skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of citations demonstrating organic practices cannot realistically replace even 50% of current production. You clearly know how to Google.

This comment reads like socialism fan-fic. How well did communal/collective farms work for the Soviet Union and or China?

The only way that has been proven to not starve millions of people has been to incentive food production in a pseudo-capitialistic manner (and yes, they are usually heavily subsidized for great reasons).

If you made millions doing ad tech in silicon valley and want to play farmer on your 10 acre plot, great. Agriculture and food production are scaled to the gills currently. They got this way through incredible innovation. People were doing 'organic practices' for hundreds of years. It didn't scale. Mechanization, synthetic fertilizer, and plant science _did_ scale, however and that's why our systems looks like they do. The innovations needed to accomplish this were truly mind bending from several disciplines.

Instead of celebrating these achievements, the conversation has been hijacked/lost because for profits companies took advantage of murky/poor regulation and are currently rent-seeking to squeeze every last dollar out of the system. Those problems can be fixed, but nobody is focusing on that, there too busy imagine some irrational alternate that simply cannot exist with ~9 billion people, many of which will begin eating more calories and more input intensive calories (meat) as time moves forward.

Embrace that scale, and innovate from there.
An assumption seemingly embedded in this comment is that technical people can learn sales, but sales people can't learn technology.

It would be interesting to unpack that concept with actual data.
> any events in the last century

Not sure which events specifically that you're referring to, but usually when somebody refers abstractly to "events in the last century", they mean the nazis. It's worth noting that the nazis themselves rejected IQ testing and theories as justifying "Jewish supremacy".
Nerdwallet and wikiHow are both SEO spam content farms. They just happen to have above-average quality content.

They don't exist without a search engine.
The killer feature for me is the "infinite play" feature. It does a really good job of keeping the vibe going, but with diversity, showing me new songs and new artists. It also works really well as a recommendation engine, so I don't understand that side of the complaint. Since switching to it from a local library I've been discovering great new music with less effort.
> Apple is not designing its own CPUs (but ARM does)

Do you have any evidence supporting this? If you were right, it would seem odd that Apple has consistently delivered significantly better performance, often by multiple product generations, than other ARM licensees since the launch of the A8 in 2014 if ARM was doing all of the real work. Similarly, it seems like they could have saved a ton of money not hiring chip architects if they didn't have anything for them to work on.
A non-financial suggestion:

> I have no desire to expand the operation for many reasons. I’m perfectly happy working on it full time myself and don’t want to change anything.

This is a GREAT attitude. Don’t let others sway you from it. When seeking advice about situations like this, it becomes very common for folks to recommend what is typically taught of them in a growth-oriented society like we have. You’ll get lots of people telling you why you should grow, expand, reinvest, etc.

This has meant the death of some really terrific products. Growth for growth’s sake is a tempting dragon (I’ve fallen for it!) but stick to your guns here. You’ve got something great, so keep it great just the way you like it.

Do take note that complacency can be risky though - another commenter pointed out that situations like this don’t necessarily last by default, so stay aware of your competition and don’t fall behind. But congrats on building something profitable and great, and I wish you the best in keeping it that way!
Just noting, I'm interested in CRDT as well and glad to learn more / explore collaboration!
Not our jurisdiction, and what could car manufacturers do?
Yes, I've experienced that while locked up in the psyche ward. My brain just shut down. I would stare at the food at the end of my fork for what seemed like 10's of minutes. I didn't care. I knew I was in a safe place so I just went with it. It feels like the biochemical equivalent of a dead battery. They gave me a drug cocktail (I don't know what) that restored me to normal function.

Part of my motivation of writing my original comment was because I realized that the author of the article made a mistake. I'm not blaming the author because I've made the same mistake and I've seen it made often. I never really thought about it much. The mistake is trying to explain depression in terms the non-depressed family could understand. He even used that common metaphor of being in a dark tunnel. Everyone can relate to being in a dark tunnel, right? That's the problem. Then they think of terms that they can relate to and are more tempted to blame the depressed person for not just "getting up" like they've done when they were in a dark tunnel.

It occurred to me without really being conscious of it that the correct way to describe depression is in terms they do not understand. That way they'd see depression correctly, as something really abnormal and serious. I wanted to show that the depressed person was incapable of thinking in any way helpful for others or themselves. I wanted them to see it like you might see a man sitting on the tracks when a train is approaching and not only refusing to move, but seeming disinterested in it and almost content to die. It's shocking but it's true. It's so far out of the normal band, unlike the dark tunnel. Family are not powerless and should get into action. Push that man off the track!
That's not specific to VB, there is a lot of legacy code out there.
Yeah, I don't like it. But I recognize that a) my needs are different than most, and b) we are all caught up in a capitalist system where incentives for exploitation abound. So if I can get by with a few tweaks, I'm ok with it.
> Maybe ultimately you open up spam fighting to your users. If you managed this well, you could harness a lot of energy.

Doesn't Google already consider that if a user returns to the results page (or clicks a second link) then the first link visited was not satisfactory. Seems like a pretty elegant solution.
>During the 1970s and 80s, she was one of the two most powerful women on earth (the other was was Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of Great Britain).

