skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When looking for an answer we don't want the average opinion of the whole world, we want the best opinion of the expert in that subject.

As the internet (and Google) reach out more and more, we get closer and closer to everyone and their opinion being online. And so the average answer online gets closer to the average opinion in the planet.

I know Google thought PageRanknwas the answer for that but they now rely as much (?) on people looking for X and moving on. Which means looking for "what is calculus" "most" people will hit a maths dense page and bounce for a less complex / demanding explanation.

All of which is a long winded way of saying if we want an Oracle to pick Truth from all the pages of the Web, we are not going to find that Oracle.

Humans and human science and curation can only do that.

Odd that essential Librarians is what we need

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Headlines omit some grammar which readers infer themselves, meaning that most people will read "Americans retiring to Vietnam for..." as:

Americans are now retiring to Vietnam for...

When another valid reading is:

Here are some Americans retiring to Vietnam for...
> Why place such value on fairness?

This is spot on. If I'm in the hospital for something, my primary concern is the quality of care I'm going to receive, not the societal fairness/unfairness brought about the hospital's hiring policy.
Retiring to a cheaper country isn't a new trend, it's just more difficult than retiring to Florida for Americans or Southern Europe for Europeans so most people wouldn't go to the effort.
Sure, it's ethically and legally wrong, but I was reacting to the "access to White House computers" in the title. But it's understandable that journalists think that monitoring of DNS traffic implies access to the computers that initiate the traffic.
Sure?

Cheaper per pound is fine, but teasing with prices 10x less than you will actually charge is no more honest than charging for a self-driving feature that kills people who rely on it.
>Zig has known bugs and even some miscompilations.

>Zig is immature. Even with Zig 0.9.1, working on a non-trivial project using Zig will likely require participating in the development process.

>When Zig reaches 1.0.0, a new requirement for Tier 1 Support will be 0 known bugs for that target.

>Zig self-hosted compiler progress report: ( 9 Feb 2022 )

* 171,020 lines of code

* Behavior Tests Passing:

- LLVM backend: 681/1064 (64%)

- WASM: 440/1064 (41%)

- C backend: 409/1064 (38%)

- x86: 130/1064 (12%)

- ARM: 104/1064 (10%)

I think We are at least 2 years away from 1.0
Torture you to reveal the secret location and in the process kill you to get the private key. Nice idea.
That would be odd, if nobody mentioned it.
Congrats Or Weis! I have been following Permit.io for a while it's no surprise that your efforts just paid off. Way to go!
I view the Dead Internet Theory as Black Mirror style satire. All it would take is liberal application of GPT-3 style transformer AI to content generation and much of the Internet could be fake. You could have fake political trolls arguing with other fake political trolls from the other side, fake blogs, fake review sites, etc. and it would take me a while to notice. Most of the modern Internet is just that bad.

Advertising always creates perverse incentives. It works in traditional media too. Look at what happened to things like Discovery and The Learning Channel when they became subject to advertising based pressure for ratings. They went from having actual educational content to being full of tabloid trash.
Real Tone on Google Pixel
off-topic aside: whats the audio based equivalent to pocket or other "bookmark this to read it later" services.

I dont want to figure out specific audio hosting things for each site, I want to hit a button that means, I want to listen to this audio later and have some code figure out all the BS and put it in a list for me when I have time to listen to something.
PlantUML or perhaps a pre-packaged draw.io. (yes, it works offline)
I was expecting this to just be "the netcode was written in Bash. For the actual game state management, we just use existing X." But no, it looks like they've covered ALL of that.

Wow.
I wish you great luck and success. This just seems part of a long cycle to me (of course, the older I get, the more everything seems like a long cycle).

Google wasn’t the first search engine, and I expect it won’t be the last. Page Rank redefined search, and now that results are 95% advertising-driven, the underlying “search algorithm” means nothing at all. Someone with a “new” algo that isn’t so completely ad-driven (until they too succumb to the only existing model for revenue) could un-seat the giant, at least maybe in search.

This is the curse of the advertising model for all things. Though it can make a lot of money for a good long time.
Yeah... I'm going to go with, not having to worry about clicking malware links is probably the one use of censorship that I am totally OK with.
I'm exactly in the same boat as you regarding both the mentality and approach.

Just a curious question about the index notes: don't you feel they're cluttering up the graph and result in superficial relationships between the notes?

In my personal case: I used to create index notes to make navigation easier, but then I've found myself wondering "where should this note be indexed?" and also not getting much value out of the relationship graph.

Once I've discarded the index notes, the relationships became much more organic and authentic. Surprisingly, finding notes hasn't become more difficult after eliminating the index notes -- queries and lists are a beautiful thing.

