skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had no problem finding sites to index with my search engine. Like it's tiny compared to Google today, but it's about the same size they were when they first started out. Leads me to think there's probably as much, or more now as there ever was. There's just more noise to go with it.
This is, incidentally, a good time to bring up the fact that when Citi accidentally wired $900m to various lenders for Revlon, Inc., many recipients opted to hold onto the money and take the matter to court. They won principally because New York law entitled them to keep the money, because it was effectively a repayment on a loan. Normally, the "hold harmless" part is true and wires are reversed, but that only happens if there isn't a very good reason (like a law that errs in your favor and a large sum of money) on the table. See: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-17/citi-c..., and the opinion directly: https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rrBrQQPB...
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The author's thesis is a bit confused. Reddit hasn't replaced Google as a search engine. Reddit does have a search function, but have you used it? It's frankly terrible. Rather, Google has become the search engine front end for the huge database that is Reddit. Currently they have a symbiotic relationship, but if Reddit ever decides to take its data private and build its own competent front end, it could potentially splinter off for itself a good chunk of traffic.
"Google's results are clearly getting worse". Can somebody quantify this in some objective way?

As in: I have this concrete metric (that anybody can inspect / replicate) and I saw it declining from 201X to 2022 etc.

I don't dispute that it is a true fact. The comments reveal both ways that this manifests, inventive workarounds and possible causes. But without having read through the 765 comments(!) (at time of posting) I don't see something that can be quoted as a measured reality.

NB: It would be really useful to have such an independent quality index, also for future reference when invariably somebody provides a "better" search engine.
I think one has to be very careful with taking the narrative of lower class, "hillbilly" republicans too much at face value. While yes, these people definitely do exist, the perception that this group is representative of republicans is something that is deliberately cultivated for political means.

As examples like recent protests show, the true core are people like business owners and wealthy suburbanites who are very much voting for their interests, not against them. This is also shown by how in every presidential election since at least 2012, voters below $50k always voted firmly in favor of democrats while voters above $100k voted firmly in favor of Republicans.
OKC allowed users to filter for (covid) vaccinated people, but not for unvaccinated people. By making the default supposedly neutral sites lean left politically, it naturally creates a market for those unserved by those offerings.
So how does that apply to the conversation around Google, though? We can't only ingest information from a small group of sources. That's antithetical to the entire concept of the internet.
I'm surprised nobody posted this very famous video of a British man and his Asian girlfriend getting harassed by a local in Taipei, Taiwan 7 years ago. [1]

The aggressor ended up getting in trouble and appeared on the local news but I'm sure a lot of people shared his toxic views.

[1] https://youtu.be/zagZ_ys76SA
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Maybe it is regional? Where do you live that the police do a good job?
I wish Google would offer two different search products, one assuming Google-fu, and one not.
> I'm wondering how it is then that theft by wire fraud is a serious problem these days.

The article touches briefly on that. Some wire transfers can be reversed. It becomes more difficult when money starts moving around jurisdictions, but at least it's possible. Essentially no crypto transactions can be reversed.
There’s a strong possibility the author is totally wrong here. Reddit search is famously broken, so the only way people can reliably search Reddit is via Google. (Because Google search is…broken?)
In other news, death is not really final due to resuscitation, cloning, and ultimately, the theoretical reversability of time
An anti-example from my own coding life.

I work in a very iterative fashion, my favorite language is Ruby, which allows me to work as iteratively as my heart desires. Write one line of code, execute it, make sure it's doing exactly what I want it to be doing, then write another line of code.

In order for an iterative coding workflow to be fun, I can't be jumping all over the place, one line at a time only please. But golang refuses to make that fun for me. I can turn the linter off, but the compiler is constantly, noisily, judging me, and the core golang team absolutely refuses to let me turn inconsequential errors off.

So I'm constantly having to jump around the file to make the compiler happy with it's incessant complaints. I'm not using this variable, I don't have any new variables declared, so I gotta remove the ':' until it's time to add it back. Shut the heck up compiler! These are linting concerns!

I wish desperately for language makers to start caring about workflow. It always seems to never even bother rating any kind of concern at all. I wish I could just stop using languages that don't respect coders.
Buddy got his bike stolen. Granted, it was a very nice bike. Cops called 3 months later to say they found it for him. Didn't even arrest the kid riding it, because it was obvious he "inherited" it, and he didn't give them a hassle turning it over. Most of them are pretty good at their jobs. IME, barely most, but most nonetheless.
I'm pretty convinced the Earth is round (or an oblate spheroid if you want to be pedantic about it), and I don't care if flat earthers are malicious or deluded; I'm not going to waste my time arguing with them either way.
You have the most uncommon outcome. Count yourself lucky.
It depends on how well the fraud is executed, how long time has been passed since the fraud happened and also on the amounts and people/organisations involved.

