skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was there because I just happen to have relatives who lived right in the path, but I was totally blown away. I wish I could convey the experience to people who weren't there. It was interesting as it approached, but once it reached totality it was pretty shocking. It felt a bit like the end of the world. All of the sudden it's dark outside, but not quite the same darkness as night. There's a sunset on the horizon in every direction. Bats are randomly flying around. And in the sky there's this celestial body you've never seen. It's not like the sun and not like the moon. And while your brain is still reeling and people are still gasping and yelling and pointing everything out, it's over.

Anyways, 10/10 would recommend.
I agree, sadly, and in (literally) every discussion on DDG that I've seen, people cite as one of DDG's plus points that you can use !g to search Google instead.

Just out of curiosity, what do you (anyone reading) see when you search "curry" on DDG images?
If the premise of your company is to make it easier for people to start a company, I'd say just do this one for free. If they tell others that it was a still a lot of back and forth then it people might not think that it's worth the extra money to start the company. I set up my own LLC and it was really pretty cheap and easy (the sales tax system is another story).
Is it better if Apple is accountable to nobody, or is it better if Apple is held accountable by a few businesses that can afford excellent lawyers?

Besides, the issue here isn't that Epic doesn't think the Apple rules don't apply to them. They want to raise attention to how unfair the rules are, in the hope of getting Apple to change their stance either voluntary or through the court system. I think too much money is at play here for Apple to make any voluntary concessions here, but even if Apple wins (likely outcome) a track record of being sued for unfair business practices will hopefully benefit everybody in Apple's ecosystem in the long term.
DDG is bing+others.
Perhaps it benefits Apple, but it also benefits me in ways I’m happy to pay for (and would be unable to pay for absent the collective bargaining).
Yea, you're right, the 3 million people living in the tampa metro area, their lives dont matter.
This reminds me of a prank I tried in high school.

There was a rumor that one teacher didn’t read submitted essays. I decided to test this by applying the jargon translator from Dilbert’s Desktop Games (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert%27s_Desktop_Games) to my essay. The translator output was painful to read: for example, it replaces “mother” with “female parental unit”. I added a paragraph on the third page asking him to call me if he was still reading the essay. I never received a call but he later said that he had lost the essay so the results were inconclusive.
> Might be a partnership with Yandex to not show russian results outside Russia?

Quite the opposite.

My search results from DDG over the past year or so have been infested with Russian sites, articles and even twitter account titles of English language accounts, despite not living there and not having any preference for Russian in any browsers settings or regions and never issuing a single query in Russian.
It would be nice if they showed what the end result would be like. One of the most frustrating things about the maker crowd is that every tutorial ends up painfully explaining breadboard connections - they're not addressing "how to fish" - just show the schematic and teach new comers how to read the schematic and make their own connections on the breadboard. 90% of the tutorials spend painful time showing "connect this pin over here in this breadboard hole". It's like teaching someone how to draw by saying "Draw this line here at 35 degree angle with this amount of pressure and length." The entire video here [1] is just looking at someone put wires together but doesn't show the final product in a satisfactory way. Everyone's breadboard will be unique - you can't follow step by step connections on a breadboard. You can however, just look at the schematic and hook up stuff on your own once you know how 1) breadboard works 2) how to read schematics. Both of these can be offloaded and referred elsewhere and the time spent in the tutorial should be about architecture, explaining the schematic, why is it designed that way, advantages and disadvantages, etc. /rant

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS-QJv-ae3s
Because it draws on your imagination and creativity more vs being told this world exists like so with games nowadays.
Society needs to stop treating top colleges like limited release beer.

It's not Harvard's job to run college for the whole country.
They're not going after "unrelated business", though. They cancelled Epic's developer account which is exactly the remediation listed in the agreement for the account. If you violate the terms, your account is suspended. Epic brought this on themselves when they made their move without thinking about how that would affect the rest of their business.
The distinction you are making does not meaningfully impact my proposal.
To my ears, a slight improvement to this would be to use the word "Into" instead of "In":

"Into which basket did you put that exquisite marble figurine?"
Kindles have airplane mode and allow you to load books onto them using the USB connection. The battery also lasts somewhat longer if you use them that way. Amazon directly offers a "Download & Transfer via USB" option for ebooks you purchase in their store, as well -- this is a relatively well-supported use case.

It does mean that if you want to be absolutely sure your Kindle isn't phoning home, you can't use the Kindle browser, and you need a laptop or similar to download the things you want to transfer over. It's not a perfect solution for everyone, but for the typical HN reader who is concerned about telemetry, it should work.
Do this in the areas you control. If that's just your own output, that's OK. Maybe later you can expand it.
I'm intrigued. What's the book called?
> California Assembly Bill 5 was signed into law last September and was clearly a "Going to Happen" event for at least a year prior.

