skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One point about all the "Top X lists" and general blogspam that Google returns - I had once created a website that I was trying to get listed on these sites. I emailed a few of them to get my site listed and they transparently and directly offered to list my site for relatively small amounts of money. It was literally an exchange of 100 dollars for listing my site at number 1 and I got to write the description that went on their website.

My point here is to add that in addition to the Google results being bad (they are listicles and blogspam rather than the answers you want) they are also corrupt in that people can just pay the owners of the spam sites to get the listings they want. This is a tax on the users by giving them indirect and bad results and also a tax on creators by forcing them to pay third parties to get their websites to rank in the appropriate Google searches or work on SEO voodoo to rank themselves.
I wish Google had a toggle switch that isn't slowed you real user generated content... Like filter out all sites that are in Alexa top 10 for the category, and just show geniune niche blogs and forums with rich informed discussions.
Right click on tab... duplicate. Managing the windows is left as an exercise for the reader (but an app like Rectangle will help).
This is literally how they taught it to us in high school. Unfortunately it breaks down when things get a bit more complex so it's a bit of a trap for enabling advanced understanding.
Thank you, that's very informative! If you don't mind me asking, what would be an example of a high end insurance plan? Is this like a low deductible ("Gold") plan from regular carriers like Kaiser and Anthem?
In my experience Australians tend to say “parsta”

Also anywhere above the trap/bath split in the UK is going to give a different result.
Google sucks completely for me (I use DDG as my main search engine but that only sucks slightly less). It's all spam and I can't find anything. In particular, I used to be able to find useful blog articles on any programming problem I had. Now it's either SO or nothing, whereas I'm sure the articles exist somewhere.

I saw kagi.com mentioned on an article here and tried it out, and so far it's been much better than Google. It gives me reddit results, which are very useful because it's just people posting their reviews/solutions, and it gives me small site results, which are usually helpful. If I have to pay for it, I will, because the free option is just useless now.
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Accurate time is what makes Google Spanner (global SQL database) work. Hope others start implementing easy global consistency with this.

> ...enables clients of Cloud Spanner to perform consistent reads across an entire database (even across multiple Cloud regions) without blocking writes.

https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/true-time-external-con...
Even if so, building more wind turbines will kill more birds while building more nuclear plants will not kill more birds.

It would also be interesting to see the data relative to something. Maybe it's 200'000 birds on a total of 100 wind turbines (or 1'000, 10k, 100k, ...).
Twitter is a place that is used by a lot of “journalists” or just people in the media. Participating there is going to get you coverage in other forms of media and free rent in the minds of people in media.
First: cutoff, resonance, filter slope, etc., can be built with FIR (finite impulse response) filters. You can describe the passive circuit with a transfer function, which can be implemented in DSP using a z-transform. You can also describe a filter with poles and zeroes, and transform those. There's a bunch of resources on the web, e.g. https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/filters/, but many assume you know something of electronics.

Recurrent filters don't have closed form solutions, and their implementation is a bit of an art. Plugin maker Urs Heckmann (from u-he.com) did a (rather successful) attempt at modeling the filter from an old synth with various implementations, and let people test them in the wild. He blogged about it, but I can't find all relevant posts. This might be a starting point: https://urs.silvrback.com/zero-delay-feedback

This course (https://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/oliver.hinton/eee305/) is based on a book and links to the chapters, but there's a lot more (check the websites of MIT or Stanford's EE department for online courses).
A sufficiently heartless AI would probably take your last sentence and recommend it as an efficient solution to the problem :)
I'm a current Googler, so yeah, I'm biased, but I work far away from search so I'm basically a plain consumer of it, and this is lazy thinking:

"I’m pretty sure the engineers responsible for Google Search aren’t happy about the quality of results either. I’m wondering if this isn’t really a tech problem but the influence of some suit responsible for quarterly ad revenue increases."

I'm pretty sure Google doesn't make enough money on third party sites to intentionally make its own search results worse.

What's happening here is the ever-growing battle between search algorithms and SEO. Most of sites that he is complaining about are likely doing an incredible amount of optimizations for search engines and human psychology to show on search results pages and get people to click on them. They A/B test, within singe sites as well as run the same or slightly modified content through site networks.

So sites optimize to get crappy filler content on Google, and Google changes to demote those sites and produce better results (which people still complain about).

This is also the reason that it's not so simple to do better than Google. A new search engine also has to have an algorithm and presumably it'll share many of the same approaches that Google has used and have been gamed by content farms. If a search engine does come up with a break-though mechanism to separate the bad from the good, then either sites will adapt to that, and/or Google and other engines will adopt similar mechanisms too.

