skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too little too late. I have used G for like maybe 5 of my last 1000ish searches.

There ARE between alternatives now. I like Kagi the most. Worth every penny.
I love where they said they've "heard feedback". Where? Where can you possibly give feedback to Google about their products? Is this just from their family members at holiday dinners?
Maybe more Russian sounding https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
I agree with you (as a Canadian) that excellence isn’t really part of our culture.

However, this has long had American precedents.

Both Airbnb and Groupon built for Chrome as of 2017.

https://thenextweb.com/news/please-build-websites-web-not-ju...
nowadays there is a lot of interest[1] in the older and less-efficient Birkeland–Eyde process because you can scale it to the size of a trailer and deploy it on-site to farms: https://www.nitricity.co/

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8133363/
FWIW the editions of the Seamus Heaney translation (my favorite of the Beaowulfs I’ve read) I’m familiar with are also all published this way.
Nobody can have any optimism, everyone must hold the view that the Great Barrier Reef is in imminent peril. If you don't and are vocal about it, you risk your career.

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-court-physicist-intellectual-f...

>Australia's highest court Wednesday dismissed an intellectual freedom claim by a university physicist who was fired in part over his public statements that scientists exaggerated damage to the Great Barrier Reef caused by climate change.
I think this comment reflects a bunch of differences in our perspectives that I don't really feel inclined to spend a lot of time unpacking.

Suffice it to say that in my opinion, context always matters (which also means I'm hesitant to read anything nefarious into a single tweet snipped from a conversation), and I reject the idea that a "change" and a "mistranslation" are categorically different things, rather than points on a continuum. And if you're implying that anyone who has knowledge relevant to this subject must automatically be outraged enough to "investigate", then I disagree with that too.
>Can I ask Ebay to provide me 10x leverage on my pokemon card, to buy other pokemon cards?

EBay isn't a payment provider. You can get leverage from PayPal or a credit card company.

>Can you list a new product and buy them from yourself

Yes, it's possible. Why not make ads hyping up your products instead?

>Can I go to Ebay and sell 100s of thousands of dollars of merch which was bought with North Korean money?

Yes.
OK, now re-implement the "-[searchterm]" filtering that used to remove all results with that searchterm, up until about a year or so ago.

Had a search last week where i specifically stated "-[big european capital city]", and results were chock full of "best [whatever] in [specified big european capital city i didn't want]"... what?!
It already does! The connect protocol supports all streaming mechanisms.

The beauty of the Connect ecosystem is that no proxies are required - the Connect protocol works just as well from the browser as it does on the backend.
I think that's called a Program Manager.
Usenet isn't dead.
Working with cash is not free either, you need security truck and drivers that come pick up cash at end of day...
Afaik in EU debit cards are capped much lower than 3%.
I’m interested in this, as it might replace about seven different projects I’m embarking on. How is this different from, say, SevenBridges or BasePair?
It’s not the greatest but it’s also not awful. Ideally the 123 would be replaced by a less common sequence, and maybe add one more word, but as is, it’s fine.
Your comment seems unreasonably aggressive.

The PDF isn't a program; it's a graphics file. You can't execute it, only view part or all of it. That's true of DVI too (see https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/tjenester/it/hjelp/latex/dvi.pdf ); although it's easy to get confused by the terminology of "operators" and "commands", neither PDF nor DVI includes things like flow control or subroutines. (PDF does permit embedding things like JS, ICC profiles, and TrueType fonts, all of which permit significantly greater computational expressivity, but none of the relevant subformats can be output by LaTeX or TeX. DVI has none of this.)

LaTeX runs in the TeX interpreter, not in the PDF or DVI file. If TeX were a compiler, LaTeX and similar libraries would be present in TeX's output file, and would execute when that output file was used. If you had a runtime error in LaTeX, it would be logged when you tried to view the PDF or DVI file, and things like LaTeX's layout decisions might depend on the PDF or DVI viewer. Because TeX is an interpreter, not a compiler, execution time is when you run TeX, and LaTeX and similar libraries run when you run TeX, and they produce the output file. They are not present in the output file even when the output file is in a Turing-complete language like PostScript.

It is entirely possible to do your text reflow and layout in PostScript, which is how it would work if TeX were compiling your source file and its libraries into PostScript, but that is not how TeX works, because TeX is an interpreter, not a compiler.

It is important to understand this distinction because it bears on questions like what kinds of output files TeX can generate, when and where you get error messages from LaTeX, and what kinds of incompatibilities you may have to troubleshoot when you are using TeX.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32350924.
I found myself in there a few times. Kinda wondering how many of us in this thread knew each other from usenet/dalnet/efnet/tek's forum/marcade's forum/etc and we just don't realize it cuz of pseudonym and life changes.
So do coins listed by major US exchanges.
The Back End is constructed with Java and Spring Boot backed with Postgresql (and Postgis), the Front End is based on Bootstrap. Good old plain JavaScript is used for interaction with the server.

