skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s some truth to that but Google also has a massive knowledge graph. For imdb and freebase like queries they can give very accurate answers as cards. Other humans don’t need to teach every single fact. They just need to teach how to extract and organize facts from a site.

When you see google giving you a one/two word answer as a card, that’s very likely coming from it’s knowledge graph.

What we need is more of this open knowledge graphs. Google and Wolfram Alpha are both closed sources but have deep understanding in niche domains.
When expert view is aired on TV, public opinion shifts as much as 4% – Cialdini
AWS has an automated reasoning group working on tools to help answer the high level questions about complicated policy configurations. [0] has been submitted four times to Hacker News, and received a total of 4 points and 0 comments.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/protect-sensitive-data...

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/security/provable-security/
there are plenty of tools that support all 3 clouds equally.

“Equally badly”, you forgot ;-)

Cloud agnostic tools really mean “lowest common denominator” which means you end up paying premiums but not using the features. Just say no to Terraform!
Also might be a usable source of entropy.
"Startpage is now owned by an advertising company" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577
I always have a ton of fun with these sorts of things. I always wonder how they come up with these sorts of puzzles. That's not a skill I have.
cool tool. is the source code available?
Comments on Michael Jordan’s Essay “The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet”
Moste likely water lost? As is common afaik when going low-carb, at least to start with.
Curious what you mean by "corrupt" here. I'm genuinely curious as I've never worked at a company in ad-tech before, so it's always fascinating got me to hear from insiders.
Meanwhile "similarweb" stats are also fake......
"We estimate each site is making at least $100,000 [£77,450] a month," said Vlad Shevtsov, director of investigations at Social Puncher.

this is no. 1 bull shit........basically main stream news-portal reporter have no knowledge about tech..
Thanks! Will have to read those sources.
A man who cleans 8-story-tall, $250k IMAX screens
It's hard to take their "privacy by design" seriously.
It is the same Cliqz that partnered before with Mozilla to run "experiment" exfiltrating browsing history (!) of 1% of new installs in Germany: https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...

I thought Mozilla would loss all their credibility after this, but somehow they still market as privacy-focused..
Instruction at Oxford is about 5 anvils/year. Think there has been some price inflation since then? Maybe better to compare it to barrels of beer.
He was eating yeast which is a solid protein source...
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It's about fake views, not fake or copied news. The first site was copying articles (and banned by Google) but the Laredo one doesn't seem to be.
Yes the AMA is lobbying for increased funding.

https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-fun...
That was after the Pentium Pro appeared. Before the Pentium Pro, MS wanted NT to be cross-platform just in case 'RISC' processors became big.
I imagine 88,000 per officer is understating officer cost in nsw.

To be fair, I've also assumed that 'it's not about safety' is a literal tabloid letter to the editor style comment, and I almost have a knee jerk assumption that anyone who uses that line hasn't actually done any math (and isn't inclined to).
Now imagine this situation with deep fakes. Unnerving.
Thatcher's daily wage: 3 pence a day.
Price for a tunic: 3 shillings.

A tunic is two weeks' earnings. Let's say you make $36,000 a year; two weeks' earnings for you is $1500.

The invention of mill-powered looms began the Industrial Revolution, completely upending the economies of Europe.
There already are other search engines, but most people view Google as god and infallible in it's results. Even tin foil hat wearing people I know who hate Google the company refuse to not use Google.
I could collect statements about Swift compiler performance, how it removes retain/release calls, or how reference counting is so much better than tracing GC, but yeah lets live at here.
So many of the details of this seem opposite to what you'd want from a secure vault, such as making a big deal about where it is and the high worth of its clients. But the worst seems to be the obvious & branded car they use to take people there. If you hijack that car there's a high chance that it contains high-value items. Surely non-descript would be better.
AWS egress prices are so insanely high that for bandwidth heavy apps I've had consulting clients where we cut their hosting costs by 90 percent by moving them off AWS. That's extreme, but their bandwidth costs are easily 5x-50x that of alternatives, so it doesn't take much egress before it dominates the cost.
>Asking a program for info and then getting that info on stderr seems really bizarre to me.

