skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Few people would actually go to the lengths of distributing fractional secrets to their friends and family. Even fewer people would do a good job of not losing them over the years.

I feel like this is all a solvable UX problem. The secrets could be automatically distributed and stored on friends/family devices, could be integrated into iMessage directly. "Choose friends you trust to help you recover data." If N of your M designated friends and family still have access to their phone when you need to recover your backup then you can get access, maybe by presenting a QR code on each device you can scan, or a notification you can interact with after confirming identity via a phone call or something.

The secrets wouldn't require any actions to keep intact, they could always be synced into iMessage and included in your own backups. Kind of like you're operating a RAID array across your friends and family, N+X redundancy, so long as no more than X of your group needs recovery at the same time you're good.

Kind if an interesting approach actually, would be neat to build this into Matrix as an experiment.
There's not lock downs in the US. There are some rules about how businesses can operate, but people aren't locked down.

Here there is no in person dining. I think it would be pretty interesting to compare their revenues from 2019 to the periods during the pandemic where they have been open. My impression is that the 2020 numbers would be pretty weak, but I don't know.
I've been using DDG for a while now as my primary search. I've found it does a much more literal searches, but doesn't always interpret the intent of my sentence as well as Google does.

I find myself using the !g at times when I can tell that the search didn't work as well as what I've seen on Google, but it's become much less frequent.
The guidelines are for accessibility—minimum/recommended score would presumably be set so that someone with moderate vision disability would not at all be troubled.

That puts it way above what someone with good eyesight should need for comfortable reading.

I am mostly questioning it being hard to read, with good color/font rendering, for someone with good eyesight. Mine is pretty bad, and while ugly, it wasn't hard to read at all.
WA residents get all of these things with 0% state tax, and only a bit more in property taxes. What Californians get for the extra taxes (and Washingtonians too, for that matter, for a large fraction of theirs) is a jobs program for incompetents that occasionally achieves something good as an unintended side effect; known as government.

I frankly have no idea why US govts on all levels, and from all parties, seem so much more incompetent than many European/Asian ones (I have a pet theory), but they are.
Single-Machine Simulation of Federated Learning Systems
At that point there is not point. A tweets lifetime is hours at most. No one scrolls back days.
As imoverclocked mentioned, some vehicles (VWs mostly AFAIK) have contraptions in the filler tube to attempt to prevent filling with unleaded gas. Of course, they don't quite work (at least the retrofit ones don't), which I know because some of the diesel pumps have the unleaded size nozzle, and I've filled with those, it just takes a lot longer.
My humor-detector is going wild, but I can't figure out the joke(s). I really hope I just need more coffee.
Also not the parent, but I assume "calculated beforehand" does not refer to the pandemic per se, but rather either preparedness for when the economy goes south or exploitation of that reality after the fact.
lol, I came here to post something snarky along the lines of "...of which 95% are !g" but you beat me to it and did it in a nicer way too :-)

And yes, me too - I do love DDG, very happy user.
I wonder how many of those are "!g" queries?
I've tried very hard to adopt duckduckgo but it just doesn't cut it, especially for technical topics.
> once they learn they move away to bigger companies which pay more

Maybe consider paying your people more or moving to a better company?
Yes, unlike the languages mentioned in TFA, it just works. Specifically, you can `await` anywhere without the requirement of declaring the surrounding context as async which in practice means you eliminate the red/blue distinction.
Focusmate is basically the same idea.

https://focusmate.com
Create a union for software engineers, make many software engineers join and threaten employers with labour strike. It works for other professions, so why not for software engineers?
>Are campaign finance limits taking away people's political rights? I suppose they are, relative to unlimited rights, but I still think they are necessary because they they tilt the balance toward democracy instead of plutocracy.

Actually, I think campaign finance limits expand political rights as it gives more people a more equal say. In fact, I support banning campaign contributions altogether and moving to publicly financed campaigns.

