skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is much more minor than a cancer patient missing his last damn holiday, but I have a device running android tv, and every few days it auto-redownloads “Android TV Home”, which is an advert-infested replacement home screen run by (I assume) Google.

every time, I have to go into the Play Store and uninstall it again. uninstall the home screen! how illogical is that? and how would I have known how to do that if I wasn’t tech-savvy enough to find a reddit post telling me how?

every time, this resets my normal home screen, and I have to set it all back up again, removing the semi-advertising “channels” that are already in the less-bad default home screen.

the device this is on cost more than £500, and yet I’m still paying out in attention because greedy Google wants to please their shareholders
Before diving into the best Utah ski resorts, let’s find out what makes skiing there so fantastic. According to research by the University of Utah, local climate conditions make ideal snow for deep-powder skiing and riding. The science can be narrowed down to just one thing: flotation.
While I get the wants-and-needs since ElasticSearch has a voracious appetite for RAM, I get the feeling most people think search engines are a simple thing where you can just import some lib, fool around for a bit and call it a day.

The truth is that ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene is orders of magnitude more complex and powerful than these "alternatives". All this is mostly fine as long everyone is on the same page regarding the expectations.

Most people don't need ElasticSearch for their use cases on the surface, but I feel they expect top-notch mind-reading results and that requires something like ElasticSearch and someone who knows the field.

Having said all of that, Meilisearch and this are quite fine.
I'm not aware of a price point where TVs come with no ads: https://old.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/co5aw4/unrem...
It seems that at a scale that matters with high technology, there is no 'human society', only empires and corporations.
Oh, won't someone think of the children!?
The only time that’s happened to me was maybe 11 years ago when someone bought me a red t-shirt in Mexico. Red everywhere. That’s literally never happened to me in the US.
The Future of Industry – Made in Berlin
#define NO_FLAME_INTENDED

Really. But... While I like big iron and I want MANDATORY open hardware by law I have to ask: how can I really check that a piece of hw in my hand is built like it's open project spec state?

I write that because "open source" have already stared years ago a curious movement to transform free software in proprietary-alike beast and I fear something similar will happen for hw in the future.

For mechanical/discrete stuff checking an implementation might be easy or hard but it's essentially doable, a matter of unmounting and then reassemble. For integrated electronics even high end research labs have issues checking anything and that's an important point IMVHO to be discussed up front when talking about open hardware.
Aside from pesticides and land development, yet another cause of decline is our over obsession with landscaping and municipal lights (at least here in the Northeast US).

I have mixed feelings about this: Night lights do add a bit of security, but insects such as moths rely on natural darkness and moonlight to navigate.
fascinating answer from someone who chose the nickname "beltalowda"
My advice is that even if you hate Apple with a passion, tell your seniors and less tech savvy friends and family to get a Mac. Just to avoid this whole scenario. Unless you like being the “while your here could you look at my laptop” person of cause then just keep recommending buying the cheapest laptop on display running windows+pre installed brand crap ware.
Are these speeds just "tested" maximums or can they be utilized in practicality?
How do artists develop a distinctive creative style? Hear from 14 artists
SteamApps/userdata, %APPDATA%/Publisher, %APPDATA/Developer, %LOCALAPPDATA%, the list goes on...
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Very little bullying that you know of. Kids/teenagers will be kids and sometimes assholes. In general however, the system self-regulates well enough that it flies under the radar of authority, and indeed there wasn't any violence because it's against even the bullies' interests.

And I'm not saying bullying is good, but it's virtually impossible to eradicate completely (if you think there is no bullying you just need to look closer), so short of getting rid of it, trying to at least get see the "good" parts of it in the form of a lesson on dealing with conflict is IMO the most pragmatic observation.

This is even worse nowadays with social media where bullying "leaks" outside of school premises and can follow you around even across schools.
> Sonic here only returns document identifiers so you will never be able to get document information back

Why would you want that anyway? Always thought it was silly to duplicate all your data which will be stored in a real database anyway
That drive is surprisingly hard to direct!

(Said as someone who has at times obsessively collected various things).
It says they transmit over a 37 core fiber, so 1.9 / 37 is about 53 terabits per second? Is it common for optical phys to encode/decode at this rate?
I wish I'd learnt how to touch-type as a child. I typed with 3 fingers on teach hand for years before forcing myself to learn touch-typing in 2019, when I was serving my notice at a job. It's the best decision I made. I have a nephew whose father made him learn touch-typing at a very young age. But I type far faster than he does. I'm not sure if it's because I actively practised while he already had the correct form so he never pushed himself. Either way, I am not sure that I'd have had it any other way. Instead, I'd get him an ergonomic keyboard earlier on so he is sort of forced to learn the right form. Get him into split mechanical keyboards, perhaps. That could make things fun. You cannot type with 3 fingers on each hand with OLKBs.
I am not sure if it can be called an "alternative". ElasticSearch has thousands of features and settings while this library seems to be just a simple inverted index implementation only for text search.

