skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm thinking Apple will drop a couple x64 cores into an Ax chip. Maybe they license from AMD.

Probably impossible, but I wonder if something clever could be done at the microcode level (mostly) so that a core could switch instruction sets. The Apple ARM instruction set would be the native, optimized one, but the x64 IS would run acceptably.
Microsoft chairman explains how Satya Nadella won the cloud wars
I'm not so sure about search being fantastic anymore. I'm frustrated with how most times Google will completely ignore the exact query terms and return very clickbaity/popular links from medium/quota/etc. It's been happening for a bit now and usually for any serious search, I'll compare results with duckduckgo just to be sure.
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“Information wants to be free!”
They added an intermediate page around July 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180721002315/https://twitter.c... and probably saw that 99% of people clicked on the DDG link.
> Bloomberg seems owned by some behind-the-scenes communist group

Bloomberg, LP is owned and controlled by Michael Bloomberg [1]. I can't believe I have to write this, but Michael Bloomberg is not a communist. (Nor is the author's proposal remotely communist.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_L.P.#cite_note-6
Outside of the Western world it is common that when you order something online you can go to a bank or other place that has a reverse-atm (sort of) where you can pay for the order with the code you got in the email / webpage by inserting cash into the machine.

This is often found in countries that don't have proper online payment infrastructures.
Why would search be a natural monopoly? Compute time and network bandwidth is less expensive now than it's ever been.
I've seen some videos on Niconico with English comments but those were a lot harder to read. Perhaps concepts-per-second between EN/JP are similar if reading a static page, but English text tends to use more characters than JP text that express the same idea, making the system scroll it faster and thus harder to read as they whiz by. Maybe it's a Niconico issue and the system is tuned to reward comments in the typical JP length to be the most readable; I'm not sure.
Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham apparently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_window
The difference in this case is that the usual defenders of private property rights and libertarianism feel as though Google is suppressing them removing the usual roadblock to this kind reform.

This is a rare instance where anti-corporate leftists and dejected right wingers could actually do something substantive together.

In most cases I would agree with you the defenders of private industry are pretty fierce in the US, but all that ideology sort of dissipates when you feel like you are being oppressed (whether or not, or to what degree it is true).
Did they buy it recently? I recall Google owning it for a bit through an acquisition? Yeah it certainly would be nice if ddg rebranded and pushed duck as it's name.
Why do you think that's impossible today?

Enlisted personnel are often tapped to become officers. Once in the officer ranks, they've got the same shot at 4 stars as any other 2L, no?

Quick googling turns up the career of John Shalikashvili, who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1993 to 1997.

Shalikashvili was drafted into the Army as a private in 1958, eventually applied to Officer Candidate School, and ended up literally in charge of all US forces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shalikashvili
Where would you even get a £50 note from? I've never seen a cash machine dispense them.
Regarding driving license, at least where I live, if you've gotten your license on a car with automatic transmission, you can't (legally) drive a car with manual transmission. I get your point though.
Static website generator based on HTML rewriting not template processing
It's AI turtles all the way down.
I live in Germany and the problem is, people (cashiers) still haven't understood that they don't have to pay a minimum fixed amount (like €2) to the bank, like you have to do with Visa.
That's why shops require you purchase stuff for usually at least €10 or look at you weirdly if you want to pay by card for a €2 hamburger at McDonalds. Which of course makes no sense, because they have to pay a percentage, not a fixed amount.

It's frustrating.

(Paying a fixed amount to the bank was a thing in Germany like 10 or 20 years ago.)
What about the computing and infrastructure resources that Google dedicated to build the index, and continues to dedicate to keep the index up to date?

This is a failed model. There is no incentive for Google to continue to update the public version, and it would quickly fall out of date while Google focuses on their own internal copy. It’s a solution suggested by lawmakers who fundamentally don’t understand how computers work.
Love the concept, but I am waiting for Notion.so API to fully migrate to this type of perfect/simple blog back-end.

The engineers at Zeit have a concept of this WITH magical SPR

https://zeit.co/blog/serverless-pre-rendering
How does your performance scale? If it scales linearly in records, you're going to have trouble if you're only below 200ms on 1k records. If it scales logarithmically, there are still a couple orders of magnitude between a comprehensive index like Google's and your 1k record index, which is still going to give you trouble.

In short, 200ms is slow, not fast.

