skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In my experience Firefox + DDG is a viable alternative to Chrome + Google Search.

Yup, Firefox is better than Chrome (especially with tree style tabs on the side) and DDG isn't really as good as Google so, when you average things out, these are comparable combinations.
Nostalgia isn't a function of quality, but of age.

It's not just age, it's a sense of loss. I can still go down to the store and buy milk in bag form, just as I could when I was a kid, so I don't feel nostalgic about it even though it's old. I feel nostalgic about the web of my youth because that place is gone now and it'll likely never come back.

In tech circles we like to obsess over new technologies and all of the amazing new possibilities they've brought. We don't spend nearly as much time talking about all we've lost.
Fascinating stuff. I wish this technology was available for computer monitor usage. I'd love to try it out.
I agree that I must have misunderstood the reporting of the numbers of shares. the numbers i'm sure of are the rough number of options that i had vested after 1+ year.
There is a huge gulf (ocean) in motivation between trying to bring "democracy" to third world countries and an attack on the country's doorstep. When only 1 DEA agent was murdered in Mexico, it provoked an enormous response.[0]

There's a great line at the end of Tora! Tora! Tora! from Admiral Yamamoto that would undoubtedly apply in such a scenario,
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiki_Camarena
It collapses the second narrative, but not the first. It could still be that drug money was the driving force behind the cartels, but after they grew to sufficient size, the cartels could sustain themselves otherwise.

The second narrative is kind of obviously too simple. Of course the cartels won't just dissolve, and maybe they will find ways to sustain themselves indefinitely. But maybe we shouldn't continue to feed them? Surely that doesn't help.
I'm with you! I've been developing https://jivesearch.com/, which is basically an open source version of DDG. Has all the !bangs and tons of instant answers. The best part is that if you are paranoid about privacy or don't trust me for some reason you can leave me out of the equation and run it yourself. Would love your feedback on it.
Critical self-analysis, and, though I don’t think there is a “mastery” to be achieved, seeing a therapist weekly is a huge improvement in my life. As the current top commenter said, “After almost two years, the benefits of” therapy “are so apparent that I have to hold back getting on my bully pulpit to encourage other friends to do so.”
I only agree with the first sentence (except for the 10. The base chosen isn’t that important).

The rest, IMO, are arguments that get repeated every time this issue comes up that have barely any value. For temperature, the main argument is that people won’t understand what ½ means. Counter-argument (also weak, but not weaker than the one about ½) is that digital body-for measuring body temperatures that use Fahrenheit all seem to use a digit beyond the decimal, too (https://www.google.nl/search?q=Digital+fahrenheit+thermomete... shows 98.6 as the winning value). The argument that negative temperature are hard to understand, in turn, is offset by the fact that Fahrenheit also way to easily requires the use of 3 digit numbers for normal temperatures (both also very weak arguments)

The ‘exact division is easier’ argument holds some water, but how often do you need to do exact divisions (no, you can’t use a saw to cut a two by four into two two by twos; the saw takes away material). One could also argue we should have chosen an odd prime to give almost all divisors even footing, and to prevent requiring the invention of ‘round to odd/even’ conventions.
no, the saying is that if you aren't embarrassed by your first version you've launched too late. it doesn't mean that if you launch something embarrassing you've launched on time.

a new, far reaching platform for internet data exchange launching without a basic proof of concept seems like a clear and obvious gap that should have been filled before launch.
> That legalizing drugs would make the cartels and the violence disappear

Nothing will make violence disappear completely.

That said, legalizing drugs will most certainly reduce cartel activity.

Cartels exist because they sell a product with a huge margin that people can't really buy from anywhere else. Even when selling stolen products such as gasoline their market and margin is much smaller.
good - so the numbers make more sense if they have three orders of magnitude more shares than i guessed above. Thank you!
But can you actually READ your monitor when it’s dimmer than a sheet of paper in ambient light?
A lot of mine have been covered here already, so I’ll keep it to Drawing.

No matter where you’re at — even if you can only draw stick figures — working on drawing skills is an incredible, compounding investment that pays continual dividends.
The Russian mob did that with the rail distillery McCormick. They dyed the vodka blue and would ship it as window cleaner in 55 gallon drums. Then remove the dye to avoid taxes.
https://jivesearch.com/. I run it and made an update this week that greatly improved our search results. 100% open source, has all the !bangs and tons of instant answers.
Studying does involve a big chunk of practial work, so you get both theory and practise. If you don't know the basics it would be very hard to do any "real-world development". So why do you think, 4 years are better spent trying desperately to coble some scripts together with a boss behind you than spending those 4 years surrounded by experienced teachers and like-minded students in an environment that focuses on learning?
Im always pleasantly surprised when I do a search expecting to have to click a site to get the answer, only to have ddg show me the results(a lot of time with a nice widget)
Family:) But I wouldn't dare say I have mastered it
Peter Norvig put it best, when he said: "The semantic web is the future of the web and always will be."

