skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is that wrong?

Yes.

The world doesn't have an overpopulation problem. It is clear that when economies develop and infant mortality goes down, people start having many fewer children after a few generations. Most of the world's advanced economies are in population decline already when you discount immigration. '

> the pain of "not having enough young people" due to declining population growth is a temporary problem

The world economy was set up to grow which requires a constant growing population. What we're in for is a long term global population decline, maybe starting as soon as 2040. With lengthening life spans (covid aside) you have a younger generation perpetually having to do the work for more and more people as the elder generation ages out of the workforce but still needs to be fed, entertained, and cared for. It isn't "temporary" but could last centuries.
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Do not give them any ideas, flying is miserable enough as it is. But here is another idea which maybe Airlines can do to make flying even more horrendous.

Eliminate the bathrooms and make everyone wear Depends. I would not be surprised this happens. The bathrooms could be replaced with a few seats and they save money by forcing people to clean up themselves :)

I now refuse to fly, I would rather drive or take a train or even a bus. Of course with covid driving is probably the better option if you can spare the time.

Of course I heard many people now drive instead of fly, which is making medium travel distances (say under 1000 miles) not enjoyable. Never mind the CO2 being pumped out.

Again the US needs a good public transportation system, which of course will never happen. If pols just stop talking about this, it would probably lower CO2 emissions from all their hot air they are expelling.
Yes, thank you for this! I honestly couldn't remember the name, and found the other one and was surprised it said it was closed, as I thought I remembered it being open. Appreciate you providing the original.
Inspiring, famous, influential, and powerful are not synonyms. The Ceaucescus exercised a lot of raw power.
As is the case with a lot of messengers, they try to sell their product to enterprises. Pricing for that is available on their site as well:

https://olvid.io/enterprise/en/
Was this linked for the irony of everyone spamming replies advertising their startups which don't solve the problem but kinda-sorta do, resulting in something hard to read and understand?
Heh. When I was a kid, my uncle gave me a book with title "Advances in polymer chemistry" by Elena Ceausescu as a joke. It had glowing preface from some professor from the West. They just gave those books to anyone doing any trade with Romania. I think everyone understood what was going on.
Yup. This is many data points of plainly toxic behavior by the mgr., and he's getting away with it.

Unless you actually know with solid evidence (multiple data points, all pointing in the same direction) or direct reliable communication (i.e., you really know the person, not just polite conversation with 'sure we care' platitudes), you must assume that do NOT have allies in higher management.

I'd usually try to make things work from where you're standing, but actively toxic environments are the clear exception. This qualifies, no question.

The only sane move here is to align your mallards as well as possible, find a new job and bolt. ASAP. Bonus points for the three of you doing it together.
> lately I've been learning more about how the VC world works

PG started YCombinator the same year this was written. Did he state somewhere how he planned to address the VC incentive issues pointed out here?
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And do those figures also ignore the fact that most people are vaccinated?
Nice! Does it have an API for adding URLs to monitor? Would be nice to have a browser extension to do that easily.
Aaah JabRef, that was my choice 15+ years ago when I was doing my PhD. I think today a combination of portable JabRef and GoogleDrive/DropBox or similar would do the trick.
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I've led and developed teams of up to twelve engineers, have years of experience in a technical product ownership role, and have been fully responsible for the architecture, initial implementation, and ongoing production management and maintenance for systems currently used by millions in the health care space.

These include no-code web builders for forms and whole applications that have saved thousands of developer-hours and millions of dollars, HIPAA-compliant, versioned and fully-auditable data stores, configurable streaming data infrastructure system, and a workflow engine that is responsible for the coordination of a live production application that serves millions.

