skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I downloaded the version from archive.org. Looks like it might say thank you on exit from the character converter. I just did a string search through all the files to find this though.

> Thank you for using the Wing Commander character converter

> Thank you for using the Secret Missions II character converter

Inside the zip, as well as loose files, there's what looks to be a CD image, containing this message. Perhaps part of the installer? Not sure why it refers to Wing Commander II either. It's next to a bunch of text about how you should upgrade to MS-DOS 5.00. This isn't part of any of the files.

> THANK YOU FOR BUYING WING COMMANDER II!

>

> Nearly ten man-years of work went into this product. Without the support of customers like yourself, we would be unable to continue to create games of this quality and scale. Please, do not distribute illegal copies of this software
It's always a little unexpected when the security vulnerabilities are in the tools we use to build software instead of just in the software. I suppose it's a class of supply chain vulnerability.

In this particular class of impersonation problem (the Gitlab issue is about running a pipeline as another user), sometimes I find it unnerving how much an attacker could accomplish in a software company by being able to impersonate an arbitrary Slack user. We are taught to be cautious around incoming email, but I've yet to see a security training around "how do you know that your instant messages are genuine."
In France both orders are used, depending on context.
in my experience this makes sense. really true, hands down.

however the answer still boils down to "it depends" since it intersects with different industries, and companies of different maturity stages.

making a landing page for some simple site? no code works.

need a fast crud for operations team? no code works.

creating a web app prototype to validate a simple idea? no code works.

refining a product with existing users in terms of platform compatibility, scalability, performance? time for specialists on front-end and back-end languages.

i think there comes a time when sales are coming in at the door and at that point throwing money at the problem makes sense, to move from no code to handwritten web apps and mobile apps.

i personally prefer appsmith over budibase. zapier and n8n, cool stuff too.

but in complex stuff i still come back to reactjs and nodejs.
Yes, somewhere around 1966, ethnic Chinese living in Indonesia where pressured/forced to adopt an Indonesian-sounding name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Indonesian_surname#196...
Why don’t people leave bad jobs?
Apparently, at least all of the "little red book" social media users do want to revisit those times.
I actually had to work with two German government agencies, digitalizing parts of their work flow and it was surprisingly pleasant. The gov employees were super happy I saved them a lot of work and made their daily lives easier. My clients (small software shops) got to set up and maintain the server for them. There was some bureaucracy hurdles my clients had to tackle, but no show stoppers.

I think the biggest problem for government agencies is to find a nice software shop that actually cares and delivers value. They usually have no way of telling who will be good and who will rip them off. Gov agencies are so easy to get ripped off and nobody will take responsibility when things go south.
In the main, the publicity has been around racism, mysogeny and thiose who cover up such behaviour. I haven't heard much about financial/drug-related corruption
On the other end, some businesses get to do a bit tax avoidance with cash...
I've used https://val.town as plumbing between webhooks where I needed to restructure a JSON payload, but only wanted to write the business logic. It's great for Zapier/IFTTT-like tasks but where you still want to write code for the business logic, you just don't want to scaffold up the rest of the pieces.
There are environmentally safe rodent poisons. You can even make them yourself, from stuff in your pantry:

http://www.ratpoisonfacts.org/low-toxicity-rodenticides/
>I don’t think this happens today because income taxes are federal and not dramatically different between physical locations.

It’s true that there’s federal income tax in the US, but there’s still significant variation in state and local taxes.
Not sure if anyone here is hanging out from Gitlab. One request, and one question:

Request: The new UI has "Admin" link hidden which is hard to find. I liked the old UI better (explicit is better than implicit).

Question: Is the open source code the same as the Enterprise versions of the code? (how do you implement feature differences?)
I'd say a big part of it (aside from the valid "framework" comments) is that game engines abstract over a large and complex mess related to graphics card APIs on different platforms. That abstraction is of the type that basically forces game engines to be frameworks, as opposed to libraries. If you want your game engine to run games on Mac, Linux, Windows, Android, iOS and the web, the game engine needs to "wrap" the game. Or at least this "wrapping" makes both game engine and the games simpler to write. But as mentioned, it means switching a game between game engines isn't really realistic - you write a unity game.
Why 4096 bytes?
I would change the title to "Terry, 57 is not a prime."
Xano.com is great for this. Go check it out.
Thermal Moonquake Characterization, Cataloging Using Frequency-Based Algorithms
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I would not take any recommendations here, as the tool to use "depends". I would try a bunch of the tools and stick with the one that you like the best, but you need to invest the time yourself!
This is the original issue thread from two months ago:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/417594

And the root cause seems to be...

