skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's almost impossible to build a decent web search engine from scratch today (i.e., build your own index, fight SEO spams, tweak search result relevance...). The web is already so big and so complex. Otherwise Google won't need to hire so many people to work on search alone.

If you didn't start at the very early stage of tiny web (e.g., Google in 1996 as a research project) and grew with the web over the past 20+ years, or you don't have super deep pocket (e.g., Microsoft Bing in mid 2000s), then it's almost impossible to build a decent web search engine within a few years.

It's possible to build vertical search engines on far smaller scale, far less complex, far less lucrative things that Google/Microsoft has little interest today (e.g., recipes [2], podcasts [3], gifs [4]...)

It's also possible to come up with a different discovery mechanism for web (or a small portion of web), other than a traditional complete web search engine. Essentially you don't cross moat to attack a huge castle (e.g., Google). Instead, you bypass the castle [1], as it becomes irrelevant.

[1] https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1038538688232226817...

[2] https://www.yummly.com/

[3] https://www.listennotes.com/

[4] https://giphy.com/
Yes but if the average price of the clean energy is sufficiently high, brief periods of free clean energy may not be enough to offset that.
> Same for string handling/processing, there are specialized libraries out there which do a specific job better

I actually can't think of a lot of these that are super common across projects.

ICU is probably the most notable one, with its particular focus on unicode correctness.

A lot of large projects end up writing their own string library of sorts.
WFH has positive externalities due to less transportation demand, if your goal is to provide assistance to low income people this is a much worse way to do it than a simple progressive tax/redistribution scheme.
Not the same but css: contain is a quite revolutionary strict mode, performance-wise
last time I tried this it was great on my laptop, but because it uses Firefox in the background for rendering, it brought my t2 small instance to its knees.

I wonder if they've done anything clever to make it more efficient since then?
Nice article. I think the diagram at the end is the most interesting. Do you have any other examples of similar diagrams?
pyenv[1] might help you out in this department. It's also cross-platform.

[1] https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv
In my case it's been both. While it was just my wife and I, the adventure nature of Airbnb was fantastic. In fact, we preferred cheaper places in better location and didn't mind the occasional `wtf` because the upsides were greater. After having kids, we still prefer Airbnb because we can get bigger spaces (more bedrooms, big living rooms), but the lack of consistency is making it more difficult to choose Bnb over hotels now. Now I want less adventure and more comfort. Losing sleep because someone's bed is too soft, or the A/C is too noisy is no longer acceptable. The reality is that we could get all of that on Airbnb, but then it won't be a good deal, it will be as or more expensive than getting a hotel. So it's not so much that Airbnb has changed, but our needs have changed while our purchasing power has remained the same. Just thinking out loud...
It's a fantasy problem. Hold on before you downvote folks and count the number of 'native' applications that were written since year 2010.

Most consumer applications are now webapps or electron apps. From accounting software to music players, they are not native.

If someone botheres to make a desktop app, you either have proffeshionals tools or resource intensive applications like Adobe Photoshop, Blender3D, 3Dmax, IntelliJ IDE's and Games. None of them look native either!

Almost noone bothers to develop platform spesific apps, and native applications are dying. If we don't stop squabbling about native look and feel, we will get no native applications at all.
Wow, I never knew about the print view. It's way more readable, and the lack of comments section makes it quite fast to load despite the very long page.

The tiny drop-down menu in the default view is very hard to discover and quite annoying to click on (many other review sites, like Phoronix, have similar annoying drop-downs).
This strikes me as a tone deaf move for Amazon. They're increasingly losing consumer confidence and are starting, anecdotally at least, to be regarded as closer to a flea market or eBay than a trustworthy retailer. They really need to shore up the issues with tainted supplies in their core retail business before I would ever consider them for something as sensitive as pharmaceuticals, regardless of how much they promise its handled differently.
I can definitely add that. Can we chat? I’d love to get more feedback and iterate if you’d like.
Ponzi schemes are different than Bitcoin, which is a cryptocurrency by very definition. From Wikipedia,

"A Ponzi scheme can maintain the illusion of a sustainable business as long as new investors contribute new funds, and as long as most of the investors do not demand full repayment and still believe in the non-existent assets they are purported to own."

Bitcoin isn't a business, it's an asset with decentralized production and a distributed ledger. Also, assuming the network isn't down (which it never has been to date) you can liquidate in full immediately. The asset exists and maintains ownership on an individual basis, therefore in direct contradiction to a Ponzi scheme.

