skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Important reminder: don’t talk too much publicly about your (wife’s) TikTok feed, because it says more about you than you’d think.

I’ve seen so many people complain that “tiktok keeps showing them young girls dancing” lol.
You are correct, I didn't notice there are comments before. Also can't read them.
git grep is amazing. I almost never need an alternative.
Apocalypse Now, Rambo, and Punk culture were genuine. We did not have the kind of censorship that you did, it’s that simple. We were free to criticize our government and replace them every 4 years. You weren’t.

If you think those things were engineered in some easy and not self-emergent, then that’s a conspiracy theory without much merit in my mind. But I love to entertain these things and if there’s a way to reach you outside this web forum, let me know.
Seen != Built.

You don't always have to optimize for the right answer right away. Just asking someone who's worked with/on the codebase will often give you a jump start.
Debian 10.12 (old stable) Released
Investigating musical genius by listening to the Beach Boys a lot
Quitting Your Software Consulting Job? Tips for Leaving
Speaking for myself, I'm a writer and artist who learned to code so I could build the things I wanted to create and use, rather than starting from an innate love of logic, for example. I've always been fascinated by science and tech, but I'm very much what they used to call a "right brained" person.

So for me, the answer to your question is backwards: I discovered coding as a small kid first to write little text adventures in BASIC on the Commodore, and then to do fractal art and MIDI stuff in DOS, and then the Web as a medium of doing multimedia art, and coding when I ran into the limits of what I could do in HTML. I ended up for my entire life thus far getting paid to either write code/do web design or write journalism and nonfiction. So for me, the journey was learning math and logic, not the humanities.
Wow! Many thanks! :)
One thing that’s never considered is the possibility that the world conquering AI would lose alignment with itself diverge into two (or more) competing factions.

There are basic, unavoidable coordination problems with all distributed systems that would inevitably affect a system like “Clippy”. What if one node finds a different non-Clippy reward to optimize, fails to achieve a consensus vote with the other nodes, then decides to destroy the non-compliant instances? Such a situation seems more or less inevitable.

Of course this doesn’t preclude the system destroying humanity in the process.
I agree with others that social awkwardness is something that just lessens over time. I mean, you may still be awkward, but so is almost everyone else, and you realize that no one actually cares about your awkwardness. Actually, almost everyone else is focused on their own awkwardness. The smoothest talkers are those who have actively worked on their social skills and are even more self focused.

So - socialize more, get older, and stop worrying about what others think of you, and you'll find it stops mattering. If you want, you can also turn yourself into a smooth talking politician/comedian/whatever through deliberate practice, to reduce any bumps of awkwardness. But I think this is only worth doing to achieve some personal goal.

I would say though that actual social anxiety is a different beast. I had severe social anxiety into my 30s, and the only thing that really helped with that was drugs and therapy.
Yeah, I think this is exactly what the commenter meant - are you seriously beating the “social science is not a science” horse in this unrelated thread?
> Always better to go with the base image, add your packages to the base and then use that new image as the base image for your application.

But that makes your base image non-reproducible. You're just shifting the issue elsewhere.
I hope EU is cooking something. At least they should regulate support, so people could receive answers to their support issues. Currently it is not.
I'll never forget the dread, or the beautiful simplicity of the Borg. As a child, few things in literature impacted me as much as that idea. It's so plausible that they likely already exist. They solved all of the problems that biological entities need to solve in order to colonize the cosmos. It was terrifying, but as I grew older I realized that thier loss of humanity was a feature of evolution. Horrifying and oddly comforting at the same time.
It’s nothing to do with old light. It’s to do with the relativity of simultaneity. Have a look at the Wikipedia article I linked to.

Or read these posts on Ask a Mathematician / Ask a Physicist:

- this one explains the basis of the phenomenon: https://www.askamathematician.com/2010/12/q-according-to-rel...

