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Good thread, there are more and more alternatives as Google has been in decline for years in terms of quality of results. This decline is out in the open as can be easily seen on Google itself.

DuckDuckGo is very good and they have been steady in terms of their results and growth for years. Kagi is nice too (I know the team as a disclaimer but their effort is a good one). You.com and Neeva, as well as others are getting in there too.

I founded a distributed search engine Wowd.com more than 10 years ago but we were a decade too early, not that it really matters now.

In terms of shameless plugs I also suggest YottaAnswers (I am a founder) which is a smart AI system capable of returning billions of direct answers. Direct answering is key as the open Web with high quality organic links is long gone and search results with blue links and keyword matching are now a legacy technology.

A key question is then how many direct answers (in infoboxes, bolded) Google is currently capable of. I think the answer is surprisingly small, around 15-20B in my professional opinion. That is not a small number per se, but is so compared to Google's enormous resources ($135B+ cash, 1M+ servers, 16K+ PhDs, 60T+ webpages, 10T+ user clicks ...) Of course I invite all parties to shed more light my estimate above as Google keeps it a closely guarded secret.

Voltaire famously said more than two centuries ago that all fiat currencies inevitably tend to their intrinsic value, which is zero. I propose a modified variant for ads, that also tend to the same intrinsic value eventually.
> I don't know what it's like [in NYC]…

It's hilarious. Our biggest traffic offenders are the cops themselves. They speed, run reds on a whim, park in the middle of sidewalks, it's totally cool and we love it. It’s so great that there's a twitter account (@placardabuse) that tracks public officials who flout the law and has no shortage of content.

As for enforcement: they don't. The explanation I've heard is, "We don't like being the bad guy." They join the force to become CSI detectives or terrarism-fighting SWAT soldiers, not to be that shithead who ruined your commute home.

I'm definitely sure that our new police-chief-mayor — who just cancelled a widely-loved car-free-street program in Clinton Hill because one of his cronies thought it was annoying — will be right on top of things.

[edit] Oh, and regarding these noise cameras… the very vocal minority of New Yorkers who have cars fight tooth and nail against camera speeding enforcement. The rest of us don't speak up because we don't have cars so we don't feel as affected. Also we don't even have control over our own laws, that’s all in the hands of the state gov't. So I have little faith that this will plan will survive, but hey, fingers crossed X,,
I also struggled to find a mouse with a decent wheel that you can click without moving it off which is handy in CAD's. Gave up in the end and switched to using thumb button for middle click. But there's an option to get one of 3DConnexion CAD Mouse's if you can swallow the price tag.
The studio I'm at has hopped around a bunch, so I've gotten to do work for a range of franchises over the years. Guitar Hero/Band Hero, Call of Duty, Skylanders, Crash Bandicoot, Destiny 2, and most recently Diablo II Resurrected. And also quite a few different platforms (Nintendo DS/Wii/Switch, PS3/4/5/Vita, XB360/1/SX, Apple TV and iOS).

I've mainly done engine and tools work, often for UI or scripting systems. From my experience, each studio and franchise tends to make its own custom engine and tools. Although, in some cases we managed to reuse a decent amount of in-house technology across projects. The Tony Hawk remaster was an unusual case which used Unreal Engine instead.

It's given me an interesting perspective behind the scenes of AAA games. These titles may all use different software but they're fundamentally built on the same principles. Once you get the gist of how games like this are put together, learning another isn't a big stretch.
I don't think there was any continuous chain of influence. Howard Aiken[0] effectively "rediscovered" Babbage in the late 30s and presented himself as carrying on Babbage's legacy, and did a lot to popularize the connection between modern computing and Babbage.

There's a chapter on this in I. Bernard Cohen's book on Aiken[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_H._Aiken
[1]: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Howard_Aiken/Ld7TgLeQXs...
Until there is as “simple” to use an app like Preview on the Mac, most of these new generation apps are garbage.

I’ve just switched to Ubuntu on a workstation I have lying around. And man, is it hard to use for just normal everyday use.

Yes, it has the basics covered, but like many others my job has a lot of simple image manipulation related stuff.

Convert pdf to png. Assemble multiple images into a pdf. Quickly share with someone else over chat. Normal productivity stuff.

Take a simple thing like screen capture - you have to remember to save the screen that you captured otherwise it just sits there doing nothing in the screen capture app.

The thing that saves most Linux desktops for office productivity workers — is Firefox and Chrome. Otherwise, outside of programmers and highly specific use cases, hardly anyone would use a Linux desktop.

And that’s kudos to the fact that so much of what we do these days is in a browser.

But if you look at the small pieces of software to do everyday things - they are awful.

Dropbox barely works in a sustainable way.

