skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe if I used DDG more I would learn to parse the results better but the first thing I see are many results that have a "dark pattern" appearance to me.

Often I do get a good result on the first page but often results #1-#N vary from third rate to non-sequitur and then result #N+1 is the one that should be at #1, where maybe N is drawn from Uniform(3,6). I see this so much I can't imagine it is an accident. If anything it seems to be 70% more evil than Google.
The fastest rate of return in the public markets is betting on the contract market not holding stocks long term, imo.
By this definition all of the usual "rights" are really freedoms. Which leaves me waiting for an explanation of why accessing data a third party has on you should be elevated above the freedom of speech, travel, association and so on as something private parties should be required to do for all comers without compensation.
Google is one of the very few companies (and probably the only us gov contractor) that seems to actually have tech and skills to build capable AI.

So, it’s a huge void for someone else to try to fill.
Is there any site that indexes itself better than Google?
About the second video, could you please provide some context?
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Read the whole thing. As is typical with committees, they harp on about crap that doesn’t matter to 99% of users, and thus any viable solution gets delayed indefinitely. So I guess we get shitty image loading across the whole web, oh well.
>>Life becomes less about life and more about the next "pay cheque."

That is how it has been since prehistory for most humans.
? "Human Computer Interaction" is a subfield of academic CS.
Pretty much rate limit and proxy through tor is all this article needed to say. Sometimes you need to fake some cookie data or get a session set first. At least for static data.

For dynamic sure puppeteer if you have too but my god the exceptions and stack traces need some work.

But most websites don't enact protections because it's generally not worth the opportunity cost. So you really just scrape with your LOC.

If you move money or can't code then mozenda.
What Google engineers are doing in this situation is strictly better both in the utilitarian and in the Kantian sense. Saying “it doesn’t matter at all either way” is a non-argument.
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What happened with Etsy? Their stock price has recovered to their IPO price. It did seem bad from an internal sense with layoffs etc.
Look into the options market. Especially in choppy markets you can make a lot of money.

Edit: To add to this instead of using the mutual funds as a store value and being scared of holding stocks, you can buy puts as protection on your stock. Or you can buy spreads on stocks you like.
You’re exactly right. Thank you for bridging the gap in perspectives. I used to do a lot in cython but found that the glue code was taking more effort than writing the whole application in C++.
The core difference is I can use an apk without any trouble.

But this is not the first time we can see a difference between how Apple and Google conduct themselves in these situations.

Look at China. The China government tried to hack Gmail accounts and so Google left China. Versus Apple handed all their user data over to the China government. I get it was so Apple could make money in China but sometimes principle is more important as we saw with Google.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/apple-privacy...
Campaign targets Apple over privacy betrayal for Chinese iCloud ...
Pre-Nadella tbf, who was opposed to the acquisition when Ballmer was CEO.
Professionally: Better image recognition by a mile. I'm a controls engineer, but having better information about the environment from my camera is huge for robotics.

I see this personally too although the wins aren't as big, for example I've seen Facebook ask me to correctly identify friends as a way to verify identity, thought that was pretty cool.

Probably though the biggest personal impact has been better google searches, it's pretty rare that I have to search more than once to find what I'm looking for these days (for non technical stuff anyway). It seems like I used to need to use less google fu than I used to.
It's different, but not very different. They still have a lot of lock-in like Outlook (ActiveSync), DirectX, exFAT and so on and so forth. They show no sign of dropping lock-in, except in markets where they are way weaker than competition.
Need to declare that, buddy. Anything over $10k. It’s super easy for them to detect that much currency in your carryon.
When cash was used for most retail transactions, you were still going to have a couple thousand on hand at most. That won’t last long. It’s the payroll side, not the POS side, where that matters.
>>Sex sells, but you can't put that on youtube, so the next best thing is drama

Not really. Just like everything else it is only the top percent of any industry that rakes all the money.
> I understand that many windows users are far from power users and the forced updates provide security updates

I think this largely was only true of the period between the internet becoming a thing and the smartphone becoming a thing. Nowadays there's phones, tablets, and chromebooks that serve the needs of those people better and in a more convenient form factor. Desktops are for people who do work, create stuff, or are hobbiests.

