skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Literal example. They weren't saying "we should kill homeless people", but (...)

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and given that it only took a reply to water down the initial bombastic claim, unless you support your claims with concrete proof I'll have to write off your claim as hyperbolic misrepresentations.
I'm also writing an online version of a board game I like, to play with family and friends. I am about to start the networking part, and I actually intended to implement the deterministic approach, although I didn't know the concept had a name before reading the article. It's nice to read some validation that it is a good design.

I'm curious to know how you achieve not to need a server at all. How do you create the initial connection between clients without a server to negotiate NATs and things like that?
You could even save programs to a cassette tape. It's also why Excitebike has a save and load track function that seems to do nothing.
Mind sharing your previous experience? Expensive? bad customer support? poor product?
Here's something to note:

When we're reading a short written comment (or tweet or what have you), we are reading it in a certain tone in our heads. This tone is entirely made up by the reader and ascribed by the reader to the commenter. It is not necessarily representative of the actual tone it was said in.

This tone is affected by our preconceptions of people, by those who conditioned us to feel that way. It may have little to do with reality.

The highly editorialized short-form content that was the only thing possible with limited airtime and print space has been abused by the traditional media for their own benefits and benefits of those who have seeked to control them.

Unedited long-form conversations are the future, the kind popularized by the podcasts... or long speeches... or even long articles... and online forums. It is possible to get a well-rounded view of people, even those you disagree with.

HN seems to be a good way to engage with people of different views. It doesn't have to be "toxic" to disagree and argue.
So much for the recipient of the "2021 Free Expression Awards". [1]

[1]: https://notthebee.com/article/youtubes-ceo-was-given-a-freed...
Sure, but GP's point was that conservatives are accepting of homosexuality, despite the stats otherwise.

If you're going to say that older people tend to be conservative and tend to not to use dating apps, then that forces the question: Why even make this at all?
Their support is the best of any cloud provider I’ve used. Hands down. They are excellent.
I want to share some experiences from within the particular niche that is wildlife photography and how it relates to species information. I've been querying such information for over 15 years.

Search for a plant species. You'll have the hardest time finding anything about the plant itself, results are dominated by parties selling the plant. Quite often not even the plant you searched for.

Search for a species of insect. Results are dominated by products on how to kill it or sensationalist misinformed articles about their danger.

Search for a species + location/country. Results include all kinds of stuff about the species (which is already poor, see above) but also simply forgets about the location parameter.

The above is a massive problem, because it leads people to believe that a species occurs in a country, whilst it may not. They then incorrectly identify the species on their photo. This error is then infinitely copied by others as it surfaces in search results, which many see as authoritative.

This still pales in comparison to the problem that is Google image search. You search for a species name but the photos returned more often than not are not the actual species. It's a photo from the same page as which the species name occurred on.

Not to mention the Pinterest problem, which absolutely grinds my gears. They get all the free search traffic for stealing people's original works. How the fuck can Pinterest rank so highly, it has no content and is never the original source.

It's hard to put my finger on the timeline, but all of the above has gotten dramatically worse during the last 3-4 years. It was definitely not always this bad. It used to kind of work.

You know what Google should do? They should directly feed from authoritative sources rather than scraping crappy content from bad actors. They do it with Wikipedia and I see no reason why they can't do it for other niches where high quality information is publicly available.

For the above niche, it's entirely solvable. Academics have open databases with species information that is trustworthy, not gamed, and authoritative. How about using it?
Dreadful title. "The answer is closer than ever" applies to every single unanswered thing that will ever be answered, with every second that passes.
Thanks Danny I'll try to whip up some examples.

Interestingly I tried my pet peeve search, and it worked for the first time this year! It is for a specific recipe, and I search for 'ocau slow cooked balsamic beef'. I have had to manually find it in the archive of the overclockers.com.au forum for the past year, as Google seemingly forgot it existed no matter what search terms or operators I used.

The main difference is I am using Firefox on Manjaro and not my historically typical environment for searching. Normally I would either be using Chrome on Windows or Chrome on iOS if I am in the kitchen.

I will play around on some other devices and see what evidence I can find.

P.s. I'm being referred in for a role at Google currently, is the Search team only in a specific area like Silicon Valley or is it a global team? Most of the jobs in Australia seem to be commercial facing, not product facing.
If NFTs changed their image (can totally do that in most implementations, there's no hash of the contents) to an advert and made a lot of money, are they a success in a way that disproves a claim they were a bubble?

I'm not really stating an opinion, just an observation that tonnes of social media companies died until the current 'in' ones adopted advertising and (so far, and for longer already) lasted.
That sentence isn’t saying nothing will change, as some letters do.
I was a pretty successful CEO once, and I don't think I'm a sociopath. However, the chair of my board was pretty sociopathic. (Yes, serious).
“Definitions are just assumptions” is pretty tautologically false.

