skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was around too. The problem is you think the Google of 2000 is the Google of 2019.

It is not. Apparently some people are still fooled by the doodles and dinosaur jump game.

It’s easy to say MORE REGULATIONS... just as after any tragedy people claim “we just need one more law”! The truth is government has proven toothless in tax collection and regulation of these giants.
It seems that you can simplify what you're saying to "wealth IRL is acquired mostly by crime, manipulation, or abuse, rather than skill".

The simulation doesn't seem to add to your point. Instead, you're making an empirical, falsifiable claim about the nature of wealth acquisition.

At this point, you're disagreeing less with me and more with the economists in the original article, Piketty and Saez, who found skill to be the top driver, not "next to nothing."
Hi, Marc here, I work at Cliqz. We (unfortunately) don’t (at least not a reasonable amount). We have an advertising model, but it does not rely on any personal data. We also always think (and tested) a paid product, which would be the purest and (In my view) best form. Experience unfortunately suggests, that only very few people would pay. But, I would be happy to be convinced otherwise. Going back to the article though: This is exactly why we believe there should be a lot of competition and a variety of different alternatives. And one or the other might figure out a new approach towards financing search.
It amazes me how cheap these application-specific chips have become - it opens up so many new potentials. I can only guess that something like this would cost $1000+ roughly 10 years ago?
Yes you can, but it’s very difficult and not worth the effort IMO.

The first problem is that you wind up using the least common denominator. You’re paying public cloud providers a premium, so this essentially equates to throwing away money.

The second is that there are some cases where what seems like the same thing isn’t, or best practice is wildly different between providers. Get in a room with an AWS expert and an Azure expert and talk about what an account is.
Aus has no free speech. UK is a class system where only one class gets to perserve life with effective tools. They dont due have process. Got stabbed? Here's a mandatory class:

https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/01/london-bridge-hero-deradi...
This is a controversial opinion, but HN appears roughly split on this issue. I doubt this post will be downvoted more than its inverse would. Please don't include pre-emptive comments about your post being downvoted, they're tedious to read.
Whoa, I don't know if I would start by teaching you history or the basic mathematics of natural selection. I'm always impressed by how the ability to form coherent explanatory narratives is inversely proportional to the amount of factual knowledge possessed (of course it is -- fewer points require a lower-degree polynomial -- but still, it does require some level of oblivious confidence that I've never had). I'm sorry, but I completely misjudged the nature of this conversation. Stepping away now, and I hope you get better.

By the way, my great grandparents weren't elites so much as they were poor tradesmen, except maybe in the addled minds of the followers of ignorant "great men," armed with a romantic ideology of an imagined past and pseudo-science -- and, of course, guns -- who brutally murdered them. Apparently, my great-grandparent's "superior Ashkenazi cognition" wasn't enough to ensure their survival -- maybe because of some other "weaknesses associated with their race," but I think that the more plausible explanation is that it was because of racism, a force that seems to trump intelligence time and again.
The "amateur scholar" is a well-established 18th- and 19th-century tradition, and Moldbug would be merely following in it. While the 20th-century model of academia has more overall throughput and perhaps even more output, it's not clear that it's anywhere near as efficient in its use of human effort or brainpower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FRD4uq1mVw

both ways :)
If you have one of these types of TVs, may I suggest trying to make a simple YouTube video showing clearly how to navigate the menus to disable these tracking features?

That way, people with less technical know-how (like, say, my parents) can follow the instructions and get more privacy.

At least, I assume they can be disabled? I don't think it would fly with the GDPR otherwise?
Why choose the UN whose story is one of inefficacy and being propped up by US power and money? The UN’s relevance has faded and nobody is optimistic for its resurgence. From that context we speak of sensible organizational practices?

The fact is the idea that somebody born somewhere else has way more power has a smell, and people are talking about that smell now and whether they like it.
It is really good when you search for vague terms, but it seems to come at the cost of ruining precision technical search.

Google also censors some results in controversial categories, where Bing/Yahoo return what I am looking for. I don't trust a search engine that censors entire categories of results.

I am not an adwords user but anecdotes in another HN thread seems to affirm that Google is due to be disrupted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21667484
It's like a Hollywood sci-fi writer first wrote a bad script describing tech in fictioud terms, and someone though it a good idea to use the movie script as the site copy, user manual and FAQ.

How can anyone take this seriously if there's not even a half attempt to describe the product and features honestly
Just Bing it :-)
> too unstable while mixing GC enabled frameworks with classical ones

Actually, you couldn't mix them. The GC simply never really worked properly.
A competitive market with high barrier to entry seems to stabilize at 3 entrants.

Others that might seem to be in market are niche players.

