skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this advice a lot but I can't imagine it working better than using a system level adblocker like AdAway on my phone. (Smart TVs I understand, though mine seem to be unusually ad-less compared to what I've heard Samsung does).

What if you're out and about disconnected from WiFi? What if you need to turn the thing off for a sec to click on a sale/promotion in an email?
I am disappointed he didn't include some of the music he captured.
Professional starts at $1500 for the 32-bit edition. That price doubles for 64-bit. Need to connect to a database and use their ORM? That’s another $1500. Want to do a cross platform mobile app? Add another $2000.

Need windows and Mac? That’s another $4500 for each.

A cross platform app would cost $15,500 PER DEVELOPER.

I work for a fortune 500 company and they’d just say no at those prices. It’s an absolute no go for regular companies.
Yep. The main way I notice that an app is using FlatPak is it becomes impossible for me to type Japanese in it because the person distributing it hasn't done the complicated stuff you have to do to make IME work with FlatPak.
I remember a bunch of years ago that there was software that could take a text and then determine if other texts were written by the same person, based on certain statistical points regarding the writing style and language use.

I would expect that one heuristic would be whether a text is completely lacking in such a signature. This might be affected by writing "in the style of" but that might be picked up by some of the plagiarism tools as well. Then follow that with "in the style of" the particular person submitting the work as their own.

A lack of any statistical signature, and heuristically not matching the author apparents' statistical signature either, should set off flags as to the authenticity of the writing, AI or otherwise.
I haven’t used the iOS version of Orion myself (only the macOS version), but uBlock Origin + Orion would be the equivalent for iOS:

https://browser.kagi.com/faq.html#iosext

https://browser.kagi.com/
I prefer https://github.com/gilch/hissp, where Hy has to use shims to pretend statements are expressions, Hissp just targets the expression subset in the first place. (though as you mentioned, hy has a lot of literature and support around it, where as you're going to have to find your own way around hissp)
This was already observed at least 2 years ago https://boilingsteam.com/mastodon-vs-twitter/
Thank you so much! Those are exactly the types of links I'm curious about.
> The decision to ship this into the product is mystifying to me.

Yegg discussed it the last time email protection came up on the front page - rolling it out internally into their android browser was the main goal, and the extension for others. The motivations are in the old hn posts. They could have rolled out a new app and extension, and maintained those on top of the current ones, but those would be extra codebases to maintain.
> A fundamental right we have in the US is the right to face our accusers

I'm not so optimistic, there is an increasing pressure to erode this right slowly but surely.

We had seen several cases of sexual harassment claims by groups of anonymous people that can avoid the right by the simple process of retracting in the last second and refusing to sue or show proofs. This is basically free for the accuser tagged instantly as "the victim" but very efficient destroying lives and careers of the targeted people.
I imagine OpenAI is probably collecting a massive dataset of "false" responses (from the general public's use of ChatGPT and Bing) and fine-tuning GPT-3.5 with it.

The rich keep getting richer.
Perverts?
If you switch to Pop OS it's setup like that out of the box. They have a Pop Store that's autoconfigured with flathub and plain old Ubuntu/Debian apt packages. Zero snaps. Zero config or changes, it's ready to go.
Mastodon Drives More Engagement Than Twitter
I had friends who should have been taken away from their neglecting parents, but never were. Turns out, if the child is not being literally beaten, all the parent has to do is not open the door when child services comes by.

So if the child's teeth literally rot out of their mouth, they wear filthy clothes to school, they live in a house full of cat shit everywhere, and a rotted away caved in roof, all the parent has to do is continue smoking, drinking and browsing the internet. No one could do anything about it. Those kids' lives were ruined.
Interesting that this announcement comes concurrently with the news that Ubuntu now expects all official derivatives to drop Flatpak support [0]. Looking forward, can someone tell me how these two policies will play nice together?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34912760
Maybe if she’d been doing her homework in the car on the front lawn, it wouldn’t stoke such fears?
If you use Alternate Player for Twitch DDG privacy extension was preventing it from connecting with twitch servers and lose quite a bit functionality as you would always stay logged out. Not sure why it was doing that, but just a PSA regarding same extension
If I were ever negotiating those contracts on the other side, given how we've known how people lie with these dashboards for like a decade now, I'd want to see a clause which states that if I can catch them having not updated the dashboard there is a really really serious penalty fee.
I had a family member work at a company that blocked gmail. They were a lotus notes shop tied with MS AD, and their admin was very anti-google. "Gmail is a cesspit of spam" or something like that. But... then was all in on MS. "MS is great - they have no spam problems". Which is just... wrong.

So... I couldn't email my family member at their work from my gmail. Not a big deal for me, but I know it impacted their ability to work with some clients and providers. And then... sure enough, they were getting spam from MS-hosted stuff (outlook.com, azure hosted stuff, etc).

