skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, on Android Firefox+uBlock is definitely an interesting tradeoff. Without it Firefox is (or I perceive it that way) a lot slower than Chrome - with adblocking things get even. I seriously hope that they dont mess up their new android browser in this regard, I think a faster experience without ads will make a lot of technical chrome users (which supposedly were key to the 70% market penetration it has now) think twice about supporting Google.
That is one technique some people use.
Yes but there's a network effect here. If Google owns all the billboards in town, then you can't really find a better advertisement platform, no matter how skilled they are.
I bet your work computer runs Windows then :-)
I'm actually asking this sincerely; hasn't this experiment already been run with Apache vs. Nginx, with Nginx coming out literally orders of magnitude faster by using epoll and using a limited number of "real" threads?
Are you also using an approach like this? Could we maybe document and share best practices?

PS: Don't mind the ugly webdesign. I hope to make it better at some point but that's really not my area of expertise :)
It was a great project made by very smart people, and yet I thought that the added complexity of a folding car was a completely idiotic approach.
Bitwarden is able to auto-fill basic auth dialogs in Firefox, but only if there is only a single entry for the page in store. Thought, sometimes it sometimes does not work.

I do wish Mozilla would finally do away with the modal auth dialog and use in-tab content that extensions can interact with.
Wow; of course there are plenty of reasons why forms require javascript unless you've never coded anything of substance before then yes, in your limited experience no forms require javascript.

If you write even mildly complex business applications with business rules and want a professional and non shitty user experience you absolutely need Javascript, there's no substitute.

If you make simple sign up forms then by all means don't use Javascript.
If you think we're safety obsessed, go drink well water next to a fracking well.
The value borrow checker in Rust comes from the systemic ability of to eliminate an entire class of bugs.

The value these kinds of smart Cpp/Compiler features comes from the ability to eliminate some instances of bugs.

Which is great, and all, but I don't see that all of the great masses of Cpp code and libraries would be rewritten or annotated to use these new features.

Which will sadly leave the impact of these developments particial.
Yeah alright I can get behind this. I don't want to support a company looking to monopolize the market. I will start looking into how I can go about cutting Google out of my life.
Good question.

Desalinization also has externalities that aren't priced in but would make sense to consider. That's a fancy way of saying that the salt removed from the water creates a brine that in large quantities is no bueno to just dump somewhere.
Yes, but there are other things that they already display in their search results without opting.
It is a substitute for teacher-student lecture content however. My vision for education involves entirely pre-recorded content combined with a work area where teachers move from table to table answering questions or doing micro lectures as needed. Add in some real world projects and mentorship/apprenticing and you’re golden

Similar teacher workforce, but actually using their time better
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Here is a Google Home teardown:

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Google+Home+Teardown/72684

You will note that the mute button is not a physical switch that cuts the signal from the microphone, but a soft button. It will probably do what it claims most of the time, but if Google for whatever reason wanted to secretly unmute it remotely, I have no doubt they could.

Wireshark? Sure, but what am I even looking for? They could be holding on to recordings in storage to send them later when the device is unmuted again. They could be embedding audio in encrypted form into other innocuous-looking packets -- I doubt a device like this is quiet on the network even when muted.

Until all the software is open source and auditable and the switch verifiably breaks the physical signal path to the mic, a device like this can never be trusted.
A great option which is similar but different and which I enjoy very much is:

https://speedcrunch.org/
For me the currency conversion, easy ‘totalling’, syntax highlighting, and mixing Markdown text inline (which gets ignored) is the key feature for these notepad/numi apps.

These still could be done in Vim but it’s more than just a unixy calculator or text-editor spreadsheet.
Yeah, I've been using DDG for years, but I just can't get "Google it" out of my dictionary. I try to replace it with "Duck it", which feels stupid as fuck to say, but "Google it" doesn't feel any better.
In response to some of the complaints about Aurora PostgreSQL in this thread:

Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless should be considered a different product with different performance characteristics. We've been experimenting with Aurora PostgreSQL and have encountered the same memory issues mentioned here and elsewhere. It's impossible to autoscale read replicas based on memory usage, and there's no swap for temporary spikes. We haven't yet seen those problems with Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless. There is swap, which handles spikes, and whatever automatic scaling Amazon has implemented adequately deals with increased memory usage (if you're okay with a few terminated connections). I can't comment on the index-related issues, but I do suggest considering this product separately from Aurora PostgreSQL.
> A very well encapsulated and protected DNA will land on earth and create the most adaptable life-form there through mutation and competition.

No, it won't. DNA alone without cellular machinery (that is, without a “life form”) doesn't produce anything. That's why viruses need hosts.
Yup - not to plug my own website (others may find it useful) - got a notification for this 14 minutes ago at https://statusnotify.com
But I want to get hit by a car. I want to die. I want to escape this hellscape of nightmares.

