skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do realize CUNY is more than just community colleges. They have 4 year colleges that offer PhD's!

There's always this talk about NYC being brutal in some way or the other. I haven't experienced such in my 14 years living here.

Edit:// Then again I always had the frame of mind that this country on a whole was unforgiving.
Mindfulness is as effective as an antidepressant drug for anxiety
Maxwell's Equations are an interesting analogy. As they were originally written, they were cumbersome and hard to understand. Along came Oliver Heaviside, who translated them into the notation of vector calculus, resulting in the form that remains in use today. But even the present form is not without its detractors, and I've read comments in this forum to the effect that a better notation would make them even less forbidding for students.

Algebra has a similar history too. You practically had to be a philosopher to understand algebra as described by Al-Khwarizmi's book -- there are no numerals or equations, just a wall of text. The notation of equations hadn't been invented yet. Today, thanks in part to gradual development of notation, we can teach algebra to schoolchildren.

I think there are probably many developments, where the brilliant invention, and the language that can be understood by the rest of us, had to come from two different people.
I have similar Z840 but with the crappiest video card I could buy and stuffed with 512GB RAM. It sits in my basement and hosts some backend software that I wrote for the company I own. Amazingly quiet as well. Bought it for peanuts in specialized store close to my place. They do nothing but refurbish and sell servers and workstations. I bought mine for about 3,000 Canadian pesos. Works like a charm for few years already.
Here’s a hypothetical: what if Facebook had taken all that money and blind effort invested in VR over the last decade and instead fully committed to creating a competitor to Android/iPhone?

I think that strategy would have had a better chance of success.
The victim absolutely has the right to file a dispute. In a court of law, which exist for exactly that reason!
> Many developers can afford $36 a year

You realize that my dependency stack contains about 2500 dependencies right? If they all follow this model I’m looking at $90k/year just to contribute to a project.
I'm a little tired of the rhetoric about Netflix adding ads. It's only on an entry-level account that is subsidized from the normal pricing (IIUC, correct me if I'm wrong). You could argue that they've artificially inflated the price of the normal plan or that it's a slippery slope, but it's not like they've forced ads on the existing plans.

I think what's more interesting/concerning/insidious is hidden ad content like product placement. It's getting to the point where personalized product placement could be embedded in shows dynamically.
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For me, #1 is the official documentation, #2 is a decent looking tutorial, #3 has a slightly better page on google, #4 is a clear kagi winner.

Neither of them offers bad results, but we are talking about google, it makes no sense to give example searches without saying what results you receive as Google is so heavily personalized.

Kagi does personalization, but it’s explicit. You yourself decide the region to search in (my default is international, though there are quick bangs to search in other regions), and you can up- or downrank domains, as well as block them completely.
Caveat: Any market analysis the big banks are publishing for free has a low signal-to-noise ratio and should be taken with a small pile of salt.
I am seeing so many verified accounts now. This is going to be insanity. I don't see how this is sustainable. I think the $8 verification scheme will be scrapped. It will have to be $8 + paperwork. Existing verified accounts will be grandfathered in
Regulators have been made impotent.

Who’dda thought that regulators maintained order and protected people?
I'm not interested. Why would I be?

I also don't need fiction to know what a human-curated search engine would be like, because I was using the web in the 90s when we had things like Dmoz.
>Its a $30K car with a range of 190 miles and can charge itself 40 miles a day in optimal conditions.

"investors with poor understanding of technology". You didnt even bother to read the article. Its actually:

_ “ideal conditions”; that comes out to 10 to 20 miles per day, which is near negligible _
My standard for the future (10+ years out) is "if i have to hit the keyboard or click the mouse it's failed." In that case I'll definitely still want to go back to in-person collaboration.

> How are you going to wear a headset without compromising face to face video? I can't even imagine a theoretical solution and not a single company is working on this problem. Am I wrong? Obviously on a very long timeline you can solve this problem but the next 5 years? No way.

