skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Precision laptops are designed and marketed towards businesses and professionals (hence why they are on the business solutions section). Speaking generically; you can make a Precision match specs for an XPS but not the other way around. You're able to make a Precision laptop contain much higher specification components. The average computer user wouldn't need those high-end components so they are split into two separate lines and price points.
I think you're right. I'd like to see an analysis of the effectiveness of personalised advertising based on tracking versus ads based purely on local context. The latter being if you're on a web page about birds then you get ads for bird seed and bird houses. No tracking involved.
Presumably the flareup occurred in India, and was triggered by the change in diet (see "Delhi belly")
(Shamir’s scheme is delightfully straightforward, but if polynomial interpolation over finite fields isn’t a thing you feel in your bones, try inventing an n-of-n-shares scheme that only uses xor and a random-number generator. Gb nyy ohg bar bs gur cnegvpvcnagf, tvir n puhax bs enaqbz qngn nf ybat nf gur frperg; gb gur ynfg bar, tvir gur kbe bs gur frperg naq gur enaqbz puhaxf. You probably don’t want that in production, but it’s nice to figure it out and even utterly simple to prove it secure, provided you understand the proof for one-time pads.)
> MA is clearly talking about products that can be built with the technology.

That's fine. But what specifically does he mean in this case, then, that makes his technology so useful?
he's not talking about ADVERTISING. You need to reach out to people yourself, cold email, tell them you have a product that does XYZ and think it might solve their problems.
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The big thing here is the concept of a device doing ONE thing and doing it well. Is there a name for that?

I've been rocking an iPod Video for like 15 years and it is still my go-to music device. All the stereos in my office, house and shop have a 3.5mm cable hanging from them.

I've also been using rockbox so I can play FLAC files. The ipod is on it's 4th battery at this point and I've also upgraded to SD cards from the internal HD about 6 years ago. The screen is not working in a few places now, but the thing keeps working and I'd be very sad if it ever stopped because I'm not sure what would replace it.

Whenever I'm programming and I feel like I've been very productive, it's often the times I'm using this ipod with headphones - instead of a music playing piece of software. Maybe it's because I'm less inclined to open up the software and spend time choosing an album/podcast/etc.
Hacker News is the absolute pinnacle of non-toxicity on a site that allows essentially everybody to contribute. If everybody is going to have a voice, somebody is going to be offended by it. If you consider this toxic, you consider message boards in particular and the internet itself in general toxic.
I feel this would be solved if the search engine weighted results based on whether users trust the domains.
lol the same happens with WSJ. It’s very disappointing to try and do a bit of research on a clue and get the answer on a bot site linked to the puzzle you’re doing. Interesting how they do it though.
I don't think that's what the right wing is about at all. All the conservative pundits I listen to think Trump behaved disgracefully after the election and that there is still no evidence of sufficient voter irregularities to turn the election.

Many still believe it's a major problem that states like Pennsylvania violated their own laws during the election, which should be illegal, but handling that is a separate issue. Many also believe it's a problem that our election processes are so insecure and that we need more election security. That's separate from believing the 2020 election was stolen in the sense that provably illegal voting activity swung the election.
It gets better on subsequent reads but it's not the easiest thing to get into indeed. The first time I read it, I found the virtual world stuff annoying and hard to understand. But it grew on me on the re-read since I knew what he was trying to do and because with Neal Stephenson it's always about the details and little side plots and not about moving the main plot forward.

I had the same experience with the Baroque cycle on first read. I've since re-read that many times and I'm already looking forward to picking up Fall and Termination Shock for more re-reads in a few years.
Yup, switched to DDG so I don't have to sort out 3 pages of bullshit for every search.
Do you have a better site or resource you now go to for queries like can opener opinions?

Yes, Reddit isn't perfect, but I've been hard pressed to find better options.
A run of Bibles printed in 1631 accidentally omitted "not" from the commandment "thou shalt not commit adultery." All of the copies were burned and the printer was fined and lost his printing license[0]. Apparently it happens a lot[1].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Bible

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_errata
It works great for negative political ads though.
I honestly don't think this is the problem, like at all. There are human websites made by humans, still. There's more crap, sure, but the good stuff is largely still out there.

The problem begins and ends with the conflict of interest that Google both sells ads and selects search results. If they didn't have a vested interest in people visiting sites with their ads on them, they could decimate the number of spam results.
Replace "profit driven such-and-such" with "print newspaper" and the rhetorical question works equally well.

