skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When as that? Because I had the same experience of constantly using !g a few years ago. Decided to try ddg again around 6 months ago and it's gotten a lot better imo. Rarely use !g anymore and kept it as my default engine since.

Sometimes ddg results are even straight up better. Most of the time I use !g is when looking up location sensitive stuff, e.g. non-english local government stuff etc.
I launched BuckBuckMoose.org recently so I could start using DuckDuckGo more often. The idea with BuckBuckMoose is that you can search DuckDuckGo without fear of missing out on Google. How it works is you simply enter your search query, and then a two split screen windows pop up with Google search results on the left and DuckDuckGo results on the right. If you want to try it out as your default search engine you can use Tom Schuster's "Add Custom Search Engine" extension for Firefox to add it (BuckBuckMoose) as your default search engine. (I don't actually expect anyone else to use it). Anyway, having used this tool daily for the past few months I feel that I'm somewhat of an expert* on DuckDuckGo's search results. One interesting thing I've noticed is how similar their results are. It's almost as if Bing is trying to mimic Google's results on purpose? It's a little odd. The results are pretty good tho. However, I have noticed that Google is always a little bit faster.
A close friend is an EMT. According to him, 95% of the job is taking care of intoxicated people.
You don't have to use either exclusively. Just pick the one you think is best as your default search engine, and for anything that this 'best' one (by whatever standard) cannot handle, you can still fall back to the other.

For example, DDG is really good at documentation lookups like Java or Python docs. Google is much better at complicated queries (I always struggle for an example, had one recently where DDG was just lost and Google gave the perfect top result, and remember thinking "I should write this down" but I don't think I did...), so I use DDG by default and if I can't find what I'm looking for, I fall back to Google. I don't have to fall back for ~90% of my queries, so that's a significant improvement over using Google all the time.

DDG is horrible at images, and Google Images beats Bing Images. But again, 90% of my image queries can be answered by Bing, so in only 10% of the cases I fall back to Google for images.
Do you know that DDG is just a sophisticated proxy to another search engine under the hood, which probably has even lower standards for privacy than Google and using DDG you indirectly support it?
Tends to be around 10€/sqm plus utilities. It'll easily double that in a trendy part of Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich, Cologne etc.
Yeah, Neanderthal is great (I'm a Clojure a user). It's got support for structured sparse matrices (like Toeplitz) the last I checked, but not general CSC/CSR matrices.
I had to work on some "data pipelines" built with Python & Spark. Terrible experience. All the different data structures for tabular data without a common interface. Oodles of ETL code for transmuting data structures to apply different algorithms. Foraging the docs to figure out even the inconsistent smallest tidbits.

Madness.

I am still aghast. How does anyone get any work done using those tools?

https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/apache-spark-py...

Why didn't they implement RowSet interface?

Or create new tabular data holding interface?

Any way. Whenever someone enthuses about Python, Spark, big data, whatever, I now assume they're insane.

--

The whole notebook (Jupyter) idea is awesome. Are the fans conflating different tools, equating Spark with notebooks?
https://duckduckgo.com/bang
If you don’t know what !g is
It's not practical to use them in the long run, you pretty much have to memorize them to be able to meet the company standards for till speed. And memorization is expected by the management. At least that was the case when I used to work at Aldi's (in the UK, quite a while ago).
Sorry, I meant what is the “medical/college” model.
wow. that's an amazing theme; awesome insight!
Yeah some of those Finest and Taste the Difference were great. Often much nicer than brands. One or other produced the only shop bought cake I ever encountered with a taste and texture of home-made.

Amazing there ended up so much space beneath brands there could be 3 or 4 (with organic) distinct ranges of own brands.
Suing the company which developed a tool rather than the organization which used the tool seems strange.
There's a wonderful Reply All episode from December 2018 that covers the dramatic origin story, featuring lots of colorful small-town politics and an explanation of the bait & switch tactics commonly used by Foxconn:

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/wbhjwd/132-negative-...

