skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Knowing what the most common questions are doesn't help you find the corresponding answers.

Not directly, but it does mean that, say, the second 50% of people that ask the same question will get a better answer than the first 50%.

Google has been able to build fairly accurate instant results based on which sites users were clicking on before. I'd say that a majority of simple general knowledge queries are solved by quoting the first 3 sentences of the wikipedia page that match the search query.

But let's say that there is no easy match to show a quick result for. But after 1000 queries, 98% of users clicked on one particular site on the first page and never went back to the search results. Google then A/B trials how many clicks result from showing that website at the top of the results page in an instant result window. If clicks drastically drop, that's a sign most users are satisfied with that result. They were only able to do that, because of the 1000s of times people typed that query and interacted with the site.

So I'd say that yes, having common questions asked over and over again does help you find the answer that users are looking for.

The funny / scary part here, is that this may not be the correct answer. But it's the answer that satisfies the most users, and is therefore the one that will keep the most people coming back to the Google search engine.
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Anvils just got a whole lot cheaper.
Why shouldn't it be for revenue? I'd much rather road taxes be paid for by dangerous drivers than uniformly by everyone. Hell, they don't even have to be dangerous. If you could jump through some hoops to reduce your tax, then good! That means people who care about their money will pay less and people who have more important things to do will subsidize them. Just like supermarket coupons. In the case of those mistimed traffic lights, people who don't want to pay can just enter intersections more cautiously, as long as they know how it works.

As long as it is a fine for dangerous activity, then it could even be paid personally to some well known individuals instead of the government! That might be an even better incentive to drive safely if you feel a strong personal sense of unfairness at being fined.

There's no excuse for driving through red lights, speeding, or using a phone while driving. Anybody who can't help themselves doing these things is incompetent at driving and can protect themselves from fines by abstaining. People who occasionally make a mistake are still dangerous, but they won't pay many fines either so it's not a big problem for them to be fined once or twice in their life.
The problem isn't that they work to relieve pain, it's that they're addictive.

Anecdotally, I once knew a fellow who "accidentally" broke his own finger to get a prescription.
What do you think is missing in the current offering (OpenBabel, RDKIT, maybe some other I am missing)?

Context: I do research in computational chemistry, and write an open source library for this, that could be used for cheminformatics too. I don't really know what is needed for this though, since I never touched cheminformatics.
Yeah, but I'm interested in understanding things the other direction: if there is not some major class of problems that are best described by symplectic manifolds, then why care about Darboux's theorem at all? If there are, why isn't that front-and-center? This article conspicuously avoids motivating symplectic geometry _at all_, which is so frustrating. It mentions connections to subjects, but it doesn't mention why symplectic geometry is _necessary_, rather than sufficient, for these connections.
Welcome to HTML5 game distribution. I also worked on a .io game with about 200k MAU, most games actually want this, because 1) the game has potential to grow, be known, and you get more user base. 2) if you have IAPs (in-app purchases) then you can also potentially monetize those users, even if they already see ads over the iframe.
Interesting. I'm rather picking up some slight Vietnamese vibes, but in general, I find it's too much over the place for me to consider it to be anything specific. It doesn't sound particularly European to me at all.
Apart from the long division method pointing out that division is just repeated subtraction, that's the only reason to use it.
Ok:
"this sentence is unprovably true".
Obviously using search engine sends search queries to it.. okay. But that experiment was sending most of browsing history, without explicit opt-in. Collecting browsing history from users of popular browser without asking them is just evil. (and it seems you still defend that decision)
> choosing an employee who took a job they are not physically capable of doing and then focusing on her really detracts from the story.

Only, she's middle aged and has a life history of hard work. She comments about this being young people's work (taking a weird swerve to diss menudo; my least favorite detail in the article) -- but the awful truth is that young folk who take jobs like this suffer that wear and tear later in life.

> Complaining about the cult-like “great place to work” brainwashing? Welcome to all of corporate America...

There's variation in this -- some employers focus on making their workplace a positive experience; others require their managers to proclaim that it's a positive experience during onboarding. The latter is common to cults and bad jobs.

But more importantly: even if something is common, that doesn't make it good. It just means that the problem is harder to tackle.
(I also work in the nonprofit space)

In this case, ISOC should almost certainly lose their 501(c)3 status, as the transaction is unrelated business income, and may or may not have been sold at fair market value (I don’t believe it was). In either of these cases, the penalty is at minimum the removal of their 501(c)3 status.

I believe they may be preempting this by converting themselves to a “B Corp.”

