skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is something that I’ve pondered from time to time. I used to have fantastic Google-fu (or alternately, Google used to be fantastic, and it was them that had the fu.) I switched to DDG in 2017 or something, and initially my search results (for whatever reason) weren’t as good. After a few months I found that they were pretty good, and more so, any time I dropped back to Google when I got stuck, the results were hot garbage. I put this down to losing my Google-fu and simultaneously acquiring DDG-fu, but I do wonder…
If it were properly designed in that era, it would likely have looked more like Java than TS.
What exactly is this “ideal world,” and how could it possibly be judged as such by any standard other than reflecting whatever the democratic polity wants?
"Tame topology is the name for the largely programmatic quest for a refoundation of topology and geometry that avoids ‘pathological’ objects like space-filling curves or counter-intuitive results like the Banach-Tarski paradox that occur in the traditional approach."

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/tame+topology
This is a very cynical take.

Companies are full of people. Those people want to do good things and want to help others.

There are plenty of companies who sell vegetables, fruits, free-range eggs and beef, meal replacement shakes with full spectrum of macros & micros, packed foods for vegetarians, keto, paleo eaters.

It's not particularly companies fault that someone buys a cheeseburger instead of omelette with tomatoes or whole grain sandwich with turkey & lettuce. Options are there no matter where you live.

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I agree with teaching kids about nutrition and impacts of obesity. That makes 100% sense.
Not disagreeing with you, but it's worth noting that tuples support random O(n) access by index. They can therefore be used in place of arrays for some simple applications.
How do you decide what’s “better?”
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Unsure why they would do this considering the EV know-how they have under their umbrella ... I mean, Porsche to start with, Rimac... Maybe eyeing another brand to collect.

I'm all for it. The more Tesla competitors the better. I need them to be healthy. I'm probably about 5 years away from buying an EV (I just don't believe in the current crop and I've tested quite a few) and I'm not willing to be a guinea pig.
Ruby is just a bad technology - very slow, brittle, extremely messy the moment a codebase becomes larger than trivial, not ideal package management, unproductive. It was made work by many great engineers that would have either had more success with a different technology or would have spent less effort in achieving their goals with it. Pick C# or Kotlin with ASP.NET Core or Ktor and be faster at shipping both the initial prototype and then managing the product after years of growth, while enjoying 10x difference in server resources utilization.

But frankly your sentiment on C# is so unhinged that I don't even know where to start.
I've found the Code Review Stack Exchange to be pretty good for this sort of upskilling: https://codereview.stackexchange.com/?tab=month
Probably designed with ITIL processes and UML diagrams. That sort of thing is popular in Germany.
Somehow, the linked URL changes after submission.

The full URL of the article is: https://www.icis.com/explore/resources/news/2024/06/25/11011...
The r1 is not just not-their-first, it's a pivot that reuses code from their earlier endeavours. (which itself is fine, like, that's what you'd expect from a pivot, it's just that their PR strategy relies on claiming those past projects are wholly unrelated.)

When they rug-pulled GAMA (after selling a bunch of NFTs), as consolation prize they "open sourced"[0] a few things.

One of their many promises was that their space-station "metaverse" would have "Quantum Engine AI Integration" (letting you talk to NPCs, among other things). They released a lightly edited Unreal Engine game template (the "metaverse"), along side a file named `api.yml`[1] which documents an AsyncAPI[2] API (the "AI integration"). There is no actual integration, the API spec is just positioned adjacent to the Unreal project - there's a note in the README that amounts to "integrate it yourself".

The back-end component was never open-sourced, and they've long since shut down the API server, but based on the docs, the API used by the r1 is clearly a direct evolution of that design.

As for the R1's API, there is no documentation, but I partially reverse-engineered it and wrote some docs of my own[3], which is enough to see the similarities.

[0] https://github.com/gamaspacestation/

[1] https://github.com/gamaspacestation/gss_release/blob/main/ap...

