skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess what constitutes "malware" is based on what the ad is doing - if it's benign, it's an ad and I'm fine with that. If it's hostile/tracking scripts masquerading as an ad, then obviously that's a problem. I call it "malware blocking" because of multiple past experiences like I mentioned above, and the way to avoid them is with these "ad blockers" (though I guess a more generic term, like "content blocker", is perhaps more appropriate).

And I'm sure some would be quick to point out that running uBO as a "malware" blocker just happens to siphon up legitimate ads in the same bucket in the process (which is what I think is your point), and my reply to them is that the blockers typically won't block anything that comes from the same IP/domain as the site (as is explained in one of the linked articles). I think it's up to websites to run their ads in a way that doesn't trigger it to get blocked, because the detection pattern for most blockers is based on past abuse of these techniques.
If I get it right this would serve the same purpose as GET requests with data in the HTTP request body. [1]

1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/978061/http-get-with-req...
Congrats! I'll keep playing until the paywall comes crashing down on my fingertips.
The website misses the reason that I have not moved my domains to HTTPS: Google.

Google treat the HTTP and HTTPS pages as separate for link ranking purposes, so there is a chance that a move will destroy 10 years of link ranking. Even with redirects, there is a non-zero chance of the business being destroyed.

If Google would treat HTTP and HTTP pages as the "same page" then I would move tomorrow.
It did, the earlier ones like the VT05 (and perhaps the VT50/52) didn't as far as I recall. They had a ton of boards with a whole lot of discrete logic! A bit like the early computers where the 'processor' was not a chip but also several boards with discrete logic chips.

As a result, those earlier terminals are even harder to emulate as there wasn't really much 'firmware' and definitely no standard CPU architecture. However those were pretty barebones anyway in terms of control codes.

I loved the VT05's design though. It looks really star trek. It won't fit on a modern desk because of the depth (all those custom boards take up a ton of space) but it looks so cool.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/decvt05.jpg
Idempotent is not "side effect free", but rather with only side effects that need to be safe to duplicate and deduplicate.

As in "increase counter by 1" is not idempotent, "set counter to 2" and "set counter (monotonic*) counter to 2 if current value is 0" are idempotent.

It is quite weak as a requirement for example an API that functionally must not be cached can still be idempotent.
> why would they buy it? They could've just cloned it in a few days with their team, no?

It would be very obviously the NYT ripped the game off from the original, and that wouldn't look good. They had the money to buy it and did so.
Baseball is too easy if the batter has a tennis racket and a motorcycle.
It's a standalone js app and all the future words are in it. You can get a word for any date by setting your system clock to that date.
Worked at a place hired one of those. He scheduled meetings, then cancelled them at the last minute. Never accomplished a single task. Demanded a good reference and he would go get another job elsewhere - essentially extorted the reference.

I guess some folks are sociopaths, and do whatever it takes to live well.
Everyone whose data was leaked will have had their data absorbed into public and private databases now being used against them in algorithmic ways that even the people using those algorithms don't understand.

Such is the nature of data persistent today. It persists f.o.r.e.v.e.r. That means there is no forgiveness for the mistakes that even we don't make for ourselves, as well as those we do, but are made for us by others, like Equifax.

You can tell people that a data breach like this will have certain ramifications, and they just don't understand. They don't understand that algorithms run their lives, making decisions about them every single day. Worse is that they don't realize that these algorithms run on risk modeling. These algorithms eat actuarial data for breakfast. They suck data and chop it apart and put it back together to make you into whatever risk model they want. Data is used to quantitize you as a risk model. You're a risk score, be it a credit score or whatever, is affects your life at every possible level, and it's all connected to our fundamental economic systems. I don't mean to sound like the guy from Fight Club, and certainly not half as clever, but these are truths.

We exist in the real world as real living entities, and we exist as multitudes of fake representations, all algorithmically-determined risk models based on data you have neither control of or even understand how it's being applied to you. Your life is owned by the heuristics written by some PhD candidate.

