skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was looking at that Cliqz company out of curiosity and while browsing their job page (https://cliqz.com/en/about/careers/campaign-manager) saw this:

"MyOffrz is opening a brand new marketing discipline: Browser Based Performance Marketing. This innovative technology makes it possible to show users discounts, special offers and valuable information with true added value within the browser. As a 100% subsidiary of Cliqz GmbH..."

"These include independent search engine, browser and privacy technologies as well as new techniques for responsible advertising and statistical data collection for the benefit of all users."

Seems a bit odd for a company that brands itself as a privacy search engine.
> If your "revolution" is based on stealing from the Spanish-blooded landowners to feed Amerindian losers who breed like rabbits, you will get opposition.

this is some real mask-off shit.
Anyone remember Technorati when it had a blog search engine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technorati
I recently noticed one of my old blog posts had Technorati tags in it, and that was a blast from the past. http://consumingexperience.com/2005/02/technorati-tags-intro...

I'm pretty sure that we won't see a significant blog search engine again until blogs regain some of the power they lost to social media.
The formal definition of a metal is just that it has overlapping conduction and valence bands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence_and_conduction_bands

So it doesn't matter whether it's brittle (superconductors are brittle) or whether it's an oxide or whether it's a ceramic as well (superconductors), or a glass as well (metglass). What matters is that at your temperature of interest the bands overlap so that you have free moving electrons.

But reading some other literature suggests that "metallic" VO2 is indeed a semiconductor (not actual insulator) at lower temperatures and thermal energy makes the electrons energetic enough to jump to the conduction band and become a metal. So I think I'd say it's a "hot" semiconductor.

Ruthenium Oxide, Tungsten Oxide, and Chromium Oxide (at least one of them) are also metallic, with 10-20x worse conductivity than copper. Just a weird fact I had to figure out for a project. Actual metallic, not temperature dependent just phase dependent (CrO2 vs Cr2O3 for instance).

On the other hand, alumina is a great thermal conductor (about 10x worse than copper) but has almost no electrical conductivity, so I'm not so sure about this law relating the two in the first place. I've never heard of it being a law, I've always just treated that as a rule of thumb...
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As Google has gotten bigger it seems to forgotten its motto of "Do No Evil," and done the total opposite for the sake of profits!

It was an inspirational company and story that many rooted for due to its culture and mission.
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For a definition of crystal that requires translational symmetry then no, but more colloquially speaking there are natural mineral "crystals" like Icosahedrite [1,2] (technically quasicrystals [3]) that have space-filling tilings with five-fold rotational symmetry.

The first discovery this type of symmetry (in synthetic Al-Mn alloys in 1982) led to the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icosahedrite

[2] https://doi.org/10.2138/am.2011.3758

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasicrystal

[4] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2011/summary/
Yeah, this strikes a good balance between technical correctness and understandable analogy. I also liked:

> A neutron with lopsided charge would fail CP symmetry, because reflecting it would flip its electric field relative to its intrinsic angular momentum, an effect similar to looking in a mirror and seeing yourself wearing your sweater on your legs and your jeans on your torso.
It's fantastic that LibrePCB exists to solve the key pain points around KiCad, but I wonder what the end state is. Network effects come into play pretty strongly here with libraries, reference designs, and community knowledge. It took years of improvements and Eagle getting heavily monetized by Autodesk for KiCad to become the de facto EDA tool for hobbyists and open source hardware developers. This space isn't that large. Is there a scenario where LibrePCB gets enough critical mass behind it to be competitive with KiCad, or will KiCad gradually improve and continue to grow to prevent that from ever happening?
I'm intrigued in the age of fly-by-wire that it is possible to rev a jet engine in an unsafe way. I mean machines took control of deceleration of turbines decades ago, didn't they?
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Makes sense. She can't reproduce quirks that her brain is not aware of - consciously or subconsciously.
It is not a given that massive wealth accumulation involves depriving others of wealth but it's also very often the case.

While it's ridiculous to view wealth as a finite thing, it's just as ridiculous to imply hysteria over wealth inequality is based in ignorance. There is a long-standing trend of capitalists treating lower classes as exploitable resources undeserving of the means to have a healthy and happy existence beyond what keeps them productive inside the constraints of the current system.

Median salaries haven't been stagnant while the rich get richer because that's what's best for everyone, it's because that's what's best for the people with control.
I don't think search really has a high barrier to entry. Certainly not compared to things I usually associate the term with like, say, airplane manufacture or deep sea oil extraction. Duck Duck Go only had three employees when they passed a million visitors, so I can't imagine they required huge amounts of capital.
I think this points to a specific amount of accent "modes" for languages in the human brain. There's a small finite amount and the human brain can only operate within the bounds of a single accent "mode."

