skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google/Facebook/Amazon have been acting anti-competitively for quite a while. Vertical integration, concentrating industry through M&A, shady data practices.

A democratic country has an interest in ensuring that our labor and goods markets also remain open, competitive, and democratic in nature. We've made this choice as a country repeatedly throughout our history, and it's time to do it again.
Probably more than 50% of all the Android apps I have decompiled use SQLite for data storage.

Some extra time to learn SQL but it will save you a lot of time in the long run.

Another benefit compared to ASIC is that you get: File compression, easy to access random parts of the file and fast (random) inserts.
It's not impossible (I would like to believe) but it involves self-referential models: In order to work, economic models must include models of the models (both yours and other peoples'.)

This means that cybernetics (the study of "circular loops in causation") is the minimum formalism for economics.
Ukraine did not "liberalize" it. The economy was destroyed by "privatization", which effectively meant giving away state resources to those already with money and power - the former Communist class and criminals.

It was planned post-Soviet chaos, and chaos attracts grifters and opportunists. The regular people down in the trenches had no clue that they were being robbed blind.
the problem is, I might have no reason to trust Google but I trust software like Cliqz even less, even though they tell me, that I should trust them (maybe because of this).

Also Cliqz belongs to Hubert Burda Media, a company which I trust even less.
I view the real issue is the "why" behind the surveillance, rather than the tool itself. Examples:

- Consumer-based: Facebook and Google's type of data collection is best handled through the use of GDPR-like legislation, in USA. It's just a matter of these tech companies lobbying and watering down the statute so it's ineffective.

When this conversation gets brought up in congress, I implore everyone to go to https://congress.gov and read the actual bill to make sure it covers everything they claim. Look at it side-by-side with GDPR. Is it really giving consumers the protections they feel they deserve from businesses (I guess we can use the term "user")? Politicians are masters at making bills seem like they handle an issue when they're stripping regulation and giving a deal to business interests at the expense of natural persons.

Business get bail outs all the time and are very hawkish making sure their legislation meets their interests. They have lawyers and team up to secure objectives, no care is given to making sure it's not to the detriment of "us". Natural persons are quelled by nice little platitudes, that's why reading bills themselves instead of news articles/tweets is so important.

- National security in terms of subversion: This is the one that worries me most because it depends on how national security is defined based on a countries policies. In China, this entails this Xinjiang and Hong Kong situation. From their view, they are quelling uprisings, but one could also intellectually argue HK / Xinjiang / so on should have self-rule and nation status.

If you want to talk about human rights and surveillance, what liberties do the people in Xinjiang have? Imagine being born in your ancestral homeland and find your own culture is being methodically destroyed from foreign oligarch bureaucrats thousands of miles away. If you were Uighur and born there, how would you make sense of life?

When people in Xinjiang are being watched closely, the backstory has such direct implication to people's lives, and what options do they have to leave? To redress grievances? When does it finally end?

US and UK have a history of giving countries democratic self-rule and a rolodex of success stories. There will always be surveillance in various ways, hopefully in the future the backdrop with Xinjiang will be them 1. protecting their own independent nation and 2. consumer data protection laws? (not to say East Asia region are privacy sensitive as US/EU, heh)

- What do people really feel?

Would an independent Xinjiang vote for a GDPR-like consumer regulation? If you look at Kazakhstan, it doesn't feel like they care about surveillance at all. It's not fashionable to pretend to care about, a la twitter, people have other pressures in live to worry about.

On a final note, the few people in US that scoff at surveillance are the same people who line up to get $1600 smart phones. They don't wait for GDPR laws to pass before getting a phone, they hit "I agree" to the privacy policies on tons of apps/websites. I wonder how much it really matters to them. :P It's not easy to tell what a society feels.
Many parser generation tools use their own custom grammar language, and then generate a C parser based on that. With Tree-sitter, it’s a similar setup, except the grammars are written in JavaScript instead of some custom language.

The parser generator itself is all written in Rust, but the end user doesn’t need to use rust in any way.
LOL @ several accounts of people who work at this company selectively responding positively but ONLY to those who are already on the “Google = bad” bandwagon.

I’m extremely disappointed in the HN discussion here. The blog post is by someone wanting to compete with Google. Great. The entirety of the post makes ZERO compelling arguments about what features, guarantees, or outcomes their product will provide. In the last couple paragraphs, they mention the word privacy - okay but how so? What’s the business model? Why should I trust you?

The blog post is nothing more than an attack on Google (and other tech companies, but that comes later in the article). That’s the only “substance”.

