skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google has gotten significantly _less_ useful for finding technical information over the last decade or so. It used to be the case that when searching for some tech-related item (say, how to use functions in bash), the results would take you to someone's personal website or a wiki. Ostensibly, the more people linked to it and the more people clicked on it in the results, the better it ranked for that query and similar queries.

Today, entering in any tech-related query at all takes you to StackOverflow, end of story. Not only are SO answers quite often outdated (or even terrible advice in general), most of the time I'm not looking for a "here's how you do X", I'm looking for background information on a topic.

Most non-tech queries I put into google are even _more_ useless as the results tend to fall into these categories:

* Wikipedia (okay for _very_ general things, useless for domain-specific knowledge)
* SEO-enhanced blogspam, (a.k.a. "8 Weird Ways to Earn Millions Through Gaming The System!")
* Tweets on twitter (!)

The dev/tech industry desperately needs a search engine that somehow prioritizes _quality_ content, not one-off answers, blogspam, and tweets.
Why is it a mistake to not buy oil for the strategic reserve right now? The mission statements are all talking about dealing with low supply, but the problem right now is low demand. Is the mistake that it would be cheap right now to "top-up" the reserve?

> The mission of the Office of Petroleum Reserves (OPR) is to protect the United States from severe petroleum supply interruptions through the acquisition, storage, distribution, and management of emergency petroleum stocks

https://www.energy.gov/fe/services/petroleum-reserves

> The sheer size of the SPR (authorized storage capacity of 713.5 million barrels) makes it a significant deterrent to oil import cutoffs and a key tool in foreign policy.

> Such conditions have only existed three times, most recently in June 2011 when the President directed a sale of 30 million barrels of crude oil to offset disruptions in supply due to unrest in Libya.

> to address short-term, emergency supply disruptions to a refiner's normal operations on several occasions.

https://www.energy.gov/fe/services/petroleum-reserves/strate...

It looks like they're going to lease excess capacity instead. Oil producers will be able to store excess oil themselves:

https://www.worldoil.com/news/2020/4/14/doe-working-to-lease...
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What kind of health issues would this type of technology cause? I can't see it being very good for your eyes to have them focused on lasers being projected directly into them into at extremely close range for long periods of time on a regular basis.
bag of words?
I think you'll find a lot of people do not agree with your definition of "penalized". Not giving something to someone who was never entitled to it is not penalizing.

> So, companies acting completely legally by seeking to minimize their tax burden, which serves to further maximize the money available for their owners, get penalized

It's fairly simple. If you don't want to pay the government, the government doesn't want to pay you. Just as you are acting legally in tax avoidance, they are acting legally in not bailing you out.

> Likewise, companies acting completely ethically, by returning much of their profit to their shareholders via dividends instead of hoarding it themselves get penalized.

This did strike me as strange, but there are several interpretations. As an example, if you're doing well enough to be paying dividends, you don't need to be bailed out.
I think it depends on the application. If I’m searching for products in a store I do want “shirts without stripes” to give me shirts without stripes. I have a hard time thinking of a case when including results with the word “without” would be useful when it comes to online shopping.

When I’m looking up information, like an article, especially technical information, then yes I want the search engine to do as little interpreting as possible. That’s because any interpretation rules it uses won’t always be relevant so I’d rather have more control.

But for Amazon? I don’t see how someone can see the average user typing “shirts without stripes” and getting almost nothing but shirts with stripes, and going “yup, works as expected”.
Facebook does not see individual responses to this survey; they direct users to a survey hosted on Qualtrics whose data is aggregated at Carnegie Mellon, which provides the county and state estimates back to Facebook.
> the enzymes in buttermilk break the chicken down a bit

Am curious, is it the enzymes or the acidity? yogurt also tenderizes meat, but I always thought it was the mild acidity that does that, similar to how vinegar can also tenderize meats.

Not that it matters, as long as the job is done :)
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Oil is getting crushed again with one futures contract down 50%
Just a thought, as I am in no way an expert here, but there must be companies that help implement solutions for people with vision problems. I am sure they would be the most sympathetic to hiring people in your position, you will have unique insights that able sighted programmers won't. Maybe get in touch and see what they recommend.
So the - is working, contrary to the claims of several people here.

I wouldn't say so. For the five images at the top of my search results, 3 of the 5 are striped, and 1 is plaid.
A lot of gas stations set their price based on a fixed markup from their costs, and only update their prices when they get a new delivery. High volatility and low sales volume can lead to outdated prices that way.
Thank goodness that oil is not actually stored in barrels, then.
Yes, in that neither of them are random
> elfeed-protocol will authenticate with your ttrss server, fetch feeds and displays in elfeed like they were native feeds added to elfeed.

