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Ask HN: Why do Google/App Store search show ads and the real result together?
When I search for something on Google or Apple's App Store, I often see an ad at the top, followed by the same link below it. Aren't search engines smart enough to know these are the same links?

Example:
https://ibb.co/fHv6ThK
I hear you… 4 coffees a day here and can stop without any symptoms whatsoever! I too miss the routine though… I am extremely set in my ways ad the break I take and the routine to prepare my coffee is something I enjoy!
And you don't realize their codebase must also be really large like their number of employees. They must have a lot of code per employee.
I'd take a lot of anecdotes over studies any day. Studies gloss over the details (what kind of caffeine use, different physiologies, how they felt about the result) in ways that make them really difficult to use for personal decision-making.
I think the narrative that the UK people don't trust the government and in Sweden people do is not really true. Lockdowns is one thing but when time came for vaccination, the UK didn't have vaccine mandates and yet managed to have 90% vaccination rate which is similar to Sweden (depending how you count).

It seems that the UK could have followed Sweden's model with respect to lockdowns and would have achieved comparable results of adherence as well.
No spoiler. The books are filled with events.

They are well worth the read, IMO.
Shard manager: A shard management framework for geo-distributed applications
> putting those powers into the hands of the public helps to level the playing field

Agreed, but ...

> Powerful corporate and government actors have massive surveillance and data warehousing capabilities that aren't going away.

To nitpick: They aren't going away as long as we spread that message. It's not easy, but we can make them go away. People do accomplish things and change the world - just compare today's world with 500 years ago; all the differences the result of people changing things. Defeatism is trendy, and who benefits? (The status quo.)
Thats really good advice, was also still using the BX10 Storage Box. Upgraded now :)

Thanks!
For easier access, here's the link above: https://ibb.co/fHv6ThK
I'm gonna watch this video. What's been bugging me for a long time, as someone who didn't quite get to see all of the supposed ugliness of Subversion (which by description alone sounds an awful lot like the rerere situation with Git, which I have).

It really feels to me like a commit identifier should be the combination of a monotonically increasing number and a hash of the content, rather than an either-or. If I merge or rebase branches in git, I lose the index, just as I would in subversion. But at least in svn I have some notion of how far back commit 12345 is in the tree. ac4def2 could be HEAD or four years ago.
Very similar how communist revolutions happen. Inequalities are identified the people rise up and everything gets burned to the ground. All the old leaders removed and need inequalities spring from the ages.
You should not have faith in software. You should verify and isolate.
GDPR, as UK has its own rules (maybe it would be okay as well, but our legal team has huge backlog and for now on-premises works just fine)
How Aristotle Is Fixing Deep Learning's Flaws
>I'm not sure I understand your argument. There is sufficient time, with waves of colonisation to spread across the galaxy many times over.

yes, there is, if the achievement of Dyson sphere building happened long enough in the past for there to have been sufficient time. 50,000 years ago even, no. The length of human civilization is 6000 years approximately, what if this civilization much, much older than ours 6000 years ago just started building it's first Dyson sphere. For some reason the assumption is that it was far enough in the past that they COULD be everywhere if they wanted to.

But then the phrasing is not that they could be everywhere but rather they would be everywhere, hence no civilization has built Dyson spheres. A lot of this theory that the aliens will go about building lots and lots of Dyson spheres seems based on the assumption that they will be a lot like us, but actually I don't even think we would ever build more than one. If we built a Dyson sphere it would be because we were at the point we needed the energy and we had the technology to do it of course, and we had a political system that could harness everyone to do it. But once we had the Dyson sphere I am not sure we would ever be at the position were we would need another one. Since people tend to have fewer kids the higher their standard of living it may be that with the standard of living of Dyson sphere civ that our population would be at replacement level, that is to say we would never need to move from one Dyson sphere until the sun was just about used up.

