skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If we want to make information available to as many people as possible, an ad-supported model is the way to do it

There are alternatives, a good one I see used in Ptreon, the supporters get early access to content, the rest will get it a month later. Let me try find the pros and cons

Cons:

- you need first to find supporters, so for a while you need to work hard to get them

- some supporters might feel entitled to stuff, you need to make sure to be clear about what being a supporter means

- you need to be very clear and transparent , some supporters will not tolerate delays or low quality/quantity updates

Pro:

- you have a predictable revenue model, you don't depend on an algorithm

- you mostly don't have to censor your content (there are exceptions true, but there are alternatives)

- you don't have to promote scams like VPNs, shit games with loot boxes, crypto scams

- you are not forced by an algorithms to release on a certain text/video length , a certain schedule , use certain shitty thumbnails or click-bait titles

- if you make public your content after a month or week etc, your fans that don't have money still get it and will promote it, also influencers will promote it because they know it will be free after a time interval.

This patreon model does not solve everything, just wanted to mention that there are alternatives to shity ads that track and manipulate you. Other alternative would be honest contextual ads, like if you search for printer ink from city A then Google/Bing could show you an ad from a local shop that refils ink cartridges.
Went through a similar situation where I owned (company).com and someone later filed for a trademark and registered the(company).com. I hired a trademark attorney and he sent a nastygram back.

We had evidence of first use in commerce and offered not to sabotage their pursuit of a trademark. They immediately agreed, backed down, and signed a document allowing us to use the name unrestricted irrespective of whether they successfully obtained the trademark. As we expected, the trademark application was denied (the name was descriptive, not unique) and it was all behind us quickly.

TLDR: get a lawyer. Trademark law is weird.

And don’t be mean - the other business is now your first call if you ever decide to sell.
You can play ADVENT under the BSD-games package.

Also, there's a good ZMachine port (several of them). Look out for advent.z5.
I know it's a quip but it explains so much...

Like 15 minutes of fame but with 7 billion TV channels.
Do you know if there is a way to be prompted each time?
I think this just changes your own local view of the history. So you can fix the message, but in order for anybody to see it on push, you'd need to reify the changes with git-filter-branch & rebuild.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/git-pocket-guide/978144...

https://blog.plover.com/prog/git-replace.html
Cross-Site Scripting in 7 minutes with mitigation steps
Does Georgism Work, Part 3: Can Unimproved Land Value Be Accurately Assessed
> According to a translated technical blog post , JDK versions greater than 6u211, 7u201, 8u191, and 11.0.1 are not affected by the LDAP attack vector. com.sun.jndi.ldap.object.trustURLCodebase is set to false, meaning JNDI cannot load a remote codebase using LDAP.

As for JDK 8, numerous outlets are reporting that it is actually Java 8u121 that protects against JNDI remote class loading by default (see release notes https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/8u121-relnot...). That was released in 2017-01, which was just about five years ago. I think that should save a lot of peoples' bacon, should it not?

Java 8u191 fixed something about an LDAPS timeout in JDNI lookups: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/8u191-relnot...
I just want to validate that I thought Krazam was based on total fiction. I'm stunned to see a 2k person livestream about this today in the best way!
I don't know what's so special about law that it can never been discussed in any forum. You can certainly ask about other people's previous experience, possible advice or recommendations. For example for certain legal issues there are government websites that can help, etc. Saying "hire an attorney", as if it was no big deal to directly spend thousands without first asking around, is a bit strange.
Off topic question on off topic comment: HN, what are your thoughts on Sidebery?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
Pogchat.gg – Talk strats, metas, and more in Twitch
Talk strats, builds, esports events, and more in this Twitch chat companion.

PogChat is a Twitch extension that provides a place to talk about streamers, games, esports, and more in a fun way.

