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> Only Google itself knows the real answer to this question

This alone should be setting off alarm bells for everyone, the government should be raiding Google offices to find the necessary facts to answer these questions. Google operates as the de facto front page of the Internet, the default starting point for the vast majority of the public, and they're incredibly dodgy about the real facts about how they use that power.

It's incredible how often Google both states a "fact" that is extremely biased in their favor, and simultaneously suggest it's indisputable because only Google has data on it, and of course, Google will not share the data because it's confidential business information.

This stonewall is behind incredible lies like the idea that targeted advertising increases revenue by 50%, despite independent data finding the difference closer to 4%.

I think the issue at hand here, is that Google should be legally compelled to disclose the real answers to this question, and a lot of other questions about how their algorithms work.

> The data in the article comes from 100 million people dumb enough to infect their devices with malware

This is ironic, considering the Google Toolbar, headed by Sundar Pichai himself, is much of how Google got it's mass adaption as well as browsing data to improve their search rankings. Perhaps the difference between "malware" and "useful tool" is how successful the business behind it is. ;)
They are encrypted, but not e2e. It is a key distribution problem.

Threema solves it by scanning QR codes; for that, you need to physically meet with the other recipients, they need to bring their devices and scan each other QR codes (note that Threema still supports only one device per recipient; otherwise, the users would need to scan each other QR codes for each device).

It is not something that an average Telegram user would be willing to do.
I'm really starting to prefer DuckDuckGo at this point. There was one time when I thought they would always live in Google's shadow, but in this brave new world of content censorship and commercialization-induced bias, I find that I get noticeably "better" results on the more neutral alternative.
> 'open' and 'source' are also just two words of the English language which have an implied meaning when put together.

Right, which is further evidence against the assertion that '"open source" means absolutely nothing'.

> Also how would you actually call software where the source is open but does not fulfill the osi criteria?

I tend to use the term "transparent software". Goes hand-in-hand with my catchphrase[0] 'round these parts. Basically: if I can see the source code (and therefore can independently audit it, or hire someone to do so), then it's transparent and can (potentially) be trusted, even if the license infringes on my freedoms around that source code (modification, redistribution, etc.).

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[0]: "transparency is a dependency of trust": https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
In the US, no one is forcing anyone to use a real estate agent.
+1 to this. Weather, translations, timezones, quick math, sports scores (searching “nba” gives a much cleaner interface than going to nba.com), not to mention Wikipedia snippets. That easily covers >50% of my searches.
One of the things that struck me is that the need for new hardwood floors. I've been there, and I think this is a phase where you have to do something stupid with a lot of money to realize how stupid it is.

For instance, I spent $7K on new quartz counter-tops, $5K on a new fireplace insert which I would rarely use, and then $70K on a bathroom that I never used. Now, I've come to the conclusion that perfect doesn't really exist and just to enjoy what you have. We went from home owners to renters.

All the external things that money buys tend to not provide lasting happiness, and there you are stuck with yourself. We all die.

I have a lot of thoughts on this piece as I'm in the FI camp, but not yet RE camp. The only reason I don't join RE right now is because I want to try to leverage my position to do something really big. However, I'll probably fail, and I'll retire and do my own thing.
I used to do that until I realized on Mac, I can just cmd-spacebar to do Spotlight search and type my equation in there.
And under that "Security first" headline reads the following:

> "Initial Flatpak releases have concentrated on application building, distribution and installation, and while the foundations of sandboxing are in place, there are still missing pieces."
FT had an article about this a few months ago- Arianspace is seeing their business evaporate overnight, and they have no reusability story, and Europe doesn't do enough launches to really drive much business.

EDIT: Link: https://www.ft.com/content/24cca993-b249-45a5-8c42-b39c0ec30...
NASA also has an operational mandate that limits what they can and cannot do.

Much of the science NASA produces is tremendous stuff, but they can’t just be given a budget - even with the friendliest administration - with permission to go nuts.

For better or worse, private industry fills these gaps.

Any well-capitalized space company could “go nuts”, and as long as the higher-ups (execs, board, shareholders, etc.) are happy then there is a wide open space (forgive the pun) to innovate in.
I guess they are busy removing colours, removing reliefs, removing textures.
I usually append 'reddit' to my google searches. It doesn't necessary provide better results but I love the plain text format.
I'd be surprised if there was a long tail of customers. There is probably a long tail of searches for most customers.

