skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google had it search nailed for a long time. I don't expect Kagi to replace it if it's asking questions like "what killer feature do you want from a search engine" (paraphrased)

I don't want any features. I want a search bar, a search button, and results that relate to my query based on more than simply matching a keyword to a query word, but based on less than whatever Google factors in these days and certainly not based on whether someone has paid to have their domain featured for a query. I have never clicked a paid promoted search link on Google, or any other service, and I never will. If you have to pay for your content to be displayed as matching a query, it probably shouldn't be. Content should speak for itself.

The one thing I 100% never want to see is a selection of results that are at all influenced by what lots of other people have clicked on. I want to see results that pertain to my query, regardless of whether they have attracted the interest of others who have searched for something the same/similar.

I also don't want to see results that are influenced by my previous searches, by my location, or by data gathered about my Google account unless I specifically want those to be factored into my search.

Features like ways to refine search like inurl: or intitle:? Yes, cool, have them available.

Also, I expect a search engine to load fast. I don't expect a ton of JavaScript to be required for an input box and a button, and I don't want doodles of the day and other junk. They're fun, sure, but at least let me turn that off because I'm a psychopath.

I don't think we'll see a true Google competitor. Would I pay for a search engine that was just as good but kept it simple and returned better results than the trash Google can come up with? Yeah, probably, but I think all that will happen is that Google itself will come up with Google Premium Search, run it for two years and then shut it down.

I don't think for one second think that search is easy, it most definitely isn't, and Google has a head start on its competitors -- but I do think that Google was more effective 10 years ago than it is now. I cannot however say whether that's down to Google overcomplicating their search algorithms or whether there's just x% more garbage out there, where x is some very large number.
Just wondering how many critics here have social media apps on their Android or iOS devices.
VC capital is useful assuming it's a winner-takes-all / capital-intensive market, but many markets are not, in which case optimizing for $ raised is actually a distraction

Example: Delicious was sold to bootstrapped competitor, Pinboard for only $35K. Pinboard is still around to this day

https://www.productlessons.xyz/article/pinboard-delicious-fa...
Linus (Tech Tips) has a good video about why external investment is useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSxbc1IN9Gg , but he's talking about a hardware company, which is probably different to a software one. Skip to around 5:00 to get to topic.
From Media Bias Fact Check [0]:

> During 2020, [Rumble has] promoted false and misleading information regarding Covid-19, such as anti-mask propaganda: Masks don’t work, and here’s why. According to science and experts in the field, a mask is essential to slow the spread of Covid-19. Further, during the 2020 Presidential election, they frequently published false videos claiming election fraud such as this HAMMER software fraud in real-time. Finally, they also promote conspiracy theories from QAnon such as this Plandemic COVID SCAM – Fall Of Cabal Deep State And Illuminati Globalist Agenda 21 ID2020. In general, the videos published on Rumble are mostly right-biased, and many are not factual or promote conspiracy theories.

> Overall, we rate Rumble Right Biased and Questionable based on the promotion of right-wing propaganda and conspiracy theories and false information, use of poor sources, and a lack of transparency. (D. Van Zandt 1/1/2021) Updated (03/25/2022)

[0] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/rumble/
> How do you draw the line between “sensibly taking into account how real people react” and “manipulative dark patterns to literally get people to join your cult”? Perhaps there is no clear boundary.

Are you kidding?

The difference was glaring when (and why) they asked you to go private.

You want to teach people facts about humidifiers and then (hopefully) see if it stand up to independent inquiry. You changed your approach so that others wouldn't simply dismiss your evidence out of hand.

These two would have eventually removed your ability to independently inquire.

If you went to a private place with them, there would be a guru whose entire goal would be to use your insecurities and skepticism against you in order to disorient you to such a degree that you become highly suggestible. Could be with lighting, trance music, scented candles, $foo, chants, group games, or anything that pushes your physical and emotional boundaries past what you'd normally be comfortable with, etc. You get a warm feeling, then-- bam-- the guru attributes it all to $foo. Now all your reasoning abilities are fighting against the possibility that there might really be something to this $foo thing.

Probably anyone whose been involved rescuing cult members will confirm how dangerous they are. But also consider your own evidence-- how many times did you profess even the mild kind of skepticism that litters HN threads here? From what I read, it seems like you didn't even explicitly mention your intimacy schedule or other red flags as you experienced them. In fact, your only pointed question seemed to come at the very moment they tried to rope you in by asking to go private. In other words-- you gave them time to make their entire cult pitch to you, and only really put up any noticeable friction at the last moment.

The lesson is decidedly not how we're all a little bit like cult recruiters. It's that you were close to becoming indoctrinated in a cult. Remember the shot of adrenaline when the sirens started shrieking for you? Now imagine that happening while being surrounded by a room full of those people, with a guru looking directly at you waiting for you to explain the feeling of receiving $foo. And all it would have taken was one more innocent thought about wanting to meet a few more friends.

