skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a cheaper end-user/consumer point of view, the only real option for optical disc storage is BD-XL, which is a 3 or 4 layer Writable BluRay Disc supporting 100GB/128GB per disc.

In comparison to tape, it's not that much storage, but fairly cheap to implement at home. £60 for the drives, and about £15 per 100GB disc.
I like reading books, but there's nothing inherently good about getting knowledge through books.

Especially a lot of the "entrepreneur" or "productivity" books, where you have 80% padding because nobody wants to buy a 40 page book.
> Nothing learned and no career progress is still a perfectly fine result.

This is a hard lesson to learn, especially if you were good at school growing up. I find it helpful to, after/while hanging out with friends or walking in the park, make a conscious effort to reflect on and appreciate the feeling of fulfillment that comes from it. There's something healthiness-reenforcing for me about looking around, breathing deeply, and saying 'this is nice'
I didn't discuss your point about slavery. I don't even want to think about agreeing or not since everyone will always have different opinions about it. That's why I started my first comment with "some corrections." Just wanted to correct a few things that were not.

Although I find it jaw-dropping that 20% of the slave trade came from such a tiny place! ;)
I have a similar experience. I have developed a habit of attaching '-jquery' to every js-related search. DDG seems to respect this at all times while Google might just ignore this from time to time, leaving me with useless results.
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Well.. both companies will go down the sink as they have been heavily involded in rigging the election. Defaming trump. Disinformation.
Yeah, this is also used in virtual machines disk images (I guess)
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And building self-discipline and self-control is one of those skills that many don't know the first steps to. I know that I spent many years thinking that self-discipline meant mentally punishing myself for wasting time. It isn't.

discipline is saying to yourself something like "This is worth it, but this is uncomfortable. I'm going to do it anyway because I'm stronger than I think" and following through on that.
It might be hard to imagine reading HN, that outside of SV there are more businesses who use tapes than businesses who use AWS.
$450? All you need to do is extend your middle finger.
But don't you see the problem? You suppressing flat earthers seems fine to you now... in the same way that suppressing round earthers would have seemed sensible to your ancestor back then? And can you see why it would have been wrong to suppress the initial idea that the Earth was round?
...But you escaped the skinner box ! kudos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber
> They probably just ought to have spoken to each other.

Twitter probably should have just done the dive to verify what deleting an app does. I would guess this is mentioned somewhere in the docs.
> Actually, you should relearn everything. That doesn't mean that you need to put everything into production. But re-learning everything is, IMHO, the only way to adapt.

I actually agree with this! But wouldn't you say that using social media is "putting it into production"?
Scientist develops database for stellar-exoplanet ‘exploration’
Nice, I always wanted to write a mail server.

Is there any design documents? The stuff to explain the design, architecture, motivations, and intent.
>I'm curious how you though the article failed to cover this issue?

I'm curious why you interpreted my comment that way. I just added additional context.
I'm in the early stages of writing a book now. Looking at my notes I'm thinking this will be a short but information dense book. At first it demotivated me slightly but then I realised I'm mostly writing the book as a reference for myself so now I'm actively trying to further condense. Thinking back most of the good business books I've read have been exceptionally short and to the point.
you can always get www.google.com/ncr
If you don't have decentralized production and validation of blocks, you don't have a block chain.
>In Amsterdam it's not really frowned uppon if you go through a dormant red trafficlight, I wouldn't recommend that in Rotterdam.

This really isn't limited to Amsterdam. Even at the zebra crossings where bikes are technically obliged to stop for pedestrians...they (and to be honest, I) most often don't.
This kind of post gives me a headache based on its premise and conclusion. There are unproductive questions like "is the world flat" or "was it created last thursday" where you don't even want to argue. Yes literature is dead, so let's keep on writing and let the next epoch decide on the classics.
I consider this stigma the other way around, though I live in a much colder country; an A/C is essential because cooling yourself off is hard.

On the other hand, you can forgoe heating by buying another thick blanket, keeping warm is relatively simple compared to keeping cool, notably because the human body naturally produces heat. All you need to do to keep warm is to prevent it from going away.
Interesting, I actually find that I use !g less and less and when I do I often don't get what I'm looking for either (probably because I'm not searching for the right thing in the first place). On top of that I vastly prefer ddg's very simple and terse output compared to Google's many widgets displaying all kinds of content inline and wasting monitor real estate.

>Side note, if they get bought out by a big player, I will feel like my use of them for the last year has been for naught.

I completely agree and at this point it's my main issue with DDG. I don't think their business model is sustainable, if they ever make it big the pressure to make more money will eventually corrupt their noble goals. After all Do No Evil used to be a thing at Google too and we see how that turned out.

