skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you think Google is embedded into Chrome? I use ddg easily with chrome, and as far as I remember, chrome allows you to change your search engine to anything, even a nobody site, as oppposed to Safari, which only allows selection from a fixed list of 4 on my Mac, so I can't use Yandex as my default.

Desktop is dominated by windows, where bing search is embedded in the start menu, from where it is non trivial to remove it, and changing it to something else is not even possible.

How is there more friction on using another search engine on Android. What other platform has an even lower friction in switching search engines?
The MAC address is not sent to the server, or accessible to web pages client-side, so that wouldn't matter.
It's a service where you can hire an on-demand personal assistant for $30/hour, https://getmagic.com/. I never saw the appeal.
He completed a successful project and didn't spend his time anonymously putting down other people on the internet. That counts for something.

Also, it's quite interesting to see actual sales figures. Most authors tend to be shy to reveal numbers.
They're doing that to learn AWS!
Funny, my personal anecdote on this topic is that when I'm not signed in to my youtube account, I think all of the videos on my homepage and recommended videos are useless trash that make me embarrassed for humanity.
People think you are a student trying to cheat if you just post the problem (or worse, a photograph of it). People will be more receptive if you post the problem, your attempted proof, and ask for some review/verification. Certainly it doesn’t look like you’re trying to cheat (I don’t know about other universities but at mine you weren’t marked for correct problem sheet answers; the purpose was to improve understanding so this kind of posting online for help would be quite reasonable)

The tricky case is with a problem where you don’t know where to start, it’s hard to ask a question like “here’s a problem and I don’t know where to start. Can you try to give me a hint?” But certainly explicitly asking for a hint will reflect better on you and adding some ideas you had (and why you couldn’t make them work or didn’t think they would work) would improve it more.

The other tricky case would be if you were missing something you never thought about, eg never thinking to check that your functions were well-defined. These systematic errors are hard but could hopefully be found by asking for help with verification with a subset of your solutions.

Posting solutions for verification/reading would hopefully also help you improve the clarity of the argument and your thought (and I guess it might help with style too).

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.

A final issue you might see is that if a question is elementary for those whom you are asking for verification (and this will happen a lot however advanced the topic), you may get a reply like “why not just say <some short solution>?” This is about as useful as an author-provided solution but not so great for proof verification. (The reason for these answers is that often exercises are hinting at some higher-level structure/theorem which you don’t yet know about and if you did know about it, you could use that knowledge to much more easily solve the problem)

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I wonder how useful author-provided solutions really are. If the exercise is to prove something (as many good exercises are) then your solution is never going to be the same as the author’s and looking at the author’s proof won’t tell you if yours is any good.
"fingerprinting" is a catch-all term, so I'm not sure what you're saying with "there are other ways to fingerprint users".
The true extent of their relationship is unknown and not really being given much scrutiny in the media. From the one, reasonable piece of reporting on it, there was an overlap in staff between Epstein’s operation and the Gates foundation, the two organizations were in regular contact through 2017, and Gates has a venture fund with the man named as the executor of Epstein’s estate:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...
Reddit is frequently astroturfed.
I think people should be responsible for their actions. If they only use google without even trying anything else then they are themselves to blame for whatever bias/lies google have fed them. And asking me to pay yet another tax for regulations so that dumb people are protected from the consequences of their actions is... it's like they are trying to build a kindergarten for adults. And I am not a fan of socialism.
I find it far more likely that ECAD industry will go the way of Blender where the high cost of per seat licensing will drive big companies to start contributing to open source alternatives to stop the bleeding. Given the diversity in needs of different industries, each could contribute the pieces they need into a whole that makes up a viable competitor.

The bigger problem than the number of hobbyists is that the vast majority can't even afford to prototype the high end of what PCB designers can do. For example, a 12-24 layer board with mixed RF and 1ghz+ digital signals (like the hundreds of smartphone main boards connected to a camera that are design each year) can cost thousands or tens of thousands to fab in small quantities, let alone assembly and parts to put it together.
LeanChess: The smallest chess-playing program at 328 bytes
Ask HN: Any good cyber Monday deals on telescopes?
1 year old: http://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-telescopes.html
So what scale of QC would be needed to do this work?
I wonder if it will be more accurate than an officer's eyes.

Those eyes are not always the best. I was pulled over once for talking on my cell phone. I told the officer that I had not been using the phone (which was only for emergencies, and was buried in a backpack). He argued with me pretty forcefully, until I invited him to check the call-list. My guess is that I was rubbing my ear at the instant he glanced at my car going by.
It always gets down to money. We need to find financial carrots and sticks to affect change whilst keeping in mind that carrots are always better than sticks.
Ask HN: What book(s) had the most impact for you in 2019?
It's 'best of' season on the books and music front, so I wish to ask about how you found your reading lists this year. What stood out?

