skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More like UI programmers? It seems that almost everyone has agreed that text-processing smarts inside a filesystem are a bad idea (see: the NTFS collation table, the APFS transition away from ancient-version-NFD-but-not-quite), although there is that island of (admittedly very smart) -insensitive but -preserving holdouts (casing on Windows, normalization on ZFS). Linus rants on the topic[1] passionately, if not very informatively.

Note that U+202E is a control code that has effect on display, not the logical order of the text (much like, say, a bare CR), so I can’t say what the filesystem is doing wrong here (except maybe for not rejecting this outright, but see re smarts above, this probably needs to be done on a higher level). You don’t blame the filesystem for believing the filename "A\rB.txt" starts with A and not B, do you? Even though ls will say otherwise.

Bidi IRIs (which are at that higher level) are kind of horrendous, though.

[1] https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/utf8.html
hCaptcha really doesn't care who you are, and has no incentive to do so. Pretty different economic model than an ad seller like Google.

People who build their own generally end up switching to a service like hCaptcha once they start getting attacked. Not a simple problem, as any solution you put in place needs to constantly evolve if you are protecting anything of value.

(disclosure: work there)
How long till it's cancelled? 6 months?
> It pulls in data via the GitHub API using Netlify Graph, as an example.

Maybe I'm dense - but what is the value add here? I can pull data from github Api and build an app. Or I can pull data via netlify graph, from the github api, and build an app?

Does netlify provide the "server side" here, holding my github api keys, away from the browser that runs the app? Or something else?
I'd prefer "Metameat"
No one cared about my spreadsheets
The LEP experiment at CERN (the LHC now inhabits the same tunnels) collided a lot of electrons and positrons to create a lot of Z bosons. The standard model describes these interactions really precisely. And we can observe how often the Z boson decays "invisibly" to particles we can't detect. The rate it does so tells us there are three neutrinos with masses less than the Z boson. So that's established. Could there be more, heavier ones? Possibly.

We observe neutrino oscillations through a variety of channels. We first observed fewer (electron) neutrinos from the sun than expected, suggesting they were oscillating to other flavors. And this has been further observed in neutrinos produced in the atmosphere by cosmic rays, neutrinos produced by decays of particles in beams, and neutrinos from nuclear reactors.

The best explanation, and the one that fits the standard model, is that the pure "flavor" (electron, mu, tau) neutrino states are mixtures of pure "mass" states. And from those different channels, which look at different energies and flavors of neutrinos, we can work out what those mixtures are.

When you go through all the math, it turns out the oscillations depend on the differences of the squares of the masses of the pure mass states. And we observe oscillations that tell us that two of these differences are nonzero. That is, if there are mass states 1, 2, and 3, then we know that (mass 1)^2 - (mass 2)^2 is nonzero, and (mass 3)^2 - (mass 2)^2 is also nonzero. So this implies that at least two of them must have nonzero masses.
A significant portion of the problem seems to be that some people can't even identify what's going because the tools they're using to inspect the page are also showing it reversed.
This reminds me of the xmpp chat bot written in sed: https://github.com/horazont/xmpp-echo-bot

While I admire the skill involved, I keep wondering what drives people into starting such projects :D
I've long assumed that HN is one of the least diverse online platforms that I frequent. Can you provide some data/info that disproves my assumption?
Median US dev salary is about $110k.
This is basically why there are all these Commodore firmware ports - because the kernal doesn't provide all that much and the BASIC has no substantial hardware dependencies.
> Then there is the personalization. The fact that there is a meme about spending more time browsing the Netflix catalog than watching content tells you everything you need to know about how little people trust Netflix recommendations. Their new "top 10" feature is just depressing most of the time. It looks like a list of ten random DVDs in the bargain bin near the Walmart checkout line.

They may also be optimizing for revenues as opposed to recommendation quality (homegrown content being cheaper than licensed)
I have moved away from Linode since they started billing VMs in hours. I don't like that cloud bs.
> Their implementation for the checksum is actually cool, I like it.

