skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Affiliate marketing reviewers are the internet's parasites
Complete side note, why are you adding a leading zero to you years (or decades, in this case)?
Americans’ views about billionaires have grown somewhat more negative (2021)
> Very few people end up yelling at everyone around when something does not work out in game.

I remember growing up many people's parents getting mad for weeks over football game outcomes they had no control over.
While I can understand the appeal, restricting your search engine to only ~120 websites out of hundreds of millions (?) is basically giving up on the Web.

(BTW, any good search engines these days that aren't indirectly using Google or Bing ?)
Eh, we purchased a home (a fixer-upper) at 10% down and put that cash towards improving it. We had to pay a modest amount of PMI (about $85/month). Refinanced it 3 years later; new assessed value put us over 20% equity and we no longer had to carry it.

I assume they let us do this because we purchased below our “max budget” - so even if we took a pay cut, paying the mortgage would still be feasible.

2 of many factors that contributed to the lending crisis in 2008 aren’t necessarily a factor: the first being extremely relaxed lending standards (as in people with no real verifiable income getting loans) and the second being the proliferation of ARMs. My understanding is standards tightened during the pandemic but I could be wrong.
the free internet was cancelled w/ Richard Stallman I guess. This is what we get. what a great future we computer folks have provided to our next generation.
Dono what's with your strawmen arguments here or what your point is besides being argumentative, but I didn't say anything about best. I'm gonna just assume they all see some value in it and you don't have any inside knowledge.
I know that FFXIV, at least, does have actual constraints on supply. Square-Enix is having trouble getting more server hardware at the moment, so they can't easily add more instances.
> but at the end of the day, Google and FB are advertising companies trying to be more than that.

Looked at Netflix clicked on a movie that I though may be interesting, it was overdubbed in English since it was a Korean movie. I watched maybe 5 minutes of it then exited. Go to YouTube and suddenly Korean videos are being suggested.

At a car dealership with my sister she asked me to be there for support when she leased a car. At home same day hours later YouTube again it is plastered with "how to buy a car" videos. I hadn't been looking for a car, never searched for anything like that in the previous days ever.
Agreed. I am really surprised that people aren't calling this out more. It is an example of terrible reasoning to go from "google search is bad" to "it must be bad on purpose so they can sell us stuff" without any actual evidence.
I'm sure there'd be some workable ways to have people take up the same exact spot, too.
Thank you for explaining the screw/nail/framing thing. I knew nails were used for framing but always thought "screws are better, why not use screws for everything?". TIL.
Part of engineering is choosing the right tools, and that means avoiding tools that have booby traps built in to their design unless there is a very compelling reason to accept that risk. C was a good tool when computers were much more resource-constrained than they are now and security was much less of a concern, but those days are long gone.
Loving Someone with Depression
No, there is a lot around that, which results in not eating any sugar.

It's really simple and intuitive once you actually think about it. If you found yourself in a situation in which eating sugar was more effort you would be less prone to doing it. Not doing something makes it easier to not doing it afterwards too.

Treatment of any addiction steers right away from the "just don't". It's silly, humans just don't work by simply willing things into place harder and harder, they can either just do things or not, in the former case it's not a problem and in the latter there are things that work and can transition into the former.
The problem with a percentage-based down payment is that wages do not keep up with the housing market.

In my country, the price of real estate appreciated by 20% in a single year. Wages are likely negative given the high inflation. On a longer time period of 25 years, houses have tripled in price, yet wages have not.

So whilst the percentage stays the same, the absolute value of the down payment grows out of control and is no longer affordable.
My friend in Germany pointed me to a site like CR but with a better track record. I have to ping him for the name again.
Money doesn't store wealth. You make an agreement that a person in the future gives you wealth called a loan.

Bitcoin investors expect the people of the future to work for them even though they made no such agreement.
The blackberry was the Avro Arrow of our time. I have such animosity toward how they fumbled their market lead, and how Nortel previously lost all its IP to "hackers." As a country we deserved it.

I hope Shopify heeds the lessons of previous examples and stays the hell away from Canadian politics and government, as they too will be smothered with subsidies and breaks with strings attached, and then get taken out by someone who still has to impress consumers and succeeds at it.
Zotero is, if you're not in the market for a closed source silo like EndNote, the only game left in town. Mendeley went full on Evil, and Papers for Mac is Mac only, closed source, and missing dozens of functionalities that are absolutely a must have in academic writing and research.

An absolute must have is BetterBibTex (https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/), which adds better Citekey management and, my personal highlight, "export on add" functionality. In short, everything I save into a specific folder in my library gets exported as a .bib file right away. That way I can click a button in my browser and have the citation ready in my LaTeX editor, Word, or Obsidian (https://github.com/hans/obsidian-citation-plugin) within seconds.

