skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed.
If you have a function that executes an SQL query then your unit test(s) of this function should also execute the query. Otherwise, what exactly are you testing? Just because the database runs as a separate process does not mean that this is an "integration" test.

Imagine if you had a function that did some floating point math and then you wanted to test it and I told you "hang on, this function actually utilizes the FPU which is a separate piece of hardware and therefore if you test it then you're doing an integration test.. if you want a proper unit test then you must mock the FPU and use dependency injection". Madness. Executing a database query is no different from executing a CPU instruction or calling a library function.
>What makes this all so strange is that digital land doesn't have to be like physical land, in fact you kinda have to go out of your way to do that on purpose.

The fact that the author finds this "strange" tells me that they don't understand that the artificial restrictions are designed to make money. They go on to propose "solutions" for a "problem" that is not a problem to those who are making money. In fact, their "solutions" ARE a "problem" to them making money, because it lowers the artificial value of the digital real estate. If the people making boatloads of money were unhappy with the current situation, it would change.
I use a personal static microblog engine, miss it for the public and am about improving it.
The next economic collapse might come when the whole crypo mania ends. Until than I guess we will reach far more energy usage. This will not be sustainable. If it continues we might solve the fermi paradox.
Buy a Brother Color Laser printer. $250 and the ink never dries. I haven't thought about printing other than pressing "print" in 6 months.
Ford also released the hybrid Maverick with a starting price of 20k usd, which is much more right sized and extremely practical. It is attracting a lot of non traditional buyers who would likely never have considered the monstrosities that pass as 'full sized' nowadays.
Ongoing related thread:

Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total during 2021 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29769892 - Jan 2022 (292 comments)
This is something I have a problem with as well. Search results typically include the first five results being paid ads.

Everything else for the first couple pages are typically review sites that are not really reviews.

YouTube isn’t much better.

I’m trying to addresss this in my own way by making long term product reviews of stuff I own, but I wish other people and companies did the same thing.
Definitely a period of mass misery

I see it also in the school vandalism, increase in shooting deaths and general uncertainty about rule of law
Bear in mind that the cultural difference that exists in the military, which the air force is part of, has demonstrably spread to the command hierarchy where junior flight crew DARE NOT raise any issue that is at all critical of the Captain or other senior crew members. These hierarchical differences are well known in Arabic as well as Asian flight crews.
Hard to see why the demonstrated dismal failure of the Arab armies and Air forces against the Israelis is called clap trap. It is the dismissal of a serious introspective analysis of how the army and air force failed even when they outnumbered their enemy almost 10 to 1 as clap trap that speaks to the ineffective state of those forces.
You can't upload, but if its just download (on a single thread) this is pretty good.
I’m not sure I see a connection with doomscrolling, which is what I used as an example in my comment, referring to the article.
The worst API ever made
The 30-Year Mortgage Is an Intrinsically Toxic Product (2019)
Yeah their entity resolution algorithms are really annoying. Half my searches come up with some random movie on IMDb
AFAIK the Sodom story was pretty much debunked

https://retractionwatch.com/2021/10/01/criticism-engulfs-pap...
The point is that you expect a normal distribution without fat tails. Fat tails are a sign of non random processes. Which lets you know some non random process is happening.
So what?

People do things you might disagree about. It's called freedom, or live and let live.

If you disagree with this use of electricity, ask yourself why. The reason most often cited is externality, like pollution or CO2.

The solution is not banning, as they are many equally "wasteful" use of electricity, like gaming, and 1kW used for gaming will produce just as much pollution as 1kW used for mining.

So why differentiate between these uses? Who's to say gaming is better that mining? (even if I prefer the former, why I should impose my preferences on others?)

You can't legislate what people do on their own free time with things that they buy, like electricity.

If you are really worried about the environment, the only real solution is taxes applied to the price of electricity, because Aluminum smoldering is just as polluting.
Please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar. That's just what we don't want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not available in my region, Brazil.
Cooked food is a fairly old addition to our diet. Ancient humans learnt to control fire long before they evolved into the species that we now are. Some kind of adaptation must have happened - just look at our small teeth that are no more suitable for tearing raw meat apart.

Filtered tap water isn't that different from natural water in streams, but I do not know nearly enough about water to dispute this.

Prescription / OTC drugs can mess with us fairly seriously if not used carefully and in recommended quantities, so this is actually a good analogy.

It is the dose that makes the poison. One Tylenol and/or 10 g of sugar per day won't probably harm you, but 20 Tylenols and half a pound of sugar per day, consumed every day for years and years, is another story.
Google strikes out the least common (and therefore most important) keywords in my queries.

