skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not "research" period. Using one arbitrary search comparison to draw conclusions about the nature of a system that processes billions of queries a day is pretty weak. Additionally, I don't get the same results you do. "hillary clinton e" does not bring up emails, nor does "donald trump e" bring up emails (the first results I see are election, education, england visit, ex wife).

I'm not ruling out the possibility that google actually is manipulating search results, but this is not proof of that.
I solely get Prime when I can abuse it, or more specifically, not really pay for it.

For instance, when they used to give a hefty $12 discount on new games... I'd buy a month of Prime for what was $11 at the time. So the Prime cost me effectively nothing, and I'd only have it months new games I wanted to buy came out.

I did actually just grab Prime today... because there's a "buy $25 get $5" gift credit offer... and a week of Prime costs $1.99. So I made three bucks on it.
This article is full of terrible metaphors and analogies
I don't know much about Qualcomm's gear for truckers, but FWIW even if the machine does pull its time data over the cellular network (possible on CDMA, less likely - impossible? - on GSM), the cell tower itself likely relies on GPS for its own time sync. Its very common for GPS to be used as a globally-accurate source of time data even in applications that have nothing to do with location.
After Boeing made a dangerously faulty plane, Boeing wrongly tried to blame pilots for the first crash, and Boeing wrongly tried to blame pilots for the second crash, the fixed plane will surely be the safest plane in the sky.

You know what they say, lightning often strikes the same place three times, but never a fourth time. :)
Yep, it just makes what likely already operates as an "internal" customer an "external" one. Not really sure how it helps with competition?
Forgot to update at the 24 hour mark, but nope, no problems at all.
In response to your items...

1. I mean, i guess you could post an "Ask HN"; you could certainly get other insights and intel from others...but if it were me, i think I'd just dive in and start researching things on my own. Or, maybe just get all meta on this topic, and post your thoughts around this to your own existing blog (assuming you have one now?)...about how you wish to go through this endeavor!

2. I vote for you to just "scratch your own itch".

Hey, I'm not a javascript guru either...But if this were the approach that i would want to take - i.e. to leverage electron - and it doesn't/didn't exist, i might be compelled to learn enough javascript to at least get the ball rolling myself ("dangerous" though it might feel)...and along the way - assuming you've already posted about this effort of yours - maybe others will join in to help you - that is, others who might be better javascript practitioners, and who want the same platform as you want. I think that's worth a shot! I encourage you to go for it! What is it that Ghandi said: "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." Good luck and cheers!
I think it's possible that we might be the weird ones. In the environment that our distant ancestors inhabited, squeamishness about harming animals might have been a significant disadvantage.

Or maybe not. Joseph Campbell claimed that a common feature of tribal mythology is ceremonial apologies and restitutions to animal spirits to make restitution for the need to kill them.
You've always been able to change the speed, but not the acceleration.
There probably isn't one! But as argued in the paper, our reasons for thinking so are not based on NFL.
Netflix destroys, eviscerates, demolishes, annihilates them in videos!!!
Do passengers have a right to refuse to fly on the 737 "max"?
I think OP is implying talking to natives familiar with the culture confirms that the situation is not incredible. It's got nothing to do with stereotypes.
Show HN: Filter music based on mood, key, tempo, energy and other properties
The workers in Qatar beg to differ.
So... this article is a good example of how ??!? it gets once you move from "We gotta do something about these tech monopolies" into the "what should we do?" phase.

How exactly "do* you break up a Google or a FB so that (only one possible reason, but the one cited here) they don't control too much media/mind share?^

Laws usually want to be general, and my suggestion doesn't necessarily lend to that, but I'll suggest it anyway.

Facebook doesn't need to be broken up into several companies. It can just be shut down.

I don't mean that it should (justice-wise) be shut down. I just mean that we won't lack for social media. We will have social media alternatives the day after FB shuts down. Theres a chance we'll get something more open instead. There's a good chance we'll get several small replacements instead. There is 0-chance that we'll lack for ways to share posts and post pictures. This isn't Bell, where we need to keep the phones working. The phones will work fine with or without Facebook.

There is no need for a company to generate $70bn in revenue, in order for us to have social media. That's a key difference from all antitrust cases of the past.

YouTube is another sort of example. If it shuts down, alternatives will pop up with immediately...maybe open ones.

There are justice questions (is it fair to shareholders/employees/zuck?) There are legal validity questions (why FB and not apple?). But, for the practical questions... the problem is an easy one.

