skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Image Search has been getting regulated out of existence by the EU for the last few years.
What are you talking about it? She returned nearly all of it
On the bottom in the "New Game" menu is has "Random Shuffle" and "Daily Challenge (current)", so I assume it defaults to the daily challenge, which I assume is the same for everyone.
You don't have anywhere near the disposable funds that would be required to "grep the web" on your behalf.
Well, if either number ends in a 0, the product will end in a 0, so that's almost 20% of the cases right there. And if you get any even number and a number ending in 5 you'll get a product ending with 0 also, so 24-31% total sounds about right.
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My most recent build was:

$25 for new case and click wheel

$42 for the iFlash Quad

$20 for some SD cards, caught them on sale.

$18 for a new battery.

$32 for a rough condition iPod 5g. The screen was in good shape, but the case was beat to hell. The only things that have to work is the motherboard, dock connector, and screen. (you can find people selling working screens, but it's easier/cheaper to find an iPod with a screen in good condition).
I'd love to do this some day but I'm pretty comfortable starting over. I'd be surprised if any significant portion of the US population would be willing to leave friends/family/routines for lower CoL.
Hey Matt,

Context: I’m a co-founder at a B staged startup and not sure how broadly this applies.

Our employees ask their manager for approval before they submit an expense request. If it’s less than a few hundred dollars a year and clearly aids their productivity, the answer is yes 99% of the time.

It’s important that the product bills yearly, because our system (Ramp) has no support for recurring reimbursements.

So: long trial, yearly billing and price <$300 is best.
It's lack of demand. Unfortunately there aren't that many people building a backend in Rust (they should, it's great!), so building a Rust library is not a top priority unfortunately. :(
Is there any mermaid specification syntax for directly embedding diagrams into a markdown file (like by flagging the start of the diagram with a special title like #### diagramtypename) ?

I was poking around the examples and live editor, and it seemed impossible to do except with an image link, which is rather more cumbersome.
> He doesn't think about the effects of a higher availability information with a lower ability to seek out other contradicting points of view.

This is a baffling claim. Why on earth would you believe that people now have a lower ability to seek out contradicting points of view?
And OP says the US doesn't have propaganda all over.
Right, people radically overestimate how much a profile is worth. Someone who owns a house in a rich area is somewhat easy to identify, and you target them... along with everyone else who is also trying to reach that rich slice, so you pay more.

The very high quality pieces of information can be things like "wants to buy a life insurance policy this week" or "just had a baby" or "just bought a plane ticket to XYZ," or "is in the frequent flyer program and spends more than $20,000 per year on travel."

However the majority of information about people, the overwhelming majority of whom have no significant disposable income, is worthless and not worth tracking for the most part. You reach those people through traditional mass marketing means.
That depends on the choice distribution. Your claim is true for uniform distribution over a large enough finite range of integers.

If the range is too small, you fail. If the choice is not uniform, you may fail.

There is no uniform distribution over all integers, only finite subsets.

Your claim fails for other distributions.

The reason this mostly works is multiplying by something ending in zero gives zero, so it is the trailing digit the most. The leading digit is pretty much Benford's Law.
A lot of folks in this thread would find reading up on (or especially working in) the US cannabiz and sex-work spaces incredibly enlightening.
Easier at a scale of "national grid for n hours" and beyond than batteries. Much harder than piling up unused coal for a decade or two, noticeably harder than the equivalent stash of hydrocarbon gases or liquids.
> From the rethoric you hear from EU leaders and the US president, I don't expect NATO to take any direct military action, because blowing this conflict to a full-scale war between two of the main military powers would catastrophically disrupt the global economy.

So just keep giving into the lunatic demands of a nation-state mafia?
My work earplugs aren't rated for super high decibels, but they're a step up from the disposable ones most folks I work with use. They're definitely a solid step up from what most folks are going to buy from the hardware store. I've got coworkers who can converse loudly enough that I can make out the entire conversation over the normal shop noise the earplugs are supposed to be for while 200 feet away and within an enclosed (but not particularly thick-walled) office.