The actual 3D magic is performed by the awesome Babylon.js library, the graph is handled by D3.js (very versatile, but a steep learning curve), the 2D map is rendered with MapLibre GL JS (which is very straightforward to use in this particular case).

So here's what happens when you upload a FIT or GPX file: the server reads the tracks, downsamples them to a reasonable resolution and calculates some descriptive values (such as the geographical bounding box, distance, time, etc.).
The elevation data is cross-checked with the elevation model on the server. This is done to check if the device's height sensors were propely calibrated and a simple correction is applied if necessary. If elevation data is completely absent in the file (because the recording device doesn't have a height sensor) the elevation data is interpolated completely from the model.
The elevation model consists of HGT files retrieved from the NASA SRTM dataset.

To guess the activity name, we take the highest point in the track data (making the assumption that this is the most prominent point of the whole activity, e.g. the summit). This is cross-checked against a peak database on the server. The data comes from OpenStreetMap and contains all OSM features annotated as 'Peak', and contains >520k entries.
If there's no peak in the vicinity, a reverse geocoding request is sent to Maptiler.

Once all the data is gathered, it's stored in a PostGIS extended PostgreSQL database and the activity is ready be to put on the spotlight.

When you view the activity in the 3D viewer: the server provides two key files for each activity. An extended GeoJSON file, describing the track latitude/longitude data, time, and elevation data. A gLTF file which contains the 3D Model of the topography. Babylon.js is used to display the gLTF file and loads the texture (map tiles) from Maptiler.
A custom script than draws the track on top of the texture of the 3D model.
The script also handles the D3.js graph data conversion from the GeoJSON file, the mouse interaction etc.
The 2D map is very straightforward: just show the GeoJSON data in a MapLibre map (again using Maptiler as source for the map data).
jail(2) and jail_attach(2) pls.

Also looks like macOS still supports union mounts and chroot.
Hah!

I do believe it's a different pace of life out here :)
That is why I said 98%. The SEC knows they cannot be banned completely and that isn't the point.

To say the SEC has been 'completely missing in action' sounds very dismissive, especially when one has been watching it during the peak of the hype cycle of 2017 and they did do something about the majority of ICOs back then. After that they have been investigating Ripple over its XRP token, and Coinbase if they have traded 'unregistered securities'.

As always and more generally, regulators will forever be behind this cat and mouse game.
Nobody has any obligation to make their platform an open platform, nor any obligation to you besides what they're compelled to do by law and their ethics. Clearly Right Stuf has decided for themselves that the benefits of being bought out by Sony is more valuable to them than maintaining an open platform, and that is their right. You are subject to the patronizing whims of Sony, because you're trying to buy from Sony, and Sony has no obligation to do things that you want just because you feel entitled to it.

If you want an open platform, then please either patron somewhere that wants to be an open platform; lobby governments around the world to mandate that platforms should be open; convince Sony executives that it would be in their interest to make their platform open; or make your own open platform if a suitable one doesn't exist, and try to sustain it with people who want what you want. If enough of those people don't exist, then it should become clear to you that your opinion is yours alone, and that you're entitled to exactly nothing.
Less enforcement, more cellphone use, more unlicensed drivers.
Honestly, as much as I hate them, NVidia does an amazing job with this sort of thing.

Camera motion through a static scene: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/03/25/instant-nerf-resear...

I've got no idea where the most recent deep fake progress has come from - my google foo wasn't up to the task, but with a lot of more recent videos it seems that they're actually dealing with deformable 3D surfaces, and not just deformations of 2D projections.
My longer-winded comment along the same lines is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32350841.
This is fascinating. Not because of the content of this article, but because it's the first glimpse behind the Google Search curtain that I've ever seen in an official Google post. You rarely see details about search explained. Or maybe I'm just ignorant.

Even that bit about "don't" being turned into "don t" was interesting. Again, not because I was amazed in any way. More so because Search has been so mysterious for many years.
The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31034487
Right. In all likelihood, the only way to do this is to make editorial choices: decide that some review sites are better than others, and start penalizing highly optimized garbage by its domain alone in a transparent manner.

I would use a search engine like this, but I understand why an existing trillion dollar multinational basically can't do this.

On the other hand, I do a lot of cooking, and recipe sites are forced to have these absurd winding narratives to appease the SEO gods. Nobody likes this and it really ought to be a solvable problem.
People want their entire worldview spoonfed to them.

It sounds like this person wants to have a philosophical discussion with a friend about this type of subjective question rather than simply receive a factual search engine response.
In China, even though the gov said that it is illegal to refuse using the cash. Most of the small shops stop receiving that. They do not have enough cash to give change.

