skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of loaded words in the comments, and hallucination probably takes some of us to places that aren't helpful, but understanding the limits of our perception and understanding gives us better context. Even if we don't understand the limits, it's helpful to know that our reality and reality are separate things. If we don't know we have blind spots, we won't know to check them.
Binary representation of floating-point numbers
Thanks, that's awesome! if there's an option for buying one without a webcam and mic all together to save a few bucks, that would be awesome!
Newest release was just out. New release features new graphical interface, and a refactored code with refined classes (featuring Camel Case Format). Check it out!
Rust for Linux redux
anyone here knows if Firefox VPN income is still routed through Mozilla Corporation (the makers of Firefox) or if it goes directly to Mozilla Foundation and becomes useless for browser development?

(Because my main reason for using Firefox VPN would be to support browser development.)
Rather, the underlying OS requires an array of bytes terminated by 0 which can be hidden behind a decent API. The type being poor at expressing this is not a limitation of the OS but of the C type system. E.g in zig this would be `[*:0]u8` which is "a pointer to a region of memory of unknown length terminated by a 0 sentinel value". It's still a pointer but nothing says the type system can't track more state around it.
I'm talking about privacy because it's easy for people to not realise that this is not a privacy setting. I don't know if disabling the personal results toggle even puts you in to a "neutral" mode of Google since it clearly states at the bottom that:

"Some Search results may require additional settings, like Web & App Activity or Location History".

Reading more about Web & Web app activity explains it as follows:

"If Web & App Activity is turned on, your searches and activity from other Google services are saved in your Google Account, so you may get more personalized experiences, like faster searches and more helpful app and content recommendations."[1]

[1]: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068?hl=en

Edit: reworded from personalized results to personal results
Unlikely. Squashfs-tools-ng is not a fork but written from scratch after reverse engineering the format.

I started it in early 2019 after being annoyed with various shortcomings in squashfs-tools and after trying to make sense out of the spaghetti source code to not only fix problems I ran into, but also add features I needed for a particular project.

I saw the complete lack of activity on the official website and official git tree, from which I concluded it was pretty much dead. Of course I wanted to ask on the mailing list first (also pretty dead), but then I saw a thread from early 2018 talking about a release. Since the thread got a response that I interpreted as rather angry[1] and the release didn't happen a year later either, I concluded that the project is pretty much dead and decided to publish my own efforts and for lack of a better name simply named it "*-ng". Other people seemed to have drawn similar conclusions[2][3].

We all later found out that the squashfs-tools git tree was simply moved to GitHub (without updating the kernel docs or "official" website to indicate this). But even there, activity fixing bugs only picked up after I already made 3 or 4 releases and announced them on the squashfs mailing list. At which point I finally got a response in the form of a few somewhat unfriendly words[5][6][7] (IMO to some extent understandable, but still...).

But after that, squashfs-tools version 4.4 fixed a bunch of issues that I publicly complained about and this release got apparently quite busy copying features that I found useful (and set squashfs-tools-ng apart, e.g. converting tarballs directly).

Given the distinct source trees and, lets call it "competitive nature", I'd say a merge is unlikely and I will continue maintaining my package. I wrote it to solve some specific problems I had and it IMO does that job quite well. It's nice if other people find it useful and I'm also proud to have ended up indirectly contributing to the official squashfs-tools development by providing new motivation :-).

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/squashfs/mailman/message/36298345/

[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931965

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20518019

[4] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/1/1154

[5] https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng/issues/10

[6] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931965#29

[7] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/1/565
What a broken system. The new blasphemies of the modern age are corporations overstretching into ownership of words representing things older than the language itself.

At least Google had the decency to invent a word (itself a derivative of a word invented by a child).

In the UK the cloud IaaS vendor Skyscape was forced to change name by a certain media company for only part of their name, in an unrelated field.

How about if you want to protect a trademark you don't use a word with real world meaning? What benefit does it give society to give these protections to extant words?
Ask HN: Share your personal sites with us?
If you only had a text mode terminal, the latter.
Does this mean I get the search results quality from from 2009 back or is search botched on a more fundamental level?
I wonder how advanced technology would be today if the Greeks realised the potential of this mechanism at the time.

* 200 AD: the industrial revolution.

* 300 AD: cars, the radio.

* 350 AD: the first electronic, programmable computer.

* 370 AD: live TV, first human steps on the moon.

* 380 AD: the internet, satellite communication.

* 400 AD: smartphones, laptops, social media.

* 450 AD: (good) immersive VR, CBDCs, a GPT type of AI wins a Nobel prize, space tourism.

* 500 AD: nuclear fusion, personal quantum computers, humanoid robots, simulation VR a la The Matrix.

