skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> contains sequences that appear to be artificially inserted.

When did 'appear to be' constitute proof?
The Tail at Scale Revisited
A. Go work at a growth stage startup, i.e. Series A or close to it. You can commit really hard to work here. Double down whenever you can. Parlay that into bigger roles later. Crucially, aim to grow continuously here, you're trading off cash for growth so you have to get the growth.

B. Work at a FAANG. You'll get serious dollars. Use that to build long runway. Run company later or just FIRE yourself to peace.

Don't waste time on rinky dink stuff right now.
You could argue that the quality of the web itself has declined in much the same way. SEO is a billion dollar industry with the singular goal of analyzing everything search engines do to push whatever crap they want to run ads on.

As Google is the market leader, every website is optimized for its ranking. Much like leading operating systems have the most malware issues.

Many people on HN complain that blogs and personal websites aren‘t prioritized in results anymore compared to bigger news sites. I imagine it‘s incredibly difficult to separate legitimate, trustworthy posts from useless blog spam and agenda/conspiracy-pushing crap in a reliable automated way.
How does it differ from pyro?
Unsupervised Translation of Programming Languages
$30/10,000 Bing searches seems like a lot of money for DDG to pay, and from what I read below, Google is even more so.

Would ad revenue for 10,000 interactions actually offset this cost for DDG?
Does your family have a lot of money?

Yes: Do risky things that offer a high reward.

No: Do stable thing that offer good constant pay with sensible career path.
That would be like telling the punchline first, then the joke.

The folded-in view is the surprise.
Top Web development trends to watch in 2020
> for a steal perhaps since they have the ability to tighten the screws.

You think they don't have some tight contractual relationship with built in renewals and extensions? This is really similar to how corporations lock up retail real estate locations. They don't sign a 1 or 2 or even 5 year lease and then hope the landlord doeesn't rake them over the coals when there is no where else to go to. (Which could often be the case..) You build in renewal options as part of the deal. Those can last a long long time. May even have (probably does) a 'right of first refusal' and so on.
In the time since I was last active on Wordpress, the ads have gone from barely there to "I don't like this".

I suspect for active users that they boiled this frog slowly, but to me it is not acceptable. Unfortunately running servers for free is also not acceptable.

I think the tech community needs to discover Co-ops. That we haven't already I blame in part on our aversion to hobbies, which is where most of my exposure comes from.
I'm always blown away when I encounter someone who browses the web without an ad blocker. There's a better way, man!
Are you referring to ontology[1] and Semantic Web[2]? Did you take a look at https://schema.org/, particularly https://schema.org/Product. Practically all ecommerce websites use it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
I don't think anyone can define what it means to "succeed at your life" other than you.

Is more money important to you? It's OK if it is. From your #1, it doesn't seem like it is that important.

Everyone has a different meaning for success and everyone has a different path to it. What makes you happy? What do you wake up excited to do?
I remember that being my favorite search engine over 20 years ago. . . Crazy it's still around.
As a PhD student, I don't have enough experience working with Haskell in an industrial context to comment on the engineering concerns. I believe you when you say that these things are all problems. However, I'm aware that at least some solutions are underway. For example, the shake library [1] is a nice way to set up competent, reproducible build systems.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/shake
What are the words used as a replacement?

Although I don't know the origin of whitelist and blacklist (i.e. why the good one is white and the bad one is black), I don't care if someone asks for me to stop using those terms because they feel offended. Sounds like a small compromise on my side.

However, I disagree on the master vs slave understanding. Slavery is a concept that exists without our sociological legacy. We cannot understand our history without acknowledging slavery. And it's a useful concept to describe the relationship between systems that behave like a master and a slave.

My 2 cents :)
Naming Things Properly
> it's perfectly tailored to using a brush.

It isn't just using a brush; even with a pen and paper simple hiragana is easier when using proper stroke order.

