skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, most extension devs probably start out with no intentions of profit. They wrote their extension to scratch an itch. However, once they get an installed base and start getting offers to do shady stuff, it seems obvious that they might be tempted by easy money. If they had a more legitimate way to make money, they may be less tempted by the shady stuff.
Looks clean, but smells like a "2005" website for some reason. It looks like it was designed by a developer (function over form).
Impact of mobile phone use on accidental falls risk in young adult pedestrians
If you’re limiting yourself to the local network, why use IP at all, when you could use CHAOSNET?
i always hear this but i surfed all over hawaii (kauai north and south, oahu north shore and bowls, mauis west side and honolua bay) and never had an issue and ppl have been between friendly and neutral to me.
I remember around 2006 or so a business magazine had a cover story where they were bullish on Amazon's retail business but downright hostile on their new AWS venture.

They called AWS 'stupid' and said everyone knows that there's no money in the hosting business. Now the government wants to break Amazon into pieces and complains profits are too high at AWS.
>Shouldn't the functions of "development" and "QA" both reside under the umbrella of the chip-maker though?

Sure, umbrella, but different teams. What I'm trying to get across is that it's a good thing that the developers are not wearing the QA hat, so that the QA people are thinking in ways that aren't exactly parallel to the developers. You get close to your work, you sometimes forget that you're not look at the larger picture.

Think of it like if I was building a big secure wall in front of my house, but I neglect that it's easy to just walk to the opposite side to get in. Oh, whoops, I was too focused on the solution in front of me.

Just fundamentals is all.
To clarify - it does not mean you shouldn’t build something similar if you can do it better
I've learned over many years that someone who eats during an interview or meeting (while you're not the one eating), doesn't give a shit about you and perhaps has already made up their mind.
It looks like the first SUSECon was in 2012 and was around the same time in September[1]. So there's some precedent for it, albeit with a few years of November (sometimes the first week of November) in between.

[1]: https://www.suse.com/c/112-2/
My 2 cents, companies are effectively asking to increase working hours by 5-10 hours per week for most workers assuming a 30-60 minute commute each way. Many employers will try lure workers away from the office with remote work. These firms may offset any hypothetical productivity costs with lower wages. Some engineers will prioritize remote for the larger employer pool, and others will prioritize in-person for greater social connection.

We'll see what happens in 20 years. But my money is on a resurgence of the rural village and a lot of empty office towers.
I have an extension I wrote that is literally for a single regional website to do some extra blocking to get around a paywall. There are under 10 installs total. For some reason, the most recent monetization email I got thought it was 10,000.

> I'm reaching out to discuss a unique monetization opportunity for your extension, <name>, through our exclusive Premium Bing Hosted Product.
> I'm thrilled to let you know that this invitation-only product offers the chance to earn as much as $500 per month for every 1000 users. Given that your extension has a user base of 10K, you stand to make up to $5000 monthly just by integrating the search functionality into your extension. This could be a significant source of passive income, and I truly believe it's an opportunity you won't want to pass up.

I... I... I know the 10 installs are all basically /my devices/...
I see windmill mentioned a few times (founder here). I think we are both anchoring our tools around "Retool for enterprise" because Retool is known and it give a quick overview of the domain we are in: Internal tools, but the audience and pain solved by refine and windmill are likely to be quite different.
Windmill caters towards software engineers that want to write powerful backend logic in typescript/python/bash/go, long running jobs and complex workflows for internal use (we compete there with temporal, airflow, airplane), and share them with the rest of their orgs with all permissions handled for them, ability to scale on large clusters, and observability baked in (full history of all executions, including args, logs, and result) AND in addition have a low-code dashboard builder similar to retool because webhooks, schedules and automatically generated UI from scripts are not always sufficient.

Refine looks more like a headless retool for software engineers that are comfortable with frontend frameworks but want an opinionated stack that is tailored toward internal uses and do not want to deal with the rest of the boilerplate, user management, and connection/management of databases etc. I could see myself preferring refine for some use-cases and would probably recommend it if you are comfortable with writing frontend and the logic is limited to CRUD. So I wish them good luck and I am happy to see such diversity in the open-source space!
https://twitter.com/novus_rue/status/1476182586221215747
Are you referring to https://hpbn.co/?
There used to be “gift” scams where a company would send you products unsolicited and then send you a bill for them and aggressively push you into paying.
Don't worry, it will use very scientific biometrics. It will do a close scientific scan of the subject's head and skull, and by scientifically analyzing the contours, proportions, and qualities of the skull with scientifically established science, the AI will render a completely logical and scientific decision that has been scientifically proven for hundreds of years.
If its open source you can use weblate directly. Otherwise you can install it on your servers and hire an company to use it to translate things.
The onus isn’t really on me, I’m not the one making blanket statements.
Building a request enrichment proxy with Wick and Pangea
Hi Everyone

We've been deep-diving into our project, Wick (https://github.com/candlecorp/wick).

