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Ask HN: Is Google failing to filter spam?
I've noticed that in the past few months, I'm increasingly encountering spam results in the first page of Google searches.

They are more "intelligent" than the usual spam which I used to recognize quickly ('+' joined keywords in the url, nonsense description, generic domain name) : The results seem to have a correct description, the URL looks like that of a blog post, but when I click on it, either I get a 404 or redirected to a site which gets blocked by my ad blocker.

I mostly encounter those with my programming/technical queries. Here is one I encountered today :

Query : edgerouter nas pihole wireguard
9th Result:
- Url : cultureofsales.com › unifi-wireguard
- Title : Unifi wireguard
- Description : In my last post, I setup the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite (ERL) as a basic router and firewall. ... My Synology NAS is backup (with regards to the DNS-based Pi-Hole ...

The description turns out to be a combination of sentences from this blog post[1] and this HN comment[2].
The second page of results is even worse.

Did anyone notice the same thing?

And please, do not suggest DuckDuckGo, you can check for yourself how bad are the results compared to Google for the above query.

[1] https://loganmarchione.com/2016/05/edgerouter-lite-openvpn-setup/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19209399
Exploding Topics has a one huge advantage. They don't require account to search and test. Maybe leave basic features for everyone to use without account?
Maybe something like YINSH (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YINSH) would be a better counter-example. To pull off the win, you have to deliberately weaken yourself in the endgame, at which point others can catch up to you.
Which part of the ToS (that isn't getting violated already)?

The real problem with this approach is that you will never know when real time is conflicting with historical unless you're calling the API constantly anyway
Yes, and people nowadays are taller, smarter, and live longer. A large part of the Flynn effect is usually attributed to nutrition. Humans can survive with poor nutrition (not getting the right amount of nutrients they need) for a very long time, but it usually has consequences, especially when it happens during childhood.

Another thing to keep in mind is that humans didn't evolve to be farmers. We evolved to be hunter-gatherers. Just because for a slice of our existence people ate one way doesn't mean that that's the diet most suited for us.

By the way, there's a difference between animal proteins and protein in grain. They aren't quite the same composition of amino-acids.
You should not speak for others,
parent obviously talks about the lowest value properties (colored brown) and upgrades such as houses and hotels.
I'm so tired of these types of comments. "The reason you have this issue is you're missing X", "Yeah but if we only had X we wouldn't have been able to do this at all!", "Yes, which is why I said you should have more X, not completely abandon everything but X".

Let's be clear: The issues that Zoom is having were seen by other businesses in the same industry decades ago. At a time where every other messaging system in the world has been moving to end to end encryption - even facebook, Zoom is still lying about it to customers. It doesn't require a room full of sceptics to figure that out, it requires some sort of development process that involves a the tiniest bit of thought before rushing out a feature - a culture that is apparently consistently lacking in large parts of silicon valley.

Btw, If you think that what we've seen over the last few years is that commentating on tech is an easy career to make a living at, you haven't been paying attention to the state of journalism.
What about it? The non-current affairs content is often excellent, especially the BBC4 channel. The further from current affairs, the less the pressure to engage in both-sidesism.

"Both-sidesism" doesn't necessarily result in bias, but it does make the content worse; having leftwing nonsense and rightwing nonsense in the same show will result in an equal weight of complaints from both sides, but that doesn't mean the public has been well-informed.
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Opus is probably the right codec for some things. I've heard good things about it.
You don’t need to worry about people under 30. Every older generation thinks every younger generation isn’t going to handle things well. And every single time, they are wrong.
Like every country on the planet, you need far more N95 masks than usual right now, and there is literally not enough manufacturing capacity on the entire planet. Europe and especially Germany banned exports and blocked shipping of existing orders a while back, but because the US hadn't done so yet you could get away with siphoning off the US supply whilst banning them from doing the same to you.
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Some more

Curated lists:

Jeff Atwood more comprehensive list
https://blog.codinghorror.com/recommended-reading-for-develo...

Steve Yegge

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/ten-great-books

Dan Luu

http://danluu.com/programming-books/

Marty Jacobs

https://zeroequalsfalse.com/posts/programming-books-you-wish...

BGO Software

https://www.bgosoftware.com/blog/8-most-influential-books-on...

Aggregated lists:

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/wiki/books

Designing Data-Intensive Applications and it's related books:

https://anvaka.github.io/greview/ddia/1/
Lots of love to mpv in general because it's an awesome tool, but VLC also have hotkeys for those things + I'm pretty sure VLCs feature set is much larger than mpv while still being super lightweight.

