skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if they are so bad, why competitors don't get a bigger market share?

Two things:

1. https://duckduckgo.com/traffic DDG has seen exponential adoption(yes actually mathematical exponential it seems) until last year. Now its traffic just increases at steady rate that most growth hackers would envy.

2. this happens despite their search results being just as bad as Googles: they (pr probably Bing) also sends me tons of completely irrelevant results because they ignore what I write in favour of what they think I write or want me to search for.

DuckDuckGo.com is my go to not because it is better but because:

- it is equally good now

- moving from DDG to Google is faster (just add !g)

- they don't have a history of showing me irrelevant and insulting ads.
The film had a profound impact on my teenage years as well after watching it late one night on satellite HBO. I had the soundtrack on my pre-iPod Archos and torrented all of Ghibli's other films on 56k dialup.

It kept me involved in learning Japanese and eventually teaching English in Hokkaido. I even tried building a film and video startup contemporaneously with YouTube, but without the skills and VC connections.

I also made a bunch of dumb films with my friends that would embarrass me if I found them today. The memories are good, though.

I bought Miramax's (the US distributor) old marketing website for Princess Mononoke when they let it expire in 2002, and I kept it online (mostly) :

http://www.princess-mononoke.com

This year I find myself building a film-related startup yet again, but now with 15+ years of experience at my back and funds from an IPO exit. Maybe I'll succeed. If I do, I'll have to credit Miyazaki and Mononoke Hime in part for inspiring my journey.
I've been trying to book my EU/US transfers via Iceland just to absorb it a bit from within the airport, sadly though Icelandic Air is making this almost impossible.

So I've decided to facilitate a proper visit next year. I'm obsessed with country, and as far as islanders go they indeed seem much more welcoming than Japanese :)
> But, also, there probably are ways for the blockchain to help with some quality-of-life improvements for various online communities.

There isn't. It is remains the case that every problem solved with a blockchain can be better solved without a blockchain.

(Except for crimes.)
I don't think you are completly wrong.

For instance, last year there was a whole debacle at one of those top conferences because someone from nvidia, that was in the board of this conference, made (and posted on twitter!) a black list for people who said something that was not alligned with hers ideology. (I wonder what happened after the whole thing went quiet).

Yet, I do still think those conference, and their sponsors, have interest in only selecting the papers based on their content. I don't think you can get them to publish your papers so many time only with influence. Also, things like blind peer review exists to mitigate that (although, it favors writing quality over content).

Also. Politics isn't intrinsically evil. One of the great success of Einstein was spreading his idea. Argbly, others made more important achievement, yet didn't amass the same level of fame as him.

In my experience, people who are good at politics, usually persue others path. Doing so only to get publication is not the most rewarding thing for those kinda of people.
He was describing the people working in the prison, right? That sounds like a pretty good description of prison guards.
If the whole thing is irrational, how can it be underpriced? Or: What makes you think the true price (if one exists) is higher than it currently goes for?
That's the same as the UK though. Corner shops lose money if the total purchase is less than 10 GBP
Show HN: AsyncGo: topic-based async discussions for teams
How would you accomplish it using government as a tool? It's clear that most (all?) current governments are wholly inadequate to this task. What are the right rules, and how can government help the situation? What does society look like when you implement those rules and enforcement mechanisms?
I don't believe I have made any factually incorrect statements, but please enlighten me if I have.

Have a look at the following two encodings of the same screen recording from the article, compressed to the same file size and the same framerate:
https://tempklasjdf.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/most-engaging...
https://tempklasjdf.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/most-engaging...

To my eyes the GIF version preserves a little more of the sharpness of the text but there's not much between them. And GIFs are simple and intrinsically support looping.

As an aside, there is currently a proposal to bring some features from GIF (and a few additional ones) to HEVC to better support screen recordings: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.71...

Colour palettes and efficient spatial (rather than frequency domain) coding are being considered, both features of GIFs. Also support for RGB colour space rather than YUV420 to better preserve the colours (just like GIF!).
How can we be in post scarcity if millions of people are in poverty?
No, it is "I will steal your work and make money off it".
The pronoun game also refers to a movie trope where ambiguity is used intentionally in story telling.

E.g., every time someone says something like "he's dead", and the viewer - or even another character in the scene - immediately shouts "who!?!".
Multiple choice isn’t necessarily an indicator of poor quality. Most IQ tests, those administered by psychiatric supervision, are multiple choice intentionally looking for deviation and alignment through repetition and measured variation provided a long enough test. One of the cert exams I took, only one of them, looked for the exact same thing as a means to identify and fail crammers.
This is a great example of how fast the culture of front-end work can move. Back in January, someone took a lot of time to write all this up because Context and hooks were still somewhat new. But today, almost a year later, it feels like a really long-winded way of getting to the quick, short answer most people use today - "useReducer is the answer, but look at Redux if your app gets overwhelming."
Everything you must know when you start developing web applications
YouTube updates their terms of service
Hey HN, I’ve been working on AsyncGo for a year now and it has reached a usable state for real teams. It is a place to have thoughtful async conversations around a topic, broader than an issue or epic, and longer lived (and more discoverable) than a Slack chat. Our goal is to help teams avoid meetings and do more async.

