skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"next big idea" is probably "selectable algorithms".

Create 3-5 different search algorithms, with names and understandable characteristics, then let me choose which one when searching. You may have some algorithm that prioritizes recency, or rapid changes, or more interaction, and others that prioritize longevity, citations/links, others that prioritize that type of information - prioritize regional or noteworthy events over historical info, etc. Have some algorithms that penalize spam/linkfarms more heavily than others. The git/so spam farms that come up when I search for an error message are simply useless, and would love ways to switch away and try other algorithms, without necessarily having to switch entire search systems.

Have algorithms that explicitly take in to account the search/click behaviour of others. Let me choose to have the search behaviour of friends/colleagues/famous-folks explicitly included or excluded in search results ranking.

Let people easily switch between multiple algorithms, and let 1000 gardens bloom (or something like that).

Also, determining better ways to 'search' non-text stuff. If virtual worlds become a thing, finding ways to 'search' those (whatever that might mean) will be big.

Image search still has a long way to go, IME.
If you close the popup window asking you to make an account the article is still there in full.
Apparently, the OP’s issue was ABI incompatibility between VC++ (also used by Windows SDK and everything built on top, including Direct3D 12), and System V (used on Linux, also MinGW on Windows).

VC++ documentation says structures are returned through a caller-allocated pointer. Pretty sure modern VC++ optimizes that thing when it can, especially with link time code generation enabled, but for functions and COM methods imported from DLLs that’s not an option.

System V http://c9x.me/compile/doc/abi.html only classifies values as MEMORY when they exceed 16 bytes. The D3D12_CPU_DESCRIPTOR_HANDLE only has a single size_t field, and therefore returned in RAX register in that convention. Moreover, a structure of two size_t fields would be returned in RAX + RDX registers.
Whichever group seeks to push its values on others via force or compulsion will find a reason to dismiss or vilify freedom of expression and speech. Then all other groups will band together to oppose that first group of would-be tyrants. Claiming that there's something psychologically distinct about one political party or another at an individual level (which goes beyond a mere snapshot or moment in time) is to see them as ideologically driven monoliths, when they are in fact hodgepodge collectives of various interest groups.

Conservatives will support freedom of speech so long as it is a winning strategy politically and they make a cultural space for those seeking to circumvent top down censorship. Blasting this approach as disingenuous is clear cut coping. If liberals want to champion free speech, then let them do so. People are flocking to conservative parties because the ostensibly liberal ones have given them no other option. Don't blame the conservatives, even if you think this is opportunistic. Instead get your own house in order and be glad that oppositional politics provides enough incentives to ensure at least one party will champion the cause for freedom of expression, regardless of the ideological justifications they use to get there.
Why is it unfortunate? The English language is built on an endless supply these mutations.
> Furthermore, censoring low quality enemy propaganda is a public service.

I think anyone looking to keep people from understanding is an enemy. You fight propaganda with truth, not censorship.
Not OP but I have seen web apps with 1 million MAU (Monthly Active Users) using:

- Laravel

- Redis

- PostgreSQL

- Nginx+ php_fpm
> There are efforts being made to run PHP on Serverless infrastructure

This is very interesting, I didn't know this. This is a perfect fit for PHP, as it was always designed with this model in mind, and the programmers that use PHP are already used to this way of developing, as that's exactly how php-fpm and mod_php already work and always have.
That can't be. Spectrum articles usually aren't. I was able to read it in full by selecting 'Keep reading'.
I'll grant that there is a small army of blog posters who write a blog post every day alleging this. It might even have a kernel of truth.

In that same day my spam filters caught 80 junk emails and I deleted another 20. If you own a cell phone you probably received multiple robocalls and junk texts in that time frame.

The fossil fuel industry has mounted a coordinated attack against our communication infrastructure and intellectual apparatus since the 1980s. to stop or delay a response to human-initiated climate change. If it leads to human extinction this will dwarf every other crime in human history.

So in a time when thousands of blog posts complaining about "cancel culture" get written every day I don't want to hear about it.
I call partial bullshit on your comments.

>In the case of Justine Sacco, here's a thought: if you don't want to be shamed "at the scale of global society"...
...don't fuckin' post an unfathomably bigoted comment on a public, global forum.

Who defines "unfathomably bigoted"? You? A small screeching mob of twitter warriors? A small but influential group of editors and writers for papers like the NY Times and others? You're prima facie assuming that a discourse labeled as bigoted is indeed horribly bigoted.. Given the number of VERY CLEAR examples many of us have seen of highly dubious and sometimes completely irrational definitions of supposed offensiveness (feel free to google search them, there are many), then no, things are not just a full-stop case of "you must be bigoted then if a group of people say you are". Aside from issues of free speech, definitions of bigotry, sexism, racism and so forth have in many circles gone completely off the rails of rational, reasoned thought.

