skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is both the most dominant it every has been and the most vulnerable it has ever been, at the same time.

From what we've seen with GPT-3, we can train one machine learning model by ingesting the entire scraped web and a whole lot of (online/offline?) books, and it can often produce correct answers to questions. The accuracy of those answers, presuming the questions are not subjective ones, is only going to increase. Google's status, as a search engine, in 2025 is not something I would bet money on.

The iOS/Safari thing is another issue, which perhaps other anti-trust regulators will address in Google's favor. Assuming they do not, consider that if Google stops paying Apple many billions of dollars a year and another company (or Apple) replaces the default iOS search, Google's search ad business will be severely and irreversibly damaged. Removing iOS defaults would not only remove a large chunk of Google's US mobile search traffic, it would be the more affluent chunk. Everyone who knows about marketplace dynamics knows how damaging that would be to Google if that inventory ended up with Microsoft or Facebook.

Even without regulatory intervention (which is almost 100% guaranteed at this point, barring some act of god, though I don't know how large that intervention will be) Google's days atop the mountain are certainly drawing to a close. Perhaps the ground has already given way, they know it, and the maniacal stupidity of trying to coral the web into some AMP graveyard is a reaction of desperation.

To address the original blog post, I think the author is way off the mark on video. Youtube is big, but far from the king. Google has repeatedly flopped on the social side, and isn't going to be allowed to buy TikTok. They don't appear to be taking any ground paid streaming services like Netflix or Amazon. They are big, but no where near as important relative to their dominance in search.
A lot of the referenced analysis makes sense, but this article comes across as pessimistic far beyond what any of the commenters they're quoting said or would endorse. Identifying the political leader with the most power over the American colonies demonstrates significant conceptual understanding, even if that's not quite what "president of the United States" means. And innumeracy isn't "odd for a computer system" - there's no fundamental property of numeracy we'd expect to reach out from the motherboard and make a text-based AI good at math.
Something is certainly wrong at Mozilla. However, the same board and community culture that has led to the current staff is the issue. Were Baker fired the next chief executive would continue the path set by her and her predecessor.
> I know that in practice nobody at AWS reads customer secrets and if someone does, it will be logged somewhere

Can you share how you know this to be true?

I certainly hope it's true, but I have no way of knowing myself.
The search list on eBay provides provenance. The buyer can choose among suppliers as well as products. The eBay list is specific, not generic.
You could do stenography with ordering of function/data sections VS an expected permutation.
A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit [audio]
Apple may be ditching the lightning charging cable for some iPhones by 2021
The requirements aren't as strict for money as they are for civil elections. Financial transactions are frequent, so an error isn't that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things. All parties to a transaction know what everyone did; there's no requirement for strong privacy, so being able to roll things back is an achievable (and desirable) failsafe. Money also solves money problems, so you can insure transactions and mitigate losses.

Elections don't have those properties.
>> Still interesting even if it take a computer the size of the earth.

There are some white mice on Magrathea who hold the IP on this.
Changes to the casing might also change the value's length. E.g. uppercasing the German ß will transform it to SS. Example using JavaScript:

'ß'.toUpperCase(); // returns 'SS'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F
Occasionally you see a gitbook on HN. It is mostly for well... books and educational content.
No, the idea of rental of digital content is artificial and plain ridiculous, as is the idea of dividing the Internet into countries.
Hi cmrdporcupine, you should also disclose that you actually work for Google.
Thank you @verdver.
Yeah, there were some weird bugs about that. I remember one in a media player. Also "info".upper() would be İNFO probably.
Note this is pre-GPT-3. In fact I expect GPT-4 will be where interesting things start happening in NLP.
Longevity – what we know so far
Thank you @rolph
(2018)?
There is more than plenty of compassion in SF and it doesn’t seem to be helping.
SF has no income tax. This is incorrect
`kind` and `k3d` are great but I don't think their aimed at being a developer friendly cluster from what I understand. They both require a lot of tweaking and setup to make them look like their a managed kube cluster (LB, storage, ingresses, etc). I wish there was something that could create a kube cluster that:

1. sets up automatic port forwards to my host system
2. handles ingresses by binding port :80 on my system
3. provisions PVs for you when you create PVCs and respects retention policies
4. Allows you to select from a monitoring stack and only require that you supply configurations for dashboards/alerts that can be 1:1 applicable to production so devs can debug dashboards/alerts locally.

