skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google sucks compared to Google from years ago. It's still vastly superior to the modern alternatives. It doesn't help that almost all alternatives out there are just Bing with different window dressing, so going through alternatives is just annoying as they have all the same holes in the search results.

Another big issue is that everybody just tries to copy Google. I don't need Google in less good, I want to see something that organize the Internet in a more useful way than just plain text search (e.g. what about Youtube-style recommendations for websites, old-school Yahoo-style dictionaries, AI categorization, Dejanews-style search for webforums, a button to filter out everything that requires a login or whatever).

I feel there is a lot of untapped potential that gets missed by just trying to be a Google search clone.
I don't think they were making a point about the technical feasibility of it, just the logistics/economics.

For the average Joe, these advanced cyberweapons and backdoors simply aren't going to be used against them. Instead, you're far more likely to come across a call center scam or fake email.
Same reason that you shoot at enemy conscripts in a war, drop bombs on enemy cities. Same reason why Russia is now being subjected to sanctions. To undermine the Russian economy in a non-violent manner.

Whether or not it results in political change is irrelevant - a crippled Russia is a sufficient end all in itself, just like dead soldiers are a sufficient end all in itself during a war. Wars rarely end with a government being overthrown, but they do often end when a government decides that peace is the better option. Bombed cities, dead soldiers, and starving children are the calculus that pushes governments towards making that decision.
This math is not correct, because a city can exceed its historical max more than once, and each time that happens, it becomes the new historical max.
You are not alone in that sentiment. I wrote my representative to tell him that I will absolutely not support seizure of foreign national private assets. I don't care that they are billionaires or that they are wealthy because they bow to Putin. We don't throw our laws out the window for political expediency.
Isn't this like saying Walt Disney World shouldn't be able to sell tickets to out-of-staters? State residents who know each other could have a higher chance of running into each other at the park if it wasnt full of out-of-staters, and that could build valuable community.
> The difference between these two is that one of them is creating internment camps for innocent people, and the other is taking the wealth of people who enabled genocide to help victims.

They certainly weren't considered "innocent" back in the day, at least according to some of the newspaper editorials.

>A Los Angeles Times editorial dated February 28, 1942, stated that:

>As to a considerable number of Japanese, no matter where born, there is unfortunately no doubt whatever. They are for Japan; they will aid Japan in every way possible by espionage, sabotage and other activity; and they need to be restrained for the safety of California and the United States. And since there is no sure test for loyalty to the United States, all must be restrained. Those truly loyal will understand and make no objection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
All experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Came here to say this. Was it because the court wasn’t a criminal cases court perhaps?
> US knew that Iraq didn't really have WMDs

Source? I thought the US suspected they did but oversold how good the intel was.
It's nice to offer liquidity to employees before an acquisition/IPO event, but the "equity value" section sounds a lot like a 409a valuation which is typically a conservative valuation of the company in my experience. I'm not convinced employees will get a very good deal on their shares by selling early rather than waiting for an IPO. It's therefore not surprising that the parent company (GM) is so willing to commit to purchasing these shares, because it seems they're basically getting a discounted buy-back.
Yes, it's a good thing. Otherwise there would be a great number of things our elected representatives would want to execute in law on behalf of their constituencies that they would be unable to do so because the burden of legislating in sufficient detail would be too high.

In fact, there is a legal theory gaining traction in conservative circles that seeks to neuter the federal government by arguing that Congress cannot delegate law-making to the executive branch. They argue that Congress must lay out laws in full detail instead of expressing a general intent and creating executive institutions like the EPA, FTC, and FAA to then elaborate and administer detailed regulations. The effect would be to make our laws brittle and short-sighted.
I disagree, Kagi is not yet "better in 90% of the queries" than google, it's good enough to not have to launch google in 90% of it's query.
I've never really understood the value proposition of Prime. Spend a lot more money monthly so that you can... Spend more money with free shipping attached, and get some (variable quality) videos thrown in for free?
The Fair Housing Act (the part of the 1968 Civil Rights Act you are referring to) exempts owner-occupied buildings with less than five units, so it wouldn't apply to the other unit in an owner-occupied duplex.
Ever been near an EV fire?

They burn with the equivalent of a 220v welder across the whole battery skateboard, will literally melt aluminum wheels and body parts and require 20 tons of water to temporarily extinguish. There's a huge difference between an ICE vehicle fire, which is essentially rubber, upholstery and plastics burning sometime compounded by gasoline vapor and an EV thermal runaway trapped energy event. I think all EVs should be required to have manual escape locks etc at a minimum.
https://youtu.be/J6eS6JzBn0k
This comment made me see red, seriously the maddest I've been in weeks. You couldn't have known that and I'm not upset at you.

