skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In BigCorp, which is ~half of all business, there is consistent pressure to standardize: cost, security, education, etc. There are all sorts of other levers too, like negotiated group deals -- at places like Netflix, AWS is effectively free, while any other vendor requires going through procurement. Competing with a negotiated loss leader - free - sucks. Azure benefits a LOT here due to other MS bundling.

I'm increasingly convinced all this means we are entering a telco-like monopoly era for Big Cloud software, starting at the infra layers and steadily moving up. I'd love a more savvy approach from Elizabeth Warren to be less 'break them up' to more 'these are the anti-competitive bundling violations.'
I agree. Bing seems to have mostly solved the crawling problem by now, but not the query relevancy problem.

But then again, there are also a lot of other problems Microsoft haven't been able to solve...
I’ve tried switching to ddg a number of times in the past. Every time the same thing happens:

“This result isn’t that great. I’m going to !g just this once”

Then, one week later I’m adding !g to literally every singe search so I switch back to google because what’s the point?

I really do hope to one day get off of google though.
They should focus on building a search index and then license that to European search engine startups. That's the capital intensive part that requires you to build datacenters next to power plants, etc. and where government money will even out the competitive playing field.

It will also help insofar as site owners will be less inclined to block "EUROPEAN SEARCH INDEX CRAWLER", just as they're less inclined to block google, despite being inclined to block "small time search index".

The creative, non-capital intensive part where having a diverse ecosystem will help the most is building a layer on top of the index to actually find stuff - e.g. a bit like how duckduckgo is built atop bing's index.
Moldbug allegedly acquired enough loot during the dot-com bubble to afford spending 7 years at home reading something like 1 book per day. That could be 2500 books in total.

History grad students have to TA. They have to produce research. It's hard to consume as much as Moldbug when one has such demands on one's time.

More importantly, Moldbug almost certainly has more brainpower than the vast majority of history grad students. Whether he used such brainpower wisely is highly debatable.
This is because Rust is a very young language, and C and C++ are very old. Number of projects on GitHub is more proportional to language's age than to it's current popularity. To check popularity we have to take a first derivatve of these numbers over time.

Thanks for the lunk though, it does shows some interesting stats.
I think for concepts like this different people might prefer different explanations, but I did some googling and this page seems to describe the heart of the theorem pretty well IMHO:

http://www.intuitive-calculus.com/fundamental-theorem-of-cal...

(sidenote: the first theorem is technically only valid for continuous functions, but I think it's ok to omit that detail in an intuitive treatment.)
Pathways to Conspiracy
It’s really sad to see the anti-success rhetoric.

I was around during the “search wars”, and what’s usually forgotten is that well, they were by far the best behaved as a corporate entity.

This “romantization” of this ideal state, devoid of historical context or acknowledgement of the world we live in is extremwly counter productive.

Should google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple do better? Absofuckinglutely!!!

Regulate them, hold them to a higher standard!

But Will breaking them up do anything except destroy them and just empower the next competitor ( who will have to learn the same lessons?

Even worse, likely in a country that won’t match your same values of “freedom”

Are imbalances in power great? Nope

Are monopolies awesome? Most never

Are billionaires awesome? Nope

But this is the stage we are at due to an interconnect global economy. We built this.

Knee jerk solutions don’t and have never fixed anything
Google is getting bad, but I want a decent competitor to Windows/Android.

Apple is not competition. They serve a lax customer base.
Google's dominance is almost entirely due to the fact that its by far the best at search. I use ddg, but I use google search via !g about 25-50% of the time after a failed attempts. And 9 times out of 10 Google gives me exactly what I'm looking for.

For instance:

"the actor that plays the news guy in spiderman"

ddg:

Tom Holland (side bar)

Spider-Man Homecoming (imdb)

Tom Holland (wiki)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (imdb)

google:

Jonathan Kimble Simmons (splash, link to wiki)

J. Jonah Jameson (wiki)

J. K. Simmons (wiki)

The google result is exactly what I want. And the results were made in incognito mode so Google wasn't able to cheat with privileged information about me as a user.

At the end of the day, most people care about the product. I'm only willing to sacrifice so much to satisfy the ideal that there should be less concentration. Make a better search engine but trying to pull at the heart-strings of users about how Google is an empire and too powerful just won't work and it undermines your product and mission.
I found that the last time this talk was posted on HN [0], the author of tree-sitter mentioned that a couple of language servers are indeed using tree-sitter.

* Bash - https://github.com/mads-hartmann/bash-language-server

* Ruby - https://github.com/rubyide/vscode-ruby/tree/master/server

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18213022
In the old days, yes we had service contracts for the machines, but it was essentially a joke. That was a way of getting parts after the expert hackers from the AI lab fixed the problem. Because if you let the field-service person fix it it would take them days, and you didn't want to do that, you wanted it to work. So, the people who knew how to do those things would just go and fix it quickly, and since they were ten times as competent as any field service person, they could do a much better job. And then they would have the ruined boards, they would just leave them there and tell the field service person “take these back and bring us some new ones”.