> The teacher should respect English conventions

The teacher is following Japanese culture conventions to teach people of the Japanese culture a different language. People unfamiliar with the culture or the teacher should respect that.
I work in the search engine space. Pretty much everyone is either Google or Bing under the hood, including DuckDuckGo. Deals are made on ad revenue shares generally. If I recall correctly DuckDuckGo just monetizes on product affiliate links though.

Fun fact: DuckDuckGo used to use Yahoo, but Yahoo just has a deal with Bing. In other words, DuckDuckGo paid Yahoo, to pay Bing, to deliver Bing search results. :)
Aren’t psychedelics extremely likely to cause psychosis in users?
I wonder how Metromile's numbers compares to theirs.
No idea what problems you have, but I have been using encryption heavily since it got enabled by default.
And I have never had any issue with it - even the transfer of encryption keys in the background to verified 3rd party clients worked like a charm.

But, also this experience may not have been possible before may (when they released a big update with e2ee by default).
If you're considering organic growth of a component of network effect, they definitely do have that. I used Lemonade and had a great experience, including a claim, and recommended it to a dozen of my friends who signed up as well
The career path that enables you to have the most fulfilling life.

You only get one life - if you're not spending it doing what you enjoy or are passionate about, you're wasting it. Decide what you want to do or accomplish with your limited time in this mortal coil, and then make a plan which allows you to meet those goals.

This decision is personal and exists entirely outside of the economy and your role in it. Your career only comes into play when you need to make money to meet your goals, then you have to figure out the balance between working and living and make sure that the work supports the living. The perfect career is one which directly supports your life goals by virtue of being paid to get the most out of life, by making a career out of something you're passionate about. Don't fall for the propeganda that would have you be satisfied with a corporate wage slave life simply because it "feels right". Become a corporate wage slave because it enables you to meet your goals, not because it is a goal in and of itself - but if you can manage it, try to skip or minimize the wage slave step and accomplish your goals directly.

In short, think about your life before you think about your career, and use your conclusions to frame your thinking around your career.
Resident Set Size, a value reported by programs like top/htop with amount of physical RAM used by process.
Nice. Do any of those support 100+Hz frame rate or Freesync?
Here are a few good starting points:

- https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_career_planning_part0.html

- https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful

- http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html

- https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936

- https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/12/18/your-money-or-you...

- What should I do with my life? Po Bronson [Book]
I found useful general career advice on https://80000hours.org which I can highly recommend to study.
are you on matrix.org?
could have been the issue - but they should appear at a later moment, though
Galaaz: A system for tightly coupling (Truffle)Ruby and R
There's a lot of fun to be had today with broken OTA encryption on video content, if you have the land area to put up a C-Band satellite dish.

[1]: https://www.lyngsat.com/hd/america.html

[2]: http://colibri.bplaced.net/powervu.htm
i think the name for that is hostage?
This might be what you wish was the standard, but it really isn't. If anything is “the de facto standard” it’s WordPress, which runs about 30 percent of the web. A tiny proportion of primarily tech-related businesses and a lot of developers use markdown and git.

Most people who write and publish on the web, including professional writers, do not know Markdown and have never heard of git.

As someone who works in marketing and publishing, I can tell you that it is enough of a struggle to stop writers using Word—plain text and git are unthinkable for most of them.
> there is not a laptop which runs Linux out of the box where tinkering won't be necessary.

Hp x360 requires zero fiddling, works out the box.

Dell precision 5570 requires zero fiddling, works out of the box.

Samsung Chronos 7 requires zero fiddling, works out of the box.

