skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been using DDG for about a year now, although I had tried using it years ago. It works fine for simple queries( e.g. search name of company rather than typing out url). But I basically have !g programmed into my fingers for everything more complicated. Many times when I don't find the results I am looking for, I subconsciously assume that google would be able to find them. This is in comparison to when I cannot find something on google, I assume the website owner either sucks at SEO or it doesn't exist. I am rooting for DDG, but it is going to be really hard for them to make up the literal cognitive difference in my mindset.

Side note, if they get bought out by a big player, I will feel like my use of them for the last year has been for naught.
> But all of those things—women's suffrage, black emancipation, and equal rights for blacks—were won not by appealing to group identity, but by appealing to the universality of being human.

It was both, and I think you need to do some research on the different methods of outreach that each of these movements utilized. Susan B Anthony organized conferences for all women and she launched a magazine for women. These types of movements are two sided, you need to gather the "oppressed" on one side and the folks who are progressive and can be persuaded on the other, you're looking at this without enough nuance IMO.
Whether or not Google are doing this, keep in mind:

- Facebook's short-lived 'trending News' came under fire after employees admitted to routinely suppressing conservative news stories.

- Every newspaper endorsed Trump's opponent so any news source is potentially anti-Trump. Some, like CNN, aren't even trying to be objective (every article reads like an editorial with a little too much snark), while others like the NYT released a post-election letter that just fell short of admitting their bias ("we believe we reported on both candidates fairly").

- Twitter was found to hide many Republican politicians from autosearch results.

None of this makes Trump's accusation true, but it highlights that there is a precedent.
Yes, I meant white as it's used in political demographics, rather than how it's written on the census form.

As far as the message.. one can send a message by omission. If you spend a lot of time pandering in a race-based manner to every group EXCEPT this one racial group.. some people might take that the wrong way. Especially if you've got a small, loud minority telling them to take it exactly that way.

My solution is to drop the race-gender-whatev based pandering and move to shared ideals. It's how democrats win. They lose at the tribal game every time. How you gonna wrangle 20 different identities against a single more cohesive identity that also outnumbers you?
Incremental improvement and $700 cheaper.
A single dose. I felt the effects about an hour afterwards -- I clearly remember all of my joints feeling way too hot, and my Achilles's tendon (which I later learned is one of the more common sites of injury due to Cipro) felt incredibly weak. My anxiety sky-rocketted, I was sweating profusely. My body clearly hated the drug.

I called the doctor and they advised that I stop taking it immediately, but clearly the damage was done.

I had no idea about any of the side effects. I was just a kid so I wasn't yet in the habit of researching drugs or (stupid!) even looking up which side effects are signs of a serious reaction. All I knew was I had a bacterial infection, had been given antibiotics a couple times before in my life without issue, so why worry?

I guess it's technically on me to read the literature, but again...I was a kid. I think this was the second time I'd ever seen a doctor without my parents present. A drug this serious should require a stern talking-to by the doc and written consent/understanding of the risks by the patient before it's prescribed. I know that had I been warned, I would've said "fuck no." Sure, I was a dumb kid, but even a dumb kid who is essentially a serious athlete (one who just happens to use really small muscles with an instrument rather than big ones) would've known that "irreversible nerve damage" isn't worth tempting fate.

There isn't a day that goes by without me regretting taking that pill. Again, I don't know the full extent of the damage, but I know that at least it ruined my career just as it was getting started.

Edit: What's really fun is that I may still be seeing new symptoms. I recently suffered Sudden Hearing Loss -- while I'm no longer a professional guitarist, I am a pro musician -- and of course the cause couldn't be pinned down (I know it's not due to loud noises, since you won't meet anyone more careful with their ears than me). This article stating that these drugs may be ototoxic is quite terrifying. My ears have been sort of deteriorating over the last year or so, and if it's Cipro continuing its reign of terror, I don't know what I'll do. File a lawsuit, maybe?
If that's the case, that's incredibly misleading. Especially because that's not undiscovered by human players, just by the OpenAI team, if that's what it is: https://blog.openai.com/more-on-dota-2/

"Sumail pointed out that the bot had learned to cast razes out of the enemy’s vision. This was due to a mechanic we hadn’t known about: abilities cast outside of the enemy’s vision prevent the enemy from gaining a wand charge."

That's not an undiscovered mechanic in the world of Dota - that's been known for a while and at least documented since 2015 https://dota2.gamepedia.com/index.php?title=Magic_Stick&oldi....

I wouldn't be surprised if it was known before then, I certainly remember this from a while back.

Again, if that's not what it was, then I take back what I said, but if it was, I do think that statement is misleading as written.
Nope. No way. Have we learned nothing from "fulfilled by Amazon" counterfeits?

