skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm sure that fifteen years from now, DuckDuckGo will be ad-infested crap

In terms of direct ads, perhaps. But for SEO spam, in many cases, DDG already seems to be there. For example, things as simple as "python datetime", "python json", or "python datetime.now", where it would seem obvious that the top result would be the documentation for the module/function, have spam sites above the actual Python documentation. Meanwhile, search for "matplotlib", and your screen will fill up with ads.
Aren't there a lot of immigrants from poorer countries in California?
Maybe a random but relevant question to ask - it recently occurred to me that I know very little about the average HN user, but I presume almost if not all of the people here to be male. Curious if that’s accurate or not.
> It is in all practical senses impossible for an iPhone or Mac user to change their search engine to a new search engine on Safari or at the iOS level.

There are five (very simply accessible) different choices for Safari on iOS.

But if you switch to iCabMobile on iOS there are TWENTY-FIVE search engines to choose from.
It hit me deep. Loved it! Thanks for sharing!
I must say I loved it. In 10min I cleared my inbox which I was postponing for a few weeks.

I actually love that this is tied to Gmail. The integration means I can move back at any time by just deleting my shortwave account so it's very low risk for me. Also it's top notch, it imported all my aliases and signatures.
Literal example. They weren't saying "we should kill homeless people", but more along the lines of "the most effective way of dealing with the homeless, of course, would be to kill them, but that's not politically acceptable..."

At the time I had seen it, which was hours after the topic was posted, it wasn't voted down.
I have a previous generation Chromebox that I use for video conferencing. It is absolutely infuriating that a modern ChromeOS does not work on it not because the specs are out of date but because Google just does not allow it.

It has a supported CPU, a supported wifi, a supported USB and a supported bluetooth a supported disk and a supported amount of memory. But it is out of ChromeOS support window.
It's not quite a fair comparison, since Numpy is running with float64 while Jax is running with float32.

If you fix the benchmarks then looks like this

5 loops, best of 5: 99.2 ms per loop

10 loops, best of 5: 114 ms per loop

10 loops, best of 5: 20.2 ms per loop

5x faster is to be expected as there are 5 pointwise operations (that are bandwidth bound) that can be fused.

The leading comparison is also quite misleading, imo, since I think it's comparing Numpy on CPU vs. Jax on an accelerator.
Oh, of course! I'm most definitely not saying Chrome, Edge or Safari are better. I'm saying Firefox is just as bad.

I mean, the fact we're even discussing whether or not Firefox is more or less user-hostile than Google and Microsoft illustrates my point perfectly :)
Thanks for the tip! At our hospital the standard of care is delayed cord clamping, although it sounds like they wait only a few minutes, not 15+ minutes. It used to be done in ~<1 minute, I guess, so a few minutes is called delayed now. Do you have a good reference recommending to wait “long as possible”?
Shortwave cofounder here. We totally get that. Gmail is just the start for us. We plan to support more providers in the future and even become our own provider long-term. Read more about our company mission on our blog [1].

[1] https://www.shortwave.com/blog/future-of-messaging/
NumPy can't run on accelerators, which is part of where the difference stems from. I implemented the same operation first with both NP/JAX on CPU, then with JAX on TPU and NP again on CPU, not sure if you saw that part.

Obviously, the ability to use an accelerator makes JAX faster, but even without that on CPU it was faster. This is in part because of JIT, and in fairness the calculation in question does lend itself well to being expedited by JIT.

I actually have some preliminary benchmarks for a follow up specifically on just NumPy vs JAX, and it has become clear so far that NumPy is better in certain cases, especially for small operations where the overhead of JAX is not worth it.

In the article I mention this briefly, along with how JAX hasn't been focused on being optimized on CPU because they have bigger fish to fry, so to speak. I also link to the JAX documentation that has some comments comparing the two!

