skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We’re Europe’s largest exporter of electricity, thanks to our nuclear power.

None of your relevant stats actually show that, France only shows up in total production, and there it ranks lower than Germany.

It's also a bit odd to now move the goalpost to fossil fuels, when your original point was about electricity exports, and how France can allegedly only export so much due to nuclear power.

But over the years France has been constantly trading places with Germany for top electricity exporter on the planet due to Germany's huge renewable sector.

A renewable sector that has the advantage of not having massive long-term costs associated with it, most of which are not covered to this day [0];

> France, which operates Europe’s largest fleet of nuclear plants, is heavily underfunded. It has earmarked assets only worth 23 billion euros, less than a third of 74.1 billion euros in expected costs.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-europe-nuclear-idUKKCN0VP...
I disagree. The most common recommendation is the $150 Baratza Encore, which is about correct for price/performance on the low end. The manufacturer sells cheap replacement parts for it, which is a massive convenience. They also sell cheaper refurbished grinders occasionally. I've had mine for 5-6 years and expect it to last much longer. Better electric grinders start at hundreds of dollars more (in the U.S. market).
This the proper place for std::optional<T>.
These things were everywhere I went. Even B-hut fob gyms had Concept-2 rowers. In BAF there was a giant sign outside the Disney clamshell, “NO EXCUSES”. Hit it for 5 minutes in full uniform about 10 times a day between every movement and then ran to make up time. Best fitness years of my life. Different experiences I guess.
It's hard to compete with Google. Back when Google started, you could fit the world wide web on a single computer. Today you can only really get started the same way Google did if you focus on an unfancy subset of the web that hasn't been react'd and wasm'd into exabytes of opacity. https://wiby.org/ does it I think by refusing to index any HTML page that has <script> tags. Websites like https://millionshort.com/ provide pretty nice results sometimes, but I don't think they actually index the web on their own; they probably use the Bing or Google API on the backend. With million short if I want bike reviews for example, I get the authentic blog posts from 2010 with amazon affiliate links to bike listings that are no longer being sold lol.

The problem is I don't think the Wiby model (rejecting JavaScript) or the MillionShort model (rejecting popularity) have done a good job capturing what we loved most about the old web and systematizing its curation. There's definitely an opportunity for someone to come along and create a focused niche alternative that's better.

One way I suppose it could be done, is if you convinced a bunch of trustworthy high status trendsetter type people to subscribe to a paid service with a browser toolbar that lets them click a button for each website they visit to say "I like this" or "I dislike this" and then use that information to train a neural network that divides seo spam from content. Mix that with classic page rank and you might have something good. I'm not sure if it'd ever appeal to a more general public audience though.

Anyone who does it is also going to want to make a deal with the archive.org to somehow get a snapshot of the old web, to recreate those original experiments. Or possibly even resurrect an old build of it. Plus Gutenberg. There's enough content from 2005 web alone and all the books published before to last anyone several lifetimes. That's actually one of Google's blind spots. They're so good at up-to-the-minute indexing of current events that sometimes if you just want to get the text to something like Seneca it's like pulling teeth.
The NY Times used to do a breakdown, and found yes they are: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/14/us/covid-19-d...
Well this looks to be setting up to be very bad PR for these companies not to mention criminal proceedings in Congress if there are any accidents attributable to 5G rollout around airports. Falling back to 4G in those areas doesn't seem like an unreasonable compromise until the technical aspects are sorted out. It's unfortunate that these companies are now in a mode where potential loss of life < profits. This usually doesn't end well for everyone involved.
That wouldn't explain it: vos is used in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Costa Rica and in parts of several other Latin American countries.
> will inevitably result in blood in the streets

Who do you think is going to start the violence?

> who really caused this catastrophe: the news media

There may be some truth to that, but surely we expect individuals to have some responsibility for their own ideological position and treatment of people they believe they disagree with?
It is so confusing to me why youtube embeds arent responsive by default

I never noticed the thing about “T”s being pronounced differently but I suppose that makes a lot of sense
Body Positivity movement started out with a good goal, but went off the rails with the obesity == healthy BS.

However if you want to solve obesity, especially the morbid obesity shamming will never resolve that as chances are the obesity is cased by an underlying metal or medical issue. most often an anxiety disorder of some kind, and socially shaming someone that suffers from anxiety is not going to cure them, and in fact will most likely make their eating disorder worse.
Even before that, I hate hate HATE how they don't have a way to say "don't ever display this channel in search results". So much spam.
That might be fixable, if people want to expend the effort. Wiki pages are almost certainly copyrightable, so the owners could send DMCA takedown notices to github-wiki-see.page. If they're not responsive, send the DMCA notices to Google, which should be required to delist them. Unfortunately you have to do it on a URL-by-URL basis, and you can only send notices for pages you actually own copyright for, so it would mean a big coordinated effort to get them brought down.

