skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember going through this journey of pirating software.

Eventually, as software started to receive updates, keygens were more interesting as those things didn't break when an update was applied (or the update failed because a checksum mismatch of some exe / dll.

For games, keygens and cracks were needed to bypass the original disc requirement. One could try to image the disc with Alcohol 120% which as able to retain the information needed to pass the disc checks. The output images were of the MDX [1] format. But those images were the size of your disc. So you had your installed game (e.g. 8.5GB) and now the image.

Eventually some people were able to create a 'fixed' image of the disc. I don't know if it was just an MDX with pointers to nothing, or whether this had to be done on a game-by-game basis. I can't link to anything here but searching for 'no-cd fixed image' explains this better.

You'd then mount those images with Alcohol 120% to play the game.

Later on more detections popped up and I remember having to use Daemon Tools as it employed more sophisticated measures to hide it from the games.

Also, I foolishly registered on Daemon Tools' website and to this day I get spam at daemontools@<mydomain>.<tld>...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Descriptor_File
At this point the argument “the market will solve the problem by its own” is tiring. The whole argument that if a company doesn’t offer X, then people won’t work for it and go to other companies only works when there are others that offer it and don’t cut on Y and Z because they offer X.

There are countless labor issues that historically “weren’t solved by the market” because they were the right thing to do until a law was established.

If we let things solved by the markets with no laws, all of labor will be replaced by children smoking cigarettes who don’t get paid.
hah. okay, in the US, in the "good" old days only very poorly informed or suckers would pay MSRP (manufacturer’s suggested retail price). you would normally have to go to multiple dealerships, figure out what you want vs options that were actually on the car, haggle a lot and usually you would get a [way] better price than the MSRP. Dealers had inventory and cars to sell, so selling a car was better than not selling it.

in the brave new world (where we had a pandemic + supply chain shock + shortages of all kinds) you no longer have an option. Dealers do not have the car or if they do it goes away instantly. You have zero leverage and they will 1/ get whatever price they want for it (usually above MSRP) and 2/ will wait and be happy you managed to work something out.

Here:
https://evto.ca/toyota-vehicle-wait-time-guide/
https://caredge.com/guides/factory-order-wait-times-2023 https://www.whichcar.com.au/news/toyota-wait-times-2023-deli...

I'm going to buy a used car you say? Well, you'd be shocked to learn how much used cars are going for (and there used to be a time during the pandemic, not too long ago where, for certain brands you could actually sell your car for more than you bought it new - which to me it's crazy)
And at least at the “enterprise” level for B2B software, there is intense customer demand for more features and, simultaneously, more stability.

From my view, that and pressure from the analyst racket are the main drivers behind feature bloat with self promotion a distant third.
Surely Some Revelation
Good point, yep curved TVs was definitely in the mix. After the 3d fad died out, but I'm also not sure if it was before or after "smart" TVs.
I am happy with Nextcloud. There is everything you need. And you own your content.
RedPajama ran on the Summit supercomputer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_(supercomputer)) NVIDIA V100s/PowerPC chips as part of the INCITE grant which necessitated variations from the LLaMA training parameters.

This led to differences in evals, now they are bringing in more modern chips.

Aside from some tokeniser differences this is a drop in replacement for existing LLaMA that matches performance.
Super wobbly. Looks like the structure holding the rotors together has a lot of flex in it. Makes my engineering brain panic.

I could see this being a rescue device for difficult terrain where a helicopter can't fit.

Recently some coast guard pilots had to risk their lives to save a dog on a hard to reach beach. This thing could have zipped into a tighter space than a chopper and been out in under 15 minutes.
Curious: what sucks about ADO boards? Used it at work and so far seemed fine, but I am certainly not a power user
From a person who started using computers from the early 2000s era:

THANK YOU!

None of the current SaaS apps I use can come close to the experience of using softwares from that era.

Take a simple list view of a typical Windows/Mac software?

