skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's simplifying it greatly. Here's their help page:

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...

They have their own crawler as well, and there are a bunch of other sources depending on what you're searching for. Bing results are probably a larger part of it at the end of the day, but it's not quite as you are alluding to.
The Lost Art of the Unsent Angry Letter
> by wishful thinking

What is the wishful thinking in this case? I see it as a deliberate tradeoff: you accept a black market and massive queues, for the idea of people with any background or income living in the city. You could allocate by lottery or by queue time or by market rates. The last one balances supply and demand, but it doesn't allow a city that has non-rich people living in central locations.

So the question is: do we want to balance supply and demand if the cost is a gentrified city core? And that's the tradeoff.
If we are ever able to significantly increase human lifespans and/or birth rates decline, I wouldn't be surprised to see a business model similar to this eventually outcompete all others.

Even with the brief few decades of existence we might get (if we're lucky) now, the planned obsolescence and bullshit, mind-cluttering marketing gets really old for most of us well before we're halfway through it.
I don't disagree with this so...

sed "s/users/devs/g" previousComment
I am building something similar, but no data source part.

https://bruzu.com
The government of Taiwan has been willing to maintain the status kayfabe, including maintain the "Republic of China" name and holding China's seat at the UN for a couple of decades. It all seems quite ridiculous from the outside, but a lot of people in the region still get quite pissy about the particulars.
Hate speech is not illegal in Sweden, but ok.

They have, at least when I used to be a regular, deleted tons and tons of threads because they had an political incorrect opinion stated. They banned a lot of users for no real reason and revamped the rules many times in order to silence peoples opinions that were widespread on the sub.

Now afaik there is only people like themselves (and presumably yourself) left, I wonder why? Reddit itself took a stance a while ago for specific political opinions and removed a lot of subs that I was subscribed to. Many others were famously quarantines like /r/theredpill and others. If you simply upvote the incorrect thing you can be banned. This is basically punishing thoughts.

You can't claim freedom of speech if you silence a very large group of people from speaking.
Hundreds Line Up as Amazon Fresh Opens in Chevy Chase – WTOP
I want a search engine that returns results solely on the terms of the query. I'm so tired of search engines thinking they know what I want to see based on my history. Not only do I question the validity of the results when they are so subject to change, I also worry I'm missing something.
What you really want to ask about is the ARPU metric, or Average Revenue Per User:

https://mondaynote.com/the-arpus-of-the-big-four-dwarf-every...

Google gets revenues of about $256 per user per year, mostly from search ad impressions. That's the context for this $15 per user deal; their ROI is nearly 20x.

For context, Apple makes about $30 on services like iCloud per user; if you factor in hardware sales every 2 years or so their revenue is $194/user/year. Facebook makes about $112 per US/Canadian user. Amazon is the big ARPU winner, making $752 per user per year based on $120/year Prime memberships plus sellers giving them their fee of approximately 15% fee + $5 shipping prices.
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The latter does not follow from the former (even if it might be true). The mining block only affects the latest batches of a few models, but profitability of mining also affects demand for the other models, for AMD GPUs, and in the second-hand market. Unless the supply of mining-blocked GPUs is sufficient to cover all displaced demand from these other segments, it doesn't necessarily help much.
Maybe the duck has trouble taking off too? In effect they sell a crippled product for less $$ to the cheap system builders who market on price to people impressed by SSD, who know no better
Thankfully your idea of "perfectly reasonable" is not, and most likely will not, be law. And if it is, I will happily move to a state where it is not.

It is scary what some societies throughout history have defined as "perfectly reasonable".
Um, it doesn't have too...

Why not start with re-reading existing consumer data protection law? I bet there's stuff in there that can be applied and reworked.

We need it to be appropriately scary for companies to abuse data.
The Beauty of Bezier Curves
Thinking this might have been the case... Good strategy amongst the more extreme neoliberals out there. Can see them doing it with the NHS too, play the long game, dismantle it piece by piece and then when everyone has forgotten what it once was like, the private solution becomes insatiable when compared to a disfunctional system that supposedly "never worked".
Rent control is basically California Proposition 13 for renters. It's a wealth transfer from new renters to existing renters and like prop 13 disincentivizes new construction.
Patent troll bullying with CSP patent infringement letters backtracks
Because if you eat the rich then youre only naturally selecting for the faster and more ellusive rich that you wont be able to catch.

With seriousness, a slogan that accomplishes nothing takes the teeth out of a protest. Tax the super wealthy at x% ans enforce minimum corporate taxes simply doesnt have a ring to it.
Well, the lack of rent control in my country, Italy, isn't working either. It has become really, really hard to rent an apartment or even a room in Italian cities (Rome, Milan, Bologna, Turin, at least).