The supply chain has to be verifiable as genuine goods from the factory to the hospital floor. Trying to verify the authenticity of patient-supplied replacements would be a nightmare.
Agree. It is odd though that this thread doesn't address clothing. It's fairy straightforward to stay warm in a cold environment using clothing, but impossible to use clothing to stay cooler in a warm environment. People up north, technically, probably use more energy heating than they really need to. (i.e., everyone could wear sweaters and coats inside.) On the other hand, in the south, A/C is absolutely essential to be comfortable.
A Canadian pension fund may be a bit less aggressive for an exit than traditional SV VC firm. I'm not too worried so far.
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>> Such a thing does not exist because machines think like humans in the same way
that planes fly like birds.

Could we please lay this empty platitude to reast? "Planes don't fly by
flapping their wings like birds, so why should computers think like humans?".

Well, except that we were only able to built flying machines (rather than
floating ones) when we figured out why birds can fly [1].

And then, the whole of our computer science is based on the idea that a
computer is, actually, the same kind of system as a human mind- a
computational device, a machine that can compute everything and anything that
can be computed. This is the deep insight that informs the ambition to create
artificial intelligence: that brains are a kind of computer, computers are a
kind of brain, and they can both compute the same kind of program, in other
words- intelligence.

Though we may not know how human minds work exactly and therefore we can't
readily copy them, it is thanks to Turing's and Church's insight that we even
have computers today. And so, in a very real sense, we can only ever create
thinking machines that do intelligence in the same way that humans do
intelligence [2].

_______________________

[1] I mean, a boomerang is really an airfoil so I guess Australian Aborigines
had figured out flight long before the Wright brothers, but I gues they didn't
need flying vehicles back then?

[2] Unless there is a paradigm shift and we figure out a better way to do it
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Do they actually support third party 2FA for their customers?
Grafika an image processing and graphics library for PHP
The decoy has its own radar signature, its really small. It can mimic a larger object by receiving, amplifying, and then transmitting the signal the enemy radar signal. Smaller objects can get closer to radar before they are detected so the decoy projects an image of a larger aircraft to hide within. The radar sees the plane and starts tracking it. The decoy can likely use some fancy signal processing to move the image of the object around and even project multiple objects. Add more decoys and you can overload the object tracking of the radar station. The radar might be in range to see the actual decoy at some point but ideally the radar is seeing a bunch of phantom planes and missiles at this point so the decoy just blends in with the swarm.

Radar already does something similar to what you are suggesting, there are spread spectrum techniques that are much more jam/spoof-proof than just a constant ping or even a linear frequency sweep. You pseudo-randomly hop frequencies to avoid having someone broadcast a really strong signal at one frequency and to have someone be able to track your pattern of hopping. The pattern is generated similar to crypto, you start with a seed (the plaintext) and encrypt it with a key to get the pattern that you hop with.
if you want to use SurfaceMountComponents you may have trouble with the milling machine approach due to constrained spaces...if you only need discrete analogue or large scale digital boards milling maching is not a problem, a really sweet CNC setup will have a learning mode so you can mill a one off by hand then let the machine copypasta the rest of the boards in large number...look for stepper motor controll projects and raid some dead printers and CDdrives for tasty parts and you are well on the way to a kewlissimo homebrew...
Inches and feet are easier to approximate though (e.g. 3 feet = 1 m is "good enough" for most practical uses), whereas Fahrenheit and Celsius have this weird 5/9 conversion factor. There are simplified formulae for F/C conversions as well, but they produce deviations that are too large for practical use for many common temperatures, especially if you live in an area with real winter & summer.
Isn't that because of endemic bike theft and city bikes are not really expensive they start to top out where a good entry level MTB starts.
Note that generative art is not necessarily digital. I used to make generative music using a pretty mundane electric guitar and amp, with a digital delay looper (which I suppose makes it kinda digital). I leaned the guitar against the amp to induce feedback, which went into the looper, which was on a long fade (probably 20+ repeats, well over a minute of music echoing around in there), with modulation to destabilize the pitch. Thanks to the configuration, the feedback was unstable, continuously generating an unpredictable melody of feedback.

Kinda loud, but kinda lovely.
A big part of why tuna salad from restaurants and delis tastes so good is that they start with very dry tuna. When preparing canned/jarred tuna I mix in some dehydrated onions after draining, cover and allow the mix to sit in the refrigerator for 15min. Add mayonnaise and other ingredients when the onions have rehydrated. The onions act as a desicant and get the tuna bone dry while adding some onion flavor.
I've broken two helmets over my years of cycling, quite possibly saving me from at least one skull fracture. So a helmet is mandatory to me.

However, I don't want it to be mandated by law. That has shown to keep a lot of people from cycling.
Thanks for the detailed reply! There is indeed a lot to do with authentication/authorization (and things like audit logging…). I’ll look more at EnvKey later to understand the cryptography better.

