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It unfortunately didn't get very much attention here at the time (2021), but "Sigmoids behaving badly: why they usually cannot predict the future as well as they seem to promise" at https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08065 is related.


I won't bother defending Google-style personalization as it exists for their search results, but since collisions in terminology across fields are common, it's not that hard to see how actual, thoughtful personalization could be useful. Someone searching for "Kafka" is going to want very different results based on whether they're thinking of software or literature. Opinions may also differ over the usefulness of sources, even for people ultimately interested primarily in facts; I find Kagi-style personalization (make your own domain list) very useful, but across Kagi's userbase Reddit is simultaneously one of the most lowered, most raised, and most pinned domains: https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard


> Kafka" is going to want very different results based on whether they're thinking of software or literature.

Speak for yourself. I've worked in several "Kafka-esque" software organizations.


Arguably Google SERPs are getting closer to The Trial.


Anecdotally I find myself appending 'reddit' to search terms very frequently. It's effectively shorthand for "I want to read about peoples direct experience with this thing", and reddit is huge and well crawled by search engines. It's astroturfed to hell especially around political topics, but I feel like it's easy to tell when discussions about random products are authentic.


This could be "bad, actually" if it gives an incorrect impression that power tools are unequivocally safe, rather than somewhat risky but usually safe when used correctly.


You're right, but one presumably would still teach kids to treat this tool with respect. And given that, it seems safer to me as this won't hurt them when they get careless (as kids are wont to do). That way you get a chance to reinforce the safety lesson before they graduate to the dangerous stuff.


I'm finding that a lot of parenting is teaching my kid that safety is something you have to do, and risks are something you have to look for and understand. For example, brushing your teeth is usually safe, but you shouldn't brush your teeth at a dead sprint down the stairs.


Not sure why you've been downvoted so heavily. That seems like a misuse of the downvote purpose.

But yes, I kind of agree with other commenters here in that maybe teaching absolute respect of a knife/table saw/power tool and its power to maim is a really important lesson that this sidesteps?


What exactly is so terrible as long as you're willing to take a small to moderate risk of getting a PVC pipe stuck in the ground and keep in mind the presented cautions -- consider the water irrigation-only/non-potable until tested (possibly even if tested, although that's not what the site says)?


Badly dug, uncapped wells can also exacerbate groundwater contamination, making the problem worse for everyone else.


"Occasionally, there will be a thin black bar at the top of the top bar, in memoriam of a significant figure in the tech/science community dying." -- https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#thin-b...


While the abstract does say there's "rising evidence that leprosy has become endemic in the southeastern United States", the actual title is "Case Report of Leprosy in Central Florida, USA, 2022" and that's a more honest description of what this is.

The second reference -- https://www.hrsa.gov/hansens-disease -- shows cases in the entire US bouncing from around 160 to 220 since _2011_ up through 2020: "Most (95%) of the human population is not susceptible to infection... Treatment with standard antibiotic drugs is very effective." The Florida dashboard which is the third reference shows 14 cases in that state total in 2021.


"No nitrates or nitrites added" bacon still has nitrites as they are generated by the production method: https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/how_tos...


The Frankenstein veto; Wisconsin is infamous for them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein_veto


That sounds awful. Either a law should be passed so that the executive branch can enforce and make laws, or they should remove the Frankenstein veto.


When a party has the power to change it, they have little reason to; when they don't have the power to change it, their opinion doesn't matter.


Go back through the history of line-item vetoes. The arguments for are convincing until one considers the counterfactual.


Huh? The 14th amendment has already been part of the US constitution for 155 years.

Also, what is this about judges starting the amendment process?


That also reminded me of _Connections_, which notably made the same point in _the late 1970s_! It isn't like technology's gotten any easier to understand -- in total, "top to bottom" -- since then.


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