skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I wish browsers would just stop sending a user agent string entirely. I don't think that I've sent an honest one in over a decade.
I am pretty sure HTC's Vive Wireless adapter uses a 60GHz link made by Intel ("WiGig").
Pointing to the amount spent and then declaring it impossible Russia swung the election is an extremely questionable argument coming from a user of this site. User targeting is the X-factor for facebook advertising; no one on this website believes that any X dollars spent on advertising is equivalent to any other X dollars spent. The fact that Russia microtargeted swing voters and voters in key states, and with the help of Cambridge Analytica data crafted messages for specific demographics, must be central to an analysis of whether they swung the election.
Like doing the search that got them to the amp page in the first place in another search engine.
Fortunately in french "Annonce" is longer than "Ad" and doesn't look like a favicon ! Maybe they will change it to "Pub".
The old joke about there being only three numbers in computer science comes to mind. First they blocked none (zero) on the basis of the content, then a site was blocked (one), and now ... well, two isn't "many," but it won't be the last block we see on that basis.
I think you misunderstand how VCs work. If you come to them with a strong idea and evidence that you have built up that it will work and a plan for how to move forward and the right people and you try to get them to take equity they have really no incentive to to say no to you and try to build the thing themselves without you, when it would be so much easier just to help you build it.
You may be confusing 'officially' with 'permanently'

There's a headline on the front page of HN saying that they've officially halted production.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22108220
> such effing rent-seeking

That was also my take-away regarding this idea.

20% cut? For match-making on private music lessons? Fuck that. Our local music store charges less than that for renting an hour in a soundproof room! And the discoverability/match-making "platform" is a free bulletin board next to the restroom...

Also love how that email described the radical act of checking the local music store's bulletin board (or going and asking a friend/coworker/etc. for a recommendation) as "under-the-table neighborhood activity".
Yeah, but it's just not very good. Set the UK tick box and it will still throw a lot of US results into the mix. Adding "UK" and "manchester" or whatever in the search does a much better job than DDG's country specific tick box. Of course even that isn't great as it'll often give a business in manchester NH, pop 100k over the city of 3m just down the motorway. Even with keywords and DDG's tick box set.

It's a minor annoyance that I've got used to, and hasn't persuaded me to go back to Google (I've used DDG as first choice for probably a little over 5 years now).

If DDG can't deliver the goods, !b (bing) is second choice, !mill (Million Short) probably third, then as appropriate, a mix of !azuk (amazon UK), !w, !ox (oxford dictionary) and a mix of others including !g as last resort. !g is so rarely better or helpful that I wonder why I still sometimes bother.

Edit: I think the real problem is with ICANN. .com should have been kept for global or multinational sites, and the USA used .co.us and .us generally for sites of national interest, as France uses .fr, Germany .de and UK .uk etc.
Some members of my extended family own a company (actually a small family of companies) in that category, and of course it's in Swabia.

They are market leaders in some very high-margin things most people never think about, and interestingly they sell a lot in Asia, where one might expect them to be more vulnerable to competition. German Quality is a huge brand worldwide.

I also have a friend in Berlin who's sort of inheriting the family business, manufacturing something so random I always forget what it is. Involves rubber I think. High margins, privately-held family business, etc.

I really think a lot of these companies, if they were in the US, would either go public (the bigger ones) or be sold up to a bigger concern. But in Germany you'd have to pay a really big premium to get your hands on someone's multi-generational family business. As long as there are kids to inherit the factories then that's what they're gonna do.
You click back.

That means you see a second helping of ads.

You still use Google.

From their perspective this is probably working perfectly.
I suspect they’d need to teach those pilots to add a lot of trim. Putting those big engines well ahead of the CoG makes them throw its nose up; it’s basic Newtonian levers.

Not that any plane flies perfectly level at all speeds, which is why they need trim in the first place. But presumably there’s a “sweet spot” which the original 737 was designed to nail in normal flight, which subsequent revisions have moved further and further away from.

At some point you really need an adult in the room to stand up and declare “no more”. But by accounts McDonnell-Douglas already showed all the grown-ups the door. That’s the nice thing about responsibility: just disseminate it enough, and no-one’s to blame.
Of course he would be. He recently talked about his adventures in brazil to the Taibbi&Halper podcast : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K05mVkmF8Bk

I hope he manages to skip out of this cause his kind of reporting is rare.
Bit alarming considering chinese new year is coming up.
One Million Followers by Brendan Kane‎ although not directly related shows similar usage of ad platforms for content testing.
Unfortunately it probably won’t happen until something happens to someone.

