skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, I find that for my native language (Dutch) DDG is quite bad and no match for Google. I find that for simple, mainstream programming queries DDG is also fine, but if it's a little out of that mainstream, it doesn't produce anything. It seems to have a bias toward big corporate sites (eg microsoft docs) which isn't always helpful, perhaps that is due to a bias in Bing (from which it sources search results)?
Mozilla is quite clear about that. They consider Firefox as a political (yeah privacy is a political stance) product like another. A costly one.
Yeah, if "embrace, extend, extinguish" has been going for the past 22 years and they're still busy embracing and occasionally extending and haven't figured out how to extinguish, I see no reason to discourage them :)
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If you love the wilderness, love being out there in nature, this is as close as you can almost get in our modern world. I have an incredible respect for people who do these adventures and live to tell their stories...

and then tell them in a way that resonates with the way I would tell the story too...
I laugh at the image of a statistical ensemble of people claiming to to bees with a hammer while instead setting them on fire with gasoline, with one of them actually hammering bees with a hammer.
Renting is not a leveraged loan worth multiple times your annual income.

Home ownership may generally be better than renting. But home ownership and value decline is much much worse.
AWS Fargate has worked really well for me. And only required an afternoon to get working. I've spent weeks learning kubernetes and still don't know enough to not hit rough edges.
The same could be said about IDEs before the LSP came around, no?
> And if there are 20 left-handers with a graduating class of 180, we might describe their prevalence as 180/20 = 9% lefties.

Primary school maths FAIL!
I liked Startpage, but a significant investor is US-based firm System1, which is, at least partially, an advertising / tracking company.

They say they won't change privacy policies etc., but we've often seen that such words don't mean anything a few years down the road, so I'm a bit skeptical.
This is done since 80 years. People doing that are called
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokejumper

Of course it would be nice to have robots doing the job, being faster, stronger and more fire proof then humans.
Corel has become so spammy and nickel-and-dimey. I'm probably going to just stop using their design products when my current subscription ends. I'd love it if they'd just focus on having great products instead of selling add-ons that are of little value (no I don't want to buy huge packs of stock art like its 1999 and everything comes on a stack of cd-roms).
Every few months I read on HN how much more accurate DDG searches are than they used to be, I try it for a day, I get frustrated, and I return to Google.

There's no benefit to !g if you use it for 4 out of 5 searches.
The Hera, DART planetary defense mission
Can't you just infer it by how much of the original eye is unoccupied?
Ask HN: Notebook Recommendation
I am looking to get a new notebook/laptop/.. next year and I am not sure what to get. The thing is that my current one is working just fine but the manufacturer, MSI, no longer provides drivers and I have some fan issues due to that as well as I sometimes experience lagging when the bus on the motherboard is beig used up to the limit. So the next one should be made by manufactuer that will provide drivers for at least 10 years after purchase and it should have a solid motherboard with plenty of good/high performing parts so I can do things on the background and not have my usb mouse lagging or things like that.

So which manufactuer would you recommend and which chipset/motherboard configuration?
Show HN: I built a simple incident alerting system with flat pricing
Back in the day when iOS couldn't handle daylight savings, I was driving onto the onramp for the motorway to get to work when my wakeup alarm went off. Not the first time this type of issue has happened, probably won't be the last.
>200 employees, 20 engineers, 5 product managers, and 1 designer.

If you don't mind me asking, what does this company make? How is it high-growth ?

I'm asking because the ratios of engineering and design with respect to total number of employees is really low.

Talking about monthly active users suggests SaaS, in which case what is going on ? Especially with the remark that engineering struggles to hire.

I don't have much information, but this looks bad to me, and possibly an indirect consequence of being well funded and not resisting the urge to hire too many people. Again, no soecific information, just a knee-jerk reaction to ratios and shared information.
I think a bug that could impact everyone relying on the iOS alarm (including me) is newsworthy and useful.
Trust is beside the point. The actual point is that they are able to pay attention to the road, even for prolonged amounts of time, and react to perceived danger, despite not being the ones who are actually in control of the car.

