skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% agree. For technical queries, as long as a StackExchange comes up, Google is still okay.

But for increasingly more basic searches about a product I'm interested in or a medication or anything else non-complicated that would have gotten me a clean list of decent, non-paid results even 5 years, I'm now getting half a page of sponsored BS and then another half a page of 'created content' written by a bot or shyster explicitly for gaming Google's SEO.

Not only has Google lost almost all their good will (i.e. Don't be evil), but their products aren't even that good anymore, at least not so much better than alternatives where the negatives of using Google outweigh the difference in quality.
do an image search for "european people art"

what's up with that
The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.
this car is the worst to drive... sounds like a hipster bad idea
I can't say castrating someone for doing it with a 19 year old at 21 is really any better.
This is somewhat a faulty analysis. One could easily use a high accuracy bloom filter to store whether a search has definitely not been seen before, and that would be an estimate on the lower bound of the error margin.
Fly jetblue. JetBlue is Airbus only.
Maybe, but at the other end are the bike- and scooter-share systems. I suspect the perceived cheapness of the products contributes to how many of them end up thrown off the ends of piers.

Personally, I really miss Car2Go's old SMART cars. They sucked. They sucked sooooo bad. They were terrible cars. I hated them! But they were damned easy to park, they were dead-simple to operate, and they were easy to spot on the street. I want those back, and would rather not drive a 'luxury' car where I spend the first two minutes of my rental trying to figure out how to adjust the seat and turn off the radio.

So maybe making the cars more luxurious makes them less likely to be abused.
Whenever I have boring cron-style or once off task that needs to be done, I bring out Apache Airflow cluster to schedule them for me. Nomad is another option but we haven't productionised it [edit]yet[/edit].
Why would a common person want to help their fellow citizen evade taxes?
The 737 survived one serious design flaw decades ago (the stuck rudder issue). People will forget about this as well.
Where are you getting these numbers? Google says they get ~2 trillion searches per year. 40 trillion searches over 20 years (way too many) would be 2^44 searches. https://searchengineland.com/google-now-handles-2-999-trilli...

(And they don’t even need to store all searches for all time for this, thanks to Bloom filters.)
Good for you. The article is about schools in Germany, Hessen specifically, which is where for several decades I have more to do with schools than I'd like to.
It has occurred to me that one could probably get a whole year of video streaming services by just getting a month trial, cancelling, then doing it again with the next service. By the end of the year some of them might even be spamming you with offers of another trial month.
It doesn't seem to have any particular effect on the results that come up. I always used to delete them, and still do sometimes but Google seems to pretty much ignore them in practice.
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I made something like this until Google shut it down. You are not allowed to cache and reserve google doc content like this. You are going to get shut down.
For what it's worth, Asus has provided excellent support for the PRIME X370-PRO motherboard. It was a bit of a gamble when I purchased a PowerSpec Ryzen system from Micro Center, but Asus has released regular BIOS updates, including support for higher-speed memory (e.g. I'm running 32 GB @ 3200MHz, Corsair Vengeance chips).

My only complaint would be the lack of detailed change logs, which are often only a single bullet point.
>That's not a fair assessment.

Fair point.

>Your opinion of a "sensible position" on "gun control" is almost certainly different from mine.

A sensible position can be anywhere on a broad spectrum.
It does not include arming teachers and does not include selling guns to diagnosed mentally unstable people.

>I would take the perspective that people openly supporting socialism is a much further-leftward lurch than any thing on the right. [0]

I would have to disagree. I think for-profit prisons, money-is-speech, on-your-own healthcare are three examples of extreme individualism and anti-social-ism that it seems the Republicans are proud of.

>You also brand the NRA as "fringe" and as "general nutcases", which is again unfair. Your political opinion is not the single source of truth or the center of the political spectrum.

The NRA is fringe, it has recently been shown how it has been hijacked over the course of a decade or more by the Russians to sow discord and destabilize your country.
That's why I chose to use such inflammatory words.

>Your implication here is that the right has become fringe, but the graph linked above shows otherwise.

This may be true, I honestly did not have time to read the whole article. I don't disagree that the left has a bunch of issues and idiotic positions, hyper-sensitivity and a general vicious lack of tolerance for momentary lapses in judgement being the main ones in my opinion.
First car i owned, bought it for 100 gulden in 1979 with over a 100k on the clock. Great fun.
The USA should plan to have less control over global finance by the year 2035
:) cool phrase - "given a whiff of stature" - 0 hits on google.
Generally you don't let kids install whatever they want anyway.
Why would that be without explicit consent?
Counties with higher lynching rates have low voter turnout today
You're comparing apples to oranges.