The latest beta also adds full Markdown export for Notes. I tend to keep my notes on papers in Zotero, attached to the paper, but export them for filing in Obsidian (which I then feed into MkDocs for our work group's large repo).

Unless you need Apple Pages support, which Apple keeps to itself and only sells for mighty moolah to a select few, Zotero can do anything EndNote can do, is Open Source, and with that won't drive your PI up the wall with yet another expense.
I guess what the parent is saying is that, while the same kind of bugs can happen with signed integers, they are less common than with unsigned integers because they typically involve very big or very small values such as INT_MAX or INT_MIN. This is due to the fact that the "most common values" (close to 0) are at the beginning of the range of unsigned integers, but at the middle of the range of signed integers, so the risk of underflow is lower for signed integers in practice.

I can understand where they come from, especially regarding error handling: for integers whose value must not be negative, it is easier to check for underflow by checking if the result is not negative rather than by checking that the result is not eg smaller than the previous value (eg for addition).

That being said, "number must not be negative" really ought to be encoded in the type system, so that the user of the type knows that they must actually look for underflow.

I guess that part of the problem is that we don't want to check for underflow after each operation, so checking the negativity is a way to "coalesce" several checks after multiple operations. However this is fragile, because the multiple operations could end up producing a positive value, even if some intermediate values where negative.

For full safety, I don't see how we could do better than checking after each operation right now. If we're doing this, I feel like checked_add and friends from rust is a better fit than cramming an unsigned int into a signed one.

I wonder if we could design an integer type with 63 bits of value, plus one bit of "overflow/underflow poison", such that any operation that would under/overflow would saturate that bit to one, but otherwise still perform the operation on the value part. That would allow to coalesce multiple checks while keeping safety even in the presence of multiple faulty operations. I wonder how it could be implemented efficiently though
No the entry-level end would just switch to a rental market. Those already in the market can afford to buy up starter homes as rental properties. Those not yet on the ladder would get locked out as eternal renters.

The solution, as with the original problem is to build more housing.
I would assume that Amazon affiliate links pay more for more expensive products, so there could easily be incentive to reward expensive over cheap.
> Fiat required trade to be based on gold first, a peg which was then broken.

Fiat is by definition not based on gold.

The term is [...] usually reserved for legal-tender paper money or coins that have face values far exceeding their commodity values and are not redeemable in gold or silver. [1]

What you are describing is the switch from commodity money (gold standard) to fiat, an objectively better system for many reasons. This happened in 1933 under FDR in the United States, not under Nixon as many of the tinfoil hat crew are wont to say.

What you're describing is at most - at most - a default on the government's obligations 89 years ago. Not a Ponzi scheme lol. Everything folks are suspicious of is a Ponzi scheme these days.

> Central banks can create infinite units arbitrarily.

Central banks do not create money. They at most indirectly affect the money supply via adjustment of interest rates and reserve requirements. [2] However their mandate under which they operate is to maintain low, predictable medium-term inflation targets and maximize employment.

This is like saying "well, actually, the Bitcoin core team can adjust the 21M coin limit up to an arbitrary value!" They could, technically, but there's a ton of reasons they won't.

> "Enforced by the legal system" perhaps means controlled by the FOMC.

No it does not. When you borrow money from a retail bank, say to purchase a house, they create new money that enters the system, paired with a negative balance on their books. The new money is backed by the demand of the issuer to re-pay that loan. As the loan is re-paid the new money is destroyed and leaves the system. The legal system enforces payments in these contracts.

> ...a dozen central bankers who make decisions behind close doors, nominated and chosen by congress I believe.

They are nominated by the president and appointed by congress. The Federal Reserve is an independent organization explicitly to separate capricious fiscal policy from the kind of stable monetary policy necessary for businesses to plan into the future.

They were created by an act of congress and can be repealed by act of congress. They act on behalf of the American people and are accountable to the American people. All decisions are published and documented along with full audits. Like the post office.

There's nothing more sinister or shady about the Fed than there is about the USPS.

Sure does spook people though.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/fiat-money

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation#Central_banks
> People use AdBlock and don't want to leave tips, support Patreon etc for a blog. Good jobs are hard to find. Telling someone "Get a real job" is often not a viable solution for various reasons.

> 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.

Even if no one used ad blockers and tips were commonplace, we'd still have these problems with crap SEO and affiliate links. It's like with technology products: they say "if you aren't paying for it, you're the product not the customer," but even if you are paying for it you can still be the product (e.g. your TV manufacturer putting ads in your expensive TV's menus).

