skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my home town, Comcast actually FINALLY got the approval to buy up a cable provider's lines a couple of years ago. The old cable provider only provided television. They would also never would expand their lines. I had a friend who's house was built between two others who had TV provided by this company, and they wouldn't run the line to their house.

In my town and I'm assuming most, whoever laid the lines, gets the monopoly. Maybe Comcast could have gone around and buried new lines, but it would have been too cost prohibitive, so they waited for this company to finally die (people would switch to DirectTV and AT&T DSL), and now everyone in town can get actual high speed internet and television.

This is the biggest problem I have with cable companies, they go into a town, lock it up, and don't innovate.

But I also understand wanting to protect your investment of 10s-100s of millions of dollars in a town, expecting to earn it back over 30+ years.
Well only because DDG aggregates some of their stuff plus Microsoft ship everything to glue into Bing (windows login screens / default browser config / Cortana / XBox).

I know no one who consciously uses it to do anything other than my mother who uses it search for Google.

If none of the other default integrations exist it'd be dead on it's arse.
Why don't restaurant owners increase the food prices and pay servers a fair wage? Opening a $100 bottle of wine or $400 bottle of wine requires same effort, why do i pay extra for a $400 bottle of wine?

Now if you bring up the "service" provided argument,
That is literally their job. If they are getting paid a decent minimum wage or little bit more than that, i think it's fair. Do you tip McDonald's employee? Do you tip your garbage men? Do you tip the people who helped you at the clothing store?
* 'Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup' by John Carreyrou

* 'Who is Michael Ovitz' by Michael Ovitz

* 'High Growth Handbook' by Elad Gil

* 'Principles: Life and Work' by Ray Dalio

* '1491' & '1493' by Charles C. Mann
Tesla sues its alleged saboteur for $167M
Favorite books of the year: (I'm primarily a sci fi and short story novel reader)

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
Stories of Your Life by Ted Chiang
Like Brothers by Mark and Jay Duplass
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr
Endymion by Dan Simmons
Hyperion by Dan Simmons

A few classics that I'd never read before. Really great year of books for me.
Podcast with the author: http://swordandscale.com/sword-and-scale-episode-70/
That'd be a very misleading survey question, as it heavily implies they're selling it to other developers the user didn't engage with at all.

"Are you aware that connecting app Foo to your bank account gives app Foo access to your transactions?" is likely to be met with a resounding "no shit, that's the point..."
> kitchen staff, custodial, physical security, ... etc are likely counted in this group

What happened to the culture that made its chef a millionaire [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Ayers
Agreed - Loki was heavily influenced by OKLog. We really like its ease of use and simplicity - hopefully we managed to get some of that right with Loki. OTOH we felt like we needed a little bit of metadata and index to help find the right logs - the brute force approach of only having grep doesn't seem like the right tradeoff to me. We use a minimal label index to narrow down the search space + then let you do distributed grep...

There is a lightweight CLI for Loki too, you don't have to use the Grafana UI: https://github.com/grafana/loki/blob/master/docs/logcli.md
The best way is to let the city provide the last mile infrastructure (the connection between nearest POP and your house), and then lease it to ISPs for a fee to maintain it.

That way we once again can have competition like during the time DSL was popular (telcos were required to lease their wires, that's why there was so much choice of ISP for anyone who remembers early 2000)
Intel Unveils a Groundbreaking Way to Make 3D Chips
exactly. thank you.
Thanks! Always love Peter's stuff. We actually have a perfectly viable working system internally. We're just (always) considering alternatives :-)
Feel free to read through my post history if you really want to question my intentions. By the way, I also built a TechStars company that automated the detection of rendering issues across different browsers, I've written BHOs for IE6 - IE10, I'm a core Selenium developer, and I wrote the code that does screenshots for the IE driver in Selenium. I have a pretty good grasp on browser technologies and their timeline.

Yes, I've encountered sites & apps that require the absolute latest version of Chrome, which is on a 6 week update schedule. I've tested 10s of thousands of different sites. You really don't need to quote parts of that and then tell me it's not the point. So, let's just assume for a moment that I'm not lying, and by some miraculous sequence of events your life experiences ended up being different from mine. Given all that, my question still stands. What's the point of a standard if it's a constantly shifting target, developers target it and they lock you out if you're not running the latest version of a specific browser?

Placing IE6 in the context I clearly outlined, where it was an actively developed browser and considerably better than Netscape on SeaMonkey... how is what MS was doing any different than what Google's doing now? Both see the standards bodies as being too slow to act, so they roll out their own improvements, devs adopt them and lock out others. The only difference I can really see is MS only documented their changes, rather than creating a competing standards body à la WHATWG.

