skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not necessarily a bad business strategy.

At the beginning it can be better to focus on the people willing to pay up front. It allows you to test the market and to focus on the feedback of paying customers.

You can add free trials and optimize for revenue later.
There's nothing particularly systemic about it, I'd imagine a low-karma, paywalled post with 100 comments gets sandbagged instantly on this site, and the number of downvoted comments in this thread certainly don't help it's case.
What makes Germany so different than Canada? Sheer population?

In both countries there is a marked willingness to do the right thing, but I'm struggling to remember corruption anywhere close to the size of what goes on there.
I can understand hiking, soccer, whatever fun types of exercise. But you would keep lifting weights and doing cardio workouts when you could no longer make gains and it had no impact on your health/mood? Getting/staying strong is a pretty huge part of working out for me.
I've been copying the same hashtable.[ch] file to all my new projects since the 90s. :-) I suppose it could be viewed as a strength of C that it lives below that level of abstraction and prescribe too much of the standard library.
This was the biggest lesson I learned during my first pre-IPO quiet period. Seemed like everything I read that was inferring things from the S-1 or forecasting the future were immediately wrong or turned out to be wrong in the end. I suspect there's a lot of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect going on in the economy.
How long should be the clinical trials for updated vaccines? Historically, 'on average, vaccine development can take 10-15 years'. We've rushed the current crop of vaccines 10x. It was an emergency, fingers crossed everything works out fine in the end. Is this the new normal? Are we going to throw long-term safety concerns out the window as a matter of normal procedure? Reminder, there is no reboot button. Perhaps 'move fast and break things' is not the right motto to use in vaccine development.

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/how-covid-19-leading-innov...
It's weird reading an article about damage to the internet in-between two aggressive advertisements that I can't seem to get off my screen.
FWIW Amnesty International has been calling out Apple's kowtowing to China and invasion of privacy for the last three years, but it's been falling on mostly deaf ears:

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/china-social-media...

More to the author's point, in a free market you can have consumer watchdogs providing transparency, but even they can still be drowned out by "privacy"-based branding from giants.
What are the current alternatives? That’s what is so irksome about this post to people in this field. It’s coming from the right place, but instead of even acknowledging the alternative solutions out there, it brushes them aside and jumps right to the most technical one imaginable - basically hook prisoners up to the Matrix. A thoughtful proposal would hold this idea up against other proposed solutions and weigh the pros and cons of each. I think even the most cursory analysis would have made the original piece much better.
The term AJAX was coined in 2005 by https://web.archive.org/web/20150910072359/http://adaptivepa.... People had been talking about the idea for a few years at that point, but not with that name.
"Search results
Search "alt.sysadmin.recovery" needs to be a word
Those were all the results,"

No comment.
Media lab Looks like a company buying dead startups. Weird. Maybe it’s just a company that is controlled by some VC or groups of VCs and that’s how they make their returns and number of exits look better. They also look less dumb.
Hey all, I wanted to share this solution to a minimalist RSS Feed Reader by George Mandis, who wrote a great blog post about his approach here: https://george.mand.is/2019/11/introducing-bubo-rss-an-absur... Essentially, the reader is nothing but a build script that is routinely run to build a static web page that can then be published to Netlify/Vercel/Github pages/etc.

Anyway, I was using Inoreader for about a year (highly recommended, by the way) before I decided to fork George's project for my own purposes. After a few opinionated changes, I was happy with the outcome (https://kevinfiol.com/reader/). I used George's method of building via Github Actions. I modified the Github Actions workflow to build every 30 minutes and deploy directly to Github Pages.

While definitely not as powerful as Inoreader, I feel the outcome is enough for my purposes, and I was happy that I could customize the HTML/CSS to my liking instead of adding tons of custom CSS to Inoreader using Stylus.

Thanks George!

EDIT: My fork, btw: https://github.com/kevinfiol/reader
Also:

> ExpressVPN says in a statement that it knew the 'key facts' of the employment history of one of its executives, Daniel Gericke. On Tuesday Gericke was revealed in court records to have worked on the UAE's hacking and spying operation

> https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aq9p5/expressvpn-uae-hackin...

