skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing this for regulated utility companies (e.g. electric, natural gas, etc.) generally also works.

NYC's electric utility, Con Ed, was giving me a massive run around [0] until I filed a complaint with the New York State utility regulator. After that, Con Ed fixed my problem within a week.

[0]: Long story short, Con Ed installed new electric meters that were supposed to automatically send readings to themselves but they never "provisioned" it (to this day, I don't know what "provisioning" means). But since they had installed those new meters, they stopped sending out meter readers to my apartment building despite the building manager repeatedly making appointments that the meter readers never showed up to. Consequently, my apartment building of ~400 units got estimated bills for three consecutive months.
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I rarely see all this stuff, since I'm using adblocker, but this is legitimately funny.
Source: I work on ads at Google, and if we were doing this I'm pretty sure I'd know.

If it was being used for targeting it would be practical to run an external study demonstrating that.
You are wrong. When a product makes the world a worse place—say fridges that deplete the ozone layer—the right thing to do is to ban the product.

In the case of petroleum fueled cars, they are significantly contributing to a massive climate emergency and should be banned regardless of the existence of a superior product. In the case of the Google search engine... Well in the case of the Google company, it should be forced to split up because it is a massive monopoly that hinders competitors from entering any of their dominated markets, and they use their domination of one market to increase their dominance of another.

And this is should be done regardless of the existence of superior products. Goggle as a single company is making the world a worse place, and the right thing to do in that scenario is to split it up.
Knowing what the most common questions are doesn't help you find the corresponding answers. At best you can find the result that users click on most frequently, but if all of the results in the result page suck then that's not going to help.

Google's advantage is simply billions of dollars and 20 years of R&D into NLP tech.
This is common. I help develop a small browser MMO game-- 50,000 monthly active users. There were at least three sites that iframe'd our site, put ads on it, and made money off of it. Code was added in to detect this and redirect users.
Thanks for linking to that . . . it was fascinating to search through it for some of the small rural places I've lived or had connections to and see familiar names pop up, and think "of course he would have run FidoNet node".

Was not too surprised to see Joe Barr (Austin) in there. He died in 2008 and Linux Journal, where a lot of his writing was published, is gone now also.
None of them are fake news sites. For example if your go to techdiscountdeals . com, you will get an advertisement for a product.
I think what you are referring to is "mixed mode" frameworks, which were able to work in both GC and RC environments. You had to do a bit of work to get that.

Which is similar but not quite the same thing. Mixing pure GC and pure RC frameworks was never possible. In fact, I think there were some flags and the (dynamic) linker would balk.
I think it's not about readability but rather about context and the audience.

On HN all caps is uncommon and, I would venture, considered somewhat aggressive/rude. IMO HN is somewhat of a bastion of courtesy and reasoned debate, a rarity on the internet today. Long may it remain so.
>I personally haven’t been impressed with yocto

That's a very mild way to express my feeling about it.

Maybe I'm asking too much, but Yocto/openembedded is the worst piece of software I've ever dealt with.

The build system is a huge pile of opaque and fragile scripts. It's so fragile, that if you don't put a space before a list of options, it would be concatenated with other options without a space, leading to incorrect options.

Because there are no lists, lists are just strings of space-separated words. Who needs proper data types?

There are no modularity either, everything is configured through strange variables with names like CONFIG_image_graphics_mesa_package=... God knows how this naming works.

Of course nothing is documented, and the discoverability is extremely low: everything is done through hundreds of opaque shell scripts, python scripts, half-baked python scripts for their build system.

The overall design of the build system is abysmally bad and fragile, and it's harder to get a notion how the things work than to just build everything with your own scripts.

Oh, and when something is wrong, build system just returns python stacktrace.

Is it that hard to use proper abstractions, data types, docstrings, introspection mechanisms so that everything would become transparent, obvious and sane?
Because they vote in all the Democrats, irrespective of views, as long as the party affiliation is correct. There isn't that much choice. The city council has seven members, three-ish are usually up for re-election, and you'll have a choice of maybe six on the ballot, half Democrats, and that's the half that gets all the votes.
You can read this.

https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/tax/property-tax-primer-1129...

Part of the problem is property taxes are collected by the county and then redistributed. And the amount of state funding depends also on the amount of property tax collected.

