skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you know Google is deprioritizing Wikipedia?
Don't forget to add in the folks who technically recovered from COVID but are suffering lingering conditions like scarred lung tissue, kidney damage, atrial fibrillation, myocarditis, [...]. Those will add more sad stories over the coming years as those conditions will make recovering from other ailments harder.
In fairness, that's because domains are for some reason written backwards from the rest of the URL anyways. By rights, that URL should be https://new.sheets/ just as this discussion should be https://com.ycombinator.news/item?id=29769511
Thank you for the detailed explanation! I am not that much of a fan of SQL and much prefer writing things in a JSON like way. I wasn't aware of all of the above options and query languages that exist. I also wondered why document databases such as Firestore didn't support a join option. I'll explore some of these solutions.
Population growth is about 0.4% in the US, so that's probably not a big factor. In 2019, the CDC estimated that age-adjusted expected lifespan increased by 1.2% [0].

I think the population growth would indicate a lower death rate than implied by direct counting, since total pop is the denominator. However, I think the increased lifespan would work in the counter direction - Americans should live longer in 2020 than in '19 without C19.

So while the CDC made methodological mistakes, I don't think it would affect the conclusion.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2020/...
Google remains pretty good if you’re searching for pretty obscure topics.

Which support’s Seibel’s point.

You do have to go to extra lengths to keep the search on topic though. Google tries to DWIM the search (“seems unlikely the user is really looking for insect embryology”). Is this well meaning or steering the search to revenue-generating topics?
Yes, a flag with 7 rings is clearly Colonialist!

And it's not inclusive of those who do not identify as being from Earth, it denies their identity, and therefore is a form of violence against them.

"wouldn't it be better to just use a picture of Earth?"

And what about those members of our Universal Community who are vision-impaired ?!?

Aliens will think of us as colonialist, cis-planetary, ableist bigots, we don't want that.
The problem with that is it redirects you to the Reddit search page, which isn't great. It's much better for me to use "site:reddit.com [query]" on DDG than to use the !r.
Give DuckDuckGo a try
I am not a parent, but the criticism of the article appears to be around a misunderstanding of statistics, or at least how to apply them. While I agree that criticism is completely correct, it overlooks the human nature of the people receiving the tests. At an already-stressful point in someone's life, it seems almost like bad bedside manner for the medical community, even if in an automated fashion, to tell people that there might be a complication looming.

This _does_, however, seem like a framing issue, more than a utility issue. If the tests are 100% accurate at detecting true positives, they're a great aid. But rather than framing the tests as a be-all, end-all source for information, why not frame them as "a test that suggests whether or not you should get other tests"? That simple wording change would save a great deal of added stress on someone starting or growing a family.
Are you for real? The suffering of Assange, Manning, Peltier, and many others demonstrates that this is not true. Heck, you can even throw right-wing loons associated with Jan 6 in there. Washington simply does not tolerate challenges to its authority.

Evidence-free invocation of "demonstrably true" is an oxymoron.
Auto parts shortages push repair shops to get creative, put stress on customers
Somehow humans are very good at telling apart SEO crap from legitimate content even without understanding the content or the language itself - SEO crap has some common elements such as ads, affiliate links, a certain page layout, etc.

I remember using an open-source ML model (trained on Buzzfeed article titles) to detect YouTube clickbait based on titles and it worked brilliantly, and that was just downloading some code on GitHub and running it as-is. I'm sure the same could be applied to search results and you could achieve much better quality if you actually put some effort into it.

I very much doubt this is some kind of hard problem as opposed to Google just giving up because their business model doesn't actually incentivize good search results.
It does, but there are settings to turn some email notifications off (such as for comments). You can also use the RSS feed instead.
Well put. In addition, biology can't really be patched. CRIPSR nonwithstanding. We are stuck with the bugs that developed many thousands of years ago. Our bugs will continue to be exploited.
When you sell 1,200 TLDs it ends up being good money.

ICANN manage to make $200 million a year for just managing a database of 300 million value key pairs and 1200 tlds.
I wish there was a hackable search engine where you could e.g. write a python script that moves all websites down that have ads or appear in some list.
I agree with the author re: results being useless, but strongly disagree on the motivation.

Google doesn’t show crappy results to optimize adwords, blackhat SEO hackers force their crap onto the fromt page.

The whole thread after the first tweet seems to assume Google is behind this, when in reality their failure comes from not successfully blocking the spammers
I would love to have a tiny house when I was 23 or so, with a price tag affordable for my then-income.

Living there my whole life would be miserable, though.
Serious question:

Why don't you go straight to reddit, and search there?
> Lynx is one of the worst text-only browsers, IMHO.

