skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The data was a huge amount of complete url history and quite a lot of feature engineering goes into developing the features. Mix of Gaussian processes, random forests, GDBT, and a lot of hand coded stuff using regexes and state machines. To get the embedding the features were fed into a multi layered RBM auto encoder. Despite quick initial success of the embedding I was unable to evangelize deep learning to the org and left out of frustration. Andrew Ng, before he was famous, visited us to evangelize deep learning and my colleagues just berated him with their views about how much better Bayesian is, it was embarrassing.
Usually when game or movie publishers do this kind of crap, everybody slaps the year onto the title anyway. "Prey (2017)", "Dune (2021)", etc.
It blows my mind how anybody who bought this couldn't see that it was a device to sell amazon products.. still, yeah, perhaps it could have had a better balance to both be useful and both sell stuff..
No. I frequently undelete or unsend. Others do too. Removing the Windows Recycle Bin or its equivalent would not make my life better by "giving me agency".
Things like shopping on Alexa are downstream of Amazon’s quality/counterfeit problems. I can never say something like “Alexa, buy triple A batteries” because I can’t be confident of receiving authentic product at a fair price.
I never saw any use for voice assistants for most of the population. Yes, there are a few tasks in the kitchen that can be automated like setting a timer but that didn’t need the huge server side infrastructure they built out. Just the NLP to translate text and extract the timer info would have sufficed.

However, I have a feeling they will do better in the future with the conversational AI like GPT coming up. They could integrate it in the backend and provide more answers. I still don’t think if it will be monetizable though.
Such a shame, I was very excited for this game and though hated it I did enjoy the graphic style, it looked great. (What a palava with the "online" simulation that was found out to be faked)

Cities Skylines really put a nail in the coffin of SimCity for me, the huge playable area, no faux online requirement, realistic cim routines and the amazing mod support (I've only used the steam workshop)

Now Colossal Order just need to make a sequel with more in depth mechanics akin to some of the mod tools made available (traffic management, I'm looking at you), also I don't know much about the Unity Engine but making the sequel more efficient on multicore CPU's is a must.
> The main problem was that the actual simulation was being done on the servers

That was bullcrap. Soon after launch a crack showed up that made the game playable without a server connection, for the features that didn't actually need a server connection. EA just lied.

Not to mention that they made an official patch available 1 year after launch that enabled a proper offline mode :)

https://www.eurogamer.net/simcity-can-now-be-played-offline

As for this interview, I guess mr lead designer isn't allowed to be honest by his contract.
When people talk about essential oils in contexts like these, they're most likely referring to some people having the belief that they have medicinal properties; can cure autism etc.
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It's on my bucket list since, but I was afraid of falling down the rabbit hole, same as Anno, Civilisation and other cool games.

I'm so glad City Skyline had such a success, because I feel that other Paradox Interactive games wouldn't have existed otherwise.

As an avid player of Stellaris, and as someone eyeing the Crusader Kings series or Europa Universalis, I'm feel that Paradox games have DLCs done right. They are clearly on the expensive side, but they are contentfull, and feel less shameless than EA counterpart (especially with the Sims who has the same DLCs over and over again).

On a side note, there is also Caesar III (& Pharaoh) on Gog, and it's still a gem.
Glad I didn't buy one. If I had bought one and it did that to me I'd actually sabotage our AWS spend on purpose just to punish Bezos.
To this day I still once in a while hear something using the old Mac floppy drive reading noises to indicate "computer is doing something"
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I have had high callback rates from working with hired, as well as multi year engagement resulting from an offer through hired. These were with companies doing interesting work I would have never known I was a match for otherwise. You also need to do your own due diligence on the company, because hired is structured to take as little time commitment from their recruiters as possible (this is actually a good thing because it forces the companies on the website to be upfront).
I have built a couple of dual stack Kubernetes clusters already and they work much better to be honest.
Most of the problems are solved and especially for node-based-ranges it works really well. Even in ipv6 only mode calico will manage amazingly and so do my OpenWRT routers.

HOWEVER,

My ISP regularly messes up with its ipv6 routing (deutsche Telekom (so as big as it can get for me) and if that's not the problem, the mesh networks on my (current gen) fritz networking equipment (very widely used in de) eats itself and sometimes just routes my traffic to nirvana.

This is especially bad with online gaming services like xbox live, who for the love of themselves don't have a fallback to ipv4 implemented, once ipv6 drops. "i have an ipv6 so I'm gonna use it no matter what".

