skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree completely, it seems very normal to me that people are encouraged/invited to use something for individual artistic/professional efforts but corporate entities are expected to buy a license.

I strongly suspect most of the complaints here are from people who enjoyed playing Resident Evil or some other Capcom product back in the day and are emotionally identifying with the cool game that they were quite invested in. I also enjoyed RE4, but if it helps just think of Capcom as playing the role of the Umbrella Corporation in this instance.
Fair enough, that's a good answer. Thanks!
his shirt also seem "puffy" under hist shirt compared to how he usually looked.

I do not believe it's possible to decide whether he's swollen from corticosteroids, or because he's bulking up in a gym, he's just just eating more because he's happy or because he's sad.

I hope he's fine, time will tell.
Yes, that part is annoying (if you absolutely need to use intel).
I on purpose focused on super chargers to drive the point home. 15 cents is still a lot cheaper than super charger prices. You can drive that down further by e.g. using solar power. That high price is an excellent incentive to invest in roof top solar.
Why is the trick revealed now? What incentive did they have instead of continuing the covert op?
Yep, not disagreeing. My point is that a short term pursuit of money over at least a reasonable quality of search will destroy what they have built very quickly if quality gets low enough to make it easy for an upstart rival to have obviously better search results. And the evidence for that is in the history of their own rise to search dominance.,
They covered themselves by ensuring that the devices could only be ordered after private referral from another user. All of whom were underworld figures (the devices were initially “seeded” to “underworld influencers”).

I’m sure that added to the credibility of the device among criminal groups, but it also ensured that the platform wasn’t adopted by your average privacy-conscious user.
U.S. Seizes Share of Ransom from Hackers in Colonial Pipeline Attack
Perhaps we're talking past each other:

As an example, you talk about people's motives; what evidence do you have of these motives? What evidence do you have for your claims that it is 'critical race theory' and for your characterizations of it?

At this point, the claims above are only words from a random person on the Internet. If we want to talk about truth and criticism, such claims are notoriously very weak.

IME, the focus by some political groups on 'critical race theory' is the same old rhetorical tactic of attacking the messenger and changing the subject from the issue:

In this case, the issue issue is racism in America's founding. You openly say you won't address the evidence, which seems to match that pattern.
If we look at it from a business perspective it looks a lot better to go the iOS on Mac direction.

And we can see it happening. macOS is getting more iOS-like with each new iteration.
If there are any (as opposed to "just" the added customer support burden), I wonder if they're the same issues that prevent Slack from allowing calls in Firefox...
Nice! Is there some follow up story after years?
I think it’s because to most people Linux = GNU/Linux
> I would absolutely run from real estate right now. Prices are sky high due to inflation / lumber shortage / supply. You would be buying at peak.

While things are crazy, real-estate is good if more serious inflation hits. Charlie Monger talks about investing for inflation periods by focusing on assets where the money to create the return is spent. That way as prices rise your cost base doesn't. He gives railways as an example. Property is the same if it exists, while to your point a property builder isn't because crazy costs.

Also I agree property is overvalued at the moment, but what isn't? Its going to come down to interest rates, inflation and unemployment.

No-one really knows but my guess is inflation in the short/medium terms as global economies try to avoid the pain followed by higher interest and unemployment. Even if that prediction was correct, imagine trying to time it... its not a simple investment market! So are we back to regular ETF contributions and ride the dips?
Ah, I didn't catch the part of the article that pointed out not relying on existing compilers was an explicit goal (Which probably should have been obvious in hindsight). To each his own, it's still a fun project if not particularly practical. But that makes sense then that this probably isn't the only way to bootstrap Rust onto a new architecture.
>>That 'PR' automatically seems insincere somehow?

uh, yes? I think that is a pretty reasonable statement. I am not wise on the ways of PR firms but my expectation is that it would involve a lot of some one else using your voice to smooth feathers while you went and were absent for a while. I'm just not seeing a world where hiring a PR firm results in better more sincere apologies. That would make a frankly incredible article though.
At a guess, codecs seem the most likely explanation.

Firefox has a h.264 decoder, but not an encoder I think.
For legacy reasons, any drive path that ends in a special name, such as `AUX` will be rewritten by Win32 as the NT path `\??\AUX`. This `AUX` is a special device, not a file on the filesystem.

So, for example, `C:\Users\ChrisSD\AUX` will be resolved to `\??\AUX`.

