skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a fundamental problem in search.

One important metric is precision for the first result or "P@1" which was something Google originally excelled at.

I was working at a search vendor where I had the chance to debrief high-level defectors from Google and Bing and found that they (like us, with our patent search) struggled to get P@1 above 70%. They saw personalization as a way forward but also told us that personalization at both of those vendors was limited to a few cheap tricks and their were structural reasons why neither vendor would do it in a deep way.

The trouble is that you can at best make an informed guess about what somebody searching for "testing" wants. You ultimately have to get them into a dialogue which might be "I gotta search for 'nondestructive testing'" or could be based on some diversity ranking so that 'covid testing', 'software testing', 'psychological testing', etc. are represented in the top few results.
What does inurl:bifl do?
Surprised there aren’t more comments here - does everyone agree that this is equivalent (in security terms) to using JWT?

I would very like to never use JWTs again.
Seems so arbitrary... I like this proposal: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandera_de_la_Tierra#/media/Ar...
You can also do `site:reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife`
So now scientists become activists?

It seems to me you've drifted off with your argumentation. I don't see a reason to continue this discussion at this point.
Not sure what you mean: VC is a small corner of the PE market.

Are you thinking of a VC crossover fund or late stage only fund?
I switched the other way - Buttondown to Substack. I did this in theory for growth, because I thought Substack may provide some better discoverability.

It did not and I regret the move!
Just China and India have a lot more people than the US.
I'm going to start calling it googlevista...
ive been noticing something specific that seems not good: sometimes if you search for a series of words as an exact match, sometimes it will match but other times it doesn't, depending on which string of words you use from an article.

e.g. lets say a webpage has the following text on it: "hello my name is john my favorite color is red" .. searching for "my name is john my favorite" might find the page, but searching "is john my favorite color is" will return 0 results; even though the quote exists and should turn up the same result
I am well aware methane is not currently generated from CO₂, as we are still using fossil fuels, not generating enough surplus energy to make the reverse process economical.

Do you have any numbers on synthesis energy efficiency? It is inherently energy intensive, as it is storing energy. Rare metal membranes may be current state of the art, but Nickel catalysts seem a popular alternative.
Compute heavy. It would be using integrated AI accelerators that the M1 offers and which Monterey offers a convenient API to. The data would be image / video for the most part. The results would have to be stored for some time until user downloads them or some timeout is up (whichever is first).
Yeah, Google today feels like the end stage of many of the pre-Google search engines. They were ok for a while, but eventually SEO tricks took over and ruined everything for everyone. What I worry about is that back in the 90s, everyone had a healthy dose of skepticism for anything you read off the internet. That’s not true today, and there’s a whole lot more incentive to put false information out there these days.
> There must be multiple ways of storing relational data without including SQL

SQL makes no assumptions how relational data is stored exactly. It is just a language to talk to a RDBMS.
And we’re to take some commentators (Twitter users? TV personalities maybe?) calling it racist as evidence of what would certainly be the largest scientific suppression campaign ever conducted?

People are discussing this hypothesis nonstop.
So the results listed higher all use google as advertiser?
I'm curious about this too, in addition, could anyone provide information on how do .com, org, .net, .io, .dev, .app compare as being the most utilised?
Exactly my experience this year. For products I have to watch so many videos. Last year it was easier and all reading.
BTW. you can unwrap loops in pure Javascript too, and it also makes the code several times faster.

4x unwrap: https://jsfiddle.net/49j7htdz/1/

8x unwrap: https://jsfiddle.net/49j7htdz/2/
Why is North up? And since we are talking about the Earth, what does “up” even mean?
(1) No external competitor that is really better (e.g. DDG might make you feel better about yourself, but it isn't much better.)

(2) The internal competitor of advertising. If the SERPs were perfect you'd have no reason to ever look at the ad.
That's an interesting point, but I don't think the American distinction relates to 'danger' rather, it's just that they are less formal, more gregarious, less social protocol, and more familiar.
There is no path but mastering ourselves eventually, idiosyncracies included.
I am not talking about scarce assets but of the entire economy of a country. Concretely, how would bitcoin would manage to keep inflation in a healthy range (1.5%-3%) given that we can no longer decide to emit or remove money from the system as the situation evolves? If the world goes into recession vs know an economical boom, you don't want to emit the same amount of money into the system.

Also, if two economic zones have very different growth rates, how does that work with a global currency like bitcoin?
> Developped countries share the same technologies, but this obesity and diabetes problem you're talking about seems largely rooted in North America.

In France ("the land of delicate and healthy food", as it is sold to you), obesity rate was multiplied by 3 since the 80s. Overweight rate raised by 50%.

