skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Researchers found that omicron multiplied about 70 times faster than delta did in tissue samples from the bronchus"

This seems to be the crucial sentence. Coughing out small droplets from the bronchus is fairly efficient way of transmission of airborne disease, and these droplets now contain 70 times as much active viral particles. No wonder that the variant is spreading like ink through a glass of water.
Google was still useful for things that are non-marketable. But in the last year or so, I have started to realize how awfully bad has gotten even at that.

Case in point: Open source mailing list archives. For various reasons, some times I have to search for entire email threads that are available in the web interfaces of some mailing list archives. I have part of a phrase of some email, I put that into google with quotes, and it returns some results, usually with the main archive being in the first results. In the last year or so, Google has started returning no results for some phrases of emails that do exist and are available in one or more public archives.

When that started to happen, I tried Bing. And Bing returns results with links to archive. So does duckduckgo most times. But for Google, it's like if that particular email I'm searching at that moment didn't exist (for other emails in the same mailing list it works fine). It only happens occasionally, but it's getting worse. So I have started to rely on DDG and Bing more and more, because they always find what I want.

So Google is starting to fail at some of the most basic aspects of a search engine, it's not just the ordering of the search results - there are some public web pages that it won't see for whatever reason.
This will block sites like OutdoorGearLab which has great content and trustworthy reviews. I think doing a check on the copy on the SEO website and comparing it to other websites might do the trick though.
Search song by misunderstood lyrics.

This is a blind spot of the native english speakers, but I need such thing often, usually trying to find one of the songs I heard some years ago.
Dealership groups push for the regulations that force producers to use them. Tesla has had to fight hard to avoid the dealership model because of it.
Yeah right. Two days ago I go into our local electrical goods store. I would like a USB-C to HDMI adaptor, I say. Sales guy looks around, scratches his nut. Sorry don't have one he says. Then he wanders off. I turn around and see one on the shelf. The price is double what you can get online. I tell him this. He shrugs and scratches his other nut and wanders off again. I walk out.
Google seems to value recency over quality - a huge shame, given that the quality content has moved off the open web into walled gardens. If you elevate recently, you get churnalism, blogspam, and vacuous GPT3 bot content.
try and use scholar.google.com to find primary literature about... well, anything.

for example: xyz meta-analysis will return meta studies that summarize other studies about xyz

sadly most studies are behind paywalls and only the abstract is visible, but just copy and paste the DOI into sci hub to get the full text
I immediately thought of the Flower of Life [1]. The symbol on the flag is a rotated, stylized version of the 7-circle rosette seen on that page. Lots of spiritual connotations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlapping_circles_grid#Moder...
> but that’s because other platforms don’t have the control needed to implement the same level of integration of hardware and software needed.

I seriously doubt this is the case. We're in a thread where people are posting dozens of implementations that work perfectly fine on other hardware.

> Without the direct low level control of the radio hardware they would not have been able to integrate both Bluetooth and WiFi in the way that AirDrop does.

This... is also not necessarily true? Android lets you send arbitrary data through WiFi Direct and Bluetooth alike, I'd really like to see a detailed breakdown that explains how that modulation isn't possible on standard hardware/software stacks though.
The thing is that trying to understand "the power of Lisp" via the toy interpreter from The Roots of Lisp[0] is like trying to understand "the beauty of the sea" after seeing a single five-minute YouTube video explaining it.

It will give you the basic idea, but it won't tell you about macros, reader macros, compiler macros, and having the whole language always available to build your abstractions on; it won't tell you about CLOS, including multiple dispatch, metaclasses, or method combinations; it won't tell you about the condition system and programming from inside the debugger; it won't tell you about live recompilation and live coding; it won't tell you about the JVM interoperability of Clojure, Kawa, or ABCL; it won't tell you about Racket's tower-of-languages approach to programming; I can keep on going for a while. And, since most Lisp dialects and implementations are nowadays compiled, either to native code or to bytecode, the just-interpreting approach doesn't even work very well.

Articles like this are fun, but they end up completely missing the point. This isn't "the power of Lisp"; it's just the very, very, very beginning. The rabbit hole goes much deeper.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html
The problem is that Google was only good in 1998 precisely because it was pre-Google. Now the web is SEO'd to hell and actively trying to prevent you from getting good search results.

A "new old Google" would only be good at searching the 1998 web, and if all you want is nostalgia, http://theoldnet.com is right there.
pbpaste | jq | pbcopy
It isn't about squeezing out extra range. A silent overflow mechanism with predictable behavior is useful and can't be cheaply replicated with signed numbers.

Timestamp arithmetic is a common case where unsigned integers with silent overflow is superior. You can avoid bounds checks and special cases by always computing a delta between a newer time and an earlier time. As long as you can guarantee that the sample period is less than the clock rollover period there will never be any ambiguity.

