skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use advanced search features say 10 times in 10 minutes or whatever (a reasonable amount when refining a search if you ask me), you're quite liable to be elected to have a trial of endurance against the "prove you are a human" feature, having to solve multiple (my record is 16) consecutive "select all images that contain BLAH" tests.
> In my experience, Q&A is useful because it summarises and consolidates disparate information into a concise response to a prompt (sorry, I mean to a Question!) which is... exactly what a chat AI does

There is knowledge you will never find in documentation. 50% of places where SO has been helpful to me are not "consolidating documentation". They are solutions to obscure bugs, Useful APIs which are not documented with any example, and low-level logic / high-level design solutions.
nice ! thanks for the work
tom7 is a national treasure. Someday I'll have an idea as absurd as this.
Actually, I only realize now, that it is a mistranslation from my mother tongue. What I meant to say is probably better expressed by 'content laundering' analogous to 'money laundering'.
You have to solve a bunch of captchas if your searches are obscure or frequent enough.
I recognise this as well. I write for a living. So I'll do lots of searches to cross check stuff. But if you search to quickly, or to 'weirdly', or whatever you'll have to pick out bridges or zebra's or whatever is the current fashion in Captcha.
I would say containers, and especially docker, turned out to be the best solution for this space. We just need some good non-commercial tools for getting the fancy nobrainer app-managment. Everything existing now is ever commecial or still too complicated for the laymen.
This is not precisely true. It's been shown that image models can reproduce certain works almost exactly (up to very minor differences). It takes some effort to find such pieces but they exist.
While this is definitely getting worse it's still not to the point of ditching Amazon, NewEgg, and the life in favor or ordering direct from the provider (like Crucial/Micron, for example) but it has gotten to where I'm at least putting lead time on orders to have time to return defects/frauds and source parts from elsewhere.
Until a few days ago zigbee green power was not supported in zha/zigpy. It now seems to be merged. I'm not sure if zigpy supports the same amount of devices as zigbee2mqtt

https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy/issues/341
> On the other side, I've also noticed it appears to be aggressively pruning its index in the past few years, so the fact that it's crawled your site doesn't mean it's necessarily searchable either.

I've noticed this as well. I have a crappy website for my app I need to do better marketing for (not my priority just now), but I've noticed that, for however crap it is, I have received ZERO incoming hits from Google, apart from a couple people that have literally just googled my domain name.

I do not believe for a second there's not a single query done in the 2 months the page has been up, globally, for which my website wasn't a bit relevant. Either that, or the spam problem Google has is much bigger than anyone thinks.

Yet another data point in favour of the Dead Internet theory.
The answer has not been yes historically. There's always been way more content on the web than anyone can afford to actually make (interactively) searchable. The capacity of the index is a precious resource, and selecting exactly which pages to spend that resource on was always a key issue in search quality.
Whatever the Russian military is these days, it ain’t a bear anymore.
was the sitemap.xml located in the root of the domain?

https://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=

only works if there is a previous root reference (i.e. via robots.txt or via GSC submit) of the sitemap.xml

right issue, as from the original spec a sitemap can only submit URLs of the same or lower URL hierachy to Google.

or there is a root reference to the sitemap.xml
Yeah. That's a fair question to have. From a design perspective, it seems unmistakably Swedish. And it is built on a Volvo platform (same as the C40 recharge, as I understand it) with a lot of Volvo parts. Its seatbelt buckles even say "Since 1959"--referring to the year Volvo supposedly invented the seatbelt.

On the other hand, they are indeed manufactured in China. And Polestar is a joint venture between Volvo and Geely (Zhejiang Geely Holding Group), a Chinese company. Volvo Cars itself is also also owned by Geely. So China is not just the country of manufacture, if that's something you're concerned about.
(-> x (* 2) (+ 1) (- 3) (% x))

The part that is confusing if you don't know Clojure is (->). This a thread macro, and it passes "x" through a list of functions.

So it basically breaks this down into a list of instructions to do to x. You will multiply it by 2, add 1 to it, take 3 from it, then do the modulus by the original value of x (the value before any of these steps).

Clojurists feel like this looks more readable than the alternative, because you have a list of transformations to read left to right, vs this

(% (- (+ (* x 2) 1) 3) x)

Which is the most unreadable of them all, to me.
Not really. Usenet was circling the drain a long time before Reddit was a gleam in Ohanian's eye.
Ya, if someone is on the street mentally ill, or even abusing drugs as a user, but not doing crime, there is no moral reason to force them into rehab. Frankly, that isn’t really common for the visible homeless in our area (the ones that we notice because they are walking around without a shirt on with a bunch of Amazon packages in their cart, that isn’t counting the homeless we don’t notice because they aren’t doing crazy things). The crime is pretty bad ATM, which is wearing out a lot of empathy, so even Seattle will be back in a tough on crime cycle in an election or two, not that it will do much good.

