skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it simply impossible to believe that Masnick is so incompetent at running a website after so long, that he's finding out from random friends that his site has been de-listed from Bing instead of him or his staff having their search console lighting up like a dashboard and pinging them with emails. I get emails from both bing and google if there are site indexing issues, and while they're not always super clear about why, the major stuff is pretty easy to fix.

I find it even harder to believe that when he confirmed the problem, he then didn't do anything about it for months.

This feels incredibly performative.

Hey Mike: instead of bing chat, try https://www.bing.com/webmaster/tools
This works through examples with numbers:

https://ourworldindata.org/energy-substitution-method

Also note that heat pump based heating can be 5x as efficient as nat gas heating. Which means using gas to generate electricity to run heat pumps is an improvement.

edit to add: also note that the oldest, dirtiest and least efficient plants will get shut first, having an outsized impact.
Both Rails and Django.

Everything else feels pretty unproductive with a relational DB. Rust with sqlx is pretty nice and you get a very typesafe system but very slow to write.
Pteranodon sells for US$3.9M to join fossil pantheon
I'll steel man against this argument. Even if OP was trying to be provocative, the police should be able to resist the temptation to intimidate them. Police have the power to arrest people (or worse) with impunity. They should be able to withstand someone using their constitutional rights in their presence without retaliating against them.

> You sure seem to invite harassment.

Serious question: What does this statement mean? Do you believe there to be conduct that is non-criminal and still validates police intimidation? What would that be? It's not like OP walked into the police station and hinted that he was a murderer.

> You weren't even detained or roughed up. You lived to tell the tale.

Do you believe that as long as someone isn't illegally detained or assaulted for behaving in a "provocative" yet totally legal way, they have no basis for complaint?

> Where's the crime? Where's the deception? Where's the video?

Is there literally anything on that video that could convince you the police mishandled OP's situation? The police know how to intimidate people -- doing so is literally their job when it comes to getting people to comply with orders or to answer questions in interrogation. The notion that the police officers in this situation acted to intimidate OP is not at all farfetched.

The fact that OP wasn't illegally arrested or worse makes the situation described that much more plausible. The cops know how far they can push things without risking accountability for their misconduct.
Recall the holding in Raich: Congress has the power to regulate local activities that are part of a class of activities that affect interstate commerce.
But it appears that this is Esther's own blog, and there's a 15-minute-long YouTube video linked at the top.

Also, I thought you couldn't read tweets these days unless you're logged in.
Has Meta/Facebook stopped developing hacklang?
You linked to NATS Streaming, which has been deprecated for years. It’s not relevant. It can still be used for legacy code that still needs it, as the URL even shows, but it is not recommended for new applications.

The current standard is NATS JetStream, which absolutely addresses scalability, arguably to an even larger degree than Kafka, since it can be used to create a globally interconnected supercluster of clusters where messages can be configured to flow between regions as needed. I doubt anyone would run a Kafka cluster that spans multiple regions.
I tend to ask ChatGPT first these days, but then follow up with a DDG search because I don't fully trust ChatGPT.
The author, being independently wealthy and in a safe position, didn't have the same downside risk as most of the people around them. Amusingly the author lacks a certain empathy through this romanticism, ironic given other parts of the article.
>the willingness of the company to dip into scam-enabling technologies like crypto

This is a ridiculous take. Every technology you use that facilitates payments or communication is, objectively speaking, "scam-enabling".
The 'nays' getting lots of traction on twitter right now

https://twitter.com/alexkaplan0/status/1684642852616192000
https://archive.is/cvfU5
Awesome. What's great is that it can be unfiltered as well. So we'll be able to have models without all that incessant apologizing.
Like if you're in Mexico and you just feel like hoping on a train to the US on a whim.
Elon's new rules are tough but fair. Only xylophones are allowed in the office, and the company cafeteria serves only xylitol and xanthan gum.
Can you say a bit more about the log-structured S3 filesystem? I wrote something very similar recently (https://github.com/isaackhor/objectfs) and I'm curious what made you settle on that architecture. The closest thing I know of that's similar is Nvidia's ProxyFS (https://github.com/NVIDIA/proxyfs)
Sure. A lot of mathematics is out there; e.g., Shinichi Mochizuki's work on the abc conjecture is so far out other mathematicians can't evaluate it.