What are you using then? I didn't like the "bloatedness" of the modern web. So I often use browser "reader mode". But I would happily try something different.
Yes, I've ran into that issue. If I'm trying to solve a problem and reddit's the only source of a solution, that's when I enable the VPN.
There's lots of ways to turn electricity into money. Bitcoin is one of the easiest but you're not going to stop climate change or make a reasonably impact on the growing energy demands of civilization by banning it.

Better to focus on replacing all energy production with green sources and taxing polluters rather than trying to ban specific energy uses you don't like.
Even appending “reddit” is often inadequate, as the algorithm seems to artificially limit one search result item (potentially with some children under it, but unrelated threads, 2-3 more items) per host. So it becomes necessary to use “site:www.reddit.com” to get more than a few non-sucky results.
Tragedy of the commons is often due to ineffective or free pricing of government regulated items. Parks look free and become an appealing place to make homeless encampments. The free market with enforceable property rights fixes this government problem.

If you don't like that people run computers to play games or wash laundry or watch videos or hash strings, re-pricing electricity fixes that. Germans are experiencing this experiment with increasing electricity prices right now.
Wow, what a bug.

The malware scanning service of MS Exchange crashes, because it treats a yyMMddHHmm timestamp as a signed integer when verifying a signature file.

Turns out that 2201010001 is negative when treated as a 32 bit integer (the greatest positive one is 2147483647, and 2021 had fewer than 47 months).

I can only assume that somebody wrote that "timestamp string as integer" code, checked that it worked correctly (at the time) and then just assumed they must be good on data type range.
Just curious, how did you nail it down to that specific issue and patch? That seems like a great skill to have.
That was the first thing I noticed as well. I don’t blame him mind you since I would have assumed they are better and easier as well but recently my brother who is a carpenter told me you have to use nails they are needed. This just reminds me that being handy is good but knowing code is critical for some thing. In this case he will probably get away with just screws.
It is all about incentives isn’t it? Google gave all the power to these SEO websites by making it difficult to get your content listed as a search result on the first page.

Google could start incentivizing high quality unique content and websites from domain experts, but they have decided they can’t make as much money off of independent publishers as they can from marketing/content farms.
Recently encountered this neologism for pledging allegiance to Mother Earth: "matriotism".
I've been using a Firefox search keyword for Google+Wikipedia and it works great.
>British city names are hard.

Which are also commonly used throughout New England in particular. Google Maps still butchers a lot of the pronunciation although it's better than it used to be. (I live about 15 minutes north of a Worcester and even closer to a Leominster which also isn't pronounced like you or apparently Google would expect.)
I guess that depends on the exact scenario. There are likely people with a variety of conditions who enjoy their lives vs having not been born. It brings up a seemly logical contradiction that we terminate fetuses (potentially viable in some cases) on the assumption that they don't want that life yet we don't allow people who want to kill themselves to do so.
Isn’t the flag of the UN the current flag of the Earth?

Almost every country has at least observer status (except for Taiwan, Kosovo, Western Sahara, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and North Cyprus).

Much like any other organization, the UN does not represent the values of many people around the world. In the same way, I don’t feel like my government completely represents my values. At the same time, I’m able to appreciate my country’s flag because, to me, it doesn’t just stand for my country’s government, but also my country’s culture and my fellow countrypeople. I think the same thing goes for the UN - to me, it represents everyone on Earth.

Save for Taiwan and Kosovo, these are all territories which are still disputed, not just rhetorically, but practically. For example, while the PRC claims Taiwan as a territory, they’re not currently trying to exert any control over it. In contrast, Turkish troops in North Cyprus are in a standoff with Greece.
Another interesting thing to look at, from the drawing perspective, is Larry Gonick's "Cartoon Guide to Computer Science": https://archive.org/details/TheCartoonGuideToComputerScience...
Aw neat; I didn't know about that feature of DuckDuckGo. I used to have similar keywords configured in my browser ("gg", "wiki", etc), but as the years go on I've become less and less willing to invest that time every time I switch to a new computer. Now I have a reason to set DDG as my default search engine again.
This is an interesting idea! Would you be interested in doing with with: Wikipedia, reddit, stack overflow?
Not only that, there are still ads on the search page.
yeah, had this experience myself while purchasing holiday gifts. amusingly, 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.

it's funny because internet shopping became popular in the face of salespeople becoming corrupt under commission and performance schemes, now a big part of the commerce related internet is worse for pretty much the same reasons.
Solar isn't something that can ever be replenished. There's a fixed quantity of fuel in the sun. Once it burns out, it's gone. That provides the input energy into the process for solar, wind and wood.