Even more surprisingly, any filename that starts with `aux.` will also be affected by this. E.g. `C:\Users\ChrisSD\aux.txt`.
I haven't tried any myself, but there are USB-to-BT-HID adapters such as these that I've seen people in the mechanical keyboard community use: http://handheldsci.com/kb/
How is this holding the US economy hostage?
Apple improves its Health capabilities with new metrics and sharing options
Makes you wonder how many commercial VPN services are just FBI honeypots?
The hiding of the geolocation of the user is going to be a nightmare for gambling websites and other websites who have regulations based on the visitor's jurisdiction.
it is indeed a grave accent, just as you say
neat, thank you for this work.
Interesting. Now I think it really might be a (accidental) white box clone. A lot of stuff looks obvious in hindsight, especially if it is the best solution to the problem.

But then I believe this is legal (depending on your jurisdiction).
It’s about as funny as one of the most prominent alternative TypeScript compilers being written in Go, and being performance competitive with the other one written in Rust. Equally not wrong, just… not the way I thought things would, erm, go.
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I don't know how its implemented, but I'm assume they don't want the user defeating the feature if they're not the owner. The only choice seems to be to use AMD, which probably works quite well given the smackdown that AMD is putting down in recent times..
> Then it's followed by wall of text made of keywords.

I've noticed a rise of that as well. With some searches such spam is all I've received. But that's really a problem in all languages Google supports I think.

There's even malware that infects websites and generates such content, not sure what's the point of that. Anyone knows?
Reddit censorship taken to the next level
I built a no strings attatched intraday data API for r/algotrading and now they permaban anyone who links the API.

For about 3 years, I was an active user in the r/algotrading sub, and built a free intraday api specifically to share with the sub. I made a post showcasing it, and posted it. It wasn't showing up in new like my usual posts did, so I deleted it and tried again. Moments later, I was perma banned and the mods said I "carpet bombed the sub with self promotion" I am baffled at this, considering I spent months developing something specifically for the sub. It is a pure JSON Api with no monetization, search limit, or any account registration or anything. It was a free api for the sub simple as that.

I made a new account to try and be active again, and try again after some time without posting twice, months after the initial issue passed. I immediately got banned the second I linked the api, claiming "we have issues with the publisher of this API". This is pretty unreal that my API is banned from the sub, and posting about it will get you instantly perma banned. I built it specifically for the sub, and they just ban anyone who links it now.
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Aren't all words "made up" at some point? It's how language works.
Instead of feeling personally attacked and resorting to pettiness, maybe you could instead start by explaining why existing standards are bad and why your proposed standard is superior.

The xkcd pretty neatly summarized the situation as of now. You developed and self-promote a new standard but do not explain why anyone should care.
> What’s promising is that prices are still falling steeply: the cost halved between 2014 and 2018. A halving in only four years.
My understanding is that India is on one timezone too. One researcher has suggested that introducing timezones could lead to a reduction in fuel emissions via partially offsetting when "peak demand" occurs [1].

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264005963_Reducing_...
Global police sting ensnares scores of alleged criminals duped by FBI app
I think if the discussion isn't on Reddit then it will be on Facebook these days
unfortunately, with the rise of cdn's, it's become much more difficult to differentiate useful connections from tracking/nefarious connections. oftentimes, you just get a generic cloudflare or aws server node, rather than the actual 3rd-party. sometimes the reverse lookup goes a step further to determine the final recipient of a connection, but not often.
Just want to say, this is seriously cool stuff.
What? Representing criminals is not unethical or 'immoral'. Period. Protecting criminals legally is not unethical unless you are knowingly doing something illegal yourself.

I imagine that most layers are just doing their job and getting paid for it. Bringing morality into that equation makes no sense in a legal system that has little to nothing to do with morality.
>(and points out that the Trump organisation might be in trouble ....)

Thanks for that line, I was starting to worry that there were things going on in the world that weren't about Trump.
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Oxford Dictionary doesn't know what Moore's law is, then.

Moore's law was an observation by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, relating to the doubling of transistors per densely integrated circuit chip every 24 months. Originally, it was every 12 months, then every 24 months, etc.

Moore's second law, which isn't as well known, relates to the exponentially increasing capital cost of manufacturing ICs.
Indeed, stopping large-scale oil pipelines means US economy is held hostage, to a degree. Not all of it but some of it. Question is will it increase or not. This FBI action gives us some hope that criminals can be stopped.
I have had two clients in two years that have had that exact issue. In both cases they were WordPress websites, my friend and I refer to them as 'WordPress Specials'. It is obscene considering the amount the clients originally paid, but it works well for me as the client immediately sees a dramatic jump in the SERPs as soon as the new site goes live, and that's before any of the general improvements in navigation, content and structure!
I guess I also have to repeat here as well then.

The problem with the kind of critical theory dialectic Nicole Hannah-Jones use is how the claim of truth is made. I showed you how critical theory projects like the 1619 project makes a claim and deals with truthiness. I made it specific to this project and how it inherently makes unfalsifiable claims as it builds upon “lived experiences” of convenient political activist utility.

