skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Monotonic version relies on locking to avoid conflicts. Not applicable in this case.
SNL's Stefon character on this article:

"This one has everything:

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:-) <g> :-)

https://www.google.com/search?q=snl+stefon

Disclaimer: Submitted for comedy purposes only! :-) <g> :-)

Related (how I generated the above word list from the article text):

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/671487/grep-to-extr...
No!

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0 1 2

That diagram represents a length of 2, not a length of 3, see? Here's three:

X--X--X--X
0 1 2 3

It's not that the hazelnuts are somehow imperfectly laid out or are an imperfect representation. It's wrong in principle, not practice (I mean it's wrong in practice too but every representation is).
Isn't that basically arguing "Don't talk to me about statistics, I want to talk about this one specific data point"?

Bridges on the whole are pretty clearly better built and safer today then they were 130 years ago. I don't think there's any significant argument to the contrary. There are outliers in both directions, obviously. The old one at this site looks like it was pretty great. The new one sucked. That doesn't say much about why that was true, just that it was.
Judging from how often Kagi comes up here (HN), I actually thought they were far bigger than they are.
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That's not what they said in their update to the documentation[0] last week, which says that "although using libsystemd is a good choice, this protocol can also be reimplemented without external dependencies".

It calls it a "good choice". Did they say somewhere else that no-one should do it despite it supposedly being a good choice?

[0] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/32030/files
Yeah Alberta has very little hydro, while Ontario/Quebec/BC have lots, so our electricity generates a lot more carbon.
Does open source software count as a publication?
Isn't that apple news+?
Billionaire Winklevoss twins invest in ninth-tier football club
All news is political.
Greeted with message box "This is a subscriber exclusive story".
That seems like a bizarre way of framing it. It's the much higher current costs that are the deterrent.
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There's still the cost of reviewing bad code. If the task was "completed" but you have to spend 20 mins looking over the code or the whole 1-hour-long process to "understand" what it did, it still failed.
I think you’re operating under the assumption that all people should live in big cities.

I think it’s fine if cities get too expensive; people just need to wake up to the idea of “this place is too expensive for me”.

There are lots of very affordable houses in the Midwest, but everyone seems to want to be a star in Hollywood or a financier in New York (no matter how delusional they are).
$40/year for the WaPo and you can pay with PayPal or Apple. You don’t give them any more money than any other online vendor.
What is mystifying to me is why governments allow air conditioners without that reversing valve to be installed. A simple change, and the more people installing a heat pump the cheaper those valves get.
I'm pretty sure bird-safe windows are a solved technology at this point.
I played Nethack a lot on my Atari ST. Took me quite a while to figure out why I could never get past level 1. "You are blocked by a mysterious force!".

The best way to keep viruses off your computer is always use diskettes with write protection on. Only remove the write protection when you actually want to write something to the diskette. It's just a small physical tab you slide to the side.

The game magically started working one day when I moved it to a ramdisk on my new Atari STe with lots of memory. Turns out that Nethack needs to write Level 1 to disk before it can allow you down to Level 2 in the dungeon... What a wonderful error message? :-)
Google apps script already lets you write http handlers...

They seem pretty powerful.
> ps, I 100% could prompt Claude to rebut every sentence in your post

Yes. That should give you pause, and is why I included the above.

It will happily confirm your priors for you, even incorrectly. Like when it told you the article didn’t say anything about privacy.
> Student loans in the US are very predatory.

Do you mean the loans are predatory, or the people who sell them? Like any financial product, they have at times been sold fraudulently--but this is already illegal and you can get remedy through the courts.

I've heard the loans being called predatory because they are interest-only loans. But, if you have the discipline, interest-only loans are an excellent tool for managing risk.

For example, I got an interest-only mortgage on my house when I moved to the valley. I felt better about joining a startup, because I knew I could ratchet down my monthly spend if I had to do an extended job search.

Of course, this means that you have to have the discipline to pay more than the minimum each month when you are getting a paycheck. Ideally, you should pay until it hurts, because the faster you pay down the principle the sooner you are free.

Yes, this means you'll have to buy fewer SUV's, or no SUVs at all and take the bus. Yes, you won't be able to eat out every meal--or perhaps any meal. I feel for you, I've been there, but that's life. Welcome to the wonderful world of being an adult.