The whole thing is a Byzantine mess due to Prop 13.
This is business. Apple and Google bring something to the table and they meet in the middle. For zero dollars Apple could just let the user choose from a randomised list which is arguable better and more impartial.
They're shown on news sites, intentionally worded and configured to look like "related content" sort of headlines.
If the data source is European sales or surveys, better to not over generalize.
This is a BBC worldwide thing, we don't get any of this on the UK site. Bit of a strange stance.
Right, but this is HTTP, which has used form encoding since... 1998, if RFC 2388 is to be believed.
I am not familiar with SketchBook, but since it is pixel based you may want to also look at a vector-based drawing application such as Inkscape (which is free.) Inkscape is also able to save files as SVG which may be of interest to you since you are also familiar with HTML and CSS.

The best approach really depends on how you want to draw, whether you prefer to hand-draw with tablet and stylus, or process/tweak/collage photos, or write code to generate graphics.

Regardless of the drawing approach, I recommend getting your preferred drawing pipeline worked out with existing tools, noting the shortcomings (or steps that take too long) and then coding up your own solution if you see value in that.
I do desktop support for a medium size office, we use O365, outlook sucks at managing emails and I regularly find that people who moved emails to a folder can't find it months or years later.
Anecdotally (I have no data or way to prove it) stop and go traffic seems about 20-30% slower to me than when I first started driving. It's only in the last few years have I literally seen people just sitting through a green light, but now taking 10-15 seconds to start moving after the car in front of you has is IMHO far more common.

Previously that was almost exclusive to dropping something on the floor, getting distracted talking to people in the back seat, adjusting the radio, or other things that were exceptions, not the rule. Now it's just failing to look up from the phone in their lap.
The article is about news sites which copy articles. The sites that those ads link to are entirely ads with no real news.
So let's have a thought experiment.

I own a sewing machine and I choose to sew clothes on it myself then sell it. Am I exploiting myself?

I own a sewing machine and I choose to not hire anybody to operate it and it sits unused. Someone that could operate it is sitting unemployed and unable to eat even though I could hire them. Am I exploiting someone?

I own a sewing machine and offer someone an amount of money if they operate it and produce the clothing I ask them to produce. Am I exploiting them?

I'm glad fringe maniacs that consider employment exploitation aren't taken seriously.
In theory. But it's not impossible for a nefarious browser to send it along as an HTTP header. Or a nefarious AP:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21463266
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Have you done the math and checked their performance against each other?

Not a cop, but worked security back in my uni days (and our company was contracted out to provide a couple of mobile speed cameras) and I have to say I found those kind of shifts (where you're paid to do a repeated menial task in public and there's no way to slack off) were the WORST. I'd want that automated ASAP.
Linux has the O_TMPFILE flag to open, for which this is one of the use cases described in the man page. I can’t say about “guaranteed” though. I assume Microsoft Transactional NTFS (TxF) also had (or has) this capability—but deprecated.
Interesting that the site they are talking about is from my area, I've been on it before and never felt it was suspicious. I've usually assumed a lot of news publications here that tend to report on cartel related activities often like to stay anonymous due to the fact people will try to kill you for it.
>Fedora on arm is working much better than Yocto

I concur. I've tried Yocto, was appalled by it. Then I've taken Centos 8, and it was a breeze to build for it, safe for some minor troubles.

I would choose Centos/opensuse/fedora/custom distro over Yocto anytime.
I used to know a guy back in 2014 who's entire business model was based on ad arbitrage.

1) buy clicks on native ad networks
2) send user to a gallery style page (press next to see another celeb without makeup)
3) load all pages with a ton of ads
4) profit.

This CPM arbitrage was super common back then, still is prevalent but is getting tougher.

Taboola/Outbrain merging and saying they will take on goog/fb is a joke.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/03/taboola-outbrain/
Thanks for the feedback. I like the idea of adding position evaluations. Perhaps we could do this with a precomputed pass over the dataset, or possibly do a shallow analysis in the browser using a js port of stockfish, though this is probably not the best option.
Folks are using apps, like Waze, to share the location of police. I don't think radar detectors have been mainstream for years.
Any chance the site was blocked in schools/workplaces? If it was, users didn't have a choice but try to use a mirror. You should setup some mirrors to help them.
Oh he's hardly a hobbyist. :) From his biography:

https://langorigami.com/about-robert-j-lang/

Robert J. Lang has been an avid student of origami for over fifty years and is now recognized as one of the world’s leading masters of the art, with over 700 designs catalogued and diagrammed.
This could almost be a proxy measure of civilizational complexity.
Please claim that nuclear is cheap only after all bills have been paid. Dismantling a reactor can cost a billion or more, the radioactive waste needs to be stored for millenia.

And France will show, that you can't just replace nuclear reactors. They are certainly trying, but modern reactors are increadibly espensive. So they are currently building... one.
Apologies but I can’t really trust someone who works at a company whose best interests are to violate people’s privacy, confirmed by all the dark patterns (both on the web and in Android) and their lack of GDPR compliance.

