skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also notice the shift you are mentioning.

But I'm still a bit hesitant about its causes. Wether degraded search is an intentional feature or not, I think there is another and simpler explanation to consider when we discuss this topic: cost and skill.

Google seems to be an exception in that field as it has, in my opinion, clearly demonstrated an ability to implement a functioning search. Consequently, our only option as users is to assume that a dysfunction in a Google product's search function can only be intentional and triggered by hidden motives (e.g., restricting users liberty to decide what should never or absolutely be in the results).

A second factor I like to take into consideration is the iPhone user effect, or what I like to call the "iTard effect". The itard effect is the tendency by tech companies to design and aim their user interfaces specifically to satisfy their least tech savvy users while alienating its more technical customers in the process. A good example of these are search engines that automatically canonicalize what you type and either won't allow you to run a search exactly as you specify it but will keep altering your query terms because "you probably needed help writing this query".

There is also a third option, that affects both larger tech tycoons and other companies: they cannot search their content accurately.

This could be caused by poor architecture decisions (I think we are still years ahead from assessing the real damage caused by over-containerization/micro-architecturization across the world) but also by costs: the more you delegate your IT operations to third parties (e.g., cloud, pass, saas, etc.) the more you become vulnerable to abusive costs of search.

I totally agree with you, search simply doesn't work in most of the websites I regularly visit (even search engines). But I think there are only less than
a dozen companies that would intentionally and effectively alter search results to impose their own agenda onto the user. Unfortunately, these companies are precisely the ones that interact with the vast majority of human beings on the globe on a daily basis :)
> Carmack is also in a favorable position where he's basically always been able to choose only projects he's passionate about for work, so he can't really see the perspective of somebody being forced to work on something pointless by their boss

BUT HE SHOULD!

One of his first jobs was a soul crushing dev work when they had to write X random PC utilities every Y week for some monthly subscription thingy. You know what he did? He started slacking like crazy at work so he could work on game development with his bodies at home. Using company equipment he more or less stole from work.

(I think he was sued for this, and then repeated it many years later and was sued by Facebook)

So technically, he worked shorter hours. He just didn't tell his boss.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cult...
Scheme has entered the chat.
When I started ADHD meds I lost like 10lbs in a month due to eating way less. I think I'm now 20lbs under where I started after 3 months or so and I think that's where it's going to stay.

I'm not one to worry too much about my weight, it's just something my doctor told me because he weighs me every appointment.
This was on HN a year back.

https://github.com/christophercalm/if-im-gone
For slightly tech related EOL file:

https://github.com/potatoqualitee/eol-dr
Actually any RAID is beta in btrfs, but configurations with one storage device (e.g. firmware of Turris Omnia) do quite well on prod.
https://archive.ph/nOL2R
There’s a good cross platform mobile UI story, it’s called browser.
Excess groundwater extraction already causes numerous issue across the globe without considering a small effect on the Earth's tilt. Surely you don't need to accept any of the climate change science to accept that making the world a better place, doing less harm and using limited resources at a slower rate is a good thing. That's just simple thoughtfulness, common sense and good planning (all things humans are often terrible at).
Obviously the funniest
This plot point in Goldfinger blew my mind as a teenager (spoiler: Goldfinger does not want to steal gold - he want's to make the gold in Fort Knox radioactive, to raise the value of the gold he has). If there is one important subject that is not that hard to understand, but poorly understood by the general public, it's how markets work. I know many well educated people who make trivial mistakes when thinking about markets.
I thought 'buyer's agent' was a weird Canadian thing, ypu do it in the US too?

Seems such a con. And your links imply it's built in to the system, there's always a 6% charge for that (otherwise why would they charge and give back half).

Short of multi-millionaires looking for an interesting fifth home without caring where it is, I don't see why you'd want to try to explain your requirements to someone else, have them sort of get it, show you things that aren't right for reasons you forgot to give or can't quite explain, and pay for the privilege.

In the UK we just find somewhere we like the look of, arrange viewing with the (sellers') estate agent, and potentially make an offer. What would a buyer's agent do for me except increase the price/decrease what I can afford?
Although now people use types with python, is it still ?
While I fully agree withtthe gist of this quote, I think one major point is wrong: the idea of an optimal ratio between the macronutrient is probably bullshit in itself. In fact, the idea of categorizing food into such simple categories (three macronutrients + vitamins and minerals) at all seems wrong. Fiber plays a major role, different fats and different carbs have widely different effects, probably different proteins too.

