skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and the amount of rage generated when a professor on sabbatical had to come back to campus just to reset their password was a sight to see.

My personal experience is that these people are the most likely to have a dozen degrees and also a high success rate of being phished.
Internet users in 2012 are not the internet users of 2022. 10 years of devolution have made anything harder than "swipe up for more" impossible for the majority to use. It wasn't always the case.
Google Sheets is pretty basic compared to Excel in terms of the kinds of data analysis and queries it permits (without dropping into another language). Excel added tables over a decade ago that allow for some very useful and much cleaner query and data analysis stuffs in straight Excel. Then there are power queries and pivot tables, not sure how long those two have been around but last I used Google Sheets it had nothing like either.

My point being, don't judge spreadsheets by Google Sheets. Actually use Excel and you'll see a much more capable system and get a better understanding of why people (particularly non-programmers in business settings) stick with it.

EDIT: Pivot tables are in Google Sheets, so either I missed them before or they were added after I last gave it a serious look. My google-fu is not discovering the date they were added.
To be more explicit, I'm saying I find it weird to hear so much about the Chinese room argument from a crowd of (presumably) materialists.
> Nobody is encouraged to do the equivalent of using 'styles' in Word

The main search engines support schema.org for marking up the "semantic" data associated with a webpage. Typically, this triggers "rich" search results. It goes underused because most commercial web sites don't want to make their semantics so transparent to outsiders, they would rather try to get increased traffic. But this also makes it a potential value-added for more grassroots-based websites that will generally care less about how much casual traffic they get, and more about discoverability for their content.
TIL nitrogen contributes to fertilization
You hardly address his point.

You say:

> While in developed regions there are people with access to food yet dumb like a kite.

But he explicitly said:

> > I'm not saying this to look down on anyone. Human populations always show enormous variation, anyway, so it says nothing much about any individual.
If, say, 20% of parking lots has used for drug activities, McDonald’s would get a problem.
I believe Fauna inherits some scalability issues from Calvin, in that given NxN communication is necessary for transactions to be processed, a catastrophic failure in one shard can bring the entire database offline. Is that correct?

It may not happen in practice today, but as your clusters grow your exposure to such a failure is increased, and the NxN communication overhead grows does it not?

It's certainly more scalable than other systems offering this isolation today (besides Spanner), but algorithmically at least I believe the proposal we are developing for Cassandra is strictly more scalable, as the cost and failure exposure grow only with the transaction scope, not the cluster.

Not to ding FaunaDB, though. It probably is the most scalable database offering this level of isolation that is deployable on your own hardware - assuming it is? I know it is primarily a managed service, like Spanner.

I'm also not aware how large any real world clusters have gotten with FaunaDB in practice as yet. Do you have any data on that?
The day that old.reddit.com is deprecated will be a very sad day. I'm not even a frequent Reddit user, but when I do that is the one way I remember to get the best user experience regardless of device.
It seems like you just prefer a different interview style, but that doesn't make him a bad interviewer. A good interviewer asks questions that they know a guest can speak at length in answering. An interviewer's job isn't necessarily an archaeology quest, it's to present to an audience.
Yes, now if I kind Microsoft could fix copy and paste from the desktop to online versions…
The latest Zola needs a newer glibc: https://github.com/getzola/zola/issues/1713

> Currently, Cloudflare Pages only supports ZOLA_VERSION: <=0.14.0 in builds.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/framework-guides/dep...
They’ve really healthy margins - 76% and are growing revenue 54% this year quarter alone. They’ll be profitable in no time. Especially when R2 goes public. I foresee a ton of folks moving stuff out of S3.
I once discussed this with a coworker who had worked a lot on various things related to typesetting, and he claimed the main issue with doing good text justification for the web is the lack of good, free hyphenation dictionaries (or rules) for most languages. In order to do full paragraph justification in a way that makes sense and always looks good you need to be able to hyphenate words dynamically (and fairly aggressively).

LaTeX does come with hyphenation libraries for some languages, but web browsers would need wider support. There's also the question of how to standardize this, because you would have to ship hyphenation dictionaries for every language, and you would need to standardize this across browsers so they render pages the same.

LaTeX does ship with hyphenation libraries for a bunch of languages, but if you try to use it for any of the minor languages, you'll find the results are so-so and you need to manually hyphenate words to get decent results (this was my experience a decade ago at least).

All of the above could be solved, but sadly I suspect it wouldn't be worth the cost for the players that would have to be involved in solving it.
I’m talking about a higher Fed Funds rate, which does push up other rates but will ultimately end up with the money at the Fed.
It is easy:

"Google Meet me" - clear
Yea, I'm 41 now, so I guess there goes me being old, but I guess its old enough now that people confuse the origin.