It provides the following features:
• Login directly with Twitch
• See popular topics for streamers, games, and all of Twitch
• Customize your chat color
• Content moderation to reduce spam

How to use:

• Just install and visit Twitch to begin using the add-on
• Options can be configured in the chat panel settings
Show HN: A Makefile to Run Kind with Local Container Registry
People tell to hire a lawyer, yet at same time hundreds of programmers copy snippets of code they dont understand, or use libraries unaudited by anyone
In America the tornado areas and the earthquake areas don’t really overlap much at all.
brainfuck existence should hint at what humans enjoy :)
isnt it ironic it was posted on github?
Do not respond to the letter. Do not engage. Do not alter your website. Do not hire a lawyer. The fastest way to enter into a legal battle is to hire an attorney and start engaging.
One thing that's good to see is how Excel can be applied. I was a host when the challenges were:
1. Roulette
2. Biathlon

And, no. It's not heavy on tips. The rounds are timed and each of the contestants have their own methods. It was interesting to see some people use formulas and some people use conditional formatting for the same solution.
Synthetic data used to uncover war crimes
You can launch Firefox with a given profile from the CLI. Just make your own shortcuts.
You take this as an attack towards your passion -- it's not that but it's not my place to try and convince you further.

Also offering a theoretical that so far isn't happening isn't an interesting argument.
The interviewee doesn’t know what the day to day job will look like, so they may wind up talking about entirely the wrong parts of their skills & experience. The interviewer has a much better idea what they need to learn about the candidate.

Perhaps this is less of a big deal for a generic position that’s the same at every company, but if you are matching someone to a very different role than they’ve held before, you may be interested in only certain pieces of their resume.
> "This line of reasoning is popular, but it lacks one perspective: people are social animals and many instinctively want to climb hierarchies."

Managing people is a shit job. You spend your time in endless meetings and playing politics. You're tasked with day-to-day HR-related tasks. You need to keep everybody satisfied. Your salary won't necessarily be any higher. You get the blame for stuff. You have to delegate away the fun work. You lose touch and rust faster. If you're lucky, some of the people you work with will actually like you - but if your team doesn't deliver then it doesn't really matter...

What makes any of this sound like you're somehow "climbing"?
> You can't lose a domain based off of a threatening email.

Indeed, but if you take no action at all, the opposing counsel does take action, and you don't contest the action, then the default outcome could be a forced transfer of the domain.
I'm ignorant of a lot of detail here (though not that the US is arguing to the UK for extradition) but let me explain: I'm lumping the US and UK together only to the extent that I think their intelligence services work together on things (they do) and their power/influence is kind of super-legal; it crosses borders and ignores laws. Dirty tricks would include having apparently fake rape charges made against him, also in a country that wasn't the US. When I said "these legal proceedings" I did mean everything, across jurisdictions, up to the point where the US gets their way and prosecutes him. I'm not saying the UK judge is complicit, but the outcome may still not be beyond influence.
I have a couple of SCSI2SD v6s in my Indy and Alphastation, and they work well. I'll have to give one of these BlueSCSIs a try. The SCSI2SD got much faster in v6, as the earlier ones were pretty slow.

The combination of these kinds of SCSI emulators and cards like the XT-IDE really make vintage computers available to more people.
> as I actually like seeing ads

I've learned of a new kind of people today. What about the "ad experience" do you like?
Raku, mentioned in the blog, was formerly Perl 6.
Even god hates Amazon .
Compiling S60Maps
A few million men and a few dozen women really really REALLY think bitcoin is Jesus Christ. I think it will be another twenty years before this whole thing blows over just because these dudes are so pot-committed and need religion, basically.
I don't know what you're arguing against in my comment, but it's not something I actually said.

Fiat, The Fed, and active monetary policy are certainly criticized from all angles. I never said otherwise.
Publish this letter on your domain and point at the evil "big co"
Scott Morrison urged to end lunacy and push UK and US for Julian Assange release
His feedback read like this: “Good culture fit, good soft skills. I really liked them. They seemed to understand and appreciate difficult and interesting topics.”

