skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem of the "walled garden" also seems to be a solution to the "bot apocalypse" -- unless you put your site behind a paywall or a bot-proof login, it will be swarmed with automated traffic.

It's unfortunate that the defences, the "hardening" of sites leads to silos, but within these silos the very same forces (attention mining, etc) are leveraged for profit.

Beyond the wall the scavengers will eat you, within the walls you're put to work on a track.
AFAIK you can't install US bank apps on devices with non-US App Store.
And thus it always should? No. Carmack could apply his genius elsewhere, but he chose not to. I'd like to hear him explain why.
>you goddamn idiot.

Lol

Nothing of what you said relates to security (hint: all of that was privacy related), thanks for trying.
Part of his character was his relentless imitation of classic comedians. He does terrible impressions of Bill Cosby, Rodney Dangerfield, Henny Youngman, Dan Aykroyd. He wins over Holly when she recognizes his Jon Lovitz impersonation.
Interesting, but it doesn't sound like a 'problem' per se. As long as people don't do these things against their wishes. It's not a bad thing if people broaden their sexual horizons IMO (though some of the sexual acts in porn are a bit gratuitous). But I strongly believe what consenting adults do in the bedroom is their business and nobody else's.

And it does sound like it's definitely a subset of the more mainstream porn that he's practicing, after all the more extreme things often require more people.

Like the other poster I also wonder whether this is a result of influencing from porn or that porn is influenced by changing behaviour. After all, porn wouldn't be made if people didn't like it.
jws's comment from 12 years ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1877441 are still right - about half of these are no longer relevant, and the other half, with a small edit, still ring true.
High-dose Vitamin B6 supplementation reduces anxiety
Except for most of deno that's written in Unsafe C++.

https://v8.dev/
IME this company is just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorn with way more money spent on PR
Lots of nitpickery about what exactly it means to be TeX here, that IMHO are sort of forest-for-the-trees argumentation.

What's interesting here is that it's a blog post on how to do page-level typesetting, which was a subject of great interest and serious research in the 1970's but in the modern world has been mostly forgotten. And that's somewhat unique. Modern developers still occasionally worry about low level details like instruction architectures or I/O latency or packet dumps. The lessons of our ancestors about algorithm choice are still alive in our culture.

But virtually no one gives any thought to how their text is laid out at a level of sophistication higher than the CSS box model.

And that's kinda nice to see.
Anecdotal note on SEO.

I used to be really big into SEO. I used to do things all the time by the book. I worked to get really good inbound links, worked to find great directories to link from, and was really into "white hat" SEO.

Fast forward a few years into the late aughts. Had a client who needed a site in less than two months. Some 15 pages of content, design, CMS and a new logo to boot. Was going to pay me a lot if I could do it.

I got it done and was sweating bullets because I had essentially copied all the content on his site from other sites in the same industry. I essentially aggregated all of the big players content into his site. I was petrified the site would get ranked and yanked and I'd spend months trying to get the site back into the SERPS.

Guess what happened?

Within a month, the site was outranking all the bigger companies in his industry. The site was one page 1 of Google in less than 60 days. All the companies he was competing with were at the bottom of page 1 or pushed to page 2. It never dropped lower than #3 on the first page in Google. The site broke nearly every cardinal rule of SEO - duplicate content, keyword stuffing, fake inbound links, etc. and still managed to be on the front page of Google for a host of long tail search terms and has continued to stay on the front page.

It just confirmed Google doesn't care about enforcing any of its rules any more. If I did what I did, I can only imagine what other people are doing to push their site into the top of the rankings.
Things that aren't React's fault:

1. Everything you mentioned in your comment.
> even though Duo has 10x more installs than (classic) Meet.

How many of these "10x more installs" are due to Duo coming preinstalled by default on Android, which AFAIK isn't the case for Meet? A quick look at two Android phones I have nearby showed both have Duo installed (and never opened), while none have Meet.
If you are an average business with no internal expertise to evaluate vendors: well of course everyone's going to spin you whilst the money keeps flying out of your pockets. Smarter companies would at least hire people that could advise on such things.
No, it was different. It was never in the same app. Merging chat history into it was the best thing about it, and you could use it with any xmpp client (disclosure: I was developing one such client).