The prices are high and there is a lot of demand. Moreover, the quality of the apartments is really, really low. Landlords ask for a lot of guarantees and finding a room in an apartment can take even multiple turns of interviews.

Of course, leaving nearby the city center is difficult and public transportation is lacking. It is really hell and I really wish rent control existed.
> Discord is easy to use which is why its so popular.

I found this phrasing subjective because I don't find it easier to use. I tried Discord Web, Desktop & mobile, frankly they are not easier to use for me. I found it confusing because I suddenly need to have a role assigned to me. For that, I have to go through loops and hopping on subchannels to get myself a role for me to be able to have a conversation. One server that have like 5 different subchannel and I have to go through each of them to get a role. After trying to get figure out how to get that for half hour, I gave up. Simply too much work for trying to ask for a help. Discord is not designed AND substitution for general forums. I seen several game developers/publishers trying to tell their Steam users to go on Discord for any issues, requests, anything. I found that convoluted because Discord is not easier to use for first timer and plus there is Steam forum for this.

One thing I can't do in Discord (Slack & Signal included as well) is that I can't have multiple chat windows in my desktop like we can do in Trillan, Pidgin, AIM, ICQ, etc. My work is using Slack and it is a pain in the ass to go back and forth with various channel than having multiple windows for easier access. I prefer Slack over Discord because Slack don't make it complicated when it come to channels.
No I do not - in this case 99% = most people. I think only a small percentage of the population understand what a cookie is, and an even smaller percentage of those who care about their privacy enough to go ticking those boxes.
The point is that with FLOSS you can fix both of these problems yourself.
"Would some users benefit from it?"

-> build it and allow them to opt in if they like it.
The biggest concern about Apple’s system is that they are showing to all governments and everyone that it’s fine and good to scan for whatever on my device and report me to the government if they see fit, despite years prior refusing to implement backdoors or give access to someone’s device to the FBI.

They essentially invalidated all those claims and I can’t see how they’ll now be able to argue back if the US or the Chinas come to Apple saying they have to have more surveillance in their devices.
Off topic a bit but I was recently a bit bummed to learn (but not all that surprised) that `about:config` does nothing in FF for Android.
Politico will be acquired by Axel Springer in a deal valued at more than $1B
Rollups on streaming data – Rockset vs. Apache Druid
Isn't part of validation making sure you get the expected data in the expected format?
Doesn't really matter who the owner is. If it costs 1 million to build a new apartment complex, and rent control means it will only return 500K in a reasonable time frame it doesn't get built. If it returns 1.5 million in a reasonable time frame it does. A builder isn't going to build it if no one will buy it, and no one will buy it if they lose money on the rent.
Service-Discovery-Over-DNS is typically the use-case. It's used as a compatibility layer for software where you either can't or don't want to integrate the native discovery APIs. Consul is a good example of this. You don't actually have to know how to speak Consul to get automatic service discovery, all you have to do is query a DNS name to get the hosts registered for a particular service.
Xperia X is listed there. Anyone knows if that also includes the Compact model?
Non-replaceable SSDs in macbooks predate the M1. The interesting claim (which now appears either to have been entirely erroneous, or based on a bug that has now been fixed) was that the M1 Macs hit the SSDs harder than their predecessors.

If you are just talking about general SSD lifetime issues, then we already have over 5 years of user experience to go on (https://uk.pcmag.com/mac-laptops/86074/15-inch-macbook-pro-u...). And I believe that SSD reliability and lifetime has increased since 2016.
Yup! It shadowbans some domains too. If you're unlucky enough to write blog posts on the shadowbanned domains you won't be notified in any way at all and your submissions will still appear in the listings while you're logged in. Very frustrating.
That's just not true.

the CEO of DDG has said numerous times that it's not based on bing, and y'all just love repeating these wild ass rumors for literally no reason.
Carbon offsets are a financial instrument, which is very different than an approach that treats CO2 as a waste product. By nature trying to solve this via a financial instrument likely won't motivate anyone, it's just a way for organizations to play hot potato and literally pass the buck. However, if we were to treat CO2 emissions as a waste product, it would likely have more restrictive industry regulation around how organizations are required to manage their C02 waste by products.
When I travel to places with lower minimum wages, I do tend to find lower prices.*

Get yourself a breakfast omelette plate in San Francisco and the same order in Jackson, MS. I can pretty much guarantee that the plate in Jackson will be less, possibly 50% less.

* I don’t claim it’s caused by the minimum wage difference, but it seems pretty strongly correlated.
If you force the energy price to a certain subsidized level, then bitcoin farms will buy it all, masquerading as homes and small businesses, until you will be forced to shut down some large industrial consumers, putting real people out of work and making everyone poorer.

