skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, social media tends to bring out some negative characteristics in people, and giving air to bad or incorrect ideas. But suppressing people's rights in order to "save the children" (mirroring Christian scares from the 80s/90s) is not the answer. If it were up to me, schools would be providing kids with the tools they need to navigate modern life. Critical thinking skills and psychological tools for mental wellness for a start. Banning things should always be a last resort in my opinion because it never seems to work the way you expect, and can have chilling effects on things you may not be against. Plus the fact that it's presumptive to assume that you know what's best for everyone else on the planet.
> There needs to be stricter regulations which prohibit apps

I was agreeing with you until there. We don't need censorship. Anything you see online is a reflection of the attitudes and education of the people using it.
Literature—at least the literature to which I respond—doesn’t work that way; it is conscious, yes, but with room for serendipity, a delicate balance between craft and art. This is why it’s often difficult for writers to talk about their process, because the connections, the flow of storytelling, remain mysterious even to them.

I guess this is the case with the 10x programmers.
No it's not. As a Dutch person who moved to Switzerland I can say that it's much easier to bike against the wind than to bike up-hill.
No, this also affects software companies, especially those that grow faster than you would organically. The cost in software companies is a cost in people. These people need to be paid. If you are not paid in advance for your software, then you have a cash flow issue: you need to have enough reserves to bridge the gap between paying your developers and you getting paid for your outgoing invoices.

Think of it like this: if you are providing a service, but are not getting paid for this in advance, you are essentially giving the customer a short term loan. You cannot infinitely provide those short term loans considering that you have bills/salaries to pay. It might still be money that belongs to you, but if you do not have it in your bank account when your bills are due, you are insolvent.

Things to be very wary of when looking on your balance is having very low ratio of liquid cash in respect to your debtors post (e.g. unpaid outgoing invoices). This means that if your debtors are going to pay later than expected, you have very little runway to cover that. Now, what risk this poses to your company depends a lot on how many customers you have, whether they pay their invoice automatically, and what their history of late payments is. Furthermore, the same applies for you on the purchasing side: if the majority of your costs are on the purchasing side and you can afford to pay those bills later without getting your servers shut down, then being illiquid is less of a risk. If the majority of your costs is in employees, then you are in trouble: not paying employees is a big no-no, so that increases risks and allows for less wiggle room.
> when you copy the link location for that top result you get this: https://news.ycombinator.com/

I’m getting https://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycom...

Update: in Firefox I'm indeed getting https://news.ycombinator.com/
But I use MS Edge as primary browser, and for MS Edge, DDG returns me the above redirection URL.
Must be make sh*t up day.
> In what way, AT ALL, was this this feature good for FACEBOOK?

This sums up the rationale of the platform economy rather nicely.

> It meant people could be “on” Facebook and “active” without ever actually logging in or using the app or engaging in any way.

Why would they want to just be a dumping ground for copies of another social network’s posts?

I could naively answer "because you actually want to provide a useful service for your users and not just make them hooked to your platform" - but yes, in the real world, your question is justified.
I usually get it wrong where to put the dot or how many d's and g's there are, so ddg.co is easier for me.
Wow nice, thanks for the tip. Won't be of use to me, but I might corrupt a few colleagues with that :)
For me the true ai car potential can only be realized where they are all connected to each other and know what the cars around them are going to do
A weak point. Alcohol can not be taken away, it has been tried.

Had we not had alcohol in the first place, we'd likely have other things a-ok'd, and alcohol would be treated by its merits compared to other recreational substances. By all reason it would be illegal far before many other substances.

Personally I am conflicted: on one hand we can see that the more we let people to have certain drugs, the less functional they are as human beings. On the other hand, if above point was really important, it would make sense to try to let people have the least harmful of these substances, so that, on average, the damage caused by their consumption is lower.

A growing part of me thinks that drug policies aren't as much about preventing harms as it seems to be about "playing games". We could do better all around the world. But things move slowly, so slowly. Stigmas hold, people fall to the soothing lull of prejudice and simplistic arguments.

