skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes... Enjoyed AltaVista and FAST (AllTheWeb)[1] for precision searching.

That reminded me of Architext, and EWS (Excite for Web Servers)[2], but a good bit of Googling (ahem) later, seems difficult to find much about most of the mid to late 90s standalone local search engines any more, except perhaps Inktomi. Most are not mentioned in Wikipedia search engine timeline[3].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Development_Center_N...

2. https://www.wired.com/1998/01/excite-moves-to-patch-search-s...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_web_search_engines

EDIT:

Using the search engine Qwant, I was able to find an original EWS (Excite for Web Servers) help page:

http://www1.udel.edu/Excite/AT-helpdoc.html

At the time, it was amazingly out of the box:

Excite for Web Servers makes it easy for you to add searching -- Excite, Inc.'s advanced concept-based searching -- to your Web site.

Excite for Web Servers provides a simple Web-browser interface for doing all the things necessary to enable concept-based searching of collections of documents -- administering, indexing, and searching over the collections.

In particular, one can:

- define a document collection -- that is, specify a set of documents to be considered a single collection over which one can search,

- design customized pages for displaying to users who wish to search over that collection,

- index that collection, monitoring the progress, and
search the collection.

With Excite for Web Servers, it's easy to set up concept-based-searchable Web sites in minutes.
Did you read my post? If you get a biopsy you don't necessarily need to eat gluten because the damage is visible.
Then what was exactly the point of your post? People pointed out Microsoft did everything you listed in your OP before Apple, including a SoC - Apple and Microsoft both aren't pioneers in your definition.
Did SolarWinds' CA (certificate authority) reworked their code signing certificate?
The entire article is basically mildly veiled advertisement for SemGrep (which the author works on)
Using a Systems View to Understand Personal Finance
Stanford apologizes after vaccine allocation leaves out medical residents
There is this one from Dr Maria Van Kerkhove from the WHO [0]:

> our recommendations are that in the community we don't recommend the use of masks unless you yourself are sick and as a measure to prevent onward spread from you if you are ill. The masks that we recommend are for people who are at home and who are sick and for those individuals who are caring for those people who are home that are sick.

The general advice the WHO gave on masks was

> If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infection. [1]

[0] https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/transcr...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200329083719/https://www.who.i...
Well I guess I'll take the apparently bold stance here that this isn't the end of Silicon Valley or California and yes this is fair and further, good. When people are getting 5-6% returns on investments (minimum), 0.4% is still not even stopping the rich get richer effect. Not to mention that it's almost certain no one here will ever be touched by this tax.

If you're going to move where you live or significantly alter where you spend you time because of 0.4% of things above 30M, that's a real sign of just how far American greed has gone. The rich will drive themselves right into another french revolution unless they start realizing that taxes need to return to where they were from the 1930's-1970's. Trickle down economics is a known failure and at this point it's a question of when the pendulum will start swinging the other way.
came here to check for astalavista mention :D
What are you talking about?

Apple doesn’t sell your personal data.

And this has nothing to do with what is disclosed - both Apple and Facebook are disclosing what they collect.
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>The hummingbird tongue is a fluid trap, not a capillary tube [full paper]

https://www.pnas.org/content/108/23/9356

Four fantastic high-speed videos accompanying the paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2011/04/28/101694410...
Yah, this sounds batshit insane to me. And I'm a SF-grown Left-leaning freak.
True, they really neglected AltaVista. That was a colossal mistake. They really got stuck in their old mindset.
If the price, scale and power envelope is right, they can absolutely be mediocre. Server CPUs are core for core clocked much lower than consumer chips, cooling and power are huge issues.

If you can fit 500-1000 mediocre arm cores in the same space as 128 x86 cores at half the power/heat, it absolutely makes sense for something like Azure. They don't have to beat Intel/AMD on a core for core basis as long as they can compete on compute/space/power requirements horizontally.

It's not the best option for some loads, but is a good enough option for enough loads that the diversification can really work out. There's plenty of software/systems/services that don't need x86 per core performance and a single ARM core is enough per node.
How do I benefit from a country while not being in it?
I'm not sure those execs getting citizenships are actually moving in as opposed to buying an expensive property and making some kind of investment.
I assume if I skip to the next song in Apple Music that does something to tickle its algorithm but, in general, Apple doesn't provide much to enable you to tell it what's good and bad in a playlist. (And, TBH, the device playing the music is often in the next room anyway.)
Haha, yes, I love those!

Of course, the real answer, “ask your boss Cesare Borgia and do whatever he says, or you will be fired for insubordination”, is conspicuously absent.
Eventually they did, but only after complaining a lot. Indeed Apple took action as well.

