skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In C++ (for example) getting the minimum and maximum is an O(1) operation [1][2]. I guess this is probably enabled through some extra bookkeeping and many other languages may do the same.

[1]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/set/begin

[2]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/set/rbegin
I've been self-publishing fiction. Only made a few thousand last year, but hopefully as I grow my backlist and build my newsletter the income will keep ticking up.
If your tinfoil runs that way, this is preparation for declaring marshal law to handle all these "right-wing extremists." You know, like parents objecting to school curricula... things like that.

It's the propaganda version of grooming.
Everybody can write a book, so there is no power asymmetry in that regard. There are powerful media outlets with agendas, but nobody is forced to watch their stuff, either.

And as for your harassment example, the analogy is more like "men are being harassed because all books are only about men harassing women". The complaint is "Africa is being harassed because all books are only about things that are bad in Africa".

The issues exist in Africa, so it should be possible to write about them.
Hm, to clarify, I'm coming at it from a systems point of view.

Available energy limits populations. Suppose the green revolution didn't happen, where would world population be?

It's not possible to A/B test these things, of course.

Also I did not say anything about the type of economic system. I'm just doing scenarios here.

If you have credible research to back up your claims, I'll be more than happy to alter my opinion.

(edit: typos)
I was in Mumbai and Berlin. I did not need my smartphone to pay, but to display my vaccination certificate which is required at most places and to scan the menu which these days is replaced with a QR code placed on the table
To be fair I've got some $2500 switches. OK they're layer 3, run routing protocols, have 48 POE ports and dual power supplies, and I still think they're overpriced, but it's fairly standard.

A single power supply 5 port unmanaged switch though? Hilarious. Make you you get the right ethernet cables that run in the right direction

https://forums.whathifi.com/threads/directional-ethernet-cab...

Only £629 for 1.5m cable.
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Maybe I didn't follow this correctly, but I thought it was implying the filtered power supply was improved audio of streamed audio. If so, how could an analog power supply have any impact on the bits in a digital audio stream?
Yeah, the newest nuisance seems to be sites that clone Github Issues and StackOverflow with a crapper interface. Somehow they rank higher than the original sources. I'd say it's spam but it's definitely not traditional spam.
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Premium offerings like that are amazing simply for the fact that you can 'return' to the days where you obtained services by paying for them directly, not by looking at ads and paying with your mindshare. Google and YT aren't free services, and it's a miracle they continue to be accessible with ad blockers enabled.
Summary: “I was pretty sure NFTs were pointless, but they’re so hyped that I thought I must be missing something. So I bought one and sure enough, they are pointless.”
I've always said that frameworks, tools, ecosystem, libraries, community, etc are far, far, far more important than the programming language.

Also, nowadays PHP is not 10 year's ago PHP, same as nowadays's JavaScript is not 10 year's ago JavaScript. They're both "ok" languages to me.

And yes, having used for many years Django, some playing with Rails on the side, and then everything under the sun for Node, I 100% agree Laravel is freaking awesome and I really wish I had discovered it earlier.
Is there any actual evidence this cleans the signal at all? Sounds like gold plated HDMI cables to me.... we've already figured out error correction and such for networking, esp. if it's just local connections.
Give Neeva a try. We have improved ranking and some nice features around tech queries.
I think his broader point was that unstable governments exist today and also existed before with colonialism as one example of many.
Not necessarily.
If data is moving from JS to Rust too much it may even be slower than just using JS.

Also, the simpler the operation, the higher the chance v8 optimises it pretty well.
If you were to start a search engine, what stack would you use?
Sorry, but this still sounds pretentious. The set of possible cofounders is a market like any other, and compensation is generally commensurate with value generated. Charisma and EQ are just as important, if not more, than generic technical skills for most businesses. There's obviously going to be exceptions such as when new technology is being created at the foundation of the business, but that is not the majority of startups.

Technical founders who don't have those skills need somebody who can handle it - and it's very valuable.
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Agreed. Beating bad habits/addictions is a change in mindset and identity. OP's system will work for a bit, and then it just takes one lapse of judgement for OP to inevitably turn the shortcut off for the last time, never to turn it on again. If OP told himself that "I am not a Twitter user" rather than "I have a mild Twitter addiction" it would be much easier to stop, just like the book tells people to think of themselves as "not smokers" rather than "trying to quit." Remember there is no value in Twitter or TikTok; if you think there is, your brain is lying to you.
> Some early comments criticizing some kind of caricature of a know nothing business guy spewing marketing buzzwords.

