skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are going to go after Google, you really should do a much better job. And there are very good reasons to reduce Google's dominance, but this whiny approach isn't helping.

1 Don't be a thin wrapper around an inferior search engine. Apparently Bing cannot index "JS only" websites. [1] Improve your search quality first. Unless your search quality is remarkable in at least some small niche, you are probably not even going to get on the radar.

2 "Google is trying to create artificial scarcity" - As others in this thread have pointed out, no search engine is actually blocked on Android devices to the best of my knowledge. Android setup screen is completely Google's prerogative, and if you don't want to participate in the auction, fine. Save the money for better things (see point 4).

3 "Purpose-driven search engines will be crowded out by profit-hungry rivals" If you use Bing, aren't you already supporting non-"purpose driven" search engines? Is Bing's purpose somehow superior to Google's purpose? If all search engines became "purpose driven", you can be pretty damn sure that the quality will take a big hit.

4 Focus on getting word of mouth in more intelligent ways, less expensive ways. Why not go after Google where they are actually vulnerable? So many popular independent websites get hit randomly by all kinds of Google updates. Make no mistake, a lot of them would be very happy to promote alternative search engines. Find these websites, build relationships with the people who run them, and sponsor their work. It is just as important a mission in my view, plus who will say no to a chance to promote a good cause (assuming Ecosia.org are running everything on the up-and-up)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20605484
So without insulting people who disagree with you, what's your source? Does it apply to all business types?
Audiences that would willingly watch a 30 minute ad that is broken up by a dozen shorter third party ads.
Happy to. I only saw this by accident though. If you want us to see something, it's best to send it to hn@ycombinator.com. (That's in the guidelines too!)
This is way too tech centric. Most of the LGBTQ+ tumblr users are not Mastadon users currently.
One code word I heard that is as plain as it can be is "Point Luck" used in Midway Battle.
Google is moving from the second-price auction.

https://support.google.com/admanager/answer/9298211?hl=en
The “test” I did (from what I remember it was over 20 years ago) consists of testing just about everything, general knowledge, 3D persecution, maths, verbal reasoning, English etc then aligning all those scores against the national standard and pointing to a marked difference everywhere written English was involved sort of thing.
I was about to reply and say they weren't too bad, 2 of them really not, 2 of them a couple of stages on from really bad sunburn. I was picturing that scene from Raiders of the lost Ark before hand, it's not that bad.
A lot of 1960s and 1970s scifi has concept of "disaster recovery zone" lifestyle, where people go and live as they think they want, without huge government buy-in. John Brunner, Philip Dick, Rudy Rucker. It sometimes feels like Detroit is a semi-hemi-mandated version: You want to try and fix dystopia? Sure. try not to kill anyone, try not to over-succeed because we need taxes and you will become a source, but in the meantime, pick a house: we have thousands.
In this competition, and in similar competitions, the size of the binary used to decompress is taken into account. If you wanted to use a dictionary, you would need to pay for it in binary size. In this competition, the file must be self-decompressing.

Dictionaries are powerful tools when compressing small data. But once the data is large enough they stop mattering so much. See the dictionary compression section of https://engineering.fb.com/core-data/zstandard/.
> selective breeding takes a lot of time and for the species that we eat today we've had hundreds to thousands of years to observe if it harms us or not

Pardon my ignorance, but how is this different from GMO? Sure, it took a while to get to that particular cultivar with selective breeding, but at some point we got there and started to scale up the production. Where's the guarantee that the last few mutations before scaling up were not harmful on the very long term? It's not that they ran long experimental trials before marketing the tangelo...
That’s a pretty large one- in my area (small city suburbs) there are very few good SFHs on the rental market compared to the purchase market.

It's also amazing to sort of tricks people do to force themselves to save money, having it part of a bill you have to pay seems to help. Heck, a 30 year mortgage mostly works this way, you mostly part interest every month, but still stock away a little principle
You're solving entirely the wrong problem. The issue is linking to the article, not "how do I personally view a page a certain way?"
Why is my processor consuming more power than its datasheet suggests?
Equity Apartments does this here in the Bay Area. I’m sure others do too, though they’re the only ones I’m personally aware of.
>How to... make it difficult for uncle Ed to watch naked kids on internet late in the evening

That's already illegal, so uncle Ed gets prosecuted like any criminal.

That is a solved problem which requires no technical or legal changes.
Benz Led Laser
What keeps me on is staying out of the r/all subs. Ever since forums have pretty much waned (rather SEO buried them from the light of day) subreddits are all that's left for niche interest forums or local groups. It's also painless to make your own subreddits.

Occasionally I'll be logged out of reddit and see the new defaults and my god, I feel like I'm getting dumber.
This is now my second-best reading on GPT-2 after this one: https://blog.floydhub.com/gpt2/.
Hotels in Times Square in New York City
U.S. Significantly Weakens Endangered Species Act
It is, that’s a great hack
>overloaded the Spirit of St Louis

Can we use the word 'overloaded' here? Lucky Lindy's plane was custom-built, basically a flying gas tank.

