skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a similarly cutting advice on how to write about america, here's Garrison Keillor's classic book review, "On the Road Avec M. Lévy" https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/books/review/on-the-road-...

On one hand it's a review of Bernard-Henri Lévy's French travelogue "American Vertigo." On the other hand it's a take down of all the cliches of all these American travelogues that visit the same places and say the same things.

Here's a telling bit from the beginning.

> You meet Sharon Stone and John Kerry and a woman who once weighed 488 pounds and an obese couple carrying rifles, but there's nobody here whom you recognize. In more than 300 pages, nobody tells a joke. Nobody does much work. Nobody sits and eats and enjoys their food. You've lived all your life in America, never attended a megachurch or a brothel, don't own guns, are non-Amish, and it dawns on you that this is a book about the French. There's no reason for it to exist in English, except as evidence that travel need not be broadening and one should be wary of books with Tocqueville in the title.
One could also consider that not everyone is in the healthiest state due to illness or chronic disease and not just immediately assume moral failing.
I sure wish I had problems that were totally unsolvable, they are so easy to measure progress on. /sarcasm

I think it’s more likely that because they are just building hundreds of tiny tweak experiments and it’s someone else who desides what to build and if it even worked. Search quality is such a meta-problem that it goes beyond any real hope of simply working on it in anything beyond piecemeal trial and error fashion on their dataset.
> There's no such thing as an addiction to a normal stimuli. Addiction is a medical word that should be reserved for people dealing with the problems associated with taking chemicals that directly alter wanting/desire in the brain.

You're mixing and matching metaphysical claims with prescriptions about how language should be used. When you say "there's no such thing" or "exists" with respect to types of addiction, what exactly are you saying?
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now there’s an eldrich name from the past.

can i interest you in some coathangers ive just now artisinally soldered together?
It literally can't, if the thing you comparing against also isn't dropping or corrupting packets. It's a straight up scam.
And makes me think that StumbleUpon had a similar curation ability, in that the value qualifier is how often [hopefully] real people interact with content - tracked by who's using SU and agreed to allow tracking; can't remember if sharing that was optional or not?

The gamification of the system then would have to come through onboarding fake users, pretending/mimicking real user behaviour to send that signal into the system; not sure if SU ever ran into that problem or was actively paying attention to trying to identify and removing fake or suspicious signals from their output?

I feel a much better system is easily within reach, it's simply getting the right structure to it, the right foundation, and then it will quickly take off due to the quality difference. I've already figured out a design pattern that Twitter and Facebook has indoctrinated us with, making us think it is normal - and keeping us blind to an actual normal way or organizing or communicating, but that isn't conducive to control or ad revenues - and so extending my future plans to include a better search-directory system would fit snugly into my efforts.
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Some of the examples used in the Twitter thread Paul was referring to would be better served by a manually curated directory service with a possible addition of a search engine only surfacing content from the sites in the directory.

For health information and recipes in particular there are only a handful of really high quality sites that have quality content for 95% of the information most people need. I bet if you wanted to increase the coverage to 99%, that list would expand to less than a thousand sites. At those numbers manually curating the information would be easily achievable.

How to get people to use your top notch Google replacement instead of Google, however. That's the hard problem.
Surely Indira Gandhi with her authoritarian tendencies held more "raw power" than Thatcher, elected in a stable parliamentary democracy with proper rule of law.
There are a handful of states where non competes only apply to executives, but at-will is typically applicable across the board.
This is very solid advice.

I would only add that you should consider maxing out your Roth IRA contribution every year (6k USD per year), particularly if you are young. You use post tax dollars to fund your Roth IRA, but all of the funds in your Roth IRA, including all gains, are tax free when you retire.
1 & 2 are very intertwined I think. Height just happens to be easily measured.

3. You mean because IQ is assumed to be normally distributed in a population? What are you thinking of when you say "This then contradicts claims by IQ-ists that IQ predicts things which are very much non-normally distributed."? I don't think IQ distributed normally means that you can't have non-normally distributed consequences in other areas?
He's right as often as he's wrong
Just a minute ago, I made a small typo in a non-obscure programming-related search term.