Relating to TF - I don't actually use TF at any point, but I did use PyTorch for Hessian calculation. TF and PT obviously do both work on GPU, but JAX has the benefit of being able to JIT more and implement everything in terms of XLA (although TF obviously has XLA support as well, and PT kind of does but just to get PT working on TPU).

Thinking about doing another article on a direct comparison of JAX with PT and TF - let me know if that's something you'd like to see!
> Everyone knows that it's possible to physically move items from one place to another even if the legal owner of the item does not consent.

Maybe everybody knows it, but it certainly is worth reiterating. I find the notion of transaction finality as a spectrum very useful.
Slight correction here. Apparently it wasn't the head of the agency but the head rocket designer and he spat on Musk's shoes and not in his face. For the record.
I see your point. I would have sworn that DuckDuckGo was added as a search entry when I installed that app on my ios device, however my memory is hazy from that long ago, so perhaps that search engine was added at a different point, like when it became big enough for Apple to notice them.
My personal experience with iPod 5th gen (the one used in the article):

- indeed produces the best audio with the wolfson chip, but this difference to a 7th/latest gen is hardly noticable (while 6th gen and others are not as good)

- does not support EarPod or similar headphone remotes, while the 7th gen does - with one limitation: fast forward and backward does not work

- supports a 2200mah battery (40h of listening) when used with iFlash Quad and a THIN back cover (i built one, google for "ipod 2200mah") but not the 3000mah one (only supported with the thick cover) - this is also the case for 7th gen

- has a far less good haptic expierience (the wheel does not feel as well)

- when using the wrong microSD cards behaves strange or does not event work

- when using original firmware, depending on the version (there is 5th and 5.5th gen), it does not support as many audio files (20000 instead of 50000)

- when using original firmware, I would not invest in more than 512GB flash storage because max 50000 Tracks/Files are supported - unless you want to listen to audiobooks

My advice:

- Get and iPod 7th Gen 160GB from 2009

- Get an iSesamo opening tool (only one - this tool is better quality than anything else for the first hull breach)

- Get an iFlash Quad and 3 similar to iSesamo opening tools from the same shop (lower quality, but cheap and good for second and third stroke)

- Get 2 to 4 NEW Transcend 256GB cards (TS256GUSD300S-A)

- Get a 2200mah iPod Battery from ebay (not the 3000mah, it won't fit in the thin case)

- Be extremely careful removing the old battery or you will break the headphone adapter (if this happens, buy a cheap 5th gen iPod, the parts are interchangable)

- Do not remove the blue rubber stuff but put it back in - these are dust protectors

- Test and restore your iPod BEFORE closing

- Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AF1Pjbwc6c&list=PLfSaYZHlgM...

- Build the iPod of your dreams with up to 1TB Storage, good audio quality and > 40 hours continous listening time
No -- but I take your point. I meant "with evidence" here.

The point is, many lies are a particular kind of bad faith. You can point out to the guy who, say, believes Antoine Béchamp is the last word in medicine, that he is misrepresenting Béchamp in the past, let alone misrepresenting science in the present, and that guy will argue that it is the very predictable pattern of your fact-based attempt to disprove him that is evidence of your perfidy.

When you know that person is making that argument knowing it to be false, there is no point in accusing them.

The only thing you can do is tackle the "alternative facts" as misinformation rather than as an attempt to deceive.

Because those who argue in bad faith claim injury in bad faith too. "Misinformation" is a more dispassionate approach.
Ask HN: How did you successfully hack a (non-computer) system to your advantage?
A shortened version of the famous YC application question
Yes, this is how normal everyday commerce works. My employer transfers some USD into my bank account. I then transfer some of those USD to my landlord's bank account. This is in no sense a reversal of an earlier transaction or an indication that an earlier transaction was "not finalized."
You can use decentralised exchanges or websites like localbitcoins to avoid any institutions.
It seems people are working on this, yes. See other comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30350659 Breaking existing websites is not an acceptable solution.
Another open source solution written in Go is https://getconvoy.io/
> hilariously, still manages to shoehorn an Orion capsule into the plan, at least for now

