skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh I have a smattering of accounts that use the same password before I wised up and started using a generator. My important accounts are secure by 2fa however and a strong password.

One day I'll sit down and just go through them all to fix them. Maybe just pay for wifi on a flight and clean it up.
I have Bing enabled on the family computer by default on Windows for the Family Safety features. I tried searching for "rainbow friends official" yesterday to understand what it is (yes I'm that out of touch).

I got tons of what looked like knock offs and spam, with big bright video previews and no official looking site.

I switched to Google and found the official site immediately and realised it's a Roblox game, so the Bing results weren't wrong at all but they sure looked wrong. There's just something about Bing that looks bad, I don't know what it is.
Here's HTMX author very recently talking about Web Components and HTMX on JS Party, https://changelog.com/jsparty/307#t=5260
> Being grateful even for the losses that have brought the most sorrow, the two things at the very same time, has ripped me apart, but it's also been the only way through.

Whether or not you express this sentiment as a Christian, this is a core tenet of the teachings. Despite being reminded of this by a close counselor in the beginning of my own tragedy, I have yet to fully come to terms with it. I know I need to, and I try, but I'm still bitter about it, and I know I'm still only faking it. In fact, I think I'm reading this story and your comment at precisely the time I need to in order to finally admit to myself that this is also my only way through. I gotta be honest: I never expected to hear the voice of God speaking through this forum. Thank you.
Different Node.js Versions and Package Managers per Project – A Solved Problem
There's extensive legal jurisprudence saying otherwise, including in the specific case of interstate highway funding. (As pointed out elsewhere in the comments; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_... / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Dole)
They flocked to build China's cities. Now they are aging with little retirement
I learned programming as a child using basic because I wanted to make games like super mario. My first game was a pick your own adventure novel. Just text. My second game was an RPG, all ascii. I eventually build a 3D engine in basic (yeah, i know). If the kid finds programming fun, then starting with scratch won't deter them. If they don't like programming but want to make a game, then yeah, I can see how finding out how hard it is will deter them!
How can you determine whether market share add was due to adding the chat?
No.

We shouldn't have to make the world infinitely worse place and waste billions in energy just to squeeze out a cent in 'magic internet money' to give to another person.
Weird. Even my A52s which is both older and much cheaper (like a quarter of the price!) than your S22 Ultra is on 1 January 2024. It still gets timely monthly updates.

I wonder if it's your provider being difficult here. The problem with branded (or sometimes even sold with contract) phones is that the carrier wants to meddle in the updates because they're afraid of issues on their network or something. And this can cause huge delays.

I always buy my phones separately, mainly because I hate contracts so I'm on prepay always but having unrestricted updates is another big benefit.
Im not totally sure that someone coming from a pixel 3 has the experience necessary to determine what is fast or slow in this day and age. There could've been enormous leaps forward (there have) and just as enormous regressions (allegeded) that you simply missed.
Suppose not full kill, but moderation

Habbo Hotel: It was marked that sexual predators were using the service to groom and instead of tackling the issue, they applied a worldwide mute. You could walk but not talk.

Habbo still exists, but almost killed the whole fanbase.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habbo#Moderation

And that, you required Shockwave.
The overflow goes to the same drain, but further down, past a bottleneck that's designed to be there for a logical reason. It's a good example of real world flow control considerations vs paper theory.
I'm still using an iPhone 11 Pro that I bought used, it's now almost 5 years old and still very, very usable. I did have the battery replaced about a year ago, but unless I break it/loose it, but I can see myself using it until Apple stops making OS updates for it. Even then, they seem decent at pushing out security fixes for old phones (I believe the 6s got a patch recently even though it's 2 versions behind the latest version).
It’s going to be a freaking cliff when it happens - the moment Tim Apple thinks that Google as a default isn’t good enough for the iPhone he’ll have it switch to some LLM powered by DuckDuckBing or something, and Google’s search traffic will plunge.
>If it doesn't improve job productivity then at the level where decisions get made I can think of two really significant points regarding remote work.