This is all just business as usual.
Something like "a girl's struggle to get diagnosed", which is what the article is about.
It may not be a "huge trend", but those investing into static typing reap the rewads. Facebook rewrote messenger in ReasoML, bugs reported by users went from hundreds a year to less then ten. Fearless refactoring is another plus, the compiler will find everything you need to change to make the program run correctly.
I've never done drugs or even tobacco, but Steve Jobs claimed dropping acid changes your perspective on reality and was a big factor in his success. That gives me pause.
Not an expert here but it's not trivial to generate the amount of energy needed at those frequencies, and you also need to generate enough photons (not just high-enough energy photons) that shot noise doesn't become a problem too.
Fitbit's 150B hours of heart data reveal secrets about health
MusicKit.js
Do you have any ideas on how else we could fix these problems? Maybe the problem lies in a lack of education on how to navigate these platforms responsibly?
That's definitely something to look out for, thanks.
FTA :

>>> and a gaping hole in Postgres’ operational story is filled

Are there any other holes one should be aware of ? I'm looking forward to migrate a database with ~100 tables many of which having ~100 millions rows and lot's of FK to Postgresql... The operational side of things is what I know the least. Any pointers ?
Tired of PDF-Based Cheat Sheets for Vue? Try Spling
That's a good point, my team should come first.
Reading ability must be the goal with the criticism though? If it's just listening to a story you might as well watch it, or play it.
Do you mind expanding on letting go of resentment? I was not aware it is a major factor. I was somewhat aware that decisions on how to handle resentment were somehow going back and forth.
"This is why reading is over. None of my friends like it. Nobody wants to do it anymore.”

This is the words of a child self absorbed, with both the limited perspective and the illusion of knowledge that childhood provides to us all.

It's not profound or insightful writing an eloquent blog post around it doesn't make it so.

This entire thesis is a shallow waste of time designed to provoke passionate refutations. Its like a young girl who cries I'm so ugly hoping for a chorus of praise to bolster her ego.
Those are two separate issues. Altavista's index certainly got updated over time, so changes in the search results aren't that surprising.

I believe the issue OP is addressing is that even given an identical index, two different users might see to entirely different search results, as their individual search history is factored into the query.
I hope more people are starting to realize just how bad social media is. I'm 20 and I only use Facebook Messenger because the rest seems like a waste of time and a cesspool of memes/sensationalized news. Of course memes aren't inherently bad, it's just they drive that dopamine-induced feedback loop.

Each platform has good aspects, but the cons really outweigh the pros imo.
Black Hole Firewalls Could Be Too Tepid to Burn – Facts So Romantic
Just to be clear, before I was the Ruby guy, I was the VB guy. I owned boxed copies of every version from 1.0 onwards - including VB Dos - and was even the Mining Company (later about.com) guide for VB.

I was one of the signatories of a petition by over 120 Microsoft MVPs that asked them to maintain a COM branch long enough to release a proper VB7 release that could serve as a viable transition pathway. They told us in no uncertain terms that we were farting into a hurricane.

There were initially more VB.NET developers - more of us - than C# developers only because there were millions of casual VB6 developers that had a massive investment in the tools. It's my position that they really fucked up by telling us that our only choice was to get with the program. At least in my case, it was not. I left the VB world and started the first Rails consultancy in the world in fall 2004. This proved to be a rather excellent move.

I'm curious about your comment about how all OSS software from the 2002 era was VB.NET. I could be missing something, but... what? :) Do you have any good examples?
Inventaire: libre social network for inventory of books
Same here, sometimes I already assume DDG won't give good results and append !g right away.

BTW, those bangs are great anyway! Can't live without !hn, !sr, !a, !w, !@
How to Write a Poly Dating Profile on Open Relationship Dating Site
Starting a new docker instance for each http request is an interesting approach
What about scratches
What is !so and !gh? Can I use them on google?
> But I basically have !g programmed into my fingers for everything more complicated.