Because that not only gives more people a more equal voice, it also gives more people the opportunity to run competitive campaigns without deep-pocketed supporters and/or deep-pocketed political parties.

>For the same reason, I'm opposed to unlimited in-kind contributions, and also to censorship and "reverse boycotts".

I'm also opposed to the first two. Quite strongly, in fact.

As to the first, I have no problem with volunteering (time is a resource and, as such, could be considered an "in-kind" contribution but I'm okay with that) or using one's own resources (cars, phone minutes, electricity, etc.) while volunteering, but not much beyond that.

As to the second, censorship (that is, government censorship) is always wrong. However, private persons or groups have every right to control their freedom of association and the speech they allow on their property.

However, I'm not really clear on what you mean by a "reverse boycott."

I'll hazard a guess that you mean multiple product/service providers refusing to do business with a specific customer. If that's what you mean, I'm not sure I can fully agree.

Not because I don't believe in freedom, but just the opposite. Because forcing anyone to associate with someone they don't want to associate with (within the limits set out for protected classes[0]) reduces the freedom of those being forced.

And I believe that to be especially true when it comes to political actors and issues. Primarily because forcing someone to support political speech/beliefs/actions with which they disagree is an affront to our free society and the ideals of free association and political choice.

My apologies If I misunderstand how you define "reverse boycott," and I'd appreciate being corrected.

Thanks.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group

Edit: Added the missing link.
I believe that most of this non-constructive hate is coming from unconscious part of mind and specifically from "us versus them" mentality.
Telegram is obviously belong to "them" for the wast majority of people at the West, resulting in negative attitude by default.
Moreover, it's socially acceptable among "us" and is encouraged to display negative feeling toward "them"-related things, resulting in what we all can see.
Same here. I find myself doing that a lot... My experience is that Google's search results are superior to DDG's.
Amazon’s Ring Neighbors app exposed users’ precise locations and home addresses
While I get that, it was still shown above the other alerts without any option to toggle it on or off. Now it's just flat out gone from settings. For clarity I am in the USA.
I remember working with some one who has PhD in Physics and who worked at CERN - and one comment I loved "a key skill is knowing how to place the legend, so it obscures that annoying outlier data point"
Ok, we've edited the title to say that.
Wilson Bentley was first to claim each snowflake is unique–and provided evidence
I suspect they meant the economic/financial response to the pandemic, and the larger mom/pop => gig monolith and physical retail => ecommerce trends, rather than the pandemic itself.
The gulf between opt out and opt in is enormous, and the entire problem. Opt out is not informed consent.
I started questioning the western narrative about Japan when I learned that the fertility and suicide rates are actually worse in my country.

Turns out a lot of "exotic" problems in this country are all too familiar.
I've been switched to DDG for about 4 months now. I am loving the Ads I get in youtube now that google doesn't know what I am interested in they have noting to do with anything I care about. It's wonderful. DDG still has a way to go for really technical queries. I just can't get the same results about this error or that in Java. Until then I'm 100% DDG for personal and 100% google for work.
Trolls Wrongly Accused Retired Firefighter of Capitol Riot Murder
Good point. Pasting the relevant section and the explanation why they chose to implement it that way.

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Messages in iCloud also uses end-to-end encryption. If you have iCloud Backup turned on, your backup includes a copy of the key protecting your Messages. This ensures you can recover your Messages if you lose access to iCloud Keychain and your trusted devices. When you turn off iCloud Backup, a new key is generated on your device to protect future messages and isn't stored by Apple.
How can you "discredit" a fictional drama film? (Family Romance, LLC). Has "Inglourious Basterds" also been thoroughly discredited?

EDIT: Nevermind, apparently there exists an actual, real company named "Family Romance", that's what parent poster's quote is referring to.
Cavalry could absolutely not beat 'any group of non-cavalry'. Cavalry was a very specilised, powerful and effective tool. But the real world wasn't what the English guy said in Braveheart ("We have the heavy cavalry, we win"). Many knights fought on foot as well.

