skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget the occasional breakthroughs that give us hope in nuclear fusion power :)
What really underlines this blog and thread is that as of the moment of writing this comment, there's no official answer from Google, or even a non official one from an employee. The feeling I get as a customer is that they just don't care.
Don't just spout unfounded statements as fact, especially when they are the exact opposite of the truth.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4781774/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3184892/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S111056901...

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/radiation-exposu...

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/r...

https://www.ewg.org/cell-phone-radiation-affects-brain-funct...
But you are ignoring the human and economic benefits of increased travel.

A better example would be someone pulling their belt so tight they can barely move, and then letting it out.
> Was adding the lanes a win for the city? The commuters? The environment?

It was a win for the local economy.

By allowing more people to drive to and from locations they please, you are allowing more people to work jobs they otherwise wouldn't be able to, and purchase goods and services they wouldn't otherwise.

I'm rarely a fan of government spending; but, roads, police, and firefighting are probably some of the least evil.
Show HN: Find the nearest big city given coords microservice
so there will be no sudden explosion in the organisms that eat this bacteria?

Also no chance that it will evolve sideways to decide it likes to eat other things?

I hope they keep it contained. After other notorious attempts to do things like this (aka cane-toads in Queensland Australia etc) I dont like to think of what happens with something nearly invisible as bacteria and as wide spread as plastic...
To stay on point the debate is more about Nietzsche than economics, but yes demand side would define supply side. However there can be a core group of creative innovators that create new wealth from nothing, that's exciting for me. I didn't mean to be rude its just how I speak ;)
I've always wondered: Can I choose to bargain for myself, and not have the union do it?

Best as I can tell, the answer is: No. The union forces me to pay them to bargain for me.

That is unethical.

> should not be free to reap the benefits

Every single article on the subject always implies that there are benefits. What if I feel they are actually drawbacks?

An easy test: If they were actually benefits people would chose to use them, no? So let people work under union contracts, or on their own, as they chose. But you'll never see a union suggest that, will you? They always want to force people to "gain the benefits".
Saying that the 'Supreme Court is just interpreting the law' is a bad way of excusing some of the more terrible decisions they've handed down over the past few months.

With this particular case though most of the lawyers and law podcasts I follow haven't touched upon it so I can't say I'm particularly knowledgeable about it either. However I would say it's fair to look at any decisions with extreme scrutiny going forward.
NEETs might provide a strong example that this is the default of human leisure. In my experience most NEETs lament their lack of motivation. It's possible that their depression is a result of adverse societal pressure, but I posit that most humans lack the ability to structure their time without an external motivator.

It's often said that pain is the best teacher, but it is also common to refer to "the carrot or the stick". Pleasure provides motivation just as great as pain. Lately on Hacker News people have discussed addiction to smart-phones, referring to the dopamine hit resulting from notifications. We also see this with television series, where people will spend hours of free time binge-watching a show. It may well be that we can no longer control ourselves.

A recent science-fiction piece[1] references this phenomena: "I read pdfs of outlandish philosophers, but I do it while frantically checking for notifications" and "Normally I just fulfill my smart contracts and go back to reading Deleuze and Guattari, by which I mean I play first person shooters while the pdf is up on my other monitor".

Hikikomori provide another interesting example, perhaps without the social pressure; although I admit that I'm not very knowledgeable about Japanese society. It's been too long since I've read them; but the books "Hikikomori: Adolescence Without End" and "Welcome to the NHK" may provide some insight.

While I would like to think that humans are intrinsically motivated to _do_, experience shows me that most people are content to merely consume. Technology engineered to keep us scrolling only seems to exasperate the issue.

[1] https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-eco...
Lets be clear, we're not talking about self signed certs here. An attacker would still need to prove they have ownership of the domain to get a non-EV CA-signed certificate which makes a MITM attack highly challenging to the point of being down right impractical to accomplish successfully. Its not simply not a large enough threat level* to worry about since it would require either DNS spoofing (in which case why bother with a MITM anyway since you now have ownership of the traffic you can just steal people's cookies and get log in directly), or access to the domain owners email (in which case gaining access to their infrastructure becomes significantly easier depending on where it is hosted) or attacking the clients PC to install your own CA certificate (in which case yiu might as well just install a RAT or keylogger and capture inputs for all websites and thus save yourself the trouble of MITMing only one specific single domain).

* I mean if your business is online banking then it's a little different. But for 99.9% websites out there having EV isnt necessary.
This seems like a false dichotomy.

"Founders need to be tech" is said often, but you're assuming "Founders need to be tech OR Founders need to have soft skills", which is an unnecessary assumption.