It's a good listen even now, now that this story has played out the way it has..
Can you defend yourself from a swarm of 10 coming from all directions at 30mph?
Why Aphrodite became our choice for styling React apps
I'm the other way around, I only have to use !g for 1 out of 5 searches (Google still does a lot better when searching technical topics).

Although I DO get frustrated by DDG's image search. Google's actually takes you to the actual image URL, so it's easier to get a link for sharing. DDG shows all images through their weird proxy thing, such that you can't easily get the raw URL.
For me, proper perspective has been the best help there. You seem qualified enough to be able to find other work if the worst happens, and the worst is unlikely to happen.

This doesn’t mean be lazy. It means relax, and you’ll probably find that you do better work that way.

Unless someone’s life is directly on the line (maybe it is and I’m wrong), the stakes being high is often just a story we’re telling ourselves.
The Lightning Network Will Corrupt Bitcoin
> "They can help you to turn really bad prose into serviceable prose,"

Which is very often exactly what people are after! People who aren't deluding themselves don't think they're going to win any Pulitzers, they just want a marginal improvement as a courtesy to others who will have to read it. If a style guide can elevate their writing to mundane levels, then it has done it's job.
Let’s start using DuckDuckGo all the time.
For the uninitiated, !bang is a pretty great feature:

https://duckduckgo.com/bang
This is rather "embed intermediate representation, extract, run another target's back end, and link". I was hoping this would be explaining how to go from ARM by uplifting executable to LLVM IR and retargeting for Intel. This is notionally already possible with ELF and PE executables using McSema (https://github.com/trailofbits/mcsema).

If anyone is working on this please email me (address in profile), it's something we slated for a future research project and I'd love to talk.
I really want there to be a couple pages with cat paw prints in ink walking across the pages.
This interviewer seems to have a machoistic view of interviewing people. At all times you should be treating people with dignity and respect, not trying to nail them to the ground to see them flounder.

Interviewing people by waiting around while they plod away at a text editor isn't appropriate use of your or the candidates time. You should be interacting with the individual via talking to them. If they claim to be an expert in TCP/IP then you can peel back the layers back asking open-ended questions to see where the conversation goes. If they have the depth of expertise then it'll become pretty apparent when you discuss the intricacies of the topic.

Trying to trip somebody up with returning int V long is just redundant. That is an mistake to make and will be trapped by the compiler at compile time.

To interviewers I say stop wasting everybody's time and focus on discussion not exam style questions.
We've been tracking it for decades now.

- reality TV star as president of the United States: check

- mountains of garbage: check

- The movie 'Ass' (The Kardashians): check

and probably many more bits and pieces.
I have used it as a default for at least 2 years. I'd estimate drop back to Google for 20-25% of specific "subject matter" searches, mostly around technology. Probably a bit less than that for general searches.

Most of the time I run the same search on Google the results are very similar for the top hits. But Google does seem to produce helpful results that are not exactly what I searched for more often.

DDG also skews heavily to US results which is a pain. Any Amazon links are always to .com and not the regional site. Just a general understanding of region specific results seems to be missing, and I end up qualifying searches with the country or town.
Your thoughts about minorities and women in positions of power are about 2 decades out of date.

I've worked at many companies, big and small, in many states, and I never saw anything you described.

What I do see is that when a woman is in power, other women try to take that woman down a peg. Men are respectful and now have to walk on eggshells because if you even breathe the wrong way, it can be construed as some form of harassment.

Disagreeing (even if you have facts to back your argument) is called 'mansplaining'.
I don't think so. There is a huge difference between "wall them off from society" and "wall them off from society and help them". And nwallin is quite explicit in that he only wants to help the "good" homeless.
Empathy is the first step to action. if you were born 100 years ago this would be a fact of life, child labour, poverty, racism and homelessness was rampant. And economic downturns like the great depression brought these right back. How do you imagine these problems were solved?

