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Ask HN: Should the title limit be increased?
Today there was a great post on a Youtube video whose title would not fit. Should the title limit be increased by say 30 characters?

This is the title that would not fit:

Single Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords

This the title submitted:

The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords (2014)

This is the HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25416976
The original "cookie law" was indeed badly designed, however the GDPR is sane. The only problem (which causes the banners & annoyances) is that it's not being enforced (the aforementioned annoyances are actually against the regulation).
I have removed the claim. Thanks for checking it out. Thanks to you the product page is more accurate and does not contain unproven fact. Have a great day!
AI and ML Can Solve Business Problems in Tourism – Chatbots, Recommendations
Also their pathetic attempts to get you to use the app are half-baked. The deep links are broken most of the time and just send you to the app store even if the iOS client is installed, where you press open and it takes you to /r/all regardless of where you came from.
Alan Turing's Letter to Winston Churchill (1941) [pdf]
I don't believe that VLAs are actually deprecated as such, but have been moved to an "optional" feature for implementation in C11. There's a feature macro to check, __STDC_NO_VLA__, but I don't think the feature is actually disappearing from the standard any time soon.
This excerpt from a JFK speech[1] is rather relevant:

> But even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction - purpose and dignity - that afflicts us all. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

[1] https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/the-kennedy-famil...
The second paragraph starts with:

> The acronym SEO stands for “search engine optimization,” which translates into the vernacular as “tricks marketers use to make certain articles appear at the top of Google’s search results.”

That's the description you're looking for; the "why" is fairly self-explanatory from the description. Anyone looking for more information on the term and its history can presumably Google the term.
Hospitals and other facilities still use pagers for oncall duties. It's quite common. They're robust and last days without a charge.
> What agriculture really needs is an effective way to make and keep decent soil. After that its water management, after that is pest management. If you can make an automated, sustainable & cheap way to do that, you'll be actually helping the world.

Isn't this exactly what vertical farms solve in a single move? The automated part is extremely hard to do in a field, wind, rain, UV and sheer sq footage all work against you. We pretty much nailed automated warehouses at this point, vertical farms are just a re-implmentation of that technology for agriculture.

Humanity has spent close to 10 millenia at this point improving and optimising agriculture. I think it fair to say that we've made all of the major breakthroughs for farming in a field at this point, and if we want to see a step change in food production efficiency and reliability (which we need if we intend to feed 8-12 billion mouths) then we need to start looking beyond traditional farms.

We know there won't be enough arable land in the world to feed everyone in world 50-100 years from now using any currently known techniques, and climate change is only making that worse by reducing the amount of arable land available. Being able to build high efficiently (both in terms of land and energy) farming systems is incredibly important.

Being able to move to a system where almost all of the energy input is electricity opens up a whole world of new possibilities. Allowing us to build farms almost anywhere without regard for the local climate, and with our electricity production becoming increasingly carbon neutral it'll allow these farms to have little to no environmental impact on the world.

One your other points:

> Monocultures are spectacularly fragile. You have to be extraordinarily careful about your air system to ensure that you don't suddenly loose your crop to aphids/greenfly/other. Thats also not counting fungus or bacteria.

True but we know how to build controlled environments inside of factories. Just look at microprocessor fabrication. This is a completely solved problem already.

> None of this is good for the environment. It takes a huge amount of resources to setup, keep heated and lit.

Modern building insulation is basically magic. Once you get it hot the first time, the energy to keep it hot is negligible. Additionally you can site these farms near natural geothermal sources etc, you don't need to put them in perfect climates. Same applies for electricity, put them near hydro, wind or even solar farms. Pick a place where the input resources are easily and readily accessible.
I dont know syncthing so cant comment on that. My setup is very simple. `dat share` running on my laptop and `dat <hash>` on all of my servers. The servers are running inside docker/k8s in a daemonset so every server in the cluster has a recent version of the files. Some benefits of this over say a shared NFS mount hosted in the cluster:

- I can use my local editor online or offline in the same config

- my editor doesnt hang as it saves over a network connection

- live reload apps running on the servers will pickup the changes immediately. inotify doesnt work on nfs mounted drives.

One main disadvantage in some cases is it doesnt currently support multi-writer. the servers mounting the dat are read only. I'm pretty sure this is changing in newer versions, but I'm not sure on roadmap.
I think the point of AbstractSingletonBeanFactory is not the length of the name, but what it does. More specifically, on how meta it is what it does.

