skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The counter point is that the rise of quality search engines has reduced the value of "well organized".

I wonder how much of this is still true.

Google results from a few years ago were much better than they are now. That's a combination of SEO ruining the results by Google assuming anything not hosted on a megaplatform is suspect and not showing it plus SEO ruining results by still being there in them despite that, but it happened.

If someone made a curated list of interesting small sites by category, it would be a lot more useful now than it was before that happened.
Perhaps consider self-hosting VaultWarden. It's a BitWarden-compatible server written in Rust.
> was charged with intent to murder and openly carrying a concealed weapon, among other charges.

I know what a concealed weapon is, but what is 'openly carrying a concealed weapon'?
I'm a full on speciesist. let's do more of this. since we're already eating them I feel like this even a more reasonable usage of their lives. can we do kidneys next please? we can basically shut down most dialysis clinics after that.
You’re mixing several plot lines. Let’s use an extreme example. You owe $100 and make $1 per day with daily living expenses of $1. Tomorrow the government screws up and the $1 bill is replaced by a $1,000,000 dollar bill. Even if you still break even, your $100 debt is now a complete non issue.

It’s not even a cup of coffee, whereas before it was a significant burden. This is true even if your real wages go down, though that’s a problem in its own.
When you think you're fooling someone, you're really only fooling yourself.

It doesn't take a genius to know who is doing the work and who is looking for every excuse to be 'blocked'.

Managers simply know that they can't hire or fire and that calling someone on their bullshit would accomplish nothing, so they say nothing.

Managers are masters of soft power. Soft power is very hard for engineering/techie types to understand, which is why it works so well on them, because they don't even understand the game they're a part of :)
> awarded $100,500 as a bounty

How does the economy of bug bounty programs work for the company? $100,500 is probably not much for Apple but it's still some engineer's salary. Do the responsible engineer get a pay cut for this bug? Or this kind of 0day bugs are not bugs, but secret features left open from the beginning?
All this is wrong. The causalities are:

Low unemployment -> uppity expensive workers -> increasing rate of automation

Positive rate of automation -> more workers
I’m not sure if Google wanted… they could support a phone for much more than ~3 years.

Older android phones slow down / get really janky as time goes on. Even when they’re still supporting it.

It’s one of the reasons I left Android. Longer term lives for Android phones is pretty bad, flashing your own ROMs aside (I was done with that long ago).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat

There were "fully automated" restaurants (obviously more of a mechanical turk type operation) well over a hundred years ago. Doesn't seem like they've caught on yet.
I think it's fairly safe to assume that organizations with managers like that will end up producing code that's defunct enough to sink the organization, given the bar of talent they'd manage to attract. A bit like expecting stellar journalism out of a newsroom that downsizes and hires high school kids to feed headlines into GPT-3 expecting fully-formed news articles out the other end.
I checked the spark post log and it looks like your email provider bounced the email, out of hundreds of others it was the only one that bounced and it was bounced based on a user preference is what it told the mail sender.
> Curated and organized websites tend to fall out relevancy and decay very rapidly. Might as well just let people post as they see fit and then we can find it by searching.

Your points about nostalgia I sort of agree with but this part I take issue with. Many sites use blog software which does the whole chronological ordering. Unless the site's particular blog theme exposes archives, a sitemap, or the author meticulously tags (and the theme shows tags) it can be stupid hard to navigate around blog-like sites.

Blog-like sites also tend to have a partial chronological list of posts at the root of the site. If you're writing some personal journal or topical things that makes sense. For someone writing about some particular topic(s) this is a navigation anti-pattern. It doesn't matter if the latest post on Topic A was posted on Monday. As a reader interested in Topic A you want all of the posts on it. Most blog-like sites make this challenging to find or don't expose it.

I don't really like "just search" as a replacement for categorical organization because most search sucks anymore. That might have been ok for Old Google, before the DoubleClicking, but now it's just another navigation anti-pattern.

Interestingly, had Web 2.0 concepts been implemented a bit better by CMSes, navigation of sites could be ably handled by user agents. A site with an OPML/Sitemap XML pointed to with an "alternative" meta tag could let a user agent (or service) build nice navigation for sites automatically no matter how the blog-like CMS organized the HTML.
If it’s not the case (which I don’t think it is) then the reality should quickly prove them wrong so what’s to worry about?
> That seems more like an artifact of it not being popular than a feature of the protocol. If companies wanted to, they could just run native advertisement on Gemini just like they do elsewhere, just disguise the ad as regular news article and call it a day. Nothing stops them from putting banners on top of every page either or how about showing you an ad text before you are allowed to visit the actual content? You could even have a server-side wait time before you are allowed to move on from the ad.