Ultimately the problem is greed and the ridiculous degree of tolerance of it, unchecked by any cultural expectation of quality or virtue.
More questions than answers. Would be nice to see where the increases are.
Humans are not programs or computers and language is inherently fuzzy. Having the added statement about the elderly implies they are making a statement about elderly deaths. There is no reason to include the statement as it makes the reporting unclear. This is a problem with reporting on data and science, through the game of telephone things are added and removed and meaning is added or lost.

Simply stating that deaths are up for working age people is more than sufficient and avoids adding unclear information. There is no reason to make any statement about any group that is not included in the data.

If I have data on goose deaths in Florida, I wouldn't say "goose deaths are up in Florida, but not because they're dying in New Jersey!"

I simply cannot make a statement on New Jersey goose mortality because my data says nothing about New Jersey
"It's a feature not a bug" (TM)

The site uses a whitelist of URLs to (attempt to) keep results relevant to science and programming. In the context in which I'm using this search engine, I have no interest in (reviews on) 3 hole punches. (That's not to say I never do, but in that case I'd use Google, Reddit, etc.) The fact that results don't show up here means that they also won't show up when I'm not looking for them, which is 100% of the time when I'm using this search engine. That's a plus for me personally.

Best case would be to have relevant results in a single search engine, but that's not what I intended when building this site.
Yeah, no. Dealerships charging more simply puts more money into the pockets of unnecessary, useless, wholly antiquated middlemen.
I can think of lots of reasons why it was made: sorting ints is fast, storing them is compact, etc. Doesn't mean it wasn't a terrible decision (with readily foreseeable consequences) but I don't find it irrational or even surprising.
I don't really see how cryptocurrency is supposed to be a threat to banking. You can still implement banking on top of cryptocurrency. You know, through loans.

Of course there is the caveat nobody is insane enough to agree to Bitcoin denominated debt. Dogecoin might work though.
but residential real estate is a smaller fraction of wealth in the usa, than almost every other country on earth.
Neither.

If you use the toggle next to the closed caption to turn off autoplay, instead of playing another video the player will show thumbnails for other videos after the current one finishes. These filters prevent those suggestions from showing up, and you just get a black rectangle when the video is finished.
How to Price Projects and Manage Scope Creep
Past related threads:

Zotero: Personal Research Assistant - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22694891 - March 2020 (206 comments)

Mendeley encrypts users' database after Zotero provides an importer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18977461 - Jan 2019 (119 comments)

Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17606929 - July 2018 (163 comments)

EndNote maker's lawsuit over open-source Zotero dismissed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=646121 - June 2009 (6 comments)

GMU sued for Zotero - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=319975 - Sept 2008 (3 comments)
It's also a change of about 2%.
Aka the name at the front of a bunch of flight/combat sim games from the 90s, when EA wasn't trash.
I’m guessing OP meant it’s a hard problem in general, not just for Google.

Also, the statement that Goggle doesn’t have the best information anymore seems objectively false. We can wish there were other players doing it better, but that doesn’t make it true. I’m open to the idea that Google is just riding their wave, but I’ve yet to see proof. I just see the search industry at large shedding quality results.

I think Google could step up its ranking game w/ ML eliminating a lot of bad patterns, but I'm not sure they have the will to do it, or are afraid of the consequences (every travel blogger selling an ebook will go apeshit about it for instance).
I think you just invented hashtag-vanlife bloggers.
I vote "toxic" and its cousin "optics" as the most pretentious, overused meme words of the last 5 years.
That's great you had that. In both Iraq and Afghanistan, I was on MTTs (2 years total) operating on small embedded teams where we lived with local security forces (Iraqi Army and Afghan Border Police, respectively). We didn't live on large bases like most.

But we had pretty much constant operations, so exercise wasn't a problem. To clarify, I meant that I got away from rowing when I deployed, not from exercise (until I was injured, that is).
Open letter to BlackBerry bosses from senior exec as company crumbles (2011)
I definitely need to use Monterey, as it offers simple APIs for certain tasks that would be possible, but very time consuming, to recreate on other OS. The M1 is optional, theoretically, but in practice makes things go much faster due to its accelerator cores, which the Monterey APIs are taking advantage of.
> Another thing that advertisers don’t seem to understand somehow: if I searched for a thing or even clicked through a FB ad and bought it, the chances that I’m also interested in buying a similar thing in the next few days / weeks are drastically reduced.

This is a ten-year old talking point. Why people continue to insist on this falsehood is beyond me. Do you think these advertisers are stupid?

-> buy refrigerator. gets lost during transport / is damaged / “oh, I wanted the 550T, not 505T” / “works great, let’s also replace the one in the beach house” / etc.

You have to remember that these possibilities are competing with other ads that have extremely low rates of success.
I see...it's interesting that they can get away with it while growing so fast
What do you make of the UK-based Which? which (I think) does something somewhat similar?

