skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google didn't exist for the first decade of the web. When they came along, their innovation was minor and incremental: slightly more accurate search without paid results (funny how things change).

They then did a version of Hotmail with a worse GUI, but virtually limitless disk space.

Google just poaches talent away from more deserving companies, and puts it to work making their products a little worse every year than they were the year before. I'm not thankful for Google. I'm sad because they stifle progress.
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The US hasn't deindustrialized at all. Industrial production has increased pretty consistently as far back as I can find data.

What has increased in pace, though, is capacity per person, so manufacturing _jobs_ have decreased. It's less of a geopolitical issue and more of a domestic employment issue.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/INDPRO

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CAPB50001SQ
Maverick 88 is cheaper and doesn't have Remington stigma. Fit and finish isn't amazing but I haven't heard anything bad about Mossberg triggers themselves. Mossberg has plastic safeties and plastic trigger guards, though :/
I find Linux.org and Wikipedia. I must be in a helpful search bubble for people who want actual information instead of ads and news.
Kubernetes Horror Stories?
I often see it mentioned in the comments that K8 is unfit for all but the largest orgs, and that the complexity of k8 comes with a very steep price. Interestingly though, I have yet to come across any specific examples or anecdotes. As someone who's considering a k8-based deployment and has consumed a fair deal of k8-related marketing, I'm worried that I might be seeing the upside, but not the downside.

So, HN ... what does it look like when k8 goes wrong? Is it a technical issue? A business issue (e.g. we had to hire a full-time k8 expert)? Both?
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Well, all three are heavily subsidized by the government, so I would argue it is the opposite of the promotion of a free market and deregulation.
It seems a fair assumption - if nothing else, when those wages and benefits rise high enough anyone globally willing to do them could afford a decent immigration lawyer.

This 'Americans are too lazy' narrative is used as justification for suppressing wages below what previous generations of Americans had gotten enshrined in law as fair compensation for a certain level of risk and discomfort.
I've written my own software to automate this with a high end VHS player, but the captures still occur in real-time.

This sounds very interesting - what VHS player are you using, and what is your workflow?

If you don't have a writeup somewhere, would you consider publishing one? I think many people would find it useful and interesting.
Generally speaking, HN posters are not the people who are going to be harmed by anti-competitive behavior or Google filling the first screen of results with their own products. It's ordinary people who use the web.

You could probably argue that ordinary people don't care about quality and they're best served by using the vertically-integrated Google product, though...
> As a customer I'm somewhat happy Intel finally pays for their anticompetitves practices

They already paid for that several times over. AMD only exists today because Intel was forced to license their technology. Intel has been artificially restrained for decades. Competition all over the world has benefitted massively from that.

Now of course people conveniently forget that history and pretend Intel wasn't made to fight with one hand tied behind its back for three decades.

There's nothing quite like watching the tied-down champ get beat, and then watching the crowd gloat about it.

The US did this to itself by crippling Intel. The US always does this to its champions, meanwhile competitor nations do the exact opposite, aggressively promoting and shielding their most valuable companies. Then people wonder golly gee what happened to such and such company, we tied its hands behind its back and it got beat to a bloody pulp, how could that outcome happen. Get up champ, take some more punches.

Anyone think China is going to cripple its strongest companies? South Korea is going to break Samsung into pieces? Taiwan is going to break up TSMC or force it to license its technology to Intel to spur competition? Germany is going to break up its oligopoly auto companies? Of course not, nobody else behaves that way. Meanwhile the US is going after its most powerful tech companies and always does. US competitors laugh their asses off as we make everything easier for them.
That was very cool. My Dad who will be 99 in a month, had a video camera as a teenager (his father was a minister in Iowa, and there was basically no money for things unless my Dad worked for it - as a teenager he made nitroglycerine and blew up tree stumps for farmers; a major profit center for him and paid for a photography hobby).

About 7 years ago my Dad digitized all the video he had, including childhood material of his family in Iowa, my brother and I, family friends, etc. He distilled this all down to two 90 minute videos that my Mom narrated. A huge effort but much appreciated.

I have always appreciated search on Google photos. My daughter and son in law lost all their digital photo assets from a crashed computer and unusable backups. It took me about 10 minutes with my cellphone to restore a lot of pictures for them by doing search on Google photos of just first name for each of our grand kids, then daughter, then son in law, then the name of their old dog. That created 5 photo albums that I shared with them and that they downloaded to multiple devices, etc.

Whenever I take a picture as soon as I am home and on wifi my cellphone uploads new pictures to Google, Apple, Microsoft OneDrive photos. I only rarely backup everything to local USB drives.

