skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In short, I don't want to live in a society where everyone is anonymous. That doesn't sound very social at all and doesn't work at scale. I want to live in a society where I can build strong respectful adult relationships with people and not immediately judge, shun, and twitter mob someone who says they don't 100% agree with my lifestyle. Tolerating differences in viewpoints and lifestyles is true diversity. Diversity is not finding people with different physical features who all actually think the same and putting them on a magazine cover or in the same office together.
> You can choose not to have kids

https://childfreefriendlydoctors.com/ is a resource for those folks.
Sadly openai has fallen behind google at their own game. Google was able to invest heavily and optimize it's hardware and infrastructure down to the silicon, which has turned out to be the critical competitive advantage in AI. Openai is really struggling to compete with google because of this.
Not covered by this timeline:

Sharks came before grass.

Sharks came before trees.

Sharks came before dinosaurs and mammals.

And the most amazing one to me: Sharks came before Saturn had rings.
What scams are enabled by brick-and-mortar financial institution offices that seem acoustically designed for propagating voices?
https://archive.ph/ZywrJ
So what is the deploy path here?

Am-I supposed to save the html to a given dir, then run the server in the same dir?
https://github.com/hilverd/glossary-page-template/blob/main/...
Fifteen years ago, Google was "the web company". They weren't about walled gardens; they were about the future, which was the web. It turns out they only liked it so much because, back then, Microsoft was bad at it, giving them a comparative advantage.

We're living through another tragedy of the commons, but the culprit isn't human nature itself, so much as it is capitalism. The corporates have made sure they have absolute dominion over human usage of time and space, and anything they don't value (or that might represent opposition to them, now or later) dies.
paper : https://pacmanattack.com/paper.pdf

Slides: https://www.iscaconf.org/isca2022/slides/isca22-ravichandran...
Use google news in an incognito window?
I like the article's perspective, but there's a rub. The Juanes song "La Vida Es Un Ratico" seems to say that despite the best efforts to not waste time, life is still short (the "ratico" part). And that was in 2007!

Unfortunately, I don't think there's much overlap between those on HN and those listening to Colombian rock.
Brietbart and Epoch Times are the opposite of information. Misinformation run by people maliciously trying to get people to believe falsehoods isn't the same as an information source. And the misinformation networks are quite expertly run, just like blackhat SEO was.

Sputnik, Infowards, or NAMBLA shouldn't be on par with the BBC or WaPo and if you think otherwise you maybe should lower your redpill dosages!

EDIT: Downvote away! Karma is useless and you can't kill the messenger! Kids: misinformation is not information. They people that use it are sociopaths and will lie like hell and gaslight you to keep up their scam. If you think the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, et al are on par with Jordan Peterson, Breitbart, or Infowars then you have been really poorly served in your life. You are in a disinformation bubble and you don't even realize it. Escape now, model-based targeting is not going to make it easier.
I don’t know if the shifter is strictly necessary but I am glad it takes two actions to shift, especially for reverse and forward. It’s also really nice having the shifter because it’s this relatively big control surface I can grab and control without looking down. I have that exact model of BMW and I often use the shifter to quickly put the car into sports mode for overtaking. They have another button to do something similar but there is no way I can do that while overtaking. The move shifter left maneuver is easy to do while keeping my eyes on the road.
They are all big and ugly, as if they had just glued the .uk plug.

Don't you have some with retractable or switchable prongs? That's a very nice feature of some of our North American adapters!
The problem with taking on Google Search is that of taking on the document corpus they build and the spidering / crawling work they do. Google and Bing are permitted by hosts to crawl, but new entrants effectively barred by most site's robots.txt. The barrier to entry is massive on that front alone.

We really need a web infrastructure where the index (or the indexer) is somehow public and neutral, not owned by any particular corporate entity. This should have been built into WWW architecture from day one. But legislation could attempt to make it happen now. Companies should be free to innovate on top of it, but we're effectively in a state now where monopoly power has been granted to the people who got there first (well, close to it, anyways).

EDIT: to be clearer, imagine a crawling infrastructure run by industry consortium. You pay a membership fee and usage / traffic fees and you get to upload a WebAssembly program that is called with the contents of pages every time the crawler hits them. What you do with them from that point on is up to you, but would presumably be something like building your own corpus for a search engine, etc. Moderation and regulatory oversight on the usages of this data would obviously have to be put in place. But to me it seems preferable to the status quo now.
If there was a forum like HN where every post was a patent-problem, I would be happy to participate in the discussions about possible solutions, on a daily basis.
> UTF-16 is mostly a “worst of both worlds” compromise at this point, and the main programming language I can think of that uses it (and exposes it in this form) is Javascript, and that too in a broken way.

Unicode predates JavaScript. JS use UCS-2!