I didn't read as much as I'd have liked due to life complications, but I particularly enjoyed:

* Manufacturing Consent (Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky)
* The Psychedelic Experience (Timothy Leary)
* Young Men and Fire (Normam Maclean)
Is that good grammar? If you expand out the acronym you get "I work at National Security Administration," and if you remove the adjectives you get "I work at administration." Administration isn't a proper noun so that's why you would want to use "the."

In electrical engineering you are supposed to say "DIP" which stands for dual inline package, but laymen tend to say "DIP Package" which expands out to "Dual inline package package." In that case, having the wrong words adjacent to the acronym means you don't know what it stands for. That's in contrast to "the NSA" vs. "NSA," where the public (might?) have it right.
Our place in the universe will change dramatically in the next 50 years
Using zero crossings (which only works for pure tones) doesn't involve any Fourier transform at all. You literally just look at where the signal crosses zero.
> chrome allows you to change your search engine to anything

Which they mention a line below your quote.
Investigation into 9 August 2019 power outage
What are possible fallback-communication channels besides the internet?
I'm exploring opportunities on how to build extremely resilient systems. I am now thinking about establishing multiple backup communication channels.

I do not know whether there are compact solutions that allow you to fallback to SMS / phone line / radio waves once the internet connection dies for any reason.

Really fascinating to me
This is my dad too. I thought he was nuts, but it was very effective.

Looking at your name I am going to assume that like me you are from the former USSR.

The explanation my dad said is the following: a lifetime of dealing with soviet bureaucracy informed him that orders always flow down, and each worker tries to prevent complaints from flowing up. Therefore, to get a problem resolved, your request has to come from up high in the bureaucratic hierarchy.

The easiest way to do it? Write to the very top and hope they forward it down with a note saying “fix it”. Then it will get fixed.
My father was a veteran of WWII, in the Finnish army fighting the Soviets.

In (I think) 1972, I was a 6-year-old kid, and we went to the town 60 km away (we did not go there very often).

Suddenly, my father exclaimed "Hei yks!" (Finnish for "hello one!") to a man on the street. Then they greeted and spoke quietly for quite a while. I didn't understand it at all.

Only much later I realized that the other man was a brother-in-arms of my father, and "Hei yks!" was the shibboleth of their unit; it had been devised for a night-time attack in very extreme conditions in February 1942, and the men in the brigade then used it throughout the war to identify each other whenever there was no mission-specific one defined. Russians cannot very well pronounce the y in "yks" the way Finns do. (This was of course no strong guarantee because the Soviet army had some native Finnish-speakers, but most were not.)
Those stats are based on city and not MSA. If it were MSA, the Bay Area would be equivalent to New York. The city of New York includes all boroughs, not just Manhattan. If you compared Manhattan to SF, I bet they would be similar.

Also, I'm talking about the entire Bay Area and you keep zeroing in on SF.
I spent a flight reading man pages and thought exactly the same thing

My preference for dark color schemes is great until I realize on a plane I'm a walking stereotype..
Looks cool. By the way, clicking play multiple times makes the whole animation glitch.
'The Simpsons' ending? Theme composer Danny Elfman causes stir with comments
As another person who works at Google, I'm pretty sure we don't do this.

There's obviously no way I could know for certain. It's a big company. There could be some secret part of the organization that does shady stuff in the shadows.

As far as your concerns go, YouTube is still somewhat separated. I can't really speak for Google. I have almost no clue what YouTube is doing. But, this sounds more like a coincidence or actually how recommendation systems are designed to work.

Perhaps the content is popular in general, popular in the area, or what you think is unrelated -- statistically -- actually isn't. If you're watching videos with not many views... you are one of the only people to watch those videos. The recommendation system is going to recommend videos of people that watched that video before -- which you'll have a strong weight to. After just a few videos, your previous views will start to get significant weight. It's just how stats works.
The rapid progress in VR -- the fact that our reality is so amenable to it -- is evidence that we're already soaking in it. Dial up touch interfaces to 11 along with the other senses, and you could convince a baby that it is experiencing reality. If the baby grows up in a VR suit to become a physicist, she could discover the laws of nature in terms of frame rates and pixel densities.

The great challenge of VR science is finding the off button. But then, if we find it, we're just at the start of the same quest again.
I am not disputing that, I am just asking how does any other browser make it even easier.
I support everyone who writes their own textbook or programming book. It is a great use of time and I would much rather someone do this than play video games all day.

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.

