skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is similar to whether you can trust eye witnesses’ recollections. Brains do their own “compression” of what they observed.
Have you considered going the donations / sponsorship (e.g. patreon) route. This seems like it leads to much more sustainable open source projects than VC money which often leads to a project flaming out when the investors come to collect (or the company gets acquired).
> Some might say that you can still use search, but that has been crippled to include unrelated recommendations after one page of results. Not only that, I want YouTube to help me discover new content. When the recommendation system works and it shows me new kinds of interesting stuff, it's superb. TikTok is eating YouTube's lunch in this regard.

this and it's going too far, since Youtube is now polluting people's search with very questionable recommendations. For instance, I'm into CGI and Youtube search kept recommending me some random footage about a female streamer which behaved and dressed very suggestively, that already had millions of view, what does it have to do with Shaders and Raytracing? Why the hell does Youtube want me to look at that?
I mean Google basically lost in this market. If Google Surveys were an independent company, it would have gone under already. Would you rather they keep propping up failing products forever? That seems anticompetitive.
Lmao we use these all the time at my employer.
Your parent comment specifies that the reason so many people were avoiding this guy was that he was good at the game. I wouldn't agree that that should mean he's not allowed to play.
They just released a Nightly build with the first development version of vertical tabs available. The basic functionality is pretty similar to Edge's (which is good IMO) but it's still very rough and eg. tab groups are glitchy for now. They work but aren't visually nice at all.
Also, "unsafe" in rust doesn't turn it into C++'s wild west.
That's something else. It's (it was) a marketing product.

> Google Surveys is a market research tool that allows you to easily create online surveys in order to make more informed business decisions. Users complete survey questions in order to access high quality content around the web, and publishers get paid as their users answer the surveys. Google automatically aggregates and analyzes responses, providing the data to you in a simple online interface.

See https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/surveys/
> unrelated

how is eating meat unrelated to eating meat?
YouTube's 'Dislike' Button Doesn't Do What You Think
> What's the distinction you're making between household income and class?

In the UK class is more complicated than simply having an income. It’s strongly correlated but not the same. You can have zero income, even be cash poor, but still have a title, influence, family history, contacts, favours, promises, even land (via various trusts)…
Pretty much this. I've owned entire applications and it's really fun when you're working alone. But adding a new developer that does not grok hooks (mostly because they are more use to imperative patterns than functional ones), and you will have bugs to deal with almost every single day. In a project, I was using Firebase as the backend and hooks allowed me to nicely abstract it away and use a language closer to business domain (like `useEntity(entityId)` and `useCreateEntity(entityData)`). Everything was more modular from changing the backend layer to breaking up bigger components.
I wouldn't connect those concepts at all. Democratic process is expected in a state that proclaims to be a democracy. Not in a trade agreement of multiple states. Also, EU is not just a trade agreement.
Make sure your watch history is enabled, without it the recommendation system cannot learn.
It does do that for me, and it also regularly recommends videos with <1K views if it's from a channel I often watch. It even sometimes recommends videos with <100 views from channels I don't know if it's on a topic I watch videos on regularly. So it seems the algorithm doesn't do the same thing for everyone.
I'm fine with paying 2 cent for this.
At least the Opinion Rewards app isn't going away.

I've made $177 over the years. Not a fortune but it paid for a bunch of app buys and movie rentals.
Fly into a blind panic, normally.
If you don't believe in racism, or you believe in it but don't want anyone to talk about it because it hurts your tender feelings - you are a racist. That isn't a left or right wing ideology, anymore than 1+1=2 is a left or right wing ideology.

Also, conservatives in general (99.9%) don't know what CRT is, they just call anything that mentions the existence of racism CRT.
> Or they are less willing to mutilate reality in order to try to make it fit within some intellectual/philosophical/political system.

what we are seeing a certain political leaning do these days would seem to very very strongly disprove this :)
I lived and drove up and down Europe, though not Norway. Roads there are designed to be less injurious, and speeding fines can be very high. There is also little tolerance for any drinking and driving.

USA infatuation with left turns across roads posted at 45 mph or higher lead to deadly T-bone collisions. European roads often have roundabouts which naturally slow traffic and a collision would be a glancing side kiss. USA foot gun left turns kill people by design.
> Reflection is generally a bad idea

it is not - dynamic reflection certainly has its issues, but static reflection is absolutely fine

> it’s good to be forced to do without it.

it just leads to people reinventing it even more badly with separate tools
> PC -> TV experiences are also not great in general.

