skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed this many times too, particularly recently, and I call it "Google Alzheimer's" --- what was once a very powerful search engine that could give you thousands (yes, I've tried exhausting its result pages many times, and used to have much success finding the perfect site many dozens of pages deep in the results) of pages containing nothing but the exact words and phrase you search for has seemingly degraded into an approximation of a search engine that has knowledge of only very superficial information, will try to rewrite your queries and omit words (including the very word that makes all the difference --- I didn't put it in the search query for nothing!), and in general is becoming increasingly useless for finding the sort of detailed, specific information that search engines were once ideal for.

To add insult to injury, if you do try to make complex and slightly varying queries and exhaust its result pages in an effort to find something you know exists, very often it will think you're a robot and present you with a CAPTCHA, or just ban you completely (solving the CAPTCHA just gives you another, and no matter how many you solve it keeps refusing to search; but they probably benefit from all the AI help you just gave them, what bastards...) for a few hours.

Google had the biggest most comprehensive index for many years, which is why it was my sole search engine. Now I'm often finding better results with Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, and even Yandex, but part of me is very worried that large and extremely valuable parts of the Web are, despite still being accessible, simply "falling off the radar".
Ability to repay is one of the top credit factors. Having the existing debt paid off improves ability to repay any future debt. If anything, the prospect of Bill Gates going around randomly paying debts makes issuing debt more appealing.
> compare this state to opioid country...

That was a bit gratuitous.

> ... and we're doing great.

OK...

> Most of the people I knew from high school have had to leave because they can't afford it here now.

So most of the people you went to high school with have been forced to leave (for "opioid country"?) - why? Because they'd be poor otherwise? Maybe even homeless? That's a bit odd for a place that's "doing great".

> But these are signs of a good economy...

These are signs of an economy with high cost of living, lots of high-paying jobs, and not much place in it for those who can't get one of those high-paying jobs.

> ... and low poverty.

"Most of the poor people leaving" is not normally what I think of when I hear "low poverty".

I mean, yes, if California weren't creating all these high-paying jobs, there wouldn't be the demand, and so housing would be affordable. That's all true. And yet, I think on your own evidence you're painting a happier face on the situation than it deserves.
(Quickly hits Google.)

I'm not going to bother keeping up with every tweet from our cheeto-in-chief to keep track of things that might offend politically correct people this week. There is no limit to what can potentially offend others. There is a limit to how much of my attention that I wish to devote to the topic.

If that bothers you, perhaps you should reconsider what offends you. Because like it or not, "shithole" is an accurate description of Nigeria. It would not be a fair description of, say, Botswana.
The weight still has to go somewhere but this makes me wonder if trailers could have battery packs too, maybe even drive wheels? With electric power trains we could rethink the whole arrangement.
Couldn't law enforcement cut internet access before the raid to prevent this?
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If you think that is contradictory to the original poster, you might think they said something I'm pretty sure they didn't.
That makes sense, but how do you encode it? The auth system now does not return authorized or not authorized, but authorized or maybe authorized? Seems much easier to just rely on auth being a yes or no. Possibly with an expiration for how long a yes can be trusted.

That is, how is it simpler to assume that the data you get back could be wrong? Now, anyone involved with the system seems to have to know how everyone involved in the system interprets results.
> The “TON Blockchain” will consist of a master chain and 2-to-the-power-of-92 accompanying blockchains

> “Infinite Sharding Paradigm” to achieve scalability

> “Instant Hypercube Routing”

> "it will also use 2-D Distributed Ledgers."

There's no doubt that if you want to make a quick buck, this buzzword-laden series of claims will attract many greater fools. But the ongoing crypto-hubris is unattractive to say the least.
I find these style of comments very distasteful.
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And by that I really mean it doesn't matter why they forgot. The fact that they forgot means there's a sickness.
> Of course it could be premature optimization -- if 99.99% of the water is wasted in other uses.

Yards. (At least in my part of the country, you have to water them fairly heavily.)
Seems legit... :(
I notice Uber have probably-intentionally crossed jurisdictions here.

Some guy in Canada pages a number - as the company training teaches - hen cops show up. That's plausibly not an attempt to fail to comply with a court order. Pretty sure telling your boss your office is being raided isn't an easy thing to prove contempt for, especially if it's company policy in subpoena-able training manuals.

Then some anonymous team initiates a nuke-it-from-orbit sitewide computer lockdown remotely from the US. Where they're quite likely fairly well shielded from Canadian contempt-of-court rulings.

