skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In think that this would not really work in HN.

First of all, these are truly internet points. What you have has zero impact on your life. I can imagine that a developer could care about their SO points, or Github stars because these may (and it is a big may) have some impact.

But HN points? Who cares?

I love HN mostly because of the various kind of information, but especially because of the quality of the comments (that I read before the post they relate to). I have no idea about the karma points of the ones making the comments, and this is great.

So I can hardly imagine someone building an elaborate plot to downvote someone whose points are invisible.

Now, there are the psychopaths who will do everything to bury a post just because. Hopefully HN is not a practical playground for them.
https://github.com/TadPath/PUMA
But isn't that the problem? People are incentivized to purchase homes as a speculative asset instead of what a house should be purchased for, um, ugh, housing.
A lot of the UK
No, they should backstop direct to consumer.

Buy a car for 45k? Sure, dealer can deliver it at any markup you want. But, we will also drop it off at your house for exactly 45k. So not much room..
The moral preaching is out of place. When you own a home and are selling it, you go for the highest bidder. The idea that anybody at all would give a politically motivated discount is naive.

The more important point is that in a supply-constrained situation, there isn't really going to be a "buy the dip" moment. Most home owners that are under water are under no pressure to sell, yet buyers are on the clock.
Because these files aren't going backward in time, and it's quite unlikely this code will be in use in 78 years.
I would like to know the difference in sugar in-take between the two diets.
> This is been my experience with tool reviews as well. Searching for “best intro <power tool>“ yields a bunch of low quality SEO that’s just pulled from Amazon.

Cannot reproduce.
> Without knowing anything else, I seriously doubt that is statistically significant.

It's literally the population, not a sample.
Yes, you are definitely confusing something. And someone.
Why would I want to sell investments that are returning an average of 7+% a year to pay off a mortgage that I'm paying 2.9% on? The bank is welcome to let me use their money.

Even if you don't have any investments, assuming you're under 50 you're still better off paying the minimum on your mortgage and investing the surplus rather than extinguishing a 2.9% liability.
The discussion was about maple syrup, not that HFCS junk.
"Long Gamma" in sloppy-Black-Scholes-lingo means essentially to bet on increasing realised vol, i.e., in this case on rates moving a lot, regardless of the direction.

Cf https://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/39619/gamma-pnl-vs...
There is a physical and energy cost to assay gold. Same for btc.
Out of curiosity what job did you have that required you to fly 100s of times a year for a decade (assuming you're not in the aviation industry).

Edit; never mind, I looked at your profile.
yup, I was compiling a wish list and searched for a list of good programming books and ran into the same issue. any website that promises a "list" like "top 10 programming books" is usually affiliate spam, with poor recommendations and grammatical errors
It appears to be google's custom search that you use to embed search on your own site.

https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/
In my experience as a Midwesterner, that also has traveled to almost every states in the union, there is no problems with access to affordable healthy food in the Midwest, Large cities have more of this problem than the Midwest, Meijer, Kroger, Walmart, etc are full of healthy affordable food. In fact in many instances the junk processed food mid-westerners buy are MORE EXPENSIVE than the fresh produce

Also my experience as a Midwesterner, is the people of the Midwest enjoy sugary beverages far too much (I say that as someone that should be drinking water but instead am enjoying a glass of very sweet tea). I would say if the average Midwesterner cut out 60% of the sugary drinks the obesity problem would take a big hit.

So I disagree that we in the Midwest lack access to affordable, healthy food
Agree in concept, but now moving goal post? First mentioned that "there are no cool tricks". Many addicts _don't know_ about the tricks to help, and many of them are helped when they do have them.

I agree that I've seen many fall into the trap of thinking they have done something when they haven't done anything at all, but that's completely a separate discussion than using behavior psychology to your advantage.
Thanks!

Ads are added automatically by Google. The whole thing is little more than a wrapper around the 'Programmable Search Element Control API' which is an HTML element you can just insert into any site, like an iframe. Unfortunately this is the only way to make Programmable Search available at scale as the API is restricted to either 10 sites or 10K queries / day, even when paid!

There is a paid version for the HTML plugin, but that would leak the API key and so it wouldn't work as a business.

There is an option to get a share of the revenue generated by a search engine. Maybe it's time for me to figure out how that works.

I was thinking of making a hosted, ad free, customizable version where people upload their own keys. Not sure if people would like that.

As a side-note, it's super easy to remove ads with 1 line of CSS, but I wasn't sure how Google would feel about that so it's not in the online version. TamperMonkey is an extension that allows people to insert their own CSS on different websites. Hmm.

You can view all offerings in the docs [0].

