skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you could just add a custom search keyword directly in your browser...

https://zapier.com/blog/add-search-engine-to-chrome/

https://superuser.com/questions/7327/how-to-add-a-custom-sea...
Eh, this is just very standard corporate nonsense.
Markdown is based on a really old nerd convention of stylising plain text. Things like /italics/ and *bold* predate MD by great many years. I was using some of markdown’s semantics even in the 90s.

This is what Aaron meant when he said:

> as easy as writing an email, by allowing you to use much the same syntax

…in that link you’ve posted.

Heck, even that quote token I used above (the greater than prefix) is a really old convention used in emails since probably before Aaron was even born.

It’s also worth noting that when markdown was released there were plenty of other plain text mark ups around (there’s some not even mentioned in that blog post too) but both Greg and Aaron point out that markdown is more readable in plain text and that’s a key decision behind it.
Thanks for this!

Question - if the model-dependent 0.1eV neutrino gets knocked out because the direct observation (anti)neutrino is say "0.3eV confirmed".

How does this mess with our current understanding of physics?
It is not that easy because you need to guess what’s driving the person and what they’re feeling. It’s beyond just language transformation.

It is mainly a body practice often mistakenly taught as a language-only practice. I’ve been teaching it for a while and involving somatic awareness of one’s emotional state is key.

What’s a phrase you’d like to be able to run through such a service?
metamites
> I also don't get buying Android devices at this point given that OS updates/device longevity is shorter, and iOS has basically hit feature parity with Android.

There's a few good things to think about:

Engineers still have good reasons, as Apple's App Store limitations pretty much just hamper tools power users could want. (e.g. Termux, Tasker, etc)

One other good reason is the very large catalogue of open source apps on Android. There's a lot of good quality free apps that Apple's fees, terms and the necessity of Macs to develop scare away.

Longevity kinda depends on your threat model. Of course Android devices will stop getting security updates sooner as we all know, but one extra thing to think about is that Apple does not backport new features and APIs, while Google generally does. This means that most apps on iOS are -strongly- encouraged to move their minimum supported iOS version up often.
All this to say that an iPhone that doesn't get any more OS updates will stop getting app updates very quickly, while an Android Marshmallow phone still supports the majority of apps. It's a tradeoff between OS updates vs app updates, the majority of people would care more for the latter (Though engineers would likely never keep a phone for that long, but the merit stands)
For what it's worth you're not the only one. These Google search is awful posts happen a few times a week and I always wonder what I'm doing wrong to not notice. Seems to get me the results i want which is usually wikipedia or SO but then I'm not expecting Google to perfectly review products. What are people not finding and what are they expecting their search engine to do for them? Seem to be a lot of general rants
I'm a K8S newbie, and running on DO, so take it with a grain of salt: I have a couple of `CronJob`s, running twice a day, that would run way faster on better hardware, but as far as I can tell, it's impossible to do so on DO unless I keep a cluster with a minimum of 1 node online all the time.
Also a fan of Brave browser here. The more people trying new things the better! I know some people don't like the crypto-angle with it, but I think it is a positive to test new economic models to support online content, personally.
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Polarization based filtering involves other objects besides the photon being present, so it is not quite the kind of thing we're discussing. We're discussing the possibility of a photon just by itself, with nothing else present, undergoing some kind of change. There is a small probability of this happening; it's small, but it's not zero. So the claim that the photon's worldline being null (i.e., having zero "length" in terms of the metric of spacetime) prevents it from undergoing any change whatever as it travels is not true.
> It's very healthy for your baby to delay cord clamping as long as possible

Just wanted to echo, this is really, really, important.
Funny how that "consensus" seems to be defined as "among those who have the most". So how is that any more decentralised, any less of an oligarchy, than the old system?
As one of few authors of an implementation of `dc` and `bc`, but one who never actually met Lorinda Cherry, perhaps I have a slightly different perspective of her work.

I've read the closest thing we have to the original sources of `dc` and `bc`: the source bundled with Plan 9. It didn't take me long to read the entirety of the source because they were simple and concise. That immensely impressed me.

However, I hate to say that my youth (compared to Ms. Cherry, at least) caused me to look at the source with disdain, mostly from a lack of handling errors caused by user mistakes.

It took several days for me to think more carefully about the context. She was writing for herself and other programmers, who would probably be able to recognize when they made a mistake and fix it.

The code has a simple elegance that mine will never have. Sure, you might call mine "industrial strength," but I think a quote by ** Gabriel sums up the difference between Ms. Cherry's code and mine:

"I'm always delighted by the light touch and stillness of early programming languages. Not much text; a lot gets done. Old programs read like quiet conversations between a well-spoken research worker and a well-studied mechanical colleague, not as a debate with a compiler. Who'd have guessed sophistication bought such noise?" [1]

And that says nothing of the design of her software.