Therefore I have dual stack vpns hooked up to my office network which connect to the datacenters I am using. My private network is ipv4 and sadly will remain like that for a while.
Quiet is my #1 requirement for dishwashers. I've used Kitchen Aid, Miele, and Bosch and wouldn't buy a noisy one after not hearing these.
Gargron, I know that you are adverse to quote-tweeting, but I have a lot of lefty friends who want to stay on Facebook despite all the privacy concerns because it lets them share memes/news stories with their IRL friends, sometimes adding context, without having to worry about their boss / landlord / XYZ seeing what they're sharing.

I think that the fact Mastodon allows per-post privacy is a great feature, but the lack of private retweets and/or retweets with context (eg quote tweets) does scare some people away from the platform.

I've seen how quote tweets can be abused, but still believe there is some potential good from the feature in Masto. Any thoughts?

(Yes, it would be trivial for a third party frontend to add quote tweets, but because that's trivial I'm not asking about that.)
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Fun fact: recipes are not copyrightable. The text around them can be, but that’s what you’d be stripping out or summarizing.

If you have an amazing recipe you want to keep control of, trade secret is the way. And then it can’t very well be posted to the internet.
First up, Czechia has proper licensing and strict background checks. Maybe not the best choice to compare to the US.

I don't have to take a wild guess around this kind of thing: I'm specifically referring to the gun culture of the US and comparing it to that of Switzerland. There's a different attitude to gun ownership in the two countries, one of which places strong emphasis on responsible ownership and the other which doesn't. That difference has little to do with mess of a healthcare system the US has, nor its poor social safety net (though it's interesting to note that those most obsessed with with getting rid of the safety net and public healthcare correlates with those most obsessed with the US second amendment). Now, what might be interesting to observe is that in Switzerland, rights come with responsibilities, whereas in the US, this attitude is much less prevalent, hence how much more common "rights absolutists" are there.

Personally, I have no issue with people having guns. What I do have a problem with is people who fail to recognise that exercising their right to have those guns comes with a responsibility to the wider community.
The only thing I’m focused on is: are companies with an in office working environment at a competitive advantage to those that are not.

I don’t care about the other stuff, imo it’s not relevant (putting aside I don’t really agree with your characterization). That said, I also think some of the issues are not so minor (remote is a lot harder for junior people starting out in their career).
I keep trying, but the result quality continues to degrade. Most such searches either return nothing, one or two links, or a host of spam. Google is useless except for business phone numbers and hours they are open.
Increased number of available IP addresses, improved security features, simplified network management, reduced network complexity, and support for new technologies. IPv6 also provides significant performance benefits for mobile networks, IoT devices, and cloud services. The adoption of IPv6 will lead to cost savings, improved network performance, and increased scalability.
I think it's easier to take a traffic source and build a product around that, than to build a product and then find traffic.

An idea for a traffic source is a gimmick. i.e. something you build that brings people to your site.

The best example I've seen is https://blockchain.info now called blockchain.com/explorer.

They had a site that gave a web based view of bitcoin addresses, balances and transactions.

This gained a huge amount of traffic in the early days of Crypto (2012).

Then the rest of the products, i.e. wallet and exchanges came later and sit on top of that traffic.

So my advice to myself. Traffic first, then build a product.

If the product fails at least you learned something and still have the traffic.
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It's not so much that the advantages of IPv6 are all that compelling. Rather, it's more that the mechanisms put in place to deal with a nearly-exhausted IPv4 pool (NAT, and CGNAT in particular, etc.) are not great, and any opportunity to negate the need for them ought to be pursued.
Yeah there does appear to be bias in their sample since Ruby on Rails was their most in-demand skill. Not to knock it or anything, but it hardly seems like the number one skill industry wide.
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You should add your Matrix to your contact page.

Edit: Also, is there going to be another der* release this year? They and therefore you have taught me more than I'd learned in the last five years otherwise.
>cannot be reached from the internet directly

Stateful firewall that allows outgoing connections and blocks incoming (or maybe blocks both)

In general, you probably don't want to allow unsolicited incoming connections to any devices, regardless of IoT.
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Absolutely. This government has done heinous acts against its own people before, and has supported other governments doing the same (Syria).
OpenTTD supports singleplayer, being forced into multiplayer was the problem.
Re forgetting: we should be careful not to anthropomorphize ChatGPT.

