skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work for Google Search. We have looked at this, and while never say never, reverting is hard from what I understand because it means we'd have to ignore the + symbol which turns out to be useful to recognize when it comes to international phone number searches.
I still use an iPhone XS and that's one of my favorite features that it has, I use it all the time and it's a shame it's not still there, kind of holding me back from upgrading
Well, for a moment there I thought we had another Google Code on our hands. I’m all for having multiple providers and such, but every time I find a really useful project on Gitlab I mirror it to my home Gitea instance lest it vanish.
> if only they could solve the problem where the text they index does not match the text my browser displays

Half the article is about this thing. I mean, they don't present solutions, but most of the reasons for "Ctrl+F doesn't find the terms" are entirely reasonable to me.
I got an idea: make search engine take useful results that you want and DALL-E them with ads to serve you mock websites with plausible content.
Better more denser housing in previously poor areas than no density at all.

You make it sound like putting up with density is a chore.
UPI (Unified Payments Interface) transactions using VPA (Virtual Payment Address) are free for now. Around 6 billion transactions are processed every month. But apparently the Indian govt is planning on adding a 50 paise (₹0.5; $1 ≈ ₹80) transaction fee in the future.
You don’t need to understand the technology to recognize the financial scams being run.

Offering 15-20% guaranteed rates of returns to unsophisticated lay people in times of historically low interest rates doesn’t require any technical knowledge to know it’s gonna fail and/or is a scam.
Google defines what good search results are. Any company trying to compete with them is just tilting at windmills. They'll always be a step behind, forever. "Hey, why does Google show me x and DDG doesn't?", "Why is it so hard to find x on DDG, it's on the first page of Google." Etc. It will never be the reverse for 99% of users.

And face it, for all its flaws, Google's index is larger, it has more servers, has way more signals to use - including its own web browser, DNS and ads - more money to spend and actual computer scientists who've been banging away at the problem for decades. Bing is just Microsoft's way of siphoning off some search revenues from the most technically illiterate users who don't know better and never change their defaults on their Windows box they bought at Walmart. MS has zero incentive to improve the results.

DDG is a cute little boutique web site. Good for them. But their impact on Google Search is so small as to be non-existent.
They don't give a fuck because they know no case when clicking "accept all" on a random website got someone in trouble.
What are the recent advances in color science which led you here? I will say that your color palettes look like they are out of a structural color publication.
If you let those people who prefer density have their density, there's more sparsity left over for the rest.
I tend to agree. Then again you could argue that iOS is a mature platform to allow for 1% functionalities, which are discovered step-by-step. I still discover awesome settings options through those Tik Tok movies.
I have the (weak) theory that non-developed countries were such because of the weather. I love reading and thinking... but in summer I cannot do any of that at home, it's just impossible for me to sit and study without sweating and feeling umcomfortable. So, my theory goes like this:

For the people who like thinking/studying: hot weather does not invite you to stay at home and study/think, so you are forced to do something else.

I imagine that as summers get longer and hotter, we'll see a diminishing in new ideas and the like because the people who like to think will be forced to do something else (laying on the cold floor to pass by the day).
- doesn't work for pinterest
Hey there, Simon here the founder and CEO of SnapShooter, happy to answer any questions.

Thanks for the show @stevoski
"I see," said the blind man, as he picked up his hammer and saw.
The Greens are not your enemy in this fight, the Liberal and Labor parties are - as demonstrated by their decades of long-standing policies which resulted in this mess in the first place.

The Green party certainly have their issues - subjugation and subversion most of all - but to lump the damage on the Greens is an inexcusable farce.

Until Australians realize that their political system is beholden to Big Coal, nothing will change. Australia has a long history, as a nation, of being run by the corporations that provide food to the populace, and Big Coal know this better than most, with their billion-dollar social engineering programs.
So people are willing to pay more for phones they don’t like? Even if that is true?
>On the other hand it seems unlikely to me that auto manufactures would allow their portfolio to be so exposed.

Yet here we are.

>it's not like modern ICEs can be made for sale without quite a lot of advanced electronics.

Indeed. We're all doomed.
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/never-lose-your-ipho...
Clairet is well-defined and AOC-protected.

Claret is an anglicisation of the word and is based on it. Somehow the English eventually used that term to refer to all Bordeaux wine and not just Clairet.

But the wine itself didn't change, what changed is just foreigners inappropriately using words to describe one type of wine to describe others.
Most of the improvements that I can think of for the iPhone (and iOS apps in general) would involve removing features. An example, there is a gesture that will open the camera app, I don't know what it is, but it triggers in my pocket all the time, draining the battery. I get why it's there, but most of the time it just makes things worse.