You can have a bean. Great. You can have a bean that's a singleton. Also great. Then you discover that you can have two different beans that are singletons, and you find that they have one thing in common: how the single instance is created and accessed.

Each such singleton bean will have about five lines of code that deal with the single instance, and these five lines will be largely similar.

So the Enterprise Java Architect sees that there is something to be abstracted, goes to town, and now you can have seven lines of code configuring the abstraction, so that you can avoid writing the five lines of boilerplate.

Unfortunately, the seven lines of configuration will be largely similar for different singleton beans...
That's a problem on both sides. Conservatives are judgmental AF about a lot of things.

Frankly, I doubt the two sides are ever going to come to proper terms, and the best solution is just to give power back to the states. Then you can have libtard Portland and klan Mississippi, and people who don't like it can just move.
UK organisations and citizens will no longer be eligible to hold a .eu domain
Excellent clarification; thanks for taking the time to write this up!
Which is why we want it to be standardized. It's already widely used on Linux and BSDs, the big compilers already implement the underlying functionality (because it's needed by C++), GCC and LLVM implement the exact same extension in an identical way, it does everything that people need, so let's make it work officially.
Federation goes a long way towards solving this. In a federated model there's no single gatekeeper, just a bunch of curators providing links that are indexed according to a shared taxonomy/ontology. You choose what curators to trust.
> I suppose it depends on what “changes” means.

Don't pull Bill Clinton [1].

When enough people complain you made changes that are material and detrimental.

[1] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/1998/09/bill-clinton-and...
This argument is the least likely to make me care about privacy (though in some cases it could work).

"Advertisers will be able to select you based on your history"... For what? For showing you an ad for the cool pants company that produces just the kind of pants you've always wanted? For an awesome, in-depth coding course? I'd rather get relevant ads than generic crap that I don't care about, even if it makes me spend more money.
In "The World Beyond Your Head" by Matthew B. Crawford, the author introduces the idea of an "attentional commons".

The gist of this is that there are shared resources in the world. Air and water are examples. We recognize them as shared resources, and we recognize that without regulations, some people would use them in ways that make them unusable for others.

Crawford makes a pitch for treating "attention" as a resource, and asserts that folks should have a right not to be addressed by mechanized means.

It's a very good read, especially for software developers, phenomenologists, or cognitive science folks.

Additionally, doesn't advertising go directly against the notion of a "free market"? The idea that "capitalism breeds competition, and competition creates quality" goes out the window when huge advertising budgets urge you to buy some cheap commodity product over a well-made product with a smaller advertising budget.
Hi folks, author here. Happy to answer any questions you might have!
Very nice ! I can look at some analytics regarding my own Spotify playlists!
All Respawn games(Titanfall 1 and 2 as well) are on Source engine, for anyone wondering.
Several years back when I was working at Google I made a mistake that caused some of the special results in the knowledge cards to become unclickable for a small subset of queries for about an hour. As part of the postmortem I had to calculate how many people likely tried to interact with it while it was broken. It was a lot and really made me realize the magnitude of an otherwise seemingly small production failure. My boss didn't give me a hard time, just pointed me toward documentation about how to write the report. And crunching the numbers is what really made me feel the weight of it. It was a good process.

I feel for the engineer who has to calculate the cost of this bug.
So I googled "can cats eat blueberries" and I see the Purina rich snippet which is my first hint that "yes".

Then I scroll down the page and see multiple other sources confirming this.

So I leave and have my answer without ever having clicked into one of these sites.

Regardless of whether that is beneficial to the publisher, I, as the user, should be thrilled. I don't understand this person's issue. The results for that query appear to be pretty conclusive and all I have to do to see that is look at the descriptions of the results.
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This is a pretty naive way to assess new information, for the record.
Aw man no. Codemasters was my favourite publishers in the 80s and 90s. I thought they might be the one company that could stay independent of EA. :(
There is no guarantee when a Java finalizer will run, whereas a C++ destructor is guaranteed to run based on the code that you write. That's a big difference which has practical implications, using something with non-guaranteed behaviour as an example of why something with guaranteed behaviour is hard to predict seems like a misunderstanding.
searches codebase I'm working on... finds thousands and thousands of std::shared_ptr (many involve a typedef, so there are even more...) eep!

Should I be alarmed?
> Why would someone take steps to empower themselves if they see no need for such power?

Try telling someone, even a close friend, that you saw them doing something, while they did not expect to be seen by anyone.