I think the worst you can say against social media is that it feeds you low-quality highly-partisan sources if you seem to like such sources. But your ability to seek out better or contradicting information is not diminished. If anything it is far greater than it has ever been. "Stuff that is against $my_favorite_belief" is a Google search away. Wikipedia alone will usually give you a fairly balanced treatment of a topic with extensive references to diverse perspectives and evidence.
It's cynicism on every thread and full of "get-off-my-lawn" comments. It has become toxic. Not sure what happened in the last 10 years.
I came to write something similar, about the influencers, fashion, and celebrity gossip industries...

but then it occured to me that there, people, sadly, do care...
Odd how much Google became so vastly different between users. For me DDG and Google do just about the same thing here. Wikipedia first link (well, 1st at Google, 2nd at DDG) with a card and then governmental websites with regards to health and hazards. Both have one row in their own card dedicated to news.

The only difference is that Google also gives me links to Canda and Québec govs links (where I live) while DDG is all American links.

DDG is absolutely not better at giving me a chemistry lesson than Google is in this instance, they're both all about poisoning, and to be honest it makes ample sense.
I feel like I see one on the HN front page at least once a month, but your mileage may vary.
I'm not asking whether significant protests tend to cause economic harm. I'm asking whether there should be reasonable limits. I think it's easy to come up with a feel-good answer like "the economic impact of the protest should match the severity and importance of the thing bring protested", but it's hard to have good rules for where that line of reasonable-ness is.

Hyperbolic example: If there was a 0.01% minority in your country/region which was violently opposed to some existing minor local law or regulation, would it be ok for them to shut down half the economy over it? Think of all the secondary damage that's doing every time someone gets upset over something relatively-small in the big picture. I think most would think that's unreasonable. It's this question that gets at the heart of when and/or if it's ok for a heavy-handed government to come in and put a stop to things. When is it reasonable for the powers that be to intervene and "stop a protest" because the toll is too high for the weight and/or popularity of the matter at hand?
Well, he's definitely one of the people then.

"Why I left Google" quoted returns 7790 results. It conveys nothing of status and says more about the environment of the person who thinks it does.

I might as well read "Why I left Wal-Mart," except that I expect those articles, were they ever to be written, would show a wide latitude of interesting personal experiences, and not the self-promoting pablum that particular genre of LinkedIn fluff provides.
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Another issue is that polling is often fucked around with by the respondents, especially if the poll wasn't well written.
I got the "expert beginner" vibe almost immediately.
The problem in those examples is not rejecting the premise, it's doing so in a dismissive, arrogant way.

I've had customers, friends, and family members tell me time and time again that they can't do some common, everyday thing on their computers because it's "not compatible", or it "won't let them", or it "doesn't work". If they're wrong, I show them where they're wrong, what they need to do to fix the problem and avoid similar ones in the future. No need to be dismissive, or berate them for not knowing something. It ends up being a nice "today I learned" situation for them, and we all win.
Unless you want to stay longer than allowed by a Schengen visa,

or if you want to open a local bank account,

or access local healthcare,

or
I pay rent therefore I am.
Using JAX in 2022
"My dad told me that he wants to dabble in programming, but MySQL isn’t compatible with his laptop. My response? "Yeah there’s no way that’s true. MySQL will work on anything." Instead of taking a look at this laptop and working on the problem with him, I just told him that he's wrong and he doesn't know what he's doing (basically)."

Now I just want to know if MySQL really was incompatible, and if so, why?
I try to shoot for something like "what was the error message you got?" or something at least moderately helpful like that.
I think you have to make the form public.

The form requires an account to even see it.
Presumably because, as they move out of beta, they want people to start paying to use their search engine. Thats the only way they can afford to be ad-free.
Andreessen is the opposite of a hacker and founder these days. He's a shill and a parasite. I'm glad HN criticizes him and questions his motives.
I find it bizarre that urlscan.io displays recent scans from paying customers. I assume GitHub is large enough that they have to pay, anyway. If they're not, who is?
Perhaps he's self-identifying as a tech bro defensively? That is: based on his age / appearance / employment, other people might dismiss him as just another tech bro, so he's just going ahead with a self-label to get it out of the way before moving on to his point.
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Wow, based on those prices I could make a killing selling my reddit account!

I haven't worked there in over a decade, but if I worked there now, I would definitely be scraping eBay and all the other sites and closely monitoring all the accounts that I see for sale. I'd probably even buy a couple of them to see if I could find some patterns in the sellers.
I think “lying” as more of a “your claim is outright false” while “disingenuous” lends itself to more subjective forms of misleading. For example, if I refer to a given protest as “violent” on the basis that a literal handful (out of tens or hundreds of thousands) were violent, I’m not really lying but I’m certainly misleading people by way of my characterization.
Thanks for clarification! Good to know. I often find it hard to learn and retain the multiple meanings / history of words in a second language. I do know de Heer, and Herengracht etc. I just hadn’t put that together that it’s same origin.
The first "result" for me--which heavily focuses on mean--is a Google Snippet, which I imagine could have an unrelated semantics engine and, frankly, too often (I am not saying most of the time, though) shows ridiculous garbage anyway (as it is trying to be more intelligent than computers really can currently pull off).
It's a bookvertisement.
I love this! I've been meaning for a while to cram a TB of storage into an iPod Mini I have lying around to fit my lossless music library in a gorgeously cheerful package of mid '00s design, this is definitely a cooler project though!