The problem that people have with ads on the web is cross-site tracking and targeted ads. Gemini protocol does indeed prevent that by restricting one request to just one response. Non targeted ads wouldn't be a privacy concern, or even an attractive option.
The new submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30080819
Relevant: https://www.upmc.com/services/transplant/heart/process/after discusses the usual timeline after a heart transplant. tl;dr 2 weeks in he likely still feels like shit
What are some good American cities? From the perspective of an Asian, I'd think LA was on par with Vienna, if not better (Hollywood, Disney Land, etc)
True, you don't need a degree, but you need to know enough to get 4 or 5 half degrees - networking/infrastucture/software/instrument engineer/electrical engineer/process engineer/chemial engineer/mechanical engineer and random other stuff.

These days also Functional Safety and maybe equipment for explosive atmospheres also in play, plus any specific industry or project nuances, eg fired equipment.

Look away for a few years and you are out of date and need to really put some effort in to catch up, eg networking and OPC, MQTT etc are really making inroads last few years, some PLC's come with built in OPC servers now.

Reason to know such a wide range is many times it is the control system engineer who rolls up at the end, and all the bits and pieces forgotten or not thought of become his/her problems.

Very common one on process plant is they designed it for steady state operation at full load, but never really thought about how you start it up, or how much turn down you have got to run at half or quarter rates.

Often for industrial plant of decent size they haven't really made anything quite like it before, so it always has things to iron out.

Been doing it 30+ years now, I live in heavily resources based city where this kind of engineering pays more than any straight software job every day of the week.

Footnote:
The difference from IT software to real time very reliable software might look like it's trivial, but it is a whole different game. The number of times I have seen real time systems projects assigned to the IT department and fail, is every time.
I will up-vote every single one of these "_______ by example" sites that are made. I'd also love to see a "Buy a Coffee" or quick 5-10 USD donation button on each one - and if you want a commissioning for one throw a patreon or kickstarter up and I'll share it around.

I found the gobyexample site to be invaluable when I first encountered the language, and now I send people there BEFORE I send them to the official go docs (which is saying something - because the official docs are great!).

Here's hoping we can get well-structured documentation that scaffolds like these to replace most medium posts in the top results of most Google searches! :-)
Sure. To be consumed by avarice is to be consumed by extreme greed for wealth or material gain.[^0]

[^0]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20798900/marvin-minsky-jef...
Oh, man. That’s hilarious. I remember another guy getting blacklisted because he was writing plug-ins that mucked with the menu and whining because Pawlowski started changing the menu ids in every minor release out of spite.

I had my own learning experience when I accidentally deleted all my plugins’ sources and couldn’t recover it. That was an important lesson on the reason for backups and version control. I burned a ton of time on those plugins.
I try to avoid NY Post, but sometimes forget. Still, it's a true story afaik.
As a percentage "rate" it does mean something very specific, and therefore not super intuitively useful.

But it's still helpful as a directional metric. If the U-3 unemployment rate goes up, it's likely the number of people in the other situations you mentioned has gone up as well.
How would you ever remove human bias from such a system? This is a non-starter.
Mathematics Required for PAIP?
What would be the pre-requisite mathematics knowledge required to work through "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming" by Mr Norvig?
The Mighty App is currently offline due to an Nvidia driver bug
"Company death due to nvidia driver bug was not on my bingo card this year but here we are. Happy Tuesday, y'all."

https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1486126262187814913?s=20
That was a very interesting article, I was surprised at how dense the byte code was. Seeing what people can do on platforms like that and DOS reminds me that we should always try to make things simpler.
It’s The Post, kind of their thing.
I don’t think Equifax is saying that “you owe X to lender Y”. They’re saying that “lender Y has reported that you owe X”.
Statistical Critiques That Don't Quite Work
If I was talking to my mom sure. But were talking on HN here, clicking around your routers web UI shouldn't be too difficult for anyone here to figure out. And honestly if you can't figure that out you shouldn't be exposing your stuff to the internet anyway, you will become a part of a botnet in short order.

Setting up Apache properly is a much bigger PITA for anything other than a static html use IMHO.
I am not a vegan but this is unethical
Checked the first email it tried to send it and your mail provider said this back to us: address: No such user here.

I checked with the email you set on the account, your mail provider said the address does not exist.
Congrats to the Castled team on the launch.