I assure you there are worse ways to behave in an interview. I’ve passed on people who were smart as a whip but nobody wanted to work with. And nobody wants a dead fish who just sits there waiting for the next problem to solve.
>Every actor in the game world was to have a personality, daily routines etc
There's a similar system on the stalker saga and maybe they could have built upon it? Of course making every NPC do it for itself instead of a sort of hive mind (I don't have a better term for it) sounds very difficult but sounds rather weird that they can't do some sort of similar implementation, right?
Even if they want to give it up, the agreement will likely have representations and warranties (see part about any known/future claims) which OP should not just sign without an attorney reading it over. The agreement will surely be written in a way that is very favorable to the other party.
I actually want the kind of UI chromium provides, where I can see from the background color directly in which "mode" I'm in. This makes it easier to separate work from non-work.
I will restate that the incentives of making a geothermal cryptocurrency may be the highest positive impact we can have on the planet in our lifetimes.

How do you exhaust a renewable? By driving up its price, which creates higher rewards on innovation that brings it down. So you don't exhaust it. Carbon taxes were a farce invented and promoted by academic managerialists with no understanding of human desire, as a way to sell their managerialism, and by politicians too meek to stand on their own and so they deferred to con artist experts.

The only reason miners are using coal and nuclear is because it is available, subsidized, and it scales. It's a legacy tech of the past. Geothermal technology isn't available as widely yet, and it requires demand to scale. Miners are that demand.

I wonder what The Boring Company is doing these days, as I think I might have a project.
S60Maps[0] is actively developing map and navigation application for Symbian/Series S60 smartphones (S60v3, S60v5)

[0] https://github.com/artem78/s60-maps
> Many capitalist businesses don't want a union.

understatement of the year
I don't think I've ever updated my userChrome.css file, certainly not in the past few years. The browser chrome is pretty stable since this is how the browser itself is styled, so outside of big UI updates like Proton (which didn't even impact my own css) the chance of breakage is pretty slim.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. This sounds more like an opportunity to finally make gamedev an appealing job.
This isn't a good example of an RCA - as other commenters have noted, it's outrightly lying about some issues during the incident, and using creative language to dance around other problems many people encountered.

If you want to dive into postmortems, there are some repos linking other examples

https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems

https://codeberg.org/hjacobs/kubernetes-failure-stories
I could have used something like this numerous times whenearning a new codebase (or a new part of a big codebase). I wonder why this tooling isn't more popular.

The next thing that would be great is hyperlinks to the source code from each node in the graph
> Knowing your rights, reading the law and discussing it is a perfectly fine thing to do for everybody.

Sure. I am a former law student (in mid career when I did that), worked in legislative office, spent a large part of my career as a government program analyst that did lots of legal/compliance analysis, and spend huge amounts of reading and discussing the law, legal rights, etc.

But when people have an immediate concrete legal problem with substantial property or other interests at stake, whatever other discussion of my understanding of the involved law involved might be interesting, the only correct advice in ~99.997% [0] of circumstances from anyone who is not a lawyer, or even just not the person involved’s lawyer on the matter, is to get someone who is your lawyer (at least for the length of a consultation) review and advise.

[0] there are situations where the practical context is such that the law and legal advice are irrelevant, though they are quite exceptional.
Seems like an excellent way to lose your domain in a default judgement
This sent me down a good rabbit hole. Ended up finding a simpler userChrome.css that removed the native tabs. I'm sure yours does a lot more cleaning up of the UI but the following worked well for me: https://github.com/taylorsilva/dotfiles#hide-firefoxs-native...
Possible? Yes. Practical? Eh…

You either need very thick castle kinds of walls or to sink underground and essentially build a big hobbit hole kind of construction where wind hits a gentle slope instead of a flat wall.

