skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is part of a bigger problem of indexing, searching and result recommendations. We used to have to go to forums and threads to find the content we need, but we grew increasingly reliant on NLP search and feed. I remember fondly of the time Orkut was dominant. No recommendations, no feeds, you had to personally go to a community of interest and find threads there. You had to find communities by interacting with people, and that was key to it. The content you consumed was directly tied to your own social circle, instead of being controlled by a central corporation.

We might have to find a way to divorce ourselves from search engines until something comes along to replace them. I see no problem using YouTube and such as a hosting platform, but for finding and consuming content, a more personal approach is needed. I doubt however that the mainstream consumer will sacrifice convenience and content volume for better quality content. We don't have to act as a mainstream consumer though.
so then what's Rosie? The mammy southern bell stereotype.

What? Have you ever watched The Jetsons? Rosie is a stereotype but it's the Jewish New Yorker, not the mammy. She's sarcastic and constantly insults everyone above her station, including her owners and their bosses.
Yeah has to be it.
Not if you’re partially valuing your position in the stock as an option on that black swan event.

If you think there’s a X% chance of this happening, and that this event will be the catalyst for intel’s value appreciating by Y% of TSMC’s market cap, you can value the opportunity cost of investing in intel in the interim as a (dividend-paying) insurance premium covering your TSMC position.

If it never comes to pass, at least you earned a dividend. If you think Intel’s valuation has hit a trough, it’s both a good investment and a lot cheaper than a put option.
Covid models underestimated the number of cases, just as climate models did not largely predict such extreme heat this soon.

If you choose to be skeptical of models on these two topics, it seems safer to assume they are underestimating the issues rather than overestimating them.

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2021/m...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/this-...
Why do you think wealth inequality is an inherent sign of corruption?
The third-world feel also comes from the types of ads they show.

They are all scammy with some sort of gimmick to keep your eyes peeled past the skip ad button, usually some sort of claim to subvert the “system”.

This plays well to a poorly-educated population (which may be the crowd stuck on their phone during the daytime), but comes off slimy to any savvy consumer.
Price obfuscation and outright lies are of course, unacceptable. I think the general advice for years though, has been to email dealerships asking for final price and using Costco as the benchmark for who to waste time with or not. Although, the supply demand situation may have shifted so far into seller’s favor that dealers can abandon even those standards.
Yeah, there's not much difference between them on this sadly.

Sunak might not have said something as transparently daft as two internets, but he still wants two thirds of the websites in the world to age verify their British visitors, and that's not a million miles off the same thing.
Er, in the UK a masters is not required, and that's sort-of Anglo-Saxon
Wouldn't it be better to invest directly into emerging alternative sources instead?

Dividends in anything will only be about 5% of the money invested, meanwhile you've given 20 times more money to the fossil fuel companies, who will use that money to lobby to keep themselves in power and shut out or slow alternative fuel companies as much as possible. Granted the dividend pays multiple times, but still.

Seems to me like that could be counterproductive overall.

If you want to go the forwarding dividends route, why not invest in a non-fossil fuel company and use those dividends to invest in alternative fuel companies? You'd be able to use almost the same amount of money without directly supporting fossil fuel companies (those other companies might be almost as bad, though, for other reasons).
> The USA wastes a lot more resources to achieve similar standard of living to Europe.

It's not similar though. Americans live in way bigger homes and on way bigger plots of land. Streets are wider. Everything is less cramped in general. Also, US has possibly the best health care quality (note I'm not discussing health care _insurance_) in the world. They can also afford more consumer niceties (iPhones, nice cars, foreign vacations etc.). All that extra stuff and quality requires extra fossil fuels and minerals.
While an EU citizen can at least roam in the EU fine, and a US citizen can roam the 50 states, seems that roaming outside of that would be exceedingly difficult and expensive to get appropiate visa (if they exist)
Not to meniton Kubernetes, AWS and Terraform. I don't think you really get PHP.
Yeah, I find it really weird that people are seriously entertaining this conspiracy theory, when the more mundane explanation is that, on average, tech workers generate insane profit.
It's both.

People are generally good. If you want them to do something that is both bad and expensive, like continue subsidizing fossil fuels, then you need to convince them that they are doing something good, or at the very least the other side are doing something bad.

Nuclear neatly fills this hole of being sonething that is better than fossil fuels and yet lets you demonize people trying to fix the fossil fuel problem as innumerate, unsophisticated, dreamers etc.

To what degree the people who fall for this scam are culpable is hard to establish. They are also victims of the most expensive propaganda campaign in history.

