skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How would that look like exactly?

You pay for the search product but you're able to do a ton of cool things that Google will likely never be incentivized to do. Basically turn the open web into a platform that works for you:

- Setup highly custom alerts when a webpage changes content (e.g. ___ is now on sale)

- Broaden search to include things like my contacts, docs, Wikipedia, etc. Ideally this is all done in a small little local index

- Automatic visualization of the content graph (e.g. who reported on __ first and who is just regurgitating primary sources?)
Hi Richard, lucky coincidence - we're launching something similar in that regard today [1][2], in general we say "meeh" to search engines (you did not hear me saying that) but I love to keep watching your project from today on.

We're launching Sentinel, an A.I.based data aggregation tool that does the searching for you and brings you back just results (instead of websites). You could call it a "semantic web enabler with a large language model instead of xml" at it's core – but it's too hard to digest for all people off HN.

Chris

[1] https://get-sentinel.io/
[2] https://medium.com/@get_sentinel/a-i-might-make-humans-happi...
Hi techrdan - can you lighten up on the insults. I'm really trying to discuss a topic with a teeny, tiny Overton window and I don't deserve you continued efforts to caricature me as a racist.

> Then how could the system have persisted for decades?

- surely I have explained at least one mechanism - in your words - "in distracting long detail";

- another one was to make sure no white kid ever learnt a black language. Most kids in the areas I spoke about above learnt French as a third language - not Zulu or even Hindi. This was deliberate;

- they went to enormous lengths to destroy any common knowledge of Sofiatown and it was a rejection of that the races could never live together. To show you what it meant: they renamed it "Triuph";

- they high-jacked the dominant protestant religion (ask Reverend Beyers Naude)

- in the mid 1980s the imposed a state of emergency that controlled all TV and news.

- any yes, like many places in the early mid 20th century - there were indeed a lot of racists.

But I suspect form the tone of your comments you aren't really asking in some good faith pursuit of knowledge of a complex place. I suspect you are rather employing a common rhetorical device to actually assert there "there other is no possible explanation - other than simple pure evil bigotry - for how it could continue for so long. And anyone who I feel doesn't agree with this is a bigot".

Its not cool and its not consistent with the site guidelines.

So let's discuss briefly the other Apartheid state - Northern Rhodesia. Here the whites-only voting was first-past-the-post as per the UK mother ship.

In all of the elections about 40% of the white population regularly voted against Ian Smith in just about all the districts. They won exactly ZERO seats in parliament.

40% is not "a few" people.

Voting structures matter and they get high-jacked. Look after yours.
Anything you do on Yandex you should probably "sandbox" via either a firefox container or private browser session since it's Russia based.
Private companies (theoretically/ideally) don't have the power of life and death over you
Doing some analysis, "naked" if-err-return-err shows up in about 5% of error handling cases in my team's most critical service.

The rest of the error blocks do something more (attempt a fallback, add context, log something, metric something, etc). This is code base that has been worked on for about 6 years, around 40k lines of code, 32 contributors, and over 450 releases. This is a legit production mail transfer agent. Take this as an experience report on a real system: that pattern is not as common as you think. 5% is pretty low.
Your example is unlikely in Europe, but the importance of the degree depends on the type of company. For banks or older industrial companies, a degree is mandatory. Contacts/networks also play a part and can compensate weaker degrees.
The metaverse is very much like the "Web 3.0" trend going around right now. Everyone has their own definition that they insist will be THE definition of what things will look like once it exists, but nobody knows for sure (and most people trying to say they do are just doing so from trying to build it themselves).

The reality is that most, if not all, of them will be wrong. And that, if either comes to "fruition", it'll probably be some amalgamation of pieces from every "this is what that is" post out there.
Right, Miis and Steam chat, but in VR and shared between services. I'm the wrong person to boost this stuff, I think it will work but I don't think it's the next big thing.

