skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not difficult to find info on Ko Lanta or Croatian resorts on Google. Its not invisibility that keeps them relatively quiet, it's the sheer amount of competition.

The reason even a fairly advance NLP system is going to struggle to find what the author considers to be the "Ko Lanta of Croatia" is that they can't read the author's mind about qualities associated with Ko Lanta, so they're going to highlight islands, not "small, quiet resort villages with $10-$20 rooms and hammocks" (Not really Croatia's "vibe" though I suspect the OP would probably like most Croatian islands anyway...). The same is going to be true even if you put in strings that return comparisons humans directly make themselves like "Venice of Asia".
Article says airplane mode just turns off access to baseband.

I thought the whole point of airplane mode was to prevent interference by eliminating radio signals.
It wouldn't work if you did. Back in 2000 everyone created their own web site with a list of links to others they found intersting. Now nobody is creating that input and so you don't get and data to rank by.
Do you mind pointing me in the direction of these dirt cheap trucks? I’ve been looking but have so far come up empty.
Use it to show off your marketing / webdesign skills and land yourself a good job. Best and most ethical monetisation model IMO.
yeah except any innovation in last 50 years was in america not sweden. though i guess you guys have spotify and notch. (that was sweden right)
The old versions (v2 or older) just had playlist box. You could choose to add folders to it, or drag and drop stuff into it, but it didn't go scanning your system for things as soon as you installed it. It didn't maintain a database of those files either. Even if you saved the playlists they were plaintext m3u files.

I could ignore the current version of winamp, but I'd rather give it a try and see how much of that stuff is able to be disabled and ignored. It might still prove to be better than VLC.
Excel let's you create macros by hitting "record" and then doing the operations yourself. It'll generate the code to replicate the impact of your inputs.
+1 for color coding in top formula bar
They were also pretty toxic and arrogant.
Thank you for sharing both the insight and the anecdote.
/me carries on using Signal, oblivious.

Seriously, f*k off Google, I've been waiting years for you to consolidate your chat/IM/meeting apps, and Apple showed you how it's done. Yet, here we are in 2022.
Do you believe everything you've been taught?
Just wanna say I love your channel! Cool to see you on HN.
The median American lives 18 miles from their mom. Americans are moving less than at any time in US history. For the most part, the idea of a nation in motion is over.

The typical American isn't the typical Hacker News reader though, the typical Hacker News reader is going to go where the money is, not stay where the family is.
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Cool video! I'm based in Cairns and work on and around the reef. Definitely appreciate the sentiment of the point you're making here (generally speaking it's true), but the argument is nuanced.

It's nice to see visual evidence that backs up your personal beliefs. That said, it's also problematic to take a video of one tiny, tiny part of the great barrier reef and use it as evidence as to the state of the broader ecosystem (a system so large it would run almost the entire length of the US West Coast, consisting of over 4,000 reefs, some as large as 90km² with widely varying conditions). In fact, there are many groups who deny climate change, the science around it, and the decline of the GBR. In Australia, the IPA are one of these ... who visit pristine reefs (there are many pristine reefs) and take video to further these kind of bogus claims.

On your video. First place was Fitzroy Island, which has a shallow, fringing reef around it. I've been visiting Fitzroy since the 80s and it has certainly changed over the years. That said, in-shore fringing reefs are not a good indication of much, as they are susceptible to pretty much every kind of disturbance. There is an area around the corner from where you were filming on the Island called Shark Fin bay that has 100% coral cover, probably due to slightly better currents (it's just outside of the lee of the island and few people go there). Your dive site was probably Milln or Flynn reef which are both outer reefs, about 40km off the coast. They are both in fairly good shape as far as tourist reefs go, with great visibility and decent coral cover. There's another reef very nearby called Hastings, which has good coral cover (and a lot of life, people often sight Mantas and other bigger stuff there) but the visibility is terrible due to sediment being picked up by currents. On all these reefs the condition would be entirely variable on different aspects of the same reef alone (i.e. north, south, east, west, windward / lee).

Long story short, the science here is about data. Big data. And while highly local, anecdotal evidence can definitely play a part it has to be considered within the correct context.

If you're interested, I built a tool[1] a couple of years ago based on surveys we were doing across the length of the reef. It gives a sense of coral cover, health, and the importance of individual reefs to the broader system.

[1] https://greatreefcensus.org/detailed-reporting
That's similar to a little Johnny joke ...

Schoolkids come back from a trip to the farm and the teacher asks them what they saw. Little Johnny says we saw a chicken and a horse and a pig and a fucker and a cow and ...

Teacher: Johnny! I'm sure the farmer didn't use that language.

