skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is getting more terrible by the day. They've been fudging results for political reasons. But aside from that, they just make it harder to find what you need, to sell ads and misdirect to paid landing pages. So in a way, they're stifling human progress. Even if they just waste a billion people's time for one minute every day. It's like 1900 lost years, or 23 lifetimes.

Compare it to ChatGPT which just gives a really good answer right away.
Really, really curious how this all plays out WRT Mozilla. Mozilla receives on the order of 80% of their revenue from making Google the default search engine on Firefox. They're going to have to layoff the majority of their employees.
> On the other hand, maintaining a custom tool vs a patched fork is not that dissimilar, is it?

You're somehow ignoring all the development work you need to invest to go from zero to alternative implementation, not to mention the maintenance work you need to do to come close in stability.

The whole point of FLOSS is that everyone, including you, can build upon all the work invested by everyone else. Otherwise there would be a whole lot of people reinventing the wheel.
Don't try to weasel your way out of this. Just be honest and say you like working on cool plane tech stuff and admit it's not great for the environment when more people will fly. No shame in that. Or maybe there is shame, but that's up to you.
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41164240
I'm not asking you to care, I'm asking you to recognize you don't understand what you're looking at. You can say "I don't find the work compelling", but to say it lacks artistic merit is just silly.
> search engine the default option on smartphone web browsers violate US antitrust law

Interesting that they limit the case to mobile browsers. I guess MS share is significant enough on desktop.
From the SwissRe report linked above:

Urban development, wealth accumulation in disaster-prone areas and inflation are key factors at play, turning extreme weather into ever rising natural catastrophe losses.
Google started when the tech sector considered the search problem "solved". You had the likes of Altavista, Yahoo and AskJeeves. There was some variety (eg Yahoo's directory) but no one thought search was going to be a big business.

Then Google came along and ripped them all to shreds from 1998-2006 or so. The most important platform was Windows and Google gained dominance there without paying anyone. Sure, you can argue Microsoft didn't take it seriously (because they didn't).

Then Microsoft did start taking it seriously and the smartphone revolution happened. If you were around at the time, you may remember that many networks simply couldn't handle the anticipated (and actual) Internet traffic from iPhones. IIRC I saw figures that an iPhone user used >8x as much data as the most recent Nokia phone user with Internet connectivity. Why? Because using a browser on an iPhone was a quantum leap forward in terms of power and usability.

Bing was really the only serious threat here simply because Microsoft had deep pockets. So Apple was able to extract (extort) Google to keep it as the default search on iOS.

Bing tried exclusivity deals, most notably with Bing but it was short-lived. Google also pays Firefox but it's less than they earn from that user and no one else can afford that. If no one else can do the same Google wins.

But the main point is that when given a choice, the majority of people choose Google because it is better for most people.

Where exclusivity typically hurts is where it's used to push an inferior product or at least a product where the product isn't preferred.

Now the DoJ could argue that we want to avoid getting to the point where Google has an inferior product but has the market domination and deep pockets to keep out competitors. Maybe that's valid. But I think in the short-to-=medium term, this has simply saved Google billions of dollars a year.

Also, for smaller search engines like DDG, they can never afford the billions Google could Billions was material, even to Apple. What DDG could pay isn't. It's not worth taking.
> It feels like the real problem in this industry is lack of competition. There’s a chicken and egg problem: planes are expensive because so few people buy them, but so few people buy them because they’re expensive.

100%. We're here to try to break that cycle.

We definitely think aviation needs this too and I'm excited to connect with all the people out there who agree!
> They also have quarterly financials to report.

one of the biggest brands in the world, with how many billions in CASH .. needs the money.. This is the same nonsense that WSJ peddles everyday.. "greed is good" and makes the world go around, details are just in the way.

No, actually.. there are other parts of society that are touched by this, and their children btw.. Apple and Google and whomever are now bumping against the edges of Big Society. There is no predicting what will come out of the woodwork on this IMHO
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That's nice!

