skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP but I view happiness as nominal because I get more done when I’m happy, I find it easier to take small failures in stride, I resonate more with other people and I just get more satisfaction out of life. If I’m feeling down then pretty much the opposite is true.

I don’t really feel like my emotions are representation if my mental state since they are a part of it as well as an influence on the more rational side. They also don’t correspond perfectly to the outside world, I can be cheerful even when things are objectively bad which lets me celebrate the small good things I can find in those situations. I can also feel terrible when things are going great sometimes but maybe that’s because I really should be doing something different.
Can someone explain what the rationale is behind this move by google? Theoretically people working at google are fairly smart. But they are forcing a switch to a product that is an order of magnitude worse.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they lose over 50% of GA users with this. Why? Why is it good for google? I don’t get it.
https://archive.ph/ohccH
I was just using Google maps yesterday to find a restaurant I knew was there. But it wasn't showing up on the map. Then I noticed it was omitting about half the restaurants in the area. The place I was looking for finally showed up when I zoomed almost all the way into it, and then clicked "search this area." I don't know why they are leaving out so many search results on maps these days.

Just a few weeks ago, I was on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Looking for a weed shop. The only ones it would show me were miles away, and I knew there were multiple near me within walking distance. It literally gave me 2 weed shops on the map across the entire city. None anywhere near by.

Their map search has started to really suck balls too.
Yes, in the early days of the pandemic there was a lot of official resistance to acknowledging this, mostly because doing so would have meant accepting that COVID was effectively unstoppable.
Astute observation.
How much electricity does one need in San Diego?

Temperature highs are 19-25C year round and winter lows are around 10C.

Barely need heating or cooling, just need to bump up the indoor average by a few degrees and that seems to be it.

Other big loads would be a fridge and hot water, but those are getting pretty efficient.
IANAL but also there is a specific list of classes (categories) that have to be selected from when seeking to register a trademark, design mark etc and afaik protection then applies only within those categories.

In this case they have applied for Nice classes 9 and 42.

I'm not sure, but also seem to recall that protection within those classes would be further limited to the scope of what they covered in the description they provided for each class during application.

Anyways, point it is that it's in any event really hard to see how having a fairly nondescript domain name with a blank web page could ever be construed as purveying anything in either Nice class 9 or 42.

(Eg, for all we know, such domain name might be referring to some new kind of industrial oil or lubricant, which would be Nice class 4...)

It's also useful to consider that there are contexts where the law can negate the validity of a trademark based on the registrant's lack of actively "practicing" it (including during the period between application and it being granted), or protecting it. So there's an inherent incentive for companies to be a bit "trigger happy" in staking their claim to "practicing" the band as well as acting to protect it. Although it does seem very preemptive in this case.
Dashcam (called a black box in Korea) is very common in Korea. According to 2021 statistics, it is installed in more than 80% of vehicles. There are plenty of products on the market for less than $200, and some people are already using their phones as DashCams, so Google's response probably won't resonate much.
I also looked up the statistics of other countries, and European countries showed a penetration rate of around 10%, and the United States showed a penetration rate of around 30%. So I can understand why many people at HN question the value of Dashcam.
HN isn't a good place for discussion and technical exchange regarding proven technologies. To the extent that you or I are working productively with proven technologies, then we probably won't find HN as engaging.
Yes, he is the best person to discuss such requests.
Depending how many siblings one has, it may be a matter of pay now or pay later.
...then we would have a case of environmental terrorism.

Terrorists like Gary Maynard, Alexandra Souverneva, Viola Liu...

800 wildfires in California in 2022 were arsons.
Could be that, but it feels like it weights search-term-proximity higher, and/or tracks more dimensions related to word-connectedness. Like, DDG is more likely to find me a page with all the words but with them scattered about, while Google will get more hits where the words are closer to one another, which is often better specifically for technical searches. Quoting rarely seems to help much, in either case.

[EDIT] Another poster mentioned searches for "X reddit" seeming to have a very-small cap on the number of results from Reddit that it'll display, and that might be part of my problem with SO results, too: maybe their algo prefers to avoid having too many results from one source, which is bad if you expect or want most results to be from one source. That would explain why Google sometimes finds me results with the exact language of my search, that were absent from DDG's listings—maybe it found them, but they got filtered out by a max-from-one-source preference.
The economics moving is very different when your current mortgage rate is half what a new one would be.
Politics is about how you think things should be run. Science is about what we have evidence for. They are not the same thing.
New Relic in Talks to Be Sold
I don't get the concept at all.

Earth's atmosphere didn't "become breathable".

Rather, species evolved to survive within whatever the environment was at the time and also had an effect on the atmosphere itself, thereby killing other species in a very complicated dance.