* 2021 AD: we’ve probably solved the Fermi Paradox — humanity died out long ago.
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This is absurd. I've worked as an app developer in Sweden for 7 years. In all apps/products I've worked on we always had double the users on iOS than on Android. Yet the map shows Sweden being an Android country… how can this be?
Ugh... these comments...

First of all, Greece was not the start of the western civilization. Rome was. They borrowed a lot from Greece (which they eventually conquered) as Greece was more advanced initially. Greeks themselves had borrowed a lot form middle east and north african civilizations/cultures, and initially from the Minonians.

The city you mention, Heraklion, was a Minionan city, which fell on a decline (a volcano/earthquake is thought to be the culprit) eventually was conquered by the Myceneans (greek percursors), who themselves were initially 'barbaric' indo-european tribes/civilization. Greeks were able to adopt, curate and evolve a lot of the knowlege of their neighbors and eventually ascend into being a prominent cultural place and create their own governing system, which was direct democracy for the main cities (Athens and Thebe), as Sparta had its own weird system, and Macedonia (if you consider it greek) was a traditional kingdom.

The flow of knowledge is bidirectional, but some places borrowed more from others, and evolved knowledge, which itself was borrowed by other cultures:

Early Civilization (Mesopotamia, Babylon) -> Egypt - Hittite - Minonian - > Mycenean -> (Bronze Collapse) -> Classical Greece -> Rome -> Western Civilization

Of course I left out a lot of other cultures who contributed to today's 'western knowledge', from the Phoenicians, to Parthian / Persia, to later arabs, and indian and even east asian / chinese indirect contributions. But they were secondary to the flow I described.

Even after the split of the Roman empire in two, Greece was on the Eastern part, so it is are more of a south-east / mediterranean culture/civilization, and not necessary western pre se, but it gave a lot to the western world.
So true. "YouTube search" is not where the money is; it's "recommendations" and "viral videos" that advertising requires. That is the company's priority. If YouTube represents state-of-the-art in "personalisation", that's a very low bar for "improvement" over manual search. Absolute garbage. It reminds me of paid placement in the Alta Vista era because "recommended" results are interpersed with the legitimate search results.
AR will become a game changer once the hardware is there, i.e. glasses than can be worn comfortably and anywhere. Everything before that is just practice for the software and UI.
Viasat sits at just under 36,000km. Starlink sits at 550km.
The rebate you mention sort of already exists, just restricted to public sector research customers. Think the cap is that egress is waived as long as it is less than 15% of the bill.
I assume most of these farmers are also getting massive government subsidies, so you possibly wouldn't have to get into the nasty legal tangle of the water rights, just remove subsidies from anyone doing anything they shouldn't be doing, that can include: spraying the wrong pesticides, wasting too much water, not using techniques that store carbon vs release carbon/methane, avoiding monocultures etc.

There is an argument for subsidizing farmers, but it also effectively makes them part of the government and somehow those two things are kept very politically seperate.
And this one in particular says decreases boot time by ~40%

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Chornobyl was very different from any previous disaster or mass murdering. For many decades, USSR propaganda pictured nuclear as the solution for all future problems. «Nuclear energy + intelligent robots = communism». And then you have nuclear disaster and no robots.
Why do bouncers in the US enjoy looking at IDs so much, even for OBVIOUSLY adult people? In Austria and Germany, you don't usually get asked for your id, unless you look underage AND the clerk/bouncer is in the mood to check.

When I was clubbing in New York, the bouncer would even control my id very closly when I went back in after a smoke. It was cold, he saw me leave, he saw I wasn't wearing more than a t-shirt in the cold night. Yet he took 20 seconds to check my passport. People tell me I look like 35.
more specifically, there is a list of such projects in:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosyntax/wiki/projects
The Activision Blizzard Fallout
> Rivian has been working on EV technology since 2009. Ford... not so much.

You say this like Ford is floundering with no clue. But that’s not the case. They have 100k reservations for the F-150 Lightning, which by all accounts is pretty impressive (https://youtu.be/J2npVg9ONFo).

If you think for some reason that the F-150 Lightning that ships won’t be as impressive, or it’ll be more expensive or that people who reserved it won’t buy it … then please share why you think so. But otherwise a knee jerk “old car manufacturer doesn’t know what they’re doing” doesn’t appear to fit the facts.
Google Activity Controls
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What is it you get from personalized? I’ve used DDG for 6 years now, and I don’t really understand what I’m missing out on.

We’re at a point where if DDG can’t find something, then neither can Google.
Will it be possible to genetically engineer other vegetables to grow in salt water?
Here in the NL, it costs multiple thousands of EUR to get a drivers license. My friends won’t get behind the wheel after even one drink, just because it’s so clear how much driving is a privilege. In the states, it cost me less than $30. I knew people in the states who got a DUI, and their license (restricted) back after just a couple of weeks.
Haha, yeah, that is exactly the long form of what I expected it meant.

