skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just an email saying "yeah, sounds good. We agree to this."

That is entirely sufficient to legally demonstrate agreement. An in person conversation is too, but it leaves less evidence.

> I say this only because I can see -- IAMAL -- that there are many ways around this. "Yes, but we subsequently changed the deal when I emailed you and said 'we have to delay it," and then you said 'that's terrible. ok.'" etc

Yep, the purpose of a signature is to have a method of indicating your agreement on the exact version of the document that is being agreed on.
It's enough to buy a small house!
That would indeed seem to be the case, judging by his submission history.
Lawyer here. Much like "Smart Contracts" (presently the worst named thing for anything these days), this is that thing where a tech person believes that lawyer problems are like tech problems and they're just not.

Real life lawyer contracts just aren't very much like "code," at all.

Code does exactly what the text says, "perfectly," every time. Therefore, it's important to be succinct and "correct."

Contracts, at best, are the best approximation of what two human beings are agreeing to at any given time -- and here's the important part -- infrequently "do" anything AT ALL; they just kind of shore up what the two people were planning to do anyway.

Contracts are more like a best-guess list of all possible errors and what to do about them when they come up.
List of Free GNU/Linux Distributions
Another random reason webassembly is really cool is that it let's you run ML models way faster after page load than through the GPU (which can take a ton of time to load all the buffers into VRAM).
The creator probably didn't break his back making it, already has a job, and probably has reddit equity that will make him money when they IPO.

I would've for sure taken the first good offer for my project in that case.
So, you know, pay for it a little bit? It's there, it makes the ads go away, and it's cheap.
Does the graph of excess mortality in Denmark at https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps make you feel better? It looks like they have been at the historical norm for a while.
Reminds me of the outcry over micro aggressions in recent memory. Not to say that these things aren’t emotionality harmful, we shouldn’t dismiss people’s feelings or normalize hurtful behavior, but perhaps we should start asking why people are so sensitive.
> and it further makes it a lot easier to hide which data is extracted from a computer from the user.

I don't understand this argument. If the world was "HTTPS-optional" like it was 10 years ago, anything that wants to hide which data is extracted can still (optionally) implement HTTPS (or whatever encryption they please).

So the only way this argument makes sense to me is if 'pushback against HTTPS' means ban encryption, and it seems to me that's not what you're saying.

> The centralization it drives also creates unpleasant attack vectors for snooping governments.

The internet is already heavily centralized around a couple of large IXes. Not having HTTPS will only make snooping governments' jobs easier. It doesn't matter to them whether their wiretaps are in CloudFlare's datacenter or in the IX next door, and they'd probably get greater coverage with the latter.
SimpleDB: A Basic RDBMS Built from Scratch
WebAssembly is full of potential. But so are Java bytecode, SPIR and various others. Why will WebAssembly take off where these haven't?
I'm not sure that's the case. The resource receiving the GET request isn't producing any side effects in reality. The caching server/service in front of it is.

The underlying resource (behind the cache) doesn't (shouldn't?) even know about the cache itself.

And the cache doesn't mutate any data points, just may store a version of it.
Wrong. Think of it like slap stick comedy. It's light, it's brain dead and you don't invest emotion in.

Googs tried to make YouTube a more corporate friendly place
Except the game is played by millions and will inevitably be played by many fewer in this scenario. People can trivially make clones but it won't be the same as part of the fun is that it's the same word for everyone, and I assume copying the day's word would be even more legally dubious than copying the gameplay.

So in that scenario, I don't think "everyone wins". A free, universal bit of fun will have become a paid, niche thing for NYT subscribers. The vast majority of (continuing and former) players will have lost something.

I don't at all begrudge the developer taking the opportunity to cash in, but if this is what the NYT do I certainly will resent their part in it. It's a bit of mild fun that doesn't need to be "monetised".

