skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Which search engines do you use to do exhaustive research on the web?
I have to do extensive research on a number of potential variations of a product that I want to build and market. I will have to be searching for physical products, companies, research papers and news publications that refer to those things.

With the Google Search service being so dissapointingly degraded and returning so much noise and limited results it's almost impossible to try and dig in all that garbage it returns without losing your sanity.

Scholar still works well enough, so searching for papers won't be that hard, but I really need some advice from people who do this often (patent office workers? Market researchers? Inventors and entrepreneurs?) because this difficulty to discover new information relevant to a subject is making my life very difficult.
Serious question, how in the heck did the podcasters get their transcript? Did they pay someone to edit a machine translation? That is one of the coolest things I have never seen for any podcast!
Although the intended use of this might be help pages or screen casts, it sure makes it easy to implement modal tutorials, which is what EVERYONE hates and should avoid at all costs.
Heat pumps have higher than 100% efficiency because they extract heat out of air / water. 100% is a very low efficiency for electric heating. Anything lower than 400% is considered below average.
In the very early days of the Internet I was running a small ISP and I ran a fancier version of this:

for word in `cat /usr/share/dict`; do whois "$word.com"; done

and shortly got a phone call from Network Solutions, "What the hell are you guys doing? You're hammering us?"
I'm sure they've changed this multiple times. My understanding is they used to basically put you in a 'loser' bracket where you wouldn't get as good of matches (or just get matches with other people doing the same thing). You wouldn't get banned, but you also wouldn't get the best matches.

EDIT: Note this is on Tinder. Don't know if Hinge is any different...
>The (not so) sustainable biofuels

I remember reading some time ago about palm oil converted to biodiesel and immediately became suspicious of the final product as anything but a chance to push the sale of palm oil.

soft oils like canola/linseed, and corn are suited best for biodiesel as their final product is at a much lower gel point than coconut or palm. To run a diesel safely at anything but sub-tropic temperatures with a minimum of waxing or smoking, you'd need gallons of stabilizers and modifiers in the mix.

the place I remember hearing this being used was Indonesia, and only at around 50% for a passenger rail line. This makes sense as its partially using petrochemical diesel as a cheap additive for gel and flow stability.

the UK and EU could improve their biodiesel uptake with better recycling practices. most of east europe is awash in high quality sunflower oil for frying and cooking, and could easily see this waste oil converted.
It also sounds a bit like InfluxDB to me..
I wouldn't be surprised if this is due to FOSTA/SESTA legislation
I feel the same. I do full-time ClojureScript - at least a few jobs exist! If you would like a job doing ClojureScript, email me at the address in my bio.
> Take home coding tests are fine. I really prefer them, honestly

Home coding tests are great at gauging real life performance of a candidate, if done right, but in my limited exposure (I don't have a lot of time to work on coding tests just so I can collect data samples to back my opinion), coding tests are handled extremely poorly, with expectations being set extremely vaguely.

Any realistic assignment requires a dialogue between the consumer and producer.

Companies are trying to minimize the time/money they spend on each interview.

Clarifications cost money.

Hoping a company will engage in a "what really are your requirements? are you trying to test my basic coding competency or do you want to see the best I have got?" will elicit a very vague response, if any.

If a company treats a home coding test as a real assignment and provides the candidate with the resources they need, I see no problem.

Unfortunately from my personal experience and anecdotes from others, it's just not the case.

> get rejected for not being able to cough up a DFS algorithm on the spot

DFS is easy. BFS is easy. So is Coin changing, inverting binary trees and doing back flips.

If you invest enough time and effort into it, you can do it.

I have done DFS, BFS, Coin changing, inverting binary trees many times before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22368645

I am beginning to prefer DFS, BFS, Coin changing, inverting binary trees or even back flips for interviews.

I have to learn it once and can regurgitate until I forget them.

I pay the heavy cost once upfront and amortize it.

No such thing for a home coding test!

