skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One factor you might not be thinking about is that if you use DDG first then you're getting a biased sample. You only try Google when DDG fails. So you see some times when Google succeeded where DDG failed, but you don't notice the times when DDG succeeded but Google would have failed.
I use ublock origin, I don't get ads on youtube.
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“You will have an illegitimate president. That is what you will have, and we can't let that happen”
“If you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore”

“Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. After this, we’re going to walk down and I’ll be there with you. We’re going to walk down. We’re going to walk down, any one you want, but I think right here. We’re going walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women. We’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”

Full transcript here:
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speech-sav...

Afterwards tweeting:
These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long,
It's the back half of the arms race. Just wait until the industry for armor-piercing bullets gets ramped up. Look at the cold war arms race. Anti-missile technology just led to a massive increase in nuclear weapons production. If your enemies defenses are 90% effective at shooting down missiles, just launch 10x as many missiles! This why both the United States and Soviet Union peaked at over 30,000 nuclear warheads[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_nuclear_weapons_sto...
I wonder if it just means I'm not within range or something, service is kind of spotty, but I was just asked about this by a friend as well, so I assume my wife and myself are not the only ones who noticed this.

Edit: After thinking about it, my wife noticed it at her job near Downtown where service isn't typically spotty, so I'm not sure why she wouldn't see that options but others would. We do have the latest iOS updates though.
Really strange they don't have an age upper limit, a bunch of that decline is likely baby boomers leaving the workforce.
Both sides have their extremists. The media loves to make them seem worse than they are. That doesn't make them significant.

Of course time will tell.
Gun = Facebook platform

Hitman (because Gunslinger is too cool) = Facebook company

Targets = Capitol Rioters

Hirers = Gun companies

Bullets = Ads

The analogy works because although the companies were unintentionally blanket-targeting their victims, a real world equivalent would still be persecuted. Hence everyone involved should be punished - the rioters (who already are), Facebook the company, the gun companies (albeit in minor fashion like fines because it was stil unintentional), and Facebook the platform (which should be neutered).
> They worked happily with their reps at Apple, Google, and AWS right up until the Friday Night Massacre.

Source? That’s the exact opposite of everything I’ve seen, including the CEO’s own public messages.
No one’s forcing you to submit a ticket at 4am, full stop. You can do it the next day, or you can simply not do it. You’re the initiator of the interaction, and if you intentionally half-ass it you’re not respecting the other side. Not sure what that snarky (?) remark on semicolon usage was about. We’re not grade school pupils here so no point in applauding or criticizing punctuation usage; doing so only raises eyebrows.
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There can be shows which are co-hosted by people from different points on the political spectrum but that is not the only way. Take the news, there are generally several episodes per day. Have those hosted by different "factions" and let the viewers make up their minds on who has it right. The same goes for opinion-related programming, divide this over the political spectrum according to the relative representation in the targeted region. There is no need to delve deep into whether the DNC should be represented by those who support "The Squad" or those who follow the more traditional faction, leave that to the parties themselves. I'd expect those parties to favour voices which they deem to be palatable to the majority of the viewership and as such will tend to shy away from the extremes. The GOP most likely won't want to have Trumpists representing them, the DNC probably won't go for Squad-supporters.

> You seem to have this idea of what a "textbook" conservative/liberal is, and I think that sort of binary representation is harmful to political discourse at large.

Nope, I have no such illusions. That aside, the way the American republic is set up - with winner-takes-all elections on the national level - does tend to create a dichotomy since voting for "fringe" parties is effectively useless other than to send a signal. This means the choice goes between the GOP and DNC candidates, a binary choice. Some people will vote DNC for some, GOP for other posts but this does not change the fact that the choice is rather limited.

There will be debate between the different "parties" and factions on such a station. This is a feature, not a bug. Let them debate out in the open, let them voice their views on developments for anyone who wants to hear or see. It might not be a 100% accurate representation of the political views of the region but it is far better than the propaganda channels which the media is rife with.
Should they really be penalized before being convicted?

Consider that Oracle claims that the regulatory actions around the world against Google are because they ran an extensive but secret lobbying campaign against Google to make this happen.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-23/oracle-fo...
With enough lobbying dollars much is possible - isn't this a reminder to wait for the outcome before you convict?

Also, clearly the monopoly that is being suggested is not in this area - in fact, there is a danger in the dominance of Apple's watch and this should increase competition.
I find it frustrating how often on Hackernews people jump into the middle of a conversation as if the beginning of the conversation never happened.

