skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using it as my primary search engine for about 2 years now. I only use google now when I want to look up places because I don't like that ddg uses yelp.

I never felt google searches were bad, nor do I have problems with the results from ddg. This was just a privacy decision I guess, one that is easy to make with little sacrifice.
Apple's China headache worsens as court bans iPhone sales
>It's the same thing with unionization, unionization is beneficial for workers, yet everyone keeps undercutting each other to stay afloat and meet their obligations. Because people can not properly cooperate and work together you are stuck in this bad equilibrium where companies have so much power over you.

This is very true, the "best" (or should I say most succesful?) unions are those that have a monopsony (they control all the supply and there is only one buyer). The only recent victory I can recall is that airport workers are guaranteeda $19/hr minimum wage [1].

The other dimension that is brought on is that unions tend to be "corrupt" with the leaders taking advantage of their positions to "extort" money if they don't get favorable deals; some of these leaders also just pocket their earnings and don't spread the wealth. The mafia also infiltrated many of the unions in shipping and distribution to control the flow of drugs which has sullied the reputations of many unions in New York. [2]

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/nyregion/airport-workers-...

[2]https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ocgs/infiltrated-labor-unio...
It's a rather disappointing truth that HN whales, and HN in turn, are left leaning, socialist Democrats. You'd think a tech focused forum would be more diverse, but there's only one viewpoint kosher here. Unfortunate that the very people screaming for diversity lack basic tolerance for diversity of thought.
Your tutorials are simple and down to the point, just the way they should be. I became a customer thanks to the tutorials, and I haven't looked back.
I didn't understand that.
Also probably quite a big chunk of Google's workforce are doing 'manual' tasks like reviewing DMCA requests, ad complaints, responding to customer tickets etc. Those folks are probably low skill / low pay / not direct employees.
I feel like people are being shortsighted about municipal fiber. It’s not a one time and you forget it thing. Verizon has upgraded the FiOS network several times since 2005.

We have some towns on the eastern shore of MD that did municipal cable, back when that was the state of the art. Those systems are lagging far behind Comcast now because nobody wants to raise rates to generate cash for upgrades.

Municipal fiber is a solution to a problem created by the municipalities. The municipalities suppress competition by using their authority over TV regulation to impose build-out requirements. You can’t enter as a competitor without building out to a whole city. No MVPs or niche products.

There's also more free-market ways to accomplish the same thing. Stockholm, for example, has quasi-municipal dark fiber. The network was built by a company created by the city for that purpose. While the city owns the company, the city does not run the company, fund it, or control its business strategy (prices, deployment). The company built the fiber network using private capital, charging customers up-front for a hookup, and expanding the network over more than a decade based on demand and revenue potential (e.g. businesses first), rather than politics.
It's not a totally uncommon network architecture, look at Douglas county and Grant county public utility districts in WA state for instance. Their fiber networks provide L2 transport and different ISPs sell service over it. For bigger business customers they offer dedicated transport and dark options.

But they are also electrical grid operators and share common expenses for lineman crews, bucket trucks, etc between power and fiber. A town of 1300 people is in a very different position.
These sorts of prescriptions always strike me as the sort of fastidiousness that some software developer types are stereotyped with.

Just once I would like to read someone that takes a descriptivist approach to commit messages instead of a prescriptivist approach. I would prefer even a scientific approach where someone sets out to measure if these sorts of measures have a concrete measurable effect beyond people's anecdotal preferences.

Prescribing what a commit message can look like implicitly prescribes what a commit can look like and that turns a flexible tool into a less flexible one. For many people, lack of flexibility can be a feature... but it is an empirical question on whether or not if it aids development and I am not really aware of anyone trying to measure these things. In the spirit of "No silver bullet," by Fred Brooks, I am skeptical that between the code comments, the code documentation, and the ticketing system that the git commits are adding much.
I don't know the technical side enough to give any real answer, but tossing them in the freezer (properly sealed of course) always seemed to help "loosen" them up enough to get data off.

I've also had some hard drives that you could bring back to life by giving them a firm knock with your knuckles too.

Doesn't really answer much, but it's a last ditch effort that has saved me more times than not.
I'm not nervous at all (disclaimer: I support public ownership of infrastructure over private/commercial ownership, stakeholders > shareholders). Local governments are governed by local citizens. I have no impact on Comcast or Time Warner's governance, as either a shareholder or customer. If I don't hold my local government accountable, that's my fault.

My local community owning my roads, sidewalks, water, sewer (storm AND human waste), fire hydrant infrastructure, as well as fire and police services has worked out a-ok. And while I take issue with Florida politics, EVERYTHING is open records. If my local police are corrupt and obtaining data illegally from my muni ISP, I can involve my state's attorney or other legal oversight bodies.

