skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thicket is a platform for rigorous thinking about policy.

What should you think about a what that politician is saying? On Thicket you can browse argument maps that others have created--and backed up with direct links to research papers. Thicket puts your beliefs about policy in context, connecting them to relevant academic research and to opposing arguments. Thicket is aimed at students, researchers, journalists, and everyone interested in politics and public policy.

I recommend starting with the video introduction since there aren't really any sites quite like it:
https://thicket.io/about#intro-video

Examples of Thicket in action:

https://thicket.io/List/11426361746953 - Public vs Private Currencies

https://thicket.io/List/11425711571394 - Immigration

https://thicket.io/List/11425711242115 - Universal Basic Income

There are, however, plenty of sites doing similar things:

https://sequiturs.com/

http://en.arguman.org/

http://www.truthmapping.com

http://debategraph.org

http://metacademy.com

https://learn-anything.xyz/

...but nobody else combines published research with an argument builder.

Tech stack:
vue + D3js;
node + express;
ArangoDB
This might work okay if it's coupled with policies that are very favorable to customers. Trying to make this work with things like bag fees or change/cancel fees seems hard. They do hint that irregular operations (regional snowstorms, etc) might require actual customer service.
I think it’s nice in theory, but the dates proposed are beyond the likely political careers of the people proposing them which makes me suspicious. It would also be very easy to keep pushing back the deadline. It’s the kind of policy which costs nothing today, and racks up feel-good points for more than a decade without actually making a plan or doing anything like investing in that future.
JetBlue Founder’s New Airline won't have me as a customer
> "The app will take care of a lot of those pre-flight interactions"

It's easy to automate the happy path interactions. But it's impossible to enumerate and prepare for all the problems and particular situations the customers are in. (Anna Karenina Principle)

I guess their strategy is hope these problems doesn't happen that often and the consequence is not that severe.
It doesn't have trig. The algorithm just requires 32 precomputed trig results that are stored in a lookup table.
Routinely? On a standard commuter grade bike?

The Oxford Cycling Club, pictured here http://www.oxfordcyclingclub.co.uk/the-kings-men/ claim an average of 20 km/h (13mph) and they're lycra clad racing-bike riders.

I think you can break 25km/h readily, but I don't think that means we should increase the speed allowed with power assist.

There are moves to make city traffic 32km/h (20mph) limited which would put paid to your 40km/h anyway.
Bicycles, buses, trams and light rail. All useful alternatives.
How about the opposite, nihilism and moral relativism?
I think the airlines of 20 years ago just c̶a̶l̶l̶e̶d̶ sent an email asking for their ideas back.

I mean, people could book flights online and print boarding passes without interacting with a single customer service person on some BA flights in 1999, back when their budget competitors painted their telephone booking number on the side of the aircraft. And I don't think it was seen as a sexy innovation even then.

Can't think of any major airlines that don't offer you the opportunity to book, receive your boarding passes and preorder your lunch via their app, and I'm not sure not having other routes to access the same information in the event of your phone running out of charge is actually a selling point
Your reply is the toxic one, and you're missing GP's point.
You may not trust DDG and their search providers but
Why would you trust Google?

I trust that DDG pseudo-anonymizes my search queries.

I'd like for Google to not make wild ML based guesses on my searches AND other activities in Googlespace. Since you work at Google you should know what I am talking about.

The advantage of DDG is that potential misuse of my data is greatly minimized over Google ecosystem.

In an ideal world search would be completely separated from other activities (Maps, Mail, Video, Phone etc etc).

Siderant:
Also Google search quality has homogenized over the years. It is debatable if that is an improvement.

That is you only get main authoritative(SO,Wikipedia,etc) sources OR SEOed results in Top 10.

It is rare to see an honest enthusiast page in Top 10.

I realize that it is a hard problem to solve but it seems Google researchers have not progressed.
A lot of people can't safely own and operate a car, either, whether due to poverty, age, or disability. While no transportation mode is the best for everyone, a diversity of options makes it likelier that each person will have at least one they can use.

(also, the "families need cars" thing is an artifact of American city design, not a universal rule. Tens of millions of families live in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, and the majority do not have cars.)
Indeed I am. I'm sure your first thought was to use Google to find this information.
I have a deal with people who I love most. They are NOT allowed to install new software without my supervision. In return, they buy me coffee/treats for the help. It works! I presume this deal will continue to exist until binary signatures become a thing of importance for the end user.
I'm in the midst of that bumming around phase after 5+ years doing the startup thing. Year 1. It's great.
I suffered from chronic pain in all of my major joints - hips, lower back, knees, ankles and shoulders. I went to doctors who fobbed me off as not suffering enough to be worthy of examination.