Why not? I recently bought an inexpensive gamepad, hooked up TV via HDMI and added a wireless keyboard+touchpad to the mix (I can't get used to Steam console mode). Overall experience is pretty good, effectively indistinguishable from PS4 we had in the office.
nixos with home-manager does some of this. my browser config points to a few repos which package an assortment of browser plugins and my `~/.mozilla` folder gets populated statically/read-only from the subset of plugins i choose from this list.

there's loads of UX improvements to be made. i update the plugins with `nix flake update` and `nixos-rebuild switch` and that process tells me which repos have new commits, but getting to a changelog for the relevant plugins is manual enough that i skip it. but it very much seems like a good direction to me.
It partly became modular because it merged with Merb, which was an alternative modular web framework that competed with Rails for a little while.
This product seemed like it had a great deal of promise after they nailed the results of the 2012 U.S. election, in which numerous national polls said Romney would prevail. But they totally whiffed it in 2016, so it might have just been dumb luck.
Bookers should open bets on what service google is going to discontinue next
It wasn't that this player was disrespectful/racist/etc., it's that they were so much better that playing against this player was almost a guaranteed loss.
They may have come full circle but I certainly haven’t.
It's an Apple VPN, which makes it special since you usually don't want to piss off Apple/iOS users with "anti-bot" crap.
What was the size of this data set? Curious as to just how much data you have to handle to incur a bill like that.
It’s not too different from how human memory and written tradition or word of mouth works.
Nothing spells 'Care for customers' like pulling the plug and allowing 2 whole months to get their data out.
> it's tying some form of personal ID to your browsing activity

That wouldn't just be bad news, it would be disastrous news. It would immediately render the entirety of the web worthless to me.
Something like…

1. Bit of banter.
2. Talk about aging cards/blockers
3. Talk about the cards on the board, from right to left. Since further right is most important.
3. Share things with each other that came up since last standup that you think is worth sharing.
4. Ask for help. Offer help. How can I help you get that card over the line?
5. Final bants.
It was a neutron detector that stored the the position, energy, and time stamp into the database. The design spec was 10,000 neutrons per second, so that was the origin of the time limit.

Of course, half those neutrons arrived within a 20ms window, so we had a buffer to handle the load. However, however, if the average remained above the limit, the buffer would fill up. There was a brief discussion of just ignoring events when the buffer was full, but that could introduce systematic errors in the data that would be impossible to detect, so it was better for the database to just crash.

The solution was to tighten the slits on the neutron beam to lower the count rate to the point that we never filled the buffer. Granted, we were testing a high flux technique that, so that was a bit of a disappointment. Everything else in the instrument could handle an order of magnitude more neutrons, except this database.

By the way, to be fair to the database designers, they were working with Clinton era tech and were probably told that the flux rate would never be a SUSTAINED 10,000 events per second.
They realllllly want me to buy far too many vacuum cleaners for the one rug in my house :|
> I want to hear why it might be a disastrous idea. I can't see how it would be because it would lead to less but better quality software, and if bad software actually costs more in the long run, it would actually save the industry money! So I fail to see how it would be disastrous.

My answer to this is probably too large for a reply here, but TL;DR is that software engineering is an enormous, complex field. I do know that there are far more ways to do something like this wrong than there are ways to do it right, but I have no idea what would be the right way. Language-based licensing makes sense, but so does licensing for sub-fields like security-related areas (handling PII, cryptography, even different areas of cryptography), operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux, *BSD, et al), and large frameworks (Hibernate, Rails, React, etc.). But I imagine in practice things would get real murky real quick.

And it's also something where it could easily become too onerous and impossible to develop software.
Scientists Have Long Dreamed of a Memory Prosthesis. The First Human Trials Look
Tell HN: Shopping for land: Last piece I viewed is up 5550% over 13 years
Just a fun anecdote that shows that CPI doesn't tell the whole picture with inflation.

I'm looking at rural land around Spokane WA/ Coeur D Alene ID. Everything is really expensive out there but one thing that is interesting to me is that the land was basically worthless 13 years ago and has essentially doubled in value every two years since.

One 120 acre property I looked at about 45 mins outside the city sold for $22,500 in 2009.

It then sold for $200,000 in 2015

It's now on the market for $1,250,000

Curious to hear where people think this heads from here and if this is the new norm or if this is going to come crashing down.
The point is: if you were from a culture that was looted, rather than the one which did the looting, would you feel the same as you do now? That it was a net good that the looting had happened so that others might enjoy your priceless heritage as a trophy of conquest?
> Basically, the core problem is digital identities [...] are cheap to create [...] so fraud is easy. The solution could be just to make it "costly" to create new digital identities.

We already use this model in practice. It's why so many services require a phone number verification now - they are hard enough to get en-masse, especially if you block things like Google Voice. They even have a big advantage in that they are comparatively hard to hack, as the SIM card is effectively a weak form of physical security key.

I think the big problems this causes is discussed on HN quite often.
There's no "never combine" in the taskbar.

Absolutely horrible. That was the very first setting I changed on every new PC.

