skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about this game, but I wonder how this hacker can identify those certain players without targeting their IP or account. The only thing I can think of is if the game collects data about players statistics with Mac addresses included. This way he can ban them if he got internal control which is something developers should be able to handle and I wonder why they didn't quickly. They can rewrite the control module of the servers for example instead of just doing nothing and lose everything.
There is no fucking connection between the two. We can have privacy and no deaths.
I've been using Jellyfin for a few years after crossing from Plex.

What we want to do is just watch video via Chromecast.

However both platforms make this very hard. The Android apps are just not reliable and are very confusing. Jellyfin seems to "hint" there's a queue of content somewhere... but how do I find it? Sometimes, choosing a video to play is a game of chance - I'll choose an episode half way through a season... and the first episode of the season will play.

On some phones it just loses its Chromecast "session" and we lose the ability to control it. Other apps don't do this.

It's a shame because it's almost there...

I should perhaps go back to Plex and see whether the app has improved there... it has been a while.
Why do I have the urge to tap the satellite view button. Common you game developers from Flight Simulator. Given some references one could fake this really nice :)

But joke aside. I think this is awesome. Does anyone know how accurate the borders are in the German area when changing years?
You know that EA have a windows desktop client they are still trying to crystalize into the PC gaming world right? I can imagine this hack may have quite an impact on that whole project, especially if the data related to that particular piece of software.
Hm that depends on the country though. The local TLD (.us, .fr, .hr, …) would be rather common I’d say.

Apart from that, it’s mostly what people browse to, yes. So .com, .net, .org.
I mean ... at some level everything today is some kind of "fraud" ... everything that is sold to you is not sold to you out of altruism, but because somebody else is living of that trade. That person in turn has to maximize the profits, which is why you never buy something at value.
> But how long can someone reasonably expect newer releases to support legacy code?

IMHO as long as majority of your users are on a certain version, you need at least to provide bug fixes for them.

> It would make more sense to have pragmas to disable features for backwards compatibility.

That would require people to edit all their old scripts to add these pragmas, which defeats the very idea of backwards compatibility.

If only people could agree on what "modern perl" is, then we could create a single pragma that would enable all the features expected by this modern perl in a single line. Or, we could just declare that modern perl to be the starting point of Perl 7, as it was planned. Problem however is that there's no even consensus on what are the features that should go into this modern version, and that blocks the language development far worst than not being able to implement breaking changes (and of course the fact that most of old maintainers have left the project and team is seriously understaffed)
The other side of the coin you are not telling is: let's ship this small project to production without all those useless bells and whistles, and then fast-forward 12 months, suddenly everybody is using it and it starts failing spectacularly, and now all those teams that complained in the beginning have a fire to extinguish.
I've been too many times on this other side of the coin.
If you're being encouraged to take up management, then they've probably already identified that you're already doing some of the right things.

I hate it when I promote a team lead, and they change what they've been doing. I promoted because they were already doing the job.
Bitcoin's efficiency is not relevant to the discussion. Every other comment about energy consumption pulls replies with complaints about Bitcoin mining. It brings nothing new, it distracts from the topic, generally lowers the quality of the discussion. Don't do it. If you must vent, do it where it's on topic.
Although - if you host Plex in EC2 in the same availability zone, that's not a problem is it?
It seems no one known for now.
They were misleading to false, depending on how you interpret it. The claims were true for certain specialized microbenchmarks and false in general. PPC programs running tasks that could be optimized for using Altivec instructions could be much faster than on comparable Intel chips, but those tasks were rare and normal programs were slower than on Intel.

Apple themselves changed their tune about the difference almost overnight.
If you're on Android, Newpipe[0] is a decent alternative. I mainly use it for Youtube but it supports Bandcamp out of the box pretty well, with background listening, autoqueue etc.

[0]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/
How Much Does It Cost to Build Custom Software?
This is cool. For my hometown Berlin I love to browse this map https://1928.tagesspiegel.de/ it shows Berlin in 1928 and most areas are still the same.
If you can, and haven't already, take up running/jogging/walking. I'd be a mental wreck without it and the quality of my sleep is inversly proportional to how regularly I'm running. No running means lying in bed for 60-90 minutes before sleep. Running means out-like-a-light in about 45 seconds. I might even be stressed about something but my brain in just like 'LOL no bye-bye.' This plus at least 10 mins of meditation at some point during the day, just sitting somewhere pleasant and stepping off the thought merry-go-round and internally looking the other way for a while.
Ransomware isn't a "benign, non-functional specimen" :). It has real harms and they can be quite serious.

I suppose that - always dangerous to extend an analogy - ransomware is more like "intellectual variolation" than vaccination.

I wonder what would happen in wartime though.
Oh, I'm fully aware of the problems with our current economic system. I just don't see how toppling fiat currencies and returning to representative (or even commodity) currencies solves any of the problems. Especially if the process involves the full destruction of the state while maintaining our current notion of property.