What you are describing is custom built individual partial integrations, many of which aren't even VR. They're the equivalent of Gopher while the Metaverse is the equivalent of HTTP web sites.

Right now you can't seamlessly transition your digital presence across thousands of virtual worlds and service, with a variety of independent services having integration points and presences in each other's virtual worlds and interoperating with a variety of VR equipment. That's what they're building.
All of these are true except for d and e. I get multiple calls per week some weeks asking for donations from various deparments, having never donated to my college and demonstrated no willingness to do so. If they can panhandle from alumni, why not call prospective students? Too low of an ROI or are they just playing hard to get?
> Can you point me at the proof for the soundness of the documented behavior java or javascript or C++ docs?

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/3-540-48737-9

Java does have a formal semantics, with a whole chapter on its soundness.

> in general, cpython is the spec

Well there we go - turns out the written document doesn't cover everything after all. A second ago we were at 'Every guaranteed behavior of python is described clearly and concretely in these documents.' Turns out not.

I'm not criticising Python as being exceptionally bad, but we can certainly do it much better.
The good old hunter2 days.
The depreciation of v2 addresses is the best course of action in this case. v2 addresses consist of the first 80 bits of the SHA-1 hash of the hidden services 1024 bit public RSA key. This sentence alone is enough to make any cryptographer cringe, it is really bad! (SHA-1 has been shown to be broken and it is suspected that 1024 bit RSA can be cracked by any determined well funded state actor)

Also, Tor Project has had v2 address depreciation on it's roadmap for 2 years now, they have given hidden service operators plenty of time to prime their community for the v2 --> v3 switch. This gradual change is way better than scrambling to depreciate v2 addresses in response to some state actor publicly breaking the RSA keys of v2 hidden services.

> I thought I owned my tor domain

You may now, but if v2 is kept around soon you won't be the only one with the domains private key.
It's sad how popular or important people get targeted.
If you can, a PPS signal is ideal; sometimes they're not available though (I've got a setup with an LTE modem that includes a GPS signal, but no PPS. Without a PPS signal, and through the many layers, it's kind of meh accuracy, and I wouldn't export its time to anyone, but it's better than nothing when I don't have any external communications.
You can try the search engine without installing it in Chrome. Use incognito mode and put it in the search bar at the top. Doesn't work when its not in incognito mode though(?)
I’ve never trusted Jimmy Wales with money and so I have never donated to Wikipedia.
no not entirely. Even patreon gives benefits in exchange for payment. It's just very different benefits.

are you really engaging in good faith?
The IPCC does not make predictions. Never has, never will. The whole point, which real climate scientists repeat as nauseum, is we can never know absolutes because of the huge number of variables and timeframes. So what they do instead is provide scenarios. And each scenario has a series of weightings or probabilities. The summaries spell these out in rough terms, the full reports go into intricate detail and sources. If you spend the time to read the summaries you will find a good number of scenarios which are currently playing out as we speak.
I pulled up your main page on Firefox and just did a search for "asd" - testing it out. Scrolling down a bit to images shows me some definitely NSFW images. If the goal is to be used in the workplace since you mention developer-focused "search-apps" then this is a nonstarter for me. Just a heads up.
This is pretty interesting, because the effects of migrating from lz4 to zstd were:

- Total storage usage reduced by ~21% (for our dataset, this is on the order of petabytes)

- Average write operation duration decreased by 50% on our fullest machines

- No observable query performance effects

It seems like the better compression ratio and resulting reduced IO more than makes up for increased CPU compared to lz4. I wish they had mentioned the actual effect on CPU.

