skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there an internet meme (equivalent to a Godwin's law) about "back-doors 'coz of terrists-n-kiddiepron"?

Yes, it's called "Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...)
Yelp needs to be sued out of existence.
Noblink TSR.
Get rid of that maddening blinking cursor.
Video series about running a family PeerTube instance on a NUC in the kitchen
I agree about the writing, but don't try to be a philosopher.

Philosophy is a field where reputable, long-tenured experts routinely get it wrong. Many philosophers stake their entire career on a mistake.

Being the expert in your field, even having 30+ years of experience, does not make you a philosopher. A beginner in philosophy has at least an undergraduate degree and 5-10 additional years of moderate study.

Stick to what you know, and you will always be able to translate your experience into valuable insights for others.
Yes, the article says "Exhaustive testing works brilliantly for functions that take a single float as input. I used this to great effect when rewriting all of the CRT math functions for a game console some years ago. On the other hand, if you have a function that takes multiple floats or a double as input then the search space is too big. In that case a mixture of test cases for suspected problem areas and random testing should work."

I think the point is that exhaustive testing is feasible in more situations than you might at first think, and than floating-point arithmetic is a particularly fertile source of edge conditions and corner cases, so it's a good place to go for exhaustive testing where you can.
Theres so many times I go to look up components for Bootstrap assuming its a web feature they support only to find out I am looking for something that isnt even a web feature at all. Its been a little while since I have done more than basic web stuff but you mentioned some good examples. Its just insane to me that HTML5 has not evolved the basic UI components more. Old browsers be damned, we can shim the stuff that we already hack into working I am sure.

Hell I am okay with some bits requiring specific JS callbacks for "real handling" as long as web UI OOTB improves a bit.
An open-source alternative to Twilio
I was agreeing with you...

I was just offering more evidence to support your case.
I stumbled upon this article while trying to figure out if i could hook up my ipad to a crt. If any one has any wise words for me on my journey, I’m all ears.
Normal tires have carbon added to the rubber to make them slightly conductive, enough to drain static.

Specialty tires like you find on drag cars do not. This is why you also see grounding straps dangling from drag cars -- to keep the driver from getting a shock when they step out after a run.
It is, but mostly due to their selection process, basically removing poorly performing companies and adding sane one that are about to grow.
What lens? Always a fan of interesting old lenses
Magnetic kettle leads predate MagSafe by decades as well.
You're right. But seeing requests that look like "https://duckduckgo.com/mapkit/?https://api.apple-mapkit.com/......" there is little doubt that DDG forwards directions requests to Apple APIs.
Been a few years since I read the book, absolutely - these are the highlights. If I recall correctly there are failures as well. The book walks through how to read annual reports so hopefully the reader isn't picking totally fake companies.

I guess, the gist is, if all trades are just coin flips, it won't matter anyway. But if you're really committed to investing in a single stock (and you probably shouldn't), have yourself a reason to think you have an edge. maybe the whole sector is growing, pep boys, auto zone, o'rielly and you can't really go wrong.

If you're going to the casino anyway, play a game where you at least understand the rules.
Nyc, indoor dining only recently opened, this and temperature checks are one the requirements, along with 20% capacity, no groups larger than 10, table service only
Isn't drag&drop file area a simple restyled button in html?
Tangential, but related to the surprise of finding out how shitty humans are to other species:

We slaughter 80 billion animals each year for food. On a planet of 7 billion humans, each year. Those animals only purpose is to be born, get fat, and get eaten by humans. Mostly in horrible conditions because it's cheap. We need to look into the mirror for more than just cosmetics industry.

https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production#number-of-animals...
> I think you're perhaps inadvertently proving my point