What are your thoughts on this? Do you encounter any challenges with indexing?
Perhaps something like a trip phrase? http://worrydream.com/tripphrase/
You're saying this online with an username that appears to be your real name; this is a real risky way to handle your entire financial / technical set-up.
With quality comes success. With success comes popularity. With popularity comes idiots.
I often thought about retiring to a country with a low cost of living but is safe and non-totalitarian. I've never done more than looking up standards of living and freedom index rankings on wikipedia but it is an attractive idea.
I've wondered for a while if reddit powermod /u/MaxwellHill isn't actually Ghislaine Maxwell (who apparently had some kind of association with former Reddit CEO Pao).

Reddit would be a great place to run interference AND a place for her to find troubled kids for "recruitment".

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/r45a5n/here_is_...
Buses are not an effective way to fix car-centric land use, but trains are. Places built around infrastructure made for cars are not walkable. Places built around train stops are.

Train stations are generally planned for places where people are already going. The development that happens around them is a natural result of them being there. Unlike bus stops, train stops are not easily moved and generally have more people passing through on foot. That makes it a good bet developing around there.

If your business relies on foot traffic, a bus stop is a risky place to set up next to. The service could move or shut down the bus stop without much effort. Not so with a train station. Buses also use roads, which take up much more land per traveler than trains do.

If you want a walkable city, you still need to get people in and out of it. Simply blocking off roads will give you a wide moat of parking lots around the city. Trains are necessary for walkable cities.
Steal My Idea?
I think the hardest thing with trying a new search engine is the constant question "i wonder if the old one would have done this better"
I don't know what would be the use case for a HTTP endpoint that return 59 minutes later but this seems interesting.
Logging in websites while using tor is completely useless.
It used to be enough to append the word "reddit" but now Google tends to ignore it! It learned to route around people's desire to get useful results and learned to ignore it and show the garbage links instead. You can still get it with "site:reddit.com" though. I wonder when they will remove this option. Afaik a lot of search operators are already undocumented. And they removed the "+" for forcing inclusion of a term, so that only quotes worked as intended, but then also removed full support for quotes and it's now just a hint. Probably every step boosts some engineer's or manager's short term metrics and evaluation reports so it keeps happening.
The same concept is also used in smaller embedded systems, like Zephyr RTOS: https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/guides/dts/index.html

Useful video if you're interested in how DT applies to Zephyr, such as defining I2C sensors available on your board target: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWaxQyIgEBY
I never use Reddit and generally don't find what I am looking for in the threads that Google suggests.
Probably zero. People are really cheap.
Yes, this. John Green mentioned in his vlog several months ago that he was not going to be answering antivax objections anymore because doing so was becoming a fulltime job and he has other work to do. This is the burden that deliberate misinformation is trying to impose: flood the zone with factual-seeming counter information, provide "data" (generally cherry-picked or out of context) to back it up and demand that it must be addressed. This is the antivax playbook. At it's worst flooding the zone with misinformation is designed to cause the populace to tire of the debate and give up trying to determine what the actual truth is.
I'm not sure how your comment relates to what I said. But what I understand you to be saying is that there is no necessary correlation between the moral validity of a goal and the efficiency with which it is pursued by a rational agent. The efficiency with which the Nazis murdered millions of Jews and other undesirables is certainly empirical support for your assertion.

A very thoughtful high school teacher of mine used to say that democracies are always inefficient in enforcing their laws, and that that was a good thing. For example, to efficiently enforce laws against the abuse of children the authorities would need to place surveillance equipment in everyone's home.
This looks great! Never thought of even searching for such a solution. Bookmarked!
isn't shadow-banning only something reddit admins can do, not subreddit moderators?
interesting how high this comment got then how hard it fell. +6 to +2. for my posts thats a notable swing

amusingly the critics are saying that a7 isnt the right choice, but are citing an equally aged, unmoving set of microcontrollers as what should be used. these chips at least uaually have docs, i feel like.

personally i think decent low power application processors are as much if not more of the challenge than microcontrollers to iot's developmemt. everything is a smart speaker, smart camera, has screens. watches run apps, clocks run apps. arm failing this industry miserably is quite the story. but yes, datacenters & the cloud are eattinf the world. tech is innovating ul, to bigger & bigger more expensive offerings, & the cut-throat consumer tech offerings are dying. it's a market intel bounced out of, amd commands a huge price in, and which sees nearly no wins. m3/m4+a7 forever and ever; maybe someday risc-v will shake things up.
I thought the Bible was all about interpretation, if it was taken literally this would be one more fd up world than it already is...
It's really not at all difficult for Europeans to retire to Southern Europe.

It's not even that difficult for Americans to retire to Southern Europe.
> when do I accept that the writing is on the wall...

When the penalty becomes larger than the profit from noncompliance. It's simple math: As long as the penalties they are charged cost them less than 30% of all app sale revenue, it makes sense for them to continue to demand the 30% and fight any attempts to make them charge less.

