skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I switched for about a month... for most general searches ddg was as good or better... when searching for development terms as a programmer, I found that the ddg results were often worthless to me. The context that google has associated to you specifically adds value to the results.

Since most of my searches were for technical libraries, components, etc, I found myself searching again with !g more than half the time... after the month was up, I switched back. There are a LOT of things I like about ddg though.

It would be nice if DDG offered search roles, that could prioritize certain associated terms together for someone that is say a programmer, engineer, social media person, etc. This could be opt-in to maybe a dozen categories to skew results on one way or another, but not tied to a person per-se.

Also, a shorter domain name would help.
I am quite happy with my AMD Radeon RX 460 running Arch Linux with a 5.5.7 kernel. It has significantly more power than the embedded Intel GPU I have in the same system but doesn't require a fan either (the PC is completely fanless).
Coding and Tracing Workflow Remix (Feat. Dark)
> why WOULND’T you use CRA?

It's worth noting that CRA is pretty complicated. My home-rolled webpack configs are significantly simpler than ejected CRA apps. If you're going to be making significant changes to the configs it's going to be a lot easier with a custom project.
And in TypeScript you can at least pair it with Readonly<...>, though that unfortunately still isn't recursive
It's probably feasible to reach these levels of cost. I certainly still keep NAS in two locations because even places like hetzner don't sell lower powered machines with lots of disk space. But the build they specify doesn't have a CPU or RAM and it's using a SAS cable to connect to a SATA motherboard. Depending on the requirements of the platform they may be able to get away with non-ECC RAM, a simple APU to not need a graphics card, and a few cheap SATA PCIe cards to get enough connections. It will probably add ~500$ or ~10% to the build though. I don't know if the other costs have similar issues.
The talk was given in 1977 when at the time Russia was socialist. This is no more the case. A better comparison can be made today with say Venezuela.
Student creates online map charting coronavirus cases across Japan
RedisConf cancelled due to coronavirus. Going virtual instead
> I don’t understand why limiting carbs makes any sense.

Then why go around saying things like:

> Yes you will feel like you have no energy during workouts. The primary fuel for muscles is glycogen. Cells use glucose by default. And fats are 9 cal/g, so they’re so easy to overeat.
Is anyone afraid that microdosing might become the next must, if you want to be competitive in the programming fields of industry?
Ugh. It's not just "Enterprises" that use FC, though it's the most common case.

It's also in use by people that buy FC gear on Ebay, as they want some of the capabilities that FC offers for whatever reason.

If they've really decided to lock OSS customers out of using FC gear (which would be crappy), this definitely sounds like a move to "Open Core" or something like it and would a shame. :/
Lagging Internet Contributes to Lagging Test Scores, Leaving Students Behind
Interesting product. Could have used this at previous companies. How is this different from FigureEight or Scale?
I feel like backblaze has already done most of this and has it in production [1].
Whereas this is just done back of the napkin calculation.

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/storage-pod.html
Obviously, as TFA describes, this is a huge end-run to create a problem.

But, would this leave a loophole for text-only and/or highly bandwidth-limited communications to remain end-to-end encrypted?

If you cannot sent a photo, audio or video, kind of hard to send CSAM material, yet end-to-end real-time SMS type messages are still somewhat useful in many instances (better than nothing).

Anyone with more detailed info?
Ask HN: Beginner-friendly languages from the last decade?
I just started learning Ruby as my first language. I know that quite a few languages have been created in the last decade, ie Swift, Go, Rust, etc. Are there any recently created languages that are worth learning. I looking for something easy to learn (for beginners) and cross-platform.
From their site:
[1]
Sia is a variant on the Bitcoin protocol that enables decentralized file storage via cryptographic contracts

[1]https://sia.tech/sia.pdf
Now "google" is a common enough word for generic online searches that the sentence "I googled 'australian licorice' using DuckDuckGo's image search" doesn't sound weird to me.

See definition 2, under the transitive verb form of the second etymology: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/google#English
I'd drop Microsoft from that list because the request for for something "reliable."

