skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a plausible argument that Apple needed to give a little in order to avoid the creation of laws against any encryption. And/Or also avoid laws that required a backdoor to everything.

I know I'm going to be called a fanboy or too generous to Apple, but given that the government has used every opportunity to call out Apple for not helping (when they have helped where they could) there is a line here that Apple is tip toeing around.

I also do not think this as bad as you are making it out to be. Apple has always been clear what is fully E2E encrypted and what is not. This article is about something Apple planned to do and decided against. The reasons are what's important and the article only speculates.
This is the whole tactic. Shift the argument to one about semantics (and articles from 13 years ago), meanwhile ignoring the mountains of scientific evidence we have today.
> it feels like the quality of results rapidly drops off after the first page

Interesting -- I've been playing with Google search this morning, and it's behaving much like it did when I stopped using it: there is only a very low chance that I'll get a relevant search result before the third page.
Nice site, looks great for WordPress sites and servers!
time to move away from big evilcorp.

Im done with google.

will use duckduckgo.
Well, yeah, it's widely accepted that the W124 was the last "quality" (i.e. long-lasting) car made by Mercedes. They switched to a more planned obsolescence production in the early 90's.
The enterprise version lets admin disable all the crap, but it's really frustrating to buy pro version and still see that stuff.
>Thanks for ruining the Web, Google.

I posted the solution below, which I found a few days ago. The script will work with greasemonkey and tampermonkey, it will provide you with results similar to the ones before the change. If you also use uMatrix, there will be no ads.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395257-better-google
You can remove your house from Google street view
My biggest complaint is that I have to do anything. Viewing and picture and the calculator have been around forever. I should not have to do a registry hack to bring it back.

I usually don't learn that anything has changed until I actually want to use it then I'm like WFT where did X app go?
That's not true. CDNs also use their own non-Google domains and infrastructure for AMP hosting:

https://amp.cloudflare.com/
KS has long been used as a promotional vehicle for kick-starting not so much the product development, but marketing/sales of the same. Often times it looks like the developers themselves cover the final gap if the project can't achieve its set goal naturally.

This way they basically go after a permission to spam supporters with project updates, asking for retweets, mentions, etc. It helps gathering free beta testing crowd. Perhaps there are also some SEO benefits too.

So in this context OP's question is really quite valid. I'm guessing that no one has thought about using KS this way yet and it's definitely worth a try.
My point is that nobody cares about the time to zero out small blocks of memory, but when allocating large blocks you'll typically have to request the memory anyway...in which case don't re-zero it.
I think this is the siren song of putting a clever architectural decision front-and-center in the code.

"Everything is an X."

What happens when it turns out not everything should be an X, or worse, X ends up being harmful? How do you refactor such a system when the biggest mistake is pervasive?

[Edit: I have done it 2-3 times, but I'm not entirely sure I could adequately explain how I did it, which means I should still be asking that question.]
IIRC the DNC was using Crowstrike for their AV and security who interestingly has a lot of their company based in Ukraine, and both CS and DNC refused to allow the FBI access to servers and logs to verify the Russian attack.

IDK much about much, but that sure does seem questionable to me.
Ecosia serves Bing results (iirc). The search result quality is awful.
front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22108890
I can pretty much only use Google in verbatim mode now
> From the very beginning it was intended that users would follow links, not type in URLs.

so, about that

4.6 Locators are human transcribable.

Users can copy Internet locators from one medium to another (such as
voice to paper, or paper to keyboard) without loss or corruption of
information. This process is not required to be comfortable.

you can't copy a page title into a client and expect it to find the right resource, now, do you?

accessing the URL is listed as one of the fundamental use case for them, and for good reasons, detailed elsewhere in the same rfc
>The guy behind the Daily Stormer stated publicly that Cloudflare not shutting off his service means they agree with and support the Daily Stormer's content.

