skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course we can blame AI, lack of humans and stuff.

But the good news is you'll never advertise again on Meta and you can inspire others to do the same. These giants have too much power and since the justice system that should break them up is corrupt or not willing to do the job, it is up the users to do it.
Huh, I never noticed it get downvoted! As I've checked the post it's gradually increased from 1 to 4 karma. I also see that karussell replied about ten minutes after your post. Very strange.
Oh, fantastic, thanks - looks like there may be a trial for ensitrelvir here in the UK.
There's also QNearbyShare [0], a CLI implementation for Linux, which sadly can't send to Android yet, but receiving works just fine

[0]: https://github.com/vicr123/QNearbyShare
I didn’t even know Bandcamp had any editorial staff. I usually just follow links from YouTube to songs or artists I like and buy music that way.
Passkey Analysis of Bitwarden's Developer Survey 2024
Bitwarden just released their Developer Survey 2024. One of the core sections are passkeys and the current developer sentiment of it.
I took the survey results and added some thoughts how the numbers could be explained (full disclosure that I work for a startup in the passkey space).
What's wrong with talking about animals anyway? Truly bizarre.
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In my opinion this happens because people start projects as a side project, then they get attention and need more and more time. So either you somehow invest more time (work less on your normal job) or get more contributors/ a team. The first option is happening more often, so you need income to replace your normal job where we mostly end with your described situation.
Brick-and-mortar is not a guarantee either. I've got my account frozen by a Hungarian bank in 2015 due to "suspicious activity". I consulted my lawyer, apparently that had no legal grounds, with this information I came to the nearest branch, they unfroze the assets immediately, and I withdrew everything.

In 2022 the bank was proclaimed an international sponsor of war.
Forked but with several added features
Biome v1.3: lint and format TypeScript and JSX in a fraction of a second
Biome formats and lints your TypeScript, JavaScript, JSX and JSON code in a fraction of a second.

Biome follows the formatting convention of Prettier and is able to organize your Typescript/JavaScript imports.

Biome has many linter rules, including most of the ESLint rules, and many rules from ESLint plugins such as the TypeScript plugin, the A11y accessibility plugin, and react plugin.

Also, Biome provides IDE integrations and is able to lint and format malformed code.

Biome 1.3 provides new features:

- configuration overrides to completely change the behavior of the tools for certain files/paths.

- the CLI now shows logs via --log-level and --log-kind

- the JSON parser now supports trailing commas via configuration (opt-in)

- many new rules and bug fixes for the linter.

- the import sorting is now stable. You just need to use `check --apply` to have import statements sorted
I've got help from Google when I had a bigger account issue. Stripe isn't the fastest in responding but they really helped avoiding account issues before they became a problem.

Facebook ignored my HN rant, my GDPR requests, any emails and the 'please check if the ban was right' button was solved in less than a minute without answer and disappeared forever.

Facebook doesn't care
Hey Paul! I'm the author :)

I think it has to do with the fact that you can't like if you're not a substack user. Also, I don't think it reached the top because most people agreed with it, maybe the opposite.

So they might be reading (i got around 7k views on it) but not liking it haha
It's the opposite, surely – awareness makes support of that behaviour unacceptable.
It's a fork, says so in the GitHub description
Java is not outdated. You still need the likes of it if you are building platform independent high performance applications. At the end of the day, it's just another tool in your arsenal.
But I'd still suggest you learn Python, TS etc because those are very helpful in rapid prototyping and quick iterations. AT higher levels, you're not evaluated based on the number of languages you know or frameworks you are familiar with, but rather your solutionising and design capabilities. Learn to design and build systems.
Played it many years ago while trying out the few open source games that where out there and loved it, especially the sound track and voices.
Youre missing the Pepe Silva strewn classes that tie into each other intricately, and in some occasions are abstraction layers of abstraction layers
Perhaps you're not allowed to use Facebook for selling animals. Which would be sensible IMO
Or just use a sensible search engine like Kagi, which doesn't associate search queries with users (it doesn't need to; it's not in the business of selling users to ad brokers).

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#why-trust

It's weird how easily we've acclimatized to creepy tech-company spying. For Google to snoop on your searches, record them, and permanently archive them for retrieval years in the future was a very creepy and ignominious business model, and it's embarrassing how readily we all went along with it, for the convenience.
> Presently, I don't have the mental energy (or time) to parse through everything you have copied here (sorry, I just don't)

I absolutely understand - no need at all to look through all the links etc. I was really just trying to show enough to illustrate my difficulties when personally trying to verify this info. I hate that the only option is to trust - I want to check for myself!