I don’t fucking care anymore. Fuck money. Fuck jobs. Fuck electronic devices. Fucking kill me now. I want none of this.

I won’t try anymore. I don’t care what happens. Let it all fucking burn.
Ask HN: Have you ever tried to increase vintage furniture store revenue?
Have you ever tried to increase vintage furniture store revenue in a local market by creating a digital product?

Did you interview store owners prior to fully forming your idea?

Would you recommend interviewing a store owner prior to forming an idea or come up with a rough MVP or prototype?
Mmm yea but it would take similar turmoil to call that ship to port again.
Do you trust a microSD card you've bought off Aliexpress? Because I wouldn't. It's questionable if you can even trust one purchased from Amazon, but buying off Aliexpress is next level skeezy. There are a vast amount of fake/counterfeit microSD cars on the marketplace, so this argument is pretty silly if you ask me.
Even with fraction, either you have repulsion or attraction, depending on the sign. -1/3 charge will be repulsed by +1 or +2/3 charge, just at different strengths.
> A light, quick, cheap solution so good, it should be copied the world over.

It is. This can be seen all over... SF, LA, DC, Austin, Ann Arbor ... I have seen this everywhere (in the US)
First hand source, it was the first job several of my Brazilian friends (or their spouses) got when they relocated to the Bay Area. They use companies like Moravia or Welocalize. Take a look at some of the job posts from my link above.
> especially when it comes to specific ... results

Specific results for niche search queries have been getting way worse over the last few years though. To the point where you have to actively try to trick the engine into giving you anything remotely meaningful.

Almost every time I try, I find pages and pages of generic, SEO optimized crap.
It’s a little different, but take a look and see what you think:

https://speedcrunch.org/

It’s desktop cross platform
It is the newer version, there definitely appear to be some nice new features[0] and a UI re-fresh (although as a Soulver 2 user, I think I'm pretty happy as is)

[0]: https://documentation.soulver.app/whats-new
You know what, as I think back to that night it’s possible the lady did receive a citation (a ticket) and I didn’t notice it. I was there the whole time, and listened to everything, but it’s possible I missed it. Also, the cops didn’t say they gave a citation when I talked to them, but perhaps they were following a privacy policy or something.

Also the young lady who was struck turned down an ambulance ride and got a ride home from another bystander. Injuries were not apparently life threatening. (I’m also betting the girl didn’t have health insurance.)
It's still 90-95 percent Google, surprisingly. You'd think it would be less with mobile but no. We are seeing more duck duck go, but bing and yahoo have stayed steady for years. Social is a rise, and that's a lot of mobile. Also then just pickups (links from sites like this). But yeah, still very much google dominated.
Discussed last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17465068.
Desperate to get rid of homeless people, some are using prickly plants, barriers
After I decied to just drop mobile entirely, where 99% of the clicks were fraudulent (and indeed cheap, something like 1 or 2 cents was common), the campaigns in question had huge drops in total cost per month, one of them was sadly, literally 100%, meaning every single click on some months was fraudulent (that campaign is still active, it gets like 2, 3 clicks per month)

Mind you, the campaigns with most fraudulent clicks, were the ones setup by google employees, they regularly insist in calling me to "help", explain new features and whatnot, every single time I setup a campaign following step by step their employee, the result was ridiculous amounts of fraud.

The campaigns that bring me most of my real world income are the ones where I ignore what google wants for most part and do it my way.
My conspiracy theory still is they are decommissioning Huawei equipment.

Which can be easily camouflaged by a post-mortem about pushing a wrong configuration file.
OK, I'll play along. Suppose I drive my electric car an additional 450 miles. That will consume an extra ~100kWh of energy from the battery, which will require me to buy an extra 115kWh of energy from my electric utility, which will require them to generate (or procure) an additional 125kWh or so.

Are there any emissions associated with that additional 125kWh of consumed electricity? If so, where? If not, why not?
Yeah there are a lot of ivory tower developers here with little to no real world experience and have never done anything of any substance or complexity pushing their tiny limited experience and knowledge and you can spot them from miles away in these comment sections. Those of us who work in the real world know how silly some of these comments are.
I’ve never used Numi. Soulver is 14 years old and is from my favorite era of indie macOS development. He’s really responsive on twitter or to bug reports/emails.

Numi is also available in Setapp [1], which I pay for and really love (it’s a great value for me), but I must admit I’ve never used it. I’ll check it out later today, but don’t know if I can offer a comprehensive pro/con.

[1]: https://setapp.com
You can see these on Top Gear. They are spectacularly wonderful and I hope I get to experience one in real life some day.