He might have thought he was getting one over on google or something like that - I'm sure they didn't give a toss about it.
I don't know about DDG's extension, but if you want privacy, you definitely need an extension with a complete read/write access to all of the pages that you browse though. uBlock Origin would not be able to do its magic without this access. It needs to inspect and filter any request from any website, and to apply filters on the page too.

This is what Chrome's Manifest v3 is killing by the way.
Some people play for the socialization, some people play for the challenge, and some people play to win (ie, display their “dominance”). It’s just different personalities and values.

The latter group will often cheat if necessary as winning is the need and the priority. The talented ones usually end up in profitable pursuits like business and poker rooms. The losers (pun intended) will gravitate toward friendly competitions where people have their guard down and cheating is easy. At least that’s what I’ve seen.

The best strategy is to detect these people and ban them because appealing to values won’t work.
They know their locked-in customers, but they also know they don’t get many additional customers at those prices either.
Blokada started sputtering out on me so I switched to AdAway on F-Droid.
There are sadly some places where the courts/CPS will avoid removing them even in such a situation because their temporary care situation available from the state is so fucked that they're better off in literally any situation where they aren't beat/molested. Some parts of the US have truly dire situation with not enough quality foster car parents and basically a lord-of-the-flies temporary home available chock-full of kids with various unique and difficult to live with issues.

You wouldn't remove a kid from a cat shit/dirty clothes/rotten teeth situation to toss them into lord of the flies with 9 kids who have violent tendencies as a result of being treated even worse.
You can’t not believe either of us. He said a thing and I said it’s false. If you don’t believe him then you agree with me.

This btw is the correct course of logic since the burden of proof is on the asserter.
It's not really a problem in the US either. Kids are walking or biking unsupervised everywhere. Only a few isolated cases like the one you mentioned make the headlines.
To nitpick the nitpick, Stanford actually is held to some Constitutional standards, thanks to California's Leonard Law, which requires private universities to provide the same free speech protections as public universities. It does not incorporate the 6th Amendment, but to the extent that this system can be used to suppress constitutionally protected speech acts it could run afoul of California's specific requirements.

The law:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090430235943/http://www.leginf...

Some analysis:
https://academeblog.org/2020/06/27/stanford-and-the-legacy-o...
By the way, this is not completely correct:

> You are limited to run your programs inside the development environment, this limits its applicability a lot. You can't write a simple command line utility this way, just to name one example.

You can save and run a console-only image which doesn't start the graphical IDE.
Parents and elderly at the time had grown up with playing in the street, so they could hardly be bothered by it. Now we have the next generation that has only known cars (oddly enough probably the ones that played in the street).
Brave browser works just fine for iOS
you mean like any and all forms of entertainment? must be an agent smith or somethin here
You won't understand what you are bidding on until you win the bid. Then you need to figure out how do it once you win. Filter the projects by US/Canada only. Bid on anything that sounds remotely doable. Don't be afraid to backout if the requirements are too wacky.
I was able to charge $35 US. An $80.00 fix rate project should be avoided... the most clueless post will need handholding those are the relationships you need to build. Most of the work is building relationships
What is timing beside luck?
No it doesn't say that.

> That morning, a software bug in an update to the DynamicSource tool caused ...

This says when the bug happened, not when the update was made.
NPR is actually quite influential in the edutainment section. Some really good content came out of their works.
I am the one emacs user who uses it as a text editor and nothing else.
I've never worked for or with Franz, but I have worked support.

The cost of supporting a customer is relatively uncorrelated with any of the typical ways of charging for maintenance (e.g. per dev seat, company market-cap &c.). This leads to maintenance contracts that are very limited in scope. OTOH Companies really want a way to be guaranteed that you will support them. This often leads to some form of tiered support system. If you are not noisy, you can get away with a low tier. If you are noisy you'll be pushed to a higher tier. If you are rich and don't want to bother with that nonsense you just buy the top tier.

Also there's a difference between "Thanks for the bug report, it will be fixed in the next release" and "Here's a patch against <whatever version you are using> 24 hours after we fixed it in our development branch". The former is free pretty much everywhere (bug reports are like free QA). The latter is going to cost money.
Yes, that's all true. Lithium-air EVs could be significantly lighter and cheaper than current-generation EVs.

But even if that doesn't happen EVs are going to represent the majority of new cars sold in the quite near future.
Seeing it come up next to the share field in a OneDrive repo containing some sensitive documentation really set off my alarm bells.

Of course I logically know that this is not an information security risk, but it feels sketchy. I am surprised it was shipped, and frankly also surprised it hasn't been rolled back. Someone else in the thread raised the point that this kind of UX can snowblind novice users against future phishing attempts.

