skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You still have to be mindful of \u202e in anything new that you're writing, but browsers do a much better job of not having it bleed across elements like they did back in the 2000s.

Back in the era of forums that didn't support unicode correctly (2005ish?), it was trollish fun to post messages containing \u202E and watch the UI and all subsequent messages and elements get messed up. (One stray \u202E would flip the entire page contents following it.) I never took it to a level of abuse since it was easy to remove and then ban offenders, but it was fun in a one-off thread, and it always had great reactions.

I patched my own software to handle it, but I don't recall anyone really abusing it in a widespread manner. (Contrast this with the era of prolific and widely abused AOL/AIM exploits that would kill your IM client with malformed messages.)

IIRC, a bunch of messaging clients also didn't (or still don't) handle \u202e termination and it sometimes bled into new messages and even the text input box. That was pretty horrible and unfixable without restarting.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1137/

Some shenanigans in the wild:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unicode/comments/hc1rxi/i_put_a_rig...

https://twitter.com/mkolsek/status/1237123571341803522

(These are way tamer than the effects used to be.)

(Also, HN filters it out. I tried to have some fun. :P)
$900M is pretty steep to acquire about 200 employees, of whom only a small fraction are technical.

Nah, this is about acquiring a business for 9x revenue...
> 2^3.3 is approx 10. What alphabet only has 10 characters?

My claim is that the 7-segment display is only usable for its original design scope: the numerals 0-9.
Thanks for the reply. Relying on bursting for a core service like a db would be too much risk - it would make sense for batch compute or similar workloads.

From a systems viewpoint, I can’t understand if there’s an actual technical challenge involved or if this pricing is just a lack of competitive pressure. Is there some corner case about the POSIX guarantees of EFS that makes higher throughput challenging to achieve?

(Otherwise one could just spray file blocks across many servers and maintain a metadata mapping of file to blocks to achieve good throughput)
The sarcasm squelched the intent of what you meant.
Revolut does this better. You put card info and press Approve in the app a few seconds later.
I would suggest that a slightly better firehose analogy is that you're drinking from a firehose that includes multiple streams of good drinking water, urine and poison all combined together. When you drink from that firehose, what do you think the odds are that you'll just get the drinking water part of the stream?
DMT and the Nature of Reality
Article seems to imply that all DDR5 chips have ECC. Is this true ?
libravox.org

A great source of free (public domain) audiobooks, mostly read very well.
Never took a math class that didn't provide a solution index for practice problems. University level students are expected to be able to self-regulate their study ethic and this sort of paternalist bullshit is turning undergraduate programs into trades learned by rote.
Oh that's cute! Translation for anyone curious / lazy:

Punctuation General :block ,0xAE 0x80 0xE2 :8-UTF ,representation visual No :HTML ,8238 :decimal ,OVERRIDE LEFT-TO-RIGHT 202E+U

Love the demos :)
Tigera Tightens Cloud Native Container Security
Trying to limit the world's population is impossible. It would require an authoritarian world government and that's not going to happen.
> or are you more interested in trying to play "gotcha" on the Internet?

The issue here, is that the way you are speaking, and phrasing your questions, is leading everyone else to believe that you are the one playing gotcha. Thats what everyone else is saying to you, based on their responses.

When you ask bad questions, that you should know the answer to, it comes off as a disingenuous attempt to trick someone up (Because, since the question should have an obvious answer, it is not clear why you are asking it in the first place).
This strikes me as totally unsurprising. How could it be otherwise? It's basically saying that a brain normally operates in an interesting dynamical mode: not chaotic, and not very regular. Wow? If it were chaotic, we wouldn't have coherent or consistent behavior at any scale. If overly regular, we'd be incredibly dull and unable to respond to the environment.