That may even be the best thing for progress. Even during IE6's active period, it's how we ended up with technologies like Ajax. But being an "open standard" is meaningless when it only runs on one constantly shifting target. That's the world we're converging on again because it's convenient for developers to do so.

Side note:

You and I are obviously talking about two different classes of web devs. The ones I'm talking about, constantly adopting new technologies and locking out everyone else, gave up on IE6 long ago. Many of them don't run Windows and have never built a site that works on anything other than a Chromium-based browser.
It’s an old story, from 6 months ago, which has been pretty well corroborated by many other news channels since then. It’s good to be skeptical, but this one is spot-on.
For Spectrum, at least as far as ROM loader is concerned, decoding the signal is basically the matter of deciding whether a pulse is length t0 or t1. Technically it's FSK, but since each symbol is only one period long, it's more convenient to talk about pulse lengths. I don't think traditional matched filters are any help here.

With a modern computer you could record lengths for all impulses present in the signal and then find a threshold that best divides the two groups. You could then do probabilistic decoding. E.g. if checksum doesn't match, try flipping the bits that are closest to the threshold and are most likely to have been decoded incorrectly.
> To be honest I've never noticed the filter bubble everybody is talking about with Google.

It's extremely obvious/bad when you try Googling some old article about an topic, often political, that has recently regained popularity.

You can try adding all kinds of words from the headline, certain terms will always lead to the results being dominated with "current news", like with Russia/Ukraine or more recently with China.

Which is made worse by the inability to specify a time-frame for the search. In that regard, the best Google can do is narrow it down to "last changed" with the extended search, which only goes as far back as "last year", anything further back than that and you might as well have to find the needle by manually looking trough the haystack of pages upon pages of search results.

It can be extremely frustrating how search results are seemingly dominated by the very same, handful, of articles offering only the very same takes, with only slight variations. It feels quite similar to how YouTube keeps recommending the same kind of weird videos to a large amount of people, like you are being "funneled".
Strangely, searching from the UK it doesn't seem to be in my results at all. I'm through to the 4th page, and I've come across an article with the same story as the OP, but still not the actual site...

Edit: found it near the end of page 6! Alongside "Duck Donuts" and "London Duck Tours".
The University of Buckingham is privately funded.
I agree. It seems like a deliberate strategy. Amazon is trying to create a breed of highly paid AWS experts who will be keenly interested in promoting AWS, because their valued knowledge is provider-specific and not transferable. Similar to how Microsoft created all those MCPs who tried to push Microsoft tech everywhere regardless of how well it fit the task.
Okay, so it renders the javascript webapp (Angular/React/Vue) on the fly into HTML, (just as it would appear in a client's browser), but only for the whitelisted UserAgents, which can be crawlers right?
Well, Chrome comes from Google, so if you don’t trust Google to store your data I’d recommend not using the browser at all. I certainly don’t (apart from for unlogged-in development testing), but if you do then there shouldn’t be a problem.
The best Ducking search engine available.
Storing C++ Objects in Distributed Memory
Cost of Capital Explainer
Until recently EdgeHTML existed
Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark - great glimpse into the current and potential future of AI

Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Issacson - fascinating look into the real life of Leonardo, demystifying the genius

Excession by Iain M Banks - a bit of a let down

Bluets by Maggie Nelson - lyrical and philosophical and explicit ruminations on the color blue

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan - a lot of already known and rehashed info on psychedelics

Lost City of the Incas by Hirham Bingham - Yale professor who discovered Machu Pichu. Good history of the Incas and region

Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbuy - Classic!

2041 by Kim Stanley Robinson - NYC underwater in the future. A bit of a let down compared to his Mars series

Shiver by Junji Ito - short stories from the king of Japanese horror manga

Lenin: The man, the dictator, the master of terror by Victor Sebestyen - great bio on Vladimir Lenin. Knew very little about him before reading this. Fantastic!

Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville - definitive text book on Deep Learning

The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu - interesting read into the history of Antitrust and the Sherman Act and how they relate to modern tech giants like Amazon, Google, Facebook

Connecting the Dots by John Chambers - a bit dry. Lessons Chambers learned while CEO of Cisco
Amazon warehouse still pays better than those retail jobs it destroyed.
Same experience here. I wonder if this is some kind of bug?
Looks cool, is the source code for promtail available? I can see there's an image available https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/promtail (which is used in the readme) but I can't find the source anywhere. Anyone know where it is?
Logisland “Event Mining at scale”
Logisland
provides a stream analytics solution
that can handle all enterprise-scale
event data and processing

https://github.com/Hurence/logisland
Robert Peston covered it in his book WTF? which is more than a year old.
OK, do you're rejecting both the idea of the local municipality and corporates. What's your preferred solution?
It was sarcastic, the audience of DDG does not need a search engine to find a search engine. In case of WoM, it's easier to hint a friend to go to duck.com
Try ddg.gg.
Especially considering there is .rs
Such an amazing thinker. I'd recommend Bento's Sketchbook as well.