Cavalry could not break many infantry formations. You were safe in a square.

Cavalry was great at harassing supply lines in raids, and importantly running down fleeing infantry.

This is all purely a European perspective, steepe cavalry was very different, but many of their benefits were at a larger scale than a single battle.

Generally the whole thing is too complicated to draw some simple conclusion from. War is, and always has been complicated and messey, not a game of chess.
I'd guess that this is similar to the Netherlands, where it is primarily a function of household debt, and many households having negative net housing equity. [https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/economy-finance/e...]

The wealth inequality gini coefficient is not very useful and misleading. You could have a country where people choose to take on debt when they are young, and all of them end up with the same higher level of wealth later in life. This would be a very equal society, but could have a very high wealth inequality gini coefficient. To actually judge the wealth inequality of a society the analysis should be done cross-sectionally, comparing within age cohorts. [https://www.sv.uio.no/esop/english/publications/articles/201...]
> How about people who actually commit bad acts are the ones responsible for it?

"Strangely" enough this does not apply when corporations' money is at stake, hence sites like The Pirate Bay are held responsible. Taking 2 opposite approaches for the same issue in order for the lobbying corporations to profit is a sign of acting in bad faith.

Facebook built this 2 billion people village, exploited them and collected taxes, then said "You know what? Policing it is hard so let the governments do it". And the governments should do it. EaaS - Enforcement as a service. And as any service it should cost. No personal liability needed, once money starts pouring out of the companies' coffers you'll see how quickly they find a solution.
Its also pretty trivial to grow your own weed. Stop all the cross border trafficking you want but people will still be growing pounds in their apartments a year.
I growth this story after reflecting how in a universe ruled by the second law of thermodynamics, growth is remotely possible.

I used Robert's Green format of fact + interpretation to understand how this applies to startups.
Conservative activist Bevelyn Beatty, Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio, and a third Proud Boy were stabbed in DC just before the election. Beatty was hospitalized with a punctured lung:

https://www.newsweek.com/proud-boys-stabbed-washington-enriq...

On Twitter, many expressed glee at the attack and disappointment that the stabbings were not fatal:

https://twitter.com/ShaunG05712929/status/132404207163692236...

https://twitter.com/SaltPotatoes/status/1324004264524632069

https://twitter.com/DcAntifa/status/1323970794595196928

https://twitter.com/tonica5683/status/1324241314066632705

The tweets remain up.

This all happened a month before the stabbings at a Proud Boys rally in DC (victim affiliations unknown), which received considerably more press attention:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/pro-trump-dc...

This is one case I remembered off the top of my head, having followed the past year’s unrest closely (too closely for my mental health, if I’m honest). There are many cases like it, with many similar tweets.
BlackBerry sells smartphone patents to Huawei
Forced shutdowns without immediate compensation is an illegal government taking under the Constitution. You know it as expropriation.

There's got to be more incentive for governments to lift these restrictions, and a real cost of they don't, even if they're playing with someone else's money.
Considering Amazon built a replacement for mongodb to essentially give them the finger, I'd say it could go either way. If AWS feels like it's worth setting a precident, they may well fight tooth and nail to make them payup.
Historically that is false. The common farmer might want to come back to the land - but his younger brother needs to leave the farm because it can't support him! Thus those younger brothers have nothing to gain by coming back to the farm. Their gains can only be found in being really great at something the city needs (cities are less than 5% of the population because farms don't have enough surplus to support more than that, so this is worse than farming), or winning a war and making a farm on the enemies land. If the war is fought to a stalemate, but only one of the two brothers returns back to the farm that is okay too.