I just realized how alarmist that last line is! I mean, do go and meet more friends. Just not ones in cults. Since you avoided this cult, just remember the feeling of them slowly pushing your boundaries, and use that as a filter in the future.
Everyone knows it's Tacos El Gordo obviously /s
Make that clear in your tweets and comments. You come across as deceiving and undeserving because you have withheld that relevant information. If you have US citizenship or are working towards that, then perhaps also make that clear.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of deeply unfair consequences that are occurring to a lot of people.

I wish you the best of luck.
As you said it’s not the default but a simple check box to disable local auth.
The Nth Country Experiment, in 1964, took three freshly minted Physics Ph.D's without any security clearances of any kind, gave them access to a reasonably sized unclassified physics library, and asked them to design an implosion weapon. After approximately three man-years of effort (along with some basic calculation assistance from some 1964 unclassified calculators) those Ph.D's designed a workable implosion bomb. So by 1964 it is clear that design was not the limitation: every real country can scrape together a few Physics Ph.D's for three man years of effort.

I would STRONGLY disagree that the Germans were ever more advanced than the Manhattan project. The British were a bit (~9 months) ahead of the US before S-1 started (December 1941), but I've never seen any evidence that the Germans were ahead of either country at any point. Certainly the fact that they never managed to replicate CP-1, which went critical in December 1942 (and was still years of hard work away from an actual nuclear bomb) suggests that they were never very close at all.

The closest I can come up with is that the discovery of nuclear fission in 1938. In that work, there were five people who collaborated closely enough that today they would have all had their names on the one paper (because of Nazis the work was published in two papers, Aryans on one, Jews on the other): Otto Hahn, Fritz Strassman, Lise Meitner, Otto Frisch, and Wilhelm Traube. Hahn and Strassman were considered Aryan enough to stay in Germany. Meitner and Frisch escaped- Frisch ended up working on the MAUD report and then at Los Alamos, Meitner stayed in neutral Sweden. Traube did not manage to escape and died in Gestapo custody in 1942. So 20% of this team ended up at Los Alamos, and only 40% managed to stay in Germany, which does somewhat point to some of the underlying problems any German bomb project would have had.
1. People can singularly hold views that seem radically different to the average person. Label them skeptics, crackpots, etc.

2. People can collectively hold views that seem radically different to the average person. Things like common religions, major political parties, etc don't fit in here: people may disagree with ideas in religions or politics, but the ideas themselves aren't radically different

Individuals of #1s and #2s cling to their beliefs and sometimes define themselves by those beliefs.

I'm assuming cults fit in #2, but are there #2s that aren't cults?
I was a member of the L-5 Society (spaceflight enthusiasts) back in the day. There was a guy who came to our meetings who we were pretty sure was an actual Russian agent. He kept asking what we knew about US military space programs (we knew nothing that wasn't in the newspapers) while pressing buttons in his briefcase. We found it amusing.
It's not really the same as a loan - you don't pay it back with cash, it's paid for upfront with a chunk of equity (usually). And if the company fails, the investors take a bath & you aren't personally liable for it. Not fun but it happens all the time.

Why is it celebrated? Because A) the company suddenly has more capital in their bank account to grow the business and B) they have someone with connections and power who has a vested interest in the business succeeding, both of which improve the long-term likelihood of success/profit (in theory at least).

PS: many people do celebrate and post about it when they get a home loan, it's an exciting thing! Debt is a tool, it's not inherently shameful.
"High barrier to entry" ie, only accessible to an elite class (1337, if you will)

"Elitist" feels pejorative. Also a not-inaccurate way to describe a system which presents high barriers to entry.
TIP Open RAN Release 2 Roadmap [pdf]
Why rich people are panic-buying panic rooms
I found Snow Crash to be really childish, and not even in the same league as Neuromancer.

I read Neuromancer originally in 1984 and again a few years ago, and for me it still holds up. It's not the greatest book or anything, and I found Count Zero to be much better, but apart from those two books I've yet to read anything else cyberpunkish that comes even remotely close.

Before someone mentions Greg Egan or Vernor Vinge, as they have elsewhere in the thread, I read a lot by these authors and didn't like them either. Way too dry, boring, and unimaginative for me. I know some people love them, but they're just not for me.
Cannibalizing themselves is something Apple does frequently.

They did it with the iPod to iPhone, for a famous example.
Depends, is your code being served to the internet? If it is I would definitely consider firecracker but if its just internal it probably won't matter a whole lot. Not sure about the overhead of docker compared with firecracker though, so there may be advantages there either way.