Found this page but don't think that's all the hotkeys available even: https://wiki.videolan.org/QtHotkeys/
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And the right would say it's what the left does. Your turn.
>The site’s now characteristic tone of performative erudition—hyperrational, dispassionate, contrarian, authoritative—often masks a deeper recklessness. Ill-advised citations proliferate; thought experiments abound; humane arguments are dismissed as emotional or irrational. Logic, applied narrowly, is used to justify broad moral positions. The most admired arguments are made with data, but the origins, veracity, and malleability of those data tend to be ancillary concerns.

Ah yes, I remember this article. Oddly enough, this is a major reason why I still enjoy browsing HN. There are few places left that cover a variety of topics while also encouraging this open style of discussion.
I would assume that only certain employees are authorized to email customers at all, and they have been trained to follow the policies.
Something wrong with this website statnews.com--

At least for me using Safari browser. I was auto-redirected something like 40+ times to upgrade my Norton Anti-virus, to install Flash, and one or two other fracking things.
It's funny. If you play the game "wrong" you might actually have fun. Seems like we naturally changed the rules to try to make it more fun.
Because the world and especially the enterprise world is full of smart analysts who aren't programmers but who are pretty hot shots with SQL and Excel. They can answer a LOT of ad-hoc business queries just with those two tools and don't need expensive slow programmers to spend 3 months twiddling JIRA tickets when they could get the same answer in a few hours, when they have direct database access.
Can recommend you read some of David Holmgren's works then -- he's very deeply considered the culture and principles side of the work he and Mollison pioneered.

Note that he went and actually applied permaculture at at Melliodora.
We at nb.ai help companies with similar get off of Google solutions, and are able to achieve similar reductions in API calls, along with typically, an IMPROVEMENT in accuracy. We find building good machine learning, traffic and routing models, along with OSRM and GraphHopper goes really far
Blender will be able to able to you to apply transformation to stabilize the footage, granted you'll need to cut the final output to remove the blank areas around the footage since it's moving around.

What Blender won't help you with (I haven't found it at least) is removing the motion blur that happens because of the camera shake. Which is fine, Blender is not a post-production tool, but worth knowing that if you want to stabilize footage, you probably need Blender + insert-favorite-post-production-tool.
Afaik, the ITU already tried to design a network stack, OSI. And we are very lucky the world got TCP/IP instead of that monstrosity.
Yep, the rule is not "the banker can place it up for auction" per the article, the banker MUST place it up for auction.
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Yes seems need pay money to buy a Business version
Thanks for explaining. So Exploding topics as a Service and with additional features to make it a business. Can be interesting depending on how accurate your trend spotting are and how well the prediction beta feature works. Keeping track of new technology trends and competitors offerings is a healthy amount of work in any business. If a service could already take out the initial search part that could be value.
> For some reason reddit is eating it up.

From the AMAs?
Why doesn't pg query the fs for the default scenario I wonder
Never got any of those. Perhaps you're using slow/unreliable network and hitting timeouts? Or some privacy tools interfering? Using Firefox web Twitter.

One thing I did use to repro though was text field behaving erratically on Firefox Mobile or when using installed PWA from home screen. Had to give up and use Chrome directly.
The medieval period was much more dynamic than eg classic antiquity. See the 'Real World' section of https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MedievalStasis for some writing on the topic.

To get to your point: comparisons work for a surprisingly long time, when you compare societies on metallic monetary standards.

It's not really obvious why using eg gold or silver as money should keep the prices of goods and services we actually care about so stable over long times. One explanation I read is that the real cost of mining more gold is relatively stable (in terms of real labour and resources expended).

So if the market price of gold in terms of those real resources goes up, more mines will open and existing mines will work harder, eventually restoring long running equilibrium.

Similar when relative gold prices are dropping.

Another fun fact: modern economies on fiat money spend more real resources on mining gold than classic gold standard economies (like Scotland). Perhaps because people feel more of a need to invest in gold as an inflation hedge?

See 'The Resource Costs of Fiat Money Exceed Those of a Gold Standard' https://www.econlib.org/the-resource-costs-of-fiat-money-exc...
Really cool - I'm interested in this. Despite similar services - I like your opportunity indicator. Love the search functionality idea - but hit a bug so it took a couple of tries to get it to search.

This has potential and I hope you keep working on it. I would consider paying for it down the road if it's more mature. Also hit the free limits very quickly.
You may be looking at things with rose colored glasses. The #1 app in the early days was something called Fart App.
Alternatively a dashboard around covid-19 can be found at https://covidly.com. Including graphs.
Dont know about manufacturing, but 3M European distribution center in in DE, so banning exports meant confiscating whole European 3M inventory.
Where is the best place to get/purchase traffic data for use with OSRM?
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A small nitpick,

its actually ~code~ and +strikethrough+ .

