skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said may be. What is impossible is to negate a "maybe". While there may be physical limitation now, that doesn't mean there will be later. New understandings of physics may change that, as would new technology that wouldn't normally be researched along a given path to an idea or need (like a very small machine operating on very small samples). For example, we may find a way to use neutrinos to detect things we didn't know we could detect before, because someone theorized that doing XYZ with neutrenos allows us to detect them.

That "discovery" (hypothetical) could then be repurposed to build a small machine that does what Holmes thought it could. Not that she thought about stuff like that - she was designing their stupid building instead.

The point I was making was that not knowing now and then saying will will know later at which point "someone becomes right" is a biased way of thinking. My point was not to say there will or won't be, which is why I used "may be".
> more tolerant of diverse opinions

This, but (no data to back this up) seemingly less so.
Unfortunately, I suspect you might over estimate average intelligence.

I do hope I'm wrong.
Poe's Law applied to coding easter eggs? :D
Not 100% sure, but could be a user based personalization thing. Or a location based thing.
heh, how is this not pirating? seems like it might go against the TOS
Meta employees are now its 'metamates'
I wish I had more single-purpose hardware without extraneous complexity and complications. Is using an iPod today practical? Does the original iPod firmware or Rockbox support FLAC and Opus file formats? What about the obscure video game emulation audio formats like .nsf and .spc?
I'm not sure it's so much about costs ... prices have evened out considerably around the world. America is the cheapest country in the world for many goods, for example, iphones :) More probably, those retirees look for a good company ...
The only computer I might need to use this on is my 2017 Chromebook that's now out of support and can't be updated :(
This is amazing news. My only hope is that the recipient has been thoroughly vetted with a complete background check and panel interview to determine if they are worthy of such a cure[0].

/s

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/health/pig-heart-transpla...
And to Rupert Murdoch.
Right but the idea is that you don’t use sites as sources of trust, you use people. Content farms won’t be paying your friends and family to shill websites to you.
Sure, for running she doesn’t need a lot of storage or a screen. Run and listen, that’s it.

There are copies, there are people looking for them. Just nothing really good (it seems).
I work for a government contractor and I need approval for basically everything, regardless of price. Monthly expenses just make more work for us, so yearly is virtually required.
> My mother in law said at first it made her feel uncomfortable, but was told in no uncertain terms that Americans who could afford help but didn't hire help were seen as selfish.

Yes, because Americans aren’t even seen as the same kind of human in these countries. These societies often have rigid class structures even among the locals—my family is Bangladeshi, but affluent and our servants definitely didn’t think they were our equals—much less between locals and European/American foreigners.

The locals are reacting rationally to the situation. But what kind of person would want to leave an egalitarian society and live like that, just so they can be at the top of the pecking order?
We had to move 300tb of EFS data into S3 in 40 hours, and this really showed how poor EFS performance can be.

The reason was metadata only, which caps out at about ~40mbs. Raw rear speed is great, but any metadata ops cap out quite hard.

We had to hack together a special NFS client to list the contents of the drive using as few metadata operations as possible, then have a separate step to copy the data.
> Sure, but that money you stole buried in your backyard is still yours.

In what sense?

> The rightful owner cannot just steal it back.

The rightful owner doesn't get any special rights, so they can't trespass to get their property back. A policeman could get it back for them, though. If it's just lying there they can take it back themselves. I've heard stories where people find their stolen property on Craigslist, meet with the thief, and steal it back without using force. That's fine.

> Similarly if it wasn't yours, you wouldn't have to pay taxes on it

Ownership is a tricky concept. There are many rights and responsibilities associated with ownership. Owning a bike carries a different set of rights and responsibilities from owning a house. Paying taxes on something is an obligation typically associated with ownership, but since stealing something does not create many of the other legal rights associated with ownership I don't think it's sufficient to say that it demonstrates that it's "yours." Also, of course, no one actually pays the taxes.
Reversed: U+202E RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE, decimal: 8238, HTML: No visual representation, UTF-8: 0xE2 0x80 0xAE, block: General Punctuation
Makes sense why they would fuzzy search. Not all users can be expected to know Google fu.

So let mainstream use fuzzy and keep power user features. The big issue is power user support is gone for people with Google fu.

Ads or no ads isn’t really an issue for this because it’s such a small percentage of users that know Google fu.
I'm out of the loop, what kind of Easter Egg is it?
You can take my 100% win-loss ratio from my cold dead hands, I cherish my stats.
This is actually what google does. They find the 50 sites for your query and then do a multi-armed bandit test to see which one gets the most clicks but with a bias towards sites that serve ads from the Google ad network. A search engine without that bias is not gameable because it will converge on the results that is most popular for a given query and not because it also serves ads that affect the search engine's bottom line.

