skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modern safety requirements on vehicle essentially put a lower bound on vehicle weight. There are requirements both for the passengers of the vehicle and pedestrians.

For example, you can't even make a car without a rear view camera now and sell it in the US. Why? Is looking out the back window really that challenging?
"These are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others." - Groucho Marx.
> You're essentially proposing that less tech savvy users switch to something that requires more effort from them.

Not really. When I say meaningful alternative to Google, I mean something that is same or less effort for an average user, not more.

Ideally a perfect search engine is simple and easy to use in the default mode, but can uncover an advanced mode with a few clicks (for example ability to ban sites in results, just to give an example. This is currently lacking in Google and a solid source of advanced users' frustration).
Yes. Agreed. Sites should be doing their best to avoid having to check the UA String.

For some tightly-controlled environments (medical, aerospace, etc...) where all software components & tooling has to be qualified for use, I can see checking the UA in order to throw up a "your browser is not supported" banner ("not supported usually means "we haven't tested it, so we can't assert this web app will work properly", not so much "our app won't work"). But sites should really avoid responding with different content/html, etc.... for different browsers (though, I have encountered sites that serve images as webp to chrome and jpg to IE...)
> I strongly suspect this only works because it's not a widely-known strategy

I think this post in combination with HN users' comments indicates that this is a widely-known strategy. It's cool. I've been doing it too and didn't know that everyone else did it too. Reddit is already being secretly advertised on but I guess we'll see how things end up.
> I tried to do something similar but couldn't get karma very quick. I think I had a chicken and egg problem with karma because most subreddits require a minimum amount to post.

Doing this on an account that you personally use is probably the easiest way, but that doesn't scale well for obvious reasons. Getting past time gates (must wait a month or more to post in certain areas) and karma gates takes time. This kind of makes me want to go back and try this again but there are moral/ethical issues that give me pause.
> this thing about freedom of speech and governments is like one of your(theirs?) preferred point, but who cares?

Anyone who cares about reality? Because that's all freedom of speech is. If you break ToS, tough.

I don't follow the coffee machine bit, sorry.

> also yeah Twitter can do whatever it wants, I needed a mainstream platform which helped alienating people towards their circle

Glad you agree that Twitter can do whatever it wants. Maybe it sucks, but that's a free market for you!

Can I take it that you were banned from Twitter? If so, why?
Yes, and I'm asserting that 90+% of conservatives don't fit the mold you are casting. That was the point of my response. You can find crazies on both sides of the political aisle.

One of trump's failures is that he isn't a good statesman and so failed to unite his own party, which caused a lot of failures in the legislative process as people like John McCain voted against him just because they hated him. I sincerely wish Trump doesn't run in 2024, not because I think he would do worse than Biden (he would have been 100x better than Biden), but because his greatest strengths are also his biggest flaws, and I don't think he can lead the country effectively.

The general platform of conservatives is: "this is the greatest civilization in history we've inherited. Please stop screwing it up so badly!" That may be different from the RNC platform, but Republicans at least align with conservative values more closely than democrats, so we don't have much choice but to vote for them. Unfortunately, conservatives have rarely been dominant even within the Republican party, and many anti-conservative measures have been perpetrated by Republican presidents.

I agree we need new and better ideas to go mainstream in the party, though not that these ideas don't exist. Among the weaknesses of the Republican party in the past decade have been the unwillingness of the party elites to sense the times and pay attention to their constituents or to the looming culture wars.

As it is most of the time, the strongest argument to vote for a party is not that that party is great, but that the other party is worse. I have no solution for that.
My help comes at a price; they are going to sit there with me and listen to me blather on about what I'm looking at and what I find and what the solution was :)
In all seriousness can we please replace the user agent, and add a new header that is meant to supersede it. We can then freeze the current user agent at v99 with all the other rubbish that's still in it and put real correct date in a standard format in a new header.

I know there are arguments that a new version will be abused just as much, but I think we should be able to find ways to elevate that by, for example, limiting the length of different fields so doubling up of information to mask the truth or detect as two different browsers isn't possible.

We could even design this new system specifically to be fingerprint proof, just report the essentials which is pretty much just the browser engine (webkit/blink/gecko) and version. don't even need the actual browser and os.
I maintain that it is possible. A rock and a rabbit would occur in different contexts. GPT-3 solves this problem in a limited but impressive way, as I mentioned in a comment below just now.
> These walled gardens are dangerous

I think that's a separate topic from this article. But if they are, the problem remains: what's to be done about it when the incentives are so heavy towards consolidating behind service provision over becoming one's own service provider?
Dead Internet Theory is totally believable. I remember back in 2006-7 or so, being slightly curious about putting up a food review site because I was really angry at my local X food establishment. I found places were you could buy complete restaurant database ready to be scripted onto the web for maybe 90 a pop. The data was actually pretty good, but I was shocked by the huge community around flipping these dbs into internet spam. For the very high majority these were hungry business types who could barely open a code editor without asking for help. I only expect the problem has gotten exponentially worse since then now that ai generated content has improved in quality.
I think they're still extremely common but I'm guessing maybe less so in the circles of people here who may be less into activities like golfing.
"Real people are dying because of perpetuated information on social media and "news" outlets."

