skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regular expressions and SQL. It boggles the mind to think of the imperitive version of custom logic you'd have to write to accomplish the same things. Two of my most prized technical tools...
If you are going to eat butter make sure it's grass-fed. So many varieties are not (they are sometimes soy-fed and not as nutritious)
Ask HN: Is the current hiring process reflecting on new products?
We’ve seen a huge drop in terms of software quality and user experience these last few years. It's getting worse by the day. iOS and Mac OS are a perfect example of that. But also Google products, facebook, etc.

The hiring process for engineers has gone from a set of meaningful interactions to a series of whiteboard crap, where no one cares about anyone's skills but dumb algo/data structure questions. Product manager interviews are getting down to writing SQL queries, using data as the only input and even whiteboard crap again at companies like Google, etc. I think we've destroyed the hiring process. We now have a bunch of crappy software products.

My question is, are those 2 linked together?
I would say, knowing any foreign language, is a very rewarding skill. I'm not a 'natural' regarding language learning - I've to push it - but it definitely pays. In my case is Slavic languages with emphasis on Polish. It's a long-term hobby.
Same question i had when building my app. Customer told me my app saves him a LOT of time and his time is very valuable and he was more then happy to pay for it. It depends on your market though.
You have a point but I suppose I'm a bit defeatist.

I'm not so sure that adopting a high flyer as a role model is going to bring happiness for most people.
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The only way still worth the hassle for westerner users is purchasing items as sold and shipped by Amazon from reputed brands only, while on offer with heavy discount... at the very least, you will get original but lower quality products made for lower income markets at their intended price.
It tickles me that photography is noted as a worthwhile skill. I don’t disagree. Photography to me is meditation. I get to wander around and find things pleasing to the eye. Nothing could be better.
California liberals will never accept that the Democratic "arrangement" with unions is corruption, because only Republicans can be corrupt
When reaching my destination, the Uber-driver said: "Give me 5 stars and I'll give you 5 stars". I questioned that practice and said I will give my rating in due time. The driver got upset and started to rant about how I never would be able to request an Uber again because he would give me a 1-star rating if I didn't rated him 5 at once...
The Facebook hack affecting 50M people
Or have a way for the rider to normally end the trip. I could imagine a scammy driver with a fake Uber UI with just the "end trip" button.
So a couple articles about Facebook security breach were caught in a Facebook automated spam detection system.
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I teach mathematics at a community college. The content I cover has a very slow rate of change. There is no valid educational reason for textbooks to cost so much in my area or to change from year to year. I decided some years ago stop using paid materials on my courses.

I create most of the content myself. I have my own problem sets with solutions and create almost all of my own lectures. It was a lot of work to get everything to the point of being able to stop using paid materials but the up front work pays dividends in making my job a lot easier now.

I don’t know how feasible this is for other areas but in mathematics it is. The problem with open textbooks that I’ve seen is that they tend not to be done well. I’ve found a few open textbooks in math that are very well done. The nice thing is that when you find one that is done well you won’t ever have change books.
It's so bad out there Alex.

Tanks are running around with hardcoded admin passwords and most devices use unencrypted, unauthenticated busses. Often multi-master.

Why? Because it's easier.

That's it.

And for a while it was fine because bridgeware wasn't a thing and we hadn't started connecting everything to the internet.
I've been using DuckDuckGo for more than a year now and barely use other search engines. It's the default on all the devices that I use.

I am so happy to be a user and be part of their growth as well.

The only thing that could improve it would be searches in other languages, I still don't get a good result when I search in other languages such as Russian, Persian, Arabic, etc..

Thank you DuckDuckGo for the great service <3
I have a home mail server and GMail accepts mail from it no problem. Outlook tends to drop my mail in the recipient's Junk folder but I haven't encountered any outright rejection.