So! The overreaching issue isn't "this is about local internet infra", it's about local governance and self-reliance, which I find it difficult to argue against. Concentrated power corrupts, distributed power empowers.

Obligatory Muni/Startup ISP links: https://muninetworks.org/communitymap | https://startyourownisp.com/
Good points, but it's worth noting that Charlemont has fiber deployed through the main (rural) highway as part of the Massachusetts broadband act and MBI(Massachusetts broadband institute).
https://broadband.masstech.org/about-mbi
https://broadband.masstech.org/news-and-updates/map-gallery/...
This should make it substantially easier to get connected and serviced.
True.

So a helping hand doesn't taint the DDG brand, buys good will, and provides competition to the defacto monopoly. Good move.

How much is a 4 letter domain worth these days? 10s - 100s of thousands?
One, having to come from the same version.

Two, having to connect to the same block storage in exactly the same way to make everything work.

I just want to upload a backup that gitlab makes, and upload that somewhere (anywhere) to restore from that one tarball, regardless of where I’ve decided to host my current instance or data (or indeed, if I’ve decided to use block storage again or not).
I have the opposite problem.

I'm Romanian and when searching in Romanian on DuckDuckGo I often get results in English, Spanish, Italian or French, because Romanian is a romance language.

Local searches are terrible on DDG.
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It doesn't score very well on my metric. Not badly but not well.

[[ 1 9 17 24 16 8]
[ 5 13 21 20 12 4]
[ 3 11 19 22 14 6]
[ 7 15 23 18 10 2]]

400.634917287

Compare with this one found using the 'genetic algorithm':

[[ 9 4 18 10 15 20]
[16 21 12 1 22 7]
[ 2 6 24 5 17 13]
[14 8 19 11 23 3]]

386.229085028
That's actually not correct - Germanic is the name for the group, while actual languages are German. Old High German, Middle High German, etc.
Some might be partial to "I'd Duck that"
> G+, the social network used internally at Google

Ouch.
There was rudimentary intelligence in missiles such as the BAe ASRAAM back in the late 1990s. For example extrapolating the shape of the target from the IIR image and rejecting objects that were non-geometric, or too small, or too consistently hot.
It's weird that such a big book hasn't had a upgraded version, the pictures are all super low red b&w iirc?

That being said, the book is such a quick read I think a person could afford to both read the book and watch the show.
Yes, you've touched on a key difference between Jenkins and GitLab in general:

Jenkins: only does CI/CD, needs to be integrated with a suite of other tools.

GitLab: end-to-end DevOps in one application that has native project planning, source code management, CI/CD, artifact repository, configuration management, and observability built-in.

So Jenkins-X Serverless is about the Jenkins service itself running in a serverless paradigm. Or "using Knative to run Jenkins"

GitLab Serverless is a configuration management feature that allows you to build, deploy, and manage your own serverless functions from the same place where your issues, code, artifacts, etc. are. Or "Using GitLab (which uses Knative) to run your functions."
Swag, bonuses, and other gifts are considered taxable income to the individual (which Alphabet cannot report since we are not the TVC employer)

That's a valid reason. Why the faux outrage?
This is nice Gunjan. Post your words in our community, we love to read those!
Originally 200wordsaday is still about writing short articles daily. Writing a book is a personal goal of mine. The members have many different goals: just get better at writing, releasing their ideas for the world to read etc.
How else do you suppose all those AI efforts are fulfilled?
It's better to rely on code-based data tools, like those I mentioned, than "experimental" Google projects that'll get "turned down" at the drop of a hat.
how is it any better then current olygopolly? The solution should be raising competitiveness of the market. Like in countries with a lot better internet, especially per dollar.
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The best part of the training is the suggestion that instead of recognizing people with Google swag, they send them a note on G+.
I rarely use the term "ducking" in conversation, though auto-correct thinks otherwise. Maybe now I will.

"I was ducking around and found a few good resources for fixing the OSPF problem."
They're no more corrupt than large corporate players, but I can vote for my local government.
Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, and the Quest to Kill EBay – Steve Yegge
A properly designed dark architecture for fiber, with small neighborhood powered nodes, can have a 50+ year life... It's the electronics that are going to need replacing. Same whether you build for 1 strand active Ethernet to each CPE or a 1x16 split gpon.
Wolf Hall is fascinating, and I'd thoroughly recommend it (the books and the series), because it paints Cromwell in a modern light. He's basically written as a shrewd and competent Lawyer/Accountant. Maybe the sortof person who, in our time, could launch a successful business or be a partner in a law firm. But in that time, his skills are so unusual that he runs rings around almost everyone around him, and lays foundations that would shape the country for centuries to come. There's also a lot more to it than that, but the modern-ness of his skillset is very striking.
Bing exists?
> But how did they get to a cost structure where they have to be so nervous?