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I find a routine sleep schedule and no carbs better to fight being tired.
Pick up "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" and follow the lessons and exercises within. The left/right brain stuff is a little pseudo-sciency, but the basic thesis of the book is sound: contrary to common attitudes, art is a skill than can be developed with practice like any other. It just takes discipline, effort, and patience.
The people paid for this film stock, we're going to use the film stock!
Hungary is joining the club.
Apparently it took DOS 2.0 copying ideas from Unix (which was also being sold by Microsoft) like hierarchical directories or pipes, that made DOS win over CP/M-86 by anything other than "it's included by default, most of the time". At the time, there was strong danger that the well known and accepted CP/M could make a comeback on PC.
Years ago I wanted to pursue micro blogging, but this "feature" of Google search stopped me from doing it.

What's the point of writing succinct, to-the-point mini articles about problems and solutions if nobody finds them on Google?
I agree. You can say a lot of bad things about Google, but they definitely have some of the smartest and highest paid engineers working on their search. Plus there are already a lot of people trying to compete with Google and so far, no one seems to provide consistently better results.

The only advantage a startup might have is that they could do completely new concepts, such as specifying what area you search in, allow you to modify their classification of your query and/or moderating sites you include - which is probably necessary anyway, since you'll hardly have the budget to fully index the web. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's not going to be easy at all.

And after all of that, you still need a way to make some money.
True. Addiction works in mysterious ways though.
“ There is no meaningful switching cost to using a new search engine.”

Unfortunately, defaults matter and Google is spending billions of dollars yearly to make sure they are the default search engine wherever they can. Most people don’t switch from default.
You could have just given me the 300 dollars and I could have called you a moron.

Completely same effect.

You do not have your money and you feel bad.
I'm quite saddened the web has had to rescind so many features (high-res timers, shared memory, memory profiling). It's worth noting that most of these high-end capabilities had just gotten outright disabled for a time, when Spectre/Meltdown hit. That they got turned on at all is a notable improvement. https://web.dev/why-coop-coep/

I don't like some of the candor of the article. Treating cross-origin activity as a mis-feature is a great mis-service to the web: it's not really much of a web, imo, if sites are restricted to talking to themselves. That the web standards crew is happy to shit on this range of capabilities, to write new standards that walk the web back: it's a harsh regression, by afraid leaders. There is a lot a lot a lot of trouble here, in these domains, but this desire to just cancel the feature & walk away, to make the web one where sites have to work & play only with themselves: it's a death knell, against the spirit of the thing, deeply. That it's so inconvenient & troublesome to standards authors, so difficult for browser engineers, that it (used to be) a hazard for sitemasters: I'm sorry for your suffering but good things & great powers have a price. You're wrong to want to shut this possibility out. Easier path that it may be.
Oh of course! Those used to be quite handy.

I believe I remember them having remarkably simple and comprehensible source code. I had some old book by like dr dobbs or someone about dos internals in the 90s and I remember seeing all the technicals laid bare in the source back when I was in high school. It was one of the earliest memories I have of seeing what true software competence looked like.

Apparently it's still maintained. I wonder where it's being used, fuse and things like that I had assumed replaced all this.

I need to find a way to remember that passion and capture it again
If you just want a hobby, hit up an art supply store, buy some stuff, and make some art.

If you want to have the experience of being in a show, search for local "Call for Artists", and you'll find small shows taking in local artist's work. If it is a juried show, it means they'll choose which artwork makes it into the show. Non-juried shows means if you drop it off, it is in. Most shows let you set a price at which you'll sell the displayed works, and take a cut of that sale.

It is really that simple - The galleries and museums put out calls to artists, and artists respond. Different shows will have different preferences for skill level and styles. Over time, you'll figure out which shows are best for your own art. You'll also get to know the people running the shows, and get to know the local community.
If we ignore POSIX for a moment, the kernel could avoid contending on the one-per-process fd map by sharding the integers into distinct allocation ranges per thread. This would eliminate a source of contention between threads.

In addition to violating POSIX’ lowest hole rule, it would break select(2) (more than it’s already broken).
> capitalism working as intended.

