skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 42.10. Acceptable Use; Safety-Critical Systems. Your use of the Lumberyard Materials must comply with the Acceptable Use Policy. The Lumberyard Materials are not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical systems, such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control, nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live combat.

> However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization.
During a zombie outbreak, how important is cloud access, really?
I would argue that Venezuela is not very democratic, now, but Hugo Chavez was originally elected democratically. I suspect this is referring to actions to undermine his government at the time.
The definition of flagship is specious at best. Recent Pixels have been coming out with budget mid-range processors and less technological prowess as compared to their brethren from Samsung etc, and the camera is at a standstill since the Pixel 2.

On the other hand, devices like the Nexus 4 had a big emphasis on powerful CPU and midrange price. Safe to say that Google's strategy is fluid, to put it charitably.
The only way I see this working out, is if the game is actively mining crypto during play. But even then, why would big game companies leave that revenue on the table and give it to players?

I can see the crypto miners in games being a thing in the future, but at best players will receive a funky hat or a new gun once in a while for their efforts.
the same people that exposed a problem: websites track users even when they shouldn't in such an aggressive way that it should be illegal everywhere in the World, or at least in those countries that put "free" in their names.
Never used it, but your description makes me want to try it ...
> For the nazis, gaining the degree of control of Sweden they needed would have been a very formidable challenge

Yes, but for the Iron Ore supply they would have done it.

And that would have entailed very, very harsh reprisals against the population population if they engage in gorilla warfare. Bombing of the major cities and so on.

Of course you always have to option. And Sweden would certainty have been far harder to take then Norway as Sweden was far more ready for war then Norway.

A Sweden hell-bent on fighting the Nazis would have probably lead to an far earlier defeat of the Nazis.

The problem is, they would not get support from anywhere because of the geographical situation.

That is why I stress that the Norway situation was so critical. With Norway in Allied hands Sweden would have acted very differently.
There is always lots of good new music in any generation if you look underground. If your tastes are open to the experimental and unconventional, you'll find an endless supply of great new sounds. But most people's tastes are strongly shaped by the older music they grew up with, so naturally they'll use that as their reference point for "good" music.
Yes, exactly, but you'd have a higher chance of taking up a hospital bed if you weren't vaccinated, thus your status does something for hospital staff, which is what I was replying to.

Even if that wasn't your motivation, getting vaccinated is good for society as well.
In Europe. WhatsApp or Signal, and I'm aware of Telegram. iMessage isn't even on my list of "what chat apps do people use?"
For the lazy:

> However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization.

I remember when AWS released Lumberyard and a commenter on HN pointed out the zombie clause. This joke rewards those who reads the fine details.
windows ships with curl nowadays so this may not be an effective deterrent!
> brothers' girlfriend

You have multiple brothers with one girlfriend? I understand this is not likely, but it's such an interesting concept I kind of want it to be true.
I design and sell ultra-high end mechanical keyboards https://instagram.com/handengineering, https://hand.engineering
Rexx also runs on mainframes and is widely used. I find that to be like a parallell universe :)
This!!Right to the point. The only thing I can add is make use of a habbit track app, as I usually struggle to keep them. Most are simple hobbies I like to do. But one must be carefull not to fill up to much the daily life. A lot of discussion son HN about this.
No, I don't multiply integers, but polynomials, where the standard "fast" algorithm is nlogn
Which is a very different proposition than the original assertion that modern singers can’t sing, or that autotune is “killing music”.
Yes I brought Sweden to the table because the complex story of neutrality in Europe is latent in both. And turkey of course. My fault for "starting a hare"
From my post:

> , but those parts cut out, usually leaving a grindy mess with no shortcuts (paid or otherwise).
Lumberyard isn't cloud. It's a game engine and it sounds like it is not designed to be 100% robust, hence it shouldn't be used in critical situations.
You could use your own domain, and Google's business offering maybe? I'm not sure if you could register a catch-all email then, but it would enable you to use custom domain, and Gmail's infrastructure and interface.
The problem is that a lot of Firefox users block google analytics, so it would not surprise me that Firefox is very much underrepresented.
As it was expected and predicted by many smart people.
This explains why some negative Gitlab mentions are taken off from HN front page so quickly.
> Personally I believe that the majority of iMessage users are completely unaware that Apple silently upgrades your communication from SMS to iMessage.

I think the word you are looking for is hijacks.
Yeah, you're not wrong especially in places like London (also based there). But the voter block that vetos changing that is OAPs...
> Never submit GitLab content to Hacker News. Submission gets more credibility if a non-GitLab Hacker News community member posts it, we should focus on making our posts interesting instead of on submitting it.

I can think of a couple of projects that I wish they'd followed this policy.

