skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that, but Steam games get fucked with after release, so you can't even necessarily get the original game if Steam is still operating.

https://www.pcgamer.com/au/grand-theft-auto-san-andreas-stea...

(songs removed from San Andreas due to time-limited music licenses, apparently at some point the renderer was replaced with the one used for iOS)

I think you can't downgrade to an old version of Stranger's Wrath either, but I could be wrong there. https://www.destructoid.com/oddworld-stranger-s-wrath-finall...

Then there are games like Diablo III where you need to be online to play single player, and therefore need a current patch, which means they can nerf or fuck with in any way they want a game you already liked and may no longer like after the changes.

Having to follow patches sucks, and piracy is often the only way to avoid it.
> This provides a great mix of consumer protection against malicious code, and freedom for professionals to download and run anything on their machines.

Android has something similar. Remember the Fortnite fiasco?
So what? it's opt-in, is consent not enough anymore? does a privacy maximalist mentality needs to be imposed on everyone?
The web of 2006 was fun, but to be honest, I find the modern web to be even more fun.

I mean, if we want to take off the rose tinted glasses and look at it honestly, disregarding the homogeneity of modern frameworked layouts versus a Geocities page with a fire background and crimson Morpheus text, the quality and variety of content is much better on the modern web than the old, as is the availability of media and depth of interaction that social media, for all its negatives, provides.

I feel like what the modern web may lack in style, it gains (and surpasses the old web) in substance. And I think that's a fair trade.
by robot they mean a fake finger that touches things on a phone screen repeatedly.

I honestly can't decide if this is all fake news for such an effort to steal something so silly and simple, or if there is a deeper supply chain monopoly based around the this automated device tester. Something like the robot being biased on the QA process and manufacturers only getting US gov certification if they pass that test, which they have to pay US companies, because the certification device is a trade secret, and because the device is biased you have to pay severals interactions to "reverse engineer" the false positive failures you get.
I stopped reading Medium after hearing that a guy I know was never paid for the articles he wrote for them back in 2014. I took a look again in 2017 after being out of college for a few months and it looked like a bunch of college sophomores trying to one up each other on how long they've been programming, going to hackathons, contributing to OSS, etc. So toxic.

Shameless plug for warisboring.com. Go support my friend's work. If anyone at Medium sees this, just pay him already.
Rebase CouchDB on Top of FoundationDB
I would pitch in https://lainchan.org/ and https://arisuchan.jp/ which are nice little tech image boards. They are that lovely blend of out there and slightly off kilter that I remember from the image boards of old.
Out of curiosity, how did you decide to offer these different tier levels? Why is the most expensive tier 6 months instead of "Lifetime"? The latter would seem more impressive and potentially get more people to spring for the price.

I realize that if someone hasn't emailed you in the last 6 months, they're not really an active concern. But customers aren't thinking that deeply when they go to purchase — they're just looking at the time periods and dollar amounts and weighing the options.
Well, I thought that the design was that they would not engage if it gets pulled in normal flight.

If it's on the approach, I'd be worried. I imagine that that, at an airport like ORD, that might result in more risk than anyone really wants of the plane unexpectedly touching down on an interstate highway or something like that.

If it's like what Boeing described in the bulletin, where the engines only get shut down after the wheels are on the ground, that's maybe not super worrisome, but I can still see some room for concern. My reconsidered but still totally uninformed reading on the situation is that it takes some time for all the aircraft's systems to get the memo on whether the plane is on the ground, and that what's really going on here is that the order in which they get the memo isn't quite right. So the question of whether or not to allow a Lauda Air type situation isn't really at play here, but perhaps a related glitch to the one that caused this event could interfere with something like aborting a landing at the last minute.
Remember, `lex` is just a pile of regular expressions, so it is great for simple parsing in C. There are good reasons it was known as the Swiss Army knife of Unix before scripting took over :-)
Google also tends to be much more up-front about data collection, and seems to have better practices regarding keeping it from third parties.

That still doesn't make it good, but it helps. Whereas Facebook literally created a shell-company to mislead both users and Apple (who was trying to act in the users' best interest).
I find embedded systems to (often) be both challenging and satisfying.
Fair enough, I get that it is non-trivial to design UI for nested discussions.

I'm most annoyed by the entire comment being a clickable link that takes you off of the page (and the scroll position being lost when you click "back").

I've accidentally clicked on a comment numerous times. I then have to click the back button, scroll down to the comments section, click "show all comments", and then search for the comment I was reading, just to simply to get back to where I was. It is a quite bad user experience when it happens.
It's an important question. Systems where you can't ever subvert the type system may be useful in some places (sandboxing) where systems with an escape hatch aren't, and maybe vice-versa (plausibly "in theory", certainly "in practice" IME). The two might be variants of the same underlying language, though - Safe Haskell is at least an attempt in this space; I don't know how well it delivers.
It's like all the paywalls that stop you from consuming premium digital content now. Except micro-paywalls are more pernicious because sites that were once free just require a "small" $0.05 donation before enjoying the rest of the article.
Well, a lot of people had said this plant was a bad deal for Wisconsin when it was announced. So they can now rejoice.
> so if that party stays in power, it's because a majority of the people in that state have voted for that party.