Google replaces specific jargon with common words that are similar in meaning to laymen.

Google returns pages which do not contain any of the keywords that I've searched for at all.

If you use your example and search for "hip replacement", or any "what are the signs" variation, you get all of the content free SEO spam farms specifically catered to returning useless garbage to medical queries, but no informational academic/government/ngo health sites.

If Google's AI is catering to the GPT-3 and future GPT-X SEO adsense spam vendor market and Google is not curating a collection of high quality reference sites like librarians have been screaming at them to do for 20 years, then it is doomed. It is nearly completely broken now, and will become more broken every year going forward as the algorithm/counter-algorithm fight continues and human content drops off the index altogether.
Three problems here.

1. Skewed incentives. A company that buys "organic" product placement wants to show it in the best possible light, and increase sales. They don't need an impartial review, so the blogger has a hard time to produce one.

2. Fragility and failures. Affiliate links expire and don't get updated. Ads point at things no longer available. Ads spend an inordinate amount of resources on the viewer's machine. Targeting is inaccurate, despite incessant attempts to track and correlate users' profiles.

3. Direct payment is rarely an option! I personally would greatly appreciate an option to pay $1-2 and read an impartial review of something I'm planning to purchase. Maybe even $5-7 for expensive stuff. But there are very few places that offer this. Those that do try hard to peddle a yearly subscription. Also, it appears that I'm the minority, and the number of visitors willing to pay directly is too low to sustain the authors.

I still hope that it's Patreon and direct support by consumers what the future looks like, not corporate sponsorship and ads.
On that very topic, I saw a customer ask an employee manning the wood cutting station at a Home Depot if he could cut a dowel rod in half. The employee didn't know if it was possible because it was "round." I think they realized they can get away with just not training their employees.
> If you want a better internet, you might stop and think about the fact that it is built by people and people need to eat. De facto expecting slave labor from some people and then designing an internet where those people can hijack your search results to try to eat gets you this.

The problem is that the sane alternative, where people can get fed while selling quality a-la-carte content directly to the reader, doesn't really exist. If one or more review sites would work to develop a good reputation, I'd be happy to spend a one-shot $3 or $5 on their (for example) wireless earbud reviews. But this thing basically doesn't exist (or at least I can't find it, because of all the aforementioned shit-quality search engine results). Someone upthread mentioned a German site that does this, but then someone replied saying their expertise is limited and their reviews in many product categories aren't that great. Then we have things like Consumer Reports in the US, but I've found the quality of their reviews to have declined over the past decade or so; I've read some of their free content for product categories where I'm already knowledgeable, and I've disagreed heartily with enough of their findings to be skeptical of them.

When it comes to news and opinion pieces, I'd be fine paying on a per-article basis, but we have no established micropayments system, and I'm not paying $10-$20/mo for each of the 50 sites that come up in various news aggregators I read and have paywalls. There are a few sites and YouTube channels that I read/watch nearly daily, so I subscribe to their Patreon or periodically drop money in their donations bin. But the majority of the content I consume comes from various sources, from a list that changes nearly daily.

> Maybe we designed a shitty system with bad incentives

Who is the "we" here, though? I would love to change this, but I feel pretty powerless to do so. At least not without making it my life's work, with a very high chance of failing at it regardless.
I didn’t know what good Wifi until I switched to using some TP-Link Omada equipment.

If you run your own controller, you can set up a small network (router, PoE switch, and AP) for less than $300. Hardware controller is ~$90. A controller isn’t strictly necessary, but I don’t recommend doing a standalone setup.

Downside? It’s business class equipment and you need some idea what you’re doing. It’s not plug-n-play. Also, it’s layer 2 only. If you want mDNS across vlans, you’ll need to run a reflector. (Not difficult. It’s built into avahi.)
I was recently in a Best Buy and overheard an employee explain the difference between a Pixel 6 and a 6 Pro as, "EVERYTHING is better". I had personally just compared the two side-by-side and concluded that the pro's only material differences were more RAM, worse build quality due to the curved screen edges, and the addition of a telephoto camera.
For a bunch of us, living in 3rd world countries, Bitcoin provides more value than Google and Facebook.
So I think this is ok. I don’t know why the post has a derogatory connotation.
I switched to Unifi access points and a wired router and switch and am much happier with the result.

The consolidation of router, switch and access point means you can't upgrade individual parts. It's the modern equivalent of the TV-VCR combo and most consumers don't realize they actually can be separated.
Money.

All money that enters into circulation via fractional reserve lending is backed by demand for that same money, and enforced by the legal system. The repayment of the issuing loan. That’s where it’s value comes from.

