skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Their main priority is producing a scalable algorithm that outputs rankings that users are happy with.

Are they measuring happiness? Or are they using bad proxies for happiness, or even sometimes ignoring happiness to optimize for number of searches?

An ideal search engine that delivers perfect results for everyone would be a site people only spent a few moments on. A shitty search engine with a virtual monopoly would be a place people wasted tons of their time banging their heads against. A search engine is like a door; you generally don't hang out in the doorway.

edit:

> most people will eventually abandon Google entirely in favor of a different search engine that gives us results that we're happier with

Nobody is doing this. Not only would it take a fortune to become a contender, not only are sites required to optimize for google, but in the end google would buy and shut down any threat. You could maybe compete with google if you had state backing and could lose infinite money over infinite time, but then google would just lobby to have you banned.

This is aside from the brand dominance, which would still keep google as the top search engine if the entire infrastructure of Search was thrown into a dumpster and the brand sold to people who rebuilt it from scratch with no knowledge of how it worked before.
Encode X Polygon Hackathon
Generally farmers don't save their seeds even for non GMO crops. It's simply much less hassle to buy from a seed farm, and produces a more consistent crop
https://gdpr.eu/cookies/

Cookies and the GDPR
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most comprehensive data protection legislation that has been passed by any governing body to this point. However, throughout its’ 88 pages, it only mentions cookies directly once, in Recital 30.

Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as internet protocol addresses, cookie identifiers or other identifiers such as radio frequency identification tags. This may leave traces which, in particular when combined with unique identifiers and other information received by the servers, may be used to create profiles of the natural persons and identify them.

What these two lines are stating is that cookies, insofar as they are used to identify users, qualify as personal data and are therefore subject to the GDPR. Companies do have a right to process their users’ data as long as they receive consent or if they have a legitimate interest.
Western powers did go around and forced various African polities to stop doing slavery under the threat of their cannons...
It's not a pointless comparison when organic farmers used harmful rotenone so much that it had to become banned outright.

Needing to ban a 19th century pesticide in the 21st century is not a broad brush, but proof of the growing common misconception that naturally occurring means safer than synthetic - the entire basis of the Organic label.
Also SMS not nearly reliable enough. You should have alternatives for that reason alone. My cell carrier was blocking many SMS verification messages for a good two months. It caused me all kinds of problems when my credit union merged with another and I had to change account numbers all over the place. Many had the option of using an email address, but there were quite a few that it was SMS or play find the human on the 800 number.
One topic at high level (like in the article, 10-20 minutes?) per week, results in ~50 topics per year.

Not sure how many computer related topics you know/want (“The more you know, the more you know you don't know”), but for me, 50 topics on programming seems sufficiently high at frankly a very low effort/commitment.
Can you share more about the stock option loan program? If it is what it sounds like, that program is unconscionable insanity and whoever is encouraging employees to engage with it is setting employees up for a world of hurt.
I do consider the ethical implications, of which there are many.

I think we are coding ourselves into dystopia - where technology will not be serving us, but we will be serving it. We might be there already.

Which 'governance structure'/'rule creating structure' is going to ensure that the moral elements are considered? Or do they simple wave through the legislation big corporations' lobbyists have written? Will big corporations' so-called the 'ethics committees' give us the moral outlook we need? (I don't think so - they are about justifying the unjustifiable, it seems to me.) What is better - that 10 people you are out of work, or that - as you say - someone else will implement this?

These questions are very hard to answer. There are lots of coders who will do whatever-it-is without hesitation.

Ultimately, I guess we will have to do as we each see fit. What I say: morality is a question for the individual, so how do you judge yourself? That is one way to guide oneself through the mire.
It's a cashless loan. If you have options that cost $10,000 to exercise, the company lets you pay with a promissory note (promising to pay the $10,000, plus minimal interest set at the IRS's AFR). This is effectively the same as the company loaning you $10k, and then you hand it back over to exercise, but the cash does not change hands.

If you were to get a private loan, the interest would be much higher.

The company does not want to be in the business of making loans, but this is a way to allow the employee to exercise upfront (and thus potentially get certain benefits, like in a good exit scenario, of having gains be subject to LTCG and not ordinary income), in the best way possible. But in a downside scenario, like the company folding, the person is on the hook for the loan just like if they had decided to exercise with their own money.
Didn't Facebook do something similar without any apparent comebacks?
This is really cool, and I enjoyed hearing explanations of your process and decision making in the video. It sounds like you have a lot of ideas on how to develop "personalities" for units, and that's something rarely seen in game AI, so I'm eager to see where you go with all of this!
That would be a funny question to ask my parents. Not sure they would have a legit answer let alone a sarcastic one.
Not sure if you're joking since fluoridation is still debated to this day.
For a small company, "over hiring" is always a sign of incompetency of the management. Think about the good companies in the early days. They can do so much with so few people, like one person evolving zookeeper into a beast to handle FB's scale, or two people having implemented LevelDB in a matter of months, or one person figuring out a way to increase the density of co-lo rack by 10 times.
True but you don't get internet points for saying something will be open source and not doing it.
First impression - credibility could be greatly improved by not leading off with a huge Mercator map of Asia. (NO, Siberia does NOT have ~5x the land area of China.)