I do have SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and rDNS setup.
AFAIK if you have messenger installed and you have internet connection, Facebook displays your status as active.
Class actions are uncommon in the EU. They are a common law thing and the EU is mostly civil law.
SQL. Ultimately a software company is a business, run by business people who have to solve business problems. Often to do that they come up with questions which need to be answered by ad-hoc (written on the fly for one purpose) SQL queries. Having that ability, to answer arbitrary questions FAST will elevate your status in the minds of managers and business people.
And what happens when the FC does notice a fake? Do they actually promise to not ship it?
So it is in Amazon's interest to solve this problem, and not focus on the short term gains, but I wonder why they are not making any moves to solve this? That's the weird part.

They looks at the gain, the loss and the balance. Ultimately actions or lack of actions are driven by the balance.

You can draw your own conclusions from the lack of actions.
Yes on the pay as you go monthly / weekly fee. Cancel anytime. I am testing $7/week 7 days. If i get $0 paying then i'll test other prices or keep testing until i sink or swim! sink is $0 and swim is anything greater then $0. Cash is like oxygen for a start up. You can only hold your breath for so long.
> If you can get it onto a floppy image, I'm sure it would run it just fine.

There's a bit of a catch-22 there. Technically, you need to be running DOS X.X to create a bootable floppy (real or image) of DOS X.X, as to make a disk bootable you have to type 'SYS A:' from the running DOS to write bootblock onto the floppy and copy over the current IO.SYS MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM.

So, on say.. a modern machine, with no extra third party tools to create the empty bootable floppy image, you'd be hard pushed to do this, as the files in the Repo are just the files and not a floppy image.
I'm another happy "customer".

Running it on a bare-bones ArchLinux installation has barely any maintenance.
FTE, on-site, I spend most of my time at the office not working.
Came for comments by economic illiterate lunatics who believe in the right to spend other people's money. I'm not disappointed.
I hope its another sign of rising privacy awareness ...
Building a Top 50 VSCode Extension that hit over 2M Downloads as Intern
You can add multiple tags on Pinboard too
Explain? Graph looks like you could say that at any point in time
What if every commercial plan was equipped with LiDar and perhaps a downward camera...could we scan most land masses?
Yeah, topology and weights. It's highly subject to initial conditions. You almost need another NEAT network to evolve the initial conditions. I believe it's turtles all the way down.
One could wonder if that is systematic and intenional. Like Uber is over-charging the passenger, but within estimates, and, relative to that over charging under-paying the driver, and netting the difference themselves. Just a guess, not that I have any clue if thats even possible or actually the case. Can also be just drivers over charging customers, Taxis sometimes have a similar issue. Or I am just a sceptique person in general.
I think for the good of the system you agree to swap 5 but really do 1.

Ratings only work if the bad guys get dinged.
That’s a really interesting question to consider.

If a business uses your skills to make a profit are you being exploited?

Does it make a difference if you get free lunch, massages, $300k salary, RSUs? Are you still being exploited? Where’s the line...
It seems like if you're a small brand, like Fuse Chicken, you should be able to become the exclusive supplier of your own product on Amazon. For anyone else you sell your product to, include a "this may not end up on Amazon" clause and then you're sure everything on Amazon came direct from you.
Cool. I am rooting for them to become even more successful.
Probably, but I’m suggesting they are doing the opposite, and that therefore domain authority does indeed exist.
If you change it to a 7-day average instead of 365-day average you can see it clearer (click the "365" text box)
Just yesterday, an Uber driver half way through the route started taking me away from the destination. I protested and he said his GPS froze. I don't buy that because navigation was never a problem for any taxi/Uber driver in my city before, with or without GPS. I gave him one star and Uber returned the extra fees. I think the honest display of bad reviews is all that stands in the way of abuse and enables Uber's popularity to rise.
Nowhere on the page does it say "exploding", OP is exaggerating what is roughly linear growth. I think the title should be edited.

