skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is. The author of the repo wrote about it here in German: https://thevamp.cc/2013/10/12/terraria-1-2-decompiling-und-s...

From what I can tell this was originally motivated by bugs in the German version of the game. Back then 1.1.2 was to be the last version of Terraria (a running joke at this point, they announced 1.4.4 a little while ago) and so decompiling seemed like the best option to get those bugs fixed. This might be a more interesting blog post on that topic: https://thevamp.cc/2012/07/16/terraria-1-1-2-zu-terraria-1-1...
Machine Learning Becomes a Mathematical Collaborator
Which views exactly make him such a zealot?

He certainly suffers from speaking truth to power. Bill Gates suffered no consequences for flying on the lolita express (other than maybe a divorced wife) while Stallman was canceled because of some fairly mundane commentary on Epstein.

It's an odd artefact of American culture that statements made by people who stand to gain nothing materially and potentially lose a lot (e.g. Stallman) are so frequently given less weight than those who have a strong financial interest (Microsoft's "we love open source now no really").
Of course.

I am saying if they aren't yet freezing land defender's bank accounts, without even the need for a court order, under the Emergency Act, as per this article -- be sure they will use this precedent to do so, once they have set it, many more times against the left than the right. It sounds like you would probably agree, since you are aware they are generally much harsher against left protests/disruptions than right.
HN is full of rich techies who suffer from confirmation bias who think they know everything since they are in the top 1% of earning power, even though the truth is most of them are of average intelligence.
I'm not sure what your point is? Obviously they didn't intend for people to defraud the system. It's like asking "how can democrats be for welfare programs for the poor when fraud causes some of that to be diverted to non-poor criminals?"
Headlines like your [6], "Ignoring rape complaints: When police fail to protect and serve," are only scratching the surface when you consider cases like Warren[9]. Women called 911 twice during a home invasion, assistance never came. Instead they were raped for 14 hours.

Police have no duty to protect any particular person. Not caring about a person is legal precedent.

This is an extension of the lack of "duty to rescue" in much English-written commonlaw; in much of Europe, Latin America, and Africa even normal citizens are legally required to render aid to people in need[10].

[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue#Civil_law_syste...
I don't think your assessment reflects the current attitudes in Canada. With such a polarizing topic, it's easy to fall into a bubble. I think this is true (and fairly normal) for any political in-group--we tend to overestimate our public support.

In this case, though, it's really just not there.

> Even those on the left are seeing this as way too far.

Generally, people are [sympathetic](https://globalnews.ca/news/8610727/ipsos-poll-trucker-convoy...) to the occupiers, but I wouldn't read too much into that--I'm in the large minority that have "sympathy" for them, but I want them gone as soon as possible.

Canadians say their opinion is unchanged, or that they're more likely to support vaccine mandates because of the occupations and blockades. A small majority want mass arrests and criminal charges, and significant majority want it to be ended by force. [source](https://angusreid.org/trudeau-convoy-trucker-protest-vaccine...).

Indeed, rather than this being "way too far," for most Canadians, it's not far enough.

> The Ottawa police have been unable to end the protests because they are legal peaceful protests.

The occupation is in violation of several court injunctions, which makes it illegal. As for peaceful? I'd disagree--there's been too many incidents of violence for me to characterize it that way, but frankly that's secondary when you're in systematic violation of court orders (without even considering all of the civil violations like parking, noise, public defecation, etc.)

> the reason Trudeau has gone this far is because there is no roadmap to no restrictions. Restrictions are staying. The protesters forced hishand and revealed this reality.

Every single province had a pre-existing deconfinement plan. They've been accelerated as the hospital situation continues to improve.
The Federal Circuit Helps a Patent Troll Block Public Access to Court Records
Isn't that the idea behind separating out the SRE (site reliability engineer) role from software engineering?
The title got truncated ("Create complex diagrams using Markdown-inspired" … syntax, I guess?).
I agree. I can't speak to how this was marketed/pitched at a national level, but in my (midwestern) state it was a huge deal so even as a kid I paid attention to it.

I don't remember much of a climate pitch at all. Everyone immediately pointed out that it cost more energy than it produced. The pitch to the public where I lived at the time was national security (energy independence), and of course the demand it would generate for the local corn industry.

There was probably some greenwashing of it going on, but I certainly don't recall much.
I've only had mine for a couple of days now, but so far I love it!

> One thing I would do is avoid the iFlash SD card adapters as in my experience files tend to corrupt.

I had this experience too, but booting into the original firmware and transferring files while there sorted it temporarily.

Updating to a daily Rockbox build solved the problem on that side of things too! There was a forum thread about it here: https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=52560.0
>> “I probably won’t put a lot of time into machine learning efforts,” he said,
“because although machines can learn, they can’t yet explain to us what they
have learned.”