EDIT: Just to clarify, I'm not saying it's necessarily easy to be faster than 200ms (I'd need to look closer into fuzzy text searching algorithms to be able to make an educated guess here); I'm just saying it's not fast enough.
> That's what native used to be, but nowadays it's "not electron".

This makes me sad. Coherent UI is a very important point to users IMO. Users can assume that some special feature from App X will also work on App Y.

(It also allows OS/GTK/Qt devs to enhance UX without application modification.)

For example, in macOS Cocoa, textboxes have universal readline-esque keybindings (and is configurable globally) which, as an Emacs user, very, very useful.

Most Mac apps use Cocoa as the GUI toolkit, so basically all kinds of apps can benefit these keybindings.

Another example of this directly benefiting users is the addition of tabs in macOS Sierra(I’m not sure about the exact versions :-().

macOS Sierra added tabs to Cocoa apps, and applications could get the feature without additional modification. (I’m not sure if it’s absolutely none or if recompiling was needed, but I think it’s the former.)

I could use tabs in any application, with the same look-and-feel, in all apps!

And, don’t forget accessibility here!

Stories like these are mostly only macOS; since Windows apps usually just re-invent all kinds of UI elements, while Linux’s GUI toolkits are super-fragmented. (GTK vs Qt is one thing, and there are lots of other options!)

We really should be trying to use the native GUI toolkit (and that is why I’m hoping cross-platform native UI libraries like libui succeed), not using some Flutter-esque library that draws everything from scratch.

(BTW, AFAIK wxWidget tries to get this right and tries to draw things using the native toolkit.)
> Large, secured loans are recorded in public ledgers by law.

That's not true of “large, secured loans” in general.

OTOH, it is true of certain real property interests, including those of both owners and secured lenders; this is about the size of a secured loan, it's about clarity of title to real estate.
There's no way to do this kind of list without infecting it with author bias. I'm a Rubyist, I like pure-OO, so what's interesting to me is language interop, so that I can get all the benefits of pure OO along with speed, and tooling so that you can get through the mass of context that is understanding the standard library and available libs so you don't have to build literally everything from scratch or spend 90% of your time in Google.

So I went looking for Pharo, which brings fascinating introspective tooling to Smalltalk, only to find that the author is biased towards 'any' high level features interoperating with C-like languages. And my list of interesting languages would look the same way, nobody would be able to see why I didn't put 'their' language on there.

Which is why I got excited for the awesome list thing. One person can't curate everything. You need a community of people invested in differentiating software offerings to the point where anybody can look at it and see what makes it interesting.
In NL both €200 and €500 are almost universally rejected.
I did the same. It turned out that teachers were perfectly fine using Open/LibreOffice.
From criminal to hero
Could it ever be used maliciously? Supposedly some countries are poisoning people via Polonium and inducing heart attacks: https://citizentruth.org/cia-heart-attack-gun/
Several years ago there was an Ask HN post inquiring what it is called when you want that fuzzy feeling of knowing more random mostly useless trivia than others. Some obscure knowledge was left there.

If you like random car stuff: apparently the fuel gauge on most cars points to the side of the car with the fuel fill, when it is at half full of course. And on cars with the muffler on only one side it is I believe the opposite side from the filler opening.

Edit: there was also a thread many many years ago where it was agreed to not post links to just a random Wikipedia article and instead to something that provided a bit more context as to why the thing is interesting. But I guess a couple of years after that it was abandoned.
(dups) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20439425
Maybe it's your part of the world, but my TTFB to google search pages is less than 150ms and the "generated in x seconds" is usually less than 1 second. That's pretty good for an index searching effectively every public internet page.
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As a person who actually lives in a 3rd world country and grew up in America, what you’re saying could not be more false. Even the poorest Americans live a life here that would be considered one of great luxury. We’re talking about living on a dirt floor in collapsing mud houses. We’re talking about babies dying from dirty water as a regular occurrence. No running water, intermittent electricity and definitely no sewage. Most people here haven’t eaten meat in months, occasionally years.

If you actually think America is a 3rd world country you need to get out more.
Another argument for considering the abstract machine as the primary way to think about programs in a language is that it is very easy to end up with a set of optimizations that all look reasonable in isolation but are inconsistent, and lead to incorrect code when combined. Both GCC and LLVM suffer from this (and in fact MSVC had/has the exact same bug).

GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65752

LLVM: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35229, https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34548
vim is slow to start? Have you checked the SMART stats on your drive lately?
I strongly disagree on skeuomorphism. My parents learned how to use most of those skeuomorphism apps on first sight. It was absolutely brilliant, it may not look beautiful from UI perspective, but it was the easiest way to learn how to use it. Skeuomorphism isn't just about the looks, it is about how it relate to real world object that is instantly recognisable.

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I still remember I was struck hard when I could not teach my parents how to do double click on mouse, and when to use right click on windows in the early 90s. For years computing were merely a typing machine with a Screen in front of them. And serving the web as well as email has some sort of pain involves in the process. It was bearable for them, but it certainly wasn't fun.

I thought my parents were dump, but then later I realise majority of people not grown up in age of computing have similar problems. It wasn't until iPhone before everything was obvious. It was stupidly simple that you could leave it to them and they would discover how to use within minutes. Minutes, when you think back after years of using computer, from time to time they still ask when to use double click and when to use right click. Scrolling somehow become natural, something they fail to learn when using Scroll Wheels.

Skeuomorphism along with Touch Screen UI brings Computing to the rest of the world. And call me old fashion, I would much like a modern take of it than the current trend of Super Flat everything UI.
Because the $90/hr regions won’t let you.
Well, starting off as a private in the British army and becoming the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff really would be an achievement! :-)
I know of zero universities that use Scheme or any LISP.

Most nowadays that I know of start with Javascript. My old university started with C. It now goes straight to javascript.
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I agree. I've given up recommending DuckDuckGo to non-technical friends/family because they always get distracted by the irritating name. I wish they would change it to "Duck.com".
Maybe this article should be made public too.
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The problem is QA tends to get to scripted. You need to exercise each corner of the product, thus you test A, B, C in that order - so you never find cases where testing C, A, B breaks, or any other permutation. (to be fair with any complexity it is impossible to test all permutations)
Seriously something that isn't easy to unsee ever again. I also learned that the word kink isn't used for fetishes exclusively... serious side effect of learning English through the internet.
The difference in this case is that the usual defenders of private property rights and libertarianism feel as though Google is suppressing them, potentially removing the usual roadblock to this kind reform.

This is a rare instance where anti-corporate leftists and dejected right wingers could actually do something substantive together.

In most cases I would agree with you the defenders of private industry are pretty fierce in the US, but all that ideology sort of dissipates when you feel like you are being oppressed (whether or not, or to what degree it is true).
Interesting, I just tweeted about Microsoft’s parental controls this morning:

> Windows 10 parental controls requires that both the parent and the kid have an email account and register with Microsoft.

https://twitter.com/philshem/status/1150667995745869824?s=21
Good idea! We should make Bloomberg’s stock data public too!
> There's no way to do this kind of list without infecting it with author bias

Well, “interesting” is subjective so it always is going to incorporate someone's opinion, but it doesn't have to be the author’s bias, e.g., if it was based, say, on surveying a wide and representative pool of developers.
Like you said, the value of Google is the algo. The index is worth little.

The limits of Bing, Qwant, DDG, etc. are not the number of the indexed pages.

It's that, give them the same pages, and the same search terms, and they don't return results as good.
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>Some features or solutions we’ve developed for our customers are reliant on our exposure to Microsoft products we would not be able to justify or afford outside the partner program. If the partner program had not been available those solutions would have been based off alternative products, most likely open source.

Just a question- what exactly are you developing within the Microsoft ecosphere that's so expensive? Prototyping new solutions with Azure these days is definitely pretty cheap, even without being an MSFT Partner.
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India’s Terrifying Water Crisis
Tangem cards with a color eink display? Sounds about right.

https://tangem.com
> What about the computing and infrastructure resources that Google dedicated to build the index

How is this different from the 1956 consent decree? AT&T spent money developing its patents. But on the basis of longstanding law around public interest, it was forced to license them to third parties. (Note: not give them away.)

> and continues to dedicate to keep the index up to date?

The author explicitly contemplates, again within the context of the 1956 consent decree and many subsequent and preceding actions by the U.S. government (mostly around pipelines, et cetera), use fees paid to Google.

