skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But if you care enough to agree to that, why wouldn’t you just do it yourself?

Time vs effort?

> The real problem is that only a fraction of the population knows about the map ...

Yeah... surely there would be some way to get increased awareness though?
Even the "legit" text message spammers can get bent. This guy is acting like those poor little insurance companies don't have any other way to advertise to me, because they just want me to have better insurance, out of the goodness of their job-creating hearts.
I dont know a lot about MINIX but why is that the case?
That also sounds like a classic mistake on the behalf of the developers: never trust the client.

The client should never be able to call a "DisplayEnemyPlayers" function, like _ever._ That should be calculated entirely server-side. The client should only ever know what the player could possibly know, and the inputs limited, checked, and sanitized to ensure that they're valid inputs based on the server's known player state, not the client's reported player state.

Of course, there's limited situations where the client can still do cheaty things despite your best intentions, like refusing to display smoke particles that should partially obscure another player and make it difficult to hit them (if they fully obscured the other player, the client should not receive updates about that other player), but aside from that and other "partial knowledge" problems, what you describe is a completely solved problem.
The thrust of the article seems to be “we had a good thing going, some of you took it too far, and I TOLD YOU if you kept taking it too far we’d all lose our good thing, and now look at what you’ve done”.

For what it’s worth, whenever one of those “lead generator”-type calls gets past my filters, I take their number and the number of whatever company they’re advertising and sign both of them up to a bunch of those lead generator websites
I would bet on the opposite, at least since 2008.
Right, it's just a binary. And if I'm installing an app, say Audacity, I would never go to GitHub and download the raw binary, because then I'd have to write the desktop file by hand, and also the app would never get updated when new versions are released. Instead I use a package manager or Flatpak.

How are people keeping their AppImages updated?
I’m not trying to be dismissive, but this viewpoint has always been strange for me. for me it is brutally obvious whenever the video has been compressed or downsized. I download most movies at 2k+ resolution because of this. I’m curious what your setup is—perhaps it’s in the way different monitors work?
It used to be. Home office stipend was cut.

It's now hostile to seated and hybrid workers with shared everything desks (except MPK) and the looming threat of more layoffs, more Help Desk closures, microkitchen cutbacks, and shrinking meal service.

Except for lifers who just want to coast, some are eager to be laid-off as they're already looking around.

PS: Amazon corporate's idea of perks are vending machines.
Why single out this comment? None of the comments on this mouse-sex article have been particularly erudite
If it is just a big scam, why don't more companies do it? Apple is generating about $100 bill a year in net income. No one else is. Tim Cook is just the worlds greatest scam artist by orders of magnitude?
I'm convinced the internet would have been better if we had charged $0.05 per email.

Making something free definitely has its costs.
What is Bridgewater’s risk adjusted return compared to SP500 for the last 10 and 20 years?

From mid 2017:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-10/bridgewat...

> Since the beginning of 2012, Bridgewater’s Pure Alpha II has posted an annualized return of 2.5 percent, according to a document reviewed by Bloomberg Markets, a far cry from its historic average of 12 percent. It’s down 2.8 percent this year through July. (A smaller Bridgewater hedge fund, Pure Alpha Major Markets, has fared better, as has the company’s long-only product.)
How does Ghostery compare?
Awesome, thanks for your reply.
> simple use and cleaning will break it down.

This isn't my experience. Low heat (which is how you should be using them) and soft utensils (I prefer to use those anyway) should be enough to keep it going - I have no scratches or wear on mine that I've noticed, though I did just replace them. They're quite cheap so replacing isn't really onerous either.

> Unless you’re trying to avoid using oil for some reason

I don't want my eggs to be particularly oily, or if I'm explicitly making a buttery french scrambled eggs I want to use butter and I want to add it in later, not use it for lubrication/ stick. You'll need much more for the cast iron.
Apple, Google, Facebook+Instagram, and Amazon already have every photo of most people since 2010. They can do that today if they decide. For my kids, they have every photo and video since the day they were born. For the newer portrait photos and cinematic videos, they even have depth data.
How many? Enough to make this comment anything other than a meaningless anecdote?
I'm over 375lbs and nobody will prescribe it for me.
There's my counter-anecdote.
If we’re going to be blunt, let’s be blunt about the dark side of reality.

Consider the population of rapists. Who are you more likely feeling safe complaining about: 1) A professor 2) A cop 3) A powerful politician 4) A gangbanger 5) An unhinged uncle

Consider the population of false rape accusers. Are they more likely to be: 1) An immature college student relatively new to determining sexual boundaries marinating in ideological literature that considers looking at someone the wrong way rape 2) A drug addict, prostitute, or other person a cop typically runs into 3) A regular person that knows the abuser has relationships to prosecutors 4) A person with good reason to fear for their life if they report 5) A person who has to deal with family betrayal if they report.

