skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Digital products could have a “finished” state, which is great for users, but bad for companies.

Dropbox could’ve been a finished product in 2012. Simple and focused personal storage solution. But it can’t justify the valuation of Dropbox, the company.

Same for Evernote.

However, could Google be a "finished" product at some point (e.g., 2000)? Probably not. When google was incorporated in 1998, they indexed only 25 million web pages. As the number of web pages grows exponentially, Google as a product needs to evolve, e.g., doing a better job to fight web spams / blackhat seos... The problem is that the web evolves way faster than Google could improve their search result relevance.
Funny, we tried probably your solution for imports? urschrei/pyzotero is yours?
Failed all the time. To be fair we got a lot of 5xx, so maybe we were just out of luck.
Anyway time ran out with that project.
I personally move around enough that transaction costs from home ownership would have been larger than the rent I actually paid.
I am reasonable competent with python, autohotkey (which I like on windows), VBA (handy for ms office related automation), bash (awk, sed, grep mostly), though I'm no developer. I just write scripts to automate my job, and to learn.
12 weeks, 2 adults, no nutritional guidelines. For all we know the meat eater could have went supersize me while the vegan had to resort to multivitamins, just to push a narrative. There is no way to extrapolate this, specially to developing bodies.
I agree those results are not helpful.

The poster did say it was mostly for STEM subjects though...

More importantly though, I think "Best smartphone 2021" is really a search that has been conditioned on the crap google gives back now. At best you might expect to find a "best smartphones" listicle or something.

This is just a whitelisted search, so in my 5 min playing with it, it looks like popular or consumer queries are more likely to just provide reddit or wikipedia links, while more technical searches land on SO or documentation sites.

I think with a little tuning, this approach is great. Given the modern internet and all the crap there is, a manual whitelist of sites that are actually legit is always going to be superior to an algorithmic approach.
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Why would including a story with a recipe make a non-copyrightable recipe copyrightable?

Every recipe I can find on Google that isn't from a super-site with already strong SEO includes some sort of life anecdote. I find it hard to believe that:

1) This purported copyright trick even works, and

2) Everyone who publishes recipes online got the copyright trick memo, and

3) Everyone who publishes recipes online is interested in copyrighting their recipes as opposed to just having good ad revenue

I find it much easier to believe one of the following:

1) The life story section significantly improves SEO somehow, even if incidental. I'm not saying Google rewards life stories, but somehow there is a mechanism there that improves SEO, and people have cottoned on. Every recipe you're going find on Google has strong SEO, and hence every recipe you find has an SEO-improving life story attached to it.

2) Food bloggers include the stories for differentiation, to "build a stronger connection with their audience", and once a couple big ones started doing it, the rest followed.

3) Some sort of combination of 1 and 2.
Stop using it, it's only output is dopamine
Yeah, the results are absolute SEO garbage far too frequently. However, I'm not sure if this is Google "losing" to SEO ppl, or short-sighted greedy behaviour by Google ads ppl. It certainly could be the greedy case - SEO garbage pages tend to be packed full of Google Display ads, so Google gets paid by advertisers whenever you load them. If they are favouring pages with Google Display ads (or favouring domains that spend a lot of Google Search ads in "organic" results), then that'd hurt the results a lot.

Example of terrible SEO results - I saw an interesting magic trick on Reddit, and someone in the comments mentioned they did it using "Key BDM Scissors". I tried searching all sorts of different things along the lines of "how do Key BDM Scissors work", but literally every single result was just online stores selling the scissors, with the word-for-word exact same blurb on each page. No matter how I tweaked the query, the results were identical, and in no way explained how the trick scissors worked. Useless.
Is anyone using Zotero as a bookmark manager for articles to read later?

I’d love to try it for this purpose!
If you don’t have a car and/or money you don’t have an option to go any place else
This is a perfect example of how fundamentally flawed modern SEO is. @ohashi has been producing the best hosting reviews in the WordPress ecosystem since forever. It seems like at some point in the past decade on page quality signals have been completely drowned out by backlink signals that can be easily amplified by bigger content producers and a resurgence in cheap on page SEO tricks.

Sorry Kevin I don't know what the answer is, but I'd thought I'd just say a huge thanks for the great work you do year after year. It might be VERY niche but perhaps some sort of annual premium membership for professionals in the WP ecosytem might be something that might work? I'd certainly be happy to support your work on an ongoing basis with access to niche "members only" performance reports on things like WooCommerce benchmarking tests etc.
>>They won't sell at a loss. If prices go down they just won't sell,

This is absolutely false. Many people have sold at a lost over the years for many reason including job relocation, family issues, bankruptcy, etc et etc

That said Pricing going down != loss, for example I bought my current home 5 years ago, I bought it below market value, and after 5 years of value increases prices would have to drop more than 20% for me to sell it for less than I paid for it, and much more to "take a loss" if you calculate profit / loss properly factoring the value of shelter provided (which no one does)

>>People treat their house as a retirement fund, or just an investment.

