skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would most user even realise they are on a different search engine? Or would they care about it enough when majority of it are now coming from Siri Search.

And if Apple partner with Bing and make an Apple's branded search engine ( like Yahoo ) while Bing pays ~$5B+ to Apple? Would user notice the results were slightly worse?

And Google lose 20% of user search traffic, and these 20% user base also happens to generate 30%+ of Ads revenue. i.e They are worth a bit more than others.
Oh, it is definitely common for other countries to go through Australia to bypass laws or legal hurdles locally. This has been used to catch many cyber criminals.
That's pretty upsetting except Apple is getting racist and attacking sexual deviants as well. The difference is vanishing and in that case I'd rather be using software I know I can throw out and replace.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

"In the year 2081, the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the Constitution dictate that all Americans are fully equal and not allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anyone else. The Handicapper General's agents enforce the equality laws, forcing citizens to wear "handicaps": masks for those who are too beautiful, loud radios that disrupt thoughts inside the ears of intelligent people, and heavy weights for the strong or athletic. "
This seems like a lot of jumping to conclusions to fit your pre-determined opinion of them. Without derailing the thread, I do think we all need to extend charity to people who have openly declared what their affiliations are not.

We shouldn't normalise bad interpretations regardless of our own biases.

They have said they're not, so we should take them at face value. Let's now focus on participating to achieve the shared goals of good user-software without bloat, spyware, and other crap that makes up modern technology.
Aaand if you follow the steps on the flow chart, your product will immediately be dead, forgotten; replaced by some competitor's product who, while being likely technically inferior to your product, did not hesitate to do all these types of shady things in order to gain that bit of extra market share.

"Natural selection" at work. Sad, of course.
I don't get it. There's a docker image called alpine-ruby. I presume that isn't supported by the alpine team either, but, honestly speaking, I'm doubtful that's causing enough of a support load on them. If it is, I would assume the reasonable solution to that is to close any support requests with "We are not responsible for that image" or something of that variant, or even requesting the creator of the image to mention that in the docs, but preventing users from installing ruby on alpine (!!!), not just images?
> How might a streaming service be designed to increase user happiness and wellbeing?

The rational part of my brain would like

- Suggestions for difficult content (this tends to be things you either love or hate, which is why Netflix does not suggest it, preferring safe bets);

- Making it impossible to binge on one, or a small set, of things, instead forcing diversification;

- Encourage spending short amounts of time -- e.g. by automatically breaking up movies into episodes, not autoplaying the next episode, disincentivising stupid cliffhangers, etc.

I realise many of these things are actively user hostile and a service implementing them would be dumped in favour of the alternatives faster than they have time to rollback the commit. Including by myself, when I just want a low-effort way to pass the time with my wife until it's socially acceptable to go to bed.

And that's sort of, I guess, the point. In order to increase user well being, a service like this probably has to encourage the user to spend less time with it. But that's not a business model that generates any money.
> just kinda bugs me that the way the formal cardinality of infinite sets is communicated is as the commonsense notion of "size".

It's not in any place doing maths sensibly.

It's just that both the USA and the UK have a terribly unrigorous way of teaching maths even at university level.

If you take a look at the French Wikipedia article on cardinality, you will see that the world size is never used and the closest thing you will find to it is that cardinality can intuitively be seen as the "number" of elements in a set with actual quotes around. The article then compare multiple very rigorous definitions. I expect a translation of it would be unreadable by most American however. The average French reader will have been exposed to significantly more formal mathematics.

Using the world "size" when talking about infinities is just sloppy.
Christ that guy comes across as an arrogant prick. Here, "Veritasium", let me rephrase your shitty, overly long, condescending video: "I deceive my viewers because it makes me more money".
One of the most difficult thing about burnout is that it can be quite different for each person in the way it is expressed and it's hard to discern.

I was (and probably am to some extent) burnt out.
The hardest thing was caused by the fact that I asked for help.
Help to reduce my workload, help to have some kind of support, whatever.

What happened is that many if not all the people I knew always reacted with "Yeah, you'll be fine".

And this is because of two major things
1. I always solve problems. People expect me to do the same so when I ask for help, they don't consider this a threat.
2. People don't want to face pain: I was the only one in a team noticing that one of our teammates was on the edge of burnout. We don't want to face the pain because it's hard, because we don't know how to fix pain easily and sometimes we also can't fix pain.

