skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a DDG user.

Unfortunately it's only a temporary solution.

For one maintaining your own web crawler and index is expensive, DDG is outsourcing that to Bing. They use other sources too, but if Bing shuts down their API tomorrow, DDG will probably die.

DDG's revenue also comes from ads. They might claim that they want to do right by users, but when serving ads the incentive is to optimize those ads to make more money.

Also DDG's work isn't AFAIK open source. But it probably wouldn't help anyway, it's not like you could install a search engine on your own VPS.

I don't think breaking Google is the answer either.

What the US government should do is to introduce privacy laws that disallows user profiling for the purpose of serving ads. The GDPR in the EU is a step in the right direction. The US government should also demand for those ads to be more clearly marked as being ads via color clues.
That's all I was hoping for.
I follow material design, it is very detailed and covers basic concepts very well. Secondly I use other famous website like nomadlist.com for inspiration.
Uh, they said that DDG is improving, and that improvement was enough to get them off Google. They didn't claim DDG was better in every way.
Yes. There are well-funded university and scientific CS departments across the country that could design and maintain such a system, free of these influences as a technology iniative. It’s how the internet was built and where page rank came from originally.
Nah, all the books you need to read about thinking were published in the past year.

I actually happened to read The Goal a few weeks ago, I take you think It’s Not Luck is a worthwhile follow up?
But the majority of people won't change if it's not clearly better, why would they? Also most of this doesn't matter if you are using AdBlock (or whatever) anyway. Of course this isn't ideal. Sure it might work for some using DDG, but it does not for the majority.
Why is the burden of proof is on them, not you?

Prove there are no questions where someone has been treated unfairly.

I posit you cannot.

Person A: I have been treated unfairly.

Person B: I hear this often, but no one ever offers any proof of it; I don’t believe any of these people, and posit that they are all wrong.

You tell me who seems unreasonable here.

I personally have had fights with moderators, and took my complaints to meta because they were behaving inappropriately.

Now, I cannot believe you can honestly say you’ve never seen that, because https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92064/is-there-some..., its a damn FAQ question.

So... say what you will. I support the parent comment; you’re being totally unreasonable.
It's not even ads but either crowdsourced or machine generated "lists of the best" and such. It's nearly impossible to do research on products these days
This chart [1] is awesome reminder of a current state in car design.

Even without Tesla, a change is in dire need.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/coe1mnbupjv8qbe/1_uEe9rvbQB8XM6uYW...
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That's a good idea.

I'd also like to see the ability to re-ask questions after a few years without them being dismissed as duplicates.

There have been a few questions where the answers no longer worked due to being obsolete, and I had to figure out the new solution myself. And in some cases, the answer never worked properly but was accepted as the best known at the time, and I had one that worked. But there was no point posting, because the accepted answer from X years ago dominated, and it was unlikely that a contribution from little me would be noticed.

In fact that's why I never ended up joining SO despite being a heavy user - on each of the occasions I felt I could make a useful contribution, it happened to be a question that was old and "settled", and I felt it wouldn't be worth the effort.
It is frustrating. The vast majority of results point to poorly written ‘best of’ lists with Amazon affiliate links (on pages full of Google ads).

Have fun trying to find real product reviews if the product isn’t sold on Amazon.
I think it depends on the audience.

Personally I don't watch sports because I don't find it very interesting at all. Seriously, I would rather watch paint dry than most sports.

But I would (and sometimes do) watch a few minute highlight clips of someone who is extremely talented just schooling the competition at a professional level. It caters towards a different type of perspective. I don't care who wins or loses or even what sport it is. I just like seeing people excel at their craft, and it's super interesting to see how big of a skill gap there is between a really legendary player and an average player at the pro level.

A sports network will never get a dime from me, I'll never purchase tickets to a game and I would never wear any merchandise related to that player or sport. But in the end, I'm now aware of that player for something positive and I think for something to really take off that general awareness is critical.
While streaming is certainly more convenient, I frequently wish streaming providers would also allow me to download movies in advance on more platforms. Especially for 4k content the bitrate on streaming can be quite limiting. I'd love to be able to download really high quality video in advance. Currently buying a 4k disc or piratebay seem to be the only option.
I always find these kinds of posts motivational. Thanks for sharing!