Technically kalzumeus might be right, however practically it almost always makes sense to think that wire transfer is final, and treat it that way. If a con man tricks you into wiring funds to a wrong address, it is quite likely gone. However with credit card payments you can be more relaxed, and so on.
Me too I even have a bookmarklet in Firefox so that I can use a prefix (hn) and the search is rewritten as site:news.ycombinator.com, to make sure all results are limited to HN.

I also have the same kind of bookmarklet for Reddit and Google Scholar.
Who cares how popular it is? It only matters if it's justified. Very often the minority position is the correct one.
Jdate, blackpeoplemeet, Christian mingle, farmers only. All Tinder for X and most of not all of them predate tinder
> * If my business fails, I don't want to incur huge debt or losses, I want the security of a steady paycheck.

I am possibly wrong, but I believe starting a company as an LLC is meant to protect against this possibility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_asset_forfeiture
I wonder if a timer for comments to be shown could be useful. They could be batched or the time is inversely proportional to the length.

Anyone know of any website that implements this or something similar?
But the judge, the prosecutor and the lawyers are all paid to give the judge stuff, we're here having a conversation, but I am not sure what kind of proof do you want and what should we do, like it's not that newspapers write article about wokes being wokes, just maybe go around on twitter or go on twitter and write something controversial like "#FuckBLM" and see what comes at you, not sure what do you want

or I mean I know what do you want, but don't know how long do you want me to reply to you, or others, like I am very patient in conversations, but I feel like don quixote and as a non native speaker I feel like you're misunderstanding what I say, genuinely or not, I guess someone here thinks not, but I think I am done, its been a few hours, you've been told things, you've been given links, and now I think it's time for you to go to explore the world by yourself... fly free
Development seems to be moving in that direction already (see market share per browser and the number of "Chrome only" sites). How would removing UAs continue or hinder that trend?
Glad to see that this is pure web: will not include support for android apps.

Kind of ironic that Microsoft is going to the step of taking googles android and hacking it onto windows, while Google is not adding android to (this version of) their OS. Not exactly sure what the irony is actually, but it’s in there somewhere.
This is pretty standard. I always found it confusing that when looking for a laptop I needed to pick between "Buisness" and "Consumer" and in the end search both categories. Just show me the specs!

I want to just say "Show me all laptops that have a screen between X and Y size, can be configured with at least N GiB of RAM and ...". But instead you have to basically find all of the different lists of laptops on the site and go through one-by-one.
I have some accelerationist friends, and I think their views indeed stem from internal conflict. I don't think I have those internal conflicts, and my views oppose theirs quite radically. I believe our greatest art, inventions, and societies still lay ahead of us, and that, eventually, Everything Will Be Okay. They see civilization as an overall evil whose sacrifices are too great to justify and that is poised to end at any moment. (Hyperbolic paraphrasing.)

Nevertheless, ambition is dangerous, and wanting (and getting) things, on an individual level, is often a treadmill of misdirected (manufactured?) attempt to seize "happiness". Bhuddism always seemed more enlightened than what we have in the West, imo: eliminating wanting itself is not a bad way to go, sometimes. That comes from cultures that broadly strive for "harmony" and contentment vs. "having the ultimate party".

Also, the "adventurer" sounds a little bit like Utahraptor: https://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=14 :p
Yes, but even the federal government has no power to move the -original amount- if you throw away the key.

They can make you cough up an equivalent amount in fines, of course. But the original amount is gone.
I would be really interested in this if it had a focus mode, that hides e-mails and delivers them to me in batches. I loved Tempo[1], but unfortunately they ran out of money, which shows how tough this space is.

[1]: https://www.yourtempo.co
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Looks like something I would like.

What do people use to manage podcasts and keep downloads synchronized, and remove podcasts I've listened to? Does it handle resume for in-progress podcasts?

If I read https://www.head-fi.org/threads/fiio-m5-compact-and-versatil... correctly, it treats a podcast recording as a song and doesn't have a way to resume.

Or am I misunderstanding?
Many countries they would be beaten or killed. It really depends on what many countries means to you.
Sure, but that money you stole buried in your backyard is still yours. The rightful owner cannot just steal it back. Similarly if it wasn't yours, you wouldn't have to pay taxes on it and the IRS still expects taxes on stolen property

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/irs-taxpayers-stolen-items...
Sometimes I wonder if dang ever goes on vacation. Does he even sleep or take a break?
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The N-1 Moon Rocket indicates that scaling up by putting more of your existing rocket motor on a vehicle may not always been as easy as it appears.