False. Depending on how well you can gerry-mander, you can easily get a situation where in a two-party system, the party that gets the minority of the vote gets the majority of the seats, and a super-majority of the power.
Guess I worded it a bit strangely but this acts like a content blocker on iOS, but in it's own browser. Most commenters are just commenting on the search engine but this post is about their mobile browser.

I was just curious what benefits you get from switching to this browser vs. using a content blocker with Safari.
Reading the article my thought was "one person's fun and weird is another person's loud and obnoxious".

These days people have to focus more on the content because the presentation is so locked down. This may be for the better, but it can definitely feel antiseptic and corporate. The sense of fun is lost.
> Gerrymandering doesn't affect votes, it just affects how they're counted.

No, gerrymandering doesn't affect the raw number of votes for each candidate, but it undeniably affects the outcome of elections.

> it's because a majority of the people in that state have voted for that party.

That's not true, because of the affect gerrymandering can have.
How understanding our business “Why?” dramatically improved our hiring process
One of (I assume) many Asks on this: Favorite note-taking software? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17532094
Lessons from and for Hiring Managers
> He did this via speech. Free speech is a good thing even when the speech is bad, even when spoken by foreigners, even when it's illegal.

I'm not sure you've thought this through. There's no line whatsoever? Speech is good even when it's, say, fraudulent? If I send mailers to voters registered with the opposite party that look like they're from the board of elections but give the wrong date for the election, or the wrong polling place, that's a good thing? How? What value is served?

> That would seem to improve the overall quality of the voting pool The drive to get everyone to vote seems to be more about justifying the result than improving it.

You're assuming that the value of democracy is as a means of arriving at optimal policy. A lot of people think there are normative aspects of democratic participation, such as ensuring that government actions reflect the values and desires of those governed. And even sticking with the sort of instrumental frame you're operating with, your analysis is too static. Bringing people into the political process improves voter quality, as those who start out apathetic become less so through participation, and those who are less informed become more so.
You're correct. I was only speaking for my family.
sure, I agree the term definitely has a masculinity implication. but, I actually think the term is roughly correct given that at the time, the net was 95% male while now it's much closer to 50-50.

Sanitized is also appropriate.
Most people block ads because they don't want to see ads, not because they want less javascript. The solution is to find a better business model, not make smaller ads.
smaller sites are collateral damage in a larger battle.

Smaller sites could avoid farming their content out to 2 or 20 locations on the cloud.

The user can already add limits. Try using uBlock Origin with scripts open to inline and first-party scripts and images everywhere ... and nothing else.

If the page comes up blank, bye-bye. Don't visit it any more. They made their choices, let them live with it.
Re: distribution.

I answered this above too. Medium finds me readers, both a lot of readers and high quality readers.

They break out their stats by how many readers came directly from promotion throughout the Medium network. For a typical article, that can be in the 10k's of readers.

I didn't mention this above though, which is that Medium readers seem to be very high quality. They share posts out on social media, so they're good for helping get the word out, and a lot of them are people I end up meeting in other contexts.

I have one post from October that's creeping up on 1M readers. I never would have been able to get that many people to read it on my own.
Based on the documentation provided by a sibling comment, I think the answer is that ingestion of the metallic form is not so bad. It's some nickel compounds and inhalation that are particularly dangerous.

Again, the document posted by a sibling (https://rais.ornl.gov/tox/profiles/nickel_and_nickel_compoun...) likely contains all the detail you could wish for.

Also, nickels are about 75% copper.
Forbes probably has an article for eeeeverything. It’s the e-how of news.
So true.

We need more people to be loud in the center.
No, not in every case can they be built without JavaScript. That's an insane statement to make.

Example: Build a usable decent image editor that allows you to preview your changes without the page refreshing or redownload an entirely new image (therefore using even more data).

Example 2: Make a playable 3D game

Example 3: Make a spreadsheet web app

The list goes on. Some things can of course be done without JavaScript but tons of ideas would not only be infeasible to develop, they'd be a usability nightmare.
Alan Turing: Letter to Norman Routledge, 1952
Reminds me of the anonymized AOL search dump from back in the day[1]. Needless to say, the dump was a trove of personally identifiable information despite being "anonymized".

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak
This is me and Angular. I tried to study it via YouTube tutorials. There were so many holes in the teaching patterns that I gave up on it.
I've actually suggested, not fully seriously, that my employer give us the option of taking part of our pay in Costco gift cards.

