skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's things like this that make me really want to see some of the alternative search engines succeed. Hopefully Google continues shooting itself in the foot enough to make people seek alternatives. FWIW I'm using Kagi and have been very happy with it. It's the only alternative I've used (including numerous failed attempts to switch to DDG) where the results have been good enough that I haven't developed a muscle memory to resort back to Google results. And I consider the amount I have to pay to use it reasonable for the value I get, but also an investment in a potential future that doesn't have us all beholden to Google.
Who Was Duns Scotus?
yeah, the blackberry keyboards were the best handheld keyboards i ever used. though this gpd micropc's keyboard is a little better i hesitate to describe it as 'handheld'
Or just skip CNET entirely. They haven't been worthwhile for a very long time.
If that's the reason it should be able to explain why, preferably in step by step fashion.
I don’t think it’s anything line antibiotics. I don’t judge people for taking brain scramblers but I think it’s obvious they are vastly over prescribed. 20% of women are on some form of them. There’s no way that’s natural. There must be a reason you don’t see the mass adoption of these kinds of drugs in most other countries.

It’s also created a culture of using a pill to solve a problem and yes in some extreme cases it’s probably necessary but I think there’s bigger issues and lots of people with very poor values that create lasting unhappiness.
Yeah, that's very nice. The only reason I'm even aware of how Chrome does it is because we're forced to use Chrome at work. We're allowed to use some vetted internal extensions with it, and I do, but someone pushed an update that broke an extension by accident. Then I was like, why is this a thing.
Very likely Google special-cases Wikipedia
until termux gets banned from android for empowering users too much, anyway

it's already banned from updating in google play
TunnelCrack, a combination of two widespread security vulnerabilities in VPNs
Always fun to see how sone entirely apolitical scientific ‘event’ gets processed by the mainstream news publication machine into some inaccurate sensationalist BS.
This submission comes from this comment 23 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37056613
> By the way, since you need to apply thrust from any direction to maneuver flexibly in 3D space (without wind or gravity), wouldn't spherical/disc(saucer) shaped spacecraft be the most efficient?

Definitely not. There's very little need to 'maneuver flexibly in 3D space'. You are mostly interested in rotation. A slight amount of translation if you are trying to dock with something else.

You will likely still prefer to thrust mostly in a 'forward' (wherever forward is) direction. If, for some weird reason, you wanted to have thrusters equally powerful in all directions, just imagine the amount of weight (and plumbing) this would require.
x=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
links -dump $x=37060497|sed -n '8,139s/.\{6\}//p' > 076.l
links -dump $x=37061215|sed -n '5,99s/.\{6\}//p' > 082.l
links -dump $x=37061227|sed -n '5,148s/.\{6\}//p' >> 082.l
for x in 076 082;do
flex -8Crf $x.l
cc -O3 -std=c89 -W -Wall -pedantic -pipe lex.yy.c -static -o yy$x
strip -s yy$x
done
When I was 11 I coded in assembly and machine language, what do I win?
Did an external mic not stop the internal one from working? I assume the plug was a box-checking exercise more than anything.
Open source, audited extensions. I noticed this already exists in Firefox (https://mzl.la/3Acn4DU), I don't know of any auditors for Chrome extensions.

Have some trusted organization or group (like Google or Mozilla themselves) who run audits on extensions to "certify" they don't have any malware. Additionally, the extensions are all 100% open-source, so if the "trusted organization" is compromised (or just bad at their job), they'll get caught and people will stop using them.

This isn't foolproof. Adware can be hidden from even the auditor or the auditor can be compromised but nobody finds out. It's also expensive and time-consuming, especially for extensions with a lot of complex code, so many popular extensions which perfectly-fine are still not certified. Updates are delayed and discouraged because the diff always has to be audited as well. Lastly (and something which can easily be overlooked), the auditors can be biased towards approving some extensions (like those who pay them) while not approving others: extensions code won't be approved if their code is too hard to read or they are later in the review queue, but the line at which code is considered "too hard to read" and their position in the queue could easily be influenced by cash.