To wit they've done everything. Bus derby, RV derby, trailer derby ... it always ends in wonderful amounts of destruction and spectacular crashes.
The basic interfaces are built into the standard library, precisely in order to ensure compatibility across the Rust ecosystem. So if you're writing something that's compatible with the basic futures/async model, you'll be able to use any provided runtime with Rust. It may be possible to do even better in the future (use HKT to enable the exact same code to be compiled as either "sync" or "async"-based) but I'm not sure why you think that the previous model of making Rust into yet another heavy runtime-based language (with a handful of weird, tacked-on functional features that would not even help performance to any real extent given those prereqs, but still making the language even harder to grok than Haskell!) is preferable.
My daughter’s first triathlon tested her body – and my heart
I don't work there anymore.
You can make an argument that Google is a threat, but it's certainly not obvious. It requires a complex analysis to explain why Google leaning on AMP is different than Oracle and IBM leaning on ANSI SQL.
> Cars make things drastically more affordable for people.

In "Energy and Civilization A History" by Vaclav Smil he points out that, once you factor in the time spent earning money to pay for the costs of car transport, you are doing no better than if you walked.

The time that the car seems to save is spent working to pay for the car.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31850765-energy-and-civi...
Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohkAxbeMxVo
I realize that everyone is different - but for me the idea that we create our own meaning is WAY more exciting than a pre-existing or assigned meaning.

It erases any limits on what's possible and makes thinking creatively (humanity's biggest strength) a lot more fun. It also makes the search for truth that much more urgent, since in a nihilistic universe that's all we have.

I also don't see any conflict between this kind of optimistic nihilism and fundamental ethics - mainly that you shouldn't hurt others.

I friekin' loved Sapiens by the way.
> Losing a ton of revenue and it is completely out of my hands.

That may be a bit exaggerated. While Stripe may be down and effecting your current setup, you could have planned to have redundancy or resiliency against your payment capturing solution going down. No technology never breaks.
Is it not generally accepted that a personal car is a luxury? The vast majority of people in the world do not have one.
You see the ROI when your big ugly object has a bunch of heap allocated data. You won't see any benefit when the object has everything stored by value.
1 liter of almonds milk require about 350 liter of water, while 1 liter of milk is about 1000 liter of water. So, still better to grow almonds than using dairy. Soy and oat are also better than almonds milk.
A bit tangential, but I tried sharing this link with a few friends on Facebook Messenger, and noticed it's blocked because it "violates Community Standards" [1]. Even shortened bit.ly links are blocked.

Anyone know why that would be the case? I'm trying to not assume malice (eg. maybe it got misflagged?) but it certainly feels like censoring and is yet another push for me to drop Messenger too.

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/9n1Hyqb.png
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You might want to hold off on that prediction until Anthropomorphic Global Warming, nuclear war, runaway artificial intelligence, and a few other existential threats are resolved.

This is definitely looking like a local minimum and good trend for ordinary violence, but it won't be easy to say that the world is safer & healthier after we've broken the food web...
I wonder what the global cost to the economy of a 24 hour stripe outage would be. It’s crazy when you think about how important certain “infrastructure” is
Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in Selected Jurisdictions Around the World
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Face coverings are not legal in public in all countries, but even where they are, why should someone concerned about creeping surveillance go to great lengths to modify their own behaviour because someone else is unwittingly breaking the law because a product they bought was made by someone who couldn’t be bothered to do it right?
Thanks for the link, it's a good summary of the trade offs.
I AM using chrome! Let me try again: Opening adsense: 6 seconds to load a useless dashboards with 3 extra boxes "we thought you might find this card interesting"

I want a sites report

Clicking on "reports"... after 5 seconds the left menu loads, while the report on the right still loads... I click "sites" on the menu... The report on the right loads, but it is the default report, not the sites report. I have to click the sites report again and wait.

This happens every day , every time. By the time i get there, i forgot what i was looking for. This is just a sad state

Oh, they say my website has mobile access issues? But it is a bootstrap website optimized for mobile. Clicking on fix issue .... checking live version ... your site is mobile ready... yet it still says i have to fix 3 errors. I pressed validate fix 4 days ago and it's still there. Hmmm i guess i don't get their level of AI.

And dont get me started on adwords campaigns. Can't set up a simple campaign without going through some extremely difficult to parse terminology. Wanted to limit my ads to desktop - turns out they removed that simple option - you have to do tricks with bidding. I just don't get why
The elevator thought experiment suggests that the light will indeed also take a curved path through my lab, but I am way out of the territory where I have any good intuition. And I have no intuition at all what would happen to the matter the elevator is made of if one accelerated it hard enough to make the effect noticable, nor do I have any idea what Earth's gravity does to matter in my lab. Can I have a trully straight ruler out of some common material? Or at least not as bend as the light beam? And now I am not even sure anymore what straight would mean.
Sure, but Google doesn't own all the billboards in town. I regularly see pages with Taboola panels on the bottom.
Do you have an argument for this, or is it just gut feel?

