skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is obviously a bad way to achieve a 50% WR. It isn't the case that every matchmaking system that achieves a 50% WR is good (you can easily imagine cases where it's not, e.g. alternating matching you against very good and very bad opponents), but it is the case that a good matchmaking system much converge towards a 50% WR for the vast majority of players.
Sadly the article isn't accessible. I can't help but wonder which principles is the article about.
Last I read, which was a couple of years ago, after Google search, YouTube is the next most searched "search engine". It serves ads. Is it really, from Google's POV that different than it's core business?

That aside, as we know now, Google wasted it's time with Plus. Instead it should have fleshed out YT's social aspects. While that's easy to say in retrospect, it's still not a bad idea if Google wanted to "social media" product.
The have huge shale gas reserves. They produce enough food for themselves. They even have huge iron ore deposits.
Can you give any more detail on how you did this? Is squid the proxy? How does it know which traffic is doh? What do you do with those requests?
Setting up DNSSEC will not do anything to prevent domain hijacking, which is an attack that occurs at the registrar level.
Of course don't get addicted. Everyone knows that, even people who end up addicted.

If "just don't do X" worked, no one would be fat, corrupt, addicted, or injured in workplace accidents.

But people don't work that way, and "don't do X" is hopelessly reductive -- it leaves out all of the (often very strong) factors that drive people to actually do 'X', such as non-stop marketing on TV, movies, radio, and internet apps pushing them to look, think, act, and buy the same things.
Was a bit surprised it got past the lawyers re:antitrust, it's very heavy on "You already use EVERYTHING Google"
I really like the arduino way of having a small amount of simple code that does something powerful on embedded hardware.

They do a good job of hiding complexity (their compiler supports all of C++20, yet it's really rare to see anything more than a few basic classes).

For projects where I just want to make a thing that works, this is amazing compared to other toolchains.

I really hope rust can offer the same. Even a mediocre coder should be able to start from a blank file and, within 10 minutes, make something that tweets when the sun comes up.

So far, rust on esp32 is far from that... But hopefully they can get there!
Google's and Apple's central rationale for limiting app developers to working through their app stores is that they're screening apps for security reasons. If they're doing such a poor job of it, then there's no reason for such limitations, other than as another rent-seeking monopoly effort.

> "Additionally, a new Commerce Department report cited Apple and Google as “gatekeepers” of mobile app stores, leaving consumers at the mercy of their pricing and selection. The report calls for new legislation that would boost competition in the mobile app market, which would help both consumers and app developers."

To extend the FDA analogy, we don't really require stores that sell products to be held responsible for flaws in or problems with those products, e.g. contaminated baby formula. The onus should be on the manufacturer (or the app developer) - but this also means that if a store sells a certain brand (e.g. Whole Foods 365 brand) then they are directly responsible for any issues with that product.
If the BTC price is set artificially, it means it is not a rational price, IMO, for a security/investment/currency/market. Rational as in "people will be people" and "can be explained" aye.
There was a story about researchers leaving because they wouldn't take part in European funded work anymore... that's that sort of bureaucratic stuff that researchers will not put up with when they feel like they're not able to keep up with their peers.
The essence of German assholery. I guess they shut their cunning faces by now.
This was my first thought as well.

Is YouTube viable as its own company at the scale it operates? I have to imagine the infrastructure costs for YouTube would be extremely high and would likely cause YouTube to downgrade quality or try even harder to put a subscription behind even 1080.

Now obviously contacts can be signed and I highly doubt they would be paying normal prices in any cloud environment given this hypothetical situation. But it wouldn't be the same as it would be now.
Maybe some consistency? You are anti abortion because you view it at murder but then you are for adding on additional punishment to people for what seems like vengeances sake, castrating someone in case they “misbehave” while in custody seems pretty medieval
"We report that 0.01% of the addresses contain over 58.21% of all Bitcoins in circulation."

