skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if there is a way to measure it, but there is a big increase in spitefulness in online conversation. I 'm not even sure it is driven by karma-hunters because it seems people care less about it, but there is a desire to publicly display antisocial behavior. Maybe because antisocial is more tolerated now?

Bad faith is the driver. It's probably a majority of people now who respond in bad faith. They assume that everyone is talking in bad faith, probably to justify their own bad faith. Maybe it represents a broader shift in attitudes. That's also why humor and sarcasm are not tolerated, because people assume bad faith behind it. This was markedly different in the 90s and 00s where any joke was allowed and the intent was always assumed to be humor.
You are right, and Twitter has the upper hand here.

But there are always exceptions written in the contracts and Elon would be foolish not to spend a few million to try to trigger an exception to renegotiate the contract. It just makes business sense.
The new GAP logo should be kem.
So GPT-3 writes a paper about the ability of GPT-3 to write a paper about...

Hofstadter strange loop
Even vile doesn't quite cover the scale of the horror, especially Unit 731

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_Manchukuo
Recently, I looked at some string functions in the Rust stdlib and noticed it is full of unsafe code. With comments like "this writes ascii only, so we do not utf-8 validation"

hat validation is slowing down everything
This feels from the outside as an observer, like a badly tuned PID control. The COVID lockdowns and Suez blockage cratered supply side, so they compensate, then the upstream begins to catch up, then the wheels begin to come off the economy right before we get to the peak of the recovery, which will most likely result in an overcompensated response as everyone tries to survive in the downturn by selling stockpiles in secondary markets or back to suppliers, but the glut of supply will push components down while the companies simultaneously aim to reduce overhead by turning back to a JIT strategy, while the system is already strained by current circumstances forces them to react as quickly as they can, so we get an overcorrection…

People are getting (while annoyed by it) kinda used to waiting for big ticket stuff they want to buy, I’ve been waiting weeks for a laptop from Apple who are well know for being a very logistics aware company. There’s waiting in the auto industry, the housing industry, lots of others… “what can you do about it, everyone is struggling”, etc…

So we might start to see an overcorrection where companies begin to rely on this, going beyond “predicted JIT” where they try to only order as much as needed to potentially a “as needed JIT” where they don’t even order the necessary (or most expensive) parts until someone has ordered the item that requires them. Which would likely add further instability as upstream producers get exposed to noisy consumer market supply chain fluctuations.

I’m not an expert but it seems like a plausible macroeconomic scenario. I hope we can kinda get back to “normalcy” but I’m really not holding out much hope these days.
Interesting. That actually doesn't surprise me. I'm pretty new to the ecosystem and still at the fanboy stage. Learning anything new is hard. Learning something new that is KNOWN TO BE HARD is likely going to be harder. And since the way you make software is by building stuff, and we now do that in the open, we are likely to see some crap (think digital poop droppings littering an ecosystem).

Interesting thoughts on the backend web dev front. Not surprising at all because a compiled language is a poor match for the problem space (web dev is basically string manipulation -- which I don't really think fits Rust).

The rust project itself really is superb. Steve K is doing great work.
Since taste is necessarily personal, here's my personal opinion: 100% of the tech logos look (significantly) better in the right column, and maybe ~50% of the fashion ones (though most are close to indifferent there). The only one that I feel will be dearly missed is the Rimowa one, Balmain also feels less special now. Balenciaga and Burberry weren't an improvement, but neither side looks great there imho.
Unless I am missing something, that's how you would expect it to be. The failure rate is very high for venture capital and returns concentrated in a handful of outsized winners, so you would expect from, a large sample size, for investments to be predictably poor no matter what public information or indicator you use, such as eye color, hair color, sector, whatever. EMH only applies to public markets, not early stage private ones anyway. I am skeptical of anything published on SSRN, zero peer review to publish there.
Because the scientific arguments for updating the brand are too damn convincing. How else would you improve the gravitational pull in your brand universe?

https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...