Needlessly destroying the planet and making it more expensive for me to drown the inevitability of impending doom by playing AAA video games.

Well ain't that just swell.
I’m big into retrocomputing, particularly retro telecom and odd enterprise/business systems. (Have me an SGI and DEC Alpha right now, and hope to get a VAX machine and many other things in the future).

One particularly interesting system to me is the HP 3000[0] 2100and 1000 series[1] of real time computers (which had a number of generations and name changes, and ofc as it’s an HP machine, now lends its name to printer). I plan on buying one, though it’s rather expensive as most of the machines I have left on my list are, so in the meantime I figured I play with a SIMH emulator.

These things ran a fun little OS called RTE or real time executive and man, I’ve never had such a hard time understanding an OS. I’ve only played with it briefly and am not very familiar, documentation is archived, but a bit hard to follow for me sometimes. As far as I know, it dates back to the 60s/70s with it being updated through the series computers all the way through to the 90s. I’m not a huge *nix fan in a greater world of operating systems, but I gained a newfound respect for UNIX and it’s descendants after using this operating system from around the same time. Though perhaps the real time nature of the system adds to the foreign feeling.

I’ve got a screen grab showing me following a basic tutorial, running some program, and then using it to list process and a few other things regarding storage I don’t understand yet: https://imgur.com/a/iqYQdQ8

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_3000

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_2100
At least with those things, there's the theoretical possibility that there's a difference though.

Why is it so hard to convince people that on the digital side of the equation, there's an objective right or wrong answer, and it's impossible to get any better than an exact copy of the bits?
If you're an artist, you probably care about people connecting with your art, so "marketing of art" seems pretty important or at least understandable. I'm sure there are some myths of famous artists who stumbled into wild success (where "success" means "lots of people connecting with one's art" whether or not the artist makes significant money), but even if those myths are true, I'm pretty sure it's not a recipe others can reproduce--most people will probably need to worry about marketing and even that may not be enough.
At my last job it was bidirectional.
Somehow you got down votted by their creators here :)
For those wondering about other operating systems, IIRC winworld started with Windows betas, and focused on stuff you could easily run on typical PC hardware first, the rest came depending on uploaders
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My current solution for this is to just tag `site:reddit.com` to the beginning of Google searches. A Google search for `site:reddit.com best miter saw` has a lot of relevant results.

Marketers/SEO people are starting to infiltrate this as well, but since they can't control and SEO the content on Reddit nearly as much, this still works pretty well for now.
Okay that's sort of what the !bang in DDG is for, and why it's a meta-engine. What's the blue sky ideal for a real, no-bullshit, everything search engine that doesn't fall prey to the constant flood of garbage?

I have an exterminator who comes to my house every couple months, and sets up traps here, poison there. I don't have any rats in my house. I do see rats running across the yard sometimes. The exterminator explains it like this: Rat pressure. The rats overpopulate and there's "pressure" (like, uh, "memory pressure", which is also a fluid concept) so they try to get into your house more, through smaller holes, as a function of how much outside drama is going on, how many they are and how overpopulated, how scarce their food supply is, how cold it is outside, and whatever else drives rats into your house. (I love the dude who's my exterminator).

Anyway, this is the same problem every search engine faces. The more surface area they expose, the more pressure they have building, the more ways people have to fake out their systems.

We have to go back to the 1990s Yahoo! model. Curated content. A list of websites that are reputable. 1990s Yahoo is the future.
Non-technical cofounders looking to take advantage of others are over-represented in this pool because they never get selected.

They continue going on meeting after meeting, looking for a mark. Meanwhile, the genuinely good non-technical (or technical, for that matter) co-founders are quickly selected out of the pool.

