skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, don’t worry, it all work out? Vast wealth being sucked up by a few people while huge swaths of society have little to no ability to handle a $1000 financial hit? Passing the big ball of wealth between a few select people and families over history is acceptable?

The fallacy is in thinking that society will always be benevolent and never needs to be corrected or reconsidered.
In this context by "fight you" I meant things like you find that even though you surface an automation API as expected, since they can't automate the things they want through your API they cause your GUI to run, inside a virtual environment in which the "pointer" is controlled by their software so as to click on gadgets at the appropriate time and then they whine that your plug-in (which is rendering a GUI) is too bloated and slow compared to the plug-ins that they're doing conventional automation for.
Probably means it's time to call Dang.
never forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ-69p7A-r0
... just maybe not in your lifespan, and that's okay too.
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i think that will be the major test to strike down any ban law that does not have triage protected. it's a tough one cause both physical and mental conditions need to be considered and thus will have different medical opinions of which politicians opinions should play no part.
I've noticed that any time you need to use the word "still" to argue for something, you've usually already lost the debate or the larger point.

I can't imagine anyone writing a post along the lines of, "Why I still recommend SQL for querying databases", even though SQL was conceived back in the 70's. "Still", in this context more often than not suggests that a grasping-at-straws is taking place.

Julia has a lot of neat features, but at the end of the day, it's a research language rather than a getting things done language.
Here's how much money (M2) was in the economy in the last 4 decades [1].

In the decade from 2010 to 2020 the money supply increased by 7 trillion (from 8 to 15). It increased by another 7 trillion since (standing now at 22).

Nothing on the supply side comes close to a sudden injection of 7 trillion dollars in the economy.

As for everyone else experiencing inflation, guess what, they blame it on us. Money printed in the US has an inflationary effect in the whole world, not only in the US. Smaller countries cannot simply ring-fence their economy and live in a vacuum. And the EU was not shy about printing money either.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS
I was responding to how to maximize use of land. Grazing is low investment for low returns, but rarely the only option.

I am explicitly not saying significant investment is economically viable, we have a vast surplus of farmland.

That said, historically people would improve land because they had a labor surplus and few options for long term investments. We are living in a world where thousands of years of such decisions has made some real changes to various landscapes. Much of Asia is covered in terraces because they preferred really flat areas for rice fields and had a huge labor surplus. That’s a legacy I think worth remembering rather than the focus on who was in charge over the course of history.

As to adding topsoil that’s closer to 10 million per 100 acres. Dirt’s very cheap in bulk though transportation long distances isn’t. Nowhere near viable when farmland is cheap and the Canadian Shield is that cold. But orders of magnitude better than you where suggesting.
I think leadership at Google back then truly did like it. And they continued to "mostly" like it up to about 7-10 years ago. During the time I was there (10 years from 2012 until end of 2021) I feel like I saw the transition happen, slowly. It got really contradictory and messy.

In fact, Google Plus (2011-2013ish) was justified (in part) as an attempt to "rescue" the web from the enclosing grasp of the walled garden that is Facebook -- which couldn't be indexed, searched, and presented openly. (Naturally this was hypocritical [in addition to being a failure] but that was one of the motivations given for the project)

Overall I think all of this had a lot to do not only with Google's positioning as an advertising company, but with the rise of mobile computing and mobile apps. The writing was on the wall when mobile use started to surpass desktop browser use. "The web" as we traditionally knew it ceased to be the primary interaction mechanism people were having with the Internet, and Google (and others) had to pivot quickly or they would lose the advantage they had.

Google from 2000-2015 or so seemed to innovate on "the web"; from search to gmail to news to reader (and even arguably to g+) it was about pushing the limits of the tech and excelling at making WWW products. Then it became about making... nice apps. I guess?

Story time: I worked on the Google (then "Nest") Home Hub. The original UI for it was written in HTML/CSS/JS and it was very well done by some super talented front end developers. My teammates were responsible for optimizing the Chromium rendering engine for that platform, to make it perform nicely on the bargain basement SoC we were using. We shipped this to millions of people and it was a success.

A few quarters later the whole thing was ripped out and replaced with Dart & Flutter. The UI was identical, but bias and and ideology dictated that that was what the UI had to be built in (they said it'd be faster: it wasn't, it was more about making it so the same apps could be built for Android and Fuchsia as the same time). Multiple quarters were spent on a transition plan to rewrite this whole UI and hack up the firmware on the system to make this possible, throwing out 2+ years of work.

So, yeah, you're right. Google was the "web" company. Now they're... I don't even know, but it's a lot about Android and mobile and also constantly chasing after what Apple, Amazon, and Facebook are doing. To the point that management was willing to throw out thousands of hours of engineering work done on a web app to replace it with a non-web version. That whole process left a bad taste in my mouth.
It’s not their station? It’s a mainline station that includes some TfL exclusive lines.
Can we even describe a compelling vision for what the replacement google would look like?