If, after graduating from high school, you can't do enough math to compare the monthly student loan payments with the monthly income of your chosen major, well, that's on you. You should have payed more attention in school.

If, after graduating from college, you don't have the critical thinking skills to know that you need to pay down the principle on your loan--or it will eventually explode, well, that's on you too.

In either case, if you don't have the self-discipline to manage your money effectively, it doesn't matter how much money the government gives you.
>What exactly is being "monetized" when a search result is displayed for a news article

The article is part of the overall content that Google displays in its search results. And, of course, Google monetizes its search results with ads.
While those save money, most people don't really use a lot of hot water and so the amount they can save is limited.
Fuck it, why not, you might be able to help me with something. I'll send you an email.
I'm really not sure why this is popping up here, but we may as well exchange information: who has actually used secure those enclave-like solutions? I mean various kinds of setups where some userspace code is in a way more privileged than kernel code (insofar as access to that process' memory goes).
owning a merch production operation end-to-end is not owning a fulfillment service. it says production operation end to end. read that again. do you know what "production" means?
Do you know if it would be possible to create a new client and create something completely different than wow or is it fundamentally tied to wow gameplay ?
It's a feature of visual design, something that's reasonably important to a desktop environment.

You may not like material design (I personally could take it or leave it), but visual design itself matters.
Tesla drops FSD price to $99 per month in US
while you two bicker others pocket rents and go to the bar with their local politicians' assistants. Fortunes have reliably been made around the world, while intellectuals split hairs
We have to understand democracy as a continuously regenerating culture and set of institutions, not just that we vote once in a while.

The culture is about how much we actually care about democracy / believe it can actually work. I think this is still pretty strong in the US, compared to say Russia where everyone is pretty blackpilled on it, as their its completely illegitimately, whereas ours is highly flawed at the nat'l level and decent at the local level.

However, we've been in a civic engagement decline since the 1970's. See the book: "Bowling Alone" on the waning participation in gov't, civil society, and community organizations / clubs since then. Also Putman's latest "The Upswing"

Part of this is entropy: the post WWII solidarity was never going to last a few generations, and all orgs (US gov't) and codebase (constitution, US Code) get shittier over time.

However, a large part of it has also been deliberate. Since the days of FDR, there was been a revolt from the leaders of American business (once literally planning a coup against FDR [3]), but usually in a more systematic way of a diverse influence campaign led by many of the same American business oligarchs [4], who created / funded the expansion of entire philosophies of neoliberalism, libertarianism, etc. to justify their positions.[5]

The point being to create an elaborate social and philosophic system that morphed "don't tax / regulate us" into a kind of pro-social philosophy that was more political palatable, which remaining inherently anti-democratic, as their main period of operations in the 1930-1970s went strongly against the electorate's interests.

The 80's Reagan Revolution and the Democratic Party's reaction to it in 1985, the DLC (Democratic Leadership Council)[6], essentially were the institutionalization of this philosophy into both parties, as the neoliberals had won.

The Koch's, etc. then started a new era of even more blatant anti-democratic efforts [7] that gave us Citizens United [8], etc., which of course has changed the game in unlocking infinite money into politics, which now has essentially disenfranchised the country at the national level so thoroughly, that research by Princeton [9] clearly shows that politicians' actions are not at all correlated to the average person, whereas they are significantly correlated to wealth people / interest groups.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Bowling-Alone-Collapse-American-Commu...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Upswing-America-Together-Century-Agai...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Hands-Kim-Phillips-Fein-aud...

[5] https://www.amazon.com/Road-Mont-P%C3%A8lerin-Neoliberal-Col...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council

[7] https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Money-Jane-Mayer-audiobook/dp/B0...

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

[9] https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-...
Yes, significant part of our effort is to build technology that detects LLM spam. We have a working model that detects LLM generated text with 90% accuracy currently. The plan is to integrate in search results and make available as an API.
AFAIK, the news media is dying because it was taken over by malicious short-term focused MBAs that turned all of it into crap.

Honestly, I don't know what 5 successful companies you are talking about, but it's true that it's being replaced by lots and lots of small players that don't look anything like "big journalism".
It's worth trying even against the odds.
In can be with RLBox[0], which compiles the code to WebAssembly and then back to C. It's used in Firefox to sandbox various format parsing libraries.

