skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was doing exactly the same thing for the last several years (Firefox, not Vivaldi, but "g" is configured for Google). Sometimes I'd slip on the space and it'd go to DDG.

This happened a few months ago after I'd spent hours trying to find the right incantation to get Google to give me something other than a bunch of troubleshooting that I'd already done. The DDG page had much of the same, but the top link was bizarre in its irrelevance to my query. I don't know if it was the two hours of frustration that led me to click it[0] or that the title also included a service that my application used, but one I had (in error) ruled out as the culprit.

It turned out to be the exact solution I needed.

Here's my assessment:

- DDG falls down for queries that are seemingly simple but require context beyond the term to get the result I'm specifically looking for. Google knows too much about me, so if I search for a technology company by name, and it shares a name with seven other businesses, DDG won't put it on top unless that tech company ranks higher than the others using their privacy respecting search. Google will have it as the first link, with a sidebar explaining things that might keep me from needing to click it.

- DDG performs as well or better (in a lot of cases *better*) than both Bing (I think the major source of its search data) and Google for queries seeking programming/troubleshooting/other technical help. It surfaces results that don't show at all on Google for me. Its results for these queries contain fewer spammy responses, as well, for reasons unknown.

That last point was surprising to me mainly because ... Google has all of my context and a massive team of people who are supposed to be ensuring my results are excellent. DDG is working with so much less, yet they're providing me better results often enough that it seems they've got some things implemented that exceed Google's capabilities. I'm not sure if that's the case or if it's just coincidence, but it's happening enough (now that I'm giving them a chance and looking) that I'm happy with the outcome.

Give it a shot, next time. You may find, like I did, that it works really well for a lot more than it has in the past.

[0] Details at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29725919
Very informative article. I have two questions:

1. Is the multistep personal identification process listed in the court papers the same for all geofencing warrants?

2. How successful are these things in actual use?

The process described seems far less problematic that it would seem without knowledge of the process. But the court documents show that Google only claims to be able to accurately locate 67% of devices running their apps. And, it seems, that this translates to even fewer smartphone users. If you have an iPhone, Google might not even see you unless you are directly using their apps during the timeframe within the warrant. A lot of people turn off background refresh, and if you don't there is still no guarantee that iOS will allow the app to run in the background during that timeframe.
You should ask the Hosts that exact question! https://unnamedre.com/
> It'd be more useful to divert all fundings and investments they get into teaching rational thinking and information validation to people of all ages.

So everyone has to thoroughly investigate everything, become experts in all fields, and never rely on those with more education and experience. Thanks, I hate it.
I personally don't want the toxic mix of Big Corp + Gov Regulations for something like a home assistant. Literal nanny state. Micromanaging is not the answer. We need Gov regulations to break up Big Tech in general.

Just throw the goddamn device out of the window. Problem solved.
I remember doing it with some rolled aluminium foil; but I knew that electricity could be dangerous, so I put a piece of scotch tape around the middle part by which I was holding it. So there was a nice flash and the power went off, but I felt nothing :)
Take a look at the dashboard and note the current speed: https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

Right now it's traveling at about 0.55 miles per second. When I checked the other day that was over 0.7, and a bit after launch it was over 1.

Putting JWST into L2 is essentially the world's biggest curling toss ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling ).

As the OP alludes to, JWST's operational life is hard-limited by its fuel capacity. L2 (like L1 and L3, but unlike L4 and L5) is an unstable orbit, and without regular corrections it will drift out of position. This means that you want to save ALL your fuel for making those corrections, and thus spend as little of it as possible on getting there in the first place. So over the next month it's going to slowly crawl into place, cruising on no power other than what the Ariane initially gave it, getting continually slower and slower via the effect of the earth and sun's gravity until it stops perfectly in position.
Ask HN: How should I use my $2000 training budget before end of year?
I am an Engineering Manager at a company that offers a $2000 yearly training budget and I did not use any of it this year. It's reset in 2 days.

What should I buy with this?

The rules are pretty lax as long as it's loosely related to Software Engineering, Management and/or Business.
Unless you do not control when the VPN is on/off, they're no more intrusive than connecting directly to your University's wifi. As far as I know, it's pretty common since most universities have a lot of legacy infrastructure. A VPN is the easiest way for them to grant you access to certain services.

At my university, we could use any client we wanted. The school just provided the VPN endpoint. Minimally invasive.
What's good for the goose is not good for the gander. It's par for course in mental wealth.