The claim I'm disputing is the one that says people are somehow incapable of paying attention to the road for extended periods of time unless they are in control of the vehicle.

I might agree that a reaction might be jerky and panicky, but then again, they would by definition be so regardless, due to the unexpected nature of accidents
Jesux (1999)
Number of fans and jets needed to pump wildfire smoke out of Washington state
> The name is childish and doesn’t inspire confidence either.

Gone are the days of search engine names that inspired confidence, like Altavista and Lycos... or AskJeeves.
`!bm`, `!gm`, `!osm` for Bing, Google, and OpenStreet maps, respectively.
The Power of Hyperlocal Air Quality Data During Wildfires
It’s nowhere near universal. I read this article before my wake up time. I installed iOS 14 last night. The alarm worked.
Every beta I put in a feedback item saying that moving bedtime from Clock (where it was easily found) to the horror of trying to find it among heart rate data in Health was really grim

Obvously took my reports to heart (heh)
In my experience, the founders are the folks who make the decision to turn an idea into a business, before day 1. The only cofounder-exclusive work is the preparation and work of actually defining the initial business, taking a risk on the idea, and being a part of the incorporation process (broadly defined). Anyone hired on after that point is an early employee, though they might be compensated with equity, or they may be very influential, or they might do more for the company than the founders did... but they were not the originators of the business.
I find your comment very interesting. Would you mind elaborating on why you would do your next startup this way?
Taking a guess, this seems mostly like a plan to get machine learning developers back onto Windows as main development boxes. If so, the first iteration of WSL itself was about web development. The integration of cross compilation and remote debugging for Linux into Visual Studio points into a similar direction.

MS seems to accept Linux on servers, but allowing Linux on desktop machines might actually end up eating a significant chunk of the Windows market share.
Recursive descent is what I use today. En-vogue or not, it's the most robust, flexible and - most importantly - maintainable approach in the long term.
>quite bad at searches that are in my native language

Just say Estonian so people don't have to figure out what you're talking about.
I think brazilocene is a reference to the movie Brazil (mostly about bureaucracy), and "cene", which is a suffix to design a geological epoch (like Paleocene)
- Yourself: If you have to ask you're an employee.

- Someone else: If you have to ask/are confused on where the person sits, employee also.
> To prove that they can get anyone, anywhere? Is that really that hard to get?

If they can get anyone, any time ... why pick someone irrelevant? Why not get someone where it is in their interests for them to die?

That is a really bad motive. All they are doing is tipping their operational methods and compromising the identity of their assassins. Plus it costs money and is risky.

Either the Russians are really stupid or there is some aspect of the story that isn't public. What that aspect is, who knows. But it is probably there.
It was clear SoftBank didn't give a damn about ARM, they only bought it to grab some of the sweet monies they were raking up and pretty much left everything as-is. Not so much for NVIDIA, which is a big player in the industry and is American.
Slightly more amusingly, but non-equivalently:

import sys
from functools import reduce
from operator import add, sub, mul, truediv as div

def calc(s, ops=[(add, '+'), (sub, '-'), (mul, '*'), (div, '/')]):
if not ops:
return float(s)

(func, token), *remaining_ops = ops
return reduce(func, (calc(part, remaining_ops) for part in s.split(token)))

if __name__ == '__main__':
print(calc(''.join(sys.argv[1:])))

Does support order of operations, in spite of appearance. Extending to support parentheses is left as an exercise for the reader :)
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

The British Inquiry (page ~245) concluded that it was likely the hit on Litvinenko was ordered close to the top. Putin was a KGB officer - he now doesn't take an interest anymore?

And if he blew the covers of 100 officers, they would've been under deep cover i.e. not going around assassinating people and going home on the plane.

