skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not inconsistent. It’s a matter of POV. Your mortgage is an asset from the bank’s POV, but a liability from your POV.

Expenses come in and cash goes out. Debit expense, credit cash.

From an accountancy POV, the debits of a transaction equal the credits. From a software POV, the account changes total zero. There is a difference in what the word “balance” means.
It even leads to funny situations sometimes : https://twitter.com/mxwllt/status/1225783057917063169
... as impartial as the BBC.
That "pay attention to me" screaming is because of the advertising business model.

I'm not saying it wouldn't happen without advertising. But advertising forces otherwise rational people (e.g. newspaper editors) to do ridiculous things to compete for attention, because attention is money.

And because there are more people screaming for attention, everyone has to scream louder.

...While the people who are supposed to be paying attention find it abhorrent and start deleting their social media accounts and finding ways of paying less attention.

...So the people who need the attention to pay their salaries have to scream louder.

And so it goes around and around, while cities burn and lives are ruined because (as TFA says) nothing gets attention like a controversy that splits the audience into two halves.
A similar thing has been reported in Denmark ("big fall in extremely premature births").

https://www.tvmidtvest.dk/coronavirus/stort-fald-i-ekstremt-...
What's missing from this is an "arms length relationship" - Google is making so much from ads that they're able to swamp entire industries with offhand choices.

I would very much like Google to experiment with new technologies and services (translate, flights, etc.) but I wish they'd spin them out as separate services and have them pay for placement in search results or fight it out for SEO placement.

As it stands they can launch mediocre products that do well as the new products get "free" premium placement.
I good reason to start your own business I guess. Did you consider freelancing?
Yes - reproducing fragments from various texts can look impressive, and could be useful in some applications - like creating comments on HN! (I give it a week before someone says "GPT3 has commented on HN and earned 500 Karma!!!"). But I don't think it can be a reliable problem solver or co-creator.

The fun bit is generalization. Create a pattern that hasn't been read before. Hard with GTP-3 because it's been given everything to read...
That just says to me that the man was in distress, and instead of dealing with that distress, the police officer allowed him to die, possibly further exacerbating the issue. Either way, it does not paint a pretty picture, but I guess we're just more forgiving of someone preventing someone from living vs taking their life.
Work-life balance is great, but not everyone can do keep that balance.

People with weaker willpower will tend to stay on the life side and will procrastinate doing the work.

These are the ones that need the support, but keeping them away from all distractions, and narrowing their attention to just one thing. And they will find that in these jail/camps.
This whole situation seems off. I have quit and been fired in my tech career when taking a strong moral stance against my employers behaviors. To me; this piece was written in an attempt to get his job back. I'd put him closer to the realm of a film critic who only gave the movie one thumb up.
Ye. It is really annoying that verbatim querries still are not quite verbatim. I get a feeling Google search index is just really an aggregate of a couple of 1000s big sites.
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Still, it was a bit like that.
> A trending search in our data for “myocardial infarction” shows how Google has piled up its products at the top. It returned:

- Google’s dictionary definition.

- A “people also ask” box that expanded to answer related questions without leaving the search results page.

- A “knowledge panel,” which is an abridged encyclopedia entry with various links.

- And a “related conditions” carousel leading to various new Google searches for other diseases.

I don't know, I'm conflicted on examples like this. I see the point the article is going for, but I think it's better exemplified by the fact that there's a lot of advertising space taken up at the premium, top of the page on search results.

This example is not Google advertising itself so much as Google changing the features of the search engine itself. It's not emphasizing its own search results over "organic" search results, it's deemphasizing search results altogether in favor of quick, curated answers. Most of the time I can quickly tell what the "organic" source of the direct answer is.

I like that. Is there a way we could get quick curated answers like this without deemphasizing search results? Is that something most people would actually want? I feel a better point of contention is the number of ads, which I care more about.
Can you mention the worst or most deceptive thing they've done?
Is a better wage worth having no family around? I'd rather be in Ohio making decent money with family around than in CA making gobs of money with no one.
Also the process of moving in itself is ressource and cash intensive. Not to talk about the pressure and stress it entails mentally.
Brian Kernighan is using one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9upVbGSBFo?t=01h07m01s
> Sure there are process level sandboxes but that seems like a much larger bug surface area

A process sandbox allows you to pass through syscalls you deem harmless without reimplementing them and only building the bridge API for things that require complex policies. With wasm you need to implement wrappers for everything.

Let's say your wasm module is pure compute and does IPC via shared memory locks. You now at least have to implement the locking API. In the process sandbox case you only whitelist the futex syscall and that's it.