For example, "Founders should be determined" is also expressed often, doesn't mean they're expecting it to be an either-or with the quality of "being tech"
This is the second article on HN in the last few weeks from NPR praising the virtues of traditional Central American child rearing.
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Nepal Airlines takes delivery of its first widebody aircraft, an A330 – Aviation
Forget airplane mode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKCz4sDENQg
You are completely contradicting yourself.

On one hand you complain about using technologies before you have done a prototype and evaluated the product. Then you blindly tell startups to just use MySQL/PostgreSQL without having any idea of their use case or whether it matches their query patterns.

If you are a startup the right way to go is to document your use case, understand what queries those use cases demand and then find the right database that satisfies it e.g. don't pick MongoDB if you are doing lots of joins and don't pick PostgreSQL if you are doing wide-table feature engineering type analytics.

Right tool for the right job.
What does it mean to store a date in a time zone (such as UTC) form? Do you mean store dates as timestamps of UTC midnight on that date? Even this isn't a storage format: do you mean a big-endian Java epoch milliseconds timestamp, ISO 8601 text, or some other format?

I think you mean they should be using some representation of a Gregorian calendar date, be it text or binary.

In any case, it sounds like they should probably have something analogous to the timezone database for converting between various calendars where the mapping can't be determined in advance.

That brings up a good question: in the Islamic calendar, the new year doesn't start until reception of a reliable lunar observation by a Muslim. How do they get around this in strict Muslim countries? Do they have a second concept for "year" that's identical to the year except in the observational requirement and therefore can be treated the same, but because of name doesn't break the religious law? I presume they don't go through the trouble of creating a low-latency network to distribute the start-of-year signal and make timestamp-to-string routines block near the year rollover until they've seen the signal.
The NES is very significant.

But without it the Amiga kept gaming going happily. It was a great system. I remember the first time I saw an NES and the comparison to the Amiga wasn't great.

The Amiga had a lot of great games in the 1980s too. Kick Off, Speedball, Xenon, Marble Madness, Bubble Bobble, Populous, F18, F16 Falcon, the Lucasarts Adventure games.
Not sure why you are being down voted. For people down voting, let's look at some of the rulings.

1) gay marriage and the baker. This was a 7-2 ruling that basically set zero precedent. It just ruled that the council that ruled on the case originally was extremely biased in their ruling.

2) unions: only 28 states have forced union dues for collective bargaining. As well, the Federal government does not allow forced union dues. As an example of a union that exists without the protection of forced dues: the postal service union. Public unions aren't dead, but will need to try harder to keep their members now. The federal unions have shown that they can still exist without forced dues.

3) travel ban: while this law was the third attempt at it, and was rooted in some very horrible rhetoric from Trump, the judges that ruled in favor of it to reaffirm that the president has the executive power to do such. The majority was very clear they were not happy with his actions, but the law is written as such to allow him to do what he did here.
To me the main way of determining search engine quality is whether or not it can find pages that I know exist because I've read them recently (they're still in my history) based on the terms that to me make sense for that page.

By that metric there are no good search engines at the moment and the older the pages the worse this effect gets. It's really nice to see Google do lots of 'moonshots' and interesting tech demos but I'd be far happier if they fixed search and kept their focus on that.

If a page doesn't show up in either Google or Bing for sensible queries then that page effectively ceases to exist. The perverse incentive that these companies have to avoid you going to a page with relevant results as long as you spend more time on pages with their advertising on it ensures that more and more content will end up missing in action.

I'd be happy to pay for a search engine that:

- actually really works

- also allows you to search past page 10

- has a working API with reasonable limits
this is very cool!

1) what's the most helpful physics-based cooking tip most people aren't aware of?

2) are there efforts in food engineering to apply machine learning to recipes in the same way some projects are trying to automate other creative functions like graphic design?
At some point, everyone forked everyone, but all the code was written by communities under open licenses, so the distinction is entirely political.
Idioms of Dynamic Languages
All of those are 'meta' search engines. There are three English language indexes of any size available, Google, Bing, and Yandex. All of the other search engines go to one of those three for most if not all of their queries. Some of the bespoke engines have local indexes of things like stack overflow or wikipedia (both fairly easy to index) to save on the cost but all the others use the big three (and mostly big two because Yandex pulled their servers out of Nevada which made their ping time add 300 - 800mS of latency to their searches).

Most of these used BOSS (aka Yahoo!'s old build your own search service API) which was served off Bing as its index, although Google has started paying more and more people to send their search traffic to Google.

