skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's very similar with the added caveat that Google has an interest in serving results that have ads from their own network. This is why Google's metrics can be hacked. Anything that is barely above being classified as spam but serves ads from Google's ad network will be prioritized over other results simply because they have to hit their quarterly revenue targets. SEO hacking is not possible if a search engine is just a search engine but Google is also an ad network so they will always be susceptible to being gamed.

This is also the case for social media platforms. They're incentivized to surface content that generates engagement and ad revenue. Basically ads are at the root of all problems when it comes to the internet and the content on it.
Good question. Yes, we do sync your mail to our servers. We need to do this to provide many of the features we have.

We are taking security very seriously and are doing everything we can to dot our i's and cross our t's. Our engineering team is ex-Google / ex-Firebase engineers with lots of experience building high security, high reliability data systems at Google.
Maybe start by writing a grammatically correct headline. "Hire remote employees who write well (and how to do it)"
I went to university in Pennsylvania.

At least when I was going to school co-ops were time you spent working for a company for which you'd receive some kind of credit or fulfill some degree requirement.

Internships generally didn't have any connection to the school and were only for the purpose of gaining experience and developing your career.
Some people relying on fixed width digits will happen anyway, no matter how you send the version. There's decades of experience with this. It has nothing to do with the User-Agent header as such.

With the Chrome "backup plan" literally everyone will have to modify their code to make it work, making it more convoluted in the process. With the "well, just break stuff then" only the small number of people who relied on a fixed width of the version will have stuff break. This seems like a decent enough trade-off, and will almost certainly save programmer time globally.
It's really the manager's job to look at a productive employee and say "great job with all of that glue work you're doing," and their bosses job to support their support, and so on up to where the org tree merges the two sides being glued and you get one person who's personally happy about it. Of course that doesn't happen, but that's due to bad management rewarding lower management for putting departmental metrics ahead of company-wide results, not due to there not being a "moonshot" in progress.

If the CEO is patting the head of development on the back for results he got by stonewalling sales, and the head of sales for stonewalling development, that's the source of the problem even if the company sells used carpets.
It can have this problem even if you are not nonbinary. Buy a few toe rings and have it decide you're a woman...
I use kagi exclusively now and have since I was invited a few weeks ago. I've tried to think of about a usecase where I need Google like shopping but even then kagis result are better and Googles are irrelevant after the first few results.
"Reflexively contrarian" is an excellent way to describe this phenomenon. I think you've hit the nail on the head.
Hey, just wanted to point out that your spider and freecell games are marked as unsafe/contains malware in Edge for some reason.
Landscape on iOS, you can’t even see the header nor can you scroll it.

Given the web today, I wonder is anyone still turns their phone. I hold a phone in landscape sometimes, and see 14px of content, a header, a huge cookie choices bar (scroll to see the “decline cookies” button, which leads to a maze of twisty toggles all alike), and an advertising bar at the bottom with a teeny tiny X. Even broken this site’s design is better.
Somewhat off topic, I recently recovered all my mp3s and tried to import them into Apple Music. After having used Spotify for a long time, I’m finding it very difficult to use. The lack of intelligence around what I’m currently listening to, intelligent groupings, etc. I’m realizing how a central catalog with great data analytics has made Spotify such a powerhouse. Perhaps Apple Music, the subscription service, would be able to do similar. But what is one to do with just mp3s these days? Is there anything remotely good, or an I always having to pick an artist/album/genre manually from the entire catalog?
This is false. If you look up the grandparent comment, you will see that they very clearly stated "anything" that will cause a legal liability. They did not say "only actually illegal things" that cause a legal liability, they said "anything". Most things which will cause a legal liability are legal (not illegal). So your claim that this discussion would be only referencing illegal things is simply false.

Also, I do not believe that the ACLU are nazis.
Not necessarily directly related to your question, but a conversation I had with a friend who was an aerospace engineer, and who worked on solid rocket design:

Remember the Ares I/V designs? They theoretically were claimed to use what were "essentially" shuttle solid rocket boosters (SRBs), but scaled up. In fact, much of the chatter in general forums was that the Ares boosters were shuttle SRBs with an extra segment on top. (SRBs are built of several independent segments of propellant with the external structure wrapped around them. When they're assembled, they segments are stacked with, among other things, o-rings between them---that is what failed in Challenger.)

Ok, so you can just stack another segment on top for more power, right? Well, no. SRBs don't burn from the bottom to the top; there is a hole from the bottom of the propellant to the top, and when ignited it is the propellant on the surface of this hole that burns.