I even showed you an example of how you overturn a claim in critical theory projects, with an example relevant to the 1619 project. This example makes it very clear how different this type of academic dialectic is from the liberal project.

Universities are traditionally stewards of the liberal project, although unfortunately at this points it’s been corrupted to further the Hegelian religion of critical social justice.
> paying for links is still very much against Google’s policies.

quite a strange think to say about a company whose bussiness is based on selling links (to ads)
Just want to point out, since I'm assuming you aren't a native English speaker, it should technically be "these kinds of people".

"these kind of people" is ungrammatical ("kind" is singular, "these" and "people" are plural).

Maybe in this case English isn't as hard as you thought. :)
I'm guessing if even legitimate websites have similar content it's difficult to distinguish between fake and real content for an automated system?
Yeah, sometimes I wonder if Tor is already co-opted like this.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is covering it in more detail than the Reuters article, including some of the mechanics of how it was pulled off:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/fbi-afp-underworld-cr...

Apparently it revolved around duping Hakan Ayik, one of Australia's most wanted drug dealers now operating as an international kingpin from Turkey, to trust the app and recommend it to his associates. It's a double whammy, in that the network has been blown wide open and the AFP is now telling Ayik to hand himself in to avoid recriminations from his associates. No doubt there will be a movie about this one.
>Self-publishing ... PRO: You have full control over all the process really.

This is one of the best things I like about self publishing. I am not restricted by guidelines set by a publisher regarding chapter structure, images, exercises, etc. I can give away free copies, put up free web versions, share source code, etc. And recently I've tried sharing content chapter wise as I write the books.

>Traditional publishing ... PRO: You have professional editors looking over your draft.

I miss this aspect of traditional publishing the most. Also applies to quality of the ebook (formatting, cover, etc) produced.

>The hard part is editing and revising it so that your draft becomes something that is good enough to share.

I actually like the editing and revising part. It's somewhat like bug hunting and feels good to squash them. Creating the first draft has been more difficult for me, since it takes time to organize my thoughts about what I should put in, reading documents, researching ideas etc. When I'm editing, most things are already in place and easier to keep myself occupied with smaller list of tasks.
what? skimming is a thing and MST is not an insecure solution on top of magstripe, since it generates temporary cards per every few transactions. It is a backup for a traditional card, not something meant to be similar to NFC since its just a legacy method of payment that is still accepted more places than nfc.

you could try to use one of those temporary numbers but whats the likelyhood it expires before malicious reuse?
"Kids who know computers" are still vulnerable to evil maid attacks and badUSB and stuff. The kid's gotta sleep and eat and do whatever else kids do when they're employed by cartels.

There's a reason that classified processing and data storage employs layered physical security too. There's that old saying about what happens when you give someone physical access to the machine.
200k miles? That's over 320000 km?! There's exactly zero chance a statistically significant number of combustion engines get that mileage with "a few oil changes".

I've owned cars with 200k km in them an I would describe them as "beaters" at best. I've had to replace clutches, radiators, turbos and god knows what else and they haven't even gotten close to the 300k km mark.

As for my EV, the first maintenance on schedule that isn't just replacing the air filter is at 160k km. I've saved hundreds if not thousands just from scheduled oil changes at that point.
But then why make iPads so insanely, ridiculously powerful?!
I have absolutely no dog in this fight other than to express how weird it feels culturally. OS X came with emacs key bindings built in system-wide for anything using the native UI frameworks from at least 10.0, I assume back into NeXT roots. Seeing a dedicated vim mode in Apple’s developer tools 20 years later is quite a thing.
Replace 'price' with 'production cost', and factor in inflation, and maybe there's a decline over time even for alkaline batteries. But at such a low production cost, the shelf-space is likely to be the biggest factor at point of sale. That, and the mark-up will be set at whatever the market will bear.
It sounded to me like she was saying she's part of the privileged class.
Machine learning is booming in medicine, but also facing a credibility crisis
Not sure about that case, but on Firefox, uBlock Origin does have more features enabled, such as cname uncloaking to block trackers that use this sneaky trick.
The Madman and the Dwarf
This response does not allay my confusion. What specific scenario is the US anticipating that will lead to missiles flying? Why does the media focus on the effect before the cause has even been determined?
Great response!!! I wholeheartedly agree
FWIW there are few expressions of free speech that aren't in violation of some arbitrary law enforced by some arbitrary country. It was probably short-sighted of me to assume that my exaggerated example wouldn't be recognized as hyperbole, but honestly what is the point of this comment?