Sounds good. Thanks for the answer.
And is much harder to govern, the biggest reasons being the harsh geography and climate, and how thinly the population is spread outside of western Russia.
But what if law enforcement is manufacturing fake ids themselves?

That's one of the many ways Trump loyalist Matt Gaetz's best buddy pedo-pimp Joel Greenberg got in trouble, making fake ids using information from surrendered driver's licenses.

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2020/07/16/joel-gree...

>The report claims that some customers came to Greenberg’s office to surrender their driver’s license -- for instance, when they were receiving a replacement or renewal -- with the understanding that their old ID would be shredded.

>Instead, federal prosecutors allege that Greenberg used the information from at least two IDs, one from Florida and one from Puerto Rico, to create a fake driver’s license that would have his picture on it along with the victims’ names, date of birth and other pertinent information.

>“Joel Micah Greenberg used the surrendered drivers licenses that he had taken to cause fake driver licenses to be produced that had his photograph but the personal information of the victims whose driver licenses he had taken,” prosecutors wrote.
For those of us who aren't constantly logged into Google, the link is simply to a login page.
The article makes it clear that this is always how GPLv2 has worked and been enforced in entire history of its existence.
In a way, that's basically the Nintendo model which as we can see, works well with pretty underpowered hardware.
For the last 2 years, I have been having a much hard time searching on Google. Couple quick example:

1. The date filter no longer seems to work. For example, if I search for "reddit dating app" and set the date filter to be "Past week" or "Past month", it still shows me results from few years ago.

2. Using quotes for exact matches often doesn't work for me either.

Is this happening for others too?
Hundreds of Indian Street Vendors Found to Be Secret Millionaires
40 gallons per day, aka roughly 180L.
How would I even use that much water? My estimate for own use gets to about 120L, with fairly pessimistically high values:

20L /toilet flush, x 3

30L /shower,

5L /dishes,

20L /laundry x ~ 0.2

1L for drinking

What in the world would I need to drain another 40L / 8 gallons into?
I was disappointed that this article was not about naming actual clouds.
In your case, I think he was possibly just curious about your passport. In the general case, bouncers do this to not seen as slacking on the job by their peers or manager.
Early years was really fun esp the mixing between internet and the BBS (that were way cheaper to use) eg: Internet outdials via BBSs, ftp/web by email (on the BBS again).

Early subscriptions -friggin expensive in comparison to what you are getting now (speed+d/l limits) they were mainly dialups to a
(restricted) shell (SunOS most of them).
I have everything that Google allows me to turn off, turned off. And I rarely search (via Google) when logged in with my Google account, and I still see filtered/tailored results based on my IP location and my interests. I also run uBlock Origin, and Cookie AutoDelete, so Google are going to great lengths here to keep on tracking me.

It's now at a stage where if you don't want to be tracked, you should just stop using the Internet.
> I don't believe that any organization ... is capable of enforcing

Big companies are very capable, and often happy, to sue each other for reasons including breach of patent, copyright, trademark and much more. This includes GPL breaches.

The point of GPL is to build an ecosystem and create "herd immunity" against bad actors.

Protecting the rights of a lone developer VS a large corporation can be expensive and difficult - not because of the GPL - but because of how the legal system works in most parts of the world.

But that is besides the point.

What matters is building an ecosystem where 99% of the important entities do not systematically violate the license, and this is already happening.
‘Whisper listings’ complicate red hot middle-class housing market
I want a setting for "Search for what I actually typed in the search bar" instead of trying to guess what I meant. I was advised to use advanced search syntax and operators but when I do I get a captcha challenge on every other search.
It is clever tactic by privacy invasive industries to give us theoretically all the knobs to configure privacy but make them so confusing, so many, and scattered in so many places and with so many caveats, that within a rounding error, everyone is going to quickly get fatigued, confused and leave the settings as is, which in most cases is opt-out.
Made me think of this song. I’m skeptical of the last line - might still be a little love.

The ocean is a desert with it's life underground
And a perfect disguise above
Under the cities lies a heart made of ground
But the humans will give no love

-America horse with no name
Very few members of the party in power come from rural districts.
Alphabag: The First Step for Every Project
A store, at least a sane one, would never refuse from making a sale and wouldn't make it hard to make such a sale.

What the store is doing is not preventing teens from buying Alcohol or Tobacco, it's simply covering its ass. There is a certain liability with certain transactions. In that case, the store covers. If it can't cover, it doesn't make the transaction as the liability is too high for whatever profit there is.
I'd love to get paid to work on this, the technical challenges are pretty interesting if you take the "observables" seriously.
Just like many other viral and bacterial infections, then. No surprise here.
Likewise, I really doubt that all the African countries marked as iPhone really are "iPhone territory".