The info that you're asking the program for is the response body. You're using `curl` / `curlie` primarily to get the response body and then pipe it to the rest of the command. The headers are ancillary.

If the headers were the info you were asking for, eg when running `curl -D -`, then yes they should get printed to stdout. That is not the case being considered here.
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I’m not too sure if you’re talking Australian or US dollars there, but the starting salary of a NSW probationary constable is A$73,609 [1]. I’d say that means the total marginal cost of an additional police officer is around double what you’ve indicated in Australian dollars (so if you were using US dollars, it would probably be quite close).

[1]: https://www.police.nsw.gov.au/recruitment/the_career/general...
the part about it being okay to keep laptops plugged in at 100% seems exact opposite of the data it showed.
> I don't see how to open source work requiring a femtosecond mid-infrared laser or a prep requiring a synthesis lab with all the reagents, labware, and safety equipment.

You can put text documents on GitHub describing process, in the same way as you can code and data. If you have some setup with a femtosecond mid-infrared laser or prep requiring a synthesis lab with all the reagents, labware, and safety equipment you can open source the bill of parts, the build instructions and the lab book. It'd probably be very valuable to do that so please do!
No doubt about it, getting off the addiction to the pyramid for social security will require a lot of automation (Japan is dealing with this now). But it’s the only sustainable way forward.

Look, China may not have eradicated poverty but certainly it was able to make the average wages go up 5x a decade for 20 years. Could this be done by uncoordinated market activity of private actors? Perhaps, but the USA has never been able to pull it off so fast.

Now one can argue the US always had a far higher starting point so it ran into diminishing returns. And that is a fair argument.

But keep in mind USSR’s GDP grew faster than USA and they faced the aftermath of two world wars, lost 30 million people and also subsidized lots of other countries in the Warsaw Pact (their version of the Marshall Plan). Compare apples to apples, eg the GDP of Romania after it joined the Eastern Bloc vs Hawaii after it was annexed as the 50th state of the US. Or compare GDP growth of Georgia and Puerto Rico.

It’s not actually clear which system led to more economic prosperity, and as I said the USA had the advantage of oceans protecting it, the dollar was the reserve currency all around the world after Bretton Woods, and we could import cheap goods all year long by just printing dollars. That has a massive effect on prosperity.
Lots of negativity here so far so I’ll chip in and say that, as a cyclist, motorcyclist, and pedestrian, I’m glad to see something happening.

Mobile phone use while driving has reached chronic levels. It’s a disgrace. Yes, the police could spend their days trying to catch people. But they aren’t, and if they do the letters in the tabloids excoriate them for it.

People have to stop using their phones while they drive. Maybe this will scare them in to a behaviour change.

(I live in the state of Victoria. NSW is our neighbour.)
Seeing how this doesn't use cookies - can it piece related page hits into a session?

A form of tracking is required to make collected data _actionable_. You'd normally want to know that people coming from this referrer bounce, but those coming from another source - stay, look around, subscribe/download/buy, etc. Being able to tell newcomers from returning visitors is also very useful.

More generally speaking, I strongly suspect that very few people will object to being tracked by the website as they traverse its own pages. Ditto for receiving a cookie to facilitate the process. It's the cross-site 3rd party tracking that's an issue. In other words, restricting self-hosted analytics package to NOT use cookies solves a problem that doesn't exist and it's a rather pointless thing to do.
Sane defaults means it is making 99% of cases that I'm using the tool easier, convention over configuration.

In 99% of cases httpie can assume that I'm making a POST request or a GET request with json or query params. Very rarely will I need to add custom headers, or change the Content-Type.