Ada tried imposing the purity of signed integers and had to add modular types to get these semantics because of their utility.
I often look at the trash can full of vegetable scraps and feel proud of the work I did.

In the end, I built something I wanted.
Learnt English as an Australian kid, then went to high school in Boston and then mostly stuck around since.

I notice that I pronounce words you learn as a kid in a more Aussie style and adult words in an American style.

More interestingly to me: when I’d go back to AUS my family would laugh at how my English had become completely Americanised. But over the past decade or so other people I meet in Australia who learned I’ve been living in the States have commented, “you haven’t lost your accent!” I think what they are really saying is, “I watch a lot of TV” as there is a ton of US shows being broadcast and available online.
Has anyone noticed that we can't click past page 10 on many search queries? Isn't Google being misleading when it claims it found 2 million results, but it won't show past result 100?
It was meant to have the opposite impact. As the warden/architect you have to manage the prisoners. You don't create them. You don't put them in prison. They arrive at your door every morning and you have to take care of them, meet their needs and keep them happy/alive. If anything, your goal is to shorten their stay and get them released asap. The game is meant to engender empathy.
A) A non-profit can sell products if it wanted to

B) This one is aiming to be a 501(c)(4), which is very different than a 501(c)(3), making its sells even less potentially controversial

C) Its not even selling the flags anyway, so A) and B) are not relevant, it states that they don't sell the flags but distributors do.

D) A for-profit can sell a product advertised by a non-profit

E) None of these distinctions matter even if it wasn't true, because of A) a non-profit can sell products if it wanted to. Profit has nothing to do with being a non-profit.
Bikeshedding is arguing about stuff that doesn't matter (ex: color). Pointing out that something is built dangerously is not bikeshedding.
I believe "haitch" is normal in the Republic of Ireland, a shibboleth for Catholicism in Northern Ireland, and common in various odd areas where there's a lot of Irish influence. I'm English but some of my grandparents were Irish Catholics, and I come from Merseyside, where a large proportion of the population has a similar family background, and I say "haitch". But for English-in-England, "aitch" is definitely the more common pronunciation.
I've also had the same problem. For a while i could get good recommendations/reviews by adding "reddit" to the query as i could find good information there, however i think that the sites have caught up on that and now i only get 1-2 results from reddit.com and then the rest are other sites that reference reddit so they are in the results.
When Nick Grossman's article was posted 9 months ago [1], there were people who argued in favor of Bitcoin as a battery, but now it seems Bitcoin is so hated that my original comment is headed into negative territory and I'm arguing alone, so I'd use this as a sell indicator if I had any Bitcoin.

I don't like the energy wastage of Bitcoin anymore than anyone else. This needs to be fixed and firing up old fossil fuel plants, for example in upstate New York, needs to be outlawed.

I just thought the Bitcoin as battery was interesting and I stand by it. I can imagine cases where abundant renewable energy sources are not being utilized because they are geographically remote and Bitcoin mining is a way to get some value out of it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26609247
[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/some-locals-say-...
Poorly named things are bread and butter of software engineering.
Yes. This is a stuff Twitter should solve:

> Follow @somerandomperson's

> - Political tweets

> - Funny tweets

> - Research tweets

> - Everything
Esperanto is similarly futile. But at least you have fun learning about linguistics, arguably have an easier time learning subsequent natural languages, and might get to interact with other people online or in meetups that you wouldn't be able to communicate with otherwise.

This is just... a flag. That you stare at for about 5-10 seconds, before realizing that flags only work as a uniting force when they exclude other groups.
Every member of Congress is provided with their own website, a subdomain of either house.gov or senate.gov, for the entirety of their term. If your representative neglects that website and chooses to communicate through a private outlet instead, that's something to complain to your representative about.
> Both signed and unsigned arithmetic are using finite fields,

This is not correct. They are rings with some additional (not mathematically standard) operations thrown in.

'Finite field' means something very specific, and quite different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_field

Computer integer arithmetic hardware can be used to implement finite field arithmetic, but even the 2^n case takes quite a bit of trickery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_field_arithmetic
> We need about 20 years to build nuclear stations, so we should orient at this new number, isn't?

Yes, I was being facetious, obviously 1 million / year is not a good goal. But considering that the total amount of radiation related deaths has not even reached 1 million total since the first bomb in 1945, it is unlikely any such number will be approached soon.

> When a next nuclear disaster happen, public will reverse it opinion again, so nuclear projects will be frozen and nuclear stations will be decommissioned

This has never happened for oil rig disasters that have released millions of gallons of toxic crude oil into the ocean causing untold damage to the global ecosystem. If we go all in on nuclear we're not turning around.

> Do you have a Plan B for this case?