Talking about liberals, hypocrisy and inconvenience is not going to solve anything and is not designed to. How is talking about car dependence going to solve the problem of thousands of homeless people in cities? This just highlights how without empathy the only problem people can see is how their own life is impacted.

But widespread homelessness is simply an early warning system telling you there is something broken in your society. Those without empathy will keep complaining about how their lives have been ruined by the existance of homeless people like HN has been doing for the last 5 years without any engagement with history, economics, policies or inequality and those with empathy will solve this like they have done multiple times before.
DDG is just a proxy for Bing. Yes, let's degoogle our lives, but why not start using a free/libre metasearch engine (like Searx[0]), while you're at it?

[0]: https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/
My experience is that almost all of the early “CSS Grid lets you do this!” examples were either: ⓐ actually achievable with Flexbox in a non-contrived way; or ⓑ outright weird things that will seldom actually be desired, being more related to art direction than layout or similar.

Since then, I have come across a few cases where Grid was used to advantage in a way that Flexbox couldn’t have matched—I’ve even written a couple myself. The main case I’ve found is responsive layout, where you want to do something like interleaving rather than just stacking of elements, as you scale down a two-dimensional layout. This is the use for one I’ve written: see the responsive design of the hero area on https://www.topicbox.com/ and how the video moves from the right into the middle of the content from the left column, which would be exceedingly painful to handle well without Grid, probably requiring absolute positioning and/or float.

But mostly, I find Flexbox to be sufficient, with Grid very occasionally offering a nicer way of doing something that was already possible.

It’s not uncommon for me to do things with Grid now, for work or in my own projects, but I confess that I normally have to lean heavily on docs on the grid-* properties when I’m getting started, which I don’t for Flexbox. I know its capabilities and thus when it might be applicable, but the actual syntax is too powerful and flexible, with too many ways of achieving similar and different results, and so it will take more use to internalise than most features, but Grid’s just not useful enough that I think most are likely to reach that threshold.
What are your most used bangs? Mine is !gi.
Why would you do this? Who else does it? And how is it superior to just signing up with a hosted Wordpress (like 30% of the Internet)?

EDIT: Feel free to downvote but please answer. TFA does not answer it.
There are a lot of possibilities. Terry Kuo has close relation with China. It is possible he is pressured out of US investment due to the recent tension, but trying to play the situation so he don’t bet everything on China (likely the losing side of the tariff war). He is also running for Taiwan presidential candidacy (of KMT), and might be desperate to avoid negativity. Or, honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if he just genuinely has second thoughts. Kuo is well-known to be volatile.
that's an awesome idea!

how do you determine which IPs are the google webcrawler, though?
Well, yeah... hence the point of a proxy.
Plenty of people (particularly here on HN) consider many or even all forms of advertising to be unethical. I don't think it's fair to ask someone to disable their ad blocker. For someone who never clicks on ads, the revenue generated by disabling is negligible anyway.
I don't get the joke. This is an April 1 article published at May 17, 2019. What am I missing?
Wendelstein 7-X currently has done burns up to 26 seconds and the limit is not plasma instabilities, but wall heating. So now they are putting in water cooling and plan to have 30 minute burns within the next 2 years.
What is this !s and !g notation?
> However, the point where I do agree with you is that we have a performance issue with JS. And I am not talking about slow JS engines. I am talking about developers who are not aware of how costly some operations are (e.g. loading a bunch of libraries). Yes, that is an issue that naturally arises with abstractions, but to conclude that abstractions themselves are the problem is wrong.

I could not agree more.

https://jackmott.github.io/programming/2016/07/22/making-obv...

Notice "Javascript map reduce (node.js) 10,000ms" vs "Javascript imperative (node.js) 37 milliseconds"

I've seen the map reduce way defended as being "more readable and maintanable", with plenty of agreement to it. When I contested it, mental gymnastics ensued and did not let up. Nobody dislikes performance, not really, but I think some don't like reflecting on how they arrived at their opinions. That's the bit they're really invested in.

