skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't understand the politics inside. as the CEO (Sundar or Larry), don't they see this happening at all? it's now a joke, they should have stopped it and unify the team instead of fighting over whose product is more relevant as the same company lol

maybe they just have too many resources
Also: Make a project buildable in one step [1]

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...
> "That's basically the crux of the problem. The more exactness you're demanding the fewer results you will receive. The fewer results that are available reduce the perceived utility of the search engine."

I disagree, so I went to search for the Joel Spolsky blog post at joelonsoftware.com from antiquity where he complains that search engines prioritise finding 5,000,000 results instead of the result you want, and that's completely useless because you can never read that many results. DuckDuckGo changed my search because "Not many results contain 'joelonsoftware" and then offered to search for what I typed in, if I arm twisted it. I only wanted one result, and think less of DDG for changing what I tried, in order to give me more results, instead of what I wanted.

It's here[1][2] from 22 years ago and says "there are three important ideas from computer science which are, frankly, wrong, and people are starting to notice. I’m sure there are more, but these have been driving me to distraction: 1. The difficult part about searching is finding enough results," then "Most of the academic work on searching is positively obsessed with problems like “what happens if you search for ‘car’, and the document you want says ‘automobile'”. So when the big Internet search engines like Altavista first came out, they bragged about how they found zillions of results. An Altavista search for Joel on Software yields 1,033,555 pages. This is, of course, useless. The known Internet contains maybe a billion pages. By reducing the search from one billion to one million pages, Altavista has done absolutely nothing for me."

The fewer, better, results that are available increase the perceived utility of the search engine.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/22/three-wrong-ideas-...

[2] I tried a couple of DDG searches including inurl: and site: then switched to Google, went through 4 pages of results, and a couple of searches, before "site:joelonsoftware.com "useless" "results"" got it at the top.
In the early 00's on a Windows XP machine, IIRC I had Abyss Web Server running and had QBASIC.EXE configured as a CGI interpreter. I was trying to make a rudimentary image gallery.
It's a variant of the gRPC-Web format that base64-encodes the request and response bodies. It was designed for very old browsers that don't support the fetch API and can't send/receive binary data. All those browsers have been end-of-lifed, and they now represent a tiny fraction of web users.

In short, it's a relic of a bygone age.
I recently (in the last month) got an update from T-mobile for my 2 year old LG and they forced me to go through an app "optimization" process. What it was in reality: a ploy to foist more unnecessary and unwanted apps upon me. Among the handful preselected for install was Tik Tok. There were others, but thankfully non required. After unchecking everything I was able to proceed. Annoying.
If you actually viewed NIMBY-ism as a major societal problem you don't just "disagree but commit", and if you do, you deserve to be called out as a hypocrite.
That also has not gone well. Check the adoption of SB9.
What he observes and acts on, and what he says publicly are not necessarily exclusive. Not saying he's misleading anyone here, but it's not unlike him to say something publicly to benefit himself.
> One reason why Tor is so valuable compared to any for-profit VPN provider is that you blend in with everyone else using Tor. Don’t stick out. Using “un-hackable phones” or hardware-modded devices sticks out. Using commodity hardware like an Apple iPad does not.

If an adversary can tell who is using "'un-hackable phones' or hardware-modded devices", wouldn't one also probably stick out to that adversary by using Tor?
At who’s definition of dead?

I have one project which I use all the time which is basically finished, once in a great while I have to fix some minor thing when python changes their C-API or I get bored and add some minor feature because I wanted to figure out how to do something in python. From the outside the project is “dead” as I barely ever touch it, just recompile when I do an OS upgrade and forget about it until the next python version bump.

I honestly don’t think anyone else has used it, its a python wrapper around boost:: property_tree which I use to transform rss xml to json, but it does contains a lot of magic to do things using the python C-API which are pretty hard to figure out because there’s no documentation so I think the real value is having examples to look at. I spent many wasted hours figuring out how these things worked by reading other peoples code and adding them in the easiest way possible. Might someday save someone a bit of time…maybe.
We interviewed my dad before he died. He had a colorful past and was a great storyteller, with and a bunch of stories we were excited to record. Only, cancer took most of his voice away. And he said that all the stories were fabrications, and refused to tell them. I think that he'd have been more forthcoming if his voice was normal, but alas. The recording sessions were depressing as hell.

To anybody with healthy parents or grandparents, I strongly encourage you to do this before you think you need it.
And that's exactly the problem.
It's great if the person using it knows what he is doing.

I don't want to know how many decisions are based on incorrect excel sheets or exel files no one understands anymore because the original developer already left the company and the next added some "improvement" without really understanding the existing code.
The second Google starts to give in to the common complaints about search, its maybe over. Meaning, they have lost their edge, know it, and know they are vulnerable.
As you point out clearly, people who complain about water for housing don't care about water, they are just going to switch arguments without acknowledging that they were wrong. This is a very dishonest way to discuss anything, because their true motivations are not what they lead with. The true motivation is that this person thinks more housing will make the place "a dump".