Compare to the recent thread "The LZ4 introduced in PostgreSQL 14 provides faster compression" [0] where the loudest voices were saying that zstd would not work due to increased CPU. This is a different layer (filesystem compression vs db compression), but this article represents an interesting data point in the conversation.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29147656
Whenever CPU speeds surpass disk speeds, compression becomes king; when the opposite happens it dies away. I don't know if we'll ever see disk speeds compete with CPU speeds again, however.
is it ready for production? last time I checked, yrs seemed to be incomplete
I've looked into this and it seems the biggest difference is where the brackets are. They're much higher in the US, even if the marginal tax rate for high earners in California is not much lower than Germany.
> Our grandparents repaired everything

I think our grandparents had just as many disposable things as we do, just not nearly as expensive. I think the idea of disposable products basically began with the industrial revolution, when mass production became easy, if not necessarily "cheap" yet
On mobile I'm able to search no problem. I guess that makes sense though because Chrome extensions on mobile aren't a thing.
I don't think they will most likely win just because they have eyeballs and attention. It's necessary but not sufficient. Take Marketplaces for example. It worked because facebook had the eyeballs and attention to seed the buyer and seller side of the marketplace. But it was also just a way better experience. I could post my used iphone in 30 seconds vs. 5 mins at my computer on craigslist. The thing with metaverse is that the use case hasn't even been proven yet. We knew people bought/sold used stuff on craigslist. And we know facebook's implementation was better. We don't know people want the metaverse, and we don't know whether facebooks implementation will be better. However, if both are true, they have the eyeballs and attention to grow and succeed with it.
You are right to be skeptical of extensions. There are a lot of sketchy ones out there but...

Nope. We aren't doing that and not planning to.

All the extension does is change one setting.
If you set your search engine default to http://you.com manually in Chrome with "https://you.com/search?q=%s" you will not need the extension... but for most people convenience wins and well...
It's tough to go up against a monopoly that controls the browser too?
why? remote teams are already a thing...
Are you aware of any resources that explain how? I can see that iOS can use SVGs for icon assets and the like, but not in views.
Oh, that's good to know. Maybe it's time to invest in a kitchen scale. (And I'll buy an actual cookbook while I'm at it, so I won't have to deal with this SEO disaster any more..)

EDIT: Hey, wait, I actually found a good website with recipes: http://online-cookbook.com/goto/cook/rpage/000DDF

and a good search engine: https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=pancake+recipe&pro...
> Surely no one realized it at the time, but the seeds of a new way of war were planted in the Congo’s rich soil at that time

It's not hard to predict, and mercenaries are hardly new. Don't let leaders at the time or now off the hook for not expecting it.

Wars have always resulted in unemployed soldiers that society either had to find work for, in peace or in another war, or they find work for themselves. From what I've read (not much) it was one reason for the Crusades - to give a lot of unemployed soldiers something to do, far away from home. People trained in Afghanistan by the US against the Soviets became Al Quada; Central Americans trained by the US in the 1980s became today's drug gangs; demobilized Iraqi soldiers became the insurgency and later many became part of ISIS. Many US soldiers from the War on Terror work for private contractors (at least some qualifying as mercenaries); many others come home and have a very hard time adjusting to civilian life, with tragically hide mental health and suicide rates as a result.
If you wrote it for POSIX, you can be sure it’ll run today and continue to run unmodified for the next 50 years.

Software needs to be durable.
How high are you right now ... :D
i'm the same way. as in almost the poster child.

one thing that I've found is to just give myself time to do cleanup. that includes making the code more readable, adding better handling for error paths, writing tests, documentation, etc.

i'm still not great, but at least some of those things get done. so when it comes time to try to release something, you can ignore the newest work and hopefully ship something useful with the rest.

usually when i sit down I only get joy out of pushing the functionality apex a little further. when this gets tiring, instead of posting semi-useful comments on HN, just spend 10 minutes making a little test or something.
Present the extension as an option then, not a requirement, with instructions on how to add the search manually.