Trying to get my investors interested in a "non-shit google" requires a bit more color around the edges.
> I remember pretty fondly the era of the Yahoo directory, where things were cultivated by humans not looking for profit. We had a lot of fun pages, fan pages, and so on. We need that again, our souls need that again.

The "directory of the web" approach was already hitting its limits in 2000. I'm pretty sure you could find a "directory of the weird stuff" page somewhere, if you looked for it.
That's why I switches to running multiple browser profiles, along with multiple Google accounts when necessary. It keeps all those recommendations isolated from each other.
The well-known problem with "state meddling to support local industries" is that, as a rule, that kind of policy tends to support the most parasitic and least socially beneficial industry sectors (because they don't have much of an alternative to lobbying for more government meddling), not those with the best potential for success.
Some thoughts on app based 2FA, having recently switched phones and needing to redo all my codes:

* I have to redo all my codes, and that’s annoying. I have about 15 and it took me almost an hour of logging in and out of all my accounts to switch the device. It’s very cumbersome and in most cases logs me out of my accounts on other devices. It’s frankly a huge pain. I understand the need for it but there needs to be a better way if we’re going to be 2FA everywhere.

* Most sites/services don’t have an option for “change to new device” although some do. In most cases the way to change the device is to turn 2FA off, then turn it back on with the new device. It’s a terrible user experience (it’s not like it even tells you this is what you have to do, you just have to know it). If 2FA is so critical why do I have to disable it to switch auth devices?

* The flow for using it on many sites still treats 2FA as like this geeky or techie thing, it would be very off putting if I wasn’t familiar with it. They’re not very reassuring about what it does or how it works (although some do try to help the user understand it).

* Backup codes are janky and not always offered. Sometimes when they’re offered they’re explicitly provided when enabling 2FA, sometimes they’re a totally separate menu item and the site doesn’t explain why they’re important, some don’t have them at all, and most just dump a text file of weird letters and numbers in your download folder. No header or anything to say what they are when trying to find them later. Abysmal user experience. I had to resort to printing them out and scribbling with a pen what site they were for. Some sites though do better, and include header info and/or a print button. Just not many.

* The Google Authenticator UI looks utilitarian and unintuitive. It’s nice that it’s so uncluttered, but again if I wasn’t already technical I would struggle with feeling comfortable with it. Why are the numbers blinking? What’s the countdown timer? Oh no the numbers are red now! Did I break something? Wait now they’re green again. What’s going on?

I love 2FA and think it needs to be way more ubiquitous. But at least right now it’s still pretty shit.
What Is the “Google Search Tax” and How Your Business Can Avoid Paying It (2018)
Google killed itself with the switch from good ol' finely tuned PageRank to blackbox neural networks with messy loss functions. It's still light years ahead of the competition
Not only that, Apple Search Engine powered by Siri.
Such robots exist since ever. Here a 12 year old youtube video.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RCa8uDFzbsw
Yes it is despite what seneca says.

People obsessed about not wasting their lives are actually the ones that waste it.
That's insightful, and shows it's insanely complicated.
What the peasants didn't understand was that having a Monarch is fine. In fact, I bet in a few generations it will be a totally different royal family running the show.
Why would a complex dependency update be faster in a monorepo? In my experience the biggest savings are for simple updates that happen acorss multiple repos - when the update itself is complex, the extra time to make multiple PRs is dwarfed by the actual update's complexity, and it helps if the update can be separated into several projects where the version can be bumped separately.
What am I missing? the URL is just https://easylang.online/run/

--edit-- ah its in the link, which then is not visible in the address bar anymore. Got it :)
> hard evidence

Most people in the business are smart. And smart people generally don't line up to be explicit about manipulating the market and committing possible crimes when it can come back to bite them.

Luckily, despite his best attempts to remove many copies of this video from the Internet, we have Jim Cramer on deck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfixbq_u0Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RkqzRs95Sc

Also, as a general rule, it just pays to understand the following:

> With few exceptions, the entire media is shit and barely understands the topics they cover. It is easy for smart people to manipulate them.

> Access journalism is widely practiced.

> There's literally millions/billions/trillions of dollars at stake.

In this environment, it's close to a complete metaphysical certainty that media manipulation to profit occurs.
> Great. What was the faceless government's motivation?

To stabilize society during a time when millions of people were unable to work due to a pandemic, obviously? I don’t think this is the gotcha you think it is.
> Everyone complains about how short life is, but that perspective is broken. Life is not short. The real issue is that we waste so much of it.