Showing results for searchterm
No results found for searchterm

Followed by an unending list of random celebrities I don't know nor care about, businesses I've never been that sell items I have absolutely no use of, and random foreign news articles.

Failure to recognise the typo is unexpected but forgivable. But then, rather than helping me with my search, they attempt to distract and lead me away from it - using triggers that you'd think they should have known wouldn't work.

I really don't understand how this is even possible, and it's not a rare occurrence.
Well, the legality of making copyrighted software available for free and even providing serials really makes it a warez site. They see to be trying to skirt the boundaries of the law by mostly providing software images from disks of software from defunct companies pre2000.
I agree with this and the grandparent comment wholeheartedly. That said, there's a kind of institutional blindness that can build up in companies—especially ones that dominate their sector. It may have roots in intransigent upper management, ossified and inflexible process, wide-scale burnout, a culture of passing the buck, or any number of other pathologies.

I don't claim that Google has any of these and certainly have no insight into their search group. But I've personally been at powerful companies with best-of-the-best talent that were blind to the decay in their own living room, so I would caution against immediate dismissal of PG's take.
Let's have niches where the content is hand curated by human beings instead of pure statistics by machines.

Hmm why stop there let's actually make the users do the curating and even the content creation by rewarding them with social validation. Let’s have hard working moderators who work on the community full time.

Then we could just build a search engine over it. We could call it Reddit. Or HackerNews.

Maybe the users aren't all as good as professionals at curating the information. Let's hire professionally trained curators pay them well and we could call them newspapers. Then we can come in disrupt them and replace them with an algorithmic marketplace that eventually becomes infested with click bait.
Dude people buy jets and Teslas as a business expense. super common. Dan bilzerian's ex beverly hills villa is owned by Wish as a business expense and the ceo parties there. cmon.

You can twist the villa however you want. It can be an investment through an SPV and you pay rent. To be clear, arguing (and using) something as a business expense or an investment is not fraudulent.

I don’t know who in their right mind would take out a million in salary and pay 50% of it and then buy a villa with $500k, rather than directly investing in a villa either for the appreciation itself or to use for business events, branding, whatever

And this is just one very simple way. there are countless permutations. You can go as complex as you want. You can mix and match around with credit and exotic laws and exotic countries and exotic legal structures all day long.

Sorry if reality upsets you: the world is setup by lawyers( and/politicians) for shareholders, and that's because they're the richest and capital=power.
Master in git comes from BitKeeper, where it was used in master/slave context.
I was trying to express the sliding window constraint as a violation of the pigeon-hole principle : to violate the constraint you have to have at least N+1 intervals that are shorter than window_size/N over the window_size.

But I'm not really sure of the value it adds over simply taking a cost of 1 as you suggest. When time beween requests are spreaded more than window_size/N they don't cost credit. This mean you have a smaller number of "hot" clients (clients who are not full credit) to monitor.

The second idea that often occurs in problems with sliding windows is the telescoping sum which is hiding implicitly in the sum of elapsed Times.
I put it in the trash and forget about it. Recycling is too hard and probably will cost more to end up in the same landfill, nobody really need yet another aging piece of hardware, and I don't need money especially if I need to spend time trying to find buyers.

I wouldn't mind giving it, but it's not something people do much here, and I'd rather pay taxes to organize rather than pay some religious charity who would help people only if they give their soul in exchange.

I have thrown very little hardware the last 10 years, because I buy long term, have small desires, don't buy MACs or anything that has to follow some sort of replacement fashion (but that's why my stuff wouldnt have much resell value anyway), or it's hard drive, and I dont dare throwing away hard drives here in China hehehe. I have a full 4x2TB and 4x10TB set of NAS hardrives that I had to keep in store when I moved to 4x18TB (Ultrastar <3), that's probably the only thing I have to find what to do with now.

