skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes one of the graphs is from back then, so then I’ll ask again since 650 is not 1354 …
I think it's much more interesting that:

"Literature has shown that a single-bout of exercise involving volitional muscle activation (i.e., active exercise) improves executive function"

Passive exercise ("wherein an individual's limbs are moved via an external force") doesn't seem either appealing or convenient.
What you are suggesting is that all societal problems are "people problems". So we should just give up trying long-term solutions and just engage in partisan politics all the time.

You are making the perfect the enemy of the good. This is not about fixing everything all the time. This is about giving individuals in general leverage against their institutions. The goal is to put systems in place that make the individual battles (for liberty, equality, and the pursuit of happiness) easier.

I think your failure to identify the nature of this situation is emblematic of a failure of common liberal/leftist thought.

P.S. We still live in a time of great prosperity and freedom. That's largely due to technological progress. Technology can be the difference between feasible and impossible regulation. Technology changes the very landscape on which the political battles occur. To ignore the influence of technology on politics is to go into battle blindfolded.
Google is the Clippy of this day and age.

Why can't we have a Google Advanced Search? Is it that hard? Is it rocket surgery? Is it forbidden by the powers that be? Would it start WW3?

I've always found it baffling that we have to play guessing games with a capricious search engine that tries to interpret what we want. There are some times when we know exactly what we're looking for!
Tell me, what’s wrong with variably modified types specifically?
I love the sentiment of avoiding the totalitarian dictatorship but you don’t exactly have any control there. Technology is leverage and it can be used for evil, just as with IBM tabulating machines in nazi Germany
Google search has jumped the shark, no?
The critique is about the quantity of ads, not the quantity of results.
Not sure about the Old Testament take on messages from beyond, but the New Testament has that one explained. https://www.bible.com/bible/1359/LUK.16.27-31.ICB
Can you explain to me exactly how "political relationships" prevent bing or anyone else from improving quote search?
Would love to see a final count of positive v negative comments on this post.
This is still optimizing for the LCD of an idiot. Ignoring quotes is unforgivable, IMHO.

If I could opt out of this shitty Big-G reality by means other than suicide, I gladly would.
DuckDuckGo's absurd handling of quotes finally forced me back to Google. Adding quotes in DDG gives nonsense results: https://imgur.com/a/2SHpjPG
> Australia has phone based drivers licenses

This is news to me, out here on the West coast. Might have to look into that!
These people are just regurgitating HN memes and then flailing when someone prods a bit deeper. C is basically the Donald Trump of HN. All rational thought goes out the door at the mere mention. In fact, you’re socially rewarded for joining the idiot mob.
More like going after McDonald's/Visa because their franchisees/PornHub are letting people deal drugs/child porn in the building/website (because it brings paying customers/ad revenue into their place of business) and McDonald's/Visa knew about it...

(I don't necessarily agree with the allegation, but that is the allegation.)
I don't have anything handy, sorry. This was a while ago.

But from memory you are exactly right. The color only shows up when the scattering length is long and there's nothing else to dominate the inherent color. Both conditions are rather hard to meet simultaneously.
> The SEC, and really every related regulatory agency, has been completely missing in action while shadow banks like Tether and USDC act as gasoline for spreading cryptocurrency fraud to the general public.

'Completely?', 'Since 2017?'

Then why have the SEC have already clamped down on 98% of the ICO frenzy of 2017 (First started by Ethereum) by making unregistered ICOs illegal in the US then? [0][1]

[0] https://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf

[1] https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/general-reso...
Probably because you still need battery power for the non freeway portion of the trip.
ELI5: Apple pretended to shut down their ad division. But they were preparing to relaunch it and now are ready to do so. It will mine your personal data that it has been collecting for decades now (while claiming to care about your privacy), and allow advertisers to exploit you better with the "insights" on you that their ad platform will deliver. Rest all is PR and marketing bullshit to ensure Apple doesn't face a backlash for this.
I really would not think above switching to unity considering in the past few months they have layed off hundreds of employees, the CEO called game developers "fucking idiots", and they merged with a malware distributor
The article defines social networks as being the media silos of facebook, slack, discord, and newsletters. I'd argue that in the case of facebook, it's no longer really a social network. And in the case or newsletters it depends. However, if we focus on slack and discord, the important part of slack and discord that make them 'social networks' is missing from the open web and here's why:

Social networks are composed of links (dyads), so an extension to the web makes sense, but search engines, web crawlers, and even 'browsers' break those links as holding value as a dyad. I might know about your website, but I don't hold any special access, or privileged relationship to that site. Anybody browsing through can see the same content and have the same access. With slack and discord, access is limited to those with a specific relationship to the poster. The same is true of newsletters, but in those cases it can be just a consumer relationship, whereas in slack and discord the relationship is bi-directional.

In actuality, the article is arguing for the absence of a social network, a completely open network. That's a fine argument, but it's unlikely that most people want to share every aspect of their lives with the entire world, so the need for closed social networks will continue.
While groundbreaking for its time (started 1988!), the IEM is a very poor substitute for PredictIt. While I could offer a half-dozen reasons why, some of which were noted in CFTC Letter 14-130 for PredictIT in the first place, it'd probably do to point out that their "current" markets consist entirely of:

* 2022 French Presidential Election Markets (I haven't looked at these too closely that maybe there's a reason they're still listed as "current" on the IEM site, but wasn't this election back in April?)

* 2022 U.S. Congressional Control Markets (3 Markets: Senate, House, and Overall)

If you're trying to use prediction market prices as a gauge of the state of the world, IEM is missing dozens of countries, does not give visibility into US state-level elections, and does not include the result of primaries or political events besides elections that nonetheless impact elections. The 2024 US Presidential election is not even on the radar yet there.

Credit where credit is due for the trailblazing, they're worth a look when they do have a market on an event going, and it's notable for being sort-of a proof of concept for prediction markets. But while IEM may now be the best fit within a particular niche in light of what's happened to PredictIt, it's not in the same league.
im asking because of the medieval warm period and subsequent little ice age which occurred prior to the more recent big uptrend
This is an awesome story. One of the reasons why I enjoy browsing the comments section here so much. Thank you for sharing!
650 years isn't much on evolutionary time for things with long lifespans. For plants, you can see serious adaptions in just a few years. Otherwise the entire occupation of horticulture wouldn't have existed.
QBasic was my second, but first real, introduction to programming (first being VIC BASIC). I was told not to press escape (at some DOS menu manager), but I did. Who knows how I wound up at QBasic. At some point I impressed some teenagers with a rainbow line on their full color screen, I was myself impressed with the experience: there was terminate-stay-resident called 'phix' that emulated VGA on a monochrome. phix broke the qbasic editor (blank screen), so I would have to make changes and then reboot (to clear the TSR) to try them out on my home machine.

One thing I managed to do was to delete the entire source for NIBBLES.BAS (while the screen was blank due to phix), which my sister and I genuinely enjoyed playing. I just looked it up[1] and it was a mere 700 lines of quality BASIC.

GORILLAS.BAS is one of my influential programs, and I want to write a competent spiritual successor to it one day.

Edit: MONEY.BAS was also pretty awesome. I was too young to understand the idea behind it, but the ncurses-style UI and the random star background were great.

Edit 2: I eventually wrote a tomagotchi game. It had a pretty awesome ASCII art intro sequence, but was plagued by a mistake of mine. `INKEY$` waits for an input key each time it was read, so an if-elseif-elseif-etc. would result in a kind of race condition. My instruction on the screen was essentially to "hold a key until it works." I eventually got hold of that machine 20+ years later and fixed the bug.