Perhaps the authors are unfamiliar with Indira Gandhi (or Golda Meir).
Neither of them are Unix proper :)
I have Macbook Air M1 8GB, it ran smoothly on my side. The highest CPU usage I seen from that is 30%. Doom and Nuke Dukem 3D is running smooth in there as well. And my NUC (i7 8559U) have a tiny input delay but overall ran smoothly on it. I use Vivaldi for my Macbook and Firefox for my NUC.
> and even while you code

As an interviewer I explicitly ask candidates NOT to do this (or only doing it if they want). For some reason there is this expectation in coding interviews. I challenge anyone that pushes their interviewees to do this, to sit down during one of their own coding sessions and vocalize the stuff they are coding while doing it. In my opinion it is stupid, and unnecessary.

When my interviewees start solving the coding tests and begin "thinking out loud" I told them: "you don't need to do this here, focus on your code, and once you are done I'll ask you to explain some parts to me". I invariably listen to a huge breath of relief from them haha.
The HTML is probably smaller than the JavaScript blob.

If you can get the HTML within the same order of magnitude as JSON itself, then it's perhaps a compelling argument to ditch SPAs. The bandwidth delta would be minimal, and the development overhead would be much less substantial.

Note that this is how the web used to be. Small HTML markup.

We even started baking structured meaning into the HTML (Semantic Web, "Web 3.0") so that documents could be consumed like APIs. But then JSON and the platform giants put an end to p2p web payloads and rich document schemas. That was a mistake.
I find this very interesting, do you have any sources you can share, related to this, where I could read more?
https://github.com/DakotaKry/brewPi
Probably you're not aware yet that there are also "modern ways" to do server side templates/html. Nowadays you have things such as Unpoly, Htmx, Hotwire, Livewire, etc which can be added incrementaly to any traditional MVC applications leading to an incredible reduction in the amount of work necessary to ship something robust if you're a single developer or in a small team.

SPAs can be great for large teams with different skills/profiles, and large companies with a lot of money though.
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> What would a paid version of Google Search results look like - where Google can just try to give me the best possible results and not be worried about generating revenue?

God please no. YouTube premium shows what Google would do, i.e., they would further ruin the free experience by ramping up the amount of ads you see to "incentivize" the premium search.
That is a really uncharitable reading of what I said. I don't know the details of what they were researching, I am not an expert. I'm just saying, the scenario that it could have been a lab leak, or that there could be a lab leak in future, should be taken more seriously. I don't know if they did GOF experiments (and I'm sure the pop-sci image of monkeys in cages a few feet apart is probably wrong). But we should think of regulating more strictly whatever they did (or didn't) do that could cause such an outbreak.
One example, the website called gitmemory which crawls github data regularly and have better SEO than github that usually you will find results above original github links.
With git, the command git bisect provides a mechanism for using binary search on a range of commits.
Nice, didn't know that. Then if I were to do it again, I would use Yosemite, because AirDrop only still works with newer Macs starting from Yosemite upwards. However El Capitan runs fine, everything is smooth and battery is up to 6h (I had the battery replace in 2018 and upgraded 1.5years later to a newer MBP).
Agree that the reddit is more relevant to me because it has multiple perspectives in a discussion format, but I don't see any particularly bad links with the first search. The first one just has more conventional review sites like GoodHousekeeping and Forbes.
Turbo Pascal[1] with Turbo Vision[2] was nicer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision
Several people mention DuckDuckGo in that Twitter thread. I use DuckDuckGo for my main search engine, and it's not obviously any better than Google regarding SEO spam.
I also can't help but wonder this. I'm certain people at google search want to provide the best quality search results and do this with integrity. But at some point in the business hierarchy you are at a level where people set objectives for both these departments ( search & ads ) and are trying to optimise for things like total revenue/profit.
Which is the restaurant in that analogy? The employer or the job candidate?
> "prejudice"

... and that makes it ok?
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If anyone has a scanner who is interested in doing this, I own every model available and am willing to lend out devices to have scanned.
> Put in 1pt font in his email signature "wear a red tie to the interview" then berated a candidate who showed up without a red tie for "lack of attention to detail"

Stopped reading here, this boss is a joke. leave asap. if this boss isn't directly damaging your career, they are indirectly doing so as an opportunity cost. you can't learn anything from them, being around them is a net loss for you.
How about Bing?

Is it viable competition?
Yup. liters makes it sound like a big number, but using the author's example:

>> The world’s busiest airport by passenger volume, Guangzhou, could have handled 5.14 million litres of pee in April 2021.

That converts to about 43k 55-gallon barrels per year, or about 118 barrels per day. An insustry standard oil tanker truck is about 210 barrels, range 50-300 [0]. So, all in all, pretty manageable.

[0] https://www.reference.com/business-finance/capacity-tanker-t...
Not everybody hates looking at themselves on Zoom
in an SPA, that's cached, so not the second time
They also pander to their customer base. You'll never hear them say a bad word about the kinds of high end but not "I own a private jet" luxury products that high middle class consumers (who are their target market) tend to own. Nobody resubscribes to media that tells them they're doing it wrong.
It was the tie thing that made me open the comments here to reply.