I do sound like that guy from Fight Club.
That’s what’s happening.

Without any html/css/<script> intervention on my website, Adsense has been able to enable additional ads that stick to the bottom of the screen and another that pops up before going to another page. It’s all opt-in, but through the Adsense portal.

It’s all automagic now, over and above the blocks I had inserted.
Good to see someone asking the important questions :)
companies rip things off all of the time. purchasing is hardly the only option, or even the best option.
I was looking in the past week coincidentally. The website supposedly shows stock in-store, but says they're out at the local one. Suppose I could call them and ask directly if there's a possibility the website doesn't actually track stock closely.
I have only been using Dockerhub actively for a few months. I use it to play with Kubernetes and it is ironically unstable. I would happily switch to a more stable alternative.
In calculating the effective size of the money supply you have to factor in loans marked to market. In a fractional reserve lending system, when a borrower defaults money is essentially destroyed. A lot of loans in Japan are still being held on the books at face value. The fact that there has been no inflation is evidence that many loans will eventually default.
Portuguese ones:

https://term.ooo/
https://www.gabtoschi.com/letreco/
What exactly are the NYT buying here? Are they buying the traffic which must be quite large. Or are they buying users? Surely Wordle is a passing fad and, in a year, will retain less than 40% of all players playing right now. After that, how many are going to buy a NYT subscription based on this.

They could have gotten Wordle recreated in less than a week. iirc NYT used to employ Rich Harris of Svelte fame so I would imagine they have the developer skills to recreate Wordle.

Are they buying a brand? How can they make money off it?

Is this a marketing/advertising play?
A block heater won't get the interior warmer for you to get in and block heaters require plugging in which won't be an option at the office parking lot for most people.
Vanced is a modded APK. It takes the YouTube APK and modifies it to block ads and sponsorship via Sponsorblock and lets you run it in the background with the screen off.

NextDNS doesn't block ads on YouTube because they're served from the same domain as YouTube videos.
> furries and other such weirdos

They're people just like you. They also run the internet. [1]

[1] https://thespinoff.co.nz/irl/11-01-2022/who-runs-the-interne...
The fact that I have to parse the body and intropsect its payload to know that the query is malformed is the worst client experience ever.
Must be a lot! I'm definitely one of them. Even the allegedly simplest to configure server behind Caddy (Traefik) makes https unnecessarily hard to configure. Caddy is the long-missing counterpart to Let's encrypt.
I like the one-a-day idea, and that it's the same for everyone.

However, the game itself is exactly the same as 'Lingo' - an old US show that still has a UK version airing right now. It has also had its own app for a while.

It's amazing how a couple of extra touches can make something explode in popularity.
You've just shifted the goalposts significantly and did not really reply in good faith. Showing ads is very different from linking to malware. Especially on YouTube the amount of malware is probably very low since everything is sandboxed.
They bought it for low 7 figures, thats a huge bargain. It would have cost them that much in developer time to build it, forget about the marketing.
For what it's worth, I haven't played a game consistently for close to 20 years but Wordle stuck like glue for some reason. I've only missed two words in 3 weeks. It's kind of addictive. I might stop tomorrow, who knows, but it's interesting that I'm still returning to it day after day.

I'm notoriously bad at picking up habits too, even if it's something I want to do.
Maybe your sensorium is different than mine, but the motion, flashing, and colors of advertisements are just as irritating as the audio to me. This is especially true in an environment where there are lots of other conversations and sounds to compete with the TV noise.

Unless the volume is turned up annoyingly loud, I find the visuals to be the annoyingly loud part: The subdued hues of the painted walls, tile floors, and wood trim reflecting back to my eyes from the ambient lighting are invisible compared to the 500 nits of flourescent colors jump cutting back and forth.