Think of fields or problems only a handful of people are working on. Usually because it is viewed as fruitless. Then somebody cracks it and sometimes a use is found for it. The rest is labeled "useless research".
> I did my best to make the case from a technical (bug fixes and features), business (vendor X won’t support us on this version), and customer (customer wouldn’t be happy if they knew we were running version X) standpoint.

I feel your pain then.
I am now looking into Kagi and I love that it seems like they just picked the era where Google wasn't terrible and are emulating the look and feel of that.

The only problem is the pricing model. I don't do overage fees because they make me anxious. I like knowing there is a concrete ceiling on what something will cost me. 300 a month also feels far too low and $10/mo, whether fair or not, feels far too high for a search engine.

This is why I've been working on a behavioural change: stop using search engines and start going right to the websites I know and trust.
No. It isn't fundamentally different. You view it as morally different because that is your political view. While you are entitled to your political views, you are not allowed to make them "fundamental" for everyone else.

Conflating a good faith policy debate with not wanting someone to exist is patently dishonest. It is a dishonorable bad faith form of political extremism, and should get you banned from HN.
Dependabot it is good for scanning dependencies of popular languages but it does not pick up ‘code smells’ like sonarqube would.

In addition, some vulnerabilities only appear at build time, so you would need to add in scanning during the pipeline.

It’s hard to get a full picture of the entire build process, and even still, vulns do get through, for example you forget to implement logic to prevent people from seeing the administration section of your app.

Security is part machine, part human effort - hard to catch everything, on top of the millions of projects and repositories out there, not all of them on GitHub.
Text-to-SQL Benchmarks and the Current State-of-the-Art
Medium article presenting background on the most popular text-to-SQL benchmark datasets and current performance of text-to-SQL algorithms
Thanks! That is the sort of stuff I was asking about.

It looks like it's an after thought but at least on their mind now, which is very fair with respect to Bloomberg's wants/needs. It'd be nice if they had a bit of a warning about using this until it has some basic auth(n) and TLS since they're releasing it to the public. I think it is, relativley speaking, rude to release insecure networked software without giving users a notice as to what sorts of insecurity is at least known/expected.
Definitely money.
These papers suggest that LLMs do something a lot more specific (when asked to simulate a certain political background, they're able to give responses to questions in a way that's consistent with those political backgrounds). That's not particularly surprising to me as I would expect a human to be also able to simulate this kind of thing pretty accurately. I don't think it implies that LLMs would be good at answering typical business survey questions.
>See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027&p=2 for more.

Did you read the comments?
The language’s syntax seems to be influenced by languages designed by Wirth, such as Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon. These languages have many fans, but they have quite verbose syntax compared to either languages influenced by C or those influenced by the ML family.

Personally I prefer more terse syntax, but I’ve heard some people defend the style of more verbose languages like Pascal and Java when writing large programs.
good points, probably going to add streaming output, function calling support. As for retries tenacity does a great job already
> > If a one brick thick straight wall can't stand

Caveat there is quite significant.

> There are many practical cases for a straight wall of bricks

Indeed the vast majority of cases yes.
It's amazing to think that this might be replicated using equipment they put googly eyes on and named "Sucky McSuckface."

I look forward to this historical footnote leading to many clickbait articles in the future.
What’s the context for this? What does over mean and who did he sit down with?
I learned about this and a lot more about walled gardens when I searched for the orgin of the term "walled garden" to do with technology today.
Someone also previously linked this betting market here which currently has it at only 16%. https://polymarket.com/event/is-the-room-temp-superconductor...
https://archive.is/hZXk8
The trouble with this line of thinking is that it negates almost any problem someone can suffer.