I haven't used Android enough to know if it's the same issue, but the main problem is discoverability. iOS, and many apps, have a ton of features, but there isn't enough screen space to do hint to how to use them. There also isn't enough space to add more buttons. So we end up with these weird swiping motions, long press, 3D Touch or hard to hit icons.

Maybe it's just me being old, but I'd recommend stripping a ton of features from phones and their apps. If you need to do anything more complicated, push people to use a device that's designed for higher levels of interaction.
That seems like it is easy to special-case though.
It's not a javascript compiler as Clojure is a hosted language.
> I'm.... supposed to be impressed by this random action of destruction?

I use di" more often but it's the same thing really. fnCall("a| string"), `di"` lets me replace the string, `dib` to replace the argument (all of them ofc if there's more than one).

If ddO isn't available, granted, Cmd-right-backspace will clean up just as fast. Or Cmd-left-delete if you have both keys.
So what do you propose instead? Destroy all modern tabulating machines a.k.a. computers just in case they'll get misused by the government?

Then feel free to throw away that supercomputer in your pocket with advanced tracking capabilities into the nearest toilet and flush.

Keeping a healthy democracy and our leaders accountable is far better for everyone than going back to the stone age just in case someone might misuse tech.

And since you brought up Nazis using tabulating machines to abuse Jews, remember that the Nazis were also defeated thanks to computers to break their codes.

The tech arms race is still a thing whether you like it or not and there's no going back. If your government isn't developing advanced snooping, they'll have no issues buying said tools from a country who does (US, Israel, Italy, Sweden, etc.)
Read 'Crafting Interpreters' by Bob Nystrom (free online).

It teaches step by step how to write a compiler/interpreter, very approachable without dumbing down.
No way they'll inflate their indexes even 20% and add complexity into their algorithms for 0.1% queries that won't bring any additional income.
the difference between a QC and Theranos is you can't prove a quantum computer isn't actually working as advertised.
Looking at these complaints, how did the government ever get all the land needed for major infrastructure projects in the past - like the interstate network?
Have to bookmark this! I just saw it on lobste.rs (where I don't have an account to comment) and searched for it here. Too bad it didn't make the front page...

The summaries are already mostly really good! Some ideas for improvement:

- often the summary starts with "the article" - that can be left out, because it's clear what we are talking about. E.g. "The article is about a website that shows the shortest route between two points on the Peutinger map" -> "A website that shows..."

- would be more helpful if it would summarize what's currently on the HN front page - but I guess this is due to calling the app manually rather than using a cronjob ;) ? EDIT: ah, ok, it's covered in the FAQ that it's due to costs...
Walking on eggshells is what built the human society since like forever. You can complain about fantasy wokeism online as much as you like, but in the real world a comment like the above would have gotten you punched in every corner of the world.
I work for Google Search. Quotes replaced the + operator but work exactly the same way. They do precisely search for content with the exact terms specified. They really do. They will not look for translations and so on. If there's no match at all for a quoted term, we will show other matches but also make that clear with a special message. And maybe we shouldn't do that to make it even clearer there are no matches. But we don't ignore quoted terms when there's a match -- if you ever have an example where you think this has happened, I'd love to know if you're comfortable sharing, so we can investigate.
Yes, they meant to say Haptic Touch.
You could have just used Signal or something instead of moving everyone to a different hardware platform, just sayin.
"don't" being turned into "don t" is due to the way search indexes work. It's a computer science problem, not Google specific.

The index is like a dictionary - you look things up by word. But you need to find some way to split up every page on the internet to decide what is a 'word' and what isn't. If you decide that quote marks are part of a word, then you'll end up with apple and apple' making different entries in the index which you probably didn't want.
I think a cashless society can work perfectly well. There's a single place that I still use cash with because they don't take card (probably avoiding tax) so every time I go there, I come back with change to tip to delivery people when I order food. Everything from my rent to my grocery shopping is done digitally and I honestly think it's great.

However, that's probably because I live in a debit-based country. Debit cards without overdraft capabilities should be readily available even to people with no financial skills because you can't use them to spend more than you earn, making the risk to the banks themselves minimal. The small fee paid for banking services is the only thing at risk and even that won't have much of an impact on the bank in general.

Some countries, most importantly probably the USA, almost exclusively operate on credit cards for digital money, which are practically quick instant loans that you don't want to think about. There's very little in there to limit your credit card spending to your actual income and some people are foolish or desperate enough to borrow money to pay off loans, with credit cards being one of the easiest options. People with poor or no financial skills will run up a debt and quickly stop qualifying for credit, and the end result is that they're dependent on cash or even something as archaic as cheques to transfer money in stores. The extreme impact credit scores can have in the States is mind boggling but it almost looks like people accept some shady third party evaluating their entire life for fraud risk as a normal thing.