There's also ignite which works with firecracker:
https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite
Sometimes I think Elon is a great marketer than an engineer or maybe both, I am happy that at least someone is in an authoritative position on the Twitter board to support free speech and I hope they do some real innovation to the platform.
I'm not using this reply to agree or disagree, I just want to share this piece of internet archeology with you. If you're interested in comparing and contrasting great cyberpunk authors, the esteemed Rudy Rucker himself did this in an interview with punk-cyber legend R U Sirius (of R U A Cyberpunk? meme fame) on his blog back in the day
https://www.acceler8or.com/2012/02/cyberpunk-sfmathematics-l...
First I had to check if it was a 1st April news but no!!

With a complicated text, what they try to tell you is that every encrypted secret on your device will be under direct control of Google... Does not make any sense!
How would you get your content metadata if you don’t let it on the internet?

Plex continues working if you disable local auth if the plex main server goes belly up.
>"The iPad is a computer!" Okay, what's the development experience like on it?

Even if it's bad, development is like 1% of what computers are used for. More PC/laptop users never program anything or even know how to are care to learn.
I'm glad you found something useful from the article. I have discovered ART [0] from the comments here, it looks like a better RawTherapee and I want to try it out soon.

[0] https://bitbucket.org/agriggio/art
Scientists peek into the kitchen of the Bronze Age Indus Valley civilization
It's not true I don't think.

Anyone I watch older than 50 years old is constantly frustrated by google, they just don't know what's good, what's not. I think they use it because it's the "norm" and that is the only reason.

And as far as everyone else.. I have no idea to be quite honest. I have a fairly big handful of non-techie friends who think google sucks but is good enough so there is no real incentive to change.

With any habit people don't change it unless they have a huge reason to. No one stops eating double cheeseburgers until their doctor literally tells them they are going to die. I think that's what we're up against here.
+1 for Hangops
Very soon Streaming services might look expensive than cable, if you want to buy 4 or more services out of discovery+, disney+, netflix, showtime, hbo, peacock, cbs hulu, paramount, fox, appletv+, youtube red etc..
On the other hand, the normally vicious Boston cops have true kindness by not enforcing any traffic laws. I remember a cop car pulling over to let us pass one time when my then gf drove the wrong way* down a one way street.

And a friend was stopped when driving on the wrong side of mass ave (a divided road with a barrier). The cop stopped us, give us both a stern talking to, and then let us go on our merry way.

* She is a physicist and her defense to me was “I was only driving in one direction”
https://archive.ph/fRyEl
Sort of? The thing to realize is that your average speaker leans heavily into the "no true scotsman" fallacy in order to make sense of the world quickly, and so they heavily bias that random distribution from which they are selecting candidates. While I wouldn't personally say "all" in this exact case, it certainly does feel to me as if there isn't anyone new for Twitter to really target, as you have to first discount most of the old people, "all" ;P of the young people, and a depressing number of people who really don't have the resources--time or money--to buy into technological society. Do you seriously believe there is some useful untapped market of people using other social networks--or are even in the target market for a social network but who somehow haven't started using one yet--who aren't using Twitter? I hate Twitter--I'd dare say it is by far my least favorite major social network by far--and even I use the damned thing :(.
It also alternates between versions. Sometimes Exynos is better, and sometimes Snapdragon is. Somehow, this also has a massive impact on picture quality.

This nonsense made me go out of my way to buy a Pixel 5 (in 2022) instead of an S22. Those are the only two reasonably-sized phones I could find.
Did the US government decide to vent a huge supply of helium that it was sitting on some years ago? I remember hearing anguish about that. It had been recovered from decades of oil well operations and saved til someone decided that it wasn't likely to be useful, as the story went. So poof, gone.
I found Altered Carbon significantly different from and more thoughtful than the TV adaptation, as I commented here a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16348681

Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon books (as well as his Black Man, published as Thirteen in North America) are very angry and bleak in tone, from what I recall. (But they were not angry at technology itself, the way the characters of the Altered Carbon TV series were; in-universe characters weren't trying to eliminate the cortical stack in the books.) They also have some spectacular action sequences, which is probably why they were picked up for TV. They have some horrific tortures (both in VR and out of it), much worse than shown in the TV adaptation, which is why I haven't re-read them like I did Neuromancer.
FWIW feature size doesn't really mean what it used to. Due to the 3d mesh manufacturing process, it's become a sort of shorthand for "equivalent in 2D." What really matters is transistor density, and different manufacturers differ wildly in how they relate transistor density to this "feature size in a 2D equivalent metric."

For instance, the M1 has a density of 171 million/sq mm and claims 5 nm 2D equivalent, while Willow Cove from IBM looks much worse at 10nm but its density is 100.