I think you could possibly argue that stocks are Ponzi schemes too by your description. Correct me if I'm wrong, it was developed around the 2008 era financial crisis to act as an alternative to US Dollars, in the event that pulling out cash from a bank is no longer a valid option. Public exchanges offer a variety of options to trade BTC to USD, but there wasn't really any of that about a decade ago. It seems more like some of tech has absorbed crypto and incorporated, or designed, their products around it. And personally it doesn't seem likely that cypherpunks have the highest regard for corporate America.
Are you saying it's finally the year of Linux desktop?

But I can't resist using macOS at this point and their hardware.

I'd like to see someone run Linux on the new M1 hardware.
For police officers its defined by the policy of their department because they have training, less-lethal weapons, and are (at times) obligated to initiate force on subjects. The reasonable person in this case is a law enforcement officer who has the requisite training and experience.
> to guess for you based on your search history, you can opt-in to download and apply such lists of ranking modifiers to your user profile

pro-privacy does not sit well with terms such as search history and user profile
There is a current bug with Chromium that I'm aware of that causes issues if you have windows open on multiple desktops. Other than that I don't have these problems. May I suggest you check out the Arch Wiki for Sway and Wayland for suggestions for configuration.
Then we would need multiple real rapes too. And those are missing.
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I'm an old-time user of DDG. I agree with the 3 points. I feel like I'm using a shitty car in a world where everyone runs a ferrari.

The one that strikes me most is the results. I feel like DDG doesn't search the entire internet, like there's zillions of pages there waiting to be indexed, even old websites, but the results i get are so poor.

Even with this handicap, I still use over INSERT YOUR AD HERE Google Search.
That’s what directory sites offered once upon a time. It was a pretty good way to discover new content back then. I spent a lot of time on dmoz when I wanted to find information about various topics.
> Also, somewhat ironic, but my willingness to "go to battle" for my family is far greater than my willingness to "go to battle" for anything before having a family, to an extent that becoming a father has made me far more assertive, confident, and willing to take responsibility, which makes me more "masculine" if you so happen to define masculinity that way...

That's a known fact in the military since times immemorial.
The most SIMPLE explanation for you is the following, and it has nothing to do with Laws.

When Trump was given his presidential megaphone he was able to convince a LOT of people to not wear masks by simply not wearing one and then telling people that's fine. At least by taking away the megaphone that's a step in the right direction. Even if there's no specific law that backs him up, that alone may save lives.

Second, even if technically not legal, presidential orders are OFTEN followed. It can be challenged in the courts for years but in the mean time, an order like that will probably have the effect of getting at least another 50M masks put on. That's a fucking win.

The other thing that is 100% legal, is the executive branch can restrict funding in specific ways if a state does not behave. If I was Biden, I would start there.
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You have variable pricing on electricity, and heavy industrial users build up business plans that take advantage of the market. Prices will adjust until the inefficiencies are eaten up by market forces.

It’s not “maybe you can come out ahead” the occasional abundance of very cheap electricity creates an opportunity that will be filled by whoever can make the most of it.
I do have to admit, some of the outfits could be a bit more fashion forward with the way the algorithm is setup right now.
But if you were to add items to your closet and generate outfits, you would get results more towards your taste.
Using it without a closet and limited preference settings acts more of an idea bank.
So many engineers live and breathe P.O.S.I.W.I.D. (purpose of a system is what it does) in all technical areas and then are violently opposed to that kind of thinking when it comes to politics or sociology.

I'm honestly baffled by it. I get that people can be ignorant of how police act in the real world because they have no experience with it and watch cop shows on TV, but once you learn what the actual behaviour is ...
Russel and Whitehead's system is well-engineered; that's why it doesn't prove a contradiction (presumably) while your badly engineered system does. The issue is that R&W made their system powerful enough that it's also incomplete, due to the fact that their system contains smartass statements like G that are hell-bent on creating paradoxes if given the chance.

Before Godel's time, people just didn't have enough experience with computers to realize that you have to deal with code injection attacks every time you try to build a powerful platform of any kind. In this case, Godel Numbering is the hack that allows code injection into a formal system that's supposed to just be highly insightful about properties of the infinite world of natural numbers.
So we just need Garanimals for grown ups?
Great idea, but why build a search engine at all in this case? You can use DDG + your filter and see only the results from your whitelist.

Could easily be implemented for any current search engine.

To a large extent, this is what you already do when you view a page of search results. Filter them based on your understand of what sites / results hold value.
Your point is that if the government did not make any mask mandates, people would wear masks because of reverse psychology. So we need to get rid of mask mandates so that people will wear masks?

My point is that they tried it without a mandate already. North Dakota, Arizona, Iowa, Arkansas, etc. States without mask mandates saw cases spike, ICUs filled up, health care workers started getting sick, things got scary, and they were forced to implement mask mandates before reaching the point where there was zero available healthcare capacity for non-COVID issues.