Mars? The Plan B is just to not use as much electricity or convert a sizable portion of land to solar and wind farms. The public will not tolerate either option.

See my other comment comparing the size of nuclear plants to solar farms: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29765656

TL;DR the world's largest solar park can hold 459 Fukushima plants, which would generate over 13.5% of the world's energy supply as opposed to the 2.7GW the solar panels are currently generating which is 0.016% of the world's energy supply.

> If a next nuclear disaster will cover a much larger area (due to evil intent), say half of a continent

A terrorist attack on a nuclear power plant could not cause an explosion like Chernobyl because the emergency shutdown procedure would safely end the fission reaction as opposed to Chernobyl's mechanism which accidentally accelerated it. The worst that could happen is something like Fukushima where the core melts down due to a LOCA (loss of coolant accident). Three cores melted down that day and 12 years later there has only been a single recorded radiation death.

> how much cancer percentage will rise

20 years from now we will also have more advanced and successful methods of treating cancer - keep in mind that modern chemo vs. 1980's chemo is worlds apart and certainly contributed to the public fear as cancer was still mostly a death sentence. Now many types of cancer have been cured and the likelihood of survival has risen across the board. This is not an excuse to say that cancer is acceptable, just that it won't be a death sentence for the majority of people even if a nuclear accident did somehow cover an entire continent.

Also, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was kept active until 2000! Operators were bused in every day following the accident. You can even go on tours in the city of Pripyat now and the resulting dose is just slightly higher than background radiation. In other words, the situation was resolved within a few years, and that was using 1980's technology. Today with technology such as robots, quadcopter drones, and advanced construction techniques (ie. the New Safe Confinement) it is unlikely that another Chernobyl would last even a few weeks before the core was covered up. It doesn't matter where it happens either; the UN and the developed world would not let an accident like that go unnoticed and unsolved in our connected society.
I'd say that the commonly accepted definition for a blocking call is one that may depend on I/O to complete, releasing control of the CPU core while waiting.

By that definition, getpid() is definitely nonblocking, though it doesn't have an upper bound in execution time. POSIX does not offer hard realtime guarantees.

close() in general would probably be blocking (as a filesystem may need to do I/O), but I'd expect it to behave nonblocking in most cases, especially when operating on virtual files opened read-only. Unfortunately, I don't think those kinds of behavioral details are documented.
> it made me pine for the days when you could walk into a shop and a knowledgeable salesperson would ask you a few questions and pick the right stuff for you.

I still remember being in Best Buy and hearing the salespeople scamming less knowledgeable customers about how much computer they need or how important expensive cables are. I don't think there was ever a time when you could trust electronics store salespeople to sell you "the right stuff for you".
Perhaps switch to unsigned int until a sane solution is implemented. Should give them a couple thousand years to work with.
Succesfuly quitting smoking cigarettes two years ago gave me some additional insight into what "addiction" meant for me, what my relationship with cigarettes/nicotine was like for me. Which led to me for the first time fully recognizing my social media use as addictive, not just as a metaphor.
Link did not copy correctly and I didn't check before submission. Corrected link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-59854204
Most auto parts stores are terrible places these days with low quality parts at high prices, and staff that are just competent enough to check out your items.

It used to be (20-25 years ago) you could go in tell them what you were doing and they could tell you which brands to avoid, what other parts you might need, and any secrets that might help you get the job done faster or without having to remove quite as much stuff. These days, the people they hire are so incompetent if you asked them for Headlight Fluid they would take you over to the fluids aisle to look for it.
Ford ought to let customers place reservations and shop around which dealership they want to purchase though at delivery time.

If the dealership tells me "It's $30,000 markup or we're taking your built-to-order vehicle and selling it to someone else" then I should be able to take that reservation and move my order to a different dealer.

Or maybe they could require the dealer to sign a contract on the final out the door price in order to submit an order.
I linked the flag of the Government of Earth. It's the US flag but with the fifty stars replaced by a picture of earth. (It loads fine for me.)
I have a question: why is google still number one? everyone know that the search results are bad
It was by far the top cause of death for 18 to 45 year olds in 2020 and 2021.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fentanyl-overdose-death/
Black Monday at 30 (2017)
The killer feature is web dev is: people can see your stuff. Instantly.

That's so powerful that, over time, it ends up sucking a lot of devs in, who do great work which struggles with visibility.

Like I could probably look up a Haskell library right now which is a monumental feat of software engineering, that has like 1k users, total. Then I could look up some web dev app that's piss poor compared to that, which has like 1 million users.