That alone proves their mindset is completely wrong IMO.
Not a Californian, but what is the more that is being asked of?

Are you aware that top tax rates are a fraction of what they were decades ago? Perhaps, the more accurate lens to view things is that the wealthy/business has lobbied for less and less.
I wasn't familiar with Project Aria, as mentioned in the article. Searched for it, and found the facebook connect demo. I enjoyed that the demo'er was kind enough to refer to Aria as an Evil-lution @ 32 seconds in.
https://youtu.be/a0QVh5TJl3c?t=30
This is a pretty common shape of the measurement, yes.
I am curious how this code actually made it in, based upon the following:

> The fact that the compromised file is digitally signed suggests the attackers were able to access the company’s software development or distribution pipeline. Evidence suggests that as early as October 2019, these attackers have been testing their ability to insert code by adding empty classes.

Unless this a compromise of the build machine, it sounds suspiciously like a lack of code review standards to me.

In our organization, the only way to get a line of code into master is through a process where a 2nd developer reviews and approves via GitHub. Branch protection rules are really nice for this kind of concern. Obviously, the attacker can hit right after cloning source, but it helps to know your foundations are clean regardless.
California is retarded
While anything is possible, I think when Apple found out Facebook was abusing the enterprise app distribution program to track teenagers, that was the end of any amicable relationship. Apple doesn't need Facebook, and they benefit from government regulation around privacy. If world governments start demanding basic privacy, it'll destroy the profit model of their main competitor.

Until a time that Apple's main source of income is selling your private data, I guess I'm hard pressed to believe they're trying to enable their competitors who do.
AltaVista was the first search engine I used. It was the best, because I hadn't seen anything else.

Then a colleague introduced me to the early version of google.com - a minimum viable product, before that phrase became popular.

Within a short period of time, without being aware of it, I almost completely stopped using AltaVista, because Google was so much better.

Memories.
Can someone explain what the limitations are on a state's ability to levy taxes?

E.g., are there any Constitutional barriers to one state charging income tax on someone merely passing through?

Or, e.g., could CA tax the income of someone who is no longer a resident?

What mechanisms if any proscribe that kind of money grab?
There are lots of great ideas and thoughts from the others here, so I won't focus on the same things that have already been mentioned.

You mention a few different issues, feeling burned out, health, and not finding the work interesting. I think you should focus on those three individually rather than trying to find a single silver bullet.

First, take care of your health. You can start by doing some simple things: eat better, have a better sleep schedule, go on more walks and slowly build up to what you expect from yourself and feel that you're missing in this regard. It doesn't have to be spend 2 hours/day at the gym starting tomorrow.

Second, with regards to feeling burned out, think about what your ideal situation looks like. If you had unlimited money, what would you fill your time with? Next, think about if you had a lot of money but still couldn't have the security of financial independence/freedom. What would you do for income? The point here is to determine two things: 1) what's enough for you and 2) what your passions are. It's ok to do things type not passionate of to sustain yourself/family, but you'll eventually feel burned out trying to get more than enough. Determine what enough is and to what end you'll do things that aren't your passion.

Lastly, about not finding your work interesting. This is totally normal. It's hard to find your passions interesting over decades. Passions change over time and that's ok. Are there things you do like about your job? My previous point about thinking about your passions applies here. It may be you hate the environment or dislike being told what to do. I love writing software, but dislike a lot of things about modern "industry best practice".

Hope you find what you're after and enjoy the journey as much as the destination. Life is too short and you never know how short it really is.
> Facebook’s argument is along the lines of arguing that the police shouldn’t crack down on burglaries because doing so might hurt pawn shops that have been thriving during a years-long crime spree.

Except that Facebook isn't benefitting from criminal activity, is it? This is a case of a classically naive public who really doesn't care one way or the other.
Is it me or things are getting crazier every single day, why not planetary tax, air tax, water tax, volume occupation tax, tax on tax?
Yeah that’s pretty old and Drew doesn’t even seem much involved in Sway anymore. He’s right but it still doesn’t stop someone from making an EGLStreams fork of wlroots - if I had the time I’d probably try this myself.
I miss writing crankshaftscript
Facebook is always against the choice of privacy and all about control disguised as socializing.
Didn't Zuckerberg once claim the time of privacy is over?
Except his of course.
Oh, yep. I forgot I have a "show alt text" bookmarklet I can use on iOS:

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> where did they think the money would come from?

There’s a growing misconception that everything can be paid for by simply taxing the wealthy a tiny bit more. Several prominent activist politicians have built their platforms on the idea that billionaires are an infinite source of consequence-free tax revenue.

