skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember that "Bing it on" campaign Microsoft ran, to show that in a blind test, users couldn't tell the difference between Bing search results and Google search results?

Well, Microsoft's test completely backfired on me. I ran the test many times. In most cases, one of the columns had clearly better results, and 80+% of the time, that column was Google.

Small sample size to be sure, but it covers 100% of the population I care about in choosing a search engine (me).

Granted, this was Bing, not Google, but I kind of doubt DDG would fare better. (And in non-blind tests, I definitely fell I'm getting the worst results from DDG).
On a personal device it's reasonable to use a VPN.
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> the powers of the House of Lords have slowly been diminished over the past century or two (albeit with their consent, more or less; but it's a one-way street)

In the most key point, decidedly less: “vote to strip your powers or the monarch will create enough new peers that will vote the right way that the measure will pass anyway” isn't real consent.
Part of the reason is setting up the environment to run all these and the compilation overhead to see the result in browser. I would also like WebAssembly to really take off.
China grows the first plants on the Moon
If true, this should be in their S-1 SEC filing right?
I have yet to seen anyone mind going back to the old MBP 2015 Keyboard, even if they love / like / Ok with the new butterfly keyboard.

I have heard countless people wishing to have the old keyboard back and absolutely loathe the new butterfly keyboard. And they refuse to even buy a new one.

I just recently sold a new MBP and got a 2nd hand MBP 2015 instead. As a matter of fact the 2nd hand price of MBP has been holding up better than expected all thanks to TouchBar MBP.
I'm not speaking of the Supra - only of the claim that Toyota is a shell of its former self. I don't think the Toyota is bad, and I think they're doing quite well at what they're good at, even if it pisses car enthusiasts, such as myself or yourself, off.
A few years ago games were around 75% of the app store’s revenue.
With the open source option being dominated by Red Hat.
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Everyone is committed to a product, until they get their level promotion and switch roles.
This applies to all of the mapping providers. It takes a truly massive ground game to get really good map data for the entire world. Many players are working on this and I'm sure many will continue to work on it. A map that was garbage for your area three months ago might be great today.
> Folks are falling for well confirmed lies.

Sure, probably on both sides. But to assume that everyone on one side of an issue, or even most, are dupes is a very dangerous assumption. Not every election outcome has to be rationalized, but in the attempt to do so people build excuses out of easy-to-find-when-digging election issues prevalent in all elections. Then they blindly say that must be the reason or that it only affects one side or that voters are dupes or whatever makes them feel better instead of considering that there is reasonable disagreement. It happens with most election results these days that don't favor the boisterous.
It’s a modified BMW. It’s not an actual Toyota like previous Supras.

It has no soul of a Toyota. It’s just a base trim level of a BMW with different financing options and a different support network.

By the way, if I’m buying a BMW why would I want Toyota of all companies to modify the steering and suspension? I’d rather have a Toyota with BMW steering and suspension, not this abomination.

“I like my 3 series but I wish it handled more like a Camry” - nobody, ever.
Hmm, my impression is that they will only play video if you have a secure connection from the graphics card to the screen. So, unless you have access to a HDCP stripper, I don’t think there’s any way to tap the video stream.
>but fuck me if I have to shell out 10 Benjamins for a fucking phone

You don't have to. iPhone 8 and even 7 works well even today and unlike most Android OEMs including Google, you will get updates for at least 4 years easily. You been a 6s user, you already know that.
15% is a small cut. Ever sold inventory on Booking.com or Expedia? It’s a lot more than 15%. Plus AirBnB actually collects the money for you and you are paid on the day of check in. I own a small hotel in France and AirBnB is far more profitable and easy to use than Booking or Expedia. The marketing value alone is worth far more than 15% — but that 15 also includes credit card fees as well. It’s a great deal.
Also the study was ordered by Tchibo - a producer of dark roast coffee. What a coincidence. So naturally they didn't have an interest in finding that (assuming that the result is valid at all - which I doubt) tea with caffeine (or maybe just caffeine pills) has the same effect. Also why did they use a blend on earth? This study doesn't make sense on so many levels. But nobody diggs into it so it's successfully feeding the nutrition misinformation circle jerk.
Social development is at least as important as professional development. There is a reason why Author's parents are sending him to elementary school and college at the same time - the elementary school provides a key social development framework that the college would not provide alone.

