skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have actually been working on a prototype for something similar to the "meta-search" engines of the 90s, but the intent is to deal with the present situation of search engines placing limits on number of results, and to rid SERPs of needless cruft (Javascript, CSS, advertising, etc.) making them look more standardised according to personal taste. I never really liked meta-search engines because they were too slow to return results. Instead this script lets me query search engines directly, one or more at a time, in succession, or all at the same time, and merge the results into simple, aesthetically-pleasing HTML files.

I use a text-only browser to read HTML so what I am describing here is not designed with "modern" browsers in mind.

The approach I take to avoid search result limits is that I search from the command line and store the result URLs in standardised "search results files" in a "search directory", one file per unique query. When I reach the results limit for the particular search engine, I can repeat the search on another search engine. The search results file is created for two reasons: 1. it allows me to strip out all the cruft from SERPs and mix results from different search engines into one file that looks great in a text-only browser, and 2. it tells me where I left off for each search engine, so I can continue any search at a later time, i.e., get more results.

The script reads from the search directory and presents me with a menu of numbered searches. I continue a search at any time by selecting a number. For example:

1 this is an example
2 foo
3 foo bar
4 foo bar baz

I typically browse results by pointing the text-only browser at the search directory.

The search result files are each named according to the URL-encoded search string. The file format is very simple. There are three type of lines: 1. a title tag for the search query, 2. a link for each result URL, and 3. an HTML comment for each HTTP request, indicating to the script where I left off, i.e., the last result number; this is more or less equivalent to a "Next page" or "More results" link. Each result URL and comment is prefixed with a search engine identifier, i.e., a prefix. Thus the script can read the search results file comments and I can easily see which results came from XYZ search engine versus ABC search engine.

<title>this is an example</title>
<!-- X q=this%20is%20an%20example -->
X <a href="https://example.com">https://example.com</a><br>
<!-- X q=this%20is%20and%20example&p=2 -->
<!-- A q=this%20is%20an%20example -->
A <a href="https://example.net/index.html">https://example.net/index.html</a><br>
<!-- A q=this%20is%20an%20example&start=2 -->

This example search results file above shows 1 result retrieved from XYZ search engine (prefix "X") and another result retrieved from ABC search engine (prefix "A"). It shows comments indicating where to continue the search for each search engine. Normally there would be around 50-100 result URLs per HTTP request.

This approach assumes the search result limits are temporal, i.e., they are limits on how many results can be retrieved in a given period. That may not be true for every search engine.
Okay? There are a lot of American things I’d like to change. This falls far below my desire to say “maths” and much further below things that are actually impacting people’s lives.
Car steers onto opposite lane on interstate at night/no traffic?
PostScript was one of the first two languages I took up pretty seriously (C being the other one) and helped get me into programming in general. I quickly fell in love with the elegant syntax and intuitive graphical capabilities. Sadly, I found PostScript itself not to be very convenient for general-purpose programming just due to the limited set of primitives available in the standard library, but as a special-purpose language, I got a lot of mileage out of it.
I hope they don't peacefully demonstrate in my neighborhood, we've done nothing to deserve that
Israelis shed masks outdoors after vaccine victory
Perhaps we should migrate to a "6502s per square milimeter" metric or something?
Haha I would like to claim it was a fun play on words or pun, but it’s a misspelling. But I do have some UC/Chron’s type symptoms and found it to be extremely helpful, even more so than long term intermittent fasting, weekly 2-3 days fasts and a 1 time 5 day fast.
Which would imply that big cities have to pay more for those professions to compensate for the cost of living there, since they have the option to live somewhere cheaper.

And indeed, they do pay more.
There is no scenario where this behavior by the police is acceptable. This is intimidation pure and simple. The police have learned nothing from the past year of protests and continue to give us reasons why they should be replaced. Police are under the rule of law just like the rest of us.
There is usually more than one rental available withing commuting distance of a given job.
It recently hit top 50 on one of the big lists of programming languages and I see more people getting into it every day. It is growing unless there's s lsrge drain hole somewhere. Might not be growing relative to other larger langs but I'm fairly certain it is growing.

And I've heard a lot of concern about it being niche so I tend to mention that it is growing. Because in my experience the biche is quite large and .. growing. I find plenty of work.
I don't know your personal situation but most people underestimate their caloric intake. They don't weigh portions, or forget to count snacks and beverages.

It's also possible that your insulin response is messed up. This Peter Atria Drive podcast has an excellent explanation of the biochemistry which prevents some people from losing fat, and treatments which usually work.

https://peterattiamd.com/ama22/
Ref. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26858042
Two big questions for me are :
- Will this change their decision to remove radar?
- How did driver move to passenger seat (or idk exit the vehicle!) with autopilot still going? That should be impossible. car should have weight sensors for seatbelt in passenger side, maybe need one on driver side too!
Playing with letterforms is such a fun part of childhood. I hope that kind of pen and paper play never goes away entirely, even as we push our children to use “devices” more and more at school.

