skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google does everything it can to either have the first click or second click result in a paid event. Videos and related searches are clear examples of the abuse.

True content is buried or listed in a row or two out of 10 plus results.

Mobile is even more flagrant. Inswitch engines, just to get a less mainstream and digested view of my queries.
Honestly, I don't understand why we don't use PINs here in the US for credit transactions, and most places don't even ask me to sign. I'm surprised there isn't _more_ fraud with our super lax financial system.
I played with something called GraFORTH on my II+ clone.
This comment and everything downstream from it are a distraction from their point: Run their query from your machine or from Tor and you'll see the same results in Google and lack of results in DDG.

Another example is a query for "elm dict". DDG has little idea what you're looking for while Google links you directly to the docs of Elm's Dict data-structure.
How much of that is syndication (using the same news stories in different local markets) vs whatever you would call having two channels in the same market with the same content, but trying to market themselves as different?
I'm not talking about posting a question online and asking "how do I solve this" but posting bulk proofs (that you did) and asking someone to verify them all at once. This can be side-stepped if the author provided solutions. Yes, the author's solutions may be different than yours, but that isn't a good reason to not include solutions.

>Hopefully over time, you would find that your confidence in your own verification abilities increases and that your rate of errors if you do ask for verification decreases.

Yes, but without feedback this is hard to do.

This book is not for self-studiers, least not in current form. It seems like there is a disconnect between authors and self-studiers. I can understand if the textbook is written so solutions aren't provided such that universities will buy the book, but there is a market for those no longer in classrooms that want to learn and an author that takes the time to provide solutions helps tremendously.
Google's dominance is almost entirely due to the fact that its by far the best at search.

But is it? I find myself often having to fight it to search for what I entered into the box, rather than what it thinks I really meant. If you know what you want just not where it is, DDG and Bing are both superior.
Chinese judge behind US$270M business empire sacked
Only if it's common knowledge. I've legit started to add "blog" to my searches to find more obscure knowledge.
What should a teenager spend money on?
Why would they tho?
Rather than delete the file straight away, put it in a “trash can” or “recycle bin”. A background process deletes files from “trash can” at a later date. It could normally give them a grace period (e.g. 7 days, configurable) but the files could be deleted early if storage space is running low. The same feature could be used to provide undelete for non-temporary files too.
Lich: A JSON-Like Binary Data Serialization Format
Emacs and evil mode... or spacemacs...
I want my cake and eat it too. :)
An Important Lesson I Learned About Goal-Direction
I'm sure they are cheaper, but I don't think they were ever really expensive. They have been used for automatic doors, like at the grocery store, for quite some time.
I still have the "telephone book" edition in my library (the version printed on fine newsprint all in one)
What's a hot engine start? Do turboprops need to be cool on startup?
Not that story in particular, it's a perennial story on HN - I first learnt about that notation through the "largest number you can write on a postit note" challenge.
Even an article about a magic show isn't complete in the opinion of the editors of the NY Times until it becomes about Trump.
How is this different than a standard opening database? Chessgames.com has had this for probably at least 10 years-- https://www.chessgames.com/perl/explorer as do a bunch of other sites and software packages.
It knows that one from cookies, not applicable to incognito mode. Google probably does some other fingerprinting as well though.
Ah, yes, that worked out well. I love slave markets in Libya, hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis, and having increased Iranian control of the region AND a brutal, incipient Sunni caliphate in waiting.
Cliqz gives me two choices for UI language, neither of which I speak, though I can read a little. It gives me three choices of search area: USA, Germany, France.

I would prefer the UI in English and I want hits from wherever they may be found not restricted to some small area.

Good try, but some way to go.
I was referring to the last section of the article, the part where it says rename isn’t atomic on crashes. Why not migrate traditionally via DDL in a transaction?
Paul Valéry on music-streaming and virtual reality in 1928
Writing a textbook is inherently egotistical. Either:

1. You think you can explain well-known material better than everyone who tried before

2. Your field recently exploded, and you feel that you are the contributor most suited to converting the papers into a book

3. Your field is solitary and obscure, but you think your papers need to be collected into a book

I like textbooks! They generally put in effort to unify the notation and find connections between papers, making it easier to learn the topic. I'm glad some people are egotistical enough to write them.
I get the same results with a VPN, so regardless of how you slice it they win on relevance.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21676193
I tried using DDG and found myself using !G a lot for simple things. Then I switched to Bing about six months ago and have only had to use google a few times.

I know, Bing.. But I have used Windows for about 30 minutes in the last year and that was just to help my mom fix her printer. I don't think I have ever had a Microsoft related account since Hotmail. I know they track me but I don't use MicrosoftDrive or WintowsTube so I can live with it.
We went to my sister's house for Thanksgiving, so we spent Black Friday driving back home and then playing games together when we got home. We went out the next day and got a few things (needed and snow gear), but mostly avoided shopping.