Scale is good for consumers, benefit of scale is a thing, so 'trust busting' should happen if there are fewer than three.

In the us search market, we have google, ddg, and Bing.

Wanting more choice is very American, but it's hard to take seriously.
It is already too late for Google to fall. Even if it falls something worse will take its place.

What are our options? Government? How will it be even remotely close? Data will be needed, How will the government get data? They will probably make it mandatory in schools of course. Why not? its for the good of the children.

Interesting times indeed.

“The individual is in a dilemma: either he decides to safeguard his freedom of choice, chooses to use traditional , personal, moral, or empirical means, thereby entering into competition with a power against which there is no efficacious defense and before which he must suffer defeat; or he decides to accept technical necessity, in which case he will himself by the victor, but only by submitting irreparably to technical slavery. In effect he has no freedom of choice.”

― Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society
Bayesian inference explains human choices in group decision-making
Antecdotal .. realize that google search links to usually three sites. Wikipedia, stackoverflow, and medium. If you just started your seatch there you would be good.
I've been doing this too, but every time I check my open connections in my router there are a ton of open connections to 1e100.net
Sure, that also fits. The problem with “it was just luck” is that it’s essentially the null hypothesis; it’s always a possible explanation, but unprovable except by eliminating all the other explanations.
The problem is not the modelling itself, but collecting the data required for the model and deciding what to do. To get accurate data you'd need surveillance cameras everywhere and to decide what to do you either need to ignore everyone's opinion, or implement a system of voting that will look very similar to money.
The basis of this article seems to be the statistic. "33% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation". What does that have to do with gas burned in your home? The statistics is for gas burned to create electricity. That seems like significant different things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkqiDu1BQXY

Using mostly his index fingers.

Suck it vim users, your editor has nothing on MOLECULAR DESIGN for System 3.0
It's in the article. It disrupts the 2.4 GHz band, so filters have to be installed
I generally agree, and I think there are often business and security cases to be made for why buying into the centralized cloud paradigm are bad or might have long term hidden costs. The problem is that so many people either hear everyone else push it and jump on the bandwagon, often due to professional peer pressure, and another factor is that lets be honest, those of us who remember those days are getting older and there are techies working in the industry who haven't known anything different.

A big fear of mine is that many of the younger hackers have lost or were never trained in that cypherpunk-phreak-hacktivist attitude that many of us had and learned on/with in our and the internets younger years. I know they still exist, but the sheer number of users drowns that type out as a much smaller percentage of the net... but it was largely that group that fought for the rights of users and major holdouts that influenced the patterns that made the internet what it is today. I suspect the increase in types who downvote topics like you bring up are just that majority, middle of the road, corporate placation user type, and it has gotten noticeably worse over the last few years on hn.
> Every single program where the ARC system is actually widely used.

Interestingly enough, the semi-automatic reference counting mechanism used previously was reasonably fast if used as-is and could be made very fast with a bit of thought.
Hi, Marc from Cliqz (and one of the authors of the linked article): We at Cliqz do try and others (like mojeek in the UK or Seznam in Czech) are trying as well. But yes, it has very high costs. We did a lot of (I find smart) technical shortcuts (and will explain how in the next days in our blog), but it is still an investment. The main hurdle is however distribution. As said in the article, Google spends 1/4 of their revenue to block market access and this makes the investment case nearly impossible. It's their strategy to stop competitive innovation. This no company can solve and why e.g., in Europe you do see the 93% market share of Google. This is where this becomes a political topic. In fact since search tends to be a natural monopoly and information is so important this is where politics has to regulate and ensure competition. In an ideal world there would be 4-5 competing search engines in every region ...
> There are only very few truly independent search engines in the world. Google, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu are the best known ones. Most other players only white label results from those four and are dependent on them and their business model.

Does this mean the article is insinuating that DuckDuckGo is dependent on another search engine? Is this true? Or are DDG results organic?
Thank you- that first link has exactly what I need!
Quantum Physics Is No More Mysterious Than Crossing the Street
Representative republic sounds good. Land is important though, probably at least as important as the citizenry.
Ready for the subprime data to be bundled with AAA rated data causing a data industry micro-economic collapse? Because I am!
Even if you break up Google or Alphabet, the search division would probably remain a single company. It won't solve anything.

So You get Google Search Inc. Adsense Inc. AdWords Inc, Gmail Inc, I imagine.