I have to keep pulling out my laptop every now and then to do simple office productivity things.

Yeah yeah, I know that Apple is a trillion dollar company that had a room full of people just working on the screen capture feature alone.

And yeah, I use Linux every day for programming. But Brah, all the little widgets and do-da’s need some serious polishing.
The PI was also involved in an earlier study [1, 2], that found "Jennifer Aniston neurons", i.e., neurons that get activated when the proband gets shown an image of Jennifer Aniston, but not activated when shown the image of another celebrity.

It's probably not that surprising, that other cells are active during other specific activities and inactive during others.

Anyway, it's fun seeing my old institute featured on hn.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4210637/
[2] https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F0033-295X.117.1.297
In NYC most of the offenders are motorcycles with the occasional Lambo man-children.
If they actually did it at scale they would run into conflicting dashcam footage very quickly, and the whole conspiracy would go belly up before bearing any fruit.

If you think data is meaningless we should also remove police cruisers' dashcams and stop the rollout of body cams, I guess? Those aren't conspiracy-proof either.
"The market doesn't make sense already for people who actually use the homes because of the investors."

I think that depends on the area.

A true crash, if it were to happen, would affect all though. You'd have people underwater on their mortgages, unable to move by selling or renting out the home and instead being foreclosed. People in some sectors my lose their job because people have less discretionary money (if they'd be smart and save more for retirement to offset the loss on their property). If anything, I would think more people would be looking for cheaper apartments to rent because they were foreclosed, leading them to rent from the rich who have a large share of that type of housing.
Unless something has changed, in the Home edition you are indeed no longer officially able to finish the OS installation process without an internet connection and signing into a MS account. There are however ways you can still do that (Shift+F10 and killing oobenetworkconnectionflow.exe). I expect the Pro version to behave the same.
This is one of those places where it's easy to conflate computer bits with information theory bits. You may have eight computer bits, but in order for you to have eight bits of information, you must have your search space cut down by a factor of 256, not just the abstract concept of a search space cut down.

Can you enumerate the remaining 1/256th of the search space? Not with anything other than a brute force search, minus the one password you tried. The exact same brute force search that you would have needed to solve the problem in the first place. Your one password attempt has yielded one password's worth of knowledge. You, a human, don't have eight bits of information. You have almost nothing.

In principle, such a guess does eliminate 8 bits of information, but we have no way of manifesting that. In principle if we had a full list of the shortest passwords that led to the given hash, we could strike off the non-matching entries, but no human can do that. In principle an easier algorithm than the brute-force search exists, but we have no idea what it is, and we don't know what it would look like, whether it would be an incremental improvement over brute force or if there's hypothetically an algorithm that could do it on your cell phone in a couple of seconds or what.

Hashing and cryptography in general hide in this space between the theoretical information leakage and the practical inability to do anything with it. You have 8 theoretical bits and just shy of 0 real, practical bits.
Credit cards have some protection by law in some countries. But any Visa or Mastercard will have some sort of protection against fraud and malicious merchants. That protection is as far as I know universal regardless of where you are located and will be more than enough to deal with merchants who don't honor cancellation requests, grossly misrepresent their products/services or outright don't provide the product/service you paid for.
There are plenty of well rewarded functions within prop trading that _aren't_ quant trader. Although exactly how correctly remunerated these roles are varies a bit by firm.
But once it's launched it's a lot of potential energy lost for ever, no?

Isn't there part of this spent fuel that could be used as fuel again? I'm thinking MOX on steroids.

Weren't surgenerators supposed to 'recycle' and reduce drastically the amount if 'final waste'? Weren't next-gen fission plants supposed to take in even higher rates of spent fuel?
In a city, most construction is going to involve demolishing the previous structure. So you could argue there isn't much value in pricing construction sans the cost of demolition.
Except it's usually not "mistakes", it's intentional bias. A "normal, reasonable" person is someone who has a "donated to the police officer's association" sticker in their car window, and "assholes" are everyone else.
Loud vehicles are just as much of a problem in rural areas as in cities. Nothing spoils a country road like a load, speeding vehicle. I agree people should have a better sense of respect, but here we are.
Netbox: Infrastructure resource modeling for network automation
Canada Is Ordering Crypto Exchanges to Blacklist ‘Freedom Convoy’ Addresses
The “hyper” in hyperactive seems to suffer from a bias as to where to set the threshold. Given the kinetic energy of school-aged boys, I’m not surprised that a lot of them are diagnosed as such. Granted that a great many deserve the diagnosis, and I have direct experience with this. High/energy “recess” multiple times a day would seem to a good approach to help deal with it.
More specifically, the water become too hot to be released in a river without impacting the bio-environment, not all plants have this issue.
I notice that you didn’t demand a citation for the original anecdote. Consider what it would take for it to be true: did California pass a law treating police officers like sex offenders, prohibiting them from being within a certain distance of a school? Seems unlikely given that they still have resource officers assigned to schools and there’s no way that wouldn’t be a major national news story. Now, given our national obsession with gun rights it may be that they couldn’t stop someone white with a gun from walking near a school[1] but there’s a 0% chance they couldn’t monitor the situation and make their presence known the way they do every day for teenagers with skateboards or the wrong colors on their clothes.