[0] https://rlbox.dev/
I have a six day old copy of the repository at 'https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cS0uXgXdBjkI1ExmUr4ma23FGCw...' and 'https://ibiza.seedhost.eu/smugchicken/filebrowser/api/public...'.

git log:

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Add Nordwest Zeitung

Fix Capital.fr (videos)
sounds like Slow Horses. Though I could easily see it being a 007 plot line
You are really pushing the definition of "victim" by claiming that being in the same space as someone who "isn't their best self" is something that deserves government intervention...
Streisand Effect indeed... I wasn't aware this existed but now I've saved a copy.
As someone transitioning from traditional programming to Godot and running into a myriad of "I know what I need to do, just not how to do it", I appreciate adding the source as an option.
I think part of what's going on is that it's a bit of a regionalism.

I know what it means in that context, but I would never choose to use that word. It's just not very prevalent where I live.
Palantir is the one that should be banned globally.
Yeah all those life sentences for meth, heroin and cocaine distribution have really done a number on our drug problem!!!! /s

Our country's drug use continues to go up despite having the most draconian punishments for drug dealing of western nations. Perhaps the problem has zero to do with punishment and is moreso a reflection of our very unhealthy society, physically and mentally.. just a though.

Don't worry the reddit and HN experts (morons) calling for public executions for drug dealers will get their way eventually and we will finally have our drug free Utopia!!!!
Do you know of any docs on this?
There so far haven't been any steel bridges that have actually lasted centuries, even if we highly suspect that they are capable of it with the right maintenance.
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It's not that we can't build more housing, it's that all the economic output has become concentrated in a few very small areas. This means that if you want a high-paying job you have to live within those very small areas or find a niche in a rural area that pays well. The middle between those two extremes has been pretty well erased in our economy.

You can no longer live in Podunk Michigan and go down the street and get a good paying job pushing a broom at the local factory. That work is done by a contractor who pockets the wage and gives a quarter of it to their employees. Or the factory closed because it was cheaper to build and ship widgets from somewhere else. So everyone has to either suffer the economic depression, drive for an hour or two to go to work, or move. This housing crisis is the end result of our economic policies of the last 40 or 50 years and the hollowing out of middle America and the consolidation of a lot of industries into two or three huge competitors slugging it out.

If we can fix that system and give people outside of major metros a shot at making a decent living again then the housing crisis would disappear. There are plenty of cities across the entire US that are tearing down houses because nobody wants to live in them and otherwise they become animal nests. Meanwhile there's a housing crisis on the coasts.

One thing I'd like to see is a federal payroll tax credit for remote workers. That would do a lot to reverse the "return to office" mandates of the last couple of years. If you disperse a bunch of bright and talented people into the middle of the country, at least some of them will find ventures locally that bloom into something big.
Sounds about right. I recall reading a book about Kubrick 15 years ago in which the author/interviewer visited his house and was left alone in Stanley's study for a few minutes. As he walked around the room and examined the (fully stocked) bookcases he realized that every single book in the room was about Napoleon.
> I wanted a rugged computer enclosure for my Raspberry Pi,

Is this intended towards like a prepper type scenario? Or what is the envisioned use case of a rugged pi?

Or just cool factor?
I don't understand how to make a rectangle of size 5.
I have fond memories of reading his essays, notably Shooting an Elephant [1]. They left a vivid impression on me when I was younger.

[1] https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
I don't know what to say, exceptn such rampant fraud and miscreantic activity is the problem.

And that has nothing to do with paper ballots.

Here, you'd end up in jail for those things, and trickery wouldn't get you out of it. And you'd get caught too, because members of your own party would turn you in.
>Let's stop trying to pick a side here... Maybe it's more of a symbiotic relationship.

There's definitely some symbiosis here, but it's ultimately Google that's dependent on the news (and other) sites' content, which it gets for free. That is, the news sites (and other content providers) could exist without Google. But, Google could not exist without their content.

At least that's my observation. So, I wasn't picking a side as much as earnestly asking how OP concluded that its the news sites wanting something free from Google versus the other way around.
Pokemon Go: Bosnia players warned of minefields (2016)
I used Google Sheets as a data source that business people could update, but eventually we moved away from it as we found it unreliable. We would get an occasional error (maybe a 429) even though we were polling the sheet once a minute (we had a few other sheets that polled once every few minutes).