I would be very curious as to how you’d prove this is or isn’t happening with a reasonable degree of accuracy considering all the factors involved in ad targeting. Unless you’re willing to give us access to all your source code and SSH access to the systems running it, it’s reasonable people have their doubts.
Interesting.. whereabouts in Japan?
How would we determine whether an animal understands something? Presumably you could do experiments which test whether they can predict what will happen — eg if a thirsty monkey collects ice, expecting it to melt. (Although you can obtain water by licking ice, so maybe that’s not a good example.)

Anyway my prediction would be that many colder-climate animals have some intuitive grasp of the ice to water transition specifically because it’s so important to their lives. I would not expect them to understand water to steam since it’s not something they’re likely to encounter — even those who live near geysers have no reason to know that steam is actually water, they just need to know they should stay away from it. Many animals would understand the relationship between clouds and rain, though.

I wouldn’t expect them to understand phase changes in any material other than water, since it’s hard to think of examples where phase changes actually occur in animals’ natural habitats.
> this diagonalization argument is the core idea

No, not really. I mean yes, it is, if you're a mathematician. But no, it's not, if you're someone who needs to have binary encoding explained to them, which the original article attempts to do. (And if you're a mathematician you don't need Godel's theorem explained to you at all.)

Here's how I would go on with the exposition:

A formal proof is a sequence of strings, each of which can be derived from the set of strings that precede it in the sequence according to a set of rules. There is a particular set of rules called Peano arithmetic (because they were invented by a guy named Peano) that are so far mankind's best attempt at encoding the fundamental properties of the natural numbers. Ideally, a string in a formal proof under the Peano rules should correspond to a true statement about numbers, and conversely, every true statement about numbers should have a corresponding proof. But it turns out that both of these cannot be simultaneously true. In particular, we can prove that if all strings in proofs correspond to true statements about numbers, then there must be true statements about numbers that cannot appear in proofs.

Godel's original proof involved constructing a number N whose corresponding string essentially means "The string corresponding to N has no proof." Describing how N is constructed is tricky, but since we know about the halting problem we can prove this result in a much more straightforward way: suppose that we could prove any true statement about numbers. Consider an arbitrary program P. That program can be encoded as a number N. So the statement "The program corresponding to the number N halts" is a claim about numbers. It is either true or false. If it is true, then by our assumption we can prove it, and if it is false then its negation is true and we can prove that. So now all we have to do to solve the halting problem is to systematically search through the space of all possible proofs until we find a proof either of "the program corresponding to the number N halts" or its negation, at which point we will know whether or not P halts, and so we have solved the halting problem. But we already know that we can't solve the halting problem, so our assumption that all true statements about numbers can be proven must be false.
iframing a site wouldn't typically work to dodge school/work content filters.
People said this about computers 15 years ago, too.

We've shown a remarkable ability to keep increasing the computational requirements foo the shit we run on computers to keep up with the computers themselves.
Just because google has seen my search before, how does that translate to being able to give me good search results? Search is an incredibly hard and nuanced problem. I doubt ddg's main disadvantage is training set of search queries.

Plus, you're underestimating the percentage of queries that google has never seen before. Google processes trillions of searches every year, and still, 15% of those queries have never been seen by Google before. [0]

[0] https://searchengineland.com/google-reaffirms-15-searches-ne...
There is nothing smooth about AWS's billing; it's notoriously byzantine, and so difficult to interpret that there are multiple third-party services whose entire offering is based on ingesting and parsing your AWS bill.
All of the unmetered bandwidth offers I've seen come with low link speeds like 100Mbps or sometimes even 10Mbps.

Paying for use isn't awful, as long as you're not paying AWS list prices which are rather high.
Think this dataset is heavily favored towards fast time controls, which gives the great lead on e4 over d4, as opposed to 365chess https://www.365chess.com/opening.php
It's been like this for years. Been losing trust in those major news sites. Ad blocker helps. Avoiding them is better.
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> or starve and die

Or start your own business and find your own way to provide for youself outside of the existing system?

The broader condition of society is that you need to produce something of value for them if you desire others to provide things of value to you.
I had no idea about the level of formal planning required to make these complex objects. It’s almost like a spatial algebra that’s being used and then the folding part itself seems to be a two step recipe.

As I understood it, after (1) planning out your design you then (2) create a flat set of pockets with as many pockets as you need appendages, of appropriate sizes, before (3) extruding those pockets out into limbs, antennae, wings, and eyes.