But it never wasted valuable screen estate in a mail app to make you know that you can also chat. There was a separate app for that.
The interviews with academics and technical folks he does are fine because it's a domain where you can tell that he knows his stuff but he seems to have increasingly become an off brand Joe Rogan with political guests or nutritionists or even stranger guests on the channel, whose quackery goes largely unchallenged.

The worst offender was probably Oliver Stone. That episode became a straight up megaphone for propaganda.
The scope of this project is very impressive. I don't have a need for it myself at this point, but kudos for having even a semblance of parity with AWS for local development.
> Does anyone actually believe DALL E "understands" what it's doing?

I believe it understands enough to make tens of thousands of people interested and debating its merits. The GANs of 5 years ago were baby toys compared to DALL-E. They were drawing 5 legs to a dog and limited to a few object classes. Now people debate if it "really understands" and if it is "(slightly) conscious".
Close. Today's AT&T is a convergence of 4 of the 7 "baby Bells" that came from the breakup. So there is lineage, but yes it has nothing to do with the original corporation.

https://www.ariasystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/baby-...
There's an interesting Google TechTalk on YouTube called "The Next Generation of Neural Networks" from 2007 [1]. In that video, there is a demo [2] that showcases the neural network recognizing numbers when given a drawing of a number as inputs, but more interesting is the follow on where the demo shows fixing the output to a given number and letting the neural network generate the "input" image to show what it is thinking that number can be. That is a strong indication to me that that particular neural network has a good understanding of what the particular number glyphs look like, even if it does not know what those are conceptually or how they relate to each other and to mathematics -- that is, that the neural network would not be able to work out what number 42 is, how it relates to 37 (i.e. 37 < 42), or how to manipulate those numbers (e.g. 2 + 7 = 9).

Dall-E will likely be similar in that it is effectively doing that perception step where you fix the text description from the classifier output and run that in reverse to show what the neural network is "seeing" when it is "thinking" about that given output. So it won't be able to describe features of a giraffe, or information about where they live, etc. but it will be able to show you what it thinks they look like.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M
[2] https://youtu.be/AyzOUbkUf3M?t=1293
I'd like to see a project like this which is self-hosted, where the process of buying a domain, acquiring hosting, etc. is made easy for non-technical users. The problem with sites like about.me is that eventually the maintainer gets acquired, gets bored, gets hit by a bus, etc. With a self-hosted site, it works as long as you keep paying Namecheap and AWS, for example. This arrangement also separates the core project owners from responsibility for whatever users slap on their page down the line.

I imagine users would go to one site (or app) to get it all running, and that site would hook them up with hosting and a domain name behind the scenes, maybe get them set up with a static page through a WYSIWYG editor, then boom done. Maybe give users a standalone app with their hosting keys and credentials that lets them update the content on their site directly (again through WYSIWYG, like Adobe Dreamwaver but easier), without going back to the initial setup site.

A platform or service that handholds users through initial setup and billing, and then steps away once they're up and running, seems to me like the right mix of centralized/devolved control and responsbility. I realize what I'm describing sounds a lot like Wordpress or Dreamwaver, but I think there's a big opportunity to slim down these offerings into a simple, secure, easy-to-use package. I guess it depends on your choice of target audience.
1. Excel never had a viable competitor that Microsoft needed to use their OS monopoly to exclude.

2. Excel sells for a good amount of money and they wouldn't want to cut that off.
Don't really have an axe to grind regarding strict-serializability, serializability, snapshot isolation or whatever. Start at the highest level of consistency and consciously step away if you encounter issues.