The case of ICANN is more interesting. I believe they knew what was going on here, and facilitated this transaction to their former CEO. In this case, the IRS has good reason to revoke ICANN’s 501(c)3 status, as this transaction was self-dealing.
Desktop file folders and text files. Actually a single text file that essentially has a date and then is updated with comments as far as any new things that are going on or that need to be followed up. They had something which created text files (from a command line shell routine) but it actually was quicker to just keep one text file open and update it as needed (if you want to call that easier).
Yet I'm downvoted as usual the whole point of these shibboleths is that they're hard to pronounce but the LondonDerry/Derry example set forth is not hard to pronounce but based on cultural context anyone can call San Francisco "Frisco"
The code of conduct changed around 2009 as the author points out. Prior to that time it was a torrent of all kinds of expensive gifts, which were not restricted to opioid prescriptions. The higher the number of “scripts” a physician had, the more extravagant the giveaways.

Interestingly, prior to the opioid frenzy, the culture was one of great restraint often leading to under medication of pain and unnecessary suffering for patients. This was superseded by the conviction that pain had to be eliminated if at all possible, it was a physician’s moral imperative to do so. Now in hindsight, it’s clear that Pharma was driving a lot of this ethos.
Small brained primate understanding: As I understand radiation happens when you subject a charged particle to an oscillating magnetic and electrical fields at right angles[1] to each other. The radiation is proportional to the cross product (I could be wrong).

Antenna's are generally resonant[2] structures that are designed to inflict that on electrons. And thus are able to efficiently convert electrical energy to radio waves and back. Works both ways.

[1] If the cross product is zero radiation is also zero. Which is why most random metal structures suck ass as antenna's.

[2] Being resonant is not a requirement. Non resonant antenna's work but aren't as efficient.
It really was a matter of time, but I honestly thought we’d see low cost Apple laptops with ARM CPUs before we saw much inroads in the data center.

As a developer, it’s never been easier for me to be cloud, OS, and CPU-architecture agnostic.

I’m sure AWS sees the writing on the wall, and I don’t see any other thing happening now other than a race to the bottom.
Speaking of which, Fritzing (and it's older cousin Arduino) desperately need some competition.

As a tool targeting beginners I feel it deserves a better UI (some stability would not hurt either).
Telecoms in rural areas seems like the opposite problem: nobody wants to exploit that market, due to very high costs.

Healthcare in the US, on the other hand, is such a morass of regulations (including patents), subsidization programs and conflicting interests that I can't see it fit any simple model.
I never change wallpapers... who cares. I mean, you always have a window covering it.
Hi,
Disclaimer: I work for Cliqz.

Thank you the questions, we are always looking for constructive feedback on and off HN.

1. These random values are used for grouping partial queries together, and they reset when you press enter or start a new query.
Source code on how it's generated: https://github.com/cliqz-oss/browser-core/blob/master/module...
We actually take one additional precaution of using crypto random and not plain Math.random(), which could potentially be used to link multiple sessions together.

2. There is no feature to disable auto-suggest. But I will pass your feedback to the team.

3. No there is no shared ownership, we don't have access to their servers. We also do additional encryption with bucketing on the payload sizes that we route through foxyProxy, so that the proxy provider cannot learn anything about the content of the message. We will have a blogpost explaining this on Wednesday - 4th December. Also, we are looking to add an option, where user can choose their own proxy provider too.

4. There are two parts:
a. You can select the option from Control Center (Q menu) icon in the toolbar -> search -> search via proxy. (Now the calls should go through FoxyProxy)
b. All calls to api.cliqz.com go through proxy when in private mode.
The only reason it's not default is latency. As to what goes through FoxyProxy by default is: all Human Web data.

Once again, we appreciate you looking into details, and please keep digging, we would be happy to answer, improve our documentation and if there are bugs specially related to privacy and security they are on our uttermost priority.
The state of ads on the internet right now feels like the state of popups in ~2000. I hope the whole industry gets destroyed by some benevolent legislation.
First of all, I am not an expert on opioids nor am I a trained doctor. For what it's worth, I have lived with chronic pain, so I do know what it is like to suffer.

I do not think the problem is that opioids are evil, but that they were clearly (to the point of obvious fraud) being sold in great quantities to people to abuse for recreational purposes. Obviously it can be frustrating because now people with legitimate medical pain have one less option for dealing with their suffering (although based on studies I have read, opioids are actually not the first choice for most users), and they are the victims of the flagrant corruption of the pharmaceutical companies in question.

I am not saying doctors need to be perfect in diagnosing problems and always knowing what to prescribe, and magically predicting when a patient will become addicted (even if it is to treat a legitimate medical condition). I am saying the corruption of overprescribing drugs for the obvious profiteering should be stopped, and those found responsible should face legal consequences (I assume something like 20 years jailtime, plus forfeiture of all assets gained illicitly after thorough audits - when going after billions of dollars it is easy to come up with the money for audits).