The crossword comparison is a bad one, btw. The setting of each crossword is a separate skilled, creative act. Not many people can do it, and those that do deserve to be paid for it. There is practically zero daily effort in running Wordle, just static hosting and choosing a word each day.
Is Laziness really that big of an issue in practice though? Admittedly, I'm pretty new to Haskell. I've done a few CLI programs and one little web app using Yesod, and the fact that Haskell is lazy by default has never come up.
> One should add that for that the threshold for detection has to be lower than the threshold for infection.

This statement is logical and makes perfect sense - but it's narrower than the original one.
I think we fundamentally disagree on what "stealing" means.
> Backup cameras are one thing people may not want to go without (and indeed may be required in some cases) — but you’d be surprised how informative a basic proximity beeper is.

I think that backup cameras are required in US cars post-April-2018 [1]. I think that's how manufacturers justify getting a screen on the dashboard. Every other (bad) decision is just "let's make the software do _this thing_" and the feature creep leads to terrible UI/UX.

[1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/equipment/driver-assistance-technologi...
Use Odysee
I wonder if having only an IPv6 address would provide enough obscurity to be reasonably secure in this case? Or maybe those allocations are still to publicly guessable?
Gotta be creative to work for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSCHF (according to his LinkedIn).
This reminds me of trying to buy a graphics card last year.
With all the Pi's that are stuck in peoples' drawers, collecting dust from half-finished projects (ahem, not myself of course...) then perhaps a pi-bay might be a thing with pursuing :)
That is because high return games trigger gambling addiction. It is even illegal to run lotteries with too high returns in many places for this reason, casinos doesn't have high returns to be nice to you but because it ultimately nets them a lot more money.

With low return games it is really easy to see that it is a bad investment, while the higher the returns the easier it is for people to think they can make money gambling. You might say those are dumb, but the effect of making high pay-out gambling legal is that you ruin their lives, and in my opinion their lives are worth more than your fun.

This is a case of the trolley problem. You think it is fine to ruin their lives since you didn't do it directly, but since you could save their lives by banning it the effect is that you are ruining their lives by keeping this legal.
more than Flappy Bird I'd say 2048 but yes 100% agreed
Calling ad blocking "theft" is an absurd take. It is not theft to only consume part of the content that is provided to you. There is no law that requires the viewer to consume all of the content provided in a format, in any country that I'm aware of. It would also be immoral to compel the viewer to spend their time and attention on dross.
Hah, I've seen that so many times now... are you a regular NYT crossword solver, too?
I wonder why they didn't just call it the "Indian Switcheroo". Why would it be named after a religion?
Nice try but no different then any of the other attempts to unseat ICANN. This has absolutely no chance of working unless incumbents get their cut or you find some reason to have this, that is so compelling that average people will take it upon themselves to install and use it.

There is endless free porn with regular DNS so you can't use that. Pirate music and video has been done to death, don't think you can use that to roll out your own DNS. If facebook wanted to have their own DNS and rolled out their software with their clients then they could probably pull it off. China will do it at some point but only for their citizens in their territories.
Yep. Professional gamblers are always looking to buy new accounts. They get burnt every few months and have to move to new ones.
As a shooting enthusiast, there are remarkably similar websites for finding ammo. Funny that we're facing similar problems...
The only mention of X.509 on the page is a sentence saying that the protocol does not use X.509. Certainly reading it in full I did not see any usage of X.509. So I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

Not to mention, X.509 is not centralized to begin with.
As a client you get to choose whether to check ocsp or not. If you don't like it, don't do it.
It's already in all browsers.
Activity-based risks are not additive.

Time spent driving is not time spent having sex (well, hopefully).

So if risk(dying while driving) ~ risk(dying because of sex) ~ 0, you can easily ignore both of those.
AC has a solid, hardcore userbase. That it sold 35m units and most of those quit by summer 2020 is normal for any game. No game lasts forever unless you really like it.

TikTok is a behemoth and just keeps growing.

A lot of people still play Among Us and like it. Malls are full of Among Us t-shirts and plushies.