Diabetes has also been on the raise: double or tripled since the 90s.

You know, in general all the crap that develops in the USA reaches other countries after a while. Depending on which specific 'crap', it is just a matter of variables delays and variable intensity, but it surely comes one day.
Negative, in this context, can constitute enough for whatever grievance that enough users are unhappy with their customer experience. To take this discussion from the normative to the practical, I do not believe the appropriate government role here would be to act as sole regulator but rather aid those users who are aggrieved by these businesses in more precise actions, such as filing amicus briefs in class action suits by users who feel that their captivation has proven to be personally detrimental. Or perhaps for the FTC to provide guidance and support to consumer watchdog groups to form and issue PSAs on said detrimental effects. Empowering individuals and independent groups to come together. These supportive, assistive, incentive-based actions would not be utilizing the state’s monopoly on violence, and thus does not violate your views on the proper place of the government.

without implied warranties of any kind. Offering such goods and service does not constitute physical force.

Then there simply should be more powerful NGOs rooted in civil society that can advise consumers on potential negative effects, to protect against information asymmetry, and so users will understand the full freedoms they have at their disposal for redress if a business happens to provide poor, injurious service.
Vast amounts of fentanyl have been flooding into the United States from the so-called "Golden Triangle" in Southeast Asia, which has been producing heroin for many decades.

Fentanyl is a synthetic drug with a much simpler structure than morphine or heroin. It is also 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin.

The former heroin producers in that region have noted that a) because it's synthetic you don't need any gigantic and easy-to-spot opium poppy fields and b) being 50 times more powerful makes it far easier to smuggle than an equivalent amount of heroin would be.
DDG is built on Bing, and their business model is the same as Google's. As long as you share this last part, search content quality will suffer.

We will need a company that does not rely on this model- ex: Apple
I am the founder of park.io and now impervious.com

I'm building on Handshake (handshake.org). We have a great list of Handshake names and would love to collaborate with others on them
This has been true for a long time. I think it is still safe to assume googlers are not stupid, so there must be a reason for that. My guesses, in order of decreasing confidence:

(by far) 1) globally seen, the results given are best for the general population

2) search/ad revenue from "still-google-users" vs. switchers is in a sweet spot

3) ???

I'd bet on 1), since google was historically nerd-focused, but that changed long ago, and including inertia and stuff, they have probably realized by now that the crowd of "i know what i want, just give me the link" is not driving key performance indicators.
Do you like the vehicle? We have a Town and Country and while I’m not a fan of the minivan life it’s just so damn practical with kids. The Pacifica seems more car like than our Town and Country (seems like it sits lower, maybe handles better). Looking into options, we use the Model 3 almost all the time but sometimes you need the extra luggage space or just ability to sit a little further away (separate the kids).
> a white silhouette of the globe against a medium blue background

And make the silhouette drawn with stars, one for every country.
Oh that settles it then. Definitely in wide use as a currency…
In 2019, their share was larger than any other party (Labour got 31%). Under which reasonably fair system would they not have ended up with a majority large enough to form a government? You may not like it, but the Tories were the choice of the UK population. And you may not like FPTP, but we had a referendum about switching to the Alternative Vote system in 2011—only 31% voted in favor.
If they are comparing deaths in 2020 when everyone except "essential workers" was stuck at home for 3/4 of the year, to 2021 when many more people were back to their routine of driving, work, recreation, etc. I would not be surprised to see a spike in deaths for young people who are back into doing a lot more things that can cause accidents.

If they are comparing 2021 to something like a 10 year average death rate and seeing a 40% jump, then that is more interesting.

Also raw numbers matter. Two deaths from some rare cause this year vs. one last year is a 100% increase, but doesn't really mean anything in a state with 6.5 million people.
One Twin Went Vegan, the Other Ate Meat. This Is What Happened
I really feel it's an accurate description. If you get a positive result on the test, there's a 16% chance your fetus has a 1p36 deletion and an 84% chance they don't.
Ah yes, I know about the grey PVC but spaced on it. Typically this is for external runs bolted to the side of a building though. Or at least, that’s almost all I ever see it used for. Can you use it for open air horizontal runs? Say between two buildings?

Data you want shielded, for the reasons I stated. Stringing Ethernet between buildings often ends in tears.
That's the theory. The reality is that if there is actually multiple dealers in your region, they're probably all owned by the same group.

There's four Ford dealerships within reasonable distance of me, they're all the same company.
I assume your opinion is "more vaccinated people => less load on hospitals", but this article hints it could be the opposite.
Google is pretty bad at handling specific technical queries, and I'm pretty sure it's because their internal metrics don't account for the possibility that a query might have no useful results, or have only one result which requires some iteration on the search terms to find.

