skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, I do both actually.

Also “don’t recommend channel” for truly obnoxious ones. I follow through 3-4 of their videos so that they start to appear in the side column and then kill it from there, removing all traces afterwards.

In my experience,

- Don’t recommend channel - strong flag, but doesn’t modify “interests”.

- Not interested - removes this exact video with a very low key tuning of recommendations, if at all.

- Dislike - a slightly pronounced signal for recommendations. But still clueless cause no info on why.

- Like - you’ll drown in content similar to this, but not the same quality. Get ready to shovel it and miss your previous interests completely.

- Comment - similar to like.

The default careless youtube experience without all that stopped working around 5 years ago (at least). Can’t imagine using it as is and not degenerating into something inhuman.
Woah, it works with multiple fingers! This is wild for pure JS. Interestingly, more fingers means more lag, I guess more stuff being sent between threads.
Sure, but that’s a subset of what a search bar does. For YouTube, they are very likely getting queries like “funny cat,” “Taylor swift,” “prank,” etc. Those are not factual spearfishing queries, and ranking the results is a pitched battle between the people who want to drive general engagement, the people who want to promote specific categories, the people who are targeting demographic cohorts and want to push those results, the monetization people, etc etc.
Wouldn't aircraft carriers be able to shoot
down slow cruise missiles extremely easily?

The carrier group as a whole can, yeah. Lots of complications though.

1. Lots of other types of missiles, like hypersonic ballistic missiles.

2. You generally shoot down missiles with missiles. Your carrier group has a finite supply of missiles. I believe it's around a few hundred. There are close-in weapons systems but they're kind of a last resort and I don't know if they can counter ballistic missiles.

3. A carrier group can only shoot down X targets at a time. Nobody knows the exact value of X. But imagine dozens or hundreds of missiles, drones, etc. at once.

4. Even if you don't hit the carrier it can't take off and land planes while undertaking evasive maneuvers. (see the Battle of Midway for an early example)

And even a direct hit wouldn't come close to sinking
an aircraft carrier. You'd probably need a dozens of
direct hits.

Common theme in warfare: you don't have to destroy the thing. You just have to take it out of commission. In the case of an aircraft carrier, if you can damage the flight deck, radars, etc... you get the idea.
Same happens in the St Lawrence river / seaway in Canada.
Yep. It's unwise to embark on new ventures half-heartedly, without thinking ahead to their market potential, or without derisking them by experimenting before going into production, only to then yank the rug out from the team so quickly. It's Google-like dilettancy, or like Meta's Portal and Workplace.
That's super lame. I have been organizing for a meetup for years and don't think I've ever run into this.

I guess the easiest way to stop that would be to ask everyone who wants to present to come to at least one meetup before they do so. Would filter these folks out real quick.
i use uMatrix and I'm well familiar with the Cloudflare "are you human" steps... I am not encountering the problem you describe, and Cloudflare is not listed as being involved on the dashboard
It’s the least worse option of the two options. And yes it’s been useful to reduce coal. But it’s still not good enough.

Countries who don’t rely on methane gas (there’s no need to call it natural gas) have substantially lower co2 emissions.

So yes methane gas is a big driver of climate change.
The way I understood it, it's more like the opposite. That is if you feed the non-linear layers "dense" data, ie with higher intrinsic dimension, they perform better. Thus, you could potentially get by using a smaller non-linear layers by "condensing" the input before passing it through the non-linear layers.
To be clear, I wasn't disagreeing -- just adding another (admittedly US-centric) factor in the decision-making process!
It's funny to call Subliming "fucking right off." Not inaccurate, but doesn't really have the same ring to it :P
The book Loonshots says as much. Extrapolating from monkey brain sizes to human social interactions is a bit reminiscent of phrenology IMO, but it is an interesting observation. Anecdotally, I've found it to hold true, particularly in startup land when companies transition into blitzscaling hypergrowth.
At this point sell-brick-refund is starting to sound like a capital-raising model. Get cash and customer data and maybe some other buy in and then return it after 1 year. Keep profits.
That's not what happens in the browser at all.