My best guess of what this would look like would be much closer to glasses than a full headset (no "sticking" to the face) with very good ultra-wide cameras + image processing to capture your face and upper body language at the same time. Maybe toss in a desktop-mounted webcam too. Not 100% immersed/blackout, but quite possibly good enough to be better than a flat monitor with also isn't 100% of your FOV.
A long time ago, Microsoft discovered counterfeit copies of Microsoft Office, where the cover art on the boxes (pictures of "office workers sitting at desks using the software" type of thing) used photos that were the same except less cropped than the photos on the real product. This means the counterfeiters weren't just buying a copy and then copying it, rather they had access to material upstream from Microsoft and used designers etc. to create their goods; these were not amateur operations.
Sure but the vision/nlp models required to enable context-sensitive vision apps (i.e. an app to "give me facts from Wikipedia about what I'm seeing"), those models are closed and owned by big companies like Google and OpenAI.

The previous two computing revolutions "personal computers" and "apps/websites" were enabled by the openness of the OS and the openness of TCP/IP and browser vendors, respectively. If the next "AR/VR" revolution depends on complex vision models, there's no guarantee they'll be open for independent devs. And judging by the last few years, it's highly likely they won't be.

BTW I think there's good reason they don't release GPT-3 or DALL-E or PaLM or whatever. That shit is dangerous.

Edit: ok you can hack the hardware to let you run the models or make the necessary network calls to run them. That's still way different than Wikipedia which is a first class webapp where you don't have to hack anything to use it.
Perhaps because addressing people comes with more implications and possible angles for communication with those people. So "guys" fits the bill for one desired nuance that became more popular in culture (the "laid back" nuances the article mentions). Previous generations were a lot more formal.
This is really fucking cool. I would love to use this to tweak my website to perfection. Is it possible to make a bunch of changes and then see all the changes I made so I can put them back into my code?
because you value the continued existence/wellbeing of the community
I was able to donate hundreds of dollars to Ukraine using the same credit card I use for everything else. What is special about crypto donations to Ukraine? I suspect that the fees of converting USD->BTC (or other crypto) and then the recipients converting back to UAH are higher than the <2% CC fee I paid. (I used a card with no foreign transaction fee.)

And with credit card, the donation recipient wouldn't be at risk of losing double digit percentages of the value donated if they didn't immediately cash out into fiat currency.
you can do both. i dont want to play AR games
I'm not sure, but it sounds like they mean that building and quickly searching an index has been democratized. You can now use any number of FOSS projects or SaaS offerings to do that, depending on how big you want the index to be and how much you want to spend.
Google is not using raw PageRank anymore, they use some sort of machine learning, which is overly optimized based on flawed abusable SEO techniques and probably user count, rather than actual value and authenticity.
Next time i wind up maintains a large oss effort im going to seriously consider this.
<< A mansion in Naples or San Mateo was worth millions in the 1980s, 90s , 00s , 10s , 20s and there are millions of potential buyers globally who’d happily pay that price. That’s an asset which proved both liquidity and price permanence (matter of fact appreciation) but still it’s not a given that it will prove to be such going forward

If there is one thing that 2008 should have taught anyone, it is that nothing is permanent. I am not going to get philosophical here and say that possessions are fleeting, but to pretend that real estate is not propped up hard and effectively is guaranteed to "prove to be such going forward" is about the same faith that keeps ANY asset including bitcoin up.

Why are you so certain that this timeline will never see Naples mansion price go to zero? I can easily see several scenarios where that could happen.
not really. Even randos getting 100s of subs, not big names
Just to chime in here on a real usecase for VR that I would absolutely 100% pay a load of money for:

I love traveling, and I'm fully WFH, so I can technically travel 365 days of the year, but the lack of a monitor basically makes it impossible to get anything done. My 15" macbook simply isn't enough.