That is a problem society has yes...
https://foursquare.com/city-guide layers Foursquare's proprietary labeled place taxonomy ( https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/categories ) on top of Mapbox maps which use OSM. It's certainly not all open source data, but if you want something that's an already-deployed website that doesn't use Google tech, it may be your best bet.
Why is anyone using two-digit years anywhere at all? This approach has already caused a lot of trouble 22 years ago. Do people learn nothing from their past mistakes?
I need to buy a 3 hole punch, and when searching for reviews yesterday I had the same problem of lots of hits with affiliate links and low quality sites.

I searched for “3 hole punch review” [1] here, and the results have zero relevancy.

First one is a Chinese cell phone company, second a Wikipedia page for an episode of the office, third a thesaurus page with synonyms for ‘colorful’ and fourth a link to the Wikipedia page of Yellow Submarine.

I can’t even imagine how you get there from “3 hole punch review”

[1] https://notrashsearch.github.io/?q=3+hole+punch+review
I just realized that I was not a real alcoholic when I stopped drinking altogether without any withdrawal symptoms or anything like that. But yeah, it's a slippery slope for sure.
Which? https://www.which.co.uk/ is great, based in the UK, not very expensive to join for a month to look up one product.
Why is violence not justified when the sovereign authority is itself founded on nothing more than violence, as has been the case for most historical governments?

I would say the opposite. Violence is always justified against a non-democratic government (virtually all governments historically), as non-democratic governments have no basis for legitimacy other than having been the most successful at applying violence.
> It's extra weird because RSUs don't necessarily count towards salary for mortgage purposes, but they're (for now) a significant chunk of my net pay.

Are you sure this is true? In my (admittedly limited) experience, the way it works is that the bank asks for your annual income and you have to provide proof of that, which you can do by providing a statement from the brokerage account your company vests your RSUs to. RSUs issued from your (presumably publicly traded) company are liquid, so you can pretty easily claim them as part of your annual income and get a mortgage against that income.
While the author makes plenty of good observations, there is a huge elephant in the room that he leaves out: the main problem with mortgage loans currently is that the government prints money to fund them. I don't understand how the author could have a whole section on the lender's perspective that starts with the question "Who supplies the capital for mortgages, and what are they getting out of it?" and never give the obvious answer: "The government supplies it, and gets more political power out of it by making more institutions dependent on the government".
>things you can attach eBPF programs to

>...

>seccomp / landlock security things

Landlock does not use *BPF.

Seccomp can only use BPF at this point, not eBPF (though there has been some work on it).
I agree they are great feature; I would have switched sooner if I had known about them. And hey, there's even a bang for StartPage "!sp" :-D
When we bought, we had enough for 15% down but could not reach 20%. Since we had to get mortgage insurance anyway, we were advised to just put 5% down and hold back the rest to cover moving expenses and setup for a new house. 5 years later we had paid off enough to refinance at a lower rate, shorter term, and without the PMI.
There's a lot of sibling comments going on about whether the value they're looking at is the right one. What the Times is showing as their headline number is Positive Predictive Value (True positive/(TP+FP)), which depends on the prevalence in the population. The "methods section" here is a little vague, but given the low prevalence I'm willing to accept on face value that it's basically accurate (i.e. that it's not assuming that the families getting these tests are not orders of magnitude more likely to be positive for these diseases). If the test result truly said one patient's 'daughter had a “greater than 99/100” probability of being born with Patau syndrome', then that's concerning, but given the fairly narrow quotes around the number, I'd suspect that what is actually on the test result is not inconsistent with the fairly low PPV on these screens.
The official posts will happen on Monday. They are always the first US business day of the month.

Please see the FAQ. There is an official account which makes these posts.
Ahh yes Chess, well known for destroying concentration .. /s
why converting to Tcl? Job related? The joy of learning?
It's not, but it really has come a far way and I'm extremely impressed. I'm kind of the other way around, I've never been more than a very casual gamer and I'm simply not interested in keeping a separate Windows pc or dual boot install for games. If I can't get it working on Linux I'm not bothering with it. Right now I can play any game I want to play with very minimal tinkering (that probably says more about me than the state of Wine/Proton, but still).
I find HN’s method pretty effective, and the fading-comment UI implementation delightfully clever.
What irks me most about people that complain about large binaries for empty programs is that every program past Hello World will actually use all these features.

