skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Metres, obviously. Miles and minutes have different acronyms.
This sounds like a great way to reduce my Starcraft 2 ladder anxiety! I was thinking of giving up my 2 pylon before gateway build, but maybe with this I can push though.
Ignoring reasons why I try to avoid Google, the following has worked well for me:

Mail - FastMail (spam detection not great but still works)

Search - StartPage (still google but proxied since DDG results are inferior in my experience)

Browser - Firefox (syncs to all my devices)

Maps - keyworded bookmark on Firefox to go to DDG maps powered by Apple Maps. Otherwise on phone it’s Apple Maps

Storage - Dropbox

Docs - local files synchronized to Dropbox

Last remaining service: YouTube. I’d love for the content providers I consume from to start posting on other platforms but that’s just not the case. For that, I use a google account for just YouTube.
> and something that I didn't think would be possible before the app stores came along

Isn't that more a result of mobile devices opening up a new market? I agree the app stores made a lot of difference initially when they provided a lot of visibility (ie: free advertising) to small developers, but those days are over aren't they?
> selfhosting surely is the superior solution.

You go on to partly refute this, but not strongly enough. Self-hosting is clearly inferior in major objective measures: availability, durability, and security. Unless you spend all of your time managing your personal storage solution, self-hosting will be far inferior in these respects, and probably also in cost if a true accounting of time is included.
Something strikes me as out of place with this kind of post. On one hand, I want to encourage people to write posts about common concepts, but on the other hand, this is a fairly commonly written about concept, posted by the author, on a site with significant numbers of ads. I guess this seems like some people might have started to use HN as a way to click farm or something.
I could never be sure if Dvorak was actually serious or just always writing stuff that was purposely inflammatory to get a reaction. Basically the print/magazine version of clickbait before that word was even invented.
Once you stop trying to shove DRM into everything, maybe people will pirate less.
> I am struck by how irregular and slow cellular reception is, even in major cities (I’ve been in Paris, Frankfurt, Munich, Milan, Zurich in the past year)

Are you using an American phone? For Europe you'll ideally want something that supports bands 1, 3, 7 and 20; not all phones sold in the US necessarily will. Also, were you roaming? Some telcos will send all roaming traffic back to the home country (though this is no longer strictly necessary with LTE); this can indeed be pretty slow.

FWIW (using a European phone, on a network that does roaming sensibly), I've found LTE in Paris to be pretty good, and LTE in Germany to be a bit meh. And _awful_ in San Francisco (I'm not sure if it was a band issue, or if AT&T, who my network roams with, is just terrible).
It seems to have become more presumptively and pejoratively used as the term became popularized by the news. Anecdotally, I’ve overheard it used in a “gross, he must be an incel” sense a couple of times this year, and never before then. I think that usage is really unfair to the targets as the term now means much more than just “unable to get laid.”
... So many things wrong with this comparison.

(a). WSL is just a Linux VM. You can do this on any desktop OS. If you're not using WSL, you can even do it with multiple hypervisors at once if you so wish.

(b). macOS isn't, and has never tried to be, "Linux". It's POSIX.
Anecdata: I don’t know how to implement a hash table, but I know how to use them. Not everyone here has a CS education background.
No they are not. Uber deliberately plays games with Non-GAAP reporting ("look how profitable we are if you ignore pesky things like interest, depreciation, and stock compensation") and shuffles losses away from Rides (to Tech) to show a net profit when there is none. Any standard accounting look at their balance sheet shows them losing money.
I linked this and have read it. Where exactly does it preclude apps from charging differential pricing on subscriptions?
We all understand that it's an absurd fiction, right?

The story reads like a tired fan fiction. Bizarre seeing this nonsense upvoted on here. It is a Saturday evening so I guess that's why.
I'm aware that Capital One was found guilty of not properly securing customer information when they started moving it to "the cloud" (AWS). I'm also aware that the person who orchestrated the data breach, by exploiting the bank's AWS (mis)configuration, had been hired by Amazon as a developer. Maybe the bank's IT staff created "cloud custodian" after the incident.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/capital-one-fined-80-milli...
> It’s the last truly developer friendly platform.

Right because no one ever complained about browser inconsistencies, the inherent limitations of a browser runtime, etc.
Kudos

absolutely great to see you do this

I moved off Google after they started doing some strange things with our adwords accounts

Anyways

Agree with you on this -> The only google service that is really relevant and hard to replace is YouTube.