[1]: https://github.com/tangentstorm/tangentlabs/blob/master/qbas...
Both the Hyundai and the Tesla are in the prototype phase.
It's been really cool to use for inspiration as well as generating seamless textures. I've generated some great grass and carpets for my ps1 style game.
> I'd like to see a project like this which is self-hosted, where the process of buying a domain, acquiring hosting, etc. is made easy for non-technical users. The problem with sites like about.me is that eventually the maintainer gets acquired, gets bored, gets hit by a bus, etc. With a self-hosted site, it works as long as you keep paying Namecheap and AWS, for example. This arrangement also separates the core project owners from responsibility for whatever users slap on their page down the line.

Right from the get go, long-term maintainability of such a platform is very hard, as there are now a few dependencies that you're reliant upon for your self-hosted site:

- Domain registrar

- Infrastructure provider (IaaS)

- DNS record management

Trying to make the providers swappable will be a challenge, as APIs are not consistent across the ecosystem. This is compounded when trying to make the solution turn-key, as now there needs to be a developmental effort behind the project to keep it up to date, & to add in new options to swap the providers out.

> I realize what I'm describing sounds a lot like Wordpress or Dreamwaver, but I think there's a big opportunity to slim down these offerings into a simple, secure, easy-to-use package.

The pennies that can be picked up in this specific niche is too small to bother: The ones that just want a website without any frills will stick to WordPress & their providers, while those wanting extreme configurations & customizability will just run their own language/framework on the infra of their own choosing. The niche mentioned sits in between the two, with the extreme ends increasing their grasps: WordPress plugins from the easy end, and web frameworks from the other end (Vue, React, Svelte, Django, etc.).

**This kind of thinking, however, misses the forest in favor of nostalgia: The vast majority of modern Internet audiences want fast & easy discoverability/search, along with easy public sharing of posts, & account follows. Modern social media is what results from the inevitable result of catering to the market's demands. Such market wants also inevitably creates gravitational pulls towards platforms with large audiences, creating a feedback loop that's hard to break.**

Right now, there's a weak-but-present desire to decouple from Big Social Media (Mastadon, Lemmy, Friendica), but the wants of the modern audience run against the ideals of self-hosted social media taking off: Their customizability is their own Achilles Heel, with the technical & financial limitations of scaling self-hosted services making it near impossible to compete with the big guys.
Saudi Arabia’s GDP growing at more than double the G20 Economies: OECD
KSA’s GDP growing at more than double the G20 Economies: Forecast from Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD);

Saudi GDP growth rate will be 7.8 % in 2022 and 9.0 % in 2023;

The Saudi economy will grow by 7.8% in 2022, while G20 economies are expected to grow by only 2.9%, said OECD in its recent economic outlook.

OECD also upgraded the Saudi GDP growth in 2023 to 9.0%, three times the G20 average growth, while the Kingdom’s inflation rate will remain below the G20 average of 6.3%;

Saudi Arabia, Argentina, and Turkey are few rare cases showing positive GDP growth since the Ukraine war started.

China, India (along with rest of the G20 economies) — are anticipated to see a fall in real GDP rates of 4.4 and 6.9 % in 2022, respectively.

India’s economy is predicted to recover by 2023; however, the same cannot be said for China and the rest of the G20 economies;

Inflation on the rise but not in Saudi Arabia

While world economies are suffering from rising global food and commodity prices, Saudi Arabia will continue to enjoy lower levels of inflation, according to OECD;

As regards inflation, the countries neighboring Russia and Ukraine have been hit the hardest — Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia have endured inflation rates of 14, 12, and 10 %, respectively.

Likewise (except for Japan), all OECD countries are recording higher levels of inflation relative to the previous year.

Within the G20 economies, Saudi Arabia is expected to be “outperforming” its peers as the only country showing a decrease in inflation rate year-on-year, from 3.1 % in 2021 to 2.2 % in 2022.

Although the Kingdom’s inflation rate is expected to increase to 2.7 % in 2023 (0.5 percentage point increase from 2022) it will achieve lowest inflation levels among the G20 economies and the third lowest worldwide, following Japan and Switzerland.

