skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another thing to add here is that the reason Russia and China have their own popular search engines is because they've been largely cut off from Western alternatives.

If Australia is cut off this would encourage Australia to develop their own Google alterntaive which would probably be healthy for innovation and the tech sector in Australia. I guess they could always use DuckDuckGo or Bing, but as a European it would be great to see more Western countries developing their own alternatives to silicon valley tech. The fact Google thinks they can bully Australia like this is evidence that silicon valley has become too powerful and needs competetion.
Always being able to see fast moving dots when looking at a dark sky is a significant change compared to the experience of all our ancestors. StarLink might be the first time someone has done something that affects every single society - even tribes in the Amazon and India.
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In this case though, Google is doing something that’s very useful for consumers. I hate having to click through to websites that might be 90% advertisements.
That's the side effect of a company getting bigger. When a company hires a lot more and trying expand it is very hard hire only upstream contributors.
> Moreover, the entire situation for Australian web users will be harmed by this

How? There are other search engines to use. I don't use Google search. I haven't missed it.
> The DMC-12 is a hotbox in the summer and the stock AC just can't keep up.

Did you turn on the flux capacitor?
Why would you ever be in a situation where you have a UUID but don't know what it refers to?
I'd love blogging or doing YouTube videos but there are enough crazy people out there I'd rather stay anonymous my entire life
What I don't get is why must Google Search completely shut down to fight this law. Can't they just stop crawling news sites that complain about revenue sharing?
Isn't that the case in all of the UK? I never paid for a museum in England either anyway (other than voluntary donations). In New Zealand it's free too.

In the Netherlands it's pretty expensive, but a number of museums have a "free day" once a month.

My biggest problem is actually not so much the price, but rather the opening times, which tend to be during office hours: when people are working. I would love it if more museums would be open until 21:00 or 22:00.
Or, if you want, sigh that the federated system we had before sucked worse.

(I eventually just deinstalled my XMPP clients; XMPP is federated but that was no saving grace. And anyway, whoever controlled jabber.ccc.de had a lot of the traffic.)
With random keys updates are going to touch way more pages than with sequential ones. It increases IO due to more dirty buffers and journaling.
What if they take it further and also pull other google products like gmail, chrome, maps? That would cause some serious trouble.
Signal Desktop doesn't require the phone, so no, it doesn't work that way.
alright I'm gonna ask the naive question: how exactly does Brain make money? is it offered as an independent product? or is it's incremental contribution to the rest of Google that high? what even is Brain, to Google devs?
Telegram can be used just to read public groups. In that case you are not leaving any traces as a passive reader. Group owners deliver their news/messages very efficiently to thousands and millions of users. In some sense Telegram is like Reddit, Facebook, Gmail, Dropbox, and WatsApp combined.
Indeed. Why should I have to load a ten megabyte web page to access 500 bytes of text information?
Seems like this is a pretty clear ethics violation on the part of the authors.
Australia is a pretty wealthy nation (not saying France etc isn't) and I would argue that this wouldn't happen given how much money they make here, the offices they have, GCP etc.
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You have naked git repos in synced cloud folders, without using git remote functionalities?

That would be careless and you are actively begging for things to break that way, so I'm not surprised. In fact I'd bet any other service, Dropbox/GDrive/..., would also suffer from such issues.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/01/gaming-the-system-how...
Y Combinator is hiring a product engineer to help more YC companies hire
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There is an entire, well-established SEO industry worth billions trying to get Google to index your content and feature it. News publishers are literally incentivising Google to do the opposite. It makes no sense. I really hope Google continues to call their bluff - they would be completely dead if not for Google traffic, and they surely know it.
This is super useful and exactly what I need for a current project. Thanks you for that hint!
It's not a question of indexing Australian websites - be clear about this.

In Australia, they cannot provide a search facility that shows news - whether domestic or international - if they don't sign up to the code. So they cannot provide results from the NYT or Deutsche Welle in their search results that are accessible from Australia.
This is really nice, anyone aware of a NodeJs alternative?
Younger employees should sue Intel for ageism, right?
Do you speak Spanish by any chance? The way that you are using "doubts" (dudas) sounds slightly off to me. I live in Spain and I hear it a lot :)
> Roughly ordered (K-sortable), incremental timestamp in most significant bits enables faster indexing and less fragmentation on database indices (vs UUID v1/v4).