Google giving up on difficult searches and focusing on showing promoted links, AMP sites, and "rich" result boxes is probably a sound business strategy too, and is unlikely to make users switch search engines this late in the game (Bing/DDG don't seem to do better anyway).
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Can someone point me to good sourced where I can learn more about the inner workings of graphics? Something thats probably beginner friendly?
Industrially, I’ve seen calcium topical formulations as something to hold you over.
This is why I just flash ESPHome firmware on all all the IoT stuff I buy to make them useful, trusted, and easily updated elements of my home.

I even run tuya-convert to switch over my dozens of light bulbs.

Anything that can't run open firmware I control doesn't get to live on my internal LAN.
They're not the same, Florida is higher. But overall Florida seems to be an outlier among the "low restriction" states and California seems to be an outlier among the "high restriction" states. A better approach would be to average the groups of states that took different approaches, and maybe also try to normalize by other confounders like population density. This is probably a better approach because there might be other pandemics in the future that are way deadlier, and we should actually know what works and what doesn't.
Need capital letters and symbols:

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Generation is a rather big solution for sometimes small problems. For many things like utility functions I think generics are much more readable and easier to understand while go generate would be heavy handed.
Google has become a really bad search engine for anything besides the most superficial information about a broad range of topics, especially ones that are commercial in nature (which it is extremely good at... go figure). I spent a while trying to find the name of a contemporary artist whose name I forgot by querying those key words along with various things about the thematic etc qualities of their work and all Google could tell me was about Claude Monet. Gave up and searched some of the same keywords on Twitter of all places and instantly found the artist I was looking for.
In other words, the future of the internet (or what remains of it) it's the desktop.

Mobiles phones are a walled garden for megacorps.
I don't understand why the color coding plugs wasn't brought back for C. The 3.0 vs 2.0 thing was nice, and made it easy to tell what I needed to plug into. Now I have a phone with a 2.0, a laptop with a 3.1, and a macbook with a thunderbold, and my USB to HDMI port only works with one of the three.
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I don’t know about Google, but I’ve gotten relevant Stack Overflow code snippets pretty regularly from DDG
Yeap. It doesn't sound pleasant. I'll take "fixing man-made issues so they're not so horrible" for $300, Alex.
That's not strictly true. Wikipedia is crowed-sourced, and losing visitors means losing potential contributors.

You could probably make the case that someone who would rather read the snippet on Google isn't likely to contribute, but it likely has an effect on the margin.

And that's ignoring the donate banner they throw up there from time to time.
I'm seeing very similar issues. Google seems to heavily favor sending people to the sites with the highest content volume instead of the highest quality content.

The worst thing is that content creators are manipulating this to build content farms full of low quality content and overwhelming ad volumes.

I miss the old web where Google was really great at finding that one guy's blog post that was actually useful.
I agree that open-source Arcanist is the weak link, but it’s mostly down to commands like ‘arc diff’ and ‘arc land’ having the wrong default flags. It’s an unforced error and hurts adoption, but the right incantations aren’t hard to alias.

I’d be very interested in how Gerrit is better than Phabricator on the review side, I’ve used it a bit and formed the opposite opinion, but because I’m a Phabricator power user and a Gerrit novice it’s likely I formed a biased opinion.
With good realtors you sign a document that states that they work for only you.

Of course there can be other issues, like the realtor "helpfully" setting up the appraisal with their own company, the one that just happens not to notice any major issues with the sale.

I also think that the convention of the the realtor taking a percentage of the sale as their commission is problematic as it incentivizes them to show you the most expensive houses instead of the ones that are best for you. I'd be happier if they charged a flat fee or a flat hourly rate.
Do you mind if I email you with some questions? Thank you.
> It needs to supports, out of the box, cloud connected or wifi enabled (wireless lan connected) devices.
When the physical layer of devices in the home don’t offer Wireless connectivity, hardware communication modules needs to be adopted to bridge the existing connectivity.

The protocol the OP wishes for exists already, it is called PJON: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON
Google Search users aren't Google's customers. Making Google Search useful to its users is not what makes it profitable. It only needs to be mildly better than the competition, so that people use it and can be used for collecting data and serving ads.

So GP may not be "an unprofitable long tail". GP may in fact be "a profitable typical long tail for whom Google Search is frustratingly unhelpful".
I'll be a little more blunt because you two seem to be incapable of subtlety.

The dictionary definition of assault is "a violent attack, or threat of..." https://www.dictionary.com/browse/assault

Neither of those things happened according to our current, best knowledge, or at the time of the statements.

At best, we can say a third-party did the threatening beforehand. A third-party that was neither Minsky or Stallman.

To clarify further, assault does not mean... "ooh, I did something bad and failed to verify something I'm required to, but didn't want to, because reasons…". Expanding the definition of assault to include any poor behavior under the sun (in order to score virtue/outrage points) does not help anyone.