>If you find yourself regularly worrying about whether something you say might be perceived as racist or sexist, maybe it's time to spend time recognizing that your bigoted attitudes towards others are wrong, and doing something about it.

I could repeat the point I already made above here. You make the same very shaky assertion that someone's attitudes are bigoted just because they question certain digital assertions about sex, gender or racism. Nope. Hijacking an argument by assuming a premise is simply dishonest.

Your stabbing argument is also absurd. By widespread practical and moral definition, people recognize that randomly stabbing others is wrong and socially damaging. The same definitely doesn't apply to someone wondering if a person who's biologically a man but had gender reassignment should then compete in women's sports. The latter is far less settled, not just philosophically but also biologically.
Our endurance at running is pretty good too, we can chase any prey until it is too tired to escape.
See also: https://phptherightway.com/
Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness(1985)[pdf]
Haven't gotten around to it since 2018 and don't think this will change soon. Always happy to receive contributions though.

https://github.com/mherrmann/fbs/issues/49
That sounds like you have a config issue. Maybe indexing is turned off? Do you get mem low errors? https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/increasing-memory-heap.h...
Yeah, I mean if you wanted, you can include reddit (and hacker news) in your RSS feed, so no need for replacement. That said, the entire point of RSS is to curate your own experience so just linking it to reddit (or hackernews) sorta defeats the purpose. I guess its nice to have both in one place.

As for Facebook, I haven't used it since 2008 when it became clear it was a cruddy company led by a misanthrope so I can't speak to that.
You let the rank sources be selectable. Allow me to connect/select individuals or groups to include/exclude.
Idk, honestly. Maybe there's no way to answer all of these concurrently.

I definitely here your point on non-intellectual populism. There's no requirement for everyone to be an intellectual and a worldview that does require this is also elitist.

Otoh, I don't see many people reacting well to the moral handicap frame either.

Personally, the route I usually go down is to (1) acknowledge that we disagree and (2) show that I can articulate their view respectfully. This is also a basis to move from. I don't think it's the structure or or content of the argument that matters... it's softer aspects like signaling respect, friendship and such.

I don't think this is about making a perfect argument though. I think it takes a complex, multi-year "conversation."

Imo, there's a lot to be learned from feminism. Pissing people off, being the object of hatred and derision was always going to be on a feminist menu. There was never going to be a way forward for feminism that didn't deeply offend and insult a lot of people.

It doesn't end there though. The conversation goes on. Sometimes the femenists walked away from some of their arguments. Often, society conceded feminist viewpoints after years of deriding them.

They didn't expect it to be respectful and pleasant at all times. Maybe you have to go through phases of tension to eventually come back together later.
No news to anyone who has followed Israel Palestine situation.
I understand Israel danger feelings, they are surrounded since 1948 when they took Palestinians land. Since then they are THE oppressor, no questions. I really hate west (well, USA mostly) support so much Israel.

What I hate most is that you can't say anything to Israel without being pointed as anti zionist.
Programmers spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about languages and tools, but don't want to pay for better ones, even when they are extremely cheap, drastically increase their productivity and save many headaches. Every other week, there is a post on HN complaining about funding open source. One of the few languages offering halfway decent tooling support is bad because... it makes users more dependent on tools? This makes no sense. Same story for Wolfram. If you want nice things, pay for them.
Most of the world runs on relationships and not necessarily merit. That’s just the reality.

Most people aren’t pointing out that one of this startup’s co-founders was the former President of Symantec and CTO of McAfee [1], two cybersecurity giants.

A resume like that coupled with VCs having too much money chasing few deals, it’s easy to see why this startup is emerging from stealth with hundreds of millions in funding. It’s not “fair”, just what it is…

1 - https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220201005253/en/Isl...
> At the end of the day, my goal in life is to make a difference, and also have a bit of fun. I want a system that is out of my way and lets me focus on that. For me, in 2022, that system is a Mac.

TL;DR: Another very happy Apple customer. It seems that they are not looking back at the Linux Desktop.

What can the Linux Desktop ecosystem learn from this?
It is new. Historically, the left aggressively defended its opponent’s right to freedom of speech and assembly on the understanding that legalized limits on free speech will ultimately be used against the left more than it will be used against the right.

An often cited American example is the ACLU defending the rights of Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members to speak freely and assemble.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html

The real story is that the historical left no longer exists.
> What am I missing?

My joke?

(I always forget how HN is hostile to whimsy. Even when it is carefully signposted with an emoticon.)