And if a search engine somehow made an un-gamable algorithm, then that would be a pure good for humanity and go them.

But also in these types of discussions you really need to bring receipts. Otherwise it's hard to talk about what's even good or bad. What terms did he search for? Which results were bad? What should have been there instead?

I did a quick search for "hip replacement" and the results look great to me: top result from American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, a definition card, then Mayo Clinic, medlineplus.gov, Johns Hopkins, local MDs, new stories, images, WebMD, etc., and seemingly useful related searches like "What are the signs I need one"...

Maybe that's just not a monetizable enough term. "quit smoking" should maybe turn up crappy help articles, but it's also pretty good. Two ads at the top this time, then CDC, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, lung.org, local results, WebMD, etc..

Not that I don't believe the author, but he's certainly invested either directly or indirectly into companies working both sides of the SEO war, from search tech like Metaphor to algorithmic SEO like RankScience. So rather than trusting him that results are bad, it would help an honest discussion to point out examples.
I have used their tests in the past and I’ve never regretted a purchase influenced by their tests.
Somehow a distributed community of unpaid volunteers manages to keep the entire advertising industry (where billions are at stake) at bay by curating adblock lists. I'm sure a company can achieve the same. It will never be 100% perfect, but it will surely be better than what we have now.

But yes, supporting community-supplied adblock-style lists would be a start, and Google isn't even doing that.
"Banks follow laws, which is also a hard requirement for cryptocurrency businesses"

Laws are not always just, and not everybody who is prosecuted by some government is a criminal. Governments can seize bank accounts.

You can be labeled a nazi for nothing these days, and then businesses (including banks) who do business with you will receive threats and shitstorms to make them stop doing business with you. It can happen quicker than you think. Maybe you are lucky that you live a private live and never dissent with anything. By "nothing" I mean literally nothing - my own Twitter account for example was shut down by a rampant bot that was triggered by mere keywords. Even on HN there are frequent stories about Google accounts and PayPal accounts being locked.

"governments don't say “he used Monero, guess we have to give up on law enforcement” but rather “Monero does not comply with our financial laws, any business or person caught accepting it will be fined and risk jail time”"

Sure, I worry about that kind of issue a lot, when I think about how to enable free speech in unfree countries. Should dissidents in authoritarian regimes just give up, and not use Encryption or Tor? It certainly seems dangerous, but what is the alternative? Also I suppose you could try using Monero without anybody knowing that you used it.

In any case, if the laws in your country become unbearable, you can memorize your crypto seeds and try to flee the country.
Wonder what's are the differences from https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub and https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat

I guess projects might have different goals in mind, but IMO would be nice to share the scrapers among the projects
I would like a music engraving tool, like lilypond[0], but which plays nicer with the web (bonus points if it makes it easy to treat code as data).

http://lilypond.org/
The author of this article (and you) think one thing. I think another. Calling my thought a "fallacy" because I've made up my mind prematurely makes no sense. You (and the author) have made up your mind too. We can't endlessly defer our opinions, that's epistemic nihilism.

To me, this seems like just another old vs. new turf war and I predict it will turn out like the previous ones. "Everything must change for everything to remain the same".

I'm not saying "it couldn't possibly" be a problem, I'm describing what I see, like you, and like the article.
Ya, it is bike shedding in most cases. I've seen a few side by side comparisons of nails vs screws for framing and while it's true that screws are more likely to sheer off, nails are more likely to pull out. And assuming you used a reasonable size and quantity of screws, the load required to sheer them will be so far and above anything required by code that it becomes a distinction without a difference.
It's definitely a bit faster with the unroll, but on my machine it's not by too much. I've added that idea to the interactive benchmark if you'd like to check it out!
I wonder if your experience also resulted from changes in use of road salt? I found this work done around the early 2000s: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services...
Ten years ago I complained on a random forum about Google's seeming refusal to give me information about running Skyrim under Linux with the Wine emulator. I tried various search combinations and all I could easily get was information about wine manufacturers and locations in the Skyrim world. Didn't matter if I used "emulation" or "wine emulator" or similar terms, even in quotes, or if I used the '+' character, or otherwise tried to harness Google's literal search functions.

Was I searching wrong? Didn't seem so to me at the time, but I don't remember the exact queries. Those in the forum thread thought I just didn't know how to use a search engine. I still think it was Google telling me what it thought I really wanted, instead of what I was literally asking for.

I still see results that don't include words that I search for in quotes, often.
Just today I googled "torch normalize -1 1" and it said "zero documents matches your query". Insane stuff. (Censorship with crazy high false positives? Incompetence?) I went to duckduckgo and immediately found a useful answer.
Replace “beach in Costa Rica” with any remote (or not) global location of your choice, which is the point.