And, on top of that, merely (as relevant to Uber and Lyft; it also added some exceptions that aren't relevant to them) codified the rule the California Supreme Court handed down in Dynamex on April 30, 2018; so the “one week” is off by about 121 weeks or so.
Good point, but the meta will surely be played by the other side, too. They'll expect that their enemies will want to try to "obfuscate" their true operations to confuse things that have been trained to recognize and predict certain actions.

That's why this probably won't actually be in use for many decades. You need something a bit closer to AGI than what exists now. Until then, you'll probably have limited use cases, maybe where movement and obstacle avoidance are autonomous but everything else is programmed or remotely controlled.

You could imagine small, agile flying assassination drones which can navigate cities and houses to kill targets with short-range projectiles. Very Black Mirror-esque, but far more ethical than the current approach of Call of Duty 4-style blowing up a big patch of land from the clouds with a Hellfire missile, including all the civilians in proximity.
Although it is a marvelous little book, 'The Elements of Style' is quite lacking. Instead, I'd strongly echo the suggestion of the user 'icu' in this thread[1], where they mention 'Style: Towards Clarity and Grace' by Joseph Williams and Gregory Colomb (there are several editions of this; but any earlier edition would do).

To quote from 'Towards Clarity and Grace' (it is alluding to what's lacking in 'The Elements'):

[quote]

This is a book about writing clearly. I wish it could be short and simple like some others more widely known, but I want to do more than just urge writers to "Omit Needless Words" or "Be clear." Telling me to "Be clear" is like telling me to "Hit the ball squarely." I know that. What I don't know is how to do it. To explain how to write clearly, I have to go beyond platitudes.

But I want to do more than just help you write clearly. I also want you to understand this matter to understand why some prose seems clear, other prose not, and why two readers might disagree about it; why a passive verb can be a better choice than an active verb; why so many truisms about style are either incomplete or wrong. More important, I want that understanding to consist not of anecdotal bits and pieces, but of a coherent system of principles more useful than "Write short sentences."

[/quote]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24268952
Resume Parser for Job Boards
Is there something about purely functional languages that make them attractive to blockchain applications? I remember a post on here a little while ago complaining about Haskell adoption in industry was being mostly led by cryptocurrencies.
Usually you get much better results by doing the opposite, go to Google and run the search with site:reddit.com or wherever.
Nextcloud does have a photos addon : https://github.com/nextcloud/photos

how is it tho ?
Am on mobile, quickly found this news article from October 2015 [1]. The links are probably dead by now, but I remember seeing videos linked to from /r/SyrianCivilWar of said missiles flying over Iraq, like I mentioned, it was excellent propaganda material.

Later edit: A news article from that same timestamp [2] of Iraq complaining that it hadn’t been warned by the Russians of the latter sending missiles flying over their heads. It also includes a video of the supposed launch.

Later later edit: Here's a (short) Twitter video of one of those missiles flying over Northern Iraq [3]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34465425

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/iraq-says-it-was-not-wa...

[3] https://twitter.com/NewsOfIraq_EN/status/668192312497950720
https://www.google.com/search?q=VK&start=100

100*10 results per page= 1000

Google only shows 1000 results for each query. Even if it says 100 million found
Android and the Art of Awkward Timing
Can you really be a HN reader and continue to feign ignorance on this point?
Go read the comments on any article that mentions Apple (like this one) and you will see the pros and cons repeated 10s of times.
You understand full well, you just don't agree. That's fine, but not really worthy of discussion anymore.
Life improves all on its own if you leave it alone. By the time ethics and morals are the center of attention, the way has already been lost. Ethics are a product of wrongthink, a capitalist packaging of systemic poison originating from the narrative that your so-called "freedom" is up for sale. Ethics thereby become the means by which to subjugate people and their power of thought, i.e. you and your mind, as a CUSTOM(export) in of itself. The poison is the belief of the promise of the ethic, the promise of the character, or the ethos disregarding the logos and the pathos, which is utilized to persuade large swaths of people and encourages the formation of public and counterpublics which creates a positive feedback loop especially with the structures of "safe spaces" or echo chambers with which to amplify the psuedo-appearance of a prolific environment by which many material goods become available (t-shirts, mugs, stickers, swag, books, etc. -- whatever is the "fashion" of era) in return for a parasitic-like colonization in the minds of human beings, but really it's more akin to the Ouroboros, an "Ethical Ouroboros".

Of course, to break the cycle, the dragon must spit out the Tail it is devouring, realize the tale being fed was simply a grand story of much harm and suffering, shadows on the cave walls of a fever dream, abandon the attitudes of self-annihilation, and move beyond the realm of the known into the fearsome great unknown where ethics has yet to be blown into a giant red balloon full of helium gas known as Penny-wise.
The tech up-or-out only continues until the career (or "terminal", if you like) level. Usually that's L5/E5 or equivalent at FAANG.

