skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I first came to America, I realized the biggest myth is that people believe it is a capitalist nation with free markets.

It is not. Not by a long shot.

From buying a car to getting medical treatment, America has a very UNIQUE template of the way people think, talk, behave and deal with each industry that is radically different from the rest of the world.

“Healthcare”?: They actually mean “Insurance”. The term has nothing to do with medicine, treatment, personal care or well being, but simply refers to this massive series of legislation over the decades that has enshrined government protection against competition in free markets leading to the extreme inefficiencies driving up prices.

“Dealerships”?: They mean Govt protected localized monopolies with the mandate to abuse said market power against any known free market ideal.

Energy Markets: Same story. Try building a transmission line, nuclear plant or any energy infrastructure in America and you’ll be lucky if you only go bankrupt and lose everything financially. Entities with the innovative courage to attempt such projects have terrible outcomes.

“Housing”: This continues to amaze me with how selective, arbitrary, corrupt and inefficient permits, zoning and all the other functions run by local governments actually are. Take a region as prominent as the SF Bay Area and regardless of your position, everyone likely has a strong opinion on inefficiencies in the market and how they don’t really need to persist in a free market.

In short, the biggest opportunity right now is a technological revolution in government and a challenge to the traditional form of local government that has proven so ineffective in a highly networked society.

This will never happen though because of the inherent self interest of the present structure in keeping things the way they are.
No, I think most of us though google was a more innovative company that could create a way to share that many results, feels more like an EA move where google stopped trying years ago and just went into search maintance mode.
Right, opoids and meth and etc can cause permanent brain damage over time. But psychedelics...?
> philosophers

Sounds like something from Silicon Valley, the TV show.
Barclays’ esports/crypto crossover: insert coin
It’s a signal that your search is generic. You can refine down more and get some hint of that.

Compare:
“Cows”
“Cows New York”
“Cows Bronx New York”
“Cows Bronx New York major deegan expressway”

This is a dumb example, but the count drops as the search is refined. You can use this to guide a specific search as well… in a tech example, if you search for a specific log entry while troubleshooting you might get 3 results tbat appear random. Remove elements of the search and you’ll get more results and relevance.
I think you're talking about a much higher quality bread than what's available in the typical American grocery store.
I would definitely try to include those.
If anything, the problem is that representatives are motived only to serve the people that elected them. There is little reason for them to support their constituents who oppose them, and in fact every reason to score points with their own voters by making life worse for their opponents.

Most elected people are very popular in their districts. That's why they get re-elected. There are very few places where the voters say, "Gosh, we really hate our elected representative. They keep doing stuff I don't like."

In the legislature, they do what they were sent to do. And what they weren't sent to do is make compromises, reach accommodations, and advance the general well-being of the city/district/state/country. Most of them promised to "fight", and fight they do.

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to make a system where every vote counts. The winners win, and the losers might as well not have shown up. That holds whether you've got a direct democracy or a representative democracy. The 48% of Brits who voted to remain in the EU are just as out as the 52% of pro-Brexit voters.
In the Netherlands we eat bread which you cannot easily slice yourself. You need a machine for that. Most people eat this kind of bread in the morning and during lunch.
The metadata that Matrix “leaks” is the timing, size, sender and recipients of messages, which is exposed only to the servers participating in a given chatroom. Same as PGP encrypted email, or OMEMO encrypted XMPP. Matrix also doesn’t encrypt emoji reactions or room key/value data yet.

Meanwhile Signal exposes the timing, size, and recipients of messages to the server (complete with their phone number!) - just not the sender, thanks to sealed sender.

Whether you consider Matrix’s metadata footprint a privacy problem depends on your threat model. Meanwhile we’re working on P2P Matrix (arewep2pyet.com) to obfuscate the metadata to be better than Signal (given ideally it never needs a server, and if it does, it goes via obfuscated store & forward relays).
I mostly use fat as a go between for different operating systems, things could be installed to implement similar functionality around another file system, but it's nice to have a default built into everything format that works on every machine. It has its flaws, but the universality of it is a huge strength
(Speaking as someone who likes model trains.) You need parallel curves to design railroad tracks. Its behavior inside corners is degenerate because in the degenerate case there's no possible way you could make a train turn a corner that tight! You need to take a larger radius for your turns if you don't want your train to end up all crashed in a mess. :-P

Here's a nice example of a model railroad track plan:
https://www.scarm.info/layouts/track_plans.php?gallery=10;0

There's software to help with designing these plans, which I guess must use parallel curves under the hood.
Again, this is me speaking just my experience, and not for the company in any official capacity:

Capital-P-Policies get followed. But there are a lot of lower-case-p-policies, more what you might call guidelines, that are not. Sometimes, for good reasons! There are examples of things Amazon does that try to encourage individual judgement, trusting the people in place. But there are also examples where we think we know what the right process is, but for whatever reason (prioritization, we haven't figured out the right way to enforce it, scaling challenges) it's not as strictly followed as outsiders might assume.
Thats more a question of having a balanced team size, ownership and accountability.
I assume you mean 1.4kb? Squeezing graphics into that is possible but very difficult for anything larger than an icon. If the browser supports vector graphics of some flavor you could do a lot so long as the shapes aren't overly complex.
State, County, and City taxes all vary wildly in different states. It's an annoyance for sure.
The article being discussed starts with these words "Over the past several decades", and you suggest as a cause a vaccine that the general public wasn't exposed to just two years ago. You're not being censored, you're receiving feedback that you did a dumb.
Ask HN: Prepaid flip phone that works out of the box to send to relative in need
Hi, HN. I'm hoping you can help me out with a phone recommendation.

I've got an adult sibling that lives across the country from me. They have mental health problems, and (after failing at extended negotiations trying to move them closer to me) I sent them an iPhone last year so we could at least keep in touch.

Now they've lost the iPhone, and I need to send a cheap flip phone with prepaid minutes to communicate while I arrange a replacement iPhone. Ideally, it would work out of the box (meaning, no complex sim-card activation, no visiting a phone store to negotiate activation or plans).

Do any of you have recommendations for such a phone? The various options seem like they would be difficult to activate and/or are prohibitively expensive. This thing only has to work for a month or so and then it can be discarded.

I'm looking at Tracfones, but they require sending three different pieces (phone, SIM card, minutes) and I'm worried about how difficult the activation process will be. On Amazon I see something called 'Easyfone' that works with Mint Mobile, but the instructions say you should activate the sim on a feature-phone and then move the sim back into the Easyfone, and that also seems difficult.

The requirements:

- Super easy setup
- Cheap (~ $50-$75)
- Makes calls
- Receives calls
- Prepaid plan
- Ships relatively quickly

Possible? Thanks in advance!
https://archive.ph/IwZb8

"The world of video gaming is at its heart about fantasy and escapism, which is perhaps how we should approach Barclays’ latest note on esports. Barclays’ equity analysts have blessed us with a 31-and-a-bit page note on virtual spectator monetization. For anyone majorly out of the loop, here’s the 101:"

Picture an arena full of sport fans, but instead, replace the basketball court and tall athletic players with rows of back-to-back PCs and young, focused pro-gamers staring into the screen.
IIRC you don't have to pay that in Washington, so you should still be paying the listed price :). Bit of an edge case though
It's dishonest to show an estimate that is orders of magnitude off, and not even mention this with something like a +/- standard deviation. I can't imagine how something that has only hundreds of real hits could have an estimate of hundreds of thousands. Why not just drop this estimate altogether?
Indeed, one common interface for the sync that captures all the nuances of multiple identity providers implementing the SCIM protocol. Thanks IvoSolveoYCSS19.
> Searching is useless if it doesn't provide results.

True. But that's not the question, is it? The question is whether only giving you the "first" N of the results makes it useless, or something else...

Nobody, I think, is contesting, that search in some contexts is always expected to provide you with access to everything that is found. The issue is whether that can be expected to apply to a case where 10M results are found, and if not, what the cutoff point ought to be ...
I love the "ackshually..." replies. The point of the exercise is to get a marginally useful web page to fit in 1kB. A landing page that fits into 1kB is pretty impressive. You could fit even more e.g. some bare minimum CSS, into 1kB with compression.

The whole point of the 1MB club and other such efforts are to show what can be done without the equivalent of multiple copies of Doom[0] worth of JavaScript to display what is just a static landing page.

There are completely legitimate uses for "web apps", things that are actual useful applications that happen to be built in a browser. No one is saying that web apps aren't a totally valid means of delivering software.

The problem is every website written using the same frameworks Facebook and Google use for their web apps to build sites that could easily just be some static HTML[1]. We have devices in our pockets that would have been considered super computers a few decades ago. I have more RAM on my phone than I had hard drive storage on my first PC. My cellular connection is orders or magnitude faster with orders of magnitude better latency than my first dial-up Internet connection.

Despite those things the average web pages loads slow as shit on my phone or laptop. They're making dozens to hundreds of requests, loading unnecessarily huge images, tons of JavaScript, autoplay videos, and troves of advertising scripts that only waste power and bandwidth. I find the web almost unusable without an ad blocker and even then I still find it ridiculous how poorly most sites perform.