Second impression - that map shows China taking ALL of the Western Siberian petroleum basin. Wow. And the article's author seems to know that both China and Russia are ambitious modern nations...but not that nuclear weapons exist. Let alone that Russia has plenty of them.

Bottom Line - if you're eager to imagine Bad Things happening to Russia, then the article is nice daydream fuel. Back in reality, Russia would not let China (or anyone else) grab the huge oil/gas-producing region which is its only claim to being a serious economic player in the modern world. Not without a major nuclear war.
I would love to know what software was used to make the video, I have no background in making such things, but I've no real idea where to start.
The winner will be a model that bypasses the automatic fake image detection algorithms that will be added to every social media site
I got scared as hell a few years ago when an update bricked the app, so launching it caused it to immediately crash. Fortunately, reinstalling the app fixed it without losing any data.

But since then I started actually backing up my recovery codes, and whenever I create a new account somewhere, I set up 2FA on three separate apps on my phone just in case.
Why does an Authenticator app even have location access? Geoblocking?
You’re comparing apples and oranges.
Cool to see some validation that these two services are either pill mills or skirting proper procedure to get diagnosed and treated. Funny to say that only a couple weeks ago people here on HN were praising these companies for making ADHD medication "accessible" and not seeing that this is a problem just like opioids and other commercially advertised drugs. You can't just pass on the liability to the distributor here. It seems rather odd that someone can get diagnosed over a 30 minute tele-health call for a schedule II substance.

> Adderall, which is most commonly prescribed to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), is a Schedule II controlled substance, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This means it is considered to be a drug that has "high abuse potential" but is still accepted for medical use. The FDA advises that amphetamines, such as Adderall, should be "prescribed or dispensed sparingly."

> "Administration of amphetamines for prolonged periods of time may lead to drug dependence and must be avoided," the agency says. "Misuse of amphetamine may cause sudden death and serious cardiovascular adverse events."

Additional reading:

https://bestlifeonline.com/walmart-adderall-prescriptions-ne...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/startups-make-it-easier-to-get-...
> climate change and environmental degradation, you should really consider GM as a solution.

could you be more specific ?
Fast didn't just do layoffs: Fast shut down completely.
Why the tokenization of Carbon Credits is a terrible idea
Tomatoes have 0.00 micrograms of vitamin D though.
I'm sure it will end up costing $10k USD for all the DLC, but Vicky 3[1] might come near this in some ways... probably still too macro though.

[1]https://store.steampowered.com/app/529340/Victoria_3/
C doesn't have types, they just have word decorations you sprinkle on parameters and variable declarations.
It may sound crazy to you, but relying on a single judge, no matter how versed in law, to make the call is not much better.

The property of a jury I like is that any decision has to be unanimous.

The thing I dislike more is the entire precedent approach, where laws are made through the court system, instead of strictly through elected officials (though that has drawbacks as well).
Yes.

I'll just claim probably forever that when semantics depend on you counting invisible characters, you really need specialized tools
Given that the parent comment says "hard to read", an obvious charitable interpretation of their comment implies "with Go's syntax".

Currying in languages that use different syntax is orthogonal to the point being made here.
There are a lot of details I don't see about this, even in the order itself. How did the FTC know twitter was abusing this data? Was there a whistleblower who notified them, or did they break down the doors and start scanning twitter's internal documents? Were they authorized to dig into twitters internal processes as part of the initial security investigation?
That is an US phenomenon though.

It can be hardly seen in European countries, and I bet other continents are hardly different.
I've started using Reddit less and less. It used to be a great place to interact with other people who were deeply engaged and knowledgeable about hobbies, interests, and even professions. But over time the average response to my questions and comments on Reddit has dramatically lowered in quality. I think the demographic has skewed much younger, with more teenagers and kids than before. Which means that when I ask questions, particularly ones that might be even slightly technical, it's met with dozens of answers that come straight from the first page of Google...

I feel it's probably just a reversion to the mean effect. As more people adopt the Reddit platform, the platform becomes more and more like facebook.
Here in the Netherlands we have a simpler system.