This would be just restructuring, Googlers are too smart to get hold back by this and they probably already have an emergency plan if it remotely comes as a possibility.
I think I am still subscribed to it (since 90s) and ocassionaly receive an update.
This is cool. But some criticism. UI seems a bit janky. Results are good but visually presented in a way it's hard to tell each result card from the next. Cliqz is a bad name, even tho you may want the world to be a cyberpunk dystopia where renegade hackers control the outposts of civilization, Google has not fallen yet, pick a name the 99% can relate to. And get Machiavellian ... if you're really gonna beat Google, you're not gonna do it with hippy tactics, no love flowers light or manifestos. You have to get evil and more evil than Google. You have to out evil the big evil.

Realistically if I were trying to beat Google I wouldn't be building a search engine. What can you offer that they can't? And if you even begin to compete with them there, what steps can they take that you can't recover from?

Instead, I would focus on beating them first, building search later (if search is what you actually care about). What's Google's weakness? Figure out "the cord that makes them run" (to paraphrase Meredith Vickers in Prometheus) and relentlessly attack that (legally, of course, this is business not cartel turf war). I have no idea what that might be, but Rome fell, IBM fell (well, stumbled, I guess?), so Google must have its Visigoths or Bill Gateses or whatever.

You built something cool, that replicates the functionality (80%). Cool. Good for you. You proved you can do it. Now decide if you really are serious about "beating Google", and figure out an effective way to do that. Search engine is not the way.

Anyway, Google built the (past of) search. If you really wanna do search, build the (future of) search. I dunno, like AR/VR search? Search for FBs AR platform? I have no idea but text search on WebPages is the past. Google already won. Get over it and move on. Build the future, or go build a better steam engine, you know, for like fun and stuff. Because it's cool, but it won't ever beat Google. Sorryz Cliqz
I don't think it's in the basic values of the European Union to suddenly block Google. We're talking increasing taxation, over a 5-20 year period, that kind of thing. We're not North Korea or the PRC.

Or in some other other gradual way. Anyway: it's not a binary over-night thing based on a whim of some dictator.

Either way, I fully trust the competency of the people running these things; they have proven themselves in the past. I'm writing that as a Swedish citizen who is a little bit skeptic about whole the EU thing. This part though - I trust these EU bureaucrats. My impression is that there's a team of very sharp people working on this.
I played with the search engine some, and I'm surprised how behind their crawl is for my blog and some blogs I follow. For example, it looks like it last indexed www.jefftk.com in August 2017, compared to Bing and Google which crawled it this month. www.benkuhn.net looks like Summer 2017. pedestrianobservations.com looks like April 2019. apenwarr.ca looks like January 2019. No preview for danluu.com or sideways-view.com.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, not on search)
DDG depends very heavily on Bing.
For me it helped to switch over my mobile browser in addition to desktop. It's much more of a hassle to type !g so I try to make do with ddg and only use !g if I really have to. After a month or so it seems like my choice of search queries has adapted to better make use of Bing's algorithms, and when I do find myself trying !g, half the time it results in even worse results.
I would think that undergoing a rebellion or civil war after which the form of governance changes marks the end of an empire, even if the territorial lines are not redrawn.
Merely having a constitution and being a republic is in no way sufficient to prevent such outcomes; see for example the end of the Weimar Republic, substantially expedited by its own constitution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_48_(Weimar_Constitutio...
Assuming you don't pay a monthly fee for that, this means that there's a SIM with a free cellular data subscription somewhere in your car? :)
Neovim Configuration and Plugins in Fennel Lisp
Exactly. I am amazed by how many people think that is the right thing to do. In most cases that will immediately get you 'turfed' (old 'House of God' expression I think) to the legal department. The people who you are dealing with then no longer have to deal with you. That is better for them, not worse. Very general pattern but what I have found to be true. It's a common newbie misconception. Think about it for a second. Why would some lower level person care that you are going to sue their company? For that matter any small business owner knows that is BS as well (where there is no legal department). Reason is they know the cost of getting legal help and the process and that it's not trivial and not going to be done it's just an empty threat by a person who is typically clueless.

There is another case also. The one of 'my (insert relative) is a lawyer'. In that case it's also an empty threat. Nobody is doing free legal work for family at least not more than a letter. Their time is what they bill for. The idea that they are going to take on major work with no outcome and not getting paid makes no sense. Are their contingency arrangements? Sure but most likely not for what someone is threatening legal action for.
Good point!

