skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forth is truly amazing in terms of what you can do with very little RAM and CPU power. It is quite possible to have a working interactive development environment and production implementation in only 4-8 kibibytes of RAM. In the world of small memory 8 bit computers it was amazing.

I think Forth can be useful to learn today, at least to stretch the mind to realize that not all programming languages have to be variants of Algol. It can also be a fun game as suggested by the article. I have enjoyed fiddling with it, including re-implementation of the language, and I can recommend it to others as a fun Bazaar toy. In addition, the book Starting Forth is amazing and still worth reading, because it shows that complex topics can be explained clearly and with humor.

However, for actual production use, I do not think the Forth programming language is ever going to return to widespread actual use. Our computer systems are far more capable, and if you have to program a tiny of computer, you would use a larger computer for programming instead of trying to fit your development environment within a few K of RAM. Nowadays the big constraint is development time, including the time to develop the resort code the time to read existing code to modify it. Forth doesn't do as well by those measures. When something is trivial another languages, but it's a puzzle to solve in Forth, that is not a good thing. That does not mean that Forth is a bad programming language, it is a very good programming language, but it is designed and optimized for a situation that is increasingly unlikely.
Prove it!
I don't get the point. Doesn't the world already have search engines. Bing, Yandex, DuckDuckGo. If the argument is these are not popular, then that is surely not Google's fault. If the argument is Google's brand is more entrenched in the minds of consumers, then it applies to all sorts of companies and everything should be broken up, like Coke, since the world needs more sugar water. Search engines, unlike social networks, have much less network effects. Even if your family is using Google, you can use duck duck go. That's not the case if they use iMessage or Facebook. If you aren't using the same platform you might be cut off.
The Science of Smell and Memory
I'm sorry, but a heavy handed spam filter is the absolute last thing I want the government to have. This basically gives the government the best censorship tool they ever had.
Well I know what I'm wasting next weekend on now.
Motors become hot because they generate heat through friction and other forms of loss. Many other appliances generate heat this way (and some are designed to generate heat).

Conductive materials are likely to be good heat conductors because the electrons themselves can conduct heat, and because the crystal structures of conventional metals (e.g. copper) tend to be good for both.

These two effects are entirely unrelated.
Road to success is never easy
If you want to assign driving record penalties to the driver of the vehicle, you need to identify the driver. If it's like a parking ticket, you can do that against the car.
That's not nice. Please don't cross into personal attack in HN comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Writing by default is logically followed by stderr? I just don’t follow.

Asking a program for info and then getting that info on stderr seems really bizarre to me.

Is this some historical UNIXism?
Amazon warehouses are ‘cult-like’ sweatshops run by robots: ex-employee
I don't plan on watching a 4 hour video to understand the Greens party's position on internet regulation. Is there a condensed version with their positions and proposals available?
Europe is really diverse in wealth and business climate. The wealth gap between different European nations is so large that the US probably seems like the pinnacle of equality. It's hard to talk about Europe in general in this sense. I've worked as a developer, where I made less than $600-800 a month. Although I was underpaid, but it probably wouldn't have been possible to make double that in my country. I think you might want to dial your question in slightly more than "Europe", perhaps "Western Europe".
>avoiding cloud vendor lock-in

You're simply moving from being locked in by AWS to being locked in by a bunch of much smaller cloud vendors.
Free as in beer unfortunately.
It definitely looks nice, and I'll probably start using it. If something is too inconvenient to use short division for (e.g. large divisors), I'll probably just use a calculator.
Give an example of this kind of _nonsense_, please.
Bing is not a core part of Microsoft’s business.
Motors and appliances get hot because inefficiencies eventually become waste heat. That is the source of the heat. It propagates from tbe heat source to a surface you can feel through conduction and other mechanisms.
You're helping google by tagging its searches, so many people ask for this kind of things that they can prioritise results that gets the most clicks (people rank searches for google everytime they click).

By contrast, the new privacy friendly search engine from the article, with a lot less money and users, can answer a simple question like "news guy actor in spiderman" with

Cliqz:

- And the new actor playing Spider-Man is... this guy (www.foxnews.com)

- J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons) | Spider-Man Films Wiki (spiderman-films.fandom.com)

Not bad for a small German company uh...

And even if it didn't, when I know it's Jonah Jameson, I can search for the actor that played Jonah Jameson. Search engines are not about having "the answer to life the universe and everything" but helping users refine their searches until they find what they were looking for.
> 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.