In my experience if you have mental health issues and are part of a herd, you're gonna have to find a new one if you get better.
Is a primitive bacterium in any way or shape conscious? I think that would be a way too generous usage of the word.
So you want to censor Facebook?
I get where you’re coming from, sure you can’t project a human character onto 2 axes. But still this is all “to a degree”. I’ll never see my sweet silent coworker literally tear someone a new one in any context. Moreover, aren’t you just admitting that the colors are useful when remaining in a certain context? Sure, don’t take them home or to the gym but otherwise…
Main reason I heard was that enclosing it would be preferable, but then it wouldn't fit in any currently in use fairing.
Doctor: "You should eat a healthy diet and exercise, especially because of your blood pressure readings today."

You: "I just ran up the stairs, so that blood pressure reading is junk science."

Doctor: "Oh, okay then, yeah, then you are unique in all of mankind that you no longer need to worry about a healthy diet and exercise."

It is totally reasonable to ask for the other evidence they used to support mask mandates for kids, yes, for sure. It's not reasonable to even imply mask mandates for kids are junk science. Not yet.

Should we continue our dialog with the CDC? Yes.

Was the CDC intentionally basing its decisions on Junk Science? No.

Was this one study the one that "convinced" the CDC? Some people in this thread (including the author) seem certain it was. I believe their certainty is ridiculous.
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> "Experts" are just people with their own inherent biases

I get where you're going here, and I don't totally disagree, but that's not "just" what experts are. Typically experts are people who have spent far more time than other people doing exactly what you're describing: slowly sifting through and cross-referencing data, asking questions, digging up resources, and testing hypothesis.

It's good to be skeptical, and it's important to understand that experts have bias too, but there's a difference between someone who has passively consumed information in a biased manner and an expert who has dedicated real research to arrive at their viewpoint. Being able to consume and be critical of information from biased experts while still benefiting from and being enriched by their knowledge and expertise (instead of disregarding it because you disagree) is I think the crown jewel of "critical thinking".
How do they know you are using linux?, user-agent is easy to mask
> Otherwise seems like a reasonable API, very similar to groupBy in any other moderately functional language

Though lots of them implement the less useful but stream-able groupBy which only groups siblings matching the predicate (or key function).
Things go in cycles. LSD was a potential miracle drug but then it got a bad name due Leary et al. Ketamine will not make any pharmaceutical companies rich, therefore it will be a fad. Money matters, even moreso with mental health.
I'm not sure I understand this part

> costs shouldn't be externalized onto citizens but the corporations.

what costs do you mean? Costs in the broadest sense? That's a very amorphous type of cost.

> Force transparency on the engagement metrics and the algorithms they drive.

We can mostly infer this already and that knowledge isn't helping much

> Have C level executives face prison time.

This will have hard-to-predict consequences that may or may not be better than the status quo. We're trying to find a balance between free speech and misinformation. Harsh punishments are a blunt weapon.

> Force data interoperability or break up the SM monopolies.

Not sure how this would solve the problem under discussion. It would merely spread it over a larger surface area.
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Maybe they could add a feature that disables commands from child-like voices, or let you register voice profiles to create whitelists or blacklists.
It gets harder to disprove things when you ban anything that goes against the temporary truth
Gender ratios in NYC aren’t actually bad for women. There are actually more single men in nyc between ages 18-35 than single women. This stat is widely glossed over. But this is because that’s true in 95% of metros in the USA!!

There are only more women overall in nyc because they include women past 35 - which is past the prime dating years.

This holds true in just about every major city in the USA. 5% more men are born overall. It’s only evened out by age 40 because men kill themselves at a much higher rate than women. (General mental health crisis going on for men that is shoved under the rug)
This could be

1. Completly made up, written by a company involved in NFTs. The image is generated by AI

2. Real, but actually a money laundering scheme

3. Real, and people are really stupid

4. Real, but nowhere near $6M was actually collected

Can't tell which one it is, but neither would really surprise me.
I think you are stretching things beyond what is reasonable here. Claiming that healthcare is a choice on these grounds is not reasonable: most home deliveries are accompanied by a midwife who knows how to treat the mother and provide immediate care for the child. Absent that, you're looking at increase mortality rates for mother and child, and when death is the alternative the idea of "choice" in healthcare loses all sense in which it is an accessible option to people. It's the choice of a gun to your head.

To go on: After birth it would also be considered child abuse to avoid taking a severely sick child to the doctor, which practically makes "choosing" to avoid healthcare illegal. For those who may never get sick? Healthcare is not a choice if it relies on extreme fortune to avoid it. People mostly end up needing doctors for things beyond their control. Relying on unassisted home birth followed by odds defying luck in never getting severely sick up and until the moment you die of a massive instantly fatal heart attack or something similar? That is not a choice.