Egoscue's book was the only thing that described what I was going through. He describes how issues in one part of the body can have a knock-on effect on the rest of it. The exercises really helped relieve the pain for me.

After a couple of years the pain started to go away. I had taken a month off work to travel. When I came back I started making a conscious effort to worry less and stress less. I think there's a mind-body connection with these things that is not well understood.

I would also suggest this website for solid information: https://www.painscience.com/
Your argument would be stronger, I think, if it were less pro-Google and more focused on drawing an equivalence by pointing out that relying on Yandex dilutes DDG's privacy promise.

"Google is good and trustworthy" is not a strong argument these days; "Google is the lesser of two evils" might be.
The path he took to get to the river bank is equally important for him attaining enlightenment.
Who paid for the service?
I think this is still a super under appreciated point. The focus is often on full autonomy, but we don't need full autonomy in complex city driving environments to unlock a potential sea change in behavior. Imagine the impact of simply being able to trust your vehicle to do the heavy lifting for an hour to get you from, say, Sacramento to San Francisco, only needing to take control at the highway end points for 30 minutes on each end.
Silicon Valley’s Unicorns Are Overvalued (2017)
This is super cool, thanks for sharing!
Are there any books or other resources that you found helpful in learning and implementing Whack? I’m dabbling a little bit with PLs and would love to hear your opinion.
London’s ambitious plan: Make half its historic center car-free
The article states "There will be humans available, but the idea is that they’ll get in touch only in case of absolute necessity.".

I would imagine there is a way to open a direct chat with customer service in these cases.
"Tell me, dear sir, how you crossed over the flood."

"I crossed over the flood without pushing forward, without staying in place."

"But how, dear sir, did you cross over the flood without pushing forward, without staying in place?"

"When I pushed forward, I was whirled about. When I stayed in place, I sank. And so I crossed over the flood without pushing forward, without staying in place."

[The devata:]

At long last I see a brahman, totally unbound, who without pushing forward, without staying in place, has crossed over the entanglements of the world.
I hadn't been in Raleigh 4 hours last week and I almost got run down on one of the narrower sidewalks.
Years ago I went to a multi day auto race with friends and some older friends of those friends in an RV. There was like a half mile long line of RVs and vehicles at the gate and everyone wanted to get in early to get a good spot.

When the gate opened these guys drove up past the whole line and next to the gate. Then one of the guys donned a day-glo vest, got out, walked around the RV, got in front of next RV in the line and held up his hand, then waved the rest of us through the gate. After we were through he waved the next vehicle on and caught up with us a bit later.
It’s a duck with a bow tie. It’s adorable. Are you not human?
Seriously incredible...I know nothing about basketball but he has a way with words that made the whole story unfold in full color.

Heartbreaking in parts, glad to see something like this on HN.
The talk has a lot of interesting technical details, but the bottom line for java developers or jvm sys admins is that the new GC trades off throughput for reduced maximum pause times (current goal is 10ms max pause time, longer term goal is less than 1 ms).

The upshot of that is that you probably don't want to swap to this unless you use a relatively large heap (at least 32 GB, maybe more), because below that level the STW latency of the other GC options aren't generally speaking bad enough to be worth the trade-off.

Also if latency is a big concern for you and you've got dollars to spend consider Azul zing as well. (That part isn’t from the talk.)
America’s Next Civil War
Wow, this is definitely worth mentioning. Explains why the OP was incredibly biased towards Google while putting down one of their competitors.
> Though first, if you’re not familiar with DuckDuckGo, we are an Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

For the record: by policy, or by design?
> The average running speed of humans is around the same limit - 11 to 15 mph (17 to 25 kph). Almost everyone bikes faster than that.

Almost no-one cycles faster than that. If you cycle at 25km/h in Copenhagen, you will be in at least the top 5% for speed. I used an electric bike for a while, and could overtake almost everyone — I assume it followed the same EU regulation limiting it to 25km/h.

I think I'm a fair bit faster than average, and I tend to cycle at about 15-18km/h, at least according to two GPS tracks I have. (I don't log how fast I'm cycling; I forgot to turn it off on those two days.)
Went to try it for a week to see if it was viable. Haven't looked back and have never needed to go to Google's search engine for a year now. Best feature is by far the Stack Overflow 'instant answers'!
Yup, sure looks like Europe is substantially safer than the US in that map.
Basically, a survey of different cultures’ responses to the trolley problem.