Criminalization of homeless on the streets is effective in eliminating the problem locally if a more permissive jurisdiction is nearby: eg you can’t lay down on a bench in Bellevue WA without swat coming out to talk to you, and so it’s easier to just go across the lake to Seattle where you can pitch a tent in a public park and maybe the police will get around to evicting you a few months later. No need to fund special buses, people will get to where they can live on their own.

Sending people from expensive places to live to cheap places to live is a good idea in theory, if it were just about affordability. The problem is that they’ve completely mis-identified the crisis, that people came to the rich cities because the rich cities had the tax base (and sympathetic voter base) to support services for them. Rather than talk about shipping people around, however, it might be time to introduce an internal residency system (give up on allowing free movement if we are going to insist on using local resources to solve these problems).
It would be helpful here to have an explanation of how this story fits with the actual increase of immigration since Brexit.
This has always been the case for revenue from recordings.
Websites often went down under load 20 years ago too but people were far more quick to think it was their own connection on the blink.

Yes, sites were much better engineered too, with smaller and less rich and less dynamic payloads, but don't count out a change in expectations along with it.
They even describe how to mark up your paywalled stuff to help them differentiate it from cloaking.[1]

"This structured data helps Google differentiate paywalled content from the practice of cloaking, which violates spam policies."

Which is just odd to me. Why present a paywalled search result, when the market is so fragmented that the odds the user has a subscription are so small?

[1] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structu...
This is kind of interesting to look back on. I checked the group really quick and they shut down the program trying to find a better solution to the n=6 problem in March of this year. The most upvoted post was also a bit optimistic in thinking this problem might be solved in a few weeks. I don't know much about it but I am assuming it has not been solved yet.
I'm surprised this is making news. At such a number it feels almost like a typical/seasonal adjustment you see from big tech already. Probably the only reason this is being reported and on HN is due to the existing environment :-)

That said, their podcasting play has been poorly executed and I imagine they are losing plenty here with no real profit solution in sight.
After all this time if Spotify could have found a way to cut off the middlemen, they would have happily done it. From your own quote, you should be mad at Universal & co, not Spotify.
Not always - take oil as the obvious example where transactions are usually done in dollars regardless of the shipping from / shipping to location.

If you were in England and wanted to buy oil in Uganda for use in a subsidiary in Brazil, you would probably use USD regardless of the fact that USD is not the 'standard' currency of any of the parties.
Spotify has 8k people?
That seems like a lot doesn't it?

What do they all do?
> What leads you to believe that people who do not want to work are desirable to have in the workplace?

Many of them are still better than having nobody and if they have to work to get money they are also somewhat incentivized to at least do the bare minimum.

Counterpoint: Some management handbooks consider both unmotivated and motivated workers problematic. Would you rather deal with a highly motivated moron or a substantially less motivated Einstein?
The Taylor Swift episode on the Acquired podcast actually does a fantastic job of explaining how this works and why artists barely make money on streaming services - as opposed to radio broadcasts for example.
I haven’t been able to estimate that with confidence in a decade; SEO blogspam has seen to that.
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Full report by hired investigative journalist.
If your activity seems automated in some way, Google will give you a captcha and sometimes it'll give you one on every search even after you've completed one captcha. But the reason for this is probably a combination of IP usage (e.g. a VPN IP shared between users), browser anonymity, and how specific you're getting with your search results, and not just the fact that you've done 20 searches today with "site:".
There are a bunch of tradeoffs--cost, cost predictability, control, redundancy, flexibility, etc. Money isn't a magic wand as you say and, honestly, I'm not sure how much extra I would pay in general on the off-chance that a blog post might go viral every 10 years--if that is indeed the tradeoff.
Exactly, laundering was what I meant, I mistranslated from German.
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/22/743775196/the-success-of-stre...

> So none of [the royalty system] makes sense... if a song is played on the radio, 100% of the royalties go to the songwriter. But if the same song is played on a streaming service, only about 20% of the royalties go to the songwriter. Where does that come from?"
Thanks for taking the time to make such an incredible article. Made my day reading it this morning.
A prompt pattern catalog to enhance prompt engineering with ChatGPT
AI-driven JIT
https://thetaplane.com/ai/jit
It's expensive?

Why provide the best product when you only have to have a product slightly better than your competition. After that everything is profit.

Couple that with a huge portion of new sites seem to be bot generated shit that's copied from other places on the internet it seems Google has given up on the open web.
It's not really the country, it's the politics and power that the media/propaganda machine it is aligned with.

If this kind of thing happened in a rural town in a southern state, it would be the same thing. There would be documentaries and opinion pieces and talking heads on television wringing their hands and clutching their pearls.