From the top level comment:

> To be blunt, I really dreaded needing to jump to the Erlang documentation,
I don't think that Parler removing violence-encouraging posts after Apple, Google, and AWS reported it to them is the argument that you think it is. It seems to show that their moderation was lax or non-existent, if AWS finding violent content is what it took for Parler to remove it.
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I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I recently read that Trump's tax cuts for the rich cost more than the stimulus checks.
They're talking about the upward wealth siphon, not the pandemic.
The reason why it's difficult for them to compete with Apple and Samsung isn't readily apparent to me. There still seems to be a large hole in the smartwatch market for a GOOD Android-compatible smartwatch. There are a lot of options, but, to me, none of them are as polished or feature-heavy as the Apple Watch. It doesn't seem that one of these companies would need access to any special internal APIs or anything to be competitive, so I don't see what Google could add other than lots of money and SWE hours.

If Google wants to compete in this space they should have been forced to build it themselves. IMO letting Fitbit die would have been better for users privacy-wise.
From the last 30 days:

>1k - Google

65 - DDG

20 - Bing

6 - Startpage

1 - Yandex
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I pay for YouTube's premium service and I don't get ads either.
I’ve been using DDG as my sole search engine for years. I didn’t even know !g was a thing.
And where would you recommend someone to start a data engineering path. Any book, learning source?
I would go even farther. We don't need data, we need knowledge.
I’m using ddg, pihole, unbound, ublock, signal. Deleted twitter, Facebook. Looking to move away from google.

Things just feel, cleaner this way. Still a long way to go
+1 to this. I haven't seen ads for years until I switched to M1 macs and had to use safari for a while.
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I think something improved, I used to switch back and forth probably used 80% Google, but know I now use DDG about 80% of the time.
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For me the two meanings are:

*having someone by your side makes a task easier.

*they get a relative boost because I'm so terrible.

Anyone see additional meanings?

(edited for formatting and to add question)
Also, why is Discord not on the conversation?

Seems a far worse offender to me. At least Parler chats were public.
There is no CCTV monitering a USPS drop box far from a post office. You could also address the package to your neighbor then take it off their porch after you see the USPS truck make their rounds. Or address it to a derelict property where you know no one will be home. Its trivial to mail things.
Substitute grenades or mines for guns in my analogy if that makes it easier for you. The point is that Facebook is mostly harmless content with a few specific spots of really not harmless content. Parler was mostly harmful content. And before someone tells me that Parler wasn’t, tell me how spreading lies about the stolen election and talking about gassing specific ethnic groups is good for the society.
You should read more G.R.R. Martin! :)
and how is that relevant to this story?
Paint a target on yourself? Maybe wear this under a big fluffy sweater.

(In the background I am just smh over how dystopian America is now.)
This pandemic was avoidable. I say that because when you work with international colleagues you see it firsthand. Other countries aren't suffering like the US is. The US mismanagement of the pandemic just on it's really diminishes it's global standing. It's not Bezos or Instacart or whomever, it's the basic lack of top down coordination in a response to the virus and dissemination of the vaccine.

These small business would probably not be closed if we had a competent national response. The probably would be closed but not bankrupt if we didn't have an inept fiscal response, also.
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Great, do you want a cookie?
But that's what market cap means. The same is true of a stock. If NKLA creates 1mil shares and sells a few for $1, their market cap is $1mil.

Even if the float (shares available) are only 10% of total shares outstanding, if those shares now trade at $20 the market cap becomes $20 mil.
Case in point, alt-left communities who champion "free speech" like Hacker News often shadowban people who express opinions they disagree with, especially if it's said in the wrong 'tone' of voice--direct aggression rather than passive aggressiveness, which is the preferred atmosphere here.
What is the difference between using Google Analytics and Google Spanner then? Or AWS Aurora vs AWS EC2 for that matter?
and did they begin that hiring before or after AWS shut them off? the WSJ article is dated January 11 2021.
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Snopes link for the curious: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/merriam-webster-barrett-se...

Is there a regularly updated official list somewhere of newly-considered-offensive words so one can proactively update one's vocabulary?
The analogy isn't helpful because you're actively aware of the dangerous machine when you're close to it, whereas losing a password is something you unintentionally do because you forgot about it 6 months after setting it up. A better analogy would be ammonia refrigerators that occasionally leaked and killed people in their sleep, which are banned.
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This is slightly off-topic, but I wonder why duckduckgo don't try and acquire a domain like ddg.com -

It sounds minor but I find it a hard domain to type for trying out a search (when google isn't giving me what I want), whereas if it was ddg.com I'd probably jump to it more as an alternative. Maybe I am just incredibly lazy, though.
Agreed. Well thanks for bringing a chuckle to my day.
> My friend, on the other hand, just seemed like a French person but with a faint speech anomaly and an oddly limited vocabulary at times.