Ironically, they also believe that people supporting renewables are just propaganda victims. They're generally less charitable about it though, feeling that anyone who is confused by corporate propaganda is the problem, rather than the harmful corporate propaganda itself.
top right hand corner of the list view... select the sort order and pick "price (low)" or "price (high)"

https://markups.org/?sort=price-desc
> See: "Series A Exit Clause" – it's baked into your capitalization structure

Thanks! Learn something new everyday

[1]https://startupjuncture.com/2017/05/16/vc-deal-terms-explain...
Twitter and Meta's social graphs competitive advantage will still be there with tiktok like features, what screws them is the dream of growth and every new person having a FB account. If tiktok doesn't have a social graph or relies on one, it looks like there's a gap in the space of FB for the gen Z. Also the title is confusing, I thought Bytedance had a poison pill in a sense it has some governance or legal means to dissuade would be acquirors.
The problem, I think, stems from the fact that a doctoral advisor, because he influences your reputation in all of academia rather than just one company, is even more of a career SPOF than a corporate manager.

The good news is that your advisor is safe (tenured, or at least likely to make tenure) in most circumstances, so he's not going to fuck you over unless he's a truly terrible person, and 90 percent of people aren't, as opposed to the corporate world where the pressure of constantly watching your back turns that middle 80% into bad people as well. The bad news is that he does have this extortive power over you, if he wants to use it.

There's also a conflict of interest when it comes to delayed graduations. If the advisor's getting cheap or free grunt work, and delaying your graduation for another year can get him more of said work, then he has an incentive to do so. Of course, this can't be continued forever, because eventually he'll get a reputation for his students taking too long and not doing well... but in the short term, it is an option for him, and it is sometimes exercised.
I'm not even 38 and I'm doing PT for my knee right now.
Cash doesn't require an internet connection to use or leave a uniquely traceable signature for every transaction. Crypto is nothing like cash so stop spreading this nonsense.

Also, to the other commenter's point - don't complain about losing uninsured imaginary monopoly money when the entire sales pitch for crypto is "you don't need the traditional financial system with all it's corrupt government regulation and interference". Turns out, for most people who aren't doing something illegal, those protections are a good thing.
To be clear, this example is clearly and explicitly in the context of whether or not consent to use cookies is required. Which it isn’t, if you aren’t storing cookies or cookie equivalents.
If your definition of democracy is "nationwide popular vote to elect a single role" you will find that there are very few democracies around.

Actually in the US the election of the president is remarkably linear.

In Italy the actual head of state is elected by the parliament (with no underlying direct vote) and then during national elections 1) the people elect a new parliament (with a complex mixture of proportional/non-proportial seats) 2) the parliament proposes various governments to the head of state 3) the head of state selects (and makes suggestions for modifications) the government (the actual executive branch).

And surely there are democracies that follow a more complex process.

The main difference between the US and most other countries is that the US counts votes for the president federally and not nationally, and the difference would almost completely disappear if more states would follow Maine and Nebraska example and drop the Firts Past the Post election style.

Democracy means that the legitimacy of the state is given by the people, not blood, not military, not religion, not oligarchs.
With the exception of cloud gaming (which is a particularly nasty thing for preservation), fortunately people still back them up anyway. It's not ideal because cracking is not a 1:1 binary in a preservation sense, but fortunately in many cases the original media can be backed up 1:1 and any necessary crack can be distributed for separate installation. Even if a pre-cracked version is the only thing that survives long term, it's still better than nothing.
Recommendation system is long time broken. I am subscribed to 100+ channels and check 10 channels on a weekly basis, meaning I watch all the new videos these creators make. So that means I want the new stuff from the frequented ones on my front page ASAP. Yet, it's a hit and miss. From the remaining 90 channels I never get anything recommended. Why?

If I subscribe to a new channel it gets recommended like hell, then it forgets about it.

BUT! Totally irrelevant things that I never watch, is kept on my front page for weeks. Like it wants me to check it or wants me to mute it, but fuck them I'm not giving them any more metrics. If I clear the fingerprints and block the acquiring of these metrics the front page gets filled with new, interesting content. Who the hell understands this? I have also observed that if you have an adblocker enabled it gives you trash all the time.

When the absolutely disgusting, braindead, bottomfeeding "depp vs amber" nightmare was ongoing I had to "mute" the same channels multiple times and then 55 others, because it just slams it into my face. Watch it, watch it, you must see this muck.

The topic of my fav channels represent... I get nothing relevant from them. :DDD

The shorts... was the pinnacle of YTs innovation. :DDDD

Goog is all about control now. Look innovation for somewhere else... well... if you can find any, lemme know........