Any non-trivial credit such as your mortgage, car loans and student loans are registered centrally at an institute called the BKR. When you regularly fail to make payments on these loans, you may be marked with a negative rating.

So it's fairly binary information: good or bad.

Over here, day to day payments are done with debit, so no detailed "small credit" history is recorded at all.

In my case, this BKR institute has a single entry, my mortgage, and soon none at all. So I'd then have no registered credit at all, and thus also no score.

...which is celebrated by creditors. A complete lack of data is interpreted as you being the most financially sound person possible. This high trust culture doesn't come out of nowhere. Culturally, payment discipline overall is very solid as we have somewhat of an anti-loan culture (don't live beyond your means). Further, you're not going to get away with defaulting on loans, there's no mercy for it here.
They did, once, and called it IRC. It's still good.
(firstly, that search works fine and returns very quickly! Now that I know it's client side, I've been able to do a few searches of my own to see how it works. It works well! The ones I did earlier were looking at a large channel "PBS Newshour" for various news topics over "All time")

(secondly, DO consider putting your email address on your HN profile!)

Whoa! Client side!?! Far out man, far out. To be honest, I was a little unimpressed before -- but didn't feel like "your idea is _brilliant_, but implementation leaves a lot to be desired. makes me want to try my hand at writing my own." would be a constructive comment. ;-)

But, knowing this is all done client side?? I tip my hat, that's *clever*! The whole site could be a static and local set of files? I had no idea things like this could even be done without a server or other real program to do the work. (though now that I think about it, I have an idea how, duh. YouTube exposes a JS API I bet, so you can have the client call it each time, do the searching work, &c.)

That avoids scalability issues and probably legal ones as well! What a game changer...

Was there an existing framework used for building client side web apps like this, or did you roll your own?

While I've got you, and I admit that graphical UIs are ... an area where my opinion should carry no weight (I'm the sort who.. doesn't use icons, and when writing personal tools, the "user interface" is positional parameters to a command line program ;-)), here are some suggestions:

* The UI, while clean and unbusy (yay!!), feels BLOATED with white space. Why do the results occupy this tiny narrow column, forcing me to scroll way more than I should need to?

* In addition to the narrow column, the entries IN the column take up too much space, the UI could be arranged to be much more efficient.

* Since search results are within a channel, don't put the channel name after each entry, there's no point.

* Might be nice to have the time offset visible to the left of the text excerpt. I can see it on mouseover, but still. Might be nice to see.

* Can the videos be made to play inline, without redirecting to youtube, then navigating back, and redoing the search?

* Perhaps, after searching for a result, we could see a graph at the top showing all the videos containing that term over time, and easily click on it to go directly there.
Authy does not allow to make local backup (export) and it is fully closed source, not really transparent. I wish there were better alternatives.
Another non-video game would hit you with a C&D:

https://dnd.wizards.com/ddal_general
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31501871 13 hours ago
I'm a big believer in tools that make us feel good about our work. Pretty handwriting as an output is in that category.

You'd be surprised how much engineering goes into point simplification, bezier smoothing, etc. One of our team members, Adam Wulf, has worked extensively in this space and even open-sourced a lot of the results: https://adamwulf.me/open-source/

...but point remains that we can make the inking experience better in Muse. It's on our list to work on.
I don't have the most optimistic outlook for this having any impact, but I really hope this sets a precedent for limiting the use of dark patterns with which companies try to tie your identity to a phone number. I think the total sum for this fine is rather myopic: it ignores the long tail of possible future data leaks and the impact it might have on the people behind the affected accounts.

I created my current Twitter account a few years ago and it remained dormant for a while. It was flagged as "in violation of our policies" despite having not made any tweets or using a handle or nickname that would cause offense to anyone. In order to resolve this, I had to enter my phone number to "secure" my account. I don't know what process triggered this review, but I'll be damned if it didn't smell like an easy way to associate an existing marketing profile with my Twitter account. Of course, it's vitally important to profile a service I used to keep up with industry news and post about Goban puzzles.

I've also run into similar patterns on Discord and similar platforms; "Oops! Something suspicious is happening with the account [you literally just created]. Please add a phone number to your profile to proceed."

Although I follow a reasonable set of practices around identity/password management, I usually architect my risk profile with a "I don't care if I lose this account" approach. If that statement isn't true, then I will happily apply all of the security measures available. However, it seems like the idea of creating "I don't care" accounts is becoming increasingly difficult as we continue to invest in user marketing analytics and lower the barrier of entry to these types of technologies that do not have the consumer's best interests in mind.
> Finally, I can run silly experiments. There is a button in the "Buy watermark removal" page that says "It's too expensive", which leads to 50 % discount. Around 70 % people still buy the full price.