— Richard Stallman, 30 October 1986

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-kth.html
Ok so let’s look at the countries highest on the Economic Freedom index.

Hong Kong tops the list right? It has what you would expect...

Capital has flowed in and normally that would have pushed blue collar workers and children and elderly out, with people commuting 2 hours each way as in SF. But since these are islands, the poor live in coffin like shoebox apartments, far smaller than anything allowed in US cities. Millions form entire communities of poverty around there, raise children there etc.

How large an effect are we talking? 20% of Hong Kong is below the poverty line. I did the math and any four people below the poverty line cannot together afford a studio apartment in normal areas of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong has had to aggressively increase its welfare and safety nets. It has over 40 public hospitals and 20 private ones.

Suffice it to say that around the world, government-run and single-payer healthcare and schooling has been compatible with high scores on economic freedom. It’s only in the USA do we have this ridiculous fearmongering about that.

Hong Kong has, in many measures, a very strong safety net and strong public sector. Ditto for Singapore etc. And larger countries in Scandinavia, and Canada and Australia etc. are similar.

Much of the centrally coordinated infrastructure investment has paid off - in the US we had the interstate highway system, China lifted more people out of poverty in 20 years through centrally planned “ghost cities” than any place on Earth ever, and the USSR did a great job of increasing literacy, electricity, bringing universities, rights to women and minorities, to countries like Uzbekistan and that whole region. Child mortality declined greatly, as people got better access to healthcare.

Not to say that everything is black and white, but “economic freedom” and capitalism isn’t the only way science and technology and prosperity moves forward.
Direct link for the lazy: https://cliqz.com/en/
Except the technical complexity. I work with some very experienced k8s devops engineers these days and they screw up catastrophically every so often because of the million switches and buttons on k8s.
Facebook and Twitter profiles silently slurped by shady code
If you know good introductions to those tools, I'd be happy to look! Most of my experience is in things like PRISM, Alloy, TLA+, etc, and I don't have experience with those three. At least on a quick search, one difference between TLA+ and SCADE and Simulink is it's free and open source. mCRL2 is also free and open source, looks like, so that's probably the easiest for me to start looking at.
For what's it's worth if you use the public shared state cache you can do a full build of core-image-minimal in 5min. Also I'm not sure how Yocto is being stupid by generating 4000 tasks, if you target something with a GUI like core-image-sato you are easily going to get there because there really is that much software involved. Also remember task does not match 1:1 to recipe, you are looking at 5-6 tasks per recipe usually. Hob can help you explore the dependency graph if you really are not sure why the build got so complex.
It isn't used everywhere because it's much too new, nothing like SRP existed when password elements were added to HTML let alone back when the authentication mechanism was added to HTTP itself.

Also none of Tim's toy hypermedia system is built from state of the art components. HTTPS is a retrofit, graphics are an afterthought, the reason Tim succeeded is that since this was not his academic field he felt confident to do a half-arsed job whereas people who'd been doing this for years wanted to actually solve the hard problems first.

Why we didn't suddenly wake up in say 2000 and switch to SRP? Because for every crap site they already had a crap password system, no obvious incentive to get a good one. And as another poster points out this particular PAKE is/was patented which always stifles usage.
To some extent that was what the suggestions were about, though.

Installing an IDE just to have the icon to show for it is a stupid hack that'll stop working once people see through the charade.

OTOH, running the test suite and showing the failing tests or, if they pass, explaining very precisely what misbehavior you're seeing and how you reproduced it, is actually helpful.

Be helpful to the extent of your competence but honest about its limits. Trying to bullshit when you clearly have no clue makes you annoying to work with, but so does being a noob who doesn't even try to understand what's going on and just wants someone else to do all the work.
Can I please pay someone to let me customize search? I know what results I don't want, but there's no way for me to bundle a custom filter to exclude them.
> This stack of electronics, slightly thinner than a mouse pad, culminates in a tacky surface that sticks to the skin.

I love my vr headset, but putting it on is already too much of a hassle to do regularly. Asking me to put something sticky on my hands? Forget about it.
Big Tech is investing in the affordable housing crisis they helped create
Healthcare law protections – 80/20 rule and rate revie
> The real competitor of these "ten kilowatt" class bulbs is theater-type arc lamp type devices where you can't deal with the weird spectral effects of LEDs and other quantum mechanical goofiness...

Sulfur lamps have CRI < 80. High CRI (> 90) LEDs are real competitors to HID lamps here.
Best of luck to these guys. Is there a way that Cliqz (or any other search engine) will manage to break through when even Bing is unable to get significant traction despite Microsoft throwing its weight and its default Edge installations behind it?