I will give you $5 if they are not in the slightest bit annoyed by that.
I dunno. The M1 is a great mobile chip. But high performance is not what you should expect from a mobile chip. You can hope for high performance (for a mobile chip).

I don't think you can learn much from this presentation. It's not that special compared to how other companies present performance differences.

"Performance vs. power" is also confusing, speaking as someone who looks at benchmark results for things all the time and who counts as a hardware enthusiast. What is "latest laptop PC chip?" A Wintel laptop on 14nm++? Duh. I don't understand it, and I know someone who doesn't focus on hardware won't understand it either.

The presentation is generally pretty deceptive. There are other much less confusing charts showing relative performance of the M1 in laptop benchmarks that reflect realistic workloads. And this new set of hardware releases has been very well received even among the typically Mac-critical.

The ML slide he's writing about undermines what he's talking about in terms of clarity and 'talking like a human.' It is just gibberish, equivalent to Star Trek nonsense about dilithium crystals transfobulating the warp core. All it means is "has the same features that have been standard for a decade or more on every operating system except a little better, working on more cores than before."

This is not Apple's best marketing work, but it is their best actual laptop product in a while: go figure.
Your comment is taking nit picking to a high art. Are you an SEO?

"When you get past the cats eating blueberries and anal beads parts, the article is mostly a high level recount of the ways SEO has evolved over time and how Google has made changes to its search algorithm to fight spammy websites. The author then concludes that there is still hope, because the EU has fined Google a few times. What?" So the article does in fact explain SEO? But you disagree with the ideas on corporate power?
I'm not sure about some of the other claims either.

The AntiVirus claims set Windows virus/malware safety back by like a decade. Needing to install Security Essentials into XP/Vista instead of it just being out-of-the-box probably cost a lot more dollars to Windows users than if the court had agreed that such security concerns were the domain of the operating system.

The PDF claims that Office shouldn't be allowed to directly export to PDF because that was the domain of paid add-ins also seem silly from 2020.
Is the Google search bar on the bottom of Androids homescreen removable at all?

I would love to get rid of it but have not found a way yet.
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Truly universal CO2 tax would be OK with yellow vests.

Now the problem is that CO2 for cheap gasoline cars is taxed a lot. While CO2 for airplane fuel for better off to go on holidays is not. And they get tax credits to buy nice electric cars. Regressive taxation at it's best.
Nobody is claiming that it isn’t well-defined nor unimportant.
Nice strawman argument.

The word "binary" is a modifier of the word "tree". Anyone with a basic understanding of English knows that a binary tree is different from an oak tree. The modifier in "ponzi scheme" is "ponzi". The very definition stated that it is a scheme related to financial investment and returns, which doesn't fit the situation in the article.

If you compare the binary tree and ponzi scheme examples, you will find them quite similar. You have base word (tree/scheme) and a modifier word (binary/ponzi). So your tree example is actually a great point supporting my argument - this may be a scheme, but it's not a ponzi scheme.
>I don't want anyone to see I'm using the commode

so then why ? maybe because of shame. So then its the shame that need to be fixed.
yes, you always run defer. I don't see it in this proposal, but Most languages/frameworks that implement a defer also implement a "error defer" which only gets triggered on some sort of labeled early exit scenario, and some implement "success defer": (i believe this is scopeguard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjTrfoiB0MQ)
This was announced about 4 years ago. Nothing to see here. Move along please.

Who wants a domain extension that sounds like someone vomiting, anyway?
Or...you had a bunch of bored people who found a hilarious way to mess with a semi-popular bot. You don't need to put some weird pseudo-psych spin on every little thing.
“The best summary of our recent age reversal Nature paper. And it’s animated.”
> incels who hate women.

I highly doubt that hate towards women (and even hate towards anything) was a facto in the Tay “attack”. It looked much more like they saw a big open door from MS and just exploited it with the most over the top things for lulz and giggles.
Sorry, you're right. Globally It appears to be the 8th best selling console game this year. But more importantly it consistently sells those sort of numbers every single year without fail. Far from a niche game (or at least its a very popular and extremely profitable niche).
Fascinating. Is there already a nice buzzword for this phenomenon in general? I mean IAs read financial reports and will do online shopping for us in the future. Maybe something like IAO? Intelligent Agent Optimization? Just asking for a friend of course...
> no amount of 'startuping' will change that.

