skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Aren't the best sanction-busting tools the Russians have things named "Rupee" and "Yuan"? Possibly even "gold".

They are.

Converting crypto to hard currency outside of Russia without tripping flags is certainly possible, but has all the same problems of using hard currency while under sanctions in the first place.
Get ready for some countries putting your entire surveillance logs in the LLM and asking it if you've been naughty or not, automatically, every day.
Gmail Help: Reply to emails with emoji reactions
I'm working on this problem as well and would be happy to sling you some thoughts and notes. Check my website https://runno.dev and send an email to the address on that website!
The only groups I know of with millions of games are sc2replaystats and Blizzard themselves.

SC2replaystats had 4,440,656 replays uploaded in 2020 and 3,390,117 in 2019 (the only years I can quickly find data for). Searching and downloading replays is now paywalled, probably to limit scraping.

> Wouldn't mind paying a bit for that...

Google probably paid Blizzard a good amount of money to help them develop AlphaStar and in the process got access to all the replays. But I doubt you'd be offering enough money to get executive-level attention for such a deal. Sc2replaystats might be more receptive to selling you a randomly selected subset of their total data, but you'd still have to offer enough cash to be clearly worth the time of going through the negotiation process. I doubt they'd sell you all of their replays, as that's essentially the business' moat.

Perhaps you could buy the sc2replaystats business though.

(Yes, I know none of these suggestions are practical for the vast majority of interested hackers)

----------

There are smaller free replay packs available with a quick Google search. I'm sure if you looked around or asked around either Harstem's SC2 discord server or the SC2AI discord server or SC2 subreddit, someone would be able to point you to a free vault offering on the order of 10,000's of replays.

However, the game is undergoing a period of large updates right now which are dramatically changing the details of the gameplay ... so really you'd want as many as possible starting from the most recent "balance patch" which went live just 6 days ago[0]. It will take the SC2 community quite a long time to establish known "best practices" for the current balance patch, and it's highly likely that it will be significantly modified again soon -- the most recent patch seems to be politically fragile at all levels of the game. Casual to professional players all have valid constructive criticism of it, so more changes soon are essentially inevitable.

0: https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/starcraft2/24009150/starcraf...
How is that fraud? Ebay is brokering a deal between two parties. It doesn't seem inherently fraudulent to offer differing prices to each party.
The Makelangelo is also charmingly simple: http://www.makelangelo.com/
I was recently thinking that the main issue with today is that an artist I like can produce a finite number of songs/albums/whatever and I quickly grow tired of hearing new things they produce because of how easy it is to listen to anything I want as quickly as I want. I don't even need to move the needle on the record. What's more, any sound slightly notable will likely show up in a meme video and remove itself from it's origins such that you cannot hear it again in the original context, e.g. the music from interstellar. So I'm left with the idea that ai can make an unlimited number of songs that sound like moby such that I never have to listen to the same song by moby twice because I can listen to a new song that sounds like moby every time I want to listen to moby. I'm not sure any of this makes it easier to get excited about music.
the issue with dropping an airliner from height is by the time it gains enough airspeed, it no longer has control authority to pull out. Airliners are not really designed to go through a dive like that and come out in one piece.

Glide restarts of engines are possible (if not core locked) but it also isn't something done very often.
They're practicing "just culture" (as in justice), which rewards explaining and root causing your failures, and rejects the concept that "someone sucks" in favor of "systems can always be improved".
A search of completed/sold listings on eBay shows roughly 2x resale pricing for the iPhone 13 Pro 256gb vs the Pixel 6 Pro 256gb.
> I also don't understand why laws don't come with comments to better define the intended context.

Laws do often come with details about why the law was passed, and there is often the public debate on the law before hand.

Members of congress have spoken against legal rulings on the basis that it went against their intent.
My apologies, I missed this from some other conversations.