At Grouparoo, this is a primary use case. We have a UI that engineers use locally. This helps gets things right. It outputs a JSON configuration that is checked in. When that is deployed, it does all the syncing.
I was very anti systemd initially but mostly because it meant the many initd scripts I had for different services would no longer be usable or the daemons I had would no longer need to self mange their own pid files. But mostly it was out of fear - knowing how many battle scars each of those shell scripts had learned or forking lines of code had adapted could be lost… fear that maybe systemd would not carry those lessons forward… I let go and it has been pleasantly easier and much less stressing then I imagined… more examples like this are great thanks!
Indeed, the absurdity is that HN wouldn't have a reputation for being humorless, if people didn't keep making jokes here.
Managers of programmers should be previous (or current) programmers generally anyway, so they should know better. Non-programmers managing programmers usually has a bunch of other issues already.
Chesterton’s fence is about keeping the status quo unless you have a deeper understanding. From my perspective, copying an existing design of your competitor is the status quo. Innovating would be tearing down the fence.
A pid file is never actually reliable though. Since the supervised process has control over it, it can write any number it wants in there and trick the service manager into signaling the wrong process. As long as the process is not root and can't escape its own cgroup, systemd's pid detection is going to be less error-prone in basically every case.

I can't stress this enough. Pid files are really bad. The fact that we used to have to use them is a flaw in the OS design. Using them for startup notification is also a hack in and of itself. The kernel has enough information to fully track lifecycle of these processes without writing information into files that are inherently prone to race conditions, and we now have better APIs to expose this information, so we shouldn't need to use these hacks anymore. I don't think there is any Unix-like system left that considers the old forking daemon style to be a good idea, and systemd's handling of pidfiles is really just a legacy compatibility thing.
Kinda strange to see all of the "OMG I remember this.. ".

Foobar2000 is still what I use to listen to my FLAC collection while on my desktop computers.

It's ability to let you do everything, rename, transcode, copy, tag, replaygain, etc is a throwback to when software respected your personal agency.
I'm glad the article hits the central point that what is valuable about this change is the rise of the non-corporate internet. And fundamentally, what is valuable about non-corporate spaces (in my view) is that we have social ownership of them. A poster on MetaFilter has a very different relationship to their site from what a Reddit user might have to theirs.

At the same time, the corporate internet means high investment in useful centralized platforms that reduce the expertise required to publish and share something to near zero. It's not clear to me that such platforms could survive in a non-corporate setting. Maybe if they were user-owned in some material way.
You left out pressure-swing distillation which doesn't require any "fun" substances to break the azeotrope. I'm not sure if it's used commercially for ethanol though? I believe it's more expensive.

Also the really high purity stuff (for HPLC and the like) has the "fun" chemicals removed from it and a chemical analysis printed on the side of the jug. Benzene content can be well below safe drinking water standards depending on the product. Pretty sure you'd be paying more at that point than just buying taxed vodka though.
A History of Haggis
Ask HN: Ethics on Deleting Git History
I have a popular public repository on Github under an AGPL-3.0 license. Recently I discovered a number of instances where the repository was cloned, git history was blown away, and the source is hosted under a different account and repository name. In most cases the license is preserved, but I’m curious the ethics of not forking and rewriting history such that there is zero link to the original work.
Punishing someone for a crime is the responsibility of the justice system. You are saying hospital administrators should basically be able to hand out death sentences at their discretion, which is a bizarre line of thought.
Haha, thanks. Just more evidence that I'm getting old. It feels like I've been using it since I first touched a computer. But most likely I found my way from Winamp like most folks.
Same here. Just checked my spam folder. No idea what's going on for these people.
The problem is that it's really the other way around: what's being sold as web3 is a rebranding attempt to shed the bad reputation which cryptocurrencies developed and find new buyers. There are a number of hard problems in this space which are even harder to solve when your primary question is “how can I find someone to buy these otherwise worthless hashes?” rather than “what is a good solution for the user?”.

In addition to the business model question about whether enough people would actually pay directly to make it worth building and participating in the system, there are also serious challenges around how to prevent blockchain privacy issues from turning it into a great tracking system, scaling the number of transactions the system is capable of up by many orders of magnitude, and dealing with various avenues for abuse.
> It’s kind of against his basic principles; he doesn’t believe in it.

What doesn't he believe in exactly? Vaccination is a no go, but cutting his chest open, removing his heart, and shoving someone else's heart in there is a non-issue?
Right, he injured someone and shortened that person's life, but the justice system didn't know about that last part until long after he was sentenced. So it's not surprising that he's been out for a long time.
PETA hates anything that makes animals useful to humans. It could solve world peace and they’d be arguing that surely there’s a better way.
I see many answers arguing that doctors treat everyone the same regardless of their criminal past. That's ethically right, and the victim's family doesn't have to like it either. PETA doesn't have to like it either. My grandmother doesn't have to like it either. Maybe the victim's family would've been happy that he got the transplant if that had caused him to die; maybe PETA would be happy if pigs got transplants from humans. Thankfully it doesn't really matter what the victim's family or PETA thinks of it.
> If there is an Apple store nearby, being able to walk in with a broken phone and walk out a half hour later with a new/replacement phone is more valuable than people realize.

