skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coursera has a course with exactly that title. The course can be found here https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn . It is one of THE most popular courses on Coursera.
> Same dev team does whole stack, from kernel, kits, drivers, servers to user space.

This is why I use FreeBSD.
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Fellow MA resident here. Grew up in Medfield, living in Natick, frequently visit Newton. The wealthier parts of these communities were relatively isolated from the bubble, and houses of that size are still selling for that much here today—sometimes a lot more, depending on the neighborhood. I don’t really see the point you’re trying to make.
Ask HN: Decent and cheap hosted email services?
Most registrars (except Gandi) provide email hosting for an extra fee. What hosted email services do you use which cost less than $3/mo?

From my research:
Zoho Mail https://www.zoho.com/workplace/pricing.html?src=zmail
free plan for 1 email, or $3/user

OpenSRS seems to require a $95 fee to become a "reseller", then $0.50/email/mo: https://opensrs.com/services/hosted-email/
Maybe this is one more example of a broader pattern: if you're spending someone else's money, you pay much less attention to the price, and tend to prioritise side-benefits to you.

That's why frequent flier programs exist: to bribe you into spending your boss's money one way.

It's also (very crudely) why medical care is stupidly expensive: the doctor making the call is spending insurance money on things which don't even bother to have prices anymore.

In which case the solution may be to align incentives better, rather just wishing that the people making decisions would have different priorities. For example, if college courses had to offer all-inclusive prices, they'd be a little more expensive, and suddenly administrators would be much more interested in creative ways to save money, and in pushing professors to do so.
Sure, if it's a good old whole-program-crash either way, that means they're equivalent severity. It's not my intention to softball Swift with some nebulous idea of what counts as a proper 'fundamental' bug.

In defence of Swift, it could still be that they spent less time bug-hunting than when they were developing in Objective-C, to reach the same, or inferior, level of program correctness.

Also, we're comparing a new product to a mature one. Were the original Objective-C programs stable in their first release?
I've been using DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine for almost a year now. I still need to resort to !g for about 1/3 of my queries, which is less than it used to be, so the quality is definitely improving.

One weird thing that I noticed is that every so often when I'm in a Google SERP (e.g. in a friend's phone) and I'm not fully satisfied with the results, I add in !g, only to realize that makes no sense. So I wonder if there's a subset of queries that DDG produces better results for, or if Google's search quality is declining.

If anyone from DDG is reading this: Please add the ability to (voluntarily) personalize search results via a cookie, just like you do for the interface theme. Something like "Programming Language: JavaScript". That way ambiguous queries (e.g "array reverse") can be associated with the specific context without having to type it every time (e.g. "array reverse js")
I too have been interested in learning Sanskrit for some time. Can you tell me what resources you used?
Sure, but that's very different than the logical problem I'm talking about.
> discipline

For the benefit of my past self: discipline isn’t about punishment or being harsh with yourself. Discipline is the practice of saying to yourself “this is hard. This is scary. This is worth it and so I’m going to do it because I’m stronger than I think” and then following through with action.

EDIT: Sometimes the "following through with action" bit also involves knowing what you need to set yourself up for success (e.g. good food, enough sleep, encouragement from friends, the ear of a therapist, guidance from a coach, clarity on a goal) and enduring the discomfort that comes from the decisions required to get those.
Facebook users have had outrages since day one. Usually they had even more signups the following month.
Apple does not have a Unix user space shim, macOS is a Unix OS with non-Unix userspace built on top of that.

But, yes, WSL proves the point.
As per my understanding, the knowledge graph box is something output from an AI sort of system. A company can correct some results if they are factually wrong, I guess.

What Google is proposing now is for individuals and organizations to directly supply content for it to be shown on top of search results. Now who will check the information provided to Google? What is to stop a government from spreading false news on Google?
Such a good feature!
Thanks for the reminder, just realized that iOS on Safari offers DuckDuckGo as a search engine option, and that !sp can be used to proxy Google searches via Safari.
I very occasionally still Hy things from Amazon when I have absolutely no other chance. But I do everything I can to find the time locally and buy it instore or from another more reputable online retailer than amazon (which is pretty much anyone except ebay and aliexpress)

When I want commodity items that don't have a specific manufacturer (HDD enclosures, small tools, etc), I'll go to aliexpress because it's exactly the same things as sold on amazon but for a quarter of the price. I just have to wait 3 weeks longer than on amazon.

I don't even get books from Amazon anymore, because there are pirate prints of books.

It's all fun and games when it's just about having the item break after a couple of weeks because it was a low quality copy, but amazon also sells more dangerous things like Christmas lights with fake CE and UL markings or PPE that aren't sturdy enough to meet the norms they supposedly adhere to.

Not even mentioning the returned and used items sold as new for the full price, or the appalling way in which Amazon treats its workers.

