skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I enjoyed that article many years ago, and even identified with those sentiments. I've kept an eye on PHP over the years. It's not that same language. Certainly PHP, like all languages are not perfect. But I gotta hand it to the team. The evolution has been awesome.
“Naturally selected and evolved”

Wow I never thought of this applied to algorithms and AI. Very profound to think about in this context, of users selecting the best videos with their clicks and evolving the naturally selected videos to out compete the other videos, in the same vein as survival of the fittest.
I ask other developers questions. Oh, they're busy? Well I don't really care because the sooner I get up to speed the less of a hassle I'll be to everyone in the long run. (EDIT: Yes, I'm being jocular with my use of hyperbole) All the documentation and grepping in the world can't make up for the intimate knowledge of those who've been on a project for a meaningful amount of time. It's surprising how people can point you to the right place in a codebase without searching, grepping, or any of that.
Yeah, if you're used to 4K, the resolution will definitely feel like a step down. For my personal usage, I've found the horizontal space to be really beneficial for development. YMMV.
> the status quo of maleness for basically all of recorded human history

I'm pretty sure that's completely false.

Consider the white feather campaign in Britain during WWI.

So much of male behavior throughout history has precisely been about preserving honor and avoiding shame.
Somewhere, Mark Fisher wrote, "Nobody is bored, everything is boring."

I think he meant people are always busy fiddling with their phones or whatever, but the content they are consuming and producing is uniform and absent any surprises.
Yeah I suddenly had very similar questions and then read your comment.

If a bit exists but there's no one to encode it, does it inform?

Seems like a lot of what we think of as information is really "potential information" along the lines of potential energy.

Also surprising lack of quantum physics in the article.

I'd be interested in what someone in the field of quantum physics or computation would have to say about these issues.

I do research in information theory but in a totally different way.
“I have the feeling that the situation has improved, because you never read in the newspapers about accidents with LSD any more, as it happened in the 1960s practically every day. People who use LSD today know how to use it. Therefore, I hope that the health authorities will get the insight that LSD, if it is used properly, is not a dangerous drug. We actually should not refer to it as drug; this word has a very bad connotation. We should use another name. Psychedelic substances, if they are used in proper ways, are very helpful for mankind.“
It seems tangential, but interesting, that a system that provided my childhood years with probably thousands of hours of entertainment did so with individual games requiring less memory than the average corporate spreadsheet.

Has anyone attempted to calculate utility per byte? Certainly, the relative evolution of society would play a role (a cave-dweller might have found a few hieroglyphs entirely fascinating), but even with a certain adjustment factor in terms of the general complexity of dominant sources of information, Nintendo games would assuredly excel.

As evidence, folks are still speed-running the original Super Mario Bros from 1985. Lindy effect or efficiency of "utility" per byte?
It works great for me with much larger projects.
There was a computer you could switch between 50 and 60 Hz with a button press. This controlled the CPU clock too so you got a faster computer with 60 Hz. But I can't remember what computer it was? Can't have been the Amiga or Atari even though they also could do it, has to have been an older one?
It's hard to justify Auth0 when you can use cognito or AFDS often for free as an addon to things you already need. Or something like firebase (or supabase or appwrite etc). I would trust any of those solutions more than Okta, which is pretty old school.
> Even in niche areas, I think it's still an enormous task to challenge Google. Despite the fact that 90% of my searches for "WTF does this stacktrace mean?" end up on StackOverflow, I invariably start my search on Google because every now and then it gives me useful non-StackOverflow tidbits, and I know I can always drill in more with specific tags on StackOverflow later.

It's telling, that a Google search scoped to a particular web site (xyz site:website.com) almost always produces better results than that web site's actual built-in search engine. If a web site that knows in detail its own content, its own users, and its own domain, still can't make their built-in search better, how does anyone else have a chance?
Designer's Republic? They were definitely involved in the original design for Wip3out.

The packaging and manual alone still feel fresh after almost 30 years IMHO:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/wipeout/cover-art/gameCoverId...

You can see the little "I love my DR" logo on the back cover:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/wipeout/cover-art/gameCoverId...

https://www.mobygames.com/game/wipeout/cover-art/gameCoverId...

It truly felt like "an experience from the future" back in 1995 - and to some extent still does, for this fan at least :)
You do have a point. However, the internet today is very different from its early days. Its content is much more centralized.

In the past, Google search results will point to some good websites you never heard of and are very low traffic. But nowadays, the first couple pages are all popular websites with huge traffic even when they are low quality on the content. You can only find low traffic but good content websites in comments from social sites like reddit and HN.

So it seems to me, to build a usable search engine, you only need to index most popular websites.
>>PHP also inherits shell's here doc syntax, e.g. <<EOF . Not sure if Perl has that.