Hopefully there will be even more stringent antitrust enforcement to prevent Google from buying favorable search placement everywhere, but Google has such a big edge both in consumer awareness and people adapting their searches to Google that I'm not sure how it can be dethroned.
That's what I would do as a VC, too, but then I wouldn't premise the advertisement of the open application for my accelerator on something misleading.
>TEMPFILE=`mktemp`; curl -s <REQUEST> >$TEMPFILE; python -c "import json; f = open('$TEMPFILE', 'r'); d = json.load(f); <json processing logic and print statement>; f.close()"

This is painful. In powershell this is built in and as easy as iwr url/to/json | convertfrom-json | other logic
Wealth isn't some finite quantity that is merely taken or traded between a group of individuals. This is highly ignorant of economics and is a worldview that sadly what drives a lot of hysteria around wealth inequality (that when one person has more wealth it means they deprived it from another person who would have had it otherwise, combined with the idea it just sits there in a bank account not being used or it's all being spent like a consumer).
I've seen plenty of people use TLA+ to understand systems better without writing refinements. I also think you're in a good position to show comparative models between TLA+ and Spin or NuSMV, to show that the other two are more than adequate if you're not using refinement. I know Zave tried to do a Spin vs Alloy comparison and found Spin really frustrating.
Wow. You can't even do a search without enabling javascript. Surely no tracking implications there.

Yeah, I'm going to stick with DDG. Questionable ownership aside they at least have a functional website without running javascript.
Hi Malp. What is the reason for your inquiry?
Ask an open question, preferably one that doesn’t involve the “why”.

For example,

> What made you realize that sshd wasn’t going to work for you?

Or,

> I‘ve used sshd for similar tasks; what’s your advice for me to get familiar with the differences?

This kind of question helps shift focus on the answerer and enables them to tell their story.
It’s unlikely for them to feel insulted if you convey some degree of genuine, honest interest in what they have to say.
I knew Virgil and considered him a friend long ago when we were both very into evolutionary inspired AI research. I met him at one of the ALife conferences (in Bloomington, IN at IU) and he later attended a group I helped found in Boston called Grey Thumb.

Our archives are still at greythumg.org including many talks on ALife, genetic programming, and theoretical biology.

Anyway a few years ago I watched him get sucked into the same vortex as many others I knew back then. I am not talking about cryptocurrency but... I guess I'll call it "alt-right" for lack of a better term. His feeds started featuring race-and-IQ material and such and I heard stories about him behaving like a misogynistic asshole which is not the Virgil I met in the 2000s. Seems like a ton of people got their brains sucked out around 2012-2016. I know many others including a once brilliant writer and artist who now sounds like Vox Day and has done nothing but rant about it for years (and zero artistic output of course).

Virgil understands a lot about evolution, so I spent some time working on a letter intended as an attempt to deprogram him. I took the approach of explaining from first principles why I reject this ideology for not only moral but also practical and theoretical reasons. (I now feel motivated to turn it into a blog post if I can find the time, but I have a startup and am time poor these days.)

When I saw him get into Ethereum stuff I congratulated him and hoped it would give him something sufficiently interesting to do.

Anyway I wish I had some Earth-shattering point or revelation here, but this just saddens me.

Virgil had a misanthropic streak I can empathize with as someone else who grew up as a geek having an awful time in public school. Underneath that he struck me as a basically playful person with a powerful mind who could have done great things. I wish he would have found something more productive to sink his brain into like AI.

Now I'll have to listen to the media trash him too, calling him a "techbro" when he was anything but that.

Like I said I was hoping Ethereum would be that but that was before I saw how toxic that world was becoming.

These events make it look worse than I thought. Honestly I partly blame whatever weird nexus he fell into. I feel like someone brainwashed him and strapped a bomb to him and sent him off to do their dirty work. None of the other high up bag holders in Ethereum went to the DPRK and now they are washing their hands of it. Anything to pump the token value I guess. I hope if that's the case someone is held accountable but they won't be. I bet they won't even contribute to his legal defense fund.

I also wish I was less time poor. There is something deeply toxic that has infected our community. I am still not quite able to see it in its entirety, though I can see its edges and when people get infected by it its obvious. For years I've been straining to compose some magnum opus to deprogram people but I can't grasp the essence of the thing quite well enough. Maybe this is how people felt when Scientology took over Hollywood.
There is - click the settings icon on the top-right corner. Then click on Sucheinstellungen, and under Sprache choose English.
How do you know if your current pair is "working fine", though? I've been wearing glasses for 20+ years and I'm not confident/aware/knowledgeable enough to know if my current prescription is, "working fine".
The world doesn't want more search engines though. Like the world doesn't want another streaming service to pay for, it just wants everything in one place which costs $15 a month or preferably free.
Surveillance Giants [pdf]
I'm not aware of any official PDF editions of those volumes -- they primarily consist of updates to the first three volumes, and were incorporated into other documentation before Apple started releasing electronic documentation. However, there are scans at:

https://vintageapple.org/inside_o/

DocViewer is a weird format. :) It's like an early version of PDF based on PICT graphics. Unfortunately, this makes it difficult to convert. However, a lot of Apple's legacy documentation is still available if you have a deep link to its location, e.g.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/ma...

