skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that and appreciate that this was a tough choice, but the alternative you're proposing (1) requires several more clicks, (2) expects the end user to trust an extension that is unknown to them at the onset, and (3) does not provide an intuitive way for the average user to know they can use incognito to try it out.

You have an extremely memorable URL and in my view, the quality and accuracy of the results should naturally help spread the word for you if you do indeed provide a compelling alternative.

I'm sorry, I just don't buy your argument about "monopoly and controlling the browser" when you don't require an extension for those using Firefox, Edge, etc. - yet you _hope_ that Google will still add you to the default list of search engines.
It doesn't look like there are any third-party libraries, so running this in a VM or a container will be unavoidable. This does include a CLI, so you'll be able to service some use cases without launching the GUI.

If your frequency of usage is only once every few months, then create a VM, install the minimum version of the OS (Linux is pretty small) and maybe experiment with how much you can reduce the RAM usage. Once you've used the VM, compress it into an xz archive and put it on a shelf somewhere - whether it's a cloud drive, a USB thumb drive, or whatever. When you need it again, restore the image, do whatever you need, and put it back on the shelf when you're done.

Ultimately, any "clever" solution is gonna go to waste, especially because you need to spend time to come up with a solution. Is your time something you want to give to Keybase? If not, then suck up the cost of maybe 30 gigs worth of storage off in a corner of your SSD/office desk, and maybe a few times of discomfort a year when you need to run with a reduced amount of RAM. It's a small amount of resources compared to your time, and doing it by brute force is cheap these days.
This sounds good on paper but this would just lead to degrees like liberal arts to be removed from the country.
According to https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/you-com-523e they have received $20M in funding, so as long as they have a sensible burn rate, they could last for years before having to think about how to make a profit. Although the projects that don't have a plan at the outset always seem to either turn bad or fail.
You cannot rely on anecdotes. I know people who claim that many of their relatives suffered severe adverse effects after taking the vaccine. We do not draw scientific conclusions from anecdotes.

>>then we'll need to do better science until we find it, because it definitely exists without any measure of doubt.

Nothing "definitely exists" when no compelling evidence for it has been found.

This is exactly the kind of Dunning-Kruger certainly that anti-vaxxers exhibit.
Thanks for posting about this. TIL about special devices.
But Wikipedia is living paycheck to paycheck despite getting a lot of donations. That is what Guy Macon's article is complaining about.
It's also just not well done. It would be trivial for them to send the email from jimmy@wikipedia.org. I'm actually glad they use a consistent email address for this stuff though as it makes it easier to file.
Woah, good for him. And good for the car industry. Glad to hear serious incentives are in place, we need more of that (and not just in the private sector...)
Efficacy of Ivermectin in Treatment of Covid-19
Author here - it's difficult to provide a single number to summarize what we've observed re: CPU, but one data point is that average CPU utilization across our cluster increased from ~40% to ~50%. This effect is more pronounced during NA daylight hours.

Worth noting that part of the reason this is relatively low impact for our read queries is that the hot portion of our dataset is usually in Postgres page cache where the data is already decompressed (we see a 95-98% cache hit rate under normal conditions). We've noticed the impact more for operations that involve large scans - in particular, backups and index builds have become more expensive.
> cobbling together hardware that gets them into trouble when the mad scientist moves on to a new gig.

If you think that standards based x86-64 hardware running Linux and ZFS, or FreeBSD and ZFS is something that is super unreliable and requires a "mad scientist", then yes, you are definitely in HPE and Dell's target market.
The irony being that Fornite skins are an even closer analogy to NFT collectibles. What you described is exactly why many people collect NFT collectibles. With Fortnite skins, the aesthetics, price, clout and access derived are completely beholden to the continued scarcity of the skin as well as beholden to the organization for its continued existence and use anywhere, both of which the organization can modify at any time. The NFT version of this skin has a very transparent and immutable (when properly crafted) supply. The issuer cannot change, and even if they attempted to the market knows which one is the original by earlier time. In a game or metaverse, the NFT version of the skin can convey access outside of that game/metaverse, and be applied as skins in other games, or be used to prove ownership to convey access to physical world events of other metaverses. This is exactly what is happening, right now, right this second, and for months, and what people hoard existing NFTs for and buy new NFT drops for.
2. TOR browser is built without webrtc support. There is no other way afaik, as firefox doesn't have a socket API for extensions anymore.
We went through that with outsourcing already. There is something about businesses and their communications - don't listen to what they say they need - that is really what they want and are whining for. Instead look at their actions - they take measures to fufill their actual needs.

We keep on seeing that scaremongering about "you taking advantage of remote work will be bad for your job oooooo!" but that doesn't make any sense. You forgoing its benefits won't make it not happen any more than riding a horse will stop people from using cars. Besides if they can why the hell aren't they already? The capability has long been there and they don't so much outsource to same order of magnitude.