`dc` was, and in many ways still is, the simplest calculator that could ever exist. It was the simplest shell too, with the `!` command. I personally believe that it was for this reason that `dc` was the first program Bell Labs made run on the PDP-11. [2] `bc`, while more complicated, is also a great design (for the time).

In short, Ms. Cherry was a master of her trade, and I only recognized that from afar.

One of the items I had in my bucket list was to meet Ms. Cherry; because of her work on `dc` and `bc`, I felt a kinship to her having written my own. It is sad to know that item will never happen. Oh, well.

[1]: https://people.csail.mit.edu/alinush/6.824-spring-2015/l07-g...

[2]: https://youtu.be/EY6q5dv_B-o?t=1767
As explained in another comment [0], the real reason the Reddit trick works is that Reddit content is hand-curated by humans who are dedicated and passionate (and, I think, also work for free). It's a garden in the jungle.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30349460
I think the biggest sentiment shared with everyone against Google search at the moment is the eagerness to see better competition.
While it may be true (and certainly easy) to paint everything with this large brush of 'nothing has changed, we've seen this before' - it misses the point just a tad, which is (imo) aimed at the disdain for constantly being tracked, and wanted to have a much more hacker friendly web experience (like the old days).
Things such as https:/serx.cf/ (https://searx.space) or https://github.com/benbusy/whoogle-search (https://whoogle.dcs0.hu) should prevail on a site such as HN - and furthermore, we should be setting the path with these tools for the future use of internet by non-power users.
Web2.0 boomer here. Can someone ELI5 what is an, "Airdrop?"
"This Instant Answer was made by the DuckDuckHack Community.

Developer: Cosimo Streppone

Developer: mintsoft"
Vetting early stage ventures is actually a large part of the VC job, not a tiny part. It's the entire reason for the accredited investor laws, to make it more difficult for scammers to scam the public.
Yeah, but SFH aren't the only housing type appreciating. This theory doesn't really hold when you consider both Condos, inner city locales, rural locales etc have also experienced rapid price appreciation.

Rental or not doesn't really matter. Fundamentally people just need a place to live, and depending on locale will make the tradeoff between renting and buying. If rental stock doubles overnight, housing prices would decline too, as cost of a mortgage becomes relatively less appealing. In this sense it's fungible.

But it's true there may be some subset of people who would only buy SFH regardless of price
Friends I’ve spoken to who live in Ukraine say the same thing, for what it’s worth. There seems to be a major disconnect between the recent alarm in the US/UK media and the actual residents of the place in question. Either these people are awfully naive or they recognize bluster when they see it.
Speak of the devil. I was just talking with someone about Neptune's Pride a few weeks ago and looked it up to see if it was still going. I really enjoyed that when it came out.

Have you ever written about the architecture of that and Blight anywhere?
Well, it's "early access".
Indeed. The richness of flavor of McPlants just blows my mind
That would be an interesting instant answer.
If your game is web-based, you could leverage WebRTC - where you only need to share a unique link between users - see peerjs (https://peerjs.com/) or croquet.io (https://croquet.io/docs/croquet/)
I think the chances are pretty good, I have an old Toshiba Chromebook 2 running Cloudready, several years past the end of official support.
The sentiment I knew at the time was a mix of excitement at the cool new tech, skepticism of the usefulness of it (my camp), and drooling over using the GPU you already had to make easy money.
Windows 98 has me so scarred that, decades later, I always assume my computer is going to crash at any memento, and still periodically hit Control + S as an idle twitch.

This must be someone younger than me.
Meanwhile you still need Google to search reddit as reddit's built in search remains trash.
Yeah, fly-back transformer hell.

I used to manage a network of about 400 computers. People would turn off their computer but the monitor would stay on, and if there were any loose components in there, I could hear the noise. I would wander around the building, trying to find the beast.

It was relatively rare to have a monitor that was that loud when it was synced up and busy showing the computer display.

Mass-market televisions, though... every damn one.
I was on the mailing list the day the paper was released, and played around with the original PoC.

Lots of us thought bitcoin was dumb back then. Lots of us still do.
I feel like someone whose business is freezing cord blood should probably cite some sources when discussing guidelines for delayed cord clamping, which reduces the amount of blood left in the umbilical cord. Honestly, I don't know much about it and you could very well be right, but it seems like a conflict of interest.
Imagine someone sending you $100 to your bank account. Except those $100 can be tokens. And your bank account is your crypto address.
It's a tool, but not a silver bullet. Mixers exist, for example. But that's not even the main point. The key holder has the ultimate power to simply throw away the key. There is no recourse for that.
This argument could be applied to the majority of media platforms and plenty of people pay a lot more than £40 once off for those.
> Aren’t game servers just chat servers with extra constraints on the messages, e.g. physics, chess rules, etc?