It's somewhat different in finance, because firms like Jane Street don't have "levels", as it were. There are individual contributors and managers, but to the extent you get a promotion, it's only increasing your scope of work for more money. They don't have well established ladders like FAANG.

But you might be right that the involuntary attrition is equivalent on a percentile basis; that I honestly don't know off the top of my head.
COVID is a complicating factor in hurricane and wildfire response, affecting e.g. senior care, shelters, and healthcare capacity. It follows that a hurricane could be considered "worse" this year given the preexisting load on the systems necessary to handle major weather events effectively. I believe that's the sort of influence the parent comment was alluding to.
Optimizing for quarterly profits is the American Way.
Even as a percentage of median income?
Pumpkin spice lattes, the backlash, and the backlash to the backlash, explained
>> iPhone users cannot set another browser as the default browser

> iOS 14: Here’s an early look at how you’ll be able to change default apps

I'm not sure you're talking about the same thing. IIRC, Apple forbids other browser engines, but allows alternative browser apps that use the Safari engine.

For instance: Firefox for iOS exists (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-private-safe-browser/i...), but it's basically just an integration of Safari with Firefox services:

> It is the first Firefox-branded browser not to use the Gecko layout engine as is used in Firefox for desktop and mobile. Apple's policies require all iOS apps that browse the web to use the built-in WebKit rendering framework and WebKit JavaScript, so using Gecko is not possible. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_for_iOS)
How does a normal software developer go about getting in?

Do they give the traditional google interview or worse?
Florida has the highest number of lightning strikes in the US
> No one is really surprised that anything is "vulnerable" on the gulf coast.

As someone who lived in Miami during Hurricane Andrew, and later watched Katrina and Harvey unfold, I beg to differ. I know that building codes have changed since Andrew. It will take another big hurricane to see if the changes were adequate and if they've been followed.

A personal picture from back then:

https://ibb.co/TY4wMd0

BTW, yesterday was the 23rd anniversary of Andrew and the 29th will be the 15th anniversary of Katrina's landfall in Louisiana.
Jesus Christ. I can't even imagine making that much annually off wage labor. I must have chose the wrong life path.
Another search engine I recommend is Ecosia. They’re slightly better than average with privacy, and focused on the environment. I think they just use straight bing results so I’m not sure how well it handles Chinese searches.
Wikipedia definition, many recipes, news about Steph Curry... pretty much what I'd expect.
Right.

A) Because someone who lived in my school district where rent was $600 a month - I had a house as part of the “gentrification” movement pre real estate bust - could pick up and move to a better school district like I did in the opposite side of the metro area over an hour away where the rent is now $2000/month.

B) if minorities are treated differently in the same school district, why would the majority care? Are you now going to argue that if you are a minority and face statistically unequal treatment by the criminal justice system you should move out of the city? state? country?
Magnum – open-source toolkit that makes Math animations effortless
Sure, but the statement seemed to allude that the incentive was gaining rank, not taking the easiest route.

>You can do 2 years of community college and enter a couple of ranks higher.

Point being, if your goal is to maximize rank the fastest, it doesn't make sense to go to community college for two years. If two people consider enlisting at the same time but one defers to community college, that deferment will likely mean they are lower rank/seniority than the person who joined without any additional school.[1] Both will still have the same enlistment term, but the non-deferring person would be considered senior because they also have more time in service and time in grade.

If the intent is to go to school to qualify for a commission, that's a different matter.

[1] e.g., Person1 joins immediately, Person2 joins two years after community college. Person1 is at least an E3 in most cases and likely and E4 (rare cases E5) plus two years time in service and more time in grade when Person2 joins. Person2 comes in at an E3 with zero days time in service/time in grade. (Time in service/grade are applicable to gaining the next rank on a scoring system). Meaning Person1 is more competitive for the next rank, with all other things equal
That reminds me of this story:

An American woman visiting Berlin - intent on hearing Bismarck speak - obtained two tickets for the Reichstag visitors' gallery and enlisted an interpreter to accompany her.

Soon after their arrival, Bismarck rose and began to speak. The interpreter, however, simply sat listening with intense concentration. The woman, anxious for him to begin translating, nudged and budged him, to no avail.

Finally, unable to control herself any longer, the woman burst out: "What is he saying!?" "Patience, madam," the interpreter replied. "I am waiting for the verb."
Also from Florida. While I remember some doomsday weather predictions like the Cat 6 hurricane, I don't remember a doomsday article or white paper every year. I also remember that while not every year is a huge disaster, there typically is one every decade. That said, people need to understand that weather prediction is about probability and not inevitability.
> Whether you like it or not this collection does lead to better products

Maybe it's just me but every tech product I use these days gets worse over time. If something does get better, two things get worse. They mostly try to optimize for user engagement and not user experience.