Every laptop in the past 6 years worked with Linux straight out the gate. Including acpi sleep, graphics acceleration, and wireless networking. Compare that to spending 8 hours last night trying to get windows 10 to run on a 7 year old system
I'd argue that a virus that can kill 500,000 (probably way more) people in a matter of months is a pretty big threat, and thats with most world economies shut down and actively trying to contain it. Imagining the damage that it could do without those containment strategies in place world wide, is why I'm convinced it is.
Two interesting things I've noticed about Google lately (as a logged in user in Norway):

- less breaking news stories (I realized this the other day as I was looking for a breaking news story that would typically have been at Google a year ago, with link to local newspapers, but I cannot say exactly when this change happened since I mostly left Google behind as default search engine a good while ago. )

- more relevant search results when I search for technical content. The last two or three months search results has actually been improving for me for the first time since probably somewhere between 2007 and 2009
When you can afford it, I would hire a UX designer with a strong portfolio of usable/accessible design projects that knows how to interpret behavioral analytics into improving the UX over time as the company adds new features.

If you can spend money on marketing, you cannot afford to not spend money on ensuring the UX is working for your users and to get insight into if poor design is the reason behind not performing as expected for your bottom line.

Pro-tip: UX is NOT UI (there are a lot of off the shelf design systems that make designing UI trivial e.g. Salesforce lightning design system, material design, etc. - hire someone who is a UX design generalist until you can afford specialists - UX designers/researchers).
I once accidentally left privoxy open on one of my Linux servers and misconfigured ACL. A couple hours later it started getting hit with loads of traffic. A Google search quickly revealed that my ip:port ended up on several “free proxy” lists. They probably found it on Shodan or something. I quickly fixed acl to drop the traffic, but IIRC my server persisted on the free proxy lists for a couple days afterwards.

That was the first hand experience that confirmed my suspicions of what those “free proxies” really are.
My TP-LINK Wifi-N router bought in 2010 still works nicely on latest OpenWRT and I assure you it runs software more up to date than 99% of closed firmware devices currently on the market.
Open-source firmware is a way to go to stay current and to avoid producing more electronic waste.
Gallium oxide transistor can withstand over 8k volts
This talk (from 2011 but still very relevant today) mentions some if the licensing and other issues package maintainers have to face:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRk97h1FLow
Oh, sure! In that case, mission accomplished with flying colours :)
Markdown is an imperfect trade-off. It is the best readable/writable format that transpiles to HTML5, IMHO.
Few random thoughts:

1. Most people’s answers to questions like this tend towards “Here’s what I did, you should do it, too”

2. If you want to have a family in your 30s, you might feel a strong pull to optimize for money then. So optimize for learning and fun and risk in your 20s.

3. Working at (effective) larger organizations is nice training of best practices, process, communication, and professionalism

4. Working at a larger organization yields a big network that you can pull on for the rest of your career for interesting opportunities

5. Working at small startups is nice training for hustling, getting stuff done, and learning a lot by dint of doing a lot

6. Doing your own startup is #4, only moreso.

7. The best financial return is generally a pre-IPO that looks very likely to go public or reach liquidity soon. They tend to pay closer to market salaries and hand out equity relatively generously (ymmv)
I doubt blurring faces on photos you take helps much in hiding your identity from the government.

In events like these, they likely have access to quite a few image sources that do not blur faces.

So, given an image with blurred-out faces, they can look in those sources for images showing persons with similar skin color, hair, length, and clothing to the person(s) they’re interested in, and from there find your face.

If they are willing to make an effort, even individuals may be able to do that, using photos that people who don’t blur faces upload to the internet.
No, but the only way to get a post to the front page of HN these days is to discreetly ask a bunch of your friends to upvote it. And people with high karma are probably people who tend to have other friends who are also HN readers and who they can ask for upvotes.

As much as this probably isn't the fair system we all want, it's what the system's optimization encourages today.

Try posting something SUPER interesting, staying quiet and not telling anyone. It's almost guaranteed not to make it to the front page.

Although I don't encourage this, with the current algorithm, you could probably even prevent others' from getting their work on the front page by posting it ahead of time. When they try to post it they'll get a duplicate link but it's already stale and past its upvote-to-front-page life, which is probably about 30-60 minutes.
Any news on supporting Alpine Linux with wheels?
DuckDuckGo has been absolutely atrocious for me. Searches that Google can absolutely nail, DDG returns results where the right thing isn't even on the front page.

