skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google's business is advertising, not search. That's where their monopoly lies and that's where competition is needed. We probably don't need many other search engines. There is only so many improvements to be done in search. Over the years, information has been distilled. Google's main use is as a misspelling corrector, a wikipedia shortcut, a DNS shortcut, a keyword lookup for the news of the day and a product matcher in a few merchant sites. That's because most commercial sectors of the net are already in their post-competitive period, and only the winners in each category are still alive. Their number is not even enough to fit the first page of results. And the content that used to go in blogs, it's now behind twitter or facebook, unreachable to any search engine (except for corporate blogs which are used for SEO reasons). The recent changes in google search have infantilized it, burying anything but the most obvious sites.

SEO doesnt even count that much, instead it's curated "reputation" that matters.We might be at a point where DMOZ is probably viable, because there aren't now 1000 entries in each category, but 10. In fact a Dmoz would probably be a mightier competitor to their search.

But the key is , we need competition in advertising. After http referrer was removed from queries, we left all the information about the user's intent to google, and, unsurprisingly , they ate it all, and then some more, leaving a progressively diminishing piece of the advertising/intent processing pie to the rest of the internet. Is that ethical? Is it OK that a website doesn't know why the user visited it? After all, the user typed it in the browser's bar , not on google. Perhaps search queries should be initiated in the browser, and available to subsequent clicks for processing.

And as for tracking, is it OK that google is the only one who is tracking users? Shouldnt tracking be a user's decision, provided and mediated by the browser to any website who asks for it? Like it or not, advertising is not going away and it's healthier for the net if a large number of publishers share that (growing) pie rather than if google eats all of it. Tracking doesnt kill people, but anti-tracking hysteria causes many people to lose their jobs. Perhaps we should be pragmatic, because being irrationally anti-pragmatic is only serving Google's long-term interests
I think generally that Apple treats its customers better than Google treats its users.
> how else would Analytics monetize itself

Charge money for the product. Plenty of other companies in the space do so successfully. There's ample business value provided by good analytics.

Google Analytics was originally the product of Google's acquisition of Urchin Software. At the time, Urchin's self-hosted version cost $895 with additional optional "modules" that cost up to $3,995 extra. Their "on demand" version cost $199 per month.
> OP is right-on as to why this is a big deal in academia.

The ACM (academic computer science group) has awarded prizes to these open source systems projects amongst others recently:

- Wireshark

- Jupyter

- GCC

- Mach

- Coq

- LLVM

- Eclipse

- make

- Java

- Tcl/Tk

The linked article is written like the academy never works on or recognises open source software or implementation work, or using open licences is unusual. That's not true.
> Google was trying to comply with the law.

Google was trying to gain the Chinese market by implementing political censorship. And once they knelt and swore allegiance to the Chinese regime, every other totalitarian regime around the world would be lining up with demands that they do the same in their countries.

Expecting Google to stand up to EU on anything is naïve. They already got massive fines, they don’t have the spine to risk more. They will do as the commisars dictates, whether they’re split up or not.
Probably because it has to include the entire CLR/.net framework. I suppose that is a concern, but I doubt I'll ever be doing k8s or docker in my career anytime soon.
Are you talking about the browser's autocomplete? That's not something servers can detect unless you interact with it. Or do you mean something else?
I remember being in the same circles circa 2012. I found LessWrong to be a bunch of not very interesting wank and pseudoprofound bullshit. I couldn't decide if neoreaction was serious or some kind of many layered satire (later learned it was 100% serious). I know too much about actual evolutionary theory to buy into the IQ cult much. When Gamergate hit my reaction was "this is the stupidest thing I have ever seen... why would anyone actually care about this?"

Then they dropped like flies. Vast numbers of very bright people that I knew got "pilled" in one way or another. As it goes in the poem "Howl" I saw the great minds of my generation... something something something. I personally know at least a dozen formerly smart and creative hackers, scientists, and artists who got their brains sucked out in that era.

I still don't get it. I feel like a survivor of some kind of zombie plague slowly making contact with other survivors.

It's so weird its enough to make me consider the strongest versions of the Russia / underground Reich conspiracy theories and think we were hit by some kind of scientifically designed mind control project... but Ockham's razor suggests simpler explanations unless I see evidence to the contrary.

It was most likely just an outbreak of contagious nonsense that happened to spread virulently through a certain population. I think the hooks were male insecurity (common among male nerds) and a very catchy form of pseudoprofound bullshit that felt like deep thought and profound insight.
It's funny because Google had a very different perspective when MS was the Monopoly we were worried about.
As long as you're ok with only searching reddit...
You are clever like a fox.
> Google collects an enormous amount of personal data from people without a Google account

Can you provide an example?
Rename is the most atomic you can get on Unix. Original article talks about partial file updates. New SQLITE file + rename should be as failproof as possible. And I’m any case nothing is 100% safe, so redundancy is a hard requirement for real safety.
Startpage recently sold out to System1, an ad tech company.

