skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You may realize they also track you on YouTube, Gmail, Chrome, Android, Gmaps, and all the other services they run. Yes, you can live Google-free. I’ve been doing it for many years.

You can, however all these alternatives are measurably worse in terms of features and ease-of-use, so much so that switching to them is both painful at first and frustrating on a daily basis. Consider the sheer number of people who in every DDG thread keep on saying "well yes DDG results are worse than Google's, but you can use Google from DDG so it's okay". Well it's not okay for most people.

Also, bangs seem like a great idea at first, until you realise that Google simply does not need them to return relevant results! Then they suddenly seem way less differenciating and more like an acknowledgement of the inferiority of DDG compared to Google. And as a user, I'd much rather type "duckduckgo" and get the official site at first then the wikipedia entry (with a complimentary knowledge box on the side) than have to decide first where I want to look and then type "!w duckduckgo".

Even in this very thread, we can read stuff like

> "I've been using DuckDuckGo for years now. It's not perfect but if you think carefully about your query it will work fine.

> For me the killer feature is DDG's bang commands (https://duckduckgo.com/bang)
prepend "!w" for wikipedia, "!imdb" for movie trivia stuff, etc."

Well, Google will achieve the same or better results without this need to mentally switch context. This is a feature, and a key differentiator.
As a user of feedity I'd just like to take a moment to say Thanks!
​Linus Torvalds takes a break from Linux
I don't sleep in the office, so my commute is 45min x 2, which as far as I know is quite average.

I'm in Stuttgart, Germany, it's a very crowded town with very narrow roads though, so there's certainly a reason for this.
Area Light Shadows Part 1: PCSS
Besides the privacy issues, the single most frustrating thing is it's dropping of keywords that are critical to the query so it can pretend that it always has search results ready for you (here are zillion results found in 0.0000001 seconds!)
A little tangential, but is this effect actually documented by Murray Gell-Mann himself? From what I can see I find no evidence to suggest that he actually experienced this effect. If so, it seems like Chriton's anecdote is using some deceitful rhetoric.
I should have also mentioned... Having an interest in the craft you seek to master is important for many people as well. It's going to be pretty hard to become highly skilled at something you find boring or useless.
> I've seriously given it a shot, but it's just not the same. I really want DDG to succeed, but don't think it's fully-there, yet. I get significantly more relevant results with google.

Why not stick with DDG and only fall back to google with the !g bang command when it fails?
There should be a new word for this type of gentrification.
> Now that is the type of thing that screams for supporting evidence.

I think the direction of mainstream programming languages over the past 20 years is overwhelmingly clear about this.

There's only one language that I know of that's still in popular use and that likes weak typing.

> That depends on the implementation. I would say Perl handles

Yep that's the one.
Guardians of the Truth (2007)
Trading Off Security and Performance Thanks to Spectre and Meltdown
> Even if you think it is self serving, we should encourage such self serving behavior.

Exactly, if philanthropy is self-serving then what does that make the act of dissuading such behavior?

People seem to get involved with the argument rather than outcomes nowadays. A frequent argument is that "Bezos should pay his taxes because I do." While I do feel as though it's unfair that I loose more of my "living money" to taxes, I don't forget for one second what those taxes are doing: waging wars over fossil fuels and progressing climate change. Who cares if the cause is personal glory; if the effect is a better world?

I'd rather have the unfairness of ego-charitable billionaire tax avoidance than the two-term shortsightedness of politician power mongering.
Keeping the Culture in Remote Culture
In English:

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
This. I keep Chrome only to test and sometimes use their dev tools though I am also productive with the ones from Firefox. They both have different things to offer.
theyre not unemployed because theyre not in the workforce
That would be 4h in my calculation, because I counted the time per day you can't freely allocate.
I got downvoted the last time I posted this (love you HNers) but DDG states they're more than just a skinned Bing: https://duck.co/help/results/sources
I've used DDG for close to a year now and every time I go to google.com and search it feels like a bloaty Yahoo style web.

I've also noticed that when I don't get the results I want on DDG and try Google instead, it too gives me bad results. Probably a sign I should use some other words in my query.
Yep, they end up as far south as the Bronx, and are pretty ubiquitous even in Yonkers. Curiously, I have not observed Lime bikes being strewn around haphazardly in White Plains. I would venture a guess that's because the company pays more attention to the city that explicitly sanctioned them.
It's expensive, and doesn't include anything with the end of the fuel life (or fuel costs) [0].

[0] TABLE 2-5 is a nice summary, https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/powerplants/capitalcost...
My friends often complain about how early the holiday season starts. The advice in this article sort of explains that phenomenon: competition drives up advertising prices near the holiday, which makes earlier days more valuable for advertisers.