With breeder reactors the uranium in seawater would last us 15 million years at current nuclear power consumption levels. If that's not renewable...

There's no such thing as infinitely renewable.
Developped countries share the same technologies, but this obesity and diabetes problem you're talking about seems largely rooted in North America.

You're a little quick to correlate screens and health metrics. I don't think that explanation holds up at all if you consider data in other countries.
Thanks for the clarification dang! Appreciate it and all you do!
Google is best for searching Russian sites automatically (and very poorly) translated to my language that hijack history.back(). I'm getting those a lot lately.
I'm often critical of Google's recent product quality but how much of the blame is really on Google?

There are no longer "organic" content on the internet, everything is produced by professionals that are guided by analytics and optimisation.

The social media is searchable by it's vendor but the content there is also optimised for metrics that often don't align well with qualities like accuracy.

Only at places like HN or Reddit there's some organic content in form of commentary. HN is kind of special IMHO as its probably optimised for reach to a specific audience and pays for itself that way, therefore it can be optimised for quality through content moderation.

The web is well optimised for monetisation. Unless someone finds a way to optimize it for some other qualities, I don't think that Google or any competition can do anything about it.
Reddit is also my biggest weakness, though in my opinion it's a special case of social media where it can be (occasionally) a very useful source for information. Coincidentally there's another thread on the front page right now about how Google search results have become increasingly worse quality over the last few years [0], I often find myself adding "site:reddit.com" to search queries to weed out all the crappy clickbait and algo-generated sites that seem to permeate the first few pages of search results these days.

It's definitely not without it's problems (e.g. I'm certain there are company-managed accounts stealth promoting products in smaller subreddits, so take any product recommendations with a grain of salt) but I do seem to trust content on reddit more than what I get through googling general queries.

And I don't think I can say all this stuff without reflecting on how it's a really sad state of affairs and shaking my fist angrily at adtech which is probably how we arrived in this situation.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29772136

Edit: Just saw there's another reply to this posted while I wrote the above which highlights the same problem. It's certainly a space which is begging for some disruption.
According to this prediction market(https://www.metaculus.com/questions/5205/bitcoins-market-dom...) Bitcoin will lose its dominant position on Feb 13, 2025.
Thank you for pointing that out, but then the name NoSQL would be a misnomer. There must be multiple ways of storing relational data without including SQL. Someone above mentioned graph databases as a good example.
What determines equality?
I got my https://github.com/notifications dialed in this year and it's be really useful. For watching activity on internal repos I work on, plus a good number of public repos that I keep an eye on to various degrees, I find that it's a very well-designed tool for triage.
That would simply not be legal. As a sibling comment mentioned, it may not have been structured financially as a deposit.
Duck Duck Go is great at naive searches, though having context into why I'm searching for something can be helpful too.

I couldn't make the switch over for my work while programming.
And as long as Google is in the business of both search and advertising, that will not change.

They actually are not in the business of search, though -- at least not anymore. Search is just the hook to show the ads.

As long as the incentives are the way they are, things will not change and will get worse from a search quality perspective.
i remember a time when teacher would say form a line, and there would be a chaos of who was getting there first.

This was met with a second instruction, the first five people in line, move to the back of the line, and last five in line move to the front.

it became a trial and error, with the usual kids jostling for position now wanting to be, at the back of the line, then in the middle of the line, hunting for the condition that creates pole position.

the idea that it was the personalities and the value sets, not the position on the line, that triggered the condition, seemingly was too abstract to be deduced. keep in mind this was grade 2.

so may the browser filter the first to the nth SEO spammers in the query results be sent somewhere away from the front of the line until a match for query terms occurs.
The audio on https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Worcester and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Worcestershire is correct (it says it's American, but it's the same in British).

Leicester (in Leicestershire) is a larger English city with the "-cester" suffix, meaning a Roman fort. The name is used in the US as a personal or family name: Lester.

Where the pronunciation is "ch", it's also spelt that way, as in Manchester.
A Derry mate of mine confused me no end with an anecdote on Kois (Koi carp I assumed), "No KOIS, where the moilk comes from (bloody English)"
>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.

Uhhh, you can still do that, you know.
I’m so sorry. My father-in-law has had his “elective” surgery to deal with a hernia cancelled twice due to hospital overcapacity, and all we can do is pray that Germany’s current restrictions will have kept the numbers low enough for his current appointment this week and likely follow up procedure to deal with tachycardia to happen.

They’re not even talking about rescheduling the hernia surgery anytime soon - he’s making do with a compression band.

