skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a fascinating technolibertarian metaverse dynamic to Minecraft anarchy servers, where gameplay is driven by an arms race of normalized cheating. Players are careful about what screenshots they share online, as this concern is the reality there. There's kind of a similarity to a future real reality where the entire Earth has been autonomously scanned: the terrain of the entire map of a Minecraft server is known to all, since the seed for procedural world generation can be reversed from nearby terrain, and reverse engineering of the world generation has resulted in several methods of determining in in-game coordinates of a player taking a screenshot (terms to search: trees, texture rotation, bedrock).

Related are the impressive endeavours that determined the seed of the screenshot used in the game's splash screen and the seed of a 128px (tiny) screenshot used in the UI. The top comment of the first link explains it better than I could here:

Minecraft's “Pack.png” Seed Reversal Methodology https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24621303 – 2020-09 (97 comments)

Minecraft@Home https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23895789 – 2020-07 (75 comments)

There've also been few server exploits for locating other logged-on players:

Nocom – 2b2t Minecraft server exploit using Monte-Carlo localization https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29615428 – 2021-12 (80 comments)

It's interesting how the anarchy server hacking scene is sort of like science, except with the god-like abilities of reverse-engineering the game's binaries.

edit: fix cut off sentence
Oh I want it. Looks like it's only available in the US though :(
What should they do instead? Put all the links at the top of the first page?

What search engine doesn't try to detect and downrank sockpuppet spam? How's that working out for them?
"Go Edition" is really just a version for phones with low amounts of RAM.
I also have 3 keychrons. One for my wife and myself with a second one with cherry clears for myself. None of them are having problems and they’ve been daily drivers for years now.
There’s been a handful of times where the answer to my question exists seemingly only on some old Usenet archive.
I'm not 100% positive, but it seems to be. Blowing into the front of the mouse would fix it for a few minutes. I saw a bunch of threads about it the last time I looked into it.

If I recall correctly, there were firmware updates that claimed to fix the same or similar issues, but those had no effect for me.
Yeah, the fact that we call iphone/android smartphones is kind of triggering. Especially in the early days they represented the dumbest phones imaginable, with the only saving grace having a better app-store to try and make up for it.
The question is, why did they disappear? Did people just stop caring about things? Who in the right mind would ever want to use reddit -in general- and who would want to use it as long as there is a traditional forum for <topic>?
The problem of web content is the search and recommendation systems have no opinion on skill, effort, scholarship or accuracy.

I'm OK with the rest of what you say, but the portion about "effort" seems to be echoing Marx's labor theory of value. This has been debunked any number of ways. But I think for the population here, used to building things as efficiently as we can, it's perverse to try to reward someone for working harder, i.e., doing things the slow and inefficient way.

Given a product equal in the other measures - skill, scholarship, accuracy, and probably some other variables as well, we should probably prefer the one that took less effort to achieve that bar.
Why uWSGI? Every time I've talked to someone who uses it and got them to try gunicorn they've seen quite big performance improvement for no code change and switched.
If this is anything like their ergonomic mouse then it's probably fantastic
Maybe, but for mainframes it is considered necessary for an operator to perform the data entry as they have been trained on the program use. People used to get certifications for this. Its hard to imagine putting an executive in from of a teletype and expect instant expertise. Garbage in. Garbage out.
Docker acquires Tilt
I'd be all over it if it where available in the EU :(
I have one of those, but the wireless doesn't work well for me (shuts off after about 5-10 minutes, takes a few seconds to turn on again, and runs down the battery in less than a week), and the it defaults to a really crazy looking moving backlight scheme.

On the other hand, I have a wireless logitech with a little trackpad I use for controlling my PC from my couch that's been on the same set of AAA batteries for over a year. So a proper mechanical logitech with a wireless dongle is sort of appealing to me.
My First Day with OpenAI's DALL-E 2
The author’s objective is to teach the category theoretical concepts that get used in FP. This is particularly important in Haskell since it uses some of these concepts (functors, applicatives, monads, etc.) as design patterns.

He’s objective has never been for the reader to learn this and apply it to prove math theorems.

Both set and category theory are foundational systems for mathematics (or attempting to be). Category theory being newer is trending and probably why you get the sense that it’s considered more prestigious. But I’ve never heard anyone claim it is more prestigious.
There's a great (and insanely detailed) book on the rise and fall of Symbian by a guy who was there for most, if not all, of the journey:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Smartphones-beyond-Lessons-remarkab...

When I say detailed, I mean detailed... David Wood seems to have copies of every email and memo he ever wrote when he was there... and he doesn't hold back when it comes to sharing them.

Required reading for anybody seeking to build a platform business.
We didn’t evolve to play instruments though, we adapted and created them to suit our existing physical form
Yes, and? That's not Visual Studio though.