This also reminds me of another form of the lesser/greater/greatest joke: Wowoman Pokemon:

https://i.redd.it/1664raw5t2i01.jpg
No legit, unless you live near the farms, these things sell out first thing in the morning when the stores open. I was seeing them show up on FB marketplace later that day.
> ignores the main reason why people 'own' property in the first place

no, the main reason people own property is to extract profit from it (or extract utility - essentially the same thing). Maintenance is merely a hinderance that they put up with in order to maximize said utility/profit extraction.

If it were possible to create a property with no need for maintenance, the owners would opt for that!
To further your position and to loop it back to the original point about crash vs accident: even in the case of an AARP member who had a heart attack that leads to a collision, accident is not the right word. There is nothing accidental about it. We know that building infrastructure that requires driving into old age will result in deadly collisions, yet we continue to choose to invest to grow this infrastructure. The resulting incident is a crash or collision, not an accident. A good book on the subject is Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow.
I do something else to avoid such things, which is I use a different email address for each correspondent. If I accidentally sign up for spam, I can just remove that address from the /etc/aliases file and then they won't be able to send any more spam to my email. (I have also configured my email so that it only supports aliases, and not actual user names.)
Dropping a pointer to _Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy_ (Wayne Moore) for further reading in this vein...
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26852399
Wasn't this guy's son also a judge, and together they're building a little patent troll servicing family empire? Or am I thinking of another sketchy Texas judge?
> To be honest though, I never had a full production system in my dev machine in my 5yrs career.

http://catern.com/run.html

I can understand it might not have been possible thirty or even twenty years ago but with modern systems such as the EPYC 7003[1] you can have a 64 core / 128 thread beast with 4 TB memory. Granted the processor alone costs $7890 but I can't imagine any system that won't run on a single top end modern computer, especially with dummy data.

Why don't we run the full production system on a development machine?

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/print/16529/amd-epyc-milan-review https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26466933
How does this system compare to algebraic effects?
My questions are directed towards screening out tech debt mills. You do not want to work at a place where you are consistently told to do the wrong thing.
It's hard to get accurate understanding of important events if Journalists are intimidated or attacked.

Some of the pictures from these conflicts give me pause. Here is one such thread:

https://mobile.twitter.com/RainbowOfRed/status/1383524289542...

With Twitter and palm sized recording devices, what makes one a journalist (in these contexts)?
This is the app with no Android version yet? Yep, no bubble here folks...
I mean, the issue is personalized ads. It shouldn't exist, and advertisers would make just as much money without it if it were illegal. Content-based targeting has worked for decades and does work today. Sites have target markets, ads have target markete, connect these and you are serving ads to the right people, without compromising their privacy.
I’ve always been curious - what if we imposed a law disallowing owning more than 1 home. Wouldn’t this reduce demand and, in doing so, lower prices from less competition?

I’m sure there’s other aspects I’m missing which make this a bad idea but there’s something that doesn’t feel right about people owning 2-3 homes while others can’t get on the property ladder.
Firefighters rescue kitten with head stuck through wheel lug hole
"After about 30 minutes, law enforcement told protesters to the leave the area in a loudspeaker announcement calling the demonstration an unlawful assembly."

Unlawful assembly.

"In England, the offence was abolished in 1986, but it exists in other countries."[0]

"while freedom of association is used in the context of labor rights and in the Constitution of the United States is interpreted to mean both the freedom to assemble and the freedom to join an association"[1]

I wouldn't be too excited about police in my area invoking "unlawful assembly" willy-nilly, especially when followed up by the "identification of press" actions as described in the article.

I don't want to go too far off the deep end in commentary, but it's more anecdata pointing in an uncomfortable direction.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_assembly

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_assembly
I actually don't get this at all.

Read the article, clearly the actions by police go against the order by the judge.

So what is the point ? Why assume the risk ? What is the goal from law enforcement, and what is being achieved by the picture taking?

Do cops think there are thugs cloaking themselves in fake press gear ?
Do cops think press staff is actively participating in the riots?
Where cops ordered to intimidate ? Who is the beneficiary from such a campaign ?

So many questions, and the article explores almost none of them. Come on gents.
You do know that the Model B does not have the PCIE lane connected so there's no such thing as case adding M2 flash support, right?
The supply of landlords is not fixed. If subsidies make it attractive for suppliers to offer housing, more housing will be built and the prices they can demand will fall. Subsidies naturally give rise to a glut and underconsumption which is exactly what you want.
Actually their wealth has to grow at much greater than 70% to just maintain their wealth. It has to grow .7/.3 = 233%.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Blackfoot (Siksika) Nation Beliefs (2019)
Not if you bound the profit. Then it consumes more time without yielding more money, and is thus less interesting of a proposition -> property values go down. You're assuming an equilibrium return on investment (and unchanging prices), and a perfectly stable market, here.
> but any who don't understand ... have no business opining

Ha, have you spoken with any analysts? They are paid to express an opinion. So they do.

