skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How a PG&E Contractor with a Sketchy Past Made Millions After California Fire
Navigating these sites feels like exploring a labyrinth. I feel like I can spend an hour on those pages, clicking all the hyperlinks, trying to consume all the content it has to offer
The manufacturers knows that if it’s their product in contact when a user is shocked, they will get some blame even if it’s “really” the sketchy power supply’s fault. And since some cables have these safety features already, anyone making cables without them will appear extra negligent when bad things happen.

The world is unfortunately not very efficient.
The app doesn't get killed that quickly because it has location services on in the background. It's the same reason that Google Maps doesn't get killed in the background when it's giving you directions. iOS prompts for permission, but the authorities gave us instructions to grant such permissions.

That being said, it is thee case that if you open sufficient apps (especially memory hungry ones) the app will be killed regardless.

I've resigned to manually bringing the app to the foreground every now and then in an attempt to reduce the number of phone calls I get from the government to a minimum (currently 1-2 per day).
Same for me. Privacy is why I came, bangs are the reason I stay.
I wonder how many lines of code from big open source applications are generic enough to be reused in other projects.

Firefox and Google Chrome probably have the equivalent of many small high quality libraries embedded in them, implementing 'business' logic or protocols, that could be reused in more places.

I guess a large scale study on github could be done, with a graph analysis to show potential "cut off" points in codebase.
If you navigate to https://duckduckgo.com/lite/ or https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/, type your query in the form input field, you are using POST. If, OTOH, you were to type your query into the address bar, e.g., https://duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=xyz then you are using GET.

curl -Huser-agent= https://duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=xyz|grep result-link

curl -Huser-agent= -dq=xyz https://duckduckgo.com/lite/|grep result-link
He was being sarcastic :)
One fat finger? I think you haven't seen how nimble kids can play Fortnite on an iPhone (its a shooter that also involves a building mechanic which means the controls are fairly complex)...
So this is maybe (probably?) unrelated, but when touching down on an airplane, I always start getting push notifications even before joining the local WiFi etc. What's going on there? Am I imagining this or does it actually happen?
Let the place remain tenantless few more months and they will.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. At the end of the day, your privacy policy is just a bunch of words with nothing to actually prevent you from abusing the data collected. Instead of us relying on DuckDuckGo to act ethically, just don’t collect the data in the first place.
China vows to stop UK granting Hongkongers residency
In Hong Kong, Arrests and Fear Mark First Day of New Security Law
As a side note, I've been wishing for a plug-in that would keep the annotations separate from the code, in .pyi files, but transparently integrate them into the editor. I.e. I would write the annotations as part of the code, but on a save they would be removed from the .py file (while still being displayed in the editor) and save them to .pyi.

I would write such a plug-in for PyCharm/IntelliJ myself if I had more time on my hands. :/
In German it's "querlesen" (read s.th. transversely, read s.th. across).

I guess Russian and French people start top left and stop bottom right, while Germans start top center and end bottom center ... (at least that's what I do).
What would a browser even need a backend for? The only valid use that I can think of is Google's Safe Browsing list, but if ad blocking can be implemented totally on-device, surely that can, too?
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"Mishima's personal life was controversial, which makes him still a contested figure today. Ideologically a right-wing nationalist who opposed the westernisation of Japan, Mishima formed the Tatenokai, an unarmed civilian militia, for the avowed purpose of restoring power to the Japanese Emperor."

The far right-wing Japanese military killed 3 Prime Ministers in a row just before WW2. The US diplomatic corps actually gave up on peace talks, in part because they didn't know who to talk to.

The Emperor(!) was also targeted for wanting peace in 1945, and ended up recording his national address speech on tape in case he was killed before reading it on radio. He was a scientist (marine biologist), so knew what an atomic bomb was in general terms.
Why is everything in the article in year-over-year percentages? Can't they just say how much the rent has actually fallen?
> EU doesn't have the authority to deal with things like encryption.

It most certainly does. Security and Justice are very clearly established as areas of “shared responsibilities” in the EU, granting the EU parliament has full authority legislate.

> Also Germany is very, very, pro privacy. Germans would probably lynch any government official that suggested anything resembling Stazi surveillance programs.

Sorry to disappoint, but...

https://www.theregister.com/2017/06/15/germany_joins_antienc...

The EU has also explored a number of backdoor-by-another-name options, including a very concerning Function Encryption initiative [0], and forcing E2EE service providers to refresh secrets to insert government actors into conversations.