So, as usual with the use of deep learning in the sciences, we had a lot of data
that we couldn't understand, then we built a model that represents the data, and
now we have a model that we can't understand.

I continue to be reminded of that early Pinky and the Brain episode:

The Brain plans to use a "growing ray" (originally a "shrinking ray") to grow
Pinky into super-size while dressed up as Gollyzilla, while Brain would turn
himself gigantic and stop him, using the name Brainodo, in exchange for world
domination. However, the real Gollyzilla emerges from the ocean and starts to
rampage through the city, making Brain think that the dinosaur is Pinky. The
episode ends with the ray going out of control and making everything on Earth
grow, including the Earth itself, to the point that Pinky, the Brain, and even
Gollyzilla are mouse-sized by comparison again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pinky_and_the_Brain_ep...
You can't compel a company to provide you with a service. That's a little too close to slavery for society's taste. If a company doesn't provide you with a service you agreed to, you can get damages from a court, but you have to use such services as your contract agreed.

It stinks to end up on the wrong end, but that's part of the cost of getting such massive benefits for free. If you want something more reliable or with better customer service, you have to pay for it.

You don't own phone numbers, emails, names, PO boxes, or addresses. You have them within a legal framework, and you can lose them in that framework. Software products may treat them as unalterable identifiers, but none of them are. Things should always be able to be changed.
Exactly. If you are coding, you are losing.
Possibly, but do you actually need any of that stuff?

Some friends only listen to music on youtube or free on spotify (with ads). Personally I have apple music, after going through 3 months free trial of all the services I stuck with it and for £10/month it's less than I used to spend on CDs. I would drop it tomorrow if I needed the money.

The only other thing I subscribe to is Netflix, which is £5.99 and my kids watch a lot on it. I've had disney in the past, but it doesn't get watched. Again I would drop netflix if I wasn't watching it. There's already more free stuff on youtube or bbc iplayer than I could ever watch.
The Forever Emergency
> So much money rolled in so fast that they occasionally ended up with huge piles of cash on their kitchen counter.

Seems like that'd be a red flag, considering it's a digital currency.
I replied to a very specific part of their comment, I have not been rooting against the proposition of opening up walled garden.

If "I" would use it is entirely irrelevant, all I meant to point out is people don't flock to better alternatives just because they exist. I think that most of them not even be bothered (or knowing to) de-clutter their Internet browsers is a good example of that point.
Not sure why you are taking offense in that. I wrote that they make me smile. Despite that, I'd also wager that the vast majority of the time, I don't notice them.
I often think to be succesful, you need a combination of

a) A good environment to grow up in
b) A lot of hard work
c) Luck

If you're missing one of them, you need to make it up in the other categories.
I do see this overall situation being at least partially consequence of the early internet community thinking that internet could live outside any traditional structures and especially laws. There was this strong sense that we could forge a new ultra-liberal virtual world, free of the shackles of the physical world. In retrospect that way of thinking now feels pretty naive. That led to outright hostility towards any ideas of government-rooted electronic identity programs, or anything resembling that.

The reason I think government identities are significant here is two-fold. Firstly it left an vacuum for identities that email, despite its obvious shortcomings, then filled. Secondly, weak unconnected identities provide poor means of dealing with abuse.

Sibling threads discuss how kicking people out of e.g. banking or rental involves some legal processes or something comparable. But in those cases both the barrier of abuse is higher because usually there are real consequences, and doing whatever legal process is more practical because the other party is not just some John Doe. In contrast the scale of abuse something like Gmail faces is pretty staggering, and the ability for the operator (Google) to do anything about it is somewhat limited, so it is somewhat understandable how they ended up so trigger happy with bans.

I posit that if we were able to implement real consequences to the actual abusers, then we well-behaved users could have stronger standing to demand better treatment for ourselves and we would be less likely to face the current level of opaque algorithmic bans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technolibertarianism
Here, I'd have to do it on a company, and it would cost $9000 upfront and $2800/year. Not worth it. :)

Free domain lock against NS changes and domain transfers with national TLD authority seems good enough.
Recently moved a system off of EFS because the latency. This update might have prevented that.

We had to make extensive use of fscache to get reasonable performance for shared data for web applications.

I wonder if fscache is part of the solution on the backend.
In this household, we mostly ignore most subscription services, and use public services where applicable.

