skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I work at Google so I'm 100% biased. All opinions are my own.
Edit: formatting

>search engine is a cloud service, which is not controlled by user of that engine

So is hacker news.

>search gives final results in milliseconds (why? because google cannot spend many seconds/minutes for you, that's why)

Do you want latency to be larger??

>open source, because user should trust the code

That would make it easier for SEOs to game the system.
Or perhaps it would put everyone on a level playing field. I'm not sure.

>self-hosted (easily deployed in a click), not a cloud SaaS.

Do you mean users should keep their own index of the whole web by themselves?

>more useful than google because of accumulated data about you that are processed by computational knowledge engine

First I think you greatly overestimate how useful information about you can be.
Second if that worked then it would make they problem you mentioned before (information bubble) worse...
Yeah, the exact same thing happened to my partner. Did the same at first to redirect, but ended up deciding against it since it brought more visibility and players to a very niche multiplayer game.
True. But the biggest contribution is the big time mainstream media's race to the bottom. They're not focused on quality. They're focused on quantity (i.e., ad revenue).
Basically you just repeated what I just said...

I am actually considering buying 30W one for it's portability.

But then again I am not a YouTube influencer that occasionally games and cuts videos (you know, the person that Apple designs it's computers nowadays for).
As a customer I would have zero expectation that the company would use one of their recordings to verify something in my favor.
> So... what do we replace them with?

Don't replace the organizations - just prosecute their corrupt members. That will keep in line their replacements.
Way back in the 90s aerospace was replacing silicon with gallium arsenide to make more efficient and faster chips.

I’m glad to see it’s finally reaching a useful commercial application.
I understand that well, but I don't like it. Math for its own sake with no collection of reality alienates a huge category of people who might be interested in it if it was better explained.
Indeed, extortion is the major value in any surveillance system. It is a central admitted activity of spooks, used to "turn" "assets", and then to keep them producing. It is a central activity of the FBI, and prosecutors, with admitted use to "turn" witnesses, and even drive them into life-threatening situations while "wired" with audio, and lately video recorders or transmitters.

Of course the uses admitted in public are far from the only uses.

You can be harmed with information not even about you. It could be about a relative, or a relative of a prosecutor, or a judge, or landlord. Try to imagine the power available to Google, Facebook, Amazon, AT&T, and Sprint over the employees of the legal system and over politicians, and their staffs, on the basis of their detailed data collections, including live audio and images.
That's odd. Could you describe it better since there is basically no way one would be under risk of getting a shock on a Schuko or Europlug without inserting a needle or something similar into the holes of the outlet.
I used to work in IT support. Maybe 3/4 times a year, we would get an irate customer who would drop mention of a lawyer, usually they were awkward and unhelpful in the first place. Our MO was to escalate to our legal team (who worked one day a week with us), run everything through them, and make no attempts to go above and beyond to remedy the issue. Every time, without fail, it would have been easier for everyone involved if you'd just treated me like a human being the first time around rather than barking at me and threatening to sue.
Sure.

Had some bullshit waste of time while setting up a booth at GDC because we weren't allowed to unload the boxes with our stuff, or something like that.

I was born and raised in Uruguay, and cases of people openly stealing from their workplace that couldn't be fired because the union would strike until they were reinstated were commonplace, both in the public and private sector.

Someone close to me who owns a factory, again in Uruguay, was for some time under threat from the unions, who openly tried to bankrupt the company, so that they could take ownership, due to a law that entitles them to do that.

I've seen unions impede technological progress in every sector because it threatens their jobs. Who cares if it improves the experience for the customers / citizens? They take the whole company / city hostage to get away with what they want, and/or damage the premises (https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/asi-quedo-la-planta-de-...). That's also why in Montevideo every bus has two people, one to drive, the other sitting next to the automatic ticket selling machine, to put your money in, and hand you the ticket it prints. Who pays for having twice the people needed in that bus? The people.

I've seen the unions used to destabilize governments of parties who weren't ideologically affiliated with the people running the unions (the extreme left).
The ISPs don't have to. You only need the major OS and maybe browser vendors.
This seems like a very scalable sane default presumption, in any case.
It's not a legitimate site any more once it starts making money that way. You might as well sell cigarettes in a health food store. Outbrain and Taboola are cancer and the world would be better off if their offices were flattened by a meteor impact.
Uninformed basic question: Would these charge my phone faster than the standard ones?
I used to work at Google. That's a myth. I wasn't doing 60 hours a week, and I didn't know anyone who was doing more than 40 unless they really really wanted to.
>Why not have more break areas?

Break areas don't generate revenue. FCs are designed around efficient product flow first, people second. If employees have to waste fifteen minutes of a half hour break walking to and from the break room as a result, then they can just walk faster. But not run, that's a safety hazard.