And in practice you'll have to use the process sandbox anyway due to CPU vulnerabilities or bugs in the bridge API.
Hilbert and Courant is BY FAR the best mathematical physics book in existence. No contest. Boas and all the others are good, even very good. H & C beats them by a kiloParsec.
This is the most clearly written article about any topic of accounting that I have ever seen.
I love that "How Far Down Are the Traditional Search Results?" graphic.
Don't forget that even before the Dutch have shown up, there was portuguese missionaries in Japan, that among other things, introduced firearms there, that caught on fairly quickly because how easier it was to manufacture cheap firearms and give them to Ashigaru compared to training a full sword or yari samurai.

In a way, Japanese was ahead of Europe, using mass produced firearms in warfare earlier than Europe did.
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"Moving the camera" vs "Dragging the document"

Many years ago, when I was teachin my mother how to use the computer, I noticed something that I recalled the day Apple introduced the "Natural" Scroll thing.

She was working on a Word document, so I told her that she didn't need to click the scroll bar, but to scroll directly using the mouse wheel. To my surprise, she moved the wheel in the "wrong" direction. And for some seconds she was wondering why the whole thing was "inverted". In that moment I thought that probably we were all taught "incorrectly", and maybe, just maybe, "intuitively" people will think about scrolling on the opposite way, but we ended up learning that it was not correct, adapting our minds to the already established behavior of the mouse wheel.

The truth is. I embraced with happiness the "Natural" scrolling from Apple with the touchpad and the magic mouse on macOS, but also had a hard time getting used to this behavior with a regular mouse. I've been struggling since then, and I still use the "classic" scrolling with my Windows-based PC.
How can you be impartial when it's true
We had 14 days of "war" and 19 killed and 182 wounded (official numbers - if you would took a book about history 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).

But I will not go down that political rabbit hole or classical fallacy that every generation thinks the next generation is worse - no, not everything is better just for the fact that previous generation thinks it is worse.

I do believe that in your country was as you said it (which is imho normal - you lived there). For my country, let me judge myself (as I have lived "there").
Is the process of making smaller scales possible redundant or does it depend on new findings in science that no one anticipated?

I'd really like to know if the fab producers repeat some kind of procedure to create smaller chips or if a new prodigy to make breakthrough findings has to be found every other year to adhere to Moore's Law.
People have tackled this stuff for millennia. By all means focus on the emergent structures, as that's the only way to learn about that structure. If you only study the modern proxies for these structures ("network theory") you miss out on great stuff.

An Aesop's Fable from 2000+ years ago about influence in a network:

"A trumpeter being taken prisoner in a battle, begged hard for quarter. "Spare me, good sirs, I beseech you," said he, "and put me not to death without cause, for I have killed no one myself, nor have I any arms but this trumpet only." "For that very reason," said they who had seized him, "shall you the sooner die, for without the spirit to fight, yourself, you stir up others to warfare and bloodshed."

He who incites strife is worse than he who takes part in it."
I think that this is still reproduction. Try things like 1,A,3,C,5,E,7 or a,1,aa,2,aaa,3,aaaa
I'll have to ask my dad where my Commodore 64 came from in mid 80s Sarajevo.
"I will get mad when those products have better alternatives but it's not the case. Build better alternatives and I'm on board."

How will you find out about the better alternatives? Are you certain there aren't good alternatives to translate, maps, flights, shopping etc? For any language? I know for a fact that google translate is bad for some ideographic languages and as a result there are competing services that companies have started to use instead (DeepL, etc).

If the competition is better, how will you know? Are you going to dedicate time to hunting down alternatives and testing them out when the Google product is the only thing on screen and it works?
That's both tired and inaccurate.

DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google).

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
More information. The iconning brands like Harley or Marlboro are from pre-internet era and heavily relied on freedom image. It was just accepted as an expression of culture. This doesn't really work when wages are not rising with GDP. In other words, people care less about brand and more about utility and price.

It's also a factor that so many companies nowadays see their brand built over decades by previous generations of workers and management as just another resource to suck dry. Shareholders are blinded to this but they ought to be angry, that is the long-term value of their investment being burnt to paper over management's lack of strategic vision.
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True...nice to see that other peoples are in the Bigdata-oracle-thingi too, still i think it's 42.8% ;)
If it is fake then it certainly has been repeated a few places.
Great comment and a great link. One question - what do you mean by "Cayce Pollard / William Gibson “CPU” aesthetic" They're both cyberpunk authors, yes?
> I rarely go to Walmart, but every few years I do in the USA, and it constantly blows my mind. The quantity, price and quality of 'stuff' in there ... you can live extremely well compared to anyone in 1970 just off Walmart.