The JS engine - about 1/3 of the browser engine, ish - is tightly coupled to the GC through-and-through. Let's even assume you have a JS engine that doesn't JIT. (If it did JIT then rewriting it in a memory safe language isn't going to do much for you at all.) The interpreter, the runtime, and the libraries are going to have to be making decisions on behalf of the GC (for stuff like weak maps, at least) and is going to have to play along with the GC's tracing (every class in the JS engine participates in the JS GC and so must tell the GC how to mark - or worse, move - outgoing references).

The rest of the browser has to play along as well, just not as much. The DOM is basically JS's "standard library" within the browser and it also needs to have its objects play along with the GC's semantics.

So, maybe there is code out there where the GC can be an island. The browser is not that.
Python supports extensions. Maybe a better way than translating text files?
Certainly! There was a young lady named Gloria
The parent’s post describes how it could work.

I may recall incorrectly but AppleScript may be an example: some file formats are serialized ASTs. The editor displays it as textual code. A downside of this is that you can’t save a syntactically invalid file.
> Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, was a research assistant of Goldberg while a student at the University of Waterloo

dang. i hope he invested
Why So Many Bitcoin Mining Companies Are Pivoting to AI
so when do we get WebBLAS and WebFORTRAN?

kinda joking, kinda not.
Anything more you can say on the topic? Does it make it a poor book? Where was the author wrong?
> on the top of it Prime is not even worth it anymore.

I had been thinking about cancelling, when something happened that made me disappointed in their customer service, something that used to be top of the line for Amazon. Didn’t even get offered a free month of Prime for their fuckup. Made the decision easy.

But since then, they’ve been incessant, trying to get me to buy Prime again on literally every order. At least now it’s up to 1 free month if I come back, at first they tried 1 free week. I know, I know, "ads always and forever work", and if I say anything else I’m some arrogant idiot, but this is once again advertising that leaves a sour taste in my mouth and is certainly something I remember.
Hottest Place on Earth Lies Somewhere Between Folklore, the Desert and the City
Me neither.

If anything, a combination seems like the better option when we’re talking a feature that is almost never used triggered by exposed buttons on a device that spends most of its life in people’s pocket.

If I accidentally turned my phone off in my pocket as often as I seem to accidentally hit buttons on my car key fob, it’d drive me fucking bonkers.

The extra button presses the once or twice a year (if that) I intentionally turn my phone off is really not much of an inconvenience, comparatively.
They could have said "only X were sold". Or X sold, where X is a very low" number".

Instead, they went with an abitrary low number and declared it to be arbitrary.

const ILLUSTRATIVE_LOW_SALES = 30

Seems fine to me.
According to the Matt Blaze article, the Radio Havana numbers station sends 3 messages per hour. At the start of the transmission, three 5-digit message identifiers are sent for the 3 messages to be transmitted.

My guess is there's some cryptographic structure to these indicators that tells agents if the messages are for them, so they can shut down their listening early if none of the three messages are for them. If it were otherwise, I would expect each indicator group to be before (or inserted at a secret agent-specific offset within each message) each message. If you listen to the mp3 recording linked from Matt's article, you'll notice that the three indicator groups are repeated before the actual messages begin. Presumably the repetition is to guard against the indicator groups being garbled, since if the indicator group gets garbled, the whole message is garbled. On the other hand, a garbled regular message group would only result in a few characters of the plaintext being garbled.

Placing the indicator groups at constant (and secret) per-agent offsets within the messages has been known since at least WWII. In the case of an OTP, having a secret offset of the indicator group makes it harder to detect if the fatal error of pad reuse has been made. In the case of other ciphers, making the location of the indicator group secret also complicates cryptanalysis.