How long did it take you to build and launch your initial version? How many hours per-week do you spend working on it now?
Apple taught this lesson a few years ago, when iOS 5.1 changed the local storage location: https://phonegap.com/blog/2012/04/18/ios-5-1-and-the-embedde...

But this behavior is within the range of spec compliance: "User agents may, possibly in a manner configured by the user, automatically delete stored data after a period of time." https://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/#privacy https://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/#user-tracking

So these browser storage mechanisms must be considered cache, not primary storage of important data.
Is there anything to "search" anymore ?
> the default opinion among society today (which you yourself are echoing) is just a sort of ignorant relativism - everyone's opinion on art (and anything else that isn't 'practical') has the same value and the topic is fundamentally just a popularity contest.

Have you been to Art Basel or any of the other “important” art events where the “experts” go to opine? The $150k banana taped to the wall? There is an “artwork” in MOMA New York that is literally a giant white wall in which the “artist” shot a BB gun. [1] Much of modern art is a giant MLM scam in which some dealer convinces people that some junkie that dips his penis in paint and touches the tip to a canvas is somehow the next Basquiat. A banana sold at Basel this year for $150k. Then some “performance artist” ate the banana, but then the artist said that it’s ok to replace the banana. What the heck just happened? These are the people who’s opinions on art should be respected? I am a very minor league art collector and sloshing through the liquified excrement of an art show is both hilarious and disheartening: hilarious because people will actually spend $50k on used toilet tissue stapled to a wall if the dealer spins a good enough story, and it’s disheartening because there is some real talent out there that doesn’t have the benefit of professional carnaval barkers or flim-flam men to make them famous.

Art absolutely is a popularity contest and always has been.

[1] https://www.moma.org/collection/works/137436
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The solution I’ve settled on is a paid search engine. Pass the costs on directly and have the customers be the ones actually performing searches. Then the search quality is the product and the companies incentives are focused on preventing other people gaming the system to the detriment of their customers.

But nobody wants to pay for anything on the internet /only-half-kidding
It was in an interview Bill gave a few years back. That story stuck out in my mind but I don’t remember the interviewer.
As I understand it, the voluntary purchase of carbon credits and offsets is already accessible to the public and to small to mid-sized companies, no?

I am fully with you on the importance of acting now on any grounds we can, politically, financially, with business, etcetc, don't get me wrong.

In what way will your business differ from other carbon offset businesses? I google, and I find terrapass. I donate to cotap on a monthly basis. All of these are very accessible, or am I missing something?
When people call for Google to be broken up they're not talking about splitting the search engine in half, they're talking about splitting the search engine from Gmail, YouTube, Maps, and AdWords.
The entire archive of Byte Magazine.

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine
Recently I caught myself using bing.. it felt a tad lighter and slightly different from Google. An intermediate between G and ddg.
I always used NiFi.
What is “getting to the point in North America”??
I don't object that much to a search engine spamming results with ads if they really wish to. What I do object to is them using search to gain market knowledge to discover high margin opportunities and build them into the search engine, promoting them ahead of the 3rd parties.
If Uber/Lyft didn't exist, public transportation in US would still be horrible for a myriad of reasons. I don't know if Uber/Lyft make things worse, but they certainly aren't the root cause.
This is an open source project, where you need to know if you know how to edit/fix/compile it if needed.
A voice actor cannot record an audiobook version of a book without the owner permission. A baseball player can sell a recording of a game of baseball (for the sake of argument, since baseball isn't copyrighted)

A streamer playing a game is much more like a sports professional than an audiobook narrator. For most popular streaming games like LoL, Rocket League, Fortnite, Counter Strike or Hearthstone the game itself is mostly a set of rules and an arena.
I would expect them to ignore the question in that case. That isn't too much to ask in my opinion.
That doesn't make sense to me. How can we say A is inherently more valuable than B if fundamentally A and B are the same thing?
That chart makes me want to start drinking early today. :(
Nuccio Bertone, where have you gone?
I don't disagree with the core point, but I sort of hate click bait more.

It's pretty hyperbolic to call Google results a "full page ad". For example, if I do a Google search for "clickbait", on mobile all I see above the fold is a dictionary definition stub followed by a wikipedia snippet. There is actually no sponsored content at all. Even scrolling doesn't turn up any ads.

And yes, of course, there are other types of searches where the first thing you'll see is shopping results, followed by more sponsored results. And yes I hate it as much as everyone else.

