skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are at least three types of searches where Google is still the 'king' over Bing.

1. Index size - Google spider visits more places than Bing spider. This is why Google delivers better results for compiler error strings, serial numbers etc.

Query examples where Bing/DDG completely miss the mark:

SA1DP2CF - a serial number

s2 034 253 033 C - audi rs2 exhaust manifold part no

Denninger Str. 96, 81925 München, Germany - what is on this location?

2. Intent/Semantic

Query examples:

tesla 00001 - who owns first tesla? Bing is completely lost

original elite alien name - looking for thargoids, Google tells me that right away, DDG #8

3. Localized

Query example:
hiking trails - Google gives me relevant local results based on my location (IP based), DDG doesn't (although it is aware of my IP-based location in the same way)

Getting these right is incredibly hard as you literally need Google size infrastructure to get this right, which even Bing doesn't have.

Second thing that is hard to catch up for any Google competitor is the rest of Google infrastructure users rely on - Browser, Email, Meet, Docs, Youtube, Android, Drive... Even if you get the search right but the user has to go back to Google for the rest of services, Google has a chance to get the user back.

IMO attacking Google starts with developing a product that does not insult user's intelligence, is innovative and does things Google can't, explores different business models (as ads inevitably lead to conflict of interest - optimize for user experience or advertising revenue?) and offers infrastructure that displaces (at least some) Google services.
Not a language but macbooks do have a feature that will read text for you.
> "The Republican version of Burisma story – essentially, that former General Prosecutor Viktor Shokin was Elliott Ness, and Joe Biden intervened to fire him specifically to aid his son’s company – is also not supported by evidence. What Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his cohorts have done to date is take a few unreported or under-reported facts and leap straight to a maximalist interpretation of corruption on Joe Biden’s part.

This isn’t right, ..."

It feels like we're learning again how terrible propaganda is, and how to deal with it in a new medium.

I do not claim to be fair or smart or scalable enough to tackle the problem of propaganda, and in fact, I think at times propaganda can be used for good.

However, Matt Taibbi has failed at least as much as Twitter and Facebook have in handling this.

Propaganda needs context. Twitter and Fb were not prepared to provide the context, and so they removed the story. Matt provides some context, but it is buried deep in his post, in the absolutely least likely place for it to be read: the paragraphs right before the last paragraph.

When dealing with propaganda, provide the context front and center.

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The answer for bad speech is famously 'more speech'. But what is the answer for poisoning the well of public discourse? I think this is the most important question of our day, the crux of the information age. Information is cheap, speech is cheap. I know society has gotten over it in the past, and I have some faith that we will again, but don't pretend it is easy.
Not only is the Sun the most expensive place in the solar system to deliver cargo to, it's also a really stupid idea to throw away nuclear waste. What we call waste today is really just fuel that we have extracted about 2% of the available energy from. The other 98% of the energy is still in there, waiting for us to decide to use it. The only reason we don't use that energy is that we didn't build reactors that can use it, and these days it's basically impossible to build new reactors. Too much politics, too many rules, too much NIMBY.
Gitlab can either:

- Not be a US company

- Not comply with US sanctions

- Not do business in the US

There’s options. Just because they don’t want to take them doesn’t mean they’re not there.
They set out to reduce build times, not to reduce git checkout times. It turns out that 99% of the entire build was spent downloading code.
To make it a bit more explicit - this requires a LOT of energy. Much more than is typically used on a regular space launch. The closest man made object to the sun is the Parker solar probe and it required a very large rocket AND multiple planetary assists (meaning the planets have to be lined up just right, which doesn't happen often), and with all that it _still_ doesn't go into the sun, just close to it.
Why are you so angry about this? You've commented throughout this post about how this is boring and the Pinterest team is incompetent. Why?

I found it quite interesting. I've been working in deployments for over 20 years at some pretty big places, and never really though about this before. I now have a new tool in my toolbox, and I'm quite happy about it.
Very interesting site.

https://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/mic/mm61/index.htm

> Although the MM-61 was originally intended for use in combination with dictation machines and the first generation of (large) hearing aids, it soon became a prime candidate for covert listening devices and recorders. When carried casually in the outer pocket of a coat, the microphone could barely be distinguised from a real fountain pen and would not raise any suspicion. Because it was overtly carried, the sound quality was superior compared to that of a concealed microphone

Also, the woodworm:
https://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/holzwurm/index.htm
This concept looks really interesting. I like the analogy you gave for both types of libs
This wasn't a SIM swap. When SIM swap happens, you wont be able to receive calls and SMS. I was getting both SMS and calls during the attack.

