skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with the notion that good quality content just doesn't exist anymore. Quality content will always exist and more quality content exists now on the internet than ever before now that it's become more accessible to more people than ever, but Google, Facebook, and Amazon have made this content more difficult to discover because their algorithms reward gamification with profit, incentivizing the production of high-volume and low-quality but highly-optimized content.

People passionate about sharing and learning will always be driven to produce quality content, even if they don't have an audience. The issue is that Google will never discover these people because they're only interested in discovering the best marketers on the internet.
Most young people don't earn even close to enough to save 20% of the cost of a house. Without those people (first time buyers) entering the market the entire market grinds to a halt as there's no one to buy on one end of a chain. The bank's mortgage businesses would collapse. They had to start offering alternatives to down payments.
don't count on (eq '(a b) '(a b)) being NIL. In Common Lisp it can be T. From what I read of Racket, it could be true, too.
Some people own their home, others rent it. Different situations suit different people.
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.

As an example, I used them for moving services for a state-to-state move. Turns out the top three or four moving services are merely dispatchers run by a single company, run by a convicted felon out of Florida under a rotating number of businesses and cutouts.

When I contacted Consumer Reports to let them know about the many tens of thousands of complaints about the companies they were ranking highest, they referred me to their attorney.
I grew up with the amazing stories about Google engineers, and I wish Google will not repeat the history of companies declining gradually then collapsing suddenly, as it is such a revolutionary company not just for its product but also for its amazing contribution to the technology. The sad thing is that I'm seeing more and more cracks in this great company.
I use Zotero to manage the research with:

- the FireFox connector for ingest,

- export to bibtex, and

- the "Zoo for Zotero" app from the Play Store to pull the content down to a Samsung tablet for portable reading.
DDG has literally zero search technology.
Or even on a more basic level - it's like you see someone who's left the water running in their bathtub, and the water is flowing over the sides, through the floorboards and down the stairs, and they come back with:

"You don't think we were using lots of water in this house before I decided to take a bath today?"
Counterexample: Korean auto manufacturers Hyundai and Kia offer longer warranties than Japanese manufacturers Honda and Toyota because that’s the only way people will buy Korean cars.
Actually we are designed to eat cooked food:

> Human beings evolved to eat cooked food. It is literally possible to starve to death even while filling one’s stomach with raw food. In the wild, people typically survive only a few months without cooking, even if they can obtain meat. Wrangham cites evidence that urban raw-foodists, despite year-round access to bananas, nuts and other high-quality agricultural products, as well as juicers, blenders and dehydrators, are often underweight.

> Cooked food, by contrast, is mostly digested by the time it enters the colon; for the same amount of calories ingested, the body gets roughly 30 percent more energy from cooked oat, wheat or potato starch as compared to raw, and as much as 78 percent from the protein in an egg.

> In essence, cooking—including not only heat but also mechanical processes such as chopping and grinding—outsources some of the body’s work of digestion so that more energy is extracted from food and less expended in processing it. Cooking breaks down collagen, the connective tissue in meat, and softens the cell walls of plants to release their stores of starch and fat. The calories to fuel the bigger brains of successive species of hominids came at the expense of the energy-intensive tissue in the gut, which was shrinking at the same time—you can actually see how the barrel-shaped trunk of the apes morphed into the comparatively narrow-waisted Homo sapiens. Cooking freed up time, as well; the great apes spend four to seven hours a day just chewing, not an activity that prioritizes the intellect.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-fire-makes...
Zotero saved my life writing research papers. You can get all kinds of plugins to Sublime or Google Docs for adding citations.
> Understand your house is a leveraged investment and you'll do well.

ugh there's truth to this but it just feels so fucking dystopic. within the current systems we're playing games of musical chairs and the people who do not 'win' have further and further to fall when they inevitably 'lose' due to rising inequality/increasing exploitation (gig economy/zero-hour-ing, union-busting etc.)

i use quotes because nobody really wins when one of us loses. we have enough to satisfy the needs of every human.
> I expect rates vol to rise in the future, so I’d better be long gamma right now.

What have I done wrong in my life so I can no longer understand news articles?
Storing dates in YYMMDDHHMM format but then saving that as an int seems like such an ... odd choice. Curious to how/why that decision was made, or if it was perhaps unintentional but nobody noticed before (e.g. comparison was done on those date values but nobody realized that they were for some reason coerced to ints, and nobody noticed because it still worked as expected).
"Also, I don't get how such a small house in the middle of nowhere can be that expensive."

My belief is that utilities are expensive. Water, power, sewage. What costs $$$ to remodel? Bathrooms and kitchens. Then framing and drywall are cheap. And square footage goes up with the square of the wall length. So the marginal cost of more square feet is low.