Just to add though: a word making its way into a dictionary is no guarantee of its usefulness, correctness or value. It only means a couple of definitions have been found in print. That's the standard by which words make it into dictionaries; there's no semantic gatekeeper.
I agree with you that the phrase 'human resource' evokes feelings of commodification. The difference here, in my mind, is that the author of this format is asking people to commodify themselves.
A viable business model. DDG has done a spectacular job of navigating the search space with arguably a very good product and look at how long it has taken them to get as far as they have. There isn't likely room for a 2nd DDG-type approach.

Setting aside all of the specifics related to building and running the engine itself, how do you make money doing it? Unless you are servicing a very specialized and lucrative vertical that doesn't mind paying, everyone else gets their search results for free so you generally can't charge users for it. This typically leaves advertising (which Google arguably owns the market for re: search) and/or selling user data (which is both unpopular with users and depending on jurisdiction, illegal). Figure out a new way to monetize search and you may have something...

This is a problem with today's world dominated by mega-tech companies: to compete in many areas of it you need to essentially be a monopolist in some other area so you can afford to compete in something like search as a loss leader at least until you get established. Look at how much Microsoft spent on Bing[1]... and they got how much of the market? Facebook wasn't initially profitable either, but they had a distinctly different approach to aggregating a pool of data Google couldn't search and users they couldn't monetize.

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2011/09/20/technology/microsoft_bing/i...
Google knows about external inbound links, so has more data on which to rank your pages than you do.
Just taste really, it sounds wrong to me.

On the scale of new words I dislike, it's nothing compared to how football pundits describe players as 'unplayable' when they're on form.
> to hide

Odd way to protest something is to bury and hide it. You'd do far better if they just put Ukrainian flag banner up.

> all Russian achievements

Because all of Russia, every Russian individual, and all of it's history is to blame? Or perhaps it is a particular leader and his cabal? And to hide their achievements would cause them to say: "AH! now we must stop this, economic collapse is one thing, but no Wikipedia achievements?"

> provide yet another incentive for Russia to end the war sooner.

This would provide yet another incentive to turn this conflict even more into "all Russians against the world". What you want instead is all Russians against Putin. This would do the opposite if it did anything at all.

Way to think like the Taliban, North Korea, etc. Do something symbolic, but meaningless at the expense of freedom that backfires. Sorry, this is just dumb and broken on so many levels.
Not effective against a virus like this. It might be effective against something else, but at this point SARS-CoV-2 is the second fastest spreading pathogen in human history.
despite the HN party line on this subject I think DDG is practically useless for long-tail searches. I was reserving the history of a city owned property in Oakland, California on DDG, using the address and the assessors parcel number. DDG results were all unrelated real estate advertisements in other cities. Google returned many pages of official city records. It’s almost as if Bing is not capable of indexing PDFs? Whatever the cause, this put me off Bing for the time being.
Same with discovering that the in-game advertising for RedBull was actually for a real beverage
I could access the article fully from Germany.
We didn't start the war against spam, disinformation, revenge porn, etc.
You can optimize this using the Unix shell and some utilities:

echo "Beach Boys" | sed s/e// | sed s/Boys//
"though I think there are a few areas that Bing is better"

Curious what you think these are. I prefer Bing's UI to Google's but aside from that Bing is (IMO) a dumpster fire that quite literally makes me feel negligent (towards myself) when I use it - am I missing something?
You're implying that arbitrary "legislation" just arose out of the blue. Rather, it's based on a long held idea that companies are merely trustees for customers' data. So their position is more akin to having built a shed straddling a property line a decade ago, and now complaining that they couldn't have known that their neighbor might eventually want it moved.
I reach for Hound-search[0] (originally Etsy Houndd) that uses Russ Cox's "Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index"

I had even made self-serve hosting for it but didn't put much effort into monetizing or otherwise promoting it.

[0] https://github.com/hound-search/hound
I've been trying for over two years to get my data from Amazon.

I eventually got to a point where Amazon provided a web-page, which has no less than sixty-two download links on, each of which would have to be manually operated.

It's properly tantamount to obstruction.

After finally reaching this point, Support were arrogant and high-handed - "We will not do any more than we have. We look forward to seeing you on Amazon in the future."

I still do not have my data.

I tried to start the process off a second time, but it went nowhere. I chased it, and then had some very disconnected and confusing responsese from Support (email from some random guy in Support who by the looks of it had been told to email me, but neither he had been told what for, nor I that it would happen).

I've not spent more time on it since then.

I stopped using Amazon about two years ago, because I've come to the view that the stories about how Amazon treats warehouse staff are accurate.

I want to get my personal data, so I can close the account.

Amazon of course refuse point blank (in the usual, slimey, support-talking-past-you way) to delete any personal data, so all you can do is delete the account and hope in the end Amazon expire the data.
Trend toward re-intensifying drought in western USA continues
Previous discussion of PaperBack (which, in turn, references Optar): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10245836
A modern spiritual successor to the wipeout series is Ballistic NG. No fluff anti gravity racing. Highly modable, which allows you to import the wipeout music into the game easily, custom race tracks, etc.