In reality, water usage goes down as we build more housing, because people don't take much water at all. Landscapes take tons of water. Old appliances take tons of water. Take a house built in the 70s and replace it with 8 modern homes, and total water usage probably stays the same.
What housing crises? We have a declining population and double digit vacancies in commercial real estate.
> Google is like an abusive partner: it may be gifting you something nice, but in the end we all know he's doing it only to soften you and hurt you later.

Wasn't this something nice just a normal, granted thing at the start of this relationship?

I'm not using their services for few years now but I remember the search engine working well with quotes in the past - before they started bubbling people in personalized results.
Supporting women does not make one obligated to ignore facts or fail to protect oneself from crazy.
It is also important to note that Fridman’s conversational and interview style is very dry and information focused. About every question is interrogative with dense, deep answers; but lacking much charisma. He’s almost the inverse of Joe Rogan.
They've apparently moved to https://curlie.org

Their discussion forum is https://www.resource-zone.com/forum/
It's "violent" in the sense of "I violently agree with you". I read a lot of public comment (I'm peripherally involved in local government) and language like "please IMMEDIATELY REMOVE all multifamily zoning overlay projects" is unusually forceful; it's not even attempting to persuade, but rather making a direct demand.

At any rate, none of this is any kind of woke words-as-violence drama; it's a word being used in a colloquial sense that people here happen to have an unproductive hair trigger about.
650 years shows climate change deniers that this is not a natural cycle but human induced. That's why I'd like to see the 650y data analyzed just like the 1950-present instead of being thrown at the bottom of the article.
They’re forcing me not to drive a Lamborghini
I'm amazed that commenters are defending this quite insulting behavior.

What a joke. A system is what it does. Andreesen is a hypocrite.

You know what would be fucking incredible? If he had taken the opposite stance and put his money where his mouth is. Instead, he plays the coward, unwilling to embrace his own advice.
There are also valid, less severe downsides to multi-family; including blocked views, traffic, increased school pressures, lower average taxes, etc.
I was surprised by how out of touch and un-self-aware he seemed on the recent Sam Harris podcast episode. Never heard him speak before. But having heard him in his own words, I am now completely unsurprised by this article.
To be fair, I've always gotten good service out of Comcast. The secret is to sign up for business service, never residential.

You want to do this even if the installation is for a residence. The guy who hooks up your modem DGAF, and the tech support people are both better informed and more inclined to believe you when you tell them that yes, in fact, you did check to make sure the router was plugged in, and yes, in fact, you did try restarting it after leaving it powered off long enough for the capacitors to discharge.
To who, Bing? There are no serious competitors
Communities are allowed to decide how they are composed.
There are some shitty BASICs.

TRS-80 Level I was very limited, and BASIC V2 on the C64 was only barely adequate - anything and everything interesting required myriad PEEKs and POKEs. I also pity anyone who tried to do anything with Intellivision ECS BASIC.

Then you have your awesome BASICs like IBM Cassette BASIC, GW-BASIC, QB, and BBC Basic.
I am also a happy kagi paying user, for the extra data point.

I do occasionally switch back to DDG for non-technical searches, but even that has been rarer and rarer as time goes on.
Nope. It sounds like it refers to the "franchise" "lineage" of xboxes.

It's really like that old Abbott and Costello skit "Who's on first" (especially the "Xbox One" and the "X" suffix. Which Xbox? the X one.)
I hear this a lot, but it I haven't personally noticed any real problems with quoted search (other than the occasional difficulty actually finding the content on the resultant webpages).

I have noticed a general decline in search quality over the last couple of years, but nothing specific to quotes.

I realise I'm not saying anything particularly useful with this comment, but I just thought I'd add another datapoint.

Edit: Thinking more, my biggest issue is when the quoted text occurs in the "recommended similar posts" section of a page (particularly common with reddit). That section gets re-rendered on each view, so it probably won't be there once I click the result.
I don't know what the point of personalizing it is. This is probably the most normal-person thing Andreessen has done in decades. Does it cut against a viral post her wrote a while back? Sure. But that post was still right about zoning!
Can anyone please explain why we need this as Windows users?

I never had to pay for any codecs as they always came bundled with my video player of choice (Pot, Gom, VLC, etc.)

Is this for people who don't know about third party video players?
I'm just going to disagree.

Simply, with QBasic specifically, you got...QBasic.

Yea, it came with a nice help system, but that help system was was a user guide and reference manual. It didn't teach you how to program. It just showed what the arguments to PRINT were. Useful, as a reference.

