skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the problem that web directories solve. It's not that you're wrong, it's just largely orthogonal to the problem that you'd need a large crawl of the internets for, i.e. spotting sites about X niche that you wouldn't find even from other directly-related sites, and that are too obscure, new, etc. to be linked in any web directory.
“I can possibly not find anything deep enough about any topic by searching on Google anymore. It's just surface-level knowledge that I get from competing websites who just want to make money off pageviews.”

Is it possible that there is no site providing non fluffy content on your query? For a lot of niche subjects, there really are very few if any substantial content on that topic.
I think it's simply a human bias in action - people don't realize when their queries benefit from the "fuzzy matching", and they only notice/remember when they don't get what they want from search and then (often mistakenly) blame fuzzy matching for it as that's what's visible to them.
its the re-war on drugs from a losers point of view

right away the cannabis is being revilified when the death and damage was caused by an adulterant not suitable in the least for smoking or vaping

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolysis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketene

those deaths had to do with exposure to hazardous compounds synthesyzed ad hoc by a vaping pen filled with precursor chemicals for a pyrrolysis reaction. the IDLH is a concentration of 5ppm airbourne...

the other big problem is that people will start making thier own concentrates in thier backyard again, and those others of a riskier predisposition will do so in a building without proper chemical protocols or expertise so butane hash oil explosions would make a comeback
Think about it the opposite way: the modern language gives you a much safer and more expressive way to express your algorithms and still gives you access to the large library of existing code.
Among technical books, books by Cornelius Lanczos are some of the best (less popular) books I've read. Some quotes from his "The Variational Principles of Mechanics":

From the Preface:

Many of the scientific treatises of today are formulated in
a half-mystical language, as though to impress the reader with the
uncomfortable feeling that he is in the permanent presence of
a superman. The present book is conceived in a humble spirit and is
written for humble people.

From Chapter 8:

Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place
whereon thou standest is holy ground. -- EXODUS III, 5

We have done considerable mountain climbing. Now we are in the rarefied
atmosphere of theories of excessive beauty and we are nearing a high
plateau on which geometry, optics, mechanics, and wave mechanics meet
on common ground. Only concentrated thinking, and a considerable
amount of recreation, will reveal the full beauty of our subject in
which the last word has not yet been spoken.

This book was also on Gerald Jay Sussman's must-read list of books [1]. Another great book of his is "Linear Differential Operators" -- if you've ever wanted an intuitive explanation for why d/dx is not Hermitian but d^2/dx^2 is, this is the book you need to read. A quote from the book that resonated with me when I first read it:

Since the days of antiquity it has been the privilege of the
mathematician to engrave his conclusions, expressed in a rarefied and
esoteric language, upon the rocks of eternity. While this method is
excellent for the codification of mathematical results, it is not so
acceptable to the many addicts of mathematics, for whom the science of
mathematics is not a logical game, but the language in which the
physical universe speaks to us, and whose mastery is inevitable for the
comprehension of natural phenomena.

[1]: http://aurellem.org/thoughts/html/sussman-reading-list.html
Damn you're right
Does this have any implication for chip fabs? Right now EUV requires crazy Rube Goldberg machines using tin plasma or something like that, which is insanely expensive.
Anti-vax activists have doctors 'terrorized into silence' with online harassment
Odd question, but what CSS/ui framework is that if any?

Edit: Appears to be Bulma
Did you read the comment?

The problem is self-driving vehicles implemented with fleet data that vacuums up everything will spy on everyone, not just the driver.

They need to be implemented with on-board redaction.

Otherwise there is no choice for anyone, the companies or the ruling party can do facial or gait recognition on pedestrians and other drivers, and scrape license plates of of all parked and driving cars from the data stored in the cloud.

With just Lidar I imagine this is less of a problem, but at least pedestrians in that case will still need to be redacted for gait recognition.

My first comment wasn't about your regard to personal privacy, it was with regards to everyone's. One person's data is mostly worthless; everyone's is priceless.
>Use it in a manner that SpaceX disagrees with and you can expect lawyers. You wont see the failure footage from SpaceX ever used as nasa footage was used by countless scifi productions.