It does.

>>It kind of annoys me that they all require $ on the left

Larry Wall says he went that direction to make namespace clashing between $dog, @dog, %dog, and "sub dog {}" (scalar, array, hashtable, function) a non-issue.

http://www.wall.org/~larry/natural.html ("Disambiguation")
This hits the nail on the head. I feel like Google results have gotten worse not because technical problems need to be solved, but because the financial incentives means that I'm now scrolling through tons of ads, little "tidbits" that have just gotten more annoying over time, AMP carousels, and god forbid I'm searching for anything that happened over 20 years ago that has any slight resemblance to a current event - all I get are pages and pages about the current event, and Google has "memory-holed" the past.

IMO, all startups have a sweet-spot where they've figured out what the market needs, and they can be profitable, but they haven't yet sucked that bone dry to where they're forced to extend more tentacles to grow their revenue. For Google, for me, that was about the 2007-2012 time frame.

Any other competitor would have the same financial pressures eventually. Long term, it's impossible to "not be evil".
That’s just (part of) the variable name and not really the same.
DuckDuckGo does quite well here for me, as long as I enable the button for localized results. I very much like that it's an option there.
I cannot imagine having this opinion
I’d think that like fb, they collect data on individuals regardless of accounts. One example of this is their facial recognition services. Given that they force higher pricing of products not on their page, it becomes challenging to simply “go somewhere else.” It’s also been shown that they extract business data from their aws customers.
well... i've been "binging" and "DDGing" things a lot more often in the last couple of years.

Bing isn't the perfect google replacement as it seems to have gone the google route of not returning hits for things you search for, but for things it thinks you wanted to search for.

Maybe the "site:reddit.com" hack works well enough for people who care about search results.
I understand what you mean and I agree about everyone whining that the "sky is falling" but in my opinion, you shouldn't collect what you can't easily give me.
> our registrar should be under different administration from your DNS servers (more than one), which should be different from your service (e-mail/web/etc) host(s).

Wouldn't it increase the risk not decrease it? Now there will be three single point of failure and compromise of any of the three party will result in downtime. In theory, the later two could be recovered or moved but your solution doesn't solve any problem.
I think things are changing; at CES this year QD-OLED launched on both TVs and monitors simultaneously with the AW3423DW, and there are some 42 inch OLED monitors derived from TV panels.
This is such an amazing art piece. Shopify as a medium, what a world.
Kotlin, the first and only language made to be (single) IDE friendly.
> walked into the funeral home ... hoping to settle one more of his father’s outstanding debts

It makes sense that they need to pay to receive the ashes, but "one more" implies they are paying other debts, with zero details that they are receiving anything tangible.

> inheriting ... his father’s end-of-life expenses, thousands of dollars in debts

This article does nothing to help its readers and in fact makes things worse by compounding the notion that debts are inherited.
How was it treated?
Perhaps all of this would be a lot easier if you actually built some simple automation to process requests. What could possibly take 3 days to process? The only plausible reason is that you’re wasting developers time on what really belongs in one of the myriad tools AWS itself provides for such tasks.
It does make a difference on eye strain, since they need to focus to a point much closer.
Like I have said previously¹² about choosing a registrar: If you have regular backups, and if some downtime is not really a problem, it might be fine to use web server hosting, e-mail (and in extreme cases even DNS hosting), from some fly-by-night el cheapo provider. But your domain name registrar? Pick them carefully, don’t skimp, and make sure they have good support. Because when things go pear-shaped, you really want to be able to actually talk to someone to change your web server or e-mail DNS records (or even DNS servers) to somewhere else.

Big registrars can’t afford any support costs since they prefer to squeeze the price down as far as possible, and therefore they prefer to simply lose or outright drop any customer in case of any and all problems. Conversely, small registrars may charge more, but have better (i.e. actually existing, and sometimes even dedicated and personal) support for when things go wrong, and have a vested interest in keeping you as a customer.

A small registrar might also be so small as to know you personally, which will help monumentally against any social engineering attacks.

Full disclosure: I work at such a registrar, but I see that you’re not in our target market.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29112559

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26865752
I don't disagree. I will say that I deeply wish Valve enforced the guidelines more fiercely with the community created items. The original games (I mostly play DotA 2, but some TF2 as well) were essentially aesthetically perfect and I really wish there was a way for me to turn cosmetics off entirely.

In particular, this document is a fucking masterclass, I've learned more about making good visual choices from that FAQ than I have from any other single resource. I just wish it were law, not just guidelines.

[Dota 2 Workshop - Character Art Guide](https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/0688-7692-4D5A-19...)