I just don't understand why Google themselves allows this and doesn't rank these sorts of sites lower. They're clearly garbage sites with low utility.
What a coincidence, just today I had a conversation about the decreased quality of Google’s search results. Glad, I’m not alone.

I’ll give you.com a full weeks trial as it wasn’t mentioned that often in the comments yet.

Their CEO is following the twitter thread [0] and comments here [1] but is probably hesitant to advertise it here on HN.

So, I’m doing it now as I have high expectations. I’m not affiliated in any way.

[0] https://twitter.com/richardsocher/status/1477748601539411971...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=richardsocher#293994...
Following up from another thread, excluding reflections and what not, a plane at 75 feet should be 16x louder than the same plane with the same throttle settings at 300 feet. Sound follows the inverse square rule, where a change in distance of X reduces the perceived noise to 1/x^2. Since 300/75 = 4, you get a factor of 16 in perceived difference. Yikes.
That doesn't mean it can't be optimized with algorithms. Obviously that's what they think they're measuring and doing, otherwise it would be random.
The HN guidelines say "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." Moreover, such posts are likely to be downvoted and flagged into oblivion by HN's readership for being spam.
The rumours say they're putting m1 level devices in the the headset. Again the power budget is the only issue!
I use Zotero as a bookmarking too. It saves the files and articles offline.
Thanks!

On the macOS side, you would need an application (in whatever language you prefer), that pulls events on Pub/Sub topic,

I assume there's an easy way for my server to talk to Google Cloud's pub/sub?
>> This is why no software incumbent is truly protected from startup disruption

Not quite. It's why publicly traded companies are not protected, they can never make enough profit. At least not in today's world where the whole market looks like a scam.
Once, after a particularly intense fight in EVE Online I found my hands shaking.

The only other occasion I surpassed that level of adrenaline was in Iraq in 2007.
You can do OK with a blade grinder. I used to have one from Target, and I would grind in two or three stages, stirring the grounds with my finger (!) in between to get more consistent grinds.
IMHO, some of those criticizing the article for failing to understand statistics are missing the point.

The point is that people who get a "positive" result on these tests are often put through terrifying levels of anxiety when there is no actual problem; this anxiety is often exacerbated because they aren't informed of the false positive rate. This clearly has a harmful emotional effect on people, and explaining the false positives in Bayesian terms, or reframing it in terms of sensitivity and specificity, doesn't undo that damage.

That potential harm needs to be explained to patients, and it needs to be weighed carefully against the potential benefits of the test (as is done for PSA tests for prostate cancer, which also have a high false positive rate). Given that potential for harm, it's not unreasonable to ask that these tests be more tightly regulated.

To quote the OP:

> In interviews, 14 patients who got false positives said the experience was agonizing. They recalled frantically researching conditions they’d never heard of, followed by sleepless nights and days hiding their bulging bellies from friends. Eight said they never received any information about the possibility of a false positive, and five recalled that their doctor treated the test results as definitive.

(Edit: clarified)
My brand new LG turbowasher model lasted 3 months before one morning sounded like a hammer smashing something. I ran to the machine and a support bracket inside had broken. It took 2 months for them to replace it I was not impressed. It has since lasted 3 more years no issues but I doubt I would go with LG in the future since it was a horrible customer service experience getting my first one repairs under warranty. Had they helped me better after it breaking I may have said it was just a fluke and still recommended them.
> Especially sad since those affiliate links to Amazon mostly resulted in "This product is currently not available" sites.

This should not be considered "especially sad" in my view. It would be worse if these links worked, thus generating additional revenue for these "web players" (pun intended).
I guess the Pi is meant to replace HW that’s no longer available/easily procurable, as there were/are Ethernet adapters for Amigas.

I think the thing that Amiga users love(d) about it (I had one) was that at the time it had the type of tight integration between HW & SW that we’re starting to see again in modern devices (the level of integration of Apple’s products come to mind).
But isn't chess one subset within that network, which would indeed be covered by any law regulating addictiveness of social media? Or will you allow people to be caught up on their own "otaku" like obsession with whatever niche area, but it is simply verboten to notify them of the existence of a different niche?

