skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is anything but a simple box that gives you answers now. It hasn't been that for a very long time. I wish it was.

It is a box that gives you a screenfull of ads, some spam copycat sites I wish I could remove, and a lot of clutter. As many people on here have said before, it only gets away with it because it owns the web browser through Chrome, Android and its Apple deal for Safari.
Thank you! DataGridXL has been my text only benchmark for a long time because of how ludicrously fast it is! Downright creative problem solving!
Wow, I forgot about that--you're right. I guess I should rant at the lawyers instead. Thanks for the reminder!
Tik Tok is Chinese -- and was raged against by Trump for that reason -- and would constitute picking a fight with the CCP. That's a big ole can of worms to open up while running other big-deal sanctions and playing the brinkmanship game with Russia.
Encryption at rest is fun until the keys are leaked.
Hi. An early build did, but I decided to leave out the feature as there is much more to it than I thought. Perhaps in the future, 2023 or 2024 stuff.
I find it very odd that more and more of these self help and pseudo-religious blog posts have been showing up the last couple of weeks. Not sure if it is something new or I never noticed it before.

I think that the author is actually referring to consumerism but I'm splitting hairs. The point I'd really like to make about this article is that even if you 'overcome materialism' you will gain little if your entire worldview is predicated on the idea that 'feeling good' is a the barometer for a successful, happy, or fulfilling life. Judging the value of an action or thought in relation to your feelings is inherently hedonistic.
So how would I use this when I have an Apple TV? Is there an app I download and then I use Plex to find what I want to watch and then it launches whichever streaming service has the content?
I greatly miss Hipmunk, and would really like a successor. But I'm confused as to why this needs to be a browser extension instead of just a website. Even if you provide extra features as an extension, show comparisons if I'm flight sites, etc, I'd still like to just have a website I can go to to search flights, not requiring a browser extension to use.
There's a million easy to use payment providers with checkouts in email, text, you name it.
Do they have actual photos of people harvesting from living prisoners organs?

This comes up every now and again, and the last two times I looked into it, there was no evidence, just claims and spurious "statistical analysis"...
> Wanted to give it a shot but got disappointed when I launched it and the following happened

Yup, well, that's what happens when you take money from VCs or other third party investors, you need to monetise / demonstrate ROI / need numbers for your investor slide-decks.

I'll stick to my old-fashioned spyware free terminal thanks very much. Why overcomplicate things that don't need to be complicated.
I addressed why this would work for me in my initial reply. I don't need to work from any point. It is enough for me to work from one or two fixed points. The difference between two desktops and carrying a Mac Mini between two workstations is that the computer itself is the same in both locations so all data is still local. It's all the benefits of a laptop that I actually use. I do not use the screen or keyboard on my MacBook, but I suffer the compromised thermals and bulky form factor anyway.
“Countries that have a McDonald’s do not go to war with one another.”
They do, actually! All of the public help requests and feature suggestions have been in Jira since, like, the early 00s. It's weird to see when they pop up in Google results with ancient screenshots attached.
Imagine being the rights holder to this song
yeah, but then your just encouraging them to make the free version a bad as is acceptable, like YouTube, and possibility create classes like on commercial airlines. you want the world divided into classes?
Yep, that's all true. I meant that L1 and L2 use an external AC power source.
An interesting phishing method… i.e. the new “leave a usb drive in the parking lot” trick.
> don't realize how hated and despised their censorship policies really are.

Majority of Americans (and most people I'd imagine) do not really care about their policies. They don't give two figs about it, and just go about their life just fine without being affected by it one bit. I'm sure you can find some people on both sides of the spectrum regarding their policies, but the vast majority don't. As someone who isn't from SV or has ever worked for in or for an SV company, my bubble is surrounded by farmers.
> Many things in the world are possible. I often find probable to be a more useful concept than possible. Any tool with deterministic results (such as Nix) are highly likely to reduce a whole class of future problems.

I disagree with the whole "highly likely" bit. Just because something new has a large positive value, that does not mean that a large time-investment or effort-investment in it is likely to pay off.

After all, it may never get traction to make the cost of learning it worthwhile - some other, newer, better, easier system could come along and be adopted instead.

We've seen this play out again and again in the technology world[1]. In 2000, a large time and effort investment into UTF-16 would be wasted as the world adopted UTF-8 instead. A large time and effort invested into new languages with powerful features (Haskell, circa 2005) would be wasted as the industry largely ignored it in favour of (presumably) inferior alternatives.

Is nix highly likely to provide solutions to a whole class of problems?

Sure.

Is it highly likely to be the dominant, or even a common tool, in the future that solves those problems?

