skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This site is quite laggy, I'm assuming because of all the JS. Tried to load it with JS disabled and it doesn't work at all.
Its fun seeing Snow Crash become reality. People getting rich selling property inside the Metaverse that technically has no restrictions.

Just do an Eve Online and let people fight each other for it. Its a game, who cares
As the sibling comment wrote, it's not non-random processes in this instance, it's processes that aren't independent.

That is, when generally looking over any death rates in a relatively large population, most deaths in a given year are uncorrelated, so things look like a normal distribution. Obviously with a transmissible virus, the fact that two people died in the same year of Covid is correlated.

Similarly, if you did the math from the insurance company's data, I'd bet you'd find the chance of everybody dying in the same year would be like 1 in many, many trillions of years. But of course things like supervolcanos or meteor strikes are possible. Those aren't non-random, it's just that everyone's death would correlate with that single event.
I try to find common ground usually. Far out contrarian views tend to make me pause and evaluate the value given.
> The web was SEO'd to hell in '98 also, for other search engines.

But mostly with invisible meta tags, not phrases repeated multiple times and texts written by content creators with no passion towards the subject.

Today's web posts remind me of ridiculous SEO-driven "effective product names" on multiple sites with low value products or fakes.

SEO aside, '98 web was passionate while today's web is written for robots, not humans.
Perhaps with all the deplatforming, delisting, and other deleterious effects, all the 'good' content is removed, while at the same time those removals are affecting their machine learning data sets. It is almost a self-imposed adversarial attack on result quality.
Hochul Vetoes New York's Library E-Book Bill
So you are saying the testing companies in the article aren't fraudulently claiming much more effective tests than they are providing?
>but using that data to not show ads to recent purchasers would harm revenue, so they remain visible.

that doesn't make any sense. By that logic they wouldn't want to do targeting at all, because targeting by definition reduces the amount of people you can show ads to.
Ask HN: I'm running an Open Street Map tile server. How can I create .osm files?
Hi Guys,

Thanks in advance - I am running a self hosted Open Street Map tile server and can access it and fly around the map in the browser to my hearts content.

I would however like to be able to 'download' or otherwise produce on the server '.osm' files based on either the map view, or some supplied co-ords - or any way really.

I have looked through switch2osm and leaflet etc and I can't see what I'm looking for.

If anyone can send a link my way to what I'm looking for I should be forever grateful.

Thanks again!
You haven't seen such activity yet because they don't think you're worth the trouble. If you ever are, it will change, and the exchange will become useless.
I noticed a dark-blue train shrinking in length and then growing again, and finally splitting, which is when I realized that it was actually two trains passing each other.
"The average ratio was 56% fructose to 44% glucose, but the ratios in the individual honeys ranged from a high of 64% fructose and 36% glucose (one type of flower honey; table 3 in reference) to a low of 50% fructose and 50% glucose (a different floral source)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey#Sugar_profile

"'HFCS 42' and 'HFCS 55' refer to dry weight fructose compositions of 42% and 55% respectively, the rest being glucose"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup

So they're broadly similar.
I've noticed this a lot as well recently. It's not as really the search results themselves that are bad but rather Google simply ignoring key words/phrases in my query.
> complete with chlorine and flouride added? also, from a microbial activity and/or organic contaminants point of view, tap water probably has orders of magnitude less than most streams.

> I'd say that a big chunk of the population consumes infinitely more antidepressants and cholesterol-lowering drugs than we were "designed to consume".

Connecting these two topics together, there are localities that have naturally occurring lithium in their water supply. Depression and suicide rates in these areas are lower than average.

See https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-...
It's unclear to me which party "them" refers to in your quote. The rulers, or the people? Any references where Jefferson expounds on his concerns over "misinformation" and an ignorant populace?
Rtings seems a similar project; some of their test results are free, some are paid. They have a wide set of comparison tools, they test for a lot of features and they document their testing procedures well; it's a really nice change from SEO spam articles.

I recommend their tests of headphones [1], I especially like how they measure breatability [2]. They also have a page about printers [3].

[1]: https://www.rtings.com/headphones

[2]: https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tests/design/breathability

[3]: https://www.rtings.com/printer
Look at those blue skies. Looks great
I chuckled and was convinced you left out the "/s" but looking at your profile you probably do find it strange.
It's available at: https://files.speakerdeck.com/presentations/130bc7df16db4556... (or click the download button on the slides page)
What does it take these days to roll our own search engine?

I’m working on a new kind of search - I’d like to create my own independent index. Bing is fine, but restrictive. Gigablast is ok.

https://search-new.herokuapp.com/

Looks like the Common Crawl .WET files are about 10 TB (https://commoncrawl.org/2021/11/october-2021-crawl-archive-n... ).