Anyone know which iPod had the best DAC? Might have to look at doing a 5.5G as well as my Mini at some point.
It's not at odds with his philosophy at all actually, read more about the GPL.
One FTE at Google could probably filter out like 99% of the SEO spam sites in technical english querries.

It would be a winning battle, since it is less work to blacklist than to make a high scoring site.

I guess Google Search internally is a mess. Maybe they have no clue what they are doing or have some really bad directors and lower managers messing stuff up.

Maybe there are so much blackbox ML called from 1000s of Perl files that the engineers don't understand what is happening.
> Or another example: My dad told me that he wants to dabble in programming, but MySQL isn’t compatible with his laptop. My response? "Yeah there’s no way that’s true. MySQL will work on anything." Instead of taking a look at this laptop and working on the problem with him, I just told him that he's wrong and he doesn't know what he's doing (basically).

Yeaaaaah this was fucking eye opening for me and now I need to go re-evaluate a bunch of things.

Thanks for this piece. I have a lot to work on now.
They were acquired by Condé Nast in 2006.
Preface:

This article is likely focusing on non-developer platform projects. There are plenty of scenarios in Web3 which don't target developer end users so this article is probably perfectly valid for all those use cases. Neat article.

For a lot of other Web3 platforms (the one's i'm interested in looking at):

Web3 is a developer lead revolution. Over the last 25 years, developers have gone from being "nice to have" to being the center of the entire universe. One app can make or break a Web3 platform. Expecting the battle to get developers in the door to reach levels never seen in history. Like WWWIII for developer experience.

Even now, there are only a handful of Solidity developers listed on LinkedIn versus the total market demand: Moving 100% of the existing financial system over to a new technology stack (opportunity: 100% of all money, forever) is going to require vast armies of devs.

Current state of the market: Many, many "prior era" developers are not on board with this web3 revolution. Their skills will be badly needed.

The idea that developer experience is not the centerpiece of all platform product management in web3 blows my mind. In seeing the conversations online and talking to people in web3 industry, the current conception of developer relations, as a field, sounds like "we want to hire a junior engineer who sort of sits in discord and writes an article here and there."

This is NOT what developer relations looks like at world class levels, at enterprise scale.

I have seen this play out several times. The last iteration: Twilio and Stripe wiped the floor with everyone because they built developer first. That means emphasizing developer experience in the design of their products.

It has been long enough that a lot of new generation don't remember how that happened and why.

I think it is a result of market immaturity, expecting, as competition increases, that more and more enterprise grade DevRel is going to make or break the success of Web3 platforms.

Could be another 6-12 months, but I feel the change is going to happen fast and people who don't catch on (but are able to raise significant funds in this hyper "easy money" environment) might get away with coasting for a bit.

Will be driven by competitive forces, could be wrong But feels like will need to change.

My current belief is that the "Era" of Product Management lead innovation is probably over. Google and Facebook Product Managers were the "go to" people of last wave in tech.

In this wave, why wouldn't DevRel be the new PMs? Lets see if my theory is correct. I could be wrong!
This skepticism and cynism is like acid where lies don't survive. It's really hard to push typical corp bs when people who 2x smarter than you (but maybe not as socially aware) are allowed to pick the lies apart and expose their logical inconsistences. Liars don't like to look like fools in public. Sometimes this acid burns well meaning people, but it's a small and acceptable price to pay.
Age, comes experience.

But, I was surprised that techbro has such a negative image too and used as an attack. Only found that out when I moved to Seattle. Sometimes it helps to adapt it, because for sure the community/locals on some level really do push it to a label.

Meanwhile, across the country in Florida - everyone encourages everyone to do what you want, learn, succeed and it wasn't rare that in university, outside university events IT/coders/artists and such all hung out together.

But, certain environments affect the meaning and acceptance of words. I still am flabbergasted that my experience in Seattle is still like that and that I was "shamed" for doing what I love. Seattle was the only place also that people in tech would also omit they work in tech and do anything, everything else.
When I'm looking into some project or piece of software I'm unfamiliar with, I really do search for HN posts on it. Fastest way to cut through (enough) of the biased material and get something genuine. Even hyped stuff usually has enough contrarian posts to give you an idea of where to look for the skeletons.
Dunno, I fell like I've ever read 2 or 3 of those in years of HN.