[2] https://www.asyncapi.com/

[3] https://gist.github.com/DavidBuchanan314/aafce6ba7fc49b19206...
Blame your package manager, not Elixir? Its one command to install on Arch for example.
Yes, but they include a box for news in the first page. I assume 90% of people who search for google /facebook/youtube intend to go to the site itself. And if they want specifics they just type in the additional keywords.
so this would be

Facebook trustworthiness
Facebook stock
Facebook app
Facebook account setup help

. I guess google is no longer a "search engine" as in doing a keyword search across multiple webpages and returning the matches, but an AI powered answer engine that guesses what you want based on your keywords and only returns those results.
To my mind GR (or at least the standard textbook version of it, anyway) _assumes_ that space-time is continuous, it does not _imply_ it as such. Continuity is baked into the foundations of any physical theory that is expressed in the language of differential equations.

You probably know this, but it's easy to confuse the map (a physical theory) with the territory (reality, which is far more complicated).
I mean, on Windows with the official Teams, I see "Person is visibly talking, but there's no audio (and did not mute themselves accidentally)" multiple times a week. So, yeah, going from that baseline, that's surely "supported".
It depends on how cheaper the total solution is and how available the hardware is. If I can't get Nvidia hardware less than six months after I get AMD hardware, I have a couple months to port my software to AMD and still beat my competitor that's waiting for Nvidia. It's always a matter of how many problems can you solve for a given amount of money x time.
Not just wage disparities, but also time / location.

Quickly going through CCTV footage from a ride to catch "unusual things" takes much less time than driving. Even if somebody had to watch the entire ride at 1x speed and just one ride at a time, there's no need to do it when the car is idle or driving to pick up the next passenger. You can also hire a lot less watchers than you have drivers, because a surge in demand in one city can be serviced by watchers in many other cities. There's no need for night shifts either, you can make everybody work 9-to-5 in whatever timezone they're at.
We drive an ID.5. Apart from the UX, the outdated visual design language – is the interface also horrendously slow in yours? I have very noticeable lag when interacting with it, sometimes it takes even a second to respond to input.

If it weren't for the insanely good driving experience (coming from a VW Polo before), the software would have definitely convinced us to go for another car.
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> What global players does Russia have any significant influence over?

China, N. Korea, probably Vietnam, India'll listen to them, possibly more in s.e. Asia, and they're expanding their influence in Africa (by supplying mercenary armies).

They play the game differently than the US (at the very least: with other countries), but that does not make them a 2nd rate power.
Also checkout Ably LiveSync, works with postgres and makes some different (potentially simpler) tradeoffs
The two are entirely separate for me.

I'm not sure why I have to weigh them up against each other.
IRC scaled well for its time but it didn't have today's population. Also remember that we could download every movie and game for free at one point.

Likely decentralized networks might end up like web3 or torrents.

You're also likely to get partially centralized communities again like 4chan or the more extreme 8chan, or something fairly sustainable like Something Awful.
I think this is what all the BNPL startups claim to be doing except they see worse losses than the OG banks/credit card issuers that use FICO, etc...
I think you are marketing this thing wrong.

This has very little to do with helm. For me helm is primarily not a package manager, its a templating language and a way of configuring and installing it to a k8s cluster happens through kubeapps, helm cli or argocd.

This approach also kills for me the really awesome IaC paradigma: I bootstrap ArgoCD and after that, reference only git repos.

Your demo doesn't talk about HOW someone would use your templating features (like your 'form' support) but shows everything besides that.

I honestly like this as i'm still having the feeling that something is wrong with helm, but the way you are approaching it, i think it will fail. It will not gain enough traktion as bigger companies do not need your tooling. Kubeapps works really well and helm too (you want to replace helm, you probably will keep the helm support in there for a long time).