>Why not let people take a lot of breaks, so long as their performance metric is on point?

Actually... they did just roll out a program that lets people take a minute break every 45 minutes or so, without it affecting their metrics. So that's something.
That just moves the problem to "which layer of abstraction should I use".
Ex. If I'm developing a new material that interacts with light, should I consider light to have mass, or not? Well if it's a space sail, photos have mass, if it's not a space sail, light has no mass.
But I'm not sure if this new material is a space sail....which abstraction should I use?
It doesn’t have to be that way though. The company can open source the server.

They could also release a final patch that unlocks all content and removes the license check.
Yes. Like most websites.
One doesn't exclude the other. I admire a lot of what Google has done and agree on a very strong execution. This still doesn't change the fact, that a search engine (1) gets better with every query-click pair and hence favors the market leader, (2) is a highly profitable business, which allows to buy distribution (this is the biggest market entry barrier), and (3) there are many small points that add up (crawler access is one minor but annoying issue: Web-Sites very often see all crawlers except Google and Bing as "bad scrapers"; so small companies need to invest a lot of time to convince them to get access and many will still never allow it what users then rate as bad quality) ... but, yes, Google is doing a lot of things right, they have very good people. Many of them my friends or ex-colleagues. This still doesn't change the fact of the original article: A 93% market share is not great.
These cross-domain hacks are very satisfying.
I would hope the Weapons Director Console would have had a fake liquor panel with a dual custody lock as a final provision for the doomsday scenario.
I’m bothered by the double standard when it comes to the use of language. As someone whose politics mostly lines up Libertarian I support individuals’ freedom to organize with the goal to collective bargain. I also oppose any legislation aimed at undermining that goal.
>You can currently speak your mind on the internet, with little fear of the virtually non-existent threat of de-anonymization

I don't think you can, not without special means.
Universal healthcare is still the "socialized medicine" bogeyman while Americans pay net more than any industrialized country, wait longer, can't afford medications, go bankrupt if they get cancer and have worse outcomes. Still they can't accept the reality of what works and what doesn't, like having a for-profit healthcare system is worse than a for-profit fire department. Yet still Americans are forced to run to Canada or Mexico for medications.
Are these chargers UL certified? I would be wary of using higher wattage chargers that have no been properly tested.
I'm not particularly good at memorising shell commands, but curl always felt straightforward. I use it for all kind of requests and rarely need to look up the parameters.
Searchable Leaked AOL User Search History(2006)
You make some excellent and sympathetic points, I assume in large part because of your own experience with chronic pain. Good doctors, who care emotionally for their patients, are more than willing to alleviate the discomfort. One of the main problems now is that States are implementing even more restrictions for opioid prescription. Many doctors feel as if they are being closely watched, and those that register as prescribing opioids, are somehow under even more scrutiny. I know many who don’t go near these substances any more, not even renewing their DEA registration.
There's the one true plug system, IEC 60906-1:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60906-1

It's also a fascinating example of standards proliferation (https://xkcd.com/927/).
Did you really manage to find the citation for [1] (12 deaths, approx 200 injuries) without reading the next dot point under the same heading that noted that these figures are intrinsically underreported due to the difficulty of establishing conclusive evidentiary categorisation post-incident?

Presumably the acting hypotheses is also that a significant number of those incidents caused in [2] and the general phenomenon of [3] is exacerbated by mobile phone use.
It sounds like you're describing a situation where actual users were duped into accessing another site which was displaying your content in an iframe, but that's slightly different from what this article is talking about.

The sites this article is describing do copy content from other sites, but only to make it look legitimate at first glance. They aren't trying to get actual users to access the site, but instead using bots for click fraud.
Plenty of use for them in my part of the world (south of England). According to the National Society of Master Thatchers, there are around 1000 thatching businesses operating in the UK today. https://www.nsmtltd.co.uk/brief-history/
A year ago I downloaded an interval running app for 10 dollars. Recently I recommended it to a family member only to find out they changed the pricing to 10 dollars per month for the same features.
Can you talk a bit about how this felt? As an outsider, it seems like it would be conflicting. On one hand, people profiting off your work without asking. On the other, increasing the network effect increases the games value.
Animals that will most likely kill you
That's another facet of the same issue.

It's a little like arguing about whether the rampant dry tinder in the drought is the problem or the vast numbers of tourists flicking their still burning cigarette butts into it is the problem while we stare at the ongoing conflagration.
Chumboxes with capture, auto-re-redirect pages and popups are also money-makers.
> (...) a wireless patch on the child’s back vibrates in a pattern that matches his mother’s fingers, allowing him to “feel” her physical touch.