Yes, because he is a troll... he got exactly the response he wanted, infamy and people still talking about it years later.
Heck yeah! DDG results have gotten noticeably better in the past ~2 years.

Side note - most browsers offer 'search shortcut' customization options, so you can start an address-bar search with !g or !b or whatever to seamlessly swap to your fallback(s).
A strategy that I've found helpful in getting more done, and feeling more motivated to work on side projects is to cut away extraneous distractions.

As soon as I put away videogames, and TV time for a few days I not only found that I had more TIME to work on projects, but also working on those projects felt much more rewarding.

In the end it sounds like you're going to need to make more time for your projects. Maybe this means getting up earlier and getting some stuff done before work? Maybe it means negotiating less hours at work?

It's made a huge difference in helping me launch my latest project - http://topstonks.com (we're literally doing our "Show HN" right now.)

Good luck!!
> The review was rejected by Amazon because my claims didn't follow their guidelines (no specifics as to how so).

Reviews have to be about the product. Amazon likely interpreted your review as "I received an incorrect product" which is a seller issue and has to be in seller feedback, not product review (which are shared between multiple sellers).
Me too, for about a year.

The anonymizing stuff searx does really seems to work. My search results seem uniformly neutral regardless of which computer/profile/browser is in use.

I host on my LAN and out on the WAN over https protected with simple auth.
All my devices, including my work computers and cell phone browsers, are set to use it.
I rarely end up on Google in my life.

I actually prefer its interface for everything but images (which are only OK, but still perfectly usable)
Am I the only one that believes that such narrative and speculative writing style by officials is actively harmful to democracy?

Phrases like:

- in sweeping and systematic fashion

- was welcomed by the Trump campaign

- links between

- ties to

- connected to

Granted, communicating the complexities of reality is very difficult, but I sincerely do not believe that a serious effort has been made in this case (or is in other cases, in general) to as accurately and clearly as possible communicate(!) that which is "known" (including the degree of certainty), versus that which is suspected, etc.

Psychologists and neurologists have very little understanding of the underlying mechanisms by which people form beliefs, but they do know that it is extremely complex, and can easily be demonstrated to be highly prone to error or manipulation.

Considering this, in a serious political system (as seems to be the common claim of what we have in Western democratic nations), I would expect more bi-partisan (among politicians and citizens) acknowledgement of these shortcomings, and support for a process of continuous improvement in the manner in which the public is informed of affairs. But instead, I rarely see this idea discussed, and it seems to me the aggregate manner in which reality is being described to us is becoming more chaotic/uncertain/indecipherable, not less.

My intuition tells me this is not accidental, but of course there is no way of knowing if that is true or not. But, I think it would be beneficial for the public to become more aware of this phenomenon, and start drawing attention to this attribute of public discussions on a regular basis - in doing so, perhaps the quality of discourse could be improved.
Google also broke accessibility of their search results with this change. Now instead of the page titles, screen readers only read the entire URL. If they don't fix this soon, I'll be permanently switching to DDG.
I don't know the specifics on this, could you elaborate?
Proof? Or are you just guessing?
So, renaming is done manually (forces me to look at the PDF). I use preview on OSX, or any viewer other than Acrobat Reader on Windows and Linux (Acrobat Reader locks the file preventing renames). Several Python libraries exist for extracting metadata. I'm trying a couple of different approaches. At the moment I just take the title of the PDF and do a search on Google Scholar using the scholarly python library -- but this is really very suboptimal and I want to replace it with something faster and more robust.
I have been working with commercial EDA tools (Verilog, VHDL, etc.) for years and always found them to be quite overpriced and frustrating. Whenever I bring up the idea of using open source tools I get responses just like I got when first brining up Linux in the workplace back in 2001. Things like, "you get what you pay for" and "it's only free if you don't value your time." Red Hat (and SUSE/Novell) addressed those concerns for business people and made Linux mainstream (and put UNIX out of business and made a lot money for themselves in the process). Maybe a similar business could do the same for open source EDA.

