skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is as good a place as any to ask: what does it mean to "make your bed"? I've been hearing this expression for years, and always have a vague impression of arranging your blankets, pillows, etc., neat and tidy - but that's just my assumption based on context.

Growing up in India in the 90s, we generally made our beds (in a more literal sense) in the night: unrolling a dried grass mat [1] on the floor, a few blankets on top of that (a woollen one in the middle if it's winter), and a pillow or two. In the morning, the blankets were folded, mat rolled up, pillows and everything stashed away in a shelf until it's night again. The first time I came across this expression, I thought this is what they meant - to make this contraption in the morning itself!

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dried+grass+mat&iax=images&ia=imag...
I find that's true in specialised subs, but not wider ones. Like, if you're looking for a good coffee grinder, r/coffee will only recommend the top-end stuff, but if you search in something r/AskReddit you get more 'approachable' results.
I think it depends on the person. I am an avid gamer (have all consoles and a high end Pc) but despise all multiplayer games! I love RPG and strategy games… the less frenetic the gameplay the better! For me it’s all about the story, the immersion in a new world and the mental challenge! I don’t understand how people can waste time shooting around at random people!
I'm missing a collaborative whiteboard with the following features:

* Infinite scroll

* Undo/redo

* Pasting images

* LaTeX math input
It's planned to reopen in 2030, although parts are open now I believe. Personally I think a better solution would be a nature reserve.

If I were choosing somewhere to live, I'd be more worried about the risk of another tsunami which killed 20,000 people than low level background radiation, same with Earthquakes in California, or Tornados in the middle of the US, or Hurricaines in the South East of the US.

Many places in the exclusion zone are about as radioactive as Cornwall, and people pay a premium to live there. There are far more radioactive cities in the world.
This might be true where you are. It is not universally so.
The efficacy of SEO is largely dependent on a search monoculture. They only need to optimize for one set of unknown rules, and that's something that is relatively easy to do well with simple machine learning tools.

Real competition in search is probably the best way of reigning in the SEO sector.
Google is no longer a search engine. It’s a propaganda tool funded by ads and run under the guise of providing results to search queries.
That's standard for game devs in the Linux world. The less dependencies you have to rely on the distribution for, the better - Windows stuff is either already present or shared OS-wide with binary backwards compatibility (=DirectX), so you can get away with shipping stuff that has a chance to run even 25 years in the future without major modification.
Quitting social media is actually really interesting. My experience without facebook (I never had Twitter) for two years has been almost all positive. All you said is also reasonable but it’s a bit like saying that drug addicts should use drugs for fun. Some people need to quit, and they’ll be better that way. That doesn’t mean those who can manage should too; I envy you very much and wish all the best.
It sounds rather like a public explanation for pricing changes. The pricing changes would be based on changes to underwriting, and reinsurance costs.
… unless you intend to exec after forking
I understand that's the value proposition of the research, but the difference between theory and practice is.. we just had a plague and it's not clear the research helped in any tangible way. In fact it may very well have been the catalyst.
Doesn't that go wrong immediately with the "toss me" phrase?
Sounds reasonable. Adding an extra step of complexity on the way to getting there can probably make a difference and make you less likely to go there when you don't really need to.
I unfortunately share your experiences. However in Germany there is a foundation called “Stiftung Warentest” [1], which does independent testing of products. With reviews full of Amazon affiliate links dominating search results, I tend to purchase their tests for ~3 Euros more often than ever.

However this only works for popular product categories, but less so for specialized equipment.

My impression is also
that affiliate links hurt consumers in the long run as they reduce the selection of products in reviews or blogs to those the authors can earn money with. This however leaves out potential alternatives. More often than not the winner of product categories (at least those I was researching) of independent tests were not available from
sites running affiliate programs.
For example a consumer-grade lawn mower from an otherwise professional gardening company or a tent from a Scandinavian brand.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung_Warentest
> That’s why I’m building a custom search engine, where you index whatever you want, your bookmarks, your Twitter likes, building your own brain’s search engine

Link to the Repo please?
a shed is better than nothing.
A second order policy problem is to design good policy to make good policy makers. Meaning that it's hard for a public company entity to codify company policy so that their people in charge of search results are not at all susceptible themselves to sliding in an advantage here or there to assist some group that they become financially enmeshed with.
> But capitalism as a social structure incentivizes not to care because there's no (immediate) profit involved in respecting your environment

Ok. So what are the viable political/economic alternatives?
Rose colored glasses. Workers in stores were the original "affiliate marketers", in a lot of stores (especially electronic ones) workers were/are being paid to push the most expensive products.

Then when you try to pay, you get upsold warranties.
PR: https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-q4-2021-vehicle-pro...

