skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I just don’t want to think about how to move incredibly quickly around the computer. Easy point and click is all the effort I want to muster, sometimes.

Right. This is an important thing to note.

It takes a lot of mental energy to remember all of these things if they are not already imbued into your brain as effortless muscle memory. Sometimes that energy is better off spent solving the problem you're trying to solve. This is why after about a year of using Vim, I still use the mouse once in a while.

I remember once reporting a bug with the Microsoft Terminal (I use WSL 2 on Windows) on Reddit and when I mentioned mouse support didn't work inside of programs like Vim, it was the most down voted comment I ever created on any platform with swarms of folks saying I wasn't using the terminal as it was supposed to and that I must be an idiot for wanting to select text in Vim with a mouse.

Luckily they fixed the bug (it ended up being one of the highest priority bug fixes they had).
I used to enjoy working until about 3AM, and sleeping til noon. I definitely got the majority of my core productive work done in the hours between midnight and 3.

As I get older, it becomes less and less feasible though. I'm usually pretty zonked by midnight now, so I do most of my productive work in the evening.
We need all countries that send large numbers of their citizens into the rest of the world via jet airplane to stop the practice of eating bats and bush-meat and other endangered animals.
Help wanted for a new pretty printer and code editor
You can check out what is traced at https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/index.html

each volcano has its own page and tracking for seismic and other activity. usually green have very little to no updates on their page.
Aaaand the two halves don't line up in Safari, ruining the effect.

Figures.
Google got rich finding the information you wanted.
There's some fun to be had in working with the grammars, even if you've never done this kind of thing before. If you take a moment to clone the repository and have a look at the examples, you'll see that you are able to work with them directly.

I am especially interested in (and would be especially grateful for) contributions to the JavaScript grammar.Any contributions would be hugely appreciated, however.
That's fair, I overgeneralized.
to answer this question, simply look at tech debt - the analogy. you take debt to enable faster access to something.

in keeping with the analogy, every business has a different appetite for debt. the debt to equity ratio of your current position should keep you able to take on debt when you need to. the debt should never get so great that it cannot be paid down. being without debt is holding a position that doesn’t leverage your ability to take debt.
it would also be nice to just be able to click the tile for the listing and being taken to the site rather than having to click the title which is not apparent at first.
> Many have already done that.

Citation needed
One of the scenarios not mentioned is if you have a hilarious amount of RAM and little diskspace. I run with 1 GB of swap, VM swappiness set to 0 and 16gb of ram. I don't think I've ever gotten close to exhausting mem or even invoking oom. What real difference is made here? Is it just something I don't understand?
Does anyone here understand how it is that Bing is powering DDG?

Does DDG just generate lots of Bing searches and scrape the result? If so, why wouldn't MS block them?

Or did they strike some sort of deal? If so, how can that be in Bing's interest? They're just creating a Bing competitor, right? Given that Bing reasonably wants to be the #2 search engine, supporting a formidable competitor striving for the same spot doesn't sound like a winning strategy for Bing. Right?

What am I missing? :-)
Has anyone taken the offered training?

I'm pretty good with TLS, but could use more hands-on time with openssl and PKI, especially a deeper understanding of certificate chaining issues. Would be interesting to know if the training is targeted at "total beginner" or "intermediate looking to be advanced"
I did not realise that NDS is actually the News Datacom referred to by McCormac in European Scrambling Systems.
The wikipedia entry for them makes interesting reading.
I strongly agree, and have been involved in companies where "move fast and break things" was taken too far, and developer-years of effort was burned due to poor engineering investment. There is a time and a place for quickly hacking stuff together, but it has to be done with consideration. It is a short term gain, with a long term cost. If you are constantly breaking things, then you never get to MOVE ON. Good code is an investment. Invest in it, and let it create value - and build on that value - while you move onto the next thing.
> Meuh Meuh TV

That's it ! Thank you so much for the rabbit hole of memories i'm about to go in
Show HN: Chat with someone that follows similar people on Twitter
I think many people talk about it but from a different context. The NHS is being de-funded by the same politicians whose friends benefit from these deals. Hard to hire competent people when your budget keeps getting cut.
DuckDuckGo is good, I've used it for a few months at a time in the past.