To that end, I have quite my job and I've spent the past few week putting this business together. What do you think?
Square Crypto's Lightning Development Kit
from today on I officially set my default search engine to ddg
The grandparent didn't say, "I'll just walk", but rather "I'll at least walk."

Give yourself permission to only walk. That way, if you later feel like running, you can still get that extra benefit as well, without breaking some promise to yourself, and if you just feel like walking the whole time, no problem there, either.

Note that if this relationship of explicitly limited commitments with yourself is preeminent, your goal should be "go out exercising each day" rather than "run 5km each day".
In general, it's not the safety alone, but the combination of safety and eschewing implicit runtime costs. It would be 100% safe for Rust to always implicitly box closures; it just wouldn't be as efficient in the cases where boxing them isn't needed.
I have a Linux laptop and an eGPU. I dual boot Windows when I need to use it. I didn't even try to get it to work on Linux because that's a good way to lose a week and gain nothing. Switching between dedicated GPUs and integrated ones is still barely functional after heavy tweaking, and laptops have been doing that for I don't even know how long.

That xkcd is extra painful because there are still, 11 years later, zero Linux browsers that support hardware-accelerated (i.e. smooth) video playback.
The above heuristic arguments seem inherently weaker than the direct experience of someone who used to be on the team that improves the results. They are well-funded and should be able to back out the effects you mention.
Sonos stops support for older devices
No, memes have not been “permitted”. Something is not legal just because you don’t get caught or sued. Memes that try to use frames from movies have been handed takedown notices. Other memes just haven’t been handed takedowns because the owner isn’t making enough money to make a legal defense worthwhile. It’s not ethical to claim it’s permitted just because someone can’t defend it.
Thanks for the clarification. Do you remember why the blog in question was a hot topic?
I never noticed that. Perhaps because Google has trained me to ignore anything in the carousel.
I rewrote two applications, once on my own, once with some help from the team. The first time we switched the backend to a completely new framework (I'm in the middle of one of those right now...) and the second time we upgraded from an outdated version of the framework to the latest one in one go (so, essentially a rewrite from the ground up).

Both times sucked, both times we underestimated the amount of work to be done, and both times we were much happier with the new product than what we had before.
can't you ask your provider for a new one?
First, no one said the SPLC is the final say for this.

Second, do you have any examples of an organization that the SPLC deemed a white supremacist that wasn't?
I'd bet big bucks that the situation includes details that are omitted for the sake of brevity and narrative.

And I say this as someone who has a few hundred of the highest end Bosch and lowest end mystery manufacturer Chinese sawzall blades within arms reach.
I'm genuinely asking: can you share an example where the Google results are worse in your opinion than DDG or Bing? Ideally with a screenshot in case there is some personalization going on. I just want to see a very clear example of it so I can try it out for myself.
I think is more like White Christmas
The only thing I can’t fully rely on DDG for is on mobile if I search a business on iPhone - I need the address and phone number instantly.

DDG still isn’t as good as google at this.
Re: Sources of data - Maybe worth mentioning that Interactive Brokers will sell you real time data for about $10/mo (CBOT Futures in my case, your market may vary) if you have a funded account ($5k minimum). This is for non-professional use naturally. Also they have a pretty nice API that allows you to literally take any action what so ever.
Tested Photoshop 2020 in rc6, works fine, but hardware acceleration is slow, better to disable it. No crashes.
I hope everyone who sold in those 30 minutes has a good non-insider-trading story.