There is simply no way to waste valuable energy that's somehow imune to social and ecological effects.
> Tom Richardson, CEO of money management app Lumio, told CNBC that it’s “so hard” to find the right people.

Assume I’m a competent professional with options—-
Why would I want to come work for you?

Might I suggest employers should start investing the same level of thought and creativity on their talent attraction as they do in building/marketing products.

Compensation is important—- but it’s not the only thing.
Online shopping used to be immune to inflation. Not anymore
The structure of the US healthcare system is a direct consequence of how the government managed the WW2 build-up. Many people would assert that this was an extraordinarily damaging adverse outcome of "state management" that still causes very expensive and enormous problems going on a century later.

The history of state management is rife with adverse unintended consequences due to rampant short-sighted application of state power.
Honest question: Why would you continue using a site that treats you like this? I would go find something else to share my limited attention with. I remember getting banned on Fark (remember them?) and I simply never went back. If you don't want me participating, I won't add free content to your business. I was even a paying subscriber there, and dropped the subscription immediately.

People need to start cutting ties with companies that treat them badly. How many times have you seen this conversation: "A: Company Xyz took my money and screwed something up and can't be contacted. B: That's fraud--Just do a credit card chargeback. A: But, then they'll ban me!" Why the hell do people want to continue using, let alone continue giving money to, a site or business that treats you this way?

On a related note, I seem to be back in that HN purgatory where you can only post a few times a day. As usual, with no indication of what triggered it. <sigh> Getting really close to throwing in the towel here, too.
But how do you enforce? Neither the tenant, who is getting below market rent, nor the landlord (obviously) have any incentive to report.
Or to raise interest rates:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2019/uk-house-...
I am sure it does - it will depend on the moderators.

For many reasons, I am sure that it will be much, much easier to find there guts-dictated comments - no content, no reasoning, no arguments, but lots of partial statements claiming status of truth, and declarations of sympathy. I have not see it happen here.

Incidentally, I noticed there are guidelines there, being circulated in the past hours, very recently, that are inviting to censorship. Which creates another effect: sequences of "Yea, Well done, This is the way, Down with the scum, Frown on the snakes", with no single "Yes but" and obviously no "Boo". In the section about "horror movies featuring fancy cars", the participants and/or moderators are now scientists with truth in the pocket. Honestly, this makes it unnatural to go to those places to note a fancy car in an horror movie.
The solution is to seperate the branding from the idea. There is no way for somebody to suggest in the name of their product that they are a downstream of alpine without using the word alpine. alpine linux can fix this by creating and providing a generic word for their flawed-opinionated-mini-linux whatever
A sprinkling of type annotations to help with ambiguity is nice. However, I don't recall the last time I spent ages figuring out what type I need to pass to a function if it simply wants a builtin type. It's usually the semantics or a library-unique type (ugh!) that I have to look up.
You have no idea what you're talking about:

- Trump started the travel ban, which the Dems and CCP called racist

- Trump funded the vaccines we have now

- Fauci said not to wear masks and covered up NIH funding of the Wuhan labs. He's aligned with the Dems and CCP

- the CDC goofed up corona tests for 6 weeks

Marxists made corona political, thanks to ignorant people like you.
Stadia doesn’t work “fairly well”. It’s also low-res (still) compared to a local GPU, which may be okay for some but certainly isn’t sufficient for serious gamers.
Popup blockers are user controlled, feature removals are not.
The Joy of Tech's version:

http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/2829.html
As an economist and a cultural transplant to the US, I'll never understand this.

How can politics/party lines be stronger than rational self-interest? It just doesn't compute in my head, and never will for the rest of my life.

I know these people are not the majority, but their fraction is still large enough to amount to millions of people. It's absolutely mind-boggling.
When is a joke a joke and when does it stop being a joke? Alt-right types are famous in their attempt to blur the lines by claiming sarcasm or dark humor. To be clear, that's fine in certain contexts: if you're with people you know well, and with whom you have a mutual understanding of when to understand the exact opposite of what just came out of your mouth.

However, when you're doing that with strangers in public, for example on the Internet, you're just sending the wrong message and building a space where such takes are normalized. See also "cultural hegemony".
That seems strange though. YouTube isn't a library where I expect them to host anything uploaded forever under any circumstances.
Let's not commit the fallacy of comparing unrelated big numbers. How does the energy and time per usd transferred compare between btc and the traditional banking system?
Chip Shortage Could Slow Electric Vehicle Rollouts
How I Made a Generator for SVG Loaders with Sass and SMIL Options
I put very little trust in self-reported information online. Someone like Ghislaine would probably recognize the value and zero cost of sowing nuggets of false information in public posts. (However, this expectation also makes me doubt that Ghislaine Maxwell would choose a username with "maxwell" in it...)
> Rent control discourages building more units. The more you can make from rental, the more companies will invest in new construction projects.