This makes it hard to determine if you are hairsplitting for the sake of it or genuinely arguing for healthcare as a choice people can make. If it's the later, you're making a spurious argument from the potential for statistical anomalies.
this kid's in for a nasty shock when he gets a job.
I’ve known people that took lithium for bipolar. It’s not a drug I’d recommend taking without professional supervision. Its side effects can include personality disassociation, weight gain, and memory loss. The people that I knew fought tooth and nail to get off it.

Obviously, the effects will differ between people, but best to go into things with your eyes open and a professional to supervise things.
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The article claims that "most experts agreed that 100 percent renewable energy was feasible", yet you decide to quote one of the contrarian experts. Why? In either case, I have satisfied your curiosity; the article links to a number of reports claiming that 100% renewable electricity is possible.
Quick relative truths are used because the alternative is getting burned alive.
The pro-monarchists seem to forget that tunnel-vision is a real problem. Half of the country believed Hillary Clinton (myself included) would’ve won in 2016.

> All I want from my government is to let me live my life and prevent especially horrible things from happening.

To make this happen, often times it means someone else is doing horrible things for you.

While we’re not at the level of Belgian-horribleness, the US people in power are perfectly capable of using people as cattle; and really good at hiding the ugly details.
The scientific method does not presume to produce or check "facts". Real science is based on probabilities. Individuals have to set their own criteria as to when level of probability they want to classify as a fact.
Very early on, I noticed that graduate students tend to be idealistic, postdocs extremely cynical, and faculty ruthlessly pragmatic perhaps to the point of occasional shortsightedness. Clearly, something about this progression is expected and normal. I'm a postdoc now, so I'm right on schedule.

I think the way it ultimately works is that you have to be disillusioned from the grade-school fairy tales told to the public about how science works before you can learn to live and work in the environment that actually exists rather than the one you wish existed.

> "Never question a scientific superior?" Not parsing that concept, please elaborate.

tech < grad student < postdoc < junior faculty < full prof < Big Guy/Gal < Nobel Laureate < NIH Director

People above you in that chain will accept limited feedback on methods to attain their chosen goals and will greatly resent questions about whether their selected goals are worthwhile/realistic/rational, or whether their gestalt vision of the field's conventional wisdom is correct.
> what happens when you think of everyone as a pigeonholed category. Intuitively it seems it should be mostly negative especially if the categories don’t even offer any behavioral insight.

Attach the label "antivax" or "conspiracist" to anyone and see what goes on in your mind.
I mean how am I supposed to know its fair market price? I got it for $0 mr. Taxman!
This seems like looking at the symptoms and making up "just so" stories to explain disease. American foreign affairs have always largely been driven by the desires of monied oligarchs. Smedley Butler, highly decorated Marine general wrote about that a century ago.

If anything has changed, I would think it has been the shorter-term thinking around business goals. "What have you done for me this quarter?" is not a philosophy of long-term stability. Couple that with our constant flip-flopping of political party and those parties' inability to maintain the previous administration's policies because that gets in the way of their own short-term goals and . . . here we are.
Where was this when I needed it? Happy discovery.
It's a valid concern, though once you know which brand of vpn they are using, there is plenty of 3rd party documentation on what the problem areas are, how to work around them, etc.

If you're extra paranoid, you could just run the vpn client in a VM.
Ketamine is not a psychedelic.
"Arrow" was the teacher's translation from the text, that could be Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar, the book that we followed most of the year. It's been a very long time... not sure if the word was (aprox.) missile o projectile, or something like that.

Also my uncle taught me to make it the size of an arrow, maybe to prevent me from killing someone :-)
To call something fake news when it is actually true is not an error it is deliberate manipulation of information and is censorship not an error.
Deliberately misunderstanding something is also not an error but disingenuous.
Why is this so hard to understand?
Schemes like that would involve not taking credit for it - just another example of US failure, not a success by China.
How do you secure something when other's know the secret? There has to be some "secret" (aka key) that some definition of "you" only knows, that the system then tests against (hopefully via some kind of asymmetric system or hash).
What in my comment led you to that conclusion?
Well, not really. They are neither nodes only in a ML algorithm but neither are they complete processors. They are somewhere in between where they can do some limited “signal processing” (eg. throttle signal frequency, negate it, and have some form of primitive memory even), but they are likely not Turing complex in themselves.
If a fact-check is ever found to be wrong, isn't that proof that the fact-checker is claiming things to be fact, when they aren't?

I'd support a licensing system for this, at the individual and company level. If Facebook fact checks are ever wrong, even once, they lose the ability to call anything they do a "fact check". Same reason certain ice creams are now "frozen dairy desserts".
I think the broader lesson is: Do not fight authoritarians with more authoritarianism.
What do NFTs have to do with Bitcoin?
no, it’s because he’s a white guy and kobe was not. note that it doesn’t require explicit racism, just implicit bias, to create such disparities (though it would be statistically unlikely that no explicit racists contributed to this state of affairs).
I for one wouldn't assume that "Alexa, give me a challenge to do" would be pulling from the open, uncensored internet. I would assume that Amazon had some kind of curation method that would remove the possibility of Alexa telling you to do something lethally stupid.