Johnny: Yeah he called them 'eifers but we knew what he meant.
I don't think it's that hard to understand. Also I'm sure there's some subset of people who think what you do in life is evil.
I wonder. Is it possible to extrapolate emissions based on imports in a meaningful way?

Say we import 10,000,000 beanie babies and we know each one requires an average of 100kg of CO2 to manufacture and export. Based on that data could we determine more accurate per capita emissions?

Not sure if this would be entirely pointless to approximate or makes no sense to begin with.

You could categorize it as domestic emissions and market/demand emissions.
I think no. Most people don't do table joins very often. They wouldn't know how. What they'll do instead is create lookups with VLOOKUP or INDEX(MATCH()) to pull in values from other tables into their one master. And once they have the master flat file they'll use a pivot table for group by aggregations.
>I am still not sure this search even makes sense. It seems to rely on an assumption that some traveller will compare Koh Lanta with some location in Croatia

Well exactly. If anyone ever mentioned Koh Lanta in their review of Croatian destinations, we'd hope that that it would be at the top of the results.

Or that there would be no results.

Getting results that don't even mention Croatia is not the intended outcome.
Gitlab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash
I wish someone would explain in simple terms what a demand-side platform is. If you are assumed to be fluent in ad business speak to work in the technology field that is kind of a depressing commentary.
The real question though is does the amount of good that they could do at an appearance like that outweigh the cost of getting there in a suboptimal damaging way?
Lex is the Joe Rogan of the college crowd
> So, I don't know where the "too slow" meme is coming from

Perhaps the parent commenter is executing `pdftex` on Windows. Like all Windows ports of UNIX/Linux-first software, LaTeX experiences the double whammy of the NT kernel being slow with small files + Windows Defender scanning. NTFS is not at fault, oddly enough: it works fast enough in Linux with the recent in-kernel NTFS3 driver.

I use the same distribution (MiKTeX) on both Windows and Linux, and Linux is easily 10× as fast as Windows when compiling complex files (TikZ graphs and diagrams, `.bib` files, internal hyperlinks, etc).
An average American lives unbelievably rich, safe life by the standards of pretty much any major country that has ever existed or currently exists (yes, including Europe - see e.g. disposable income, debt etc. here - https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-disposable-income.htm).

An average American is indeed saddled by a healthcare system distorted by misaligned incentives (tax-free benefits), tons of regulation and government ineptitude, corporate lobbyists abusing regulation and government ineptitude, and self-serving unions (AMA). However, the probabilistic impact of medical bills is basically non-existent on an average American. This is kinda like car crashes vs plane crashes - one is actually a cause for concern, the other makes good news stories.

The biggest difference between median and average, for Americans, is the amount of whining - while a median American seems pretty ok, the average is driven up by super-whiners who tend to either live in a crappy, expensive city for no reason; have a useless humanities degree; or think that luxury is a human right. Or some combination of the three :)
Brilliant! This is fantastic. I'm in love with it already :)
I googled it, now what.
WordPress.org services are currently offline
Removing spam filtering would make email absolutely unusable.
I added something to the conversation. I made an actual point. If your point is that disagreement for its own sake is wasteful, I agree. But that has nothing to do with me.
I learned a foreign language (English), I search Google in that foreign language. My browser's language is set in that foreign language. My search parameters are set to only show results in English. I use Google.com, not my localized version of Google. And yet about half the time when I search using keywords (as opposed to long expressions), there are always two or three links in my language (French) in the first page results.

Youtube is worse, I have two YT accounts in English where I only watch videos in English, and Youtube keeps recommending me videos in French that are not relevant at all to my interests (even though most recommendations in English are perfectly relevant). It's as if their AI just saw my IP and decided to recommend to me the most popular French videos of the moment.
Thanks god it's not. The right to anonymity is something we shouldn't lose.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines (and I do mean repeatedly). Please don't create accounts to do that with—it will eventually get your main account banned as well.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I really like this one. "Transatlantic" is related just barely enough to "ocean liner" that it would make me think there's gotta be something to get.
A library button which allows you to choose a folder for scanning music files, has been in WinAmp for decades.
I partially answered there https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32349581

To be honest, I'm still under shock but what I feel is that I wish I had time to ask everything. The thing is you don't know what will resonate with them, so you have to ask a lot to have something to work with and connect to.
Can we just have a moment of happiness? Of optimism?
No offense, but whoever you were speaking to was telling whoppers. Conservation efforts on the Great Barrier Reef are extremely limited in both scope and success.

[Edit] Sorry, not meaning to be overly negative. Happy to provide further detail of the efforts in place if you let me know where you were!
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I do my job without breaking my back everyday, so I'm a "quitter" now because I didn't go above and beyond?