As for me, the only problem is that when your phone is dead, you can barely purchase anything. So I always carry a credit card.

I do have some cash at home for emergencies. But it was already locked there for several years.

The only reason when you need cash would be that you want to "hide" the trade. The police has already cought a lot of drug dealers by tracing the payment records of their customers.

However, as most of pepole will not use cash. So it will be much more easier for police to trace the serial number of the cash. It is getting more difficult to
"hide" payment these days.

Not only for drug dealers, also for the husbands who wnat to have some small private money. Especially when you want to buy some games or some new useless gadgets. You will miss the good old days with cash.
I and most of the people I've asked all noticed a distinct drop in driver skill after the covid lockdowns lifted. In particular people seem not to be noticing things. They're not noticing the car in their blind spot or that the light has turned green.
What makes you think that Search still runs mainly guided by page rank?

If that were the case then search engines would differ only on how big their database is, but unless you care about the long tail you wouldn't be able to notice much of a difference.

I don't work in ranking, but considering how the web has changed since the early 2000s I'd guess that page rank's quality has gone down as spammy websites and walled gardens appeared.
One miscalculation away from nuclear holocaust
i've got my issues with brave but iirc they're actually doing an independent web index not just using bing (i think they still use them for images tho). it was really nice to hear somebody else is working on that even if i'm not using it rn.
Maybe, a little piece of someone lives on in our hearts, memories, things like that. Not magic, just memories of love for someone.

Look. My Ma was sick, and hurting, I held her hand, we pinky swore over something silly, we knew that, it made her smile amongst a lot of pain. I light a candle, and think about all the times she was there for me.

The rest of it? Who cares.
How is it compared to JetBrains' https://hyperskill.org ? They seems to be competitive products.

PS. HyperSkill's pricing is also more competitive. They offer tons of tracks containing hundreds of coding projects at the price of 240$ per year, while CodeCrafers' charge is 790$ per year.
The HTML standard mandates a shitty layout algorithm with respect to things like floats, but I don't think it actually mandates shitty line-breaking.
Even the cash based society under a totalitarian dictatorship idea tends to forget that the cash in question is issued by said dictatorship, and the currency is a public monopoly. The dictatorship sets what tax is settled in.

The veneration of this type of cash forgets what it is in a modern world - a receipt for banking liabilities at either the central bank or the government Treasury. It's those that make the tokens worth something.
I quietly quit when forced to work from home. Especially when Judge Judy was on.
I've wasted a lot of brain cycles dreaming up my "ideal" database engine, and as you've said, a key feature would be strict serializability.

In my opinion the trick to implementing this without too many performance issues is to add the HTTP cookies feature to database engine protocols.

Every transaction with the DB engine should require a client "transaction sequence logical clock" cookie. The returned result set should return the updated cookie, which should then be "threaded" through all the way to a web browser cookie or GUI client local store.

That way, individual users will always be telling the database engine (or cluster!) that they need to see their previous transactions in a linear order, but concurrent users could potentially have a slightly difference perspective on things. Cache entries could also be tagged with the clock cookies and then used to verify if they're still valid or need to be refreshed.

An important feature would be to have a union operator on the clock cookies that provides a new cookie that is "in the future" of all provided clock cookies. This would allow cross-user queries to correctly reflect the required input transactions.

Similarly, it should be possible to use a special "now" cookie, which is identical to typical single-server DB behaviour with serializable transactions.

Last but not least, "now minus t seconds" would produce the equivalent to what you get if you do read-only queries against an asynchronous replica.

This would allow combinations not possible with a naive DB engine that always enforces a single serialized transaction sequence, but the default behaviour would be very safe and consistent.

The computer science for this exists. There are lamport timestamp implementations using compressed tree representations, for example. The timestamps could be tracked per table, which would allow transactions across unrelated tables to be independently serialized.

Essentially, transactions should form a directed acyclic graph much like Git commits instead of a strictly linear linked list. There are many analogies: Git commit hashes are a type of cookie that can be passed around and used for various things, you need to provide a predecessor commit hash for new commits, and the hashes are used to keep caches (local repos) 100% consistent with the central transaction history, etc...
I’m confused by this as well, it seems to only provide “strict serializability” for overlapping transactions, which other databases like Cockroach also provide.
They aren't, they're making more revenue because they're jacking up the prices on a smaller number of sales.
How would you keep the hole open?

But most places that is way, way deeper than 20km.
GPT-3 feels off because of the uncanny valley
It's got everything plants need!
The PR people writing the article are rephrasing the words of the division lead who has aggregated the feedback from a bunch of project managers who are relaying what the data analysts in each team are interpreting from a host of metrics their engineers implemented.

It’s an onion of nonsense. At no point is any user involved.