> Change your git config and include username of the your victim that is,

> git config --global user.name "victim"

Oops.
> Only tricky part is knowing that the w is pronounced as a u

Is that really tricky? W is basically pronounced like U in English already[1]. It just looks funny when you exchange the two.

[1] e.g. say this sentence "uorld uar tuo uas the uorst"
> Do we now have trial by TV?

we've had this for years now.
I was hoping this was an easter egg. I remember those fondly. Having a "flight simulator" hidden in excel doesn't seem professional now, more room for security vulnerabilities blah blah. I think nostalgia for a time software didn't take itself that seriously is a large part of it.
Just saying that it's not really running in the web browser, merely displayed within it. And won't run today.
Because Sparse VHD is (at least for me).
This would be the funniest possible outcome; app.net, only lots of weird Nazis instead of lots of weird Apple people.

(App.net, a paid twitter-a-like, was created, or at least popularised, in the wake of Twitter's first ill-advised attempt to kill off third party apps, years back, and struggled to expand beyond its niche of people who wrote Twitter apps, particularly after Twitter largely backed down on the app-killing thing.

Twitter with _just_ the blueticks would be a sight to behold. Though from a safe distance.)
> Google/YouTube are not the government or legal system, they have their own standards that Brand agreed to so he could profit from posting his content.

Right, Google is much bigger, more impactful and more monopolistic than many governments. We should apply way stricter standards to it than we do to most governments. It is easier to change your citizenship than to cut Google off your life.
It's nice to know that here in the US we're closer to Sweden than Germany.

I think in most places the buyer of a vehicle still has to mail in a paper form (though if you buy from a car dealership, they'll take care of it), but at least in California, the seller can do their part of the transaction online (which is mainly to inform the DMV that someone else has the vehicle, so you won't be held responsible if something bad happens involving it).

And we don't have to register our moves at all; the government mostly doesn't care if we tell it where we live. Some agencies like the DMV do want to know our address so they can mail us a new driver's license or ID card when the old one expires (but these address changes and license renewals we can do online). The Postal Service will forward our mail to our new address for 3 months if we ask them to, but we don't have to if we don't care.

Obviously the government can and will eventually find out where you live if they need and want to, but there's generally no registration requirement.
Don't bother, they made horrible games and whole gaming division need to be cut. I own all modern and most vintage consoles. By quality of games: Nintendo number one, then Sony pretty close, then Steam, Microsoft somewhere after.
> anything but lost ground in contemporary times.

Compared to when? The web is only growing and growing and is 90%+ GNU/Linux.

All/most SaaS'es which are displacing 'conventional' software are running GNU/Linux.

The 'AI revolution' is running GNU/Linux.
Is this a new frontend to Rapex? Did they rename Rapex?

Because consumer safety warnings (often toys with swallowing/strangulating hazards) have been available on some EU web site for years (decades, probably).
Google Search can now validate responses from Bard
They miscalculated, which is a risk with investments. Miscalculated badly and executed worse. They bet on ads and ads is not the growth market it used to be. They bought IronSource and their main competitor, AppLovin is kicking their ass.

The neglected the core product and have the gall to justify their retroactive change of terms (after sneakingly deleting assurances to the contrary from the TOS and deleting the github repro that tracked transparency after their last PR disaster) with rising costs of maintaining the runtime that’s been falling into disrepair.

Investments carry risk. Investors may dream that it’s ok to get made whole by the game industry they tried to take over using VC money to build a dominating position and then changing terms and extracting rent but this is such an open and shut case of corporate mismanagement, deceit and hubris, no point in even trying to justify that.

If they want to survive, they fire the CEO, claw back bonuses and shares from executives and shrink the company to a size that’s warranted.

Unity can die in a fire, anyone with a choice will know better than to get into a relationship with them now. There’s enough landlords in the industry already with platforms, there’s no room for another extracting value of the hard work of creatives.

Accepting their terms requires broad changes to the industry business models - back to old EAs dream of charging by the download. And it requires open eyes walking into a relationship with a company that every time their CEO makes a shitty gamble will extract the losses from developers.

Burn it with fire.
I'm reading Stasiland right now (strong recommendation), and I shudder to think of what the Stasi could do with today's means.

However, in this case, it would mean that machines handle CRUD while humans can tackle the edge cases. Bureaucrat time should not be wasted on typing a printed form back into a computer.
If being part of the scheme suddenly makes everything possible then I'd say the system is indeed designed to make things difficult for those not part of the scheme...