So again, sure there is sufficient time with waves of colonization (started far enough in the past) - but waves of colonization assumes a species that has a colonization urge and perhaps one that has a colonization urge greater than that of humanity. That's a pretty big if, considering all the other big ifs in the whole building a Dyson sphere scenario.
There's a whole lot of information that the collective "we" decided to make public for various reasons. But those decisions making things public were in the context of the information being in some dusty town, county, or state office somewhere.

With more and more of that information being digital, we've more or less punted of the question whether all that information should still be public. Overall, more transparency is probably good but, as you say, it's not an unalloyed good as most of this information will live forever and be cheap/easy to access.
Well, mine is different. When I was a early teenager, the nights I would drink coffee, I would have ejaculation during sleep. After a couple of times I stopped drinking coffee.
This is exactly my point. Growing up I thought alphabetical order was pretty sorted, then I grew up, and discovered that not only are there more characters, but people don't even agree on the _ordering_ of characters.

Thus alphabetical order becomes ambiguous depending on where you are.

_then_ you discover some symbol sets / languages don't have an order at all. Oh the world is complicated. I wish I was 4 again.
Looks like you want a section view type feature, automatically at sea level. I think that would be useful if the color delta is right.
I don’t quit, but I’m trying to avoid drinking only coffee everyday – so I don’t build up a tolerance and can rely on it when I need a boost. I vary between coffee and tea. I avoid coffee past lunch time.
> Heads up it's heavily Asia centric.

Semiconductor manufacturing by now is heavily Asia centric. So it is natural for a YouTube channel about Semi conductor manufacturing to be Asia centric. That's where most of the world production is taking place!

I've seen the YouTube channel and it pays attention to ASML for example which is based in Europe. It doesn't ignore important players, even if they are non-Asian.

> but also dangerous because it's not comprehensive

Describing something as "dangerous" because it is not comprehensive is going too far. You can watch this channel and supplement your viewing with videos from other channels. Like any normal YouTube viewer does.

Nothing is ever truly comprehensive.
We don't have to lean into defeatism and give up.

I think the problem is we. Was there a we before? Maybe but there is no we anymore for sure.

The Net used to be kind of a different world that escaped how the offline world worked. But the old powers have crawled back into.
Feel this is part of why I enjoy Acme more than emacs as everything just connects
Yes, I do. I often do this (usually in detached HEAD mode!):

: ; $EDITOR some-file ...
: ; $build
: ; git add -e # take a few chunks, maybe change them
: ; git diff --staged; git status -uno
: ; # lather, rinse, repeat
: ; git commit -m '...' -ev
: ;
: ; git status -uno; git diff
: ; git add -e # ..
: ; # lather, rinse, repeat until happy
: ;
: ; git fetch origin
: ; git rebase origin/master
: ; # fix any conflicts
: ;
: ; # continue until all bug fix / feature
: ; # activity for this issue is complete
: ;
: ; # review my changes:
: ; git log --patch origin/master..
: ;
: ; # if I have to clean my history a bit:
: ; git rebase -i origin/master
: ; # re-order commits, `edit` commits, `drop`
: ; # commits as needed
: ; $build
: ; # fix remaining issues...
: ;
: ; # finally ready to push:
: ; git push myclone HEAD:refs/heads/this-thing
: ;
: ; # open a PR

Repeat as needed to deal with code review comments until done and integrated.
I was Mormon for a while too :-)

For the record (mainly for other people that may read this) it's not "caffeine" that the Church disallows, it's "hot drinks" which are commonly interpreted as tea and coffee. Since caffeine is a main ingredient, many believers (especially more Conservative and/or descendants of Mormon pioneers) believe that caffeine is the reason behind the ban on coffee/tea. Many others however believe caffeinated sodas are ok (I drank gallons of diet coke). Caffeine pills are a little more questionable but a personal decision. The Church mainly focuses on avoiding things that are addictive, which caffeine definitely is (even though many people are in denial :-D)