Property only exists insofar as people are able to enforce their claims of it. Under the dominant economic system property rights are enforced by the state via the police and prison system. Without the state, you need to rely on the community to assist you in enforcing your claims. If you want to maintain an imbalance that they might not be willing to tolerate, you'll need a private army (i.e. share some of your property with people willing to protect you in return).

If you hold little to no property, you fully depend on others' willingness to share their property with you or you'll literally die (because even foraging would require accessing someone else's property if they have claims on the territory).

So unless those holding the most property (i.e. the extremely rich) either fail to secure their continued property claims (e.g. by having their army turn against them) or feel extremely charitable for no practical benefit to themselves, you still end up with extreme poverty and extreme wealth.

And honestly, once you have people like Jeff Bezos raising armies to assert their claims on a significant fraction of global wealth directly, you might as well call their claims states because this just feudalism without the mythology of the divine right of kings (yet).

Wealth inequality may be in part driven by fiat currency. But wealth inequality is an inevitable consequence of our understanding of property rights (i.e. enclosure and the commodification of essential life necessities up to and including access to drinkable water).

Abolishing fiat currencies and existing states may create a free market, but it will not abolish or even improve poverty. You can argue that a freer market is better (but again, this needs a better explanation than "more freedom better") but it does not logically follow that a freer market reduces poverty and wealth inequality (ironically most statistics claiming global poverty is massively decreasing do not account for inflation and thus do not demonstrate an actual increase in relative purchasing power).
Maybe you could upload a demo with sample workflow and sounds to youtube.
https://www.teamblind.com/post/Amazon-is-struggling-to-hire-...
> In summary, just because they were "hacked" does not mean they are not taking security seriously.

To some extent though it does mean they were not taking security seriously _enough_. In your example, they misjudged whether they needed a guard or not.

[EDIT] Actually, I realized it's not about taking it seriously, but executing it efficiently.
It's ironic in this context that one of the most prominent non-Roman characters in HBO’s Rome, the enslaved Eirene, who speaks English with a thick accent, was played by an actress from… Rome:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1493547/

https://hbo-rome.fandom.com/wiki/Eirene
Indie developer too - https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2021/0...
+1 on this. Useful for improving communication with anyone, not just children
That makes sense!

I just realised my reply may have come across as mean-spirited rather than the light joke I intended. Sorry about that.
True. People have emailed me at myemail.mydomain@gmail.com instead of myemail@mydomain.com even when given in writing. I found it that they cc'ed the correct one just in case.
>all she did was give me benzodiazepines

What a hack. Have you tried melatonin?
Paging Tony Finch: https://dotat.at/email.html
In addition to the Handbrake suggestions, you can use HandbrakeCLI if you're on a headless media server.

Before, I used to use dvdbackup then ffmpeg for DVD ripping.

I found HandbrakeCLI did a better job, though, of handling errors in the stream which seem to be much more common in DVDs than CDs.

Or, more likely, the defaults were just more idiot (me) proof.
The present-day map must have a system to deal with territorial disputes, maybe a similar system can be used.
Perhaps, but I think it can be argued that it encourages more consumerism. The market for second-hand selling may encourage those sellers to buy more new.

Fundamentally the idea of an everchanging fashion is problematic, not just environmentally but also otherwise.
Reducing the amount of places where you have to trust, and then demanding more transparency from those places helps create a society where less trust is needed, and fraud has fewer options.
This is an excellent break down. Remind me a lot of the mithril comparison page: https://mithril.js.org/framework-comparison.html

Definitely at stage 3, could also be the reason not as many people using it.
> usually much easier to read and understand

They would be doing something seriously wrong if that wasn't always the case haha
Someone said: “people immune to cultist recruitments don’t have friends”
For me, its, my last @ my first.net. Then they ask, but is it gmail.com? No there is no gmail.com in it. Do its last first at yahoo? No Sir, its last @ first .net. Hugh? What type of mail this is?

I made my domain.tld @ gmail.com, & yes, I get occasionally emails there meant for last @ domain.tld
Oh really? Didn't know that! Wish we had this source code thingy available for the critical programs that we use everyday, so I can look to them and understand how they work.
Netherlands must ban cryptocurrencies immediately: CPB head
I have a relative who has been spending years collecting data from archives and building historical maps of Ostrava, a city in Czech republic [1]. He built nine (9) time based layers (1860-1940). The amount of time and work this takes is just incredible.

He has been considering providing data to OHM, but obviously has not been convinced by this prospect yet, one of the reasons has been loss of control over his data, as there are academic institutions ready to snap this a put their name on it. It was already attempted.

I can imagine there are more researchers like this and the results of their work, all the data, is fragmented somewhere out there... and possibly lost.