In the end I decided to do something like Maya. Tell my story.

I documented myself for the burnout part, asked a friend that's expert on psycology and wrote a piece to help people understand how complex this topic is. (here it is in italian, for those who care: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/vogliamo-parlare-di-burnout-o...)

Result? Many people reached out and shared how much critical was this problem.
We need to fix it and learn both how to see this in ourselves and in others, and how we can help them (and to me the fist key element is being able to face other people's pain and suffer with no fear)
Wow, I was unaware of this subtext, thanks for exposing it.

Germany has very tough laws against glorifying the Nazi regime, so if they are Germans it’s not just sick humor but deliberate.

Though Suckless vs. Poetering seems like a Hitler vs. Stalin evil-fights-evil situation best avoided by giving both a wide berth.
> works great for the chat part. Dont know about the rest.

Great, so it's not an alternative at all.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28302420
I think they mean dump containers of sequestered C02 into the deep ocean. The pressure will keep them at the bottom of the ocean.
Well, yes, that's how it was founded in the 1700s with slaves, flintlock rifles, no suffrage, and most people had syphilis. A lot has changed since then. Like, well, tanks.

A counter narrative would be the Cultural Revolution as I pointed out. China's population in 1966 at the start of the Cultural Revolution was about 750mm people. By the time Tiananmen Square happened, it was 1.1b people. I'm looking for the numbers but I believe guns were pretty common.
> Recently, they replaced the fun, gamery loading messages with something more "formal". Now it does it's one thing slightly less well. The first of many casualties, no doubt.

This is funny because my impression was that Discord users by and large hated those messages.
An excellent goal! I too hope that it will be possible to experiment and improve the performance of a human with tested, verified substances, known concentrations of active agents in them by legal means.

As it stands now, in my country in EU, not only it's impossible to legally take amphetamines for ADHD (only Concerta is allowed for children), it's actually forbidden to diagnose it in adults. So here I am, sitting with my 8/9 DSM-5 symptoms in inattention and the only thing I can do about it is go find a meth dealer!
Damn you are going to kill it with current shipping prices being INSANE. I heard containers that used to ship for $4k now cost $20k. Delivery times have blown from 50 days to 250 days.
Are you remembering the negative anecdotal evidence and disregarding the predictions that were right?

Has anyone conducted a study of HN sentiments?
It's quite good. Violent crime is low, very unlikely to get kidnapped or stabbed. Robberies and mugging happens but I don't think it's much worse than average.

Healthcare is up to West European standards and is part of the $1000/month. Coronavirus deaths per pop is at #100th rank or so. The current wave is very bad, with daily cases at about 6th globally, but KL area is about 80% adults fully vaccinated now.

Roads are dangerous if you're driving. Corruption is lowish by Asian standards, high by Western standards. It's at a level where you can choose to bribe the nice policeman or report him, but you're unlikely to be arrested on skin color. We don't have many drug lords; organized criminals run government [1] or take on gov contracts.

Would you like statistics instead of anecdotes? A lot don't exist past 2005 or so, and be aware that many official stats abuse statistics [2]. I'm sure you can search the stats yourself, I'm just here to provide a view.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/najib-razak-former-malaysian-pr...

[2] https://twitter.com/dghisham/status/1427814223036370954
Ok, the OP's wording was weird. If this is the case, basically he was granted stock options and failed to exercise them, which would have also had tax consequences since they must have been NSOs if he wasn't an employee.

Not quite fair for the OP to talk about the contract being "f**ed" and using the word "recourse", as if the company did something wrong.
Oh god, what typically terrible, tendentious journalism.

This is the kind of article that tries to dish up dozens of random allegations, intermixing them in strange ways, hoping that what sticks with the reader is a general sense of wrong-doing.

Among other things, it tries to imply that Only Fans somehow allows "big" accounts to post child porn multiple times with a warning, including by misusing the world "illegal". In reality, and pending evidence to the contrary, it is instead reasonable to assume that Only Fans will let people get away with a warning for a terms of service violation, which is entirely a different thing.
Compare this payment to the statement of Google that "alternatives are just one click away" in the context of search engine competition.

Pretty hard to square the notion that value delivered, not defaults and market power matter when you pay 15 billion for that one click
Securing Online Gaming: Combine Chaos Engineering with DevOps Practices
> What are the problems with this?

