skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an interesting story in that vein. (genericised to avoid shaming anyone)

Back in the late '00s I did development for a SEO-focused agency. We got a small firm that did a specific type of rental equipment. This was an industry that was traditionally very local and Yellow Pages oriented, to the point where leading brands were usually names like "A-Amazing AAA Aardvark Services".

The page was good enough that it started ranking on out-of-region searches.

So we built them a huge "directory" site. It had pages of spun content for almost every named city in the country, and we peppered it with a few listings of local service providers.

It was on the edge of being an actual useful resource; they went to their industry trade show and could say "We're page 1 (and frequently result 1) for that service name in almost every city in the country." It had your usual late-2000s/early-2010s good-practice SEO stuff-- well-formed URLs, tidy redirects everywhere, a few paragraphs of text on every page. They started taking a listing fee, allowing coverage at a per-county level.

It worked very well; getting real listings improved the actual user value of the rubbish content site and added further randomness to the generated content.

But anyway, they got greedy. They still had people calling their central phone number and wanting them to do reservations for them, which let them take a much higher commission than a listing fee paid. We built them some tooling to manage that sort of reservations. This is essentially the business model the fake GBP you mention is, except that for one narrow segment of the country, they were the service provider. More importantly, they replaced all the individual vendor contact info with their own.

They really wanted to hand over things to one of the owners' sons, who (along with the owner) had some very colourful pasts and questionable decision making abilities. So we let them go their own way, and continued to experiment with the model in other industries. Got good results in one other vertical, and a handful that just rotted on the vine.

But when we turn away, the site starts tanking in rankings. Maybe SEO spam detection improved, maybe removing the phone numbers made it obvious there wasn't much real content there. They ended up making various frantic changes trying to salvage the flow, but it was never the same. When I left the agency in the late 2010s, they were making frantic rework efforts trying to recapture the lost magic.

So I'd say the business concept can work, but it's weird how we have it being a SEO guy first. You'd think you'd find the service companies driving things-- by forming some sort of marketing/branding co-op with similar firms in different markets, they could split the costs of maintaining the SEO presence, and hiring a captive developer means they would be able to organize a flat rate dev contract rather than paying a high per-lead commission.
It's more that the industry is bearish on long bets in a tight financial climate. The tech for VR/AR is too clunky to seamlessly integrate into peoples' daily lives like mobile phones and smart phones did. There will need to be an iPhone-like leap in affordable and portable vision tech before VR/AR becomes a feasible marketplace.
That is a very strange question. Why would you ask it? Content-Type is the canonically proper use of an http header field, as it is metadata about the content, rather than content itself.
I'm genuinely curious here - how old are you? People bring up this theory time and time again - since judge Thomas Penfield Jackson decreed the same thing in 2000, which was overturned. Having been a former Microsoft employee working on enterprise to consumer stuff, this would be such an obscenely horrible move. There truly is a virtuous cycle between consumer and enterprise products influencing eachother. Modern Azure VM's are based off the VM segmenting of Xbox One that seperated the "app/ OS" stacks from "on the metal gaming VM". Hell, even Dave Cutler came back to work on the Xbox One VM partitioning which then folded into Azure.
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It's called autopilot. The person engaging it may come to the understanding that it is the car who is driving, not they. Yet the reality is they must be more attentive than a regular driver because the Tesla can behave unpredictability. Much like overseeing an unprepared student driver.
I would never recommend an Iron Realms game to someone for a couple of reasons.

One being the pay to win aspects where players who pay real money to buy items get major advantages.

Another being the amount of grinding required to level up.

I'd recommend Akanbar instead. It has no pay to win features. Balance based real time combat loosely based on the old Avalon game (Achaea did not invent balance based mud combat, it came from the now dead game 'Avalon') and you don't have to learn a coding language just to become competitive and partake effectively in the pvp if that's a part of the game you have interest in.

It sits in a sweet spot between complexity and simplicity and has a fun concept, well made guilds and a dedicated playerbase and admin.
I believe I just did 2 comments above, before you joined in, why the hostility?

Is it really so difficult to focus on the actual aggression against a sovereign country and instead squabble over exactly where they were practicing to invade the country.

The point is they are practicing to invade the country, is it not?
For iOS people, I've made the following shortcut:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/8389264a41c844eb817981fba4f...