I would like a custom system like Dale wrote about. I have almost 7 years of deep learning experience, and I am now retired so there is no real excuse except that I have a silly project RecipeGAN where I am trying to generate recipes and someone who used to work for me challenged me to also generate pictures in addition to an ingredient list.

It is an amazing world when people like the article author (Dale) and I can do stuff like this as a hobby. Awesome, really.
> > Debits come in and credits go out.

> That is the complete opposite of common usage.

Nah, it's exactly the usage you are used to from statements you get.

> When I get a credit on my credit card statement, it means money is coming in to me.

When you get a credit card statement, it's a statement of the portion of your account in the card issuer’s books.

If you were keeping books for the card, they would be mirror images of the bank’s books.
Even the neck kneeling isn't so clearly inexcusable: https://youtu.be/nD9AToZJRz4

In the linked video, Czech police officers demonstrate that neck kneeling is an effective form of restraint that still allows the suspect to breathe.
Unless something has changed, you're left with a bunch of unlinked Markdown notes. Those connections have to be relinked from scratch in whatever program the exportee then chooses. It sounds like Obsidian is offering a bespoke method of recreating these links, is that right?
It could easily read as sarcasm depending on the reader's point of view.
No accounting in the French general high school curriculum. And I can’t see it being introduced (it would be seen as an unacceptable intrusion of capitalism in education).
I thought we were all discussing about going green and using less hardware.

Plenty of languages offer JIT/AOT toolchains while offering scripting language tooling as well.

Besides, my remark also applies to compiled languages when care is not taken for proper algorithms and data structures.
Food is even more inelastic than healthcare, why does it not see the same increase?
I think it is just nostalgia for when the Internet was still young and interesting. Google made it easier and much faster to get to good, useful content. Now, it is just a mess. SEO/SEM folks beat Google. Now, no matter what you search, you either get content directly from Google or one of the thousands (maybe millions?) of content farms hoping to scrape a few pennies from your search.
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You can always find a clever way to get a few people a job.

You can't do that for millions of people.
Congress has battled airlines, banks. Now it’s preparing to clash with Big Tech
Most countries don't have auto industry so the incentive to stimulate car demand is missing for governments.
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I completely understand what you’re saying. This is the result of companies creating bad chatbots. What the chatbot does is telling you “I don’t understand you” and that’s it. That leaves you with a really bad experience. I always say that you must combine your chatbot with a live chat, so that if the chatbot doesn’t understand you, a human can always take over.
I assure you such & worse also exists in my home country. It's true that the German speaking countries still have a lot of issues, but it's also true that it's much worse in the more economically right-wing countries.
See also: https://demo.f4map.com/#lat=40.7113593&lon=-74.0034646&zoom=...
> Search is essential infrastructure for the internet

Agree 100%

> and should not be monopolized

There's an argument to be made that search is a case of natural monopoly. Today, google's success doesn't stem from PageRank. It's stems from Learning to Rank algorithms. Every time you click a hit, Google learns something. If you started distributing search traffic amongst a competitive market, no one provider would get the same training data Google gets today. The more competitive the market, the thinner each competitor's training data is - and consequently, the worse their product will be. To illustrate, think about how much better google is than DDG/Bing, and then how much better DDG/Bing is than whatever is third. (Apparently the third best is sufficiently bad that neither you nor I know what it is.)

Since Google is A) pretty far ahead of everyone else in this space and B) extremely secretive about search, it's really difficult to discern how much of their success comes from "more data" and how much comes from "better algos."

> The problem is not Google, its the lack of good alternatives, only DDG really.

My understanding is that a lot of DDG's value comes from using Bing. It's not a pure re-skin, but it aggregates results from multiple search engines and Bing is the biggest. (I'm not a DDG expert so please correct me if I'm getting it wrong here.)

The problem is that Bing is good for the same reasons as Google: they are the second biggest in a winner-takes-most market. They get lots of data (though not enough to be as good as Google), and presumably do all the same things for which people dislike Google.

So in short, maybe regulation is a more realistic goal than competition? I don't actually know where I stand here. I'm sure their are people here who disagree fiercely with everything I'm suggesting. I'd be grateful to hear their counterarguments.
> This example is not Google advertising itself so much as Google changing the features of the search engine itself.

What it is an example of in my view is Google increasingly attemnpting to keep you on its site by scraping the information from other sites and displaying it.

Originally Google scraped the sites solely to build a better search index.
>(among pre-steroid era players).

I find this unfair to Barry Bonds.

Yes, he was an asshole. Yes, he took steroids. But this idea that he suddenly became good (or that steroids make anyone "good" in baseball) goes too far. It certainly allowed him to stretch his career out, but as a guy who grew up cheering for Bonds since he was a young man playing for the Pirates, who wouldn't want that?

