skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The highly-chaotic multithreaded model of Reddit/HN/etc is directly designed to be impenetrable and chaotic, where everyone is just responding to everyone rather than having a "flow of conversation" in which everyone is involved.

What are examples of websites that maintain a flow of conversation while involving everyone without letting everyone reply to each other? Being able to reply directly to others while discussing a topic has been the norm at forums, and before those, mailing lists and BBSs. The clients/interfaces just got better over time at sorting/collapsing replies.

Whose got the forum where "everyone responding to everyone" doesn't happen?
Most Bluetooth headsets these days use HFP profile for headset mode not HSP since HFP does come with more features and most importantly higher quality audio codec for call mode than the GSM coded that HSP supports.
Isn't Seacliff where Jack Dorsey bought his $30M properties?
This is exactly same attitude Andreesen has. Entitled attitude towards others.

Meeting other people might be scary at first. But ultimately sharing is caring.
I hope Google can bring back the plus operator, as Google+ is now buried.
A man walks into a bar.

Ouch.
OP here. I’ll leave ‘The article...’ for now, as my idea was to show off what GPT-3 does when you tell it to summarize, without editorializing.

Your second point is addressed in the FAQ: it is actually being called by a cron job, but I need to review the output every time, per my agreement with OpenAI. But if you want summarization of what’s on HN right now, sign up for an OpenAI API key, clone the code, and just run it yourself :)
I work for Google Search. Nothing changed in how they worked over the past two years. I think it's just that our snippets weren't reflecting where we were finding the quoted terms, causing people to think they were ignored. Hopefully this change will now help avoid that impression.
If search engines ever become like this there will be debates about copyright just like we have for copilot.
> We do not have namespaces in C, which means any time we add functionality we basically have to square off with users.

Has anyone seriously proposed adding namespace to C? This feels like an obviously good addition to me. What’s the argument against it?
The annualised billing winds me up - I wanted to build an integration with GitLab recently and needed group level webhooks. ~$20 / month but I'd have to pay for a full year upfront that I'd then not use.
I've recently switched to iPhone and this thread is so comforting. My friends thought I was insane when I told them that typing on Android (Samsung or Google keyboard) is much more accurate, fast and way less prone to errors (using autocorrect) than on an iPhone. And that's not even counting swipe mode! The difference is huge.
I really don't know any C beyond K&R years ago, but this was an enjoyable read.
They don't necessarily have to inflate their indexes. Backtick-quoted results ought to be a subset of double-quoted results, so they can use the standard quoted search algorithm, and then filter out imperfect matches from those results.
They have foreseen it, and the plus sign was replaced by quotation marks.
The cotton industry in Australia has diverted and depleted waterways which normally replenish the surrounding regions, resulting in a dust-bowl effect which generates storms that regularly dump immense loads of nitrate-bearing dust into the oceans - materials that would normally be caught in a more lush/green/temperate environment where it was useful, were the water available...
So we just ruin someone's life based on unproven accusations instead?
I think that backwardness is now a thing of the past.

Most developed countries I'm familiar with made cheap/free wire transfers the most fundamental banking product decades ago. The change was driven by the banks, because handling checks was expensive and there was too much fraud involved. The US never made the change, probably because there were too many banks that could not agree on anything. That doesn't matter much anymore, because online card payments and ACH transfers (which are technically not wire transfers) are prevalent.

Another thing that contributes to the perception of backwardness is that American credit card issuers never adopted chip and PIN like the rest of the developed world. Elsewhere, banks wanted to reduce fraud and accepted the need to remember PINs as a small price for that. In the US, banks could afford more fraud due to higher fees, and they chose convenience instead. But today, cards have chips without a PIN anyway, and swiping is used mostly as a rare fallback mechanism. And apps such as Apple Pay and Google Pay (or whatever it's called this week) are quickly removing the need for physical cards.
A new understanding of human history and the roots of inequality
The post explains that we see some punctuation as spaces so that query is a search for nothing, which is why it fails.
> I've just installed it

Me too, on VSCode. looks nice, let's have a try.
Everything you named is a drop in a huge bucket.

Drive electric? Stopping climate change would require massive infrastructure changes at this point. How about no car at all? Creating and improving that infrastructure takes decades.

Same goes for other things. Imports vs eating seasonal and buying local. Frequent (transatlantic) flights vs staying at home. More frugality with what we have, less frequent changes in tech, clothing, household products, etc.

People try to hold onto the status quo for dear life, not realizing that's the very thing keeping us from solving the issue. Or any future issue we can't just get a few scientists to solve for the lazy masses.
Author here. Nbb is a scripting environment for Clojure running on Node.js. Clojure is a Lisp that emphasises functional and data oriented programming. Scripts are executed using an interpreter, so there is no build/compile step necessary, which is convenient for small applications.