I'm not seeing any named sources on these quotes? Such that this doesn't change my prior, yet? To be clear, I fully expect there are some crappy individuals in the studios. But, having worked in big organizations before, it is trivial to get stupid quotes from middle management that somehow thinks they know the landscape completely.

Consider, the "top-tier" producer quoted with "late October, for sure" as what the intention was. And that was just the timeline for supposedly having talks... Clearly overstating their hand, there.

Seriously, they don't have a single named source there. Not even one that has a credible connection to actual leadership. This reads far more like people that have an inflated sense of self worth talking than it does those that are actually involved.

Again, I'm not claiming that they are happy that they are having to renegotiate. They certainly had better terms before. I just don't buy the "gnashing of teeth" narrative.
As someone graduating at the end of this year, this is quite the understatement in my experience.

The constant, 0-feedback autorejections make this a demoralizing experience.
`nix run nixpkgs#pkgx -- ...` :D ?
Off topic... looking forward to more engineers moving to Mastodon. I have Twitter/X blocked at DNS level and still fairly frequently encounter interesting accounts that I can't check out.
I payed $550 for my Pixel 6, ~1 year after the release. Has good hardware, regular updates and a good OS experience.

Comparable to ~$450 a year after the release of the 6P.

I guess the 6P might be relatively higher end?
i stop using replit after it started taking minutes to install crates...
It started out so awesome, professor started using it instead of eclipse, it was super easy to teach on, and group projects were made easy for pair programming.
For a history of some of the earliest CAD/CAM and plotters, ref. "A Possible First Use of CAM/CAD" by Norman Sanders, Chapter 4. https://inria.hal.science/hal-01526813/document

The gist of the paper is that computer aided manufacturing was developed FIRST, and computer aided design was an offshoot of that. When they had developed their prototype CAD system, the available pen plotters could not output drawings in a high enough resolution to be used for downstream manufacturing processes.

"In short, at that time computers could master-mind the cutting of metal with great accuracy using three-dimensional milling machines. Ironically, however, they could not draw lines on paper accurately enough for design purposes; they could do the tough job but not the easy one.

However, one day there came a blinding light from heaven. If you can cut in three dimensions, you can certainly scratch in two. Don’t do it on paper; do it on aluminium. It had the simplicity of the paper clip! Why hadn’t we thought of that before? We simply replaced the cutter head of the milling machine with a tiny diamond scribe (a sort of diamond pen) and drew lines on sheets of aluminium. Hey presto! The computer had drawn the world’s first accurate lines. This was done in 1961."
> If you haven't and you don't, you'll be screwed no matter what tools or techniques you use.

Discovering all interdependencies and details takes much more time than completing a significant amount of the tasks. So again, the diminishing returns of project planning/guessing/tracking vs completing the work.

Also task discovery amidst execution.
> A lot of the fraud and laundering happening after the Russian invasion of Ukraine is definitely something Russia is doing to earn some extra cash and hurt the West.

That's like saying that US-made guns fueling cartel violence is 'America doing something to earn some extra cash, and to hurt Mexico'. It's ridiculous, and not accurate.

It's just economically-rational actors trying to make money, and taking advantage of legislative and enforcement arbitrage. This kind of arbitrage exists any time two different systems interact with eachother. Foreigners, and foreign criminals are not some weird hive mind in cahoots with their state.
Nobody who works in the field believes global warming is “only” due to greenhouse gases… So much for the premise of the article.
"Not for Pregnant Women or Aliens" (2020)
Ask HN: How does the Cloudflare outage relate to my DDoS'd resolver?
I run a resolver in the form of a FreeBSD jail running unbound. It gets upstream resolution from my NextDNS account.

There is no access control - if you can guess the IP address you can submit DNS requests. Whatever. No issues for 2.5 years.

Yesterday, out of nowhere, I started getting ~20 lookup requests per second from a very broad range of IPs, almost all in Brazil. Every request was for cloudflare.com.