It wouldn't make sense to separate out the indicator groups like that unless it provides some operational advantage to offset the small cryptoanalytic toehold provided by highlighting the indicator groups. Allowing agents to shut down their listening early is the most obvious advantage I can think of.

The simplest cryptographic structure (and devoid of bias if the OTP is devoid of bias) would be to simply have the indicator group be the first 5-digit group for the next page in the OTP. The agent would need to check the next several pages of their OTP to verify they hadn't missed any messages. Encrypted headers within the messages could be used to handle the rare cases of collisions across agents, rather than introduce extra stucture (weaknesses!) to prevent any two agents from ever having duplicate indicator groups across their next few pages of OTP material.

Of course, it is also possible that these repeated indicator groups at the start of the transmission are just decoys and the real indicator groups are somehow hidden within the messages in some way that provides redundancy without revealing which groups are the indicator groups. Maybe the first three groups of the OTP page are placed at 3 constant offsets within the message or something.

But, my guess is that these repeated indicator groups at the start of the transmission really are there to let the agents know that they can shut down their listening early when there are no messages for them.
I think they found the soil actually has quite a bit of water.
And one river (so far) in New Zealand - the Whanganui river (2017) [0]

[0] https://www.parliament.nz/en/get-involved/features/innovativ...
Yes, they're unrelated.
I'm almost never looking for a mailing list. I've been on the internet for 20 years and they never fill the same niche as IRC. Same for discord. mailing lists can't do what it does.
Usually when people are saying "LLMs can't reason" they are claiming they are unable to do logical inference (although the claims are often quite hard to pin down to something specific).

Yes, an 8080 is capable of reasoning. Prolog runs well, see for example: https://medium.com/@kenichisasagawa/exploring-the-wonders-of...
There is! See the following website, which has endured for about 30 years now: https://hmpg.net/
Fair point, but what's the alternative - asking woman why they didn't have children, and then coming up with an alternative theory?
Programmers would be better served by learning nothing except SQL instead of their current strategy of trying to learn everything except SQL.
The business model for FirefoxOS didn't make sense, just like the business model for WebOS didn't make sense. Android was cheaper than free to put on phones because Google was willing to share search revenue with carriers. They would not have done that on a FirefoxOS phone before it reached scale, nor would Microsoft, which was pushing its own phones.
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Caching on the web has gotten worse/more difficult recently since browsers (including Chrome and Edge) have started to partition the cache by top level site. This was necessary to keep trackers from using the cache status of a resource for tracking users, but had the side effect of making common resources much less likely to be cached.

Which is to say that if it's the first time you load a resource on a page, it most likely is not in cache. Sorry for inconvenience.
Dash came out well before alexa and several years iirc before alexa ordering. Why do I know? I did on dash reviews a few months before dash went live (hardware was in warehouses waiting to ship). 8 months later I moved to a different team and 6 months after that my old team all left what they were doing and started building ordering via alexa.
if you ever write the words "unsafe" in a rust codebase, and you are not directly needing to poke bits on some hardware, you are doing it very, very wrong.

good link you shared. i personally always went with option 2 he presents.
Earlier this year, I published a tool on GitHub to help you scrape and prerender your web app for better search engine indexing. Here's the original HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38832257

This project has now evolved into a full-fledged service called Page Replica, which I use for my own projects. If you're struggling with SEO because your web app or site takes too long to render for bots, Page Replica could be the solution you need.