> Life is long enough for you to achieve your wildest dreams. You’re just so busy wasting it that you get to the end without living much of it.

Hey guys, what kind of fallacy is this? This observation presented is saying its not too short to live your wildest dreams, but isn't refuting the idea that it is short, which is a common view of relative time that is shared amongst people.

My observation is that we can spend too much of it chasing our wildest dreams, while their observation is that people spent too much time wasting it (as if that is exclusive from not chasing their wildest dreams).

Kind of all points to the idea that it is short, and doesn't bother refuting the supposition.
Is this a good thing? How does one discover where to go in the first place? Word of mouth?
Open-Source was always and forever will be an act of charity. Volunteering. Something born of good will for the common good. I feel there was a rush for gold and power with the rise of the iPhone appification and the Social Network rockstarification of the software world.

Thank you for writing exactly as you did, it’s frustrating for the “old timers” coming from the hacker culture of yore to grapple with the money grubbers.
> Making money starts with not giving away ones work for free.

For most financially successful open source projects that’s exactly how they start.
Life is infinitesimally short regardless of what anyone says
This is only 850B, to me that was useful info that was mentioned in the headline. Yes it might get larger in the future or it might not.
super interesting discussions in this thread on the ingredients that made EQ successful and potentially why it wouldn't work today. I was always looking for the next MMORPG across mainstream and niche games like Dransik/Ultima Online/Asherons Call/EverQuest/Anarchy Online/Dark Age of Camelot/Shadowbane/Horizons/EverQuest 2/World of Warcraft.

I never got into hardcore raiding in any of the games I chased, but I definitely experienced the "magic" as others have discussed here and in other places.

Things like running around Ak'Anon for the first time ever, taking down a tough dungeon with a great group, the first 200 person pvp bane and destroying another guilds tree of life -- what are the modern-day equivalents?

For me, beyond the things like being in my teens (freetime), the novelty of a networked online world, and being able to arbitrage real-world-dollars for in-game items, what fascinated me was always seeing players and guilds do unbelievable things. Each game had their own version of Furor Planedefiler who I would essentially idolize and strive to become.

Everyone seemed to be switching to WoW when it came out and for some reason (life/age/drugs/lack of a real guild or fellowship affiliation) I fell off the mmorpg gaming bandwagon and haven't really been back since.

Mincecraft & games like Fornite are the successors to WoW for the next generation -> and they don't really follow the dungeons and dragons format used in the MMORPG's of our early years.

The success of minecraft & roblox style games made me realize I don't think I can predict what the next generation of "mmorpg-like" games will actually be. However, surely the "next thing" will need something MORE than just an improvement in technology to be successful.
The most concrete complaints in this piece appear to be:

- Google News includes stories from a source that the author doesn't want anyone else to be able to see. (If they just didn't want to see those stories themselves, then there's an easily accessible "hide sources from XXX" entry in the context menu).

- Generic complaints about shopping searches returning links to Amazon, or pages having referral links to Amazon. Might be true, but the case would be a lot stronger with some example queries that show this failure, with suggestions on the good content that is not being surfaced. Without the latter, how can we know that the results weren't actually the best that existed.

- An insinuation that Gmail and Drive are "treating the user as the product". (Seems basically untrue; Gmail has incredibly few ads, Drive I think none, and data from neither is used for ad targeting.)

- The author couldn't get individual customer support for "being the target of a really weird scheme". No details on the scheme. The person they didn't know whose contact details they got from somewhere wasn't enthusiastic about helping them either.
Some Proxxon competitors:

US Woodpeckers' drill guide ($270), https://www.woodpeck.com/auto-line-drill-guide.html

Germany's Wabeco has a line of precision drill stands ($200+), but they won't ship to US/Canada, perhaps an EU retailer does? https://www.core77.com/posts/113802/Cool-Tools-Wabecos-Porta... & https://www.wabeco-remscheid.de/drilling-stands-accessories/...

Germany's Wolfcraft sells a decade-old, relatively unique, $100 drill guide/stand that only works with a handful of seemingly random commercial handheld (43mm) drills, including Bosch 1006VSR 3/8" and Ryobi D620H 5/8" drills. https://www.amazon.com/Wolfcraft-4522-Mobil-Drill-Stand/dp/B...
It's crazy that everyone is blaming OP when exactly what you describe affects most people in their 30s.
This is the only way to enjoy youtube without a premium account, and even with a premium account it's still far better to use a proper player like mpv.

But it seems likely to me that YouTube will eventually start embedding the ads more inextricably into the video streams while downloaded. Especially as more people use tools like youtube-dl/yt-dlp to circumvent ads.
I suspect the only way to guarantee you’ve wasted a moment is to spend it in some unneeded state of distress.

