skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh, I wonder, can I download reddit? Like, all the text posts, ignoring images. I wonder how big of a db that is and how hard would it be to crawl it myself. It can't be more than a few gb of data. I mean, at this point there is a lot of information there that is just begging to be leveraged.
Hopefully you reached out to Costco, they'll either get it fixed or kick the dealer out of their network. They can't fix what they don't know about.
That's why your life expectancy is what it is.
I don't want to pretend that I understand this but I remember learning in a hunting safety class that legal hunting does not actually reduce the animal population because the number of animals that will die is a fixed number and if we stay within our limits then no more will die off from hunting than would have died from other causes.
Leaving this here as it may help some people in this position, but don't know what to do
Ask HN: Any yearly letters worth reading?
I read Dan Wang's 2021 letter and I liked it[0] and I was wondering if there are any other interesting yearly letters like this that are worth reading? Any suggestions or your go-tos?

[0] https://danwang.co/2021-letter/
That makes no sense at all. Nobody would buy in that scenario and for the landlord the return is negative, so they wouldn't buy either.
Many of us had grandparents who told our parents not to give us sugar because it would make us rambunctious.

The counterargument was that sugar intake often accompanies life events that are themselves overstimulating to kids, so it's more of a correlation than causal link. I was expecting this study proved the original assumption but your read suggests that it's more of the same.

That said, I have discovered that there's a particular food coloring that does tend to make me irritable, and children's candy is usually loaded with it. Whenever I can find the 'naturally colored M&Ms' in the bulk foods aisle I usually grab a little of it.
Search results are decent for most technical stuff, but anything consumer product-related is abysmal. I always seem forced to go to YouTube for that.

When I'm searching for "best short throw projector", most of all the results on Google are SEO spam. The same search on YouTube has a lot of low quality YouTuber garbage as well, but there are at least a couple of high quality results where the host tests input lag, fan loudness etc of several projectors. This is the kind of content that used to exist in sites (I remember Tom's Hardware from the early 2000s), but now seems to be hidden deep in YouTube only.
Life expectancy is a population average. You don't die just because you reach that age.

There are quite a few studies showing that life years lost due to Covid are substantial even for the eldest.
I believe Pages is free for Mac users. I do agree that Zotero is a an awesome product.
>> About 1 in 3 Americans believe that "violence against the government can at times be justified,"

> Yeah, well, "can at times" is a weasel expression. Maybe next time don't ask weasel questions.

> ...Or does anyone seriously believe that no government action in history has ever justified violence?

Also you have to remember the America was literally founded with "violence against the government" [aka the British Crown]. To answer "no" to that poll question is to basically reject American independence.
install the blocktube addon, it can do just that
It seems like most of the comments seem to be on one of two sides.
1. Learn to live with this, and you’ve helped creat this problem
2. This is terrible but some other non related point

It seems to be that the original only grail algorithm -page rank, that made google the superstar it is, can be hacked in a way that saturates the internet with low quality search results.

The obvious question seems to be what algorithm could be used to identify/differentiate low quality websites from high quality sites
> A terrorist attack on a nuclear power plant could not cause an explosion like Chernobyl

Well mostly why Chernobyl is different is because their reactor was pressurized, and thus had the ability to explode (and spread core nuclear material over a large area). The only other event that has caused something similar without a pressurized reactor is one of the largest tsunami ever recorded.

But a terrorist attack on a power plant would need to come from the inside of the plant and to cause a disaster similar to either Fukushima or Chernobyl would require a significantly large weapon and fairly close to the reactor or where they store high energy materials (which is still inside the a pool of water).
No, because with an increase in R0 in counties with low vaccination rates the hospital wards get filled up.
Thanks! Yes, it's configurable in a private dashboard.

I created a pastebin with all sites at the time of writing this comment if that's helpful: https://pastebin.com/qLC0wQ0t. If you're looking to create your own search engine, go here: https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/cse/all.
You probably mean Stiftung Warentest. It is indeed the gold standard of product test organisations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung_Warentest
The thing I like about nginxproxymanager is that it's easy to add non-docker hosts. There are some services that I route that I don't have in the same docker cluster as everything else. That requires static files changes for traefik itself somewhere.
If I search for "Barcelona", I get result about the city on positions
6, 14, 21

If I search for "Barcelona city" do not get any results about the Soccer team.
> Well, er, I guess it depends on if you went to Eton or not…

This is going in a direction I wasn’t anticipating - I thought “bum a fag” would realistically mean “ask for a cigarette”.
Covid microchip developer explains why people want vaccine passport implant
Day one of "writing a reasonable search engine" would be to kill sitespam, no? Any time you see N sites with the same or very similar content, you should assume immediately drop the rank of all but a small slice at the top. You can choose to keep the one with most trusted incoming link (regular pagerank) but also you could just trust the oldest one in your index!