I've been running VSCode on M1 ARM natively for a while already.
Chickens, maybe.

I am retired from tech but I might want to build a family of happy chickens and freeze dry their eggs. No idea if I would do it as a business or just stockpile freeze dried eggs and share with the neighbors.

This idea was prompted by the recent supply chain issues, egg shortages, panic buying, weird world issues and finding that freeze dried foods are expensive. I can see why. Freeze dryers are expensive, time consuming and a little noisy. Either way I will be building a quonset style barn with as much solar as I can put on and next to it. I carved away a little bit of land from the horses so that I have more room for solar and chickens.
Hey, thanks for your comment. I took a walk in the sunshine to decompress a bit and before I go I just wanted to pop back on to explain a couple of things. I didn't seek this out. I don't really go looking for such discussions because I'm a bit too time-starved, but someone let me know they shared my article on here because they liked it so I checked it out. Because I don't go looking for this, this hasn't really happened before (as far as I know) and it's a bit jarring to see people make assumptions about my intelligence for conforming to a style guide for accessibility reasons and practicing what the product preaches.
I want to also mention that whilst I'm sure you're trying to be helpful and not condescending, I have read Flaubert and I've read Orwell, his fiction and his work on the English Language. I have a Masters Degree in English so I've read quite a lot lol, I sound like a dickhead saying that. I only say that to contextualise that I like a lot of 18th and 19th-century Lit which has a lot of long, winding sentences; my own writing took on that character and I struggled for a long time to adapt my writing style. So if it's coming across disjointed then that's something I need to take on board because I'm writing in a style that isn't mine. Ultimately it is compliance - someone called it aggressive compliance, I can't really comment on that. Readability compliance is actually really important when it comes to inclusivity and vital things like medical literacy, which is just one of the reasons people use our product. With this being said, its effect on writing style is obviously something I need to feed back for product development so we can continue making a better, more nuanced tool. We've already made a lot of progress from readability calculators from the past and want to keep improving this technology. I'm not shy about criticism, I haven't even been shy about my username. But yeah, I don't even go here, so I don't know what the critique environment is like. Thank you for taking the time to write this, I do appreciate you're coming from a good place here.
That would be interesting since that would be likely the shortest known MD5 collisions. The shortest ones known are 512 bits differing by 2 bits.

If I had to guess, you might have been hitting collisions in a truncated MD5 hash. It's not uncommon to do something like take only the first 64 bits of the hash. Doing this you are quite vulnerable to birthday problem issues.
When software auto updates that’s effectively what happened here.
> one person will be penetrated by multiple people one-after-the-other much like a Tesla supercharger.

That's a rather unusual analogy. I don't recall ever penetrating a supercharger with anything, whether one-after-the-other or not! Is there some part of the joke that I'm missing?
They couldn’t be fixed by making the plug-in model more structured and restrictive?
Smoking these meats!
https://youtu.be/YeemJlrNx2Q
I don't trust this developer.

For the last two years or so they tried to retire "Simple Gallery" (which already had no ads or extra permissions required) and move people to its paid version by releasing updates with nag screens and fewer and fewer functions (edit: removals).

Every single time someone complained in a review, they would reply a canned answer: "Hey, there are many improvements in the Pro app version, it is definitely worth upgrading".

I have no issue paying for apps I like, but sorry, I won't reward scummy behaviour.
Thanks for the infos and sources.
Looking at the reviews on the T-Mobile website, you can't type using the number pad. That's an insane oversight!
I agree that LaTeX has not the best syntax, but that is a better alternative?

I mostly write in Word and I can tell you that it is not that much better than LaTeX. Sure, the editor is WYSIWYG so you can see right away the title, abstract, text, etc.

The problems I have with Word are mostly solved in LaTeX. For example, references are automatically managed in LaTeX. In Word, that's mostly a manual process (I know there are integrations with Zotero/Mendeley/whatever, but those are a little wonky on a long paper---I have never used the built-in citation manager). I sometimes feel bad for the editors that have to check all my reference lists. They usually find 1-2 papers that are either missing or included and no longer cited.

Tables are also a problem in Word, especially if your collaborators use an older version that breaks the formatting (Moving between Google Docs -> Word -> Google Docs also breaks a lot of things). I can't tell you how many times I had to reformat tables that a collaborator broke. Making complex tables is also wack sometimes, like adding a simple sub-rule between cells requires some column hacks in Word.

Table/figure numbering is also another thing that I loathe in Word. Manually renumbering is a pain and the automatic numbering always breaks for me in a way or another (maybe still thanks to my collaborators).

All those things work pretty well in LaTeX with some backslash commands.

What Word really shines is track changes and commenting. I don't know if there is a LaTeX editor where you can track changes and comments like in Word (I know that Overleaf has something that kind of works).

