skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm - Error: System.InvalidOperationException: The workflow with id=15f08b34-33f5-4063-8dea-d4ca6212c0d6 is no longer available.

is not atypical.
I think you misunderstand what I'm saying. I'm not saying Google analytics will get you ranked higher or lower. Just that Google can use the data from analytics to tell if their results were what the user wanted.
quick! to the blog!
The future of AI research is in Africa
Redundant != Useless
Aside from the quality issues that others have already mentioned, I think that simply gaining traction for a new search engine is incredibly difficult - people typically use whatever is the default in their browser, or/and Google/Baidu/Yandex (which are surely the best known in their respective regions).

Consider DuckDuckGo, which sells itself on privacy, but after more than a decade has only 0.18% market share. Without the power to make it the default in an OS or browser, you'd have to have a really strong value proposition to convince people to switch.
Are they a direct competitor in this space? From the quotes he seems to be asking why they have chosen not to be a competitor.
Clearly I don't understand, and neither the article nor you were of any help.
1 Year Later: My Response to my Cancellation of Amazon Prime: The Story of How I Resubscribed to Amazon Prime.
I haven't had issues cancelling Amazon prime and it was pretty straightforward for me. For me, I cancel every few months and then come crawling back.
Hello HN, been hacking on this for the past 2 - 3 weeks, and I'd like to share it with you guys. its an Android app,
the idea is news RSS feeds using the popular stories format used by snap or instagram.

I would appreciate any feedback, this is only my 2nd attempt at deploying a project (first at an app), so all feedback is welcome. Thank you.

EDITS: Line breaks and wording
I despise these types of arguments. Look I get the statistical argument; but take a moment and consider the enormity of what Boeing has done here.

Their best selling plane in history is also that which carries the most blatant stain of corruption and negligence. If Boeing gets away with this type of behavior, we really do essentially break the system by acknowledging that as long as you get big enough, it's totally fine to cheat; even in a life/safety critical industrial vertical. Sure, the PR will suck, but the network effects will ensure you keep rolling unharmed because you're too big to be allowed to fail.

This is way more than any one person's convenience at stake. This is any hint of actual systemic integrity that is at jeopardy.

This is the danger of excessive centralization and consolidation. Yes, synergy happens, and money gets unlocked, but the consequences of failure also get amplified, becoming of such a scale the entire infrastructure starts getting jeopardized. More seperate, redundant pieces at least ensures there is buffer to keep some semblance of stability in case of catastrophic failure of one particular agent in the system. When the system is essentially one agent, you're flying on a prayer nothing goes wrong. When you only have two realistic options, it isn't much better.
I did a quick search, and that sounds like either Fred Turner [1], Michael Quinlan [2], or Charlie Bell [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_L._Turner

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_R._Quinlan

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Bell_(businessman)
There is one reason to avoid the older 737s if you have a choice and all other factors are equal: they're kinda shitty airplanes to fly on, because they're crappy old designs. Sure, they're very safe, but they're just not very nice to fly on; the more modern Airbus designs are more comfortable for passengers.
Is Google's Search quality that much better than Duck Duck Go or Bing? I get about the same quality of content when using any one of the three.

All three are terrible at serving me up websites to buy crap when I typically want to learn about something. I would love a filter that says "Don't try to sell me anything"!

I believe Google's biggest advantage is in their marketing & that the word "Google" now is a synonym for search.
The "high water mark aspect" of directory name storage has caught me out before (ext4 filesystem):

vince$ mkdir dir
vince$ ls -ld dir

drwxrwxr-x 2 vince vince 4096 Jul 15 15:27 dir

vince$ let i=0 ; while [ $i -lt 1000000 ]; do let i=i+1; touch dir/$i; done

vince$ ls -ld dir

drwxrwxr-x 2 vince vince 22413312 Jul 15 15:47 dir

vince$ rm dir/*

vince$ ls -ld dir

drwxrwxr-x 2 vince vince 22413312 Jul 15 15:47 dir
doubt anyone would accept such a small amount.
Some years ago, I worked for a big box retailer on their public-facing catalog api. It was a pretty exotic thing when it came out, as that data was all trade-secretive - which was dumb, because then they just had web scrapers brutalizing their front end to get the data that was public anyway.

So on the back end, the api collected data from many different sources within this very large company, and put it in nice api form. This was technically cached data, and could get stale, but really, most of it was sufficiently up-to-date most of the time.

Turned out the biggest customer for this data was the company itself. Lots of individual projects, needing some obscure piece of data or another, could get it from the api, rather than having to hunt for whatever department actually owned the data, and working out access arrangements on a piecemeal basis. I'm sure it saved countless thousands of hours of work, and greatly improved both quality and time to market for projects.