Yes sorry that was the intention - the "market mechanics" which I observe as a passive investor support your theory, as well as my own choices in how I move that money. My goal is overall return on investment as opposed to say socially-conscious or other types of investing choices (although I have dabbled in some of the socially conscious funds, good for the soul but not really the pocketbook); the data shows that using the index funds over total market funds is a better financial choice for a guy like me who just wants to "sort of care from time to time" over the long term.
Or just use an alt store installed rooted Android phone. If I know correctly, companies exists which sell phones for this kind of reselling in rebranded way with customisations.
OP is advocating killing half a million sharks to save the sick and elderly as something that “shouldn’t even be up for debate.” A few of us happen to disagree.
I have worked at two companies where we brute-force checked binary floating point operators. It’s annoying, error prone, boring, and soooooo satisfying. The Holy Grail^TM is brute force F32-FMA. That one really requires a lot of thought, and can’t be reasonably brute-forced on anyone’s budget.
PLOS ONE: LaTeX users are slower and more error prone than Word users
> If you’re using something that’s “free...,” you’re the product being sold.

Free as in beer, yes. FL/OSS, no.
A lot of hard work, judging by your write up. Congrats!

Tangential to this, I am noticing a lot of info product MVPs being built on Airtable.
fertile indeed!!!! haha

I should learn to read
Formula 2
"Burned down half the cities in America"?

Hyperbole much?
You’re basically nitpicking that they used their logo alone in the header instead of also putting “DDG” there which is petty.

If you were actually confused (hard to believe) just reading the content would clarify any confusion. Check out the first line of the article.

This thread would have a point if the blog spoke of DDG in the third person, but it doesn’t.
I agree that the LaTeX toolchain is bad, although there are some tools that make it better:

- latexmk knows how often it will need to compile a document in order to get all references right etc.

- pandoc lets you write markdown and converts it to LaTeX (although, if you have to write a lot if math you'll have to use LaTeX mode so often that it's worth considering whether that buys you anything... it's great for short, more textual documents that you want to format nicely though)

- XeTeX removes all the unicode and font problems and lets you actually include fonts on your system

- verbosity can be reduced somewhat by macros

But it's true. LaTeX kind of sucks (which is not really Knuth's "fault", since he only invented TeX and not LaTeX), the syntax errors can be very annoying (trying to hunt for that one missing paren or $...), packages constantly break other packages and totally absurd ways, and worst of all, the maths commands are entirely non-semantic (I've tried parsing maths expressions from LaTeX, it's not pretty), etc.

It's just that there is nothing better for maths right now, and even if there were, good luck fighting all the institutional inertia.
Submitted because it's pretty surprising to me...
I was thinking about switching from decentraleyes too, but I'm hesitant to install a "can access all sites" extension that hasn't been vetted ("recommended") by Mozilla.
> I think this is more akin to construction workers asking for blueprints rather than cad models.

No, because those aim to express the same thing, albeit with different limitations and practical considerations. Code and math are entirely separate things.

> As someone who hasn't actively done formal math in a couple of decades the slog of relearning syntax to read papers about code can be off putting.

Surely the syntax is an incredibly minor part of it all?

> However code is really the lingua franca we use as an industry but in papers it is treated exactly as you say a nice addition.

Code is an implementation detail. Papers express ideas, not implementations.
Of course, the KKK was never labeled one. I wonder why...
I never realized that there is soooooo much kiddie porn on Facebook that it warrants creation of "back-door access" :-) no pun intended, for governments to spy on people's private communication so as to SAVE THE CHILDREN.

riiiiight.
I don't have anything specific, but until Fedora stopped compiling a i686 kernel altogether a few years ago we had to disable our tests of "does the current kernel boot on qemu" for years on i686 because those kernels simply didn't work. And no one really cared. And no one cared again when Fedora dropped i686 (except for multilib on x86-64) entirely.
This page opened not one, not two, not three, but four pop-ups that I needed to close to get to the article.

1. cookie acceptance

2. subscribe to mailing list

3. subscribe to technology review

4. some ad that overtook half of the screen

Do they want people actually read this website?
Scientists Are Struggling with the Feeling of Being Against a Rushed Vaccine
> For example, [sound waves] move through solids much faster than they would through liquids or gases, which is why you're able to hear an approaching train much faster if you listen to the sound propagating in the rail track rather than through the air.