I would not recommend it anymore.
Also because AI (if I may even call it that) is not yet good enough to answer these things with high accuracy, let alone judge sources. I don't use Google much so I can't really speak for it, but from what I've seen, I'd estimate that 20% of the answers (for non-mainstream topics) are either misleading or false.
I know that this doesn't directly address the question you're asking, but to give an idea of the order of magnitude of the effect: the Doppler shift in frequency rounds to f_carrier * 2v/c. In the case of anything with "reasonable" speed, 2v/c is going to be very small (~10e-6 for Mach 1), and thus you would be talking about very minute differences between the transmitted and received pulse in terms of either overall pulse length or number of wavefronts received vs. sent (for what it's worth my intuition is that the pulse length actually shortens, but either way it's not measurable by the receiver).
Ok, I've taken 2010 out. It's always hard to know how to date old articles that have subsequently been updated.
Having worked with OpenDoc (and never shipped -- I wonder how many of us reached that point!), it was dire -- the concept was a super good idea and all that, but the implementation was so incredibly complicated that it took a huge amount of work to do.... anything really. And then all your work was a 'component' that had no real branding, identity or way to the market, anyway..

It was the time when Apple APIs went completely overboard in the amount of code required to do /anything/; OpenDoc was incredible in it's complexity; but even something like OpenTransport was fantastic amount of work to do anything simple -- especially compared to BSD sockets!

AppleScript was another one, being 'scriptable' was a lot of work, but being 'recordable' was a complete nightmare, and implementing the most complex language clauses was borderline suicide, the 'whose' clauses were amazing in their complexity for a feature absolutely nobody would use.

But, still, I miss Classic -- I think there was a lot of good that was thrown with the bath water when OSX arrived; sure, the underlying got a serious upgrade, but the user interface and anything associated got a serious downgrade, to this day really. I think the modern Finder is abhorrent, the Classic Finder was a beauty of consistency and ease of use in comparison. Yeah sure you got a couple of gadgets, that's it.
New Robot Makes Soldiers Obsolete[video]
To see the [dead] comments, you should enable "showdead" in your profile https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=0db532a0 [Warning, it's full of crap.] If you find something interesting you can "vouch" it (and in some extreme case, send an email to the mods hn@ycombinator.com )
I see some startups trying to poke at it, but they are doing it from a premium service or tele-medicine providers. Such as forward, one medical, lyra, collective health, etc.
Yeah, but on the very next sentence:

> Because some of the standard is undefined...
Using the Lichess Database containing every live Lichess game ever played, we created a website to visualize chess openings. Each move on the graph is colored by the average Lichess rating of a player who makes it, you can use the graph to visualize several games at once and find transpositions between games. Transpositions are particularly interesting on a graph as they can be hard to spot otherwise.

You can see data from players similar to you by filtering the graph by Elo or time control. If you are interested in really high rated games you can swap the database and see tournament games with >2000 Elo from the Kingbase dataset, or to go even higher you can view a dataset from chess engines playing each other. It can be surprising how different the graph looks in tournament games compared to even high rated Lichess games, to swap or filter the dataset click the graph button at the top of the screen.

If you want to see the opening from a specific game on the graph you can use the "Trace Game" feature, then you can paste a PGN in, or if you are a Lichess player you can grab games from your Lichess account. To find a position you are interested in you can click search and enter it into a chessboard.
My question is more, why not I’m just use steel or aluminum?
I have this book. I did not take a ton of math in college and it was pretty good to refresh and get better understanding on some topics I missed out on. Would recommend for someone with a similar background (undergrad in business college not math or engineering).

I'm sure you can easily find all these lessons online or in videos but I like having the physical book. Partially to hold it and read it in my hands, and partially to have a consistent format and tone over a lot of topics.
As a Horizon contributor (and avid Blender user) I see this in a similar way: I think trying different conceptual approaches is something everyone can profit from.

Every single tool in your list has it’s own pros and cons and some of them are targeting a different audience altogether (e.g. Fritzing).

I liked the ease of use with which LibrePCB allowed users to use existing Libraries, so I proposed a similar thing for Horizon.
He claims to have been working on Urbit since 2002, and the first UR post was from 2007. It's entirely believable to me that the name Urbit came first (albeit not publicly), but the names are very obviously related and the quote I pulled above shows that he considers some post-2014 project a continuation of UR. I can believe the specific claims of the comment you linked, but I think it dances around the fact that these two projects are purposefully tied together by nomenclature. Whether UR or Urbit was named first in Yarvin's head isn't really the point.
Never, EU hates tech & its inherent effects on society. This investigation is an example of it.
> And yes, that's a HUGE disparity when compared to the people working service industry in the same cities... but it's also a huge disparity compared to C-level and senior managers/owners... that can afford a 1-2 million dollar home and the $15-20+/day "Fast Lanes"... and can often afford to have one of the parents stay at home even!

