skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to not want a browser to support hard-to-maintain features that you will likely never want or use. There is a limited pool of dev resources, and supporting that defaults-to-off setting is going to suck up a disproportionate amount of dev resources, on an ongoing basis, to support a small minority of users.

I’d rather the dev resources go to new features that many people will use.
I've noticed that this happens a lot more when SafeSearch is turned on, not sure why this happens though.
I've seen some people mention Kagi[1], but it's a closed beta. Hope they're successful, because I would also gladly pay $10/month to get a search engine that actively resists spam.

[1] https://kagi.com/
U.S. lawmakers are elected by U.S. citizens to represent their interests, which are not necessarily aligned with Apple's interests. In the case of Apple abusing its monopoly/duopoly power to extract higher fees from developers that are ultimately paid by users, these interests are not aligned. Lawmakers in any country have an obligation to introduce measures that prevent private companies from denying people the option of taking actions (such as sideloading) that would serve their interests, even if they would be counter to Apple's interests.

Monopolies and uncompetitive markets (such as the mobile app store duopoly in many regions) result in deadweight loss,* which hinders the growth of the economy at large. Lawmakers in any country would do well to increase their country's economic efficiency by limiting the ability of companies with high market power to distort the market. Uncompetitive markets are not free markets.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss
Rails is a DSL for building web apps. Ruby is a great language for building DSLs. Building up a DSL to meet your domain needs is a nice way to go. I don't think this is a problem at all, and very much in the spirit of both Ruby and Lisp (from which ruby takes a lot of inspiration).

I believe Ruby's open classes were also a reaction to the locked down libraries that were common to Java. They were impossible to extend and resulted in a rats nest of adapters, visitors, and every other pattern in the book. In Ruby the programmer is in charge, not the library authors. The ability to do 1.day.ago was not just cute, but revolutionary, and huge productivity boost for anyone coming from C, or Java, or C# - the predominate languages of the time.
> Did you not see where I said that I scrolled down past the ads to look at all the totally legit SEO spam?

meaningless because that's an subjective thing.
Isle of Man is another great dark sky nation. Almost all their street lighting in the whole country is turned off by 1am, so it is dark-dark at night:

https://www.islandescapes.im/blog/holiday-makers/Isle-of-Man...
Well, this is snake oil.
4 Vatican City is probably people on wifi in the library/museum? I know a decade back our IPv6 measurement consistently picked up 1-2 people from a v4 /24 and associated v6 /32 which I think were the Vatican library. There's said to be a transient population down in the low thousands and a far smaller low hundred resident overnight. Wikipedia says pop. 829 but I think the census night may be a bit different. (If I was a college or sorority I'd ask everyone to book in on census night because it helps with funding models based on capitation. It's probably true in all nations not just micronations but the distortion would be higher for small populations)
US states and EU countries are generally similar in size. If you ask an Italian where they are from it would be a bit odd if they said “Europe” wouldn’t it?

I think it also speaks to the degree of autonomy and identity among the states. The US originally thought of itself more like the EU is now, a collection of sovereign nations that agreed to a very strong alliance (first confederation, then federation). The difference is when the US’ “brexit” moment happened the northern states decided the southern states didn’t have the right to leave and enforced their opinion at the cost of 1 million lives (out of a population of about 32M at the time).

So that settled that and now the US is one country, not a collection of countries.

But the original idea still plays a large role in how people think about things.
I think your comments in this thread are made in bad faith.
I finally got the email from Google this week stating the change.
Thanks for the extra info, still deciding what I will do.
They do offer better services, though. Subscription wise, it is significantly more consumer friendly in the way they can be managed and cancelled compared to signing up with people directly.
I love how you're on a YC Combinator forum criticizing other people about worshipping corporations.

I care about accuracy and quantifiable metrics. I can show screenshots for Bing, DDG, and Google showing all ads. OK what's the point? What percentage of results on the first page for each are ads. More accurate and easier to compare.