We’re 1 year away from a low latency, gigabit speed ”shedquarters” workspace being available anywhere in the world for under $10k.
Yeah I often have to add “reddit” afterwards and hunt for links there or use “site:” predicate to get decent results in addition to using a results blocker to filter out a lot of useless SEO results (e.g. Pinterest/Gitmemory)
Looking at this thread - no, no we are not. Doomed to repeat until eternity it seems.
Given the helpful replies on things here in these threads by HN people, I think the problem could simply be fixed by using HN karma as a reputation system for such a site. We would have a community of supersmart and helpful people
with access to lot of specialists in their field. And 3-6 months later, when marketing affiliates are catching up, HN would have its "eternal september" moment and HN would no longer be the place it is now, with upscale and kind questions and answers...
I am a New Zealander, and a common difficulty with visitors is the difference between “can’t” and “cunt”. The vowel has exactly the same sound, but it is long for can’t, and short for cunt. Can uses a different vowel sound from can’t, which means we can misunderstand Americans who don’t pronounce the t in can’t properly. Fortunately we can usually pick that a tourist using the word cunt usually means can’t. It is especially difficult for some people, because they don’t naturally understand vowel length changes. In Māori and Latin vowel length is critical to differentiate words.

Kiwis often understand both British and American usages of words, for example calling something “completely pants” makes sense to me. Pissed can be used in either a British or American sense.

I have only ever heard of nonce in the software engineering sense, and never in the perverse sense (and I have a much wider vocabulary than most).

Pants here means trousers, following the American usage.

Usage of some individual Māori words within an otherwise English sentence is becoming more common here (cultural pride versus historical cringe), but I would expect most kiwis avoid using them if speaking to a tourist.
One thing what helps me getting better results is adding the keyword 'forum'. Usually still have okayish results.
Forums are nowadays the only source information not spoiled by SEO etc
What do you mean? What is a VC play?
This is nothing. Back in high school, I used to drink 100 cans of cola a week, right up until my third heart attack.

Futurama quotes aside, I don't know what to make of adults doing this to themselves and their children. Water is fantastic.

If taste is what one is after, one can easily drop a couple bags of chai/tea in a liquid vessel of choice. Don't even need to brew it. And if one really "needs" their instant sugar kick - use some actual honey.

Cheaper, healthier, better. In every way.
here's how to leverage the pretty printer to transpile lisp into pascal https://merl.com/publications/docs/TR93-17.pdf
> Perhaps you deem this a stupid question? Not sure from your comment. Still, we have to be able to ask stupid questions or we don't learn.

Ok I agree here.

> Well, what is it then?

Banks connected to the political/government controlled currencies tend toward corruption. Banks are part of corruptible scheme. Humans are too greedy with the power of money control.

History backs it up over and over again.
A real Web3 app. Posting content costs money. Likes give you money
I also made something similar for Boston: https://mbta.benburwell.com

Mine doesn't show the routes. Originally it did, but it was too visually busy. I like the way you did it where the route shows up when you select a vehicle!
In this case, Google should adapt but they are not.
Do you have uses Pascal?

The ones that used it like it...
At reddit they decided that you should not have to option to restrict your search to a specific subreddit anymore. Why they did that? It's a terrible idea!
Huh. My first result is pretty darn helpful and relevant:

https://public.kulak.us/google-search.png
Thank you. Looks sane. I'll give it a try in the next days ( a quick search for gopher is better than i expected).
Interesting quote from this twitter thread...

"When I've been on Fox News, the production assistants who led me through backstage confided they were making min wage and struggling to get by in NYC. I asked the hosts (who make seven figures and laughed at me on air) to talk about their workers' pay on air. They always said no."

I understand that there is going to be a certain level of hypocrisy in any large organization, but wow, this (to me) is beyond the pale.
The Amiga as “a computer built to last 50 years”
> “It’s a blocking syscall so if it takes 1s to close a file, that’s technically not a bug” is correct, but is any player of “Papers, Please” going to be sympathetic to that explanation? Probably not; they’ll think “Linux is slow,” “Linux is buggy,” “why can’t Linux run basic applications correctly that I have no problem running on Windows or OS X?,” etc.

I don’t agree with this logic. Windows and macOS system calls also block. The issue of people considering Linux to be slow is not relevant to the fact that its systems calls block. The poorer quality of Linux games, and commercial Linux software in general, is more likely due to smaller market size / profit opportunity and the consequential lack of effort / investment into the Linux desktop/gaming ecosystem.

Now if your argument is we should work around buggy applications and distribute hacked patches when the developers have abandoned them for the sake of improving user experience. I agree with that.