1: http://www.mapomol.cz
One of my pet hates is meetings without an agenda, or that don't stick to the agenda.

If you're done with the agenda, then the meeting is finished and everyone can leave. If that happens after 5 minutes, then that's good.

I have been in meetings where the organiser has said "well, we've finished, but we've got this room for an hour, so let's just hang out for the rest of the time". That can be tough to respond to. Just saying "Sorry, but no, I've got work to do" can be offensive (though it shouldn't be).
They've been around quite a while, but just seem to be gathering momentum.

Synology have put a few feet wrong just recently. With QNAP also on a marketing push I'm looking forward to some competition in this space.
Or 30$ a meter. Cheaper than Thunderbolt cables, I'm really amazed especially how much actual human effort is required in cable-laying.
> Deplatforming seems to work if it's goal is to simply limit free speech

You're still perfectly free to spew your crazy, you just don't get to stand on my lawn to do so.

Good, old-fashioned conservative value that. You have never had a right to use someone else's infrastructure like this, and hopefully never will, as that is a scary precedent that doesn't respect the rights of creators and owners of such platforms.
Data on Covid-19 (Coronavirus) by Our World in Data
I haven't got the vaccine as yet, but I've been very recently summoned to get one by the national health body. I think the biggest deciding factor for me is... Doing research - and, tbh, finding time to understand the intricacies of human biology and how particular vaccines work is difficult/time consuming.

The one thing I'll add which has been skirted around and some commenters have 'skirmishly' mentioned is the amount of distrust for authority, which IMO can be well-placed. The amount of deceitfulness conducted by the state on various matters, important and trivial, over the past several decades (though probably for all of human history - but come to light (due to the internet)) has fostered this mistrust. The list of lies or misinformation is extensive; the wars, the bailouts, the disregard for communities, the deportations: the policies; in essence the corruption and ulterior motives of the state is and has been questionable. Thus, the backlash against the vaccine(s) is understandable and I partly feel it within me too.

Also, to make a rational decision you have to have a lot of the main pros and cons, but what we have been supplied with are just extreme incorrect cons and/or extreme & well-placed pros - there has not been any balanced adult 'conversation' (i.e., a balanced cost-benefit assessment geared towards the individual) which in its absence is unscientific and fairly illiberal. That's my 2 cents.
Perhaps they can be fast enough and my assumption was wrong, but I was imagining an e-ink version of a mechanical gauge like that as being sort of blurry and perhaps more delayed than the real thing.
Abney?

It's a beautifully put together show, to be fair. Nice and calm! And porridge.
I don't necessarily disagree that the known risks outweigh the known benefits for that age group, but your numbers are way off.

You also have to consider that the absolute risk (the risk of catching Sars-Cov2 multiplied by the risk of COVID) is far lower with current prevalence.

In the end, you arrive at a low known risk either way. It then depends on how you weigh the unknown risks. There's a strong incentive to downplay risks of vaccination "for the public good" while simultaneously exaggerating the risk of infection. By posting these inflated/deflated numbers, you're playing your part, knowingly or not.
Isn’t it great that we’ve figured out a cool sounding phrase for what is basically cost savings? We’re full cycle developers bro, our company is definitely not just cheap!
Until yesterday I had a IMO even more annoying problem: Dead keys on a qwertz keyboard and "," as the separator on the numpad. So glad that I finally made a custom layout that fixed those.
Isn't he just trying to call it a pyramid game without actually calling it a pyramid game? (or ponzi scheme, etc etc same same). I don't know the nuances of his position but maybe him calling it what it is (ie a scam) can get them into all kinds of legal trouble if they don't have hard proof. And because the fraudsters are as distributed as the ledger, it's hard to come by hard proof.

I mean, I think that Jack Dorsey is banking hard on bitcoin because he knows he's near the top of the pyramid and he wants as many fools as possible beneath him, but there's absolutely no way to prove that he's not just a soft idiot.

Just guessing though, all I mean is "if we don't, people might lose their money!" would have applied to Bernie Madoff too.
I totally agree with your Apple pays for Google Ads which they now are the most invasive.

But, people don't mind targeting when it is context-based, rather than user-based. Tracking is following a user or device. Context is, well, this is a website about camping, I'll pay for ads for my sleeping bags. The user isn't really part of the process, there is no tracking, just targeting which I am sure everybody is fine with if it doesn't cross the "tracking" line.
Don't discount the short-term use of sleeping pills to help you reset your rhythm a bit. Using them for a week isn't going to create a dependency, but it may be enough to help you get through whatever is making it difficult for you to fall asleep.
I can only recommend book by Matthew Walker 'Why we sleep - The new science of sleep and dreams'
I did use dom@in.tld few years ago.
That doesn't add up. Literally, 1/3 + 1/2 does not add up to 1. What third option exist that has a 1/6 chance of happening?

