skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smart contracts are just software, so I agree. Software will be used in the future.

I still don't know the value of public, distributed, cryptographic ledgers. They don't seem to solve real-world problems because there is no way to tie them to the real world. They preserve lies just as well as they preserve truths.

Digital money is useful, but fiar is already digital.
I was attempting to find some historical data on the Soviet Ruble the other day, but found the task nearly impossible because Google "helpfully" considers "Russian" and "Soviet" to be synonyms, and so all the results were about the modern day Russian Ruble. I can't think of any other examples off the top of my head, but this isn't the first time I've run into this sort of problem.
I don't believe this (yet) and here's why.

The claim is that Google search is producing worse results than in the past. The analysis is mostly anecdotal, and similar claims have been made before in a more concrete way. A prime example is "time to cook onions" giving incorrect results, covered in this slate article: https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/05/how-to-cook-onions-...

What we need is to see is specific queries, the results returned, why they're wrong, and what they should be instead.
Analysis of the overhead of a minimal Zig program
use nitter.net ;)
There is a market for them so products get made. Every industry using semiconductors is affected, so nowadays pretty much all industries are affected. Some other guy will be against gaming because he thinks it's a net negative on society, so he thinks there shouldn't be any motherboards for consoles either. And we can come up with other arbitrary examples. Can you explain your reasoning?
When I worked in Haskell I always found a type-driven top-down approach helped me work out what I needed to do literally starting from something like App :: Input -> Output

Out of interest where are you working such that you're using Lisp? Pretty sure I've actually asked you before ha, but can't remember. Every-time I get burned out with frameworks and polygot development I end up daydreaming of using a stable language like common lisp for the remaining ~40 years of my career.
Isn’t that often true with screens in general? The threshold often allows a good number of false positives in order to minimize false negatives. The goal is to know when to seek further diagnostics. Communicating that to patients can be a challenge but it doesn’t mean the screens were designed incorrectly.
Low-level programming, dealing with hardware registers, is so often unsigned that I use unsigned everywhere I don't need negative numbers. Youtube going 64-bit was inevitable, but overflowing 2^31 should not have been one of them. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/12/gangn...
I wonder what the thought process is. Would the investigations be more targeted were the files to remain encrypted? I get the rationale that US Government agencies won't pay but giving a free decryptor to law enforcement seems bad for "business".
I noticed this too over the past couple of years. Google, Alphabet, and its shareholders don't care because they are still making so much money. I truly think it's by design to further ruin the state of the internet, just my opinion.

Has anyone else noticed how many important websites, such as news organizations, have Taboola or similar ads? Like it's the only way to make any money online. Sensationalized paginated joke content with ads on every page.

It's crazy how many websites are scrapping stackoverflow and getting on the first page of google results. Like, is it hard to check if identical content is on stackoverflow? lol it's not hard.
I still do, and I still mantain an open source Twitter client replacing the official one (no longer supported, as most apps on the platform). Q10, best phone I've ever had
> Death rates for an age range (like 18-45) are likely to be much more stable.

Do you have a data set for this to look at? I'm skeptical that death rates of any kind are close to normally distributed. If nothing else, there are big spikes during plagues, like the black plague and spanish flu.
Thank you so much for your answers.
> seek regulation to treat it as a telecom utility

This is the absolute wrong approach.

What needs to be regulated are those in the sphere of public influence. These groups (government bodies, media licensees, anyone taking public money but has an account on a commercial third-party social service) should be required to adopt open web protocols to become part of the federated social web.

W3C recommendations exist and they can be implemented by anyone with a content management system suitably powerful enough to run the software.
This. "Pants" as an adjective is a synonym for "rubbish".
> it actually did find what people where looking for

I believe that is more a function of the web being less commercially relevant back then.

And every small and then massively growing online community goes through the same evolution:

While the community is small, commercial value is small enough, information is less tainted - and once it becomes big enough, the commercial value of that community becomes worthwhile to game.
Firstly, the energy density of hydrogen is a lie. Yes, the fuel itself has the highest know energy content per mass, but it's nearly useless as a gas.

To reach any useful volume density you need a high pressure COPV tank that weights an other of magnitude more than the fuel it contains. To generate electricity you need a bulky fuel cell with low efficiency, which in turn requires a very beefy cooling system, larger than the one used on an ICE vehicle since the fuel cell is so much sensitive to overheating.

If you add it all up, you get something that's comparable with a battery in terms of energy density, but with half the round trip efficiency, expensive and dangerous refueling, larger upfront costs and lower lifetime.

It's no surprise then that the range record for a hydrogen car is actually lower than the corresponding BEV car.

The only genuine advantage of fuel cells is faster refill, but with advances in battery chemistry and ubiquity of charging spots, this becomes less of an issue.