Given immigration to the US for work and it implies the other way around - they need to pay US level salaries to get the high quality employees with any level of remote reliability (recruiting is a rather messy and slapdash endeavor at best for judging and obtaining quality).
i worked with a jr. dev copy+pasted a crypto miner in js came asking why the code is slow
ProctorU Violates Ill. Privacy Law, Class Action Alleges – 3/15/21
It is and you can.
> We realized that a better approach would be to abstract away the specifics of each environment by using infra-as-code as middleware. Infra-as-code solutions like Terraform, CloudFormation, etc. can represent infrastructure thoroughly in a standardized fashion. The majority of people we talked to were maintaining their infrastructure using Terraform or something similar, and it was easy to build out pipelines for those who didn't by using Terraform under the hood. This was the key to what became Gallery.

The problem you're trying to solve definitely exists, don't get me wrong; but the level of effort required to integrate with your service sounds more like a high-touch consultant-level engagement (definitely sounds enterprise-y and expensive). I'm not sure how you can scale this as a self-serve SaaS business.
You can also file for bankruptcy 3 years after driving the car off the lot.
This sort of attitude that prioritizes your own growth over the experience of your customers does not bode well for a company that is trying to sell itself as committed to user privacy.
Hi Tyriar,

Just wanted to provide some more info on the background service worker, though if you've pulled the code you've probably already seen the same.

Right now that worker does two things. It redirects to a survey if you uninstall the extension (going away in the next update once it makes it through the webstore review), and it allows detection of the installed extension since its required in Chrome unless you search from the url/navbar.

And just so there's full details on the restriction here too:

We determine if the search is from the url/navbar only through that fromSearchBar query parameter, so either manually entering the url without that query param, following links without that query param, or by setting your default in your settings manually and searching from the url/navbar will all work. It is just that search bar on the page that gets disabled without the extension. There's also no restriction right now on non-Chrome browsers or in a Chrome Incognito Window.

Thanks for digging in, bringing that up for clarification, and for your proposal!
ok.

> 1) The rent data you cite is for new leases. Since new leases only represent a fraction of total leases

The vast, vast plurality of residential leases are for 12 months - and the vast majority are for 6, 12, or 18 months. So no, you're flat out wrong, here. We're talking YoY numbers, so these values reset literally at the end of the timeframe we're discussing.

> 2) When you buy a house, you get two things: shelter and an investment asset.

Cool. Home ownership is at a multi-generational LOW in the United States, with a huge proportion of the HN demographic comprising those currently priced completely out of this market. The OER metric weighting is not updated frequently enough to sufficiently account for this fact.

The reality is that between shelter, fuel, and food, our cost of living is skyrocketing on the order of 12% per year, and the CPI understates this for obvious political reasons. The real yield on a 10y treasury is about -10%, so it's no wonder that obvious scams like AMC, JPEG NFTs, and Shiba Inu (the coin, not the breed) are so popular. You reach for yield any place you can.
Do u guys expect it to be on by default eventually, at least for Rails apps?
Show HN: Hal9 – Low-Code Analytics for the Web
Google's NTP servers also feature "leap smear", which skews the clock in order to "smear" a leap second over the course of 24 hours.

This means that on days with a leap second, their servers intentionally return the wrong time, off by up to half a second.

This does make lazy IT people's job easier, but makes their "stratum 1" claim even less correct.
Feels like it would be more airtight to amend the Constitution. Why hope that precedence falls a certain way instead of removing any ambiguity from the law?
MacOS's BSD roots are fascinating.
You can still run 'leave +0005' to remind yourself to leave your Terminal session after 5 minutes, to avoid using too much mainframe time.
On one hand, I am of the laughing crowd. On the other, I have to wonder if there is something I (we?) are missing if these highly paid marketers and engineers are going after it.

Surely it's not so shortsighted as to be about a few (<10) percent in investments? There has to be a longer term plan if not that. Maybe I am wrong.

At the end of the day, I'm standing back, wondering which fire will blow out first.
Hello HN from the Hal9 team (https://hal9.com). We’re building a low-code analytics platform based on web-technologies focused on making AI more accessible.

We have worked many years with different ML technologies across many projects, feeling frustrated at the amount of engineering effort required to set up even simple AI projects.

So with Hal9, we are lowering the barrier to AI by providing an integrated platform that can help you build data transformations, visualizations, and predictions from a library of reusable components. You drag-and-drop these components to compose data pipelines, but you are never stuck with us since you can always export the pipelines as JavaScript, R, Python or create your own blocks.

