skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reflects one of the greatest dissatisfaction I have with touring the United States, which is the ubiquity of franchises. I can tour cities across the country and I always see the same companies: Starbucks, Target, 7Eleven, Panda Express, Petco, etc. It doesn't matter if I go to Salem, Austin, or Los Angeles. I see the same stores with the same shopping centers. There is a lost sense of culture.

The same goes for billboards. It's always the same companies marketing: Ford, McDonalds, etc. Why do we hardly ever see small brands marketing? I'd be inclined to keep billboards if small brands utilized them to help their business, but that is rarely the case. Given this, why do we still tolerate billboards to the same mega-corporations? Everyone already knows they exist and what they sell. How much more exposure do they really need at the expense of the natural beauty of our towns and our own mental state?
Ah, the Timex Sinclair 1000! I would fantasize about having one while looking at magazines ads. You could buy the kit, build it and learn so much about computing, all for $99.95 US! Sure, the 1K of RAM was a bit limiting, but you could save up and buy a 16K RAM pack.
Kids these days have no respect for saving bandwidth with their inane top posting.
Given all the hubbub and attention surrounding Genius, I’m surprised they’re not actually bigger than $80 million.
The ZX81 was also my first computer. Have to say I must have better luck because mine is still going to this day (although I did recently need to service and fix it).
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If you have running water in your home, every drop likely flows through hundreds of feet to miles of plastic pipe before you drink it. Even if you have a private well and copper plumbing, your pump and other components almost always contain plastic parts that make contact with the water.
Britain's Steve Jobs.
You are correct. Mea culpa.

I still find it challenging that it would be completely acceptable for Facebook to run private A/B tests with the same variables to optimizing advertising revenue but the unethical part is making it public after peer review.

I guess i just don't get or agree with the ethics of that situation.
Maybe forums were already perfect. Sure, design could always be updated. However, what's wrong with vBulletin 4 UX? Nothing. It works in all conditions.

Not some self-updating battery-draining endless scrolling website. Yes, I'm looking at you, Discourse. Not to mention the tremendous amount of edge cases where it fails because its complexity is simply out of control. For example, it drops posts on any kind of connection interruption (tab sleep, network down, device sleep, …) unless you refresh.
That's pretty close, but you need to add the protections around Object.keys(...) with guards in the getters and setters when using JS/TS. Sealing the entire class static should prevent the need and ability to edit that way.
Unwilling to Wait for Approval, Some Healthy Americans Seek Booster Shots
Al Gore didn’t invent those.
I use when doing DSA/Algorithmic puzzle solving. I typically would use Java for such a thing. TS is pretty nice and when I don't need dependencies.... deno is a nice Typescript first language/runtime/env.
I've still got my Sinclair in a shoebox upstairs, complete with the 16KB RAM expansion pack, a program or two on cassette tape, and the cord for plugging it into my TV (which would probably need a whole chain of adapters today).
How do I turn off my existence?
https://archive.md/k47Dn
Yep, agreed. I've been looking for over 2 years and haven't been able to find someone who's a good fit.
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The US Bureau of Labor Statistics actually employees quite a few people to call stores across the country and get prices. Planet money interviewed one such person not long ago. https://www.npr.org/2021/07/13/1015804773/how-do-you-measure...
It's easy to say that but look at the reduction in smoking over the last 20 years... it was unimaginable that the government would crack down and actively reduce smoking and cigarette accessibility and advertising but it did once the magnitude of the harm was recognized and accepted.
How do you know until you indict and do discovery?
Censorship is far from not limited to government action. I see this misconception a lot, and I believe it comes from Americans misinterpreting their first amendment.
Mysterious QUX kickstarter device by MAGA supporters
The excellent Micro Men docudrama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Men) has somehow been on Youtube since 2013:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM (1h24m)

Micro Men, working title Syntax Era, is a 2009 one-off BBC drama television programme set in the late 1970s and the early-mid 1980s, about the rise of the British home computer market. It focuses on the rivalry between Sir Clive Sinclair (played by Alexander Armstrong), who developed the ZX Spectrum, and Chris Curry (played by Martin Freeman), the man behind the BBC Micro.

(Sinclair didn't exactly like it though.)
So there's a record of everyone they sell a shack to? Come on. You gotta build your own Kaczynski shack. Amateur hour over here.
I too still have the computer and it powers up. 90% of the keys have stopped working though.
ZX81 was my first computer, putting the kit (!) together with my dad. Didn’t work so sent it back and got a pre made one, found out later that at least 1/3rd of the kits didn’t work.

