skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have to convince people to join a social network, find something else to work on.

Social networks succeed when the people in the network convince other people to join.

Or to put it another way, people in the Harvard dorm joined TheFacebook in part because Mark Zuckerberg and other people on the hall were on it.

Relevant because "dating" was one of the primary uses of the early version. Facebook has since pivoted away from that as it has grown.

The general problem with ordinary dating apps is that success means two users stop using it because they leave the market.

Tinder success is because it mostly avoids this problem. On Tinder, success doesn't necessarily remove users (though I have two friends who met on Tinder and are monogamously married).
There is a particular delight in being The Scholar From Another Field Who Wound Up At Your Nice Conference. I get to ask all the stupid questions without any embarrassment, and often that slant perspective provokes fruitful conversations.

Just as long as you keep the physicist quotient low ;)
I think that has more to do with the information source than the market.

It's possible HN is an unreliable guide to Google's actual prospects.
Maybe natural selection plays a role?

Animals that were too soft with their offspring failed to prepare them for a tough world and, thus, also failed to secure long term species survival.
I bought a Volvo a long time back and it turned out it was a Ford Focus with a Volvo skin. My mistake. Never again. Not that I have anything against Ford but the quality was atrocious — things just falling apart for no reason at all other than they must have not been made properly. I babied the car and the things that went wrong ($1000 - $2000 repairs) were amazing… like all the parts in the mechanism for moving the moon roof, which I pretty much never opened, spontaneously started sliding around in the rooftop one day. I heard they are now Chinese owned, although it seems buyers think they are still Swedish. Thanks for the reply.
This. Whenever I search anything informative, I append “Reddit” to the phrase to get the top Reddit threads about the topic. Everything else in the SERPS is usually SEO trash
I have a bunch of little web apps on my home server that are written in Python that use asyncio to do things like control my IoT system. I also write little Python webapps like that when I need to annotate and workflow 5000 documents or images. It is easy and a lot of fun, particularly using websockets, but the workload is not heavy.

Every webapp I've worked on professionally in the last 15 year had the back end written in either a JVM or .NET language, occasionally with some C++ or Tensorflow to implement neural networks. Usually the language has been Java, less frequently it has been Scala (yuck!) or C#.

The performance of that kind of system is very good because both JVM and .NET have solid support for threads and shared memory. If your application has 100 MB of configuration, ML models and other 'constants' you can load it once and access it later at zero cost.

Concurrency is well-supported in the sense of "300 people are making 500 http requests simultaneously" and also "we can simultaneously query 10 databases with 10 threads" and "we can break up a task that takes 500ms on the CPU into multiple tasks that really run on multiple cores."
I do not want to blame Dave Jr, but in every picture (and caption) he's smoking. If you are $1.35 short to bring your daughter home from standing outside in freezing weather, you definitely cannot afford the thousands of dollars a year a smoking addiction costs. His case worker (whoever signed him up for the free government wifi hotspot) should sign him up for nicotine replacement therapy paid for by Medicaid.

Sigh, so sad.
Generally we give them guns first—not just “hey run at the enemy good luck.”
At least in Europe having a cell modem would ruin the company, who would pay phone bills? Sure as hell not me.
I wouldn't be entirely surprised if there was a human involved in gathering some of the data. If requests for data are rare enough, it might be more economical to pay someone in a customer support farm to collect some data than to pay for developing and maintaining an automated process. At least in the short term. Otoh, not automating something like this seems out of character for Amazon.
> The reason some of us downplay mental health issues is because we hear stats like "97% kids are ADHD"

Quite frankly, this is a poor excuse. I don't draw sweeping conclusions about "physical health" issues because of cherry picked stats about extremely prevalent physical health issues.

"73% of adult Americans are overweight" doesn't make me downplay physical health across an entire spectrum of issues.

Another conclusion one might draw is "holy shit, this is a crisis!". And there is growing evidence to support this. Humans haven't evolved to deal with the realities of the current century. We're only just starting to understand the impact of modern technology and many other developments of the last decade.

