skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me take a crack at interpreting it: your comment of "crypto is meant for decentralization, lots of people use exchanges, exchanges are centralized like banks, ergo crypto is just as bad as the legacy financial system" presents a false dichotomy.

Crypto adoption does not need to be a binary decision, and crypto enthusiasts are not hypocrites if they still have a bank account or if they still use exchanges when it suits them.

The important thing about crypto is optionality. Crypto/web3 gives us the option (but not the obligation) of managing our own wealth. This is something that "digital natives" understand better than old timers.
I know you don't realize this, and you think you're a legitimately good person. But you're basically saying "We know you better than you know yourself, and we're going to manipulate you into pissing away as much time and energy on our platform as possible because we can"
From a birds eye view, a Pareto distribution.

From the ground, so long as nobody with political power influences the distribution of wealth and it flows with the market it is a natural distribution.
Well, the obvious one was when the did the "XP Mode" for compatibility purposes.

I'd have expected to see a lot more along that theme by now. Windows's biggest opportunity and problem was always backwards compatibility, and the more hardware gets virtualization-ready, the easier it is to shift compatibility burdens to sealed-box VM images.

I could imagine a future Windows that finally achieves the vision of "only modern apps and APIs" by packaging everything else into sealed VMs running a predictable steady-state "classic Windows" install.
This is interesting because the author was originally requested to stop development by the Pale Moon team over a conflict. I checked today and discovered a new fork. It's exciting to see someone so dedicated to keeping a functional browser working under XP.

I can't find the original thread regarding the dispute, but it's referenced in a past readme:

https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal/tree/6a40b43ae177ff82f711d0...
One can drive screws with a hammer. It will just take more effort.
So many memories. I am one of those who grew with WinXP (though I usd Win95 at school and for a few years Win98 at home), and as someone said in another comment, what else could a teen geek want besides WinXP with a bandwith connection?

I still feel that seeing a XP Desktop screenshot invites to much more experiences (possibly online) than a Win10/Win11 screenshot. It may be with the fact that I associate it to different internet eras as well. With XP I used to browse websits, fansites, blogs, forums, chats, MSN messenger/Yahoo Messenger/etc, whil now everything seems to be the boring social networks where almost everything is generated/shared.

Internet used to be much fun back then, and it may be the reason why most of the people have good memories about XP. I think the main reason (and I wanted to write an "essay" about this for a while) it's that we were offline by default in our lives, and we used to "go online" for a few hours durnig the day. Then you had your experience in the real world and went online to talk about them. Now it is the other way around - we live online by default, sharing photos and videos from a concert almost in real time, photos from a museum, etc. I think it took away its novelty.
Tested on Android with Fennec (Firefox without telemetry), FOSS browser and Midori. Only Fennec gets the challenge. Even such obscure browser like Midori is OK.
The dark patterns he used to push systemd through is another reason. Making unrelated things dependent on it.

Personally I think the Linux world follows redhat way too closely. Especially since it's really IBM now.

But I'm more open to pipewire because of this. Having nice people behind it is important too IMO.
Because they feel that society should regulate entities like Apple to behave this way because they feel it's better for them as individuals and society as a whole if a corporation the size of Apple was regulated in this fashion?
iFixit is charging $39 for an iPhone mini battery, or $25 for an iPhone SE battery. Paying $25-30 for half an hour of labor—on a $400-1200 device—every two years sounds… totally fine to me?
Ironically their customers trust them because just like other businesses around the world, the customers rely on the jurisdictions of where the exchanges are incorporated to uphold the law and make sure the exchanges don't rob them. The same jurisdictions many crypto-diehards think need to disappear...

Would you trust an exchange name "Uncle Vlad's Russki Crypto Exchange"? Probably not, right? Because if they take your money, and you call the Russian version of the FBI, they'll just laugh at you. So you think your money is safer in a crypto exchange where the founders would be arrested if they blatantly stole your money...
At a very superficial level, HN feels like a website and logging in to do my banking feels like a web application. But trying to drill down into specific definitions or draw a clear line between them seems to fall apart quickly. So I guess for me at least I really don't know the answer, but also don't think it's terribly useful to make a distinction either.
Much of Japan's upswing was an illusion created by borrowing money to build bridges to nowhere. They did have a real advantage in quality manufacturing, but that wasn't a sustainable advantage since other countries figured out how to do the same.
Happening in a different place makes it simpler because the backend no longer needs to take into consideration the various clients. For example, the same API can serve a SPA and a Mobile app and some other interactions with other systems(integrations with multiple services becomes so easy).