Every time there's a post about [REDACTED], I check the submitter's history, and 9 times out of 10 their history consists exclusively of promotional posts for [REDACTED].
This faked nostalgia is becoming irritating.

Websites which were like that didn't last long, and mostly were hosted on free webservers.

If you want to get rid of nostalgia please spend 60 whole minutes making sense of HTML+PHP5.6+jQuery copy pasted code. And make it IE6 compatible. And use tables for layout. And don't use stackoverflow, caniuse, or an IDE. You'll soon understand how we reached the current state of things.

t. Boomer that spends 8+ hours straightening PHP5.6 sghettis for a living, who still swears by FTPZilla and jQuery scripts.
It's like they got things reversed. What I miss about old web dev is the simplicity of the tooling: no complex build systems, "CI" was just uploading your changes via FTP (maybe using something like Dreamweaver's features for keeping track of which files you've edited), and basically zero server config.

What I love about the web now is the rich features of modern HTML, CSS, and JS. I no longer spend my days debugging weird browser quirks. What I hate most are the fragile build and server environments.
One thing I don't understand about these kinds of articles is that contrasting statements are often kept paragraphs apart, severely reducing their impact.

This is going easy on the people directly responsible.

> “We’re going to get to the bottom of this and find out what the hell happened, and we’re going to fix it.”

There's no "going to the bottom of this". It was known what would happen a decade before it did, and most of the people responsible were in office for nearly that time. They were warned. They chose to do nothing.

A failure cannot become more complete, yet people still place trust in these individuals?
Wait until we make first contact (I'm sure this is scheduled later in 2022)
that's how this always goes. Big narrative push, then a small little sheepish admission it was all BS years later, when the damage has long been done (or the power conflict benefit has been reaped; depending on your perspective.) Now let's take this as our daily reminder to never, ever believe any sensationalist, horror claim about hostile/competition powers. Yes, including -that- one.
Google has partnered with companies to store crypto assets in digital cards
Oh. I think the comment you replied to was talking about integer multiplication, not polynomial.
This can easily be a realistic description of a paranoid schizophrenic train of thought. It is interesting to contemplate Dick had a psychotic event in 1974 but this text is from 1953.
I had never actively checked out the Billboard Hot 100 until you mentioned it just now. I had to laugh at how blissfully unaware I had been at the amount of country music that comes out of the USA!

Going through those 100 songs, pop music doesn't seem to be noticeably worse than 20 years ago - except when it comes to the sheer volume of mumble rap. It stands out to me as uncharacteristically bad/monotonous/derivative/etc (and I say this as someone who was a big hip-hop fan all through the 80s/90s/2000s).

I don't think it's just a matter of taste, either, because I definitely don't like most of the chart (Adele/country/indie/etc), but I would never say it's lacking in musicality. Mumble rap is just irredeemably bad.
99% of developers that don't develop for Windows also seem to use and prefer Macbook Pros, so the argument "the law students don't know squat" doesn't really hold water.

If my Thinkpad was not a solution, I would have continued using a Mac even with their lack of ports and upgradability.
This is a weak attempt to discredit Bellingcat, and frankly raises more questions about Declassified UK's intentions and objectives than it does about Bellingcat.

NED funding is easily and openly given to tons of entities and doesn't come with strings attached. It's no more evidence of being a 'CIA funded propaganda op' than receiving money from the Open Society Foundation makes you a Soros shill as others have also ridiculously claimed.

There are valid criticisms worth making against Bellingcat, and legitimate unease at the role being played by independent and unaccountable entities like it in our discourse. Declassified UK doesn't seriously try to address any of them.
Farage was a stockbroker, his dad was a stockbroker… he went to private school, he was a member of the Conservative party and a politician for decades

Yes, he might not be old money but he's as establishment as they come - look at his clothes he even wears the uniform of the establishment

One of his greatest tricks is that we was able to convince so many people that he was a normal person just like them
And still you needed Vue.js to make this (shit)?
Would still take it over California’s utilities and their costs. How many hundreds of millions can be spent and still have regular blackouts…
Roblox business model right here
This is pretty cool! Some people were asking on another thread about the differences between XMPP and Matrix the other day: first-class support for CRDTs (or equivalent consensus-reaching) is in my view a key property of Matrix and despite not using Matrix for chat yet, i can definitely see myself using it for collaborative apps (Etherpad is still bugged after all these years, and HedgeDoc is in my personal opinion going in the wrong direction by removing explicit macros).

Can't wait for higher-level library (yJS or others) to support a matrix backend so i can mess around with that!
I used Runbox for very many years and loved it. I cannot even remember why I migrated off; I was probably naively seduced by the launch of GMail (it was a long while ago) and getting similar stuff for free (I was an idiot).

