skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Banking sector is pretty bad example for many reasons, people implementing hyped up tech pure for the purposes of implementing hyped up tech. Top 3-4 banks will have enough compute to subvert it so trustworthy is not really applicable.
Only because its a lucrative career. If soft engineering paid 30k a year you would not feel the same way.
>You might expect that as bodies became more complex, genomes did as well.

I bring this up in threads about diet/nutrition (and always get down voted).

But the idea is humans have about 20,000 protein coding genes and something as simple as wheat has estimated 150,000 to 334,000.

Where I get downvotes is the concept/hypothesis (not mine) that the explaination rests with the microbiome (which we have and something like wheat doesn’t).

I’d be interested in learning if complex creatures like jellyfish with simple genomes have a complex microbiome.
"Hey, let's take a Kodak moment of this event"

Hmm, doesn't quite roll of the tongue, does it? Not the same thing.
So not only do we have to worry about websites we actually use being compromised, but we also have to worry about these sketchy third-party companies that have purchased our data being hacked.
Online mattresses became popular because of the multi-naming, multi-branded, high-margin existing world of mattress sales which was, and is, way scummier than online mattress sales are. Plus, how are you really going to judge a mattress by lying on it for a few minutes?

Wirecutter is owned by the NY Times and does very good reviews. You can also spend a few bucks to buy a Consumer Reports subscription for a month and access their huge testing database and years of experience.
Most projects require you to solve small simple unique problem once in a while. And any long term position requires you to regularly learn not so simple new things. Depending on your existing knowledge, the BFS question tests either whether you was able to learn BFS in the past or whether you can solve small unique problem.

There are positions that does not involve anything harder then BFS ever, but I would not say they are majority of them.
140+ Cool things MongoDB in this curated list
Why spamming? Would "bringing the topic to attention" more the case?
I have been having this issue for a while and with other imap clients, if this is common practice, well, I'll have to deal with it I guess...
There's definitely an issue in the devops/SRE world around understanding the totality of their stack. But I would submit that this is endemic to tech in general, not just devops/SRE folks. The combination of siloing and incuriosity isn't an SRE problem, at least not exclusively.

Selfishly, it also makes things harder for me, as somebody who is a generalist's generalist, because people legitimately do not know what to do with somebody who's built and shipped mobile apps, can drop into a new piece of backend software and rapidly get up to speed, will architect, implement, and manage your cloud environment, and has hard-won opinions about rack cabling techniques. But I do OK regardless.
You know what can stop google? a search engine that assumes I want every word in my query, or even better a search engine that honors a string in quotes to mean these words in this order. When did google stop doing this?

edit:
This wouldn't stop google, it would just make that part of my life as easy as it was 10 years ago.
I was just having that discussion this morning.

Early in my re-entry to web I was using grunt to manage the build processes, but that fell away fast—

I'll either write a Makefile or a shell script to manage those builds and processes now—and I'm far more productive for it. No need for a number of plugins and yet more dependencies to manage.

Though, I have to say I've seen less and less of Grunt and Gulp (etc) in modern JavaScript (especially TypeScript)
Such a nice title. Some rare YouTUBE video would have been perfect.
> […] not hard to find decent PHP developers anymore.

In Oslo, I found PHP developers hard to come by. Though, I think the situation is better in continental Europe.
Same story at my home. Research in this area is widespread. We have stopped giving screen time before school and it has improved the attention span thru our the day(may be there is some impact on how you start the day or may be just in my case).

Screen times are in the chunks of 20 mins, max 3 times a day. Alexa/Google have been helpful in setting up timers so no argument at the end whether it was full 20 min or not :-)

After returning from school.
Evening, after completing school/activity work.
After dinner.

Any day, not more than 60 mins(baring occasional movie time holidays/some weekends).

But due to this, I am not able to introduce them to "programming" because you tube and video games are taking up all the quotas and I am sure once programming is introduced 20 min window will not work.
The weird part is that this is almost exclusively found in organizations that think of themselves as "tech"-y.

I work somewhere on the border between neuroscience and machine learning. Interviewing in a "neuro" group usually involves a lot of talking--what you've done on project X, how would you approach Y, what do you know about Z. Coding does come up, but in the context of stuff that I've done or would do on the job.

Applying for a very similar job in a tech company usually starts with me reversing strings on a whiteboard or abusing C++ templates to calculate factorials or something....
Woohoo!!!

The industry's complacency in getting broad EDNS support has been a huge embarrassment imnsho. This is proof that we don't need to put up with "but the middle boxes, argh!!?" excuses if the industry works together to force people to be compatible with standards.

Thanks to all those involved with making this project a reality. It really helps everyone on the internet, whether they know it or not.
you can also add bangs at the end or in the middle if you want, or decide halfway through you want to adjust your search.
So, sure, let's talk about smartphones.