This is exactly what I was looking for a couple of months ago. I’d even posted an Ask HN [1] on it. Please reply to this comment if you know of similar setups where one can use an aggregator and get the feeds in a local reader as if the subscription was done in the local reader app (I don’t like web interfaces for feeds since it may not work offline and may not download and cache all the feed data for offline use).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22404840
How does the “shining stars effect” for the sentence “the perfect dark mode” works? That’s really neat.

(I’m on mobile so cannot reverse)
Man that - operator is one of the first things I learned to help filter results.

These days either my searches have become better or their interpretation/context has as I rarely have to use that anymore
But it what if you just hate shirts with stripes but do like polka dots or other patterns? You can do a fancy advanced search query with OR and EXCLUDE tricks but that is not what this post is trying to emphasize.
I'd love to hear someone actually quoting dollars per milligram, and do an actual cost-benefit comparison between the mushroom production pathway and this novel yeast pathway. You can produce mushroom juice in a H20 solution cheaply at home for about $0.1 per 10mg of psilocybin. If you want pure psilocybin, it needs to be extracted from such a solution, but I am sure some similar extraction is needed for yeast-produced psilocybin as well. Obtaining psilocybin from yeast sounds like a great technological breakthrough, but I'm highly skeptical of economic arguments where no actual numbers are presented.
> 1. The majority of the games do not support multiplayer on Linux, due to dependency on Windows-specific anticheat software.

Not even anti-cheat, just different implementations of things in the Linux and Windows versions. IIRC Paradox games don't have any strong anti-cheat, but Linux and Windows users can't play due to how their systems handle network time synchronization.

> 2. Many, many of the games themselves aren't totally stable on Linux. So, expect a crash or two at critical gameplay moments.

Many, many of the games themselves aren't totally stable on Windows, either. Bethesda games (Fallout, Skyrim) come to mind -- desktop Skyrim had all sorts of bugs and crashes on Windows.

And why would it crash only at critical gameplay moments? Sounds like FUD.
Ah, but you see, he specifically wants a shirt without stripes as dialectically opposed to a shirt with stripes. A plain shirt just won't do.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmJVsaxoQSw
100% false. Where are these facts coming from?

The specs for delivery are always very clear because price depends on where it needs to be delivered!

"Delivery shall be made free-on-board ("F.O.B.") at any pipeline or storage facility in Cushing, Oklahoma with pipeline access to Enterprise, Cushing storage or Enbridge, Cushing storage."

What does it mean to be "normally not a destination for oil" and who is doing this checking (do you realize the volume of oil that is traded monthly? The futures market being discussed here uses standardized contracts.
FAANGM salaries aren't representative of the average software engineer's salary. Software engineering compensation is bimodal much like in the law field. There are a few making $300k+ (mostly in Silicon Valley, New York, and Seattle) and a ton making $60-130k.
I see Bing is poor of the lot. It did not understand the "without" keyword
It's not that. The issue is that companies have figured out that ups and downs happen, so if they sail close enough to the wind they capture the upside while their limited liability and bailouts protect them from the downside. Privatize profit, socialize risk. The people they are placing that risk onto are not obliged to accept it.
What is the going price for 1 mg of psilocybin? I am seeing a site sell magic mushrooms (Psilocybe Aztecorum) with a psilocybin quantity of ~1g for $15. 7 g for $72. Is this the publicly available norm or does it seem cheap.
Reminds me of this:
https://www.amazon.com/End-History-Last-Man/dp/0743284550
Description too general. Hard to comment
Updated. Thanks for the tip.
Place your bets here: https://predictionbook.com/predictions/198711
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Booking.com 2019 revenue was about 15 billion. I am still looking up the profit for 2019, but it was about 5 billion IIRC.

Gross profit is even higher ( and easier to find ).

edit: I can find the EBITDA for 2018, $5.73 billion ( https://www.fintessa.nl/actueel/beursberichten/booking-komt-..., Dutch ).
When I was doing my masters at SNU, my major professor opposed the NPS gaining power to control the companies they own. So what? You should do something because prominent professors support them?

There are lots of logical errors in your article in which if I try to debate them it will result to nothing but downspiral. I'll only get to the chase. The reason chaebols need their shortcuts to do something is because Korea is a policing tyrannical state. Elected officials' power is so strong that I don't see it as democracy, rather, it's a monarchy that people vote the king. Samsung and other chaebols took shortcuts to grow, but it was nessesary. If they did not take the shortcut we won't be talking about chaebols' powers, we would be talking about how to feed our families tomorrow.