Unlike bitcoin fiat operates on a pull model - demand driven. It doesn’t start by creating supply and having people shill it.
You didn't move to substack you mean? And how do you know if it was regretful?
Or canceling accounts or banning scientific papers on the theories of Covid origin in 2019 and 2020
I've noticed this too. In fact, some of their results are pretty close to worthless. Last week I posted a link here to a demo I made for creating and using "blobs" with PouchDB. I titled it "PouchDB/CouchDB Save/Update/Load Image Blob Demo".

After I posted it I monitored my web logs for a bit and watched both Google and DuckDuckGo hit the page.

3 days later I did a search for "PouchDB Image Blob Demo" on both Google and DuckDuckGo.

Google had almost nothing at all for that search and my page wasn't on any of the results they offered. DuckDuckGo had my post at #1 for that search.
I find this incredible unless the Evil Social Media Companies reach into my brain and remove my capacity for practical free will.
What test could prove or disprove that hypothesis? Creating some criteria by which to include a death in the statistic? (eg, notability)
works for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't think that is seriously questioned with the Delta and Omicron variants. Vaccines do seem, however, to reduce the probability of having a serious infection that requires hospitalization or ICU admission. It's a novel virus and it and the situation around it evolves very quickly.

The anti-vax crowd conveniently ignores that detail, and unfortunately the people who give them credence are paying the price through needless suffering or even death.
I don't think Fridman asked the question in response to or while aware of this information above. And neither Elon.
It is guaranteed whether multi-threaded or not. It’s a process level guarantee. If your application is designed such that you don’t know what your other threads are doing then POSIX cannot help you.
I feel much in the same boat. I think all the noise that VCs make about demonstrating revenue and traction and all the other rubbish they talk about on their blogs about why they invest in particular companies is more about having convenient excuses for not engaging. It's a list they use for letting you down easy rather than things they are actually interested in investing in i.e. in Australia it's their mates, who they went to school with, what social circle you happen to circulate in. Nothing to do with making a sound business or doing something truly innovative. They'll fund 100 dog shit fintech businesses "revolutionising real estate / supply chain / insurance / banking" by "putting it on the blockchain / reducing friction in finding a provider" etc. None of them are worth a damn yet they hoover up money like a Sydney socialite hoovers up coke. I have given up trying to raise money here.
I know of uBlacklist, and it's nice, but I think python scripting can be more powerful than a simple Blacklist.
Of the platforms you listed, I only have a Reddit account. And I don't consider it to be "the same" as a TikTok account, but I think I understand what you mean.

Yes, I understand that everyone is grabbing for my attention, it's just that some companies do let the users have a little bit more autonomy or agency. Eg; sure, Twitter can be a cesspool, but AFAIK they don't have 'streaks' where you get a dopamine hit for signing on every day or messaging with your friends every day. (That's an example of a thing I'm pretty sure exists on either TikTok or SnapChat. Like I said, I'm not a user of those platforms.)
Yes, "can't" should be replace by "shouldn't".

If there's a physical possibility, it's just a matter of time before someone finds a way, as was proved by the CPU cache bugs leaking information.
The word that caught my attention was demise. It doesn’t square if you believe that the US is seeing record employment and record stock market returns, as more than 50% of US households have stock-based investments.

I was asking, and still hoping to see, the metrics and data that point to demise of the US middle class.
Sorry but no, you don't have the freedom to kill people. You must not have the freedom to blatantly destroy the planet for your own little profits.
Donald Goines becomes a pop-culture star half a century after his violent death
> This is the absolute wrong approach.

You didn’t actually say ‘why’ you think it is the wrong approach. My ‘why’ is pretty simple. Twitter (and social media giants more broadly) are ubiquitous and virtually all societal communications take place on their platforms. Having the ability to speak on the street is no longer as relevant as having access to these platforms, and upholding the spirit of a free society with classically liberal values requires that ideas have equal access to these platforms. Put another way, social media is the new public square and it must be regulated as such for society to function. Leaving that aside, there is lots of reason to believe social media companies are common carriers already (https://reason.com/volokh/2021/07/05/social-media-platforms-...).