I'll give you Clubhouse though.
Maybe it is time to get a new job. These days there is a big shortage of tech talent and deserving candidates can get very good pay in India. The typical trick is to apply for and interview to as many companies as you can. Get a good offer and put in your papers. Given that most companies have a 2-3 month notice period, once you are on notice, you can continue applying for jobs and shop around.

The funded startups in India are paying very good money to their staff. Even somewhat junior resources with 4-5 years of experience can get in excess of 50l inr per anum, which is roughly 65k usd in cities like Hyderabad, Bangalore & Gurgaon.
I really enjoyed Ruby Koans. I feel like it gave me a solid feel for the language in a fairly short amount of time.

http://rubykoans.com/
You should try NYT’s Spelling Bee. I think it also has that daily coming back kind of attraction.
No need to twist and turn anything. No contract, no obligations whatsoever. It's literally as simple as that.

The content provider is free to stop providing the content at any time
> I’m already seeing implementors failing at following the spec here – they will equate the QUERY method to querying a mutable database, which won’t give reproducible results,

Safe requests (all of which are necessarily also idempotent) are not reliably reproducible; GET of the same resource changes if there are server-state changes induced by other requests between GETs.

So, what you suggest is not failing to follow the spec.
Twitter as well. Try to make a new account in an incognito window without providing your phone number and you'll either be stopped from completing initially or find the account blocked before you've interacted in any way.

And if we're talking about real anonymity, lots of the internet is blocked off if you use TOR, whether by the site itself or some cloudflare or whatever CDN or hosting service.
People on ART also often (perhaps usually) have undetectable viral loads
most legacy telco COs are unassuming brutalist buildings... there's easily a dozen similar to it in the metro Seattle area but unless you work in the industry or have a reason to know where they are, most people don't pay attention to them at all.
> He had a chance to try to lose 80 pounds in six months, but didn't try because "it’s not the most healthy thing in the world to do"

It is very doable. I am currently following a diet that has resulted in a 35 pound weight loss (265 to 230) over two months. I think the fatter you are, the easier it is to achieve these kinds of figures.
I've worked on commercial Haskell projects and it was actually quite nice! Tooling was a pain, libraries may be lacking, but describing a complex domain as a state machine in the type system with automatically generated tests (via properties) and formal methods to prove some of the core algorithms was a really interesting way to develop. Not sure it'd be my pick for my own startup though.
Losing can also release dopamine [0].

[0]: https://theconversation.com/designed-to-deceive-how-gambling...
I'm assuming the name "Wordle" itself is possibly trademarkable..
Yeah, the similarities with 2048 is uncanny. Too bad Gabriele Cirulli never got a similar buyout.
A funny glitch with Patreon's privacy policy
> It's certainly arguable that a particular namable someone first found some way to communicate the concept that the earth is spherical to someone else...

If you mean "it's not likely everyone thought it was flat until someone said 'wait, it's round!'", yeah, sure, I agree. If you don't, what do you mean?

> Its easy enough to say "the earth is a ball" because you've been told, but how can you prove it?

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018EGUGA..20.5417K/abstra...

Same way Eratosthenes did in 3rd century BC to get his fairly impressively accurate estimate (39,060-40,320 km; real is 40,075km) for the Earth's circumference. Or do the laser shining through holes in boards on the salt flats. Or go to that huge long lake in Canada and note that you can't see the other side unless you raise your camera. Any of those will give you results that show it to be roughly spherical.
Been an interesting evening out of 7 users only one actually managed to play with me, thx for joining: abddd, santi, nick12, bobbob, samsss, joe and boop! :D

They say "do things that don't scale": well I'm trying son, I'm trying!
Today OP “taught” me that if a book requires careful effort to fully understand, then the book is badly written. Likewise, if a book is hard, the reader shouldn’t ever be expected to push through that difficulty and should instead seek an easier and simpler take on the same topic.

