skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did a search for "George Washington"

First result after Wikipedia:

"Radiophone Transmitter on the U.S.S. George Washington (1920)

In 1906, Reginald Fessenden contracted with General Electric to build the first alternator transmitter. G.E. continued to perfect alternator transmitter design, and at the time of this report, the Navy was operating one of G.E.'s 200 kilowatt alternators
http://earlyradiohistory.us/1919wsh.htm
"

Another result in the first few:

" - VANDERBILT, GEORGE WASHINGTON

PH: (800) ###-#233 FX: (#03) 641-5###.
https://www.ScottWinslow.com/manufacturer/VANDERBILT_GEORGE_...
"

And just below that terrible result:

"I Looked and I Listened -- George Washington Hill extract (1954)

Although the events described in this account are undated, they appear to have occurred in late 1928. I Looked and I Listened, Ben Gross, 1954, pages 104-105: Programs such as these called for the expenditure of larger sums than NBC had anticipated. It be http://earlyradiohistory.us/1954ayl2.htm
"

Dramatically worse than Google.

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Ok, how about a search for "Rome" then? Surely it'll pull some great text results for the city or the ancient empire.

First result after Wikipedia:

"Home | Rome Daily Sentinel

Reliable Community News for Oneida, Madison and Lewis County
http://romesentinel.com/"

The fourth result for searching "Rome":

"Glenn's Pens - Stores of Note

Glenn's Pens, web site about pens, inks, stores, companies - the pleasure of owning and using a pen of choice. Direcdtory of pen stores in Europe.
http://www.marcuslink.com/pens/storesofnote/roma.html"

Again, dramatically worse than Google.

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Ok, how about if I search for "British"?

First result after Wikipedia:

"BRITISH MINING DATABASE

British_Mining_Database
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~lizcolin/bmd.htm
"

And after that:

"British Virgin Islands

Many of these photos were taken on board the Spirit of Massachusetts. The sailing trip was organized by Toto Tours. Images Copyright © Lowell Greenberg Home Up Spring Quail Gardens Forest Home Lake Hodges Cape Falcon Cape Lookout, Oregon Wahkeena
http://www.earthrenewal.org/british_virgin_islands2.htm"

Again, far off the mark and dramatically worse than Google.

I like the idea of Google having lots of search competition, this isn't there yet (and I wouldn't expect it to be). I don't think overhyping its results does it any favors.
I think the number of people who have a Librem phone but want to run iOS on it is basically zero.
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I'm having trouble parsing the following passage.

>"However, when the loss is at the end of a transmission, near the end of the connection or after a chunk of video has been sent, then the receiver won’t receive more segments that would generate ACKs. When this sort of Tail loss occurs, a lengthy retransmission time out (RTO) must fire before the final segments of data can be sent."

I believe this whole passage is just describing TCP fast retransmit vs a retransmit timeout expiring. However if the final TCP segment from the sender is lost wouldn't the receiver also start sending duplicate ACKs as well? This sentence seems to indicate duplicate ACKs would not be sent if the last segment was the TCP segment that was lost. In other words a duplicate ACK from the receiver is lost and so the RTO expires.
In most countries, individuals claiming refugee status aren't given free entry to a country. They make an application and are held until application is either denied or approved.

Using the refugee argument is diversionary nonsense when discussing at will free-for-all immigration.
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6 out of 10 to 11 million websites that is.

The Netcraft survey has a different sample, where w3tech test the 10 million largest websites of Alexa and Tranco top 1 millions websites, it seems like Netcraft samples every host they know of to get sites and in 2013 it was about 630 million sites tested and then either look at php file extension or response header.

Thus you are comparing apples to oranges. Both can still be true.
Unfortunately every thing has a bad use. Even the knife I am using to cut meat. That is not a reason to forbid it...