I think a lot of the reasons computers suck today is because of this idea that they need to cater to some strawman drooling moron of a user.
This seems like a good study that will save lives.

Using malarial nets to dry fish means not using them to prevent malaria.

Ok, good chance the answer is "give more nets". How are you supposed to know that without this study?

The insecticides might also be fish poison, this could lead to a collapse of an important food source. A study like this could help surface that before it becomes a disaster.
Yes! I've thought of an idea similar but more for edge cases (maybe even interesting trivia?) in the community that you couldn't find online - e.g. "is mom and pop's pizza place open right now?" (Its Sunday and they don't have a website).
Business Model of a Botnet
An Ancient Virus May Be the Source of Human Consciousness
Why don't we have bunk style bed racks for international flights? I'd gladly take a sedative, crawl into my cubby hole and wake up at my destination 6-12 hours later with no recollection of time loss. Of course, some sort of health screening would be necessary to ride Anesthesiologist Airlines.
Everyone has a fridge. Everyone uses one. Everyone has a stove, and everyone uses one. Everyone uses electricity and natural gas, sure. How many Americans have EVs?

My apartment doesn't provide a hookup for my MIG/TIG welder, and I'd be hard pressed to say whether more people own welders or EVs. Besides, more people drive gas powered cars, and like you conveniently ignored, very few apartments provide on-site gas pumps either.
Reminds me of a quote from one of my favorite movies..."Still Life"

"Not my kind of money..."
Look at the S&P 500 for the last 100 years. Does it always recover. Your scenario is far out and would require the entire society to change. Might as well take advantage of the fact you know this information, if true.
The book talks about Ayn Rand a bit, but spends more time discussing the damage done to altruistic ideals by Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and much of Freud's work. Freud considered altruism and philanthropy a form of masochistic pathology.
London shooting: Man blasted with machine gun, another knifed in bloodshed night
I imagine the idea is to have an incognito mode that actually is incognito, and free.
It'll be a company that GV invests in....
Nitrogen is usually a limiting factor, but freeloading is often a viable strategy if there is a cost involved.
This sends a more powerful message than if the corporation had just avoided the work in the first place. I am hopeful and inspired by the employees stand.

Lights are shining through the cracks in the conflict dominated narrative of these times, and we have never had greater means to analyse and resolve our troubles with each other and with our environment.

Thankyou Googlers for showing up for resolution.
I'm reminded of the saying "When you reach the top of the mountain the only zen you'll find the is the zen you brought with you." Or, alternatively the koan "If you meet the Buddha, kill him."

The idea is enlightenment comes from within. That's true for life satisfaction as well. The concept known as the "Hedonic treadmill"[1] ensures you return to your baseline happiness. If you want enduring life improvements you need to change that baseline happiness within yourself and not your external circumstances.

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I understand most of the concern about Microsofty way.

However, basically I see two different era for MS. Before Satya and After Satya. So, I don't have any concern/worries in this acquisition.
what you're doing is (129+192+405)/100000 = 0.7%

this means that out of 100k 25-50 yr olds 726 died during 2016. This is the probability that you will die during this year, given that you are a 25-50 year old, which is different from the probability that you will die before the age of 50. (the prior number ignores the cumulative probability that you have died as a <50 yr old during all years prior to 2016)

Given that all of us will die, the only question is the age at which we die. The conditional probability that, given you have died, you are under the age of 50 is exactly what we should be looking at.
1. They already have such offering (VS Team Services).

2. Their competitors (GitLab, Bitbucket) already have that offering.

3. I don't think they're interested in GitHub for its revenue, but for its strategic value. GitHub has to protect its revenue model by disallowing free private repos, Microsoft can afford to be more flexible.

4. They've already made similar moves. They acquired Xamarin, which was expensive, and made it free.
Microsoft is reportedly talking about buying GitHub
Making neighborhood gossip easier is worrying on many levels.

