skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, 15% unique searches is indeed quite an interesting figure. With that said, what OP said is definitely not disproved. Just because 15% of searches are unique, that doesn't mean the most relevant result is buried in the tail end. I mean I can think of loads of my own searches that are probably unique or rare, but lead to the same popular results because of typos, improper wording etc.

Without some clear numbers on that from a major search engine, I think this might be very difficulty to infer.
Nothing prevents them, people just don't like change.

When I was in school (read in grandpa's accent), it was teaching Text602 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iCUfOPxTp4) and Calc602, which was locally made text processor and spreadsheet tool for DOS. Was it impossible to teach/learn? No.

People will just learn what they are thought.

There are better/worse options, but that doesn't prevent anyone from teaching anything.
The treatment of adjunct professors in the US tells you all you need to know about University ethics.
Ask HN: Replace all instances in EC2 ASG 1-by-1
Hi HN!

Have you ever seen any [simple, already written] utility or script than could replace all instances in EC2 autoscaling group, one by one?

I mean adding one new instance, waiting for it to get up, removing one corresponding old instance, and repeat until all the instances would be replaced?

Given that autoscaling groups I have were created by hand, by Terraform or by CloudFormation (in different ways I mean), I need a special, separate trigger tool to replace all instances in ASG...

THANK YOU!
I am amazed at the stats a bit into the article.

22.7k vehicles were stolen in 2018 in Chicago (metropolitan statistical area) alone. That seems like a huge number.
bad engine though (last time i checked was ~3 years ago)
Um. Bullying poor neighbors is how we solve elder n childcare. Bullying Bangladesh n India is how we solve hard manual labor. How does the author imagine singapore maintain all that greenery? Or how is the place kept clean? Or how can the people below median income afford to have kids(do u know how much a flat with 2 bedrooms cost here?)..or pay for their parents' healthcare?
We shouldn't discount the value of having important people in history who were minorities, outcasts, or otherwise disenfranchised. To most young people, he's probably seen in the same light as Newton, Plato, or any of the other Smart People in History. But to an LGBTQ person, he can be looked to as a person who did great things while suffering from a social stigma that they too encounter on a daily basis.

Young people want to learn about heroes that are like them.
Caveat: The author is not a technologists

Robert Epstein (born June 19, 1953) is an American psychologist, professor, author, and journalist. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology at Harvard University in 1981, was editor in chief of Psychology Today,

He has also made some questionable claims about google manipulating search results to favor Hillary Clinton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Epstein#cite_note-15

His research is based entirely on his own experience

“It is somewhat difficult to get the Google search bar to suggest negative searches related to Mrs. Clinton or to make any Clinton-related suggestions when one types a negative search term,” writes Dr. Robert Epstein, Senior Research Psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology.
It's not just ML, but the people that provide the labeling for the ML.

Google pays some large number of people to do search and grade the various results they get to see if the answers are good, which then helps feed back ML.

Heck, according to this article[0], google has been paying people to evaluate their search results since 2004.

[0] https://searchengineland.com/interview-google-search-quality...
I have never had trouble spending a 50. Although Scottish 50s are often refused.
They do, but they’re less accurate than the ground station’s clocks. If not updated regularly, they’ll drift, with a gradual loss of positional accuracy.
It's a system/service that's still in beta, I'd expect some occasional issues until it's deemed "production-ready".
I was conscripted at age 18. I'm a lot older now and it blows my mind more and more at how war and veterans and victories and leaders are celebrated and therefore... legitimized.

The masses are made to think fighting a war (soldier) for someone else (the president and the military industrial complex) is an honorable thing to do.

Because patriotism. Which is bullshit. We share this little blue ball in space with all of these people who scare us, whose ideals we ridicule. And people who love and live and dream like we do.

There is no honor in violence. Even less in oppression. Regardless of justification.
I really thought the blog post would end with recursion, and found no mention of it anywhere.
This is not happening any time soon and the article is junk. Previous transitions (68K->PPC->x86) occurred when the successor CPU's were so stupidly more powerful than what they replaced that emulation was a plausible tactic.

This is NOT the case with x86->ARM. Apple's ARM chips are impressive and are approaching Intel's chip in some areas if you benchmark in certain ways and ignore the areas where they fall short. I think people underestimate the gap. Maybe one day ARM while be fast enough to make switching worthwhile and emulate x86 acceptably, but it is not this day.