I wrote a Swift package that does a similar thing (but as an iOS widget): https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner

My own experience, is that I keep on not using it in my projects. It's too much of an "in your face" widget. I was going to do a SwiftUI version of it, but stopped working on it, when I figured out that I probably wouldn't use it.

I suspect that MacOS, with the cursor-oriented navigation, is a better home for it.
Yeah, this is the thing that gets me. Chrome is the (rare) exception when we're talking about defaults generally winning, not the rule.

An interesting thought experiment might be to imagine if Chrome was actually somehow the default browser on Windows and/or macOS. I think we could expect Edge's and/or Safari's market share numbers to be much lower than they are now if that were the case.
I'm glad the judge made the right call here. I think it was patently obvious that spending that kind of money to acquire default search engine status so broadly was an effort to corner the ad market, which is their primary business.
The comment was intended to have an effect, while pretending to be just an observation.
Search term: "Detroit"

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Active discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41164240 (247 points, 123 comments)
I mean, it's pretty easy to understand if you just look at motivations. For most people who own a house, it's a pretty big part of their net worth. Nobody wants the value of their house to go down, and if you allow construction of more housing that is what will happen.

Local council members fear geting voted out if they make constituents unhappy.

We need both sides to think of the good of the community as greater than their own financial/power interests. But that's very hard to actually do.
> Trying to understand a big existing codebase might be more difficult than rewriting a small subset for your own use case (...)

Adding a small feature to an existing codebase will never require more work than implementing a minimal working example from scratch.
There's a difference between speed & latency when it comes to performance.

Faster-whisper can process audio faster than real-time, but AFAIK vanilla Whisper needs a few seconds long audio "frame" to do inference/STT.

Whisper Live fixes that, and reduces latency to a few tens/hundreds of ms.
Damn, someone tell the Justice Department that Nvidia exists.
There are no exclusivity deals.

These are deals around defaults, not exclusivity.

Google never paid Apple to remove Bing from the list of choices. That's what an exclusivity deal would do. But it didn't happen, because this doesn't have anything to do with exclusivity.
Who cares what Elon Musk thinks? Like genuinely. Maybe folks outside of hacker space do but does any hacker seriously care about Musk?
Replacing Liquid Metal on an Asus Zephyrus G15's CPU
I remember this article from 2017 about the google snippet for how long it takes to caramelize an onion.

https://gizmodo.com/googles-algorithm-is-lying-to-you-about-...

The gist of the story is the author wrote an article debunking the recipe myth that you only need 5 minutes. In their tests it was 25 - 45. Google snippet would report "about 5 minutes" and link to the article as a reference.

I think the information summaries at the top of searches have been wrong for a while.
A million times this. Modern and efficient train networks are the best way to travel, even for longer distances of a few thousand kilometers (night trains). Sure, there are still use cases for flying, but the dismissiveness of people who have never experienced great train travel against it just shocks me.
>England's reputedly bland cuisine...

Thank goodness for immigration.
Rowhammer would qualify as a bigger problem, yes.
I have also done this with an ad-blocker on a few occasions, but I often find it doesn't work reliably. I'm not sure why - the ad-blocker I'm using (1Blocker on macOS and iOS) seems to use something to identify the element that changes occasionally.

My very limited experience of ad-blockers is also that, when you enable the "point-to-the-thing-to-remove mode", it first reloads the page without certain information that would normally be present (e.g. the reloaded page is 'logged out').

It will be interesting to see if Apple has solved both these problems.
If I was a government party with subpoena power I'd be really interested in the email chain around that decision.
Ornette? Yeah!

Never ever, ever read YouTube comments.
Toriyama exercised a fair bit of artist license in his work. I am reasonably sure the original texts were more about hitting opponents with a big magical stick rather than Kamehamehas.
"If anyone can make music then music has demeaned itself, and maybe it simply wasn't ever a big deal in the first place."

That's what I have a problem with. Music hasn't demeaned itself. Music is just as meaningful as it's ever been.
In single pilot IFR, an autopilot is often your best friend. It's exactly like you say - when you're busy with everything else you want the plane to fly itself. Isn't that problem already somewhat solved in a sense? Or are you referring to Garmin Autoland (or similar) in emergencies?