I'm super glad that google didn't go through with dragonfly and it's really sad that they even went as far as they did. However, going through with it would have just made them the same as basically every other company.

Apple, microsoft, and basically every other company all operate in china, following chinese "law". Ironically, it's two of the worst/most hated companies (google, facebook) in the US, and most frequently demanded to be broken up here on HN, are two of the very, very few companies that haven't bent over for china.
> The metal, found in 2017, contradicts something called the Wiedemann-Franz Law, which basically states that good conductors of electricity will also be proportionally good conductors of heat, which is why things like motors and appliances get so hot when you use them regularly.

Erm, no. That's not how it works.

Things become hot due to electrical and mechanical losses; if you run them long enough, the heat moves out no matter how good or bad of a heat conductor you use.

In fact, you usually want a not-too-bad heat conductor, to avoid overheating the active components.

That said, there are still good use cases for such a material, for example when conducting electricity through a heat shield (furnace or freezer).

Do I want to continue reading, after the second paragraph contains such confusing statements?
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN, and especially please don't cross into personal attack.

We're here for curious conversation. The idea here is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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You're morphing their plain English into a different meaning and seem completely convinced that you're right. I'm not sure there is a point talking if you are already convinced to an extreme extent.

For the record, I'm not saying that I expect Google not to track me when they detect some privacy mode. It'll sure try to set cookies, and it may use my IP address and connect whatever that IP accesses as a weak indicator of interest for anyone else with that IP address (for a limited amount of time, since IPs change in many countries). What I don't think is that, when they say they don't do fingerprinting, they're lying. This person may not be privileged to know and say "I don't know", but that's different from saying "Google doesn't".

Also for the record, I didn't downvote you (and when you reply to me, I can't; I don't have an alt account with 1k rep or whatever it is one needs to downvote).
First David Boies is on the wrong side of the Theranos scandal, now this -- He is having a bad couple years.
I agree mostly, but there's a little more to it.

Google Search is pretty well embedded into Android. You can use Baidu or Yandex or Bing / DuckDuckGo on an Android phone, but there's substantially more friction. Considering mobile is now more than 50% of search traffic and Android is 80% of devices, that's close to 40% of all searches basically going to Google for free.

Combine that with the fact that Google is embedded into Chrome -- which is used by ~67% of web traffic -- and there's SOME friction to using a different search engine:

You have to set your default to a different search engine, or go directly to that page, rather than just type into your URL bar -- like most people do.

It's not hard to see that Google has a huge advantage.
the entry version with a limited a visitors/visits it can logs per day is free

That covers limits on usable data by the user, does it also mean that Google only receives that amount of information?
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> Absolutely love this quote from the article

Maybe you should've disclosed that you work at this company?
Ditto. I didn't realize people were getting picked up enough by the authorities to merit building a Windows clone.
It’s not your fault that the listener assumed you were divorced; you implied it (accidentally) but did not state it. You were not untruthful-what you said was literally and exactly correct.

The assumptions made by a listener as a result of intentionally limited data are not your responsibility in any way, indeed even if you were able to predict them with any reasonable level of accuracy, which you are not.

I have an essay pending on this exact topic.
As a result of the paper linked in this article sqlite has a new setting

PRAGMA synchronous=EXTRA;

It is not the default (default is usually FULL).
i don't see anywhere in the linked article that talks about breaking up google, so it's hard to know what you're responding to. the article does make a central claim that google has an information monopoly, and that the search market needs competition (and oh, look at that, they made a new search engine!).

search isn't a naturally monopolistic market, because although there are some initial high fixed costs, much of those costs can be roughly scaled with size. there aren't really any other significant barriers to entry.

marginally but noticeably better search results (e.g., pagerank) did provide an early advantage for google, which is how it established its monopoly over time in the first place (combined with the ad auction model from overture, which gave it economic & political might), but that advantage has eroded with its lack of focus on search. google also has a giant suite of data gathering products but it's not clear that those provide a true competitive advantage in search (again, search results aren't much better than the competition).

the other interesting characteristic of search is that its competition isn't necessarily zero-sum. a user might do the same search on multiple search engines, providing each competitor with a full marginal revenue opportunity, rather than only one competitor winning the business (as in classic competition).

because of all this, i'm neutral on the breakup argument but am bullish on the "increasing competition" argument for search.
That's great, thanks for the article! I'm fond of gambling and other casino games, esp poker. I found info for learning how to play poker here https://www.australia-casino.org/poker/guide . Want to improve my skills and win some extra cash.
It goes in both directions a bit. Because the biggest cloud providers are so huge, they do drive a massive chunk of revenue for Intel especially. I remember watching a Q&A with Scott Guthrie where he mentioned how much friendlier the Intel folks are now that Azure is such an enormous customer.
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> I think people generally do not understand well enough the far-fetched consequences of a monopoly in the search business.