I also don't see how people can separate "optimizing addictiveness" (e.g. making your junk food too yummy or whatever) versus simply trying to make a better product that gives your customers what they want. The main criteria for who gets described in this way seems to be the corporate structure of the seller.
>People do things you might disagree about. It's called freedom, or live and let live.

You have the freedom to do a lot of things. You can go and play in traffic if you really want. Everyone else has the freedom to call you an idiot and shout at you for how stupid and inconsiderate you're being.

Let's assume your comparison holds, and 1kw gaming== 1kw mining, atleast the gamer was happy for the hours of gaming he played, rather than the miner who basically just pushed more money into the slots machine.

>You can't legislate what people do on their own free time with things that they buy, like electricity.

You actually can. We actually do. Authoritarian regimes do it at the drop of a hat, but even free democracies ban activities they view as purely destructive.

It's important to remember, people need energy to heat their homes and not die, and we're not going to pretend that's an equally useful application of energy as bitcoin mining.
Consider skipping a step and querying wikipedia directly. Bookmark https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%s&title=Special... in your browser and giving it the shortcut w (or whatever you think makes sense)
Trinidadian English! :D

I love switching to heavy dialect for a second just to annoy Canadians
But I can tell the difference within a blink of an eye. There must be a way to train a ML model on „crappy seo“…
Someone could make a fortune launching a search engine running Google's algorithms circa 2010!

Actually, thinking about it, Google has always been fighting low quality results from spammers and SEO. I remember 2017-2019 there were multiple topics that you just couldn't research on Google because the SEO blog spam was so overwhelming.

I can confirm that recipes are a mixed bag, but some team at Google is working hard to try and make them good, it is just a really difficult fight. It doesn't help that the number of recipe sites keeps exploding.

Oh by the way, if you want good recipes, just pay for a Cook's Illustrated subscription. There. Done. Sadly NYT Cooking has started adding some really low quality recipes that honestly no one should be making.
>Or does anyone seriously believe that no government action in history has ever justified violence?

not in literally all of history but I'm pretty close to 'virtually never justifies violence'. A political culture that justifies violence as a tool against sovereign authority I think effectively makes a country ungovernable and also practically sparks more and more violence, often directed inwards.
One category I’ve noticed this kind of thing in is calorie counts. I’ll search for a product that should have an official nutrition page from the brand’s website, and get pages and pages of websites that just seem to regurgitate from some large database.

I use MyFitnessPal to log calories, and it already has one of these large databases. I’m usually searching online to validate it against another source, so this is pretty unhelpful.
If you call getpid, or even local functions, can the rest of your code (in a single thread) continue till getpid returns?

E.g if you do this inside a function (useless code)

int pid = getpid();
std::cout << pid+2 << std::endl;

Will the output print even if the hypothetical call to getpid takes a second?

If the answer is the print will wait, then it's a blocking call.

If it was an async call, then it could happen concurrently or in parallel, and unless you waited, it would continue on in a non blocking fashion.

Waiting for a return == blocking. It may be quick but unless the spec specifies that it must be synchronous+non-blocking, the distinction between the two is moot.
Probably a bit of both. That said, I think it could be huge. The web we know now was created via protocols that enabled what we all experience today in terms of connectivity, social media, ecommerce, apps etc (Web2). Blockchain technology and the associated protocols bring a new overlay that will enable us to build really interesting businesses, experiences etc that are enabled by trust / logic etc being built into the code. Altering and in some cases eliminating the role of many intermediaries while creating opportunities to build innovative / new business models. Feels a lot like it did 20 or so years ago when people were super excited about the possibilities of the Internet but we didn't really know what was going to work out vs flame out etc. Safe to say this will be something that will take 10+ years to play itself out.
What has happened? It's not clear from the headline.
Quite the opposite. I love that kind of work more than any other. I just have to reach for less than ideal times to do it. Taught myself many musical instruments in the wee hours after family and other troubled people were in bed.
> Banking system is regulated precisely to make illegal activities more difficult.

But at what cost? I'd argue that the costs outweigh the benefits. It hinders competition and innovation, makes it hard or impossible for some people and businesses to access the banking system, increases fees on consumers due to the immense cost of compliance (>$180bn a year worldwide), puts innocent people behind bars ("guilty until proven innocent" is the typical standard with AML), is a privacy nightmare, puts police investigative work into the hands of private sector employees, makes operating globally almost impossible, etc.

Meanwhile, has it really deterred any crime? How about we just go back to catching criminals the good old fashion, with police investigations, for actual crimes, just like we did pre 1989. Hell, use financial data to inform investigations if needed.
strace tip of the day: you don't need lsof, strace can keep track of open fds quite well, just use the -y flag.