P.S. Don't play DotA 2, but it's also the deepest multiplayer game ever made, except maybe Go, and I'll be playing it till the day I die.
> And prices seem artificially high

I switched companies last year and was gonna return the screen they gave me to use for home office, and buy my own. I looked it up, and the screen had cost like 700 USD back in 2016. So I thought I for the same price, 5 years later, I would get a sweet upgrade.

But no, basically same specs. Same panels, perhaps upgraded a bit, but not much had happened. Prices were the same, perhaps because of the pandemic. Luckily my previous company ended up gifting me the screen.

My new company ended up giving me the "newer" version of the monitor at the office. Only difference I can see is that it now charges my laptop via usb-c. Neat, but not much innovation in those 5 years.
Thanks for the explanation, much appreciated. Any chance we could chat further on it? My email is username at the common google service.
I think if critics said things like “Pet Sounds was a huge technical and cultural innovation in the production of music but was only an incremental improvement in the aesthetics and complexity of music” we wouldn’t have this article. The point of the investigation is to understand why critics are literally calling it God-like. At least, that’s my reading.
generally of course if properly planned, after death ones bills should all be paid in full, but the cheque for the funeral should bounce...
The fact that npm ci does what npm i should do (well, except for starting from scratch each time [0]), says it all. npm is a joke.

[0] Yes, that's right. npm doesn't allow to to install incrementally respecting the lockfile. You can install incrementally with npm i and roll the dice, or install from scratch with npm ci to respect the lockfile. Basically the npm authors took the rm -rf node_modules/ workaround and productized it.
...which sold eye-poppingly to a mass audience, while the DS and 3DS sold a ton to a more core gaming audience, and the two have merged in really neat ways with the Switch. (I am very much a "core gamer", I'm playing Triangle Strategy right now, but Ring Fit Adventure also owns.)
> Have fun in Narnia.

And you have fun in your hellhole.

> 0.17% of 330 million is 561000.

Whoops, you're right I missed a zero. Thanks for furthering my point.

> I'm saying that a system that works for 99.9% of people must be doing something right and that helping the less than 0.1% population should not require a fundamental change.

You're basically arguing for status quo and I contend that status quo is not enough. A system that works for 99.9% of people could be better if it worked for 99.99% of people, and even better yet, if it worked for 100% of people.
> Oh, they're busy? Well I don't really care

Because your time is so much more valuable than theirs!
You’re not even wrong. I suggest that you at least take the five minutes to read the wikipedia summary on predicate transformers before posting a replying in which you observably have no idea what you’re talking about.

Briefly, predicate transformers are functions about the behavior of a language, not functions in the language. In that model predicates are pure functions over the program state space and predicate transformers are functions from predicates to predicates. Clearly your objections are inapplicable.
70% of every field is shit at their jobs.

We don't call it 'webshit' because the people are shit, we call it that because the product is shit. A pile of garbage abstractions built on other garbage abstractions all ultimately trying to make a document viewer into an application platform.
Basic uses them at the end for string variables... A$...
Elderly Covid patients in Sweden given morphine instead of oxygen
Google built a moat around its essential product: searching on the Internet.

Speed of access, an Internet browsing engine , contracts with non-GGL browsers, cloud data centers, maps/locations/navigation, fiber cables/internet pipelines, social networks and personal management software, AI/ML research, personal devices OS ...

Impossible is nothing, but any incumbent will likely take in capital linked to Google. GGL is dominant across the world's hundred and something countries. Excpect places where it is banned(China) or shunned(Russia), anywhere it is equivalent to a monopoly of internet services.

From a technical perspective, a challenger can rise up. From an economic standpoint, a challenger would not last long (maybe locally if favored by regulation). Even the most successfull others: Apple or Amazon would not dare take on Google's Ads or Search Engine. Microsoft tried with Windows Phones and Bing, then ended failing to dominate the market. Google is not singular business. It has so many tentacles in the tech sector that wave a web of interlocking tech products. Growth numbers in Search are boosted by integration in all of Google's own products and the rest of internet users and companies.

To answer your question is to figure out what advantage it has on any competitor starting from zero... Sadly, its network scale is too large to allow an equal challenger.
Interesting. I find innovation in TV's to be opposite of my desired direction. Smarts that make them slower, wifi, ads, slowness,forced firmware updates, slowness, unfathomable picture controls and auto magic colour correction that's Gawd awful, unresponsiveness and slowness. So I'm more likely to use my monitor as a TV then to want to use tv as monitor. I'm also clinging to my 2008 46" lcd tv that just works, and am stunned by how often my father in law has to call for my help with his shiny 76" tv which is showing blue screen of death or mandatory update or things have moved or icons have changed or their version of Netflix / Disney / whatever app is borked or needs maintenance or no longer supported or just looks different... And slower. Always ever slower.... the slowness of response is astonishing. Reminds me of new cars where if last driver had volume set up max, you can't kill the radio or volume until car is done telling you about its disclaimers and boot up sequence and pretty animation.

