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This is apropos...

Google's old link-based authority algorithm, pagerank, isn't alaysing the same web anymore. I think there's barely any signal in links these days.

The first major event was Google itself. Once you use something as a metric, it becomes currency. SEO vs anti-spam became a defining cat and mouse game. This kind of stuff was born then, and antispam was meant to curb it.

The second major event was user generated content. The old link pages and blogrolls die slowly. Comments, twitter, and such become the way links are shared. High signal, but extremely spam prone. Google tapped out of this early, and mostly ignore user generated content.

The third major event is facebook, and facebook like ways of doing things. This made most regular people's content unindexable. Search for esoteric keywords used to return a lot of forum results. Still does, to an extent. The thread is usually years, or decades old. What's left on the open web is a subset, a non random subset.

Wikipedia is one of the last sites that does "hypertext" the way pagerank assumes the web works.

In any case, I feel like search (or what search used to be) is in decline. There isn't as much web to search anymore, in a sense. The broad brush way of doing antispam (eg user generated content is just ignored) makes more sense. Why deal with all that noise/spam, just to search what's left of the old web.

What's left? User behaviour, a la analytics. That's makes for more feedback loops and winner takes most dynamics. Localisation became localisation to your bubble. Meanwhile "officialness" measures aren't against google's ethic/aesthetic anymore. They got burned by the "fake news^" crisis, and the quick fix was officialness. In for a penny. In for a pound.

Meanwhile, web search is increasingly just another thing that google search does. It searches "your" data, content of your devices, search history and NN generated whatnot. It searches news, ads, returns answers to questions, does math... There's nothing new about seo scams, antispam just isn't Google's primary solution anymore. Just default to other ways of returning results.

I'm calling it. Web search is dead. Long live the new websearch.

^Circa 2015 usage, not the current
The article itself is clearly about something else, so maybe try to have the title fixed instead of shoehorning another topic into the discussion? Message hn@ycombinator.com and ask them to add "LiIon" to the title if you feel that it needs clarification. Just look what a mess these unrelated tangents on other battery chemistries have made in the comment section already.

Edit: I sent an email.

Edit: dang changed it, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27431665
Note: Ian Linkletter, the one who had spent 100k in april, is not the guy being backed by EFF.

Linkletter has a gofundme here: https://ca.gofundme.com/f/stand-against-proctorio

I've donated, and would recommend others do the same.
iOS 15 privacy relay uses prior recent Cloudflare whitelist IP range
The new iOS 15 privacy relay uses prior IP range 104.16.0.0/12 removed in Apr 8, 2021 as can be seen https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/ This a very recent change and probably many Cloudflare users have this whitelisted on firewall. This will allow iOS 15 privacy relay users to easily bypass many Cloudflare firewall and server security settings.
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Why are presidential elections so close to 50–50?
Regardless of the realities in SA (I’m not convinced by the offical explanation of the first outage at least, there are credible alternative theories), it’s well understood that beyond a certain level, introducing intermittent suppliers into a network designed for baseload generation will cause instability. I don’t have the figures to hand but IIRC more than very low double figures as a percentage starts causing trouble.
Fix the system? People who comment online seem to think the concept of the "search engine" cannot be improved, except by Google. The list of inactive search engines at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine is depressing. The problem for us is that the supposed innovator Google has little financial incentive to improve the system regarding "content" or "quality". As long as the traffic keeps coming, the ad revenue keeps coming. Their best bet is promote what's "popular" ("top-ranking"). Because the traffic keeps coming no matter what Google does, "content" and "quality" are not really their major concerns. There are no true alternatives for users. Bing is basically a Google clone. No new ideas. Other search engines, like DDG, just piggyback off Google or Bing crawlers. Not sure about Baidu, Yandex or others but I suspect they are more or less Google clones as well. In every case, advertising dictates design. No new ideas.
I agree that the preview of Xcode build looks it is very tightly integrated with Xcode
>Xcode Cloud requires you to push your repository to their servers, and you have to configure the "Workflows" via their desktop application.

The code still lives with your preferred Git hosting provider. Xcode Cloud copies/clones the code just like any conventional CI. Once the build is done, Apple claims to remote/delete any copy of it.

> No configuration as code, no shell scripts you can run from your existing CI/CD, no ability to trigger a build remotely or push code to them on demand. You can't even synchronously wait on a build to finish - you have to set up a web server and listen for a webhook! You can't integrate it with your existing CI/CD - whether that's GitHub Actions, GitLab pipelines, etc.

I will reserve my comments about inter-op till they release their API and I get to play with it.