As a father, I stopped reading right here. You can't treat your child like this, please don't.
Does anyone know any good books for someone who wants to re-learn (and in some places learn for the first time) highschool math as an adult?

I tried Khan academy but I honestly find I get impatient watching videos.

I did well in my Discrete Mathematics class at university because I found it to be intuitive, but if I'm honest I am not as proficient with even basic algebra as I should be
A lot of the value of AWS is its integration within itself. (even if it can be full of rough edges). I think the danger with unbundling is that your competing project needs to be clearly so much better that people are going to be willing to go through the hassle of configuring a lot of complicated networking to work with what they already have, along with separate billing etc. Not saying it can't be done, but it means the barrier to entry is really really high. You're not just convincing them your service is better, you're also convincing them that it's so much better that they should be willing to take on extra headaches for it.

If I were to compete with aws, I think the area I'd really go after them with is better kubernetes support. I've yet to see any cloud provider really do it well, to be honest (which isn't surprising, development on kubernetes moves so fast and it's so advanced, it's kind of amazing, but that does mean it's really hard to make it nice outside of a "works for a demo" kind of deal). Azure and GCP do kubernetes a little bit better, but I think if someone were to come in and say, like, I don't know, we can do kubernetes on bare metal so it's much faster than through a VM, and all our services are natively integrated, that would be a cool story.

The other area I might compete with AWS is in finding niches where organizations might be hesitant to build an operations department, but they really need cloud computing. So, for instance, maybe scientific computing or something like that. If you could make a really useful cloud that can be administered by someone who barely knows linux, that could be a thing.
Anyone have a good recommendation for a wall charger similar to RavPower mentioned in parent comment but with EU plug?

Additionally, is there a good charger with EU plug that I can use to charge both my MacBook Air 2018 (USB-C) and my iPhone X with at the same time?
Do you know at the top of your head statistically how likely are the people taking the drugs you are taking to overdose and die?
A phone will charge as rapidly as it can without undue risk to the battery's longevity. But, it's still a trade-off. If you charged slower, you would decrease risk to longevity.

But when you to bed, your phone doesn't know that rapid charging convenience doesn't matter. So it will still make the same trade-off. If you use a less-powerful charger, you can force it to take its time in charging.
This is on private goods.

We are it people and we are dealing mostly with public free good. The case is quite different. The game and rule are different.

Actually the whole world have been prospered not because better handling of private common good. We are not. Look at ocean look at pollution look at earth warming up. Who watch the watcher. Global common good is the problem. E might die as a species because of that ultimately. My thesis supervisor is her student I think is PhD is on Nepal navigation.

But we are better handle one public good - free information and its flow. F=ma is a free public good. You can spread it without consuming it. That is the main reason why western world take over chinese due to the free flow of info.

Unlike fish. Or fresh air. Our global warming. Game theory is not that useful. Coarse theory used in carbon tax is one of the innovation. Need more.
What's an e.g. bath?
Belarus, as the article clearly states, unlike Ukraine, isn't a craphole at all.

Saying "muh corruption" isn't an argument. Russia had a problem with corruption as well until they elected a patriotic strong man who got it under control to the point where oligarchs were no longer fighting pitched gun battles in Moscow. What's your plan for dealing with neoliberal induced corruption in Ukaine?
I assert it doesn’t affect the legitimacy of the site at all. Also, I don’t think selling cigarettes undermines a pharmacy.

I may place less importance on “brand coherency” and more on “value to myself” than others.
You can compare the different translations, even through the centuries, here:

Vulgate, cc 4th century CE:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+12%3A5-6...

Luther, 1545:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+12%3A6&v...

King James Bible (1611):

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+12%3A6&v...

Septuagint (the Greek translation, older than all above, around 3rd century BCE) didn't keep that word as is:

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/shibboleth-in-the-se...

"the LXX scholars had difficulties translating the Hebrew word שבלת Shibboleth into Greek, for the simple reason, Greek lacks the phoneme [ʃ]"
> refutation to the belief that the Nash equilibrium is best for everyone

That's not the claim of the Nash equilibrium. The idea behind a Nash equilibrium is that there's no better -- not best -- strategy for anyone (if all strategies are known). You can trivially build a game where outcomes are pretty awful for somebody -- or everybody -- but not as awful as changing strategies. The Tragedy of the Commons isn't really game-theoretic (or a Nash equilibrium, for that matter[1]), but rather regarded as a public policy thought experiment. Ostrom's discussion on the Tragedy is from this latter point of view.