_I_ take care of the house in this situation. The landlord doesn't shovel snow or mow grass, I do.

They do carry some of the burden specifically in taxes and liability, yes I know. I also know the maintenance responsibilities aren't inherently and legally mine, and so I can be blamed for entering a contract that requires me to do this.

Anyway though it even more shows that landlords don't inherently do anything. If they stopped maintaining it, the tenant is the one who has to live in the shitty house and will wind up fixing it.

What the landlord does is control access to housing. I don't respect or value that and you're not going to change my mind about it today.
been happily using chezmoi (https://www.chezmoi.io/) for the last 4 months. One of its key features is the ability to generate configurations from templates, which I've been using to maintain similar-but-slightly different configs on macOS, Fedora, and Ubuntu/WSL2. Also has the ability to run a script to provision a new machine, which is a nice way to install the base software you want everywhere (tmux, vim, git, etc.)

edit: typo
> Putin personally told me of his plan to acquire the Chelsea Football Club in order to increase his influence and raise Russia’s profile, not only with the elite but with ordinary British people.

This does not correlate at all with the polonium and Novichok cases.
It's a good theory, but I don't know how to prove it. Of course that's one cause. I'm concerned there are also cascading material shortage problems that have clogged up the system and may be preventing deliveries. I suspect NXP lost their 2022 fab slot for Kinetis micros, but no one is talking. Just delivery dates of late 2023. How many others did that happen to? Why? I am concerned China might be flexing their muscles by shutting down Shenzhen, and maybe they have been flexing their muscles for a year now. I am concerned there is a tipping point that we are close to, where it ALL just falls apart.
I completely agree with you. Many small wars that happened since world war II caused the journalist to develop sort of usual war reporing routine and language.

And they are applying by default the same routine to this teritorial invasion of 40mln pro-european country and very probable start of world war 3. It's infuriating that this language muddles the uniqueness of this event and lulls so many people into the sense of safe familiarity.

It's not the war that your dad's war was in some remote country 'sadly tragic'.
Same way woodchucks learn to chuck wood.
Ah, Neeva is eventually going to be a paid product, that's why it's that way. That said, their membership is pretty cheap for what you get.
Some more details of the differences between this new db and tzdb are available here:

https://github.com/JodaOrg/global-tz#rationale
J-Cart
This is very interesting, but his main concerns (the creation of what he calls "living structures", "nurturing structures", and things that make people "feel whole") seem to be completely and utterly divorced from what people in the computer field are interested in.
Definitely not ideal, as two Niz keyboards would run about $400 at least, and neither be compact, portable, or slick while at it.
> rther and further out of reach of people who are looking for a primary home.

This happens to all assets all the time. When it rains, umbrellas go up in price.
Companies competing with this and failing is only a transfer of wealth between VC's and homeowners. You don't need to ascribe a moral sentiment to that transfer, its just what it is.

If the prices then bust afterward, then homeowners that sold won, the ones that stayed didnt take advantage of the opportunity, and home buyers lost at the high and will win at the bottom. Like in any other price fluctuation!
I have several junior developers on my team who came from the customer success / support side of the business who grew themselves into developer roles. They typically have not only the strongest desire to learn & improve, but also the most empathy and understanding of our impact on customers & their livelihood.
Why thankfully? What if you cannot access your local library for a myriad of reasons?
In my region, the rules are so incredibly precise. Things like washing up areas must have at least 3 bowels in. Toilets must have flush handles above a certain height and below another height. Radiators must have 6 heat settings... Etc.

The entire aim seems to be to make running such a house not illegal, but very difficult and very expensive.
private companies also build esa rockets, and the space shuttle, and saturn v, in partnership with government space programs. spacex human flight is also in partnership with nasa.
It's the bad default of the devices that most people use.

This is basically the outcome that antitrust prosecutors were concerned for with Microsoft.

Imagine if Android couldn't bundle a browser, or integrate any of Google's SAAS products.
Nobody will know you're using tor.
The resentment about house prices which in part stems from London pricing insanity spills over into this. I doubt oligarchs buy 2 bed terraces in hackney, but there is a persisting belief some of the inflation in price London wide is bred in the dirty money purchases higher up the food chain.