I tried to pretend like I cared more about privacy than results but the god's honest truth is I don't. I want the results I want and Google provides them.
There's both a time lag and the influence of manipulative product offerings. "Revealed preference" is just code for exploitation of vice.
Choosing a blogging host isn't the main obstacle for most people; it is writing consistent, high-quality articles.

Focusing on writing well and building an audience is the most important thing while starting out.

n.b.: I've been writing at https://reframing.substack.com/ for the past 5 weeks.
“Pain Is the Only School-Teacher”
I don’t think he addresses the real problem of where to blog of where and how to blog so that readers actually find you.

Generating a Wordpress blog is easy compared to figuring out how to actually get it discoverable. I think that’s what a lot of these blog service providers are missing is some sort of way to find content being generated on their hosting platform.
I read that as "for each day or protests," not "each day going forward."
Carbon steel is stamped, cast iron is cast. Back in the day they used to polish them completely smooth but don’t anymore due to the labor involved. I used to use a seasoned cast iron pan and the carbon steel is massively more nonstick.
Then they either need to tolerate less than 100% availability for those functions or hire more people.
Flutter Local Database Sqlite and MVVM
What's a "non-artistic developer"?

I think:

1) Design is like a muscle, you can always develop it

2) Digital experiences [1] are all around us! And they play a more pivotal role in our lives as time goes on.

So, hit the gym (practice) & with time everyone can improve.

[1] As the https://mintdata.com founder here, I'm highly biased -- I'm not a designer but certainly aspire to improve along this dimension.
I would have bet on an ebola variant. It's extremely deadly and about as transmissible as you can get for something that generally doesn't spread through coughing or sneezing. Fortunately it doesn't have the long incubation/asymptomatic period of Covid-19, which turned out to be the key to its success.
In very much the same way currently used antidepressants can trigger schizophrenia and other related, latent disorders in users?
> I know quite a few people who do great research in the industry with only a BSc degree.

But what kind of recognition do they get? I know somebody who worked at some really good labs for ~10 years and did great work. He co-authored a couple of Nature (?) papers of which he did most of the work and writing. But ultimately with a BSc you're just a lab tech and nobody takes you seriously.

OTOH, that person just finished his Ph.D at Harvard but this is pretty much the end of the road for him--I don't think he's keen on navigating the cut-throat world of academia or commercial research.

It's kind of a lose-lose. If you love basic research, no recognition and you're stuck following orders. If you want recognition and some autonomy, you're stuck playing politics.
I see. My last work experiences have been introducing devops workflows into companies that already had a decent tech body (~200 people) and the traditional divide between IT/Dev.

I think the approach I mention ends up being a good compromise from both sides. If I were starting a company from scratch I would certainly consider it differently.
...wouldn't that be $12 billion that Apple has to poach MS engineers with, then?
> USB-C might be rated for 10k or whatever insertions, but it is quite a bit weaker than USB-A.

Is it? My sense is that USB-A ports just don't see many insertion cycles. If you go to say, a library PC where the USB-A ports are seeing a dozen insertions per day, they lose any grip or friction after a couple years.
Sure, given that the point is merely to respond to those who claim many absolute allegiances.
I think that's the correct conclusion. ;-)
Not the OP but if you're interested in my take -- I've been freelance ops/devops in/around europe for around 10 years;

I would say it's not so feasable as a junior unless you really can hit the ground running which only comes with experience, at least in ops. Most clients expect me to be productive within about a week of landing if not less, otherwise they would have found a permie. They also expect senior freelance people in such a space to be making or helping to make a lot of decisions for them, which is hard to do until you've made enough mistakes to learn what not to do, instead of just knowing the latest doo-daa or other.