You can't do shit with godzilla and now he does whatever he wants.
I wonder what current issues will future generations consider laughable
My favorite hack when making static-ish websites: don’t set cookies, don’t use external content/tracking/fonts/cdns. Then you don’t need to show a cookie-banner and don’t have to fear it’s not correctly implemented ;)
Latency would also be degraded by the interaction property. The probability that you detect the first packet of neutrinos is extremely low.
I always saw Rosie as a stalwart of the working class. She's the audience surrogate. The grounded character that brings things back to earth.
What I find more worrying is that incubators and VCs now often push it. One of a disturbing metric for a known incubator (cannot name them) is how fast you burn through your free $100k aws budget; if you don't do it fast enough, it is a metric for failure as far as they are concerned. And I see this a lot; this push to pump massive amounts in stuff that's not needed and probably never will be needed.
You probably don't need physical GPUs but you can rent them in some cloud for a few days.
And to be clear, consumers shouldn't have to negotiate for hours to try and get a "fair" price during "normal" market conditions.

The current "markup" phenomenon is the same as the prior experience (pre-pandemic) where OEMs intentionally subsidized the purchase of their vehicles well below MSRP, and savvy customers could negotiate thousands off a car deal. It's mind boggling to me that we allow for such an inefficient market to perpetuate! 100 years of franchise dealerships is enough! Time for business and consumers to wake up and enact change.
Simple, just redefine "participation" so you don't have to communicate. All you need to do is passively enjoy the continuing changes and comply with the unwritten, ever shifting rules to be a good "participant".

Besides, why would anything need your communication? It's not like you're a "stakeholder" is it?
Who cares if there's no gravity? Gravity wasn't sent down to us from heaven on a stone tablet, it's just a concept that lets us make predictions. At school I was taught it was a force and at university I was taught it was a pseudoforce resulting from fixing a non-inertial frame. Both approaches give correct answers, even though they're conceptually very different. There's no objective way to say which is right; they're just different approaches to modelling.

And maybe the 4.7 is actually more correct? The 4-parameter model is an approximation that neglects friction and air resistance. Moreover the double pendulum is a chaotic system and chaotic systems sometimes have dynamics described by laws with non-integer exponents such as Lyapunov dimension. I'm just spitballing, but the point is that it's not a priori ridiculous.

It's definitely possible to estimate mass from images. How do you think we know the masses of asteroids and planets? No-one put them on a scale, we just record their motion and work out which value fits best.
Even if the recruiters are wrong about the freeze it’s the candidates (not the recruiters) who get negatively impacted, so the incentive is there to keep recruiting
> My students benefit heavily from me not necessarily treating them to the same standards as I would treat a full time research employee.

Aren't PhD students working long hours already? I really dont see where is the supposed additional slack they are having.

> I will take a chance on a promising student straight out of undergrad who seems like they might be interesting, knowing that it will take them some time to get their feet under them. That would be very different if they were employees.

That is called junior.
I understand that. But i already have the code to set up logging and health checks (i basically took the code i did at my previous work, it was open source so no issue here).

Like i said, it is fine, i'm not mad about it, it took some time to understand but i get it now and while still less efficient, i'm way better at it, and when i finish this project the next one will be easier. Also, it is important that the whole team use the same product: it was a good reason to loose one man-month to get me up to date with the rest of the team and facilitate my next "app".
Ray Dalio wrote a book theorizing about some of these possibilities. I haven't read it yet but this video summary of it is pretty interesting.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8
Tesla is leading the way today (somewhat painfully in some areas) but they're not the first to try fixing this. GM's Saturn tried to make buying simpler in the 1990s and surely there were other previous examples, too.

Ford seems to be testing the waters about how to simplify the car purchase process: https://fordauthority.com/2022/05/ford-dealers-will-likely-s...

There's plenty of dealerships who have historically had simple purchase processes with standard no haggle pricing but often buyers have to do extensive research in order to find such dealerships.
Please keep cbase (not ccc, standalone hackerspace) seperate from all hackerspaces in berlin. Spaces like xHain have banned smoking indoors while also being a lot more inclusive.
I thought it was going to be an open source clippy at first. I am kind of upset.
Yeah, I’m fine with plastic straws.
how about you sell it at the listed price to the first who comes in to sign the contract?

Maybe those who were too late will come back and be quicker to decide next time, because they think you are fair.

If you make it all about who has more money, they'll go to another dealer.

There's no shortage of them.