Xcode Cloud seems to be a blessing for iOS developers who don't have exposure to CI/CD systems. And that includes most iOS developers. And also it will be a blessing for companies since hiring good CI/CD engineers for iOS is really hard.

My personal view is, Xcode cloud does a lot of things what fastlane was doing using Apples Cloud infrastructure.
The implication is that the OSS contributor has to be good. The same with street musicians.

I once had the pleasure of encountering some street musicians that were very, very good. I bought their CD out of their suitcase. It remains one my favorite CDs. Pludo's "The Only Thing Certain Is The Future".

Sadly, they never made it.

The large majority of street musicians are worthy of a tip, but I'll pass on their CD.

P.S. It's a lot easier to make money as programmer than a musician. You don't have to be anywhere near the top 0.01% to have a good career.
Is Google copying your idea ethically really the same as you copying Googles idea?

If they copy your idea they can literally destroy your existence given their resources, size, visibility, infrastructure, etc. If you copy their idea you first have to make many things better than them before even scratching on their turf.

And before anyone says power dynamics are not relevant in ethics: In my philosophy studies I also studied ethics and yes — power dynamics are very relevant for ethics.
Just plug a USB/Thunderbolt drive in. The first thing macOS does is ask you if you want to use it for backups.
I use both depending on situation. There's no reason to avoid mapping a key combination function that already exist as a key. There's no strict reason to avoid adding key that can be done by key combination (but needs more vertical space, cost, and effort to build). I don't care vertical spaces much so I prefer to have dedicated function keys.
Why I Hate Programming Language Advocacy (2000)
Probably. Also, I'm not familiar with FaceTime's stack, but Duo was built from scratch on top of WebRTC. Justin Uberti, the co-inventor of WebRTC, was on the Duo team, as well as Hangout Video and Stadia. He recently left Google for Clubhouse apparently.
No, the keyword ignoring stems more from catering to the majority of people who don't know how to logically formulate a search for a search engine that expects every word to match. Most people will intuitively just try to ask the search engine a question (even if not literally phrased as such), and so Google has adapted to fill that need. Which even for those of us who would prefer something a bit more clear cut, is honestly handy a lot of the time.

I think using +plus +before +keywords still works for situations when you don't want any words ignored?

Certainly agree it seems like they could do a better job of burying auto-generated sites though. (Although I'm sure it's a difficult problem!)
What we've learned is only what was in Austrlia's piece of the cake, given they started their day already. New Zeland had theirs already, too. I imagine thousands of arrests are still happening worldwide and several press conferences are going to be held today. Looking at the seal of the operation (https://www.anom.io/trojan_shield_seal.jpg), following countries participated in the operation:
Canada, Australia, US, Sweden, The Netherlands, Lithuania, Finland, Hungary, Norway, Austria, UK, New Zeland, Estonia, Scotland, Germany, Denmark.

I expect this to be bigger than Panama Papers. Way bigger. I expect a few prominent politicians to be soon either arrested or "convinced" to step down. I expect the US to have gained a lot of intel and leverage over those from the countries who did not participate in this. We will absolutely not learn about everything they discovered. CIA will and the respective intelligence agencies will.

EDIT: Europol will hold their conference live on YouTube at 10 AM CST: https://twitter.com/janoorth/status/1402164252266409987

EDIT 2: given how Serbia was in the top 4 of messages sent, I really hope that the info gathered will help Interpol fight child trafficking and exploitation in the EU.

From the VICE article (https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgkwj/operation-trojan-shie...) quoted elsewhere here:

"Additionally, the review of Anom messages has initiated numerous high-level public corruption cases in several countries. The most prominent distributors are currently being investigated by the FBI for participating in an enterprise which promotes international drug trafficking, money laundering, and obstruction of justice."

"Late Monday, the FBI said that it would be holding "a news conference announcing a massive worldwide takedown based on the San Diego FBI’s unprecedented investigation involving the interception of encrypted communications" on Tuesday."
Nothing wrong with inhibiting growth in return for long term stability. Does it matter if your competition is more daring—if they aren't going to last very long? If anything, they might serve as a useful distraction.
That's if your only objective is balancing.
Many BMS's go far beyond that, preventing the cells from being overloaded via excessive draw, short circuited, over charged etc.
Huh, you've given me a realisation - I don't do 'generic searching' on google anymore. I hear people say "google is broken" and I always think "it's fine for me" but thats because I'm searching for specific things, error messages, function calls etc. If I am searching for general interest stuff I tend to search reddit, hacker news or some other topic specific community rather than just search google
Are they, though? I’ve never come across Oracle Linux used for any other purpose than running Oracle software on it. MySQL and Java were very popular before Oracle bought them, and people’s distaste for Oracle has pushed many users towards alternatives like PostgreSQL or MariaDB. Google famously wrote their own Java implementation to avoid having to deal with Oracle.
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The problem is, is that the internet at its conception was just a way to host content, not a way to discover content. When discovery was done via word of mouth or extra-internet means, the websites themselves were just for the people that viewed them.

