skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fundamental problem with any system that metaphorically eats its own tail. The problem is that the model facebook/meta and google use as businesses is at odds with elevating truthful information above clickbait and ragebait. Engagement metrics on facebook/meta (and most other social networks) consistently elevate inflammatory and conspiratorial content because that keeps people on the site longer and gives them more opportunities to show them ads.

The problem with google is slightly more complicated but again comes down to how they eat their own tail. SEO sites that show ads rise to the top of the heap because they game the ranking algorithms whereas sites operating by some other funding model are not incentivized to improve their ranking. So over time what happens is that SEO garbage dominates the front page because it is sponsored by ad revenue. There is an art project that very cleverly demonstrates this dilemma called "google will eat itself". [1]

The obvious solution to these problems are decentralization and interoperability protocols but it's hard to get enough people to use any decentralized solution over what exists currently because network effects trump almost all other concerns for most people. [2]

1: http://www.guerrilla-innovation.com/archives/2005/05/000431....

2: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/access-act-takes-step-...
In general the speed is lost because we make the CPU consume cycles to do things that are not necessary in order to solve a particular problem:

-unneeded allocations

-boxing/unboxing

-garbage collection

-interpreting
Show HN: Running Mate – simple MLOps tool for DS/ML teams
Budget: how many are working on the project?
Features: what should the project do?
Timeliness: when do you want the project done?

You get to choose only two.
MS did invest in Apple when they were at rock bottom.
Agreed! I spent way too long doing flexbox layouts before I discovered 'gap'.
Thanks for pointing that out. You are right.

It doesn't seem to have anything to do specifically with the black ribbon (contrary to the popular belief [1]). I checked the old HN source on Github, and it seems to be used in quite a few places [2]. It is also used on this very page [3].

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=s.gif

[2]: https://github.com/wting/hackernews/search?q=hspace

[3]: I hope the Missouri governor won't prosecute me for clicking on view source, so much for the "Show Me" state :-)
The notion of “my money” versus “the employer’s money” is more than mere semantics.

(You did explain why the notion of getting a year’s worth of interest was based on faulty assumptions, which is why I abandoned it. But that was never my main point.)
I have some extended family who alive along a rugged expanse of the pacific. The after there is amazing wild. There is all types of sea life living in the rocky outcrops and kelp forest. My family there free dives to get abalone with a dull metal knife. Watching them do it is crazy. You begin to worry after they’ve been down a long time. There is no economic incentive for them. They just like to do it.
I use enneagram as a mental model to understand people
Ya, I wonder how our present landscape of fear is affecting our behavior. No doubt it's been studied thoroughly
> Really? Wow, when did that happen?

Importing barbarian fighters to swell the declining rank of the empire is one of the theories of the decline and fall of the Roman empire.

> I went to Rome 3 years ago

About 1600 years too late to be relevant for GPs example.

And for the record, he is wrong about it being relevant to emigration to the US today. Despite having Senators in the Senate on the Capitol hill (Rome had Senators in the Senate on the Capitoline hill), the US is not the Roman republic or empire and the problems they face are not the same.
I’ve struggled for ever with modern pages to find out what even listeners are attached to particular html elements. Is that even possible to find out? Say you’re on a webpage, and when you click a button a bunch of JS happens. Except it’s all minifies uglified. But the browser must know what JS will run when clicking that button. How do I make it show me what that code/function is without trawling through the JS code and hunting for a CSS selector or ID?
Some people feel better with simple labels, I get it. That's how our brain works. But still Myers-Briggs is only a toy and some people use it like a sophisticated tool.
and a small one at that - less to think about trying to show idea
Is there anything that would actually stop a Cyber Truck working on the moon?
I'm assuming the cache isn't kept on disk tho, right?

As in 52s the first time since boot, 5+ for subsequent runs (incorporating time for changed files/directories)
Funny how this is illegal, but car touchscreen controls are not
Good old document.layers vs document.all. And don’t nest your tables more than seven levels deep or Netscape will explode.
Small nitpick, DHTML is Dynamic HTML, not Distributed HTML.
Sorry I just forgot to mention that I can't make a startup nearly
Thanks for that anyway
The value of children declines as a country develops and industrializes. China and the United States share a total fertility rate of 1.7.
There were heaps of private BBSes in the 80s and 90, many of those were pirate sites but some were run by art groups for their members, churches and so on. So private digital spaces are not new by any means
At some point we need to realize that wasting so much electricity for gaming isn't reasonable.
> Except that AI research rarely tries to replicate how people think