In the case of Navalny, Putin's main opponent gets hit - if Putin didn't order it, it damages his credibility, I repeat: Whose head is rolling?

I didn't mention it earlier, but Russia no longer has a death penalty officially - this is why Skripal was alive to be swapped. Oleg Gordievsky was sentenced to death in absentia and I believe the order still stands (although hopefully unenforceable)
Have you ever worked at a company that has more than 300 VMs that run more than 10 different apps?

Kubernetes solves a specific set of problems. Just because you personally don't have these problems, doesn't mean that Kubernetes is a fad.
When I saw "handwritten math" I thought it was something in the vein of https://photomath.app
Yes, there are "mirror cubes" which have brushed-metal-like surface. They are not considered solved unless the brushing is aligned.
Wish something like this existed for Java
Eh, not really

> It is hard, if not impossible, to find a modest, small house.

True, but small condos have seen similar appreciation

> houses are full of glitzy appliances, fixtures, moldings, and counters. It really does just heavily inflate the price.

This do increase the price of real estate, but not that much relative to the bigger picture. The price of a "glitzy" fridge vs. a non glitzy fridge is going to be what, $500? $1,000? Likewise, appreciation has occurred on older properties without these features unless you're below the inflection point where the risk of the property declining in value faster than the market appreciates is so high that the price remains poor.
AppleTV doesn’t support it either.
I'm sorry to hear about your experience, I hope you are healing and getting better every year. You are courageous to speak about it with such frankness. Articles about models annoy me but your comment was compelling.
This is probably true of every mathematical abstraction in wide usage.

A big advantage of the probability abstraction (as a "partial knowledge" concept supported by Dutch Book/sure bet arguments) is that you can define probability distributions to suit your business cases but then reuse a lot of existing algorithms and even theorems (cutting down on computation).
What is PKCE grant type in OAuth and how to use it?
Nvidia can't even figure out how to build an application that remembers my login details, every time I open it up I have to login again.
I'm pretty sure PRs are welcome.
It’s already like that to be fair, people get faster by getting from A to B in fewer moves. The two go hand in hand, it’s like speedrunning.
I've crossed the semantic saturation threshold thinking about it, and now Spiderman looks like a surname.

J.T. Spiderman & Sons, Accounting

Susie Spiderman, Age 5

Arnold Spiderman III, MD
Does that mean we should just let nature take its course, or maybe be proactive about it and fix some of humanity's worst tendencies i.e. our extremely wasteful society, plastic absolutely everywhere?
Furthermore, a lot of people still have landlines and that's the number that they give out to service people, etc. That was the case with me until very recently.

There are very few people I'd expect to give me a call out of the blue these days rather than texting or emailing. But for that circle, I'm in the same boat as you.
The same thing happened with iOS 13. As an ADHD sufferer, I heavily depend on tens of alarms and reminders. Suffice to say it wasn't a good day for me, where all these were suddenly silent.
Could you give some example searches? I always read this, but I have far below 10% of my searches with !g
One of the ideas I had to instill more motivation is to apply @goopthink's definition with the added idea of "reverse-title-vesting" meaning that if you stay with us for more than X years then you become a founder too, if you were one of the early employees (let's say up until the 3rd employee).
thanks, is there a paper on the topic that MS published that I can read? Would love to understand more of the detail and analysis
I believe GraalVM[0] makes your wish come true. It allows you to compile your Java code into a single binary and offers other features which makes Java a feasible solution for CLI tools.

[0] https://www.graalvm.org/
And it's "base ball" dammit.
What is the process for ‘winding down’ a community?

Is the local government dissolved, so the county or state pays for this?