Remember Amazons response to the counterfeit eclipse sunglasses? They knew if something serious happened then they would be up a creek on it.

But if someone buys a fake purse or SD card, how much damage is going to happen.

There might be a class action with certain products and I could see damages from SD cards that were defective.
This linked article says this chip was produced to support a standard that didn't catch on. It's not surprising that it's no longer in production if this is true.
I think there's a simple explanation here which is a lot less exciting than you suggest. Namely that Microsoft is pushing Office online to better compete with Google's offerings. Similarly, they're pushing use of a Microsoft account mainly for the convenience this offers to non-technical users with things like synced settings and automatically backed up documents.

They continue to offer options to use a local account for those that want it and I really see no problem with pushing an account as the default option for the majority of users. No one complains that Apple pushes iCloud accounts on people.
I don't really understand halting share trading. Who is the exchange to say who may or may not trade a product you own? It just seems weird. If there's bad news, the people who pay attention most closely, and get access to that information the fastest should be allowed to use it, surely?
> Most people building custom browsers are doing it to do something Chrome would disallow.

Chrome is not, and isn't meant to be, DRM. There are DRM extensions for that, but Chrome (and let's extend this statement to any other whitelisted browser) does not try to limit what you can do to a website. The only restriction I can think of is the common ports thing, but if you want to connect to port 25 (typically for SMTP/email), go ahead and change the about:config setting and you can do it.
The url they're using for the ad is interesting:

www.expedia.com/Expedia/Official_Site

To me (which may well be a minority view) that actually makes it feel less official, because "/Expedia/Official_Site" is the sort of tactic a scammer would use.

I'd worry about it having the unintended consequence of building people's trust in something like "/Official_Site" vs focusing on the domain name. At the very least it's muddying the waters in this respect.
You may not be interested in learning a new DAW, but if you're feeling up to it Bitwig has native Linux support.
This can't only be based on user agents, otherwise it would be pretty useless. I can set my Firefox's user agent to curl if I feel like it, the same way malicious actors would just set the user agent in their scripts / headless browsers etc.
The 737NG is out of production, and Airbus currently has something like a 5 year backlog of A320 orders. The only other direct competitor is the Comac C919. Boeing has already made about 1000 737MAXes. The 737MAX is going to be a significant part of the global airline fleet whether you like it or not. There will be many routes where the 737MAX is the only aircraft flying that route.

I think it's fairly unlikely that there's some other massively dangerous failure mode of the 737MAX, because the fleet has flown enough hours, and the only crashes have been the result of the MCAS. When that's fixed, it's quite possible that there are other gremlins that cause crashes, but they probably will be much less severe/likely than the MCAS problem.
> I don't think a Dow component has ever been halted before, so this is highly unusual.

What do you mean? Stocks get halted all the time especially before big news.
mhm https://i.imgur.com/maJi47G.png
Yesterday, I created a quick browser extension to put URLs back in the search results, and Google rejected it as "spam".

> Your item did not comply with the following section of our Program Policies:
>
> "Spam and Placement in the Store"

There is no spam. It's just a few small JavaScript functions that put the URLs under each search result.

Clearly not spam:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search-engine...

https://github.com/codeselfstudy/search_engine_show_me_urls
In that case, why not request freshly zeroed pages from the operating system?
Deel's Customer Service Fuels Its Growth
I’ve been using DDG for almost three years.

Going back to Google is actually frustrating for me.

Their results are so badly presented and the number of ads so onerous to scroll through...
Make it work, make it right, make it fast [1]. This has helped me tremendously in my programming career and especially in my side projects, where I have very limited time and energy. Its a solid strategy for breaking down complex work.

[1]: https://wiki.c2.com/?MakeItWorkMakeItRightMakeItFast
My latest annoyance, nevermind them showing pages that don't have "quoted" keywords. They rewrite the search query in the textbox and remove the quotes. Just when you thought it couldn't get more annoying.
You kill the idea because it is so expensive, if you cannot easily reach consumers for a small amount of money then the demand side is low. It's cheaper to reach consumers who are willing to click links because they actually need a service.
I was a student in debt at the time. Fortunately this project caught the eye of a fellow HNer and helped me get my first job in the bay area.
Or, people are getting onto HN like they do every day, seeing this thread, and upvoting it of their own volition.

Certainly the case for me.
https://beta.cliqz.com/ is currently available as any other webpage, and will continue to be available in the same way in the future. I think what's being referred to is another search product (search as you type) we have in the Cliqz Browser. I work on these.