From https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-encoding

JavaScript engines are free to use UCS-2 or UTF-16 internally. Most engines that I know of use UTF-16, but whatever choice they made, it’s just an implementation detail that won’t affect the language’s characteristics.

The ECMAScript/JavaScript language itself, however, exposes characters according to UCS-2, not UTF-16.
Chrysler's attempt at a reimagined shifter killed Star Trek's Chekov. Couldn't tell when it was in park...
Google News is worthless because most of the worthwhile news on the Internet has been paywalled. The equivalent to the old Google News is Apple News, which has a pay tier.

The issue with Google is that people expect too much out of it. The author of this page, like many others, expects that there are many people out there putting great information on the Internet and doing it for free, and all Google needs to do is find that information. The problem is that getting good information is hard work. People aren't doing it for free.

Google is like the old Yellow Pages, or Computer Shopper. You didn't pick up the Yellow Pages looking for enlightenment. You were looking for a plumber. Google is great for commerce, and for other odd things. The author pines for the old Yahoo directory, but one reason Google superseded it is that if I were looking for a link to, say, the University of Michigan, on Yahoo I had to drill through a directory to find it. Google surfaces this kind of thing instantly and this functionality is something people now take for granted - which is why I'll bet most of the Google gripers still use it multiple times daily.

The gripers are expecting Google is some portal to free world knowledge. Not going to happen, because knowledge is hard work and people don't like to work for free.
The fallacy of youth is that one of extremes. Things are never as bad as they seem. Likewise they're never really as good as they seem. The latter I think explains a lot of nostalgia and holding onto the first "past" we lived through. At the very least it's easy to view that as our baseline. What's "normal", if you will.

I say this because as hard as can be to imagine how something like Google will cease to be dominant in several areas (most notably search) but I guarantee you somehow this era will come to an end.

We've had tech dominance in the past. IBM is a good example. Microsoft is another. Even Oracle could count within its space.

Dominance is a divergent state.

It's also why I'm not particularly worried about wealth concentration in dynasties. In 100 years the descendants of Bezos won't be the ruling class in the same way the Vanderbilts, Astors, Rockefellers, Carnegies and Morgans aren't.

Relax. These things have a way of working themselves out.
That's a 42-specific term referring to the intensive training slash selection period at the beginning of their cursus.
Nitpick: Entropy is not a force, especially not fundamental force.
like Maps?
Thanks for the info. Some of the people online claiming to just be curious actually are just curious. For other readers, the prevalence of ectopic pregnancy is 1 in 50 pregnancies which is surprisingly high.

I see how once the pregnancy is officially confirmed, intentionally causing a miscarriage would be scary/risky.
Cant you just work somewhere else?
Is changing our definition of happiness enough to achieve it?
How does DDG do it?
LaMDA’s sentience is nonsense
URL parameters starting with # sound interesting, since they are obviously not sent to the server.
The Turing machine argument (which Scott Aaronson has also made) for superintelligence being comprehensible is pointless because you wouldn't have time to run the TM to completion (look up how many FLOPS it takes to run even merely a GPT-3 model for a conversation and estimate how long it'd take you to do that by hand), the Chinese Room argument applies (only the TM understands, you, a mere component, do not), and humans are too error-prone and backslide too much to achieve certain things. Why can't you teach the dumbest kid in your school calculus if he's equivalent to a Turing machine? Because he forgets too fast to learn anything on net! The further up in difficulty you get, the more time gets spent on review and relearning before any new material can be broached. I've tutored low-performing kids, and you can almost see them forgetting material as it slips away from them after a brief period of comprehension, fading like a dream upon awakening, leaving only frustration and dissatisfaction. Even more extreme example: my mother worked in special ed and told me about how each year higher you go with the kids, the more you have to review; especially in contrast to the mainstreamed kids. Unsurprisingly, this asymptotes at a low level. Perhaps the most extreme example are 'click' or threshold things: you can talk about dynamic programming to someone all you want, but if it hasn't clicked, it isn't there; many Ravens matrix style problems are like that; and Piagetian developmental stages are famous for that - if you are a kid who doesn't get that volume of water is conserved from a rectangular glass to a square glass, you don't get it.
>> Plan B, in this case the morning after pill, is a different beast from what we usually discuss when talking about abortion.

Well, it might be a different cast for you, today. But the people writing laws in conservative states don't see it that way. Many of them are looking to ban anything that stop pregnancy after sex, specifically including plan B pills. A few extremists are even talking about going after contraception too. It isn't about scientific definitions. It is about increasing the risk of pregnancy in order to dissuade young people from having sex.
It’s the best way because those in power in the centralized institutions embedded along the existing financial system don’t want to service these “fringe” use cases that to them are too volatile. - that’s one potential answer at least.
How is that being pedantic. This dude is worried about maps of STATIONS, what does that have to do with bombs being set off in a TRAIN?
Not when the price of art never reaches it's creator, and only goes stratospheric through speculation and back-and-forth trades long after his death.