Just look at the DNA research they have done (page 12)!

Dimensionalize exponentially.
Do not quite get the last line. All democratic countries have church played a part and individual tried to … let us say Catholic Church and scandals of … no politicians involved totally ?

The downplay is odd. But that might be cautious. We will see.

Democracy … not see what reflect ….
"Why the Japanese media has refused to identify the 'religious group' that formed the motive for the killing must remain as speculation at this juncture, though it reflects very poorly on Japan’s status as a democratic nation."

I'm struggling to understand the author's bias here (there clearly is one), are they claiming that the poor reflection on Japan as a democracy is:

- that the media has not reported an unsubstantiated 'speculation'? (sounds like good journalism?)

- that that politicians have religious beliefs? (separation of religion and state shouldn't forbid religious people holding office, just from mandating it)

- that the murderer was anti-religiously motivated? (sign of a hate crime)
What did they end up actually doing?
> I use duck duck go.

You use a proxied Bing. If you want a proxied Google (what I prefer), you can use https://startpage.com
I didn't know a pdf reader will download and execute arbitrary code if the document asks it to. Not delighted about that.

I think someone could guess a coworker's email and send a malicious file that claims to be from them with a very high hit rate.

Does Linux have a not-insanely-annoying means of sandboxing applications yet? E.g. so evince doesn't get to talk to the network or write files, even if it asks nicely.
Sometimes you can’t drive until the defroster is warm enough to keep your own breath from fogging the windshield.
Irish Luck – Surviving Partial Ejection from A-6 Aircraft
Seems like some sort of weird referrer thing. I get some sort of placeholder when I first click it, and the same thing when I hit refresh. But if I actually go to the address bar and re-browse to the same URL, then it loads.
A heuristics based approach like yours is very underrated.
If that's the case, then ruby developers are severely overpaid for the quality and quantity of code they produce.

Of course, I don't believe that's the case, but rather that there is a shortage based on it being a relatively unpopular technology compared to java / .net / node / etc.
> The federal constitution says that voting is left up to the states, so arguably the centralization problem is ~50 different experiments which have all gone wrong in the exact same way

If the constitution forbid parties from operating across state lines, or operating in more than 20 states, or holding more than 20% of seats in either Federal legislative body, … there would never be single party rule at the Federal level which is where it would matter most.

> If both major parties split into 50 different organizations that all happened to endorse the same candidate for president (but for nominally different state-specific reasons), should the SCOTUS have the power to ban those political organizations (and perhaps ban one and not the other)?

While collusion (meaning surreptitious coordination, in this case) between 50 state level parties would certainly be possible, it would be substantially more difficult than coordinating 50 state offices of a single political party as it is today.

Today, all senate campaigns are basically running for one shared constituency: big money from anywhere in the US, and political support from the same party, across the US.

The tight link that should exist between a politicians power base and the politicians electorate has been broken, for state level elections of Federal positions.
I get your point, but the fact remains that the interface is miles ahead of Google, just by not having all the garbage.

The results are fine for me in day to day usage and I find that Google will not provide me with better results if I cant find it on DDG.

Would it be better if they had their own indexer? Maybe...
Can GPT-3 write an academic paper on itself, with minimal human input?
As the underlying project discussed by this post is a search engine, I searched for “mwmbl” on mwmbl.org [0], and no results were found! Relevant results like the main site and GitHub repo show up when searched on Google or Kagi.

[0] - https://mwmbl.org/?q=mwmbl
Because the cryptocurrency community demonstrated incredible hubris, and even mocked "no-coiners" constantly. So, it shouldn't be a surprise that some people would respond in kind.

I don't think it's great to mock people for losing their life savings, but that's where it's coming from I think.
An option for a crypto payment system could make a difference for this seller and shift some of the power away from Shopify. They would have no way to block access to funds or restrict a willing customer from paying the seller for an item.

