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A McDonald's kiosk is a masterpiece of engineering perfectly designed to make as much money as possible. It's by no means lazily made or without afterthoughts or care. Every detail in the interface has was decided after tons of experiments and hours of meetings.

They do care a lot, but about the wrong thing.

Do you have an example query? Quotes for literal words work for me. Domain search was always with with site:domain.com and not quotes and works fine. I think bing/ddg removed that feature recently?

I strongly recommend installing Spectacle for Mac, which does window snapping with a hotkey.

Apparently it's no longer maintained but works perfectly fine right now, and there are alternatives i haven't tried, like Rectangle.

She seems to assume that federations are supposed to be small groups where everyone knows each other. Has anyone claimed that?

Email and the web are the perfect examplea of federations, because they are not controlled by a single company; they are interoperable. From Gmail I can send an email to a friend who uses Outlook. That way I'm not forced to use outlook if I want to communicate with him and I can use any email provider I want. The fact that Google and Microsoft are trillion dollar companies is irrelevant here.

Same with the web, I can change my ISP and keep accessing the exact same webpages as before because the web is federated, and not controlled by my ISP. The fact that I use it to visit pages controlled by other large companies is irrelevant.

Facebook or Whatsapp, on the other hand, are not federated. If I want to communicate with my friends who use Facebook or Whatsapp I have no other choice than to use Facebook and Whatsapp.

Any simple heuristic has false positives, meaning they'll end up taking down legitimate sites that had repeated content for a good reason. Say, for example two sites quoting text from the us constitution. The second one to be crawled would be considered to be spam copying the first one and removed from web results. Then you'll get comments on hacker news complaining that Google is censoring it for political reasons.

And any simple heuristic is quickly reverse engineered by SEOs, who will find a way to mask it as legitimate.

tl;dr it's a hard problem.

There are billions of dollars on stake from both sides, search engines and spammers, in an endless arms race that has been going on for more than 20 years. Trust me, it's beyond naive to say fighting webspam is a low hanging fruit problem.

Unrelated, but your website is down right now.

It's much better than any other article I've seen on hacker news about it.

Why not?

Put ads before you have a product. Send people to a fake landing page when they click, just to see if there's interest at all.

What do you mean by demonetizing forums?

Wow, I opened this to recommend Fall of Civilizations, but I'm glad to see it's already recommended by the OP.

Adversarial interoperability is the only solution.

Make the new networks compatible with the current ones, even without their authorization.

Try GNU parallel.

Chrome mobile saves to mhtml if you download a page. Chrome desktop can save to mhtml if you select "webpage, single file". And of course they open the files fine. But it's not compressed, so you'll end up with smaller files if you use pdfs.

I can't believe I never thought of this. I keep a huge bookmark folder with "things I might need 10 years from now", but finding things becomes a torture if you can only search by the title and not the contents. And after a few years it's likely that the page will be gone.

But why save pdfs instead of downloading the webpages?

The real solution is to change the rules of the games so that the cheap strategies don't pay. Both in games and business.

Thanks for the explanation! The Option example makes perfect sense.

Yeah, it's very confusing.

Array is a monad. Then what's the function that takes an array and returns another? Is it map? That can't be because map takes two parameters, not one: the array and a function that it will apply to every element. Something is missing in the explanation.

And why is Option a monad? What's the associative function that takes two options and returns another Option?

How much does it cost to buy that "anonymized" data from grindr or tinder?

I feel it could be really useful if I ever need to blackmail someone.

For some channels I only watch some of their content. RSS allows me to add filters based on the video name. Plus, my RSS client works like email, so I can mark as read or unread easily.

I don't think so... I've never seen the subscriptions tab skipping a video of the channels I follow.

Me too. I thought I was the only one that still uses RSS for my YouTube channels.

I could just subscribe to the channel and open the subscriptions tab on YouTube, but RSS allows me to add manual filters on my RSS client (blogtrottr), because for some channels I'm only interested in some of their content.

Just commenting to say that there are third-party reddit apps that are pretty good. Boost for Android is the only way I browse reddit anymore.

Are you sure about this? Search on Bing, they show as many YouTube results as Google, if not more.

Reading the comments I think most people misunderstood the point (which is probably the author's fault).

I don't think he was saying that they're should be zero moderation, or that moderation is wrong at all.

I think his point was that there should be open protocols and then services that use those protocols with their own rules.

Examples of this IMO are HTTP, the telephone network and email. If you don't like your internet provider you can move to another one and you know that every single webpage will still be accessible through HTTP. The same way you can call any phone number, regardless of whether the person you're calling has the same phone company. The same way you can send an email from Gmail to Hotmail or any other email provider. The same is not true for Facebook or Whatsapp. Signal cannot message to Whatsapp.

The point is somewhat similar to the Adversarial interoperability EFF article.

>If most of HN knows how to set up git and stand up a web server, why do most of use Github instead of running Gitlab on a home pc

You missed the point of the article. It wasn't advocating for everyone to run their own servers. git is a protocol, github is a site that wraps the protocol with its own rules. There's nothing wrong with that. Github is like the Gmail example of the article. Facebook is not.

It also wasn't advocating for zero moderation.

I'm not sure I understand what he means by batching by function.

Is it dividing by work type (eg coding, responding emails, writing documents, etc) and doing all the tasks in one type before going to the next?

It depends on the type of music. Music with lyrics (like mentioned in the article) is very distracting for me, but some types of instrumental music (like videogame soundtracks) work very well.

As soon as this starts happening, hire a lawyer and get as much evidence as you can.