Like when artists cover a song and younger folks don't realize it wasn't the original.

I'll make a mental note to keep in mind I'm old now so as not to become the old man on the porch screaming at kids.
The problem with all these no-code/low-code tools is that they are not Turing complete. Wherever you need to do something custom, you have to write code.
Yes, now if only Microsoft could fix copy and paste from the desktop to online versions…
Excel has some functionality that Google Sheets are missing that is used in this particular use case. More specifically, it has a primitive called Table. After you set up your data as Tables, you can then reference whole columns as Table1[Column1] and it also fills your formulas down as you add more rows.

I don't want to defend Excel too much, as it is not ideal in many ways. Nevertheless, over time, I found myself using it more and more to prototype and visualize data. With magic features like Pivot charts, Flash fill, and Data tables you can hammer out a one-off "app" in a matter of minutes.
Alain De Botton has a fantastic book about this called "Status Anxiety"[1].
The book gave me a fresh perspective on how to avoid being trapped in the race to prove yourself to others.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Status-Anxiety-Alain-Botton/dp/037572...
Hmm, I don't agree because I don't think intelligence scales out like that. Certainly a group of people can do more than a single person but I personally think things like increasing a persons short term memory could have pretty profound impact on our ability to have bigger ideas simply because you could hold more things in your head at once for example.
coughs Elon Musk coughs
Strong indicator of their success in catering to builders and operators.

Twilio did similar, but security and networking are more difficult domains to 'land and expand' from the 'bottom-up' due to the numbers of teams involved in those domains in a typical large business.

I do believe increasingly the 'developer is the new gatekeeper', especially as modern dev teams increasingly encompass architects, app dev, ops and security. Even if that is true, it is exceedingly difficult to serve builders and operators; kudos to Cloudflare.
Banking in the US requires strong governmental identity verification.

Installing identity-linked accounts on a secure and private device defeats the whole purpose of the process described in TFA.

Nobody following this guide should be installing US banking apps on the device.
The UK economy is weak and rigged
Apparently soybeans are often grown in a double-cropping rotation, in which maize is planted first (along with N and P fertilization), and then no additional fertilizer is applied to the following soybean crop.

This seems to be a comprehensive discussion (for South Dakota farmers anyway, pdf):

https://extension.sdstate.edu/sites/default/files/2020-03/S-...
I think the cash cow creates the situation where this is possible: if all your company does is one thing, everyone _knows_ that they have to keep selling whatever that is to stay employed. Where I've seen things run off the rails is when managers’ personal compensation and career trajectory aren't linked to something measurable like that.

When I worked for a modest (~30 person) web development company in the late 90s we had much smaller version of this problem where we had regular customers who would pay us for design and new features on their sites but only one of the 4 founding partners was directly generating revenue (one of the best designers I've ever worked with, who was also good at managing a group). That wasn't Google-level cash flow but it meant there was no question of making payroll, etc. because we had major companies who liked us and were doing regular site design updates, marketing campaigns, etc. all of the time. Unfortunately, we also had two partners who loved haring off after whatever cool idea caught their fancy and weren't as good at negotiating deals as they thought (e.g. one guy would ask us for estimates and then tell us he signed the contract at 60% of what we quoted, with our actual cost inevitably being around the original estimate). They could get away with that for years because the company was cash-flow positive and money was pouring into the field from all of the companies moving their business online and/or burning VC funding (I still remember one guy bragging that they had several million dollars of Sun hardware & an Oracle license before they had started an application). Unfortunately, that let them tell themselves they were better at business than they actually were and that meant that they were really unprepared when the market got harder: there were many stories but the one which epitomizes it for me was one of them _turning down_ a massive monthly retainer from the local NFL team to create new designs, content, and games on their website because the team didn't want to put _our_ logo on _their_ homepage — at a time where layoffs were imminent in the next month or two! What could have avoided that would have been judging performance deal by deal rather than company-wide — if you're losing money on 80% of your contracts, the fact that you have a few which are very profitable doesn't mean you should rest easy.

I've seen similar situations in .edu and .gov where the problems were different but came back to the underlying problem that how you got favorable reviews and promotions was not coupled to the mission, and as a support service there wasn't a direct negative feedback signal from that.
Effective Illegalism
The shaggy dog story is a time honoured form of anti-humour.
Why does Google always do such a terrible job at managing their products lol. Everything from names to overlapping features and meaningless rebrandings
> Do you think that such a simple solution hasn't been explored by a team of 50 DBAs? Or that this sort of obvious problem wouldn't have been immediately fixed?

based on what you've shared, yeah. I also wouldn't expect a million DBAs to replace a single DBE
Obligatory BillyG Review story from Joel on Software:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...