But because it's in the premiere leftist / globalist city and state with a majority-minority police forced headed by a black chief of police, is sanctioned by unions, and all overseen by the Democrat party, the facts are quietly mumbled over, followed by confidently unfounded assertions about how racist this is is insinuations that white supremacy and/or privilege must be behind it.

See, at this point admitting anything else implies that their entire platform has been built on lies from stem to stern, or at the very least completely unproven and now failed claims. So they have no choice but to keep digging. Zero introspection. None of this can possibly be the result of any of their failures, it must be due to racism. And as we know from their litany of unfounded claims, only they are qualified to address. It's extremely convenient for them. And every year of failed policies that go by, the more they assert without evidence that racism has continued to become worse.
yeah they are one of those weird businesses that provides services in exchange for money. They say it costs them $12.50 to serve 1000 queries and the fee isnt that much more.

There used to be some sample searches on their blog but it looks like those are also paywalled. wonder if that was intentional.
PEP 703: Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional (3.12 Updates)
They didn't. What seems logical doesn't need to be true. Maintaining servers was hard, they decided to not compete on that.

They were trying to minimize any kind of customer support by humans, the number one cost center for any digital company.

Lucky for them that the like of Google and Reddit externalized mail and forum services.
>Add to that the automatic CAPTCHA-hellban you get if you use "site:" in anything more than a tiny amount

Is it more expensive, or do they just wish to prevent people from being able to cache their own results locally?
Bellard is not 10x. More like 100x or even 1000x.
But that is the point, if you use AI to improve what you would answer, that is totally fine, but not that you just copy and paste what it says.

And, I guess they will just realise it is AI generated when someone notices that what is written does not make any sense, but it is still really well written. In any case, very difficult to identify, for sure.
Sorry to be that guy again, but can I have my "Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0" back please? (When the world was still simple and the future was yet in the future).

Some time ago a fellow NH user has proposed an interesting idea to build an ML UI transformer, which will sit on top of the broken MS Windows 2030 OS and transform the UI experience in real-time to the UI of my choice.

Maybe spoof the RDP protocol?
Delusions of grandeur when tech executives have begun to believe, and pursue that their followers develop them a cult of personality and subvert the Democratic process.
That’s not true at all. People work much harder than in the past, especially considering what they get back. 20-30 year olds are the first generation in almost a century that give away half of their waking hours and struggle to get decent housing.

Rates of unionisation are extremely low, strikes are extremely rare (it took a 30% real income loss before junior doctors started striking in the UK), employment rates are the highest throughout the world and unpaid overtime is the norm in almost all careers.
But the traffic is a nightmare (I-270 is the Tenth Circle of Hell).

Like most high-density commute areas, homes close to work are pricey, so people have to live in the boondocks, and commute.

I know people that live in Frederick, and commute to DC.

Of course, Frederick has Ft. Detrick. That's a fun place. I think it was the model for the biolab in The Stand.
>> CAPTCHA-hellban you get if you use "site:" in anything more than a tiny amount

> Please explain this point.

If Google thinks your searches are unusual, it will force you to answer captchas to see the results. They assume anyone using advanced features must be trying to abuse their service.
I had to solve thousands of captchas as part of the yahoo groups archiving project. You only have to choose four of the images, whatever the test is, and it's not really precise, so you can make small mistakes and it still will let you pass.
Show HN: Bash-like ChatGPT prompt history navigation
Moderating based on "is it AI" never made a lot of sense, and SE is correct to pull the plug on it. It's a similar problem to the (possibly apocryphal) story of the national parks trying to design bear-proof trash cans—"There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." Any anti-AI policy will inevitably catch a bunch of people who just aren't great at English, or are still in high school, or any number of other reasons why their prose might sound stilted. There is no function that can reliably separate the two overlapping probability curves, so trying to do so is pointless.

Moderating based on non-constructive comments makes much more sense—if someone posted 30 answers in one hour and none of them answer the question, moderate that. In practice nothing changes, you're still banning people who are abusing AI, but you're doing so based on a concrete quality metric rather than a flawed algorithm plus gut check.

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/810/
Given the web as it is today is infested with clickbait, "native content", clout-chasing, undisclosed sponsorship, and other such pathologies, I'm not convinced that the fear of AI making truth more rare is rational.
Not to excuse the consolidated, monopolistic recording industry, but isn't there some point at which artists are responsible for not signing away their masters?
Callous isolationism and conspiracy theorizing in one post! What are the odds?
The ancestor comments was giving the GBP/USD rate in 2013. At that time the Euro was worth about 1.30. Now it is about 1.05 My claim is therefore that the "collapse" in the value of the pound is actually instead a rise in the value of the dollar.
Usenet didn't fail. People are just dumb and follow trends.
Around the time frame of the beta versions of agent coming out in early 1995, the Windows world really surpassed unix for internet usability. Obviously netscape was netscape but agent vs tin, mirc vs ircii, or eudora vs pine, the windows software getting churned out was peak usability as far as I am concerned.
This comment should just be auto-posted every time there is any mention of employee count on HN. Will save all of us the trouble of beating this horse every time.
It costs money, which is how they can be an actual search engine rather than an ad portal that pretends to be a search engine.