Also makes it possible to separate the people who build the API and the people who build the UI which can have many advantages such as hiring more specialised people and decouple the releases. For example, you no longer need someone who knows PHP/SQL/Linux and JS/HTML/CSS. You also have less vendor lock-ins because the front end and the back end are agnostic to each other, which means you can much easily ditch something from the one side without doing any work on the other side.
U.S police corruption and cases of brutality are very real, but the scope of criminal collusion, violence, kidnapping and other awful things among police in Mexico are on a completely different scale of danger to residents. Your whataboutism is absurd in general and badly lacks context. If you call the police in the U.S. because of a crime or threat against you, chances are overwhelmingly large that they will at least try to do their job. In Mexico, there is a constant, active threat of the police being the people who commit crimes or vigorously cooperate with criminal groups. Never mind their actually bothering to effectively handle a call for help form the public.
Doesn’t support audio output to dlna devices on the network. Seems I will be stuck with pulsesaudio for now.
Like when ICE separated thousands of children from their migrant parents and subsequently "lost" them in the foster care system?
It's probable that we have similar fears about escalation. If this ends in nuclear war, clearly it won't have been worth it. Our difference of opinion then is that I consider the risks of inaction to be more grave than you do.

One bad thing about GWB's wars is that the global community failed to prevent or meaningfully punish them. That precedent increases world-wide recklessness and paranoia.

I worry that if the outcome of the Ukraine is not a spectacular failure for Russia, the world will continue backsliding (I bet there are Chinese generals rallying already to take Taiwan)

What faith remains in the rule of law internationally is important to preserve. Eg: if the Hague had managed to imprison Cheney et al, would Russia today dare to invade neighbors?

My worries there are why I am open to escalation, though, like you, I fear it could escalate up to some kind of extinction event :(
I'd rather go with StarCraft or Quake. Never liked cards.

Multiplayer games require all sorts of skills to be successful
Re your first part, WhatsApp could've expanded out into a full social network the same way LINE and WeChat did in Asia. So I think Zuck was onto something

Re: the rest: That's an interesting outlook. I wonder if younger audiences are more resilient to being tricked into trying to compete for "Likes" in a semi-public forum of their friends and family..
BBC Micro for me round these parts but same idea. The 80s were a golden age for bedroom coders and the various 8-bit machines round the world launched thousands of careers. The fact that the machines came with a programming language (and even booted straight into it) gave many cause to experiment. It faded out in the 90s when the concept of what a home computer was changed.
> or are we being spied on and stolen from by an increasingly ubiquitous industry with no conscience or self awareness?

It sounds like you're equating "tech industry" with Big Tech¹, but the tech industry is not an evil monolith. Even Alphabet is not an evil monolith, Apple is a radically different beast than Meta, etc.

If you've decided that working in tech is default evil, you could choose a political path focused on breaking up and regulating Big Tech. But there are also plenty of good people leveraging tech for good, too.

¹a.k.a. "MANAMANA": Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Nvidia, and Adobe
Co-Founder Dating
Here is what I don’t understand: Every VC, consultant, incubator, and accelerator including YC, advises to not co-found a startup with someone you did not go to college with, worked on a project together with, or know very well before jumping on building a startup.

Peter Thiel said, something along the lines of it does not matter how great your idea is and your talents, if you tell me you met your co-founder at a networking event, or something along, I won’t fund you.

Now, it seems to me that a networking event is way the hell better to meet and get to know a co-founder than a speed dating site and a tinder version for online meeting and dating a co-founder.

I mean what’s behind this, really? Are they desperate to sign up as many startups as possible, are they looking for a couple of co-founders that look like they are a match made in IT, or have they just simply realized that, hey, if you meet someone online or at a coffee shop, your chances of success are not that bad, after all! Or if they meet on the YC online dating site, then they have to sit and think of a precursor project to work on first to show compatibility ...

I just don’t get it.
To me XP always looked ridiculous. Like an April’s fool joke, „Windows Toys“r“us Edition“. I still can’t believe that it was used to run nuclear power plants (it probably still does).
Everyone at the time already had private coal furnaces in their basements poisoning their own homes.
People largely don’t think for themselves, every once in a while the firmware gets updated and they have a new opinion. All you can do is pick your battles, there is finite amount of credits to spend.
Who’s the Bernie Sanders of Bitcoin?
Methodology aside, would it be surprising if most of Bitcoin belonged to 1%? How would this asset be fundamentally different from other assets?
Quite amazing journalism. There is a lot of value in such a thoughtful and traveled on-the-ground report.

More than once I was reminded of a portion of Herman Wouk's novel The Winds of War that portrays a journey and escape from the Polish countryside to Warsaw ahead of the German invasion and siege in 1939.
I think Web Development has been trending towards being obnoxious no matter how you spin it for many many years now.

All these frameworks, doing too much magic under the hood, were supposed to make things easier, in some form or fashion, but I feel like each one always come with their own problems. Are things actually easier when developing with them?