When you damage one accent "mode" in your brain, it has to switch to the next available one. Since the amount of accent "modes" are small and finite you get people who switch to a mode that is recognize-able and used in another part of the world that speaks the same language with a different accent.
Keystrokes + IP = NSA knows exactly what I'm typing.

This "feature" should be off by default on any software that claims to be a privacy respecting alternative to Chrome.
I don't think you want to work in a place like this. Maybe they're doing you a favor if you think of it
> Seems a bit odd for a company that brands itself as a privacy search engine.

Cliqz is nothing but a parasite disguised as a pro-privacy product, funded by Hubert Burda Media (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Burda_Media).

Their strategy to move into the couponing/voucher market comes as no surprise, since injecting ads (which this basically is) is a very lucrative business - and they have the customer base to do so. The line between malware and "legitimate" browser (extension) becomes increasingly blurred.
Do you have any evidence of what you claim?

Anyhow, based on what I've seen, when you go into incognito mode it definitely doesn't use your profile when you go to Google services. Search results, suggestions, etc... are different. In fact, one of the use cases for incognito is using a different Google profile on a someone else's or a public computer. Keeping contextual search results from the 'main' profile logged into the browser would be counterproductive...
These systems create more room for corruption and fraud to pass unnoticed, which was the goal all along.
Most of the people in hn work for these monopolies. Of course you're downvoted.
How does it know to offer (in incognito mode) a list of your accounts you might want to re-login to? (Not always, but often enough to raise an eyebrow.)

Seems like a pretty good reason to think it still knows who you are.

As to how that works, you tell us.
I look at it as producers vs rentiers. Major cities are controlled by price fixing supply restricting frontier cartels. Producers of art, culture, etc. have already been priced out of cities like SF. The tech people are the only ones left who can afford the rent, but they will be driven out too.
This is the wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium(IV)_oxide
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Considering the multitudes of other ways in which the very wealthy wreck the environment, I would say that sustaining the luxury bag industry ranks very lowly. Lets say: the private jet industry.
Jio वोडाफोन आइडिया प्रीपेड प्लान की कीमतो में बढ़ोतरी के साथ, 3 दिसंबर से
IIRC, they actually removed the "Don't be Evil" motto in may of 2018
Do we need search ? It made sense when the web was wild. But now that it's very structured ... I'm wondering.

Kinda like road signs vs gps
Split the search from Adsense. Allow the search company to only sell ads on its own properties so they can’t reestablish ad-hegemony. For good measure, ban them from making their own browser.
Oh, the requests contained much more than the keystrokes and I looked into the anonymization claims as well. I'd have to dig out my Wireshark traces to tell you exactly what was transmitted, but I'm pretty sure it was enough to id the user. And by the way Cliqz never claimed that the anonymization happens at the endpoint, from what I remember they were very proud of their proprietary anonymization technology in the backend.

And just one more thing: In Google Chrome at least I can turn off auto-suggest. This was not possible in the version of the Cliqz browser I tested.
While I am curious about their search tech, it would be nice if they posted a blog post about their business model so we can understand their incentives up front.

While I'm wishing, it would be nice to hear about how they anonymize their logs. Their privacy notice only really mentions scrubbing associated IP addresses - which may not be sufficient.
allow the end user to tweak the search criterion easily.
there are times when i dont want the "most relevant" results.
i want things like historical order or alphabetic order.
or even in order of ISBN number.

i really miss using an image itself for query terms.
At the same time palm oil is used a lot on SEAsia and not everyone there is wealthy.

That said a lot of the blame can be placed at the feet of “health food” trends that are not based on good science.
$14/kg for unprocessed V2O5, presumably VO2 is brittle.

Copper, despite all the news stories and it shooting up in 2011 (to almost $10/kg) is today only $5.70/kg pure.

I like the idea of tuning it to act as a passive way to heat and cool homes but compared to fiberglass insulation?

I buy thermoelectric and nonvolatile memory applications though.
The question was for OP for a good reason. I’m not feeling accusatory, just disappointed in y’all. I received lots of “speculating about OP’s thoughts and feelings” replies that have not added anything useful to the discussion beyond the speculation that led me to ask OP to clarify in the first place.
Their entire premise is that they can do an ad-financed product with less invasive tracking. Obviously, that involves advertising people.
Submission title doesn't match article. Was it changed in the article or is this clickbait?
So you're confirming that Google tracks you without using fingerprinting methods? That's not really surprising considering how much they data have on people.