The fundamental trust of copyright is literally to make things worse for consumers to the benefit of producers. If you see consumers being inconvenienced in an expensive way as a problem then you haven't engaged with the problem copyright is here to solve.
Introduction to Kotlin
It wasn't really inspired by it though — I had no clue that something like that even existed on mobile. Just a coincidence :)
I agree, Python is/was about simplicity. That is why for validation I use (Maat)[https://pypi.org/project/Maat/] It's just a dictionary to describe the data, and it's easy to expand.
Because its free. Slack is not.
(In)famously, the account widely believed to belong to Ghislaine Maxwell is a moderator of several major subs:

https://www.reddit.com/user/maxwellhill

(moderator of r/worldnews, r/environment, r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut, r/cyberlaws, r/enviroaction and r/greed)
However, if we did have a breakthrough in fusion, that energy source could be used to make carbon capture a reality.
Not true at all. Australian federal election House of Representatives uses a preferential voting system where you have to number every candidate in your order of preference 1..N. Also voting (or at least attending) is compulsory.
Yeah, nearly all paywalls on HN have the bypass methods in the comments.
> I’m a high initiative/gullibile/naive person I think. And so then we “do better”. We go big(ish) and it’s awesome. I do so, because I can’t just do the 9-5 thing. I get into it. I want to put a ding in the small part of the universe that is that product. And 4 times now it’s been successful.

I guess I'm being somewhat presumptuous but seems like with that energy/attitude, you might consider running your own business. You get to choose like minded people, put all you have into it and reap the benefits (and of course, shoulder a lot more risk as well but like minded co-founders can help with that + you have already seen success 4 times).
The risks of Vaccines is not limited to the AEFI caused by a proper preparation of the Vaccine, but also include the problems with manufacturing such as this as well...

Also, I wonder what the foreign substance was.
> it would be impossible to hide.

There is nothing to hide if there is no data collected in the first place. Here in this video, you can see that even injuries sustained by people who took part in the trials are being rejected by the doctors citing as caused by "anxiety".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mxqC9SiRh8

I think people are completely oblivious to this issue, and is under this fallacy that if there was something wrong with the vaccines, then the information will automatically appear in public perception. If you think this, you need to only look at how smoking went on for a long time without the people noticing any problem with it.

With vaccines, we know that the signal is killed right at the point of generation, because the medical practicioners are conditioned (being charitable here) to reject any injury as not being caused by the Vaccines.
Didn't they knowingly bomb weddings? Is he saying the US was surprised that innocent women and children were at weddings?
At what cost? Hasn’t NSW been under a severe lockdown for months now? And it’s being further tightened because cases are at an all time high and still going up? I mean they had to designate approval of friends for single people so they at least have human contact.

So sure, great job on keeping Covid numbers down until now, but it’s not like it wasn’t costly in other ways.

And I say this as someone with family in Vietnam who took a similar approach. They felt like it would be a great time to create a domestic vaccine industry since they had zero cases for most of last year - plenty of time to develop their own Covid vaccine.

Well in the past 4 months cases have increased by almost 200x (2,000 to near 400,000), same with deaths and it still hasn’t peaked. Total number full vaccinated is a little under 2% (though 1 dose is almost 20%).

Now they are scrambling like mad to get any vaccine they can. And they have the military distributing food in their biggest city because nobody can leave their homes - unless for medical care.

To the grandfather’s point, the control of Covid was admirable, don’t get me wrong, but it was squandered out of complacency that they could always get it under control.
Editor of BMJ estimates about 20% of scientific publications are fraudulent.

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-hea...

Fewer than half replicate. I would estimate a lot of that comes from softer research malpractice.

Being confused about the value is a fair reaction. It is high; without scientific research, though, we wouldn't have vaccines or monoclonal antibodies. On the other hand, it is lower than assumed, and trusting individual papers and peer review processes is a mistake.

How much value would Facebook have if it were your only source of information? A lot, actually. Imperfect information is valuable too.
I don't think this is really a good idea. HTTP and HTML aren't perfect, but they've been made into ubiquitous standards already used by everyone. In order to switch to a new standard, you'd need to have a pretty convincing way in which it was better. And I don't think you can ultimately outbalance what we have now. Not to mention that the only way this could probably actually happen would be through Google doing it, which would be disastrous for the open nature of the standards.
> I can do a fresh install in 2 hrs

I can do a fresh install of OpenBSD in 5 minutes.