I'd gladly pay a subscription to a good search engine to remove the need for ads and align the business model to the privacy goals, however I'm probably in a small minority here.
Type ! in DDG and press down. You will see a list of accepted keywords. Those two search stackoverflow and github.
> The vast majority of average boring roads in residential areas have a 50 km/h maximum speed […]

Look closely though, a lot has changed in the last decade. Most of the residential streets are now 30 km/h, with only the larger arterial thoroughfares (which do have tend to have separate cycling lanes) and roads in industrial areas left at 50 km/h.

> Most countryside roads have a 80 km/h maximum speed and no bike lanes.

A lot of those remaining roads that don't have a separate cycling lane have been turned into 60 km/h roads.

Wherever in our country do you live that this is not the case?
A small-town or rural convenience store in most of the world is not even particularly aware of how urban shops (but actually not all that many, comparatively speaker) are adding themselves to Google Maps. So, 1) is indeed unlikely to happen. But because OSM editing tools for newbies, like StreetComplete, encourage people to add opening hours for all nearby businesses regardless of size, that information does make it to OSM.

In my own neck of the woods, if you are cycling around the countryside, you can not only find a nearby convenience store to stop for a drink or snack, you can even know if it is presently open. Meanwhile, Google Maps has almost none of the small shops in this region, let alone their opening hours.
Miirket: SSH access without the need of IP address and port forwarding
Not that many people take drugs in Silicon Valley...at least not most devs I know.
> To my understanding, MAOIs only pose a hypertension risk in combination with stimulants like tyramine, caffeine, amphetamine and derivatives, etc

They pose a risk with alcohol and lots of different foodstuffs too - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/ex...

> MAOIs may increase DMT risk in other ways, but I don't believe hypertensive crisis is an issue for that specific combination.

Not with DMT itself, but if taking an MAOI at all you need to take a lot of precautions (fasting, avoiding certain foods and drink etc) to avoid the possibility.

It's manageable, clearly, but just blanket saying not only that it's fairly safe, but that it's the only fairly safe drug disregards the specific risks associated with MAOI use over and above those presented by (for instance) LSD or MDMA.
While 100 millions rows is not exactly big number for PostgreSQL, so you might be well without partitioning, but still.

> Despite the flexibility, this approach forces the planner to perform an exhaustive search and to check constraints on each partition to determine whether it should be present in the plan or not. Large amount of partitions may result in significant planning overhead.

> The pg_pathman module features partition managing functions and optimized planning mechanism which utilizes knowledge of the partitions' structure.

https://github.com/postgrespro/pg_pathman
Are there any similar initiatives in London?

Failing that, any Londoners who are interested in starting something like this?
Other countries do just fine without a bail system, so I'm not sure why the US needs one. Is it because of slowness in the legal system and you don't want to have people in jail while they wait to their trial? Because then maybe one would need to look at reducing the amount of time between being jailed and put on trial.
> spread of disinformation, digital witch hunts, bullying, etc

That are just features of every communication platform, even the traditional postal services.

AFAIK, most people consider social media platforms to be a subset of communication platforms with many to many communication, discovery, community etc..

I'm with you though that the groups feature of WhatsApp could be seen as some basic form of social media. (For the sake of theoretic precision; certainly not for introducing censorship.)
Many parts of the world are using some variation of uppers, downers, screamers or laughers. Weed has been sacred in indian subcontinent for millennia and is part of their religion (ie Shiva day). Coca is sacred plant for all altiplano population in South America. Mushrooms for Siberian population. Mescaline cactus for Central America. Ayahusca in amazon. And so on.

Update your history knowledge.
I've been reading a bunch of 60s/70s sci fi recently - the odd book by the likes of Pohl, Bester, Haldeman, Heinlein, Lem etc... as well as biggies like Arther C Clarke and Philip K Dick (yet to touch Asimov!).

I've been blown away by how enjoyable and fascinating it all is, given how long ago these stories were written. My hunch was that sci fi would date a lot faster than most other genres (and sure, some of the social/cultural/gender aspects seem laughably wrong today), but in the best of these books the human element is so gripping that the sci fi aspect simply becomes a perfectly fantastical backdrop against which to explore some niche part of the human psyche. "The Stars My Destination" really stuck out to me in this sense.

Another surprise I had was how much more I've enjoyed the lesser-known authors than the likes of Clarke. I've now gone through both "Rendezvous With Rama" and "The Fountains of Paradise", and whilst the ideas are epic, the actual execution generated very little interest for me.

Anyway, that was all very tangential, but your comment really brought home how much further I still need to go to start touching the "source" of sci fi.
Agreed, I was hoping for something a bit more substantive. The following podcast episode with Cole Marta is what turned me on to learning more about research into Ketamine and MDMA.

http://www.duncantrussell.com/episodes/2016/9/14/dr-cole-mar...
Not that I disagree with you, but the historical reason for a public education system was because the nature of work changed and the economy needed workers who could do more than just labour. Historical context has created much more noble goals since then :)
I've seen more and more harrowing reports about American addiction crysis in the past several years, do you think that has or will have little to do with pot?
Nope, just my phone autocompletion at work.

