skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you took into account user, location, etc. 15% seems too low. I almost never search for the exact same thing twice in the same location.

15% of the queries themselves are unique. https://blog.google/products/search/our-latest-quality-impro...

https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/responses/

I work for Google (and used to work on Search).
We don’t tolerate rape and murder between social groups either, do we?
The article in Wikipedia seems to imply the mother's womb does "remember" prior pregnancies; after all, what are antibodies and the immune response if not a form of memory?

From Wikipedia:

> The mechanism is thought to be a maternal immune response to male fetuses, whereby antibodies neutralize male Y-proteins thought to play a role in sexual differentiation during development.

The article states even interrupted pregnancies are thought to generate this response.
I was thinking of using Markdown and Git for a static website (not a blog). Is this a good idea?
They have an unhelpfully generic answer to that in their FAQ: "After spending a significant amount of time researching potential umbrella organizations, we decided that our best option was to incorporate an independent entity. Rust is a technology and community that is value driven and we simply didn’t find an organization that we felt was aligned with our community goals. This does mean more work for us, especially upfront, but we think the tradeoff is worth it."

https://github.com/rust-lang/foundation-faq-2020/blob/main/F...

As they are registering as a 501(c)6, I would assume that tax reasons would have impacting their decision not to join the SFC.
If I try Clerk for an application but decide I’m not happy with it, what is the process for moving my user management away from Clerk and into my own system?
>If you want to think about a new generation of operating systems, think about what to do in the GPU space. That's the future of hardware. Single CPUs have hit the wall on speed, but there's plenty of room for GPUs with more functional units.

Will it be more like the web with HTTP?
i’m not so sure. 144 has been a special number for a good long time.
If the best endorsement you can come up with is "Some researchers said he was about 90% correct", you have no ground to use words like 'definitely'.
Wasn’t my intention to confuse, just repeating something I’ve been told by FB folks.

Everyone, please listen to Rachel and never ever me.
The reports on this incident have all stated that there were indeed multiple redundancies that helped prevent the high level from being actualized.
That amateur cloud afficionadoes got a staid organization to take note and update appropriately with the added benefit of modernizing (putting things online) is kind of cool. Only thing I quibble with is that the Org felt popular pressure to consider it rather than solely by its merits (although happily this had both pop support and merit).
Local H

40 years of age

Not in a cave

Burma-Shave
https://blog.google/products/search/our-latest-quality-impro...

"There are trillions of searches on Google every year. In fact, 15 percent of searches we see every day are new"
Close, IIRC we cached the fact you had just done a write, and a subsequent read request that arrived on the replica region was then proxied to the primary region instead of serviced locally.
HN (and the horribly named 'intellectual darkweb' to an extend) are sadly becoming 'old man yell at cloud' when talking about crypto. Unfortunately, most of the conversation on btc and DeFi has moved on to subreddits.
blot is great! so simple, just works.
Harsh bucket boundaries are always the catch with studies like this. If you grew up in a smoky house or have had at least one cigarette in your life, you fall into a gray area of studies where you don't qualify as a smoker or a non-smoker.
If this question is strictly about the study in OP and not a broader philosophical question, then it's worth pointing out that the study doesn't actually use the word gay but instead:

> In this study, we use the term “same-sex sexual behavior,” which is defined as having ever had sex with someone of the same sex.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6456/eaat7693
when i had an n900 phone vala was the perfect language to write quick gui apps for my own use. i think these days D or zig capture a lot of the same feel while being more capable languages, though it's nice to see vala still going strong.
https://blog.google/products/search/our-latest-quality-impro...

They briefly mention the statistic in the last paragraph.
Hugo and Mkdocs are both frameworks you should take a look at for building websites with markdown.
Not the world, but the universe!
But it also has to fork off a subprocess to hire that subprocess from a pool of randomly generated subprocesses
Why the hell are these things on the internet?

Why are power stations online?

Are ICBMs on the internet? My gosh I hope not.
Reddit raises $250M Series E at $6B valuation
I actually got the idea initially from listening to a podcast called Farnam Street (this episode specifically: https://fs.blog/knowledge-project/adam-robinson-pt2/).

The idea is to provide a simple, convenient way for people to give and receive anonymous feedback. I think feedback is very important for growth and to be more self-aware in general, and the barrier to give feedback to somebody is far too high relative to the benefit this feedback could mean to the receiver.

The comment by dijit I think sums up my motivation to build this pretty well.

To be honest though I don't know if this app solves the problem. The way the app is currently, feedback is initiated by the person seeking feedback, whereas in the examples above it's the feedback giver initiating (or looking for a way to provide) the feedback.