The blog referred to: https://0x65.dev/
I am obviously not.
This came up a few weeks ago regarding crypto.

There's a distinct difference between rewriting code WITH a regression suite, and rewriting code WITHOUT a regression suite.

The difference is enormous.

I come from a hardware background where the # of employees looks like this:

lead architects = N employees
microarchitects = 10 * N employees
circuit designers = 10 * 10 * N employees
validation = 10 * 10 * 10 * N employees

It is rough, but true: 10 lead architects can equal 10's of thousands of validation engineers

There's a reason why it is so upside-down: bugs cost a lot more in the hardware world than in software because they are much harder to fix in the wild.

The answer to the question, "Should we rewrite?" is always "maybe", and then requires risk exposure analysis and a robust mitigation plan. You need regression testing and a bug tracking system from day one, but you also need a rollout plan and a response team.

It is not an easy decision for established software. Or rather, it shouldn't be! :)
Neat article. It's definitely a good idea to get actual numbers to estimate total addressable market, CTR, and CPC. However I want to call attention to this bit:

> First off, there are a ton of enabled small businesses competing in this space and I'm not sure there needs to be a middle man. For example, I get 4 ads from businesses in Seattle offering lessons for guitar on Google. Thus, they know how to market and get customers, they are offering free first lessons, and have availability. So I am unsure/doubt there is any real consumer problem.

If your idea doesn't solve real consumer problems, kill it. It doesn't matter if the total market, CPC, and LTV are all amazing, this is sufficient. Even if you succeed, all you'll have done is shuffle some money around. Go make things that actually help people.
We just launched a new blog. It's called Userstand (https://www.heraldhq.com/userstand/), and we aim to chronicle how innovative companies understand their users.

Our first article is a conversation with Deel (YC W19) co-founder Alex Bouaziz] on How Deel's Customer Service Fuels its Growth. Let us know what you think!
I made no reference to 'he'. I asked a rhetorical question about the limits of theft and information.

"He exposed evidence of criminal behavior " - if this is true, it seems the exposition is warranted - but still there are still questions about where the line is between theft and journalism.

Also - I'm not an expert but I'm actually quite doubtful that this was criminal activity that was exposed.

" a judge that was trying to conceal his activities which are subject to public scrutiny via using his personal phone" - this is not criminal in the vast majority of cases.

Richard Nixon had to resign from the presidency for breaking into opposition property to try to get information to 'embarrass them'. Would he have been sanction had he just turned the information over to the press?

There is a legit grey area here: you can't steal stuff just because you might think it's wrong. We make reasonable accommodation when there is actually criminal activity, but it's pretty fuzzy still.
> Take a look at some of the checks Zig has.

I did, to make sure I wasn't missing something. There's nothing new there, and some things are missing. (This is not bad, Zig is still in development, but it's not exactly a new approach either.)

> only C++ and Scala contend to be as complex as Rust or more. ... If you, like me, don't particularly like complex languages, then the complexity has a cost.

This is why I linked our Reddit conversation- Rust is nowhere near as complex as C++, and its particular complexity's costs are not difficulty in reading or code review.

> If you have an alternative to achieving a similar level of correctness with a much simpler language, I would very much prefer that.

But this is exactly my point- I don't believe Zig is such an alternative! Zig and Rust both improve over C and C++'s complexity and readability, leading to some general correctness improvements; so far only Rust does anything different to address memory safety.
Does happiness in your 50s signal the end of ambition?
Also, because there's a whole culture of one-liners in Perl, you can also conveniently import libraries and call them:

Even though there's frequently value in adding whitespace to programs, many of them are just fine as one liners :)

e.g. this gets the title of a webpage for you:
```
$ perl -Mojo -E 'say g("mojolicious.org")->dom->at("title")->text'
```
iOS has been worse for privacy for a very long time. You cannot even develop apps for your own device without telling Apple who you are or download apps without creating an Apple account. You cannot get your location without also sending it to Apple. Android suffers from none of these problems.
Thanks for that useful feedback. I have to admit I probably haven't paid as much attention to the embed option as I should have. I'll take another look at it. Cheers
My solution is connecting via nested VPN chains, working in VMs, and compartmentalizing stuff using multiple personas.

Reputable VPN services do a good job of keeping their IPs off blocklists. Occasionally I'll get blocked, because some jerk has been abusing the VPN server that I'm exiting from. But if it doesn't resolve promptly, I just switch to a different exit server.