Norvig is a smart guy, and maybe he meant something different by that quote than the obvious reading, but at first blush that sounds silly. If he's saying "The semantic web "always will be" the future because it will never happen, then he's objectively wrong. The semantic web is here and has been for a long time.

The key thing to remember though, is that the semantic web is about machine readable data... semantic web technologies are not, by and large, something end users interact with, or even need to know about, themselves. They empower things for developers, but are mostly invisible to the average user.

Google, Yahoo and other major search engines have been extracting semantic data - in the form of RDFa, Microformats, etc., - and using that data for at least 10 years now.

OTOH, if Norvig mean that it will always be the future because it's always evolving, adapting, and growing, then, well, yeah... of course. And that's exactly where we are. Semantic Web tech just keeps getting better and more useful.
If you like DDG's bang commands, you might want to check out Riot.im - it supports autocomplete for DDG searches and bang commands (and as far as I'm aware is the only IM client to do so)

/ddg <query> to try it out
That was really entertaining. I personally find his written account a little more vivid, but it was nice to hear it directly from the pilot.
I think the original grant (4-year vesting etc) must have been for around 1,000 shares. and I joined pre-IPO. but I agree it was not a large grant, even for an entry-level position. Nonetheless it's the only one I've gotten that's worth anything right now!
Where's the less chance of injury part coming from? It's much easier to master and incrementally load a fundamental weightlifting movement than a corresponding bodyweight progression. This means better form and more control - fewer injuries. I have tried both types of training for a while, and have concluded that weights are superior in every way. Unless the goal is mastery of a specific bodyweight skill.
I do not think that I would mind so much having to re-compile between kernel versions if it's just a matter of running "make" and copying the binaries to the target.
For a local client, yes, scaling would not be a concern; there is one websocket per client.

But this same method could be used for remote clients as well; I have a websocket-based "dashboard" for a project I'm working on that will potentially have to scale to thousands or more of remote clients. For a case like that, scaling is indeed a concern.

For example, the very simple websocket server used in the article won't scale well beyond a certain point because it spawns a new thread per client; something like gevent (which is what my dashboard uses) will scale much better. (Also the server in the example just exits on any exception; you need more robust error handling for something that needs to handle remote clients.)
Modern-Looking Logo Designs for a Flat Fee
I agree 100%. The systems are different, one isn't inherently better than the other.

If you do any kind of carpentry, the fact that a foot is 12 inches, which can be divided into halves, thirds and quarters really nicely makes it a nicer system to work with when you're just doing stuff ad-hoc without plans. I wouldn't want to do physics math in the imperial system, though.
Looks like an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) with a sharp landing page to attract attention
> the failing of the metric system

Really? If that's an example of 'failing', I'd like to see what success looks like.
This is an interesting confusion.

OP said "draw an arbitrary triangle in chalk on the ground", and from there gave a set of instructions that showed you how to check that the interior angles of that triangle added up to 180 degrees. You're right that that concrete set of instructions only proves it for that one triangle.

But that's not the whole proof. If I followed these instructions for a right triangle with angles 45,45,90, I'd only have proved that that triangle's angles added up to 180 degrees.

The full proof is that if you imagine doing this, for any triangle, it's clear that it will always work. When I picture this in my head, it's clear that I'm going to end up having turned 180 degrees, regardless of the measurements of the triangle.

This leap: starting with a set of concrete instructions that you can do on a particular object, but then verifying that they would work no matter what object you started with, is common in proofs.

EDIT: Nevermind, totally unrelated.
Learning the game of Go to a medium proficient level (3kyu). It's a humbling experience, but the insights and lessons about strategy, influence, timing and prioritization feels universal.
Sounds interesting, but not obvious to me. What are the dividends?
Are you the editor of the essays, "SHREEVATSA R."?
Understanding the concept of "negative feedback" in control systems.

Really. That's how you get accurate instruments out of mostly widely varying parts.
-4? I thought it would be useful to define an obscure (and dumb) term used in the article title, but I guess I misjudged.
Twenty Years of Escaping the Java Sandbox
The failure of the semantic Web is that it's repetitively being built by and for technologists rather than to meet a real need of real end users.

The Semantic Web hasn't "failed" and it's not something that end users need to see, know about, or care about directly. It's those technologists that use Semantic Web tech and data to build applications for the end users.

Freebase as a prominent example, was pointless for an average person.

