skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Played it again. Got the transportation category again in 1 after another long and satisfying think. So that was really fun once again.

I tried gathering info on the beatles song, I'm never gonna figure it out except either by looking up a list or playing a mastermind information deduction game. It just felt like I was gonna have to go through most of the alphabet with BAB BABA, CEC CECE, DID DIDI etc type guesses until I know most or all of the letters to unscramble. Instead I called it quits on this one.

I'd work on the feedback giving more immediately actionable info, and perhaps work on narrowing the categories to things basically everyone knows.
Expecting old software to be backwards compatible forever is unrealistic. Even modern 64-bit Windows doesn't support 16 bit applications, and the only reason this isn't a problem is because of how long ago they were of any importance.

Old software still lives on in emulation and old hardware. If a developer doesn't feel the need to keep it updated for new hardware, it can join the outdated hardware it was made for in the archive.
Thank you :) LEDs are how I got into electronics-- they were a great way for me to burn crazy amounts of power when I was learning power electronics.

I'll continue to post projects since most of my learning happens when I make something that works... or more often doesn't work. I don't see a world where I can stop since there's so much to learn and explore. Currently I'm working on a ~100W LED driver that works off AC mains and it's really pushed me to be thoughtful and intentional with all the testing I do. It's my first project where I pull power straight off the wall, and it's both exciting and terrifying.
https://ooh.directory/
What is the value of all the software I've been able to use all my life for free? What is the value of the fact that all of that software behaved sanely and in my interests at all times? Both are basically incalculable. There is more than dollars to consider in the equation, and there are even many dollars too, merely indirectly.
Of course it's spin. What else could they say? "we keep having to respond to your damn emails"?
Subscription model like Kagi seems to work pretty well against gaming the results.

Their only remaining incentive is to be good enough that people keep paying for the service.
From [0]:

> gShoe is an internal joke about a product [Google] shouldn't make, and is used in many internal trainings as a placeholder for any Google product

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/google/s/fHCBJipqdP
Hunh. And here I would have thought that Hinton cubes were quite topical.

I wasn't entirely unserious about the fad, either. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions was made in 1884 and for a while, speculation and attempts at visualization of higher dimensions were popular. Hinton coined "tesseract" in 1888, and by 1904 his book The Fourth Dimension introduced his cubes. In one of Martin Gardner's books I had found a letter discussing a potential downsides of such studies, that some began to inescapably visualize the exercise progression which went along with Hinton's cubes, much to the dismay of a few afflicted.

The Thirteenth Duke of Wybourne, however, is from The Fast Show; I do a passable impression.
Kagi is awesome, so much better experience than Google!

Start using bangs, lenses and customized results ASAP, that makes a big difference.
Yes, compression is definitely a rabbit hole - essentially an infinite rabbit hole. Optimal compression requires perfect understanding of the underlying material. So to compress English text well, you need to understand English very well - it's grammar, morphology, semantics, etc.

I crawled very deep into this particular rabbit hole. I built text compressors that exploited linguistic structure. I was able to quantify improvements in my understanding of text by observing improvements in the compression rate. The beautiful aspect of this project is its rigor: lossless compression is such a demanding challenge that you cannot possibly deceive yourself. If you have a bug in your code, you will either decode the wrong result or fail to get a codelength reduction. Using this methodology I was able to build a statistical parser without using any labeled training data.

Unfortunately for me, the advent of GPT and other DNN-based LLMs made this research obsolete. It may still be interesting for humans to build theories of syntax and grammar, but GPT has this information encoded implicitly in its neural weights in a much more sophisticated way than linguistic theories can achieve.
I found this quote enlightening:

> From: Joaquín Baldwin, @joabaldwin
> Of note: if a customer orders a copy from Amazon, and a damaged, returned book
> is shipped to them instead, no new KDP printing orders kick in. This means I
> don’t get paid at all, because they only pay me when a book is printed. They
> stole my money while scamming a customer.

So the author wants to be paid royalties on books he says are "damaged" that are brand new but that he says can not be sold to customers?

We recently discussed abuses of copyright law. This qualifies as an abuse of copyright law IMHO.
I doubt you're seeing censorship. If you search for "truthsocial trump" on ddg, you'll see his profile, for better or worse.
There are a few things you need to keep in mind with Wasabi. Depending on your payment method, there is a 90-day or 30-day minimum storage duration policy. This means that if you upload an object, then 30 days later, delete the object. You will be billed as if the object is active(even though it is truly deleted) for another 60 days. You may use more than expected if you have high amounts of short-duration churn of your data. If you have long-duration storage needs, this is great.

The other thing is that while egress is free, there is a fair egress policy. This means you should not egress more than you store on Wasabi monthly.