I don't find that silly at all. At most it's a fun example of price discrimination. A fairly big online-only florist in the UK (Bloom & Wild) for example does something similar, if you enter a valid voucher code but it's only for new customers, it pops up telling you that 'but click here to apply 10% off instead' (where the voucher might've been for 25 or whatever). Clever I think - stops you thinking 'oh sod it' and shopping around.
Ender's Game games.
Tom Scott also did a great video[0] on this

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jx_bJgIFhI
Factorio meets Kerbal Space Program. I want a logistics/factory game in space with realistic orbital mechanics. You gather fuel and materials to build better space ships to get more distant/rarer materials, and automate the logistics of it all.
thanks! feel free to DM there if need any help!
> but the priority should be to stop selling weapons to people who obviously doesn't need them

If the government uses them, why not law abiding citizens? It's not like guns will disappear forever, they will still be in possession by government and anyone who wants to break the law. Regardless, you can never control anything 100%, people will STILL have guns, one way or another, just like anything else that's illegal but still exists.

> but criminals are also people; they only fire their weapon if they feel they have to.

Yes, when they feel like they have to take your stuff.

I think my basic point is that police is not efficient at solving crimes or preventing them, and that is a higher priority than preventing people from owning a gun because they could potentially get radicalized. Let's see crime under control first.
just to understand: is this company product similar to Fast.com? Is it also the case of an inflated valuation for a very low turnaround?
Pick a C-suite exec or VP at random then. "Nobody, it's too hard to unravel the organizational structure" isn't really cutting it.
The display in my car is a double DIN stereo that just happens to have a display on the front and a USB port. You might still be able to replace it.

It does take way too long to boot up.
One fundimental purposes of a "company" is to be an abstraction to ofuscate moral responsibility for individual's actions.
> YouTube, Twitter and Instagram

We clearly have very different lifestyles and values. For me that's
the dank basement of the internet,
And what's the problem with destroying Russia? Hitler Germany was destroyed for pretty much the same. Or should US wait for another Holocaust again?
Your chaining example and the defer example can't both work together, since they both rely on different return types for SetVerbosity.
I was referring to the OP’s comment that established publicly traded tech companies too will be under pressure to keep the stock price up and thus, aren’t immune to layoffs
Unrelated to Twitter, but your post reminded me that consumer should also have an independent "account number" for lack of a better word that belongs to the user, like a telephone number. Electronic payments would come out of this personal account number and be forwarded to whatever institution(s) the person wants. Then changing banks would be as easy as changing phone carriers.
All decision-makers should go to jail in such cases. Then they would work harder on making blame clear.
Exactly, flashbots and similar implement a gateway for submitting transactions directly to the miners. The transactions are only included if they succeed, because part of the transaction transfers payment to the miner for including it and another part of the transaction guarantees success only if it is profitable enough for the submitter. The transaction bundle is not mined unless it succeeds and thus avoids paying gas for failed attempts.
I think their testimonials are all made up!

(I still had a good laugh, kudos!)
A co-op RPG set in a procedurally generated open world covered in hostile wilderness, designed to simulate the kind of Dungeons and Dragons setting where settlements are rare, the road network is thin, and the monsters are always roaming and threatening to extinguish the candle of civilization.
Sure all possibilities. But the point about policies and laws is to effect change in aggregate. We have all kinds of laws that try to prevent bad stuff from happening, but it still happens. Just because we can't stop all, doesn't mean we shouldn't stop some.
I remember my first look at OpenZiti now. Here's some feedback:

My first impression of OpenZiti was: Nebula but at the application level.

It took a fair bit of looking around for me to see the proxy component. I'm still not exactly sure how to get a test, but it looks like the getting started steps are:

- Build a network.
- Figure out the identities and services.
- Set up a proxy.
- Test out this proxy.
- Eventually migrate services from proxy to SDK.

There's a lot of stuff going on here I really need to wrap my mind around before I can even see how it would fit into my network.

Nebula on the other hand is an easier mapping for what I already have in my brain: It's a mesh VPN with a CA and built in firewall rules based on certificate roles.

OpenZiti looks very interesting now, but it honestly took me an hour to get to that point.
> would be a net-loss to Twitter

Would it? It seems to me like unethical behavior is always more profitable.
They offer one-time backup codes that can be used if a device is lost. I'm not sure if this is Google or the site, but for every login where I've set up Google Authenticator I have copied the backup codes to my password manager for that account. I'd agree that a lot of people might not do that however.
Thanks. I have been looking replacement for Authy for quite some time because of no export function.