`kind` is targeting itself as being "a real kubernetes implementation"

`k3d` is targeting itself as being Rancher's kubernetes implementation so if you buy into all of the Rancher tooling it'd be a great option.
Also commonly used as vacuum window in X-ray facilities/setups. Probably one of the best ratio mechanical resistance / low absorption over a large energy range.
Yeah, I'd rather have an affordable restaurant with good food instead of a "nice" one with $20 entrees.
I think i’m going to lose: missing Alien Invasion Tomato Monster Mexican Armada and An Asteroid And All Sorts Of Things.
>2) A friend who works for google who is going on a 6 month road trip in a camper van

similar on Peninsula - a neighbor couple, renters, he is at google, went back to their country for 6 month. Upon coming back they're planning to buy a house here.
For me, some of the hardware supported by MicroPython is more powerful that what I had on a desk during my MS-DOS days, so I can easily see using it for certain kinds of applications.

If it was good enough to run Turbo Basic, Quick Basic, Turbo Pascal, Turbo C++, Clipper, it can easily take MicroPython.
i like c |= 0x20; :)
Landlords prefer to give concessions (1-2 months free of rent) rather than lowering the base price. This effectively allows them to increase rent in 12 months by 10+% without issues of rent control legislation.
Thanks -- that makes total sense, all for guaranteed tests.

Though I shudder to imagine the effort that goes into testing a 281 TB database.

Do they purchase all those hard drives and make one enormous RAID concatenated disk set? Or is there a way to more cheaply virtualize that by combining a bunch of max-sized 16 TB AWS EBS instances? What types of errors are even likely to come up at that point -- errors in SQLite's internal logic, or errors in the operating system or drivers?
Show HN: Find the all issues of your websites. Auto-generated tasks by A.I
Has it happened that a "thought experiment" has become a real experiment ever?
much appreciated!
You should spend less time thinking and more time looking because frankly there is a lot of dedicated hardware available. The options are endless.

Perhaps you would like an Elektron Digitakt. You can connect it to your computer and use its VST to display an alternative UI on your computer screen.
I think it must be possible to make the new ddg address for search bar. In Google it is always user-tailored and local search I guess.
Not sure why anyone would choose to live in SF except for geographic-specific opportunities. It's a dirty, overcrowded and high tax pit, and everyone living there that isn't in tech or finance hates you for your success.
No, it was part of their return policy. I explained exactly what happened. The store explained they would contact Toshiba, return it for repair and resell it as refurbished when it was returned. The repairs and damage was covered by Toshiba as far as the store explained to me.

It's just the store as the seller was taking on the responsibility for sealing with this as part of selling Toshiba products and the store and Toshiba are clearly alright with this arrangement.
You Don’t Agree with Karl Popper
Signature verification only really matters if you have several ballots purporting to be from the same person.

Otherwise, they usually don't bother checking the signature.

How do you propose to do user authentication more securely on your phone? Keep in mind that several people may have access to this phone, including spouses and children.
http://archive.is/z69K8
Airlines might be a good example. The back end system doesn't grok lowercase characters at all, so you need to transform data to uppercase A-Z, 0-9 and a few punctuation marks.
But it does point out flaws in the analogy
The "python is performant because you call into C" argument implies that whenever any fundamentally new algorithm is developed you need to do it in C. This is actually gatekeeping things like machine learning to the few that can build and maintain the C code for libraries like TensorFlow.

Python is the ultimate glue code scripting language, but you can't build a performant algorithm without an efficient C implementation underneath. With languages like Nim taking performance seriously, people could build a complete implementation of such algorithms from the ground up.

This doesn't just mean the core implementation would be easier to maintain. There's a huge gap between people who use the python libraries and people who build the efficient code that runs underneath. This clear division between those two worlds is what makes it difficult from people to jump from one side to the other, and that's why I'm calling this gatekeeping.

Not necessarily Nim, but using a performant, simple high level language for this sort of tasks would blur this divide. In practice, this means AI researchers in universities could dive into the code that's actually doing the work, not just play with the toy buttons and levers Google and Amazon left for them to play with.
>If anything, this will improve the live of those who can't move out of big cities.

Look at 70s and 80s New York for what happens when all the affluent people leave a city.
> If we were using a distributed platform it would be impossible.

Distributed platforms don't prevent moderation; they let you choose your moderator (including no moderator at all).
According to the believers it is an unbiased way of predicting whether people are capable for the job. Google has done a lot of tests and these style of interviews predict job performance best [1].

Assuming this is true then to me it means that universities and work experience are too heterogeneous as a measure of job performance.

In my experience that is true. Not sure how well the argument holds up if everyone is simply going to study algorithms though.

[1] clement mihailescu says it on his YT channel somewhere in a vid.
Python3's intentions were good, but the execution was abysmal. It was just a bunch of extra work on top of what should have been a pretty straightforward migration.
Given the historical record, assuming the population remained the same is not even remotely warranted.
I can agree with this. If you find a language that is more approachable and gets stuff done, you should go for it.

(And hopefully get sucked into firmware(I wish we had more firmware-engineers ;-) ))
(I don't agree with the "hate speech" theory and am just trying to explain why someone might, in response to your question.)

