skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had zero ways to fix the issue (unless I want to call in a favor from a friend who works at MS), and MS didn't provide support. I have my username and password; why isn't that enough?

And yes, every service's ToS says they can legally terminate at any time, just as Google kills all their chat apps periodically; doesn't mean it reflects well on their reputation. Microsoft broke this game for a lot of paid customers, particularly the early adopters.
Good luck! Also, consider a tech adjacent role like "scrum master." I once worked with a scrum master who did an hour of work a day if he was lucky. I mean, he did eventually get laid off... but...
I should totally take that down. Nobody cared. I got, oh, perhaps 70 dollars a month more into my patreon via this idea...

... but I like to think, that the awareness of the problem itself has propagated all the way up to the highest levels of many governments.
What I meant is, how is Obscura faster and more reliable than Tor?
Transparency reports from Google[0], Facebook, et al. are strong evidence that these legal processes do in fact get issued.

[0]https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/us-national-...
I don't think Language models would have any issue breaking traffic laws if the context called for it.
A mental engram will be copied from you and applied to an AI agent that will be set up to filter content for you.

From it's perspective, it will sit around browsing some link aggregator site. By engaging with the content, it will selectively block content from the user, respond to content in lieu of the user, or pass content onto the user. In some cases, it passes responses back from the user, but the agent will believe it thought of the response on it's own.

The agent can do other menial tasks that don't translate to browsing a message board, and those things will appear to it as having a life outside of browsing the internet.
They are type-safe, but they are not sum types.
Unless they end up in secretive federal courts, and target a company that doesn't have the deep pockets and media attention of Apple. Then you'd likely hear about it years after your privacy is violated.
I bet it's very similar to how drug addicts feel: "intense feeling" during consumption, and the empty feeling afterwards. This must be the reason why CCP doesn't allow its subjects to play online games too much. A sufficiently advanced AI will be able to create super addictive games, that drain the user's energy many times faster.

On the other hand, I've noticed that something as simple as watching a tree grow for a few minutes with all attention is an oddly fulfilling experience, that weeks later still stays in memory as a moment of high significance. Mindless gaming seems the opposite of that.
> It's more snake oil

Being able to model a system graphically and run that graphical model is invaluable when working with non-programmer domain experts. And as often happens when drawing pictures of things, we may see new ways to organize processes that are big improvements over the formerly-obvious way they were built.

Another great use is allowing low-tech users to build their own low-code models. With a small bit of education, they can solve their own problems. And as some problems are short term situations, that low-code solution may suffice until the problem no longer exists. If the problem needs a long term professional solution, the developer can take the working low-code model and reimpliment it in code.
LOL, I remember compiling a tiny C program that sent a TCP packet to NT 4.0 to trigger a hang...
I'll just throw this out there.... circa 2001 so I suppose you were aware of it at the time.

https://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/sextips/
A more accurate claim would be "VPN that can't track your activity unless we cooperate with the third-party relay provider".

I couldn't find any info on the page about who provides the relays, but that seems like the hardest problem to solve. The relays are taking on all the risk, after all - if someone does something illegal the exit relay will be where the authorities go first.
>using _other_ options is the opposite of a bubble.

Where the word "other" can be easily substituted for "alternative" means you're leaving the larger contiguous area for something smaller. Twitter is the de-facto town square, and considering one is likely most on one platform, staying on Twitter is the most "open" option for reach of both your words and your ears.

Of course if one has time, they read different angles from the same things from tons and tons of sources. That is what I do but don't realistically recommend it because of the time investment
Disclaimer: I'm making Obscura

True. This is why all client side source code will be released and reproducible builds offered on platforms that support it.

If you don't know what code you're running, yeah you're screwed either way.
Not everyone’s visual acuity is the same. Is it so hard to take a step out of your world and recognize that some people might actually have a very hard time to read that? Point me to a single major website is even remotely like this. You won’t find one. Also, you might want to read up on what an ad hominem is so you can use it correctly in the future.
Not just FOSS: Depending on the phrasing, that sounds like a great way to kill gratis software as well.
> I'm really surprised silent movies/tv isn't more common.

Interesting comment.

I gave it some thought. One place you can see the dynamics and opportunity for a language agnostic entertainment like you describe is YouTube or TikTok. There are plenty of videos across all kinds of categories that are language free or nearly so.
I swear that's what was announced, but I assume you're right because you actually know the term Top Shot, and I had no memory of that.