And if not, my single experience with Best Buy is that I can get my iPhone replacement the next day.

Like many others in this discussion, I switched to Apple after Google screwed me with one of their phones.
> Most people know they have to get a permit...

Indeed.
Anyone have more info on this concept of Isolates-as-a-service? (or know of an open source platform that lets you host it, kind of your own lambda but with isolates?) I'd love to use something like that locally (in our environment) to execute user-generated code in a sandbox away from our code so that we can allow customers to write custom functions.
I wonder how long it'll last, given the pig it came out of was probably already an adult, and pigs live far shorter lives than humans.
That's what army mapping service essentially did with early radar distance measuring projects. Huge expensive fleet of 18-wheeler trucks failure. And classical surveying methods beat it in every way at the time.

But it was the direct predecessor to microwave communications. It was just portable military distance measuring equipment (like the model-99 dme w/ ~1cm @50km) that used a signal they found easy to piggyback voice and data on. And included that in the field units.

AND 2nd, after a dozen or so more hugely expensive projects (ranging from failure to moderate success to "achieves objectives"), it led to the Airforce NAVSTAR program, which you know as... GPS.

So the question becomes: What was the actual "objective" value provided by those expensive initial radar experiments, despite failing to achieve their direct objective?
The knife had a fake mustache and googly eyes glued on as he waved it around, so people didn't realize it was a weapon.
Consider this :

- Chinese noodles and Italian pasta have nothing in common save for the shape of some variants.

- Mixing water, flour and egg yolk isn't exactly a massive qualitative leap from simply having flour around.

- Spice were carried over long distances in the ancient world because of their high value density. Food wasn't. Nobody was shipping around noodles. It's still inefficient enough that all process foods are more or less locally made
now.

And finally, I don't understand why you're hypothesizing that Roman pasta would have necessarily been related to Chinese people in Rome. It makes absolutely no sense.
I don't know if I agree. Deploying servers and calling out to services should be a core competency. I don't think it's as drastic as you make it out to be.

No ownership is a bigger problem than team size imo.

That said, no reason to do it just because it's trendy.
If I'm wrong then I'm interested to know why. I'm willing to listen to what you have to say, but you have to actually say something. Thanks.
The homeless issue in the US is much more of a drug addiction and alcoholism problem than a down on one's luck problem. Something like 90% of the homeless are in that category.

> Who needs plumbing when you have a servant to bring you whatever you want?

I like hot showers. I bet you do, too. Besides, what do you think happens to kings when they get a toothache? No anesthetic, nothing to be done except an idiot with a pair of pliers and filthy hands. I doubt many kings had teeth after 35 or so.

> There’s a lot of stress to life unless you’re rich,

I'm afraid that's pretty presumptuous. The rich just have different problems.

> and you also don’t have very much control over things around you. A king has a significant amount of control by definition, and that probably contributes a lot to their quality of life.

When you're the king, everyone wants to kill you. Including your own brothers and sisters and kids. You have no friends. The losers in the game of thrones are always killed.
This point is reminiscent of the Chesterton’s Fence concept discussed on HN recently
You’re not really buying actual return of investment dollars via dividends anymore. You’re buying access to market share.

Companies drive revenue so that they can drive market share more than anything.

Owning a piece of the economy is what folks are doing with their 35 PE share purchases, particularly if they think the revenue as a percentage of market is going to grow.
Well, you gotta have some gas to pump the other way... which is kind of the problem : they don't.
Bollywood and Nigeria as well. Those 2 countries have very thriving movie industries. They are lacking Korean slickness at the moment, but story-wise and cultural contents are quite refreshing. With Netflix seeding many aspiring directors with good plots, I think it will be great to see how competitive Chinese moviemakers are. I say the more the merrier even if some of those are heavy influenced by government propaganda (ahem....Fight Club China Director's cut)
The NY Times and Washington Post also had silly articles that presented this as a serious debate.
> public trust systems will always succumb to problems of informational asymmetry (moral hazard, adverse selection)

Ironically, this is something that the "smart contracts" powering some future development of Web 3.0 might eventually solve. By making it possible to verifiably put real-world money behind one's assertions and trust assessments, these problems are significantly reduced.