Science at its core aims to define things: hypotheses are proposed and proven/disproven in search of pinning down clearly defined rules and patterns.

Is gravity just an assumption that differs for each of us?
No one in either country really has accurate numbers on actual infections because most patients never get tested or officially counted. There hasn't been any widespread, ongoing random population sampling so we're left to guess based on a few isolated seroprevalence studies. The US CDC estimated that the actual number of infections is about 4 times the number of "cases", but there's a wide error bar on that number.
I know we're just bikeshedding now, but

neutrino: 0. 8 eV/c^2
electron: 510 000. 0 eV/c^2
proton: 940 000 000. 0 eV/c^2

(Note: neutrino mass is given as the upper limit.)
That's an interesting analogy, and it certainly makes sense that an all-powerful God could grant salvation as a discretionary act even if the wording is not quite right.

But what it seems that the church also believes in the other side of the analogy: that if your command line DOES match the sudoers file, (i.e. the wording IS right), it somehow obliges God one way or the other, and that part seems difficult to believe, even if one accepts the underlying concept of baptism.
This is kind of a loaded question/ statement.

> "Why do I feel like you need to be a sociopath to succeed?"

ok, you hooked me... lets see what you're talking about

> "to be a successful CEO"

Oh, well thats really only one very niche version of success. I personally can only think of a handful of CEOs that I consider "successful." They're really just managers, and we happen to be at a point in American history where they are very well compensated... historically this has not really been the case. Conservative (small c) argument: Name 5 successful CEOs from the 1930s. Now name 5 Successful Authors, Actors, Politicians, etc.

> "to be a successful CEO, you need to be a sociopath"

I would probably rephrase this as to be a successful CEO you need to be an "opportunist". Sociopathy is a mental illness that seems related to what you seem to be implying, but "sociopathy" exclusively is a bit narrow of a definition. If we were to say "all corporate managers are sociopaths" that would be very very prevalent.

> "Somehow it feels like decent people with decent products just don't make it."

I feel like you need more evidence to support this claim, and a more specific thesis. As an example per "The millionaire Next Door" most high net-worth individuals are just hardworking business owners that invest in income producing assets, and don't spend a lot. CEOs rarely make products unless they are a founder that becomes the CEO. CEOs as a group are corporate managers, and they usually become corporate managers by being trained to be corporate managers.

I personally don't agree with this take either. Too much anecdotal evidence on my side. CEOs, like the rest of the population have shortcomings, quirks, mental illnesses, etc. Thats just humanity.
A point made in the article I think that bears repeating: Many of the truckers were surprised people didn't support them, they genuinely believe they have overwhelming support amongst the majority.

Perhaps now, they realise what a minority-bubble is?
It's in their user profile https://store.steampowered.com/app/1537490/Tentacle_Typer/
Yes, all the successful people must have [insert diagnosis], that's why you don't succeed.
Cost and local availability.

I can get a name brand 128 Gig micro SD for around $15 locally.

For a name brand compact flash, 128 Gigs is closer to $70.

Local availability because I've been bitten a few times by counterfeit flash storage.
A ton of reddit communities are run by shills themselves. That's why users outright get downvoted and banned when they even are posting potentially winning content. We cannot act like everything is totally normal these days on Reddit. They're hemorrhaging users fast.
Definitely not! If you act like a jerk it's not like that goes unnoticed either. Wouldn't you rather do business with companies that seem like they're generally trying to be helpful? Stripe is a good example. YC is a good example.

Frankly there is a shortage of companies like this, thats part of why you may feel this way.

This shortage makes it more valuable to operate with integrity.

Also it's just a much more fun way to live. What else are you going to do? Go around screwing people over all the time? At the end of the day you still have to live with yourself.

If you're looking for examples of this mindset I recommend reading Feynmann[0][1], How I Became The Honest Broker[2], and Various Diatribes from old hacker culture[3].

It's possible to play extremely hard and not be an asshole. It's called good sportsmanship. It's not required but it's entirely possible.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Surely-Feynman-Adventures-Curious-Cha...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/What-Care-Other-People-Think/dp/03933...

[2] https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/how-i-became-the-honest-brok...

[3] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
My ex-wife and I divorced in 1999 during the height of the craze. She was an avid Beanie Baby collector and I gladly let her have the entire collection in exchange for a quicker divorce.
Thanks for having a look. The opensearch file is https://andisearch.com/andi.xml, and it's correctly referenced from the "<link rel="search"..." opensearch tag. If you have a look in Firefox you'll see it prompts in the nav bar. So I don't think that would be the issue. Do you see anything for other engines like You with the opensearch head item?
> if the percentage of users with telemetry disabled has increased a meaningful amount over time.