As other parallel posters have commented, mechanical devices do not always squish or stretch with ease.
Thanks for the response. There are some interesting ideas on hat site. I guess this is another example of something discussed extensively in the rest of the thread, the name/slogan of the movement not using the conventional meaning of terms.
This a marvellous job done by a marvellous group. Keep it up! Haskell is great, I absolutely love my Haskell projects at work. And it all depends on work done by volunteers, or contributions from big corps.
I guess this is why a lot of sites now removed dates from their articles.
Apple Music has a cloud locker feature, which is the main reason I use it over Spotify. The process isn't as nice as the drag-and-drop into your browser like how Google Play Music did it (RIP), but you can add songs through the Music App on Mac (I assume you can also do it through iTunes on Windows?), set all your metadata, etc. and then you can stream it from any device (except the web player, which is among many other problems with the web player. I wouldn't recommend it)
College Station-Bryan, Texas, home of Texas A&M University, was smaller than Berkeley in 1990 when I was a student there. Now it's more than twice as big, while Berkeley has the same population as it had in 1970. Zoning for growth is like an alien technology that California simply does not have.
possibly, but it's a chicken and egg problem, isn't it? so much of what gets popular on the web is based on gaming SEO rankings.
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lol that video was what started my can opener hunt. Also that YT is why I now have a microwave and a toaster on my 'things to hunt down' list.
Polling consistently shows that the majority of Republican voters do not think Biden won the 2020 election. In my mind, that proves your theory false. A recent UMass poll found that 71% of Republicans think Biden's election was definitely (46%) or probably (25%) not legitimate. In an Ipsos poll last year, 53% of Republicans when asked who "the true President is right now" said Donald Trump. There are dozens of polls showing the exact same thing.

You're also ignoring the 147 elected members of Congress that voted against certifying the election results, and the countless mainstream conservatives politicians and pundits who are constantly promoting provably false conspiracy theories, and not just the Big Lie, often it's even far more nonsensical garbage. This is not a fringe movement, this is the mainstream Republican Party.
You already said "on the columns", so it will be https://columns.ai, :)
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Non refrigerated milk can still be from cows.
No I make sure to criticize every comment I see. You're welcome as my karma takes the hit for the rest of us
I couldn't use those through Safari on a Mac either. Nothing really tells you that it's unsupported. I could search or figure it out but I don't wear my programmer/software tester hat all the time.

Welp, better spend a few minutes downloading the same thing but in a Chrome sandbox.
Yes, but you can't add a new search engine at all! So if a search engine isn't one of the tiny number of options in that dropdown, you can't change to it. That applies on both iOS and MacOS. And that option is used for the entire system-wide search, not just Safari.

So here's a challenge, try adding a search engine not on that list. You can see the search engine I'm working on in my profile if you're interested (I don't want to hijack this thread with self-promotion). I challenge you to change to a new competitive option like it. You simply can't. That is a clear monopoly over distribution.

On desktop in Chrome, as noted it is not something any typical consumer can do easily. But even if they could, Google does not allow you to set the New Tab to another search engine, even by setting the homepage to one. So every new tab opened on Chrome takes you back to Google search, even if a consumer figures out how to change their homepage. As for changing the nav bar search, no ordinary consumer is going to be able to work out how to change a search URL pattern. That is clearly intended to prevent consumers changing.

So I stand by my point, especially on an iPhone, you simply cannot change your search engine to a new search engine like us. It is impossible.
Isn't that effectively what limiting a google search to reddit does?

Not that I'm convinced it will keep working, since reddit isn't really a vendor in the same sense, and doesn't have those incentives.
When you search for something with presently political punch. And then do the same search on a different search engine. And see the difference in the results. See how Google controls what you see, to control what you think.

Yeah, fuck that fascist noise.
They're already simulating tonnes of way more complex phenomena. Is it the API calls they'd need to make? Why not interpolate the positions better? I feel like this shouldn't be a performance problem in 2022.
This might sound like a quip but is it even wrong? Every wonk acknowledges that third party votes are likely to be wasted. And people get mad at you if you “protest vote”. How is that not an effective duopoly?
While this is true there is also a lot of interesting research going on that makes model training and adaptation to new tasks much more efficient. For example in meta-learning methods like Model Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML)[1] you learn a model that learns to initialize weights for another model such that it converges very quickly for a new task.

For datasets benchmarking new task adaptation there are Meta-Dataset (MD)[2] for Meta-Learning, and the Visual Task Adaptation Benchmark (VTAB)[3] for Representation Learning. Recently to compare the two approaches VTAB+MD[4] was created. Of course, there is also model quantization[5], mixed precision, sparse networks[6], brain floats[7].

Well I've dropped a lot there, but there is a lot more outside the mainstream. I've been building something on a tight budget for a few years so this has been important for success there. We are are very focused on being data and compute efficient.