It's kinda gotten to the point where I only do roadtrips around California so I can throw a monitor in the back of my car. If instead of dragging around a monitor with me, I can throw a headset that is as good (resolution, battery life, latency, etc), this would be something I'd be willing to easily pay thousands for.

I have a quest 2, so i know how far we are from this in terms of resolution, latency, comfort, battery life, but, figured I'd throw this comment in.
Kagi has a feature, lenses, which includes a discussion lens. It’s pretty much that, results from forums and reddit.
Not really.

If I buy and sell a coin from myself with monopoly money for ever increasing prices - is it really worth anything?

Obviously there are some inflows into crypto. But it's about 0.00001% of the daily volume.
I keep waiting for the invite... it's becoming pathetic, honestly! Why would desktop software want to use an invite system?! It makes zero sense! And worst of all, to make people wait for months!
Is that really the only reason you can see for wanting this travesty to crash and burn?

And is that really your best idea for what would be good to replace it?

What we need is to get rid of all of these systems for getting a small number of insiders rich quick at the expense of the general public. We need to make the distribution of wealth more equitable, not just try to change things around so we're the ones who get to be stepping on the hapless masses.
75% of my neighborhood is old people slowly dying, or moving to retirement facilities.

When I took my two year old trick or treating last week, I got a lot of comments on how nice it was to see kids in the neighborhood again.
I was once surprised to learn that, in some cultures, dishonesty is regarded as a skill. After all these years, I’m starting to see their point.
There's wisdom in your gut. To go further, I suspect corporate hierarchies become battlefields and torturemills because of trust issues at scale.

Edicts and objectives come down from on high, but how does the top of mount meta, brain that it aspires to be, detect what the tips of the fingers are touching? A lattice of KPI's, gantt charts, and managers sewn together into a ghoulish nervous system, each link holding a knife to the throat of the next. None of this apparatus has many tools evaluating the quality and intensity that someone is curiously relaxed.

If you force the tools to try and perform this task, you end up sending daily emails asking people to report their current level of relation and curiosity, but in a way that obfuscates what you're asking. This is so you can stack rank them based on how relaxed and curious they are. So when you fire those who are the least relaxed and curious the aggregate measure bubbles up and you can be an industry leader at these things.

The fuel for the fire extinguishes it.
You're going to have to explain your problem in more detail than "resolve a situation with multiple remote heads".
Zelle has low limits for this very reason. There are reversible payment methods available if you are transacting in a low trust situation. Warren and all these activist types are going to make selling on Craigslist effectively be cash only again, and all payment systems will just be Paypal with varying degrees of bad support.
> Crypto markets face weeks of deleveraging in the fallout from the crisis at digital-asset exchange FTX.com, a period of upheaval that could push Bitcoin down to $13,000

> The production cost is mainly the electricity needed to operate the powerful computers that run the Bitcoin network. “At the moment, this production cost stands at $15,000, but it is likely to revisit the $13,000 low seen over the summer months,” they said.

So if I understand this correctly, Bitcoin won't be worth mining
I agree, I think it is at least in part because the song has been used in movies and such, but there's no doubt that song is an 'easier' listen than some of his more experimental work.
In dollar amounts it was a tiny tiny exchange though
ISW says it's happening.

https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1590549998894448640
I came here to post something analogous. Imagine if Google had to actually compete with Meta on the same platform. There would naturally be an incentive to lower telemetry (so that Apple can't just score an easy win again).
Actually Microsoft bought a company called Powerset which did information from Wikipedia to build a "semantic as in semantic web" index, that technology became the heart of Bing.

Google was caught flat footed and wound up buying and killing Freebase in order to catch up. They lied and said they rejected "semantic web" approaches despite hiring one of the leaders of the Cyc project as their head of research.

Still there is a difference between exposing that kind of database through a full text index vs exposing it through a browsing interface.
> You might be able to jump start the whitelist by getting folks using a plugin so you can know what domains they spend time on in the first place and index those when signal strength warrants it.