You mean those about covid or vaccines? What exactly is wrong to let people choose? Why you think that what is best for you should be best for others?
> "We are updating the word list over time to remove obscure words to keep the puzzle accessible to more people, as well as insensitive or offensive words,"

How does fewer valid guess words (not solution words) make the puzzle more accessible?
Google search has been next to useless for me at least in the past few years. Results use to be on the spot, and now I get wildly various results that have nothing to do with what I looked for. The biggest issue is it trying to substitute words which renders my terms useless. Then there’s also the quora answers showing first and most answers there are being paywalls now.
It is. We also see this as an issue of "objective search". Two users we think should see exactly the same set of results, for a given query and settings they can control (eg location/language setting). That's another positive that comes from our stance on no-tracking; with no harvested personal data, we can't "personalise". So no steering users into content reinforcment whirlpools and/or ad-pulling filter bubbles.
Jump from 99 to 109 then let them break. Internal sites of universities and corporations need to work until they get fixed.
This reminds me of Microsoft skipping Windows 9 and going from Windows 8 to Windows 10.
The acronym was coined with the non "fine" meaning for that letter. It was much later that internet culture got more polite and people retroactively replaced the meaning on RTFM and RTFA.
Yep.

Stephenson is pretty influential as an essayist and general concepts guy. One time even William Gibson cited him, specifically the "burbclave" idea from Snow Crash, in his essay "Disneyland with the Death Penalty" about Singapore. Which is pretty much... the literary equivalent of when a band plays the "Weird Al" parody version of their song.
Not to mention, it's not so much because we forget them, but by writing them down they can be later cued and synchronized to other ideas for fruitful promulgation.
They could do the SaaS model and give you an API key or unique URL allowing up to 10000 searches per month which you could share with friends/your company

That's probably a worse business model, but it would be really interesting to hear what other monetization ideas Kagi considered or is considering.
Another way to look at it is energy, especially affordable energy is an essential service that many many people rely on, especially in a cold place like Canada.

Regardless, I agree that the emergencies act is overkill. I think the Canadian government should sit down with the protestors and come up with a plan that alleviates the situation. I don't think a police vs protestor clash in the streets is going to end well for anyone.
From the article:

> Inbox Zero might be impractical every day, but Inbox Organized happens without breaking a sweat.

My experience is the absolute opposite. Organising mails is a strange game, and the only winning move is not to play.

I get the information out of the emails as soon as I can, and put it into a system that is actually manageable.

GTD had it right from the start. Thank you David Allen.

You want harsh feedback ? I'll never pay for your system, because it would lead to more work for me on the long run, not less. Emails are not todo list: todo list are mostly signal, while emails are mostly noise. Your system organize noise, and automatically. This has no value to me.

But you could build a system that I actually need. An inbox that I would enjoy.

Indeed, I don't need a system that help me organise my various sources of informations and tasks. I have so many of them that would be terrible even if it worked, anyway. Managing 20 organized systems in parallel is hell.

I need systems that make it easy to extract the relevant informations from them, and put the result in one central organized place for action, and another one for archive. A system that filters noise, and get me in control. That's it.

Eventually, my life is just that: being, doing and knowing. I don't need a system for the first. I don't want more than 2 systems for the 2 last.
We aren't forgetting it. We just know the database sucks at being a database.

* Transaction volumes are abysmal. Which means I have to build some kind of layer 2 transactional layer over it. (i.e. I have to build a second database to work around the shortcomings of the blockchain database)

* The mechanism of BFT that a blockchain uses is expensive. Proof of work, Proof of Stake, the others. This expense has to escalate in order to retain Fault Tolerance. It is among the least efficient way to achieve fault tolerance that you can imagine. It also exerts a push toward centralization.

* The storage capacity of the database is also terrible See my point above about needing to build a Layer 2 storage mechanism to be at all viable.

All of this is playing out in practice right now in web3 space. Merkle trees make a fantastic version of a public audit log. But blockchain consensus mechanisms all seem to suck. You'd frankly probably be better off going with Raft or something instead. But that would be too centralized for the adherents so they don't. Meanwhile for the exact same reasons that Raft leads to centralized nodes blockchains lead to mining pools at the cost of massive inefficiency.

[EDIT: mis-worded]
> yet they allow it because it's their SV buddies.

At one time, Google used to ban sites for "cloaking": offering one version of the page to the crawler, and another to the user.