Pretty bonkers.

See: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2021.7301...
There was a funny video just about this not that long ago regarding housing prices in canda:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ExYQ21sGY

The sad part is, that the politician asking the question does a better job that most journalists and points at the absurdity of the dodged answers.
Finland or Sweden not part of Western Europe then, for example? Steel makers in Germany don't exist?
There are many fake maps made by Russia floating out there about this, but even such blatant misinformation doesn't justify contradicting anything in GP's comment.
To catch all bicycle thieves, everywhere, at all times, would require 24/7 worldwide surveillance of every square meter on Earth. Do you really desire this?
At last. Someone has found a real world use case for crypto.
I don't know what you mean.

If I watch a 9-minute clip, I get 2 ads at the top but can skip them after the first 5 seconds of the first ad. And then there's often a 15-second unskippable commercial in the middle. So about 4% ads. Sometimes there's a single first unskippable 15-second ad instead, so about 5% ads. (And the ratio seems roughly the same with shorter videos, as they don't have the ad in the middle and sometimes skip the intro ad altogether when watched in succession.)

While network TV is 8 minutes of ads in a 30 min slot, or 27% ads. So about 5x as much ad time.

If YouTube started implementing unskippable ad segments that were multiple minutes long then there would be a comparison. But in my experience, YouTube is miles better than network TV ever has been in our lifetimes.
Some major religions ain’t there …
Maybe it’s extensions.

But anyway the point still stands: an outlier user with 1000 tabs open had a slow startup time doesn’t mean Chrome is horribly engineered. If it isn’t an extensions issue then it’s a minor bug.
An interesting pr piece about building a recommendation engine.
I fully believe this a PR piece to drive traffic because postgres has very little to do with AI beyond being a database.

My firm looked into Postgres extremely deeply aka source code around text search and AI.
I would highly recommend against using this, and stick to more standard ways of doing NLP.
Postgres still has open bugs around text search and lifting limits from 5 years ago. We concluded we couldn't trust anything but the core ecosystem around it.
If I wanted to factorize 21 without demonstrating any kind of quantum speedup, I'd use pen and paper.
Price of BTC "largely doesn't make sense" really. That's what I mean.
I am with you and, in a sense, you are preaching to the choir. If system setup was up to me, maybe with few notable exceptions, all new laws would require a sunset provision to force bad laws out of existence. I am certainly not arguing that just making things illegal improves safety ( and even when it does, I am not stoked about it ).
Even with sponsors, adsense is always an incredible driver of revenue[0,1] especially as more and more people (especially in the US) have an iPhone which prevents any ad blockers within the YouTube app.

And YouTube Premium views pay out a lot more per view than any ad-supported view[2,3].

0: https://twitter.com/linusgsebastian/status/16094682622194032...

1: https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1486918784401088515?s=2...

2: https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1486935690315112455?s=2...

3: https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/1513177490730061829?s=2...
zorin is another decent distro as well. i was on pop for maybe 3 years and that was great but zorin has won me over for reasons i can't really put my finger on
Yes, but if say tigers (or any other species) started "farming" humans and slaughtering them well before the end of their natural life span, would you still be ok with it?
Sounds like they ain't so major then.
Yes, because gay male characters went from being completely unacceptable in media, to being acceptable when written in by str8 writers as a joke/to be made fun of. It's only fairly recently that we have gay characters written by gay writers where said character is there to further the plot rather than as a joke.

That said, while I feel like gay writers are able to write more realistic gay characters because of personal experience (just as it would help with any topic) I know for sure that str8 writers can write perfectly good gay characters as well, all the better if they chat to community/gay friends if they need help with certain aspects.

Idk man, I just want to see more regular guy gay characters that get treated just like everyone else. Gay sex scenes in TV are still so rare because it's considered gross/disgusting by people, which is interesting bc when I get the invariable hetero sex scene played in something I don't mind it at all, I don't find it gross, I'm just not turned on by it.