Bing charges $7/thousand [1] for their "quality" searches and $3/thousand for their so-so searches (not as current, the index doesn't go as deep, this used to be what BOSS called until they turned it off in 2016).

That $7/thousand lets you give them up to 250 queries per second. For reference that is about 1-5M uniques per day. It looks like 21M searches a day but for English most of the searches come during the day from Europe and The US so you're really only going to do 10 - 15M searches per day at that rate. If you are clever you can cache results so for the same search you can just re-use the cache rather than paying for another result. This is nominally frowned upon but hard to defend against. If you manage to make a deal with a phone supplier to be the 'standard' search engine a lot of queries will just be 'facebook' or 'reddit' so you don't really need to actually query those. You will want to find some ad networks to provide you ads. Bing will do that too, but you will quickly figure out that if you could make money reselling Bing results with Bing ads, that they could do that too so you've find the margins pretty thin and negative at times. You'll have to pay for a machine that is taking those queries, calling out to what ever ad networks you want, and then filling out a results page (SERP) and sending it back to the consumer. If you are just fronting Bing or Yandex that is pretty straight forward to do with an nginx server on an AWS "large" instance.

If you negotiate well and market well you can be a dogpile or a startpage with some schtick that makes you different than just going to Google or Bing. The more privacy you afford the clients the more margin you give up (because you can't sell that information as well).

Bottom line is that its a hard way to make a living.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-...
Proposed white-box defenses to adversarial examples in ML
thta has little to do with privacy though. and i believe thats the only thing they assure?
It would be great if we could stop glorifying Nintendo as if they were the only valid actor from some kind of dark ages of video games. It was just so NOT the case, having lived thru that time.
They don't have to train people to work somewhere else. It's perfectly legal to offer training to someone with a claw back on training costs if they leave before x years. The issue is that this creates a contract and every employer in the US currently wants to have at will employment at all costs.

I have had managers complain about turnover and offered to sign a contract with them if we could agree on set goals that would translate to a set raise if reached each year. They don't even entertain the thought.

Companies and managers want to just mine society for skilled labor but put zero investment into creating it. They can lie in the bed they made at this point. Most employees would prefer known stability. We didn't all start job hopping because the idea of working at one place for 40 years and retiring comfortablly became unpalatable to the population at large. We started getting treated as disposable and now employers are treated as disposable right back
It seems that'd be too expensive for AWS for a free tier. I really like the idea of serverless, it just doesnt seem to live up to the promise in its current implementations. Are they spinning up a server per function?
Interesting, I learnt something, thank you for mentioning this! This is what Wikipedia has to say about it [1]:

The large coal deposits of the Carboniferous may owe their existence primarily to two factors. The first of these is the appearance of wood tissue and bark-bearing trees. The evolution of the wood fiber lignin and the bark-sealing, waxy substance suberin variously opposed decay organisms so effectively that dead materials accumulated long enough to fossilise on a large scale. The second factor was the lower sea levels that occurred during the Carboniferous as compared to the preceding Devonian period. This promoted the development of extensive lowland swamps and forests in North America and Europe. Based on a genetic analysis of mushroom fungi, it was proposed that large quantities of wood were buried during this period because animals and decomposing bacteria had not yet evolved enzymes that could effectively digest the resistant phenolic lignin polymers and waxy suberin polymers. They suggest that fungi that could break those substances down effectively only became dominant towards the end of the period, making subsequent coal formation much rarer.

So indeed, superficially, a few parallels can be drawn to the anthropocene "plastic age". Some life form (trees) essentially "trashed" the planet with polymers that were not biodegradable. It took 60 million years until evolution "caught up" and equipped bacteria and fungi with the enzymes that could degrade those polymers. Nowadays dead trees in a forest rot within a few years.

It seems reasonable to think that the same will eventually happen to our plastic; i.e., if we were to cover the planet in plastic waste, then eventually, after a few million years (or far sooner, if there are only few mutations required for the polymer degrading enzymes to be efficient with plastics), some bioform will be able to feed on that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carboniferous&old...
How did it keep it going?
Cool video, thanks for the visualization!
Yes, and much earlier than the SuperNES too, which came out quite late in comparison. As for the NES you could also take the C64 as a comparator that had a very decent library of original games too.
Private equity firms make money offering loans to cash-strapped Americans
The best is when they have a large portion of the store dedicated to selling things that cannot be bought without an employee helping. At a walmart I worked at when I was younger there were two aisles of paint to be used in mixing but we never had anyone on the floor capable of running the machine since the store opened until I left two years later. There was also the electronics section which had everything under lock and key and had an employee with the key available maybe a third of the time.