I have been to a few interviews like this over the years. Some I knew would be problematic in advance yet I still went because I wanted to experience it and learn from it.

I got offered the job for two positions and took great delight in turning them down. It is very interesting and a fantastic learning experience to be in that position of power over some difficult asshole. Especially when it is a sudden and unexpected reverse of the power dynamics.

These are people that act very antisocially and so I see it as a good opportunity to "poke the tiger" in a safe way. They're not my employer, I would never want then to be my employer and I am fine with the minimal risk associated with it because I took away so much in being able to really push their buttons with essentially zero consequences. What I mean by this is I was able to better see how such people actually react rather than just read about it. I am fascinated by human behaviours.

In both cases these people cycled between begging to acting like absolute psychopaths. Shouting and swearing at me down the phone, telling me how they would ruin me, that I was pathetic and then back to begging like they were "my mate" and they were "just joking around". Highly unprofessional behaviour that I made sure to feed back to their companies HR departments with evidence.

It is a feeling quite like anything else to remind such a person that all your calls are automatically recorded by your VoIP system after they have spent 5 minutes calling you every name under the sun.

I think the thing that really gets under these peoples skin though is when I calmly explain I don't need to work. I have more than enough money to live a very long and comfortable life and that I choose to work out of personal desire to do so rather than necessity. They hate not being the most powerful person in the room. You take that away from them and they collapse to nothing.

Learning this first hand has allowed me to be far more confident not just during interviews but in probably all aspects of my life. In any kind of negotiation I am calmer and so better able to prepare a sensible response. This is important when emotions are all over the place.

It is all well and good reading about how to negotiate or even taking part in role play workshops offered by many management training firms but until you actually experience someone that is genuinely that way and not just acting it is all just theory. Experiencing it first hand was very different to any training I have ever had and while these people were truly terrible people (at least in a professional capacity) I am actually quite grateful to them for giving me that real world experience to learn from.
This is awesome. Sad to see the work is kind of “wasted” in the sense that it’s not officially supported and any update to Go will likely break it. But I learned a lot reading this article.
Satoshi's OpenSea Account?
Her legacy remains. Romania’s parliament is filled with plagiarised phd “scientists” or graduates from dodgy universities with pompous titles (usually of “military” or “political” “institutes”). Society too has too many graduates of ghost universities or low effort phds. Just like elena, some want to feel they are something yet they are nothing.
Wfrest: C++ Web Framework REST API
> This is not the case with SPAs,

LOL. I'm yet to see a single SPA which can tolerate a bad network. You certainly have better tools to do it, but it still takes a ton of effort and nobody does it. So it ends up failing in worse ways because now the application just stalls and you don't even get the standard browser errors/timeouts.

Unless SPAs are built as "offline first" I haven't seen a single one which works better than a traditional MVC app in such conditions.
MicroPython: How to Read a Knob
OK that first sentence was the line I have least expected to start a Hacker News comment ever. Also you are correct on all counts. I developed these same techniques to avoid peeing during the opera but they ported well to air travel.
An interesting point. I think most of today's systems tend to be "stateless" store state in a Database, which would make DP pretty cumbersome if not impossible to manage.

The only places were such types of processing will be required is when doing specific kind of processing, which for most scenarios you'd be better using an algorithm previously implemented on an existing library.
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If you want to be an artist, I recommend avoiding trying to get launched, seeking recognition, or even getting invited to shows. That's a huge distraction and only relates to the marketing of art.
Haven't read it, and it may be more abstract than what you're looking for, but I've heard good things about Jerry Saltz's book "How to Be an Artist" (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084CSQRWZ). He's a pretty well-respected and candid Pulitzer-winning art critic.
This 100%. In travel, we see Google constantly tweaking its algorithms, and compared to Bing, Google surfaces a ton more small, well-written travel blogs [1]

Not only that, Paul and Michael have seen plenty of startups, and at least in recent memory, the number of vertical search and consumer startups that Y Combinator has funded hasn't been that high

As a consumer startup, I know this issue firsthand. Paul and Michael assume that if you build a better product, they will come! That's simply not true these days.

Instead, you need to:

- Build a better product

- Option 1: Figure out a channel with enough growth on an existing platform. This likely means you're doing SEO for your new search engine

- Option 2: Get your customer lifetime value high enough so you can pay for ads. This is tough, since it's a bit of a chicken and the egg problem since most search engines are monetized with ads

As the founder of Wanderlog (YC W19; https://wanderlog.com), a consumer vacation planning app [1], I definitely remember the idealistic days when I thought the best consumer product on its own would win! But growth doesn't just come, and the same can be said of vertical-specific search engines.

[1] Try searching "[your city] itinerary" on Google vs. Bing: it's much more likely you'll find a small blog rather than Lonely Planet or the local travel bureau as the top result
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One approach would be to have moderators from the community who are allowed to make decisions about results.