Furthermore, I think that you conflate cause and effect regarding high school. High school is not inherently toxic, rather, the adolescent process of developing Independence and the lack of emotional maturity combine to make high school years awkward and stressful. But because the underlying cause is there regardless of whether or not a child attends high school, the same effects will result regardless. As long as the child is in a high school in which the child can form friendships, the high school is a net positive, especially if, in the author's (eventual) case, the high school is a high school for gifted children which grants the children time to pursue endeavors which intellectually stimulate them.
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It's a much different era than 8 years ago. I've been using Linux as my main OS for 4 years now and it's been very stable. Mind you I bought hardware that I knew would work well and did a lot of upfront work with configuration, but now its all automatic.
Here is a (very) incomplete list of recent CIA activities in South Asia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Pakistan

Going back to the 80's, you have Operation Cyclone, which was the CIA operation to arm and finance the mujahadeen against the USSR, which led to the creation of the Taliban, 10 years of brutal theocratic rule and ethnic cleansing in Afghanistan, and ultimately to the September 11th attacks on the United States, and to the (still ongoing) NATO occupation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

I don't know much about India, but it looks like the CIA may be implicated in the assassination of Indira Gandhi, and bombed a plane in the 50's in an attempt to kill Zhou Enlai.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_India

I think GP is pretty justified in saying that the presence of a CIA/NSA operative in South Asia would leave a bad taste in his mouth.
How do you view us?
The only real way to deal with this is to test distributed systems.

Doing so is hard, but only way to reliably know a system behaves given unpredictable failures.

So learn up:

- http://jepsen.io

- https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey

- https://github.com/gundb/panic-server
What's madness about this? TypeScript is a superset of Javascript, meaning any valid Javascript is automatically valid TypeScript. If you want to force type declarations, enable strict mode.
South Asia includes Afghanistan and Pakistan, to name just two. What's to wonder?
I never finished school, so correct anything I've got wrong here.

Diesel has a specific energy of 48MJ/kg and weighs 0.832kg/L.

48MJ converts to 13.33kWh. My diesel tank will take 70L from nearly empty. I've never timed it, but it's definitely substantially quicker than 10 minutes to fill.

So I'm transferring about 776kWh in to my diesel tank in <10 mins.

70 * 0.832 * 13.33 = 776.33kWh

So it would take a 1MW charger three quarters of an hour to transfer the same amount of energy. <gasp>

Did I get any of that right?
The page doesn't answer the question most people would be asking: How is it better or different from AFL?

Edit: The linked paper has more information https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.01307.pdf
exposed .env files. First result, lol
https://github.com/DennisIrimu/instagram/blob/d49ea53281904c...
Honestly, all economic reporting should come with a small box showing the author making a bet on his own analysis. At least if he turns out to be wrong, you would know he was honest and really believed it and that he paid a price for his mistake.
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Came here to post exactly this. Misleading click baity headline; it doesn't take me much more than 2-3 minutes to fill up 55 litres of fuel to my 65 liter tank, for 700km+ range. (I'm not in the habit of running it dry!)
What do you mean by divergences?
Do you have experience writing web apps?
If you remember the URLs for these tools, just sign up for trial accounts or something and try to reverse engineer how they work. I find flowcharts useful in nailing down the exact user flow, and then just use your CS/SWE knowledge to build a suitable backend that satisfies the constraints.
You don't want to turn away your friend by bombarding her with endless questions, but you definitely have a place to start with what you've already described
Toyota is a shell of its former self because it stopped building interesting cars. They’re fine appliances but it’s nothing like the madness they were managing to pull off in the 90s.
I currently check fingerprints on first connection and then save them. They're available for most servers, including github and other git providers. I think I've only had to connect to one server without knowing the fingerprint in advance in the last couple of years.

Looks to me like the fingerprint-checking process has to be manual if you can't choose the server certificate.
> It is interesting how any movement in opposition to globalism is caused by Russia

I wouldn't say it's in opposition to globalism or always blamed on Russia. I'd rephrase it as, "It is interesting how any movement in opposition to [what the most vocal want] is caused by [election fraud] and [uninformed voters]." It's actually not that interesting though, it's an attempt to rationalize dissonance. Often based on facts with little evidence of effect. Such facts are uncovered, easily in most cases, by those searching to find them which is why the problems only appear to apply to the victors.
Wait until it costs more to have your self-driving car go through wealthy neighborhoods.
I wanted to have iCloud Airport Time Capsule Server for a long time. All iOS Backup, super fast along with fast restoring from local. Currently restoring an iOS devices takes a long time and often get stuck for whatever strange reason. Local caching of iOS MacOS Update. Along with caching of App Store update.

I think all the above are already available in macOS Server iCloud Caching option. Except no one wants to spend $799 for it.

I do think this devices should work along side with iCloud and not on its own though. It is hard to avoid HDD Failure, File Corruption, Bit Flip etc. Cloud Still gets you much better Data Safety. ( Someone else taking care of it )
What else is there? The only systems I'm aware of are variants of either democracy or autocracy. Control is either dispersed among many (democratic) or centralized among a few (autocratic). Or there's no control and you have anarchy, I guess.