It's way more relaxing to not bother with going shopping. There are plenty of good deals throughout the rest of the year, so why fight traffic and crowds to shop on one specific weekend?
Ask HN: How to capture IoT network traffic?
I have a Smart TV and a Bose QC. I dont trust either of these. How can I capture the network traffic?

Are there any Wifi routers out there that supports packet level inspection?
People who draw octagonal snowflakes freak me out a little, as do people who aren't bothered by them.

It's like if someone drew a rainbow with four colors. Or a tree with square leaves. Something is wrong with them.
Cosmic Crisp: New apple launched that 'lasts for a year'
A lot of command line tools send debugging output to stderr so you can build a pipe/redirect output and still see the debug and error outputs.

You could consider headers to be some sort of debug prints..
I think the real moneymaker is that AWS keeps making their servers more efficient but doesn’t lower their costs
Jesus H Christ, can we stop citing the Joel article that was demonstrably historically wrong?

https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2018/joel-was-wrong/
> I have a few books in progress, some farther along than others, and seeing posts like this with actual numbers on revenue is extremely helpful.

This. You might find @b0rk's post on her zine sales interesting: https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/10/01/zine-revenue-2019/
I see how I could come off that way. FWIW I don't personally wish to exclude people from contributing to projects based on their views and conduct outside of the project; I would accept pull requests from Jeffrey Dahmer. But if Jeffrey Dahmer started a decentralised social network with dog whistles towards cannibalism, I would wonder whether other contributors to the project supported cannibalism. If the project removed some but not all of the cannibal dog whistles, Dahmer stepped away on good terms, and the current project maintainers didn't make any statements for or against cannibalism, I would still wonder. It's not that Yarvin/Moldbug contributed to Urbit, it's that he purposefully associated it with his ideology from the beginning. That seems different to me, and without explicit clarification to the contrary I think it's fair to associate this project with that ideology.
That shouldn't be possible in private browsing, unless you've previously logged into Google in that same private session.

One way you could see something similar to this would be if you opened a clean session, logged into Google, logged out of Google, thought you closed the last incognito window but didn't, and then opened a new incognito window? Then the user cookie would still be in client-side storage
Ask HN: What data do you wish was visualized?
Yep, we'll try to push an update in the coming days for a more meaningful interface and result language detection.
Not my experience, having fasted periodically (2-5 day fasts) for years. It's absurd to think everybody reacts the same to fasting given the range of bodyweights/types out there. This article is evidence this is not the case.
I hate how knowledge matters less than social standing. I could read ten programming books and work hard at improving myself as a programmer but it wouldn't ever matter. The only thing that matters is the heirarchy on the team. Plus it's a pyramid. Fight it out at the bottom until a hand reaches down to you from above and pulls you into a senior dev or management position. No thanks. I hated having some other person tell me what my skill level and self worth were. I know my skill level and self worth and rarely as a developer did I ever get to live up to my potential because either I was in a feature factory or I was on a project with constraints that forced me to write terrible code. I hated looking through other people's god awful code and being judged because I had a hard time understanding it. Like they always measured and judged me with the wrong metrics. I hated going into meetings and being an expert (or at least best in the room) on some topic and having other people not listen to me. I hated not being listened to when I was trying to improve code or feature quality. I hated code reviews where the only point was to make the reviewer feel like he'd accomplished something by forcing me to make some inconsequential change. I hated the little bs politics people play about what comes back as a bug. I hated not being respected as a human but just being the stupid programmer who turns all of our genius ideas into reality. I hated not being able to use my own brain eight hours a day because I was renting it to someone else. I hated two hours a day in rush hour traffic. I hated sitting inside in a dead quiet room on a beautiful day. Perhaps more than anything I just hated working in a terrible code base.

If you wait until you're financially ready you might be missing out. Part of dropping the golden handcuffs for me was living with less. I wasn't living sustainability anyways and it was better I dealt with it before I got too old and found myself unable to deal with the change.

Good luck!
Windows also now bundles SQLite [1]. So Windows has more than one “database API”.

[1] C:\windows\system32\winsqlite3.dll
> When did carriers ever get anything tech based right?

If Ericsson is considered a carrier, then I'd say Erlang is a good counter-example to this. Though it might be the classic "exception that proved the rule".
Most people don't understand what it is or what it means. I refrain from voting when I'm uninformed. I rarely vote for city elections and some random state positions because I don't have time to research the options. That doesn't mean that I or most people don't care about the results, we just don't have the time to learn enough about everything to have a rational opinion on everything.