Compare pilots to drivers or cars to planes.

I would guess that somewhere north of 90% of crashes are human error mainly or completely.
what code are you refering to?

if you mean DNA, then humans do not "speak" (nor think in) this code, heck... teams of people with post-docs don't even really understand it.
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The AudioKit Synth One is a pro-level iPad synth that’s completely free (2018)
> I can't think of a place w/o mobile internet, even mountain treks have decent internet.

I went to a wedding in Ireland two years ago, and we didn't have a data connection for most of the weekend. We didn't even have a reliable _phone_ connection most of the time (Best Man forgot his cuff links, and it took three phones before we found someone with a signal, and even then that was patchy).
Part 2: https://wecode.wepay.com/posts/streaming-cassandra-at-wepay-...
Uh no. Google has hundreds of billions of dollars invested in real non-virtual assets, majority of which are in the USA.
I would have expected there to be some kind of law against the refusal of a country's own currency's cash as form of payment in any transaction. Shouldn't a government ensure that its currency is always a valid/accepted form of payment within its borders?
Practice is required or course. I've ridden bicycles with coaster bikes (pedal backward to stop) and rim brakes (maybe called something else?). I've seen disk brakes, and fixed pedal bikes - even though I've never been on either I expect that I could ride and stop one.

Schools should have a number of different programs available and students should use several different ones. It is fine to have a favorite, but you should be able to use any without specific instruction.

Teach students to type (QWERTY is standard enough to teach even if dvorak might be better). Teach them to save early and often. There is nothing magical about that. Spend more of the time teaching grammar, spelling, reviewing rough drafts, and the other timeless principals that will never change.
Taxation is theft on gunpoint. You can't opt out and get nothing of value in return. I see no evidence that trusting politicians is a thing people should do. Neither would I put much value onto what studies say that were paid for by people with an interest in discovering climate change, which we used to call global warming, but then stopped, because it never actually got much warmer over the course of decades.

If you want people to believe you start with being believable. For example, make a prediction that actually comes true. Never seen something like that in relation to "climate change".
The mercenary cough I mean security company Blackwater rebranded as well. The School of the Americas (which is a US State Sponsored terrorist training organization for South and Central America) was rebranded to "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation"
is there a way to turn this " ignore thing off? drives me nuts
They just raised $100M last November, I wouldn't consider them dead... Probably busy hiring :)

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/airtable#section-fun...
This is a common pattern, journalists propagate the scientific tales of scientists they like for non-scientific reasons. I wonder why the name "Einstein" is synonymous with "genius" in the media while Maxwell, von Neumann, Godel, Newton and many others could equally fit. I suspect Einstein has been so favored by the media to the exclusion of others because Einstein was a major proponent of Zionism. Similarly people call modern computers "Turing Machines" even though they are more accurately "von Neumann machines" because journalists love that after they've revered Turing as the mega-genius-man of computers, they can turn around and treat computers as a cause celebre of gay pride.
The legal world is the land of the Luddites. There are very capable people too of course, but generally I've found that the legal world to contain a higher than average percentage of Luddites.
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> told me sorry, they don't take cash.

Such contrast, you will not hear this anywhere in India. (Reverse is quite regular)
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> the logic is in how the rows and columns are updated, which takes place (and should) in the "application", not the "storage mechanism".

Business logic is any logic that exists to encode business requirements[1], everything else is just plumbing.
If there is a requirement that each product must have a category, then you need business logic to enforce this. If there is a requirement that a price must not be negative, then that is business logic. Where to put this logic? I would put it in the database.

> What I imagine is that because SQL was not originally conceived to be a turing complete language, the possibility of having your business logic in the database was simply not there.

SQL is based on relational algebra, which is based on first order logic. So it is perfect for business logic [2] and it rarely takes a turing complete language to implement business requirements.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_logic

[2] https://www.vertabelo.com/blog/notes-from-the-lab/business-l...
The application page linked above has several mentions of Square as the hiring company, not Caviar. Is this an oversight?
No, that gives almost zero information as to the known cause:

> A technical incident in the Galileo ground infrastructure is affecting the functioning of the Galileo system, as a result of which there is a temporary interruption of some of the Galileo initial services.

> The cause of the technical incident is identified and recovery actions are implemented to ensure that the nominal service is resumed as soon as possible while safeguarding quality of the services.
Adolf Hitler could have been a good choice.
One of the more interesting aspects of this article was that it touched on this concept I have of 'narrative density'. It's closely related to Brandolini's law, that the amount of energy it takes to create bullshit is an order of magnitude higher than the energy it takes to refute it.