Doubtful; "easier-to-use" has always won against "can better solve problems". I see no evidence that this will change anytime soon.

[1] I've found that by procrastinating about learning a new technology, I can sometimes manage to avoid having to learn it altogether, because the tech dies off before my procrastination does. By putting off learning VRML in 2001, it went away before I ever got to it.

Likewise, I'll put off learning new things until I actually have a need for the solution they offer. At least then, even if they die out in a few years, I'd have at least solved my immediate problems.
When someone claims "free speech infringement" and then has no data to back it up they are either trolling or don't really care enough to make a substantial argument.
Anybody know if there are considerations or plans for things like:

- Mandatory periodic ID transmit (via RF) by drones at specific altitudes or in specific areas

- Standardized visual marking schemes for drones by class, for example municipal, commercial, federal, etc.

Just wondering because for example my city announced that they'll be using drones for power pole checks, which will include a lot of backyard operation. I'd like to be able to identify them if needed.
Buying one of each platform is a bug, not a feature. The goal is to maximize customer LTV. This hypothetical product could be strictly superior to _and_ more expensive than separate purchases of a MacBook and iPad.

I wouldn't expect to see this on the Air or even Pro models as standard; it makes sense as an expensive upgrade akin to the M1 Max.
If they don't figure out holograms, seems like this is how they'd pull off those megacorp holographic displays of ads you see in media like Blade Runner/Cyberpunk 2077.
This stuff has been in the major shells for years, through excellent editor integration. For emacs and vi it's pretty much free. If you want to integrate with a different editor, it's totally doable.

Most of the stuff sibling comment is referring to center around the feature:

'edit-and-execute-command' in bash. There is a similar incantation for zsh.

I summon it with, 'ESC v' in both.
Just curious, what tools do you prefer to use to identify network requests from recently installed applications such as this?
Excellent production: right length, fabulous graphics, very creative approach overall: A grade from me.
I want to pay for researched, impartial answers to my questions. Would someone build that, please?
That's how I've interpreted it. So basically what their Apple TV+ app does but with the addition to your local content (and what's been shared with you through other plex servers)
asdf for solution to package manager hell? missed opportunity for naming it fgsfds
Affinity is great but there is also not as much training as PS, but for the price it is worth having. One thing that Affinity and PhotoLine can do that PS can't is make curves adjustments in the Lab color space without having to change the entire document from RGB to Lab. I am sure there are plenty of other things XYZ apps do better than PS, but I will say this again, PS has so much training and tutorials out there which save you time.

To be fair to GIMP, I used PS back to when adjustment layers were not a thing. The work that team does is amazing and I give them props (though I still would love to see adjustment layers).
I stopped using Plex when it started requiring a cloud login to access my local media
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Previous to founding Usage, I worked on high-performance computing research at JP Morgan Chase and as a software engineer at a number of smaller startups.

Here's how it works: We are typically brought in by a DevOps manager to cut AWS EC2 costs. The app is entirely self-service and the savings are generated automatically, typically we do this live on a call. On average, we reduce AWS EC2 spend by 50% for 5 minutes of work.

To reduce by 50%+, we don't touch the instances, require any code change, or change the performance of your instances. We buy Reserved Instances on your behalf (a billing layer change only) and bundle them with guaranteed buyback. So you get the steep 57% savings of 3-year no-upfront RIs with none of the commitment (you can sell them back to us anytime after 30 days).

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This is probably off by a factor of 2 at least. Is if you told me that Monterrey has 5x as many users, I’d agree. Not 10X. That said, there are likely a sizable group (5%?) of customers that cannot upgrade to Monterey. Apple should be worried for these customers, too.
For a fintech startup I was working for, that was the feedback our sales team got. "We like the product and it looks impressive, but we're used to Excel and we like to use Excel". So that's when we decided to add a page in our web app that had an Excel-look. That did not change things, the product vision was wrong, just like you said. But I can imagine that more web app producers get exactly this feedback from their prospects.
That's a great question! Version controlled shell scripts are very useful (and in fact workflows in Warp can also be version controlled) but they still have a few problems:
1) Documentation--when a repo has a lot of shell scripts, it can be very difficult to know which command to run in certain situations. Even if each shell script has documentation, there's no way to find that documentation natively from the terminal itself.
2) Searching--you can only execute commands from the terminal based on the shell script name but there's no easy way to search for a script based on _what_ it does or any other metadata.
>If your complaint is that Twitter is an outrage inducing platform by design, I would absolutely agree. But that isn't an ideological bent. It just wants you to engage, and the fastest and easiest method is to make you mad.

I don't think we can say with any honesty that Twitter is a clone of Fox's Three talking heads, comprised of a good looking moderator with a leftwinger, and a rightwinger duking it out.