IANAL, and until we know more, I'd say a more accurate term for Minsk's misdeeds would be statutory-rape and perhaps "negligence."
Thank you for this!
I completely agree.

Just a recent example (it's just AN example, there are probably way better examples than this one):
I started recently to code a website after years without putting my hands in web development.

I went through some documentations of multiple lightweight frameworks for server side coding:

100% relies on the reader to know how to use the latest fancy-cool-kids-choice packet manager for the given language. If you do know by heart your brew-npm-composer-pacman-I-dont-know-what, good for you dear documentation writer -> not everybody does!! Which means that if, for some reasons, there is the slightest issue with any of the versions of the hundreds of dependencies your "basic application" requires, it means that the newcomer for your framework must found his.her way into a stack of tools and dependencies that is galactic in size.

More than half of the documentation said that if you don't want to use the packet manager you can use a virtual machine or a container manager (Docker)

100% of the documentation I read started showing code to configure the project WITHOUT mentioning in WHICH files the code should go into -> it was implied!!! -> searching about the topic online made me realize I was not the only one, and the response from the helpers were actually very efficient and correct and were not part of the documentation!

100% of the documentation included non-self sufficient information to have something working and running -> proof is, search for one the problems on whatever search engine -> led to hundreds if not thousands of results of people asking their ways into having the "Getting Started tutorial" to actually work!!!
Well, to be fair, the Go spec is missing several parts of the language, such as finalization, thread safety (the memory model, sync points or other happens-before relationships), goroutine memory/stack usage, anything to do with go modules.

Still, even if they added these, it would likely stay significantly shorter than even Java.
That makes no sense. For the entire life of the electric appliance you are emitting double or perhaps triple the carbon dioxide of the equivalent natural gas appliance.

First switch the electric grid to not use natural gas and only then think about changing appliances.
When I search Google now I mostly get spam.

“Product vs. Product” -> list of spam websites that just show them side by side with ads.

“Product Review” -> same as above, spam.

“Product referral code” -> sites with spam and no codes.

Interesting web content is in Reddit (and youtube), Google exists as a tool to search Reddit since the “new” Reddit site is awful.

Programming questions are mostly stack overflow, but occasionally you get a useful blog.

General knowledge is Wikipedia, news is axios.

Amazon for most purchases (except for products that have their own brand and sites that are at risk of being faked). Etsy for boutique stuff.

Most of the rest of the web is junk.

I think we could probably go back to curated 90s era web portals and have a better experience.
I don't understand how you can say "flatpak has never claimed to be a security panacea. They didn't invent flatpak for the sake of security." and read that while keeping a straight face.

Even if it takes 3 decades, it's still a goal that was there (and advertised as such) from the very inception of the project, 5-6 years ago.
Op says he did provide documentation but they lost it (and hadn't been backing up) after he left
> ...I manage a small company...

And you identify with this band of miscreants? That's
embarrassing.
I wonder if you'll see more domain specific content aggregators/search engines pop up as people (like myself) because increasingly dissatisfied with the almost populist nature of a lot of Google's search results.
Where did you see that claim?
Obviously trash sells and it always has ("The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience"), but some people care more about things like truth and style than they do about money.
I wonder if an AMP click counts as a click or not.
I tried 5 different diseases, 4 had wikipedia on the first page, 1 had it on the top of the second page.

Do you mean blocking just that automated text result that appears on the top of the page for some questions? That would make sense, since they probably don't want to boldly state medical facts without context, especially since that feature can be wrong sometimes.

Disclaimer: I work for Google, not on anything related
Strawman. That's not the point. The point is the permanent damage SARS-CoV-2 has on numerous organ systems. People also survive COVID-19 illness and die from other things.
This is a pointer to a review from 2015 for a product that's no longer commercially available. Seems like perhaps the technology wasn't as mature or capable as the review seems to indicate, if it didn't make it.
I think you should try to quantify simplicity by the number of moving parts.
This is my fear. Currently, deep-fakes are fun. We share text messages of Donald Trump singing YMCA and everyone has a good laugh. But as you said, we're also a nation that easily falls for conspiracies. Everything from Q-Anon, Moon Landings being faked, and 9/11 being spearheaded by George Bush, Jr. Someone mentioned you can be the next multi-billionaire by creating a cryptographic watermark with validation, which at first sounds good. However, the obvious issue is that those who believe in these conspiracy theories won't trust "cryptographic watermarks".

Basically, anything and everything can be faked. And people will trust what confirms their biases.