Popularity is gameable but not the same way as Google is currently gameable because as soon as a site becomes popular and starts exploiting its ranking it will be easy enough to add a decay factor to prevent such sites from dominating the top results during the multi-armed bandit stage of ranking.

In any case, the logic of why Google is going to shit is obvious. Arguing about fixes is not going to change their underlying business model and why spam is dominating their results. As long as they are a search engine, an ad network, and a corporation that must maximize profits their results will continue to deteriorate until the top results are all just spam.

> I don't think it was a pedantic argument or a misunderstanding. I think Lascaille understood your position and disagreed with you, not just pedantically but over the substance.

Then that wasn't clear and seemed like a pedantic point since it's obvious that any algorithm is gameable and I should have made it clear that I wasn't talking about a perfect search engine but one that was not susceptible to profit driven spam (which is currently the reason that Google results are going to shit).
Couldn't the same result be accomplished with commodity GPS trackers, which don't require any iPhones?
I wrote an addon called unfuck-google which they've now taken down 4 times.

All it does is force 'Verbatim' searches and sort news results by date which makes things better (but still not that great)
Updated! Thanks for the feedback. Added this note in the figure description

"(n.b. JAX is using TPU and NumPy is using CPU in order to highlight that JAX's speed ceiling is much higher than NumPy's)"
On Apple TV, this is by far my largest gripe with streaming apps. Consistently, the worst apps on the platform are those that decide they need a bespoke player UI. YouTube is one of the worst.

The stock video player is perfectly fine, please don’t screw with it excessively!
really cool :) Cheers!
It's not just the history - which does indeed show a 180 on dumb pipe / just transferring data to yeah we'll shut down speech if it's bad mkay..

but they also said they are going to get proactive in inspecting data that your site and your visitors send through the pipe and proactively send info about your site and visitors to agencies with letters and guns..

and they are also going to start lobbying gov'ts to make new laws so that they are more easily compelled to give even more data to different govs. (I mean, microsoft kind of did the same thing with the cloud data thing not long ago - so meh on them too)

At least that's how I read the blog post from the head guy in charge a while back.

I warned that this was going to happen a while ago and that cloudflare would either have to bifurcate and create a cloudf-japan, cloudf-uk, cloudf-blahblah - or they would end up being a prime target for court data from all over the world and would be helping to send guns with fingers on triggers to places for all sorts of things eventually.

well here we are years later - where instead of splitting it up - they are consolidating even more of the web instead.
On the Origin of Species (of Machine Learning Models)
There's definitely a real problem to be solved here. Offline persistence is by far one of the weakest parts of the web platform. It's definitely tricky to make secure, but I'd love to see more innovation in this area.
Maybe Yahoo's time has come again! Maybe Google's decline started when they no longer had competition from Yahoo?

The interesting thing would be coming up with a sustainable business model for it. One way might be the users pay for it, either per-search or per-month. This way the incentives to provide good search results align with the interests of the people doing the searching, not the people being searched.

The people who want to be searched would have an incentive to make a quality site that the search service would believe would please their customers.

I can think of people willing to pay for quality searches - professionals looking for things they need, like programmers, lawyers, researchers, etc.
Even if I accepted your "statistic" (which I don't), this line of logic would assume that half of conservatives also reject every other dating app. It would also call into question whether that segment the market would ever use a dating app in the first place.

Not to mention the discrimination lawsuits which would be immediately filed forcing them to add options for same sex couples, as happened with eHarmony...
Microsoft rolls out access to the Amazon Appstore Preview in Windows 11
One cool aspect of Shamir's Secret Sharing is you can set any threshold for how many fragments are required to recover the secret. This reduces the risk of one losing the secret due to fragments being lost. The scheme also has perfect secrecy, so gaining a few fragments, but not the threshold amount, gives an attacker no information about the secret.

https://francoisbest.com/horcrux
I wish I got cost-plus contracting at my job.
If anyone thinks that on-die ECC is a good thing as the manufactuers are touting, please go read the discussions on this topic over in the forums at www.realworldtech.com. The goal of on die ECC is purely to ensure that DRAM manufacturers are able to obtain better yields by reducing the impact of defects, which is not the same as ensuring data integrity. This means that it fails the "trust but verify" tenant. Even worse is that some failures may not even get reported to the system as is the case with ECC implemented in the memory controllers and caches of modern CPUs. The industry is trying to make this look like a good thing, but I'm on the same side as Linus Torvalds: all modern systems should ship with ECC memory. IBM got it right with parity memory in the IBM PC.
Is this free? Couldn’t find pricing info.
I identify with this so much. I use a range of search engines to fulfill specific needs. Examples below.