In principle, ChatGPT cannot forget. It is trained on data and this training will stay as long as it didn't get deleted or destroyed. In other words, in all cases of someone having made ChatGPT tell something, it should be possible to repeat this. Perhaps in some case it will be effectively impossible for some rare combination of prompt and random seed, so one could say, ChatGPT forgot something. But this is not the same as people forgetting something.

Or during the training something was not considered important, but this is not forgetting, this is ignoring.
That's probably an US-centric comment. I have no idea what it is either, but the "one party that done X" line is a strong signal of it.
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> My main uses cases are: grocery lists, listening to music, setting timers, viewing recipes, making meal related announcements to the house.

The interesting thing is that with the new Whisper models these things can be done with minimal internet or no internet at all. I would pay good money for an offline only home assistant. Maybe it could receive updates if I specifically asked for them.
I would think they apply their normal algorithms.

If it's a good article that's upvoted a lot, it should also be linked in some places and thus get a higher search score.
I don't know if Google Search is dying. What I do know:

1) In March 2023, I am relying less and less on Google Search. When I do, it is for extremely targeted search queries where I am battling Google's matching criteria to find something that I know exists. This almost always requires creative use of quotation marks and applying suffixes to the end of queries.

2) I am relying more on ChatGPT for a lot of queries. Is it perfect? Hell no. Does it give me wrong information sometimes? Hell yes. But even with that, the answers and solutions given are so much better than trawling through Google search results and trying to separate the wheat from the chaff.

3) I was having a conversation with a family member yesterday. I wanted to direct her to a page on a local government website. I instructed her to Google it. After the phone call I realized that she was likely to search Google for this page and be completely unable to find it, so I just manually sent her the link the page.

4) When I ditched Lycos and Excite and Altavista for Google over 20 years ago it was because of it's simplicity and accuracy. It was because when they decided to start displaying ads, the ads were clearly and transparently demarcated as ads so that no one was confused about what they were looking at. Today, the ads are very clearly intended to blend in with everything else, the simplicity is gone, and the accuracy is no longer there either.

I do think Google has lost its way. And I do think there is a massive market opportunity for someone to develop a "search engine for 2023" that nicely blends what is available to us through LLMs and what is available to us through reputable, clean web sources on the WWW so that someone in search of information can simply find what they are looking for.
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1) That's a whack-a-mole exercise when the astrorufer buys accounts in bulk.

2) You can tune these systems to be indistinguishable from a flesh and blood product fanboy at first glance. Not all spammers drop the same comments mentioning their product everywhere. You can dilute it with meaningless AI generated banter so the mod has to scroll through a couple pages and connect the dots before deciding whether you're a bot or just an idiot who happens to like some product.
Suggesting the Americas were some communal relic of Ice Age cultures before European arrival is laughably wrong. As far north as modern St Louis, the Mississippian city of Cahokia was larger than contemporaneous London 1,000 years before contact. You then have the Mayan, Incan, and Aztec Empires that were highly stratified civilizations featuring warfare, state religion, slavery, and pyramid building.

This misperception exists largely because most of the population was wiped out by introduced disease long before European colonization happened in earnest in most areas. (Read 1491 by Charles Mann.)
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Yeah you can google it, it's a real program that Alexa will notify you of sometimes (if you're in a participating region), just like the other ads, sorry, "reminders" it serves.
Here is the same comments ordered by time rather than score: https://ditzes.com/item/35040763 (you can also go directly to https://ditzes.com/item/35040763#item-35041285 and scroll upwards, every comment above that one was made before it)

You can clearly see that there are mentions about Musk before Vermeulen made their comment.

(also, you can hover the "N minutes/hours ago" and see the timestamp on HN too, which again will show you which chronological order things were posted in)
That's a very judgmental reply that also misrepresent my comment.

I don't work at Google, so I cannot speak for them. My company does have studies and experiments around interviewing, but again, the metric they use for success is "inclined rate" e.g. doing ABC leads to x% increase in inclined rate. I haven't seen any study linking interview outcomes with on the job performance e.g. yearly performance rating or promotions. In fact many people have requested this data over the years.

> If you haven't seen any data then you just have a set of anecdotes, so your position is very weak. I have seen the data, but a person like you who is convinced it work wont believe me of course.

This comment seems quite rude, and again, it misrepresents my position. I didn't say LC style interviews don't work, I'm saying that I don't know, because I have seen no data to prove that they work better or worse than other alternatives.