So why waste the effort putting in a code path to disable these things except for some philosophical ideal?

Code in Asm or C if you need a hello world that can fit on a floppy disk, you're not really doing anything substantial anyways...

There's plenty of acceptable middle ground between Go binaries using 2mb minimum and full electron apps eating your ram.
While you're not wrong about nails vs screws for framing - this a 6x6 box, it's not going to matter.
Most people’s experience with HVAC specialists comes from dealing with the technicians who install and service these systems in our homes. It turns out there’s an entire subfield of mechanical engineering dedicated to inventing, designing, and improving HVAC systems.

Wherever there are engineers, there are academics who do engineering research. They have journals of their own to publish this research.

As to the question of reviews, I’m not sure any articles actually review specific furnace models. The point of reading the papers is to educate yourself on the principles behind the technology so you can read manufacturer’s technical specifications and avoid the non-technical marketing language.
Who is the photo of?
The mental relief of paying off a mortgage is much greater than any mortgage repayment schedule. The day people pay off their mortgage and own it outright is up there with birth of kids.
No comment on content. However:

> What's up with the and rsp,0xfffffffffffffff0? That's because the function manually aligns the stack to the next 16-byte boundary. I'm not sure why the stdlib does this. The SystemV ABI (§2.3.1) guarantees an initial alignment of 16 already, so it should be superfluous.

Linux does not make any such guarantee, however; so in order for _start to call functions using the sysv ABI in a compliant fashion, it must provide them with an aligned stack.
The official post will be posted automatically tomorrow, because it's not posted on weekends.
In all the years I've used Consumer Reports I've never seen them rate moving services. I just jumped on their site now, and there are no reviews for moving services.
An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020)
Also because YouTube removed downvotes, it becomes basically useless for searching product reviews.
Have an architect as a friend? I have such a friend, and it's always fascinating when talking to him about building codes and such (such as the type of covering for network cables in a commercial setting depends upon the type of A/C used in the building, due to concerns over fire hazards and air intake).
I'm not trying to justify legalizing theft and fraud - these are most generally justified by property rights, which are somewhat tangential here. Neither of them set a precedent for the government intervening in honest interactions between people. Lots of things are widely considered "bad", that doesn't mean it wouldn't be tyrannical to make them illegal.
> 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.

Link?
So they will destroy attention even further once the bugs in the algos are tuned out?
Yup, just install the browser addon and it works for this too.
I think your site is great, I've thought about something like this before but didn't realize how simply it could be implemented.

Stupid question though: where is the list of whitelisted sites? Is that something you set up separately with google? I scanned though the code and expected to find a list somewhere, but obviously you do it in a different way
>> If you want to solve the problem of product research in an old-school way, Consumer Reports still exists. Their business model for almost a century has been to produce independent reviews of products, and charge for the reviews. It is also run as a non-profit.

> Sorry I have to weigh in here and say that Consumer Reports is a pay-to-play service now, where often the worst products & services are not the best, and often times criminally bad.

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

Honestly, "moving companies" is not a category that seems like it would be in Consumer Reports' wheelhouse, and I'm surprised they offered any recommendations in that area at all.

Also, your anecdote doesn't really support the notion that they're "pay-to-play, just that they did a bad job in some category.

Are you actually thinking of the Better Business Bureau but got it mixed up with Consumer reports? I would expect the BBB to rate moving services and I've heard that they have some kind of membership program for businesses that seems to allow better control over complaints, which is pretty close to "pay-to-play."
You can buy most any product at Amazon, so the affiliate links are not an incentive for CR to rank one product better than the competitor they would otherwise also link to.

Plus Amazon affiliate links are standardized and automated to such a degree that’s there’s no chance they would manually penalize or reward CR for editorial content.
The metaverse can have teleportation or something.
Google benefits from a chaotic and spam-filled ecosystem. At this point technology and network speed are at a point that anyone could re-code a Google if all they did was ignore 99.9% of the wesites out there that are crap and that Google (and Amazon and a few other spam-benefiters) had a hand in creating or promoting.

This is why Adwords has to go. It allowed Google to weaponize the collective man-power of the world to create and regurgitate new ad-space for Google to monetize. Ad-space that didn't exist, and doesn't need to exist.
>(*) I know we all disagree on how that revenue should be spent, but the purpose of taxation is all the same

The purpose of income tax is to avoid taxing land. You're basically paying taxes twice. Once to the government and again to the owner of the land who is making a profit off the services your government has provided via income taxes.