It's just so in your face for someone who's gay because basically all media has a "boy meets girl" aspect, relationships/sex etc are a part of being human after all, would just be nice to see more people like me on the big screen. Hell it's it's 1/10th~ the characters, fine. But they always skimp on that stuff with gay characters.
Their largest competitor is Walmart. Walmart's bundle includes video, fuel discounts, from-store delivery, long-haul delivery. Further, the Walmart.com e-commerce site is subsidized by the Walmart bricks & mortar operation.

Businesses are allowed to do more than one thing. I'm not sure when it became popular to try to strip down businesses to a single SKU each, and it's not obvious to me that consumers (or anyone) benefits from pursuit of that goal.
This is happening more and more with all the major cloud platforms. They realized that they couldn’t staff up enough service desk and solutions architects so they started partnering with Managed Service Providers. Companies that have specialized in providing those services, often for just a cut of the revenue and the opportunity to upsell.
You have Lam, Applied, and KLA in SV which are 3/5 of the largest equipment suppliers. Along with that the entire supply chain and support. You also have most of your likely customers nearby.

So it remains expensive and still a great place to start.
Either they got a double agent into a Burschenschaft or the screenshots probably made the rounds in the form of screenshots where someone forwarded the screenshots to the antifa group.

Or it got leaked on purpose by someone in the Burschenschaft pissed off about the duelers.
I contacted Mullvad support twice. They couldn't our didn't want to help me.
I laughed out-loud for that.

As someone that enjoys some (but not all) sodas and kombuchas I really recommend people try several. Don't think all wines/sodas/teas/smoothies etc... are the same. They can be made from just about anything (fortunately/unfortunately)
Depends how you measure quantum supremacy. If you measure by seconds of computation, then the claim has been debunked since if you rent the most powerful supercomputer in the world you can match the performance of the experiment.

If you measure by e.g. energy usage then the claim remains, since it would cost orders of magnitude more energy to run the algorithm described in the paper than run Google's experiment.
Its not fanaticism. Its preference. You can use GUI apps if you want, but others just find the terminal more comfortable.
Should we also not use uncommon resolutions, uncommon browsers, uncommon OSes?

The personal and societal effect of ads are more tangible than the personal effect of tracking. Even if networks are truly able to use this data, it doesn't matter how precisely you can be served with ads if you don't see them.
Well you answered your own quesiton: crypto.

And you'll say: for reason X and Y crypto doesn't apply in your case...

Yes, these reason X and Y are where Paypal fees come from.
GUI means slow and high latency

Terminal means fast and low latency
Could use the huge shale gas reserves in Poland, France, and Germany if really needed.
My main objection to meat eating is the way we raise animals for meat, especially on an industrial scale. These animals are suffering immensely throughout their whole lives. I find it difficult to reconcile thinking of ourselves as ethical while we support these practices.

I have less of a problem with people hunting for food. The animals can live their normal lives and one day it's over, either because of a mountain lion or a human. That's the way nature works. Of course there is the problem that there are too many humans and they would quickly kill all wild animals.
Yes, though if the metrics don't match weird things happen.

e.g. rxvt can use different fonts for regular and bold text.
Exploring the TPC-DS Benchmark Queries with Malloy
This becomes a semantic debate if we do not define the boundaries between models. If models are "integrated" to an extreme, then they are really just the same model. ...the tradeoff of having one model vs two models is often driven by resources used to hold and serve content from a model, but there are also mathematical constraints as, for example, the size of the model grows in proportion to the quadratic of input data, which means that separate models which can communicate with one another are more efficient.

