skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before people engage with this gent I would point them to his recent conversations here. Many people, at length, have tried to engage and explain to him the import of these proceedings in good faith.

He was provided reputable links many times, which he deemed "conspiracy theories", refusing to engage in the facts within.

A significant portion of his recent history, in fact, is people begging him to read the facts; his replies come in the form "you Assange conspiracists ..."

I don't want to break HN rules on calling people out, but the above are straight facts that people really ought to be aware of before trying with this guy again.

It astounds me that people are putting Chomsky, Hersh, Pilger, Ellsberg, etc, who have all made dire warnings about this extraordinary case, in the box of "Assange conspiracists" - and getting away with it.
I have undergrad-level understanding of both abstract algebra and functional programming, and I have absolutely no idea how either your or the GP's example are connected to contravariant functors as understood through the lens of functional programming.
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> They're against Apple and everything it stands for

I think it's because Apple competitors try to copy the look and feel (round corners, hiding stuff away, make it convoluted to get to advanced settings to make the settings look less "intimidating") to try to pull Apple userbase and it waters down the experience for the people who are against Apple.
This isn't an argument in support of Epic account requirements, but they never lied about it. See here from the initial announcement:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/i7vhcd/_/g14e...

Edit: Also from the text of the announcement blog post on cross account progression:
"Rocket League’s cross-platform progression is made possible with an Epic Games Account. So, creating one or signing into your existing Epic Games Account is the first step of the process. You'll be prompted to do this when you start up Rocket League for the first time after the update. Once that's completed, there are a couple of different ways to connect your Rocket League platforms to your Epic Games Account and complete the process for cross-platform progression. "
> There is the saying in software engineering that the number of undiscovered errors in the system is proportional to the number of discovered errors.

I think that's true for software developed under similar processes, but (for instance) if you're comparing software that has unit tests and software that doesn't, the constants are probably wildly different. Your tests (or even the process of thinking about writing testable code) will discover a number of errors but will hopefully drive the number of actual errors down.

To be clear, I'm not making a statement on whether Rust or Ada is better-tested or better-developed, but I will note that Rust goes out of its way

I'm also curious about these bugs - I'm aware of bugs in the standard library (which is developed in the same repo as the compiler), but they only undermine memory safety against hostile source code, and hostile source code has lots of other options (unsafe, /proc/self/mem, ptrace, ...), i.e., the Rust compiler is not a sandbox. I'm not aware of severe bugs in the compiler, and I'm not aware of standard library bugs against hostile user input by well-intentioned source code - e.g., there shouldn't be things like the 2001 sudo "vudo" exploit.
More details at https://bigrep.com/nowlab/
* If you get a remaster at all

* If the current IP owner didn't make a mess of the remastering process (in an aesthetic or technical sense)

* If the remaster is free of defects that make the game unplayable for seasoned users of that game

* If you have the target platfrom of choice that the remaster targets.

In other words, you would have to be very lucky.
I just don't see how chording keys is convenient. !g is awkward to type on a keyboard.
I use ddg as my entry point for any search, using bangs to Wikipedia, start page as a google alternative, Reddit, images.

Google results are sometimes better but most of the time, I find search results heavily biased towards “social platforms”, commercial and otherwise SEO’d resources. Old content is just hard to find, whether it is a prominent news paper article, a niche personal website, etc.

I don’t know how this search engines rank their results today, but I would pay for a way to filter out « big names » out of the search results and explore this long tail set by published date, etc.

Use cases are very different between « searching » and « researching ». I want a research engine :)
I have tried to use DDG several times, but Google is just better. For instance, if you search 'Serena Williams' on Google you see her recent US Open results nicely presented. Similarly, if you search for GOOG (on Chromium-based browsers [1]) you get a stock chart. The point is, Google saves me time due to the domain-specific customization they've done.

The bigger issue for me is that if DDG becomes popular, they might chart a path similar to Google in terms of privacy. It's another ad supported search engine after all.

[1]: They show dumber results on Firefox and should be in anti-trust territory, but that's a different discussion.
You can kind of do this yourself on Google. Add `site:stackoverflow.com OR site:reddit.com OR site:stackexchange.com` to your default search engine. Then if you don't find something you link on the first page remove them.

It isn't as automatic as you are asking for but that is probably more than you can really expect for what seems like a very niche desire.
Friedrich Miescher discovered DNA in 1869, a century before Watson and Crick
> Developers don't want a VM and you can't manage and maintain VMs if someone else is doing something with them.

I want a VM because I want my dev environment to exactly replicate the production environment, down to the kernel.
It also means that if I leave my employer I can just delete my VM on my personal machine.

