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See my reply to NeedMoreTea.

That links "more than 400 sources" to https://duck.co/ia which in turn links to https://docs.duckduckhack.com/#improve-a-live-instant-answer saying "DuckDuckHack is in Maintenance Mode". But https://docs.duckduckhack.com/welcome/how-ias-work.html suggests that these sources are for things displayed at the top, which I see super rarely.

Yahoo gets their search results from bing, so that's the same thing. So this supports my claim.

"Google developers claim this will not actually start synchronizing your data to Google — yet"

It sounds like you got up in arms because you thought that chrome now auto-syncs when you sign in to gmail, and wrote the blog post draft. Then you learned that this isn't the case but you kept your arms up anyway, added that unsubstantiated "- yet" and hit "publish" anyway, despite nothing really having changed.

(Disclaimer 1: I used to work for google, so I'm likely biased to give them more benefit of doubt. Disclaimer 2: This is a shared HN account (the password isn't exactly hard to guess), so not all of its comments or posts are written by me.)

DuckDuckGo is mostly a skin on Bing search results. By using it, you're saying you trust Microsoft more than Google. If that's your intent, cool, but you're not really getting away from the big tech companies by doing this.

> But it brings users within an accidental click of sharing their bookmarks and browsing history with Google.

It's two clicks, you need to be really explicit about it. The first click opens a huge "You're about to turn on sync" dialog, where you have to click "Yes, I'm in" again.

I don't disagree with the general sentiment, but the article isn't factually correct. It's also by the same person who misunderstood the recent chrome changes and wrote a long blog post triggered by them misunderstanding what was going on (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gyny83/google-chr...).

Don't self-destruct. This may seem obvious, but surprisingly many people get this wrong. There will be moments where you have incomplete data on some situation, yet feel strongly about it, and have a strong urge to do some symbolical career-limiting step as a reaction -- for example, threatening to quit over some minor technical decision made by someone more senior that even turns out to be correct a few years down the line, or leaving a product that's on an exponential growth curve because you don't like to see the team changing as it grows (this is valid concern, but there's also significant upside to being an early member of a successful product). If you're in a situation like this, it's usually a good idea to wait a month or two before doing anything; usually the urge is over by then.

That was 11 years ago. All other big tech firms are doing business in China, by China's rules. Google used to be better than that. It's very sad that that's changing, but again it doesn't seem like something that's relevant for the House.

Why would the US House care about Google's business practices in China?

I think Dragonfly is horrible, but why would the House care?

> You can personally decide not to use Facebook, which is good. But you can't convince everybody to do that. Pretty scary.

Which means Facebook has a shadow profile of you even if you don't use it at all: http://theconversation.com/shadow-profiles-facebook-knows-ab...

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/c... suggests that rendering in Chrome and Chromium is identical, so as long as Vivaldi and Brave keep their Chromium updated it should render the same as Chrome.

I don't understand what "because of this" means. Chrome made some change that some famous blogger misunderstood, and everyone got up in arms over nothing -- https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gyny83/google-chr...

Given that, their reaction on their blog seems above and beyond to me.

Edit: Downvoters, reply with how this is incorrect instead of downvoting.

"When Google acquired Boston Dynamics, it ended the company’s military contracts. Now that the company is owned by SoftBank, Mr. Raibert said, it could also return to military work."

Sounds like they haven't (yet).

Safari isn't open source, only the rendering engine is. Doesn't matter to most, but does matter a great deal to some.

The best way to define the problem is iterating on it. This (and other tools) allows you to iterate faster. That's why tools like this are useful.

It's because the notation is pronounced "order of", which is also the vocabulary used when you do Fermi estimation: you don't care about exact numbers, but you want to guess the order of magnitude / power of ten correctly. It's linguistic overloading if you want.

The GP is factually wrong, this isn't "semantics". Your comment moves the goalpost to "well the aerodynamics help". This is true: The slipstream moves at the speed of the car ahead, so it's like she has no headwind slowing her down. She still needs to accelerate 84 MPH (on top of maintaining 100 MPH). Think of doing this on a gym bike where you don't have headwind either. This is very much an athletic feat.

It's also an engineering feat, but again TFA: "As they targeted the overall record, their team revamped the same dragster that was used to set the men's record" -- they're reusing last time's engineering.

From TFA: "Mueller-Korenek sat on a bike with gearing so steep that she needed to be towed to around 100 mph before taking over under her own power." So no, she didn't just maintain 184 MPH.

That links "more than 400 sources" to https://duck.co/ia which in turn links to https://docs.duckduckhack.com/#improve-a-live-instant-answer saying "DuckDuckHack is in Maintenance Mode". But https://docs.duckduckhack.com/welcome/how-ias-work.html suggests that these sources are for things displayed at the top, which I see super rarely. So this is in fact a nice example of misleading DDG PR.

DDG is an ok skin on bing search results, but their pushy and misleading marketing is a huge turn-off to me. And I'm very very sympathetic to the "we don't track you" cause in general.

> would jump

This used to exist: https://contributor.google.com/v/beta

Not many people were interested, so it got scaled back to an opt in model.

So it's not that many others willing to pay for this.

That's just a bit over 1k / month -- similar to rent in SF :-P

I was in continental Europe at the time and the sentiment here was "they're going to do something stupid" and far from a free pass.

The domain is called "polemic digital" and -- surprise -- offers a polemic view to cash in on amp hate. That it's doing so well over here is a nice example of polemic half truths doing well on social media.

What's DDG's moat? Its search index is bing so they don't have significant own tech. Is it just the brand?

Why the throwaway?

How do I read this? Click the manuscript folder and then click through the md files in an arbitrary order? Or is there some better way I'm missing?

(2002)

Reading that bug, it sounds like it was fixed in https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/51cd319fd6a... and the bug status is just incorrect?

"Hm I should check it out, are there docs?" https://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/ Julia 0.7 Documentation

Sounds like 1.0 hasn't propagated everywhere yet :-)

> not being asked which app I want to open a link in all the time

Huh? Just tap "always use this app", you can the default later if you want. That button is right there every time :-)