It would be nice if the rich assholes making these decisions realized that allowing people to take care of life stuff during work hours actually does make them more productive. But it's tough to measure, and impossible to convey to someone who can just afford to pay a person to do their dishes.
They’ve been shrinking, although recent growth suggests that trend might be reversing, but unions also help non-members. If you work at a non-union job, your compensation will still reflect the need to be competitive with other places which similar unionized positions. Where I live, there are a ton of charter schools but they tend to track the public school district’s union pay scale pretty closely. When they negotiated a pay raise, there were probably an equal number of non-union teachers who benefited within a couple of years.
I mostly use phind.com nowadays. Good search and good LLM.
Databricks: Warehouse-Native vs. Traditional Product Analytics?
One of our customers has a data lake (Databricks). They collect every product event into it. Every event has its table in the Unity Catalog.

It would make perfect sense to run a warehouse-native product analytics solution. We currently send every event to Amplitude, but the costs are enormous and rising.

Does anybody have experience with warehouse native product analytics?
Some states declined the ACA's Medicaid expansion, at great cost to their citizens. I'd fully expect some to do the same with UBI if administered in similarly state-managed but Federally-funded fashion.
I don’t really see how “I’ll give you money to build roads as long as you don’t put silly signs on those roads” counts as extortion.
>But this 404 article is even worse. The conclusion of the study wasn't tha the results have gotten worse. It was literally the opposite!

> In fact, the Google results seem to have improved to some extent since the start of our experiment in terms of the amount of affiliate spam.

> But just like the researchers got more attention with the misleading title about what was studied, the journalists at 404 got more clicks by outright lying about the results.

There are some questions if the scraping via Startpage is messing with the result. They are using the Google crawler, but their anonymisation might mess with the results.

I don't agree with you interpretation of the result though. if we take a look on a longer excerpt of the conclusion, they do mention multiple times that the quality is getting lower:

> Although we cannot predict the rank of individual pages, at the population level, we can conclude that higher-ranked pages are *on average more optimized, more monetized with affiliate marketing, and they show signs of lower text quality*

and even the part you quoted goes on to mention a downward trend:

>In fact, the Google results seem to have improved to some extent since the start of our experiment in terms of the amount of affiliate spam. Yet, we can still find several spam domains and also see an *overall downwards trend in text quality in all three search engines*, so there is still quite a lot of room for improvement.
>making news dependent on government funding is bad

I wonder if having the government hand out tokens that you can spend on whatever media you want would be better.
Sometimes a picture is wirth a thousand words.
Check the direction of the trade winds[1]. A Portuguese sailor can easily reach the Caribbean by doing nothing except raising sail. A Chinese sailor ends up in frozen waters.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_winds
I started webdev in 2007, CodeIgniter, jQuery etc. Things were fun to build and fast to iterate. Deployment was a faff but you dealt with it.

I was late to React (like 2020 late!) but have worked on three large (code base and requests) projects in React since then. Development was not fun, iteration was slow, but deployments were fast, yay for DevOps.

I am now building an in house platform in HTMX and it’s wonderful. I get the fun and speed of the early days with the CI/CD we have now.

The project I’ve built would already be a pain to deal with in React, instead it’s fast to load, has snappy interactions, has less code and is easy to extend.

It feels like cheating, but only because React projects get so hard to work on.
Yes. A simple fine for each verified instance prominently displaying a clearly fraudulent advertisement seems like a reasonable solution. Maybe instead of spending engineering cycles thinking of how to jam a larger volume of ads down our throats, Google can develop better ways to detect and reject scams. Win/Win.
The Falkirk wheel is quite an immense structure, but each one of it's basins is only 80m long and 6.5m wide. It's moving 500 tonnes of weight each rotation (split between the two basins to keep it balanced).