For example: there is now an epidemic of StackOverflow clone sites. They just post the SO answers with their own ads. But I don't want that site. So how on earth can Google show the clone sites on top of the true StackOverflow?

You'd think they have systems in place with hundreds of thousands of canary queries and "known expected rankings" such that IF one of the fraud sites manage to trick their system, they can just swiftly patch it to restore order and bury the clone sites after page 100. But no.
Public housing, land value tax, and land dividend please.

All this garbage is pointlessly complex. Pricing owership is needlessly complex. Rent all the way down to dividends at the bottom, please.
ok, but online advertising is used by / pays bills for maybe half of the whole industry, whereas crypto is used by what, 0.1% of internet users?
> The moral preaching is out of place. When you own a home and are selling it, you go for the highest bidder.

You may not recognize it as such, but the idea that you always sell to the highest bidder is an expression of a very specific sort of "morality", one that excludes a more wholistic conception of what property ownership means for society as a whole, as well as the individuals who make it up.

I understand that "the market sets the price" is a widely accepted dogma after 30-40 years of neoliberal messaging in every part of the US, UK and significant chunks of the rest of the world, but it's not actually natural law (to the extent that more or less nothign is natural law).
I think if you eliminate the scarcity the valuable thing online will be topology - it will be expensive to be adjacent to a celebrity's land or some frequented area, but you and your friends can connect infinite amounts of space however you like.
I've been fooling you--kinda for years, but I'm hellbanned. I'll post this anyway.

In all honesty, I haven't found a writer, or journalist, I'm giving any money to besides a few honest non-profits. (And yes it's hard to find a honest 501c3.)

I feel you should put the affiliate links on your writing. It's not selling out. It's selling out when you have good income, security, and a home.

I don't have any problems with average people putting up affiliate links, or ads.

It's the wealthy boys who can never get enough monetary praise I have a problem with.
GeoNames.org or OSM will give you natural places ("New York", "River Thames", etc). Commercial places ("McDonalds", "Cafes", etc) are primarily proprietary databases.

As a reference, Apple maps sources its commercial places data from a combination of: TomTom, Automotive Navigation Data, Getchee, Hexagon AB, IGN, Increment P, Intermap Technologies, LeadDog, MDA Information Systems, OpenStreetMap, and Waze.
I've had my professional-subscription Wall Street Journal app run a full page ad for frozen jamaican hot beef patties (so good...) that I bought a box of at costco earlier that morning. Pretty amusing, just given how off-brand that is for ads that run on WSJ.
This is a bad argument for the same reason that "my yacht can't be used for cross country road trips" is a bad argument. You're 100% not going to use the normal Go compiler for embedded development. It's not a use-case that was considered nor engineered for.

TinyGo supports it, but they built a new compiler to support that use-case.
Ford is allowed to do GP's suggestion but isn't allowed to do yours.
I don’t use it with any sensitive data though that is a recipe for error.

That being said, emails are stored encrypted (with their keys) and deleted in time. https://help.followupthen.com/knowledge-base/privacy/

I love being able to bcc them to book the “snooze” if all email providers had this interface instead of a separate button only exposed in the web client (gmail), i’d probably switch
Not to hurt anyone's feelings but no I don't get the idea. I find this irritating and very unconvincing. So much work and boilerplate to prove peanuts. Have you ever seen anyone doing serious software development like that? I mean, not just toy examples of some 10-line bean counting program blown up to 100 lines.

> void foo(ranged_int<1, 5> a, ranged_int<3, 7> b)

Why would I _ever_ write a function like that? Practical proofs need to be about runtime values, not just constants and types. They also need to put multiple values in relation. They need to handle type casts and many more things. Constant integer ranges might be of some use but it's a tiny fraction of the invariants that a programmer juggles in practice, and the source code is already blown up out of proportion just for these ranges. This thing is just not gonna fly.

Just multiply some "good" values a few times and there is no way that you can statically prove that the result is going to be in the range as well, even though it might always be the case due to how the values combine each time (simple example: offset + size that the code checked to be within array bounds). Invariants in practice are relations over the runtime values of multiple variables. The focus on single values is basically already where types fail as a correctness tool.
I don’t blame google for this. The web is dead. Facebook and Twitter and Discord took over individual passion publishing, to the point that interesting people are forced to do hideous shit like post 30 post Twitter threads to make a point.

