skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do we even have those weird characters in ASCII still? We need a newer version where the characters people actually use are stored in the least bits.
They are trying to break into a pretty entrenched marketplace. Steam has a huge head start, EA owns the rights to some of the best selling franchises in the business, and Xbox marketplace has the backing of Microsoft.

Their options to become a major player are limited. Aggressively spending money on customer acquisition was probably the best move they had. Pulling their new games from competing stores risks impacting their game sales. Relying on organic growth would probably see Epic Game Store stuck as another tertiary, niche marketplace, like Gog.

It may not have worked out like they hoped, but it wasn't a bad play.
> Eventually ftp was mostly subsumed by web browsers speaking the FTP protocol themselves. This is why you may occasionally still see URLs with an "ftp:" service prefix; this informs the browser that it should expect to speak to an FTP server rather than an HTTP/HTTPS server.

In the earlier days of the web, it was not totally uncommon to see people hosting their home pages on an FTP server rather than an HTTP server. Netscape and IE both spoke FTP just fine, and for some people, access to an FTP account was more convenient than paying for separate web hosting. Or settling for GeoCities. If the page had a lot of images, it was quite a bit slower than HTTP though.
> Russia claims Ukraine, Poland and GDr to be renegade provinces

False. There might be some discussion around Ukraine and its historic role as an integral part of Russia's culture and history - and thus, where would an actual border between two peoples (including a cultural one) will be carved when shit gets fucked. But mixing up Poland or even GDR into this is nonsense narrative that does not exist.

Also, the historic reason behind PRC issues with Republic of China (Taiwan) is the fact that both state being the "One True China" as the core of their national myth. The practical issues are of course deterring a potential military threat. Everything else is just pointless rhetorics.
So, basically back to old school, "manual" stuff? Should be doable, if less convenient.
Ooh, I've got one:

Classic anarchism is when I share knowledge about how to make your own toothbrush.

Communism is when I get stabbed in the back because I didn't help them take over the toothbrush factory.
This device, like Stadia, was actually pretty great/amazing. Just incredible to see Google fuck these things up from a marketing/sales/strategy perspective. Amazing technology turned to (expensive) dust.
On the other hand, a proper helicopter hat avoids that problem.
Do you have a link? I’m intrigued.
At this stage, wanting to work in tech, let alone at companies such at amazon, is just silly.
> for me its hard to justify betting on something without a compelling edge computing (eg cf workers) story in 2023.

fly.io? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28621478

> i could not even think of a case where beam would be the right fit for a webapp/webpage except maybe a static rendered status page for something that runs on beam anyways.

LiveView / the "PETAL stack" are my first choice for web applications due to productivity & developer experience. Great summary here: https://thinkingelixir.com/petal-stack-in-elixir/
I liked the article! Do you know of MMOs that try to use database techniques like write-ahead-logs and log-sequence-numbers for persistence/replication? The nice thing about these techniques is that you can replicate state in a consistent way - so you could have multiple game state services all providing equivalent reads
I have one of these in our office that's been passed from company to company. We don't pay for it and just use it as a (very nice-looking) rolling TV (it has an HDMI input on the back, thankfully).

Any Android exports out there have a sense for how hard it'd be to get root access to something like this?
If you work in engineering at a bank, all your personal account trades probably have to be pre-approved by your supervisor. You're almost certainly restricted on the products you can trade - like, maybe even "you cannot trade single stocks". You probably have to keep your account with an approved broker, who will then send your account statements to the compliance team at your firm.

If you try and trade a name that's on a restricted trading list (e.g. because the investment banking part of your firm is working on a deal with them) then that is also going to be denied.

If you're wall-crossed (e.g. in possession of material, non-public information, even by accident) for a deal, you absolutely cannot trade in related securities - like, go to jail, do not pass go.
> "using the noble name" (lol?)

Taking a shortcut. I meant using a name that possibly had good reputation back then.

For the rest, I'm no expert on the topic, you seem to know better than me, continuing to argue would be pointless.

edit: (to answer your edit) Okay, but then why didn't you counter me right away with solid arguments if you had them from the start? Happy to learn from an actual expert! Like, you could have just written: "Actually, there's strong evidence that both are the same. Here are some references: ..."
Explore/Expand/Extract as Metaphor for Life
Building a healthy culture in an all-remote company
I knows schools and businesses that bought these. Should have just bought normal 4k touchscreen displays with rolling stands. Then you can use whatever software you want on it. Could even run google's browser-based jamboard on the non-jamboard display.
> [...] but if you're linking one page request to another by the identity of the browser that is requesting them, then that is crossing the line.

Just out of curiosity: That would be crossing a line, because it might be potentially possible to reconstruct an identity from the linked navigation pattern?