^fwiw, I also think this is the most worrying part. These companies have a tremendous control about how and what people think. They make Murdoch media look quaint.
I wouldn't say that anyone can create an index with really simple programming. There are quite a few technical obstacles that "really simple programming" probably couldn't solve. That being said, I agree that any legitimate company would be able to create an index easily enough. The hard part is ranking and spam detection.
Reverse Engineering Object-Oriented Code with Ghidra
Carmack was also given lots of power and free reign, another
aspect of being a 10x+ that is key. If something needed to
change to make them more productive, he was the architect and
was allowed to make it happen. That access is harder to obtain
on established teams

Yes. This is so key. This is why I (and many others) bristle at the "10x" stuff. It's so context-dependent.

Put John Carmack to work on a legacy maintenance program at some bank where he's not allowed to make any real decisions that affect the workflow or overall codebase, and that guy's no longer a 10x programmer. He's not even going to be a 1x programmer until he learns all of the archaic domain knowledge relevant to his new, miserable job.

Lots of people are stuck in situations like this: 10x (or 1000x) talent stuck in situations where they're performing at 1x or worse.

Likewise, lots of people with 1x talent are perceived as operating at 10x levels relative to their peers in the organization because they've got favorable circumstances: they're allowed to work on greenfield projects while others are stuck doing maintenance, they're allowed to choose tools and stacks that suit their own preferences and skillsets, etc. Or they're the ones that wrote the initial code and are the only ones who really understand it.

I've been in both those situations, and others.

At various points in my career I've operated at 1/10x, 1x, and 10x relative to my peers.

It sure wasn't my work ethic or talent that changed.

Now, some may say that part of being a "10x" developer is striving to put yourself in situations where you can actually be a 10x developer. Well, if folks want to define it that way, then sure. But that sort of presupposes some kind of ideal free market in which people are free to change jobs as often as they like until they have found their own personal little 10x niche. Certainly we all should strive to do that, and many of us do, but there are significant barriers to doing that.
qjscalc is bc on steroids
Elixir Wrapper for Hacker News API
I get them from amazon, can't really say how often as I don't use Amazon much anymore but when I do actually do a specific and deep search for a type of product but don't purchase anything I'll typically get an e-mail of items similar to those that I was looking at.
CCP was and is crippled by the legacy code in the game... and they chose to not try to fix it all at once(which to be fair would have required major refactoring and cost) but to try to evolve the code over time.

I think if they'd just spent the time on a major rework the game would still be growing today.

On the server side, the design is still better than any other I've seen, it's too bad they were so handicapped making it even better.
If 1% of America was on the list, I imagine that alone would make it difficult to manage.
Now I feel bad for putting gibberish like jsjsjdkktkwoapaoalf in my address bar and searching Google to test if my internet is working..
Adding Plop Generator and Unit Testing to React Native Mobile Template
Mahmee, a digital support network for new moms
With voice I use sentences: it's far more reliable because of the Markov model (or whatever predictive model they are using).
Yeah, internet in our remote village is quite excellent. I've worked from home with on mobile 4G internet, was good enough for video calling. And now have proper broadband in home of course.

English skills aren't great for most people, though if people really wanted to could learn for free using apps like Duolingo (there's English lessons for Thai people).

A lot of people have decent smartphones. Good 4G internet for a month cost me around 600 Baht per month (~15 USD). Sure could be expensive if people make 300 Baht a day, but if they could work through Mechanical Turk, they could quickly earn back the cost, since they would likely earn more compared to working on a farm.

Thai people like to lend money a lot. They're the most indebted of SEA when looking at loans compared to their incomes [0]. The use these loans to buy new cars, houses and phones as well.

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[0]: https://www.chiangmaicitylife.com/citylife-articles/drowning...
I think this is all I really want in life.
Disagree that it is the FBIs job to "protect" domestic companies from possible foreign corporate and/or govt espionage. Should be up to the company to protect itself. If and when it believes a crime has been committed, fine call in the FBI.
Definitely experience the constant loading problems. Honestly good to hear I'm not the only one. I assumed it was something they didn't like about my setup.

Since the redesign, my Reddit use has dropped off a cliff.
* Alice, Bob, and Carol are generally parties one, two, and three to the conversation.

* Eve is a malicious eavesdropper.

* Mallory is malicious, and able to participate at will.

* Trent is the trusted third party.

* Victor is an independent verifier.
The largest Vietnamese communities in America (i.e. in Southern and Northen California) still universally fly the South Vietnam flag. You can often see this flag flown with the American flag.
Efficiently, in huge washers. Not four or five bottles at a time in a consumer dishwasher.
There should be law that makes companies directly responsible for what happens to their packaging materials. Whatever a company brings into this world is their responsibility to recycle. Yes it adds overhead, but it makes people a lot more aware, and forces them to take responsibility of the impact they are having.

Why shouldn’t packaging be designed to be easily transformed into something useful, or even into functional community art projects?

A temple of coke cans for example. If they going to last forever it might as well be in a form that benefits communities.

Plastics have already been banned in certain countries.

