skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone runs in the other direction anytime a search engine is mentioned. The thought of competing with Google turns people off.

Even in 2021, despite how bad it's become, it's still miles ahead of other competitors.
“Why the hell even use Deep Learning?” Twitter Thread edition
More specifically: the first unknown identifier becomes the first parameter for the closest algorithm defined with {} brackets. Properties (also called named algorithms) are defined as {} context. And KatLang program also is defined as {} context. I call it Second order algorithm - algorithms can contain another algorithms. First order algorithm is something defined between commas or semicolons. But inside brackets () or {} you can define second order algorithm.
And yet that very liberty that you take for granted today is the result of a continuous slippery slope from hereditary monarchies to a world where you're even allowed to choose who leads you or have a right to be free at all. Incrementalism is what gave us the liberty we have. It wasn't that long ago that women were incrementally given the right to vote. What's next? Allowing dogs and cats to vote too?

> I think a better idea is to allow people to live their lives the way they chose.

I'm not allowed to recklessly speed down any road I please. I'm not allowed to fire guns wherever I please. I'm not allowed to build my house in any way I please. I'm not allowed live in any house I please. I'm not allowed to build bombs in my garage. I'm not allowed to dump waste in the local water system. If I walk around downtown without any clothes I'll almost certainly be arrested. There are countless things we're all forbidden from doing by society. We are not free to live as we please with no regard for anyone else. That is the price of participating in a society.

Liberty is an artificial construct that we, as a society, have agreed upon and set the boundaries for. There is no natural state of liberty that exists, it must be explicitly defined and agreed upon. It's OK to disagree on the boundaries of liberty. We can arbitrarily choose where to draw the line as we please. So we can choose to mandate masks and yet allow fast food to exist.
“GEOS did not pioneer the GUI; most of its features were already present in the larger OSes of the day, like the classic Mac (albeit, not Windows). What GEOS did show is that cheap, low-power, commodity hardware and simple office productivity software worked. You did not need a $2000 machine to type a simple letter and print it.”

To me, GEOS was a tech demo - an incredible tech demo - but I did not, and don't know anyone, who ever used it productively. Not even to type a simple letter and print it. There were much more efficient ways to do that.

My caveat is that I say this from the "cheap, low-power, commodity hardware" home computer perspective. That GEOS ran on my C64 was mind-blowing, but not particularly useful.
A minor point but

> Okay, great. Now skip paying your AWS bill for a few months.

If you ran your database locally and with multiple reundant power sources, it wouldn't have this problem.

That's of course a bad idea, however it shows it's not impossible to do it without a single point of failure.
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I think that portals lost traction much before social media rise.

I switched to Altavista, Google because of the lightweight home page.
I don't either, and I wrote it; a bit to quickly.

I meant to write that we might lose some great works from that tiny proportion of writers who earn well enough that their income causes them to make more commercial choices in their writing instead of writing the best they could.

I'll edit the comment so it makes more sense.
Oh, that other people are suffering is the frustrating part. And that the vaccination status apparently isn't playing a role during triage (actual triage not the postponing of planned surgeries) is something I don't really get. Well I get it, kind of. Still, I hoped it would be different.
They're trying really hard to solve a problem that hasn't been solved yet, which requires placing oneself beyond the "reason" of skeptics.

https://www.lockhaven.edu/~dsimanek/neverwrk.htm

Their solutions may not and perhaps probably will not work because it's a hard problem.

The payoff for solving this problem is civilization without single points of failure. No more wheel of rising and falling empires that take all our progress and knowledge with them when they die. No more pretending to bow down to megalomaniacs and ideologues to achieve stability. No more vast centralized moral hazards that attract sociopaths like moths to a lamp.

I've taken to calling the zero-trust decentralization problem "computer science's fusion." It's perpetually N years away, but if we solve it the payoff is immense.

Edit: Proof of work sort of kind of solves it, but not really, and at tremendous cost. Nevertheless the fact that it gets close is maybe suggestive that the real solution is somewhere nearby.
Imagine Miller dug out your parents, along with some other bones, glued them together es he saw fit, hammered arrows into the skull of your mom, and then baked the result in the oven to make them look like on TV. That guy wasn't some honorable private archeologist looking for roman coins or something. According to the article, those bodies were sometimes only a few decades old. He just dumped most of the remains into plastic bags and let them rot for decades, simply for his private amusement.
If you wanted to be able to multitask DOS and Linux at the same time though... I wonder how DESQview/X emulation capabilities and support for showing them in X windows compares to Linux Dosemu of the era.
10k Google employees participate in new prediction market
I think I've given the concept of DAOs a good faith effort, but I cannot understand how anyone thinks they are going to work for anything substantial.