To service the Panama Canal, you'd need basins 370m long and 50m wide. The new Panamax ships are apparently capable of carrying 120,000 tonnes of weight (no idea what they weigh themselves), but we're talking about swinging around half a millions tonnes of weight. My brain can't comprehend that... are there _any_ moving structures of that size in the world?
I think chatgpt was gotten worse. I tried having it write an article and use the guidelines from the article to improve it's writing and it started referencing the revising in the article. I don't think it used to do stuff like that:

"This revised article aims to present a fresh and engaging view of space exploration, mindful of avoiding clichés and enhancing clarity."
Please do let ArchiveTeam know before you pull the plug so at least the public data can be saved.
Also, average people’s tech habits don’t change overnight.

Tech people will change browsers, search engines, and SaaS tools without much thought. The average person learns something and sticks with it for a very long time. Bing is playing a long game.

There are a lot of examples of things people in tech bubbles think that have little relevance in the real world: That Google can’t be trusted, that everyone wants laptops with upgradable RAM and phones with swappable batteries, that desktop websites should take priority over mobile, that offline apps are preferred over cloud apps. Spend some time in product management and you realize that tech people’s demands are unique.

Even the claimed demands of tech bubble people often fail to materialize into sales. Just look at all the demand for mini iPhones in tech bubbles compared to how little they actually sold.
"hands on the wheel, not your meal" is concise & slogans have a ring to them, there's a reason political campaigns want simple slogans to stick in someone's mind
Ford literally did a cost/benefit analysis for fixing the Pinto versus societal costs of injuries and deaths, and went with the cheaper option. They actually put it to paper and sent that to the NHTSA to argue against fuel system regulations.

“Dysfunctional management” is a direct function of managerial incentives, which is generally capitalistic greed (aka “obligation to maximize shareholder value”)
Couldn't you just continue to serve the tiny .narinfo files from a trusted central source while letting bittorrent or ipfs cache the .nar files (big, but can be validated by hash)? It doesn't allow for untrusted builds but it would work with all kinds of derivations.

In principle, signatures also address the cache itself being untrustworthy, right?
I’ve never seen any marketing saying Nikka was made with anything other than commodity dent corn. I can’t find anything on the web about it either. Do you have a link?
The person you’re responding to is talking specifically about the 'funny' signs, not the "signs that usually are used for showing construction or travel times or burn bans or other weird things the government wants to convey."

> “Immigrants” aren’t stupid, and despite what some might think, do have the full ability to engage in normal human behaviors like humor.

Nobody's saying they're stupid or don’t have a sense of humor, just that they may not have the cultural prerequisites to immediately understand certain jokes. Especially in a medium that is terrible for telling jokes.
This is why you need to bring your joy & love of the dog to your vet when things are going well, when you're there for routine things. It really improves their day.

We finally found the right medications for my 10-year old loyal potato (she's had low thyroid function, immune system trouble caused by the low thyroid function, a rattlesnake bite on the nose, arthritis, and so on) -- she's now acting half her age and happily jumping on rocks to pose for treats, and it's so nice to share her story with the vet.

Everyone at the vet visibly brightens up when they interact with a happy well behaved dog.
Depends.

An overflowing queue that drops jobs from the front while backend chugs along as fast as it can, is for many cases a better outcome than the backend overloading and everything grinding to a halt.

Compare it to a physical service desk. The one that has a queue, serves one person at a time, and people arriving will try again another day if the queue is too long. The one without queue has people fistfighting over who gets to go first, and no one ends up getting service.
Even if they don't own it, should they not still fight for it? Is it not their right to murder the descendants of those who live on the land that their grandfathers once lived on?
"A McKinsey and Deloitte consultant are asked to seat a classroom of children, but there are fewer chairs than kids. The Deloitte consultant recommends buying more chairs. The McKinsey consultant recommends killing the excess kids."
Isn't it more likely to be a trigger for continued/increasing inflation?