The whole notion implied by the title is wrong.
PROLOG for Programmers
screencast: https://youtu.be/KSRfsq_u1lc
ORG file used in screencast, README.org: https://github.com/guitarvydas/thinkingProlog
Ask HN: How should I prepare for AI taking over my job?
Since AI in the coming future will make some jobs obsolete. How should a recent grad prepare for that and what path(as in what specific skills in CS) should they follow to make sure their jobs wont be replaced.
Bruce Sterling on the Art of Text-to-Image Generative AI
One thing I often see, I guess similar to game industry, the "cooler" the job the crappier the salary. E.g. automotive or avionics software gets written in Italy or Spain, paying (annual) 38K Euros to senior devs. Roller-coaster control software company in Argentina paying even less. I also often see such engineers moving into CRUD/PHP/JS for a much better pay.
It has always been breathable, it just changed for who.
> the money has to come from somewhere.

I mean, they do have billions in profits so...
Why Is the Academic Job Market So Weird?
New Android and Google Device Vulnerability Reward Program Initiatives
As an employee, I face exactly the same risks - psycho boss, unproductive team members, stupid leadership, fraudulent CFO, company about to die, market crash... a lot of these are impossible to know before starting the job.

The difference is, of course, the company can afford the risk. The have hundreds/thousands of employees. You have one job.
Do we really need a search engine that censors incorrectly when we really need facts?
All regular search results are still just Bing. Their own crawlers are only used for widgets and instant answers.
I much preferred Gloom, the Quake 2 mod. Apparently, some servers are still alive: http://www.planetgloom.com/servers.cgi

Here is a quick comparison of NS, Gloom, Tremulous and Unvanquished.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ns2/comments/4bsws2/the_ultimate_co...
Ask HN: How to Filter HN for “Ask HN”?
(It is not a joke !)
I would like to list "Ask HN" topics: all questions asked on HN - is there any way I can do that ?
I know I can click https://news.ycombinator.com/ask but it displays only topics from the last couple of days (not sorted !). Anything I can do to get to the olders questions ?
You don't remember health authorities telling people masks don't work, and to wipe your groceries down? I do.
I sure hope they include some of the more niche stuff like their joysticks, as they are wonderful products mired in abysmal QA. So many flight simmers have a HOTAS from logitech with one or many dead switches or pots.
It depends on the age of the debt and how many agencies it's been through. Medical debt is also much harder to pursue legally if need be, plus everyone hates the guys who sue medical debtors. So I never worked with it.

But I'd guess that direct from the client would be 8%, 1 agency ~1 year old debt would probably cost 5%, 2 agency 2 year old debt probably about 2% and then down to 1% and 75bps after that.

A lot of times you don't turn a profit working zeros. You barely make your money back and then turn a profit reselling it. Small margins but easier to work. Happier employees.
chat history?
One of the greatest of the Golden Age writers with Ted Sturgeon, unlike the insipid and grossly overrated Heinlein.

NESFA Press has excellent omnibus reissues of The Rediscovery of Man and Norstrilia. I just wish they had eBook versions as well like they recently did for Fredric Brown.

I myself first read his work in French translation when I was 12 or so (unlike the US, classics like Cordwainer Smith or Fredric Brown never went out of print in France, thanks to Denoël's excellent Présence du Futur imprint).
You know for any other observer it would not be unreasonable language that you’re just being a casual critic of the quote you pasted.

“Deeply un-empathic” could be seen as a casual ad hominem about the speakers state of mind.

I don’t care or think you’re being that; I get your point without thinking you’re casually critical.

I just don’t think your point is any more interesting or nuanced. It’s very same-y. As if you translated what you read rather than expressed a novel emotional context.
Yeah, all those animals flopping around gasping for air until finally the air became breathable... ;-)
What the F#: A Collection of Surprising Behavior by Programming Language
I'd love to have more examples to add!
The commercialization of this treatment is being handled by https://www.magnusmed.com/. Some existing TMS treatment centers claim to be performing the SAINT protocol right now, but the researchers have never fully revealed the treatment plan (using fMRI, algorithm for targeting) and so the claims can't be substantiated as being exactly SAINT.

I'm pretty desperate to get onto a trial. Here's hoping that this gets FDA approval ASAP.
You know what’s crazy about the internet? Somewhere out there right now, is a niche community of computer geeks, discussing incredibly fascinating topics and having thoughtful discussions, exchanging powerful ideas, and you have never heard of them and don’t even know they exist, and they are just a URL away. You’re missing out.
Not OP and I can’t speak for the entire human population but for me it was changing the relationship I have with myself.

Make a mistake? No big deal it’ll be better next time. Learn from it rather than beat myself up for it.

Hit that red traffic light? Time for self contemplation and putting the heated seats on rather than being pissed off I’m delayed 30 seconds.

Get an email that triggers my threat response? Take a breath and think about who I have around me who can help rather than take it all on myself.