The idea? Use Wick to build a low-code request enrichment HTTP proxy, and then harness that same functionality for a CLI app.

For those wary of low-code, we've got you covered. There's a dedicated section showcasing how to employ Rust to craft a WebAssembly component. This ensures you can seamlessly embed any intricate logic into the same workflow.

Keen to hear your thoughts.
Haah. I wonder how much healthier we'd be, if we removed video streaming services, video games and phones.
It certainly doesn't help that many companies never inform you if you don't get a position, so if a candidate doesn't get a response quickly, they are likely to assume they were rejected.
Interesting! I thought it would be simpler to implement than full blown atomic writes, so I assumed it was different.
> an emergency inflatable raft

I'd also have a plan for anchoring the inflatable raft in a safe spot, when there are strong winds or water-currents that you simply can't fight against. (Perhaps even ones caused by the disaster.)

It won't be safe too close to the shore, because the heat/embers/lava/zombies will get you. Drifting along the coast might lead you into some sharp rocks. Going too far out and you get lost at sea. (Which may not be survivable during a disaster where nobody has any clue where you are, and there are no resources to mount the rescue anyway.)

Obviously that varies hugely by where you live. In some places with shallow water maybe you could just pack an anchor, or stash one in a secure spot down by the beach/dock.
In my last job search I had like 1 case like this out of 30-40. Might be my numbers though
Well, there is hate and then there is criticism, and lots of people confuse the two, to the point where they just label any critics as "haters". Hate is worth totally disregarding, but criticism, as long as it's genuine and done in good faith, it's probably valuable.
Very responsible handling of a usual cryptography failure. What's more impressive is tencents developers willingness to cooperate despite the firewalls and communication issues.
Also do not make your own crypto algorithm
No. They accidentally filed a DMCA takedown against a group that had permission IIRC. Nothing like a lawsuit.
Project IDX: An AI-Assisted, Full-Stack App Development Environment
An extension user could theoretically be willing to pay for the value the extension provides them. The malicious actors sending these emails are willing to pay for the value that a user's data provides them. These two numbers are not related in any way, and the value of user data will often be much higher than the value of the extension's functionality.

There is no way for monetization to solve this, because the two potential customers are not purchasing the same product.
> However customs charges are not a part of law that I know anything about, (..)

I'm no lawyer, but afaik customs charges are owed by party that does the importing.

This may be eg. Amazon's customer, with Amazon just doing the warehouse/shipping part. It may also be that Amazon imports on customer's behalf, or does the importing itself.

Either way, woman in the article would not be liable for customs duties (or any other shipping charges / fees for that matter), because she's not Amazon's customer here.

She didn't ask Amazon to import anything on her behalf. Or arranged import herself using Amazon. Yeah, her name may be on the label. Yeah, she may have a (dormant) account with Amazon. But for all those packages mentioned in the article, there's no legal agreement between her & Amazon. Or between her & original seller. Or between her & shipper that brought the goods across international border. So how on earth would she be liable for custom charges for "importing" anything? She didn't.

Legally speaking, that would leave her as innocent bystander, that just happens to be where delivery person dumped a package.

In her shoes (no pun intended ;-), I'd just let this go to court & see judge move the charges to Amazon. Maybe Amazon would fix the problem if it turns into a recurring-costs issue.
When I started working with Rails in 2008 having come from PHP, both communities were pretty squarely in the MySQL camp by default. That changed quickly over the following couple of years however. As I recall, the free Heroku Postgres offering had a huge influence.
In HL1 you fly to the back of the tram when you jump because you only move with it while grounded. In HL:Source you move with the tram correctly and jump in place relative to the tram. Bafflingly in Black Mesa it's back to the incorrect HL1 behavior. Always bothered me.
Wikipedia has a program for established editors (with 10+ edits the last month) to access journals through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Librar...
"... run programs ...." can be considered at a number of (abstract) levels, until the lowermost level is reached , which is machine language. ( Actually, the preceding statement is not correct , since there is often, [ but not all ways] CPU micro code , below Machine language. Machine language is assembly language translated into ones and zeros , that is loaded into the CPU. CPU microcode is a language used to control the internal CPU logic to execute the machine language.
Enhanced push protection features for developers and organizations
Does he do live sets (realizing the definitions are loose but essentially creating music live with something like an Ableton) as opposed to DJ sets (basically mixing pre-recorded tracks live, what most DJ performances are)?