Forbiding is not the way to go. The way to go is to make people aware of the dangers and implications of their choices and convince them why we should avoid damaging others. Empathy is key here: just do not do to others what you do not want for you seems to me like the most basic of the rules.

Imposing a view of what others can or cannot do is absurd, harmful and also we can miss all the good things we can do with things that can also be misused.
Alphabet’s Project Taara laser tech beamed 700TB of data across nearly 5km
Love this! Is there any way someone could help contribute to this?
Laszlo Bock studied the predictive value of technical interviews when he was in charge of people operations at Google. He reported finding that they had zero predictive power.

To put it another way, we should expect that picking names out of a hat would do just as well as Google's infamously rigorous interview process. If I recall correctly, this result is generally consistent with other attempts to study hiring with technical requirements.

So if technical interviews have no predictive power, is there anything else that does? Yes: standardized testing.

So why doesn't everyone use standardized testing?

Well, it's a lot of work. You have to accurately identify personal attributes that are relevant to success in your business. They have to be things you can objectively measure. You have to encode them in a standardized test, or, failing that, find an existing test that measures something sufficiently similar to be relevant. You have to administer it in a way that preserves a reliable signal.

You probably need to engage professional specialists if you really want it to work. At the very least, you need to get someone in who can ask the right questions about your business and your goals to identify some existing standardized test that will match your needs reasonably well.

Maybe you don't think you can afford to do that. I mean, that basically means you can't afford to do better than random chance in hiring, but if you can't, you can't.

So what do you do instead?

Well, hiring is risky. A bad hire can cost your business a lot. Uncontrolled risk makes people anxious. Anxiety is bad for productivity.

Anxious people want to increase their control--or, failing that, their feeling of control.

So how can you feel more in control than by pulling names out of a hat?

How about technical interviews?

Maybe they don't have any predictive power, but they give you a very strong feeling of control. You control the candidate-selection process. You control the interview format and procedures. You decide the criteria, and who gets an offer and who doesn't. Sure, the end result may be the same as pulling names out of a hat, but the process is much more soothing.

So technical interviews it is.
Heh, thanks and you too!
> The "right" balance of representation between rural and urban voters is a subjective question

No, in representative democracy, it isn't subjective at all. Each voter should be represented equally.

> the fact that one party can't both overwhelmingly succeed and repeatedly, deliberately, and overtly offend millions of voters

The Republican Party is damn close to doing just that. They've already basically entrenched one-party rule in states like North Carolina and Wisconsin, and you'd better believe they'll do whatever they can to accomplish this at the national level as well. Gerrymandering, vote suppression, Citizens United - these are all tilting the balance of representation further in one direction. The Senate is part of what enabled this dysfunction to spread, and fixing it should be a part of the solution.
Easy answer. Three things:
* Money
* Lobbyism
* Job security

We party of Merkel is great for "stability". But this stability also means everything bad will stay bad and stuff like policing lobbyism is not a priority for those politicians, because they are good enough to hide it and profit from it so much, that they don't want it to change at all.
Worse, we even have one party FDP which is really small, but openly pushes against policing lobbyism and they are the second or third largest benefactor of huge lobby donations.

The powerful want to stay powerful. If you ask the normal citizen they would want things to change at least to make everything more right.

The third point is also quite critical. The biggest industry in Germany is car manufacturing. And because of this every change here might disrupt millions of people, potential voters, and harm the industry. The reason germany did not come up with a great Tesla competitor or even Tesla itself is because of that. Everything moves so slow in these companies, they depend on so many other companies to get you some part of your car and then in the end assemble it all, that any change will disrupt too much and gets killed before it can bud.
Intentional Connection in the Digital Office
Yeah, Kubernetes is another of those things that is really "hot" right now. It's not a bad thing to have at least a basic working knowledge of, in today's IT world.

