skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thinking that your "team" is the good guys and the other are the bad guys is exactly why politicians get away with this. There is nuance in the world.

This is really annoying to me /because/ I'm a liberal -- I sometimes /wish/ the more liberal in Congress would be more of a "team," but they're just /not/.

And it /really/ pisses me off when people both sides the current political climate, because you have -- on Republicans' side -- an actual fascist uprising, multiple acts of terror, active dismantling of federal governmental agencies, rampant corruption /in the open/ ... while on the Democrats' side, they're corporatist and generally status-quo, which is not good, but it's /not/ the same.

God, I /wish/ we could have a debate in this country about the benefits and drawbacks of different foreign policy initiatives, or tax policy, or whatever, but we /can't/ -- and I'm stuck with the lesser of two evils because you basically have one party that's actively trying to turn the US into a one-party state and another that isn't. I /wish/ we could say that "both parties are the same," because I'm pissed at both. I'm mad that Joe Biden is only pushing for $1400 in relief for /a year/ of Covid. I'm mad that the Democrats still aren't talking about getting rid of the camps at the border, that Obama did air strikes in the Middle East, that they haven't done anything about college debt, that they're so deep in pockets of business. But they are NOT the same as the Republicans. So stop saying they are.
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Does anyone have any tips for using ddg? I feel like maybe I’m just not conditioned to how it thinks cause I seem to have terrible luck with my search relevance. People here seem to love it and I would love to switch over from google but I just can’t get the knack.
>I'm baffled that people are (or pretend to be) surprised by this. This should be completely obvious to anyone who's ever seen the inside of a high school.

I think it should be a known idea to anyone who has ever seen a movie where a previously uncool kid gets accepted in to the cool kids group.
Packs behave as packs.
This is nonsensical unless you purposefully ignore the difference between benign and harmful viruses.

You can't coexist with something that kills you. Humans could choose to let viruses do their thing. Viruses can't choose to let humans do their thing.
Follow up unpopular opinion:

At some point we got so obsessed with extending the human existence we forgot how to live with the little time we've got.

60s is the new 40 sounds nice but really it's a sad state.
How and why I deleted 40k tweets
Serverless is possibly the most interesting of the cloud offerings recently. For some types of work, it does seem to make a lot of sense economically as long as you can stand a short delay spinning up from a cold start. It's a little concerning that there isn't more consolidation on industry standards for this yet, though.

Basically everyone providing cloud hosting has something that is a VM and something that is a managed database. If you build your system with any standard tech like Linux or popular programming languages or major databases, it's going to run on any cloud platform you like with relatively little change.

However, to do most useful things with serverless, you're going to need to tie into a specific cloud provider's ecosystem to a much greater extent. That means a lot of platform-specific code talking to proprietary APIs, which feels like it could become a significant drag if you were using serverless for core aspects of your software rather than just the occasional bonus.
>If what you have to say isn't worth your reputation

Because I believe the current trajectory of society will place more than just my reputation at risk for expressing my thoughts. Make of that what you will.
Haha, I love that one of the top questions asked on that book is "Why is this book praised so much? At least textbooks have pictures", which mostly speaks to the absurdity of the platform that goodreads has become.

Either way, thanks for the tip, will add to the list!
What would you want a language to do if you try to access an array offset that doesn't exist except for give you a clear error?
I watched the stream on YouTube and the audio was kept as is. I doubt it would be the same for the VOD later but, couldn't Twitch do the same?

Also, isn't Blizzard or Twitch breaking their ToS by simultaneously streaming on Twitch and YouTube?
It's just not been my impression at all that people are too worried in the US about the number of deaths. Quite the opposite, actually. The most stunning aspect of the pandemic, to me, has been how American society has accepted half a million deaths. I would have considered that unthinkable just a year ago.
I’m on the spectrum and even I didn’t have to read the paper to know that.
Can't you just use the many existing web payment frameworks? Do you have some more specific requirement?
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I've seen a few people use Founderpath - https://founderpath.com/
The problem is capital. Building your own fab is not something you can casually get funding for - there is a lot of risk and you looking for at least a decade before you could see any returns, if it succeeds at all - and you need to have the right money to get people who know this stuff and those people are scarce.
Dude, I'm right here. You're calling me a liar|fool and that's not very civil. C'mon.

The seminar cost US$4000 but I only used about ten minutes of it. Best investment of my life.

Helped me stop being homeless and kick off my career as a professional programmer.

Ah, story time... I just remembered how I couldn't bring myself to go to CodeCon.

I had a ticket.

I got as close as the corner.

I just stood there and watched my fellow nerds walk up and go into the building for a while and then went home.

(You can't explain these things to normal people. They can't relate. My mom once said to me, "I know you're not faking this because no one would ever choose to be this miserable." which was actually more comforting than you might imagine.)