Sneaky.
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Can confirm. Google, the search company, has lst the ability to accurately search even the data that it holds, never mind any other.
you'd think it would at least come up in the internet archive if not anywhere else.
And as far as I understand, someone still needs to have that data to enable syncing of pruned nodes correct?

If that's correct, then doesn't widespread usage of pruning threaten the ability of new nodes to get up to date?
That might be the case in the UK, but it's definitely not in the US. People didn't get serious about avoiding drinking and driving until the punishments got serious.

It still wouldn't be considered honorable here to turn in a friend for drunk driving (unless it was obscenely over the limit). It would be mainly considered a failure of friendship that you didn't confront them and instead called it in.

Even in rural Ireland there was a relatively recent backlash because they could keep driving home drunk down the side of the road with the hazard lights on.

Also, with a 12-month ban in the UK, they must not have been enforcing it much because it wouldn't take long to have most of the drunk drivers banned. So my suspicion is that enforcement increased as well. People rarely fall for propaganda alone when there is nothing that makes it concrete.
I guess that'd work - the patient is going to stop worrying about biocompatibility long before the titanium gets near its melting point!
Yes good point - I was replying to the above comment:

> It's being hyped like TRON
Their couch is going to be considerably more comfy with $76M worth of spare change dug out from under the pillows.
Sounds like amazing parents.
For the Ireland case we're talking about data about a third party criminal whose data happens to be stored by MSFT exclusively in another country.

That's not the case here with Uber. Uber itself, a Canadian company subject to Canadian law, is being compelled to provide data relevant to its own business within Canada. I would be very surprised if Canada allowed businesses to not provide relevant financial information to the tax man.
It sounds like your complaint is about chosen seating arrangements by airlines rather than the planes themselves. The 787 11-wide configuration has little to do with the plane. You can be packed like a sardine on a 380 as well.
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Which is solved by fast sync/warp sync?
Firefox, Chrome and Safari all broken on iOS.

Google could catch this automatically...
This is ridiculous. Not that I'm defending Transmission on their slowness here, but this is fundamentally a chrome issue. Websites being able to access services running on localhost is a security vulnerability, a sandbox escape. People assume restricting incoming connections to localhost means that only localhost can connect, because that is exactly what that is MEANT to do. I don't think it's reasonable for every service in the world to now assume the loopback interface is hostile because browsers can't get their act together.
Chrome history may as well be useless and/or developed by the same people who created Reddit search.
Reminds me, got called for mentioning the cost of expanding California's airports as a justification for California's high speed rail.

Combining the two would make more sense, meaning put the airport farther away where land is cheap and the flights won't annoy people and run passengers too and from via a high speed shuttle. Bonus you can put security on the pickup side of the rail line.
Who did the "denying" though?

Someone in Canada just paged a number they'd been trained to when cops show up. That could easily be no more obstructing that calling your lawyer immediately (depending on what you could prove they knew about what'd happen then).

Some team in San Francisco remotely shut down (and possibly deleted data/evidence from) company machines. Anybody on that team might want to forgo any planned trips to Canada, but it'd be a long stretch to think Canada would try to extradite them to face contempt of court charges.
Heard people are using Go for scripting in Google? Which is pretty counter-intuitive for me.
From bits and pieces they've posted, it sounds like they use some all-encompassing glob of statistical inference that they call RankBrain, which almost certainly includes some deep-learning components. They've said that the old PageRank algorithm is now one input into RankBrain.
Unless there is no such thing as a state "Unbridled capitalism" and "unfettered crony capitalism" are in-distinguishable.

Capitalism as we use the term was defined/coined in the age of the East India Company and general European Colonialism. The European decimation of India/Asia, Africa, The Americas: these are the true realizations of capitalism.
Yes, there needs to be a dozen or so archive nodes.
> Melodies are quite simple, conceptually -- there are only 12 notes.

> Whereas for chords, I couldn't personally begin to count them, but according to the first source which popped up in Google, for four-note chords, there are 495.

OK, but one note isn't a melody. How many notes are in a melody? 10? 20? Even with 10 notes, 12^10 > 495, by a long shot.

Then add timing and rhythm. No, melodies are not simpler than chords.
and so? they could do that with their paycheck too.

No system in the world is going to stop people from doing stupid shit - you try the best you can, but at the end of the day, people have to choose to do the right thing.
It's like their are their Nigerian Prince.

Thank you.
What was the name of it? Or do you have to keep it a secret?
salaries aren't paid on a "cost plus" model of "housing" + "schooling" + "discretionary for workers", it is paid based on the negotiating power of the employee. The way salaries might be impacted is through increasing the pool of people willing to work in the SFBA.
Haha, yeah. It has not born much fruit yet, so it still feels like a bit of a loss, except I did learn a lot by doing.
The main gist is whatever you add to the company stack, the company is now responsible to maintain, possibly forever. My current situation is basically this times 10 since the people who did exciting tech left.