If you're more curious, check out the README which has a list of videos and articles on this.
They are not, and won't be for another 1000 years .. after we are gone.
at what % humidity?
Before anyone else would think "oh they just invested in some dumb web3 harmless crypto thing"...

They invested 150M USD in a pay-to-earn crypto ponzi scheme and dressed it up as a democratization of whatever (as a good thing):

https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnReedStark/status/154029987929...
I don't understand how cloud computing is a low margin business.

I can rent a dedicated server at Heztner. 8 hyperthreads, 32 GB RAM, 4 TB HDD. €33.

Amazon EC2. t4g.2xlarge 8 cores, 32 GB RAM, $194. 2 TB EBS HDD $30. $224 total.

Also Amazon charges for traffic.

Surely Hetzner is not working at loss. Surely economies of scale allow AWS to have better deals.

I mean, AWS is literally 7x compared to Hetzner. How is it bad margin?
“Oh my god, the CFTC just killed PredictIt after 8 years of precedent.”
If you haven't read our post, I'd encourage doing do. Quotes do work to find the exact terms specified. But control-F won't locate some of the terms we find when fully rendering a doc -- that's why the list explains using developer tools to search if control-F comes up with nothing.
Author here. Ask me anything on nbb.
A 12–year–old can’t drive 15 minutes out of the city after school in order to go hiking. In a rural area the fields, farms, woods, streams, ponds, and other such attractions are all right within a few minutes walking distance. Indeed, that kid probably has to bike right past all of those things in order to get to his friend’s house to play Contra. Even in a suburban area some of those things might still be reasonably close by.

When people talk about how wonderful it is to live in a dense, walkable city, they are thinking about all the nightclubs they can go to, the bars, the restaurants, art galleries, libraries, etc all within a few minute’s walk. But that’s not everyone’s vision of an ideal living environment.

Folks who move to a suburb want more stability, less noise, fewer people, more open space, nice lawns, a pool in the back yard, a deck to sit on in the summer while you watch the kids swim, etc. They don’t want a nightclub on every block. Even a convenience store would not be very well regarded (especially if it’s really a gas station that also sells candy bars; Japanese–style stores that are part of the owner’s house would actually fit much better).

I don’t know much about what folks living in very rural areas like, but some of my relatives who live in a quasi–rural area value the fact that nobody in the area mows their lawns. Instead the local farmers bring their tractors over once or twice a year to harvest the grass out of everyone’s back yards to make hay.
Space image was a slice of chorizo, says scientist in fake news warning
The original tweet:
https://mobile.twitter.com/EtienneKlein/status/1553765864553472003?s=20&t=cavXF7VjjDQtchLYr_gsPQ
Suggestion to GitLab: compromise with “if you paid at least once any of our services, your repos will remain up forever for free as long as we exist.”
wasn't that about the same time that European diseases wiped out large portions of the population of North America, reducing the amount of forest fires these people set (it was part of their resource management) and concordant reforesting, and thus the amount of CO2 in the air?

https://phys.org/news/2011-10-team-european-ice-age-due.html
$55 board turns a Raspberry Pi CM4 into a router
There's this metaphor where you have a King (discipline) and a Queen (spontaneousness).

They have to "marry" in order for you to be the most productive person.

If your King tries to command your Queen and she refuses, it's not going to go well. As the author has already seen, it's quite hard to go to sleep or have fun by a decree.
I work for Google Search. We did look a this, and we'll keep looking to see if we can improve, but it turns out to be a very hard lift.
>Nothing mentioned was not arguments people have not used.

Unnecessary double negative, and these aren't really arguments so much as rhetorical shortcuts. I'd say, "The buzz-words used are familiar".

Cannibalism? If I imagine ahead to the 2040s - if the world has too many people and resource are scarce, eating people rapidly reduces the footprint while providing needed rations. Further, imagine there's a set of people who are notoriously paranoid, superstitious, sexist, racist white-or-adjacent supremacists, idiots etc. And they are refusing at every turn to reasonably live in the safe, advanced system with the logistics necessary for long term human survival and eventual interstellar flourishing. Instead they are insisting on an archaically wasteful, hard-to-document way of life prone to runaway growth, proliferation and oppression, and we constantly need to quell unrest caused by patently false theories that originate from wherever their communication is able to go on unabated by effective moderation tools. Why is it seriously so wrong to kill them and eat them? All of the moral and religious traditions they hold to are clearly outdated, what if cannibalism was just another outdated principle? Maybe we only need to eat enough of them to make sure they never take over and spread. Eating it can be a helpful sign of loyalty, and a demoralization tool. At some point of evolutionary and transhuman divergence, it might be reasonable to admit they're like monkeys to us - and there are some existing traditional recipes for monkey meat.
I wonder if there is a reason why most people farm outside?