Earplugs will dull the noise, but if I can't take a nap over two guys having a conversation at that distance, I really doubt most folks' ability to get a good night's sleep over truck horns. The earplugs will probably mitigate the physical damage done by the noise, but I highly doubt they do much for the psychological stress. People lose their ability to focus and sometimes their sanity due to injuries that cause a constant ringing in their ears. Even if you can reduce the volume, the constant noise is a type of torture.

Edit: Found the Noise Reduction Rating for a number of different types of hearing pro that I've used in the past. The best one was rated at 33, meaning it roughly reduces the noise by something like 33 decibels. That pair, of course, being the ubiquitous neon yellow 3M product with flames on the sides for enhanced performance. I don't wear them myself because while they're fashionable, they're incredibly uncomfortable for me. This also appears to be among the best non-powered hearing pro that's available on the market. They will take an uncomfortably loud worksite at 105 dB down to effectively under 80 dB and more-or-less within a safe range for hearing. Not a pleasant level for sleeping though, by any means, although I can pull it off myself if I'm tired enough. When you start talking about a truck horn which those earplugs might or might not be able to quiet down close to the level of that 105 dB you'd experience with no hearing pro on a worksite, you're past potential hearing damage and well into a range where there is no reasonable escape from the barrage of sound.

Edit 2: Most of these earplugs in the 25-33 NRR range are definitely available at the hardware store if anyone needs to know that. They're more expensive per pair and seem to come in higher count containers, but they're there and much cheaper than the doctor's visits and hearing aids will be in the future. If you find yourself in a situation where the background noise is uncomfortable at all, please, please, get yourself some if at all feasible. Half the old dudes I've worked with in my life did not think it was worth the hassle and I'm tired of having to scream in people's ears to communicate. Also all the near misses because you have to either throw something at them or close the distance if you see a dangerous situation they don't and need to warn them.
Ah yes this is Professor Sadoway's work.
Ask HN: How to research an app idea when you have no idea of where to begin?
I had an app idea, but while starting to research, I found myself staring at Google search bar. I had no idea where to begin, what to search for, and Google results to whatever I was searching for were not satisfactory.
Sure it's easy to spot, bit this is a lot of wasted work.

Maybe we should pay herds of people to flag the bullshit, since google won't do it anymore.
> by conservative anti vaxx sentiment.

This same group of truckers who repeatedly say that they are not anti vaxx but anti mandate and are more than 95% vaccinated anyway.

Okay, buddy.
"Google increasingly does not give you the results for what you typed in. It tries to be 'smart' and figure out what you 'really meant'"

I miss Alta Vista. You had to provide your own thinking. I'd construct searches like: (word OR Word) AND (word NEAR word). I loved the NEAR command.
Ditto. DDG is my default search engine with mixed results at best. I often begrudgingly revert back to Google.
Ask HN: Why aren't you starting your own company?
Especially curious to hear from people working in big tech or late-stage growth companies.
I might try that. I've got a PayPal donation button that used to fetch me maybe $30 a month but it's been far less since the ad went up.
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1600° is really about the same temperature as an ordinary blast furnace, and silicates have been commonly used as fluxes and refractories in steelmaking, even if basic oxygen steelmaking is more popular nowadays. If I understand correctly, Bessemer converters commonly used silicates. So I don't think the challenges you're pointing at, even if they have to be solved, are anything new for steelmaking.

However, the article suggests that actually the electrolyte might be neutral, containing both calcium and silicon oxides. That can't possibly be right if they're talking about only 1600° because larnite would precipitate out.