Edit- plenty of cynical fodder there to equate “holiday season” with “days with holiday-themed advertising”
Cool demo here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjZP_wBQJ2U&t=6m40s

piping a few cli tools together and inferring a spec for the node package json format. Those cli tools are small & fast native binaries compiled by GraalVM.
Will they make me use AMP? I don't want to use AMP.
The demographic crisis has a lot to do with economics, Europeans choosing to have (if have at all) children later in life. And we need to acknowledge the fact that Merkel did accept a lot of immigrants fleeing from war in middle-east, no thanks to western policies there. I really don't think that religion is the issue here.
We used to call them MUDs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD

Some are even still alive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MUDs
OP's point is the other way around. They are wondering if Mozilla can afford the financial hit of not getting that money from Google anymore. If Google leaves that space, then Bing won't have real competition here, and will pay substantially less.
All of the physical mechanisms required to allow a user replaceable battery are fragile and take up valuable space. It’s not a simple matter of just allowing it. It could actually lead to more repairs due to failure of those parts, and you certainly could no longer make the backs out of glass or other exotic materials. They would all have to be plastic.
These guys may be able to provide a plan to get you more clicks and purchases, but they definitely aren’t the ones to tell you how the business of selling stuff works. For example (from the article):

We have that there to remind ourselves that everything in ecommerce (in all business, really) comes down to only three factors:
- How many visitors you get
- How many of them purchase (conversion rate), and
- How much money they spend when they do (average order value)

Multiply the three together and, voila, you’ve got a formula for how much money you’re making. That’s it. That’s the whole game.

No. That's the formula for revenue. Not for income. And to show you how shallow their thinking is, later in the article:

At least 20% off (anything less than this tends to be ineffective unless your discount is at least $100 in raw dollar amount).

Don’t bother with coupon codes. Just mark down your site (or a particular collection, if that’s your style). This makes it easier for your customers, especially on mobile.

If you don’t discount much, you can keep that sale discount down at 20%. If you give people 20% often, you probably need to go higher to get people to take advantage of the offer.

Indeed, giving away your profits does tend to motivate a customer. Unless, of course, your competitor is paying people to buy stuff.

So give these guys consulting money, give Google and Facebook ad money, and give your customers your profits. Everyone gets to declare a big victory, except the person making the sale.
Feel free to check https://www.channelshunt.com/category/How-To/Programming/
Phones being disposable isn't going to change, so looking at the annual cost of ownership is really all I care about. If a $1K iphone lasts 5 years vs my $170 android lasting 2 years, its still a better deal to simply spend $170 on the android. Better yet they usually last far more than 2 years, you just don't necessarily have the latest OS, which I mean, seeing as these devices change so little now, who cares?
You're strawmanning. It doesn't matter if you think people should live there for 30+ years, because that's what's already happening.
Gravity follows the space just as light does nothing slows it down other than space curvature which doesn’t technically slows it down just can increase its path.

Gravity cannot travel faster than light in vacuum traveling faster than light in a medium is possible and happens all the time in nuclear reactors for example.

Since interstellar space isn’t empty light can lag slightly behind a gravitational wave but it does not affect the ultimate speed limit of the universe.
If you see such behavior, I encourage you to look for personal relationships. Many of those situations that I have observed the grifting new hires were friends of the investors or founders, etc.
> Hitler spent far more time blaming Democracy

"democracy is fundamentally not German: it is Jewish" - Hitler

Hitler believed the Jews invented and foisted democracy onto the world. So when he's blaming democracy, he's still blaming the Jews.

> you don't really come to power by blaming hidden minorities

Except he did exactly this, repeatedly and publicly, in his writing, speeches, and policy.
Sure, and those people won't get new iPhones at all, or if they do, can use the free dongle to use their old 3.5mm jack headphones with their new iPhone.

Nobody is being forced to buy expensive new headphones, or new phones.
We do know generally how they were made. Wootz was crucible steel. It's just not a living tradition and we don't have documentation of the exact details.

In recent years, some people have been able to figure out the process, making use of impurities present in the original wootz, to create blades that chemically, structurally, and visually resemble the original wootz blade. The methods they have come up with are probably the same methods used to make original damascus blades; we just can't confirm that since the original process isn't documented well enough to know exact details.
Landing on Both Feet in a New Industry
The concept of "hot in economics" relates to inflation. If you spur people to spend above their productivity prices rise eating away at the gains.

Another interpretation of "hot" is the over-utilization of capital. When you over-utilize capital, its productivity increases are short-termed because the capital has to be refurnished which means in the future you will have a slump.