It's reliable enough, if you can get it to Microsoft's cloud. But for the last six months I've struggled putting very large files into Azure, using five different connections from five different providers in three locations. Small files are no problem. But large ones take two, three, or four tries.
Skip the dishes spams you with ad-like notifications, but you need notifications turned on for the app to be fully useful. I just uninstalled it. It’s incredibly rude. What’s next, YouTube sending me push notifications to buy Dominos

(they have been showing me dominos ads every time I go to the grocery store, even when I pay with cash and have location turned off)
MiniDisc Day 2020
Depends on what you mean by "totally". People cannot be "totally" controlled, but there's a lot of difference between how good of a handle various countries have on this.
Excel sheet. I used both Numbers and Excel and I found excel is better to compare my notes and ratings.

After a year I go back and compare my ratings to how much each startup raised, IRR..etc.

In the first batch I rated one of the startup 1/5, after a year, when the startup raised a lot $$$$ I went back to my comment on why I rated it 1/5

My note said “too niche”

It hit me and I realized it was as if Jeff Bezos was pitching me Amazon and I said e-commerce for books only! This is a niche market.

It’s very helpful to go back and read your comments about these startups.
You learn with every startup you mess..
See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15507582
How to Celebrate Employee Appreciation Day
I don't disagree Azure is hot garbage, just listing for completeness. S3 and Backblaze B2 are my go-to object stores.
cactus2093 referred to how it was originally intended, not how it currently works. I believe the original intent was for workers to always be paid a decent wage by default, and to get a bonus for exceptional service. Now it's inhumane not to tip because tipping is built into salary expectations, but that's unrelated to the original intent.
Durability? Availability?
Of course the snap'd version has no support for flatpak apps.
> That means about 2 hours of labor per rig. We’ll call that $50

Does that seem low to anyone else? I don’t really have any background in the area, but 25/hr cost to the company would be less than 20/hr pay for the skilled labor. Other countries are different of course, but in US I could make that much flipping burgers in the right area.
That is exactly what I was referring to in my comment. We are saying the same thing.
These are all very valid benefits, which I've experienced from pair programming as well.
ACE2 has direct effects on cardiac functiona and is expressed predominantly in vascular endothelial cells of the heart and the kidneys. -wikipedia

ACE2 entry is [betacoronavirus] lineage B clade 1 specific.

----- TMPRSS2 -----

• positive regulation of viral entry into host cell

• protein autoprocessing

• receptor-mediated endocytosis

• proteolysis

• vesicle-mediated transport

• endocytosis

This gene was demonstrated to be up-regulated by androgenic hormones in prostate cancer cells and down-regulated in androgen-independent prostate cancer tissue. The protease domain of this protein is thought to be cleaved and secreted into cell media after autocleavage. The biological function of this gene is unknown. - wikipedia

Interestingly, TMPRSS2 is the same exact pathway used by SARS, murine respirovirus and influenza. So, a blockade or modification of this might be a way to cure the flu as well.

TMPRSS2 entry is found in betacoronavirus lineage B, but not specific to it.
I do similar exercise and when I started keto 8 months ago I had a dip in performance for about 3 weeks.

I do a similar set of exercises on the same day/time every week and it ends with 30 seconds of burpees.

Prior to going on keto I was doing 16 burpees in that 30 seconds. After the first week I was down to twelve. After a couple more weeks I was back to 16 - and two weeks after that I was on 17. I’m now on 18.

I’ve gone from 103kg to 88kg in that time, so it seems likely the weight loss has been a (or the) factor in the improved performance.
Which is exactly why I specified that the wronged party gets to name the item in the other's catalog.
I worked on the design of Dropbox's exabyte-scale storage system, and from that experience I can say that these numbers are all extremely optimistic, even with their "you can do it cheaper if you only target 95% uptime" caveat. Networking is much more expensive, labor is much more expensive, space is much more expensive, depreciation is faster than they say, etc etc. I don't think the authors have ever done any actual hardware provisioning before.