[Official documentation](https://orgmode.org/org.html#Emphasis-and-Monospace)
Actually, good luck. People have ingress filters.
You can buy fiat currency today without any problems. You'd have a harder time buying those in Roman times.
I mean, in theory, yes, but I mean, I'm sure you've seen your share of mishaps, right? Like when companies send "Dear $CUSTOMER..."? When something that blatantly obvious can get through, what confidence do you have that training is enough to prevent more subtle things like this for all eternity?
When theory does not match experience, do we throw away theory or experience?

That is, when we see the local economy drying up again and again, and towns in permanent recession, disappearing, do we just keep doing what the theory says.

Besides, the theory does not say "open economy is good for everyone". It says, at most, with its caveats and conditions, "open economy is good to maximize global wealth", the sum of the wealth of all the participants.

Maybe that benefits smalltown (good), or maybe a chinese smalltown more than it hurts smalltown (still good, but a though time convincing smalltown to go along against their interests).

Maybe that benefit Jeff Besos more than it harms smalltown (in dollar terms, that are the issue the theory is about).

Saying that the economy produces good results is like saying evolution produces good results: true, as far as it goes, but your blind god optimize for things you care only incidentally, and often not at all (see also: covid-19 :P)
Not just huge as a sport, but enormously important to politics as well. They nearly brought down Constantinople: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots
Few production clusters have checksums turned on. Since they cannot be turned online, only clusters of newer project turn it on --and even then, they are still unknown to many. So we cannot rely on this, and WAL stream corruption is a notable risk.
Adding Syncthing to TIG stack to monitor remote machines
Whose is your target customer? Ie what are their job titles and what are their jobs? How would your tool fit into their workflow?
> It's interesting that Permaculture is already more than 26 years old.

It's interesting that, while the statement is technically true, you pick the number 26.

Bill Mollison & David Holmgren published 'Permaculture One - A Perennial Agriculture for Human Settlements' in 1978.

So it's not only more than 26 years old, it's also more than 41 years old.
If you can't afford database people, pick the database that you have the most experience with. The databases you mentioned (MySQL, Postgres, and SQL Server) are all good enough for most projects - as long as you know how to use one of them.

Generally, though, it's a bad idea to pick a database that you don't understand, thinking that the database is somehow "better." A good musician can make a bad instrument sound good, but a bad musician isn't helped by playing a Stradivarius: your knowledge is the better differentiator than the instrument quality.

If you're one person doing side projects, I'd also strongly recommend a managed database as a service. If you're not trying to become a database administrator, then every hour spent managing databases is distracting you from producing the value that will bring you customers. Customers don't pay you for your database management skills: they pay you for the value your app produces. Focus on the app code and its value, not testing your database restores.
We at NB.ai help companies with similar get off of google solutions, and are typically able to get an uplift over google API accuracy. For a very similar company, achieved similar reduction in calls, along with an increase in accuracy of 7%
My wish: help me stop pandemics (2016 Ted, by Dr.Brilliant, relevant today)
Tried adding a monitor for a trend with two words, got lots of matches for just one of the words that is generic. Tried then again but putting the two words in quotes, expecting it'll match the entire query instead of each one of them individually, but then encountered bug that quotes turn into %22 and trend report has no data.

Otherwise, looks like a useful service! Thanks for sharing
I think it might be mostly that you're not in an English speaking country. Based on accent, a lot of spam calls appear to originate from developing countries.
Forget this site, accessing it is too hard. The Captcha is so long and infuriating that I haven't enough hours left in my life to complete it.

(Sorry, I'm not paid to be sapped of information just to improve Google's AI machine.)
Hey [name redacted],

Thanks for the feedback. We have no limits on all tiers regarding searches: you can search all the keywords/topic you want, for free.

The only limit we have on the free plan is the fact that you can track only 1 trend, meaning that you can receive alerts only for one trend.

The other limit we have on the free plan is regarding curated trends, because these are trends that we personally curate and are rising and I feel like $9/m is not a lot of money to get access to those opportunities.

Are you referring to any of these limits in particular?
I can't find that previous statement from Zoom in the linked article. They actually said things were encrypted from end point to end point. The article itself speculated that they actually meant server to server but in light of subsequent testing that is probably wrong.
In this case wouldn't naming the agent also increase the likelihood that they're targeted? The clients have already been primed to follow the phishing link, so it'd just be a matter of getting a target list. Most agents I'm aware of stick to a local region/market, so targeted ad buys ("people in X county buying homes")/email lists/etc could be worth it for a motivated phisher.
If there is a corresponding debugging tool, I think it is not a problem to load launchd(launched should be the first userspace process). May be can use qemu to debug it.
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> "Permaculture" was really just Mollison ...

