skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In the paper, Zabelina differentiates “convergent” from “divergent” thinking. The former is defined as seeking a specific solution to a problem, for example, the “correct” answer. The latter is characterized by idea generation where a large set of apt, novel or interesting responses would be suitable. Caffeine was shown to improve convergent thinking in the study, while consuming it had no significant impact on divergent thinking.

Yeah, this was a bit was odd. IMO, problem solving begins with 'divergent' thinking and only later converges toward a, or the, solution. A study like this hinges upon how variables like'divergent thinking' were quantified, and there were no examples given of how they tested for either style of thinking here.
My only issue is with some of the operators. Sometimes they break the results in really weird ways.
Does that bring up Startpage results?
At first I thought US numbers were ridiculously wrong out of poor accounting but it is becoming increasingly obvious there is a massive coverup from the top down of the administration.

They are likely waiting for tests to be privatized so then they can claim numbers can't be released because they are private.

Except deaths will be recorded, so this is going to backfire badly, ie. there will only be 1000 tests but 1000+ people will have died. The numbers are going to explode at some point, especially in Washington State
This is _by far_ my biggest issue with DDG. I've been trying to use it for most of my searching and I'm fine with having to append '!g' to ~25% of my searches, it's not ideal, but whatever, I can manage.

Having to append 'uk' to 90% of searches after the first results page is full of useless American shit, for search terms that Google UK handles flawlessly, gets old, very quick.
Yes, and a depressing number of lottery winners end up poorer than they started within a few years after burning through all their winnings and then going into debt to support their new lifestyle. Easy come, easy go.
> The initial dataset I was planning to use was Google street views

Does the Google Streetview license allow this? It could become a derived dataset of a licensed database.

https://www.mapillary.com/datasets is in a similar business. They have pre-labelled datasets but also work with developers and researchers to create more labels. There's https://www.mapillary.com/app/marketplace to submit tasks.
FYI, 3 million TB is enough to store 1 copy of the data that transfers over the Internet in the US for about a 15 month time span. It's not enough really, because in addition to the Internet data, they'd have to be storing cell phone data and potentially other sources of information plus all the metadata needed to organize it into something useful.

More importantly, sorting through that amount of data to find anything is nearly impossible, even if you have 65MW of servers running. Even the entire Amazon cloud would have difficulty, simply because of the scale of the problem.

So yeah, they're storing a lot of data compared to the average corporation, but not compared to the amount that exists nor are they storing all data that gets transferred. It's just too much.

From a certain point of view, there's less surveillance going on than you might think, simply because collecting everyone's information all the time is impractical to do and pretty useless.
> What boosts creativity?

For me, anything that makes me a little tired so my thoughts wander. Sitting down after a hard workout for example. Another is that time at the end of the day where I worked hard so I'm a bit tired, but I'm not so tired that it's time to sleep yet. I also have to allow it to happen. Sitting down in front of the PS4 or on my phone is not going to let my mind wander.
How about weight training and low carb and sometimes IF? Would weight training prevent age related effects within the brain? Also you can't go full keto if you also want weight training, imo.
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Yeah, seems like a major flaw to tbh.

> Typically, the onset of symptoms starts 12 to 24 hours after caffeine cessation, peaks at 20–51 hours, and may last up to two to nine days.

> The severity of symptoms vary from individual to individual, and most commonly include a headache, fatigue, decreased energy/activeness, decreased alertness, drowsiness, decreased contentedness, depressed mood, difficulty concentrating, irritability, and feeling foggy/not clearheaded

> The incidence or severity of symptoms increased with increases in the daily dose, but abstinence from low doses, such as about one small cup of coffee per day, also produced symptoms of withdrawal.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430790/
Lots of people on ketogenic diets are losing weight. The process of losing weight will naturally increase your cholesterol.

You're right, there are different views on this topic, in particular in the types of cholesterol elevated and decreased.
Not GP, and my setup is a great deal less sophisticated than GP's.

However, in my `.bashrc`, I have:

log_bash_persistent_history()
{
[[
$(history 1) =~ ^\ *[0-9]+\ +([^\ ]+\ [^\ ]+)\ +(.*)$
]]
local date_part="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
local command_part="${BASH_REMATCH[2]}"
if [ "$command_part" != "$PERSISTENT_HISTORY_LAST" ]
then
echo $date_part "|" "$command_part" >> ~/.persistent_history
export PERSISTENT_HISTORY_LAST="$command_part"
fi
}

# Stuff to do on PROMPT_COMMAND
run_on_prompt_command()
{
log_bash_persistent_history
}

PROMPT_COMMAND="run_on_prompt_command"
HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "
alias phgrep='cat ~/.persistent_history|grep --color'
alias hgrep='history|grep --color'

This doesn't save all of the information like the current shell, working directory, etc... but you could easily modify it to include that information. It also doesn't do all of the context-aware piping, you have to rely on grep. But just having a really good persistent history is itself insanely useful.

