skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buying a blade grinder is a waste of money, but burr grinders range from $50 to $500 and while there is a significant quality difference, it can be reasonable to buy one at the cheaper end.
It definitely isn't. I've been a huge linux nerd since my preteens in the late 2000s, I jumped on to squeeze more performance out of the thoroughly mediocre hardware I had access to. I wanted to program, and I found Visual Studio to be incomprehensibly dense and confusing, while Linux tools were so much simpler, with GCC, GEdit, makefiles and the like being more to my liking. I fell deep into the rabbit hole, learned emacs, then vim (it was more responsive on my intel atom-powered netbook), became a "shell guru", eventually went to college at 16 and started doing cybersecurity work/pentesting professionally. I've even made a tiny contribution to the Linux kernel, which I'm pretty proud of.

All this anecdata to say, I consider myself pretty okay at using Linux, I "prefer" Linux, but I don't use Linux for gaming. Not unless it makes sense. I play Minecraft on Linux, and FOSS games that were developed on Linux. There's a POWER9 desktop on my desk that runs Linux, and all my professional and hobby work goes there. I love it.

But any commercial games? They go on my old college-days Intel desktop, running Win10. I can do the work to get games running on Linux, but why bother? Like Linus says in that video, when I have time to play video games, I really don't want to pull out a debugger and strace and crap to do more $DAYJOB work.

Not to say I never do that for fun. I do. I've done some work with https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86, and that involves a similar process. But I just frankly don't find doing it to your average Steam game to be very fun. Sometimes the muse strikes, usually it doesn't.

And for your average Linux user, much less your average computer user overall, you can forget about it. IMO, unless you have a strong ideological reason to only use FOSS OSes (and all the power to you!), the reason you use Linux is because it's a vastly superior tool for certain problems.

Playing your average commercial game is not one of them.
> Hey, I didn't even realize who I was answering to.

The best kind of comments are the ones which respond to the what as opposed to the who. :D
You've probably already google-fu'ed this, but its ~4mm crushed granite used as a concrete-sand substitute where granite/gneiss sand isn't available.

Most construction materials businesses sell locally by word of mouth, and if they paid for a website at all it's old and still using http. So Google drops them.
This is like a pencil drawing rather than even an MVP. Just to be honest, it's not satisfactory for any reasonable minimum; it will leak, exposed OSB will rot away like cardboard, the framing won't support repeated opening and closing of the door, and the aesthetics are rude to any neighbors.
The bangs make it great. The keyboard interactivity makes it awesome. Being able to search, and then use the down arrows to select a result, and then press enter to follow the result, is super awesome, and I'm surprised Google hasn't gotten that right.
You can negotiate a 3-day weekend
Thank you both. The number of "Wow this is so cool!" encouragement-replies here is pretty scary. Building a shed is definitely something most people can DIY, but please don't make it hazardous! And, at least make an attempt to look up local building codes. Even if conformance is not required for your particular application, they can be used as a reference for best practices.

I believe some jurisdictions now occasionally check e.g. Google Maps to look for obvious things like sheds built too close to existing structures (which this one likely is), so it's possible he'll get an unrequested visit from code enforcement anyway.
Has anybody else noticed a decline in Wikipedia's placement on many Google search results?

More often than not I want Wikipedia as my first result, both as a cross-reference for anything else I click on and as an index for other useful or interesting links. They were consistently in the top 5 results for anything that actually had a Wiki page for years, but now I have to pull the top few pages or even write `$query wiki` to get Google to reliably bring Wikipedia up.
Or maybe 3 kids are just too many to handle! I’m my first is coming an can already tell you is going to be the last!
It's a bit ironic that this post is part of the problem. It's very hard to make money in decent product reviews but there is money in SEO optimization & referral links. Most product feedback and honest opinions are shared on sites like Twitter & Reddit which range from bad-SEO (Reddit, Youtube) to deliberately anti-SEO (Twitter, Instagram, Pintrest). While this thread/opinion is on HN ATM, it will quickly be gone and no one using a search engine will find it (if they do it will probably be via finding a HN or Reddit post first).

That said I'm not sure what search results this person is actually getting but I really haven't had a problem using DDG or Google. I just know that what's marketed and used by the average consumer tends to be pretty bad if you ask any expert or enthusiast. I don't think this is search engines being bad at their job it's just that most topics bifurcate quickly into average people and amateur experts/enthusiasts.

Here's an example. Coffee. It's a very common beverage that millions if not billions of people drink every day. However, coffee culture for the average person is very different from enthusiast coffee culture.

Search engine's are not even that bad... if you look up a good coffee grinder. The top sites on both DDG/Bing and Google do mention the difference between a blade and burr grinder. The most recommended option looks pretty decent. This is probably a much better option for 90% of people than getting the 'enthusiast' (no-brand industrial burr grinder) option off of Ebay.