Of course, the issue you have right now is how to prioritize what to do in a fixed amount of time. There are a billion things (more or less) you could do. The challenge is how to pick the ones that maximize your likelihood of finding suitable employment in your desired time-frame after your current gig ends. And it's hard to know for 100% sure how to do that, since different employers value different things. That's why my best advice is kinda generically "focus on things that you know are hot/trendy in kind of a general sense."

Now if you knew you were targeting a particular company that you wanted to work for, you could make your preparations more focused. But it doesn't sound like that's the case here.
> Everyone would agree with these in theory...

Not me - when I read "Take a moment to step back and look at your code. It should look beautiful to you", my bullshit detector goes off full-tilt. The last person I want reviewing code is someone who wants to apply this principle (I don't so much care if they think this while writing code, if and only if it has no tangible downsides in what they produce.)

This is compounded with the following sentences "Beauty often embodies many useful properties. Code that pleases the eye is often readable, idiomatic, and expressive", as if pursuit of this undefined beauty causes these outcomes.

I am not sympathetic to arguments that this is true "in a sense", as this just adds subjectivity and circumlocution to an issue that should be, like good code itself, as straightforward and to-the-point as is possible while getting the job done.
Thunderbird works just fine.
Probably not, but Deno has Oak, which is Express-like and the combination of those two will get you close. But most node libs are not compatible and similarly node projects.
YouTube was hosting for years pirated song video clips. Then they just cut a deal with the music companies because they did not want to be out of the biggest video platform of the planet.
Following this via WSJ:

COMMODITIES

Western Wildfires Lift Lumber Prices

July 22, 2021 04:45 pm ET

Fires are threatening an important swath of the U.S.’s wood supply, pinching output that has been under pressure since the pandemic touched off homebuying and remodeling booms and sent lumber prices soaring.

COMMODITIES

Lumber Prices Are Falling Fast, Turning Hoarders Into Sellers

June 15, 2021 08:29 pm ET

Prices have dropped from record highs spurred by the economic reopening, potentially pointing to an eventual return to normalcy.

COMMODITIES

Despite Lumber Boom, Few New Sawmills Coming

May 17, 2021 04:49 pm ET

Executives in the cyclical business of sawing logs into lumber say they are content to rake in cash while lumber prices are sky-high and aren’t racing out to build new sawmills.

MARKETS

Lumber Prices Break New Records

May 3, 2021 04:49 pm ET

Home buyers and renters are bearing the brunt of rising wood costs, while sawmills are poised for another quarter of big profits.

MARKETS

Lumber Prices Notch Records on Building, Remodeling Boom

February 16, 2021 05:17 pm ET

Lumber prices have shot to fresh records, defying the normal winter slowdown in wood-product sales in a sign that the pandemic building boom is bowling into 2021.

COMMODITIES

Lumber Prices Rise Again

November 20, 2020 04:42 pm ET

Lumber prices are making an unusual late-season climb, thanks to builder-friendly autumn weather and suppliers stocking up for what they expect to be another big year for home construction.

https://www.wsj.com/search?query=Random%20Length%20Lumber
The Flying Spaghetti Monster wants to have a word with you.

(edit) That is a nice dream though.
Isn't the problem that carrot only works if it is bigger than their criminal carrot and the stick only works if it is bigger than their own sticks?

If you cane someone who was brought up with violence, it can reinforce the idea that only the strongest wins. On the other hand, trying to be nice to them won't work if they want the $100K they make from drug dealing.

The sad fact is that nothing works perfectly, but at least we can strive to make it consistent, which is probably the biggest problem in most penal systems.
... or Axel F.
They're not lying though when saying everything else skyrocketed. There's been shortages of everything.

With that said, labor shortage in the trades is probably the biggest culprit at this point. Even before the pandemic, in some areas you couldn't get a contractor to come in to do anything unless it was a massively profitable project. I had contractors walk away from 6 figure projects because they weren't big enough.