Predictions: https://twitter.com/TroyTeslike/status/1477672233527095296

Last quarter had a 1.2 millions car/year run rate out of two factories, one car every 26 seconds.
I would want that, but that puts Google (and other companies) in the legal position of a publisher, which means that they're liable for "a bad thing".
I'm sure every blue collar worker and mother of two has the time and temperament to sign up to the Bene Gesserit school

It's amazing how far the ideology of the unfettered market economy has seeped into our lives to the point that the idea that we should retrain the entire human species to fend off media manipulation seems somehow more practical than simply putting an end to the unethical business practices of an industry.

Imagine if a local company was pouring waste into the river and someone argued the solution was to offer anti-poison resilience training rather than stopping the problem at the source.
So glad to hear that things turned out well for you and your family.
I was thinking this last night, as I searched for where Android Studio installed NDK and was directed to an article that started from how to open Windows Explorer... with a whole bunch of how to troubleshoot opening Windows Explorer to pad the article for adverts.
That's a pretty big overstatement. For example, using insufficient insulation is a code violation, but it is not going to kill you.
??? I cannot parse that sentence.
Yes, exactly. Lockdowns and vaccines are not the only covid prevention policies. Stimulus checks and unemployment compensation (along with their universality and the ease and speed of obtaining them), testing availability, and general healthcare access also fit into the "covid prevention policies" category, and can be reasonably suspected to have had some impact on life expectancy.
> It's like getting banned from radio in the 1940s and saying, "Who cares? There's still newsletters and speaking engagements."

It's more like getting banned from one radio station in the 1940s and going "Who cares? She can still go on a bunch of other radio stations, and most people are capable of tuning in, if they want to."

She's on Facebook. She's on Gab. She's on Parler. She's on Gettr. She went on a cross-country tour last year. She appears on TV and will probably get even more TV appearances out of this. Anyone who wants to hear whatever she's saying has their choice of outlets from which to do so.
You can enforce penalties (bans for the entire brand/domain/etc) to deter gaming the system, which should take some pressure off the humans which can then focus on the top issues reported by end-users.

It won't be perfect, but at least Pinterest wouldn't be polluting image search for years for example.
Right - this was called result diversity. But in markets like the US, where avg revenue per user is high, polarization is also high and there is some belief that big software companies have a role in changing societal wrongthink, you get these types of results. For this type of a query, I'd think P@1 would be 0% for some 30+% of the society.

Perhaps that'll be readjusted in a year, when covid is not top of mind for a majority of the users.
Hmm, how does this work exactly? Is my money locked up for 13 years while we wait for the result? That seems like a poor return on investment. Do I have to trust this website will still be around 13 years from now?
If TikTok has the ability to human moderators then I don’t understand how a search engine couldn’t get away with the same thing.
HN is a special kind of job board to steer people towards YC companies. You can tell this is the case because they regularly post job openings at YC companies that have comments disabled on the front page. Is this form of advertising bad? I don’t think so, but it’s good to recognize that there is a transaction here.
Part of the thing that moves terms from "hype" to "real" is: money.

Take the example of a singer.

v1: "I'm an aspiring singer."

"Oh cool. What experience do you have?"

"So far I've played at home & family gatherings..." (<- not real)

v2: "I'm an aspiring singer."

"What experience do you have?"

"I have a 10 million dollar contract with Interscope." (<- real)

By that standard, one of the reasons that web3 is 'real' is because so much money has been poured into it.

At this point, there are enough highly skilled (Google-quality) engineers, working on web3 things, who are funded for years, that real profit-earning web3 companies will result.

So web3 will end being judged a success, on its own terms, purely because of that.
I bought my home water filter based on a Consumer Reports recommendation. I feel that's still a reliable source. I think you can sign up for online access for a month to do all your research.

I also really like the Wirecutter but I know not everyone here agrees with me.
Same here. It’s not to say that I don’t find other stuff (like gaming, reading, programming, etc) that will take large chunks out of time, but at least I feel like it was worth it. My experience with social media is that I almost always feel like shit for wasting my time afterwards.
Imagine a parallel situation. There is a type `NonEmptySet`, with an `intersection` operation. Now, given `NonEmptySet(1, 2).intersection(NonEmptySet(3, 4))`, and the requirement that `intersection` produces another `NonEmptySet` what does that return? How about a set containing everything except 1, 2, 3, 4? Does that seem reasonable? That's analagous to what `(unsigned)3 - (unsigned)4` does.

In short, the operations on `unsigned int` do not really behave like "non-negative integer"; as such it's a weird match to use them for that purpose.
It's true they are focusing on false positives, but the authors are using the ratio of false positives to true positives to paint a picture that the tests are inaccurate, when in reality the tests are accurate. What this article is looking at is called the "sensitivity" of a test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity
The US has Consumer Reports, which is similar I think... but yeah, only works for major product categories.
Going through something like this is very VERY stressful. When you get a negative you immediately forget about it. When you get a positive you die inside. Speaking from experience here.