Every couple of years I get a new trial account with them as I liked it so much, and each time I think 'nothing has really changed'. I read their dev blog and it's interesting, and their staff were great each time, but it just seems to take forever for anything to get done.

It may have been finished now, but the last time I tried them (only maybe a year or two ago) I was put off by wanting to move my calendar entries over and finding out that the new(ish) CalDav support they'd added had no web interface to it.

I get that the basics don't really change (and they are good at it); I just get irritated at the lack of pace. Otherwise I'd definitely consider returning to them.
They do, when in the hands of experts.

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc

https://www.aicas.com/wp/products-services/jamaicavm/

All in all, Google just made a big disservice to the Java community with their Dalvik and ART forks running Android Java, and the sooner they are on their coozy Kotlin universe with Android running on top Kotlin/Native (Kotlin is after all so much better than Java /s), the better.
Australia has been seeding clouds since the 1960's uninterrupted. Maybe just give us the benefit of the doubt here.
Wait, is there something wrong with the paper you linked? Theorem 1.1 says

> There is an integer multiplication algorithm achieving M(n) = O(n log n).

You don't call something a theorem if it's a conjecture.
Canonical presents its plan for accessibility on the web
> - works best in IE^HChrome

There's a GIF at the bottom declaring "This page is best viewed with Netscape 3.0"
I remember making websites in Frontpage and uploading them to Geocities.
UK here, all my friend groups are on WhatsApp except one which has moved to Discord. I have one individual friend who sends text messages. My parents have WhatsApp but are probably 40:30:30 email:text:WhatsApp. My broader family has a WhatsApp group (that i'm not in!).

Until recently, one friend group was on Facebook Messenger, but only because one guy was a WhatsApp holdout who eventually gave in.

I don't know anyone who uses iMessage, but then i have an Android phone. Maybe they're all having cool and sexy group chats on that without me.
I think the line of "choice" here gets blurred, which is exactly what disorder refers to in the usual context.
Visitor Locations Now: London 2%

Clearly a HN hug!
I tested out Fathom and Plausible.io, and found that Plausible was more ahead in terms of features. With Fathom it wasn't possible to separate out events (click on link x, click on outbound links, download of a pdf, etc) you just got a big lump sum of how many events had occured in total. With Plausible I can see how all my events are doing, individual graphs and all. They're both of the same concept, they cost about the same, but basically Plausible lets you drill down into the data better so I'd personally recommend it over Fathom.
Not at all. A great singer laboring in obscurity with only a dozen fans doesn't count.

Bell-bottom jeans are out of fashion, too. They might as well not exist today.
> Maybe you are thinking of every deindex that you see articles written about?

Nope, I'm thinking of the notifications I get in my inbox from Google when they deindex articles from a couple major UK newspapers
Playing Uncharted Waters 1 with FM Towns Emulator Tsugaru
How's the compilation speed for compiling Scala to JS? Eons ago I used Scala for Android development. Let say it was a traumatic experience, so now I use Scala exclusively at the server side.
The internet to me was a blessing and a curse. In economic terms, it has granted me lots of opportunities I might have not otherwise had; in social terms, it has taken a big toll, significantly isolating me from the world, which I didn't admit until very recently. I remember a smart classmate at university who, one day, just stopped attending and sold his computers, saying something like "these little colored lights have turned me into something I don't like". Some days I wish I had done the same.
It's currently nighttime in the US, so that's not too surprising.

But it doesn't mean that the overall fraction of visitors from outside the US is that high.
That doesn't read like an endorsement of planned geoengineering.
I managed to land a well paying job with good work life balance by changing my approach to job seeking. Here's what I did.

1. I tracked all incoming offers in a spreadsheet with a column for salary and equity
2. I responded to every incoming lead on LinkedIn with 'what is the salary band for this role?' and 'how did you find my profile? What did you like about it?'

This allowed me to build a distribution of jobs available to me, and then I only ever took calls with the top 1% of those offers.

I must've spoken to 150 recruiters on chat, but I only interviewed for 6 companies and secured 4 offers.

I kept iterating on my LinkedIn based on the feedback from the initial chat interaction and very quickly I was getting really good leads.

I put in about 100h work over a year to get to that point. I still, 3 years later, regularly get offers with >200k GBP base compensation now.

EDIT: I forgot to add a key factor. When the recruiter responds with a salary that is below the top 1% you reply: 'Thank you, but I am currently only able to consider salaries with a base comp of at least X, please get back in touch with me if you find something in that range." - X being your current estimate of the top 1-5% of the distribution.
I'm all for it (well not making it "shit", but fun and personal).

My nostalgia filtered memories are that people spent more time creating stuff (however "shit" it was) than consuming. Your feed was a curated list of bookmarks (could be something else today, hello Fraidycat). People had infinitely more freedom (it's my corner with any type content/media), instead of mandated formats ({text, pic, link}, 140 chars max, etc).