Not subdomain.cloudflare.com or blah.blah.cloudflare.com - just TLD cloudflare.com.

Most of these IP addresses reverse resolved to some.thing.com.br. For instance:

45.169.84.30-7lan.com.br.

... and it was entire /16 blocks full of IPs, from one or two .br ISPs, hammering me for "cloudflare.com".

So ...

I inserted this line into unbound.conf:

local-zone: "cloudflare.com" always_nxdomain

... which I assumed would break things and get someones attention ... and I also put in 10-12 ipfw blocks for entire /16 blocks to blackhole the traffic.

Today, on October 4, this traffic has ceased.

However, I find it very interesting to learn that there was a cloudflare name resolution outage yesterday and I wonder if, and how, these are connected.

Two theories:

1. A botnet operating out of Brazil discovered my anonymous resolver and used it in their client configuration and they phone home over some cloudflare tunnel or whatever but they couldn't perform the cloudflare.com lookup so they just kept retrying ?

Was it not possible to resolve "cloudflare.com" during the outage ?

2. Some lazy .com.br admin used my resolver as secondary DNS for residential end users and maybe 1.1.1.1 as the primary but ... the primary went away and ... ? Doesn't really explain why they only lookup ever performed was for "cloudflare.com".

... or maybe just a weird coincidence ?
"That was the greatest thing about the Nexus lines - good hardware"

Yet every nexus phone had major hardware issues. that's not good hardware. It wasn't premium, it wasn't supported long, and it wasn't high quality. I LOVED the nexus line, as a broke college student that prioritized bang for the buck and customization, and speed, and android was getting great new features every year, but things have gotten so bad at google.
look at DTN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking

message-oriented network that doesn't assume end-to-end connectivity
motivated by Interplanetary Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet

for example, wait for planetary alignment, then transmit
also, messaging via "data mules"
The original title should be kept when it has semantic content; this one doesn't.
Yep, I too remember Windows CE 5 on my Audiovox slide out keyboard phone which in 2006 was blowing people's minds. I got it purely so while on-call I wouldn't have to head home to handle incidents.

It was a great mobile computing experience but terrible at being a phone.
Such wealth of knowledge, hidden beneath the dark patterns of Medium. Sad, I'm the target audience but as soon as I saw the Medium nag screen, I'm out.
My trade in for the 7 Pro was $420 to get the new 8.
> That's the point of the article though: very few people needed to travel 300 miles in 1750.

What do people need to travel 300 miles for today, that they didn't need to travel 300 miles for in 1750?
It has an active competitive scene, lobbies fill up in seconds sometimes. There are also tools such as dsstats that attempt to parse the replays already, but are limited by technology (maybe your tool can help with the limitations).

If you search Direct Strike Starcraft on youtube you should be able to see the gameplay itself.
Revisiting Neural Program Smoothing for Fuzzing
Neither ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine are the reversed-chirality methampetamine. "Regular" methamphetamine is dextromethamphetamine; the other version is levomethamphetamine.
Oh when I say Facebook I mean anything under the Meta umbrella. I'm slow to change.
So if the local daycare is staffed by all women there's something wrong? Thus, diversity hire to the rescue?
Got it. So you seem to just... not care. You don't think it's necessarily false, you just don't care.

And it really seems to bother you that other people do care.

Thank you for the honesty!

If I may ask -- does it bother you that other people care, because you think any solution is necessarily and obviously impossible to begin with, and therefore it's a wasted effort, and wasted efforts bother you? Or because you think there's a rational cost/benefit analysis to be had, but you're already sure that the costs outweight the benefits, and costs outweighing benefits bothers you? Or does it bother you for another reason?
> Sanctions against Russia only harm ordinary Russians.

That's by design. Sanctions put pressure to the country as a whole. Once people start getting angry they will question their leadership and maybe demand for changes.