The problems helm have is: its getting convoluted when helm charts become big. The templating folder is a shit place for basically having everything in there, yaml is not that good for templating and values.yamls become way to big.
In addition to the obvious, Windows feels like a neglected ecosystem. They pile on new, half-baked features without fixing what’s already present and broken for years.

Try searching for a file by name. Third-parties have had this figured out for years and yet Microsoft can’t deliver accurate or quick results.

Two different interfaces for settings since the failed Metro experiment. The jarring introduction of old NT menus where they haven’t updated a setting to the new UI.

I could go on, but the author has done a good job of cataloguing a broken product.
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Unrelated, but what’s up with the lowercase texts?
I'd pay extra both to serve and to receive incredibly niche ads that would only show up for long tail queries.

That was the original promise of all the ad tracking, wasn't it? Outrageously accurate ad targeting? Reach the weirdos in your tribe wherever they are?

Now it just feels like drowning in a sea of things a bunch of giant corporations have decided everyone ought to want, and have been programming people to want en masse, rather than helping people find the unique, interesting little things they would actually want were it not for all the programming.
I hope he flushed the DNS afterwards.
OK, it was this one. https://refeed.to/feeds/CIipRO1b.xml When I pull it up in an RSS extension it doesn't come up either, just the XML comes up.
Everyone should read https://learnyousomeerlang.com
> At the end of the day it should only matter if Microsoft's practices are hurting consumers rather than their competitors.

Focusing on short term repercussions for consumers has significantly hurt long term consumer interests and there is evidence that it hurt the economy in general. In the decades preceding the 1980s it was generally understood that competition itself is a necessity for effective free markets and that extreme power concentration (as we e.g. see today in the IT sector) is hard to reconcile with efficient markets and political freedom.

See [1] for details, here is an excerpt:

> An emerging group of young scholars are inquiring whether we truly benefitted from competition with little antitrust enforcement. The mounting evidence suggests no. New business formation has steadily declined as a share of the economy since the late 1970s. “In 1982, young firms [those five-years old or younger] accounted for about half of all firms, and one-fifth of total employment,” observed Jason Furman, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. But by 2013, these figures fell “to about one-third of firms and one-tenth of total employment.” Competition is decreasing in many significant markets, as they become concentrated. Greater profits are falling in the hands of fewer firms. “More than 75% of US industries have experienced an increase in concentration levels over the last two decades,” one recent study found. “Firms in industries with the largest increases in product market concentration have enjoyed higher profit margins, positive abnormal stock returns, and more profitable M&A deals, which suggests that market power is becoming an important source of value.” Since the late 1970s, wealth inequality has grown, and worker mobility has declined. Labor’s share of income in the nonfarm business sector was in the mid-60 percentage points for several decades after WWII, but that too has declined since 2000 to the mid-50s. Despite the higher returns to capital, businesses in markets with rising concentration and less competition are investing relatively less. This investment gap, one study found, is driven by industry leaders who have higher profit margins.

[1] https://archive.is/HEik3#selection-1737.0-1737.346 (original: https://hbr.org/2017/12/the-rise-fall-and-rebirth-of-the-u-s... )
We do appreciate your sacrifice, here in the EU.
If your developers can't manage to create sensible commits then do you really want them to make code changes? Workflows with linear history made up of logical commits "scale" just fine, you just need to train your developers accordingly.
They did yes, after quite a few funding campaigns targeted at their users. I felt quite bitter about that and I fell for the hype myself.
It’s funny you mention German law, because technically the law in Germany is that abortion violates the right to life guaranteed in the Basic Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Constitutional_Court_ab...

It is in fact technically still illegal, with some formal exceptions to punishment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Germany
I mentally translate "up to" as "less than", maybe it should be a browser extension.
As did I. The comments confused me.

"Yes, many billion dollar wallets are lost, I don't know how digging at historic sites is going to be of help"
And justifying more than a decade of home arrest to deactivate that tick bomb before the new elections. The man looks 40 years older.
> Why should iOS be considered a "general purpose" OS? Because people consider it as such.