Without that, I have no use for the taskbar at all. Now I auto-hide the taskbar, install Powertoys and use Powertoys Run to search for the window I want every time.

What the hell is Microsoft thinking? Doesn't anyone there actually use the stuff they're making?
Ask HN: Do flights with turbulence feel shorter?
And if so, why would pilots try to avoid turbulence?
You don't have to buy 40 series. Actually, you even don't have to buy 30 series. Even more actually, for gaming only you may buy AMD card, more or less th same that used by Xbox and PS5.
Huh, so google can't figure out what people like? In possibly related news, google is shutting down surveys.
> “It’s [Bitcoin's] trading like a leveraged play on broader risk assets,” Matt Miskin, co-chief investment strategist at John Hancock Investment Management, said in an interview. “It’s a more speculative investment and right now investors care more about dependability and cash flows and all that. In our view, that’s not a backdrop that changes into next year. So we see more downside risk in risk assets and crypto would be a part of that market.”

All assets have been trading inversely with the US dollar, which has been on a tear, for some time now. It's the same thing that happened during March of 2020. But this time the dollar's rise and the anti-correlation with everything from gold to treasuries to equities has lasted months rather than weeks.

Prediction: when the dollar starts falling a lot, Bitcoin will rise. That could take a long time.
Much appreciated! I have a half-finished branch with the mac status bar timer, but there were issues getting it to look just the way I wanted. Hope to get that in eventually.

Horo looks like a nice one too.
I was an early helper when I saw that on reddit and joined your slack before you had a discord. I was also one of the ones you mentioned that fizzled out after the initial excitement died down. But I didn't stop helping because the excitement died down. I stopped helping because I felt like we weren't "doing" anything. Other than raising money and getting paperwork in order. Have you guys actually "done" anything in the three years since? Other than, you know, collecting data and sitting around talking about "stuff"
Regret, Humanities, and the University
I attended a conference a few years back where a lead ML/data scientist at a big company you’ve heard of and probably use said the dislike button was ignored in favor of this: did you watch and engage with the content.
It's not only the bundle size for me: the runtime is slow.

Not "React Native with redux rerendering" slow, but "like a slow webpage disguised as app with lagging frames after tapping simple buttons for basic actions" slow.
> That boundary is why I have a hard time taking TypeScript seriously. A type system that doesn't participate in code generation is what

How is being able to check code correctness at compile-time even close to "just linting and documentation basically"? This has to be a bad faith argument

> Worse there is one value that is both a user-definable TypeScript type and a JS value.

What does this even mean? I don't think you understand TypeScript.
Deprecating a manifest standard isn’t breaking stuff if the apps don’t work it’s on them not the vendor (obviously within reason.)
“Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.”

― Richard Feynman

Came to my mind.
I've been using Super Agent for this purpose since it has a Safari extension. It seems to work in more cases than not.

Its web site feels very… corporate, and I can't find a source code link anyway, so I'm sure it's making money off of me somehow, but I can't figure out how - according to the site's FAQ, it isn't selling any data, so who knows.

https://www.super-agent.com
Well stop playing shit titles and this is less of a problem.
Just to clarify for those confused, this is not Google Forms. Google Surveys was apparently an entire separate product.
"Consciousness" is a pretty useless word without being very carefully defined, because people use it to mean a variety of different things. And often in the most ambiguous way possible such as this comment.

But also often some related but very specific and different things such as the reply that assumes it means only "self-awareness".

To me, the main purpose of the word is to prove the insufficiency of language and how imprecise most people's thinking is.
In almost every hobby there are people who get enjoyment from choosing and buying equipment and others who just want to do the thing. Look at people with massive collections of beard games they never play, people with any cameras and lenses but little output, etc. It's fine. Let people enjoy their hobby however they like.
Yes, don't become a slave of a list.
Mcdonalds has had automated basket lifters for years, is this actually much of an efficiency improvement?
Wow you're so right; I mean, when's the last time you ran anything more than 5km? That's likely some concrete evidence of humans not being able to persistence hunt. Or is that a non-sequitur, too?
A fellow IBM Model M user? :)
Thanks! Yeah, I meant whether child threads were allowed to outlive their parents.
Pilots avoid turbulence due to a variety of factors, including the "terrified passengers suck" effect and also the "ride bumpy, therefore pilot dumb" reputational effect on the pilot's own well-being.

So at the very least it should be made clear that this is either a policy or a passenger's opt-in decision.
This is akin to people who used to shout to stop using windows. It isn’t an actual solution any more than a communist revolution is a solution to climate change.

It’s an excuse to take political (economic in this case maybe) pot shots at your rivals.
> Tell people about things you do that they played a part it- it might just make their day.

Thank you for putting this out there!