Likewise Github is pointless to an average person. Because the average person isn't who it's meant for.
Thanks for sharing this, I will look into it. We have luajit on our system so this might be just what I need.
Windows CE (various extremely obsolete versions). The GUI side is quite convenient, since you can cross-develop from a normal desktop. The systems side is more of a problem, since the user community is almost non-existant.
If the contrast of the text is high enough, yes. For many websites this means custom CSS to disable the gray font color, but I do that anyway.
This might be grossly simplifying things: but if you're already familiar with "old JS" (since you mentioned jQuery), to read and write ES6 code in most modern JS projects, you really only need to get used to a handful of concepts: 1) lambda functions and the fat arrow syntax and what it does for scope, which is used extensively in modern JS codebases; 2) Promises/promise chains and async/awaits; 3) certain widely used new keywords like const and let, how requires and exports work in node.

This doesn't include frameworks like React which is its own entire separate category of things. But at least you'll be comfortable with ES6 and node8+ at this point. If you're more interested in frontend modern JS unfortunately you'll also probably have to learn about babel and webpack and the like.
Fast Company wrote an article about Inrupt, published on September 29; see the link below. It has been in stealth mode and is only just launching publicly this week.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim-berners-l...
I agree with this, at least in general. Linking content location to content ID is a serious mistake.

I'm not convinced it's worth investing time or effort into something that might make it harder to address the problem of URLs in the future. I get "solve one problem at a time", but I feel like URLs are so fundamental of a problem, you have to get them right first before you move on to other problems. And for the most part, we have gotten them right -- build whatever web replacement you're working on on top of DAT/IPFS, unless you have a really good reason not to :)

A decentralized web is a web where content can be re-hosted and verified by anyone.
You could be standing on top of an archeological site and never know it. Many of the features discovered by lidar are very very hard to spot from the ground. The kinds of people who have the expertise to spot them tend not to be tomb raiders.
The irony is that currently both google and ddg show this very thread as the top result for that search. DDG also happens to include a qr code for “hello hn”.
They get 7%.

I don't know what you're asking with the rest of your question.
I don't believe it's the only game, rather, I believe it's the best. The alternatives are theoretically wonderful, but when you lose the security of regular meals, a roof over your head, a shower, etc... Suddenly I'm not convinced.

Judging from the fact that you too are posting from a computer, running on the internet, I can assume you haven't adopted the virtuous life of income free bliss that you speak of?
Guess I get less optimistic about this sort of stuff considering the study was funded by Abbott, the company that makes the device. Sure it was reviewed by independent "sources" but still not something that's a positive feature of the study.

There's also very little research on why it works - to me that would be an important body of knowledge.
It's like two peas in a pod.

Or a pod of whales.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pod
I’ve been using DDG for 8 years now based on Salvatore Sanfilippo’s (of Redis fame) recommendation, but unlike him I hardly ever resort to !google

https://usesthis.com/interviews/salvatore.sanfilippo/
GMail lost one of the few things that matters for an email client: be fast and usable.
this is great - in my opinion there's a shortage of key value type data storage engines and there needs to be more competition in this regard. There simply aren't enough free/open source data engines to meet the demand of today's software.

few quick thoughts - how does this compare to leveldb? How would it perform in something like geth or parity as an ethereum client back end data engine in compared to leveldb? do you have a python interface library?
A 40 Hz model is already down to $1000. We may be on the cusp of some kind of sea change here. How insanely light could an E-Ink flatscreen monitor get? You don't need a backlight, so the power requirements would be much smaller and that would be a huge advantage to making something light. I could imagine an updated version of a "Sunflower" iMac built using one. MacOS resembling a magazine seems to be what Steve Jobs envisioned and what Apple is aiming for right now. Could they be made in such a way as to resemble good sheet material for acoustic exciters?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdkyGDqU7xA
SQL Server 2019 for Linux, Docker for Windows and Azure Data Studio
https://iase.disa.mil/stigs/os/mac/Pages/index.aspx
I never felt unsafe in Mexico and actually enjoy it a lot more than my yearly visits to the US.

Incredibly friendly people, great food and beautiful places.

Regarding violence, I find that most drug related violence stays contained within the cartel-world. Whilst in the US, random shootings are.. random..

Not that I feel unsafe in the US either though, the odds are pretty good that nothing will happen in either country.

(Most of my time in Mexico is spent in NL, Monterrey, and most of my time in the US near San Antonio, Texas. So I can't speak for either country in it's entirety of course)
> system is the actual measurements they used (length of a meter, celsius, etc), which are not really a great fit for humans.

I think I saw this argument first time in one of Taleb's books, and I have to say I have difficulties understanding that. What makes yard a better fit for humans than a meter? Or what makes a pound better fit than a kilogram?

(Agreeably, it is stupid that the base SI unit for mass has kilo in it. And instead of 10 base it might be nicer to have base 8. But imperial system does not address these)

Anyway, my proposal for compromise is that imperial countries adopt SI and metric countries adopt decimal point and get rid of decimal comma.
I don't think they do.