Now, when the website needs to not only contain content, but also be its own advertisement, writing it in a way that will maximize virality is the natural course of action to make sure the site actually gets seen.

This will likely be true until a method of finding webpages that is not based on automated scraping or the page itself.
Reads like a trite mission statement minus the word "synergy." You can't force creativity, teamwork, or bonding by locking people in a room together. Butt-in-seat-mentality is make-the-galleon-slaves-row-together-because-everyone-else-is-and-because-because.
Also, propinquity only does so much, and most people seem to be immune to it these days by being so incredibly anxious, fearful, avoidant, withdrawn, alienating, alienated, and like teenage hermits (hikikomori).
You guys assume a lot of self-discipline. I see a large amount of cash in my bank account, I'm going to be buying a lot of unnecessary luxuries and some unnecessary necessities (insurance, air conditioner, leather seats for that new car...)

But if it's really a necessity, just buy it rather than trying to optimize for that 1% extra income.
It will not be available in most of the countries who have a censorship agenda. I wonder why if this should benefit users in these countries more than others.
It's funny to see this get added now given that vim is maybe 2MB and Xcode 13 beta is ..... over 90GB.
I changed the battery in mine around april 2018 with a kit from iFixit. The procedure was surprisingly easy, given the horror stories I had heard about having to fully take everything apart and use solvents. I just opened up the case, unplugged the battery and went at it with one of the tools. It came off in like 10 minutes. Sure, it would've been better for it to not be glued, but oh well...

In my case it started swelling, so I figured I'd better change it before it burns down my house or something.

I rarely use it on battery, so the battery life itself wasn't an issue. It was still able to run some 2-3 hours. The replaced one gets me around 4-5 hours, similar to my work provided 2018 HP ProBook 13" with an 8th gen i5u, which is also noticeably slower.
>Startups/hackers trying to disrupt industry are gonna do unconventional shit

I'm always finding it very odd when people act like this - as if there was some super power involved.
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You don’t get to declare what is unethical by adding the sentence “Period.” after your claim. Ethics is a matter of opinion; I believe that knowingly aiding violent criminals is wrong; if you feel otherwise, that’s just like, your, opinion, man.
There is a small (to your point, pretty small) risk that it could be used in place of repl.it or inspire other competitors. If this was done by an outsider, this would be totally fine and healthy for consumers.

However, this is someone that the business helped out. One would hope that the person would reciprocate with positive value for the business, rather than negative value in the form of risk.

If you are interested I wrote another response alluding to the golden rule in a reply close by: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27431326
I have recommended repel.it to many people when I want to quickly show someone with no coding experience the results of a simple script or when I want to quickly collaborate on a small project. But now I will no longer support this project.
What a terrible tragedy. These are the stories that make us understand what nazism meant, and what it did to the human psyche.
> It can not be too comfortable or everyone might decide not to work which will bring down the entire scheme.

This is based on a Protestant Work Ethic kind of viewpoint that I think we need to get over.

Work is fulfilling. Sitting at home on benefits sounds great but isn't. I know, I've done my share. It's fine for a few months, but then I always got to the point where I'd take any job just to get out of the house and do something. And even "sitting at home doing nothing" meant working on creative projects.

In the UBI trials they've had so far, people didn't stop working. They do stop working two jobs to make ends meet, which is good.
Not an answer to your actual question but you might be able to switch to https://readme.localtest.me/ instead.
I've never seen a realistic threat model where Signal-style forward secrecy actually helps. Suppose a repressive regime captured one dissident can see a bunch of messages between them and other people, but theoretically some crypto nerd might have been able to forge those messages if the dissident has been carefully publishing the material they're supposed to publish and the cryptographer decided to run the forgery toolkit on them and then somehow inject the forged messages onto the arrested guy's device. Do you think that's going to stop the regime from pulling in all the apparent recipients of those messages?
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> The obligation is on the person who intends to use the work in a commercial context, to ensure that they have license to use it.

In _any_ context, not just commercial context.