There is still value in this case where the feedback seeker initiates the feedback loop I think, but it doesn't quite solve the problem I initially set forth to solve. Maybe that use case can be addressed with further iterations.
It's one thing (a quite annoying thing) for free non-monetary services to not have phone support, but a service that houses your money is inexcusable.
Every attempt to replicate this has failed, and other vehicle manufacturers have just as many 'sudden acceleration events'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_acceleration

Occam's razer points to people just hitting the wrong pedal or people's floor mats getting stuck.

The reason Toyota ate it in the press for this was competitive.
Nothing you said was incorrect but I'm afraid people might take away a misconception. So, the adders you find in a modern processor are probably going to be a carry-bypass adder or something like that. For a constant factor more transistors you can complete your addition in sqrt(n_bits) time rather than n_bits. There are also tree adders which can can perform their calculations in log(n) time but take n^2 transistors but nobody uses those. Most modern processors have pipeline stages where you have one transistor driving 4 other 10 to 30 times or the equivalent. You can do that even with 64 bits in a clock cycle with a carry-bypass but not a serial adder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry-skip_adder
But if you're going to buy a car you can rank your choices by how green they are. A Hummer is comparatively less green than most choices. A Tesla is comparatively more green, arguably. Regardless of whether you agree, that is one of their main selling points. I would think this is obvious and well known.
Comments like these are so hilariously idiotic. Props for making me guffaw out loud.

“A meta level mechanism to reduce competition in the community” what the fuck is this saying. Why would gay men reduce competition? In a society that doesn’t accept homosexuality, they would still be with women. In a society that does, why would the woman’s body find it any more favorable to produce.

This kind of navel gazing about evolution really pisses me off. Never feels reasoned in the slightest but works great on so called “rational” people. Just vaguely allude to evolution.

Also yeah, gay doesn’t mean effeminate. Some gay men are more effeminate. This is usually social. It’s actually pretty funny you assume that. Why would gay men become more effeminate?

Do you think the woman’s body sends lady cooties at the baby once they have too many? Like magic lady fairy dust that makes you girly and gay?

Why would wanting to suck dick mean I’m girly? Or feminine? Some gay guys will act girly and feminine _because_ they want to suck dick and that’s one way to do it. Similarly, why is wanting to fuck another mans ass girly and feminine? Would love to hear your answers to these questions.
This goes beyond that an implies "counting" and that the reproductive system in addition wants to achieve an output balance in a non random manner.

That said, it would be very interesting if the body did actually count and take measures to keep things even.
1. No. We haven’t found large scale curvature of the universe yet. If it’s curved such that you could eventually see yourself from behind, it’s way more than 13 billion light years around.

2. See 1.
When I ask a criminal barrister for advise, he/she carries some responsibility, and should have my best interest in mind. If I ask a guy on the street, he does not.

If Robinhood wants to carry same responsibility as casinos, they should call themselves a casino.

Then they will loose certain privileges like in UK it's illegal for casinos to provide leverage or 'gambling debt', they will be subject to payout percentage regulation, etc. https://www.casino.co.uk/guides/payout-percentages-rtp/
Anecdotally I don't have any such browser extension and it doesn't show me the "partial rendering with suggested posts" view when I'm opted out of the new reddit.
The effects and scale of sales (ads) are very combinatoric, though.
> How is one supposed to share part of a database with another system or user without ultimately resorting to the file metaphor?

It is exceptionally difficult to share a database using files. This is probably one of the worst ways to share a database. Most of the time, the best you can do is take a snapshot of the database, dump it to a file, and import it into another system.

Generally you would want to share a database by granting multiple users access to a single running instance.
I think he's the only one that uses that? Barely even worth mentioning in comparison.
Advertising identifiers are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to data collection. Disabling them (which you could already do in Settings) would barely make a difference.
I do try to follow the field. There are lots of modern VPs and some commercial successes. The key "large-scale" VPs are LabView from National Instruments, and OutSystems. There are a lot of what nowadays are called "No Code" or "Low Code" environments, that are mostly VPs as well - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-code_development_platform
Idaho man retakes Guinness record for throwing CDs into a target
"Roguewave Software"

- Position: guy

The chief of modesty.
it is a doom port!
Very true. I dug into the code a bunch last year and found several things that even seem to violate their own rules from a DB optimization standpoint.