I didn't read all their math but I expect their final result to be off by a factor of 2-5x. Hard drives are a surprisingly low percentage of the cost of a storage system.
Show HN: Cool Tools – Operations toolbox in one Docker image
If you follow the code, you'll see it just adds a filter:

Filters.eq("_id", id)

to the underlying query. Just like how { _id: { $eq: id }} is safe.
The IO operations amplification for 64 of 96 is pretty brutal, and particularly unfavorable in a world where capacity-per-IOPS keeps trending up. I wonder how they'll deal with that.
Don't lose your job. Strengthen your professional network, ensure you can land somewhere else rapidly if your role evaporates. Keep at least 6 months expenses in an FDIC insured savings account (although if you haven't done this already, it's too late to liquidate investments to have those cash reserves on hand without locking in losses assuming you've been invested during recent high volatility). Keep cashflow positive as much as possible, don't incur debt needlessly. Converting to other currencies is going to incur a currency risk that is unlikely worth hedging at such a small scale.

I wouldn't go so far as to keeping cash on hand beyond what you'd normally have; if things get that bad, cash will be your least concern. ATM card access is sufficient.

Disclaimer: I am not your certified financial planner/manager, but I do manage the finances and assets of others gratis. This advice is the same advice I practice myself.
Women being hit on anywhere they show a picture is pretty common. In western culture it's the men that are supposed to do the approaching, and if you're attractive and a lot of men can see you, well, the same thing always happens. This is fine for Victorian parlors or whatever but not ideal for business!
You mean other than Huawei 5g being chosen and deployed (or about to be) at Telus 1 of the 3 major carriers?

And the fact that both Telus and Bell use Huawei for their 4g/LTE networks?
Procedural Pokemon Generation with Cellular Automata
No, by definition allowing a 3rd party to derive any information about the semantics of the content means it's not end-to-end encrpytion or not a two-way communication (the 3rd party is assumed to be trusted)

Also - this is hardly the point.
Intel Xeon CPU 3.5 times faster than Nvidia V100 GPUs with SLIDE
blog post in Japanese but translates well: https://yurkth.hateblo.jp/entry/sprite-generator
Probably because they AB tested multiple prices as the article states and settled on the current price and forgot to replace one mention of an older price in the copy. No biggie... doesn't mean that person is dumb.
> for the sole reason that it's 5 characters instead of 3

Are you being charged by the character or something?
Five Open Source Alternatives to GitHub
Of course, but how would they know? The vector I refer to is my ability to create "evidence" and report you to their customer service.

Eg, i'd wager the GGP comment who reported 26 domains did so in a manner that would be fairly easy to fake. So what is the requirement of reports? Too loose and it's easy to fake, too strict and it becomes to difficult to report _(or too costly to verify)_.
The marketing industry is just an extension of human greed, which has a long history of ruining everything. Things don’t change. They just take on different forms.
>Note that this contradicts your statements that GNG will kick you out of ketosis. It absolutely will not.

Its really simple, eat nothing but chicken and/or turkey (high protein, low fat, no carb). You will not become keto adapted or fat adapted.

Alternatively enter into nutritional (dietary) ketosis with a high fat diet, then switch to chicken and/or turkey only (high protein, low fat, no carb) you will not remain in ketosis.

Do you disagree with that? Have you seen any study that shows fat/protein ratios are immaterial to nutritional ketosis?
The “royal we” as they say!
Right. The press release claims it's being used on some Airbus 350, but that may just mean "we treated a small part of the wing so we can see what happens".

Fragility is a big problem with most of these microsurface treatments. There's the "Never Wet" treatment you can buy now; it's a two-component paint that hardens into tiny points to which water cannot adhere. Works great when new, wears out easily. It has to be the top surface or it won't work, so there's no way to protect it.

Same for that "ultra black" material. OK for camera interiors and other protected optical systems, too fragile to expose.

Amusingly, a common laser process for steel does exactly the opposite of this anti-icing process. The idea is to roughen the surface for painting, but in a regular way. Same effect as sandblasting, but because the pattern is regular, you get a smoother paint surface and don't have to sand the primer layer. Used in auto manufacturing.
From https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705

"Pixel phones get Android version updates for at least 3 years from when the device first became available on the Google Store".