If these people are also your customers, it's actually extremely valuable to have someone who speaks that language on your sales team.

Obviously they need to have more than just the ability to speak the buzzwords. You need to ensure they're aligned with your goals and not simply trying to talk their way into extracting as much money from your company as possible.

But if you're selling to the B2B buzzword companies, you're going to struggle without someone who can speak the B2B buzzword language.
> - NFTs are not a good investment

Why would anyone think a silly picture of an ape would ever be a good investment?

I fully understand that something is "worth 300 bucks" if everyone agrees it's worth 300 bucks. I also understand that Apple stock is also overpriced but in the end there is a big gap between an overpriced stock and a silly picture of an ape...
Our workflow is decidedly uncool and old-fashioned.

Scripts produce figures as PDF files. We aim to have the script produce more-or-less final figures, but sometimes the last 5-10% is easier to do manually.

We don't bother putting them into the manuscript text while editing, and the captions are usually on a separate page, as most of our target journals seem to require. The manuscript gets written in Word + Endnote, with ad-hoc figure reference like See Figure XXX_DOSE_RESPONSE_XXX that get find-replaced at the very end.

This is definitely a local optima (if that!), but works pretty well for us especially since it's a pretty diverse group: some computationally-minded folks might be happier with LaTex, but we've also got 85 year old prof, DoD folks, etc who want track changes and familiarity.
Yet, Whatsapp belongs to Facebook... And I won't hinge my bets on it staying better for the long run given the shittiness of the original product in so many ways.
"Needless to say, most Western health authorities have not yet acknowledged that their entire approach to the pandemic has been a complete failure."

Don't hold your breath for that one...
I'd think more in the range of ~10 MBA hires. Middle management definitely grew a lot, but most were not MBAs.

Lots of new positions were created that didn't really need to exist. In more "lean startup mode", if you have an idea for a creative way to grow, existing employee(s) just start trying it, and if it works really well but is making those employees too busy/overworked, then you hire for it. If it doesn't work, you stop doing it. But in "pumped full of VC $$$" mode, you never test the idea out, you just hire someone new to do it, which is often a mistake.

Also, on top of totally new roles, there was a lot of duplication of roles. Think multiple departments hiring email marketing teams, while before there was just a single email marketing person for the whole company, that sort of thing. Lots of things that used to be a single person, and were doing fine that way, became a team or multiple teams, each with their own manager.
There is also some support for the Switch with TinyGo (A Go compiler for embedded system), but looking at the current state of the docs for this platform it's hard to tell how well supported it might be: https://tinygo.org/docs/reference/microcontrollers/nintendos...
If a guy tries to turn it into an actual date, you have the information you need to make a decision: run like hell.
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I have a version of fixing this that I would personally enjoy a lot. Leave google alone, let it crawl the web, prioritize what it wants to via algorithms. But, give me a version of that which ONLY surfaces results from discussion forums (including SO, Reddit, HN, etc). For most of the stuff where I am actively searching and not just looking stuff up, discussion forums of motivated, self-selected contributors have the stuff I need with the context I need. It used to be that blogs had answers, but that media has been categorically ruined by SEO.

Now, one of the deficiencies here has been examples. Try this: "best miter saw". you will not find any websites that actually discuss the answer to this question, despite it being a product category with a lot of price variability and performance tradeoffs (weight, capacity, power, cord vs cordless, accuracy).

Nearly any product reviews for large purchases follow the same pattern unless consumer reports has decided to dig deep (e.g. washing machines).

How about guitar strings? Sandpaper? Printers? google's algorithm has allowed profit motivated websites to displace the commons to too great an extent.
I don't think it's as counterintuitive as it sounds - just because they're playing the game doesn't mean that they think it's right. If your options are to not be successful at SEO or to do the SEO spam thing, I don't think it's necessarily wrong to do the latter - it's your job to make your startup successful, not to make a stand against the way Google does things.

I view it as something like the rich folks who call for additional taxation of the rich. They're not going to just pay extra money that they don't have to under the current tax rules, both because it's not particularly fair and because one person paying extra taxes, even if they're very wealthy, isn't going to make a big impact. That doesn't mean they can't lobby to change the rules and be totally fine with it if everyone is paying additional taxes.
What exactly are the "multitude of drawbacks", that basic CRUD pages suffer from?
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Oh I like Tarkovsky. Nothing puts me right to sleep like his films do. Set up a 1h off-timer and sweet dreams!
That's to Google's benefit though, they get another chance to present some adverts to the user.
I agree the boss is a joke. But the asker is pretty clear leaving isn't an option: "I don't want to job hop right now as I have other obligations."
A talk at Mountain View:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJhBLvqKUKU
“If you can’t change your company, change your company.”