After all the work he did, he made about $150k so far. Honestly that isn’t a lot of money for his expertise and the amount of time he put into it - if he moonlighted as a consultant for those hours he would have made more, with less to show for it.
Even if the consequences of the dumb people's actions indirectly (or directly) affect your life?
I read the book and loved it. I hope there will be a follow-up book with more advanced topics.
Article is ruined by sensationalism, but I’d expect no less from the NY Post. It is a shame because I am sure there are real issues with Amazon warehouses, but choosing an employee who took a job they are not physically capable of doing and then focusing on her really detracts from the story.

Complaining about the cult-like “great place to work” brainwashing? Welcome to all of corporate America...
Apache Solr Injection Research
Thanks, this is a nice introduction.

Two typos in this sentence: One way to work around this problem is to use a non uniform spaceing of the pulses which is none as staggering. (spacing, known)
That would make me incorrect, if true. Source?
Well, that is sort of the point of a shibboleth: those who say it wrong get killed.
China could struggle to keep growth above 4 per cent over next decade, wa (cont)
Welsh Password Generator
On Windows you will at least have an old version and a new version lying around intact. Would take this over a single corrupted file any day.
You've never heard of a slow-poke? Similar usage, you can be pokey or you can be a slow-poke, both mean slow. The "small" definition is new to me. Seems like difference between British/American English.
They do though. Old content will just gradually disappear into webarchive. Let's not pretend it didnt happen. (oh and btw we will probably change that again, but the content won't go into webpages-hosted-somewhere but probably will be served directly from the user's phne)
Oooh, this would be really useful for debugging minmax and other search algorithms if you can increase it to encompass the whole game. Congrats on shipping! What stack are you using?
"This is how you lose the time war".

A science fiction short book where rival agents send each other letters and attempt to thwart each other.

It is also has some of the most beautiful prose/poetry I've ever seen that made me re-read each section over and over. I've been an avid reader since childhood and this is the first book to have that impact on me. Not at all what I was expecting.
We're trying to get a version that works with javascript disabled (for TOR), but are trying to avoid having to maintain two separate clients. We'll try to push it out soon. Many thanks for the feedback on our beta.
Finding the off button isn’t difficult: all you have to do is rip off the uncomfortable hardware that’s clamped to your face.

I’d argue that the “great challenge” is developing a system where the user doesn’t become sweaty or get a headache after a few hours.
Subscriptions Are Remaking Corporate America (2018)
I agree. Used it for multiple projects already. As one of the main contributers to the parts library I especially like Horizon's parts pool concept for these reasons:

- the modularity (+inheritance) allows you to reuse a lot of existing stuff and change things in one place while affecting all

- the simple json format allows you to create parts/packages/etc from scripts very fast

- the package footprint editor is great and has generation scripts for a ton of existing packages (SOIC, QFN, etc.)

I heard it was planned to release a 1.0 on the next FOSDEM in january.
If they did, wouldn't they not be confused by it?
I Started a $300K/Month Protein Snacks Company
Develop other industries, rely less on money from oil refinement.
Side note:

> In the TV world, this would be the equivalent of 100 different channels, but they all show Fox News 24 hours a day and just replace the logo. This clearly cannot be good.

Unfortunately that's already happening, just look at Sinclair [0]. They operate 193 different TV news stations covering 40% of US households and syndicate very similar content between stations (with the same political biases, just different logos).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group
It's a good start, but stops short of the most interesting parts. The signal to noise section should at least mention the root of forth power in the radar equation, as this is one of the key limitations. Beam forming with mechanical scanning or phase arrays is also important from the practical standpoint, as so is the relationship between wavelength, antenna size and angular resolution. Finally, at least the concept of how the autocorelation function of a good pulse should look like is worth mentioning, with examples of complementary or pseudorandom sequences .
I finished this recently, and ended up with a mixed-but-overall-negative view.

As someone who had a reasonable aptitude for mathematics in the past but essentially no practice in the last 10 years, it seemed like the content varied wildly in how well it built on previous chapters, or more generally adhered to the "introduction" label. The programming-based content was thin to the point of being pretty much irrelevant, leaving the whole as something more like a scatter-brained textbook for an odd curriculum rather than a refocused version of a sensible one.
No. On login Google shows you your email address so you can click on it and only fill the password. Which means it knows you were logged in on that browser previously.
I'm going by the Wikipedia definition, to wit: "An imperial political structure can be established and maintained in two ways: (i) as a territorial empire of direct conquest and control with force or (ii) as a coercive, hegemonic empire of indirect conquest and control with power." The US and China are the latter. The UK's power has slipped, but it's still in this category with extraterritorial colonies. A specific emperor is structurally optional.
Yes. If I put myself in the position where I am heavily dependent on what they do then I have only myself to blame. And if it is a minor dependency then I probably won't even care. And if you are talking about them doing violence then bullets are cheap.
I have to say, this was not the kind of plugin I was expecting. Although I am curious if anyone has started writing in-process dynamically loaded modules in Swift yet, now that the necessary groundwork has been put in place?
They largely are. Here's an interesting thread, which I and people from DDG partcipated in a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21653476
Im not too familiar with aviation; what is a geared engine mean in this context, and what does that look like?
I don't think it's possible to convince people that viable alternatives exist. I've been aware of them for years, and never considered using them once. They have the stigma of just being not as good. Having more search engines does nothing if nobody will use them-- Google's hegemony remains if there's n or 100n other search engines, if none of them can provide quality results reliably.
How do I make this my default search engine as for when I type something into my address bar like I can with Google, Bing, or DDG?
Fennel is a Lisp that transpiles to Lua.

