skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They take the most productive in via immigration and push the old and least productive out by minimizing social services. It's literally stack ranking, now applied to an entire population lol. Good times.

Some kinds of bacteria consume sugar in a way that has negative externalities - they emit acid and increase the environmental pH. When these bacteria have a high population density, the increased consumption leads to a rapid rise in the environmental pH, followed by mass extinction. This is known as self-inflicted extinction ecological suicide.
Fit in with the company culture, assuming it is healthy.
> I frequently cancel subscriptions to services I don't use often and just re-subscribe when I want them again

I do this too. One trick for this is to use a 'virtual card' or disposable CC for subscriptions (With Revolut you can create those). And if you don't want to be charged, just terminate the card, rather than cancel the subscription. I do this where cancelling means lots of back-and-forth with support (many services don't make it easy to cancel a subscription)
> For every one of these stories though, is there a 'we pushed too hard too soon, the product wasn't ready, people were already turned off it by the time it was'?

In gaming industry you can't swing a dead cat without hitting one.
Anthem, Marvel Avengers, Fallout 76, that game with 2042 at the end, Amiga CD32, Ouya. A lot of games as a service(and for most of them you pay upfront and afterwards). Everything is so much hyped to be the best thing since sliced bread.
I recently heard that, even in Germany where there is lots of solar, there were only 9 days in the last year where spot prices were negative. Sadly my source is just "someone said".

As for intermittent steel production, from what I know about aluminum it is essentially impossible to turn the process off, because the molten stuff solidifies and is impossible to melt again.
I was under the impression that Linux does not support async file access and so people have to fake it with threads.
Still a lot of locals.
This is it. If you let the machines do their thing unsupervised, you're creating an optimisation game someone is going to win.

I honestly believe the only way for a search engine to be as valuable as Google was years ago is to let human knowledge drive more decisions. Maybe closer in spirit to what a web app store would look like, or closer to the categorisation Yahoo did. Not to browse by category (though even that would be refreshing at this point), but to better select the most relevant search sources.
> Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit

Hahaha. This has legitimately made me laugh.

The article is sadly quite on point. I'd add that Google is increasingly deteriorating for me during the last several months. It was actually still little better than now, a year ago.
It's really both. Lots of French people living in Portugal 183 days and in France 182 days.
Any lawyers here? Is this something a person could file an injunction for, to force IG to let OP access their pictures? Is it feasible for a person to file an injunction? (Is an injunction the correct thing in this case?)
“Math neurons” identified in the brain
Kagi.com which I mentioned upthread is exactly that: paid search engine with no ads. It’s free during beta.

I don’t mean to sound like I’m advertising it but I agree with you and I hope it can garner some interest.
The few time people told me about it money was clearly the reason, climate and general mood was also a main factor.
There's a foreign tax credit up to $100k. So, for the retired, I don't think paying extra tax is an issue.
Is Google still a Search Engine? Or is it rather an Answer Engine?

Answers are more-and-more provided on what used to be SERPs, but now is too often dominated by answers on the page, ads, and big marketing budget SEO optimised landing pages.

We still believe in the value and power of discovery; call us old-fashioned but we focus on 10 blue links using an independent index. Your vanity search maydisappoint, and our ranking needs improving, but you will find often hidden gems and information rich sources. Plus we send you to those rather than demanding your eyeballs.

Informational diverity is vital. So we provide one click to get results from Brave, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Gigablast, Google, Startpage, Yandex too, as explained here: https://blog.mojeek.com/2022/02/search-choices-enable-freedo...
Why is it failscouts domain to solve? That should squarely be laid at the feet AMZN, not some 3rd party. Seems like such a strange twist of logic to be a question like this.

It's why reviews, in particular AMZN's, are just not worth the trouble. Too many fake ones, so people have come up with "clever" rules for themselves to only read the negative ones. Somehow, they believe the good ones are gamed, yet the negative ones are not? Another strange twist in logic. Once you believe the system is gameable, then the whole system is suspect.
On DDG you can type "median height -average" and that seems to do the trick. Not sure if it works on google search, I don't use that.
You don't necessarily need "access to White House computers" to collect information about DNS queries made by White House computers.
Access to a DNS caching server or a DNS provider (like UltraDNS, of which Joffe was the founder) providing services to the White House, would be sufficient.
Classic example of this kind of content... Try searching "How to use X to get stains out of Y".

You will find a page for almost any X and Y combination. And they will all have wording like "Put some X on the stained Y... wait a bit... rub it in... and then put it through the washing machine. Hope it works!".
OK, I'm still a little unclear - can you give me a concrete example of a such a news story?

And, perhaps to clarify further, do you consider yourself woke, or anti-woke?
As a developer who use google (for convenience) the research results are getting worse. More and more aggregator sites appear in the search result without any advantage and google give a sh.t of it.