Sure, sanctions can also target specific individuals, like the russian elite, olygarchs, but that alone doesn't change the status quo.
It does have a spend limit! (See later on in post)
In what sense is Costco an "abusive" company? They squeeze their suppliers, but their suppliers legitimately have other options. I'm not aware of any market what Costco is the only game in town.
It coincides with several frequencies used by air traffic control in my country. I don't think it would be noticeable, but it still rises the noise floor. It's not that hard to wave a piece of nicked coax over such gadget and I expect Apple to have a 200 MHz scope to connect the coax to and see if there are any peaks in the problematic bands that might need filtering.
Didn’t have that factored into my surprise because I’m not that informed. I just thought that the latent space representation being linear was interesting.
The Blowfish key-schedule algorithm is equivalent to encrypting 4kB of data with it. This isn't a problem for some use-cases (e.g. transferring a large file over HTTPS), but terrible for others e.g. a encrypting lots of short messages using different keys without being able to cache > 30x larger result of the key-schedule result. To make it worse the cipher uses four large 256 x 32bit S-boxes with data (key and plaintext) dependent indexes making it very hard to implement fast without adding a timing side-channel on anything more complex than a simple microcontroller. It also does very little computation per memory access. Blowfish is a fast cipher on a very simple 32bit CPU with >= 4kiB of fast memory, but modern CPUs offer a lot more compute throughput than memory throughput. There is also very little opportunity to exploit for even the most expensive OoO CPUs because almost every depends on a data dependent memory access within a few instructions. For these reasons it's also expensive and relatively slow to implement in hardware.

Almost all of these downsides are helpful for password has validation function like bcrypt() because there is nothing to an attacker can to guess much faster than a desktop CPU.

Blowfish was a good cipher at a time when CPUs lacked dedicated trustworthy crypto engines, wide and deep OoO execution capability, and packed-SIMD support. AES and SHA1/2 are commonly implemented in hardware on modern server, desktop and mobile CPUs. Where hardware offloading isn't available ciphers can take advantage of OoO and SIMD to perform vastly more useful work per cycle than stalling on memory accesses.
Because I don't want to learn another complex DSL just to install some packages. Whether Nix is the promised land or not, Brew works just fine 99% of the time and I have stuff to do.
The rich text presentation is merely cute. But, the underlying feature is very nice. Being able to focus details on a specific aspect of an image without worrying about it leaking into other aspects would be greatly appreciated.

How about a plain-text interface like this?

> A girl with [long hair](orange) sitting in a cafe, by a table with [coffee](^1) on it, best quality, ultra detailed, dynamic pose. [^1](Ceramic coffee cup with intricate design, a dance of earthy browns and delicate gold accents. The dark, velvety latte is in it.)
It looks like it is semi-active. The website appears to be down. The repo has some recent activity but not a whole lot. https://github.com/radian-software/riju/graphs/contributors

There are two others in the readme: https://github.com/radian-software/riju/#similar-projects
Kindergarten teachers also. Almost 100% women. What is wrong with this world?
The problem is it solves basically none of the issues.

Where people live isn’t where people consume aquifers faster than they are replenished. Across much of the east coast farmers don’t bother with irrigation because even the cost of pumping water from a well and delivering it to their fields isn’t worthwhile.

West of the Mississippi the amount of rainfall drops and therefore the need for water skyrockets. https://us-canad.com/rainfall-usa-map.html The difference between 150 inches per year of rainfall and less than 25 is huge.

At the same time the average altitude above sea level also increases. https://gisgeography.com/us-elevation-map/

So if you want to get water where it’s needed in the US. That’s mostly up hill and a long way from the sea.

PS: Coastal cities can always out bid farmers for water, or use some desalination but that’s a tiny fraction of the overall water usage.
We're coming up on 20, but I get it.
We can throw anecdotes to each other all day. I've been using smartphones since 2010 as well. Never used a case. Never cracked a screen.
And those people are the reason that the average is three years, instead of one year like the teenagers do.
BS response.