I actually think a browser plugin is a core component, especially if people could opt in to contributing their pages to the index (with a method to make sure they're not logged in to anything).

The plugin would also allow people to flag websites as spam/scams/low-value, regardless of whether they're in the index or not.
Hahaha, I've been working on a server, a client, and adjacent plumbing for about 4 years non-stop as a side project. Spoilers: it's still not fully done. :)
My experience matches yours exactly.
Team meetings tend to have a visual support, either someone screensharing or some Miro board/FigJam. So the cam is off.

Camera is on during 1 on 1s or when working with new people. I find it important to put faces on names.
An ACH transfer can also be reversed if the amount transferred was incorrect, if it's a duplicate transaction, or if it was sent to the wrong account number. Also, there's not a lot of pushback from the bank if a customer asserts ACH fraud when asking for a reversal. Good thing, because it's pretty trivial to get someone's routing and account number, they're printed on every check you write.

Zelle, on the other hand, will not reverse a payment if you get the phone number wrong.
Can you add a poison pill to a company where a select group of people can decide you broke one of your founding principles and hand the company over to someone else?

No VC startup would do that but if possible would allow trust.
Mastodon isn't monolithic, and only exists because of server admins and people that work hard to build communities.

You sound like you've never actually used Mastodon or even understand how it works. Even as someone that's only used it a handful of times I noticed right away how much different it was from Twitter, in terms of what it allowed. I can't speak for all Mastodon instances but the one I used actually let people post NSFW content and porn so what you're saying about Mastodon not respecting free speech is unfounded. Are you considering Twitter a bastion of free speech where you aren't even able to mock its owner despite following the rules and labelling yourself as parody?

Mastodon isn't threatened by ideas and conversations, it's a culture shock between capitalist social media and homegrown self-hosted communities. The whole point is that the community decides for itself what it wants to look like, and if you don't like it then you run your own instance where you can do whatever you want. So having the freedom to run your own server and decide what content and community you want doesn't constitute respecting free speech? That is a freedom you will never get from Twitter.

The Twitter "refugees" joining it don't understand that self hosting an instance is a largely thankless job that requires lots of time and money just to keep the lights on, and don't understand decentralization and federation. They just want the same narcissistic and centralized self-promoting rewards structure as Twitter, while Mastodon was designed against that and that's why people originally chose it over Twitter. Instead it's supposed to be a chill place where people can be weird.

If really you want to host a gigantic, centralized Mastodon instance for that sort of Twitter experience that's also friendly to edgelords, no one is stopping you.
Wasn’t this 4B like 20 minutes ago
I'm not talking about "more social services"; I'm talking about UBI, which would absolutely remove most of the incentive to participate in such things.

I realize I forgot to actually put that in the GP, though. Sorry about the lack of clarity.
As I understand, everybody shipping a browser for ios and ipados is wrapping webkit because apple requires that it be that way.
It is not a misdesign, but an intentional one. A payment system can protect the buyer/sender or the seller/receiver (or expensively both aka escrow), as any of them are capable of committing fraud.

Zelle favors the receiver, which is convenient in some scenarios like sending to a family member on a whim.

If you want sender protection, use a credit card. With the restriction that KYC/merchant rules apply to the receiver, restricting supply.
This is quite the definition of an outlier.
He took even more user funds and did the same.
Yeah, the devs stated again and again, that they don’t plan or expect to be a mainstream search engine.
Unfortunately I can echo the crypto space sentiment for as long as such an expression can exist

I’ve never touched Bitfinex/FTX/Binance or any exchange that allows options or leverage. I am a US citizen. Bitstamp Gemini or Coinbase are the only ones I’ll touch

And I’m pissed off that coinbase removed the BTC/USDC trading pair because it had low volume

Why will I not touch them? That’s a long story but I see history repeating itself - fractional reserve Bitcoin banks paying ponzi interest
FTX and Alameda would have gone under regardless.
I don't understand why advertising-based revenue models are bad for consumers. The most profitable ads are those that are the most relevant to the consumer. It leads to advertisements that are most likely to provide commercial information that the consumer finds valuable.
They also bought a boat load of PPC Macs for much of the early Xbox dev work.
Thanks. I've found Chromedp [0] to be a good Selenium replacement when programming in Go. Used in conjunction with headless-shell [1] you can deploy a Go app into a container and do the testing all within the same container with low overhead.