So do you not consider the $400k FAANG compensation a huge disparity vs the service industry pay? Is it only at the C-level and senior manager/owner level that it becomes a problem?
Academic works like this one by an NYU law professor? https://muse.jhu.edu/book/10740

> Nowhere in the world has organized crime infiltrated the labor movement as effectively as in the United States. Yet the government, the AFL-CIO, and the civil liberties community all but ignored the situation for most of the twentieth century. Since 1975, however, the FBI, Department of Justice, and the federal judiciary have relentlessly battled against labor racketeering, even in some of the nation's most powerful unions.

> Mobsters, Unions, and Feds is the first book to document organized crime's exploitation of organized labor and the massive federal cleanup effort. A renowned criminologist who for twenty years has been assessing the government's attack on the Mafia, James B. Jacobs explains how Cosa Nostra families first gained a foothold in the labor movement, then consolidated their power through patronage, fraud, and violence and finally used this power to become part of the political and economic power structure of Twentieth century urban America.
You are the one who asked about downvotes.

By all means use all bold, comic sans font, and flashing red text. But don't be surprised when people react negatively to it.
Yeah, one of the joys of learning guitar seriously outside of the day job as a techie is I have a legitimate and valid excuse for not having much of a social circle outside of work at the moment. Takes a ton of work and effort but the end result is hopefully being the life of the concert/open mic night when finally good enough to perform live. I also volunteer at a dog shelter consistently since I need socialization as much as the dogs, heh.
MfA would create an insurance carrier that would cover %90+ of all americans and would quickly drive down prices as a monosopony buyer.
Ok, I've opened the comment so you can edit it if you want to (and if there's a substantive point there).
I'm thinking more along the lines of get shot in the leg and we'll cover everything and pay you out even more, but even your proposed scenario still seems better than the current situation of getting shot in the leg with nothing to show for it.
One the other hand, Google is so big that it could just ignore demands from smaller countries, especially when they are a small drop on the bucket in terms of revenue. Multiple small, regional companies can't afford to go against the government in their area and aren't present in other areas.

Right now the only country that could actually do anything about Google is the US, but they won't because we benefit from having the number one internet search company be American.

Also, the rank and file employees in Google are largely liberal and tend to make a big fuss over things like censorship. If Google is broken up a company that is more friendly to state interference could emerge and take it's place.
I mostly agree. My dad was in a union and it was terrible and sometimes even violent. However, if knowledge workers don't change something soon, we're looking at a low wage future. We already lack a seat at the table as management treats developers as fungible commodities to be used up, tossed out, and more hired. They are importing as much cheap labor to the states as possible and undermining quality and even just our middle class lifestyle. I don't hate people from India, but god damn, could some of you please grow a fucking spine, please? We need you to say "no" to something, somewhere, sometime. You badly want our way of life and I don't blame you, but accepting low wages and 1800s style working hours does not help you achieve that. You will just make the next generation the working poor. There are few enough opportunities for Americans these days, why undermine the few that are left? Do the rich truly have to have it all?

It's not that I got into software development because of money, but I want to point out that I made a ton of sacrifices in order to get educated, worked hard to secure the jobs I did with the quality I did them at, and continue to sacrifice to stay current with technology so as to remain employed into my 40s.

In this business, if you are young, you don't know what you don't know--the longer you are in, the harder it is to stay in. It's great in your 20s and 30s with all the disposable income and then all of a sudden you've got a wife and two kids and bills to pay and things start to falter right when you need them to be stable--and that is why we need representation of some kind. We need bargaining, or some kind of tenure, or something, so that when you're mid-career and late career you aren't just a throwaway non-person. Because I just watched it happen at my own company: My firm laid off 3000 people, mostly men in their 50s. Of course some "dead wood" got let go, too, but any fool can see what is going on when they lay off the older workers while still hiring the H1Bs and growing the "offshore" teams and what I keep wondering is "why are foreigners involved in AMERICAN health care at all?"
I picked up this book, wasn't a huge fan.

The idea is great: teach mathematics in a way a computer programmer would understand.

But the title is misleading. The premise that this book will teach you maths using your already existing programming knowledge as a metaphor to build against is false.

It is literally a programmer introducing you to mathematics. Not an introduction to mathematics using programming as a foundation.

The title is catchy. The book had no editor.
This is exciting!