Some services, primarily Spotify, lack public alternatives, but fortunately Spotify does have a family plan.
I was feeling grumpy this morning, but this comment made me laugh and brought a smile to my face. Thank you.
from political and management standpoint it's the same thing you as a society wanted regulatory institutions to exist and do their best, so they did. Don't like the result? Good luck fixing it without firing all those people who messed it up in the first place.
And also because the public likes the idea of themselves moving up the socioeconomic ladder (“temporarily embarassed deca-millionaires”). I think a lot of the political strife in the recent past is due to the increasing inability to ignore how unlikely and how unrealistic this goal is for many.
Not endorsing or excusing the status quo, but these were never serious locks to begin with.
This used to annoy me when I lived in Hoboken NJ. Often “nearest store” searches etc would suggest that Manhattan (or even Brooklyn) were the closest, and as the crow flies that is true. However, as anyone who has tried to get from Hoboken to Brooklyn will attest, even much further distance in the same state is far easier to get to, and was the option I was looking for, since I could not (reasonably) fly to Manhattan.

That said, I’d take Suffern NY over south Jersey, so by state isn’t ideal either.
How did you get your Gmail account back?
I don't celebrate Christmas, why not ask me my religion in the sign up form? I certainly don't want to see the Christmas themed website or get the "holiday greetings" newsletter. Is making non-Christian people's options the same level in the UI as Christians a bad thing?

Same with the Last Name field. I happen to know someone who doesn't have one. Why isn't he accommodated?

How about colour blindness? Why isn't there a colour-blind accessibility option in the sign up form? Is making colour-blind people's options the same level in the UI as regularly-sighted people a bad thing?

I think that my point is made.
>They don't want cockroach people in my estimation.

This is true. It matters much more who you are than what you bring to the table (unless you're bringing in something spectacular).
To me it seems like they are a pot calling the kettle brown so as to divert attention from the fact that their own blackness is the larger offense.

'these guys are just stupid' as they engage in overt deception and manipulation to even make such an accusation.
On Mars, a NASA Rover and Helicopter’s Year of Surprise and Discovery
This isn't my personal fantasy, this is liberty as it was set out in the declaration of independence, and the french revolution after it. This is how America lived until the late 19th century with antitrust and the reinterpretation of the general welfare clause.

Corporate life is private life, since it is not public life. Anyone can start a corporation - I can start one to manage a dining club, appointing a treasurer, secretary, etc. from among my friend group. Does this mean that I now have to be non-discriminatory in whom I admit to dinner? Isn't that a bit... tyrannical? There isn't any strong legal boundary between my dining club corporation and Apple.

If our government issues Apple a permit to kill 1m deer, then by golly do they have the right to do so.

Yes indeed we should allow people to participate in their private and sexual lives at-will and consensually. I'm making the point that one is no more entitled to a particular kind of app store from Apple than they are to a private relationship.
I’m fine with that so long as we caveat all sources the same way. “Liberal news outlet the New York Times said, …”
It didn't take them a year to "get fuel tanks right", they were building while iterating on the upper stage design. ie, the manufacturing of an initial design that was evolving was being built at the SAME TIME.

Think about that for a second. For an orbital class upper stage larger than any ever built, it took shorter than ever for it to be designed AND manufactured through multiple iterative designs and manufacturing techniques than either the design stage or the manufacturing stage for ANY OTHER ROCKET.

All this while they continue to churn out and iterate on heatshield material and design at the "Bakery" which is another manufacturing facility they spun up from scratch in record time, manufacturing nearly a new rocket engine every DAY and that which has been flown and tested to demonstrate higher chamber pressures than ANY full flow staged combustion rocket engine in the history of mankind.

They're much further along than any comment in this thread indicates.
I’m honestly shocked that this hadn’t happened years ago.
There was an old adventure game mantra that I find has served me well professionally: "Save Early, Save Often."
FF user since it was called the Phoenix Project.

Donating money isn't going to help them. It might help them look good to some techies that follow that information, but otherwise most wont care.

Mozilla needs to focus on other products to use in tandem w FF. Email service that is private, VPN (i think they have a partnership), Thunderbird, zoom like platform. They need office/business solutions most likely. Devtools, dev services, etc.

I'm not saying forget FF, but they can't just focus on 1 product or they are doomed.
That's true, but it may still serve as a nice allegory of why backdoors are bad.
For me, it was having that first $10k in the bank.

That, combined with knowing I could pick up another dev gig quickly if needed, was my safety net, used in lieu of inherited wealth or whatever else.

But you’re right, it takes a few years to get to that point. I was happy ditching work for a year at a time to travel by my late 20s, but I didn’t commit to relying on the product stuff to live on until most of the way through my 30s.

It seems a lot easier to pull off today, in a world with google/Facebook total comp packages for those first few learning years while building up the net.
> Cotten possessed the only key to the online vaults where his customers’ investments were supposedly stored.

This is very important. Due to strong cryptography it's safe to assume the cryptocurrencies can't be moved without the secret key. What happens if the owner of the key dies? My father asked me about this once and I had no answer. Something to really think about.