By the way - I can totally see how a great GA fly-by-wire system is an improvement to maintain positive control of an aircraft at all times. I'd personally love to give it a try and see how it reduces pilot effort while flying.
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So, to summarize: defaults are powerful, but advertising is more powerful.
I've never had that happen and wouldn't appreciate it. Corrupted configuration maybe?
According to sworn testimony, Apple got over 20 billion dollars from Google in 2022.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-01/google-s-...
If the target costs a lot more than $1k than this might be a good deal.
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Apple's biggest disincentive to continue the practice is that they themselves end up in the monopoly crosshairs from time-to-time, and it doesn't look good in terms of the DOJ targeting them if they continue a practice that was ruled monopolistic with another company. It isn't necessarily monopolistic if they do, but it raises suspicion.

(Personally, I wish monopoly law didn't seem so much like "vibes". It's really hard to answer whether the rule is fair when the same actions have different legal consequences depending on some vaguely-defined categories like "market sector").
Unless you have people willing to sit with unrented houses, no it won't. Some big rental owners might be able to afford that but the guy with one or two rentals he manages himself cannot afford to let them sit empty.

RealPage may maximize rents but the maximums will be lower if there is more supply.
Funny thing is server shutdowns are rarely as "planned" out as you'd imagine. Look at GameInformer as we speak. In less than 1 business day the staff was kicked out with no warning, its 20+ year old website taken down, and its twitter handle deleted, hours after making a goodbye statement. This was clearly not planned more than a month in advance by Gamestop.
Planned Obscolecense implies (if not, is outright defined) as designing a product to fail in a specific amount of time. No game service worth its salt is designed to shut down in 6 months (you can probably find some chinese asset mills to prove me wrong. so take a charitable interpretation of "worth its salt")
True--but those are quite rare compared to other sources of fatal accidents. And if it does happen, we have the full airplane parachute to bring the airplane safely to the ground
Stugna is laser guided, no?
You would really enjoy an art history course. A lot of them start with prehistoric work (like cave drawings) and progress through all the major periods and movements.

I think you might change your definition to at least include some context of period and artist.
> a country that's a full-blown comic book villain.

Have you examined the logic of this position? You legitimately see an entire country as a "comic book villain?" And this seems rational and is a justified reason to send conscripted civilians to their deaths? So much so that it "satisfies" you?

Wow.
Tell, sell, test, consult, co-create?
No, defaults aren't incredibly powerful.

Chrome utterly dominates Edge on Windows, despite Edge being default.

How do you explain that?

The reality is that people know what they like, and most will switch to the thing they like most. Especially when it costs nothing.
Lobbyist arent supposed to be neutral actors, and we shouldn't want or expect them to be. It is the politician that is expected to be neutral.

The goal of Johnny's lobbyist is to communicate Johnny's concerns. The same as if you were to write a letter to your congressman - you are sharing your thoughts and insights.

>ideally, politicians would seek out or be invited to a forum to help understand these issues. a boring forums with as many bells and whistles as some random meetup, not some fancy ball with subsidized dinners. But at this point I think it's just easier to punish "gifts" more harshly.

99% of lobbying is exactly what you describe: boring emails, phone calls, technical essays and testimonials.
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I have no idea about the future progression of AI, and anyone who claims they do is either lying to you or to themselves.

I'll also mention:

- ChatGPT was a lot smarter for the types of things I'd like to use it for before the "safety" work. The efforts to make it never say anything offensive also made it a lot dumber. I saw a paper to that effect too. Perhaps some of that was a result of optimizations to shrink the model and make it more efficient (but then I'd expect GPT-4 to be smarter).

- GPT3, which was an autocomplete, could do some things well the modern chatbot-ified models can't.

- I have a lot of practice making the models smarter by having them check their own work, vote, etc.

I have no idea how high the ceiling is. I might be a few inches away, or it might be the sky.

That's a good time to hedge.

