skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there anyone out there collating data on YouTube suggestions in a widespread way? Like a browser extension that tracks when and what videos appear vs which ones are watched.

I assume doing this would be a privacy nightmare, and not capture most data 'the algorithm' runs off of.

I've heard of specific studies where fresh accounts are tested and the time until certain 'radical' content starts showing up, but nothing on existing accounts in use by people. I don't have a great handle on this, since I limit the amount I use YouTube's suggestions.
I’ve heard this repeated. I vaguely recall it at least being a point of discussion in the novel Misery.

But… that seems like such a stupid idea. What evidence could they possibly have suggested?
I’ve noticed in the past five years the proliferation of service fees at Bay Area restaurants that are separate from tip. It’s not just at sit-down places; I’ve also seen them at places without waitstaff, such as sandwich shops and cafes. These fees are bad enough (they should be rolled into the price as a cost of business instead of nickling -and-dining customers), but I’ve encountered places that have charged me these fees without any notice, which I find outrageous. On principle I do not do business with businesses that charge “service fees” (except for cover charges or the customary 18-20% fee for large parties) unless I have to go to a social event where I didn’t choose the venue.

While I’m on the topic of fees, I remember when I purchased my new car, which came with a special SiriusXM deal that was advertised for $4 or $5 per month for the first year. However, when I registered for it, I then learned about an unadvertised $1-2 fee for “music licensing” or something similar. I choose to proceed since I was still paying much less than the normal monthly fee (though I considered not proceeding with the purchase out of principle), but once again, music licensing should be part of the cost of business for running SiriusXM or any other music broadcasting service, and thus should be reflected in the advertised price instead of as an unpleasant surprise at purchase time.

Yes, it’s expected that delivery services come with a delivery fee, and for delivery of take-out tipping has long been customary (I remember being taught back in the 1990s to tip the person who delivers pizza), but a “service charge” that’s independent of the delivery fee? Why can’t that just be rolled into the delivery fee?

Land of the fee and the home of the wage slave, indeed.
I think anyone who is going to listen to a react critique has already heard it.

For those looking for a more in-depth critique of react, this article looks good: https://www.zachleat.com/web/react-criticism/

Although that focuses more on the objective legal and performance issues, if anyone can recommend something focusing more on architectural and developer ergonomics issues I'd love to see it.
Comments summary: lots of people who don’t understand how large search indexes work freaking out or pontificating about their pet favorite alternative. Occasionally both.

Meanwhile the DDG founder calmly stating it’s being looked into, is definitely a bug, and explains that this should not generally happen… and being ignored.
I've found that for many applications TCP doesn't really make optimal choices in these areas or expose knobs for users to make better choices.
Removing incentives to actually pay attention to where your two ton death machine is in space isn't how one introduces safety. What you're proposing is a crutch that rewards inattentive behavior. There's no moral to it.
Skepticism is warranted, but apparently there's infighting in the group (only 3 people can be recipients of a Nobel Prize) and one jumped the gun to get his name out there. And also apparently fear of research espionage from the PRC (not as far-fetched as it sounds).
Musk’s Fascination with the Letter X
I'm in the same boat, I feel like my search-fu is being thwarted with the ever growing list of products that coopt existing words rather than coining new terms. We're in this ever expanding word overloading mode and I think the commercial and marketing spaces are now dominating search to drown out the useful hits that would previously rise to the top.
> Liquor doesn't really age in the bottle

I know this is the industry answer, but I don't buy it. For one, anyone who has stored liquor or wine vertically knows that the cork is constantly drawing out moisture. So at the very least, an older liquor in a corked bottle will be dehydrated compared to a younger one.
Sure when should you choose one over the other? Any rules of thumb you'd like to share?
No. The _ruling elites_ of the western world conquered much of the world over the last 1000 years, including their (current) European subjects.

I refuse to be guilted into thinking I’m somehow a bad man because what someone ultra privileged did, just because of my relative proximity.
If the drivetrain never disengages, how does “freewheeling mode” (neutral) work? Spinning the wheels manually makes them a generator, and that causes resistance from the magnetic flux (hence regenerative braking). How do cars disable that?
Nearly all inventions were "the right time" and something was in the air. Do you have a counter example?
We've put it back now.
Your's is an interesting angle that I hadn't thought of. I think the counter to it would be: Brave inadvertently helps Google, by improving Chromium, and it would be better if they inadvertently helped Mozilla, by improving Gecko. Building a browser engine is a big undertaking and I think most people would agree that more time and energy being invested in Gecko would be a good thing.
Yes, the main value would probably be in better understanding the temperature / pressure / volume / magnetism relationship within invar-like materials. Perhaps the result will be new piezomagnetic applications, or magnetocooling applications, and so on.
Maybe there was supposed to be 'which' instead of 'what'.
As a long time DDG user I think it's cool you're personally engaged here. The disappointing part is it seems like TechDirt has had to resort to customer-service-via-social (Reddit/HN/Twitter) which sucks.