If your standard modus operandi is spending money that you'll have to pay back later, I don't think your society can be cashless. Normalise debit cards as standard payment systems and almost everyone can qualify. Frauds will find themselves struggling to get an affordable bank account, but in a modern banking system there are plenty of alternatives available.

Based on this article, Canada clearly needs a banking overhaul for any cashless ambitions to stick without dire consequences.
Interesting, so there was a patent claim settled at the start of 2018 over this, and the iPhones released at the end of 2018 had the feature removed. I wonder how much of an impact that had, versus usability / weight / cost considerations.
Google and Youtube search are heavily censored, for example if you open Youtube and type "JRE alex" then Alex Jones will be the last suggestion despite his episode having the most views, if you type "JRE Robert" then Youtube will suggest Robert Downey Jr and other guests whose name starts with Robert, but it won't show Robert Malone, and if you write "JRE Robert Malon" it still won't suggest it.

Now those episodes have been controversial, and I only bring them up because it's the example that came to my head (before someone misses the whole point and starts looking at the finger), and Google Search also censors them, now while I still use google mainly to access Stackoverflow and Reddit threads, I see no point in using it if I'm searching for anything I want a neutral conversation about that I can examine and make my own conclusion.

All in all the internet seems to be getting smaller and smaller, I don't use any social media apart from HN and Reddit, and I only use Reddit because I seem to still be addicted to it since it's probably one of the most censored of all of them.

10 years ago as a 20 year old I benefited greatly from how the internet was, here is an example: I grew up on the idea that there was nothing wrong with porn, and there isn't per se, and no one ever spoke about addiction like behavior when it came to watching it, then one day I discover a controversial post on Reddit and dove down the rabbit hole and lo and behold I had the same problems as this community of people trying to quit watching it, and I benefited from their experiences and knowledge, same about discovering communities against social media like Facebook, which pushed me to research the subject and deleting my account, etc. but now it seems like any controversial community is quickly banned or pushed aside in its own unfindable bubble and that to me is a great loss.

I want to see people have an opposite opinion than mine, and I want to be able to get into heated non censored discussions in comment sections and get suggestions about articles, studies and content to challenge my views.
In the UK we have asymmetric pricing so produced solar goes to the grid at 5p and electricity comes at 27p. At night you can buy electricity for 7p for about 5 hours. So - batteries can make sense in that you can charge them during the day and then discharge them at night. If you find that there is not enough in the battery you can put in some charge at night and then top it up during the day.
quote searches always seems to work fine, until recently
Gleeful optimism is how Australia got in this mess in the first place. "She'll be right, mate" has excused far too much of the trouble Australia is currently in.

Start being real, Aussies: Our nation is ruled by corporate fascists who want nothing more than to extract its resources, whatever the cost, and build their new world order with it. Those avocadoes don't smash themselves!

A better response to this news, emotionally, is to drop the hubris and self-congratulatory tone and use it as a means of informing the stupidly gleeful in your environment that there is a BIG situation behind this story, and we better start paying more attention to it than whats on telly.
“-“ works but I’ve seen it fail so many times that I’m more surprised when it actually filters it properly nowadays.
I don't disagree with you.

But I think it's great that the keyboard language does not define the autocorrect language.

The German keyboard has smaller-sized keys and it would drive me insane I think if I had to switch to the German keyboard in order to type German text.
Build with what money?

The whole point of even having tourist amenities is that there's a community that that's attempting to draw tourist money to their location, and probably create a thriving economy.

An unknown tourist attraction with amenities is a failed location where the amenities are unmaintained/dilapidated, the local economy has nosedived, the young have moved out and the population is collapsing.
Spoilers for the first one welcome at this point. Thanks. Gaaaah.
Nostalgia! I used to love playing with QBasic. Me and a few friends would sit in the computer lab at lunch when we were maybe 11/12 and play with it, which was weird as I was the only one actually interested in programming.

I remember being very proud of reverse engineering how BMP (I think?) files worked (pre internet days!) and writing a program that could (very slowly) render them in QBasic. There was a guy a couple of years above us who fancied himself as a bit of a hacker (I remember he edited the boot sector of the library computers to infinitely reboot…) would make proper “demo scene” style programs in QBasic which was pretty impressive, I wonder what became of him!

Would be kinda fun to go back and play with it with a deep understanding of programming, and see what is actually possible if you really understand it.
We use Meet for our internal video calls and Zoom often for clients, I can't really tell much of a difference either way.
I assume that comment is directly related to the very, very weird parallel world of Lamborghini-leasing fake gurus that promise to teach anyone 'how to easily make millions from dropshipping in 1 month from scratch' and such.