If someone sees a crisis and concludes that this must be something to dismiss, that says more about that person than it does about the crisis.

> "Mental health" (without further qualifications) is closer to herpes than to cancer.

And yet, people still take herpes seriously. People don't just dismiss ailments that aren't cancer.

But there's a more fundamental issue with the entire line of thinking raised by this comment. A key point that many people miss is that mental health and physical health aren’t really two distinct categories at all. The two are deeply intertwined, and usually inseparable.

Who you go to see, or what actions you take when you start to have issues will change, but you also see a dermatologist for skin problems, a cardiologist for heart problems, etc.
Not entirely sure what you are asking here, but:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Threaded-Interpretive-Languages-R-G...

It's quite easy to get into and you can expand it and have all sorts of fun with it. Certainly not a revered epitome.
I just "fixed" an adjective list bug - sorry about that! it should work now.
The Tao of Acme
the Trackball Explorer and the Sidewinder Force Feedback joystick should get entries.
We're going to be speaking about this at Good Tech Fest 2022 [1], and will also write it up post it to HN.

https://www.goodtechfest.com/good-tech-fest-2022
We see some of this with just normal spear phishing against companies. The "single click" thing is reasonably common, it makes things a bit harder to catch as often the clickthrough will change to whatever is being spoofed in the first place. A homophone ycornbinator.com would serve the malware first time, then next time it would send a permanent redirect. Unique IDs you'll see in things like spam SMS, both to work around automated blacklisting, but also to work out who clicked through and who might be a potential mark the next time even if they didn't completely fall for the scam.

Most of what we got was recycled RAT malware with various packers though, it didn't trend towards being particularly interesting because you usually don't need to be to catch people, at least that's my impression. Maybe it's bad toupee fallacy.
If we taught everyone JUST A LITTLE command line, I think we'd all be a bit happier with our computers.

Expecting your first interaction to be effortless is as dismissive of skill and as ridiculous as expecting to be able to play violin while riding a bike on your first interaction with either.
Unzipping 75 files is a one click job on any reasonably current system I know of.
I'd rather build on a voclanic area than anywhere near Russia. Places with volcanoes are maybe the nicest places to live if you're not obsessed with material posessions.

https://youtu.be/U1SSlulfFKg

We've been to the Azores. I really wish these people are safe. We want to return there again soon.
> Like, someone writes a five paragraph post, clearly an expert in some topic, …

No, you’re wrong. It’s never five. Usually three, some times four, possibly seven. Never five.
check out the swoole extension. async server and faster throughput than any other php setup.

[1] https://openswoole.com/
How to make safe choices when opting for open source in your business?
Usability and functionality of linux beats osx for me though. I've been made do use mac in last two jobs, and on personal laptop I use plain ubuntu. IMO Ubuntu has the nicest UX, and even though I probably use mac:ubuntu 70:30 of time, I still didn't start liking mac, so it's not because lack of familiarity. And I don't think I've got kernel panic on my personal linux, and on every mac I've had I've got at least one.

The worst thing about mac for me is how the things are named, it is very often that I want to find some option and it's just named differently than I'd expect
Yeah, it's more like a switch but as an expression. Some more examples: https://php.watch/versions/8.0/match-expression It only executes the matching branch, ignoring the others. If you used an array/map + index, then it executes the right-arm of each of the options if they're functions for example, even if their result is thrown away.
My main monitor is Dell u3014, 60Hz. I had a Dell 3008 at work and replaced it with 3017 when it died, so I had this tech for over 10 years both at home and at work.