Even if "governance" is "decentralized," there are still going to need to be people in the DAO, day to day, doing the work that no one wants to do, making decisions that no one wants to make.

It seems to me like a DAO is just a college group project but if you add crypto it solves everything?

Organizational behavior and its challenges don't go away because you've issued tokens.

Honest question, what the heck am I missing? It has to be something!
I think this is right. The inevitable climate change-induced population crash will necessitate more automation, further accelerating an accelerating trend.

*DAO doesn't need to run on Ethereum blockchain, it can also be a sufficiently autonomous collection of ERP systems.
Thanks for being the first to introduce the term ‘proof of waste’ to me!

It’s so obvious on seeing it that proof of work is just not an accurate term to describe what is going on.
The term responsibilities is very loaded here. Can you elaborate?
maybe Windows guys should. "look at all this cool stuff Windows can do, that the stuff i was mocking could do 20 years ago".

The way Windows people talk about all the "revolutionary" stuff Windows can do, like just piss off.

This is like the jocks bullying kids for wearing Metallica shirts or NIN shirts freshman year only to act like the biggest fans 2-3 years later.

It's like Star Trek fans getting mocked for decades, just so people who never cared in the first place can tell people who've been fans for 20-30+ years they aren't "real fans" (and banning them from communities for daring to have a critical opinion) b/c they don't gobble up every piece of shit Abrams or Kurtzman puts out.

There's just this trend of people swinging down and then when said thing becomes mainstream, they act like they've been down since day one. the important lesson is that they're cool and smart and in-tune, no matter what.
Setting the offset with librdkafka isn't that easy
A banker shill would say that and only that. Why would he say crypto will destroy his masters banks and controls? He wouldn't.
People complain about misinformation and censorship (on Hacker News of all places) but where is it?

https://youtu.be/R2EiuAVKFB0

I found the video by searching on YouTube

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=yeonmi+pa...

Why exactly is this being upvoted?

Give me a break.
Grab shares rise 18% in Nasdaq debut, in milestone for South-east Asian tech
Reddit underwent a significant polarization event around the 2016 US election
> It'd be tricky to figure out [...] that data is in fact being copied.

For other operating systems, sure, but the Win32 API has a function literally called CopyFile (and its variants CopyFileEx and CopyFileTransacted).
Some providers didn't support concatenated SMS until mid 2010s at least. Lots of software in financial institutions is old. And providers charge more for concatenated SMS still.
There are enough responses on this thread that sound like "only a psychopath or an artist could have come up with this." or "It sounds like prison! Gosh" or "This is like living in a nightmare tbh." that if anyone does find this helpful, they're going to have a hard time mustering the courage to admit it. This is especially if true of the sort of more junior people who might struggle to know when to ask for help vs when to avoid interrupting someone.

I would advise reaching out to https://www.focusmate.com/, whose users would likely also find this product useful.
If this is true: anyone got alternative apps to YT on android?

Voting with my wallet.
For those that had to look the guy up, here is the relevant part from his wiki page.

> After the publication of The Skeptical Environmentalist, Lomborg was formally accused of scientific dishonesty by a group of environmental scientists, who brought a total of three complaints against him to the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty (DCSD), a body under Denmark's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MSTI). Lomborg was asked whether he regarded the book as a "debate" publication, and thereby not under the purview of the DCSD, or as a scientific work; he chose the latter, clearing the way for the inquiry that followed.[9] The charges claimed that The Skeptical Environmentalist contained deliberately misleading data and flawed conclusions. Due to the similarity of the complaints, the DCSD decided to proceed on the three cases under one investigation.

> In January 2003, the DCSD released a ruling that sent a mixed message, finding the book to be scientifically dishonest through misrepresentation of scientific facts, but Lomborg himself not guilty due to his lack of expertise in the fields in question

He is a fraud that has no relevant expertise in environmentalism.
I used neural networks to generate AI-Art of “Ethereum” 7000 times
Seems like a useful extension! How do you get different browsers to open with an extension?
most people do not have the energy, drive, or motivation to constantly be doing things. i guess it's both a blessing and a curse if you do.
Ha, yes, I've done that at https://gigablast.com/ .
The biggest problems now are the following:
1) Too hard to spider the web. Gatekeeper companies like Cloudflare (owned in part by Google) and Cloudfront make it really difficult for upstart search engines to download web pages.
2) Hardware costs are too high. It's much more expensive now to build a large index (50B+ pages) to be competitive.