What does this mean for database performance in simple CRUD scenarios?
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> Unfortunately this means the chance of a collision in a year is 99.999999999998% which isn't great!

How was this computed? My intuition begs to differ.
Of course existing webcams meet expectations for online meetings - nobody expects meeting participants to use something that doesn't exist.

But if you've avoided the $15 Amazon's Choice webcams and purchased the absolute peak of what the webcam industry can produce, wouldn't you expect something better than the mediocrity shown?

What if you're someone who cares about their appearance, and the pallid, unhealthy look of the C920 would have you reaching for your makeup bag if you saw it in the mirror?

What if the pandemic has forced your dating life into zoom calls, for a first date you want to absolutely look your best, and you don't like how the Kiyo makes your forehead look shiny and really adds contrast to your receding hairline?

What if you're slightly into photography and presenting such a shitty image as the best you can do goes against your pride when you can see so much wrong with it?
China develop a prototype of train capable to travel at up to 620km/h(385mph)
I wish at the very least they'd make the font customizable by the readers. I can't stand looking at that font they chose for a prolonged period of time. The only way I read stuff published on Substack is by proxying the content (reader mode, RSS feeds, Pocket).
They could go down that path. But the law prohibits linking to news in general, including international news that is unrelated to Australia. It is vague enough to likely include blog content as "news". Should Google accidentally link to something that is considered news, then that opens them up to serious fines.

It would require an incredibly intelligent algorithm to filter all of that kind of content out.
This depends on what we're defining as documentation vs access. My interpretation of the start of the GP was more about passing over actual login/access information, which especially for assets and finances really shouldn't be handed over this way.

Documentation in the form of "I have a bank account at Bank X, and a will at Lawyer Y (or, I don't have a will, but there are established protocols to handle this)" (even if only verbally) is different than "here's my username and password to my trading account in case I snuff it".
Now that's unrealistic. Had the Mr Fusion been an actual appliance from 2015 it would have stopped working without internet connection.
Two products which get daily usage in my house are an Asus RT-N16 router and a Vu+ set top box. Both had decent hardware for their time, but only ok-to-subpar firmware. Both were specifically bought because I could easily add custom firmware without any technical know how.

By 'de-shittifying' the product with custom firmware, you can turn it into a much more useful, future proof product. So I can echo your sentiment about supporting hardware hackers, it will actually increase sales, especially if Linux is supported.
> Hating this is like hating a primer-painted part for being grey: you denounce the propose and existence of primer and claim that it should have been painted with the finishing coat from the start.

No, it's simply arguing against the claim initially made that there is no way for it to not be grey.

> I'm sorry you think the dull finish is ugly, but looking pretty is not its purpose. Its purpose is to bind strongly to the substrate it's on and provide a better surface for that shiny coat you so desire to adhere onto. Primer and language bindings alike.

Maybe it isn't it's purpose, but the original post claimed that it was impossible for it to be difference, which is certainly false.
It's not plagiarism. Words have meanings. Plagiarism is when you take someone else's work and pass it off as your own (or an earlier work and pass it off as new); it as a form of fraud.

This is closer to copyright infringement, although so far it has been regarded as legitimate.
Thanks, just tried this now
Apple Plans Thinner MacBook Air with Magnetic Charger in Mac Lineup Reboot
There is Huawei HarmonyOS which I believe aims to be compatible with Android mobile apps but has a different kernel and is not reliant on Google mobile services.
Yes, at least in financially non-precarious circles there is no good excuse on that front. People spend way more money on way less important things.

Threema is literally the price of a latte.
They did, you can do this from the page viewing the artwork itself, put onto a poster, canvas, aluminium, or a gallery print.
It's funny the way this is often framed outside of Australia as a government fighting back against monopolistic tech giants. This proposal is the result of lobbying by shrinking old media monopolies whose only option for increasing revenue is to take it from other sectors.

The most likely outcome is that Google will not withdraw from Australia but merely blacklist Australian media domains from search results. Google won't pull out of Australia because it earns substantial income (for an Australian business) and pays very little tax here.
What is DCE?
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If users feel they get the best results from Google then they continue to use Google which drives search and ad impressions. Ads are also clearly labelled so users can decide if they want to ignore sponsored results. I typically click the first result below ads or use an adblocker but that's just me. So this seems like a clear distinction between paid and organic results.