[0]: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/780108

My primary motivation for posting the parent comment was that any EU resident who thinks their governments are above this sort of thing is absolutely wrong, and if you’re complacent and fail to hold your governments to account, this is exactly the sort of thing that’s going to happen. You can’t just read the feel-good press releases and hope for the best. European politicians are politicians too, and if there’s anything politicians of all stripes have always been good at, it’s accumulating power and lying.
What I think is that many of us in my country, where government is quite powerful (and still democratic) have reached a level of comfort such that the fact of having some state agency looking at some of my detail is totally acceptable since it doesn't change our comfort.

Now, tell those same people they'll have to pay a tax based on the destination they choose for holidays, and you'll get them in the streets (I'm exagerating a bit, but you get the picture)...
Sounds like this article. https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-inter...

Which seems to be successful.
Yes, I kinda agree. The underlying physics is, by definition, the same, and what you gain by reducing the number of equations you lose by having more complicated "objects" and needing more advanced maths to handle them (e.g. the electromagnetic field tensor, external calculus and whatnot vs. just vector fields and basic vector calculus).

To get an intuition of the physics, I think the traditional 4 equation form is actually more useful, as you can construct toy examples and study the equations one at a time in isolation.

Where the more advanced formulations are useful, and actually are used, is for stuff like relativistic physics where 4-vectors, curved spacetime etc. are needed and not just a gimmick.

But for more down-to-earth applications of electrodynamics like antennas, field propagation in various forms of matter etc., the classical version is fine.
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My supervisor was very fond of fountain pens and ink. Maybe a nice pen and some ink, there’s a lot of different price points. Lamy and twisbi make good entry level (and lamy makes nice ones too) pens, pelikan makes some nicer ones. Iroshizuku is a good brand of ink.
https://www.spacejam.com/cmp/lineup/quiz2.html

Amusingly, exactly none of these answers are correct anymore (at least not until 2028, then again in 2031).
Well, I've personally contributed to small parts, and never encountered the problem. I don't doubt there are jerks on Wikipedia, but I would also bet that neither the author of this nice github repo or the praised youtuber mentioned in the comments even tried to commit anything into it.

Not that they should for some reason, but too often editing wikipedia is presented/thought of as something reserved to a happy few with deep social consequences, when it's in fact the simplest thing in the world.
Ubiquity did the same thing with their routers. They couldn’t understand why users had such a problem with their phone home feature that was on by default when the purpose of it was to ultimately “improve” the user experience. I didn’t buy their router as a result. I also removed kaspersky from my computer because I didn’t like their phone home feature. Turns out they were selling my data despite holding my trust as a security company. DDG, don’t turn this into a PR nightmare. We don’t trust anyone anymore. Privacy policies are worthless. Nobody cares about favicons anyway.

Source: https://www.theregister.com/2019/11/07/ubiquiti_networks_pho...
https://palant.info/2019/08/19/kaspersky-in-the-middle-what-...
i think germany has some sort of packaging or recycling tax.

for your products you can either arrange to take them back, or you pay a tax according to what would it cost to recycle.

for electronics for example that can't be fully recycled or put on a landfill or burned because of dangerous materials that tax should be accordingly higher.
I think you're being downvoted because you chose to piggyback your comment on a seemingly unrelated one at the top, are being vitriolic, and didn't back up your claims with respect to their intent and refusal to change this.
This is a sparse model. You can't just compare the parameter count against dense models like GPT-3.

Otherwise, Google already had a 137B parameter model in 2017:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06538
It was very different. It was different in construction, discoverability, intent, and consumption. This isn’t nostalgia. I’m not particularly nostalgic about that time for other reasons and I was neither a kid nor a teen.

Nothing I do on Instagram can possibly make it as personal as my personal sites were. That’s not how I interact with Instagram at all and it couldn’t be even if I tried really hard. And even if I managed it, it’s not how it is offered by Instagram and not how it would be consumed.

That said, I don’t think that web is dead. It’s just a lot less discoverable and there’s a lot more noise. One of my favorite “old web” sites: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ I’m not even sure it’s actually old. It just is more like the old web.

