skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely a valid point.
Though as a customer I will say that they've made improvements recently. It's not perfect, but its getting better. I often get small products in envelopes now that don't use and plastic padding but instead use a paper-filled wall. There's also an option to have your items shipped all together at a later date if you're not in a rush and want to reduce the number of trips/amount of packaging.

But I have honestly not dug further. I imagine one of the greatest costs is the amount of fuel burned for those 1/2 day deliveries.
Thanks for the insight; indexing the entire web is not a goal of dindex. Instead, it's designed to work like DNS where you can host your own server + have it federate queries to other servers if it doesn't have records which match a query.

Basically it moves control to the client; if the client wants to query servers across the globe there's nothing stopping them, but by default you only query servers in your config file. Organizations like the new york times, universities, and governments would host servers for the same reason they host their own email infrastructure.

It also moves a ton of control to publishers; dindex doesn't crawl the web unless a client explicitly wants to.
The other half is where the people in charge of intelligence get inspiration from novels :)
> offer encrypted GPS, too

That's the plan (or at least something explicitly reserved as an option), yes.
Could you tell us more about your "typical" experiences?
This isn't particular to me, but he's frequently cited for popularizing the term. You can see on Google Trends that it took off in 2007-2008 after the publication of 4HWW, and that there are virtually no results for it prior to the book's publication.
Why? Do you think their safety record is worse than driving?
Does it make sense to have big smelly UPS trucks driving down your dead-end street 10 times a day in the middle of summer?!?!
So maybe let's shift some budget from EPA to USPS, given that killing off mail spam means that much less environmental damage to deal with.

Yeah, I should write someone in my country and make the same argument here. It's a fucking nuisance in Poland as well.

One day somebody - maybe the underpaid delivery labor, maybe some angry neighbor - dumped some of the spam that was left on the mailboxes all over the floor of our block of flats. Most of the leaflets were of a local pizza chain, so I got on my bike, drove over to them and rose a stink about it with their manager. Not sure if it did anything, but boy it felt good. It's probably wasn't even their fault - except it was, for printing and distributing this garbage in the first place. I think people need to start retaliating against the companies that advertise this way.
>Google is not the victim of misinformation.

>Google is a profit-seeking corporation that needs to expand into China to generate more money and bends the knee as much as it can to make inroads there. Far from being a source of truth they follow all Chinese censorship laws (why, because they would be blocked from operating there and unable to make money off of the Chinese). China likes everything about Google other than the fact that it is not a domestic corporation.

Whew the irony
Back of the envelope (haha) we're talking somewhere in the range of $10-20/person/month, gross. Say half that after costs incurred by actually transporting and delivering that bulk mail (so, 50% profit, which seems high but is fine for the sake of argument).

I dunno about you, but I wouldn't just vote for a $5-10/month tax to eliminate junk mail entirely, I'd go door-to-door campaigning for it. I'd make signs. I'd call all my friends. What a bargain.
Personally, I like to bind the compiler to implementing the abstract machine in all cases, and in the face of undefined behavior the abstract machine has no requirements on its behavior. Of course, this is just a semantic quibble: in practice, the results are the same ;)
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What fascinating language. "I'm using all my leverage to refuse" doesn't me "I refuse". I wonder how many Boeing engineers used all their leverage to refuse to compromise safety.
Microsoft has infinite money, pays users with rewards directly, and has barely gotten any marketshare with Bing.

In order to compete, you would need good results and good performance for your organic results and your ad program in addition to a huge budget for traffic aquisition and patience and ability to execute on strategy consistently over multiple years.

Also, keep in mind that people will judge based on perceived quality, not objective quality. Simply being shown as a Google result increases the perceived quality for most results -- in order to be seen as equal, the competitor will need to have consistently better results.
I live 20 minutes from: the nearest supermarket, and, a prime distribution center. ~3 min ago I just dropped 170$ on a whole foods order.

To each their own, I guess.
I dropped Amazon Prime about a year ago and every single time I go to buy something they offer me a free week trial. I start a trial, buy what I want with free 2 day shipping and then cancel before I get charged.

Something else I noticed is that whenever I order something with 5-8 shipping and is a relatively common item it arrives within 2 days anyway. It's like they no longer have the logistics to delay shipping of some items.
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But yea while performance is a huge goal of mine, at the moment I don't even cache compiled regular expressions. It's definitely an alpha-stage project.
Isn't this a reason to be disappointed with whatever regulation prohibits Amazon from offering videos with prime in your country, rather than with Amazon? Surely Amazon would show you Prime video if they could.
Using Google Fi and driving through rural Michigan, it's not too uncommon for me to enter an area without service.
That was my first thought. So this is a thing, and now we have dedicated search engines to showing you the 'true' search results from either the left or right. And it's that much easier to stay completely enveloped in the echo chamber.
Oh, Prime in the UK comes with free next day delivery on everything.
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>Garageband or more professional recording software like Logic or Ableton? Or art classes that teach Photoshop

Yes, schools should stop specifically teaching the UI of certain proprietary applications.