It's also a good example of their monopoly position; Android, Chrome, Chrome OS, advertising and analytics code on almost every website, ownership of multiple of the most popular websites and services on the internet puts them in a unique position that no one could ever hope to compete with realistically. Competitors have to rely on imperfect fingerprinting whereas Google can probably detect you with more accuracy than a DNA test.
Hey, just for kicks, I did it once more! Here is what they say about core-image-minimal:

> The minimal recipe provides an image with the least number of packages to be a bootable image

Here is what it is building, incomplete list, for install to the target rootfs:

- libx11, libxau, libxcb, libxcrypt, libxdmcp, libxrandr, libxrender, glib-2.0, "gnome-desktop-testing", gperf, openssl, perl, pixman, libsdl2, python3, sqlite3, various xorg-..

This isn't even the freaking desktop image! Also, no, sorry, no more Hob, that is now deprecated in favor of a django webinterface (Toaster).

If you are building a software image for an embedded device and you don't know every package that is going into it and why it is there, you need to stop. Look to the Android AOSP for what it takes - an in-depth understanding of the toolchain, strict choices for compilers and libc (none of this clang-experimental and your choice of uclibc, musl, glibc), stringent standards across the entire body of code you are compiling - no "uh this doesn't compile with PIE and hardening, just hack the CFLAGS". And there are ton more lessons there.
> 90% of cloud services will become meaningless

As will that Epyc XXXX server, absent a well-peered and hardened services mesh for it to plug into.

Cloud shouldn’t be used for just someone else’s computer. It’s not the compute or the storage, it’s the network.
Archery: Will it EVER be the same again?
This short interview was published in 2011. Why not use the correct title: "Documenting the Macintosh – An Interview with Caroline Rose"? I suspect more than a few HN readers know of her.
China makes it a criminal offense to publish fake news without disclosure
You’ve posted three set-promotion links in roughly three minutes, and that is rather spammy.. Wouldn’t it be better to space these out over a day or a few days even?
doesn't the regular firmware update come with an apt upgrade? or am I missing something?
> Would you write code with syntax errors and blame the compiler for not understand how smart you are

No, but you might tolerate example code with mild syntax errors (like using a "..." to skip unrelated material, or skipping import declarations and boilerplate to better clarify the point being made). You don't demand that every example in a programming tutorial be a fully buildable piece of software, why are you demanding that a simpified calculus tutorial exhibit full rigor?
Ex-bioinformatician here :)
I had a very similar idea during my post-doc but gave up as I realized how difficult it was to deal with research groups (labs). They would usually just hire an intern bioinformatician using grant (or extra) money instead of dealing with an external company. I am only talking about Switzerland, I don't know what the situation is in other places. You can check these two companies and maybe reach out to ask some questions:
- https://genexa.ch/
- https://www.fasteris.com/dna/
Good luck!
Say Alphabet and its myriad of ad-supported services, such as Youtube. Instead of serving first-party ads, they would need to serve third-party ads, or charge their users, or a combination of the two (e.g. freemium model).

The facebook conglomerate could similarly be broken into Instagram, Facebook, etc. Each would get a portion of their current ad business unit.

In terms of software, each baby Facebook could get a flexible royalty-free license to all the software currently owned by Facebook, and they would be free to derive from it to differentiate over time.

If there is a will, there is a way.
Mate, what good is a monarchy if the monarch doesn't have any power? It's just a monarchy in name. Following your logic, North Korea is a democracy, because it has the word "democratic" in its official name. This is a crap level of discourse and hence you are getting all the smacktalk. Don't think that you are entitled to people letting your stupid arguments slide. This is not the USSR.

This is why you are cherry picking. The original comment that you are replying to specified "actual monarchies, not figurehead states": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21674965

What's so difficult to understand? Does UK fall under that category? No. Material power is with the parliament and PM. You are disproving your own point, when you bring them in as an argument!

I even gave you a hint. Saudi Arabia might be a stronger argument. Monarchy has power and they have economical clout. I mean, their GDP is only slightly higher than Walmart's annual revenue, but hey - at least you would've had a fighting chance.
I had never seen the word "shibboleth" before reading the article about "The Real Class War" this week, and now I'm seeing it in the title of a submission days later.

It's not spiking in google trends[1], but I wonder if the usage of this word spiking in this community? Or did this twitter user read that article? Or is it just coincidence?

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&q=...
To be fair, that example query is more of a personal assistant kind of question. If I want to know who played in that movie, either I know which site has that information (IMDB) and go there directly, or I search for something like "actors spiderman movie <year>".

If you want DDG to understand natural language queries, I think their privacy policy may need to be adjusted so that our queries can actually be used to develop that, and then they need a boatload of funding to catch up with Google's semi-ethical money-generating practices.
Tracking and targeting are just two possible reasons why people dislike ads. Invasiveness is another one - think popups, popunders, layers, interstitials, pre-/postrolls etc.