This hole up the propellant (remember, it's a solid) is not just a round cylinder. If it were, when you lit it on fire, it would start out at a minimum thrust and the thrust would increase as the hole got larger in diameter. This is not so much what you want a rocket engine to do. So the hole is actually a weird star shape that maintains the same surface area as it burns, which requires a bunch of strange parameters known only to the initiates of aerospace engineering magic. (This is what my friend did in grad school. Now he's an enterprise webby project manager thingy.)

If you just stack another segment on a SRB, it will burn for the same amount of time with more thrust, which may not be a good idea---remember, this is a mechanical structure that is mechanically connected to whatever you want to lift and the whole thing may not like higher g-loads.

So, to just "add another segment" you have to redesign the propellant entirely, then look at the structures and connectors that may not be designed for the new loads, and so on.

Scaling up isn't easy.

If I remember correctly (See the book Ignition!), one of the major problems for the Saturn V's F-1 engine was the design of the engine injector plate, the thing that sprays fuel and oxygen into the combustion chamber. It had dramatic effects on the stability of the burn (they can and will go BOOM!), the vibration and other aspects of the engine. And that was basically determined experimentally. Also, keep in mind that the big design problem for a liquid-fuel engine is how to feed as much liquid propellant and oxidizers into the engine at the rate necessary for the thrust. They use burning rocket propellant to drive turbine pumps to feed propellant into the combustion chamber, and those pumps are the cutting edge of high-temperature, high-pressure pump design. "Just scaling it up" can be a completely new research and development project.
2 Years of Mobian: Birth and growth of a mobile Linux distribution
It seems they are only solving for two problems of solar desalination: to efficiently (1) transfer heat to a small amount of water, so it can evaporate, and (2) remove the brine from the device.

Once the water evaporates, you can probably just condense it via standard methods that are both passive, and extremely efficient. So they don't bother doing it. Basically, this thing will be surrounded by some apparatus that collects the vapor.
A factor in there has got to be 'who pays?' If it's hostile to advertisers, then there's got to be money to pay for the infrastructure from somewhere.

Maybe a tax on ISPs? I think I'd happily pay $10 extra per month for access to an ad-free interrnet. Maybe $20. But how many of the people that are already happy with the ads and poor google results would do so? Would it be sustainable?
It is not so much HN that is toxic, but in my opinion there tends to be a lot of inadvertently (...or not) toxic people in our industry.

There are a lot of people I have worked with who have very strong opinions on what is the right way to do something. They will have zero qualms about telling you that anything-other-than-their-way is flat out wrong. I have been sat in meetings where it was basically a full-on argument between people for 30 minutes about if we should use X or Y to implement some feature until after perhaps 3 or 4 meetings and endless threads someone either capitulates or managers step in and force the matter. It becomes a point-scoring/pride thing where the same old foes face off against each other again and again and the cycle is repeated.

It is stifling quite frankly, and I have often simply given up having an opinion at work sometimes because it is simply not worth (from an emotional energy perspective) joining the fray. Just let whoever shouts loudest/longest get their way and go home at 5pm.

It is not surprising we get that here in HN if we are seeing it day in and day out in our offline lives too.
“Technosociolegal”
Always eager to try new mail clients. when is multi-account support landing?
I don't know, I think there are all sorts of things that can influence our behavior, why not an online forum? A random example, in the past when my friend and I were doing some manual labour work in construction, some of our family friends noticed how we started swearing more. I think this type of social chameleon behavior is very common. We adapt to fit the groups we are a part of. And I think it's totally reasonable to say that a community like HN would influence your behavior if your spend a lot of time interacting with it.

Besides, I think the author's point is less that HN made them act a certain way and more that they've noticed a lot of negativity here and that we should be aware of that.
> Any plans for commercial features in the future?

I'll have to find out what kinds of features are of interest to commercial clients. I'd like to find some way to support continued development. Commercial features are certainly a possibility.
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It's really easy to get a podcast into Apple Podcasts, just submit a URL for the RSS feed. If you don't mind intervening to edit the XML when a new episode goes up, all you need is a directory on a web host somewhere... you drop in a hand-jammed XML file for the RSS feed and all the mp3 files.
glad to see some advancement in the gene therapy space. I think once people move past gene editing as "playing god", we will be able to get rid of advanced genetic diseases entirely (ie, muscular dystrophy) and edit our genes to be naturally resistant to todays and future diseases.

Also I hope gene therapy becomes democratized. It shouldn't be limited to big Rx developing these solutions.
like what example
I stopped helping people, in general, when there were several instances of people telling me that whatever I did the last time I touched their computer caused some random problem 6 month later. That, and it seemed that people were getting upset when I would show them how to do things, within a couple of minutes (from just knowing where to navigate), that they had been struggling with for hours, or that they were, in fact, typing their password wrong. Maybe they weren't upset with me, but it was usually a negative experience for me, and it slowly chipped away at the glee I used to have for helping people.
It was just one word, actually. And, as we are learning now, Hillary Clinton's team paid to infiltrate into whitehouse servers as part of efforts to delegitimize Trump's election: https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-clinton-campaign-pa...