It's pay-to-access, but as I understand it they don't make money from ads or from borderline extortion.

https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/printers-and-ink

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Which%3F
The point is that it is a screening test. A positive test will be followed by a more invasive test that has a lower false positive rate.
I do, but I end up using Google Street Maps and satellite view very often. That makes OSMAnd not as useful as it could be. I need at least a satellite view to switch to OSMAnd as my main mapping app.
In the UK, one part of the (insane) government response to this stagnation of new buyers entering the market has been to start adding absurd schemes such as partial-buy-plus-rent-to-buy, in which the "buyers" only own/mortgage part of the property, pay rent on the other part, and accrue some level (not necessarily very much) of credit to reduce the cost of buying the rented part should they ever decide to do this. It reduces the down payment cost substantially, but doesn't change the monthly payments much at all.

It's also totally freakin' nuts.
No you're not. You should be able to afford many years of rent with the cash from selling a house.
Please post when you get it!
Just one data point, but I've had a hard time trusting then since reading a headphones section they had in the physical magazine quite a few years back. The number one rated headphone was the Bose QC3. Great noise cancellation and comfort, sure... But certainly not better audio quality than so many other products in that price range. All rock / metal sounded so muddy I had to return my pair within a few weeks.
Discussed at the time:

The 30-Year Mortgage Is an Intrinsically Toxic Product - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18829435 - Jan 2019 (126 comments)
"Jigsaw identification" is a nebulous broad claim that could have been applied equally to any reporting on the trial, but was only applied to one independent journalist who has been critical of the state.
Personally I always rederive it when necessary as

P(A|B) * P(B) = P(A U B) = P(B|A) * P(A)

=>

P(A|B) = P(B|A) * P(A) / P(B)
I'm assuming because the full source is in Tcl and that isn't common for these kinds of tools. Tcl is pretty cool.
IMO web3 is real.

Web3 is introducing new ways in which we will use the internet. Existing technologies and platforms will remain as is IMO, it just represents a new phase of application development on the internet. By that definition it will allow a lot of new players to build the companies that will be the FAANGs of the next decade or so.
> restricting your search engine to only ~120 websites out of hundreds of millions (?) is basically giving up on the Web.

Sure - the web is now a cesspool optimized for advertising and attention. The traditional search engines made a lot more sense at the dawn of the internet when it was more about discovery. Now, for the most part, it's closer to an information retrieval tool, where a finite list of established sites have the bulk of what one is looking for. It only makes sense to have a tool that lets one navigate the established, legit internet, and not have to deal with all the crap.

That doesn't mean there is no use case for google as it is, but some more focused competition is a no brainer.
Are you thinking of the Model Y? CR gives the Model 3 average reliability, and gives it the highest overall score in the electric car $45-55k category. The only other car with average reliability in the category is the BMW i3. The Ford Mustang Mach-E and Polestar 2 get the next tier down for reliability, and then the Model Y brings up the rear getting the bottom tier reliability score.

In the electric cars over $75k category, everything except the Audi E-Tron gets the tier between worse and average, including the Tesla Models S and X. The Audi gets the bottom tier.

This article talks about why the Teslas other than the Model 3 get low reliability ratings [1]:

> Commonly reported issues from Model Y owners included defective sensors that had to be replaced, problems with heat pumps, air conditioning, body panels that didn’t line up and water leaks in the trunk due to missing seals, according to Fisher. Owners also reported a variety of electrical and hardware issues with the higher-priced, and less-popular, Model S sedan and Model X falcon-wing SUV.

> Older models typically fare better in reliability, as companies tend to make tweaks and redesigns to solve known problems, while sticking with the same parts and suppliers.

> But Tesla deviates from this approach, Fisher explained. “At almost random times during the year Tesla will switch major components, suppliers or sensors and other units. The more you change, the greater the chances you’re going to have some problems.”

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/18/consumer-reports-2021-auto-r...
Just today, Google discover suggested me an article titled exactly

"Proton & Atom LT vs Nano Air: Key Points ([month_year])"
I wonder if the NYT editorial staff receives zillions of these pitches from their reporters purporting to reveal nefarious phenomena, and most of them turn out benign. It's fun to imagine that the NYT editorship is actually exceedingly good at detecting these outrage-false-positives before publication, but the base rate of outrage-true-positives is just so low that you have to expect some to make it to publication.

I'd like to imagine there's an investigative-journalism-editor-news somewhere, and they're discussing this discussion saying "bah, these clowns are making sweeping generalizations about editorial standards based on only a false positive; this is totally specious with no mention of the prior distribution or sensitivity vs specificity trade-offs"
I sold my previous house at a substantial loss.