Still, I was referring to the Burda conglomerate. Why would we want to replace one ad giant’s tech with that of another (more regional) ad tycoon?
> the last Chinese dynasty — the Qing dynasty — fell in 1911–1912, it marked the end of the nation's incredibly long imperial history.
More Americans are dying in the prime of life. A better approach is needed
use brave and switch you search engine to duckduckgo
> And the results were made in incognito mode so Google wasn't able to cheat with privileged information about me as a user.

that's not what Incognito mode does. It prevents your search from being included in the browsing history and doesn't send cookies from active sessions, but that's about it. Google still knows this is you being unauthenticated. You don't need to be logged into google to be reliably targeted with ads that fit your profile.
Gavecode Studio  – Coming Soon 2020
http://www.gavecode.com

I think this will be great for development. Can you tell me if you know about this?
It's a much more well understood problem now than it was when google was founded and the tools and platforms available to assist are light-years beyond what was available then. Many failed search startups have shown again and again that marginally better results are not the deciding factor in using a search engine, it's what's the installed default and how trusted the brand is.
In fairness, you'd also need to concede that there has never been a single independent village where there was no coercion. Mankind's history is mostly a story of how we have related to each other in forced groupings. (Forced by Mother Nature's many threats in the prehistoric past, but still, forced.)

So is it necessary that every grouping of man, "must fall", because there exists "coercion" in those groupings?

Just as a matter of full disclosure:

My own view is that any grouping must fall only when the grouping provides no, or very little, actual benefit to it's constituent members. Western Rome fell when people in Lutecia, Londonus, or even Ravenna were no longer deriving real benefit from being inside the Roman polity. Which arguably was long before Odoacer finally had enough and put an end to the charade.
How do you design regulation that holds the giants accountable, doesn't impair smaller companies' ability to enter/innovate in the space, and isn't quickly corruptible by the (well-resourced) companies you are trying to control?

We're better served by breaking them up and enforcing and strengthening the pro-competition laws on the books. The government has a pretty mixed record with regulating industry, and a far more impressive record of investigation, enforcement, and prosecution - corporate break-ups are far more in the wheelhouse. Regulation requires constant vigilance, whereas a breakup is self-executing once the case is won.

It's not anti-success rhetoric, so much as an acknowledgement that tech has become increasingly concentrated and anti-democratic. The Sherman Act was passed in 1890 - these aren't "knee jerk" solutions - they've worked effectively in the past to curb corporate abuses.
I feel dumb asking this, but does current industry authentication methods (secure channel via TLS) send the actual password, or a derived challenge-response value through the secure channel? I thought it was the latter.
“consumer first healthcare”

As an European, I'd say that patients don't enter the health care system as consumers. You don't consume a stent because it's hip among friends. Also, you shouldn't get some medical treatment or not because you can afford it or not.

The article starts talking about patients but ends with consumers. Now, let's find the error.
the same thing that happen to everything else

most it's saved, some is lost forever
If you're ever in this situation again, taking a performance trace is easy to do and potentially helpful for the triaging team.

wpr -start GeneralProfile

do something, or let process spin

wpr -stop foo.etl

Include foo.etl with your bug report. Be aware that it will include personal information from your machine (machine config, user paths, process names, etc.).
I can totally imagine a future iot fan to have chemical sensors so that it can send a "fingerprint" of the food you're cooking ...
Self censorship is more insidious than all but the most draconian of speech supression. History will remember who slid their values for a profit. These actions are now part of indelible public record.
Wonderful tool. I’ve said this before but something holding it back is that you need python to run it and have a python environment set up. Usually this isn't that big of a deal but it’s just enough friction to make me not reach for it most of the time.

Conversely something like jq is trivial to install and use almost anywhere because it is just a binary linked against libc. As a result I use it all the time.
If anything it is likely that it will be the other way around in the near future.
The way they work is by having a bimetallic junction where a temperature difference between that junction and the other side of the wire pair is connected causes a voltage difference.

If you were able to prevent heat from going from the hot side to the cold side through the electrical wiring, yeah, I think the efficiency would go up. I worked on a battery project once where the internals were over 400C, and we needed like 000 gauge wiring which in copper meant our major thermal losses were through our conductors.

But the article is badly written and has a bad title. The actual article is here:

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2017/01/26/electricity-not-heat-f...

and indeed they specifically mention applications to thermoelectrics. The big takeaway was the 10x lower thermal conductivity than expected for the given electrical conductivity.

Kind of embarrassing that the linked article on sciencealert just copy-pastes random portions into a new article and doesn't even bother with the credits at the bottom.
I've been using most Windows 10 versions. At home and at work. Currently this Windows is 1903. I live in Europe.

No really, I want to understand how ads are shown on Windows on some people since I haven't seen them myself and the dozens of people I see using Windows 10 don't see them either.

Why do you think it's prevalent but I don't see them?

Are the ads in some part of Windows that I rarely use? How do they show up? Maybe I actually see them but don't think they are ads.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21673368
Tried it out in German. Works definitely better for German language queries than Duckduckgo. Kudos to whomever is behind this & best of luck. The world needs alternatives to Google.
Writing a parser where you create the BNF first.