And those I remember were mostly about the issues with hosting something popular and getting hit on HN or virality (e.g. the guy who made the "is it stuck yet" about the ship in the Souez canal).
Odd I don't see that. I am told "People also ask" about five different questions that each of them amount to "what is carbon monoxide poisoning", which replicate the results of the search itself.

the fact other search engines get this right, even if not nearly as well as Google would have in 2008, tells me the problem is not advertising or a contentless web as much as Google specifically and deliberately preventing you from searching about what you mean.
All I know is he's reading a different HN than I am, if this is shadowbanning then it's great. XD
> The big thing here is the concept of a device doing ONE thing and doing it well. Is there a name for that?

I don't think so, but it was the first item in the Unix philosophy in 1978.

"Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
imo, google is still king, but you have to be a bit of a power user. You're already using `site:` which is good if you know exactly where you're looking. If not you can use `related:` in the same way. I find using `-something` to remove terms the most useful. I'll search for something (usually an error message) then add `-react` (and mumble "ffs not everything is react"). Then if I still see things I DON'T want add more `-` to the string.

It's not GREAT that you have to do that, but it's pretty functional and certainly better than going past page 1 of search results.

Anyways, here are some other things you can do for reference: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433
One wonders if that Orion capsule is designed to be interchangeable with some other payload with another function that the US might like to be able to continue to use.
> The big thing here is the concept of a device doing ONE thing and doing it well. Is there a name for that?

Totally! I love single purpose + honest technology. It's not secretly sending my data off somewhere to infer crap information about my life, it's just doing what it says on the tin

> The ipod is on it's 4th battery at this point and I've also upgraded to SD cards from the internal HD about 6 years ago. The screen is not working in a few places now, but the thing keeps working and I'd be very sad if it ever stopped because I'm not sure what would replace it.

The screen isn't that difficult to swap out either! It'll end up like the ship of theseus haha
Toxic kindness is as toxic as toxic negativity, change my mind.
kudos to github on this specific case, too. It's possible that they did take 4-5 months to figure out the whole picture, either due to complexity of the indcient or simply the bureaucracy (needs to be reviewed by PR or even lawyer etc.)
It sets a precedence in regards to the correct way to respond.

If BLM protests were encouraged or tolerated by authorities, yet the trucker protestors are harshly target it raises the question “why?”

It’s possible the response to BLM was wrong. It’s possible that America and Canada have different concepts of political liberty.

But it’s also possible offialdom is playing favorites.

These are legitimate questions, and Canadian voters should seek answers for them.
You're right, but your comment got me thinking. Police don't investigate online threats because there's nothing for them to gain, but that is not a given. Like if you were some prolific web personality, wouldn't you want to move somewhere you could report threatening comments to the local police, have them issue requests for information, track who is making repeated nasty comments etc? Either through higher taxes, direct user fees for police investigation, quid pro quo, etc.

Online forums generally don't adjudicate whether subpoenas meet some objective standard of jurisdiction. It's not so much that police cannot investigate a crime for a local victim when the suspect could be in another jurisdiction, it's just that it likely won't lead to a prosecution. But I'd bet that a nastygram on a police department letterhead would go a long way towards discouraging most internet haters.

I'm not pointing this out as a desirable state of affairs (it's essentially government-capital synergy aka fascism), but rather a possibility of where things might head. Burbclaves applying their customary/statutory powers to interactions in the interconnected world, and offering their services up as a point of competition.
There is inherent value stored in all of Spacexs accomplishments thus far that is very, very hard to place financial value on simply because it is the only asset in the world with the capability.

A reusable rocket? How much would China pay for that capability? Don't worry about ITAR rules, it's a hypothetical question to understand the value of having such an asset available for defense or aerospace contracting purposes.

The centuries prior to the digital age, whole private empires were built on the back of shipping and transport. Spacex is presently sitting on the largest payload capability fleet in the world, by tonnage to orbit. Yes, including China. Yes, including Russia, Yes, we're not even counting one single Starship here yet.

The alloy itself that allows their turbines to run as hot as they have demonstrated to achieve such insane chamber pressures. What is that worth? No one else in the World has been able to do that in the history of mankind (In the unclassified realm atleast)

The thing i love about the company that you allude to as well is they're running a ship that converts these "ideas" into tangible business value quicker than anyone we've seen in classic space industries.
That concept of slavery doesn't apply to companies. Companies are imaginary entities.
Vibe of the story is middle class retirees moving to Vietnam to have an upper middle class retirement; nobody on the median income line in the US can afford to have in-home staff to help them, or afford care outside of what Medicare offers.