This is why it is other people’s business whether someone is vaccinated.
You say scummy scalpers like it isn't every random person also doing it. Every time I've heard of someone coming across an extra one the last year they've had zero qualms about selling it for a profit. The only difference is that some people decide to do it more often.

As a sibling comment bored, there are ways to deal with this, but honestly other than selling them at market price or somehow making more, most options are limited, because that's just how the market works.
I count walking. The question didn’t specify VO2max or heartrate, etc. Deep, full-torso no-pause breathing is exercise, too, and might be a good fit for anyone bored by exercise that isn’t for travel (I feel same as you; if I’m not going somewhere I tend not to exercise unless to stretch like other mammals do), in part because it gives the body more oxygen, which I find helps me decide what to do next.
so we did not have “breakthrough” (vaccinated folks catching COVID-19) cases on the Delta-variant of COVID-19 vaccine, right?
Honestly, I think a good search engine would hardcode the first two results to be the official website for "thing" and the wikipedia page for "thing" if they exist. Then it can list out the organic results. Just that change would make search 10X better than it currently is.
>but among the stated reasons to stick to 32-bits not so long ago, and even one of the main, there was: performance.

Yeah, this was from a series of articles that were a great example of managing to be right about all kinds of things but still be wrong in the end.

Specifically, the articles laid the blame for things like memory usage (which when high enough, causes a foreground GC in the devenv.exe process that freezes your UI), on language services that get all too happy to allocate tons of memory. If you make this 64-bit, pointers double in size and you could observe even more memory usage. 64-bit is also objectively slower than 32-bit in terms of CPU time to execute stuff. The solution it suggested was for memory-intensive components to move out of process, which is actually what many of them did in VS 2017 and VS 2019.

But the problem with this article is that it was entirely speculation. It did not account for several things:

* A 64-bit devenv.exe process gives the GC more "room to work with" and do more background GCs rather than foreground GCs, which will pause the UI far less

* Marshaling data between processes still requires use of the UI thread in VS in various scenarios, due to a wildly complicated threading model that people mess up all the time

* You really don't know what the impact of something is going to be until you actually do it

* If you commit to something ambitious like going 64-bit only, engineers can meet the challenge and produce something very good

My personal belief is that 64-bit could have been reasonably accomplished many years ago, and it would have been the right call to do it then. But I won't be looking a gift horse in the mouth. The codebase I contribute to is so much more pleasant to work in with VS 2022.
A thread like this happens every month now and the main point of discussion always comes to how companies like Pinterest, Quora, Stackoverflow clones, etc are openly gaming the search engine and making results shit (1)

I think first time I read this was like 5 years ago yet Google is doing absolutely nothing about it and these sites still dominate the results by gaming whatever metrics Google is using to rank them.

(1) https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
This is one amazing article. Bravo!
Yes in theory you can but it's a pain, a certificate needs to be installed in the browser, the user gets a popup every time saying that you want to use a certificate, when the user changes computer either needs to backup the certificate or install it again, etc. My bank did that in the past and they no longer support that, instead they opted for a classical multiple factor authentication: password + authorize the access with your phone.
I was wondering for a while if SEO has gotten so good, or its Google that's gone to this - and I have a feeling that it's the latter.

Search for COVID rules for entry to moldova - for me and my friends the official website was like page 10 of search. Search for various government services, and most of the time top result is some scam.

This is inexcusable - is is to hard to prioritise official government websites? They could hire two dudes per country to index them all by hand and they'd be done in a couple weeks.
It is a moral axiom:

> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...
Another problem with google search is that it's no longer something that you can become good at. Yes, the queries may have improved on some KPIs (although the link here would suggest otherwise), but you more or less get what you're given. It's very difficult to tweak your query to get better, or more specific, results.
Plenty of people, including myself, want nothing to do with some other tribes, it's our prerogative, not yours.

The 'everything flag' will mostly mean the 'USA + kind of China and sometimes UK/EU/Japan' flag.
Ask HN: Best way to track personal energy levels, and Heart Rate Variability?
Hi all,

I have read that heart rate variability (HRV) is a good indicator of well-being, health, and energy levels.

With the arrival of the New Year, I want to get my energy, health, and well-being in check. A couple of questions for others, if anyone has any experience of monitoring and tracking this data?

1) Is HRV a good proxy for general well-being, or are there other metrics that should be considered / integrated?

2) How have you tracked and monitored HRV, and any other metrics that you think are important to energy / well-being?
Prediction markets estimate at around 15% the chance that Bitcoin will adopt PoS. If you think this will never happen you can make money at https://www.metaculus.com/questions/7109/bitcoin-consensus-m....