skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm willing to bet the instagram app already signs their api requests to make sure they're coming from the app. Third party apps are reverse engineering that. If you try to send a request without those headers, it'll very likely give you a 4xx code.
The topics are heavy, but the book isn't trying to oppress you, the reader. The tone is downright conversational even when it's talking about terrible events or life-and-death decisions.

And the pacing is perfect. I opened to the middle and read 60 pages before I looked up.
Sure, that's fine by me. Or even "video content is restricted to 240p unless you have a paid subscription, then you can see videos in 1080p". Right? It's 1000% possible to come up with totally fair business models that aren't so blatantly exploitative. Right now "the user is the product" on ANY free service.

Previously there was App.net, which was effectively "Twitter but you pay for access". It had a free tier which had very reasonable limits. It was actually super awesome, and it actually provided a whole identity platform, enabling 3rd party applications of different kinds (for example an Instagram-like, Favd[0]). Unfortunately it didn't pan out, not sure the whole backstory, but it was a really amazing platform and I would love to see more internet services like that.

[0] https://www.eriksoderstrom.com/p/favd-app-nets-gateway-drug
Big player is Eve. Check them out https://eveairmobility.com/
I don't think the same set of interests are in play there. Phone companies have a government granted monopoly on things like wireless spectrum and public rights-of-way for wiring and other infrastructure, not to mention subsidies and tax breaks.

I can't come up with a good justification why a private company on the Internet cannot dictate how you interact with them. Facebook isn't infrastructure.
Years ago, a friend and I talked about a similar idea. We called it a log file "audiolizer" (as opposed to visualizer). The idea is was you'd tail log files through it, and it would produce sound based on the log lines. The hope was that you'd learn what things should normally sound like, and if it started to sound "weird", you could investigate.
That was literally how phones worked on the beginning- AT&T had to be taken to court to stop it.
The solution to that is to fix your infrastructure to not trust the client, rather than trying to enforce use of a particular client.
This law doesn't result in 1), and 2) is the status quo, where practically no employer ever chooses to be transparent—the typical worker is the loser here.
The whole framing is wrong to call this person a "bottleneck engineer". This is not the issue of the engineer but a failure of management. Dedicate another engineer or two to learn from and document what this person knows. And give the bottleneck engineer a raise.
There are some bits and pieces on archive.org and other places.

Unfortunately the completer archives that people had (magtapes etc) got donated to dejanews (which later became google groups) or Google directly. This was about 20 years ago when Google was seen as a safe place to put that stuff.

We know better now
> how is this any different?

It's not, blocking users with ad blockers is not tolerable either. If you're unhappy with people consuming content on their own computers, find a different business model that you're happy with.
What is the underlying storage used for this? I kind of still struggle wrapping my head around if I should use hostpath and let the operator manage replication or do I actually want a distributed storageclass? I'm always searching but I can't seem to find an answer to this question
Isn't your own linked thing contradicting you?

"The Bottom Line
The calculated number of calories in a food or meal assumes you’re able to digest and absorb all of the macronutrients, which is seldom the case. You likely take in fewer calories when you eat whole foods, foods high in fiber and resistant starch, and foods that are uncooked and haven’t been exposed to heat. Now you have another reason to add more whole, unprocessed foods to your diet."
Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution
Nuclear power plants don't emit radiation, so it's really not an issue that those standards are tighter as far as I know.

We just need to end coal plants, immediately.

Coal plants kill 25 people per TWH generated and spread nuclear radiation all over the nearby area. Nuclear plants kill 0.03 people per TWh (between wind and solar), including Chernobyl (killed 4000) and Fukushima (killed 1). [1]

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
This is the exact thing that bothered me in high school philosophy classes – we were taught of great thinkers of the past, and we studied their thoughts, claims, theories, etc... Even if they were OBVIOUSLY false, in the light of present knowledge. But nobody had the guts to say that out loud.
This is a parasitic company that got swatted away like flies from the engorged Meta pig.

Seeing this "OG App" complain about Meta, and Meta fighting back, is truly like two turds fighting over which is worse. It's all crap in the end.
ITT nobody actually read the bill, myself included
Try updating your Synapse to 1.62 or higher. We added a header to files downloaded from the media repository so they can work on sites using SharedArrayBuffer. Unrelated, but you'll also want to make sure you have a TURN server set up and your media repo upload limit is set to something reasonably high like 100MB.
Are Firefox/Chrome third-party developers too?

What's the difference between me creating my own web browser that renders instagram according to my own rules vs Chrome?
AFAIK you've always been able to bring your own phone. They just wouldn't unlock your subsidized phone after the contract ended (which I find unfair, but it's in the contract people signed, so...). Regardless, I think this line of thought is becoming too off-topic.

Why should the first party be serving content to people using third party apps that generate them no revenue? Just like websites are free to block adblock users, app apis should be free to block third party app users.
One thing that the original article pointed out, is that Rockwell emphasized facial features as part of his signature look. For a more exaggerated example, look at faces in anime or Disney animation.

IMO part of why Rockwell's images continue to resonate is that he uses exaggerated features sparingly, to draw your eye to a particular part of the image. Looking at the composition, the overall work is photorealistic, except for the features that he was trying to have viewers focus on. Look at the faces in his paintings, they clearly aren't traced over photos. However, large other parts of the illustration do appear to be traced or painted over photographs. Selecting what to emphasize and how to blend it is true artistry.

It is a partial shame that most of his output was spent on commercial work, but at the same time that is one of the main reasons he was so prolific.
I don’t see how you can be so sure that they “definitely” shouldn’t. This is a very complex issue with strong arguments on both sides.
Is there any limitation with VS Code extensions that could have prevented the effort?
Can we just copy the design standards of the Netherlands? With 0 brain-power used it would result in an instant order of magnitude improvement.
A quick look at libdill indicates that concurrency there is cooperative, so it's not green threads, either. So, that's just a library.

OpenMP uses OS threads, doesn't it?

When you have coroutines that can be preempted, without explicit yielding in the source code, that's the line at which I would consider it a VM. Basically, it's a VM if some userspace code (JIT, GC, scheduler etc) runs in the background and does things to your code.

I don't think there's a definitive interpretation of VM, so this is all arguable. But e.g. Java and C# are generally considered VM languages even if AOT-compiled, despite the fact that there's no bytecode involved past that point.
Geez, why can't the article use the proper term "the bridge" instead of/that it could explain as "the main control center of the ship". I remember reading that to be readable to the average American, the news is written in fifth grade level English. In this case, it shows.
I agree, it's a bit much. But they are all violating the ToS they accepted so...
If you like this, check out Beijing Silvermine on Instagram
You had an argument up and until the idea that Ford wouldn't have a "good reason" to retaliate against a company that was causing them to lose money.

Not attempting to stop that act would be, for a public company, a violation of their duties to shareholders.
I was on the Jury for someone in California with a prior DUI that caused an accident (injuries but not deaths) while drunk, fled the scene and ditched the car. After a plea bargain, no jail time.
Many folks on here might be too young to remember, but there was an era where cable companies served premium channels with a scrambled signal to all customers, and sold access by way of attaching the appropriate filter. In fact, all channels were protected in this way, with your cable box holding the necessary filters. Albeit, some were merely hidden by a band pass filter and not scrambled.

Anyhow, those arguing that third party clients ought to have access to the API are making a similar argument to those who wanted to use third party filters to access channels they hadn't paid for. Why, it would go, if the cable company didn't serve the signal then it wouldn't be available to be used.

Which is not unlike claiming that the data provided by a private API is free for the taking. It's not, and it's certainly not with the consent of those endeavoring to keep the API private, even if it's accessible.
Which social networks will permanently ban you if you ever visit them with an adblocker enabled?
I agree with you and disagree with you at the same time.

Here’s the rub though, if you make and distribute a thing, with the sole intent that the thing will be used for stealing something. Is that ok?

If I made a device that could unlock and start a car, that required no knowledge of how the underlying tech worked, and I advertised it as “OGTransportation, transportation like you want it. No car payment, no paying for gas. Just get in and drive”

Not sure I’m feeling the whole argument.
Why shouldn't I be able to uae the software of my choosing? If i habe an account and have properly authenticated, the client I use is my choice.

You can't reasonably make the "go elsewhere" argument with the monopoly hold FB has on much social data. We need to choose yo regulate them and others to force interoperability, or at the very least allow comcom explicitly (competitive compatibility).
Your point is a little off-topic here but I understand how the thread developed (as it's loosely implied in my post). I've been vocal about this for years—not out of any deep understanding of childhood psychology but rather from my own experience as a child. Given the autonomy and freedom that I had as a kid I cannot imagine living the restrictive cloistered life as experienced by many of today's kids—it'd be just terrible. FYI, here's one of my more recent posts (I've written more to this effect in recent years): https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=32681125
Yeah that surprised me too. Is it there so that when the finger stop moves, it registers the number? I've only had a few rotary phones in my life, but I've never seen one where that doohickey (which I believe is the technical term) moves.
I'm not talking about cell phones. I'm talking about rotary dial phones back in the days of Ma Bell.
"nuclear is demonstrably more expensive than renewables"

This is highly debatable, and very subject to change. Energy is the trump card of currencies, as the international currency market is now clearly demonstrating.

Let's see what that renewable cost comparison looks like when the renewables that were previously being subsidized by cheap natural gas look like a year from now.

This is not to say that solar and wind cannot have a meaningful place in the energy grid of the future. They absolutely have a place alongside of reliable base load generation.

But it is a pipe dream to assert that we can mine enough raw materials necessary to produce the wind and solar generation, install them (often in less than favorable geographies), install their requisite energy storage tech, in order to make a meaningful dent in CO2 emissions anywhere near as quickly as a renaissance in nuclear power would offer the world.
What’s not speculative is that adblockers have to be constantly maintained to remain effective. As websites find new circumventions, adblockers respond with fixes.

Manifest v3 freezes the capabilities of adblockers in time (it regresses them). Perhaps it’s sufficient for today’s ads but over time websites will take advantage and the effectiveness of adblockers will wither: websites have a financial incentive to circumvent all those chrome users.
Also the change over from a solid visible control panel with a combination of switches, knobs and dials, buttons, LEDs, and maybe an LCD readout, all clearly labeled, to more modern stuff with just a few barely distinguishable unlabeled buttons so tiny you could very easily accidentally press one.

And now touch screens where who knows what will happen if you accidentally brush the screen and it interprets that as some secret hidden swipe gesture.
How an unemployed blogger confirmed that Syria had used chemical weapons (2013)
There are people who understand the implications of Newtonian mechanics better than Newton did, yes.

We can tell because they can make predictions within that framework which he could not.
So you want to consume their content, use their servers, but not display their ads?
In Xcode, you can edit breakpoints such that they emit sounds when they are hit (and continue automatically). Depending on the sound pattern you hear then, you can decide whether something fishy is going on.
Conversely, we must conserve, protect, and nourish the limits in which we can survive.

These are hard limits, which we should not approach.
I have a 5 year old samsung 4k with a samsung sound bar. ARC does not work reliably. It did but just stops working. I have to power cycle the TV. Change HDMI cables etc. All the normal I am an engineer, made check list, swapped parts in controlled manor stuff. Even tried another soundbar that works fine on another set. Googling tells me other have this issue and samsung does not care as it is to old (it is likely sw issue). TV is going to be replaced with much more expensive Sony as they still seem to take pride in their product quality. Oh as to the ads, never hook TV up to internet. I use an AppleTV and it just works.

I want ARC/CEC to work as I want a single remote. You loose that when using optical.
High speed rail is competitive even at a “medium” distance of 1000-1500km. It’s so much nicer to have a comfortable and completely predictable three and a half hour train ride compared to the air travel counterpart, especially at a similar price point, which means economy class, or economy plus at best. (I’ve taken plenty of these trips in China.)
It's not enough to pass arbitrary C++ classes, either. The point is that you can still design a fairly expressive API involving structured data within the constraints that the C ABI imposes on you - and that C ABI will guarantee stability. This is how plugins were usually handled in the C++ world, historically speaking.

(There are also higher-level ABIs like COM, but they are usually reducible to the C ABI in practice - e.g. COM can be described entirely in terms of struct and function pointers.)
I agree. It also seems wildly inefficient to ask every student to read all those originals instead of systematic modern introductions. History is accumulating, so this becomes an impossible task at some point. If the ideas expressed in a text cannot be separated from their "original presentation", maybe they aren't that good after all. Exactly what I had in mind when I wrote this recently: https://verzettelung.com/22/09/10/
Do something a different way. Now you have two strong opinions. Do it again and again until you see all ideas as possible.
I don't think there should be "freedom of business model". We aren't obliged to respect and comply with your choice of way of getting rich. If your business model is dependent on people looking at you in the "right" way then tough luck.
I'd like to see drivers ed put more focus on personal judgements of safety, and less emphasis on following the law. A huge number of car crashes seem to happen because people are doing the speed limit during poor weather/road conditions. The presence of the speed limit makes many people feel entitled to go that speed, entitled to not be burdened with the responsibility of thinking for themselves. Driving at 65 mph through pea soup fog is insane, but I've seen tons of people do it. And presumably when they crash they blame the fog...

I know drivers ed courses tell people that the speed limit is the legal maximum, not minimum, but I don't think they do a good job of effectively getting this point across. With proper training, drivers should be able to evaluate the road and weather conditions and estimate a safe speed for themselves using their own judgement, without the aid of speed limits giving them hints. If it were up to me, drivers license tests would have the speedometer blinded to the driver during part of the test, and the driver would be graded on their ability to drive at a safe speed without it.
It probably comes down to proving to an insurance company that the document was sighted.
>Yes...

Do you have evidence of this? An example of network traffic indicating that the app is communicating with something other than Meta, perhaps?
> If it was a really good app you made, why not also make your own backend and completely decouple from meta?