A story takes more effort to explain than it does to simply read and experience it. The author's efforts to explain the story to the intelligence officials quickly turned into a re-narration of the story. At some point they weren't dealing with the original but rather a new story tailored to the need to give the intelligence officials something they could understand, because they certainly didn't have the training / education / smarts to connect the dots at the speed needed.

Any effort to explain a story that's not proper analysis invariably produces a new story. And to properly analyze a story you need a lot more in the way of training or prior experience than you do to just read or experience it.

The underlying mental model I'm using here is to see narrative as a kind of analytical tool in and of itself as a compressive technique for masses of information. The mind doesn't want to deal with complex things all at once. A story is a form of information that is uniquely capable of providing not just 'idea units', but also examples of that information being used, and also why anyone would care.
> MIT received the first major Apollo contract, the only one awarded to a university, and the only one given without competitive bidding.

Do these kinds of mission-critical components generally go to the lowest bidder?
Enterprise editions don't either. Why are people using consumer grade Windows for enterprise tasks?
Really just a difference in preference in my experience. I personally really like declarative workflows.
Just becomes some people get away with it doesn't make the practice okay. As the owner of a larger store where you're dealing with random people, you're not going to do very well if you have a policy of "you can use whatever you want and then pay for it later". Why is why none of them do, and I would have never thought that something so common sense would need to be made explicit when you enter a store.
Have you ever looked at how that's implemented? Seems kind of like saying that since it has the y combinator, you never need to use recursion.
Never been more drained then after baby-induced insomnia.

A couple of low-effort, no-brain mturk forms to make extra diaper money? Great! I'll bust out the laptop while killing time at a kid's soccer practice.
Of everything that list all you really need is the X libraries and you do not need to carry (meaning distribute) those since they are part of the every single desktop environment and have a stable ABI. The rest aren't strictly necessary, but i think Cairo has a stable ABI. I'm not sure if it is available everywhere though. OpenGL (and Vulkan) can be provided via dynamic linking, though only via an API that doesn't guarantee its existence (it doesn't exist in all X11 desktops - AFAIK Raspberry Pi doesn't support them).

In any case, the dependencies i mean here are dependencies for the applications that target your API, not the dependencies your API has. You can make your API use whatever library you want to -e.g.- load PNG, JPG or whatever, but that can be hidden from the user of the API (ie. their binary will link against libyourapi.so.1 for yapi_load_image and what that specific version of libyourapi.so.1 uses to load the requested image is an implementation detail).

Note that this is in the context of making that API a standard people can target, not a reusable library (and its own dependencies) people carry with their binaries. Basically the equivalent of how you do not need to give USER32.DLL on Windows to your users because you can pretty much expect that it will be there.

Nowadays the only equivalent on Linux is the X libraries, anything else is either not guaranteed to be there now, or not guaranteed to be there in ~5 years because thanks to CADT people cannot stick with an API and feel the need to break everyone's programs to feel useful.
Again, I'm not seeing any specific measures been cited there.

Oh, while we are on the whole regime thing. How many members of his family did he appoint to substantial executive roles in the Whitehouse? That's another mark of a regime, I think.
There are plenty:

https://subscribe.washingtonpost.com

https://www.nytimes.com/subscription

https://www.newyorker.com/subscribe

https://subscription.wsj.com
The 777 has a great long-term record. The 737 MAX started falling out of the sky right away.
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Ex-Google-Search engineer here, having also done some projects since leaving that involve data-mining publicly-available web documents.

This proposal won't do very much. Indexing is the (relatively) easy part of building a search engine. CommonCrawl already indexes the top 3B+ pages on the web and makes it freely available on AWS. It costs about $50 to grep over it, $800 or so to run a moderately complex Hadoop job.

(For comparison, when I was at Google nearly all research & new features were done on the top 4B pages, and the remaining 150B+ pages were only consulted if no results in the top 4B turned up. Difficulty of running a MapReduce over that corpus was actually a little harder than running a Hadoop job over CommonCrawl, because there's less documentation available.)

The comments here that PageRank is Google's secret sauce also aren't really true - Google hasn't used PageRank since 2006. The ones about the search & clickthrough data being important are closer, but I suspect that if you made those public you still wouldn't have an effective Google competitor.

The real reason Google's still on top is that consumer habits are hard to change, and once people have 20 years of practice solving a problem one way, most of them are not going to switch unless the alternative isn't just better, it's way, way better. Same reason I still buy Quilted Northern toilet paper despite knowing that it supports the Koch brothers and their abhorrent political views, or drink Coca-Cola despite knowing how unhealthy it is.