It doesn't even make life that much more complicated, and thinking whether I want something so much as to go to the store or wait a month to get it from China is an excellent filter to block impulse purchases.
Linear algebra and linear programming. So many problems in so many fields boil down to matrix manipulation in the end.
Fixed now, thanks :)
Thanks. Good luck with your project!
The paper claims the code is available online. The page, however, shows: "Coming soon...", for quite some time.
https://spcl.inf.ethz.ch/Research/Performance/LogGraph/

Is it expected to land in the near future?
> The worst part, you can get the same drug for pennies outside USA. The drug that probably US companies or research invented.

I have direct personal experience with this, as an American living in the Netherlands. My youngest kid recently had worms appear in her poo. I called up the doctor's office and got a straightforward direction over the phone: go to any pharmacy, ask for mebendazole, give her one pill directly and one more after 2 weeks. No prescription necessary, no doctor's visit necessary unless worms persisted after the second dose.

I went to the pharmacy. The medication - 2 doses - was 90 cents. Problem solved.

Out of curiosity, I looked up the medication online. It's generic now, having been first marketed in the early 70's. It's considered one of the two standard de-wormers for humans and is on the WHO list of essential medicines.

In America, it costs somewhere between $200 and $400 per dose (i.e. double that for a course of treatment.) Why? Because one generic maker (Impax) has cornered the US market. And it would have required a doctor's visit and prescription to acquire.

US health care is so fucked.
20 years ago Google Search was met with similar enthusiasm. I like DDG, but I don't see any reason why they would not pursue profits increase path once they become No 1 search engine.
Same answer, but VIM flavored :-)
You can do this by emulating a mobile device in developer tools on desktop.
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Open textbooks can be read on Tablets just fine, but e-ink is black and white which causes some issues.
I use DDG almost exclusively now. I do a lot of search and find on various tech and political topics and It has served me well.

However, I wish the search engine space evolves into a more diverse set of competing companies.
I tried using Airtable for a project recently, to collect data from customers, but found that it was unworkable due to having little to no field validation. Google Sheets/Forms actually has reasonable field validation for data input, but Airtable seems stubbornly resistant to adding the same.

https://community.airtable.com/t/advanced-rules-for-data-inp...
I know you probably didn't intend it but the first part of this comment comes off a bit elitist with the feigned shock of someone making a mistake on hn.
> A year and a half of how much effort?

> The project originally began with 1 full-time engineer and a small army of volunteers. We grew that team to 4 full-time engineers plus the volunteers.

They had four full-time people working on upgrading Rails at some point!
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Yes, if you measure inflation by the increase in the amount of money in existence, the first block mined represented an infinite amount of inflation, the second block mined created 100% inflation over 10 minutes, the third block created 50% inflation, and so on. But, if the system functions as designed, this rate asymptotes to zero fairly quickly. You are of course correct that the system may not function as designed.

However, it is more common to measure inflation by the increase in nominal prices of goods, as I did above with gold. And, by this measure, Bitcoin is deflating. It's hard to measure the deflation rate with precision because it's so volatile, but at the beginning of 2011, it was worth 10¢, and now it's US$6600. It's oscillated wildly around the exponential trend line by about a factor of 3 on each side, but the trend line itself is a deflation by about 75% per year (or of 300% per year, if you look at deflation that way.)

Presumably this won't continue forever, as it's more appropriate to tulip bulbs than to a usable currency, but it is certainly quite far from inflation in the usual sense.
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DDG is a most important project! But I like GCHQ Cyberchef for this kind of thing, but also the node REPL or browser tools console REPL are good. Nice to have everything in one spot versus different tools based on search input.
Rust encourages the creation of more generic code, that makes switching into non-DIY more complex data structures easier. The difference is even larger after the code is written and you are able to profile it.
I have recently switched to Firefox, and have been using DDG now for some time both on desktop and mobile.

In my experience Firefox + DDG is a viable alternative to Chrome + Google Search.

Occasionally I still need to go for google, but for about 98% of the time I'd say DDG is a no-op drop-in replacement for Google. I highly recommend this browser & search engine combo - DDG is great now, and Firefox is now decent again after a while in the wilderness.

Firefox also has some neat extensions like Google Container [1] that sandboxes all google cookies so you can still login to Gmail etc, but the cookies are not available for tracking elsewhere (e.g. analytics). I've recommended this add-on a lot recently - I've got no connection to it, just a satisfied user.

1 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...
A really underrated feature of DuckDuckGo is the number/quality of search cards[0]. A lot of Google's search cards just kind of pull from whatever the top result is -- but DuckDuckGo's all have specific algorithms which makes them more predictable.

