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You could fit all of them in a cube with edge length 400 meters (1312 feet)

I highly recommend the book Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow. Perrow argues that multiple and unexpected failures are built into society's complex and tightly coupled systems

Would this be something Starlink could offer?

Original audit thread:

https://twitter.com/thezedwards/status/1528808759027331072

Qwant is also using Microsoft's Bing Search API.

"Qwant uses different programming interfaces such as those of Microsoft Bing, Twitter, YouTube, or iTunes" -- https://about.qwant.com/en/legal/classement/

Come on Gabriel! Yes people search for weather, lyrics, sport scores and local results, but you do not have a web search engine without being able to search the web. Saying "Of course, we have more traditional links in our search results too, which we do largely source from Bing, but that's just part of the page" is disingenuous.

Another famous example of how in the darkest hours there's longing for peace and friendship is the Christmas Truce during the first world war [1].

British soldiers heard German troops in the trenches singing carols and patriotic songs. They started shouting messages to each other. The next day, soldiers from both sides met, exchanged gifts, took photographs and played football.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce

The RStudio equivalent for Python. Last used this so many years ago, and from the screenshots little seems to have changed.

Congrats to the team. I am sure it must have been a stressful one.

Some remaining issues:

The desktop app on first message in any conversation says: "Partially sent, click for details". When retried, the message goes through, but is not synced with the mobile client (never appears there).

PS: Happy Signal exists. It's easy to let inconvenience make you forget it sometimes.

While this may very well be the simplest piece of software that makes money, I have a conceptual bone to pick:

If you spend money to make a point, the recipient does mean something.

> Funny (amusing) to hear that lichess' competitors would pay professionals not to pay on lichess

That is true, nevertheless, many of the same Grandmasters still play using anonymous accounts. For obvious reasons, we should not point out which accounts these are.

How much would you be willing to pay for search as a premium service?

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - from Evelyn Beatrice Hall in her book: The Friends of Voltaire. The quote is an illustration of Voltaire's beliefs.

At some point they did flirt with the idea, even invested in a search company, but then they changed their mind [0]

[0] https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-11/the-pivot-that-excited-...

API keys for Bing expired? Happened to me as well this week, unexpectedly.

Having multiple great other projects with little recognition (or much less public awareness) than Wikipedia must be challenging, and for all of us, readers, unfortunate. Projects like Wikidata (basis for all knowledge graphs powering search engines), Wikinews (what could potentially be fact checked news in an age of misinformation), etc could all benefit from some raised awareness for all Wikimedia projects. Even raising money from donations, is usually targeted at Wikipedia. I do not how the governance structure of Wikimedia influences the distribution of donations, or whether renaming is meant to influence this. Overall, I see a sincere struggle to get traction around more Wikimedia projects - and I find that commendable.

Modals are basically the fancy clone of old school javascript's alert(), and while everyone would rightfully be annoyed being "alerted" needlessly, designers have convinced themselves that it's fine to show modals frequently?

Edit: Claiming it's only designers' fault, or generalizing that all designers do that, is obviously wrong. I did not mean that. What I meant to convey (partially failed) is that examples propagate, and somehow design choices are the beginning of this propagation chain.

Here: https://github.com/wbkd/awesome-interactive-journalism

The missing piece of Apple's "hegemony" in its own ecosystem: Web Search. They still depend on Google, and it's surprising to me that they don't seem to care that much.

@steveklabnik: Just out of curiosity, did it not work out at Cloudflare? Seems like a rather short stint.

Nice to see this. Was using highly at some point, before Twitter bought it [1] and shut it down.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/17/twitter-highly/

The article has a few weak assumptions:

> Sacconaghi estimates that Alphabet (ticker: GOOGL) pays Apple (AAPL) between $7 billion and $8 billion a year for Google to be the default search engine for iOS ...

The real figure is probably $12 billion - https://fortune.com/2018/09/29/google-apple-safari-search-en...

> Google pays that large sum to Apple in part out of concern about what Microsoft (MSFT) might be willing to pay Apple to supplant Google with Bing*

Unlikely. Apple does not have search, and they simply need the best search available for their devices to stay true to being "premium".

> Sacconaghi thinks Apple should consider acquiring the No. 4 search engine (after Google, Bing, and Yahoo)—privately held DuckDuckGo. He thinks Apple could likely buy it for under $1 billion, “

This is completely off. DDG is highly unlikely to be worth that much. As discussed in this other thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23458202, DDG is dependent on Bing both for search and ads.

> And he also writes that “If Apple attempts to acquire DuckDuckGo but is blocked by regulators, it would arguably put Apple in a worse position than ever, given that Google and Microsoft would then know Apple has no alternatives.”

This does not make much sense to me. It's not the kind of thing I see regulators going after. Happy to be schooled though.

Not necessarily. Startpage uses Google for all of its results.

> You can’t beat Google when it comes to online search. So we’re paying them to use their brilliant search results in order to remove all trackers and logs. - https://startpage.com

Does anyone know how one can get whatever deal Startpage has?

If you consider it moral to block first party ads on Google, most adblockers should prevent ads from being loaded. Are you using one?

Ironically, Bing (powering DDG) is not mentioned in the article at all.

I'm very sad to see Firefox opting for these sort of measurements. I understand Mozilla may want to renegotiate the search deals to make more money, but it risks losing users' trust. They should really be spending time to figure out a sustainable way to stay alive. Email + Cloud Storage seem both very obvious to develop premium businesses on top (given Firefox's still good reputation).

I'm genuinely surprised Sugar is not even in the list.

Not strictly related, but every time I see projects moving to Gitlab it makes me happy. GitHub certainly has been adding some very sweet features, a lot of great integrations - but with each one you lock yourself in. We cannot afford another monopoly.

Once you put an employee in a position where the only way to get a salary hike is to change employers, there is no way back - you change employers. It worked out well for me, and AFAIK the role is not filled yet in the previous company.

Congratulations for the launch. Looks nice. For those that are cautious uploading sensitive PDFs, you can always just open them with Inkscape, and start editing pretty much anything in a document.

PS: I was once forwarded an application for someone who was supposed to replace me, and I had to interview them. The expected salary was hidden by placing a gray rectangle over it. I removed it using inkscape and saw the expected salary was 30% higher than what I made.

Inkscape Link: https://inkscape.org/