As for the mineral scarcity issue, fuel cells have it much worse, each requiring a small fortune in platinum or other rare minerals. The lithium content for batteries is dropping and a somewhat lower performance sodium ion chemistry is available, with practically limitless supply.
Fish in a Barrel: an insider’s retrospective of the multikernel paper
In the end search is about relevancy. Trustworthiness of a blog or article is hard to discern by machines. The blogs likely rank high because of relevancy as well as clicks. Sponsored doesnt always mean that the reviews are biased. Reviews on reddit aren’t exactly trustworthy too - there are always going to be competing arguments and reviews for a product, you just have to use your own judgment which plays into your personality, risk tolerance etc.
I don't mind paying for my subscription, just like I don't mind donating to Firefox and Signal. But I get that I'm probably in the minority for that. I try to put my money where my mouth is, and not the other way around!
Yeah, it's an arms race. That's the business you enter into when you decide to run a commercial search engine.

To me it seems to be compelling evidence that search engines are not a viable way to organize information on the web, but that's a different topic.
> Which I can't.

C’mon, just say no
> With the exception of WW2

Except for the one time Japan teamed up with Hitler and tried to rape and pillage the world, and not giving up until someone invented and then used nuclear weapons to make them stop. That is a pretty huge asterisk on Japan's claim to being a peaceful nation. I think Japan's neighbors might have a list of other incidents they could bring to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Japan

> As for your link, I cannot access the source

Here you go: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%...

It has nothing to do with marriage or definitions. Here's the abstract:

This paper examines the effects of female chief executive officers (CEOs) on firm performance. Using data on nonfinancial listed firms in Japan, we show that only 0.8% of some 42,000 firm-year observations have female CEOs. There is also little evidence that firms appoint more females as CEOs during our sample period. While the stock market reacts positively to the introduction of a firm's first female CEO, the relationship between CEO gender and firm accounting performance is generally not strong. However, when we classify the type of female CEO, the estimated coefficient for a founder female CEO and Tobin's Q is positive and significant.
> NR was a bastion, IIRC, of the largely failed and now also largely purged anti-Trump Republican faction

As you say: Was a bastion.

And if the anti-Trump Republican faction is, as you also say, "largely failed and now also largely purged", then it seems at least plausible that it may be purged from the NR too nowadays.
Facebook has a habit of politically motivated bans too, so she'll probably get banned from there next just like everyone else has. And Gab and Parler have a really hard time getting users since Google banned them from the Play Store (and I think Apple did the same), so it's disingenuous to pretend that they're equivalents to Twitter.
The closest I have found was https://store.steampowered.com/app/313080/The_Masterplan/ its in the spirit of they stole a million.
Getting a bur grinder now
Agreed; the former - a large corporation engaging in "too much free time on their hands" Twitter/1984-tier cancel culture - is arguably far more egregious, but par for the course for a company whose leaders, directors, and executives were brought to literal tears of anger and frustration in a post-2016 election meeting within the company. [0], [1]

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/technology/leaked-google-...

[1]: https://www.newsweek.com/google-vs-trump-leaked-video-reveal...
Ye probably. I looked into what Nintendo does nowadays and luckely they seem to have not ditched their anachronistic cartridge design, even though there seem to be internet stores built in into "New 3DS". I guess they are opt in.
I've always found anything tagged as "gaming" to be lower quality and more expensive than the business machines.

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This message sent from a Thinkpad business machine that I use for gaming (and ML, theoretically).
Isn't that just because -1 is treated as a negative match? Which you then also request as a match?
That won't be possible unless you own a special unit. The bootloader on these devices is completely locked down and there's no way to unlock it - so you're going to be stuck running the official software forever.
For some products, I agree, but realistically its about as good as it gets unless you do thorough research on a given product and are actually able to find a somewhat unbiased review.

Take washing machines for example. How do you know which ones are good and which ones are not? Public reviews from any website tend to only be a good indicator if there a lots of bad ones. I have 0 faith in the average consumer to accurately rate a product. Overwhelmingly negative reviews will clearly show a deficiency but positive ones are unfortunately more and more a gamble.

Stiftung Warentest isn't perfect, but they do, on most occasions, put in a high amount of effort to test products to the best of their abilities without any personal opinions. I don't know of a single other person/organization/website where that is the case.
I did not mis-read your comment, it was a continuation of the commentary on how mandated WFH and government-enforced isolation has essentially just moved deaths from column A to column B over the long run.

people are actually closer than ever to their family (or house-mates) due to COVID

Yes, this is the perception for many people who have family or housemates. In the same way the rich have gotten richer, the socially connected have become more socially connected, while the millions who already struggled with disconnection or loneliness have become even more strained at the behest of numerous politicians who mandate their "rules for thee and not for me" under the new anxiety-laced normal.
I absolutely can't say whether current subsidies are too high or too low or just at the right level for that purpose, but at least to a certain extent the subsidies and the resultant overproduction are intentional as a safeguard against harvest failures, because you really really don't want to end up with a famine as soon as you get an only even just marginally worse harvest.