Typesense recommends 3X the amount of RAM to hold the indexes.

30TB of RAM. Each TB server, what, $5k?

I'm sure some pages can be reduced. Worst case, $150,000 for server costs?
BTC is used for bypassing government controls (drugs, money laundering, currency export controls, remittance) There will most likely be demand for that in the future. I'm not saying anyone should invest in crypto, I'm just saying those use cases exist.
Which science journals review furnaces?
Workplace Injuries in the WFH Era: A Tale from Germany
I don't blame the Lancet for publishing it. They had no way of knowing it was not what it seemed. They should have maybe looked for the conflicts of interest a bit harder, and it is to their credit that they encouraged Daszak to write a correction later.

Everyone should be heard. Unfortunately the intent of that original letter was to pre-bias against opposing viewpoints, before they got to be heard.
This is one of the problem with all the people focusing on "excess deaths" as a metric for COVID Deaths.
> It likely also would have been in his Spotify contract whether or not he could continue to post clips to his YT channel, or elsewhere.

I think this is very likely, to allow Rogan to post short clips on his own channel for marketing purposes and keep existing content, while enforcing copyright on other channels.
VPNs aren't the security necessities they once were
As far back as the 01990s my memories of Radio Shack are:

1. The only place around where you could go to buy a breadboard, or a transistor, or a resistor, or a headphone cable connector. Component selection unparalleled in the places where I lived. I don't want to exaggerate --- they had maybe ten kinds of transistors, not a hundred like Fry's, but I didn't live within 1000 km of a Fry's. And certainly not forty thousand like Digi-Key has today.

2. Salespeople who apparently didn't know anything but tried to get my phone number (!?) and, later, sell me cellphones. And cellphone plans. Jesus.

3. Stuff for makers getting gradually crowded out by worthless goods for mere consumers, stuff I could have bought at Best Buy or Sears if I wanted it. Things like TVs, VCRs, pagers, and Blackberries.

I still use a store-brand Radio Shack multimeter sometimes, and in the 01980s a lot of my early years of programming were on store-brand Radio Shack computers in my day care and elementary schools, both TRS-80 Model III and the CoCo.
Ask HN: What is the best existing chatbot-as-service and the tech behind it?
Hey HN gang -

Looking for the best AI chatbot (API) which can handle general conversation, to use as back end of a mobile app. Think: user speech-to-text (voice recognition), AI chat bot service, text-to-speech back to the user.

Would love to hear HN's suggestions & experiences.
Looks neat though i think it needs some undo/redo functionality. Also zoom should affect stroke width too. And middle-button-drag should be used for scrolling too as it is a very common gesture.
Ask HN: Where can one donate to help slow global warming?
Or stated otherwise - if you have hundreds of dollars to spare, what’s the best way you can spend it to help fix the climate crisis?
Would it be better if we (the shill council for naming things) just renamed it to ‘net’? You seem to imply that ‘web’ is taken by our current stack

Would the fact that ‘net’ is aiming to make content-addressing a first hand citizen give any weight into being some sort of web? (this seems to be what the paragraph you quoted seems to be mostly concerned with)

Would being able to authenticate to websites with your crypto wallet in a frictionless way give any weight into being some sort of web?

Would a data structure that allows us to content-address files and ensure content resilience give any weight into being some sort of web?

I guess the answer to all my three questions is no because these are not covered in the narrow definition of the web that you provided.

I’m not sure what people loving the web has anything to do with the fact that ‘web3’ seems to be the slug for this new stack shuffle. Do people love web1? web2? This is a non issue. People love being connected as simple as possible, they don’t love the web for using HTTP instead of IPFS…
Could be due to the difficulty of getting sand in the region. I watched this fascinating Vice documentary about illegal sand mining in the region. I had no idea it was such a big deal.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4av9jm/illegal-sand-mining-i...
Community building is always the best way to get through crisis. Also thanks goes out to you for running support. I read today that we've lost 20% of the health care workforce since the pandemic started. Tell your wife to hang in there. There are people in this country that are rooting for her and genuinely thankful for what she does!
Typically sound follows the inverse square rule, so the difference between the same plane at 1000 feet should be a 1/169th (1/13^2) of the noise at 75 feet. So two orders of magnitude.
Would a test that reported 100% positive similarly be "quite accurate"? It would catch all true positives, right?
I should say I am aware of free and generous third party providers online - however I am specifically looking to do it myself.