You could do this with a computer. If your signals coming from the computer are either too regular or too unexpected, then it's probably broken. This sort of thing might be useful diagnostically, but doesn't really provide us with greater understanding...
Segment Stories: The M Trail
Here is a youtube link which works from Europe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D2lrFemFig
Interactive Computer Graphics [video]
18 years is a long time to run a business, I believe Linode hasn’t had much outside investment. I suspect the founding team are looking to exit and will slowly pull back over the next couple of years.
One mistake that makes me laugh/cry is how Netflix on iPhone asks me "who is watching?" nearly every time I open it. On a laptop or iPad, sure, but on the phone, it could be pretty sure it's still me, right?
Is it that concentrated? People used to criticize that it was concentrated in China, and then that changed basically overnight when mining was shut down the. Now people still say this but how much is it true?
How does DigitalOcean compare to Linode these days? One thing I noticed off the bat is that Linode still offers phone and email support, versus just a ticketing system interface.
I really hope Linode stays available self-serve, even if it transitions to an Akamai hostname for server management. The current Akamai availability is super limited and you'll often need to give them a call if you want to run any regular traffic through them or use a product not included in the free trial of their services.
This probably exists somewhere but not in my circles and strictly it's ALWAYS EXISTED. The Cold War led to plenty of people throwing their hands up and "quitting life/ambition".

The other part of the "Great Resignation" (about 33%) is Boomers nearing retirement deciding to retire early. This both removed them from the job market, left a industry knowledge/culture gap and left younger workers without mentors. The impact on employers is that people with a lot less knowledge and experience get thrown into responsibilities that probably either exceed their skills or are made far harder than before. That helps burn-out happen.
> So here's a challenge, try adding a search engine not on that list.

Well, you can. I just tried it and works. Granted, you need a third party app, but it's doable.
Let us be blunt! This community is non-toxic!
But as the article notes this was actually a hard fork off the chain known up to that time at Ethereum. It’s really just semantics that the old chain became known as Ethereum Classic and the hard-forked chain maintained the name of “Ethereum” due to the active developers and most of the community choosing to use the hard fork.

The payment was still never actually reversed on Ethereum Classic. And that blockchain exists to this day. Sure, the amount of the not-actually-reversed transaction has lost value in $ at mark-to-market but it’s still the same amount of ether on the same blockchain as it’s always been.

In that sense a better term is that the payment was rejected by the community, or routed around, rather than reversed IMO.
Thanks. But how LoopVectorization.jl is helping here, say comparing to C/Fortran
optimized w.r.t. to the CPU? Is there somewhere in their doc mentioning this?
So when doing a search, we are searching in a place (Reddit) that’s being moderated by humans.

Because doing a search in a place that’s not moderated by humans would generate too much noise.

I think this kinda takes us back to the old times with Yahoo (and humans sorting the information) etc…

A giant step backwards, if you ask me.
I too don't believe that the protests should get all the credit.

But its not Gov following science, at best it's Gov following sentiment. People are right fed up of the overreach and want no more rules around masks, passports and lockdowns. There's no more tolerating restrictions for something that's a minor cold, can be vaccinated against if you are worried or early treated with antiviral using both new and repurposed drugs.
I would turn this around and flip the script. Hacker News is valuable to me because people don't pull punches out of the sense of social obligation to be polite.

While people can be harsh here, generally there's almost zero tolerance for ad hominem attacks and the kinds of sophistry you see elsewhere on the net.

Think of it like this. If I want a pat on the head and some affirmation, I'll talk to my mother. But if I want straight dope on what I'm doing right or wrong, this is a great resource.
Still the supreme source of free public domain ebooks

https://www.gutenberg.org/
I’m not an Apple Music subscriber. I guess I’m asking for a pure mp3 experience that matches what the subscription services can do today, or at least a good amount of it.
Kagi
I always figured this was a performance issue related to sharding in distributed systems. Deep pagination is an expensive operation so most search clusters limit the number of visible results by default. That, in addition to an assumption that results beyond a certain number are unlikely to be useful - how many times have you found something on page 10 vs just reformulated your search query? - means that most applications just leave the default limit in place.