For example, if you want to host web assets, Wasabi could be a good fit if you use a CDN to frontend all the egress. However, if you do not use a CDN, you will use up your egress ratio quickly. While there are no extra charges, you will get notifications from the support team to figure out the issue.

Other than that, if you are looking for object storage and neither of the above bothers you, Wasabi is a great high-performance object storage vendor with predictable pricing.
It may look like the person in the demo videos is having to step very carefully because they don't feel very stable underfoot, but in actuality they have to pee really badly and they're desperately searching for a bathroom.
What If 'Food Noise' Is Just Hunger?
A tiny wasp's big brain survival strategy (2021)
It gets even more interesting if you start worrying about ghosts that could finish at multiple points within each cycle. There are potentially too many combinations to try out each one individually.
https://archive.ph/zDF0F
This is excellent!

Definitely excited to see how it holds up to daily use.

So far it gave me exactly what I wanted at the top for all of my test queries that were well formed.

As for asking “ignorant” questions both your service and the goog failed where phind gave me an actionable starting point (after a prodding follow up question: https://www.phind.com/search?cache=hmul4znpn7y4ei6qa64fosmc )

“max-height like css property for top and left”

Unsure if this sort of thing is even a goal of your project, but you won over a new user.

Wish you and your team all the best.
Just wait until the content farms adapt
Applying DRM to a public domain (or uncopyrightable[0]) work does not make it illegal to remove the DRM. Copy protection only has the force of law when there's an underlying copyright to enforce. There's a bit of room for shenanigans if you use a common DRM scheme that has copyrighted works protected by it, which means you can't release tools that deprotect those works, but that doesn't make the museums able to get extra copyright out of them. It is at best a speed bump.

Modifications to public domain work only accrue copyright insamuch as those modifications are creative. Chucking a public domain cartoon through a denoising filter wouldn't make the denoised version copyrighted. Colorization might accrue some copyright, but it'd be thin - basically only the exact same coloring decisions would be infringing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamberlain_Group,_Inc._v._Sky....
Personics' VP of Engineering left a comment on the video:

https://mastodon.social/@vwestlife/111670452112864407
Twitter and Amazon are not similar companies and cannot be compared in terms of scale.

No one has Amazons scale.
Yep. And shortcut keys and other smaller behaviors like that get weird sometimes.
What a load of BS. You think the former tradesmen that moved into teaching all have perfect spelling? Clearly they have no value and nothing to offer interested kids if they misspell 1 in 100 words.
Compiling a Linux kernel is too much for an x60. Certainly would not be the case with compiling a NetBSD kernel.

Is this even after disabling drivers and other code that is not needed for the x60.
Does VLC have any extra codec support (read: software decoding) compared to what Apple makes available via APIs? I think the only thing I've noticed is webm files being playable in VLC and not when opening via the `files` app, but the vp9 codec is hardware accelerated and has been available for playback in apps for years (the YouTube app shows it in use a lot).
It is interesting to compare the Iraq and Afghanistan war (the US didn't militarily defeat Vietnam, and Korea was a military stalemate) with successful recent invasions. China invaded Tibet, and Russia invaded Chechnya, and Tibet is now part of China, and Chechnya contributes soldiers fighting in Ukraine. They differ from the US invasions in that they rebuilt the invaded areas, hence "winning the peace". The US also helped rebuild Japan and Germany, which was sadly lacking in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I would call the first Iraq war a success - the US achieved it's aims of driving Iraq out of Kuwait, destruction of the Iraq military, a UN resolution approving the attack, and wide support.

Contrast this to the second Iraq war and Afghanistan, where I agree the US was perceived as a bully. It bullied Pakistan ("You're with us or against us", war threats) into supporting the invasion of Afghanistan, and the invasion of Iraq was illegal, with France prepared to veto any UN resolution trying to legitimize the war.
I assume Amazon thought the author was too picky, so they shipped him another 14 books from their inventory and put the 14 he returned into inventory.

I frequently get books that have the errors this author described. It's normal in cheap books. I've even seen those errors in guilt-edged, leather-bound collectible books.
I have found appending site:edu remarkably improves google results.

For both the tire question and with respect to a youtube dowloader, the first results were on the nose with the addition of site:edu on Google.

Why this is needed and whether a noncommercial, information rich web portal should exist are questions for another thread.
I am not sure what the intention of this post is. In my handpicked results Kagi far outperforms Marginalia.

#1 "Gordon ramsey" (misspelled "Gordon Ramsay"). Marginalia shows "The Life I Imagine: are my cheeks red?". Kagi corrects to Gordon Ramsay and shows relevant results.

#2 "Ukraine war". Marginalia shows an article about the Russian Orthodox church and a Substack post about the war. Kagi shows Wikipedia, Al Jazeera, etc up-to-date summaries about the war.