What would it take to put a wheat field indoors?
Looking for a modern apartment in SF recently it was annoying that 95% of them are only allowed to be built on busy noisy dirty streets. Market, Gough, Franklin, Octavia, etc... If they're not on a busy street then they're within ear distance of a freeway like all the complexes near the design district and any of them near the 280 in the Dogpatch. The only big exception is some of the complexes in Mission Bay, but even there, many of them are on 3rd.

There are very few allowed to be built on quieter streets
Its called the Explore-Exploit Tradeoff.
If you are King of Spain you can afford to send out a bunch of ships that will never return. If you are not King of Spain, and want to be King of Spain, then all this wild goose chase stuff makes no sense. Makes more sense to get busy on land exploiting others to become King of Spain.
eminent domain. and it was sold as cleaning up the slums (eg. poor minority neighborhoods)

and of course the response to that is why things are going very slowly nowadays

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2019/11/29/penn-stati...
Yeah, but it will install older version. About a year ago they stopped publishing macOS binaries although you can still download nightly macOS builds but they won't cut official releases as they used to.

Developer's explanation: https://doublecmd.h1n.ru/viewtopic.php?p=35121#p35121
> Excel added tables over a decade ago

I ran into this... last year when trying to do something with excel (I forget what excactly, apart from it needing joins and some analysis between several datasets).

It felt so unintuative with the tables "embedded" into sheets, it feels like they should be a sheet or a table, not both.

Power queries seemed a really neat tool for non-coders to munge data as needed.
I struggled with depression through my teens and early adult years. I began to identify the only way it was quieted was by constantly spending time learning new skills, and making myself measurably less dependent on others, or more useful to others. Only when I have done that recently can I quiet the voices that tell me I am a useless sack of shit. Somewhere along the line the proof my hard work was paying off became easier and easier to see and depression was more and more distant. I simply became addicted to the moments of not feeling depressed because I was proud of a recent win obtained after however many failures required.

I also always noticed a pattern that when people start drinking when they are poor or depressed, they seem to get stuck in that place. I decided I would reward myself with the option of moderated vices only after I was in a reasonably stable, sustainable, and happy place in life and career. I was on my own with nothing at 17 and celebrated my success with my first drink at 25 when I felt like I earned it.

YMMV. I am not a mental health professional.
UK's largest tunnel cutting head lowered into its London shaft
International industrial espionage was less of a problem back then.
Nope, it's a very strange and awkward sounding name.
I work for Google Search. We never changed how we used quotes as a restriction tool. People seem to have had that impression because our snippets changed to not reflect where we were finding the terms. Hopefully our new snippet change will help stop that impression.
As a kid I had to learn at least a little Basic (mainly GWbasic), so I could load and play games. But things really took off when a cousin borrowed me his "Qbasic for beginners" book.

Code printed out in a popular hobby science magazine helped a lot too. I remember manually typing over whole pages full of unintelligible poke commands and how those would work at best 30% of the time.

I think it was the ability to directly tinker with the values and formulas in the games that I loved to play that shaped the coding style I'm still using to this day. Often I'm not exactly sure why I'm trying something, other than that it just "feels like it might be the right thing to do". And about 60% of the time it turns out I'm right.
I keep QBasic installed on DOSBox on every machine I own just to know it’s there. Structured programming, the immediate window, an interactive debugger, built-in help, it all combined into a fantastically safe and productive environment for someone starting out. It feels like there isn’t a good equivalent today, kids have to work in weird stuff like Scratch or piece together docs, YouTube videos, editors and compilers/runtimes in a way that distracts from the essence of learning code. I’ve played with Gambas with my son and that’s a nice Visual Basic-like integrated environment. There are some nice apps that just give you a Python window and a run button but aren’t as slick overall as QBasic. We’ll probably end up diving all the way into Roblox studio because that’s very motivating at least, if very complex for a beginner. Maybe Swift playgrounds is the right approach, I’d love to hear what others find.
What's missing from the article is a list of iPhones that had the feature:

These devices support 3D Touch: iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max.

-- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205056
Seriously doubt Google Sheets lacks powerful features that Excel has (except niche features). Why would the developers intentionally cripple their product? It's not like any common operations on table data is too challenging for the Sheets team to implement. If there's any real difference between the softwares it's in their respective focus.
Was it? How do you know that there's not a goverment conspiracy to backdate this article so as to pretend it wasn't written by GPT-3?

What, a Wayback Machine copy from ~ the original byline[1]? Brewster Kahle is in on it too? This goes higher up than I thought[2]...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170318075738/https://theoutlin...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/b7bhdu/a_jfk_conspir...
This is the problem I have with Apple Pay, Google Pay, and any other international service taking over transaction responsibilities. Especially if they're based on puritan countries like the United States where opinions on products like adult entertainment and certain medical procedures can influence a company's ability to receive payment.