Starving to death? At least you're not starving to death while being physically tortured every moment of the day!

The problems people face and their suffering is real, and should be respected, even if there is someone who has it worse somewhere else.
NanoT5: T5 encoder/decoder training in under 24 hours on a single GPU
Next/Previous letter should probably be UP and DOWN Arrow keys, not Tab and Shift+Tab.

My opinion.
> And that bus needs to be able to reach the audio system to provide audible feedback to the driver when parking, and also mute the radio. Ergo, you have a bus that reaches both brakes and radio

A $2 speaker would work just fine. You would still hear it over the radio. If your radio is so loud you couldn't hear it while parking you have bigger problems. A shared bus might be more efficient, but it is not more redundant. I would rather spend $2 on redundancy here.
Not just tech. Any company...more people means more politics.
[dupe]

lots of previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864624
> but we draw a line at trying to avert a global climate disaster?

USA isn't going to invade countries to hinder their development. Neither is China. Energy needs continue to increase.
i agree re. skepticism but all I'm saying about HT Kim is that he's a real scientist with real bona fides, which I think you could find by asking anyone in my specific subfield of condensed matter physics
I know nothing of kerning and I made the exact same "mistakes"!
Did not expect docs to be this exciting...

On July 3, 1940, as part of Operation Catapult, Royal Air Force pilots bombed the ships of the French Navy stationed off Mers-el-Kébir to prevent them falling into the hands of the Third Reich.
This is Austral’s approach to error handling: scuttle the ship without delay.
Nobody talks about Monero in these discussions, but I'll be the person to keep mentioning it. Yes, the majority of crypto is garbage, because they don't have privacy in mind.
This is definitely premature. If it’s real though, holy cow, can’t wait for my 200Ghz processor.
Pivots don't need to be stressful
> The latter two sound ridiculous. I really like "Serpentine Wall", but it sounds a little too technical for everyday conversation with nontechnical people

ribbon sounds ridiculous and serpentine sounds technical? you are not a boomer. "Serpentine, Shel, serpentine!" -- Peter Falk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2_w-QCWpS0

Alan Arkin just died recently, RIP
I think I heard somewhere that when the Hopi drove out the Spanish missionaries they kept their fruit trees.
Why this tool is a must-have for your startup’s next enterprise customer.
Better to ignore the new features since that's where all the complexity and churn is, and most sites are fine as plain HTML <5 anyway.
The "verified" users being the top comments makes reading any moderately popular thread a bore.
The guy loves to jump on and off the hype train.

I guess he just now read the paper properly and found some inconsistencies.

I'd wait for people to try and replicate. It is obvious that the paper was not ready and has mistakes.
Then I can finally stop prematurely optimizing my code!
But slow growth brings less money to top management, and top management decides if they want to go for slow or fast growth, right?
> existential threat against the human civilization

That threat will always be there, just need to have awareness of it.

Hopefully its linear a linear curve we're on and not exponential. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
Would you say this is a niche use case? Can you see the masses using Monero with its current user experience?
The real winner will be who comes up with application for LK-99 to improve bicycles
I think init still can receive signals. The only kernel ju-ju linux adds is it only delivers the signal if init has installed a handler (SIG_DFL behavior isn't triggered.)
Economies of scale matter less in industries where the most important factor in the cost of the product is labor, which is the case for software engineering. Unless, of course, you're implying that big orgs can cut costs by driving wages down.