Electrodes would surely be carbon, just as they are in any old arc furnace. This does result in carbon dioxide emissions, as it does in the making of aluminum. Can they keep this down to an acceptable level? Is there an alternative electrode material, such as zirconia or carborundum? I'd like to know, but the article doesn't say.
Of course, the author doesn't downplay its existence, only its impact. But to know that we'd have to read the post.
I have no idea why they stopped making wikipedia the first or second result for a given topic. Seemed to happen a few years ago.
This is hard to achieve because generally good engineers are either working high pay tech jobs OR they work in a startup as founders / early employees with make-me-rich shares.

Sure, there are exceptions who don't know their worth. In general it's hard to find mediocre technical cofounders and very very hard to find good technical cofounders.
Yes, in underground caverns, like natural gas is stored. This is a demonstrated technology.
I remember picking up on this when I was researching vpns. Compare the comments on Reddit and hacker news, and the difference is stark. It becomes fairly apparent that a lot of the Reddit comments were paid.
How to Do Team-Match Correctly
PM team lead for Ecosystem @ Netlify here. Thanks for the feedback - this is exactly what we're trying to address with Netlify Graph. There is a lot of variability as APIs change, and there's a lot of value in abstracting out that complexity behind a consistent data model.
> of the various government agencies, only the military had access to the heavy vehicle movers that were needed

I am 100% certain there are people who can easily pick whatever kind of ignition lock cylinders are used in these trucks. It would be far more efficient to "car jack" these trucks, drive them to an impound lot, and auction them off the next day, than trying to tow them with "military tow trucks" (whatever those are).
PyPI, NuGet, NPM Flooded with Roblox and Fortnite Spam: Why?
As someone who add Reddit to my query when I search products, I’m not really looking for a review. Generally, I look for subreddits talking about what I’m trying to buy. I then see if they have a good wiki/something pinned about purchasing advice. Then, I take a look at what is posted about the product I had in mind (mostly questions not reviews). It’s more interesting to read about the experience of actual users than reading a review. You learn a lot from what they find frustrating.
Since there's only a handful of sites you target your searches at, it would be nice if you could just have your own search engine that focuses on those few sites, and perhaps crawls a little deeper.

I've sometimes thought the death of Google will be the self hosted search engine.
You just realised your becoming an asshole..

Leave hacker news out of this man.
Appliance manufacturers in the US have done a lot to combat this in recent years.

They bought up many of the US brands, and rotate which ones are garbage so that they can continuously trap unwary customers.

Here’s a handy table, to help you avoid the manufacturer of whatever piece of junk you just sent to the landfill:

http://www.appliance411.com/purchase/make.shtml

I just assume the oval "made in america" sticker with the US flag on it implies the item is from that cartel, and is therefore garbage. (Many made in America appliances do not have it!) After that, I double check the list.
Superglue works well too
if you draw out the 10x10 multiplication table, anything 0 * x or x * 0 ends in 0 (19 out of 100 cases), and any even number times 5 also ends in 0 (8 out of 100 cases), which lines up with the 27% you're seeing.

Since this is on the units digit, Benford's law doesn't apply and you can basically expect the distribution of units digits to be uniform.
Dell's best laptops are hard to locate on their website
Dell makes a wide range of laptop models. The ones most consumers have heard of are the Inspiron and XPS laptops. Most think XPS are Dell's high end laptop. In reality Dell's Precision "mobile workstation" is probably the best laptop in terms of build quality and specs but you only find that model if you look under business solutions. Anyone know why that is?
47% of all ICUs and 33% of all hospitalizations considering only 15% of the all age population is unvaccinated is pretty high.

I really don't understand how you can say the rate of infection is higher in vaccinated using this data? It points to the complete opposite, with the smallest percentage of population 15% accounting 2x to 3x more in hospitalization and ICU.

And the data gets worse if you look only at adults.

I'm not saying unvaccinated are causing the pandemic, but they are currently the reason for the continued restrictions. It's because we fear that without restrictions they'd create a sudden surge in cases needing hospitalization and ICUs which the healthcare system might not be able to handle.