Edit: or as another sibling comment aptly points out, they also might have just heard feedback… from annoyed employees.
But why do we need a 3rd party middle man fornwhat used to be a private transaction between two individuals?

If the government is going to replace cash with technology, why can't it do it itself and not involve some trabsbational bohemoth like Visa or Mastercard?
PLA says US carrier retreats as Beijing continues Taiwan drills
I've found the OG Design Patterns book to be verbose and opaque.

I strongly recommend => Refactoring Guru https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns/python
It's a lot of patterns with _short_ clear descriptions, and lots of diagrams! Recommended even if you're not doing Python. An excellent investment, and a bunch of it is free.
If they weren’t turning a profit, they wouldn’t be pushing this.
Why should it matter if a website is marked up on the server side or client side to a search engine?
> 21 cents plus 0.05%

This would seem to make it potentially quite expensive on small transactions?

People use cards for the most trivial amounts here in Australia. Apparently the typical transaction fees are apparently 0.5% for debit and 0.9% for credit, which means that yeah, I just wave my phone to buy a donut...
Ultimately one thing people misunderstand is what it means philosophically to search.

Suppose I have some great content "bt its writen lik dis". One could argue saying searching for content with the query 'like this' should yield the previous statement. Others would disagree.

That's basically the crux of the problem. The more exactness you're demanding the fewer results you will receive. The fewer results that are available reduce the perceived utility of the search engine, Google in this case.

Case in point:
I've been searching for some "FoundationDB" related stuff. If you use HN's algolia for "Foundation DB" (no quotes) it will show you queries where FoundationDB is a single word.

Is this good or bad?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Because it wasn't real. Cypher says ignorance is bliss but that's the opposite that everyone else feels. They'd rather eat slop they know is real. Even the suggestion of trying to go back to the Matrix willingly was seen as a betrayal. Mouse offers to set up a private meeting between Neo and the Lady in Red but he doesn't accept and we never heard of anyone else accepting.
I too pay for, use, and swear by kagi now. It's great!
For those in coma or paralyzed?

Or, I can see some Uber trendy ex SF now Utah bro getting a blood transfusion from a younger person while having the other limbs moved around and simultaneously playing world of Warcraft and on a conference call.

Edit: while micro-dosing of course
This is nice if you have non-homogeneous tasks that need updating as different parts of the code are reached; for showing a progress bar when performing work on an iterable, tqdm seems simpler as it’s just one function call wrapping the iterable : https://pypi.org/project/tqdm/

Tqdm also has a “manual update” mode as a context manager, which looks comparable to lowbar.
> the people that are harassing innocent third parties due to a personal crusade.

> Absent punishment, everybody will just drag all bystanders (from around any scene, there is somebody that disagrees with anything) into a court.

What a great description of the dysfunction of the US judicial system.
What Is Bates Numbers
I know Bates Numbers from this Blog of ComPDFKit: https://www.compdf.com/blog/introducing-compdfkit-pdf-sdk-1-5-0, and I want to learn more information about it like when Bates Numbers are invented and how Bates Numbers can be used in daily life?
Lots of people have been complaining. Some HN examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347719

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31421815

Hopefully for Google's sake they've finally decided reverse the feature removal trend that's been happening for years.
When I'm using quotes it's usually because the first, unquoted search ended up not being fruitful. In a world of algorithmic nonsense, quotes turn google back into what it should be best at: being an index.
Translation: The HIPPOs have spoken (Hippo = HIghest Paid Person's Opinion).
> who have real-time data on where every connected phone is all the time

Not really. They know which mast it's connected to and can do signal strength triangulation. Their location info is a lot less good than what the device makers with wifi map data can give you, hence why every so often we get a news story about how Uber knows where you are a lot better than a 911 operator does.
The CFTC vs. the Truth (2021)
i'm wondering if it's a complete protein or not. a lot of plant proteins are low or lack methionene tryptophan and lysine, also are kinda lower in isoleucine and valine. a complete plant based protein that's not soy would be nice.
It used to be crypto guys had some high idealistic goals of giving financial access to the downtrodden and oppressed people of the world. Now that most of these schemes have been proven to be a result of ZIRP and straight up fraud, the argument nowadays is just that there is borderline illegal activity everywhere and people lose money gambling and doing stupid stuff anyways, why can't we do such borderline stuff and make money off people? Not even trying to pretend to be good guys, sad.
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You would be surprised how many people who work at Google who hate Google products and say so in the internal groups. People have been complaining about this for years internally.
It's much easier to criticize someone rather than to put one's self in their shoes and create something that was not there before, which many people consider to add value to their lives. Have you stopped to think why that might be?
It's nice but has one major flaw of all webkit browsers. If you speed up a video, the audio will crap out and become tinny. Especially hard to hear speech. Only Firefox, Chrome get it right. It's a shame Safari / Orion still have such a fundamental flaw.