The pandemic made it a lot worse. Plumbers here are booked 6 weeks ahead for anything that isn't an emergency.
https://twitter.com/ukgranddesigns no context grand designs
What the author of this article should realise is that Silicon Valley can go back to basics because it doesn’t matter at all when they fail.

Real life problems aren’t like that.
Great work. Working on an alternative search engine too. Take a look at my profile.
why wouldn't write a comment worth reading?
Because these motherfucking moderators will just downvote you and shadow ban your fingerprints
That's pretty awesome. What's going to be your first harvest? How industrial are you going with the farming or are you doing a greener eco way of farming (no till, no fertilizer, etc)?
The company I work for is in the process of migrating internal chat away from Discord to something else. It's a fully remote company, so chat is really important.

I think most people like the Discord interface enough. That's not reason to leave. The migration away is because it's an open source company, so Discord is poorly aligned with the company's values, and there is a constant search for better, more open alternatives. (They are migrating away from Google services as well.)

I really like the Discord interface for real-time chat. Nicer than Slack or IRC (and I'm comfortable with IRC, I used to be active on it in the old days).

The Discord GUI on top of a "modern IRC", specifically with publicly archivable channels, would be great.

But the way high quality information is constantly being posted then lost forever in practice is a big loss. Searching within Discord works if you know exactly what you are looking for. But you have to know, and wider searches such as with Google or any other tool that look through the rest of the company's online materials will never find the content in Discord. That's unfortunate as Discord tends to be where, by far, the highest quality and quantity of information is.

As a result of the company's migration away from Discord, we expect an abrupt discontinuity, as the new platform won't have access to the old Discord conversations. Then all the years of high value content people have put into Discord will effectively disappear, as nobody will search Discord when they aren't even using it any more.

What we'd really like is a gateway that allows the Discord content to be available in other platforms, generally searchable on the company's intranet, and on the internet for public channels.

If our Discord content was more openly accessible and shareable, even while using a closed source product, we might not be migrating at all. We'd probably let people choose their preferred client instead to access the shared real-time content. But it's not that accessible, and it's unfortunate so much expert knowledge will be lost in the migration.
So the choice is get the vaccine or "act like Typhoid Mary"?
Can you hear how extreme your argument is?

Edit: Typhoid Mary is an interesting case. She spent decades in quarantine. She broke quarantine at times and infected people. It's a very interesting article, even more so with the extreme rhetoric in this thread.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon
The point is that he said that the min salary lead to revenue growth. I am saying he had revenue growth despite, not because of.
> Winterkorn, 74, was initially meant to stand trial alongside the other four executives but recently underwent an operation, leaving him unable to appear.
SelfHosted and all the other shows at jupiterbroadcasting.com are fantastic! (Especially Coder Radio.) If anyone here somehow hasn't heard of them yet, congrats you're one of today's 10K. :)
wealth inequality is natural by definition, whether you like it or not.

And imposing others share the fruit of their value, unethical.
Cause telling someone off when "crossing an empty road at night on a red light" does not imply no corruption. It is just someone petty feeling good about little power or irritated over minor rule breaking.

That being said, in fact in Germany, pedestrians cross an empty road at night on a red light fairly regularly. Or they just cross at random place, not through the pedestrian crossing despite that one being fairly close and being red. I have seen that both. And I have done both, no one told me anything.
Good stuff. I've also been toying with doing some homegrown search engine indexing (as an exercise in scalable systems), and this is a fantastic result and great inspiration.

Definitely want to see more people doing that kind of low-level work instead of falling back to either 'use elasticsearch' or 'you can't, you're not google'.
My friends and I always joke about quitting our software jobs to go work on a farm when things get rough. We're obviously just joking (things are never that bad).