Note: the source of the quote for anyone curious to read more:

https://metarationality.com/nutrition
Wow, I had to jog the memory about Kidd (she used to be on DeviantArt a lot, and I did a portrait of her some 20 years ago: https://www.deviantart.com/zeruch/art/celeste-in-triplikidd-...) so this was all a very strange trip down the deja vu hole.

All the back and forth about her (and I generally look at Cato/Reason with a bit of scrutiny at this point) the whole thing seems a bit surreal.
~ love for landlords ~
Becoming the owner of your own business just means becoming an exploiter of other people. Not exactly inspiring for me :)
> You do realize you still have to write a lot of native code in cross platform apps, right? It's what all the most used apps do.

You asked from cross platform UI framework, not for abstracted away mobile development framework.
> or right by accident of a particular virtual terminal's features and configuration

This is a fair point. Indeed different terminal configurations can produce different results. I have added a little note to my post to clarify this. Thanks for the feedback.

> Oddly, the author seems to use vim as an editor

I use Emacs.

> The ‘special case’ control combinations are explained by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-paired_keyboard where Control does merely flip a bit, originally electromechanically.

I don't think this explains the special cases in a general sense. Firstly, the Wikipedia article discusses shifted keys, not control codes. Secondly, the special cases still need to be explained on a case-by-case basis. It is clear that the control modifier flips a bit but which bit? In case of ctrl+@, ctrl+g, ctrl+h, etc. the 7th LSB is flipped. In case of ctrl+space, the 6th LSB is flipped. A more general rule that covers most of the cases is that the ctrl modifier resets the 6th and 7th LSBs. The exact implementation details, however, vary. As an aside, all of this still leaves how ^? represents DEL in stty and in other contexts requiring printable forms of control characters as a special case. In this case, again, we need to flip the 7th bit. Further, the fact that DEL (decimal 127) is a control character is itself a special case because it is the only control character that has its higher bits (6th and 7th LSBs) set.
I thought everyone knew this? It was obvious the first couple of times I had to do a group project at school.
KDE Plasma desktop (if this can be called an app). It is by far the best desktop environment and it made me switch from Windows to GNU/Linux which was one of the best things in my digital/computer life.

https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/
NodeJS didn't even exist when Reddit started using Python, as far as I can tell.

Initial release of NodeJS was May 27, 2009; 14 years ago.

Swartz was involved in the development of Reddit until he departed from the company in 2007.

And we know that parts of the Python code for Reddit was written by Swartz.
What's interesting about that system is the question of the motivation - it ensures a nuclear holocaust even in the event of a decapitation strike, but it also was said that it could give 'command elements' time to consider to not retaliate in the event of false alarms etc. so that "cooler heads" might prevail.

So it goes.
We are doomed because we fail to limit our growth. And saying stuff like that here guarantees downvotes. Which is exactly why it needs saying.
What other people use does not change how you can use the language. You don't have to use types.

I just took a look at the 4 latest Show HNs which are written in Python. None of them uses types.
Not in the short term, if for no other reason than not having the hardware for it. Maybe down the line. Would be neat if someone who was into that sort of stuff wanted to integrate with Marginalia though. I've got a free API ;-)

I do think LLMs has the potential to integrate well with search engines and I'd love to see a sort of open source search ecosystem emerge with different projects collaborating to exceed the sum of their parts.

Yeah I was in talks with FUTO and they agreed to help the project out a bit, I won't say more until I have money in hand. It's taking a while but it's not on their end, I just need to sort out some legal stuff first.
On my current project, any deploy that we want to do to an AWS environment, including dev, takes at least 10 minutes. So, as soon as you have to work on AWS functionality, you are transported to the past, similarly to the programmers of old. I'm not saying this is a bad thing actually, just to note that we still haven't managed to eliminate the "turn-around time".
Stress or being passionate can not explain all the difference between what people can do. They sure help, but if you then compare average person to someone like John Von Nueman or Ramanujan it's almost as if they are on different class of hardware.
>50 years later

>Every purchase feels like a burden

hah, I'm in my 20s but feel the same way. This tends to also happen when you grow up in a less prosperous country where you can't just purchase stuff on a whim.
Yes, various mental conditions and drugs can significantly affect our weight through poorly understood indirect means. A common example is lithium, often given to people who suffer from bipolar disorders - it has a significant effect on weight, typically causing many kilos of weight gain.

It's very funny to see people then claim that the story stops at CICO or that your calories in and/or your calories out are entirely within your conscious control.
What's the reason for such high praise for Notion? Asking honestly as I have used it and genuinely don't get the admiration.
Many of the most famous "done in Lisp" products I know of have the delightful feature that it's not Lisp itself that provides a solution that other languages can't. Rather:

1) Developers who like Lisp tend to be really smart, well-read, and well-educated.