On mobile, typing "!g" takes 7 actions (including the focus, space and enter). DDG should make a button for it, below the search results, so you can easily revert to Google if you didn't find what you were looking for.

Honestly, without this button, I doubt if I will ever start using DDG much.
Well, I never specifically said that content would be banned. I was mostly referencing a feed-like system where posts are generated based on an algorithm. Perhaps a ranking algorithm could be deployed to undervalue posts which lack credibility or encourage detrimental behavior? I fully agree that providing kids with the ability to navigate this terrain is a better solution.
An IBM 3592 JD Advanced Data Tape Cartridge costs a bit over $200 and has a raw (uncompressed) storage capacity of 15TB. An LTO-8 cartridge is 12TB and under $200. Meanwhile the cheapest 10TB HDD Newegg sells is $304.27.
As a coder, the only real drug I’ve ever really needed has been caffeine. This didn’t start until recently so I’m not sure if I can attribute it to age (early 30’s). My real dependence on caffeine is mainly due to staying up too late the night before (like right now, about 0200 here) and needing to get up and function with 5hrs of sleep and maintain my mental acuity for the workload I have.

To give you an idea of my caffeine intake...about 2 venti black coffees and an 8oz Red Bull.
Still not enough for MDs to keep fluoroquinolones for threatening conditions or resistant infections it seems. Incredible. Tons of molecules can and SHOULD be used first in most cases described here. It's just so bad. Someday we will have nothing left against bacteria and this will be entirely deserved.
Also making it mandatory to wear a helmet means fewer people use bicycles, so fewer people get the health benefits of cycling.
We’ve been smoking bud in Murica for longer than 10 years ;)
I am in Spain. Maybe it has changed but a few years back it was the norm. The institute I worked for had a 5 year rule and you got kicked out (if you were doing research), but a few people managed to get extensions around that.
Because wisdom comes from making mistakes, learning from them, and having context to better extrapolate and evaluate similar scenarios in the future. Censorship of the young denies them that feedback, removes agency from them, and doesn't make them wiser in the process.
It was a slight exaggeration... but only slight. When I was visiting my bro in Freiburg I was amazed at the number of full-kit w*s walking up and down the relatively flat paved path that hugged the Dreisam river. Half of them were practically dragging the poles behind them too.
Find cool people to job shadow
Good to know your interest! LiteTree is implemented with production use in mind. It will be used in the Aergo blockchain (https://www.aergo.io/). New tests will be released in the next weeks.
Impressive, I like this! I'm curious more in general how widely risc-v is being used in the industry today already (they mentioned a steep adoption from academia to industry). Looking at the foundation members, there are quite a big number; given they range for risc-v is from small devices to super computers, are there any examples where it's used today and showed benefits over other archs?
Lots of "Big Data" optimizations, like partitions becoming a first class feature, parallel queries and LLVM JIT on CPU-bound queries.

HPE did an excellent technical, no marketing BS writeup on PG11[0]. I highly recommend everyone read this.

[0] https://h50146.www5.hpe.com/products/software/oe/linux/mains...
How Trump Could Hurt Google – POLITICO
20 MB of RAM should be enough for anybody! /s

I was reading a thing a while back on here or Reddit where someone asked about an OS that ran entirely in cache, after all in principle a modern processor has more L3 than an original Unix minicomputer.

Since many of the memory subsystems operate on the assumption that changes should be propagated to memory that you would still need to have RAM there even if you weren't really "using" it.