Returning a count of results, however (especially if it doesn't need to be precise), is a lot less expensive. Hence why Google is happy to give you the 22,000,000 number.
> some other way to tell the server that Device A and Device B are the same person

Browsers already have both user identity across multiple devices and ability to sync data. It just needs to be extended to cookies and localstorage.
Counterpoint: if you shouldn't write a 'for fun' game without architecting it to withstand super-viral success, a lot of people won't write them at all.
The excellent cross-browser support of localStorage and the simplicity of the API should also be appreciated
Yes, as discussed on other threads here, the ECC helps increase chip yields, but does not prevent offchip errors. So it's not equivalent to what people normally mean by ECC memory which stores parity that will correct single bit errors and detect 2 bit errors anywhere in the chip, dimm, dimm slot, motherboard, socket, or CPU areas.
It's entirely possible that on-die ECC is still a good thing for the end user - to really judge you need to compare the error rate (and proportion the ecc corrected) of dies that would have previously failed validation. It may be that it's good for both - IE more dies can be used (so higher supply and lower prices to the consumer), yet the un-fixed error rate is still lower than dies that would have previously passed validation but lack on-die ECC.

I doubt any manufacturer would make that public, however, but an estimate may be made if error rates actually start increasing in the real world due to ddr5 allowing this.

I agree that end-to-end ECC really should be the default for consumer products these days, but so long as the big players see it as a "Professional User" product differentiation point it'll always be more expensive than it should be.
Is there some kind of contest to produce the most outlandish explanations of this matter?

As an total outsider I’m accustomed to the cryptocurrency echobubble blaring like a sackful of unhinged hyenas, but the apoplectic conspiracy-mongerong on display seems off the scale.
I'm interpreting it as there is a point in the meatspace of your brain that is like a sailboat on a stormy sea. The Water is one level, the air is another, and your consciousness is the sailboat that glides around where the two meet.
> The delay right now is from FAA approval on Boca Chica launches

Not true. Musk said they weren't ready to launch yet anyways, and that they expected to be ready around the same time they expected to get FAA clearance. So it's not holding things up yet. And it might never.
I work for Google Search. If you put a word or a phrase in quotes, we will only find things that have that exact word or phrase. Nothing has changed in this. When it happens that people feel it fails, it's often that they don't realize we've matched that word or phrase appearing in ALT text or text that's appearing in a less visible part of the page -- or in a few cases, the page might have changed since we indexed it.
I liked using Linode, though I can't help but feel some apprehension about what will happen to it in the medium/long term
tanstaafl
Google's home-grown recipe metadata format, and a single WordPress plugin to create recipe blogs, are the reason you can't find a decent recipe on Google.

Google's search engine is, without a doubt, superior to all alternatives. The fact that it's full of ads and junk is a conscious choice. Google could turn all that crap off tomorrow, and it would go back to being the best search results. Nobody has invested as much money in accurate results as Google has, and nobody will get close for years.

Search is, itself, dying. Search is probably one of the hardest things you can do with technology. We've gotten to the point that there's just too much shit to search through in too many ways. We need to stop relying on search, and start curating knowledge. "That's impossible", you say; I direct you to Wikipedia.org.
I think there's some opportunity, if this doesn't already exist, to make some decentralized (WebRTC, with centralized fallback) way of synchronizing localStorage across multiple devices with a pre-shared key. A drop-in script would add functionality to show and scan a QR code or enter a 12 word phrase. It could even be a userscript running without the web app developer's involvement at all. A lot of hoopla for a word game, but could be quite handy in more scenarios.
So that's where the name came from. Makes you wonder how much such a simple thing as a last name impacted their life.
I gave up on Google search around 2012 or 2013 (I occasionally use some of their specialized engines such as Google Scholar, or use a Google search as a last resort). So this feels sort of like a post marveling that blogger and blogspot are no longer as popular in the USA as medium or substack, its true but not news.
That's exactly what police are. "Law Enforcement", not "Crime Prevention".
Not true. Musk said they weren't ready to launch yet anyways, and that they expected to be ready around the same time they expected to get FAA clearance. So it's not holding things up yet. And it might never.
I don't think it's possible to draw any conclusions about what would happen to Bitcoin, you're running into the fundamental limits of the problem of induction here.