Page Replica pre-renders your web pages, making them ready for search engine bots, ensuring faster indexing and better SEO performance. If you face similar challenges, give it a try and let me know your feedback!
I can only make informed guesses. My feeling is the phone was shipped as a contractual obligation on both sides. Think the Microsoft kin phone and Verizon as an analog.
Open Source Agentic Labor Marketplace
I'm willing to believe it, but do you have a citation? Google is useless here, too many results for non-ancient Rome, but when I can find one that is properly about the ancients they all claim the same thing: the Romans had things that could be considered pasta-like (pancakes used for a sort of lasagna dish) but those were not actually the ancestors of Italian noodles.
Should write a PEG grammar.
Ultimately, not attractive enough in whatever category. For some reason, you MAANGs are oblivious to how desirable those company names and salaries are to women... Just too demure, I guess.
I have my Android phone's power button set up to turn on/off the flashlight feature with a double click. It's immensely convenient. I have a low-end Samsung A23 5G.
I think if a field in a JSONB column is used frequently in the most common query patterns, it might be time to "surface" it up among other non-JSONB relational columns. There will be some additional overhead e.g. it should be made a read-only column for consistency's sake; if you update the value of this field in the JSONB column, this surfaced column should also be updated.

However, a bit of duplication is not a terrible trade-off for significantly improved query performance.
I was just making a statement on depth so was not expecting a actual explanation but thank you for that. I personally have a hangout where terminology makes things seem harder than it is, I just have to dig in and learn the terms and then things fall into place.

Anyway appreciate the indepth answer.
> what does a discord server offer to you that a mailing list does not for your technical user group

Having to click on multiple links to just make sense of a conversation?

It's the reason I can't even get myself to follow places like NANOG and LKML; because the experience is just so painful. It makes you almost immediately want to disengage from the subject matter.
She’s not wrong just don’t judge Orleans Parish by it.
Depends on how you set it up apparently, I assume it changed over time:

preload= "metadata" - is the default which is 2-3% of the video.

preload="none" - no video will be downloaded on page load

preload="auto" - the entire video is downloaded. (Some browsers do not do this, and only download partial videos anyway)
Here's some contrarian optimism. Assume google doesn't lead anywhere anymore. SEO won. Enshittification factor 0.999.

Just train a LLM, your new search engine. Like-minded folks making the enshittified portions transparent.

E-mail spam used to be a thing, until one day it wasn't. AI just generalizes the process.
Nietzsche wouldn't survive five minutes in a world in which Twitter exists. Gaze too long into the abyss indeed.
Do you have an existing workflow for that? I tried to set up some thing like that a couple years ago and couldn't figure out how to do it without copy-pasting the connection info JSON, which was not a comfortable workflow.
Plenty of Culture Minds value humans/pan-humans in the books. They get involved, too, just look at the effort expended by the Sleeper Service in Excession for such a personal agenda.

Not to say that there isn't a good deal of joking at humans' expense by Culture ships, but in the end, all are Culture citizens.
Hi from 47 y.o. and also not on the management track (any longer, BTDT, FT)

I only list the last 8-10 years of stuff on my CV. Not specifically to combat ageism (I keep a "full" version also -- 6 friggin pages these days) -- but mostly to acknowledge that just because I did something cool 20 years ago, doesn't mean I am current, fluent, or even looking to do that again -- so why bother? If anyone cares, they'll ask and I'll answer.

My full CV is basically buzzword bingo at this point, and is spanish fly to the body-shop recruiters who love to email, text, and call me with just the worst jobs ever. :) Keep that thing offline unless you like to stay abreast of junior QA analyst jobs in West Virginia for $27/hr.
We are complex adaptive organisms embedded in a dynamic environment; hence the environment changes us in response to which we change the environment and the cycle continues. In the case of social-isolation it seems to me this cycle becomes a downward spiral leading to actual biological changes in ourselves which may also be exacerbated by genetic and/or preexisting factors. Google search brings up a bunch of papers/studies but i can find nothing comprehensive which looks at all aspects. Note that there is some cure (but obviously not 100%) and seems to involve social,psychological,medicinal approaches used together under competent supervision.

References:

1) Finding the Biological Roots for the Pathological Social Withdrawal Known as ‘Hikikomori’ - https://neurosciencenews.com/hikikomori-social-withdrawal-bi...