We also know now that the russian collusion hoax was entirely fabricated by Hillary's team: https://nypost.com/2021/11/04/the-real-collusion-was-the-cre...

I don't agree with what Trump did, but what he did was rile up a crowd of people that had zero capability of actually usurping the government, and then waited too long to ask them to leave after they went too far. Politicians on both sides do worse things than that all the time, including our friend Hillary. What she did was worse and far more diabolical, and helped undermine our democracy for four years. What Trump did was to just provide fodder for the democrat party to milk for 2 years in hopes of it saving them from a coming midterm election sweep.

Our government was under zero actual threat on that day. Even the left's own polling shows that moderates aren't buying their narrative: https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-buries-poll-results-showi...
You can donate cord blood for free to a public bank. Obviously you're not guaranteed that it won't be used by someone else before a sibling potentially needs it, but the chances of it being useful to your own family are almost zero anyway -- not exactly zero, but if you were making a list of the ways to best increase your life expectancy given $5k to spend, I doubt it would even make the top 1,000 options in terms of expected ROI.
thank god the government no longer has a monopoly on...checks notes...the money I give the government to provide government services. Now we can...check notes...collect more tax dollars so that disabled students have access to segregated education and somehow that will show us who is making too much money. You have invented the idea of accounting and presume that it is impossible that it will not show you are right.

I hear this type of logic a lot. If you don't start with an assumption that the ideology is true and therefore the outcomes from the ideology are better then what comes out is functionally incoherent. It begins with the assumption that public organizations are poorly run and then uses that assumption to conclude they are poorly run. That's not thinking, its not argumentation, and it should not be respected as a serious viewpoint.

When the charter schools get to pick the students they want and leave the the more expensive students to the group that is required by law to educate them they haven't improved. They haven't innovated, they've stolen from the public and claimed their moral superiority for doing so. This comment is representative of the fucking inanity (not insanity) of this ideology.
Very interesting.

The last paragraph is unfortunate though:

> And if it works, and if it’s fast, and if it’s useful? Who knows. I’d like if Apple or Facebook paid me a lot of money for this library in order to make things fast (think being able to JIT compile build scripts or DSLs), so I’m not sure if I’ll opensource or source-available it or not; if you want access to the repo to play around, or even just to ask how things are going or talk about various compiler things, feel free to reach out.
Used to use reddit long ago but left due to the inherent (if subtle) censorship.

However, I've been using site:reddit.com in google searches for years after leaving reddit as a user, mostly when I want to find more realistic opinions about certain products or solutions and I want to filter out marketing. It's served me very well.
I wish there was an extension that would search simultaneously on different engines and present them in columns side by side.
It is, all Lightning transactions are valid Bitcoin transactions. Strike merely uses the Lightning network, similar to how Coinbase uses the Bitcoin network. Coinbase and Strike aren't available everywhere, but Bitcoin and Lightning is.
There are more white billionaires in the US than asian billionaires. The skew isn't caused by the top 1%.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/07/12/income-...

Income inequality among asians is the greatest of any race.
> Early adopters aren’t using Google anymore.

Can anyone share what they are using?
Don't confuse "Hates hanging out in forced one-on-one social situations" with "Only does enough emotional labor to get code merged and not get dinged on perf reviews."

They are different things. I help people who need help, comment on design docs, and wish people happy birthday, have a good vacation and whatnot.

Required strolling with random people or going to lunch is not the same thing.

You do you too. If you love those things, great! Not everyone does.
This is what I came here to say. I don't have "decades" under my belt but after a long time as a developer, I have ALWAYS felt like the company I am working for is going to one day tap me on my shoulder and say I don't belong here because I'm not as good of a dev as the guy next to me or the one blogging about the new JS framework. Doesn't matter how many companies I've worked with, doesn't matter that this has NEVER happened, it is just me comparing myself to all the other "good" programmers out there and feeling inadequate because I see what the produce and am in awe. I know guys who I'd consider rock stars that feel this too and won't entertain finding better paying jobs because they think they don't have the skillset, even when I explain to them that "even I can do this" and I know they are much better than me.