Why is this hilarious? It makes perfect sense for the mission to me. The HLS probably isnt going to return to Earth, and even if it did have that capability, it seems extremely unlikely that we will have humans on a propulsively landed Starship by the end of the decade. Id be much more concerned if Orion wasnt part of the plan
it boots from a usb stick and seems web only so it should run anywhere you can run chrome browser; I suppose?
I can’t trust a review site that uses affiliate links, which is even more of a joke now that it’s paywalled.
MOE wasn't, but colocating blast furnaces with steel converters is a very old idea.
Glitch and DigitalOcean make deploying your apps even easier
You’re saying “takesies” does not rhyme with “backsies”? As a counterexample, what would be a word that would rhyme with one but not the other?
Disable write protect on the firmware and install Flex or a Linux distro. Wish they'd automatically unlock the firmware on devices that fall out of the support window.
Very true. There is a huge disconnect between what people say and what they do. Especially when they say "I would definitely pay for that"!
At the time that such an acquisition took place, it would have been heavily premised on FB feed injection, and if such a thing were to be realistic, I would have heard about it.

This is utter hearsay, unreliable watercooler baseball, but it’s not one person who said that he was in Thailand chilling for most of the vest.
NumPy does not automatically use GPU, so my guess is that the speedup is due to the CPU/GPU differential. This is specifically noted later on in the "Should I use JAX" section - if you just want numpy for accelerators, JAX is a no-brainer.
https://redditsearch.io/ is the way to go, if you want simple keyword matching and don't want Google AI transforming your search query.
Adding money to the mix is always problematic. Money destroyed sports. And money destroyed the web. The amateurs are still out there, but the content served by SERP's are mostly from professionals. Just like when you look at sports on TV there are mostly professionals.
If you use an echo chamber to ask if you are in an echo chamber the answer will most likely be no.
Reddit is MUCH more of an echo chamber than HN. You will get downvoted on most subs if you say something that goes against that sub's majority opinion. Whereas on HN, people will usually entertain a good-faith argument.
Netflix used to support my Roku's "skip back 10 seconds" remote button, but years ago they stopped. I rarely watch Netflix anymore but just played something the other day and found they have now also dropped support for the system's subtitle framework, meaning I can no longer use the "show subtitles only when I rewind" feature, which I use constantly.

I cannot conceive of any reason for dropping these features which they already implemented except a petulant desire to maintain full control of the user experience rather than ceding anything to the platform conventions. Well, I bought a Roku because I like the platform conventions. Since Netflix seems intent on pissing in my cheerios I'll happily be pirating what little interesting content they put out in the future, so I can watch it in Plex where things work as they should.
I'm going to try Flex. I don't want Linux on it. It is just a video conferencing box. I want it to be a total appliance.

P.S. I just checked - not a single Chromebook/Chromebox are listed on a supported devices list.
I think this is backwards. The majority of the launch technology used by NASA (the rockets themselves, not the capsules etc) were military. It wasn't until the Saturn system that bespoke rockets were being used, IIRC.
YouTube Star Is Also a Retail Empire
I have never appended reddit in my queries. I don’t find majority of Reddit credible or complete. The author here is extraordinarily hyperbolic. Reddit is not “next” search engine by any possible stretch of imagination. I would think search driven by very large transformer based models is probably the next thing but it’s 5 to 10 years away.
Google is the default search on the vast majority of phones and desktop browsers by default.

People don't change their search engine from something else to Google, because it is already the default search engine on the devices they buy and the web browsers they use.

So people do not make a conscious choice to use Google. The vast majority make no choice at all. Google is synonymous with search because it is already the search engine on their phones and computers. They are simply never asked which search engine they want to use.

Most consumers have no idea that you can even change your search engine. After talking with hundreds of users, they find it's either impossible to change (iPhone/MacOS) or too hard (Chrome).