By the way if you are looking for lightweight "alternative" for ElasticSearch you might look at sphinx search engine (although it doesn't has as much features as ES has and it has became closed-source since 3.0 version).
> At the cost of all visitors installing an alternative DNS client stack.

That will be a requirement only until the bigger players don't integrate this directly. Nothing stopping Cloudflare/Google/OpenDNS to provide integration with ENS.

Anyway, you make it sound like this is just a niche required by a few dozen people. The Brave browser is used by 60 million people already and can handle .eth TLD (and other TLDs from unstoppable domains) natively. It is not a big of a deal as you are making it out to be.

> More generally, you could simply move your DNS hosting out of the reach of the problematic authority.

Or we can build a system where we do not have to play whack-a-mole just to use a service?

> You didn't mention that (a) the problem it addresses is constrained to the blocking of authoritative DNS,

I said that is the most obvious benefit, but I didn't say it was constrained to that. Look up again at the top of the thread: people are getting shut out of "reputable" registrars established in "democratic jurisdictions" without recourse.
If there were that many of organized climate protesters they would be heard as well, it always comes down to numbers and potential for violence.
it just has to grow from the quarter before.
Every time someone comes up with an alternative to a software behemoth like Elasticsearch, what they actually mean is: "An alternative to the 10% of functionality of $tool that are interesting to me".

This is surely an impressive engineering feat, but hardly a replacement for the myriad of query possibilities Elasticsearch offers.
> If you went to the police with a video and PII of a violent crime, would they still not open an investigation?

The short answer... It depends.

People always assume a lot of things when they imply that video evidence makes something an easy case to solve. Identifying people in videos isn't as easy as it seems, for example. It's also not safe to assume that the person posting a video is also the person who filmed it, nor that the location data is correct. So who's the suspect?

Also, where does TikTok send the video? Do they send it to Police in a city where a video is geo tagged, or where it was uploaded, or where the user account was created?

This type of stuff seems trivial when reading an article like this, but it isn't in real life. It's all stuff that may take weeks to figure out and all that time can't be spent on other cases. So yes, sometimes (maybe even often) such reports don't lead to cases. And even if they did, there's no guarantee it would lead to anything.
rm -r ~/.foo/cache ~/bar/cache ~/baz/data/app/cache [20 more apps..]

is less ergonomic than

rm -r ~/.cache/\*
> I can't see that (yet?)

You can't, period. There used to be a comment-level counter years ago, but it was removed as part of an experiment to see if not having it improves overall discussion quality. Apparently the experiment concluded positively, since the counter hasn't been brought back.
>Also, Sonic only keeps the N most recently pushed results for a given word, in a sliding window way (the sliding window width can be configured)

Does this mean that it only ever finds at most N documents per word? Even searches for "A and B" would probably not find everything, even if less than N documents contain A and B, because they might have been removed with the sliding window already for A or B alone. Is that correct?
Cops are too busy making 6 figures directing traffic and hanging out inside their idling SUVs all day to investigate any kind of property crime. I'm sure they would say they just need even more money to buy more guns and then they would help.
I mean placing the blame for climate change on the backs of Dutch farmers was absurd. They should have started with severe controls on importing goods from countries with high levels of pollution
In terms of converting ICE, I expect most will be converted to ethanol. In terms of diesel, very little change needed to enable biodiesel.

Then everything new will be EV.

The damage to society's wealth is going to be low.
AFAIK, it's possible to require both ssh keys and password.
One problem: MS Office.

I know that there's LibreOffice but MS Office definitely beats it in reality.

Yes, I know there's Wine, but I worry (possibly unfounded) that it won't work, or will stop working with some future Office update.
So we've been killing bugs with our windshields for decades and we wonder where they are? I'll rest my case!

Jokes aside, I don't think we take into account how many bugs we've killed with windshields, are we?
>dedicated "production support" team

That's interesting, so if some bug pops up during the weekend they will just revert back? And then that bug gets handled later. Or is there also so rigorous QA process that bugs rarely happen, and it's more like infra issues that the "product support" team can handle on their own?

The interesting part is that I think on-call is not only about infra issues etc., but could also be bugs in the application or some other weird behavior, which I'm assuming the "production support" wouldn't know how to handle. Maybe there is some huge amount of process to handle all that I'm just oblivious of, never having heard of this before?
When I run ls I don't want to see all the configuration files. Just my files. I think that's the point of hidden files.

> One more example. Imagine if you have a project and want to edit an .env file. But as dotfiles are hidden in Linux you don't see this file and cannot open it.