We've also not had any issues with maintaining production VMs, our release pipeline packages up our code into a debian package and them creates a VM image from that. This is then deployed across all regions. If you need to roll back just deploy the previous VM image version. GCP handles killing old instances and starting new instances for you.
Aren't these two distinct things? The fact that one could be pro-diversity, while science says the way diversity training is being done so far is not effective, is not incompatible. It might mean that the way diversity training is being delivered and its content need to change, but not that pro-diversity "is wrong".

Imagine flight had not been invented yet. You wouldn't say that the Marquis de Bacqueville [1] attempt is the proof that flight is a bad idea or wrong. We continually improve and strive to find better ways to achieve goals we define as desirable. You might disagree with the latter, but this is a different point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Boyvin_de_B...
I hate that about Google. Clearly they know that they're serving us ads. Even adding forum etc works worse now than it did 10 years ago. Why is it getting harder and harder to find real information even when we tell google where to look for it?
I have a similar experience, though I stayed on DDG. It's a bit funny, but I built a habit to use !s. This means, I use DDG to use StartPage, which in turn uses Google.
For gamers, it means that the studio may be able to afford to release a sequel to their favourite games

For pirates, it means they either have to wait until it's cracked, or buy a legit copy

Don't act like every gamer is automatically a pirate, millions of people are perfectly happy to pay for games and want to see their favourite studios continue
Officers Suspected of Sharing Hitler Images Are Suspended in Germany
> Yes, but the larger and more important issue is why are there so many explosives in the first place?

Ah, so the problem is negligence. And what negligence was there? PG&E not maintaining their towers as clearly documented (or rather, not documented as the thread shows), or even possibly the federal government not maintaining Bureau of Land Management and USDA Forest lands? No - it's California's fault, spoken as if even a healthy forest wouldn't burst into flames if someone threw molten hot aluminum on a kindling pile.

But where could that idea possibly have come from? Perhaps the Federal govermnent, whose head has basically been parroting that exact line? What an astounding coincidence.
The game was terrible on PC anyways, you practically need an xbox controller to play it.
Seems to be speculation and anecdata but thanks for the link all the same, wouldn't surprise me if it turned out to be true. Disappointing. Haven't played multiplayer in a few weeks so I could be in for an unpleasant surprise next time...
Its really weird that your argument is based on just the cost.

I mean you mentioned yourself you worked at google right?

Perhaps you just haven't actually experienced the issues kubernetes is solving?

How often have you seen that certificates expired? I have seen that. Plenty of times. Its not an issue creating that lets encrypt cronjob, its still something you need to do right.

Security Updates? Have you seen how many companies run with old non updated VMs?

Disk full due to logs? Yes seeing this regularly.

Memory leak on a service and someone needs to restart it manually until someone else fixes the issue? Yes!

Requesting a VM, hardware, infrastructure, getting it and the whole lifecycle management of it in the backend? Its real.

Ansible Scripts, puppet or just bash scripts and a word document to tell you how this magic machine was set up? Yepp.

Kubernetes solves all those problems.

Your static website on borg, if it sill runs, has probably still a valid certificate, is running on a secure infrastructure, is equally configured on every instance and not weird on 1 of 6 servers and just runs.

A smart person taking responsibility for all of this, costs you much more then just a few hundred bucks a month. And you need that person. With Kubernetes, this person now can manage and operate much more servers under his/her fingertips better easier and more secure then if it would have been vms.

And in my personal experience: That shit runs more stable because that shit can restart and being recreated and it just solves a handfull of shitty memory or disk full issues.
Disabling distracting notifications during a presentation is a good feature. Presumably you were going over actual work with your colleague. Your manager sounds like a nightmare control freak, if you're not over-stating their frustration.

Edit: more charitably, I don't know anything about your manager. But if you did accurately represent their frustration and they're normally a good manager who can take feedback, feel free to share that they came across as a nightmare control freak in this situation.
My similar feelings towards Apple ("despise" would probably be too strong, but I don't really like them either, plus I'm too cheap to put up with their prices) means that I am pretty much locked in to Android, but there I at least have a choice between different manufacturers...
It’s not just logging in. This thing is covered in cameras, sensors, and microphones. I don’t trust Facebook with my name, much less with detailed information about everything in my house. Absolutely fuuuuuck that.

