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Tell HN: Google returning 'Untitled' results that redirect to malware/spam
Over the last few days I've noticed several distinct Google results that are simply 'Untitled', that redirect to other sites that are definitely spam and possibly malware (I didn't stay long enough to investigate). I've seen other examples of titles such as 'Oh' redirecting to the same spam sites. From the result preview below the title, the results otherwise seem somewhat relevant to the query, but most often end up loading a fake captcha page.

Google deleted a support thread posted 3 days ago about this issue [0]. There are a few comments on a HN thread from yesterday [1] which mention this issue as well. A reddit thread is active on /r/google about this issue [2].

Something seems to have gone wrong at Google to allow so many fake results to pollute so many different search queries. There have been many discussions on HN lately about how the quality of Google's search results have gone down, but until now I've never seen them become a massive influx of possibly malicious spam.

[0] https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/147896848/i-have-untitled-google-search-results-on-almost-everytging-and-it-redirects-me-to-malware-website?hl=en-GB

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30086059

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/seio29/is_anyone_else_getting_these_untitled_google/
I’m only familiar with Flutter which just happens to have a render to Canvas option on the web but they have a full accessibility tree that is designed for exactly that already with zero work from the developer.
It has kind of warped the web into it's making. It's impossible to remove its products. it's parental controls are horrible. it's into everything. It kills products that lots of people like and doesn't give it another thought. It tracks you everywhere. It's got a basic advertising monopoly which drives up prices on everything through it's auction mechanism.

Is it the worst probably not, but it certainly leaves a lot to be desired.
Mm. The pre-E6 Agfa transparency film really is very unfortunately unstable; it had really beautiful colours but it fades.
> The account's popularity appears to have scared Musk. “I don’t love the idea of being shot by a nutcase,” he told Sweeney in their DM conversation.

Jeez, what a stupid comment. Any motivated attacker can still follow his flights and do this. He’s a public figure with more money than god. Hire a security team or stop jetsetting!
i don't even know where to start.
you could simulate one cell, then two cells then 4..suddenly you could have an organisms...hell you could see organism that could have lived on earth.

maybe it'll one day help with cancer research.
While I happily use Python 3 now, the transition was very difficult, and I was grumpy about it at the time.

I work with code that uses a lot of files in a lot of different text encodings. Some are XML, some plain text, and some binary. Coming from other languages, Python 2's Unicode support was very difficult to work with, and my team was excited to move to Python 3, until we actually had to do the work.

Long story short, Python 3's str/bytes separation was a nightmare, especially when having to deal with third-party libraries that were expecting one or the other. This was especially true for libraries that came from Python 2, and were still expecting strs as function parameters when they should have switched to bytes. There was so much encode() and decode()ing going on that we occasionally caught ourselves getting them backwards in code reviews. We took a step back to see if we were just architecting things poorly, but no, we were doing things the best we could for our problem domain.

In the end, we traded one set of Python 2 text encoding footguns for a mostly different set of Python 3 text encoding footguns. It's not like Python 2 was great. Having a single str type instead of the str/bytes separation is worse in theory. But because Python 3 didn't design the separation of those types well enough, and still has a ton of text encoding footguns. It wasn't better enough to really justify all the work that went into the conversion.
This is a pretty important delineation.
Python 2 is available from the https://github.com/lithammer/homebrew-deadsnakes Homebrew tap.
I think you are 100% backwards in your thinking here. If the US taxpayer funds research then public funders actually have a very high bar in their ability to restrict the publication of that research. For the simple reason that the taxpayer funds it and government restrictions on speech face a very high Constitutional bar. By contrast if I take funding from Amazon or Apple it’s much easier for them to demand NDAs and speech restrictions. (Which I have been asked for and wouldn’t agree to.)
It is a recommendation only, so you won't be fined, but during court proceedings failing to follow this or other recommendations in the highway code can increase your liability.

The government announcement of the changes is here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-highway-code-8-change...
The Artemis Accords
irrational provocation, please refrain
In security, you're always guilty until proven innocent.
Yes, I don't understand why non 'text' characters such as flags and emoji were allowed in Unicode. They appear to me to be a fundamentally different concept.

That said, I have always assumed that these problems we get with emoji also have equivalents that show up in other languages, it's just that we speak English and so only see them with Emoji. Maybe it's good that Emoji were included because it actually stresses our Unicode implementations!