We haven’t found product market fit yet and so looking for any feedback on the product, marketing, or anything really. Thanks in advance!
3D deep learning project looking for maintainers
After investing a significant amount of time into Torch Points3d, we (the maintainers) have now moved on to new ventures. It’s been some time that Torch Points3d hasn’t received the attention it deserves from us while still generating a lot of interest in the community. We are therefore reaching out to find a solid group of new maintainers that can keep this great project alive. We also believe that a thriving business can be created around Torch Points3d and its open source community (>1,600 stars on github) so if you are interested please reach out on the github repo!
Honest, naive, somewhat rhetorical question: has any organization ever said "We are good, we can stop growing now.", followed through on it, and then not been thoroughly outcompeted or obsoleted?
> for which the app suppliers want: my location and access to my microphone, camera and contacts - and the app won't install or run if you start denying access

Could these things be virtualized? And provide a fixed location, silent sound, and an empty contact list to whatever applications you don't trust?
> I once borrowed a book that hadn't been checked out since 1959.

I suppose the modern version would be to see three or even four digits at the end of a hit counter on a webpage, but I haven't even seen a hitcounter in maybe two decades.
Wildfires are erasing Western forests. Climate change is making it permanent
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy in action.
I decided to go for as much value they give me. I use it seldom but with pleasure. Therefore I used free national Swiss bank transactions to send them 1$/1CHF per Month.
AFAIK, the alternatives are usually centralized financial institutions - PayPal, Visa, etc. - that kinda suck (Visa blocks legal transactions over arbitrary internal rules, PayPal freezes accounts and keeps the money). I'm not 100% sold on cryptocurrency as the solution, but I'm not sure the incumbents are better.
On reflection, I've got a better modern analogy. I filed KDE bug number 200000:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200000
4

There you go.
There are other ways of asking. You can enthuse people with your plans for the future, rather than creating a completely spurious impression that your financial independence is under threat.
Believe it or not, some companies out there simply won't pay for Slack and will just use the free tier, which will eat the messages after some time anyways.

Of course, if billing or other concerns prevent them from doing this, i fail to see why they don't just use self hosted solutions, like Rocket.Chat, which isn't all that hard to do either.

I actually did that myself and wrote about it on my blog: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/lets-run-our-own-chat-plat...
Qubes OS 4.1 RC2
Reliving the New York Subway Map Debate
It could be useful if there was a C program you would like to run, but the only tool available was Excel. Maybe strict IT admins had disabled the ability to run anything but Office, and even VBA macros were disabled. Although in that scenario it would be better if the compiler was written in C and could bootstrap itself.
Show HN: Experiment faster using link rotators
Hi HN!
I'm Juan, founder of Pixela (pixela.io).

We build this service to make it easier to manager your links and retarget your customers back to your website.

Today, we are launching a new feature: Pixela Link Rotator on Product Hunt .

Links Rotation !!!

It's a way to rotate your marketing links and redirect visitors to different destinations.

This feature can be used for A/B testing, sharing traffic with different partners, showing visitors different messages or splitting smartly your traffic based on your customer platform.

Support Pixela at https://www.producthunt.com/posts/pixela-3.
I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have!
Well, the true price is the marginal cost of production, isn't it? So yeah, bitcoin seems to be overpriced. Unless it is a currency, of course, their supplies behave differently.
A’s Hire A’s, B’s Hire C’s.

If you're really a senior developer, will you enjoy to work with C's?

Try to actively «fire» the interviewer at the first minutes of interview by showing the darkest points of your CV upfront. If you succeed, you will save 6 hours of hazing and a few months of your life after that.

I was in a team with inexperienced PM and few crooks, which negotiated 2x salary over mine, but had no skills. They hated programming, actually. I tried to help, but PM fired me instead. The project collapsed, so they started to blame me, damaging my reputation. It was an awful experience.

For me, it's easy to recognize the technical level of somebody else, because I will just ask a high-level question and then see how the discussion goes. If they say «Okey, now tell me about your experience», then they are definitely not A's.
We call that "subtext". As a learned professional and recognized expert in your field, saying "simply" and "never" to a student has a chance of being misunderstood as fact instead of a turn of phrase.

Being aware of that and saying it anyway, I would personally use it as a teaching moment. If they seemed to quietly accept my words as a truth handed down from an authority instead of as a challenge to a (potential) peer, I'd point out that as a scientist they should have asked me "why".