Notice the first comment (towards the bottom of the page): “Low on modern-web-BS...” There’s a qualitative difference.
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One of the biggest limitations of the RaspberryPi is that it’s only got one network port, so that rules out running it as an OpenWRT router for practical reasons. Does anyone know of a similar miniature board with multiple network ports that could be used as an OpenWRT router? I’d like to replace my crumbling router with a low power one that is more configurable than my old one.
I often toggle mobile data on my phone when I'm away from WiFi, and I also noticed that even when mobile data is off, sometimes push notifications come through. It's hard to explain the conditions when it has happened, but it's uncanny when it happens.
Well it's related because Mozilla actually cares about your privacy vs DuckDuckGo which obviously could care less from their reaction to this issue. Their refusal to change this is all the proof you need to know. I dont even use DDG I use Google I just think its funny they have a "Privacy browser" that sends all the sites you visit back to their servers
I've been away from the flash game business for awhile but was missing maybe 5 years ago (and may still be missing) is a single package file containing everything that can be distributed for an HTML5 game. Like an SWF.
Yep. I've booked several flights originally scheduled to be operated by a 737-300 or a 737-400 and had it swapped out for the other on the day (as the airline operated a mixed fleet with both types regularly swapped around to better match demand and/or respond to maintenance issues). Also had a 757 swapped out for a 320 a few weeks prior to the flight. Or a 777-300 swapped out for a 777-200 several days before the flight. Even a 787 was swapped out for a 330. I suspect some of the changes are demand driven e.g. swapping to a smaller or bigger aircraft. I have observed this cross multiple airlines: Qantas, Air NZ, British Airways, China Southernm etc. Quite common especially for mixed fleet airlines.
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You can disable this on the settings page. Frankly I'd infinitely rather send my request through a redirect served by DDG than send my referer to every site I visit. I think this is a perfectly sensible default for the average user, who both doesn't block / obscure their user agent and doesn't have referer masking software in place.

You're free to disagree, but in that case you can make use of the option to change the default that they provide for you.
> why Dr. Ambedkar asked for only 10 years of caste-based reservations and to be done with it after that?

That's a misconception. There are 4 types of reservation.

1. Political reservation.

2. Reservation in Education.

3. Reservation in (Public) Employment.

4. Reservation in promotion.

That 10 years thing Ambedkar talked is about Political reservation. He said every 10 years it should be REVIEWED to end it or not. The other two reservation in education and employment is a fundamental rights in constitution. So it'll go on till there's discrimination in the society. The last one is not a fundamental right, that's why recently Supreme court of India reject it to implement.

20% of reservation in education was given to SC/STs in 1954, who form the 22.5% of the population. Reservation in (public) employment for them started in 1982 with 22.5%. Reservation for OBCs started in 1992 with 27%, who form the 52% of the population. Indian states have their own ratio for reservation with the condition that total reservation percentage should not exceed 50%. Now notice that the public sector in India only provide 3.8% of the total employment. Private sector is free of any reservation. So much for 70 years of reservation.
Coworkers probably have noticed how long you stay!
> I read it and ignored it as a completely arbitrary constraint that you added.

Legally, it's quite an important constraint. If you're accusing people of criminal acts, you should, you know, actually be certain that the acts are criminal.

> This is not a legitimate reason.

Bluntly: of course it is. If I feel unwelcome in my workplace, I am encouraged to report it to my management. Psychological safety is incredibly valuable and is something that a lot of companies don't do enough to foster.

Put another way, if someone started posting swastikas around the office, I would be well within my rights to complain to the higher ups that those things made me feel unwelcome. There's no difference except that you feel one complaint is more legitimate than the other. They're still both complaints, made in good faith by those making them.

> So, you deny that the people who asked for him to be fired were angry?

Sure they were angry. But anger was not the specific reason the complaints were made.

> The firing can easily be interpreted as a revenge against someone who expressed a political opinion they didn't like.

Indeed, one is free to interpret the events that way. But that interpretation is no more valid than any other. In fact, it might be less valid given that courts ruled that that isn't why he was fired ;)

> They mobbed the employers until they had to do something as drastic as firing him.

Google was free to not fire him. My understanding is that it was debated, and that eventually executives decided that ethically firing him was the right decision. Could they be lying? Sure. But what makes you so certain that executives agree with you, but feel that their hands were forced? Is it so really unbelievable that a company might feel that it was ethically correct to fire Damore?

I'm not asking if it's harder for you, personally, to face that. Clearly you don't want to believe that, but your unwillingness doesn't make it false. Like, clearly a lot of people thought Damore did a bad thing. So many in fact that there were, to quote you, "mobs". Isn't it feasible that some of the decision makers were among them?

> and it requires a lot of ideological contorsions to deny the anger, the harassment and the revenge

But once again, the question isn't what you believe their goals to have been, it's what they believe their goals to have been. If the goal wasn't to harass, wasn't to get revenge, but instead to improve their workplace, it's not criminal. And I'll reiterate: courts have, on more than one occasion, ruled that Google was within their rights to terminate Damore for the stated reason of making others unwelcome.