And this is all before you introduce text that is written right-to-left like arabic scripts.
It's doing al sorts of interesting things. They subscribe to event feeds supplied by the operating system to keep track of security related events: modules that are loaded, processes that start, connections that open and close, users that log in and log off.

Then they also inject themselves into processes and 'hook' into operating system routines to check things the feeds to not provide: which files are being accessed, how often, what memory is allocated, what type of memory is allocated, which threads are running, where they are running and what they are doing, if there's mismatches between what the operating system told are the modules loaded, and what it can find in memory.

Most of this software can be configured so that the resource usage is relatively tame, but then on the next pentest the security people will notice all sorts of ways the products did not catch them (this is the usual case). And then things are tuned to max in short order :) And then you have security software running multiple rules and scans on each file any process opens. And processes open a lot of files, all the time.
> hasn't yet

Sorry! But you never know.
Get in the Habit of Aligning Your Work with Outcomes
Oh, I understand, but pushbikes are now just a subset. I was passed this morning in a school zone by a fat-tire electric "bicycle" doing at least 45 in a 30kph zone (he also blew through a crosswalk with kids in it). The fact that some people choose to move their bikes with human muscle, and others use a mix of muscle and motor, is beside the point. They are all just unregulated bicycles.
That's also my setup. I find VSCode Neovim can get out of sync at times. The fix seems to be to close the document and re-open it. Not knocking the plugin, it has to be quite the task to get the integration working perfectly.

But yeah, overall it's an excellent combo.
> And it was a unquestionably a net positive.

An implicit assumption in your argument that the outcome classifies an act as just or unjust. That is not a given.
ARM and its licensees stayed focused on embedded after walking away from the Acorn machines. Power usage became their focus. And so they were right there as pretty much the only good option when the portable and embedded market blew up.

So now with that under the belt it can return to desktop.
Why do you consider them code smell?
I wasn't aware about this and as someone who doesn't like censorship, I don't like Steam doing this.

But the good thing is that even if Steam doesn't distribute them, these devs can distribute it through other stores or on their own, that is simply not an option on iOS.
You quote a marketing slogan. “Missing” in the sense that Apple doesn’t ship it.

> Apple doesn't have a package manager so it has to be a manual installation.

The quoted statement is clearly false. To maintain that python has to be installed by hand is incorrect.

Apple the corporation doesn’t have a package manager.

MacOS, the ecosystem does.

No different from Linux. There is no Linux package manager. There are numerous open source package managers for Linux.
Being fourth in total size still counts as "one of the highest amounts in the world."
So the basic interpreter could wake up, run, persist it state back to flash and shut the machine down between every keypress.

That microreboot paper is in my top-k list.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1826342037496418991...
Do you offer your customers audit logs?
Wondering what people are doing for audit logs.

I know a lot of people maintain them to some extent internally (for compliance or just as best practice).

But what about vending it to each customer (for a multi tenant SaaS), so they automatically have access to their specific logs.

I'm working on a solution in this space but curious to hear what people think.
I'd love to, but my search fu has failed me this morning. (All I could find were corporate blogspam and investopedia definitions and such.)

To be perfectly frank with you, I was just talking out my behind above. I view economists as the modern equivalent of court astrologers, and having no respect for their "science", I feel no need to honor it or refer to its conclusions. I believe that econ papers say whatever the person paying for them wants to hear, so I personally don't see any point in referring to them.

Sorry for trolling.
You can also spend weeks trying to solve a problem on paper which can be solved with hours of experimentation
According to your argument, I should be blindfolded and use a screen reader while I'm developing. That's just absurd.
Does not matter. Get the book! It’s a concise and entertaining read! I loved it.
> These wouldn't count as rare as today he is a rather widely known photographer, but Wikimedia has a large collection of colour photographs from Alfred Palmer, mostly taken from 1941 to 1943 for the American Office of War Information.

The photos in the OP seem like a grab bag, they include some of those photos (like this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M-4_tank_crews_of_th...).
Wire is now on F-Droid
> Any researcher's talk, paper, research, materials, etc. must undergo an export controls review first before it leaves the United States or is shown to a foreign national.