> “Syscalls should be fast unless there is a very good reason not to be” strikes me as a wise operating principle, which weights usability and usefulness of the operating system alongside being technically correct.

Linux already operates by this principle. We are examining a situation where best effort was not good enough to hide poor application design.
AT&T/Verizon reject Buttigieg's plea to delay 5G amid warnings of aviation chaos
Yes, you miss the context of the conversation. No, it is not a comparison.
Weather and Health Symptoms (2018)
Agree. The web material being searched is bad at the source. So there's little that a search engine can do to improve it. As the adage says - garbage in, garbage out.
Sadly, Stiftung Warentest often doesn't have the expertise to properly test many products.
I often notice the shortcomings in product tests for products that I know and use.

I was reminded of this with their last test of 3d printers.
Their test results where far from what everyone with experience in the field would consider accurate.
Execution of Minto’s Csárdás on a breadbin Commodore 64 by Linus Ákesson of “A Mind Is Born”[0] C64 Demo fame.

[0]: https://youtu.be/sWblpsLZ-O8
Does that actually stop the autoplay or just hide the countdown?
I get extremely relevant results from Google for "amusement parks italy". I use a privacy proxy (VPN) and a browser in privacy mode. Perhaps Google only switches into guess-what-you-meant mode when it can link your search to their profile of you?
I wonder if it will make sense to now build a meta search engine using SerpApi [1], weight couple of websites more like reddit or stackoverflow, remove adds, and repackage all this listings into a super simple UI.

[1] https://serpapi.com
If by inflation you mean the rise in general prices, or the destruction of the purchasing power of the monetary unit, then the track record is that btc will continue to be deflationary in that your purchasing power will be increased. If you don't like increased purchasing power, there are alternatives such as holding most any government issued monetary unit.
Personally I am a big arangodb fan. It has never gotten as fashionable as some databases but I use it for many routine applications that I'd consider using a relational db for. For instance:

* store the temperature and humidity readings from sensors,
* pull out all the pictures from 'The Met' art gallery that have a near square aspect ratio and swipe right or left to select them to become part of something like

https://gen5.info/$/XQ*42RXF-TLY:$B.8/
These cases are not static. As the stock price goes up, you have to reevaluate both of these in regards to the new price. Certainty the old Bear case from a couple of years ago has been crushed.

Remember when people said they could never make 5k Model 3s a weak and would never figure out mass manufacturing?

However since then the Stock price went up quite a bit.

As a long time investor I still believe in a Bull case, but its certainty harder to justify.
I'd say my goal is not so much about avoiding math but more about learning intuition-first rather than equations-first. Top-down vs. bottom-up, maybe. Most of material that I've encountered about math-heavy stuff tends to do the latter.

I imagine there are many people who're great at picking apart an equation and deriving things from first principles; but for me, I find it more manageable to get the big picture first, visualize what's going on, and then finally learn the math behind it. So far the DSP Guide book is doing a great job of presenting things that way.

Another good example of this kind of style is https://betterexplained.com/ (some of their articles are great companions to these DSP topics actually!)
Ugh, this is so true. It's getting increasingly difficult to break out of the SEO twilight zone. SEO is the worst thing that's ever happened to online search because it's completely poisoned the top N search results with garbage/ads. I have a very hard time finding organic content anymore. For example, I was trying to find an organic (written by a human who has tried the two products) comparison between two processors. It was impossible - I could only find AI generated sites that programmatically pulled the specs in a side-by-side comparison (which I had already done) but offered zero additional insights.
Tell me again why national health insurance in the us means the terrorists have won and we lost our exceptionalism? And why a good half the country things this would ruin us? I despair about the future of my country.
I almost feel as if they have like 100k actual pages that they present (and have looked through manually) and if it's not in that group they just show you the closest one (or say "no results").
Their quality and QA has improved significantly over the last 2 years and is on par with the industry, if not better in some areas.

Don't believe everything you read on /r/realtesla.
wait, is Substack sending notifications for comments by default now? That's wild....
No, what happens is that everyone rushes to the moon to recreate MAD in terms of rocks instead of in terms of nuclear weapons. During the transition period from atomic MAD to kinetic MAD, deterrent politics will become very complicated and war planners may make miscalculations. See also: prompt global strike.

First strike from kinetic bombardment can be far more devastating than first strike from ICBMs due to the surprise factor and simplicity of yield configuration.

Moon-based mass drivers can be trivially protected from Earth-launched counter attacks, since the inbound trajectories can be calculated, the projectiles take days to arrive, and can be intercepted by point defense systems that have lower delta-v requirements. Basic OODA loop supremacy stuff.