If you're going to take caffeine, 2:1 L-Theanine to Caffeine is absolutely amazing. I used Jet-Alert and Jarrow Formulas L-Theanine. Four Sigmatic mushroom coffee is also phenomenal. I also for a little while took a product that I think was called "Focus Now" on Amazon that is just 2:1 in a capsule, but I can't find it anymore now and the order history points to which is a bit more expensive:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0173H5QVU/ref=ppx_yo_dt...
Can Amazon appeal this? They were not a party to the case. And the parties reached a "consent position" (essentially a negotiated settlement), and the commissioner's decision was just over whether to approve or reject it.
`git add -e` is infinitely better.
> Don't lawyers already have access to case law like this?

Yes, through expensive services like Westlaw and Lexis.
> I am skeptical that putting the locus of control outside of oneself - even if partly or largely true as a description of reality - is a good solution

On the contrary, understanding and acknowledging what is outside one's locus of control is a sign of mental health.

> the learned helplessness and depression that may be magnified by doing that

It's the opposite. The "you can achieve anything if you try hard enough" message common in "positive thinking" clashes with reality.

The obvious implication is "it's my fault for not trying hard enough" which is a perfect example of learned helplessness.
I do that later. I do `git rebase -i` and add `exec` lines to build each commit that must build.
Is it actually possible to support and feed oneself for $5/hr and less? If it's too hard, plus considering people unable to do better jobs also have harder time saving money - why would you want to inflict that to anyone?
Essentially it’s a higher power burn it down approach. It would be like if the response to BLM was to raise cites where inequalities were happening. I’m sure most of the looters would not have minded that outcome.
mostly because republicans and democrats have bipartisanly decided to shoot corporate taxes into desparately stupid territory.
Sorry, i don't have a link. This info was given to us from mediqfinancial.com.au people (if I remember correctly)
I actually recently wrote a blog post[1] about the opposite experience of Building a caffeine tolerance vs quitting.

So to tackle this from the other way around, I can tell you that before I started drinking coffee, I had more creative energy, but it was much less focused and more spur of the moment. This was great for quickly following new things I want to learn, but also abandoning them the second I lost interest or got bored. I also had much less motivation in doing things around my apartment like dishes, laundry, and other uninteresting stuff, often resulting in a pretty gross pile up of chores. Problem solving wise, I was less able to focus this greater creative energy in solving the problem, but when I could, the outcome was better. Without caffeine I also had more anxiety, which sounds backwards considering how caffeine affects the body and brain, but for whatever reason rang true for me.

Now, with a caffeine tolerance that I never thought was possible, I find I am much more level-headed, and can focus on a problem, whether its coding, chores, or doing other hobbies I didn’t have the patience for like reading etc that might not be 100% interesting at first but become so. I am also a lot more even keeled in my energy, less enthusiastic, but it doesn’t seem to be a hindrance. It’s actually improved my relationships with others since I’m less reactive to things.

I am now able to sit down and work through harder problems coding without getting as distracted (although that certainly still happens), but I feel less “creativity” in my solutions to those coding problems that come up, so its a bit of a trade off.

Part of me wants to quit caffeine to compare just one more time, but I’m now stuck in a space where if I dont have coffee at least every other day, I get severe headaches and lethargy. This is a drug, and while its great to be able to drink coffee and participate more in cafe culture, it causes very real physical symptoms if you stop consuming it.

[1] https://medium.com/@TestingInProd/building-a-caffeine-tolera...
Well, then I guess it comes down to how you define "employment". I've never thought about that before. If I'm employed as an assassin, I guess I'm employed, even though the work I am doing is illegal. tl;dr: yes.
Years ago I suffered dizzy spells (once a year or so) that completely incapacitated me. Doctor suggested might be due to caffeine and it was! Didn't have any withdrawal problems, feel better than previously.
I didn’t expect to end up reading this whole thing, but I did and really enjoyed it! Love a good old fashioned travelblog without the bs “hacks”, ads, and affiliate links.
I don't deny that the index is a power feature and that it's difficult to explain it to newbies.