My feeling is if you're going to do tiny living spaces you want multifamily. And the last thing you want is McMansions in ultra low density suburbs.
Honestly, I don’t know, but the MSDS sheets all call for users of wipes that use quats to wear gloves or wash hands immediately.

Also, they are not to be used on food surfaces.

When I was stuck researching this topic, I spoke to a few academics… their recommendations were always cautious around quat products, and usually peroxide was the “wipe of choice” if it was ok for the use case. (Ie you cannot use peroxide on computers, keyboards, etc.)
I get that headlines like this generate clicks, but, come on, what complete nonsense
> 600,000 more elderly Americans, or 1 of 100, have died during the Covid epidemic than would have died had the epidemic not occurred.

The article does not say this. The substantial majority of Covid deaths occur among people close to or beyond the typical life expectancy [1]. It's hard to measure how many people would have died during this time frame due to complications other than Covid, and the NYT article you linked to did not claim that these are additional deaths beyond what "would have died had the epidemic not occurred."

1. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
I wish CR did -more- reviews in each category. I know it's next to impossible to thoroughly review every single product in the world, but I would pay 10x the subscription fee if I could reliably go there and find all the current models available in the different categories.
I use zotero for managing research and bibliographies. But it’s so weird that their web version (the only one I’ll ever use) doesn’t make it easy to share bibliographies with other people.

It’s such a weird feature that’s missing and it really important when collaborating on a paper.

It’s free and better than the alternatives I’ve tried (endnote, mendeley, Google docs)
>is the ability to do something more productive with my time

Seems to miss my point, I may have not stated clearly. Yes I understand the sales pitch of self driving cars stated above...the "marketing" / "hype" of AI/self driving cars/ Tesla FSD evokes the idea of completely offloading the responsibility to the car and doing whatever you want with your time during commutes, as if it was public transit.

But my point was anything less than this is a complete waste of time and useless as a product because until you are completely hands and attention off, you have to be completely hands and attention on/ready...no matter how good or near actual FSD it gets.

Because 99.9, or 99.9999, or 99.999999% effective is effectively 0 percent effective given the catastrophic outcome of any error if you aren't devoting full attention to monitoring the car.

But aside from all of this theorizing, the actual product is NOWHERE near high 9's reliable. As it gets better, attention will drop but errors will still be pervasive. And with this as backdrop, the fact the marketing has ever even hinted at being general-AI type FSD (the name itself for example) is a scandal. The videos of people riding in the backseat, or any other instance of not monitoring the car fully because they think it can drive itself. I predict there's going to a be an endless stream of accidents from these cars then FSD will be shut down until fully proven, which won't be technically possible for a long long time if ever in our lifetimes.
"the incentives for any individual reporter are just too great - having the government make a major policy change based on your article is basically the brass ring for an investigative reporter"

Yep, this is the framing I came here looking for.

Investigative journalists live in the same asymmetrically-incentivized world as social science researchers. If the reporter had looked into the phenomenon and concluded "yeah, boring technical logic pretty much works as expected here" then there's no story.
This is an example of a problem that is so hard to explain. The vast majority of folks getting these tests will get a true negative. Such that for most people, this is not an issue. So I get that it takes effort to make people care.

That said, I do feel that pulling in abortions to the debate is specifically to trigger a set of readers. But to what aim? They have not established that the tests could be better. Just that when they say yes, they are still not perfect.
Delete social media. Simple as that.
Not sure if that's a real question, how you would have copied files 5+ years ago between phones? Support for USB host mode was introduced with Android 4, released in 2011, but would have required the use of an OTG cable so that would likely not have been an option.

Popular Android file managers at the time had file transfer capabilities so that was probably the quickest. The advantage is that they used normal file transfer protocols which were available everywhere so the other party didn't require any special support.

However a decade ago all phones had SD cards, because their internal memory storage was so small so you needed them should you wish to use the camera beyond any trivial amount. So just copying that way would probably have been what most people did.
Generating the citation text in whatever format people like is a time saver.
Sugar: The Bitter Truth by Robert Lustig, MD

https://youtu.be/dBnniua6-oM
Glad you're interested in the source code!

As explained in my other comment, this website is a wrapper around google programmable search. The actual searching happens on Google servers, and I can see why people have problems with that. The code you see on the website is the same as the repo, though. It's actually hosted by GitHub! You can verify this by opening the web inspector in any browser or looking at the `.github.io` portion of the URL.