But over time they got into trouble from these sites, getting sued left and right. Being accused of putting up a wall, and abusing their monopoly. Eventually, these sites won out and Google dropped this requirement.
Reddit is a great source of people's discussions and quality posts on various topics. When I tried to find people's pain points to automate collecting problems to solve(and now it's an advanced Reddit search tool[1]), I found out that niche forums are great places to collect them. However, it's difficult to find more of them, plus scraping the data is time-consuming(custom parser for a new forum). And, the most important thing, there are not so many discussions that one may find on Reddit.

What I like about the website, it's you can find a huge amount of subreddits, every one of them dedicated to a niche topic that people there are willing to discuss. They share opinions, actively engage in discussions, and help in moderating good content. Is there any other place like this?
There are many situations when one still be preferring Google, but as for niche discussions I don't see any other good place to visit. Maybe it was Quora before, but now it's a spam place.

[1] https://olwi.xyz
> The latest conditions on mountain bike and hiking trails are being shared inside communities like Reddit

Are you a fan of r/mtb or r/mountainbiking?
Pre-smoking bans, people smoked everywhere, all the time. It wouldn't just be me asking one person to put out their cigarette, it would be me asking nearly half the restaurant to put out their cigarettes. And it wouldn't just be the one bar that allowed smoking, it would be practically every single restaurant in town. It would be on the bus. It would be on the train. It would be in the lobby of every hotel. It would be in the grocery store. It would be a good chunk of the office, on every floor.
Huh, this is the first time I have heard about interventions. Checking about:compat on Firefox for Android reveals (perhaps unsurprisingly) multiple fixes for Google sites. I wonder what constitutes deploying an intervention versus letting the site break. I understand that part of the reason Google sites are being fixed by Mozilla is because they are popular.
Now actually, I think the Vietnamese know a thing or two about alternatives to the free market.
The iPod is great! It's what introduced me to embedded systems, and still provides the music I listen to while at work all day.

After replacing the hard drive with a Kingspec SSD, there's a lot more physical space inside. Here's a photo from a few years ago, showing an EspUSB, miniDP-HDMI adaptor, Corewind WiFiG25 single-board computer, and PQI Air Card.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/150180606@N08/albums/721577133...

The iPod is so hackable that it fills in for any lack of features on my iPhone (e.g. SD->WiFi makes up for the lack of SD slot).

There's a few changes now (Corewind replaced by Vocore 2, VGA->HDMI, USB-C->HDMI have joined the storage), and I continue to enjoy hacking it.

One of my favourites is using an Ultradock to act as a serial remote control.

http://www.chlazza.net/ultradock.html

The ICT department restrict what we can install on our office PCs, but we're allowed to use serial cables for work, and AutoHotKey is tolerated. So I've got a script to remap the numpad, and the Microsoft Intellimouse side keys (side as modifier, wheel for volume, buttons for next/back), to be an iPod remote.

All I need now is to figure out how to press the centre button so I can set a rating, and how to read the song title and lyrics over serial. That needs 0x04 Extended Interface Lingo, which normally needs a special Apple authentication chip, but I bought a Griffin iKaraoke and am trying to hack around with that to see if I can insert data after it's already authenticated.

Although there's no leaked schematics or boardviews for the iPod (unlike some MacBook models), there is an "iPod Accessory Protocol Interface Specification.pdf" that some very kind person discovered and made available, and it's been a huge help in trying to build this iPod remote. Apple documentation is really nice to read, too. I wish I could continue supporting the original authors, but alas, Apple decided to shift away from the Digital Hub and require streaming.
How about if your telephone company starts fucking around? As more services are provided through apps, the stakes grow.

I agree with you that it shouldn’t be regulated like a utility. I’m saying that Apples obstinance is going to lead them there.
What kind of crap user-agent parsing library are people using that breaks from 2 to 3 digits?

If that was a bug, I'd be pretty suspicious about the general software quality in the rest of the library.
How does ethanol clean the air around large cities? It's still a hydrocarbon fuel and still requires a catalytic converter to lower the production of harmful byproducts from burning it inside of a cars cylinder.
Spring Boot REST API authentication best practices using JWT (2022)
Some of us are still old enough to remember when "Ms." was a contentious or at least novel title, though few are old enough to have seen its original proposal in 1901.

The New York Times formally adopted use of "Ms." as a title, distinct from "Mrs." (a married woman, often referred to by her husband's full name, e.g., "Mrs. John Q. Smith"), or "Miss" (an unmarried woman or girl, addressed by her given and maiden names, "Miss Jane Q. Jones"). Ms. Magazine was a direct and deliberate challenge to that practice, and was launched in 1971 by Gloria Steinem. Interestingly, all three words, "miss, "missus", and "mizz" originate from "mistress", which was at one time the single title applied to any woman, adult or child, married or not.