Twitter has been censoring, moderating, editorializing, and shadow-banning a large amount of conservatives, Libertarians, and also, moderates/centrists, and leftwingers that are posting contrary to the establishment narratives.

By turning into more of an ideological echo-chamber it initiated the birth of conservative and other competitors, of which gettr appears to be leading the race with competitors like parler, truthsocial, gab, and others falling behind. Am surprised there are not shareholder lawsuits yet against Twitter's Officers for violating fiduciary responsibilities.

Maybe they are prioritizing influence over eyeballs & economics?
How do you determine whether someone only cares about themselves?
How do you determine whether someone doesn't only care about themselves?
Always nice when one of my projects makes it to the front page!

I haven’t worked on this one much lately, but I’m happy to answer any questions!
Engineering culture. SGI was not pragmatic in building hardware, more of an outlet for brilliant engineers to ship experiments.
Yes, it is true that with this approach, you have to make sure not to edit the text independently from its metadata.
>it only gets away with it because it owns the web browser through Chrome, Android and its Apple deal for Safari.

From someone who tried the switch to duckduckgo and uses ddg as the default engine: I can't remember the last query I typed without adding "!g". Google doesn't get my queries because the service is shoved down my throat, it gets them because the alternatives I tried are worse wrt the total scope of my queries.
This is cool, but, aside from error messages, it resembles Clojure's biggest problem right now: Everyone keeps trying to re-invent the wheel with respect to creating the "Rails" for Clojure.

We have several production grade libraries and frameworks for serving webpages. Reitit(router), yada(http standards), bidi(router), aleph (netty wrapper), ring (jetty wrapper), pedestal (bundle of libraries), luminus (self described micro-framework), the list goes on, yet Clojure's biggest pain point is the lack of other production grade libraries for other/mundane things.

If the libraries do exist, they can barely cut a stable release (like 2.0.0-alpha24) or keep up with changes to prevent software rot.
Again, if you give 2 teams 50M to develop a new processor. One using x86 and the other using RISC-V I have not question in my mind what team would come out ahead.
My post wasn't saying that my entire point was provable, just that it was specifically trivial to show you can create great work without that suffering.

If you can't think of a single example of a valuable thing being made by a company without an abusive auteur CEO, then I guess we see "value" very differently.

The rest of my post argues that there is no way to justify that harm given we know the work can be achieved without it.
I think TikTok is the primary news “source” for an alarming number of people.
The problem with trying to replace Google is that you have to..
1. Do (nearly) everything Google does as well as them AND
2. fix Google's weak spots (usually in subjective queries) AND
3. offer something new and exciting.

It's hard to do (1) well given Google's data moat and how good that makes them at head queries. It's rare that people stick with one of these alternatives because they struggle to be as good in the majority of simple queries.

We built a few such search engines before choosing a different route — we made something that augments Google (or Amazon, or whatever other search engine you use) and improves it in areas that it's weak in.

I posted our thoughts on this a few weeks ago on HN that generated some discussion as well — http://abhinavsharma.com/blog/google-alternatives https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30725933

The apps we built are a mobile browser extension for iOS and a desktop browser extension

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hyperweb/id1581824571
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hypersearch/feojag...

It's one approach, but we're trying to be more non zero-sum about it, and consider that the search engine doesn't have to be replaced 1:1 with a better search engine.
That was the deal a few weeks ago. After the atrocities that their army has committed in my country, I do not think I will ever unblock traffic from Russian Federation.
There is a learning curve but it's not too bad. It took me about 6 months to go from zero experience to winning prizes in their 'make something unreal' contest for unreal engine 3. If you have any development experience it should go pretty fast.
There are. See things like: https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/remote_id/
An Empirical Study on the Use and Misuse of Java 8 Streams
This is so far from truth it's hilarious.
To quote Rich Hickey: "gem install hairball"
Callgrind can give you instruction counts yes. It doesn't simulate any microarchitecture other than caches which means its only useful for comparing with itself.

Perf stat is very very high overhead. The perf API is available and can be tuned a bit more nicely but it's mostly a horrible mess. It uses bitfields too which makes it somewhat hard to get to from other languages unless you trust the shifts and masks.
Maybe Musk himself wasn't paying attention?

"I would be shocked if we do not achieve full-self-driving safer than a human this year. I would be shocked." - Musk in a 2021 earnings call.
where's the devops platform?

if all they have to offer us is the terminal, then their product is the terminal
They've been hinting this for a while now.