In 2010, there were quite a few smartphone platforms: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, WebOS, Windows (CE or Mobile or maybe both; can't remember when the switchover happened), Bada, probably some others I'm forgetting.

Between then and now, the story, aside from slight eddies such as the dismal failures that were Ubuntu Touch and FirefoxOS, has been one of platforms steadily exiting the market. So now we basically have just two options: Android and iOS.

And already I see people on HN occasionally predicting that iOS is doomed due to the fact that it has ~15% global marketshare, and Android has all the rest. I'm not sure if that's really true, but, regardless, the trend is still most certainly not toward a robust, competitive market with lots of consumer choice.
They are nothing because they don't exist. When was the last time you saw a pro-Google/Alphabet article?
Without the personal information being recorded and sold.

Kind of goes to show that the personal information we are giving away may not be that important when it comes to finding what we need, even as it makes us a bigger and juicier target for ads.
Why is this article popping again now? It's from over 2 years ago.
It's cute that companies think junior or seniors will be immediately productive. There is a ramp up period. Hell the first day is probably just paperwork. Then 3 months of getting integrated.
I went with Leesa, same reasons for going online, also has worked well for me.
The Symfony docs are great. Also, see https://symfonycasts.com/.
Mostly Bing for any non trivial query. As far as I see, they never give actual numbers / breakdown and try hard to divert attention from this. If they do i would love to know.
Where were you two weeks ago! Ah, now my next 10-20 years of sleep will be bothered by knowing my mattress, which I enjoyed last night is sub-optimal for my sleeping style!

Seriously though, thank you, I'll keep that in mind for my next major purchase.
State and local governments aren’t on a holiday and that’s where these types of decisions ought to be handled.
It's hardly a common idiom, does he mean ddg is close behind google, does he mean it's run down? Does he mean it's keeping people down?
Even though a lot of the indexing data is from Bing, doesn't DDG do extra stuff to guarantee privacy?

I don't particularly care who is giving me the data as long as the results tend to be OK; I don't run any MS crap at home but if their search service tends to work alright, then power to them.
You can't escape Gmail because you'd lose your address, and you can't escape Maps because the alternatives suck.

On the other hand if I don't like Supermarket-X, I can go to Supermarket-Y
Its generally improved the economies of its 28 member states and the standards of living for over half a billion people.
Yet still it is Bing search + Bing ads.
>According to my wife, it's been taking up closet space for at least a decade.

Our wives must use a shared Gmail calendar.
> Do you think there is any deal that the remainers who voted against May's deal would vote for?

I think a lot would vote for a "Norway" deal if it were available, but that would mean May and the anti-immigration faction surrendering.

My hypothesis is the "meat grinder": what has to happen is the slow wearing down and obliteration of options. The only way to get to Remain is for all the other options to be infeasible. Eliminating the deal raises the chances of both "no deal" and "remain". Similarly, "extend" would greatly increase the chances of "remain".
The Puritans were weird and deeply religious, but describing them as the "christian taliban" is not accurate.

To start, they were kicked out of England for being protestant, not "too fundamentalist". The schism between the Church of England and everybody else (e.g. Scottish Presbyterians) was a longstanding source of conflict (partially because the church considered itself the arm of the state, and tithes as taxes. Non-Anglicans didn't want to pay these). And, in fact, many Puritans came back (or sent support) when Oliver Cromwell seized control. It's certainly true that the Puritans didn't come seeking religious freedom, but the ability to combine their religion and government).

They were a strongly egalitarian and highly educated culture, featuring near-universal literacy both among men and women. They had a strong dedication to economic equality -- one town distributed equal-sized plots of land to it's settlers.

They had harsh laws about adultery, which were enforced against men and women relatively equally. They also had laws against "novelties" (i.e. anything new) and wasting time, so don't think this is a defense of their modernity. But it's only vaguely accurate to describe them and "the taliban" as alike. They are both cultures with deep religious drives, but those drives are different and expressed very differently.
Is there a simple command-line option I can run to check if the caches between me and the internet are ready for this?
Don't Eject Your Create React App
No the logic is not circular, and the advice to learn git is a good one.

It may seem paradoxical at first to you, but is true (as are many things in this profession). Another paradoxical advice like that, is to learn vim, or emacs, but I digress.

Git does not suck - as any other tool it, it just has strenghts and weaknesses (for example working with very large binary assets is its main weakness).

The UX of most common git CLI operations is clean actually, as they are fast, and you do not need many arcane options (although they are there, and are documented well, for people who read...).

If you screw up something, you just use the reflog to fix the state of your repo in most cases. Even if you can not (or do not want to), the troubleshooting is still easy - you can always do a fresh clone from your remote repository in a new folder and copy what you want there.
My wife works with kids who get too much screen time, so I can say this. Not all screen time is the same. The key, key thing is - how involved is the parent?