I do appreciate that DDG is a company we can collectively engage with feedback like this in such a manner. I'm certainly not quitting them over this.
TX Pusher
TX PUSHER allows you to automatically broadcast your signed Bitcoin transaction based on predefined conditions. These conditions will be evaluated every two minutes. If the conditions are met, the transaction will be broadcasted immediately.
Pretty sure they are referring to cosmetic filtering which is not possible at a DNS level
>I have heard people actually say that if a kid is playing outside by themselves, then the parent should be charged with child neglect because the kid could get hurt.

Giving concern trolls the ability to use the State's guns on whatever personally offends them always ends badly.
borggames.com is available and will cost you $10/yr.
Your point about COVID, aka SARS-CoV-2 being not well known is incorrect. Zoonotic coronoviruses were a major concern, and COVID's relative, SARS-CoV-1 killed almost 1,000 people and was a major health incident in 2002-2004. MERS-CoV killed another 1,000 people 10 years later. COVID came from a well known and family of viruses of high concern and still caused enormous damage.
Mostly kidnapped by the parent that doesn't have custody. Once in a while other aunts or uncles who don't approve of the way their brother/sister is raising kids.
That is only if you have Google Play Services installed.
Wheres part 2 where you start broadcasting your own elevator music?
Yeah, despite the "explanation", that's still an ad being injected. No thanks.

I uninstalled the extension a long time ago, and I've been mulling over just going back to Google search, and this has made that decision for me. It's not only a bad idea, it's a bad idea that has full support from the top of the company.

Good bye, DDG.
So tell me what ads I’m not blocking and haven’t been blocking for the last 7 years on iOS?

And bonus points - my ad blocker works with embedded web views
I remember watching 'The Phantom Tollbooth', which is set in San Francisco and has the main boy walking home from school through the city, and feeling how odd that seems now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Tollbooth_(film)
Theoretically, yes. In practice, I don't know any.
But it sounds like you got Debian to work -- you just couldn't get compiz to work, which sucks.

What I mean is that I can't get Ubuntu to work at all. On my luckiest tries, I've managed to get the desktop to show, but everything is still highly unstable and I've never pushed on to trying to install software.

I used to think it was driver issues, except I've had similar symptoms on three different machines. And before people jump down my throat -- I'm not saying this is a problem with Ubuntu. I admit that I must be doing it wrong. But it's a showstopper deal for me anyway.

Admittedly, the last time I tried was a few years back. Eventually, I just had to give up and move on with my life.
But:

1. couldn’t you “just” (yea yea I know) install a cert on all your devices and force all 443 traffic though a proxy (like some corporate networks do)?

2. (Something I’ve been meaning to get around to trying for a while) default-block outgoing connections unless unless the external host was recently resolved for the corresponding internal host via your internal resolver? That seems like it would kill anything that tries to avoid your ad-blocking resolver. It seems like that might block hard-coded addresses too, but that could be a good thing..
> Nobody uses those for their intended "national country" use.

Most of them do? I'm sure most .fr or .jp properties are operating in the French or Japanese markets. A handful of them (mostly the ones you list) have become trendy in other niches or provide opportunities for puns.
i gotta say, if chrome stands out to you as a shining beacon of quality, i'd hate to hear about what software you consider bad
It's not the number of cases, it's the possible litigation that's at stake.
If you have to tell potential customers you don’t do something, maybe you should just do it instead.

ChatGPT as business line lead generator—is there anything it can’t do?
Appraised by whom? What's a domain's value if no one wants to pay for it?
They only realize it now?
FYI with Spectrum fiber make sure you're getting 500mbit upload. I had to fight them to get that fixed since my address still showed up as copper and was provisioned as such (1000/30 or whatever it is)
Another suggestion: put something like libphonenumber’s isPossibleNumber or isValidNumber on your server, on error run the query string through it. If it says that looks like a phone number, relay this information in the error response. A field in the JSON response like “info: Your query parameter looks like a phone number. If you are trying to get the geographical location of a phone from the phone number, please be aware this is not possible. [link to blogpost]” would hopefully jump out at people, particularly if you ask them to include the error response in their support request.

It’s an unprincipled hack, a bizarre dependency to add to your project, it probably feels like admitting defeat to the all powerful AI… but it does 90%-solve the problem.
I'm not a layperson (not really, at least) and I strongly feel like the sigma algebra framework is basically a waste of time. Mathematicians love abstracting and formalizing things but it's not useful, paradoxically, if you're trying to actually just do math.
Ask HN: Direct Zoom call lighting with large screens in the way?
I want to explore some direct lighting options for Zoom calls, but I have a couple of 32" screens in the way here, without much space on the sides.

I've looked at ring lights but they seem to need a lot of space, and they'd have to be offset quite a bit due to the setup of the screens here.

Are there any direct-type video call lights to recommend that are compact and effective enough to work in this kind of situation?