I’d rather miss out on VR entirely than create a FB account and give that despicable company any data.
If you are talking about Goetz, he actually was a witness and testifying that morning. The point is that he was forbidden by the judge to testify about a specific event, in favor of Assange, but that's all in the article.
I want this but a like match for almost all my searches. Search engines are horrible at matching queries with types of result I'm looking for
The extremely deep integration with google services was always annoying for me. I'm still finding it hard to untangle myself now that I've fully moved to Apple devices.
The reason France's math output is so stellar is because of the controversial grand école system - pretty much every great French mathematician you can name came out of one of the top 2 schools. It's very elitist (and the elitism is misplaced since the system as well as the schools are virtually unknown outside of France compared to, say, the Ivies) but it does have results.
Navalny had a LOT of enemies in Russia, not just putin. It's hardly an outrageous conspiracy theory to suggest that somebody more LDPR-aligned than Putin-aligned poisoned him, especially since they're the ones who made Litvinenko's killer an MP.

It's interesting the ways in which our own domestic propaganda can inform our worldviews.
Oh nice, didn't know that. Will be using it from now on.
I'm in the same boat. I want some more functionality from my 3rd gen iPad and jailbreaking wouldn't really help me either.
You're mischaracterizing my recent post history and attacking me personally rather than what I'm saying. I'm not a mod, but yes, I'd say that is against the guidelines.
With Novichok? Why bother with a highly specialized nerve agent when you could use a gun?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/17/alexei-navalny...
Ask HN: Why can't wildfires be stopped small?
hy can't this be implemented immediately:
Detect a wildfire / bushfire almost as soon as the first sparks occur. My understanding is that satellites that can do this are already in place. It should not be too difficult to apply this available realtime data to stopping fires very quickly after they are detected, while they are very small.
Automatically generate alerts and trigger launch of firefighting helicopters / drones to douse within a few minutes of detection ... Use chemical fire-stopping bombs to kill every wildfire while it is still very small
AI to predict rate and direction of expansion of fire based on weather-station data [ambient temperatures, humidity, wind speed and direction, and realtime satellite thermographic analysis - to predict rate and direction of fire growth).
I agree with you that a lot of the commmentary around Assange is stupid, but I wanted to point out that...

> It's a public hearing and any organization can "monitor" it all they like.

...because of covid the normally public courts are allowing far fewer people in to view the hearings, and the online substitute is difficult to access. As I understand it AI applied to be allowed to view the court session remotely, and were denied permission, and the reasons for that denial are unclear.

The Transparency Project talks about difficulties reporters and bloggers face accessing the English family courts, and some of these are similar problems.

www.transparencyproject.org.uk/
It’s definitely not AD and isn’t compatible with many things that you’d expect. They just repurposed the name
You are of course allowed to take a picture of the Eiffel tower at any time, but publishing a picture of the lighting at night is limited by the copyright on the light installation.
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probably messy code but same mission.

https://github.com/kuesji/mec
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I'd really like the double/triple tap to work on a locked iPhone. Opening the camera app when the phone is locked would be a nice use case for this.
Looks great!

Did not look at it in detail, but I'm wondering about portability, eg how this works with system libraries, like OpenSSL. Is the resulting binary portable to systems with different C libraries than the ones the OTP system was linked against originally?
https://convox.com

It's basically heroku on top of k8s and you bring your own cloud.
HAProxy Helped Me Get “Near Perfect” Uptime While Slashing Support Costs
The author has a blog post at https://schollz.com/blog/croc6/ with more information.

I would like to see a security analysis. The code phrases seem ludicrously short to me …
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Consider hosting in a country less politicized on the said issues. I think for example you could host most traditional views without the any issue in Japan, for three reasons: freedeom of speech is guaranteed by constitution, they likely won’t bother with foreign language and the said views are mainstream here.

Given how the problem of free expression is becoming in the West, there is a business opportunity on medium-term I think.
I learnt this hard way. I never install version .0. They are usually full of bugs. The later, the better usually .2/3 should be fine.
I did not talk about your specific use case.

Feel free to be happy with your setup.

Also i'm not able to determine if your setup would still be much better (faster, easier to maintain etc.) if you would set completly on containers instead of a VM as i'm not aware of your workload at all.
It is a simple fact that lightning does start fires, especially in places like the American west, where lightning is not always accompanied with much, or any, rainfall at ground level. The severity of any fire is determined by how it develops in the hours and days that follow its ignition, long after the storm has moved on or dissipated.
Steelseries, Razer and Nvidia drivers are all a pain in the ass. How hard is it to make a driver that works and has a config page?

Instead they make you jump through a million extra hoops to get it to work

It’s only a matter of time until we get a DRM mouse that only works when online
Yes.

You're skeptical that a far right Russian political network might have strong military connections who would have access?