It is not like he took an off-the-shelf plane and loaded it beyond its design specifications.
That said, I saw huge fields of farmed trees literally everywhere there (as well as in VN). I don't think they are in any real danger of disappearing like these articles say. It is very sensationalist news.

"I can't see the problem with my own eyes so I don't think there's a problem." is exactly the sort of thinking that leads to climate denial and anti-vaxx nonsense. Unless you've spent a lot of time and effort understanding the banana industry you simply aren't qualified to make that judgement.
I envision the practice of performance psychiatry as part of a broader 'neurochemical infrastructure,' to use the phrase of an old hippie, who saw psychedelics as another part of the same.
To me that sounds like a “agile” failure. They were to agile for a design, to collect user feedback or any variable input, to fix the known problems, and to try a realistic set up as the client does.
Curious what happens in the event the company folds?
I can say that I read a lot. And comprehend what I read very well. Writing on the other hand is definitely the most difficult but. The best way I can describe it is if I were to write a short essay by typing myself & then the same essay with the same exact words by dictation. The results would be hugely different. As soon as I have to actually put the words on the paper myself something goes wrong. It’s usually still legible English, but the meaning / structure of what I’m trying to get across seems to get lost. If someone reads it back to me I can tell this and realise it.

It’s a weird one :)
Nuclear engine IS a nuclear reactor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor

"A nuclear reactor, formerly known as an atomic pile, is a device used to initiate and control a self-sustained nuclear chain reaction."

Nuclear engine is a device used to initate and control a self-sustained nuclear chain reaction.

This is in contrast to nuclear bomb which initiates but does not control the chain reaction. Once the reaction is started nothing else can be done with it (ie. there is no control involved other than setting up initial parameters).
When I started down the path of buying my current home I'd wished for a "Buy the house I want and give me a lease on it" service. Buying, owning, and eventually selling come with hassles and risks that I'd rather have avoided but the available rental inventory in my area didn't really have what I wanted.

Kudos.
98SE2ME: Integrate WinME Features in 98SE
Zstd's dictionaries contain two things:

1. Predefined statistics based on the training data for literals (bytes we couldn't find matches for), literal lengths, match lengths, and offset codes. These allow us to use tuned statistics without the cost of putting the tables in the headers, which saves us 100-200 bytes.
2. Content. Unstructured excerpts from the training data that are very common. This gets "prefixed" the the data before compression and decompression, to seed the compressor with some common history.

Dictionaries are very powerful tools for small data, but they stop being effective once you get to 100KB or more.
Anybody who speaks more than one language knows to not trust translations(even those made by humans), especially if they're made by some black box algorithms. It's one of those tasks where quality is almost (objectively) immeasurable and perfection is impossible.
For a resistance to develop, ebola that has been exposed to the treatment inside a hospital has to escape back into the wild. There are significant barriers in the way of that.

If everyone on penicillin was kept in an isolation chamber, the effectiveness over time would be different.
How can you see that this has little to do with the blockchain? This is like a basic application of that technology. Yes of course the government could implement the same thing, but many people already have.
Is there? Because as far as I can tell, the protesters believe that they are under foreign occupation. And I tend to side with them?

“Constitutional path”? Hong Kongs self rule has been gradually eroded since 1997.
The fact that people reflexively spam online chats if given the chance should tell you all you need to know about handing every jackass with a keyboard a megaphone.
In my experience, most work out of Nigeria or Ghana. One reason Nigerians tend to catch a bad rep in Gh. Perhaps other countries in the region as well.

The scam is way older though, it used to be known as Spanish Letters or Spanish Prisoner in the 18th century.
>I actively avoid working for any company that decides it needs to see everything I'm doing online

So in the interview, you actually ask, "do you have a filtering proxy to monitor workers internet traffic?"
On the other hand,

"Unpatched KDE vulnerability disclosed on Twitter"

https://www.zdnet.com/article/unpatched-kde-vulnerability-di...
That's a good point.

Lindbergh wrote:

"No plane ever took off so heavily loaded; and my propeller is set for cruising, not for take-off. Of course our test flights at San Diego indicate that it will take off—theoretically at least. But since we didn't dare try a full load from Camp Kearney's stony ground, the wings now have to lift a thousand pounds more than they ever carried before—five thousand pounds to be lifted by nothing more
tangible than air."

He also indicated that the airplane was not stressed to land with such a heavy load.

-- The Spirit of St. Louis
It's easy to consider those that have different perspectives as plain disinformed, stupid, "uneducated" or anything along those lines but I would request you to be careful with that judgement. There are plenty of informed people who disagree with GMO for various reasons.