I once reverse engineered the protocol for a popular mobile game so I could write my own client for it and posted my library online for others to do the same without any expectation it'd ever get seen. Months later, I received an email from someone reverse engineering the protocol as well for different purposes. They got stuck on a particularly difficult issue I also encountered (and documented), and googling it led them to my library, saving them hours of future work.

It definitely made my day and I'm still very proud of that project because of that.

Edit: There's a second part too! I just remembered that I've posted this story on HN before, and the last time I did a dev for the game emailed me saying he looked over the code and was impressed that I was able to figure out so much despite their deliberate efforts to keep the protocol locked down. Another great day!
Developing games however...
I had one of those. I remember riding the bus from Ithaca to Manchester, NH through Vermont (back when the route went through Vermont) and coding up the Fast Fourier Transform in BASIC on it from first principles.
Canada to make ArriveCAN optional, drop Covid vaccine mandate at border
When did I say that companies don’t owe you “the right to criticise their product”? I didn’t say that.

Arguments with a dishonest interlocutor are frightfully boring. Reply as you see fit, but I’m closing this thread and not looking at it again.
LXD Dashboard
The open source LXD dashboard makes it easy for you to take control of your LXD based infrastructure by providing a web-based graphical interface for your LXD servers. The dashboard allows you to securely connect and control all of your LXD servers and clusters.
I do my best during working hours and if it fails it fails -- the actual source of the problem can take the blame
I'd rather use an extension that tells companies no, that exercises the legal right to say no. Dont just accept then delete (with likely other downstream consequences such as re-logging in when you dont want), just opt out. Make it clear that privacy matters. Dont just hack (with multiple extensions), vote.

Use a moral & good & fit to task (not apathetic & consenting extension) like Consent-o-matic[1] or Auto Cookie Optout[2].

Some people actively dont care. Dont do that. Care. Help. Be a positive influence. (Ed: wow, unpopular opinion, over something that costs people nothing to assist in!! -2 points!

[1] https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic

[2] https://github.com/CodyMcCodington/AutoCookieOptout
Is this taking into consideration that only an educated subset of the population may know about radical stances and therefore you’re already sampling an above average group of people i.e someone with a low iq may not even know the radical options
What's your experience with HalfLife Alyx?
> You can't really blame them though, the average person simply doesn't have the time to be well researched on a given topic, and so are going to default to tribal thinking that when you poke at, falls apart.

true, but I also cannot expect the average person to be a doctor, but if someone feints in the cinema, and I yell "anyone here a doctor??" I do expect them to not claim to be one if they are not.

If you do not know something about a subject, you should not inject yourself in where it matters. And when you want to learn about a subject, you should not be a total sheep that blindly listens to the talking heads on TV, regardless of which channel it is on.
I assume marketing costs for SMB3 includes the making and marketting of The Wizard? IMDB has an estimated $6M for that.
Better Products Often Fail (and we’re all worse off for it)
Building a nuclear reactor without shielding is not okay just because the business department responsible for the construction doesn't have it in their budget this year. If you can't afford to encrypt this amount of data, you can't afford to store it, end of story.

> I didn't read the report but wouldn't surprise me if this was some acquisition infra (it would explain why they hired a moving company)

I didn't read it yet, either, but this seems unlikely - why would an acquisition have so much customer data in their DC? And if they had so much data, why didn't they encrypt it beforehand? Anyway, in the end, it was still Morgan Stanley that hired the moving company, so they f-ed up either way.
Oh huh. Hadn't even heard of Google surveys then. Thanks for the clarification.
Yes what they have should probably be fancier. I don't think this argues against my point?
It's less code. And if you add hooks (for the reasons specified in the docs), you can have a smaller and more manageable codebase. But hooks differs so greatly from the easier to grasp lifecycle methods and state as component object's property that it's easy to have bugs if you do not grok it.
Yes. See the product page of Google Surveys:

https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/surveys/
> it doesn't satisfy the Liskov substitution principle

I haven't seen that principle applied so stringently before. Under a strict interpretation it wouldn't be allowed to override methods with any implementation that didn't have observably equivalent behavior.

> I started passing parameterized interfaces next to instances of that type parameter

This is just manual reification, and it's only skin deep. You still can't do List<Foo>[] because Java's builtin array types can't be polymorphic or extended with fields to store classes representing the reification.
> I watch it daily, I have never listened to any hip hop, I don't watch sports nor trending topics, yet every single day it suggests football videos, MMA, the latest hiphop hit, and celebrity crap (imagine the Kardashians) among my other interests.

I don't have this experience at all. YouTube recommends me pretty much exactly what I've been recently watching. I watch a lot of long form interviews and tech videos, and my recommended feed is entirely filled with more of the same, which are of decent enough quality for me.

I wonder if something is wrong with your account?