[0] https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/overview#su...
They don't, honestly this stuff goes to the top and its been this way for a long long time. Any niche interest subreddit that has gear or products has a sidebar with some stuff that's ordained by the moderation team to be "The best X for Y" and therefore incessantly recommended in the comments and all over the subreddit. Sometimes you will even see metathreads where the users are complaining about the recommendations listed in the subreddit's official wiki or faq page.
Furthermore, it perpetuates the myth that Uncle Sam sides with the citizens / voters. The dependency drives up price which makes "affordable" an illusion. Banks are happy to say the least. The gov? It's happy as well. The citizen / homeowner? Well, if they did the math they would not be pleased.
I have a headset mic which does a very good job of picking up just me: https://www.jefftk.com/p/wired-headsets-for-video-calls

As long as my door is closed and the kid is not immediately outside it, they're basically inaudible.
> the mortgage is much higher than the rent on the same home

That would really surprise me. Everyone I know talks about how much cheaper it would be to buy if only they could afford the deposit.

Most of the time the mortgage is lower than the rent for the obvious reason that when you rent you're both paying the landlord's mortgage, plus their profit.
This depends a lot on the bank, most of them are glad to use stock as part of the income calculation so long as you have a history of vesting a certain amount over time. It works the same way as bonuses or commissions, if you want variable income to count toward your DTI you need to demonstrate you get it regularly.
I want to get into competitive programming as a hobby so I guess C++
> An indication of its importance is that early internal builds of Android looked like a cheap BlackBerry knockoff, rather than the cheap iPhone knockoff that was eventually released.

Heh, I chuckled.
I’m in the same boat. Plus, the iPad app was not great at the time, which is very important to me (I read and annotate papers a lot on my iPad, it is an ideal device for this). I dug a bit to see if it was likely to be resolved soon, and it did not seem like it. So I find another solution, which in retrospect was a good thing since that was 5 years ago and the situation has not changed since.

FWIW I ended up using Bookends, which can use iCloud for hosting and synchronisation across devices. I wasn’t thrilled initially because it’s a fairly obscure app, but both the Mac and the iPad apps are great. The developer is very friendly and reactive, and it’s been rock solid for years now.
There was no suppression, quite tyje opposite: the lab leak hypothesis has been pusjed again and again, often with 'convenient' timing.

Now for scientists there is no point discussing this without any concrete element. Sure, a lab leak or even an artificial origin of the virus are potential hypotheses but then people need to find evidence, and the more far-fetched the hypothesis the stronger the evidence needed before keeping mentioning it (or writing books...)

Currently I don't think there are any material element so the reasonable and scientific thing to do is to work on finding the origin of the virus and only then to discuss facts.
Back in February someone in the forums wrote:

"Zotero won't be moving to Electron anytime soon.

We are planning to move to a more current version of the Firefox base later this year."
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/376000/#Comment...
I like Zotero and used in in producing our latest manuscript, but in Google Docs, with 140 cites it became unwieldy and would break the sync between the in-text cites in the bibliography. So I had to save new versions of my Google Doc every time I added a cite so I always has a backup to return to in case the sync broke again.

I hope the Google Docs devs can talk with the Zotero devs to make the Zotero integration more airtight (I understand these issues don’t flare up as much in Word).
In your context making your bed would be the reverse. It would be storing away the contraption. The saying refers to people’s habit of leaving their beds a mess of twisted blankets and a bumble of pillows.
It was really fascinating watching the Grand Tour Vietnam special on Amazon, you could see all this sand mining happening in the Mekong river, though no one commented on it.
I think you actually pointed out the true reason of the addiction! It’s the victory… the need to feel like you achieved something… the satisfaction of winning… it doesn’t matter if to get there it was a chore as long as you feel accomplishment! When I play I don’t look for victory… I look for entertainment (a good story, nice lore, good characters) and a challenge with myself! If the game is not fun all the time I just abandon it! My time is precious… and since I am content with my level of accomplishment in life I don’t seek validation in games! (Mind I do not imply you are not accomplished… it’s about self perception)
We have to start from some place don't we? Even if we perfectly redistributed wealth tomorrow, we'd see billionaires in a generation or two.
I've crashed multiple kernels with eBPF programs. I don't buy this argument at all.
Great app, but I find myself accidentally bookmarking sites via the Chrome extension with no way to undo except for manually deleting the entry in desktop.

Any consumer app would've had this implemented by now but that's the tradeoff of being FOSS.

https://github.com/zotero/zotero-connectors/issues/301
I have been wondering if, instead of bothering to try to scrape Facebook via DOM, it might be worth pursuing a basic image matching approach to divide a Facebook page up into regular "chunks" that are just saved as images.

I'd personally be happy with an RSS feed of Facebook as just a series of images in a feed, but I guess once you've gone that far you could relatively simply run it through OCR to get most of the text.
> Sorry I have to weigh in here and say that Consumer Reports is a pay-to-play service now, where often the worst products & services are not the best, and often times criminally bad.