Any info is appreciated, I am very curious of how this works in practice.
iPhone 12 Pro Max AnTuTu benchmark
Germany will violate international agreements with Unitary Patent, says FFII
High wind speeds can make it spread over acres in minutes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Fire_(2018)

Also air units had to wait around till sunrise.
I find !g minimally annoying to type....
The concept of “still there” in time is not very meaningful for cosmology. All of our observations are in ~space-time~ not just space or time.
That’s not an issue if the garage is built higher than the bottom of the driveway. The concrete slab in front of the garage door should have a slight incline leading into the garage. The garage should be a few inches above the ground level. Drains where the driveway meets the slab can help too.

Lots of homes in my area are constructed on inclines with houses on one side rising from the street and the other side declining from the street. With some basic civil engineering principles (water flows downhill) we don’t see any issues with water in basements or garages, etc.
I think the hardest part for me is that I am so locked into Google Drive and Gmail at this point that getting off of them seems to be a nearly Herculean feat.

My business runs on gdrive with over 1 TB of stuff on it currently, I’ve been on Gmail for over 10 years, I just don’t even know where to begin. I feel like if I actually want to reap the benefits of leaving chrome, not using Google search, etc. then I need to get out of their ecosystem entirely or it’s not really worth it.
Wow, so Phoebe had it right all along...

https://youtu.be/KyaiJc3ESAI
There's definitely been a move towards de-googling and more pro-privacy services.

I'd tried DDG in the past but found their response times a bit slow (perhaps due to Bing API?) but that does not seem to be the case now, moreso because they switched from Amazon to Microsoft servers.

DDG is perhaps the best known private search engine, though Mojeek and Startpage were pro-privacy a good number of years earlier.

searchenginemap.com is quite useful for exploring some of the alternative private engines, and shows who powers their search results. It is English focused.

Not a huge DDG fan but appreciate they're offering privacy on a larger English speaking search index, and would prefer people use it over Google if they can help it.
It is still 1998 in that sense. Direct3D, DirectML & DirectCompute are all built as moats for Microsoft. Just like the Apple Metal API is.
The committee to keep the chaos convenient and comfortable.
It asks afresh.

As a concrete example, I've been running the iOS 14 beta for the last week and a bit, Facebook Messenger previously had full access to my photos, and when using it for the first time I got a message from the OS explaining that I no longer needed to grant it carte-blanche access and whether I'd like to deny it access, pick the photos I'd specifically like to give it access to, or let it continue having full access.
See the youtube example below.

An underground home needs substantial strength to resist the weight of the soil all around it. Concrete is strong and cheap but porus --- not watertight. To make it water tight, you need a sealed membrane that extends all the way under the foundation. Otherwise, water/moisture will be seep up through the floor. Saturated soil surrounding your home will exhibit water pressure from gravity trying to force it into your home.
The required moisture membrane is subject to being broken during construction or afterwards from settlement.

Personally, if I was sold on the concept, I would look at the possibility of building up --- not down. Think of a tube open on the ends or a box open on one side but otherwise covered by a mound of soil. The foundation could rest on one big French drain system and this could be extended up the sides as well. This way, the force of gravity can pull water away from the home, not into it.
They should just call it "Bang" or "Bangs" and be done with it :)
MS doesn't have any self respect and any respect for its users. Luckily there is Apple which side with the user in these kind of matters.
> You can't put in the sky an object visible from everywhere and then ask people to pay (or even just ask permission) to use pictures that include it.

This would be a great super-villain idea for a fun/dumb movie.
Saudi Arabia discovers 120k years old human footprints
IMO the biggest issue with DDG is that you can't really advertise specifically on DDG.

Most people don't realize this, but DDG doesn't sell their own advertising, they use Microsoft's advertising network! This just seems bizarre to me that they're outsourcing the whole reason they're supposed to be independent of the other search engines.

I tried signing up for Microsoft's network, but it was a bad user interface (typical MS), very confusing, and I couldn't really figure out how to specifically target DDG and only DDG. I just gave up.

DDG needs to bring advertising in-house, or I don't see why they have a reason to exist. They're almost a subsidiary of MS at this point.
Its perfectly possible to make dry basements.