> There is no incentive for Google to continue to update the public version, and it would quickly fall out of date while Google focuses on their own internal copy

Google wouldn't be permitted to maintain dual states. Its algorithms would have to use the public index.
When you read about WW2 you see the same thing in the German side and also sometimes on the Allied side. Generals and politicians knew that the battle was lost but instead of giving up they made the front soldiers fight to a certain death. That while the leaders who made decisions lived in splendor.

Same with the current American wars. When they invaded Iraq in 2003 the military was understaffed and it took years for the leaders to admit that and adjust. So solders were dying while at the same time a lot of defense companies made good profits and there were tax cuts for higher incomes.

I always wonder how wars would go if as soon as a country was at war, leadership had to live in conditions like a front soldier and nobody would be allowed to make a profit from war related business. I bet we would have much less wars.
"DuckDuckGo, which aggregates information obtained from 400 other non-Google sources, including its own modest crawler.)"

I looked into it, and it seems DDG is using Bing and Yahoo search API and lots of other sources.
I looked into the pricing of Yahoo's search API / Bing search API,it ranges from $0.80 / 1000 queries to several dollars per thousand queries.

It seems to expensive to be economically viable with ads, what am I missing ?
What happens on the off chance you do find yourself having no alternatives? Or worse, having a free alternative that is so much worse than the proprietary, paid one?
I think the better move is to find a way to kill the advertising business model that google relies on. If there's no advertising there's not as much need for all this data collection.
They are certainly not Sharp as in Sharp that it hurts. And I prefer the iPhone 4 design ( Current iPad Pro Design ) then the current rounded every corner design
Invest some taxpayer money into making a free alternative, I'd say. Or just not teach that software. If companies require the use of proprietary software without alternatives they can pay the money to train people to use it.
after having tried to reverse engineer some proprietary document format i’m becoming really sensitive to companies walling their market by doing complex and poorly documented file format. I feel like reaching a certain market share there should be a regulation forcing companies to at least document the format.

How are .docx document doing those days ? Is it possible to create a docx reader that would display word document correctly? ( at least the basic features, excluding complex things involving spreadsheet embedding for example)
> the value of Google is the algo. The index is worth little.

But it's worth something. Giving DuckDuckGo direct access to Google's index, including the ability to train models on said index, would improve the competitive landscape.
Experience counts.

Some people seem to have 10x and more motivation to practice and learn than others. Why is it so difficult to agree that this is a major advantage? Because you can't have it delivered on a silver plate at any price?

From my experience; the biggest difference is knowing what corners may be safely cut, which code doesn't even need to be written.
> Most counties redact your name from their public website.

In what state? Dallas County (TX) and Broward County (FL) don't. Nor does New Jersey (we have a unified system for all 22 counties). In Dallas County I can even see the names of everyone who owned a property for the previous five years as well.

Edit: s/Not/Nor/
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You're charged per minute. It incentivizes you to drive aggressively so you pay as little as possible.
Exactly - "turn this value from this specified encoding into a character" is semantically much clearer than "make a character whose internal representation is this integer".
For hiking tours, a printed map is way more comfortable for people to gather around and discuss the way. And it does not drain batterie ...
They've negotiated a lower rate?
This might be the case, but commodity convenience and software pleasantness is probably the least important thing what should be taught and learned in school.
If everyone had to suffer everything that they inflicted on others, we’d soon live in a near utopia. One can dream...
That means you're not a 10x programmer.
One that might bridge that gap is learning a language.

It's almost certainly much more recent than recognizing a face, but still something humans have been doing for a long time, and is a near-universal human behavior. Like the others, though, it needs to be learned, has a strong cultural component, and tends to happen with the help of others.

It's also interesting because there's an entire academic field devoted to its study, and, at least from my peripheral perspective, they seem to be constantly bumping up against Polanyi's Paradox. I've seen more than one academic argue that the set of grammatical rules that we can accurately describe is a subset of the grammatical rules that we use when communicating. Which, if true, is pretty interesting, since language is a social construct - the implication is that we can fabricate and reliably transmit information that we can't actually express.
Newton's thinking was not broadly acceptable to Christians in his day either. He was a Unitarian! He specifically didn't believe in the Trinitarian understanding of God that had already been essential to mainstream Christianity for centuries by that point.

Churchill was a drinker. There's plenty of evidence into the 21st century that functioning alcoholics are able to maintain status in most walks of life including politics. Or were you thinking of something else?
Or even just Duck[.com] - they own the domain..