The basic argument is. If you don't switch, you have 1/3 chance of winning. So if you do switch you have 1/3 chance of losing. Hence if you switch you have 2/3 chance of winning.

How the door you switched too went from 1/3 chance to double is the hard part to explain. But it must be the case.
> I don't think is necessarily the case

Back then, when they enforced a maximum 16 character password, I saw enough security. Are they storing them in plaintext or what? Btw, I think they increased the limit to 32 now
Chrome has done something similar for a long time, but keeps subdomains the same colour as the main domain (and deemphasises the path part).
I imagine that's also used erroneously. It may make it into the dictionary with this meaning at some point but right now people just ad-hoc borrowed the diet/food-related term "vegan" and apply it for things that use no animal products. Now imagine if someone called coal a "vegan energy source". :)
I received a phone call from a jeweller who was distressed that the email address on my order had 'our web address in it'. (Before the `@`.)

I did my best to explain it briefly to a clearly non-technical but savvy-enough-to-worry person; I don't think he quite understood, but more was satisfied having spoken to me that I didn't 'sound like a cyber hacker' or whatever.

Generally I find it nothing but helpful to do this, but it is awkward over the phone, and I often chicken out if asked other than in a web form for my address, and give something more generic.

I received similar entertainment from having to provide my full 'memorable phrase' for password reset over the phone. I only ever expected to enter it into a web form, so I just used a randomly generated string from `pass`. It was 100ch long with symbols, and I had to read the whole damn thing out. I say entertainment, perhaps only in retrospect. The guy obviously enjoyed it though, like there was some point well before the 100th character of random alphanumersymbolic nonsense in response to 'what was your first teacher's name' where it must surely have become clear I had the answer. (Also the faintly chuckled 'yes please sir' when I paused before starting to ask 'er, all of it?')
Maybe EA writes their games in brainfuck.
I have seen many issues with historical maps on Wikipedia, one of the worst offenders is https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Territories_of_Dynas... which is basically propaganda. We desperately need a new one with citations.

I would suggest that, if various portions the vectors could cite evidence, it would be an excellent basis for historic vector maps on Wikipedia. Currently, this whole area is a shambles.

Further, I recently learned some historical maps I had created with great effort for my Tang Dynasty text translation at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Manshu were deleted by some Wikipedia policy-thumber who reckoned including low resolution satellite backgrounds to contextual maps was grounds for erasing them. You'd think being an open source project for academic caliber translations you'd be able to use, you know, open sources under academic fair use. My tolerance for idiots is truly at an all time low.
AUWU statement on the Robodebt class action
My statement was that if you always switch, it doesn't matter whether the host is blind or not. But I must say it is an interesting find of the simulation that your win rate is always 2/3 independent of your strategy (provided the host is blind and you win when the host makes a mistake).

I'm always talking about the probability of winning the complete game when sticking to a certain strategy. I never look at intermediate probabilities.

Decrementing the game count or the divisor would be the like crossing out or ignoring decision tree branches.

If you change the game rules and say the game is repeated if the drunken host picks the prize, then the simulation would have to repeat until the guest has either won or lost, but the game count would still remain the same (= the number of times a simulated guest is invited to the game show).
I thought Hello was invented with the telephone. Prior to that, English greetings were good morning/evening. What do Italians and French say when they pick up the phone? Allora?
isn't that what we call "well documented code following best coding practices" in our world ?
Discussions on the BBC article about the incident:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27468766

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27462952
Trust is great and it's enabled by reputation systems.

https://ncase.me/trust/
Yes but this is something useful, instead of something we consider important as a society right now like making people click ads.
wrt. smallest mass for one of the gravitationally interacting objects - a neutron position quantization in the Earth gravitational field

https://physicsworld.com/a/neutrons-reveal-quantum-effects-o...

A domain review paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/14/5/05...

"Abstract. This paper describes gravity experiments, where the outcome
depends upon both the gravitational acceleration g and the Planck constant h¯ .
We focus on the work performed with an elementary particle, the neutron"
It is like 3 times less wealthy per capita compared to Switzerland. So this is rather a co-example.
Yeah, it's very intersting indeed. Roads and street layouts usually don't change that much over the centuries -- they get integrated and amended, but seldom disappear. I was pretty amazed to recognize the street layout of Leipzig in the 1740ies: https://biblio.unibe.ch/web-apps/maps/zoomify.php?pic=Ryh_53...
Does anyone know of a similar study but involving mothers instead of fathers?
Abstraction Inversion
FYI for those interested: you can get exposure to Robinhood's post-IPO market cap outcome right now via FTX.com pre-IPO futures.

This is something I'm pleasantly surprised by in 2021: Deposit crypto. Transact pre-ipo futures, stock futures, commodities like lumber etc. 24/7 with solid-liquidity.
Do you mean just before bed, or in general during the day?