But you actually did it and living the meme. Kudos!
Yes, I'm familiar with that paper. It's very complicated to implement - back when I was researching I didn't encounter any papers by others who had replicated it, and citations often mentioned its complexity. There are simpler ways to scale RBFs. I did it piecewise, using overlapping subdomains (each with ~200 points, so a small linear system) blended with partition of unity, and it scaled to millions of points in an embarrassingly parallelisable way. Here's a result I've linked on HN before, filling a hole in a point cloud (a small one, ~24000 points): https://imgur.com/a/k6AQi

Those course notes have some interesting stuff in them, thanks!
However, when searching for "haskell type inference algorithm" I get completely useless results.
iOS developers could iterate on their code entirely in linux is probably the popular use case.
Yea. Give me free code, don't make free code is a common problem.
No please. Trying to read up on FFmpeg issues or join a conversation is a nightmare.
Aha! yes, that would be the missing link.

It makes sense as I suspect that they only bind to the heavy metals when its alive. It does say that the harvested algae can be used for biofuels, so I might be misreading that.
Entrepreneur Raised $230M to Help You Buy Now, Pay Later with Zero Interest
Wrong. There are people who would like hardware kill switches but are required to run either iOS or Android apps for work. With iOS in a VM, you could truly "log out of work" and shutdown that part of your phone when not needed without carrying a second work-specific device.
Hobby project leads angry person to interesting and unexpected material; angry person remains angry. Details at six.
I leave thousands of dollars of firearms out on a bench feet behind me at the shooting range every time I go. So do countless other shooters. I've never personally witnessed a crime at a shooting range or even read of one. Why do you think that is if not for the 100% guarantee that everyone is armed at the range?
causing people who shouldn't be in possession of a gun to be in possession of one, resulting in unnecessary injury and death.

Figures on injuries are iffy in the US, for example the degree involved, but death is binary and since 1980 accidental deaths from firearms have gone from 800 to 500 a year, at the same time both the number of people in the US have increased by 50% and percentage armed have increased by even more. The latter probably due to the nationwide sweep of "shall issue" or better concealed carry regimes in states, now covering 42 states and ~75% of the nation's people.

One of the reasons this is a red hot issue it that it's the only failure of the Left's in its culture war on the Right, and it's a very big failure.
> I think people should outsource their thinking to those tasked with the job

A few decades ago most Americans would've said that was the Pope.
Kinda surprised Parisians weren't busy arming themselves to the teeth after the Bataclan.
> To put it another way, we should expect that picking names out of a hat would do just as well as Google's infamously rigorous interview process. If I recall correctly, this result is generally consistent with other attempts to study hiring with technical requirements.

The notoriously-drawn-out-and-draining interviews that practically require at least some study in advance, and probably quite a bit, strongly affect which names are in the hat though, no? I'd assumed that was about half the reason they did them in the first place (the other half is that hazing actually is pretty good at creating "team spirit" out of nothing)
Yeah, recipes sites have both too much text and too many pictures.

But they do illustrate what this search engine needs to watch out of. If they rank more text higher and their search site becomes popular, won’t everyone just spam recipe site word salad, maybe even ai generated word salad.

But in the interval, until that day comes, they are going to have a very useful service.
This is incredible. I just got goosebumps as I stumbled upon https://solitaryroad.com after searching for "linear algebra homomorphism". It reminds me of the magical feelings of the early Internet. Keep up the great work!
Cool concept with channels, but it took me over 7.5 seconds to load the front page with half of it before any visible content, and almost 2.5 seconds to load About. Also, hot-linking images is bad practice, it may be worth just getting rid of the images while you build out functionality. Are you planning on releasing the source for it?
That's ok, it doesn't have any idea either...
They said they were building it. Not that they completed it.

I'm guessing they just left the industry to do something less mentally damaging than web development - perhaps started a spider farm or something.
No, you don't ignore the warning to avoid a catastrophe, you ignore the warning to avoid alert fatigue, burnout and other bad effects.

If your only early warning device has a sufficiently high false positive rate, scrap it, or find another early warning device with a sufficiently different set of false positives and then require both of them to alert, before you pay attention.