1. Command clicking selected multiple objects

2. Shift clicking selected a range.

3. Right clicking brought up selection actions.

4. Double clicking opened an object.

This pattern was followed in almost list views and there was no re-learning and surprises.

Now can you say the same about the list views of modern web apps?

Can you apply the same list selection experience across Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive and Apple iCloud? Nope.

That's were we failed as an industry. We let a lot of designers run too wild with their ideas, to put it bluntly.
Compared to Other Skilled Work – Engineers Are Dramatically Underpaid
That opinion was held by a large part of the field for the longest time, and some actually still cling to it. These are usually the people who criticise transformers, because they go against everything they believe. But what we have seen in recent years points to the fact that capability of neural networks is only a question of size. Yes, the human brain uses some tricks like recurrent layers and convolutional layers as well - and to some extent it does so better than we currently can. But transformers have shown that you don't need any of that for language processing and not even for vision, showing once again that you only need a sufficiently sized network. The details of the architecture are not that important. In the same way that your microprocessor architecture does not really matter once you deal with high level programs in userland.
Thanks, I’d been wondering about this for years. I couldn’t imagine how microcode would be directly involved with so many pipeline stages and execution units. But if it’s reserved for the “highly unusual”, it all fits together. And the explosion of transistor budgets since 8086 means we can afford to implement all but the wackiest stuff in hardware.
Reputation is what gets you more business in the future. You can expand your business or raise rates, or both.

Yes, this won't help if you're literally in danger of not meeting payroll next week, but I would hope most businesses don't operate so close to the edge.
Chip music / chiptune specifically to music produced on/for sound chips, or produced using tracker software which was commonly used to produce this kind of music.

"8-bit" is also often used to refer to the genre of chiptune, even though much of the music is produced for higher bit depth systems.

Many keygen tunes are chiptunes, produced on trackers, but many are not. Some are straight-up DnB, techno, or trance, not remotely chiptune. E.g. Here's a track from downthread which would be considered rave/ old skool / breakebeat hardcore or just "hardcore" (not to be confused with like a dozen other genres called "old skool" or "hardcore" (it's a very ineffable genre from a fairly narrow time period, from a fairly underground at the time subculture, who released via physically unstable "dubplates" that haven't survived well through digital archiving)).

https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#835

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakbeat_hardcore

It's almost like language is fluid and descriptive, not proscriptive.
Technically yes, but companies can join the OIN for free and ship it for free.

Lots of companies are in that list (https://openinventionnetwork.com/community-alphabetical/) including Google, Sony, Amazon, and hundreds of other companies.
Misleading headline: the owner set up an account for a family member, but using a criminal's identity, and AirBnB connected the dots. It seems fair enough. Don't use your personal devices to impersonate people you don't really know, or you bear the responsibility.
> A decade ago 8-15 minutes on an electric aircraft like this would be impossible. A decade from now we’ll be to an hour, which I’m sure would cover 99% of cases unless you really want to be droning state to state haha

Be careful about projecting from hype directed at investors but not actually publicly available.

I mean, if we projected from Moller skycar PR from the 1990s on (when it was heavily marketed to investors and first made available for preorders) the sky would be filled with personal VTOLs today.
Their FAQ says:

> In the U.S., Hexa is approved for flight under FAR Part 103. Hexa conforms to the FAA’s Powered Ultralight classification for which FAA certification is not required or available. The base weight limit for Powered Ultralights is 254 lbs, and Hexa utilizes additional weight allowances for floats and safety equipment.

They may be arguing that the weight of the landing gear counts as floats, which might be true. They may also be wishfully interpreting the FARs and on schedule to learn an expensive lesson in due time. (If so, they wouldn’t be the first startup to pretend the FARs said something other than they did.)
You’re asking for evidence of a lack of evidence. It would have leaked out if there was some huge vision of AI assistants that was being ignored by execs.
It's not paranoia when it's true ... mate.