That ends up exerting a gravitational pull over time, and that's why web dev dominates the software development discourse.
Originally in German, this is a best-effort translation by the author.
I remember the laser-tag place near Google (now long gone) would print out your scorecard with a date like 11/24/102
"There is something in our soul that loathes true attention much more violently than flesh loathes fatigue. That something is much closer to evil than flesh is. That is why, every time we truly give our attention, we destroy some evil in ourselves. If one pays attention with this intention, fifteen minutes of attention is worth a lot of good works." (Simone Weil, Waiting for God)
ddg gives me:

Amusement parks in Italy, top 5 fun parks you have to visit

20 of Italy's best amusement parks - TravelMag

THE 10 BEST Water & Amusement Parks in Italy - Tripadvisor

10 Best Theme Parks in Italy - Find the best Amusement ...

Family amusement in Italy: 15 excellent parks - Italy ...

Gardaland | The biggest amusement park in Italy

Amusement Park Emilia Romagna Italy | Mirabilandia

The 5 Best Theme Parks in Italy: Italy Logue

THE 10 BEST Water & Amusement Parks in Tuscany - Tripadvisor

Category:Amusement parks in Italy - Wikipedia

Not great, but seems reasonable. Google gives similar answers to be fair.
Found this one, if you ever need to convert a MongoDb objectID into a timestamp/date:
https://magictools.dev/#!/tools/mongodb-object-id-to-timesta...
We love it. Have a 2020 and the plugin hybrid approach is similar to the Chevy Volt where the first 35 miles you drive everyday is all electric. For us, even driving into the next town everyday, that covers us.

The vehicle is great. Bells and whistles are solid. Really the only downside to it is that the battery sits in the space where you would have been able to fold down the middle row of seats. Instead, if you need to get the middle seats out of the way, you have to remove them and they are a little heavier than I expected.

Still though, the practicality can't be beat. When you fold down the back and remove the middle seats it's almost like having a covered pickup truck with as much as you can fit in there.
Do you realize her official Congress account is not banned? Only her personal account that she used to spread misinformation.
I concur that there are places where this is true, but not at all to the level that it's true in Asian and African countries
Wouldn’t you need general AI for actually useful medical questions ?
While the findings are quite believable and corroborates some other similar studies where increased sugar intake for kids may lower executive function/cognition, this study relies on executive function assessments reported by the parents which doesn't feel like it would be very reliable to me.

Furthermore, while they account for diet in their covariate analysis, it's not very detailed or granuar so it doesn't account for other sources of sugar that these kids might be having (the authors acknowledge this). Based on this study it's hard to conclusively say whether it's the sugar that negatively impacts cognition or other ingredients, or vice versa whether kids with poor executive function prefer sweet drinks. Probably still a good idea to limit refined sugar intake for your own kids though.
I was thinking most of the Scottish accents, since I’m a Scottish expat. I’ve been in the US nearly 40 years and still get asked to say phrases with lots of Rs and WHs whenever I’ve had a few drinks and my accent comes back.

Funny aside - Mom was an ESOL teacher in the US and got some funny looks from colleagues because her students had “odd” pronunciation habits. WH was the big one - in the US it’s a much softer sound than
most British accents.
Check out APEC RO systems.
TheN you are probably reading the wrong books!
Reasonable explanation: Those with poor executive function consume more beverages that taste nice but are well known to negatively impact your health long term.
Use data from tools like Pocket to answer 'what are the best 10 articles on this blog/site I just found?'

Writers could also use it to direct new readers to their best content.
I thought “babby’s yed” was a Wigan thing
Try “best kitchen knife set” and compare it to “best kitchen knife set reddit”
The water management issue is a bigger deal in some locations.

In the original post, he's sloped the new roof back towards the house - huge issue where I live (Atlanta - we got a lot of heavy rain) since that's going to cause water entry in the basement or erosion on the foundation.

It can also be a fire hazard in many situations. Ex - in my area there's a mandated 10ft gap between the property line and any structure. It's there to prevent people from building right up to the property line, essentially creating townhomes, but with none of the fire/safety planning those require.

All that said - I agree with you, this code is likely there to discourage people trying to skirt around inspections (and because it's easy to spot).
No, it just kicks the can down the road another 22 years.
Apple hosts an index of RSS feeds. The hosting for the files is elsewhere and varies.
I totally agree with this. Managing perceptions and expectations is super important here.

Having been on the receiving end of a false positive, I'd still do the test again for a hypothetical future pregnancy. Even though it was hell for a couple of days.
Based on number of search engines appearing on HN recently I suspect disruption is around the corner.
This is far worse in a place like india. It’s pretty much impossible to find anything technical or product related that’s localized. The only non blogspam source often is <vomit/> quora.

For example. Most construction happening in india now uses something called M-Sand. I actually CANNOT find what the hell it is except from some company websites or random YouTubers blabbering non engineering garbage about it.
Worse than Google is putting it lightly... It's more or less useless.
Finally given to the pressure here and giving Rust a try. As far as new year resolutions go...