With Google, I have to take an extra second to think about why they're showing an answer at the top. But if DuckDuckGo inlines an answer from StackOverflow, I know what the algorithm is --> Get top-rated StackOverflow result, get highest rated answer, inline the first X paragraphs, give a button to expand.

I still occasionally use !g for some searches if I strike out finding answers on DuckDuckGo, but I'm at the point where I generally prefer DuckDuckGo's answers. It's really tough to explain what's different about them, it feels like DuckDuckGo has a different "style" of search results or something. Even when I'm using Google, I usually have DuckDuckGo open next to it, because Google and DuckDuckGo feel like they cover different ground.

It's just that by default, the ground that DuckDuckGo is covering feels more relevant for just very quickly getting information and then getting out (especially with the better search cards).

[0]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=javascript+char+codes&t=canonical&...
It's really the best display of what gifted modern developers can do with Perl and why Perl is actually still a uniquely powerful language.
Not the person you replied to, but: Google invests tremendous wealth into guessing what you mean based on what it knows about you and what it knows in general. That's how you can type in a generic word that's also the title of 300 different movies, books, and TV shows, and still get exactly what you expected (usually).

DuckDuckGo is Google before it started down this path. You have to be specific. The more words you provide, the smaller the set of possible answers, and the more likely your answer is at the top.

Google, these days, tends to report the same number of results no matter how specific you get. It used to get smaller the more words you put in. It's a philosophical difference. Google assumes you only have a vague idea of what you're looking for and is increasingly confident it knows best.

DuckDuckGo starts with the same assumption, but trusts you to refine your own query without the help of a global network of patterns acting on data. That doesn't work too well on Google now. You're just as likely to trigger an anti-bot check refining queries as you are to find what you're looking for.
Ddg has a tab for meanings that works similar, it's one more click but I don't know in which conditions it appears. They also show Wikipedia entries on the side with links to both Wikipedia and the official site when there's one which is quite convenient.
> when they say they want to decentralize Git, they often aren't thinking about decentralizing Git; they are thinking about decentralizing GitHub/GitLab/Gitea/etc.

Obviously, because Git was decentralized from day one.
Toastmasters — I only did it for a few months but it was enough to get over the general fear of public speaking and make it pretty easy for me to get up and give presentations. Highly recommended.
True, but 20 years ago, people ill understood the troublesome effects of internet echo chambers.

It might be short-sighted to look for the same signs with DDG. We might have to look out for a different class / type of threat.
Ask HN: How do I prevent Facebook and Instagram from tracking me across devices?
Phone #1: Installed Facebook app on iOS, added PhoneNumberX to 2FA.

Phone #2: PhoneNumberX was never used on this phone apart from WhatsApp that had PhoneNumberX linked to it. Installed Facebook app. Logged in to my Facebook account. Facebook app did not have access to photos/location/etc due to privacy concerns. After some time i deleted my Facebook account and uninstalled the app. Cleared Safari cookies/etc. Ad tracking on iOS was disabled in settings by default. Six months later my friend installed Instagram app on this phone and registered his Instagram account (phone number was not used) and signed out. Instagram app uninstalled.

Phone #3: My friend is using his Instagram account on his own phone and gets a notification: "Do you want to add YOUR PhoneNumberX to your Instagram account?" This prompt have appeared once just recently and there is no way to find PhoneNumberX anywhere on his account to alter or change this.

To me it seems that Facebook is using some form of secret fingerprinting that got Uber in trouble with Apple. See here: https://www.the-parallax.com/2017/04/26/uber-device-fingerprinting/

Now that Facebook without my knowledge have linked data from my deleted Facebook account (or WhatsApp account?) to my friend's Instagram account in some form of shadow profiling it is unclear what can be done to remedy the situation. There is no tool available for public to access these shadow profiles even though they are clearly a part of users data. Privacy implications are huge.

What would security/privacy experts recommend in this situation?
Why do so many websites use Cookiebot when it is clearly not GDPR-compatible?
Alright, I'm going to give it another go. Tried a few years back and ended up !g to the end of almost every search

I liked all the other functionality a lot, but the results themselves just didn't work for me.
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Show HN: Strife, a 2D game library for Go
As a reminder, GDPR requires opt-in for any non-essential data collection. With Cookiebot I can't even opt-out of non-essential (e.g. marketing) tracking
I do calisthenics myself. How long have you been doing it? Can you do any of the more advanced movements? (Planche, front lever, back lever, handstand)
> Andreessen Horowitz — often referred to as a16z

....k
For me it's not about counterfeiting as such (I haven't experienced any either). It's the simple fact that the majority of the time now I'm not buying from a single retailer that I have some level of trust in (Amazon). It's some hole-in-the-wall seller, with crappy pictures and no assurance that I'm going to get the product I actually ordered in a reasonable amount of time for a reasonable shipping cost. (I rarely do 1-day shipping; I'm totally fine waiting a week or so, but I do want to know.) I have gotten wrong model/color a couple of times, which has never happened when buying directly from Amazon.