I love waiting at a blank page while it tries to load a pointless custom font or refuses to draw if there's heavy load on some third party API server. I also absolutely adore trying to use some bloated page when I'm on shitty 4G in between some buildings or on the outskirts of town.

It would be nice if I didn't need the latest and greatest phone or laptop to browse the web. It would be nice if web pages rediscovered progressive enhancement. Add JavaScript to improve some default useful version of a page. You don't need to load some HTML skeleton that only loads a bunch of JavaScript just to load a JSON document that contains the actual content of a page.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2016/04/average-webpage-now-size-origi...

[1] https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
> 2. It can't/won't be accurate.

>3. Therefore it's fine to provide a count 10 billion times to (sic) large.

LOL, what? No way!
I work with NetSuite. The UI is good and the customisation and integration experience is not too bad. Not all ERP software is horrible
Similar story here attempting to buy new. I went to a Toyota dealership that had the model I wanted to buy in stock. I looked up the price online first and it all looked good.

Got in there and they tacked on a bunch of junk that wasn't listed. I asked them if they could do anything to get the price back to the online price, and they said they couldn't. They did suggest that they had a used car on the lot - which came in at the same price the new one did on the website, all told. I walked away.

Never heard back. I assume that somebody probably came in the same week and gladly opened up the wallet.

The experience in general suggested to me that I should hold onto my 15 y.o. car as long as it still rolls, rather than trying to buy a new one right now. Hopefully it outlasts this insanity.
> For example, as a fisherman it might be cheaper for me to buy some old, shitty, super-polluting boats,

At the level of an individual, yes.* However consider a fleet of cargo ships. They last, and depreciate, over about 20 years. Even if the owner buys newer, cleaner ones, they aren't throwing away the old ones, and the one bought today will stay in service until around 2042. It's not unreasonable to offset this ancient cap ex, especially if governments also ramp up regulation so the economics for the oldest/worst of continued use vs scrapping make them uneconomic.

In a utopian sense this is clearly worse than just replacing all the polluting equipment, but in the real world a "big bang" solution can't work, not the least because there isn't enough shipbuilding capacity to replace the entire fleet overnight.

The ethics of offset vs removal credits, and the whole offset credit market is a complex and sorry situation and this article just scratches the surface. OTOH one reason it's so marginal, despite the efforts of some people (including Verra and Gold Standard) to make it better, are largely because credits of any non-mandatory size are barely used (about $1B traded last year) so there's little incentive to clean it up. Hopefully that is in the process of changing; the market is growing and prices are rising faster than the market is growing indicating that demand is increasing.

* At the consumer level this is all awful. Remember when Obama did "Cash for clunkers" to get polluting cars off the road? You couldn't get the credit unless you bored a hole in the block and injected some epoxy. In Germany they had a similar program, but just took the old cars and shipped them to LDCs in Africa where they could continue to pollute, just someplace else. Or for aging luxury cars, some nefarious companies would send them across the border into Poland and then smuggle them back in and get the credit another time.
Note that if you search [purpose of life], it does not say it has 2 billion results anywhere on the first page. My team removed the blue bar containing that text way back in 2010. You have to hit "Next" or otherwise visit page 2 to get it.

And I'd bet the reason why it's still there (I left Search in 2014) is because < 0.1% of users ever hit the next page. Everybody else just refines their query to a different search. It's a holdover from when search engines were bad (i.e. around 1998) and you had to go through 10 pages of results to get the one you were looking for. As a result, Google expends approximately zero engineering effort on pages 2-20 of the results - I know that in the 4 visual redesigns I worked on, we didn't touch them once. It wouldn't surprise me if the response to flack on this is to just get rid of all pages other than the first one - it avoids the issue entirely and wouldn't affect 99.9% of users.

The technical reason for this behavior, as others have remarked below, is pagination. Ranking across the full result set is a very complex calculation, and it can depend on some factors that are basically random (eg. timeouts and failures in backend servers). It'd make pagination basically useless if the same results you already went through show up on a later page because the ranking is different. This requires that the full result set be cached. You can cache 400-1000 results for each of the queries that the 0.1% of users who actually hit "Next" care about, but you'd have a big issue caching 2 billion results for each of those queries.
In the 53 mins since you checked, google has apparently found another 4.3M results for this query :)
This might be obvious with a modern mathematical education but keep in mind he was born in 1887 and died at the age of 32. Theorems are a little like magic tricks, they become very apparent once someone tells you the trick.
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That makes sense, I have already edited my comment to say specifically computer graphics since posting since I realized it could have very useful applications in physical modeling, or other scenarios where you specifically care about the constant distance metric, like you mention.
The distinction matters, it's not just a 'cool story'. Money donated to the Mozilla Foundation legally cannot go to the Mozilla Corporation, and therefore cannot fund Firefox development.
VictoriaMetrics is based on ClickHouse ideas, but is specifically optimized for storing and querying floating-point time series with arbitrary sets of (key=value) tags. Such time series are also known as metrics or measurements. See [1], [2] and [3] for more details.