In economics, there is a proverbial equilibrium that all situations tend to go to: forcing it to move around often has more negative consequences than positive ones.
It comes down to what kind of freedom you want. Freedom for companies and their owners to treat employees however they want, or freedom for all citizens to make a living without being mistreated. It's the same thing with health care, freedom to not pay for others than yourself, or freedom to not have to worry about sudden large expenses and personal bankruptcy in case of sickness or injury.
This sounds an easily defeatable measure. If I'm a politician and encourage the economy to dump all kinds of cheap, low-quality crap onto the market, I will, on paper, have greatly boosted the buying power of low-income households - except not in a way that will be helpful for them: They will have choice between an enormous range of cheap products, except they will all be low-quality and likely not what the members of the household are looking for.

That wouldn't be an increase in buying power if the replacement item is of lower quality/value than the original.
> This was very cool. I'm only 23, but I'm always thinking about the future, always planning for when I get old.

Okay.

> I definitely don't ever see myself "retiring"-- and I mean that: I will never not be interested in what I'm interested in now.

Okay.

We were all 23 once too. We all took philosophy or literature class and thought we figured it out too. Just a word of advice, people change, life change, society changes and even you change. Ah to be young again...
Yes, I bought it, and since the iOS 11 update, it no longer works, which is really disappointing.
I used to teach German as a foreign language and I found that Michael from smarter German is an excellent youtuber as well.

https://www.youtube.com/user/smartergerman
I thought it was great that screenwriters already had a notion of version control – once a screenplay goes into production, later revisions receive a color and are referred to as such, e.g. blue draft, pink draft. Pages that contained changes used to be printed on appropriately colored paper.

The idea of our app is to build on that notion and offer automatic versioning.
This is my current favourite use case (from the blog https://blog.cloudflare.com/e2e-integrity/)

I wanted to provide an example of the kinds of secure, performant applications that are possible with IPFS, and this made building a search engine seem like a prime candidate. Rather than steal Protocol Labs' idea of 'Wikipedia on IPFS', we decided to take the Kiwix archives of all the different StackExchange websites and build a distributed search engine on top of that. You can play with the finished product here: https://ipfs-sec.stackexchange.cloudflare-ipfs.com
I have switched to DDG as my default. It answers the many daily questions I have. Have to switch to maps.google for directions though.
For research I actually use Yippy. Great filters and easier to set dates.
Ten Translations of Care
Americans have a deep fawning respect for 'wealth creators' beyond the normal so any of these guys can easily win, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Benioff, Musk unless they are comprised by some sexual or corruption scandal or the business tanks. Bezos and Zuckerberg especially will likely win.

This is not a cynical dismissal of their achievements, anyone on this forum knows its not easy to do what they have done, and most of us I suspect even harsh critics for being sellouts do admire their achievements because it is not easy and requires intense work.

And also luck as many have worked as hard without results, but building a fair and prosperous society takes more than creating a business but many of us do not see the difference and have become slavish devotees of wealth. So none of the folks from the open source movement stand a chance even though they have shown vision and created more real and social wealth than the above put together. Our loss.
Did anyone notice that DDG recently stopped treating prefix - as a way to remove search results that contain the prefixed term, i.e. -news would remove all pages with "news"? It is now instead highlighting "news" as the term you searched for... I hope this is just a bug they are going to fix, otherwise I'd have no choice but to migrate elsewhere, as without it search results are mostly useless.
"Whenever something is wrong, something is too big."
This is superbly explained in Leopold Kohr's book titled "The Breakdown of Nations".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kohr#Philosophy
Chrome sends all the text entered into your 'omnibus' back to HQ. Adblocker isn't going to help in Google wants to track you, and it does.
Do you see a role for the electronic machine to provide a count as well? My sense is that the switch to electronic machines (and the switch to mechanical booths prior) had to have been driven at least in part to make the preliminary count easier to obtain.
Facebook Paying the Institute for Strategic Dialogue to Change Right-Wing Views
The use of the word receipt is problematic since people believe that it means they can take it home with them and somehow use it later. It can be a "voter verified paper trail", I suppose. But, what's better is just having paper ballots that are optically scanned. If someone needs assistive software to fill out the paper ballot, so be it.

Even with paper ballots (or a vvpt), you still need regular procedures to audit the record to ensure that the counting and down-stream handling of the counts are correct.
Yeah, I hear you. FWIW, I'd much, much recommend the book by the Hungarian psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's (or Mr. C): Flow -- the psychology of optimal experience. I'm reading it the second time on a physical copy (comparing my notes from 3 years ago, when I read it on the Kindle).

It seems like Carl Newport and other "new age" writers in this area are largely repackaging (but with much less "signal") what Mr. C said, but set in "current times".