Between the administrative bureaucracy obsessed with student safety, the often rich and well connected protective parents propping up the school, and the often nerdy and agreeable nature of professors, professors are also probably some of the safest people to accuse of rape (rightly or wrongly) on the planet.
Yeah, I would use it. Not sure if the person I replied to would, though.
> We propose to ban the practice of obtaining a single consumer consent as grounds for delivering calls and text messages from multiple marketers...

I honestly don't understand how this isn't already a thing. The bit about Lending Tree struck a chord with me. I tried it once. I expected offers on the screen. Instead, I immediately received text messages, emails, and phone calls from multiple lenders at the same time. I was furious at every one of them.

> Caught in the middle are the innocent companies trying to sell their legitimate products to interested consumers. They want no part of fraudulent leads or fraudulent lawsuits. They’re just trying to help someone buy a home or get car insurance.

No, not innocent. "Hey, I've got a get rich quick scheme! I'll give you leads for customers, but you have to call them fast before my other customers do!" Nothing innocent about that. You sign up for that, you know exactly what you are doing, and you know damn well it's wrong.
Viaweb was sold for about $50 million worth of Yahoo stock. So more than 95% of the first billion was from something other than coding.
Adobe pays a high valuation in an inflated market for Figma, to continue showing growth that has mostly stalled. Also helps them cross-sell their other products once they get into smaller companies where Figma has a strong foothold.

Market Tanks, valuations tank (to reasonable levels or perhaps still slightly inflated levels but not as crazy as before)

Generative AI brings a new threat (and new potential acquisition targets in the near future)

Adobe: How do we get out of this (now) bad deal? .....Oh wait..

DOJ: Preps anti-trust suit

... now Speculating....

Adobe doesn't really contend strongly the anti trust charge.
Pays $1B or so (saves $19B for future acquisitions)

Figma......some dreams crushed, but I guess $1B is not too shabby
As you wish. But I think you simply forgot (or maybe chose to ignore) something I said very early on:

"The reason entropy was lower in the past is that the universe started out in a low-entropy state. The reason for that is still a mystery."
“Quite the near future” means what to you? 2030? 2035? 2040?
How does one balance the rights of the vulnerable, who sometimes do need to be anonymous for fear of retribution and the people who use anonymous accusations as a harassment strategy or for political purposes or for a witch hunt?

The only way seems to be to have a more-or-less independent panel who would look at the anonymous accusations and make an impartial decision on the same. The legal system, as it exists, seems to be such a body, definitely much more impartial and unbiased than a random administrator in Stanford.
I don't see any conflict - I don't think Stallman has anything against sharing improvements and developing together. If anything the old-school FSF development model was more centralised (see The Cathedral and The Bazaar). If you have access to the source you can understand it and fix bugs in it; that's true whether you apply them locally or submit them upstream.
Every video game played at the highest levels tends to have this kind of weird execution barrier. Coming from CS mechanics to my current favorite of Planetside 2, I had to learn that movement meta wasn't so important, burst and range was. The automatic guns reset their bloom in durations of just a few frames, so if you are doing it right it doesn't actually look like you let go of the trigger, which is absolutely baffling if you are used to CS burst/tap and spread patterns. And all the guns are projectile based with unrealistically slow bullets which adds some unintuitive target leading and situational preferences based on whether you need faster bullets and sprint-to-ADS times or slow but powerful at range.

And when you get to learning those parts of the game, you always end up sitting down and drilling a small part of the technique for hours over the course of a few sessions, because that's the only way to get the right muscle memory.

It's unavoidable wherever games are doing abstract things: mouse/stick/button inputs are meaningful because of the context, not because they are the actual action being performed.

When I want a game that feels fully connected, I play pinball. Virtual games get close(and work great on a phone) but real ones let you nudge the machine finely.
No, no other browsers do this.
No, it's because if the specific details were included then the posters would be doxing themselves. It's very easy to lookup sold listings on eBay.
This has nothing to do with martingales as a term used in gambling. A martingale in probability theory is just a type of stochastic process with certain mathematical characteristics, and this article is about using them on certain types of math problems where their usefulness is not otherwise obvious.
Tragedy.

Google sez: Music for Airports was installed at the Marine Air Terminal of New York's LaGuardia Airport for a brief period during the 1980s.