A Costco member can buy and load gift cards, and then give them to a non-member, and that card will admit the non-member to Costco stores and allow them to buy things there on the card.

Some of us wouldn't use Costco enough to justify buying a membership, but would like to use them occasionally, and this gift card hack would allow that.
I completely concur. Some of the weird stuff I have stumbled upon in my internet explorations have defied description; many of those places have evaporated into the ether since then. I think when that happens, humanity has lost a bit of itself.
And yet they still do it.
True, but then do you not want it? This is really why ads are better for most. They are fast, passive, and egalitarian. The only problem is the implementation but that's more about politics and regulation than anything else.
I'd suggest that if you don't think the Internet is "fun" or "weird" you're just not looking hard enough.

I've been a regular net user since 1995 and there's every bit (in fact more) weird unusual content than there's ever been.

You want creativity, look at today's meme culture. Sure there's a lot of "hit or miss" content out there, but there's no shortage of weird.

Deviantart, tumblr, LNI on imgur, a huge section of subreddits and that's just the easily accessible stuff. If you like video content, tiktok and similar have no shortage of fairly odd stuff.

You can head off into far weirder territory than that with a little effort (*chans, or ToR based content)

Is it MySpace, I guess not, but there's nothing stopping anyone putting up flashy HTML content easily, Netlify or GH pages aren't that difficult to get started with.
Apple has immense discretion here, of course. But a punitive enforcement action with potentially large spillover effects, in impairing other apps, is being discussed.

Whether that's considered justified, and even whether such an action might create a legal/antitrust liability for Apple, could depend on the actual terms/definitions Apple provided.

In the long run, Apple can adjust their terms subject only to a few legal and market checks. But in the short term, Apple should respect the terms they've offered, contractually, to other entities.
I second the not working 12 hour days thing. Seems like a bad, shortsighted, and kind of dumb idea.

Also, make sure to get enough sleep. This can have a direct impact on your ability to focus. 12 hour days can get in the way of this.
Show HN: A Web App for Casual Video Surveillance with Webcam
We hope we wont be judged by the crimes of others.

The immoral actions of our competitors is one of the reasons why we started Leave Me Alone and we want to remain a privacy first service.

In fact we actually don't store any email content (only encrypted sender/receiver info), so we can't sell it to third parties, even if we wanted to.
I wouldn't call it ambiguous:

> The pilots followed their checklists and worked with maintenance personnel via phone to troubleshoot, but were unable to get the engines to relight. This left the aircraft stranded and led to the closure of the runway. A tow truck arrived some 40 minutes later to tow the aircraft off the runway.
I really like the idea, and appreciate that there are people out there trying to solve this problem! I have struggled to financially support my open source projects through donations and support contracts, and ultimately decided on an open core model, which has yielded the most success to date. Moving to an open core model is challenging and building out a sales process and sales team can be a barrier for many developers. I was wondering if you have considered including something like reselling, for lack of a better word, in your offering. Having someone negotiate a variety of monetization options on behalf of the project, including selling licenses, would be very interesting. (note I acknowledge open core is not open source, and therefore may be contrary to the goals of this startup).
Honestly, dying from some otherwise treatable disease is preferable to whatever this emerging totalitarian extortionist system which unapologetically uses surveillance for purposes of behavioral and social control by claims to offer.

It is stuff like this when I remind myself that there are still a few islands around the world with people who have never had contact with modern technology. Its weird when suddenly something like that starts to feel like a light at the end of the tunnel.
Model Metropolis
Key Takeaways from the 2019 PrecisionAg Vision Conference
I think the answer is sturgeon's law essentially. Even by the standards of social media freeform customization degrades consistency. Most people aren't good at it or interested in learning it for its own sake.

Essentially with mass adoption it got increasingly lowest common denominator.
It's confusing. I can as easily conclude it's either 1/2 or 1/3 of the mass.
The need for the user-friendly resource limitations in browsers is real.

E.g.

https://www.coindesk.com/firefox-announces-move-to-block-cry...

I know that solution presented in the article didn't work (neither in Firefox nor in Opera), and I know that from a person close to me who is not "technical" but wants to access some sites which slowed down the person's computer (the sites indeed managed to use exactly 100% of the CPU, that means, to use all cores at once, and to contact regularly some other sites with the "coin" in the name). Then, I've shown the person that the JavaScript can be blocked and that the computer is that way completely responsive... and you know the result: even the non-technical persons do what's rational, once they know that they have a choice.
[ACM] Ohm's Law in Data Centers: A Voltage Side-Channel for Timing Power Attacks
The Beep Test, a Comprehensive Guide
What the Future Is All About
The fact that this is a non existent thing in Austria where I live means it could be solved by legislation and enforcement. If I had to guess the telcos have somehow gotten themselves off the hook here even though they probably profit a lot
The article indicates it took 40 minutes from after they'd tried to re-start the engines, etc.
The internet always has been (and is) whatever we make it to be.