Also the landscape has change, and what might have worked 5 or 10 years might not anymore. Tech interviewing has "professionalized" in a Goodhart's Law-esque fashion. People have become very dedicated to game the process, which might affect the quality of the outcomes. But just to be clear again, I want to see evidence one way or another.
I know what gaslighting is, and I am using the term correctly. When I tell people Google Search is not just bad, it is overt manipulation of your search to waste one's time sifting through prose nonsense because Google promote prose over facts, they often don't just disagree, they overtly over time try to change my mind, they can't let it lie, they have to change my thinking. And they use shallow, obvious insulting language, as they is all they know. It is the duration of time they spend on this mind changing aggression. That's gaslighting
Yes, exactly. No offense, but the replies from other folks read like replies from people who don't have any real experience with bullies.
This isn't central to the point you're making, but I would place design pattern knowledge squarely in the realm of software engineering and not computer science.
The fediverse has the opportunity and benefit of rebuilding social media from lessons learned of the social media platforms. They can replicate and improve the features that served users and communities and ditch those that only benefited platform operators, commercial advertisers, and state censors.
Why would geothermal vents be a source of life after the species has evolved reproduction?
I've run dual stack at home and at work for years and have had no issues. You might have issues if you have really old junk that's just broken.
But it came out 3 years after BP's Deepwater Horizon spill.
You'd probably do it in the same way you'd do it with NAT, by using a stateful firewall blocking inbound connections (it's just that you get this for "free" with NAT)
I still think IPv6 can be safely ignored.

This articles section "here are some reasons you should start using IPv6 within your own network" seems to comfirm this. None of the 6 "reasons" speak to me.
You can configure your local ipv6 net without SLAAC (Stateless Address Autoconfiguration).

Or differently put, you don't need to use the net your isp provides everywhere, ipv6 can still use NAT if you want it to: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/ipv6/ipv6.nat6
I have never used anything but google, duckduckgo and startpage. I always end up coming back to google because the results are not as good.

Well startpage has the same results as google, but i stopped using it for reasons I forgot.

What made you chose Kagi?
I had two Echo Dots 2017/2018. I needed them to do two things: dimm/switch my lights in kitchen and living room and play music.

The light thing worked 80% of the time, I'd say.

The music thing never worked. I mainly listen to tango/vals/milonga from the 1930's to 1950's.

Spotify has all of that stuff but Alexa is unable to find it.

E.g. saying: "Play tango from D'Arienzo on Spotify" would yield Alexa playing some latin music, usually from the last 20 years. On Spotify. I mean it got that part right ...

I never once managed to get it to play tango. After the light thing didn't improve notably over the course of those two years I sold the Dots end of 2018.
IMO the ultimate feature of Alexa is setting timers… but I feel like you could do this with a $10 device without internet connection… hell, it might have better voice recognition if it only needed to understand a few commands for setting the timers.
CS has never captured the "soul" of a city though. Your city doesn't feel alive at all.

But it's a great city building simulator.
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I think the regression is the natural evolution of these kind of tools.

At first the range of acceptable command is pretty small and once we find some that work well we start to rely on them. But I´d suspect we´re not using the optimal incatations or pronounciations for those, and they work because there is no competing commands for the recognized sounds/words.

But as the repertory grows, fuzzy orders will be harder to reliably map to the same commands every time, and the more the voice assistant needs precise and spot on instructions.

At least that´s my mental image of why ours results are degrading over time. Interestingly on the Google side, ours got less sensitive over time, with fewer random activations but it also became harder to trigger it.
Google had a problem, it couldn’t think outside of the search box. They had so much technology but they tried to fit everything behind that search box. Now they are scrambling to figure out a plan to counter chat gpt, which truly poses a threat to them. It may not pose a threat right away but the writing is on the wall. Of course it doesn’t mean google is dying. It will be a trillion dollar company for years to come and they will plenty time to figure it out.
Yeah I found the same on Hyperoptic in London. Works fine 99.9% of the time, but occasionally ipv6 drops until I restart the router/restart the WAN connection. Which of course I barely ever notice because most stuff switches back to ipv4.

I think unless we start seeing ipv6-only stuff this will be the case, there's really no incentive for a lot of testing/debugging on at least consumer ipv6 connections until stuff actually breaks.

Would be cool if Google added a 'ipv4' warning to Chrome similar to how they do with HTTPS (maybe not as strong though). That would drive a lot of adoption.
Well, originally others were.

Then somebody did it in Rust, where it's faster.

There's still a tradeoff: not as dynamic.

/s
$60k/year savings for a junior dev? Maybe FAANG, but not anywhere else.