I am glad that opioids were able to help you and I am glad you were able to get them when you needed! I understand there is a lot of villification of opioids and in the outrage some people want them banned entirely and that would likely be a loss (similar to what happened with marijuana, ketamine, and other drugs that were always suspected to have real medical benefits and we are now getting real clinical studies to support these hypotheses). But the corruption is real, and the criminals need to be punished, and the overselling needs to be stopped.
>But the story they have been pushing front and center for the last few years now is the idea that all news sources and websites other than big media are somehow suspect, dangerous, untrustworthy, fake.

No, they haven't. If you pay attention to any mainstream media source you'll see that they all eagerly (sometimes to their detriment) incorporate web and social media content into their coverage, and maintain active presence on multiple social media platforms. It's a myth that "big media" is terrified of the web - far from it. They see the web as a cheap and easy way to farm content and cut costs. There hasn't been a meaningful distinction between "old" and "new" media for years now.

The only story similar to the one you describe that's being pushed is that the all mainstream news sources are dangerous, untrustworthy and fake, entirely co-opted by corporate interests and a political agenda, and that only the web can be trusted... when the web is even more deeply co-opted by those elements than the mainstream media.
In my own case it was in the throat, literally unable to swallow anything for days due to severe pain, cause was mono.

Fun fact I discovered through the ordeal is that the very act of thinking about saliva causes saliva to secrete, so it's practically impossible once you realize you have a saliva problem to stop it, since with a problem on hand you cannot but think about it and the very act of thinking about the problem causes the very problem to worsen
I had no idea the BBC showed ads outside the UK. It's really upsetting how far it has fallen in recent years.
My neighbor got addicted to opioids after he got in a motorcycle accident and broke many bones.

He eventually broke the addiction but said he was super grateful for opioids.

So, yeah... sometimes the source of the cause of pain is "multiple broken bones"
I could see that.

I almost mentioned IAM in my post as a co-killer-feature, but I've only ever witnessed its power in AWS learning material / conferences, not being leveraged IRL, so I decided not to speculate. I'm more dev than ops, so even though I've seen a decent number of AWS environments the fact that they have all used IAM in a clumsy, coarse manner doesn't really mean much.

Do you have a feel for how frequently ops manages to actually leverage the fine-grained power features in IAM?
When I worked in marketing, I had Outlook search flat out refuse to find emails in my Inbox, through both header searches and body searches.

Totally undeterministic behaviour, because it would turn around and work on other searches.
I only heard about high temperature superconductor theory through one seminar + lab, and I too got the impression that nobody really understood this stuff -- at least not good enough to make solid predictions, and to explain it to a physics undergrad.

I'm glad somebody else shares this sentiment, and it wasn't just me being dense.
This feels like an overly negative article. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the author was unhappy with some pretty innocent things - stretching, being instructed how to bend in a way that doesn't do long-term damage, having managers that emphasized staying hydrated, having to wear gloves to handle the merchandise. Other things seem like the normal shitty reality of manual labor jobs - she complains that her 1 month on the job crippled her, but I didn't really understand how it's worse than any other manual labor job.

I'm sure there's some valid problems in there, but she's so hyperbolic that it's hard to tell what is and is not worth listening to.

> I soon learned that only difference between an Amazon warehouse and a third-world sweatshop were the robots

I'm going to guess she's never actually seen a third-world sweatshop.
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I guess it depends. In other countries, like Germany, doctors have a very different stance on people in pain.

“Pain is a part of life. We cannot eliminate it nor do we want to. The pain will guide you. You will know when to rest more; you will know when you are healing. If I give you Vicodin, you will no longer feel the pain, yes, but you will no longer know what your body is telling you. You might overexert yourself because you are no longer feeling the pain signals. All you need is rest. And please be careful with ibuprofen. It’s not good for your kidneys. Only take it if you must. Your body will heal itself with rest.”

From: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/27/opinion/sunday/surgery-ge...
>Capitalism is also an extension of democracy

An extension where the more money you have, the more influence you get.

Unless it's 1 person, 1 vote, it's not democracy.
Your both wrong, conflating standards from the world of cinema and broadcast.

4k (a cinema format): 4096x2160

2k (a cinema format): 2048x1080

UHD (a broadcast format): 3840x2160

HD (a broadcast format): 1920x1080

UHD also includes 7680x4320
*HD also includes 1280x720
Charging slower is always better for lion based batteries. Period
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> You have defended Google in the past only to fall silent when presented with the actual study contradicting you.