Also, almost all welfare systems are designed to make poverty sustainable, which is why simply getting rid of them solves nothing, they are just a symptom of an unequal society that wants to keep it that way. Getting people back to work is a more effective way to reduce welfare than cutting welfare spending.

E.g. farmers get paid by welfare recipients, cutting welfare may end up costing farmers a job that is absolutely necessary to society so farm subsidies are increased to maintain food security. If people get a job they still need to eat, so getting rid of the farmer and all the other people that are getting paid via the welfare recipient is nonsense.
Trivial for someone in the know can mean (something like) "If you have a PhD and a decade of experience, it's obvious." People not in the know who look things up online have the problem that they often cannot properly judge the quality of the information they are seeing.

I'm confident that some of the people on HN saying "Oh. God. Don't do that." actually know whereof they speak. But reading the article in no way tripped any warning lights for me. I just thought it was an enjoyable read for other reasons.

This is not the right forum to say that. I said that and it was downvoted and I deleted that comment to leave the one above cuz reasons, not due to the downvote per se, but the downvote helps tell me my enthusiasm for the writing quality etc is unwelcome here because so many people here do know it's bad construction.

I agree zoning is an issue. It's a huge issue, as is car-centric design.

But, no, it's not trivial from my perspective but I feel like it ought to be easier to sort the wheat from the chaff and so forth. The internet seems like a huge opportunity to foster better processes for DIY projects.

But, then, I naively thought nearly two years back that "Surely, the CDC or WHO will have a list of recommended OTC meds for self care for Covid to discourage people from going to the hospital and spreading it." and was unable to find such.

I was at one time pursuing an online degree. I have had a college class in online search. If an officially recommended list of OTC drugs existed at that time and I was unable to find it, I am skeptical that "your average Joe" could find it.

I think there is so much potential to do things better than this. The internet is a tremendous opportunity to help make effective answers available for "free" to the masses and we see some of that happening but I remain shocked and confused by the huge gaps in such that still remain.

(Edited slightly for clarity.)
I would bet a large amount of money this is the correct answer.

It certainly is the approach facebook has taken with their marketplace place search engine, where the signal to noise is just barely high enough to keep the audience and there is absolutely no tooling exposed (verbose search etc) to increase the signal rate.
It's only toxic for people who don't do anything with it. Even in Australia where real estate prices are insane the average 30 year loan is paid off in 14 years (note this is longer than earlier times.)

Also the ability to refinance the loan can allow a person to take advantage of equity to either purchase additional properties or reduce their monthly dues. If the property is rented this can be the difference between the property requiring funds every month to one that makes the owner money every month - at which point it really doesn't matter what the duration of the loan is, because it's now producing income.
only in the most trivial cases

https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/YWPP5qdbx
Yup. Ultimately you are responsible4 for filtering your content.
Searching for content which you know is on GitHub is the biggest issue for me. Now rather than returning results for code from GitHub, you instead get results from sites which copy content from GitHub.

It’s actually useful they perform this or else some of that content would never appear in Google’s search results.
> Repeated my search on Youtube to find reviews or unboxing. Most video search results were basically "Youtube SEO" again - the most viewed/top-ranked videos did never show a single actual print run or even the printer available. It was mostly marketing websites turned into video (slowly scrolling/moving over product description or pictures clearly taken from the web). And of course, affiliate links in the description.

This. The web would be a much better place if Netizens didn't continue to monetize garbage like MKBHD, Unbox Therapy and others that provide absolutely no value in "reviews". They're all just shills for product placement at this point. And yet these paid for commercials rack up millions of views and get pushed to the top of YouTube results whether they're of value or not. YouTube doesn't want new creators - instead they've invested in a few that push the content they want based on the advertising dollars that are rolling in. Google isn't search comparative to the early days of the web. Now it's garbage results driven by SEO hackers. A world without Google would be a much better place IMO.
Singapore and Hongkong are not very selfish. They have public land ownership for example.
Guess NFLX are the suckers this time, too bad they didn't know you and hire you as an expert witness!
It sounds like you might not be the target demo. Zotero is mainly for generating bibiliographies not note taking. It has notes in it but it is pretty basic.
For stuff like that you should probably just buy a recipe book from a reliable author.
> every program past Hello World will actually use all these features.

Not on embedded.
If someone consents to be murdered, who are we indeed to stop them? My argument doesn't justify non-consensual murder at all however.
Intrasectoral transactions: an important productivity statistic
Possibly confusing this with the better business bureau (which is totally pay to play)?