Anyone who complains about search engine result quality is a completely different demographic from the typical person. I don't think Google's search as gotten worse but rather typical user (i.e. training data) becoming more average.

Another good example are TVs. Everyone and everyone's dad knows that Costco has some pretty good deals on TVs as well as offering a best in class warranty. However, if you read the forums and in-depth reviews you will quickly notice that Costco doesn't have 90% of the best TV in each price range. The average consumer wants the best Costco TV not the best TV as long as you get X% discount and you calibrate yourself, etc.
I've made a custom search in Chrome with the "r" hotkey, that searches Reddit in the past year. Sites are also starting to just fake the dates so I'm getting really old results on regular. This takes care of both:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site%3Areddit.com&tbs=qdr:y
Neat! Was hoping to see a timelapse video of some sort, though.
Where are you seeing he used drywall screws? I use deck and construction screws for framing all the time, it's fine. You can always add nails too. 24" centers are ok for this too, there's very little weight. Far less well constructed sheds are moved daily.
The Bull case should also be that Tesla is lead by Elon Musk and that his companies have generally done, really, really well. He makes the right investments at the right time to continue growing often when most people don't see it yet.

Tesla literally started to work on is in-house battery and battery manufacturing plans years and years ago. When most manufactures didn't even consider having a dedicated battery partner. They even have in-house materials manufactures where they make their own cathode and might even make their own lithium hydroxide. This looks like a brilliant bet right now, in comparison Ford only now realized that they need a dedicated battery manufacturing partnership (something Tesla had in 2014). The margin lost on a battery if you buy it is significant, and that is outside of the chance to make it cheaper and better integrated.

I trust that Musk and Tesla are internally already looking at what the next thing is they need to continue their growth. Grid Energy is only starting to really go of now and will look quite good over time, they just started a new factory fully dedicated to grid storage. Tesla is also not bound to cars, electrification will go to aviation next, as they continue to improve batteries at some point the density will hit a point it simply makes sense to look into aviation and Tesla is a great position to do that at some point.

In my opinion just saying car market size is X therefore Tesla can't be more then Y is a false analysis.

> Waymo doesn't need to make the cars or have gigafactories.

Yes, they just need relay on partners who want them to pay as much as possible and are not fully integrated in what Waymo actually needs.

Waymo has no clear way to profitability, Tesla even without Full-Self Driving can make lot of money selling driver assistance.

> As for being the energy provider of the future, as much as people love to hate energy companies, Chevron is not going to roll over so easily. They love oil because it makes money. As soon as it stops making money, they are much better positioned to transform their infrastructure into charging stations than Tesla is to bootstrap that side of their business.

This makes little sense. First of all, charging is a lost leader, you don't really make money. Its a huge investment and maybe at some distant point in the future you make money. And charging and gas are simply different and have different requirements, and you don't need as many.

Chevron has no expertise in high power electronics needed and all the software required to make it a great experience for costumers.

If that would happen they would need to invest many billions now, and even then, this is something Tesla would welcome as its a good argument and makes their cars more attractive, not less. Tesla can not build ever EV charger in the world.
> These supportive, assistive, incentive-based actions

All of these actions are done with the threat of fines for noncompliance, and the threat of imprisonment for noncompliance with the fines. They are also financed by taxation, which is involuntary and redistributive by nature.

> Then there simply should be more powerful NGOs

If these NGOs do not occur naturally, then there's clearly not enough demand for them. This is supported by your proposal to use authority to force them into existence. I'm opposing the use of authority to intervene in peaceful interaction between citizens.

Instead of forcing the issue, why not just be content with the fact that most people are not interested in forming voluntary collectives, even when it is in their interest, and in spite of the fact that they are free and entitled to, and allow them to suffer the consequences?
It's short. Put a normal extension cord in the "conduit", with plugs on each end. At least here in California, electrical code ends at the receptacle. You can do practically anything you want on the other side, as long as it plugs in.
US has had both a drug-addiction epidemic, a diabetes epidemic and an obesity epidemic.

Each these conditions doesn't just reduce lifespan. They also put people in a more fragile life-situation where they need more support. And the US hasn't been at maintaining those kinds of support during the epidemic.

Edit: The US life expectancy decline relative to other advanced nations is relevant. Take a look at the following chart in detail. US life expectancy was set back twenty years. No other nation was set by more than ten years.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-lif...
members of congress should not be using commercial social media as their exclusive form of pushing out status updates to the populace.