The Postgres default of "Read committed" gives me shivers on the other hand...

> If I were to make a concurrent map data structure whose operations are not linearizable and then put it on a library and give it to my users, any user of that library would come back to me and say that my library has a bug. They may not be able to tell me exactly what it is, but they'll understand that there is a bug in it.

> However, if I take the same concurrent map data structure, and put in an application and call that application a "Key-Value store" or a "Database" (DBMS) and give it to the typical database users, it seems they may certainly use it for a several decades without ever complaining that this "Database" is not linearizable (or serializable as the DB folks call it).

https://concurrencyfreaks.blogspot.com/2020/06/you-say-read-...
It works now indeed.
This looks really awesome, and as someone who loves reading source code (and works in OSS full time), this is my ideal way to learn.

The price seems sensible as long as the quality is high. The question I'd want answered before asking my employer to pay for it is how complex it can get. There's certainly value in a Redis that takes 3 hours to build, but there's a lot more value in the 30-50 hour version where you have to think through design tradeoffs and dealing with hard edge cases. It's the more complex version that I'd ask for my employer to pay $80/month for.

For context, I've been in industry for 8 years and work on the Airflow OSS project as my day job.
You can however lower IQ with environmental changes very effectively.

Getting rid of parasites improves educational outcomes of children. Possibly their IQ as well.

Who knows how much smarter would we be if flus, colds and other duseases didn't ravage bodies of our children.
> I really don't get any of those "be more productive", book, video, course and so on.

They think that is they eat, sleep and think like Musk or Zuckerberg they'll get the same bank account. They spend time mimicking the by products of their lifestyle
I think we need to start thinking of these networks not as something we hope will someday simulate a brain, but as small building blocks that can be networked together in a variety of ways to tackle tasks. DALL-E may not understand 3D image manipulation, but if you chained the output from DALL-E into something like NeRF you could start to transform the image in 3D space. One can picture a collection of a few hundred of these networks, all with different things that they are good at working in concert to approach something that is very good at doing things generally. We're missing the layer on top that decides which algorithms to run and in what order.
Cloudflare has been on fire with addition of so many different features/services every year to make web more efficient/accessible for everyone.

I have been using Cloudflare since 2014. I started with just Nameservers/DNS and today I use them for alot of things, some being:

1. Workers for caching API on edge(reduces massive overhead on origin server)

2. Cloudflare pages for hosting static sites(alternative to netlify/vercel)

3. Domain Registration at Cost

4. Cloudflare Access to add auth to third party apps I host

5. Automatic Platform Optimizations (APO) to optimize/serve wordpress blog on edge. Gives a massive boost to google page insights score.

6. Cloudflare Images for automatic image optimization on the fly.

Waiting for them to start providing CDN services like static files caching on edge(currently I used bunny.net).
Tuxemon: Open-source monster-fighting RPG
Sure. The point is, biological brains are quite good at this compared to machines, despite it being a composition of trivial mechanics and kinematics problems, and a vision problem that is similar to ones that computers are pretty good at. We seem to do better at it and in a fraction of the power budget of computing.
"unregistered drone" .. key words here.. this article has some overlap with "pearl-clutching" journalism, coinciding with regulatory efforts at "all control, all the time" for drone operators. Drones for me and not for thee.
Would better weather forecasting move the relationship between weather and GHD?
Roads don't just emanate out of nowhere either. They must be built and maintained, or they become useless. I doubt building new highways really takes much less time than building new railways.
That's great news! I missed that in my initial skim of the article.
Not to mention the adoration of Elon Musk, virtually everyone is asked to comment on him.

However ... I do like that guests have a lot of time to get deep into ideas.
Yeah, I'd love to use this service. Some of the challenges are really cool sounding. That said, I don't even pay $80/m for my IDE, and that's a critical tool I can't go without at this point.

