skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always seen integration-oriented products as snake oil and I'm going to appreciate seeing Martin F tell us why.
> Because there was no new evidence...

But there was. The WHO recommendations, which I assume is what he is referring to, were based initially on data that suggested an non-aerosol transmission and then evidence was produced that lead to the theory of aerosol transmission.

One can certainly criticize the WHO and other health organizations for moving too slowly but the issue I am referring to isn't that.

There is a general tendency on the right to point to changing advice as some sort of proof of a conspiracy or idiocy on the part of the health officials. I see it all the time (as a daily lark I read Gab) and it points to an obvious lack of understanding on the part of a large part of the population (deliberate or not) about how science works on a fairly fundamental level.
Because google doesn't need to worry about such things. For most people DDG would be a much better experience - if only they knew?
The problem isn't democracy, it's voting. Sortition is a better way of conducting democracy. Experiments with citizens' assemblies in Ireland and elsewhere have so far yielded promising results. Sortition combined with a robust deliberative structure yields surprisingly good performance.
That's an amazing way to leverage in those awkward situations when the traditional grocery shops fail to deliver (which happens a lot from experience).

Will be def signing up to this service at some point.

p.s. I reported a bug to the email listed on your home page.
Your M$ evil boooo mentality is somewhat out of date.

Microsoft is making great strides in open source and Linux. A decade ago, you wouldn't have believed MS would publish SQL Server for Linux, release something as great as VS Code, create Windows Subsystem for Linux (and Android soon), acquire npm and github and make them better rather than destroying them, etc.
I wonder what percentage of RPi devices sold were used only for emulation machines?
Content curation doesn't scale, so I believe it's out of question for the modern web. The best you can hope for is to have someone throw some quality AI at it, plus a lot of manual tweaking.
The social media aspects of the platform ruin it for me. I left Facebook years ago, so going to LinkedIn and getting that same experience is sort of awful. Its all adversity porn posts or reaction-bait.
What is going on with this Notion site? It doesn't scroll. Notion is kind of a big company now; I find it kind of inexcusable that they've gone out of their way to break the browser's default (working) functionality.
> Personal sites, self hosted blogs, forums, etc have all gone by the way side, but how much of that trend is due to algorithmic reinforcement?

I'm not so sure it's aggressive pruning or just Google's algorithm driving it. The internet has matured a great deal, to the extent that any search term with possible commercial intent will have been targeted and optimized for.

I still regularly see blogs, forums, and personal sites in low commercial intent hobby searches.
To clarify, my previous company (the one which had Go and Java) is not Microsoft
Play on words from Nick Lowe song,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn1CXbf2xF8
I don't think that's true.

https://brython.info/static_tutorial/en/index.html

> In the <head> zone we load the script brython.js : it is the Brython engine, the program that will find and execute the Python scripts included in the page.

It looks like Brython works by embedding a Python interpreter into the page as Javascript. That's 5 MB if you include the standard library - almost 800 KB for just the interpreter. Not to mention the computational overhead of running an interpreter in an interpreter.
> The last few times I've looked for a role I've just googled for companies I'd like to work at and browsed their careers pages.

I'm surprised so many people are not mentioning this. I have applied to 7 companies directly on their websites recently and only 1 hasn't reached back out to me about interviewing.
I think that the whole "Trust the Science" trope has already damaged people's faith in science and institutions.

If we had, instead, encouraged "Trust the Scientific Method" and taught people to think and replicate claims, we'd be in a much better place.

But, the lack of access to raw datasets (and the packaged code to transform them into claimed results) has led to a total "trust" environment, with no ability to "check scientist's work".

What other outcome could we have expected?
Jow (https://jow.fr/) seems to be a France-only service.
Ok, my takeaway is that the question "can you copyright languages in the US copyright system?" currently sits at "maybe".

But we're at least sure you can't patent "a procedure for producing ATP using O2 as catalyst and energy source", right?