An example of my quest might be https://protomaps.com/downloads/osm which allows me to draw on the map and then download a .osm file based on that.
if you want to really know what types of hazards chemicals in your food check out the app yuka. i just started using it about 3 weeks ago, you’d be surprised what is in some food products. it gives you science data on the additives in a product. you just scan the upc code
I would be very surprised if there wasn't a Wordpress or similar plugin to automate this.
YouTube's latest brilliant "innovation" to hide the dislike count made this problem so much worse too. When e.g. trying to make a purchase decision, you can't quickly skim through a bunch of search results any longer. Instead you are forced to sit through so much bad content that you could've previously avoided. Maybe that was their real motivation too – to boost some watchtime metrics.
From the Twitter thread:

> I’m pretty sure the engineers responsible for Google Search aren’t happy about the quality of results either.

Strongly disagree.

I'm pretty sure the kind of drive and passion that led to the very high quality of Google search back in the day is long gone.

At this point, people do not join Google for the technical challenge or the reputation and/or ethos of the company, but for the fat bonuses and RSU grants.
The sentiment exists in every society because society and civilization is always hierarchical.

That is the root of a simple division that a coordinated state actor will exacerbate, amplify, meme-ify, and repeatedly upvote with bot armies.

Taking as fact that social media platforms program the brain of their users via dopamine rushes obtained through the upvotes, likes, and user engagement. Thus and therefore we can conclude that this is the easiest attack vector in the history of state versus state psychological warfare.

Adversaries use benign divisions as a tool to cause discord. This has always been the case, but social media is a tool that has been weaponized to tremendous effect and now you can see it being leveraged as a weapon by simply opening Reddit and seeing what divisive was botted to the top.

Maybe you refuse to believe this is happening and you assume this is all a paranoid fiction. That is fine. How then do you explain the legions of PHDs and psych researchers and language experts working at Chinese and Russian information warrior farms and leveraging machine learning empowered bot identity generators? Do you just assume Russia and China are pissing money away?
Because the left is now mainstream, and the right is counter-culture. The opposite of the 1950s and '60s.
> they’re talking about the fees to convert fiat to XYZ crypto.

rather the transaction fees.
> It's found on chats where people can be candid, like Signal & Telegram

Can you recommend some of these channels?
Well, I'm sure there is a little bit of significance, but you have to take into account that it's a relatively small number of deaths compared to the population size, and the person giving you the news about "DEATHs ARE UP" sells LIFE INSURANCE.
Or std::numeric_limits<int>::max()
Serious question, is/was Elon Musk sufficiently tech savvy? Bitcoin is pretty sophisticated from a technical and security perspective isnt it? Is there any evidence or other output to indicate this is something Musk would likely have been able to to? I don't want to knock the guy, but I never pictured him as a "hacker" or anything close
It does of course cost far less energy to extract than it produces. It’s extraordinarily energy dense. It only takes 19,000T give or take per year to produce 20% of US energy. The US alone consumes 731,000,000T of coal per year (40,000X).

With breeder reactors we can cut that down by several hundred times - it’s just that uranium is quite abundant and very energy dense so we haven't really bothered to.

Further there’s a few billion tons in the ocean we’re working on extracting.

If we’re willing to accept extracting rare earth metals from Mongolian hellscapes like Baitou and calling wind green, it’s pretty disingenuous not to extend the same treatment to nuclear. [1] There is no free lunch.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-worst-place-...
> I am going to remind people that this happens because that's the internet (and world) we designed.

we didn't design that - they did. I used the Internet in the 90s on my 56k modem and it was mostly ad-free. Stuff was still free, but mostly because people created content out of curiosity and because it was their hobby (yes, I had a website and was using frames and image maps heavily) or university sponsored (IRC, NNTP, Mailinglists). I paid 5$/month for a shell account, later shared the cost for a dedicated server with a couple of friends (we had a traffic limit of 50GB/month) to offer content and services to other people - expecting nothing in return.

Then companies realized how much money was in, and suddenly all good, federated and free services were overrun by spam (mostly NNTP). To this day, companies like FB, Insta, Google etc. try to lure as many content-creators to users their "free" sites, while they actually pay with their data or the data of your content consumers - while the data is used to steal attention to show you ads for stuff you don't need. The amount of GDPR violations by those Megacorps is immense as they very well know that presenting a "reject all tracking" button as demanded by the GDPR ruins their business model (less than 10% actually agree to being tracked when presenting them the choice).