Further, what Alexa did is actually even worse than just reading from the open internet, because it only took the "challenge" part and stripped away the context about how dangerous it is.

This is akin to something like, "Alexa, tell me about civil rights" and it quoting Stormfront or some other hate site's take on race, without any other context about what it's reading from.
my review of Dr. Vu K therapy: You are lead into a room with a very comfortable chair, amazing head phones, great relaxing music, think first class airline seat but without being in an airplane. A nurse comes in and injects the K into your arm muscle (not a vein) and within seconds you feel the effect. Soon you forget all about how nervous you were coming to this office or worrying about urinary track issues, worrying about anything at all.

For about an hour you are in this wonderful state. The nurse comes in to check on you every so often. I can barely speak but I'm able to give a thumbs up and mumble "yes yes doing great."

The end reminds me of that Guns n' roses song, "when you're high you never, wanna come down..." But even after the hour is over and you can walk again and you are safe to drive, you are very happy the rest of the day.

I will say Dr. Vu sells a lot of other stuff besides K shots so be careful what you agree to. It can get very expensive! But overall I think it's a wonderful service he is offering.
A mistaken and false admission is still an admission. And he did make such an admission.

I believe, and I suspect most reasonable people would believe, that this was a gaffe and that the President did not mean what he said. It is an admission that should be given very little weight. But it remains an admission nonetheless, and it is a lie for Snopes to claim otherwise.
I still don't get it.

"The Fact Checkers (TM)(R)"... what are they in this case? They are employees working at the behest of the owner of the property of which you are a guest.

Should a company the size of Facebook get Section 230 protection? Probably not. Should government officials be allowed to use social media sites for official business? I don't think so. Should campaign finance laws be strengthened and ad spends on social media sites subject to much more sunshine? Sure. And should meta be broken up? Yeah.

I'm not here to defend Facebook, and I think the interventions I would propose to deal with the Facebook Problem are probably far more damaging to Facebook the company than "no more moderation".

But compelling speech is also a violation of free speech. If you demanded that I post your article on my personal homepage, I'd politely tell you to bugger off. And if you insisted that I should have to do so, I'd consider you an enemy of free speech.

Apparently you don't feel the same way about FB.

But where does that line get drawn?

And what, exactly, is FB allowed/not allowed to censor (and don't be glib, the answer "nothing" is functionally equivalent to "make FB 4chan" and I think you'll find fewer than 1% of the population that is radical enough to think that would improve things)?

Who decides?

We don't have good answers to those questions. They're fundamentally questions about who gets enormous amounts of political/economic power. Power corrupts. But even if we did have good answers to these impossible zero-sum questions, we still wouldn't really have a decent solution to the underlying problem.

The problem with platforms like FB isn't primarily caused by the content of any particular speech and so can't be solved by censorship of FB users or of FB itself. The wariness about FB is reasonable, but the instinct to solve the problem by censoring FB itself is all wrong. It grounds out a massive political struggle and doesn't even solve the underlying problem.
The person I was responding to specifically cited Minnesota.

You said "have been nothing close to 'full' for many months of the last year."

A reasonable interpretation of your words is that there was at least one month last year where the hospitals in your area were "close to 'full'."

How long does a hospital need to be "close to 'full'" for the people who work there to feel "overwhelmed"?
If I could upvote this more than once, I would.

It doesn’t just apply to writing human readable text, either. It’s great while developing software as well. I’ve learned to try and get some minimal deployable unit complete, then start filling it in. The sooner something is deployable, the sooner you’re iterating on it rather than having some huge first iteration before you get feedback.

It may not be useful at first, but it’s great for finding integration problems early, nailing down interfaces so that others can build off of it (e.g., start with an in memory representation before writing a persistence layer, so it “works”, with a bug being that it loses all info after a restart)

It also means that you can get metrics and monitoring in early, so you’re not having to tack that on at the last minute.

Once I internalized this, I found it made it a lot easier to fit in with writing user stores pretty well. Once you’ve got that first deployment done, you’re a able to have a feedback loop, so instead of designing some big system up front, you can get something small out and validate that it meets it’s need. and that there is a need.
The complexity of the undertaking was not building the rocket. The complexity is the telescope itself. It would be interesting what the costs come down to if rather than starting from scratch they iterated on existing designs. Anyone know what the incremental cost of building the same telescope again would look like?