How is it different from existing solutions? Most AI applications require integrating a web frontend with an AI backend usually running Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, or h2o. One can build the AI backend in Docker, Kubernetes, MLflow, and such; you then set your web stack with say, NodeJS and React or go for a JAMStack. Between them, lies a REST API. This is fine for large projects, but setting this infrastructure, defining the API and maintaining this system is usually quite complex and expensive.

Hal9 solves this problem by integrating the frontend and backend under the same platform, giving you AI templates to start from, and letting us worry about keeping your application running. In many cases, all you have to do is drag-and-drop, in others you write code blocks in JavaScript, NodeJS, Python or R and we deploy the frontend and backend for you.

We found out web developers, business experts, and data scientists can benefit from Hal9. In teams that have all these disciplines, Hal9 becomes the place where they can collaborate from prototype to deployment. For teams that are missing one discipline, Hal9 fills that void by providing ready-to-use templates, blocks and a worry-free infrastructure.

In the short term, while you can do some basic AI like running image classification, regressions and sentiment analysis; we’ve put most of our effort in data transformations and visualizations in the browser. This helps us reduce cloud-compute costs, increase privacy and speed, at the cost of working with datasets of at most 1M rows. It was important to us to have strong building blocks and be able to scale to millions of users, even if it meant having to wait a little longer on proper AI using large datasets. That said, we already have early support for Python and R, and we will keep growing the platform and team to support larger datasets.

In addition, we have an open-core technology and our blocks are open source; so we are also hoping that experts in the community will create components in our GitHub repo for others to reuse. Check out https://github.com/hal9ai/hal9ai to contribute, submit issues, questions, or suggestions.

We’ve come a long way since our alpha release half a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27334145), and we are very excited to see what you can come up with on the platform. Let us know what you think!
People keep stating these look like photoshop filters. This is a very shallow dismissal imo. Why don't you prove it instead by applying some Photoshop filters and achieving a similar effect? Include how long it took as well.
I mean the available options kinda forces that.
You can't just hike tuition unless the government is pumping out 100% loans. This is crazy.
"summarizes the web"?
Thank you - haven't laughed like that in a while.
If I only pay my bills on time does my credit score go up in the US? Asking because I don't know, but if that is the case, not sure why you can call it 'hoop jumping'.

I don't care for the credit companies, they're total scum. But I'm not sure how to do anything better.
The problem is that the majority of users will likely bounce right off of such a foreign interface and never come back. Personally, I won't even consider this search engine until there's a less chaotic way to view the results.
RIP Copy and Paste from Stackoverflow
I dont think they are mutually exclusive.
Its perfectly possible to create self-regulated forums that function well without big tech being involved.
I think we've have been conditioned to believe that people like Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey are the best people to provide this kind of environment. I dont think this is remotely true.
Tor lost all credibility for sticking to firefox, not to mention all the other security issues discovered over the past few years
The actual history goes a bit differently, they already had generics working, however they weren't stable and management didn't want to delay the initial release.

https://mattwarren.org/2018/03/02/How-generics-were-added-to...
Emacs org-mode allows taking notes and having code blocks you can execute in the notes.

As someone who doesn’t use emacs though, I personally would love to see something like that with markdown/latex/notebooks. I guess you can already sorta do it with Jupyter and things like this.

Would be interesting for a more note-oriented tool to do this though.
If you search for, "asparagus leg", no quotes, the result appear to point to an incorrect URL
Filing cabinet = drive (C:)

Filing cabinet drawer = folder/directory (C:\blah)

File in filing cabinet drawer = sub-folder/subdirectory (C:\blah\blah)

Page in file = specific document/picture (C:\blah\blah\pic.gif)
Show HN: Personal Management System (data manager and organizer)
Did they fork Chromium yet?
I think I'm missing the point. What does any of this have to do with computer vision?
Does the problem go away again if you go back to below 80%?
Google Cloud for the Federal Government
https://www.reddit.com/r/NFTExchange/comments/qe3wec/new_ban...
transportation modelling, IIR.. he was from Spain
Absolutely.

This is a great primer for those completely unfamiliar: https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-Thomas-Sowell/dp/0465...
I hate proctoring software with a passion and I will never ever ask my students to use it. But I think it's important to understand where the demand for this software is coming from.

In the "old" days, 20 students walked into a room, sat down, and took a test in silence with pencil and paper while the instructor stood there. Now, 350 students go wherever they want, with classmates and many internet-connected devices around them, and take a test unmonitored.

Sure, you tell them the exam can be open-note as long as the work alone, that's easy. But they can work together, and that's hard to detect unless they literally copy.

The #1 problem is Chegg. They can screenshot and post the questions to Chegg and get answers back very quickly. And they do. To add to this, many schools have a large culture of cheating. Like > 10% of students or more will cheat on unproctored take-home tests.