A hack that has been used in the past to scale totalitarian social control is to employ what is essentially a viral enforcement mechanism: basically, getting people to inform on their neighbors. It only takes one or two visible instances of this behavior with a violent outcome and it replicates quickly, following an exponential growth rate until the population is saturated with informants.

Reporting on neighbors and peers is much of the glue which has held together the worst authoritarian regimes: DPRK, East Germany, Nazi Germany ... as well as being a primary strategy for causing the revolutions which put those regimes in place.

A platform like this:

- lowers the friction of informing

- is vulnerable to anonymity / spoofing / automation / remote manipulation

- allows for stories of informing to persist in the community memory as always-online posts, increasing their effect across time

- is connected to a de facto surveillance apparatus (the internet) to boot
I don’t think they’ve happened since Enron was manipulating the market, right?
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This is exactly why I believe a fractioning of current America into smaller countries (think Roman Empire -> Europe) is not only inevitable, but an overall net good.
Sure, but "the rocket equation" is 100% talking about the classic ideal rocket equation, which I just discovered is also called the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation

If you want to be more specific, e.g. include gravity then you can't say "the rocket equation".
> why not go all the way and shrink it to the size of the 12" MacBook?

Personally, I see the MBP as a hybrid use-case device, much like the Nintendo Switch: it throttles when freestanding (because it has nowhere to dissipate its heat to), but it runs more quickly when "docked." So you can use it for light things portably, and for heavy things at a desk.

Unlike the Switch, there's no first-party dock for the MBP, but search "mbp cooling dock" and you'll see many accessories designed specifically for the MBP to enable this workflow.

> FinalCut, Logic, and XCode

Two of those persist for the sake of enterprise media-production companies that fund the engineering resources for them all on their own. If Apple were trying to push these for new customers, they'd still be making Xserves, as the hardware to go with this software. New companies need render-nodes, right? But they aren't, because these apps are only for these "legacy" media companies that already have render-farms and don't need Apple selling them render-nodes.

Xcode exists because Apple uses it to make macOS and iOS. (And because the period where MPW sucked and CodeWarrior was third-party and so hard to get new features supported in was a bad time to be an Apple system-software developer.)

> No one is asking for a tank

No, but a keyboard that'll keep working when you spill bacon grease on it, or a computer that won't choke in a sandstorm, is pretty damn ruggedized. Most computers, regardless of manufacturer, are not capable of surviving those onslaughts.

> editing 8K video on-site in Africa

See, this is what I was getting at with the difference in perspectives here. A ruggedized workstation would work just sitting around outside in the heat and dust and light of the savannah. Whereas a professional workstation is—like a server, or (in previous decades) a news crew's satellite uplink—something that exists in a designated editing-room in a designated trailer you're hauling around with the crew.
Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore
Depends a bit on context. If someone robbed you while you were visiting their workplace or while they were visiting your workplace in a professional capacity, you'd get the police involved, but you'd probably also notify their employer.
Way cool, congrats!
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One nice thing about an open source application is that if you don't use (or simply don't like) the OS it runs on, you can port it to your OS of choice or hire someone to do it for you.

Stallman himself would have no problem with that, if he's logically consistent.
Did you read the article?

Hottot said Kazazi was well aware of those requirements and planned to file his disclosure form during his four-hour layover in Newark. The form instructs travelers to file the paperwork “at the time of departure from the United States with the Customs officer in charge at any Customs port of entry or departure.”
I tried Linux in 2008 and abandoned it because of font issues. Seems like they haven't fixed it yet.
> Would you support the same tax bill if it was subsidizing something less hype such as... nuclear energy?

Absolutely! Anything that'd move us a step away from oil and it's constant cost in human life would be a step in the right direction.

> what I was trying to say is that because green energy is so hyped right now...

To be fair, green energy is hyped right now because it's one of the fastest growing job sectors. There's a reason China is betting big on it. California is trying to ride that wave (or rather, stay on that wave) and see how far it'll take us. Tesla alone employs some ~30k people, while the whole coal industry in the US employs ~50k. Why wouldn't California want to encourage companies looking to build "green energy" solutions to bring their job openings here?