It's why I continue to think the solution is to put CEOs in jail: It changes the equation, and noncompliance is no longer considered a possible option for the business.
I don’t think this means anything for the point you wanted to make about search results, but please note you’re exactly wrong about baby talk! It’s not a good analogy.

Baby talk (or CDS, child-directed speech) helps engage their attention and provides valuable feedback. Kids who experience less CDS develop language more slowly.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_talk

(I heard about this research a number of years ago. Although I must admit, now I wonder if it’s affected by the science reproducibility crisis!)
I think what kills google searches is seo bullshit. Even the worst sites with seo are now on the first page. In the past, SEO really forced quality, but now it's enough to make your website compatible with bullshit like amp.
This is assuming the 38 hour worker isn't doing other productive things off the clock. I think it gets a lot less clear if any significant number of the 4 day workers are producing useful works in their new free time or helping with productive actions that aren't well suited towards a profit motive
Google maps results are on their way to death. I was recently doing a search having gone down to a three block area, did not show the result - Google pulled out a few blocks and showed a category result there. There was a higher ranking category result in the block i remembered, i had to remove my search term and zoom in!

The problem is not ads, it is not even capitalism, is the requirement of our western capitalism to require constant growth. Doing what Google did 5 years ago, with the profits of 5 of years ago, should have been fine - but the markets demand growth, so companies have to pull into unsustainable territory and that wrecks the company.

Boeing is a great modern example.

No one ever really expected much of reddit. It could just do its thing. But now, spun off, it will have to relentlessly seek growth, and the counter is ticking for its destruction.
My thoughts: I appreciate that they are very open about exactly what information was public and how this happened. Compared to many disclosures this is refreshingly straightforward. However, it looks like that they are only telling me about this 4-5 months after it was discovered internally, which is disappointing.
I've always had a gripe with the "Hard times..." saying, because in reality, hard times just crush people. The few people that survive hard times are of course exceptionally strong or lucky, but they are exceptions.

I can say through my personal experience since I've worked in Switzerland and India: Just because India is having a harder time, doesn't mean we are stronger people, quite the contrary. I don't think good times are anywhere near for India and I don't think hard times are anywhere near for Switzerland.

(Switch Switzerland with any developed country.)
I think Google should just remove all pages with affiliate links from its index (which of course includes detecting all the ways to defeat that like URL shorteners, redirect pages, JavaScript hackery, giving a different version to the crawler, etc.)

Every time you search for "best X" you'll find a page with low-effort copied or write-for-hire content design to get you to click on Amazon affiliate links as opposed to what you are looking for, which is an actual review by someone who is an X enthusiast, personally bought and tested all the options and is eager to share their findings.
I don't see the end of this madness.
The number of stories of contractor companies hiding innovation and automation to maintain a higher number of butts in seats is astounding. Never saw it at NASA but otherwise I know someone who automated his job away and that of over a 10 man team, made it a one button solution. When they told their boss the company immediately claimed IP, took the code, hid it away, and it was never seen again. Now my company is innovating in a space where we could similarly eliminate a lot of busy work and unless the product becomes industry standard these contractors wont touch it because they want to maintain the most useless workers on busy work they can. Missaligned incentives.
I don't think I've seen anyone blame Trump for the global pandemic. What are you talking about?
> because it makes more money

Because it gets taxpayer money for no reason
My uBlacklist filter list has grown rather large.

I’ve (finally) come to the realization that most websites are trying to sell me something. It’s usually affiliate link spam, or the articles provide just enough info and then ask you to sign up for their newsletter or buy their ebook or subscribe to their service or whatever other predatory monetization bullshit they’ve implemented.

I get it, websites cost money to run and providing useful information for free is a bad business model. My issue here is that Google search rewards this spammy behavior in order to maximize cash flow. And this type of thing works very well on normal non-tech-inclined people so it won’t ever go away.

I dislike Reddit’s current browsing experience, but the value of the platform has always been its smaller interest-focused communities and the ability to access the opinions of actual real humans instead of content marketers.
I mean, it's not hard to tell shilling, and truly authentic, quality shilling falls along a border of marginally still useful content.

Like, I'm hoping to find a specialized community discussing products relevant to that hobby or interest, often posting images or discussions of data gathered.

For example I am starting a container garden on my patio using fabric pots and have searched reddit for a wide variety of gardening products. Perhaps I fell for shills but I looked for people posting images of their gardens and discussing opinions and results, so if companies reselling chinese factory sourced fabric grow containers are hiring people to literally make home gardens and shill online about products, then so be it, thank you for the content? And even then, I don't think I saw anyone specifically pushing any brand at all, and even calling the top brand (SmartPot) overpriced . Everyone seems to use a different brand and they all seem to do fine.

I think that's a strength on reddit. It's harder to shill in a specialist community than it is in an Amazon review or personal blog.