I'd rather use a bad browser and find what I need on Google, than use a good browser and get sub-par search results.
Hand tool woodworking, although I can't say I'm anywhere near mastering it.
Shame that Woodside bakery and cafe next door closed.

(Though it’s back in some kind of fancier upscale form under different owners now?)
I don't get this kind of reasoning.

Google isn't the NSA. Even if the NSA see everything, they still see it if you use Google instead of DuckDuckGo.

But Google don't see anything you do with DuckDuckGo. There are only upsides to using DuckDuckGo.
So what would a nuke do to the ionosphere if ordinary bombs have a measurable effect?
I would argue it is not about the little facts, such as specific sorting algorithms, but its more about learning how to approach a CS task, how to abstract and how to reason about code. The colleagues I know that were not as lucky and could not study CS, often they just hit a "wall" when they would have to argue about a certain SW architecture for example or when they were presented with an abstract problem, such as implementing some generic behaviour. And learning how to do this is a process that continues after the study, but it is important to get a basis. It is hard to really be specific here but if you do not have a good foundation of knowledge in a field, you will sooner or later (if you are not self-delusional of your abilities) regret it.
Have an upvote, and let me point out that those people were also responsible for a whole lot of murder in the name of "reason".
it says in this article that the fuel theft is cheaper and easier, and one former cartel member says it makes as much money as drugs

>their market and margin is much smaller

you think there's a smaller market for gasoline than drugs?
We look at how to run SQL Server 2019 for Linux in a Docker container on a Windows machine.
Another option to self host is https://jivesearch.com/. Has !bangs and instant answers, etc. I run it and am happy to answer any questions.
Nicky Barnes made the cover of a NY times magazine making the violent drug dealer look respectable.
It's an interesting side-effect of Uber's low-friction payment system. In a taxi, it can't happen because the driver must end the trip in order to process your payment - friction helps in some ways. I'm not saying Uber should discard their low-friction system, but they need to engineer it so that the fraud is as impossible as it is in a taxi.

Another point: If the fraud was going the other way, if it was costing Uber money, then I expect the problem would have been solved long before it reached the attention of HN. It's like the old story (or maybe urban myth) of supermarket checkout barcode scanners - the supermarkets argued that the error rate was normal, until someone pointed out that a large majority of the errors were in the supermarkets' favor. Oops! but not oops.
I'm very strongly in favor of drug decriminalization, I believe it's oppressive for states to attempt to control the behavior of non-violent, well-informed, adult citizens who want to consume a substance.

However, I think the overall situation is more complicated than that, as this article details. The organized crime cartels have many streams of revenue. There's nothing there to legalize in the case of activities like natural resource theft.

When you have a corrupt and weak state, criminals will see opportunity in preying on innocent civilians and companies through threat of violence.

Edit: Changed "There's nothing here to legalize." to "There's nothing there to legalize in the case of activities like natural resource theft." to clarify my statement.
This isn't a very good article, but the story is interesting. Also about it:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/401/transcript

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/91706-lucy
Ssh and p2p stuff are two examples off the top of my head. For p2p, you lose the ability for peers to initiate a connection with you if you block incoming traffic.
The impact on safe investors will be less than in those 2 models because those models assume no pool, ie no hires between Safes and Series A. That’s why I said it was artificial, and that safe investors will do better than depicted. In reality there will be some amount of pool in most cases, so the safe investors won’t be bearing the full impact of the dilution from the 10% pool, ie they will own more than in the screenshot posted.

You’re right that many safe investors have a particular % in mind when the invest. The problem with the old framework is that they had no certainty on that. They could invest $1m at $9m premoney cap and think they got 10% but if the company raised more money on a bunch of other Safes or caps, they ended up with a lot less. The dilution confusion impacted both founders and investors alike. In the model you saw, the safe investors got exactly what they bargained for, 16.7% (2m invested at 12m post = 2/12 = 16.7%), and then ended up with ~11% because they were diluted by the Series A round. That’s what happens - each round dilutes the next. It’s also what would happen if those investors just did a priced round instead of using a safe.

The safe investors also now have the option to ask for a side letter that gives them the right to invest Pro Rata at the Series A. They didn’t have this in the prior framework. And if they did do Pro Rata here, they would probably end up with more ownership than they would in the old framework. This is actually more consistent with how most investors invest. Spread bets early and then double down on the ones that are working, based on an ownership level that they know they have today.
The licensing is not altogether obvious. There seems to be a "one time fee" for downloading.
The name sort of implies a connection with SQLite. No such connection exists.
There is a parent company, name of "Symisc Systems". Which appears to be just one guy somewhere in France or Tunisia who likes to call himself "we".
The code is not too kindly treated by several who have actually tried to use it.

I think I'll pass.