Because of the network effect.
I think my generator in santa clara charges something like 15c (flat) before distribution, which gets to 31c/41c/49cents depending on usage level.

Nuclear seems like a normal price for the bay area
Nothing in here about disabling adware, which is pretty much the only thing I care about.
Don't get into a bunch of dramatic fights in company slack, don't get on your soap box and post your political opinions, don't publicly endorse politicians or parties. Just work at work and use your own time to be an activist
Here lays the body of William Jay,

who died maintaining his right of way.

He was right, so right, as he sped along,

but he's just as dead as if he were wrong.
Quite loud:

https://youtu.be/itYYhudPZeE?t=45
I think you can do that using PiHole
A lot of this sort of information is surprisingly US centric. For instance, you might find building codes that forbid the sort of "non-exposed" room in residential housing as a health and safety issue due to ventilation or emergency exit or other reasons.

My rule of thumb is simple.

- Know the nearest target.

- Know who might hit it with a nuke.

- Check the NukeMap ( https://nukemap.org/ ) based on who might nuke it and what nukes they are known to have... to estimate the if you even need to care about shelter. If you're too close to the nearest target theres not much you could hope to do without shelter. If you're far enough then you wont need to care about the immediate attack either.

- Missile warning will likely create havoc with transport as people without plans try to suddenly make them. So consider where you spend most of your time during a normal day, and what transport options you have with you then depending on your personal level of paranoia make a decision about the best shelter options based on two things, travel time and level of protection. You should travel for better shelter, but not risk traveling far given the uncertainty of the situation. Just having a basic background understanding of what the suitable shelter would be in your life and this becomes more like knowing where you could hide from sudden rain without an umbrella on a walk down the street.

- Shelter will depend a lot on your local environment, just keep the basic principles of radiation protection in mind. 1st is Distance, 2nd is Mass. If you cant get distance from the radiation source, put mass between you and it. Given that fallout will be dropping from the sky as heavier than air dust, you want to primarily find anything to give you protection against it being blown closer to you horizontally, and maximum distance from whatever roof is over your head. If neither of these are particularly available, prioritise the horizontal wind blown dust, settle for whatever concrete slab building you can find that would afford you some measure of protection from dust blowing in even if the windows and doors were damaged.

- Think of it as extreme, unusual, but also unlikely, weather event. You don't want to get "wet" from the dry rain of fallout dust, you also want to be as far away from it as you can, and don't want it getting tracked/blown inside.
How long until your (very expensive) car has you as a trapped audience and starts showing ads until people feel forced to root it

Imagine ads when emergency brake is on so people stop using that.

TV you can bypass with a media device (good idea for portability/repalcement too)

But a car, can't
Read this as a fan of her work and a friend of several female geologists with stories from remote work camps. I was struck by the even-handedness of it. Really interesting exploration of labour, gender, and home. The artwork is also phenomenal at conveying the personality of the characters and the sheer scale of the jobsites.
Dalle-E seems to take & apply more complex text prompts w/ scene compositions better than Stable Diffusion:

With SD if I write "$X walking on the moon with $Y in a bold majestic style" the results will ofteb only include $X OR $Y. Dall-E appears to do a better job of identifying multiple subjects in this way.

But it's hard to beat free: SD cant quite let me run it locally on my laptops's 2GB Ram GPU but I doubt it will take much longer for flexible distros of it to allow click-to-install versions that will run on most setups that have something resembling a discrete GPU.
True, but you can issue updates to existing extensions with MV2. As someone who has two MV2 extensions, this transition is a much bigger deal for existing extensions than new ones.
Ok... what if they said, "it is free if you use our app and let us advertise to you, or you can pay us and use any client you want"?
I don’t disagree on that point. I’m just making it clear it was in the TOS.

I don’t want my gmail account permanently because of a comment I made on YouTube, nor do I think that should be commonplace. I’m not sure what the best solution is though.

I once worked for a server hosting company that had a few different “branches”. It was pretty common to see different types of misuse or abuse. Whether it be credit card theft, hosting copyrighted content, or hosting phishing sites. I would go out of my way to monitor for and ban all associated accounts at all branches of the company. Not because I wanted to ban their personal accounts, but because 99% of the time those associated accounts would immediately engage in the same behavior. You can sit there all day playing whack-a-mole, or you can exterminate the mole.
Alternatively, you could, you know, NOT drive a death machine, and expect the peons to get out of your way.
I rather like it. In particular, I'd recommend Benjamin Foster's translation as one that is based off of an up-to-date critical text and is very faithful to the original language (or so I've been told).

Caveats:

* There are still gaps in the text. You're going to have to fill in the blanks in places.

* The story is from a distant cultural context that feels alien in a way that Greek stories don't.
Does this allow a ‘clean’ basic dumb tv setup?