Almost any modern smartphone has an NFC chip to do contactless payments. Banks should have the capability of leveraging that through their own services instead of depending on Apple's/Google's pinky promise to always make payment available.

Banks can do contactless payments quite easily on Android so in my opinion they should have their own apps. I'm fine with them also offering GPay for customer convenience, but there should be a national fallback.

If you buy Apple, you're locking yourself in. My opinion is that this is a fault with Apple's ecosystem, though an argument can be made that this is what Apple users chose when they bought their iPhone. Regardless, the end result is the same and your capacity to send or receive payment can now go down the moment your government gets sanctioned.

Sure, the invasion of Ukraine is reason enough for sanctions in my book, but the American government has a reputation of manipulating the world to suit them best. No other country should rely on American companies to do basic things like payment, just like the USA shouldn't rely on foreign services to accomplish the same.
Not in me but I noticed in colleagues who have kids. It's impossible to have virtual meeting with them since the kid keeps screaming the whole time and they have to keep attending to it. Honestly if you are in this situation please do everyone a favor and either find someone to take care of that kid while you work or go to office.
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$60 is nothing compared to a developer's salary

Sure, you could setup with 4 machines and think this is costing you only $40 per month, if you take out all the maintenance and setup time
Spacebar cursor selection is INCREDIBLY glitchy and frustrating and I use it daily...
The used truck tractor price mainly ranges from $12,000 to $60,000. The price of a used tractor truck depends on the year and model of the truck, the condition of the truck tractor, what kind of engine and transmission it has (diesel or gas) and how expensive repairs have been so far.
Hm? The nukes dropped in august 1945. Nazi Germany had long surrendered by then. In part because the Red Army had come all the way to Berlin.
Oh I stand corrected! Germany AND California.

That’s 1.7% of the worlds population, which is definitely a solid representation of the world.

Just as an aside, there is this little known country: China, it has 47 active nuclear power plants with ~10 more under construction and 15-20 more in the planning stage. But maybe they haven’t heard about Germany and California!
Was there a public, premeditated house breaking plan that ran for years? If so, it clearly was a failure in the system to not put it out in its infancy.
This is actually really nifty. However can you change it to be asynchronous instead? Right now the polyglot runs synchronously.

What about the stdout/stderr... It ultimately has to give you back a child process. Could there be a spawn version that gives you the child process too?
It would also punish programming languages with good long-term support. For example, Ada has been deliberately designed for long-term maintainability. Many Ada packages haven't been modified for years because they are finished. They work as intended. Unless someone finds a bug, there is no need to update or change them.

Not everybody considers constant feature creep desirable.
We don't need a checkbox because if you use quotes, we will match only content in the quotes, as our post explains. If there's no content at all that matches, only in that case will we show a message making it clear there's no match and that we've conducted a search without quotes.
The replacement of “force touch on keyboard to move cursor” is “long-touch on space bar to move cursor”.

This works fine for western languages where the key to input a space is large and centered, but some keyboards like the Japanese flick input keyboard look more like phone numpads where the middle of the keyboard is taken by the “number keys” (each key represents a consonant). The space key is located on the right hand edge of the screen, and while the “long-press to move cursor” shortcut still works, it’s only useful for moving the cursor leftwards since your finger is already at the righthand edge of the screen when the shortcut triggers.

It’s quite an unfortunate casualty caught in the crossfire between i18n, feature discoverability, and hardware cost-cutting.
I think colour blindness varies too much - I am too but I think solarized is great, and this looks (at first glance, afk to compare) very similar.

Just have to find something that looks good, or that almost does and tweak it slightly.

But red/green in slide decks to draw distinctions/emphasise things should be banned. Except perhaps absolute #f00/#0f0, which nobody uses because they're not pastelly and subtle (and identical-looking to a chunk of the room) enough.
I work for Google Search and yes, that's something we are considering. No promise it will happen, but we do understand it might help people better understand there's no matches for what they wanted (though we do say that now, when it happens).
either reverting a broken feature or listening to how search has become almost unsuable for technical work in the last few months in favour of ramming some nonsense "popular" article down your thoat.

thank you google overlords for your brief allotment of sanity
Yep totally agree with your statement. My point was that there isn't a lot of cotton being grown in GBR catchments, so it wouldn't be one of the main industries directly effecting water quality on the reef.
GLM-130B: An Open Bilingual (English and Chinese) Pre-Trained Language Model
It's almost as if rich guys were morally bankrupt.

To become a billionaire, one has to be a sociopath. Ban billionaires.
So you're purely dumping static html pages on those domains?

Can you grab assets like images or even video from archive.org?
I've used quoted searches now and then in the past, as recently as last week or so, and it definitely did not work. There were no usable results, none of the results shown did contain the exact words. Is there a bug somewhere?