So your memory is probably better than mine. :)

I just remember some demo of a family shot and it automatically opening a little boys eyes by using another photo. And another auto combining of images so that you could take a lot of photos of a busy tourist place and automatically remove all the people.
What about Tesla's world model research? (Their CVPR talk was fascinating)
This comment is a perfect distillation of why I REALLY want to try this game and also why I avoid it like the plague :P
Check Zrok
https://github.com/openziti/zrok
I think we went to the same school. Except my physics teacher had no beard.
Researchers prepare for exascale supercomputer simulations of nuclear reactors
No. You're being childish. Language barriers is something a good platform avoids you hitting in to, and instead of ever showing language that the reader very likely doesn't know, it would auto-translate.
It is a question I ask myself.

Some guesses:

- People have more Lego. Passed over collections become bigger and bigger. Maybe the average collection was 2 boxes of bricks before, now it is 5.

- More people use Lego. There is a lot of Lego for adults now. It is not just for kids, but kids still play with Lego. People, especially adults can make bigger models too, with more bricks.

- A lot of Lego are stored in attics, unused. What will happen to them after they are rediscovered? I don't know, but they will probably end up growing someone else's collection.

- Some may end up in landfills, lost, broken, etc... But I think it is a very small amount. Used, bulk Lego bricks are about $15/kg, more than copper scrap, it would be worth digging for them if they were a common occurrence.
The open source alternative 8s zork by ziti
> I have yet to see a single "citizen developer" successfully building stuff using low-code/no-code solutions.*

I've seen plenty, in billing reconciliation, marketing, fraud detection, etc. in major telcos. I've also trained non-programmers to do this, with success (even adding enough Python to create custom nodes for scenarios where no prebuilt block is suitable).

Also, plenty (millions?) of citizen developers have built complex "applications" in Excel.
Well, that's an opinion. Depending on how you define "complete," any language with fewer features than Scala might be considered incomplete

Unless you mean: is it enough of a language to be useful for its intended usages? In which case my decade of paychecks would like to let you know that it is, in fact, sufficiently complete for many business needs.
Neither does Google as-is in the same role, it's "Alphabet" now. Semantics don't matter but I guess you don't have any other comeback?
> it’s is not my responsibility to validate all permutations of unknown types to ensure you’re passing me mine.

Of course it is! If you provide an API that takes a Color, and you define valid Colors as exclusively Red, Green, and Blue, then you are absolutely responsible for validating input Color values and rejecting anything which is not Red, Green, or Blue. If you delegate that responsibility to the caller, then your API provides no meaningful encapsulation, and isn't a useful abstraction -- it's entirely leaky. No bueno.
VT320 would'av been a luxury fur us.
This is a junk paper. The kind of paper where people stake out some combination of keywords so that they get citations in the future but it contributes nothing at all. They know that LLMs will probably be used in the future, but don't know how, and can't think of any practical way to do it.

> We are the first to demonstrate the feasibility of employing LLM in driving scenarios and
exploit its decision-making ability in the simulated driving environment

They demonstrate nothing. Not one driving dataset is used. They don't actually evaluate on HighwayEnv, just show some cherry picked examples.

There is nothing here at all. No new ideas, no demonstration of anything. What a shame.
This sounds like an ideal outcome.

Turning traffic laws into a “routing optimization” problem.
It would be hilarious if it also had the fact that Porsche is owned by Volkswagen, and Volkswagen in turn... owns Porsche.
https://www.bosshunting.com.au/motors/cars/volkswagen-group-...
Maybe, but the west has similar traditions. Eg a Judy and Punch show perhaps?
It was complicated [1]. Stalin didn't care for the idea. After he died, some took interest in it. Some of those people stepped on the toes of the military. It came back in fits and spurts.

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262534666/how-not-to-network-a-...
https://itinerarium.github.io/phoneme-synthesis/
I know it's possible. I do it when I get up out of my chair.
Regarding sailing the Tasman Sea the 1998 Sydney-Hobart race is notable:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Sydney_to_Hobart_Yacht_...
+++ATH in the data stream did not close the connection unless the modem was really stupid, or misconfigured. The actual protocol was:

<pause>+++<pause>ATH<CR>

The pauses, I think 1 second by default, were exactly for this reason. "+++ATH" racing by in a data stream would be transmitted as is.
That is a very disingenuous way to describe signups. You also have to deal with asinine password requirements, and you are guaranteed to be signed up for multiple spam lists you never asked for. Once you get fed up and unsubscribe from them through some obtuse process, you will still inevitably get signed up for some new “digest” or “update” list a few months later…ad nauseam. Not to mention your information is guaranteed to be sold or leaked.
Casting (in the way I did it in my example) is entirely normal and common and in no way an escape hatch.
>Don’t trust — verify. We’ll be open-sourcing all of our client code so you can look at the source code and verify that we’re doing what we say.