I'd rather my kid watching useless bouncing balls with me on the couch next to him talking to him about it than watching something "educational" (ha) with me in the next room.

Our 2.5yo gets twenty minutes of Netflix a day (because he likes animals and I can't take him to the zoo every day). But either my wife or I (or usually both) sit on the couch with him and talk to him about what he's seeing.

Don't be scared of screen time. Be scared of screen time as a babysitter.
Many experts feel they have the right to ignore other experts in their field. It's scary how some doctors pick and choose the research findings to reinforce their perspectives, regardless if it's fact based.
Go Slow: Digital Marketing on Island Time
What REALLY annoys me, is that people selling minifigs on the second hand market, are splitting them from new sets. Leaving the set without any figures. If you search eBay you'll see 100s of nearly-new sets listed but with 'NO MINIFIGS' in the description. If you wanted to buy a popular out-of-stock set for your kid, expect to massively pay over the odds just to replace the missing minifigs all because of the greedy minifig collectors market.

What LEGO should do here, is sell single minifig 'blister-packs' for all their themed figures (Disney/Marvel, Star Wars etc.). This would have the benefit of ensuring that new sets don't get split for profit, and also create a new income stream for LEGO. They could even make some minifigs limited run 'blister-pack' only, driving up the demand/value.

I'm a casual minifig collector, but I refuse to buy figs that have been clearly split from bigger sets. It makes it hard for me, as I also won't pay more than £10 for a set, so I'm restricted to the blind-bags and the small range of tiny single-figure sets. It's frustrating, but at least my conscience is clear.
For anyone interested in more information, I found the research paper[0] and website for the currency named "Unit-e"[1]. The paper seems to be quite extensive at 168 pages long and covers a lot more than the blockchain design.

[0] https://dtr.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2019-01-16-Decent...
[1] https://dtr.org/unit-e/
Check out the Symfony docs and https://symfonycasts.com/.
hint: complaining about downvotes usually just gets more downvotes

just add what insight you have and then the crowd decides if they care, like or dislike
https://duck.co/help/results/sources
I think it's very much search topic related:

* DDG is atrocious for anything other than English
* Programing/IT searches often yield garbage on DDG while on Google a good result is within the first 3.

I have it as my default now too, but "!g" is a constant companion.

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Regarding Google and Amazon being unstoppable... it seemed the same once for Microsoft.

Once they get too big/powerful (which they arguably already are), they could be broken up or severely hamstrung by legislation.

They can also start to stagnate and be out-done by new competition based on new technologies.

All of those seem unlikely right now, but 10 years can change a lot.

Of course both Google and Amazon both enjoy large network effects and are pretty capital intensive. Which is typical for mono/oligopolies.
I don't know if that's your site, but the "Learn More" button dead center on the front page 404s.
Some doctors don't have a choice.

My brother was on call this weekend and got called in Friday night at 10 P.M. and Saturday night at 2 A.M., then had to be back to work at 7 A.M. Sunday. Obviously sleep deprived, but there's nothing he specifically could do. This needs to change at an institutional level.
Classic Ponzi Scheme. People have been wondering how WeEork has't gone bankrupt yet. Well you don't go bankrupt if you can keep raising/lending more to pay up your losses. Until the day you can't anymore.
Not a very good comparison I'm afraid, Sears didn't lose to an other company who was offering the same service, they lost to a series of companies that offered the same utility but in a very different way.

DDG is mostly just offering the same service as Google (really, only a fraction of the service because Google is a lot more than Search these days). As such I expect that at this point if a Google-killer appears it's also be a DDG killer as collateral damage.
I don’t think this is true anymore. This poll claims 80% of Americans are aware of Bitcoin.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ccn.com/80-of-americans-are...
Yep, and this is actually the method I'd recommend for a variety of reasons. When we were looking for a modern framework for a project a while ago, the ability to do this was actually one of the main reasons we gave react the thumbs up.
Unless you want to start paying for every search, i don't see how a "search company" that isn't fueled by adverts could ever exist.
Thanks for asking, I hope I am not too slow to reply.

The perhaps overly short version is: I have read and tested the Book of Mormon (a companion to the Bible) in the way it says to test it (http://www.mormon.org), and a lifetime of experiences when I followed what I felt inside that I knew was right ("knew" as in, I know I love my wife, or what salt tastes like, but can't necessarily prove or explain it to someone who doesn't want anything to do with it), vs. when I did not do what I knew I should, and the results I found from those choices. Those things together have solidly convinced me by now (with some time lost & hard consequences from learning the hard way at times, and real benefits when I learned the easy way). Life is still challenging, but that is part of the educational program I believe we signed up for, which is worthwhile, and the tools are there for dealing with the hard things.