Let's not kid ourselves, this is geopolitics and influence, not just generous cooperation.

Edit: Very strange to observe the reactions to my comment... many of you seem have a knee-jerk, black and white, if not naive, reaction to Brexit and the EU. Both sides are playing games and both sides are trying to further their interests, including indeed geopolitical and international influence ones. I am not claiming more than that and not passing judgement on Brexit here.
And with none of the intelligent tooling which IDEs and version control software have developed to make that process easier / less error prone.

Git commits of node coordinates and minified JavaScript is not my idea of a good time.
There seems to be a lot of misinformation floating around.

Brand has been the subject of a joint investigation by The Times, The Sunday Times and Channel 4 where the claims are backed by a significant amount of evidence vetted by their lawyers. These aren't reckless publications.

These claims have subsequently led to at least some of the involved parties submitting police reports alleging sexual assault. And from reports by the newspapers the expectation is that more parties are coming forward.

This is not trial by TV, social media etc. These are serious claims being taken very seriously because of the strength of the evidence presented to date.

As such, Youtube is absolutely correct here to err on the side of caution.
The unimproved value of land next to a subway stop is greater than the unimproved value of land far from the nearest subway stop regardless of who owns the subway.
> I know most “normal” developers have a reputation for being hostile to low-code platforms

The word you’re looking for is “experienced”. You’re echoing all the concerns everyone that’s dealt with it shouts from the roof tops, but you’re saying the same thing they did before getting that experience, “this time is different”. See you on the other side.
What's the case law that social meedia sites are responsible for the content on their site? Youtube just recently won the ISIS recruitment case as a counter example [0].

[0] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1333_6j7a.pdf
The Emperor’s New Climate Scenarios [pdf]
A study from the Institute and Faculty for Actuaries at the University of Exeter taking an actuarial approach to climate-related economic risks and impacts. This takes strong exception to mainstream economic analysis (Nordaus is strongly hinted at though not explicitly mentioned) which "contrast strongly with predictions made by scientists of significantly reduced human habitability from climate change".

Key points (from the text):

1. Many climate-scenario models in financial services are significantly underestimating climate risk.

2. Carbon budgets may be smaller than anticipated and risks may develop more quickly.

3. Regulatory scenarios introduce consistency but also the risk of group think, with scenario analysis outcomes being taken too literally and out of context.

The language is bureaucratic and technical, and the lede is deeply buried:

The pace of warming is also uncertain. However, some scientists now estimate warming of 0.3°C per decade or around 1 ̊C every 30 years, which would imply warming of greater than 2°C by 2050 and 3°C by 2080. This is well within life expectancy for many in workplace schemes now and in range for the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) who have specified 80 years as long range for the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA).

Put another way, at what point do we expect 50% GDP destruction – somewhere between 2070 and 2090 depending on how you parameterise the distribution. It is worth a moment of reflection to consider what sort of catastrophic chain of events would lead to this level of economic destruction.

The study also incorporate's Steve Keen's criticism of the quadratic modelling used by Nordhaus (Keen is specifically cited). I've mentioned this in earlier HN comments, here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36936360>

32 page PDF, though front- and back-matter are a substantial portion of that. Recommended reading.
Mirrored network mode sounds quite a lot like what wsl-vpnkit does: https://github.com/sakai135/wsl-vpnkit

It came from Docker Desktop for Windows, where they needed a solution for VPNs like GlobalProtect and AnyConnect that are often configured to drop packets for networks that aren't the main one associated with the VPN.

How it works: https://www.docker.com/blog/how-docker-desktop-networking-wo...

Edit: Reading a bit more, it seems like they are both trying to solve the same problem but in a different way. The mirrored mode seems use the same exact IP in the wsl/linux instance that's used in Windows. Somewhat like docker host networking.
There is a theory by Simon Baron-Cohen that autistic people have "extremely male brains". I dislike this formulation myself - I think he's confusing the proxy for the root cause, which is that autistic people have extremely _systematising_ brains. (And yes, "autistic" and "nerd" are not synonyms, I know.)

But psychology does acknowledge that an interest in people vs systems/things is one of the most pronounced measurable and replicable sex differences; depending on who you ask this might apply to babies from the day they were born, as measured by the time they spend looking at a photo of a face vs. one of some building blocks.

(Note, the research is about _interests_, not _abilities_. Big difference.)