Nonetheless, web extensions are a good type of software to audit, compared to other software like apps. They're often much smaller and simpler, users need much less, and they operate in a very-trusted domain (all web browing, including in banks and other confidential sites. Compare this to apps on a sandboxed phone, or programs running in user mode on a computer, the damage is still there but it's much less)
It definitely looks nicer than I remember it, but the information density still overwhelms me.
I've used Retool and absolutely love it. It's a godsend for folks like me who want to create quick internal tools without delving into frontend frameworks and code. It's very drag-and-drop, intuitive, and easy to use. I describe it as MS Access on steroids.

This thing looks nothing like Retool. As other people have mentioned here, Refine "just scaffolds your codebase, gives you a good start, and has some cool hooks". So the whole "Open-Source Retool Alternative" angle seems very confusing and off-base to me. They look like very different tools built for very different audiences, imho.

Seems like you're trying to piggyback on the Retool wave. Why not just be honest (and a bit creative, perhaps) with your marketing? My $0.02
Google should be massively down ranking sites that do this. Also if a site has a huge historical archive, that should be a positive indicator of site quality, not a negative one.
Look at the abundance of comments on COVID and the lack of walkable cities.

Own your shitty lifestyle. I make poor health choices all the time. It's bad for me and it makes me feel bad about myself. But it's on me. Nobody forced me. I acknowledge and own the decisions.

Using a lack of a "walkable city" as an excuse is pathetic. You can exercise in a tiny room if needed. You can drive to a gym. Or just to a park. Or to a national park. At work you can take the stairs. I live in a country 15 times denser than the US so don't tell me you don't have space to move around.

What would be your next excuse if you would have a walkable city? Obesity is OK because Twitter said so?

There's no excuse for your crap diet and inactive lifestyle. Is it impossibly hard to change? Yes, I totally feel that. But start by owning it.
From your page:

> Imagine if – as a job applicant – you could put yourself right in front of the hiring lead, and tell them, in your own words, in your own time, without interruption or distraction or pressure, why you think you’d be an excellent person for the role. What kind of applicant would benefit the most?

A liar
That is nothing. I turned down the opportunity to inherit a Saudi Prince’s fortune for doing nothing (well just needed to pay his sons bail
bond or something)
Love this, it pops up on HN every few years.

It's just the right combo of truth and comedy.
I bet there would be, but I'd also make a big bet that MS, Google, and Apple will make "trusted TLS chains" or some BS part of the trusted computing model "for your safety".
for example Java went through several generations of IO evolution, so some simple task like reading text file line by line can be done in many different way in current standard library:

- using DataInputStream

- using Scanner

- using Reader

- using Files.readLines

and they all suck.
If your tool for finding pages incentivizes people to destroy some pages so others can be found, then something went horribly wrong.
We used to have that here too... as well as TV inspectors, seriously.
I don't know either, but one fun fact is that you can measure the temperature of reflected moonlight with a $20 laser thermometer.

It's reflecting sunlight right, so why does moonlight register as colder than shaded spots.

It's a real easy and fun experiment.
Well, consider if you had a job, were looking for another job, and had put some time/effort into a couple places. If you received say 1-3 offers, and Canonical was still 2+ months away (and you had no idea if an offer would even be made) - would you wait (meaning decline your other offers)?

Probably not. Unless you really just wanted to work at Canonical (the dream job opportunity thing).

None of this is to say Canonical isn't a fantastic workspace. It's just a comment on their hiring process and possibly missed opportunities. If you're looking for top-tier talent, it would behoove you to move fast.
Yep. As they said on the ASP site:

Founded in 1987, the ASP pioneered the try-before-you-buy marketing method that is now universal in the software industry.
That or the HR person sits the interviewee down and wanders off assuming the desk owner will come back soon with a fresh cuppa.