That, going through 101 Basic Computer Games, and typing in the esoteric Beagle Bros commands in their ads are fond memories.
RIP Sir Sinclair.
The wealthy should suffer no more, or less, than ordinary folk. Our justice system is broken, and yet that breakage does not touch the Saklers. Maybe if it did, there'd be a cry for change from the people who can afford to spend the dollars needed to change the system.
Do we have reason to believe that auto-delete means anything other than "hide it from me, please?"
Thanks for the clarification! Makes sense now.
It’s trying to surface long articles and you’re asking it for a one word answer. What did you expect? A long article consisting of “Emma Stone played Cruella” repeated 800 times?
I agree with you. However unlikely, I simply see a prison sentence as the most likely "real" punishment.

The reason I say "real" is because even if we meant to take "all" of their wealth, what are the chances we actually get all of it? And without getting all of it, a seemingly negligible amount of cash, like 10MM which is <0.1% relative to >10,000MM, can still make the crime "worth it."
The US Constitution can be changed, never forget that.
Hiding spam from users is an agenda, so therefore my usage complies with your definition.
I think you make a good point that is worth talking about but also it seems unfair to compare the two, in that manner at least. Both are awful but the way that opiates kill and really destroy lives, relationships, families, etc. is really on a different time span and level.
The Spectrum and ZX81 are (rightly) the computers for which Clive Sinclair is remembered. But it was his unsuccessful follow-up, the QL, which inspired a certain Linus Torvalds to write Linux:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_QL#Legacy
> Secondly the results matched a few judoinside.com results which is ok, including sites to her competitors, but seemed to miss the judoinside website for her: https://www.judoinside.com/judoka/92660/Daria_Bilodid.

The title says this search engine punishes modern websites (images, videos, MB of JS, I suppose), and this site looks scarce on text and heavy on images, maybe that's confusing the ranking.

I certainly find the results very refreshing, but you'll have to complement with other search engines if they're not enough. In fact, I think the days when we could use a single search engine have already passed.
Obesity is fairly well documented to cause poor fertility in animal studies
Probably because back then you could rip apart your, say C64, and replace borked components with a soldering iron or so my dad told me.
I suspect a lot of people on this website wouldn't be here were it not for him (perhaps me included).

The sense of wonder I got as a kid by playing games and learning how to program on his machines made for amazing life-shaping experiences.
Was it this[0] guy? Previously discussed on HN[1][2].

[0] https://www.deepsouthventures.com

[1] https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-inter...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132
State secrets has long been the get out of jail free card from the US constitution
How does it compare to the OpenDistro for Elastic KNN plugin - which also uses HNSW (and also includes scalable storage, high availability, backups, and filtering)?
My 77" LG CX OLED still has a coax RF input, and I've hooked a few consoles and computers up to it. And it actually looks, well, better than I expected I guess!
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There has to be some standard of interaction or genuine, self-described genocidal nuts will take over. See: every attempt to create a moderation-free platform. The only people who'll stick around are real monsters and people who don't think they'll be the target if the monsters execute their plans.
It does sound like one of those "because it's cool" features rather than "because anyone should ever actually use this".
I'm not talking about anatomy, but rather physiology (obesity affects hormones related to sperm). Do you have some information to suggest this is an anatomical issue (other than sleep apnea) rather than physiological one?
False positives mean that they are censoring things that aren't spam, as illustrated in TFA.
Is this the thread where we post our usernames? I'm @deets.
Simple: differentiate between basic feature maturity and additional optional features.
You release a working product, then you add working functionality over time. This is what the successful software companies do today anyways.
The traditional way as a mailing list subscriber is to automatically filter incoming messages of each mailing list into a dedicated folder, which builds you an archive from when you first joined. In addition, mailing list servers (at least used to) provide zip archives of messages by month/year in mbox format that you can import into your local folder. When that wasn’t available, I sometimes asked long-time subscribers for a copy of their archive. The benefit is that you are not dependent on whatever search tooling the list server provides, but can use the email client of your choice, and you still have the archive in case the list server shuts down.
> which seemed appropriate for a non-commercial math site

They are used by large cooperations too. The Alphabet domain is abc.xyz. Science Corp's is science.xyz.
I wonder if that's why he mentions "without a valid reason".
I'm actually really sad about it. My first experience programming was with his machine. Rest in peace :(
We have always been at war with misinformation.
tenebaum_linux_rant_2.0.txt
I've never really seen tech debt cause an immediate, hugely-costly single event where you could say "see, that was the risk we were taking."