I now have to pay the same cost over and over again, unable to amortize it because no two companies are solving the same problem unless you view it as a meta problem and in that case you might very well end up redesigning Django, RoR or a similar meta framework.

Financially it would be cheaper to become a full time contractor and get paid to make POCs and demos unencumbered by NDAs.

As a candidate a home coding test is extremely expensive compared to the traditional DFS, BFS, Coin changing, inverting binary trees or even back flips for interviews.
Wow, if you used Google Cloud CDN to serve up that data, it would cost you more than $1 Billion USD.
Agreed. People put way to much faith on dollars = votes.

Sure they benefit from spreading their message much wider, but it doesn’t mean people will vote for him.
Thanks, and Welcome!
Maybe that’s true im general, but the facts are very consistent - Lambda repeatedly misrepresented them while attracting lots of positive attention. This is what a free press helps correct.
Considering how often surgeons leave all sorts of things inside patients (https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/surgical-objects-left-in-patie...) it's not hard to imagine manufacturing facilities doing much worse!

Of course, the issue is knowing about the problem and ignoring it. That's inexcusable.
Is the guy on the right not the sycophant of Gavin Belson?
Founders Fund confirms $3B in new capital across two funds
Let's say he wins. Execution of spending billions to win an election is actually very hard. When you look at Bloomberg's tactics, he's been playing the game for a very, very long time. He is on another level from your other billionaires. Everyone is making it seem like you can just be rich and clone tactics or something and boom, election yours.
Hi thanks a lot for the comment. That is my site.

I just hate it when I discover a cool blog post and the person seemed cool too but then I didn't know what to do next. So I thought I would just walk them through what I want them to do.

also I totally stole this idea from this author who writes about marketing books:
https://selfpublishingformula.com/
Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (2013)
Yes, the "lifetime" of the bulb tends to be quoted in terms of the expected life of the specific light emitter, i.e., the LED itself. In reality, something else almost always fails first, and much much faster.
A populist President can be mitigated by Congress if they choose to act and also take back some of the executive powers they gave the President.
why are we defending gross incompetence and laid back attitudes again?
you could run a female cohort that is subject to nonstop social encouragement "you are powerful. you belong." and then observe whether they reach the same levels of achievement. If they do not, then this is evidence that the achievement is not due to social encouragement.

You could alternatively look at the negative manifestations of variability, like increase crime and violence, and try to socially discourage it. Expose males to "crime is bad. bad men go to prison where they cannot have sex with women for many years. if you do crime you are bad." Observe whether crime rate of men relative to women decreases. If it does not, it is evidence that social encouragement is not responsible for the difference in crime.

You could also do a control where you discouraged men from achieving. "Nerds are gross" and see if that leads to a victory for feminism.
Baloney. If your line of reasoning held, Venezuela would be in a great place. Obviously, the differences between countries of various levels of economic development go far beyond who can put the most co2 in the air. Additionally, we are already seeing renewables become cheaper than fossil fuels. A great outcome would be leapfrogging - just like with cell phones vs landlines.
"I believe people are not idiots and are capable of judging their own interest."

Have you met people?
Curious, what would Cloudflare fronting OVH / Scaleway / Hetzner / S3 / Backblaze cost? I guess, apart from the major expense signing up for Cloudflare's enterprise plan, not much?
This remember me a program I wrote in high school in Pascal.

I think it was like this:
Program Bomb
uses crt,graph;
Var
Graphics,Mode: smallint;
begin
Graphics:=Detect;
Mode:=detectMode;
while(1!=0)
InitGraph(Graphics, Mode,'');

It killed an old PC with Windows 2000
A good one to start with would be this paper:

https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/chaum-mix.pdf

It's one of the earliest and very well cited.
I’m well aware of the history. What’s new is the President’s newfound knowledge that his corruption has no consequences.
POPL 2020 in Review
I agree. Too much generic features end up becoming abstract and make it difficult to find what the original purpose was.
I don't know how they seeded the transcript set (looks like this one landed in 2017), but nowadays, transcripts are accepted via GitHub.

https://github.com/thechangelog/transcripts
> they don't impact productive time

Even flying in first class I’m sure I’d get there much more refreshed for a short four hour flight than an eight hour one, improving my productivity when I get there.