Everything depends on jurisdiction, that's the very nature of law in and of itself.
What about RFC3339? It's a strict subset of ISO8601.
The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the U.S.
An interesting look. I particularity enjoyed your Maverick naming formats.
Addendum: I have only one dog in this fight, which is that I know I can ^T to transpose with emacs bindings almost anywhere on a Mac and, having never learned either emacs or vim that command has been welcome a lot.
Falling asleep on a plane is another option
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Representing criminals is fine, but aiding them in committing future crimes isn’t. If you do that, you’re just part of a criminal conspiracy, and being a lawyer doesn’t give you an exception from moral culpability.
That's a good point..

But my impression was that it was more tolerated.. with an attitude like: "this is my war", as if every generation has a war to fight.
Yea, he was (and still is) the kind of person you need to force to take vacations.

We literally took away his work laptop and disabled his office key access so he wouldn't work during his summer holidays :D
there are very strong cultural factors preventing such billing model from catching up, on either side of the deal

I myself had something like this in mind decades ago, thinking of providing a web/platform/service to barter such deals, but it never made it past the design stage before I was convinced it was a fool's errand - and that was even before I started doing contract work

I'd be interested to listen if you can provide detailed real-world examples of how do you see this working

In this bit:

> I'm saying you ask for some 20-30k per feature request that takes approx. 1 month of work. And if the requesters of such feature can't pay this, then cannot afford to request (basically i'm using a contractor rate above, but you substitute the level of pay you intend to make).

how do you envision this negotiation taking place? coders, let alone younger ones and/or OSS-attracted ones, typically suck at this, on the following levels:

1- all work takes "a bit of effort" to "a weekend hackathon" to "two weeks™" - both on the client end, as technical challenges are often invisible to the client, and on the proud coder end who tends to overpromise a lot (combination of overconfidence, wanting to "give the best deal", and other psychological factors)

2- people are used to dark patterns and seeing concrete figures puts off a lot of people and has a strong impact on the perception of projects - also, the internet is worldwide and in most of the world a moderate pay will be seen as greedy or astronomical

3- judgement on whether the work is done, or ongoing, or satisfactory - this will always lead to some friction, and most people don't want to deal with it; coders gravitate to jobs where this shit work is done by someone else, typically on lower emoluments, leaving the higher rate for himself (we're usually a "he" let's face it)

From these, 1 is (roughly) the inner challenge, 2 is the outer challenge and 3 is the structural challenge. Perhaps 3 is the strongest of the 3, as it essentially boils down to the business model competing with a more traditional, tried-and-tested company/employee paradigm. Since a good coder commands a good pay these days, the traditional model needs to suck a lot to a lot of people before the coder (let alone the project lead coder or the CTO/CEO coder) is better off outside of "the system"

perhaps I should finish up some write-up and then open a discussion, but who'd read it heh

long story short, these OSS-with-tips arrangements will remain in the hobby/side-gig range for most people, except if you hit gold somehow in a superstar economy; I don't see this changing in the foreseeable future
Your response was irrelevant to my questions, since the goal of my questions was obviously to understand just the OP's mindset, not an unrelated person's mindset.
Ask HN: How do you think the natural environment will fare?
Assuming technological progress continues, and civilisation remains intact for the next millenium, how do you suppose nature will fare? Will it thrive, or will it buckle under the weight of humankind?
Yeah, but a lot of people wanted to make their devices like that [smaller bezels, hiding the antenna - which we did with the FreePad, but we couldn't hide the huge battery, etc.]

It's just that during the first generation of smartphones and tablets the hardware simply was not there. The wide bezels you see in my link above, for example, were strictly dictated by what was possible to make work with the hardware specs, which were already too limited, but the best we could do at a reasonable price while staying small enough.

The big bulky thing at the back was making the best possible out of the battery space by turning it into a stand of sorts. The FreePad industrial design was actually quite amazing given the constraints, but the constraints were too severe to make a viable product possible.

And instead of waiting for it to be possible, we all compromised the hardware without realising that turned it into something most customers didn't want.

And so most companies that tried abandoned that market and took the wrong lesson from it that customers had rejected the whole product category rather than just the ugly, underpowered hardware that was possible at the time.

Apple's success in this space came in understanding that customers had rejected the design, not the product category.

Ironically, Apple's app store happened first after they had to concede web based "apps" had exactly that problem: The technology was not there yet, and insisting on only web apps did not give people the experience they wanted. But that was a problem that could be solved without waiting for hardware to catch up.
Bingo, apologizing and then going "but <they deserved it / totally provoked me / blah blah blah>" is anything but an apology, it's just a cheap attempt at winning in the court of public opinion: "Yeah I was wrong but I was right, actually" is just a confession with some faux remorse veneer and a rationalization stapled to it.
Right, the “cat our of the bag” argument. Also similar to the ones used in the Napster, Torrent, eMule file-sharing persecutions whereby any forgettable film shared would instantly tally as a lost sale for each-and-every participant to the platform. :/