- this one explains the implications for FTL travel (and why it can result in time-travel): https://www.askamathematician.com/2011/09/q-hyperspace-warp-...
I thought long and hard about that word and almost made up the nonceword "Southslavia" to replace it.

What I wanted was a word for the southern Slavic _region_, encompassing former Yugoslavia as well as Bulgaria and other territories in adjacent countries. But I couln't find a word for it, and it was getting late.
Tools I use:

- grep

- ag
- Same as grep, but faster!

- find - when looking for a file by name

- helm (an epic Emacs package which does interactive search)

Used to work at a Windows shop and we used Entrian in visual studio. That was pretty good, bust closed source and a pain to setup.
It also requires a society to be fairly well-aligned on where the margin lies. In the USA, at least, that is decidedly not the case.
But what is the “maximum possible reward”? Does a limit exist? Or is it now consuming all possible resources to develop storage and compute resources to grow that limit…
In the Universal Paperclips game, you explicitly fight against "drifters" near the end of the game. But maybe people don't get that far
There's pretty much nowhere to host your repo now that bitbucket gave up (and outright /deleted/ all hg repos which was criminal, but that's besides the point)

The big three I know of (github, gitlab, bitbucket) are all git-only.
What you need as a competitor is awareness by users. But it's hard to beat a dominant player with lots of cash.

Google owns one of the major mobile platforms, where it is the default search engine. It pays competing Browsers like Firefox to be the default and is so tied in public perception that "to google" is a verb.

Also Google is fast and mostly reliable.

Also Google search integrates with other services like Maps for localized search so that one is torn back to them easily.

And if you were to get close to it they have tons of money to fight you.

The interesting aspect is that outside the broader search domain their approach often enough doesn't work. They didn't get social networking, they didn't get messaging (except mail) ... so they way to beat them likely is to find new segments and occupy that space (like Zuckerberg wants to do with "Metaverse," whatever that shall be)
Looks like it is worse than that they lied. If they genuinely believed that it’s just a password reset attempt and relied on their subcontractor to investigate the incident, their security is shit.
Curiosity and reading.

All these people talking about people only having shallow knowledge and pretending to be more authoritative, that is a problem. Especially the pretending to be knowledgeable, but I find the wide range of opinions and thoughts of intelligent people to be helpful in figuring out how to think about something.
Because google's search engine is still better than all of its current competitors and the barriers to entry are extremely high.
Kagi keeps showing up here, perhaps check that out.

https://kagi.com/
OK, that's optimising for efficiency, not for human values. If capitalism optimised for human values, we'd all be paid to house the homeless, free slaves, improve conditions in the global South, heal the sick, feed the hungry and so on.
I guess so. Dependency management isn't a solved problem. You can have all the CI in the world, green keeper, extensive package management toolchains and fancy dedupe/version constraint solvers and still run into pretty catastrophic issues with usability and security.

I don't think the log4j example is really relevant here. You can't compare all dependency-related issues to each other.
> a good image classification architecture can fit in a tweet , and a complete description given in ~1000 bits

So Boltzmann brains are a dime a dozen? Is that what we are?
They would need to be Apple, they would need to understand how to write software for this purpose and then deliver it, and they would need to be able to make this the default search engine for iPhones without antimonopoly distractions.

Beyond that, Google’s dominance isn’t going away due to their own “monopoly-like” positioning, their business relationships, the inertia of their massive public adoption, all of these applied within three or four other vital areas (ie: YouTube), their ability to pivot in response to anything novel that appeared to undermine their position, no apparent stories of Google executives hosting puppy kicking parties for the entire company to Satanic Panic everyone away from their products, the problem of promising companies being acquired because the owners (VC or founder or otherwise) are happy to be bought, the general “ick” factor of someone like Facebook attempting to enter the fray, some other things none of us have ever considered, random luck, and the initial conditions of the universe.