One data point I learned being a programmer in the American South was that companies generally did not pay out for things like conferences, education (aside from college) etc... If you want to serve those folks (and I suspect there's a lot of them!) then the price point might need to be different.
https://awsapichanges.info/ will interest you, as might

* https://github.com/z0ph/MAMIP#readme

* https://github.com/SummitRoute/aws_breaking_changes#readme

I thought there was a backing github repo for AwsApiChanges.info but I was unable to readily locate it
This criticism extends to pretty much math in general.
Okay, in my defense I escaped that ecosystem just as the thing I knew as Teams was replacing SfB, and I was unaware that they'd pulled that... fascinating little twist.
GrapheneOS is the best available option right now. I struggle with it when I want to do anything interesting. Its explicitly not made for devs. Its locked down for users.
That said, if you need a smartphone, its the best available phone OS today.
The Mirai needs check ups and part replacement every 5000 miles[1]. It is car sold at a huge loss (middle 5 to low 6 digits) because the tech is super expensive.

[1] https://ds.jerrysgarageinc.com/service-schedule/complete/toy...
iPhone SE versus Pixel 6A: what Google got right and Apple got wrong
Their other website[0] mentions nitrogen from the air.

[0]: https://solarfoods.com/science/
GrapheneOS only supports the google "pixel" line of phones (probably because they support the bootloader-locking by user, and ship with most stock android/AOSP support):

https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices

I'm running it on a pixel-4a (google-sunfish) and it works fine. You may want to pay close attention to the parts where it tells you how to lock/unlock the bootloader:

https://grapheneos.org/install/cli#enabling-oem-unlocking

https://grapheneos.org/install/cli#disabling-oem-unlocking

CalyxOS also supports older models like the pixel 3, albeit with lower standards for security: https://calyxos.org/install/

Additionally there's AOSP distros like LineageOS that support many devices, but with much lower security standards: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
(2021)

The full title is: "Taxing bachelors and proposing marriage lotteries – how superpowers addressed declining birthrates in the past"
A joke breaks expectations. Setup: "What kind of bear has no teeth?" Punchline: "A gummy bear" breaks the expectation you have trying to think of a type of animal bear.

Non-jokes or meta-jokes break the expectation but in an unusual way. "Why did the chicken cross the road?" punchline breaks your expectation of an broken expectation. You thought it was a joke, but it turned out to be a statement. The aristocrats joke turns out to be just a dirty story- the story is the "joke".

Memes are not non-jokes or meta jokes. Memes are refillable jokes in a known container. You see the picture, you know what the joke is. Just like a TV sitcom is storytelling/joketelling in a refillable container. You see the kooky friend character, you know how he/she is going to react.

The aristocrats joke happens to also be a refillable container (you can tell/retell it however you want), but that's not the part that makes it a non-joke.
> The mistake was killing Reader to make Plus a success. Google’s judo move would’ve been to embrace the open web as a social network. Not their network but our network.

> They provide the tools – Reader, Blogger, Search — we provide the personal websites. The open, accessible, indexable web as The Next Great Social Network.

I think this confuses the chronology. It's not that Google drove people away from a decentralized social web by killing Reader. It's that users had already abandoned the web in favor of walled gardens like Facebook.

I think that Google should have kept Reader around largely for PR and goodwill reasons, but it was niche product being used by a small and dwindling (but fervent!) set of users. RSS was not a meaningful "social network" for any significant fraction of humanity. I would bet money that for every person who has ever written a blog post, there are 10,000+ people who have posted on Facebook or Instagram.

Google could have kept the lights on with Reader but it would have been a well-lit but empty room.
I use pelican[0], which works with markdown (or rst) files and makefiles to compile/deploy.

[0] https://getpelican.com/
I don't know how I missed it.

I guess these days not everyone hears it growing up?