#3 "Dildo". Top post on Marginalia is "Students for Concealed Carry Embraces UT Dildos | Students for Concealed Carry". Top posts on Kagi are Wikipedia (read) and Amazon (buy).

> How is Marginalia, a search engine built by a single person, so good?

Because it's not good?
Blast from the past. I was a lead ColdFusion developer for almost a decade. Good times. When I rearchitected the booking engine for all of the Disney Parks, I based the design on Fusebox, a popular ColdFusion framework at the time. It's still in use today.
This was a little post-Christmas project that scratched a personal itch. It monitors console logs from your application and triggers various actions based on what it sees. I'm already using this with both a systemd-managed service and a k8s-hosted container to great effect, but would appreciate feedback from others. Thanks!
Copyright needs to be abolished.

Just imagine if all learning materials were freely available to everyone worldwide, instead of being held hostage by money and power.
> In particular I block Youtube, not because they aren't sometimes correct, but because I don't want videos polluting the regular results - it just takes too long to get info from videos.

Funnily enough, lately I've been prioritizing YT videos more when searching. So many sites now are just regurgitated SEO farms with minimal quality, and easy to see why: it's minimal effort to produce and cheap to host. But making a video takes time and effort, so has a much higher barrier to use as a click farm.

More than once when traditional search failed me, I went to YT and found some video from 2009 clearly and eloquently explaining what I'm looking for in detail, and without any distractions because the person authoring the video clearly didn't specialize in the media format or show interest in experimenting.

I've found it to also be a better source when looking a product to buy. Want to know which fan to get? Turns out there's a channel from a dedicated guy who keeps finding ways to test different fans and their utility and with multiple videos demonstrating his approach and findings. The mainstream channels aren't all that useful, but there's a ton of "old web" style videos (some even recent) passionately providing details for almost anything you'd think to search. And they're a gold mine.
It won’t work. Ready Player One (as implied by the book or visually shown in the film) is actually immersive in way that is impossible to input with physical controls.

Take a step irl. In game your foot goes through a wall. In Ready Player One your foot is stopped by the wall. This contradiction can’t exist.

It’s more ok for hands where you can just demand the hand move back before the wall irl. But with feet that’s your whole sense of balance.
Same problem as VR treadmills. Tweaking your feet can't fool the accelerometer in your inner ear. Any movement that involves acceleration (all of them) will be wrong. It will never feel like natural movement.
I’m fairly concerned this Red Sea thing can turn into what sets off inflation for real. These routes were major efficiency factors to the economy. If we lose them, there’s nothing but added cost coming for us all, and at the worst time for consumer confidence in central banks ability to manage the situation.

Can we just keep our shit together? It’s been a rough decade and it’s only 3 years into the 2020s…
Something I'm unsure about is what does and doesn't trigger wars.

Russian jets downed a US drone over the black sea in March 2023, I thought for sure there'd be a commensurate US military response. But there didn't appear to be one. Was it because no human was aboard the drone (so no response was justified), from fear or escalation, or something else?

In any case, if a large cargo ship were sunk, would the US or other nations go to war, would they retaliate with a similarly sized response, or would they do nothing (as with the Russian downing of the US drone).

Does anyone have some good resources on this topic? As a layperson I find military responses difficult to predict. (I'm familiar with foundational game theory, but not specific to international relations and security)
This brought back memories of Atomontage, a voxel engine which seemed to be way ahead of its time 10 years ago, but was never released, and became some kind of cloud platform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J62z_7JaYMw

https://client.atomontage.app/view?m=5C1RGKu4vT67qEBLO4gqh
They do this with hard drives as well. The first and last time I ever purchased hard drives from Amazon, the two drives arrived in an oversized box with no protection other than the antistatic bags they were in. I sent them back but I'm sure they'll just sell them to someone else.

Most of the time my Amazon books have arrived in good condition mostly due to sheer luck given the way they were packed. Sometimes a hardcover had a dented corner or a paperback had a bent spine. Not worth the hassle of returning and reordering (especially if the price went up since ordering as Amazon refuses to honor the original price). I do miss Book Depository as they would ship each book individually even when I ordered multiple items.

These days I try to avoid Amazon but keep getting sucked in when the price + shipping is cheaper or I can't be bothered creating an account on a website I have not used before.
What happens if passkeys are created for the account on everyone’s workstation?
You have seen it in 1983 War Games, Dr. Falken plying with his flying robot dinosaur.

Nowadays we are at 'its so simple and cheap we can make toys' stage https://zing.store/collections/go-go-bird

One of the toys in flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDihDrdPBqo
I guess you could do a recon version that dumps footage once it gets back - no rel time feed but could be useful for cladestinly looking for more static things.

Still, its more likely faster flying screemer drones from hell will get even better to not make this thing useful.