I’d love to see stupid simple benchmarks against each framework’s build-a-blog tutorial.
Conceptually, this is rather like lossy compression with a shared dictionary. In practice your likeness has still been trasmitted. Jpeg files are after all just numbers too, merely less specialized.
I think the "everything should be free and no one should make money" mentality that is popular on the internet is very harmful in the long term. Moderators should be paid for doing a good job and content creators should be paid for good content. Making ads the only way to do this ends up forcing content to essentially become an ad. This is happening everywhere on the internet.
Even then, 29,998 of 30,000 people (assuming it was exactly that many at p(.5)) chose a unique galaxy. That’s still pretty likely.
I just stepped down from director of development at a large banking company to be a senior engineer somewhere else, and I'm loving it. I'm truly an engineer at heart, playing politics is just not enough for me to feel fulfilled. I'm delighted to have no direct reports and be free to spend my time outside work focusing on sharpening my technical saw.
Sure! I mean, the claim’s only as good as your ability to defend it, but why not?
I even have a pixel3 and forgot Lens existed; the first time I was exposed to it by the phone it looked like yet another Google scans all your stuff and gives you questionable suggestions feature. It never occurred to me it would do something as straightforward as decode QRs.
32 of the fatality descriptions identify a breed.
26 of them list "pit bull."

So, 81% of fatality descriptions that identify a breed list "pit bull."

That's a much higher rate of pit bull involvement than I had heard of in the past.
If everyone uses the same language, they're all going to write the same bugs! /s
The OP is in Chicago. GDPR is of no use for someone in the US.
Nice idea, but if it's getting 90 million requests per day, then either there are a lot of people requesting the same message (so it's not very secret), or the few people requesting it are very forgetful (in that they have to keep re-requesting the same message multiple times per day).

I suppose the contents of the image/"message" could change every day, but presumably that would be very obvious in the edit history of that file[0], unless Wikimedia Commons were suppressing the fact that the file is constantly changing. If they are part of the conspiracy, though, you'd think they would have taken down the task from Phabricator too.

[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AsterNovi-belgii-flo...
Wow, almost 1% of the US population already had a prescription for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budesonide#Brand_names last year.
It's super important for highly concurrent, low-compute web services. Whether that's actually your business requirement is very situational.
Check out the stadia subreddit. It seems they've managed to connect with a pretty passionate group of innovators/early adopters.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/
Another problem is that subreddits are under the ownership of the creators/moderators, who may have their own ideas of monetization as well as where the revenue should go...
Ask HN: How do you develop business processes or workflow?
What books or material could you suggest on how to develop business processes and workflow? Ideally it would be something that produces an outcome that could work well with the human element and not just for those with a technology background.
> It is my understanding that most municipal water utilities only test water quality every 3 months. A problem can come and go between testing cycles.

This isn't remotely true.
In the "Jump to object" box on the bottom-right you can type m13 to find, for example, Messier object 13. Set the zoom-level to about 12 first.

m51 is worth a visit.

Messier objects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_object#/media/File:All...
This seems to be a great ‘intro to defi’ read.

Can someone with knowledge of defi point out any deficiencies or inaccuracies here? Are there better ‘intro to defi’ papers that newcomers should read?
People's who have had their livelihoods destroyed by random AdWords and Google Play Store bans with zero recourse but hoping they get traction on Twitter might disagree...

In fact wasn't the Terraria developer who randomly got banned by Google just on the front page yesterday?
welcome to the http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ fold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
Kids might be digital natives – but a study shows they aren’t computer literate
> watching user growth

Metrics can be misleading - I don't doubt they're seeing short term user growth or increased engagement (which is all the employees really care about, as their compensation is tied to hitting those "OKRs"). But wouldn't this just end up eventually going back to normal (as the users adjust) or even worse, push users even closer to the breaking point past which they'll leave the product completely?
Sounds like we need more teenagers.
Rick and Morty Creator Sells Ethereum Art for $1.65M
6 years ago every time you started a project you'd have to argue with idiots saying "you should do it in C because it's fast". Doing some genuine benchmarks of a scenario that's at least a little reflective of the real world is a huge step up from where we were.
I amazed this XPrize hadn't happened sooner. Good of Musk to put up the cash.
At least the pdf version of the ToS for users in Germany is exactly 15 pages long: https://www.gstatic.com/policies/terms/pdf/20200331/ba461e2f...

Can't check other countries since Google automatically adjusts the country version to your location but you can check yours here: https://policies.google.com/terms

//edit: but you're correct considering this doesn't contain any service-specific ToS.
I just call it “work block” or “deliverables.” Like yours, simple and to the point goes a long way towards making it acceptable.
Code doesn't make sense, weird ass abstraction, but works beautifully. I never could understand where the dependency injection parameters came from lmao
Cardano (ADA) looks more promising for the DeFi applications. It's better designed and written in a safer, purer language (Haskell).
There's a gui client for magic wormhole: https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui
This may be a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway: How did gay people live in pre-historic times?

Arguably, in our current culture, it is pretty obvious that gay people will produce less offspring than heterosexuals. However, looking on an evolutionary timescale, this culture is rather young. In tribal times, most males did not reproduce - lessening the impact of homosexuality. Maybe the higher female-to-male-gene reproduction rate is factor?

