skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are and have always been about changing workplaces from top-down, authoritarian models to ones where workers have a say in their company’s work and overall direction. They’re about acknowledging that none of these structures function or accomplish anything without labor and shifting their relations of power to reflect this reality.

I’d encourage younger folks who have an idealized view of American unions to check Scorcese’s new movie the Irishman about the Teamsters and Hoffa.
Levels includes bonuses, and that is not gauaranteed. But we still make crazy base salaries for the comparative amount of work we need to do (I did 3x the work at my last job for the same faang base-salary)
> I don’t trust a browser nor a search engine if an ad imperium paid for it and gives it away for free.

Yeah, that’s why I don’t trust chrome or google search.
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Beat me to it! Very happy here as well. I also love the bang short cuts. I am actually at the point where google is clearly inferior.

I will grant that Google has a more intelligent indexing and ranking of Stack Overflow. However, DDG is making major progress there, and I rarely need to add !g

Pro tip: with the bang shortcuts, you can add them anywhere in your query, it does not need to be in the beginning of your query string.
I've heard that rhetoric somewhere else, and I expect having Google pay for it will go about as well as having Mexico fund a wall across the border with the US.

But the European taxpayer should absolutely pay for it.
because they’re often brittle and create closed systems
This seems like a pretty blatant advertisement for their company's "Cliqz Browser".

You should at least acknowledge your bias by being transparent enough to show you have a vested interest. It's really disingenuous otherwise, and makes it hard to take what you have to say at face value.
Intel blames Qualcomm for forcing it to sell smartphone chip business at a loss
The EU already puts a lot of money into search R&D exactly because of this.
That is exactly the point of the article, by the way. Cliqz is built in Munich, Europe. And it does not rely on any other US search engine to provide results (contrary to DDG, Qwant and others).
Show HN: I Coded Conway's Game of Life in ~30 Lines of JavaScript
Well, you have to fail anyway, so failing quicker might save you some time and get you to a good solution quicker as well. Understanding that should be a core part of any HNer at least. Probably wouldn't hurd the free software world either. (pun intentended)
Scheveningen is one of the districts of The Hague. It's also a variation of the Sicilian chess opening (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6) which is how I learned that story.

Anyways, someone who is Dutch (I'm not) would know how to pronounce it. Someone purporting to be Dutch highly likely would botch it miserably.

A modern example of this sort of shibboleth is:

https://twitter.com/richardfausset/status/861297977813590019
What? Non-sequitur much?

While the so-called European Miracle of the past 500 years is a fascinating and complex area of research that will undoubtedly be studied for generations and centuries to come, I wasn't aware that anyone considers modern (18th c. and beyond) romanticist ideology to be the major driving force of science and technology.
I've definitely had users panic a little bit when they see a windows command prompt on their own machine (when I'm doing tech support or whatever.) I think it's because they see something foreign on a machine that's familiar to them. But I've never had anyone but fellow nerds comment when I run unfamiliar things on my own machine.
Eh, I'd say I've met quite a lot of long-term residents of San Francisco. Pretty much no correlation between ownership and how worthless that person is to the community. I know renters with their 30-year lease that don't even live here anymore. I know homeowners with their 30-year old property tax assessment that also don't even live here anymore.

Both just pop in every now and then to enjoy the Bay Area for cheap and then let the home sit vacant the other 300+ days of the year.

I also know renters and owners that have been very active in their local communities.

If the metric you care about is "societal productivity" there are better ways to measure and reward that than based on "how long have you owned here."
93% of a search engine market. Ok.

But a search engine is only a smart part of the whole, where and how we get the information.

If you slice your market in convenient ways, you can make any company a monopoly.
I use DDG but I still have to resort to Google for 5% of searches because it dosen't deliver the results as well. I desperately want to pay for something that has the quality of Google but the privacy of DDG.
It colors more accurately.
It was kind of similar. But insane phone bills was a major issue at the time. We're talking 1€ or more for a few minutes of connection. Plus, internet service was very expensive and there weren't many advantages to it because the www didn't exist. Instead you had BBSes in your own local area code which were much cheaper to call. From those you got your latest FidoMail and also the latest games. :) Given that it was all volunteer-run and (almost) no money exchanged hands, it worked amazingly well.
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Yes, I'm really looking forward to an inferior, super-censored version of Google (hate speech laws, anti-piracy laws, right to be forgotten laws, etc) paid with my taxes.
Everything you said about TLA+ here also applies to the other tools I mentioned. You'd just work with them differently to get to similar ends, but with the added benefit of you can actually directly use the output of your efforts. I also don't understand how you arrived at SCADE & Simulink being niche tools, but somehow TLA+ is general purpose?