Yak about pink ideals all the time. Yak yak yak and get the hell out of here. You think we can let a chaebol die? They do so much to our economy that if we let them go broke our nation would collapse at an instant. Moneymaking is much more important than nation, because there won't be one without it!

God, do you want to talk about Covid-19? Enforcing people to install monitoring software, looking through CCTVs and posting how someone got the virus, charging people for leaving their designated places, I'd rather die with Covid rather than live in the policing state where my freedom can be ignored when exceptional things happen, which it should not.

I think I've wasted too much time responding to this bait. Good luck living in Canada and I hope you have or gain a citizenship there!
Without a stable government in SA the Middle East would be even more chaotic than it is now. I think that's why after 9/11 a priority was made to keep the SA monarchy stable and in power.
Author's idea is the negative keyword. "Without"
A friend's place by Alamo Square had much better water than my former apartment closer to downtown.
That darn conceptual search sure is hard :) The technical approach to achieving this involves a sentence embedding that then uses vector search to match documents based on a distance metric like cosine similarity. If you encode a description of a shirt in an embedding trained on all shopping item descriptions, it should match up with the search query. The trick is in getting a sentence embedding from a short query to match a longer description in a document description - long summaries of text in embeddings tends to average too much and cloud meaning. The other problem is including the vector search feature without screwing up other searches.
I wonder if they have failover ISPs
> All public companies are anticipated to pay dividends or buy-back at some point in time, it's what underlies stock pricing.

I don't know the specifics of the Danish case, but in other places, they're not saying you should never do these things - only that you don't do it for a fixed period of time if you want bailout money.
You're the one coming across as an infant here.
While it is easy to get results based on certain keyword matching, Google has been publicly touting their ability to use NLP in search to better understand english. So this just shows a small limitation in their BERT models (https://www.blog.google/products/search/search-language-unde...). Doesn't make it any less impressive.
Don't forget

AND keyword LIKE '%searchStr%'
Easy, after first imagining the pink elephant you aren't supposed to.
«How is interpreting "shirts without stripes" as "I wish to see shirts that don't have any stripes" guessing?"»

Because I was looking for pages about the band called "Shirts without Stripes". Because I wanted pages with shirts that have stripes but where the page featured the word "without", because their shirts are without something else. Because I want to see striped shirts from the company called "Without". I don't want the machine to guess what I mean. It can never know.
Because there's something called conceptual search that people are dying for to find what they actually want.
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Yeah that's an interesting area of study. I do buy the criticisms though, and personally I think that propaganda plays a bigger role. The vast majority of Americans have no idea what their government is doing, and they rely either on inadequate or hyper-partisan, biased media to keep them informed. But those sources aren't there to inform them, they're there to polarize them so they get to the polls. It's pretty classic authoritarianism: blame some outside group, froth up the public to support you so you can implement your corrupt agenda.

I realize this sounds... super cynical and tin foil hat but, maybe that speaks to the seriousness of our situation. If there's tech out there that can fix it, I'm all ears.
the same group was saying "It's just a flu."

Technically, not an influenza virus. However, from what we know of virus diseases that cross species, it's not the 1st time a virus with this severe capability to spread rapidly has crossed over into humans. It's also not going to be the last.

The aspect of that statement that's true, which is worse than a lie, is that, "It's just a flu," puts people in mind of a disease that's a normalized part of everyday life. It's often the case, that when a virus crosses over to our species, the situation is far more dire than normal.

IIRC, when syphilis crossed over into humans, it would flat-out kill people in 2 weeks.
This may be relevant: "Don’t mark it as private or disallow embedding on YouTube, or we won’t be able to see it. Please note that because of how our system is built, YouTube’s view count will not increase even though we do watch your video." [1]

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/video/
The correct query would have been "shirt -stripes". That works fine, or at least does on Google. But yeah, sentence parsing fail.
IE 5 is all you will ever need
Someone needs to learn how to use the ¬ operator.
my point was that this very web page on HN got to top of Google search in 42 minutes or less on this search term

'''
Shirt Without Stripes | Hacker Newsnews.ycombinator.com › item
42 mins ago - The point that the author is making, in a very understated way, is that all three companies have PR websites that breathlessly describe their ...

'''
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I think it was never officialy published. The other research articles don't claim that Covid-19 has copies of parts of HIV.
That hasn’t gone away at all - you just can’t expect call of duty or battlefield.
Strange that companies would rather invest in fighting unionization than actually raise the work standards, and treatment of their employees.
They mention their own bootloader called freeldr. Interestingly, this is the same name as ReactOS’s bootloader. I assume it’s just a coincidence, but since I know OS/2 and NT share some common lineage, I do wonder if there’s any relation. A bit of searching didn’t seem to clear it up. Anyone have a clue?
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I work specifically in this field with clients, and deliver training on applying NLP to search.