There’s no question that key regulation is missing in the space. But what exactly is Google even doing that is anti consumer and killing competition? What anti trust laws have they broken? Should we identify them or maybe determine what is missing in our legal framework? If the author wants to compete with Google, perhaps they can share that insight. That be productive.

>Google is Cambridge Analytica on steroids.

That’s a pretty damning statement and unproductive. You want to make an emotional argument and have keyboard activists work for YOU instead of sticking to objective facts.

Disappointing this is #1 on the front page. We are turning HN into Reddit.
HTTPie is amazing, but I grew tired of it being "slow", slower than some of my services response times at least.

Migrated to Curlie [1], `alias http=curlie`, and been happy with it since. Same API, better performance and access to full `curl` flags.

[1] https://curlie.io
Historically, AWS hasn't done this.

They haven't lowered prices on RDS, Elasticsearch, etc. There are far superior options available. The lock-in on billing explains the adoption of these services, but there a tremendous number of accounts of folks struggling to make any of the secondary services scale worth a damn.
> We really need more diversity and competition in this space, not just for quality of results and convenience of services; but for society as a whole.

There are plenty of alternatives. But people don't use them as much because they are worse.

Consider Bing ( http://www.bing.com/ ). It is backed by a company even bigger than Google. MSFT's market cap is 1.155T; Google's is 899B. MSFT is 30% bigger than Google. Why haven't they put more resources on their Bing search engine? Spend a few billion dollars, hire away some of the top search engine experts from Google, and build away!
I shared the article for every other paragraph. The one you mention is superfluous.

Natural gas is used quite a bit for cooking and home heating, and we need to phase it out where ever possible.
The world had more search engines. A lot more. Google beat them all and they all folded.
How can this camera be more invasive than a red light camera?
For real. Keep this kind of stuff in mind when watching what's going on in Chile and Bolivia today. Or anytime someone from Miami says that every Cuban they know hates Castro (or now Diez-Canel) and we should help get rid of him.
Agreed about democracy. Can’t force upzoning and density if existing population doesn’t want it and votes against it.
Educate us please?
Many thanks for the feedback. We'll add the language autodetection for the interface and results this week. There is no profiling taking place. The country is just to select what index you would like results from - we'll try to make the UI better.

This is still beta, so please keep on using it and we'd love to hear more feedback [beta@cliqz.com].
Progress of anti-aging therapies by clinical trial stage
No, not really, doppler radar based proximity sensors (used in e.g. baths) cost about 40 € more than 10 years ago. It's not complicated technology.
For the constant velocity case, the graphic shows the transmit pulse as having two cycles, and the received pulse as having four cycles of higher frequency, with the received pulse being the same length as the transmit pulse.

Shouldn't the received pulse have the same number of cycles as the transmit pules, and the received pulse be shorter than the transmit pulse (or longer in the case of the target moving away instead of toward the source)?

Or does something non-intuitive happen (probably because of special relativity) resulting in the received pulse gaining energy from the reflection, which is reflected (pun intended) as the pulse being longer than you'd expect classically?
My favorite part so far:

> Every application must have a unique signature by which the Finder can identify it. The signature can be any four-character sequence not being used for another application on any currently mounted volume (except that it can't be one of the standard resource types).

> To ensure uniqueness on all volumes, you must register your application's signature by writing to: Macintosh Technical Support Mail Stop 3-T Apple Computer, Inc. 20525 Mariani Avenue Cupertino, CA 95014

So one had to correspond by mail to get a unique application ID issued manually. Makes sense, considering the technical limitations at the time, but it makes me wonder whether other PCs/OSes had a better solution. Also, I see that the application approval process has always been a pain to this day..
Can you ID someone positively by their typing patterns and an IP?
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One compiler that was available very early on was Coral Common Lisp, which ran on a 1MB Mac Plus. It was a real native-code compiler. It lives on today as Clozure Common Lisp [1], and I can still run some of the code that I wrote back in the mid-80s on it today.

[1] https://ccl.clozure.com
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The Python dependency for HTTPie is handled by most Linux and macOS package managers [1]. It would be great to have it in Windows package managers as well.

[1]: https://httpie.org/doc#installation
> The high-definition cameras use artificial intelligence to spot drivers, regardless of the weather or the time of day.

> The portable versions will be mounted on trailers and operate across the state.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-22/mobile-phone-detectio...

This article has an image
Socialism and the free market (at least the free market of goods, capital markets are a different discussion) are perfectly compatible.

The democracy I'm talking about is inside corporations. Corporations in capitalism are extremely autocratic entities, while in socialism they would be democratically organized. Worker-owned enterprises would still compete on the free market.
What do you think would happen if Google disappears? My bet is that Baidu would take over and then you would have even more problems.
I second the need to do some form of detection for language. My browser tells webpages I want results in english (Accept-language header), and this can be safely used to detect what is most appropriate initially.