> I do think you're at risk of reading into some of this "evidence" for foul play. Ken Thompson's lecture "Reflections on Trusting Trust" comes to mind for reasons that escape me.

Absolutely fair enough too. I now have very low levels of trust. But then that is because I bear in mind that people really do play tricks. I mean there are so many examples... do you remember weapons of mass distraction, Hans Blix, etc? Or Snowden? Did you know Zelensky is referenced in the Panama papers? Etc.

My low trust levels are based on my research. Eg the sort of historical research I presented above. There is always scope to doubt a story.. and perhaps, if you do not 'default to trust' there are hints at how the tricks may be being played. Perhaps such is the nature of power - ie that is it is a series of deeply considered, well-executed trickery to manage the masses. Perhaps the idea of faking commonly perceived truths is something that has a long pedigree - perhaps 'power' has used tricks to manage people from the very beginning. Perhaps trickery is actually to world's oldest profession :)

All the best, thanks for your thoughts.
The user you're replying to simplified the process some. There is no government website that will tell you exactly what you owe. You always are doing the math yourself and then hoping that you did the math correctly. Even for a refund, it's up to you to tell the government that you overpaid.

The reason you might have heard a lot of fuss around hiring more IRS agents, is that the only way to validate these numbers if to be audited (broadly speaking). There might be some automated checks for very obvious things but much of the process is self-reported.

The software is largely there to help people with the math and accounting for all of the deductions that the average person may be eligible for (mortgage interest being the largest and most common).
To be fair, it's also a failure of empathy for a user who might be flagged as a false positive.
The Quest for Unbreakable Encryption
I'm assuming something to do with the illegal trading of exotic/endangered species; mentioning pythons and pandas, alongside whatever wording was used to sell the course probably triggered the bot to flag it.

That's the only explanation I have.
I was recently recommended English (Canadian) for that reason but I've not yet managed to get Google Maps on my mobile to show me km instead of miles, no matter what setting. (It's not the account, because a desktop browser on a Windows with en_US and accept-language en/US will show km with English text). It is indeed infuriating.
Low interest rates don't help the buyer. It helps the seller.

Whatever benefits the buyer would have had are reaped by the seller with a higher price.
LocalPilot: Open-source GitHub Copilot on your MacBook
The way you start your workday often sets the tone for your productivity and well-being. Mindful mornings can be the key to enhanced focus and a sense of balance in your daily professional life. In this post, we'll explore how to create a morning routine that fosters mindfulness, helping you start each workday with intention and purpose.
It looks like there's something interesting here, but I'm not really seeing what it is.

Can someone explain in simple terms what's the added value, compared to buying an FPGA with an embedded RISC-V core? Like, if you want maximum configurability, you already have FPGAs, and if you want maximum performance, you have ICs. Where does Zero ASIC come in? How does it push the Pareto frontier? Is it for prototyping or for final products?
It's a fork with more features
I think a lot of people are actually pro-blocking Twitter.

I like the fracturing, reduces the global hegemony of a single corporate entity controlling global communication.

I'm also in that camp....no more twitter, EU competitors would flourish.
I don't think China's economy is the problem as some say. LVMH has seen a drop but not as big, in fact they talked about a rebound in the first half of 2023.
I believe it's the luxury strategy chosen by TC that is going to hurt them in the long run. Recent iPhones on top of being extremely expensive have high long term running cost, high repair price and not even that good resale value now that the market is saturated. Competitors have catched up for the most part and considering all the tradeoffs it has become difficult to justify the price since the 11-12th generation. I believe most people who bought one of those either is waiting MUCH longer or thinking about getting newer tech for much cheaper elsewhere.

To make matters worse, Apple sell iPhone at luxury pricing premium but yet offer an experience that feels like getting milked at an arab bazar. They have made very unreasonable choice when it come to some specifications/limitations built-in their expensive models ; for example the CPU is still the fastest around but RAM limitation makes day-to-day use way more painful than a slower processor would be. And when you buy a 1K+ phone at Apple you just get the right to buy overpriced Airpods ; meanwhile Google offer free wireless earbuds with phones costing up to 400 less.
That is just an example, but in the end peoples see that and end up realizing they are taken for a ride, then Apple sell less...