There should be an option for a payment provider that is a credibly neutral protocol.
First author: GPT-3

Abstract:"GPT-3 is a powerful artificial intelligence system that can generate text. In this paper, we explore GPT-3's ability to write about itself. We find that GPT-3 can generate clear and concise descriptions of its own capabilities and features. This is a significant advance over previous systems, which have often struggled to produce coherent text about themselves. We believe that the benefits of letting GPT-3 write about itself outweigh the risks. However, we recommend that any such writing be closely monitored by researchers in order to mitigate any potential negative consequences."
Why would you expect your day to day interactions to act as framework for how members of a warring nation displacing millions and killing innocents under the guise of "nazi hunting" should react to things?

And you're vehemently argue against points that have been known for months, the oligarchs are deeply unhappy with Putin over what has happened: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/29/russia-oliga...

Putin may have them under his thumb, but that doesn't mean they should be left to their comfort rather than forced to face the direct consequences of Putin's actions.
Noted. And you are right about not giving examples. That was a mistake and bear in mind I wrote a rant which I didn't expect to get exposure. A buddy thought it was good enough to submit and that's how I'm here. No is more surprised than I that this showed up here.

In terms of specific examples, I'm now running:

* Starship.rs -- prompt management for my terminal. This is something I've always had issues with and Starship does a great job, better than I've ever had before.
* NuShell which I run experimentally on my alternate box and I think I'm finally ready to use in production.
* Warp.dev which I'm currently shutting down iTerm2 windows to shift over.
* Zed -- which I just got late today and I'm going *try* and use this week. I have less time with this but looks quite good.
I very much doubt it but even if I thought that would happen, I'd like to make them actually do it.
Don't things just take forever. I watched how long Ruby took to deal with Unicode. Sigh. But at least its happening.
Strange loop à la Hofstadter
Love / Marriage exists and many forms. For example sometimes a very old average looking arrogant but rich man is married to a young beautiful girl. Though the other way around is more rare.
…ok?
Chuckle. Yeah I over reached there. My bad.
A small bit of CSS will clean this up no problem :)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Text/Wr...
> Brands are more than logos now

> People at the head of these powerful brands know that they are not defined by their logo anymore but by the product or service they provide.

This applies more to the fashion side than the tech side, but I'd like to provide an additional counterpoint here: If I didn't already know about the redesign and just saw these new ones in a store, I'd assume it was some sort of low-quality knockoff.
(Closed)

Thanks those who replied, that's it for this batch.
The country that explained to the US that it was possible to build a nuclear weapon?
The place that made the clocks that allowed laser gravitional wave detectors to work?

Who'd have thought.
And Lite is written in Lua. That's fascinating.

Lapce is really interesting. Nice people too.
Yes, and thank you for this feedback. We recently migrated the filing pages from Bootstrap 3 to Bootstrap 5 and are still adjusting the mobile experience but their is a full-screen option to alleviate this. The page uses their navbar scrolling[1] which works well on desktop but it doesn't have a responsive variation[2] so it makes the blue title header non-scrollable.

[1]https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/components/navbar/#scrolli...

[2]https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.2/components/offcanvas/#resp...
Exactly this. The Financial Times just had a good exposé on this recently about Visa and MC and the adult industry. The processors shut a huge amount of sites down because they refused to process their payments any more because some hedge fund bro who was anti-porn knew the MC CEO. They completely control commerce online.

https://www.ft.com/content/cff23e36-b507-4717-8830-8b06741c8...
Shopify banning you for not producing documentation is not a violation of first sale doctrine.

Just like a web forum banning you for posting something annoying is not a violation of your constitutional freedom of speech.

The current law and constitution don't protect you from these actions.
Please add it to [1] since Firefox (absurdly!) doesn't seem to let us add arbitrary search engines anymore.

1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/category...
Explains his interest in Jeffrey Epstein
I searched for "Google" on mwmbl, and while the first page of results found many results, including Google Patents, Google Bug Hunters, and a Google Books page on a 2004 book about Anarchism, it did not find Google's home page.