My point here is to have a look at some of his career in earnest. He was always a fantastic ball player (led the league in OPS from 1990-1994). His 28-year-old campaign in 1993 was one for the ages, long before the steroid controversies. But his record-setting seasons are video game level. He was intentionally walked 120 times in 2004!

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bondsba01.shtml

There is no way he should be left out of greatest-ever conversations.
The definition of "search" or what it means to type something into the google search input field has changed over time, and that's probably the root of this.

It used to mean "show me web pages related to this input string", and some of those search results were sponsored (ads). Now it's interpreted more as "inform me about this input string" or "please help me with this", like a Siri or Google Assistant (though not necessarily in natural language).

When you view it as a "please assist me" query it makes sense to introduce things like answerboxes, related queries, embedded images or translations, etc. But that is VERY MUCH not "search" anymore.

It's quite possible that most people using a search engine actually want an Assistant, so google's new behavior is ideal for them. But where do you go when you actually want a search engine? You see people complain that over time Google has become worse as a search engine - using it to search for programming topics is definitely worse than it used to be, and its search results in general are often full of astroturfed pinterest or stackoverflow pages.
Self-promotion, but our company Greywing (https://grey-wing.com) automates Covid-19 assessments and crew changes for maritime.

Over a million seafarers are still stuck on vessels around the world as governments refuse to let them in, and we're trying our best to bridge the gap with software.
>We had 14 days of "war" and 19 killed and 182 wounded

You can't praise Yugoslavia, and then fall back on Slovenia when Yugoslav failures are mentioned.

>you would quite quickly figure out the war in Bosnia and Croatia was not due to change of system but due to cultural burden that was piling up for centuries

Both are true. I think there is universal agreement that Tito's death set up the conditions for the eventual civil war. And yes, it is also no coincidence that the civil war was along ethno-nationalistic lines.

>For my country, let me judge myself (as I have lived "there").

That's fair, but I'm not sure if anything I mentioned was actually untrue or even controversial .. even if I didn't grow up in Yugoslavia.
So, requiring two adult humans in a single household to work to be able to live comfortably, whereas before required only one, that is progress?
> If we have one mode with a simple and high-density instruction set similar to Hitachi's SH4 / ARM's Thumb2, along with a VLIW mode (similar to switching between Thumb2 and regular ARM), and some hardware support for tracing and dynamic recompilation (including reservoir sampling of instructions causing pipeline stalls), we might get decent performance and code density, while being able to move all of the speculation into the dynamic recompilation layer.

Trading hardware complexity for software complexity is not the right strategy to combat sidechannels. They just reappear up the stack.

Any speculative optimization that depends on program values can potentially leak information through timing.
These bills did almost nothing for working Americans, though. They were overwhelmingly just payouts to corporations and some to small business owners.
| If you don’t know the motives, judge by the results.

I like this phrase - can you expand on what it means?
an image search for 'lemon party' is a good test.
As a landlord, I'm sure some of our tenants _feel_ like they might get evicted, but the reality is that we aren't processing almost any evictions at the moment. We have to maintain the same tough processes (threatening letters, late fees, etc) on rent collection because we have no way of knowing who can/can't afford it right now.
Ddg is acceptable but it doesn’t blow Google out of the water at all.

It’s miles ahead for me because of tracking etc, but I can’t see how anyone could think the actual search results are better
How would you bootstrap such a company?

The solution as I see it is to forcefully break-up Google, such that these services can have their run as independent companies (Maps, flight search, product price comparison, etc.). This has been done before with big companies (e.g. break of Bell Systems into 7 companies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System)
Couldn't you make the same argument for basically every retracted paper?

What do you think about this retraction?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831678/

Much like "free speech", the specific things it's used to support and not support is often more revealing than the claimed position itself.
100% agreement. With a kernel design like SeL4 there is no need for crazy sandboxing environments. It prevents you from accessing external resources by default. And it is probably as close as we can feasibly get to an operating system that is impossible to maliciously root.
That's how I cut up bell peppers into the right sizes. They're either 4 loved or 3, so cutting them into 3 or 4 equal sized piles is a challenge
I am excited to see this addition to GitHub, as git's own interface is ideal for only a single, current repository, the OpenAPI makes the vast sea of various repos scriptable.
I intend to analyze repos for similarity metrics.
New edition of Arfken, Weber and Harris is great!
Not much for you, quite allot for others.

>Remember <$1 in change would buy

A meal for 80% of the world population, additionally you trow perfect medal away...you know that stuff that could be recycled, really shame on You.
DeepL is better than google translate.
Is there any way to auto download the lot? I keep getting capatchad on each download link.
The lack of desirability of roofing jobs is not an excuse to abuse undocumented immigrants.