Why have so many states that initially refused mask mandates had to turn 180 degrees and mandate masks? Because nobody was wearing masks without the mandate.

Trump failing to encourage mask use is an active decision not to intervene. You seem to be saying that by failing to invade Canada, we have intervened in Canada.

Or maybe I missed your point? That's definitely a possibility.
> Harnessing real user experiences (blogs, etc)

This is what we need more than anything. More independent blogs. The ability to search events now, or 10 years ago, mass indexing of RSS feeds, etc.

A general search engine is kinda way out of the ballpark for now. But you could specialize for long form blogs, from all sides, hard-left, hard-right, women in tech, white supremacists, all the extremes and moderates.

I've love to have an interface to search a topic and see what all kinds of people have posted long form, without commentary or Twitter/Facebook bullshit "Fact checking" notices. I what to see what real writers are seeing across the spectrum on a given topic for the week or month.
I’m curious: when would someone be able to use a touchscreen to pinch to zoom, but not be able to use a trackpad to make the same gesture? Is this an accessibility issue or just a question of what hardware is present?
This is most excellent and huge thanks to everyone working on this. I tried it recently on Pinephone connected via USB-C dock to an external monitor, and it's just awesome what it can do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHOgVmxH_dA (using gstreamer) Hopefully, the support will start trickling down to ffmpeg and common players, like mpv, now that the API will be stable.
>Personally, I don't know how to reconcile being told that voter fraud is exceedingly rare when I see articles like this where individuals and teams of people are caught falsifying information on this scale.

Why? These articles are incidents of exceedingly rare voter fraud. And it's worth noting that this wasn't an example of what, say, the Trump campaign is alleging (i.e., that ballots have been falsified), but rather an fraudulent attempt at registration (and also nomination as a candidate). No one argues that voting irregularities never happen anywhere, just that the system is fine and these incidents are, indeed rare and caught when they happen.

>If the process for identifying fraud isn't particularly robust or thorough, how can you legitimately say fraud is extremely rare?

This question makes the assumption that the process for identifying fraud "isn't particularly robust or thorough", which in turn seems to be begging the question.
Their end-game is collecting user data & collecting a referral fee when people use their "insurance". (The coupons generally are not actual coupons, they present as an insurance coverage policy & code that pharmacies use the same way they would your normal insurance card). That's how they make their money.

Personally, for me, the data they can collect off of me when I go to their site is worth the ~$2,000 I save every month. (actually I don't have to use them: I am prudent, and part of my contingency planning for losing my job is to know exactly what expenses I could strip away, and how (and for how long) I could continue to pay for the bare essentials. GoodRx is part of that planning for the healthcare end of things)
>I wonder if they could put in their terms & conditions that you give them permission to do it.

ToS agreements and EULAs are not legally binding. You can't sign away your rights.
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Seems he removed it yesterday as planned maintenance.
https://github.com/rukshn/rukshn.github.io/commit/05d9be378d...
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Why are telehealth companies treating healthcare like the gig economy?
This sounds interesting; Would be interested in knowing more about what you all do, and if you all hire remote :D
Whilst I find Dang's goals admirable, this isn't a discussion in the abstract about surveillance technology but instead a discussion about the misuse of said technology by an institution has historically committed genocide and continues to serve a similar role today. It can be quite difficult to not introduce emotion into such discussions. Most well informed people do find the conduct of the RCMP upsetting and if we which to speak about it at all we must accept that people will be angry.
Maybe we can have this for cops murdering people too
Witty, but not wholly faithful to statistical learning theory
My blog doesn't have cookies, javascript, forms, no server-side, just html files, why should I go with https to avoid this discriminatory treatment?
Windows has this as well, just hit Windows + ; and go to the ;-) tab.
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I said ISN'T a pile of garbage :)
Given your experience, What's your opinion about ddg result quality?
If you want a good engine there is no need to index 100B pages, since 99% of the pages are blogspam.
unsure how they would with cold stuff, and laws about pain meds and such
I dont want privacy, I want competition. Which is why I use Bing and honestly it works virtually all the time.