Unfortunately, I personally see no solution to deep-fakes. The worms are out of the can, and we now have to question everything we see, which is A LOT to ask of people. Even if governments band together to "ban" deep-fakes, tightly regulating the internet to track deep-fake origins, or a more sinister "1984" approach, you still have the obvious issue that deep-fakes can be created by those who regulate the masses (our governments).
There are many things planned, especially moving to "web based technologies" for the client as a longer term initiative. The roadmap also has some work on JMAP support, which I hope picks up on mail servers too. One thing I'd love to see, which probably won't be on the roadmap, is native integration with Exchange and Exchange calendaring. I know there are some extensions for this, but none of those have actually worked well for me.
This could be a big deal for games Games Workshop and Warhammer like games in general. I don't think this could copy model because they are so small and detailed but the technology is advancing quickly! Why bother buying the models when I can 3d print them OR port the 3d file into TTS and play online?
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I have this problem in practice plugging my Pixel 5 phone into my car for Android Auto. The cable only works in one orientation. Android Auto is notorious for being very finicky about connections; no one's really figured it out but it seems to work better with shorter cables and of course higher quality cables. I've assumed my particular problem was some quirk of the connector fit, but now I'm wondering if it could be related to the asymmetry in the data pin design.
One is possible based in science, the other...possibly based in science. I was just saying that it is possible, not that it is probable.
I just finished rewatching Star Trek 1-4 a trip down memory lane...
I don’t have a Mac. Does Spotlight handle units as well as Google does? Also, doing the calculation in Google is handy because it’s easy to share in a modifiable way.
Which is why at the end of the day I always pick the platform language for production code.

As long as the platform is relevant everything moves along without extra layers of tooling and idiomatic wrapper libraries for platform APIs.

Might not have all the bells and whistles, not so shinny, but it works and I don't need to care about my replacement having headaches.
The problem is the millions to billions of people who are living in areas that will become virtually uninhabitable due to temperature changes and sea level rise. The first way climate change will seriously negatively impact humanity is through geopolitical conflict and a massive refugee crisis.
I'm wearing one right now. I agree this is a handy feature.

It has two down-sides:

1. Muting the mic involves touching/moving the mic, so you make some noise when trying to discretely mute/unmute.

2. It mutes, but doesn't tell Zoom that it's muted, so you can appear to be unmuted to others on the call. I'd rather die than be falsely accused of having a dog bark interrupt a call from MY mic!
Free software is an ethical imperative; open source is a business model. Not my idea, someone called RMS came up with that, copyleft, etc.
I agree, but it still seems far ahead of any competitor. Eg DuckDuckGo, Bing etc... anecdotally for the things I search for.
It drives me crazy how Google never fails to remove the most unique and yet most important words of my search term. It basically does this 99% of the time now.
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Probably for the same reason that the Taiwanese government recruited Morris Chang to start TSMC and strategically skew markets towards Taiwan.
I don’t particularly like the press, but as a profession they recognized quickly the danger of Google displaying directly their content on the results page. Too bad they fought only for themselves and not for the web in general, since they’re holding enough power to tip the scale.
Yeah, I was an avid user of self hosted gitlab previously, but the pace of added bloat^Wfeatures was just too much and I ditched it for gitea about 1 year ago.

I feel gitlab's is now mainly aiming at large enough companies which actually use all of these features.
No difference, the idea here is that it creates drastically different lifestyles at the same productivity when you have free housing that you did not earn yourself(in comparison too not having free housing).

The housing becoming half or even more than half of the salary creates a class of people who do the same job, having the same productivity but reaping completely different lives for their hard work in comparison to those who have parents that transitioned into landlords.

It is a prime tension between skilled workforce in cities. For now, the proposed solution is to prevent immigrants competing but that won't cut it. I believe that it will create deep changes in the society as they find ot that hampering meritocracy to reduce competition from foreigners wouldn't sort it out.

Landlords are one unproductive burden to the society, no wonder people are leaving SV because of the ridiculous housing prices. Money invested in rent is not a good investment.

Property is a speculative market that doesn't reflect the value provided by the product. Very similar system to the medallion system for the taxi drivers.
Yikes. Say what you will about package.json files and all their associated problems, but Make? Really?

I've written multi-thousand line Makefile build systems across multiple directories and multiple platforms, from scratch.

I must say Make is the most non-intuitive language I've ever had to work with. It's been near impossible for other engineers to pick up the build systems I've written. They still come back to me to ask questions years later.

And most importantly, you have to use tabs instead of spaces. ::sigh::

It's a great tool for some things, just like anything else. But I'd be careful about using it as your default.
In the US at least, this would work very differently if we had better healthcare for our citizens. Sudden health expenses is one of the things that went wrong in his life that derailed his plans.
Which is a lot less than what their competitors received. So did big government hurt or help?