Cut to some time later, the interviewee's skeleton is sitting there still waiting. Maybe I've read too much Douglas Adams.
Google Workspaces can do all this. You can add extra personal accounts as "Family Members", and, for an annual fee, you could also subscribe to Google One, though I believe this would be optional.

You can share one One account with the whole family (up to six members). I pay $19.99/year for 100GB. I maintain 3 alternate personal accounts who are my "family members" lol.

You'll also receive access to live, responsive, literate support techs via chat and phone.
Fools day
In the brick scenario, lets assume I am the brick sender and you are the recipient.

You would get a bill, and if you received the package, you could prove that it was a brick, and you didn’t order it, and thus the customs declaration form signed by me was fraudulent and you would not be liable to pay the duties.

If the duties were particularly high (enough to bankrupt you) it would be held at the nearest port agreed upon, and you be notified to come pay the duties before it’s delivered. Again thats where you would be able to show it wasn’t an item you wanted. Or you could refuse it all together and it would be up to be me to pay to get it back.

If this were a bigger problem the freight carrier would work to identify me and bring charges of committing various fraud.

As an aside shipping goods DAP (vs DDP) is risky for this reason—if buyers aren’t made aware if additional shipping costs at time of delivery they may refuse to pay in which case the seller is responsible for paying to get their item back, including additional storage fees.
I have a new more general answer: Atheism! I don't subscribe to any religion but burning in the fires of hell for eternity seems like a powerful incentive.

It's funny but don't take it as a joke entirely. Christian bankers use to pretend they never borrowed money to people unable to pay back. There was a strong incentive to give back to society. Usury was not portrayed as leadership.

Of course people were always exploited but bragging about it was not done. To do slavery we first had to pretend the slaves weren't people. You couldn't just take land from original inhabitants, they had to invent the aboriginals first.

Imagine among god fearing people someone was to propose to make it illegal to feed the homeless. They would lynch em good and proper.
There are a number of services that will do push notifications for RSS feed changes. Agencies could use one of them.
Make a second archive website
The privacy environment in the PRC is pretty different to here (I'm in Australia, but speaking for the West in general). In the PRC there is an expectation by everyone (government and citizen) that the government will have access to your data if it wants it and trying to keep that data away from the government is itself criminal. Foreigners are held to a different standard, but the takeaway is that for the vast majority of PRC internet users security from government invasion of privacy is "not a concern"; it's essentially known that it will always be the case, so why be worried about it?

On the consumer privacy side, talking about consumer data safety from companies using it for commercial exploitation, that's where there is allowable space to be protective, and the laws reflect that in the PRC. If Tencent was found to be doing something that was seriously exploitative of user privacy in a way that made enough Chinese very angry, it would be almost certain that Tencent would be breaking some law to do so, and depending on the circumstances you could see anything from mandatory "make it right" directives from the government to the execution of Pony Ma as a result. PRC citizenry expect that if they are seriously harmed, en masse, by a company, the government will make it right.

This is a very different environment and culture from what we have in the West. In general, if I was the victim of significant harm (alongside many other people) by a large corporation, I would not expect justice. The CEO or those who made the decisions that harmed me wouldn't be executed, the company wouldn't be forced to push an update making my device safe to use again or pay a full refund to everyone, etc. As a result, if I care about this issue I'm not really thinking about the consequences for big companies of harming me, I'm just thinking about how to protect myself. What software can I individually use to protect my privacy, what companies should I individually avoid because I know I don't like what they're doing, etc. These are philosophically quite different approaches to privacy concerns - we have a lot more individual freedom in the West if we choose to use it, when it comes to individual net privacy, but the general attitude of PRC is that they don't have to worry about the privacy thing because the government will handle it one way or another.
> Speed of light time on that distance is ~5ms, and that doesn’t account for latency losses at each hop and also remember that’s one way time.