Note to the deleted comment: note that I'm not saying that it's definitely untrue but simply that we have no way of evaluating it without something like a reference to a specific law or policy document, public comment from a named spokesperson, etc. There are enough levels of removal that the potential for misunderstanding would be high even if this wasn't touching on several of the hottest political issues at the moment, and that lack of context also affects how a lot of people might feel about it. For example, if this is true as written is that because there was a legal restriction passed setting a burden of proof for a police officer to interact with members of the public or was it something like the local sheriff not wanting to have an incident when a provocative local gun owner is insisting on their rights to free carry anywhere? A lot of people might have different opinions on the appropriate course of action based on context like that.

1. I realize some people might find this provocative but I'm thinking about how at two of the high schools I went to I had at least one classmate who'd brought a gun to school, and the second one had a mass shooting a few years after I graduated when some warning signs were apparently ignored. It's quite the contrast with the way hispanic students were “randomly” searched, and really didn't want to be found to have anything even as dangerous as a Swiss Army knife.
Multivariate Linear Regression from Scratch in C++
They are required to conform to accessibility requirements

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768856
What I Learned from My First Rails Upgrade
Just get a cheap/free 3d asset pack from itch.io and go nuts. It helps to know some concepts about 3d like UVs, normal/AO/specular etc maps, triplanar mapping, vertex colouring etc. but other than learning a bunch of new words it's not that difficult. But making 3d assets yourself is super time consuming.

There's also a lot you can do with 2d pixel art assets in 3d if you like a retro style. Godot has (Animated)Sprite3D which makes it very easy.

Though it may be fun, setting up a whole streaming platform and engaging an audience is a whole shitload of extra work on top of the actual gamedev, so if you have limited time best to really truly treat it as a hobby and squeeze in an hour or two on certain evenings or something.

I love Godot BTW, here's my latest project in it: https://twitter.com/TetrisMcKenna/status/1486629669252313088...
Wordle has letter frequencies because of words. I suspect they didn't find question data to create digit frequencies. So, every digit different might be the best you can do.
The Man Who Coaches Husbands on How to Avoid Divorce
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa#Military_use...

Also, Germany did something very similar near the end of the war, as they got desperate for manpower and fighting moved into their own territory.

[EDIT] Oh, and see farther down the page for, "Civilian losses, suicides, and atrocities". The lived experience of Okinawa (one of only a couple "home" territories for Japan that the US invaded before the bombs) was surely part of why so many expected an invasion of Japan to be a bitter, horrifying bloodbath.
Do you think even a developer will want to use something that falls apart in their hands like wet sawdust as a daily driver? As a developer, hell no. I'll give Linux phones a couple more years before I try that.
> Is there anything you check for to confirm that it is Stripe?

You check the domain name in the address bar.

Embedded forms aren't safe—one must assume that the surrounding page has access to anything entered into the form, so you're not just giving your CC data to Stripe, you're also giving it to whatever site embedded the form. If you don't trust the merchant with your credit card, the only safe system is the one where you're directed to a top-level page hosted by Stripe to enter the payment details.
Thanks for trying this out! That’s a good idea! For now, you can manually specify “ :#00000000” in the top section.

One reason I’ve been using “.” as the background in my own PCEImages so far is so it’s easy to see that all the lines are the right width.
So... what actually is it? I've seen the other comments, I've clicked the links and scanned the blog posts. I get that it is a "resilient workflow engine" or whatever.

If my SQL & PHP backend serving a basic web API to a React storefront is struggling to handle customer's states (carts, lists, orders, etc) how is this going to help?

What are my engineers going to actually do?
>You could just write a letter saying the person in the pic wasn't you. As long as the ticket is tied to a driver you can basically get away with it via this route.

That seems like an asinine way to apply that law. If the vehicle is registered to you, it's your responsibility. Lent it to your uncle and he rolled a stop? Well, the car's registered to an owner, that's their problem to sort out.
They did that with the casino money in PA. It's a joke, like a couple hundred bucks, if that.
I really don't get why computers are legal at all - create excess emissions from all the power use, used for crimes, generate hard to process waste, usually used by a psychopath who loves Tweeting about hatred for people not like them.
Death Star supersite for old docs is bitsavers.org.