Of course the companies making all this stuff and owning the retail chains were paying lower and lower wages, so they had to decrease the prices of goods through globalization to remain profitable and pay their C-suites ever increasing returns. That and soak people with usurious credit lines.

Also, I doubt the nice, $400 flat screen TV is going to help much in paying your medical bills or keep you from getting evicted when the pandemic affects your health or your job. The broad, material circumstances of working people have little to do with whether they can own a cheap, good quality blender, but instead their overall tenuousness. There’s little in this regard that indicates that people are better off than in the 1970s.
> playing an important role in building the internet?

which role would that have been? internet was fine before google streamlined the web.

> For most, all the internet they know is thanks to Google

search, youtube and maps were great additions to the web, but i think most ppl here can share the mixed feelings about bringing the masses on the web.
I wouldn't do that in a million years. We need to get rid of this idea that everyone is selfish, greedy and evil and, therefore, criticizing corruption is hypocritical. I really am better than Google executives, and you should strive to be as well.

The way people so casually excuse immoral behaviour, as if we have no obligation to do the right thing, truly sickens me.
Mainstream (and that includes many politicians) still think of it as respiratory. All the other effects are not yet mainstream knowledge.
When I worked at Bing almost 20 years ago, the #1 search term was "Google". So maybe this is reasonable :)

(#2 was "Gogle")
> buying things like CZs, aero precision and Anderson AR10/15 lowers and uppers, etc. Even the canik pistol from turkey is remarkably good quality

A lot of the CZ stuff is made in Turkey, such as their over-under shotguns. I own a couple CZ rifles and they're decent.

Never fired any Savage products but heard good things.
I'm saying that you are wrong given that I worked with data privacy advocacy groups in 3 countries in Europe where one of the researches was exactly to gauge how much the average internet user knows about how their data is collected, used and cross-referenced between multiple parties.

You are building the strawman that because people know about data collection they aren't stupid, I never said they are stupid, I'm saying that the way this data is collected and used is so obfuscated from the general public that it's akin to exploiting a whole populace ignorance as a business model.

> People around the world 100% make the choice to use Facebook with this understanding, it's literally free, and there is no compulsion to use it.

This is patently false, not sure if you like hyperboles or if you are just that ignorant about the knowledge of the rest of the people in the world that doesn't live on Hacker News and breath tech...
- One poll showed only 10% of Americans calling the Floyd death a "Tragic accident." With the majority calling it murder. That's not even close to a perfect scissor.

- I have several cop friends, from a relatively geographically diverse range of the US. All of them say that how Floyd was arrested was at a minimum against procedure, and almost certainly contributory to his death.

- One cop I spoke to pointed out that his training mandated that once a prone subject is handcuffed, their training mandates rolling them onto their side, as being unable to leverage oneself up can restrict breathing, even if nobody's kneeling on you. He also pointed out that kneeling on the neck or back in order to handcuff someone is well within procedure at his department, but continuing after they are restrained is obviously not.
Gunsmiths design and create the guns. Much of the manufacturing is done by machine.
Was on Dynalist, moved to Roam, and jumped to Obsidian without knowing it was the Dynalist team. Still on the transition; Obisdian's focus on document vs outline means I have to shape my notes more towards paragraphs instead of pointers and bullet points. Liking it so far, but still wishing I can have it on web instead of an app; I don't really care about offline capability, I need the backlink capability, and I like having multiple note views. That's most of it.
This is not about good/bad journalism. A great journalist will turn in a fantastic story, get it approved and even on the front page, only to have it get few clicks because it can't compete for attention with the sensationalist crap.

This is about how humans first discovered that, given an infinite amount of reading material, we choose to read things that give us an emotional reaction. Any emotional reaction.
Hi, I'm pretty interested in what you're doing here and have built similar tools for other domains. Ping me to talk offline? --> cinjon@nyu.edu.
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0% loan? I can't even comprehend that living in South Africa
I didn't say they should hand all their manufacturing to TSMC.

Rather, if they have fallen behind on manufacturing (which they have) and decided that they need to access TSMC fabs (which they seem to have) then the priority should be x86 not Ponte Vecchio.