You can't be incentivised to create art when you will never realize that incentive. And unlike music record labels, it's not like you are giving someone else your earnings in exchange for editing and technical help and marketing.

Art was a bad example, though, since it's mostly just used as a tax dodge. The real problem is rent seeking.
You could also just pay for YouTube premium. I subscribed about a year ago and I don’t regret it.
The observation that big business will be most interested in serving big numbers of mainstream customers with cookie-cutter blockbusters sounds trivially obvious to me.

The issue with the Web isn't that it makes big business more interested in serving niche interests, it's that it's somewhat easier for niche publishers to compete with them. And sometimes even on big business infrastructure! Writers self-publishing their e-books on Amazon, bands and other small content-creators reaching fans on YouTube. There's lots of that, and it's great, but it's never going to sell as big as the mainstream, because if it did, it would be the mainstream. Didn't Justin Bieber start out on YouTube too?
Social media is a much bigger problem than any Google mining because social media naturally promotes the already dangerous both sides fallacies. Among other reasons.
> Countries like Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea that practiced land reform to wrench land away from idle landlords and distribute it widely, have had this success.

Land reform was one element. The other, despite the article's unqualified praise of "open up your economy to foreign investment and trade", is trade restrictions and various forms of state meddling to support local industries. I don't need to point out how difficult China makes it for foreign firms to operate in their local market. Per James Galbraith:

" ... none of the world's most successful trading regions, including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and now mainland China, reached their current status by adopting neoliberal trading rules." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage#Criticis...
OK, so basically no attacks on stations. That's what I thought.
I stopped using Gmail and Facebook about three years ago
I stopped using Google a bit later (without any good alternative, Bing and DDG are almost as bad)

But I still used Youtube a lot, I found interesting content there, and the algorithm mostly managed to keep me interested, even if many of the suggestions were crap.

But for some reason it suddenly changed a few days ago, the suggestions are all crap now.

Nothing of interest for me.

Why? Probably an update or some ongoing A/B test ongoing.

I'll miss the good suggestions, as I miss the old Google, but my plan is simply to stop spending so much time there, probably for the better.

I am curious if anyone else have experienced a similar change.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/27/state-dept-investigator-ridicu...

And not Shi Zhengli, that is not the wet market worker, but people are blaming her for just questioning official narrative.
we didn't have to let them get between us
Thomas mentioned all the cases that made those protected rights. The way those cases would be overturned is if a state passed a law to prohibit them. He is sending a very clear message to legislatures that he would be receptive to hearing those cases. This is not hysteria and you are making the same arguments made about Roe. We have the roadmap, and it is very clear.

After privacy rights, Affordable Care Act, Social Security, and Medicare are all next.
When you submit your patent application, typically the text and drawings become public domain.
Maps has been consistently getting better. Don’t believe the meme.
Hm. I dunno about others, but whenever I hear someone say that, what I hear is that sections of our life are short. Childhood is short, teenage years are short, early twenties are short, etc etc. Cumulatively it's "long", but that misses a lot of the core point.
People I know send money to their families using Western Union or PayPal. It's often completely free to send money using those systems.
There's no shortage of historical examples to support his position, and it's not a weird fringe theory.
I don’t understand the purpose of effect. Seems like compute can be used in all cases since you can dispose compute as well.

Couldn’t read only be replaced with wrapping an observable in a closure?

const $a = $observable(42)

const $b = () => $a()

IMO “use after dispose” should crash to make it easier to detect bugs. Also dispose should error when it texts a request to dispose something that still has a dependency. It is unlikely this is intended as it would likely lead to a “use after free” or memory leak.
WaPo isn't really great, either.
When has any religion not fundamentally disregarded all other religions and beliefs?