I've seen it frequently slow feature development down, though.

But... I've also seen a lot of rewrites fail to improve feature development speed.

So until we, as a discipline, can quantify and predict development speed w.r.t. shitty vs good code, it's going to be a tough conversation that'll rely on persuasion and gut estimates.

We normally can't even predict how expensive (time-consuming) doing that rewrite that we want to do would be! Let alone the benefit!
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/SharingAndReleasing...
This got me thinking that maybe one of the other big reasons for this is that the algorithms prioritize newer pages over older pages. This produces the problem where instead of covering a topic and refining it over time, the incentive is to repackage it over and over again.

It reminds me of an annoyance I have with the Kindle store. If I wanted to find a book on, let's say, Psychology, there is no option to find all-time respected books of the past centenary. Amazon's algorithms constantly push to recommend the latest hot book of the year. But I don't want that. A year is not enough time to have society determine if the material withstands time. I want something that has stood the test of time and is recommended by reputable institutions.
Guns are evil and disgusting machines that exist only for murder.

Guns for no-one.
Yes, perhaps it is. Eulogies and Obituaries are different things. I'm not here to eulogise him, for sure. He was a controversial figure in his own lifetime, a brilliant self promoter. Lord Alan Suger learned a lot of marketing tricks from him.

There's something quintessentially British about promoting tech wizards as heros for making remarkably average product, but making it mass market. Sinclair electronics and Amstrad unquestionably took computing to the masses, in all its buggy variety.

Sinclair's calculator made the V&A design gallery as an icon. It was pretty unusable, but stunningly beautiful. My dad refused to let me get one (he was a compsci professor) and I got a Texas instruments handheld instead.
Your cell phone company knows the tower you are talking to and probably which (directional) antenna you are talking to. Antennas are in the process of getting a lot more directional with 5G, so they'll soon go from trivially being able to track you within a block or two to within a meter or two.

It's not great.
I read that quote entirely different, this site seems to be billing itself as a community with a code of conduct. It's entirely possible to have ideas challenged while being respectful and courteous towards other people. It's also possible that your art may not be accepted by the site and community, and this community isn't a good fit for you.
3x a small number is still a small number. Your chances of getting struck by lightning increase if you live on a hill, but no one is basing home buying decisions on that.

The real argument is that guns enable acts that, while rare, and while they affect few people, are so egregious that we as a society will go to great lengths to ensure they never happen (school shootings).
I hope OP does not ever use amazon.
I've lived in several US suburbs and as far as I've seen block parties in suburbs only happen on TV. Suburbs are actively antisocial places.

Street festivals and that sort of stuff actually happen in NYC, which is, of course, not a suburb.
lol this is great, reminds me of the old school search engines we would use in school back in the day before Google haha.
> I use a trained neural network I keep between my ears...
Recall is sometimes fuzzy with age, but it works well enough, and I don't have to worry about external queries violating my various rights nearly as much as with tech companies.

I don't understand the point you're making (unless you're being snarky.) You recognize that most other users of Google Location History can do the same?

> My first question, though, would be "Why?" What value do you get out of tracking your location with any great detail that self hosting it would be of much value?

Another way of framing is what utility Location History can provide to users. Some use cases are casual ("Where did I go exactly on this trip two years ago?", "Where did I eat when I was in X city 9 months ago?", etc) while other people have personal uses for it: https://towardsdatascience.com/analyzing-my-google-location-...

> However, various cheap GPS loggers and Google Earth import probably would do a lot of what you're looking for.

That would probably work, as well perhaps another OSM-based mapping application. I don't know the value of all that extra metadata which is computed though (as highlighted in the above article).
Cell phone towers can still track you, unless you don't have a SIM card.
If I ever start a super-secret club, I now know what the domain name TLD should be. Nobody would be able to spread the secret!
It's also because that's a way of trying to copyright protect recipes, which are normally not copyright protected.

> “Mere listings of ingredients as in recipes, formulas, compounds, or prescriptions are not subject to copyright protection. However, when a recipe or formula is accompanied by substantial literary expression in the form of an explanation or directions, or when there is a combination of recipes, as in a cookbook, there may be a basis for copyright protection.”
Or maybe it was a random hardcoded performance target.

Next version improve it artificially by x% by simply changing the hardcoded var. And boast you device is so much better

It might sound like a tinfoil comment but apple was already caught underclocking older devices 'for the good of users'
I've had many people take advantage of my initial trust in their honor. It's been expensive.