It is only the start I believe. Next 3 years are going to be fast downhill if commercial strategy doesn't change at Apple...
At its core, Honeygain was created to supply Oxylabs with proxies. Residential IP addresses are very valuable in this market but they are not easy to acquire. Giving people money for allowing their IP address to be used for various purposes in the proxy field is a good venture. However, since you have to pay the users, it can hardly be profitable. That's why JumpTask and Lexistream (yup, Lexistream is also a product of Oxylabs/Honeygain team :) ) were created. JumpTask allows them to pay users less whereas Lexistream allows the usage of IPs acquired via Honeygain to be used for streaming purposes (as its called there - Content Delivery or CD) and as an channel of revenue by selling those streaming IPs to VPNs and whatnot.
Now, of course, most of these streaming IPs are sold on the inside for products that are under Tesonet's portfolio. NordVPN is the biggest client, needless to say. They also supply Surfshark. These IPs are sold for Tesonet at a lower price since they are all connected. The prices for "outsiders", such as Cyberghost or Windscribe are bigger. You could argue that this is nothing TOO bad about this, but think about the power dynamics here. Think why streaming services such as Netflix work so well with NordVPN as opposed to other VPNs? When you control the pool (via Lexistream, Honeygain, Oxylabs and so on), you have control on which IPs to give to whom. Favoring NordVPN, they give actually good quality IPs to them and a mixed bag for "outsiders". They can also simply turn off the streaming feature for certain IPs to keep Nord and other buddies in check, as in, keeping them the most reliable VPN when it comes to streaming. This gives a competitve edge as you may understand.
Finally, in regards to botnet usage in IP acquisition, I can surely say that this is not true. No shortcuts taken in the acquisition of IPs.
Or if you open the lid.
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- https://www.baen.com

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Public Domain Ebooks:

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Audio Books:

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Public Domain Audio Books:

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>I don't think anyone is too worried about the layoffs

Yeah sure, why care about the people that built the working machine and their family, as long as the 1% can get profit out of the machine?
Reconciliation is a concept that I've not been able to wrap my head around, and I'm interested whether anyone here has read books that have swayed them one way or the other that they could recommend, especially with what's happening in Israel and Palestine at the moment.

In my eyes, it seems unreasonable for anyone in today's day and age to expect something from someone else based on the actions of their ancestors, or people with similar race/ethnicity, particularly in the case of giving any one other race/ethnicity political or capital power over others. Social groups ranked by birth should be something left in the Dark Ages, like feudalism and the worlds various caste systems.

Having "the advisory body of the whites/blacks/asians/indigenous/aboriginal/etcetera" enshrined in a constitution seems utterly bizarre to me. It enshrines that there's a specific difference between races, and some deserve more power over others. It's ratifying into law that different races have different privileges.

They state in the article that "it's been their home for 60,000 years". Am I crazy for thinking that's it's not been? It's been their home for 0-100 years, depending how old they are; same as non-native Australians. It's been their parents for 130 years perhaps, and their grandparents for maybe 160. When are we going to stop reaching back into ancient history to try and find power to use over one another, and focus on the power disparities of today's society which whirlpool around the sinkhole that is monetary wealth and try to seek equality there?

This is by no means an opinion I hold strongly, and I'm happy to be convinced out of it.
The joke is of course also on the authors who will not be compensated by you for reading their work.
I'd pay Youtube if they would stop tracking me in return, but I simply cannot believe it will happen at any point
> 2) In advertisements, Google shouldn't allow the advertiser to modify the domain that is displayed. Really, why do they even do this?

Because advertisers usually want to send links to a tracker site of their own first so that they can verify if their numbers match up with what Google reports.

No one trusts anyone in the advertising space, and for good reasons. Advertising has always been a space filled to the brim with crooks and fraudsters.
Check out Mint's Warpinator [0] too.

[0]: https://github.com/linuxmint/warpinator
You can always contact them? I can’t say my experience with their support has been anything like good, but we did eventually resolve the problem.

Apparently Stripe has great difficulty with non-Japanese people, living in Japan, owning a company overseas.
> you should be able ...

And then you get banned for life
I think the safe option would be to not buy Kindles. Go with Kobo, or another company that's more open.
When we did our thing our starting position was support for devcontainer after evaluating all options. But we are working on supporting devfile soon.
Serfs were at least tied to the land and somewhat entitled to live there. It's a lower status than serfs.
I absolutely love this idea, you should do it! Commentary on one kind of addiction using the terms of another.
Regardless of the reason, of course not acceptable. We have to insist on complete transparency, and life-time bans should always be liftable through some sort of dialogue. It is impossible to have a productive relationship with someone that abuses AI to conduct reviews that should clearly have been done by a human. Facebook cannot be trusted. Period. Their conduct is extremely abusive.

Same lack of proper review prevents people from restoring hacked accounts, even in cases where it is completely obvious that the accounts were hacked. E.g. The name and/or e-mail was changed by a user in a different country than the account owner.