And the problem with large corporate boards isn't that they're idiots - it's that they're dominated by sociopaths. They aren't paying their execs for nothing - they're paying their execs to screw over their employees and their customers most effectively - which is, indeed, a real job that does need real skills.
I use DDG as my main search engineer. Many of my searches have hashbangs into other sites. On DDG landing pages, I often go straight to the right hand side of the page, with the info panel. Sometimes, I click on traditional web links, but with less frequency as the sites are so often spam.
"Doesn't want people like me to exist" is not equivalent to "wanting genocide", even if it is still (possibly, we can't read his mind) hyperbole
I just learned that recently - I was at a quick oil change place and asked them to quickly look at my brakes while down there. After some commotion their manager came over and explained (In a friendly fashion) they are technically a "lube shop" with "lube technicians" and not licensed mechanics and cannot do or say anything but change my oil and maybe fill up the fluids / change wipers. Interesting!
Why are brazil nuts bad exactly? I eat a couple daily to help with symptoms from hashimoto's and test my selenium levels frequently since not all nuts are created equal.
1024 chickens, or two oxen? A performance comparison of Redshift and Athena
\ the ultimate
I don't think a hunger strike will affect the people who make noise.
> [DDG is] a black box from the SEO side of the desk

That’s a feature, not a bug, from my point of view.
They weren't literally everywhere. Even today, with a much larger population and higher land usage, there is a lot of wilderness in the Southeastern United States. That's why finding a consistent indicator of an archeologicial site is important.
> Yes, I did have to spend time turning off the crypto stuff in it. But when tweaked it is an excellent browser.

Yea that’s the thing what browser is excellent out of the box? FF has telemetry on by default and shoves pocket down ur throat. It’s just a lame recycled take cuz like urself, no Brave supporter refutes the crypto bullshit
Taking stronger action would alienate the affected Shopify customers and create bad press for them. Their selected level of action is just sufficient to keep everyone happy except the one person that is their competitor. Presumably, then, they deemed it “insufficiently profitable” to shut the existing customers down.
Double the ICE time would be fine, assuming there are enough chargers not to create a waiting line.
I'm experiencing a weird bug where after clicking on a result and going back to the results page the order of the results change.

I've too noticed result quality in the main search engines I use (DDG, Brave, Phind) go way down in recent times, I wonder what happened...
My experience has been that low performance cultures tend to have a lot of cynical naysayers that like to block things from happening. High performance cultures tend to have optimistic enablers who also know how to do a lot of things and are happy to share their knowledge.
I should have left off the name.
Bill Gates, that is the easy answer if we limit the conversation to only the ultra-wealthy
> This feels a bit like diet clickbait...

This is fun clickbait. Straight to the point, totally random quirky trivia, and most of the page is nice pictures. Love it.
The person you're replying to is the CEO and founder of DDG. Just FYI.
A few things:

- It was a URL auto-suggestion bug.

- It was fixed in a day after release.

- The PR is on GitHub, this isn't a closed source browser.

- The bug appeared when Brave was like a few months old.

- The URLs that were being overwritten were only a few crypto exchange websites that partnered with Brave. The affiliate URL was supposed to be a suggestion but the bug made it overwrite the URL.

- The affiliate program was shutdown right after the PR was merged.

- Nothing of that sort happened again.

- Even the CEO apologized for an issue that was blown way out of proportions.
To me it just seems like noise when a "large" issue on a big project references a issue on my personal project with a single user. Having to scroll trough dozens of references would probably be annoying.
Htmx is essentially how Facebook was built before React. Everything was server rendered in PHP and you could use special HTML tags to trigger partial updates. Ajax requests would return HTML fragments that would be injected into the correct part of the page.

It worked fine for simple use xases, but it was someone brittle and began to fail as soon as you wanted more than basic interactivity.
It doesn’t measure those factors in advance.
Reciprocal/fair treatment makes sense from a moral perspective, but businesses actually don't like it. Every little added burden reduces the number of tourists.