...but the trick is defining that inter-model communication and establishing a "controller" model with appropriate training data.
Does the baby monitor accept alkaline batteries? If so, it will work on 5V. That’s equivalent to 1.25V/cell, well within the next expected voltage range of a typical partly-discharged alkaline battery.
He probably meant a stain on your reputation. The implication is that you have bad morals if you work for Zuck.
You don't need a thousand GPUs to train a Vision-Language Transformer for Search
Isn't the paper mentioned in the article literally proving that wrong? Google managed to scale error correction and achieved less noisy qbits.
Because if it's your system, you can remove the malicious app from it.

And it's a good thing that DoH is easy, because it helps protect vulnerable people from censorship and surveillance.
>Basically their are betting half the company that China does not attack Taiwan and/or does not ship weapons to Russia and/or does not give them the "Jack Ma" treatment. Quite risky, if you ask me.

If china attacks Taiwan Europe will react the same way Asia reacted to Russia in Ukraine - with a shrug. Too far away to really care.
The crypto currency world is hyper focused on stopping this, considering it is one of the main avenues that statists attack crypto with now that the environmental nag is gone since the switch to Proof of Stake.

I would say, conservatively, the traditional banking and real estate markets are 10,000x worse than crypto markets, but are un-policed because it's hidden, unlike the public blockchain networks. The few scams that are exposed, like the HSBC money laundering scandal, dwarf all of the crime every committed via crypto. But we didn't even put HSBC out of business or put a single employee in jail!

Here is the Danish money laundering fraud that just concluded with $2 billion in fines on $160 billion in laundered money https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/danske-bank-pleads-guilty-fra...
Nearly all my personal photos were encrypted by the helprecover@foxmail.com ("HELP") variant of Phobos. I've been holding onto the encrypted copies for a while in hopes that some people were working on a crack, and I'm excited to read this update.

Sidecar question: when automating your backups, what's a good way to make sure your rolling backups aren't simply backing up malware-encrypted files? I found out too late that all my backups were encrypted. I only had 1 week retention to save space. Is longer retention and manual checks the only sane strategy? Or has some backup software built in sanity detection for crypto attacks by now?
It consumes sugar and creates carbon dioxide. I know this might seem facetious, but I'm actually curious... are the greenhouse emissions lower?
> Conglomerates being worth less than the sum of all parts is one of the stupidest parts of Wall Street. There is no actual rationale for this besides maybe it being easier to evaluate a company doing only a single thing?

One example: some parts of a business need a positive consumer reputation and others don't. When you connect these under the same company you may end up with two business units that are each less valuable than if they were free to take the approach that best suited their business.

For example, an ad company that didn't care much what consumers thought about it would use fingerprinting to personalize ads and it's prevalent in the industry, but Google committed to not doing this. Why? My guess is that a big part was reputation: having an ads division that's tracking users with no opt out is inconsistent with the company-wide policies Google needs to be competitive in consumer markets.

In this case I think the effects are positive, in that the display ads division is closer to what consumers would want than if it were independent, but I think it's pretty likely that spinning DoubleClick back out would increase overall profits.

(I used to work at Google, and here I'm speculating about decisions made several levels above me that I wasn't a part of.)
i was going to say that i've read most of his books and enjoyed all of them, but i i keep coming across new ones (and enjoying them)! golly, is this guy ever productive!
Google staff asked to share desk space in latest cost purge
The synergy is that google has active advertisers with payment information on file. They can cross sell ads on any vertical to that customer list. A new company would struggle just to get advertisers to sign up and struggle to get the content and struggle to get the views. This is why google bought YouTube to begin with, it’s a vertical for advertising which is their business.
Yeah, I’d guess prison time also feels pretty long. Children in modern culture serve a pretty long sentence (depending on how good your parents are I suppose).
Companies can provide money services without a banking license. A lot of companies do.

When I duckduck the question, even revolut has this in their FAQ: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/bbebf0d88acb54d8.png

It's possible to have a license and not use it.
Ask HN: Does Chrome share my history with my employer?
My company use Google Workspace. On chrome://settings/ a line on top tells me that my browser is "managed" by my company. Following some links and:

> If your Chrome browser is managed, your administrator can [...] install extensions, monitor activity [0]

What the hell do they mean by "activity" ?