There is certainly in a lot of room for improvement in how we elect leaders and what powers we give them. But, I think the evidence overwhelmingly suggests that dispersed power is better than centralized power. Remember that humanity has in fact tried a lot of variations of democracy and government throughout history. None of us actually lives in a direct democracy today a la ancient Anthens, we live in republics.
> So, to preface this, so we're on the same page, a canary, in the context I'm speaking, is a specific type of comparison between a known good version X, and an unknown version X'.

Ah, that's the issue. You are using what I consider an 'alternative' definition of "canary". The concepts you are referring to are what I would refer to, broadly, as applying to "pre prod" (a term which I think is somewhat misleading and inappropriate itself, but that's what people call it in my circles, so meh). API Gateway, and I presume other entities, uses "canary" the same way, so you are definitely not alone: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide.... I have nits on a few of your points but overall what you're saying is sensible. Glad I understand now! Cheers.
Wasn’t it some external contractor doing sentiment analysis for media publications for ISAF? The contract was cancelled by DoD after publication of an article in Stars and Stripes about censorship and denying access to battlefield for some journalists based on that reports. What was the role of the author in that?
Thanks.

This has been my approach thus far. The place where I work allows for practical applications of this (scaling systems to millions of requests per second, having no downtime operations, doing BCP/DR, etc.)

2 things on this
- Learning by doing sometimes feels like spending time on discovering things that would have been obvious given the right resources to look at
- It's still easier for non-functional aspects of system where there can be quicker feedback. The more abstract part to me is functional design of large systems

For e.g., there are great resources for more "basic" patterns (on Java design patterns, Effective Java, Clean Code, etc.). Are there such resources for roles beyond SSE?
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That means you have the choice between:

a) Working without passion and having almost no time for what you are passionate for.

b) Working with reduced passion. And if you are a bit lucky even lots of passion.

I think (b) is preferable.
Is there also a list of lists that people who are on a lot lists are on?
Right, but they were still building appliances in the 90s. And they're still building appliances now, presumably because they realized that selling dependable, affordable cars/trucks/suvs to everyone would put them in the dominant position that they are in now, rather than catering to handful of enthusiasts. Toyota is a wildly succesfuly auto manufacturer.

You could argue that if they took literally any other course than the one that they have they would be worse of than they currently are...even if their actions don't meet your specific desires.

Please don't get me wrong, I wish Toyota were making the cars you want, but they are doing quite well and lots of people are happy to be Toyota customers...maybe just not people like you.
You have no more right to learn what a particular device is doing than you have in intercepting emails of guests on Wi-Fi.

You might have purchased a particular device, but you generally don't have the rights to the software or firmware that runs it.

If you're truly concerned, you should support manufacturers that leave their system open by design, or support open source devices, and contact manufacturers describing your concerns.

But the tradeoff wars of freedom v. security were lost long ago. The idea that one should shoulder any blame for choices is lost on a generation that needs YouTube videos to cut an onion. Likewise, a significant number of individuals can't be bothered to change their router password from 123456, and an even greater number of folks think the govt needs to regulate the internet to keep it fair and safe for everyone.. Forced encryption with no choice by design is a feature, not a bug.

Use open source or
While I agree, and I give a lot of this advice to our portfolio companies the biggest problem with do things that don’t scale and monopolizing small markets is that other VCs often don’t buy into this vision and founders are forced to follow their path: loose focus, chase the biggest market, and do things that scale, just to raise capital. What’s great about YC is that it recalibrated the VCs in their orbit which is good for their portfolio companies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ5dVBa3grw. I don't know why anyone still reads or listens to this clown.
Jacob Rees-Morgan:

"Chaos is a ladder."
I’m just glad I got out of USD early to get a good exchange rate on all these Good Boy Points.
The ability to incrementally adopt strict static type checks is a feature of TypeScript, without which TypeScript wouldn’t have seen much adoption. Without adoption, you’d not see library typings and TS-native projects, rendering it fairly useless.
Kubectl cheatsheet in GitHub
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Except when it was time to show "how it's done" they all stepped down and hid away.
Perhaps packages are reinstalled too frequently to give accurate numbers? Though I agree this sounds like a good solution.
Could this title be less clickbaity? By including hints like "Ripple" and "Valor", for example.
Well, basically do what you love because you love it. Treat your occupation as a business, even if you are just an employee. That (at least to me) is a good way to think things through in their proper context.