You can learn more about Programmable Search here: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/overview. NoTrashSearch uses the 'Programmable Search Element Control API', which is documented here: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/element and can be used with very little code!
Very surprised that Buttondown didn't respond to a couple of support emails. I used Buttondown for a while (now on Ghost) and always received excellent, fast support.
Google, why are you slacking off search and also the Google Assistant? It feels like a rerun of the 2003-2010 period in Microsoft.

Web search is getting worse, people complain, problems persist. I thought your mission was to organise the information and make it useful.

And the Assistant is just as dumb as years ago, while NLP has been progressing leaps and bounds in the last 2-3 years. Where's the progress? Are you aware speech is going to dominate direct web search?
Really? Billions of lines of code is reviewed every year at Microsoft. Not hard for me to imagine that this was coerced to an int somewhere (perhaps even unintentionally) that was non-obvious during a code review.
People passionate about sharing and learning will always be driven to produce quality content, even if they don't have an audience.

Those people moved to content websites like YouTube and Udemy where they can cash in on what they do. They don't make websites any more, so Google doesn't find links to them.
spoken like a true 'property investor'? if you are trying to tell me that you don't recommend your closest friends and family to buy their own houses, you've really not convinced me.
To many people, Italy would first evoke pizza and (the huge amount of Nonna's) pasta :-)

"Gourmet", "Chef", "Cuisine" and dozens of other terms: even in the English culinary vocabulary, the French words have a predominant role. It ruled the world of 'proper' cooking at some point. But I was more thinking about how, from the USA, the French are presented as having a balanced diet, eating a bit of everything but not eating too much of anything, cooking by themselves and not resorting to mostly ready, industrial, over-processed meals, how they would be a sort model in those matters related to food.

What was very fashionable at some point in the discourse on healthy food (10-15 years ago, maybe), was the Greek/Cretan diet; which was often extended to the whole Mediterranean, including Italy indeed, and south of France. Traditionally the butter & cream you mentioned are associated with northern France: the South was supposed to be a land of oil (olive oil in the most Mediterranean part, other oils in other parts) and the North a land of butter.
lol, so accurate :P
But that is the point - it is Google's problem, not ours. They don't have the best info anymore, so use someone else. There are other search engines. If Google wants us back, it is their problem to improve.
You can edit your settings to make your web library publicly shareable :)
> A political culture that justifies violence as a tool against sovereign authority I think effectively makes a country ungovernable

I mean that’s almost tautological, right? There’s only the barest of lines between “sovereign authority” and “governing”.

The key is that you replace the authority with one that doesn’t justify violence. (Which I’m not saying is trivial, but lots of groups have done it reasonably well.)
actually feels a little like the AI is mocking the human race
Next.js/MDX: automatically add ids and links to subheadings (h1/h2) in articles
Show HN: Echopraxia, a better Java Logging API
I've been working on logging for a while and I've released and open sourced a new Java logging API I'm really happy with.

Echopraxia [1] is a Java logging API like SLF4J, but built around structured logging, i.e. the basic log entry is a JSON object and log files are typically NDJSON. It also has conditions, context, and also has semantic and fluent logging options.

Here's a Spring Boot Example [2].

And here's my blog post [3].

[1] https://github.com/tersesystems/echopraxia

[2] https://github.com/tersesystems/echopraxia-spring-boot-example

[3] https://tersesystems.com/blog/2022/01/02/echopraxia-a-better-java-logging-api/
This isn't a news article. It's a newsletter that targets people who care about finance and everything else, but definitely finance. Rates vol means volatility in rates of interest. Long gamma means has investements for which the thesis (bet) is that gamma will rise, whatever gamma is.
This bug was extensively discussed yesterday:

Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug on 1/1/22 (677 points / 355 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29756714
That is generally not possible in a strongly-typed language unless you just use a bignum type to begin with.

Most numbers are small, and you aren't worried about overflow.

With big numbers, std::int64_t is hard to overflow. If you have numbers from an untrusted source, you can and should range-check them immediately on input.
American English is British English before they changed their accent to be all uppity. A southern accent is closer to traditional English before they split apart.
In the case of http://github-wiki-see.page/, the original isn't even on Google! That's why my copycat wins.

FWIW, GitHub seems to be letting some Wikis be indexed on a test basis and I am very happy to see they are outranking GHWSEE. That said, with the current guessed criteria, there are still many publicly editable wikis with many stars and publically un-editable wikis on repos with few stars but useful information out there that aren't being indexed.
> The burst of adrenaline some of the recent online FPS' give me doesn't compare to any other feeling or experience I've had as a human being.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu matches up. Various forms of racing will also hit the same pathways in the brain.

Hard to achieve for sure.