Have a read of learned optimism. Great book.

Get therapy. Hit the gym. Go for walks. Brush your teeth for 2 mins. Moisturise. Show yourself as much self care as you can.
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Please change the search results so that when I search "X + reddit" all of the search results are reddit, not just the first two.
In that case the solution isn't more orchards, it's less cars.
I am a professional musician. I use IMSLP all the time. When I practise I use an iPad to store upcoming projects. A lot of the music we play is available there, so instead of scanning the music manually I just download it from IMSLP, with score and everything.

Together with openstreetmap it is my favourite project of all time.
Try Ted Sturgeon.
Have you considered a life of crime? I hear banking and running venture funds are quite lucrative.
Maybe we should have the .exe TLD to make every URL using it look immediately suspicious.

Sorta like https://verylegit.link but built into the whole TLD.
I think I will be checking out Cloudflare too since I'm unhappy with GA and I am not eager to run my own analytics platform.

... but if I wanted to run my own platform I wonder what other people are using.
Just from a UX perspective, the quality of Google products seems to have tanked in recent years. Android, Sheets and Maps seem like they're still best-in-class. Maybe Gmail is still ok too (I don't know, I don't use it). But almost everything else has started to feel completely unusable to me. Even Google Fi is starting to suck.

Analytics is literally the cornerstone of Google's business model. Did Google just get too complacent at the top?
> option types

Go couldn't have Option before, and it cant have option now. Option is not only generic, but its also an Enum, which Go still doesn't have:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/enum.Option.html

so its not really clear what you mean by this.
What's missing here is networking, getting connected with people who are interested in the things you're interested in. There's also an aspect of calculating whether there's a path to doing what you're interested in full time and getting paid.

My original comment was about not getting swept up in / overwhelmed by hype. Discussing employment was out of the original scope, at least by my intentions.
I don't support that. Stock buybacks are a great thing; they allow companies to return excess cash to investors, helping ensure that capital is allocated efficiency across the whole economy.

Otherwise companies are pressured to spend money just because they happen to have money, even if they don't have anything productive to spend it on. That's not a good thing.
Unions are democratic entities. A subgroup in that union would need to either directly lobby union leadership or convince their peers. This can include running for union leadership positions themselves.

It works just like democracy does at larger scales. I can't just declare my property its own new state with me as governor just because I don't like the political opinions of the state's leadership. I can however leave that state or leave the country entirely just like a person can leave the union. However, there are obvious repercussions for that decision.
I'm very skeptical about debt cancellation because if there was a way to make it into a business, it'd be a business. The people who talk about doing that all lose money as a charity, or they're sovereign citizens who think they found some tax loophole.

The credit bureau thing is funny because again, ethically you should but once you do you open yourself up to a LOT more liability. So most agencies won't unless it's an in-house agency for CapitalOne or something.

You as the consumer should always dispute everything on your credit report every so often.
The ePrivacy Directive does mention cookies in its text, but it says "cookies or similar devices", so it clearly includes localStorage, which the 2002 text predates.

And there was NEVER a requirement for a "cookie banner" in its text. Consent under it can be given in any other way that are not as intrusive, but it was the industry who chose the stupid banner and invasive analytics. Also notice that under both GDPR and ePrivacy Directive, consent is not required for cookies/etc with a legitimate purpose. Examples of those have been given under the ePrivacy Directive from almost the beginning, but more explicitly in the "Opinion 04/2012 on Cookie Consent Exemption" which is from 2012 and predates cookie banners.

[1] Here's an example of asking for consent to store a cookie that doesn't involve a banner: https://www.williamgrant.com . It's in the age-check modal.
What? You seem to think that offshoring/outsourcing => only hiring an external company to do the work. It isnt. Companies have been setting up local subsidiaries in offshoring countries to hire local talent there and offshore the work to their own subsidiaries. It didnt bring down salaries. Neither did contracting out dev work to external companies overseas.
This is really fun. What example surprised you the most?
Same here. I can't debate what the "other side" is thinking if I don't know what it is.

If they want to add a side link to more authoritative sources (like what Spotify does for podcasts discussing Covid), then fine, but don't censor me if I'm actively looking for "disinformation."
Hovering the link to preview its location in the status bar reveals the trick because the browser doesn't see any real slashes. The anchor's href (when inspected) actually does have the full bogus URL, but when hovered we're shown the browser-evaluated URL—which is a TIL.
Maps drives me nuts, the data is truly glorious but I hate the interface
That's the sites itself enabling that, most likely their auth provider has SSO with groogle

https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web/guides/offeri...

Also, you can kinda-disable this per browser

https://myaccount.google.com/security -> "Signing in to other sites"
or replication if you're not erasure coding.

So yeah you need more storage-optimized server racks and all the associated manpower and maintenance, you also need them to be distributed across different datacenters and zones which of course also impacts latency and your ability to provide some appearance of consistency, then you also need the same distribution for stateless services serving the data.