It mainly and generally comes down to relationships and communication. Anyone who doesn't understand what I mean when I say a thing, anything, can't be relied on to be my pupil. However, they can usually be taught. That doesn't excuse me from not ensuring I've been understood in the first place, but it's far less taxing to expect others to attempt to become accustomed to your meanings when your brain is needed for other things than it is to twist your view of reality so that RightSpeak is the only acceptable method of communication.

I've never understood why some people seem to hate it when I say this, there's an idiom where I'm from that "some people would rather coat the world in leather than wear moccasins". Communication veganism is such a destructive idea if you've ever actually taken the time to consider it, but it doesn't seem to stop people from trying.
This is why you and everyone should use DNS over HTTPS (DoH).

Next day they might visit you to ask you why you are visiting an opposition party web site.
It's worth noting that the Fundraising manager's salary increased by 50% in the space of four years (from $168k in 2015 to $252K in 2019, the most recent figure available).

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...
It's on a/your keychain, wallet, or backpack, where phones are difficult to fit. It doesn't need wifi, recharging, or a battery or mobile plan. Anywhere you need to use it will have some way to connect it, like checking your email in public, tapping it against a phone to log in, etc. It's orders of magnitude cheaper than a phone and you can have numerous backup keys in safe places if needed.

If stolen, has little to no resale value and zero personal information on it, and you can unregister the key from online services
Hotel registration just on paper, because, in a case, the police can take fingerprints an dna on the paper.

https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article191846877/Hotelanmeldu...

Doch die Hotels dürfen nicht, und daran sind die Sicherheitsbehörden schuld, vertreten durch Bundesinnenminister Horst Seehofer (CSU). Die Ermittler wollen die Möglichkeit haben, über Fingerabdrücke und DNA-Spuren auf dem Meldezettel, Bösewichten auf die Spur zu kommen. „Das klingt wie ein Aprilscherz“, sagt Hotelsprecher Luthe, „ist aber keiner.“
How to Perform Load Testing Against Nebula Graph with K6
The load testing for the database needs to be conducted usually so that the impact on the system can be monitored in different scenarios. This article explains how to perform load testing against Nebula Graph with K6.
> Does anyone have any actual statistics or quantitative data on the quality of Google search results?

It is pretty quantitative yes, but it happened at different times for different people.

But it used to be that when you searched for something you got pages containing the thing you searched for, and if you couldn't find it at first then you could do a search on the page and find out some enterprising scammer had included your keywords in white text on white background.

Today Google and Bing has teamed up with the scammers so they don't need to use such hacks anymore. Google and Bing will include the results even if they don't contain said keywords at all.

Uncharitable? Yes. Do I hope Google and Bing engineers read this and fix it or do I hope some Russian enterprise launch a better engine?

I actually hope Google find back to its roots! I don't hate you guys but you really don't make it easy for us in between using all the oxygen in the room and annoying me all the time with useless time wasting results.
> I remember running DesqView ... it must have been on a 286 (is that possible?), I

Yes.

In fact, I once ran it on an original 4.77MHz 8088. Just as an experiment, I ran two copies of BASICA in two separate windows. The two interpreters ran in parallel, and thanks to DesqView's lack of memory protection, it was possible to send data from one to the other via a simple form of shared memory IPC. (DEF SEG to pick a common memory segment between the two, and POKE/PEEK to send/receive data.)

The trouble with the 8088/286 class machines was really the lack of memory to run multiple applications and the fact that most serious DOS code assumed direct hardware access. Both of these made useful multitasking difficult. DesqView/386 fixed this by using QEMM to run the 386 in protected mode. This gave access to much more memory (if you could afford it), as well as memory protection and V86 multitasking. Fixed most of the significant issues with smaller systems.
Perhaps I can provide some important context here.

I'm an Australian who's actually been through the Howard Springs quarantine facility, with my family, as a requirement to travelling interstate there.

First of all, the people who are there knew before travelling that this was part of the deal for keeping covid out of the NT.

Secondly, the Aboriginal communities in that area are considered some of the most vulnerable based on existing health standards and below-par vaccination rates.

Thirdly, the facilities really aren't that bad with decent wifi, private modern facilities and even a 50m swimming pool.

Lastly, as a broad rationale for Australia's strict approach to all of this:

US covid deaths per million: 2,365.98

AU covid deaths per million: 79.28
But the stdfix does not take advantage of SIMD style acceleration right?
I'm fairly confident that those agencies use context in an automated manner to get any meaningful results.

So "keyword" (could be a word, domain or some other pattern) X may trigger only if Y and Z was already triggered. And some keyword A may only trigger if B was NOT present.

This way you can distinguish doctors, reporters or people studying history or chemistry from those who plan something.

Or e.g. ML applied to patterns over time. Globally.