But I don't think it's reasonable to say it's an "ad engine".

The amount of real estate devoted to monetization has been increasingly silly for years. It will no doubt get worse. They do have an effective monopoly. It sucks for the internet that this is the case.

But Google is still an impressive search engine underneath all the monetization. One where a huge part of the mindshare at the company is still devoted to organic search. I don't think HN is a place where you can reasonably hope to get away with claiming otherwise.
> Why wouldn't Google Search, the search engine company, spam search results with ads?

Nothing is stopping them. But they wouldn't have the monopoly on ads to cover them if their results are of bad quality.
Great work on this. There are a lot of hackers here who only do some limited coding and a project like this can be a wonderful inspiration.

There has never been a better time to be an indie maker.
Natural selection supposedly gave us the traits that make us think we're better than cockroaches.
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Interactive Fiction isn't a genre I'm well versed in, but Seedship by John Ayliff stood out to me as particularly effective, and I know that was made with Twine.

http://philome.la/johnayliff/seedship/play
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/11/28/... = http://archive.is/kiq07
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Monopoly on what? Search, or ads?
As I understand it, part of the problem is that this was a ledger-based system - just a really terribly implemented one which gave the sub-postmasters who were liable for any shortfalls terrible visibility into what the transaction history was, why corrections were being made, whether their own staff could be defrauding them, etc.
Maps is a search engine.
>But the bigger point is that the SF government apparently places more weight on minor application mistakes than actual, historical "bad" behavior.

OR, SF used the tiniest technicality to reject because it's easier and immediate than on grounds of previous bad behavior ;)
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I have chosen my words very carefully exactly because I did not want to say that government action against Google is not merited for any reason.

But calling for government action just because people can't be bothered to use a different search engine that is just a click away discredits all valid criticism of Google's dominant market position.
I think this could be true, in the same way that I'm not sure a window air conditioner could ever be Rubenesque.

I find this definition the opposite of pedantic, paying attention to the spirit of the thing rather than the smaller details. Brutalism is not really a style for personal cars, and certainly the entire Elon Musk saga is non-Brutalist as you can get.
>Uber is contributing to traffic jams

Who are you trying to alleviate traffic jams for? Which group of people do you think has a greater right to traffic free car travel?
Insofar as it isn't made out of beton brut, the Cybertruck(Good God How I Hate That Name) can't be called classically Brutalist.

Though I suppose a truck with a steel reinforced poured-concrete chassis is a little beyond even Musk's olympian ambitions.
Some price controls and restrictions on renting out whole domiciles would be nice but the aspect of renting out a portion of an already-occupied space like I used it for is great.
This is super interesting to see.

I try to be open minded about stuff and am always interested in various ways to take care of ones body. But by far the most difficult part of figuring out what to do is that information sources touting benefits are also like.... telling me that this jade bracelet is good for my aura or something.

I mean I’m not a geologist but.... pretty sure there’s not much basis in some of this stuff.

Anyways I try to give the benefit of the doubt to things I don’t know about but a lot of sources make that realllly tough!
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Your point notwithstanding, the big difference to me is this: Classic and Rosetta were hacks with sucky UX. In particular, performance was terrible, in Rosetta because it was a full on CPU emulator, and Classic because it was booting Mac OS 9 in a Virtual Machine. Apps that used Classic also looked visually out of place.

Running 32 bit apps in Mac OS X Mojave is 100% seamless to the user—if it wasn't for Apple's warning dialogues that 32bit was going to be deprecated, most users—even advanced users—would never even know the app was 32 bit.

And that's because 32 bit support is a key feature of the amd64 architecture—it's the main reason most computers today use amd64 instead of the alternate standard proposed by Intel.
Oh, but on the other hand, they keep lots of certain people busy, so they can't do any harm in that time..
Well, you have a right to disagree, but there is absolutely no reason for these camps to be called anything other than concentration camps, since their purpose is to concentrate refugees off-shore in order to deny legal access to them, and to ensure international laws on the subject of refugees do not apply.

You may not like it, but given Australia's history for inspiring tyranny, these concentration camps are a heinous thing for the Australian people to be supporting - in any way.

I live within spitting distance of your 'real' concentration camps - Mauthausen - and I have worked with refugees from the Wests' illegal wars for over a decade now.