* Google - shopping, consumer oriented, up-to-date local content on restaurants and venues

* Google reddit - product reviews, product issues, programming, local "issues"

* Kagi - for informational, programming help, research, politics, anything controversial

* Bing - for video

Google is absolutely terrible for anything even closely controversial. Their algo is too bias towards approved sources and recency.

Another crazy thing, I'm starting to use Microsoft Edge because the feature set and performance is actually really good! I've even convinced other devs at work to use edge, and we're all mac users. The read aloud feature has changed how I consume information completely - mostly because microsoft has text to speech voices that I can actually stand. It's an absolute game changer.
I'm trying, really hard. But I have a disdain for not doing things 100 percent correct, and perfection is the enemy of progress. But especially when it comes to regulations that can get you in legal trouble. I just see all these things I need to get right, I need to learn about filing taxes and company accounts, hiring staff seems like an absolute minefield, and now you're also responsible for someone else's livelyhood! It's scary.

But I'm pretty close to launching "something" in the next few weeks. I'm doing a hardware startup, I already have multiple production-ready prototypes. Now I'm working on documentation, and some basic marketing material... but again all I can see is a hundred different things I still have left to do.

There's also the fact that the business would need to be quite successful to match my current, and rather hefty paycheck. Less money, less safety, but doing something I love... I hope it's worth it.
So it’s not currently open-sourced?

How did this make it to the front-page - it’s basically nothing more than an advertisement at this stage? Am I misinterpreting something?
This might be one of those weird gamification things... but I don't think I'd care about my stats if they weren't there. But since they are, I don't want to mess them up by playing on multiple devices?
Not that I can claim David-Lynch levels of ideas, but I've found more than a keyword or phrase is needed to restore the mental state I was in or chain of reasoning I had when the idea came to me. You really need to save context in addition to the idea itself.
I don't watch Fox or Tucker Carlson. I am however, watching in real time as my opinions are sidelined because they don't fit an accepted or prevailing narrative. Constantly being told that my opinions are hateful while I can see the world ignoring and actively rationalizing actual bad things like racial injustice and legalized discrimination against my group.
VM with Ubuntu? If you write a guide they can get set up with VMWare pretty easily!
Wouldn't that be a huge effort though, as you'd have to essentially implement deliverability and spam all from scratch, all while trying to convince gmail users to switch. I tried Hey and found that it just wasn't going to work for me as they wanted to 'own' my email.
I will never forgive Tom Wolfe, writer of such crazy titles such as "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby", for not calling it by a much punnier name: "The Wright Stuff"

Fantastic book, though, like all of his writing.
Probably junk food should be taxed (as alcohol is) for the related health externalities.
It has good rules and moderating practices and a core culture that values a scientific search for the truth to some meaningful degree such that if you follow the rules of engagement, it's far more acceptable here to have outlier opinions, for lack of a better expression.

For the options you've given, I would say that makes it more tolerant of diverse opinions.
Given that the processing power of something like airpods is more than that of original ipods, I wonder how feasible it would be to make a pair of wireless headphones that just play the music loaded onto them, similarly to the 2009 ipod shuffle (the one with no buttons except power). It would be nice to not have to carry anything on a run.
Love the idea

Fwiw, it’s slightly broken on my iPad; I see the arrow at the bottom pointing to something below the fold but I can’t scroll down
When google ended Google Reader it killed blogs and other self-hosted websites. Google killed the web and in so doing it killed itself.
Yeah the harm with employing people is not in hiring them and benefitting from their work. Rather, it is in exploiting them--cheating them on wages in one of many ways, ordering them to do harm, having dangerous working conditions, degrading them, those are only a few examples. And exploitation in these forms exists according to the local context of the foreign land, and simultaneously is strongly informed by American views. Both.

I have seen many instances when expats try to treat foreign workers much better than they need to, but it does not work at all for either party. The intention is still worth indulging, however, in ways that aren't mutually harmful. It's just difficult sometimes.

But it can be done. And it's beautiful when it is done.
I think they intend to, but my point is I'm not sure they can raise rates with any significance. eg above 5 or 6%
These a correlation between fed determined interest rates and how much the govt pays to service it's debt. Another person said they're not related, but I don't think the fed will want to balloon payments on $30T.
I just create an annual budget of what I'm willing to pay for "luxury" services.
I also try to share services I have with friends who have other services.

Parents have Netflix they share with me, and I have Amazon Prime that I share with them. I have HBO Max that I share with a friend who shares back his Disney+. My boyfriend has Spotify Family, and I share my Amazon Prime login with him. Everyone here benefits out of this.