Damn, now I wonder if that's how I come off when speaking English.

I'm from South America and have been living in the US for the last 8 years. But even before that, I always really liked English and as a kid worked really hard to emulate the way I heard it spoken in American TV shows.

The way I speak has been described as, "pretty much no accent, but you don't sound like you're from anywhere in particular." Other immigrants sometimes think I'm American, but most people say I sound like someone who speaks English as their first language, but they aren't be able to tell which country I could be from.

Maybe I should just have a bit more of a foreign accent, after all :D
Those other approaches you mentioned don’t get much love because they don’t work. Their advocates worked on them for many years and have nothing to show for it.
"No politics" is both a political stance, and what counts as politics is itself political. For example, some count "please call me 'they'" as political; others just common courtesy.
Is there no way to utilize the pseudostem besides burning?

Got a sudden hankering for some banana flower pakodas :)
The more I read about some of the operating systems eventually died out (mostly), the more disappointed I am that the only realistic options for workstation/server OS’s are Windows and a handful of Unix-like systems.
We can't even rely on citizens to wear masks. What makes you think that if government were competent enough to develop complex rules based on the factors you mention that we would be any better off.
They own duck.com

I think most people are even lazier then you. They don't type domain names at all. They set their default SE to duckduckgo.com and then search via the url bar.
Oh sure, I'm actually in favor of these kinds of licenses. I mean, one way to think of them are GPL for commercial competitors and Apache/Mit/lgpl for "private" use (where private includes commercial, but not direct sales of of the product, such as using a DB and forking it for some kind of customization, the saas service using the DB doesn't compete with the DB vendor). All all cases there is some version of "open-ness," even OSI defined openness.
> The fading of WWII in the public memory could be argued as the biggest single risk that society faces. There are too many people who just won't understand how bad and how possible total war is. There is a huge background risk that the age of abundance ends and then things get dicey.

Perhaps this is really what peace means. It is the security of being able to live and plan a life or a business without ever once worrying about "but what happens if there is a war?". The collective impact of that on psychological security and the free movement of goods, people, ideas across the world is huge.
If DuckDuckGo / Bing ever approach the popularity level of Google, how will they not suffer similar pressure to manipulate their search results?
Oh I agree that corporations shouldn't be able to block speech but right now constitutionally they can so what we really need is a change to the constitution. Those laws were written hundreds of years and meant to change with the times.
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most people would get downvoted for that. GP seems to be special :-)
I've used DDG full-time for over two years now. I honestly don't miss Google.

Every time I use !g I'm reminded just how bad it's gotten. Between the SEO spam and ads I find myself scrolling at least halfway down the page to find anything even remotely relevant. I can't say that DDG always has the 'best' results, but at least they seem appropriate to what I'm searching for.

One thing I do wish DDG has is webmaster tools. I know they don't do their own indexing, but it would be nice to have a way to get performance & keyword data the way Google/Bing/Yandex etc present it.
I hadn't heard about this before, so I did a search. It seems from this Newsweek article that the dictionary is not denying that they made this change, but implying that it was planned for the future and then they did it earlier than planned because of the public attention it was being given.

https://www.newsweek.com/amy-coney-barrett-preference-defini...
That's true. At least in the U.S. anti-trust laws require you to show that the company engaged in certain actions with the _intent_ of creating a monopoly.
In my understanding professional short sellers rarely short the whole market. They'll tend to have a particular firm that they think is overvalued and short that.
oh gosh, that's wonderful, thank you so much!
I’m hoping they simply deferred this for a few years so they don’t anger feds too much at once.
Has anyone found this guy's Twitter handle? That would be one way to check the story. Probably easier for a Japanese speaker to locate.
Bay Area is large, it should be fine. Fires sucked but hopefully this can be mitigated in the future. I'm not sure about SF though, it might become a cyberpunk dystopia with high tech downtown surrounded by filth, hopefully not.
Am I the only one who finds Inferno incredibly ugly compared Plan9’s UI?
Every day I read a different article about how many jobs there are, and then I read one about how bad unemployment is, then I read one about how the economy is booming, and then I read one about how the economy is declining.

This is clown world, and I don't know how we've sustained it this far. Everything seems to be in conflict. Somehow investors have a seemingly irrational confidence in the market. What is going on? Collective insanity?
The script's redering by HN is off. Maybe you should change the indentation somehow?
So what's the second largest?