If a person loves their occupation then that's great! But he/she still needs to treat it as a business rather than a mission for a higher cause (even if it was a mission for a higher cause) because without financial insight it gets hard to prioritize things.
Have a pointer to a sane default tsconfig.json people could build upon?
Naw, we're all on a list. Where we rank is what matters.
Yes, I do tend to work with people who have a sober understanding of their tools. I've also incrementally ported codebases from JS to TS and have used `any` as a stopgap myself. As we made changes, we firmed up our type definitions. It is profoundly not a big deal, and it is not "madness"--it's how you get large projects onto the goddamned rails.
The ones with outdated UIs have a captive market because the market is so small that no one bothers to compete. There are only 200,000 physical therapists in the US.
I don't know how it works in London, but I just moved to Cambridge from Canada. Our contactless cards would not work on the bus system. We had to pay cash until we got our UK banking sorted out. That's not an option on TFL, so visitors just have a plan B if you plan to use your bank card.
That's to say nothing of a caravan of trucks such as yours with full 70l tanks, barrelling down the freeway.
If three such vehicles pass a given point per second, that's like 144 MW of power, I think!
>One thing to point out is China still has around 600 million citizens that live in poverty.

Um.... No. There are now less than 600M people living in poverty around the world. There are now less 30M of Chinese living in poverty. With the aim of getting close eradicating poverty by 2020.
Based on the tweets, step two is that the "movie" is actually a shortcut file. The shortcut runs powershell with a short obfuscated command that downloads the malware payload. Then it does a variety of normal malware stuff.
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I can see utility in demonstrating breakthroughs with the simpler compatible technique as opposed to a more complicated state of the art technique. The goal of scientific communication is to communicate with the simplest examples possible the rationale and effect of a proposal. Then anyone using more advanced frameworks can understand and consider implementing it in theirs.
We live in strange times, Would what he does be less valid if he were a straight man? I do not like where the world is going.
You're arguing against a strawman.

So do you think that nations don't intervene covertly in other nations? What about the US in Iran (1953) or Chile (60s)? And so why is it so improbable that Russia is doing it?

And recall the study by Prof. Igor Panarin (former KGB analyst) predicting that the US will fragment. Maybe it's more like a game plan.
I mean, rationally speaking the value of all cryptocurrencies should tend toward zero. But then again, rationally speaking the value of all currency should tend to zero.

Human beings aren't exactly rational - if we were, the modern world would cease to exist, and we'd collapse into a Hobbesian state of nature.
What part of handing over keys to iCloud to Chinese govt need to be applauded? The sooner people realize big corportations including Apple, Google will do things to generate profit, the better. Wallstreet, for better or worse, wont be kind if Tim Cook came in and said we decided to forego profit because differential privacy
> It states "The current global solar potential technically available was estimated at about 613 PWh/y." That's 70 terawatts. So there is technically enough potential from solar alone, but it would be a tight squeeze.

The study seems to be using very modest assumptions about how much area can be fitted with solar cells (0% in urban areas??), so I think the conclusion should be that there is enough technical potential from solar alone, and it is not a particularly tight squeeze.
Eh...Google even 5 years ago was 10x more useful to me than they are now. No exaggeration.

Even Search has become markedly less useful, a common story around here, to the point where even nonbubbled proxied Startpage.com searches are disappointing.

Maps becomes less reliable all the time from a user perspective (in my immediate region, to cover my ass I guess).

Chromecast and YouTube, in general and in conjunction, have become...bloated, buggy, user-tracking-first embarrassments of their original versions...don't get me started on Gmail.... if you're gonna take all my info, at least be good at your services. Especially the ones I pay for.
> The juicier fruit is in the rest of the world.

The rest of the world has moved on. Australia and other former colonies have no interest in an FTA where the UK gets the better end of the deal. New Zealand already has a comprehensive FTA with China. What do they need the UK for?
In the 90s they were building appliances and Supras and MR-2s and Celica GT-Fours.

Now they are just building appliances. This is what I’m getting at. The soul they lost was the ability to make a sports/halo car that is even remotely compelling.

From a business perspective that makes total sense. But it doesn’t excite anybody and that’s what makes them a shell of their former glory.
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Do I really need VPN? Let's see the real fact
Well you already have to remember that 'if' introduces a scope but '#if' doesn't..
But as a customer, your approach to both marketplaces is very different. With Airbnb, I'm far more discerning because a bad host can ruin a long planned vacation.

With Uber, a bad driver means an uncomfortable 45 minutes. Uber can tolerate bad actors more than Airbnb
> What on earth is this supposed to mean? An ML algorithm doesn't care about how fast data "arrives".

My guess is that he's referring to the resolution of a time series. E.g. Going from months to weeks is 'more' data, but makes your models worse.
Exactly, it's like killing the hostages.
Here's what I use:

{
"compilerOptions": {
"target": "es6",
"module": "commonjs",
"outDir": "../dist",
"declaration": false,
"strict": true,
"resolveJsonModule": true,
"noImplicitAny": true,
"noImplicitThis": true,
"noImplicitReturns": true,
"noUnusedLocals": true,
"jsx": "react",
"lib": [
"es2017",
"dom"
]
},
"compileOnSave": false,
"buildOnSave": false
}
At a Canadian Costco to save 10%-15%, yes.