Another reddit community I would look at often for opinions and brands is chef knives and knife sharpening tools. I really don't think there's a lot of shilling there that gets upvoted and promoted.
Lineiform, a meta-JIT library for Rust interpreters
This is the stance that I take.

Most people don't know I organize my relationships. Of those that do, maybe 20% think it's icky.

"Would you rather we fell out of touch?"
De gustibus non est disputandum. I liked the virtual world stuff.
Thank you :)
Excited to bring easy permissions for everyone.
> Maybe indication of some kind of new trend, especially after people read this it brings more people over?

There's reporting on a trend and there's trying to create the trend.

It's often hard to tell which it is, especially when you have PR consultants who work with corporate press outlets to spin, imply, shape, and create a narrative that is plausible and has a few supporting data points.

It's the PR equivalent of "fake it until you make it"
I agree that Reddit remains a good source for info, but I’ve found that Google usually does a good job surfacing Reddit results — usually in the top half. Though this is most notable when I’m googling for esoteric info about TV shows and video games (e.g. “best build mass effect 3”)
It's much easier to type "searchterm" or "searchterm wiki" in your web browser address bar and then click through to the Wikipedia result than it is to first navigate to every individual site and use their non-standard search bar.
I've done this a few times, some things to think about if you decide to take the plunge.

1. New backs aren't always made well, often with the mounting posts not lining up as well as they should.

2. New batteries are a crap shoot. Most don't last as long nor are rated as high as advertised. On the 5g and later, you can put in a much larger battery in them, but you need the thicker case.

3. If you mod an iPod mini, use a higher quality sd to compact flash adapter. The cheaper ones, end up having weird issues when transferring files.

4. If Rockbox seems temperamental it's not just you. It can take a bit to work out the issues it has with your iPod, from buggy themes to random crashes.

5. If your music doesn't play right through Rockbox (clipped music) or playing music on rockbox seems to crash device, the issue was the file transfer. To fix, reboot the iPod to the stock Apple Firmware, delete the old files, and then transfer them again. Apple firmware handles file transfers much better than Rockbox.

6. If your iPod hasn't been charged in a long time, it might not come up when first connected to power. Sometimes, leaving the iPod attached to power for a day or two will allow it to get enough charge to get into actual recharge mode. Older models re
>> This could possibly be done with the help of curated bot-content, but I think we're far away from the point where this is really more profitable than getting students to do the work.

It may be becoming borderline. I expect that sentence/paragraph completion is already becoming useful to people who churn out quick content for a living. In any case, the important part isn't whether or not it's bots. The important part is whether or not it's authentic. The precise meaning of authenticity gets squishy, but it exists nonetheless.

IMO the sentiments are correct, whatever the details. Part of why google sucks is that the internet is worse, for a bunch of the things we use google to search for. The internet becoming a larger, more profitable industry changed it. Instagramming for influencer perks, SEOing, or selling targeted ads like FB do... it does not lead to the same places that earlier iterations of the WWW produced. Times change.
I didn’t really even think about this properly until just now.. these days I am looking at Reddit, Facebook groups and if needs be, YouTube (videos not by ‘creators’ as far as possible) to find information I used to google. Ads and referral links have totally ruined the usefulness of so much information.
I guess one could consider using Amazon FSx for Lustre: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/LustreGuide/what-is.h...
So, all you need is a bunch of batteries or other storage plus some links to back up power supply from the grid (wind, hydro, geothermal, etc.).

Hydrogen is basically just a really inefficient battery. Nice if you really need it for e.g. energy density reasons but basically sub-optimal for other things.

The challenge with hydrogen hydrogen is energy losses in producing it are about 3-4x (so use 4 kwh of electricity to produce 1kwh of hydrogen). And then you lose more actually burning it. And storing and transporting it add to those losses. Using the electricity directly for heating the iron/steel is much more efficient and potentially a lot more cost effective since you effectively use at least 3-4x less MWH. That's a lot of cost savings. And those can finance a lot of batteries and other solutions.
Shortcut was formerly called Clubhouse for anyone who used it before September 2021 [1].

Somewhat ironically, they renamed the company to de-conflict with the other Clubhouse (the audio chatrooms app) although at this point said app has all but faded into obscurity less than 6 months later.

With respect to the Shortcut product itself, my experience with it ~1.5 years ago was positive and I would try it again.

We switched off to Jira + Confluence for feature parity that Clubhouse lacked, at least at the time. But it looks like they are very rapidly iterating on the product and adding new features (threaded comments look awesome). I look forward to giving it another shot and watching as it evolves.

It looks like they also now have a Confluence competitor [2], currently in private beta.

[1]: https://shortcut.com/blog/clubhouse-changing-our-name-to-sho...

[2]: https://shortcut.com/write-beta