In a chat, information is simple, unordered, and public (to all parties).

Now imagine a turn-based strategy game where complex moves happen in random order and are known to all players regardless of unexplored territory.

For real-time games this analogy really breaks down.
And vacuum tubes are still in use, Geiger counters, Nixie tubes , microwave ovens (Klystrons), very high power RF amps, overpriced high end audio gear and so on.
God rest your soul Linode, we hardly knew ye.
It fascinates me to see how the ad algorithm responds to people who watch content in multiple languages. I study a lot of languages as a hobby, so I often watch YouTube videos that are in Mandarin, like news broadcasts and niche hobby channels. YouTube has now started showing me ads (in Mandarin) which seem to be targeted to Mandarin-speaking immigrant parents of young children who want a way to teach them Mandarin despite my, and my spouse’s, very busy careers. I find this amusing because I am a single, pasty white man in my 20s.
> I think that example breaks down for the laymen understanding of a transaction, since the robber is a different party than who gave the coins in the first place.

The government is certainly a different party that wasn't involved in the original transaction, right?

> What if an employer paid you in coins, so you take your coins and go home, then tomorrow your employer decides to take back the coins they gave you since they were not happy with your work (or they're just jerks)?

This can definitely happen, at least with checking accounts. It has happened to me once because an employer accidentally double-paid everyone, and they were able to withdraw one of the payments from our accounts. I'm not sure exactly how that works. It could just be that your employer essentially has full access to your checking account since you gave them your account and routing number. Incidentally, I was always curious what would have happened if I had moved everything out of my checking account before they make the correction. But regardless of how it is actually implemented in the banking system, it's pretty clear if your employer erroneously removed funds from your bank account, or if you cashed out the accidental second payment then quit your job, it would again just come down to the legal system.
Adding to com2kid's point (I had a CRT that I ran normally at 1600x1200, 80 or 85Hz), current displays still have problems with blacks. VA suffers black crush / gamma shift, IPS glows. Both suck in a way that CRTs did not. Don't even mention TN. OLED and microled monitors are not really here yet.
It was quite a shock to look on the retro_gaming subreddit and see people bragging about this beauty of a 27" Sony Panavision they'd found. The very one I had to pay to get rid of.

Who knew? I guess the old game programmers knew how to take advantage of CRT weirdness.
And that makes sense. Unconscious as in knocked out and unconscious as in someone complete unaware but eyes open, moving around on bath salts.
If you have a 114-page paper, you probably don't have a document of what every programmer should know about memory, especially since many programmers work in domains where some of the recommendations here aren't even possible to follow!

Here's a brief summary of what every programmer really needs to know about memory:

* There is a hierarchy of memory from fast-but-small to slow-but-large. The smallest and fastest is in L1 cache, which is typically on the order of 10-100 KiB per core, and isn't growing substantially over time. The largest cache is L3 cache, in the 10s of MiB, and shared between many or all cares, while your RAM is in the 10s of GiB. An idea of the difference in access times can be found here: https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832.

* All memory traffic happens on cacheline-sized blocks of memory, 64 bytes on x86. (It might be different on other processor architectures, but not by much). If you're reading 1 byte of data from memory, you're going to also read in 63 other bytes anyways, whether or not you're actually using that data.

* The slow speed of DRAM (compared to processor clock speed) means that it's frequently the case that trading off a little CPU computation time for tighter memory utilization. For example, storing a 16-bit integer instead of a pointer-sized integer, if you know that the maximum value will be <65,536.

* "Pointer chasing" algorithms are generally less efficient than array based algorithms. In particular, an array-based list is going to be faster than linked lists most of the time, especially on small (<1,000 element) lists.

That about covers what I think every programmer needs to know about memory. There are some topics that many programmers should perhaps know--cross-thread contention for memory, false sharing, and then NUMA in descending order, I think, but by the time you're in the weeds of "let's talk about nontemporal stores"... yeah, that's definitely not in the ballpack of everyone should know about them, especially if you're not going to mention when nontemporal stores will hurt instead of help [1]. Also, transactional memory is something I'd put on my list of perennial topics of "this sounds like a good idea in theory, but doesn't work in practice."

[1] What Drepper omits is that nontemporal stores will evict the cache lines from cache if they're already in cache, so you really shouldn't use them unless you know there is going to be no reuse.
> If you can do this, so can Google. This just shows they refuse to.

If they immediately blocked these sites then Google would get a lot of flack for censoring the web.

I don't like these sites as much as anyone. A while back I even tweeted about[0] having a dream where I wrote a browser extension to intercept and redirect these copycat sites to the real site.

In my mind this falls into the same category as phone spam. The phone networks could block these but how would you feel if you knew your phone company was auto-filtering incoming calls without you having any control over that? It's a very thin line.

Hopefully one days algorithms will be smart enough to auto de-rank copycat sites or blatant plagiarism so they don't show up on the first page.