I like that they plan to open source the client and do not mention any plans to open source their server software. Being able to audit more of their claims runs the risk of spoiling the mystique — you can’t run a VPN without a little bit of a sexy pinky promise.
What's the news here? This robot is cool, but I've seen it before a number of times. If there is a significant update about the bot then the page you are linking to doesn't make that clear.
> Now, to the non-technical part of it: while ECH provides a significant privacy improvement, I personally am against its implementation. Most ISPs enforce country-specific orders to block domains using a combination of DNS packet interception and SNI inspection. The legitimacy or sanity of such laws are a separate matter - countries would want to block websites that violate their laws.

You don't even have to start with governments. ECH can just as well be used by trackers/ads/app telemetry etc to stop you from blocking them via Pihole.
The animal in question being an alligator, I’d assume the owner and pet would split up and see each other later.

However, if the animal in question had been a crocodile, I assume they would have split and met back up after a while.
Interesting that you got that from me suggesting it was nuts for Apple to wade deeper into the mire of search and advertising.
Current loop was commonly used into the 80s : anywhere that needed a long cable run. From memory a VAX 780 could do 19200 but only over 20mA loop.
Productionisation of these things can be a chore, but it's always doable. And you have the benefit of a working model to base your "real" solution on.

I don't think this chasm will ever really be bridged without real developers.

However, a lot of problems are ephemeral, and the short term low-code solution is adequate until the problem no longer exists; or it's small enough that the low-code solution can run meet the need indefinitely.
I got it split over multiple units and years.
> Citation for these sane and gradual changes?

Sure - read back through the history of https://infrastructurereportcard.org/

Every four years, the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Report Card for America’s Infrastructure depicts the condition and performance of American infrastructure in the familiar form of a school report card.

Engineers make real proposals, with costings.

They have summaries of what's broken and what's needed going back to 1988 (at least) and have been largely ignored by the US decision makers throughout that time.

The US DoD has frequently reported on the need for climate mitigating changes to defence infrastructure, harbours, fuel stores, etc - that can get thrown into the mix also.

As you're throwing shade on the problems you'd do well to look to the most egregious villians here - the Koch brothers and their immediate circle in the fossil fuel industries who went into overdrive in the 1970s (when climate change caused by human activity was internationally accepted and recognised as a real and pressing issue) and funded a network of think tanks (Heartland et al).

The production and placement of distraction pieces in the media ("We're headed for an Ice Age says prominant climate scientist!!" etc) to really confuse and FUD up the issue was one thing, they had deep pockets and did it well, but ...

Look up Koch public transit, for example:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-pub...

They started that very early and literally killed sane gradual change.

The US public broadly overwhelmingly supported good public transport (reduced car travel, better fuel economy at scale per mile, etc) and at every turn anytime a sensible public transit system was proposed they undercut and killed it with deep pockets, simply to keep sellling more and more oil and turn a profit.
RIP. RedBox works as a half decent replacement.
Sorry, my bad. This https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37692721 is the right link.
First thing I thought of is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
Last time I experienced an issue with FireFox and WARP, it was due to a bug in FireFox, which I believe is currently unresolved. It's honestly hard to blame Cloudflare in this case.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1734110
Twitter clones tend to be a lot more bubble-like because they kind of try to seem like a "town square" but actually and up being more like a North Korean town square. Or a square in a gated community.

HN obviously is its own area like a subreddit. That is what I like about this place. Minimalist in scope and tech, no endless financial growth pressure as a project.
Not what I have said at all.

I actually think Apple should have less to do with search funnily enough.
How to make Super Mario game from cardboard. No electronic components required
When you talk about attorneys of a certain caliber, I think you neglect at the risk of your argument the fact that the thirty year old AUSA on a government salary and the forty year old hardcore defense lawyer making bank are frequently the same person.
> the DMA itself is cope

It's a democratically passed bill to protect a market from extensive damage. Here are the people who voted for it: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/242706/IMCO%20Voting%...

Again, if Apple shared your opinion then maybe they'd call Europe's bluff. Again, Apple is chronically incapable of doing this because it would mean being eaten alive by shareholders that make $DIS owners look rational. Leaving the European market would be the trigger-pull of Apple's suicide.

> and now all they can do is nitpick connectors

...you're still mad about a $4 gas station cable? Seriously?

> and firmly demand that Apple support something almost no users care about.

"Why is the United States wasting their time with these Rockefeller people? They're coping over things the unbridled success of Standard Oil, pushing legislation that none of their customers care about!" - imagine the free market with a bunch of yous at the helm.
Smokes were due to criminal behavior.

Doubtful.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/police-arrest-man-su...

'Chibougamau Mayor Manon Cyr says she was relieved when she learned of Paré’s arrest. In an interview Friday, the mayor said the fires that Paré is accused of starting were unrelated to the two massive wildfires that forced the evacuation of the town in June.

“We’ll see what’s said in court on this,” Cyr said. “But the big fires that caused the evacuation were caused by lightning.”'
And we face situations like this all the time as developers building full-code solutions. We get stuck because the PoC which went into production can't scale, and we buckle down and build an appropriate V2.