Looks like maybe IKEA could use something like that...
The encouragement comes from knowing that someone like them accomplished great things despite being different and being attacked for something they couldn't help.

The reason we should talk about his fate is that I don't believe in white-washing history. Society was full of assholes who had no problem destroying the lives of people who were different. Keeping light of these atrocities fresh in peoples' minds provides for a mechanism to show the progress of society and helps prevent regressions.
Why not? We had both of those at my high school (in suburban DC) and they were well enrolled and enjoyed by those who took them. They were electives - we all still took a full load of social studies, hard science, math, etc.
"Political correctness" is a dog whistle now? For what, exactly?
Startups get 3000$. And they are eligible for another 17000$ in credits I've heard. Not sure what the criteria is though.
180 comments from 4 hours ago in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20439425
>Production of aluminium involves both high temperatures (950 to 980 degrees Celsius) and a rather large amount of electricity.

It’s rare I see anyone have even the slightest bit of actual production knowledge in these climate-related topics, so I appreciate that.

You’re right about recycling aluminum. It’s also why a LOT of the new production work is done in Iceland with geothermal heat and nearly free electricity.

Unfortunately, it makes so much sense to produce aluminum in Iceland, that it’s shipped from China to Iceland and back again to do so... on crude tanker fuel at very low efficiency.
> There is more cash being printed now than ever before, the second derivative on the the amount of cash over time (d2Cash/dt2) is definitely positive.

Is inflation speeding up, or are notes just retired more often?
Also women are better at maintaining relationships and friendships, which keep giving their life meaning after their spouses pass.
I think this happened far more during WW1 and WW2. Not so much in the Vietnam War.
I'm not sure that being on the board of a company means that you are okay with everything the company does.
I believe having dual nationality gives them the courage to cover what locals may not be able to cover because they can flee in case of the prosecution from the government. However, I wouldn't call this a Pakistani specific problem, it happens the world over. If you see someone promoting communism or any ideology that the govt is against in the US, I bet the intelligence agencies will interrogate or in extreme cases just vanish that person. There are also many cases in the US where there is a huge amount of cover-up. So I wouldn't call this a Pakistani problem alone. What the author is reporting happens everywhere, West or East.
These are lovely gifts. Thank you. =)
Do you see yourself ever needing some of that money in a short period of time e.g. 2-4 weeks? As you move away from listed equities to alternative assets access to that money moves from days to a decade.
Yes, my thought was that by breaking everything off from everything else, these silo'd services would suddenly have to compete with the rest of their market at fair terms, instead of being propped up massively by other division(s), and thus would lose marketshare to a multitude of fresh and established competitors.

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.

As is clear I'm not really a fan of direct intervention in a single market, I see it as more of a problem when these giants muscle their way and control more and more markets, creating a vicious feedback loop.
You don't need it, I cancelled my membership (which I had for at least 5-6 years) a few months ago, since i was not using the benefits enough.
I shop there much much less now, but I ordered something the other day for 40$ and it still came in 2-3 days with free shipping.
To be fair, this is equivalent to mentioning your home router when an ISP has an outage.
YouTube's Trampled Foes Plot Antitrust Revenge
Intro to Distributed Tracing
Most likely answer: lack of diversity in revenue models.

Outside of ad revenue, search has always been seen as something of a "charity" effort for the internet. It's "boring" infrastructure work that can be critically useful but doesn't really make money directly on its own. No one wants to pay a "search toll" and there's no government agency in the world that the internet would trust as a neutral index to run it as actual tax-basis infrastructure.
Bulldohzer: DNS performance measurement tool for DoH and Do53
Netflix does not beat them in videos. Netflix's library has moved towards very specific titles and original programming done by Netflix. Amazon has still retained a lot of movies in addition to their original programming plus they have plenty of options you can pay for which Netflix doesn't even offer. Amazon Prime has around 18k titles to Netflix's 4k titles.
The patient who ran a 175F fever
The Contradiction of Nuclear Democracy
It's a great way to hire high-quality specialists from everywhere in the world, maybe it'll be even cheaper. Also, in terms of remote work, only one thing matters — work. Teamwork becomes result-oriented, not process-oriented.
Sometimes, when voting with your wallet, you don't only go for the best choice, but express lack of support for some amoral piece of sh*t behavior of competition. That's how all the boycotts of various brands/businesses happens, even if their products are fine otherwise.
You've described how I feel about this in such a succinct yet expressive way. I find it hard to communicate to ${NON_PROGRAMMERS} the difference between highly skilled software folks, average skilled, and the huge bulk of copy+paste wannabe's.
Last time I rented from Avis I didn't even sign paperwork. I made the reservation, then changed it from the app on my phone in the airport before my flight. After I arrived, I went to the rental area, the app directed me to a car. I got in, and drove to the exit where I handed my driver license to an attendant who returned it with a receipt within 30 seconds and opened the gate allowing me egress. I was very pleasantly surprised at how improved the customer experience was.
A question: they still have to ground the "whatever re-branded 737 max" until the conclusion of the investigation, right ? This can't be a loophole to avoid the interdiction to fly, isn't it ?
> Thus, any fear about flying in those planes are unjustified