I've never seen him perform but a DJ set ranges from people who just hit the play button and follow a recipe (e.g. Paris Hilton) to very technical mixing (e.g. Maceo Plex). A live set is substantially more challenging (and why few do it) but would be strong support he's not having his released tracks ghost produced.

Either way, good for him in my opinion. I also like mixing as a creative outlet but am terrible at it. If I was worth 9 figures I'd probably get a ghost producer to help me out and enjoy the experience of DJing.

David Solomon only really pitches himself as a hobbyist anyway so I don't think there's anything misleading/shameful about it if he is in fact just getting everything ghost produced and doing a 'lite' mixing DJ set live. There are plenty of full-time "professional" DJs who do the same thing.
Hard to turn down $20k/month for doing basically nothing. Props to the author.
> It just goes to show how thoroughly designed every aspect of the game is, whether apparent or running in the background.

That sure is a weird way to say 'patent troll'.
You should counter by offering to sell them the whole thing for a flat price and then have all your users (you) switch to a new extension that does the same thing under a new name. :)
I've had similar experiences (not surfing) where people say "place X hates tourists" or "don't go to Y they don't like Americans" but have never run into any notable issues.

I suspect that for some people "neutral" is "hates my guts" or something, or some people are stereotypically tourists in such a way that it'd piss people off in their hometown.
The most galling offer we saw on the mobile app side was something that would turn on the user's microphone, and listen for ads on tvs around them to track what they'd been exposed to offline. Adtech is such a thoroughly gross field.
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The problem is that the Ultimate 64 has been out of stock for a very long time. I check every few months, and have never seen it available.

And even when it might be available, you can get two or three real C-64s from eBay for the same price.
Crocodiles are alarmingly attuned to the cries of human infants
And if you run a website you get constant emails like this:

Hey There,

I wanted to reach out and see if <website.com> accepts guest post contributions or link insertion in existing posts? If so, I'd love to hear more about your guidelines and any specific topics of interest.

Thank you for your time, and I'm looking forward to your response.

Best Regards,

These ones are definitely spammed out en-masse, my site doesn't even have a blog.

My site also has some Windows software downloads on it, and I occasionally get emails for bundling dodgy installers. Most of these tend to be "residential proxy" services looking to sell access to users' internet connections.
In the early nineties (yeah) my answering message was a montage of bits of previous messages I had received (I kept all of them on different tapes, never erased any); word spread and people I didn't know started calling my number just to listen to the message, and sometimes leave funny messages of their own.

I did a couple of variations on this. It did take quite some time to make though, but it was great fun.
> and are dryer than expected

That's not from colonization or vegetation clearing.

The Hawaiian islands are all produced by volcanos. Especially for the younger islands to the east, that means they are shaped like very tall cones. With prevailing winds from the east, the western side of the islands are in the rain shadow of the mountains and are much drier than the eastern sides.

The effect is very pronounced and visible on satellite photos of the big island. The west side is dry and desert-like, and the east side is a lush tropical jungle. The western sides of these islands would be deserts even if no human ever set foot on them.
“Increased hazard levels also led to reduced texting accuracy.”

Buried the lede.
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Yes, it is. That is why this is a terrible recommendation.
Not the OP, but I'd presume that it would be significantly less tempting to sell out.

Everyone has a price, and when everything is going smoothly, that price goes up.
Card counting is the thing everyone knows about. A good counter is getting a 1-2% advantage and is under lots of heat. If the table is paying 6:5 on blackjack instead of 3:2 like more are becoming it kills your entire edige. We were doing stuff in the 8-12% range. It is far more advanced than CC and almost never discussed online.

Every casino game has a vulnerability, even slots. Advantage play is not free money, it's a job. You need skills, a bank roll, and to put in a lot of hours in casinos.
Midjourney sadly doesn't have public API. The images were prompted manually via Discord. Thanks to permutations [0], I could do 20 images at a time, but it's still a painful process. (The generation of the permutation strings is in the shared code)

[0] https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/permutations
I agree. "Workstation" is too general.
That sounds like Plasmic: https://plasmic.app

You register React components as building blocks, and compose them together into websites and web apps.
The deceptive part of these types of frameworks is this: on the first day, you think it will solve all your problems. On the second day, you're happy, thinking about how much you've sped up because you chose this framework for your project. On the third day, you have a custom need, and you research how to do it within that framework. On the fourth day, you hack the framework to make it flexible. On the fifth day, you say, 'Why didn't I start from scratch myself?'

Our goal and motivation in developing refine is to ensure that the developer continues to feel the way they felt on the first day, even on the day they finish the project and begin to maintain it.
A lot can happen in three months.

My wife interviewed years ago for a UK govt research agency. They took three months to respond but did eventually set up an on-site interview. She went along anyway. HR met her at the gate and took her to the office of the person who owned the opportunity. When they arrived and there was no-one at his desk it turned out that he had died two months earlier and that the HR drone hadn't known. Needless to say the interview was cancelled.
Congrats on the launch!