I use AWS's existing a1 generation for map-reduce jobs on the Common Crawl. They're slower in absolute terms than the Intel-based c5 generation, but are cheaper on a $/GB-processed basis. This is despite my runtime of choice (the JVM) being much more heavily optimized for x86 than for ARM. I can imagine there's a lot of headroom for improvements both at the hardware level and at the software optimization level as adoption grows.
The third feature listed after "syntax" and "formatting" is "Built-in JSON support"

It's a JSON-centric tool made for people who work with APIs that use JSON in very compatible way, with JSON-centric defaults

Changing the accepted type matches behavior of Js HTTP libraries like `request`, where accept and request content types are set in unison by default.

This stuff is all sane defaults for the people who are usually in Postman firing off JSON data to APIs that all look very similar.

"Sane defaults" don't exist in a vacuum, writing (and escaping) properly formatted JSON is a pain (see jq and how the 2nd paragraph in how to even invoke it is dedicated to escaping)

The tool defaults to removing that pain point in a very easy to understand way.
My claim was about efficient COW collections and the FFI. The point of COW collections is enabling a simpler programming model.
See also: HorizonEDA [1], which I've used for a handful of projects and are really happy with - mostly due to how much its library/parts UX is better than anything I've every used before.

[1] - https://github.com/horizon-eda/horizon
The relationship is generally true for metals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiedemann–Franz_law) but an appliance being warm to the touch because you use it is not really related.
Because then you wouldn't get to see the whales.

It's just a movie. :-)
Buildroot at work. Someone told me yocto is the future so I spent a week with it but it was a nightmare. Went back to buildroot.

Gentoo is quite intuitive by comparison.
That's beyond the pale. Please don't do internet hell here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I distinct remember the joy of finding a set of Inside Macintosh for cheap, and then the regret when I found several hundred pages repeated due to a printing error.
Of course, if you use a custom definition for everything and cherry pick informations, everything is possible.

But no, it wasn't just the end of the government, it also meant losing almost 30% of its territory.

https://imgur.com/r/mapporn/Cdi6KOL

> In the same sense that the US and UK are empires.

UK was an empire, and it's already fallen, it is now on the brink of losing even the Kingdom and becoming an Island hosting borders and customs.

U.S. is not really an empire, never was. It is more the mandator of many bad things that happened in the last 70 years, that turned many countries into U.S. colonies through "exporting democracy" which actually translated too many times as "planting dictatorships befriended with U.S.A.". But it was good for U.S. and only U.S.

That's why Cliqz has reasons to exist, U.S. is an unreliable ally, even more now and Europe needs to

> building the foundation for a sovereign digital future of Europe

> develop digital key technologies as a European alternative to the market dominating US platforms.

> If We Don’t Act Now, We Will Become a Digital Colony
Amazon is a deliverer, FB is a social graph, Google is a knowledge graph. Don't think of the companies nor their roles (such as they are) as immutable. Look at GM in the 50-60s, or Paramount Studios in the 40s.

>My biggest problem is: How do you break up a software system?

There are people who have created entire careers about exactly that: antitrust remedies. I defer to experts where I can.

We entrepreneurial wannabes on HN are only going to provide unrealistic answers that become battles of will for the rest of this Sunday before all is forgotten overnight.
Google's US market share is 62.4% with Bing at 25.3% and rising [1]. That doesn't seem like a monopoly to me.

[1] https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Rankings#tab_search_share/
There is no way Google doesn't use fingerprinting, or something even more advanced/creepy.

I never sign into Google, use private browsing by default and use VPNs (not to hide, just for various location reasons), and Youtube's recommended for you is full of stuff unrelated the current video I'm watching that I've seen before with different IPs and locations/VPNs.

Edit: LMAO at the sudden attempt to bury this post with 5 downvotes in just the last few minutes, like nobody has ever pointed this out before?
The US has what we might call "better" libel and slander laws than some actors in the EU and with the UK being a popular example of the most ridiculously bad laws historically.
We'd get annoyed by being unable to use Google or Bing as there are not many such local services. The governments might be able to extract some more of the rents by taxing Google et al more.
Yes. The self-congratulation was very off putting.
Show HN: A thin Python library to access HN data using Algolia's API
Ask HN: Does opstow sound good for a monitoring SaaS ?
I'm currently setting up a monitoring service for startups including mine (think graphite+prometheus long term storage)

I was looking for a name for this service and asked for ideas.
The intial proposal were : perfmonkey, hackstream and streamstow.

From this first batch I kept streamtow. Now I have a new one and want to know what you guys are thinking about it.

1) opstow : which I like a lot
2) streamstow : the old one

So which one do you prefer ?
Is that meant to be a lot?
If you are ok with some extra latency you can enable our “search via proxy” feature which proxies all queries and hide your IP. Maybe that is what you are looking for?
Also, lot of links are hidden in Google by DMCA requests. PR firms use it a lot to hide "bad" information about their clients. Some countries (e.g. Russia, China) bans everything that doesn't fit their propaganda. Google is useless now for many kind of politic-sensitive searches or for investigations.