Outside of the TRS-80, which had a fairly large BASIC tutorial manual, the early 8-Bits had rather poor BASIC documentation. They were combined BASIC reference and user manuals, and not spectacular at either. And they certainly weren't robust computer programming tutorials by any stretch.

The simple point being is that while, yes, early computers came with BASIC, they weren't really set up for someone to actually learn how to program a computer. Anyone wanting to program the computer would need to find another book (or magazine) to learn programming. Even if that book were 101 BASIC Computer Games (which is an excellent mechanic, I learned a lot typing in BASIC programs).

Every computer today comes with a web browser, a web browser that can take them to any of a long list of sites where they can start coding immediately -- whether in Javascript, or even many other languages. If anything, of course, the problem is that the web is "too big", the menu "too large" and an unguided novice can get lost in vast array of choices. I actually pity some poor soul typing "learn javascript" into Google alone.

But, truth is, today, there are even few of those. Few are learning this stuff in a vacuum today.

The modern web is hardly a barrier to someone interested in programming today. The available resources are endless.

QBasic was a wonderful tool. It was beautiful and useful. A very elegant early IDE. Head and shoulders above GWBASIC/BASICA. But, still, stand alone it was incomplete.
This is obviously not true in a variety of ways, and it inevitably won't be true in the way we're talking about here either, because the status quo doesn't work: it guarantees that every viable suburb is overwhelmingly SFZ, almost mathematically.
Man Builds ‘Next-Level’ Lens with 35mm F/0.4 Equivalent Bokeh
Earlier you claimed it was trivial to find these inaccessible dams. You took the time to respond to my comment, and could have easily taken the trivial step of finding a few of these dams but curiously chose not to. Or, maybe these dams don't exist.

No such inaccessible dams exist, and if they do they hold an inconsequential amount of hydroelectric energy. Just exercise a modest amount of reasoning: no transportation infrastructure means all work is done by hand and all material transported manually as well.

Pre industrial dams did exist, but they were very shallow and used for irrigation rather than power. Moving enough earth and concrete to make a usable gradient is not possible without heavy machinery.
Google seems to periodically disregard pretty much everything they said they supported in terms of search options. Whenever I try something else to actually get the results I want (or remove the ones I don't) they throw up a captcha and treat me like I'm some criminal hacker warning me that my IP address has been logged.

Sadly, even duckduckgo can't seem to figure out what the '-' operator means anymore.

Here I was hoping that by now we'd have a decent search engine with full regex support, but instead I'm longing for features we already had 20 years ago.
Considering that this guy is his father in law, yeah makes sense

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Arrillaga
I recently discovered the very very wealthy neighborhood of SF in the north west corner of the city and boy, that sure is a low density use and I would LOVE to see that area turned in to high density affordable housing. But then, those people must control the city so it doesn’t seem like that would ever happen.

And hey, I honestly want all low density parts of the city densified. But it’s striking how big those houses are in that neighborhood and how low density it must be.

EDIT: I think what bothers me about this neighborhood is what it represents. While so many people in the city are struggling to get by, these people have these huge homes with elaborate finishing work, huge gardens, fountains, the works. It feels gratuitous to me. And if you know anything about the history of red lining in this country, this would have been one of those areas with racial covenants in the deeds to their homes. All the power brokers of the city past and present must have lived here, and all manner of political maneuvering and disenfranchisement would have come from this place. I’d rather see it torn down, and used to build affordable housing for those in need. I just can’t find myself sympathizing with people who feel they need this much for themselves while so many people struggle for the basic necessities. I wouldn’t mind if no one had that. It doesn’t seem justified to me.

EDIT2: Someone asked me what neighborhood so I looked on google maps (it's Sea Cliff) and was reminded that they also have THEIR OWN GOLF COURSE adjacent to this neighborhood. Yikes.
Embarrassing comment. Do you not live in California? Or are unaware of the state of the housing market there? From homelessness, to the average cost of a house, to the declining population because middle class people can't afford to buy or event rent...
I personally standardize on a Makefile in the repo root, with a suitable default target. "git clone $x ; cd $x ; make" should always Do The Thing (even if it just calls out to npm or whatever).
Why support niche browser nobody use? This is on Mozilla management spending money on everything but browser and their devs introducing nonsense features nobody asked for instead basic ones, heck their Android version still didn't have pull down to refresh and pretty much no extension support.
A Windows license costs $139. I get that OEMs pay less than that, but it still seems like it could be included.
Yes. It is.

Like I said: good luck making this work, because you sure are breaking a pretty important rule of choosing colors.
That was a real effect the first covid summer. Streets were empty by pre-pandemic standards but a lot more extreme driving by the people who were out.

Traffic has been fully back to pre-pandemic levels for a while in my city though, so it's not a very satisfying explanation now.
650 years does not show a natural cycle. Pull up a temperature chart of hundreds of thousands or millions of years.