Or are there to many lobbying in the wrong direction?
The closest thing I have felt to its just solid feel is my essential phone. don't get me wrong - it is not a good phone, but the build quality is unbelievable.
>[Google's] decision to work with the Chinese military

Huh, this is the first time I'm hearing of this claim. Apparently they're only indirectly supporting the Chinese military so it's a nuanced issue.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/google-snubbed-the-pentagonbut...
Pokemon Go Exceeds Candy Crush 3-Year Revenue Total
I played E&B at first. I lost interest when I realized that the only thing worth doing in the game was following the high value trade route to get better ships. Over and over. Nothing else let you advance remotely as fast, and if you didn't do the same thing as everyone else you'd have the worst ship out there.
> Netflix does not beat them in videos.

Whether or not they beat them in videos is very much a matter of subjective preference for the videos one has that the other does not; if someone says they do in explanation of a personal decision, you need unusually personal information to argue that they are incorrect.

> Amazon Prime has around 18k titles to Netflix's 4k titles.

As most people won't watch a significant fraction of either, the counts are mostly irrelevant in deciding which wins for any individual; what matters most is who has more of the usually very small number of titles for which the individual has a strong preference; everything else ends up being mostly noise in the menus, more likely to be a cost (unless masked by personalization) than a benefit.
> I feel like people would still react negatively to a 40-something picking up unknown teens (19, in the one case I know the details of) for casual sex?

You can call it whatever you'd like, but this isn't illegal today.
What Google has is "I'll google that".
The Q50 has an inverted Hofmeister Kink: instead of having the window sill flow upwards like a wave, it has an abrupt angle that decays flat, like a shark fin.
“I’d literally be sitting around bored half the day without it" lol
Scicloj presents: exploit the power of Python libraries from Clojure
Hey everyone! I'd like to let you know that on Thursday scicloj will have a gathering about:

- libpython-clj (https://github.com/cnuernber/libpython-clj): a way to natively access the Python runtime from Clojure
- panthera (https://github.com/alanmarazzi/panthera): a pandas and numpy wrapper for Clojure built on top of libpython-clj

Apart from the presentations of the libraries there will be time for open discussion, to participate please register at this link (https://zoom.us/meeting/register/742b2abcc393765bc5b9141539e44ee6). The meeting will be recorded and then published on the scicloj YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaoZzhNzq-H7YiQczXKuXuw) so that anyone in any timezone can benefit from it.

If you can't participate to the gathering but you'd like to have a question answered please post it here and we'll be happy to collect at least some of them and give an answer during or after the meeting and publish them online.
I don't know the answer to this - you could be right, but just outright questioning that Google's search quality is no better than DDG or Bing and basing it off of a single data point is pretty foolhardy. Your second statement reinforces this point - I've run a lot of Google ads, and they're quite effective. Google ads are very effective at selling things to people.

In the future, when coming up with an opinion about something, I'd encourage you to look at statistics and combine that with your own personal experience. You'll often learn something you didn't know, and come up with a more grounded opinion.
In the pure function pipeline data flow, no loop is required.

I wrote a 100k lines of pure clojure language project, no loop is used, and tail recursion is only used once. Most of them use high-order functions for dataflow processing or data driving.

[The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow](https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow)
Similarly I'll get something I order in a day or two even when it is the 5-7 business day option - it's in their interest to make everything as efficient as possible and not be holding onto inventory.
Not sure I understand the question, but I've never worked for a VC backed start-up. I'm in medtech, not CS.

EDIT: Also, 90% of all companies in the US are under 20 people: https://www.businessinsider.com/us-employment-by-firm-size-h...
Recycling is a trivial number of trucks. And far as I know, they don't crush the material. Also they keep it separate (paper/glass/metal) and the sections probably never fill evenly. So a pretty inefficient operation is my guess.
I was rarely offered next day shipping for free, and often got my items in 3 days instead of the promised 2 days.
The data that google has holed up that I want more than anything else would be trends, broken down by page number. As interesting as the data of how often people search for a term is, I find it far more interesting when they can't find the thing they're searching for. That's a hole in the market.
Never forget that cultural differences look odd in either direction. My favorite passage from "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs":

> One reason that the distinction between process and procedure may be confusing is that most implementations of common languages (including Ada, Pascal, and C) are designed in such a way that the interpretation of any recursive procedure consumes an amount of memory that grows with the number of procedure calls, even when the process described is, in principle, iterative. As a consequence, these languages can describe iterative processes only by resorting to special-purpose “looping constructs” such as do, repeat, until, for, and while. The implementation of Scheme we shall consider in Chapter 5 does not share this defect. It will execute an iterative process in constant space, even if the iterative process is described by a recursive procedure. An implementation with this property is called tail-recursive. With a tail-recursive implementation, iteration can be expressed using the ordinary procedure call mechanism, so that special iteration constructs are useful only as syntactic sugar.
Real users will use your product in ways you never imagined.
I'm not German, but in the US I always thought it was a bit strange and concerning that we use taxdollars to train kids to use a proprietary, for-profit system. I understand that MS Office is (sadly) the industry standard, but how much of this is self-fulfilling, as in "it's the standard because that's what they teach, and it's what they teach because it's the standard".

