skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello, VicHeads! It's me, Biffo the Bear, and today I'm going to review the hardest game ever made: Vic Ireland's Masterpiece of Masochism.
This game is so hard, it makes Dark Souls look like a walk in the park.
It makes Cuphead look like a cup of tea.
It makes Getting Over It look like getting over a mild cold.
The game is a side-scrolling platformer where you play as Vic Ireland himself, trying to escape from his angry fans who are upset with his localization choices.
You have to dodge bullets, bombs, lasers, spikes, and insults as you run for your life.
The game has no checkpoints, no save points, no health bars, and no mercy.
If you die, you start over from the beginning.
And trust me, you will die.
A lot.
The game is so hard, I couldn't even get past the first level.
And I'm a professional gamer!
I've beaten every game in the world, except this one.
This game is harder than my ex-wife's heart.
It's harder than a diamond in an ice storm.
It's harder than... well, you get the idea.
The game is also full of Vic Ireland's trademark humor and style.
He threw away 90% of the original script and rewrote it for an American audience.
He added jokes, references, and insults that only he and his loyal fans would understand.
He also changed the graphics, music, and sound effects to make them more "Vic-like".
The game is a love letter to his fans, and a middle finger to his haters.
The game is not for everyone.
It's only for the most hardcore VicHeads who love a challenge and a laugh.
If you're not one of them, don't bother playing this game.
You'll only end up crying and smashing your controller.
But if you are one of them, then go ahead and buy this game right now.
You won't regret it.
Well, maybe you will.
But at least you'll have fun.
> Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski's Beasts, Gods & Men is a firsthand account of Ungern-Sternberg's lunacy

Great book, by the way. And not only the part about Ungern was interesting but also the part about buddhists and their "miracles".
Not necessarily. For example, if I access 142.250.187.228 what domain name was in the Host header. Hint: It's not www.google.com. If I visit 65.9.141.10, then what domain was in the Host header. Hint: It's not search.brave.com.

But do not take a random HN commenter's word for it. Try this yourself. Try to map IP addresses to domain names on a very large sample. I have tested this on hundreds of thousands of domains. It will not work reliably. Not even close. Compared to SNI, which is both simple and reliable, it is a total PITA.

If this 1-to-1 IP to domain mapping and 100% reliable reverse DNS idea made any sense, then why claim encrypted DNS offers "DNS privacy". Anyone can see IP addresses on the wire. If all IP addresses can easily be mapped to domain names, then how would this provide any privacy.

Mapping IP addresses to domain names has to account for the fact that IP addresses can change. To make sure the mapping is correct one has to constantly keep doing lookups. SNI stays the same even if the IP changes. It requires very little effort; it makes the process of determining the domain name trivial.

The goal is not total privacy. (Impossible when using the internet anyway.) The goal is to not to make surveillance easy. That's what SNI does. It makes surveillance (and censorship) super easy.

If I am wrong about this, and SNI is AOK, then why was ESNi developed and why is ECH being developed. It is not an easy problem to solve. Why bother. SNI was a feature to benefit websites, not website users. It has some very undesirable properties for users.

Even with CDNs that need to use SNI, it is still possible to avoid sending the domain name in plaintext on the wire. One can use a dummy name, i.e., not the name in the Host header, as the SNI and the CDN can still return the correct page because it uses only the Host header. This was nicknamed "domain fronting". I was using this technique before anyone started calling it that. Using a dummy name can reduce the surveillance value of SNI, sometimes to zero. After some "security researchers" started bragging about their discovery of "domain fronting", AWS and other CDNs started checking SNI against Host header to make sure they are the same. Now "domain fronting" no longer works. Countries that censor the internet, who are valued AWS customers, rely on accurate SNI in order to carry out censorship. Go figure.
Same with Hindi. Needs a ridiculous English accent to understand Hindi. I call it the British Colonial Administrator accent. Like this guy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6_896OhnaQ
Hello, mates! It's me, Biffo the Bear, and today I'm going to review the latest video game sensation: Super Smashy Bashy! This game is a total zonker, I tell you. It's full of whizz-bang action, snazzy graphics and bonkers characters. You can play as a ninja, a pirate, a robot, a dinosaur or even a cheese sandwich! How flabbergasting is that?