If the team and managers agree, by all means use the exciting tech, but it isn't a decision to make in isolation.

The canonical link on choosing boring technology is http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology.

A relevant example is microservices which are all the rage right now. But, you have to be this tall to use them[0]. You cannot effectively just say you are going to do microservices, especially if you don't know how to do microservices.

Alternatively, consider the potential problems for your company if you had introduced React on your own in a core business element, and your company had a patent beef with Facebook, and FB hadn't switched to the MIT license.

[0]: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MicroservicePrerequisites.htm...
Kazakhstan, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine fall below the middle of the corruption perceptions list. China and Morocco fall about the center of that list.

I can easily see this tool having been built for operating in those kinds of countries.

What's upsetting people is that this got used in a country which is nominally not corrupt in order to hide from "proper" law enforcement.

If this was being used to hide from a raid in Russia, people would be cheering instead.
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Not the way I see them used. HBase is quite versatile, Facebook's HydraBase is a good example of doing things people think they need Cassandra for https://code.facebook.com/posts/321111638043166/hydrabase-th.... It's also telling they as the creator abandoned Cassandra, but C* has some very niche conceivable uses (eager replication cache for metadata?). Mongo is just stupid.
I cannot tell you what's the no. 3 language used by humans, but it's not go, not python...
that's been my experience too, sometimes I need the power of Google to infer the tenuous relationships my mind is able to regurgitate on a subject I can't recall precise terminology for. I cast a loose net of terms fumbling for something feeble I can hook on to dredge up from my mind to unveil the whole glorious thing I'm chasing.
In news that will shock only Americans, it turns out the government is better than the private sector at offering public utilities. :)
The whole point I was trying to make was, rather than learn from our own history and experience, the leaders chose to keep doing the same things the British did.

I look at Pre Independence India as a bunch of decentralised organizations/kingdoms/markets which were producing goods and maybe services that were sought after all over the globe. This is what made mercantilism and later colonialism attractive in the first place.

Then the British established controls which promptly destroyed Indian advantages in favor of their own.

These are the lessons which the post Independence governments should have carried forward. Gandhi understood these at a very deep level, and hence the satyagrahas. And the village economy model, which though unworkable, emphasized the central principle of decentralization. This understanding makes him stand out.

Whereas though Nehru has to be applauded for his efforts as prime minister, time has shown that he and his family never had the deep understanding about economics and history that Gandhi did.
AWS Aurora supports cross region read replicas. Is geo-replication something different?
It's also used in GTA video game for the map browsing.
add tbs=li:1 to the url:

http://google.com/search?q=hacker+news&tbs=li:1
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16153780
Do we see a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman in the wild?

"Of course this is not a failure of Capitalism. No True Capitalists would do such a thing. What you need is more Capitalism to solve this problem."
Reddit's going that way though. I frequently like to browse subreddits in incognito mode. Reddit's now A/B testing a "feature" where they force certain sessions to log in, or else they can't see anything.

Profiles are now being transitioned to a social media profile, where it's more like a MySpace page. You can get around it for now (add "/overview" to the end of the URL), but it's default for a lot of users' profiles.
Sounds like this is one of the cases where an "evolutionary algorithm" is essentially brute force search.
Destroy Evidence is strong phrasing. The evidence still exists, its just no longer within the scope of the police warrants. My interpretation of the article is that the information is all stored on Uber's US-based servers and the tool remotely revokes the satellite offices' connection to the servers, probably also shutting down the machines so nothing is left recoverable in memory.

In weaker, but likely relatively accurate words: They're logging all of their remote users out of Google Drive so the authorities can't access the spreadsheets there. In essence. That's what I'm reading.

Point being, Uber could still be compelled to present the evidence in court, and Uber may comply with that compulsion. Does a Canadian warrant give the Canadian government the right to access information stored on a server in the United States? The answer to that is an emphatic No. Does it give them the right to possess an API key which would allow them to access information stored on a server in the United States? Does this change if it could be reasonably expected that the information was, at some point, in the ephemeral memory, not even a hard disk as far as we know, of a computer on Canadian soil?

I really don't know. We all knew the global power of the internet would begin to raise questions like this, and our legal framework simply hasn't dealt with them yet.
I also don't have this option.
I have heard of that applied to software development - when a bug happens there two bugs effectively to fix: the bug itself and the reason the bug slipped past testing and QA.
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You're right. Or just the fact that Brits voted him number one greatest Britons of all times in 2002.