You have to have good results against the inconceivably vast amount of content out there, you have to be easy to use, you have to be free, and you have to be able to do all of this and more for the yeeeeeears it would take to wiggle into the space and expand while resisting the pressures above. Doable, wildly improbable.
Because Google at the time was a dramatically better experience than AltaVista, and Yahoo was more of a directory than a search engine.
How do you get those tools to work with git branches?

We use bitbucket at work which goes out of its way to stink regarding search. But I personally find it hard to find some code in some branch of some repository that uses x.
While not German-levels of electricity prices, that's still 100% more than my elec price in the US and comparatively worse than gas . Retrofitting a heat pump for me is a negative NPV investment.
Are you seriously advocating crypto mining specially for heating? Would be great if you linked some studies on the efficiency of ASICs vs common heaters.
Voluntary interactions between consenting parties can still be extremely coercive if there's a power imbalance. In the Roman Empire, people used to sell themselves into slavery to pay off debts.
> In the beginning tried all kinds of joins, but every one of those had some unwanted side effect.

This makes it sound more mysterious than it is. Joins does not have side-effects, they are just different operators. It comes down to if you want to include unmatched rows. Left join: Include unmatched rows from the first table. Right join: Include unmatched rows from the second table. Outer join: Include unmatched rows from both tables. Inner join: Don't include any unmatched rows.

Left and right join is of course the same, the only difference is in which order you list the tables. Left join seem more intuitive to me when writing queries, but logically they are equivalent.
Wait a minute: we had SCART in the Netherlands too, but it supported both composite (CVBS) and RGB.

In fact, if you had a composite device (with the yellow, red and black plugs), you could just get one of those cheap passive adapters to hook it up to SCART: https://media.s-bol.com/mwVL1yR45z6E/1144x1200.jpg

IIRC our childhood (Philips) TV had two SCART inputs: one supported both RGB and CVBS, the other only CVBS.
NT didn't really; if anything it was designed to compromise the robust server and technical desktop market that unix providers like DEC, Sun, and SGI had.

The constant drumbeat of 'is Unix dead ?' and similar FUD hurt their image and elevated Microsoft's.

Yet over 25 years later, Windows Server is only marginally better than NT 3.51 and Linux/Unix philosophy is still dominant on internet facing servers.
It means distinguishing intuitively between these particular large numbers and other large numbers.

Once you get into the trillions, quadrillions, etc., it can be tricky to get a sense of the scale vs other large numbers that may sound similarly impressive but differ by orders of magnitude.

These examples show that a quadrillion is smaller than I would have imagined without thinking about it, and I found they helped to get an intuitive sense of the scale.
>, what would a competitor need to defy Google?

One thing a competitor needs is a new and innovative technical algorithm.

Back in 1998, Google's PageRank was an innovative algorithm that calculated relevance based on counting back links instead of parsing the word counts in embedded HTML text like other search engines. This created a noticeable improvement in quality of results.

Nobody seems to have The Next Big Idea for a better search engine yet. Somebody did a Shown HN of a new search engine based on whitelisted curated domains such as reddit discussions. But there are many technical problems with that (e.g. Goodhart's Law & Hawthorne Effect creates bad feedback loop of gaming the reddit discussions which then poisons the search engine.)

Another technical idea of crowdsourced decentralized search index creates a very slow query engine which is a hard sell when web surfers are used to Google results appearing in less than 1 second.

DDG's idea of "privacy" is interesting, but being (mostly) based on Microsoft Bing's search engine doesn't actually create a quantum leap in better search results.

What's the next breakthrough idea that extracts the good signal from all the noise of a trillion web pages?
You can't. People in San Francisco control big tech, and they've decided the entire internet should reflect their own microcosmic perspective on the world. See the other replies to your comment as an example - they really can't see anything beyond their immediate surroundings.
Algebraic structures which self-heal by convergence to idempotence would enumerate this space.
Never considered this before, but it's an excellent point.
This seems like one of those strangely recurring limitations of writers' imagination.