But still, I find Mr. C's book much more timeless. Partly because he dedicated much of his entire life to understanding Flow in humans, and partly because the book is full of signal.
There's a large overlap between hurtful people and rules lawyers. Writing down samples of bad behavior is helpful; treating it as an exhaustive list is an open invitation to come up with creative new ways to hurt people that aren't on the list.

Keep in mind that this is all based on the enforcement done by the project maintainers. If you're inclined to do things the project maintainers will consider unacceptable behavior, you're already going to have a problem. This just documents that.
I just got a 20% raise to go with a promotion. I wished I had an opportunity to negotiate a 20% reduction in working hours instead- perhaps even along with a slight reduction in pay.
I don't understand your example - does Lyft ever engage with Uber? Perhaps I wasn't clear - existing next to each other is ok in my theory.

My theory also doesn't require society adoption. It's simply how I deal with it. Yea, if everyone did it, bullies would be ostracized. Actually,if everyone did it, there wouldn't be bullies, so if the majority did it then yes, bullies would be ostracized. This is ok with me.
Yeah, well, those of us who live there for < 8 weeks out of the year is already happening too.

I don't understand the strawman - what argument did I mischaracterize in an attempt to make it appear weaker for the purposes of responding to it?
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/04/securing_elec...
Paper ballots are worthless if they're counted electronically.
If you don't use a very sophisticated blocking system (for example uBlock Origin in medium mode + pihole) the data is being collected independently of serving ads.

While it will be used for Realtime Bidding and ad-retargeting, the data itself is very valuable in lots of other ways, and even though I am not an expert I fear that in many ways personalized profiles attached to your real world self can already be created and sold to those who want to know more about you.

Even with such a blocking system as described above there will be some data send. So the stricter the User agent, the better for the user. Making fingerprinting more difficult, which is what Safari will do with ITP 2.0, is something that is very important regardless of blocking ads, as first parties want to track you too independent of ads.

- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...

- pi-hole.net
Here are a few reasons.

1. Ad blockers have a performance impact.

2. As blockers don’t have the number of uses that the browsers have, so I have seen websites routinely request to turn them off. However if the protection is built into the browser sites cannot ask users to switch to a different browser, they have to figure something out or suck in less data.

3. It’s also a vote against Chrome and Facebook telling them we really don’t want tracking. Switching away from Chrome is the best way to send a message.
Remember, we're discussing a blog here. CPM, with rates in the $2 range, are not going to provide anything resembling reasonable revenue - let alone profit - for a blog post.

There are notable exceptions to this for bloggers who can get hundreds of thousands of views on a regular basis - but most people are lucky to get a thousand unique views.
When I visit duckduckgo.com, uBlock reports blocking a tracking image from the domain improving.duckduckgo.com whose url includes my browser user agent. That doesn't seem fair to me.
And if you dare to question that there are more than two genders then good by.
The MSR design invented in the 1950s in the U.S. are maturing in the recent decade.

Among major nuclear powers, China is advancing fast on safer and smaller Gen IV reactors, specially the Thorium based Molten Salt Reactor (TMSR). They built and validated the design will commit a huge amount of funding to improvement and build-outs.[1]

[1] https://neutronbytes.com/2018/01/07/recent-developments-in-a...

Here is a HN discussion a month ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17813614
That is absolutely not true about tipping cashiers. I would disregard whatever source claimed that.
from Article 4:

(7) ‘controller’ means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law;

(8) ‘processor’ means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller;

Generally speaking, site X is the data controller and the third party JS providers are the data processors. GDPR applies to both, with the controller being the party primarily responsible for ensuring compliance.
That's true - you'd have a possible gravitational blue/red shift at different points.
Nice. I was soliciting feedback from screenwriters in prep for a similar service; I would've taken a fundamentally different approach to it, but you've covered a lot of the bases I had in mind.

If you're looking for people to give it a whirl, I'll pass it to anyone I know to solicit feedback, though the hard part might be in breaking their workflows for the better.

Is there any specific industry feedback you're seeking?
Sure .. As long as everybody who voted takes their receipt, and is willing to go to the government and demand proof that their vote was counted. Let's see, in the USA you get 54% voter turn-out .. a re-count requiring those receipts should get what, 15, maybe 20% of those voters to participate?

There. No.
I myself feel that personal computing is dying because the corporate interests have abandoned it, and for reasons you've listed the OSS world hasn't been able to produce a worthwhile alternative. I've go ideas of what could be done to get us back to a place where personal computing was about empowering the user with simple, consistent, and performant abstractions, but there's a lot of ground to cover and I'm only one guy who is mostly out of his depth. I keep looking for a community that I feel is headed in the right direction to get behind, but sadly it doesn't seem to exist.

I think I may have to face the possibility that there simply aren't enough people who care about personal computing, or at least the things about it that I believe make it worthwhile, for it to survive.