All times. Above Sir Isaac Newton. Above Charles Darwin. Above William Shakespeare. Reality is stranger than fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_Britons
> has seemingly degraded into an approximation of a search engine that has knowledge of only very superficial information, will try to rewrite your queries and omit words (including the very word that makes all the difference...)

I think the biggest irony is that the web allows for more adoption of long-tail movements than ever before, and Google has gotten significantly worse at turning these up. I assume this has something to do with the fact that information from the long tail is substantially less searched for than stuff within the normal bounds.

This is a nightmare if you have any hobbies that share a common phrase with a vastly more popular hobby, and is especially common when it comes to tech-related activities. I use Linux at home, and I program VBA at work. At home Linux is crossed out of most of the first few pages, and I just get a ton of results about Windows, and at work VBA is crossed off and I get results about VB6 and .NET.

Completely. Useless.

I can only imagine this has something to do with their increasing reliance on AI, and the fact that the AI is probably incentivized to give a correct response to as many people'above the fold' as is possible. If 95% of people are served by dropping the specifically-chosen search term, then the AI probably thinks it's doing a great job.

It seems like the web is being optimized for casual users, and using the internet is no longer as skill you can improve to create a path towards a more meaningful web experience.
> there is already a large base of pre-existing users of Telegram

The base is 180 million MAUs as of December 2017, and they're not growing as fast as other messaging services have in the past (in Feb 2016 they had 100 million MAUs, so in just under two years that's ~80% growth).

So yes, they have a large base of pre-existing users. But I don't think it is clear that this base of users is going to continue to grow exponentially, and they're not growing as fast as they arguably should be.
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I feel that it is intentionally bad so people don't realize how much Google knows about them.
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> shell scripts aren't a programming language

Please explain why. Because simple observation seems to prove the opposite.
This is basically my exact experience. Once a long time ago I made DDG my default browser and it stuck. I really like using “!g” to switch quickly to google.

If my search bar DDG search doesn’t return satisfactory results, I hit my address/search bar key (cmd+l for me), press left arrow/start-of-line key, type “!g “ and hit return. That gives me a google result page quicker than the time it would take to reach the mouse. It’s become a good workflow.

I’m having to use it less and less. DuckDuckGo is getting really good.
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Thank you for bringing this up. It would make my month if someone would chime in with a solution. I didn't know about this problem until very recently, and it caused some major headaches in my business.
Would be nice to see transaction throughput next to these.
I've had this happen too. It's not just you. This has happened to me repeatedly and it is so, so frustrating.
Where is the C/C++ support!!!!
I recently made a comment on something where I already knew I didn't care what the article said, I just wanted to read the comments because I knew THOSE would be more interesting than the article.

I did have a valuable reaction to add to one of said comments and did as much.

Sometimes it is more about the conversation than the content.
Vancouver multi-unit under construction is about 33k units, which is 10k above the 23k Seattle had under construction in July of 2017 (the first figure I found on google).

Vancouver is seriously building wildly more units than the historical norm. https://twitter.com/YVRHousing/status/950813525403774976

At some point if this isn't working we have to stop saying well let's add even more supply" and start looking to other solutions.
Gates is worshipped by most millennials, including the techies.

For those of us who've been around for a while - as your reference to Slashdot points out - this can be surprising considering just how hated he was a decade or two ago when Microsoft was in a much different position than they are now.

I still have a negative opinion of him, and feel his business practices were extremely negative to the world.

But I will give credit to his ability to white-wash his image via numerous PR campaigns (Reddit AMAs, lots of other blatant social manipulation in the media). He and his marketing team have played the long game, and have been brilliant.
”Meanwhile, federal law enforces (under very stiff penalty) that individuals cannot negotiate nor be given a discount from the base rate.”
I negotiated a discount for an operation a few years ago. Is this law you’re speaking of relatively new?
> How is this common sense?

Because it's in practice impossible to index every page. Index selection has always been a core quality feature in search engines. (Both re: which pages get included, and re: which pages get included in which layer of index in multi-layered index schemes).

> Yes we do know. He was using Google to find his own old stuff over the years. Some content he was referring regularly disappeared from Google's results. These pages had previously been included in the results.

That's just a guess, it's not actually stated anywhere in Tim's article. But yes, given he did not say otherwise, what you propose is probably what happened. He had a couple of pages which he knew were not found on Google, and checked whether they could be found on Bing.

But my whole point is that this kind of methodology is total garbage. And then he's making pretty absolute statements, like his tweet about the post "TIL that both Bing and DuckDuckGo apparently index a lot more of the Web than Google does".
what does scripting mean?
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Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16150186