I would say it is more likely that Apple will end up releasing some sort of cross-CPU .NET/JavaVM-esque technology that compiles software locally if they really want to merge the product lines. But I am not even convinced that Apple wants to merge the two lines.
The "fun" may be to earn a little extra money doing menial tasks. Just the other day there was a discussion here about EVE online and how much menial management is needed in the game to set up for a small amount of fun PvP combat time. What's the difference between that and doing some mindless menial tasks for a couple extra bucks to go out on the weekend?
My Name Is Troubled Water-Wheel – Benim Adım Dertli Dolap (Yunus Emre, 13-14 C.)
This is generally true about most subjects, not just PII.
I think this ties nicely into the recent discussion about usability testing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20435669

Many of these problems could be identified by simple corridor testing of the whole purchasing life cycle. It’s not glamorous, but grabbing a few ordinary people and asking them to run through a workflow will identify pain points like this. Getting the low hanging fruit here would make the experience vastly better than most online stores.
Munich is switching away from Limux towards Windows 10, which I assume also includes workstations that handle PII.
You know at first that sounds glib but the more I think about it the more profound that statement appears..
Yeah, is a female 007 going to retain the same borderline “me too” hyper-sexuality of the traditional James Bond character? It would be a strangely empowering move, I think: portraying a male 007 as ‘slutty’ has been accepted, would audiences accept a female version of it? What’s the opposite of “womanizer?”
Haskell as well uses recursion as it's primary mechanism of iteration.
I disagree. To break the Monopoly a new & innovative way to search needs to rise, not just a clone or "Google wanna be" like Bing/DuckDuckGo etc.

So, somebody gotta do what Google did 20 years ago.
Some totally unsolicited advice, but have you considered writing a user manual for yourself and making it available to your management and team members? This a concept a friend/colleague of mine turned me onto and it's been a huge help for everyone involved.

It's basically just a couple of pages with brief descriptions of her communication and work styles, philosophy and approach to conflict and and communication, a list of some modes of interaction which are the most effective/productive when engaging her, and some of her blind spots which may not be apparent.

Aside from equipping coworkers with tools to interact and work with you better, it also gives them permission to engage with you in ways that, while highly effective for you, may be considered rude or socially awkward with other people.

A personal example: I've got an almost non-existent sense of smell, which means that if it's been a particularly hot day or I've been exerting myself I can occasionally get a little ripe smelling without being able to sense it. I am incredibly grateful when someone lets me know if that's the case, but I have to give them that context and permission before they're willing to say "dude yer getting smelly". Generally people wouldn't make that kind of statement for fear of being rude, but once they know that I react well to (and actively solicit) that kind of non-standard interaction it makes everyones lives easier (and significantly less stanky)
we had this issues on our EC2 servers getting out of sync with other systems. Had to schedule some crontabs to ntp update yo. Maybe them EU dudes forgot to sync their clocks?
It's easy to achieve good performance on small datasets. But we are speaking of Internet scale!!! And not only that, Google is capable of serving responses to millions of persons!!!

The index take a lot of disk, memory, computing power, bandwidth... And then you have to handle attacks, spam, dead websites and not going bankrupt in the process.

I don't know you, but my best toy website is only capable of serving 100k reqs/second in localhost if serving pong...
Sure, right after the people rise up and kill 50,000 statists to send a message that we're tired of their bullshit. Not holding my breath on that, though.
The most surprising thing to me is that after their ad campaign I would assume that there isn't a soul in the world who isn't already aware of their existence, thus preventing any name clashes.
Where do you see their absolute market dominance... I checked here for example http://gs.statcounter.com/ and for browsers globally it's 63% that's not a monopoly... I checked here https://www.statista.com/statistics/216573/worldwide-market-... for search engine and 90% is pretty close but it's not a monopoly... contrast that with MS in the late 90s according to https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/12/13/microsof... and you have 97% that's a monopoly if it's abused which it was proven they did.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
again i find it interesting it's hard to talk about google being a monopoly and not mentioning MS...
I highly doubt if car2go renter provides less personal information than AirBnB renter. I also think it would be easier for bad actors to get away for AirBnB robbery by simply claiming that missing items didn’t existed. In many places, in fact house owners would have little recourse because they are conducting hotel business without commercial license to start with. From economics perspective, it is absolutely amazing that AirBnB hasn’t became a gold mine for the professional thieves. We should investigate and understand these forces better and reuse them in other gig economy scenarios.
This is definitely a "path not taken", that is, parse HTML documents down to the DOM, manipulate them at that level, then turn them back to HTML.

With that kind of system, you can use a plain ordinary HTML editor to do everything from writing templates to writing content and it is sweet. With all of the semantically-oriented elements in HTML5 the code is nice.