Probably "legacy" was a better word than "obsolete." My language was sloppy.
Forbes is just a blogging platform nowadays, not sure there's any editorial intent behind it.
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There's also the instruments themselves, for a lot of 60s-80s pop music. A guy on the street corner with a money hat today can make any electronic sound that Kraftwerk blew people's minds with.
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I mean, it would also be nice to see at least a single link or reference... At least the July 2nd article didn't have a single reference in it.
Yeah, the calculus is simple. You just lose 20 billion in potential pure profits. Google is paying you 34% of all search revenue originated by you. You have all the financial structure of your own search engine right there.

Just make your own damn search engine. You could even put Google's own ads on it to make some money that way.
The article didn't say whether any of the people involved were prosecuted.
Unrelated to the article itself, but is it possible for this website to have worse ads on mobile?

It starts automatically playing with music, and if I pause it to stop the music/sound then scroll down it pops up again as a floating ad and starts playing again. If I hit the pause and X to close the floating ad, it starts playing yet again in the original inline place it was in the webpage, making me have to scroll back up to silence it again.

And the cycle continues all over again….
Introvert/extrovert and the associated pop psychology surrounding these terms has so diluted them they have become essentially meaningless.

"Introverted" != "shutin" and it definitely doesn't mean people who are averse to socialization, which is often how it is presented and dripping throughout articles like this.

I am introverted and quite enjoy socialization. The fact that people see this as a contradiction is why articles like this get written.

As for the rest of it:

> In any case, in 2024 it is possible to eat delicious food you didn’t make yourself, watch movies that have recently come out in the cinema, buy all manner of clothes, tools and fripperies, do the food shopping, speak to friends and family and earn a wage – all without ever leaving the house. Why should we, then? What’s in it for us?

This was the case LONG before the pandemic.

> Living a real, physical life outside the home is good because humans need friction. Convenience is alluring but it is dangerous, because getting used to it means forgetting that being alive isn’t meant to always be easy. We should run our errands in person and queue at the Post Office and eat in restaurants because it is good to remember that sometimes we have to wait around, or go to several shops because the first one didn’t have what we needed. Resilience is one of the most important traits a person can and should develop, and it works like a muscle. Glide effortlessly through life and, when something bad does happen, because it always will, you won’t know how to react.

Oh please. Not everyone has a car, not everyone is able bodied, not everyone has the luxury of not working 3 jobs to make ends meet AND take care of the kids. Don't blame people for taking time saving measures in a society that demands more time than we possess.
This is such an infuriatingly dismissive and abrasive answer, even with not being part of that community. All metal is just trivial guitar play and angry shouts right? Paintings are just the correct application of colors and other materials.

- edit - And yes, I have talked to artists about absolutely trivial paintings. During that I learned how.. nontrivial putting poop on canvas may be - /edit -

Sometimes it's better to accept you're not part of a conversation and to either shut up, or ask a very confused "But why?"
It's like you didn't understand what this case was about at all. Google isn't paying to be first, Google is paying so nobody bothers making a competitor.
https://archive.today/yO2Ub
Especially since this is a PPA, so it's basically a crowdfunded power plant. People will buy shares in each well to get it constructed and use the energy produced to offset their power bill.

Usually you see these with solar projects, but I don't see any reason a geo plant can't operate on the same principle.
maybe I wasn't clear but I completely agree that airplanes are not good for the environment. That absolutely needs to be fixed. But to fix it requires capital and public demand. We are hoping to generate both by getting more people flying so that it's not just a niche people who fly planes and care about the environment working asking for it and spending money in the industry
Pretty much. And just push Apple customers further into Apple's walled garden.
For-profit corp needs some incentives for such donation.
fiberoptic drone control and feedback surveillance during initial phase of engagement

such ordinance, would provide telemetry and situational intelligence resources while transiting the first kilometers of range, thus the ordinance is munition and reconaisance device.
Looks like you are very easily triggered on this topic. Quite amusing to be honest :)
My friend Rachel Sumner wrote a song about this that won the John Lennon National Songwriting Contest last year.

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So GFS->graphcast = more accurate coarse-grained prediction (0,25 degree iirc), -> WRF for fine grained interpolation of forecast?