If Facebook has access to such sophisticated AI, then it is quite amazing that they cannot deduce (even without AI) that an account was hacked. A set of if statements in their code should be enough to check for typical suspicious circumstances. E.g. The user is suddenly in a different country, and happen to change their name (highly unusual and very suspicious circumstances)!!
still not legitimate, because then any laying of on union members/leaders could be legitimized that way

in any country which properly enforces labor protection law laying of any union leaders without the agreement of the union is extremely hard and requires missteps of the members like e.g. stealing. Or really unusual situations like you lay of half of the members and over half of the members have young children (or e.g. are disabled, project leaders etc.) but non of the union members have any of that. The likelihood of which is basically 0 in practice.
Been using the FF version for a long time. If that fails, this bookmarklet works.

'javascript:void(open('https://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(docume...))'
Thanks to updated IR35 employers can bypass unions altogether. As IT deemed employees don't get any employment rights.
I'm in the process of writing a some small system which relies on MariaDB as a storage. The thing is what I don't want to use SQL connector on the endpoints, so I need some HTTP intrrface. I vaguely remembered what I did something like that some time ago, but decided to started fresh.

Well, fastforward to the last Monday, I'm a little stuck and it gets me wondering how I managed to solve it (if ever) the last time. A couple of searches later I found out what I wrote a 'proper' REST-like API wrapper, with OpenAPI, the proper HTTP response codes and whatever... just a year ago. Yet I spent so much time on it I didn't even used it anywhere and subsequently forgot about it.
Delphic Hymns
When we submitted our game's store page for Steam to review, they told us exactly which rule we broke and how we needed to fix it.

That's how you tell companies who care about their users and those don't.

(Not saying Steam never did shady stuff)
That's true. I evaluated it, but it wasn't of use to me as I keep my Macbook plugged in with the lid closed.

I eventually tried this instead (for Intel Macs) :

https://github.com/DevNulPavel/osx_battery_charge_limit

I use it to keep my battery level indicator pegged at 70%. Often doesn't persist after a system update, but it's just a quick terminal command to reapply the setting.

I use my Macbook in clamshell mode, and I use sleep mode when I'm not using it - receiving power from a Thunderbolt dock. It's handy to pick up exactly where I left off on resume. Plus, I use two LG screens where one of the two doesn't switch on after a cold boot, and it's annoying to unplug and replug to activate it. Sleep mode gets around that.
WSL is a bolt-on Unix environment while Apple has a native one.

If Apple makes it so that it's not native, I am pretty sure there will be significant number switching OSes.
So... certainly with social media, the rules the rules and only we know the rulebook.

The incentives are just stacked towards not having policies.

First once you have a policy, that policy can be criticised. Nothing withstands criticism these days. Politics also lost its explicit policy statements for the same reason.

If one politician has a policy plan, his opponent's "policy" will be a critique of his plan and that gives the opponent an edge.

Second, once e have a policy, you need to implement it. FB is better resourced than all the others, but none of these "policies" are even designed to be implemented broadly.

Vagueness just serves, and if you aren't vague you will regret it.

If you are clear, there will be a ton of criticism of your clear policy. Then there will be criticism of your imperfect implementation.

If you're vague and concommital, you can half implement a half baked plan plan and change or drop it when you want.
> I saw a sign last year for forestry service work happening locally to me. Apparently they're only going to provide safety announcements on Facebook.

There probably are (and should be) laws or regulations forbidding that, especially because "safety".

OTOH, from the PoV of the lower-level Forestry Service people who decided to do that - I'd guess they're stuck in a miserably understaffed and low-budget bit of a pretty dysfunctional government, and doing traditional safety announcements would cost them 100X the time and headaches of "just put it on Facebook".
> That would make Google responsible for the work of police - you're saying that Google should be actively trying to identify "criminals" (by whatever definitnion of whatever state in US or even their legal departmeny - quotes deliberate) and prevent them from being able to do business in modern web world.

Google is a company that nets 60 billion $ a year in profits. They can afford hiring a few thousand people to manually vet ads before they go out, and they should.
I don't use it. But that doesn't mean that I'm not affected by the harm it causes, and the hatred and misinformation that it spreads among people.

I believe that the overall impact that Twitter has is a negative one, so if they withdraw from Europe then (to me), that would be a positive thing and something to celebrate.
For the sake of their dignity I hope it's an actual clown school.
Might is right. If they can not defend the land it's not theirs.
Many software also have a "English/Belgium", "English/Germany", or "English/Europe" locale.

A fun trick is that if you install Windows 11 with the "English/Europe" locale, it doesn't install a lot of the bloatware because it's not defined for that location.
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Of-course, it's the tech industry that forces publishers to set absurd prices for electronic copies of books which in turn leads readers to try "alternative" methods of book acquisition.

And it's not the "tech industry" in the first place, it's fucking Adobe.