A building designed to take an 80 mph wind is just a lot different than one to take a 250mph wind. One is basically guaranteed and the other an extreme rarity.
I watched the whole thing - there was no lawyer specific information, he just narrated the same thing over and over. Don't waste your time.
It's interesting that Google can snapshot a few tiles from the nytimes graphics, but the archive sites cannot:

https://images.app.goo.gl/2ME6uXYXHCATVGYT6
It isn't myopia at all to think that near term conventional large-scale nation-state warfare is unlikely. I'm well aware that industrial giants of the last half century aren't as dynamic as they once were, but it hardly matters. We have tons of talent and capacity, it isn't unlikely for newer and better companies to be built.

The only important thing where we seem to be at a serious disadvantage is in chip fab, but there are several companies looking to break ground on new facilities in the US in the next few years.

Trying to hand-wring over an unlikely war seems unproductive. There are two major powers today, and we have an extant model in living memory for how to keep tensions below a critical level. The Chinese plan to compete with the West via the Belt and Road initiative seems unlikely to lead to anything other than economic conflict.
Ask HN: Decorative technological gadgets I could buy today?
I've been looking for interesting gadgets to decorate my house with. They don't need to be useful neither strictly decorative, but they need to blend in and not feel out of place.

It's all too easy to find interesting kickstarter projects that are either out of stock or won't be production-ready for years -if ever.

Domotics and home automation welcome for the sake of discusion.
Show HN: SaaS Landing Page Templates
I am old enough to remember those days; got a summer job when I was in college at a lab that had lots of PDP-11s in, I think, 1980. Some of them didn't have boot ROMs and you had to toggle in the bootstrap program from the front panel every time (only about a dozen instructions).
> people getting head injuries when getting zapped is pretty common

This scares the shit out of me, more than getting shot by a cop. Cops use tasers a lot more freely than guns, very frequently using them when there is no plausible threat to themselves or anybody else. They're allowed to get away with it because tasers are "less lethal." All it takes is one bad fall to turn you into a brain scrambled imbecile who can't tie your own shoelaces anymore but much of the public doesn't seem to understand this and are unsympathetic to these sort of concerns. At least with guns, people understand the gravity of the matter.
I'm no expert but shouldn't servers be behind some sort of firewall so they won't download code (or anything else) from random remote machines? Why would a server need unfettered access to the outside internet during standard operations?
They need to due a little due diligence before taking you in as a client, such as assessing if your needs fall within their expertise and whether you will be a potentially profitable client. If you work as hard as you can to summarize your case to respect their time, as opposed to rambling like an incoherent crazy person, you can often get a free pointer on how to handle the case & maybe a referral to someone who is better prepared to assist you.
> it wants a hand on either “ten” or “two” specifically.

In the airbag era, shouldn’t this be nine and three?
Can I write my own apps for the sealed version?

The dev kit seems a bit too low level for me
> my boss at the time could do that faster across the toggle keys on the front panel of his larger PDP-11 than I could type it in

This is exactly what I waned to hear after watching the video of toggling posted below. I thought to myself there must have been people who could have done that in two seconds, but then I kind of doubted it because I didn't know how much rebooting was really done.
If you make 2% more money every year than you did the year before, then how does that lead to 40% less earnings over 40 years?
Cryptominers now gobbling up AMD CPUs because graphics cards are too expensive
I work for a small company, and one of the things I enjoy is we're always spinning up new ideas to see if they work. We tend to spend half time on new stuff and half time on maintenance.

This has given me a lot of exposure to different things over the years. It's mostly web stuff, but one of the more interesting ones was interfacing with hardware for a warehouse app that we built to make the shipping process less error prone and more efficient.
Didn't know about this! Looks so much cleaner than the other extension
> Firefox is better in every way

That has been my experience as well
New in deep-sea: The barreleye fish has a transparent head, tubular eyes [video]
Congratulations! You just got an offer for a buy out.

This could be the best thing that has ever happened to you. Depending on the price and size here, very little chance / or unlucky for them to go nuclear option. The last thing they want to do is take this to court and then also lose. Devastating for them to lose and only expensive for you to lose.