The closest analogue I can think of is game AIs written to optimise speed running of games. They routinely end up following tactics which rely on what humans would describe as cheats and glitches.
That's not how copyright works. It would be illegal to distribute anything proprietary that Lapsus$ released, and it would never make it's way into any mainstream distributions let alone code hosting providers.
Most importantly missing: DNS, which usually is handled over UDP (changing slowly now with DNS-over-HTTPS and some TCP resolvers). Without handling DNS requests via your proxy, you're still leaking information about yourself to the resolver you're using.
What's new in dsq? March 2022 update
It used to be, at least. As years pass, Google's search quality deteriorates. It's been quite dramatic in the last few years especially - I won't pretend to know why.

A lot of it started happening when they took away the ability to search for exact terms, etc.
Google's competitor in what? As far as search goes they pay billions to device manufacturers and software vendors to have Google as default search everything, how would you compete with this? The actual search functionality, its speed, intuitiveness, etc. of any competitor is irrelevant.
So how you want the game to work is that you expect me to defend myself against being called bigoted or yield to your ideology. That's how you are propagating your perspective?
None, this is astroturfing from the reverse extreme.
What we actually see is broad wealth generation that is relatively widely spread (albeit not perfectly uniformly spread) lifting billions out of the crushing malthusian poverty that has been the fate of 99% of humanity, and the creation of social orders in which the rich, while they are rich, have strict limits on their abilities to control the lives of the majority.
I get why this “could” happen but I find it hard to believe you think that’s how things shake out even 1% of the time. You’re spiking the conversation with a vaguely-slippery-slope argument rooted in niche theoretical scenarios.
Ironically that blog posts mentioned they created kotlin to not accept compromises in terms of compilation speed. I have found kotlinc's performance to be really bad
> Is it a coincidence that this glyph looks like a man, waving his hand?

You are 99% close. It actually means a person speaks loudly with palm hand

https://www.zdic.net/hans/%E5%90%B4
I would posit that it is more likely than not that ALL companies lie about security and intrusions. This one will pass on into the night and is unlikely to affect the company, because security is not something most people want to think about. Passwords will not be changed, protocols will not be updated, and it will happen again.
Maybe your comment is off topic? We are talking about searching. You are talking about good vs not good developers and understanding code. Searching != understanding.
what would flying too high mean in concrete terms? lock themselves into a tiny ecosystem?
Well-developed intellectual curiosity looks in every direction.
Capitalism rewards and thus incentivises such behaviour though. Rich people have more freedom and power than poor people.
TikTok and HN (to a lesser degree) are the only places that don’t force feed me racial culture war stuff.
Honestly, I think the killer feature of Git was GitHub, and it was made popular by people wanting to use GitHub. The rest of the features were cherries on top of being able to use GitHub.

So I guess the killer feature for Fossil would be Fossil in that case, as Fossil is basically Git + GitHub but in one package, that works offline and local first.
Thanks! It is also a concern that I was looking for an answer!
Sitel deserves to be shoved under a bus. I worked at Sitel, and it’s a complete shit show. Believe everything you hear.
Yes exactly, they sound just like that. And worse sometimes too, but that’s not a bad parody.
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Some, but I'm not sure Linux supports it yet. I had also seen some patches for turning on the DDR SD mode, again not sure if they're used today though.
1000% agree. I am disappointed [1] with JetBrains' attitude to this problem. They seem to judge anyone who isn't using the JDK11-based JBR in 2020 as a difficult customer, and do not acknowledge latency/lagging problems on Linux. Mac users then reply to threads like this saying "works on my computer flawlessly, I don't know what you're talking about", until they confess to being Mac users.

I have tried JAOTC up until JDK16 with some IntelliJ products, but I think you are right in saying that the single most effective knob (or two) to twiddle in the default installation is to enable ZGC and increase the heap size.

Yes, I know JBR provide DCEVM builds (which need to be enabled by downloading the JDK and changing the "boot java" setting, ironically)

[1] and by that I mean "fuming"
Sounds like a government intervention is needed and the monopoly should be broken down for a better functioning market.