How likely is it that someone is going to want to edit a .env file and not know how to view hidden files?
Hi, just asking around, I'm trying to self host on a basic Ubuntu server, I'll run some websites (behind nginx), databases (docker), cron jobs and other things on there. Normally, I don't really care about ddos, however since this is going to run on my home network (on it's own vlan separate from my vlan) and I have static IP, I'm kinda scared? I usually hosted my stuff on cloud with ddos protection included. What are some security precautions I can take to prevent this from happening?
So minimum wage legislation is sabotage? Corporate taxes are sabotage? A prohibition on slavery is sabotage?
That doesn't really line up with Pinker's argument does it? He's not saying things have been fine and so will be in the future. He's saying that the further back you go the worse things were.

The line I always use about running a marathon is that you always feel worse each mile but it's not a continuous down hill slope - sometimes things stay the same for a bit and sometimes they even get better before getting worse gain.

Pinker is arguing for a reverse marathon view. Sure sometimes one year is worse then the one before it - or a decade or a century. The trend though is towards improvements in the human condition.
Accepting the marketing part, since I live in a modern home (so with a VMC, hydro-regulated etc) I feel the difference BUT I have to way to calibrate sensors at home. That's the point marketing fall short: a classic mercury thermometer once calibrated remain essentially calibrated for it's long service life, electronic temperature sensors not much so and I suspect CO₂ monitors do even worse...
I'd wish this was done for even more stuff. The externalities should be priced in.

Right now it's too cheap to outsource our production to some other country to do all the pollution. If that was priced in making those things more expensive, local and sustainable production might actually have a shot.
> I think you're not committed, you're not feeling that waking at that time is important.

But that's obviously true most of the time, at least not as important as waking up for a flight.
>What's the benefit for us customers to have all that crapware installed when it does no good for us?

A cheaper laptop.
There is also sphinx search which was open source before 3.0 version.
There's also a group (maybe the largest group?) that might care if they knew what the benefits are. Alas, free software doesn't have a lot of money to spend on marketing.
SourceHut is very modular though. Could we make a separate app that implements pull requests? :thinking:
I'm sure it's a regional impact on different types of creatures. I don't notice windshield bugs but my back patio in the city gets dozens of snails after every rainfall to this day.
To be fair, there is often a better reasons to only replace a portion of ES' functionality, since doing so can save a lot of computation and space; than to replace ES itself, since it already exists and does a good job if what you need is the full kit.

I found myself last week reimplementing 10% of RoaringBitmap's functionality as a homebrew replacement, because doing so was 500% faster. Not that RB isn't great, but it's designed for a general problem space, and not my particular problem.
It's technically possible now to synthesise carbohydrates, fats, and proteins directly from the air: in effect, doing artificial photosynthesis at something like 200 times the efficiency of natural photosynthesis, without using land.

With cheap enough energy and more practice (descending the engineering learning curve) producing food this way may be profitable in 30 or 40 years. We can re-wild all arable land.

There are at least dozens and possibly hundreds of alternatives to lithium chemistry for batteries, that are nearly competitive with it. Some of them are better than lithium in some applications. Watch for CATL's sodium batteries.

But say it's worst case, none of the alternatives turn out to be better cheaper, and more environmentally benign: no problem. There most definitely is enough mineable lithium. There's a temporary shortage of lithium refining factories.

If we had to, we could get by with water, rock, iron, sodium, potassium, calcium, phosphates, carbon, aluminum, and trace amounts of other things. The minerals we need a lot of, we have a lot of.
And how would such chair compare to your standard injection moulded chair from mostly pristine materials? From whole lifecycle perspective.
So what happened, man?

I have a few theories:

A new age of sanctimony: feminisation and Trump

Comedy and the Great Man theory of creation

It’s the movies, stupid (superheroes and China)
>These were normally brown like tree bark but evolved to look like sooty brick in a few years.

Because the brown ones got eaten. But that's different from evolving to recognize where a road is, which is maybe possible but probably would take thousands or millions of years.
CO2 ventilation breakthrough can turn rooftops into bumper vegetable gardens
Hey Will! I have been following your journey since the very beginning and I'm rooting for you folks. It's insane how someone decided to fund a project like this, and I'm giggling with glee. I hope you folks go all the way! I can't wait to tell people who look down on Terminal users and tell them "Look, a terminal-first service got funded".
In case you are not aware of this concept:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus

Pretty much all consumers know excess sugar, carbs, oil, salt, and calories in general are bad for them. Yet they still want to consume them.

I went to a party last night where there were several obese healthcare professionals (doctor level). Yet they ate pizza, and one even put ranch dressing on it.