(For men, the terms "Master" (unmarried child) and "Mister" were both represented as "Mr.".)

And then as now, "Ms." resulted in much gnashing of teeth, changing of forms, and updating of databases.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/magazine/25FOB-onlanguage...
Sure, that was a lesson I learned from such (though some software did/does not allow to save). Even auto saved 'lagged' behind back then. Even 5 minutes can be a big difference if you made changes but can't memorize all of them. Nowadays, even fast software such as Sublime Text autosaves somewhere in homedir.
Interesting take. Can you expand on "the abstractions that hold the team together"?
Well technically rupy is open-source (ALGPL, yet another license that still doesn't exist) and since fuse (source-available) is built on top, you can maybe call it open-source, specially since rupy is like 90% of the code.
This conspiracy theory doesn't hold water. Two things can be true at once - Putin (and Germany) can sincerely want Nord Stream 2 AND Putin could have a desire to invade Ukraine - or at the very least intimidate Ukraine into stop their westward leaning.

The author loses credibility when he states: "What’s left unsaid is that Russia has not invaded any country since the dissolution of the Soviet Union" Maybe his definition of invasion is different than mine. But they invaded the Ukraine in 2014 to annex Crimea. They invaded Georgia in 2008. They invaded Chechnya in 1999. They might not have "invaded" Syria in 2015 but they sure played a large part in that conflict... My point is that Russia is not the "dove" that Mike Whitney (the author) tries to paint.
As an aside, while I can’t speak for the community as a whole, all of the blind persons that I’m personally acquainted with don’t mind visual metaphors so in my case at least I don’t worry that I’m giving offense. I agree it is striking though how easily we use visual metaphors.
They have the buyer ready to buy and still missed the sale because they wanted to make a profit on ads. How ironic. And this kind of experience probably turns a lot of buyers off from using Google search.

We don't need your unrelated ads, we already know what to buy, don't patronize us. We need help getting to the product page from keywords. We need real reviews. We need a shopping experience we can trust.
Niche, probably outdated, but indicative: The only way to purchase a laser printer with high printing quality these days is to buy something expensive and hope for the best. Magazines used to do actual reviews of these things.
Ukraine-Russia tensions: Russia pulls some troops back from border
Batteries for cars are dumb. Wait! Hear me out.

Batteries are expensive, heavy, and very difficult and dangerous to dispose of. Crashed EVs can spontaneously ignite days after the crash that damaged them. Wrecking yards and such are already having to deal with this issue. Firemen and other first responders have to deal with this when trying to clear EV car crashes off the highway.

Alcohol, on the other hand, has waaaaaaay more energy density, the byproducts of combustion are non-toxic, anyone can make it with household materials, and since it's made from plants all the energy is solar and it's carbon-neutral. Also, most ICE cars can be easily modified to use it.

It used to be common for farmer to grow their own fuel.

Alcohol fuel makes sense as part of a regenerative local economy. Imaging something like a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm that delivers gallons of fuel as well as groceries.
Check out "Alcohol can be a Gas" for more information http://alcoholcanbeagas.com/ (I'm not affiliated with them, I took a Permaculture course from the author many years ago, that's how I first heard of the idea.)
All the comments to the contrary, it's quite spectacular that Americans (regardless of the number) are retiring to a country that was demonized by the US for decades and humiliated the US in a very public fashion.

I personally dont think it's good for the Vietnamese that the color of your money is the only thing that decides your future. But, hey, capitalism, right ?
I am okay with self-identified employees rather than astroturfing. Nicks themselves have mentioned how Reddit attention helped them stay afloat, and how much of a boon it has been for PNW bootmakers. IMO this is a far better outcome than that industry dying, the manufacturing parcelled to China/SE Asia and a storied bootmaker ultimately resurrected as a Frankenstein fast fashion brand. Wesco, for example is doing great because of online attention.

However, even before Reddit, StyleForum was great, and their original darling was Viberg.
I honestly find it pretty helpful. You can type "russian murder painting" into Google and it will come up with Ivan the Terrible and His Son. All that hinting may be annoying if you know exactly what you wanted, but I'm not a specialist in everything I ever search for.
Pretty cool. I am surprised that low frequency dynamics are so strongly associated with reports of aware conciousnes states given that the high frequency 40 Hz activity of cortico-thalamo-cortical loops are necessary (if not sufficient) for consciousness as well. I'd put my money on the low frequency dynamics being a downstream effect from the cessation of the ~40 Hz cortico-thalamo-cortical loops under anesthesia. I'd also like it if they had included a gas anesthetic along with the receptor mediated anesthetics.
If issued for a day pass, possibly.

Again, this fits into workflows and isn't directly confrontational, but does preserve a record for comparison.
> Every public static method can trivially be replaced with a non-static implementation at the cost of a single stack pointer bump.

What about static factory methods?