84% wrong sounds, to me, as an accurate description. Experiencing this from the inside out, only the false/true positive ratio matters. (Given sufficiently low false negative rates, of course)

84% of people whose world is turned upside down are actually getting a wrong diagnosis.
Looks like one of those “how many circles can you count” tests.
spending nearly all of your time with others makes you accountable and removes opportunities for self-harm.

Never would have seen it coming that encouraging people to stay isolated for years at a time and actively fearing their own proximity to one another would be detrimental.
I probably read it at least thirty years ago and it may have been old when I read it. From what I gather, that general concept -- about doing rather than thinking or feeling -- was a more common view before modern psychology, so works from the 1800s may touch on it more than more recent works.

I think there was a term for that general framing but I have no idea what it was.

Good luck in your search. Let us know if you succeed.
Wow, what an embarrassing mess. Front page feature of bad statistics and bad medicine.
Oh? School for what? Maybe general contracting?

A while back I looked briefly into what it would take to be an electrician, and it seemed like there was quite a lot to know. I wonder how soon you get to the stage where you could wire up a shed like this with full confidence that you've done everything to code.

From there, how many other subjects do you have to get right? I learned how to swing a hammer as a kid but I wouldn't know jack about designing load bearing structures, weather proofing, foundations, hanging windows and doors, etc — let alone plumbing, HVAC, etc.
Part of why this is personal to me, is that I am immunocompromised and vaccines don't work for me. I got the shots but efficacy numbers for people like me are very poor.

I haven't stepped out in 2 years because of antivaxxers. Now they are pretending to be holocaust victims, because employers are now prioritizing employee safety. I am compelled to overturn this narrative wherever I find it.
Try Searx, it allows filtering search results with one ! and redirection with two !!: https://searx.me/.
Most websites and platforms moderate for abuse and aren't classified as publishers, I don't see why this would be any different here.
I mean... I guess I understand, maybe just the threshold feels a little high for introverts like me (and the others who have commented here with accounts lasting many years and <501 karma).

Also, for some reason, I sorta had the assumption that HN users wouldn't be that level of malicious (maybe because these rules exist, or maybe because they seem smarter than the average bear, or maybe because I'm crazy and see HN as some getaway paradise oasis that I can escape to and get some rational reasonable informative content).
Almost useless in my opinion (because not a lot of practical invariants can be expressed with simple ranges) and will only create confusion when using non-0, non-1 based indexing and also create confusion about the representation/the space required for representation. The examples shown there are similar to the Animal-Cat-Dog examples that are popular to "prove" that classes and inheritance are useful.

That, plus the type incompatibility that arises from mixing such types with other integer types.
I am starting to think that Panda in 2011 caused Google to take such a huge revenue hit that they never attempt similar move anymore.
What about HVAC? This structure will be unbearable in the summer months.
Ha! I was searching for the same (water softening systems) for Mexico... the amount of signal to noise ratio is so small in google, that it's mostly unusable.
I wonder if the world needs a stackoverflow for products/travel/restaurant/recipies etc. Something with a reputation system that works pretty well in SO - i.e. if you are constantly ask stupid answers or given stupid/marketing answers, you get downvoted and at some point lose your ability to vote. Problem is of course, the majority decides what is "stupid", and to my experience going over Amazon Reviews, the majority seems not to get the idea.

Unfortunately SO doesn't allow questions a la "Which is the best printer for doing X" :(
> The bad news is that physical stores simply do not carry any diversity nowadays

They never did, you just didn't realize they didn't before the internet exposed you to the options.
Google is not really fighting the political version of search results either. One visually obvious comparison is the searches for "happy black family" vs "happy white family". With such clearly politically adjusted search results, how much do you trust your search for "is the coronavirus vaccine safe?"
Never… I have always been capable of extreme focus! Even now at work I regularly zone out for hours on a daily basis ignoring my phone and the company chat (people learned that of I don’t answer is because I am focusing and filtering out all distractions so just wait for me to answer when I can). Even most of my ho bows are about continuous focus on one single activity they leads me to ignore all the distractions!
Ignoring the type of conduit, there’s NM-B and CM (hopefully) in the same conduit.

NM-B is not allowed outdoors (in “wet locations”) [0], and running your Ethernet cable and your power in the same conduit is no good. (Look up the code for feeders supplying structures — this is not even close to how it’s done. Maybe you can squeak by and consider this a structure supplied by a branch circuit, but there are still code requirements to pay attention to.)

Also, that weather resistant barrier…. Imagine you are a drop of rainwater on the outside of that WRB, following gravity. Where do you go? Straight to the exposed OSB sticking out at the bottom. The sheathing is toast in heavy rain.