Settle here and take the bonus.

How deep do their pockets look and how valuable is this domain to them / you?

0. Get lawyer and do everything through them and through their advice first.

1. Draft a response saying basically over your dead body, make it clear and obvious how likely it is they will lose, and tell them you are prepared to take this to courts for a legal judgment.

Tell them you are reasonable though and give them an option to make a serious offer for purchase at 10x whatever you value it at.

2a. Get offer, negotiate to a value of 0.25-4x (not 10x), accept, move on with your life.

2b. Get sued, win, re-offer sale at 20x. Sell domain at 8-12x.

2c. Get sued, lose, sucks.
Warning Issued for Millions of Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 11 Users
You can't be serious. You know France has nuclear weapons (including a 24/7 nuclear ballistic missile submarine patrol) and a world class military, right?

Just because you lack an understanding in military affairs
and history, and have heard of a huge military disaster ( of course ignoring all the military successes) doesn't give you a right to insultingly dismiss whole countries' military capabilities.
I’m not sure Signal Sciences covers what I’m looking for. I see it has a agent you run alongside your app but does it block outbound connections?

I have been looking through their docs and can’t see anything.
It looks really slick, I'll have to look closer at it before giving an opinion.
Except that it isn't cancer. It's a headache. And sure, WebMD will tell you to call a doctor in case your headache is a blood clot. But most people just take aspirin.
They will, because they don’t want to pursue legal action where there’s little chance of them getting paid. It’s worth giving you a half-hour of their time for free to figure out if 1) there’s enough money involved, 2) the defendant can pay up in the event of a win or 3) you can pay up if you don’t win. Nothing worse than working 100 hours and not being able to collect because the defendant is “judgment-proof” (aka flat broke).

Have a home issue where the builder owes me $100k in an open-and-shut case… but there are a dozen other people in the same situation, his company has folded and he’s under indictment for fraud in an unrelated case. My lawyer advised me to just move on with my life as any chance of collecting is near-zero.
>that ran on Raspberry PI devices

You were able to create a companion app, but I'm talking about actually running custom apps on the tracker itself. Do you know if that's possible
>I'm using this with postgres and supercollider for more of an artistic project though, so YMMV.

Do you mind telling us more about this project?
Friendly, foul-mouthed crow befriends entire Oregon elementary school
How do you deal with the lack of Pebbles cloud services?
I have screened or interviewed hundreds of people over the past three decades. That is not a strong claim, it is simple truth. There is a large minority of so-called "professional" software developers who literally don't know what they're doing and can't anything but the dead simplest code.

They may only represent 2% of the population, but they are a much larger % of candidates searching for jobs. If you think about it a bit, you'll see why.
I forgot that this was an option provided by a different extension, was very confused for a moment.

Definitely going to give that a try, thank you!
Yes, because from a business standpoint, you should care where your product is going to be after 20 years, and the VB6 programmer knows that eventually JS might not be a thing and will think of architecture decisions like 'we'll have to transition this to another language, how should we make that process easier?'

Likewise, some lessons transfer. "Huh, that time we were working on Thing X and relying solely on Bob's technological expertise we were completely screwed and the company went under after after Bob had an aneurysm, I should make sure there are no single points of failure on the team knowledge wise."

Or "Man, we built such a beautiful Visual Basic 6 program, but the interface was so bad nobody used it and we failed. Let's make sure our front end and back end people are communicating properly." Or, "This was the most elegant technical solution, but then it turned out nobody had the resources to run it. So let's make sure to do our user testing and make sure we're designing appropriately."
Yes, negative 23 Fahrenheit is very, very cold.
Ask HN: What's your view on tool like Prohance?
My organization has decided to install Prohance[1] on all employee machines. This has made me uncomfortable. I consider such tools as breach of my privacy. Please share your experience.

1. https://www.prohance.net/