Once this particular issue is sorted out I'd would also be cool to see some sort of post-mortem report. Seeing why this sort of thing happens and a standard process for fixing it would be beneficial to all involved I think. Complex systems are complex and shit happens. But if this happened to a site far smaller than TechDirt (they're not even that big AFAIK) I don't think there would be any avenue to cure the situation for them.

/2¢
Where have you heard this?

They build their own index: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/kagi-vs-competition.html
https://github.com/bloomberg/blazingmq/blob/93e6426d474a4293...

Not sure where they are on the roadmap but authentication in particular is 'mid-term' but lacks detail.

I expect that if you want to deploy this then you're doing it on an internal network; its deployment examples are based on Docker so I expect it's relying on what you can do with k8s.
Only sometimes. Recall that DGG censored Russian sites quite hastily and seemingly without so much as an e-mail from any government:

> At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation.

- Gabriel Weinberg via Twitter, March 10, 2022. Archived: https://archive.is/SLGYb

I'll note that there is a April 17th update tweet referenced in that thread. That is unrelated and it was about a rumor that DGG was purging certain media sites. Nothing to do about censoring Russian sites. Archive of that: https://archive.ph/I2iUp
> Race as a concept distinct from ethnicity arises out of slavery and segregation.

Brazil also imported slaves from Africa, but its concepts of “race” have always been quite different - much more fluid - than those of the US. Brazil never had anywhere near as much segregation as the US. Indeed, I think US ideas about “race” weren’t caused by segregation, they pre-existed and caused segregation-Brazil never adopted those policies, despite the shared experience of African slavery, due to having different ideas about “race” from the start

And there’s a lot about American ideas of “race” which can’t be explained by either slavery or segregation. I mentioned before the arbitrary boundary between “White” and “Asian”, drawn along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border - that seems to have no logical connection to either
The IQ thing is hardly the same as how the OP framed it.
In the old days, init would respond to a HUP by restarting... sort of a "warm boot." Pretty sure SunOS 4.1 did this, but ultrix certainly did. SVR 4 and Solaris changed the behaviour to just reading /etc/inittab.
> What was illegal about the government’s actions in your view?

That wasn't what I wrote.

In the US, the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution protects the right of the people to speech etc.; the government is generally and overwhelmingly prohibited from censoring people.

Instead, we have the US government contacting _private_ (i.e. not government) companies and wink wink nudge nudge having the private companies censor people, _which would be illegal for the government to do directly_.
> harassment by a neighbor

> open-carrying my sidearm [into a police station]

> camera on my hat recording the interaction.

> they obviously were trying to intimidate me

Someone involved in a harassment dispute with a civilian shows up at a police station in full Agent Provocateur kit, then complains about harassment by the police when [lawfully] questioned.

You sure seem to invite harassment. You weren't even detained or roughed up. You lived to tell the tale. Yet you want people to internalize that "the police are a gang of thugs and crooks. They cannot be trusted."

Where's the crime? Where's the deception? Where's the video?

Your story stinks. I call shenanigans. You're either a foreign agent or a professional victim.
There's also his request for access to a S.C.I.F. (lnk below) in which to discuss more fully what he's alleging.

Complaining he didn't give up everything he knows on live TV/streaming seems a bit unfair as the guy was active military and wants to keep his clearance.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/23/politics/what-is-a-scif/index...
I didn't see "stuff stored on a computer hard drive" in the constitution either, just paper.
https://archive.is/WzSUs
Yea I found there were a lot more FF config settings to disable as well.

These threads always unfold the same way tho. Brave gets lambasted by some, the people that enjoy using Brave end up being “well actually” guys etc etc.

And I use both Brave and FF in addition to occasional librewolf they’re all useful
Its all fake news/bait titles, good riddance anyway
No human being except you, apparently.

I think it is a pretty clear line between attributing the quality of a piece of software to two decades of prior development at the same company, with its own continuity of developers and institutional knowledge, as opposed to the general benefits all software gains from the industry advances it builds upon.
Ask HN: Why is open source vulnerability management still an unsolved problem?
We saw many startups (including YC) recently working on open source vulnerability discovery and patching. Curious to understand why this is still an unsolved problem when Dependabot (and other similar tools) can do this fairly well. Where specifically do the existing tools fail? Appreciate your insights.
I transitioned my domains over to this service months ago. What is great is it's your own private install.. I own everything and no one else can see it. I moved my e-mail, websites, files, and got off google workspace. I now have my own VPN as well. The transition was easy and painless
If you continue antagonizing people with your fake dupe claims and have a large proportion of your posts flashed, there's a chance that the entire account gets shadowbanned. And then most people won't see the subset of posts where you have a legit point either.