The more moments you spend worrying about whether you’re spending the moment well, the more waste accumulates
Yes, there seems to be a bait and switch going on in this article. You can't conclude that the "long tail" is dying because big business isn't investing in it. The real questions we should be asking are is the content being produced and are those who produce it able to make a living.

It's harder to be sure about the second question but from what I've seen the answer to the first question is definitely yes.

I have yet to find an interest so obscure that you can't find multiple high quality YouTube channels covering it. Want to listen to a recitation of the Iliad in Homeric Greek ? It's there. Want to watch a 2 hour video on configuring emacs ? You're covered.
They killed them selves when they dropped “Don’t do evil.” And when they started working with foreign governments to provide censored versions of Google.
Na, just introduce a social safety net, like most of europe had for some time.
I watched one damn video a few days ago on mark hammill and my feed was dominated by star wars drek... coincidence?
I ran into one, at a FlashPix conference (dating myself -no one else will), last century.

He worked for Kodak, at that time. I used to have his card, with his smiling mug on it (Kodak used to have picture business cards).

One advantage of having a fairly old and robust online (and offline) ID, is that it actually makes it harder for people to assume your ID, as there is so much "prior art," pointing to your real persona. It makes it fairly easy to short-circuit hijacks.

Of course, it all becomes problematic, if I decide to go around pissing everyone off, or poking bears.

But, if I piss off people that have the willingness and ability to do me harm, they'll find me, anyway.

I don't choose to live a life in a shack in the woods, typing manifestos. I want to be a part of Society, and reap the benefits of participation.

It also helps me to help others. A lot of my life, these days, is around helping others. Hard to do, if I'm hiding in a dumpster.
Interesting take. Although I think FFXIV has shown that a balance can be struck in the game design that can satisfy both players without ample free time to overcome adversity and those who do.

In that game they’ve had group finder and duty roulette for a while, systems that match players up and ensure the longevity of main story quests/old content. They’ve been working on making the main story quests solo-able. I think this is brilliant. The story and game gets preserved for the next generation and casual players don’t get put off.

But what about the hardcore players? There’s still a need for party finding and guilds in FRXIV to take on the content specifically designed to require higher-levels of dedication and adversity: ultimates and savage raids.

It seems like there is still some contention on what the rewards for this higher level content ought to be and whether any part of the story line can be revealed through them… but I generally think if you have the resources: why not both?

I love having the duty finder and roulettes. I like being able to solo older content instead of queuing up for 20 mins waiting to join a dungeon that will take 15 mins to clear. Pop right in, beat it, move on. I can fit enough gaming in the hour or two I have free on a weekend.
Sundials (https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/sundials) is arguably more feature complete, has many optimised implementations scaling to super computers and supports both adjoint and forward sensitivity analysis. Btw. several "research" papers at machine learning conferences on "Neural Differential Equations" presented "discoveries" covered in the documentation of Sundials https://sundials.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cvodes/Mathematics....
Pigeon Towers: A Low-Tech Alternative to Synthetic Fertilizers (2016)
> It's still light years ahead of the competition

How do you figure? I never use Google and get through my searches just fine. What am I missing?
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take from this. You're giving me an example of a community that has "moralising" elements. I have no doubt that there are people there against pornography and who are willing to openly say they're uncomfortable with certain kinks. I know there are also people in the community who are not like that.

The function of the community is to draw attention to outright abuse that is happening on Reddit in the open. That is a broad mission and will definitely attract a range of people. Some may be moralists or however you want to paint them. Does that mean we should turn away from them or what do you suggest?

Maybe you could join the effort and be a voice of the reason you believe in and speak out against what you perceive as unhealthy "kink shaming" and ensure the topic stays on hand against things that are definitely not "edge cases" (which from my experience is the majority of what's posted).

No doubt it's imperfect "at the edges" but what isn't? It seems dangerous to draw attention away from _the huge issue in the middle_.
Socrates was not executed because he "asked questions". He was executed because he opposed the Athenian democracy and was considered partly responsible for the brutal oligarchy ("The 30 tyrants") which was installed after Athens defeat in the Peloponnesian war. While Socrates did not directly support the tyranny, one of his students was a leading member. This is why Socrates was executed for "corrupting the youth" after the tyranny was overthrown.
HN never ceases to amaze. Regardless of your stance on online privacy practices the OP woulda/coulda/shoulda deployed, this is a GDPR violation if he cannot have his information removed. Plain and simple.
> You should organize each day as if it were your last

I never understood this. If you live every day as your last, surely you would only engage in short term pleasures instead of pursuing longer term hobbies/goals?
The problem isn't one specific wealthy family, it's that wealth is always concentrated on few people.

Just because a king dies and gets replaced by another king doesn't help the peasants.
Most of us would be lucky to have 500,000 hours of conscious thought.