Agreed. As a PSA do not use the True Car services that are "included" in a membership. It's basically a free pass to sell all of the contact information CR has on you to any dealership that's paying them for leads. You will be hounded for weeks if you try to use that service. I recently found out, through a family member, that the deceptive practice still exists when they were trying to get actual dealer invoices (which CR used to provide, but no longer does). I cannot not recommend CR enough.
Did you try Qwant? https://www.qwant.com/maps
> not used as living accomodation,

How is this defined? The purpose of this structure is to be used as an office; they'll presumably spend on the order of 40 hours a week in there. Is it only considered a living accommodation if you sleep in it?

I would expect electrical regs to apply regardless of how the structure is used. And regardless of whether the regulations apply, I would implore anyone reading this to do the electrical safely, not because the law tells you you have to, but because of the "it might kill someone" part.
Silver Box
And as of this minute, your comment is the number one result for that search.
Tesla is well known to whip cars with sometimes dozens of minor issues. It’s a new company and these processes need time and experience.

The reliability data also is likely sourced from outside, such as the AAA, insurers, or any other place where car trouble data naturally accumulates.
We did this and found it to be not very stable. I attached it to the cabinets to prevent it tipping over.
I can see this being true in some markets, but the places where we talk about house prices going crazy, they are doing so not just in absolute terms but in proportion to rents.
What would you want to achieve with Python scripting that you can’t with a simple blacklist (which can be generated using Python)?
Yep. It's not an opioid epidemic or crisis, it's a toxic drug crisis. The drugs are poisoned. No one knows what's in them.

There's a drug test site in my city that regularly posts examples of what they find on twitter. Totally random ultra dangerous poisons in party drugs. All the time.

Here's an example: a drug not safe for humans in a test sample of MDMA. https://twitter.com/GYDTcanada/status/1477444546480984065?s=...

People are dying because they're doing some thing and they have no idea what it is. It's impossible to use drugs safely in such a situation.
Program Synthesis Performance Of GitHub Copilot vs. Genetic Programming
Google should be paying you for using their search engine. There's your solution to affiliate links.
e.g. Is there a website where I can find someone to introduce me to linux kernel programming for payment?
Yes, they used to be interest only here before, the 1% (or 2% for the first part) was added in response to risks. So basically the 1% is just that, retirement savings.

Because at the end of the day it doesn't really matter whether it's 1/30 of a 30yr mortgage or 1/100 of a 100yr mortgage, that amount will be exactly what the buyer can afford. So after 30 years I'll have a home with around 1/2 a mortgage remaining. And saving a massive slump in prices, that will be a big part of my retirement savings. Having a completely paid off 30yr mortgage would be even better of course, but not hugely so. The amount left as "savings" is still the same. The longer mortgage just holds a larger risk/reward of passive income vs loss.
I was being facetious. But in my defense, if it turns out that religion is false, then religion really is a prime example of Firehose of Falsehood.

But I suppose it’s a protected class of firehose.

Anyway, @dang while I have you here, can you please unblock me from submitting posts? It’s been months since I could post anything other than an ASK HN.
Isn't Zotero the company providing Wikipedia's automatic citation feature?

I'm pretty sure it says "powered by zotero"
It could be an emerging one.

So far nothing points to bush meat being the cause, as CWD has not been detected in that province and the others on that Wikipedia don't seem to have known game animal hosts in that area. Not to mention the autopsies haven't found prions so far.

It also seems the poaching claim may be slightly outdated and may not be a significant problem or common occurrence.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/provincial-stat...
Can you post a link to your version?
Give PureBasic a try

https://www.purebasic.com/

Commercial, but not that expensive. There is a demo you can try.

Free introduction book

http://purearea.net/pb/download/PureBasicBook.pdf
You think all the existing search engineers haven't thought of using the domain age for the signal and tried it yet? And if you did, you think SEO people wouldn't figure it out and take advantage of it? This cycle of adversarial game on this particular signal has already gone through the full cycle - https://www.searchenginejournal.com/ranking-factors/domain-a...

And what makes you think search engines don't take quantity and breadth of content ? And, why do you think SEO won't be able to take advantage of that ?

Most people commenting and lamenting about search quality need to understand how much of search quality is an adversarial game, that neither side (search engine vs SEO people who want to manipulate the result in their favor) can win decisively forever. And generally it's not for the lack of trying the quality hasn't improved as much - it's just some areas it's more difficult to make progress due to more money spent on making it difficult for the search engines.