[1] https://medium.com/@valyala/how-victoriametrics-makes-instan...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9qjb_yoBro

[3] https://faun.pub/victoriametrics-creating-the-best-remote-st...
No, it was the Rusty Jam.

Independently of Bevy's progress, a parallel ECS is not a good choice for a prototype-like game project.
Thanks :) I was pleasantly surprised with the latency too, admittedly the web audio engine of the browser is doing all the heavy lifting - I noticed that it seems to sacrifice audio quality for speed if you push it too far, e.g my struggle was with keeping the number of simultaneous oscillators low enough, if you ask to simulate too many then clipping will start happening all over the place since there is going to be some limit based on the CPU... I don't have much experience with audio programming but I expect for this reason additive synthesis is probably not efficient enough for anything that's not as simple as an organ.
I think part of the problem is driven by the desire to create a slick UI and wizards. These systems then underperform. I wonder if you could instead expose more of the underlying computer science stuff to the user. Give them an interface to push transactions. And a set of widgets to pull data. Keep every operation seperate and discrete even when part of a process. And let documentation and training teach the business process.
>A CBDC will eliminate any argument for crypto

So a US CBDC will be decentralized, permissionless, transparent, non-censoring, and run on open-source software based on an open specification?
The number of pages in a search index and the number of results found were major selling points for search engines. I'd say that the count got carried forward in the last 20 years.
The spoof offsets he sells at the end of that segment have already sold out:

https://www.oliversoffsets.org/
Show HN: We make apps/extensions for ChromeOS (Yes, some people do that)
Ah yes still waiting on that futuristic cheap bread slicer machine. If my bread is more or less than 15mm it will be a day to remember
You can get a better estimate from Google's CapEx in it's financials.

Stanford's endowment is ~30 billion. Google's CapEx is ~20 billion a year and has been for the last 4 years or so. You can weasel about exactly how much of that is attributable to search as opposed to other initiatives, (but even if you look back a decade to when Google was mostly search, it was running a CapEx of ~5 billion/year). So even making pretty favorable estimations, you'd be looking at Stanford being bankrupt around now.
> They’re effectively independent projects.

Unless you care about interoperability, which for a product like this is essential.
This is exactly what I was thinking. Spin up a whole new department that focus solely on internal tooling. Have multiple product teams that use strict agile methodologies iterating and releasing quickly. Sure it would be time consuming and expensive but so is Sap! Plus you would have much more control and flexibility over your tools
> UnRegretted Attrition

Article with links to further information on UnRegretted Attrition (URA) rate: https://archive.ph/dI92l
You can make the same argument about "love" with cats as with dogs. They're both projections of a human emotion onto a much less intelligent and altruistic creature.

think it's an absurd toxic masculinity "dogs for men cats for women" thing.
It can be run directly into google colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Iy-xW9t1-OQWhb0hNxu...
I really like the "Ship of Theseus" take. My own desktop PC still has that one slot cover from my first PC from 1990s. This is a deliberate nod to all the history of upgrades and migrations that was so much fun to do.

By the way, my own modus operandi was to choose a mid-level hardware for upgrades, exactly to keep the budget low by keeping as much older parts as possible.
My point was that it's still not very hard. Certainly not hard enough that you can avoid worrying about it if you just turn JS off.
Perhaps after wading through a billion search results, you would actually find the meaning of life, but dismiss it to make a pedantic point.
If Microsoft copilot ingests the work of this robot and begins making legal recommendations does it also become a real boy and get thrown into jail for not passing the bar and what does that mean for the copyright of software it has already written?
I would think they'd more accurately be described as "ethicists" and probably fulfilled a function closer to a Business Analyst. Reviewing and transmitting requirements, gathering use-case data, reviewing standards & procedures, and working on "fit and function" type stuff.
As a Brit: Can I suggest this is not because your native language isn't English.... but is beacuse you are unfamiliar with our rather sly sense of humour?
I cannot think of many things that reduce in price once government mandates their purchase. Seat belts maybe? Although I can't find historical price information on those prior to being mandated.