What am I missing with 60Hz compared to 120Hz? Honest question. When I look at friends' office setups with latest curved 4k (or now 8k) monitors I do not see anything that I like more than my current monitor, so while we are generally not limited in workstation or monitor options at work I see no reason to upgrade.
That's so great. I wish there was something like this for Germany.
Spectrum allocation in licensed bands is a public decision. The public literally decides what use those chunks of spectrum should be put to. Only the free bands (like 2.4GHz) are a pure matter of cooperation among users and hardware manufacturers.
Yup, you got it. Tiktok is not digital crack. It is digital cocaine. The purest form.(Assuming the purest form is the best).
You can send this signal with a Chrome browser and HackRF here: https://xakcop.com/tesla-opener/
That's definitively the goal.

Fiat currency is fiat because the government forces you to use it.

No sane person would use FedCoin if they could choose, so expect the same lousy inflating currency but with more coercion, tracking, social credit and various other fascist features that socialists and Wall Street will come up with.
I actually mentioned the Cryotron in the original draft of this article, but there wasn't room for it. Some of the other forgotten computing technologies of the 1960s are tunnel diodes, microwave oscillators (Parametron), and electroluminescent photoconductors.
https://www.thinking.withportals.com/ was (is?) the big community for this. I was part of it around the time Valve released their easy map editor (the "perpetual testing initiative")---more than a decade ago now. I had the pleasure of testing the editor before its release. It was an exciting time!

Sadly that editor was geared towards single-player maps, whereas my interest was always in the coop ones. If you'll forgive the shameless plug, https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=89692... was my favourite to make. I put a lot of time into that, but sadly I lost the hard drive with the map's source files some years ago. It's done quite well on the workshop---which always surprises me. I had very little idea about level design or what constitutes a fun puzzle. Beginner's luck, maybe?

It was a lot of fun/pain/curiosity to work with and fight Valve's hammer editor. I remember thinking "this feels like a tool designed to make half-life maps". I can still remember tying brushes to func_detail entities so that they wouldn't contribute visleaves. Good times!

While I'm at it: I'd recommend the "sendificator" series: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=29165303... . These introduce a new puzzle element entirely contained within the map file. I'm guessing it must use some kind of lua script to implement it, since it's entirely contained in the map.
I like seeing the list of services, but I wish it was called "Microsoft Graveyard" instead of "Killed by Microsoft". Some of those wouldn't be around today regardless of the controlling organization, such as Silverlight and Encarta. To me, "Killed by Microsoft" makes it sound like Microsoft chose to discontinue a product that otherwise would still be "alive" today.
> You say this like McDonalds food isn't already habit forming

I said this because McDonalds has already proven that they can do a lot of damage to people with just food.
I always found it interesting how different books for teenagers were from movies considered appropriate for the same age group.

For example, the "Cherub" series by Robert Muchamore, which I greatly enjoyed as a kid, included crime, drug and alcohol use (even by kids), sex scenes, mentions of underage prostitution and human trafficking, and even a scene of an attempted rape on a minor. The much more popular "Hunger Games" series was a little bit less violent, but not by much. Nobody seemed to mind. Those books were clearly intended for teenagers, I'd say 12-16 year olds, and there were no disclaimers about what those books contained.

Even with TV, things aren't as obvious as they seem. Over here in Poland, very few parents care about age restrictions. Unlike English, we don't even have a word for "explicit content". Creating online accounts with fake dates of birth is pretty much normal. When I was in middle school, most people I knew watched porn with very few difficulties. Game stores don't have any obligations to restrict what kids can buy, it's not even clear if refusing a game sale based solely on the age of the buyer is legal[1]. When one game store refused to sell GTA5 to a kid, I heard about it on the news. When I compare people of my generation raised in Poland to our American peers, where explicit content is much more of a taboo, I see no noticeable effects of watching such content.

This has some disturbing censorship implications, how many real-life phenomena are filmmakers omitting to get just a little bit more viewers, just because of some well-intended laws that seem to have no actual positive effect on society?

[1] Polish https://bezprawnik.pl/sprzedaz-dziecku-gry-dla-doroslych/
> Clicking "Remove address" only removes it from the list of addresses? Of course, addresses you ordered to in the past can not be deleted as they have to legally be stored together with other order information.

I agree. The author set out with an agenda and spun every step of the process in the most negative way they could come up with.