The market is selling plenty of healthy food. People do not want it though, for the same reason a dog or other pet will engorge themselves if they were offered unhealthy amounts of easy calories.
Buy a commercial display. Not only will it last decades with regular consumer use there's no built-in OS to slow it down.
Amazon does the reselling and through their web interface.
If you have a server with a public address, a machine with a private address can simply use e.g. curl to access some (even non-existant) url on the server periodically which can then be extracted from the logs by a script on the server.

I actually use this to announce my internal address, even without a web server, just by accessing a locked port on the server, where the firewall logs this access.
This is an advanced task, and if you want to focus on games, this so wrong it hurts. Most new games (and especially AAA titles) need a substantial amount of work to run well on the part of the proton (and sometimes game) developer, very few have good support, less still without some performance penalty, and even less within a few months of release. Thats before you run into driver oddities, and good luck with multiplayer.

The idea that you can slap wine on the few things that you need is a weirdly repeated fiction, it wont make it true by repeating it, stop doing it.
1.

You have a phone.

It has a camera.

It has Youtube.

And it is in your hand.

The only thing stopping you is you.

2.

Shopping is easier than making.

Easier because it is safer.

Safer because if the results suck,

it is not your fault.

Safer because it is only money,

and there are refunds.

3.

"Idea" is a four letter word.

"This" is not.

4.

Since you haven't made blogs and videos on tech topics to have an online presence, you probably don't have much love for the idea. Funny videos are probably more who you actually want to be.

Good luck.
Agreed, although to be fair to the actual author (assuming they didn't post this here) the readme is a lot more upfront about it's capabilities.

> Sonic can be used as a simple alternative to super-heavy and full-featured search backends such as Elasticsearch in some use-cases.
Voting has nothing to with the consensus mechanisms to determine who is allowed to choose what block is appended to the chain. Why are you bringing up "voting" into the discussion here?
Similar story with my Mum. I bought her a Chromebook, and haven't had an IT support call from her since.
Had a similar experience, I have one that I installed windows on myself, and it's fast. I have one, that is three generations ahead in CPU, but came with a pre-installed windows. After booting, it basically became unresponsive for a solid minute. Removing the built-in software helped so now it's fast.
Executability based on extension combined with hidden extensions is imho one of Windows biggest mistakes. Make an exe, give it the icon of a word document - no way for a layperson to know it’s a trick.
Ex-TikTok moderator scrolled through child abuse and gun violence with webcam on
I'm unaware of any government intervention in say Iran or Lebanon yet the birth rate has dropped significantly there.
I do think in most of the world young people find themselves faced with unaffordable living costs and an uncertain economic future, which probably reduces the amount of kids they have, but that's not really intentional policy and it again comes back to my point that women can now choose not to have kids and even not to marry.
There's been this sort of coverage of Facebook's moderation woes, too.

Running a story about one murder doesn't mean you don't care about the other murders. It just means the article is about one particular case.
If I were a content farm I'd probably use text cut and pasted from text models, but I'd never heard of the Mikkelson Twins and it was interesting to learn about them.
Australia flags increased penalties for data breaches after major cyberattacks
It's not! Landfills work fine.

Ocean microplastic is overwhelmingly caused by countries that actually just throw their plastic in rivers. The US contributes a very small percentage of all environmental microplastic (like somewhere under 2%, maybe much under that).
From a use case I am not experienced with. If you index books, you want the search engine to return highlighted data like google does.

Also, now that I think of it, typically logs/structured data is stored only in ES.
As far as I can tell, it's a library that implements CTAP2 (which it erroneously refers to as webauthn).
I'd call that "didn't bother to check".

Plenty of coverage of this sort of thing at Facebook: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...

Facebook had to pay up, too: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/12/21255870/facebook-content...
No, it's an excellent use. Burning it produces all kinds of toxins from impurities and carbon. Landfill is comparatively small, and concentrates plastics for potentially later extraction, if plastics ever become sufficiently valuable - or recycling sufficiently viable.
Why are plastics 3-7 allowed if they are unable to be recycled? Also it seems to me that a tax on plastic might incentivise glass and metal usage. Plastic is only used for convenience and cheapness, let's make it less convenient and cheap than glass and metal.
I have missed the prior reporting on this so apologies if it's old news for HN.

However, what comes out of this more and more is the need for a chain (web) of trust for any documents - basically payslips will need to be hashed documents with a public key of the company on them.

We are heading into a world where we are going to only be able to trust encryption chains?
Habits that will make your life easier as a Data Engineer
People need something easy to grasp, or they will flat-out ignore a topic. So news outlets pick out a simple, easily digestible factoid that can be measured - like carbon emissions. It's great! You can even calculate the "carbon footprint" of a single person. No matter that isn't correct anyway, as long as it makes you feel good when buying your electric SUV.
I could, but if you don't already see what I'm talking about, chances are you'll just tell me climate change isn't real anyway.