I'm also confused by the fact they can install extensions after reading this recent scary HN discussion [1], but perhaps the interface clearly show the users what extensions will be installed ?

0 https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/9281740

1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34889243
Which, again, makes the anti-trust case stronger. The case being: Google leverages one of their businesses (providing compute) to build an anti-competitive moat around another of their businesses (youtube), and it's so effective that they have driven all competitors out of the market.

By nearly any standard, Google's control of YouTube should be a prime anti-trust target.
These theoretical problems sound like compelling reasons to damage parties that sell this information as much as possible.
Every space crew needs a mission patch
Frankly among the not-tech-first companies Disney is the one that should most be targeted. The fact they were allowed to buy LucasFilms and Fox media (minus Fox News and Fox Sports because they already own ABC and ESPN) was so stupid. The year before those purchases the collected movies of those 3 were most of the top movies at the box office.
I hate beer and soda, but I've never met a kombucha I didn't love.
I imagine it's the root of the term "phobia" in this way.
Well, that's not what he said in the article and on which the title ought to be based. And, again, that's fantasy.

China did not want a war and still wants it to stop ASAP as it's bad for them and only advantageous for the US.
Reminds me of the Fremen people in Dune by Frank Herbert. In the book, a man is challenged to a duel. When he wins the duel, he gains the wife, property, and children of the one that he killed.

In the book, the legality of this form of dueling seems to be justified by an absolute need for strength, and the survival of (only) the fittest, in order to adapt to the hostile environment that they live in.

When physical superiority stops being a necessity for the survival of the community, this type of dueling law becomes a problem.
Oklahoma: https://oklahoma.gov/elections/voters/proof-of-identity.html

> In addition, voters may use the free voter identification card they received by mail from the County Election Board when they registered to vote. The law allows use of the voter identification card even though it does not include a photograph.

Michigan: https://www.michigan.gov/sos/elections/upcoming-election-inf...

> If you do not have photo ID, you can still cast a ballot simply by signing an affidavit
I suffered whiplash for how quickly I went from "awesome, this person is going to explain some nuanced distinction I've never considered!" to "i don't think this makes any sense"
AFAIU a lot of the Ruhr valley region heavy industry has been built around coal. That can not be used in the future for climate reasons. This is true for iron reduction and steel making around the world.

And then there's all the other industry that supports that heavy industry. So if the heavy industry goes, some of that other industry also goes.
Europe should have multiple strategies for dealing with it. Steel, fertilizers, plastics and aluminum all are still needed in the future.

Iron reduction needs to move to a place where cheap electricity and iron ore are available. Cheap electricity won't be available in the Ruhr valley in the absence of nuclear power in the future. It's a lousy place for renewables. Spain and Portugal would be absolutely terrific for renewables. I don't know about mineral availability though.

Iron reduction -> steel -> car bodies -> car accessories etc.

I call it the industry refactoring.
I primarily program in Python and C# so pardon my ignorance...whats wrong with ncurses? I am currently writing a text editor in it and it seems like a decent framework
My recent heuristic is that any short comment starting "Ah yes" is a strong signal of low quality or trolling argument.

What do you reckon: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Ha! Sweet - well done to you and the team.

Hope I get back on CSV projects again soon to try your stuff out. Cheers
It's terribly sad, and yes I'm excited about the ongoing work to connect Scranton. Lots of people commute daily via bus between Scranton and NYC and I feel for them.

I've heard mixed quotes from people who've talked in person with Schumer on whether this will eventually connect Binghamton, Elmira, Corning, or the rest of the Southern Tier and eventually to Buffalo. Some say he said they're talking about it and others have said he said there's no chance.
That 10,000x worth sounds like its using specific numbers as opposed to hand wavy arguments for which crypto is predicated on. Glad you brought real numbers to the table.