Just a fan, not associated with it
One of the design feature I abhor in Proton is sound icon in tab. Its too confusing for my peanuts brain. Further, it add text "Playing " which looks redundant.
In product analytics, apply the Pareto principle
When I read the title, my first thought was about the cryotron: "Tantalum in superconducting state can carry large amount of current as compared to its normal state. Now when current is passed through the niobium coil (wrapped around tantalum) it produces a magnetic field, which in turn reduces (kills) the superconductivity of the tantalum wire and hence reduces the amount of the current that can flow through the tantalum wire. Hence one can control the amount of the current that can flow in the straight wire with the help of small current in the coiled wire."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryotron
Having just looked up Jainism this time on Wikipedia I see that Jains claim that some of their greatest teachers were active far earlier than the time frames we've mentioned, even beyond any conventional count of years, but I'm not qualified to comment on their cosmology. I admire the duty of Ahimsa, so I mentioned it in the context of the parent post.
I'd agree with the skepticism. That said, it takes a minimum of 25k to get started using something like this in the real world due to the PDT rule (honestly more than that so you don't dip below 25k). It's possible they just aren't ready to throw that kind of capital at it yet.

Also even if they aren't using real money that does not mean they are limited to historical data. You can run algos on live data even without actively trading. What you don't get is how your actions affect the market itself.
I don’t understand. Who is “we”?
Yup. I agree. The wait time doesn't make sense. They should be able to spin up extra servers from the spot market in seconds. Even if they're using Glacier, that should only be a few hours.

I wonder if they execute the 74 data queries in serial to drag it out.

And the multiple downloads is just bogus.

That being said, I agree with the general point that the article is a bit overly dramatic. Amazon does a pretty good job with the request. It just takes too long.
Plus you have to actually allocate and evaluate the whole map right? Like if the values are FromASlowComputation() you'd have to do something else.
Absolutely, the community's ask was reasonable.

But I think the goals might also be mutually exclusive.

Snap's philosophy, from what I read in the thread, boils down to: if an update bricks devices when it's pushed, the proper time to catch that update is before it's pushed, or as it's pushed, not after.

Which I do see the wisdom in. The majority of users are less well informed and equiped to test and patch than developers.
http://web.archive.org/web/20220327154828/https://spectrum.i...
My reply was to one person presumably on a pizza team at AWS. Surely they would realize some savings from automating their own retrieval requests.

As others have pointed out aggregating all of the different reports into one download is a trivial task itself suited well for automation.
The problem with trans fats seems to be a matter of degree rather than kind. See the note on palm oil on Wikipedia. Also note that deaths attributable to coronary artery disease, the quantifiable thing linked to trans fat consumption, are hugely decreasing over the period where trans fats became common, suggesting again it's not a high order bit.

If we consider this in the context of GMO it sure seems like FUD to me.
Not i3 - the energy consumption of running three large monitors.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. The author may want to read the privacy policy[0] for the site they are publishing their story on. They are collecting all sorts of data that they don't need to. And IANAL but apparently your rights to access the data they hold on you are restricted only to locations where they legally have to allow it.

[0] https://theintercept.com/privacy-policy/
This sounds like an issue with your upgrade process and not so much with PHP itself
I love the train magazines in this. I hadn’t thought about them for ages, but they have a very distinct nostalgic feeling that immediately made me happy :)

It works neatly in VR, too!

I just wish the terrain editing was better. It has a frustrating system where you place pre-cut blocks, and you’re kind of expected to abuse them to get what you want, but that sort of thinking never works for me. Some kind of voxel editing - or just plain old height map painting - would be wondrous.
On a scale of new words I dislike, it's actually more annoying to me than "revert back" meaning "get back to you on that", which has a wry charm.

Mind you, I am still annoyed by people saying "addicting" when they actually mean "addictive", or "concerning" when they mean "a cause for concern".

So I'm really not a good judge. But it still has to go in the circular filing cabinet.
The Deadly Dynamics of Colorado’s Marshall Fire
This hasn't worked for, say, burning fuels or polluting the world with plastic in developed countries yet.

"Sufficiently comfortable" is a moving target.
It's misguided, since it's not really being taught to begin with. But both sides support restrictions on curriculum, and speech in schools. So I guess we're all just hypocrites.
The balance of power has now changed. Liberal positions are favoured by majorities; conservative positions are favoured by minorities.
I use a 43" 4K LG monitor (not TV) as my every day work screen, positioned about five feet from my face. I have macOS set to scale it up about 25". I can't really say I'm more productive on it than just using my laptop, but I definitely notice less eye strain when I'm using the big monitor.