This manifested as an issue when doing a deploy but being unable to get critical data. We added retries and stuff like that but it seemed not great to run a business of something that isn’t designed for this purpose.
As someone who deeply appreciates both art and technology, few things AI feel as satisfying as this project. Congrats on releasing and best of luck. I could totally imagine this being exhibited at a top tier museum.
Thanks for the details. Another dark pattern for FTC to monitor, https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/09/...
Don't feel bad with your Linux, my windows 10 won't run it either.
How did y'all find working in Godot? Any DX or workflow recommendations? I've bounced off it a couple times after getting impatient with slowness and other minor frictions, but I really want to like it.
Hi Peter,

Thanks for taking questions.

My cofounder and I have incorporated our startup in US. I am a US citizen and my cofounder is not a US citizen, neither lives in US. He had a valid green card but he gave that away and moved to the home country. My cofounder has majority share and also needs to draw a salary soon whereas I can wait for some time.

We are unsure of how my cofounder can be compensated without living in US and having an active work visa. We do not want to create a subsidiary company in his home country. We also do not think he can be on 1099 as he is part of the executive team and we are told that CxOs cannot be a contractor. As of right now my cofounder does not plan to return back to the US, else we could find a way to sponsor a visa for him.

Any thoughts on this would be highly appreciated.
> News websites are terrible, and it's their own fault.

To be fair they were just playing the game Google asked them to play.

> make sure the fund is actually funding journalism

I don't think you can do that. Journalism is publishing articles, sure, but it's also doing research, arranging interviews, travelling to get documents, it's a lot of street work, and a lot of it needs to be paid up front. How a fund can manage this relationship correctly based on view counts is beyond me.

Let alone.. do we want "clicks" to substitute for editorial process?

The deeply sad part about all of this is News and Broadcast have traditionally had very strong commission based internal sales operations. They have the people to go out, get advertisers, take their money, and then just /inline/ all the advertisements. They spent decades refusing to retrain or retarget this staff for the new market place.

Out of all industries that _didn't_ have to make a deal with Google Ads, it was theirs, and they just completely blew it.
Do you have some of these posts? That sounds interesting.
All of what you write is in support of the parent post suggestion "why don’t publishers stop using doubleclick and build their own?" - the larger margin Google is taking (no matter how) between advertisers and publishers, the better deal publishers can offer when telling advertisers "come to our platform directly and get the same ad placements much cheaper"..
Not always, this article describes the problem:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/database-...
It's a dumb conversation, governments shouldn't and don't have the power to "ban" software. Who cares if people think it's bad. I think tiktok is almost certainly net detrimental to society. Tough luck, so are many things, that's not how government powers have been granted.
Nah... it's "audio" without the "a" for "artists."
I don't know in what rich poor EU country you live, but in my "rich country" bridges are basically left to their own devices until a critical problem occurs and then they hastily start repairing it. In some cases they've been repairing bridges for decades that way. Some have recently finally actually been replaced or are being replaced. But nobody is going out and replacing a bridge that isn't on the brink of collapse and held up by "essentially duct tape".
https://infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/bridges-infras...

"There are more than 617,000 bridges across the United States. Currently, 42% of all bridges are at least 50 years old, and 46,154, or 7.5% of the nation’s bridges, are considered structurally deficient, meaning they are in “poor” condition. Unfortunately, 178 million trips are taken across these structurally deficient bridges every day. In recent years, though, as the average age of America’s bridges increases to 44 years, the number of structurally deficient bridges has continued to decline; however, the rate of improvements has slowed. A recent estimate for the nation’s backlog of bridge repair needs is $125 billion. We need to increase spending on bridge rehabilitation from $14.4 billion annually to $22.7 billion annually, or by 58%, if we are to improve the condition. At the current rate of investment, it will take until 2071 to make all of the repairs that are currently necessary, and the additional deterioration over the next 50 years will become overwhelming."
I have hayfever in EU. I've been living in San Francisco for the past 10y+, no hayfever here.

It's not affordable, but I'd assume the general area of north California / south Oregon should all be the same from a hayfever perspective (vice versa, I suffered hayfever in New York, so not recommended in the critical months).