You can fire your boss; you might not be able to get them fired from their job, but you can fire them from being your boss.
No.

The other moats are lock-in to advertising networks, website metrics, and effective control over Web standards through the Chrome browser.

An alternative search platform might provide better search. It would be fighting Google on at least three other fronts. It might have some success, but it would be challenging. (As history largely demonstrates.)

Even a rival tech monopolist, Microsoft, barely holds even with its own search offering (I use that indirectly via DDG), and scrapped its own web-browser development
A lot of the spam results just seem to be copy pasted content.

I wonder how difficult it is to compare the main body of text in search results, then say if it is over a 95% match with another site (I.e. it has been copy-pasted), demote it in the search results. If a site generates too many of these demotions then it gets blacklisted from the index.
It's an extreme version of the more expensive is better mentality that made the coffee industry boom in the 90s+ and made Apple a trillion dollar company.
You in particular should also benefit greatly from a SEP IRA. Expensive to run but lets you sock away much much more.
Is it made by Monster? (rhetorical)
(Perspective from somebody who's been in galleries, had commissions, has been a published comic artist, and currently a design manager. Site's in the bio if you're curious and want to poke my brains more.)

Honestly, my advice for you is spend at least a year or two playing with different mediums and subjects, and see what sparks joy for you personally. Art these days is supremely cool because there's such a staggering variety out there from physical mediums such as guache, oils, acrylic, colored pencils, mixed media, to digital art which is even more broad than anything.

Drawing still life work (drawing what you see around you) is recommended to slowly pick up fundamentals of lighting and color and shape (same with figure drawing and anatomy), but I wouldn't limit yourself to just that - play with characters, play with drawing mechs, fantasy, surreal work ... sky's the limit.

I'd also start collecting/saving pictures of art that resonate with you and save it in an inspiration folder so that way you can look back and see if there's a common thread to what vibes with you. Is it colors? A feeling that is evoked? A story in the images? etc.

One last thing: I'd sign up to an art-specific site like deviantART which has historically been very friendly to artists of all stripes (versus twitter), and isn't treated as a professional "portfolio" (versus artstation) as much as a cool landing page to see all of your works. At the end of the year if you want to get more serious, then I'd suggest building a personal site - but wouldn't jump in it immediately.

Good luck!
In my experience it's mostly a venue for people to buy and decorate their own digital homes and avatars, and just hang out and talk. SecondLife is a giant archipelago of (infinite?) islands, you can either teleport or just fly between them, and many of them have various degrees of elaborate landscape architecture, shopping malls, and clubs. I just logged in last night after leaving that comment to check in on my old toon and everything is basically the same.
> (...) are definitely different to a container image that gets spun up (...)

I'm not sure you're making a informed observation. "Spinning up a container image" is just fancy jargon/handwaving to refer to launching a process, which is something nginx already does under the hood in a myriad usecases without warranting complains from users.

> and queried for each request, don't you think?

I'm not sure if either you framed your sentence poorly or you don't have a clear idea about what you're talking about. In AWS lambda, you don't "spin up containers" at each request. You launch your lambda once it's deployed or when it scales up, and it stays up as long as you see traffic.
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I don't disagree with what you're saying—but more importantly, that's beside the point. The point is that you shouldn't be crossing into calling names, attacking other people, or fulminating—especially when the topic is an emotional and divisive one, like religion.

Incidentally, it's generally a bad idea to identify the community as hostile. That comes from a cognitive bias which we all seem to have: we place greater emphasis on the things we dislike, and are more likely to notice them in the first place. The things that we consider favorable end up getting far less emphasis. This leads to false feelings of generality, and a negative sense of being surrounded by enemies. The people who disagree with you feel the same way, because they have the same bias (like I said, we all do).

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Apple makes 10+ billion a year from Google by setting It to the default search engine on iPhone.

I agree they should make their own search engine. But currently they’re being paid a ton of money not to.
Surely the premise for "smoking in the toilet" is the possibility of not getting caught (hence dedicated detectors in most airplane toilets).

Smoking in the main cabin would make them much more easier to identify, stop, and convict, no?
Hyundai stops engine development and reassigns engineers to EVs