That's what people mean when they say that the unvaccinated are preventing us to lift restrictions and to make the pandemic endemic.

Asking to both be unvaccinated, and for all restrictions to be removed, but also asking to be promptly and freely treated if you catch COVID and need to be hospitalized or put in an ICU is a nice thing to demand, but it's not realistically feasible. Based on the data, it is likely to create a surge to the healthcare system that it couldn't handle.
Does this mean that "traditional" advertising is becoming more powerful?

If the users can't trust Google to return relevant results, would they simply trust brand power and go directly to the websites they trust? (e.g. go directly to nike.com instead of searching for "running shoes"?)
wow, you're not joking. search {"median" height} and the first result is mean height. that's infuriating.
Embedded search in arbitrary web sites sucks because it's a hard problem. The naive solution is to put all text in a database table keyed by "page" and do a sql "like" query. Don't ever do this. Some db's have full text search nowadays. I've implemented "embedded" search a few times in the past and I used Lucene, which actually works pretty well.
The thing is that there's two levels of possible discrimination; systemic discrimination and admissions discrimination. Pure test results are discrimination free at the admissions level, but they don't address systemic inequities. To accommodate for systemic inequities, we use admissions discrimination. Again, that's not necessarily a bad thing; the author thinks it's a worthy tradeoff.

> Asians are extremely well represented at top schools, i'm not sure what they are fighting for?

The truth is that Asian Americans have to get higher test scores / GPA / extracurriculars to get into prestigious schools. It's true that this might have a positive affect on reducing systemic discrimination in the long run, but it's hard for Asian American applicants to accept that the burden should be placed on them.
Have you tried using the date filters?
Let me guess, no actual data on DAU, just subjective impressions about the quality of search results?
It seems likely that almost any process that uses fossil inputs can be done reasonably well by simply subbing in electricity to fake the original process (e.g in this case making green hydrogen) but that there's a lot of synergies to be unlocked by revisiting from first principles.

It's like TV going from radio with pictures to its own thing, or horseless carriages becoming automobiles etc. A new paradigm for looking at things afresh.
Where there's a will, there's a way. I once needed to do network calculations where I only had some very limited tools, so I used awk to convert 32-bit ints to a 32-character ascii bit string of "1" and "0" and the converse function, then wrote and, or, and not functions that worked on the ascii strings.

https://gist.github.com/jaysoffian/e41ca479d70e60efe59fded93...
Costa Rica might fit your bill. Probably not as cheap as Vietnam but definitely cheaper than the US and very non-totalitarian; they abolished their military 70 years ago.
Google is dying but appending reddit to searches is not the solution.

Product recommendations on reddit usually boil down to a couple of products for each type, the hivemind keeps recommending them and the process kind of self sustains without any chance for other valuable products to be even considered/reviewed/recommended or pass the upvote threshold to be noticed.

Technical questions sometimes have an answer much more times get you to a dead thread that didn't lead anywhere because the attention span on reddit is way too short.

Also reddit users are mostly US based, local communities aren't usually big enough to lead to something useful on localized searches.
Wow. So they collected all this data and complicated all these lives and in the end... the system doesn't work?
I see the numbers, but nothing appears when they're selected. If I generate a fresh one it shows up fine. iOS.
For US people, it used to be very easy to get a "business visa" that was good for a year.

If you lived in Saigon, you'd do the Moc Bai border run with Cambodia once a year. Drive (or bus) a couple hours to the border. Literally walk over the border and walk back into VN. On the way out and back in, you can pay some coffee money for faster service. You put a 200k or 500k note in your passport at the desk and they put it on the top of the stack.

It was kind of an entertaining process.
If the universe was infinite I would also expect to see the age of stars and by extension galaxies uncorrelated with space and time. Instead we see younger and younger stars and galaxies as we peer farther and father away.