What happens is, if you search for something that's specific enough that there are few results or no results, it will either ignore keywords, assume that you meant to put a space inside a multi-word identifier, or spellcheck-correct something that wasn't actually misspelled. This produces convincing-looking decoy results, and you have to look closely (or click through) to find out that it's wasting your time, them rerun the same query in verbatim mode or with more quotes.

So then you've forced it to verbatim mode, and reached a query which, let's say, has one StackOverflow thread which you've already read and which failed to answer the question. Then your search results will be a couple pages of StackOverflow scraper sites. I never want to visit a StackOverflow scraper site. They should be easy to detect. Why aren't those domains being blocked properly?
> There are no longer "organic" content on the internet

There is plenty of "organic" content, probably more than ever before. But there is also 100x more junk and Google is no longer good at surfacing the right stuff. Even for something as seemingly obvious as github issues it will often prefer spammified versions of the same.
No, the banks don't actually have the money. Banks are regulated and licensed to print money based on undercollateralized loans.

A house mortgage with 20% down is designed to be undercollateralized.

When the regulators and debt rating agencies don't do their jobs, it is easily apparent those loans were not fully collateralized. Therefore, the loans created money out of thin air. The banks are licensed to print money.
Outlook for Android goes a bit differently (depends on your Exchange setup).

In case of BB, it was literally a special protocol running on the telco network, combined with the special rates, to enable live email access when GPRS was, well, new and mostly unavailable.
> Also, how can a search category be SEO’d into ruin? Isn’t search engine optimization supposed to produce “better results”? Doesn’t Google exclusively control the results it displays…

This seems almost willfully naive. Why would SEO produce better results for the searcher? It’s optimizing rankings for sites who want to appear higher up in the results. Of course SEO is going to degrade the results. Of course every site on the planet is going to try to game Google search and appear higher in the list.

Yes there are conflict of interest issues between serving high quality search results and making money serving ads in those results, and yes Google is consciously allowing some of this to happen. BUT - this was inevitable. Any popular search engine is going to be gamed by the entire rest of the world, and the scale is too large for Google to control it. Michael might not be aware that, despite the conflicts of interest, Google really does spend considerable amounts of time fighting against search-degrading SEO?
And how are children, as men, not also created equal, yet still subject to paternalism?
They can't say that, because their point is that these are all existing diseases, so for that point to be true they'd have to meet the criteria.
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British and American aren't spelling choices. There are differences between different dictionaries.

Many international organizations¹ like the United Nations use Oxford spelling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling

I think it's an excellent compromise, as it looks slightly foreign to the average American and the average Brit.

¹ Oxford spelling!
Google broke it’s own algorithm pushing too far their agenda, and forgetting to balance the cat and mouse base with SEO.

The time is ripe for another search engine to dominate, preferably for niche segments of the web. I miss “I’m feeling lucky button” search button!
An individual's reality is whatever their brain decides to make of it in the moment. Whatever it is matters not, they're now living it, and only they can change it.

Fighting this "metaverse" from down here is pointless. Showing people close to you how to recognise the manipulation and teaching them how to harden themselves against it is far more effective and worthwhile, I believe.
I don't have the right to flag comments.
Types aren't always expressive enough for that. I usually can't specify that a number should always be negative for instance, or that there's no 0.

My preference is to minimize surprise. If everyone is used to using signed types for everything, you better have a good reason for using something else, and leave that justification in a comment
Recently started a new small side business focusing on audio software. Unfortunately this world involves pretty much solely C++, so guess I need to start learning modern ways of writing it. While I hate it, thankfully modern C++ feels pretty nice.

Along side that really I'm a Lisp hacker in disguise but for some reason I have enjoyed writing Haskell in recent times, so I would like to write and learn more about it!
It's not, when you are talking about load-bearing framing.
Prosecute only for the real crime, not for sending money? It was like that in the past.
When we bought our house it came with a run-down 'summer house' in the garden. We had it plastered and insulated and added a laminate floor. We ran an armoured electricity cable from the house through a trench and attached it to the house alarm system. We then got the an 'L' shaped desk custom built by a neighbour (who is a joiner). Heating is provided by an electrically powered radiator. I've been working there now (as a 1-man-band software product company) for the last 11 years. It's been great.
Internet is just for tourists now. We all know how it sucks but no one finds a solution. Now what?
Google is slowly becoming BING. I would love for Mircosoft to step up and weird everybody out by building some kind of open source superior search engine.
> I don't really expect google searches to be a curator of good recipes

I don't expect Google (or any automated service) to be able to rank recipes from a culinary point of view. I absolutely expect Google to be able to detect someone's SEO life story bullshit at the top of a recipe and penalize that for ranking purposes.