That 10-30% basically ruin exams for everyone, but most of all the instructor. You can't give people relaxed take-home exams, too many will cheat. You have to give a strict time limit. You have to put a ton of effort into making questions obscure or idiosyncratic, rather than just giving standard problems from years past. And remember you have 350 exams to grade, so you can't ask very deep questions.

So I can't get that mad at my colleagues who use proctoring software. I can't really offer a reasonable alternative.
Moderna and U.S. at Odds over Vaccine Patent Rights
Belarus migrants: EU accuses Lukashenko of gangster-style abuse
But yet people do not think that one place to get all of your apps for a device is okay. Which is it? One place to rule them all, or free for all?
I'd also point out that commenting on the quality of the chicken noodle soup while on line at the supermarket (that's small talk) and randomly walking up to someone and tell them how sexy they look and suggest they sit on your face (that's harassment) are wildly different things.

Or do you believe they are exactly the same thing?
"Some web, image, video, or news results are powered by Microsoft"
So the same as Ecosia, Duckduckgo and any alternative search engines?
> Not quite true for C#: generics were added in CLR 2.0, which was a major update from CLR 1.1; the runtime was considerably reworked.

The two are unrelated.
Tapping into Bings Apis looks like a good plan to get started..
Most economically disadvantaged people don't even know they can get a loan. I used to assume everyone knew about government college loans. Most do not.
Robinhood hack compromises millions of customer email addresses and names
Notebooks are for the most part markdown with embedded executable code snippets.

Outside of datascience they can be used for exploring API's, databases, prototyping libraries etc.

But for general note taking, markdown would be better.
It is the same with most charities.

Donate once as a one-off and they will Never. Leave. You. Alone. You'll continue getting letters and emails and sometimes even calls for years and years after your last donation.

It puts me off donating.
This seemed interesting to me, but requiring an installation is a no-go, especially for privacy-minded software. I can tell you right now that most privacy-conscious individuals won't give you a proper chance if this is how you treat the onboarding process, regardless of how David V. Goliath the situation seems.

> I hope we can drop this requirement even in Chrome when we become one of the default options.

I don't mean to be pessimistic, but the chances of 'you.com' appearing in my search engine choices is slim to none. You're welcome to drag me through the mud when you prove me wrong, but hedging your entire bet on getting added as a default option is a suicide pact for any software, particularly ones that are competing with bigger players.

> It's tough to go up against a monopoly that controls the browser too?

It's tough doing anything on someone else's platform, monopoly or not. This just reads as a vague dismissal of a frankly serious problem. I recommend taking notes out of DuckDuckGo's book, where they took proactive measures to accommodate for security-minded individuals. The fact that they let you connect without Javascript enabled is a subtle nod to their power users, who might be more concerned with that stuff. On the other side of the spectrum is you.com, which requires me to install an extension while promising that it's 'more secure' in the end. The optics are not good, particularly for the people who know what they're looking for.
In-database comments combined with something like https://github.com/k1LoW/tbls make for very cheap database documentation.

No affiliation with tbls except that I'm a big fan
Was the same for me. Like others here, I was quite sceptical because I use Python / JS on a daily basis as a JSON query language, but after I got used to it, I really liked the language and think that it could increase my productivity if I would use it more often.
Not sure about SSD but filesystem COW doesn't only entail writing and freeing whole blocks, it entails "dont make an actual copy until write"

COW filesystem means you can make (virtual) copies of files /blocks without writing (duplicating) them on the media. They only write metadata for bare copies and delay duplicating data until a virtual duplicate is altered.

Actual writes are written into a free block, then the old block is marked clear. The old block is not copied and then written over. In my understanding that's not what COW characterizes - its refering to how copying data is almost free (only costs metadata changes in COW filesystems) until copies are altered (written to)
We're only a few generations away from multiple (3+) generations living under the same roof. I suspect with the rate that real estate prices and raw materials are increasing compared to the wages paid to laborers, it won't be but another generation or two before we're back in the same situation. Adult guidance is probably the most important thing, here, not necessarily a specific 2 parent household.
We're doing it to ourselves. We're the ones who keep clicking "I agree", who keep feeding these companies. Of course they're going to look to make a profit off of your data, there's nothing stopping them because we willingly gave it up.
So anyone living under a corrupt/violent regime are guilty of that regimes actions? Neat.
right, but that's no longer relevant (kind of like Sony themselves), so it shouldn't be limited to.

s/Sony/$sourceOfCurrentIre/

The brick containing EULA should be universally accepted.
Lukashenko? Putin, you mean...
The basics appeared into the scene via CLI and ML in 1976/78. Plenty of time.

There were also plenty of successful languages without generics in the last century, that doesn't mean we should keep designing them.
Would you donate to a charity that won't pay out for centuries?
It's not 1-1. Cython can compile regular Python, but you only really get significant speedups when you declare the types of things using cython-specific syntax.