skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fast ... Instant Search

Great idea, and "instant search the web" would probably a better pitch then "non-profit search engine". Interesting argument that google doesn't do this because it isn't compatible with their ad model, but that doesn't mean a new ad-funded search engine can't do this. For google it might be billions of dollars in lost revenue while they adjust their ad model, a new ad-funded search engine wouldn't have this problem.

> Frictionless ... For example if you are typing “facebook” or “hmrc login” you could go straight there from the address bar.

No thanks. I sometimes do search for "company name" looking for the wikipedia article for the company, or news about the company, or information about the company in general. If you used facebook before, then it's going to autocomplete as soon as you type "face" in your addressbar, and you won't need the search engine. So if someone searches for facebook, they're either using the browser for the first time, or they're looking for information about facebook. Latter seems more likely.
Because of this, I've gotten into the habit of opening almost everything in a new tab. I browse the front page of HN/reddit in one tab, open comment pages in a new tab, and look at the submission itself in a new tab. In a way, I've mostly replaced the back button with the close tab-button on a lot of sites.

I know HN doesn't have this problem, but I still do it out of habit, and I then open multiple submissions of interes and go through them.
It's also fun, easy and exceptionally easy to spend a precise budgetary on a branding exercise.

Marketing these days is full of technical details. Digital campaign statistics. CRM. Automation. Tiny optimisations, analytics and such.

Branding lets everyone be involved. Everyone can have a say. A logo change rarely succeeds or fails. You don't have to know anything to make decisions or sound smart. Everyone notices it. Crusty old board members notice, and might comment on the work. Etc.

It's high visibility, low effort, low stress, low bar work.

I'm not implying that great branding doesn't exist. Most of the examples here though... they just changed fonts to whatever is most fashionable now.
Your not going to have insane performance with 10x smaller battery.
Yep, my bad :-)

I meant to type DAB, had a mild brain fart & ran with FM for want of a void to fill.

Take my points and prosper.
Here is the $35 universal upgrade with a renewable energy option. It even does shortwave and weather bands.

Solar Hand Crank Emergency Radio

https://a.co/66NqV7M

Edit: I don't care about SW, WB, CB, AM, FM, or Sirius as standard. They serve no purpose for me and most people. Maybe people who enjoy commercials, mainstream or extremist hate radio could enjoy some them with their innate static and reception problems. Plus, AM is an inferior encoding technology and band requiring a lot of power and nearly line-of-sight, so forget it around hills or mountains. Digital with turbo coding moonwalks over its grave.
> "Private companies are so much scarier than the NSA"

We are in the long swing where people think only state tyrany matters. They forgot how bad private tyrany can get,
of robber barons were.
The paper has this in the data…
Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch
don't most of these sites, like Shopify, require arbitration for disputes?

or do you worry about actually enforcing an arbitration decision?
Revolut, Facebook, and Pinterest’s new logos look “wrong” to me. The old ones look more natural and recognisable.

The others from the tech group all look like natural evolutions of the logos. But perhaps it’s just that they changed long ago so there’s been plenty of time to get used to the new ones?
I also just learned this. Apparently range header works with S3 https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_GetObjec...
Maybe they could buffer the broadcast (e.g. music played yesterday) for such cases.

I remember being in an Audi in 2012 which could automatically record the traffic announcements - the radio station would send a signal that the host is about to read out some traffic info, and most cars' entertainment units have a setting to switch to that broadcast, pausing the CD player. The Audi had an auto-record feature in case you needed to hear them again.
> A dealer in the PNW installed one of these (without our knowledge) in a Honda CRV we purchased

Why do I get the feeling that If i did that to the car I sold privately, I would be in jail really fast?
Even in more open modding communities (like Minecraft) where these kinds of limitations are less common, it's really strange to me that most mods are not open source. By nature, mods can usually not be monetized in any way (without attracting the game publisher's army of lawyers) and are often developed by one person in their spare time (unsurprisingly leading to burnout and abandoned projects). So if you know you'll never make any money from it and that your time to work on it is very limited, why not open it up to contributions? Or at the very least, once you stop maintaining it for whatever reason, why not let others continue where you left off?
Roughly speaking, yep - Common Crawl provides a sizable chunk of web data (420 TiB uncompressed, over 3 billion unique URLs, as of May 2022; historic statistics here[1]), and is updated on monthly basis. Not near-real-time, true, albeit relatively fresh.

A question to ask could be: how often do users care about information from a few minutes ago, compared to information that has been available for a longer duration of time?

[1] - https://commoncrawl.github.io/cc-crawl-statistics/
Having a trivial, reliable way to strip audiobooks of their DRM might tempt me to get Audible.

Maybe it's better if i stay away from DRM.
Right, but it isnt. The neural network algorithm is just one in the whole set of non-parametric curve-fitting algorithms which approximate a dataset with a function whose structure is given by averages over the dataset its given.