If someone has a better explanation, that would be great.
PG&E Outage Map
Every public platform would look exactly like your email's spam folder if they weren't expected to moderate anything.
That's insane ... Flying during or near labor is extremely dangerous and unnecessary
If something is going to be suppressed as Russian propaganda, there better be evidence that it is Russian propaganda. Otherwise the suppression itself is propaganda in the other direction.
It's a natural tradeoff made when we ask for generality and flexibility: Doing that means implicitly saying "I want to do less implementing and more engineering" because a complex configurable dependency becomes an object of study in itself, something that needs empirical testing to use at its best.

Versus the simple thing you would author yourself: if you know the engineering tradeoffs made at the per-line level you have a decent grasp of the performance and flexibility, but you are implementing it and debugging it.
You’ll be happy you did. People talk about how laptops are “fast enough” which they are, but when you’re using them all day, things happening a tiny bit faster makes for a much more pleasant experience.
BBC News: Windsor Castle: Changing hundreds of royal clocks
BBC News - Windsor Castle: Changing hundreds of royal clocks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-54387428
This is the one I was looking for. For anyone not familiar, read the Events section. It’s crazy.
You should play https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/ to learn the mathematics of orbital dynamics required to launch something into the sun. It's really hard which is why many of our solar system probes need to bounce off other planets (aka "gravity assist") to get close to the sun.

The math might change once we get a space elevator and a solar sail since it would be cheaper to get things into orbit and then parachute them into the sun.

Another idea would be to bury it into a really deep hole (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_borehole_disposal) or a part of the tectonic plates that would quickly take it into the Earth's core (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_floor_disposal).
Very popular question.

The short answer is: Counterintuitively it would take less energy to launch a spacecraft to another star than our own sun

As for why not into the space in general:

Risk of rockets failing. Lancing probes with small nuclear batteries is controversial. Think about launching tens of tons of nuclear waste. Almost 100,000 tonnes of nuclear waste is produced per year. That's clearly too much to launch.

If we would use SpaceX Falcon Heavy to launch only the highly radioactive waste )12,000 tons per year) for $2,500 per kg. It would cost $30 billion per year and 240 Falcon Heavy launches per year. Some of them will fall down, explode etc. and that must be dealt with.

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https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a21896/why-we...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/09/20/this...

https://www.universetoday.com/133317/can-we-launch-nuclear-w...

https://astronomy.com/news/2016/07/heres-why-we-cant-just-ro...
Well if they give you a laptop and as a result you're less productive, that's not really your problem.
> I've been using DDG since they first launched, and that simple promise was all it took to get me to try them out the first time I heard of them.

You will do that the vast majority of people wont, for them Google means search.
This would be a valid criticism if these companies didn't hire top tier operatives from both parties and donate substantial amounts via their PACs to both.
One of the (many) things that drives me batty about Jenkins is that there are two different ways to represent everything. These days the "declarative pipelines" style seems to be the first class citizen, but most of the documentation still shows the old way. I can't take the code in this example and compare it trivially to my pipelines because the exact same logic is represented in a completely different format. I wish they would just deprecate one or the other.
PageRank stopped working when black hat SEO figured out how to game it.

They had to evolve PageRank (into things like hubs and authorities, etc..) to maintain quality.

If you think their results are bad, try a rudimentary search query on the raw data from one of the open web index projects.

Google sucks in a lot of ways but they're still really really good at search.
What if McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy’s, Taco Bell, KFC, and Subway all decided to ban people whose name started with R? I’d be out of luck on any road trips and would have to look harder and pay more for a meal, and it would be grossly unfair. You can say “it’s their restaurant their rules” but I think that the law should tell them to get fucked, and I think that most would agree.
The future is tokenized brushing data
> In the US, one would think more than any place else you have the right to a lengthy trial before have a right stripped away.

No rights has been stripped away, you can still go the lengthy trial way if that's what you want to.

Respecting the DMCA is a way for the platform to avoid the lengthy trial process, because first, they don't care about your content, and second, because it's an incredibly expensive process.

The beauty in the DMCA system too is that you can file a counter claims, sadly not all platform make it easy to do so, but that just show how much they care about your content. I heard that Github allow to and that it's not too hard.
I think STR is the best possible competitor to chemical rockets for trips inside Jupiter’s orbit. NTR is what we will need out past Jupiter unless a few brave souls use chemical rockets for the fame of being first to make those extremely long expeditions to Jupiter and beyond. Much like early explorers in the age of sail.
The "good" thing about radiation is, it's easy to track:

> By Dec. 6, Mr. Sotelo had thrown the capsule off his truck into the salvage yard. The date is known because all paperwork from the junkyard dated Dec. 6 or later is radioactive.