And this doesn’t even touch on the question of passengers vs bystanders.
Would not be easier to actually time the actual waiting times as he waited for the bus every day?
Who is hiring cavemen living under rocks as AWS developers?
I just saw that their pricing page has changed. We're an early user and I didn't notice that they've dropped the free for small business plan.
For those who may not recognize A220, it’s tbe Bombardier C series that Airbus has a joint venture stake in. The one that Boeing tried to block from selling in the US

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A220
Still no clue what that is after reading the article.
Steam is the only one pushing for Linux support in games AFAIK, and their SteamPlay feature is awesome. I use Linux, so I'll continue supporting them until someone else provides a better service.

I really don't have any problems with Steam as a platform. I certainly like not having to have multiple launchers for the games I play.
Double the deaths per VMT.

https://www.newsweek.com/2014/04/04/you-drive-american-24806...
Obligatory reminder that protected class is different than free speech and political stance is not a protected class and sexual orientation is (or should be depending on where you live). Your analogy is moot.

Whether you side with the baker or the wedding couple, comparing it with this is not a valid analogy.
Thanks for the helpful reply! I brought up local storage because people were talking about some kind of sync and it sounded like the browser's storage would be used
Branding is easily the hardest part of a new project. Code is easy. Names are hard!
Users complaining on Twitter don't directly drain customer service resources.
Just tried to do that - no way to upgrade a Swiss flight, only way was DM on twitter. That was unexpected
Windows aren't designed by teams of highly paid experts to drive engagement metrics. There is no way ordinary life can compete with that.
I just say pretty much what you said, no formal template.
California has a very sensible ebike law:

https://www.electricbike.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Char...
Exactly my thoughts. In fact, from what I've seen companies where people lead "from the front", ie. by example, have much higher productivity and better retention of top performers than companies where the management goes around threatening people if they don't perform.
At least when I visited (which was about 6 months ago I believe?), it was a fairly basic set of extensions on top of Lua. As in, they've added a couple keywords that I believe they just RegExp for (its pretty simple to confuse the language parser) - the language itself seems to not be the focus (yet?) of the project.

Again, I only used it once (and I made a DynamicLand compiler in DynamicLand! Video here: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/963497112284512256 ), but if I recall correctly, the main way to "share functions", was to actually just load someone's code and copy it. Partially because the language/editing seems very new still, and perhaps partially to encourage this sort of "real world sharing" vs. virtual sharing. I recall just "forking" files a lot and making new copies of things (kind of like "Old" folders I used to make before version control).
Not defending DDG but it is ridiculuos to ask for a company for auditing to probe their claims. There is no legal enforcement for that. If DDG lies and they are discovered they will loose their user base. It is enough with that.
I read it as "cost per Mpression".
By accident: Bing (their main backend) would obviously not leak personal information to a third party site such as DDG.
“Embrace, extend, extinguish.”
it never gets old ! :) :) :)
For a subreddit dedicated to this (TFA is currently first place), see https://old.reddit.com/r/ActLikeYouBelong/
What a Real Train System Looks Like (2009)
That seems to assume global warming will happen fast and pronounced enough to recoup your investment.

A degree average in 50 years doesn't seem like it would do it.
He makes the distinction later on in the article. "Google is not a search company, they're an advertising company." Google has their display network all across the internet, DDG does not.

Retargeting is a popular model for advertising companies, where the retargeting follows you around the internet. Retargeting is much less valuable if you are just a search company.
How SQL Databases Come Up with Algorithms That You Would Have Never Dreamed Of
Stay Focused & Watch Only What You Search for on YouTube [Browser Extention]
The best way to motivate yourself
It’s been a while since I’ve ran across a quora post that wasn’t some form of advertising or follower building. I mostly do “search + Reddit” these days unless I know the topic wont be well covered there if it’s technical in nature. For things like product reviews Reddit has been ok, but not without manipulation by companies too. I guess at the end of the day you always have to read between the lines.
I don't want to call you paranoid... but the guidelines ask you to please not post like this and email us instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't understand. In what way is GitHub's increasing focus on the customers that pay the bills forcing you out? I understand that you don't care about maximum uptime or SSO or the vulnerability detection system, but are they in some manner making it impossible for you to continue using GitHub? Or are you displeased because you feel GitHub could be paying attention to the needs of users like you, instead of big corporate users? Perhaps you feel it's grown Jira-grade complicated, and is no longer suitable for personal projects?

Sourceforge is exactly like MySpace! Sourceforge once ruled the roost. It was, for many people, the only game in town. It got complacent, and thought it could stay top dog while only really caring about the not-particularly-profitable users or if there was a good way to make more money from the services it offered.

Competitors innovated, found other business models, and did much better. Now we have GitHub! Which has learned from the missteps of Sourceforge. One of which was failing to invest in features that high-margin customers value and will happily pay extra for.
Open Source status matters little when the major copyright holder is a litigious Gorilla, especially one who claims even their APIs are copyrightable.
I like DDG, but claiming that their ads are based only on keywords is just not true. They are at least also based on location. I just tried "dishwasher" and it brings up ads in French from local stores. But this is natural, because without the location most ads would probably be meaningless.