Like, when I saw the Screamers movie from a rented VHS cassette many years ago, I would not think I would see it happen in reality- but even more deadly! Like sure, in the movie those killer robots were autonomous and self replicating.

But they still had just a tiny buzz saw & had to jump from the ground to gut soft targets like infantrymen.

They didn't fly at you at 200 km/h with a HEAT warhead that can kill a modern main battle tank by single well placed hit!
The appendix describing the individual search results is both entertaining and scary e.g.

"Two of the top three hits are how to install the extension and the rest of the top hits are how to remove this badware. Many of the removal links are themselves scams that install other badware."
Bad software won't give you food poisoning.

Regulations can make sense for software that could cause physical harm - like the software in an implanted medical device - but most software doesn't fall in that category. The CRA is about "security" not about "physical harm" - they are two different things. Regulations for the latter would likely receive less pushback.
that was fantastic, very enjoyable
XP? They still have the NT 3.5 UI if you dig deep enough. Translating these is just asking for trouble when an important checkbox moves out of the frame because the original dev, in 1993, placed it with absolute coordinates. And there's no way in hell MS has access to all of these vintage drivers.
>Current scientific evidence does not support the idea that soy is harmful to males.

Not true: "Feminizing effect of phytoestrogens and soy products may be subtle, detectable only statistically in large populations; it can be of particular importance for children and adolescents." [0]

Jury is still out on soy. If you've had to deal with the latest league of junior devs, it makes sense why they're called "soydevs."

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270274/
I had a similar experience when testing Kagi after reading this. The top result for the “wider car tires” query on Kagi was a link to Physics StackExchange with some marginally informative answers [0], which would be easy to expand on in future searches. The second result was Reddit. Then a couple of incorrect/irrelevant pages but they don’t look like scams

[0]: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/29903/why-do-peo...

Edit: I did just realize that I have StackExchange customized to be up-ranked. So that probably helps. But yeah, I guess this is why I usually get good results, which is something that generally still fails with Google for me.
> was unhoused

> homelessness

Carlin rolling in his grave
I actually find myself using bangs way more since I switched to Kagi from DDG. I think it's the AI bangs like !chat and !expert that got me in the habit of using bangs besides !g (which I never actually use anymore).
The golden era of search results is very much over. Welcome to the pot-metal era.
What you're noticing is jQuery is more about querying dom & manipulating it based on those queries as opposed to composing vdom/state

React apps work as you'd like when you put shared state in something like redux & then components query state
Just now I asked Copilot why my keyboard RGB lights were turned off every time I opened a game, that's almost verbatim - it told me exactly where to go and exactly what to turn off, took about 10 seconds to entirely search and correct the problem.
Nowadays there's very few websites that work on Chrome but not Firefox. Hell I'd even throw modern Safari in that. Interop 2021-2023 has made a huge difference

Besides specific Google products, most everything works across all 3 major engines.

In addition, Mozilla adds specific code to Firefox to counteract anti-competitive practices on specific websites
Not sure that is really even possible, there is a lot of birds & they migrate all over.
Yup, definitely still gameable but if the model learns what high quality content is like and what high quality webpages there are (which it does), then the only way to game would be to be great :)

For your search - I would recommend turning autoprompt off and searching something like "Here is a great summary of the best computer mice to use:".

Our embeddings model is trained on how links are talked about on the Internet, if that helps with querying. So you have to query like how someone would refer to a link before sharing it
I would love to see Perplexity.ai in the benchmark. It has completely replaced Google/DDG for information questions for me. I still use DDG when I want to do a navigational query (e.g. find the URL for a blog i partially recall the name).
i feel like a salty wet rag on a stick would defeat this one?
Eh the thing is that Worse is Better and "Actually available to people in Operations without having to beg for permission" is the best of all.

VBA (Visual Basic available in Excel and Outlook) had a lot of the same issues as low code, as in no version control, no workflow for review or continuous testing and integration, no ability to do lots of custom things, that did not stop it from running the planet. I mean if you did the VBA version of Thanos-snapping half of all VBA code out of existence, most of society would cease to function within a week.

Power Automate is going to replace VBA soon because VBA can no longer talk to web pages thanks to the end of Internet Explorer and lack of VBA updates. And like VBA, Power Automate has all of the same problems - no concept of code review, version control, history, logging, actually its worse.

VBA at least let you have custom Types and Classes but in Power Automate everything, literally everything, is a global variable. Power Automate is lower code than VBA. But I think it will be used even more.

Because it is already installed on every almost every office computer in the world. This is the only tool ordinary Ops people will have available to them to automate stuff, so that is what will get used.
Yeah. Generally the best code in OOP languages tends to favour composition over inheritance. In other words, it uses functional ideas and works around some of the clunkiness of OOP to build generic structures and algorithms. This is what really successful packages in OOP languages look like (such as numpy and friends).