By the way, if you want to attack Google you should attack them for things that actually matter, like their egregious Play Store fees and anti competitiveness by misleading buyers in their ad bidding market, tax evasive, anti-trust, and adherence to censorship in various countries.
Providing an entire platform/ecosystem (storefront, operating system, SDK).
modern academia has become a meta game where its more about being able to navigate the system(get grant funding, go with status quo to get tenure, collude with others for citations, etc.) rather than actually being good at the field. We spend drastically more government money on research funding than in the past yet get less in return

see the Alzheimer's amyloid plaque cartel- https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarte...

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/12/31/Amyloid-plaques-m...

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
That’s fair, although I’m not sure we can observe consciousness, we can only experience it, we have no measure…
When I was in high school (1974) they started a "computer" class, we logged into one of these puppies with a Teletype in a little room that used to be a storage room.

There were two of us that signed up for the "Computer Class".

BTW, the other guy that signed up for it was my best friend in High School, and, the other biggest nerd like me, who, happened to be the only Black kid in the whole school. Which just thinking back and in honor of black history month...

Just brought back a bunch of memories (pun intended :) )

Thanks for the way back machine !!
What's the joke about Eastern Europeans? Both Lebowskis in the movie are American born.
> New rules could require them both to allow app side-loading — installing apps from non-sanctioned marketplaces — and alternative payment processing systems. Apple and Google have argued vehemently against the bill.

Imagine if Google were forced to allow sideloading on Android. then other companies (like Amazon) could offer their own App Stores; Google Play's profits would tank, and they'd no longer be able to charge 30% platform fees. Right? ;-)

Oh, wait...
I don't think most Americans would even see the stereotype to be offended about; I certainly don't. Jeff Lebowski identifies to me as a stereotype, but as a stereotypical personality type, with no racial/cultural connotation to it.
Nothing of value is free.

But many things of no value are costly.
I would love to be able to work in SE Asia or in Iceland even... I am 100% remote, working for a US company in Mexico. The problem is Timezones, due to TZ restrictions, I can only opt to work in the Americas. So far I haven't found a country that would accept me for longish term (6 months would be the sweet spot for me) without a Visa
I think tech company hiring is in a loosely similar situation. No one thinks whiteboard coding is an awesome way to test candidates. Everyone agrees that it doesn't reflect what programmers do day-to-day, and everyone knows there are lots of strong programmers out there who don't do well in whiteboard settings. But I'm not aware of any viable alternatives. The good old fashioned approach of "judge people based on what school they went to, what companies they worked for, and who they know" is probably worse for everyone. The ideal approach might be "hire anyone who asks and then fire them after a year if they're not doing well", but that's very expensive for everyone involved.
I guess it comes down to how we are used to process natural language, in which the noun comes before the verb.
Rural areas in the PNW are about a 2 on the Bortle scale, and the stars are strikingly vivid. The first time I saw Starlink with my own eyes, I was making an alpine start on Mt St Helens. The cluster of satellites against a backdrop of bright stars was breathtaking, and I got this powerful sense that we were truly conquering the heavens. You could call this another form of light pollution, but it made a pretty big impression on me. It felt more like science fiction than reality.
> I, frankly, suspect you're a troll at this point.

It's sad how any resistance and the resistor must be a troll.

Even in your own video without adblock the ads display sparingly. If you count the instance you'll see that after reduction (meaning you take the average distance from the first link) the "correct" link is probably #3 or #2.
I have SNAP accepting stores loaded into a gis (JOSM really) so it was quick to check. ~1/5 of the Trader Joe's stores in the country are in southern California (just a couple fewer locations than all of the northeast). More than 1/3 are in California.
Just don’t an Apple phone. It’s that easy.
That's not true. How to use credit cards very much have an "interface".