Yes I can explicitly define the JSON body, headers and method type every time. Or I can use a tool which uses ..... "sane defaults"
Downtime is an effortless way to improve your memory (2018)
In what sense has Google implemented the above?
Software developers should avoid traumatic changes
video is hosted by the green. But the panel is the "Directorate‑General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology" (DG CONNECT)

they are present in pretty most of the policy and standardization discussions which makes it highly relevant imo.

Aral Balkan has more info on his blog describing his part of the talk: https://twitter.com/aral/status/1197090688426491904
While Pine64 phone is promising, it does not remove all the proprietary blobs. For those who need even more freedom and privacy, Librem 5 should be more suitable: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
If there can be 2 timelines, I'm sure the 100 families in this timeline will be happy in 2022 that their loved one didn't die. Plus, how many injuries and economic damage were there?
I’ve found the opposite. For the last year, I have to resort to Google more and more often. DDG was on par with Google when I started using it a couple years ago, but it has managed to get worse and worse over time. Note that I’m specifically claiming DDG’s performance has degraded; not just that it has remained the same while Google’s has improved.
That doesn’t sound right. I’m pretty sure it’s older than that. New RFCs tend to replace old ones and I don’t think they reliably make it painfully obvious this is what’s happening.
It's not clear to me if they're correct about that. The way it's written, it seems to be saying "my read of the POSIX standard suggests rename may not be atomic on crashes", rather than "there are POSIX implementations in common use that have been observed to have non-atomic renames on crashes".
Once the police are done with it, it's a radar gun, clearly a weapon. Actually it isn't very pleasant to a uniformed police officer pointing one at you, at least in my opinion.
Regular CFLs (and maybe other types) can already cause significant issues to gsm spectrums if their transformers deteriorate the wrong way, so I'd imagine there is plenty of potential for emissions out of the 2.4ghz band.
> Same for Nvidia with GPUs

Although AMD is competitive on the low end, in the high end GPU market AMD isn't even close to Nvidia on raw power or efficiency. Hopefully they can change that soon because Nvidia really needs solid competition
Thatchers didn't do too well, not much use for that profession any more.
Oh, I had not thought to look in the settings for the opening explorer until today. I knew it had the database of master's games, but didn't know you could explore games played on lichess and filter by rating. Learn something new all the time.
> Aws is not a marketplace and does not enjoy network effects.

I won't quibble over the definition of "marketplace" but it most certainly does enjoy network effects. AWS is the LAST place I ever look to host apps and software and yet I am almost always forced to use it because everyone I work with knows it. The result is that I use AWS even when I don't wan to use AWS because everyone else does.

I'm quite sure I am not alone in this.
Is there anything meaningful that non-US based people can do? Who is ICANN accountable to internationally?

I read this, and it doesn’t seem they are accountable to anyone? But I am probably wrong. Enlighten me. https://www.icann.org/stewardship-accountability
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Looks like Russian-style "privatization" has finally come to America!
Thinking about fault and responsibility is maybe misleading? If I'm trying to communicate a thing to another person and I fail, I've failed. Totally failed. Whether that bothers me or not depends on the context, sometimes it does. And it seems like at those points just saying "Well I made noises, it's the others persons fault they couldn't understand me, nothing to do with me" is an attitude that isn't going to get me far in life. Basically, if you want to achieve your task of "communicate a thing" you HAVE to think about the listener.
> That's possible, brand loyalty is a thing

I think there's also a rational aspect for some groups. Developers and related groups probably have outsized influence over what the whole market chooses. I e.g. do plenty low level performance work, and like 95% of installations of software I work on are on x86 Intel CPUs. Therefore getting an AMD CPU will make it harder for me to sensibly diagnose performance issues. So I get laptop / workstation w/ Intel CPUs. And in turn I have less data to recommend deploying on AMD servers.
> Is it the log & clickthrough data?

It's a huge advantage and critical ingredient for ranking in all major websearch engines as far as I know. Google gets billions of queries and clicks every day. Your startup? Pretty much none of that. How are you going to train your ranking algorithm with no data?