Shopping on Amz has no value to me if they're just a shitty webstore search engine.
So how do I buy a share? Do I need to be a large investor or can I do it through robinhood?
I'm impatiently waiting for the Gogoro scooters to come to Europe to buy one, I don't know why they are taking so long :(
DDG is barebones Bing without the tracking.
Read 147 pages of complaints about Elon Musk from Tesla investors
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Firefox lets you set up search keywords, which to match the same thing. They used to be hidden away, but more recently they’ve got promoted a bit and are quite easy to set up.
I switched a week ago! But I must say I still have to hitup Google quite often, the search results are not as good.
> Well, there are videos of code being compiled.

There are videos of nazi bases on the moon.
stuff like this continues to justify the "high-counters" theory that the native population of the western hemisphere was much much higher than we though. conversely that means the smallpox/etc plagues were much much deadlier than we thought. somewhere on the order of a quarter of humanity died in just a few decades.

if you're curious, this book does a great job of laying it out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_A...
Rust is a much simpler language than C++. Even more if you care about the final binary properties, like for auditing, or performance reasons.
Why is this not listed on hckrnews.com?
Which is exactly why it's a terrible benchmark -- it doesn't tell you anything about what you care about. Which is one reason why it's a terrible article.

Another reason is that the author seems to have put a lot more engineering into the Rust program than the C program. Most of the word-count of the article is devoted to extra engineering on the Rust program! (The whole thing about sorting out lumps, etc). It's reasonable to infer that this also mirrors the situation prior to the first benchmark. If you put more effort into optimizing one program than another, you'd expect the higher-effort program to be faster, all else being equal.

It's embarrassing that HN thinks this article is worth posting. There might be something to write about here, somewhere, but it would have to be framed in a very different way in order to be honest. Also, it would be a much shorter article.
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you 4-6 years to recoup a couple billion in cost and have to make a profit. how do you do that without any marketing and sales?
OData was developed before Graphql - pretty much does the same thing
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R&D isn't advertising.
This is public information because many biotech companies are publicly listed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_drug_development

https://cen.acs.org/articles/92/web/2014/11/Tufts-Study-Find...

All you have to do is google "average drug development cost" how hard is that?
What makes code unreadable
Don't be too hard on yourself. 12 hours a day is likely an overstatement. If not, going over 5 hours of intense "flow state" each day would bring diminishing returns.

You can be disciplined at staring at the screen, but you still need that genetative tide. That comes from what's yielded by not being obsessed by the immrdiate. So, again, in my experiencr, spending time present in the real world is beneficial for your ventures.
Similar abuses are happening here in Canada too.

They really have to forbid profs names to appear on student papers. It would remove a lot of the incentive.
We still don't fully understand all of the various quantum mechanical hacks that biology uses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_biology
What aspect of newer versions of GCC breaks the ABI? Are these things that can't be controlled?
By way of writing feedback - you could have made your point in half as much text. What is your take on brevity?
The author states: "In sum, blaming the financial crisis on the naivete of leading policymakers such as Greenspan and Summers is unfair and unfounded." That might be true: it might not have been naiveté, but wilful blindness.

The article continues: "The Greenspan Fed also tried to force more capital into the banks it supervised, but it soon realized that this would drive risk-taking into various “shadow banks” that lay outside its authority [...]"

Funny how the "if we regulate it, it will just move underground, so we might as well allow it" line is applied to financial misdeeds and guns (in the US), but not to prostitution or drugs (at least in the past).

Fully agreed that Ayn-Rand-acolyte Greenspan bears some responsibility for the meltdown. Maybe the author of this article (and his biographer) got too close to his subject.

However, the core lesson from the article rings true: The problem was not that people didn't know. It was that they either did not want to or did not manage to do something about it, because many forces conspired to keep the status quo.
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It's for this very reason that I find google annoying when searching for programming solutions - if I'm switching between languages often, it "learns" that I'm focusing on C# problems and always bubbles those to the top, even though I may have been looking for a Typescript solution.
Thanks, it does seem to show up sometimes but maybe I'm just so used to seeing it in Google that I notice when it's absent.
What is the threshold at which this payment must be reported in either company's earnings?
Does “I drive a 911” have the same implications?

Porsche’s success has meant many other “cool” brands following suit.

Also Lamborghini, by your metric, ceased being cool when they released the LM002. Were they still cool between the years they ceased production of the LM002 and began production of the Urus?

Really does suck for cool kids these days. Can’t buy RR, Bentley, Maserati, Porsche, Lamborghini, and soon enough Ferrari ( after they release the Purosangue). Oh and to play it safe avoid Aston Martin, because the DBX concept.