Install it, invoke it from the Share sheet, and it takes you straight to the archive results. (When the shortcut asks for permission to access the web page, tap "Always Allow".)
You don't know the Muffin Man who lives on Drury Lane? You might also not know about the little old lady, or that the wheels on the bus go round and round
I don't see the word "appearance" in the PDF you linked. Am I missing it? And could you perhaps link to the handwritten response you mention? It seems like it would be useful context.
https://archive.is/Z4xt3
if anything, reddit is an example of what's wrong with the web.
Cool maybe they can reallocate these people to working on things that actually matter.
That's so nice of them to give me 8% on electronic purchases then. According to "Amazon profit margin", that means they're losing money because of me.
> weren't contributing anything meaningfully positive to the city to begin with

Only money
Your comment implicitly asserts the faulty premise that downside is purely loss of income, which I implicitly contradicted.
Digital clothing for my avatar sounds about as useless as an NFT for a picture of an ape that I could just right-click and save.
Which in the presence of a police officer intent on arresting you is a pretty a sure fire way to have bullets introduced into your body against your will.
Sukhoi's Jumbo Jet (KR-860 which never happened)
While it indeed has high static pressure, I believe the catch is that absolute amount of air (and hence power) moved is miniscule. It consumes 2 watts to move 10.
Plenty of things I'm sure. It seems quite cyclical in that the old products get weighed down by features and stuck, then new ones come along that are slimmer faster and that allows them to explore new ways of working. Its much harder to update the older products.

Example: When Jira was the new kid it was all snazzy and sleek and interesting. Over the last few years a lot of alternatives have appeared. Although Atlassian has made some changes, they can't just bring in what makes those products different unless they write a whole new product, and large companies can't make new products.

Currently I think we're at or just past a high point. The current lineup of Jira alternatives will probably wittle down, the best ones will get bought, made part of some enterprise lineup, that way of working becomes a standard, they'll get big and bloated and unable to innovate. The cycle will get to a low point and then we'll see another explosion of alternatives.

And that's just one niche.
At small scale, you can meet up with someone at the coffee shop, you transfer the USDT, he hands you USD bills (this has been a real thing for a while). At large scale you can have large distributors that buy your USDT at an agreed price, and then sell it on either to other large companies or to a distribution network to the people who will at some point buy stuff from you for USDT.

In the end it's a circular economy in a way, for anyone cashing out USDT there is someone cashing in (assuming the price stays constant). Right now we match them up with marketplaces and SWIFT transfers, but people running around with suitcases of cash would work just as well.
Many startups that launched in the last several years did not have a proper business model, were not profitable and were reliant on VC money. It was all about growing quickly enough to get to IPO to give early investors liquidity and dump the liability on general public (like Uber).

As free/cheap money goes away it should force entrepreneurs to build real businesses rather than VC fueled money pits.
I literally bought a 14 year old Corolla yesterday. This article helps counteract the "why didn't my car get written off 4 years ago when they were cheap?" voice that's been running through my head the last week or so.
Having once studied just enough algebraic geometry to appreciate the true excellence of Mumford’s work in the field I’ve wondered before if I should study his Pattern Theory book [0] to mine it for insights that the ML community may have missed as a whole. I'd forgotten about that though.

Has anyone here worked through it? It seems like much of it is rooted in methods that have kind of fallen by the wayside due to the incredible success of modern techniques. I’d also be very interested to know David Mumford’s thoughts on modern deep learning and how he thinks it fits into his pattern theory framework. It looks like he goes into this to some extent in a 2019 blog post on whether AI can achieve consciousness [1] and another on the convergence between ML methods and the human brain [2].

[0] https://www.routledge.com/Pattern-Theory-The-Stochastic-Anal...

[1] https://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/blog/2019/conscious...

[2] https://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/blog/2020/Astonishi...
Ironically, many cars from the 2013-2018 era are safer than modern cars, at least in terms of things like collision avoidance systems due to their usage of radar-based systems rather than optical or optical + AI systems.

Old teslas with parking sensors are safer than the newer ones where they were removed.

Age is not always indicative of technological safety.
Wow. He basically exoects ua to buy virtual clothes? Whats next? A digital washing machine to wash the digital clothes?

And, whats with the amping up of avatars? It basically becomes a game like WoW.

And, why would anyone want to be in the metaverse, when a conference call suits well enough for most work?

What does having a virtual and augmented world bring to the table actually?
> The likely aggressors would lose access to chips to fuel their economies

Economic arguments for war being irrational and therefore unlikely have a history of falling flat on their face. Most infamously, this claim was made about major wars in Europe right before the First World War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion
You're right, but I naturally hesitated to move there because I play chess a lot.
This would be great for generating avatars from usernames, very cool.
tl;dr? PG liked Sam.

When Sam took over YC, it was already well established. He's done little to improve that reputation. As head of YC he secured personal deal flow, made connections, and ended up at OpenAI through those opportunities. What were his qualifications for taking over YC? PG liked him. Why did PG like him so much? Who knows. It wasn't Sam's accomplishments or experience, that's for sure.

