skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Is there a search tool that indexes a curated subset of the web?
Sometimes find myself appending filters to my search queries, like “site:reddit.com”, “site:github.com”, and maybe even something like “site:x.com OR site:y.com OR z.com”. I know I’m not alone, because there was a discussion on here yesterday [0] where other devs shared that they’re doing the same thing.

From my limited view of the search engine market, I see see successful search companies exist on one side of two extremes. Either:

1. Index the entire web. This category would include companies like Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, ect.

Or

2. Index one website at a time. This would include companies like Algolia and Elasticsearch.

But there doesn’t seem to be any companies that focus on search use cases in between 1 and 2. As a software engineer it would be nice to have a search tool that only indexes sites like stack overflow, relevant GitHub repos, our dependencies’ docs, internal docs, and maybe a couple technical subreddits. I might even use this hypothetical search tool more than Google in my daily development work.

I’ve looked around for a search tool like I’m describing, but I can’t find anything that scratches my itch.

I did find YaCy [1], but it seems more technical and cumbersome than what I want. It’s focused more on other things like p2p/decentralization. And, it looks like it’s been around for a while without much traction. But maybe my assessment is shortsighted..

Does anyone here know a search tool like I’m describing?

Or maybe this is is a Tarpit idea… If so, then why?

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33799767
[1]https://yacy.net/
> tolerate child pornography (unlike the prior owners of Twitter)

Twitter previously tolerated this? That’s the first I hear of that. Do you have more info?
Hard to ”choose” a good school if you’re in an area with no good schools?

Drive your kid across town, when you’re already poor?
Haven't tried this yet, but sounds slower than SD itself if you use one of the alt builds that supports mps where it had been cuda.

Mac Studio with M1 Ultra gets 3.3 iters/sec for me.

MacBook Pro M1 Max gets 2.8 iters/sec for me.
Gas stoves exhaust right into the house. Besides raising the CO2 level, they produce CO, carbon monoxide, and smoke from whatever impurities come with the gas, that vary according to where it comes from. I doubt anybody bothers to get the radon out. That would cost money.

Propane is probably purer than straight-up NG, but it's exhaust is still exhaust.
Can you elaborate on how/where you got your deeper math skills?
There is so much to love about this book. I read it twice, back to back. It's probably one of the more concept-dense books you'll read from the period, but unlike lots of scifi lit stross wrote a very solid story that's worth reading in it's own right.

Another good book by Stross that doesn't get much love is Saturn's Children. it has the same inventivness and story-telling prowess. the most outrageous elements of the story are the very glue that make the whole thing more tractable.
Curious, when you say 'Ellisonian existential dread'.. are you referring to Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man) or to Harlan Ellision, the Scifi writer (e.g. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream)? Because... it works for both in this case I think.
Almond oil is a nice alternative. If you can't find it, look for massage oil, which is usually almond oil re-labelled.
Why is spam always glossed over in these "principled defenses" of free speech? It's legal speech.
I think it's really creepy that you don't see anything wrong with a child in BDSM gear. And alcohol.

That's actually sadism.

I dunno, maybe you just don't get it. Do you know what sadism is?

On the other hand, I've yet to hear a convincing argument as to why it shouldn't bother me other than "oh just get over it it's not that bad", which isn't working with me, since I have no petty bourgeois sensibilities, and I know what I'm doing when it comes to art.

Why should I be cool with sadism?
Yes. One of our best mid-level developers finished a boot camp in 2020. Excellent mix of coding and communications skills.
Be interesting to know why this doesn't work for you, my magic trackpad always works wireless in the pre-boot/recovery environments.
"In order to be loved, I must be me, plus something else."

Like if you're hosting a party, it's easy to obsess about there being enough entertainment, food, booze, etc, far beyond what's actually needed.
Been there, was worth it
Elon Musk is showing what a waste of time Twitter can be
Not an option for everyone.
It doesn't make sense to use here. You have a perfectly cromulent JVM if you want to run Kotlin code already.
Parents dump the schools with teachers who are members of the union. Union has less money to pay the politicians of a certain party. Of course boards also get paid per student head, student who goes to a school that is not part of that farm (charter, private whatever..) is not bringing in the cash.

It is pretty straightforward economic self interest. I can recommend Sowell's book "Charter schools and their enemies" it lays out the setup quite well.
The true metric contains the output quality of the image, not just the speed. DALL-E output is, generally, much better for things that aren't standard looking.
This is dark.

I will never understand how so many educated people have such an anti-humanist view of the world.