While I understand nothing is perfect, it doesn't help but add so much complexity into many applications for no reason. If over half of all websites when back to plain HTML/CSS/JS, I do not think the world would suddenly stop.

I feel like a majority of people building web applications are using a development methodology I read on here years ago that was jokingly called, "Resume-Driven Development." I've still not really ever heard a convincing argument for SPAs for websites (web applications could be a different debate, but it also could be a false dichotomy).

However, I find myself getting urges to learn one of these SPA frameworks, not because I think it will benefit much of what I do, but because that is obligatory in staying competitive in my market.
Luck versus skill as a concept is the idea that you can discriminate between agents ability to win. You can state that one agent is better than another agent at a game with greater confidence bounds on the basis of a quantification of their skill. Perfect information versus imperfect information is the concept of whether you are playing a game over information sets and strategy space versus the states and actions of perfect information.

Conflating these two ideas is going to lead people to talking past each other. They aren't the same concepts.
How Do I Crack Satellite and Cable Pay TV? (2016) [33c3]
Is that the research cited in the tweet?
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The New Yorker story from the 90s on this is excellent. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/05/29/the-fifty-nine...

Here’s a non-paywalled version: https://www.uh.edu/ethicsinscience/Media/59Story.pdf
The way to really solve this is unfortunately for every equation that you have on Github you need to generate a png for each equation and just insert it into the file until Github fixes the various issues.
> 2- Isn't it better to use a login manager that is 1- graphical and 2- uses the same GUI tech as your DE

You're assuming everyone using Linux uses a DE.
I wonder if there is an echo in an empty set.
You're obviously implying that the US did it
Last time I checked a big PoS currency, you needed a very large amount of it to even be allowed to stake.
Dfinity, for instance, is being sued for this sort of untoward financial behavior: https://cryptobriefing.com/lawsuit-claims-dfinity-icp-token-...

Hilariously, Dfinity is now suing Meta for its new logo (which looks like an infinity sign too). Obviously a silly lawsuit, but now googling "dfinity sued" is all about Meta and not about their being sued. Scuzzy.
Using a spyware VPN called Onavo might not be the same thing as 'onto something'
Thank goodness Bitcoin wealth isn't distributed evenly among everyone who holds it. Show me a system where that's true (or even close to true), and I'll show you a system controlled by tyrants.

Wealth equality != fairness. Effort, sacrifice, and contribution to the well-being of society is not – and never will be – equal for everyone, so rewarding everyone equally would be inherently unfair.
People are only concerned when they can imagine the harm happening to themselves. In this case with Mexico, Americans can.
Thank you for the advice (I'm new to this). The model performs better with a dark background, for example white dice on a wood table. I trained it with different colors of dice in the hopes that that would help it generalize. The model also performs better with top-down images of dice. I did train with a lot of oblique angles of dice (3000 images in total). That helped somewhat but it is still far from ideal. The model currently recognizes a standard D6 dice with pips. I made a separate model that recognizes D6 and the boat / castle die from Catan: Cities and Knights. That model is only used with the associated game type.

Classifying dice rolls is an interesting problem to me because the same "orientation" of the die might translate into different results of what is the actual value. The model has no concept of what "up" is. The oblique angles issue also adds complexity.

In my current approach, I opted to train the model to recognize an entire die. Another thought I had was to train it to recognize the individual faces as well as the tabletop. Then if I could find the face that was furthest away from the tabletop, I could predict that as the value.

One last problem which I haven't solved yet is the concept of re-rolls. The detection is somewhat simplistic in that it looks for N consecutive rolls with the same result. It requires an empty frame where nothing is detected to "prime" the detector for the next roll. This was done because I didn't want the detector to redundantly record the same image of dice as multiple rolls.

I drew a lot of inspiration for this project from the following tutorial: https://github.com/nell-byler/dice_detection. Nell also has a Dice Dataset on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/nellbyler/d6-dice
MSM != Anal Sex.
IANAL but I read this differently. The pedestrian has the right of way at any intersection unless indicated otherwise. However there are also restriction on when a pedestrian can cross. So in practice this means that a driver should always yield before a pedestrian, however failing to do so the pedestrian is not allowed to walk in front of the car.

So technically both are in the wrong, but I would argue that in reality a pedestrian usually becomes frustrated when a line of cars don’t stop (even when they are supposed to). At this point multiple drivers have failed to abide by traffic law. Now the pedestrian ignores their end of the deal and crosses in front of cars, hoping they would stop.