It does not matter (and, literally, «how people think» is not necessarily "intelligence" - a special feature). And, if it «mimic[s] the typical outcomes of human effort», it is still within the broad proposal from McCarthy of «solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans» to substantiate the general idea of an "artificial intelligence", which is literal:

___ there is a phenomenon called 'intelligence': can we replicate it through computing?

The difference between the various areas: if it spawns from some consideration of the phenomenon of intelligence call it AI; if it can manage a process unsupervised call it Automation; if it refines its operation through feedback call it Cybernetics; if it manages a process unsupervised refining its operation through feedback in a system inspired by the phenomenon of intelligence call it Artificially Intelligent Cybernetic Automation - I do not see the problem. "It is not really intelligent": yes, we know. We study intelligence and see where that brings. We have posed a problem ("can we replicate intelligence through computing"), then we reap the outcomes of the effort.

The big issue here is that the "unsupervised" part becomes very risky after the feedback if responsibilities are to it delegated beyond its worth of reliability, which is especially relevant if the """intelligence""" part is oracular, a black box, non-transparent, which is apparently something the authors note on a different perspective as they note that «the algorithm was able to spot aspects of reality that humans had not contemplated, might not be able to detect and may never comprehend».

So, as "the strategist" said, "there are things we know we know, there are things we know we do not know, and there are things we do not know we do not know". We have a better idea of the reliability of a deterministic system; we do not know exactly what specific exceptions to our expectations can be raised by automation through less transparent systems; we know those systems are there for anyone to implement and delegate, and that is a problem.
If you have used Rust in any real world capacity on actual projects you know that there are no "Little Books" when its comes to using Rust. An overly complex and unproductive language as much as C++.
Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't look at all like a blog and/or I can't find a way to find any posts.

Also, that is a rough background with it changing every couple of seconds.
But you have to consider that nobody works for free and patents expire.

If nobody thought they could make money, Glybera would never have made as far as it did.

You could start a non profit to make Glybera today as the main patents are expired, but nobody would give you the money to develop it and run trials without a profit motive.

Charities and the government have better ways to spend money than help a few people with a rare disease.

If you want to get rid of the profit motive, you have to find something better to replace it.
Wow, I always kind of assumed Dick Smith was just a fictional mascot like Betty Crocker, but he was a real dude.

I lived in New Zealand for a short while growing up and we used to refer to Dick Smith Electronics as "Dip-shit Electronics" because the prices could be pretty outrageous. It was otherwise a pretty cool store, though; think somewhere between Radio Shack and Best Buy.
1) Scuba Gear is expensive

2) Scuba Gear requires maintenance

3) Scuba Gear requires a compressor which is more expense and maintenance.

4) You can free dive all day and not have to a damn about decompression times (exceptions occur for very aggressive repeated deep drives, which is not happening here). This is untrue for Scuba

5) Clearly there is a cultural component to this.
The way Medicare is artificially restricted from driving down cost is atrocious. Medicare + Medicaid combined costs about as much per capita - NOT per patient - as the UK NHS. Except the UK NHS provides universal cover.

Now the NHS is an aberration and under severe pressure, but it is a good indication of just how inefficient Medicare and Medicaid are - and it's not that they can't do better, it's that they're legally prevented from using their market power.
Nope. It was originally meant to power industrial machinery, and in fact some very early chips that used the in-house instruction set were made and ended up AFAIK in some fabrication machines (lathes, mills, etc).

Afterwards it was a welcome upgrade for PDP-11 based lines, including military spec models, where reliability was more important than pure speed.
"2. Deciding where people can live is extremely tyrannical. Many people own this land, what’s the plan, take their ancestral home? That didn’t work out well any time in history."

I mean, most of the land ownership in the US was obtained by ethnically cleansing the native inhabitants from their ancestral lands just a couple centuries ago, so...
One where you need to kill people for stealing car parts my dude, holy moly, that’s not just terrifying it’s embarrassing.
I have a newer car and don't generally have my phone "secured in a cradle". Instead it's laying on a platform and plugged in via USB, and my car has Android Auto.

I wonder if they are allowing for this mode of usage, and if so, it is allowed to use the built in screen in the car.

Although hands-free usage is supported in the sense of choosing navigation destinations, there are still plenty of buttons on the car touchscreen that are usable and intended to be used on my 2021 model.

It would be interesting if they are outlawing that sort of thing.

If they are not outlawing it, then it doesn't seem very consistent.
Forgot page counters.

/cgi-bin

ColdFusion

Absence of alpha-channel on gifs so having to match the background color.