The planet has been +- 10 degrees from here. There were millions of years without ice caps even
They don’t want construction noise or traffic. No comment about whether they want more neighbors
Now do the high-density-advocate celebrities who live in Woodside.
I just want to say, one great democratizing thing about the internet is that is lets every one spout off their mouth and be discovered, even the supremely rich.

In an age where people can hire shills to act for them, create fake companies, lobbying firms, etc. at least we still are able to rely on someone's inability to control their temper and expose themselves for who they really are. No more having to guess whether under the do-gooder curated front, you're being taken for a ride underneath. Now you can know.
I feel like tech giants just absolutely never admit mistakes. Instead of reverting something and admitting it was a bad decision, they’ll at best completely relaunch a half-assed complete rehaul of it and pretend it’s a brand new feature.

I guess it’s too hard to find a way to reframe adding back a + as something new.

But god, I wish there were a way to do actual precise searches like there used to be. It’s especially awful with multilingual computing. I can search for things word by word in quotes, and Google will return things translated word by word into a different language. If I wanted that language, I would have input the words in that language. And there’s no escaping it, even if I change my settings to only search one language.
That was probably because it was and always be associated with Bill Gates. Not all computers included an interpreter that was fully documented. Every computer since Netscape included JavaScript has had some kind of scripting language, but you’re a hundred percent correct on the documentation
> man-made climate change (as opposed to the naturally changing climate that plunges us into ice-ages periodically)

We're in one of those ice ages right now.
That's also true, we just don't give a shit about whether you can drive a Lamborghini.
> That is like saying if sushi knifes are already sharp enough (...)

No, it's like saying that professional people understand the need to learn what their tools of the trade do beyond random stackoverflow search on how to print text to stdout.

It seems you have an irrational dislike of C. That's perfectly ok. No need to come up with excuses though.
Why should they if their preferences negatively impacts everyone else?
It looks great on the screenshots, but pretty dull and low contrast in VSCode, something is definitely not right. I believe it is due to rgb subpixel aliasing, which shifts the colors on smaller sized fonts.

https://i.ibb.co/1GkpLw7/2022-08-05-T04-00-27-UTC.png
The light color background is strikingly similar to the color of the paper used to print the Financial Times (FT) newspaper. I'd always thought of the color as an easy way differentiate the paper amongst others in a stack, as well as a potential way of signalling to other people that you read the FT. I had never considered the readability aspect before.
I think this was a fair criticism of Tether specifically a few years back (and one of the reasons I said "Tether and USDC are both different cases for one thing").

I don't think there is any evidence this is happening now.

In particular the independent reporting shows evidence of assets backing it[1][2]

[1] https://tether.to/en/transparency/#reports

[2] https://assets.ctfassets.net/vyse88cgwfbl/1np5dpcwuHrWJ4AgUg...
Can you share a link to this specific one? He seems to be a pretty active speaker.
Maybe that’s not the best location for affordable housing. A few townhouses built here aren’t going to alleviate the California housing crisis
I walk on a nesting sea turtle beach each morning here in Florida and chat up the local researchers who pass by daily. There are around 300 nests in the 1/2 mile zone I walk, with around 100 eggs per nest. Every few feet there’s a yellow wooden marker in the sand indicating a nest. They’re just starting to hatch now and yes, it’s adorable. I’m not an expert by any means, but take an interest and have some personal experience if you have any basic questions!
I pretty much only use web apps.
I personally propose the removal of ALL restrictions on building; zoning, HOAs, deed restrictions, housing covenants, etc. should all be eliminated (Personally I think this goes against the 14th amendment and that Euclid V Ambler and the Slaughterhouse cases were both ruled wrong, and as such these are all illegal against the constitution).

But, this sounds like Marc Andreessen's wife is a NIMBY, and Marc Andreessen didn't sign this, or didn't feel like arguing against his wife in public.
I’m usually wary when something is described as violent. Violent? It’s a letter with some caps.
Hmm. I have an MBNA MasterCard. I'll see if I can apply my miniscule leverage.
The color is due to the amount of time the grapes sit in a barrel after they're crushed and before pressing. Ice wine grapes are picked later but it's niche market.
Honestly, having had lived in mixed-income neighborhoods, the wealthy are missing out. Dense mixed-income neighborhoods, pockets of which are holding on for dear life in parts of New York for example, are an absolute delight.

We need to find a way to rebrand the American dream to be this.
A readme file should have some cool ansi art, shout outs and serials if needed.

Anything more is just wanking.
Companies never take a price hit for their customers, even if it's 1$. Shareholders would be furious.

Even Apple said that all the added price of fairer labor practices in China (and the cost of anti-suicide nets on Foxconn factories), will be passed on to the consumers in the product prices.
"A reasonable expectation of profit" seems like it would exclude all stable coins.