If you plot people on a people/things interests scale, you might see a male cluster, a female cluster, and if you zoomed in, a "nerd cluster" a bit beyond the normal male cluster.

Female nerds and women with autism do exist, and as far as I can tell, they fit in just fine into any "nerdspace" that does not single them out based on their sex/gender or act too sexist. (Personally, I find the label "extremely male brain" particularly uncharitable for women with autism.) But they are numerically a minority.
Retool for sure, they are pumping out features really quickly too. The model makes a lot of sense from a developer's point of view. Now that they are also going into public apps I would really consider them seriously.

Hoping for:
- Better pricing for public apps.
- Better ability to easily customize the frontend design without touching CSS/HTML/JS.
Marvin Minsky's "The Society of Mind". Nice web version [1]

[1]: http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/
People are misconstruing an untamed nature with climate change.
We had devastating Hurricanes, Fires and floods long before the first internal combustion engine
It also seems like climate activists never define the correct climate that they are trying to restore, making them a parody of conservatism where any change is a bad change because it overturns the status quo.
Look at Bjorn Lomborg tracking Climate-related disaster deaths to get a data driven rather than narrative driven understanding
According to Court of Justice of the European Union(Schrems II verdict) even data protection laws in US are non-existant.
They're so efficient that sometimes they'll come at you even when you did nothing wrong. My tax advisor had his accounts frozen and sued them for damages. The same happened to me because of a clerical error on their end. They freeze your account and it's up to you to figure out why.
Javascript was also once upon a time just some randomly strung together mess of code (with urban legends saying it was made in 10 days) by a not-big company. Gotta start somewhere.

There's no point comparing year 30+ of Javascript to year ~10 of Godot. Remember that year 10 of JS was the time when Flash reigned supreme.

>They are not really comparable. And sometimes, there are still performance ceilings imposed by a nature of the tool.

I agree and am glad that we're finally putting a halt to bandaging up the leaky pipes known as JS and releasing stuff like WebASM. Fortuantely, Godot is nowhere near as heavily bandaged and has easier access to change.
The Wii U was a somewhat underwhelming console with poor marketing that therefore did not sell very well. The Xbox One launch was a shitshow of controversy full of the kind of tonedeaf and user-hostile garbage that Microsoft has made itself infamous for. It's not about the hardware or the sales numbers, it's about Microsoft absolutely loathing their users.
Fun fact: the Japanese government insists that foreigners use the name they have in their passport in official documents. That includes the middle name. My middle name has thus crept in all over the place. I've barely ever used it in my home country, but now have to use it everywhere (I live in Japan). Anyways, more relevant to OP, as a result, sometimes I'm called by my middle name, as if it were my last name (because the order is last first middle and they must assume that the literal last is the last name...)
Spherical Averages and Applications to Spherical Splines and Interpolation [pdf]
Life Sciences Nature Index: https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news/top-ten-countries-d...

Jounal output: https://www.scimagojr.com/countryrank.php?order=itp&ord=desc...

University rankings (7 out of 10 in Europe, 3 out of 10 worldwide): https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best-universiti...
Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers
In France, they have the postman come to your house and verify your identity. It's such a brillian way to verify things without wasting anyone's time.
The UK government could be funding SMEs directly. The issue, I think, is indeed research institutions, which could also be directly funded, but would still be excluded from most EU programs if not part of the scheme.
Please read claims 1-5 on this page. I could rehash them but the page does a better job with these issues than I would:

https://stallmansupport.org/debunking-false-accusations-agai...

Regarding the "Cult of the Emacs Virgin" issue, here is Stallman's statement about it: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-women-list/2009-Novemb... - this was a reference to the Cult of the Virgin Mary. Along with references to the "Church of St. IGNUtius" he was parodying what he saw as cult-like elements of Christianity. Because Mary was female, he referenced females.

When he was informed in 2009 that some women found this joke offensive, he changed it to be gender neutral, because as he said in 2009, and continues to say today, he supports involving women in free software as much as possible.

Stallman has a long history of advocating for womens' rights and it's unfortunate for all women that a few women have decided to attack a supporter of womens' rights over a joke that probably didn't make anyone bat an eyelash when he first started using it. Standards have changed today, but he amended the joke 14 years ago....

Nadine Strossen's comments really hit the nail on the head about how poisonous this inability to forgive people for awkward statements made almost 20 years ago (and later recanted or apologized for) has become. If people on the other side are not allowed to apologize, reform and join your team, how do you ever win? If you brand them as enemies for life, short of your movement imprisoning, exiling or killing them, how does society as a whole ever make progress?