It's the same issue we're now running into with renewable electricity production: You either need lots of storage, and for what you cannot store you need to significantly overbuild your production capacity.
My random right click just killed the game ):
I think Vimperator used to have `marks` support, allowing you to jump to a specific part of a webpage you defined earlier. Webextension alternatives haven't reached feature parity (yet), the one I use doesn't offer this functionality.
Another data point that the cure for the pandemic has been worse than the disease.
> It'd be like getting banned from one station, perhaps. Radio?

It's more like if one company owned a large proportion of radio stations in every town, and that company banned you.
I agree with this 100%, and could totally admit that I have a giant deficit of imagination, but I still have a huge problem imagining how a company could disrupt Google search at this point (unless that other company is Amazon, Microsoft or Apple, i.e. another company with gigantic resources).

The costs of setting up a comparable search engine these days must run in the multi-billions. The Internet is huge now, so your crawling and indexing costs would be giant. Not to mention that it can actually be hard to crawl many sites that attempt to restrict indexing to "the big boys" of Google, Bing and a couple others. Also, Google controls the primary on-ramp of Android and Chrome. They also control the primary ad networks that make running a search engine profitable.

I compare it to Microsoft. Nobody really ever "disrupted" Microsoft in the desktop OS space - they still have a greater than 75% market share. The thing that changed, of course, is that the "desktop operating space" as a category became much less important with the rise of mobile, and Microsoft famously lost that OS battle. So my point is that I find it hard to see Google being "disrupted" when it comes to the "Internet search market" - the only thing I really see being possible is if some other technology came along and superseded "Internet search" as a category.
With all this lamentation about electronics stores of years past, nothing will compare to the malicious incompetence of car dealerships and service departments. Their business model these days is “if we all keep behaving badly together, consumers will have no choice but to accept our lies, markups, and chicanery”. The dealer groups paying politicians through campaign contributions to allow them to block manufacturer-direct sales (look up how you can’t buy a Tesla in Michigan, home of The Motor City, for example) is just the cherry on top.
I prefer unsigned in Rust but signed for C/C++. This is mostly because I'm always afraid that the number will be silently converted to a signed type at some point. Rust is much more explicit about when these conversions happen so it worries me less.
Damn. This reminds me of the alleged 'Nuclear Gandhi' [1].

Or the Swiss railway axle counter [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4sco75/the_axl...
I would go one step further - I always pronounced it Wooster-shuh, even while living in the West Country where the R is normally elongated.
Yeah this is in the context of how a competitor could avoid running into the same problems.
>like coal or nuclear

Nuclear is dirty? How?
Ah, good to see the context — which apparently requires having $2M of ARR before you start.
How about an optimizing C compiler, which warns on dead code removal, and undefined behaviour abuse. People call it the boring compiler project.
I look forward to seeing what flag Musk plants when he lands.

Given that some countries are dropping metal flags on the arctic seabed just to claim the mineral rights, I’m sure it’ll be a source of much drama.
There is also https://store.steampowered.com/app/113020/Monaco_Whats_Yours... but I've not played it.
Some folks should post comparisons between Google and other sites such as:

* https://bing.com

* https://duckduckgo.com

* https://you.com

Maybe use the categories mentioned in the twitter thread such as health, travel, recipes, product reviews, etc.
> Because married women takes care of kids? I genuinely don’t understand this question…

Your comment here is 100% the problem we're talking about. In your mind, women get married for the sole reason of having kids, and further, it's their job to do so. It's incredibly sexist and that's not because of Western ideals.
Ah yes, I do recall both sides having used violence to overthrow the results of an election. I remember how both sides have delayed and rushed Supreme Court nominations in order to allow the majority of the court to be appointed by a minority of citizens. I remember how one side has actively changed laws to make voting for the wrong party harder. Both sides have created created camps that separate children from their family, and then lose those children. Both sides have worked to prevent people from being able to live safely regardless of gender or orientation. Both sides have actively attacked the free press. Etc.

Very much both sides have committed atrocities.
BPF is indeed a pretty interesting technology. As the knowledge about it becomes more widespread, I anticipate that we will unlock some new capabilities both in terms of tracing. Brendan Gregg's book (https://www.brendangregg.com/bpf-performance-tools-book.html) serves as a good intro to this, although you probably only need to read a small chunk of it as a lot of it is reference-book-style material.