The sexist language is historically correct. Sorry ladies, history wasn't kind to you in general.
Interesting, does this also apply to externally applied over-the-counter antifungals such as Clotrimazole or Bifonazole?
Yes, Music Teacher's Helper has a Practice Log which allows students to record their practice times and what they practiced. The teacher can then evaluate the student's practice, minutes per day or week, etc. with bar charts and other tools. See https://musicteachershelper.com
FYI — I increased the font sizes in version 2!
Mathematicians Resurrect Hilbert’s 13th Problem
In my experience this can be an extremely harmful approach to talk therapy (and talking about therapy).

The main benefit is having someone trained to listen for specific symptoms based on what you talk about and to develop treatment strategies based on what you discuss and symptoms you experience.

I wouldn't reduce it to "having someone who cares about your problems for 45 minutes." It's more like "talking about your problems for 45 minutes to someone who can recognize which ones are rational, which ones aren't, and can discuss with you how to mitigate the negative effects of your own irrational thoughts."
Part of the “humans are social creatures” thing - communication is thought. Explaining yourself to another person organizes and makes connections within your ideas that rumination doesn’t.
To the webmasters here on HN:

Do you see this reflected in higher user numbers coming from DuckDuckGo over time?

I run a website too. Let me check the stats...

So according to Google Analytics over the last 30 days, 0.7% of my visitors came from DDG. Not bad. That is more then half of Bing, from which 1.2% of my visitors come.

Over time, the DuckDuckGo trend does not look as exponential as in their chart though. More like a linear growth that about doubled from early 2019 to now. But that could be due to many factors of course. Blocked analytics being one.
MeWe Sold Itself on Privacy. Then the Radical Right Arrived
If a dog can talk
Solar Glass Changing the World of Renewable Solar Energy
Public opinion is swayed elsewhere as well and in plain sight. Most people have barely any knowledge of their own history and usually don't care to find out. Americans have all the information at their fingertips and yet we can all see how that is working out in terms of discourse.

My point isn't to defend the CCP apparatus or to engage in whataboutism, but simply to point out that China isn't a blob of unthinking people as they are often portrayed to be. Nor are they basically primed to instantly adopt Western values should some Westerner bravely bust through the censorship wall and "educate" them. That's where the orientalism springs from: an inability to conceive of other cultures as anything other than relative actors to one's own.[0]

In my view, it is a widespread and serious flaw in thinking that only helps to weaken the West when dealing with China.

[0] For an amusing illustrative example see https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/29/how-weste...
> 'Social medias as they exist today are broken because they have been engineered on the assumption to make money on ads. '

No, actually, they are created by intelligence agencies, for the sole purpose of gathering intelligence on everyone in the world. Full stop.

Facebook was founded the very same day the DARPA LifeLog project was 'abandoned.' Look it up.

The 'ad' stuff is just the nonsense they use to 'explain' how these companies somehow sprang up out of nothing overnight and continue to persist today, supposedly by selling billions of dollars of advertising, while you or I couldn't figure out how to even keep the lights turned on selling ads.

All of the 'brokenness' of 'social' media, and of society in general, isn't by accident. It's all by design.
Just wanted to add a nuance to the Pebble comment. Yes, it is a reflective LCD. But, it is also a pixel in memory LCD that has much lower standby power usage. Unless I'm wrong, I'm fairly certain this tech is patented by Sharp and isn't scaled up to larger screen sizes. This makes it sometimes difficult to source these screens (and oftentimes difficult to source large quantities)
Ddg is so good at this point I forget I’m not using Google. I only have to drop in a !g a couple times a month at most.

I am actually surprised it is only 100M per day. I think it would be much bigger if there was actual fair competition.
This sounds reasonable. The trick is to identify companies/cultures of each type at interview time. But is that even possible?
On the other hand, Duckduckgo news is much better than google's.
Both, depends on the search.
Do DDG use any 3rd party search results by default? (for non-!g queries and the like)
The point is that the political economy of modern society has created a kindred service-economy elite.

About half the country is blamed by cloistered, effete elites for any resentment, misfortune or despair created by a shifting economy.