You'll find similar things in school with software like Matlab; they give substantial discounts to universities for Matlab, these students because so used to it, and beg their employers to buy it, which they usually do.

Schools shouldn't be advertising vehicles for children, and I feel there should be a stronger emphasis on open technologies. Thank goodness MS can't create a proper equation editor to save their life, so LaTeX is still the standard for higher-level academia.
I really like F* . It is very close to OCaml in design but allows you to write proofs using a SMT solver or tactic based proofs when the SMT solver gives up. Instead of a proof theoretic language like Coq, the language feels closer to something we regularly program with and the F* compiler can output OCaml and C code. The proofs are erased from the final executable code so you still end up with a program that you would write without proofs.

Microsoft Research's project Everest is using it to write a verified HTTPS stack.

Edit: formatting
Until 5 years ago, I'd have agreed with you. LibreOffice is pretty straight-forward these days though. "Straight-forward" trumps "featureful" for me.
Sharing for anyone who didn't know there is a very good dataset you can use now. If you don't have a nvme ssd in your computer, I highly recommend getting one for fast i/o.

http://commoncrawl.org/
http://commoncrawl.org/the-data/
http://index.commoncrawl.org/

related..
Mark's blog is amazing and worth more than any data science degree imho.

https://tech.marksblogg.com/petabytes-of-website-data-spark-...
https://tech.marksblogg.com
Thats a pretty strong indication that his claims are BS. Sputnik is a literal propaganda arm.
I'm not sure that doesn't correlate.

If I avoid debt for a decade, suddenly seeking debt should be a bit of a red flag, and I should have a correspondingly low credit score.
Annual membership is around £59.99 here if bought at the right time.

I don't like the company but for me Prime is good value. My children get to watch Dora, Paw Patrol and there's some decent grown up TV too. Twitch Prime is also included.

If I need to buy anything I can it delivered Same or Next Day.

Cancelling does involve the typical dark patterns you'd expect from them but it's not difficult to cancel in a minute or two.
I don't know about smug, is more just a factual appraisal. People are very often wrong about the things they believe bring them satisfaction and comfort. That is clearly evident. This is also to be expected though, as we are all just making it up as we go along really.

As for reduction in the quality of life, you don't generally tell an obese person that their quality of life would improve if they could just eat more cake. Consumption and quality of life are not in a linear relationship.
$840k Bitcoin ransom plot foiled, kidnapped crypto traders rescued
>20 years of experience fighting SEO spam

I think we've reached an equilibrium state on this that has significantly degraded the educational quality of search engine results.

The total garbage SEO spam we used to get is gone, which is nice, but what it's been replaced with is technically relevant but mostly manipulative advertising. Product searches will basically give you a bunch of no-name blogs who are almost definitely paid off by one vendor or another.

Even actual inquiries are inundated with search results that do answer the question, but do so in extremely cursory and incomplete way. Or, in the case of recipes, Google seems to prioritize results that give you long, meandering narratives before they actually talk about their recipes. It has some very weird ideas about what people actually want when they search.

One of the most annoying things is how impossible it is to actually find the website of a local business, especially a restaurant, by Googling. Your hits are always Googles' own cobbled together dossier on the restaurant first, then some combination of Yelp, Grubhub, Postmates, AllMenus, etc. pages. If the restaurant has a website you can't tell and it's probably way on the bottom or on a second page of results.

In the past it was a handful of very decent results amidst a sea of total garbage SEO spam. Now it's a sea of mediocre content farm stuff, but it ranged from difficult to impossible to actually dig into detail on things anymore. The old spam we could at least dismiss as crap within a fraction of a second of seeing it. The new spam you have to actually read most of it before you realize it doesn't have what you're looking for.
> It's been that way for decades now.

Given the glacial rate of change in the direction that the actors involve favor that indicates, that's not really an argument for the cash will be gone in 50 years argument so much as one against it.
I wouldn't called this unjustified. The issue with the plane isn't just the software but the processes around its inception and certification.

"hey we released a new version of the software" is clearly not enough to gain back my trust. The only way this plane can be consider safe is for the whole plane to go through an external and independent audit to address all the other potential design flaws.
The FTA certification processes should go through an external audit as well, any of the flaws should be addressed and retrospectively applied to this plane (and any other plane concerned).
Being good at your job is pretty much the definition of 10x developer.
He already had a clothing business that he left to his wife and kids. It was several years of him being mostly gone before this happened.
There's nothing wrong with dual citizenship.