That's why representative democracies are better than strict democracies. I may not be an expert on everything, but I can usually recognize an expert when I see one.
Happy birthday Vijay!
I have no idea on how many mails the author receives, but anyway I would suggest to take a look at Claws Mail. https://www.claws-mail.org/

I have all my mail since forever online, that is, tens of thousands of posts including attachments in multiple inboxes belonging to multiple accounts: everything since my Internet day one (20+ years), the earlier messages imported from Eudora before moving to Linux.
It's all in my $home, and searches are damn fast: fractions of seconds for header searches which are indexed, tens of seconds to minutes for searches into the body. As far as I recall, I never lost a single file.

~$ du -chs Mail
3.7G Mail
3.7G total

Might post some spam from the late 90s if anyone is interested:)
Did I mention anti-trust laws? And do you understand the concept of an example?
Joan Didion’s Early Novels of American Womanhood
Can confirm; I switched to curlie a long time ago and haven't looked back.

It would be interesting to create an alternative to `http-prompt` [0], using curlie and go-prompt [1] instead of HTTPie and `prompt_toolkit` [2], respectively.

[0]: https://github.com/eliangcs/http-prompt

[1]: https://github.com/c-bata/go-prompt

[2]: https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit
That doesn't seem relevant. Banks bankroll all sorts of things, but that doesn't mean the agree with them, it just means the financial details like advantageous for them. I'm more concerned about the motivations of the buyer and seller than the financier.
Shrink Wrap Contract
I said no such thing. I said the engine power had to be almost as high during cruise as during climb to altitude. Engine power setting is not the same as engine fuel consumption.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/encryption-sdk/latest/developer-...

Full Disclosure: My team built this but could be helpful. Doesn't do SRP, just encrypts data.
They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43309161-they-don-t-repr...

Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles — and All of Us
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46758636-don-t-be-evil

Stolen: How Finance Destroyed the Economy and Corrupted Our Politics
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43789131-stolen
No, please do not use IP addresses to infer UI language preference. Google does that and it a right royal pain in the arse. Every time I visit a different country Blogger's log in page is in a different language ignoring the carefully specified browser settings giving me Polish when I am in Poland, Norwegian when I am in Norway, etc.
Now do it with random network jitter.

The main problem here is that even if you could do it, why would you? There are over 3.4 billion Internet users in the world. Given that people share IP addresses and even browsers, what's the actually gain identifying someone through typeahead search keystroke jitter? This would spend a lot of effort, and and then tell you what that a cookie doesn't?

I can't imagine that it's actually worth the effort.
If you start from the presumption that jobs are "bullshit", then you end up creating these ludicrously contorted theories.

Or, you could start from the obvious: that the entity paying the money thinks it is buying something of value -- and then, you get sane, sensible theories of economics in which the world makes sense.
That's the core idea of the proof inasmuch as parsing is the core idea of writing a compiler. Once you get that part out of the way, the incompleteness theorem is a clever diagonalization argument (and is a consequence of the Lawvere fixed point theorem).

The way it all sort of works is:

1. A mathematical theory is called consistent if there is some model of it, a self-consistent set M of all mathematical objects for that theory. For example, a model of the natural numbers would be {0,1,2,...}, but there are other models too.

2. By some parsing method, we can encode every "first-order definable" (akin to "computable") statement and function as an element of M itself. Let (M -> M) denote the set of definable functions; by picking out an element nil from M, we can think of such a function as being a boolean-valued function, where like Lisp we say nil is the unique false value, everything else is truthy.

3. Since everything is encodable, there is a function print : (M -> M) -> M and a left inverse read : M -> (M -> M). (I imagine parse errors just return the constant-nil function.)

4. We can define lots of useful functions, like not, where not(nil) = 1 and not(x) = nil for all x != nil, where 1 is anything that's not nil. Another is iff(x,y) = (not(x) == not(y)), that is, whether both inputs are truthy in the same way.

5. An interesting function you can define is provable : (M -> M) -> M, which takes a function f and returns whether or not M contains a proof that f is non-nil for all inputs. This takes a bit of implementation, but it's not too hard.

6. Now to set up diagonalization. Define f : M -> M by

f(x) = print(lambda _ -> not(provable(read(x)))
iff (forall z -> read(x)(z))).

7. Lawvere's fixed point theorem (with respect to the read function) implies there is some element phi of M such that f(phi) = phi; this should be compared to the problem of quine construction, and you can in principle write phi down. Let g = read(phi). Then to both sides, feed in phi, apply read, then feed in any input (doesn't matter what; might as well use nil):

g(nil) = not(provable(g)) iff (forall z -> g(z)).

8. This g(nil) is the "Godel statement." If provable(g) were true, then there would be some input x such that g(x) == nil, which contradicts the fact g is supposedly provable. On the other hand, if provable(g) were false, then (forall z -> g(z)) would be true, so provable is not able to prove all true things (it is incomplete).

The way this is summarized is: either the theory is inconsistent (there is no model) or it is incomplete (the provable function can't prove all true things).