Maybe the OP didn't intend it, but this term is something that seems like it was coined by some big-business PR firm to make people look badly if they don't break their ass off working for the man their whole lives. I can't wait for the usual crowd to come in and look down on those of us who don't enjoy work and just do it to pay for what we do enjoy: living our lives.
I thought about doing this but I waited too long and recently he quickly slipped into dementia...
Congratulations on your new account.
I spent $90 on a Shure SM57 and desk stand, half the price of my airpods, and never got another complaint. Bonus: if you have the displeasure of working in a country/culture that normalizes interrupting and speaking over people, it’s exceedingly difficult for them to do this to you if you low key have a pro signal chain and enable the high bandwidth option in your video conference software.
Today I Learned the Word Feedingstuffs
They force shopping centres to show a thermometer where it can be seen.
Yeah it's pretty nice isn't it. I was confused because I'd done Cmd-F search on every page - maybe Firefox (which I use) needs to incorporate a similar feature. Hmm.
Interesting. I basically live at 30 degrees, even more, at all times. You get used to it.
After all that noise that vocal minority made, they were simply wrong. Didn’t check their facts, predicted incorrectly, wasted everyones time and desecrated our freedoms with do good save the children socialist laws. pfft
This is an old one but a good one:
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> You can't own something you didn't create.

Ah Hacker News. Never change.
Ew, BASIC.

Gross.
That's fair, but I have to assume it's better than the alternative, which is allowing everyone to maintain the implicit assumption that the value is 0.

The point of these claims is to try to get people to understand that climate destruction events have meaning, and if negative economic effects are the most straightforward way to explain that, then so be it.
I live in the south of Spain and I can’t think of anybody who doesn’t own an AC.
I think eventually more people will realize that the modern web is terrible and they will get fed up with it. People are already building alternatives. There are several situations that could cause Google to lose a foothold as the search behemoth and drive consumers to find alternate ways to find products.

Possible catalysts include: regulation of search or advertising negatively affecting google, an unknown search competitor entering the market, another of the behemoths competing (amazon with search, bing getting their act together, etc.), antitrust suits, insert black swan event here.

I think the pendulum is also swinging towards smaller, local communities. Maybe that's just my bubble. Eventually everyone will get sick of it though, and something will change. I don't think we can predict what will replace it, but I hope it's not another big, centralized source. We've seen the negatives of that.

I don't know how to build it, but to me the ideal Google search killer would be:

1) Decentralized somehow. Hosting search indexes collectively in order to reduce the need for a single entity to host the data. Crypto has this possibility maybe. But I don't know how well it could be implemented, and whether you could have search still be "free" like Google is. How do you solve for that problem?

2) Filters out the SEO spam. Yes, this is a huge problem. My idea to fix it is manual curation. Not scalable. How do you solve that? I think something like StumbleUpon. A curated list of sites that is searchable in its own index. Perhaps there could be a trusted network of curated indexes. Members only to host the curated indexes to keep out the black hats, but free to search for the public at large.

I also think we need to educate everyday users to host their own sites on their own hardware. Making it super simple to spin up a web host in a VM that is running on a laptop in the bedroom. Or off a raspberry pi 0. Or whatever is cheap and available. Turn it off when you need to and the website goes offline. Yes, but that is okay in the interim to get Joe Regular hosting a website independently. Sure it's not okay for a business, but for your hobby site about bonsai trees, why not? Of course this is against most ISP's ToS so how do you solve for that? How do you give Joe Regular the ability to deploy a simple, secure website easily? How do you incentivize them to get out of the walled gardens? Give them a garden of their own.

That was what made the early web (as I knew it in the 90s and 00s) awesome. You were figuring it out on your own. Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo can stick around and be the digital yellow pages. They are good at that.

We need to build a new web for ourselves.
I'm looking forward to trying it out, but realistically it's gonna be running on low single digit percentage of all Android phones for at least 2 years. iOS 16 will be on 90+% of iOS devices by October...