Right?
It's analogous to predatory pricing. Google has all the necessary tech to go back to doing good searches. They can easily pivot back in a few months.

A new startup would need to dump loads of money into servers and building their own tech.

So there's just no way to recoup the cost of building a competitor.
> The results keep getting "refined" so as to suit the popular 80% of queries

Google is simply maximizing profits by giving users results that would cause either more clicks on ads or show more ads. It's mission is to make money this quarter/year. If you believe any of their Silicon Valley-style new age talking points you probably don't have critical thinking skills.

If their products are getting worse for you perhaps you are not part of a profitable segment for them.
> or the company as a whole seemed to be violating the policy

There is no requirement for a company to follow principles listed in the CoC.

> And no one refused to do their job.

They refused to stop doing things that were against the CoC, despite being told to do so, and being told that those activities were not consistent with the company's interpretation of Do No Evil.

This case will be thrown out
Imo, it's a flaw in our model. If 'fighting them' failed, then, we should join them. Here, that would mean participation in the ipo, in the style of gamestop. Push the p/e ratio to something completely absurd. Maybe it'll fail as a result. (Thus begetting a libre office, response to an open office initiative.)
My bad, I was vague. It is *very* common to see one or two conspiratorial crazy "global warming is a hoax" comments that are just flagged and dead. It also definitely happens, but less reliably, to see "middle brow" "polite but trivially wrong" climate change denialism comments that are either downvoted or dead. I have also seen non-downvoted comments of that nature, but these were not what I was referring to (and they usually have well argued factual responses).
This sounds like the same thing Mozilla does. There's a non-profit foundation that owns the commercial subsidiary. Otherwise it's difficult for them to do commercial deals that benefit the foundation (like the one with Google which basically gives them all their income).
I’d love to hear why. Would be the first time for me :)
The base syntax of python is already a big plus when compared to js.

It's only about avoiding the ambiguity of js, it js in general.

I remember making a small webapp in flask and ajax. Most of the code is on the server, it's as little js as possible, and it has no js dependencies.
(same poster) BTW, amazon.com is in my opinion even more infuriating. I just searched for "Odense Marzipan" (which is a 100+ years old brand serving the royal danish court) and they show me pictures of gamepads made out of chocolate along with a note: Your search "odense marzipan" was automatically translated into "odicht marzipan".

Then searching for "odicht" out of curiousity, they auto-correct it to "olight". So I start with almond-based sugar sweets, follow their auto-correct twice and now I'm staring at headlamps. And even Google has no idea what "odicht" might have been, so I really wonder how Amazon decided to auto-correct from an existing product into a non-word.

Searching for "odense marzipan" including the quotes then works, but it yields the cringe-worthy message:

Your search ""odense marzipan"" was automatically translated into "„odense marzipan“".

(where the only difference between the first and the second thing is that they converted the ascii quotes to up and down sentence quotes)
I just prefer that the headphone jack be on the same side as the charging port. That way it can be stood up in that orientation regardless of if stuff is plugged into both.
Huh? He does this type of thing all the time, it's a defining part of his personality. You only need to follow his Twitter so see how consistently and strongly he counters anything that makes him look bad. For the really nasty stuff he does behind the scenes you need to dig a little deeper.

A few examples off the top of my head:

- Called the employer of a lawyer in Wyoming to get him fired for criticizing him on Twitter.
- Tried to get the student who was exposing how the self-driving demos were faked expelled, then tried to sue him on false charges.
- Asked a reporter to investigate the cave diver on a baseless accusation of pedophilia because he made him look bad. When that didn't work, used his private security to try to plant the same stories in the UK.

Never mind the stuff he does to his own employees, especially whistleblowers.

In fact it would be contrary to his personality if he didn't send an e-mail to the founders with a message like "Does this person work at Stripe?" with the tweet attached, making it clear what he wants done without explicitly saying it so he can pretend to have plausible deniability.
I didn't know that until about a decade later, unfortunately!