On and on and on and you might be nearly doubling cost to get to an extra 9 that almost all of your customers won't care about.
Show HN: Metatype – an open-source HTTP/GraphQL query engine for APIs/data/WASM
Hey everyone, we built Metatype [0] as a different way to build APIs and backends based on 3 parts:

1. a Python package to build virtual graphs connecting all components of your stack (think databases, third-parties, and existing systems)

2. an HTTP/GraphQL query engine built in Rust/Deno that authorizes and optimizes queries over the graphs

3. a CLI to provide a nice developer experience and fast feedback cycle

We developed this platform to tackle some of the challenges we often saw in tech teams we worked with:

- most developers (especially backend) still spend too much time on tasks with no real added value (crud, data validation, compliance, etc.)

- when growing a product, it is difficult keeping up with business needs and remaining agile/innovative with technology (especially when there is limited funding)

We believe it provides multiple advantages over more traditional approaches:

- it offers multiple runtimes [1] with pre-defined operations (e.g. Prisma) and can replace the needs for an ad-hoc backend

- when the project grows, you can easily introduce new APIs or break existing ones in smaller parts while keeping the same interface

- you can write complex business logic directly in Typescript, Python or WebAssembly and run them directly inside the query engine

- most of the frontend are today built on composable components, this brings a similar approach to backend development

- third-parties APIs can be easily integrated, providing you visibility and control over them

- it is interoperable with existing systems, and can be introduced step by step

- it can be easily self-hosted or customized according to your needs

The project is now in public beta, and is run in production by a few companies. We are looking to collect more feedback and early users to help us improve the platform.

For the tech curious reader, we also had to build a few new open source pieces to make this happen:

- a WASI runtime for Python [2] to run Python code inside WASM inside the engine

- a task runner [3] supporting live reload and managing dependencies as DAGs

- a way to inject secrets [4] from your preferred vaults into the engine

[0]: http://metatype.dev
[1]: https://metatype.dev/docs/reference/runtimes
[2]: https://github.com/metatypedev/python-wasi-reactor
[3]: https://github.com/zifeo/whiz
[4]: https://github.com/zifeo/lade
Deep Learning (South Park)
They're not talking about multitools.

These sort of things are what they mean: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=zombie+knife&iax=images&ia=images
Nonsense. There isn't some super clearly defined line between pro-vaxx and anti-vaxx across the thousands of issues and questions related to covid. Science isn't anti- or pro- anything. Particular beliefs that were labeled "anti-vaxx" were often just not clear or understood yet.

Also, it's not the job of a search engine to be your nanny. What if you are researching conspiracy theories or opposition beliefs, even if you don't believe in them? How would you find them?
You're mostly right, but legitimate interest also require balance. Fingerprinting may be considered to be too intrusive if logs are enough.
Sharp “Memory LCD” is just reflexive LCD with SRAM(?) bits integrated to pixels. Visually more cold in tone than typical displays, somewhat of black chrome on satin. Agreed that calling them “e-paper” is a loose usage of the term as it does require power to hold display content.
No idea about general numbers (our no-js server side logging has FF barely behind chrome) , but while 2 orders of magnitude behind Google, DDG is actually 2nd for us as well (German photography site).

I was pretty happy with DDG for years (switched to Kagi last year), and I think they are great for general usage (I often read about issues with local search, their search for Germany (!ddgde) was always topnotch).
You incorrectly believe your experience is representative of all of the vastly differing experiences of those in the US.

The phenomenon you're commenting on/describing happens often, perhaps is even common. But it is not ubiquitous.
Ridiculous take, travelling the world is cheaper and easier than ever. If you work hard you will likely be able to buy a ticket to visit the moon, something only a few humans have ever done.

Starvation is at an all-time low, you have access to all of human knowledge and the best professors online for free.

The world is great and this is the most exciting time to live.
Early in the pandemic there was a very aggressive "you don't need masks and please don't buy them because hospitals need them"

Ex: "US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams not only wants people to stop buying facemasks to prevent the novel coronavirus, but warns that you actually might increase your risk of infection if facemasks are not worn properly. [...] On Sunday, Adams posted on Twitter that people should stop buying masks. Rather, he tweeted that to keep yourself and those around you healthy, wash your hands often, avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands and disinfect surfaces."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/02/health/surgeon-general-corona...
Redis Statistics Every Developer Should Know
Can an IDE answer followup questions of how those sugaring rules worked, and suggest other alternative formulations if I want part of it to be more explicit?
Might as well ask here: Why does DDG change my search results when I use the Back button, and how can I get it to stop.

When I use DDG if I do a search, click on a link to open it in the same tab, then click back to the search results I notice the results are in a different order. This drives me crazy.