Imagine if any store did that: you go to an Apple store to buy a new iPhone, there are 20 people in front of you. Are you ready to outspend some of them?
No, I was thinking 'less mature web libraries' for Go. It's hard to talk about groups of languages in broad strokes when there are various tradeoffs and each language has its own strengths and weaknesses, and I painted two possible weaknesses broadly across several languages that don't strictly apply to all of them.
So, like 90% of the non-FAANG software that we use every day
Sci-Fi from an AI: Flash Fiction Co-Written by an Artificial Intelligence
“We’ve got a new ‘world changing’ innovation invented by some MIT undergrads, let’s get this on a tray. Mmmm” /s
> although I never read them

I love the ambiguity of the tense there. "I never {red} them" vs "I never {reed} them"

Significantly changes the implications of the sentence!
YouTube requires videos to be eight minutes or longer to include mid-roll ads. So everybody making money from YouTube ads has an incentive to extend their video lengths to at least eight minutes.
Stablesats synthetic USD now live
Cloudflare CDN and I guess most others offer server side analytics that if done without tracking requires no privacy policy.
It has been a while since I was at Google so the story could have changed I suppose but Youtube was quite profitable when I was there about a decade ago. I'm struggling to see why it would have changed now.
Hopefully someone corrects you if you got something wrong, because to me that was an amazingly succinct and clear explanation of the advantages and disadvantages of different document types.

One side note is that with document databases in the Cloud, like Cassandra, I also have to worry about Partition Keys, even though most businesses don't work at that scale (https://www.baeldung.com/cassandra-keys)
Way off course. Replace developer with manager and you still get the same problem.

It is all about knowledge and making decisions. Nothing to do with the fact that software development is a new area.

Architecture (buildings) is a very old trade. And yet you would not dare to measure architect's performance by the number of sheets of drawings they produced.

Some architects are sought even if they produce little drawings.

It is all about knowledge and decisions.
Then we should put them in landfills.
5) you are expected to find other work over three months in the summer (but at the same time must continue your research, there is that deadline we REALLY need to hit, do NOT waste your time trying to earn money).

Yeah, this is very true, and it's degenerate, because research is a 12-month job and deserves a 12-month salary.

It seems to me that academia takes advantage of extremely smart people (and delusional middling-smart people) because it knows they have nowhere else to go. If you're a legit 140+, you're at the level where corporate America becomes to become a non-option because you're just too different, if not necessarily from the other people, from what you are expected to be as a subordinate.
I think there's some false equivocation going on here.

When you point out that behind the scenes rows sit adjacent to each other on disk in an RDBMS, that's the same thing that's happening behind the scenes with documents... they're sitting adjacent to each other on disk. Documents instead of rows is all: and guess what, a flat document without nested documents or arrays is a relational style row.

You jump to the ability to get speed up operations with column scoped operations, but really what you're getting at here is a question of indexing... in a document oriented database with rich secondary indexes you can do aggregations across fields (fields are like columns in an RDBMs but in a document) which can include arrays. Frankly that's why it's so important to have consistent secondary indexes that can express the breadth of your query patterns and evolution therein and frankly it's why key/value stores like dynamodb are absolutely not general purpose, in other words cannot be used to express bread and butter workloads that folks would have used RDBMS for in the decades leading up to this moment.

You are correct that column store engines are a different category entirely optimized for super efficient lookups on individual columns as opposed to entire rows and therefore are less optimized for updates: but again frankly there's no reason why this can't actually express a document structure it's just custom running back to the 1970s that causes us to think and use terms like this.

Now bringing up joins is a great point, and it's true that one of the things document databases allow people to do is store data in a denormalized way which offers scalability opportunities and perhaps more importantly a way to store data the way you think about it in your code but this is certainly not a requirement... it's just the best practice where appropriate. You still have to express different business objects in distinct parts of your data model and occasionally have to join them.. join performance is simply a question of the engine's implemented optimizations and is not related to the data model.

By the way, graph databases maintain data structures optimized for closeness but there's frankly no reason why such a data structure can't be also an optimization on another data engine, again it's essentially distinct from the data model; the industry has leaned into a false understanding that somehow these all need to be separate categories by default.
This doesn't address the question asked.
Russia and China also have lists of noble values that they don't live up to. That's not a distinction.
Do you not have a graduate student union?
Yes, I use this a lot.

One problem though is that sometimes I have a sub-folder with lots of (unrelated) files and Vim starts searching it, thereby basically hanging the editor without a possibility to stop the operation.
> If you're an employee they can set your hours. They can't as a student. You're opting into a HR-managed vacation system instead of managing your own time.

The PhD students I knew did not managed own time. They worked when mandated by supervisor, they worked long hours and vacation meant still working. And they could not go to vacations whenever either.
It hasn’t been true at all for modern GCs. G1GC basically has only one knob that you may change: the target pause time. This changes between better throughput vs lower latency (which two problems are mostly opposite ends of the same axis).

And your sarcasm aside, Java has the state-of-the-art GCs by a long shot.
Most of these articles single out TikTok when they apply to all big tech companies. Clearly the call should be for better privacy protection laws that protect all citizens from all present and future tech companies.