No they aren't. Not until the new software is indeed proven to be safe, and a review of the Max program completed to ensure corners weren't cut elsewhere as well.

It will be fearmongering if all the above is done, and media are still trying to push fear. This is not the case today, so it's not fearmongering.
Yes, I feel like Google search results have very gradually become more irrelevant and spammy over the past decade or so.

There are 2 issues, I think.

Firstly, the SE-optimised spam, which has become very good as masquerading as genuine content.

Secondly, Google has dumbed search syntax down a bit, and often seems to outright ignore double quoted phrases, presumably thinking it knows better than I what I want.

As a dev, I do accept I may be an outlier though - with the incredible wealth of search history and location data that Google holds, it seems likely things have actually improved for typical users.
But wouldn't one major driver of theft be opportunity? Essentially, the relative wealth disparity between yourself and your targets, rather than your or their absolute wealth.

I would think the incentive to steal could be thought of as something like (relative reward) * (social modifier) / (probability of failure) * (consequences) or something like that.
> There’s no way to turn off this auto-renewal short of cancelling your account

I've turned off Prime plenty of times with no trouble at all. I'm not sure what he means.

I've also contacted their support after an accidental auto-renewal and they completely refunded it (I hadn't used any of its benefits, either, though).

I think their subscription model is hard to beat, frankly.
Learned avoidance is in the literature ex: “A Drosophila larva essentially lives to eat. If one odour is repeatedly paired with a sugar substrate, and another is not, it will start to preferentially approach the first odour. If the pairing is with a quinine or high salt substrate, it will start to avoid the odour.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3427554/#!po=27...

Which is why I am saying learn avoidance behavior is simply not the topic of this research.

PS: That also includes some examples of complex behaviors.
With the students I've worked (interns) with they had all "MS Office" at school but don't know the basics so I have to explain e.g. how format a document correctly and not use e.g. 'bold' to all of them when they start.
I'm defining "recursive" data structure in basically the same way everyone else does. Here's an example in Haskell:

data [a] = [] | a : [a]

The element is either empty, or an element and a pointer to another list. This is recursively defined since it points to the source data structure as part of its definition.

I know that traversing a tree can be done with a stack/list; I mentioned that in my response, but the code will typically be bigger and less intuitive; if the data structure is recursive (based on my definition from above), it lends itself to a recursive algorithm.

Sure, under the hood immutable data might be dressing for something at runtime, but the compiler still needs help to use those features; if I want to loop over something and prepend to a list immutably, at least from a code perspective (not the runtime context), I need recursion to properly respect that.
Google is a direct competitor to Facebook in the Ad space.

Google is a direct competitor to Palantir in the Defense space.

I’m sure he is worried about the latter, as they can test the infra with the Chinese, then sell it to the Americans, in some not too far off future.

Remember, we have always been at war with Eurasia. Or was it Eastasia?
The other problem with this is that it still can't change human nature. Ok, so this plan is implemented and any site can serve google results and order them as they want with an API. People are still going to go to their favorite far right or far left outlets, which can now access google results and show only the articles that they know their users want to see. The "filter bubble" problem could even be worse than it currently is in this scenario.
Author declares there was not enough value and that’s why he cancelled. No analysis on how much he depended on Amazon, at what point it might become worth, his entertainment consumption etc. Usual information-free opinion pieces with linkbaity title that HN crown often upvotes without reading ending up on front page.
Is this a joke? Whenever I press the button it skips to the next video instead of preventing it from switching. So the ones I want to see are immediately stopped. It's quite frustrating but I guess that's the point?
I wonder what happens if 737 max becomes the first Ryanair plane to crash(even with no fault on Boeing's part)?

Would that bring down the trust for low-cost airlines too?

Maybe cheap tickets can get associated with low security?

"Yeah, don't buy that ticket they are probably using the crashy plane"
Yeah... I really like the change to chat they made recently, that was one of the things that I thought was broken about the game.