It really wasn't.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3961757-permaculture-one
Yeah, the B-frames were my thought too, but ordinary sensor noise would hopefully make the individual frames different enough. If you’re doing green-screen background switching, or transmitting a static image then it’s definitely going to be a problem.

But given all the other security issues that seem to hover around Zoom like a cloud of angry bees, this is probably all moot - if you really want to crack a video stream then there are probably easier ways.
I think people might read the footer the first time they get an email. That's why it's there.

And on subsequent emails people only look for rough visual similarity as a sanity check. That's why scams keep it there.
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Yes, they also require extensive testing for a safety profile to be determined.

Unless there will also be a pretty big advancement in fabrication this will likely will never enter the market outside of potentially an orphan drug for the wealthy.
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On the contrary. It is when people want to be misled into false hopes that it is the press' duty to avoid doing so.
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Ah, thanks for this. I'll fix it right now! =)
The telecoms companies are still upset that they lost control of the protocols when IP became ascendant. The last time they tried to take back control was around 2006 when they came out with the ISO stack, a very awkward clone of TCP/IP. Speaking as someone who had to work with ITU standards like X.25 and X.400, I'd rather chew my own toes off then work with anything they come up with.
I can't recall an instance of Dear $CUSTOMER sent to me personally. If it has happened it must have been very long ago.
It's unclear to me what you are basing this on. How do you know that the "how careful do we want to be to avoid testing failures" parameter was exactly where SpaceX wanted it to be in this experiment? Or was at an optimal point for SpaceX in general? If you don't know this - then your reply doesn't really mean anything, and can be be used to justify any mistake whatsoever.
I agree 100% that it could be a lot of value. That's what I'm going for =)
I appreciate the points that you make, but would also point out that the article does not make reference to car accidents, but to accidental death. This would include overdoses (drug/alcohol), poisoning, falls, drowning, choking etc.
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This is a really well written post that makes some valuable arguments.

For me, the main reason using ECB makes me distrust a service is that it could be a canary for "we don't have anyone who understands security working here", and it increases my prior that they're also doing other dumb things like reusing keys, or not securely distributing them in the first place.

Lack of end-to-end is bad, but in a situation with more than two participants it's not an easy problem and when some of them are dialing in from landlines then one of your endpoints has to have a key anyway, unless I'm missing something? [edit - was addressed in first paragraph]
You actually do not require an account to see the trends in the home page. For example, https://treendly.com/trend/dalgona-coffee is free to look at at.

You do require an account to search because I'd like to understand who is searching and protect me a little bit better against bots. Also, searching has a much higher computing cost for me under the hood.

Hope it explains why I did it this way.
Thanks for the comment!
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-My bank sent an (authentic, it turned out) E-mail including the ‘We’ll always use your first name in our correspondence with you to prove we’re who we claim to be.’

The E-mail started «Dear $FORNAVN...» (Where ‘fornavn’ is Norwegian for ‘first name’)

When I called them up to ask, the helpdesk rep just sighed and suggested that the mail merge script had probably crapped out. Again.
As others suggest, switching to OpenStreetMap is something to consider.

However - it is also important to _contribute_ funds to OpenStreetMaps - for cityflo and for us.

Donations:
https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Donate

Individual membership:
https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Membership

For organizations:
https://welcome.openstreetmap.org/how-to-give-back/

The OSM Foundation in general:
https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Main_Page
> You don't have many options if you need high accuracy: you have to pay a lot

What happened to actually trying to solve problems with programming?

Interpolation is one solution. Caching is another. Temporal analysis. Put everything together.

You don't need to query the magic Google box for every small update you make (and they might get that info from the transit providers, which given my experience are not that great sometimes).
What is line-trapping? The article doesn't explain how it works and which devices are vulnerable. I tried to look it up but the results aren't helpful. They are either rewrites of the same article or irrelevant pages about wildlife trapping.

I suspect they affect landlines, but the articles have confusing photos showing smartphones.
Predetermined luck (luck of the card shuffle) versus luck of a dice roll (luck of events during the gameplay). Two types of luck, though yes they are still both luck.
I don't know why skepticism and realism are viewed as "easy" when both are skills that require practice and education to apply accurately and consistency. What is so much harder about being "visionary" if all that means is coming up with ideas? Obviously what's valuable is coming up with ideas that can be executed on safely and easily, and Zoom completely shit the bed on safety here.

A team full of visionaries will never get anything shipped at release quality. I've worked with plenty of them. You don't need to hire a bunch of depressing pessimists but if you don't have skeptics and realists to keep your team's velocity under control you're never going to hit quality targets.

Imagine there being multiple valuable skills in an industry, like critique, commentary, planning, debugging, testing, engineering, design, and ideation!
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