SpaceX literally uploaded a video of all their crashes spliced together in a comedic montage. It's called How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster.

https://youtu.be/bvim4rsNHkQ

Even crash footage is good PR for them. There are still millions of Americans who do not know what SpaceX is or what it does.
It is also likely that whatever meta information reddit is sending back (in headers or tags) is probably not dated correctly for the time of the origin post.

That doesn't explain why Google lists the old search results as being from this month, while Duck correctly lists them as being from years past.
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The benchmarks leader "actix-web" was not really regular/typical rust, and conflict with the "community" caused it to implode. see https://github.com/actix/actix-web/ and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22075076
Google has taken on so many markets that I don't think they can do anything reasonably well (or disruptive) without conflicting interests. A breakup is overdue: if they didn't control both search and ads, the web would be a lot better nowadays. If they didn't control web browsers as well, standards would be much more important.
That's a great article, thanks for sharing.

I think this reinforces my thesis here. You can tell from the article that at the time, Lisp needed to prove itself in the mind of people as "fast enough". That seems to be the intent of the article. Given a good compiler, it may be just as fast.

I'm not trying to bash Lisp, I love lisp, I use it all the time. And when I say "fast enough", I know lisp is manageably fast, maybe custom hardware could have made it equally viable, maybe it only needed a more sophisticated compiler more widely available at an affordable price, but in practicality, it had more hurdle to overcome than other languages to meet the bar of the time.

Imagine an alternate reality where Lisp was clearly fastest. Where its semantics mapped very closely to commodity hardware of the time, and where Fortran, Algol, C, etc. semantics are all further removed from those hardware instructions, making them require more sophisticated compilers or very expensive specialty hardware to have them perform as well as Lisp. I feel it in such a reality, I can't see why C would have become the language of choice and not Lisp.
Well, how do you actually determine the age of a web page? Is it the post date? How do you even find that out? Is it the last comment post date? Is it the last edit of the main post, or the last edit of a comment? How do you find this out automatically? Is it the last change the HTTP server responds with? Is it the last time the entire page has been modified? If the page is built up of multiple components like iframes, do their post dates matter? Do ads matter? If the page is dynamic, everything gets a few orders of magnitude more complicated.

Point is, it is not a trivial task at all to automatically find out the time that corresponds to the intuitive understanding of the "age" of a web page.
Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp which appears to recently have received a reprinting, my copy is from the 40s.

Deathworld by Harry Harrison. I've been waiting for some screenplay writer to stumble across this one, and if I had to guess James Cameron probably did, but just didn't tell anyone.

SLAN by A. E. van Vogt.

The Witches of Karres by James H. Schmitz.

Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, and Paratime by H. Beam Piper.

However the best of all, is maybe only slightly less know, since the author is certainly extremely well known: Tuf Voyaging by George R. R. Martin. An absolutely fantastic collection of stories about an ecological engineer.
As a gaijin in Japan, you have exactly the rights the police officer wishes to afford you and no more.

Police have almost unlimited power in Japan, and gaijin have no rights at all. Japanese citizens have some, but in general will not exercise them due to their cultural upbringing.
With all this praise, time for me to check out DO!
I'm happy to see Corín Tellado there. Her works were always downplayed because of the genre (romantic pulp short novels, female public oriented) but she really worked her ass off to write more than 4000 books, and was quite popular with certain demographics, and sold more than 400 million books.

Single mother of two (her husband didn't want to take care of their children and left her alone) she could write a book in less than a week ¡!
Gurgaon.
I think most people would say "yes" if asked "are domain knowledge and long-term vision important?" But I don't believe most people would answer "domain knowledge and vision" if asked "what is important in a senior engineer?" For a lot of years, my answer to the latter question would have centered on technological knowledge, even though if prompted I would have acknowledged the importance of domain knowledge and vision. The distinction is significant because we will only be working on those skills that we independently identify as important.
Why not? It didn't take that long to certify Dragon, and most of the delays were on SpaceX (like blowing up the capsule they were originally intending to use for this test).
To be completely honest, for a single server, why not just use libvirt's commandline utilities?
There's a huge amount of research within this field. For a ranking list on a standardized test set, you can see e.g. http://vision.middlebury.edu/flow/eval/results/results-i1.ph... (there are many others). DAIN is roughly in top 10.