As Saudi Arabia has lower dependency on wheat exports from Ukraine and Russia than other countries and a robust crude oil production, the Saudi economy will be in a good position next year as well.

Low-income Arab economies ie: Sudan, Lebanon, Egypt (which rely on 90 % of their wheat exports from Russia and Ukraine) will experience negative GDP growth because of supply disruptions.

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I think it is important to be realistic and act accordingly, otherwise you could end up in a worse situation due to insufficiently detailed/correct information.
Lots of site operators explicitly allow Google and block other search engines.
You know more about this than I do, but I wonder whether the switch to grafting on American rootstocks in the late 1800's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_French_Wine_Blight) might have had an effect on ripening dates. I don't know about grapes, but I think different rootstocks can have a significant effect on ripening dates for tree fruit. A quick search (which I've only skimmed) says this is true for grapes as well: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2016.00069.... Do you happen to know if growers in Beune have switched to more modern faster ripening rootstocks?
I think the parent comment was talking about the benefits of the protobuf serialization format, not the benefits of the protobuf schema.
> I'm not sure I see the point.

That is the point. In a cashless society, you’re one AI-led decision away from having no ability to purchase anything.
If a competitor had perfect quotes I’d still use google. They’re too reliable at other things.
Travelling to the West coast i asked a fellow passenger "how far back should i wind my watch?".

"About 20 years" came the reply. :D
I live in Japan and one of the most refreshing things about it is that I have never encountered anything that represents even a faint understanding of what "wokeness" is, so I'm curious who these woke studios could possibly be marketing to, if they exist at all.
I assume they are talking about high guardian spice, a recent crunchy roll original that was universally panned.
I don't know anything about finance, but how credible is Elon Musk in this regard?

I mean to be fair he does say that this is "total speculation" and a "guess" (which it is). So why is it news worthy? I think if you're so rich everything you say is published somewhere, but Elon Musk didn't become the richest man in the world by predicting economic downturns so I would be more cautious when "guessing".
GPU-Accelerated ML Inference at Pinterest
Not everyone is paid with direct deposit or cheque.

Many people used to get paid in cash and paid their rent in cash and paid for their food and gas in cash.

There are still many people who don't have bank accounts.
Yes! That's long been my biggest criticism of The Matrix, much more than the whole "but humans would make terrible batteries" thing.

The whole motivation of Cypher is because he wants to be plugged back in, and the movie presents it as him being sick and tired and the drab life aboard the ship. But they literally have a VR env that is completely realistic, and can give them any experience they want. The best food, the best entertainment, the "Lady in Red", etc.
Vendors can choose to accept only debit cards and not have to pay 3%. Accepting debit cards is basically free in comparison.
The Spanish are by far the most politically timid population in Europe. Regulations are follow diligently regardless of how pointless.
Typescript: uh no.
Is this your first encounter with sarcasm?
ICOs are still happening, it's just on DeFi now (uniswap, etc).
The range each degree represents in F is smaller, so it allows for more precision while restricting oneself to whole numbers. The may be considered advantageous by some.
WordPress is absolutely made for personal websites. Its origin is quite literally blogging.

There's plenty of turnkey mailing list plugins for WordPress, from Jetpack to using SendGrid, or MailChimp, all of which have free plans.
The existence of cash demonstrates that there is a well functioning vigilance free payment system.
The US already caps debit card fees at near zero. There is no need to regulate credit cards fees.

Merchants are free to charge credit card users whatever extra fee they want.
Slightly confused as to what you guys disagree about, but I think it is a list where the listed elements provide the main examples and the final is a catch-all.

Like if a mechanic said "We service Fords, Toyotas, Hondas, all the well known brands" it wouldn't imply that those three were the only major brands.
This is a surprising point I never see raised, that cash has its own overhead costs, just that they're diffuse (training and paying employees to close and count the registers, hiring Garda trucks to transport cash) versus explicit (processor fees).