It's as if we are standing in the savanna and as we look through our binoculars we see younger and younger giraffes as we look into the distance. At some point there will not be any more giraffes to view as their age intercepts zero as a function of distance(and time).
He has a crypto fund that he needs to make returns on, so he has been shilling crypto / web3 / "decentralized" / blockchain hard with his personal brand.

What he doesn't say, that I find obvious, is that open source has been doing decentralized and permissionless innovation for a long time. Many closed source companies are also building APIs and ecosystems around their products which is much better than in the before times.

He's borderline lying saying that web3 is decentralized. Only its expensive data layer is, and maybe a bit of smart contracts, though those are moving towards permissioned calling, because malice... who thought making your code easily callable with arbitrary inputs and subroutines was a good idea... smh
The Dead Internet Theory reminds me of a minor bit of flavor from a Neal Stephenson book, Anathem. In it it's mentioned that this far future civilization (which has seen civilization broadly collapse from technology zeniths a couple of times) had to abandon their set of planet wide communication networks because people intentionally set up computers that would put out huge amounts of information, but all of it was information to mislead, manipulate, obscure, deceive, or convince you to pay money for something. This was done so much that effectively all information, and all actors which might share information, became adversarial on the broad internet, so it stopped being usable.
Very cool service. I built an experiment a few months back whereby I needed to trigger a webhook back to my server at a specific time in the future.

Gonna share it here incase anyone else finds it useful: https://onassar.github.io/experiments/boomerang-webhooks

It uses AWS API Gateway, Lambda and S3 to allow you to register a URL to be triggered at some future date.

Hope it's helpful!
Well... Like you don't need permission to make something like the Bored Ape Yacht Club. You just need somebody to buy it.

Of course it's not different from "didn't need permission to make salesforce.com", "didn't need permission to make Uber", "didn't need permission to make Danbooru", etc.
This is meta commentary, right?
a lot of countries also don't have mandates. in regions where ebola is endemic, the vaccine isn't mandated, though perhaps it should be.

in the USA the flu vaccine is not mandated either, not even in hospitals.

further covid is not apples to apples with measles and smallpox. covid mutates. the vaccines don't achieve herd immunity. those diseases target the young while covid targets the old and infirm.

covid does not affect everyone equally.

zero-tolerance and one-size-fits-all was a mistake.
Even if you hire a lawyer to review that ToS, that would be a waste of time because every ToS has a clause "we can change the terms any time we want for any reason we want and it's your responsibility to read the new terms on our website". Most ToSes also refer to "additional terms" written elsewhere.
Let me tell you how you are wrong!
I think there's some nuance to this terminology, but overall I prefer to use the term "bad faith" when people are saying things that they know are untrue. In general, most people I hear using the term "willful ignorance" are referring to the same phenomenon of people lying to push their own narrative.

Actual ignorance is never willful, by definition of ignorance.
I’m glad more and more people, from both here and on Reddit (similar discussions appear sporadically) are beginning to notice. I actually have most of these links already favorited haha.

I hope your startup pans out well. Thanks for doing your part to make the internet less terrible!
decades ago in germany a court decided that people had a right to phone service and it could not be cut even without payment because that would cause an undue restriction to be able to function. (this was pre-internet, so i can't find a reference). there is a more recent court decision that states that service may only be cut if the lapse in payment is sufficiently high,

i believe similarly in the US you can't just take away someones car because without it they might not be able to get to work and probably would never be able to pay for their debt.

likewise having an email address is becoming a necessity in life and therefore closing an email account would make it difficult to function in todays society.

the same goes for having a bank account.

all these things should have legal protection.
The other day I looked up the wordle answer (I know I know). The first result was a site where I had to scroll through about 19 paragraphs of SEO vomit to get to the answer. The page could literally have one word on it and serve it's purpose. If that isn't a sign that the the internet, or at least google search, is dead, I don't know what is.
I loved it when the web looked like that. Like a giant art project made by people just having a fun time being expressive.