Even in the tech space, while exceptions like Stackoverflow targeted google as an UI, lots of content is buried in unindexed GitHub issues, etc.
Forget the devices -- the risk is to people. If the insulation fails on the power cable and your network cable is insufficiently insulated, then your network cable could end up live. People generally avoid playing with hot power conductors, but no one takes any care to avoid touching network cables or, for that matter, the devices plugged in to network cables.
Console.app will give you all the error messages you ever wanted. And more.
I am a longtime user of Zotero and a paying subscriber too. I use Zotfile extension to manage PDF files in Zotero. The best feature of this extension is bulk renaming filenames using a predefined filename format such as authors-year-article name. Most academic papers pdf files have weird names such as "1-s2.0-S0007681321001221-main.pdf". Before Zotero and Zotfile I used to manually rename them. Then I found out that Zotero extracts metadata automatically from PDF files and can use them for renaming the files. Zotfile gives you more control. Check it out: http://zotfile.com

I saw dstillman has commented here. Dan, thanks a lot for your tireless work to make Zotero the best reference manager!
Probably. Don't overstate your certainty. It's an error and moves you farther from the truth, not closer.
The point of the thread is that these algorithms are not a special new threat, but it's the availability of content itself, targetted or not.

Since we're analyzing each other's psychology now, I do think that insecure and defensive behavior like your post is a real problem with social media. I am not trying to bully or hurt you personally, but simply share some thoughts on a topic.
If rates go down, you're locked in unless you do this very obvious and fairly painless thing.
early runs when I was doing c25k were like 45 minutes. My current runs are all 4 miles or more. Additionally there's usually 10 minutes of warmup/cooldown for each run. Also I'm very slow :)
> when you rent you're both paying the landlord's mortgage, plus their profit.

True, of course. But you are also paying the landlord's property taxes and maintenance costs and (sometimes) utilities and....

A pet peeve of mine is when people compare mortgage payments to rent payments as if they are a equivalent. There is a lot of additional overhead in homeownership beyond the mortgage payment.

Though maybe it's a sore point for me because my furnace died this morning and it's -40 outside so guess who gets to drop an unplanned $6k this week?
I am sorry for your horrible situation.

I don’t really understand what your implication is. Are you wishing you had not done the genetic tests? Suggesting you should have aborted the 20-week fetus based on unusual skull appearance? Suggesting that the meningitis was a result of some malpractice? Mad at medical professionals who are now “dropping hints” without saying something more substantive?

The problem with these tests highlighted (confusingly) by the NY Times article is that they test for extremely rare conditions but have a high enough false positive rate (by my napkin math, on order 0.05% = 1/2000 false positive rate) that they end up dramatically over-diagnosing these conditions.

That doesn’t necessarily mean the people designing the tests were lacking in “sound science” or were behaving maliciously. Their tests just need to be almost perfect to not overdiagnose rare abnormalities, and perfection in medical tests is a very high bar. Arguably we shouldn’t do tests for such rare conditions unless the false positive rate can be dropped by another order of magnitude or more, and if we do such tests communication to those who test positive should be much clearer. On the other hand, since genetic abnormalities are so life altering, even a 10% or 20% chance of an accurate positive might be grounds to abort a very early fetus.

It sounds like your specific problem was that the genetic tests did not return a positive result, even though it seems plausible that your child had some genetic abnormality. Not picking up every possible genetic condition is a different problem from the false-positive problem highlighted by the article.
I think GP is referring to the ReadCube Papers app, which is actually also available on Windows, mobile, and as a web app:

https://www.papersapp.com

However, in light of its monthly subscription pricing, I'll be sticking with Zotero which does everything I need on a desktop computer, and also with Linux support. Zotero being free and open source gives me confidence that my data won't be encrypted in a user-hostile way like Mendeley did to its users after it was acquired by Elsevier.
Your complaints #3 and #5 are library changes, not compiler changes, yet you were complaining about them in the context of compiler updates. They would have bitten you exactly as much if net/http was not in the stdlib.
> Google is now openly boosting/penalizing pages based on "inclusiveness"[1] in language

I just read the transcript of that podcast found here: file:///C:/Users/jccal/AppData/Local/Temp/Search_Off_the_Record_-_27th_episode_1.pdf and that is NOT what they claim they are doing.

It seems like what they are doing is basically using synonyms. From the transcript: "So if you search for something like fireman, it would automatically include the different versions, including websites that mention firewoman or fireperson." (most of their examples are French or other languages that have more genderded forms of words than english)

They also say, "we are not in a position to tell what people-- how people
should write."
Unless there’s an electrical outage during a big snowstorm or heat wave, and then lack of insulation can kill you. Maybe. Or the old people you sell your house to later.

But sometimes you are correct. Like in writing where it’s best to know the rules of grammar before you start breaking them, it’s best to know why the building codes exist before you break them as a DIYer.
I just ran a 5k race on the 1st and I did 37:17 so that's my best in this phase of running (I previously ran somewhere in the 36's when I was younger)
"dang" is not a single person a cybernetic entity - hundreds of human beings being worked to death in an underground facility against their will, all mediated by the most sophisticated AI known to man.
RSU's absolutely do count for income for mortgage purposes. (Source: I've bought a house recently and my RSU's were accepted as part of my income). It's different if you work at a startup, where the stocks are not yet publicly traded, but if you are working at FAANG it is publicly traded, then the stock is quite liquid, so banks consider those RSU's to be as good as dollars.