My solution to all this is easy: Ban all advertising on the internet, or, at least advocate to as many people as possible to use adblockers. Only when ads are gone, will people spend money on products such as FB and Youtube, and only then can there be actually competition - because right now, you can't compete with "free" services with any other model than using ads+tracking yourself.
Mostly owing to the fact that the concentration of sugar causes bacterial cells to rupture. Dry granulated sugar the same property. Most of the health claims I've encountered about honey seem highly suspect at best.
ttrss has (an official?) plugin to do that (fetch full text from title only RSS feeds), and I'm sure other feed readers can do it from the box or via plugins
(For anyone who thinks DoreenMichele was being hyperbolic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre)
Well, that makes a lot of sense since covid is particularly lethal among those that are immuno-compromised.
Good point. It feels like what you're describing is like time travel to erase the bug from the timeline completely, vs. getting a one-time advanced warning. I guess for date-related bugs where you have no other way to avoid them, you would need to set the clocks forward at least as far as you have the capacity to get a fix in, regression tested, and get your users enough time to do the same.
I've been there and it's a hell of a rabbit hole, one that is easy to lose days to. Whatever you do don't fall for the Berkey scam.
Why are mosquitoes attracted to some people more than others?
I am a big fan of Peter's Singer list of highly effective charities. For climate change related organisations, please see: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/causes-to-support/tackle-c...
Also from the UK, I've never heard a Brit say "zee" (unless quoting an American or talking about Jay-Z)
> Yup, this is hopelessly confounded now. Soda and juice are "bad",

20 years ago juice was good. In the US (linked study was done in China), I saw older friends having kids bringing home pamphlets from the doctor's office extolling the virtues of 100% fruit juice. Juice being bad is a very recent thing, and it is not entirely out of the realm of possibility that some parents didn't Get The Memo, but they are otherwise still "good parents".

Or they may just have given up the fight over juice. Pick your battles and all that, and without any research showing juice was really "that" bad, parents may have figured it wasn't a battle worth fighting over.
It's not just Google---the World Wide Web itself is rapidly becoming a defunct protocol, the culmination of a decades-long shift in the Internet's center of mass away from browsers and towards centralized and commercialized apps---from personal web pages to LinkedIn/GitHub/Twitter handles, from the ubiquitous WordPress blogs to YouTube videos and Medium posts, and from forums to Tweets and subreddits.

The useful information on the Web is now concentrated in a few places---Reddit, Quora, Stack Exchange, Wikipedia, etc. When I want reasonable search results, I search there instead of the Web as a whole. (And even many of these services are in the late stages of the Silicon Valley life cycle---desperate monetization and engagement-increasing gimmicks---with uncertain futures.)

Wikipedia, bless its heart, lurches on as a cathedral to early Web's dream of information democratization. It stands as a wonder of the ancient world: incomplete, built from technology few now understand, and reflecting values and priorities that no longer quite align with contemporary culture. But it persists thanks to its inertia and the undeniable sense of awe it invokes even today.
I didn't say they were the same thing. And I meant what I said: zoning allows a shed without building permits in most places. It depends on the jurisdiction but because of model zoning codes the rules are almost all the same across CA.

In CA and most of the US there is usually no separate "zoning permit", although it exists in a few places (I see berkeley and sonoma county). Usually zoning and the development and land use codes just say what you're allowed to do, and are enforced based on helpful neighbor-driven complaints. But you usually don't need a permit up front except for things like conditional use and special use permits, certainly not a shed. For things requiring a building permit, the permitted use (zoning) is just part of that process.

The OP can and should check the city/county and find out. The point I'm trying to make is there is actually a fairly high likely hood that even in over-regulated CA you can build a 120 sq. ft. "shed" or "playhouse" in the backyard without a building or zoning permit. Without knowing the exact jurisdiction, this is just general advice about the most usual practices - for example San Diego, LA, San Bernardino cities and counties.

One thing I should mention: technically plumbing/electrical in the shed or calling it or using it as an "office" might not be kosher, but in practice everyone does this with no issue. It's just a very nice "playhouse".
Is it better to terminate 85 pregnancies which do not have a serious defect in order to catch 15 which do? At what point is it not better to terminate 100% of pregnancies?
I feel everyone here is fighting symptoms instead of the underlying cause. When I find myself refreshing the replies on some HN comment, I'm usually tired and exhausted, perhaps tasked with some job I lack the energy or the discipline for. Unless of course it's a particularly insightful comment that I'm just dying to hear your opinion on ;).

Anyway, my response to your question would be to forget all the tech. Just figure out how to manage your energy. Maybe plan mental breaks from your work, maybe check your sleep hygiene. And finally, and maybe this is just me trying to justify my own behavior, it could be that the refreshing is just the kind of dumb activity your brain needs to catch a break and regain some energy.
Gotta agree with you. This guys is part of the problem and doesn't even realize it. I know people "on the other side" that are equally part of the problem, and don't realize it either. I get called a "centrist" and though I agree on many of the points made, if I disagree with one, I'm suddenly the bad guy not worth listening too since I'm not in 100% agreement. I'm Not until we start holding the media and politicians accountable for their lies and profiting off of them and getting people worked up, and people start thinking critically for themselves, things won't change. The individuals who've been fed this for years are not likely to wake up, at least not the ones I know. This won't end well.