> Imagine the privacy advocate conniptions if that were open-sourced. AOL got in huge trouble when they open-sourced their click-logs circa 2002.

Right, logs with such level of detail as individual user sessions would never get public for this reason, too much legal risk. But even simple aggregated datasets of the form "how many clicks did this query-url pair get" would be very useful to bootstrap a competitor and can be anonymized much more effectively.
Mmm. Yes. That would be perfect!
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Is that username a Sesame Street reference? Feeling goatly?
Ten trillion rows, zero information, nice
I would argue the killer feature is actually IAM: technically better than anything any other vendor offers, even if there are a million and one problems with it and not a single annoyance has been fixed since 2013.
Ahh yes the CAC was great. I'd run to lunch off base and mistakenly leave my card in my laptop. Whoops, followed by explaining to guard what happened.

And then come back and find that card doesn't work. After an hour or so of pulling out and reinserting you discover a coworker took your card out and out a piece of clear tape over the chip.
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Most Europeans don't care what AMD and Intel are.
Such a strange stance. To point out the hypocrisy visible to 99.2% of the world's population.
My dad has always bought Intel and Microsoft and he doesn't want to entertain anything else. Now that he's retired, he's _finally_ asking me about alternatives (he asked me about ChromeOS and Google Docs), but his purchase decisions are still Intel + Microsoft.

To be fair, they're still close enough that it doesn't _really_ matter for most people since performance will be about the same for their tasks, which is why it's so hard to get people to switch their buying patterns.
To my understanding, the only obligation would be that, IF you "employed" someone, they should have the same voting power as everyone else, since they should always be empowered to have some say on their own work. But I don't know of any socialist principle that would force any particular company to "employ"/associate with any particular person.
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Surprisingly, the article doesn't link to (or even provide a citation for) the article that it's commenting on. It can be found here (along with its HN discussion):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16873778
HN thread of the previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21402594
What Is an Array? (2012)
I think I get what you're saying but I'm not sure this is the right approach. It's accepting diminished rights in exchange for a stable compromise versus fighting for an absolutist solution at the risk of breaking the whole system.

And personally I'd rather have no internet at all than an internet that's a weird murky tracking soup where a hundred different parties are creepily looking over my shoulder, knowing more about me than what I would tell even my closest friends and family.
It is not about saving lives, and mobile phone distractions are not as bad as you think. Statistics are commonly misused.

Speeding kills your pocketbook 2 explores this in depth, fact checking accident statistics in BC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzmVCSfRR38
Have you seen a catastrophic failure of an e-bike e.g. lithium battery fire? Would love to hear about it in the comments. -Dan
I disagree - I know a thatcher in Holland.
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Oops, forgot this thread.
The short answer is:

- In bayesian search theory a good (sometimes optimal) approach is to maximise information gathered per unit effort

- In debugging, a step can vary by several orders of magnitude in amount of effort required to check a theory (eg, from 'type ls' to 'spend several hours implementing a theorised fix/tracking framework/etc)

- Consequently, the probability of a hypothesis can be quite low and still be the optimal thing to check first, if the effort to test it is also low.

So, the 'one weird trick' is to look at all the evidence you can look at very quickly, even if the connection to the problem is tenuous. 95% of the time the tenuous ones don't pay off, but when it does, you're colleagues are like 'WTF? how did you think of that?' and as advertised, you look like a genius.
I'm not a PhD in physics (my interest in quasi-crystals stem from having to consider their existence and their energies in some simulations), but I wouldn't think so. Not stable, anyway.

Mathematically, yes, but atoms are on a discreet lattice locations. If you used time for the fourth dimension, you'd have to jump in time discreetly. That's kinda weird because where would the energy go? A photon? Then how do you recapture the energy? Do you "borrow" the energy (exploiting some uncertainty principle)? These are all high energy processes -> not a crystal (crystals are low energy states).
Unfortunately, phasing it out of use for heating in favor of electricity is quite likely counterproductive. Burning natural gas for heat is more efficient than burning it to produce electricity, transporting that electricity, and then sending it through a resistor to create heat.