I don't.

No more than I consider NetApp OS or OneFS general purpose, even though both are based/built on BSD (I've SSHed into OneFS CLI often in my last job)

At least with Apple/iOS (not sure about Android), phones and tablets were purposefully designed to be appliances from the very beginning.
> In the future, when you're old and quite possibly disabled, you might rethink the whole "walkable cities" thing.

I am disabled, and like many other disabled people, I can't drive a car. Often times as people age they also lose the ability to drive a car safely.

That is precisely why walkable neighborhoods are so important to old and disabled people.
Where is there a “right to bodily autonomy” in the constitution, and where does it say such a right overrides the legislature’s power to define the scope of homicide law? Roe got it from Griswold and Griswold got it from “penumbras.” It’s constitutional “law” from the mid-20th century, when old white men could just pull things out of their butt and say “that’s the law.” It’s like psychology before it was scientific and empirical.

What’s “reactionary” about believing that stuff that’s in the constitution is the law and stuff that isn’t isn’t? The “right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” is not only in the Constitutional text, but gets its own whole-ass amendment. (And nobody is dropping any words. It says “militia” not “military.” The militia was a bring-your-own-gun concept at the time the second amendment was written.)
Amazon replaces 15B plastic air pillows with paper filler annually
Often I'm surprised at how I just seem to be wired differently from others - if I wanted any of the above, I'd probably search for them instead of just "facebook".
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Ask HN: What's the best way to join on numerous fields with fuzzy matching?
I've been tasked with creating an API to look up a customer based on a variety of fields. A non-exhaustive list of fields could look something like:

- customer_id
- customer_first_name
- customer_last_name
- customer_loan_number
- customer_phone_number
- customer_email
- customer_address
- customer_date_of_birth
- customer_zip_code

What I ultimately want is customer_id. But what I have is any combination of the subsequent fields. They might be all lowercase, they might not. There might be type-os. The phone number might have parentheses and dashes, it might not.

The address and zip are also wonky - for example customer_zip_code may look like XXXXX-YYYY, or it may just be XXXXX.

And example query would be: given customer_first_name and customer_last_name and customer_address, find the customer_id. The customer_last_name might be lowercase in the query and uppercase in the main database. The customer_address in the query might be "123 Main St" but in the database it might be "123 MAIN STREET".

And the data is in the 100m-1000m rows size, so this has to run reasonably quickly with that in mind. Can't just do a "select * where [x = y] and [p = q] and [t = s]". Would like to pre-load the big table in RAM, and then somehow look up the matches.

Because this almost definitely a common problem in our industry, I was wondering, is there some kind of good database already pre-optimized for this kind of fuzzy lookup?
I agree it's click baity. My personal favorite related moment, where I felt strongly "the future is now" was when I connected to a research station running autonomously on the Greenland ice sheet... while flying over the Greenland ice sheet to the UK last month. I was able to debug a software problem via satellite link while hurtling through the air in a tin can. Blew my mind. The latency was about 8 seconds, which was painful.
That doesnt back up your claim of these reusable bags piling up in landfills, it says it’s not as clean cut as it being better.
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May I suggest you read the book "adults in the room". The author has his faults but the notion that any bank bailout and debt repackagings mean that the rest of the EU (cough, Germany) is subsidising Greece is deeply misguided. As I see it Greece is massively subsidising by taking the brunt of migrant crises, camps and humanitarian conundrums...
It feels very impractical indeed. Also the size of the binary to load the compiled wasm. All this would be much better done on the server and if really needed, users may be given a way to download results (ideally with their own preferred tool for fetching files)
Here's what I would search for for each of those.

facebook

facebook wiki

facebook movie

facebook stock (though I of course know the ticker symbol is FB, so I'd just type that into Yahoo Finance and it would know how to handle that)

edit: I guess it's a reflection of my distrust of Google/most (all?) large companies - I really don't like it when they guide me in any direction other than what I've specified because I'm pretty sure it's some dark pattern designed to relieve me of my money.
I would point out that "400% increase in mortgage credit check fees" sounds probably a lot worse than the actual number - which is like.. $150 at the time you are getting a mortgage. Of all the fees associated with buying your average $400k home, I don't think the $150 credit check fee is the big pain point.