I believe my algorithms are decent, but the biggest problem for Gigablast is now the index size. You do a search on Gigablast and say, well, why didn't it get this result that Google got. And that's because the index isn't big enough because I don't have the cash for the hardware. btw, I've been working on this engine for over 20 years and have coded probably 1-2M lines of code on it.
Not the title.
One thing I find refreshing of British cop shows is how things that are trivial in US shows just aren't possible.

Neither cops nor criminals go guns blazing everywhere, simply because having access to a gun is a big deal. An entire season of Line of Duty is about this.

Cops in threatening situations cannot simply pull a gun out of the blue. This forces scriptwriters to become a bit more creative about problem resolution.

Whenever you're tired of US cop shows, try a British show!
What is a last will and testament if not that? You dying doesn't give anyone else the right to just claim ownership of your house the second you die. Also, most burial plots include essentially a lease for maintenance. It is probably the cemetery owner who would press charges for theft. There are probably also specific laws on the books that make this illegal.
A RISC-V microcontroller for FPGAs
Nice project we have been using at university.
Ok, so I don’t condone this behavior by Microsoft or Google, but I do use edge at work since we are a Microsoft heavy company with Sharepoint, teams, outlook, and all that. If we were using Google I’d surely use Chrome, but edge bakes in your Microsoft work profile to the browser and when searching on Bing you can find documents on your internal network easily. I also like the fact that edge supports vertical tabs out of the box.

So here’s my defense of Microsoft taking these steps:

* Google promotes Chrome on YouTube, search, and gmail. Strategically Microsoft needs a message to counter the pop ups on Google sites that are leading to the Chrome download page. It would be much more annoying if you saw this message every time you visited YouTube or Google. The author presents it as the case of someone actively seeking to download Chrome but they could have been lead to the download page from another Google property.

* Many people don’t know that both edge and Chrome use the same engine. When my company mandated edge, people reflexively complained even though they don’t lose anything in terms of speed, extensions or compatibility. For many people knowing that edge has the same browser engine is informative - most non geeks won’t keep up with that.

* if you are working at a Microsoft company, your data is already in the hands of Microsoft and your employer so there’s little privacy to be lost by continuing with edge, but by switching to chrome you bring a 3rd party into the mix.

* you could argue a lesser version of this for all windows users with the integrations that Microsoft has been pushing.
And what is good will worth these days? What does that get them?
But shouldn't all the blogspam be so hyperoptimized for Google's algorithm that is should be straightforward to detect and ignore/downrank it?
So far this does not seem to be true though. There are a great many processes which we could have automated but have so far not done yet, often in domains where safety is very critical and/or are very human-involved. One particular example is the automation of train and aircraft piloting, where humans are required by law and due to public demand but not actually necessary for the job.

In particular I'm thinking about some of the procedures aboard nuclear submarines where automated systems were tried and eventually rolled back, because the automation would be fine 99.9% of the time but when it failed it would cause disaster at computer speeds instead of just at human speeds. I can definitely imagine a bug in a DAO being completely unacceptable in some domains even if it is more efficient than doing the same job with humans. (For example, in national voting)

Finally even for those cases where automation is desired and could be done by some autonomous entity, I'm not sure why you would specifically need a Distributed AO instead of just regular cronjobs on a server somewhere. Any real-world system is going to need regular updates anyway, so you end up centralizing trust in whoever can update the code for the (D)AO.
> Firefox, for all it's modern faults, is the only browser that's actually different in any substantial way.

as a casual reader, I know this is false.. several HUGE efforts, have failed to gain the eyeballs of readers . repeating that there is only one choice, is not useful or constructive right?
Not to ding on you, but rather to make a general observation:

There is certain irony to posting a strong "allergic" reaction to a rather mundane phrase in discussion of propaganda. One could say there was effective propaganda for the phrase to become a thought-terminating cliche.
The claim of censorship is not substantiated in the linked document. Where’s the evidence of censorship?
Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand
And on Twitter just yesterday, someone tweeted a confession https://twitter.com/aobate/status/1466101687773503493 that SIXTEEN YEARS ago they made up a person on Wikipedia ... the biography still exists today (though probably not for much longer, hence the archive link):

https://archive.md/BBRC4

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

Dr. William Henry Farrow (20 June 1805? – 17 November 1876) was a physician born and trained in England. Farrow practiced in Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario. He is most notable for providing one of the first detailed descriptions of synesthesia.[1] Farrow reported the details of the illness, (in this case temporary) in an article published in the Lower Canada Journal of Medicine.[2]

Footnotes

1. New, Chester (1929). Lord Durham. Oxford University Press. pp. 374–376.

2. "An Analysis of Confusion Occurring between the Senses". The Lower Canada Journal of Medicine. The Medical Society of Lower Canada. 12: 56–62. September 1838.