Humans are awesome, intelligence is awesome. More humans means more amazing things. We are capable as a species of incredible things, and we have the ability to save our planet as well as continuing to grow. We cannot outgrow this planet and colonize other worlds, we cannot solve climate change, nuclear fusion, quantum computers, the great questions of physics without MORE smart people.
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Yes, I haven’t tried it myself yet.

https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all
Richmond Newspaper Catfished by Fake VCU Engineering Dean
My parents' poor excuse for a terrier just sat there and stared at mice taking its food away at night. Mini fox terrier instead of rat terrier though. Maybe they're just only interested in foxes.
Richmond Times Dispatch published letter from "Dean" of VCU Engineering. Letter blames woke vigilantes for VCU issues.
Chicago Public Schools, one of the biggest districts in the nation, has an enormous department for special ed (Office of Diverse Learner Supports and Services). They are utterly incompetent. They have been sued again and again. They are staffed by arrogant, pompous bureaucrats lording over their little fiefdoms. They are bound to their rule books and could not care less about whether the rules apply to an individual student.

They are so incompetent, and have been sued so many times, that they are currently under the supervision of the state board of ed pursuant to a consent decree. It's likely that I will have them in court in the coming year.

Big buys you nothing. A single teacher who knows what they're doing can make all the difference. More bureaucrats add nothing.
What are us poor sickle cell heterozygotes to do?
I’m very biased because I went to a bootcamp. However, it was very focused on placement and had good access to roles. I felt more than qualified for an entry level role, and completed progressively more serious projects.

I had a few friends wash out of their tech jobs, and we certainly had some people that were never very good. Most of us were good enough for and entry role, and a few of us were slightly overqualified.

I’m now at a really great and highly technical company.

Some of these programs have serious problems. I think the ones with ISAs are the worst offenders.
> Some of you might assume that, as the author of books like "Singularity Sky" and "Accelerando", I attribute this to an impending technological singularity, to our development of self-improving artificial intelligence and mind uploading and the whole wish-list of transhumanist aspirations promoted by the likes of Ray Kurzweil. Unfortunately this isn't the case. I think transhumanism is a warmed-over Christian heresy. While its adherents tend to be vehement atheists, they can't quite escape from the history that gave rise to our current western civilization. Many of you are familiar with design patterns, an approach to software engineering that focusses on abstraction and simplification in order to promote reusable code. When you look at the AI singularity as a narrative, and identify the numerous places in the story where the phrase "... and then a miracle happens" occurs, it becomes apparent pretty quickly that they've reinvented Christianity.

> Indeed, the wellsprings of today's transhumanists draw on a long, rich history of Russian Cosmist philosophy exemplified by the Russian Orthodox theologian Nikolai Fyodorvitch Federov, by way of his disciple Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, whose derivation of the rocket equation makes him essentially the father of modern spaceflight. And once you start probing the nether regions of transhumanist thought and run into concepts like Roko's Basilisk—by the way, any of you who didn't know about the Basilisk before are now doomed to an eternity in AI hell—you realize they've mangled it to match some of the nastiest ideas in Presybterian Protestantism.

> If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. And if it looks like a religion it's probably a religion. I don't see much evidence for human-like, self-directed artificial intelligences coming along any time now, and a fair bit of evidence that nobody except some freaks in university cognitive science departments even want it. What we're getting, instead, is self-optimizing tools that defy human comprehension but are not, in fact, any more like our kind of intelligence than a Boeing 737 is like a seagull. So I'm going to wash my hands of the singularity as an explanatory model without further ado—I'm one of those vehement atheists too—and try and come up with a better model for what's happening to us.

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-yo...
Trash Fire: The Collapse of Philadelphia
I believe the author of this report and the discoverer are different people.
Someone did a Show HN that attempted this a while ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29774456

It uses Google custom search iirc
Is your pension a gold plated DB?
Why is it unreasonable to have people in a government agency to address fraudulent colleges and stuff?

Do you feel the same way about the bureau of consumer protection in the US FTC?
Thank you for the detailed account.

Have you used fiat to buy crypto as well, or do you still use the original crypto from when you started?

I can see how in theory crypto could be interesting in the creator space as touched on by you. Do you think Stripe's implementation could facilitate this?

As to medication: sorry to hear you had to go that route, but it totally makes sense to me. Glad to hear it's been working out for you. Yay for crypto in this case!
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HTML5 based apps are effectively a non-starter because many features, such as background notifications, apple pay, and others, aren't available.