My setup was itself stolen from someone else on HN a few years ago, and I've since forgotten their name.
You probably don't need company cards anyhow, as you can probably tie your normal cash card to the company.

And if they can track it for the people that want that, they can track you.
As an N of one, I present my situation:

Since mid-January this year I have been fasting intemittently. I have zero calories before 5PM, and I am usually in bed by 10. I exercise most weeks between 4 and six days, but only two or so are "vigorous" for me. My workouts are mid-day.

When I eat, I eat normally for me, which is lower carb and higher protein, but not (knowingly) keto or anything.

I have lost about 10 pounds.

I just got my blood lab results, and they are the worst numbers I have ever seen. Highest fasting glucose (borderline diabetic, a rise of 14 points or so from memory), highest cholesterol (doc's gonna make me take meds if it doesn't come down).

I've done this before, but wouldn't I would "only" wait until 2, and I got bad (but not this bad) results as well. I decided to try again, making my eating window truly shorter, but alas...

I was devastated by the results. Total bummer.
I don't think it was possible to automate anything in 2.14K+ADE (that was before AutoLISP), and its 3-D support was almost nil, let alone CSG.
I moved away from Chrome and Google about 6 months ago.

There are two places where I find DDG to be better:

- when I know specifically what page/site I am looking for, but don't know the address

- when I am looking for results that are heavily monetized (like, say, which pedal steel guitar amp might be suited to my project)

I still find myself using g!, especially when the first couple of results for, say, a cryptic log message or esoteric programming term aren't giving me what I want.

If I know it's a hard to search term, or a specific image result, I will just default to g!

But even if, say, 60% of the time I'm using g!, I still feel better because I feel like DDG is a less "creepy" system and using it as a default at least leaves some amount of a hole in one company's records of my activities. (admittedly, that's a goofy and questionable reason).
Pecans and other high-fat nuts are great for snacking, too.
I cannot say that it isn't recommended, because recommendations are quite diverse. But I haven't seen that recommendation before.

Orthodox nutritionists would definitely advice against ketosis, potentially they may be fine with fasting-induced ketosis every once in a while (depends a bit on how they were trained).

People who embrace a low-carb ketosis-inducing diet (aka "Keto diet") or embrace multi-day fasting don't consider it harmful really. For fasting there are of course certain limits but not due to ketosis but for other effects of not eating (refeed effect, general weight-considerations, etc. but there have been overweight people successfully fasting for months under supervision).
This kind of conspiratorial thinking blows my mind. The claim is: big ag, with all their grain production, wants Americans to eat lots of grains, and corrupts government agencies to recommend such diets. The real healthy diets include lots of “protein” (meat), but “they don’t want you to know”...

What’s incredibly absurd about this is: where do you think the vast majority of the farmed grain goes? Feeding the cows, chickens, and pigs providing your “high protein” diets. If these “big ag” businesses did have any sway or disinformation campaigns, they’d absolutely be pushing the “eat more meat” narrative.

There’s no conspiracy. There aren’t any u-turns in nutritional science. The USDA guides are almost completely identical to WHO nutritional guides, and the guides for virtually every other modern country. Lots of whole grains, fruits, vegetables. Limit sugars, salt, and fats. As Michael Pollan says: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That’s pretty much it. We complicate things so much with fear mongering and conspiracy thinking.
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I've been a DDG booster for a while. Their search results are usually good enough. Except after longer use I've found two major issues that eventually forced me back to Google:

1. I can Image Search the most basic of terms and literally get "No Results Found" once or twice a day. Sometimes I'll get like... 8 photos.

2. I will weirdly get the Wikipedia link for a relevant query, but the British or Spanish or some other version often isn't even in English. And I do have "Canada" toggled on.
This is a wiki that only serves user-agents that are capable of executing JavaScript. Weird.
Yeah classic case of lying with graphs. First graph looks like a huuuge win, but it's 79 vs ~83, a 5% reduction in runtime.
I use DDG, but do not currently recommend it to others. I think you still have to be cautious about the results it surfaces b/c it doesn't have the same anti-spam mechanisms in place that Google has. For instance, I recently searched for holding mail for the USPS and the first result was a scam site that looked pretty convincing. So, I like the idea of DDG but still do not fully trust it.
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I switched over from Google to DDG back in 2013 and never looked back. I use it heavily on a day to day basis ranging from obscure java error messages for my job to just general searches and once in a great while I have to throw a !g in front of the search, but that's really it.
I find DDG works for most purposes but I sometimes have to use !s to get meaningful results; even with very specific search terms such as a part number. These days I rarely find a need to use !g but it does happen a few times a week.
Please teach me how to use DDG, as I’m clearly missing something. I’m happy to switch to a service that provides better results in exchange for a bit more effort in constructing search queries, but the results I get for that effort really do need to be better.