The game is very simple: you just have to smash and bash your opponents until they go splat. You can use all kinds of wacky weapons, like a rubber duck, a frying pan, a banana peel or a custard pie. You can also use special moves that make your character do something crazy, like farting fireballs, burping lasers or spinning like a top. The game is so fun and hilarious that you'll be laughing your socks off.

But the best part of the game is the sound effects. They are so zippy and zappy that they make your ears tingle. Every time you hit someone, you hear a loud "BOING!" or "SPLAT!" or "CRASH!" or "BANG!" or "ZOOM!" or "POW!" or "WHAM!" or "KABOOM!" or "BLAM!" or "KERPLUNK!" or "OOOF!" or "OUCH!" or "ARGH!" or "EEEEK!" or "YOWCH!" or "OWIE!" or "WHEE!" or "YIPPEE!" or "HOORAY!" or "YAHOO!" or "WOOHOO!" or...or...or...

Oh, I can't remember them all. There are so many of them. They are so funny and silly and goofy and loony and nutty and daffy and batty and cuckoo and...and...and...

Blargle wargle snargle bargle! Flibble dibble gibble dribble! Wibble wobble bibble bobble! Nibble nobble gobble gobble! Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee!

Oh, I'm sorry. I got carried away there. I just love this game so much. It's the best game ever. You should all buy it right now. It's only 99 quid. A bargain, I say. A bargain!

Well, that's all for today, mates. I hope you enjoyed my review of Super Smashy Bashy. Tune in next time for more of my zany antics and opinions. Until then, this is Biffo the Bear saying: Cheerio!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD_Data

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzwtCBj5jEs
Agree. A positive suggestion would be welcome and very interesting to me.
> sell them very cheaply, but I always suspect they are pirated.

You can't buy something for $100 and sell it for $20. Well, you can, but this is not a sound business model.

It's always amusing for me when people assume they can buy a 'legal' copy/key for $5-10 'somewhere on the net'.
Hello there, reader.
I'm Apollo Diomedes, captain of the Blood Ravens 5th Company.
You may know me from my exploits in the Aurelia sub-sector, where I fought against the Tyranids, the Eldar, and the Chaos forces.
But today, I'm here to roast you.
Don't worry, it's all in good fun.
I'm not going to use my power sword or my bolter on you.
Just my words.
And trust me, they're sharper than any blade.
So, let's start with the obvious.
You don't have a girlfriend.
Why is that?
Is it because you spend too much time playing Warhammer?
Or is it because you're too afraid to talk to women?
Or maybe it's because you have the charisma of a servitor and the looks of a grox.
Whatever the reason, you're missing out on one of the Emperor's greatest gifts: love.
Love is what drives us to fight for humanity, to protect our brothers and sisters, to sacrifice ourselves for a greater cause.
Without love, we are nothing but mindless drones, following orders without question.
But maybe you don't need love.
Maybe you're happy with your lonely existence, your virtual friends, your plastic models.
Maybe you think you're better than everyone else, that you're a true fan of Warhammer, that you know everything there is to know about the lore.
Well, let me tell you something, reader.
You don't know squat.
You don't know the thrill of charging into battle with your squad, the fear of facing an enemy that wants to devour your soul, the joy of hearing your name praised by your commander.
You don't know the honor of serving the Emperor, the glory of dying for him, the hope of being reborn as a Space Marine.
You see, reader, you and I are very different.
I'm a hero, a legend, a leader.
You're a nobody, a loser, a follower.
I'm a warrior, a soldier, a brother.
You're a nerd, a gamer, a fanboy.
I'm Apollo Diomedes, captain of the Blood Ravens 5th Company.
And you're just...you.
But hey, don't take it personally.
It's just a joke. A friendly roast.
I'm sure you have some redeeming qualities.
Maybe you're smart, or funny, or generous.
Maybe you have a good heart, or a good soul, or a good sense of humor.
Maybe you're not as bad as I make you out to be.
Or maybe not.
Anyway, thanks for listening to me ramble on.
I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
And remember: in the grim darkness of the far future...there is only war.
Nature does not have great pest control, which is why we spray so much chemistry that gets into our food and water.