1. Maybe there is a large population of "marginal" readers who are the intended target of the $topic advocacy, who don't quite believe it but could be convinced to believe it through evidence in favor of it and/or emotional appeals in favor of it. In that case effective advocacy for $topic aimed at them may convince them to adopt it. This doesn't work on you because you are far removed from the situation culturally or intellectually, so these particular appeals hold no particular interest or persuasive power for you.

2. Maybe there are lots of people who already believe $topic, but if they could become convinced that $topic is now socially stigmatized, they would stop believing in it over time or stop expressing their own support for it. Alternatively, maybe people show currently believe $topic are afraid to express their support but if expressions of support for it become common, they will start to believe it is socially normal or safe to express their support, and they will potentially start to do so themselves.

The second theory is closely related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window in the sense that the people trying to suppress the speech either hope to move $topic out of the Overton window in some community, or hope to prevent others from moving $topic into the Overton window.

I'll refrain from trying to argue against this here, but it seems like a very important controversy in the world today.
Thanks for the feedback!

You're correct; the audience is niche. I felt like this would be perfect for the typical hacker-news reader.

- Its a password manager
- Its anonymous (no account to create)
- It has a negative outlook on social-media and political news
- Its an efficiency "hack" (kills time wasters)

You're correct in that its $1 / password to sign up. The way I'm using it now is I set up time-limits on my iPhone through screen time, then locked myself out of screentime. I've given myself 20 minutes on my phone's browser / day, and can't install apps. This way, I don't have to save a password for twitter, instagram, etc. I can still use them; but after 20 minutes they're blocked.

This cut my usage in half the first week I used it.

If you don't mind, can you elaborate on what you said about "making the time limited option free"?
Aside: Here is a good 'timeline' of a few proposed futures for our universe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

Personally, this is one of my favorite Wikipedia articles. People talk about having a larger perspective, but this page outlines the extreme limits to that.
I honestly don't get where the big deal is with NLP. So far the most useful application has been customer support chatbots and those still don't rise to the level of having an actual human that can understand the intricacies of your special request.
> No, you're missing the point. There is a difference between election fraud (the election itself meddled with by those who administer it) and voter fraud (whereby US or foreign citizens not involved in the administration of the election nevertheless interfere by submitting fraudulent ballots / hacking / etc).

No, I don't think I was "missing the point." I carefully used the word "fraud". Not "electoral fraud". Nor "voter fraud." Specifically, as I did not wish to set up a straw man argument.

Your statement of "the premise that VOTER FRAUD happens or not is highly politicised" is, quite literally, the straw man argument.

First off, fraud, of all forms occurs. Second, the nature of that fraud, who performs it, is who acknowledges it is the issue. Some groups do not believe in voter fraud. Yet, ballot harvesting, which falls clearly under potential fraud, occurs widely in some states, particular those with a strong political leaning in one particular direction. Some groups do not believe in suppression, yet poorly managed elections disenfranchising voters. Again, GA, MI, and others.

Insisting that one or the other doesn't occur is simply factually wrong, there is ample evidence, trivially searchable, that all forms of fraud happen in elections.

The democratic party erroneously thinks one form doesn't happen, and makes arguments like what you made. The republican party doesn't care about the other form, and allows it to happen.

Both parties are at fault here. No one more so than the other.
A Black Marxist scholar wanted to talk about race
You and others here questioning the full veracity of this article says to me the media is crap! All headlines and clickbait that too many people read only such headlines and believe it's the end of the world almost.

Maybe one day the media will be forced to change for the better of society!!! As of now too many people are sheep to it (all sides)... I find local media in my small town city to be much more digestible and better for society.
Pardon my french, but I would call such DBA an "anti-DBA"
speed and simplicity

For tasks that bash is optimized for it can be done quickly and simply. Bash has a MUCH faster startup speed so aliasing some common tasks with a bash function can help your development move a bit quicker. Python can also get comparatively clunky if its just calling shell commands for everything.
I got banned before I even posted anything. I had the account, then the third time I logged in it locked me out because of unspecified suspicious behavior. It was baffling.

Later I tried again with a different account and they wanted a phone number. It was a huge turnoff.

People give Signal heat about wanting a number but they won't even bat an eye at the same behavior from Twitter.

Frustrating to say the least.
Could we be optimistic for a moment?

There's plenty of time left for progress. Imagine if all of the issues raised in the article were addressed and implemented in GPT-4.

Imagine more iterations, all the way up to GPT-42, sometime in your great grandchildren's lifetime.