Maybe there could be some pure anonymous ad-free search engine but it more realistic to have alternative commercial one. I really dont care that people are looking at my searches for how to resize an array or cheap hotels in Florida.
I use kiwi which provide uBlock Origin for chromium
We certainly didn't evolve brains for long term planning. We evolved brains for short term planning and it works pretty well for that
Yeah. Exactly my thoughts. I really liked the concept of
del.icio.us. where humans could bookmark and tag web sites.

dmoz looks pretty great but the categories look limiting.
What do the background tabs do with server side events or websockets? You should be able to just open a connection and send a message over WS or have the server drop the connection on every tick. You can probably do it without a server by hitting an address that will blackhole the connection instead of refusing it and use an AbortController [1] to timeout the request.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AbortContro...
What works even better is, “To avoid <problem>, consider Y instead of X”. Passive voice tries to mitigate the impact of the problem of “arbitrary direction” rather than resolving the problem.
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As a pinephone owner who would like to be able to charge the phone while watching videos. What do you have to do to get this working on PostmarketOS? (or will I have to recompile everything?)
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We have to make sure to include highly relevant advertisements in the search results, at least 50% of the results should be ads. So there needs to be a marketplace for buying/selling ads.

We can't have a search engine that is only useful for finding the most relevant web pages for a given query. People love highly relevant advertisement in their search results.
I say about 50% I'm good with DDG. About 1/3 of the time I add !g, usually for weird error messages and tech stuff.

Honestly we shouldn't be using Google for everything. Why not just search StackExchange or Github issues directly for known bug problems? If you need a movie, !imdb or !rt forward you to exactly where you want to really search on.

If DDG or Google also included independent small blogs for movie results, I could see the value in that. I'd prefer someone's review on their own site or video channel, but it doesn't. We've kinda lost that part of the Internet.
You can with e.g kiwi browser
In this case the XSS vector is the fact that CSS allows running JavaScript in some browsers [1], but still, a lot of systems that are supposed to be weak and domain-specific are discovered to be Turing-complete, e.g. Conway's Game of Life.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3607894/cross-site-scrip...
They can't make it the default yet without breaking a lot of things since a bunch of marketing people decided to break the security properties of TLS by using HTTP only vanity redirect domains. While I've found HTTP-only to be most common, sometimes these redirects do support HTTPS but hand out the main site certificate without updating it to include the vanity domain, resulting in a certificate error (however, this new built in HTTPS only gives you a HTTP warning in this case rather than a certificate error, unlike HTTPS Everywhere's EASE). Some sites also have HTTP only redirect from example.com to www.example.com.
Culture & personal freedoms would be the most important part for me and the one almost all recruiter requests fail to communicate in any meaningful way. Pay & tech are next. If culture is fine i am confindent that the recruitment process won't be too horrible.
I've tried DDG for a while, around a couple of years ago, and I had lower-quality results particularly for technical subjects (which are the vast majority of my searches). I will give DDG another shot, though.
But you are not going to buy a lenovo either. You are intrigued, what will their high-end offering be like? It may be worth the wait.
Any way to look up costs for a specific drug?
That depends on the refined gasoline. Someplace like California, where petroleum is really heavy and needs a lot of energy to extract/refine, uses roughly 13kWh of natural gas, electricity, etc, to deliver one gallon of gas (page 5).

https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/classic//fuels/lc...

Most of that 13kWh is natural gas, so you can't use it directly in an EV. It can be used to generate electricity in a high efficiency natural gas power plant though, which would provide ~6-7kWh to consumers.

By avoiding extraction/refining/transportation of petroleum and the associated natural gas/electricity used in those steps, we can instead use that to generate electricity, which would power an average EV at ~250Wh/mile roughly 25 miles.

In places where petroleum doesn't need as much natural gas for extraction, that figure is lower, but the idea still applies.
Note that this isn't a "true" terminal-based browser. It's built on a WebExtension running in Firefox that renders out the DOM as text to a Go-based CLI client. It's not a browser engine running in your terminal, it's more of a VNC over TTY.
Columbus was actually cruel psychopath. Even his contemporaries complained.
What standard ABI? If I look at the gcc man page, there is a large number of abi related knobs.
"for the collective" ... what collective? This is textbook top-down control, a small elite group spying on the masses. And when the masses find out it is considered a scandal.
I'm not sure what you mean, there are plenty of ways to double check. This article doesn't say how exactly these people were caught, but the emphasis on the "homeless" element would seem to indicate that the voter registration applications were checked against claimed residences and mismatches were found. You are required to give various types of information when you register to vote in California, including home address, citizenship status, etc. All of these can be checked against if needed.
This is why search is hard: 15% of Google searches are new each day. [1] And, with over 1.7+ billion web pages, [2] it would take a gargantuan open source effort to put something together like this.

Not to mention the cost, not sure something like this could be sustained with a Wikipedia-esque "please donate $15" fundraising model.

[1] https://searchengineland.com/google-reaffirms-15-searches-ne...

[2] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/09/chart-of-the-day-how-...
Can't counter that given I've last used emacs years back.
To add to the sibling comment, there are multiple background images you can use when taking notes on the rM. Apparently you can customize them (from my research - haven't received my rM2 yet TBH) so you could likely drop in a grid image to use as a background.