Yes, this was my main thought... It's possible what is being measured is the increased sensitivity of FireFox users to privacy issues, and the increased capabilities Firefox offers to it's users being used, including the option to disable telemetry.

>Mozilla has actually done some work to measure users with telemetry disabled;

That's kinda funny :D it's a meta telemetry telemetry... although as they mention it contains basically no info beyond the fact that telemetry was disabled and is only run on a small sample.

I suppose the only other way would be to attempt to count all the downloads of binary packages through all the Linux repo mirrors, flatpak, snap etc and then finally windows and mac in-browser downloads... which sounds like a nightmare so I can see why no-telemetry telemetry would be attractive.
in a lot of places they do crime profiteering.
Hacker News is the only large forum where I see anything close to Socratic dialogues: At least a few times a week, I find myself upvoting both sides of a debate because the participants are really listening to each other and (seemingly) making a genuine effort to understand where the other side is coming from.
ReScript – Fast, Simple, Fully Typed JavaScript from the Future
I reckon it's: Do one thing well. Microtransactions.
Yeah but they didn't have ape beanies.
I understand it is subjective. But I use a forked version of https://github.com/puckel/docker-airflow on our managed K8s cluster and it points to a cloud managed Postgres. It has worked pretty well for over 3 years with no-one actually managing it from an infra POV. YMMV. This is driving a product whose ARR is well in the 100s of Millions.

If you have simple needs that are more or less set, I agree Airflow is overkill and a simple Jenkins instance is all you need.
Are beanie babies the new go to for this? Cause 10 years ago everyone used to laugh at the irrational exuberance of the dotcom boom, pets.com and all that.

Then 10 years later everyone realized the exuberance was actually totally rational when you're talking about the market shifts the internet brought and the size of the spoils that would eventually befall the winners.
Linode isn't used by Akamai customers and won't be.

It would be a much bigger hurdle for Linode to become enterprise-friendly than for Akamai to become developer-friendly.

Akamai is "call for pricing" because they never evolved from an enterprise product. And no "enterprise" just buys off the shelf. They negotiate with a long budget, vendor risk management, legal, etc. process. Its unlikely that many of their contracts are even the same verbiage.
> I absolutely do not think Trump was in any way encouraging people to riot in the capitol, much less stage a coup. I also believe that no such fraud was ever found.

I think that depends on how you interpret a lot of statements made by Trump and others[0], for instance:

“We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesn’t happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved. Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore, and that is what this is all about. And to use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal. …

“You will have an illegitimate president. That is what you will have, and we can’t let that happen. These are the facts that you won’t hear from the fake news media. It’s all part of the suppression effort. They don’t want to talk about it. They don’t want to talk about it. …

“We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”

If you're a Trump supporter, A patriot who believes in the revolutionary thesis of the Second Amendment and who's certain enough the election has been stolen to march on Washington, do these words encourage you to wait patiently and work within the system until the system is resolved, or do they communicate an urgent need for desperate action in a desperate time?

What's certain - and we know this from their own testimony and communications - is that many of the rioters believed they were acting under Trump's orders[1]. Where did this belief come from? Was there simply no relationship between the words coming from Trump and other Republicans, and what Trump supporters were hearing? After four years of paranoid rhetoric amongst the right about vast leftist conspiracies, violent Marxists in the streets, vaccines as fascism and now the election being stolen right before their eyes? Four years of the populist gospel of victimhood and the need to exact revenge upon the elites? When you, as a Trump supporter, see the courts throwing out lawsuit after lawsuit, and Republican Congressman Louis Gohmert suggests on TV that people should "go out and be violent like antifa[2]" how do you react?

On the spectrum of culpability from "Trump had absolutely nothing to do with anything" to "Trump literally planned it himself", I fall somewhere on the latter side. Where seems to depend on just how much Trumpists piss me off that day, I'll admit. Unfortunately, there's no smoking gun here.

But there's also no way Trump didn't at least understand the atmosphere he was creating, or really discourage it (until well after the damage was done, which isn't a good look.) I think at the very least he was hoping the chaos, whatever form it took, would benefit him.

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/07/trump-incite...

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/us/capitol-rioters.html?a...

[2]https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/louie-go...
I don’t think that is enough data to conclude it is highly seasonal, but if it is a reason may be that Apple has a new model once a year or so, while there’s a new Android phone model every week (maybe exaggerating a tiny bit :-))
For anyone looking for a statistical analysis auditing challenge: the author links to an article[1] where they made the spreadsheets in question (questioning the return-on-investment from education) public.

