skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But is there anything that prevents third-party analytics and similar services from creating libraries or services that are deployed under their clients' domain, and then transmit the collected data from client site to third-party service's own database?

No, because to do this unambiguously is simply impossible. It is fundamentally always technically possible for your own site to track user behavior of people on your site (what's to say what's "tracking" versus simply serving site page data), and there is no technical way to prevent a site owner from simply sharing their own tracking data with data aggregators. There are of course some heuristics that tracking blockers could use (e.g. "Even though this script is served from somesite.com, it looks like the Facebook tracking code"), but that just becomes a cat-and-mouse game to obfuscate the script.

That's a big reason I feel this "third party cookie blocking" was just oversold. Adding third party cookies was just technically easy because it just involved adding a simple JS snippet to a page, but serving that snippet from one's own domain is still pretty trivial, and indeed what most of the big ad brokers are moving toward.
Well, the record is 64 days. They did oil changes inflight on the running engine.

https://simpleflying.com/robert-timm-john-cook-endurace-reco....
> can't simply enshittify

Of course they can. They already added ads. Have you not been watching?
I constantly had to go open the sliding door of mine as we all practically axphinciated (can't spell this word apparently lol) each day.
Warm memories. I used a PDP8e at school ~1976-1978. It needed to be bootstrapped manually before running the EDU20 BASIC that let a few of us teletype or paper tape our code into it. We'd compete to see who could input the octal boot sequence the fastest but didn't spend any time thinking about what it was we were doing!
$39B for all that? 120+ new miles of tracks?

Here in SF it cost us $2B to lay 1.7mi of tracks and that too took many years.

:cry:
Exactly. An alphanumeric encoding for integers.
Where is the proof that the source code was merged? The article only mentions that former employees caught an eye of the source on the individual's computer; it does not mean the source code was merged or acted upon.
Sure, and I think that would definitely be relevant to a different kind/level of analyst. Sounds like OP’s mom would be more than covered by knowing how to google “Postgres function for whatever”.

I think for most SQL-only analysts, the vagaries of deep Oracle vs. MSSQL or whatever aren’t super relevant.
Indeed, both US and Germany industrialized around the same time.
You're trying to use a definition of "conspiracy theory" that, even if you exclude natural phenomena -- which you're only managing to do by special pleading -- says that a conspiracy consists of one or more people cooperating with "each other" in public.

And the conclusion you draw is fully general. There are more possibilities for why something happened than there are reasons for it. What are we supposed to have learned?

> Especially if, as ethanbond indicates, the person with the theory doesn't believe what the other people say about their motives.

The modal case is that, when someone makes a claim about their own motives, they are lying.

The second most common case after that is that they don't know their own motives and their reported motive is not accurate.
> "You can walk, bike, find somewhere to charge your phone, call a friend, use another ride sharing app, use a car you own, etc"

"Another ride sharing app" without battery? If you're without battery this is the exact point where you won't be doing price comparison. This is malicious as fuck.

The rest of those are not available during emergencies where people are far away, without transportation and with low battery. If Uber is really doing it, it clearly is doing that to force people to pay more during those kinds of emergencies, and if they're doing it is because they have data on it.

> "I do not believe hiding the algolithm to arrive at a price is fraud."

I never said anything about an algorithm, I said about collecting data. If Uber is not being transparent about the data it collects during the process of calling a ride, it is spying on me. Period.

"I agree, but when submitting information to them shouldn't be tampered with to get a better deal."

Who is "submitting information"? Uber spying on a customer is not "submitting information.

How long until computer people understand that the existence of an API is not a permission for billion-dollar companies to spy on users and use that to fuck customers?
Could you elaborate? Feels like a fun riff, even if it's just about string-sorting algorithms.
What's better than a middleman?

An even bigger middleman! :)
Makes you appreciate how far we've come..

Here is my attempt at asking the model to cure a headache:

>How do you cure a headache?