(Indirect lighting is taken care of pretty well already)
> The problem is that there are busy bodies that will involve third parties, possibly with good intentions, but still.

Important point. These Childhood Independence laws are a good start, but they need to be paired with "Mind Your Own Business" laws that have strong penalties for people who call the police or protective services when there is no neglect. It's too easy for busy bodies to falsely report someone and wreck their lives over nothing--and then hide behind the ol' Good Intentions excuse. People should have to be able to verbally articulate evidence of abuse when they call in to report children playing in their front lawns or walking to the store, and if they don't, their victims should at least be able to sue them for damages.

And if this also has the effect of cutting down the number of people casually calling the police on each other--all the better!
So you mean like 99%+ of all Android devices sold outside of China?
Yeah, but you can probably use https://github.com/google/libphonenumber for that.
Fair point. Which makes these humans (and me, I suppose) like ChatGPT:

https://twitter.com/BeijingPalmer/status/1628585234865262593...

https://twitter.com/SCPantera/status/1127416274550546432

So ChatGPT isn't all that different from people.
True.

The comment I was replying to was talking about Mounjaro, which is a weekly injectable - and thus no way to do it for only three days a week. In that context, if Mounjaro made it impossible to eat to the degree the commenter described, it would be wildly unsafe (because of how long each shot lasts).
> we also reduce the ability for users to scrutinise the source in the Flathub build system that was used to build their application

Wow.
This is not what the grandparent is saying. The typical situation is not that people are forced to do the work. We're not talking about slavery* here.

They are doing it because they see it as their "best option". By stopping it, the result is their "best option" is taken away from them, and they have to go do the next "best option". You could keep saying "this is inhuman, let's stop it from happening", but the effect is just making it worse and worse. Instead, better options should be provided. That's the real solution, but it's a whole lot harder to implement than the knee jerk response of stopping an activity.

edit to preempt ridiculous interpretations of my words: This is assuming slavery is not the case. If slavery is involved, it is a different situation to what i am talking about.
The 24/7 news cycle is problematic, not because of copycats, but because of paranoia about traumatic, but very low-frequency events.

If we had the kind of gruesome, 24/7 news coverage that is usually reserved for crimes, but for car crashes (lethal and otherwise), instead, maybe that would shift the needle some.
Bolsheviks were great manipulators of people.They promised what people wanted to ear, something they never planned to keep, their actual goals were very different. When they solidified their power, they eliminated the other political actors who helped them. They deceived people to participate.

But you are right, in the end the opposition to Bolsheviks failed because the only serious opposition to them was tsarist who could not provide any new ideas. Bolsheviks killed (and very literally) any change of real opposition to them. When people realized the actual situation then it was already too late.
*whole :(
Hopefully some of the banned cheaters are in this thread. I'd like to hear their story.
Microsoft injects ads in Chrome download page
Also, I don't mean to come across more negatively than I actually feel. The game can be frustrating at times, and there could be improvements made to reduce those frustrations.

But overall, it's still possible to have a lot of fun and great matches enough of the time that it is still worth playing.

I'm around low diamond, which is definitely my skill ceiling. It relatively easy for me to assess higher diamonds and masters. It's also easy to asses plat players. Anything below plat looks very similar to me.
Could it also be that in general, Americans are having fewer children so there are that many more out of touch adults out there? How many of the people reporting solo kids have children of their own?
this is unlikely to catch on, as there is no addictive adrenalin rush and it will be very hard to prove who was driving the vehicle later.
Browser experience is shite like any other Safari wrapped abomination
A few years back Microsoft mentioned that something like 42% of all Windows computers have less than the 25Mbps broadband that the government is aiming for. Of course, not all computers run Windows, and even then it doesn’t tell you the difference between broadband availability and the desire or ability to pay for it.
Having worked with products designed for mainstream users, the screenshots posted by OP looked really harmless to me. It looks like a really common way to introduce a new feature in the form of a quick inline tutorial. The only thing that I would change is making it easier to dismiss the pop-up permanently.
I'm running Rocky Linux (rockylinux.org).
It's been good; no reason to move so far.
To clarify, the decision I find mystifying is the one to promote this via a phishy-feeling inline pop-up. The choice to incorporate email tracking protection into the product makes sense to me.
It's also frustrating when you're not particularly skilled are just having an unusually good performance. My K/D ratio hovered somewhere just under 1, but I had outlier moments in CoD where I would rack up kill streaks and end games 16-0 or 27-1. Being accused of cheating and then follow-through harassed via PMs was just exhausting and ate up some of the joy of performing well.
> This leads to Linux desktop having far fewer applications available to them compared to windows and mac.)

There's far fewer applications because there's a very tiny market share compared to these two OSes. Not because of the lack of payment systems.