I am sceptical, I don't think this makes a big difference until the train approaches the speed of sound. What makes a difference, however, is that the energy is constrained into moving one-dimensionally, along the rail, so that it travels much further.
Perhaps, but skill is more rare than luck. More importantly there’s no way to tell the difference.
Ask HN: Is there a demand for self hosted cloud services?
As we become more entrenched in the world of cloud and dependent on the likes of AWS, Azure and GCP not just for compute but their services, something I wonder is whether self-hosted cloud services as a concept will take off. Whether that be in alternate locations to the existing incumbent cloud providers or on home servers. Curious to get some feedback here as to whether it's even of interest?
Pentagon funnels $7.4B in surplus military gear to police
Yes, literally burned down..with fire (and looting, and making it unsafe for business). There are parts of this country that are not coming back economically for a decade after what happened. Did you have your eyed closed through the whole ordeal? I lived in an area affected, its a real thing that actually happened I shouldn't have to explain this. And if a right wing group had done 1/10th of what these groups did we would never hear the end of it. But we get radio silence instead because of institutional politics.
I heard an annoying hum out in the wilderness of Charlo MT that nobody else could hear, but chalked it up to radio equipment because there WAS actually a large tower nearby, that could be explained as part of a hi-def video streaming operation to capture these lovelies, just "next door" aka within a few miles.

Charlo Osprey Cam:
https://explore.org/livecams/ospreys/charlo-montana-osprey-n...

I assumed there was some heavy duty radio equipment to handle this but was never really able to confirm the source of the noise, I was visiting for a couple of months two years ago. There were days when I just could not tune it out, and there were days when I either didn't notice it at all, or it wasn't present.
I don’t understand why social media companies don’t offer a paid tier. They don’t have to charge everyone as they’d lose the vast majority of users, but for those who want to pay, why prevent them? They’d be making more money than they do from ads.
He bought calls AFTER the surge ... they call that a 'retarded' move. On the other side of the spectrum there was a good GME DD that was predicting a pop one hour before the Microsoft Deal.
Yeah, I remember that one as well. Real fun. Its also why I never bothered with Second Life ("been there, done that"). I just checked and saw someone even made a Linux client for The Palace. Neat!
Foundations of Empirical Memory Consistency Testing [pdf]
> Use slightly more expensive other source of the same substance?

You're assuming money is the only issue here. If we throw money at the problem, will we be able to produce a similar solution on a similar schedule?
The gray to gray response time is heavily gamed. There's some tech reporter investigation on it that shows how most monitors that game the GTG response time have slower overall response than monitors with a ~7ms time.
npm, bower etc more or less killed this pattern I thought?
Thanks. It does feel the same here. The jobs are quite niche and the pay not so great (comparatively to the demands of the job), and often a Ph.d is required.
'The Big Burn' of 1910 transformed wildland firefighting. Will 2020 do the same?
“Authenticity” is and has always been a successful method of "Tribe Security". Where in largely white Rock & Roll, it is social suicide to "sell out" by licensing one's music for commercial jingles; in Hip Hop this is called "getting paid" and treated as "knowing one's power and position". Authenticity really is knowing when to exhibit the expected Tribe Signaling. Having knowledge of a Tribe's nonverbal signaling enables one to infiltrate any social group lacking formal security.
There is a recent study (to be published at ESEM'20) on an empirical validation of "Cognitive Complexity" as a measure of source code understandability: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12520

The authors state in the conclusion: "The metric correlates with the time it takes a developer to understand source code, with a combination of time and correctness, and with subjective ratings of understandability."
Thank you! Yeah it was a lot, and I had some setbacks along the way .. neighbors house caught on fire, people died. Had a son born ;)