For those interested, I think the checksum trick referred to above (in the context of the service offered by CTemplar) is described at [0] and there is a step-by-step how-to guide at [1].

Basically the top level index.html contains integrity hashes for the JavaScript it fetches, and you're expected to copy-paste the source of the page you're viewing into an editor, save the file, and run a local checksum on it.

That is clever, but it seems like a more convenient design would be to use a "bootstrap" page which only has the minimal set of tags on it needed to run a single <script src=bootstrap.js integrity=sha384-whatever>. Then the user can do a quick visual inspection that there's nothing suspicious in the DOM and confirm that the integrity hash matches the value in an append-only log somewhere.

Mozilla actually had a clever idea for building binary transparency using the existing certificate transparency infrastructure for domains[2], by registering something like $version_number-$hash as a sub-domain of the domain where the app is hosted, e.g. v14-abc123.ctemplar.com which the user could search for using one or more certificate transparency logs.

Anyway, this manual checking process can be avoided entirely if the site is made available as a SecureBookmark[3], although that has the disadvantage that the browser would show a Data URI as the page address rather than a standard URL/domain which users are more familiar and comfortable with.

[0] https://ctemplar.com/ctemplar-checksum-implementation/

[1] https://github.com/CTemplar/webclient/tree/gh-pages

[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Binary_Transparency

[3] https://coins.github.io/secure-bookmark/
Sommeliers are professionalized, with courses & exams. But I don't believe they are actually judged on their ability to taste wines and detect flavours. Designing such tests would be simple - rate of successful flavour identification based on data from other Somemeliers.

Instead Sommelier exams are subjective - candidates are judged by another Sommelier on subjective criteria rather than objective measurement. In my opinion they judge it as a dramatic performance: how quickly can the candidate rattle-off various flavours? How "high class" is the language they use to describe the flavours? How does the candidate present themselves? Sommeliers dress in fine suits, but this should have no impact on actual wine tasting ability. Yet I am sure if I showed up in a draggy old t-shirt I would fail regardless.

The whole industry seems allergic to objective scientific measurement. I am sure Sommelier's do have some ability to identify varieties, but are they actually tasting all those subtle hints they list off? I doubt it.
Hungary’s Central Bank Head Calls on EU to Ban Crypto Mining and Trading
The current state of media ingest protocols is actually getting interesting. For quite some time its been a situation of 'everyone supports RTMP so you support RTMP' plus 'vendor X does not support $FANCY_NEW_PROTOCOL but they do support RTMP'.

Now we've got this fun competition between various protocols at different stages of their lifecycle. Some are SRT where one vendor is pushing them quite hard and support is flakily available but not everywhere. Others, like WHIP, are much earlier in their lifecycle.

Most new protocols support carrying more codecs without gross hacks and generally are much nicer than an early 2000s protocol which hasn't really ever had a canonical specification; beating RTMP is a somewhat low bar. Each one also has their own shiny ribbons like using QUIC/webtransport or very-low latency.

The next few years will be interesting to see which gets adoption and which get dropped at the wayside. Could be any of the current contenders; I'm just hoping I can stop maintaining an RTMP stack sometime before 2040 without suffering from extreme fragmentation.
> but at the same time, CloudFlare makes it basically impossible for any new search engine other than Google to spider the site

I hadn't heard about this, can anyone supply a link for more context?

Is there anything a Cloudflare customer can do to "opt in" to being scraped by other search engine bots?
Nah, they just kind of sucked.

Like, who really needs a voip protocol pretending to be a program?
What updates could they need from Intel to keep the OS/userspace up to date?
They still aren't legal in many European countries.
I suppose it also depends if they're working for a competitor.
> 3. If you mod an iPod mini, use a higher quality sd to compact flash adapter. The cheaper ones, end up having weird issues when transferring files.