You need extra extension to block these sites from the search result.

Time to move on and use something else, but not google anymore.
Seriously - has no one in this thread used Reddit search?

It doesn’t even do spell checking or correction:

https://www.reddit.com/search?q=Apple%20ophone
From my time in the Bitcoin ATM space, it was difficult to get a bank to accept a large amount of cash from a Bitcoin ATM.

The issues at the beginning was use of non-standard sized bill receptors and non-digital vaults at the ATMs but that has been solved recently. At the time, we used two ideas: provide a regular ATM right next to the Bitcoin ATM to dispense bills out (so we'd get ACH) and regular pickups and drop-offs to a bank.
> Also, does today's update apply to GovCloud regions as well or just Commercial for now?

It also applies to GovCloud.
You can travel with guns in much of Europe just fine. Also, you can lock with whatever the hell you want in Europe so the whole point is moot.
Oh this is definitely me describing a failure mode of postmortems, not an indictment of the process generally. It usually happens with well intentioned junior teams that lack experience/perspective.

I’m a firm believer in learning from mistakes, and making the right trade offs between reliability and velocity. Postmortems are a fantastic tool for facilitating this. As you point out though, the implementation matters and you need to be conscious of the cost/benefit of the recommendations that come out of the exercise.
SpaceTimeOS – Operating System for the physical world
Same. Over the years I've trialed most search engines out there, but always find my way going back there after at most 2 days of trying them, because I end up adding "@google" before every query anyways because the results are bad.

With Kagi most of the results are what I'm looking for. If they are not, I'll still try "@google", but so far with very few queries Google's results were actually better. The biggest drawback is worse "smart cards" results, but I hope they keep those optional/unobtrusive anyway.

The strange thing is that the feeling Kagi gives me, isn't even unknown. It just feels like Google circa 2010.
> We tried being dependant and it didn't work. We're already having the downsides from it.

May i know what downsides are you referring to?

> Do you have a better solution? They already shot airplanes and killed eu civilians.

Not sure who are you talking about here. Shot planes? Who shot planes? Killed eu civilians? Who? Who killed thousands of ukrainians?

> what would be the better solution according to you"?

Well, it depends on solution yo what we are looking for. Generally speaking I’d suggest EU to focus on internal issues instead of supporting colour revolutions (yeah, particularly the one happened in ukraine)
> This seems too handwavey - what concrete metrics would you use to evaluate the quality of a search engine?

How about the metric in TFA?

> Reddit has even more garbage than Google.

Well, people disagree, and that's why they're searching reddit all the time now.

> Reddit search doesn’t even do basic spell correction.

You are missing the point.
Liberica too. Crucially they als have a 32-bit Windows build.
uBlock Origin blocks Spotify ADs entirely (including audio-based interruptions). One less subscription to worry about! You have to use the Web Player however for this to work, not sure about doing this on mobile Safari or if the web player works on mobile.
The question is natural, but I think there is a bit more that we already 'know' (well, we concluded with some confidence) to answer this question.

(a) Just because you might be able to move in one direction forever, does not mean the space you're in is infinite. You may imagine the universe as the skin, the surface of a balloon that is expanding: the surface is finite, but still you can move in one direction on the surface forever -- you will wrap around at some point (if you're fast enough to overcome the expansion speed). Now imagine this as a 3D surface of space on a higher dimension balloon for the universe. This is quite a plausible way of imagining this intuitively (as long as you don't ask questions about the balloon space), particularly because it also makes futile the question whether we are close to the edge or close to the center, which bugged me for a while -- we are somewhere on the surface of that imagined balloon, and there might not be a center or an edge, despite being finite.

(b) The universe is expanding. In fact, it has expanded already so much that it is far larger than its age, so to say: it's 13.7Gy old, but 45Gly (IIRC) across, most likely. The universe is so large, that light that starts at the farthest spots now will never reach the Earth, because the universe expands that light away from us, so even with the best sensors and a very long time to wait, we will never see from Earth light and thus images from what is far away now. We are quite lucky, though: the oldest light that reaches us now is from the beginning of the big bang (photons started their 'normal' way of travel ~400ky after the BB, and that's what we can actually see!), so theoretically, we do see now every part of the universe at some point in the past (well, unless something obscures our view, and obviously in non-optimal resolution). But this view will fade away, and new light from those farthest places will not reach us in the future anymore (a couple of Gy from now) -- it will be getting darker and darker for us. The farthest places are already completely out of reach, we can only see their past and we will never be able to go there -- a bit like the inside of a black hole is out of reach, but, well, with the boundary around us.