Football must be the standout WTF moment. Why did the UK teams decide to cash out to Russian and Thai funny money? Not that there aren't a million redshirts in Bangkok, maybe that led not followed..
This is missing the point that land is a finite resource and homes aren't fungible. It doesn't help most Californians that more homes can be built in rural Arkansas.
> Most farmers kill beavers because they don't want to share the land. Beavers nearly went extinct in North America because of that

Wasn’t it the commercial fur trade that was responsible for the devastation of the North American beaver population and not farmers settling the lands impacted by the dust bowl. I think the commercial fur trade entered decline nearly 50 years before widespread settlement/farming of those lands and had already pushed the beaver populations to remote areas in the wilderness.
I don't like lists.

Written lists.

Lists written out to try and impart knowledge and information to the reader.

I do like being able to dip in to things, in an exploratory, unconnected fashion, but lists, especially in modern SEO writing for the web, have turned in to some bastardized version of useful information.

My usual train of thought is "a list that isn't a list", e.g. https://justinlloyd.li/blog/3d-printer-purchase/ for a 3D printer purchase or my three year long train of thought on prime number research at https://justinlloyd.li/blog/prime-numbers/.

On a side note, when I am writing a lengthy article, I usually assemble a list of bullet points first, the outline, and then convert the bullet points into prose, and then re-order the prose, then edit the prose so that it flows.

But I think lists are a terrible, terrible travesty of the modern web, because they are so abused.

And bullet pointed lists in a presentation, I consider those kinds of things to be used by people who don't understand the subject, to teach people even less knowledgable about the subject, everything that they know. Which ain't much.
Could another vendor (Intel, AMD) achieve similar results? Is it possible within the IBM PC platform?
I meant to say that boredom was actually not a problem because they had ways to deal with it, as that they didn't have the kind of work/life imbalance that labor laws impose.
Because the courts are abusing their powers and working against the citizens.
>Still, I do not understand this thirst at seeing a private company monopolising space travel.

Probably because it's a dumb strawman you've created to knock down. Strawmen do indeed tend to be hard to understand since they aren't actually real. There is no "thirst" to see a private company monopolizing space travel per se. What people are thirsty for is serious, cheap, effective, ambitious space travel in turn leading to serious space development and humanity (and life in general) moving beyond the cradle permanently. The irritation with government agencies is a matter of brutal raw fact: they have failed miserably at this, and they're getting WORSE, not better. Debacles like the SLS or Shuttle. Zero effort to drive down cost, rather the reverse with space being treated as a very shitty bit of pork. I don't even want to say "jobs program" because SpaceX and co will generate WAY more jobs via space development in the long term, but long term thinking isn't very fashionable in much of government anymore. Or at least not in this sphere.

Everyone interested in space would be delighted at more competitive players. And there are indeed a number that might manage it alongside SpaceX, eventually. Smaller players like Rocket Lab are in fact launching for real cargo to orbit, and have reasonable plans to scale up. There is certainly room for another provider or two. But NASA, ESA, Russian, and other government efforts aren't even trying to go there yet and show no potential to do so. They are stupendously wasteful cash blackholes, which is coming directly out of money that could be doing awesome stuff. Awesome good government stuff even, the kind of blue sky research and infrastructure work that governments can do to really blaze the way and help industry. The billions being sunk worthlessly into SLS could be funding a true space station/shipyard/depot [0] designed around the capabilities of Starship, helping to further accelerate smaller hungry players with the capital they need to get into the medium-lift aspect, not to mention a lot of great science.

You're confusing dislike for the gross waste and failures of old fat players and excitement with the incredible efforts and progress of young ambitious new players with some sort of silly "monopoly" thing. Try to research and think about things you don't actually know much about or follow yourself a bit more before forming an opinion perhaps?

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0: Including helping to figure out standards so that fuel depots can be used by multiple players fairly.
Emacs has a wonderful outline mode and even more featurful org-mode. Easy to navigate, restructure, filter, etc.
It's a user failure, IMHO.
The prinicipal of separation of concerns should be all you need for a legal reason for keeping listing companies like zillow from also participating in the market. Clearly they are a company, company's only limitations are they exist to make as much money as possible for share holders and they have no morals, only regulations and laws limit their actions. Therefore they shouldn't be in the business of buying/selling houses if their main goal is to list house values, that is a severe conflict of interest.
I think the chance of nuclear war still remains very low (but not zero, it will never be zero as long as nukes exist), and I'm not sure I would want to survive if it happened. So I don't really do much of anything. Plus, I live in Manhattan, so I seriously doubt I would survive a full on MAD scenario, no matter what I did to prepare.