It doesnt matter what algorithm in this family we choose, they all just produce correlative models of the data given. So if we give a NN a library of books, it produces a function whose structure is just correlations of words in those books.

To believe that the structure of this function has anything to do with language, the brain, or anything else is pseudoscience. It isnt close to science, it isnt an open or a philosophical question, it's homoeopathy.

Language use in humans is not a function of correlations of word frequencies. We know this, as much as we know where mars is.

No human is shown a trillion books and arrives at an internal model of language corresponding to word frequencies in those books. We know that it would be impossible to do this, since words refer to the world -- and correlations between word frequencies dont.

Your comment here defending this is equivalent to a homoepath saying "we dont know everything about chemistry". We dont know everything, but we do know that diluting with water doesnt make substances more efficaious.

And we do know that the correlational structure of text in books captured with any algorithm whatsoever, has nothing to do with modelling language. We know any such system cannot use language, as at least, it has no model of how words refer to the environment.
The thing that you're counting as "intercity" is roughly comparable to what is classified as regional service in the North East US.

Destination | Operator | Distance from NYC

Camden / Philly | NJT / Amtrak | 82 mi

Montauk | LIRR / Amtrak | 110 mi

New Haven | MNR / Amtrak | 67 mi

Except for Montauk, these places are cities in their own right, but we don't really think of them as intercity trains because the primary reason someone would board is as a commuter not as a traveler.
Hey also try out https://text-generator.io

the same querying works but it will save you a load on gpt-3 cost https://text-generator.io/playground?text=SQLite+create+a+pa...

codex is technically free if you have access but soon it wont be so keep text-generator.io in mind there too as it can generate code from descriptions etc too at a wildly more competitive price.

Had to use a bit of the "Create Table" syntax, but it did a create table if not exists which is nice... it missed the content field though
The author mentioned they didn't like that transaction fees are not given back during refunds but unfortunately both Stripe and PayPal do the same thing. They started doing this a few years ago.

If someone buys your product for $100 and Stripe's fee is $3.20 and you issue a refund to someone you will refund the user $100 and Stripe keeps the $3.20 so that refund really cost you $3.20.
"FM is no more complicated than AM to transmit and receive."

FM is simple compared to WiFi6, but its an order more complicated than AM. An AM receiver only needs a diode and a coil of wire. The diode can be a rusty blade.

I dont think you can make an FM receiver without a transistor (which for me, as a former solid state guy is an order of magnitude more complicated than a diode)
> NN is just a fancy search engine

What makes you sure that your thinking process is different?

What's the difference between a model and complicated correlations?
I wouldn't recommend using any sqlite database direct on s3... You'll end up with a pretty high bill from all the operations.
You do not need to know every implementation detail down the stack, just the the general concepts behind it all. But in case you do need to know a specific part of the stack very thoroughly, you can just read the source code and come up with an understanding quite soon.

That is not the case with biology, if you want to know a part of the stack thoroughly, you in essence have to come up with the "source code" your self.
Google Offers Concessions to Fend Off U.S. Antitrust Lawsuit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31497888
Devs and organisations that create "bad codebase" in Java, Go, etc. will do the same in Rust.

It boils down to skill and discipline, not the language. There is no silver bullet.
Disclaimer: I work for Google, though far away from Search.

Regardless of search engine design, there's HUGE money in SEO. Any successful search engine will be gamed. Do you have the developer power to go red-queen against all the large companies in the world?
Author of the article here.

There are many, MANY versions of images from my article on Twitter, with attribution cropped. I wanted to have a subtle and small contribution and to not be obnoxious. It seems that it's not a good idea. Too easy to crop, post as your own and sound smart.

It's even worse on LinkedIn. There were multiple posts with cropped images, literally tens of thousands of likes, and zero attribution, then not even addressing direct comments and calling them out.

David Perell used one of the cropped images but he didn't know the source. When I commented on it, he added the article to his Twitter thread, with proper attribution.
The "funding options" part has the unsurprising blind spot that, maybe, a search engine is the kind of basic infrastructure that ought to be paid (at least in part) by... The taxpayers ?

I have a long standing bet that, at some point, some company will be "globalized" (operated under some common funding by many different countries, like many research projects or defense organization or aid funds, etc...), and the "search engine" part of google is the prime candidate.

That being said, I'm from Europe, so "sharing the cost of something useful" is not culturally untolerable.

Far fetched and controversial opinion, I know. We'll see.
Physicists see electron whirlpools for the first time
North Korean operatives are trying to infiltrate US crypto firms
Old Mac Software Archive – Macintosh Repository
https://www.customled.com/collections/brake-light-flashers-a...
Thank you for the correction, mea culpa
Wear flipflops.
I remember a phase where a lot of tech companies tried to copy Amazon's smiling arrow into their existing brand's image.