>Should they even be allowed to use Windows or Mac OS X?

Public funds should not be used to purchase those operating systems. If they were donated, they can be allowed.

>How about Google Chrome or Safari? Google search?

Those are already free, and there aren't full 5 credit courses on "How to use Chrome" like there are for MS Office and Photoshop.
United Fruits comes to mind, what a lovely company...
I don't see any buttons on FF 68 either. I was able to just click around for the first one.. can't find one to get videos playing.
You're likely right it does put you in a higher tier of priority, however how that plays out practically be a relatively slim advantage or speed increase - as is my and OP's comments allude to. Comes back to the rule of efficiency and lower cost with adequate planning, planning ahead of time, detriment of impulse or last minute buying, and stability of supply-demand systems.
No, because the compiler will not generate code that is consistent in this case.
I learn best jumping in the deep end and learning from previous patterns in code and understanding why something was done the way it was done.

Reading books & loads of technical writing doesn't seem to set in very well for me.

Watching conferences and online course videos also helps understanding concepts. I couldn't for the life get my head around Redux when reading their website but I bought a udemy course for $5 and it basically clicked instantly!
Could this be explained by supposing that people are just searching for current events, sometimes national, sometimes international, sometimes very local? If so, you really wouldn't need much indexed to handle those queries. I imagine many queries are also just overly verbose and sentence-length, which artificially inflates the number of unique queries which are actually seeking roughly the same pages.
This is a great find and a very somber video. It brings me a smile to know that this lady will wake up to her video having thousands of views and hundreds of likes, as well as many lovely comments.
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From the other side, tail call recursion is often actually implemented as a loop by the interpreter. Effectively, making many recursive programs just a different way to write a loop.
I don't get my money's worth out of prime shipping, especially as the price has gone up and the items I used to buy I now go to the manufacturer for because of the prevalence of counterfeits, faked reviews, and knock-offs on Amazon. I don't care about the music streaming, video streaming, whatever Fresh is, Twitch Prime, or Pantry one bit. That said, their whole foods discounts are worth it for me.
Consciousness is a tiny aperture through which the universe looks at itself...

(Watts is great.)
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Ha. I petitioned to our HOA to put a trash can next to every mailbox and they refused.
I didn't reject his advice -- just the opposite: I endorsed it. Notice that in my reply to the question "Is that quote bad advice?", I gave him due credit for his "excellent advice", and helpfully suggested he follow it himself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20437177

I'm not even suggesting you "live your whole life without listening to" him -- just the opposite: I actually quoted his own words, and linked to more quotes and information about him, in case some people hadn't already heard them.

And no, I don't envy him, nor do I want to be like him, nor do I even want to physically assault him by slapping him, like he wants to slap Pankaj Mishra.

Maybe we should all take his other sagely timeless advice and "toughen up", and not be as thin skinned and prone to unraveling and throwing tantrums as he is, or threatening lawsuits and physical violence in response to legitimate criticism, huh?
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So? What do you think I'm arguing for here?
AirBnb's business is not the CRUD app. Craigslist has that. AirBnb's value add is the vetting of participants, reputation, dispute resolution, and payment escrow system.

Accounts that abuse houses can and do get negative reviews visible to future hosts, fines/fees from the homeowner enforced by the platform, or even banned (along with government IDs and Facebook accounts they have verified).
This was the original reason I started Prime — guaranteed two day shipping. Now both the offering and price has been bloated to the point it has little value to me anymore, especially because the delivery windows are all over the place and the Amazon delivery courier is a sub-par experience compared to UPS/Fedex.

It’s no longer an easy shopping experience, you have to scrutinize the entire process.
But you seem to be suggesting that something has to come in the form of paid employment. There's plenty of stuff I find meaning in, people just don't tend to be willing to pay me for it.
I don't know if it would be a once-a-year event. That happens more frequently to me with the the Magic Keyboard 2. Thankfully I can connect it and keep working.

No integrated keyboard in my iMac... :)
Yes, encrypted GPS makes sense. You can broadcast additional information that can be used for more precision only on encrypted channels, and have people pay for the decryption keys. (That's part of how the better-quality GPS for US military works)

Another way is selling online access to better-quality correction data.