There are good ones and terrible ones. Some people listen only to the good ones and most people don’t know how to tell the difference.
HN replies is really good for this:

http://www.hnreplies.com

The other thing that’s useful, all be it for a slightly different thing, is to setup some Google Alerts to notify you if your username / blog url gets mentioned somewhere.

https://www.google.co.uk/alerts
Yes I agree it's tiresome, I wish hacker news had rules against people making bad faith arguments more so than they do now.
As a computer scientist rather than an EE, I learned a lot from this article. I would like to provide some perspective as a person who buys and looks at processor advances in the consumer market with a technical, but not too technical, background.

Unlike a sibling comment, I never knew that the lithography process did not correspond to any physical characteristic in the chip. I naively assumed that the headlines saying that Intel was behind in process technology were correct, and used that to inform purchasing decisions. I found the article enlightening, and I think many on HN with the same background as myself will agree.

As an aside, I tried to read the linked IEEE paper [1] but the page is cut off for me below section 2. If anyone has a link to the full PDF, I would appreciate that.

[1]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=906...
There hasn't been any historical precedence for which removing the means of production from being owned has turned out well. Because, either it has never been truly attempted - but just a thinly disguised usurpation of property by force, or that it failed and devolve back into ownership model anyway.
This is pretty cool. The journalists who have worked tirelessly to usher in the surveillance police state we all suffer under are finally getting the same treatment ordinary plebians have endured for years. The fourth estate, fifth column, whatever they are now are finally getting a heaping mouthful of what they've served up.
Don’t be jealous, just engage yourself in work that challenges you at that level! There is lots of challenging free software stuff that needs doing with your name on it. Alyssa is just having fun.
Well, if "we" is the United States, then the answer is yes. If "we" is the world, then the answer is hell no
This is the most Chinese thing I've seen US LEO do in hours - right after surveilling people not suspected of a crime.
I would love to see a guide to fitting an rpi camera module into a film camera back, to bring old film cameras into the modern age.
Wanted to say that browserless was on this podcast recently, and was great experience. I’d definitely recommend others do it as well
> Journalists covering a protest in a Minneapolis suburb Friday night were forced on their stomachs by law enforcement, rounded up and were only released after having their face and press credentials photographed.

> The incident occurred hours after a judge issued a temporary order barring the Minnesota State Patrol from using physical force or chemical agents against journalists, according to court documents.

Sounds like the police don't care about the judge's order, nor the rights of journalists.
The fixed-function hardware that Alyssa assumed existed (vertex attribute fetch, special uniform buffer hardware) doesn't exist on many GPUs outside of mobile. In fact, Vulkan was designed to be a closer match for these GPUs, by making many of the same tradeoffs that Metal did. If they wanted to sabotage Vulkan, choosing the same tradeoffs as it and following the same path as most other GPU vendors doesn't seem like a very effective way to do it.
Ambigrammatic Figures (2020)
One of the worst I remember was a project which unsurprisingly was named after a game of thrones character.

I remember the era when sys admins would name machines or environments after nerdy shit like Tatooine, Dagobah. And you had to memorise which was the test environment and which was the mail server.

Thankfully I have never seen that in code.
Why is this being referred as intimidation?

That's answered in the article:

"Colt described police then corralling protesters and media into one group and yelling for them to get “flat on our stomachs.”

“They were the ones with the guns, so we were like, ‘OK, well, we have to do this,’” Colt said."

There are more descriptions further on.
I think there's an age factor there too. In my 20's as long as I was exercising regularly I could easily burn off that extra 200 calories, but in my 30's I've had to (try to) avoid the calories in the first place.
A similar program on a municipal level might look something like this:

1) Public funds provide capital to build or buy a dwelling. Public owns dwelling outright.

2) Individuals rent dwelling at market rate. Part of this money goes towards paying off inflation and the time value of money (equivalent to paying down mortgage interest), part goes to a fund in the individual's name (equivalent to paying down mortgage principal).

3a) Saved funds reach price paid for home. Ownership is transferred, public keeps the funds.

3b) Individuals leave early. The chunk of their payments that went to their fund is refunded.