You're essentially arguing that MVPs are a bad idea, but evidence suggests the contrary.
MVCC is optimistic concurrency control – you may end up having to retry your write transaction multiple times, which might suck if the transaction is expensive. Pessimistic concurrency control like locking may be cheaper in those cases, since the cost of locking may be drastically lower. Having one doesn't preclude the other!
Show HN: Raiseto – Discover and Share Ideas
The Inspector General for Tax Administration is part of the treasury

> Was Cheney not a war profiteer?

It's not illegal to be a profiteer
I thought I might do a shameless plug of my own project, Tunnelmole. It's also on NPM, but provides single executable binaries if you don't have NodeJS installed.

Client: https://github.com/robbie-cahill/tunnelmole-client

Server:
https://github.com/robbie-cahill/tunnelmole-service

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34968649
Factoradics also make an appearance in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1283920.1283935
Can we start by getting rid of the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”, which is not a Nobel Prize, but is commonly and misleadingly referred to as one?
The names are redacted in the charges because they don't want to continue spreading them. The original info was not redacted
They key part you have chosen to ignore is:

> "And after:"

This indicates that the article is nuts for suggesting Apple should attempt to get deeper into advertising and search while decrying Google's model.

Getting deeper into advertising and search can only erode the part of the company that believes in any rights that the user has.
There used to be a fairly standard history that started with Jacquard loom punched cards, moved along to Hollerith's census processor, then through the early electronic versions of same, perhaps via a flashback to the telegraph. Then the first valve-based stored program computers after WWII ("incredibly unreliable"), and the transistor revolution which made reliable computing possible, via punched cards and DECtape. Then command-line timesharing, graphic systems, workstations, GUIs, and the rest, through to the 90s.

It felt like a very logical and connected progression. Anyone in the business would be familiar with it, if only in overview.

The UK had a preview of commodity computing with its cheap 8-bit micro scene in the early 80s. In the US computers remained far too expensive to be widely used.

That seemed to change in the late 90s. Computing came to mean desktop and eventually handheld devices connected to the Internet. There were - still are - supercomputers, but they're a tiny niche.

It became about commodity hardware appliances for commodity users with commodity software and tooling. The software also became appliance-ised.

In a sense computing stopped having a history, in the same way other consumer goods like fridges, cars, and microwaves don't have a history. (Of course they do, but no one thinks about it while using them or buying them.)

It was a huge and under-noted cultural shift.

The next shift - AI - is already happening, and I'll guess we'll see the same lack of interest in "manual" computing history from the 1990s to the 2020s when AI-assisted computing becomes mundane and pervasive.
I only criticized the confirmation bias. Don't put words in my mouth.
> I expect any sane network to do the same.

Why? Sane networks shouldn't block anything. Even super dangerous stuff like ports 135-139 and 445 are a morally gray area.

> The idea of uninspectable client traffic is somewhat unhinged, and is already heavily used by malicious actors.

How is privacy unhinged? Isn't that basically the same as the argument that we need to gut the Fourth Amendment because of terrorists and pedophiles?
Seems like Exim did nothing to address the situation.

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q3/259

> After our disclosure timeline was exceeded by many months, we notified the maintainer of our intent to publicly disclose these bugs, at which time we were told, "you do what you do."
Flinders Petrie – A Pioneer of Systematic Methodology in Archaeology
> Food prices and related prices have been proven for awhile now to be mostly corporations massively increasing profit margins instead of inflation

Total nonsense. Businesses are closing.
The NLnet Foundation supports organizations and people that contribute to an open information society. It was influential in spreading the Internet throughout Europe in the 1980s. In 1997, the foundation sold off its commercial networking operations to UUNET (now part of Verizon), resulting in an endowment with which it makes grants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLnet
> Sum types are great, until you hit the branch of the expression problem where you really need the other side, and if you're in a language that favors them, you're going to get the same 75% experience, just mirror imaged.

Which other side? Product types (aka structs)? I don't think there are any languages with Sum types that don't also include Product types.
I need to give Factorio another go. I loved the alpha, as others do. Than the release arrived and I gave up playing having to scout the map just to find an ore field.

That is the premise to playing, but it's why I found minecraft a bore. Same with any survival game.
"Litigation" can be shortned to "Litig."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Litig.
Citation for these sane and gradual changes?

Don't ask for citations when you don't offer any of your own.
How's that? If someone says "why am I so overweight?" do you say that it can't be the eating because that hasn't changed?
Didn’t say it was better, just posed it as the alternative.
I really enjoyed the service, but there will never be such a grand library of quality media available for such convenience or low cost. I wish more people had seen it that way; physical media must live.