Video cards, I change when they break, and do throw them away: I'm at my 3rd top-end NVidia, since 2010. Switching from cheap craps to very expensive video cards is probably the biggest source of savings I've ever done hardware-wise. Instead of having a litany of time wasting problems, immediate obsolescence and replacement every year or so, I can just drive the card until it short-circuit and never have to compromise. They do short-circuit at regular interval, interestingly.
If you want to make art as a hobby, find something you enjoy doing. Focus on the process and not the result. Consider expressing your own feelings and personality.

To become museum art, your stuff needs an interpretation that places it within art history and more precisely at the front of art history. E.g. it can’t be something that’s already done.
I’m going to file this under “matters of faith” and not even going to consider the fact that the switch is _nowhere_ involved in turning the bits into sound.
The impact of the dollar changes depending on what you spend it on. If you want to help veterans there are tons of ways to do that ranging from mental health outreach, to political action, to just giving them money. You can figure out which organization has the most impact per dollar and donate there. Handing out money to veterans might have extremely low overhead since it can be done by a single person mailing out checks, but that doesn't mean it's the most effective way to help.
I mean for me, I would much prefer red flags like this come up as part of the interview process than when I'm already there so I can politely bow out, but yeah, these are all powertripping BS
> But they aren't free to talk about it, because if they did it would just give more assistance to the spammers, and make the problem worse.

The reality is more that some Google engineer will come up with an algorithm change that makes the result 40% better, but it will come at the expense of making that search 3ms slower so the change won't get merged. Or it will make the results worse for some niche set of queries that the business team really cares about, so again it won't get merged.

There are lots of consumers who would gladly pay $1 a month or whatever in order to use a couple extra milliseconds of compute power per per search in exchange for drastically better results, so there is lots of room for a startup to compete.
I'm not very well versed in SEO but isn't this just good old Goodhart's Law?

Come up with criteria to determine which websites are "better quality". Measure them, rank them, put the ones that fit the criteria best at the top.

On the other side, there's the people promoting their websites. Do what you can to get as close to Google's ideal as possible through whatever means. Profit.

At this point the criteria becomes useless for any real quality analysis.
My guess is that it's a similar social phenomenon to flat-earthers, qanon, etc, in that a group of like-minded people form and customs emerge in which making ever-more outlandish claims are taken as stronger commitment signal to the group.
I was reading last week about an 'audiophile ssd' product and I browsed an audiofile forum thread[0], expecting to have a chuckle at users ridiculing it but there's actually 6 pages of people praising it and finding new adjectives to describe the sound it produces. The most popular posts [1] also detail other absurd things they have done to produce a better sound- "I can opt to convert a FLAC to WAV format and play that from RAM, this somehow lowers the perceived noise flow and makes music sound more organic and detailed"

[0] https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/62753-nvme-ssd-desi...
[1] https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/62753-nvme-ssd-desi...
> why not just let the thing play out

I think because it could kill the thread, or demotivate the OP. People reflexively rejecting my contributions would demotivate me.
An artist is someone who makes art every day. Art is that which imparts feelings.

So, make artifacts or performances that impart feelings, every day.

Your output will be trash at first, but that’s expected. What matters is that you do your reps, every day.

When the going gets tough, read The War of Art.
Audiophiles' answer to "how could <x>" is always "it just can"
Within Romania yes, but India dwarfs it geographically and demographically, and internationally I think Gandhi had a lot more influence.
I have written in favour of the post.
I have written in favour of the people accused in the post, because it is the ecosystem and not their personal character.

My post being downvoted proves precisely the point, people get triggered by the mention of neo-colonialism.

People on both sides both the colonised and colonisers are programmed to protect the colonisers by all means.

People go to Africa to see wildlife is because they have hunted down every bear, bison and wolf in their own homeland. So you can be the wolf preaching vegetarianism to the sheep.
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I was also surprised by the omission, but then realised they're hosting archives of the installers.