Why wouldn't you just use ... compact flash?
What an interesting idea! Seems like the only way to have any impact is to upset shareholders.

I've been working on trying to highlight the issue in Gary/Northwest Indiana by trying to be a "citizen sleuth" by tracking air pollution and open sourcing the data. Still a WIP, but recently added gas tracking to the data too https://millerbeach.community

You're right about worst offenders closing shop after pillaging, or they just sell and move on to the next location.

In 2019 ArcelorMittal spilled cyanide and ammonia into a Lake Michigan tributary, closing the National Park, local water intake, killing 3000 fish, etc.

In December 2020, ArcelorMittal was bought by Cleveland-Cliffs for $1.4 billion.

Cleveland-Cliffs made record $20 billion in revenue in 2021.
https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/cleveland-cliffs-mad...

A local news article from today:
https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/consen...

> The proposed consent decree requires Cleveland-Cliffs to complete "comprehensive operational upgrades to the steel mill to prevent future cyanide and ammonia violations," the environmental groups said."

> The steelmaker agreed to improve its notification procedures and pay $3 million in civil penalties, which are to be split between Indiana and the U.S. Treasury.

$3 million, and to prevent future cyanide/ammonia violations... but still dump into Lake Michigan. Aren't we lucky!
Great! If they let me have K8S clusters with 0 nodes I'll move back there.
It makes sense to bring back extinct species, to have the technological capability to do so, to get some practice in, but something that's been dead so long the environment in which it flourished has since adapted, that's what I don't get.

Should we bring back every single species that has ever gone extinct? Or only every one that existed while humans are in the fossil record?

What I think it comes down to is humans don't handle change well, but trying to make the earth stand still is a fools errand.
Is throwing people in prison, working?
Ahem. Bitcoin! *cough*
OPS5 User's Manual
>So many people have learned nothing.

I would argue considering the plethora of NFT offerings both legitimate and plagiarized that many people learned trying to manufacture the next Beanie Baby is better than investing in them, sort of like selling shovels in a gold rush is more reliable than digging for gold.
I have not tried it myself, but my understanding is that when you declare this kind of checked luggage that you were automatically redirected for hand searching of your luggage. Since you can place locks that inspectors don't have keys for, they would require you to be present in order for them to be searched.

If you have done this personally and found this not to be the case, I'd find that very interesting. I've known one person that has done this, and what I described is what I was told happened to them.
>"The space agency’s first three Artemis moon missions over the next three years — including a human landing planned for 2025 — are all set to travel aboard the SLS rocket and Orion capsule, which are being built by Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Aerojet Rocketdyne and numerous other suppliers and engineering services firms."

I'm guessing these companies enumerated in the last sentence are the "competitors" referenced in the article's actual title? How concerned would/should those companies be? Aren't those same suppliers constantly flush with regular defense contracts from the government? I don't know enough about them to know what percentage of their business is NASA vs regular defense/military contracting.
It's not just a Google thing, its every search engine.

OK, I see now. I tried it on Bing and got similar results with two small caveats. First, Bing gave me 861 accessible results, which is a base 2 order of magnitude greater than Google's. Second, Bing's total number isn't nearly as astronomical, it claims only 191K total results, not Google's 22M.

Could it be that Google has just indexed 100x more terms compared with Bing? Maybe, but my anecdotal use of both of them doesn't really seem to indicate that Bing is so deficient. For example, I tried using a phrase that would come up with just a few results. "bioavailable turmeric extract formulation" (in quotes) yielded 24 results on Google, (plus 4 ad results on top). On Bing I got 33 results, plus 2 ads on top. In fact, Bing looks more like "old Google" than new Google looks like old Google.
I call bullshit. We're supposed to believe people have invested almost $20B in NFTs? I have no data one way or the other, but this fails the smell test.
The only real option is to spend more time, cross reference against many sites and forums, and use your intuition as to which comments and reviews are authentic. Also pay attention to negative reviews.
You should be able to. I can. Tools, then change All results to Verbatim. Then change Any Time to one of the presets of custom range.