I do really mean that - in fact, it's more accessible than ever.

For example, personally for me, it means that I can go online and access vast resources of knowledge to make myself better at my job, my business etc. It provides me with hours of entertainment - both free and paid. It also has enabled be to in touch with friends and family across the world.

For my mom, it means she gets to see videos and tv shows she had given up on decades ago (Indian tv drama - 1 ep / day, it adds up quite quickly). It also means, I can send her stuff that I know she'll find funny. She can keep in touch with her family, friends etc.

For my dad, it means he can see places online that he's never been to. He loves maps and the internet has enabled him to see detailed maps he'd never even dream of.

For others, it could a dark place of business - a place to sell drugs, or organs or others. For some it's a glimmer of hope that their stories / struggles could be put out there for the world to see and empathize.

The internet is what you make of it. For those looking for what the author mentioned - those still exist - you have to know where to look. But for the "normies" - Those that are not concerned about programming, internet etc. - it's something totally different and they've moulded what internet is for them.
That reminds me I’d like to erase my HN comments over a few years old.. oh wait.

(Seriously, can we please make it easier to remove comments/accounts from non-archive sites? There’s not a single person on earth that can survive a Willie Horton style campaign where everything you say is examined without context - it’s an abdication of responsibility on those running a community)
T-Mobile has automatic spam block, it's reduced the number of spam calls for me drastically. Super easy to turn on, just dial #662#
I run a script that moves any email to to the trash that does not come from a list of approved domains. I have toyed with the idea of setting up a catch all domain to do the same as you, but keep finding excuses not to proceed. How much time to you spend on administration for your solution?
So Google pays a reported 9-12 billion a year for data it can’t tie to user profiles. The skeptical fuck in me finds that hard to believe.

That means Google pays that money simply to ward off Bing/Yahoo. Maybe.

I’m interested to know more.
C? Pascal, maybe, Cobol, Fortran, and even some oddballs like Forth, but C didn't catch traction until the mid-80s. I remember Chuck Sommerville (author of the original Snake Byte) and his father describing this "new language" (C) which has all the speed of assembly but is much friendlier.

Applesoft Basic and 6502 ASM (thanks to the Lazer Systems Interactive Assembler -LISA) were tops in those days.
Three.js WebGL TypeScript Playground
Codeblog can be self-hosted.
A difference is that the US is a much more progressive tax system, - the tax rates in Denmark are much flatter. This gives Denmark much more income from taxes per person.

So far none of the politicians in the US arguing for very high rates in the US are arguing that the bulk of the country should pay them.
> The goal was to have an AI defeat humans at SC2.

Hardly. They put APM caps in there for a reason. We all know that a real research team going all out with 100,000+ APM would have zerglings dodging tanks and other super-human shennanigans going on. But that's simply not interesting.

Nominally, AlphaStar set a 300 APM cap on the match. Apparently its a 300 APM average across the match however, which means the cap wasn't really effective at preventing "superhuman" conditions. Hopefully the next demo will better address that shortcoming and lead to more interesting matches.

I think the main lesson of the demo is that "APM" is a poor metric for what they're going for. A new metric needs to be developed. Other posters downthread were talking about "eAPM" (Effective APM). A formalized version of the concept may help.
Flash seems like a good example of how it's incredibly difficult to secure a system like that, even with a sandbox.

How many security updates did Flash have over the course of its life? Back in the heyday I remember it having to update multiple times a week.
idk bro, I think you're hanging out in the wrong parts of the internet. the weirdness and funnest is out there. the internet is global, you sure you looking in all the right places?
> In countries such as Japan where gratuity isn't commonplace, leaving a tip inappropriately is almost like saying: "This business probably isn't doing well enough to pay you a proper salary, so here's a little something extra."

> On the rare occasion that you actually need to give a tip in Japan, do so by putting the money inside of a tasteful, decorative envelope and seal it. The tip should be presented as more of a gift than simply additional cash or payment for services. Hand it to the recipient using both hands and with a slight bow.

> Don't insist that someone accept your tip; it may be forbidden and a condition of employment.

This raises more questions than it answers
Stop it. No one is saying anything that you're saying. People are just disappointed because they wanted superior strategy and relatively equal game mechanics. We saw strategy to a certain degree, but it was spoiled by the lack of the latter.
There is the concert of effective actions per minute or eapm. Presumably AlphaStar has a high eapm to apm ratio.

https://liquipedia.net/starcraft/Actions_per_Minute#APM_vs._...
Here is my question.

Why isn't there a new social networking site using the old myspace layout as their template where you can just choose your theme song, your top friends, post weird stuff and have it just be fun?