skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have DDG as my default, except sometimes I switch it back to G for a few days.

I do something both odd and inefficient for local business search: I open the Apple Map app, and restaurants and other businesses show up, especially when I zoom in. I live in a small town, and seeing a map (with satellite imagery enabled, of course) and zooming in on different areas reminds me of where I might want to eat, etc. Fun.
And when you do so it does flash a message along the lines of “Disconnecting nearby wifi until tomorrow”.

Which makes it pretty clear it’s not a wifi kill switch but just a “my current connection is shit, let me use cellular” button.
> If we give them up, and then get in a war, that means we would almost automatically lose the war.

That argument has been pretty much made obsolete since the invention of the atom bomb...
Also a HubSpot user here. HubSpot seems ubiquitous, but extremely restrictive. I don’t know if I want to stay on it long-term. The contact pricing seems laughable to me. I want to automate reaching out to thousands of contacts, not dozens or hundreds.

Founder of a consultancy, so we’re lead heavy and not marketing heavy as another poster here mentions. I have the same questions. I don’t enjoy most email campaign websites. So I’m hoping some people have some good feedback to share here. I don’t think there’s a good marketing solution in that space. It’s best to stick with what is cheapest or who everyone uses, but I can’t decide between any of the existing incumbents.

As for generating leads, almost all of the existing platforms out there are so poor that I’d rather just scan the local corporation commission’s business entity search and go from there.
Sometimes they were visible, sometimes not, since distance was at play. The ATFLIR camera pods can see a lot farther than the human eye but these were also witnessed with human eyes by multiple Navy pilots from different angles.
Well I get your train of thought but we had one othery type of steel for quite long:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_C._Gillette#/media/File:G...

But it is fair point I am not interested to find more what kind of steel do they use for those sharpeners.
He hacked, did phenomenal work on database technology and opensourced his work, had plenty of meaningful experience which he realised could be put together to inform the public. And is currently in prison with only a slice of human rights supposedly guaranteed on UK soil.
> Giving a professional tool to someone doesn’t make them a professional.
Exactly! Two things come to mind:

Anecdotally and from experience, low-code tools are just another tool that developers build to make their life easier. And something interesting happens when a low-code tool gets wide adoption, usually a huge market is created to modify/customize/expand that tool. Think Wordpress, the ultimate low-code website that has created a huge demand for plugins, themes, integrations and whatnot.

Other predictions like AI is going to write code in the future... maybe we'll get some advanced, context aware code generation tools, but as far as I've have seen AI doesn't seem to have the capabilities that a good software engineer ought to have, i.e. creativity, problem solving, deciding where is a good place to compromise vs. taking the hard way...

Software development, even thought there are a lot of things that tech could improve (AI, low-code, et al), is a field that, in my opinion, needs human brains for the foreseeable future.
If the security level is artificially limited to 40 bits as the article suggests, then it is not good for securing any communications. It was relatively easy to crack DES-56 at rest before the turn of the century. A teraflop machine can defeat 40 bit encryption on the order of seconds.

Edit: fixed the incorrect "RSA-56" encryption. Thanks graderjs.
Yes because the United States only has jurisdiction for United States residents. However the United States is the most influential country for financial regulations so we will see some knock on effects.
You might be better off with an e-reader running full Android. I use Syncthing Fork, and it lets me do two-way sync between my tablet and a Macbook, which acts as a local server. No middleman cloud service required.
Lina Khan, Big Tech skeptic, named FTC chair mere hours after confirmation
I'm sure that as a child she also believed sharing is caring. Her current political positions are significantly to the right of that.
Great concept...keep the work up
> But these restrictions also reflect a substantially limited capacity to innovate

They also break already existing applications and workflows – there are e.g. quite a few file formats around that don't work with the "pick a single file and that's all you can access without pestering the user once more" model:
- separately stored subtitles (media players currently automatically look for those when opening a video, but with strictly sandboxed file access that would no longer work)
- playlists (opening a playlist should likely implicitly allow that application to also access all the files referenced therein, but of course the OS can't be expected to understand each and every filetypes intricacies)
- multi-part videos
- multi-part archives
- HTML documents with links to other documents and/or separately stored resources (media files/CSS/JS)
- any other kind of multi-file file format

Along the same lines, download manager extensions in Firefox have become semi-useless since the switch to webextensions, because there's no way to download multiple files elsewhere than the OS downloads folder without asking the user for each and every file.
Suppose that Russia gave you a cache of emails implicating a politician of your own favorite party in some kind of massive corruption scandal. Furthermore, suppose that you somehow knew they were real, and also somehow knew it was Russia (the second condition being the least realistic, but I'm working with you here.) Would you hide the emails to protect your former favorite party, allowing the corruption to continue, or would you release them in an action that would appear to help a foreign power? That's a serious question and I am interested which side HN would come down on.
>Not to mention servers collect most of that tax free when they shouldn’t.