People forget that in 1984 information wasn't a click away.

The problem with owning a Hong Kong-made 286 clone in 1984, and using pirated software, is that it was extremely hard to learn things. I was limited by the books at my local "Waldenbooks" computer section, which was about 20 books. Computer shopper and Byte magazine were kinda helpful, but I learned very, very slowly. It wasn't until I entered college that I started learning rapidly, but the focus wasn't on PCs (it was still MTS mainframes). It took until my first job writing 16-bit drivers that I finally started learning the nuts and bolts of MSDOS.
Commitcoin
Since it is only about private persons and there is a whole slew of exceptions about "tweets of public interest, etc." wasn't this already mandated by the GDPR?
> Booking.com[1], at the time a unicorn startup, was run out of a single office with something like a dozen or so employees.

Ironically, they still have the same business model now - but with severe bloat (20k employees).
Oh, that's wonderful, actually! Between my perception of its rarity, and the seeming ability to easily represent it with vector graphics of straight lines, I figured it was a laudable target but I see that it isn't. After all, the idea of a niche script getting more attention because of its inclusion in Unicode is exactly what I'm all excited about.

I'll happily replace Ogham, in future rants, with that fucking multiocular O mentioned in a sibling to the parent.
That's usually because FGM is much worse.

However, in my social circle everyone agrees that all kinds of genital mutilation is bad, unless they're done out of medical necessity of course. I haven't personally met anyone who's in favor of doing this to kids. It seems to be purely an American and a religious practice to still do such things.
PostgREST is great. I am using it with row-level security for a Next.js app backed by Supabase at https://consensus.j4e.name
> They failed the public along numerous basic metrics and that doesn't change simply because this author may or may not be an asshole.

Asshat. I think he has far too much understanding of his basic character flaws and limitations to be an asshole. Its what makes his commentary especially wonderful. He isn't some ignorant asshole who thinks he is smarter than everyone else. He seems to know how smart he is and what his failings are but it doesn't stop him.

His frequent use of 'muh' speaks to a very elitist and classist view of modern society that has to come from, I assume, some sort of rural or less sophisticated upbringing of his.

Unlike hatebags who write for Breitbart or Infowars this guy is a wonderful combination of contradictions, insight and sheer bile.

Its f*$king breathtaking.
If you are selling an UI option, a screencap is pretty much a must.

If you are selling non-UI options, simple click-to-view explainers go a long way too, e.g. https://backup2.com/features
That was the original idea. However, as well as producing a board that was great for education and hobbyists, it turned out it was great for a whole range of applications, and the bulk orders started coming in from companies all over the world.

The Foundation is funded on the sales of Raspberry Pi hardware, government contracts and charitable donations. More sales directly benefit the charity. This allows us to:

- Run the world's largest network of coding clubs for children, for free.

- Produce educational resources for schools and clubs all over the world, for free.

- Conduct research into CS pedagogy.

- Provide Pi 400s and monitors to disadvantaged learners in England.

- Support educators all over the world with free physical and digital publications.

I know nothing about an IPO of RPTL, other than what I've read in the media, but I can guarantee you that RPF will continue to be a non-profit charity, and continue with it's mission.
Man, great anecdote I discovered yesterday: So "Cyrus" and "Joseph" are part of my grandfathers full name.

If you Duck Duck Go his full name, no quotes, the front page is all him and relatives; ancestry dot com and whatever.

If you Google it, no quotes? The front page is ENTIRELY "Miley Cyrus on Joe Rogan." Moreover, with quotes? Only 2 links total on the front page.

So I'd say YES.
"Thread" is a good keyword to include to find discussions, even though it's a bit overloaded.

Eg.

'good cheap mountain bike' -> 10 results out of the first 10 are commercial spam and listicles.