My Pixel (1st gen) no longer gets updates as of a few months ago. I might flash an open source Android ROM, such as LineageOS.
No, it's really not. I hate google as much as the next average HN poster, but this is just not true.

It's just Bing, anyway.
Note: The Duckduckgo site is the first result for "Duck Duck Go", you mean the string "DDG" in particular I'm presuming.

Now, it's not Google's obligation to make Duck Duck go a primary result for the DDG abbreviation - DDG the artist is apparently quite popular.

It would be nice, yes, if Google didn't just guess the best meaning for DDG but instead gave a spectrum of the common meanings (though Duck Duck Go might still not deserve to appear unless it's search became better imo).

The way that Google has degenerated over the last 5-10 years is in more aggressively showing you what they think you want rather than what you ask for (and limiting how you ask for things to boot). But after using Duck Go Go for two years, it seems they have exactly the same problem and that situation explained by them being a meta-search engine leaning on Bing (which in turn clones Google). At least Duckgogo features themselves on a search for DDG but they lean more heavily on battleship with the name.
So just accept fascism, surveillance states, and surveillance capitalism? No thanks
Every time someone ask this question I think people are forgetting that Slack was the first of these SaaS chat programs to find major success. Discord, Teams, and everything else came riding on the heels of Slack's success. While it might just be "another chat app" now, at the time Slack was an easy to setup tool with tons of integrations.
In general, no. The highest performance software only runs on Nvidia GPUs (or internal hardware, like Google’s TPUs).
For starters, we can vote for candidates who will be tough on overly-powerful corporations.
Availability is the big one. Getting high availability makes systems incredibly more complex and expensive.

It's the same reason increasing redundancy and uptime to the next factor of nines is almost logarithmatically more expensive.
Compounding!
Whoever chose those graph colors (page 2: plots) needs to be taken to accessibility training! WTF. A full 6% of all males are red green colorblind. Who chooses yellow and green as graph colors?! Jeez

</Rant>
I work in telecom/datacenter infrastructure and this is fanciful. The whole way they take the wattage load of one machine and then hand wave away all of the rest of the costs of either building and running a datacenter, or paying ongoing monthly colocation costs... Is just scary. I truly don't mean to offend anyone but this looks like a bunch of enthusiastic dilettantes.

Generators?

UPS?

Cooling costs?

Square footage costs for the real estate itself?

Security and staffing?

At the scale they intend to accomplish they will need at minimum several hundred kilowatts of datacenter space. Even assuming somewhere with a very low kWh cost of electricity, that much space for bare metal things isn't cheap. Go price a lot of square footage and 300kW of equipment load in Quincy, WA or anywhere else comparable, the monthly recurring dollar figure will be quite high.

And all of that is before you even start to look into network costs to build a serious IP network and interconnect with transits and peers.
Here is another spectrogram visualizer but with a twist, the frequency bins are the notes of a piano and hence you can use it to tune instruments or your voice.

The project: https://github.com/aguaviva/GuitarTuner

Online demo: https://aguaviva.github.io/GuitarTuner/GuitarTuner.html
> I'm looking forward to seeing this project mature as well as have some more layers build on top of it moving forward. I really wish the client offered synchronization or access across multiple devices. For now you have to try third party layers on top of Sia to accomplish this.

Yea I'd actually pick it up now and give it a try if it had this feature.
This is why professional reviewers and critics exist.
No, because any benefits it might have are not big enough to be dealbreakers.

Programming, unlike sport, isn't about one winner taking all. At least not on the level of individual programming skill.
Wow, Commando looks really similar to the Kui tool mentioned in a sibling comment [0]. Would you agree? Or was Commando only used for options / an alternate to flags?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22500032
Sure. The ones that come to my mind are little bit harder to translate though, because they rely on nuances in German grammar, but I'll give it a try.

To give a person grade A in their performance evaluation you would write:

Er erledigte seine Aufgaben stets zu unserer vollsten Zufriedenheit.