It provides a glimpse into the complexity and backwards compatibility (to Lotus 1-2-3 no less!) that I find interesting.
> Personal sites take so much work to design, and most feel stale because they don't have dynamic content like posts.

There's nothing stopping personal sites from interacting with Fediverse standards. Then posting to your site is just a matter of inputing it as your home "server" in your preferred Fediverse app.
Dynamic DNS solves a similar but different problem. As the name says, it focuses on DNS. It doesn’t solve the “I get a static IP” and instead accepts the IP won’t be static and focused on identifying and updating the IP as needed. Basically it sets a DNS record for your routers WAN IP. You would need to punch holes and do port mapping and all that jazz.

Hoppy appears to solve this problem by providing a static endpoint to route traffic over.

Tailscale eschews the public internet altogether, while providing Tailscale-network static IPs.

Tailscale is the most strict/limited as you mentioned (not all devices can address into it) but the most secure (since each device has to be included and there’s no public internet).

Hoppy seems next on secure/convenient list where anything should work but you have to use public internet.
But that's the whole problem! We go "underage victims!" and then stop thinking. We are focusing on the potential harm, without considering the actual harm. Our irrational fear of abuse is causing us to create abuse.

By allowing policies that crack down on the entire sexwork industry, more women, children, trans people, etc are hurt, than are hurt by the actual criminals making child porn or sex trafficking. When everything goes underground and there is no well-regulated marketplace, people get exploited and abused. There's hundreds of interviews with sexworkers who all talk about how their work is more dangerous now.

Pressuring Visa makes all porn go underground, which includes child porn and trafficking. That leads to more harm, because there's no visibility and no protection.

If we didn't pressure Visa, and instead had a flourishing open market that was monitored, regulated and policed, it would be easier to notice the illegal activity and move to stop it. A Department of Sexwork could work directly with Visa and content creators to develop sophisticated methods to identify and stop illegal activity.

But since it's harder to see abuse when everything is underground, politicians prefer it that way. If you don't notice the abuse happening, must not be happening; problem solved. No US politician will get voted out of office for banning sexwork, and Visa's bottom line won't get hurt either, even if it does result in more actual harm to people.
Presumably a stolen amphora would have been very fancy and possibly conspicuous, so more specifically the joke works like, a person bought a stolen Picasso to hang in his gallery, but crudely painted it over so he wouldn't get caught.

I totally missed the pants/pitch joke, good catch. Reminds me of an episode of It's Always Sunny where Frank keeps flushing articles of clothing down the toilet and uses black paint to cover up, except it ends up being a pretext for a later, unrelated bit.
yeah, I've done both, but I far prefer writing protobuf markup than swagger. YMMV
... just multiplies.
A battery is a bunch of cells. Etymology is from an earlier meaning, artillery battery (a bunch of cannons together acting as a unit).
According to Google, approximately nobody used the federation capabilities of Google Talk except inbound spammers. It was absolutely not "for the masses". The masses all stay entirely within the censored and pruned walled gardens, then and now.

It was all maintenance and antispam burden for no product benefit to users.

Hackers vastly overestimate the desire of users to use federated systems.
Defending countries against agression is always worth it.

So, yes, if China starts a war it's worth teaching them a very painful lesson so in the future we'll have peace.

This threat is what ensures peace right now as well, if it were feasible to invade they would have by now
No, a personal license comes with 3 years of updates, after which it continues to be usable without updates.

> Individual licenses are valid for 3 years of updates, but do not expire after 3 years. Only if you wish to use newer versions will an upgrade fee be required.
Does learning to code help as a marketing automation, or Zapier expert?
Huh? That's a bit abstract, can you clarify?
There are quite a few options, including emulators, clones and HC inspired projects.

https://hypercard.org/
A lot of animals come out walking! Imagine squeezing out a 30 something pound walking toddler!
``I've noticed'' is the citation. It's a personal anecdote, not a thesis paper.
I will sometimes upvote and then reply if I think a comment is particularly good. I will never downvote and then comment, it's one or the other depending on the situation. Probably all in my head but doing both, to me, feels like "piling on" (even if I'm the only one doing it).
I wonder how/if Google will un-Ballmer Microsoft themselves.
Meditations: A Requiem for Descartes Labs
There's definitely a resource curse with the advertising dollars but how would chat/messaging be silo'd? Users don't pay for it (individually) and it doesn't show ads (afaik?). It doesn't make money. The only reasons to build it are so Google employees aren't using other companies meeting/chat/messaging apps, so users aren't lured into competitors ecosystems and... what else? Pride? Ego?
> how TikTok is connecting to our subconscious

it's the same channel surfing that people used to do with TV, only more with more channels and better timing, plus a content recommender.

the mechanism is the same dopamine drip. there's a chance to see something that's exciting/interesting/relevant/pleasing/arousing/etc.

coub is almost the same (but a lot smaller, caters to an Eastern European audience mostly, plus has a baseline video+music remix content)
I agree with this take mostly. There are many times I expect Lex to guide his guest to a particular conversation and he fails to do it. Rogan is better at this, to my surprise. Though Rogan has his bad days too, but generally he's better at it. I admit though, I am not an avid listener of either shows. I think a lot of this comes down to personal preference. The beginning of Lex's shows make me cringe sometimes.
The problems you mentioned are solved by Excel using tables, which are named, variable in size, and can be referenced by column names instead of addresses.