Anyway, next time, after my depression was cured, not only did I attend CodeCon, but I gave a presentation that went really well, and got my first job as a professional programmer. Literally a guy walked up to me after the presentation and asked if I would be willing to move.

Turns out with out the crushing depression holding me back I'm not too shabby. Yay!

- - - -

Ha! The audio of my presentation is on the Archive!

https://archive.org/details/codecon-2004-audio/CodeCon_2004-...

(Man, I sound so soupy. Packed nasal passages, no resonance. Allergies.)

I'm still bangin' away on the idea from time to time: https://sr.ht/~sforman/Xerblin/
"Nano has a unique consensus mechanism called Open Representative Voting (ORV). Every account can freely choose a Representative at any time to vote on their behalf, even when the delegating account itself is offline. These Representative accounts are configured on nodes that remain online and vote on the validity of transactions they see on the network. Their voting weight is the sum of balances for accounts delegating to them, and if they have enough voting weight they become a Principal Representative. The votes these Principal Representatives send out will subsequently be rebroadcasted by other nodes.

As these votes are shared and rebroadcasted between nodes, they are tallied up and compared against the online voting weight available. Once a node sees a block get enough votes to reach quorum, that block is confirmed. Due to the lightweight nature of blocks and votes, the network is able to reach confirmation for transaction ultrafast, often in under a couple seconds. Also note that delegation of voting weight does not mean staking of any funds - the account delegating can still spend all their available funds at any time without restrictions.

Because Nano accounts can freely delegate their voting weight to representatives at any time, the users have more control over who has power with consensus and how decentralized the network is. This is a key advantage to the design of Open Representative Voting (ORV). With no direct monetary incentive for nodes, this removes emergent centralization forces for longer-term trending toward decentralization of the network."
Thanks for those kind words! One of the many reasons I'm making this voluntary is that there's a variety of people who are not in a financial position to switch over now, and I don't want to yank the rug out from under them.

You can't really look at the old-style business model in isolation—the world of 2009 was one where there was a really popular free bookmarking service, and it was easy to piggyback off of them by offering better privacy and higher information density to a frustrated segment of their users.

In 2021, most link sharing has moved into siloed apps like Twitter, Facebook or Reddit, so there's not that big population of average Joe and Jane bookmarkers to draw from, and people have much higher expectations as far as their ability to manage large collections goes. There are also very deep-pocketed competitors (one baked into a major browser) that charge steep annual fees. The business has changed.
As stated in a sibling comment:

> If what you have to say isn't worth your reputation, then maybe you should think twice before spreading that same thought to real [and often vulnerable] people on the still-nascent internet.

And if you can't clearly explain your exception (ex. escaping local persecution), then the point stands.
You should learn the meaning of the word "facetious".

And I'm not sure what makes you think I'm not a native speaker of English.

Apparently you don't even understand blatant sarcasm, are you one?
It is fear porn. There have been THOUSANDS of known mutations throughout this pandemic. The “UK strain” has been known since September 2020. Did anyone talk about it? Do you think it’s a coincidence that this suddenly became a huge topic in the media literally the week the vaccine was rolled out?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=Covid%20mu...
To this day I still boycott anything Metallica. I loved Napster and would run out and buy CDs to support the artists. This makes me happy, but doubt they even care.
> HN discussions very often have input from experts.

Who are predictably downvoted!

I think the upvoting/downvoting mechanism by itself makes discussions unnecessarily competitive and hostile. Here's a crazy alternative: make the order of comments random and rotating. Of course you could still have flagging and moderation to remove bad comments, but otherwise get rid of the voting. You could still have nested conversations (though the UI for this is really bad on HN when the conversations become long), but the comments at each level would also be randomly ordered.

The theory is that the "best" comments rise to the top and the "worst" to the bottom. In reality, that rarely seems to be the case. It's typically a combination of popularity, controversy, accidental timing (some variation on "first!"), and the existence of replies to the comment.
Last time I checked there were only a few dozens of them.

Phew, now I can search my Earthbound tips right from the browser.

https://duckduckgo.com/bang#bangs-list
There would be an economy where only investments that return better than Bitcoin would make sense, for example: you wouldn't have the Vancouver vacant property problem, that money would go to Bitcoin instead and leave the home for someone who has an actual use for it. People also wouldn't be hoarding gold, it's value would go down and you can use it more easily in electronics.

Gold is physical, has no place as a store of value in a digital world in my opinion. You can't transfer it as easily, securing it requires people and storage, you can't divide into very small parts to trade with, etc.
> The other team is doing something very similar and they say they can do it in 50.

"And my teenage nephew could do the same thing in PHP in a weekend."