My attention was first grabbed by the demo screenshot, and the example chat only shows how bad an AI chat is:https://i.snipboard.io/omDS6G.jpg
Maybe it's a nitpick, but instantly shows the drawback of your service (AI is pretty bad for actually selling stuff).

It says that a Macbook Air M1 is not good for gaming, without saying "depends on the games". You can definitely play a lot of games, of course not the high-demanding ones, but still a lot of the popular ones: https://www.macgamerhq.com/apple-m1/native-mac-m1-games/
“I grabbed some people I saw on the street who didn’t seem to have a good plan. And I had told them, ‘Get your stuff, get in my truck,’” he said.

No matter where you live: Have an emergency kit, a plan, and practice it at least once a year.

https://www.ready.gov/kit
Having read the first couple of pages, my only feedback is a strong suggestion to drop the cutesy language.

>The central processing unit (CPU) of a computer is in charge of all computation. It’s the big cheese. The shazam alakablam. It starts chugging as soon as you start your computer, executing instruction after instruction after instruction.

Given the context, that would read much better as:

>The central processing unit (CPU) of a computer is in charge of all computation. It starts chugging as soon as you start your computer, executing instruction after instruction after instruction.

I’m not super-technical, but I do get paid to write.

Your work here is great. Keep it up!
I don't see this as problem that needs to be solved. It is freeware from the start.

It's wonderful that people are willing to share their knowledge and time for free - why not let it be the way it is?
Tesla’s continuing monopoly on LFP batteries in America baffles me.
Compared to light-weight graphics (think early X programs), are TUI really that much more performant?
I understand they ARE now light-weight, portable and (relatively) simple.

Besides, cli are composable, but TUIs are not.
There is no pricing on the page, I personally never sign up for a service that doesn't mention the price.
If we are able to make superconductor magnets, create a fusion reactor and as a same time have lossless transmissions of power. Would it make energy extremely cheap ? Can access to energy become free and delivered as a commodity by countries to attract businesses and taxpayers ? This would be mind blowing, with this and automation/robotisation of work, life as we know it today will seam very ancient for next century generations.

Also, are there other blocking points for inertial confinement fusion ? Would it also make solar power and wind farm pointless ?
Change your code to not trigger the bug, and leave that workaround there for the next decade or so until the buggy CPU generation isn't relevant anymore.

Or hope for microcode updates to fix the bug at the CPU level.
I wonder whether there exists a cottage industry of fake extension writers pumping up their numbers with fake installs, all with the goal to sell the fake extensions to these scammers.
Tea time with Dr. Breen, the demented cartoon movie (TDCM), and so on all have this sort of disjointed, fractured, and utlimately funny for some reason that i can't put a finger on.

It's like slapstick, where the amount of effort put in to making it look like you're a clumsy fool is so great that the end result is just impressed laughter.
And since there is Huggingface transformers, you can also test against that, which is what we do in Curated Transformers (transformers is only a test-time dependency).
He didn't say he did do something incredible. Mark Shuttleworth did.
Even commercial buildings are built "fire-resistant" and often built to contain interior fires (a commercial kitchen fire is a matter of when, not if).

You'd want to go beyond that to specific materials and thought thereof if you want to survive with a usable building in a wildfire - things like working out of the concrete will be stressed by the heat, etc.

Underground is a good option.
There was zero polishing appart from different background color and theme accent in their early releases. It was just a debian with package versions similar to SID with debian's experimental installer.

What they really did well and made them known very well is they would ship you cdrom for free while for other distros you either had to buy them from a store, download it or buy a linux computer paper magazine that came with cdrom install of a different distro every month.

That was a big deal when very few people had access to fast internet connections.
The project did not need to be particularly fast, which was the only touted advantage which MySQL had at the time. In all other respects, PostgreSQL was the clear winner. (I edited my original post to be more clear.)
Microsoft provides updates for just the GPU driver through Windows Update if you tick the box for that.
WxWidgets – open-source C++ cross platform GUI
Forgive my ignorance: is an adapter an option?
If you put something out on the web that gets somewhat popular, you are going to get all sorts of scummy people contacting you.

The first one that happened to me: I have a domain name and someone emailed me to let me know, as a courtesy, that someone was buying similar Chinese domain names and did I want to get them first. I thought that was nice that they were notifying me ... oh wait, they're just trying to get me to buy their domain names.

People contact me about redesigning my website, buying my website, exchanging links, straight up spamming my website. It's really strange.
It's only $20k/month if (1) their number is truthful, and (2) Google doesn't ban your extension for serving malware.