use higher quality materials. Of course, the land gets sold to them at the higher price, they get to build the business.

Why should they get bailed out? They wanted to take on more risk, in the form of not allow much wiggle room for labor costs or using subpar materials. That is their fault, and society benefits from the market sending a signal from that developers failure to better allocate resources.

>If we were talking about a tech company, would you feel the same way?

Yes.
I always had a hard time getting past the GFWoC in Shenzhen, even with wg tunnels to my own servers.
Operator Service for Jenkins – the right way of running Jenkins
> What kind of mad person dumps listservs directly into their inbox.

The kind of mad person who tries to use a Hey.com email account with a listserv...
> This release allows deno lint and deno fmt to be configured.

That's good news. The main thing holding me back from seriously looking at Deno was the lack of config for the formatting. The default settings weren't right for me, and I tend to avoid projects where you have to fight the tools. I'm going to take another look now.
Respectfully to the downvotes, race is an unreliable identifier as mixed race populations completely upend the results:
https://www.pinterest.com/Biraciality/

Is there an American race? What does a pure American look like?

The term race is a self-identifier (what tribe do i belong in) and not biological. Really the same thing as saying "I'm a northerner" or "I'm a southerner". If AI were to sample datasets from each group, we'd unreservedly say there's a northern race and a southern race.
Agreed. I am pessimistic that it will happen any time soon, though. Too much money to be made.
Hmm maybe make the buffers much smaller and try BBR instead of Cubic?

https://blog.apnic.net/2020/01/10/when-to-use-and-not-use-bb...
Don't hold me to it since my math education is basically me fumbling through the internet for the past several years trying to piece things together, but I think this is the unmotivated approach you're talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US4Zr1WKD-8&list=PLCTMeyjMKR...

As others have stated trying to learn this abstractly first, before developing a concrete mathematical foundation, simply didn't work. I understood what the subject purported to do. I understood why I wanted to have a birds-eye view of subjects to come. The trouble is that the concepts didn't have enough to latch onto in my brain. I found myself frantically looking for examples in various subjects. In the end I realized my time was better spent in the weeds.
Very disappointed not to see Gaul on this list.
This is classic "your answer is not my answer." And it's a form of bias. You passed on the person who knew how to write a more complex solution to the problem, and chose the person who chose a more simplistic route. But there's zero commentary on whether Candidate 2 had the knowledge required to write the complex program to solve the problem. Whereas Candidate 1 could have (likely) been easily taught what the command line alternative was.

Your process seems flawed as it appears to operate solely on your bias, from this description.
Dunno, I prefer to use as neutral or positive terminology even when I talk about things I don't like. I think it very easily comes off as juvenile ranting when you start throwing around terms with strong negative connotations.
You can negative-buy someone. Meaning: you can pay other "actors" to make their life so miserable that they will consider selling (or conceding whatever you would be asking of them).

In that sense, everyone has a price. It just doesn't necessarily go directly in their pockets.
It’s not about heavier traffic. China literally has different rules for different parts of the country, different ISPs, different wireless providers (especially foreign versus domestic), etc.
That is why it isn't a scientific theory. It is an assumption.
I was on the OS teams of the 3D0 and the first PlayStation, 2/3rds of my published software are console games. My games stint was the EA Spouse era.
They’ve been saying there’s a pending crash for the last five years. I’ve expected it too.

The only thing that happens is soon as the market gets skittish, the fed prints money. They seem to be so scared of a recession, or maybe, the poets that be are so leveraged up themselves, that they will do whatever it takes to prevent a crash.

My thought is, don’t be so leveraged that you’re the first to collapse when things go down. If things continue collapsing, the fed will step in and fix everybody still standing.
Linkedin is a parody of itself.
Aka Trust but verify.
Hit me up! Me and my 3 random pictures could use somebody to follow.
@imwill
Why would that increase infertility?
a timeline is an algorithm?

Wait until people start gaming the timeline based algorithm by deleting and re-posting images, so they stay at the top slot.

When does "no algorithm" become an algorithm? When you add ML?
Congratulations, you've just invented negative SEO.
The way to stop nation-state-level spying is, if I understand correctly, to make it illegal? I'm not sure I follow.
Scientists find evidence of humans making clothes 120k years ago
I've always had the habit of keeping Location services turned off while not in use, to conserve my phone's battery. Guess it's a privacy requisite now.

I also remember having a habit of keeping mobile data off during the 3G days. Guess it's not feasible anymore.
I think most technical solo founders know they need a co-founder with expertise in marketing and sales, the problem is actually finding them.

I definitely could use one but it's been impossible to find someone both serious about it and experienced at the same time. Especially if you're based in Europe.
Indeed. I think the technology is somewhat orthogonal to the community, but it's the community that's important. A lot of technical people equate the two. (Though there are definitely technical and systemic benefits to more open standards than Discord, even if that doesn't necessarily help the community.)