The US, given its popularity as a destination, believes that people will deal with it. It has always been like that, traveling to the US from anywhere is generally annoying. Not sure how American tourists will feel about this friction, even if fair in theory.
I loved it.. until something broke and searching a method name didn’t work because it was using dynamic method names. A full day of unpacking the Spree Commerce shipping system put me off a bit.
No one complains anymore because in general states regulated that the tickets need to be behind a counter (or behind glass) and entirely unavailable to minors and a portion of sales need to go to remediation tools (addiction PSAs, addiction counseling services) and/or education funds and other taxes.
What tasks are cpu limited now? For me none.
From lots of experience, I can tell you if you don't have these things (and others, this is an incomplete list just off the top of my head) showing up in the right places (often above "traditional web links") at the right times then you cannot get long-term search engine adoption from mainstream users:

- maps

- directions

- local business listings

- about boxes

- basic facts

- conversions

- news

- videos

- images

- shopping

- sports

- stocks

- weather

- flights

- entertainment (e.g. cast)

- etc.
Sublinear Time Shortest Path in Expander Graphs
The only one bringing genocide AND THE LITERAL HOLOCAUST into this discussion are you. The parent said "Doesn't want people like me to exist" FFS
Does Microsoft actually claim Bing is unbiased?
Isn't Walter Isaacson writing a biography on him?

Isaacson did the same thing with Steve Jobs, he followed him around for a long time, getting a sense for his day to day, on top of interviewing the people that spent the most time with him. That's one thing that makes Isaacson one of the best biographers ever, he goes to the source whenever possible and gets candid interviews with the right people.
Given the "X" rebrand and that HN has a prominent "Y" logo, this made me laugh out loud.
How many wrongs do you think will make a right? Shouldn't we strive for a solution that uplifts everyone rather than limiting the aspirations of those who were historically exploited?

It's not about denying climate change or the necessity to act, but it's about finding a path forward that respects the rights of all nations to develop. This entails working towards sustainable, clean energy solutions and aiding developing nations in transitioning to such technologies, rather than simply demanding they cut their emissions. Let's strive for an equitable transition to sustainability rather than rehashing past wrongs as justifications for present impositions.
Employee of $5bn company that exclusively uses Slack, here.

I LOVE Slack. Great integrations, fast, solid apps, UX. it makes Teams look third rate by comparison.

We’ve nearly completely done away with email, thanks to Slack. Most of our suppliers use it, so we can chat live to them in Slack rather than email.
Can you drop a contact? Currently looking into ways to integrate note taking with LLMs and various AI models and I'd be helpful to have someone to chat about it with.
Yeah, there are many Chromium forks. Some of them without cryptocurrency and NFT crap, too!
Non-shit tier ukulele equivalent: https://youtu.be/pq7NLMwynYg?t=49
PL designers like to cast features that make their job harder and user's life easier as "anti-features"
The motivations for fakery are too high.
this doesn't even make sense
I doubt there will be any findings, because the removal from the index was done by Microsoft rather than DuckDuckGo. The postmortem has to come from Microsoft. Likely the only thing that Yegg can do is poke some internal contact at MS and tell them to fix it.
>> And in this case "society as a whole" means liberals.

> Are we really debating if saying that "black people are intellectually inferior", is hate speech? Are the merits of any of the sides defending or attacking this statement, worth debating without a context?

The OP gave two examples, and you're ignoring one. There's a lot more political across-the-board consensus about race and IQ than there is about transgenderism, and that actually factors into my point.
Share some figures that are per dollar. Fusion has the potential to beat all of that.
> I'm talking about getting paid in BAT coin for looking at ads they hijack on other peoples websites.

You know that's not true, right?

Sometimes it worries me that we form opinions from the opinions that aren't even ours.

It's opt-in by the way, not opt-out. This isn't Chrome.
I was just promoted to Staff Engineer at a mid-cap household name company. I had joined as a contractor in 2020, came on full time as a senior engineer in 2021. Simply stated, it comes down to consistently and reliably delivering high quality work and maintaining good relationships with your coworkers.
Since you're all over this thread playing word games, some of your own medicine:

What evidence do you have that Eich hates you? He made one political contribution and now that's hate? Gosh we are really devaluing the word "hate"
are those good or bad