Not saying this is the only way. I wish it could co-exist successfully with modern social media.
this is my own experience too. Also in the UK

(except that there's no exception; it's all whatsapp)
Is this an American thing to be so hung up on phone's builtin messaging software? Here in Eastern Europe everybody just use third-party messaging providers (Telegram and, unfortunately, Viber) that are available on every (major) platform.
I'm interested in a link to where Madonna (in her prime in the 80s) can't hold a tone.

> So what you are actually complaining is how modern music is produced.

Well, sure. That's what I hear. To hear good singing, I have to go back to the 80s and earlier.

I still don't hear anything that can compete with the singers I listed. I listened to the singers you suggested. Listen to the links I suggested :-)
Economists of the 20th century thought that productivity increases will reduce our working hours so much that we will barely spend any time working...

What your boss should have done is lower your working hours but keep the pay the same.
"C strings" really aren't anything worth talking about. People take them way too seriously and then complain that they are "unsafe" or "hard to use". Look, C gives you memory to work with and the rest is up to you. Almost the only thing you want from C with regards to strings is string literals.

It should be obvious that most "string" APIs from libc like strcat, strcpy, but especially strtok are ridiculously bad and are only in the libc because of history. Don't use them.

Even strlen() is rarely a good idea to use, and you can (should?) replace strlen("abc") by sizeof "abc" - 1.
>On 3 March 2007, a company of 171 Swiss soldiers mistakenly entered Liechtenstein

That was my company :)

BTW: I think a year or two later the same happened but with France (was a bit a bigger "outcry")

EDIT: The wikipedia story is not the full one, two pretty nice police guy's stopped us and told us where the swiss border is.
I guess the point is to make you feel something different, to explore and try to figure the website out. I remember accessing the "hack websites" with black background and red texts in comic sans while thinking "is it a dangerous website?" haha. Today we mostly take some template because it's "cost-efficient" and end up all looking the same with flat design, call to actions everywhere "buy" "talk to sales" "schedule demo", chat on the right bottom corner and so on.

When I wrote my last website (https://kakugo.ch) I factored in how to balance in trying to making it interesting yet presentable for the everyday audience. I don't know if I achieved that but I tried. A few things one can notice there: two easter eggs, a text written from the heart and some peculiar images. If you also have any more ideas, let me know, thanks :)

Recently I've also stumbled upon three.js which is awesome to build sites like this https://bruno-simon.com/. 3D modeling for websites is pretty neat. As the owner of this website said "i like to build websites that look like videogames".
> submit photos of oneself

Clearly you haven't used system like this - it's pretty sophisticated sequence of light flashes to manages to somehow fingerprint that you'r not faking it.

Used it in few systems for years and it works great. One of them scanned my passport via NFC, another one just asked my details (name, DOB).
Not really, because the O is only open when alone, or a longer word. This reads Óku, not Uku. At least that's how I read it being Portuguese.

The defunct social network Orkut is a good example of this. It's Órkut, not Urkut.

Of course, none of this matters :)
I visited it once while working at Bellcore / Telcordia's Piscataway office.
Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong
It is especially telling that just on the verge of war, this piece comes out trying to undermine credibility and trust of the US, UK and UK media, and to sow discord.
Been a long time coming. I have somehow managed to avoid the virus, but I know its a matter of time. Many members of my close circle have already gotten it and recovered.
Tsugaru[0,1] is an open-source FM Towns computer simulator.[2]

[0] https://github.com/captainys/TOWNSEMU

[1] http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/FM/e.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269460
Also prompt departure of their VP of compliance after her concerns about discriminatory practices where dismissed/ignored in the open discussion thread.
you should do courses, maybe for free w/ a sub-license agreement or franchising thing or create some marketplace to handle sales/marketing for people who maybe create their own auto-algorithmic designs, and then you're making $, and people who might be struggling --esp. artistic types might make some $.... win/win.

Maybe something where someone uploads some sort of 'manifest' or 'starter material', that determines how the artwork comes out, the system then handles creating, selling, delivering the artwork and takes like 20% cut...

I'd love to help on something like that if you'd want, I'm a laravel/php dev mostly but familiar w/ rust, go, python, javascript.
You believe sha256 would drastically improve password hashing, being a not broken hash function? In 2006 they likely ran php4 and didn't have much choice what hash to use.
Having worked in a middle sized company with a bunch of lawyers on payroll, I am starstruck how someone got something like this in at a gigantic corporation like Amazon. I'd imagine this to have taken weeks at best. Unless it was the idea of a high level executive of course.
I'm not sure what you are talking about so I don't think it's a problem as my emails look normal in gmail and it doesn't show anything weird.