Oh yeah, also I'm a type 1 diabetic, so even if I lived far away from any targets, I would be screwed so quickly. All the prepping in the world would do me no good in the event of civilization collapse, and the inability to synthesize and store insulin. (Insulin has a limited shelf life, and also has to be kept cold. So you can't just horde 5 years worth of it or anything like that.) That would be a slow and agonizing death, even if I managed to dodge radiation or starvation.
Because he would be busy doing researcher things and making money and not worried about something like youtube?
The progression that people almost always forget:

1) New system comes out that indexes/controls/regulates a naively created dataset

2) Data consumers adopt that system and experience benefits

3) Data suppliers learn rules of system and take advantage of it to improve the positioning of their data, thus breaking the intent of a system built on the assumption of naive creation

4) Users complain about the broken system

5) New entrants realize that the original system actually solved the core problem really well, and there are no easy ways to solve the 'gaming the system' problem

6) Flawed system remains the best available option indefinitely

It's like entropy, there's just no fighting it.

EDIT: And to extend this beyond Google - do you see a lot of long text blocks in 7 second tik tok videos? That's because the creator found a way to game the algorithm.
Covid vaccines got the emergency authorization and still keep it because there "is not" an adequate drug for covid.

It totally makes sense from pharma to prevent discovery of a functioning drug because they found a better cash cow - vaccines.
Exactly. See page structure on https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-design/writing-for-gov-u...
Sure. So you see we already have estabilished precedent. Finally we can put those overreaching mechanisms to a good use.
This article is like a breath of fresh air for me. Silencing critics is about as anti-American values as it gets, in my opinion.

It can be rough supporting free speech by those who we might disagree with, but life is not always easy.

I am especially disappointed by Mitt Romney - I thought that he was a decent guy but his recent comments are untrue and misleading.

A little off topic: I would love to see an accurate list of how much money each Congress person gets from defense industry lobbyists and I would like to also see how defense lobbying affects the news media. After spending half a working lifetime in the defense industry, I can both support my country while at the same time think clearly about the financial motivations for war and conflict.
As a perfectly-sighted user: please don't use modals, they're basically always very frustrating.
>Since it will be governments (maybe) seizing those assets and not members of HN - would that be sufficient to not horrify you?

I'm not arabic/muslim so the chances of me being targeted by anti-terror regulation is probably fairly low. Yet, I'm still against them. This comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...#Text
Slap a new coat of paint on Ada; put in curly braces and 'var', and you got something!
Ha can you even see through those rose-smothered spectacles?
I agree, I was in a grocery store and at the frozen meat aisle. The import company has a USA flag, is called something like "American Product Imports" and the Tilapia is of Chinese origin if you look at the back.

I'm not sure which it says more about, the ethics of the company or how easily the American consumer is swayed by flag imagery.
Actually if you live in the bay area, you live in an oligarchy. A great part of the renters in the area cannot vote and thus are not represented in this matter.

If foreigners could vote in San Francisco, the majority of which are renters, it would overwhelmingly crush this position.
I hear that many of you are uninterested in doing the work required here. Allow me to offer a couple arguments in favor of taking accessibility seriously:

1. Disability is a spectrum, not a condition, and a temporal, not a terminal state. Ever get your eyes dilated? Ever break your foot? Ever try using most common devices with a baby in your hands? Ever needed to watch a video in a loud room, or a place in which you cannot use headphones? Ever try using a laptop outside on a sunny day? Ever try getting old?

2. 26% of all adults in the US have some form of disability. 10% of these are sensory (hearing/sight). Are you really telling me you're just ignoring 26% of the population?

3. We are well-paid professionals being asked to make our tools usable by the entire public, not just a subset of it - we're making an average of 2-5x the median income, presumably based on our professionalism, knowledge of our craft, and ability to do hard things.

4. It's the right thing to do, both morally and practically. It allows every person to participate in society, allows us to leverage the full skills and abilities of every available human, and doesn't give us an "out" to start excluding people because we're too lazy to consider their needs.

5. If none of that sways you: some day you too will need this, if for no other reason than you've gotten old. It'll be nice to live in a world in which the people we are today are willing to take care of the people we'll be some day.
> If NATO told Ukraine from the onset they will never join NATO steps 2 and 3 would not have happened.

Look, if I murder my neighbor because they’re friends with the other neighbor I hate, I’m the bad guy.

Russia does not get to tell other countries they aren’t permitted to ally with each other.
The idea that they have them was purely fictional and manufactured only for justifying invasion of Iraq to US voters and international community.

There are many indications that it wasn't the case of 'Oops, we were wrong' but rather 'Oops, we lied'
Google had a "search only forums" filter. I was devastated when they took it away.

You can fake it by searching one forum at a time with "site:whatever.com", but you have to do one at a time and that doesn't help if there are forums you don't know about.

Google could double its usefulness overnight just by bringing this back.