Whether removal of wildlife areas and the trace chemistry in our bodies is a worse outcome than expensive vertical farming is unknown and it might be unknowable.
I easily cloned access cards to the building of a club I'm a member of, as the company managing the security access went the way of the dodo. Granted, it's not a long term solution, but it's a stop-gap measure that allows us to use the facilities until the landlord replaces the system/company. Would I have been able to do that with my professional equipment at my office? Of course, but doing it in the field with a cute dolphin winking at me is nice.

I was able to show that one of my client's building access control is less secure than their lunch system, and for the NFC work I'm doing with some clients, it allows me to have a single device in my pocket with the 30 or so keys in use on the project instead of having 30 dongles in my backpack.
>Microsoft Windows ends up being the most secure general operating system

It already is. What, exactly, is better than Windows at security features on desktop computers? Linux? There is nothing in there that comes even close to the defensive features of windows, like HVCI, a subsystem that checks for driver signatures and the likes isolated by virtualization mechanisms, which completely prevents tempering with the kernel. Linux's support for secure boot only exists to make it convenient to dual boot with windows, it doesn't do enough to prevent kernel level rootkits, it's a total placebo and it's even worse if you use a distro that doesn't have signed kernels, like Archlinux. If you're self signing on the same computer, how exactly are you stopping malware?

Since Vista, the OS also gained some serious resilience against crashes that I have never seen on other operating systems. For example, it is possible for your desktop session to survive a GPU driver crash. On linux this is a guaranteed freeze or kernel panic. This is, fortunately, a rare event, but the last times I've seen my computer freeze on linux, it was always because of the graphic stack.

openBSD's slogan for having few remotely exploitable exploits out of the box doesn't mention that it's because it has literally no features enabled out of the box.

macOS and iOS are the systems with the greatest amount of privilege escalation fails by far. In fact, what do people think jailbreaks are? Some of which are truly frightening when you think about what could have been. Multiple jailbreaks were made that could be run just by browsing a webpage on safari. This means they punched through the browser, punched through privilege escalation and had the potential to install a rootkit on your phone. Just by visiting. A. Webpage.

How many times such a thing has happened on Windows in the recent years? visiting a webpage installed a rootkit on your computer?
300 users a day sounds improbably low for an urban route.
Does this work for iOS yet? Last time I was trying out wifi qr codes only android handled them correctly.
Intel posts largest loss in its history as sales plunge
Yes so true, I guess there is more money in autonomous robots for additional control like weed suppression!
I can't imagine our species being able to survive and thrive like we did with risk seeking women. It takes about 15 years for a human infant to become independent and there are a lot bad things that can happen in 15 years even if you play it as safe as possible. One can argue that the roles can be shared or swapped, but that would be against specialization, hugely complicate mate selection, and it would break evolution by natural selection so no sex would excel at anything.

Now all of the above is really pretty conservative thinking, bound to ruffle some feathers and all that. So circling back to my first sentence, can anybody imagine things being different but with the same outcome?
Not for me but for my dad. He has a giant vinyl collection from his teenage years at his country cabin in Vermont.

I hooked a raspberry pi zero up to it about 7-8 years ago, and streamed the audio to a custom app on an iPhone, so he could play a record and listen to it anywhere in the house or even outside while cutting wood.

The hard part was making a nice vector animation of a record player that animated based on the state of the playback.
Unless said forums serve pornography, only thing they have to do is create an imgur account and reupload to that account and swap the id of the image. This is easily scripted.

