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Some side by side comparisons just now:

"pizza near me" - Google suggested a well rated place within 5 miles. DuckDuckGo suggested a pizza place 91 miles away??

"busted kids lip" - Google says gauze and a cold pack. DuckDuckGo says salt water??

"best monitor for mac" - Google says Dell Ultrasharp with 4.5 stars and 738 ratings on amazon. DuckDuckGo says BenQ 4 stars with 174 ratings on amazon?

how is this better?

thanks for engaging, I'm trying to understand. can you give a specific example of a search query, and the ideal URL you think you should get as a result (that google is missing)? what is one query<->result example of a gap these independent engines are filling?

Agreed. When people say they Google is returning poor results, I can never get an answer of what specific URL people actually want. Just general unhappiness and some mythical, vague, ideal result.

I searched for "pizza near me". Google shows me several pizza places within a 2 mile distance. Alexandria gave me the link to papajohns.com.

You can just append “Reddit” or “stackoverflow”, you don’t need to write “site:Reddit.com”

I’ve always wanted the mechanical keyboard crowd to stretch further. Where is the keyboard made of pipes and water? Made of plants? The air keyboard that uses LED sensors and light to type? Keyboard gloves? An old typewriter turned into a modern keyboard?

A lot of this stuff is done in the raspberry pie or arduino crowds.

“Prices could reach $240/barrel”

Eyeballing the historical relationship between Brent crude and gas pump prices, that would mean $9.00/gallon: https://www.macrotrends.net/2501/crude-oil-vs-gasoline-price...

This opinion seems uninformed about a great body of research that has been done around standards-based grading. Stanford has led a lot of this and a family member of mine has collaborated with them on successful field studies in school districts. The result has been increased comprehension, better test scores, and especially improved performance for disadvantaged groups.

By removing grades on homework, and making it so that what is being evaluated is not collection of points, but rather ability to demonstrate the skill against a rubric while retesting, it allows learning closer to the actual target skill. It also more closely mirrors an actual career: if you are running a project at a company and do not hit your quarterly goal, then you don’t just say “Oh well, guess I got a F” and move on to phase 2 of the plan. You revise and try phase 1 again until you reach the objective.

It should be noted that switching from normal grading styles to standards-based grading is not trivial. In school districts there are in fact entire training programs and coaches like my family member that help teachers, administrators, and parents understand the concept and put it into practice. There are not only practical obstacles, but also paradigm shifts that have to slowly happen. But the results are worth it, it is overwhelmingly more effective.

27% of the universe is totally unknown (dark matter) and another 68% is totally unknown (dark energy), leaving only 5% of our universe that is explained by the standard model.

Feels very epicycle-ish and ripe for a major shift.

Since Stephen Hawking’s movement was limited for much of his life, he claimed that he had learned to do more math quickly in his head via visualizing geometry. Seems similar.

I have started saying aloud “Someone on the internet is saying something I disagree with, and it’s making me upset”. I say this whenever I notice it happening. It immediately makes me realize how silly it is for this to take up my time, and frees me to let go and move on.

My personal pet theory for this has always been that the United States was founded by lawyers. Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton were all attorneys.

Of course this doesn’t speak to the rise of lawsuits as an industry in the 70’s and 80’s. I’m not sure of the reasons for that, but as the author notes it had a huge upswing at that time.

Help me out: I have such a hard time understanding this line of argument. What search result do people want when they look for a recipe? A site without ads? You can pay for that, there are lots of premium great sites. News without ads? Buy the economist. But people don’t want results full of pay walls.

I’m struggling to follow. Can anyone give an example of a query, and then the ideal result that Google is not delivering?

I think the point is that the nature of software is that these nonsensical questions are “asked” by the code all the time. Data migration, different teams using different formats, user interfaces with imperfect translations, and other scenarios all result in these silly questions popping up. And in the middle sits an engineer who needs to decide how it will work.

What do you think then is the difference between going from 50th to 99.9th percentile in their other domains? Is there something materially different between ago, protein folding, or coding? (I don’t know the answer, just curious if anyone else does)

Agree. If an AI could code within the top 1%, every single person whose career touches code would have their lives completely upended. If that’s only 5 years out…ooof.

I’m more impressed that James was able to just write up an excerpt from someone else’s podcast and make it to the top of hacker news

The Information is the best long form content on tech news and analysis that I believe exists. Pricey but worth it. Surprised no one else has mentioned it.

I’m hoping that the success of the “Ask Iwata” book leads to someone writing a Miyamoto book. That tiny team at Nintendo basically invented the modern games industry after it had crashed from Atari. It’s always great to hear details of what happened behind the scenes, when future legends were just people at desks trying to build something great

His example of his NFT that gets shut down is showing that because of this layer of centralization, anything that can happen to normal assets can happen to blockchain. Governments can force OpenSea to take your NFTs, OpenSea can delete your ownership at their discretion, etc. All he is left with is a meaningless string of data on chain, while the NFT visual is gone. It’s not immune and protected like people think

But then it’s just back to trust based web2, you’re trusting internet archive. That’s his point: this isn’t leading to trust less decentralization in practice. To do that, you’d have to store the NFT data on chain, which is prohibitively expensive

The line “if you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two imposters just the same” is above the door entering Centre Court at Wimbledon. When I was younger I didn’t understand it, but with the context of the rest of the poem I believe it’s about keeping a level head. When you win you don’t want to become overly confident, and when you lose you don’t want to become depressed or lose hope. Either way, you just keep on going as best you can.

The Long Now Foundation has spent a lot of time thinking about this. They have designed and implemented clocks built to last 10,000 years. I doubt anyone else has spent as much time and effort solving this problem, so I’d suggest something similar: https://longnow.org/clock/

Except increase in supply in chips takes 3-5 years

What are some things you saw that made you feel it wasn’t improving or less healthy?

This is the opposite of what the article is saying. The economy was getting scary so people headed out on their own. Did you mean to say “when people have nothing to fall back on”?

I’ll just assume everyone here is a fan and share some great playlists: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0wIjGv5BH8dRETiikmormc?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2ALbeqn1aDPutYOozVRres?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXdLEN7aqioXM?si=...

Almost all of the hard decisions I’ve seen in my career stemmed from this one line that is glossed over: “when consensus doesn't occur it's because there isn't a clear answer or because there is a conflict between groups. In these situations it's up to management to make a decision so the organization can move forward.” This happens very often with design vs. product.

I was disappointed this wasn’t dug into deeper. All the examples given seem easy: picking a logo or hiring someone. But the harder ones are around things like “what is the overall direction for the company”, “who is our real customer”, “what is the main value prop of our product”, etc. In these discussions there can be die hard commitment on different sides from different departments. I don’t see a poll helping in this situation, and the author admits that too, which kind of makes the whole approach for simple decisions only.

Impact over effort in spades. Congrats!