I would also be skeptical of this idea if I truly believed that Putin had the extreme iron grip over military/FSB that he tries to portray. I believe it's quite a bit more chaotic there than he'd want you to believe though. I'm sure their opsec is not as good as it is in the US. After the SU fell they even auctioned off arms.

As to why not a gun - 1) it's quiet and surreptitious. 2) I reckon it might also be a message TO putin 3) I'm pretty sure they would want putin to be seen as responsible for the murder.
I fell asleep before the update went through. Had a regular alarm set instead of bed time. It rang through despite the phone being SIM-locked and basically still in update mode.
Using OpenPGP?

Just no.
I really hope they focus on non english searches as primary focus. Google has pretty much stopped innovating in non English, non Latin script search quality and it will be much easier to target that market. It may not immediately drive revenue, but it will build enough search market share for DDG to become dominant player in non-English speaking geographies.
Does anyone know the daily WTF?
http://thedailywtf.com/

It’s Error’d articles are so much fun, and have been going on for ages.
Never even heard of this until today. Is it just "AI" voicemail?

edit: callscreen seems to be Pixel only. Can't find it for my S10.
Was this recent? I had the same experience but recently tried again and found that DDG was now about as good as Google. When I do try !g because DDG failed to find something then usually Google doesn't find it either.

Sadly I think that the way that DDG caught up was that Google got worse because of SEO spam, while only DDG got a little better.
Same here, the "bedtime alarm" went off as normal this morning and it's what I use to wake up every morning. I updated to iOS 14 yesterday evening. I wonder what differs, maybe the model or some other factor like whether you have other alarms at all (even disabled).
Can we separate addictiveness from social media (and app) design?
RE: [1] They show the exact same page for me both on Firefox and Chrome when I search for GOOG. I use Firefox as my main browser, and am logged in to my Google account on Chrome.
I'd love to have other sources to read. Unfortunately it seems like there aren't any, because nobody is being allowed to sit in the gallery on this pretty important case. Huge red flag right there.
Efficient parallel and incremental parsing of practical context-free languages [pdf]
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Feels like the scene doesn't quite work in the finished movie anyway, but yeah it 100% needed to go.

Sam Raimi is a very accomplished director so you don't notice this unless you look, but the CGI buildings in the movie are actually _much worse_ than the ones in the recent PS4 game. It highlights the adage that there's no such thing as bad CGI, just bad filmmaking.

(On the other hand, my daughter pointed out to me that whenever anything exciting happens, every woman screams and no men do and it is impossible to unsee once you notice it.)
The thing that really made Google harder to use was the switch to natural language questions rather than search terms.

If you ask Google a question you get better results than if you carefully select some search terms.
The actual solution to gerrymandering is to discard the whole silly idea of 'district' and vote proportionally, just many countries do and are not the worse off for it.

What about the rural states, you say? Well they still get to manage their own, internal affairs with their own legislature, governors, etc. But as far as state-level decisions are concerned, their weight should be exactly equal to that of their population representation.
AMP alone is a good enough reason for switching to DDG.
A more accurate version would be something like this:

Apple's EULA asserts it has the right to revoke your right to use Apple's software for any reason. Which would include the right to brick your phone.

Those assertions would need most likely need to be scaled back if they were ever challenged in court. It's not clear what the actual legal limits are.
Apparently I am a grandma searcher because DDG does fine, if I occasionally make a trip to the second serp. That's searching for programming errors etc as well.
The Librem 5 phone can now run Android apps
no more like a portemanteau of brazil (the movie) and -cene, like anthropocene
I can only speak for the time when I actually thought about going in that direction which was ~10 months ago.
At that time the devs of Crisis Vrigade tried to get their already very succesful (on PC VR) game accepted to the Oculus store (I think it was the second time they tried) and they were not able to because Oculus tried to be very picky with what they accept to ensure that people only had positive experiences when trying out their VR solution.
And recently I was in contact with another developer who currently tries to get in and who has a game on Steam with very good ratings. But Oculus actually made it a condition to have an even higher amount of very good reviews before they could start the process of getting accepted into the store. (I won't name them here because they are still in the process)

With all that and the fact that my game probably breaks all common sense safety recommendations (jumping, burpess, sprinting in place) that an executive could use to decide if something is fit for their store I did not think I could make that work.

There I'd rather poor the little time I have in adding features that users will find useful than to chase some arbitrary design goals hat make it attractive to an audience that will never use it anyway (it's a workout first and a game second)
The Anthropologist in an Economist World
Depending on how you find an angel raise, it’s very possible to be both a cofounder and not work for free.
I like using iOS on my iPad 3, where websites don't load anyway so I don't need to care ;)
It's also harder because of the sheer mechanics of what working on the walls or ceiling looks like.