Are you saying that if a professor in the US doing semiconductor research gave a talk in their university, that talk would have to undergo an "export controls review" before being given (since students could attend the talk, and many students are foreign nationals)? I'm having a very hard time picturing that. Do you have first hand experience, or is this just how you imagine this works?
Unrelated, but whenever I try to use "reader view" in Safari on Rachel's blog, it's never an option. Anybody know why it wouldn't come up?
I've been exploring 2 alternatives (podman and colima) to replace my normal docker workflow, which is just building and running containers locally, sometimes with docker-compose. I started with podman but had issues with 2 main pieces of my workflow: docker-compose (or podman-compose) and shared volumes (with `run -v`). Switched over to colima and those worked out of the box for me ("brew install docker; brew install docker-compose; brew install colima; colima start; docker run ...")
God my work machine is like this. People (rightfully) complain about power use by crypto, but I wonder how much power is wasted by McAfee et al? I wish there would be public outcry over it :)
My understanding is that once they remove python2, there won't be any Python bundled. There will be a python3 handler that just prints a message asking you to use `xcode-select` to install the XCode command line tools, and that'll include the actual python3... but that's a fairly up-to-date version these days. (Right now it's 3.8.9.)
This is quite fun, where do I cash out my six figure winnings?
FWIW, I got the joke and thought it was good for a chuckle. But it would probably be more obvious/maybe a better joke if players had to input the numbers in binary.
Also, those compensation schemes are run by the government. And it's worth mentioning that a lot of the research and development costs are borne by government departments as well (eg. via Fauci), but the IP is retained by those private companies. With which there is a revolving door of personnel from government and regulatory bodies. And that's before we get into the potential for vaccinations to be suppressing people's innate immunity and creating a raft of new medical conditions that would in turn require new pharmaceuticals to be developed.
How about fetching them at runtime and keeping them in memory.
absolutely incredible! required viewing for anyone brainwashed by Crypto bullsh*t
It's generally not possible to see where everything is in an actual cell, in realtime, due to the sizes of the components. So most of molecular biology relies on very clever lab techniques to indirectly infer what cells are making and doing.

Cells are like little cities in terms of the complexity of their biochemistry. We want to ask questions like "How does this cell respond to this chemical/drug/change in environment."

Imagine trying to understand in detail the gun crime epidemic in a city, if you can only see objects larger than 100 m on a side. You wouldn't see people, cars, or many buildings.

We want to be able to understand, explain, predict, and control cellular process, but so far we have to be quite indirect. Understanding these things at a mechanistic level, in realtime would revolutionize our ability to understand, repair, and build biological systems.
macOS*

I don’t get your point. Are you agreeing?
Feature flags became essential when we began to open our offering as various configurations with varying features that align with business packaging. We use them as an easy way to toggle features per environment and end-user-configuration. Certain features are turned on/off for our Cloud version vs. OSS vs. Self-host. It's conceptually easy to understand across the team and easy to control.
Is it possible to do that without having to give a phone number?

I tried to join once, several years back. I could create the account, and then use it for a few minutes. But even before posting anything, the account was suddenly locked and I was prompted to give a phone number to unlock it.

I didn't want to do that, obviously, so I ended up with an account that was pretty much unusable.
Not even that. Where I live, gas taxes or even car property taxes are not dedicated to road maintenance.
That is easy: Two Days. If it takes several sessions to get it open, I am gonna keep it. At least until I have learned all its secrets. I have about six such in the training box right now. And one which I have opened only once ever.

Inscription: "Lois & Edwin, March 2018". Yes some English people of Helsinki.

Sorry Lois and Edwin, you should have choosed the cheapie version with 3 straight pins.

BTW. The lock is ABUS 72/40. Some springs are very weak, so it may be that some pins are stuck.
I don't think these are equivalent arguments. Terrorism by definition seeks to incite terror in the population. The American rebellion was a rebellion of the people. Americans weren't rioting either, running around and destroying their own things with no rhyme or reason. Destruction was tactical and strategic because it was a war.
+1 to Colima. Works seamlessly. Made the switch not too long ago.
I understand that's how they are used to operating, I just think it's stupid. I'm sure some beancounter likes everything nice, neat, and predicable but that doesn't mean it's a good idea. If your org has differing compute needs that are all subset/supersets of each other then cycle machines through your workforce (buy new and rotate down hardware to those who need less compute). If that's not possible or the number of people in each group are wildly different then suck it up as a cost of doing business and get the beancounters focused on how to write off as much of the machine as they can with depreciation.
> the entire car hyper-focused model is unsustainable

I disagree. There's nothing magic about the car. What is unsustainable is not budgeting for real costs nor planning for the future. E.g. we install pipes that are supposed to last 100 years, which just means that everyone alive figures they can ignore it and let the people three generations from today figure out how to deal with it.
Robot performs complex 'keyhole' intestinal surgery on pigs without human aid
Talk to the developers of the Alfred app?
A company's job is to provide a service or sell a product. The idea that doing that is a "cost" that needs to be reduced is ass-backwards.