(But for some mysterious reason they never fire their developer team and hire the nephew instead.)
Can someone just add sport scores to DDG. I used it as my phone's default search for a while, but ultimately had to keep going back to google to get live results and schedules.
You don't 'turn it off'. Its a simulation. They run it over any part of the timeline of the universe, any time they like. It's all there, all the time. The query of the quantum database doesn't create or erase the database.
California's tech scene looks like it will be just fine
So we have options and this is all ten years out before we actually hit this wall.

However, according to this, our current solutions to the issues faced at sub-20nm lithography were developed by IBM in the 90's. So that is the question.

What technique exists today that will be used for the next 30 years?

I am envisioning a true death of "Moore's Law" but we will have time before we encounter the limits of Amdahl's law[0] in the use of chiplets and other dedicated hardware. Apple has their T2 and security enclaves, NVIDIA has tensor cores and other fixed function silicon, AMD is proving chiplets with seperate compute dies and I/O dies works well, Intel is now working on the same but for GPU's[1] ontop of compute and I/O, and the new Playstation 5 has a dedicated ARM CPU for the SSD.

Having dedicated silicon for specific tasks (such as encryption, ray-tracing, storage, networking, and so on), or even an FPGA of some sort will likely be the future.

It will be like the 90's again with northbridge and southbridge chips and 5 or 6 expansion cards.

But I am excited to see the solutions that will drive computers for the next 30 years.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law?wprov=sfla1

[1]:https://www.anandtech.com/show/16021/intel-moving-to-chiplet...
I don't know if I've thought about this before or what, but now that you've said it, it seems obviously true. Not that mixing older and younger little monsters is necessarily a panacea (I bet it would be rocky if you started tomorrow). But strict stratification can't be optimal.

Other point about cousin relationships: interaction typically happens in a context that includes other adults, another moderating influence. I think that also runs in favor of your point.
> You can't coexist with something that kills you.

Citation needed.
Lots of assumtions. Maybe, they just want their kid to be able to return to school.

Also, this response is the reason for the anon account. People on the internet are quick to categorize and demonize.
I will link this the next time someone says "we're destroying Earth", when they mean "life on Earth".

Earth is 4.5B years old, and will likely continue to exist for quite some time. That's called the "Lindy effect" (old things will likely continue to exist).
Don't worry, people already know who you are, and you'll get what you deserve no matter how much you try to hide it.
Yes, and it's been sitting around or below 2% for some time which economists generally consider a good level for spurring spending.
Oh, I see. I'd been doing it piecemeal in batches of fifty or so so I have time to reply to people individually. Did not expect it to become A Thing.
original: https://semiengineering.com/breaking-the-2nm-barrier/
No, I don’t understand the subject in depth to have arguments against it.
When I don’t understand a subject in depth, I look for the source credibility to decide if it’s read worthy before going down the rabbit hole of making sense out of it.
>here’s no reason to think that would work differently from the USB booting

Inability to boot my previous Mac from sd-card could be that reason? Or am I missing something? Because it was not possible to boot from sd-card last time I've tried.
You really can't think of any reason someone would have to take an international flight, ever?

What about their visa expiring, them not being in their home country, them not having infinite unlimited free money to support themselves indefinitely in a country they have no right to work in?

What about having a severely ill relative? Funerals? Weddings?

There are over 40,000 Australians stranded around the world alone, and our population isn't that large. I was one of them until today.

Alot of people say what you said, when they really mean "I don't PERSONALLY" need to take any international flights.

I agree with Covid-zero as a policy. I do not agree with leaving a person stranded and stateless, or unable to travel for legitimate and important reasons.
is it really a limited capacity or just a large bias that results in slow learning?
If so maybe again two shots of vaccines are needed to "update" the immune system.

The well-being whole world is at stake, i hope we figure something out.
It's disappointing that the NASA model of space exploration (few, expensive, long-lived complicated devices) means that we'll probably not get better pictures of the surface of Venus for quite a while. They just aren't going to fund a $500mm lander that lives for 4 hours.

If SpaceX had the money, I'm sure they would throw a lander a month at Venus, iterating on the longevity and quality. But I don't see that happening anytime soon.
So there's `undef` and `null`? I wonder if there's a popular language that made the same mistake you could have learnt from :-P
Hardware Root of Trust means you have to assume an external boot device is compromised. Apple have their mechanisms for securing each step in the chain which is they enforce it out of the box. For 95% of users this is fine as it's only advanced experts who would need to use other booting technology after disabling HRoT chain. Apple makes it clear in big bold letters that you're compromising security by using alternative booting technology.
I am French. Most of my friends have PhD. You still get the usual "you must not be very practical" during interviews and your salary is never better that what someone from a good engineering school would get.
https://ddg.gg is the official shortcut in the faq
Signing doesn't keep Gatekeeper away, you need to also get your app notarized, which involves uploading the app to Apple's servers.
As an alternative I've been using Ecosia, it seems to donate 80% or more of its profits to planting trees where they are needed most (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosia)

Also considered Privacy friendly: https://blog.ecosia.org/tag/privacy/
Free speech is at it's core dangerous speech. It's speech in favor of trans rights when nobody supports it. It's speech calling attention to inequality nobody wants to hear. It's speech that's unfavorable to the government and our neighbors.