Neither necessarily involves telling anyone where you are.
Drifts also occur in time as well as space. Chaucer's early Middle English or Shakespeare's later Middle English are still mostly readable to a modern English reader, but a lot of the pronunciations have shifted almost entirely. There's a sort of archival benefit to the divorce between writing and pronunciation, the slower pace in which written forms drift versus spoken forms. (Which would also seem to hint why it's somewhat of a natural language outcome of speech being somewhat more ephemeral and prone to drifting than written text that outlasts it in libraries and schools.)
OP said "why they don't have this market cornered". In other words, why is there a market existing for Car2Go to capitalize on?
When you more or less directly receive money by implementing a dumb idea, the incentives don't align to select them out.

States need money, taxes are politically unpopular, therefore this happens.
I always go for their 2 day delivery because choosing same day or 1 day delivery would frequently end up in an email saying that the package is running late, and it should arrive some time in the next 10 business days. Not sure what caused 2 day delivery to be fine, but 1 day delivery to turn into 2 week delivery so often.
Yeah, I realized that about ten seconds after I submitted; my mom is a lawyer and due to older standards and newer ones, they use Word for about 80% of stuff, and Wordperfect for about 20% (due to it being the standard in the federal courts for a long time).
> I trust that other people will keep the uproar to keep airline in check.

I agree with you, and expect that engineers/regulators to do their jobs. But I think this is a form of the bystander effect. [1] I'm not sure what we can do proactively except be cognizant of what we choose to ride in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
Immoral yes. Ridiculous no.

People have a short memory and a strong affect toward symbolism.

Marketing just pulls the desired psychological tricks to reach their objective.

It works. Just like lying in politics works. Just like making corporate PR statements work. Just like in your face ads work. Just like showing boobs work.

It will work as long as people are cruising in their life instead of trying to build it. It will keep working because it goes with the flow of our internal mechanisms, and it takes conscious efforts to not be influenced by it. And it will keep being used because the value of doing so it far superior than the cost.
That's the point: this is not research, but whatever is going on at Google, the explanation has to account for examples like these. It's simply one observation that you cannot discount.

I just tried searching again a few times with new private windows, and "email" alternates between first and fourth suggestion for trump. But the more important point is the absence of the suggestion for clinton: we know it's been in the news extensively, we know people searched for this phrase a lot, and now "email" has been removed from the suggestions only for Clinton. I tried searching a few more U.S. politicians, and for all of them "e" autosuggests "email" somewhere between first and fourth place. So the complete absence for Clinton does not look like a generic algorithm change.
*she, but yes it's nothing more than a well-timed personal anecdote to generate clicks. All the comments here are also anecdotal. It's a shame our readerbase is that susceptible to shallow clickbait.
>A search engine is not life or death. Google doesn’t stop anyone from creating a website and reaching consumers other ways.

As someone outside of the tech bubble, this statement always confuses me. I see it once a week or so on this site. Someone will say 'well, company x is doing y, what's to stop you from just disrupting them and working around?"

Because people get their information in consistent, and predictable ways. And one of those main ways is to search for it using a popular website, so popular it's literally called 'googling' something.

If you are an unknown, a search engine is literally life and death for your company, from what I can tell.

Again, I'm outside the tech sphere, so maybe I'm just ignorant. But I don't think so.
I do that all the time, I wonder how common that is?
How about you calm down and pay attention to the discussion. Total lunatic. I was stating my point around the closed science of the cold war era. India was doing nothing around that time. It then benefited, like everyone else in the world when the huge post war advances were done in public in peer reviewed science. When you do something ow, it is not from scratch. Its not an insult as you seem to think it is.

Your behaviour is scandalous and anathema to any reasonable discussion. You simply invent your own argument to have with yourself. I'm finished here.
>I can't think of a place w/o mobile internet, even mountain treks have decent internet.

I'm not sure where you are located, but in the US there are still quite many rural areas without cell service, even in the areas fairly close to major metropolitan areas. I can drive two hours from NYC and find entire towns that have no service.

I also just got back from a two week trip around the UK, where I expected better coverage but actually found I regularly had no cell service (on the biggest mobile carrier) in the countryside, including in the center of some villages.
That $0.19's not pure profit. There are fixed costs to providing service to all these addresses, sure, but even so, bulk mail has to add expenses on top of that, for transportation, storage, and delivery. The fee to end junk mail would only need to cover the net income from that, not the gross.
I agree it could be more efficient, but isn’t there an argument that it’s better than all those houses firing up their individual cars to go to Target Or Walmart?
I have found myself often ordering from Target.com recently. They also have 2 day shipping on most items and unlike Amazon when I order a brand name item from them I actually can expect to get a genuine product. Their supply chain seems to be much more reliable in that regard.
>You are right though, it doesn't deal with the dominance of the search directly. My hope is a complimentary effect to the above also happens: Google no longer gets gobs of personal data from its other services, allowing other search engines to approach its efficacy.