What I’m getting at is that a pedestrian most often wouldn’t illegally cross if drivers wouldn’t illegally cross first.
Appreciate the speculation, but using Firefox does not increase your likelihood of being flagged as a bot nor does it increase your threat score.
Ah, my bad. I read that section three times and still missed that, and feel quite dumb now.
I really liked Stratego growing up. Quite a few of the 3M Bookshelf games were a lot of fun too--in many cases they were pretty much restyled versions of very traditional games.
> When it's the default state of things, what use is pointing it out going to bring?

I believe that appeals to math can obscure the role of trust. This is demonstrated by the formation of an industry of scammers exploiting the phenomena. Millions of people don't understand cryptocurrencies but buy in anyway, confidence bolstered by their lionization (but not comprehension) of math.

I think it's an illusion worth drawing attention to.
Modern Windows, Home or Pro already runs under a hypervisor, it's called Core Isolation.

> The entire idea of Core Isolation is that your OS will segregate critical core processes from the rest of the other normally running ones in order to defend against hostile or ill-natured software/driver or malware. You can think of it as a vault that only the allowed have access to, something that is not open to everyone. Windows achieves this feat by using its virtualization technology.

https://feedthecuriosity.com/windows-os/what-is-core-isolati...
I graduated in 1990 and owning a personal computer capable of running a C or Pascal compiler useful for academic work was an impossible dream. I was lucky enough to have an Amiga, but a C compiler such as Aztec C cost serious money back then. Open source existed but GCC started out on Vax and even by 1990 I think it only ran on very expensive systems like Unix minis and workstations.
Sounds like a bit of a stretch. By this line of reasoning, it's not "your private business" that you breathe, since you are consuming oxygen and emitting carbon dioxide with every breath.
It's pretty simple to check. Go to https://www.g2.com/ in various browsers. That's what I did when I read the article. Here are my results:

Firefox: Javascript challenge

Chromium: No javascript challenge

Edge: No javascript challenge

How could you call this anything but an attack against firefox?

edit: Seems cloudflare has responded[1] and they claim it is a setting set up by the site author. So this attack is done by g2, using cloudflare, then.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31460441
The field is active even today, you may want to check out TeamOS. (I’m not sure if I can leave a link to it here, so just search for it.)
Where? I don’t see it in the US at all.
And how about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratego
That statement is not the focus of the video, which is an overview of the history of Bitcoin.

Also, these estimates of wealth distribution all suffer from the same flaw: addresses do not correspond to users.

A single address might lock the funds of thousands of people. For example, this is how exchanges operate.

A single user can control thousands of addresses or more.

It's extremely difficult to nail down how addresses relate to users. And that's by design.
I have several active implementations now (in active use for the past 2 years), I guess I could easily water some of those down into a few examples.

With regard to similar systems... Good question. Comparable solutions:

- Ruby Passenger daemon. Almost feature parity with the Enterprise version, except for the "cool robot logo".

- Python Flask framework.

- Apache with mod_php or php-fpm.

- Roxen.

With respect to procmail, yes, indeed, and I picked up its maintenance again, and released a new version recently.
The Flat Earth Podcast
I’m not sure I’m following, how is the machine tag format setting up automatic relationships and contexts? How is it helpful and how might you see it being effective today?

Edit: only saw the first link. Seems second link breaks it down but can’t review it yet. Got pulled away. Thanks!
It's common enough that you recognize that you need to use a chromium browser, that's entirely too common. As a recent example, UPS tracking was/is broken on Firefox.
> Nope. This makes no sense. You're replacing their income because they can't generating any. That's it.

So, in your view, a disabled multi-millionaire should be able to collect government disability payments?

You may think this is a problem narrowly scoped to income, and that's fine. However that doesn't mean that's the only way to look at it, and that anyone who looks at it differently is doing it wrong.

> You have no business in their rest of their life at all. Your job is to determine whether they can generate income or not and give them money if they can't, nothing else.

Sorry, no. That's not how it works.
And one SD card could probably hold every commercially released title for every machine ever released combined up until about the CD era started in the 90s.
Lennart Poettering is also at RedHat.
Bummer for the users?

I'd say Zuckerberg is the clear loser in this story: what could be worse than failing to catch up with WhatsApp and discovering a new fundamental use case?

Failing, then spending an obscene amount of money on buying WhatsApp, then seeing a considerable part of that money enabling the Signal Foundation and watching Signal eat up the user base of both WhatsApp and the Facebook Messenger. Users are fine.
Visual Debugging Now
You can buy just the battery and supply your own equipment (or do it by hand).
I'm out of touch with 99 percent of people do. Can they really afford to call the repairman for every minor appliance issue? Or do they just live with it until replacement?
Yes, there are those exceptions. In most cases the woman is shown as someone whose only function is to take care of the kids while the man is the one with the job to take care of the family; the first picture shows exactly that.

The photo of the naked dude is not exploiting his appearance. The photo of the business woman may be interpreted as something like "even a woman can carry it."