We have open standards (W3C recommendations) even, and these protocols can be adopted by the content management system used by House.Gov. Congress Critters need to become part of the Fedi.
I remember around 2010-2012 it felt really great. You could learn the keyword-fu skill and with few keyword change / reorder iterations could explore topics and find obscure things on the internet.
Now that method does not work at all. Always the same results and cannot find specific things. Around that time they started adding ML/AI and now searching with keywords is extremely unsatisfying.
Engineering is an activity, not a restriction on activity.
"This value should never be negative, so I'll use an unsigned type." There are two types of programmers: ones who are reassured by that reasoning, and ones who shudder at it.
300+ comments in a hour??? C'mon now, this all can't be genuine. I don't think Google returns the best results all the time either, but most "outage" posts don't get this much engagement so quickly.
That fell to complete shit a while back. They are not wrong but I would ignore their rankings and focus on the review aspects
The Countermeasures listed strike me as insufficient mitigation. I think it’s pretty clear that Twitter/FB/Reddit etc are fundamentally prone to this kind of DDOS.

Globally writable lists/trees are probably just the wrong data structure for online interaction.
> the chances that I’m also interested in buying a similar thing in the next few days / weeks are drastically reduced

This is a comment sentiment (I’ve already bought a fridge! Don’t need another!) and it is a bit of a failure mode. But, I think value on advertising around recent purchases to people is super high. A recent purchase, although often wrong, is one of the best signals you can get. So much purchasing happens in clusters (setting up a space, picking up a hobby, etc) that a specific person is in buying mode for a specific topic is crazy valuable. And there’s splash damage on the wrong ads. Maybe you don’t buy a second rice cooker, but the ad reminds you to get a toaster.
I meant it as a joke, but indicating it's a joke ruins it.

I suspect most downvotes come from disagreements, but there is no way to verify that.
It's fascinating that the death of a star can bring life. Basically when a star dies there will be a lot of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen - the building blocks for life, and there are a lot of dead star remains floating around in space. It's almost like if the whole big bang process was made in order to create life.
I could understand this as someone who just knows algebra. The end part really shows how people shouldn't pretend to understand scientific studies and treat themselves.
At least that was better than Fry’s or Home Depot, where salespeople actively walk away when they see you approaching, and have zero knowledge of what is even carried by the place they work. After a while I figured out that it’s better to just look myself on the shelves and endcaps vs trying to ask anything of the sales drones. Kinda like a physical Amazon. I’m sad that they’re out of business now, and with no more MicroCenter left in the Bay Area, the choices are now basically Amazon, eBay, or small online shops (if Central Computer and Halted, now closed as they sold to Excess Solutions @ 1555 S, 7th St. San Jose, CA 95112 don’t have what I’m after).
Love that one! My first thought was “we’ve already got one, you see; it’s very nice.”

When I decided to start flying flags a few years back, I got one of these. Good conversation starter with the neighbors. (And my Kerbals always flew their missions under this flag, too!)
Well, actually what I do almost always is click reject all on the GDPR ones, then tab over to the legitimate interest tab and object to all of that too. I can't speak for the behaviours of others.

If you have a real legitimate interest, you don't need my consent, so I feel entirely justified in objecting to their fake-ass "legitimate interest" (i.e. please let us do what we want).
Surely by it. I would struggle to find a precedent where children are considered equal to adults, and not subject to their authority. In fact my whole point is we shouldn't treat adults the same way we do children.
Show HN: Weekly summary of HN to help fight procrastination
Lately, I've realized I'm spending a lot of time on HN. I've also realized that my brain uses it as a some sort of "escape" route: whenever I'm dealing with something complicated, my brain defaults to Cmd+T + "news..".

So I've decided that I need to stop continuously browsing HN. BUT, I still don't want to miss the relevant news, events and discussions.

That's why I've built this very simple, statically generated summary of HN posts (by year, month and week): https://hn-summary.github.io/

I think it's also a good way to filter the noise and only focus on those relevant posts that had a considerable impact on their given week.

I've also grouped the submissions on different (and arbitrary) groups that I consider relevant (for example: News, Dev Blogs, Scientific News, etc). Feel free to suggest changes/additions (it's all in a json file within the repo).

I guess the only thing left is block news.ycombinator.com on my /etc/hosts :)

[Source] https://github.com/hn-summary/hn-summary.github.io
I worked at Radio Shack. They had an extensive training program that all employees went through. There were multiple 50-page manuals for each product category. This meant training in A/V equipment and how to hook up TVs (which splitters and switches did what, how to wire many different audio setups, how VCR outputs worked, telephony equipment, pagers and Blackberries... etc.)

We had to go through all the certifications within something like six weeks of hire in order to be eligible for pay bumps and promotions. This even meant training on circuit components (at least knowing what they were, and how they were organized).

Any Radio Shack clerk that wasn't completely green went through this training, so we all knew our stuff.

One of the cool things about the job was getting to talk to "elder geeks" that would come in for components. One guy I helped had set up an old IBM 360 mainframe in his garage. The university he worked at didn't want it any more. He used it for messing around with assembly and as a space heater.