Apple doesn't let you install Chromium/Blink, or any other browser engine, which implements things like WebUSB and background notifications, so you're stuck with the Safari browser engine.

Coinbase might have thought about it, but anyone who looks at building a PWA for iOS for any amount of time very quickly realizes that Apple has crippled it to the point of being a bad idea.
Apple Security Updates: iOS 16.1.2 (details available soon)
For the same amount of surface space, dumpsters would take up less space than loose bags of garbage. Other cities with comparable population densities have no problem doing this.
“But into the 1980s, Texas continued its notorious practice of tolerating small school districts, thus allowing affluent sections of a city to provide high quality schools for their children while poor whites, blacks, and Chicanos were obliged to tax themselves at a higher rate to provide even a minimal education. A dark leaf in modern Texas history was the state’s effort (until forbidden by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1982) to deny public school education to the children of illegal aliens— the very group Texas employers had been coaxing across the border for cheap labor for generations.” -The Book of America by Hagstrom and Peirce (1983), Page 132
Whoa buddy, we gotta keep our priorities here. Cars are more important than pedestrians, cyclists, and human lives. What makes garbage so special?
That laptop feels like liquid power. It's uncanny.

Macbook Airs (way back when) felt sluggish. The MBA M1 changed that, it was "fine". These M2s are unexpectedly responsive on an ongoing basis.

The MacBook Pro M1 Max is great (would be fantastic except they lost a Thunderbolt port in favor of legacy HDMI and memory card jacks), but you expect that machine to be responsive, so it's less surprising.

The Studio Ultra, though, never slows down for anything.

Still, if the Air could drive two external screens instead of one, I'd "downgrade" from the Max.
> citric acid

Citric acid [1]

1 - https://www.thespruce.com/homemade-dishwasher-rinse-aid-1388...
Except you only need to look at a large number of countries with high populations (and often those with high fertility rates) and see little correlation with ability to achieve what you call "amazing things".
A billion people with good access to necessary resources is going to achieve more than 10 billion living in poverty because we've largely trashed our planet's ability to support us.
I have never noticed how long details are delayed after updates come out. Is this longer than usual?
Prompt: create a rap song about a guy named Roman writing .NET APIs

Sure, here is a possible rap song about a guy named Roman writing .NET APIs:

Verse 1:
I'm Roman, and I'm a code king
I write .NET APIs, and I do my thing
I've got Visual Studio on my screen
Writing code that's clean and lean

Chorus:
Roman, Roman, writing .NET APIs
Roman, Roman, coding all day

Verse 2:
I'm a master of C#, no doubt
I write APIs that always work out
I'm a whiz with classes and objects too
I can handle any challenge that comes my way

Chorus:
Roman, Roman, writing .NET APIs
Roman, Roman, coding all day

Verse 3:
I'm a pro with ASP.NET and Web API
I can build a server in a jiffy
I know my way around REST and JSON
I can make your data flow like a river

Chorus:
Roman, Roman, writing .NET APIs
Roman, Roman, coding all day

Verse 4:
I'm a rockstar with Azure and the cloud
I can make your apps run smooth and proud
I'm a wizard with microservices and containers
I can help your business grow and prosper

Chorus:
Roman, Roman, writing .NET APIs
Roman, Roman, coding all day.

Outro:
Roman, Roman, the .NET API man
Writing code that's always in demand
Roman, Roman, the code hero
Writing .NET APIs for the win.
Another F-35 Mishap
Firefox, the sites you can’t see!
You’re talking about the higher end SKUs with many more GPU cores though and significantly more RAM (I think the lowest you can get is 32GB vs the 8 on their chip)
iPhone 11 is 3 years old, but I think you’d be able to spot the difference as soon as you used the camera.

Cars from 2012 didn’t have modern safety features, backup cameras, weren’t electric, the radios were 1-line LCDs, etc.
If that's the metric, MidJourney --v 4 --q 2 is the leader, and it's not close.
OEMs have a key they can use to sign apps. Some of those keys leaked. This was discover when malware signed with those keys showed up in the wild. This is bad because apps signed with those keys have the "system" authority, which means they bypass many permissions checks.
I like that solution by code-diving. I had initially rigged up a joystick for it, but programmed it to to play itself to completion.
Raccoons make cats sound like angels.
The range of quality is extremely high in bootcamps. I've interviewed many bootcamp grads the median quality is pretty low. However, I went through a bootcamp (Code Fellows in Seattle) and almost my entire cohort went on to eventually join a FAANG, technical co-founder, or something fairly prestigious.