I also saw the deli open frequently with no one manning it. It wasn't closed, just had no one to run the machines
I made no claim that PCE is better at capturing those categories; only that it is a better method overall than CPI.

Both indexes take into account tuition, for example, but not student loan obligations, which are absolutely massive in comparison to things like electronics and wireless plan obligations. The same is true for medical expenditures, but not medical debt. And of course a huge issue is that any national measure of inflation is not accurate for people who live in places outside the median, such as cities in California where rising costs of living routinely push local CPI increases far beyond national levels (BLS does provide more local numbers, but they're rarely discussed).

I don't doubt that your data is correct, I just don't think it's very important in the scope of the overall contributing factors to real-world inflation for most people.
That's a huge part of it. I do feel that the aforementioned anti-industrial mindset does still motivate the lack of enthusiasm for number crunching.

Find me a way to reduce co2 that involves wicker, green leaves, and pure water, even tangentially, and you'll find huge support for it even if it can be beaten by donating three dollars to a wind farm. That notion will affect a lot of people who aren't even consciously anti-industrial. It's just kind of the default frame of mind when discussing environmental protection.

Or try talking about fixing global warming instead of preventing it. People who are (rightly) very concerned about impending wholesale death suddenly are not interested at all. It comes as an affront. Our mental image of a global warming solution is already clearly set as some type of industrial shutdown.
You're right, I haven't read much about liberal political philosophy, I was trying to reason this based on intuition and experience and I 100% agree that concessions about human nature need to be made.

I shouldn't have used the term perfection, as I didn't mean it in the short-sighted, self-serving and ideological form, rather than in the sense of our ultimate goal of how to best organize the human race despite our imperfections.

Is there a term for that objective, perhaps harmony? I'm going to do some reading of what "perfection" means from a political philosophical sense as the definition I came up with let me down in my response.
I think that’s pretty far fetched. Such a spike would most likely be the product of an already very well known rumour.
> Mostly this is just me missing the websites of the early 2000's, and trying to figure out a way to rediscover them.

Apparently somethingawful and ebaumsworld are still around in some form, and Slashdot of course. The thing is, these sites have largely been replaced by better versions of themselves. That’s resulted in a lot of centralization into a few sites like reddit, which is a combination aggregator and blogging platform for people who are too embarrassed to attach their real name to what they write, which is apparently a good share of the population. Then there are sites like YouTube, LiveLeak, Facebook, that just offer something that no one could or did in the 2000s. And with mobile and apps, there’s a level of engagement that doesn’t leave much room for a thousand little sites with quirky, regular, custom content.
I did make a post below actually a few hours back and will copy and paste it below for reference. Rest assured that we are working on this one and are in contact directly with the customer. We hope to have more of an official response soon.

from below:
I work here in Google Cloud Platform Support.
First, we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused by this issue. Protecting our customers and systems is top priority. This incident is a good example where we didn’t do a good job. We know we must do better. And to answer OP’s final message: GCP Team is listening.

Our team has been in touch with OP over what happened and will continue digging into the issue. We will be doing a full review in the coming days and make improvements not only to detection but to communications for when these incidents do occur.
I was at Yahoo during that time, although not in web search. From what I could tell, company leadership was frustrated with lack of growth in search market share, and didn't want to invest in it anymore.

Yahoo was running user studies where they would put Google results and Yahoo results side by side but switch the branding; while Yahoo results were ranked better than Google for most of the tested queries, results with Google branding ranked better than with Yahoo branding, regardless of whose results they were.

The plan was to just use Google, but the DOJ (or FTC?) put out guidance that that would be anti-competitive, so Bing was it. This might have worked out anyway, but the expected cost savings from outsourcing search didn't actually happen that I saw, but I left in late 2011, and stopped following closely after that. Web search was also linked with search ads, which Bing did poorly at too.
You just described 90% of HN comments. This place is filled to the brink with anti-tesla shill bots
They tend to be optimized towards making money, frankly. They hold the valuable possibility of a connection with another user hostage behind bad user experiences and paywalls.
Netgate didn’t build pfsense from scratch, it’s a fork of monowall which is in turn basically just a GUI on top of the networking stack that ships with FreeBSD.

Netgate deserve some credit for their effort, but not so much that we should turn a blind eye when they get bitchy and malicious about the use of open source code.

I’ve said for a long time now that the whole AES hardware requirement would prove to be little more than a red herring to dampen open hardware sales; it’s pretty hard to argue otherwise now.