Airtable is great, and a good way to quickly validate some ideas.
I downloaded fine, without an account.
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Didn't know. Thanks.
Wait, what is the misunderstanding? Aren't these the well known benefits of CDNs?
> Why do you want to kill all humans? /s

Well the sebaceous gland in human skin produces this organic compound called "squalene" and we want that to make vaccines and cosmetic creams. But we don't want to kill all humans: squalene production significantly slows after the age of 30, so its more about killing young humans. /s
Nobel Prize winner says the universe has gone through multiple Big Bangs
I "hear" the tone clearly. From that, I found this online tone generator, and experimented until it sounded nearly exactly like what I hear. I grew up around a lot of music, so maybe it's easier for me to pick out a tone.
Well, the BBC was never representative.
Good intention or not, it reeks of ochlocracy and ignorance, and throw in potential quasi-extortion-for-revenue tactics.
Because the word didn’t enter popular lexicon until after 9/11?
The problem is that people and companies are still not okay with the idea of paying for R&D of open source, especially when it is not a direct investment - i.e, they pay for FOSS only when it is going to make or save them money elsewhere.

Open source consumer electronics does neither. It is at best a hobby and a very expensive one at that. Take a look at /r/mechanical keyboards or /r/headphones and you will see.

But I am with you. I would love to work on a drop.com equivalent that would focus only on curating and aggregating open source projects focused on consumer electronics.
FYI, there are also offline and free locally running apps that you can use:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing#Mobile_device_so...
I used OSMAnd and it works better than Google Maps for my area.
Wow, this derivationmap site looks very interesting.
I desperatly want something like this for graph rewriting on abstract syntax trees.

A fullscreen option for the d3 graph would be nice, this way it could leverage large monitors.
Some interface for creating derivations directly from graph view would be amazing, but this is probably hard to get right.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong because it's been years since my EE class.

Basic math ends at division. Heck if you learn how math works on computers, it feels like a number trick. Those are reliable.

The issue comes when you need to track never ending decimal points. Even if every transistor was dedicated to your problem, you'd still need to round. So even if you have 32 bits of decimals, there will be rounding sometimes.

The human has to decide what to do. Instead of converting the binary to decimal and calling it done, it's more important to be consistent and predictable.

The issues described in the article arent 5/2= 2 billion. The article talks about rounding giving you always even numbers, which you can imagine leads to issues if you are using both float and using logic that involves even and odd numbers.

Edit- can someone correct me or add details, I'm very interested but I'm not taking ENG 240 again... :p
Isn't the big difference equation numbering? If you actually like to label and eqref stuff, it's not really a replacement. you can get around this I guess, but for me, it's much easier if my basic latex stuff works the same everywhere.
Accessing maps and directions through a web search, though? That hasn't made sense for years on mobile. Sad to say, they need an independent DDG Maps app to make this viable on mobile.
It is but that sounds like a hack. We should be able to work with HTML elements without hacking things up. The moment somebody even did that they should of proposed some way to allow support to a new HTML tag that can be plainly styled minus the button hiding hackery.
Some 90s german cars call for mid-grade
He was a really big deal in the Middle Ages. As I recall, he cropped up in a Chaucer class in college.

But yes, Toole did impose his own image.
Lots of individuals make them. They design and 3d print them with their home printers.
Just because you might not make a rigorous contribution to a field doesn't mean you should avoid it.

Applying a philosophical concept in the context of your life, for example, is a fine thing to write about.
The Reliable Engineer
How does SAP scan Git repos for secrets?
Write like you talk (2015)
Asteroid Bennu Secrets Unlocked by NASA’s Osiris-Rex Ahead of Historic Heist
Not exactly equivalents, but there have been casualties that definitely seem incited by the rhetoric.

This 24-year old mother was killed for arguing with BLM supporters: https://www.foxnews.com/us/indiana-woman-shot-killed-argumen...

In 2016, 5 police were killed, and 9 others injured by Micah Xavier Johnson, who "was angry over police shootings of black men. He stated that he wanted to kill white people, especially white police officers.": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police...