And why are you only considering overnight flights?
> I don't care that it is insecure, as long as it is secure

Ok let me clarify, I don't care if they use plain text pwd as long as it secure.

>The point being that "stored in plain text, as long as it is secure" is impossible just like "water, as long as it is dry

No, it is possible that they do some thing else to secure the money, not just password.

Using analogy can eventually break downs but its fine I'll go along.

Let say I need my car to be cleaned, I have only two requirements :

- the car is clean

- the car never get wet

So someone did that satisfied all my requirements. The car is clean and never get wet. Later on they told me that they use water all along.

Will I get mad ? No, why should I. They fulfill my requirements as I expected.

How they do that is implementation details, which is not my concern, its not part of my requirements.

Unless "not use water" is specifically part of my requirements, I wouldn't be mad at them.
Undergraduate, yes.
Scammers Use ForkLog and CoinDesk Brands to Trick Users Out of Their Money
It put a big smile on my face that big clive is the first comment here :-) His videos are hypnotically good! He's tied with aVe IMO as the best teardown channels on youtube.
I've probably been watching too many true crime shows but I suspect it'd be difficult to send a letter w/o leaving fingerprints or dna
That is also true!
So many things about the web would be better if browsers shipped basic functionality.

I cringe when I think about how many petabytes of jQuery has been sent over the wire over the years.
There is no way a guy like Trump could have won without being independently wealthy.

Are you sure about that? Trump raises massive donations at every rally.
Many here seem upset at the idea that Bloomberg is spending a lot of his own money to run for president.

Running for president is very expensive. All other candidates are also spending a lot of money -- but they're spending a lot of _other people's money_, to whom they are now beholden. What do those other people expect to get in return for their financial support? Surely they don't just give away millions of hard earned dollars to install someone in the most powerful office in the world out of faith in democracy. Donors and their groups -- especially the large and important ones -- are almost always aligned with explicit policy (and often persoanl) quid pro quo expectations, should the candidate win the election.

Bloomberg, by contrast, is spending his own money. He's not beholden to anyone's interests or greed or kickbacks or special interests. Whether you like or dislike his policy proposals, surely this point, at least, is better than a candidate with a wealthy donor network of obscure motives pulling the strings behind the scenes.
Well matrices just encode linear functions, so it's not the most surprising thing that you'd use them for calculating a lot of linear functions.
Why didn't you just do more granular writes and let the different processes lock the file? SQLite is impressively fast, it can handle a lot before you need a full database.
“the work they produce is good enough in our society”

Gah. I wish I could rebut this but I’m not sure I can. How does one find work for a tech/IT company that actually embrace quality?
I have no problem saying 'he paid me to do it you know'. Kinda undermines the message. Frankly, just the mere fact we are talking about it undermines that message. And it, oddly, seems to be mainstream consensus as well.

So maybe it is not all doom and gloom?
Unseemly is not a strong enough word. An effort to knowingly pay off human shills to covertly interfere with an election outcome is shameful, completely unethical and arguably illegal.

Being passive about issues like this (let alone turning a blind eye and personally profiting from them...) gets into a scenario where there is no less obnoxious candidate to vote for.
The Plight of the Poor
Here are some considerations why:
https://danluu.com/file-consistency/
Desktop Linux is a rounding error
Prioritized Grammar Enumeration
Companies spend billions of dollars on advertising _because it works_. Virtually everyone thinks they're too smart to be influenced by it. And they'd be wrong.
The OS table has entry for X11 with maybe 2-3% shaer; I'd bet that's desktop Linux.
But is software getting worse or better?