Which means it's only an emissions win if the electricity is carbon neutral or the multiplier for a heat pump compensates for the generation/transmission losses.
Regarding the blog, yes it has nothing to do with the specification of IPv6. It has to do with the way that everybody (nearly everybody?) uses IPv6.

This distinction is already complicated enough that we should just tell everybody that "IPv6 is bad" because it is true enough.
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Don't forget that "it seems that Google is forgetting the old web":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19604135
Commentary on the 2019 contest from last week, 140+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21591206
> Griffith jeopardized the sanctions that both Congress and the president have enacted to place maximum pressure on North Korea’s dangerous regime

Griffith jeopardized the sanctions that the US's dangerous regime have enacted to place maximum pressure on North Korea’s dangerous regime.

Fixed that
Is the question really why we train children on basic arithmetics in base 10?

That could be meant shallow or deep. The shallow answer is because that's all you need to do to function in society (and conversely, while arguing with a police officer about the presumed base on speed limit signs may be fun, it is also pointless).

The other answer probably needs to explore the question a bit further. Perhaps a good starting point is the fact that we almost universally share the physical characteristics of having ten fingers.
It's a very interesting question. I guess big apes can, but I have no proof at all. Also, the extension of the question to the ice-water transition in the other comment is interesting too.

Anyway, the first thing that came to me mind was "Causal understanding of water displacement by a crow" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZerUbHmuY04
For the current Cliqz Browser (1.30.1) when I type "pythux" in the URL bar the request looks like this:

GET /api/v2/results?nrh=1&q=pythuxs=UTlnJzAh4ULkORaiZgLPO6LW9LOWZZoO&n=5&qc=0&lang=en&locale=en-US&platform=0&o=%5B%5B%22custom-search%22%5D%5D&country=de&adult=0&loc_pref=ask&count=10&suggest=0

HTTP/1.1

Host: api.cliqz.com

1. I saw UTlnJzAh4ULkORaiZgLPO6LW9LOWZZoO in other requests too, but not all of them.
Can you explain what this parameter is good for and which information it encodes?

2. Can you tell if it is possible to disable auto-suggest (or Quick Search how it seems to be called in your terms)?
If it is possible then how do I do it? I couldn't find it in the UI.

3. Can you specify what the exact legal relationship between Cliqz GmbH and FoxyProxy LLC is and if there is any shared ownership or if there are any common parent companies?

4. As you can see above the requests go directly to api.cliqz.com.
While the terms go into great length to explain that information is routed via a third party owned proxy the information we are talking about here is exempt from that. I quote the relevant passages here:

> This channel collects signals about WHAT you search and where you land. That is why we do not collect any personal identifier here, which makes it impossible to associate searches with users. Moreover, all query entries and clicks on website suggestions are evaluated only as a
single event, disentangling these signals from everything else. Thus, we are neither able to combine data from multiple entries or multiple clicks on website suggestions, nor to link this information with personal information like your email address or an IP address, either.

> Query logging data is used to further improve the Cliqz backend. More specifically:

> To be able to suggest websites in real-time while you are typing into Cliqz’ combined browser-and-search-bar, Cliqz sends your keystrokes to our servers. With every new keystroke, our backend scans our index and predicts the most relevant results for your search query.

> “Relevant” to that regard is (very simplified) defined by the frequency a given website is clicked on for a given query. In other words, Cliqz predicts the most probable site you will navigate to, based on the (partial) query that you type. In order to further improve this mechanism of relevancy, Cliqz logs the clicks in its drop down menu and the respective queries.

I wish the terms were more clear about the fact that crucial information is indeed sent directly to Cliqz and is not sent via the FoxyProxy route.