[0] https://github.com/chromedp/chromedp
[1] https://github.com/chromedp/docker-headless-shell
hee hee

IMHO its not actually that hard to figure out what to work on if you talk to enough people. There is often some "L6" (the person six levels down in operations) who already knows what needs to be worked on but nobody has ever asked them ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1-six-levels-d... )
There was an interesting story about Amazon review hijacking a while ago. Here’s a link: https://www.kleinbottle.com/Amazon_Brand_Hijacking.html
> the fact they had bailed out some other failing exchanges

That happened after they were buying stadiums and had a Larry David spot on the superbowl. They were the archetypal dumb money, top of the bubble, company. No one should be surprised they couldn’t handle a financial stress test. Sam was great at PR and maybe not much else?

This year this guy has been on every major podcast being touted as a genius philanthropist / “good” capitalist. Remember he just crashed TWO companies. Alameda and FTX. The bubble keeps popping. I’m curious who’s next. This almost certainly will ripple beyond crypto to general tech companies given how.. all the top VCs have billion dollar funds in crypto as my “exhibit A”
> I still listen to them, but it's hard to reconcile that a lot of the original pioneers have moved on. There's a new sound now, more of a wobble - check out mixes from JVIZ and his podcast called JVIZ Presents: Earthquake Weather. It's still new generation dubstep, but it's more roots oriented, and has a fresh out the basement feel to it. [1]

I guess it really depends where you are in the US, because when I'm in the US I'm mainly in CO and this kind of set happens (Kahn and Neek) in Denver on a Tuesday nights [0] or half of Mystic State dropping 140 [1] like it was a night in London (prefect example of this thread @ 1:00 mark) because of how healthy the scene/community is thanks to Nicole and Sub.Mission. It's come a long way from the aggro-brostep noise that it was back when it first came to the US!

I think the sound progressed so much from the early days; but for me 2008-14 were the real glory days with so much talent and collabs from DnB/Dubstep/Grime/Purple etc... It also helped I had actually been working in Europe most of that time so I got to go to some raves in the EU/UK whenever I had the chance.

It's been a while since I've been to a 140/170 night since COVID messed up everything, but I'm glad to see it's back. Denver really was/is like a mini-London time capsule of that era and sound so if you can make it out to a night to re-live some of those nights, the system in the mainroom is RC1 spec and sound-management are a bunch of heads, and the bar/mezzanine room usually has DnB nights (ReCon) with a more tamed system but still a good spot to rave.

I'll drop you a line when I'm back state-side and we can try and go rave in Denver.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NMiZDTI0BA

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft8FbtCqZvE
A method to artificially pump up the GitHub star count will be found, but little useful software will be made.
Perhaps I'm a masochist but I don't find these types of tests valuable.

Fuzzing, e2e, property testing, & strict type system seem more worthwhile in my opinion.
> Who would be the curators?

That's a key question. You don't necessarily need that many of them, though, if you're whitelisting at the domain level. A few dozen people could work giving a rating to many thousands of domains every year. An ideal number might be in the thousands.

I'd also say they probably shouldn't be in industry, because they'd have an incentive to game the index.

> Perhaps machine learning could help with scale - start with a human curated dataset, then train a model on it.

While this is true, I don't think search engines other than Google and Bing need to worry that much about being gamed. It's just not worth the effort.