I'm very much afraid that calling the Australian camps 'dention centres' is a propaganda effort by the Australian government to ensure its own people have no responsibility for what happens in them. If these camps were on the mainland, Australian civic society would have oversight - and this is a can of worms for which Australians, particularly its war-monger classes, are ill-prepared.
There's some argument that the limitations of this format (compared to open-ended parser games, or the very open-ended AI Dungeon posted here last week) are a benefit. Ian Bogost's piece in the Atlantic a couple of years ago, "Video Games are Better Without Stories" [1] argued that narrative in games can't deliver on its promise--you can't craft a story while also letting the player explore. To my taste, games like Inkle's 80 Days and Heaven's Vault, and Nicky Case's games like the Coming Out Simulator [2], make effective use of the constraints of the medium. They do feel more like literature than games, which might feel overly conservative to folks primarily interested in the phenomenological possibilities of games.

My project, Unfold Studio [3], makes use of the affordances of Inkle's Ink language for teaching CS in the context of students' existing identities and concerns. Here, the limitations of the format are again useful. Students can create small playable worlds in a way that's still manageable and which makes CS concepts rhetorically powerful--they are immediately useful for creating particular experiences for the user. Here's an accessible piece [4] on how this approach could support marginalized youth in developing criticality: understanding and challenging unfair techno-social conditions.

I'm always looking for collaborators!

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/video...
[2] https://ncase.me/cos/
[3] https://unfold.studio
[4] https://chrisproctor.net/publications/proctor_2019_voice.htm...
What a load of snobbery. Anyone who has listened to enough earlier Italian and French composers would understand the derivative nature of Bach.
Quite often I find useful information from blogs or forum posts. I never seem to get the right keywords to find those in search results.

Another super annoying thing is that “filetype:pdf” is full of spam websites with same template, such as “we have <almost exact search term> pdf. Click here!”, while the data sheet I was looking for would be two pages down.

It’s almost like that the content inside the linked results are no longer relevant to what you search for.
> The breakup of the Bell system just resulted in regional monopolies for example.

The breakup resulted in a massive consumer bonanza, as long-distance communications became too cheap to meter. The regional monopolies it failed to address, on the other hand, held back the deployment regional broadband for decades -- and have since used the outsize profits from their lousy monopoly business to eat up many players in competitive markets.

But the imperfection of the breakup isn't an argument for leaving monopolies alone. It's hard to believe that companies like Google would even exist today if AT&T had held their monopoly. What new "Googles" are we missing -- and don't even know we're missing -- because Google subsidized things like Android and YouTube?
Almost no one of note thinks Google search result are bad quality in a market sense. That's why almost everyone chooses to use Google search. People who think Google search is bad are upset that other people like Google search results.
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We have a Netflix subscription, an Amazon Prime subscription, and we occasionally rent movies from the iTunes Store.

But if I want to watch something specific, 50% of the time I still can't get it on any of the stores.

I don't understand why video seems to be so much harder than music? I can legally stream almost any song I can think of from any streaming provider, or I can buy DRM free albums! But for video, the pirate bay is often the only place you can get something.
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DDG doesn't use user profiling to serve ads.
> That is a peculiar way to describe what Brutalism projects

By the express wording of the quote, it doesn't describe what Brutalism projects but what Brutalism was meant to project.
I believe in sharing with community which has been crucial in my overall journey. For the first version it took me 4 weeks to learn VueJS and make a fully working MVP. I have been a full time Indie maker for 3 years now.
Claims to be "browser-based" so I'm going to guess Electron. Also mentions OpenPGP and Belgium HQ for legal protections. Though I'd guess they'll also need to only hire Belgium developers to maintain the claim that they're outside the reach of other governments.
Or break up search into a utility that provides crawling/indexing service, that provides an API to third party search result providers. Similar to how many power companies are split up.

Then DuckDuckGo would have access to rebrand googles search but keep its privacy benefits, while other providers could compete on other search value add.
But isn’t it beautiful and awe inspiring that such an inefficient system has, over thousands of years, managed to produce such amazing technological breakthroughs?

It’s a slog, but changing your perspective can help you understand both the critical part you play in the progress of the human race yet the minisculity of everything that we do. It’s quite fascinating.
I agree completely. That's why I said "to fix this particular issue". There are other situations (including some involving Google) where freedom of choice is indeed severely limited by an oligopolistic market structure.
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What do you mean? Keyboard shortcuts (using ALT + C/V) or something else?