Text-based templating still rules the roost and I think performance is a big part of it. I've tried it in both the Python and Java ecosystems and found that you lose at least a factor of ten in performance if you use X-Soup. In the case of live page generation that is both a latency and a throughput problem, in the case of a static page generator, however, it is not so bad.

One really cool thing about this approach is that you could hypothetically suck in HTML from many different sources and incorporate it into one page. It's a little trickier than that however because of namespace problems; people reuse the same id(s) and classes a lot -- you might give up on forms and Javascript for this and just stick to document-oriented documents, but for this to be completely comprehensive you'd need something that rewrites CSS too.
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I use Codeweavers(https://www.codeweavers.com/) on my Debian system to run Word and other MS Office products and haven't faced any issues so far. Office was a major reason for me as well to boot into windows and with this setup I don't need to.
Actually I think you do know of more than zero universities, since you replied to a comment that named Northeastern. A sibling comment to yours named another. Here's another: https://cs.brown.edu/courses/info/csci0170/
Damn, that's a great idea. I'm going to seriously look into building that. I think the power of this, is it gives the tools the ability to grow as the team does. Initially it's a simple wordpress like get it done thing. But then as the team grows, they can start building and customizing their own content pipeline without having to go through a massive redesign. The downside, is the power of wordpress is the ecosystem. Trying to compete with it in 2019 is no small task.
P&G donates $529k to US women's soccer team to close gender pay gap
Dyson Claim They Wanted to Build Their EV at Swindon, Got Rejected by Honda
An Interview with an IT Compliance Specialist
I think this is true in most countries now, in that ATMs are more and more designed to just spit out a single denomination, which raises the statistical likelihood that any larger denomination note could be counterfeit.
Dr. Jacob Stegenga - Medical Nihilism: Assessing Medical Evidence in a Neo-­Liberal Age

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgX4BKCxTI4
> The heater required an active internet connection and available bandwidth?

My guess is that the heater was being run by the machine that required the update and the update download process meant the machine was not available for usual operation. But I don't really know.
Without the maids. Retirement in singapore probably generally wouldn't work.
Elder care is basically a combination of legal threats to the next generation to financially support their parents, maids and low living costs(in terms of public healthcare, food and transport).
Right. We live in a country with around 50 million illegal immigrants that the state government do their best to look the other way on despite the numerous crimes they commit. But I'm supposed to comply with every single law. I'm done with that. Either they make the rule of law meaningful or I simply won't bother complying, either. It's a race to the bottom and let's not pretend it isn't.
I think calling the article terrible is a little harsh. It's clearly meant for people just starting with programming, and it utilizes a teaching technique that can be very powerful. It isn't meant to teach you how to do things in the best possible way, but to artificially constrain you so that you approach the techniques you know from many different angles to reach a better understanding.
Well, not exactly electron-based, but Lektor (python-based) for the most part DOES provide conceptually what you asked for:

* lightweight replacement for wordpress

* static site generator

* ability to deploy/publish through various channels such as rysnc, github, gitlab, etc.

* not dependent on google docs.

Here are the details around Lekot's deployment options (you'll want to review the left-hand nav under this section too): https://www.getlektor.com/docs/deployment/

I've been using hugo for my personal site, and it has been ok-ish...but I will be moving to Lektor...because jinja templating seems to be easier for me to understand as opposed to hugo's/Go's templating. But, this is of course a personal choice, and YMMV.

Cheers!
I even convinced a C++ compiler (don't recall whether it was g++ or clang++; it might have been during a FreeBSD fling) to do TCO at one point, but I don't remember exactly how I did it and don't think the requirements are documented anywhere. It probably involved functions declared "static" (i.e. internal linkage) and with the same signature.
Insert "it's always DNS" meme here...
I kinda disagree. 15 years ago you could generally type anything and expect the first search result to be the legitimate one. Now you have to dig through the list of SEO optimized scams (or at least dubious websites). Albeit it improved somewhat over the last couple of years.

Example: if you type "broadway shows phantom of the opera", the first non-ad link redirect to www.broadway.com. But www.broadway.com doesn't do anything: they just buy tickets from the legitimate website (www.telecharge.com in that case) with an extra ~$30 fee per ticket tackled on top. I won't go as far as to claim that Google is ok with it because broadway.com must spend tons of money on ads, and not telecharge.com... but I'm suspicious.