Seems I need to widen my view.
Take this comment back to Reddit.
> This latter property is particularly useful for enhancing the precision of information processing. For example, information represented by an individual neuron may be noisy (say, with a precision of 1 in 100). By taking the average of input from 100 neurons carrying the same information, the common downstream partner neuron can represent the information with much higher precision (about 1 in 1,000 in this case).

What does precision mean here, mathematically? Precision as in precision/recall doesn't seem to work, as precision in that context means TP / (TP + FP), and going from 1/100 to 1/1000 would mean worse precision.

Does it mean something like floating point precision, where increasing bits can increase information represented, i.e. 2 bits represent max of 11=3, 3 bits represent maximum of 111=7 and so on? I can't quite this to work...
Regarding your desire for data, a research article referenced on the page: https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/15/1485/2019/ has a section on "Data availability," which seems to be relevant. Possibly the article altogether is interesting to you, I didn't read it (yet).
Does anyone else find the app icons[0] to be absolutely hideous?

Google reskinned all of their app icons but there's no consistency. Some colors overlap with transparency (see Google Meet, Calendar) but others don't (see Maps, Play Store).

0: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/20.jp...
I've spent enough time dealing with problems caused by lack of strict serializability. Theoretical discussions are great, but eventually your data model isn't just a bunch of separate key-value pairs. The usual approach is to avoid problems by redesigning your application and doing gymnastics with your data. But what's the point if we have FoundationDB (which I'm in the process of migrating to)?
He should keep his opinion to himself more. He hasn't yet accomplished anything significant in the world, so nobody really cares what he thinks about particular subjects. He comes off as pompous. I also don't like that he takes crypto seriously.
I'd be very curious to hear the true story as well.

As an outsider, it looks like a classic process followed by many tech companies. GPay was probably the first attempt and the assignment was to build anything that works and just make it work in the US - we'll expand to other markets later. And then, because it's payments, they immediately learned that every assumption they made in the model fails to work in any other jurisdiction.

No idea why Singapore - maybe that was the first attempt at expansion where they learned supporting other regions wasn't going to scale.

From there, maybe they built Google Pay based on better assumptions that apply globally. But, of course, nobody bothered to tell the GPay team who kept cranking out new features in the meantime. Lo and behold, Google Pay could never reach feature parity with GPay so they perpetually have to support GPay in the US, while deploying Google Pay to the rest of the world.

But now we have to manage two apps. We'd better just build a brand new app to replace both. Enter: Wallet. It supports every region with all the critical features.

Oh, except Wallet's model can't ever support those 20-year old legacy APIs that are still used by tons of products nobody owns. So actually people who use GPay now get both GPay and Wallet.

That's my guess, at least...
Serkle Nufding sounds like a word. What about “xywjlkbtywlsjjsnskksbrjsksbsysjsnsjdkdmdnd”?
Neat! Bookmarked.
I'm not talking about Cassandra being more generally scalable than other systems, only that no system as scalable as Cassandra offers strict serializable transactions besides Spanner (including Cassandra, today)
How does a huge VLA corrupt the stack? If there's not enough space but code keeps going then isn't that a massive bug with your compiler or runtime?
Photosynthesis is very efficient! .....at using carbon. Even plants figured out that solar energy should be too cheap to meter
Started at the end of 2002, ended in the beginning of 2009 when I got laid off and haven’t made any contributions since. Of course not being able to touch it without penalty helps with the patience part.
You don't have to store and transport it in pure form as gas. You could use e.g. some carrier medium (or whatever is the right English term).
I was amused to see a performance of All's Well that Ends Well and discover that the "cutting onions" joke goes at least as far back as Shakespeare.

At the very end during the big resolution scene, Lafeu declares "Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon."
I guess ironically you've just recreated the argument people of faith use to shout down logic used to question the reality of their belief system.

The burden of proof is not on the one claiming logically consistent interpretations of events.
The endless cycle of Google products being replaced by something else to no useful effect.

I just don't bother with any of them anymore except Gmail, and that's mostly inertia on my part.