This is just rough speculation, my knowledge is really limited. But it seems plausible at first glance.
I think you mean "15% seems too high". Any easy way to think about this is the following: even if search the entire internet you will almost never see the same sentence twice, assuming it's has a certain number of words. There is a combinatorial explosion in possible sentences to write. Search queries are essentially just sentences without stopwords.
So we have gone from the Congress people bringing pork to bringing exciting live streams. This feels like a challenge to the idea expressed elsewhere that this stems from material lack.
Nor the Seattle regional transit card: https://kingcounty.gov/depts/transportation/metro/fares-orca...
I know man, these hedgefund managers and Boeing executives have been totally infantilized!
The current minimum stake is $50k and will likely only get bigger over time as there’s more people willing to stake than need to be staked.

So it’s already really exclusive as only a very few people have $50k available.
make the background-size 900x400--for more utility
Of all the commentary I’ve read on this issue so far, this might be the scariest anecdote so far.
The Library of Possible Futures
Firebase is generally applying the solution the article talks about. And related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22892946
There are also long billions and trillions, still in common use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion
It’s obvious you consider bitcoin immoral, and are willing to grasp any negative aspect and distort it as much as possible. This means for example you aren’t bothering to understand the point that it is not the energy consumption estimate that is the relevant upper bound, it is the emissions of the energy sources being used. Why do you care so much about how hydroelectric power in remote China is being used anyway?

Well it seems that neither of us have intimate knowledge of the power usage required to serve video at scale (sendfile()? Give me a break..).
happy to see this on the front page, congrats colin and braden! I signed up for a dev account last month, definitely will be using this for projects in the future.

- stefan
I agree. I think that the revenue model for websites like Reddit was what set them up for failure. In the beginning, focused on growth, it probably made sense to get as many users as possible, as quickly as possible. But Reddit doesn't need more users. It stopped needing more users a long, long time ago. It needs better users and healthier communities. And less incentive for mods to collect hundreds of subreddits and use them for self-interest.

Sidenote: Look at the growth of r/WallStreetBets https://subredditstats.com/r/wallstreetbets from January (less than 2 million users) to the beginning of February (almost 9 million users). There is no way the mod team could handle that, given the resources and tools they have available (I'm not affiliated with WSB).
I talked a bit about this in my comment above in response to sanmak's comment, but the short answer is I don't really know the best way to prevent abuse on the platform and I'm hoping that the short-lived feedback posts and the sort of pseudo-anonymous domains at least helps prevent it.

Like saimiam mentioned, the domains aren't exactly meant to be shared on the internet for the entire world to pitch in on the topic. It's more meant for the domain creator to share with people whom they would like to receive feedback from, people whom they trust.

Honestly, abuse is really the absolute last thing that I want for this platform to give a voice to. I'm still thinking of ways to best prevent this, but if it really devolves into a platform for people to spread hate, I will just shut it down.
Since this doesn't seem to have posted yet:

"Fans will have three attempts to give counting Major Melon bottles their best shot." [0]

The official rules confirm this:

"Limit one (1) number guess per Entry. Limit three (3) Entries (via Twitter)/per Twitter account during the Promotion Period. Limit one (1) Twitter account allowed per participant." [1]

[0] https://www.mountaindew.com/world/be-ready-to-count-this-sup...

[1] https://www.lifechangingdew.com/rules
> You shouldn't need it, but only a sociopath would try to get rid of it.

> Almost all of the software we write is now affecting people's lives.

Don’t twist a technical disagreement into some kind moral outrage. We both have the same goal of providing reliable software to people.

The problem is that for the past decades, resetting the machine has deleted countless term papers. Nowadays, people generally put their term papers in cloud services that are always on. This is a huge step forward. We can bring this kind of reliability to offline usage. I think this requires taking lessons learned from cloud/server farm/mainframe world (always-on) and figuring out ways to apply them to personal computers.
> You still have plenty of privacy worth protecting

But, not this particular bit. If they already know the value of a given bit there is minimal possible harm in disclosing it to them again.
This is all “Do as I say, not as I do” advice.

Sure, go into security, help make the world more secure... meanwhile I’ll be here writing some JavaScript making twice what you make and working probably half the hours you do.
Hey, thanks for letting me know this. This was definitely an oversight by me and I'll add this in.
YouTube's bitrates are atrocious. I don't understand why they can't at least offer a higher bitrate to their paying Premium customers.

> Of course, cable TV is even worse, but ordinary consumers don't seem to have noticed or cared about that either.

According to Wikipedia, a DVB-C stream can be between 6-65 Mb/s [1], certainly higher than YouTube's 3-9 Mb/s (assuming 1080p video). The situation for resolutions above 1080p seems to be a bit better [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-C

[2] https://www.androidauthority.com/how-much-data-does-youtube-...
Russian biotech challenged the West – in race for Sputnik V vaccine
Most impressive. This is what I have been looking for!