[1]: https://proceedings.mlr.press/v70/finn17a/finn17a.pdf

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03096

[3]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04867

[4]: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Q0hm0_G1mpH

[5]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08819

[6]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.13896

[7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bfloat16_floating-point_format
It is not "reversing the transaction", it is just seizure. If you have spent the Bitcoin on a lamborghini, government will confiscate the lambo. Criminals however typically spend the stolen money on hookers and drugs. Seizure or confiscation has nothing to do with "reversing the transaction", calling it that is just stupid, mixing terms unnecessarily is just unnecessary and confusing here.
A pet peeve of mine is when corporations try to use "One" as a brand. Not only is it horribly uncreative, it's been done countless times by countless companies and it never sticks. They're trying to get across the idea that this one product does everything, or that different products/offerings are now unified. But "One" is lazy and unoffensive in the corporate world.

Steve Ballmer wanted a "One Microsoft", SkyDrive being renamed to OneDrive was partly due to this, and was hoping people would call the XBox One "The One".
Plus 20 years of intensive training after that 9 months...

Or maybe your newborn is more capable than mine!
I've mused over the idea of a Twitter that delayed tweets by some number of hours. You could cancel during that timeframe, but not edit.

I think it would be a radically different form of interaction, but I doubt it would catch on.
It's a bit like comparing HN UX to Twitter UX (but with the same actual content)
I mean, Siebel took Autodesk for God knows how much and he’s doing pretty well.

P(seizure-of-assets) scales sharply up as one goes from none to some, and then sharply down as the number gets high.
Reminds me of "declarative" versus "imperative".
A lot of this could be solved if we could signal intent or context before searching. But that would require that you know how to use the tool which is a gargantuan user barrier from Google's point of view. Meanwhile, we have to hack about trying to signal context.
Can't say if you are serious or not - healthcare costs compared to US are insanely low. Even if you go to private clinics. If you actually live there, you ask around to not get fleeced by some 'posh' places that cost too much for what they provide.

But yes if given person would be (almost) homeless in US, they won't be doing great in such a place, in fast developing big city. You can move to more rural place and not the center of biggest city, and cut expenses by at least 50%.

Plus having part time servants if practically unaffordable for many of these retirees back home.
Zapier on Steroids for programmers!

I like how Netlify went with a low-code approach that provides not only speed and flexibility, but also greatly helps with long-term maintenance. Web apps are now more connected and heterogenous than ever - there is a need to quickly and easily connect with various APIs. No-code falls short in providing performant and maintainable code bases. GraphQL-based tools could be the solution. Netlify seems to have taken the lead here. I only worry about potential vendor lock-in.

Congrats!
It's very healthy for your baby to delay cord clamping as long as possible
Still, that's not the point. Everyone knows that it's possible to physically move items from one place to another even if the legal owner of the item does not consent. Sometimes this is even legal, as in the case of civil asset forfeiture.
> [...] write good code.

> When people say this, I don't know what they mean.

Code does something for the business (or for the customer). Good code both does what the business needs, but is also possible to quickly and easily modify and extend as the needs of the business change.

These two characteristics, that the code should fulfill the needs of the business and also be able to grow, imply a number of other characteristics of good code. It should be easy to read so you can scale the developer force up and down easily. It should be testable, to facilitate rapid changes and health within the code base.

On the operations front, good code should have operational metrics and monitoring, so you can see that it's working well without digging too hard, and can see what areas need attention if any. It should operate in a reasonably trouble-free way, so you're focusing your time on what's next instead of problems caused in the past. Sometimes I hear of teams where the developers want to leave because they're continuously solving operational problems instead of doing feature development-- those teams should be working on rewriting/reworking their systems in a way that they operate trouble free, which is new development.

The goodness of code is determined by how well it serves its purposes-- both in the past as well as into the future.

Some of these these ideas and much more are well-covered in books such as "Clean Architecture" by Robert Martin.
Text is a very difficult medium in which to express oneself. I first noticed this with early e-mails. Especially dangerous if the message is terse. Centuries ago when the phrase "A little learning is a dangerous thing" became popular, writing required a pen and ink, and the (now esteemed) writers had a lot more time on their hands.

When time pressure's on, perhaps, it's easy to leave out adjectives, qualifiers, and personal tales. Perhaps typing code into a text editor all day leads to a kind of economy that isn't appropriate for humans. (Not to even get into that geek cultural thing from college; I remember getting laughed at when I admitted to not knowing how to calculate pi to any number of places.)

At least on a phone the timbre of our voices is a side-channel which communicates our intentions. Text lacks that, and hurried text? Danger, Will Robinson.
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