I'm open too but careful regarding GMO. It's clear the agricultural practices used in the US and China and in particular by the corporate giants are totally unsustainable and exploitative, often catching farmers in unexpected dependencies to buy new seeds or fertilizer/insecticide products each year. Not to speak of the monoculture, the negative impact on overall flora and fauna, etc. Often.the GMO crops are rather sensitive to specific conditions, leading to more such monocultures and the adaptation of agricultural lands to their specific cultivation (eliminating everything else in the process).

As much as you like to think you're scientific, science should be careful and jumping on every new plant that comes from a lab (no matter how promising) is not scientific but rather each plant should be field tested for several generations. Elwr don't understand genetics well. It's simply a lie to think we know the effects - we don't know what inserting genes from one plant into another does in the long term. Specifically, CRISPR & co are very imprecise and pretty much a matter of lucky shots, i.e. they normally insert much more than the intended genes. Moreover natural processes continue, so you get those plants pollinating other non-GMO strains. It's not like a website you can shut off - you introduce something into the environment and there's no way back.

See e.g. insect apocalypse and the nightmares Monsanto and it's likes have brought to smallholder farmers across the globe (promised big harvests but the seeds are castrated so that the farmers have to buy new ones each year), or the patent (!) lawsuits against farmers that have fields adjacent to GMO crops.

I would consider myself pro GMO, but only under the right conditions. There are plenty of other ways forward than just GMO - and we should try and use each path with care, not bet just on what is easiest. Moving away from the monocultures that caused these issues to begin with - rather than to go all in on mass-monoculture of new GMO crops - is a better way forward.
Human beings are able to drive reasonably well (for some definition of “reasonably”), using only two visual sensors plus at least one audio sensor.

Elon seems to think that he can make a car that can do at least as well, with the same input limitations.

He may or may not be right, but personally I think it’s stupid to limit our devices to the same restrictions that we humans have.

If we can equip them to see outside of the human visual range of light perception, then I think we should probably do that. If we can equip them with more visual sensors, then I think we should probably do that. If we can equip them with sensors that have no human equivalent, then maybe we should do that, too.

I dunno. Maybe I’m just being stupid or something. I don’t get why he seems so violently opposed to LIDAR — other than the fact that if he added it now, then he would be proven to be a liar.
What are the big 4 tech companies? I’ve heard that in accounting, but I don’t know which 4 they would be in tech.
Agreed. There is no water scarcity if we spend the energy required to recycle it from other sources (I include desal in this). What this means is, where do our priorities lie?
"Not pretty" is an understatement.

Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) is the most lethal on a scale of 4 related necrotic skin conditions[1]: TEN, SJS, EMMajor, EMMinor. The medical industry sees all 4 as kind of a sliding scale, similar to how burns are classified as different degrees and can be clinically distinguished but are still burns. They are categorized based on the percentage of your skin that becomes necrotic, and additionally which tissue types are affected.

My understanding is that herpes is one of the most common causes, although maybe that's only true for EMM and not TEN/SJS. For some reason, as we age, sometimes our body changes its reaction to herpes or other infections, becoming hypersensitive, resulting in one of the 4 previously mentioned necrotic skin conditions.

I'm sharing this, because even though my symptoms were literally staring the doctors in the face, it took years before a studious dermatologist figured out I had recurrent EMMajor. If you have "cankers" or "rashes" associated with your herpes outbreaks, ask your doctor about it, even if the rashes aren't painful. Recurrent EMMajor can be life-threatening without treatment[2] and can progress with further attacks.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21873140

[2]https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/erythema-multiforme/ (warning: disturbing pictures)
Disagree.

I consider it a mass delusion that everyone seems to think you either live in the Big City(tm) or your life doesn't matter.

IMO it's the opposite. Living in a pokey flat that's not yours is giving up your dignity. Even in SF or London or whatever.
You do not get Paris or Amsterdam or Vienna from a static set of families iterating in isolation over thousands of years. These are global cities, deeply integrated with and shaped by trade, migration and conquest. It's not Amish country or quiet little fishing villages that are attracting all these tourists.
Well, as I mentioned a few Western countries have extradition treaties with China.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_law_in_China
Tell that to those who are trying to get food on their tables.
How do they pay for gas? Is it subsidized or something?
First of, thanks for sharing your experience and insight here.

You do however see how that is a bit difficult to just accept without any backing up, considering a former engineer might naturally be a bit biased about the public perception of a former project dying? By no means a personal attack, just picture yourself in my shoes. I do understand however if there is just no such data available.

Like everyone else here I saw whole communities with active people, with sometimes over a decade of content creation behind them, just vanish. And those werent just the complete porn focused ones, hell even the few leftists i followed from soup.io days packed up for good. Granted, just my anecdotal experience but given how many experienced the same, i would be confident to say that some rather big, active and motivated communities died and others lost a great share of formerly active members and especially content creators due to the sometimes bizarre overlap.