It seems odd to bring up the death of Heather Heyer in the article, but omit these.
Where is it hosted? Is it available for US
localCDN looks super interesting. It works with Chrome partially and fully with Firefox.
I'm curious, is there any good native tool to replace localCDN, uBlock, uMatrix ( resources concern ).
Btw, thanks for pointing out localCDN
They made an exception for late-night now, to allow stations to staff just a single attendant who can stay in the store, while people gasp pump their own ultra-flammable danger fuel!

I'm from a self-serve state and full-serve weirds me out, so when I was in Portland I found myself driving up into WA to gas up my rental.
I remember reading something by John Carmack back in the early Oculus days, where he was basically saying he wished he could use small CRTs in VR headsets for many of the same reasons the article highlights.
A Note about Spotify Transfers
I was discussing this with my friend (OP) and encouraged him to publish it on his blog. Figured there'd be other people interested in reading this.
> I've heard it as far as 20mi/30km away from a shipping lane in the US

Have you taken a look at The World Hum Map (linked from the article)? There are a lot of data points that are deep inland, way more 30 kms. For example there points in the Australian outback, and all through the "flyover states" in the US.
Why do people think that humanity collectively has the same concept of ethics? What is good and bad? You seem to think every human is on the same page of what life is
Hard to tell if this is (well intentioned, but misguided) OR (They know how easy it will be to abuse, and really want money).
That FizzBuzzEnterprise thing is hilarious. I can't believe I didn't know about it until now.
KaTeX has an 'output' option and one of his settings is 'mathml'. You can produce clean MathML this way and even mixed HTML/MathML output (default and what you see in the OP's example) with MathML for accessibility. Problem with the pure approach isn't KaTeX but the browser support.
Why web developers are laughing hysterically at the deletefacebook campaign?
I wonder is this trend of more boring colors will hold true in the future. Seems like every new, hip electric car from traditional manufacturers (in Europe at least) has some neon green or other colorful accent (e.g. Opel Mokka-e).
Call it petty or whatever, this thread is obviously about the entire site, which engages in content marketing a lot (check out all the non-"DuckDuckGo News" posts) without the courtesy of a clear domain name, and not about this particular announcement.

As actuator said in the thread, it should be duckduckgo.com/blog/.
Ahh, gotcha. Cheers then!
> What I can’t quite disentangle is whether it taught me how to get what I had always wanted or taught me what to want.

This is a question that keeps coming back to me and I still don't know the answer. And maybe I'll never will.
It's a .com and the first thing you see is the duck.
Roger Penrose: Covid isn't worst thing we've faced–it's given me time to think
https://archive.vn/Cpwgz
YAML is to JSON as Scala 3 is to Scala 2
Distribute it over every smartphone on the planet (about 4 billion), and the computations will be done in minutes (of course, that’s dependent on the function being tested).

There will be orchestration overhead and transmission latency, but I guess one could get all results in one place in a day, if one had the ability to do the “run it on every smartphone” thing.
A DNS lookup will also affect speed
From the graph it is unclear to me which one is following the other. I wouldn't be surprised that that the WSB sentiment just reflect the eprformance of the market the previous day.
That would be a super-cookie though.
I've also heard it as "knock me for a loop", and I think it calls back to "feeling loopy" as a sort of "dizzy", so to throw/knock someone for a loop is to metaphorically hit them so hard as to make them dizzy or disoriented.
> For very small numbers (less than about FLT_EPSILON * 0.25) adding 0.5 gives 0.5 exactly, and this then rounds to zero. Since about 40% of the positive floating-point numbers are smaller than FLT_EPSILON * 0.25 this results in a lot of errors – over 850 million of them!

I thought Float Epsilon was the smallest possible number which could be represented by a float? This statement doesn’t seem to make sense...
With 70 million daily searches (source wikipedia), the company must be doing great. I wonder why Mozilla doesn't explore this market.