In particular, Bitcoin mining is concentrated into a small number of pools, but the amount of actual power they hold is very questionable. Because nobody censors transactions, we can't know if miners would flee or not if they began to.

English banknotes are printed by De La Rue plc, but it's not like they have a stranglehold on the English economy. If they began to act up, their 'power' would dry up very quickly.

Also, even with 100% of miners cooperating, reversing a two week old transaction would still take two weeks. There are some technical issues with this, since new transaction would grind to a halt and it would generally be a mess.

Note how Ethereum wasn't miners collaborating (soft fork), it was a hard fork, which required no miner cooperation at all.

A hard fork of Bitcoin in this way is indeed possible, but would require the consent of a lot of entities. Ethereum is much more 'socially' centralized in terms of its governance process, and it was very obvious that if they didn't go along with it, then the big, centralized entity that held all the proceeds from the ICO would stop paying the developers, and the PR goons, and and and...

I'm not going to draw any conclusions about the future based on this, but we can observe that big players (Binance) have lost money, publicly considered 51% attacks, then backed down. We can also observe the fate of Marathon's OFAC pool - he didn't fly so good, who wants to try next?
Yeah, my wife noted this. Puts a lot of pressure on mothers to overfeed their kids.
Too many digits… TL;DR: .5 MeV and .9 GeV, respectively.
Dark Patterns [audio]
I am not sure if those are starlings, but starlings form giant flocks called murmurations. The flocks don’t have a leader and every bird just follows the birds around it, and as a result sometimes they crash into things. I wonder if that is happening here.
That's the speculated reason why Microsoft had to skip Windows 9: because in the late 90s, software were checking for «starts with "Windows 9"» to identify Windows 95 and 98... and some of those checks still exist and would had identified Windows 9 as Windows 95/98.
Everyone blames foreign influence when it comes to protests:

Belarus:

https://www.wionews.com/world/belarusian-president-lukashenk...

> The leader on Wednesday said that "foreign influence" is causing the protests across the country. Roughly translated by Reuters, his words implied "There is no any unrest in the country. And you know, without the external force - there would have not been even that."

China:

> China Blames Foreigners for Trying to Foment Unrest

https://www.voanews.com/a/tehran-blames-foreign-influence-in...

> Tehran Blames Foreign Influence in Deadly Protests Over Gas Price Hike

Hong Kong:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/21/carrie-lam-suggests-foreign-...

> Carrie Lam suggests foreign influence in Hong Kong protests: ‘Perhaps there is something at work’

Kazakhstan:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-is-kazakhstan-claim...

> The government narrative changed, too. Nazarbayev’s handpicked president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, began pointing the finger at domestic and foreign “bandits and terrorists” and an internal plot to foment chaos.

Solomon Islands:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/26/solomon-island...

> Solomon Islands prime minister Manasseh Sogavare has blamed foreign interference over his government’s decision to switch alliances from Taiwan to Beijing for anti-government protests, arson and looting that have ravaged the capital Honiara for the past three days.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/world/asia/09china.html

Turkey:

https://atalayar.com/en/content/erdogan-calls-fight-against-...

> Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey, urged all state agencies in a decree published in the Turkish Official Gazette to act urgently to counter "foreign influence and corruption of national culture" as well as to safeguard "moral and national values" in media and film productions.