> Understanding your users is vitally important.

And the only way to understand people is spying on them?
Fast Typing: Part 1
Ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift} (2016)
Chrome just got faster with Profile Guided Optimization
A older version/variant is part of the Arc sources (http://www.arclanguage.org/ ), but the code running the actual site is not.
> but it's not arbitrary

Then why does Amazon get a special deal?
Flip the first line between true and false, you'll see different memory usage based on declaration type. I haven't analyzed the compiler code, but my assumption is it's forced to return an actual slice object when one is declared with :=. But I'd be happy to be better educated here -

https://play.golang.org/p/wVyv0qhj9rp
Hurricane Ike, a category 4 hurricane, made landfall on the eastern end of Galveston Island in 2008.

Wikipedia has an article detailing the damages, including a mention of chemical pollution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ike
I cannot speak for Jane Street, in particular, but I have spent many years working at a very similar firm, and Investment is not Technology.

There are engineers working in Investment, yes, but the risk profiles, the payout profiles and the focus of their work is very different. Investment deals with getting and analysing data, understanding the market and their algos, coming up with trading ideas, handling their PB relationships, doing the actual trading (e.g. portfolio optim, factor hedging, worrying about financing and borrow costs) etc. Technology deals with all things infra and (in most places) ingesting data and making it easily available internally.

In particular, I would be surprised if the interns in this article were on the Investment side - a fund would rarley publish anything remotely resembling research. In fact:

"Yulan ended up working with both the trading desk that was running this process, as well as the research group, which pointed her at some cleaner cost functions to optimize, as well as encouraging her to try out simulated annealing in addition to the greedy algorithm she started with."

The "research group" and the "trading desk" are Investment.
Sorry, I'm not following your complaint -- the article leads with:

> When the pandemic hit in March, initial public offerings, particularly those by technology startups, were predicted to be among the early victims. After all, who wants to go public in a once-in-a-century crisis? Quite a few people, it turns out. In the past couple of months ipos, which all but dried up until late May, have come back with a vengeance in America

And then presents a graph comparing YTD with previous years, showing more IPOs in 2020 YTD than any point in the last 15 years, with tech company IPOs in (eyeballed) the top quartile of the last 15 years.

I read this article as claiming:

1) The prediction was that IPOs would go down; they are not (any more).

2) IPO volume for YTD is historically strong, though not at '90s dot-com boom levels. (I'd have preferred their IPO volume chart to go back 25 years so that it showed the build-up to 1999, but that's a different complaint I think.)

Where are you getting the suggestion of an order of magnitude change?
>A content farm it is not.

My overloaded uBlock says otherwise...
It is actually plausible that there could be billions of pages with apple on the internet.

The 447 results you paged through are just the most relevant docs for your particular query ("apple" + country) and Google doesn't bother retrieving any further. Your use case of finding all the pages with the term "apple" is simply too rare and too expensive to support and they don't optimize for it.

If you try different query variants apple + something with different locales (&hl=) you'd get very different top NNN results.
If it runs the query through DDG's server side, then Google would just see at as an anonymous query along with a million other anonymous queries coming from DuckDuckGo's servers.

Unfortunately, that's NOT what they do. Instead, they just forward you to the google search result, which is pointless and stupid.
A Guide to Skills Measured for the Azure Fundamentals Exam (AZ-900)
Last I checked, reddits redpill was almost 2 million subscribers big. That is to say, sleeping with as many women as possible while not marrying, or possibly having kids while not marrying and not cohabitating, is subreddit I last checked on reddit with almost 2 million subscribers.
On images?
"Apple: Think Moloch"
> What exactly is sane about figuring out how to make 200,000 contractors full-time employees

There is no requirement for them to be made full-time employees, just employees, and even if the law was unclear before the Dynamex decision, they've had the requirement under that decision for almost 2.5 years. And they've known about it, because they've been actively lobbying to change it, lobbying for Dynamex to be legislatively reversed, lobbying for an exception when it was clear that instead of reversing it the legislature planned to codify it in AB5 and also lobbying against AB5, and finally funding a ballot referendum to repeal AB5. All of that says that they understood the rule, and how it applied to them, for quite a long time.
Is there any overlap with Hyscale and Terraform's Kubernetes provider or Helm's Charts?
Actually, It doesn't exactly fits, it appears to fit from some perspectives.

Sun's size is so big comparable to both earth and moon. When shadow of moon is spread on earth, shadow's radius is much smaller than moon's radius, unlike our conventional knowledge that shadows appear larger with distance. For people on earth who are in the path of totality, it appears as if moon has completly covered the sun.