And in general, "what does this abstraction stand for?" is a very dangerous question, if you ask it about computer stuff, you might also ask it about other things, and there more groups that don't like that than there are people in the world. Not to make this too political, but I think the pressure against thinking for yourself is way, way bigger bigger than the demand for performance. Just think of Ignaz Semmelweis.

Another issue is that many things are hard for us to visualize, as Grace Hopper explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8
Agree; I can't think of many things more monotonous than laying bricks, nailing off roofing shingle, installing 100s of outlets, or concrete flatwork.
They use Bing ads. It’s really unfortunate - I’d love to help them and advertise with them, but 99% of my ads will show on Bing and its other properties, which is not what I want to support.
I'm consistently confused how we manage to run so many more lines of code, yet our software doesn't really do anything it didn't do in the late 90s. Back then I chatted over IRC, browsed the web and played video games. Now I chat over whatsapp, browse the web and play indie video games. In 2009 Chrome had 1.3M SLOC. Today it has 25M. And that number has been going up linearly - since 2016, not including comments, chrome has added 2.1M SLOC per year. Thats another entire 2009 google chrome web browser in code added to chrome every 8 months. Can you name a single feature added to chrome in the last 8 months? I can't. As Blow says, productivity (measured in features per LOC) has been trending toward 0 for a long time. What a tragic waste of google's fantastic engineering talent.

I pick on Chrome because the data is available. And because I regretfully have about 8 copies that code on my computer. But I bet we'd see the same curve with lots of modern software. The LOC numbers for microsoft windows have become so large that I can't really comprehend how so many programatic structures can do so little.

I once heard this architecture pattern referred to as a pile of rocks. Piles of rocks are really simple and elegant - you can always add features to your pile of rocks. Just add rocks on the top until its tall enough! Piles of rocks are really easy to debug too. Just shake the pile (unit tests), and when anything collapses, add rocks until the hole is filled in (= patch that specific issue). Then rinse and repeat. You don't need to bother with modelling or proofs or any of that stuff when working on a pile of rocks.

Look at those Haskell programmers over there building aqueducts using archways. Peh. they should get jobs writing real programs.

Ahem.

[1] https://www.openhub.net/p/chrome/analyses/latest/languages_s...
Am I the only one who really doesn't like having to prefix that symbol and never types bangs? I type faster than most other tech people but putting my whole left hand on the left side of the keyboard to press Shift with my pinky and 1 with my ring finger is more trouble than adding a keyword for the search in Firefox (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_keyword_searches). Especially because I type the G, Y, and W (google, google-images, youtube, wikipedia... the thing you use this for) with my left hand as well.

Bangs are recommended almost every time ddg comes up, and I see people like my brother using them, so it seems like nobody else minds and the choice of symbol will never change. Am I alone in thinking it's one of the worst possible prefix characters?
Cool fact. All of this writing is in mirror image reverse writing so that no one in contemporary times could read his notebooks.

He taught himself how to write in mirror image.
Hmm, I went to http://buckbuckmoose.org and noticed no TLS. Perhaps it doesn't need crypto because the popups themselves utilize crypto.
South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry
> like it or not, their analytics and their knowledge of you as an individual helps produce better search results for you. Google will always be the better search engine.

I actually disagree. Googles optimizing function is to get you to visit sites with their ads. Because DuckDuckGo doesn’t have an ad network on every website, their optimization function is to get you to come back to search (where their ads are).

I think people have also missed Google slowly manipulating search results to maximize profit. Their motives are not aligned with people looking for information (at least not any more)
Thanks, I always thought hitting $+i+right arrow was wrong!
> If you want to go absolutely crazy mad with paranoia maybe they could collude with another federal agency to tap that network connection... but that is INCREDIBLY unlikely for this.