In the same way its perfectly possible to make dry houses (we are used to damp proofing in houses, less so in basements)

Put it this way, we've managed to make swimming pools that don't leak, underground houses are basically swimming pools with roofs.

Firstly you need to choose your ground and prepare it properly. You then need to choose your materials. With basements you can either put the tanking on the outside, in the material or or on the inside. Each has its own merits.

Then you need to think about insulation and ventilation. You will be at a different temperature to the outside world for most of the year. You therefore need to think about how you manage humidity.
Skripal was one of the west's crown jewels (that we know about at least), obvious target. This is about sending a message to potential future-skripals.

And the brazenness of it fits with what I have said - We can get away with this anywhere, you are not safe.

Spies have been killing people for millenia, and the KGB (now FSB) and GRU are particularly good at it. John Barron's book on the KGB from the 70s literally had a list of a few hundred known KGB officers at the back before the index, they all know each other to at least some degree (They'll suss you out the moment you are deployed to a foreign embassy).

> What that aspect is, who knows. But it is probably there.

Like what? Maybe they poisoned themselves with Novichok for a laugh, but it's unlikely. Remember that a lot of Russian money passes through the British ruling party and London so it's not really in their interest to ratfuck
I think that's pretty reasonable. Most people at the end of the day are available whenever via a phone call. But if you use it for something trivial, they will be pissed. Seems like a decent system to me.
I think it's really important that we keep stressing this. Murray's blog is showing up here every day, despite his being an untrustworthy source of information, and a noted conspiracy theorist. He's also due in court next month on his own set of contempt charges.

It's clear from reading his analysis that he has no interest in trying to remain even slightly detached. If he wrote that the sky were blue, you'd be well advised to double-check yourself.
Mozilla: Born 1998. Died 2022.
What I hate about Google is that they say that they need our information to "improve our experience", yet we can't even tell them what sites we prefer, or which should be omitted, in/from our search results.
Yes it is horrible, but it doesn't make a grammar less real, labels don't matter...
> What I'd like is to generate serialized yaml files ... you know ... with code

Check out Pulumi (I am not affiliated with them in any way)
My experience has been the exact opposite. As soon as I need to look up something very specific or niche DDG does not deliver and that's when I need it the most.
And how does images in CSS help with that?
Rolled my own system using email purchase notifications, zapier, and Google sheets: https://medium.com/swlh/how-i-got-control-of-my-spending-wit...
-5 to 256
"This issue is why I’m skeptical of SaaS in general"

SaaS is eating the B2B (Busines to Business) software market. Companies small or large are much happier not having to manage servers, installation, updates and security.

I don't particularly like SaaS either, but what is the alternative? It is impossible to self-install a web app on a server in a way that is easy and simple to do particularly for non-techical users. Until that happens (which may be never), SaaS will continue to grow and dominate the B2B market.

Imagine if installing a web server app was as easy as installing a desktop app. It would unlock countless opportunities for developers. My impression is that developers think it's a non-issue or have simply never thought about it.

(And no, before someone mentions it, Docker, Sandstorm, Cloudron, command-line installations etc are not easy-to-use options for non-technical users.)
What's impressive to me is that YouTube Recommendation are so ... stale. All it recommends to me is content from the same 3 categories, and the same videos over and over and over (you would think if I didn't click on the suggestion in the past 6 months it would adjust).

Now the topics it recommends to me are non-political, but I can very well see that if you fall down one of more extremist rabbit holes thats all you will be fed on your recommendation page for months.
I did not give it my entire attention, I'll do that later.

But I will say this is just genuinely good music.
I'm a native English speaker, and that term is definitely wrong for a wake-up alarm. I can't imagine an alarm for when to go to bed, and it definitely doesn't apply to what someone would set on an standard "alarm clock" to wake them up in the morning.

Even when it's a phone call instead of an alarm we say "wake up call". I've never, ever heard the phrase "bedtime alarm" before.

I really hope Apple didn't call it that.