I.e., the goods still need to get where they're going, but it's going to cost more, either through longer routes or more expensive means (rail/truck).
I am immigrant, and I like "stupid" simple messages. Renting car, driving car in strange environment, dealing with speed limits, road signs in foreign language, new weather like snow... It is all already pretty stressful.

I really do not care about your stupid local humor while driving. I do not follow TV or pop music. I do not get the "references". The same way you would not get Chinese humour.

> "To the left, to the left / Passing only in the lane to the left."

I would probably read only the first part, and assume right lane is closed. Or even worse, I would be like "oh shit they drive like in UK"!!!!
Any ideas what the final size on disk would be after downloading?
The Reddit recommendation algorithm is appallingly bad (non existent or negative value), with zero insight into who I am as a person (yet).

Their "don't show posts like this" button does nothing, I believe.

If I click into a subreddit out of interest, decide it isn't for me and mute the subreddit: Reddit thinks I like the muted subreddit and suggests similar. In the last 6 months, after turning on recommendations out of interest:

- I have muted ~100 sports subreddits (I do not like watching sport, reddit! Please hear me, please take this information for free!)

- I have muted ~30 soccer subreddits.

- I have muted ~30 Aussie rules subreddits.

- I have muted ~20 pop subreddits, ~10 death metal subreddits.

- I have muted ~30 celebrity-person subreddits.

- I have muted ~30 "let's laugh at this unfortunate person" subreddits.

- I have muted ~10 outwardly racist subreddits.

- I have muted ~10 "let's be so frugal as to not enjoy life / here's some online work for <$5/hr" subreddits.

But still, next week reddit will try to get me to sub to r/astonvilla or something.

If I accidentally click on something though, I won't hear the end of it.

I have no faith in reddit ever being turned around.
The data may be worth something. But the codebase is a liability in every sense of the word, not an asset. Neither new nor old.reddit are salvageable at this point. Perhaps they have some valuable internal tools. I wouldn't bet money on it.

I'm sure their engineers are talented, but their bosses have blindfolded, handcuffed and toxified them. I have seen nothing of value given by them to the community. I have seen nothing but leaching, dark patterns, bugs, memory problems, jittering, unethical business models and poor Personnel choices.

Maybe I've missed something and I have a very unfair lens here.

The IP is worth nothing. The data will not be used for anything good. Deleting comments etc. will, of course, just be a boolean/flag column rather than true row deletion.

Am I unfair or mistaken? And am I incorrect in saying 'The IPO will do nothing of good for consumers or the industry'?.
The implication is that someone not versed in the language may only get the first part of the message, or the word “left” and move over to the left - exactly the opposite of what they want.

Traffic signs have a very short time to be seen and recognized; you want every aspect of it including partial readings to be as correct as you can.
About that probability, do you have evidence from the article? I didn't note any.
> I think some ICs like that it's harder for people to say to them that they are driving in the wrong direction, even if it's still true.

I think this is extremely cynical. Feedback makes for good organizations, and when I built teams, anyone who doesn't value, actively solicit, and provide good feedback doesn't have a very long tenure.

There are many things which go into building this culture, but I think I've only had one or two cases where this led to negative career impact for individuals. Most people adopt to this very quickly, very well, and work well in high-feedback settings.

I've absolutely never had, nor could imagine having, this problem on teams I've led.

Much more, I find the limitation is on my end. Going for a walk-and-talk is relaxing. A Zoom meeting is tiring. 1-2 Zoom meetings per day is not a problem, but a day of Zoom meetings basically leaves me a zombie. Group meetings are also much more tiring online than 1:1s.

I'm a good in-person manager. I'm also a good remote IC. I not nearly as good with those flipped around.

I also don't find any of these to be the case for me:

> keeping people on target is difficult remotely. Consensus is difficult remotely. Feedback is difficult remotely

I can do all of those individually -- quite well -- remotely. I just can't do those for anywhere close to 8 hours per day.