But when they return my trust, it's been very good. For me, the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages. My dad lived it, and he never ever broke a promise to me, or to anyone else I know of. It's the way I want to be. It's the way my friends are, too.
> this was an unforeseen advantage of good US IP law that other countries are trying to replicate

More common, from what I've seen, is smaller countries reluctant to adopt liberal US-style IP law and being pressured to do so by the US State Department as a condition in trade negotiations and foreign aid. The US delegation was the principal pusher of IP reform in the TPP, and this evaporated when the US left.
Then don't.

If you aren't willing to interact with people as humans, that doesn't give you the right to treat them as tools. The people who are interested in talking about some game mod don't owe you the ability to quickly look up information about it.
Mailing lists are nice to use, but quite difficult to set up.
They're not wrong. What even is this? A monetised front for Twitter? Not even it's own site? It's garbage, sites like this are the 'stain to the community', not the people pointing it out.
Fantastic project! Found very interesting links to a lot of compiler related keywords. A similar service, yet different in their approach to cut through the e-commerce and seo optimized websites I found useful is MillionsShort[0]

millionshort.com
> Surely plenty of private/community slacks out there to connect the two..?

The challenge is finding an effective barrier of entry so that you are connecting people on both sides who are serious.

Out of curiosity how did you build your MVP? Did you learn to code or did use no code tools or something similar?
Not a great comparison.

I've never heard of a toddler accidentally murdering someone with a fire extinguisher, yet that's an everyday occurrence with guns.
Autobahns are safe, safer than speed restricted U.S. highways, and certainly much safer than guns being readily available.

No kid ever accidentally found a no speed limit Autobahn in their parent's bedroom and accidentally killed himself or a friend with it, nor did anyone ever get angry and no-speed-limited someone they didn't like, no-speed-limited-Autobahns can't be brought to insurrections, drive-by-Autobahning is unheard of, drunk Autobahning is severly punished and will result in you losing your right to Autobahn.

Conversely, I absolutely advocate regulating access to guns in the U.S. like access to no-speed-limited Autobahns to have a apple-to-apple discussion about this: i.e. with mandatory months long required training, strict tests, and being easily revocable for offenses. Autobahning is only allowed using registered and insured devices that have to pass strict technical tests every two years, are always visible and cannot be concealed, cannot be made at home, and have to show markings that make them and the owner easily identifiable.
This is another thing rarely talked about that's quite common - people really high up in the tech companies don't use the stuff.

Remember, when Steve Jobs' biographer asked him what his kids thought about the iPad, his response was, "They haven't used it." You're more likely to find the "cellphone free" group among high level tech execs and such.

Why is that? It's worth pondering.

I know more and more people, deeply in tech professionally, who are opting out of it in their personal life, across the board. They know what it can do, they've seen it, may have worked on older versions of it, and simply want no part of it anymore.
Accounting, Corporate Finance
> The above comment doesn't really come down to speculation though. It really just depends how much of that BTC they turned into cash to buy infrastructure or pay people. Considering that it is logistically easier to do this with just money rather than exchanging, then it isn't unlikely that they maintained a fair amount of that BTC, and thus the "they probably have a bunch of money" conclusion.

Yes, I misunderstood the point.

The US government gets rid of Bitcoins ASAP, and I know of businesses who accept Bitcoin and who also sell it ASAP.
Yeah, I read too much into this thinking that it wasn't just mis-information campaigns but the other violent groups posting their vitriol as well.
> They claimed that many workers at that level left >18 months ago and haven't returned due to the protracted, bonus unemployment that they were receiving, which recently has expired.

Doubt. I've been on unemployment before. If you're skilled in the slightest, they are putting your ass to work quickly. If you're unskilled, but can lift 30lbs, then they are putting your ass to work pretty quickly. The people managing to run out the clock on unemployment are basically 50+ year old women, or those who are really good at gaming the systems which are not easily gamed.

I built a house in 2018 and there was a huge construction labor shortage even them. Partially due to difficulty getting immigrant workers and partially because people who left the business after 2009 are only recently starting to be replaced.
> good marketer just markets himself, not the product

This is why I don't think I can hire good marketers and always failed when I tried to do so. If someone is a good enough marketer, they don't even need a product to sell, they can just sell anything or nothing.
Great point. With this change the pricing tiers make perfect sense for companies/projects at any stage:

- MVP (was Hobby)

- Startup

- Business

- Enterprise
Given the context, it's absolutely a spam thing. When the .XYZ gTLD launched, registrars were incentivized to discount it aggressively, sometimes as low as $1 for the first year. Spammers loved this.
Ahh, fair enough, thanks!