For antigravity just look up M.Taijmar's work on the Thirring-Lense effect: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2007082324A1/en?inventor...

To understand gravity you don't need to build super-expensive devices to find the particle-interpretation of this wave force. The Higgs makes no sense outside the standard model. Studying the wave-interpretation as attracting force is easier and also alignable with general relativity.
Explaining an wide-reaching attractive force as particle really makes no sense at all (outside QM), as Heisenberg also complained.
I agree with you that your definition is what we should define a blockchain as, as Natamoto defined it. However, I'm afraid to say probably the majority of companies that claim they use blockchain probably use something very close to Git instead, or even just a digital signature or a hash function. Seriously, it's ridiculous.

Imagine if Google called certificate transparency blockchain? Journalists would lose their shit. Such an easy article to write. In fact, Google explicitly say on their website that they're kinda against the hype: http://www.certificate-transparency.org/general-transparency "These technologies are strongly related to the much-hyped blockchain. The reality, of course, is that there isn't a "the" blockchain, and that decentralisation is not always the answer. We are not making "the" blockchain, and we do not claim to support decentralisation."

I'll never forget my first job the business people wanted to investigate "the blockchain" and the yes men came up with a bunch of PoCs. I just asked "how is this different to Git?" Such an awkward moment.
Those data are only for felonies -- bails tend to be much higher. People who face bails of $50 to $100 are going to disproportionately be charged with misdemeanors, and we'd expect a much larger percentage to be able to meet it than the bails for felonies.
Another example of how impressive Postgres is, well done.
I’m always amazed by how much faster Postgres gets with each release - unlike most other softwares that often get slower.
Many parallel processing improvements in 11 should keep this up. Array and Composite Domains, Stored Procedures, Awesome Window functions even better framing / exlusion.
Very few weakness vs Oracle now, apart from one glaring weakness - Materialized views - lack of auto incremental refresh, severely limits their usefulness. (SQL Server Mat views also fairly useless beacuse they have so many limitations).
Would love to see - NOT IN Foreign key constraint - I would imagine this would be quite easy to implement on the back of existing IS In Foreign Keys, would be incredibly useful.
Also why not increase the default identifier length from 63 to 127? I know can be done on first install(only then) so is a pain to do, I find long constraint names useful for understanding errors.
In reality, all societies have exceptions to free speech, such as: threats, libel, inciting riots, hate speech, asking for bribes, etc. Discussing other potential exceptions is hardly fascism.
I'm glad I looked her up. You're labelling her "racist" because she tweeted some stupidity and the right wing hate machine trawled old tweets to smear anyone and everyone:

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/3/17644704/sarah-jeong-new-york-t...
It's because of the way our brain deals with commitment: the more your invest yourself in something, the harder it is to quit.

E.G:

Put your bad next to a person and leave. A thief comes and steal the bag. You have a low change of the person to protect your bag.

Do the same, but just ask quickly if the person can keep an eye on the bag. You now have a much higher change that the person will protect it. The risks are the same for the person, and the gains are still zero, but they committed.

This have plenty of application in sales, politics, etc.

For a very fun ride about this, read "Small Treatise About Manipulation for Honest People ". It explains very well how we trick ourselves into taking weird decisions because of commitments.
I do not know if I want a dev search engine.

I just want a way to signal DDG to prefer dev websites over nondev. DDG doesn't bubble us so it doesn't know I only want dev sites with certain queries and we keep naming projects after common terms. (Ruby, Python)

Thus !dev would be a good idea.

I guess it could be a good idea for dev.duckduckgo.com or duckduckgo.com/bangdev to be an option in search drop down, but honestly how often do people select alternative searches vs typing it in or !g'ing it?
How could you know that from an interview? Of course they would say that
There'll be a few RV32 (RISC-V 32 bit) cores in every WD hard drive starting next year.
You can replace the Red Bull with another black coffee and a glass of orange juice, the effective contents are the same.

I also absolutely do recommend to drink an acidic juice in the morning before any coffee, it brightens up the day significantly.
Eh, get used to this, buddy. That's just peer pressure. Every generation blames the latest form of media but really its just humanity and we're _the worst_. Regulations just leads to further abuse but with more authority.

Just do your best to identify and avoid toxic situations.
I had a HP colorado backup (400/800), I think it's QIC like.

Tried to use it on an old p3 box with win95, and was utterly surprised that win95 backup application had support for generic backup tape drives that allowed me to restore the tape content.