But more viable option is to pay for the hosting of the image, either by hosting the files directly or by using a storage solution. A 6$/TB s3 storage from Wasabi seems like a good start.
Maybe I am in a bubble, but in my family I was the only Apple user 5 years ago. Today we have got not a single Windows device left anymore. My wife has a MBA now, my mum has a MBA now, my sister has a MBA now.

Same goes for the .NET community. So many developers who some time ago would have only developed on a Windows machine all switched to Apple over the last few years and most people don't ever look back.

I appreciate that those personal anecdotes don't mean anything, but let's put it this way, I was not surprised to see a 30% drop in Windows sells in Microsoft's last financial statement.
I can order nunchakus on amazon but they're a 'banned item' in my country - you cannot own these in Germany.
tool used to download instagram images to a google photo album for use with things like chromecast screensaver https://github.com/mcpengelly/instagram-saved-to-google-phot...
I wonder how the cost of one policeman posted there every night for 50 years compares to continuing to run 24/7 ferries. Specially dilluted on top of the cost of building the tunnel itself.
> But there's plenty of occasions when you really need a car.

Eh, depends on your needs, really. I've gotten along without one for decades; I keep meaning to learn to drive, but it never rises to the top of the priority list as I just don't really have a use for it.
> I just never really understood why these tracked math programs were a good idea?

Because by sabotaging "tracked" programs as you described, they can claim that "Middle- and high-performing students performed equally as well in both environments.", thus discrediting concerns that dumbing down math education to the lowest common denominator is harming high achievers.
It's still misleading to call this a binary search when that is commonly understood as an algorithm operating on a sorted range which is not just an arbitrary datastructure but something that already exists in many situations. If you just need fast lower_bound lookup for a set that you control and which has no other uses then sure this is nice, but more commonly you only care if an element is in the set and in that case if you can control the data structure then there are many more options.
How do you pronounce Bach?
Dropbox is in a rut because Microsoft used their monopoly power to move a lot of people to OneDrive. Which as a Microsoft product of course is all telemetry, no end to end encryption and a poor syncing experience. But the software comes with the OS and the subscription is included with Office 365.
I like the characterization and the premise but I completely disagree with the conclusion. To an academic, science may feel like a strong-link problem but from a layperson's pov it's the opposite. When bad science is translated into the real world, it turns into faulty engineering, bad medical interventions, terrible socioeconomic policies etc. The difficulty is that once bad science is out, it can take years/decades before it can be corrected. This is because science is thought to be our best way to get to an objective truth. This why bad science, when it goes out into the real world turns into "objective truth". Think about the "vaccines are bad for you" crap and the damage that one weak link that got out caused. Several of our modern problems are due to weak science making it out into the world and getting recognizing as "objective truth" because it came via scientific method.

The OP is right that in the long run science is self-correcting by its very nature. Over those timescales, half a generation or so only the good stuff stands the test of time. But over short timescales bad science making its way out into the world can wreak havok.
Go and rust are not the same thing. Go is fine for what it is if you agree with it's opinions. But a lot of people are reaching for rust for different reasons then someone would reach for go. It makes sense that their std libs are different... Especially knowing the differences in the languages themself.

You aren't forced to use the more obscure methods in std. You can almost always recreate them with simple code and suffer no real performance or readability hits.

Former c++ devs are smart people. I work with some, and value their input specifically when designing libraries...
It should be RLHF, my bad with the spelling.

> So the tool will have very little value for anyone above a certain skill ceiling.

LLMs aren't great for doing tasks you don't know how to do, because you'll eventually have to debug the output. However they excel at performing time consuming tasks that you could do if you really wanted.