The argument for the standard view is simple: The more "bugs" are exposed to antibiotics, the more opportunity/reason they have to develop resistance to it.
Yeah, it is. Glad to see another person realize it. Most write-ups about it act as if believing in conspiracies requires a nutball. Whereas, the world is full of actual conspiracies going on all the time. I wrote a counterpoint to Bruce Schneier saying that:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/the_psycholog...
"... I think there needs to be a massive breach or abuse of power from one of these organizations/services that has severe real world consequences for those that utilize/support them..."

One of my greater fears is the knowledge that, should this happen, there's a nonzero chance that no one would care.
> Losing a ton of revenue

How much would it have cost you to have never used Stripe?
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Category 3 checking in here.

TBH its not the Googles I'm worried about. They're under a fair amount of scrutiny, but ultimately, I think its mostly chicken little screaming regarding the 'how' of how they'll use this data. The ones I'd be more concerned about are the ones not on your radar. Google knows security, anonymity, they have share-holders, governments know to regulate them, etc.

What you really have to worry about is the companies getting data on you with out your permission that you have ZERO knowledge they are doing so, and as well, almost no ability to know they are taking data on you.

The reality is, most people are almost completely ignorant of how much real world data on them is out in the wild with no google or facebook or any tech giant involved. I can't get into too much detail on it, but the data is there. You just have to be savvy enough to find it, process it, predict, and refine.

In terms of morality? I don't know.
We're back up as of 17:02 UTC: https://twitter.com/stripestatus/status/1149002362691833856
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No. Picasa doesn't exist. But all my photos are now in Google Photos, very much intact, even though I have had multiple device failures over the years and if I was hosting these photos myself chances are I would not have them by now.
> For example, if you configure your system to use Cloudflare's DoH service and visit a Cloudflare-hosted site over HTTPS, such as El Reg, your ISP will only see outbound connections to Cloudflare and have no idea what exactly you're leafing through: in this case, The Reg.

Doesn't the "HOST" field of the HTTPS negotiation give this data away to the ISP anyways?
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99% of the forms I run in to in the wild are one-page forms without any interactivity, and just a single "Submit" button. Yet these web sites usually require Javascript (usually for tracking and ad delivery).

Something like 90% of sites I run in to deliver static content, yet almost all use Javascript (again, for tracking and ad delivery).

Fortunately, the overwhelming majority of these sites still work great or at least good enough without Javascript.

Most sites out there really have no legitimate need for Javascript, with the exception of truly interactive sites like ones that let you play games in the browser, let you use some sort of application (like a spreadsheet, word processor, graphics program, or, arguably, web mail) in the browser, or do something like let you see live updates of things like stock tickers. But most sites are not like this. They just serve static content that could be served up just as well or even better without JS.
Those would be pointless.

Most of my income comes from search, both organic and ads, my business sell industrial parts that are hard to find, people tend to contact us after they put on some search engine the code for the part (example: DIN 912, the code for the popular Allen screw), and find us there.

I doubt someone would look for that on Facebook.

There was a cool magazine here that was basically just ads, before internet it was just a bunch of ads printed in magazine form, intended for my target market, but even them switched to use google now (also they are the reason I got pissed with the mobile display campaign issues, I want to put my ads on that magazine, but I can't do so anymore without turning on ads on mobile apps, and those easily eat up all the budget with fraudulent clicks)
You might be amazed how easy it is to rationalize such concerns away for $250k (or more) per year. The first sentence of the internal response of a Googler will be, "You don't understand."
It's not as simple as having a "anti-abortion gene" or not, but there are some really interesting studies about this:

> A 2005 twin study examined the attitudes regarding 28 different political issues such as capitalism, unions, X-rated movies, abortion, school prayer, divorce, property taxes, and the draft. [...] Genetic factors accounted for 53% of the variance of an overall score.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_and_political_orientat... - linking to Wikipedia because it has some links)
Livestock accounts for 77% of all agricultural land space and takes up about 30% of the world's habitable land. That us a HUGE proportion of land. If we removed meat from our diets that would free up space for carbon sinks (reforestation)[1] if everyone switched to a plant based diet. Additionally, urban vertical farming methods such as those used by aerofarms[2] have by far the lowest environmental impact, lowest water use, lowest land use, pesticide free.

1.https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/10/Land-use-graphics...

2. Https://aerofarms.com
I find it hilarious, and a bit sad, that if Amazon didn't send an email warning about the hover board - Amazon would be in the clear.

But since they decided to warn the customer, they are now at fault.

Well, that'll teach Amazon! Just don't warn anyone about anything, and you're good to go.

>The appellate court ruled Amazon might have prevailed in laying blame on the hoverboard maker if the online retailer hadn’t tried to cover itself legally with that vague email on “safety issues.”
Cloud. Data lake. Immutable.
that was fast!