So even if they don't do "tracking", injecting ads surely isn't something the average user "signed up for" when downloading the browser.
It's sold off to the highest bidder. Because it isn't technically our data.
OK. Umm? Does it matter?
Hey, everyone is wrong sometimes.

Romney was a designated loser between two "global gov" sponsored candidates. Like Jeb!
> So you're confirming that Google tracks you without using fingerprinting methods?

That's literally the opposite of what s/he just said. The person you're responding asked "How would it know?", implying that they (while being on the Google ads team) think there is no way to know without fingerprinting (or cookies from non-incognito mode).
Thanks for the feedback, if you find something fishy in the requests then that's like a bug and we will gladly fix it ASAP.

Disclaimer: I work at Cliqz.
A consultant on Twitter recently posted how a client got a bill for more than $100,000 because they unwittingly had a multi-AZ Kubernetes setup and moved a ton of data that way.
The US is far less restricted than europe for freedom of speech, the major principle that matters when you're talking about information technology.

In the case of search engine balkanisation (I'd be in favour of it), I'd think that eurosearch would, on average, be more censorious than amerifind.
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What is the corporate abuse here that necessitates a breakup?
EU can just fine Google and use that money as a foundation to build competitors.

Need not to be more complicated than that. It is not like Google is the same darling it once was at home either. The public now has an appetite to go after US big techs not vice versa.

And Google won't have a valid defense against it, unless the US government comes to play
It came pre-installed on the Compaq Aero, a very early notebook format laptop.
Seems like people find a way to game everything. Yesterday I was reading elsewhere about what happens in long term care facilities where patients are kept around for unnecessary procedures until the insurance runs out and which point they are pushed back to the hospital under pretense of some emergency.
If Google were still as well behaved after success, I don't think posts like this would exist.
Isn't that basically just doing signal processing on the Fourier transform, because you know the Fourier series in advance?
requiring video makes no sense
Then stop using the wrong term. Democracy -is- majority rule. It's endlessely parroted by the groups that specialize in nation-breaking.
Don’t use incognito mode, use the tor browser.
Sure, I totally agree. Doesn't change that that's the business Cliqz is trying to build. They're promising to be better on the privacy front than other ad-based products (we'll see how they actually do, I'm somewhat skeptical), not to be "distraction-free" or "non-targeted". That might not be the product you, I or many other people want.
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Yes, in my ideal world, URIs would be a sequence of "steps" to resolving a resource, where each step starts off with a nominal "resolver object" it's working against, and then names a scheme (method) available upon that resolver object, where the rest of that step of the URL are then method parameters to that abstract call, resulting in either another "resolver object", or a fully-resolved resource. The scheme of the final step then determines the protocol for the interaction with the resource.

This is somewhat, but not perfectly, analogous to how 9P mounts work in Plan9. In both models, you start off with your local namespace, which has servers mounted on it like /mnt/web or /mnt/ftp. These are the "schemes" available on the initial resolver object. You then build a path to a virtual file within one of these mountpoints (/net/tcp, say), where that path turns out to point to a resource that describes (in a format another 9P server understands) how to create another mount representing that connection.

The difference between the two models is that, with 9P, you'd have to take this descriptor file and mount it yourself; whereas in my model, you wouldn't see a descriptor file, but rather another already-mounted server, with its own schemes as its root-level exposed virtual directories.

Pretending 9P worked this way, you'd be able to have a namespace path that looks like, e.g.:

/net/tcp/foo.com/80/http/patha/pathb/a=b/c=d

Back in URL land, this kind of path would correspond to a "meta-URL" that looks like e.g.:

tcp:foo.com:80#http:/patha/pathb?a=b&c=d

where the "#" symbol now takes on new significance as a command for the URL resolver, to address the next part of the path to the resolver-object discovered by resolving everything on the meta-URL so far. (Which perfectly subsumes #'s current use, since browsers interpret a # as identifying a particular DOM-tree node within a document—i.e. as using the resource acquired from the previous URL-step as a resolver to find the next object.)

You could do all sorts of crazy things with this, too, like creating URLs that represent files available within archives that exist as HTTP streams, e.g.:

tcp:/foo.com/80#http:/foo/bar.tar#file:/index.html

Or adding DNS or TLS arbitrarily into protocol stacks that weren't designed for them:

ip:/dns/foo.com#tcp#tls#irc:%23room
I want alternatives too - they are good for the consumer.

This article was negative to the point of being unreadable. This is not how you disrupt.
Because they only serve their own systemic survival and we have other systems of power and governance that can do more on top of this.
Note: Crystal doesn’t support native Windows, but they’re steadily getting there https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/5430