Edit: To be clear, I'm not saying this is not worth posting or should be taken down, just "exploding" does not even remotely describe DDG's traffic. The post was interesting, only OP's fabricated title is inaccurate.

Edit 2: Several comments mention the graph does show daily searches, and is therefore showing exponential growth. My reason for thinking it's cumulative and not daily, is because it says below that the daily record is 29 million searches and that the cumulative number is 22.569 billion. When hovering over the last value in the graph, it shows 22.2 billion.

For the record, the current title is "DuckDuckGo Usage is exploding right now".
> later realized that this DJ buys so much advertising space that he effectively edits the magazine.

That's the main problem isn't it? It would be nice if publications could opt in to putting some type of badge on an article that indicates it was written without corporate or political influence, with jail time if you lie. It's like writing content under oath. I think that would help visually distinguish news you can trust.
5G does not just enable the use of very high frequencies.

It's also enables cheaper to operate cell sites in low frequency and low energy consumption. You can also have private networks not run by mobile network operator.

5G phone can use 5G features as an anchor for services that go trough 4G network, Wi-Fi when 5G NR is not present.
There are dozens of articles on the web about "fittest cities"....not one even put NYC in the top five
I’ve also been all-in on DuckDuckGo for over a year now. I feel like it always gives me good results. I only speak English, but better support for other languages would be fantastic for those who can benefit from it.
The Limits of SMS for 2-Factor Authentication (2016)
To me 2008 showed that the big guys are not keeping with their obligations when it's inconvenient for them. This made me pretty cynical about "honesty" in business and finance. Until then i thought that the market rewards people who do the right thing and punishes people who make mistakes. 2008 showed that if the big guys make mistakes they will quickly change the rules.

I think a lot of people have learned that you should do whatever you can get away with because otherwise you are a sucker.
I have a general question. How hard is it to render a page on computer X but display it on computer / phone Y?

I don't want a proxy. I want a headless browser on a server somewhere and a head in my pocket. Something like Ember Fastboot, but for everything. Ideally it could reduce image size via aggressive lossy compression.

When I'm travelling around the most frustrating thing is not being able to browse the web on my phone because websites are garbling down 5mb a load and opening up a bunch of tracker connections.
Same, very happy using DDG. I hope they're becoming profitable.

The one thing that I have to go back to Google for is when I want to search just one specific site (usually Stack Overflow, I guess). Google has the `site:example.com` feature. I don't think that's possible with DDG.

EDIT: Apparently it does work! Thanks, I'm pretty sure it didn't when I started using DDG. Maybe I'm just an idiot.
Which is very good question indeed.
I changed my default from Google Search to DDG in February. Surprised by how little I’ve noticed the change, after nearly 20 years using Google.

It feels more like the old Google that wasn’t stuffed with ads, and I find it superior for programming queries (aside from Angular 2+ docs).

I still type in google.com and perform queries there a few times a week. I also turn to Google Images for copyleft photos, as DDG doesn’t seem to support filtering by license yet.
I still think Apple should have bought NEXT and BeOS. Can’t wait to try this out though. Loving the idea of virtio drivers
“As a small child, it seemed like Hitler did good things for Germany until he went nuts” would be a perfectly reasonable thing to say. They way you put it makes it sound like she never looked at what happened later and came to an adult understanding of the situation.
I never use paid materials in my courses but I understand the desire to use things like MyMathLab. We have a lot of students. Grading sucks and writing problem sets sucks. The pay isn’t good either. Especially for new faculty.