These ideas are especially popular among the college students and new college grads I mentor. It usually falls apart when they pull out their calculators and realize that Jeff Bezos entire net worth wouldn’t come close to paying off everyone’s student loan debt or solving climate change.

Meanwhile, completely false Tweets about how Jeff Bezos is about to become a trillionaire or how he could simply solve the entire student loan crisis himself gain 100,000s of likes, some of them from prominent politicians or their campaign managers. People don’t care about the facts right now.

Frankly, many people don’t really care if this solves anything or if second-order consequences result in a net decrease in tax revenue due to people simply moving (as is the case with some wealth taxes in other countries). For many, this is more about punishing their bad guys than generating tax revenue to accomplish something.
This is not a new concept. Let's take a look at TensorFlow website, the site is basically Colab notebooks. Colab being free and requiring just a gmail account allows people to easily just run TensorFlow examples within seconds. This a specific case for Python, (other projects such as Pytorch, Google Cloud documentation, Beam follow the same patterns). When your README wants to show users runnable code or quick starts in my experience that's what user ultimately and if you can achieve this, people will actually use the README. From maintenance perspective, your README notebook may not be runnable in all Notebook environments which may be ok if user at least can render the content.
Possibly a long shot, but I was wondering if you knew of any sources of the CDC also taking this stance?

I have a vague memory that they also made similar statements, but I tried to find evidence of that recently and couldn’t find a source. I’d appreciate anybody that could link me to a source if they have it on hand / find one.
If it wasn't really exhausting to argue about FB on HN I would put a long post here. But in short, FB ads are a net good for society.

1) They replace worse and spammy ads.

2) The tracking is really mild. If a big bad government or hacker wants to get dirt on you, they don't dig into FBs tracking algos, they go straight to the ISP or they hack the website you visited. FB also doesn't sell your data.

3) People genuinely find products they like all the time through ads.

4) Whole categories of businesses get a chance for customers to discover their products. Almost every new Shopify store selling cool new products relies on FB ads to get in front of customers. Many really cool useful b2b tech products rely on FB to be discovered.

Advertising isn't magic. It's not mind control. 90% of it is clearly showing a product to the market and you pray you find product market fit.
The right to return and still be eligible for things like Social Security and Medicare.
“China has a politically weaponized system of censorship; it is refined, organized, coordinated and supported by the state’s resources,” said Xiao Qiang, a research scientist at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, and the founder of China Digital Times. “It’s not just for deleting something. They also have a powerful apparatus to construct a narrative and aim it at any target with huge scale.”

“This is a huge thing,” he added. “No other country has that.”

I wonder if he's tried discussing electoral fraud on one of the walled "garden" platforms lately.
US embassies are in many countries.
If we're at the level where we think it's an inside job, it doesn't seem that difficult to have 2 people on the inside "reviewing" each other's malicious commits.

For what it's worth, my org also has the same policy, but it's intended to catch mistakes, not to protect against malicious actors inside the company.
They know it's a lost cause, but it's completely against human nature to not at least try to do something, even if you know it isn't likely to work. And their hope is to sway some old politicians into forcing Apple not to release the change - it's unlikely, but they have to at least try a Hail Mary.
> It's the epitome of wooden language

Exactly. See the comment elsewhere about Orwell's 1984. In which Newspeak [0] is "a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to limit the individual's ability to think and articulate "subversive" concepts such as personal identity, self-expression and free will"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
Would this be an accurate summary:
„There is a slim chance the mRNA is incorporated into the DNA if there is an ongoing infection with a retro-virus during vaccination“?
Show HN: Scan and verify passports for smooth onboarding
This is a demo app to show how to use NFC to scan and verify passports for a smooth and secure onboarding.

The app works by first using the camera to scan the passport’s data page, a step that is needed because the key used for reading the embedded chip is constructed out of the visible printed passport data. Then it will read and verify the embedded chip and display the extracted information.

Here is a 30 second demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTdpOcG1NSw

If you want to try it out, just download the demo app. Feel free to use an invalid passport and/or use the app on airplane mode so that you feel comfortable.
Kara Swisher thinks its part of piling onto apple anti-trust by the US Government, which kinda? makes sense.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/opinion/facebook-apple-ad...

"The regulatory and legal questions around Apple’s practices are behind Facebook’s strategy that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. In its attack ads on Apple, Facebook added that it would help antitrust regulators and others — like the Fortnite parent company Epic Games — on the App Store issue."

......

But both companies have issues:

"But the cracks we are seeing this week are the most significant — and could spell trouble for both companies. Apple, pointing out Facebook’s data gluttony, and Facebook, in turn, noting Apple’s hegemony over mobile, make one thing clear: These tech companies have too much power. And no matter how you slice it, they are all in dire need of government regulation."
And targeted political ads? What about those?
> It looked like search for kids.