It was still a retail job, but it was better than most for a tech-head like me. I would've been flipping burgers or selling shoes (Payless was next door), so Radio Shack was a better stepping stone for me. It did nothing for getting me into a programming career, but it was a stop-gap to get there.
Dcrainmaker has been "pay for play" for at least the past 10 years. He's very thorough, but not altruistic. There was a guy on Slowtwich that shared a conversation with him that was enlightening to that fact.
> Within a week, tens of thousands of SEO specialists will be on the case, reverse-engineering the magic and figuring out how to get their crappy sites back to the top of the rankings.

An algorithm could punish things inherent to SEO optimized sites (ads and tracking). Removing the ability to passively generate money without providing useful content is the key.

Of the top of my head, a system like the following would be a pretty good start:

Scale of 0 to 100 (closer to 100 being higher up on the results).

You are penalized for the following:

- subtract 10 points for any ad, using ublock origin's list as a good starting point (this stacks, it's 10 points off for each link)

- subtract 100 points for google tag manager

- subtract 100 points for the facebook like button

- ... etc for each of the major tracking scripts

This would obviously need to be updated as ad-tech evolves, but it would cut out 90% of the current SEO spam.

Can google do this? No, they have a conflict of interest around placing ads. Somebody else, however, can absolutely do this.
Ah, the ubiquitous rebuttal, "Here's a link to an unreproducible result with pubmed in the URL. You lose, sir." I know when I'm beat!
Perhaps you just got lucky. Mine suggests tons of people from India and the middle east who I couldn't possibly know. I also check it very rarely. Presumably the algorithm must be picking the (very-slightly) best from many many low-probability guesses.
Sure, so just ignore them.

It's really not hard to identify stuff that makes no sense at all, and having to manually filter through that stuff is worth it if it means being able to form a model of the world that's actually correct as opposed to simply being what the most powerful entities want.

Brain damaged space lizard believers aren't doing scientific research, as an obvious example.
Any chances to flash those phones to alternate open operating systems?
I would expect a load of them to appear shortly in the used market, so it might
be interesting to have something to experiment with while giving the devices another life.
(circa 2012) i bootstrapped a company that connects people searching for information to providers of said information in a real time chatroom created for the duration of the query. This is to solve pogo sticking when the website information is too dense (say search for quitclaim deed without knowing too much about it). I failed to get enough users on both sides ('two sided market'). I am not from search/web space - my expertise is in building routers/switches in the 90s. I extended xmpp so that you could query from any chat box that can interwork with xmpp.
Great post, learned a bunch of things. Only one blog post, and no RSS (yet?) unfortunately.
It was his TYRE that had a puncture, not his "tire", you insensitive clod!

:)
Or that somebody canceled the vehicle for other reasons. To suggest all of those are because of QA issues is nonsense.

And their QA is not the issue because of deliveries, the most growth in deliveries has been in China where QA is considered very good.
It depends. If people are asking "How do I do X?" and "What do you think about products in category Y?" I am certainly go to say "try this out".
Reproducible Experiments for Useful Internet Systems
> France ("the land of delicate and healthy food", as it is sold to you)

Is it? I would associate that description more with Italy. With France I associate butter, cream, cheese, fatty cuts of meat ...
This varies a lot across the country. Most of the local suburban streets are maintained through a combination of local city/county and gas taxes and don't come from the "city money" general tax pool. Not to mention that most states don't have a dense city to speak of, so they are in practice >95% low density.

The federal government maintains the highway infrastructure (and subsidizes other non-highway building) which does help enable suburban living in many places. I suppose that you aren't advocating to get rid of that because the immense usefulness of such system (travel, trucks, buses etc), though.

Eliminating the suburban lifestyle wouldn't have a massive impact on sustainability of the system because a lot of it isn't maintained by the federal government or simply needs to be maintained anyway. Reducing the number of cars that are on the road due to the suburban lifestyle will reduce the amount of money that comes from the federal government and shared money pools, but probably not too much in the grand scheme of things.

Thus, I think that saying that "suburban living is fiscally unsustainable" is an exaggeration and we should instead say "we need to better allocate the costs of suburban life to suburban taxpayers" (which wouldn't make such a huge difference anyway, especially if we also remove the city living subsidies that come from rich suburbs).
Every time I check my HN karma count it reminds me of this passage from Awareness by Anthony de Mello:

> Most
people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical
thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions,
mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

> Do you want to see how mechanical you really are? "My, that's a
lovely shirt you're wearing". You feel good hearing that. For a shirt,
for heaven's sake! You feel proud of yourself when you hear that.

> Normally the way it goes, I press a button and
you're up; I press another button and you're down.

On social media we let others push the up/down buttons - and we feel happy, sad, proud, ashamed from that