'thread good cheap mountain bike' -> 5 human discussions on entry-level MBs, 1 link to a MB forum home page (not a specific thread), 2 commercial spam, 1 paywalled magazine article testing MBs, and 1 online shop product page for a MB that happened to mention a "73mm Threaded BB shell" multiple times.
Cancelling seems to refer to two types of actions, deplatforming, and punishing people for saying things you disagree with.

I don't know why deplatforming requires proof of an identity. I think this is you adding to the definition of a word that doesn't follow how everyone uses it.
But they can say "If you did leave, we could no longer ask you to sell".

Giphy isn't big enough for that, but if for example the CMA requested that of Instagram, then it could be a good business decision to just leave the UK.
This is a balanced article and I appreciate the author’s treatment of the challenges. Part of my work is helping enterprise shops with n-tier architectures decouple services to allow for more resilience end to end. Everything the author states has crept up, some of the issues I consider the “nominal cost of resilience and independence”. Other issues are easily mitigated, such as the yak shaving required to get off the ground. Serverless solves the infra/config challenges. If an enterprise shop isn’t open to serverless I have no interest in discussing event sourcing or CQRS with them. It’s too much work otherwise.

For shops that are being crushed by fluctuations in concurrency, challenges with the uptime and p50 of partner teams, don’t have much of a choice but to go event sourced, optimistic, and eventually consistent.

I’m certain a great enterprise IT shop with great leadership could mitigate the challenges of service growth and instability with some clever optimizations of their current stacks but unfortunately I have to meet a shop that is uniformly competent.

Event sourcing helps with the competency gap problem. If every team’s data is on the outside my team can work around your lead time for changes or general ops incompetence. If inventory is down, fuck you I’m still taking orders. The extra work of maintaining a projection of your inventory events makes good business sense because time kills all deals.
I can't believe how much straight up spam/malware sites get into the first and second page of results. Sites that go to something like chickenaffairs.com, they seem to scrape content from other sites that happens to contain your search terms, get indexed in google, and then stay there somehow
I read this comment a few days ago, and it really stuck with me. I'm so curious where this comes from - would you happen to remember the talk, or where I could read about this concept?
Depending on what you need, you might end up wasting a ton of time reinventing the wheel if you go down the bare metal route.

Maybe a unikernel (if applicable) could be a good compromise?
This is no panacea, as it also means you have no employer paying Social Security taxes on your behalf, not to mention not getting any employer-provided benefits either.
Cyber Monday Sales Flat as Smaller Savings Curb Incentive to Spend
My toy project turned into a viral challenge
This is the end of RPi. I wonder what's coming next though!
User m-watson's comment made me look up if any B Corps have gone public and there certainly are IPOs. [1] Including subsidiaries of majors like Coca Cola. The few I looked up listed on NASDAQ and had overall flat performance. Which I guess is what you would expect?

Disclaimer: I am an investment neophyte, would love to be corrected or expanded upon.

[1] https://kb.bimpactassessment.net/en/support/solutions/articl...
I didn't say they don't exist.

To be clear, I haven't been able to verify the existence of viruses. I'm not so trusting that I accept the statements of corporations or governments (which are 2 sides of the same coin IMO).

But I'm fine with people having different opinions.

All the best.
Does that have anything to do with this blog post in particular? I would wager your comment is off topic
"We know what is best for you, consumer!"
Because that's not what VCs want.
I think, Heinlein in "Have spacesuit - will travel" mentions something to the tune of "math is worse than peanuts". Integrals could be holding attention quite well - just check Youtube channels with explanations of everything, or MOOCs which have rather robust audience.
Oh I don't mind being ghosted, heck I've done it. I just didn't realize it was so prevalent. My example was more I think it was amusing the one time I did get ghosted it was for a leadership dev company.
Coordinape – “Governance Weighted Salaries”
I mentioned Ory already, thanks!
This works because headphone plugs are narrow and don't interfere with other peripherals. They're also round, so you can't put it in wrong.
> It pains me when I ask them where some code is and they only give me the filename and not the full path.