I have seen the future. Crap is free. Endless amounts of crap. Soon all this crap will be AI generated and designed to addict you. If you want anything that is not crap you will have to pay for it.

I'm a huge fan of self-hosted and decentralized stuff but a search engine is an area where I can't think of a way to do such a thing. The bandwidth requirements for continuous spidering and the data storage requirements are too high, and if you tried to distribute it you'd end up with an absurdly chatty protocol that couldn't be used by anyone with anything short of an unmetered full duplex fiber link.

The next best thing is a company that I pay to be a search engine for me and does that without trying to shove ads at me.
> St Gall (or St Gallen) was a town that ran on talk

...and cat and dog meat: https://www.thelocal.ch/20121227/dogs-still-eaten-in-switzer...
The safe thing Rust did here is affordable in Rust (Option<T> is the same size as T for many T including all references) so they could afford to do it, whereas it's expensive in C++. Could it have been made cheaper in C++? Sure, but safety wasn't their priority so who cares?

That prioritisation applies to the whole ISO language, not only to the standard library.
In the early days it’s ok to not worry about the difference between company name & product. But as you develop many products it may make sense to have company & product names be distinct. It depends on product positioning and branding goals. Theres no “best” approach here.
> From your own quote, you should be mad at Universal & co, not Spotify.

The point is that "helped to almost double music industry revenue" from upthread doesn't actually help the folks I want helped; it's a misleading stat.
They're still typically imprisoned in a cage or small room. You wouldn't consider it humane if you were trapped inside your bedroom your whole life against your will, even if you had some regular social interactions with dogs, got fed the same food every day, and someone cleaned your room weekly.
Prediction: this will become a thread where lots of people will confidently handwave about how Spotify does "so much stuff" that "obviously" they need 8000 people, please jump on this bandwagon, but not provide any actual rigor that would justify why 8k is reasonable, 16k is too much, and 4k too little (nor realize that they should be sanity checking the argument that way).
Between direct and representative is participatory democracy. AKA citizen assemblies, citizen juries.

A diliberative body (council, legislature) selects a bunch of people (sortition), gives them a charter (scope of work), empower sthem to investigate (interview experts, research, dig into a problem). The assembly/jury writes up their conclusions and recommendations. The empowering body then acts or not.

All work and meetings are public.

Early experiences have been very encouraging.
Spotify is not responsible for the terrible contracts linking artists to right holders. If artists want a fairer revenue split, they should just negotiate it with the distribution companies they chose to sign with.
>Signs of de-dollarisation are unfolding in the global economy, strategists at the biggest U.S. bank JPMorgan said on Monday, although the currency should maintain its long-held dominance for the foreseeable future.

So... not as scary as the title.

Anyway what is the alternative? Commodities? China's currency is too controlled. Euro(pe) is too reckless. I like Bitcoin for storing value against inflation, but its not a great currency. GBP? Maybe, but for such a small economy, that is a lot of eggs in 1 basket.

I'm the first one to be skeptical of government fiat currency holding value, but which big player is doing it better?
It really would. A lot of people on that site could use some fresh air too. The platform has been dead for years outside of the left-leaning meme subreddits.
Not sure why they'd care, they have effectively infinite money from adsense.
Hygienic macros are a bigger issue in 1-lisps dude to high density of namespace collisions.
> I wonder what that reason could be.

How would that make them money? Here, instead have a few links to irrelevant videos that bring in ad revenue!
> having to solve multiple

Do you use adblock? I find if adblock is enabled when doing captchas I have to keep clicking pictures over and over.
That's one narrative. If you choose to ignore the machinations of the US State Department before and through the Maidan uprising then what Russia is doing seems unprovoked and possibly even genocidal. It's amazing that in this age of speed-of-light communication the ability to suppress facts is as prevalent as it is. Personally I'm not rooting for either side, only for the killing and escalation to stop before the whole world gets pulled into it.
This article is six years old, published only a year after the Brexit vote. Since then non-EU migration has risen dramatically; now outnumbering immigration from inside the EU by a ratio of about 8:1. Student visas provide an entryway to hundreds of thousands without the need to satisfy income requirements. I suspect that if there is a challenge facing curryhouses it is not immigration. Maybe a more atomised society which prefers deliveroo to eating out on the cheap and regular is more to blame.
I think you’re gonna love it, mine has a dual 2.5G Intel NIC. If I had to do it again, I might prefer the fanless CWWK ones with 4 NICs so I can do a LAGG or increase my bandwidth to my switch. A bit more expensive but more rugged and suitable for my application.