Like everything else, this is a bet. I guess we'll know whether it pays off in a few years.
FYI, it_learnses, you've been shadowbanned for 7 months:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15570335

All your comments start out hidden, but I vouched for this one so it's visible.
The money was seized at departure of the domestic leg of this trip, before he had an opportunity to report it at the port of departure for his international leg.

https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/fin105_cmi...
It USED to be that .local was fine; no one else and no other standard used it.

That changed; this is what people are / were mad about.

The point is that some standard CAN change any other similar thing at any point in the future; particularly now that you can buy a TLD.

Thus the lesson is, buy a real name and reserve the namespace.
* generation, transmission, and distribution*

For those of us not in this space, what's the difference between transmission and distribution?
My building just approved 10 (because that's all they can handle powerwise). Those 10 were on a first come first serve, for those willing to pay the $10,000 install fee.
You don't retaliate against election tampering with missile strikes.
Addressed in the article. You're supposed to declare to customs when you leave the country. He would have been leaving from Newark after a four-hour layover.

Also in the article: CBP had 90 days to respond after Kazazi decided to take the matter to federal court, but over a month after their deadline passed are still holding the money, and are refusing to comment.
Need to read the article, buddy.
I've had it not find an email that I know exists. When I go track it down and then search again it finds it.
How about running mock interviews with him? That way you can see exactly what's tripping him up and he can get quick feedback.
I think it is a cycle. When the middle tier companies vanish, the small ones start to rise again.
So basically satellite Internet speeds. That is pretty good.
Come on, now.

If I can't travel with a pint of water. This man surely shouldn't be traveling with $58,000 of cash.

He should absolutely get the money back assuming there was no wrongdoing. But let's not pretend that his actions weren't suspect.
There's a whole 'sub'-culture around very young (as in, pre-teenage) toy and unboxing vloggers who have got themselves (and/or have been enabled by parents) on to this YouTube production treadmill (not exclusively YT, but Insta, too). The self- and peer-generated pressure to increase views, shares, total viewing time, and in turn, churn out fresh and engaging content and the requisite social engagement is relentless, even if it's not on the same scale of these YT celebs. It's perhaps greater in some ways, due to the shoestring nature of most of them, lacking the specialist skills and resources to work productively, and having to wear multiple hats that professional content producers co-ordinate through a team. It's a massive time-suck on parents and children; I can't help but think there are going to be some latent consequences to this wide-scale phenomena amongst schoolchildren.
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Safety regulations. Such designs usually can't be evacuated in a manner that is timely enough to meet requirements.
His address is widely circulated and he has people showing up at his house in the middle of nowhere regularly including trowing in his window and general vandalism . Thus he decided to make the best of it and sell some posters behind his fence. By now the whole villages hates him, the police is fed up because he invited people and he files complaints against some of them for vandalism.

He wasnt that well adjusted to begin with and is completely out of his depth by now. He is a rather overblown phenomenon because he is incapable to deal with the attention but the basic problem is rather common. Sadly youtubers are at the disadvantage towards normal celebrities as their stalkers get to group up easily. I think very few are prepared for that kind of attention
If you buy an American car, the maintenance isn't so bad. The taxes are low on older cars, as well as insurance.

The risk is real, there's been excellent progress in crashworthiness.
It sounds reasonable, but I get lost on the idea that there wasn't enough land to go around. Small populations and plenty of land / resources. Why fight?

That said, would it be (semi) safe to presume that the most fittest survived, and those likely being the most (for lack of a better term) ruthless? That is, the gene pool (on the male side) leaned towards violence (as a means of survival). That in turn served as the foundation of white Western Europe repeatedly exerting itself as a superior culture.

And at the extremes, this helps explains serial killers, mass murders, etc. That is, today's violence was yesterday's survival skills. Some of those genes remain in the gene pool. At least in theory, yes?