And the fact that you either don't know or choose to ignore it doesn't make it any less so.

https://www.unbundledlegalhelp.com/blog/can-divorce-lawyers-...
That's GPLv3, GPLv2 (which the exFAT code was licensed under) doesn't include patent rights.
True, but people good at fast programming would seek better alternatives to get ahead of the competition.
I also like to keep my documents as much privately and locally as possible and avoid fog/cloud as much as I can so I would also not miss much. Just continue using Nextcloud and Libre Office
Condescending requires some kind of emotional component. The above is stated in a "matter of fact" way, void of emotion.

It is clear that most people go to lengths to try and find the right partner to marry. I am sure there are exceptions, but "this first person I just ran into walking down the street will do" is not the norm. Even if the first person you ran into on the street is who you marry, there will traditionally be a vetting (i.e. dating) process first to make sure you still believe it is the right choice after closer inspection. It is safe to say that the importance of finding the right person is generally accepted as an imperative to marriage.

Will mistakes be made? Sure. Nothing in life is guaranteed. Things happen. Random chance bites everyone in some way eventually. But that doesn't mean it won't affect things.
My wife would have used public transit more if the downtown train stations weren’t crawling with aggressive drugged out people harassing people at all hours; add that she used to get off work late at night, and it wasn’t safe for her

So, there’s a starting point. Let’s stop letting thugs who reek of Lysol on the train wander up to a stranger to steal their hat off their head without consequence (actual incident I saw last time I was in the train)
It’s not even just obnoxious. It’s also just terrible advice even master chefs need to be exposed to a recipe to to know which ingredients to combine… to expect a home-cook to just come up with recipes at Homefr f is ridiculous. They’re just gonna end up cooking the same three or four things that they’ve been exposed to.
You are not alone. It takes strength to leave that situation. There was a reason you got married in the first place to this first, so the change that occurs is often shocking and unexpected. Cut your losses sooner rather than later, you'll be eternally grateful for it.
Yes, I'm not declining the effects of gut bacteria. They're more than just good for nutrition..

This are speculations among science xD it's known that when one starts to eat, it takes some time for the stomach to notice that it gets some work and start production of the protons and enzymes. If you eat very fast, you'll put in more than the "optimal" capacity for the stomach is, because you're faster than the signal.

You can try it out on yourself. Just measure the time on one day and try to eat swallow as much as possible in 2-5 mins and take notes how much it was and whether you stil feel hungry.

On other day, try to chew as much as possible, like 20-30 times per bite. you'll figure out the proper amount per bite quickly, so it won't be to big :)

Do it for 10 or 15 minutes. Assess how much you've eaten and your feeling of hunger. I can promise you, you won't feel hungry and still have eaten less.
> Because Janet didn’t have her ID on her, Turner set up the account under Carl’s name, using his phone, email, and ID information.

Wouldn't this violate terms of service? Sounds like a really bad idea in any case. How else would they be able to "associate" her account with Carl's but for this act?
I was just thinking that, that perhaps this looks click-bait-ish as a news item because of course workers are allowed to drink water.

Is it maybe the point that not every commonsense-ism needs legislation backing it, IF it is truly respected and honored universally as common sense.

Or is this a news item because there are tyrants who forbid workers from drinking water and taking bathroom breaks? If so, that's bizarre and sad.
Compressor in Rust; compresses as good as “ZSTD -19”, while being 10 times fast
People deleting their comments on reddit?
> In my view, calling out Reddit as the owner and claiming they’re “bad” is a shallow dismissal.

If this were in any way an accurate representation of what I wrote, I might agree with you. But it's another misrepresentation. Could you please stop with that? I did not claim Reddit is bad, and I didn't call out Reddit as the owner to dismiss the project, I specifically and only talked about contributions to the project.

> And “you calling me out is the real problem” just seems not well thought out. So in your view nobody should disagree with you, most of all when you’re acting poorly? That’s convenient.