There was a time where DigitalOcean had a little smile line under a cloud on their home page years ago but they've removed it since then.
I can understand how the difference in time spent fueling at a petrol station vs charging station would be a hurtle for a lot of folks. For me I don't even notice. When I'm getting close to 20% I just park a little further down the street at a charger. Total time spent fueling from my perspective is the time to hook up and remove the charger (about 2 minutes) + about 2 minutes walking back and forth. The rest of the time is passive as it's just parked overnight. Ironically on road trips I've found it actually takes less time to charge than to fuel because the gas stations in Europe are so busy this summer. Sometimes there's a 30 - 45 minute wait just to get into the stations :(. Meanwhile I just cruise right into a supercharger, use the restroom, and by the time I'm back it's ready to go.
It really reminds me somehow of the police press relationship described in '64' (Rokuyon) by Hideo Yokoyama
How to design a better pulse oximeter: Specifications
Apple today is starting to remind me a bit of the Apple of the early 1990s.

Gone are the simple product portfolios where each model has a clear position and purpose within the line up. Now, the number of models is creeping up gradually with more and more overlap and less clarity of purpose between them.
There's plenty that do, and in fact UK driving test examiners would frequently slip a car into gear before the candidate makes their first start. If they hop the car, it's an automatic fail, before you even get out on the road.
This is like saying we should tear down the Louvre because we can show all those paintings on a website.
> Whenever I skip a meal, I always feel "Hangry" without fail.

How often do you skip meals? You have to make your body get used to your stomach being empty and burning fat. It is like walking, if you don't do it regularly then all the systems in your body that are there to burn fat aren't ready so they wont work properly. But if you practice it regularly then after a while it wont phase you at all, humans are made to function well without constantly eating meals.

It has nothing to do with low carb btw, I can do it just fine with high carb. Just have to get used to your stomach being empty from time to time.

> it creates stress in the body

Yeah, and training makes your muscles hurt and damages them when you haven't trained in a long time. Still training regularly is the healthy thing to do, and then your muscles will be just fine. Similarly skipping a meal doesn't damage you if you are used to it, your body just starts burning fat instead and everything continues like normal.

Also, try to predict what happens when your body isn't used to burn fat, and instead you just eat more every time your body starts to try to burn fat? Do you think that is healthy?
I'd quite like a browser extension that records all my searches and where I end up, just for my own review. I feel like many of my searches aren't actually searches, but I can't quantify that at the moment.

Feels like that would be good info to share, once it's depersonalised.
> FOSS and proprietary friendly.

Aren't they strongly walking back on the first part?
Please do not use North Carolina as a metonym for state house representative Ben Moss, the sole sponsor of the bill in question. This is not something that is on anyones radar as an issue aside from him.
You could have reversed the audio for two of the tracks before recording.
I deployed a ipv6-only network to experiment with and found nat64+dns64 to work with very little trouble. I didn't know about pref64 at the time, but as I understand, without cooperating clients, it would not solve the DNSEC problem.
You can’t limit to real people. If you managed to, I would make a service where people can sign up and I’ll pay to use their account. No cost to them and they make some money from it, seems totally reasonable.
This is the kind of idiocy that makes me despise the developer community every time i see something like this. It is one of my pet peeves, so if you're going to have an opinion on this comment, please, read the whole thing.

The ad supported free internet is one of the most important business models the world has arguably ever seen. Very few can argue with the fact that poor kids in developing countries over the past two decades and longer have had their lives changed beyond anyones wildest dreams thanks to the free resources at the tip of their fingertips.

On the same note, much of the wealth accumulation in the developer community has been on the backs of this very business model. The immense demand for dev talent and the astronomical salaries paid out is a consequence of the difficult financial choices made by so many before us.

When i read absolutely low-effort activism such as the text in the link about how(paraphrasing) 'sEaRcH eNgEnEs mAkE mOnEyY" and thus they are bad. I'm astounded at how intelligent people who can write code can simultaneously be so fucking moronic in their grasp of economics.

The web is an ecosystem. There are always going to be incentives that don't fit your moral compass that are getting optimized for and against. The answer isn't to burn it all down and shit all over a business model because it apparently doesn't fit your childish understanding of the ideal. By all means, compete, but atleast try to understand the various actors and participants in this complex web of entities and what role they're playing in the flow of investment, content, data and economic activity that is far more nuanced than "wEb rEsUlTs wIll B beTtTeR iF nOT oPtImiZeD fUr $$$ "

Face fucking palm
But the real question is: How did the return on the good investments compare to the costs of the bad investments? And how did the overall net return compare to, say, S&P?

One hint is that although half of the investments were bad, they also only accounted for 10% of the money invested.
You aren't a disruptor if you don't disrupt. You can't claim to be a change maker if you don't make change. You aren't a challenger if you don't challenge.