To give grade B you would just change one word slightly:

Er erledigte seine Aufgaben stets zu unserer vollen Zufriedenheit.

Both translate into English as:

He always completed his tasks to our complete satisfaction.

The difference is that in the first sentence the word complete (vollsten) is the superlative which makes as little sense in German as it makes in English and is grammatically incorrect.

Grade C would be expressed like this:

He completed the tasks assigned to him to our complete satisfaction.

Here the word always is missing.

Another positive example would be:

His behaviour towards superiors, colleagues and customers always set an example.

Here the order of superiors, then colleagues and then customers is vital.

EDIT: I guess the first example could be translated literally like: "He always completed his tasks to our completest satisfaction." I didn't write that above because I think vollsten in German doesn't sound nearly as bad as completest sounds in English, at least to my ESL ear.
The shelf is made of a durable real-looking wood laminate!
That's because there's a popular musical artist called DDG with tens of millions of streams, because guided missile destroyers are designated DDG by the US military and NATO, and because not many people refer to DuckDuckGo as DDG.

If I search for "Alternatives to Google Search," I do see DuckDuckGo, including answers to questions like "Is DuckDuckGo Better than Google," with the answer being yes, it is.

If I search for "duck search", Duck Duck Go is the first option. If I search for "Privacy Search Engine", DuckDuckGo is the fourth result.

I don't think there's any conspiracy here.
it depends: that isn't true in san francisco, FYI.
Yep working fine here on ‘full’ keto (not sure what other kind there is) Depends what you want from your weight training. I enjoy it but I’m not trying to get massive gains.
Because we've tried Teams?

Seriously, though, I don't love any chat app that much. They're useful in some circumstances, but they can easily devolve into a horrific time-suck. People use them for important info that ought to go in emails, for example. Or hammer channels with loads of chaff and the occasional critical wheat kernel, so that you have to waste time on them looking for the latter.

These days, I check mine once a day. I guess that's equivalent to having someone xerox a website for me, but I get a lot more done that way.
S3 max single object size is 5TB. The 5GB limit is for single part upload API. You can use the multi-part API to upload single object in multiple parts.
I hope you cut that client lose. If they'll do something like that on the POC they'll do it on the big contract and in numerous other ways. You'll have to double-check everything with a client like that and not be able to trust them. Life's too short to put up with that.
If you view the icons it shows the CSS you can add yourself to have just that icon, or a link to import just that one icon via their site.
World-wide? It doesn't. In US? it does. Also once Google will obey to out Signal from their store, usage will decrease (and is not a wide usage currently to begin with).

Short-term effects? Power back to surveillance / power grabbers. They don't care about CSAM, they care about money/power.

Long-term effects? Like dark web, Signal (or something similar) will be used mostly by criminals, so EARN IT will fail it's "honorable" goal 100%, while achieving its hidden goal (strip privacy from ordinary citizen).

Also this will accelerate Splinternet. The future looks bleak, welcome to it.
I agree with all of this (no wonder since Thomas' opinions and mine largely come from the same place), but dark horses like Kelby Ludwig's canonicalization bug make me even happier if I can outsource that infrastructure to a vendor, perhaps exacerbated since I'm also an infrastructure-focused person.

I'm not all starry-eyed about Cognito, but I know the next libxmlsec1 0day isn't my problem. (Except of course that probably is because some clients don't have Cognito :-))
recently tried it out as well, and i'm really impressed [especially with the ability to import highlights from instapaper and the kindle clippings file]
This isn't a new project. It's been around for many years.
No, I think it's a bit ridiculous to assume that everyone would be microdosing or that it provides such a massive competitive edge such that the drawbacks of microdosing are outweighed.
Yep. I get so tired of the "Shark Tank Template" in which entrepreneurs must pretend that they stumbled upon the need their product fills.
If anyone on the team is reading this post, please answer this question.
How did they go from 8 SATA ports to 32 SATA devices? The linked cable uses a SAS host/connector. Was a SAS card left out of the parts list?
It sounds like they're intentionally forgoing backup power and UPSs, as well as 24/7 staffing. However, you're right that this is probably pretty optimistic.