Finding work isn't hard, you register with a few agencies (e.g hays, linuxrecruit, etc etc and then they farm your CV out to their clients, and then you interview and start working.. I've never spent more than a week looking for a new contract)

As for the amount of work -- endless, at least in devops...

Currently I am working as a senior devops/sre for a startup, k8s, cloudy stuff, big springboot stack (50 or so services across 10 instances, etc) -- I do the same work as the full time staff, mgt treats me as slightly more senior/more votes than those because I am really, but you have to walk a bit of a political line sometimes.

Any questions feel free :}
Well, not user-correlated via traditional means. DDG is proxying user queries over to MS, but unless they're taking steps to actively fuzz the queries, there's all kinds of secondary signal MS could possibly be sampling out by correlating queries across time (especially since DDG also vends Microsoft-provided ads in the sidebar; it's unclear what signals MS is receiving about a user's session from DDG via server-to-server communication, or how MS might correlate that data. If MS vends an ad and the user clicks through, and MS gets signal that the user clicked on the ad from DDG, MS can correlate that the user who saw ad Y did search X).
I pay for youtube premium, or red, or whatever it was called, since I was grandfathered in by google music. No ads.
Looking at a single academic paper's citation count won't reveal much about a term's historical currency.

For example, there are also papers in Google Scholar (findable via query [database shard], through 1987) mentioning this same SHARD system in 1986 and 1987, with 33 and 97 citations respectively. And further, there's a 1986 MIT technical note that mentions a commercially-in-development version of this SHARD system, but refers back to a 1985 paper, "System architecture for partition-tolerant distributed databases", as an authoritative source about SHARD – though that 1985 paper doesn't declare the name SHARD.

That's suggestive that SHARD was adopted as a catchy name for that particular work around 1985-1986, then becoming more widespread in the 1986-1988 timeframe.

But perhaps more interesting: that original 1985 paper mentions in its acknowledgements Hector Garcia-Molina – a definite 'hub' person in databases/indexing/networked-information for decades, among many other things Google cofounder Sergey Brin's advisor at Stanford from 1993-1997. (See: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Garc%C3%ADa-Molina...)

So it's likely safe to assume that from the late 80s into the 90s, top CS students/researchers around the world discussing partitioned distributed databases would often have this particular sense of SHARD mentioned to them, or appear in their readings.

Notably, that 1985 SHARD involved a system where each replica contained the entire database – so did not capture the modern connotations of 'shard', as horizontal partitions. But that vivid & apropos analogy was "in the air" around partitioned/distributed databases.

Thus I'd strongly suspect uses in the modern, non-overlapping sense in that same era, likely predating Ultima Online's 1996ish use. (I'd especially look around precursor work to the 1997 'Consistent Hashing' paper, & other caching-centric work – because there the idea of partition-by-key was central.)

So UO might have devised, but I'd guess more likely popularized, our modern sense of 'sharding'.
An anecdotal experience shouldn't leap to a nice world indeed if everyone tried something like I did. How did it inspire you to explore this universe more is what I'm interested in.

edit: whoever disagrees should explain.
//Higher paying jobs don't pay higher for no reason

Completely disagree. there are software developers working so much and making peanuts and there are developers that know how to BS and work may be 1/5th and make thrice or 4 times the pay.

Completely disagree that higher paying jobs demand more.
Actually, you are giving one advantage to the custom-made proxy, it's not easily discoverable by bots, nor it could be used right away.
This makes me really f*cking angry.
And all I wanted was a pipboy.
We can no longer ignore $my_sacred_cow
Bolivian election data shows O.A.S. analysis which indicated fraud was flawed
Depends on the user I imagine. Most of my searches start on DDG and I just got used to expecting certain types of "human phrase searches" to be !g'd, or more recently for me, !s'd.

So if DDG degraded in quality I'd be fine, because I don't expect perfection. Though I suppose it depends on how much, of course.