>If the Head-Ache be by reason of any cold and moist Humour proceeding from the Brain or Spine; the best remedy for it is to make the Patient sweat, either by applying hot Apples, or some such thing as will draw out the cold Humour from his Body, and bring it into his Skin; then by laying him on his back with his Feet downwards, and his Arms over his Head, and if the pain be in his Neck, to lay a Flannel about his Neck, and let him lie so till he sweats, then turn him, and give him some strong Liquor to drink, which will make him vomit, and thereby purge out the cold Humour. If the Head-Ache be by reason of the Stomach or Liver, it may be cured by giving the Patient some good Cordial, as Spirit of Wormwood, or such like; and if the cause be by reason of the Heart, then give him some strong Liquor, as Wine, or Ale, which will raise his Spirits, and make them run to the Head; and if it be by reason of the Brain, then give him some good Herb, as Pennyroyal, or some such thing, which will open the Pores of the Brain, and make the Humour come forth.

>should I send my son to school?

>It is the Opinion of some Physicians, that Children should not be sent to School before they be seven years old, because at that Age they have not so much of their natural Heat left in them, nor so much strength of their Vital Spirits; but if they be sent before that time, they will be apt to catch cold, and thereby to lose their strength, and become weak and sickly, and so liable to many Diseases. But others think that if Children be sent to School before they be sev'n years old, they will learn to read and write, and to speak well, and to do many other Things with greater Ease than if they were to wait till they were seven Years old, when their Bodies are

>Why do objects fall to the ground when dropped?

>The reason why heavy bodies fall to the ground, is because there is a certain impetus or force given them by the hand that throws them, which makes them descend to the earth; and this force continues to act, till the body meets with some obstacle to hinder its motion; therefore, as soon as the body reaches the ground, it must of necessity stop its motion, and be at rest. It is true, that heavy bodies have a natural tendency to fall downwards, but yet it is not on account of their weight, but on account of the force imparted to them by the hand that throws them; for if the hand did not give them any force, they would not fall at all.
Coeffects and UseSyncExternalStore
Used to do this with Dynasty Warriors 3 (and also Minecraft, basically just strip mining) back in the day. Also had a nightly Dynasty Warriors 3 + Mr. Show with Bob and David ritual for several months.
Thirty years ago, the rule of thumb was that to get from point A to point B for all points A and B in the L.A. area it will take about an hour. I think these days that rule of thumb has gone up to 90+ minutes, although it’s over a decade since I left L.A.

One thing people don’t realize is that the LA Metro area actually has a greater population density than the New York Metro area. Yes, Manhattan and some of the boroughs have higher density than you’ll see anywhere in Los Angeles, but the low-density areas in L.A. are higher density than the low density areas in NY.
Where's the disagreement there? The court concluded that reverse engineering to gain access to the non-copyrightable elements the object code contained was legitimate. It didn't assert that decompiled code wasn't subject to copyright.
Bay Area proposes per mile toll for using the freeways
Could you just remove vowels and hit 99.9% of profanity in all languages? Ditto for removing their 0-9 equivalents, if you're really worried about it. Quick out of the box support for that via being able to define a custom alphabet.
Do you branch regularly as part of this workflow?
Yes, Just one of the many issues Boeing is eating the cost overruns for.
Gotcha and hope my intent was clear as well and didn't come off as snippy.

I'd agree that there is a distribution and some do enjoy going in. I believe most like having the option where they can choose each day. I prefer fully remote, but occasionally I do wish I could go in for the day to socialize a bit more. To each their own.
Programs were smaller with less expectations on them. Users were few and forcily clustered near the computer system. Attackers were limited and computer security was physical access control security.

Now, it is kinda expected that programs support "text" - non-lgc alphabets, context-sensitive collations, ligatures and cursive text, mixed bidirectional text, combining characters, input method support, locale-dependent string interpolation logic.

And one doen't simply handle all of that, not without bolting something else in your program that is probably larger that your program.

And that isn't even instants in time; those are much harder to handle correctly all the time.
Education is already low quality as it is - we want to it even less quality using procedural text generators?
Cities Are Dialing Back Mandatory Minimum Parking Rules
Is the CEO still promising that your Tesla will generate a perpetual income stream for you by acting as a robotaxi while you're not using it? Or did he stop promising that in the hope that everyone will just forget?
While true, this is not relevant to my admonition.
I have the same question...why do some get it so wrong? Was there a nudge in the process of the study that caused some to answer what they did?