Title insurance is a much bigger scam/cost. The various state & local taxes at closing are orders of magnitude higher. Not to mention brokers fees (which are somewhat being handled as of late).
And drop the infamous 10-row tables with infinite scrolling “because loading 1000 rows is ultra expensive”. Hint: It’s not, but you are using React.
And if you care about each commit always passing all test you should change your CI config accordingly.
Well the problem is that anti-"discrimination" laws will kill that startup if that "well defined subset of consumers" doesn't have enough black people.

Same reason IQ tests are banned and credit scores are only allowed to consider like 7 factors.
I don't think it's such a bad idea, actually. There's value in having something that can drive in a "train", but that can also disconnect when needed and drive on its own.

If you're driving long distance, you get the advantages of a train, but door-to-door, with no scheduling conflicts and no egregious stop times. If your destination is 5 minutes away, it's still a car.
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Looking at comments:

"Kind of a way of turning something obvious on its head and painting it as a negative."

"This research smells so bad. It does not read as professional science at all."

"The term "Conspiracy Theory" itself needs more scrutiny, IMO."

"The question I ask with these studies is "what is a conspiracy?", because there is a big difference between people who think the world is flat and people who think there is something fishy about, say, the Jeff Epstein saga. "

Yep, all 4 i agree with. They all have similar foundations of complaint. That the quality of this study is nowhere near good. Therefore flaggable.

This isn't really a scientific study, it's a political statement. They went in looking for a conclusion and fit their data to it.
> sitting all day working on problems that don't matter to enrich billionaires comes with it's own problems

Yes, my point is that every job has its own problems.

And everybody who’s dissatisfied thinks they’d prefer the situation somebody else has — and tend to overlook the problems that come with it.

“I hate solving a billionaire’s problems at a computer, I’d rather work with my hands.” Vs. “I hate how much my hands hurt, I’d love to just work at a computer.”

> Primarily that almost everyone that works in such unnatural conditions ends up a slave to the system, mentally ill, and severe drug abuse

It’s lucky that nobody who’s ever worked a blue collar job has gotten into trouble with drugs.
I don’t mean for this to sound condescending or dismissive, BUT if you don’t think Helm is primarily a package manager you haven’t worked with infrastructure deployed in k8s much.
Car manufacturers' interconnecion is amazing by itself. Direct "competitors" share engines, gear boxes [1], or the whole vehicle [2] (modifying just interior and badges, of course). Seems like they adopt the same strategy as laptop manufacturers did (though likely the other way around) - cheap and middle range cars are OEM ones, especially commercial vehicules (made under someone's license with minimum modifications), while only high-end are independently developed.

1. Aisin owned by Toyota provides gearboxes to VW, Skoda, GM, Nissan, et al:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Aisin_transmissions

2. Same car, different badges: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Renault_Trafic&... (see "Also called")
> China [...] India'll listen

Russia is at the mercy of China. China can operate independently of them, same as India. They are trading partners, but it's a very asymmetrical relationship.

> N.Korea, probably Vietnam, [...] possibly more in s.e. Asia, and they're expanding their influence in Africa (by supplying mercenary armies).

As with all the countries they do have like some (though debatably not substantial) leverage over, they're in the global south, and most certainly not 1st rate powers.
There has to be reason for that. Youtube obviously has smart engineers so they must be doing it on purpose. It is so frustrating though.
Also, elixir team decided to deprecate single-quotes for charlists. No more single quotes (charlist, only for erlang interop) vs double quotes (binary string, used everywhere in elixir) surprises