If you pay roofers enough and make the job site as safe as possible they’ll do the job. But these companies would prefer to get easy, subservient labor with minimal safety equipment who can’t complain because they’ll get deported.

Artificially underpaying entire industries by turning a blind eye to labor laws or making up industry-specific below market value rules (like agricultural migrant labor visa programs) isn’t really a solution to the problem, in my opinion.

If every undocumented roofer was given a social security card and permission to work, they’d wonder why they’re risking their life on a roof when they’d get better pay, benefits, job security, and guaranteed retirement driving a bus for the city.
I think you're overselling your point here. if I search "maps" in google, the google product is the first hit, but several major alternatives are right under it on the first page of results. FWIW, DeepL is also on the first page for "translate".

I don't actually want to discover new products by finding their homepages in my search results. when I am looking for something new, I want to read a review in a publication I trust or at least a discussion among real humans in a forum.
> Modern society is highly efficient, but also highly susceptible to disruption.

That's something my wife & I have been discussing recently. She pointed out that traditional family structures have more slack built into them, which comes in handy in times of trouble. The problem is that in the modern Taylorist world we treat slack as waste. But it really isn't, any more than insurance is waste.
Your checking account is a liability from the bank’s POV.

Your credit card account is an asset from Visa’s POV. And a liability from your POV.

When Visa refunds that fee, it reduces their asset. And on your books, it reduces your liability.

A debit on your books is a credit on the counterparty’s books. A plus on your books is a minus on the counterparty’s books.
Thank you for the comment.

>>In a certain, Cayce Pollard / William Gibson “CPU” aesthetic, there is cachet and delight in signalling contextlessness - and a small cult has grown around these objects. They collectively call objects that share this anonymous property “monoblocs“ for short

Do you have more information on this ? Searching for monoblocs doesn't turn up anything useful apart from the monobloc chair.
It's such a shame that he stopped writing about culture - he was really the only one I've ever read who could.
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His words

>Leninist doctrine holds that a vanguard Party should assume state power and drive the population to economic development, and, by some miracle that is unexplained, to freedom and justice. It is an ideology that naturally appeals greatly to the radical intelligentsia, to whom it affords a justification for their role as state managers. I can't see any reason -- either in logic or history -- to take it seriously. Libertarian socialism (including a substantial mainstream of Marxism) dismissed all of this with contempt, quite rightly

https://web.archive.org/web/20070205081148/http://www.zmag.o...

As I've said, Chomsky's defense of Cambodia was based on a distrust of the US controlled sources.
Despite the uncertainty, just that the current pandemic can drive a country so extremely wealthy as the US to a point where such a humanitarian crisis on US soil is a somewhat realistic possibility, it's crazy. 11 million households, what a number.

After all, in the larger context, this pandemic is pretty benign among disasters of that magnitude. History is riddled with cataclysms – decades-long droughts over whole continents? Been there, bought the studded leather shirt, got murdered by Mongols. The Black Death, Mount Tambora, a Carrington Event in modern times, Tunguska (but larger), ... This sort of thing has happened lots and lots of times and will happen again.

If anything, our recent past has been extraordinarily calm. If it turns out the US government can't keep, something like a tenth of the population? in secure housing during this, good luck with climate change, good luck with the next big one that maybe won't be so benign. This is deeply disconcerting.
Alternatives don't matter when distribution channels are controlled and locked in. Google controls 70% browser market share on PC(https://tinyurl.com/yxwjwnv7) and 64% mobile browser market share(https://tinyurl.com/y4uufb9d). But I think Google's problem is not dominant market position but slow pace of service quality improvement. Searching on Google 10 years ago and today feels way too similar and not much improved in terms of quality and UX.
Larry and Sergey said from the very beginning we needed a search engine in the academic realm because ads present an inherent conflict of interest.

It's right here! http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html This was who they were and what they believed! Check out Appendix A, it's entirely about the mixed motivation of funding a search engine with ads.

Yet not only did they make an ad company that has a search engine, they increasingly made their ads less distinguishable from organic results over time. Big highlighted yellow boxes have become search results with a tiny Ad marker hidden in the paragraph. Because deceiving people into clicking on ads is more profitable than getting them to the best organic result.

When DoubleClick was bought they promised they'd keep the data separate to get the acquisition approved. Once it happened, they merged the data. Now they're saying the same about your Fitbit data...

Yes, the entire concept of Google is against Larry and Sergey's original paper on the matter. They sold out, and college Larry and Sergey would be ashamed of their present day counterparts.