…

> The capsule was made of nonferrous metal. Every time it was scooped up by the magnet, it eventually fell to the ground, spilling out cobalt pellets like salt from a shaker. The pellets were ferrous. The magnet picked them up and mixed them into the scrap leaving the junkyard. Some pellets were pulverized and thoroughly spread across the huge junkyard, and others are believed to have become imbedded in truck tires and spread along highways.

> In this manner, 300 curies of radioactive cobalt made its way to two foundries. One in Juarez manufactured metal table legs and sent them to the largest distributor of restaurant tables in the United States. Another in Chihuahua produced about 5,000 tons of rebar, or steel rods used to reinforce concrete in building projects.

> About 600 tons of the contaminated steel was shipped to the United States in December and January.

> Spill Discovered by Accident

> When a delivery truck took a wrong turn near the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico on Jan. 17, a radiation alarm was tripped. Thus, by accident, did the American and Mexican authorities learn of the contamination. It was quickly traced to the junkyard, which was closed Jan. 20. Mr. Sotelo's truck was impounded Jan. 26.
Perhaps this is a nitpick, but in the interest of raising awareness and diminishing harm I would like to add that not everyone who attempts suicide is in a dark place.

I have a close, immediate family member who has attempted suicide on numerous occasions. Sometimes she was in a dark place of depression and despair, for sure, but other times she was high on life and full of energy. Those times it would be a sudden urge that came over her, and not an outcome of despair.
The extent of Stasi surveillance and repression was profound and explains why Germans take privacy more seriously than other Western democracies.

It's scary to imagine what the Stasi would have been able to accomplish with today's surveillance technology. The article shows how their bugging was limiting by budget and by the human resources required to covertly insert recording devices. Since then, every aspect of surveillance has become easier, stealthier, and cheaper to deploy at scale. End-to-end encryption has been the main countermeasure, but can be worked around, since the metadata of a conversation tends to be more significant than the contents.
Ask HN: What are some non-tech schelling point locations?
ie. in the way SF was for tech, or NY for finance but for other communities, lifestyles, industries, etc
I would expect that internally someone profiled the build (i.e. looked at timestamps) and then either profiled git, or just looked at the logs and did some guessing/research. This didn't seem like it would be complicated to find once you realize the time is spent in git.

Also, this probably has been an exponentially increasing problem, and wasn't really a priority to solve until relatively recently. I would bet there are a lot of stale undeleted branches.
Thrust to weight still will matter. NTR and NERs still have to drag all that dead mass of engine, radiators and shielding wherever they go.
What percentage of mathematicians would that be?

You just need enough, given unlimited computational budgets.
Ask HN: What Happened at renrenche?
Nikola is a ten billion dollar company.
Ask HN: Are you relocating because of Covid? If so, where?
Holy crap, those kids are so uncomfortable. The first girl, Senator Chris Coons’ daughter, is apparently on Hunter’s laptop.
I think you are thinking of the accident in Goiânia (Brazil) in 1987, but this article is actually about the accident in Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) in 1983.

There have been quite a few accidents involving radiation sources from disused radiotherapy machines, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_radiation_acc... . In particular, there was an incident in Taiwan in 1982 which seems extremely similar to the one described in this article, it also involved a Cobolt-60 source contaminating recycled steel.
The 1984 NYTimes article nl shared in this thread has more details.

Excerpt:

When the capsule was breached it held about 400 curies of radioactive cobalt in the 6,010 pellets. Each pellet, according to Joel Lubenau, a health physicist at the Nuclear Regulatory Agency, produced a radiation dose of 25 rads per hour two inches from the pellet. One to 50 rads per hour is considered a significant radiation dose. In comparison, the highest exposure a bystander could have received from the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island was 100 millirads, or about one-tenth of a rad.

A rad is a unit of absorbed radiation. An average chest X-ray produces 20 to 30 millirads instantaneously. A lethal dose for half the population is 450 rads received instantaneously over the whole body.
You don’t need to. Most terminals already support graphics.

https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel
> Even though we’re telling Git to do a shallow clone, to not fetch any tags, and to fetch the last 50 commits ...

What is the reason for cloning 50 commits? Whenever I clone a repo off GitHub for a quick build and don't care about sending patches back, I always use --depth=1 to avoid any history or stale assets. Is there a reason to get more commits if you don't care about having a local copy of the history? Do automated build pipelines need more info?
Only if the shock absorbers and their backups fail.
For CI on large repos, you can do much better than this by using a persistent git cache. It takes a little finessing to destroy it if it's corrupt and avoid concurrent modifications, but it's extremely worth it.
Jup. Have you seen any more efficient medium to transfer money internationally?

Think of all the difficulties inherent in all the methods you’ve stated above, and compare them to bitcoin (or any cryptocurrency).

Of course we can go after thr actual criminals, it would just help if they can be traced.
The US Federal Reseve holds about 30% of all US mortgages:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-01/fed-s-mor...