The only specific advise I’ve ever seen is “use !g if you don’t get good results the first time”, which really isn’t encouraging.
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While several people refer to gluconeogenesis, to the best of my knowledge we _can_ make glucose from protein, but rarely do in practice. I have yet to see anyone convincingly show that we do.

Also check out diet doctors take on it which refers to actual studies.
"Does protein adversely affect blood sugar?" https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/protein
This is the trick. Google got good at letting people search using 'natural' language. DDG is just a bit different. In some ways, I think it's better because my results are more specific in a lot of cases. I look up a lot of academic stuff where Google has the tendency to feed me a lot of garbage that DDG doesn't.
Startpage is in bed with an advertising company.
The title of this thread is "Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions", and this comment thread delved into cloud SAAS providers with a flat org structure.

Steam/valve was brought up because they have a successful cloud SASS model with no subscriptions oand a flat org structure.

Xbox live has a subscription fee since day 1, is maintained by MS (the definition of "non-flat organizational structure"), and is vendor locked. Not even remotely comparable.
One could ask that you provide clear examples of searches that don't work right for you, then maybe we can provide advice.
The UK is really weird in this regard, things like ID cards were massively rejected as far too authoritarian but we also have a government that wanted to bring in an insane internet restrictions. I think it comes of not having had a revolution in our recent history, much of Europe has the Nazis or Soviets in living memory to inoculate against trusting the government too much, our last experiment with overthrowing the government was Cromwell in the 17th century and he imposed a regime so austere and repressive we reverted back to a monarchy (albeit a constitutional one) and have stayed that way since.
I agree that it's probably not a 100% accurate picture, but if you included in the "known cases" every single person who stayed home out of paranoia because they had a stuffy nose, then you'd have the opposite problem of numbers being bloated and overblown. The media is already chomping at the bit to sow fear and paranoia in exchange for views, I'm ok with looking at data with the understanding that it's probably underrepresented versus data that is probably just a complete guess. In an ideal world, yes, every single hospital would have thousands of test kits on hand to test everyone but we aren't there yet.
“My mum was kidnapped by Hitler's SS“
This is a pithy statement belies the complexity of nutrition. Besides, researchers that linked heart disease to dietary fat didn't recommend that sugar be substituted in. And the diet heart hypothesis seems alive and well today; lowering blood cholesterol and saturated fat consumption is what health practitioners still recommend today.
I wish DDG all the best but for me, "good enough" isn't enough. I don't care about tracking so that isn't a real incentive for me either. I use Bing for my main search because they bribe me with points I can use to buy Amazon gift cards. It regularly isn't good enough so I regularly end up at google.

I want more competition in search so I'm glad people use DDG but it isn't for me yet
Agreed, if you run FreeNAS at home you are likely to be subscribed to /r/homelab. That’s not to say it’s impossible for a non-technical user to deploy and manage it, but it will have a learning curve consumer and prosumer gear doesn’t.
Similar. DDG just wasn't quite as good, and Google is getting too sleazy.
I lack the energy to be effective when working out

I found that I cramped, also. Eating 1/2 apple immediately before working out seemed to do the trick.
I don’t understand why this would make any difference regarding their ability to abuse push notifications for ads.
For my understanding this is mostly attributed to insuline resistance vs sensitivity. As you get older and overexposed to sugar, your resistance raises and in order to reverse a lot of the internal inflammations your body has produced from over-intake of sugar you need to force ketosis and burn calories with a low-carb diet.
This in turn helps reduce internal fat and repair organ functions, fundamentally restoring hormone production and refreshing your brain as well.

It does not mean that carbs in general are toxic, nor that this diet is recommended for everybody!
Diets are very personal, it just becomes more and more common because sugar is added everywhere, people are getting older and older and obesity is a global problem. As such, most people are very insulin resistant and work better with low-carb/high-fat diets.

This headline is one of the reasons there is so much misinformation in food and diets
I've never made a Facebook account because I haven't wanted to agree to their data collection practices, terms of service, privacy policy, etc. How can I see what they have on me without agreeing to those things? (At minimum they should have records of their attempts to recruit me as an employee, but I never initiated those and never proceeded beyond a polite "no thanks" email reply.)