The key sentence is this article is:

> Published by Electronics Hub, [these maps] are based on a qualitative analysis of almost 350,000 tweets worldwide that presented positive, neutral, and negative attitudes toward Android and/or Apple."

It's a jump in logic to conclude general consumer preferences as the article does:

> Now the results are in: worldwide, consumers clearly prefer one side — and it's not Steve Jobs'.

I don't think Twitter users are good representatives of general consumer preferences, especially in countries where Twitter is not widely popular. And that's just for starters.
My first, selfish question: When will the article that examines cognitive function in recovered people who were fully vaccinated before contracting COVID arrive?
The German ID card works something like that. The fields you as a vendor are approved for, you can make either required or optional server-side. The user can then choose what they want to add or to abort process. It can be read either with a pin that's printed on it, or with your Personal six digit pin, depending on use case.

You can tell it to just do an age check (has completed nth year) or a place check (lives in community with x ID) and it'll just return yes or no. There's also a pseudonym function that returns a unique ID per card+vendor combination (so the same vendor can tell it's the same ID again, but a different vendor would receive a different ID).

I can't see it used in night clubs though. There's a staggering amount of requirements you have to meet in order to receive certification to go to one of the handful of service providers that meet even more requirements to run a secure server that are connected to the PKI allowed to talk to the ID card.
this page was definitely not GDPR compliant.

I just gave up.
> The definition of democratic.

If you'd continue reading, the following two sentences explain that "influence":

Despite their small numbers in the population (less than 3 percent), they make large campaign donations to candidates from both parties. The Washington Post once estimated that Democratic presidential candidates “depend on Jewish supporters to supply as much as 60 percent of the money.”
My dumbphone as 4G. Is the way I use to have internet at home. But there are not applications compatible with the operating system (WebOS)
Rivian raises $2.5B, confirms it’s looking for second US EV factory location
Most of this isn't accurate despite the links, which is kinda odd to see. To tick off some stuff:

1. The government does care about overweight/obesity; it comes up a lot in discussing issues with the healthcare system (https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html). A lack of regulation isn't the same thing as not caring -- for example, there's no regulation requiring Americans to get vaccinated, either.

2. Farm subsidies seem unlikely to be a problem.. it's not like access to food makes people obese -- in fact, the opposite seems to be true (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5781054/). Usually affordable-food helps folks eat better rather than more.

3. The US government's dietary recommendations not being a copy/paste of another set of recommendations isn't a meaningful observation... why would you think otherwise? For example, are you under the impression that someone following the US's nutritional guidelines would be worse off for it? (In case you're not American: the problem isn't the guidelines, but rather that most Americans don't follow them.)

4. The US government's call to regulate teen-drinking was based on a historical uptick in drunk-driving accidents when the drinking-ages were relaxed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._history_of_alcohol_minimu...). This is, the argument wasn't based on a teen's personal health but rather people were crashing cars on public roads, which is definitely a reasonable concern for a government to have.
Then, what do you do with the resulting brine?
Haha yeah, this is me and I am indeed ridiculous. :D

I try my hardest not to use Google products because I don't like tracking. Occasionally though I'm forced to use things like YouTube as it's the only source for certain information.

I turn off the personalised ads not because I think it stops them tracking me but because of the vague hope that if I still see the ads and they don't need to be personalised then just maybe Google would see the subservience as an unnecessary overhead.

...which is still just wishful thinking on my part.

For the record I would happily accept personalised adverts based on context if they would just packing in the forced tracking.
FYI in Texas it’s a driver license, not driver’s license.
I do not think that I'm saying what you seem to be replying to. I merely asked why this mutation has not occurred in the wild if it is beneficial in the wild. And it was answered that it is not beneficial, in the wild.

Farmed crops have different characteristics to wild plants, due to selection by the crop eaters. We know this very well. The same selection by crop eater is present in plants with berries where the seeds are dispersed by birds. The "appeal" and "fallacy" is you reading in a subtext that was not intended.
As someone who hasn't used social media in 5+ years, what do these social networks need to do to make you quit using them?

There has to be some threshold but I just don't understand how this threshold hasn't been crossed for more people.

I don't want to see Twitter legislated or controlled. The counter balance and equilibrium should be doing crazy things causes a massive loss of users so crazy things do not happen. Twitter is not a public utility like electricity or drinking water. You actually need to drink water.
DDG is just white-labelled Bing. Go to bing.com, they'll do personalized results.
This isn't exactly news.
The alternative to oil pipelines is moving oil in tank cars by rail to ships burning bunker fuel, which is a huge negative net impact on the environment.

Demonizing pipelines does nothing on the demand side.