It's always worth remembering that Wikipedia has different sorts of quality problems from conventional encyclopedias.
>At one point, Carpenter was looking at a case of stone axes with an archaeologist who specialized in Celtic cultures. “He said, ‘I’ve spent my entire career looking for just one of these in this condition,’ ” Carpenter said. “ ‘And he has 50.’ ”
I don't know if it's been debunked, but I like the analogy of the Hygiene hypothesis and increased allergies. If you disinfect and sterilize everything you don't train your immune system and are at risk for allergies, but if you don't disinfect and sterilize you get infections, so you need to find a balance.

Same thing here, I think we're heading into the over-sterilization area of the curve, and maybe we should think about what the "food allergy" analogue is for people who grow up never seeing a single controversial idea expressed ever because all their media is sterilized.
Yeah, PhD income is $40k or less a year. So 5x above market rate for high-risk research. On top of that, PhD students are well-aligned for the research and have other non-monetary reasons to pursue the research (their PhD requirements).
He drove out of state ...

Okay, so Rittenhouse lives in Antioch. You can pull up Google maps to find that the state line is 1.3 miles -- not even as the crow flies -- away.

And the folks he shot? Drove farther to get to the locale than he did.
The PC version of GeoWorks even rocked on my souped-up IBM PC 5150. The display PostScript was a perfect preview of the printouts from my 9-pin dot matrix printer.
That may be an effect of my own filter bubble at play, they do tend to bring the most insane examples of the outside belief structure to the fore. While I haven't seen anyone try to defend it, I have seen people imply they believe it's true. Would you not see this as an example of implicit belief that coronavirus can be eliminated through such measures? https://xkcd.com/2287/
Strange I had the exact opposite reaction. This is the kind of journalism I wish there was more of, taking a dry chronological set of events and weaving it as best as possible into a riveting story that best evokes some of the excitement and feelings of those who participated in the effort. I also thought the artistic depictions were kinda cool, but really I didn't spend much time on them compared to the excellent story.
Yes, I have my original Mac Plus, a few SE's, an SE/30, some Mac IIx's and others I have rescued over the years. I think it may be time to dig them out, set up good 'ol Apple Talk and fire up NetTrek on them.

That and the bats in Dark Castle - drove my parents crazy playing that game back in the day too :)
>Why do you feel so strongly about this?

From a practical point of view I think that the plastic ones are probably going to be horrible from an environmental perspective - especially to the marine environment which is where a lot of plastic litter ultimately ends up. I'll admit there's also an element of iconoclasm involved in why I'll be keen to see the back of them when their times comes. From a purely symbolic point of view (ie regardless of their effectiveness) they're quite a dystopian thing in my opinion, it's a signal of "be afraid of disease" or worse still "my fellow human beings are disgusting plague vectors". I can't help that feel that making hiding our faces a permanent social norm would lead to society becoming even more atomised than it already is which is also fairly dystopian.

On a purely personal note, I also don't like that they give every moral authoritarian and insufferable busybody yet another thing to harass strangers about, especially when legal penalties for non-compliance exist.
I agree with every single thing you said, but I don't have a cat. I could also tack on another dozen things I hate about all of this.
How do you learn about this? Does anyone have any good recommendation on books, where you learn how to do these kind of very low level optimizations?
He would say that. It's done pretty well so far without his "help" though.
So he's going to use this quote as an excuse to mess it all up.
And even more copy-pasted spam than already exists.

The early Google (and other even earlier search engines) were invented for an Internet world which, if not pristine and pure, was at least mostly fairly legit content. Today's Internet is probably 90% deliberate spammers and scammers.
I would flag this submission for misinformation, but then those ideologically aligned with the tweet would claim even more "censorship" and double down on their incorrectness. This is why dealing with wrong information, lies, and misinformation on the 'net is such a tough nut to crack.
I'd hardly call it deliberate because his/her take is exactly what i got from it as well.
I am not a Facebook / Meta employee, but does anyone think that shame factors in for some people? That overwhelmingly negative and very bad press come from the work that these folks do.

For some, posting "I work at FB" is an admission that "I am part of the $PROBLEM" for any of the many, many ills people attribute to Facebook / Meta which garner that negative opinion and bad press.
Avery is such a treasure trove.

What's hard about this particular situation, and what we often don't recognize enough:

- We regularly overestimate the power of "traditional" systems such as government, courts, civil society. To a large degree, we've just been lucky that they work, but it's neither obvious nor guaranteed that they will continue to do so.

- One of the hard problems is that we don't have any clue how new (human-designed) systems affect society. And that's not for lack of trying - economics, sociology, psychology - they are just insanely hard because people always lie, keep changing and are so damn inventive.