It's the same reason that you're far more likely to encounter someone who can't FizzBuzz during interviews than you are as a coworker: The developers who can't do the job are doing 10-50X more interviews than the developers who are good at their job, so you're going to see far more unemployable devs than employable devs with a random sampling of interviews even though most devs are employable.
The gameboy came out using a processor that was 10 years old, absolutely crushed the handheld market that was flooded with more powerful competitors, and continued to dominate that market using the same underpowered processor for a decade.

Everyone makes consoles and games. Nintendo makes things people actually enjoy.
I imagine they have less than 1135 litres of beverages on board, which helps. Also 40k litres of fuel, much of which gets used up over the course of the flight...

On a related note, although the tanks can't be intentionally discharged in mid flight, airline sewage systems do occasionally leak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_(aviation)
Just look at how many tailgates and catalysts are stolen from trucks in the US. That problem is not solvable by more law enforcement.
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Lots technical and non-technical positions:

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It's two-fold. If Google priortizes pages with a lot of content that's one thing, but longer content also means more space for ads, or more scroll events to trigger ads, etc.

Incidentally, prioritizing long content seems odd to me, in my experience the best pages are short and get right to the point, at least in the context of something like a recipe or other "how to" resources.
If you look at my comments more closely you'll see that banning accounts is a small portion of what I do. Mostly I try to persuade and explain to users what kind of site we're trying to have here, what the site guidelines are, and how we apply them.

It always feels like the mods are against you (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), but you can't take that as evidence that we disagree with you. The people with opposite views to yours are just as sure that we're secretly agreeing with you and moderating the site to privilege your views. That's just how it goes.
> and Google Home devices pick up the recipe instructions just fine so people end up not reading it

I think this isn't entirely related, but that's perhaps the beginning of a bias you might end up having that everyone experiences technology in the same way as it marches on. I've yet to encounter a Google Home in the wild, I imagine far more people are consuming recipes on phones, tablets and PCs.
Interesting. However I don't like the fact of checking both mrna vaccines. It would be interesting to compare moderna vs pfizer
Indeed, the Banqiao dam accident is not pertinent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24301436
I run Monterey on my 2014 MBP and it runs super fast so not sure of your issue. I installed Catalina on the 2010 Mini which also works well but I've moved on from Catalina which is why this system is EOL for me.
There's nothing to clean. It's digital.
He’s just describing Webrings, except in a reactive tense (“filter out spam sites”) rather than a proactive tense (“associate your site with other worthwhile sites”). Google’s ranking algorithm only works when someone is proactively curating, and only SEO spammers do so these days. Reactive curation is not a viable way to manage information.

The simplest way to compete with Google is to create a DIY Webrings site that disallows harvesting of data by Google. Charge curators to create a webring, and let curators select three hashtags and a description that represent their list of fifty or fewer sites. Use the revenue to pay a human to curate the list of hashtags, and let users tip a webring curator in gratitude with an Apple Pay button.

This is how to make a million dollars, Pinboard-style, out of the ashes of the original curated Yahoo idea and the information structures of hashtagging. It doesn’t work if you allow free-for-all infinite-sized lists, it doesn’t work if you allow free-for-all hashtags, but with clear limits and moderation of tags (instead of webrings), it would thrive. By moderating tags, users can keep the webring they paid for, and SEO rings will be stick out for having no shared network with any other rings, which allows for easier detection and culling of malicious non-participatory actors. Plus, with the curation networks in place, it becomes possible to bubble up rings that have unusual content for positive human moderation activity.

I tried to find some good podcast lists yesterday and each site I visited had a really interesting cross-section, but there were so many duplicates. I wish the ring site existed, so that it could remember what it had shown me already, and I could say “show me rings that intersect with this podcast and have something new I haven’t seen before”.

That’s where the theory of pagerank and the practice of curation and the capabilities of search align, and given that moderation of hashtags scales very cheaply, is a billion dollar opportunity that Google and Amazon cannot compete with if handled properly. It’s not about trying to get a cut of every visit’s revenue potential. It’s about giving human beings a directory that respects their time and remembers what they’ve seen.