It kind of is one of those missing features which I would have wanted back when I was subscribed to several streaming services. But now there is only one at the time + plex.
Roughly speaking, the catch with every fusion-related "breakthrough" in the past 60+ years is the not-so-slight difference between:

- "With a huge research budget, we found a nifty new way to reliably set a few tiny lumps of coal on fire in our lab."

and

- "We can reliably build useful and practical locomotives, ships, and electrical generating plants which are powered by burning coal...and are long-term economically viable in a world which has several other ways of powering locomotives, ships, and electrical generating plants."

Except that with coal, making a far bigger fire is incredibly easy. With fusion, all the $Billions in the world don't seem capable of making even a modestly bigger...
>So your suggested system would be to do away with the jobs and just give the taxpayer money away? That's much more socialist. You need to incentivize people or they won't work. If you do away with the military, you might as well not tax the people as much in the first place rather than taking their money and distributing it in a welfare program.

So to sum up your take, the military only spends money on jobs, and without the all the money we throw at the military, we'd immediately start having to make cutbacks to personnel?
The other bomb (Fat Man) used a different approach, using explosives to radically compress a ball of Plutonium.
Have...you? Specifically looking at Florida, the issue is, while they don't say you can't "say gay" the wording is deliberately vague on what can be taught and when. This is very much intended to create a chilling effect on classroom speech because teachers and school districts don't have the cash to find out in court and all it takes is one dumb parent to start a massive court battle.
This, honestly. It _feels_ more like the only people that care about SV censorship policies are the people affected by them: SV types that live almost entirely on the platforms they're scared of being censored from. Well, that and people who make their entire careers pushing other peoples' boundaries and, as a result, generate a big negative following.
You sure Dolby Digital is that low of quality? From what I understood it was lossy compression but mainly limited by the bandwith of things like optical cables and could approach some pretty decent levels. Just because it might be at a similar sounding bitrate does not mean the quality is the same.

edit: This explains the differences pretty well - Dolby Digital (original version) can go higher than 320kbs

https://ottverse.com/mp3-aac-ac3-wav-wma-opus-audio-codecs-d...
Jellyfin has been really nice in my experience for audio streaming. I'll also plug Finamp, my mobile audio jellyfin client of choice, and Sonixd, my macOS jellyfin client, two amazing little pieces of software. Haven't tried it much for video though. I love the fact that I can manage my own logins and self-host -- if the media has to live locally, after all, why not handle the whole thing?
The main thing I take issue with in your comment is the criticism of "Making the world a better place". What exactly is wrong with that? Nothing, I say. Maybe you're thinking of those who have co-opted that phrase to do bad, selfish things. There's nothing wrong with making your surroundings, your community, and beyond, a better place.
On the other hand you're one of the first living in the information age, when entities truly bigger than people actually exist
I have never called anyone a paedophile on the internet, no. Have you?
If you're wondering about the neutrality premise.

The furthest ~25% on the left and right have an increasingly extreme, partisan, borderline psychotic view of the world that you're either with us or against us. That polarization has become radically more aggressive over the past decade.

Just to use a simple example: someone might might say it's not enough to not oppose men becoming women and dominating female swimming/sports (neutrality), you must support it. Anything else and you're an "enemy" and not an "ally." The left in particular has created an increasingly large vocabulary designed to polarize and split the population and draw lines between people (either or lines).
PS5 demo did have hardware ray-tracing acceleration though.
I don’t think Musks main association is being unwoke.

He might be good for shareholders, but it’s not because of “free speech”.
All you have to do to improve on Google at this point is to do less, make it less bad, i.e. a process of removals, not additions. Just do the same thing, but without all the shitty extra stuff. But then what's the business model? (Since that is in fact most of the shitty stuff. Oh sure there's still the SEO spam, and you're in that arms-race, like it or not, even if you're not a successful search engine, so you do the best you can with that.)

Speaking of doing less, I would love to see the web be more hierarchical or semantic (but not necessarily "the semantic web" as it's currently conceived). Google itself is what made the world reorganize itself. A world where that kind of search exists will reorganize itself around search, maybe not always for the better.

Concrete example of going from a hierarchical/semantic world to a search-based one: Instead of finding your socks in the sock area, which is inside your clothes area, which is inside your "do private things" area, let's say now every sock has a trackable chip in it similar to an AirTag and you just say "Alexa where's the nearest pair of socks?"

Pros:

No effort spent on putting your socks in the sock place. Just throw them anywhere.

Instant access to socks.

Cons:

Big Tech, with all its limitations and machinations, now mediates and controls the relationship between you and your socks.

You succumbed to the temptation to slack off, and now there are socks everywhere. The Roomba doesn't even work right.
The thread I created on validating the legitimacy of one of those emails using DKIM back when the story broke was quickly flagged. Be glad all you got was a downvote.
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