Saying this not to "cast shade" on certain chip fabricators, just saying that it doesn't actually mean that they have taken the same style transistor fab processes from ~10 years ago and shrunk them down to 5nm. I mean, by the time an actual 2D feature would reach ~2nm, we'd be talking about features that were only about 10 atoms across.
Would there be advantages in writing this in web assembly with a TypeScript layer, or would the IPC be to costly?
Snow Crash is in many places meant to be intentionally silly and absurdist as an extrapolated, exaggerated satire on contemporary American lifestyle at the time it was written, such as in the users manual for the "Reason" railgun
Dark pattern?
1. Validation from brands/people considered to know what they're doing

2. $$ to grow business

3. Founders sometimes gets to take money off the table (example: Clubhouse founders made millions in their seed round)

4. Easier to hire talent because your name gets out: techcrunch, crunchbase, topstartups.io
Any Windows equivalent?
Retweet could show the version of the tweet as it was when it was retweeted. If you see a tweet that has a new revision ready you could see a "latest" link. If you see the latest version of a tweet with a version history you could see a "history" link which would show you a revision history.
I think it's more basic than prestige. Musk's value add is in no small part due to his influencer status among a group of investors who primarily interact with him over Twitter. Leaving such an important part of your value subject to someone else's whims is crazy when you have the money to secure it.
I would imagine it the former:

(upvotes / age_in_hurs^1.6) * lot_of_penalties
Sometimes, I think I’m reading SimCity 2000 news flashes.
I found this from 2010.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013

(= gravity\* 1.8 timebase\* 120 front-threshold\* 1
nourl-factor\* .4 lightweight-factor\* .17 gag-factor\* .1)

(def frontpage-rank (s (o scorefn realscore) (o gravity gravity*))
(* (/ (let base (- (scorefn s) 1)
(if (> base 0) (expt base .8) base))
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(if (no (in s!type 'story 'poll)) .8
(blank s!url) nourl-factor*
(mem 'bury s!keys) .001
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(if (mem 'gag s!keys)
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Python:

def calculate_score(votes, item_hour_age, gravity=1.8):

return (votes - 1) / pow((item_hour_age+2), gravity)
My feeling exactly. I don't get why adults would like this book.
And changing the character limit seems unbelievably trivial.
Peace Corps, meet Solar Corps. Anyone can be taught to install microinverters, racking, and PV panels.
I don’t think Ford ever said that, and I don’t think that quote is a good argument for not listening to users. Cars existed pre-Henry-Ford. They were just expensive. Many people could have correctly identified the need for a more affordable car. Ford’s innovation was actually doing it.

Also the Ford company’s dogged resistance to listening to customer wants (“Any colour you want so long as it is black”) hurt Ford as soon as they had to compete on anything but price, with GM finding success with “a car for every purse and purpose”. From 1921 to 1927 Ford went from controlling 65% of the American car market to just 15%.

All that to say: “innovator vision that flies contrary to common sentiment about what people want” is often overrated and can be a trap. That’s not to say that the customer is always right… but they’re not always wrong either.
> yes, we’ve been working on an edit feature since last year!

A year??? Oh my god please someone disrupt these people, this is getting ridiculous.

I know I'm falling for the "why don't you just" trap, but... holy cow. Really, just stunning.
I would say no, we just need to change what we focus on. If you're worried about lithium-ion batteries running out, check out Aluminum ion batteries (AL is the mos t abundant metal in the Earth's crust).

Worried about farmland? Check out advances in vertical farming.

Worried about space to live? Just wait for a housing price correction.

Worried about energy? Check out the advances in Solar, Small modular reactors, and grid storage possibilities.

The better question isn't "are we running out of resources?" it's "should we be using different resources or the same resources differently?" to which the answer is yes and being explored by scientists and engineers
Ski resorts are another one. Everyone is there for the snow so you can chat with folks on the lift or apres ski.
Yes the done inspecting the 20ft power pole can see over the 6 ft fence.
Right so I totally get that. I am not against raising money when there is a clear understanding that $10 is getting me $20 in revenue so lets put a dump truck this side of the pipe and blast off.

What I fail to understand is, for a lot of companies, they haven't achieved that but are raising a lot of money and showing that off as their only achievement. It should be little shameful to raise money and sell part of the company before even building a sustainable business.
Apple App Review is killing Sticky NFT Marketplace app
How do you keep your university spinoff running with such long-term focus?
Here's an idea.

When I taught "Algorithms and Data-Structures" to first years, it
seemed right to spend a moment explaining that it was a Persian
(Iraqi) philosopher from Baghdad called Al-Khwarizmi that the whole
thing was named after.

They were really interested and totally latched on to that. Even if
they forgot everything about binary trees and depth-first, students
would use any opportunity to demonstrate a treasured factoid of
knowledge that it was "An Arab bloke called Ali Charisma who
discovered algorithms".

Maybe you can throw that swerve-ball at people who blame algorithms on
the government and say Al Gore invented them.
Well the company was called Fast... They are really really fast at burning vc money