It doesn't have much consumer tech - Spectrum, Amiga, Atari, Apple - but it does have a lot of mainframe and mini manuals and docs, quite a bit of a S100 and PC, and even a few internal development and strategic memos and other historical docs from some of the major manufs.

In passing - minor grammar nitpick for OP. In a couple of places you've written "than what", which is not commercial English. "Than" is better on its own.
Turing Compete?
Because you can’t use the scroll bar on mobile, it’s impossible to get hold of.

Swiping is a pain if you need to jump up and down on larger pages.
Why I Never Call You
So they don't release the result as OSS because upstream wouldn't have included it?
Well no, because the cost of demolition is the same no matter what you build, right?
seems inevitable now that I know about it.
A touchscreen is probably needed for this. Human fingers are huge and you need to design for that in mind.
I'm only 6', but I'm content with getting down to 220.

I do intend to live in Europe for at least 2 months, with any luck I'll lose weight given the higher quality food. Worked last time
GNOME has design zealots similar to Apple, but with more bizarre choices.

Their whole crusade against tray icons and a usable task list have been painful to deal with. Do they just not like multitasking??

It's sad too, because there's a lot of nice UI/UX in there, it's just buried under all sorts of crazy choices. Thankfully, there's extensions to restore some of the missing functionality.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2890/tray-icons-reloa...

These two fix those weird design decisions and make GNOME a pretty good desktop.
QML is practically electron - it's runtime interpreted declarative UI plus a Javascript engine.

QML still has only rudimentary support for AOT compilation. Both the old qmlcompiler and the new qmlsc compiler are commercial-only: https://www.qt.io/blog/the-new-qtquick-compiler-technology . LGPL users only get the interpreter.

Widgets is still the 'Real Qt'. Some very modern, responsive-layout desktop apps like Telegram are written entirely with Widgets.
We live down the street from a biker club clubhouse. Even one of them riding by wakes us up (we'll often hear them well after midnight), scares our cats, and sometimes sets off car alarms. My faith in the police ever doing anything about this is effectively nil.

I, too, am not a motorcycle hater. While I don't own one, I'm licensed to operate one, and have several friends who are avid riders. They have stock, quiet exhaust on their bikes, like normal people who actually care about people around them.
> But with android, I just want to know if there is a log of every place I go for instance and does this get sent to Google periodically. This is outside of the map app.

There's two ways this can happen:

- There's a feature called "Location History" which does exactly what it says - reports your location periodically to Google. You can disable it under Location settings on Android.

- Your location may leak via IP requests in background - the most common way would be via persistent connection to FCM servers (servers that provide push messages, analogous to Apples Push notification services) or when the phone background syncs. Similarlly, you can leak your location to websites by simply browsing with your phone.

> Also, I definitely want to know if it's recording data any time apart for when the microphone indicator is on. This is on an OS level.

As far as I know there new microphone switches and notifications are implemented deep enough in AOSP code that a piece of software can't easily open the microphones without triggering that notification.
Oh man, I just remembered somewhere I worked with monitors with a Degauss button. It was really cool the first time you pushed it but then it did very little until enough magnet stuff happened to give it something to do.
There would be peace and quiet if it wasn’t for people with modded cars and motorbikes. A very tiny % of people are responsible for almost all the noise.
Yeah, I didn't even consider this. But at what point does orbital solar energy start to make sense?

I wonder what the $/kg before we can just send up solar panels that last 100+ years and provide continuous microwave beams of clean energy to ground stations.
A heavy bag nearby is almost ideal too.
So, you see no difference between invading and defending.

If RF will kill millions of Ukrainian with conventional weapons, like they did in 1932-1934, or capture and destroy another major city, like Grozny, it's OK for you. If Ukraine will do the same for RF in return, then it's war crime for you, because victim of conventional weapon ≠ victim of nuclear weapon. Right?

> Thankfully this scenario is highly unlikely.

Two nuclear nations are at war since 2014. Where you live?
Maybe touch pad on a laptop?
I think the OP is a little hyperbolic, but I wouldn't be so dismissive of the idea. My metro has a no-chase policy for motorcycles. Sure, it's a heck of a dangerous way to make a getaway, but as long as you can shake the first guy, a rider is pretty well free to make a getaway as long as there is no helicopter in pursuit.
That's not quite accurate. What about power management, signal stability and coverage? Those need to be accounted for too.
Tweet related to corporate profits and US inflation gets fact-checked
Partial reason why I got into programming was because games I liked had map editors and mod support. At first the basics were fine, just making levels but the more and more I did them, the more power I wanted over the mods.. And thats when I got interested in programming. :)
It gets more readable the more often you read it
Isn't that exactly what cinnamon and mate did?