If these are the OP’s habits of mind, then hard pass on anything else he thinks.
I would have cut out the middleman and hired the ghostwriter. The guy that sat in our office was useless and probably made the majority of the money. I don't think he deserved to be paid.
> So, is there a controversy around "black magic" the US or not?

That I can't answer being outside the US myself, alas.
> So what are some reasons that it won't gain popularity?

The main reason would be lack of interest. It's developed by a handful of people who are undertaking one of the biggest tasks in the history of the Internet with very little resources.

Remember how much energy it took to switch everyone to IPv6? Right it still hasn't happened 20 years later: that's exactly the kind of change GNS is about, and that's why it's designed to be backwards-compatible with DNS so we don't end up in the same situation.

I'm open to the idea that the provided implementation could be bad (haven't read the code), and i believe there may be valid criticisms of some parts of the protocol. I just haven't read anything of the sort so far. In both cases, that could hinder adoption, but both could be fixed before GNS is standardized, which is why the authors have been pushing early drafts to the IETF (to gather feedback).

> Are the prevailing registries/registrars opposed to it?

In regards to the ICANN, registries and registrars i'm not aware of any opposition. GNS changes nothing significant to their politics/economics: it would require some time/resources to deploy but arguably nothing terrifying. Registr* specifically are probably entirely unaware of this effort and couldn't care less, especially since GNS is designed in a backwards-compatible manner where people can continue to use regular DNS and it will "just work".

> Would there be any authority that could mediate disputes over who "owns" a name?

This is registry policy and has nothing to do with the protocol. Every registry has a different policy on this matter, which may also be impacted by local regulations.

> Does it address the problem of name-squatting/hijacking?

Hijacking is made harder by GNS because we use public-key cryptography from the start to delegate zones to a third-party, not location (IP/domain). It's like DNSSEC but better because you don't have to mess with your zone to advertise the key (the key *is* your zone identifier in the DHT).

As for name-squatting, this is again entirely unrelated to GNS as it has to do with ICANN/registry policies. GNS is about better technical foundations for DNS in the 21st century, it's *not* about changing the politics of the ICANN root (although it's arguably an empowering technology for alternative roots to emerge).

Hope i answered your questions. (there may be some details i got wrong as i'm not involved with GNS project)
I said the average western diet. Veggie or not. I did not imply causation between meet consumption and deficiencies, but rather pointed out than eating meat didn't save people from them.
There is a general PDF shrinker, known as "pdfsizeopt" that is bundled with static builds of gs and a number of other utilities.

It cuts some of our PDFs to 10x smaller, mostly by removing unused fonts (but doubtless also some other magic).

The developer asks for donations for production use from those who can afford it.

https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt

Send donations to the author of pdfsizeopt:

https://flattr.com/submit/auto?user_id=pts&url=https://githu...
Are you serious? They sneak brand names into crosswords?
It’s probably solved in ~3.4 guesses and 4 at worse - there was a proof shared recently on HN
Founder of Bolt calls Silicon Valley 'boys club' full of 'mob bosses'
I mad ukrainian version of wordle an caled it slovko (slovo means word in ukrainina) https://petronek.com/slovko/
Emscripten port on Adventure Game Studio was just merged. :)
I don’t mean to evaluate your 1x1s. I was taking you at your own evaluation.

I read an article saying how great 1x1s are and how they worked surprisingly well in a new situation. Then I saw your comment that said you disagree and had some descriptions that I would take it to mean you don’t like 1x1s. You also described the broadness of your experience (thousands, countless people, both sides).

So, I tried to indirectly (sort of as a joke) point out that in one way your experience is not broad.

I’ll say it more explicitly: You are in all of your 1x1s. If you’ve had many 1x1s with many people, we can pretty certainly say it’s something about you that’s the common factor. And no judgement with that! Maybe the common factor is “I don’t like talking through work with one other person at a scheduled cadence”. Totally fine. I have no specific criticisms about you in your 1x1s.