And yes I do not like it at all, HN is full of people that may likely research some kind of bomb, religion or whatever else out of pure curiosity, but since there are not many such people it can be problem in court one day.

Mix in some Snowden, your hardware stack, gag orders and the fact that we have more laws that anybody can read and you may feel like watching some stupid memes.
And a disturbing trend that it is becoming so common as to be normalized.

Soon people are going to be asking "you don't have anything to hide, do you" when you want to run and debug locally.
They've also already received flak from the Indian government over taking preorders before they're licensed to provide service.
Show HN: Pixela Is in ProductHunt. Links Rotators
Hi HN!
I'm Juan, founder of Pixela (pixela.io).

We build this service to make it easier to manager your links and retarget your customers back to your website.

Today, we are launching a new feature: Pixela Link Rotator on Product Hunt .

Links Rotation !!!

It's a way to rotate your marketing links and redirect visitors to different destinations.

This feature can be used for A/B testing, sharing traffic with different partners, showing visitors different messages or splitting smartly your traffic based on your customer platform.

Support Pixela at https://www.producthunt.com/posts/pixela-3.
I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have!
Yes, if you run an android version with root there are frameworks for doing this. That said, some apps detect when things are too static and won't necessarily work even with these workarounds.
I know some of those words, but still I'm curious as to why OpenGL has not explored fixed for 3D graphics?
Challenges in Business Intelligence Mobile Application Development
Did you mean to post this in reply to someone else? I don't have any idea how you think this relates to anything I've said.
AI Has Emerged as a Powerful Healing Technology During the Covid Crises
Blame the dumb laws - it is unauthorized usage of the tester's system which is how hacking is often defined legally. It is a distasteful and a low technical knowledge equivocation of unauthorized computer access is always "hacking" but I can see why they would use it even without sensationalization from typical attempts at accessibility without mountains of exposition for amateurs mixed in.
A cascading catastrophe: The drone threat to critical infrastructure
WW2 is THE defining moment of the XX century. In 200 years time, we will have forgotten everything about Watergate, red/black terrorism, punk, vinyl, the Space Race, ICE engines, the labor movement, sexual revolution, Beatles and Rolling Stones - but kids in school will still have to learn about the Nazis and the Soviets and Pearl Harbor, in the same way today we have to know about the French Revolution - because it fundamentally altered the cultural and political setup of the world in ways that have been felt ever since.
Curious to know what are your points of comparison when you say everything is outdated in Germany.
Clint Eastwood is 11 years older than Miyazaki and still directs movies. I wouldn't be surprised if Miyazaki comes back for yet another movie in a few years!

On the other hand, Ghibli owns a bunch of highly valuable IP. When it comes to business, they could easily survive for decades selling stuffed Totoro and Catbus figures.

I don't think Miyazaki will allow his works to be adapted or remade during his lifetime, but once he's gone the new management might find it hard to resist licensing deals with Hollywood. I for one would love to see someone like Denis Villeneuve take a stab at Nausicaa (the manga version, not the anime) one day. Due to time and budget constraints, Miyazaki's own film barely scratches the surface of the epic saga he had envisioned.
Because Stack Overflow is its own worst enemy and routinely deleted extremely useful questions because they "didn't fit in"?

Is it the any surprise if it ranks highly on alternative sites, spam or not?
It works very well.

The Math-based Grand Unified Programming Theory: The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow with Principle-based Warehouse/Workshop Model

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
I feel like all the toddlers I know, including my own, would already know how to use a smartphone by the time they would be able to learn to use this phone.
Revolut app displaying the same avatar photo for every user
Apparently today Revolut is showing the same avatar profile picture for every user with an avatar - a random person.

Seen in twitter…

https://twitter.com/ashindestad/status/1465996319932272647?s=21

https://twitter.com/oliviamcl171/status/1466001297841262597?s=21

https://twitter.com/adam_finnegan/status/1465996624203759620?s=21
An AI Finds Superbug-Killing Potential in Human Proteins
That's awesome, man. Both the conservationist effort (have you talked to the Internet Archive yet?) and the subsequent inspired efforts.

The best art is what inspires others to make art themselves.
Living in Estonia, I feel like we really take the extent of our online services for granted. Literally no need to fill out any papers for anything ever.

Besides that, all of our policies and national decisions are still heavily influenced by Germany like most EU countries.
>There's certainly been a recent trend due to people pushing for everyone to use it more, though, which was the parent's point.

I am 36, and have been using it that way my entire life?
Nobody forced them to hop on a plane and submit to these predefined quarantine requirements. Compare Australia's death rates per capita then consider which is truly the less humane approach.
Movies/tv shows/books?
The public must know the virus is still evolving. If you don't give them the full information somebody comes up with a new conspiracy theory. I am really tired of reeducating my family everyday against the old fake news that are still circulating.

I prefer them to be scared from something real than from something fake.

A little help from governments is welcome.
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