Aaaand the next mis-representation (if I counted correctly, this is your sixth! Wow!). I did not claim at any point that nobody should disagree with me. But if you disagree with me, please engage with what I write and say, not with what you want me to have said. You keep talking about how I am shallowly dismissing this thing while completely and utterly misunderstanding or misrepresenting my position. This means that this whole discussion chain, as well as every following attempt of yours to misrepresent my position, is off topic. Even if someone were to agree with you that my initial position is a shallow dismissal, they'd have to admit that it's at least on topic.

Just take what I write in good faith instead of repeatedly putting words into my mouth.
> This would be interesting to see how it plays out and if the market solves this on its own.

There's countless examples that the market doesn't solve everything on its own. It's naive to think it will be different this time.
We have layers now: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_...

I’d recommend this article on recent CSS developments: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/whats-new-css-ui-2023/

Be aware of the support of each of them, it’s not 100%, especially depending on your use case.
I know. I'm just trying to stick to the facts.

(And, interestingly, being downvoted for it. Despite no one presenting evidence that my account of what happened is wrong.)
lemmy.ml and lemmygrad are chock full of instances of them and many others discussing the merits of the great leap forward and holodomor.
Those four actions worked for me on the Google Drive web interface
This is Netflix, not some amateur-hour implementation copied from a blogpost.

The de-facto GraphQL Java library comes with dataloaders built-in anyways:

https://www.graphql-java.com/documentation/batching/
Goodbye, Twilio
In the usa, the transit needs to be faster. Public transit is 1.2-2x longer than driving.
IMO Mullvad is the most technologically advanced VPN provider in the industry. Mullvad decided to get rid of port forwarding entirely (knowing full well the impact it would have on their revenue) instead of trying to implement the special measures that TFA spends two whole paragraphs describing.
If everyone could just calmly discuss divisive topics instead of freaking out or resorting to violence, the world would be a much better place.
Sane places have extremely strong OSHA-equivalent agencies with literal criminal penalties for managers whose employees are injured on the job due to site conditions or lack of proper training and safety equipment. I can’t believe anyone advocates for less.

https://www.hrmonline.com.au/topics/health-wellbeing-and-saf...
With gstreamer and it's webrtcbin stuff, it's incredibly easy to hack something together that would get an MVP going.

I'd love to see a modular, but integrated approach, and one that lets me treat the media server itself as fungible. I want a sqlite database that is easily syncable/backup/restorable, I want a small Rust component that does media scanning and writes metadata to the database, and another small server component that has "storage" plugins for accessing the actual media and then uses gstreamer to "simul-cast" it to any WebRTC capable client.

Imagine being able to WHIP your media into an OBS session, or have it cast side-by-side with a webcam feed to an RPi hooked up to a TV. Etc.

If I could clone myself, this is the project Clone #1 would work on.
Right. Making people click on things they didn’t mean to and buy things they didn’t want — those goals were not even a part of the 1990s UI paradigm.
I fully stand by my words. It fun that you didn’t show the tone of the parent messages, I’m sure for no reason at all ;)
> If your barber finds a way to cut your hair 10% faster, that shows up in GDP growth.

No it doesn't. He'd need to profit from that effeciency first. Idle time is not reported in GDP
What part of what I said are you confused about?
It could be both too high or too low depending on the communicated expectations of the client. Which is I think the real issue here anyway.

But let’s say 15k for two months of a team of contractors. That’s 7.5k/mo. A team says at least two, but I think given they mention sales etc, that’s 3-5 people. Netting 2.5k/person before you take out built in profit margins, healthcare (because it’s dollars, I assume America) and more. That’s roughly 1.5k/person per month. (Of course they could have multiple projects but even then that’s a low amount imho for a contractor with sales)

If they’re expecting an off the shelf solution, then they’re getting fleeced on the costs and 15k is too high, but if they’re going to a company that does big solutions than they spent too little.

