skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Genre fiction like S/F has different rules. In S/F you're taught to write in a way that will get you published, and paid for your work. I posted this a couple weeks ago, it's a quote from an interview with Ted Chiang:

TC: I think the reaction varies, because science fiction is a more commercial genre. There are a lot more people in science fiction whose goal is to make a living from writing fiction by publishing one or more novels a year. And people who enter science fiction generally receive more messaging about fiction writing as a sole source of income than, say, people entering mainstream fiction. The messaging there is different: get an MFA, teach; it’s understood that your teaching position supports your career as a writer. For writers entering science fiction, that’s not really a thing yet. We’re maybe getting there, but the messaging they receive is mostly: Be very prolific.

https://culture.org/an-interview-with-ted-chiang/

So basically most people don't write S/F "just for fun", and I'm pretty sure that was never the case and all the greats and less-well-known greats of the genre were all professional writers.
yeah on Discord this is almost magic.
The price of electricity is directly mapped onto the most expensive source, aka gas.

What a good idea to put that into law for the whole Europe.
Let’s say you have land but don’t have any planting stock or enough money to buy it. So, you borrow some from a guy who has extra, promising to give him twice as much back next year. You grow food, and collect enough planting stock to pay back the lender and plant next year’s harvest.
now the only meal served in flight will be french fries with fried chicken
A doctor who treated Bach and Handel with disastrous results
I love that joke. I will also mention Terry Riley.
I remember when the smart object removal feature was added to photoshop and it was pretty cool. The fact that you can now get the same functionality working even better in a free browser tool is mind blowing.
So if I have 700k usernames I can pwn one of them with 50% probability. Cool!

With 3 attempts allowed I only need 230k usernames, even better!

The "secret" stored in the browser doesn't protect you from this, since I'm not stealing someone's code; I'm logging in from my own browser. (Of course I'm doing this via a botnet, so you won't notice it by IP address)
Another issue that I don't see covered here is that some email clients (looking at you, Outlook) pre-fetch links to see if they are security risks. If you build a magic link system which handles plain old GETs, the one time code gets used up before the user can actually log in.

We ran into this at FusionAuth and had to do implement some workarounds, documented here: https://github.com/FusionAuth/fusionauth-issues/issues/629#i...

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32081192 mentions this and some other issues.
http://archive.today/2022.07.13-112634/https://www.bloomberg...
Musk's lawyers and bankers probably appreciate the increased fees though.
Somewhat related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31892299

This is very, very concerning and makes “magic links” a security threat to any platform that utilizes them.
Not only OS kernels need to keep secrets, and not only OS kernel coders need to know how.

Sometimes you have to put the zeroing code in its own .o file so the caller's compiler won't know what it does.
Lets put it this way - say I have a company that makes cars, and I tell you - a potential investor of more than a billion dollars - that I have shipped a million cars this year and you should give me money on the basis of that revenue, are you an idiot if you don't ask to see the actual receipts that show that I have actually, indeed, shipped a million cars this year?

Yes, I think you would be, and anyone who has given you money to spend on this act, should think so too .. Trust, but verify: This is a pretty basic business rule.

Twitter has a responsibility to demonstrate that the trust they expect in their own estimations of their own market value, is actually verifiable - and with an issue of humans/bots ratio, they should surely be willing to be as open and honest as possible about this issue.

Twitters core value, the basis of their own estimation of the value of their stock, is entirely derived from the actual # of human eyeballs they have attached to their systems.

If those eyeballs are really just blind sockets on the outside of a software-based bot, then Twitter is factually lying about how many humans it has in its system. This would be essential for any buyer to know beforehand, and I really am astonished at the efforts you are going to justify this omission on Twitters' part.

The bot to human ratio is a KEY factor to understand in correctly evaluating Twitters real value - how anyone can argue that Twitter don't have the responsibility to demonstrate the accuracy of their estimation of market value, especially in the HN environment, is beyond me.

Perhaps the Musk-hate rage is blinding you to the rationality of Musks' request. "Hey, you say you are worth this much because <blah>, please show me that <blah> is actually a truthful and accurate estimation .." - this is not at all an unreasonable request.

Twitter board executives DO have the responsibility of answering the claim that their user group is a certain percentage human.

The fact that they haven't done this easily and openly is telling, in and of itself - and I would wager that most making the claim that they don't have a responsibility of being honest about the number of users in their system, are in fact engaged themselves in deceit and dishonesty on the issue of "actual users" versus "pretend users". How else can you justify the non-response?

Twitter should be able to easily answer the question: bot to human ratio? It is fundamental to their core purpose as a business to know the answer to this question. The fact that they can't, and are instead engaging in an anti-Musk agitprop campaign, is very, very telling ...
"Opening an email and clicking on a link" is one of the most risky things you can do with your computer; it's a critical stage in many successful security breaches. Why would you train people to do it?
> what possible proof do you have that this is the case?

None, I made it up.
I'm buying them regularly from the Asian shop in my town. They have fresh Habaneros, Jalapenos, and Thai peppers
I've actually looked at their terms (which is rare for services I have no intention of using) - wow, it's amazing what a clusterfuck it is.
Or vs how many people die every day due to German coal plants :(
Yes, but then you can authenticate as badassly as they do in these dystopian sci-fi movies! /s
Is she going to take her BF with her? That's really hilarious how r/rust is locking out this discussion from happening.

Also, I think it's important to remind those, who sad see her leaving, this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28515306
This kind of work is not done a lot by boomers. Especially the luggage work is way too heavy.
Alas, most of us are cursed to build CRUD applications in either old but reliable tech or the latest and greatest, which will be replaced with the next latest greatest in ~5 years when the next generation of over-excited devs rocks up. Sigh.
I really think that the randomised maps definitely add a component of strategy and depth to AoE2 I definitely don't think that unit matchups are more complex than in Starcraft, there are simply more interactions and possible matchups than starcraft because of the larger number of different units.

Starcraft's heavy emphasis on execution and APM means that very subtle changes to units can dramatically change matchups. Environmental positioning, micro management of units, healing, flanking etc. All change engagement outcomes. AoEs damage bonuses are easier to understand and requires less practise and expertise to squeeze every last point of damage out.

I'd love to see a version of Starcraft that has randomised maps instead of the fixed rotation that we currently have. It'd make playing at lower levels more fun since smart thinking would play a heavier role than rote memorization of build orders and times. And at high levels of play I think we'd see more exciting clutch moments as the best players with the best execution improvise their way through fights.

Unfortunately it would mean that the tight balance between all the different units in Starcraft would necessarily be relaxed and made more resilient to small changes. Right now, whenever new map rotations are introduced, some maps are considered unbalanced because small variations in widths of bridges or placements of obstacles favour one race over others.
>Did she even study Buddhism at all?

Did you?

https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/biggest-misconception-about-...

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ten-misconceptions-about-b...

https://vividness.live/the-making-of-buddhist-modernism

The book you are referring to means nothing because it is a recent interpretation exactly as the author of the article is describing. From The Making of Buddhist Modernism:

>1. Rahula selects from the vast corpus of Buddhist literature certain features that can be interpreted in such a way as to resonate with a modern worldview, especially the Enlightenment, Protestantism, Transcendentalism, and science.

>2. This selection excludes or obscures other features of Buddhist literature, for example the many stories of miracles, magical feats, supernatural beings, and literal heavens and hells.

>3. When Rahula does address these, he tends to present them as ethically significant myth, symbol, or allegory.

>4. By focusing on elite literature, Rahula’s presentation occludes many features of the tradition on the ground, such as ritual, devotion, and exorcism, that are actually more central to many Buddhists’ lives than abstract doctrines.
>Many ordinary Buddhists would not recognize much of what Rahula presents as their practices, attitudes, and beliefs. What he suppresses would give a fuller picture of Buddhism in its various historical manifestations. His emphasis on tolerance of other views, for example, is certainly not reflected in the many Buddhist polemical texts savaging opponents’ positions, or the religious conflicts in his own Sri Lanka that Buddhists themselves have participated in. What he refers to as “the Buddhist” is an idealized figure having little to do with living Buddhists. For example, in contrast to the pervasive practices among Buddhists for accruing merit in order to gain a higher rebirth, Rahula claims, on the basis of the doctrines of ana tman and impermanence, that “the Buddhist” is “never worried about” the problem of life after death. Rahula’s Buddhism is the idealized, textualized Buddhism of the orientalist scholars.

and it goes on.
"Location error: User denied Geolocation"

There was a SunClock for the OpenLook toolkit. It worked (not like the above one) and it looked much better.
You can get HIV from breast milk, it's not sterile.
I respect and support people who are willing to stand up for their rights. Even when protests created problems for me (which, to be honest, were tolerable), I did not complain. Good luck to all independent workers out there!
So are we talking about the term 'debt-trap diplomacy' or the narrative? The term start in 2017 not 2018. But doesn't change the fact its been discussed for about 20 years now.

By changing from the narrative to a term you're shifting the goal post.
Well it is the bread and butter of any consumer CPU after Pentium. If you want to run at the speed of early 90's chips i.e. not even fast enough to play MP3 files without specialized hardware.
>obliterating his reputation

i thought this whole twitter deal thing was a way to expose how twitter is full of government ran bots? atleast in my eyes his reputation hasnt changed at all.
Yup, that was my first thought too: people will probably have the idea of using the tool to remove watermarks on their own anyway, but by giving it as an example you are putting yourself in the line of fire.
I'm glad that your grandmother uses a password manager. We actually had a lot of feedback from teens and children and the concept of MFA/2FA seems to be hard to understand for less technical people. We were surprised by the actual understanding after some user research.

Yes, availability on all browsers and devices is not yet up to 100%. I hope to see a fast adoption, but agree that it could actually take some time. I use Passkeys on a daily basis for the last ~1.5 years wherever possible and won't go back anytime soon :)
Employees are accepting pay cuts to keep working from home. They shouldn’t
I wonder what the other 90 percent of the Brain Myth is.
you can bet your bottom dollar there are some nerds in Sri Lanka who are very happy to own bitcoin right now. they'll be able to spend it as soon as the electricity comes back up.
> IBM turned instead to their second choice, a small company that was supplying BASIC interpreters to many 8-bit micros.

a small company founded by a kid, Bill Gates, whose parents happened to be IBM's lawyers.
It is true.

>Traditionally a monastic practice, meditation was even then considered a specialty of only certain monks. Furthermore, it is only since the 20th century that meditation has been considered a practice appropriate to teach to laypeople.

https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/biggest-misconception-about-...
Small correction, he acquired QDOS, which was then morphed into MS-DOS.
The 'reference' implementation of the protocol, https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd is still in beta, with warnings about how users could lose all their money. AFAIK, there's no stable/reliable software out there.

And don't forget, ordinary users need to monitor the blockchain 24/7 in order not to lose their money by a counterparty closing their channel fraudulently.

It's far from ready for use.
youll be cold and hungry but the internet will work?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.staticfre... is a widget for Android and very neat (though it doesn't properly cache location) https://github.com/xxv/24hAnalogWidget
They have a sub-title in their article "Redefining the game engine – this is more than ads"

Then they go on to say "Advertising has long been and we believe will continue to be the economic engine for mobile games, driving players into their games and driving revenue at scale"

Then finally "It also reinforces our strong conviction in the long-term strength and growth of the in-game advertising business"

Seems like they are just doubling down on the ads in games mainstream...
Show HN: Language Roadmap: Find your perfect language learning immersion content
>Bitcoin is the equivalent of gold

That definitely wasn't the original goal of Bitcoin though.
Sdn – a directory navigator that you can invoke while editing shell commands
Programs running in microcontrollers routinely do not terminate; they run as long as there is power. Even many ordinary programs run until they are killed.

You seem to confuse algorithms, which by definition must terminate, with programs, which do whatever the hell you like (and sometimes things you don't).
One of the things we're well aware of is the huge opportunity/need for better gateways. What you're seeing is actually the gateway failing (not IPFS) so _technically_ ipfs is doing fine. NOT THAT THAT MATTERS IF YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO LOAD A WEB PAGE - WE KNOW! WE PROMISE! :)

Lots of folks are working on retrievability even as we speak (https://retrieval.market/). Stay tuned!

BTW, if you ever want your content directly, you can go here - https://ipfs.io/ipfs/<CID>. Brave also offers IPFS native integration not via gateways. Again, we are well aware this isn't enough! Coming soon...

Disclosure: I am co-director of Research Development at Protocol Labs.
All these consumer laptops are niche compared to a 505 timer chip.

Apply some basic logic to the conversation.
Wait until people learn Maslow never actually created a pyramid to represent the "hierarchy of needs."[1]

[1] https://forge.medium.com/maslows-pyramid-is-a-marketing-lie-...
Having started my MS-DOS path with version 3.3, and used all MS-DOS versions, also the DR-DOS 5.0 and 6.0 versions, experienced CP/M on the Spectrum +3A, I fail to see how CP/M was better.
How to Make New York a City of Dreams for Black Women
Yes - exactly. Genuine democracies are a complex patchwork of competing interests which somehow balance to generate policy that benefits most of the population.

As soon as you have a government run for the benefit of a small group, you no longer have a democracy.

Elections don't change this. Not even nominally free and fair ones.

The problem - as always - is that any system of government trends towards capture by Dark Tetrad types. No matter what decisions they appear to make, and no matter whether they're left/right populist/monarchist democratic/authoritarian, the consequences are always disastrous.
There are many "Awesome {something}" list-style repos with many stars
I used 'ironSource' when I posted. It must have been changed some time after by a moderator.
Lots of issues with magic links. And yet, and yet. For a certain class of accounts, I'm okay deferring to my email inbox.

From a security perspective as a user, it's no different than deferring to a social provider like Google, but has the benefit in that it gives a user more control over the third party they choose to delegate control to.

You allow username/password access and that's great too. I'm a fan of giving users options, but I don't know if anyone has done studies and found that a single login option actually is better for conversion. I'd be interested in seeing some numbers around that.

I wouldn't recommend a magic link for high value accounts, but I have pretty easy access to my mailbox, from everywhere (in contrast to my password manager, which is cumbersome to use from different accounts). I can also forward the email with the link to any device where I have email.

If it is a low-value account that I use infrequently, I'm a fan. The alternative is to just use 'forgot password' to get a link that resets my password. That is pretty much the same functionality.

I guess the hard part there is that no one building software thinks their app is 'low-value'. :)
Chrome supports a webauthn solution built-in if you don't have windows/platform authentication support. I think Firefox does too, and probably even Safari on really old machines. If you are targeting semi-modern browsers and devices made in the last 5-10 years, you should be fine.
There are plenty of post-internet myths that are humming along just fine. :D

It's a crazy phenomenon to watch play out.
Hey, all!

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Find content by genre/theme or media type (movie, TV, book, podcast, YouTube channel), add it to your library or bookmark it for later, give it a thumbs up/down rating, and rank its difficulty to help us build a global difficulty scale!

Check it out, give it a test run, and let me know what you think (you can DM me any feedback or reply in this thread).

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InterfaceBuilder.swift
> In high school in 1980 we had Commodore PETs. They had no tangible OS, just a BASIC interpreter in ROM.

Five years later the Commodore 128 appeared. It had the best of both worlds: could run all C64 games and CP/M. These were magic times.
Google's request to the FEC: https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/aos/2022-14/202214R_1.pdf
Really nice. I tried removing someone behind a wire grate, and it correctly identified them, replaced the wire grate and filled in the grate holes with decent background imitation.
I once had a song stuck in my head every day for over two years! It got to the point I would hear a note from the melody with every step. Walking up stairs was horrible. The worst part was I didn't know what the song was. I figured out the melody on the piano, and once I finally figured out the song, it eventually stopped.

The song? A stupid commercial jingle. "Meow meow meow meow..."
Hitchhiking in Japan, I once ended up in Awajishima, a large but rather obscure island between Kobe and the island of Shikoku in Japan. Turns out the island's major export is onions, and I'd arrived at harvest season, when the entire place smelled of overripe and rotting onions. One night there almost put me off onions for life.
This is not true. memset() can be optimized away, memset_s() cannot be optimized away by the compiler or the linker.
> alleging that “Respirators are not necessary to protect children from COVID-19 because of the astoundingly low risk COVID-19 presents to them”, and that in fact wearing masks involves “existing well-documented harms”. There hasn’t been any documented harms to children from wearing masks.

This type of blanket disregard is exactly the thing that pushes people to oppose these sentiments.

There is evidence that covering up children's faces has significant impact psychologically and developmentally.

Making a claim such as this and in the typical weak-willed academic fashion "any documented harm", appealing to some unknown authority that will provide documentation to substantiate what parents are seeing in real time...

It's the type of offhand remark that, when I read it, places the credibility of the author immediately in question because the attitude is pervasive.
This is broadly correct! It's remarkably cheap. As other commenters have noted, you'll want to handle reproduction/etc, which is a bit more work, but still many orders of magnitude cheaper than anything else out there.

HOWEVER, most folks don't want to do this - we recommend solutions like https://web3.storage (which gives you 1 TB with three replicas for free forever), and https://estuary.tech.

Disclosure: I am co-director of Research Development at Protocol Labs.
If they ever make it to Australia, they should check out Leyland Brothers’ World in northern NSW.

Although TIL the Uluru/Ayres Rock appears to have been lost to fire in 2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyland_Brothers_World
> Coltrane is known for his avant-garde composition, and even he repeats (often on a much smaller scale than a pop tune).

"A love supreme" immediately sprang to mind.. I guess all that repetition worked.
Source and binaries are on the site:

http://www.cpm.z80.de/source.html

http://www.cpm.z80.de/binary.html#operating

Search for MP
I don't understand how this would work if you are getting emails on the device you are trying to sign in with. Most devices (other than Android?) don't let you scan a code from a photo.
Given Musk's history with public announcements of intentions to buy public companies, I wonder what the FTC thinks of all this, and what they are going to do after the verdict.

I really think that Musk will be very lucky to get away with just a billion dollars payment to twitter for breach of contract.

Oh, and one last thought, if anyone from twitter is reading this, you should definitely ban him.
Yep, I worked for a hosting provider based out of Texas during the winter blackout in 2021. We had plenty of issues, but power to the DC wasn't one. Moved to a different company this years that uses a colo/cloud provider in Austin, and they didn't have any problems from the blackouts either.

At the last place, they worked with power companies to run on generators for load shedding already, and in the event of failures, they had 48 hours or more of fuel on hand and contracts to get more fuel delivered as needed only in priority behind emergency services and hospitals. That's the point of using one of these providers; they try and plan for this sort of thing.