There are some legitimate complaints (wait time, for example) but it’s hard to take these articles seriously when it’s clear that the author started with a conclusion and tried to work backward to build a story around it.

Sadly, these articles get a lot of clicks and shares because “your data” has become a nebulous scare phrase in journalism and Amazon is a popular company to hate right now.

That said, I bet if any one of our own employers was subjected to the same treatment by the same author with the same agenda, we wouldn’t come out much better. If someone wants to smear a company, they will.

Data export can be very confusing for end users, especially when they discover things like their shipping record with old addresses isn’t deleted when they remove the address from their address book. The old shipping records are necessary for everything from customer support to warrant claims to fraud detection to recall notices to regulatory compliance. Trying to shame Amazon for literally just keeping shipping records is bananas.
I think maybe some of the history books could do it for cs. Like I'm very early into the book Crypto Anarchy, Cyber States and Pirate Utopias (2002 MIT PRESS), and it's kinda interesting. I'm not sure how the later parts are but chapter 1 is interesting. It definitely has an audience in mind but I think it could be an interesting book for someone outside of CS.
Basically, 5G introduces some new technology that increases the so called spectral efficiency (bps/hz) that is how much tput you can deliver over the allocated spectrum. 5G introduces things like mm-wave tech using phased array antennas, better massive MIMO etc.

But even with the tech, it's probably not enough to handle the demand they are hoping for, hence they spectrum buying spree they have been on lately.

It goes back to the Shannon law talked about here, you either have to build more cells to make the signal better (better signal lets you pack more bps per hz, or you need more spectrum. Both are expensive, and most of them are doing both.
All I can say, to those that are on the fence of leaving: Try it out. I, too, used to play nosebleed rent while rationalizing it all with "But I have family here, I need [things that can be only found in high-COL cities], I have all my friends and network here, living in smaller places is boring" etc.

Sure, some of those points were legit. It's not easy to leave family, friends, your network, and job - but if you can, and it doesn't completely ruin your career...try it.

I went from a 270 sq.ft apartment, to 1200 sq.ft. - while slashing my rent by $2000 pr. month. I've learned to enjoy new things, especially outdoor activities. Going on hikes used to be a huge hassle in the city, because just getting to a decent spot would take forever...now it's 5 mins from my home.

No more rush traffic. I live a 10 min walk from work, compared to using 45-60 mins (minimum) a couple of years ago.

Of course, there are cons - lots of things I miss. But with all the money I'm saving, it's really no problem to take a small vacation here and there.
Sprinkle in some naive liberalism
I think they were using icons properly.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18i...
While I am confident prospective communist leaders are malicious, and want more easy power/wealth for themselves, without caring about the damage to everyone else, I apologize for trying to compare you to them this early in the conversation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_(video_game) seems to fit the bill.

Adventure games generally actually, and many fantasy set games along the lines of Zelda seem to generally map to Hunger Games type things.

The real answer of course is that "the boobs, swearing and gore" type games are aimed at young adults, because playing Mario Kart would be considered "childish" until they grow out of worrying about being considered "childish" and can just play fun games with their friends again.
Can someone explain why the biggest city in the US should have rent prices the same as a small town?

$3300/mo for a 3 br in NYC sounds like an absolute steal. I pay $1600/mo in a nowhere city for 3 br. Seems about right to me. Demand is crazy high cause everyone wants to live there. Not everyone should be able to afford it.

Idk what I'm missing here.
> The author went the entire article without actually defining what 5G is

Iam pretty sure they actually dont know.

> Is 5G a cheaper or better way to do that? I don’t know, but it doesn’t sound crazy.

> The phone calls what it sees “LTE+” (I don’t claim to understand what that means)

This is a guy who asks their twitter audience and wonders why there is no explicit answer.
The top 10.000 queries at Google are probably 99% brands, pop culture or current news things, one word or name only, that you would not care for at all. Have a look at the top 20: https://www.statista.com/statistics/265825/number-of-searche...
Elon Musk: Tesla’s Autonomous Car Will Drive Coast-To-Coast by 2018 (2017)

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-teslas-autonomous-car-will-dr...