(Shinto not included)
I gave a then-rarely-used phone number to someone in an organization that regularly deals with elderly people. A day or so later, that phone got a 'fail' text message from a bank that I'm not a customer of. I reported it to them as phishing but didn't hear back.
they use bing. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo and https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
As far as I'm aware there is considerable prior art, since solving this problem has been relevant since at least the 70s. Granted the barrier to entry was far higher then, then now, but we are talking about scientific / engineering applications and there the prior investment in specialised tools has always been justified. A contemporary example is http://www.dolfin-adjoint.org/en/latest/, but there are others. Sundials for example also both supports completely custom linear and non-linear solvers in conjunction with adjoint sensitivity analysis.
Isn't Cloudflare using BoringTun in their Warp app? Rust might not yet be a good choice for the whole app, but IMO it's great for cross-platform non-UI code.
Luckily for you, you're not the only Chris Marshall in NY. I personally know a physicist with the same name in the same state.
Yeah, but wasn't Squid Game Netflix's last blockbuster? That's certainly not your standard Hollywood-style blockbuster. So that means it does offer a way for weird niche stuff to get really big.
Yes but maybe they learned something. I know their crawler has been out a while
It was in writting, yes. I don't think I still have access to it: I don't keep archives of employer email, but I did use yahoo-inc email from mail.yahoo.com, as was allowed and sometimes encouraged, from time to time, and continue to have some access to old work emails through that; this chain of mail could be in there, but I'm not going to look for the same reason I haven't purged all that. It's too much effort and I don't care enough.
If you think of the web as Google search's "content", they have let it rot. If Google had spent 1% of their AdWords payouts on encouraging people to post quality content on the web through e.g. better web authoring tools and protocols, they would have way less of a problem now. Perhaps the walled garden (that they did partially achieve with Youtube) is too alluring. They could have even tried to pay more for engaging web content that had lower bounce rates and that users came back repeatedly for, instead of just raw views from clickbait SEO. Obviously having turned the entire web into blogspam for ad money is no good for Google search and they are already having to turn it into "Youtube, Google ML content, and Google Maps user content" search.
For the two interviews that I had this year in EU (1 Fintech, 1 health tech, mid-level, remote, startups), I didn't prepare much other than looking what the company was doing, considering how I'd fit in there and got 2 offers.

I'd recommend to brush up the fundamentals - not in terms of knowing all the search algorithms out there, but to have a solid understanding of the bulding blocks of the web, stuff like CAP theorem etc.

Being honest about what you don't know also seems right.
Bumblebee populations are down in the US N.E.
From October 6, 2021

The American Bumblebee Has Nearly Vanished From Eight States
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/american-bumblebee...
It is from the top comment in https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/41096
No thanks. Easy. Bad government is a predictable outcome. Extinction risk is wildly overrated and doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
Is this money towards open source? Or only money towards open source that bought into Microsoft GitHub's payment platform?
There were push button automatics in the 50's. But for the life of me I've never seen the problem with a column shifter which was normal when I learned to drive a car in the late 90's.
what is "kike"?
For model making table saws and sanders I highly recommend Byrnes Model Machines

https://www.byrnesmodelmachines.com/
>no-where for a potential mugger to hide

Or maybe the opposite: Design cities to give muggers even more spaces to hide. Maybe then the people looking the other way will finally notice that there are major cultural/political issues in the societies where muggings are commonplace. I've yet to hear about Japanese tunnels being engineered specifically to reduce muggings.
I have no idea what the author is talking about.

Life is what your make it. I just turn 40 and my life looks nothing like the description of adulthood the author does.

It is all about choices, if you decide to have a house, 2 cars and 2 kids, yes... it may look like that.
Are they struggling to compete? OpenAI's GPT-3 and DALL-E 2 are much better known than Google's competing models LaMDA, PaLM, and Imagen.
This is a US-only thing as far as I know.
> Their primary desire is to have a subclass of humans who can be controlled and punished. Arguing with them about this is approximately useless

If this is truly your belief, then you and the pro-lifer are actually closer to each other than you realize. They tend to believe their arguments are lost on you because they think your primary desire is simply to kill people you feel are undesirable and unworthy of life.

I don’t see any value in demonizing the other side like this, it just increases the chasm
> can't think of a single terrorist attack in an tube station

> an explosion occurred on a District line train at Parsons Green Underground station

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsons_Green_train_bombing

Is that a concrete-enough example?

I don't think the maps are an issue either, but you pretending to be ignorant that they are attacked, and that lines between them are attacked, is weird.
Really excellent point. Transitioning to a capitalist system is extremely difficult because other economic and political systems almost always have much more extreme imbalances in the distribution of money and power (especially if the situation is bad enough to warrant a large change) and introducing a capitalist system lets those folks simply perpetuate uneven wealth/power distributions and in many cases make things worse. The US got around this problem by having huge amounts of land to give away in the west (after conquering it from the Indians of course), and I think Britain kind of got around this problem by creating a system that let their productive merchant class amass large amounts of wealth and partially displace the inefficient aristocracy. France had a rough go of it and had to have multiple revolutions to clear out their nobles and Germany had to lose a few world wars to level things out a bit.
The article clearly stated that they can commit a cross-cutting changes (a change that can affects thousands of binaries downstream) within 15 minutes.

I haven't done any calculation on how long that kind of changes can be done with polyrepo setup.

If they can do that, their story can only be better for single isolated changes. It seems from outside, Uber's monorepo development experience vastly better than many small startups with variety of development methodology (no matter monorepo, polyrepo, or continuous deployment, or waterfall development, or GitFlow (a type of waterfall)).