Elevator music may no longer be a thing, but apparently, airport music still is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km0h6Ix3Zcs
I have stood behind a friend (let's call him X) watching him play, and like you, he had this almost uncanny ability to one-shot targets. We were in a LAN game and there was no way he was playing with any bots or exploits, since he would sometimes take over from someone else's PC when they went for a break, and suddenly this person's handle would rack up tons of kills (then someone would call out, is that you, X, on Y's PC, darn it, and we'd all start laughing).
Doesn't look like it dwarfs it. According to Forbes, 15% of billionaires are in finance, 12% are in fashion, 9% are in tech.
How is no plugins different than private browsing, assuming you don't allow plugins in private browsing. Is private browsing too strict?
To understand AI sentience, first understand it in animals
I think it's meant to be Roman numeral abbreviation for a thousand-thousand. You would think MM would be two thousand following the convention, but it's multiplicative like 10^6.
> In most developed economies a company owner cannot arbitrarily destroy their employees' careers. You have a responsibility to the people who've devoted a substantial chunk of their lives to you.

Bahaha. Hilarious.
I love how it's framed as destructive to the "lead generation industry".

it is nuts how salespeople view themselves. they're the heroes who drive business, they're the backbone of the economy, etc.

anyone negatively impacted by the banning of online consent forms is doing shady shit in the first place.
We also have this problem in Canada, but being as we import a great deal of our culture from the US, we're frequently "America-lite" for things like this.
> They don't actually understand what these concepts mean.

You say this so confidently. But can you define in terms that are directly quantifiable what "understanding a concept" actually means?

I don't believe that anyone can (at present, anyway) although there are certainly some interesting theories and heuristics that have been put forward by various people.
Not for Figma, but for the VC's who've already paid for new jets or 8 figure apartments.
In finance they use it because "M" is the roman numeral for 1000. MM is 1000*1000.
It can be misleading looking at the budget this way. As to your last statement, they could cut the budget by a trillion, and still have 17% go to pensions, 23% to healthcare, etc. In any case, doing a comparison in percentage terms to other areas of spending won't indicate whether they are overspending in any particular area. There could be huge wastes in some categories.
Lmao, this sounds like every 2005 PHP project.

I think part of me would actually kinda enjoy this experience just for the nostalgia factor. I got surprisingly good at making changes in prod without causing downtime...
It read like poverty tourism, with added overtones. Not that it doesn't ring true in a lot of places.
TBH I think it's less the pan and more the kitchen. Growing up I thought cooking in a cast iron was a pain because I had a really shallow sink, weak water pressure, and I cooked for my family so dishes would pile up.

I live in a place with extremely strong water pressure and a very deep sink, plus the faucet is one of those rope ones that can be held arbitrarily. It rips through anything on the cast iron, leaving it clean in under a minute. Cleaning is, in general, much much much faster in my new place - plus I have a dish washer so dishes don't pile up, only the cast iron (or some specialty knives, maybe) generally needs to be washed in the sink.

I cook a lot of sauces in the pan and it's all good now that I have the room and tools to clean it off.
That's kind of missing the point. The article is up in arms that companies which only want to spam you with legitimate products (in a product category similar to whatever you signed up for) won't get to do so, because of those bad actors, the multi-vertical spammers and scammers. OP is complaining that the industry brought this upon themselves by failing to self-regulate and stop the bad actors in time to avert regulatory attention.

The reality of course is that all text message spammers are bad actors, just less bad than the worst of the worst. It is probably is true that failure to self-regulate is what brought this down on the industry, but the industry as a whole deserves it and everyone will be happy to see it gone, except for the unscrupulous handful who make a profit off of it.
M is 1000 in Roman numerals, that is the origin in accounting. It should be upper case though.
Those employees were silly for not just starting their own firm if they were the main cause of success.
It seems like this should have implications for quantum cryptography. Does anyone have any references to work on such implications?
It was just a joke about the legions of boomers on FB complaining about these increasingly implausible reasons why an electric car won't work for them when they clearly would, and for those people who do have one of the rare legitimate reasons, they can just continue to use ICE vehicles..

A family member is constantly posting that nonsense, and whining about how he could never buy an EV since he hauls his boat. Nevermind that he hauls his 2,000lb pontoon boat 40 miles round-trip twice per year. The base model Hyundai EV could easily perform 100% of his towing requirements.

He doesn't have a problem to solve, he just likes to complain and virtue signal. No amount of battery range will convince him to buy an EV because it has nothing to do with his complaints.
> Speaking of being a frustrated user

Also speaking of being a frustrated user, can we talk about the system resource usage? snapd ruined my Ubuntu experience for a while. I finally disabled it before ultimately leaving Ubuntu altogether.
What’s worse, overspending $20B or giving up $1B?
It would be nice of course if this actually applied to the sale of the data, and not just consent to contact. But then that would hurt banks and credit rating agencies, which regulators wouldn't dare piss off, so the FCC goes for roundabout regulations like this one, which treat the symptom but not the underlying cause.
FWIW this wasn’t always the case, I distinctly remember when they effectively announced that they would stop skewing these numbers. It was also IIRC around the time they announced they’d stop using price brackets to charge more for certain upsells depending on which base config you chose.