(spoiler: it didn't as of 2022)
>, I wish someone would take the top 10,000 Google queries and just manually curate them. Hire different interest groups -- outdoors, travel, cuisine, etc. -- and manually find the best hits buried deep in some subreddit. No fancy algorithms, just old-fashioned librarian-style research, but constantly updated with the latest findings and queries.

It's not exactly your specifications but 2007 Mahalo attempted something like that and they shut down after a few years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalo.com

The website is no longer there so you have to use Wayback Machine or image search to see what the landing page for Mahalo search UI looked like : https://www.google.com/search?q=%22mahalo.com%22+search&tbm=...
Using PHP in 2022+ should be considered a crime of negligence.
MS Graveyard is exactly how they’d name it too lol. Well done.

*Microsoft Active Azure Graveyard for Products - Enterprise Edition 2022 .Net
I get ±40-60ms on 4G legacy and ±5-10ms on 5G. Which no matter what people try to claim here is a great and very notable improvement in latency on voice calls.

Another benefit I have noticed is that latency seems to be much more stable in all kinds of conditions - stationary, in trains, in the car. I believe this is one of the key factors in what makes the experience so much nicer.

I have no idea about US cell plans, here in NL it's included in afaik all new contracts. I have unlimited data + 5G for 40€/month
I think Masters of Doom is a great book for getting people interested in either software development in general, or game development. Alternatively, some of the horror stories may actually turn them away. But every time I read it, I get excited about writing code again.
> This allows people at the game to watch the game on their phones.

I'm not a sports person, but I'm having a difficult time understanding why someone would want to do this. Even with the very best e2e latency, there's probably going to be one or two seconds of latency between real life and what's on your phone. Sports is very much a real time experience, and that sounds lame.
Past discussion with comments by the author, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10408178
https://yourdigitalrights.org/d/google.com
https://yourdigitalrights.org/d/microsoft.com
https://yourdigitalrights.org/d/apple.com
https://yourdigitalrights.org/d/walmart.com
The thing is, this (and craftworks.at or whatever) is still not a fully polished technology.

It probably can be optimized in a bunch of ways:

* Less drastic transitions between accentuated text and the rest

* An ML algorithm to select quantifiably better patterns (with distillation if necessary)

* Enrolling visually- and cognitively-impaired persons (e.g.dyslexics) into the study to avoid undercutting accessibility

We've been doing printing and written/illuminated books for many centuries, and statistical readability studies for the last 80 years or so. If a variation of this technique is better than the existing 'flat' type (even with ligatures), NASA/DARPA/NIH would be investigating it shortly.
Oooh, I'm a big fun of lifelogging! You might want to check out some of my projects like https://github.com/karlicoss/HPI#readme :)
Brave Search [1] is the best alternative I’ve come across so far. They have this concept called “Goggles” [2] on their roadmap, which I think has incredible potential to disrupt the status quo.

[1] https://search.brave.com

[2] https://brave.com/static-assets/files/goggles.pdf
I agree, “mental health issues” are much more similar to obesity than to cancer.

Societal reactions reflect that, both dismissive (“just exercise more”, “don’t be lazy”) and constructive (“we should find the cause - is it endocrine disruptors / social media?”)
Is there a similar list for google?

I dont know most of this entries in the list, but I can name like 5 things google has "killed" that I actually liked. Iam still pissed they buried reader.
Some platforms are complicated enough to require at least $100m to compete. search engines , OS , autonomous vehicles , voice assistants
This is my thought as well.

The problems with the Linux Desktop ecosystem are not tech problems but human problems. Everybody tries to be the smartest person in the room and push their own pet projects on everybody else via tools, distros, etc. All it does is dilute the ecosystem and erode the experience. I have no idea how to fix this- it's a result of the freedom.