The author's mentioned that you can trace MySQL with USDT, which is a tracepoint inserted by the developer at select locations in the code. This kind of tracepoints form a "stable interface" for tracing/performance debugging, whereas uprobe, which hooks into select userspace functions, are unstable as the binary is recompiled. Unfortunately, the USDT tracepoints (via DTrace) have been removed in MySQL 8.0. This makes it significantly more difficult to trace MySQL, although it's not impossiblhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29772927e. I've done a proof of concept of tracing MySQL with uprobe instead of USDT in this repo[1], which can kind of give you the same results (and possibly more stuff, as I can more easily read arbitrary memory address due to how the old USDT tracepoints are structured). This is not stable tho, as any MySQL upgrade may introduce incompatibility with the trace script, as I read memory address based on offsets (whereas with USDT this can be kept pretty stable). My appeal to Oracle to re-add this functionality[2] has unfortunately been rejected, which I think is a mistake given the wide range of possibilities unlocked via BPF.

[1]: https://github.com/shuhaowu/mysqld-bpf

[2]: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=105741

Another thing that I've been recently thinking of is using BPF to validate programs written for real-time Linux (via PREEMPT_RT). To my understanding, one of the main thing to avoid is page faults [3]. With the proper BPF tracing scripts, I think we can validate that programs indeed avoids page faults in integration testing. I'm not sure if it is super useful yet, but as I'm trying to write a few RT programs, it's something that came to my mind.

[3]: https://lwn.net/Articles/837019/

In addition to tracing (so bpftrace-based/bcc-based tools), I've recently discovered that there there are:

1. ebpfsnitch (https://github.com/harporoeder/ebpfsnitch): which is an application-level firewall without kernel modules.

2. ebpf-traffic-monitor (https://source.android.com/devices/tech/datausage/ebpf-traff...): which appears to be using BPF to account for traffic for different apps on Android.

3. kubectl trace (https://github.com/iovisor/kubectl-trace): Run tracing on k8s.

There are apparently also use cases in the context of security, but I'm not familiar with it.
That’s not a complete list for any year, so comparisons of counts is meaningless - again, lots of room for biases to creep in here.
Not really. The older BlackBerries were not powerful enough for any modern OS, whereas more recent ones (i.e., the many Android-based models) have permanently locked bootloaders, meaning that even while some form of Linux might run on them, it will not be able to without the keys.
It's not a case of representatives neglecting that website. It's a case of the people not looking at that website, because they're too busy looking at Twitter instead.
Have you considered that there are just a lot of people whose work lives are so horrible (because they don't have cushy tech jobs for example) that they might completely and utterly despise the work-worshipping society we live in? Many Americans, let alone people in poorer places, are forced to work like dogs, often under inhumane conditions, for compensation that barely earns them a dignified standard of living. It's a far simpler explanation than believing there must be some coordinated effort to topple America via propaganda on a little subreddit. Sometimes the lack of empathy shown by commenters on hackernews with the living conditions of their fellow humans is really jarring to me.
Just researched good/quality crafting printers yesterday. Search results were mostly blogs and crappy websites that offered obviously no insights but were just SEO optimized to direct you to their Amazon affiliate links. Especially sad since those affiliate links to Amazon mostly resulted in "This product is currently not available" site.

I am going to remind people that this happens because that's the internet (and world) we designed. If you aren't a coder and you want to earn a living online, blogging is a way to do that and Amazon links are a way to make it pay.

People use AdBlock and don't want to leave tips, support Patreon etc for a blog. Good jobs are hard to find. Telling someone "Get a real job" is often not a viable solution for various reasons.

If you want a better internet, you might stop and think about the fact that it is built by people and people need to eat. De facto expecting slave labor from some people and then designing an internet where those people can hijack your search results to try to eat gets you this.

I know no one actually wants to hear that. But I think that's the actual root cause of this stuff and you won't fix it if you don't address those issues.

I've tried for years to take the high road, to not have ads or Amazon links on my sites, etc. The result is starvation and intractable poverty and everyone telling me to get a real job. (I tried. They didn't hire me and continue to cyber stalk me and steal my ideas.)

Anyway, I know all replies to this comment will boil down to "Quit your bitching. No one gives one damn if you die on the streets of starvation and we are so bored with hearing about your whiny problems." Rest assured, I am not leaving this comment with any expectation whatsoever that it will in any way help me.

But maybe after I die on the streets someone will pause and think "Maybe she had a point. Maybe we designed a shitty system with bad incentives and we are getting exactly the crap we pay people to give us."

Because the "high road" where someone tries to add value and respect the fact that you folks don't want ads or affiliate links etc literally doesn't pay to the point of it will keep you underfed and either homeless or underhoused and then your poverty will be a new excuse to have no respect for your observations that "Hey, people, the system you designed is broken and this is why and how."