Tables can also be joined and queried using Power Query.

Excel is still 100x more powerful and sophisticated than Sheets is.
websites aren't a social network because they're not a network at all. there's no genuine connection between the sites apart from the occasional accidental link, but websites themselves don't interact in any structured way.

The 'semantic web' or RSS, as the article mentions, which are protocol-like solutions suffer from three things. The first one is that they're slow. Standards for large sets of people are by necessity developed through collaboration, and they cannot compete with the speed of private products. (point also often made by Moxie at Signal)

Secondly, these kinds of internet protocols rely on uniform, machine-readable content. Rich, personalized, app-like experiences are hard to index, Search engines are starting to suffer from this, it's a reason everyone puts "reddit" at the end of the search and tries to get the opinions of people, and why they're not super relevant in China which leapfrogged the 'plain text' internet into private platforms.

Thirdly with protocol based solutions there's no good answer or even incentive to make sure the information is correct or protected, this was one of the major problems of the semantic web. Spammers, attention seekers, fraudsters and so on can game these systems with impunity, siloed company-controlled platforms can fend these bad actors off.

I think each one of these is a deep, structural issue and I haven't really seen a solution to any of these by people who still advocate for returning to individual sites, and I think the trend in what people consume points into the other direction.
Shouldn't he not assume that the audience knows everything about the subject already?
And they're completely indistinguishable from each other at a glance, which is like a cardinal sin of design.
I'm quite happy with the results of you.com (not affiliated in any way, just a happy user).
In many ways, you're spot on. We are trying to build a business: a schema registry for Protobuf. We think that schema-driven APIs makes a lot of sense, that Protobuf is the de facto best schema language, and that the biggest gap is good tooling to share and leverage the schemas.

To retire in Scrooge McDuck-sized vaults of gold,* though, we need to make Protobuf super awesome so that individual developers and companies are willing to use it. It's not super-awesome today, and gRPC is often even worse. To everyone's benefit (I hope), we have the funding and runway to tackle this problem.

From our perspective, your plan looks more like:

(1) Meet everyone where they are, which is mostly Protobuf v3 and gRPC. Adopting a new implementation of a standardized wire protocol in some portion of your system is risky, but not crazy.

(2) Offer a graceful upgrade path to an RPC protocol we think is better, and genuinely solves many pain points with the current status quo.

(3) If we're wildly successful, influence the Protobuf language community whenever a v4 is under discussion. There are certainly warts to fix and nice features to add, but stability and widespread support have a powerful magic of their own.

Good intentions are hard to prove, of course. Hopefully releasing good, well-supported OSS code can be a first step in building some trust.

* Kidding about the piles of gold. I wouldn't say no, but this is the most fun I've had at work in a decade :)
> He pushes back all the time

I like Lex, but this is way overstating his pushback. He's mentioned himself how Rogan tells him he needs to push his guests more. He just prefers not to, because of an idea of love of the person...

I also think he can push back more, but on the whole he has interesting people and it's kinda nice to see him ask some basic open ended questions and see how different guests react to it.
There were also some really bad decisions: for example, G+ on iOS would send you a push notification every time some rando who had you in their Gmail contacts joined G+ or added you to a circle. There was no way to turn that off other than disabling notifications entirely or deleting the app for something like half a year. I chose the latter long before they implemented it.

Circles were potentially interesting but if memory serves the first implementation was clumsy and I found it limiting because it required you to know what your followers were interested in and, if memory serves, didn't have a way to de-dupe shares so you'd see the same blog post shared by 20 people as separate notifications. My impression of that time was mostly seeing things I wasn't interested in or had seen before.
Who do you find interesting to listen to for these kind of long form conversations?
Does the A15 have PAC? If not, then why is it _more_ secure?
But what if the couch wasn't panther-print but made from actual panther hide? Is a dead panther still a panther? How much of the panther's body has to be visible for the object depicted to still be a panther?

I'm reminded of the classic joke about the mathematician on a train who sees a sheep...

https://bestjokehub.com/joke-103626/