I'm still not sure how this would work on Apple though, since their main differentiator is their design sensibilities and integration rather than their platform monopolies.

I guess iMessage and the App Store do rely on monopoly rents, but I can't think of any way to sever those links without making the iOS platform less secure.
I measure from when I hit enter to when my screen is full of results, and just _rendering_ google.com takes a full second on my macbook with 8gb ram and an i5 processor. It's so bad I have a shell script which forces my processor into the 3200mhz range when I'm on my browser workspace. When I'm not looking at my browser (+no downloading files, no audio) the same script sends a SIGSTOP to it so it isn't eating CPU cycles while I'm writing code.
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I knew this was the next step for these companies. They don't want to lose millions and the easiest thing to do is change the name. At some point, the public will forget.
Really?

a) My main worry is hurting someone else; I will be responsible for this either way.

b) If I do damage the rental, chances are I'll be held accountable at the end of the rental, and chances are the repair fees will be extortionate compared to fixing my own car at a shop of my choosing.
> It's a fucking nuisance

It's also a monumental waste of resources: process trees for paper, process inks, print the spam, ship spam to distribution center, ship spam to local dispatch, drive spam to mailbox, recipient puts spam directly into trash, garbage collector drives to collect spam, dump spam into a hole in the ground, bury the spam.

While I'm sure it's inaccurate, that's about the gist of it, isn't it? You can substitute trash for recycling to get an equally pointless loop of wasting resources.
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I never said people should always use recursion. It's just that it's a technique that's useful to have up your sleeve unless you are working in constrained domains (embedded comes to mind)
This is partially true, Azure has made some of these options available in a more affordable format. Additionally some features have been made available in lower level licenses.

One example is any solution utilizing encryption at rest, a feature that was previously only available in enterprise level SQL Server. That feature is now available in lower license levels and Azure.
That will only work if the entire "global megacorp"'s database is the web shop database that you describe. How else are you going to show availability of products in a shop nearby you? How are you going to combine the webshop's delivery logistics with the distribution centers of the entire brick&mortar retail chain? How are you going to expose loyalty card benefits online? How are you going to keep the product catalog in sync with what's in stores?

Like all retail bigcorps, I assume that IKEA has lots of internal systems, half self-cooked, half based on SAP or Oracle or whatnot, that together form the entireity of their operations. These formed long before "microservices" were hip and trendy and will be around long after the hype has died away. The webshop is a part of all that and it must be closely connected to the rest of the IT in lots and lots of places.

So, what you're suggesting is "IKEA should just rebuild their entire product, sales, supply&demand, logistics and finance IT from scratch in a single monolith on a single database". That'd be a fine end-result indeed, but unachievable on any timescale.
I'd contest that.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/airline-mechanics-feel-pressure...

Given that the remaining 737 non MAX aircraft should be good in theory, there are very concerning trends still rife in the aviation industry that are cause for concern.

For once, the bean counters need to take a back seat to those actually trying to do their jobs keeping people safe.
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Bingo. That uneven distribution is why them Yankees seem to be fine with all these wars.

The World Wars brought violence directly to the Asians and Europeans, devastating Europe from London to Moscow, and all over Asia. Rich and poor got it, good and hard, in their on backyards.

Vietnam devastated... Vietnam. It was an economic blackhole for the US -- ditto for Iraq and Afghanistan -- but the average American is driving larger, nicer cars then ever, while living in comfy McMansions. Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland (Washington DC suburbs) are wealthier than ever -- all Top 10 richest counties in the US. They don't feel this pain, and probably never will, save for the small handful of volunteers shipped to Iraq/Afgan/etc.
In London, food stalls by the side of the road generally use wireless or USB-powered contactless gadgets, connected to phones via bluetooth, to take payment.
"Make its index public". Statist lunatics. Who owns their index? Does "public" owns their index?
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Good point and 15% is indeed much, but the question would be what "unique" means. If it means that the exact same character sequence appeared for the first time, it doesn't mean that the users searches for a term that has never been searched for.

I mean with the newest advantages like machine learning it's more and more possible to _semantically_ link queries. If that's the case, those 15% could become 5% truly unique searches or even less.

"how dumb is trump" and "how dumb is donald trump" are two different searches but they semantically belong together because they mean the same.