The question is then, how far can you go by using the information available only in the user's HTTP request? Can you use the user's OS and device information? Where is the line exactly that DDG doesn't want to cross?

Edit: I just realized that the answer is probably: yes DDG can use all available information to improve targeting, but it won't store it.
It's simply the big business dream -- bait customers with low prices, and then ignore them when you violate your side of the contract, knowing they can't afford to fight.
Violence in word and action
Ask HN: Method for collecting email address on a static site
Running a static website on a Digital Ocean droplet with all traffic redirected to https using Let’s Encrypt. If I want to enable visitors to subscribe or unsubscribe from a newsletter while keeping the website entirely static, what are the downsides to this approach:

Create an HTML form that collects the email address, with actions of

https://example.com/subscribe.html?email=johndoe@email.com
https://example.com/unsubscribe.html?email=johndoe@email.com
https://example.com/gpdr.html?email=johndoe@email.com

My web logs are scheduled to rotate daily and I have a scheduled task that will scp into the server and pull down the log file from the previous day. I can then just parse the log files locally to maintain my active list of subscribers and respond to gpdr requests. The email address is encrypted in transit because of the https connection, and I can maintain a very basic server that has only nginx running and only ports 22, 80, and 443 open. Right? It’s just a one-person website and I am the only one with access to the logs, which I destroy after a set period of time anyway.
Author here.

Well, in my experience the people asking me if I am interested are rather rude. I politely explain to them that I am not interested and a lot of follow-up questions come flying in. Why is that?

That is why created the page, I answer now:

> Thank you very much for your message.

> I am not interested, before you answer me again please have a look at https://no-thank-you.de/.

> Best, <name>
it isn't the reason I don't DDG (or is it?) ..but I had a similar reaction to the branding.
Waiving the confirmation still doesn't get you there; you still will have to pay attention the whole time and have hands on the wheel at this point.
The world can become a better place if people who disagree about things talk to each other.

https://youtu.be/ORp3q1Oaezw
> but not (as is implied by the article above) better than larger gyros

Wow, this article is super misleading; both on the theoretical underpinnings side and on the specifics of what they've achieved. What is the benchmark for (single unfused) gyros, and how much worse is this?
I've not ever used Uber (Lyft isn't in my country I don't think) but I have noticed a surprisingly high number of really bad drivers with Uber stickers on their cars... I feel like the general standard of driving seems to have seriously decreased since I started seeing the stickers a year or so ago (before that Uber was technically illegal, so while it did operate, drivers didn't advertise so much).
As the guy who uses live chat first and foremost everywhere it’s available, I’m well aware that I’m getting a much lower level of service than I would on the phone just to avoid being on the phone with someone. The simple fact is that a person can only be on the phone with one other person at a time, but live chat reps can (and do) service many customers at the same time. Don’t kid yourself about his motivations for eliminating phone support.
I'm going to suggest - and bear with me on this, I know it's a wild suggestion - that your company deals mainly with customer types who are used to doing a fair amount of typing, sitting at proper keyboards and such. That's probably not the average user profile for people who fly and take cabs, particularly at the point where problems arise.
Yea I based it on the popular and on the rise apps on the appstore which were like anon chat or live video chatting with strangers. Not sure why but they all have millions of downloads and they aren't reported as much in the media.
>I would tell them I wasn't working there but one refused to believe me, she said I was lying because I just didn't want to do the work to check for her.

I had this happen once in a big box store. Not only did she not believe me, after repeating it a few times she started to get belligerent and called me a lazy piece of shit and that the customer is always right.

I usually try to be pretty docile, especially on business trips but I lost it at that.

I told her to shut the fuck up, I'm not a fucking employee, that I won't be fucking spoken to like that by some dumbass mouthbreathing moron and to get the fuck away from me. She stormed off yelling about getting a manager (??)

I grabbed what I came for (a mouse - forgot mine before flying and decided to get a cheap one IRL since this was pre-Amazon-locker.)

I ran into her at the checkouts, yelling. She pointed at me, frothing with rage, yelling about how disrespectful I was and that I was lucky she didn't slap me (!) and she wants me fired.

So of course, I decided to work that angle: told the manager I repeatedly told her I don't work here, that she swore at me, is now threatening me, and if he doesn't remove her from the store I will be calling the police to do his job for him.

Luckily the problem solved itself - she let out a shriek and puttered her trunklike legs out the door. (Maybe she had warrants?)
For the record I support BLM.