Stock markets seem full of insider traders who are rarely punished, and who keep people like me from investing.
I have noticed that when trying to find the most recent solution Google shows me an answer that is 10 years old.

ex. Adobe updates come faster than I can update, so I run into issues, so finding the most recent answer is what I am looking for and not a similar issue from Adobe pre CC.
Wow. These links opened new doors I didn't know existed. I've been experimenting with sponsorship ads to fund my sites because I'm very against the current advertising model. However, Coil looks to be an interesting alternative to the ad model as a whole.
We don't need any floor sweepers right now, but if you are a skilled C programmer, we are hiring!
You have any stats to back this up?
Netflix has used Linux in EC2 for their C&C infrastructure and FreeBSD on their OCA content serving appliances since the beginning.
Google will display ads in the search results
Random web hosts also have sloppy antibot 'AI's'. Siteground's is the most annoying because it for some reason thinks my work's network is a bot, and it doesn't identify itself unless you reverse image search their little anti-bot picture.
Problem is, these scam companies (really thats all they are anyways) will just have another employee sign up, etc. Requiring an ID is a very poor way to fight against any determined scam network.

All Amazon needs to do is just use their own site. It's so laughably obvious, like 1TB flash drives.
clicked the link expecting a rant about Adobe, but it looks "Garbage" is just how someone rated PS's performance under Wine...
Except for computer games, of which there is a ton.
It didn't lose momentum.
I was always a little irritated to see a boxed copy of Netscape in stores, but it did solve the 'how do I get my initial web browser?' problem for people who had no idea what "FTP" is. So I'd say that for the majority of people (the 90% who were not tech people), they bought it once. Once they got later in the adoption cycle that would have dropped off, and the moment IE shipped that would immediately trend to zero.

Netscape was free because Mosaic was free, and Mosaic was free because of the National Science Foundation. (As for getting your initial browser, IIRC you could send away for copy of Mosaic on 2 floppies for the cost of shipping and media, but that could take weeks)
Two wrongs...
Classified information is public information (belongs to the government and have a deadline to be disclosed), so makes sense to apply the same principle of New York Times v United States (1971).

But hacking private phones sounds like a new question to me.
Is this appropriate for creating a wireless HDMI interface for VR headsets?
How are they ever going to know whether they improved results for me or not? You might as well train AI to play a game without ever checking their score. Oh, it's spending 20% more time in each room now and firing fewer bullets than before. Surely it is a better AI now.

Sorry, appeal to authority is no argument. Direct experience is valuable if there's an argument or some real scenario we can dissect, otherwise it's nothing more than a baseless claim. Without concrete examples, it's not even an anecdote. And there are plenty of anecdotes about search results for in-depth content becoming harder and harder to find.

The person I was responding to posted that they're using this training data to order the top 10 results or so. That's already an indication that it's not very helpful for me. I don't get frustrated if the top few results are in suboptimal order, I get frustrated when I get pages and pages of garbage and irrelevant results and can't seem to get anything useful out of it.
I never cease to wonder if articles like this are incredibly cleverly put together, or incredibly stupid.

I feel like it would take me so much effort to string together these unrelated things and try to present them in a faux-scientific manner, with such succinct certainty, in the way this article does.

Like how they smartly concede that they're waiting for answers, ... and then they quickly breeze through making a bunch of connections, with references that don't back up what they're saying, as if these are all just 'known' things. It's kinda clever, and I would expect a lot of people to be fooled.
Half the websites I visit give me the CloudFlare screen like

One more step
Please complete the security check to access <whatever>.

Followed by either endless stream of ReCaptchas or one completely impossible.
This is true for iOS as well as every other widely used computing platform. Android is better; unlike iOS you can build AOSP yourself without the Google proprietary parts, and unlike iPhones, Pixel phones have unlockable bootloaders so you can install your own OS builds.

Even most PCs running Linux have plenty of nonfree binaries in various firmwares and common peripheral drivers. I support efforts to make devices with fully open firmware on which you could run Android's AOSP or other open source operating systems.
I'm not sure why paying developers is a problem to bootstrap the ecosystem. Although, if they were paying for temple run (as the image might suggest) that seems odd. Mostly because presumably they should be targeting the apps everyone uses that don't have good replacements (aka netflix/prime streaming/etc).