3% is presumably still far higher than cash's overhead, but the rate is so entrenched in the US that I wonder what it would take to get it dislodged.
It’s insane to make it a choice though. Allow/require cash as an option, and all of these problems go away.
> We don't have to be too grateful.

I'm not grateful at all.
Not a joke. In the 2013s it went from $10s to $1000 (100x), 2017 it went from $300 to 20k (70x), 2021 it went from 6k to 60k (10x). In each of these cases, the crash floor is also a smaller multiple. Overall, Bitcoin is becoming more contained in its rise and fall.

Indeed, but that's regulation. Regulation can be changed which is where we're heading with greater adoption and mass support. Even if not for the regulation, it'll make Bitcoin the store of value backing currencies in time (this one's my opinion, you don't have to agree)
I can't believe I was so naive as to think this was going to be Google apologizing for how it screws up most search operators by only obeying them if Google agrees with you. Most of the time it happily includes all sorts of SEO horseshit like synonyms, related words, and even companies who happen to be competitors of what I wanted exact results for. Words in quotations aren't supposed to be suggestions.
PageRank isn't new at this point, has been publicly available for more than 10 years. If I were less of an idiot myself I'd found a fresh search engine. Other than Dear Bing (who doesn't support the "Verbatim" filter), there are no public independent full-web indexes left.

R.I.P.
When giving up privacy, once is roughly equivalent to ‘every time’.
That's indeed a good project

Few notes though

- Why market it for an english audience?

- Why use USD as currency?

Red flags everywhere, will that really promote in-house economy? or will that benefit foreign investors?
If other nations with collapsing currencies are any indication, that's not how it works. People always move to a better, harder currency. What authority would the government be left with if the money fails? How would the government distribute money?
We're about to see a total breakdown of that threeway check and balance in the US as soon as the republicans take the executive branch again.

This system does not work. We need something better
>Humans would be "gluing things together" in just the same way

I'm often struck by how stark this is in ancient fantasy art. The 'monsters' are usually just different animal parts remixed -- the head of one on the body of another, things like that. Fundamentally, we're all doing DALL-E-ish hybridization when we're being creative; it's very difficult to imagine things that are truly alien such that they're outside the bounds of our 'training data'.
Quick googling says 300 million in annual revenue, but a -155M net income or -61M profit margin (how are they different?)

So that’s somewhere between 0.6% and 1.5% of their annual loss according to the claim it would save 1M a year
Hell yeah! I'll work on that this weekend :-)
The “trusted by engineers at” massive list of Top companies seems very suspect and fishy for a “Launch HN”.

It feels dishonest. Where is the proof of that?
Oh no, sorry! I see some image resizing errors in the logs. I'll get on it!
>But, "proof" of God's existence in this way would eliminate the need for faith. Conversely, you also cannot prove that God does not exist, making it a faith, of a sort, in both directions.

Does anyone actually believe this? What religion's pitch is "just trust me bro"?
Pokemon cards fail the Howey test
3% is not for electronic payment, 3% is for accepting credit card payment. Debit cards are much, much cheaper. And merchants are free to charge credit card payers an extra 3% or whatever they want to cover credit card costs.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/new-rules-el...

> Beginning October 1, 2011, interchange fees for certain debit cards are capped at 21 cents plus 0.05% of the transaction value.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/regii-average-...

> In 2020, the average interchange fee per covered transaction was equal to $0.23. This value has not changed significantly since Regulation II took effect on October 1, 2011.

Hopefully, the upcoming FedNow system will make electronic payments effectively free.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_about.h...
I see tons of what you say is missing. I am in the UK, FWIW. Perhaps it depends on niche?
While this may be true, I'm still confused what it has to do with quote searches.
They're not shutting down competitors, they're just requiring they ask for permission for tracking IDs.

If people are opting out of that tracking, then maybe those businesses were built on customer ignorance to begin with.