There must be at least 2 orders of magnitude more Simulink users doing model-based design & development than there are people who use TLA+ for pretty much anything. Simulink has limitations, but being comparatively niche relative to something like TLA+ isn't one of them.

As an aside, not only does TLA+ not make an effort to provide a means of mechanically linking one's model to one's program, but when the question was asked of one of its progenitors how a developer might do this they were literally scoffed at for the suggestion.

You're not describing anything to me that I'm not already aware of insofar as TLA+ is concerned. Having also used several other similar or adjacent tools, and being in constant contact with folks who use them for avionics systems, medical devices, large scale industrial automation, etc., I'm still inclined to say that TLA+ is fine. It's unnecessarily annoying in a bunch of dimensions. I am skeptical that if TLA+ wasn't descendent from one of the distributed systems godfathers, and wasn't associated with AWS in the software developer zeitgeist, that there'd be as much intrigue & interest around it.

Also, I begrudge having had to come to the defense of SCADE and Simulink. I spend a non-trivial amount of my week essentially arguing against them in some respect, but they deserve their due.
You are missing the biggest key to everything: The network effect doesn't happen if people have to install software.
FB and twitter et all are so pervasive because the 90% of the population that is tech illiterate can use it by just signing up. When you talk about things people can pay any host to run, you've already lost the argument. Aside from the need to install, now people also have to pay for hosting, which is a huge negative.
You have to see yourself that it is a pretty week argument.
Why would you do this? If you want to use httpie why would type wget? If you’re pasting a snippet that uses wget, wouldn’t you want it to actually use wget?

I don’t see any benefit of using this alias
This feels like tautological reasoning.

Brittle empires fall.

The Chinese empire has a history (including mutations to its government) spanning thousands of years.
Is there an english-language version? The website is in German for me
I think I am restating the point you are making, and I agree. If this project finds a way to charge me a fair price and provides me with the services now only available under a surveillance capitalist model, then I'm fine with it. As Tim O'Reilly says: "Money is like gas in the car — you need to pay attention or you’ll end up on the side of the road — but a well-lived life is not a tour of gas stations!" This project shouldn't be left by the side of the road
That was an interesting choice of paraphrase. Does the author realize it's part of a gag where the characters go on to list all of the ways that the Roman government had materially improved quality of life for the people under its rule and thereby make their rebellion seem farcical? ;)
Thanks for your patience but this is still confusing. It's clear from your
explanation that the moves and end-game states are given at the start of
learning (now that you mention it, I remember the bit about illegal actions
leading to a game loss). So training does not start from scratch without
knowing anything about the game. The system knows what moves are _legal_ (not
just possible) and it knows when the game ends, and how to score it. I don't
see how this supports the claim of "no rules".

I appreciate that someone explaiend this to you at some point but I'm going
with what I've read in some of the published papers and the ones I've read
really leave a lot to the imagination. That is no way to present and support
such big claims as "no rules", "no hands", especially when this is the central
claim in a paper. Why fudge this so much when it's such an important aspect of
the whole contribution? [1] You (general you) make a claim? Support the claim.

I didn't get what you mean about logic programming? Where does that come in?

________________

[1] Oh, I know why. It's the whole silly game with machine learning publications
where they never tell you everything and you have to figure it out yourself.
Well I like to play the other game, where I call bullshit unless it's
explained clearly. In the paper. Not on Twitter and not by kind colleagues.

Silly games don't advance the science though.
I made a similar argument [1][2] about tipping the cloud computing market from vertical to horizontal integration. One important aspect of this transformation is to maintain the feel of an integrated cloud provider, and not let the customer/end-user deal with the cost of heterogeneity [3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOssXrkNYxM

[2] https://speakerdeck.com/bassam/opening-up-the-cloud-with-cro...

[3] https://crossplane.io
An empire crumbling under its own weight is different from deliberately destroying one because we dislike it.
What would a different search engine do to differentiate it from Google?

If the answer is privacy, that’s a niche already occupied by DDG.

What other ways could a web search engine differentiate itself to be worth customers using more than one?
It's actually about half and half. About 45% of Americans don't own any stock whatsoever, either directly or indirectly through IRAs, mutual funds, ETFs, etc. [1]

1: https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-own...
A Good Year for “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics”
I feel the problem most people have when thinking about monopolies is if a monopoly produces a product that people like right now (e.g. they like the features, they like the cost), people don't see the monopoly as a problem and even will even defend it thinking it's great ("I love company X, they make amazing products, they deserve their success!").

The problem with monopolies is when the company decides to e.g. price gouge or gets lazy by not innovating. Companies can only really get away with this and survive when they have a monopoly.