Sorry for the undeveloped response, but....hahahaha
I'm happy to pay. I'm not happy to see ads.
If I'm logged into google do I get my customized search results? Would be nice to have a choice on this behavior (actually, would be interesting to have an iframe for each mode to see the difference in results).
> It’s difficult not to admit feeling a bit of schadenfreude in response to this event.

Yes, that sounds about right. I'm honestly super surprised that it doesn't happen more.
Where’d you get the idea a passport isn’t needed?

https://www.worldtravelguide.net/guides/asia/china/hong-kong...
I've been using DDG for a year on my desktop, 6 mo. on phone and laptop, 1 mo. at work.

I don't get the people that are claiming worse results from DDG than google - the only thing I can think is that we write our searches differently. But that seems a long shot.
Version with minimal CSS: https://codepen.io/simevidas/pen/OYgdjm?editors=1100
To get the raw URL in DDG image search, click on the image and then click "View File". This sends you directly to the image itself.
I'm in a wheelchair, being able to get groceries delivered has been hugely beneficial.
https://www.startpage.com/en/search/privacy-policy.html
I had a fun accidental optimization last week: I needed to zero out a memory buffer before calling a GnuTLS function to read in data (for security reasons - we can't be sure that the callee will fill in the full buffer and don't want to leak uninitialized memory back to the client). I wondered what the performance penalty of this would be. In fact it made the code about 5-10% faster. This is on the edge of being a measurable effect - could be random variability in the test - but it certainly surprised me that it was not slower.

The non-encrypted transport case had a similar change but there was no measurable performance difference before and after.

I'd like to know what perf stats are available to show what's going on. (I guess it's an L2 cache effect)
How does it work with SEO? Can you still show up in google if you target a specific topic?
Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us?
I mean, that's great and all. But I actually want people to use my website.
A lot of people do it. Performance and minimal maintenance are among the reasons.

WordPress is good, but some see it as overkill.
A Legendary Scientist Sounds Off on the Trouble with STEM
Right. Must have slipped me, fits a lot better, I agree! Next time..
Carpenter is a fascinating case and you're astute to bring it up. If the tracking image were capable of actually tracking the entirety of someone's location (the way CSLI is), then Carpenter would probably apply.

Assuming it is just a normal tracking image, though, it doesn't provide "detailed, encyclopedic, and effortlessly compiled" information about someone's activities - just whether they opened that particular email while displaying remote images, and - if so - their HTTP request. I think it's unlikely this fits the facts under Carpenter.

Also, Carpenter was about a warrantless search. We really have no idea if the prosecutors did this on their own initiative to try to address the violation of the protective order, or if they did it at NCIS's behest after a warrant. It's entirely possible that this is at NCIS's initiative. Still a lot of facts to uncover here.
Ex UPS unloader/sorter here: I can relate! I used to wake up sorting boxes in my sleep.
Do you know what happens when a bird 'runs into' a window that was open? You have to spend the next half hour chasing it around your house with a broom. I'm speaking from experience here.
>McSema and remill were developed and are maintained by Trail of Bits, funded by and used in research for DARPA and the US Department of Defense.
Try Bing for images. Again not as good as Google, but a whole lot better than DDG -- in terms of search results, that is. In terms of speed, I think Bing and Google images are on par.
Aside from DDG, can anyone say anything about other available alternatives, like startpage.com, lite.qwant.com or searchencrypt.com?
Interesting People to Follow on Instagram – Felicitas 500 – May 2019
If you accepted an offer it's over, you can only do harm now by post hoc negotiations in bad faith. Let it go and use this as an opportunity to learn from for next time.
The comic strip format helps in that the audience is not just potential developers, but also the general privacy-conscious consumer.
Are you aware that your site is unreadable on mobile after scrolling past the first paragraph? Is that the point? Am I supposed to pay? What even is this?
Pretty sure that word was made up - Google draws a blank.
I switched to DDG a few months ago. I've found it to meet my needs quite well.