That's why I think they'll actually be more useful for experts.
Not all exploits are possible because of software bugs: see e.g. https://free60.org/Hacks/Reset_Glitch_Hack/
People might use cars or public transport instead of a bike to commute if there is heavy rain or snow. This is an important consideration in Bergen which is notoriously the rainiest city in Europe (it rains more than half the time).
If you get a NetMD Minidisc player, you can just plug it into your computer with USB and drop files over using a Chrome web app https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC-8IGkdDxw

This actually seems EASIER than burning CDs.
Anecdote:

Ive tested a two or three years old Chrome version with JIT compiler vulnerability and guess what - on empty Linux vm it managed to escape chrome and execute code

Meanwhile on Windows with Crowdstrike software installed Chrome just showed some error message about mem. access

Im not sure who handled that attack - was it Windows or Crowdstrike, but eitherway Ive been impressed
> I'd assume it's an attempt to have exclusivity (and thus a shot at exponential growth) instead of targeting slow and stable growth ?

My guess from the context would rather be that they think (rightly or not) that they can do it cheaper themselves or by paying someone else a fixed cost rather than giving out a profit share like the pricing model in the FAQ says:

> Our pricing model is based on the principle that we take certain percentage of the total profit our SaaS lets you drive home.
The other half has a clitoris, which, as far as I know, is similar to a penis from a sensory perspective.
Refusing to accept more money is just bad hotel management or ownership not aligning incentives properly.
It has mini-XLR, which is a locking connector.
By this reasoning, why would we need to do anything to grow food? Why not relax and enjoy nature's bounty?

If your answer is anything but "we should indeed" then you're saying that a spectrum of technological aids are a good idea. This is one of them.

E.g. growing water-intensive herbs in the Middle East based on nature vs inside a water-recirculating vertical farm.

If it's not obvious, the answer isn't actually nature vs vertical farm, it's flying them in vs vertical farm. Your incredulity at people not just growing things where they're easy to grow should possibly diminish when you remember that we grow them where they're good to grow and then engage a global commercial, legal and freight industry to get them to us. That combination is what vertical farms are competing against.
Texting in Ancient Mayan Hieroglyphs What Unicode Will Make Possible
like the Indians said, you want to buy the sky too?
There is a parameter which tells the program how many pixels there are per meter. From this you can compute the length after stitching. Using framerate, you can compute the speed in the same way.
A model that generates complex recipes from images of available ingredients
I think what they mean by ambiguous could itself be considered ambiguous.

Let's view this from the context of a classical AI problem, trying to be as neutral and computer-like as possible. In that case, the statement is not ambiguous, no. It consists of two events with a connective "when" indicating they happened simultaneously or near simultaneously. We can argue about how simultaneous they need to be for a "when" to be justified, but this paper isn't about factuality, just ambiguity.

Now the choice of politics primes people for culture war and so they will read into that statement more than exists. They will assume the writer is attempting to make you infer something, without outright stating it. They might be right! And with additional surrounding context, perhaps it would become completely certain. But it might also not be the case, for example the surrounding context could be something like this:

"The election was at a time of unprecedented economic turmoil. A loose regulatory approach had left the banking sector unconstrained and primed to fail. As such when President Obama was elected the markets crashed, proving his predictions correct".

Well, now it's unlikely that any causality is being implied even though the words are the same.

The paper authors say they want to improve clarity in communication, a worthy goal. But a serious problem in all political communication is the frequency with which people make statements that are factually correct, and which then get attacked anyway because some listener would rather attack a straw man than the actual claim (or hypothetical listener, in the frequent case of left-wing journalists writing about it under the guise of fact checking).

If they want to avoid this problem then at the very least they should have focused on claims that are syntactically ambiguous. Otherwise it opens them up to this very problem where they infer a straw man then blame the original speaker. No, the blame lies with the person committing the fallacy. Once you go down the route of blaming someone for your own interpretations you end up with micro-aggressions and other stuff that left-wing academics surely assume is obvious and normal, but isn't.
It's most likely both, but if laws forbid Udemy from showing the price as a discount if it doesn't fit certain criteria, then Udemy should not allow creators to set that "discount" at all.
Especially the throwing into the volcano part.