Nearly every "activist" concern is a hyper-specific rabbit-hole that serves to distract from larger forces of class warfare, while simultaneously justifying class superiority and morality.
I pretty much always go with whatever DDG has for most things. If needed I'll redo the query with "!g" to confirm an d in my experience there are a lot of times the DDG query was better in my opinion. Things like about locations or very recent news are usually easier to find on Google though.

I also use "!a" and "!yt" all the time as well.
They use Microsoft Advertising: https://help.duckduckgo.com/company/advertising-and-affiliat..., more info: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ad...
In this context, perhaps reducing by 3-5%. For example, instead of getting $300,000 an engineer might only get $285,000.
Apple patent allowing iPhones to communicate in Underwater and Underground
Under government alerts, I have a toggle for Emergency Alerts on 8+. I believe that includes the presidential alert.
Gitlab partners with IBM Cloud to improve collaboration for DevOps
Weirdly enough the FCC disagrees:

https://www.weatherboy.com/fcc-issues-advisory-about-emergen...
After a few failed attempts to migrate from Google as my default search engine due to poor results, a couple of months ago, I decided to give DDG another try. Been using daily since, I don't even remember what Google is. Not sure if the service did improve that much or what, but I'm glad I could move on. Youtube, you are next.
Unpopular opinion, but I don't understand why people still tolerate these drastic and destructive measures when we can see all over the world that they have minimal effect on seasonal virus infections. Have we abandoned all common sense in sheer panic?

Just an example:
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...

Romania has had much more liberal policies than Austria for months, yet it is doing better (by a small constant factor it seems). The seasonal effect is clearly visible.

We will be suffering the consequences of these wrong policies for years as countries, and in particular also Europe as a whole, losing ground internationally.
DC should just be absorbed into Maryland
And in my experience pet insurance is more generous than human insurance
As a counterpoint, I also use DDG with a !g fallback. I'd place the success of fall-backing to Google at 20% at most. (i.e. most of the time, if DDG fails, Google will fail too).
You can still be highly effective in disincentivizing behavior without completely preventing it. Enforcement raises risk, raising prices, which decreases consumption and thus the incentive to distribute. People are less likely to want to participate as a seller or buyer.

You talk a big game, but I don't think you understand the reality for people who are involved and get caught. Let me know when one of your closest friends gets arrested by the Feds and you don't get to see them for a decade plus.
Yes I also chop my salads with RPGs and AK-47s :) #notallguns
Exactly, there is a massive amount of money, and tons of fear.

There has been an epic increase in gun, ammo and armor sales this year to people of all political persuasions. Gun folks are bad with this anyways due to the political cycle and ammo shortages and bans of various types of items, but there is a genuine shortage where people who are afraid of riots and violence in their cities across the US have been buying up anything and everything.

Not every city got looted, but a lot of major downtown areas did, and the police in a number of cities are going through real attrition, to the point where a lot of crime will just not be dealt with. Not to mention it will be extremely difficult to hire more police officers after they spend a year demonizing them and forcing them to deal with riots that they effectively are not allowed to stop (especially Seattle- where I live- and Portland).

Now, I have a different theory with a lot of the tactical shit. I think a huge amount of it it is hypebeast/instagram-driven fashion for a large segment of young American men with disposable incomes and no bars and sports open. Cosplay, if you will- and it's openly admitted.

PS: Assholes who are buying all the .22LR, please stop/go for a different caliber. Some of us like target shooting and want to continue our hobby.
Can Facebook violate any TOS and not get kicked off because of antitrust?

They could justify it to a court, because "Facebook incubated the insurrection" or "Facebook broke our rules" not because "we don't like enabling our competitors".
That sentence reads like a standardized English test question. Follow up questions from the passage: "Why did dire wolves choose North America as their home?", "True or False: Gray wolves choose to follow the dire wolves in search of open lands."