If not that, then at least IP, considering I’m sitting in the US.
After the Cultural Revolution and after the Four Pests Campaign, there wasn't any other direction to go than up, for those who were still alive, that is.

The Chinese were made poor by the Communist party and only rescued by moving away from the doctrine to something else.
I never understood why the tank needed to be transparent.
Of course not.

And weight gain is not contained to "after the trail"

And weight loss is not guaranteed.

It's great that you've found something that works for you. Like I said, it works for me too.

Bodies are different though.

"I've hacked around this problem" != "This problem is illusory"
Thanks for clearing that up. I had incorrectly assumed that something other than SRP had come along to fulfill this need - I guess not!
You can't compete with search directly. It's entrenched. The best you can do is make it irrelevant by occluding it with something that provides better value.. voice-based assistants, for instance.
It's been my impression that privacy from the NSA is, realistically, not something any commercially viable web company can offer you. An exception can probably be made for a site that operates outside of US influence serving customers outside US influence.
Autophagy for me is my muscles eating themselves for energy. Not healthy, and it feels like being beaten.
You can find the rest of the ASCII symbol names (there's 34 in total) here:

https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/hoon/hoon-syntax/
> how radar (and lasers) are weaponised by police to detect the speed of vehicles

How exactly is this process "weaponisation"?
https://www.uawire.org/russia-and-belarus-to-create-joint-pa...
Buying is an extremely indirect form of voting. What socialism means is that workers inside a corporation would democratically decide how to run that corporation, instead of being handed down directions from an absolute ruler (the CEO/Board of directors).
I disagree, because Wordpress powers 34% of all websites in the world. Surely that is an example of adoption? Showing it’s possible for non techies to own their own stuff?

What about the Web? Why did people install web servers instead of hosting on AOL? Because web Browsers existed, and let you consume that data. Couldn’t you likewise argue that no business would want to mess around with hosting their own website and a bevy of competing hosting providers would never displace AOL?
I'd be interested to see a current version of ZOL (zfs on Linux) in that table. I suspect it would hold up quite well.
I agree with this statement, my default reaction would be to say “build one” but you have.

I’ll give Cliqz the old college try, but I hope you make it a priority to get into the next release of MobileSafari as an option if you’re intent with taking on Google and taking them on seriously.

Here’s a data point of one: my default method of “searching the web” is to start with Search on iOS, what you get when you pull down on the home screen. When the results I want aren’t there, and I can usually anticipate when that will happen, I shift it over to Safari which uses whatever my default is, DuckDuckGo but mainly because I can change my search engine on the fly with them.

I also hope you incorporate the same syntax as DuckDuckGo (if you haven’t already) because to be blunt, every search engine I’ve used in the last few years is terrible. I can’t use just one, and I end up doing a lot of fancy site searches. Not even Google today is as good as Google from 2007-2008.
I do intermittent fasting frequently. I can't fast from food for long periods, or go below a certain calorie count in a day. As long as I get the nutrition I need, I'm ok, I just run on thin margins.
Google bad.
GSM frequencies (800, 1800 MHz) are about an order of magnitude lower than typical radar frequencies (~5-20 GHz).
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There isn't one committee; each prize has it's own committee. The economics one is pretty much entirely staffed out of one branch of economics as a propaganda mechanism.
Just for fun, I wanted to chart some metrics on the last days worth of blocks, but things quickly got out of hand, so I settled on 100 blocks which is about 20 mins.

But I need some ideas on other stats or metrics I could track?
- I could breakdown `contracts deployed` into types e.g. erc20 etc
Yep, the The Accept-language header seems the most reasonable to go for. Will try to get it out as early as possible.
google records: ip address, browser fingerprinting.

Try visiting from tor
Coral Common Lisp was so useful that Apple at one point bought the team&product and distributed the software via their developer channel.

It had a nice programming interface to the functionality described in Inside Macintosh.
Console #11: “How I Evaded Sanctions and How You Can Too”
AFAIK not much in practice because it can only detect speed and has no real way of detecting distance. Most radar applications want to detect distance, usually enhanced to position, and speed as well. You can't really do that with CW.
google will neatly incorporate their results in their index and then people will go back to searching in google. I mean it happens with all major sites (stackoverflow, shopping results, diy/pinterest). Only twitter and facebook , who completely block their content from google get away. Perhaps we should take a lesson or two from them.
> How do you break up a software system?