Monopolies also kill competing products and deter other companies from even attempting to enter the market - so you might love the product of a monopoly right now but if the monopoly had never existed an even better product could be available today.

I think people generally love Google's products but it would be good to see more competition. The upfront investment you would need to create a competing search engine is prohibitively high so most companies aren't going to attempt to make their own.
Hey guys, the ~30 lines of JS is for a purely node solution with poor formatting. A React visualizer for the code increases the LOC to ~92[1].

I wrote this project purely for fun, and wanted to showcase the code to show it to new folk and get helpful advices from experienced folk :D

[1] - https://github.com/akash-joshi/conway-game-of-life/blob/mast...
If a company needs an almost commodity software, like most companies, it's clear that over the long term, AWS will win on reliability and probably price over an AWS startup.

So why choose differently ?
The EU is more complex than that, there's the European Council, which is not proportional to population (made up of the heads of state, like the original US Senate). The Council is involved in foreign affairs, particularly trade agreements.

This is why Belgium had a veto over the Canada/EU trade agreement. In particular, it was Wallonia's PM who held the veto because Belgium devolved that power.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/24/eu-trade-deal-...
>Aws is not a marketplace and does not enjoy network effects. I.e. if developer A uses AWS, this does not affect developer B.

It damn well does. If everybody else is using AWS it pays to use it too, because:

* The IBM/CYA effect - i.e. "nobody got fired for picking AWS".

* The supply of experienced users - it's easier to hire AWS skills than GCP skills.
(I work for AWS. Opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of my employer.)

> If I have a filer with 500TB of disk I should be getting 5-10GiBy/s reads

That kind of performance requires a 50-100 GbE SAN fabric. I'm unaware of any cloud provider that offers this yet, let alone an on-prem fabric that isn't extremely expensive. (Our customers can get close with the u-24tb1.metal instance type, which offers 28 Gbps dedicated EBS throughput.)

> Likewise EBS and emphemeral SSDs top out at 250MiBy/s, which is just abysmal.

There are plenty of EC2 instance types that offer 1750MiB/s of EBS throughput - see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSOptim... for a list. You'll need to stripe some 1.3TB EBS volumes together to achieve it, but it's absolutely attainable. (I did just that when I worked at a well-known YC company to build their high-throughput Kafka clusters.)

As for instance storage, I just ran a fio test on an i3.large's NVMe SSD and it performed at 80k read IOPs, 311MiB/s sustained sequential read. These too can be striped for higher performance -- I was able to achieve nearly 24GiB/sec (at 644k IOPs) on an i3.16xlarge instance.
This is extremely true. It's one of the reasons that Google+ came into existence. And with Google+ being folded up, Google has basically refrained from competing further in social indexing.
Well then, feel free to provide the research. You can then also send it directly to UK's General Optical Council because they actually sue companies who claim health benefits from blue light filtering [1] because there is no evidence for real-world effects. Or the EU's Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risk, because they, too, say that there is no scientific base for the claim of real-world effects [2, page 90]. Or Cochrane review, who say that there is no health effect in case of macula degeneration [3].

Also please don't get personal. My campfire illustration was not a rant, it was an illustration of humans using light after sunset. It is a fact that they did so for millenia. It is also a fact that a 1300K hot fire emits blue light and even UV light.

And luminosity (lux) is just luminous flux (lumens) per square meter. Astronomers use that because luminosity is the measure used to compare different light sources. If comparing e.g. a ceiling light and a phone screen one uses luminosity because that makes both light sources easier to compare. It is also the measure most research on light effects work with. You could of course multiply the 1000lux of a bright phone display with its surface area in square meters if you prefer to calculate in lumens.

[1] https://www.aop.org.uk/ot/industry/high-street/2017/05/26/bo...

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/health/files/scientific_co...

[3] https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...?
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If someone wants to build a better search engine, start with a better code search and then expand to other areas. Github search is so bad.
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No it does not. Google is one of the few things that need only need one of.
why?

Don't you have fiduciary duty for the owners of the company to maximize profits? Why do you want competition?
A PAKE does mean bad guys don't get the password, but that's not necessarily much of a win if the password was only defending an endpoint which was much more valuable than the password anyway.

If the PAKE keeps bad guys who break into the Crab Positivity Forum from learning a password which I also used for my GMail that's great, maybe they post anti-Crab propaganda and get me banned, but I'll live. Whereas if my bank uses it and bad guys empty the account but thanks to a PAKE don't learn my password in the process I'm gonna think that is a very cold comfort.
They were definitely involved in several precedent setting legal decisions, such as the settlement that allowed for scanning of printed works.
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I really like it for functional testing and for describing steps in peer reviews; it's concise and readable.