What I am most disappointed about Google and search engines in general isn't so much about ranking simplistic things like generic recipe or product reviews and stuff like that - most recipes for general items are all similar, and product review is inherently commercial that reviews always have been biases (short of using Consumer Reports, almost all magazine review articles are biases and influenced by manufacturers). What I am most disappointed is the lack of improvements in UI and retrieval/recall. Interactive UI that can narrow down search space iteratively and interactively so that I can describe what I want in more precise way is lacking. Where is the virtual librarian that I can talk to to narrow down what I want in a step by step way ? Instead of a single search query being the only input, why shouldn't search engine ask for clarifications and let users more precisely describe what they want ? Human languages and human brain just don't produce a single phrase to describe what we want - it takes sentences and questioning back and forth to determine what we want, and we often need more input to realize and describe what we actually want. And all search engines have failed to provide such an interface. And my bet is that whoever can crack that would beat all other search engines, since users can give better, higher quality input for the search to find.
If you can install an android app, I've been using OsmAnd for exactly that.
Hahaha, nice point!

Hi, I've been revisiting an old thread from way back in April of 2020, and you are the only person that replied to me that appears to still be active on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22958528
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22965328

I'm @maxharris9 on Twitter, and I would like to see what every person that replied to me has to say now.
I've been using the unihertz Titan [1] for the last couple of years, and more recently (last 6 months or so) the unihertz Titan pocket [2] - The Titan had a bunch of UX issues, which almost all have been fixed in the pocket version. The cameras on them are very bad, but with the price for the device I was able to pick up a half decent camera cheaper than a flagship phone would have cost me anyway. The battery life is a god send, lasts a whole day of solid use, 2 days+ with minimal usage. All apps I've used work fine with the keyboard, and I'm much more productive using a qwerty keyboard, and the keyboard shortcuts you can assign than I ever would be with a touch screen.

[1] - https://www.unihertz.com/collections/all-products/products/t...

[2] - https://www.unihertz.com/products/titan-pocket
Probably the best (only?) option for reply notification is that there's an RSS feed of all replies to a user, like this:

https://hnrss.org/replies?id=37
PoS is too centralized and vulnerable to attack.
More like a life saver. It is hard to imagine the time it takes to fix references in a review article, never mind a PhD thesis, even with a proper bibliography tool. A bit less so with LaTeX, but still very useful.
Can you guys give me some good examples of sites that are "SEO crap" or google searches that do not return anything useful? I want to do some experients if I can write a program that takes a search query, hands it to google, takes googles result and reorders them a bit.
Because "investments" could stop returning 7% at any time, mortgage interest rates could rise at any time and you can live in a house, you can't live in stocks and shares.
I can imagine many reasons why attempting to create 17k items via the web API without some kind of batch processing and/or rate limiting may not have been a successful endeavour.
https://xkcd.com/1132/ seems appropriate. Or perhaps https://xkcd.com/2545/
uBlacklist exists
> It's only toxic for people who don't do anything with it.

But that's the point, isn't it? If the rare few benefit, and the vast majority do not, then the promise isn't a promise. It's a lie.

Put another way, the system shouldn't be arranged and aligned in such that - as cliche as it is - the rich get richer, and the rest suffer.
Gapminder: The Worldview Upgrader
Too bad, totally different from my experience. I ordered and configured my car in the first early-adopter wave via the web form though so perhaps those were a better experience.

Or I just got lucky.
Yes, especially with Spectre. I looked into using eBPF with seccomp (which currently only supports BPF) and the consensus seemed to be that they're not going to add any more eBPF to the kernel and have basically given up on making it secure.

I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes entirely root-only by default soon, if it isn't already.
I've never heard anyone describe the implicit "negative short" all renters have for housing but that totally makes sense. I wonder what the takeaway is for someone who isn't interested in buying a house soon - maybe individuals should be investing in residential REITs which match the kind of housing they pay for?

Buying real estate doesn't exactly "cancel out" your negative short position. On a long enough time horizon everyone who buys a house will end up selling it. Plus buying a house requires you to take money out of other investments, like stocks.
I mean not really? That scene [SPOILERS AHEAD] always seemed like a plot hole to me - you need massive Delta V to change trajectories of objects in space to hurl them towards earth and you need them to be massive to not burn up in the atmosphere. That takes a loooot of juice.

It's much easier to use the "Rods from God" idea - that is more precise and minimizes collateral damage.
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Machine Learning for MRI Image Reconstruction
There's no guarantee for the runtime of any function. It's perfectly valid for the OS to swap your program instructions to disk, and then take seconds or even minutes to load it back.

It's effectively impossible to avoid depending on what you call "luck". The OS does not provide nearly enough guarantees to build useful interactive applications without also depending on other reasonable performance expectations.
"this study relies on executive function assessments reported by the parents which doesn't feel like it would be very reliable to me."

Yep. I stopped reading as soon as it was clear the data would be biased.
I don't know ... Being Vegan seems like believing that you know a lot about dietary science so you can provide yourself with what you need.

However not eating cows, swine, and birds seems like a small and easily managable modification to your diet that achieves a lot.
Polygon bug put $24B in tokens at risk until recent hard fork