I believe servers get taxed at a certain rate regardless of if they actually make the tip. It's assumed they will make $x in tips so they are taxed for $x regardless of if they made that or not. They get hosed on both sides (employers and government).
The wildest story from the Mississippi Bubble, the subject of this article:

"The Paris financial district at times became so agitated that soldiers had to be sent in to restore order. Another news article told of a hunchback who grew rich by charging traders for the use of his back as a desk for signing paperwork! All of Paris had gone mad, while rising prices and the excessive issue of bank notes cast a rosy light of false prosperity over the entire scene. It was at this point that the word “millionaire” first came into common usage."

www.thecurrencycollector.com/pdfs/John_Laws_Banque_Royale.pdf
> As you seem to be arguing that this is not call by reference you should probably correct the page.

I don't really disagree with what the article says there, although I don't like the way it's phrased. The full quote:

> In purely functional languages there is typically no semantic difference between the two strategies (since their data structures are immutable, so there is no possibility for a function to modify any of its arguments), so they are typically described as call by value even though implementations frequently use call by reference internally for the efficiency benefits.

A purely functional language with the property of referential transparency [0] can indeed be treated as using pass-by-value, or pass-by-reference, or even some blend of the two. With referential transparency, nothing hinges on which of the two strategies is used. I'm not sure it's accurate to say that they're typically described as call by value.

> there IS some amount of language specificity anyway

As Wikipedia says, the term call by sharing is not as widespread. I hadn't seen it before. I can't say I really see where they're going with that term:

> In particular it is not call by value because mutations of arguments performed by the called routine will be visible to the caller.

No, they aren't. In Java, you can pass an object reference to the callee function, and the reference will be passed by value. The callee function can modify the members of the referred-to object, in a way that may later be visible to the caller function. So what? That's still pass-by-value. It's the same in C, where the callee can modify a pointed-to variable.

The Wikipedia article also appears to suggest that in Java, all arguments are boxed/unboxed when passed. That isn't true.

I can see some sense in having a term to emphasise that Java sometimes performs boxing, rather than simple pass-by-value. This is to say, I agree that it's a slight oversimplification to say that Java always simply passes by value. If we go too far down this road though we'll need to recategorise C, as it allows implicit conversions between many of its primitive types.

> you should probably correct the page

I don't have the will to get into a Wikipedia edit war, which is how this kind of thing often goes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referential_transparency
Bullets are a truly silly approach. Grapeshot is already banned in war, and seems like it could be significantly more effective (but still they'll only tear a cone out of a cloud). As far as I can tell, the best defense is an EMP pulse to fry their electronics. If they aren't fully autonomous, jamming the radio might work.
Sounds like webhooks, but horribly misused.
May you please explain what Cal Newport has stated , that is considered "dubious science."
Dai is backed by lots of different assets in the Maker Vaults. Most of them are crypto but they just added some real estate assets and the plan from day one has been to add as much diversified collateral as possible for safety and scale (Dai can't scale big enough to service the entire world on crypto backing alone).
A Guide to Using Hugo (Static Site Generator Written in Go)
Why does that seem likely?
There were naked eye visuals from multiple pilots, targeting pod identifications, and radar from ships were also picking up whatever it was.

It is surprisingly convincing evidence of a peer state adversary with a huge tech advantage or... something else. I was moved from "no f'ing way do ufos exist", to "wtf.. it actually seems plausible" when reading up on it.
They’ll release that as a Chrome app.
> I have to put the advice at the spot of what I'm advising there.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. The idea with aspect-oriented programming is that you can create a bundle of functionality that extends existing functionality but exists as its own separate bundle.

In other words, you specifically do not have to put the advice at the same place as the adviced. That would just be regular procedural/functional/objevt-oriented programming, wouldn't it?
OPE could be as common as A/B testing in 5 years
I had that problem after working a year on my open source projects.

Then I went to get a PhD. I thought it would be flexible enough that I could keep working on oss. But there was no time for that. If it had been in a similar field, I could have worked on the oss as part of my thesis, but it was too unrelated

Now I have a PhD and a completely outdated oss project, and do not know what to do next
fwiw

> super-seeding

supersede : To take the place of; replace or supplant.

> Change is very good.