-y
--decode-fds
--decode-fds=path
Print paths associated with file descriptor arguments.

-yy
--decode-fds=all
Print all available information associated with file
descriptors: protocol-specific information associated with
socket file descriptors, block/character device number
associated with device file descriptors, and PIDs
associated with pidfd file descriptors.
I've thought about this a lot over the past few years, and I've come to the slightly sad conclusion that Google isn't to blame. It's just that there isn't any good quality information on the web anymore. Google does its best, but it's working with crappy data. No one wants to spend time and effort making a great website about <insert literally any topic here> unless they're in it for the money. That means Google will only ever return blogspam, affiliate websites, and SEO-optimized ecommerce websites for practically any search now. This is in contrast to the good old days when people made websites for fun and searches actually found the high quality content that was out there. These days searches don't find quality content because, on the whole, it doesn't exist.

This isn't universally true of course. There is some good content. But it's never what you're searching for; it's only good when you stumble across it, or you find a link on HN/Reddit/etc. It's just interesting rather than specifically good or useful.

To an extent Google is to blame because AdSense and DoubleClick drove the shift from people publishing what they love to people publishing for dollars, but, and this is somewhat cynical I know, I genuinely wonder if we're actually on the brink of realising the web as a publishing platform just isn't that great.
I believe Google's algorithm will confound such experiments because it tailors search results according to user history. Which may mean that some portion of the HN crowd could see worse than average performance if they are more likely to clear cookies and/or search without a login.
I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. It's not the "white right" occupying blocks in Portland. Not that I agree with either side. I think it's a lose/lose situation for everyone if we keep feeding this polarization.
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.

I think the interesting question is this: why is this happening? There’s always been a battle between Google and SEO black hats, but I can’t remember the last time it got this bad. Is Google just temporarily losing, or have they lost the will to fix this at all?
The comments on both Twitter thread and here on HN goes something like "better have your own communities on Reddit and StackOverflow for your advanced queries". Sooo, we go back to Yahoo's grouping/directories that was the norm in 90's, eh? And Google bested that by going with their unique search algorithm in early 2000's. Hence next is going to be a reinvention of the wheel by DuckDuckGo I suppose.
https://www.mojeek.com/
no-tracking, independent crawler/index
Isn't it an XML i don't get it, its a plaint text format & quite clear (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_XML)
This seems like a fair solution that could have the same impact - if the pollution tax is high enough and the mining profits are low enough then mining would no longer be profitable. At a minimum it at least makes sure people are "cleaning up after themselves" by paying to mitigate the damage they cause
Same with Swift (on Mac)

% touch foo.swift
% swiftc -Osize -Xlinker -x foo.swift
% ls -lh foo | cut -d' ' -f10
33K
% strip foo
% ls -lh foo | cut -d' ' -f10
33K
> Now after a few weeks of that, I see that Bing does the exact same thing much of the time. Totally different queries + same general subject = identical top ten results.

When I worked at Microsoft, the Bing team had an internal version employees could use where you could report if Bing's top results didn't equal Google's top results.

This was nearing a decade ago, so don't read much into it for what they do now.
I've followed DF since 2010. Tarn treats his game more like a hobby than a business. Of course, that is his prerogative, and maybe his objective.
The quote comes from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to William Smith regarding Shay's Rebellion. You can find a transcript here[0] and easily elsewhere on the web, but I've excised the relevant text, emphasis mine:

"(...) yet where does this anarchy exist? where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? and can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it's motives. they were founded in ignorance, not wickedness.

god forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. the people cannot be all, & always, well informed. the part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive; if they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

we have had 13. states independant 11. years. there has been one rebellion. that comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. what country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them."

It doesn't make sense that "them" refers to the rulers, in context it obviously refers to the people taking arms.

[0]https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/105.html
Exactly. It pains me when someone comes up with a new language with dependent types, but then to encode a simple constraint they first define integers via peano axioms using some kind of template metaprogramming. (The example I'm remembering was Coq or a Haskell dialect or something.)

There was a dialect of C#, Sing# or Spec#, that allowed you to specifying pre and post conditions in the same expression language as the main language, and they were checked at compile time. This is what comes closest I think.
People like problems more than they like solutions.
I'm surprised anybody needs a random guy on Twitter to tell them this...
The math doesn't work. The money to advertise comes from you buying the product. If they pay you enough to actually buy it then the cost of advertising is equal to the price of the product and they make no revenue.

Advertising pays for a lot, but it also doesn't pay that much.
I tried the Costco dealer thing once and there were still shenanigans, so nothing is guaranteed.