Turning on CC but leaving the visual assault in place doesn't help my eyes much. I would feel less abused if they'd turn the screen off but leave the game audio over the radio.
Because that would have been an asshole move. This gets them views, goodwill, and probable revenue stream. In long term probably worth more than what they paid
I don't know... Do you sign any agreement saying that you personally will attend the recruitment process?

If not why would you be obliged to?
Similarly I get exceptional times in marathons, when I ride my motorbike and start half way around the course.
Agreed. Sooner or later the fad would have passed anyway.
love a 1m ad on every 10s video

Christmas 2020 I tried to watch midnight Mass from Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York on YouTube. (Not live; after.)

SIX MINUTES of commercials at the start, and the rest of the program had TWENTY-SIX commercial breaks.

I haven't watched YouTube since.
> IIRC one bank accidently paid off the loan of one of their boderline-default customers to another bank and then couldnt get the money back

That was a story because it was an incredibly unusual set of circumstances that meant they didn't get their money back - the bank owed the recipients money to repay a loan, and as such the money sent could easily have been a prepayment of the loan, which often happens before legal action is started, as happened a couple of days later. There was no way to distinguish an intentional action and a mistake here, hence the court ruling in favour of the recipient.
It's as if the Robin Hood mentality met with Jack Sparrow: take what you can and give nothing back. However, they aren't interested in the well-being of the company because they have more important places to put their effort and dime, such as hobbies or their family. It's an aversion to doing 50% more work for a 15% raise.
you have to be joking. you think it would cost 7 figures to recreate wordle?
Caddy replaces both Apache and certbot (or whatever ACME client you picked), and runs on any platform Go can compile for (because it's pure-Go).
A link to a html5 app in the App store on the wordle site would have made a lot more than that.
btw, why is it called "rupy" ?
I'm pretty sure only the final assembly gets done in the UK. Every other component has to come from somewhere else.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30154781, which was posted a bit earlier.
Game industry would be one source. At least for many teams and projects, Git isn't very useful (horrible for large binary files common in AAA games). So many companies still use Perforce or sometimes you'll see SVN still. That means a whole bunch of really qualified engineers who have never or rarely used git.

I'm sure there are other industries for which that is true too.

It's a good reminder how small a section of the tech industry comments on Hacker News.
I found this, looking for more pictures of the critters: https://www.insider.com/pyrosome-sea-creature-bloom-worries-... apparently, there was a 'bloom' of them in the pacific northwest in 2017
They're buying the right to slap "like this game? try our other ones! you'll love the $39.95/year crossword!" on the top of the real Wordle.
Not in GitHub, that's for sure.
That's rich. People are killing themselves, and tons of scheduled medical procedures are still being postponed.

You'll reap what you sow.
Fish is pretty decent and so is oil, but I still use zsh because of its POSIX compatibilty - which, in my opinion is a huge plus.

Pimping zsh with powerlevel10k[1], some custom dotfiles and scripts feels like having enough convenience, while still using POSIX. I use "Pure" theme by the way, because it also works nicely in not so modern Terminals, if you replace PROMPT_CHAR with > instead of using the default unicode one...

If there were only these two to choose from, I can't tell you, which one to use. I would just recommend NOT linking the chosen one to /bin/sh, but using either fish or oil for your daily use cases and linking dash to /bin/sh for keeping your OS scripts POSIX compatible and working.

I, personally, have come to the conclusion, that zsh is good enough for me and will be until something revolutionary happens.

[1] https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k
One thing I've learned over the years is that fixing or upgrading something is an order of magnitude more time but an order of magnitude cheaper in materials/energy. This applies at many scales. Time means jobs and expertise. Upgrading doesn't scale, which is awesome. This is because fixing or upgrading stuff is essentially always a custom job. You can't outsource the maintenance of the Golden Gate bridge to China. It's gotta be done locally.