So if tumblr isnt dying, which new active communities sprung up to fill that void? Did any with the current public perception of tumblr? How is the rate of content creation and interaction looking pre and post porn ban announcement?

Differently put, what good do lurker numbers do if the content creators are gone? Without them lurkers arent going to be sticking around forever and which new content creators are acquired?

I do mean what I said in the last post and I mean everyone who reads this,

>If there are great hidden communities that grew in the vacuum left, please do share.

edit: I also forgot to mention the most damming part, Verizon selling tumblr for under 3m. They sure are convinced its dead for good.
Yes, the HN title shortening mechanism has been super shitty lately.

Most titles here on HN don’t seem to be anything remotely resembling English, much less accurately matching what the target site actually has.
US has no similar policy. But haven’t contract positions grown here too at the expense of temporary ones?
It was a problem with the engine, not the airframe. The 787 ships with Rolls-Royce and GE engines - the GE equipped ones are fine. Boeing manufactures the planes, and then works with engine manufacturers to offer various options for powering them. The airlines choose which engines they'd like to install on their aircraft.

GE, for all of its faults as a corporation (the stock price is what, $9-something now?), makes very good jet engines.
Why the downvotes for this???

If you know it to be factually wrong then fine, but at least comment to say why it's wrong to save everyone else the bother of searching wikipedia for various incarnations of Rolls Royce to find that is does seem to have split in 1971.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Limited
How did you overcome the 'I shouldn't have to go through whiteboarding' problem?

The riddles, and the whiteboards, are why I turn down all big 4 recruiter emails.
Yeah, Hipchat is EOL and Teams has a market. Now, I _hate_ Teams, but it is nonobvious that Hipchat has a better notion of what features are necessary to be successful.
> Since Scale has a suite of data labeling products built for AV developers, we wanted to use our own tools to put the two self-driving philosophies to the test.
An ElectronJS app using React as front and Go as back and gRPC to communicate
I understand what's happening -- there's no need to explain. Running a dedicated varnish instance for the handful of requests that have a cache miss is pointless and I'd be willing to bet he didn't benchmark it.

In 99% of workflows, what's going to happen on a cache miss at the CDN is you'll hit varnish, which will also suffer a cache miss since it's a rarely-requested resource that's being requested. That 1% of cases it helps with are the few that have been requested recently enough to have not been evicted from the Varnish server but not so recently that they haven't been evicted from the CDN. It's a vanishingly-small amount of traffic. Most of what your varnish server will be doing is making requests to your main server while doubling your bandwidth and server costs. And latency.

Not practical at all.

That infrastructure would've been better spent on another server in the load-balancer rotation -- which is also unnecessary since I run a nearly-identical offering with many times the traffic and do it off of a single server + CDN so I speak from experience.

Not to mention the most ridiculous turtle in this stack: Spaces itself is a CDN. That means on every cache miss the traffic gets bounced from a CDN (Cache #1) to a load balancer (does that imply multiple Varnish instances?) which bounces it to Varnish (aka Cache #2) to a server which makes one request to Postgres, then another to Redis (Cache #3) and if it finally finds its file it redirects to Spaces (Cache #4). Your real traffic coming in is almost all going to get served by the CDN -- and when it's not on the CDN, it's going to be from a page that only gets hit once a week or once a month or less. That means if it's not in your outer cache it's not going to be in any of your inner caches, since it's long-tail traffic. And the long tail is quite a lot of traffic.

Again: I have an image site that gets much more traffic than picsum and I run it off of a single server + CDN. My biggest cost by far is bandwidth. He's not doing himself any favors with all this over-engineering. My service has a CDN which -- upon cache miss -- serves a flat file from my server. Done. 4TB of data transfer monthly and .75TB of flat files stored across multiple volumes. New files are processed / generated at upload and that's the end of the story. I'm just some random shmuck on the internet so you don't have to believe me but I've just had an epiphany in reading this story by some guy who happens to do exactly what I do and not as well but with many, many more steps and I'm realizing I'm an expert on shit I don't even think about being an expert on while other people who think they're experts -- aren't.
Wow, that is a stretch to loop my thinking in with both of those movements. I am not even close to that nonsense.

Of course I'm no expert, but this whole banana disappearance story has been going on for many years, yet we still have bananas. There is not even close to a shortage of bananas. It reminds me of the Helium is running out stories.

Let me also remind you that the story is talking about a specific strain and my comment was clearly not about that strain.

I could also say... unless you've driven 8500km all over Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and seen first hand the millions of banana trees, your thinking might be constrained to some one sitting behind a keyboard.
A blog post is not a Show HN, so we've taken that out of the title. This is in the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
Pipenv still needs setup.py and MANIFEST.in. Poetry replaces both.