If you're Duck Duck Go or Bing, at least you're in a very limited dropdown list if someone does want to try something else. If you're a new search engine startup, you're not an option at all.
There are quite a few, but as a recent public one - https://oss.love is built using Netlify Graph. It pulls in data via the GitHub API using Netlify Graph, as an example.

Another simple one would be building a chart of Salesforce opportunities to serve as an office sales gong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTaETEkZ6hE

We have customers who build a product using Netlify Graph to manage Salesforce leads/opportunities/etc. inside of Slack, etc.
Eh, not really.

It's hard to describe features of chaos / nonlinear dynamics simply.

There are features of chaotic systems that undergo phase changes from one type of behavior to another. Think a signal on one side of the transition to look like a pure sine wave and on the other side of the transition to look like purely random white noise.

What these guys are reporting is that they found a parameter, a signal they can measure in brains that seems to correlate with consciousness. When the signal is right up near the edge of this kind of chaotic phase transition, the subject is conscious, when nowhere near the phase transition, you aren't. So they have a way to sort of measure and quantify consciousness and perhaps even control it a little by measuring and doing things to manipulate this signal.

It might be sort of like an OPEN sign in a store, just a signal that happens to reflect consciousness, or this brain wave behavior might be a fundamental part of consciousness and higher thinking. It all seems quite interesting.

Projecting guesses out for this is that chaotic dynamics are a fundamental part of how our brains, especially at the highest levels work. One would guess given this evidence and other things that one of the things that makes consciousness possible is a complex system kept balanced at a knife edge of a certain kind of chaotic phase transition. It's also the kind of thing that can open a backdoor for free will in a deterministic universe, your brain in this chaotic state might behave deterministically but the actual state would never be knowable with enough precision to predict the outcome of inputs for any amount of time (butterfly effect).
How do we tell if this is so?
I'd say the implied request for help or at least ideas for troubleshooting or alternatives is so obvious and natural that it doesn't merit this level of suspicion about ulterior motives. It's completely normal to say "I can't reach the top shelf" and mean "can you help me get something off the top shelf?"

As an aside, commonplace implicatures like these are a kind of what's called "pragmatics" in linguistics.
Not a lawyer, but I think in a lot of jurisdictions the money still belongs to person it was stolen from, i.e., you only have possession, but don't own it - so not yours.
I'm sure patches are welcome.
Well, drivers are still important since it is an OS and not a layer on top of the installed OS.

STEP 2

When you’re ready, install Chrome OS Flex on your PC or Mac to replace your operating system.
This is a really great overview of JAX - the best I've seen outside of primary Google/DeepMind sources. Glad to see people besides Googlers getting familiar with its capabilities.
HN is in love with anything Apple-related.
I don't know man. I've spoken English my whole life and I've never heard of anyone being confused about referring to an idea as 'disingenuous' or similar. :) Certainly no one (except you) has corrected me that it can only apply to people. Indeed, dictionary.com offers examples of "disingenuous" referring to ideas:

> The move has no political chance in a Democratic House, but sends a clear, though disingenuous, message about punishing supposed “extremism.”

> He would rather endorse someone with genuine doubts than someone with disingenuous beliefs.

And there are many examples in which "disingenous" refers to things other than people.

> The etmyology is interesting: ingenuous originally meant noble, which is also only something that would be said about a person

I wouldn't be surprised at all if "(dis)ingenuous" originally referred only to people but came to take on a broader meaning. This happens all the time--words are fluid on even very short timespans. Consider the verb form of impact:

> Sense of "strike forcefully against something" first recorded 1916. Figurative sense of "have a forceful effect on" is from 1935.

In only 18 years the word acquired a figurative sense (and I strongly suspect linguistic velocity--the rate of change of language--has much increased in the Internet era--although not uniformly across the lexicon). Considering your Etymonline link dates "disingenuous" to the 1650s, it would be surprising if this figurative sense hadn't developed in the intervening ~370 years.