Stripe/other gateways do abstract most of PCI DSS from you, and will not return card data via API calls, so that somewhat sidesteps the compliance issue.
I have noticed that my Python code increasingly works like this via the optional else clause in its try/except mechanism.
From the description it does sound like blink dagger and the range here refers to radiance or necro's heartstopper. It's definitely not "previously undiscovered". Also, the article makes it sound like we saw another AlphaGo's 3-3 invasion, 5th line shoulder-hit kind of moment. We did not. This is more similar to AlphaGo and Fan Hui match, except imagine AlphaGo lost to Fan Hui. The bots did make a lot of interesting moves in 5 invincible chicken meta. The bots appeared very weak in normal meta (constantly check rosh for no reason, inefficient use of ults, don't get me started on warding, etc)
> Right now you'll find (or won't, rather) people on Twitter banned for sharing factual but 'problematic' news articles or for referencing crime statistics.

These crime statistics are often being used to push a racist agenda, and private entities are under no obligation to be a platform for that.

> > I still need to use Twitter for work, but my personal view is that any content I contribute is promoting white supremacy

> Madness. Anyone with such a bizarre personal view ought not to be taken seriously.

I will agree that that bit she said is bizarre. Not really sure what she meant by that. I wouldn't dismiss everything else she said just because of one line, though. Each individual statement should be evaluated by its own merits. Picking one statement, using it to decide she's crazy, and then using the opinion that she's crazy to dismiss everything else starts to get close to being an ad hominem.
Same sad story here, 2 doses of Cipro and joints were gone for 6 months. Antioxidants and topical magnesium oil helped. What a nightmare of a drug.
This Wikipedia article should answer these kind of basic questions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering
Where I live (Arizona) there's a statute of limitations on consumer debt, think it's 2 years for random bills and 3 years for recurring payments...or something similar.
> DuckDuckGo appears healthy and quite content with making money off of keyword-based ads alone.

This makes perfect sense. Show an ad related to what a person is interested in and looking at. When I did adsense stuff a long, long time ago, I seem to remember that Google would request a copy of the page, and then tailor the ads to the content of the page. There was absolutely no interest at all in "Who" was looking at the page. It seems to me there is still a tremendous amount of money that could be made with only that use case.
That is nice if you're riding bike on trails you can pick, for fun (thanks for hint).

For those of us commuting to work, to move from place A to place B and back, that is unfortunately not always feasible...
I was participating in NYC Mesh for awhile, but eventually I had to unplug because I got notices from my ISP about copyright infringement and I didn't want my internet access to get shut off. So sad. I really want this effort to succeed.
> I really wish I agreed with your characterization, but I don't. What I see as prototypical identity politics is something like the Why Can't We Hate Men article the Washington Post published (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-cant-we-hate-men...).

The problem with this is that when you think of identity politics you think of the extreme end. Which is the main point of my original post. People equate identity politics with extremism -- my argument is that identity politics is actually at the core of all politics. You can utilize extreme rhetoric arguing any point. But if all you see is the extreme then well.. I can't help you.
I have the same muscle memory, but I don't think it's a bad thing. Basically I only use !g when normal DDG doesn't give me what I'm looking for, and half the time !g doesn't have it either. The only thing I can't abandon is !gmaps.

And I'm just discovering a bunch of other ! commands that make DDG significantly more useful that Google (eg !esen).
A lot of immigrants do that, but you have to know the local system of where you'll be treated (that's why it's mostly immigrants that do it).

For what I'm readying, for a lot of non-life-threatening care, it's way cheaper to fly here (Uruguay), have treatment, stay a month, and then fly back, than stay one DAY in the U.S. - a plus is that treatment will likely be better.
That mechanic was in the patch notes for dota 6.69 released in 2010. Maybe its importance to high level 1v1 shadow fiend was revealed but that's stretching it. It is cool that the bot rediscovered it though.
Hard to say. The experience is quite a bit different than VR headsets. I can imagine that with its small FoV that it ought to be a bit better but I don't have an easy way to compare them.
There's a link to an older story about the same topic right at the bottom of the page.
I've been wanting to get involved in this kind of thing for a while now. Shame they use Slack, and not an open platform like Matrix or IRC, though!
> and the same range is an unintuitive -17 to 37

For starters, if you arbitrarily round Fahreinheit numbers up or down (which you did to get that 0-100 range), you need to do the same with Celsius. So it'd be -20-40, which is a lot less un-intuitive.

But also, that this range is what "most people regularly experience" is also rather arbitrary. I have regularly experienced winters below -20 C, for example, but I've only seen +40 C once. The truth is, most people will experience a range of temperatures that's not going to be nice and round numbers in either scale, so why fixate on it?
No offence, but you're strawmaning heavily here.