If you can't move in menus or mute instantly, than no thank you to innovation.
The automation would be a bigger risk than granting humans carte blanche access to customer data? That seems like an odd security conclusion.
Agreed! Let's appeal to Feynman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkhBcLk_8f0

"I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing, than to have answers which might be wrong."

Parallels to Socrates. Natural philosophy (physics), is philosophy of nature. What should concern us in our age is the widening gulf between the two. Mind the gap!
I don’t understand, what does this signal about you personally?
I would imagine the “why” of the rule is more important than the rule itself. Anyway, some reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg's_stages_of_...

Besides, the unqualified versions of The Golden Rule are subject to exploits around not observing the Veil of Ignorance.

After all, I believe that everyone whose name is “Rene” must by right have the money of all others. I do unto you as I would have you do unto me: I.e. we both behave according to the precept “if I am a Rene and you are not then I will take your money; and if you are Rene and I am not then I would give you my money”.

A universal law for the ages. I shall treat you as I would have you treat me. Now, if you don’t mind, stand and deliver.
It changes when you reload the page. There's also some kind of character walking across the screen. I can't tell if they are supposed to match up so the character looks like it is walking through the environment. At least on my phone they don't line up.
>Coercion is when someone reduces your option set, by threatening violence (against the person or property of you or someone you love). An offer, that you are free to reject, and have the faculty to fully comprehend, cannot meet the definition of coercive.

In an economy that defines itself by a high degree of the division of labor, where people no longer gather their own food and are dependent on the cooperation of other people, being excluded from the division of labor is the same as ending their ability to participate in society. They must now scramble and get their own plot of land and work the fields themselves and become self sufficient. There are offers that people cannot refuse realistically.

I would count this as coercion because people who own money can refuse to spend it indefinitely. As money is needed to conduct transactions, it becomes harder and harder to trade the more people keep money for the sake of having money instead of using money exclusively as a medium of exchange as many economists (even Marx) postulate, even though it has been proven wrong hundreds of times.

A store of value cannot be used as a medium of exchange, those are two mutually incompatible and this conflict makes the money -> goods transaction inherently coercive, which ironically also backfires, because the only way you can beat coercion is through psychological manipulation. How do you convince someone to get something they don't need? By creating an artificial need.
What drugs and therapy helped you?
Don't see how it increases productivity compared to normally sized 4k screens? Can fit just as much into them?

Edit: Or might be able to not scale text as much. But that is the screen being too close I feel.
>It would just take at astronomical amount of capital to challenge Google at generic Internet search, [...] For example, Amazon is quite content just being the place you want to go to first for the things you want to buy, as that is obviously the most lucrative area.

I understand your intent with that domain-specific example but surprisingly, that reasonable intuition sometimes doesn't work...

E.g. for Amazon product search, I often deliberately use Google's engine to find the Amazon page because Amazon's own search can't do it. See example screenshots in my previous comment about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27539199
Don't forget Pop Will Eat Itself. They did practically all of their graphics.
My early pandemic project was to record live covers & re-arrangements of the entire Pet Sounds album on instagram, and when I got to God Only Knows I was stunned. I’d learned the verse & chorus chord progressions and things were going great, but at the bridge it fell apart. I knew it was the verse progression repeated, but it wasn’t resolving into the final verse like I knew it should.

That’s when I checked the chords more closely and realized there was a key change at the bridge that felt so natural I missed it completely. Without that piece there’s no way to connect the two sections. “Musical sudoku” is right on.
No, you still cannot record the computer’s own output. The choices are microphone or “none”. The UI is literally the same.

The only way to record the computer output is to install a kext or some other similar hack.
I agree with you, but, unfortunately, research shows that only 5% of customers care that their privacy is being sold off. The rest don't care. Accuweather, for instance, (which is so lousy with ads that it compromises the experience of using the app,) offered a deal where you could pay $5/year and not be tracked or have ads. I took advantage of the offer. But so few others did that Accuweather cancelled the service. I guess it wasn't worth their trouble to keep track of who had paid and so didn't get ads for less than 5% of their users to sign on.
In my humble opinion, cost. Sitel is a “lowest bidder” churn machine. It opens big call centers in low employment areas, and just churns and burns.

Cubicle farms, unprofessional managers constrained by ops managers who play favorites, and fiefdoms.

Why? There are only two positions at Sitel: On the phone, or off, and no one who has ever gotten off the phone wants to ever go back, so their relations between Ops and Team Managers are always strained.

In a word, at Sitel crap rolls down hill and collects there until it drowns you.
How does it hande openssl ?
There is Amazon KeyCloak, might meets someones needs https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/solutions/keycloak-on-aws/