> However, critics of the Turkish government believe that this could be for the purpose of increasing censorship.
That's been the history on self-driving cars:

2015: "We’re going to end up with complete autonomy, and I think we will have complete autonomy in approximately two years."

2016: "I really consider autonomous driving a solved problem, I think we are less than two years away from complete autonomy, safer than humans, but regulations should take at least another year."

2018: "I think probably by end of next year (2019) self-driving will encompass essentially all modes of driving and be at least 100% to 200% safer than a person."

2019: "We need to be at 99.9999..% We need to be extremely reliable. When do we think it is safe for FSD, probably towards the end of this year then its up to the regulators when they will decide to approve that."

2019: "I feel very confident predicting autonomous robotaxis for Tesla next year."

2020: "I am extremely confident of achieving full autonomy and releasing it to the Tesla customer base next year. But I think at least some jurisdictions are going to allow full self-driving next year."
I agree that, with time, I think/hope many people will realize social media actually has a lot of adverse effects.

However, to say, "most people will come to the same conclusion I have given enough time and evidence" seems a little naïve, and overlooks the spectrum of preferences that people have for the various things developers consider "hostile."

For example, while a lot of developers (myself included) love the minimalism of, say, Hacker News and hate the bloat of, say, nytimes.com, I think it's unfair to call nytimes "hostile" to the user. Frankly, it doesn't grate the typical user that much and the decisions made by NY Times designers/developers reflect that reality.

I think a similar argument can be made about privacy. Some people would pay for a product that is private and without advertisements; others are fine with the tradeoff.
Thanks for this OP.

Looking forward to exploring how I can implement this in my own open-source project. Lots of users will find something like this useful.
Touché!

Not at the moment but best of luck with the product.

Rereading my initial comment came off more hostile than I wanted, so thanks for the level-headed response :)
Plex stays winning.
Why have I never thought of trying to get AppleSoft running on the NES? I have no imagination.
I work for Google Search -- we never operated like this. We don't know that someone is somehow a "newbie" vs and "advanced" searcher and change (nor did change) the results somehow.
I do that too. But recently I also started inserting !g before my searches hoping to get better results only to notice I am already on Google.
I had that turned off. Thanks for explaining it.
There's disincentives for Google to do the right thing, for sure, e.g., ignoring quotation marks. I assume this is so that you never see a blank page (and so ads can be shown, which would be weird to see if there were no other results).

But, as the author mentioned, a lot of the problem is the inauthentic content on the internet that Google must sift through and filter. What makes Reddit still not half-bad (although this quality is under direct attack by brigading and troll farms) is that you have user-generated, user-curated content and a not-too-bad voting system.

In this context, I think a future iteration on search engines will be hand-curated results, under actual human-curated topics (rather than fuzzy machine-learning-inferred ones). Think of a huge directed acyclic graph of topics that goes down twelve levels or more in some cases. If you have enough people involved in this kind of crowd-sourcing, I think it can be made to work.

A challenge that arises in this context is how to prioritize content added to the wiki search engine by good contributors, and deprioritize content added by the content farms. I think this can be managed with a combination of well-conceived reputation management and providing users the ability to specify other users (people who seem trustworthy and whose tastes are solid) whose preferences will then be used to weight search results.
Programme/podcast description:

> Trying to cancel some online accounts can be a maze of searches and false hopes, multiple clicks through a puzzle of seemingly unrelated destinations.

> This is what has become known as a 'dark pattern'; complex web design that makes it hard for you to do something the website does not want you to do, and employs behavioural psychology to make you do things it does want you to do. It is just one of the techniques used to make us click, buy or subscribe.

> Journalist and broadcaster Darryl Morris digs into the methods being used to grip your attention, and examines the persuasive power that is being harnessed. What impact is it having on your free will, and is there anything that can be done to resist it?
It's worked in the past at least twice, but then instead of well-controlled HIV you have to deal with Graft vs Host disease which is much more problematic.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/03/05/7003618...