I mean sure, you're right, the weather in the Netherlands is as nice as those picture only for a couple of months per year, but that's not the point of the article, nor does it prove/disprove anything.

The Dutch cycle year round, and while it is true that traffic in the summer is like double, cycling is still the main form of transportation for a significant portion of the population.
If this were something the NSA were actually doing, wouldn't we have noticed it by now via the rogue certificates showing up in certificate transparency logs?
You are incorrect.

IIRC, you can easily build a super-human Atari bot. Just add some off line planning (e.g. paper by Guo), or add manual rewards or features.

No one is doing since there is no point. We want to study Atari WITHOUT these "cheats", so that we can then apply these algos in more complex situations.
Doubt that's what they are talking about if the mechanic was undiscovered before this year. Stick + vision mechanics have been well known for a while, I learned about it when I read about the Kunkka mid matchup. Might have been Pajkatt buying mangoes and using them out of vision last year? Not sure, my memory of the details is fuzzy.
I've never hired anybody to do interior paint, so I'm wondering: do pros ever actually tape a ceiling border? I've always just cut in by hand. I've found that it's usually high enough that any minor imperfections aren't noticeable.

The last time I did a wall or ceiling, the crown molding had been painted so many times, it would have been nigh impossible to tape it and get a satisfactory result. But I've been living in old places.

Are you in a newer place with fewer uneven spots to tape around?
It's not about kidnapping, it's about callers not knowing/being able to tell where they are.

This is a very common situation.
Any developers actively creating (and sharing) interesting stuff for the device? The examples on their website feel like stuff I’ve seen before. I’d be interested in hearing about the good things and the challenges of developing for their platform and for AR in general
Sorry, still don't get it. Extra contract code needs to be written just to prevent "cryptic" compile-time errors? It's just a type mismatch/error like many others to me. Cryptic error messages can be made less confusing by improving the output.

Since Go doesn't have standalone object files / binary libraries, it's not going to produce confusing link-time errors for this.
And no one ever drove you off your bike in Munich yet? Lucky you!

I use my bike every day and I don't mind the winter either. I still can count the times I've been hit. Near misses though happen almost daily. Especially with cars turning right not watching bike lanes.

Good luck and keep on cycling!
This makes me think of Plato's Cave.
Anyone who says either "Coding is right for you" or "Coding is not right for you" doesn't know the truth. ONLY YOU can figure out whether coding is the right field for you.

The questions you should ask yourself:

1. How willing are you to keep on solving a problem? How do you react when the first five or ten times you have a problem, your solutions don't work?

2. How good are you at writing extremely detailed instructions? A good check: Write your favorite recipe, give it to a friend, and ask them to cook it. Afterward, ask them how difficult it was to cook. (This test is EXTREMELY valuable when your friend says that they don't know how to cook.)

3. How do you react when you work very, very hard on something -- then someone who has never touched it says someone else "could have done it in five minutes"?

4. How do you react when something that you've studied and practiced for five years goes out of fashion?
Wait, so does this mean that if you were being monitored with a stringray, your phone would just be a brick without access to mobile network data (calls, texts, data) etc? that seems like a huge giveaway???
This steps into nationalistic flamewar, which is not allowed here. Both sides routinely accuse each other of dominating HN. Such comments add no information and provoke worse from others. Indeed, they're just another move in the flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ah, I haven't lived there since 2014. Couldn't tell you.
I feel like this article has been posted a dozen times already, but the "past" link is showing this as the only submission.

EDIT: Nevermind, I'm confusing it with similar discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17651652

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17599022

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17605973
SOURCES: China Hacked Hillary Clinton’s Private Email Server
You could securely sign the data in a tamper resistant way. Although that would be at least as disruptive to http as https is. And it also can't obscure the specific pages you're visiting.
Same question, but for 33 yo. I’m consider making the switch from a commercial video producer to coder.
Denver to begin painting designated scooter parking
Of course you should, you're gonna live a good additional 50 years, do you want to spend them doing something you don't like?

Python is good language to start, concentrate on that first and keep js for later, it's a complex language that may confuse you more than anything else.

Mix theory and practice, learn and build console apps, avoid web dev for now, you don't want to confuse yourself with all the web framework stuff. Your goal at that point should be to learn the language and how to think like a software dev, not learning some apis or frameworks.

27 is a good age to learn, technologies are always changing so, even at that age, you can learn and become an expert at something, and after a few years, nobody will ask you for how long you've done it.
The FLOPhouse!
@SolarNet ... correct.
FWIW, Google Docs has an outline view.
Cryptographic verification?
I find the lime e-bikes to be an AMAZING service and I really hope it takes off.

It's my wife and I's preferred way of getting around for date night.
If you need a generic algorithm where the possible types are very finite (e.g. just float32 and float64, or just NxM matrices for N,M=1,...,4) you might be able to `go generate` the concrete implementations from a text template.