Bean counters will, by contrast, rarely cut their own budgets because they control the budget.
Fair enough, you put a much better solution that benefits both sides.

I'm not downplaying/disregarding the climate issue, at that part the I agree with the developed nations: it's a real thing, the increased rate of flooding across Europe and India last year supports that. Every of us (regardless of ethnicity &nation) is responsible to take care our common homeland.

What I disagree is how they are playing the issue putting more responsability on us than themselves, unfortunately our industry is still very traditional and we can't move overnight to renewable ones, rather than taxing us, they should be aiding to move our industry facilities to green solutions, that is the ideal one, noone gets harmed whilst making our planet more greener
> They really shouldn’t be bundling any Python version with the OS

I fully agree, Operating Systems bundling Python and Ruby has caused me many headaches in the past and I always perceived it as a downside, never an advantage.
They did the same with an old wooden bridge near where I grew up. In the early 80s, you could still drive across it. Later they closed it and barricaded it. Eventually in the 2000s, they preserved it and built a park around it.

Of course, this bridge only carried about 10 cars a day, mostly as a novelty, prior to closing. It's an entirely different animal to close a bridge in a major city.
How does this work with your mail client? Can you configure it to read from gmail, but send through zoho? Or do you have to switch accounts to reply?
The 15 Billion is a clickable link to the full breakdown. They give retail sales of recreational fishing gear as nearly 50 billion per year which all has sales tax as well as the fishing licenses themselves. They also make some assumptions about taxes from related jobs. They also have a "ripple effect" number which gets really deep into the "make it look good for what we want to say" territory and are an organization for fishing/conservation so take it all with a grain of salt.

I don't quite buy the full $15 billion/year amount but quite a few billion per year seems immediately reasonable.
That's fun, it makes m68k the longest-supported CPU for Linux. The m68k was the second CPU Linux ever supported, after the i386, and i386 support is long gone.
My dad took a lot of Kodachromes while flying during the Korean war. Those slides have held up very well, especially compared to my Ektachrome slides shot in the 70s and 80s. He once told me that many of his photos -- some taken out the window of his C-127 Globemaster, where he served as flight engineer -- would have been considered classified at the time.
He can clearly document harms, too. A top-flight research group takes a lifetime, reputation, and resources to assemble.
> One may argue that "a state" is a simpler concept than "a superposition of all state".

What would that mean in the context of QM?

"A superposition" is "a state".
>> By my age, Einstein had completed general relativity, Turing had founded CS,
won WWII, and proposed the Turing Test, and Galois, Ramanujan, and Ramsey had
been dead for years.

I fee confused when an article begins with a blatant exaggeration about a
subject I am cognisant in right off the bat because then Idon't know how much I
can trust it when it speaks of subjects I don't know.

To wit, Turing did not win WWII and didn't found CS. Turing wrote a seminal
paper in early computer science, but he didn't found the field of research
called "computer science". To be honest, I have no idea who would rightfully
deserve to be recognised as the founder of computer science, when there have
been many contributions of the same value as Turing's, the most obvious examples
being Church and Von Neumann, less well-recognised ones being Charles Sanders
Peirce and Henry M. Sheffer, Claude Shannon, Conrand Zuse and others (Church
described a theory of computation equivalent to UTMs; Von Neumann proposed the
accursed Von Neumann architecture; Peirce and Sheffer described logic gates and
showed the completeness of the NAND gate; Shannon proved the completeness of
Boolean logic circuits; Zuse made the first programmable computer -Babbage only
designed the first). And so on. In my mind, trying to ascribe feats to heroes
that they never performed, diminishes, rather than exalts, the hero. Turing
doesn't need any extra serving of praise for things he didn't do to be known for
ever as one of the greats of CS.