A small number of reposts is not only permitted by the rules of the doors, it is very often explicitly encouraged by the mods. Railing against that is really not productive, especially since those reposts are often some of the very best posts to the site.
Recent versions of Brave apparently have a vertical tab bar, as many comments in this thread mention.
Axe API – The next-generation Rest API Framework [video]
PageRank was developed in 1998. I assure you Google did not immediately come out and crush search. Altavista, Yahoo, and Lycos might have all been bigger properties during 1999.
I asked ChatGPT 4.0 what LMR meant as applied to coaxial cable. It gave me an excellent response, including that LMR is a trademark of Times Microwave Systems.

I rarely use search engines anymore. I'll bet the same is true for many people.
https://archive.is/3wE0g
I mean dynamically as in a startup script that resolves that hostname, then updates the resolver to the IP it returns.
> According to a study published in Nature Communications, the device achieved a 20.8% solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency.
https://archive.is/1kBle
Tier – Pricing-as-Code
Even if 2023 was a cooler year, globally, I would still be seriously concerned about the decades-long trend of significant warming. The emphasis put on the warming this year is completely rational.

Imagine if our global surface temperature average continues to steadily increase, say over 50 years, and we continue to see dramatic spikes in temperature like we're seeing now? Not only will habitats and the life within them be decimated, but humans will be included. In my small city, the 2021 heatwave in Western Canada killed over 600 people more than a heatwave typically would. That's staggering, and we're just getting started.
A sometimes overlooked resource is your MCU vendor. It may have a power monitoring daughterboard w/ supporting software to help you optimize your battery usage against a development board. The last one I used was Nordic's and it was stellar, free (thanks to the FAE), allowing us to ship a BLE device that would run for at least 1 year on two alkaline AA cells.
Set `{"iptables": false}` in daemon.json (or pass `--iptables=false` to the daemon) and it won't do it. The defaults are convenient enshittification for your casual security-ignorant developer.
I have seen this at the site of my great grandparents home. The only sign that you're in the right location are weeping willow trees and spring bulbs.
> It may not hold in the rest of the South, but periwinkle in Virginia very often co-occurs with cemeteries.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/africanamerican-grave-...
I'm not saying we're at the point to fully stop working, but we've honestly been at the point that working 40hrs+ a week is no longer what's needed to maintain our current state. But the issue is that large public businesses are unsustainable by maintaining their current state, they must always have growth. We must always work harder. We must always work more efficiently. We must always work more. Because the business must grow.

This would require the idea of success as a business to change from constant growth to sustainability (in an economic sense). If we're able to shift our focus from constant growth to sustainability that will ultimately open up more time for us as a society to spend time away from work. To explore new ventures, to collaborate, to focus on answering questions that aren't profit-motivated. That's how we can slowly adapt to a society of minimally-exploitative work.

Someone has to start somewhere, and I'm hoping this younger generation can break us older generations out of our growth-motivated fog to begin adapting our society to sustainability rather than growth at all costs.
at a deeper level, something like a Faustian Bargain is probably more apt to model the skilled, less addicted participants...
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN. We're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think there is a ‘but for’ aspect, without google it’s reasonable to expect the some other search engine could have evolved into the same thing. Given the scope and scale of the investment required to get Tesla and SpaceX to a viable state it seem that only a somewhat crazy person could would even attempt that. It’s difficult to find an optimum level of crazy, and is often difficult to distinguish between crazy and stupid. That said, I do think Elon would be even more successful if he was a bit less crazy and a bit less stupid.
I’d like it to just look exactly like C, but with new ideas in some incompatible syntax showing it is not part of C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF8S5XB-eYs

You have no complaint.
You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.
I don't believe I have ever made that claim and it isn't true either that we are "little more than a Bing mirror". See other comment on this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36898807) but in short it isn't a binary thing and I think the fallacy people keep making is a modern search engine != web index.

Over the past fifteen years, search has become "universal" with dozens of indexes and modules throughout the page. Also it is important to understand people click/engage with things on the page roughly half as much each position down, so by the time you get to the bottom it is like 100 times less than the top. This means that things on top, increasingly non-web links, have become more and more important.

In this context, as mentioned in the other comment, the largest modules on mobile and desktop we power ourselves, that is, local and knowledge graph. AI will be the same. We do use Bing as the primary source for traditional web links, but not for all and even when we do it sometimes looks different in various ways. In something like this, we can re-insert this link if that is what is needed.
>Glad to see a realistic take on HN.

From an account created 1 hour ago, claiming to have worked with the author. Take with a huge grain of salt.
And on M1/M2 Macs that means an arm64 Linux VM. So whatever issue came up here probably would come up attempting to run amd64 containers on regular arm64 linux (assuming the right compatibility tooling is installed).
If travel via car is a right, I should get a car from the government for free if I can't afford one. Why is my kid riding a bus?