Then I kinda launched into my own opinions on 1x1s thinking it might help you or someone else. Also just to clarify my thinking by writing, let’s be real.

And based on another comment you left, seems like I was wrong about you disliking them? Then, yeah, don’t worry about it. Keep doing what you’re doing.
If I owned YouTube with the goal of maximizing profits, and I did not have any self imposed ethical constrains, I would focus on controlling the market of hosting videos. The technology needed to operate a video hosting is widely available and been so for the last few decades, so the only way to prevent competition and keep a market dominance would be to make sure that competitors can't compete. Keep users on the platform or else the users will end up on any number of competing platforms, splintering off the user base into more and more fragments.

With a strong market dominance one can then focus on profits with minimum risk. One way to raise profits would be to impose taxes, like with streamers get donations through "youtube bits". They could go further and demand taxes when any company do things that has monetary value, like say when a company want to make a video about their products. They could do like Facebook and many dating sites and offer a service of "promoting" users above other users. One can couple access to the site to hardware products like mobile phones, or split off features to "exclusive" access users. One can down rate the speed/quality of freeloaders, pushing users to upgrade their accounts to premium accounts.

The ways to monetize a market dominant position is to many to count. The hard problem is the iron grip needed on keeping users on the platform.
Arabic wordle: https://arwordle.netlify.app/
Yep. In fact mRNA vaccines are almost trivially easy to produce. I know for a fact that many biology labs around the world bought the reagents needed to make homebrew mRNA vaccines in earl 2020. Just in case big pharma screwed up. It would have only been a few days work for them to produce it for themselves and I wouldn’t be surprised if some American and European labs actually did it.
Even the most "benign" unsolicited ad is still basically malware for your brain.
Just think about where money comes from that funds deficit spending. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

For an in-depth treatment, see Friedman's "Monetary History of the United States". It's not an easy book to read, but it's full of all the information you'll ever want on the topic.
https://wordlegame.org/ <-- exists

I actually thought this was the "real" wordle for about a week.
30k usd maps to 2.2million inr. Which is the kind of pay a quality junior employee with 3-4 years of experience can get in a quality firm. There has been an explosion in tech salaries in the last 4-5 years and these days most companies are finding it tough to fill up their positions. Quality resources can easily get 50% of what a equavalent role would get them in the US.
Engaging with Disengagement-Steering Towards Effective Autonomous Vehicle Policy
The difference is:
- You have to parse the body to do that, which something like a proxy may not want to do

- It's non-standard, so different implementations will result in different formats
Perhaps they're buying the ability to trademark "Wordle"
Read "Speaking of India" by Storti. It really helped me understand a lot of the strangeness I also observed working with India-born coworkers and contractors.
Imagine all the energy wasted making those instruction sets, hardcoded crypto silicon and that part of the CPU... the power that part of the CPU wastes while not in use.

For eternity, or atleast until the CPU breaks.

You just made the situation worse for your own arguments it seems!
You're saying the malicious requests are hitting the obscure path that only shows up in her apk?

Is it running https? Trying to think of how they would have gotten that, eavesdropping would be one way.

Otoh if they are hitting your host by randomly probed IP address but don't know the obscure path, that is not surprising at all. There are tons of exposed http ports unknown to their operators, and it is makes total sense that bad actors are trying to discover them.
reminds of me of this post, however true it is..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27454589
(2017)

some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14753993
Oni I can pass on ;)

Myth and Marathon were experiences in storytelling for me however. I even have a copy of the GURPS Myth roleplaying guide sitting on my bookshelf behind me that goes more into the lore of the Myth universe.
They could already have cloned the game—even if the mechanics were novel, which they are not. The thing isn't even at a relevant domain name. I don't see how they bought anything but the name "Wordle" here—and, hell, maybe that alone is worth seven figures. God knows I'd have sold it for that, if it were mine.
The role and responsibilities of a Sustainable Software Engineer