I think it's a part of our industry and I'm not sure anyone can "fix" the problem for someone else. I think you just have to understand that 90% of your peers also feel this and of the 10% that don't 90% of THEM either don't realize they aren't that good or don't really care. The remaining 1% are who we compare ourselves to and shouldn't.
That only works if you validate users, otherwise the trust database becomes 99% the result of the actions of SEO firms.
Programmable money is the most obvious one. We don’t know each other but say we wanted to bet on a 1v1 video game match. We bet $100 on the outcome of a CoD game. I can write a smart contract that acts as an escrow account that accepts two payees, requires the amount to be $100, and queries the CoD API to check the result of a match ID paying out to the correct payee or pays back in 24 hours if it never happens. This is all within the payment system itself and can be represented in maybe 50 lines of code. Because it’s a blockchain you can see the code for yourself and you know it’s immutable so I can’t rug pull.
Another basic request I have: if you are building your own video player, make sure it's not MUCH worse than system's default. This is particularly glaring in Apple TV: system player has really decent UX, and almost all third-party implementations are terrible. Slow, laggy, jumpy or some mix of these. Scrubbing is commonly the worst aspect.
Not really, this is people I know personally. I know some of them have mentioned it publicly but can't find any links. Would be in Swedish anyway. I know two people off the top of my head that had their personal accounts suspended for legal political activity, for organizations it's pretty much any organisation on the right side of the spectrum.
Contra the domain name, this "spec" strikes me as entirely reasonable. It's remarkable how poor the UX is on apps from some of the world's largest media companies and service providers.
Lots of interesting stuff.
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Researchers find common threat actor push aviation and defense malware campaigns
Extended warranties are very high margin - probably 65-75% for Applecare. For a vendor like Dell, they pay a variety of third party entities something like $25-40 per on-site visit, plus a commodity part. If you're handy, it is often cheaper to DIY.

With Apple, remember that they are masters of business process, supply chain and scale. You either hump the computer to the Apple store or do a depot repair. There's no man in the van. They put OEM parts or replace the unit and refurbish it in some industrial process. Apple makes of money on this, as the process maximizes utilization and minimizes loss - they are using their own staff or a smaller number of depot contractors, and push losses like shipping shrink to their contractors like FedEx.

But... remember that you have captive to a single supplier for most replacement parts, and replacement parts are a profit center for Apple. It's gross, but if you're not prepared to essentially replace the unit in year 2, and you need the device, you may be better off with AppleCare. Another factor is because Apple devices are unpredictably hit or miss for quality. My company had a defective keyboard MacBook that was replaced in full 7 times. There have been issues with batteries, de-lamination, and other things at various times that are a risk as well.

Personally, I buy AppleCare for Macs, but not for things that are more accessories like Apple TVs, iPads, etc. My kids iPad has a cracked screen stabilized with scotch tape.
Dell's laptops are very easy to find

That they market the Precision line towards business users and the XPS towards consumers is a marketing choice

Want a Precision machine? Buy one

Want an XPS? Buy that
My father in law is retired and spends most of the year in Costa Rica. Never mentions visa problems or anything. Just talks about surfing and hiking and stuff. So it must be fairly easy there.

Jaco Beach. I’ve been there. Super nice!
That's a great share thanks - interesting to consider all the ways the English speaking world has exerted an edge indirectly.

The observations don't necessarily have to be geopolitical (although it seems talk about China always is these days).

For example, PinDuoDuo hit 800M users in 6 years[1]

And from Kevin's InterConnected blog, the Chinese CBDC's initial "small-scale" testing did 70M transactions[2]

Seems like Chinese dev needs to be prepared for scale in ways most of us never have to dream of - would be interesting to know if they're adopting best practices we could learn from.

[1] https://stories.pinduoduo-global.com/articles/pinduoduo-inte...

[2] https://interconnected.blog/e-cny-players-dcep-e-rmb/
odious as tech nerds improvising themselves as politicians, epidemiologists, microbiologists, logistics experts and activists just because they know how to use Google and follow some people on Twitter.

What is wrong with people do their own research, seeking their own info? Health experts, the mainstream media, and politicians do not have a monopoly on truth, and were wrong any times about Covid.
I would pay for good results.
Hardware Central forums circa 1998 was one of the funnest places that I recall. It was all overclockers and tinkers. It was pretty great!
> Take away the junk food, and people will resort to real food.

Many people already resort to real food, even with plenty of junk food around.

“Problem” is unfortunately, that it comes at a price, that many are simply not ready or able to pay.

Who should step in is a good question, and probably governments should make access to information a right and have high quality public service available (in this case a public web search engine). Public libraries used to fulfill this role for centuries.
> I haven't read it

Thanks, I understand your remark better now. But I'm still not sure that the right choice is then to shy away from a mere rephrasing of things that are literally or almost-literally stated as such in the OP (and I don't just mean what I quoted, that was almost beside the point!), lest they then be perceived as a personal attack on OP themselves. That just seems like an especially insidious sort of projection.
Imagine writing a user-agent parser and not foreseeing a future where they might have three digit numbers lmao
Would love to learn how you filter out the FUD!
There is a misleading, or more correctly put, wrong, statement here about bitcoin transactions not being final.

They are final.

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/88289/what-is-tr...