(Also does largest == best? A market could have a huge volume of mostly scams for example)
I think and hope that this is just the beginning. We desperately need tech diversity in all sorts of verticals, and search and social media are at the top of the list, with AWS/Azure/GoogleCloud closely following. Jason Calacanis is saying as much today: https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1349482476612141056
People do tend to use alternatives that they experience as better (which may not be the same as being better). You have to have a better experience and you have to get people to be aware, consider, and try the alternative experience.

A lot of us switched to Chrome because it was a better experience at the time. A lot bought from Amazon for the same reason. I’ll happily buy from a non-Amazon who gives me an experience better than Amazon, consider a browser that’s better than Chrome, or a search engine which gives better results than Google. Those three still get the majority of my in-category traffic though, because the experience is generally very good, quite consistent, and often best-in-class.

I think the hurdle to building a competitor to Facebook or Twitter is higher than the hurdle of selling me an electronic device instead of Amazon selling it to me. (BestBuy, NewEgg, MicroCenter [semi-local], and randos on EBay do it regularly. No one is casually going to beat Twitter and FB for social.)
Without assuming too much about the veracity of this story, it still addresses a fundamental human need.

Humans, more than any other animals live in an imagined reality. Once food & shelter are taken care of, one’s dependence on nature (physical reality) has been disintermediated. This, our direct experience is primarily imagined abstract reality (friends/family, employment, society, the act of purchasing/consuming, etc).

Especially if one gets socially isolated in this world, it’s very easy to decouple one’s notion of reality from others in subtle ways. To be seen, have one’s perspective acknowledged and to be sincerely “touched” by another person (in a deeper metaphorical sense) is therefore one of the strongest human needs.

On the path to so thoroughly servicing humankind’s physical needs, we’ve created a quandary that’s increasingly endemic with waves of economic development.
It would be not bloodless if Ukrainian soldiers would not try by all possible means to avoid the shooting, trying to treat russians as former brothers and stop russia’s hostile actions by negiotiations.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zIbGpSvtuGY
> Great, do you want a cookie?

Hey, this isn't productive. The parent comment provided a good opener for others to ask them their experience migrating away, etc, and that's the kind of discussion we often like to have around sharing our experiences with new or different tools.
> I don't even remember what Google is

If DDG has such severe memory-related side effects, I'm not sure I want to switch.
Yes, but when the leader is a politician, he has skin in a different game: getting re-elected.

It doesn’t stop them from going to war, but it makes it less likely.
The economy as measured by GDP and unemployment was doing really well up until 2020 and Covid. And stock prices represent the present value of future earnings - if you believe that we'll see a reversion to the mean after Covid (and we will), why would you expect SPX to tank?
So much censorship going on in the world right now.
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More comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25776450
>"the largest market" always reminds me of "Bin Ladens right hand".

If they're not selling guns, child abuse imagery or other extreme stuff maybe treat it as a source of intelligence rather than keep playing whack a mole?
> they have noting to do with anything I care about

Why is this good? For me personally, both FB and Google figured out that I'm into home renovation and all they keep recommending me is relevant stuff. So I consider it free research done for me :) Contractors, webshops, pretty images are all over my feed.

I even press accept cookies for webshops I want to see more of their competition :)
The ones that I can remember pretty clearly are mostly about surprising cloud bills, app or account takedowns etc. So if HN is getting things done then maybe this is the most passive union ever?
Bezos literally got his phone hacked by foreign intelligence services for being supportive of the party that wants to fix this situation. He's benefiting because Amazon is well run and well positioned for this. He couldn't control how the response was managed and he doesn't control tax policy. Do a better job of blaming the people who are actually at fault, or you are abetting them.
None of the things you mentioned are replacements for either Twitter or Facebooks core products.

A search engine, router level ad-blocker, browser-based adblocker and messaging app do not replace a public messageboard or a pseudo-public/pseudo-private messageboard/events service.

Actually maybe "unbound" is that because there's a bunch of projects with that name, so who knows.
You've got the meanings backwards. Decade is ten years and century is a hundred years.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25772340.
Yeah, I just spent a fair amount of time trying to find this guy's twitter account and got nothing ...

If anyone finds it, please share.
If you truly believe that you might want to take off your blinders.
I just purchased spiral bound Henle edition of his Impromptus. Not sure how I've gone this long without doing a Schubert deep dive but I'm certainly looking forward to it!
You’re probably looking for one of the unemployment rates. It’s quite useful to know what fraction of the population is working, even if there are perfectly good reasons for some to not be working.

Retirees still eat and someone has to grow the food.
Isn't this part of the plot in Shockwave Rider?