I don't get the benefit of GDPR or CCPA since I live in Quebec, Canada rather than the EU or California. But, I wonder if there's a way for me to send a request based on Canadian or Quebec privacy law, since they do have an office and plenty of users here in Quebec? Or have they effectively firewalled that stuff off from whatever entity controls or processes the data?
Since the next Xbox and Playstation will have the same architecture as the current generation (AMD CPU + AMD GPU), not having backwards compatibility would be a surprise.
Pentagon plans to digitize world's largest disease-related data repository
I don't like that stuff in Google, so I'm fine with DDG not over-doing it. Wikipedia overview is fine, but the many widgets just get in the way IMO. If I want a map I go on maps. If I want reviews I go on a review website.

Like if I type "apple" on Google search the only web result I get is apple.com, everything else is taking with tangentially related widgets: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=apple

Special points for the IMO completely useless "people also search for" widget.

DDG tones it down a lot more: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=apple&ia=web

Here without scrolling I can see potentially useful links to iCloud, Apple TV, Apple's support etc...

Back when I first used Google its main selling point was that it was lean and clean and with decent results. DDG is like that for me these days.
In a similar vein, there was kubenav https://github.com/kubenav/kubenav that was recently posted on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22381870
In my experience yes. But as I said, often the DDG is good enough.
Ketoacidosis is of course a medical condition and not something one seeks out.

Ketosis is fundamentally different, your bodies mode of metabolizing (body) fat in the state of fasting, which can also be provoked when eating a high-fat moderate protein and <20-30g carbohydrates diet.

And yes, asking a physician may be a good idea if you suffer under certain conditions. Sometimes it may be valuable to find a physician that has knowledge on keto-diets, because that's not really something every physician learns about as a dietary choice.
General day to day searches? DDG is great for me
Niche or deep dive searches? Still !g I'm afraid

Big plus is that DDG is getting better every month. Google seems to be getting worse (ads, fluff etc).
“The bad news is that we see the first signs of brain aging much earlier than was previously thought. However, the good news is that we may be able to prevent or reverse these effects with diet, mitigating the impact of encroaching hypometabolism by exchanging glucose for ketones as fuel for neurons.”

The alternation with ketosis as source of energy is key as it seems...

The brain’s response to diet was tested in two ways. The first was holistic, comparing brain network stability after participants had spent one week on a standard (unrestricted) vs. low carb (for example: meat or fish with salad, but no sugar, grains, rice, starchy vegetables) diet. In a standard diet, the primary fuel metabolized is glucose, whereas in a low-carb diet, the primary fuel metabolized is ketones. However, there might have been other differences between diets driving the observed effects. Therefore, to isolate glucose vs. ketones as the crucial difference between the diets, an independent set of participants was scanned before and after drinking a small dose of glucose on one day, and ketones on the other, where the two fuels were individually weight-dosed and calorically matched. The results replicated, showing that the differences between the diets could be attributed to the type of fuel they provide to the brain.
Of course this is anecdotal and should be taken as such. But I can completely get on board with Pollan's assertion. If I stop caffeine consumption for a few weeks. The day I go back on, even a single coffee puts me into a "oh wow where have you been all my life?!" energized mood of getting stuff done.
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I suppose it depends on what you picture in your mind when you say the word "tractor".

If you picture a simple vehicle with teeny-tiny wheels on the front and big wheels on the back, and Old MacDonald in overalls and a straw hat on a bucket seat then no, out-of-control tractors aren't a huge problem.

Of course, none of the "tractors" like that are locked out.

If you picture a gargantuan technological wonder weighing tens of tons, guided by GPS, with robotic arms and machine-vision guided implements and and an enclosed, air conditioned cabin that is the size of Old MacDonald's "tractor" by itself, then yes it is.

The dirty little secret of the farm equipment "right to repair" movement is that "Old MacDonald" farmers don't want the right to modify their farm equipment so that they can fix things when they break-- large corporate farmers want access to software tools so they can strip out emissions equipment and safety features to more cheaply operate their machinery and they're funding a fake "grassroots" movement to try and get their wishes.

All of these locks started about 10 years ago, about 10 years into the fully-computerized phase of farm equipment. Farmers were chipping and otherwise modifying their vehicles to increase horsepower, lower fuel usage, enable "dirty fuel", and circumvent emissions warnings. Engines and turbos were blowing left and right and the dealers and manufacturers were left on the hook to pay for things because the farmers would pay for service contracts, chip their harvester to get 10-25 extra h.p., blow the engine, take off the chip, and then send it in for repair with a sheepish "oh geez I have no idea what happened LOL" look on their face.

So the manufacturers starting locking everything up.
I'd love to add support for fish, but I have a hard enough time maintaining the zsh support.
Totally agree regarding IT effectiveness.

Outside of the tech sector, many businesses choose a saas product because they want IT to have nothing to do with it.

Outsourced IT can be difficult to work with (under statement), nearly as if they’re not on the same team...
It’s not about better results. It’s about good enough results without all the spying.