https://nitter.net/josephfcox/status/1438127822883729412
That's what I do, and I have no trouble communicating that during a whiteboard interview. Have you considered that you're being tested for communication ability?
Psychologists help cure anxiety, depression, addiction, etc. all the time without actually suffering from it themselves. They're "privileged" not to suffer from it themselves or even necessarily have any friends or family who suffer from it. They just do good user research before creating a solution presumably. Also, conversely, plenty of people who have "lived experience" of how they cured their anxiety with a cult religion or some placebo diet or something aren't necessarily very helpful experts for other people either. So I just don't see how framing the conversation about who is or isn't privileged is really helpful?
many if not most of the things I learned while working for a consulting company as a data engineer are of a kind I wish I wouldn't have to learn to begin with. it's basically a sped up course about how companies are through and through driven by egoism and cliques. so, it's useful. but sometimes I worry that staying longer in this business taints me for companies with actually ethical work ethics. but in Germany it's except for a job at FANGAM the only way to crack six digits as an IT guy.
Faiss actually also uses HNSW internally, HNSWLIB is just a lighter weight implementation which allowed us to iterate faster. In the future we will switch it back out for FAISS to take advantage of its full array of functionality.
You went to the wrong website, the right site is https://www.medialab.la/ not http://medialab.ai/
The author forgot one of the worst parts of consulting -- the frustration you feel when you make a recommendation and then get ignored. It can get really grating, especially when they call you back a year later when they are in trouble they could have avoided if they'd listened the first time.
> Just be the change you want to see.

Timeless advice. Still applicable in tech thanks to open-source software, even as people lose agency in other areas.
I personally stopped using Facebook 10 years ago and will probably never come back. At the time when I used it I only used it to connect with friends and family and I saw no disturbing content or content that would incite jealousy, greed or lust.

I think the trend of hyper self-centric content begun with Instagram indeed. For example Photo Models and Body Builders sharing photos of their bodies for no apparent reason besides to glorify and/or sell themselves.

Photos of food make no sense to me, photos of pets I can somehow understand and yes I can understand how looking at happy lives and happy experiences can make you feel miserable but then again Facebook or Instagram don't really know your mental health and state you are in and can not magically remove "sensitive" content that would disturb you.

Best thing would be to stop using social media altogether or use it only to inform yourself about the world around you but in the form of text or perhaps audio/voice only.
All of my searches are turning up unrelated results ("college life after the pandemic", "post-pandemic teaching in higher education", "football news NFL" etc.)

NFL one had 'some' decently related results, but the websites were all strangely disreputable.
technically the same but for anonymity, u should buy directly.
Clicked on the screenshot/showcase of the Atom discussion forum and one certificate error and a 301 later I'm at Github's discussions. Symptomatic?
“Successful” is quite the qualifier. Are more 45 year olds starting businesses, or are they more just more effective when they do it?
Actually, the general answer came to me in about 5 seconds. I may have been lucky, though.

The crux here is to notice that the order of the letters in the word we're given does not matter (because of the "any permutation" part). So it must be a matter of counting the letters. GlennS got it right: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550511

The second insight was that only the parity of occurrence mattered. Having 2 or 4 or 6 times the same letter is the same as not having the letter at all, so I only have to retain "zero" or "one" for each letter. Sets are perfect for this: "zero" means "not there", "one" means it's there, and at the end I can tolerate at most one odd letter.
This is why I view HN via RSS. It delivers the top posts even if posts are flagged.

>This is why I’m growing more and more discontent with HN.

You’re not alone. In fact HN is my last real contact with the mainstream curated internet. I left Twitter etc. some 6-7 years ago. My days here are numbered due to relentless injection of politics.
No conspiracy needed; Any thread with more comments than upvotes gets down-ranked by the flame war detector. Happens all the time, for good reasons.
The problem with tech hiring is that a significant fraction of tech people are basically unskilled. Despite education and experience in some cases. Odds are either the interviewee is unskilled or the interviewer is.

In the best case where you have a technically skilled interviewer and interviewee, there is still the problem of: 'the correct answer is my answer. Even if yours also works, it is not my answer.'

Tech hiring is not difficult, but it requires the following traits in the interviewer:

1. Broad technical skills and the ability to recognize skills in others.

2. Ego is not driving them. No need to be smarter than everyone.

3. Conversational/interpersonal skills to get the interviewee to talk, and to recognize someone who will be a jerk.

The common assumption is that skilled tech people lack interpersonal skills, but in my experience 1&2 is the rare combination.
Selection bias? The people who need help are that much more likely to ask for it.
What type of consulting did you do?
I'm in a software job now, have some land, and I'm considering doing the same. Would you be willing to talk about your journey? I'd happily come help sometime too!
Well in some sense yes. Template compiler is a very old idea, and this is a template-compiler-styled compiler.

The interesting part is the various improvements to this old idea that allows us to both compile fast and generate good code.
I think you're arguing something entirely differently.

> And it's a good one.

You're acting as if myself or the parent comment think everyone in business is evil. AFAIK you have no intimate knowledge about the founders and their motivations or what they believe to be "good", seemingly that they have some benevolent worldy principled intentions. At no point am I arguing that people don't have principles, just that those principles may manifest themselves in different ways (as the parent pointed out, the owners might sell and start a non profit privacy based solution, just like, ya know, Brian Acton did)
Markets are a machine for predicting the future not the present. The supply chain chaos is something that can be fixed and probably will be fixed at some time in the near future. Capitalism view is that if there is demand and it is possible to fulfil that demand at good profit margins, that demand will be fulfilled.