There’s too little info in general
Markets will solve issues and we can look at crypto at what happens when we let the invisible hand do it’s thing.
There are more areas of colour between that black and white spectrum of “malice” and “ignorance”.

In this case, the system favours research geared towards men, because money, because more men decided where the researchmoney is to be spent. This all has historical backgrounds that are all ver understandable. But ignorance? Malice? Both? Or something in between?

Ignoring this pain is at this point certainly malicious. And I see too many comments here for comfort that are of that nature.
Commodities are fungible by definition and used in the production of all sorts of things. More commodities are constantly being grown/mined/pumped and sold onto the market.

More housing is being built, but housing is not fungible, nor is it used as an input for manufacturing. I’m not sure what you’re trying to imply by saying if you were making a completely different argument about housing speculation being bad, the reaction would be different. Of course it would, it’s a totally separate argument from the one we are having about commodity futures.

I’m not sure why you care so much about financial speculation, it provides more accurate pricing and lowers transaction costs for the actual users of the futures contracts who take delivery of the commodity.

In my opinion, your arguments are coming from an emotional place. Try and examine futures markets from a place where you aren’t thinking about greedy rich Wall Street guys, the amount of money they make is irrelevant to futures markets being useful tools for producers and consumers of commodities.
JPEG XL supports reversible JPEGs transcoding in ~20% less space, which wouldn't be possible if JPEG was very close to the Shannon entropy limit.
and the re-writes have to be in a trendy language that other companies are using, just for the engineer to stay relevant.

everything about engineering group decisions are about creating a reason to use a newer framework in a way other people can vouch for.
I have a weird personal internal hobby of attempting to predict earthquakes....

I live in California, and am 5th gen san franciscan... I lived in Tahoe during the 1989 Loma Prieta... I was at football practice and my dad was sitting in the car waiting for practice to end, and he thought that kids were jumping on the bumper to 'mess with him' - but it was the earthquake! It shook his car in LAKE FN TAHOE...

Anyway - I am ZERO successful at predicting earthquakes, but I find it fun to pay attention to animals/weather and try to pull some cooky predictions, based on pseudo-science.

I've been through a lot of earthquakes, and I am not dead yet!

The scariest one was in ~1997 or so in seattle and I had to go back into the office at 9pm for some reason... and the building was ~80 years old and my office was on the 9th floor... the building started creaking and I thought it was hail hitting the windows - and then the whole building began to shake.

I have never teleported down 9 flights of stairs faster than that moment.
Are they really looking only at fps and not latency? Wayland adds an extra frame of latency. This absolutely matters
Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults, Whines
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Mullvad, like many VPN's, only gives (gave) you a single port. And you're free to change that port number as often as you like if you want to avoid being fingerprinted.

But fingerprinting isn't deanonymization anyways. And this is stretching the idea of "fingerprinting" in the first place -- a single port number provides the same amount of information as an IP address. With a VPN you can rotate both as often or as little as you like.
In those places where it's even a viable option!
No mention of RISC86[1] and the hype[2] surrounding it.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US6336178B1/en

[2] https://halfhill.com/byte/1996-1_amd-k6.html
I would take public transport far more if it just had conductors in addition to the metro train/bus driver.

The general public don't want to confront degenerates (kids vaping on the bus, loud people, people insulting others with slurs, creeps etc).

Particularly late at night I don't feel comfortable on the bus and I'm a fairly imposing guy. If I were a young woman I don't think I'd want to get night buses at all.

There is an undertone to the whole public transport conversation that inevitably tends towards people thinking that you're bigoted (racist/classist/whatever) if you don't welcome antisocial behaviour, which anyone who actually had a poor upbringing will tell you is complete bullshit. There is no excuse for behaving like an animal in public.
Perhaps, but once it's set for a client it seems to persist.
This is pretty strong conjecture that is the exact opposite of what is currently happening.

If Texas is such a terrible place to live, why are so many people moving there?