Even from a premise that the introduction of networking and graphical GUIs was a huge mistake that caused software quality to plummet dramatically, a lot of modern software today is still faster and better designed than the software I had as a kid.

I can maybe accept that I got born at the wrong time and everything before that point was magical and wonderful. I never used early DOS word processors so I can't speak to whether the many features we have today are a worthwhile tradeoff for the startup speed. I'll have to take your word for it.

But if people want to say that we're actively making stuff worse today, they're skipping over a massive chunk of history. If you look at the overall trend of how computers have changed since the 90's, I think literally the worst thing you could say is that we are still recovering from a software quality crash. People either forget or dismiss that a lot of early 90s software was really, really bad -- both in terms of performance and UX.

From the original post:

> amber-screen library computer in 1998: type in two words and hit F3. search results appear instantly. now: type in two words, wait for an AJAX popup. get a throbber for five seconds. oops you pressed a key, your results are erased

I'm still calling bull on this, because I also used 1998 Library computers and a lot of them were garbage. And I've used modern Library search engines, and while they're not great, a good many of them have substantially improved since then. This is a rose-colored view of history based off of individual/anecdotal experiences.

I'm not wildly optimistic about everything in the software ecosystem today. I do wish some things were simpler, I do see systemic problems. But holy crap, HN is so universally cynical about computing right now, and I feel like there's a real loss of perspective. There are tons of reasons to be at least somewhat optimistic about the direction of computing.
Whether or not your max ALE limit is "normal" is beside the point: my experience tells me that the amount is insufficient to cover one's probable downside risk in a major metro area, especially for unit larger than 1 bedroom.

I live in SF. My personal best case scenario in the event of a permanent relocation (insurer freely pays out limits without me having to hire an attorney, I use none of my ALE coverage in the immediate aftermath of my displacement, I relocate to a rent-controlled apartment with the same amenities), is that if I'm extremely lucky, $100K might last me 4 years before I have to leave SF entirely.
> Jokes aside, though, I don't think it's entirely coincidence that SQLite, something that is so good and reliable, was made by someone who seems so conscientious and thoughtful.

The same could probably be said about Redis and Salvatore Sanfilippo.
but those companies themselves hoard money so what's the difference?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/28/apple-q1-2019-cash-hoard-her...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/07/microsoft-apple-and-alphabet...

edit: why did i get downvoted?
Riiiiight? I mean the clue is in the goddamned name: Uber
Practically there's no difference between a browser that lazily downloads builtin fonts, and a global URL for a font file across websites with an extremely long TTL. And you don't want the browsers to be even more bloated than they already are!
You mean like the impeachment worthy scandal that Fox News was all over during Obama’s two terms?

The one where he wore a tan suit. Or the one where he asked for fancy mustard?

They were so hostile to him they had to find minor offenses to scream about.

And even his “friendly” press threw him under the bus for drone strikes and border detentions.
Good to see this finally get called out. Basically Lambda is using CDO’s & subprime mortgages as a revenue source.. Even if it hekps some of the students some of the time, we know how this show ends.
There is zero evidence that the DNC docs were collected by Russian intelligence other than a private firm that Hillary paid (huge conflict of interest), and even then the "evidence" released was pathetic and about as thoughtful as "well this guy that robbed the liquor store was driving a Toyota so clearly he was Japanese".

There is no evidence Wikileaks has ignored anything out of bias. Please stop spreading fake news.
SQL is a standard, but SQLite doesn't implement "standard SQL", it implements "SQLite SQL".

For better or worse, the web has always been driven by specifications, rather than implementations. Properly standardizing all of SQLite in a spec is not trivial, and as much I think SQLite is great software, I don't think that relying on SQLite the library specifically would be a good idea. What if the latest version of SQLite does something that's not in the spec or prohibited by the spec?