2) Lisp streamlines these developers' thought processes, allowing them to get more done with less, fast.

For example, the early Naughty Dog games written in GOOL/GOAL take clever advantage of asset data to produce effects close to the very edge of what the PlayStation/PlayStation 2 can do. No feature in these Lisp languages made this possible where C or C++ could not, but working in Lisp enabled the developers to iterate quickly, experiment, and arrive at interesting innovative solutions within the required time frame.
I also check back occasionally on my pinephone, but it is ridiculously slow (not even the pro version..).

I would give everything for even an older iphone that could be tinkered with, though.
should I use fork or spoon the poop?
how I do merge my changes to poop? I don't want to make a pull request.
That's not even productivity (output) that's measured, but the amount of time he is free to focus on his task.

And, having read many personal diaries entries of creative people, showing up, being at one's desk, all ready to work, and even working, definitely does not translate into productivity. If only, it is the first necessary step only. But it's not enough.

And the trick is to know that this is perfectly normal, not only for intellectual work, but also for manual work. People are not machines.
None other than this one.
I mean a bug where some variable gets mutated implicitly, as a side effect of some other code change.
> Three days earlier, I had booked Hertz’s cheapest option—in this case, the “Manager’s Special”—assuming I’d end up with a forgettable sedan. What I did not consider was an electric car.
__visuallyelegant__
Thanks for the insight. I've had a similar experience with using Haskell. It is a smaller pool of developers, but they tend to be higher quality on average.
I wouldn't really make swooping generalizations like that, just because you like an option doesn't mean everyone is that way. For example I would much rather have USB-C on my iPhone because then I would only ever need one charger cable for everything I need to charge.
I look at the database schema and data structures first. That will tell me what I need to know about the domain entities. Open source or not, data structures usually tell me more than reading the code.
This is pretty good, but since it's static, you can't use parameter generating methods (e.g. for combinatorial input or derived tests). And if you do that within the test, you're back to having to manage those on your own. JUnit&AssertJ really do have advantages on Rust here.
I had a GitHub repo taken down due to a DMCA notice. What these buggers do is brute search GitHub to find suspicious links and perhaps questionable images. They may not even look at the repo at all and they definitely won't run the software to see what it does (they will search for cues in the documentation).

To avoid trouble, it is advisable to not discuss piracy in the repo or even hint at it. Problematic links should be encoded somehow so that they can't be uncovered by a text search. Also avoid using suggestive file or module names.

They tried to take down youtube-dl but GitHub fought back. Unfortunately, the copyright zealots will keep trying because that's how they make their money.
> Put an emergency fund into a savings account that your spouse/child whatever can access.

I’m my parents only child. My parents put my name on one of their accounts with enough money to handle their expenses and bills for a few months while everything went through probate.
You are a pseudointellectual.

> I'd prefer if you were trying to engage or teach me something instead of ridiculing me, as you said.

You haven't shown the tiniest bit of humility in regards to mathematics. And I see absolutely zero reason to try to teach someone without a shred of humility.

The true danger of postmodernism is people like you. You believe because the "grand narratives" have broken down you can go arround and confidently talk about any topic you want, but you don't even know what the words mean.
Good point.

Also worth bearing in mind that Pax Britannica was quickly followed by Pax Americana, both English speaking countries.

The major problem with this though is the massive and unparalleled extent of the British empire. English is the first language for most of two continents (NA and Australia) and official languages for significant portions of another two (Africa and Asia).

That global scale is unprecedented in history and it’s hard to see how English would be dislodged without a significant societal collapse.

Point being it seems more likely that English would be replaced by a language that doesn’t exist yet, rather than an existing language.
> Having a polished, user-friendly, fully functional mobile linux

But we have it, it’s the biggest mobile OS even.

Also, it is absolutely unreasonable to expect any one company to produce apps for 3 platforms. So anything that is not out of the box compatible with one of the big ones is dead in the water.
> So I could decide that I think your house is likely to burn down, so I buy insurance on it.

which makes the insurance premium grow higher, reflecting the information that such a house has a high risk of burning down.

It doesn't matter that the buyer of the insurance has no material connection to the house. I can't see why such "gambling" shouldn't be allowed to happen, provided that there's enough regulation and monitoring so that you cannot then go and burn down someone's house to collect the insurance!
How long software updates are provided is part of the repairability score

https://www.heise.de/news/EU-Kommission-bringt-Reparatur-und...
Sometimes you just need to check Poop to make sure your apps still healthy.
I wouldn't, they're trying to sort your crap out, not stumble face first into something emotional. Keep it matter of fact, avoid prose/actual sentences written out the way you would and prefer bullet points ('safe deposit box #123 at Acme SDBs' not 'I have a safe deposit box, number 123, at Acme SDBs containing ...'), not handwritten, etc. IMO.
That's fantastic!