Copyright is "default deny". Unless you've been granted specific permission to copy a copyrighted work you cannot copy it for any reason apart from a few very tightly defined "fair use" exceptions - criticism, parody, news reporting, research and scholarship, and teaching. And keep in mind that "works" include pictures or photographs and are are by default copyrighted to their creator. You con't need to "register your copyright", although it's smart to as a way to help prove ownership it's not a requirement. Any photo you take or picture(/texture) you draw automatically is copyright to you.
This is why projects with micro service architecture are best saved in a mono repo
People also underestimate the amount of people trying to commit crimes like this.

If there are millions of people trying to ransomware businesses and hundreds of important businesses with really bad security, depending on how talented the best hackers are - the odds could be quite high you get hacked by a not-so-talented hacker.
It's surprising how poor the graphics quality is. Assume it is difficult to upgrade it with modern graphics technology
What other information besides weight (mass) in grams would you want? I mean sure, percentage of Arabica vs Robusta maybe, or lightness of roast, but the weight is exactly what you want and the most neutral and fair information regarding how much you get (and how much you get out of it).
The FBI, from the viewpoint of 95% of the world, is “a foreign state actor”.
As a Finn just the Google Image results of "Indian queue" make me anxious. I would never ever be that close to anyone in any situation unless forced.
> Xcode Cloud requires you to push your repository to their servers

What do you mean? It says it supports BitBucket, GitHub and GitLab.
It’s likely the FBI mentioned they had an app they could leverage, Australia noted that there was a gap in the local market after Phantom had been taken down, and the two agencies decided to seed the app into the Australian criminal underworld to see how far it would spread.
Yep, and for some reason wickr is Imo even more popular than signal in those circles. It's curious since I've basically never heard of wickr here or in any cybersec community & signal seems to be the daily messaging app for tons of people. I guess it's something to do with the phone verification required by Signal... and I'd guess both apps are pretty similar when it comes to security?
There will be no cars which can drive themselves around cities, as competently as human beings, this century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
Nature will hardly register humanity as a blip. If humans disappeared tomorrow, plants would easily and effortlessly crack apart all the concrete, and the cities would be quickly jungle-ified. Remember, the earth has completely encased itself in ice and then thawed out multiple times, been struck by at least one large asteroid, etc. Humans are just very self-centered and self-important. I often think that insects probably take it for granted that they rule the planet.

Oh -- and most of the criticism of humans regarding the environment has to do with the emission of CO2. But CO2 ppm was much higher than it is today for almost all of earth's history. No big disaster, obviously. In fact, life flourished.
I wonder why google is not more rigorous about that. Google search is riddled since years with "optimized" content nobody wants. It's become so bad even my non-techie friends are beginning to switch to DuckDuckGo -- which is not better per se (probably worse at contextualizig).
From a look at your posting history, you're just jealous because you ARE that guy, who goes out of his way to be an asshole, then pretends he's the victim, while actually being a childish bully. Your pathologically obsessive focus on certain other people's issues makes it transparently obvious to anyone who's not you, that you have a lot of your own deep issues that you haven't dealt with.
Even neglecting Godbolt, Cppreference, and Coliru.

Godbolt is Compiler Explorer, mainly to look at assembly output, but provides editing, benchmarking, and profiling of many languages and compiler versions. I think Godbolt delegates running code to some other site, don't recall who.

Cppreference.com is mainly a C++ and C language and library standards reference library, but provides sample programs and means to run them on various compiler versions.

That uses Coliru, which also provides edit, build, and run.
I've done multiple projects. I find that the pornography and spam comes in at the 1000 user line.

You don't need active moderation up to around 10000 users, but you should have code that handles blocking by Day 1.

There's a discord game out there where someone tries to put in random strings in a link sharing site and see who gets to interesting content the fastest. I'd say the NSFW content is is 1 in a hundred, but this is anectodal data. Actual illegal content would probably have been taken down earlier, but enough of it slips through things like MEGA that the FBI probably won't hunt you down for it.
This seems like something I should try (again). I could then stuff my PC into a cupboard and work on it wirelessly.

What I do not understand is if his keyboard and mouse are attached to the laptop or connected wirelessly too. If it is the later, what is the usual maximum range for the mouse/keyboard transceivers (including walls)? Do they generally have low enough latencies to play action video games lag-free? Same applies to wireless display from PC to the headset.
It’s up to the Devs to determine if their iOS/iPadOS App is suitable to be offered on M1 Macs. Some (like the HBO Max) honestly shouldn’t be offered.
>You will lose a lot of potential customers, which can kill your product especially if you're a very small entity.

Subscriptions are working for Adobe. As much as I dislike subscriptions the writing is on the wall. I wouldn't create a new non-subscription product now.
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