Child much?
It gets much much more complicated than that. There are never ending discussions about FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records.
https://www.ifla.org/references/best-practice-for-national-b...

* Work is defined as the intellectual or artistic content of a distinct creation. It refers to a very abstract idea of a creation e.g. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and not a specific expression.

* Expression is the intellectual or artistic realization of a work. The realization may take the form of text, sound, image, object, movement, etc., or any combination of such forms.

* Manifestation is the embodiment of an expression of a work. For example a particular edition of a book or a specific music recording.

* Item is a single exemplar of a manifestation. Cataloguing is generally done, based on an item directly available to a cataloguer
I have a Playdate and I think they did about as well as they could to try to keep it from becoming disposable:

- the device doesn't require any network connection or service and works great offline

- games are generally offline only

- games are easily sideloaded via USB

- intentionally anachronistic aesthetic and tech is a sort of guard against obsoletion (it's ... already obsolete?)

So even if Panic stops selling and supporting Playdates tomorrow, people can continue to build fun things for them for some time to come, and if you find a 10 year old Playdate in a draw and power it on, you should still be good for a few rounds of Whitewater Wipeout!
>should just be honest that you are more interested in social issues so that people who want to support the actual development of processing know your foundation isn’t the way to do so.

That's a feature, not a bug.
Apple wouldn't take the PR hit from these overheating issues only to achieve higher scores on benchmarks that basically nobody factors into choosing a phone.

We also don't know yet if they're downclocking now or if there was some other issue; I'm eyeing the new USB-C charging since that was a real problem on earlier MBPs.
> Semver describes pre-1.0.0 versions as well. That is what Rule #4 is about, in fact.

I know, but rule 4 doesn't mean anything if there is an explicit "we wont" intention to ever make switch to 1.0.0 - if you're never going to move past 0.*, you're not semver'ing, you're just using your own "looks like semver, might smell like semver, doesn't taste like semver" scheme.

> I agree that this is often an issue. I myself advocated that Cargo start projects out at 1.0.0, like npm, rather than 0.1.0, like Bundler. I lost that battle.

I'm sorry to hear that =(

> [...] but I doubt that some bold text is going to fix what is ultimately a psychological issue.

You'd be surprised how far the authority of a spec goes. A ton of people will have massive opinions until they're confronted with the spec, an authority they recognize, clearly stating that their interpretation is explicitly ruled out. Specs allow people to cede authority to it.

And of course, don't let any of that detract from a massive thanks for the semver.org effort, no one can deny it's been a net positive on versioning overall.
Isn't that totally different? I thought brick and mortar stores actually buy inventory (or commit to buy orders in this age of just-in-time) where Amazon is just the middleman connecting buyers and sellers and charging fees on both ends.

If Amazon wants to commit to certain sizes of orders, I'm sure the vendors will be happy with contractual price setting.
I think you meant that question to be rhetorical and a hyperbole. However, I live in a deeply conservative state where education like “condoms exist, if you use them you will prevent pregnancy and disease” is somehow a very disturbing topic to them, and a large number of people spend a lot of money, time, and effort to remove such education from public education.

I wish this was hyperbole. It is unfortunately very “normal” Texas politics.

The larger point I was trying to make is that technology alone doesn’t dictate our choices and behaviors. Laurence Lessig (Code 2.0) points out four main areas: legal, market, norms, and architecture (technology or code falls into this one). Even if a technology makes something possible (architecture) people can prevent its adoption via other mechanisms. In this case, by using the law and trying to sway public opinion (norms).
To your point, Cloudflare leadership are pretty active on HN. They generally do a pretty good job of providing detailed explanations to good-faith questions here and providing decent post-mortems of major incidents to the HN community.

They do take care to avoid engaging with people who are opposed to their dominance on ideological levels ("no one should be the gatekeeper for that much of the internet", etc) and there are a small handful of questions they seem to avoid (e.g. direct feature-to-feature comparisons between Warp and Mullvad)