It looks promising but if you block access without the extension, a portion of users like me are just not going to give it a chance. Not just because it's inconvenient but I rarely install extensions because it opens up the browser more to potential bad actors when I want it as secure as possible. I also don't want to change my browser settings before trying and the fact you require an extension is just a bad signal of what's to come.
self-removed
- Doesn't remove ads on Twitter itself

- Is not compatible with any news paywalls (they just strip ads out of already free-to-access articles)

- Edit Tweet isn't Edit Tweet. It's an option to delay your tweets by 60 seconds. After that, you cannot Edit Tweet. "Slow Tweet" is more accurate but probably less marketable.

Even if I were still using Twitter, and even though I support journalism when I can (paywalls for a few sites, etc.), I still wouldn't pay $3 for this.

I think Twitter has a lot of work left to do on their business model. This move, IMO, is at least 5 years too late (if not 8-10). Considering Twitter has been unprofitable for most of its life, including in 2020[0], it's only now that they're thinking about alternatives to their ad network.

0. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/29/twitter-twtr-earnings-q1-202...
Seriously, that's just not super valuable information to have stored in your mind like that.

Sure I could, it'd be fine, but why store the entire syntax structure in my mind rather than a pointer to the location where I can find it in its most updated form?
So awesome. Physics!!
North Korea is not sliding towards tyranny.
> I'm an absolute nobody in the art world. I started minting my art in early 2020. This year i have made about 2.5x my tech salary from NFT sales and royalties. NFTS are an amazing deal for creators.

I'm not sure what marketplace you're on, but assuming an average tech salary of $100k USD, earning $250k in 12 months would put you well within the top 100 earners on SuperRare. The majority of artists in that tier have over 50,000 followers each, so the fact you're able to compete with them as a 'nobody' means you're a special case.
You are probably right. One of the "go-to moves" of the Republicans is to find some bad thing that happened in Europe and claim we "don't want that!" even if takes quoting a small three week window in August when "investments were down 40%" because everyone was on vacation.
The world isn’t black and white.

That level of accountability is very expensive however - you might find yourself wishing for the good old days when government toilet seats only cost $600.
Wait until the US public finds out about the concept of a credit score (new in the 1980s).
> the USA don't care about your diploma, only what you can do

That's a total bullshit, unfortunately. Everything else is correct.
Blockchain is decentralized, so there is no "hosting server" of the NFT
> Well, sort of, except the National Party was campaigning for a 'Yes' [to end apartheid] vote.

I'm not sure how that minimised anyone who then voted "yes, I'm glad you are finally proposing that - its what I want"? Odd line to take.

But the Apartheid National Party did a lot stranger things than that - after a quick rebrand - they decided to merge with the ANC!

As I said - a complicated place.
I see the opposite happening. Strong currency and remote work further aggravates brain drain. 2 years of COVID has already impacted terribly the tech startup ecosystem in Brazil. Well, at least in terms of talent. At least, VC money is even more abundant now if you're raising in dollars.
SpinLaunch completes first test flight
Under $300 is the "budget" category of new phones.
while `rm -rf` is intimidating, it's `fdisk /dev/hda` that strikes fear into my heart
This all sounds like excuses. Insert that two dog meme, one builds a freaking datacenter using commodity hardware in a barn and the other uses AWS and complains about lock-in and expenses.

As an example, imagine if the founders and engineers of Backblaze thought like that.
That was specifically referring to the availability of code examples for the core library on clojuredocs.org (I know hyperspec has some code examples as well, but they haven't been as comprehensive imo) and the ability to seamlessly jump into library source code within Emacs.
Whether I think it's fine or not, privacy is dead.
Can we...can we have at least one "not okay" option that doesn't brand everyone involved as evil?
I'd go farther than that and say that such data shouldn't be collected in the first place.
I think you nailed the bullet with "moved to traditional investments". I don't need to worry about tether anymore and the ROI is good enough.

I'll consider it again after tether drops the crypto market.
Worked in tech at a large financial - while it may be second largest by headcount, I would guess perhaps not by total number of MDs/Partners? In my experience at a similar company, the off-shore offices were not viewed as being innovative or producing the same level of value per-person. There were a lot of junior/mid-level people there, but the projects were typically being driven from the US/UK. How does that stack up with GS?
You went to the trouble of showing "To see results and get the convenience of you.com, you’ll need to add the you.com Chrome extension" when you could have just showed me the **** search results.