Hmmm. Not always and not for everyone. Evolution is good, but not for the 99% of extinct species. Still, better adapted systems persist. The real danger is local maxima. Which is why predators are needed. Still, lots of infrastructure is based on outdated technology, generations behind the bleeding edge, for the very reason that it works predictably. And we want infrastructure to work for a long time.
> I’m not an American so I may have a different perspective on it than you, but is Hillary Clinton the left? [..] From my perspective she sort of make Margret Tatcher look like a socialist.

I remember a comment from some years ago that went like: America's left is Europe's right and America's right is Europe's batshit lunatics :-P

It is all relative.
Just finished Talking to Strangers. That's an unfair ungenerous depiction, by omission. Specifically, the punch line.

Wide spread cargo cult adoption of Kansas City's policing strategy ignored the science, explaining why few reproduced KC's successes, with all sorts of terrible consequences, resulting many senseless deaths, and destroying trust and legitmacy of policing.

Just another tale of bad policy, unintended consequences, railing against entrenched dogma.

In this case, Gladwell's quixotic suggestion is to step back, reassess, try again. Daylighting the science during this cycle of turmoil seems reasonable. Might even help.

What more could he do? What would you do?
> Will Firefox containers do anything against fingerprinting however?

My understanding is that they do nothing. You are on the same FF version with the same preferences and extensions and all. AfAIK, the containers will only keep cookies separate
You should consider rereading Leslie Lamport's original paper. BFT is a property of corrupt votes, not the network. You keep trying to make it about the network. Like, if you want to have a conversation about how the network can influence the system's fault tolerance, you should instead consider the network topology -- as in, which routes between honest nodes include corrupt nodes. This is also considered by the paper, since corrupt nodes can censor or rewrite messages, and thus influence how many corrupt nodes the system can truly tolerate, given a network topology. But in no case does message delay give a BFT system's node an excuse to make forward progress without first verifying that at least 2f+1 replicas agree with its decision. Even voting on a view change to remove a presumed dead node requires a 2f+1 vote.
"""Urbanization of rural areas and rural exodus are the main factors characterizing the demographic evolution in Morocco. Moroccan cities are expected to host 73.7% of the country's inhabitants by 2050 instead of 60.4% in 2014."""

About what other topics would you care to be mistaken?
We had a similar issue. We built out a small tool in Go we call WHOMP (WebHOok Management Proxy). Our app code pumps to that and it handles all the rest of the delivery and security parts (eg: malicious hooks). This single go-binary can easily handle 1000+ RPS.

IMHO you're competing with some fairly simple code built on fairly simple queues that can handle loads of traffic at $5/mo after the build (it took us like 24 hours) and it's tightly integrated to our own app - so those retries/errors are visible.

I'm not clear on where the value is here. I drop my home brew then rework systems to your APIs to get back to baseline. Then what? I hit monthly cost parity at 15k messages a month. But at 20k messages it's $10/mo and goes up - it looks like I'd be over $50/mo on the platform quickly. Maybe I just don't see the Killer Feature here.
The best social science studies involve often accidental experiments, where good experimental conditions occur not because of design but because of happenstance. The analysis of these situations could be construed as a historical case study, or it could be construed as an experiment. I agree that seeing analogues in past societies is not the best approach, but studying history can sometimes reveal experiment-like conditions.
Implementation details: The compiler is written in Elm and compiles to WASM.
Back in the J. Edgar Hoover days the FBI kept dossiers on Presidents so they could be blackmailed.

Trump was under active FBI criminal investigations, spanning every aspect of his life, for the entirety of his presidency. Two of his lawyers had their offices raided by the FBI, all looking for anything they could find on him.

Maybe that had something to do with it?
Epistemology is an interesting field, but it's just *not part of the curriculum for engineering and experimental sciences types.

I only had a good introduction to it when I took it as an optional course in a humanities college.
> also, drones can do stupid things like fly underneath tanks

I'm not sure how this is superior to just shooting a tank with a missile.

> Or even place a charge, back off, detonate it, then place a second charge on the same spot and detonate that

Now you've halved the payload. If your drone can carry 10kg, you now have 2x 5kg bombs instead of 1x 10kg bomb. If you have a single payload, you have just a shitty, slow moving cruise missile.

> And of course a swarm can see multiple drones attack exactly the same spot on a tank's armour.

We have *guns* that attack the same spot on a Tank's armor. Let alone missiles or drones. Al Qaeda was chaining RPGs in the last war together (__literally__ a chain) that accomplishes that goal.

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The __ONLY__ advantage I can see drones having is sustaining a position for hours at a time. Missiles always fly at top speed, so you can't just "wait around" an area with a missile.