Google's earnings from ads went down last quarter. First quarter that has ever happened

They are definitely at risk of becoming Yahoo 2.0. The only thing is the immense amount of spying on the world and American citizens they provide to Intelligence agencies. They will stay relevant/be too big to fail because of that

Search -> Use Bing, then DuckDuck Go, and if still not good results, then Google

Admittedly Google Search is still ahead of everyone

Browser - never touched Chrome. Use Epic and Edge. Mobile use UC Browser (possibly even worse for privacy than Google, owned by Tencent), and on iOS use Safari

Never used gmail so avoided that entirely. Use outlook, however, it is pretty bad. USe internal email server for work. Rainloop. Don't recommend that either

avoid all google services as mucha s possible

Trying to find an alternative to Android. Have an Apple iPhone, however, also wants a non Apple alternative to play Android Games
They’ve been posting weekly development updates. Here’s one from last week that has a roadmap based on feedback from the beta - https://www.flightsimulator.com/august-13th-2020-development.... It definitely seems this will be more of a service model.
Thanks, I've been running it for a year.

I have detailed, why I created it here[1]. Experience has been great, I has got me valuable insight in using language/grammar to differentiate problems vs startup ideas and issues in doing that. What I have learnt so far is that, It's easier to think what we come up with is a 'startup idea' than 'identifying a problem/need gap'.

I'll be improving it in the coming years to study more on the topic.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23939514
That's very interesting. It's fascinating to realize just how much of a "wake" there is behind people society deems successful. I watched a great speech by Arnold Schwarzenegger recently, where he said something like "the biggest insult someone could give me would be to say that I am a self-made man. I've worked hard, but I'm not self-made. I'm only here because of the people who helped me get here.

I wonder what Bezos thinks of himself. Does he envision himself as a self-made man, or does he see his success as the result of the hard work of many thousands or millions of people?

I'm inclined to say the former, especially given his treatment of the Amazon workforce, as you laid out in your public statements. I would love to hear more of your story, and I'll look for any documentaries with you. Thanks for your answer :).
Crawling Google Search Results – Part 2: Crawling Video
It's pretty common for major roadways to have coverage but for that to disappear once you're off them.
It's not voting by mail in and of itself that is the problem.

It is the willful dismantling of postal processing machinery to slow and reduce the throughput of the postal system, thereby threatening vote-by-mail ballots to be not delivered on time and possibly lost.

The timing and overall effect stink of corruption and voter suppression.
California is the 5th largest economy in the world. There is no way Uber and Lyft will just leave that market. These are the emptiest of threats.

Uber and Lyft’s board would absolutely loose their mind if executive leadership decided to just exit, once again, the 5th largest economy in the world
Apologies for not seeing this.

I have added it. It got removed for adding to the build time. Never really found many issues, so I couldn't argue to keep it. Did point out that the argument was essentially against testing.
IMO a better thing to focus on in Python would be how heavily optimized the Python dict implementation is, as compared with other hash table implementations out there. There used to be a good article online by Tim Peters about this, but I haven't been able to find it.
The Weimar Republic suffered a radicaly contracting money supply after 1929, which lead to deflation and depression:

https://www.businessinsider.com/weimar-germany-was-destroyed...

I think you might be thinking of the hyperinflation of 1923? That's when Germany printed money to pay off war debts. But the hyperinflation was over long before 1929.
And then show you ads when you look at them.
At this point Tesla sells more stock than cars.
I don't think we can actually say what "the market" says since the market hasn't seen what a long-term cost basis and experience is for ridesharing that's both profitable and adheres to local regulations. Of course people want artificially cheap things, but that's not really a good start for determining what the market is actually willing to bear.
Salaries are much higher in the US. Don’t reduce complex economics to simplistic sound bites.

Look up PPP.
What was your replacement for YouTube?
dtube is an interesting alternative to youtube. It's a youtube clone built on ipfs. The only problem it doesn't have the same amount of content as youtube - nobody does.
Looking through some of the AngelScript samples, they look reasonable. eg:

https://github.com/arnholm/angelcad-samples/blob/master/rect...

https://github.com/arnholm/angelcad-samples/blob/master/poly...

That being said, those are clearly "toy" level of complexity and I haven't tried it out.
46% https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...
Tesla fights back against owners hacking their cars to unlock performance boost
Sure. Still requires fuel that's a bigger problem/barrier than the design.
How big gatherings spread Covid-19: German scientists stage experiment
You can use a pejorative if you want, but context is quality. Context-free searching is dumb and the results are bad. An example: if I search for "2020 Honda Insight EX" on Google, I see some mixed bag of stuff about my car. If I then search for "tires" -- no other terms, just tires -- Google shows me shopping results for 195 50/16 car tires, the right size for my car. There are important inputs to my search result that I didn't have to type.