Well technically, if you could increase the photosynthesis efficiency then it might. There are projects that aspire to do just that. If the results are somewhat fragile and wouldn't survive in the wild then this could work in combination with greenhouses or vertical farms.
But yeah, that's quite speculative and until it happens I agree that the energy budget doesn't make much sense.
> But it only creates a significant explosion if the building is intact, which it wasn't at that point

Totally clueless. Unlike you, I'm not just making stuff up. If you drop gigawatts of thermal energy into a body of water, you don't need a containment vessel to create a large steam explosion.

Perhaps read the source I linked you? But we both know you won't do that, right. It's obvious at this point you only read or comprehend sources of information that confirm your worldview. How 2020.
This is typical? Out of curiosity, how young are you? If you got an advanced degree, was it in STEM? I'm amazed you can say that. EDIT: to be clear, the Electoral College meets today, some states have to meet in secret because of threats of violence. That is unprecedented in modern history. Only a few nights ago, fascistic street gangs roamed the streets of the nation's capital, vandalizing African American churches and sparking random acts of violence. This is normal for you?
Quick question -- If you can't certify what exactly your computers have been doing, can you actually say that you are secure? It seems like not using NMS is just fast tracking yourself to become one of those orgs that gets owned for months and never even knows about it.
> there have been a few prominent criticisms of lambda school recently but it is all anecdotal and disorganized.

Keep in mind that unlike most products, Lambda School purchasers have an incentive to praise Lambda School regardless of the truth.

These are all young people looking to jump start their careers with the benefit of a glamorous Lambda School education. They don’t benefit by publicly admitting that it wasn’t a good education, or by cooperating with journalists to post national headlines about how their only credentials in this industry came from a bad program.
It's funny how this other news item is on the front page: "Google outage – resolved" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415989
Just wait till 419 scammers get a hold of this technology.
Cow milk also contains actual mammalian estrogens.
Expected it to be more like the aim of this book, cowritten by a computer scientist and a philosopher:

https://www.amazon.com/Computers-Context-Philosophy-Practice...
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So pretty much like your use of the term "propaganda"?
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Capitalism always exists. It is the management of scarce resources. Usually we use money to control the flow of very scarce resources. But it does not have to be money. A quota system is nothing more than a form of money but itemized.
I sometimes work around that by adding in a quoted "forum", but they are also going the way of the do-do a bit.
MacBook Air future-proofing: do you get the 8gb or the 16GB?
Lets say you just use Chrome with 20 tabs open, and some productivity apps. No gaming or VM or video content creation. 256 GB is enough RAM.

You want your Macbook to last 5 years.

Do you get the 8gb or the 16GB version?
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It might suggest that the frontend isn't the only issue, at least - and maybe this explains why it's usually so slow, if the frontend can be fast on a fast enough backend. On the other hand, the speed of the "basic HTML" version implies that the frontend can be the issue.
> It uses enormous amounts of electricity.

Consider that the "proof of work" of fiat currencies is taxation + inflation (which wipes 1/2 of all your productivity), and you'll quickly realize that Bitcoin's PoW is considerably more efficient.

Also, Gold, Silver and other precious metals are more expensive to mine than Bitcoin, when measured on a store of value basis.
It's wild to me that there are hundreds of web pages titled "Can cats eat blueberries?" and you find a similar thing if you replace blueberries with: strawberries, bananas, oranges, lettuce, cranberries, green beans, crackers, carrots, flies, bees, and on and on
Google is the source of the problem: If they didn't rank search results and aggregate "eyeballs" there would be nothing to optimize.
"You are right that you don't have to be a trained philosopher to think for yourself. In the same way that training in martial arts helps with punching, or training in coding helps you write better software, training in thinking helps you think."

Thank you. But are these comparable? Is thinking competitive and there's a winner? What is it to be trained to think? If that training hadn't happened, would the un-trained person not be thinking? Or, would you be thinking along a more natural way? Is it more akin to building one or other type of sandcastle, rather than to be a better fighter?

The way I view it, the only thing an individual can do is try to be the winner for themselves - they need to progress their understanding of themselves as much as possible. In nature there's no competition - there are needs that might or might not be met.

But, if you want to harness or direct individuals into a collectivised state, yes, you need to train them, and they will produce what you call 'original works of philosophy' on the basis of all the thought that has preceded them. As if 'a body of original works' is important to an individual. They may be renumerated for their trained thinking. As if renumeration is something the individual would ever want.
Not all of them, wouldn’t you agree?