If you really want to open the search-engine space to competition, you'd have to break Google up and then forbid any of the baby-Googles from using the Google brand or google.com domain name. (Needless to say, you'd also need to get rid of Chrome & Toolbar integration.) Same with all the other monopolies that plague the American business landscape. Once you get to a certain age, the majority of the business value is in the brand, and so the only way to keep the monopoly from dominating its industry again is to take away the brand and distribute the productive capacity to successor companies on relatively even footing.
I think you might be lost. This post is about landfills.
I'm constantly amazed by how self-entitled my fellow developers can be when it comes to anything offered as a perk. The coffee machine on a floor breaks and you'd think someone had asked them to take a 20% pay cut by their reaction.

Maybe I'm just getting old.
Could this be adapted to work with an opensource serverless framework like knative? It would be more useful if I could choose whether to use local serverless cluster or public depending on data volume, security and other workload-specific requirements.
>Have you ever visited youtube's home page in incognito mode?

Do you like the personalized recommendations because of channel subscriptions?

I always get the "anonymous default" home page with YouTube and don't care. The home page is just a wasted load before I can start typing in the search bar. As a bonus, staying incognito means all the videos on the right-side panel are related to the current video. Not related to a music video I have playing in another tab.
Nope, just double checked.
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I don't think donated software should be allowed either. It's a brilliant investment for companies to donate their software to schools and almost everything has a "free for educational purposes" version.
I don't see any reasonable argument why they should not be able to remove at least sizeable parts of drug residues. There is metabolism in the human body and the is bacterial metabolism. Organic matter will be broken down at least partly.
It’s funny how quick we forget things like the totally insane control scheme that brought down the AirFrance Airbus.
It seems like you are recommending teaching something which is entirely different to what the vast majority of learners will come into contact with on a regular basis in their future lives. That is not useful and it does not prepare people for the real world.

In the United States, it is the done thing to file taxes through a proprietary software portal (as the result of extensive lobbying). [Yes, this state of affairs is a travesty] Should schools, therefore, avoid teaching people how to file taxes?
Since TFA reports two sats being in `TESTING` mode (whatever that is), could this be that they have a fix that they are testing on those two satellites before deploying to the others? Ie the problem is on the satellite and not ground-based?

edit: no, the below link states clearly this is grounds-based trouble.
> technical incident related to its ground infrastructure
Now I get why everyone's complaining that Slack is hindering their work ;)
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I'd be even more specific than that: understanding the transformation to turn a looping function into a recursive one is the key gateway into being able to comprehend code which uses advanced call-stack manipulation patterns, such as continuations or coroutines. While I hesitate to call such methodologies _simpler_ code, such patterns still will certainly yield more maintainable, reliable code in a strict single-thread language such as Javascript.
AT&T “free” robocall blocking service comes with a $4 monthly catch
I don't think it's necessarily impossible to calculate. Using probabilistic data structures arranged in a clever way, it's likely possible to calculate with some degree of accuracy.

I haven't thought this through, but take all the queries as they're made and create a bloom filter for every hour of searches. Depending when this process was started, an analytics group could then take a day of unique searches, and run them against this probabilistic history, and get a reasonable estimation with low error. Although the people who work on this sort of thing probably know it far better than I.

The real question though might be assuming the 15% is right, do we care about those 15%, are they typo's that don't merge, are they semantically different, are they bots search for dates or hashes, etc.
> Recently heard about an Antarctic base that lost heating for 36 hears after a Windows Update triggered a several GB download over the base's modem downlink.

I've been researching this. There was an outage. It wasn't caused by Windows. What is your source for this claim?
I think it's rather about their own time. If I waste a day that could have been customer work, my company misses out on well over a thousand bucks.
> A human contains code that can recreate a complete model of that human

That's true, but irrelevant. We're talking about modeling a system here, not reproducing one. Those are not the same thing.
Conflating AT&T to Google is incredibly misleading. AT&T had become a defacto monopoly approx. 20 years prior to that consent decree, not to mention being subjected to an anti-trust lawsuit ten years prior to the decree.

The article makes the conceit of equating an online data store to the telephone infrastructure. Google is not preventing other companies from indexing the internet in any way, shape or form. There is no barrier to another company building a similar data store from scratch using the existing internet infrastructure. On the other hand, laying out your own wires has physical limitations, especially when another company has claimed the most optimal route. In such a scenario, your costs will always exceed theirs (more infrastructure to reach the same consumers).

Regarding forcing Google to use the same index: How does DoJ plan to enforce this? How would DoJ ever be sure that Google is in compliance? I once again assert that the law magically assumes new technology to solve old technology problems without fundamentally understanding how computers work. Computers are copy-on-write by design. Delete always requires an extra step, and the verification that only one copy exists is impossible to make in the digital domain.