Turn the relevant parts of it (the ones which are affected by network effects, or other barriers to entry) into an open platform that can be accessed on an equal basis. That's quite a bit easier than breaking up a mining company. For example, Android is already "broken up" from this POV, since the likes of Amazon can use AOSP to create their own Google-free platform, and applications written to run on AOSP will work on either version.
> Like curl but unlike httpie, headers are written on stderr instead of stdout.

What’s the thinking here? If I ask for the headers, wouldn’t I want that on stdout?
Instead of us doing the work of going through Wikipedia links and your docs, you can explain this by one simple diagram or video. Unless your goal is to be mysterious, I cannot understand how can a company go through all this trouble of creating something, building a website and can’t get the message across even to the HN community.
Isn't the economics committee selected by the Nobel foundation?
Somewhat suspicious that www.cliqz.com is hosted by Google..
You didn't /have/ to really. I was a mac developer for 20+ years, and I never did 'register' them officially... even pretty big commercial apps wouldn't -- it was easy enough to have a unique sequence; one of the basic rule was that all lowercase ones were Apple.

I always thought that the 'creator codes' and other use of that four character sequence system was a great feature. It was gradually lost with osx.

Fun fact: All compilers for Mac had language extensions to deal with four character sequences, like 'AbCd' in C would be an integer with ('A'<<24)|('b'<<16)|('C'<<8)|'d'. Beats 0xdeadbeef and 0xcafef00d!
Hi Aorth,

Disclaimer: I work for Cliqz.

We are aware of this and it's unfortunate, although the lists are not the main ones from community like Easylist, uBlock Origin etc. Cliqz does need to collect data to build it's search engine and other features. Even though we do with by privacy-by-design in mind and without collecting any PII (we will be sharing more details on the process on data collection in the blogposts scheduled for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday),still we do end up getting on such lists.

Of course, you don't need to trust what we say, all the code used for collecting data is open-source for transparency and auditing. Additionally, also happy to help setup network debugging incase you want check what exactly goes out. - https://github.com/cliqz-oss/browser-core

We are also willing to discuss with the maintainers of the list and explaining what and how data collection is done.
No, Urbit is named after urbs, urbis, the Latin word for “city,” together with the computer term bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9677378
Red light cameras aren’t designed to look into your car.
By that metric, the United States ended in 1861 and another country took its place. The 13th-15th amendments fundamentally changed the understanding of the state / federal power dynamic.
This constituency can't show up because they're priced out of living in the communities in which they work or would work. The only solution is top-down regional planning that runs roughshod over local concerns in order to solve the regional crisis.
It didn't need to be, it was transparent because it was glass.

They traded the formula for the glass. The company didn't manufacture transparent aluminum on the spot and give it to them.
>I didn’t provide solutions, and I didn’t make a Kindle version. I have no plans to change that as of now.

This hurts those that are self-studying without access to other mathematicians. I’m not buying his book for this reason, so are there any other introductory math books people recommend that include solutions?
to give a fun example for those who didnt run into this silly agenda.

"free energy" use to produce countless results that now require extra keywords.

Under "free energy suppression" you find professionally crafted hatemongering. The actual list of claimants is huge, non of it is here. https://peswiki.com/directory:suppression#Wiki_2796702

"free energy device" also produces really crappy results compared to what it was.

It only seems like things argued not to exist may or must be scrubbed from seach results. Astrology wasn't scrubed nor was any religion. Everything has its history too!
not a real option if its not full opensource. Being German myself I don't believe in a gmbh based in Munich trying to save the world, sorry.
Don't forget economies of scope as well, where cross-product costs are decreased by a joint offering.
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Some problems are listed at https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/10/19/lets-tal...
Making Swift code extensible through plugins
[[Disclaimer I work at Cliqz]] Your question is spot on, many of us ask ourselves the same question.

Whether Cliqz would become a bully like Google if successful or not, I believe it's impossible to answer.

But at least, we know, that the data we collect from our users to build the search engine is totally anonymous and is used only to build search and the browser.

So, in the case that Cliqz would turn evil, I would stop using it, knowing for a fact that there are no sessions about me on their data, none.

Someone on the thread mentioned fiduciary duties, true that companies must maximize profit, but that does not mean becoming a gear on global surveillance conglomerate.
Aside from Holocaust denial, hate speech and libel how does the US differ from "Europe" in terms of free speech?
See my other comment on this thread, it's not just about the money... it's about the cost of living.

Making $100k+/year now is "easy" in the tech sector, move to any of the major cities. Unfortunately homes cost $750k+ or you take an unpaid part-time job in commuting to the office (2-4 hours/day, 5 days a week).

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!
Right. I was really feeling the call to action in the blog post until I tried to visit beta.cliqz.com and realized it was blocked by the filters I'm using in uBlock Origin and by the DNS-level adblocking I have on my network. Hmmm.