If so, I guess I would consider that beyond the realm of what any normal internet lawyer would include in their advice.
Idle thought: I sometimes wonder if SQL could be implemented visually. It's basically sets, after all.

I suspect it would quickly become too complex, but there's plenty of people smarter than me...
"I could do this 3x cheaper myself if I set my hourly rate at 0$/hour" is a more accurate description of reality.
Too big to win, too big to fail.
No, the term limit just shifts power from members of Congress to their staff members.
I can't say definitively. But if you look at the linked article there has been a large increase in cancer since the vaccine rollout.

Are you going to somehow tell us that they are safe and effective despite all the evidence to the contrary?

Other oncologists reporting similar, and it is being covered up by mainstream media.
https://kittywells.substack.com/p/london-oncologist-reportin...

But go for it put your head in the sand and call me an antivaxxer.
Screens Are the Symptom
100% agreed. I'm also OK with fixing the broken predatory loan system. Students should be educated on the interest, penalties, etc.. and they should be labeled. Truth in billing for this stuff just like we have for telco bills.
Do you loom over every tradesman you hire with a stopwatch?
https://youtu.be/vUwQLsWjA-g&t=2m
Great work, if you open source it I'd love to help contribute if I can!
No, by shenanigans, I mean the NDAA amendments that put in stuff about abortion and transgender policies in an effort to make even basic continued national security part of the culture wars.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/14/house-passes-defens...
I'm surprised no one has mentioned that this is very similar to Core War.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
Holy moly. "I wouldn't want an interim appointment I make to be political" is a silly enough sentiment that it cannot possibly be sincere. He just didn't know what the right move was yet, in terms of how he would benefit.
Isn’t Grindr an American company? It feels very anti-US anti-gay weaponization of the GDPR.
The voters don't get what they want, they get what you offer them. With a good marketing budget, you might be able to convince voters to want what you're offering them. That's called Manufactured Demand.
> including accelerating the vesting schedule.

Just curious, but how useful are stock options in a company that's 30+ years old and still private?
Truth is, you're more likely to get positive feedback if you're posting something genuine or at least useful. Negativity is often a (justified) response to ads, marketing fluff, and lazy attempts at "growth hacking".
What you can do as a consumer is.. not buy new iPhones?

I don't mean as like a protest or anything. I mean just don't buy your iPhones new. They don't change much anymore, you can get caught out by this or Antennagate (or any other type of issue you get to encounter as a first mover), and the changes between years are genuinely minimal now.

The iPhone came out in 2007. The iPhone 4 came out in 2010. The leap from the original iPhone to the 4 was absolutely worth buying a new device over IMHO. A lot changed in those 3 years. Not much of anything has changed in the last 6. Not really. It's still basically the iPhone X with a couple of screen size options. Yeah the chips are faster on paper, and the photos have gone from really good to better, but it's a really incremental product these days (the notch has a notch now).

A used iPhone 13 Pro Max in great condition is about $450 these days where I am.

A new 15 Pro Max is about $1200. I get that they're not the same device, but is it really 2.1x the device that the 13 is? Am I the only person that thinks about it this way?

I get that I'm no fun at parties, you don't need to tell me. I'd probably tell you to be honest, were I invited, which I rarely am.
First work day of the month (Oct/2nd) you can add yourself to the monthly 'who wants to hired?' thread https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

(See "Can I post a job ad?" on https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
> To fully block a military unit receiving GPS, the enemy would need to have ~30 planes in the sky over the unit, between the unit and each GPS satellite, broadcasting the jamming signal. Pretty infeasible for them.

How did you arrive at this number?
Well, that’s because demand for sales-y engage-y web pages is furious while demand for exquisitely refined self-balancing distributed power grids (for example) is at the “call me back when the tech has become a 0.02 commodity” level
What is wrong with DoH?
I did work at google for 15 years and sun before that
Wow, that would piss me the fuck off.
"Official the shelf" - that your new iOS 17 update helping you out? ;)
Good game by the way!
Yeah, I have a permanent hole in my eardrum and it absolutely ruins the noise cancellation.
Unless the HN crowd is the customer base the feedback can be relative anyways.

Lots of people don’t end up shipping and sometimes the allergic reaction to someone else shipping says more about the commenter than what’s being shared.
For those unable to create a new account, this may help: https://jammer.social/@ludumdare/111101977964204731
On a laptop it's probably some out of control javascript taking a few cores to 100%.

But on a phone it should throttle?
Really appreciate your focus on economic reasons. That indeed makes a lot of sense.