[0] NM-B has paper running through it. Good old-fashioned water-wicking brown paper. If it gets a bit wet in a flooded conduit (hint: every outdoor conduit can be assumed to flood eventually), it will wick along the cable and never dry.

edit: there is absolutely no requirement that buried conduit be metal. In my experience, despite code allowing various types of galvanized steel conduit to be buried, they tend to corrode severely long before whatever wires are in them are safely disconnected, creating a hazardous situation. You can use PVC, HDPE, etc.
It isn't just me noticing this.

I had a project take me into an unfamiliar knowledge space. Up until... 2018? I could have relied on Google to find the meaningful information.

The reason people accepted Google was that it dramatically lowered information acquisition costs through the Internet. That benefit doesn't seem as common now. Back to webrings.
Doesn't that all make sense? I'm not sure what the issue is here.

The statistic that vaccinated people 18-59 are dying at twice the rate presumably true, so of course the reuters article doesn't deny it. The Reuters article presents a totally believable explanation, which is also in the original article's comments. What they are saying is that this can be true for the age range 18-59, but simultaneously not be true for any specific age brackets within that range.

This is called Simpson's paradox. The explanation is that vaccination rates are higher among the elderly than among the young, and that the elderly have a higher baseline rate of death, and the Reuters article breaks out the numbers to demonstrate this. What's the big mystery exactly?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
I admit I'm somewhat pre-inclined to defend Google here a bit. That said:

I wonder how much of this is an issue of the incentives for producing different kinds of content, as opposed to just an issue of what Google chooses to optimize for.

I.e., yeah, lots of searches turn up mostly listicle bullshit. But is that because higher quality content is more difficult to monetize (e.g., people that are inclined to click on listicles are more likely to click on ads?), and therefore less likely to be produced in the first place, and even if produced, its authors are less likely to put in money/effort into SEOing it?
Municipal codes are written in blood. Little of the feedback I am seeing is negative about the trivial details.
Also, the punishment isn’t necessarily meted out on the actual perpetrator.
Good luck, keep up your hope. I hope things work out for you.
Guessing Migrine’s?
Probably easier to search FL-41 glasses.

I like my axon brand, very helpful.
Oh I think they’re different flags and projects. The article link flag has gaps between the rings.
A sizeable chunk of this is from fentanyl poisoning, which is now the leading cause of death amongst 18-45.
Re: boring.

In my experience it's boring when you start but gets more rewarding as you start to see progress. But that's kind of true of everything new you try. When you suck you hate it. When you get hlgood you love it.
Same for my experience buying a furnace. Science journal articles were my best source of information, because I worried the manufacturers and installers would be biased.

I'm not sure how this could be otherwise. Who's going to pay for someone to stay current on such things and publish an easy to understand summary?
One might also consider malnutrition and starvation kill many more than Covid worldwide, always and still
Secret? Okay, maybe not common knowledge vs. the # of people that use "normal" touch tone telephones (or used now, now that hardly anyone does!). But A/B/C/D are not a secret by any stretch. This stuff has been well documented for a few decades.

Back in the 90s when I first learned about this, and had a modem that would dial these additional digits just fine, I used to see how various PSTN LECs would handle them. Mostly ignored, but some results were interesting.

Also, back then I was living in the Greater Houston (Texas) area, and had to have a "metro" phone line to be able to get local calling to various NXXs outside of the core Houston (some even still came with a toll charge!). Often when dialing between these zones, the in-band MF tones used by the switching systems were audible to the caller.

A lot of this stuff really interested me, and I really got into phreaking and such as a teenager. See also red box, blue box, and all the other colors.
Show HN: Burglar simulation “The Clou” from 1994 ported right in the the browser
"The anti-vaccination people don’t need facts" but pro-vaccination people will downvote the official data.

Edit: ...as the parent comment was downvoted when I wrote this
The only reviews I respect nowadays are... tear downs. No innards, no fun.
Unfortunately printers would be proper hard to tear down on a review.
I'm actually surprised there's only one mention of Rust - a half-mention, really. Maybe it's not as omnipresent on every dev's mind as I thought.
They are correct for coffee grinders though, it's almost pointless to cheap out of them, you negate all the benefits of grinding it yourself when you buy a subpar non-burr grinder that doesn't produce a consistent grain size.

Buying a blade grinder is like buying a hammer with a spongy face.
Some settings in airplanes are last left. And this is okay. If you had to reset every setting at all times it would cost time. Sometimes you find one that you go "man I wish that wasn't last left." Then software updates fix that.

> I am not a pilot, but that's exactly what I thought when I read the memo too. They should be putting responsibility for the next flight on the next flight's crew, not the prior flight's crew.

It's not a matter of responsibility, it's a risk mitigation measure. Adding the additional check is common in aviation. Yes, it is the next crew's responsibility, however if you can mitigate a risk by adding some procedure to what the previous crew does, at little or no cost until a software update is released fixing the issue, you do that every time.