[0]: https://twitter.com/nickjanetakis/status/1473671136928018434
I'm definitely onboard with the examples, where influential people's votes influence others, or an influential person votes against an expected outcome and draws ires.

The same is seen with asset holdings within known addresses, especially registered ENS domains. Known selling can mess with the future reputation in the community. Of course, it is super easy to build a new reputation from a new identity, a couple weeks in this market, but this is an unnecessary waste of time.
Try vultr, they've worked well for me for small->medium projects.
I'm sure this occurred to you, but is remote work an option?
It's nice to see a mostly-sane analysis.

But taking data given to you, under contract and in confidence, and using it to try to help a political campaign smear their opponent? I think he's downplaying how very much not cool that is.
> Chaotic systems are still deterministic.

Is there some definitive proof for this, or are we just taking it as a useful assumption?
One nice thing about turn-based games is that the logic for the game usually runs so fast that you can run it 'in-between' user events, so using a coroutine approach makes it pretty easy to write the game engine in a direct style with the rules explicitly coded in a straightforward fashion:

for turn in game:
for player in players:
action = await player.get_action()
engine.dispatch(action)

The nice thing is this approach supports remote proxy players - when you get an action from the local player you can send it out to all connected clients.
Having equity can be important for:

1) Cash out refis. e.g. if you want to renovate, purchase a rental property or better yielding investment with the funds. Say you can take out cash at 2% rate, and buy a SFH rental with a 6% cap rate... you can build net worth faster (at more risk)

2) Being able to move without writing the bank a check. If you're underwater, you will have to pay out of pocket to sell, and then save a new down payment. If you don't ever plan to move, then this doesn't matter.

I consider valuation before purchasing property, rather than just whether I like it. But many don't, and that's fine too.

Commercial RE will definitely be driven by the fundamentals though, so I'm sure we will see cap rate expansion there unless rates begin to fall again. Residential can move out of line with fundamentals, for sure
Sending "death threats" is a crime, it just isn't Murder
Presumably you count DuckDuckGo as a "Bing syndicate". I think that doesn't do it justice - many of the things I like about DDG are specific to DDG, and I could not care less whether the underlying crawl was run by Bing or not.
I found that nobody actually works in "pure bash". There's always sed, awk, perl, something to do fractional math, etc.
I think Linode is the only ad I’ve ever clicked on the internet.

Around 2003 they were advertising via static banner ads on sourceforge.net, and I remember the offer being great for the time. Root in a “VM” (it was user mode Linux in those days) for something like $15/mo. I hung out in their IRC channel with caker and the early crew. I remember them talking about unboxing and racking servers and what their DCs were like. Can you imagine just casually chatting with someone who has intimate knowledge of your EC2 machine and its network?! It was a great time.
I scored a free Xen VM when they were beta testing their transition and promptly had my first (and last so far!) experience getting a server hacked. Left it running with root ssh logins and a weak password.
I migrated to other hosting services before the scandals hit I think. I’m glad to only have great memories and wish them all the best!
I don't expect much in terms of longevity from any startup.
Yes, but again you could say the exact same thing about any capital or food the person had when they died, especially if they weren't extremely wealthy. But I thought we had agreed that destroying capital and food is not good. I'm just failing to understand the distinction between destroying a deceased person's capital, and destroying their money.
Heh, not to mention CDs, Blurays, HD TV (broadcasts), etc.

Although it does complicate things, much like happened when relatively stupid discs of spinning rust (which might lie about sync) transitioned to SSDs which are a blackbox with fancy algorithms (for cache, wear leveling, minimizing write amplication, etc), hidden storage, ram (for cache), even some with fast and slow flash. So now you have to be very careful to test long enough to exceed cache (flash or ram), and if randomly writing you have to sustain it till you consume the entire drive to ensure the housekeeping is included in your performance numbers.

So this raises the spectre of dimms with so many errors that a detectable number of lookups might require ECC corrections and additional latency. So we will need a SLA from the dimms, something like 99.99% of the time with less than X ns of latency.
"I think money is insanely dumb, and I suspect most of us do ... So it's ok if someone steals money."

I think I get your sentiment(?), but I'm uncertain of whether or not it matters how individuals value 'success' or 'currency' when it comes to personal property.
To extend to the logical consequences, I am not sure if people on HN would agree that personal property should be non-existent.
The Worst Timeline: A Printer Company Is Putting DRM in Paper Now
I've been remote for quite some time now. For run of the mill discussions with 2-3 people, I generally keep my camera off and would be annoyed if someone asked me to turn it on. I've also set an expectation that for impromptu discussion I'll be wherever I want to be and dressed however I want to be dressed.

But there are times when it's helpful, and I think it's appropriate for more structured meetings. I think a blanket policy either way would be a mistake.