So that gives me five services (Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Disney+, and Spotify) for the cost of only two (Amazon Prime and HBO Max).

To keep things from going wild, we don't share the passwords, we log into the accounts for each other. This prevents anyone from sharing the account login and effectively locking the account owner out from being able to use the service.

I'm well aware that sharing the services is a violation of the TOS, but people do it regardless and everyone knows that's what people do.

I also cut my phone bill down to $24-30/mo by dumping unlimited data and just paying for what I use (typically 200-300MB). Wifi is everywhere, I'm not a social media addict, and when I'm not around wifi, it's usually because I'm shopping, with friends, or driving. Unlimited data is nice, but I found it so easy to cut away from.
> You can be concerned about people, and even learn to let harmless and irrelevant untruths slide, without in any way diminishing your concern for things that might actually have important consequences.

Yes, of course. And I didn't lost an ability to see untruths, it is just my reaction to untruths became more voluntary and conscious. And as I see the argument of the OP, he says that if you didn't learn how to step over untruths, you cannot avoid being sometimes "insufferably rude about it". Unintentionally rude, but nevertheless rude. He doesn't say that one should let untruths flourish every single time.

> it's really hard to tell whether they're taking that difference seriously.

Does it have important consequences? I personally am not bothered with it much, it doesn't hinder my ability to talk with them. I can deal with it on a case by case basis, when it becomes important.
There is mailspring which I have been using for some time - it has a nice modern interface which imho is much better than thunderbird as well as most of the web interfaces of self hosted email. Based on electron though, so ymmv.

https://getmailspring.com/
Explaining KYC, and why fintech startups need to know about it
For me the killer feature would be to entirely withhold incoming mail from specified email addresses or email domains until weekday working hours. No bolded 'pending' folder, no indication that you're being communicated with by business concerns in your leisure time...I'd pay an extra fee every year just for that one feature.
My point was that the legal system is not just there for disputes but it also expresses things about what/how transactions should be done, i.e. it facilitates some and blocks others.
I don't even know what point you are trying to make now. You say im wrong but then go on to say the same thing I already said.
I think part of it is also an implementation pressure. If you put your dev work into building a system around managing subscriptions and processing user payments, its less easy to flip a switch and start siphoning data to 3rd-parties when they come calling.

In theory, this would be visible to end-users as a halt in feature roll-outs, because the dev team has to pivot to building ad-tech.

I hope to god VCs don't get involved; if they do I'd be the first to bail. I'm hoping that the revenue model makes VC money allergic to them in general. Bootstrapping is preferred for this type of service (see also: Pinboard, sr.ht)
Not getting results back is GOOD!

That's meaningful feedback that my search needs to be improved.

Getting all spam back is actually ALSO GOOD! I can visually distinguish spam pretty quickly, and it's also meaningful feedback that my search needs to be improved.

Removing my ability to search for exact phrases is fucking BAD! I'd much rather get spam or nothing when I search for a directly quoted phrase, rather than google just start returning bullshit.

The problem is that the bullshit google returns is actually very hard to visually parse out - they're real sites that get lots of views, those views are just ENTIRELY unrelated to what I'm actually searching for. That's really hard to filter out quickly.
Networking of a turn-based game
I remember being on a call with the Bebo people like 2 days after that absurd buyout and asking sarcastically: “So what color is the Ferrari?”

The answer: “Yellow”.

Now you have the Battery.

Reddit is so friggin user-hostile that I don’t read most of the comments anymore: because I literally can’t. You can do a little browsing but the minute you’re trying to pay actual attention you get slammed with the dark patterns about installing the app or linking your gmail or both.

I hope it’s the management team that gets weeded out of the gene pool and not the whole site, because it was fucking cool at one time and could be again.
> almost no consumer consciously chooses to use Google search anymore...Their monopoly over distribution - not search result quality - is what keeps consumers searching Google

I don't disagree with this as a fact, but I think there are a lot of things that work this way that aren't actually monopolies in the competition-preventing sense. If I wanted to launch a new breakfast cereal, getting my product into grocery stores would be one of the major challenges of starting that business. Competition for shelf space is a core concern of a lot of consumables. This definitely creates a lot of stickiness and barriers, and that comes with its share of downsides, but there are also good reasons that distribution systems work the way they do. Transaction costs are important.
> Windows 10 is such a user hostile OS

That's a bit ironic. Microsoft is only trying desperately to do what Google has already succeeded at with ChromeOS - an OS with no browser choice designed solely to funnel user data to them for data mining and to promote their own services. At least Google are up front about it while Microsoft is trying to dark-pattern their way to the same position.
That is my belief as well: being there, listening, interacting lovingly, paying attention is overwhelmingly more important than a particular technique.