You just need a document from your employer demonstrating to the bank what they are intending to pay you per year in total compensation, including both salary and RSU stock. Also get some documents from your stock broker showing how many RSU's you have vested so far versus ones that are scheduled to vest over the next X years.

For a bonus: rather than liquidating all your vested RSU's for the downpayment, hold onto a good number of RSU's in your brokerage account as these can be used to show you are holding assets, which can help you get a lower mortgage rate as well. Banks love to see that you have assets you are holding onto and can liquidate just in case you do need cash. Their ideal customer is someone who can technically buy a house in cash, but is only applying for the mortgage because the mortgage rates are currently lower than the stock return rates.

Chances are if you work at FAANG and have RSU's that's actually considered a very safe loan that you are basically guaranteed to be approved for at a very nice low mortgage rate. You'll be able to get approved by multiple banks, and then get them to compete with each other to lower their rates by fractions of a percent to try to win your mortgage agreement. Mortgage brokers are your friends here, pay one to do the hard work of contacting the banks on your behalf and make sure your documents look good and then the banks will be falling over themselves to give you a loan.
Syncthing is p2p, a relay is supported for when both clients are behind NAT on different networks. It supports local network discovery, but the use case is different. It's for syncing files between your devices, not one off transfers.
Yep. I lookup advice on things, find links to forums and discussion threads... the next search result is a different site with all the content from the previous site ripped off and filled into a new site template with different ads. And this is discussion threads!!
I feel guilty running something like this on my own, but this seems like an excellent tool for a news aggregator to run.
Unfortunately it doesn't explain how it works.
I write a lot of academic papers and never use this kind of software. EndNote creates uneditable references and slows down Word, Zotero had some limitations after which they charge a monthly fee, and none of the reference libraries are easy to share with external clients.

Most other medical/technical writers I know only use these tools as a “reference library.” It might be useful for someone writing a thesis, but almost all professionals avoid these because they slow things down, break, and require updates that cause issues.

I use API requests to get formatted references direct from PubMed, and use FileLocator Lite to search multiple PDFs in reference folders with RegEx. QPDF is useful for unlocking PDFs. This system has worked quite well for me and I don’t have to worry about my data getting locked into aging or unsupported software platforms.
Try https://kinopio.club
https://www.deepl.com/translator

If I ever need to translate
True, I was more referring to the time relative to the pilots' sleep cycles. They likely spend their days off in UAE, and probably sleep at night on those days off, so 3AM would be a difficult time to be alert and performing at your best.
> 59-year-olds are vaxxed at a much higher rate than 10 or 20 year olds.

This is the only intelligent response to explain why overall mortality is 2X higher in the vaxxed group.

I agree with you this could be an explanation. The problem is it still completely destroys the idea that unvaccinated are the ones who should be restricted from society. It shows your age is more important than vaccine status. Someone being obese or not is also more important than vaccine status. Whether you had prior infection is more important than vaccine status.

If it was true that the vaccine was so NEEDED you had to mandate it for the younger age groups, take away their civil liberties without a regular testing option then you’d have to make a strong case those age groups are dying in large numbers. They aren’t - and that’s how I interpret this statistic.

I think there are many other ways to prove hundreds of thousands have died from the vaccine. Here are some more:

http://www.skirsch.com/covid/Deaths.pdf

Seatbelts don’t cause myocarditis. The vaccine can cause adverse events and the way these are being discounted is inhumane. All this while it doesn’t even stop spread… the most vaccinated places have the highest case counts per million. Yet governments are pushing more mandates making unvaccinated second-class citizens. MISInformation stands for Massively Important Statistical Information… and I’m going to spread it as long as governments try to ruin my life for a personal medical decision.

EDIT: I swear they changed that fact check. Read it again - it used to link exactly where I linked to. I guess it was easier to debunk something else
UF-B. For a minute Lowes had their 100' mispriced by -$100 online. $80 wasn't bad for 100' of 10/3.
My impression, and I hope I'm wrong, is that macros and meta programming were powerful ideas 30 years ago, but now most modern languages have generics, template meta programming [1] and reflection. I'm a curious amateur and probably out to lunch, but there you go.

[1]

Some other languages support similar, if not more powerful, compile-time facilities (such as Lisp macros), but those are outside the scope of this article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_metaprogramming
“is not authorized to” ?
I wonder if we'll end up with something like https://www.circle-lang.org/ which lets you use pretty much the entire C++ runtime language at compile time. It certainly makes heavily templated code way more readable.
Which Go compiler? gccgo produces smaller executables.
Tesla actually does even better than that: if the price increases, you keep the one you ordered at, but if it decreases, they give you the lower one.