I completely agree on the second point. Google's 'Featured Snippets' are a clear overreach where Google uses people's content at no cost and gives nothing in return. This needs to be regulated because nobody is going to opt-out. For example, I've had some featured snippets and they bring a lot of traffic. Much less than a normal first place listing but more than a second place listing. If I opt-out of Featured Snippets in protest then someone else will just happily take that spot.

Perhaps the balance lies in just indexing headlines of sites. Then publishers could decide if they want to give up that information in their headlines. It's a tough to know where to draw the line but that seems like it's been the fairest balance so far.
fTPM on my Ryzen 3600 worked.
Also European cars tended to have smaller engines, which weren't a great combination with the relative inefficiencies of torque converter style automatic transmissions.

However, newer dual clutch style transmissions work pretty well with small engines - I have a car with a 1l engine and DCT and it is a delight to drive.
How can that be a good thing? Why is google worth being paid for providing content they paid $0 to make?

SEO is not a good industry, it's the equivalent of government lobbying , but this time with a different overlord. The problem with google is not that it's a search engine, but that it has bought and guards every significant entry point to the web
Excerpts are definitely content. They're definitely not wholesale.
Well, content production has a price.

I hate having to pay my groceries, should I stole it instead?
I guess you assume to build one timeflake per ms for one year. That's about 3e13 timeflakes. Ordinary UUIDs have a collisions at the order of 1e18 hashes (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#...). So we are "only" 5 orders of magnitude away. For me the collision quality feels the same.
>But sigh that the "secure messaging app conundrum" is apparently limited to two terrible choices.

I share that sentiment. There are encrypted messaging apps out there that don't rely on servers, like Jami, tox or Briar, the last of those three being the best one, in my estimation, as it uses Tor and can function on a mesh network, the only drawback being not having the ability to send media attachments.

There are good alternatives to centralized, corporativistic messaging apps (I include Signal here); we just have to be willing to look for them and make the switch.
Not really; a moonshot is a huge investment to advance the state of the art in something where we know it's possible. It's not a wild shot in the dark.

No Saturn V rocket ever failed.
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this is exactly the feature that's now possible with systemd too
Read whatever patio11 wrote about consulting like https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/17/ramit-sethi-and-patrick... or https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/21/ramit-sethi-and-patrick... .
But would you rather work 40 hours per week for €100k or 4 hours a week for €50k?
That would likely be an antitrust suit waiting to happen
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Victimhood, the new oil of the 21st century.
To be fair, land use restrictions began tightening much earlier than 1948 - NYC’s first zoning code was passed in 1916, for example.
purism. In fact I just got a computer from them. They make modern computers with Coreboot instead of proprietary bios. They need all our support!
Designing a Ruby Serverless Runtime
I agree with that entirely, but they are still using someone else's material to provide the service they are providing. As such they are using, without paying, someone else's work.

The service they provide may be very good, indeed, it is very good, but should they not pay for the materials on which it's based?
I've already replied in a different thread, but ... "increase supply forever" ... that is a straw-man. Supply has to increase as long as urbanization and population increase is going on in a given country/state/region.

"Rent control" is useful to smooth out the bumps, but it should be called "eviction moratorium" and "negative income tax".
I work in that industry, and I think it's very harsh to say that people have lost passion for innovation. Most engineers I've been around care about making a good product, and get excited about using better technology or finding a better design.

However there's a constant care about making things that are certifiable, and make business sense (otherwise it's just not going to happen). It seems to me that it's difficult for people outside this type of industry to appreciate how certification impacts the decisions.

We strive to make systems that are reliable, easy to use and maintain, and efficient; but they have to make their way to the customer, through the authorities and business constraints.
> Someone else in another comment mentioned his work might appeal to atheists, so it's interesting you mention now believing in God.

It's probably the G.K.Chesterton influence that led to that. Scott definitley writes from an atheist viewpoint, although like a lot of the rationalist community he has a soft spot for Buddhism - see for eg. his short story Samsara (https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/04/samsara/).
That stretches the meaning of the word beyond anything useful though. Is it censorship if The NY Times doesn’t publish your letter to the editor? Is it censorship if I kick you out of my party when you get drunk and start yelling racist slurs? You could take a maximalist view and say yes, those are censorship, but I doubt you would find many people that would say you shouldn’t do those things.
What where the noteworthy features, which make Syncthing a better solution?
2.8B mau & 15000 moderators is .5 per 100k for facebook.
the article only tangentially touches on depth of field which adds very much to a professionally looking webcam video, when using a DSLR or other digicam with a decent lens. You have the blur in the background so can still see the person in their surrounding but not so much that you can see all the cruft lying around. Focus is on the face and it's much better than any software solution that blows up the computer fan.
Assume you need to execute the following query:

SELECT SUM(A) FROM MyTable

For large tables it will take some time to compute the result. Now assume we append a new record and want to get the new result. The traditional approach is execute this query again. A better approach is to process this new record only by adding its value in A to the result of the previous query. It is important in (stateful) stream processing.