Either way, there's IndexedDB now, which is supported by almost everything, including IE.
I'm curious, too. It's sad to be the only one even using proper commit messages.
Or any hearing aid? That said, hearing aids in particular employ circuitry specific tuned to only amplifier the desired sound and frequency range intended to be heard, modern ones having profiles for normal speech, congregations, music, etc.
While there's certainly a lot of incentive to exploit loopholes, I think we could make it sufficiently onerous and lawsuit-prone to skirt the line that these massive corporations might just pay their damn taxes instead.

With fairly commonsense questions like:

- Was the company formed at Megacorp's behest?

- Is there direct coordination between Megacorp and company leadership?

- Do Megacorp and the company share business infrastructure?

- Does the company share information that would normally be private with Megacorp?

- Does the company take actions that advantage Megacorp over the company itself?

You could at least make it a serious pain in the ass with many potential pitfalls to avoid responsibility in this way.
It's ironic that LEDs themselves last for 30,000 hours but bulbs created with LEDs can wear out much quicker than incandescents because of crappy power supply design. I can't help but think manufacturers must have initially worried that LEDs would kill their continuing revenue streams. When they finally figured out they could design the power supplies to fail quickly, they must have been dancing in the streets.
Many here seem upset at the idea that Bloomberg is spending a lot of his own money to run for president.

No - it's not that he's spending his own money. But rather, how he's spending it.

And they're not "upset". They're calmly pointing out the obvious: that this kind of attempted influence buying is profoundly dystopian and antidemocratic.
What are you going to do with your $2500? ;)
And as many people have discovered, once you try to commercialize use of a 'free' resource it stops being free real quick.

Does anyone making biofuel still get their feedstock for free?
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Journalism dawg.

1. Copy something divisive that was posted publicly

2. Add unnecessary setting i.e. state the obvious: "posted on Twitter last night" when there is a timestamp on the tweet. Did you know that Bill Gates is a Microsoft founder? Elon likes to tweet Etc.

3. ??? aka run ads

4. Profit

My experience with this "article" has been underwhelming tbh.
Not a fan of Julia, but this is a good (if not great!) list.

Q. 11 is a bit unnecessary though. You are told that, you don't need to ask.
> Like? For what price?

If you own example.com, you can delegate to dnsauth.example.com for $0 (or simply the price of a Internet-facing machine that has DNS open).

Say you want a cert for www.example.com. LE will check for ownership by looking up _acme-challenge.www.example.com. Instead of having a TXT record with the nonce, _acme-challenge.www is actually a CNAME pointing to _acme-challenge.www.dnsauth--where the TXT nonce lives.

The DNS daemon that is authoritative for dnsauth can be the traditional BIND, or other software:

* https://github.com/joohoi/acme-dns

This is often called 'DNS alias' mode:

* https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/DNS-alias-mo...

* https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/technical-deep-dive-se...
Yes. But only the "AMS-IX traffic by packet size range" graph is wildly inaccurate. Ethernet frame overhead is per-packet and presumably right.
I'm so over this. Please spread your misinformation elsewhere. It's a shame HN moderation only selectively enforces their policies and allows people like you to propagate lies and dishonesty.
Data Privacy Isn’t Just for Large Enterprises
Austen has totally disappeared from twitter. He used to tweet all the time about their AMAZING success rate.
Shilling on social media appeared overnight. Literally a switch was turned on and suddenly hundreds of "totally organic" posts about Bloomberg are popping up everywhere mimicking local forum/board subcultures. Many of the people seem to be posting somewhat ironically, though it seems his campaign has attempted to embrace the same style of "no press is bad press" attention that undoubtedly contributed to Trump's election.

It's pretty gross to watch someone literally buy an election. I hope he fails. But there's a good chance he'll get far, because though he is running as a Democrat, many of his past statements regarding women, minorities, and stop and frisk appeal to the non-PC Republican sentiment that worked in the last election. And you can count on the fact that the average person won't understand that none of this buzz is organic.