Now go to DDG and search for "tires". Useless results only. All advertisements and commercial results, but nothing relevant to me. "Getting out of my filter bubble" did not help me in this use case.
We probably agree.

My guess is that he really knows how much radiation is received by a big block of Hydrogen ice in the middle of space, but I always feel that his opinion about other explanations are biased. I think it's a good submission, but I'd be cautious.
Moral police alert!! Care to expand on your condemnation of the company? Or is this just a random “big companies are evil” kind of negative comment?
I find the group think here to be incredible, and you all will likely be very disappointed when the legal system winds up supporting Apple.

Regulating retailers because you don’t like their cut is price controls, which is completely contrary to a free market, and ultimately undermines the end user experience of having a trusted, secure store. Perhaps Google or Apple’s power is so strong as to warrant regulation - but It must be applied fairly, or else it’s just politically corrupt wielding of power against a successful corporation because a part of the supply chain wants a bigger share of the pie.

Apple’s behavior is not anti-competitive by any historical measure, as the courts will show when Epic loses both their Google and Apple cases.

Antitrust law is always political. Do you really think the Trump or even Biden administrations will punish their most successful company, given the other problems in the economy? Convince them this will lead to more growth and you’ll get your wish. Right now it just seems like grousing.

Edit: I could see Europe doing something more intrusive, as is their tendency. However I still think it would have to be legislative and not legal, the arguments are too weak.
Why?

At least they aren't yet another subscription company ever. Let the kids have their toys.
Besides story, facial animations, graphics and some of the physics engine in TLOU2 was mind blowing.
The US actually had many more and much better nuclear weapons and delivery systems, but they thought the soviets were much further along than they really were.
"We need to make the ultimate unboxing toy." from the article certainly makes that worse too.
Chrome is shoved down grandma's throat. She probably doesn't know much other than it's the "Google Internet thing". It's the default on Android and Google.com nags you to install it.

This is worrying given that Google cripples the browser and web standards to favor its own search engine and advertising platform.

Killed the semantic web and semantic markup? Check.

Disabled APIs for blocking ads? Check.

Use Google.com as the default search? Yep.

Embrace and extend the web with AMP and instant apps? Bingo.

Auto log into your Google session or nag until users permit it? Absolutely.

Trying to destroy the notion of a URL? I thought those were cool.

Google is destroying the web and is about as anti-competitive as they come.
It isn't done in Europe. Some OSEA countries think it makes you look poor as well.

I do it every outing here in the US, though! Our portion sizes are ridiculous.
So not the best article and advocates for md5? Also full of ads. Why is this getting traction?
The moment you have your data in the hand of a cloud based service, it's no longer under your control. isn't it?
macOS is UNIX too (Linux isn’t). https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
> On one hand, it's super annoying whenever Apple rejects an update for some arbitrary reason. But on the other hand, making a living by writing and selling my own apps has been a dream of mine pretty much forever -- and something that I didn't think would be possible before the app stores came along.

I wonder how many apps actually are ramen-profitable on the App store. I often think that the dream of becoming rich (or even making a living) through the App store is just a myth perpetuated by Apple to attract developers; and nonsense from a statistical point of view. Do we have any numbers?
On my FF I'm getting this:

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to searx.xyz. The OCSP response contains out-of-date information.

Error code: SEC_ERROR_OCSP_OLD_RESPONSE

This instance worked however: https://searx.dojocasts.com/
Which you will either A. block with uBlock Origin, etc. or B. not be bothered by if you choose not to use an ad blocker

This isn't the worst imaginable outcome, especially weighed against losing access the the resources altogether.
Yes, but you are clearly cherrypicking data.

1Gb of internet in Australia ($0.68) is fantastic value compared to 1Gb of internet in Canada ($12.55). Australia's mobile data network is competitive on quality, and is amongst the fastest in the world.
You don't get to choose if you're a developer. For mobile apps a prerequisite for success is to have an app for both Android (via the Play Store) and iOS. With iOS you're forced to deal with Apple. With Android you're forced to deal with Google.

Yeah, you can opt to target only one of them, but you're (usually) going to get out competed by a company that targets both.
I love the idea of searx. And ran a searx instance for a bit. Overall good idea. Slow search execution.
Keep in mind Uber operates in almost a thousand cities worldwide. Of course certain places will earn Uber more than others, but it’s not a huge hit to their revenue.

The real threat, as I see it, is other states enacting similar laws that will have a domino effect.
The Weimar Republic known for dramatic hyperinflation.