I also love the super smooth mechanical sounds of tape drives, even at the cost of slow seek.
> The problem with school

Have you thought of viable solutions for this?
> Funny that your link includes WhatsApp as a social medium. I don't see it like that at all. For me it is just a free alternative to SMS.

You can post status updates (images, message, videos, ...) with WhatsApp: https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/android/26000031/
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Bringing .NET application performance analysis to Linux
iOS So iPad has Google Docs and other Google Suite apps as well. No advantage there.
Most non tech savvy people don't even have that much data to backup: most of their heavy stuff (music, pictures, etc), are now attached to an online service.

Plus you only do it once. Differential backup would take down the size of the next backups to a few Gb, or even Mb.
It's extremely powerful experience, you simply can't get anything similar in any other way. Your whole concept of reality will be blown away, even physical aspects of your existence disappear (like your body and most senses we take for granted). hard to describe with mere words.

Will you realize some hidden truth about the nature of the universe? Most probably not. Will it teach you something about yourself and your mind? Most definitely yes.

Can this change you forever? Of course it can, and many it will. Can this trigger any dormant mental disease? Absolutely. Any profoundly shocking experience can, even binge drinking - met one person who ended up on lifelong schizophrenia treatment because of alcohol.
There is a lot of cycling in Limburg as well. Especially sport cycling ("wielrennen"), not despite but rather because of the hills!

I grew up there and my friends and I used our (regular) bikes a lot to get from town to town. Because of the hills it was exhausting but doable. When I went to study up north, I remember being surprised how easy cycling is in the rest of our (flat) country: you can easily go on for hours!
I wish open source projects would stop being hosted on the Microsoft-owned GitHub.
Create the problem. Then fight it.
Sure, but it's not just capital right? Especially in the internet era if you somehow removed all capital influence you just shift it to the range of people between celebrities and confidence men. The fundamental problem is that people let others unduly influence 'their' worldview.

Seems even if you remove the influence of capital, you're just kicking the can rather than actually solving the problem.
That's just event sourcing. The innovation in the bitcoin whitepaper was the consensus algorithm.
I think as a civilization we have become more scientific and as a consequence, more reluctant to accept alternate truths which are not based on science. If someone could provide proof that the world is flat then their credibility would improve. However, since that proposition defies basic science, I would first have to be skeptical.
It's a difficult line to draw though. For instance you have PG ratings, the 13 yo limitation on account creation, 18 yo limitation on binding contracts etc.

Flagging what children can see/can do is a necessary part of education, the question is where to draw the line and what is considered damaging enough that it needs to be marked as off limits
Google search for Kafka consistently gives me Apache Kafka first. It frequently then gives me some clothing retailer I've never heard of in second place (but not always -- at least one time, this was totally absent), with no indication that it's a "sponsored" result or anything. The Wikipedia entry for Franz Kafka is in third place; everything else is Apache-related.

DDG gives me a decent mix of results about both Apache and Franz (not only the Wikipedia entry, a variety of books/articles/etc as well).
Was searching for DDG contact. Found that there is a !dev bang, but all it does is search https://devdocs.io.

I am looking for something that I can signal to DDG to only/prefer dev sites.

If anyone is curious this is the site to look up your !bangs.

https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=dev
I know, at least at federal level the US isn't a democracy anymore, it's been taken over by corruption entirely. Until that is changed the problems for normal people like the one described in the post will only get worse.
I honestly didn't think anyone cared about historical posts on any of the platforms, I'd be happy if they just auto-deleted after 30 days.

Also, cross-posts from 3rd parties make up the majority of crap on my timeline. Happy to se it go and happy to see people being exposed to the fragility of relying on these free services as a backup service for anything they consider important. I hope it prompts people to consider their relationship with these types of platforms and what is being exchanged between you and them exactly.
The tragedy of the commons is not a natural law.
Sometimes I really wonder how people use their phones. Is it really necessary to go the extreme of needing to turn it off just to "fight off" the "addiction"?

Speaking about myself, I only have notifications for emails and for messages directly addressed to me. I might check it occasionally on the bus to see what popped up in the news but other than that, I don't have the need to pull it from the pocket all the time.

What exactly do people do different than this with their phones? I really feel that I have been missing something amazing with the smartphone usage when I read posts like this.
> pure HTML browsing without javascript

I highly doubt this is achievable now. Turn on NoScript and vast majority of web sites just refuse to work not even properly, but to just load the content.
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Yes it has very little to do with pot. The crisis is of opioids: painkillers prescribed by doctors a little too easily, and scores of people get addicted to these substances.
No, using social media is like discussing it in a meeting (it doesn't really harm anything, just wastes time). Putting it into production means to actually change the society (the laws, customs, etc.) in that way.
Funny when it comes to semaphores in software industry, it's harder to understand than just trying to understand it as is.