One thing that happened to be though, is that once I got really skilled at physical things, going back and playing games was a lot more boring. It is like the artificial reward loop didn't work anymore once I'd tasted the real thing.

(Either that or I got old enough that my reaction times dropped sufficiently so I wasn't one of the top bad asses playing FPSs so I wasn't having as much fun! ;) )
> Google seem to be guessing at people's intended search query rather than performing the query based on the actual terms.

I've read that google uses "Machine Learning" for their search results which I interpret to be exactly as you say they provide a stereotyped result based on what they think you are searching for (possibly optimized either for what is inevitably clicked on or for ad revenue), instead of actually matching terms.

What this means is that search results may be more accurate in some statistical way, like more people click on the top result, but it also pumps up the number of edge cases where it guesses wrong, while simultaneously making it impossible to tell where the results went wrong because you can't understand how they were generated (compared to eg keywors search where good or bad, the reason you got a result is obvious)
If the logo and sound effects of this game sparked some nostalgia for you but this wasn't the game you expected, you might have actually played the sequel instead like me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sting!
I’ve been using Zotero since it was in beta in 2007, and have a library with tens of thousands of items. As dstillman says that’s hardly unusual. It works perfectly (it’s just a SQLite db with a mature, well-designed schema after all), and syncs perfectly across five devices.
Sorry but what do you expect apart from blogs and review sites? Like what’s the magical result here?

I feel like the fallacy here is assuming that the problem is that Google isn’t finding the good websites. There’s also a simple explanation that the content simply doesn’t exist.
No agreement from me. It’s got nothing to do with globalism and populism is bad. We’ve just had an unprecedented period of peaceful transition of power in the US (~150 years) and people are a bit forgetful.
Isn't graphical model a most intuitive and generalized visualization of Bayesian theory? Not only is it visual and intuitive, one can use it to solve practical problems as well. For instance, the famous Monty Hall problem is a simple tree for any one to grasp and calculate the final probability of each outcome.
I'm sure they do plenty of good for the wallets of the people selling these things.
Yeah dude some of the linked satellite photos are pretty clear even for a layperson and as OP says there are direct on the ground photos as well. The investigative group Bellingcat also has a pretty good history of journalism, I'd suggest you check out their background and works.

For additional info, there are multiple books written on the topic as well, ex:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5968247-dragon-fighter

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8137115-the-uyghurs

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57894290-menace

You can find many more if you do a Google search
At minimum, you should swing by (virtually these days, but in past years, you could go in person) your local building enforcement office. I suspect that as soon as you add electrical or plumbing, you need permits and inspections, as it’s no longer a shed.
The problem remains that Google no longer delivers the most compelling and relevant of what is still on the web.
Googled "Best smartphone 2021" which resulted in crappy result. Maybe I am missing what significant categories actually means?
I'm not sure "randomness" is the general property, but rather unexpectedness. The content-provider may well be following a "formula" like with fiction plots, that give the protagonist setbacks and victories. Facebook uses approaches which try to profit within the constraints of a relatively small group of programmers trying to make money off billions of users. It doesn't mean these approaches are the best overall at serving the most desirable content to any given niche of users. Or even the best at making money qwithin those constraints. If are to believe in "network effects" (the other popular basis for calling for a breakup of Facebook) Facebook is simply succeeding because it is there first. Rather independent of this claim that they are winning by being the most competant.
That's a misrepresentation of what they did. They said it was OK if it replaced certain stuff temporarily, not that you could just keep on building gas plants for ever and ever.

The recent attention that "the environment" has been getting is a direct result of this, and you mustn't confuse it for a general interest in green politics.

Frankly, I really do not care about "the environment". I care about people, and they obviously have a need for the environment. But the reason we have to take climate action is that it would be unpleasant for people's lives if we did not, not because it would hurt the trees.

If you suggest to reduce people into poverty so that they do not suffer extreme weather, is this really an improvement? Or are some people to be reduced into poverty, so that some other people do not suffer extreme weather?

If the trade-off is that I do not have a job, a place to live, heating, electricity, etc, but the weather is normal, I think I would prefer to have wildfires and flooding but otherwise a normal life. Most people would sooner live in California or Florida or Australia than Belarus or Moldova, no?

(That's not to say all action on climate policy looks like this. But when you have people talking about "degrowth" or blowing up oil pipelines, that very much seems to be the ethos. Lebanon had to make an unplanned transition away from oil on short notice. Should we strive to be like them?)
First test search "python random" - returned just what I would expect instead of multitude of low-quality blogs like Google Search does. +1 from me!
i wouldn't be surprised if causation were reversed and children who have slower executive function development drink more ssb's

is caffeine controlled for?
Summary of Atomic Habits