It's not necessarily the university's fault in every case and instead is due to the changing face of higher education in America. Many colleges and universities were able to rest on their laurels for decades as the American economy transitioned from a labor force to a variety of specialized jobs across many new and exciting fields (as well as specialized training in old fields too).

The jobs market is again shifting and has been for many years. College has become increasingly unaffordable due to institutional hubris and from the fact that many colleges have been focusing on the wrong priorities to attract new students (luxury dorms! exotic food! useless majors!). Alternatives to expensive college degrees have sprung up everywhere, and while many universities scoffed at the thought that these new types of education would be embraced by the public, the alarm bells are beginning to ring louder and louder as traditional institutions begin to see declines, not only in general enrollments but also in specific programs that have been popular for decades.

Some places can weather the storm as they have prestigious names or large endowments or illustrious alumni networks or great sports teams. Others have to pivot to embrace the idea that college has become too unaffordable and orient their institutions towards new ideas and programming that will bring in students. The problems higher ed faces does not 100% come down to institutional cost structure, but instead a reimagining of how one can achieve a college-level education without resorting to massive amounts of debt.
You don't have to be a "left leaning, socialist Democrat" to disagree with the comment. It is rather worthless as an argument since it just a classic appeal-to-popularity fallacy.
The second and third options are relatively common in the industry. Sibling comment gave an example, but happy to dig up more.
> Well, most code isn't performance critical.

In principle yes, but it is hard to predict which code will be at some point performance critical and which code will not. In the worst case you chain a lot of alleged "non performance critical" tasks together and in the sum (actually product, performance percentage is multiplicative) your problem becomes a performance problem.

> Or might want to mmap() large files

This is a fringe application that is not covered by my definition of "application that is unlikely to use more than 2GB of memory". Most programs read linear from files.

> So all the hassle of maintaining a separate ABI (toolchains, kernel, libraries etc.), for a modest performance increase for some subset of applications? Starts to smell pretty niche to me.

As far as I see it there is not enough awareness of this feature. So instead of declaring it "niche" that causes "hassles" maybe advertise it more since the hard work (toolchains, kernel, libraries etc.) has already been done. (My personal use case is derivatives market simulations and performance the gain is in the double digits percentage. I'm pretty sure other use cases exists, they just need to found.)

In the end, who defines "hassle", how big is it really, and who defines "niche"? Potentially accelerating 90% + x of code running on your CPU is hardly a niche.
I'm not aware of any, but I have thought quite a lot about creating a course on this subject. The key issue for me is that modern academic philosophy is perhaps more properly "philosophology", or the study of philosophy. It would be interesting to study and share more practical applications of philosophy, the way the great ancient philosophers perceived philosophy themselves (see John Sellars' The Art of Living for an in-depth analysis of the Greeks' perception of philosophy as a "techne ton bion", or perhaps "lifecraft").
Cool! Anything similar for Golang?
New library – EntityFramework.Exceptions: Handle database errors easily when
Bowery Farming raises $90M to expand its indoor vertical farms
The thing is the bulk of the cost is pulling wires. Fiber optic cables have an almost unlimited theoretical bandwidth. You just need to upgrade the hardware on both sides, which is getting cheaper by the minute.
When I ask Google for "duck", duckduckgo is literally the first hit. My experience may be biased, because I am from Germany, but outside of English speaking countries, they should do just fine.
It's common to question why small villages like this even exist. "To enable reasonable internet connection" is one of the best reasons I've seen so far.
95% of the problem is in this quote:

"Temps, vendors and contractors are an important part of our extended workforce, but they are employed by other companies, not Google."

This is completely incorrect in every way except legally. Google employs them, and pretends that they don't by inserting another company in between.

When you find yourself doing something simple in a complicated way because the law gives you additional advantages, that's a great sign that the law is bad.
I do feel like DuckDuckGo is too long to type. That's a barrier for me. Rebranding to just Duck might be a good thing, but why "duck" ... not my favorite animal, or why animal at all...
My Name Is Red - Orhan Pamuk (I read it 2nd time)

The Organized Mind - Daniel Levitin (Recommended)

The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran (Recommended if you like the style)

The Power of Habit (Not recommend it)
I have a problem with bread too, I start falling asleep for like 5-10 minutes. I think it's either gluten sensitivity or carbs to blame. I try to avoid bread because of this.
I'm curious who owns the other animal domains.
Because for all intents and purposes these workers appear to be Google employees, but they've structured their agreements in a way to say "no they are not", retain the benefit of having said employees, and don't pay back to society in the form of taxes.

This sort of circumvention of the spirit of the law is only really doable by large corporations, which means large corporations get to shirk their societal responsibilities while everyone else has do more or society loses out. That's where the outrage comes from, which I do not believe is faux
Make cool strange art with Lexor in Julia
There's also TCAS, which is transponder based and will negotiate with nearby aircraft also equipped with transponders - so if there's a collision risk, the TCAS in one aircraft will be saying "climb, climb" and TCAS in the other aircraft will be saying "descend, descend".