Sadly, there's next to no focus on the realtime use case, which is useful for e.g. sports. For my own project Futatabi (see https://nageru.sesse.net/), I chose to reimplement one that's fairly obscure, DIS (Dense Inverse Search), on the GPU, so that I could get it realtime. IIRC, it's nowhere as good as DAIN is, but there's that 60 fps demand... :-)
I also use --audio-quality 0 because it can be between 0 (best) and 9 (worst) and the default is 5.
No, you can know -- and even prove -- that at a certain callsite, a Maybe would be a Just, and if you were using a dependent type system, you can prove that in the type system (although it probably won't be automatically inferred -- you may have to work hard for the proof), but Haskell's type system is too weak to express such properties and such proofs, at least in the general case.
>We won't ever see SpaceX crash footage used for much of anything.

We will if SpaceX allows it. How can you be sure they won't?
I understand the logic behind wanting to preserve Boeing as a company due to it's economic importance. But I don't understand the need to preserve any ownership by the current stock or bond holders. When the CEO has such negligent disregard for human life on an industrial scale, as may have occurred in this case, it seems that the stock holders at the very least should be exposed to more serious losses.
Is it time for paid search engines? Make users vote with their wallets and pay for the eternal arms race. Problem is, whoever is behind something like that would have to start with an already sufficiently superior experience (or massive geek cred) to make people pay from the early days. Maybe going back to manually curated results of a subset of topics would work? Or some Stack Overflow-esque model of user powered metadata generation?
The average isn't relevant to my point. But in every town you'll find doctors, lawyers etc. who have a healthy social life despite their high income.
That's fair, if it only is "a" server, then one has to weigh pros and cons. I said OpenStack because of the speed of spawning VMs ready to go, cattle style. Traditional VM platforms haven't really been able to do that.
A thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16836290

One from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14432912
Ah, that's a little more involved than what I'm used to in the United States.

Here I can print a piece of paper with an address and 2D bar code on it (which is the postage), tape the label to a box, and leave it where the mailman can find it (usually on my front porch), drop it in the outgoing mail at work, or hand it to any mailman I see. No visiting a post office to mail things.
https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...

Interpret it as you wish. To me it sounds like they are using 400 sources and their own crawler for the Instant Answers stuff but get all their "traditional links in the search result" from Verizon(?) and Bing.
King of pedantry over here...
I don't think DMOZ had ranking per se? They could mark "preferred" sites for any given category, but only a handful of them at most, and with very high standards, i.e. it needed to be the official site or "THE" definitive resource about X.
I think you're confusing the public broadcast commentary with the engineering that goes into the actual hardware. There are slightly different levels of rigor involved... (and very different audiences)
> If you're talking about exhaustiveness checks, you can disable those and use `-fdefer-type-errors` to compile programs which don't type-check.

Right, but if you were using, say, Idris, the program would type check. It's just that Haskell's type system is too weak. Disabling type checking is not what the question was about. The program is type-correct, yet not in Haskell's particular system.

> Although I will say that most of the time when you have a Maybe instance that you know is Just, it means you're branching in the wrong part of your program.

Perhaps, but that doesn't change the fact that if you write it in some way that is perfectly correct, Haskell's particular type system will still not accept your program.
Dr. Derk's Mutant Battlegrounds – AI Bots Battling
It (used to) cause youtube-dl to name downloaded videos after the title. Apparently it was needed in older versions of youtube-dl but is now ignored.
You shouldn't check calls or texts while driving regardless of the type of phone, and on a smartphone you can at least have it announce who is calling or who sent the text (and even read the text for you.) You can also tell the phone to accept the call and put it on speaker (although that's technically also unsafe, but so is having a conversation with another person in the car while driving.)
For me, I’ve found the book useful in understanding activities in a way that reduces my stress and helps me interact with people. Specifically, I don’t take things as seriously and try not to get wound up in arbitrary or not important rules. And that I get that some people get into the rules of an activity when I haven’t and that helps me understand where they are coming from.

I suppose there are many ways to learn that, but, for me, it was this book. The lesson helped me a lot.

And it’s really short book so I don’t feel so guilty recommending it. Brothers Karamazov is amazing, but recommending it is like giving someone a job.
The breakthrough would be when Google were to rank pages with proper semantic markup higher. Just look at AMP.