Or just quote the words in regular mode then use our before/after commands:
https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1115706765088182272
The only CPU with HBM is Sapphire Rapids and it may cost $20K; for that money you're probably better off buying an H100.
Maybe that's what a cold is?
>Tasters can't even tell reds from whites with a great deal of accuracy. [2]

Actually, this one is bullshit. While it may be true that the average person without blind tasting experience cannot do this, anyone who has actually done blind tasting seriously should be pretty accurate at this. Purely structurally, red wines generally have much more tannin and more alcohol than whites.

The famous study that led to this claim (which survives because people, especially the HN type, love feeling smug about expertise) doesn't really hold up. See eg http://sciencesnopes.blogspot.com/2013/05/about-that-wine-ex...
Hacker News is also becoming a replacement for google for some things for me, I'll just come here and search on some tech related thing which I think is highly likely been discussed on here to see what others think / first hand experiences.
Some of these arguments don't actually exist in reality, others aren't really problems.

> Are you willing to get sued on behalf of the company ?

LLCs exist for a reason, liability is just as easy to determine for a co-op as a dictatorship.

> Are you willing to share all the downsides of running a company ?

These downsides would be shared equally across more people. If anything, co-ops reduce this problem by not hedging the entire company on the decisions of a single person. Do we argue that kings are superior to democracy because they can be hung when something goes bad?

> Are you willing to be the person where the bucks stop with ?

See above. This is not an argument for ownership just as it isn't an argument for monarchy. "The buck stops here" isn't a legally binding contract, and plenty of owners are happy to pass the buck to someone under them.

> Are you willing to do things that a regular employee cannot or will not (e.g. working 80 hour weeks) ?

Wage theft is the #1 form of theft in America. It seems that even owners are not willing to do things employees do.

> Are you willing to not just quit because things are tough ? As an employee, you can quit and tell the company to f off. As an owner, it is not that simple. You cannot get out that easy even if you want to.

Can an owner not sell their share of the company whenever they choose too? Companies, and fractions thereof, are bought and sold all the time. Regardless, most co-ops are not literally owned by their constituents, but rather are incorporated with the sum value of their earnings being split across the workers in the co-op. No different than most small businesses, except decisions are democratically made, rather than handed down.
As far as I'm aware and the OpenSearch docs, support is limited to in-site searches on most platforms outside of Firefox (not changing default search option for example using Chrome on iOS). Would be really interested in the steps you followed if you're happy to share them.
I miss light gun games. Point Blank. Time Crisis. No MAME arcade emulator will ever being them back from the dead without a CRT.
I agree google is bad, but I think reddit is rapidly becoming equally as inauthentic. I'm sure every major player at this point understands the gains that can be had by astroturfing reddit. The real problem seems to be the internet is inherently untrustworthy and going back to finding people you trust in the real world is the only fix I can see.
Cloudflare is having problems connecting to AWS
I want Google to allow me to specifically include/exclude mirrors from my search results. "Only show my the original source of this content", or "only show me mirrors of this content".

I don't want to see the same result repeated 5 times across different stack overflow mirrors.
Deep philosophical discussions around free will can benefit from first defining what "free will" means.
I think this is an interesting topic - for me it really highlights the problems inherent to making algorithms profitable. Often pushing them in one direction or another has really pronounced effects on their unbiased nature. I personally think PageRank is still the best algo around and there are not too many good copies. The other thing to consider is that allowing for selection of 'common searches' reduces server load and is computationally less expensive than processing the same search over and over. Also, the way people ask questions may have changed. I mean I know many people that use the 'omnibar' to go to a webpage they know the address of. Like searching google for 'Facebook' just so you don't have to type '.com'.