Actually, I would think the opposite. If capital-laden landlords aren't getting increased returns from their existing holdings, they would be incentivized to create more supply by funding new developments.
Gawd, Six Sigma was an ever-present factor in all our work when I was at IBM in the late 80's to early 90's. I have complete respect for Deming, but when anything becomes "religion" it gets damaged or mis-used a lot, as you say.

In our software group, we were constantly battling with management that wanted to start to look at software development as a factory-like process, and to apply factory QA processes.
Finland has social housing and also has much larger housing subsidies than Sweden. When Finland abolished its rent control, rents in some places almost doubled. Seniors and others couldn't afford to pay the higher rents so they had to increase housing subsidies to them so that they wouldn't become homeless. That Finnish tax money directly becomes profits to landlords doesn't seem like a great situation to me.
> you have to do many illegal things if you want to pwn an Apple device enough to run another OS on it.

Can’t think of a single one, elaborate please?
Everything you listed works with price caps because they are effective monopolies. Usually a single entity in an area is responsible for providing that service and its profits are heavily regulated.

Housing is completely different for many reasons, primarily:

1. Housing isn't provided by a single entity, it's a market that a majority of people will participate in. All of the things you listed are one-to-many, not many-to-many.

2. Difference in quality for different price points. You either have electricity or you don't. You either have natural gas or you don't. This is obviously not the case with housing where there are limitless price points and differences in quality. Unless you're suggesting that the government build all homes, this won't work.

3. You want the effects of the market to drive development and settlement. Manipulating the prices of NG has little consequence outside of providing a steady supply to the users. Manipulating the prices of housing won't allow development to fulfill market demands in price point, location, etc...
As a potentially interesting data point for those not keeping up with privacy and data processing in the UK, next week (1 September) also marks the time the NHS will opt everyone into sharing their personal health records for "research and planning" purposes by default (this is about the GPDPR, which is obviously not named confusingly similarly to the GDPR).

Details about what this really means, who will get access to the data, and what regulatory or legal consequences they will face if it's abused are disturbingly vague. In theory, there has already been a two-month delay in doing this due to concerns the first time around about a lack of public awareness. I have seen exactly zero further public information campaigning on the subject during the additional time.

Right now, as someone who believes strongly in the importance of personal privacy and restricting the sharing of sensitive personal data, I am more concerned about that imminent development than this one.

For anyone in the UK who is concerned about that, there is still just about time to opt out via NHS Digital's online system. Make sure you also notify your GPs, as it seems there will now be two systems involved and they require separate opt-outs.

(I'm using "UK" here, but if this affects you, please be aware that the rules may differ depending on whether you're in England, Scotland, etc.)
isn't working for github.
Why are hyperlinks blue?
You'll just grab the rope that's hanging in the tunnel at the other end, and climb out :)
> Looking at our request traffic made choosing optimistic locking fairly easy. We expect the majority of ledger operations to be reads, and we didn't want reads to block writes (and vice versa).

I don't get it. If they use an SQL database that supports ACID already, why not just lock all the ledger rows necessary with an exclusive row access when writing and otherwise just with a shared access so that the write waits until the read finishes?
It is really the lack of investors that is causing the lack of supply? I was under the impression that it's mostly that building more is not allowed/very difficult (for various reasons), not that there is a lack of capital.
Not sure which bit you think is ignorant.

> The OS is an evolved continuation of the Linux MeeGo OS previously developed by alliance of Nokia and Intel which itself relies on combined Maemo and Moblin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS#History_and_develo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo#/media/File:Mer_and_mobi...

Ridiculous series of merges and forks.

Sailfish's market share is so low it doesn't seem to be measurable.

When these projects were at their peak there was just about a way for them into the market. There isn't now. If they spent their time working on just one branding of these projects instead of creating yet another new name, website, and icon they might have gotten somewhere.
I find it interesting that the value of the ~18% of market share is $15B to google. I'm sure there's a further breakdown to ascertain the value of a single user.
> Alpine is free to provide a solution to the problem then.

Alpine is also free to _not_ provide a solution to the problem.

Alpine is free to say "This is not an approved use of our name"

As you point out, the way to convey that you are a fork is to change your name in a non-confusing way, and provide attribution to the original in your readme or licenses.
Which government? Taiwan, where it matters? This is a major part of their economy; they all win big. I bet they'd sooner surrender to China.

Some other government? This wouldn't have much impact on chips, except to make it a lot less likely anyone makes chips in that country ever again — which isn't to say no nation would do it; economic history is full of this sort of thing, particularly as nations start going the way of Venezuela.