Yes there is a shortage of containers. But a container is nothing but a metal box with a wooden floor. More containers can be made and are being made. Yes there is a shortage of container ships. But that is because there is 50 container ships waiting in a huge line in front of long beach to be unloaded. Once they get unloaded they will start sailing back and forth and there will no longer be a shortage. Yes there is a shortage of workers and truck drivers. So the companies will raise wages and hire more.

In general stock market investors do not worry too much about excessive demand. What keeps them up at night is lack of demand.

What happened in march 2020 is that the stock market was spooked about lack of demand. People feared that the virus will wipe out large part of the population and the rest will be hunkered down trembling in fear and saving every penny.

There was a lot of government mismanagement in handling the virus (especially in some countries) and it killed and is killing way more people than it should have, but it is not affecting demand. Furthermore, governments and central banks correctly put in welfare and support programs in order to prevent a wave of poverty and collapse of demand.

So currently the problem is not lack of demand but lack of supply. Which is very much fixable.
As others have said, it was the "Eternal September":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

It was when the flood of incomers was large enough that the enculturation process failed.
Ah. The holding company name is "MediaLab.Ai", so I put that to URL bar and that found the AI Quantum Blockchain thing.

Just a holding company makes more sense.

Thanks!
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You don't have to say how great of an engineer you are to say that you think coding interviews are terrible.

And the person you're responding to also agrees they are terrible for qualified candidates.
Lucid gets its official EPA range ratings, and they’re astounding
The Mayo clinic study is the other major outlier. The Mayo clinic study found that the vaccines were highly effective, but nonetheless tried to extrapolate from a trend seen in a subset of the data from the final month:

> Both vaccines were highly effective during this study period against SARS-CoV-2 infection (mRNA-1273: 86%, 95%CI: 81-90.6%; BNT162b2: 76%, 95%CI: 69-81%) and COVID-19 associated hospitalization (mRNA-1273: 91.6%, 95% CI: 81-97%; BNT162b2: 85%, 95% CI: 73-93%). However, in July, the effectiveness against infection was considerably lower for mRNA-1273 (76%, 95% CI: 58-87%) with an even more pronounced reduction in effectiveness for BNT162b2 (42%, 95% CI: 13-62%).

There are many problems with this, and it shouldn't be given much weight.
Wouldn't putting the scheduler in userspace double the amount of context switching? You'd have to interrupt a userspace thread and jump to the kernel, then jump from the kernel to the scheduler program (switch 1), then jump from the scheduler back to the kernel, and then jump from the kernel to the next scheduled thread (switch 2).

Having the kernel accessible from userspace as it already is saves two steps, but you still have to use the kernel as a middleman unless there's some way for the scheduler program to directly jump into another process (which I don't think there is because wouldn't this break memory protection?)
It filters for several things, including a very high level of confidence in technical abilities, and a strong enough desire to work in a FAANG(-alike) to put up with a whole lot of dull/painful unpaid bullshit, but the point is that the "hat" doesn't contain a random sample of developers. I think the notoriety of the interviews probably does do a good job of ensuring that the pool almost entirely contains people that, so far as tech chops go, are good enough to do the job—it excludes a bunch more of those from bothering to apply, of course, but the point is that I don't find it surprising that choosing randomly from their already selection-biased "hat" yields results of similar quality to actually conducting the interviews. The problem is that, if they loosen up the interviews, that will (I expect) stop being true.

Look at it like this: if you have a club that is notorious for only letting very pretty people in, I bet a random sampling of the line outside skews incredibly good-looking, but they can't just start randomly choosing people from the line without regard for their appearance, or that will change in a hurry. Meanwhile, it's also true that some very pretty club-goers don't get in that line in the first place, for a bunch of reasons possibly including that they don't want to be part of a scene like that, or a lack of confidence or anxiety over being harshly judged, or not thinking it's worth standing in line for an hour when they could go down the block to another club with lower standards and no line, and nearly all people who might be able to get in on an exceptionally weak night don't even think of trying, since more often than not it's pointless—but despite the loss of those folks, the line is still 95+% very pretty people, so it looks like they could do away with the high standards and harsh judgement and just let in a random sample by lottery, if you consider only that in isolation and not the effect the process itself had on the composition of the line.

(FWIW, this is a non-FAANG perspective—I'm 100% certain I'd struggle to even get past the phone screen without prep; about 95% sure I could do the actual work to an acceptable level; but judge it only about 50% likely I could eventually pass an interview with one or another after a great deal of practice and many, many tries, given probably 18-24 months of on-and-off effort and tens of extremely unpleasant days; so, I'm in the "unwilling to spend weeks of my life doing nothing but unwrapping Wonka Bars, when I'm not very sure there's a Golden Ticket in one of them" crowd)
SARS-like viruses may jump from animals hundreds of thousands of times a year
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Got it. Makes sense.