I searched for "Elephant," and I got a Wikipedia page about a specific Elephant statue at Coney Island, a UK elephant charity, and a blog post about Haskell ("the elephant in the room").

It's unfair to poke fun at a very small project that admits that it is far from done yet, but it's gotta figure out a way to crack the "which pages are most likely to be relevant" problem or else it's not going to be useful.
The unholy duopoly MC/Visa has absurd amounts of power. Just look at how bad anything in the adult sector has it with them - instead of the card networks requiring multi-factor authentication to combat PII theft and "post-nut regret" fraud, they rather raised fees on merchants or cut them off entirely. Or how they acted as police, jury and executioner in the Pornhub case - the allegations were indeed severe, but they should have been dealt with by the courts and not a payment processor.
Well yes i do.

>I found it very slow the last time I tried it

Maybe you used a node that was running on a rpi ;)
You conveniently left out the plagiarism part regarding ReLUs:

> 8. LBH devote an extra section to rectified linear units (ReLUs), citing papers of the 2000s by Hinton and his former students, without citing Fukushima who introduced ReLUs in 1969[RELU1-2] (see Sec. XIV).

This is only one of many concrete examples given.

DanNet obviously worked on all kinds of image data, otherwise it would not have won all those competitions before the similar AlexNet. However, the CNN pioneer was Fukushima who introduced CNNs and ReLUs.
Yeah the search quality has a way to go!
I believe a few years ago startpage was sold to an advertising company.
> It could even be used as a factor in the site’s search rankings.

They did that for a while without considering the obvious downside - the incentive to mass blacklist your competitors.
Does the Unification Church have more influence than Soka Gakkai in Japanese politics?
No. Light is quantized (photons), as is analog film (emulsion crystals remain clear or turn dark, never in between). Virtually all modern DSLRs and DSLMs have 14 bit sensors, which results in quantization noise below the noise level of the rest of the system.
Thankfully Pepsi reined it in, they were on the verge of creating a whole new Pepsi Universe.

https://archive.org/details/pepsi-arnell-021109
I'm guessing that nearly everybody knows this by now, and for those occasional times when burying a body or whatever, would leave the phone at home.
Yeah, the one completely controlled by the party that says it's pro-choice.

> executive position who has preposterously lost the popular vote

What does the popular vote have to do with the presidency? Neither party strategizes to win the popular vote because the popular vote is meaningless. Therefore, the outcome if the popular vote has no value in determining who would win a popular vote should that be the metric by which the president is elected.
Pulling off minimalist design well in the physical realm is surprisingly difficult and expensive and fragile and can be at least as demanding a display of wealth and craftsmanship as more intricate styles. If your materials aren't top quality... you can't just hide them with paint or ornamentation. If your smooth blank white walls aren't perfectly flat or if your product enclosure has some seams that aren't perfectly even or that sleek stainless steel street furniture gets a dent... it will be noticeable. If you need to use a screw or bolt... you can't disguise it with a rosette or something. That floating bathroom sink... needs special care taken to keep the plumbing parts underneath it hidden or looking presentable. The featureless glass cube... is a structural engineering and HVAC nightmare.
This is where you can find a reference for the default emacs mode: https://catonmat.net/bash-emacs-editing-mode-cheat-sheet

Unless you’re super into vim, it makes more sense to learn the basic emacs keybinds ‘cause like you said, it’s almost everywhere.
What is striking about it?
> He adds that Shintaro Abe, Kishi’s son and Shinzo Abe’s father, “depended upon ‘Moonies’ in his election campaigns.”

They got the family situation wrong. Shintaro Abe is Nobusuke Kishi’s son-in-law not his son.

From Wikipedia:

> Shintaro Abe married Yoko Kishi [ja], daughter of Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, in 1951.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shintaro_Abe
Like sales or engagement? That’s way behind VC signals.
SSRN is a pre-print repository, so that’s a strange criticism: it’s exactly what it says it is.