Something similar is implemented in these libraries which however rely on a different data processing conception (alternative to map-reduce):

https://github.com/asavinov/prosto - Functions matter! No join-groupby, No map-reduce.

https://github.com/asavinov/lambdo - Feature engineering and machine learning: together at last!
Ask HN: Do you still use mp3 player?
What's the best mp3 player for android in your opinion?
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Google Firebase for serverless front-end applications
Uh...who is this guy and why were people trying to dox him?
>Telegram claims that E2E encryption cannot be extended to group chats for backup reasons: to keep the highest level of security, messages from Secret Chats are not stored after delivery. Hence, if a phone is lost, the content of Telegram’s Secret Chats is lost.

This sounds like a feature to me. Keeping old messages conveniently available to the user means they are conveniently available to an attacker. This is particularly important on a device like a smart phone that keeps everything conveniently available to the user all the time.

This way of doing things does in fact make those Secret Chats more secure than Signal's regular chats in practice.
champing at the bit** :P
There are 31,536,000,000 milliseconds in a year. If you do (1-1E-9)^3.1536E10, you get a 2E-14 chance of no collision in a year.
It's an indirect measure. The target of the measure is not to prohibit being outside (although that is the first-order effect), but to prevent mixing households.

The real reason is that you're not allowed to coop up with guests in your home, but the police is not allowed to enter private residences and enforce that. So the night-time curfew is now being floated as the one thing that they can enforce to discourage people spending their evening with friends. Of course, it does nothing to discourage day-time visits, and I suspect evenings-with-friends will now turn into adult sleepover parties, but I guess we're still big on symbolism.

In my opinion, it'd be better if the government just declared the battle against Covid lost. They've tried for a year to appeal to the better nature of our citizens, and those citizens have democratically elected not to care about Covid. But at the same time, I know that openly tossing the towel will only lead to more people ignoring the measures.
not quite sure why the requirement of being compatible with the UUID 128-bit representation. i personally try to use KSUID (160bit) when possible and can’t see any downside so far
https://startupschool.org has some videos on the subject and more.
Does random UUID work as well as lets say an ordered integer id or ordered uuid? I thought the ids should have a definite order(not necessarily sequential) so that a binary search can be performed on the primary index. Similar for b-trees.
What issues have you encountered?

I can't imagine using anything else, it works so flawlessly for me on multiple devices across different platforms.
> Seems like if you really want to make it possible, you can.

More like "if the hard groundwork has been done 60 years ago". It's not as if SpaceX had to quite literally invent the orbital rocket.

So after 60 years of manned spaceflight, 9 manned lunar missions, and 30 years of flying reusable crewed vehicles with a space station that has been permanently crewed since 1998 someone better do it MUCH more cheaply.

The culprit isn't just "space is hard" - it's decades of cost-plus contracts and heavy government involvement that kept costs high and results low.
I agree with what you said but I feel like this is standard for most media outlets, including ones somewhat opposed to ny post (most notably the nyt)
Telegram does not have and will not have a monetization model that sells user privacy. Durov has been explicit in this. [1]

And it should be made clear that Telegram was forced into this position by the SEC who torpedoed any chance Telegram had of building out a decentralized network (TON).

[1] https://t.me/durov/142
I have been a Red hat employee for more than 8 years and we never ever intentionally made projects difficult to consume by users outside of RH. More people using the open source projects works better for us as it provides free mind share, testing and feedback. For RH selling subscription for a popular/stable open source project is a way easier problem than a project which has no mind share. That being said sometimes it is very difficult to maintain projects and branches for external contribution depending upon the scope of project and the development workflow we use for it. It is very common scene in open source projects where contributors does not maintain the documentation etc properly for easy on boarding. I can go on for long time why it is not easy to do and we should improve on it for sure.
As the other poster pointed out arcing is one component. Another is that DC voltage equivalent of an AC voltage is the RMS value of the AC signal. So, V_AC_RMS = V_peak / sqrt(2).