The curriculum, the teaching style, and the aptitude/ drive of the cohort matters a lot.
True, it says "this value is 1.8 times larger than the 205 TWh estimated for all of the world’s data centers combined, which provide society with myriad other information services beyond just streaming Netflix videos."
I’ve hired quite a few mostly from the old DevBootcamp before it was acquired by Kaplan and spun down.

Like most companies, we hired them into our apprenticeship program and then they worked their way up from there.

Most of them now are senior engineers or moved into management across the globe.

I’d say DevBootcamp seems to have put out some of the strongest students and they’ve done extremely well for themselves with strong representation at FAANG and other “good” tech companies.

Can’t speak for the other camps besides saying I cant think who made it through our apprentice code day.
I was unsure how to title this post. Perhaps I should have just submitted a text post including a link, rather than submitting the link.
I don’t know why you added the /s. Most people don’t live in NYC or want to.
I live in an area where raccoons are common and I'd rather have the rats. Those things live off of trash too and they're scary, aggressive and dangerous. And they're rabid. Rats run from humans. Raccoons attack them. Try to get between a raccoon and it's trash and good chance you come away with rabies.
Wrong. The money gets distributed from two sources: the state, and the county via property taxes. The size of the district has no impact on the money-distribution formula for either.

If a county, or a state, wants to send money to poorer areas, they can do it without regard to the organization of the school districts. Often, the formula is targeted at the student: if a school has X low-income students, then they get Y dollars.

Edit: my comment pertains to large school districts, aka city-wide or within large counties. The suburbs get organized differently.
Unfortunately each WP article must be converted into a WinkNLP’s document first.

> Love to see a timeline of world history.

Granted. You could start here: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Centuries]

Alternately, start where you want. Warning: this will take a while.
Exactly! Not even for those who want it, and wold be willing to make the effort.
I graduated from a bootcamp 6-7 years ago and had several offers for entry level positions from smaller companies I wanted to work at - that said I have a degree in math and have taken several coding classes and have done some self learning projects already so I was ahead of the pack and went overboard on all of our projects. Like some of the others have said, maybe 20-30% were employable out of the bootcamp
I'm actually glad there's a state department for this. Fraudulent private colleges are a _real_ problem.
Ask HN: How much could be cut out of Rust and still be memory and thread safe?
Is there a "core" to Rust? Could everything else be removed not core and still end up with a powerful, expressive and safe language? Could any of Rusts "six sublanguages" be removed entirely?

I really want a language that is memory and thread safe, but culled, honed and cut down to the absolute minimum language, to reduce the learning curve. So I am wondering if a razor was taken to Rust if you might find a simple and elegant core left and nothing else.
> We're clearly in the phase of society where "Appearance of Having" is all that matters.

This has always been the case in any society to be honest. I'm sure even Plato was writing about it back in the day.
Some 128s have only 16K of VRAM. Otherwise, I prefer the 128 because I can easily use a 1581 as drive 8. I actually gave away a 128DCR to get a 128 with 64K VRAM.
TSMC isn’t the only thing they need to replace. ASML isn’t either. There’s multiple levels of sole suppliers for chipmaking that nobody can replace. China can’t replicate an mRNA vaccine either.
haha, so many tb's now for such small money
Those will be determined during a summit of commissars right after the proletariat seize the means of production.
Is there a labour shortage or a labour shortage at the salary they want to pay? I would think that immigration is required to handle the scut work that the natives don’t wish to do. Otherwise, society’s going to suffer as these low paid “essential” workers remain absent. The uk is providing the first example but there will be more as politics seems to be anti immingrwtion.
$10B Webb Telescope has been struck 14 times by space rocks, says NASA
I found this viewpoint about FP in Rust pretty interesting. Can you elaborate?
Or a second car and driver, which is inefficient at best.

Apparently I had forgotten that you can have more than two kids for a moment. I don’t know anybody who does, at this point, just read about them on the Internet.
Its important for people to understand the proper context here that this has nothing to do with public healthcare, and everything to do with privatization. As the UK continues to privatize things will become more and more like other shitty privatized heath systems; i.e., the waits will be much longer, and people will regularly die in hospital lobbies when they can't pay $10M upfront for treatment.
What's the best way to use nix (pkg manager) to set up dev environments these days (i.e. as an alternative to, say, asdf)? devenv.sh?

Creating a vanilla flake.nix for each project to use with nix shell and direnv doesn't seem like a practical approach considering each language has very different requirements and there doesn't seem to be a go to repository of flake templates available anywhere.