I remember the days of AskJeeves when your query literally had to be a question - that was very tedious. I am not anxious to go back to that if thats what a decentralized internet looks like.

But I do think we are on a precipice where the size of the company plays a huge role in getting noticed. If you want to stop this don't click on the 'ad' links in the search results. Scroll down until you see the page you want to go to.

@fxtentacle It occurred to me that Microsoft may have blocked the Google Crawler so that people have to switch to Bing. I am really not a fan of how much Microsoft is trying to force people into their ecosystem and are rapidly closing the doors. Took me two hours to figure out how to remove Windows Defender from a VM.
The difference in value of ETH classic and ETH grew over time though. It hasn’t always been so stark. I don’t care enough about the specifics of the “bad” txs to check when/if the funds were sent out of the receiving wallets but they might have recovered the same or similar amount of value in $.

Anyway, I just find this a really bad example in general because it’s 1 an exceptional case, most other hard forks haven’t been done just for transactions 2 it required almost the entire community to choose to follow the hard fork (which is the only thing that actually destroys value). Yes, it does show that you can do something like a payment reversal in crypto but it’s very hard and unlikely. In this case the exception proves the rule
You can do that in Outlook.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/manage-your-notif...
Also worth noting that almost no effort has been made by the folks making note taking apps to help people make better use of their entries. Sure, they've implemented things like gallery views, filters, and tagging, but these are all passive and require the user to seek out the information. Why not active features like an API that makes code snippets available in my IDE, a feature that surfaces recipe recommendations from my collection, or how about automatically organizing my receipts by month and offering an expense summary report? There are a ton of features that could be made to help people better access and use the notes they make.
Also Beanie Mania on HBO, not as insightful as the book but still a good documentary. The Beanie Baby bubble was essentially a textbook example of mania.
> Akamai has no intention of changing what has made us successful

All the buyers say that now. In 2 years, it will change.
Fortunately, Snowcrash's libertarian utopia has a solution to this exact problem, in the form of a little placard.

SACRIFICE ZONE WARNING

The National Parks Service has declared this area to be a National Sacrifice Zone.
The Sacrifice Zone Program was developed to manage parcels of land
whose clean-up cost exceeds their total future economic value.
Wikipedia pages are not "owned" by anyone other than the editors' community as a whole.
You're thinking small. You sell raffle tickets to let someone burn the artwork and pocket the profits from that too. Bonus points if there's a sponsor of the event.
Of these, the value is key for this domain

Industry didn't have the appetite for this until very, very recently. To get anything done, gov had to create expertise (initially) and a market (later) for space exploration technologies and hope for efficiency to pick up in the industry. For the longest time, NASA existed almost exclusively to demonstrate technology and to create an environment where talent and tech could mature in the US. Now, that talent can be leveraged directly by market, thankfully.

Blanket statements like "It'd have gone better with Industry" are potentially true, but miss the issue entirely: No highly-funded market for pictures of Mars, Neptune, Venus existed, essentially ever, including today.
Furries run them tubes
There was a YC startup on here attempting to do this... here we go: https://anjahealth.com
Most reviews are useless from the start because most reviewers are totally dependent on manufacturers or dealers providing samples (yet will generally claim to be "totally independent"). That's before you get to reviewers who can't or don't know how to test the product in question and so end up narrating the manufacturers specs to their faux testing.

There are very few exceptions to this.
The reserve bankers would look at stats like that and just shake their head at the money wasting away.
Ghost in the fucking she’ll yo
What CPUs does Flex support though? This would be great to recover EOL Chromebooks. There are literally millions of them out there that are dead now, but would perform perfectly with Flex.
This post is hard to follow. But I'll give my unsolicited opinion on airflow:

Its too complex to run as a single team and there are far better tools out there for scheduling. Airflow only makes sense when you need complex logic surrounding when to run jobs, how to backfill, when to backfill, and complex dependency trees. Otherwise, you are much better off with something like AWS step functions.