Q: What is the difference between what GPT-42 might do, and what you might do to answer this question?
I was working on a “startup”/kinda just unemployed for two years. I studied leetcode hard, and got hired into a 300k a year job at FAANG. I know nothing about testing, git, software process, roll outs, dev ops, etc. I barely know how to do software engineering. What an idiotic hiring process.
That is what people tend think, the corporate backers were all the Guido employers, and back in the old days (Python 1.6 and such), Zope was the big reason to use Python.
I have another theory. Which is that people will beat machines and create and pursue things that we can't even imagine at the moment. I am rooting for human creativity over machines' brute incredible strength.

Even if that's not possible, that's what we should strive for
Can this replace nokogiri?
I don't think this is generally true. You can bike right out of San Francisco over the Golden Gate Bridge and be away from the city in minutes. You can walk or bike out of the west side of silicon valley into a huge area of contiguous parkland. If you leave San Jose in the right direction you could hike for days without seeing anyone.
Working at the companies that often ask these questions (FB, Goog, Amazon, MS, Apple) work at scales that many other companies don't. They also develop novel frameworks or work on problems that might interest you.

Example: if you want to work for a cloud service provider you need to jump through these hoops, even though regurgitating Rabin Karp or Tarjan's has little to do with day to day engineering.

Another example: Canonical (Ubuntu) Microsoft (windows) and Apple (OSX) all ask these questions. If you want to have a part in building an OS you will get asked these questions.

Basically if you want to work at "big tech" start grinding and don't stop until you move into management.
Why does it feel ridiculous?
But it might come handy when implementing
- route optimization problems
- Building database query optimization engine

You can argue that not everyone is implementing these from scratch every day. But it could be argued that given an opportunity, an engineer should have the skills and ability to build these systems.
Hey thanks for that. I had no idea that this insight, obvious to any low level curmudgeon, had been codified into a law.

Now kindly stop playing your music so loud and get off my lawn.
It won't matter in presidential elections in the US. It's the electoral college that picks. It's in the constitution. States aren't even required to let the citizens pick -- we vote at our individual states pleasure.
I commented about this above, but the race of various Roman emperors is not as clear as we think due to the cosmopolitan nature of the region, and different (lack of?) racial constructs. I believe Septimus Severus, for example, might have been black.
It's slightly more constrained for performance but maybe Starlark is what you're looking for?
https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark
Three Things to Automate with Python
The person I replied to said nvidia doesn't contribute much to open source. I pointed at their github repositories. If you care about the context, it is there, and there is no risk of me summarizing it unfairly.
I've also been thinking along these lines; last month I built myself this:
https://doug.lon.dev/software/hardware/2020/07/26/guitarix-p...

Although I also plan to run different music apps on it, e.g. sampler or sequencer etc.
Oh, someone has to manually time the movie. They only support about six movies. I expected that it would use closed captioning data, do the sync automatically, and support far more titles.
> It's interesting how in the sciences, we worship at the altar of the almighty Evidence. However, in math, not even evidence is good enough.

An alternate way of looking at that is, math requires you to be explicit about basing your statements on observations: now you have probability theory.
A fair amount of the innumeracy is due to Byte Pair Encoding tokenizer garbling numbers to the point that the network can barely see a consistent represention of them-- it's like talking about how innumerate Romans are at adding their numerals.

I don't have the tokenizer handy right now, but a query like "1003 + 580 =" might be tokenized as 100, 3, space, plus, space, 5, 80, space, equals. Not very easy to learn!
tl;dr: Private is easier/cheaper.

Almost any set of policies and procedures
can be gamed by a motivated set of participants,
and the more information that is exposed by a
moderation process, the easier it becomes to game the process, and the harder/more expensive it becomes
to support a moderated environment, whether by
volunteers or paid staff.

Public activity logs,
detailed policies, and detailed procedures would be
an amazing expression of transparency that would then
immediately become a complicated house of cards requiring
constant maintenance, defense, and review. For volunteers
that is either a huge time-suck or a high threshold.
For paid staff, the same, plus expensive, plus
a target for law-suits.
or maybe just prop 13
Python 3.7.5 (default, Nov 5 2019, 22:30:48)

[Clang 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.12)] on darwin

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
information.

>>> from locale import *

>>> setlocale(LC_ALL, 'tr_TR.UTF-8')

'tr_TR.UTF-8'

>>> 'INFO'.lower()

'info'
>>> '🧘 ️'.lower()

'🧘\u200d️'

>>> exit()

There's something wrong with emojis + lower() though
If you scroll to the bottom of the page on a search query, you'll see a link called "feedback" by settings and help. Submit your report there.

I saw an advertisement for counterfeit currency on Google one time. The scammers weren't even trying to hide it or disguise it as collector money or anything. It verbatim said counterfeit money for sale. It linked to some Weebly page selling fake bills at a discount to face value. I took a screenshot and reported it using the feedback form and someone got in touch with me in about 5 hours and they thanked me and said they took it down.