[1] http://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2018/09/18/the-tragedy-of-...
Cute, but EasyEDA is where the hobbyists are at right now. They realised that to win hearts and minds, the winning combination is to have a PCB editor, a components shop, a PCB manufacturing service and a PCB SMD assembly service all integrated (up to a point) in a single product.
China launches mandatory face scans for mobile users
Maybe, but only if is attached to an ethical obligation of declaring how likely you are to become addicted, and how likely you are to die from overdose, and how likely is to create other permanent damages.
In raw numbers (so this is not a probability), half as many as alcohol.

https://www.caron.org/blog/2019/05/alcohol-is-killing-more-p...
> UN whose story is one of inefficacy and being propped up by US power and money

And yet, it exists and nobody is in a rush to disband it. Despite the fact that it's propped by US money but San Marino (population 33,344) has the same number of votes in UN GA as US.

> The fact is the idea that somebody born somewhere else has way more power has a smell

The only way all people can have exactly the same power if they all have no power at all. Otherwise there would always be somebody richer, smarter, more charismatic, more eloquent, born in better family with better education, etc. etc. which will give them more power. Absolute equality is possible only as equality in being destitute and powerless.

Other aspect of it - I appreciate that somebody living in LA wants to have power over somebody living in rural Appalachia, because there's a lot of people in LA so obviously they should be ruling the whole country. But that's not how US as a country works, and I don't see why people in rural Appalachia would agree to such arrangement. So you have to either conquer them by force (and risk that they would conquer you by force instead) or come to a mutually agreeable arrangement, even if it deprives the LA people of their birthright powers of ruling Appalachia. That's the way it works.
Are the breaches up or do we have better detection and reporting?
IP Addresses are generally pretty sticky and make a great unique id for users. Even without uids being sent in the request, keying on ip address should eliminate a ton of anonymity.
The rise of solar is ‘jeopardising the grid’ and it's a lesson for Australia
Essentially every large scale environment I’ve seen (as an ex-core maintainer of Terraform, that is quite a few) either does an ok job of this or has projects to do better.

The issue I have with IAM is that it is not possible to be sufficiently fine grained - for example I cannot grant an instance permission to read its own tag values but not those of other instances, since the EC2 IAM API is stuck in the state of 85% done at which most AWS services eventually seem to plateau.
While I agree that standards have fallen at the BBC in recent years, this is not an example of that. BBC sites have shown ads outside the UK for more than ten years on the basis that UK licence fee payers shouldn't have to subsidise their sites for visitors outside the UK. The ad income pays for that. Same with BBC Worldwide, the BBC's commercial arm, that sells BBC content to other broadcasters outside the UK.
There’s a reason photoshop is easy to pirate. Ditto for Windows. They know they want more people using their product.

Especially for an online game, it’s probably a win. If you have an ingame store, more people playing = more people buying.

Offline games are more problematic. Piracy is a big deal just because there’s not much incentive to pay for anything. People are lazy and often take the path of least resistance. If your game pops up on piratebay for free, people are less inclined to pay for it.

I keep talking about piracy here because it’s conceptually similar to the iframe hijack thing. They’re “pirating the content” in that sense. But sometimes it’s smart to let piracy happen.
Their photos all seem to be hiding the connector between the unit and the power tip. Is that standard or proprietary?
I'm not experienced in creating complex 3D models, but my passing acquaintance with such things (including trying to write a program to convert points to a mesh once) makes me think the claim there is no interpretation or more than one way to create a model of an object is absurd. This seems like an extreme example of assuming something you haven't done is trivial.

Another separate point, supposing for the sake of argument 3D models are not creative... It is well known that, say, a "white pages" style phone directory was ruled not to be copyrightable. But does that mean it is a copyright violation?
The fact that so much effort and so many dollars are expended to "sell" drugs to patients via the trust that doctors engender, illustrates just how broken medicine is in the U.S.
I didn't see your edit, sorry.
I've got the same one, very pricey, but amazing to travel with compared to the giant macbook charger. It's only 60W but charges almost as fast as the 87W one for 15" macbooks. It's also really nice to be able to charge all my travel gadgets with one small charger, reducing the number of cables and chargers I have to carry.

I'm hoping that giant power bricks and those adapters that power via barrel plugs will disappear soon, as I find them to be unwieldy and dirt magnets. Computer monitors are most guilty of having some of the biggest power bricks, and I'd love to see them replaced with regular power cables (the ones that plug into desktop computers), or the monitor be powered over usb-c so any regular 100W usb-c adapter can power them.
You can have a infinite set of finite strings, for example {“1”, “11”, “111”, “1111”, “11111”, “111111”, “1111111”, “11111111”, ...}
Wonder how long before increasing wind speed becomes a threat to tree longevity
I think parent commenter was talking about it being a strange stance on the part of BBC, not on the part of the person pointing out the hypocrisy.