I guess the gamble to use Elixir/Phoenix only pays off in certain circumstances and if your business grows in such a way that you can simply afford to hire more expensive devs in later stages of the journey.
Rclone – “Rsync for Cloud Storage”
Where your argument goes awry is that this discussion is about Elixir. The points you make I did not see happening in the Elixir community so I left even though I was a staunch advocate for years.

Programs are meant to be read by humans. Which is why Python and the bunch are so widely popular across foreign contexts.

Elixir is hard in that context because it introduces a lot of paradigms.

I have had Elixir teams but there is a big big big difference between someone who has done a Phoenix tutorial and someone who understands supervisor trees and genservers.

There are much better languages than Elixir for communicating intention in programs in a way that a junior dev can come in and understand. Especially if you are working with engineers in foreign countries with language barriers.
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> If the entire system collapsed then you should be holding food, not gold

Or hoard bullets and high explosives to redirect food from the rubes who collected gold.
Minimum wage is a small part of a larger set of collectivist policies that the west has been sleep walking into since WWII.

TLDR: All of those 21 countries are US protectorates or vassal states. Most of them are European countries that are slowly dying. Some are resource rich, some are tax havens, some are leeching of the goodwill/work of their ancestors.. None are making anything.

Long Version:

- Germany: US protectorate w/ 35K troops. Its truly a testament to the industriousness and ingenuity of these people that they still manage to make all those cars & heavy machinery despite the collectivism.

- Nordic Countries: Total population just over half the population of California with massive oil reserves and a lot of fish. a.k.a EAE with snow

- France/Spain/Portugal: Former empires, like an old person in pain waiting to die. They leech on the good will and work of their ancestors as their nations slowly die off.

- Switzerland, Luxembourg, Ireland etc: Tax/Banking Havens with niche talent.

- Rest Of EU: Dying countries propped up Germany & France or the equivalent of Europes China (Bulgaria/Ukraine/Poland).

- Canada/UK - US vassal states. Also happened to be the former world empire, same story as France/Spain/Portugal but to an even greater degree.

- Australia - Half of Californias population but has an entire continents worth of RAW minerals and commodities to export. Btw thats its, they don't make anything either.

Basically all innovation and production happens in the US or Asia. EU and the rest of the west are slowly dying protectorates/vassal states of the US (hence Pax Americana)

Conclusion:

Anyways most of thats irrelevant, the important part is the fact that they are all dying. They are all propped up by the euro-dollar system. ECB has no ammunition left. Spain, Italy, France are all looking down an imminent pension crises.

The UK is in slightly better shape but thats not saying much, they are looking down an impending sovereign debt crises but as a vassal state, they might get bailed out by the US.

In real terms, they use American medicine, American macbooks, American iphones, American search engines, American Social media, American steaming providers, American content, Asian washing machine, Asian microwave oven, American fast food, American candy, American Ice cream, American soda, American/Asian lightbulbs, Asian trains, Asian TVs, Asian cups etc etc

They don't make anything, they just exist on "good will" gained because of their ancestors and i mean in the literal sense. They exist on the bretton-woods system, all these currencies are artificially propped up. This system is just about to collapse btw lol.
You're splitting hairs to justify a political stance.

Capitalism is dangerously flawed without carefully considered regulation.
Unfortunately talking about the "size and growth of the endowment" is similarly meaningless in this context for a number of reasons. Even if the funds were not restricted in a way that excluded funding the University Press, it's probably a poor measure of whether a University could "afford" to support a press.
Okay, but that is after-the-fact. He has to stress about it now and then file a lawsuit while unemployed and dealing with cancer. I mean, even if he wins... that supposes that he lives long enough to win the suit. So "should" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your comment.
I recently got my hands on an ordinary-looking iPhone-to-HDMI adapter that mimics Apple’s branding and, when plugged in, runs a program that implores you to “Scan QR code for use.” That QR code takes you to an ad-riddled website that asks you to download an app that asks for your location data, access to your photos and videos, runs a bizarre web browser, installs tracking cookies, takes “sensor data,” and uses that data to target you with ads. The adapter’s app also kindly informed me that it’s sending all of my data to China.
The cord was discovered by friend of 404 Media John Bumstead, an electronics refurbisher and artist who buys devices in bulk from electronics recyclers. Bumstead tweeted about the cord and was kind enough to send me one so I could try it myself. Joseph has written about malicious lightning cables and USB cables made by hackers that can be used for keystroke logging and spying. While those malicious lightning cables are products marketed for spying, the HDMI adapter Bumstead has been found in the wild and is just another crappy knockoff cable sold on Amazon’s increasingly difficult to navigate website. This HDMI adapter is designed to look exactly like Apple’s same adapter. Here they are side-by-side:
I'd argue it was a bad play, they gambled on something others had gambled and failed, and just as the rest they didn't even put a dent in the market. All they did was overspent their resources and now have to resort to layoffs.