(c) When moving at the speed of light, you will never ever reach the spot again that you started at, even with a wrap-around in the balloon model, because the expansion is going on, and even speeding up, so the speed of light is just too slow to keep up with the expansion.

(d) Practically, it is of course completely impossible to reach speeds close to the speed of light, for various reasons, e.g., energy needed and harmless cosmic rays becoming gamma rays, etc.etc. Different story entirely. It is good that we have stories to imagine this without the practical restrictions.

So the whole question is kinda futile. But interesting. The universe is incomprehensibly huge.
I like this conspiracy theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis
One thing that's worrying me that isn't covered here: a lot of this low-quality SEO content is constantly regurgitated to produce... low-quality SEO content. Content farmers use content from Google results to write content for Google results. Google is getting devoured by loops like this.

I'm not a native English speaker, so at one point I was trying to find an authoritative source for an old idiom... and the entire first page were all different websites regurgitating the same inaccurate text! They did no independent verification of their own.
Identity Protocols, Hosted Login UIs, and Custom Login UIs (2020)
Now I guess there's gonna be a dilemma if portugal and spain are hit first by climate change.
No plan survives first contact with the enemy. That baseline can change dramatically due to unforseen circumstances ( museum was boring so you quit early/very interesting so you spent much more time there/closed; transportation took much longer/shorter than expected, etc.).

As for experimenting, it depends on where you're travelling. I wouldn't want to experiment in a third world country without reading online comments and reviews.
You can blame google because they made changes that forced sites to adopt these practices. The hand-picked curated links websites still exist but are so far back in the index they will never show.
I believe that they are fully distinguished already; taking over your accounts without the need to actively testify seems comparable to taking the contents of your safe or contents of your private correspondence or contents of your storage box at someone else's place - clearly permissible if (but only if) there's a warrant for that.
Don't forget that this is a company where the CEO can apparently go in and edit other user's posts for revenge and he was put in place and tolerated because he was somehow better than the person in charge before him.

Just posting in the "wrong" sub can get you banned all across the platform (no matter what you actually said).

Of course, this violates several of the Reddit mod TOS/guidelines, but Reddit doesn't care.

Yesterday, one of the top stories in the default /r/news is the attempted assassination of a Mayoral candidate.

Today, it turns out that the guy was a far-left BLM supporter and all mentions and threads have been retroactively scrubbed from the sub.

It's just a large echo-chamber supported from the top down. Would it be exceptional to think that this information could "leak" into the hands of the echo-chamber mods?
Interestingly, cash is the most interesting thing for law enforcement because they can legally steal it.
I see, thanks for clarifying. I don't agree that the genie is out of the bottle, but regardless, yes strict regulation of and siloing of biometric databases would be welcome.

The problem is it's not a great look to be "against catching the bad guys." If I provide the literal essence of my being for some medical or ancestral purpose, it should be used for that purpose only, full stop—no exceptions, which means some kind of cryptographic enforcement.

If the police need a suspect's DNA, they can collect it by hand, with a warrant. And it should be thrown out when the suspect is cleared of charges (and maybe even post-prison release).

On the employer side, given how they love pseudoscientific personality tests, it's not hard to imagine an HR product correlating DNA with worker traits:

"This employee shares 99.9998% DNA with a cluster of criminals convicted of wire fraud. Upgrade to see evidence-backed pre-crime intervention recommendations."
No, the labor is too expensive. Ultimately you are paying someone for a couple hours of work, plus spending on vehicle deprecation, gas, parking, storage, all to deliver someone a packet of chips.
It's new, but it's not obvious that it actually changes what people believe, because those trying to argue against misinformation also have a much better toolkit. If someone came to you 20 years ago claiming that the chickenpox vaccine doesn't work because cases were up 60% after the rollout in Israel, how would you even begin to find contrary evidence? (How would you prove that jet fuel can compromise the integrity of steel beams?)
We're broaching on misinformation from the HN community where people say something is true simply because they want it to be true. This article isn't adding anything, but it will do well on HN, because it agrees with the community.

When you start your post with "Reddit is currently the most popular search engine" you are already well outside the realm of fact.
>that puts an effective cap of $100m on the cost of a Starship launch.
You can still launch beyond that but it means you're doing so for non-economic reasons.