We currently think of secret keys as expendable. Compromised or lost? Just make a new one. Nobody shares or inherits keys, everyone has their own set. The dead won't be encrypting or signing any messages and there is generally no reason for anyone to retain the ability to impersonate them.

Traditional key discipline relies on the assumption keys are worth nothing. All this goes out the window when these are the keys to assets worth thousands, millions. A new key discipline needs to be developed.
Let's flip your question: what's the reward for being hard to work with?
Mainly because I hate trackers. These days I'm using Tor for at least half of my web browsing. My desktop also runs QubesOS, the web browsers (both Tor Browser and the regular browser) are in their own disposable VMs. Once the window is closed, the system is reset and whatever cookies or exploits would all be gone permanently.
> Interesting idea, though I thought the orig. goal of Java was to avoid this in the first place.

IMO this is moving back in the direction of the original WORA philosophy of Java. jDeploy is designed to be cross platform. No platform-specific build settings, to as much extent possible. After the death of Applets and WebStart, the new direction of bundle a JRE with every app - and rely on platform-specific 3rd-part tools to create the bundles never felt right to me.
I have started using research link collection tools (in my case Zotero) specifically to address this same thing.
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10214024
> "Getting by" is just not something a reasonably talented engineer in the U.S. ever has to worry about, no matter their background.

Yes it is. Injuries & medical care/accessibility/costs can fuck you harder than you could ever imagine. Even when you may have been previously making mid-deep into 6 figures.
Do you think it's okay to weaponize the financial system against "actual" terrorists, but you think these "protesters" aren't that serious?
It has. That repo is over 7 years old.
It has, the link to that repo was posted the first time 5 years ago.
You don't need to start with a $1M+ Super Bowl Ad. Find 10 people, call them, learn what they need, educate them about your offer, take their feedback back to your product. The earlier you can start that process the better, without exception.
When you hear the word `misinformation`, you can generally substitute with `wrongthink`. It makes much more sense that way.
You can still pay in person using chip & PIN or use an ATM without the app. This only applies to online shopping AFAIK.
If your fork is stuggling to gain users then it's not really worth forking, I agree. You wouldn't fork for forking's sake. Whatever compelling features are going to win users away from Google Chrome could appear in Firefox or in a hypothetical Mozzila Chromium, but with the latter you're getting effectively free work from Google. And a Mozzila Chromium fork would start off a little better than 0% market share just on hype, I think, eh?
This is only tangentially related to the headline, but do you think divorce courts in the future will grant divorcing spouses half of their partner's cryptocurrency holdings? Certainly, if someone were to transfer the bulk of their investments into crypto to avoid sharing, that's an evasion mechanism the courts would be interested in countering.
It is possible, you need to be at a company where work is viewed as work and the rest of your life as the rest of your life. Not all companies are like this, some companies think that your work is your life. With those companies they'd probably next you.

Then again, I'm just n=1.
On this topic, NNT's ideas deserve a mention.

Success is mostly about antifragility and exposing yourself to asymmetric opportunities (at any scale and in the individual's frame of reference).

Without a doubt, having rich parents magnifies ability to take such exposure and pretty early in life.

So in essence, success IS tied to having rich parents when applied to a typical large population.
I didn't read the whole story, but did he just lose the keys that gave him access to his property? How is that a "facade"?
The last commits in the repo are from several years ago.
> I really don't think it's crazy to think a person could spend $200/mo+ on recurring subscriptions.

That does seem pretty crazy to me.
> aren't these companies supposed to make money building things

Making money not building things has a higher ROI.
Here's the start of what that might look like: https://ethmail.cc/

As far as I can tell this is just like regular email that you login using your Ethereum Wallet. Data is still stored the web2 way.
Besides weapons, are there any frequently stolen, high-value items that people can’t just bring as a carryon? Like most electronics are explicitly banned from the cargo hold due to lithium batteries.
They sure aren't. I've paid for my bag to be cling film wrapped because of how easily locks can be unlocked and it is at least easier to see if my bag has been tampered with (not that the cling wrap is going to prevent it fully but might make my bag a less attractive target for theft, etc).
> What has become worse is the centralised control of information. Which then leads to those centralised sources complaining and publicising of the issue.

It seems to me like the opposite is the case, there is much less centralization than there used to be. There does seem to be some emergent synchronization of opinions but that is not the same.
It happened years ago. The latest meaningful commits where 6 years ago.
> We could even do that while exempting very small low-harm operations and cases in which that kind of work really is something resembling necessary (police work, say). There's no "gotcha" in "but what about police investigators?" or "but what about HN?" (the two I've seen in this thread) unless one ignores the reality that similar worker protection regulations deal with those sorts of edge cases, routinely. Even if the regulations couldn't have any nuance (why not? It's not been a problem any other time), I'd personally be OK losing HN over that, sure.

Couple posts up. Cut the passive aggression and read.