The way this ends up working in the mathematical landscape is that, if there is any model at all, there is more than one. (Something is provable if and only if it is true in all models -- Godel.)
I think the op is suggesting that we are all in vr all the time like the matrix.
I’ve always wanted a way to trigger the radar detractors that people use in their cars. I’ve noticed for a while that when a bunch of people suddenly move to the right lane there is usually a cop with a speed gun around, so sending a fake pulse periodically seems a sneaky way to clear the traffic ahead (but would only work when there was something solid to reflect the pulse back, sorry Kansas). I’ve not found anything on Google or Ali Express that looks like it might help me pull this off - nobody wants to build a Rasphberry Pi speed gun it seems.
Does Wireshark work for this purpose?
OP was talking about academia in general, and not just about CS-academia, which is of course a lot more sensitive to open source software.

In traditional (= non-CS) academia, proprietary software is still very much the norm, and as long as institutes get a free license for academic usage they also don't seem to care about open source too much. I don't know how much precedent there is, but such recognition from traditional academia still seems to be pretty rare and worthy of highlighting.
SEO is my first guess?

I've noticed things on the spectrum of articles <-> blogspam crowding out the top results in many queries, and that it's substantially more difficult to find forum content discussing related topics to the query. It's a shame, as I think there is often more interesting content on such forums.
Math went over my head, does anyone have a primer or intro for some of the math involved here?
Actually, that is the reason Apple HomeKit, that is designed mostly for IoT devices (WiFi, BT), uses SRP as part of the authentication process during pairing.
I was a drug rep and know how pharma companies pushed opioids
Darknet
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Maybe Google is different (and this is not about ads), but I don't believe for one second that I'm being tracked on Youtube by anything other than fingerprinting (or some other method unrelated to IP and cookies).

I don't even particularly care that much, but it's still creepy, and I'm genuinely surprised to see denials because I thought fingerprinting was pretty standard these days.
From what I've read, this "evolution" argument doesn't seem to hold much weight. If you take other apes as examples, they tend to eat much more, and more regularly than modern humans. Modern hunter-gatherer tribes do as well. So, I don't think there is reasonable evidence that our ancestors normally followed a feast-and-starve diet.
From Page 37:

The Macintosh is designed to appeal to an audience of nonprogrammers, including people who
have previously feared and distrusted computers. To achieve this goal, Macintosh applications
should be easy to learn and to use. To help people feel more comfortable with the applications,
the applications should build on skills that people already have, not force them to learn new ones.
The user should feel in control of the computer, not the other way around. This is achieved in
applications that embody three qualities: responsiveness, permissiveness, and consistency.

I think the past is wanting to speak to us.
Last year I attempted it during a comically short time (only 3 days), but was able to settle on something like this:
https://github.com/j1elo/advent-of-code-2018-rust/blob/maste...

i.e. pass the input from standard input, and just build an on-the-go Vector of some data type that is appropriate for the problem at hand. Day 3 was different from 1 and 2 in that for the first time the parsing was not immediate; using Serde and Recap modules did a fantastically succinct job of parsing the text input. Of course it depends on how much you want to rely on external crates.

Let's see if this year I can do more than 3 days worth of AoC :-)
For some time, I happen to use a machine with very very meh CPU performance. Turns out, popular scripting languages are slow, except for Lua. (And maybe also Perl, didn't check yet.) I thought that JS has fast start-up, but some Lua scripts of mine that do file IO are finished in less time than Node's ‘hello world’.

I now wish people used Lua everywhere instead of JS, Python or Ruby. Some are doing desktop programming in JS, for personal productivity software, like Alfred alternatives Zazu and Cerebro. Eeeeh nah, productivity software needs to be fast. Would be lots better to do that in Lua. And it's certainly a better idea for editor plugins than using Python.

Fennel transpiles code to Lua so fast that it's feasible for scripting, even on my machine.

I believe also that Lua might be able to do true parallelism, via libraries. (Haven't tried yet, though.)
Well I guess we disagree on that. If we take Zimbabwe as a example of a democracy by the people we get the majority taking the possessions of minority groups. Now there are no jobs and no food. People are starving. Its not as simple as you say.
> What do people really feel?

They probably feel being stalked. They must be anxious and paranoid.

> On a final note, the few people in US that scoff at surveillance are the same people who line up to get $1600 smart phones

Like they have a choice not to have a "smart" phone. Like with dumb-phone they can avoid cell-tower tracking, voice recording. The people that scoff at surveillance are an indicator that something is broken. State and corporate stalking must stop.
All the names of Yocto (or better openembedded, which is it's ancestor) have to do with food. There is bitbake, cooker, toaster, and what not.

Pocky is a brand of chocolate coated bisquit sticks. (Not very international, I have not seen them.) But using a trademarked (I assume) name might end up in trouble, so they changed the spelling but kept the pronunciation.