And this article isn’t really about EMH, it’s about the quality of capital allocation decisions based on the information that was available when the decisions were made.
Is this an Andrew tate reference or just normal Muslim one?
Oh wow. There's another person who uses TextMate! Hi. I'm not alone ;-)

I've been in TextMate about as long. And I love the product to death. I just want it to stop eating itself. And I really, really wish Allan would treat it seriously. He built a beautiful thing and then seemingly gave up. Right now the publicly checked in code on Github can't be compiled (errors in Rave).

Given that I use Ruby and MarkDown only (maybe some yaml), I can't see the syntax highlighting being the issue since TextMate internally is so much Ruby.

VI is also my adjunct.

I try Sublime every few years and it never feels right.

VS Code - Oy. JavaScript is NOT a proper way to write an editor.

Not an IDE fan.

Eclipse. Not Mac like.

BBEdit -- interesting; I'll add it to the list.
Isn't this what gothic art was for?

Gargoyles and imagery from Berserk manga would probably do the job. And a mound of skulls, real or not.
Yeah it’s a tough one. A “company” is just a box with people inside. Or maybe a “separating the artist from the art” type exercise.
Bayer is a bit more nuanced for me than Monsanto
Also recommend everything by Reggie Watts, a master of the vocal layering technique. His TED talk is one for the ages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHK_r9RXTc
>.....to see what we (humans) come up with to solve the state of the internet, because something's gonna give at some point.

We (humans)?
Are the fish up to something? Never did trust fish, especially regarding SEO stuff.
I've subscribed to a few feeds (via Inoreader) that will carry science news. Inoreader sits as a widget on my phone screen and if something catches my eye I'll read it. Some of the articles serve as a jumping point into doing a little more searching, and in some cases, go down a rabbit hole.

It usually does end up at Wikipedia but there are often helpful blog posts that explain the same concept in simpler ways. I have tried, but don't find YT or podcasts very useful, because it doesn't really allow for learning at my own pace.

I follow:

* Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/

* https://phys.org

* DW science: https://www.dw.com/en/science/s-12526

* Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/current_issue/

* Science news: https://www.sciencenews.org/

* Universe Today: http://www.universetoday.com/
Same for the remote trunk opener. I can't count how many times people rang my doorbell at night to alert my the trunk is open.
Oh boy. I loved ixquick/startpage until 2020(?) when it suddenly stopped working and demanded I turn on JS.

I did no such thing but looked around and found the company had been sold to an advertiser/tracker. It used to work much, much better than ddg:(
I think kagi does that, I use while was in beta, you also can assign a priority to sites, like normal or boost. Kagi is a paid service and doesn’t shows you ads.
This is a great point, the 'motivation' seems incredibly shallow and one dimensional.
Can it be done with disposable syringes? They are available cheaply for kids's experiments and sometimes look more anaerobic than saran wraps.
Not sure about this case, but in general I find it to be the opposite, people love to teach others about the subjects they care about and have taken the time to learn in depth.

I am the same way, I tend to self censer because who wants to hear about the subtle intricacies of the bgp system. until they start to show interest, then you can't shut me up.
It was explained to me when I lived in Japan, that while there are many Japanese media companies that exist independently in Japan, they all have to go to one central government body to renew their licenses to exist. They get some leeway but it's it's not much
I’m a Colemak layout user. I don’t bother remapping anything for Vim because I want it to be consistent with other apps with vi keys.

I have done that briefly years ago but I find it a dead end.

After a while you just get used to the cursor keys being in a different place and if you’re touch typing it doesn’t mater much.

Also what you loose to cursor key placement you gain back on other navigation.

So in short just support qwerty and it’ll be fine.
Pleco – the open-source Kubernetes and Cloud Services garbage collector
Too much conspiracy theory. I think simply that Musk do not see the imminent market crash. Now he is going in tribunal to negotiate a lower price. The think will end with Musk owning Twitter in a way or another.
The main difference is the amount of JS bloat. Twitter takes many seconds to load and navigation is sluggish.