Good on them for both! But I remember both as admissions that they’d been dishonest or manipulative prior.
Seems like you'd have to just outright ban selling it to foreign owners?

Otherwise someone will make a "legitimate" business in a country that doesn't ban selling to (non-compliant) scrappers, whose job in life is to purchase old ships and sell them to scrappers. Maybe hanging on to them for a bit first to make it slightly less blatant...
eBay outsource their customer service to Filipino workers.
In fact, RMS advises (heh) against advising core emacs functions in elisp; which is more or less monkeypatching.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AdviceVsHooks
Aha. Yes I just have the above ground type. The only person I’ve met with an in-ground type wasn’t satisfied with his either but I figured that was because he was retrofitting it into an older home.
That is widely known about and freely available to the public, maybe. There are multiple options available for pseudo-LE types with relatively lax access prerequisites.

https://www.robertxiao.ca/hacking/locationsmart/ is an example of one provider's public demo (requiring only a phone number) being used to provide non-consensual location data.
The patent actually covers a mechanism for electing a master controller for synching and storing configuration parameters. The actual process of synching audio is not covered. Not that difficult to work around the patent. But definitely easy to trip over the patent if you're not careful.
According to people on r/dota2, that specific cheat has still not been patched. Doesn't sound like that's the way they are detecting it.
How do large owners of an asset, whales as you call them, pump the price of that asset? And what evidence do you have of this? The evidence I’ve seen points a traditional ponzi actor, who corrupted regulators and governments, publishing fake inflated prices to generate a bull market and attract more deposits to steal. Where are the Bitcoin whales you mention?
I don't understand why anyone's reaction would be to cry

Things worked out for you and your social circle; not necessarily true for others in your generational cohort.
High ping / jitter could be used as an intentional cheating mechanism in the days of the lag switch through.
Often the design of the gameplay requires trusting the client.

Ie, foliage that partially obscures an enemy. There's no way to have this as a feature that doesn't require trusting the client to render the foliage properly.
There's something different about looking at yourself in the mirror and looking at old photos.
I’d personally like to see the FCC proposal enacted and am willing to see the valuable uses lost to make sure the bad uses are indefensible.

But the “good uses” actually had been a win for small and local businesses. With too much real and fake content online for directories to be practical, lead generation sites became a successor to the yellow pages for a lot of small businesses.

Users look for a masseuse or roofer, fill out a qualifier form at a lead generation site operated by a tech company, and the business operators who may not even have a website can qualify the lead and submit a pitch.

They weren’t perfect and are still subject to abuse, but they were a working solution for a lot of people who weren’t going to (and don’t really need to) build an impressive website and marketing strategy.

But like I said, stuff happens and times change, so if that system gets tossed for the sake of all the adjacent abuse, so be it. I’m sure some new technique will fill the underlying niche.
We can't assume that any given hotel network is well-configured, but most enterprise networking equipment verifies the source of multicast traffic against the multicast routing tables. This means that if you simply send packets with a source address matching the real multicast source, the network devices will ignore and not forward them. This reverse-path check is a standardized part of PIM, the most common protocol that network devices use to communicate multicast groups between each other. It's also enabled by default on Cisco devices for local groups and I would assume the same of other vendors.

That said, it's considered a best practice (although not really all that common) to use ipsec or another method to provide cryptographic authentication of multicast packets. The protocol discussed here may do so.
Or Django Unplugged, since this Django was a guitarist.
I swear people just say things without a shred of thinking.
Original commenter is right about the feature obsolescence and didn't seem condescending to me. Just more or less critical of the general idea, as one doesn't really need so many extensions for privacy, which most of the list appeared to be tackling.

That said, URL filtering isn't necessarily effective at keeping your behavior private either. There's an argument to be made about ClearURLs and URL filtering in general being counter intuitive, as you might stick out among a sea of other users with marketing params in their URLs.

Still wishing for a Tor-like solution to anonymizing all users on a browser configuration level.
I like neat and compact projects!!!
> If my kids didn't have my wife and I to inherit from, I have no idea how they would ever be able to afford a house.

I mean, this is a huge country and you're focused on the city with the most overinflated housing market. My guess is they would move almost anywhere else in the country and buy a house just fine.

> 6 figure student debt

Again, this is a choice (and a bad one at that). Most people aren't dumb enough to saddle themselves with that much debt.
Well, Brave was caught inserting affiliate links and Google properties definitely nag me to switch to Chrome (for my own sake).

But Edge has clearly gone too far here.