Fixing requires people to assess and evaluate the specific needs of a situation, engineer and design solutions, and then deploy them. That drives an engineering and problem-solving, educated populace full of professionals, rather than a machine that cranks out endless, throwaway garbage. America has strayed from engineering and fixing towards "scale"--but mostly scaling the last part, the deployment. It's short-term thinking. It's a pervasive baseline mindset shift that has happened because of bad accounting centered around dollar costs and not societal costs.
One of the major issues with web PKI is that any root certificate authority can sign any domain.

For Google this is fixed by hard coding the SSL hashes into chrome, for the rest of us we rely on http headers; which of course are much more fungible.
> if you are fine with leaking which packages you are installing

I'd rather not ...
Whelp, it's now dead. Unusable as wirecutter, the last thing I used that they bought.
Yes, but there's little joy in doing that.
What are the extra touches for those who never played Wordle?
Subscribing to what amounts to a search+CDN video w/ads service wholesale isn't even in the same ballpark as throwing money directly at the creators you want to support.

The salient point is YouTube/Alphabet has completely missed the opportunity of facilitating Patreon-style commerce, despite being best positioned to do so.

But instead of enabling creators to receive money directly from audiences, an advertising juggernaut like Alphabet would probably rather keep their volunteer content creators incentivized to be shills desperate for advertising dollars.

I predict all the quality creators capable of garnering support via systems like Patreon will eventually abandon YouTube altogether, leaving YouTube to become even more of a raging dumpster fire of advertising upon advertising upon advertising masquerading as content from "influencers".
Nobody:

Absolutely nobody:

OP: I'm TiReD oF THe SamE joKEs!1!

(On a serious note, I totally agree with you.)
Until we get an actual Half-Life 3 they should never be called a Game Studio ;)
Oh didn't know about the improved type 42 font support in the new matplotlib! That's good to know and I should check it out.

And good point, the PGF works just as well (results should be identical), but since all the plot information has to be compiled by latex, it ends up ballooning the compilation time of the tex doc and the matplotlib PGF page suggests that you can run into memory issues as well. I was doing this for a thesis with 50+ plots and so still wanted compilation to be fast.

I've suggested this as an improvement to matplotlib, but unlikely to be merged since maybe it's a bit hacky (although it's very similar to what Inkscape's export to LaTeX option does): https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/22297 (the backend file can be found here: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/files/7921801/backe...)

And the gs script is below:

#!/bin/bash
set -e
set -o pipefail
if [ -z $1 ]; then
echo "Supply input output"
exit 1;
fi

if [ -z $2 ]; then
outfile="$(basename ${1} .pdf)-small.pdf"
if [ -f $outfile ]; then
echo "WARNING ${outfile} already exists."
echo "Supply input output"
exit 1;
fi
else
outfile="${2}"
fi

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dQUIET -dDetectDuplicateImages=true -r150 -sOutputFile="${outfile}" "${1}"

pre_b=$(wc -c "${1}" | cut -d' ' -f1)
post_b=$(wc -c "${outfile}" | cut -d' ' -f1)
if (( $pre_b <= $post_b )); then
echo "Original is smaller ($pre_b -> $post_b). copying..."
cp "${1}" "${outfile}"
fi
There is no such thing as a trace/undetectable transmission. These studies have been going on a long time now with large numbers of participants, replicated in multiple countries/different populations. The results are very strong and not based on measuring viral levels.
I assume that they're buying the brand, not the product.
For a big company like the NYtimes, it would not surprise me. But in any case the built in audience is what they're buying.
The important part of freedom 2 (freely distributing patches to copyrighted software) is already allowed by existing copyright law. You own the copyright to your patches, not the company whose software you're patching.

Extending that freedom to allow distributing the end result of those patches to people who don't have a license to use the original software (as freedom 2 does) would just be another, slightly less direct way of abolishing software copyright.
Short version: it's being transferred (sold?) to the New York Times.
It also provided some incentive for creators to edit and post video.