- It is open and requires that you protect the numbers on the outside or access to the data on-chip. Many of these security problems have hurt consumers over and over again despite how "easy" cards are to use specifically because those users don't understand the complexity of the card's system.
- It requires you to insert, tap, or swipe it to borrow funds. This interaction is not obvious for a child who has never done this before. It is a learned behavior. And that learned behavior for interfacing with the credit card network with your CC token is complex enough that the US has had significant friction introducing chipped and contactless credit cards over the past years. Because the interface and the UX are there for cards too.

I'm not sure the reason for your distinction between understanding the UX vs the complexity of the system. You can't consider UX without considering complexity... one follows the other necessarily.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

Absolute fav :)

Best guesses I've got for how to combat the situation:
- Have a diversity of metrics that are somewhat independent, somewhat anti-correlated (if I'm using the right words)
- Have non-measurable goals that you refer back to

Anyone else got ideas for hedging against the failure mode of Goodhart's Law? :)
I generally like Ruby better than Python, but Python's choice on
_join_ being a string method on the thing stuck between elements rather than an collection method on the things whose elements are getting something stuck between is better.
I especially don't like how crypto holders are hitching their wagons to monetizing and corporatizing the Web further and hiding this fact behind idealistic promises of decentralization, just so they can get rid of their tulips at a higher price.

They need a steady supply of fools, so they are trying to repackage the tulips, it's an NFT, it's a decentralized Web, it's an egalitarian future. But it's all about the cryptocurrencies, and people are only incentivized to get theirs in such a zero-sum game. This derails actual progress.

Be wary of anyone selling you utopia. Be wary of mysticism. Be wary of the snake oil salesman.
IME, a "weeder" course (public universities, CS department) has:

* Large lecture sizes, often with professors who cannot teach or don't care to

* Little student-professor engagement

* Large discussion sections with TA's who can't teach either

* Usually focused on calculation over rigor or depth. Usually no proofs, actual reasoning behind things hand-waved away, focus is on memorization.

* Large homework loads

* Large test loads or particularly high-stakes exams

* De facto pass requirements drastically different from the actual grading scheme used in the course (eg: requiring an 80-90% grade to stay in the major in a course where the professor expects the average exam grade to be 40-50%). This often leads to curving the grades arbitrarily to get the cohort size the department actually wants.
Under the long-term visa, you cannot work for an Icelandic employer. You can work for an international employer, just like you can when you're staying for tourism. There is no difference.
* Other investments may outperform home equity, even taking into account imputed rent, especially if homes are sustainably affordable (read: have no return).

* Other investments may be less correlated with your earning potential.

* Risk of being underwater.

* Risk of an expensive, unexpected maintenance or repair item.

* Chores you are no longer paying for, you have to do yourself.
This all sounds great if it wasn't for one thing: upvotes. Because of that, we have a system that changes what/when people see things. If we had only replies in order of posting that would be like this suggestion. It tends not to scale when there are very many (some duplicate) comments.
* Bortle Class 8-9
* Artificical brightness 8650 μcd/m2

Ah, London, truly world class.

(Although I suspect there's parts of Greenwich Park where you could get it down to a 6, maybe? Top end, near the tea hut, if anyone is familiar. Middle of Oxleas Wood as well except that's obviously full of trees blocking the sky...)
To be fair, it depends on the screen. The submission makes it sound like the whole first page is ads, but there’s 4 ads at the top instead of the usual 2-3. It happens to extend to the fold in this Twitter user’s browser.

I scroll past all ads out of habit[0], so honestly this doesn’t impact my Google usage. Wish I didn’t have to train that muscle, but here we are. :(

[0] my pihole breaks the links anyway
SF is one of the densest cities in the USA (17k/sqm vs. NYC's 27k/sqm). And...it is not like you HAVE to live in SF, there are plenty of cities nearby.