That's not how I see that conversation:

* reaperducer was asking why it was useful for the browser to show that the page was one that usually loaded quickly/slowly

* As someone who had worked on an effort to speed up the web I replied with why I thought it was useful

* jfoster gave a good response describing why it might not have the effect I expected, since if users know a site is usually slow that may make them more patient

* I replied that this was still good, because users were in a position to make a better decision about whether to continue waiting for the site to load.

* You responded with something completely unrelated to what we were talking about.

* I tried to be helpful anyway, even though your comment wasn't something I knew much about.

* You continued in a direction that I don't know much about (how to communicate things like whether location tracking is on) and linked to a study which I didn't have time to read.

* This wasn't a discussion I was interested in, so I didn't respond. I don't see how the study you linked contradicted anything I was saying.
> Faster switching speed for the equivalent breakdown, at least from an RF amplifier perspective. SiC was an interim until GaN was developed, and is essentially obsoleted now.

Wait wait wait... GaN and SiC have very, very different use profiles, and characteristics. SiC is by no means obsolete, and nor are purpose made silicon switches.

SiC is here to stay because of one very unique trait among all other semiconductors - a very pronounced negative temperature coefficient, and without extreme non-linearity.

Second to that is more or less linear threshold voltage temperature coefficient. GaN has positive threshold voltage temperature coefficient.

Third, SiC can simply operate at higher temperatures, and have known longer lifespan. GaN's current limits are WAY lower.

Fourth, transfer characteristic... Si, GaN, and SiC are all very different. This is one of few measures on which plain silicon beats contenders.
They are big, bulky and the 2 metal blades can't fold unlike in our american plug.

The american design is clearly superior.
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Throughout the life of the stream we will implement all the code together, write out documentation (hence hosing an MkDocs instance!), implement CI/CD, monitoring, and much more. Everything will be open source and anyone can issue pull requests and make suggestions.

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Best Rhenish in London 8d/gallon " " "

This is reversed now, German Riesling much cheaper than Bordeaux.
If you are completely new to PCB design and manufacturing I would recommend kicad instead.

I like them both but kicad has excellent tutorials on all aspects of the process. See for example the Conceptual Electronics videos on YouTube.
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But that isn’t really the case. These chargers wouldn’t be pushing 30+W to device at this size if they weren’t also at 20V. One way before the other!

Lock it down to 5V and the size goes way up. The comparison to Apple’s 5V and 5W from like 2008 is at best misleading.

Are these smaller because of better silicon, yes, are they marginally smaller and the real difference is USB pd, also yes.
Haven't watched the video yet, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover that David Huffman (of Huffman coding) was a pioneer in the field of mathematical origami when I attended an exhibit of his works in Santa Cruz in 2012[1]. Quite stunning to see in person.

Robert Lang and Erik Demaine were also featured, IIRC.

[1]: https://news.ucsc.edu/2012/03/origami-exhibit.html
They aren't making money off human visitors, its largely click farms and botnets.
This reminds me strongly of stories of how healthcare.gov was saved after its disastrous inital rollout. It wasn't a big shining rewrite (at least not at first) - it was just "instrument, find failure, fix, repeat" (and repeat, and repeat, and repeat).

And then I googled up some of the articles[0] that were written in the aftermath, and whaddaya know, they credit ex-Twitter people. I guess the skill generalises :)

[0] http://newrelic-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/8...
Dungeon Keeper 2

Europe Uníversalis

Civilization 5

Starcraft

The Incredible Machine(the one from 1993, I don't know about newer ones)

Factorio

Minecraft

Kerbal Space Program

Lemmings

... This should be enough for a year or two :)
I hope it’s a better business model! Last thing I want is more regulation adding administrative costs to business.
That is good to hear. I remembered the mercury resemblance and recalled it as a "mercury lite" toxic. Turns out even pure gallium is pretty mild.
I agree but at the same time I feel like companies are bolting “as a service” onto literally everything. Take Rosetta Stone for instance. There’s zero need or benefit from that to being subscription but there it is. Games as a subscription also make we want to die unless it’s an MMO where you’re constantly getting new content.
Morgan Stanley in recent years has used this where they’d previously used kdb:

https://github.com/Morgan-Stanley/hobbes

From the article, it sounds like the Kx folks are working on the issues that led to the development of hobbes in the first place.

I’d be surprised if they’ve changed their opinions about type systems though (or bullying people with lawyers — those guys get nasty when their ideas are challenged).
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This article reminded me of the mysterious murder of Shane Todd from a few years ago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Shane_Todd
I suppose if it were "since I left Google/Microsoft .." you'd be more right, but industry-wide practice is usually something that's relatively out in the open especially for former insiders