As for your technological note on W3C recommendations - I don’t think that’s really relevant. The tech giants are all shielded from competition due to network effects (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect) and their sheer size (access to capital). The network effects are a huge barrier to entry for any competition (even if an alternate product technically works) and the access to capital makes it easy for them to simply copy others’ innovation, which we’ve seen repeatedly. These companies need to be broken up for anti-trust reasons, and they need to be also regulated as the telecom utilities they are.
The information itself is neutral. The channel is not. Unfortunately, this information isn't digested by the sort of critical and investigative journalism that should exist in our society. The obviously wrong or misleading information gets "fact checked", but this just gets ignored. There's no room for nuance when the prevailing belief is that "everyone must get vaccinated or people will die".
Airbnb will hide guests’ names to fight discrimination (but only in Oregon)
https://you.com
If you're paying for the electricity fairly, why should someone have a say in how you are using it? Electricity companies could limit these people, but they choose not to.
I have been gravely disappointed with the climate moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the planets great stumbling block in his stride toward salvation is not the Oil Industry or the Coal Barrons, but the political pragmatist, who is more devoted to "order" than to climate justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action(Roadblocks etc)"; who arrogently believes he can set the timetable for preventing ecosystem collapse; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the wildlife to wait for "better economic conditions." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

The middle ground between inaction and violence (blowing up a pipelines & boardrooms) is not classifying gaseous hydrocarbons a form of "green energy.
95% of my Google searches are suffixed with "MDN" or "site:reddit.com".

If I'm looking for something particularly technical I'll search HN. That especially helps when I feel at my wit's end about some general concept like "sinuses" or "parenting". It's more common to get my mind blown by some offhanded revelation dropped by an HN commenter.
> Pilots are getting far too comfortable flying what the computer is telling them instead of flying the actual aircraft.

Can confirm. I flew with someone recently who has a very fancy integrated glass cockpit, and shortly after takeoff he turned the controls over to me. The flight director was very clearly giving incorrect indications, turning us onto a track 90° from our intended course, so I ignored it and flew what I knew to be correct before turning my attention to getting the radios set up right. It took an unbelievable amount of arguing to convince the owner that the aircraft was configured incorrectly, and that I was in fact flying the airplane correctly. And all I had to do to notice this was look outside.
Perfect clip, thx
It stopped showing up on the same searches.
They seem keep doing just that.
We are trying - with no-tracking principles and practices
https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-...
100% I end up prefixing my searches with Reddit it.. or stackoverflow. It wasn't the case even just 4 years ago.. now if if top results aren't it chances are that rest is even more completely off mark
The deaths could all be fire extinguisher attacks
What kind of value?
Some rss feeds only include a snippet of the entire item text. One nice thing about rss-bridge is that bridges can expand an existing feed to include the entire item content.

In essence the project is a scraper that generates web feeds.
I worked at radio shack. We didn't have certification program but you are forced to learn quickly.

It was less about selling and more about people walking in knowing what they wanted or wanting to browse around and once in awhile someone with a problem that you had to piece together components to help. It was unlike other electronic stores I worked. You had to understand how invertors worked, rc cars and sell computers while trying to maintain an 80% names/address recorded.

You did sell. You entire got paid minimum wage or a % of what you earned for a two week period. 4% for name brand stuff 10% for store brand. My first two week period I sold computer after computer got highest sales in the district. For the next month or longer the minimum. Replacing the computer inventory took forever and I wasn't as good selling all of their other products. Great fun learning experience.
> more useful than anything else

134 TWh in a year and you can`t even use this currency in the grocery store.

> more efficient than anything else

PoW is inefficient by design.
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In the meantime, check out the uBlackList extension to block individual sites from Google's (and a few other sites') results
Or https://github.com/IvanMathy/Boop
Everywhere sugar appears in nature (with the exception of beehives), it comes with fiber that slows its absorption. Uniquely (with the exception of bees) we separate it from the fiber and deliver the sugar without. The whole food-processing industry is largely devoted to removing and discarding the fiber we need to remain healthy.
Right. We need direct payments to be an option. If someone is going to pay the reviewer, I'd rather it be me than the product manufacturer.

But I also agree that I think we're in the minority, and that most people won't do direct payments. I think this is the reason for the aggressive push for yearly subscriptions, because they know that a) it's hard to get people to pull out their wallet for each transaction, and b) it's hard to get people to come back to spend money in future transactions.

As much as I want a general micropayments system, I know that even I will spend more cognitive effort than I should when deciding something like "will this article be worth 10 cents to me?" The difference between $0 and even $0.01 is emotionally very large.
How anyone can call this a "crisis" is beyond me.
Having gone through two twin pregnancies (where the odds of these tests being correct are especially low) we declined all of them. Anecdotally, I know of several parents who had a positive test for genetic disorder, went ahead with the pregnancy anyway and children were perfectly healthy. Until these tests are close to 100% reliable I don’t see the point.
> spammified versions of the same

Seriously. What's up with these websites that are copies of Github/stackoverflow with a different UI? Cash grab for ad pennies?