About the Book of Mormon (and Bible): I have given them a lifetime of almost daily reading and contemplation (sometimes intelligently for me, sometimes not), plus have read some books and articles where people have commented in really fascinating ways about it (Daniel Peterson, Hugh Nibley, fairmormon.org which tries to answer critics, & others), as well as some anti-... material, and have thought about things from various angles ("what if it really...?"), and am satisfied that the debate is more for those who really like debate, while asking hard honest questions is a good thing because that is how we learn, and good things are there for those who seek, and I truly wish the best to all concerned, but ultimately, "proof" to satify everyone is always not going to happen in the way that they want it, and we have to seek according to our personal desires. The invitation from God to know for oneself, is there (as demonstrated by the Book of Mormon, its test, and many associated things).

There is much more detail; I'm happy to share more or try to answer specific questions, whether here, or by posting online some notes I already made but should probably reformat & clean up somewhat. One may also email me if desired (EDIT: at luke425 <symbol> lukecall.net). (From a practical standpoint, I might check this thread or my email somewhere between every few hours and every few days, but am happy to continue the conversation in that way, and after several blank days would assume this thread is complete. Suggestions always welcome. :)
the companies with the better programmers were the ones where they actually looked at your past code and had hardly any exercise or test.

I don't do side projects. I work 40+ hours a week on a computer, when I get home, I'm spending time exercising, with family and friends are just doing nothing.

If a company doesn't think I'm "passionate" because I don't have a Github account so be it.

Also, I'm not going to do a dog and pony algorithm white board coding test. I'll draw out architecture on a white board but if you want me to code, sit me behind a computer and test whether I can solve a real world business problem.

I'm most likely being interviewed to either write/architect a bespoke internal app or yet another software as a service CRUD app. I'm not being interviewed to create software to put a man on the moon.
Raylib: a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy game programming
Sure, but in my eyes this makes them a proxy, not a search engine.It is nice to have alternatives, but it looks at the moment they are at the mercy of Bing. Maybe one day they will evolve and become an actual search engine. who knows.
The fact that they are indeed for the risk averse is why I found it quaint Bogle’s Funds have been called “Marxist” according to a quote from Barron’s last year. People would choose to suffer collecting paychecks and squirreling away their money instead of using their collected six figures in savings and taking a chance at starting a business, creating necessarily healthy market forces which leads to new demand in labor and services.

This is how capitalism is supposed to work from the ground floor. Toiling away 25 years in a cubicle eschewing social responsibilities like the FIRE subreddit ought to be morally reprehensible - that’s how strongly I feel about it (I’m active in two businesses I’ve co-founded and have enjoyed seeing economic theory from the ground up).
Aside from doing well on synthetic benchmarks, what case would you make for starting a new project in PHP in 2019? What are its strengths?
Are bots mature enough to tell us stories?
> Direct democracy does not scale to running a country. Effectively, the task of making, deciding, and implementing policy is very much a full-time job, and most people cannot devote the time it takes to be sufficiently informed to make decisions. Decisions that require a lot of careful policy crafting and negotiation to implement are not good candidates for referendums, especially when the cutoff is as low as 50% + 1. In jurisdictions with saner direct democracy mechanisms (say, Switzerland), there is substantial filtering of any proposals through the regular legislature process so that referendums are less "implement this policy" and more "this is something that is important to us, please figure out what needs to be done here."

Agreed; we should never have had the referendum in the form we did. Nevertheless, we can't undo it now.

> There is substantial cover for saying "We clearly need more time to figure out how to do this, and the March deadline is too soon to get this done. Let's pause this process for now." Sure, a lot of people will be pissed, but we're at a stage where any action (including inaction) will piss off at least 30-40% of the population.

I think delaying Brexit at this point has far less credibility than any kind of leave (even no deal). There's no way for it to not look like an elite stitch-up.
This still doesn't make sense to me. How are you genuinely interested and continuing to actively test the service for say a month of trial period, and yet somehow simultaneously forgetting all about it and not cancelling before the end of that period if you decide it's not for you?
I'm also annoyed by this.

Google tries to out-smart the user and often yields garbage or generic popular crap even when looking for something very specific.

I want my quotes back too!

An even bigger issue:

Due to SEO and ranking benefits for popular sites, it's basically impossible to discover quality content by smaller sites/blogs via Google. Unless you go to like page 10+, where you also get a lot of irrelevant stuff.
Here it was quite clearly used to express the idea of "makes other people less want to give you job" rather then anything vaguely subjective.
Any breakdown of which source is used for which percentage of queries? No.
A more important difference might be that humans eat other life forms and can absorb nutrients that way. There are known to be many vitamins which humans get from the food we consume which we cannot get any other way.
The ask the manager answer is actually located here: https://www.inc.com/alison-green/i-found-out-my-coworker-is-...

It looks like that link is just a stub for it