Counter example: "green card lottery" now points to the official us gov websites, while few years ago it was scams after scams all the way down.
If by "port" you mean remove it from a steam accounts library and add it somewhere else on a different platform then no, I never heard about something like that. But you are free to give an extra copy to the other account, while accepting that some people will abuse this. Just like you can let people buy the game somewhere else and give them steam keys that can afaik be generated for free while missing out on some steam features like reviews being counted.

Or do you exclusivity contracts? There are certainly games that were sold on Steam and are now exclusively available on Epic's Store. Satisfactory is an example that comes to mind. Copies sold on steam are still honored there, so the contract probably doesn't allow you to force users off steam after the sale.

In general I'm quite amazed at how little abusive practices Valve has shown while having a quasi monopoly for such a long time. Stagnation is probably the one, if you want to count that. I hope they won't become worse under pressure. And I certainly have little trust in other companies trying to replace Steam to behave as well.
I am not a fan of their redesign, but I don't use reddit in a browser enough anymore to complain, in fairness. I can, however describe how painfully unusable the app they harass you to install is.
You're welcome to your opinion, but that's almost pure FUD.

Somehow millions are using Magic mice without getting injured. Obviously, one device isn't going to work for everyone... and fortunately no one is try to make that happen.
Everything Is Fertile
Wait for a few months after Oct 31st, then it should be fine.
One could accomplish that with forced empathy and memory injection.

We already have fMRI tech that can do some of that.
75 vehicles from one car-sharing service? If those cars were the only ones stolen that day then sure, crazy coincidence. I don't think that others didn't get stolen though.
What about music classes that teach Garageband or more professional recording software like Logic or Ableton? Or art classes that teach Photoshop? Should they even be allowed to use Windows or Mac OS X? How about Google Chrome or Safari? Google search? It seems rather arbitrary to feel so strongly about word processor choice but not anything else.
I would assess Google (& FB's) "crown jewel" as, ultimately, their market share, which is related to your points... and causation runs both ways.

The user data helps/ed Google create the superior UX, as you say. The reach is what makes Google & FB valuable to advertisers. A search engine with 0.1% of Google's user volume cannot charge advertisers 0.1% of Google's as revenue. Returns to scale/reach/market-share are very substantial in online advertising.

I'm glad we're talking though. Those tech giants are too powerful.

Ultimately, the old antitrust toolkit is near useless today, for dealing with tech monopolies. It's not obvious what "break up Google" even means. There are strong network effects and other returns-to-scale. It's a zero-marginal cost business, which was rare enough in the past that economists a ignored it.

We need fresh thinking, a new vocabulary, new tools, but we do need to deal with it.
With the current model of doing things, i.e. shipping it to Asia, it's highly questionable.

>this article seems to only be about minimizing energy use or cost and not about maximizing sustainability

Because when you factor in energy use, only metal recycling has a net positive impact on the environment and sustainability.
I tried that just now and it shows lots of memes. How do you do that and have it show regular content?
Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software
Sorry, not sure how I missed this comment earlier.

`assert` is a keyword in Java, so we can't use it as a method name:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/langu...
I feel for certain topics, especially anything to do with tutorials or coding, even Google falls foul to SEO content. Just Google ‘android custom ROM <phone model>’ for instance. There’s stock pages for all of them, identical save for the phone model, and clearly not applicable.
Scrum Master, Team Lead, or Manager? Task Reminder Is Your Personal Assistant
How do different chat widgets impact site performance?
I mean it's so vague that it doesn't make sense. What is a measurable outcome from "raise a family?" Does that just mean producing offspring or are you requiring a certain outcome for the children and the unit as a whole, in order to feel content?

These are independent autonomous humans who have their own goals - so what happens when they deviate from the things you wanted them to do?

I have three kids and I can tell you right now, there is nothing straightforward that you can plan out with respect to outcomes. It's gonna be a crapshoot, and the best you can do is just do your best and hang on.
CapLearn: Speech Recognition for Humans
Function keys that I can press by touch are simpler and saner than looking at a "touchbar".
What happened to all the instructors of my day that professed MS Access was the database manager of the future?
Windows downloads the updates separately from installing them. Good guess though.
Swiss atomic clocks even, but they had some issues. https://spacenews.com/rash-of-galileo-clock-failures-cast-do...

Wouldn't be too surprised if that ground station's job (which I guess is compensating for relativistic effects to the clocks' timing) was extended to compensate for rebooting clocks.
The mobile app is worse than the redesign! Can't copy text via the OS interface, no sort of spell check whatsoever in the textboxes and constantly failing to load posts that the website does just fine.
https://github.com/lys-lang/lys