Anyway, while I do enjoy discussing and learning about language, I have to get back to work. Thanks for the conversation, and enjoy your day! :)
I think I only have three subscriptions at the moment... Prime, Chewy, and a news commentary streaming site I like. That's pretty much it, not very expensive. Everything else is available to me by other means if I'm willing to pay one-off fees or just step outside my house. I'm okay with this.
I think this is gonna be used for school lab computers, like my high school's hand-me-down OptiPlexes from the local state university. Students will only need access to e-learning sites. Android app support would open up a lot of malware or viddy gaming during prescribed pretending-to-watch-course-videos time.
Middle class, working-age Americans with normal IT jobs in the EU sigh, look longingly at their (if lucky) dormant 401k/Roth accounts back home, realize they really are going to be working until retirement age because no one will open a brokerage account for an American here, and that while tax treaties generally prevent double taxation on wage income, things get “fun” on just about anything else.
> especially on an iPhone, you simply cannot change your search engine to a new search engine like us. It is impossible.

See my post above about iCabMobile, where there are TWENTY-FIVE search engines to choose from.

There are also other browsers than Safari and iCabMobile on iOS, many of which give alternatives to their search engine choices.

Naturally if you think only users who choose the default browser are interesting as your market, I wonder if those users would take a chance on your alternative search engine?
It's for individual posts, so at least they can still leave comments elsewhere.
Yes to Going Out – No to RTO
Everyone wants to "go out" but nobody wants to go back to the office...
Half of all U.S. conservatives do not think homosexuality should be accepted by society [1], which presumably includes accepting homosexuality in dating apps.

That's a pretty big segment of your target market to alienate.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2017/10/05/5-homosexual...
> I know quite a few women who are disgusted by the number of men just looking for short term gratification that tinder and the like attract.

Why are they disgusted? Tinder seemed to be a direct clone of Grindr early on, and was focused on “here are people near you, looking for casual sex”.

When it got popular, the new influx turned it into a dating site, but it’s whole interface and design is for hookups. Getting mad at men for looking for hookups on Tinder is like getting mad at someone on Uber only wanting a lift somewhere.
I would say HN is trending a bit away from inquiring conversation to like really absolute strong statements. Things like "google is lieing" or "it's a crime if facebook takes EU data outside of EU" or "apple is evil".

In short -> it feels like it's getting a bit more reddit / moral outrage oriented these days vs inquiry and discussion?

And unpopular opinions definitely get downvoted (vs just off topic / no content posts). It's worth reading the downvoted discussions as they are often interesting these days.
She designed a better site than I ever will :P
Haha, agreed on both points :)

A bit off-topic but I've actually got an inverse problem... Before contacting support I'm trying to collect as much diagnostics as possible, so my first message tends to be a long detailed list of what's the problem, what I did, and what possibly useful (to best of my awareness) supplementary diagnostics I've already performed. This frequently confuses first-tier support folks who're used to people reaching out with mere "nothing works pls help!!1one" and going through checklists.
I don't seem to be in the right communities to randomly encounter Glitch often, but from my tinkering it's a pretty neat environment to quickly build casual (maybe the wrong term, but that's how it feels - in a positive way) apps with real code. While they can/do host apps directly, it's been hard to tell just how far you can take such an app load-wise, so this news seems to open up the ability to use Glitch as an IDE of sorts but scale your creations further, so.. cool.
Agreed, Facebook makes something like 8 dollars a user per year? That's just one of the mega services, imagine replacing that money for all of the players that power your internet.
Thanks for digging this up. What a fantastic distillation of the texture of discussion here.
Thanks for this comment, I probably could've stressed JIT more. Random question - I noted in the article that you all at DeepMind announced that you're using JAX to accelerate your research.

IIRC, you guys standardized TensorFlow several years back. What does the current split look like between JAX and TF internally? Do some people use TF and some use JAX, or do you use JAX for specific tasks?