Safe speech isn't free speech. Free speech is the engine of change for things like trans rights, same sex marriage, equal protection under the law and even evolution being taught in schools.

If you do not hold free speech as a moral value, if you don't feel a moral duty to use speech that may be censored or unfavored, then you don't agree with using speech to fix social problems.
How come Twitch aka Amazon can't solve this DMCA problem like Youtube aka Google? What does Google do differently than Amazon?
IOTA wants to ditch its most centralized component, but the timeline is still murky
If building materials and factory production lines was basically free and instant you'd see a ton of strange and complex creations be done by mechanical engineers or other people working in physical space. Instead of the current sleek cars you'd get abominations with things sticking out everywhere to save engineering hours etc, and nobody would know how they really work.
Cool. I notice that something dropped from the top accelerates downwards. But something released at the bottom doesn't seem to accelerate noticeably upwards. Even with drag, a bouyant object should accelerate towards the suface, shouldn't it?
Trying to manufacture positivity through policy or forced work requirements rarely has the desired effect. Most people see this for what it really is: Another performance they have to put on to appear as one of the positive people.

The only sustainable solution I've found is to lead with positivity, and not tolerate negativity. Put people who can lead with positivity in management positions. Remove negative people from leadership roles. Don't tolerate negativity.

> Code review is important, but it is a necessarily a critique

Code review is only negative if you frame it as such, or allow the team to frame it as such.

We frequently have to mentor new employees to understand that code review comments are not equivalent to social rejection, not equivalent to being demeaned, and are simply a constructive group learning process.

This is where positive leaders are essential: If your leaders are introducing code review as "Yeah, it sucks to get your code torn apart..." then everyone is going to view it as a painful process where the goal is to please your peers. If you instead introduce code review as "Code review is a great way to get feedback, get some more eyes on your code, hone your skills, show others what you're doing, and spread understanding of your domain" then people tend to start to like it.
Just tried that. It works. Thanks!
How a simple hack could bring down Lithuania's city mobility giant
I don’t think it’s antithetical, going public is a natural step for many companies. It makes the people at the top of the company that much richer. Also in a weird way going public is sort of decentralization because suddenly the people running the company are answering to the shareholders instead of a few key stakeholders.
Already switched last year as I wanted archiving.

My biggest fear was forgetting to pay and losing all bookmarks but I asked and the answer was it would fallback to my old account so then it was a no-brainer: support pinboard and get archiving all for one small fee.
Nice. That worked well. Thanks!
OneSignal (Messaging and Push Notification APIs) is hiring a mobile SDK engineer
Yeah, that is like Engineering in Portugal, but we don't go as far as in German cultures.
>which was previously not allowed.

That wouldn't seem to be universally true. As noted elsewhere, the Silver Line in Boston (buses with a dedicated lane) serves terminals at the airport from one of the city's train stations in addition to serving some locations that were largely undeveloped when most of the city's subway system was created.
Just set it as the default and just add !g to the end of your search query if you don't find what you're looking for to try the same query on google. Eventually you'll figure out which queries work better on which search engine.

In my experience duckduckgo tends to behave more like how google used to work, so if you pick a few well chosen keyword you tend to find stuff pretty quickly but it doesn't respond too well to ambiguous terms or full sentences, google is better at those.
I've seen a couple on Hackaday too! I didn't know if it was just me, because I've been writing a Forth compiler so I'm probably more likely to notice them.
I'm someone who used crypto to buy my current residence. Until you and your staff can pay their rent and taxes in BTC, fiat money is the only real money.

That said, I have my doubts about the 'purity' of any crypto company.
I knew a chem. eng. professor at a university, who I believe had come from Austria, and had "Professor Doctor Engineer" as the title on his doorplate. Very much stood out in the US and it was something students and other faculty would tease him about.
Probably easier than you think, just add a few more ATM of CO2 and it will work out to be just like Venus.

Though -- it's actually a lot of CO2, for starters burning absolute every last bit of fossil fuel would probably contribute to ~0.1% of the amount needed for a runaway greenhouse event.
One culture with unusually high murder rate does not prove murder is "in human nature". You are literally picking outlier to make general claim.
Unpopular to say but extremely popular to do:

I'm happy to sacrifice some of my data, in order to get top notch search results.