However, I guess big tech companies have become part of the superpower games (USA vs. China etc.). Breaking up Google might just mean a Chinese company takes over. Can't trust the other governments to enforce similar market conditions.

So yeah, like you said, conditions of the universe :)
> Gradle however, is a dsl in a language almost no java devs use

Gradle with Groovy sometimes gets kinda hard to comprehend

Gradle with Kotlin is entirely different experience, largely due to proper typing.
> Was any force ever able to get close to world domination?

Evolution? 2.5bn years ago stromatolites changed the atmosphere from a CO2-rich to O2-rich through photosynthesis, because they had no competition.
Now plants dominate the earth (≈450 Gt C, the dominant kingdom), then animals (≈2 Gt C, mainly marine, and bacteria (≈70 Gt C) and archaea (≈7 Gt C).

In 2020, global human-made mass exceeded all living biomass ( nature.com/articles/s41586-020-3010-5).
We hate electron apps because native apps are much faster

But Java/Kotlin is not native. Before electron, we hated Java apps because native apps are much faster

I develop in Pascal and Kotlin. When I had a laptop without SSD, Jetbrains IDE would take almost 30 minutes to start, while the Pascal native IDE could start in 30 seconds.
YouTube also does this weird thing for me where, for example, I watch a couple of videos of an android related YouTube channel about new phones, and then it’ll recommend me videos from 2008 about phones being released then. Lol
If someone worked on JIRA/Task we can find, otherwise, how do we even know about who has seen the codebase?
We are quite technically inclined. But when we practice that same approach towards less technical fields likes art, each person is able to give a unique take coming from their own walk of life and perspective. Still I find it intriguing for so many here to be interested in some obscure singer or musician. And then I wonder where am I lacking.
Thanks for sharing! This is an awesome tool. I also like seeing it is written in Ada. I don’t often find open source tools I like to use written in Ada. Super well organized, too!
Because nobody is writing good benchmarks for search engines. You can't improve something if you can't see what you're doing.
> We either have the right to affordable housing, or we are beholden to the market and its participants. When the free market can’t provide a market based solution, are we to just throw up our hands and say, at least we tried?

What free market do you have in mind? Housing supply shortages aren't the result of a free market, they are the result of a very regulated market or simply the prohibition to build more houses.

> What do people in the industry think the future of affordable housing looks like?

Construction needs to keep pace with population growth and demand, which it hasn't for a long time [0].

We could expropriate those 30000+ units and sure it would feel like justice is being done but this will only be a temporary patch if demand keeps outpacing supply.

And sure the government can build more units but can the government by itself make up for those 5 million needed units [1]?

Note once we expropriate those 30000 units we'll only be 4.97 millions units short.

[0] https://usafacts.org/articles/population-growth-has-outpaced...
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/14/america-is-short-more-than-5...
I’ve never heard this view about libertarians and the commons. I like it. Do you have a source where I can read more?
I'm not sure Keycloak is a viable alternative for most businesses. Security software as a whole tends to be _extremely_ difficult to run securely and at scale.

Honestly, most of these companies would be better off using Google, Azure or AWS' SSO-as-a-Service product (if that's what you're hoping to get out of Keycloak).

That's not to say that I don't appreciate that there's an open-source alternative out there, however.
The complaints regarding google's quality isn't because google is being bad or doing something anti-consumer it's just that spam and ranking has become harder and harder over time. A new competitor wouldn't be free from those issues.
On reddit you need to put in a lot of effort to find the good stuff, usually by stumbling across good subs from outside the site. TikTok is better at serving you the things you like as you passively consume them.
Great link for this, thanks. I had suspected some different ordering might already be called for given the need for e.g. RAM training.

That [version of?] pi booting is much more filename-oriented than all of the partitioning I have seen documented for a Rockchip [ http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2295 ].