I had a problem that I figured out the solution to and put up a video of it that made me a few dollars a month. Then YouTube moved the goalposts and demonetized it because I don’t (and frankly, won’t) have 1000 subscribers.

So that’s the end of my video posting on YouTube. I’ve discovered some “hack” repairs to other devices (common washing machine and MacBook speaker issues), but you won’t see my solutions on YouTube, just 99 videos saying to replace it or fumbling with software settings that aren’t the problem.
From what I've seen, a lot of people on the economic left actually agree with those criticisms of rent control, and would much prefer to see true public housing take that place. Non profit NGOs don't typically have the capital to own the relevant land and buildings. And when they do, they typically see it as better use of that capital to sell it or rent it out at market rates and use that liquid capital more directly in whatever their mission is. It's typically only .gov that has the right means, motive, and opportunity to pull off public housing in the face of the rest of the market. At that point, when there's no .gov impetus behind such a thing, rent control is viewed as the least shitty of a group of shitty options.
I no longer use any ad blockers.

I'm OK with most ads. I understand why they exist.

What I would like is something like an ad blocker that only blocks the tracking and surveillance.
My guess is that they're looking to see if you complete it in a reasonable time period, your initial draft is at least in the right ballpark (anyone experienced in tech support, team supervisorship, project management, etc can answer common emails almost by reflex) and it appears to be you, and not someone helping you.

I would imagine that, if anything, seeing you pause after an initial draft, adjust some grammar and tone, pause...even re-write a sentence or paragraph - and then say "done"...would impress, not detract.
>They should be designated superfund sites

Why should they be superfund sites when they don't meet the requirements?
If someone starts a Discord I'd be happy to join it!
in a few years the autobahn will be limited to 130 km/h aswell I guess.
> The company said the game would initially remain free to new and existing players
It's interesting because she's asian and yet was was considered "diverse".

There has been this trend of diversity reporting to list Whites and Asians together in stats. Google has been notorious for this [0] and others are following the trend when it seems convenient [1].

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/ex-recruiter-accu...

[1] https://nextshark.com/students-of-color-washington-asians-wi...
Until now, but sticking it to NYTimes might create some joy.
Internet uses 84 to 143 gigawatts of electricity every year, HTTPS uses the majority of that.
Why should I give them this free compute?

Why should they give you free content?
i've seen this first hand dealign with a team from Mexico. By the time we fired them it had been 6 months of paid invoices.
That comparison doesn’t hold, though. You’d ground quite short with a tennis racket because of the give in the racket (which absorbs all the momentum in the ball that you’re using), and by the time you were to get atop the motorcycle to ride to first after you hit that ground ball, you’d already be out. I bet it’d be pretty close to a bunt or break the racket, honestly. Baseballs have energy and a big part of it is utilized in the hit to add to distance. Think about the inverse: hitting a tennis ball with a bat instead of a racket.

Even with a perfectly placed hit it’s hard to imagine a motorcycle improving the run to first, too, and that gets even worse when you’re thinking about other bases. Going to first you have the momentum of your swing to help you get going too, particularly if you bat left. I’d honestly like to see that tried, because I bet a runner would win every time even if you made the rule touching with a tire instead of your body.

I’m struggling to improve on your metaphor, though, and historically cheating has focused on other things like sticky balls to improve handling. I think it’s pretty hard to hit better with a different tool than a bat, short of making the bat bigger but keeping its properties. Maybe a treated 2x4? Corked bats come to mind too as something that’s been tried, and what that does to the bat and swing is interesting, but it pretty conclusively doesn’t make you hit better or farther (the opposite; we’ve played with it on my team).
they're buying ad-space.
yah, i should have specified 'common' or 'web', or something like that. i had a feeling someone would raise a more technically precise but also more esoteric rebuttal.
There's also 4: It's not possible to consume content and not be affected by it. How okay are you with the fact that corporate messaging is a dominant mode of influence in your life?