For the most part at my college faculty want to do the right thing. The biggest push to use fancy websites like MyMathLab comes from administration. We are constantly having an administrator say things like, “A college in Colorado uses this website and they pass 70% of their students. You should use it too.” The forces at play go well beyond lazy faculty.
Exploding might be an overstatement, but it did hit an all time high for daily queries this week.
I've been using DuckDuckGo for almost a year now and for most of the cases, it's almost as good as google
I think you got it wrong. If I understand correctly the graph is showing daily searches, not cumulative
I caught myself writing way too intense titles when sharing very legitimate stuff on Reddit for that same reason. I keep telling myself that if my title is "just normal", nobody will take a look at what I'm sharing... when it's probably the opposite.
I'd like to see tiny 80x86 boards (about the size of the Pi Zero) that you could boot DOS on, with full access to GPIO/SERIAL/PARALLEL etc. I know arduino exists in this space, but for DOS lovers, little hobbyist boards like this would be great, and ideal for bootstrapping single purpose apps written in C.
In that this article absolves Greenspan, it is indeed counterfactual nonsense.

In its diagnosis of impotent regulation encouraged by corrupt and feckless legislators serving their donors, it is factual.

Back in 2004-2006, anybody who wanted to see what was coming would see it. I was renting a small house in a high end community (Newton MA) in that era. A neighbor who owned her little house next door (3br, 1.5 baths) said she was going to put in on the market for 1.2M. We agreed that she better sell it quickly, while the mortgage bubble was still expanding, if she wanted that kind of money for it.

Neither of us are economists or lawyers. People with access to lots of information could surely see the problems, if they hadn't had their heads in, well, the dark.
"Demand and supply must match."

They never match match.

In an modern economy demand is created by innovation and marketing, i.e. by creating things like the iPhone, which change all previous consumer expectations, and other innovations change the dynamics of production for other things.

" demand side is more often correct, supply side wrong. .Demand creates incentives to increase supply, not other way around"

No. Printing money, or borrowing it to gin up demand is nothing but a temporary distortion and a waste of everyone's time unless you're trying to 'hold things over' while an economy recovers from some kind of shock (or fix a taxation situation that was whack), moreover, over any period this will just cause inflation and nothing will change in real-dollar terms, other than the temporary misreading of the economy by producers. To be clear: there can be no fundamental and secular shift in demand (and therefore growth) from demand side activities.

There was no 'demand' for electricity until someone figured out electricity and the lightbulb, there was no 'demand' for toasters until someone figured it out. There was no 'demand' for the XMen and Avengers films, until someone created them.

The majority of per-capita growth is predicated on some kind of fundamental innovation be it process, technology, organizational, geopolitical (i.e. trade deals). This is supply side.

Now this doesn't mean we should just go ahead and wipe out corporate taxes yada yada, and that's not to say that strategic investment can't yield longer term action, but that strategic investment would have to be inherently value creating, not just some pure economic shift.
That’s literally what I said. That they’re good to explain why they code, not so much to explain why other women don’t. So the article is great to justify the passion for coding you already have.

I’d rather see some explanations from women who chose not to code. That helps with understanding where the blockage is.

Something must have been lost in translation...
So you’re saying it would be fine if they only showed content for one political ideology and one religious view, and suppressed everything else??
Somewhat indirectly related question. Looking briefly at some websites, of which most of them look questionable, is there a site, other than amazon used books where someone like myself could by old versions of college course books? Most sites look like they just buy books and do not have an outlet for the selling of books.

For someone constantly reading about philosophy, it would be a nice change of pace for me to get some college related books that are not used anymore due to a new and "better" version being out.
I had the exact same thought. Probably a lot of ego and hubris was involved.
Google claims 3.5 billion queries per day, so approaching 1% of that.
Am I misremembering it as progman.ini or are those different files?
Probably a stupid question but am I correct in assuming that you might as well use Google as use ddg on chrome?
+1

The submitted title "DuckDuckGo Usage is exploding right now" is editorializing and is against the HN site guidelines. It should be changed to the actual page title, "DuckDuckGo Traffic".

ETA: I emailed the mods.
I've switched all my devices to ddg and Firefox. Automatically logging me into Chrome was just emotionally too much, even if it did not send a single extra bit to Google.

I miss the summary responses at the top of search results because they made Google much more of a reference. For example, defining words, quick view of Wikipedia results, etc.