Though I'd dispute that the Fed cares particularly about their valuation. The Fed's dual mandates are inflation and unemployment, not balance sheet returns.
Agreed. I spent 18 years working primarily on a laptop, and was happy with it. But then I gradually switched to a desktop for the last 7 year with tons of screen space (46" 4K plus 2 24" "wing" monitors. But for the last 6 months I've been working at home, and having my primary machine be able to move to and from the office easily, sounds pretty good what with the pandemic situation.

My setup now is a laptop with the USB-C docking station. So I plug in one USB-C cable and get:

30" external display, ErgoDox Ez, USB mouse, bigger speakers, 120W power, Mic for zoom calls.
Good idea, but not permitted under california constitution.

Also Palantir is renting so the basis would presumably be set by the landlord’s overall bill. Have to say that that’s not itself bad: a small number of entities own a lot of the commercial real estate in the city.
How does one find a job like yours?
Those aren't necessarily all that massive, though. Enormous in size, yes, but the mass would be a lot less than the mass of the fuel for less efficient rockets like chemical or nuclear thermal.

Either way, any vessel travelling beyond Mars or Venus in a time short enough to be safe for humans is going to require in orbit assembly, so size in terms of volume becomes less of a constraint. But as long as we're boosting all of our mass from Earth, that's what costs the money.
How does removing “Viagra bot spam” adhere to the moral principle of free speech? Why does the New York Post get special moral privileges that Bob’s Viagra Store does not?

This is the frustrating thing about this debate: one side tries to position itself as “anti-censorship”, when really that position only extends to cover speech they care about.
I’ve never had a problem with bing. Their video and image searching seem better.
Yea but NTR’s gains in ISP is mostly wasted by all its large dead mass requirements and its requirement to use hydrogen as a fuel.
Something isn't adding up. I grew up about twenty miles from here in the 1980s and 1990s and never heard of this. How is this possible?
The problem with LibGen, and why EleutherAI has been avoiding it, is that most of it is PDFs and most of the PDFs are scans; OCR layers are typically incredibly crummy. Even if you re-OCR them all with Tesseract or something (which will take quite a while, based on how long Tesseract takes to OCR my books even using parallelism on a Threadripper), the OCR will still be awful data. Do you really want to add that to your training dataset...? Far from obvious, and not when there are so many other pools of text like Arxiv which aren't so insoluble.
Also, profiling applications is surprisingly easy to learn. It boils down to looking at timestamps, and seeing what takes the longest. The majority of the effort is just figuring out where/how to get the timestamps you are looking for.

I will add that I think software complexity is only going to continue increasing over the long term; it reduces in some domains, but expands in others as we develop more advanced systems. Some kind of analogy to entropy.
A team discovers a major efficiency win requiring minimal engineering effort and your response is to... punish them?
That’s a very US centric view.
Well... tbh I'm still working on the build. But I don't do windows and I don't play FPS or anything where latency would be super important. I use VNC across town to my office and that's generally good enough... but we'll see. I had small hopes that "laptop as linux thin client" would have an easy PNP solution by now, but my research indicates that this still isn't the case. Definitely open to suggestions.
> Next time someone laughs off being bad at math, you should point out that being unable to read is no laughing matter, and being unable to understand numbers shouldn't be either.

You're not wrong, but you should not do this.
But the tool expanded significantly from its original purpose of acquiring YouTube videos, and it supports at least a hundred platforms through all its extractors. An opportunity to rename it to a more purposeful name will not come very often.
I'm not saying there isn't some desire among employees but most companies do not want to pay taxes in 50 states. I don't think the vast majority of workers can simply move without changing employers.
Or even the Age of the Black Friday Sale! ;-)
Shocking? Incompetent? A hiring postmortem? Really? AYFKM?
Right, from the article:

"This simple one line change reduced our clone times by 99% and significantly reduced our build times as a result."

So the title is just completely wrong.
Yahoo account wasn't a recovery account for Gmail.
We already have a significant amount of legal precedent to compel a private business to serve certain groups. Those protected groups were legally enshrined in the first place to extend them the same rights that everyone else already enjoyed by common custom, not to create a new group of people with elevated privileges. In my opinion, it's time that we now legally enshrine the common custom of a right to service as well.
Good luck getting LSD or uranium-235 on the open market. You can still buy these, but only illegally. The market is slightly less open due to laws and regulations.

These regulations can easily outlaw general-purpose computing on the same grounds of being too dangerous for the society. I can remind you how encryption algorithms were considered "munitions" back in 1990s, less than 30 years ago. At that time one would possibly say that it will always be possible to bring a small bottle of water onboard of an airplane. Betting on things always being "naturally" available, without a conscious effort to sustain them, is a fraught enterprise.