I also really enjoyed this interview with him if you have 15 mins spare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVBgzqMGYtA
Internet infrastructure in most countries is publicly owned... Market competition isn't the only way to produce socially desirable outcomes.
Can you fathom a world where governments can actually do some things well and some things poorly, for quite complicated reasons?
Jerry was a gem. Every one of his books is worth its weight in gold.
I think OP’s fear is that the quality of local governments varies enormously. Your local government might be awesome. If so, congratulations! Not everyone lives in places with great oversight or has access to the legal means to keep their local government in check. A local government one state over might decide to ban search terms about contraceptives or keep a list of customers visiting LGBT sites for various persecution/blackmail purposes. I grew up in a backwards small town and I could totally see Billy Bob the municipal broadband administrator “sharing his list of fags” with his hillbilly friends. I’m always skeptical when politicians call for local control of something.

As evil as Comcast is, their scale and need to operate in markets across all political/cultural spectrum makes me more confident that they won’t be messing with my browsing for petty reasons—they just want my wallet.
Technical question: Since DuckDuckGo uses Bing Ads, and Bing Ads have tracking that allow for remarketing, is there a point?
advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/audience-targeting/universal-event-tracking
I don't see how the local police would have any more access than they would if Comcast were in charge. They'd still have to get a warrant to search anything.
There are points of space that will NEVER be visible to us as the rate of cosmological expansion over sufficiently large distances outpaces the speed of light.
I'd recommend all of these:

Freakonomics- Interesting book if you're into Game theory and economics kind of stuff, though it has no prerequisites

Meditations- Great views of a stoic thinker

Zero to one- Interesting take on startups and how to build them

Foundation and empire- Amazing sci-fi book. Second book in the foundation series
I don't see the problem here. The government doesn't need to be competent to design anything; the job of government is to control the funding and legalities, and contract with companies that can do the work. If the government isn't competent to hire a competent company, that's the government's fault, and by extension, the voters'. If the voters can't elect competent people to run their government, that's really OK: they're getting the government they deserve. If they're not competent enough to vote for decent government officials, they're not going to be competent enough to purchase service from good companies themselves either.
I use also use ddg, but maps.google is far better for maps. So I mix both, using an addon, I can right click an address and send to google maps. Its a nice compromise.
How does the current state of things stand in light of the recent Dynamex (https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/09/07/california-suprem...) decision? According to that ruling (https://cbssacramento.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/dynamex-op...), workers are considered to be independent contractors only if all of the following conditions are met, employees otherwise:

(A) that the worker is free from the control and direction of the hirer in connection with the performance of the work, both under the contract for the performance of such work and in fact;

(B) that the worker performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business; and

(C) that the worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as the work performed for the hiring entity.

It seems like tvcs doing software engineering at Google would not count as independent contractors (failing, in fact, to meet even one of the three conditions).

Edits for clarity.
I was able to try it out for ~1 week.

Can highly recommend.

A cheaper alternative would be two have a 'high' desk with a separate treadmill (haven't tested this one myself, but am considering this setup)
If you are an Australian in tech start the brain drain. If they won't listen to facts reality will make them listen and assert that the laws of mathematics do indeed surplant the laws of Australia.
But that's not how git itself makes commit messages: (`Merge branch 'foo'`, `Revert 'some thing'`)

Not every commit changes how the code works. Some is just documentation-related, or formatting, or some other configuration change. The list goes on. Your approach would only make sense in a subset of cases.

IMO the message should be what the commit does, not what the code does.
also some people use bangs [0] like !g !b !yt and other bang's to redirect search another website directly from ddg. (I use this when I do not like the responses and want to check another search engine)

sort of like google giving money to wikipedia, I suspect they do infact collect information on ddg searches and can aggregate it and make something useful from the information. in fact, they can probably infer that ddgs initial response was poor and determine their weaknesses etc

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/bang
I assure you that small rural towns can be pretty hard to get broadband in from anyone, Comcast included. These towns exist for the most part because people want space and relative quiet.

I'd also note that about 10% of the people in the town participated in the vote and the final vote was fairly close. Hopefully it works out because options aren't great if you can't get Verizon or Comcast in much of the Northeast. (My dad in Maine has about a 0.5Mbit/sec connection.)
The obvious solution seems to be a public entity at federal level. They would be big enough to have the relevant expertise without the misaligned incentives of the big corporate companies.
On mobile device. What a horrible site.
This seems pretty fine to me.

Laws forbade publishing exit pools until 10pm, so hedge funds conducted their own research independently to have better information.