Even if you google "weimar republic _deflation_" emphasis mine, the first hit is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar...

> A loaf of bread in Berlin that cost around 160 Marks at the end of 1922 cost 200,000,000,000 Marks by late 1923.

I was not previously familiar with the events you referenced. It sure seems like the Chancellor made very poor choices when the Great Depression began, perhaps because he was terrified of inflation happening again.
Wow, the Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation is amazing.

It's what science used to be in the golden age in the West.

https://rosatom.ru/en/

http://rosatomnewsletter.com/

https://twitter.com/RosatomGlobal

https://www.facebook.com/rosatom.global/

Maybe scientists need to defect to get work done?

How exactly does a nuclear icebreaker work ️? We thought you'd never ask.
https://rosatom.ru/en/rosatom-group/the-nuclear-icebreaker-f...
Seems possible. If the user is actually looking at the center of the screen then we only need to shift the view, not digitally move their eyes. That seems very doable with some GPU code.
And then they get bored of the project and delete everything.
Those that impose software barriers to utilization of purchased hardware are doomed to people doing what people who paid good money for something do.

Yet still these business models propagate. Something about the definition of insanity being doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
You're conveniently ducking that they 100% control the market of software for their phones. And anyway, I didn't say that case was equivalent. You asked for a case where a company with less than 50% was subject to an antitrust ruling and I provided one.

And I'll remind you, I'm not a lawyer. Technically, zero lawyers is a good number of lawyers, so I must insist that makes me a good lawyer. Just, I'd suck in court.
I always feel as though having the calling party cover the costs of the call is one of the most effective ways to get rid of phone spam. When the receiving party has to pay it seems to create all the wrong sorts of financial incentives for the carriers to deal with phone spam calls.
I count us all as lucky that the two cold war states were the lucky picks that would not be overcome by the urge to find out what happens.
So the main thought is how can we get more water from the air. Clouds are inefficient. The problem is in how we can extract usable quantities an leave enough to be normal.
I don't think it's actually anything to do with capitalism. It's all about having a an agenda and projecting that onto others which is always the fundamental flaw in professed egalitarian ideologies, at some point you'll have to take something from someone that is not willing to give up or exploit someone for the "greater good" and at that stage you'll be no different than the "tyrants" you replaced.

The minute humans are in charge and setting the rules the fallible flaw has been introduced.
No, definitely not. However, during the Korean War, UN/SK forces did invade North Korea.
> It's still what science used to be in the golden age in the West.

Care to elaborate?
This is why I disable background data for individual apps and keep data saver on whenever possible.

Also, browsing can be something like:
- Ad blocking
- Javascript disabled by default
- remote fonts disabled
- media eg images disabled if possible
- cookies disabled by default

The first 2 are possible using UBlock Origin + Firefox on Android devices. Ad blocking is a must.

Also, you can use some local VPN app like netguard to restrict app's data usage. I don't remember whether you can specify data usage limits though. But it can prevent entire apps from accessing internet.

Then about web pages. On desktop I routinely use text browsers or simple GUI browsers because they are so fast. Even your regular browser can go a long way with JS disabled by default and ad blocking.
The author has a lot of very similar and very trivial posts. I agree that it seems sketchy.
I believe the data should add the comparison using purchase power parity. The price in USD being higher in the US than in Brazil doesn’t mean that the internet is more expensive in the US
> while someone who steals candy from a bodega gets to spend years if not decades in prison

it's usually because the bodega thief is waving a gun around and threatening to kill someone, while the library thief isn't.
> As developers I think we should all do what we can to nurture the open web. It’s the last truly developer friendly platform.

This is why Mozilla's recent layoff is extra painful.
The levels of salt and free time available to the most dedicated of IRC users when slighted is a sight to behold.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/18/18229492/apple-music-push...
Many environmentalists see earth as our only possible home and are motivated to save it for that reason. They are not interested in humans expanding outside the earth. Some feel that we have messed up the earth and should not taint a pristine environment.

I am of a different group concerned for the environment. It is our home, we should take care of it. We are also tied to it for a very long time so we should maintain it. I do want humans to colonize other habitats outside the earth. It will not be easy and it will take a long time, but we should move some eggs to another basket. We may do some degree of terraforming of those new habitats but we are also likely to modify ourselves to better fit the new homes.
For many kids, this kind of toy has a short window of novelty and then waits in a closet until its time comes to go to the landfill. We should be extra skeptical of consumerism that targets children. I think that’s what GP was getting at.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/18/18145289/apple-iphone-io...