Having it explained visually, it makes so much sense. A bit like a chef doing mise en place before then constructing a dish. Absolutely fascinating.
Because you can inject your ad network (https://myoffrz.com/en/fuer-nutzer/) more easily if you have your own search engine, people like Google don't let you use your own ads on their results generally.

I don't disagree with the premise, after all I was part of a team that tried to do the same thing (well, without the ad network) and discovered that the adtech business has become so corrupt (not that it is all corrupt just that enough of it is) that the only way to cover the costs of running the thousand or so machines you need to hold a decent index and cache is hard to achieve.
If you ever formally study intelligence gathering and counterintelligence it will come up a lot.
They do put police at problem intersections, and will continue to do so.

It is about saving lives. Anyone who’s worked close to car crash first responders knows that mobile phones have become a big contributor.

How is this different to speed cameras, from a “surveillance state” stand point?
I don't see how this violates intuition.

The decisions to not build more residential housing and instead have more commercial development weren't made today. They were made decades ago back when home prices and tax revenues were not so high. You cannot just will high taxes into existence. People need an income source that allows these high taxes in the first place. The bay area heavily favored commercial development at the expense of residential development. The end result is that the Bay Area has a lot of high income jobs and those high income jobs need a home and the people holding these jobs are willing to pay more than anyone else.

Because of policy decisions a lot of medium income people are grandfathered into low property taxes and have an incentive to keep their house and sell it to someone with a high income. If the city now suddenly started building more housing as a response to the housing crisis then property owners would have to compete with new construction and see their home value shrink.

By the way. If opposing construction was really about preserving the character of the neighborhood then property owners would have been equally opposed to new commercial construction because the new influx of money is guaranteed to change the character of the neighborhood.
Seconded it not being about safety. In Victoria, traffic infringement revenue is included in the state budget. I'm assuming that the NSW government does the same, so at $344-$457AUD per offence, this is likely just another revenue generating exercise.
If the API is really the same you don't need an alternative, just an option to use curlie instead
Aberdeen originally but I’m over in Czech Republic now
You raise a good point. Upon re-reading, portability to a different cloud is probably not the point. It's more likely about being on the cloud you're already one but having the choice to take only parts of the platform, instead of taking Amazon everything at every layer of the stack. So you're still on Amazon or whoever's cloud, but you may not use (for example) their database if you like some other database.

In other words, it's not about moving your entire stack off Amazon's cloud, it's about moving parts of your stack off Amazon's software even if all of it may still run inside Amazon's cloud.
Day 15 took me about 8 months, but I finally discovered I had made one wrong assumption that corrupted my solution for special cases...
They could have zero.margin and still be a net negative. It is the payment to insurers, not the profits, that are at issue.
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I think some context might help; Australia, or NSW already has pretty lengthy requirements for getting a drivers license, plus fairly strict road rules.

You have to "log" over a hundred hours of driving as a learner, and then you progress onto your "P" or probationary license; which is also in two stages, which restricts what you can do.

After you make it through both the probationary phases, you then have a normal (unrestricted) license.

NSW also issue's demerit points for offences; and for a little while now has had "double" points for offences, plus a no-alcohol tolerance (blow anything and you will likely loose your license).

The highest speed limit is also 110km/h on 3-4 lane free/high/motorways; but generally dual-lane is around 60-80km/h, and in built up area's it's 40-60km/h.

This strictness is after decades of road deaths for drivers and pedestrians: https://roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au/statistics/fatalityt...

It can be argued that advances in civil engineering and vehicles for driver/pedestrian safety have had a far greater impact than road rules, but causation/correlation etc. The introduction of mandatory seatbelts, airbags, ABS, better roads / infrastructure would also line up nicely with the chart but alas, that's not their narrative.

More recently - "distracted" driving incidents have been making the rounds, and I'm not surprised that the state gov wants to jump on this. I was honestly wondering why I've seen more police on foot at traffic lights waving down drivers and fining them for using their devices over the past week or two, and am not surprised to see this pop on the news either.

In Australia, NSW specifically is considered more of a "nanny" state - with the lockout laws and so forth.

Personal opinion:

It's fairly easy to get a license here - it just takes a few years (or you just make up your logbook as most youths do), and the testing standards are fairly low compared to Western / Northern Europe.

Parents are generally teaching their younger ones to drive, so teaching standards are incredibly varied and tend to be low.

Then there's also the allowance of almost all international drivers licenses being valid for 3-months, which is rarely enforceable; so you have a few drivers also unfamiliar with the road rules.

The money and effort would be far better invested in a more intensive exam, and regular checks of skills / standards, plus providing alternative means of transport.

This current push is just a gov-led posturing of "doing" something for the next election cycle.
Right. Kubernetes is supposed to be managed by machines not by humans.