There was a suggestion that since the bringup code begins entirely on-processor (before initializing RAM) that you could hack the Management Engine and keep running in that mode forever.
i believe the two [smartphone+socialmedia] are a bitter pill...
i actually destroyed the first smartphone i bought, reason being everytime i attempted to do something constructive the device had other plans, notifications, upgrades in the middle of a task, FB wants your attention or some piece of info, web queries or http lookups funneling through google, but not bcz i have no G+ account...
[speedball pitch/smashingglass] and then i swore off smartphones
It helps. But a few decades of deliberate infrastructure investments is what has made this a viable mode of transport in the Netherlands. This has been policy for decades and given the success in increasing safety, the policies have only become more pro cyclists over time.

It's a data driven thing at this point. If repeated accidents happen on a particular bit of road, there will very likely be some follow up in the form of infrastructure work to fix things. Any new infrastructure that gets planned, this stuff is designed in from day 1. Much of this work is planned in order of priority based on things like accident statistics.

Many US cities are actually quite suitable for adapting them to cyclists. The roads are wide and there's plenty of room to start fixing the infrastructure to have separate bike lanes, safer intersections, etc. You can start simple with some road markings. It's not rocket science.
But were you on a racing bike, going at speed? In that situation the Dutch use helmets too.

For normal traffic use, people in the Netherlands use bikes where you sit in an upright position, and they don't go very fast (like 15 km/h). You can take quick evasive action away from the road, or put a foot on the ground to prevent a fall. It's hard to imagine breaking a helmet on a non-racing bike here.
What If Ketamine Actually Works Like an Opioid?
I think it's only loyalty of userbase - they're the first mover of privacy conscious search.

Any competitor would have to prove credibility in the field, as they'd be trading on ethics.

I use DuckDuckGo exclusively - the only two reasons for me to stop I can see would be some kind of ethics scandal, or the quality of the search dropping dramatically.

I'm very happy with it currently.
> Pride is like St. Paddy's Day or Chinese New Year

Having worked in Northern Ireland I can tell you that St Patrick's Day is loaded with politics there.

The company got around it by giving both St Pats and 12th July as public holidays but allowing staff to voluntarily work them in lieu.

Hence staunch loyalists could work on St Pats and take the holiday another time, whilst nationalists could work on Orangefest. Neither felt compelled to celebrate the other's festival.

Being a naive Englisher 'Hun' I just took both days off and offended both groups equally.

All discussion of politics and sports was banned at all times. That seemed quite easy to enforce.
Why would DDG include a button to a competing search engine, considering they already have !g? It’s implicitly saying that, “our search results aren’t that great, here’s a direct button to search Google for the same thing.”
I assume different school system has different rules, but here in Sweden there are laws that school must adapt based on the need of the child. A disabled child should get the right tools based on their needs, which will depend on the exact circumstances.

For someone with impaired motor control skills I would assume that default software and a touchscreen is far from usable. There is a reason why many touchscreen system has a stylus pen, which would obviously not work in kindergarten for children with impaired motor control skills. A large screen and software designed for it could be one way, but I have also seen massive trackballs that I recall is being used in those situations.
Introduction to Incr_dom: Writing Dynamic Web Apps in OCaml
Java is still available at zero-cost
Random Structures from Lego Bricks and Analog Monte Carlo Procedures [pdf]
But how will they know they have made a mistake when it's all they have ever known? Humanity has reached where it has because of the combined knowledge base of our ancestors. Do we really need to touch fire to realize our mistake? We don't have to relearn everything when our predecessors have already accumulated the wisdom and are willing to share.
I've just never run into places where that style improved readability, performance, or debuggability. Outside of the Haskell world, I've usually found myself preferring loops for ease of following the code.
> I can no longer refer to a search query and expect a peer to see the same results as I do.

You could try opening an incognito window, although it could still give different results based on geo location.
I was thinking that having a separate medium for backup might make people think about it differently.
The cartridge is the same. It can be reformatted from 10 to 15TB using the newer tape drive.

https://spectralogic.com/features/ts1155-technology-tape-dri...
I’ve seen a little image with Yandex on the bottom right on DDG sometimes, so I think they partner with at least them in some cases.
Fitbit heart data reveals its secrets
I don't have a Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter or Instagram account now. But to me it seems like this is the new cool factor rather than choice, where quitting Facebook seems to make someone cool or distinct than using it.
"I suspect that people generally don't exhibit rationality when making small daily decisions - Kahneman et al."