Perhaps there's room for new UIs.

All I'm saying is I need this power. And it has to be easy to reach for it.
I also tried to quit for 2 months in 2021. Withdrawal for 5 days — only headaches for 2, and realising that sleep is better for 3 days more. Felt excellent to feel mentally awake without stimulants. Eventually went back to 2-3 coffees a day because I like drinking it.
Oh no, Amazon gets only a carrot, not a carrot and a stick? How terrible. /s
Too much caffeine (5+ cups a day): Bad sleep, wake in the middle of night with pounding heart
Zero caffeine (for two years): Okay, everything is fine, but sometimes miss coffee boost and taste.
Two cups a day: Everything is fine and I get to enjoy coffee. Never in the evening though.

Moderation! Same with everything.
There are I think about 5 million opinions from that project, yes. I wouldn't say it's blackops, feel free contact me on reddit.
>B) For the love of whatever deity you worship. PLEASE DOCUMENT YOUR DEPENDENCIES CORRECTLY. This is non-trivial and doesn't mean "Works on CentOS6". I mean at least tested on Python x.y with depA version 1.2.3. Python isn't as bad a npm, but it's getting there...

That is why for R code, I really like the renv project.

https://www.rstudio.com/blog/renv-project-environments-for-r...
It's degrees of the same thing.

Don't normalize surveillance.
Okay. Looks like there is an issue for duplicate profile entries already; just hasn’t gotten attention. https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/5587 I’ll take a look.

The verbosity of “legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.ripgrep” in the search results may be too much. We can omit the default portions or provide the full detail somewhere less prominent.
Caffeine is OK if your sleep is fine with and without caffeiene. Caffeine can often mask sleep problems. Better to fix those first, and then if you have one bad sleep in ten, or you just need a boost in the morning, sure, why not.
Poverty is not an unfortunate side effect of civilisation. Indeed, economic gradient is the fundamental _basis_ of civilisation.

I've been reading a lot about World Systems Theory (inspired almost entirely by books from r/AskHistorians). Particularly at the moment, Ian Morris' "Why the West Rules, for Now". It's abundantly clear that at least on the macro level, classes, countries and civilisations escape poverty all the time. See civil wars, revolutions and the beneficiaries of collapsed empires for example. The simple fact is that poverty is escaped by sheer brute force, not by virtue.

In the archetypical confrontation between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, I side with X. The idea that poverty can be managed from within society's formal power structures is an eternal carrot of carefully calibrated false hope. The idea that we can fix poverty is itself what perpetuates it. The idea of the possibility of overcoming poverty serves more as a means to ignore the fact that civilisation is fundamentally dependent on economic gradients.

The West embraced economic gradient and lifted itself out of poverty with the brute forces of colonialism. China is now doing the same and will most likely overtake the West. We all know this hard truth about escaping poverty, let's not pretend otherwise.
Reverie Labs (YC W18) is hiring front end engineers to tackle cancer
Statistics can be just as obviously irrelevant to an individual as an anecdote to a big picture. A correlation between caffeine consumption and productivity or work well-being means nothing in case of an individual. Studies can't tell how individuals react, and I have a hard time seeing how a study would be relevant to OP in any way.

OP wasn't asking for statistics, or "the big picture". Of course anecdotes from other people can't really tell how things work for OP either, but I think they were looking for experiences that might be relatable.
nix search nixpkgs mypackage

nix profile install nixpkgs#mypackage
Thankfully none of the (many) speeding tickets I got in my youth are showing up.
Putin’s Botched Job
They took the easy top down approach. That’s not how power structures are challenged in real life. Useful skills would have been to help weaker kids challenge power structures and teach stronger kids to defend them. That’s real worlds useful skills
How is harassment as a service not a thing yet?