After all, voting is a right, and if I cannot be at the polling place, I'm entited to vote by absentee ballot. They don't even require a stamp!
This is cool but everything is too verbose.

`austral compile hello.aum --entrypoint=Hello:main --output=hello`

vs

`go build`

Etc etc.
No, they can still threaten to remove them, which I'm sure they have already.
NORM from the Naval Research Labs is another implementation of the same concept.

https://github.com/USNavalResearchLaboratory/norm
I apologize for not keeping them. Sorry. :(

The thing with search engines is: you try one, scan results for 30 seconds, don't find a useful result, curse under your breath and hastily try another search engine. It's a normal programmer flow, which sadly almost completely eliminates the possibility to provide actionable feedback to the search engine's maintainers.

I gather you're from the DDG team? If so, I'd say that the writing is on the wall that Bing is no longer a good backend for DDG. You guys should start branching out because from where I'm standing, many programmers are 10-15 annoyances away from switching.

Again, my apologies for not providing examples.
Llama cpp speed is dramatically improved by avx instructions. If your CPU has those it would be much faster than not.

And if it doesn't you need to do some workarounds with compiling and it gets a bit harder to run.
> And in this case "society as a whole" means liberals.

Are we really debating if saying that "black people are intellectually inferior", is hate speech? Are the merits of any of the sides defending or attacking this statement, worth debating without a context?

OP came with this broad statement that "black people IQ is lower" than other races. He stated that it was a "fact", which may as well be, but without a context, not only it is meaningless, but derogatory for no other better reason than attacking someone for the color of their skin.

If we, as a society, cannot find comments like these, "wrong", then we have failed.
https://kagi.com/faq#Where-are-your-results-coming-from
Comment I saw in a previous thread:

Stone age

Bronze age

Iron age

LK-99 (®) age

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36869209
Kagi lets me block domains from ever showing up again on my searches ever. That alone is worth 5 bucks a month to me.
> Right time, right place.

Money. What Xerox PARC was allowed to do was to develop technology that was not yet cost-effective.

I got a tour of PARC in 1975, when I took Bill McKeenan's summer computer architecture course at UC Santa Cruz. McKeenan had designed several Burroughs machines. He knew everybody in computer architecture, and we had really good field trips. Visited an an Intel wafer fab. (2 inch wafers! 1K bit memory! Soon, 4K!) Visited Amdahl, met Gene Amdahl, saw their enormous prototype mainframe, which was to be shrunk for production by making custom ICs for each board. Visited PARC, met Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg, and saw some of the first Alto machines. They were making tall CRTs in house and it wasn't going well yet, but they had some machines going. The first Ethernet was described as "an ALOHAnet with a captive ether." Kay described Smalltalk as treating everything as an active object, acting like a little computer, and working by message passing. (I was kind of appalled at that, because I thought he meant true threaded programming with real message passing. I was already doing that on UNIVAC mainframes, which had user-space threads, called "activities". My job at the time was getting the OS for a multiprocessor mainframe installation to stop crashing. So I was thinking concurrency hell and huge overheads as you sent 1 to a number to add 1 to it for each arithmetic operation. But no, that's not how OOP really works, even in Smalltalk. That's just a way to talk about it, which I did not get at the time.)

PARC was also an R&D center for Xerox copiers, so they had considerable mechanical and electronic fabrication capability in house. That was a huge advantage when they needed to build something.

We were told that Xerox had funded them heavily to push the technology regardless of cost, with the assumption that hardware technology would catch up. It was a good bet for the industry, but the payoff was further in the future than Xerox could really afford.
Xerox lost their moat when their patents on xerography expired, and their margins dropped.
SearXNG is awesome. Between Google's search results degrading in quality, the pollution and manipulation of search results by advertisers and scammers, and the complete lack of concern for privacy that search engine providers seem to have (they seem to be adamantly anti-privacy, constantly haranguing people to log in), we could genuinely use options like SearXNG.

This is particularly important now that we're seeing regressive, backwards states in the US using data however they can to charge people with crimes for seeking abortions in states where it's legal. People should be more aware of where they search for anything that matters at all.

There are a few rough edges, though. One is that some of the search engines that SearXNG use by default don't like bots, so you have to visit them from the same IP as SearXNG uses now and then (simple using X11 over ssh or SOCKS over ssh). Another is that they, like many search engines these days, have no way to search for things that match exactly what you type and exclude everything that isn't exactly what you type. (if I put a phrase in quotes, for instance, I don't want to see any result that don't have that exact phrase in quotes).

I've been running one for quite a while now, and it has become my default go-to for searching. Now if I could just figure out how to get Safari to treat my SearXNG instance as the default search engine...

Highly recommended.