Always end up switching back to Google because of local results (I live in the UK, DDG's results are very US-centric even when local results are turned on). Maybe it's gotten better recently. I've seen lots of billboards for DuckDuckGo recently around my hometown in Paisley, Scotland; not a very techie place so they're clearly trying to gain a reach!

I've been using Bing for the past few months and been quite happy with it, only switching to use Google for Maps results and the odd very niche query.

The bonus of Bing is that it pays you in supermarket shopping vouchers where Google doesn't. Sold!
PGPFone had a neat thing where it'd show each participant of a voice call a short string they'd read out loud, and then the crypto would use those for handshaking. MITM'ing voice, as part of a freeform conversation, especially between friends, is a lot harder.
Nice. More science/engineering-minded cooks should learn about this. A close second is the Leidenfrost effect[1]; it's the secret to cooking eggs properly without non-stick. Your omelettes will float on a bed of steam.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect
I fully grok monads. I’ve done enough reading and usage of them to understand them.

They are not a useful abstraction for programming. They’re mathematically correct, but that’s not the same as what an industrial engineer needs.

The big warning sign is monad transformers. Alone, monads are totally fine, but the issue is that you rarely want one. So you end up with this unwieldy tower of transformers that would make an enterprise Java engineer worried.
I use neither Windows nor VS Code if I can avoid it -- I prefer slower progress than getting orders of magnitude more features ahead of time, for giving up control I consider fundamental, because I feel that I'm well served by the tools that are available in the open source space. I don't achieve theoretical maximum productivity without tools like VSCode and all the things they might provide and it hasn't been a problem in my career yet.

It's totally fine for other people to be fine with the trade off, but for me VSCode is an incremental gain, not a huge absolute one -- maybe it will have some killer feature (or more likely some partner/employer will force it on me because it's the current zeitgeist and because of some custom plugin) that I'll need someday, but that day is not today.
> The main reason for the switch was one killer app; the i3 window manager. Keyboard shortcuts, tiled windows, lightning fast to use - it feels like a piece of software designed for people who tinker and use computers a lot.

If that's the main reason, how about yabai on Mac? https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

> The primary function of yabai is tiling window management; automatically modifying your window layout using a binary space partitioning algorithm to allow you to focus on the content of your windows without distractions. Additional features of yabai include focus-follows-mouse, disabling animations for switching spaces, creating spaces past the limit of 16 spaces, and much more.
Same on Mobile Safari
Defacto browser monopoly? What is Chrome's market/usage share?
I've been using DDG for a year now and don't miss Google. I feel like I often get worse results on Google as I have to sift through more ads and click bait.

The only thing I worry about, is if DDG gets too big, what stops them from becoming Google-like?
> design isn’t all about the way it looks, it’s about the way it works.

That's a dangerous thing to say, I think. Because the way it looks is the way it works.

A huge part of design is managing the prominence (and presence/absence) of various elements, so people understand what something does, and find it as effortless as possible to find and take the actions they want.

Prominence is managed by relative size, weight, hue, brightness, saturation, shadow, whitespace, opacity, ornamentation, vertical ordering, horizontal ordering, and so on.

All of those things are how it "looks".

Presence/absence is managed by hierarchy, expand, hover, etc.

All of those are also how it looks, by what's removed or shown.

I think I agree with where you're coming from, especially in your last paragraph. I'm just worried that your first sentence is easily misinterpretable as "as long as all the information is on the webpage, fonts/colors/spacing are mostly irrelevant".
I'm surprised about the comment on sway, because afaik the issue mentioned about a blurry chrome was fixed a while ago[0]. Maybe it's caused by something else...