This isn't making it more convenient, bro. You(dot com) just wasted my 10 seconds.

You're stabbing yourself in the leg in order to spite Google
>Signal/noise: and ‘placebo’ effects are stronger when it produces ‘side effects’ rather than being inert

I don't follow. What do you mean? What's the difference between an "effect" and a "side effect"? And what's an "inert" effect?
My initial reaction is that adding an angle parameter would help. A circle should have votes from many angles while lines will vote from only a portion of the circle. With some added weight from angled convergence the faint circle could score higher.
The "hate" for Pascal (or at least weirdness towards it) was arguably generated by AT&T, and to a lesser extent by Microsoft. The Pascal programming language (to include Turbo Pascal, Delphi, and the IDE from Borland) were in the way and in competition to the languages that AT&T (C and C++) and Microsoft (BASIC and later C#) were attempting to push on the masses. Thus it became a thing to bash it. A lot of this was done by "hit pieces" written about Pascal and then often unthinkingly regurgitated in the media, books, and various blogs.

Probably the most well known, that many programmers would know off the top of their heads, is "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language", written in 1981 by Brian Kernighan. There were many more similar short "hit jobs" written like it.

What is overlooked by many people is that Brian Kernighan worked for AT&T/Bell Labs (and didn't retire until around 2000). He was an advocate for C and friends of Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, co-creators of the C language. Sorry to digress a bit, but Ken Thompson would later on co-create Golang (Go), which many argue shows a strong Pascal influence.

Brian Kernighan's assessment of Pascal was very bias, and should have been taken as such. Instead, it was "weaponized" as a way to disparage and discourage use of Pascal, even 20 to 40 years later. Even though: 1) Many of the negatives stated in his papers became no longer true as Pascal evolved as a programming language (to include Object Pascal/Delphi descendants). 2) What he stated were negatives were not true for various versions of Pascal around even the time of his paper being published. 3) Some of the things he described as "negatives" at the time, turned out to actually be positives about the language. Probably a good idea to take a look at the below link to get a better idea of various points:
https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Why_Pascal_is_Not_My_Fav...

Microsoft was the other major player involved, because it could be described that it went to war with Borland (including using dirty tactics), in order to squash it. Particularly Turbo Pascal, various products of Borland, and trying to derail the company. This includes hiring away Borland's top engineers to work for Microsoft, and among their biggest pilfered treasures was Anders Hejlsberg (the creator of C# and Turbo Pascal).

Even today, in various C family language circles, there is unfounded and unthinking dislike for Pascal/Object Pascal/Delphi or anything not using curly braces. Despite that the language is a very good and viable alternative to C, C++, Java, or C#.
First of all, who cares about the video? You "own" the dunk, not the video of the dunk.

So even if the video goes down, you still "own" the dunk.

How would you delete the history of a dunk?

And in any other case: archive.org
I don't see how the frequency or laziness of the process makes a meaningful difference. It takes an interpreter, evaluates it with partial information (like, "type of x is integer"), and delays the rest till the execution is possible with the remaining information (like, "x is 7").
I get the exactly same result with that query as the "overlap" query:

SELECT
*
FROM
meetings, new_meetings
WHERE
new_meetings.starts_at<meetings.ends_at
AND new_meetings.ends_at>meetings.starts_at;
Totally agree.

To add: it's an orchestrated effort to distract people from realities of the world (including FB's own troubles).

Nothing in this metanonsense helps people to be more productive in solving real world problems.
It's most like going from https to https2 (whatever that may be) in that it changes the fundamental systems beneath it resulting in having stronger keys, longer keys, composed with different tech.
Besides more than switch, it is new or new kind software that getting written often in newer languages which may eventually replace old stacks.