Etc. Etc. etc.
yes and for those people lobsters ain't HN alternative, because it's narrowly focused on developing/coding, not general technical topics
CS101: Introduction to Computing Principles
IIRC, ab (ApacheBench) is still vulnerable to Coordinated Omission which makes its 95%ile latency measurements useless. wrk2 solves that

JMeter has a lot more features like following links instead of just pulling the same URLs over and over, but it’s also very resource intensive. On a typical dev machine (32G 5800x3d) it is very slow and crashes when running at an absurdly low rate like 1000 requests/second. So unless your website is hosted on a Raspberry Pi, you’d have to spin up 100 cloud VMs to do a real load test. At that point running full browsers with Selenium starts to sound reasonable.
Considering how buggy skyrim is in general, I suspect people won't have high expectations for the mod either.
The internet-should-be-anonymous crowd wouldn't like that. But it's no worse than Google tracking everything A-Z.
And that money goes to support many industries beyond search itself. The author really needs to get off a computer for a minute and understand the economics of the web as it stands today and how the free ad supported model supports millions of peoples livelihoods before jumping to "This is all bullshit"
The author is not going to be able to convince governments to fund it unless they can first demonstrate a viable service.
it depends on the site, often comments provide more insight/context than the article itself in MSM
A small fee to a SV resident is a larger fee to most of the people in the rest of the US/EU is a prohibitive fee to many others.
> I think simply that Musk do not see the imminent market crash

It is possible of course, but unlikely. Musk doesn't seem to me as a person who might be surprised by this market crash, I heard him talking about the coming crash and how it will influence his plans before he started talking about buying twitter. My memory may be faulty but I think he mentioned it for example in December when justifying himself pushing SpaceX engineers to work harder to bring Raptor 2.

It seems more plausible for me that he tried to sell Tesla shares before the crash hit them.
I'd guess that the FM module is very cheap these days so it's probably easier to just throw that in than having some error prone internet-buffering system in place which would then also be confusing.

Going through a tunnel? Current news broadcast interrupted and music from yesterday starting to play doesn't sound like a good UX.
Piggyback on this/shameless plug - If anyones looking for a language/code generator that doesn't store then train on your input then check out https://text-generator.io

That is to say PII you send to OpenAI as their customer might be leaked whereas https://text-generator.io persists nothing of the customer input data and doesn't train on it.

In terms of whats in there right now though its likely trained on the pile though so you'd probably already be in there dataset too before being a customer, basically Reddit is in there/hacker news/Github i believe too, same thing if your authoring pubmeds ect so its hard to keep anonymous forever
> She had the steps meticulously written out. She was good to go!

On multiple occasions when explaining computer stuff, I explicitely said something like "don't write anything down, but try to understand the metaphor", because the software is a moving target. I've been also asked about "a manual for this computer", when they actually wanted a printed manual that explains all the software on the computer.

Modern day electronics aren't really made for most people who are born before about 1960. Understanding all metaphors intuitively probably requires having been exposed early in life.
This is a great point and a really hard problem to solve.

Do you think a Wikipedia style team of human reviewers with upvote/downvote capabilities can help reduce the SEO spam?

Obviously it’s hard to review the reviewers as well but Wikipedia seems to have done that.
> I think I share support for this argument and might have even posted it on HN previously.

It’s hard to tell. Your account was created only 20 hours ago. Maybe you posted it with a different handle?
There's audiobookshelf.

https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf
PMTiles: Cloud-optimized, single-file map tile archives – Python+JS
Yes, my wife’s Intel MacBook Pro does this. They are junk, especially when running Catalina. My theory is that the Intel models with T1/T2 controllers reached a point where they were too complex and difficult to keep stable.
Love the idea and the project! However, if you are aiming to become popular, definitely the first thing you need is a better name than “Mwmbl”.
I think Google search is using the wrong approach. When I'm looking for e.g. a new camera, I want to use my network which I trust. E.g. I want to ask "what camera would HN recommend?" We should think more about how we can use trust as a basis for how we explore the internet.
Coin flips are unknowables in advance. The study's rate is the rate of being knowable in advance. If you like, the rate of not being a coin flip.
Somehow I doubt the claim that you can get 100 million ladybugs for $75 as the (edit) original post mentioned in the knowyourmeme post claims: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/ladybug-raid

A gallon seems to be commonly listed as 72k-74k insects and seems to typically cost well above $100.

I don't think someone released 5 cubic meters of ladybugs for tiktok. And I'm disappointed that journalists from allegedly reputable media simply parrot such claims as "unverified" without pointing out the implausibility.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIWsAIr5mSg from Knowyourmeme shows what happened a bit better.
> Musk pretended that TSLA valuation is reasonable.

He did? I thought he said more than once that he believes the stock price to be too high.