I'm probably going have to buy a newer Android phone to be able to install Android13, I doubt the Lineage crowd are going to bother building a version to run on even my newest Android phone - at least not anytime soon.
No that's just the particular floor we happened to be on. I think the bank was on 38 and the trading floor was... 32?, executive suite was 41 or something. We had like five or six floors in the upper third of the 42 story building and a bank branch down in the lobby. They probably would have liked to have contiguous floors but it would have been a lot of work to move the data center and trading floor just to say you had X floors in a row.
Those are typically implemented as of a particular date of manufacture. My 60s Mustangs do not have (nor are they required to have) modern emissions control equipment as it was not required originally.
Yeah that is true, and I do kind of remember that. Admittedly it has been a while and I have a (possibly incorrect) memory that it took annoyingly long for him to do that. My memory is also that despite dismissing it as Voldemort this text book was still treated as super ominous even after
I think its required reading for inheriting large legacy codebases from the early 2000s written in Java; all the insanity suddenly makes sense
That's a good point, I do find myself just skipping over those episodes though rather than throwing out the podcast as a whole (I'm also trying to be better about that in general including with books which I would religiously read from beginning to end no matter the quality which is silly).
All greengeeks.com service is down too, coincident?
I don't like Facebook Messenger but it is still used as a top or main communication by so many Silicon Valley friends and network of mine. All products are dying but not instantly right.
That link from Our World in Data provides it methodology:

https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2

From a cursory googling it seems that 'consumption-based accounting' is something that is being heavily researched, and we need to start distinguishing it from the simplistic and flawed 'production-based accounting' in the press, and in political discourse.
The only hard part of creating amino acids out of thin air is breaking triple nitrogen bonds down, something we've become quite skilled at via Haber-Bosch.
It won't displace actual crosswords for me - the point of crosswords is the clues, not the grid. Still, it's really neat and I enjoyed it, particularly the smaller version. Congrats!
I feel like there was a somewhat recent post here about an ancient Sumerian joke but I can't find the post now. Anyway, I did find the joke:

A dog walked into a tavern and said, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one.'

https://popcrush.com/twitter-decipher-punchline-ancient-sume...
That it is indeed...
MySQL is one of the most popular open-source, cross-platform and performant relational database management system (RDMS). It is used by a large numbers of websites all over the world to store and manage data.
There are attempts being made to store Hydrogen as 'green ammonia' which hopes to totally eliminate those issues:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-11/queensland-hydrogen-t...
In most of my jobs, as soon as Firefox presented any kind of issue or inconsistency, support for it was dropped. In my first job, we had an inconsistency in how Firefox handled datalist vs how Chrome did. Firefox support officially ended at standup the next day.

That being said, I do have a (largely dormant) MBNA account if anyone has specific checks they want to do.
It's work unrelated to your project, doesn't add any value.

Besides, it's reinventing the wheel.

And it's certainly cheaper to run local dev/tests against the real AWS S3 infra than paying the time to mock it with your local filesystem...
Not only that, but a good mic can make you sound more authoritative. I won't go as far as to say it is a make/break type of deal, but when you have external customers on the line it really helps them take what you say at face value.

Personally I also run EasyEffects with a noise reduction plugin that takes out the A/C noise from the utility room across from my home office. Other plugins can help too, such as the deesser and equalizer. Best way to dial in your settings is to start up a Teams or Zoom meeting with just yourself, join from the computer and your phone, put good headphones on connected to the phone and hear yourself through the computer mic (there will be a slight delay which helps with "test... test..."). If you don't like the sound quality of your voice, play with the equalizer, and also the pitch adjustment plugin to make your voice a few cents higher or lower. Just subtle adjustments that is still "you" but better.
Apple Park is not open to anyone without a pre-approved business reason for entering, including families of Apple employees.

Google is more open to visitors at most buildings, when accompanied by a Google employee with access to the relevant building.

But do note that “campus” is not really a word that accurately describes Google or Apple. They both have a sprawl of buildings strewn about the 5-10 mile radius around the building the CEO happens to have their office in. Some just look like random office buildings, others have a courtyard or other feature that make them feel more like a campus.

But for the most part they aren’t much to look at.
I would argue that CSVs never die and most people simply do not know how to use `grep`,`sed`, or `awk`
I finally got around to it, as my whole team kept raving about it.... turns out its basically leetcode for you if you woke up in a nightmare and were the inanimate "refactor" tool in VisualStudio/Jetbrains.
> wants to use AGW to implement large scale socialism

I would argue the problem is the hyper-vigilant anti-socialists since they have sabotaged all proposals, including market-based ones.
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I know first-hand how hard it is to find your first few customers, I suffered so much with accelerators who did everything but help me reach more users.

For that I developed this product which allows you to send unlimited emails to potential users, you can also search our database if you don't have a list. The product of course tells you who opened the email, who clicked & so on. ALL 100% FREE if you sign an agreement that allows us to share your metrics with VCs.

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I've had issues with LocalStack in the past.

Decided it wasn't worth the savings compared to running against the real AWS services.
Most people don’t know how to run or interpret A/B tests, or even understand what the confidence levels should be for their sample size.

By and large, people don’t understand statistics (I mostly include myself in that).
The exceptions are an increasing number of people either just refusing to travel by air, or sharply reducing air travel. We can all do that.