Houses are expensive in SF because people want to live in SF. If SF had 10 times as many housing, then there would simply be 10 times as much economic activity and prices wouldn't budge. If you want cheap housing for your city, make your economy unattractive like Gary Indiana, or, if you like your economy, take the Tokyo approach and make housing speculation unattractive and let units be small.
China’s zero-Covid strategy risks further economic disruption, report warns
From a survey in 2016, 35% of surveyed PC gamers said they pirate:

https://www.pcgamer.com/au/pc-piracy-survey-results-35-perce...
That 5% smaller value was between 4 and 7 sigma away from the old value (depending how you average measurements). It's absolutely not within expectation.
Now that I think about it, I don't use search engines very much anymore, at least not in the traditional way. My searches are almost all site:$foo.

Actually, a good majority of my searches are site:reddit.com {product I am looking for}, or site:news.ycombinator.com {some tech thing I want to find again}.

I think there is a comparison here to how inbound telephone calls, or to some extent email, have been made useless by marketers. Google searches for "Phoenix {thing}" tend to be almost all yelp/yelp clone spam.

edit: this made me actually look in my history. It seems that by far the thing I am using google for the most is image search. Second from that is spelling/grammar sanity checks.
I’ve tried to move to tailwind, and I don’t hate it, but I’ve concluded that inline styles are effectively the same and we should just skip tailwind in favour of inline. I’m sure there’s something wrong with this thinking, but I’m not sure what?
But it doesnt have a constraint solver, so you'll be doing some math here and there.
Doesn’t Apple set the price points permitted for sale?

e.g. I have to sell for $4.99. I can’t sell for 15% less because they don’t let me set arbitrary prices.
> definitely gotten more expensive the last few years.

Is there any place which has gotten cheaper in recent years? Genuinely wondering.
UBlock Origin - available on all major browsers, including iOS (er, this has adblock, but not uBlock in particular) and Android, my friend.
So, almost back to where it was before the 2008 crash?
Ask HN: Has Galvanize completely gutted the Hack Reactor brand?
I am in the current session of Hack Reactor. Galvanize has basically removed all Hack Reactor branding from the instructional content. Hack Reactor no longer offers any in-person courses or an SF campus.[1]
There appear to be about 30 students in the course, in the entire Western US (not just CA). They literally can't fill sessions. The internal Slack is completely dead.

Galvanize has also killed off their data science courses, which they presumably wouldn't if they were going well.[2]

Worst of all, the material so far hasn't been updated in at least 10 years, judging by the dates on the latest commits. We're learning early 2000's Doug Crockford-style JS. I wonder if the rest of the course material is like this, too.

The course still costs ~$20K.

Is Hack Reactor basically dead? Are there any Bay Area bootcamps that are a better deal and offer industry networking or employer contacts?

[1] https://www.hackreactor.com/blog/shift-to-remote-software-engineering-education

[2] https://blog.galvanize.com/galvanize-winds-down-data-education-programs/
Where do normal people go from Google? I've seen plenty of billboards for DDG, and even radio ads, but how likely is it that a user will switch (& persist) when their browser is controlled by the offending company that isn't afraid of implementing dark patterns to get the users back? Anecdotally, I have a senior citizen neighbor who asked me to look at her computer because of ads (I figured malware/adware) and she was somehow already using Firefox as her browser, so her problem was just resolved by installing uBlock Origin.

Users defecting from FB have a number of options, driven by their in person network, search doesn't. How do new search engines communicate that Google is turning up the (ad/spam) heat and they need to escape the pot? Search results are subjective (that's why Google uses human raters), so what does it take for users, en masse, to start questioning their search results quality and/or excessive number of ads?
To be clear, the PFOS pollution in the St Croix is almost certainly from groundwater contamination from 3M manufacturing and dump sites near or in the lower St Croix watershed, not road water runoff.
This implies the business is setting the price, which if so, sure I guess. But "creator economy" applications as one example also fall under "digital goods", which means a user is setting the price on a platform to provide a service for $X, the platform takes $Y cut, and then pays the user $X - $Y, but then Apple wants 30% of $X. It's absolutely insane because most platforms out there don't even charge a fee that high so in order to cover the Apple tax they either have to make $0 per transaction and also pay creators less, or just charge consumers $X + 30% up front.
My brain really wants/expects 45 degree rotation. Not saying you should add that though, it might make the game too easy.