'far-fetched' (meaning implausible) should be 'far-reaching', right?
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Renters are a voting majority here, and successfully passed rent control, at the same time, the city council down-zoned the city, and NIMBYs are able to stop developments via California's crazy environmental review process. So, we have a shortage and rent control, which means Mountain View is becoming more unaffordable to every newcomer, but some renters will have some protection.

The local residents show up in droves to oppose housing, particularly the home owners, with the arguments being "the infrastructure can't take any more". They never hold the city to its responsibility or providing infrastructure, instead, use the bad infrastructure as an excuse to stifle development.

It's a backwards, topsy turvy world here. City governments are meant to serve people, not rule over them.
Sorry you feel that way. In the Cliqz browser you search as you type. To search and serve results we need to know the query. We will have an article on exactly this product in a week or so.

We will also be sharing more details on the process on data collection in the blog posts scheduled in the next 3 days. 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: https://github.com/cliqz-oss/browser-core

Lastly, privacy policies are legally binding documents, and we take the law very seriously. We are located in Germany, where privacy laws are as tough as they get (e.g. GDPR was loosely just a re-wording of the existing data protection directive in Germany).
Search engines are really a relic from back when everyone had their own webpage. Now everyone posts their content on a handful* of sites - Medium, Reddit, StackOverflow. I think what we need is an inversion of the search engine model... instead of a web crawler scouring the web for new pages, these handful of companies (Medium, Reddit, thousands more) should register with the search engines and push sitemaps regularly. This is the only way to level the playing field with Google, since the internet is so vast now that only Google/Microsoft/Yandex can afford the server/bandwidth fees to crawl it.

*- and by "handful" I mean tens of thousands of sites, which is relatively small.
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> I don't think search really has a high barrier to entry.

Others disagree, including Google Chief Economist Hal Varian, who said (in 2008)[1]:

“Scale is pretty critical [because] search technology exhibits increasing returns to scale.”

Or Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President of Product Management and Marketing:
“So more users more information, more information more users, more advertisers more users, more users more advertisers, it’s a beautiful thing."

Or Eric Schmidt: “Scale is key. We just have so much scale in terms of the data we can bring to bear.” “We are a company that operates at scale . . . trust me it is a scale company.” “We think search is about comprehensiveness, freshness, scale and size for what we do. It’s difficult for [Microsoft] to copy that.”

It seems obvious to me that internet search has both economies of scale and network effects, both classic barriers to entry.

[1] http://fairsearch.org/fact-checking-google-scale-is-a-barrie...
This is some Orwellian shit. An 88 million dollar investment combined with government-sanctioned Tom-peeping, to save an estimated 100 lives? That money would go a lot farther invested in modernizing vehicle safety, requiring lane assist features, etc. instead of fueling the surveillance state. I suspect those pushing this kind of thing are more interested in a solution where they can just defer all the hard work to "Artificial Intelligence" and avoid collaborating on meaningful change.
Ive had one or two seatmates on the train ask me what I’m doing, but they’ve always been more curious than alarmed.

Same for cafes. Once, the owner struck up a conversation because he himself was a former dev.
The 80% assume China, but almost no phone in China has integrations with Google search. I don't mean to invalidate you're overall point though.
I recommend you check out the minireference No Bullshit books.

https://minireference.com/

I own both. They're not aimed specifically at programmers, which I don't see as a downside.
Amazon consistently charges for egress only. Ingress is free.
React to the Future (Jordan Walke at ReasonConf 2019)
One thing I found curious about this story is its patent unwillingness to examine what this “fraudster’s” motivations might have actually been. The overall bent of its narrative seems to be to discredit the motivation of Epstein’s victims and their lawyers, without any consideration that this could’ve been the express purpose of the ruse.

Overall, the New York Times coverage has been quite poor and conciliatory toward those involved with Epstein, especially Gates and Wexner.
This comment was originally a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21676505.
hmm maybe you re right but google no longer shows results from the tail end of the distribution. adding "reddit" nudges him to try harder
Oh yeah, fair. Good explanation. The relationship is one directional because there are other ways to carry heat.
> Now everyone posts their content on a handful of sites - Medium, Reddit, StackOverflow.