It's not the only tool out there; sometimes cURL makes more sense depending on the context. Use the right tool for the right job!
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>there are plenty of tools that support all 3 clouds equally.

there are plenty of tools that support all 3 clouds, but most of those suffer from some sort of impedance mismatch and/or do not fully support the features which those clouds supply.
A Visit to Hallstatt, China: The 1:1 Scale Exact Replica of the Austrian Hamlet
Improved online code search and indexing feels like a very untapped market.
And yet it fell.
e.V. or eingetragener Verein, is a registered non-profit organization that must serve a good cause, imo. Usually used for sports, culture, science organisations etc. It's not a company
Ultrabright water cooled LEDs have swallowed whole all remaining market niches for this technology.

LEDs are cheaper, and, more importantly, already there.
> Thanks but no thanks.

Lol, yeah. The HN headline is like "hell yeah, break up and/or nationalise Google/Alphabet," but the link is "get our product please think of us poor little oppressed advertising agencies" and, uh, no.
What's especially ironic about this is that we do a terrible job of educating even people of entirely average intelligence, never mind 'morons'. But of course this has nothing to do with purported genetic bases of intelligence, and everything with how our "budget(s) devoted to education" are used.
> You save a ton of money on bandwidth when you move data from AWS to AWS

This is only because AWS grossly overcharges for bandwidth. If you move all services that have high bandwidth requirements to providers with reasonable prices you'll save a significant amount of money.
The HB100 [0] and CDM324 [1] are very inexpensive little CW doppler radar modules at 10GHz and 24GHz respectively. Feed them 5v and send the mixer output to a small microphone amp/input jack and you can record the frequency beat of most objects in motion.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FFW4AZ4

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WH67J9W

This is what it sounds like when you toss a quarter in front of an HB100. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8riretP8ylE

The bowtie looking part is the actual flight, the other part right after that is it bouncing off the counter.

Spinning same quarter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lnYvJoxRak

Shining it at parts of a ceiling fan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIiFvByf1CQ
Withdrew $1,500 from Bank of Millenium ATM using contactless card and BLIK in Europe. If by Cap we define I could not withdrew it all then that's correct.
"All empires must fall because I deserve to be the new emperor"
I'd argue Hollywood unions are the perfect example of leaders inventing an us-vs-them situation. I would not want to belong to an organization like the WGA, where union leadership can force me to walk off my job for half a year because they don't think my current compensation structure is good enough.
This is pretty cool, testing with kafka is a painpoint. We have been using a fat container from spotify that has kafka and zookeeper with basic configuration out of the box.
That seems unlikely, since 'pron has repeatedly identified himself as a (former?) history grad student / PhD candidate, and, in various threads on the site, has gone into enough depth on the topic that I'd be disinclined to doubt them.
Lol, he's just saying that now. Everyone says that kind of stuff when they're not at the top. Then they get there and fully realize their constraints, and it dies down.
I want to see niche search engines:

- a search engine for blogs

- a search engine for dev questions

- a search engine for shopping

- a search engine for diy

etc.

Im really tired of sites trying to centralize and own this content. The key to decentralizing and empowering individuals to own their content is enabling distribution and discovery. New search engines are essential to the web we want.
This is an advertisement for the Cliqz search engine. Let's remember that Cliqz is the advertising company that the Mozilla Corporation sent our private history browsing to back in the day:

https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...
The Chinese empire is still there and quite happy. It's communist now, but no less of an empire. It's even currently involved with an aggressive territorial dispute with neighboring land that it used to have total control over, as empires do.

[Edited for unnecessary snark; my apologies]
The article kind of dances around the issue of attributing blame, but i would be interested to know how this was all arbitrated. Were the engines actually being operated outside of specifications? I presume a manufacturer-approved maintenance schedule was followed by indigo on the planes with in-flight failures, so who is liable? The article makes it sound like the airline is responsible for the replacements, but are they footing 100% of the bill?
I think you need to check your numbers. See [1]. GPs in the US make WAY more than anywhere else. Specialists are on par with Australia, but significantly higher than Canada.

[1] https://journal.practicelink.com/vital-stats/physician-compe...
A monkey flew to the edge of space and then smashed into a destroyer
I am not a historian, but I cannot think of any empire where there was no coercion. I read it in this context: Empires must fall, because "Absolute power corrupts absolutely".

Disclosure: I work at Cliqz.
So how does cliqz makes money?
That's not really a comparison that makes sense. Mexico has very little leverage on the US. EU has loads of leverage on Google.
EU investigates Google data collection practices