You're creating a sort of thoughtcrime: if I complain about someone for the wrong reasons, I'm actually harassing the person that I'm complaining about, and I should go to jail. Also I don't get to decide what the wrong reasons are. You do. That's not just.
I'm sorry, but this is bullshit. If the received HTML contains a <link rel="shortcut icon" ...> element, you already only need one request, so this is not an improvement. If that is present, you should NEVER use your API.

If it's not present, then you have options, and yes, using your weird API is an option (which I still don't like, but ok).
But sending private information to your servers even when sites follow the standard show either that you're probably not trustworthy, or that your product team is so painfully incompetent that I'd be afraid to use their browser at all.
So just rapidly oscillating light?
Microsoft announces new Windows 10 Start menu design and updated Alt-Tab
Thank you for explaining the convention (I've heard it before). How does that relate to "righthandedness" otherwise?

I was just (jokingly) pointing out how introducing conventions for right or left requires memorization of some silly rule like this. I'd much prefer if they used made-for-purpose topological terms instead of pretending how this somehow relates to a widely known concept.
really turned off by that landing overlay
I would say Fox News is a classic example of a Rupert Murdoch news outlet.

And since Murdoch likes to run his news outlets with an iron fist, these news outlets tend to report the news in a manner that strongly reflects Murdoch's thinking at the time.

Any thing Murdoch has owned and run has always comes with a level of Murdoch bias.
Amazon replacing 'Customers who bought' carousel with sponsored products
Has anyone else noticed that Amazon has largely replaced the 'Customers who bought this item also bought' carousel with 'Sponsored products related to this item'? This may not be a dark pattern, but it's awfully dim.

It feels to me like Amazon's famous customer obsession is suffering so that Amazon Media Group can keep growing ~50% YoY.
If I have to take my eyes off the road to work my stereo that is a UX failure, full stop. I need to be able to find it without looking at it and touch it without activating it. That's all I ask.
Good privacy is not based on trust. Even so, this incident is even less reason to trust you.
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These aircraft are always owned by a specific airline and not the alliance itself. Just look closer, you'll see the airline's branding somewhere on the aircraft. The alliance branding is just meant to promote the alliance. These aircraft are part of their respective airline's fleet and operated as normal flights by the airline that owns it (just like other normally branded aircrafts).
No, since it's incorrect. We're talking about the browser, not the search engine results.
That bit was unnecessary, and pretty tone-deaf given the current socio-political climate.

So let’s call them out on that, briefly, then get on with the argument.
Don't actually work for you (not plan to) but I follow Han Xiao on Github and he is doing splendid work. Keep up the good work on the OSS front!
1. Create an iframe-able HTML5 game and submit it to portals.

2. Add SPA functionality.
Your are right, normally VAT is a fixed integer value. But that is not guaranteed, historically we had decimal values, too. (My father encountered this once at IBM in the time of punch cards - turns out, having to change this on machines with limited RAM is quite difficult, akin to the Y2K problem.)
Yeah, everyone's thinking they are the next FAANG and they need to copycat their interview style. Coupled with the fact it's so easy to outsource technical interviews to leetcode/hackerrank, they'd be thinking why not?

Well, you might really have to play that game if you do come across THAT company which you are really interested in and they unfortunately, practice leetcode style interviews. Then you'd be glad you are already prepared for it than not.
Forget "soyboys" - beer-boobs are the real threat.
Any measure they could take would likely just result in people posting the same drivel while leaving out the race of the person.
Favicon what a hill to die on
That show that lisp is comparably fast as c.
Thanks for confirming! Have always been doubtful.
Thanks. Well, I never thought of it that way. How would you rather change the text?
I personally believe you, but this approach adds multiple unnecessary trust boundaries. Just thinking about how many separate logs are triggered outside of DDG is troublesome. And what happens when you guys think everything is secure, but one day find out it isn't?

I understand utilizing a single service/feature to accommodate multiple platforms is a big win from a programming standpoint. But if it carries the risk of losing the trust of your user-base while at the same time risks breaking the core mission statement of the business (privacy), it's probably not worth it.
Any ideas for other names?
Agreed, creating work arounds for non-standards compliant websites just eliminates the motivation and incentives to be standards compliant in the first place.
+1 - I tried using GraalVM for a Clojure(script) + re-frame application recently and it didn't work, changing back to OpenJDK works fine. It's a shame because the times were Graal does work, the start-up time is orders of magnitude faster.