And if detecting SEO bullshit life stories is hard, the presence of ads or other marketing-style element is usually a good proxy for weeding out shitty commercial content.

> Health is a big topic, but health has been full of snake oils salesmens forever too, so its not surprising

Most countries have national health services that have no (or at the very least less) bias to sell you something. Given the amount of these is finite, a list of their domains can be manually maintained to boost their results and outrank the other garbage.

> I know how bad the results are in fields I am familiar with. But i don't really know where else to go.

Same here unfortunately and I have yet to find a solution.
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Search by description. Basically if google fails me I want to be able to describe my problem and get suggestions and answers from that.

I know this is now possible as I recently asked OpenAI Codex to do just this. I described the problem I had and asked it complete the best python library to solve it. It suggested a library I hadn't heard of but was just what I needed.

This also works with the older tool 'citeomatic' from Allen AI. You can describe the paper you want to read and it will give you a reading list. (Not exactly the intent of the tool, but it worked well while it was up to date).

I think there's room for both a medium form (a paragraph description) direct query tool and a chatbot like tool that tries to iteratively refine the search.
Yesterday I heard a Joe Rogan guest mention a particular non-Rogan podcast episode. It was a discussion about science and policy by two professional, well credentialed scientists and a layperson. I Googled it, couldn't find it. Same for Bing and DDG. Turns out it had been a popular YouTube video, but they objected to the conclusions and de-platformed it, from YouTube and the big indexes.

It took maybe another dozen clicks to find it on one of the participant's own blog. And the podcast is still up and hosted by Apple. So it's something that you can find if you know about it, but not by searching on the topic. At this point, at least, the shadow ban is still soft.

Add that as a data point for Google no longer producing high quality search results.
The author's shed is about 2 feet from the house exterior, so he can wrap the steps around as decking (very tiny decking) and put the cable under the steps.
Can't confirm. My results:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_testing
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/t...
https://www.testing.de/
https://www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/en/coronavirus/i...
https://www.atlassian.com/continuous-delivery/software-testi...
Looks like Samsung decided to copy work from Ive’s new company: https://www.wallpaper.com/design/terra-carta-seal-design-lov...
I wonder if we just would disallow affiliate links in general. I.e. you can still create your own webshop, take orders and forward to someone else (similar to dropshipping) but basically outlaw the process of collecting money/commission just for a single placement of links. Or at least, force those sites to correctly mark themselves as "Advertising".
If money wasn't an issue, a high end private school seems best. You'll get multiple specialized professional teachers and a school social media environment with other nice kids.
This reminds me of the recent Linus Tech Tips series on gaming on Linux[1]. Their conclusion is that although many games work out of the box (although usually not at launch), Linux is not ready for mainstream gamers. Not many people would have the expertise or the interest to troubleshoot the problem as OP did.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlg4K16ujFw
You answered your own question.
Dealing with stress, relaxation and recreation does not mean doing nothing exactly, it means doing what you WANT to do, even if that may be doing nothing, or building something.
Physical strength has declined according to simple metrics (grip strength) in Northern Europe:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235282731...

In Japan the same trend appears but it's delayed by two decades:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1728869X1...

Obesity and diabetes have also trended upwards outside North America but this has been mitigated by better regulation of the food industry.
Absolutely: I think the one of the follow-on "secrets" after dealing with the bad habits is that you also have to pick the right good habits that will actually work for you. Take exercise. Some people love running; for me it's a horrible chore, but on the other hand I love long bike rides. Who knows why.

Maybe I think I "should" read a bunch of philosophy. But if it doesn't do anything for me, it won't develop into a habit. Maybe if I try a variation, like political philosophy, that will feel rewarding. And it might even lead back to the original thing.

The key I think on both the good habit and bad habit sides is being conscious of what you're doing. (Not to say this is easy though!) The new good habit you want can be hard but rewarding, or it can just be self-mortification, and you have to adjust somewhat to that reality.
Private clinics and practices exist in large numbers in Canada. Apparently, they aren't interested in helping.
Docker on Mac works fine on M1, but it's running on a Linux VM, and cannot access macOS APIs.
I'm not really a StackOverflow user, but it sounds like some other communities I know. Basically, upvotes equals visibility, so other posters will downvote your post so theirs becomes more visible. For some reason I didn't think HN users were that shallow, or that HN would fall into that trap.
If they satisfy me that the bill is for a legitimate service, I will pay it. That's not the issue.
Bonus points for the temporary trailer.
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