But yes, it was the wild-wild-west of security holes out there! The amount of genius it takes to create a new web exploit these days is astonishingly high compared to 1994.
I like Protobuf, but think that for the volume most operations deal with, you're better off with how well-support and understood HTTP is.
Make sure any patent assignment has a pull-back mechanism in case the initial buyer goes broke and some other entity buys the patent from the bankruptcy trustee with zero to you, and often the royalties are stripped - not sure how they did it, but patent lawyers have ways to structure a deal so if you have a valid idea and it looks like a good potential earner, he should be able to compose a good enduring deal.
Reddit needs a disambiguation option, like Wikipedia.
Climb the wall.

Written white on black on my desktop background. It's kind of funny, how sometimes random stuff you see on the web sticks to your head. I think it was one of those procrastination links on Hacker News which somehow brought me to this weird video [1] about how to "Climb the wall of awful". I was a hobby climber before and it somehow made sense to me at that time.

Another thing I like to say to myself is "Just do it" at moments when I read Hacker News, Reddit, Twitter and come back to Hacker News for another round. [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo08uS904Rg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0
> why is filesystem traversal not instantaneous

Because a mounted file system isn't a simple indexed list of paths. File systems are shared, mutable state.

The mechanism you're asking about is called the dentry cache[1] and a decent narrative of its operation is found here[2]. It has the fabulously complex job of atomically brokering the state of an arbitrary number of local and remote file systems between an arbitrary number of processes using arbitrary access patterns without consuming all available RAM. Expecting the dentry cache to yield 'instantaneous' results is unreasonable. Comparing its performance to that of an VCS index is naïve.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
[2] https://www.halolinux.us/kernel-reference/the-dentry-cache.h... (no endorsement of these people, but the dentry cache description is both concise and sufficient.)
Would this be something like going offgrid and into nature for four hour hike up to a multiweek road trip? That clears your senses.
COP26 Summarized in 5 Cartoons
Oh.. I then might got everything wrong. Thank you for clearing yorwba
So they're banning structures made of 100% biodegradable material that offsets carbon as it grows and is planted exclusively for this purpose, in favor of concrete and steel? Interesting.
Agreed, they (used to?) hire the most incompetent developer evangelists
Last I looked, CA smog test for post 2000 model year cars is ODB2 only. There's a handful of 2000 and earlier models that also qualify. Anything earlier gets probed until it's old enough.
I recycle bulk amounts of aluminum cans. Mostly because it's good for humans and the earth but you also get a small check.

Usually deliver a truck load to the recycling plant. I always have to show ID and they often cut a check if it's over a certain dollar amount.

So there are definite attempts to keep a light on things to prevent black markets and stay credible and prevent fraud.

Copper piping is also a big problem area. Thieves will go and strip entire houses of all copper piping in a night.
This kind of conferring of unique rights is nothing to do with NFTs.

For example, I can offer a free milkshake to anyone who parks in my parking lot in a yellow car.

Then yellow car isn’t doing anything in this situation, I am, and if I can always change my mind.

Then same is true with cryptovoxels and NFTs.
I recently stumbled across healthchecks.io. It's a one-man SaaS that does cronjob monitoring.
The next giant leap: why Boris Johnson wants to ‘go big’ on quantum computing
I want every comment about this here and on Twitter tattooed over every inch of my body and codebase. Love it.
...and fake edit to add, part of the great thing about the 90s and early 2000s online communities is how unfiltered they were. A forum devoted to politics is a terrible place to discuss politics; the battle lines are already drawn and there's nothing to do but fight. But if you join a forum devoted to sailboats because you like sailboats, and hang around long enough to make friends, and end up discussing politics, a) you will hear opinions you've never been exposed to before, and b) since they're coming from people you already somewhat know and like, it's less likely to devolve into a flamewar.
After reading the headline it took me a second, then I went "Of course, less deer!"

I hate driving country roads because I've had way too many close calls with deer that seem hell-bent on appearing suddenly from off to the side directly in front of you. I once had three separate deer crossing in front of my car incidents in just 48 hours before. 2 extremely close, one I'm surprised I didn't hit and I swerved in a dumb and potentially dangerous way to miss it (probably shouldn't have, but that's what happened in the moment, thankfully I was the only person on the road then).

So yeah, bring on the wolves. I don't want deer to go extinct or anything, but I wouldn't mind being able to loosen my vice grip on the steering wheel and having total vigilance whenever I drive down country roads (especially at night).
Well, gap for flexbox is fairly new https://caniuse.com/flexbox-gap
There's guides out for evaluating startup equity. Here's a couple.
https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation
https://manual.withcompound.com/manual-company-equity/unders...

I don't agree you should assume equity as worthless. Especially for larger vc funded startups. But equity can get complicated, and it's possible for a company to have an exit and for you to lose money. But the majority of early stage start ups will fail.