Powerpoint vs. Beamer is a whole different ball of wax. Both have pros and cons. But with presentations with a lot of equations, beamer is definitely better but, as you point out, it doesn't play well when you want to put an equation in a specific spot in the slide. In powerpoint, you can just click and drag and you are done.
I don't think they're actually complaining that the color can't be changed. I think they're complaining that there's functionality which can only be obtained through paying; that functionality could be totally meaningless and it'd still cause complaints.

Personally, I agree with you; adding unnecessary customization options which are only available to pro features is one of the least unethical ways of making money for software.
Sure, and the Wansee Protokoll didn't come out until 1947 (and, famously, was itself quite euphemistic).

The entire topic of this thread is the disclosure of official documents which, like the Wansee Protokoll, expose the regime's real goals and practices.

Of course, there are people who still disbelieve that the Holocaust happened. I try not to argue with them online, once they have shown their true motives.
Social Media Stocks Sink to Erase $180B on Snap Warning
I'm glad you asked this — I misread the submission title until I read your comment.
Instagram Sans
What specific vulnerabilities are you referring to?
Yeah it is kind of surprising. Scribble supports latex output but I don't know the details and it's probably similar to pollen, since pollen is built on it.

It doesn't seem that hard (famous last words tho) especially since turning arbitrary DSLs into xexprs is one of the things racket truly excels at.
With wireless charging and desk mats you may not even need to plug them in to charge them anymore.
It's possible to submit a comment simultaneously with a URL submission.

That comment won't be distinguished in the discussion, though it will be the first-appearing comment, which can sometimes be useful in steering discussion. I attempt to steer in the direction HN itself generally encouarges: to deeper inquiry, benefit of the doubt, and charitable interpretation.
T-Mobile coverage and speeds are great. Also it's a GSM phone and probably works with other carriers if you purchase it outright.
I really want this but somehow I know that SF will be one of the last places to allow this type of service.
Kolmogorov complexity is borderline useless if the idea is to describe code size or code complexity for humans, though. It only describes programs in terms of "what is the smallest (fully qualified) program that would generate something that ultimately leads to the original result", completely removing both the human, as well as the original code in question, from the equation.

And to make matters worse, we don't actually know how to calculate the true Kolmogorov complexity of anything because humans are notoriously bad at figuring out what "the smallest program" actually is, so it's a great device for reasoning about complexity, but it's a near useless device for determining actual complexity.
The whole your thing is to distract from discussing China and making it sound like China is actually ok with what it does. No it is not and nothing that happens in USA makes China actions less grave or less genocidal.

> it's a response to parent's claim that this can only happen in China, because in the West the public has the right to speak out and fix it

Not true. The parent said that in the Western countries can be pressured and the public has right and possibility to speak about issue. The implication is that therefore public pressure can be used to change the things. It was not that nothing bad in west ever happens.

> Also - ever seen the racial stats for US prisons, or for police shooting victims? Doesn't it look like a genocide to you?

Yes and actually no it does not look like genocide at all. It does look like racial bias and imprisonment rates are absurdly high. Nevertheless, it is not nearly genocide.
Some Fatal Flaws in the Software Engineering Industry
I just changed from DDG to Kagi and will probably pay them once out of Beta. So far I am very happy with the search results and I believe that the next innovation in search is it not being beholden to ads. DDG is not in the place where ads will corrupt your business but should you grow and be successful, you one day will be.
I have a stack of statistics books that I will flip through if I need explanation or illustration of a new concept. Usually one will help me out better than the others, but the combination of the different explanations usually improves my understanding.

I suppose this is really a parallelization of the "third textbook" model (i.e., if the third textbook you try when learning something new seems "much better" than the first two, it might because you actually did learn some things from the first two).
Don't forget the training data for those computer "ideas" will be "attention" and targeted at the most vulnerable 80% of the market. I'd hope that it makes them less fearful and angry, but nope... that drives attention. I wonder what combination of UFOs, satanic cults, and immigrant hoards it will be.
Find Vulnerabilities Using Snyk
Agreed. Mind boggling experience that I've never been able to replicate after the first genuine play-through. Granted I was young and Fable more or less had a great impact on me as well.

Games feel...not as great as before. Ghost of Tsushima was excellent but it's been a while since a game has truly made me go, "Whoa!"
Yeah, it's a pity they don't sell it in the EU.
I don't think there are any Russia-based independent news sites left, are there?
I find that response a bit strange, since the whole reason the Zoom client has these particular vulnerabilities is because they didn’t roll their own, and instead rely on layers of broken libraries.

It’s quite possible they’d have more bugs without doing that, but re-using existing modules could just as easily have been an even worse idea.
Honestly, I enjoy the current answer to this (which was around long before Go's generics) - there is the `sort` package, which provides a lot of baseline sorting functions for built-in types, and then a function that takes a slice of `interface{}/any` and a function to sort the elements of that slice.
The process of evolution is more than just the elimination of unfit specimens. That suggests that a tiger is just a tiger, and the only kind of evolution that can occur in the tiger is for it to become a better (faster, stronger) tiger. But in fact there was a time when carnivores didn't even exist, and then some random genetic flux produced an animal that was inclined to start eating other animals and a new ecological niche was discovered. Evolution is therefore a creative process of adaptation and specialization under constantly changing circumstances.
There are two big challenges: One is that TeX, the underlying executable behind LaTeX, is pushed to its limits¹ to run. The macro expansion paradigm behind LaTeX made sense in 1982 but there are a lot of decisions underlying the executable and TeX-the-language that were dictated by the computing technology of the 1970s (forget Unicode, standard ASCII wasn’t universally available when Knuth wrote TeX).

The other problem was the questionable decision by the LaTeX core team to, rather than release LaTeX3, they instead decided to evolve LaTeX2e which means that they are encumbered by backwards compatibility issues.

The noisy output from LaTeX is also not so great. One of the things I’m doing with finl is (a) assuming that there won’t be an attempt to fix errors mid-run (one of those 1982-era decisions that no longer makes sense) so a comprehensive list of errors can be presented to the user (or revealed programmatically) and (2) Adding indications in the output (which can be disabled) of errors in the input. I’m debating between errors being PDF annotations so users would click on an error or warning icon in the PDF to see the message and indication of where the issue was found, or just making it a big blot of overprinting (so many times on tex.stackexchange there are so many issues where a user—usually on Overleaf—ignored the error messages being output.

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1. Actually beyond its limits. LaTeX will no longer run on a Knuth TeX executable but requires eTeX extensions to run.
Had an S35 a few years ago, bought it because of the waterproof factor. Worst phone I ever owned.

They dont provide android updates (at least for that model) and would just stop working randomly, I had to hard reset it at least once every 2 days, but sometimes twice in 1 day.

Might have been just my phone though as I knew someone else with the same model and they didn't have that issue.
it's a short walk from shells that optimize "known commands" to signed apps and an ecosystem you can't contribute to unless you've paid the appropriate gatekeeper
Nazi or KGB agent? My search for my grandfather’s hidden past
The problem is that there is no mechanism that can deal with the remaining 10%. You either copy-paste code, add overhead or use some macros. For languages that are not well-suited for the last option we can see how “well” it turned out in case of C, where everyone has their own data structure lib, or use goddamn linked lists in a supposedly performant low-level language.
ultrasonic washer are by far the best way to wash fruits & veges of these things, in Korea ultrasonic washer-sinks are picking up in popularity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-JZkiGigDw&t=261s

research citation
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4688301/
How do you propose a search engine provide ordered results without making decisions for users about what order they should appear in?
> T-Mobile coverage and speeds are great.

Not in EU :D
IBM’s engineers are designing quantum computers
This reminds me of a short story by Ken Liu (https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/50-things-every-ai-w...). He trained an AI on his own corpus of stories and made it spit out a list, then he wrote a story around it. Favorite item on the list: "I never expected to sell my rational numbers."
>OP is literally Gitlab admitting they can't build a competitive web editor.

Or they've just decided it's not a good use of their finite resources?
Holy effin' moly I am not alone... square Enter, no stupid shift slashes placement. It took me forever to find something (actually didn't - Roccat I have have this idiotic tiny Enter, but good volume control knob which is super useful too), and I don't even want bluetooth since I never move it around.

Logitech G915 looks great if it just used the cable, it seems to have volume knob/roller too. Too bad there isn't wired cheaper equivalent, at least I don't see any.
> Obviously there are many places where there isn't cell coverage, but the vast majority (of even very remote places) has some type of coverage.

And from personal experience I can tell you that this is not true. It is not hard to find remote places with no cell coverage.

So you either aren't that adventurous, or you haven't explored very widely yet.

> I also don't find many people in the truly remote areas camping out for extended periods of time.

You don't find them, because they're in places you don't seem to go yourself or are not aware of.

> If taking calls is important to you, you can almost always find a place to camp with service (or carry a satellite phone).

Yes, there are other options and people have been making it work since before star link was available.

While I agree that most people won't need starlink on 24/7, it simply isn't true to say that you can count on some sort of cell service in the vast majority of places you can reach with a car.
If you're interested in watching a language constrain syntax but keep cranking on the feature ratchet, follow Swift's development. I can't think of another language that I've used as full of semantic special casing and context dependency.
Huh? My marginal tax rate is ~45%. I get way more than a 20% benefit from 501c3 donations.

I get to avoid capital gains on the donation of appreciated assets on top of that.

For whom is the benefit only 20%?
Wow. I did a quick random sample of their code and it's really clean, which is especially impressive in the bare-metal domain.
Pre woke tools, wouldn't have been allowed nowadays.