So I only use this VM, and this VPN exit, as Mirimir. And given that, I don't go out of my way to prevent tracking. Not enough, anyway, to trigger blocking. Because I don't really care if everything that Mirimir does gets linked. Indeed, I pretty much always use "Mirimir" as my username, or sometimes "Dimi" or whatever.

If I don't want stuff linked, I use a different persona in a different VM, using a different VPN chain. Or that via Tor using Whonix.
Wrong. There were 2 attempts at bringing docker to freebsd:
- Docker tooling on top of jails (what you linked)
- kernel shims in linux-compat (better)

Neither one of them was delivering usable experience.

UnionFS is broken and not recommended to use. ZFS snapshots aren't layers. FreeBSD has loosely coupled tools to make something like docker, but nothing remotely close to full docker is available atm.
> I just think you're assuming these search engines are using way fewer factors than they actually use. It's probably exceptionally easy to tie your search behavior to someone else who's much more like you than "the average", unless you're using a search engine like DDG, Qwant, etc.

I should, then, expect dramatically different results when I use someone else's PC or a public computer. I have not witnessed dramatic differences.
Like someone recommended , https://www.startpage.com/ appears to be a solution. Going to give it a try;
> Today they have as I understand it just ~750 total pilots and engineers on staff to review technical data from the plane manufacturers. The FAA said last year to do it themselves they would need 10,000 more. [5]

Not 10000 more pilots and engineers. 10000 more employees. Now they have "1,300 employees, 745 of whom are pilots, engineers and technical staff who oversee design approvals and production."
> One of my favorite reads is Joel Spolsky's Things You Should Never Do. He wrote this post almost twenty years ago, outlining the downfall of Netscape and others because they spent years rewriting working code.

I've read that piece long ago, and over time my cynicism has ripened. Should I be surprised that the opinion of a former Microsoft employee is that Netscape's downfall was their own fault?
I do the same without the parenthesis.
It will not be lost. Don't only give it a try, but force it to work for you and it will. I changed my process of writing in Roam multiple times, each time it was more optimised for me and weirder to explain for other people. I have GTD system that finally, after years of trying in every other existing software, works exactly like I want. It looks way different than any example of "GTD in Roam" I found so far - those examples could be reimplemented in Dynalist/Workflowy/other outliners - mine can't, it requires these mentions on the bottom and editable block references from other pages in my main dashboard page. But I didn't design it, it created itself. Explore and you will find your own ways. If you like simple lists then create simple lists without any links, that's perfectly fine, you can always change things later. I'm personally doing way less linking than author of that blog post, I don't feel like I'm forced.

You can do there much more than that blog post describe and Roam docs also sucks in explaining what else than writing you can do so it might be a good idea to look for videos in Youtube, Roam dev created some demos and was also interviewed with demo presentations.
Longevity FAQ – Laura Deming
I pay five figures a month for my "$domain" ad. It's not cheap by any means, but we're forced to buy, otherwise our competitors steal our traffic.
There is still more to the story though. When Netscape went under and open sourced their code, they had to rip out all of the proprietary bits. The result? What they had didn't actually run!

It wasn't a question of rewriting working code. It was a question about whether the better path forward was to try to fix what they had and didn't understand, or whether to rewrite into something that they understood.

In other words, Joel set up a straw man argument.
No, it was definitely the Russians. In addition to the clear and definitive attribution by federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies, there was significant work by private industry to support the attribution. For example the phishing email that got Podesta was included in the leak of his inbox, and traced back to phishing infrastructure that had previously (i.e. before the DNC and Podesta hacks happened) been attributed to one of the Russian APTs.
You can check it all you want. That won't change the physics of its dynamically unstable design.
Downvotes for dislike is supported by HN/pg. Their choice of fading out comments, when combined with downvotes-for-opposition is really terrible for a high quality discussion site. Just goes to show the community around a site makes all the difference.
Has someone managed to install and activate a recent version of Office? I managed to install but it never discovered/talked to the KMS server of my uni.
Let's assume this is how Bezos's phone was hacked for a second, does anyone think Trump would do anything about it? Sanction Saudia Arabia? Trump didn't lift a finger after the Jamal Khashoggi killing and his son-in-law is deep in various business dealings with MBS and his goons. Hell, Trump is probably happy the Saudis are hacking the phone of his perceived "enemy".
How (Not) to Read Programming Books
Basecamp Communication Principles, Revisited
Wasn't the ex-CEO also a Boeing engineering lifer?
Shuffling the top 10 results is not fixing the big problem in search for me. I don't care too much whether the company I search for is in first or fourth place. But I'm really irritated when I get pages upon pages of useless results and nothing remotely relevant.
That's... not how that would work.