They do not and it would be a sad day if they did. Please don’t help push us towards that any further.
Being deceptive might not mean being "untruthful" as you put it, but it's still deception.
I think it’s pretty clear that Google would have gone through with Dragonfly if it wasn’t for the protests against it, both from the public and Google employees.

In other words, their refraining from Dragonfly wasn’t because of moral courage or a principled stance. It was just to avoid a PR disaster.

And it was only because Dragonfly was leaked that that we ever heard of it. Imagine what other interesting programs they’ve got going on that we haven’t heard of yet.
> Before you try these “Dangerous Professional” tricks, please just try to be a decent human with the front-line support staff.

- they aren’t tricks.

- making documentation and taking notes is something decent humans do.

- only less-than-decent people are threatened by documentation.
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> Search engines are really a relic from back when everyone had their own webpage. Now everyone posts their content on a handful of sites

but:

> since the internet is so vast now that only Google/Microsoft/Yandex can afford the server/bandwidth fees to crawl it.

Is it a vast space that search engines need to crawl, or are there only a handful of sites that matter?
Just for the record, many people who oppose and criticise massive wealth inequality are fully aware of the basics of economics (or even advanced economics).
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On the Measure of Intelligence
Like renameat2 on Linux with RENAME_EXCHANGE ?
When I was made aware of Urbit, there was someone prominent related person, a friend project of Nock or something, who had developed another competitive functional OS of his own, some kind or other, if memory serves, who had also parted ways with the community over some controversy which nobody wanted to talk about, and at the same time nobody else on the outside of it evidently wanted to ask about.

I don't want to mis-attribute anything, because I am light on details, I won't try to recall his name, or what it was over, being from the outside myself, but I distinctly remember some part of the controversy being about someone or other "refusing to put up [some kind or other] sign in their window," (I inferred that it was metaphorically speaking.)

It was a metaphor for something I didn't know, but I distinctly remember coming away with the feeling that I also didn't want to end up displaying that sign in my own window.

To restate what I'm dancing around, in no uncertain terms, it seems to me that you're asking for a sign in the window. "No Moldbugs Allowed."
Because the liability falls on the driver, and that is not always the owner of the car.
ARC outperforming modern tracing GCs.
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Just an FYI: I wanted to add beta.cliqz.com to my Firefox search engine list to test it a bit over the next few days. Firefox doesn't seem to "recognize" it as a search engine so you cannot add it using the normal procedure that works on all the other search engines.
Microsoft tried that with Windows Phone 7. I loved the utilitarian concept of plugins for hubs. The OS was king.

Unfortunately iOS' everything is app concept won the market. Soon enough, apps will be the whole ecosystem and the operating system will just be a detail.
Please stop viewing health care as one single entity. It is equal to saying that all IT is the same. It is a huge beast that quite often lacks margins.
Already discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21660423, but since it starts today we'll give it another go.
I'm all for more search engines but I'm not a fan of the brand name Cliqz. I instantly think of the bogus/low quality search results on a parked webpage.
My understanding is that Gates and Epstein were more or less just acquaintances, but it seems you think otherwise. What am I missing?
True, however Apple's documentation suggested otherwise, that it was possible "with care".

But as you say, it never worked properly.
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> This video is a comedic parody and is not owned, endorsed, created by, or associated with the Boston Dynamics company.
Eh, gamers buy CPUs directly, and that's a growing market. That's smaller than the enterprise market, but many gamers are also tech professionals that make decisions about what hardware they buy.

Hopefully that's enough to counteract the deals Intel has made in the past. Enterprises should run on the best products, not the best contract.
Golang: Sync.Once
Give a simple example to understand used of sync.Once.
> That said, I like the idea of stadium-light brightness levels on a Cybertruck.

I don't. I think people will abuse it, blind others on the road, and it will literally kill multiple people before they're made illegal (if they're not already - I have no idea what the regulations are for automotive lighting).
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Are you using random Mac addresses?
Might make sense to make that more easily discoverable for international users, but I guess you're working on it.
Stack Exchange is a private, profitable business. Wikimedia Foundation collects a hundred million dollars in donations each year and spends 40% of it to keep functioning. The contributors are effectively volunteers supporting these companies, which is a lot different than running your own site or channel and pumping content into it regularly.
Yes, which are mostly SRE salaries.
Open Docs: GitHub org to host sites/screenshots/demos related to the project
Chrome is linked to your google accounts and saves your account auth tokens. When you use incognito, it doesn't immediately send that info. However, it does offer to sign you in. This is different from remembering login/passwords.
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