A drone with a gun can sit in a location for 4 hours waiting for the tank to come, then fire the RPG when the tank comes into position. That is, the drone plays a role similar to a modern infantry, except the drone is cheaper to make.

But as soon as you're talking "hit the same spot twice", then we're back to guns / RPGs with a chain on it. Maybe a drone can fire that gun, but... don't have the drone do the job directly.

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EDIT: The theory of "Combined Arms" means that in practice, you'll never face a lone tank. In practice, infantry move to protect tanks, and tanks move to protect infantry.

If you are a soldier who is facing an enemy army: you only have enough strength to carry one weapon. So what do you pick? An anti-tank RPG? Or an anti-infantry machine gun?

Drones seem to fit the same conundrum on both sides. I'd expect drones to be weak against small arms (a machine gun would quickly disable a drone, even if it moves at 100 mph). While RPGs are useless vs drones. Similarly, a drone has a very small payload, so it only can have a certain number of weapons.
I believe the DNS requests are routed through their ingress proxy, so there's no chance to hit an internal split horizon DNS server.
make the ones in power not happy and literally rot in jail :-(
Current unemployment rate is at 5.8% as of last month. Down from nearly 15% during the pandemic. I've read it's because the pandemic forced people to look for other jobs (like call centers) and they are actually better off. I'm sure it's a multitude of things.
I welcome contrary views when there's substance to them, but blind contrary statements like this don't really contribute anything to the discussion.

iow: expand
They could also target specific systems on the tank. The main gun, the engine, the tracks. They’re essentially anti tank hand grenades that don’t require someone to get close to the tank.
"On the other hand, conducting those experiments over wider demographics and in different points in time means that the study wants to build "universal" models of how each single person in the whole world acts, which is utterly dismissive of the specific local environment around people."

I don't think building "universal models" or observing recurring patterns through analysis of 'experiments over wider demographics and in different points in time' require the ambition to predict a single individual behavior or actions as a corollary.

The problem lies - like you said - with the policymaker. And well more generally with people who extrapolate the results of a paper inadequately.
It is a nice overview article. It is pretty frustrating that there has not been much progress in this area.
Show HN: Wuju – Stress relief for people who can't stick to habits
Buybacks are economically equivalent to dividends for a company, however they don't come with an expectation of future buybacks like dividends can (where if you drop your dividend, a lot of investors head for the door; you can stop doing buybacks and nobody notices).

For a taxable investor, a dividend incurs an immediate tax, but a buyback doesn't; if you were going to reinvest the dividend, a buyback is better. If you wouldn't reinvest the dividend, you could sell x% of your shares and some of the proceeds would be return of capital, so assuming long term capital gains, that's also better than a dividend. In tax-advantaged, there's no real difference.

Spending on R&D vs dividend or buyback is a different issue. Tech companies tend to have pretty high profit margins, so maybe they ran out of things they'd like to spend money on... it's not the worst thing to return it to investors rather than horde it or spend it on foolish things.
About Google Image, it stopped doing direct links as a result of a lawsuit by Getty Images. How does DDG get away with it?

Another advantage of DDG/Bing is the ability to really turn off safe search. Unlike Google, it will not try to guess if you want nudity or not based on your search query, resulting in weird situations where you have to look for porn in order to get "anatomically correct" pictures.
VPNs mostly do what they claim, but they may or may not be government or marketing honeypots, and a lot of the sales pitches around hackers and privacy aren't as interesting in the days of HTTPS. Aside from piracy and bypassing region restrictions, you're just hiding your IP address, but those change often enough already.
It’s a legitimate concern and we can always improve, so it kind of baffles me that now the left find him antithetical when they used to laud him just because he doesn’t follow their narrative. Never the less, what he releases can always be used for improvement even by the left, but it seems they don’t want to hear it any more.
That's my main point here. He isn't a journalist at all. He's basically a website operator.
Depending on the byproduct of the microbe's consumption, this might be a solid path to neutralizing methane in existing wells. I would be interested in how these microbes interact with fracking fluid, or their behavior in various methane concentrations.
Both pilots called in the tic tac, their IR sensors picked it up, they were able to get a lock on with their onboard radar, and the ship picked it up on the their radar. They definitely ran into something
That may not be a huge benefit, considering the destruction the drought is likely to cause. But it may give some people closure.
This! Bonferroni correction across all conducted studies/analyses. I will suggest this next time I am reviewing a paper with crazy claims and shitty statistics.
Not quite as bad, but I've worked with plenty of APIs that have an endpoint that returns all new data since the last time you ran the call. If something goes wrong with the call, it's basically impossible to see just the new data.