So it's about +10ms to your ping for nearby destinations, less (and potentially even faster) for more distant destinations. That's really not enough to worry about in most contexts; even for FPS gaming, unless you're a pro 10ms isn't a huge difference maker.

> There’s a reason microwave is still used, even sometimes over fiber, where latency matters.

Only for HFT as far as I know; latency mattering that much is a tiny niche.
Not even then
One reason is if you keep all your old versions of product docs up, Google will randomly send people to the old version instead of the current one, and then customers will get confused by the outdated info

I’m sure there must be some way to fix this with META tags/etc, but it is often easier just to delete the old stuff, than change the META tags on 100s or 1000s of legacy doc pages
This isn't stores.

This is people buying stuff off of Amazon, and returning it in the mail. The vendor doesn't have an address in North America, and shipping it to a dumpster is harder than a random stranger. So they just have returns go to a random stranger.
Perhaps things are different from when I was an adolescent, but my observation was that teen pregnancy had a lot more to do with family religion and socioeconomic class then safe sex practices.
> We believe that one reason why these routing manipulation vulnerabilities were only discovered more than two decades after the introduction of VPNs, is that most previous works focused on the VPN protocols themselves, but only few studied their integration into real-world clients and platforms. In other words, our attacks show that properly integrating VPNs into a platform, and securely managing the routing table, is essential for security.

For my latest project I implemented custom VPN clients for iOS, Mac, Android, and Windows. I was amazed how complicated and poorly documented the APIs were, especially for Apple products.
Thanks for mentioning this
Disclaimer: I don't live in that kind of climate and my knowledge here comes from talking to people in Minnesota and reading some reddit posts

I think temps above 0°F aren't that big of a deal. The cold will hurt you more in terms of miles per kWh than it will for charging speeds. If you go below 0 that's when the car might spend the majority of incoming juice maintaining battery temps if it's sitting outside on an L1 charger. However even that will vary from car to car.
Because the seller is in China and they're already paying to have the product shipped to the US so they can sell it on amazon.com

If the product doesn't sell they don't want to continue paying fees to store the inventory in Amazon's warehouses and they don't want to pay the fees to have it shipped back to China so they put a random address in and tell Amazon to return the unsold product to there.
I've had to educate a couple of delivery people on the meaning of 'no' but otherwise it has worked very well for me.
Yes, try doing beute force theorem proving using something like Idabelle/HOL sledgehammer optimized search. There are cases where it will try brute force essentially forever when asking one or two questions solves the problem.
The system has some heuristics to ask questions and specify things it found incomplete.

GPT is meant to interactively ask those questions. It fails at it.
Whoever the “mainstream” headline columnists approve as the voice allowed in a given day. It changes everyday.
Interesting timing on posting this to HN, I've recently been optimizing my WebGPU LSD radix sort. Today I measured it against the Thrust CUDA version, and it's about 10x slower (15ms to 1.5ms). My goal was to try to get 10 million elements in 1 ms, but now that I know 3 million in 1.5ms is impossible even for Thrust I know I won't be able to beat that.
The article isn't super-clear about what's happening and, for most purposes, just dumping stuff on the Wayback Machine is probably not that different from deleting it even if the bits are still "somewhere." A few years back I copied any of my CNET stuff I cared about to my own site and, in general, that's a strategy I've followed with a number of sites as I don't expect anything to continue to be hosted or at least be findable indefinitely.
He's already been asked to stop. If he doesn't wanna get hosed he could simply quit as requested. A bit of water isn't gonna kill him.
This applies to more than just hiring, too.

As a lowly engineer trying to get subcontractor invoices paid I've had some very Kafkaesque struggles.
That is indeed a nice touch. I've seen that before in presentations generated usingn LaTeX Beamer templates.
If your recruitment process takes long, you're a bad company and you should feel bad. If someone's between jobs, and they are a good fit for what you need, hire them instead of going "we'll get back to you in half a year".
The sellers don’t always hold their own inventory, or even have space to. They might not even be in the same country where they’re selling.