A sort of indie internet discovery ecosystem effect is one of the things I've really been hoping to accomplish with Marginalia.
Aside from macronutrients being too broad to be entirely meaningful. The underlying assumption that there is an optimal ratio already seems naïve.

Humans probably have wildly different nutrition needs depending on how physically active they are, how hot it is in their part of the globe, which foods are available in their area, their gut microbiome, etc.
I have done that in the past and I agree that there are (extremely) rare situations where this is helpful or might be warranted. In general though, this is not good behavior and I would personally advise against this.

One time a bug bothered me to no end, I kept thinking about it all the time. I then sat down at 10pm and started debugging / tinkering. I finally solved the issue some time that night and got back to work the next day, reporting my success to the team. Great.

While it was a helpful fix for the team it wasn't super important. After I reflected some of this process, I realized that it wasn't my curiosity or passion that was driving me. It was a bad relationship with work. I was still quite new and I wanted to prove myself - this pressure is what drove me.

My endeavor brought next to no personal advantage, rather it was a detriment. I spent my free time, my sleep even, to fix a mediocre bug which I simply could have done the next day. Even if I took two or three days, no bottom line would have been affected. Barely anyone would have bothered, asked or cared. So what's left was some idea of opportunity cost - since the bug was fixed I was now free for other work. But the value of that is also hypothetical!

In the end, I think working for someone else, especially a generic corporation, is way different from personal projects or startup products that you are passionate about and really deeply care that it succeeds. I will reliably perform my duties and try to be efficient at it, but I will NEVER let big corpos take away time from my life again just to improve some managers standing or bonus.

You can definitely find a good balance between fulfilling your position at or above expectations while respecting your personal life and health. I do not hesitate to take sick days, I prioritize my family and friends. Working 4 days per week has been show to drastically reduce sick days and other issues so while it might seem counterintuitive to some, I really believe that it's actually beneficial for everyone.

Note: I typically have a weird productivity surge between sunset and 2am that never gets used for work, obviously. Something about the early darkness triggers my mind...
What part of GDPR is being violated?
I'm too tired to read this - so when I pay for something and the receipt has the amount and another bit showing the tax then this is because I live in a more authoritarian state.

The more authoritarian state isn't the one where police not only carry guns but shoot citizens with them on a daily basis ?

Instead it's the one where you only see the vat seperate out on your receipt, OK.
The evidence of anything other than simple CICO is marginal in both quality and impact. Sure, all sorts of things might make you feel hungrier or make you want to eat more or less but whether you actually gain weight or not is a product of how much food you put in your mouth and how much you move. But this is not a popular fact when everyone wants an excuse for failures of attention, discipline and willpower. Only real exception here are medications that affect water retention, but that is entirely separate to fat gain/loss.
Physical Properties of Soil:
https://www.soils4teachers.org/physical-properties/#:~:text=....
Regulation in the way OpenAI appears to campaign for in this response is, in my eyes, going to have a very similar trajectory to the consistent and misguided attempts at enforcing backdoors in or a complete ban of modern encryption. Attempts will be made, by agencies and companies lobbying for legislation, alleged solutions will inevitably fail, and some misguided politician is always going to be more than happy to campaign on this topic.

Large Language Models, similar to modern cryptography back in the 90s, are already running locally and anyone intending to regulate them in any way is going to find it difficult to add restrictions to something of that nature.
Dave Chinner somehow managed to put reflinks on top of XFS, although it's not nearly the same as full filesystem snapshots. I believe there was discussion about implementing proper snapshots, but XFS is very conservatively developed, so that may be many years in the future, if it ever happens.
Farmer agrees to sell an agricultural commodity to a grocer, for a price fixed now, with delivery after the harvest. Assume price falls a lot, and then the grocer goes bust. Ouch! Then the farmer must instead sell on the open market, at the lower price, and so becomes unable to make the payments on the mortgage on the tractor. Ouch ouch!

The farmer did want the price certainty that allows the risk of being more leveraged (tractor mortgage). But the farmer was not the optimal person to hold the credit risk of the grocer.

And the farmer might have sold without the intent to deliver. It might be that the delivery specification, or location, or whatever, isn’t perfect for the farmer. But if the farmer is confident that the prices will move together, then it still works.