Or both TCASes might be saying "traffic, traffic" if someone else is nearby, and not on a collision course, but could end up on a collision course if one or both parties make course or altitude changes. So in this case it's a heads up to look for traffic nearby.

This doesn't take away from anything you said; I just wanted to point out that a solution based solely on self-reported positions can be quite effective too.
I don't remember force being used during Gorbachev time. 1st putsch fizzled, because there was no support for violence in any part of society. While, on the other hand, during Eltsyn time, when the whole thing fell apart, oh buy, was there a violence! Primarily former republics, but also Russia. But that was after communists lost power.

I think we overestimate the ability of elites to steer. They mostly react in a slow and inefficient way to changing environment. Remember fall of the Berlin wall? KGB and others were in state of shock. They were impotent. I am not saying that one moron couldn't have pressed red button, but there is always risk of that.
I felt like Google only worked well for things I'd done extensive searches on in the past. Like once they collected enough data on me to know WHAT I wanted to know about that topic the search results were better. Otherwise they were not very good.

DDG feels like it gives me the same search results every time. Typically they are more helpful than google would have been early on but less helpful than googles were later on.

This is entirely anecdotal... Anyone else experience something similar?
Wonderful collection of techniques! :)
QEMU now has ‘hvf’ (hypervisor.framework) available in master as an accelerator, I think it was a summer of code project.

Wish I could use it, but the current implementation calls the xgetbv instruction which is not available on my Westemere EP processors.

All MacOS/QEMU needs is PCIE passthrough and you could have an amazing setup with thunderbolt accessories.
your experience is biased because they give you results based on your google profile.
They better duck this one.
Different ways to do things is not art. Patterns emerging from those different ways is not art. Art is for emotional purposes:

"the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power."

Software developers have a tendency to try to claim artist status because what they do is almost entirely meaningless and a waste of time. The exchange of time for money is too transparent so they are unfulfilled and try to imbue their work with meaning. If you want to make art, do it, it can be a hobby. Yet another useless website created to shove more ads in people's faces is not art.
This is a surprisingly poor understanding of tech. Do hotels hand out titles like investment banks (there were hundreds of VPs at JP Morgan), or was this author actually in a position of responsibility? Is it common for non-tech companies to have such people in high up places?
Hiring contractor doesn't entirely speak unethical to me
> They're no more corrupt than large corporate players, but I can vote for my local government

My point is that's a terrible baseline to settle for. If our metric for "should we do it" is solely "is it better than Comcast," we've got a problem. My specific concern is around local police having expanded access to locals' internet activity.
For me, DuckDuckGo is second after Duck on Wikipedia (from US).
> it does not judge whether the distance is closing or widening. If a ship passes perpendicular to our course but less than the defined radius behind us, we get an alarm--exactly the same alarm as if it were directly in front of us and moving toward us.

I've used civilian AIS systems and I can assure you they can do exactly as you describe. It's called closest point of approach (CPA and TCPA)

> AIS has a feature where you can send messages as a broadcast to all nearby ships.

Consumer AIS does not do this. You are referring to DSC.

A consumer marine DSC/AIS VHF radio can send and receive DSC, receive AIS, and, if they have enough screen/CPU, can show CPA/TCPA tracks. For ocean passages we set our TCPA for 30 minutes and in port 2 minutes.
Yeah, me too. I thought it was a wonderful take on fairy stories and the danger of getting what you want. I think you need to read all three to truly appreciate it though.
On the Dvorak keyboard, ddg is also super easy to type! (QWERTY keys equivalent: `hhu`)
I don't read that much in 2018 but below are the two interesting pick ups for me.

1. Bad Blood - John Carreyrou

2. Flash Boys - Michael Lewis
why do people assume a local government will be the end all to services? they can be likely just as bad and when they decided your neighborhood isn't a priority you will have little to no recourse.

I do like the town's propose internet speeds and conditions compared to comcast but look at the extra money listed in the article. nearly a million had already been spend to map out the deployment and it will be another million and a half over twenty years to roll it out. throw in that any project past a few years will see the costs explode and this will mean that many will never see their new internet any time soon.

plus finally, it will be interesting what protections are built into the system that prevent the government from tracking the habits of the residents using the service.

so an entity with no financial obligation outside its jurisdiction with unlimited taxation powers and grants is able to out provide a private company, this is not news. when you have more money at your disposal you can make bigger promises the difference is they do not have to deliver as you have no legal recourse when they don't
I read 12 books in 2018 and these are my favorites from 1 to 4:

- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

- So good they can't ignore you by Cal Newport

- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari