skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all great to quote Gabe Newell but you are completely misunderstanding his point. The point is that the steam platform makes it so easy to buy and play games that pirating them is comparatively risky (chance of malware, lack of updates) and not worth it, not that he has made games difficult enough to pirate that his platform seems favorable. Games on steam have no default DRM like ebooks on the amazon store, for the kinds of games I play, most of them can be copied from steam and played without the interference of DRM. For a lot of the ones which do have some kind of DRM or steam reliance, it is actually trivial to use a fake steam library to bypass this form of "DRM". All in all, the amount of actual DRM on steam is limited only to AAA titles.

I pirate e-books not because I can't afford to buy them, but because I can't find a DRM free copy so I just buy the hard copy and pirate a digital version. The reality is, if there were more e-book stores which were like steam, I would probably use them, because hopefully I would have access to the content I bought to display it on any device I want and archive it for the future.
Legal troubles when people delete the location history, yet the estimated locations are still attached to photos in their account.

It's a shame because on many devices tagging photos with GPS locations is unreliable - especially when the camera is opened and a photo taken all before GPS locks. And for indoor photos.
Windows 98 icons are great (2015)
> I looked at in terms of the "Fediverse", a coherent decentralized social network, with lots of instances cooperating to make one intentional thing.

So what was your original argument against this?
Recent and related:

GIMP Turns 27 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33808435 - Nov 2022 (291 comments)
This is why I set out to build a completely new system from scratch that could perform both file system and database operations extremely well. It will let you store hundreds of millions of files in a single container (a pod); attach a multitude of contextual tags to each one; and then find subsets of those files using database-like queries (e.g. Find all JPEG photos where event = 'wedding' AND camera = 'Cannon EOS' AND size > 10 MB AND photographer = 'John'). It can find everything (even when there are millions of matches) in less than a second and even beats out Postgres and SQLite at most DB table queries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWIo6sia_hw (file system functions)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va5ZqfwQXWI (benchmark vs SQLite)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVICKCkWMZE (benchmark vs Postgres)
Watch SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch – the first of its five missions this year
Ah I reckon what you meant was "Oh this approach only temporarily installed the add-on, your parent post was asking about a way to permanently install an add-on." Took me a while to figure out what you meant.

Ah missed that; yep, the add-on will remain installed until the browser is restarted. That is a little annoying!
The brain uses about 20% of a human's calories. It's not 100%, but it's a substantial fraction.
That used to be true. With the latest versions of macOS, you have to run

xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine ~/Download/TheDamn.dmg
You'll want GIMP 3.0 which updates the app to GTK 3. 2.10 still uses GTK 2.
"Switch your Windows 10 device to a local account" support article:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/switch-your-wind...
That’s ok. As you seem to be based in Germany would you please point me to the relevant consent notice?
I use my old iPad as an ereader. I don't have any fancy setup, just sync books onto it either using iTunes or download directly from libgen or zlibrary. Works well enough for me :)
> but not publishable-level, sorry

No one's saying it is, this is arXiv, after all (not a journal). Still a fun little interesting paper, though.
> I'm only in my early 30's, but… [as time has gone on ]… something I've noticed is that as everyone has come online, I have made fewer friends

Welcome to your 30s. You will make fewer friends than you did in your 20s.
We've taken the year out of the title now. Thanks!
Personal take - the way that the issue currently facing California always seems to be referred to as a “prolonged drought” undermines the seriousness of the situation. A drought sounds unfortunate, but normal and temporary. Isn’t the reality closer to something like “we’re at the beginning of the permanent end of abundant water in the west?” In situations like this where the reality is dire and most people would rather put on rose colored glasses, I think the language really matters.
"Near collision" in this case is perfectly ordinary english phrasing. It does not assert a collision happened.
So we don't have computers anticipating the movements of airplanes, and giving warning signals if necessary?
> I find this sad. It is a sign of lack of innovation in desktop environments.

Most of the modern OS developments focus on making things easy and safe. That usually boils down on removing features and locking down things.

And more generally, there is no gurantee that the new thing is better than the old one.
Much of that is drivers that may be disabled if not needed for current hardware, narrowing the audit scope.
Umm...

guess need to set up a git repository containing the same system written with a)shell/unix tools b) awk/gawk for a separate hn comparison discussion.
I switched back to KDE a few days ago, after having used GNOME for about a decade. One thing that made me really happy is that wobbly windows are an option again! (There's a plugin for GNOME 3 to enable them but it has unusable graphical issues on all computers I've tested it on.) It's nice to be able to reenable some of those effects that got me to try Linux out in the first place.
Ha, I wasn’t expecting to see an Audax post on hacker news. Congrats on the SR!

I started audaxing in 2026 and quickly became addicted, although it is a significant time investment so I took some years off for family.

I also managed to complete a SR last year, and am aiming to do Radonneur Round The Year (one 200km+ ride per calendar month)

I find the time on the bike a great opportunity to reset and have time to think, and the physical challenge, persevering through the inevitable hard time and pleasure in the achievement is hugely rewarding.
GNOME's been pretty damn usable with Wayland since around 2015 or so. Enough time that I can distinctly remember three Debian stable releases that run it by default.
Again with this lifespan stuff. The term of copyright determines much of the value of the work, the very moment is put on the market by the author. The extra value realized by a term of 70 years versus 56 (the 1909 number) is, in significant part, realized during the author's lifetime. It gives them something more valuable to sell.

There are other reasons to argue the term should be shorter, or that creators should be granted a less valuable right for their works. But "the current term doesn't track the lifespan of the author well" seems facially nonsensical. I mean, just to start with, there's the difference between John le Carre, whose last book (before he died) was published when he was 88 years old, and someone like Christopher Paolini, the Guiness record holder as youngest author of a bestseller. How does lifespan even make sense here?
Maybe, just maybe, HN isn't for you?
There is no "dumb pipe" liability shield. There was no absolving of liability pre-230. And 230 — not some fairly tale alternative statute that mysteriously doesn't appear anywhere in the U.S. Code — is what provides that liability shield today, for moderated and unmoderated hosts and sites alike.
Studies paid for by who? The car lobby
Windows 10 definitely tricked me into creating a Microsoft account, and I didn't realize I'd been tricked until later. Felt pretty sleazy. Windows 11 being even more of that kind of garbage, and the Steam Deck being a good enough gaming platform, means I've probably built my last Windows PC.
Do you buy anything based on what it may be worth 70 years after your death? Do you think any company thinks that long term?

1 year probably. 5 years pushing it. 10 years is basically off any reasonable financial projection any company is going to make.
> I'm not quite sure what to do about this.

I suggest you inform yourself about (adult) ADHD. Your behavior matches mine exactly. It was only after I learned about ADHD when everything finally made sense.
is there any guarantee that if i annoy microsoft on github or xbox gaming that microsoft will not disable my windows account tied to those email addresses?

threat surfaces go beyond ephemeral and tracking data.
for 9 hours, and it was acknowledged. hardly comparable.
Why not add an email client panel as well?

Windowing should be a window manager concern. There is no reason for Dolphin to embed a terminal instead of your window manager to just keep a borderless Konsole next to it, like you might see on any tiled WM. It's pure bloat caused by inflexible software.

Personally I would love to see tabs, panes and all that crap disappear from any application. It shouldn't be their concerns to manage windows. My dream desktop would even have Emacs windows be separate frames managed by the window manager, not by Emacs itself.
Isn't this more or less the same problem as cooperative editing of a document?
ChatGPT and Open AI: We Are *Totally* Forked
Creating and modifying browser extensions have been one of the most useful quality of life utilities ive written.

I'm dreading the switch to V3, I'll have to figure out what I can port over and how to do so :/
> You can leave Microsoft behind,

Everyone currently afflicted can make the most of the US 3-day weekend, write this installer raw to a USB stick/drive, boot it, and overwrite Microsoft forever:

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/d...

Or, if it's a laptop that needs closed WiFi firmware blobs, use this USB stick image instead:

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-in...
That’s not what a Karen is or why people use it.
A “classic” paper in the space that might give some historical context to anyone interested, https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/the-internet-sucks-or-w...
I got that, my point is that such composability is rarely better than good old OOP with encapsulation. Enumerating all possible state transitions on object interface leads to better design than procedural programming (and composable operations are procedural programming).
Cultural erasure.
mediaanalysisd has been around for far longer than three years.
Thanks for your story Jon, found it helpful.
I'd want locals to travel as efficiently as possible too- to get to their jobs.
Of course I'm worried, I just attempt to understand my threat model, my vulnerability surface and act accordingly. I understand why security exists. I just want to be able to turn it off without having to resort to hours of research of security tech in order to control the devices I own. Obviously I wouldn't give access to an account with my life savings to my rooted phone.

It is about their bottom line, but largely not to protect me or grandma, it's about justifying control and divorcing people from the power of the supercomputer in their pocket. There's more money in making it hard for me to edit my hosts file etc. than there is in preventing the potential loss of my money/data through these restrictions.
The same can be said about religion and state, at least in the US. Doesn't take away from that being the platonic ideal we should strive for.
my system blue has a u-blox. but i don't really know anything about fancy GPS chips, so you might be right.
I would think the “explicit expression” part is new and enough to make it publishable, and fail to see why not being useful in practice ever should be a factor in determining whether something is number theory.

Now, for the hype, I don’t see any from the authors.
Same. It doesn’t have the battery life of something like a kindle but it’s a lot more flexible (PDFs, web pages, etc. are all a lot better than on a kindle), and I can take handwritten notes too. I’ve actually experimented with several note-taking devices like the reMarkable and eventually the iPad won out as just nicer to use. The one issue is the apps and web access can be a distraction from reading, but I’ve found that by throwing up enough friction in the form of whitelisting sites in Screen Time and not having many apps installed, it’s not an issue in practice.
That it will never cohere. (That's about as much as I want to say about this right now; this gets boring pretty quickly.)
Society has made the choice so far to make owning a car as convenient and inexpensive as possible, while allocating almost no resources to other options. And no, usage fees including gas taxes don't cover the cost of roads -- let alone the land usage, externalities, and supporting infrastructure like drainage.
Illegal + doesn't work against modern solutions incorporating e.g. gait analysis.
GNOME takes a hard-nose approach to application and technology design, making each application they ship feel like part of a greater whole. Rather than feeling like applications made by developers each with their own ideas of how to design an application (which is very much what KDE looks and feels like), GNOME pushes every one of its components into a unified look and feel and it really makes it feel like everything was made by the same people (despite the actual development story). It permeates everything from user interface design to what libraries the applications use (eg: GNOME applications use SQLite for database needs. And that's it. You don't get some using SQLite, others using PostgreSQL, others using MySQL; that's the situation KDE found/finds itself in.)

On top of all that, IBM and Novell have put some serious development money behind making GNOME check all the accessibility boxes and the remote administration boxes. It's the only environment outside of Windows that can match the accessibility and administrative control Windows offers.
As others have mentioned, the most popular simplified ones are: Cloudflare Web Analytics, Fathom, and Plausible. Cloudflare (as well as Simple Analytics) use only HTTP referrer to count visits, which makes them the most privacy-friendly but also limits what they can do in terms of tracking an individual session. Fathom and Plausible both use hashed IP and User-Agent, which allows for more functionality, though they still can't track returning visits across separate days because they rotate their salts every day.

GoAccess, AWStats, or other log analyzers can get you a lot of the same data, but they also have even more trouble identifying bots and have little to no ability for customization. Also if you use client-side only javascript functionality on your site there's no ability to track that.. so if you wanted to track how many people zoom in on cool bonsai tree pics you wouldn't be able to do that with a log analyzer. Those also don't work well with CDNs.

There's other more sophisticated tools like Matomo and Piwik Pro that are similar to GA3 in functionality but have the ability to work without cookies if that's what you want. Looks like you don't need something that involved. I'd probably go with either Plausible or possibly Cloudflare if you're looking for something free. Looks like you're already using Cloudflare for some CDN assets.

I've written a book on this subject that covers 15 different options: https://www.quantable.com/analytics/google-analytics-alterna...
where have you heard that the API is back up for those who've been banned? only thing I've seen is that some have worked around their bans by getting new API keys
I disagree somewhat with what that guy said but your "counterpoint" is ridiculous.

Bank deposits are yours! If the bank collapses and can't give them to you, there's FDIC insurance so the government will get you that money.

This is nothing at all like Twitter and only weakens your argument.
Not quite an answer to the exact question, but the FAA does publish hot spots (overview: https://www.faa.gov/airports/runway_safety/hotspots, full list: https://aeronav.faa.gov/afd/29Dec2022/All_Hotspot.PDF).
When articles about new versions of Safari are released, I go straight to the details of ECMAscript and CSS improvements and disregard everything else as irrelevancy.

But the recent introduction of "tab groups" has been an absolute game-changer for me. I currently have groups set up for technical research, shopping, gift ideas, recipes, and random-shit-about-bicycles. This is great not only for keeping tab-madness under control, but also the ability to close windows full of tabs without worrying about losing stuff. The tab groups have memory, sync across devices… brilliant stuff and absolutely worth re-developing ones browser habits around.
It happened to me when I logged into XBOX for Forza 5 - voila, Windows 10 suddenly had that account registered as well!
I've worked in a few places with similar policies. Lots of companies will match your 401k contributions (up to a limit), but the matching funds have a "vesting" period (typically a year or two). Stock options are often offered under similar terms.

I don't see any reason for this article to exist other than to try to "shame" Stripe for doing what many other companies also do.
And at the very least you can factor Disney out of your argument if you think copyright terms should be less than half of what they were in 1909.
Krita kind of leads the pack in the "FOSS image editing development fund" category with 17k/month. It's not the same primary use case but there is enough overlap in what it can do that I'd say GIMP is neither in the lead enough or differentiated enough to garner significant support easily.
Yes, clearly they all do. Media companies don't push for extended copyright terms just to spite you. They have easier ways of spiting you than that.
This. Moreover, such typo-squatting attacks could easily be mitigated by using a private package registry.
> Mute point now

*moot
What's going to happen to all software updates and remote services if Tesla goes bankrupt (or just deprecated) ?
with the popularity of chatgpt, here is a great introduction video into neural networks.
I'd love to have something similar with ECC RAM.
So rendering the HUD locally and a 3d scene on a remote server?
As a temporary means of distraction, maybe. But it wouldn't really change the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinematics, ratio of joint to limb length, and so on. You'd just sway a little bit different, but not that much.