They have crates of stuff shipped from the factory directly to Amazon, and from here they presumably can’t simply tell Amazon “throw it all in the dumpster” if it isnt selling well - or maybe Amazon charges them fees for that. It’s now expensive or impossible for them to return it to where it was made, it’s not selling, and they are paying Amazon to store it.

So on the short list of bad options for a dropship seller, you make the call that it is cheaper to ship these unwanted things somewhere than to pay for them to sit in storage.

The incentives here are pretty deeply flawed. These giant online marketplaces make it really easy for sellers to have almost no skin in the game.
Most questions are designed to invite discussion. I don't find their use of "most" to be rhetorical as it has in fact resulted in discussion.
Keeping track of which extension goes rogue or what eventually breaks if not maintained gets really tiring.
After dealing with this so many times, some strategies have stuck:

0. Prefer extensions that work locally, no data sent out anywhere.

1. Keep an extension audit profile, meant for testing them a bit.

2. Use different extensions for my main daily driver profile, shopping comparison profile, etc.

2. The audit profile also has bookmarks of the extensions I'm using and others for later review, or looking back, helps me declutter the main profile a bit.

3. Use https://chrome-stats.com/ to check the extensions' pedigree, they have a trust meter based on the amount of permissions asked, how long has the developer been around, etc.

4. Do your own review on what goes out with developer tools on requests, especially if the extension needs permission to a control domain. Many will tell you in the Privacy Policy that they don't collect anything PERSONAL, but need to process your data somehow, and from an initial look you can't really tell it's a service or the extension itself doing it. Lack of clear wording is key here.

5. Some mask the control domain using a subdomain of a cloud platform to host the app, so it looks more trustable, and tell they only send telemetry data there.

6. Prefer stuff that's also on github, but don't trust blindly: some developers have just posted a boilerplate hello world there.

Two related anecdotes:

1. The Glarity extension (AI GPT autocomplete stuff) is open source, you can find it on github too, it explicitly said it worked only with your OpenAI API key only, yet when installing it, it just worked and I was getting GPT-powered summaries. They have their own service, where they relay all your input, but there is no documentation of it anywhere. I didn't double check if those requests stopped once you added your own API key. That was months ago, now just checked before posting, still no news from them on that functionality. While I can ascribe this to just general sloppiness, there've been some repos with serious accusations of stolen keys (lencx/nofwl)

2. I've had login data leaked with a shopping extension, where Chrome alerted me and disabled it. That was in 2021. It was pulled from the store. Months later I start getting login notifications in my email to some websites I use with my 'shopping/price compare' profile. They were attempts from Russia. The websites alerted to my email yet let session go through, since I don't use 2fa. It seems they were scanning for some saved credit card or something.
Nvidia has been doing it for years.

I'm not surprised Intel is also doing it. I don't like it.
What alternatives do you use?
>and it works much better to the engineers to build something with continuous customer input than to build rigidly to a spec sheet

Continuous input is a tried and true method of blowing out both budgets and timelines on building anything physical.. hardware, rockets, chemical plants, etc.
SQLite is much smaller and self-contained than postgres. It's written in ANSI-C and by including one file you have access to a database (which is stored in another single file). It's popular in embedded systems like, I imagine, edge devices
I built a desktop seance AI app back using Markova chains and transcripts of conversations back in the early 2000, then later black mirror went one step further, and now we're here.

Combine LLM with tacotron TTS and you've pretty much got a means to virtually resurrect somebody.
But as that linked guide explains, that's only relevant for sites with e.g. over a million pages changing once a week.

That's for stuff like large e-commerce sites with constantly changing product info.

Google is clear that if your content doesn't change often (in the way that news articles don't), then crawl budget is irrelevant.