Why? Because whilst they are behind on process some firms have an bigger incentive to switch to ARM (eg Apple). Once they have gone to ARM they are much less likely to come back to Intel x86. If they can keep them away from ARM they have a chance of getting them back if/when they get their manufacturing back on track.
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To be fair, I think pagerank would naturally end up putting those results on top, since gmaps is the mapping service lots of people are linking to - especially if you're linking to a saved route or location, it's going to be a url to the google maps service as a whole that probably boosts its pagerank. It's definitely not a clear-cut "they decided to do this" scenario like the infoboxes and such that the article is complaining about.
A “ballpark guestimate” with four significant digits? (Not to detract from your main point in any way.)
When you have propaganda running 24x7 on TV, you do not get the full picture. Lot of Americans do believe that Trump is doing a good job because the TV says so.
This is somewhat similar to the thread that I shared yesterday but nobody looked at it. Here is the link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23964461
Separating search from content from services from advertising is starting to sound very appealing.
Someone will mention better alternatives here, after all I've been hearing about how ddg blows Google out of the water a couple times every week here for years.
Here's another F-91W mod:

https://github.com/carrotIndustries/pluto
I am constantly trying new things. I just ditched duckduck go for the third time. I'm using firefox since 2 months. I am aware of alternatives. I WANT to ditch Google too but I get value from it atm that I cannot find elsewhere.
That happens if everything goes wrong but you cannot create that situation intentionally. Usually, pushing the emergency button would send an emergency signal, and air traffic control would clear the airport. Landing on top of another plane is an emergency within the emergency - very, very unlikely.
Reading through the tny.ino - is this the normal way to write a BASIC interpreter ? I've always fancied writing one, but was put off by the complexity... but it doesn't actually look that complex!

Oh, nice project btw! Bookmarked.
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> Ventilators aren't really fixing it. The lack of oxygen is probably more about what it does to the blood (than what it does to the lungs).

That's not right. It causes cytokine storms just like any other major repiratory virus. Ventilators do help, lots of people survive on them. They are a critically important piece of the treatment puzzle.

I don't think statements like that are very helpful. It's on the spectrum toward conspiracy nonsense.

> I'm somewhat aghast to see this article talking like we don't already know that detail.

It's not a scientific study, it's a review piece for general readers.
Mono keeps it around given that is how Xamarin iOS works, and also available as option for Xamarin Android (by default it uses JIT).
There's a bit of a problem here because cognitive dissonance is harder to apply to companies, they are not a single mind even if they almost act like it. I doubt the people under the company's umbrella hold the 2 ideas in their head concurrently, they just put aside any moral aspect and let "the company" bear this moral weight, they just have a job to do regardless of personal preference.

Perhaps hypocrisy would be a better term to describe them. They'll say something is bad but they'll do the very same thing depending on how this suits their agenda.
> Doesn't it make sense for them to do that? After offering the search engine for free for ages

Absolutely not. They offered the search engine for free so that advertisers could have a huge platform. Same with Facebook offering its social media platform "for free." It's about the users/eye balls/etc.

Also they've made billions upon billions of dollars in profit from it - how much more do they "deserve" - especially when they are starting to act monopolistic/anti-competitive/stealing competitor IP, ideas, etc
Everything's "based on merit" until merit doesn't line up with the company's interests anymore.

I use google translate and maps and images all the time, so them showing up at the top of the results page isn't inconvenient for me, but sometimes when I use them I get results that are actively bad and I have to go seek out other services. There are probably many cases where I get bad results and am not informed enough to recognize that the results were bad!
True. Though accounting in general is rocket science. You just need to look at the thickness of the accounting standards book [1]. As soon as you are looking at a large group with several levels of consolidation spanning jurisdictions with different accounting standards and doing any operation that is non trivial, the accounting treatment becomes a minefield. Where I work we have a team dedicated at looking at thorny accounting issues. Outside of that team, I don’t think anyone in the organisation (including the financial reporting dept) can pretend to really understand everything.

[1] http://a1.amlimg.com/ODhlOTU0NjZkODUxYWU1OTAwOWUwYjg3YmM0OGV...
Wow! They are losing a genius in Murthy. This is a bear case for Intel.
This is cool! The visualizations could be a little finer, but it's neat to see these trends.
Yeah, exactly. The first or second example in any explanation should be buying a banana that you immediately eat. That way the reader sees that an "account" doesn't have to be a bank account nor even a collection of physical goods that exist, it's just a virtual bucket made to keep track of certain transactions. Until I figured that out, double-entry made no sense at all. This is all exacerbated by the common "Assets = Liabilities + Equity" equation which hides expenses entirely. All of this is, of course, a problem about pedagogy in the quick guides found all over the internet. (Including the one linked to here, though the second example is at least an expense but not in the way that would enlighten a beginner.)
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