[0] https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1481#issuecomment-6404...
Cool idea, but
(1) :hover excludes mobile users, maybe pick a more accessible event trigger? and (2) alignment issues
Many of these sorts of things we will push to an S3 bucket, and have other parts of the system pull from that bucket. We also use "rsync" with SSH keys to copy some data. Some of our vendors provide data to us via FTP, similarly it could be provided via HTTP

Maybe Zapier can help?
See also: "Rocket Propulsion Elements", by George Sutton. Now in its 9th edition.
We can fix the lining up issue by deleting the spurious <br/> tags in the DOM, but then a new issue emerges where once the animation is complete it snaps back to only showing the left half.
And the insight is that knowing what you want is as much about knowing you as it is about knowing what's on the internet.
Deeper dive on Serious Eats:
https://www.seriouseats.com/2017/04/what-is-maillard-reactio...
Self-hosting WordPress is a really bad choice in fact. Every self-hosted WordPress blog I follow in my RSS reader eventually becomes a content farm. The only way to not become a content farm is to use commercial hosting (WordPress VIP, WPEngine), but at that point, why are you using WordPress instead of Square or whatever?

If you're a developer, just build a static site. If you're not a developer, you're going to have to pay.
Ant level intelligence I'd be happy with. "Colony you may now clean up my kitchen table and do the dishes. Thanks"
Your oldies are better at reading cursive because cursive used to be read and written much more than it is today. It was the fastest way to write, and people had to use it a lot.

Typewriters first and computers later removed a massive amount of handwriting. Schools in some countries reacted by dropping cursive altogether, probably because they thought the effort to learn it was not worth it anymore.
As the author of the article, maybe I can explain why I think it’s a good example. I’ll just say - I absolutely could have chosen something that was more of a slam dunk great idea (in hindsight) with tons of follow-on success. I mostly chose it because the Rotary Rocket and SpaceShipOne sit next to each other in Mojave and got me thinking about this in the first place.

As you said yourself, it was a good design to win the prize. That to me is the key. It did everything it set out to accomplish. Your comments all relate to the scaled up SpaceShipTwo - a completely different vehicle - which I agree that the jury might still be out on. But to me, that’s like saying that a hang glider is a bad idea if someone tries to make a hang glider for ten people. Is it the hang glider that’s the bad idea or the fact that someone’s trying to scale something that maybe doesn’t scale well?

That it was the first private crewed spaceflight shouldn’t be underestimated either. I think this list of human spaceflights really puts it in context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_spaceflights

Thanks for reading and for your perspective.
Inverse problems are ill-posed, you cannot just invert the kernel, information is lost.
It's getting more blurred since the flue.

Remote work vs work from home vs vacation vs time off
Right, what I’m saying, using California UI as an example, is that it's possible that there are implementation-detail-based reasons that people do not choose direct deposit, especially the large surge of new filers in the present predicament who often also had delayed benefits and thus were more likely to have urgent immediate need.

The 30,000 foot view of a program often obscures important details; information on California UI I've seen also refers to how many choose direct deposit vs. choosing an ATM card, glossing over the details of the mechanics of how that works which is actually that everyone gets an ATM card, and some people, after getting it, redirect the funds to their bank, which only happens as direct deposit after the first time (and not really even then, IIRC, it still goes into the account tied to the card and then is immediately automatically transferred.)
"Impending" doom?

Devices from 10 years ago are _already_ useless online.

Not only are the root certificates completely expired, but let's see which protocols does an openssl 0.9.8 build from a decade ago have in common with, say, current Gmail's IMAPS server: NONE.
Yes, and unlikely to change unless USB4 spec mandate anything. And so far this doesn't seems to be happening.

i.e There is no real solution insight. And USB-C will remain the same for the next 3 - 5 years. And yet proponents are still defending it. It baffles me. Why cant we just admit mistakes and walk back to simple solution?
I assume they use the official Bing Search API and have a deal cut with Microsoft.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/bi...