That assumes you don't have any mission payloads larger than 22t (or 63t for heavy). This is more extreme for Mars transfer orbit 4 & 16t respectively. Starship is advertised as being capable of 100t to mars transfer.
Pentagon warns that mergers in arms industry put US military at risk
Then again maybe this addresses the inheritance tax issue. Instead of debating how much money goes to heirs vs the state, folks net worth could just "evaporate" on death, thereby slightly (presumably) reducing the supply of whatever currency was held at the time of death.
That was a very useful future a while ago, but it doesn't (reliably) work anymore, google ignores quotation marks most of the time nowadays.
Federation is the only reasonable solution at this time but the technical overhead of federated search is high enough that most people won't use it so it won't benefit from network effects like Google did in the beginning. There might be a combination of blockchain juju that could make federation viable but all the thought leaders in that ecosystem are too high on their own supply to realize they could use blockchains for anything other than gambling.
Up until a month ago, when I searched Youtube using the "latest" filter, I could reliably get the latest videos uploaded that were relevant to the search terms. Now, it shows a couple of recently uploaded videos followed by many which are for weeks ago, while I know that many more had been uploaded in the recent days.
Yes. A million times yes.

I have talked about this before here, but I don't really understand this idea companies have about promoting/demanding social things at work, or having a dedicated 1:1 block with managers. Are developers so social awkward that you need to have someone higher up blocking time for you to talk with people/managers?

Whenever I have an issue with my work/company I just do a 'hey, when do you have 5 minutes, need to have a chat about something' message and then talk with the manager/person about it. These 5 minutes chats have been as small as 'want to spend some time with my kid so will take a couple long weekends' to 'i am not a good fit for this company, so I will be resigning by end of day'. Never had to have it scheduled like I am a fucking 5 year old that needs an adult to time box his life.
I didn't want to hijack the thread for self-promotion, but it is linked from my HN profile, and thank you for asking!
> Is there an updated version of latency.txt? Would be interesting to compare against.

Our updated docs [1] contains a latency table. The official answer is that previously our read latencies were low single-digit millisecond and now they are as low as 600 microseconds.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/performance.html
Your case might or might not be true on political topics, and I won't engage on that, but I think OP mostly mentions impact on product reviews and other more 'down to earth' topics.

I don't think woke activists would care too much about shoe brands, so I think your response is missing the point at hand, which is that search results (including but not only political ones) are deteriorating fast
> To my knowledge farm subsidies aren't implemented that way.

You'd be wrong. Farm subsidies exist in several forms, but one is for letting fields that could produce x lying unused. Some "farmers" just sign up for that program every year and havent planted anything since they inherited the farm.
I'm going to amplify what others here have already mentioned.

I read your landing page, I have no clue what it is you're selling or what it costs. I'm busy, you were lucky few minutes of my time, in the few minutes I couldn't figure out why I should give you more time or money.

I would highly suggest you work on the landing page:

* What am I buying?
* What problem are you solving?
* What does it cost?
* How is your solution better than others?

My impressions on visiting PB:

Ah, a .cc domain, they're too underfunded to pay for a .com. I probably shouldn't use them for anything too important.

I do not want to "join your beta list". I want a service, now or never.

"PretzelBox" is my backend? Backend to what? You tell me not to worry about domains, email, storage... Does that mean PB provides those? Are you better than WordPress? Are you better than gsuite?

Then there are some random (and I'm guessing fake (rude, I'm sure, but why should I believe them?)) testimonials.

Then some arbitrary text: "See what people have twisted their PretzelBoxes into" with no links, description, or examples... So I'm assuming PB has been twisted into nothing?

Finally, after much scrolling and bullshit, a list of features. So I get some email, some storage, you say unlimited, but I doubt. Still no pricing info. I get some blogs, "No need to learn WordPress!" but... I have to learn PB? How hard is PB. WordPress at least has a ton of support and resources.
Now even deep and expensive wells only bring up briny mud. The groundwater game is over. Yes, the almond farms have always been on groundwater. And that goes on until the groundwater goes away which is what is happening now.
So?

You think you can live comfortably without owning a property in Denmark with socialized healthcare and your pension?
I think Amazon or Microsoft acquiring Reddit would probably just be the end of Reddit. They would feel pressured to censor it into non-existence.
appending "wiki" is also really useful if you're looking for straight facts
I use virtual credit cards to manage and turn off/on subscriptions
I opened your site in multiple separate browsers and the starting card arrangement was the same in all of them. Do you start new users off with the same setup of cards to ensure a good playing experience and hook them?
But using a lower octane fuel than specified by the vehicle manufacturer may damage the engine or the emissions equipment: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/octane.shtml
> Cyclops, if any man of mortal birth Note thine unseemly blindness and inquire The occasion, tell him that Laertes' son, Ulysses, the destroyer of walled towns, Whose home is Ithaca, put out thine eye.

Seems like it's already a solved problem.
Here's a classic "Let's Build a Compiler" by Jack Crenshaw

https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

He goes step by step through making a single pass compiler for Pascal, in Pascal. It's easy to follow, and written for a wider audience.
Wow. Imagine if this happened with the Bible instead. The implications would be enormous.
Here's another law: if you multiply two random integers, then the most likely outcome for the last digit is "0". The most likely outcome for the first digit is "1", but by a smaller margin.