Though the $120k offer seems much better. Could you negotiate equity or improve salary? 100k*.07 means they are giving you the option to buy 7k worth of equity a year. You are giving up 60k a year in lost salary to do that. So your equity would need to about 10x before you make up the lost salary.
I’ve never been able to find similar numbers. Let me know if you can. but I’d be curious to get your take on this French study.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

It seems like good news for people worried about long Covid.
Mike Oldfield[1] (and probably many others) solved this by releasing one of his albums as a single ~hour-long track. Try shuffling that! That seems to be a pretty decent compromise to me. If you, as an artist, don't want listeners to play your work in random order, release it as a single track.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarok_(Mike_Oldfield_album)
Don't forget slicing images for dropshadows and rounded corners.

And the real pros used dithered transparend gifs.
Finally one of these surveys that even allows for the answer that people just aren't interested.

It is always hilarious how this sociology field only attracts people that think children are the most fulfilling thing they ever did and everyone else must want that so there must therefore be some other problem like economics.

Turns out the onion satire article was spot on

https://www.theonion.com/study-finds-american-women-delaying...
Thoughts on “E-Readers” (2009)
I did BJJ and Pankration for a number of years, rolled a lot. There are plenty of benefits but, at least for me, it didn't change my general dislike/discomfort with small talk, people, crowds, etc. It got me used to large heavy sweaty guys being really close, sometimes smothering me, but that just doesn't translate to those other situations for me. Ironically, I'm usually more comfortable rolling with a stranger than talking with them.

Some BJJ groups will be great places to learn at your age. Look for people who demonstrate care that you are new, teach you how to defend yourself, and are generally devoid of ego/machoism. Especially the senior people leading the training. Gracie BJJ will teach you technique for months before they let you roll. That's probably not a bad thing because you'll learn how to do things and will be less likely to hurt yourself and will have time to build conditioning.
Loggers prefer to clearcut or cut down larger trees, which doesn't help with wildfires. Logging can be useful as forest management but it has to be properly regulated to achieve that.
The bank owns the debt on the money that was used to buy the house, which is not the same as the house by any stretch. Having the deed to a house comes with a lot of strong legal protections.
This is the thing I miss the most. View-Source was the source of truth. No JavaScript filling in empty <div>s bullshit, No minifying, no uglifying.
We use heat, when it's cold outside (i think it has to bee three days below 12°C at 9pm - not sure), so if it's too hot for you, you just open a window.

AC usage is not regulated.
Inversion.

When the answer to a question is hazy, just flip the question around.

Question: How do I succeed in my career?

Inversion: How do I completely fail in my career? Now I know exactly what not to do.

Question: How do I manage my team well?

Inversion: How can I manage my team terribly?
You can detect if the interaction started from the side of the screen. From there, you can do something different when the history is manipulated.
haha, exactly!

to be honest, i'm totally looking forward to arsenal's future -- young manager, absurdly young and talented team mixed with good veterans.

a front of Saka, ESR, Ødegaard and Martinelli looks so good!
Tour of my office space? No - I use a background image - that's all you will see
Where do we draw the line, really? Probably not at catalytic converters.
> Finishing is a skill

I've also heard "it's better to finish something than to start something." At the same time, don't fall for the sunk cost fallacy. Finishing a dead idea only makes you feel good.
> It's more environmentally friendly to have density than the alternative SFH sprawl.

I saw a Nature study on HN recently and I think it called this thinking in to question? I’ll go search for it and update this comment if I find it.

EDIT: No luck finding it.
EDIT2: found it! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-01477-y
> I miss the good ol’ days. Today we have abstractions on top of abstractions on top of JavaScript, of all things

It seems I learnt HTML just between these two eras. After the &nbsp;, 1px spacers and tables, and before the piles of abstractions.

People cared about doing well formed XHTML and having those W3C Valid XHTML badges, and also those "install Firefox" buttons.

This was short so today everything looks ugly to me, old and new, in different ways.

I still use (polyglot) XHTML5 (HTML5 if I don't control everything being input) and avoid frontend frameworks and web fonts when I get to decide. This is a world where implementing a search bar for people who haven't discovered CTRL+F yet takes 30 lines of dumb Javascript and filters 200 items in 1 second on a slow computer without any caching trick and that does not require minifiers and bundlers. Which does not actually sound impressive, or shouldn't anyway. A world where when you disable Javascript, the page is still perfectly readable. A world where a silly mistake in the HTML markup is noticed.

To build an actual web application where it does not makes much sense to have the content as a web page, I started liking Svelte but I'll still at least consider doing things by manipulating the DOM directly before deciding.