2) Autism Spectrum, Hikikomori Syndrome and Internet Gaming Disorder: Is There a Link? - https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/13/7/1116

3) Hikikomori: A Scientometric Review of 20 Years of Research - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10177810/
The requirement that the food be eaten conventionally throughout the country is a really weird definition of what counts as "American food" that would to my first- and secondhand knowledge at the very least exclude Mexican and Italian cuisine from being distinct. Neither one really exists as a coherent cuisine in the way you seem to imagine, and if you talk to a native of those countries they'll very quickly tell you that the foods you think of as "Mexican" or "Italian" are actually from specific regions of those countries.

Your second requirement—that it be not eaten elsewhere—would likewise exclude every major exported food culture. Do the Italians no longer get to claim spaghetti because an American mom makes it as a quick dish at home for her kids?
Heh. I'm doing work for a "MegaCorp" right now trying to shave a few milliseconds off of ad render times. We have metrics that show milliseconds do matter. Especially since a few milliseconds on desktop can translate to hundreds of milliseconds on mobile.
You've both got the wrong dichotomy here, it's not about age groups at all, it's about politics - this is a voluntarily-created "problem".

California is handicapped in housing construction due to state-level policies implemented by well-meaning progressives, largely focused around reducing negative externalities.

Texas isn't handicapped in housing construction, largely due to state-level policies implemented by greedy capitalists.

The greedy capitalists are better at serving customers (prospective homebuyers) than they are at managing negative externalities. This is a policy choice reflective of the values of the people who live there.

The well-meaning progressives are better at managing negative externalities than they are at serving customers (prospective homebuyers). This is a policy choice reflective of the values of the people who live there.

The reality is, there is no housing "problem" in California, there are only the consequences of the values and preferences of the people living there. Texas's values and preferences carry consequences of their own that Texans have to live with (ask me how I know), but housing unaffordability is, compared to California, not one of them.
Be careful next time you criticize someone's work haphazardly and expose yourself as someone that criticizes management book author who doesn't know Drucker.
Note the trailing ., it's an FQDN. Your system/application shouldn't use search domains if provided a fqdn.

hence under a properly set up DNS and application: system with search domain for `.internal` and a host named `amazon` will be hit the internal host for `https://amazon` and `https://amazon.internal` but not `https://amazon.`
Perhaps a bit OT, but will really appreciate inputs on this.

There have been an influx of such tools, and understandably so, related to email lists. Based on various comments, I feel that the biggest item driving success around email is around email deliverability.

What are the the skills and secret sauce of companies that claim to do very reliable email deliverability, and I'm failing to understand why isn't it as simple as doing the right configurations and setting it up using Amazon SES.

Any email gurus to please throw actionable light on this?
I've used Zoom professionally in the browser literally within the past week, and it ran smoothly. We can trade anecdotes here, but it won't be very productive.

What I can tell you is that I felt at ease using Zoom in the browser knowing that I wasn't opening my computer up to a remote code execution vulnerability. Your UX concerns are a bit nebulous, but I'd be willing to bet that the risk assessment departments at most organizations could quantify the cost of a hacker gaining access to one of their employee's computers. I also used Zoom during the pandemic but I wasn't doing a ton of screen sharing (I was more interested in seeing my friends and family members faces rather than their screens).
Relevant : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40898784#40898962
Terraform module to provision a Tailscale Relay node in your VPC
Pay for Lawyers Is So High People Are Comparing It to the NBA
> even consider alternatives, as if they are being paid to defend this pro-advertising position.

There's no way they would manage to exist like a business with a multi million dollar a year CEO without all that sweet Google money. So they are totally beholden to advertising straight from the top down. It doesn't even matter who is at the top, the whole step setup guarantees it'll be one of the big business players.

Basically when they moved Firefox from a foundation to a corporation, this was pretty much inevitable. They don't even want our petty donations anymore. We can donate to the foundation's pet side projects but not too Firefox.