Today, everything looks like it is made for kids.

https://blog.prototypr.io/are-we-designing-for-children-an-a...
Better Quake strafe-jumping with genetic algorithms [video]
IIRC that's true up to a certain $ limit. (Maybe around $120k of income?) After that it's double taxed (I think)
the code behind lobste.rs is open source: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
Disclaimer: This user is in clear conflict of interests here

From his profile - "I co-founded Right Percent to help b2b businesses scale with Facebook and AdWords ads."
Might have something to do with the fact that the dialogue was apparently originally written in Polish, which usually omits subject pronouns (they can be inferred from the verb form). If the translator was Polish, they might have carried that over to English.

(Noticed how I dropped ‘it’?)
Those things are linked. In our system, some people making a whole lot of money is predicated on others making too little money. I don't mean this in the zero sum sense. I mean that by far the most common way to make a lot of money in this country is by exploiting people.
Top federal tax rates have been reduced, but there hasn't been any major reduction of top California state tax rates.
Flesh lights sucks. Japan make quality ones as far as I’ve heard. Far better than basic flesh lights. Kudos to Japan for that.
Or perhaps they left California for Texas because they didn’t approve of the policies that have made CA a worse place to live, but their vote is in the minority in CA and so they can’t realistically do anything about how broken and dysfunctional the government and policies there are?

Speaking as a lifelong Californian who just moved to Austin, and has had to explain this to the few people who espouse the "don't turn Texas into California" trope.
There is also this story about Clouflares co-founder, Lee Holloway who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/lee-holloway-devastating-decline...
The estimated average Google search ad cost-per-click (CPC) is $2.69 [0].

Working on the conservative assumptions that an average person will run 10 searches a day and click on 1 search ad a day, Google will make $83.39 a month from the average user. It is likely much more though.

[0] https://valveandmeter.com/pay-per-click-statistics/
Frontline workers protest at Stanford after hospital vaccinates administrators
Not sure it's the whole world. US lobbying is something not really seen in a lot of other countries.
One short work of good repute, though it might have been intended for children, would be Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare.
Nice theory. But neuroscientists and neurologists don’t know either. Just like pretty much every drug that affects mood and behavior.
Utterly lost me at 'There’s nothing “forced” about the software update', which is true only in the narrowest, least useful sense.
Dickinson had a ton of family members die in rapid succession, so she probably wrote that in the fallout of deep trauma. Still, there's something to be said about shifting the "fulcrum" of happiness within yourself and being more emotionally self-sufficient, if you can. Ironically, that can also make you a better, less co-dependent friend/partner.
This list is too heavily focused on medicine. Where is phosphine on Venus?
Balancing the needs around the CentOS platform
That’s been my thought to date, just investing in air filters instead. We’ve got several. But we’re still not sure whether it’s a good idea to be there at all.
Ah. Do they not have to pay Dutch taxes then? Aside from property related ones?
Good luck getting anywhere from Prague once you are there - the Czech railway network is seriously lacking. :P
I see you point, but the phrase "wealth tax" does help.
When will somebody replace Google (and Bing) with one that actually works again? Is the cost of entry that high? Is there no business model to permit one to operate at some level of profit?

I'm sure most here have been frustrated by the difficulty of getting "good" results on searches, even with modifiers. But what most troubles me is Google's memory/history has grown smaller and smaller, as if it has Alzheimers - searches that used to return results now bring back none.
Well, in the US, one benefit is being able to freely travel to many other countries without needing to go through a months long visa application process.
Sorry, but I read this whole article and still don't understand.

> The English adjective free is commonly used in one of two meanings: "for free" (gratis) and "with little or no restriction" (libre).

To be clear, I understand this distinction. I'm just wondering in what context or culture beer is considered free (gratis).

> For example, they are used to distinguish freeware (software gratis) from free software (software libre). Richard Stallman summarised the difference in a slogan: "Think free as in free speech, not free beer."

This is just repeating the phrase and doesn't answer my question.

> As the English adjective free does not distinguish between "for free" and "liberty", the phrases "free as in freedom of speech" (libre, free software) and "free as in free beer" (gratis, freeware) were adopted. Many in the free software movement feel strongly about the freedom to use the software, make modifications, etc., whether or not this freely usable software is to be exchanged for money. Therefore, this distinction became important.

This article seems to only explain the distinction between "libre" and "gratis", and treats the idea of beer being free as a given.

Is there a particular culture where "free beer" is a common phrase? Why not say "free as in beer, not free as in lunch"?
Get ready for the FB smartphone, totally free (ad supported) of course!