> Upvoted because you have good points

I have a feeling people are downvoting me because they think people are bad/evil for wanting money. Weird.
Discrete event traffic simulation, laggy heads, and ghosts
Have you ever wondered how a traffic simulator like A/B Street works? Simulating thousands of trips through a city faster than real-time can't be done in 0.1 second increments. This article explains how to model vehicles and pedestrians using discrete event simulation instead.

This is the first deep-dive article into how A/B Street works. More coming soon!
Pure speculation, but I would guess that it may make practical sense for the party to relax the firewall in places where access to internet resources abroad could be more necessary for economic reasons.
funfact: Andy Grove had a blurb on the cover of "The Innovator's Dilemma", that coined the term "disruption".
I was also in that camp. I figured it would go the way of gasoline where they'd conjure up constant excuses to keep the price high almost indefinitely. "A missile landed in the middle of a farm in Uzbekistan, we better increase gas price $0.50/gallon due to global instability concerns".
The performance sucks. 30 out of 100 on chrome web vitals. We are overhauling it this week (including eliminating the post load). Great point about hotlinking images which I have taken a note of (also creates mixed content http issues). I didn't think there would be value in releasing the source. So hadn't thought about it. But now that you mentioned it, maybe I should.
Selection and confirmation biases.
> understand the inner workings of an organization at, often, a senior management level, was one of the most lucrative lessons of my professional life

What is an example of something you learned about senior management?
Lots of new businesses are MLM, or dependant on government funding without any plans for sustainable business
Not yet, this is very much an early release to get it in people's hands and to get feedback on the API and the functionality. We've purposely held off optimizing too much until we feel more confident that this is useful and our API approach makes sense for people. That said, Simba who's one of the main devs actually comes from a performance tuning background at Google. Also, it's built on HNSWLIB and RocksDB, and is being used in real world workloads today.
I live on >100 acres and maintain a software job. Spend all day in front of a computer and all night in the dirt. Only thing we grow is a 1/2 acre garden. We stick to live stock. I much prefer watching pigs, chickens and cows grow. Feels so much more real.
They may be people like me, where it's not about ignoring but rather that no one's ever told them how you reuse some sort of reference outsides yet put in very different insides, so they have no idea.

And I still don't know whether - speaking industry-wide - insides are generally quite different, or whether that varies greatly, and how a non-hardware-specialist might guess in a given instance.
Could you share some of those competitors? I've tried a few VPNs which have not been especially fast, e.g. https://ovpn.com. Would like to find one that supports IPsec, which is supported natively by several operating systems.
Maybe they know because of the A/B test? Seems like it could be a good idea and make the layout easier to use on mobile. I don't find it THAT bad on desktop, although on the side is better.
>"What can government do about conspiracy theories? Among the things it can do, what should it do? We can readily imagine a series of possible responses. (1) Government might ban conspiracy theorizing. (2) Government might impose some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories. (3) Government might itself engage in counterspeech, marshaling arguments to discredit conspiracy theories. (4) Government might formally hire credible private parties to engage in counterspeech. (5) Government might engage in informal communication with such parties, encouraging them to help. Each instrument has a distinctive set of potential effects, or costs and benefits, and each will have a place under imaginable conditions. However, our main policy idea is that government should engage in cognitive infiltration of the groups that produce conspiracy theories, which involves a mix of (3), (4) and (5)."
> the people who want to game it will appear.

So just add human review to the mix, if a site is obviously trying to game the system (listicles, seo spam etc) just drop and ban them from the search index.
I don't know why people are confused about why discourse intuitively feels bad. I can expound - and perhaps you have a "simple mode" that few people enable...

1) It takes over browser control. cntl+f and scrolling have two levels. The first level that discourse wants control of is its own way of searching (which I always override by pushing cntl+f again). Same with the scroll bar - there is the browsers bar & the thread's bar. Why? That's bad UX.

2) Not content-oriented enough. On a forum content is king, not the banners, menus, popups, metadata, etc.

3) I don't care about tags... Why are you putting social media memes into forum UX? It is the forum search engine's job to look through the usernames, content, and titles of each post and use that stuff to find it... It isn't the user's job to provide some very limited amount of search terms or whatever for their thread/post/subforum.

4) Dynamically loading content as you scroll down is lame. How can I jump to the bottom? How do I know how far I need to scroll or how many pages there are?

5) Is "categories" supposed to be "subforums" or "forums"? I suppose I could get used to these little things. I'm just taking the official discourse community forum in my above examples so far.