One of Neovim's goals is to make Lua a first-class citizen. Eventually, it will be possible to replace your init.vim with an init.lua. Making an init script in Fennel sounds like a great way to bring Emacs ideas to Vim, like how Emacs' evil-mode brought Vim ideas to Emacs.

Recently, Neovim got an official client for the Language Server Protocol merged into master. All the example configurations[0] are written in Lua.

[0]: https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lsp
App-uh-LATCH-in
> Perhaps you don't want your account or your own organization account to be littered with automatically generated documentation repositories? Perhaps you want to move all such generated documentation repositories to a separate place which remains out of sight when someone is browsing your GitHub profile or organization?

I know they meant the documentation source code would be out of sight, not the docs itself, but the wording here is unfortunate. Having your docs out of sight is the opposite of what I want. And in my case the same is true of its source code.
I don't view it is a refutation either. I meant that the proof destroyed the greater feeling of romance I had towards mathematics.
Literally nobody here has said that.
Turbulent air flow around the landing gear of a Boeing 777X
> It's insane how much programmer instincts maps to mathematics. It's not fully 1 to 1, but it helps a lot more than it harms.

I worked on khanacademy videos and problems for a few months and had the same experience! I enjoyed the gamification aspect of khanacademy and need to take it up again.
> Google's dominance is almost entirely due to the fact that its by far the best at search.

Yeah, and due to economies of scale and network effects it will stay that way, unless some people are willing to suffer the minor inconvenience of using a slightly inferior competitor.
No, it's not. People take primacy over either corporate interests or empty dirt.

The insistence that this not be the case always, in every case, comes from some sewage-tier political pseudophilosophy.
Many CS papers, at least in machine learning, state an algorithm in terms of real numbers and use results from real analysis to prove properties of the algorithm.
How to "Rewrite it in Rust"
A little, but it's not that bad, especially since AMD's iGPU is way better. The 7nm mobile CPUs that are likely coming next year should fix that.

That being said, I specifically sought out an AMD laptop because I want 4 cores and a better GPU without a dedicated GPU (battery and simplicity under Linux). I get enough battery life for now (~5 hours I think) on my ThinkPad E495, and if I need more, I'll get a USB power bank.
I'm originally from NC but the piedmont region (Charlotte), not the mountains, and would say "Appa-LA-chin". ("La" rhymes with the "a" in "matt") Making the long-a sound ("la"->"lay"), or both long-a and "ch"->"sh", is common from northerners who have (or still are) moving to the city from elsewhere.
Demographics and technology explain secular stagnation and more
I've encountered one gotcha there: SQLite operations may create "-journal" files, and you may have to be careful exactly what files you're copying or moving around.

More: https://sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html , https://sqlite.org/tempfiles.html
Sham news sites make big bucks from fake views
I’m using it as “(ab)using metadata to associate activity with users in a nonobvious or undesirable way”.
Yes. Google has a superior product riding on top of a corrupting business model that cannot help but mis align Google's interests with those of the users they are claiming to serve. Google should unbundle the current business model from the technology and also offer clean, unbiased, private search service that is paid by the user on a subscription basis. I would jump on the chance to pay say $10 a month for Google quality search if I knew my search was private and the results were not influenced by outside parties.
Did that stigma not exist for IBM? Microsoft? Oracle? If the crux of Google is an outdated reputation they'll have to invest more and more to maintain it until it consumes them and somebody else steps up.
> Renters are a voting majority here

> The local residents show up in droves to oppose housing

If renters are the majority, why are they not voting out city government representatives who don't support upvoting and density?
If your radar gun is strong enough, it will push the car forwards. Once the plasma and gaseous metals have dissipated you can then ticket the driver for speeding even if they weren't speeding before you measured their speed.
Nobody in this reply chain used the term "democracy" as a descriptor, so why is your trilby so tipped?

We've got borderline lizard people--sorry, globalist--conspiracy from you elsewhere in the thread, so to be frank I'm not expecting much, but the words are right there for you to read.