This one clearly is a self-inflicted wound.
US labor board official orders Amazon to redo union vote at Alabama warehouse
I'm also in Cloud Security/SecOps looking to make a switch to Offsec/Pentesting. Would be great to connect and learn about your experience switching. My email is in my profile if you are willing to reach out.
These days, if I want to search on something highly controversial, Yandex usually gives the best results. Google has perfected the "twiddler"[1] so it's impossible to find anything off narrative for many topics.

[1]https://youtubecensorship.com/2019-08-18-google-youtube-rigg...
Show HN: Empathy-Driven Humanoid Robot
We're creating a consumer humanoid robot for the home, more specifically a robotic teddy bear:
https://www.animarobotics.life/store/p/teddy

Teddy tracks your mood throughout the day, reacts to it and then trains itself through an RNN to improve its future reactions.
Keepass, Calibre, and 7-zip come to mind.
Reminder of the HN Guidelines [1]:

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Fact-Blockers
I include 'forums' in my search, or something like 'site:coattalk.com' if I know of one

It's also funny how Google basically nuked groups and made it unsearchable, while once in a blue moon you get a search result to alt.coats.winter or something
Google seems to also have a heavy recency bias.

I've tried to search for news articles that were even a month old and have had trouble locating links to stories I know happened. I don't know any tricks to working around this. And if I don't recall specifically when the article came out (say, somewhere around 6 months ago), I'll usually give up.

Any tips on finding "historical" results?
This was especially poignant in the spring of 2020 when scientists and health officials were telling people that masks were NOT effective at preventing covid-19 infection. ...and that such idiotic positions were amplified on social media and opposing opinions were silenced.
I seem to be in something of a minority here but I think this is eminently reasonable.

Almost certainly this will be enforced only following a report. Which means I have a photograph of you which you did not consent to being in and you object to me sharing.

I think in that case it's reasonable to expect me to justify why I should be allowed to share the picture. And I may be able to, but the burden of proof should be on me.
That's called being pedantic.

Vulgarization is the opposite of being pedantic.

Only academics and bleeding edge engineers want to be as precise as possible.

You cannot communicate if you give all the data.
This is what everyone in this thread seems to be missing. Google is exactly as useful to me as it was 25 years ago, in fact much more so in fact by way of several orders of magnitude more information being available on the web.

About ten years ago I had to switch to consistently using double quotes for technical searches to raise the signal-to-noise ratio, but there are a huge number of contributing factors to that. I think we discount how much the rise of search engines as a discovery mechanism hurt the original PageRank algorithm. Things used to be easy to search for because humans were self-categorizing all the knowledge available (because we didn't have good search engines), and PageRank just made that self-categorization globally available.

Now there's so much more noise on the web, and no one is manually organizing it like we did with the old "web rings", and that's not even beginning to explore the issue of sites manually gaming SEO. The algorithm's job is much harder today, and so we need to give it a little help finding what we want.
Name another company that wants to buy it.
That depends on whether the original post was about the book review or about him :-)

I think you are correct though that I am wildly off-topic but when one discovers something like this you really need to point it out.
You can use LinkedIn as purely a profile/online resume and as a way to message potential opportunities. Do not look at the news feed, do not "engage" with anything else beyond your profile, connection requests and inbox.
From the policy:

"This policy is not applicable to media featuring public figures or individuals when media and accompanying Tweet text are shared in the public interest or add value to public discourse."

The "Public interest" exception is basically a get out of jail free card for Twitter. However I don't fault them for this at all, since our collective expectation for platforms is completely lacking in internal consistency and more or less impossible to meet.
class PG:
_pg_conn = None

@classmethod
def pg(cls):
if cls._pg_conn is None:
cls._pg_conn = psycopg2.connect(...)
return cls._pg_conn

connection = PG.pg()