Much of classic AmigaDOS is in the Kickstart ROM (with the workbench environment loaded from disk). I'm guessing that as an OS it's too tightly integrated with the hardware to make sense in this context?
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if you ever need to make A Decision in Life... watch "The Sacrifice" ("Offret" in swedish, it's filmed there)

p.s. Now that i read the article... pfff how come the only things noticed are sex and wars and all that shallow headline-making jazz.. One has to go way beyond that to see anything worth..
Is there a search engine for programming? One that not only searches stackoverflow, github, relevant subreddits and the other big sites, but also finds programming articles in personal blogs?

That would be valuable to me.
The Next Video Game from BioShock’s Creator Is in Development Hell
It would be great to see something like OpenDrop garner more support and unify AirDrop usage across all major operating systems. Unfortunately for now it is only available for use with macOS and iOS.

Edit: Apparently some support for linux is possible.

> As AirDrop exclusively runs over Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL), OpenDrop is only supported on macOS or on Linux systems running an open re-implementation of AWDL such as OWL.
When WikiLeaks bumped into the CIA: Operation Kudo exposed [video]
>> - 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

nonoonononooonono. No.
Don't monetize anything for the first 10 years. That's the only way it can work.
Then you can go monetize it and buy an island and not give a shit if you destroy what you created.

Oh but don't worry. You'll have investors.
Second worst in Europe, way worse than the more comparable Norway, Denmark and Finland is not any sort of vindication at all.
A major cause is just the nature of a big VC round, too. In my experience (and I think generally?), the funding comes with aggressive growth targets - you're expected to grow far faster after getting all the money injected than before. For a lot of businesses, there's no particularly good ideas for stimulating growth except "hire more" and "acquire other companies". The question becomes "how many people do you need to hire to hit X growth target", not "is X a reasonable growth target at all", or "are more people really necessary".

While this can work out for the right business, I think a lot of business are just naturally built around smaller problems, better tackled by a smaller, more agile team. With a huge problem you can effectively break it into a bunch of smaller problems, and still have tonnes of people working on it effectively without too much communication/coordination overhead. You're a huge company, but it's basically a bunch of loosely coupled small teams, each with a lot of autonomy, and few cross-team dependencies. That scales, but you need huge problem(s). If you have a smaller problem (like most startups), lots of people is just too many cooks in the kitchen, people's responsibilities overlap too much, every decision becomes a group decision, and there's lots of cross-team dependencies. This leads to massive planning cycles, everything locked down waterfall-style 3-6 months in advance, etc. Very inefficient, can no longer react quickly to change, all agility lost, and leaner startups eat your lunch.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't Ethernet signals not just differential, but magnetically isolated? All ethernet signals go through transformers to mitigate noise, ESD and ground loops. [1]

[1] http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/Appnotes/VPPD-01740.pd...
And remember to straighten them periodically, bends can be very bad for data flow ...

Only for the record the historical coat hangers test:
https://web.archive.org/web/20081104211239/https://consumeri...

and a 2019 re-make:

https://www.soundguys.com/cable-myths-reviving-the-coathange...
Your direct links don't work.

Msg:Sorry, we couldn't find anything here
Could you share your trusted sources ? Human search engine :P
This is already happening for a bunch of verticals:

Travel - Expedia, Hotels.com, Kayak, etc.

Consumer Goods - Amazon, WalMart, EBay, Etsy, etc.

Automobile Purchase - Cars.com, Autotrader, etc.

Career/Job - Indeed, LinkedIn, etc.

As Google continues to lose search volume on these big revenue categories it is going to make spam much more difficult as they are working to sort out long tail spam. Way harder.
I fixed your fiddle to get the normal unrolled version 4x faster. Please see: https://jsfiddle.net/Lmzqpr03/

Largely, the use modern javascript and proper benchmarking made the results more consistent with the benchmark posted.

This included

1) avoiding the use of "var" (using let for scoped iterator variables and const for unchanging references)

2) using proper warmup (10% of runs)

3) isolating the benchmarked code into a function that can be invoked within a loop

4) reseting the values of the arrays being added between benchmarks (to prevent any NaNs/infinities from cropping up)