Apparently this fondness for Sam was established "3 minutes" after meeting him. When I'm doing interviews and hiring, and the same feeling happens to me? I step back to examine by own bias. For PG? It was just that instant pattern recognition baby. Why question it.
While I get your point, the driving environment has changed. The weight of the average vehicle model has gone up something like 700lbs in the last 20 years, not to mention that the vehicles actually sold have transitioned to heavier and more powerful trucks and SUVs.
Maybe, or _exit().
So, why not the coin?
What seems to be working then? Does Aramco making absurd amount of money means anything?
Nissan is pure garbage compared to Honda
Wrong document. URL is off-by-one. Change 49 to 48. Please see:

https://ia801508.us.archive.org/25/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.5...

Apologies for the inadvertence. Since cannot change URL or delete and resubmit, I changed the title to reflect the document.
Fun fact. The military started using AR at the start of the Iraq invasion. Product was essentially Google Glass with facial recognition against a static/ local dataset (stored on device), but in 2004 - for identifying wanted suspects at checkpoints.

Was produced by a company called Osterhout Design Group. Ralph Osterhout also had the distinction of creating the PVS-7 Night Vision goggles in 3 months - still used to this day.

Ralph was a pioneer in waveguide technology that went into ODG's AR glasses. The display tech from the Hololens? Licensed from ODG. Time is a flat circle I suppose.
There was Google Glass but it got laughed out of town for being made for dorks. Seemed like perfectly good tech.
I wonder why

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/04/18/s...
Google Fuchsia OS team affected by layoffs
I don’t see this as any different to traditional office politics and the self serving “dark triad” personalities you come across. The key component of Machiavellianism is using whatever means you have. That could be in-group status OR out-group status, the result is the same.

The label of “professional diversity hire” is harmful to those in the majority group you identified who aren’t playing that game. So just call it for what it is rather than enabling discrimination with a dog whistle.
Awake launches easiest eFoil ever as beginner-friendly flying electric surfboard
The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits (1970)[pdf]
Prefect, dagster, or maybe one could argue google cloud composer is different enough from vanilla airflow that it earns a spot on this list?

But you're right, Airflow is still the de facto standard, there's just increasing awareness of pain points with it.
http://www.paulgraham.com/5founders.html?viewfullsite=1

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-ma...

and most importantly, from http://www.paulgraham.com/fundraising.html

'At YC we spend a lot of time trying to predict how the startups we've funded will do, because we're trying to learn how to pick winners. We've now watched the trajectories of so many startups that we're getting better at predicting them. And when we're talking about startups we think are likely to succeed, what we find ourselves saying is things like "Oh, those guys can take care of themselves. They'll be fine." Not "those guys are really smart" or "those guys are working on a great idea." [6] When we predict good outcomes for startups, the qualities that come up in the supporting arguments are toughness, adaptability, determination. Which means to the extent we're correct, those are the qualities you need to win.
'Investors know this, at least unconsciously. The reason they like it when you don't need them is not simply that they like what they can't have, but because that quality is what makes founders succeed.
'Sam Altman has it. You could parachute him into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king. If you're Sam Altman, you don't have to be profitable to convey to investors that you'll succeed with or without them. (He wasn't, and he did.) Not everyone has Sam's deal-making ability. I myself don't. But if you don't, you can let the numbers speak for you.'

He is also from early batch of YC who co-incidently were very intimately connected with PG.

someone above said zuck was pretty much "luck" which I dont think is true. Even though you might hate him for a lot of things, he is pretty darn smart.

edit add "luck"
That's because it's not a widely accepted term by any measure. I am all for Taiwan and its liberties, however, I cringe whenever I see journalists have made up a new term like "silicon shield" and expect people to adopt it.
One example. It is my personal belief is that social media is ripe for disruption in ways we have not imagined yet. Clearly centralized, ad-revenue driven psuedo-monopolies are a big problem. I actually believe there is a parallel problem with software engineering that has focused on larger piles of cloud-hosted complexity that has far outstripped the ability of anyone to hold it in their head. These two things are, I believe, deeply intertwined and so the solution will be at both levels too. Of course, I'm not the only one who sees an opportunity here. I love seeing all the ideas in this space; most of them won't work, of course, but that's the nature of experimentation.
Well the solution certainly doesn’t involve the government considering a century of destructive policies
The weirdest thing about Albedo is that their header image was taken with a commercially-available drone, at least according to the file name: https://assets.website-files.com/5fd162c9db04e672a0b0e2b7/60...

You think you'd at least be proud enough of your stuff to have it as a header image.
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/p_=0&q=author%3A%22Bern...

This guy has a lot of interesting stuff published
Most of these generated poems are quite bad. But once in a while the AI comes up with a brilliant short poem.