You’d be surprised how effective NLP is for use when identifying query intent, and pulling out modifiers that should apply as metadata filters.

Weighted keyword search works a lot, but it fails hard for many long tail queries (especially in e-commerce and other attribute heavy domains).

IMO there really isn’t a good excuse for these firms to fail at queries like this. The query itself isn’t particularly difficult when using a decent NLP stack and following well known practices.
I like my dark theme implementation which supports the same operations, but a tad lighter, more flexible and not-Reacty: a toggle, falling back to the prefers-color-scheme value if it hasn’t been toggled or if JavaScript is disabled (and I don’t think Josh’s does that), and avoiding a flash of unstyled content. I wrote about it at https://chrismorgan.info/blog/dark-theme-implementation/.

The problem as a whole is definitely a tad fiddly, but I still think that trying to do things in React is a substantial part of what’s making it complicated here. I instead used regular stylesheets and the media attribute to control the toggling, and I think that’s the best solution, because it’s what makes it work perfectly with and without JavaScript. (I used external stylesheets, but you could inline them if you wanted; the media attribute works on <style> as well as <link>.)

Josh, I’d be interested in your opinion on it. It took me several iterations to end up where I did (definitely didn’t occur to me to alter the media attribute at first!), and I think it’d apply cleanly to such sites as yours, and be better for the toggling.
I gave up waiting and switched to an AMD card for the native macOS support. No regrets.

Everything works flawlessly out of the box and I no longer have to wait for Nvidia drivers before installing updates.
Life is full of luck and for every Hunter Biden there are 100 children growing up in failed homes. I didn't say luck and privilege don't exist but I absolutely do not agree that as a nation we have institutionalized racism. I can't even believe it's such a controversial statement to get downvote bombed.

Poverty rates are disproportionately high among black and hispanic citizens but as a percentage of total population they are absolutely dwarfed by white poverty. What is the reason that so many white Americans are living in poverty? Is it perhaps possible that it is a similar reason that black and hispanic citizens are living in poverty?

Poverty rates are always written as a percentage of the population of that race but if you rewrite them to be a percentage of US population a different narrative starts to emerge...

~2.7% of Americans are black people in poverty.
~3.0% of Americans are hispanic people in poverty.
~6.5% of Americans are white people in poverty.

We have problems of economic opportunity in this country. Writing it off as racism is missing the elephant in the room.
It would be difficult to do if you intend to build your business around low-skilled work.

As an aside, every mentor I've ever had that has started a tech consulting firm has advised me against starting one.
I wonder why this problem hasn't been resolved yet, considering we had NLP systems capable of this for a decade now.
Maybe it's too hard to scale to production. Or Pagerank is still better most of the time. Or plain old monopoly and risk aversion.
But thats a better percentage than a lot of the normal covid tests. I haven't done the math entirely but a 98.3% to 99.9% accurate test doesn't seem to correlate with a 50x-85x jump. If anyone can write out the proof that would be great.

Also this article has one weird thing I picked up on and maybe I someone can verify it but they've said 100 people died in Santa Clara country but I could find 73 possible covid-19 deaths. All of those haven't been verified. This is based on April 17th numbers
does indentation sound like a pause in the speech?
Literally the first image that comes up for me is a striped shirt.
I think you meant Proton instead of Vulkan. Some games run on Vulkan even on Windows. :)

Cheers
The mere fact of getting an alert of a possible positive contact would lead to stigmatization. Under a de-escalation scenario with social distancing measures, it is not difficult to find out who was the source of contagion, no matter the privacy protection scheme of the app. This is a faulty design of any contact tracing app.

The goal of a contact tracing app is to incentive self-quarantine of new contagions. But the possible outcome taking into account social effects is stigmatization. The error of this approach could be letting positives being out of confinement spreading alert events and virus at will.

An immunology passport app is the resource needed to avoid this situation, guarantying social environments are free of potential sources of contagion.

Massive testing and immunity passport is the tool to find out and isolate infected people while avoiding stigmatization and privacy violations. Turning neighbors into prosecutors is not a good idea.
Just like there aren't enough masks and ventilators to go around for the patients, there's also not enough money to bail everybody out. Hence, triage.
Your car example makes sense because there are pretty much only 2 options.

Unfortunately people don't search for "solid shirts". At best they search for "plain shirts", but there's a lot of taste to clothing that means people often do want a shirt without stripes, but are open to patterned/plain.

I think searching "shirts without stripes" is very legitimate in fashion.

I say this having built a clothing search function for the company I work for, and one that does not support this sort of query.
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