I wouldn't go as far to claim that they don't "exhibit rationality". I think that we are pretty rational as different beings come (we don't know of anything that comes close to human common sense). What Kahneman is talking about mostly are heuristics, which sometimes can be exploited and lead to irrational behavior.
Dumber Humans – That’s Just One Effect of a More Polluted Future
Medical emergencies are sadly not a free market.

You have a need that the customer (patient) needs to fill with a product (medical care).

The problem is, if the customer doesn't get the need fullfilled within the next 10 minutes they die of cardiac arrest. Or worse, the customer is already in cardiac arrest and requires resuscitation.

An unconsicous customer can't make market decisions.

So now we get to the next stage, a hospital revives/saves the patient but they are unconscious for a few days in the ICU.

The patient can hardly walk away while being non-responsive or later when drugged up on painkillers so they don't scream all the time.

By the time a patient can leave a hospital without dying the hospital has likely already spent 90% of the money that would be spent if the patient stayed for a few days more to recover.

But is it free market to bill the patient for actions taken while they were non-responsive or not even consented too (because they were non-responsive and/or dying)?

IMO the answer is simple; free markets don't exist. They are an ideal construct similar to how a bouncy ball should mathematically bounce forever but doesn't. And especially in healthcare there are too many interfering patterns for a free market to actually exist. In other markets, you could make a free market because people could pick and choose and compare and consent (ie, buying logs of wood for your fireplace). But dying people can't participate in the market to not die freely.

I also advice against superglue for wounds, the stuff can be toxic and/or nasty and will likely lead to an infection. There are some natural glues that your body produces to stitch wounds and you can obtain them in your supermarket, though they aren't clean enough that I would consider them fit for that use either.
Tips for being a solo developer at a startup
13 people in New Zealand were put in hospital this summer [1] by MDMA laced with N-Ethylpentylone. It was also discovered after pill testing at a festival in Australia. In January several people in Melbourne were hospitalised one weekend after taking laced MDMA.

I couldn't say how often MDMA is laced, and in what quantities, but it's definitely out there.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_nz/article/8xdzpb/heres-what-was-in-...
Hi! It was not tested with the official SQLite public tests yet, but this will happen in the next month. Some tests will need to be adapted (maybe a lot) so it may take a while. But stability and reliability is our focus as it will be included in the Aergo blockchain (https://www.aergo.io/).
On flip side you need 60-120 fps for VR to make it look real. 30 fps and you get sick.

Where as on AR you can tolerate even 15fps without getting sick.
This is interesting and I hope I can find a use case for it. However, the performance compared to vanilla SQLite makes me anxious that there is a trade-off elsewhere, such as crash integrity.
I believe the article was only talking about literature in the restricted definition of basically meaning "a classic".

It even acknowledges the ability of the written word to get huge readership numbers in the modern day, so I think think it would make much sense if it was about written works as a whole.
Preprocessing Phase for C++17's Searchers
How Ratings and Reviews Affect ASO
Sure, but that is not a problem of social media, its a problem of bored workers looking to cure their boredom. If they arent on their phone they would be reading something or staring holes into the air.

I dont have any of the traditional social medias, yet I still slack of frequently, get distracted all the time. Imho there is very little to no connection between social media usage and productivity.
When to Use Django (And When Not To)
"The main motivation for the darkriscv is create a migration path for some projects around the 680x0/coldfire family."

On the Amiga we don't need a replacement for MC680## processors because we have the Vampire 2+ accelerator, which gives us a superscalar, 64-bit MC68080 with AMMX extensions.

Coming to ATARI ST and Amiga 1200 near you if the Apollo team keeps this momentum.
A chat with the creator of Comma, a Perl 6 IDE built on the IntelliJ platform