Then there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-area_motion_imagery AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS , the digital signature of your gadgets in the EM-spectrum, where their sudden 'disapperance' might raise flags, leading to 'replay' of the region for further analysis.

But there is always hope in rising incompetence of ever growing institutions and organisations, hollowed out from the insides by the parasites they attract.
Gotcha, I did interpret it that way. No big deal. Exact meaning is hard through text sometimes.

You have a good day.
Agree. One of usecase, is to let user select the "theme" for the project by just installing theme extension.
That's an interesting point. You could use this to hash values with infinitely scaling difficulty by providing an offset to n where n = difficulty + n. The only issues is collision since the output is always 0-9 but if your POW check is against multiple digits then it might work? Again you could still have potentially infinite repetitions of sequences of digits with different inputs.
Having the engineers focus on doing one thing really well is good enough for me.
Health ML models perform especially poorly on reproducibility per meta reviews
You cannot in fact just use mastodon.social, because they haven't been accepting signups since the great Enmuskening.
Erm... not everyone's cup o' tea.

There's a handful of arrogant know-it-all "oldtimers" that does an excellent job driving newcomers away.
Prominent Pirate Sites Mysteriously Vanish from Bing’s Search Results
Google is the Netflix of something. Like Netflix is now known for cancelling series prematurely, for me Stadia was "that sounds cool, I should check that out" and then it was cancelled by the time I was seriously considering it.
We do but not to the extent that laypeople would think rational. Taxi instructions are verbal affairs. Hugely problematic in very busy airports. I will say that I am not sure how much automation would have helped. It does appear that this pilot had really lost situational awareness.
Doesn't work on the Surface with W11 that I recently acquired. I managed to attach a keyboard, but Shift-F10 had no effect.
It's problematic for a company to have EOL plans not because people will assume they will go out of business, but because they might not be able to actually adhere to those EOL plans resulting in a much larger mess than what would have happened if they stayed silent.
Insulting people who've done you harm is not an "ad hominem"; he's not debating Musk here.
In similar way instagram shortly after being purchased by facebook tricked me into login with fb account - the now "old" login option was placed at the bottom of window and it was done in small font that could be seen as copyright footer for a distracted eye.
None of these are ad hominem arguments.
Very nice. Hadn't seen such a clear explanation of PDV and the solution with synthetic delay before. I've designed several latency critical protocols using these techniques and some that build on this, but haven't before seen such a clear explanation. My own "slides" were harder to follow, when I had to explain once how the protocol works.

Could have saved me months of thought 10 years ago if one had existed. ;)

It's always validating to see someone else arrive at similar conclusions when facing a challenging technical problem. To the author, I encourage you to keep pushing (if you want to), it's possible to replace the fixed synthetic delay with a control loop. :D This makes both the PDV _and_ the system latency approach their minima over time.
Lawful intercept is completely different to (shadow)bans, algorithmic suppression, and dissemination of govt. propaganda.
Anyone know the Chinese Room experiment by Searle?

GPT-3 was made for that :)
Take a look at:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management
> P.S. Where the bottles only 20-25% more expensive in Canada than US?

I never spent the time to really compare. I'm curious what the real number is.

Almost everything is automatically 20% more expensive in Canada so I just assumed.
Wikipedia doesn't give it to you in audio and video format.
Great DIY project. I was expecting a simpler solution.
Let me try guessing it... most people thought it was some kind of ransomware smiling at them?
The poor live in food deserts, they don’t have nutritious food.

They get their food from McDonalds, Dollar General and Taco Bell.

https://www.aecf.org/blog/exploring-americas-food-deserts
A billionaire attacking somebody else as "Pedo Guy" was peak hominem plus outrageous power imbalance, and the post you're replying to doesn't hold a candle to that. Plus Musk really is "a prick" "Space Karen" "King Shithead" "shitty person" "arrogant bastard" "billionaire bozo" "a clown". Truth is the best defense against libel.
You do, with updates issued back to the Paperwhite 1st gen. DX owners were issued a $100 trade-up credit last year.
I’m bullish on Mastodon with the influx of users. It’s different than Twitter, but it’s pretty awesome in its own right.

Hopefully the different model will create something new and amazing. Twitter had amazing elements, but it’s sunset has arrived!
I was thinking of making a modern distributed spaghetti version some time.

FizzService,
BuzzService,
FizzBuzzService,
CountingService,
etc
I am a user of plasmo and it is amazing, super easy to get started and it just works