You mention EA, and they did try to break into the market and left steam for a while... they had the money, the franchises, the personnel and they couldn't do it. Now they're back on steam. Anyone else would look at what happened and would learn from their mistakes.
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There is, my device is perfectly functional. You shouldn't need to replace $device because they want to make another quick cash grab. Companies should be forced to support the device until the end of universe.

It'd cut down the constant increasing rate of e-waste, rehashes of the same product that contain nothing innovative other than a new camera.

And if $app isn't supported on the older hardware, that's then up to the user to upgrade rather than an path where your forced to upgrade.

Better yet allow the user to swap-out the old device for the new version. I paid €900 outright for my iPhone XR. If Apple want me to use their new device then allow me to trade-in.
> Security experts like Mike Kuketz think that most probably we need to consider all Microsoft systems that are using their cloud authentication including all Windows hosts are compromised.

This is a giant claim.

It does seem theoretically possible that a stolen signing key could have been used as part of a bigger attack to access critical services like Windows Update or the Azure control plane, but it does feel like someone would have noticed that kind of systemic compromise.
At that point the guys with guns take what they want so nothing you have is worth anything any more.
Yep, and the old ones in Hungary work well as well!
Even with a key you can drown out the signal by blasting enough RF waves at the receiver or area. I’ve heard a Growler pilot describe what they do as shining a spot light in your face to blind you.
In that comment, just like in this one, you avoid mentioning anything specific. It appears that you are doing that because you can't defend any implied claims; that doing X, Y, and Z is unacceptable. It's a whispering game where the claims are prefixed with "according to some" or "perceived by many" because it's all smoke and mirrors and no substance. E.g you don't even specify whether it is some behaviour or opinions that are what are unacceptable.
I did it with tshark but yes this is a pretty easy problem to solve.

I think I even made a script in lua to do it automatically
To be fair, that limit is 80 and likely has more to do with not forcing elderly Cardinals to travel (many would and even still do out of a feeling of duty; it's basically literally the only "job" a Cardinal has that's not just him being a bishop).
I'd argue that, once you've learned how to use them, Elixir/Phoenix absolutely provide #3
Its location in a remote area made it good for what it was, a telescope with relatively little surrounding radio interference, but it really isn’t suited for other uses that bring in more people.

It’s unfortunate since there’s a lot of pride about what it used to be on the island, but I feel like this is more of an emotional grasp than something that actually requires that site.
I don't think the solution is trying to cover this. If a user does type conversion then usually they know what they are doing. It's like going out of the way. The solution is to just hide a type behind an interface to be explicit about it and to avoid the error that would have gone unnoticed otherwise.
How did tracking your employees' attendance become controversial?

Am I the only one here who ever punched a time clock?
Some of us live in places where there is more sunny & hot days than not, and your advice feels geared towards people who don't live such places ;)
I have a FineWoven case on my 15 Pro Max and, just adding to the anecdata here, have not had a single thermal issue. The only time it warmed up was during the initial data transfer. I'm pushing the phone with a lot of cinematic video recording, etc – remarkably cool.

I watched this story blossom out of a few social accounts I had to mute because it started to feel like they really wanted to get likes on 'iPhone 15 Pro Max is a disaster' type posts.

That's the tricky thing about the information environment we're in. A real issue affecting people? Or a non-issue that's being boosted and then picked up into a bigger story. Devices sometimes have issues – not debating that. Just saying, I feel like there's been very little skepticism applied here.
Long context is a mistake. You don’t remember 30,000 words when you read the next word in a book. All of that has been summarised down aggressively to a tiny working memory.

It should be a series of caches of increasing compression. The words before should be cached exactly as they are. Sentences before start focusing on essential phrases. Pages before are topics.

Instead of training on 50,000 chars plus the current char it would be 5000 chars of cache. And if you do the cache right it will contain endless knowledge compared to just storing the entire text.
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Salaried employees are typically expected to work 5 days a week, hours not tracked. But tracking attendance and the designated work venue seems very fair to me.
FYI there is a company called Tidelift that funds essential infrastructure project maintainers using subscriptions by companies that depend on them and information about dependencies that the subscribers provide.

In my experience, Tidelift has provided the most consistent and meaningful support to maintainers I know, and based on that experience I trust their model and judgment more than ESR's.
So there's more parallels between PoW cryptocurrency and gold than the skeptics claim. TIL.
The funding for the T has to come from the state due to how it's structured, meaning the only possible way for funding to increase is for it to come out of the state budget. I agree that it should be handled at a city/local level.
I've found Apify really handy. They have crawlee too, but didn't try it yet.