edit: and playing some more I see 45 degrees wouldn't even really work.
Not to be confused with Cassowary: an incremental constraint solving toolkit that efficiently solves systems of linear equalities and inequalities. ( https://constraints.cs.washington.edu/cassowary/ )
The practices aren’t anti-competitive. That’s just it. This is all about a few other multi-billion dollar companies trying to take money for something they didn’t build.

It’s laughably naive to think this is about individual citizens voting for completion law.
There's nothing magic about it. It is just ruby. And no need to wonder what else is there. It is all documented. All the methods are well named. It is hard to see how they could trip you up. I've been programming for a long time now. I remember when people would read the documentation for the libraries and frameworks they were using. Seems to have fallen out of fashion.
"I bacon eat"

Ruby syntax apparently is especially nice if you know Japanese:
https://flatironschool.com/blog/ruby-and-the-japanese-langua...
I was curious if the UK or Germany will rank higher and am somewhat surprised that after you adjust for population (which is a small adjustment) they basically rank the same and are only outpeformed by Canada (by a fair amount) which surprises me somewhat.
I much prefer YouTube reviews to written ones these days. It’s so much easier to watch them on the treadmill compared to reading. I also like to wind down with some videos before bed, whereas reading makes me focus too much and I can’t sleep.

And of course there are ads. There are also ads on written reviews too, but I’m sure you block those just like everybody else. Please don’t complain about YouTube creators trying to monetize their content. If that’s what they need to do to stay afloat, then I’m happy to hear about whatever random VPN company is running a sale.
Where's McPlowface?
And it's beautiful.
I take it you have never been responsible for a marketing campaign before.

You can't just "show an online ad" and expect to be successful.
Even that doesn't help in cases as Google will interpret your jargon filled query to something that's a lower common denominator and return irrelevant results regardless.
"Plowy McPlowFace" already won last year. :)
> I read a tweet that referred to HN as "Silicon Valley"

CA is more than SV. (That said, while the Los Angeles basin has a lot more people, it and the San Francisco bay area are more alike than they are like central valley CA, let alone mountain or desert CA, even though many SF people like to think that they're different than LA.)

Note that many of the "where is investment going" surveys count San Francisco and Silicon Valley separately. (That may be to keep the graph axis reasonable.)
Around the new year. No idea how the waitlist is managed. I was pleased at how prompt it was after signing up for the Github Copilot beta several months ago and not having heard a peep out of them.
ok who fed text to gpt-3 and let it post on hn again?
I dont get it, doesnt the Zig project itself already do this?
In some sense, the extend is infinite -- but the radius is not the "distance to cut-off". It's the root-mean-square average, which makes it finite.
True, but if the internal attitude of Facebook is to be as pessimistic as possible about the IDFA changes and make them the scapegoat for all problems (which they've advertised via their public stance on the issue), that would show up in the projections even if nobody is "lying".
This is no longer a testimony of Ruby's strength, or rather this highlights Ruby's age and stagnation.

D, Go, C#, Rust, Swift, Kotlin, Scala, Haskell, and (more I'm forgetting) already have this without the hack of monkey patching.

If you really find beauty in DSL's you should look into tagless final encoding in Haskell.

From what I recall Ruby still doesn't have first-class ADT's. Meanwhile Java will be getting sealed classes (the OO orthogonal to ADTs) with pattern matching.
No commercial CAD uses SDFs. Fillets and chamfers are a had problem particularly where multiple edges meet.
Watch the NOVA show, they showed it bubbling fairly vigorously out of a lake. They speculated it was coming from a large reservoir 500 feet below the permafrost.