--edit, likely not AI. A bipedal wrote this.
What baffles me is how these networks flourish so easily yet Google can't tell a real business from a fake. The number of people calling me lately (I'm in the same business) about the Business Profile being removed by Google. Even active retail shops that have had their account for many years, with a clearly visibly business on Google maps. Their GBP simply vanishes and in a few cases, the only solution was to simply start over with a new profile.
> It's quite interesting that they also attacked a substation that looked important on a map, but wasn't actually vital.

Probably because they were looking at the same public data that was shown in the video.
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That covers any riot, and a large proportion of protests. If someone throws paint at an artwork, is that terrorism too?

Terrorism is so overused it has lost pretty much any meaning. Being called a terrorist just means you’ve annoyed someone in authority.
There's an interesting experimental project for a Rust REPL and notebook interface at https://github.com/google/evcxr . Other things, e.g. semi-officially endorsed collections of community crates with no strong backward compatibility guarantees, have seen some development already.

> but then they're going to hit the large legacy of existing code and wonder why you taught them something that not related to what they're going to use.

OTOH other languages should be easier to learn by reference to a comparatively elegant language like Rust. Python, Fortran, C++ etc. have almost nothing in common but Rust could arguably be a good introductory baseline that shares features with all of these.
Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A (2018)
Eh... Don't seem to be able to register if you're outside Germany, and you can't see price or complete purchase without registration (at least as far as I can tell - it's possible I'm missing something).
Thanks. I do get that there's places that don't outlaw corporal punishment.

Where I am lost is that more general rules do not seem to apply. Adults cannot beat eachother without consent or ending up in criminal court. Teachers may be employed by the government, but I doubt they have the privileges of law enforcement. Rules of the schools are not even law (?!), probably closer to terms of service, which would make violations a matter of a civil court? Maybe because attending school isn't compulsory, attending voluntarily implies consent?
Amoralistic? Autocrats? Not knowing your age, I’ll not assume it, but you do know that the Fed precipitated the dot com bubble?
Kind reminder that you probably want to use the hidepid argument to prevent any sensitive data leaking through environment or command line arguments in a production server. (Things like API keys, passwords, and so on). It is a typical bad assumption that the only thing that can read my command line is my process and the only my process children can read my env variables.
Cosmic rays make things fun.
Which anchors team?
>At large enough companies the aggregate ratios give a rough picture.

Could we apply this to entire fields? Does the fact that nursing is 84% female roughly indicate discrimination against men in the profession?
ah come on! beyond my ignorance of: they are actually reading my files if i only using their account without OneDrive; typing to Microsoft fuck-off just because they want the user update of their last office software?
can you use LibreOffice instead!?

you sound like linus ranting about the lack of open design in the GPU market ^-^
Apple also spent money on cars too. They likely could have spent billions judging by their tell-tale hiring ads over the past decade. What they are good at is huge amount of cash to operate very clandestinely (just park other RnD in their guidance) and they rarely tell stockholders what they doing other than the mundane usual iPhone, iPad, Foxconn, MacOS news. Meta, Google and Alphabet do things very publicly whether they intentionally seek publicity or unintentionally leaked out (like their near santient AI - they must have it with firing of so many concerned scientists there - only 2 prominent one make it to news, there are others....and didnt released it with OpenGPT beating them)
A base Toyota Corolla goes for $21,500. No, it's not a flashy car, but it is well built, relatively easy to repair and should last a while.

Yes, the average car is far more expensive, but if you are looking to optimize for cost and just need something to get from A to B (which is what the article seems to assume), then a Corolla is a perfectly good vehicle.
Correct - we are debating the merits and demerits of Tornado Cash for society. My position is it’s helpful and all negatives already have laws that solve them.

Furthermore once the software is no longer gray, it could be embedded via API in many other entities to enable privacy, just as encryption was once taboo and now is everywhere. It’s only the gray nature of this privacy solution that prevents its normalization.
They were funded by public money...
I actually strongly disagree -- the amount of business potential for software that isn't trying to becoming a billion-dollar unicorn is massive, and has been extremely underserved during the past decade as most of the money (and talent) chased after the billion dollar moonshot bets, either in B2C businesses or very generic B2B software (think Atlassian).

It's harder to find the business potential because the opportunities are much more closely coupled to optimizing specific processes in specific industries. But if you can find the right niche, the business opportunities are there.
I don’t think Google Glass provides any augmented reality functionality? It’s just a mobile head-up display. You need a lot more processing power (and clunkier hardware) to be able to do augmented reality
The Nacirema have a deep and complex ritualistic culture.
Something like Pocket's explore page?

https://getpocket.com/explore
That brought back some good memories! My dad and I enjoyed playing the TI 99/4 variant quite a bit, though that version is more of a graphical game than a text adventure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkWJMU16GrU