I do still use maps, for now.
The traffic grew about 13% in month on month comparison. That's not so bad I think.
Objectivists were not uniformly against fractional reserve banking.

At least objectivists had the idea that laissez-faire benefits the few "the new elite", those who deserve and did not have the weird idea that laissez-faire lifts all up.
When you buy sugar in China it might be.
DDG, if you're reading this:

I want to make the switch.

But typing "!g" when a search does not return what I want is too clumsy. It requires 7 touch-events on mobile (including focus and space).

Please make that simpler, and I will switch.

(My suggestion would be to have a "!g" button at the bottom of the search results. Perhaps make it optional, depending on user-settings; I don't mind a cookie for just that.)
!so searches stack overflow, !im images, !g google, !w wikipedia etc. Take a look at bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bang there's thousands of them.
"Nevertheless people are responsible for the choices they make."

How is the normal not finance expert person supposed to navigate this? On the one hand you are supposed to believe investment advice but on the other hand you are not supposed to believe the financing advice you get when buying a house.

The financial industry wants it both ways. We have to trust them as experts when it suits them but when things go wrong it's the customer's fault.
Copyright and Speech Should Not Be Treated Like Traffic Tickets
I mainly search in English as well, but when trying to find local news, books or part of a song lyrics in different language it doesn't perform as other search engines would perform.
Gov Brown Signs Bill Adding Sensible Requirements for DNA Collection from Minors
Heh. I'm rooting for DDG, too. Let's just fix, forget, and move on. :)
The premise (of authentication) is that the identity of the policy host is the same as the identity of the @domain.

That is, if mail is sent to you@example.com, the certificate presented by whatever host is serving the policy must be valid for example.com.

So even if the TXT record functioned as you describe, mta-sts.example2.com would have to have a cert valid for example.com. Of course it could provide a single cert with SANs valid for all example*.coms that you run, but such a setup would preclude using SNI to serve the "correct" cert.

tl;dr: fetchers have to talk to "example.com" so that the HTTPS server knows what cert to present, and the cert has to match "example.com" so senders know the host is actually authenticated.

Regarding your comment on reverse proxies, it's actually quite easy to setup an HTTPS server that proxies some hosting org's policy but uses Let's Encrypt to fetch the proper cert for your domain. I did this for mine in about 50 lines of Go. Not saying I'd trust this for some production setup, but it's really quite easy. :)
My point is that with the current state at Amazon there is no good way to find out.
Yeah, let's not put my mother on trial here. She's not participating in this discussion. She's not here to defend herself from such nastiness.

I was a minor when the discussion occurred. That no doubt influenced the wording.

It was a private conversation at home between mother and daughter. She had zero reason to think she needed to defend the remark as if it were a PhD thesis or testimony in a war crimes trial.
Yes, especially when b trees tend to be easier to implement too.
I love that they make their traffic numbers available. I have been using ddg and graphing/predicting the next days traffic since March here: https://qunc.co/ddg.

Definitely a different trajectory since late summer.
Being informed is important when you're > voting age, besides that you might end up in a world that you hate because you chose not to want to know what direction it was headed in.
Why make it Google-specific? What if DDG could suggest from a range of other search engines that might give you better results based on the nature of your query?
Elon Musk Had a Deal from the SEC. It Unraveled in a Morning
UK Conservative party conference app just leaked all delegates info
I prefer qwant
Because you want to make the transition easy.
Unsafe Rust has a little less rope than C because there are less cases that can lead to undefined behavior (see https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/what-unsafe-does.html and https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/behavior-considered-unde...). However, once you trigger UB, it's the same.

By the way, Rust devs are working on a mathematical formalization of those rules. Here's a blog post about a part of this effort: https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2018/07/24/pointers-and-bytes.html. (There are similar formalization efforts for subsets of C, that led to software like the CompCert verified compiler)