The proposal in the article looks like it's much more ambitious, and designed as a national program. This allows the fund to follow the individual, instead of being tied to a property. Instead of having the refund/buy option, it always pays back a dividend. So if you've paid enough rent that you're getting $200/month back, and you move, you still just get $200/month back.
Press means accountability - a dangerous threat to LEO
You're right that they technically are, but in practice it seems that they don't share the same level of scrutiny or punishment.
Well, congrats on the release anyway.
I've long hunted for split flap modules on aliexpress and I know folks who buy old train boards to get these modules. I wonder if there's someone out there scaling up the manufacturing? I'd love to buy modules at under the DIY ~$50 mark and build cool stuff at home!
> Developed by the nation’s leading seismologists, the ShakeAlert system uses signals from more than 700 seismometers installed across the state by USGS, Cal OES, University of California Berkeley, and the California Institute of Technology.

They just send notifications to the phones if there is an earthquake. They don’t use the phones themselves as a sensor.
>technology being able to pull me out of my introverted shell

Hey we have that in common, but maybe because we get to work with like-minded people in tech, not social media haha
These are good points. I am not qualified in this area, but it would be interesting to hear if 32k gallons of water is a lot to extinguish a total wreck fire. Is water the best thing to use for these battery fires? (Hint: Is a foam product more suitable, but more expensive?) Also: Do the batteries in hybrid cars have similar issues?
Best Mindset
Why would they when the worst possible outcome is to take paid leave and find a job a couple cities over?
I don’t often recommend specific products, but I feel comfortable recommending zhou nutrition spirulina. Again I can not stress the smell, but the taste isn’t bad and it will be impossible to fathom but you grow accustomed to the smell.

Other notes, it stains terribly (the powder as well as after being mixed with water), so I suggest using a mason jar with a few ounces of water (put lid on and shake) so it’s like a shot and do it all over the sink.

They make tablets you can get at Whole Foods and it’s very appealing (no smell no mess) instead of the powder, but don’t get sucked in, they are like a watered down version of the powder.
This pales in comparison to the rhetoric when OS X came out - you see that rhetoric survive today at opensource.apple.com, it's there, just, not in the spirit of the freedom that was promised.
Just be aware that both of those UI libraries only save time if you go with the out of the box experience. If you need to theme them there will be a bit of a learning curve and if you really need to customize then that learning curve goes up dramatically.
It is the opening text of the video here:

https://www.tesla.com/autopilot
Chrome has some overhead with a lot of isolated processes. It's also not the lightest web browser.

But 2GB of ram is not much nowadays. While it's what you have on your laptop, or a brand new MacBook pro, 8GB is also what you have on a common high end smartphone in 2021, and some even have 12 to 16gb of ram. But unlike iOS or Android, Mac OS is not very good at managing ram because it's based on an older model where it can't really close apps or background services when necessary.

My advice would be to stop using Chrome or getting a laptop with at least 16gb of ram, preferably 32.
I am mostly working on Free Hero Mesh these days, which is a puzzle game engine, for turn-based grid-based games involving objects moving around, such as sokoban and Hero Hearts. (It is a reimplementation of a game by Everett Kaser Software (done mainly by making various experiments to determine what the correct behaviour is), but with a lot of improvements, including but not limited to being Free software.) You may write on the NNTP if you are interested to use it or help with it in any way (and/or complaining about it, preferably constructively).

Fossil repository: http://chiselapp.com/user/zzo38/repository/freeheromesh
Do you have sources to explain concretely what you mean here?
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Not sure why you're throwing KDE into this. I've been using it for almost a decade now. It's stayed fairly consistent, offers the familiar desktop, panel and launcher style interface, is fully customizable in just about every way. Doesn't hide anything from you, doesn't make things obtuse or opaque. Never tried to force some mobile interface on you. It's pretty much the opposite of GNOME in every way.
You can only flip in one direction, so the time taken to update is entirely dependent on the previous state. Worst case you'd need to display the previous character (B -> A for alphabetical order) and would have to flip through the entire alphabet to get to it.
While I understand this viewpoint, and the comparison makes _some_ sense.. Kubernetes seems to solve all of these problems to me.

> Does not provide all-local workstations.
- Solutions like minikube fix this.

> Only Amazon provides AWS. Only Microsoft provides Azure. Only Google provides GCP.

Kubernetes has the same developer experience everywhere. As far as OP's serverless trouble, why not just use knative?
> Or maybe there is black ice that you cant see

This deserves expanding upon. You’d rightly assume people who live in cold places know to look for ice on the road.

The only traffic accident my ex was involved in was also the only time I ever saw ice on the road in Lisbon, in 30 years of living there. We saw a pileup, she barely touched the breaks, and we entered a skid. Ended up bumping against a car in the pileup (at pretty low speed so it was harmless). Still — freak accidents do happen.
"Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow" is my new favorite pangram. (I thought it was missing the "f", but as akersten points out it's hiding in "of"!)
The calligraphy is beautiful!
Exactly, we have shown these people that no matter what they do we won’t hold them accountable. That needs to change otherwise we’re headed somewhere I don’t want to go.