I would guess that they aren't the only ones. Do you think LG/Sony/Samsung/roku/apple tv/firestic/etc all got the netflix app ported for free? Maybe. Plex probably isn't getting paid, and they do it too..

But MS was a special case, it seems to me that every time I looked at CE/Mobile/etc they were tossing existing app compatibility aside for the latest and greatest toolkit that went with some not particularly good set of phones.
I find it comforting that the Rust community is casting a wide net, even if it’s not always the best fit. It’s something I always enjoy about working with Python.

There are some platforms and ecosystems that pour 90% of the effort into a handful of popular niches, but once you leave that comfort zone you’re on your own. Elixir can feel like that; Ruby/Rails too back in the day.
My advice would be to network, network, network. All the part time opportunities I've found have been through a friend's referral.

It's been essential to helping me balance my workload while launching my latest project (we're doing our "Show HN" right now actually, haha).

Meetups, a night out at the bar. This stuff is all great if you have an inclination for it. Just grab contact details from the people you meet and stay in touch. Then the opporutnities will start to flow! Good luck :)
ELI5: why can’t the auto safety system be removed and the plane be sound?

Is the design so flawed that it can’t be safely flown by a human without this system that causes random catastrophic failures?
I've recently used the wine 5.0RC from Debian testing, and my experience is mitigated. Once the software runs in Wine, it's impressive how smooth it can be. Be getting there was a lot work, in my experience.

Playing videos is a mess. winegstreamer relies on the system's gstreamer1.0, but, even after installing plugin-(good,ugly,bad), I couldn't make it work. wmv crashed, mpeg1 failed, mpeg4 was garbage. Various tricks are necessary: enabling devenum and quartz through winecfg, disabling winegstreamer, converting video formats, installing ffdshow through winetricks or externals codecs...

The console log was hardly useful when wine crashed. For example, a fatal error in msvcrt90 was caused by a missing font, but the default log made no mention of fonts, and even the `warn+all` level of logs was not clear. Fixing this and other problems took hours, and my final result was far from perfect. `winetricks` for fonts declares font substitution in Wine's registry, though Wine's changelog mentions using fontconfig, so I did not understand how fonts are handled (it's already hard to grasp in Linux, adding a layer won't make it simpler).

Overall, Wine is impressive, but, for some applications that are not documented for Wine and not packaged with PlayOnLinux, it may be hard to run them under Wine.
I have a little tip for you; right-click your back arrow, and choose your search page from the list.
So will it be enough to disable automatic updates to prevent Sonos from cripple my system?
I switch to DDG precisely because I stopped being able to quickly distinguish ads from results in Google. Even the "results" felt like ads. Now when I have to fallback onto Google, the results just feel so spammy compared to DDG.

edit: For example, I just needed to look up the current version of Scala. DDG correctly has scala-lang.org as the top result. Google has a snippet from sourabhbajaj.com (incorrectly) stating 2.10 is the current version taking up the top 1/3 of the page.
Well, it's a junkyard of German cars because they just last longer and are cheap to fix (parts are from in Germany/EU, too). Japanese cars are second, simply because the number of German cars is so high.
MAX is Defective by Design. Leave the aerodynamically unstable designs for the hotshot fighter planes; everyone else just wants to get from A to B without cratering into the ground inbetween.
The content is still served from their CDN regardless of the domain. There is no way to serve AMP sites from your own servers and appear in the search carousel among other AMP articles.

Google is strong-arming the entire web to switch to AMP in order to increase their control over the distribution of content, and to be in a better position for tracking users.

The fact that Microsoft and Cloudflare have joined the party does not change the fact that you're about to lose control over your own content if this is not stopped.
The program itself is made of components that expose a low-level API, or otherwise you wouldn't use a low-level language. The API clients are other parts of your program. Programs written in low-level languages are much more tightly coupled than languages that support better abstraction (for the price of less control).