DuckDuckGo also have their own indexer/crawler too.

Yahoo Search does a similar thing AFAIK.
> Pre-2016 will start dying though.

I guess, but my 2007 and 2010 laptops still work OK.
There are current telescopes that detect everything down to the universe thermal radiation, and a bit bellow. There's no place to hide there.
The Hundred Flowers Campaign
I do not use only open source software, there's definitely closed source software on my machine, nvidia gfx drivers for example.

But I am also not a full on fanatic -- the world is gray, not black & white (for me at least). Since I am familiar with popular good open source tooling in this space, I'm surprised others who might feel the same might compromise at this particular junction, and that was my knee jerk reaction.
I agree, but nothing that is smoking gun caliber where all scientists agree the genome is engineered. My point was merely casting the widest net on research possibly being to blame, which could include many more scenarios than bat bites and GOF experiments.
I just realised I hadn't actually answered your question.

I'd say about 80% of the websites remain usable, to varying degrees.

It's hard to say because I'm used to losing some functionality so I won't bother going to shadertoy for example, so my stats are skewed.
My key requirement is that you need to have things (processes, roles & responsibilities) setup to handle it.

I'm not arguing whether its good, or bad, to setup such a culture -- go ahead, I won't stop you; hell, I'll enjoy it. But things need to be setup to actually survive that model.

If things are not setup properly, and you try to enforce your hardline stance anyways, regardless of how it impacts your domain, then you are operating as very poor manager. You can't just randomly drop the ball like that -- if you want a strict 8-5 working culture, or a 100%-offline vacation culture, you need to do the preparation for it.

And if it can't be done, because of whatever local constraints, then it would be absurd to go forward with it anyways; then your goal should be to find some reasonable alignment with those constraints. The same way that a programmer can't simply decide that functional programming is THE ONE TRUE GOD, and inject haskell into everything when no one else knows it, and then rewrite everything, when no one else can participate.

You can't just go ahead with it randomly, and say it's not your responsibility (it's your domain: it is your responsibility), and really, its the FOUNDER's fault for allowing this situation to occur, I'm actually not involved anywhere in this -- because then the FOUNDER should, and hopefully will, execute according to his responsibility: replace you with someone who does realize he's responsible for his domain, and set things up to run efficiently/effectively within the culture he chooses to instantiate.

That is, from the corporate perspective, the culture really doesn't matter -- as long as it works. The criticized culture is simply the common, default, good-enough solution that works just about everywhere (and features the IBM property: no one gets fired for buying into it); another culture is fine, as long as you do the prep work for it.

But if you don't, and try to enforce it without preparing for the consequences (both to extract the good and mitigate the bad), then it's entirely your own failure.
Reminds me the Four Horsemen of classical music in movies:

- Chopin: Nocturnes Op 9

- Mozart: Requiem - Lacrimosa

- Beethoven: Sonata No 14 (aka Moonlight Sonata), 1st Movement

- Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody
If you're referring to a UK TV licence, it doesn't matter what kind of monitor you're using; it's about what you watch (live TV, whether over the air or online, or any use of BBC iPlayer). Watching TV via a computer and a dumb monitor still requires a licence.

https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one

(Edited to add: Conversely, merely owning a TV does not require a license; if you're only using it as a computer or gaming monitor, and not watching [online] TV programmes on it, you should be fine.)
Hmm, you're right. I wonder how people come up with the "modern hipster" names though :) Do they just name it after whatever sounds cool?

Funny you mention a Greek God, when my username is a Roman one :)
Good teams don't blame individuals. You can praise individuals, but you take blame as a team.

Hopefully at least two people reviewed the commit before it was put into production. Someone set up the post-launch smoke-tests/api-test-suits. Someone built the CI/CD-system. Etc etc.

My point is, it is rarely a single individuals fault when something at this scale goes down.
I've used Java in the enterprise plenty. Not a fan. And no, it's really never faster than properly written C/C++.