However I won't have to, because unlike Windows 10, the system doesn't gradually rot over time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28279365
For some more context: https://www.protocol.com/reddit-powermods-war

This list is at best deeply misleading; those subreddits often have dozens of moderators.
Some people will use it just because it's the default. Apple is paid because of that. So Apple is selling user data, i.e. violating privacy for money
I've never understood why these shortenings are so common. Is it just to avoid the mental load of having to remember how to spell long words? Isn't the mental load of having to remember which number goes with which word worse?
Not specific to discord, but what's broken is that work is organized to maximize personal profit of shareholders (and the remuneration and other privileges of managers), not to benefit users/society.

I'm not against people profiting from their activity, in the broad sense of the word (though i'm personally opposed to money as a tool/concept). But profit-driven social organization has lead to many avoidable disasters: security in tech, safety in buildings/planes, low durability of products and planned obsolescence, impeding ecological disaster and the next massive extinction of species...

As a species, we have enough production capacity to make sure everyone is well-off, yet a tiny minority grabs resources and ensures most of it is wasted and thrown away (see food/housing supply vs needs). Capitalism is the name of the system which holds such properties as virtuous, and it has proved to be a failed model in many regards over the centuries.
> but what is broken is that the people who have ultimate control of large public companies (in 90% of cases - founder controlled companies are a prominent exception) are the shareholders. And these are typically not domain experts, their main interest is in making money. So they generally see fit to appoint executives whose main objective is to make money and to remove those who care about anything else.

What alternatives are there?

> Not everyone is doing that. But those who are often making the most money, and as money = power in capitalist economy, the people who are doing this are continually increasing their control of our companies over time.

The most profitable public companies seem to invest quite heavily in long term investments and have long term planning. This does not seem to square with your statement.
> Can somebody that likes it explain why it seems to be doing so well?

It offers a couple of gamer-y features that Slack doesn't like voice channels. But make no mistake, the main reason is because it is free.
Could one do a back-of-the-envelope calculation on a user acquisition cost for Google?

15b USD/year / 500 m users = 30 USD/user/year

3 searches/user/day = 1000 searches/user/year

30 USD/user/year / 1000 searches/user/year = 0.03 USD/search

AFAIK, 0.03 USD per search (or impression) is in the right ballpark for advertising.

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Data used (retrieved from Google)
446m Safari users.
An average user searches on Google 3 - 4 times per day.
Why isn't a mute toggle a solution? I set up caps lock with autohotkey to be a mute toggle in Windows. It works well.

The only complaint with this is that if I'm running multiple voice chats at the same time then I need to use some other keybinds to mute individual applications. Still, for most users this would be more than adequate.
This is not quite correct. QKD could in principle be safe against eavesdropping (even though the track record so far has been very poor due to experimental imperfections), but it has no inherent protection against man-in-the-middle attacks.

If you think about it, this is fundamentally not possible. There is no way of authenticating who sits on the other end of your fiber connection without having previously exchanged a key. This could either be a shared secret key, or standard public key cryptography.

From an it-security perspective, QKD is simply a very expensive and impractical stream cipher that (slowly) grows a short shared secret key into an arbitrarily long one. The only fundamental advantage over a symmetric encryption algorithm like AES is that an attack would have to happen during the QKD process when the (signed) basis settings are exchanged. It is not possible to simply record all the communication with the hope to maybe being able to break the algorithm in the far future.
That’s what I read many times. Politicians and corporations can do whatever they want because “life is good”.
> It seems to be that once if you're an island the size of Australia and you've eliminated domestic transmission the simple solution is to route all international flights to an airport in remote location (not one in a large city) where absolutely everyone involved in the process be they passangers, crew or quarantine staff must stay for two weeks with zero exceptions.

Good luck staffing such a facility.
> They have said they're not, so we should take them at face value.

If only it were that simple.
I don't use Discord for gaming, but I do (reluctantly) have to use it for volunteering work. One day I discovered Discord sets my status as "currently playing Game X" for everyone to see, to my horror!

What an absurd privacy violation.
German here. Do not trust our government, please. Our politicians are utterly incompetent, as is the EU parliament.

The last somewhat (!) safe haven is Switzerland.
Would you not just have more subtle, harder to debug problems if it were not for versioned symbols?