My immediate reaction was not so cynical since rwalling's comment came across as sincere, fake gurus tend to prey on users of less moderated online properties, and none of those gurus can boast hundreds of hours of informative content even after you pay orders of magnitude more than this for a 'course'.
I work for Google Search. It works exactly the same as + did. We don't ignore the terms that are quoted. That was the point ofvthe change we made, that because the quoted terms weren't sometimes in snippets, it might seem like we were ignoring when we weren't. Hopefully this change will help.
That mode exists, it's labelled "verbatim".
> theory that non-developed countries were such because of the weather

Don’t tell me you actually subscribe to the theory of undeveloped countries are so because of the heat, not colonialism or global exploitation. Your theory is beyond weak, its kindergarten level nonsense.
> "Punctuation is sometimes seen as spaces. Our systems see some punctuation as spaces, which impacts quoted searches. For example, a search for [“don’t doesn’t”] tells our systems to find content that contains all these letters in this order:
"don t doesn t"

Others have pointed this bit out, but I'd like to ask specifically: How do you search for special characters?

I recently came across some R code that used %||% and you cannot search for this. As in, you cannot search the internet for this at all.

Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Yahoo, all of them will ignore special characters. Even Github search will strip out the special characters leaving you to search for nothing.
The big takeaway for me was

>>> My guess is that people had no idea it was there. Likely it had very low usage statistics and so Apple cut it in order to...

Right there.

I am often frustrated that I cannot edit a URL in the address bar - but not frustrated enough to use a different phone or explore.

What would be useful is some kind of "how to use your phones hidden features" guide on the phone (no not on a website somewhere an actual supported by Apple real tutorial). Then both I can find out and Apple can find the real ratio here - people who know how to use 3D whatever and who just don't bother.
Everything's unhealthy if you have too much of it, pretty much everything is essential in small enough quantities. Look at cobalt - it's lethally poisonous at surprisingly low levels, fairly unpleasant long before that, and even in its non-radioactive form it causes cancer. But it's also a trace element that shows up in vitamin B12, and without cobalt all your myelin falls off your nerves and you die.
Force Touch would have been usable for me if I could just disable its vibration without having to disable it on the whole phone, I don't understand why they don't add special settings to do things like this. I hate that anytime I want to move the cursor and long press the space bar my phone has to vibrate.
That is a myth.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-rcmp-banks-an...
In terms of making money for investors, its hard to argue against crypto and fintech.

But in terms of actually making the world a better place, there are far bigger and better problems to solve.
If you have 10,000* tokens (* changed for easy square rooting), you can give 1 candidate 100 votes.
Suppose you split your tokens over 100 accounts with 100 tokens each (100 × 100 = 10,000 - so your total number of tokens hasn't changed). If each of these accounts votes fully for the candidate, the candidate gets more votes. Specifically, each account is worth 10 votes if cast fully for one candidate, so 10 votes × 100 accounts = 1,000 votes.

And indeed, if you split your tokens over even more accounts, each token gains even more voting power. If split over 10,000 accounts, you control 10,000 votes - instead of the 100 votes you had with 1 account.

Basically, with QV, those with tokens can do tricks to gain quadratically as much power as they are supposed to have.
Haha I love this! Brings back memories of learning stuff by trial and error. I remember poking around in DLL files with a text editor and trying to find ways to call the function names I could see inside them… never did succeed at that haha
Not so easy, the engineers tell me. Again, never say never. I miss + myself, but quotes do work.
Were you able before to issue your own currency and start your own regional economy from scratch? Where and when?
You got fired just for mentioning category theory? Where were you working? There has to be more to that story.
It is likely an Edison scenario, we just need to test thousands of things to find something that is stable enough to produce results. There are so many possibly setups to make it work that we will probably find something sooner or later. We already have many setups that works, but aren't powerful enough to be useful, just need to find a setup that works a bit better.
Re text selection, what I find annoying is that that you can't just tap with your finger on the text itself to place the cursor in an exact location. You can tap to place the cursor, but it always snaps to the end of a word. Why?

My favourite iPhone feature that was removed though was being able to fully turn off WiFi from the Control Center (last seen in iOS 10).
Are there any color palettes like this or solarized specifically aiming at various types of color blindness? I think the Emacs "modus" themes allow for this[1], but I've rarely seen something that's "optimized" for some type of color blindness instead of not just being completely unreadable.

[1]: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2021-02-25-modus-themes-diff...
I don't think "control" is the right term, maybe influence. Thoughts and emotions arise constantly, you can detach yourself from them, observe them and act accordingly. Trying to control a thought or emotion is a fool's errand.