And no, the actual HFT stuff is written in C++.
This is a similar use case. I evaluated a bunch of free headless CMS and I really wanted to like Ghost, they even mentioned it's i18n ready, but it wasn't, at least not what I expected like having localized pages. Switched to Strapi following the video they had in the landing page (not the new one landing page, which I feel it lacks in "show don't tell", and it was a breeze, it just works. On my case I'm using Strapi + 11ty + Netlify.
Touch works for me due to :active.
Broken for me on Chrome, after the animation a portion of the lower right quadrant re-appears, flipped.
> Because the way it looks is the way it works.

You're thinking of visual design. That's obviously a significant part of a thing's design, but design is about so much more.
I have never had a problem getting liquid oxygen delivered in standard dewars to remote test sites. It is cheaper than bottled water.
Working from Home Saves the Average American $6k per Year
I've used DDG as my default search for both desktop and mobile for about a year now. It's good enough in a lot of cases, though I still find myself using Google for a lot of local searches and current events-related searches.
This is the actual tech, rather than a commercial solution:

https://w3c.github.io/network-error-logging/#introduction

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Network_Er...
The source doesn't explain how the data is acquired and really doesn't make any argument, it seems like astroturfing. Not spending money on garbage statistics, sorry.

Also what does gaming have to do with any of this? People who are older play sports too - so what?
Cool - what was the decision in that case?
But did you learn kanji without adhering to any particular stroke order?

I taught myself around 1000 characters and I found it impossible to learn to read them without learning to write them, which in turn relied on muscle memory. I’m pretty sure muscle memory plays a very important role for most learners.

I know that many young Japanese people rely on smartphones and other tech to avoid really learning kanji, but if anything that strengthens my point. It’s hard to learn to write them just by reading them, unlike English spelling for example.
It looks to be between 60-70% depending on what data is used.

https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
My guess is the companies DDG partners with (I believe Yandex and a couple others, in addition to Bing) need the revenue from such a deal, and probably consider the enemy of their enemy their friend. Google having a search monopoly hurts all search engines that aren't Google. So any search engine that cuts into Google's share is helpful to all of them.

I imagine Microsoft and friends are also still getting some idea what queries people making on DDG, if those queries are being forwarded to them to get results. Not user-correlated, and hence, nowhere near as valuable as if someone searched on Bing while signed into their Microsoft account. But it's probably got some general value to them on search behavior.
Every long form article begins with a single sentence! I'd read that if you wrote it.
Good luck with this - nice to see a UK rocket following the Black Arrow tradition of HTP + kerosene!

Have you thought about crowdfunding? I'd happily chuck in a tenner.
+ Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Jim Inhofe

https://nypost.com/2020/03/20/richard-burr-kelly-loeffler-ur...
Yet they can't keep Taiwan separate from China?
And many here are too young to remember the hellscape of competing search engines predating Google: Infoseek, excite, yahoo, altavista, etc.

Their poor experience and dubious practices likely spawned Google's internal motto: "don't be evil"
I'm pretty sure DDG is just using Bing's Web Search API https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...

I think they also use Bing to serve (and earn a commission on) Bing ADS too, but I don't see that documented in the Search API so it may be separate.
Athletic ability isn't intelligence. Intelligence may be a part of it (c.f. Wayne Gretzky's quote "skate to where the puck is going, not where it's been") but strength, speed, and stamina aren't.

Burmese pythons are way stronger than humans yet I doubt anyone would call them more intelligent. Mantis shrimp have way faster reflexes and their vision is way more sophisticated than ours yet they're not more intelligent as well.

There is a lot of debate over the definition of intelligence but one thing most definitions have in common is that it is general. A human being can play the piano, solve an integral, write a novel, compose a photograph, and many many more things. We do all of these things using the same "muscle", our brain. It turns out that some people's brains are faster at being able to learn all of these myriad tasks. That's all there is to it.