You get a "Google alert" for your target. The service presents you with several buttons:

1. Send an AI written email
2. Post a link to the new info on their Facebook page
3. Tweet an image macro with the incriminating text embedded @ them
A lot of blogging is shallow or wrong or irrelevant even if it is high quality. Knowledge is free, knowledge alone isn't important or very impressive. We don't get self doubt from not finishing the encyclopedia.

You could be in the top 5% out of millions of engineers but that still leaves many who are better than you. You can go your whole life never running out of stress because there's some hypothetical way to be better. But that's a choice. It's not worth living in self doubt or pressure to catch up to the absolute top. There's no super bowl to win.

You only need so much tech knowledge before your actual limiting factors are wisdom of how to apply it, which only comes with time, or non-technical development.
No way.

Up to 400mg per day has great research suggesting it's long term safe with minimal side effects. In that range, it's basically a performance enhancing drug. If it weren't ubiquitous, it would probably be banned from athletic competitions.
Its difficult to define terms like ultra rich and middle income earner, but my guess is that if you increased the top marginal tax rates such that rate on the "ultra rich" was something like 70% (including capital gains, etc), you could completely eliminate taxes for the bottom 50%.
Limiting complexity is often not an option, because the complexity is of the subject area.

Things like image format decoders are easiest to produce formal analysis and proofs for. It's sadly still too expensive and slow to produce.

Fuzzing as a mandatory testing step could be useful in some cases.

I agree about bugs in specifications though :(
If you get it working, please share a flake. :)
I want to trust Apple more than a random 3rd party app in general but regardless I don't think you have an option for alternate SMS on iOS. Anyway the problem here, I think, is that you can somehow send an iMessage (not SMS?) via an account that is backed by an email address instead of a phone number. So even if texts/SMS could have an alternate app, iMessage would still be accepting messages from bad accounts.
Drinking only decaf coffee and decaf tea now, as long as I can obtain it. Which means all "normal" days, but there are exceptions for longer distance travel (rare).

I was never hooked up on coffeine, so no "cold turkey" withdrawal symptoms. I am six weeks in.

I sleep much better and it definitely helps my concentration. Used to be too jittery before.
Being Dutch living in one of those barely visible dark blue stretches of below sea level literal low-lands makes one rather aware of our precarious national position as far as rising sea levels are concerned.
Linux's GPLv2 licence is routinely violated (2015)
Right if talking top notch that’s 3-4M/y alone. Admittedly I’m completely unaware what the splunk’s ballpark rate is (i heard it’s quite high) but still I doubt that very many companies are at that scale. Also in the current market convincing execs to save on something that doesn’t translate directly to cogs can be a challenging proposition =)
I think the title is a bit provocative / incorrect. There is nothing better about the scientific result of this.

The title could be, "How to improve engineering of scientific code".
Read something. Close the book. Try to do the thing described. Struggle. Get it right. Repeat until you can't get it wrong. Move on to the next thing.

Say you're reading a book on programming with some examples to do something such as opening a file and reading it in language X. You read the code example. You close the book, you try to do it from memory. You struggle a bit until you get it right. You start over from a clean slate until you do it casually. Then move on to the next one.

A bad way to do it would be to read the example, say "Oh, I get it" and move on to the next example. Test yourself by closing the book.

This works for many things. You're watching a video about how to make a knot? Watch the video, then pause it, get a piece of thread/wire/cord, and do it. You most often than not will figure out that you thought you got it but you didn't.

A maths/physics/engineering book? Same thing. Read the problem statement. Go over it/try and solve it.

Thinking you "got it" is a hypothesis. Aggressively and systematically test hypotheses.
Worked for me – less anxiety, better sleep, easier wake up and I feel like I can focus better during the day.

Trick for me was to not quit cold turkey, but to slowly decrease the amount of ground coffee I used. The rest was decaf. Did this slowly over 2 weeks and then the week following stuck to decaf only, and then quit.