That's kind of how it is supposed to work.

Bad laws/regulations preventing accurate information dissemination lead to financial incentives for those with the most accurate/up-to-date data.

I know HN isn't the most Hedge Fund friendly forum, but surely there's an appreciation here for these funds' efficiency and ability to seize opportunity.
I argue that this misses the mark. Jupyter Notebooks is much more an evolution of Excel then it is of other development tools.
Right, that's why I think familiarity with the game might be geographic - it seems like one of those games that's played in some places, but not others.

Or it could also be the case that the same game is played, but with a different name. Tracing the etymology of the name would be pretty interesting. As you mentioned, the game of duck duck goose is unheard of in many places that have plenty of ducks and geese.
I'm unfamiliar with the tax law around contractors. What tax is missing? Whatever taxes google doesn't pay will be paid by the employer right?
just type ddg.co/what you are searching for
> kitchen staff, custodial, physical security

These would not be contracted staff, but by a vendor providing a package. 100 staff or 1 person, as a vendor provided service the staff member of the vendor has no link to the employer.
More like someone with "CTO of Starwood" on his resume at a time when "Starwood IT hacked" is the main headline.

I tend to agree with his conclusion: without further information, it's useless to speculate about how it happened. But his effort to spin an alternative narrative is, at best, self-serving.
3. Just go to a state school
I feel strongly that any economic system where automation is bad for laborers is fundamentally broken. Each automation should lead to shorter work hours for someone, without loss in pay, because it's not like the productivity has gone away.
Depends on sector. Back in Poland I "worked for" companies where that ratio might be even higher. It is not healthy at all, it's super fake, and courts in many places can, if they want to bother with it, actually reclassify such a relationship into a normal employment.
Here is that exact workflow in modern C++

https://github.com/LiveAsynchronousVisualizedArchitecture/la...

All the IO between nodes is serialized, so an output that is already in shared memory (to be examined or visualized in other programs) can also be written to disk.

It can then be loaded as a 'constant' node and iterations can be done with hot reloading on the baked output.

They key is that you need both live/hot/automatic reloading of execution AND snapshots/replay/rewind/baking.

If you only have one or the other, you can't isolate a part of a program and iterate on it nearly as quickly.
You could certainly be right!

Maybe it is one of those names that could endear your company to a certain audience, but alienate it to a wider audience.
That's not a new strategy. Car2Go had the same problem. I had multiple incidents where I'd reserve a car, only to go find that it was parked in someone's garage.
You know all the fantastic, off the chart benefits that all Google employees get? It encourages outsourcing less skilled / lower ranking roles to vendor companies.

Jobs like customer support, manual QA, facilities, etc. end up being vendors instead of direct employees.

This doesn't mean they aren't FTEs of the vendor company. They can be permanent employees with benefits. They just aren't full time employees of Google.

Of course Google is going to have some temp and limited term contractors, but this category isn't just that. Hence why the article refers to "TVC": temp, vendor, and contractor.
Ads on DDG don't use tracking / remarketing, they are only based on your search terms.

See https://duck.co/help/company/advertising-and-affiliates for details.
Android Open Source Project Now Includes the Fuchsia SDK and a Fuchsia ‘device’
Two-letter TLDs are ccTLDs, and all the existing countries already have their ccTLDs. In order for this to happen, you'd need to have a new country spring into existence that can plausibly be abbreviated to .go, and then they would have to treat it like a faux-generic (like .io) instead of imposing registration/use restrictions as some countries do for their ccTLDs.
All ISPs need is to separate the last mile (the fiber between your house and nearest POP) from their service. Once that would be available, we would have a real compression in that market.

In all countries which are known for having best internet experience the ISP don't own the last mile.
The first example does not rebase first...

My projects also have a linear progression. They look like...

* -- Bugfix
* -- Feature B
| \
| * -- Implement some other logical part of feature B
| * -- Implement first logical part feature B
| /
* -- Feature A
A Murder Over a Monsanto Chemical (Dicamba)
It's locale sensitivity.

Duck doesn't mean very much in Germany, so there's little that competes with duck.com. In Britain duck has many other meanings.

If you search for an abbreviation that's commonly used as company name, you may find that Google's top result is the one near you, and that the eponymous company in Petrapavlovsk isn't listed.
Ok. You can't show them a "delete my account" button after they log in?
Generating Test Data in SQL Server
I just say "web search it." Same syllables as Google. Devoid of any brand preference.
1) Norway and Sweden are as large as France size wise.

2) Now, for fun, let's integrate the price dimension to this report. Yes I have better (maybe 1.5 to 2 times as fast) Internet than my parents who are in Europe, but I also pay 3 times what they pay for it.