There are also some third-party mirrors of Apple's old documentation site, like:

http://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com/ind...
Obviously by using the corded speakerphone "Hello computer".
Within a single AZ. Inter AZ is charged. It's also frustrating that AWS infra doesn't optimize for same AZ (and only fall back to another AZ if an AZ is impaired). For example, a client in us-east-1a can hit the Aurora reader endpoint and be directed to an instance in 1b even though there's a healthy instance in 1a.
Getting a scientific prize for open-source software
No, but you can get surprisingly close with aerogels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmKt_6EhA24
yep, people are probably already working on it!
I agree with your general sentiment but having basic knowledge and knowing some terminology can get you farther.

It's like going to a foreign country and making an effort to speak their language. Even if you're bad at it and end up having a conversation in your native language they'll respect you for the effort.

You wouldn't see a doctor and pretend to also be one but understanding some basic terminology and diagnostic procedure will help.
Yeah, the murder rate has gone down only because first responders are getting better at treating gunshot wounds. The actual violence rate is up.

And now, 11 people shot on Canal Street. This seems to happen every few years in NOLA. It almost never happens in the Bay Area at normal locations.

https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_883833a4-142b...
This new search engine doesn't even function without javascript enabled, unlike DDG which works just fine.
I looked into the Cliqz browser a few years a ago. Back then they claimed to be a privacy respecting alternative to Chrome. What I found back then is that they sent every keystroke I type in the URL bar to their own servers. They outright lied about that in their terms.

For me their mission is pretty clear: Google ate Burda's ad cookies and now they are trying to get their hands into the cookie jar again. Given that today we have widespread TLS adoption the war about the endpoint has begun. Cliqz, alias Burda Media, is just another combatant - the one who controls the browser controls the ads.

Previous thread with more info:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18626790
For small economies it's absolutely possible. But as economies scale, the computational power necessary increases exponentially.
Platform values and democratic elections: How to regulate disinformation?
It's not that simple. In a scenario where google was shut out of the EU you'd have a lot of pissed off citizens, and google knows this.
I used to work for a vertical search engine (comparison shopping). For the most part, no one in that space was able to build a brand, and they all depended on either paid or organic traffic from Google to stay open. As the company I was at and competitors started to merge and die, the largest, Nextag, went on a PR campaign to tell people Google's a Monopoly[1].

These vertical search engines, at at least in the comparison shopping space, were never that good to begin with. Shopping (and possibly travel) is just the easiest vertical to monetize. All the sites were spammy, pages were optimized for clickouts, and results were optimized for yield, not relevancy, because everything was an ad. There's a reason none of them were recognizable brands and they all depended on Google for traffic.

So yes, not just what niche is there, but how can you make it profitable--or even break-even. Would you donate $10 per year to a non-profit search engine?

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2012/06/08/nextag-ceo-google-is-a-mon...
Is CW used for radar applications? (I am only familiar with pulsed radar sets).
How did they remove the cars from the road?

I'd imagine traffic at the mixmaster and various loops are still terrible.

I had a reverse commute (Lower McKinney to Las Colinas), and I'd see gridlock the entire way there (other direction).
This reminds me of an old quote by Wayne Gretzky.

“Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.”

Google will not be replaced by another search engine. It will be something else. Something we can’t imagine yet.
>Google must not fall because it is a monopoly. If it was to fall it should be because someone built a better product.

One of the reasons for breaking up monopolies is that they make it harder for newcomers to build something better.
The spectrum of these lamps is much closer to sunlight than others: https://sound-au.com/lamps/sp-lamp-f2.jpg

This would be ideal for offering indoor sunlight substitutes.
> To say "we define the integral as being the difference of the antiderivative at the two endpoints, but we can also define it as the Riemann sum" is [like, really bad!]

How about if there was a footnote on that point explaining that these two definitions are actually equivalent (for the continuous functions we're talking about) and that the proof is really interesting and can be found in your textbook? Would that meet your requirements?

Again, this is just nitpicking. In fact those two definitions are equivalent, as you keep pointing out. You don't have to prove everything in an introductory treatment, and in fact even high school textbooks on this subject don't even try.
They are not a gov agency, i dont see the problem. To the victor goes the spoils. Are they doing something illegal?

What number of search engines is a good number, why? This line of thinking is subjective.