(Of course that won't ever happen, but that's what would be needed.)
I love World of Carbon (and it's companion volume, World of Nitrogen)! I've been trying to get the rights to republish both with modern annotations, but I'm apparently not a big enough publisher for William Morris Endeavor (literary management for Asimov's estate) to respond to. It's sad, since both books are out of print.
Thanks very much. These were all read before the 2016 election, if that's what you mean. I think they are important books for our times certainly though.
Ask HN: Whats the easiest way to build a Twitter bot nowadays?
I need to create a simple twitter bot that can take the tweets listed in say a CSV text file, and then tweet those tweets on a schedule.

Rather than build it myself, I expect that there has to be some sort of utility or a website or a template that I could use to get started?

This is for a personal itch I need to scratch so duct taping is totally ok
Why? NASA partners with SpaceX and other space companies on specific projects. For example, NASA needed a special crew module and so they commissioned SpaceX to design and build the crew dragon.

I don't see why having NASA as a customer means SpaceX loses the right to private property.

If a government agency decided to become a paying customer of your SaaS project, should you be forced to open source all your code because you are now receiving public money? I suspect the answer is the same as with the SpaceX footage - the public may benefit if it was released, but it seems an unreasonable burden.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it a lot, we're trying for better that here, and we ban accounts that keep doing it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For the reason given: I suspect that if my assets' values were severely dislocated from my local economic environment I'd either be very unhappy and poor, or likely unable to access or use any huge excess (eg might be taxed near to death).

I'm hedged in so far as ~50% is geographically in my area, and the rest well spread.

I also have some spread over asset classes (eg stocks vs bonds).
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I can easily write you pickle in Haskell. In fact you can easily embed Python's single type in Haskell and thus do everything you can do in python.

The difference to Java has nothing to do with reflection, really, but rather with a uniform object representation (in Java you know the shape of all values by default).
The crash compilation is public [1] because they were tests with minimal customer risks involved. You wouldn't find footage of CRS-7, with its dozens of NASA payloads, disintegrating on any of SpaceX's official media channels.

[1] But not public domain. It's still copyrighted.
> the boundary between programs is dynamically typed

Many interfaces have declared, enforced static types. I don't have to write any code to handle

SELECT birthdate FROM employees WHERE id = ?

returning "fish" because the database would never let it happen.
PouchDB.js.

PouchDB is, in my opinion, an overlooked gem that deserves more attention.

For small tools you don't even need a backend. It uses your web browser's built-in DB
I tried "how to repair roof" and the first organic result is the featured snippet of how to fix shingles, with bunch of youtube videos on various roof repair methods next, with DIY repair sites. So I don't see anything broken there ?
> whereas the contracts we're talking about here are usually checked at run time

No, they can be checked in many different ways, hence their power. They can be checked "statically", i.e. at compile-time, or dynamically. One approach is sound but requires more effort, while the other is cheap yet unsound -- and there is a spectrum in between the two extremes.

> If you're writing a program that is going to control a satellite and software maintenance after launch is extremely expensive if not impossible, it might matter a great deal.

Such programs often use formal methods that precisely use such contracts. Rich type systems (like Idris's) are virtually never used in practice in those cases. If you've heard of SPARK, it's a language that provides static verification of properties specified as contracts, not as part of the type system, and it is used in some safety-critical realtime applications.
You also have to worry about jerk and orientation.
> The plan was not for an explosion due to a controlled detonation.

What evidence do you have that it was a "controlled detonation"? Seems like you're making baseless assumptions and then getting upset when people don't understand what you're trying to say.
I think it should be a blacklist I as a user can edit and contribute to.

Although if it's exportable, perhaps you can make importable list of blacklists curated by other people too.
Lobbying isn't bad; you're lobbying if you call or write your congresspeople. Even paid lobbying isn't so clear cute: are you part of any organization you donate to or just pay dues to that sends anyone to DC to talk to congresspeople about the issue the organization care about?

There is a problem, but blanket statements like your comment only work to stir the pot without offering any real critique or alternative. There are many, many problems with our current system of political communication, but many of the calls to "remove money from politics" and "stop lobbying" completely overlook that those are the means by which the average citizen also participates in political discourse. Moreover, since every citizen cannot possibly talk to their congresspeople people about the details of every possible subject relating to issues they care about, groups of people need to be able to effect change as well as the individual.
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