I don't like skill injectors much, especially once it became possible to buy them with real world money... the classic pay to win scenario. They did it in the name of attracting new players because the game was difficult to get into. So, they've engaged in the race to the bottom trying to appeal to the people who don't want to invest the time and effort needed to grow in the game.

Like the original Everquest, the difficulty was what made the game worthwhile... you really value things if you have to work and learn to get them.

I played for years, but ultimately I stopped because of the skill injector changes and because the combat model is too dated, and that was limiting the rest of the game. Specifically, the fact that offense (e.g. lasers) subtracted from defence (armor, shields, hull) until they were down and ship go boom.

It didn't matter what side of your ship faced the enemy, which direction they were in, what the local conditions were (with the exception of some global conditions on a per system basis) and the weapons all did the same thing... the only differences were the visuals and ranges. The whole ship was one homogenous mass - no critical sections or systems, so it didn't matter where or what you hit.

Because of the above, the rest of the design was limited to things that would modify the above. Combat strategy was limited to surprise, stacking the odds in your favor, and knowing every detail about how the systems, ships, and bugs worked.

All that said, some people found creative ways to make it fun, and it's still the best MMO I've ever played.. no other game has ever gotten my heart racing like Eve. That's mostly due to the way the game was managed... scams, lies, all the worst of human deceit... but you could still "win" for a little while.
Ah..so I think I can answer this correctly as it's something I researched prior to moving here.
So, if you are in a flood zone, you will be required to get flood insurance IF you mortgage your house, as the lender will require it. To my knowledge, it's very expensive and typically only one program exists (probably the one you are referring to).

If you do not live in a flood zone, it varies a lot. Florida requires new homes to be built to appropriate hurricane proof codes since Andrew, so newer homes insurance are about like anywhere else in the nation. Older homes are somewhat more expensive, but usually not insane.
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I might have kept my subscription if "next day delivery" wasn't all-too-often "day after next day and maybe even the day after that, depends if it's a weekday or not." I don't miss it.
Augmented reality: Overview of history, use cases, and publishing/dev platforms
Reminder at how simple it can be for an organization to rebrand itself, even with social media I feel many individuals will still be unaware of this change that will be occurring.
I cancelled mine and switched to eBay. Shipping is “fast and free” and comes in 3-4 days on a lot of items. Much cheaper than 120/year, also I never used amazon video or music, or anything else they offer, so it made sense.

It also appears that prime items are marked up higher, often.
Does that help them to get around regulatory scrutiny (ie get the planes on the air faster)? Or is it just to fool consumers?
I have a “prime month” every now and again, just joining then quitting at month end. I subscribe because I want quick shipping on an item then end up ordering a few other things. Full year prime doesn’t make sense unless you’re ordering everything off amazon.

They even recently had a free week trial where I joined then canceled
Macbook pro right from both ends? I guess we're ignoring that
- the keyboards don't work
- the touchbar exists
- all the thermal issues it has had
Yes, Bloomberg is run by commies. Bloomberg.
yup.

const action = (thing) => ...

array_of_things.map(action)
Not search - ads.
Just close your eyes and when you learn about recursion, closures, serialized data, evaluation, ... in Javascript, then just pretend you are using Lisp with a fancy notation. Even the original developer of Javascript wanted to do some Lisp/Scheme, was hired to do so and ended up with a slightly different language...

https://thenewstack.io/brendan-eich-on-creating-javascript-i...
There's a significant difference between "next day" and "2-3 days", and the valuable different is not getting it sooner, it's knowing exactly which day you'll get it.
> Why are programmers not treated like CEOs in terms of pay levels?

Because of scope of impact. The scope of impact of a CEO is the entirety of a company. A bad CEO can destroy a company, a good CEO can make the company financially successful and desirable to work at. A regular engineer, or even a lead/staff engineer is mostly scoped to their own product, and have little ability to impact the future of the greater company.

Why do military generals get credit when it's their soldiers who actually participate in combat and risk their lives? Because the decisions of a general have a much higher scope of impact.

You could argue that being the soldier (or engineer) is harder than being the general (or ceo), but that doesn't change the fact that having the best engineer won't save a struggling company, while a good CEO can.

So, companies (wisely) pay a pretty penny to have a good CEO, because it's worth it.
Honestly at this point in my career I'd have to spend some time remembering how to use recursion properly. I'm also in the embedded realm where I've encountered C compilers that will throw an error if you try to use recursion.

I understand your point main point, but not everyone is allowed to even use recursion.
it allows you to hold the remote without accidentally triggering the touchpad.
"a case of exploding mangoes" has been on my reading list for long. Would give it a read this weekend.