A collaborative auditing effort could involve some further documentation of what the origin datasources mean, how the sheets process and transform that information, and how to interpret the results produced.

[1] - https://www.econlib.org/archives/2014/06/embarrass_me_no.htm...
That's not a hard fork. A hard fork makes a previously invalid transaction valid; this made a previously valid transaction invalid, e.g. a soft fork. Bitcoin has had many soft forks.
I think there’s actually two dimensions to this problem and the article and your comment only address one of them.

The other dimension is that, in the past, if you searched for stuff your results were likely to be a blog or a forum thread. Today the bloggers have evolved into instagrammers, TikTokkers, YouTubers, or Podcasters. The Forums and community pages have moved to Facebook, Twitter, Slack, Discord, etc.

So it’s not just that SEO and botspam has eaten the Google results page, it’s that this is all that’s left of the open internet that needed search to navigate. Much of it truly is a wasteland. Google owns part of the blame for crippling RSS and privileging recent pages and specific domains or AMP pages over evergreen, self-hosted content in search results. But also users have given up on the open internet in droves. Instead of starting a fansite they start fan subreddits or discords instead.
Artwork based on this, for the dead google products? Probably unfair to cloud, because by and large cloud doesn't do random-early-drop on product the way other divisions do.

Use cloud, think its well engineered btw. The control panel is a heck of a lot less confusing than 20,000 choices in the AWS ACL selector scroll-menu. I sometimes think CamelCaseWordString proponents actually believe they are more comprehensible. Reader: they aren't.
> Turns out it’s very hard to get sub millisecond speeds. Especially sub 500 microseconds.

I have to contest this a bit. The company I work for doesn't put much effort into latency from what I can tell, and sees ~200us between servers in the same data center, and ~400us to another data center 12 miles away.
Not totally useless. Some of us imagined it would keep some annoying people busy for a while. Seriously, what will we think about it 5 years from now?
Better than a dreadful article. Also there is an implied lower bound that is not zero which sort of implies that eventually we will converge on that threshold rather than the infinite toil of reducing powers (how much closer to zero is 10^-34 vs 10^-102). If we converge on that threshold without conclusion that has its own benefit of implying a misunderstanding in the way neutrino oscillations work.
Glad to hear that works! Search has teams around the world. I'd suggest if you see something relevant, apply even if it's in a particular location. Remote work has changed a lot things.
I think you're 100% right that the tasks that can be accomplished in Airflow are currently being unbundled by tools in the modern data stack, but that doesn't erase the need for tools like Airflow. Sure, you can now write less code to load your data, transform it, and send it out to other tools. As the unbundling occurs, the end result is more fragmentation and fragility in how teams manage their data.

Data teams I talk to can't turn to any single location to see every touchpoint their data goes through. They're relying on each tool's independent scheduling system and hoping that everything runs at the right time without errors. If something breaks, bad data gets deployed and it becomes a mad scramble to verify which tool caused the error and which reports/dashboards/ML models/etc. were impacted downstream.

While these unbundled tools can get you 90% of the way to your desired end goal, you'll inevitably face a situation where your use case or SaaS tool is unsupported. In every situation like this I've ever faced, the team ultimately ends up writing and managing their own custom scripts to account for this situation. Now you have your unbundled tool + your custom script. Why not just manage all of the tools and your scripts from a singular source in the first place?

While unbundling is the reality, this new era of data technology will always still have a need for data orchestration tools that serve as a centralized view into your data workflows, whether that's Airflow or any of the new players in the space.

(Disclosure: I'm a co-founder of https://www.shipyardapp.com/, building better data orchestration for modern data teams)
DDG is already a comparable privacy first search engine. Apple would just need to buy them in they cared, but instead they just promote them.
Yes I agree it's good to get a different viewpoint. I hope the same applies to the people who think of these truckers and what they represent as sub-human (like our PM has basically expressed). Protesting the government is appropriate in my view, clashing with your fellow man is not, and this applies to both sides, I would definitely not want to see violence between the different citizen groups
The unfulfilled promise of functional ideals on the web
Pricing and offering is near identical. The biggest difference is the customer support, and the fact that Linode doesn't immediately lock accounts when the algorithm thinks something is fishy. DO really screwed me a few years back with that.

There are some smaller differences. DO has more managed DB offerings, but Linode is catching up quickly. I really like Linode's Lish tool. I also like Linode's Green Light Program.
I have a tick French accent, in regards to auto subtitles, a switch happened 3 or 4 years ago in my experience.
It's only $115 max for the non-recoil version, has sold ~1000 units total. Barely more expensive than the newest Call of Duty + Season Pass.