To be very clear: That's me. I'm not speaking for you or for anyone else, and YMMV. I'd be genuinely interested in hearing other stories or contradictory opinions, and how things work for others.
QuickWit Serverless Architecture would greatly reduce observability costs
Most of the cost comes from ingestion and running the servers all the time (OpenSearch, Loki, Clickhouse)

But the free s3 data transfer and using on-demand lambda compute for searching makes it really cheap
> Maybe. But the opinion that Google is returning less relevant results is sooner or later going to go mainstream unless they start returning relevant results.

Less relevant compared to what?

Consumers don’t see this as Google going downhill, they see it as the internet going downhill.

And I agree. It’s not as though I can jump over to DuckDuckGo or Bing and my search quality radically increases. Usually the opposite.

ChatGPT is helpful because it gives a very convincing feeling of being right. Whether or not it’s actually right is another question.
If the answer is nothing, we might as well not have this and the parent discussion at all then. Do you not see how that's directly analogous to supporting moving on silently?
Regardless of what the cool kids say, drugs are bad.
Actually this is a common pattern in enterprise IT where you need to integrate heterogeneous apps (i.e. at least one of the app is "legacy").

E.g. at my job the main system (the one "selling" stuff to customer and managing inventory of this "stuff") routinely sends production data to the datawarehouse, the accounting system, sends invoices and confirmations to a document management systems for formatting and sending (via email).

And considering both how old it is, and the fact that the data can be large-ish... most of this is sent out as files.
This also mean that the various consumers need some sort of trigger to start processing the data.
At least you can click on a doodle and get the context
Moonshine is just corn whiskey that hasn't been aged, isn't it?
The Beyoncé example is maybe not well known enough, but most of the time something that makes you smile is good: it's easier to remember an idea from a catchy funny phrase than a generic administrative wording.

At least those seem to be additional signs, they add some information, they don't provide main/mandatory/security information.
Time to start another wave of layoffs in the tech industry I suppose.

Not that the CEOs needed much of an excuse anyway in the last couple of quarters.
The problem is that i still have to open that bloated piece of garbage website to access it
My point is that Americans can and will overthrow any regime that makes their lives hard(er). It'll take a LOT to encourage them, but they will do so, and there's even ways to do so peacefully and without violence. Elections, then state laws, then an Article V convention.
It's not strange. The last thing a poor Mexican in a foreign country thinks about is whether their ingredients are authentic enough. You buy what's readily available.
> why should google care?

Well, if "we" want to prevent a scenario where Alice provides wrong/loose identification to Bob and Bob accepts it, there is only really two realistic ways to do so: force Alice to not do this, or force Bob to check (maybe with "our" aid). Or do you propose having Victor who would regularly come by Bob and check all of the new identifications provided from the all of Alices in the meantime?
Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39028122
Here is an example of my ideal self-contained document format [1]. It's a self-extracting ZIP which can also be read as a PNG image.

[1] https://gildas-lormeau.github.io/
From what I remember of the Xbox 360 days it was seen as a great console vs. the PS3, and the Xbox Live service was seen as far superior, and was popular.
So far as I know there is no theoretical alternative to load shedding or increasing handling capacity if your average request arrival rate is greater than your average request handling rate. At least, not if you want to handle every accepted request using a finite queue[1]. It would appear that with an unbounded queue every request will eventually be handled, but with an unbounded latency guarantee. Which appears equivalent to “grinds to a halt” for sufficient n.

However, that may very well change with fair queueing. If unbounded queue storage is available and you can prioritize requests in a timely fashion, then instead of shedding excess requests they can go into unbounded queue limbo instead while still meeting the SLA for priority requests. I imagine there is developed queueing theory for that.

[1] I have been taught here though that classical queuing theory isn’t adequate for all cases. I think it is here, but I will gratefully accept correction if I’m wrong.