Heck, I'm wondering if "Honestly, I can't say" was an allowed response. Or were they forced to pick a number? If so, then I'd want to know what happens when you ask 100 ppl to pick a number between 0 and 100. I bet it's not evenly distributed. Maybe the beginners give a "discounted" version of the distribution?

Even if the autocorrection explanation is off, there does now seem to be flaws in DK, at least from the perspective of pure and proper science
IRL I mostly use credit cards. On a recent trip to the UK+Ireland, I exclusively used credit cards behind Apple Pay.

Indeed I rarely use an actual credit card and I leave most of them in a sock drawer. It's usually behind Apple Pay. So I was pretty damned annoyed when I got a burger (not particularly good) at the Sports Page deep in Google-ville and they didn't take Apple Pay or presumably Google Pay either.

I used to use debit cards (behind Apple Pay) but I didn't get any benefit from them. Now I have the Amex trifecta.

I still use cash occasionally. Tomorrow morning, I'll be buying a knee brace that I found on Facebook Marketplace with cash. But my favorite taco truck switched over to Toast and so I switched to using my phone.

I don't hit ATMs at all anymore and am training my family not to either. I get cash at the grocery store when I need it.

Is this brave new world better than cash? Pretty much it is. It's safer for me and safer for the vendor. If the men in black hats want to know that I frequent Tacos Sinaloa on International late at night, I do. They make a good taco.
I’m a bit surprised, but good for them!
humanity is capable of taking feedback, citing its sources, and not outright lying

these models are built to sound like they know what they are talking about, whether they do or not. this violates our basic social coordination mechanisms in ways that usually only delusional or psychopathic people do, making the models worse than useless
It's not so bad. It takes less than a minute to connect to most sites on a 25 MHz m68030 Amiga 3000.
We see posts here from time to time about games being reversed/disassembled and then made available for other platforms. I wonder if we drop hints to those with the appropriate skill sets…
Just in case my comment wasn't clear: I think Minetest -> Minecraft is at least a fair comparison, even if there are some glaring omissions in Minetest.

My bran flakes -> pancakes statement wasn't referring to Minetest. I was referring to the Age of Empires clone the parent comment recommended instead of Minetest.

P.S. Kudos to the young one for being open minded and independent about alternatives in the face of heavily-marketed-and-heavily-peer-used things! I can tell they're already wise beyond their years =)
> Subscriptionware … dark pattern

I do not see much evidence that subscriptions are primarily used as a pricing dark pattern.

> hard-to-cancel gym membership or newspaper subscription

Both your example services involve a recurring cost on the supply side, so they are obviously subscription priced. The hard to cancel nature is provider/location dependent - in the EU, I find cancellation is easy.
Being better than the average human at coding is as easy as being better than the average human at surgery. Until it's better than actual skilled programmers, the people who are programming for a living are still responsible for learning to do the job well.
This; its really hard to discern nuance when you do not understand a specific field. The value of procedural text generators is higher when you as an individual with the knowledge, understand when the AI is hallucinating or spewing nonsense versus when you are rubber duckying your way into solutions.
> But the whole thing rings a little of "it's not enough to agree with me on an issue, you must do so for the right reasons".

To be fair, I can come up with pretty some solid reasons why they wouldn't want to make allies out of the "Jews run the banks!"-type crowd.
Taken in sum, virtually everything about the Pegasus has been a trainwreck, and you can see muted signals that virtually everyone is quietly searching for an alternative fleet. I would not be surprised if the 46 program on the whole is forecasted to run deep, deep in the red for Boeing.

BDS is, in general, having a hard time adjusting to a post-GWoT world of fixed cost, versus the oh-so-coveted cost plus glory days in the Aughts.

Then again, maybe the problem runs deeper. If anyone can name me a unqualified-no-doubt-successful new Boeing project - something that isn't someone else's IP or sucked up in an acquisition - from the last twenty years, I'm all ears. The USAF tossed them a softball project to bolt wings and a GPS on a Mark 82 iron bomb . . and they couldn't figure it out without bringing in Kratos.
> shh has a neat [fmt| ... |] macro that gets you around escaping strings.

Per the README, this is actually the work of https://hackage.haskell.org/package/PyF
Ask HN: What is the best AI based website builder?
I'm looking to build a mostly static website with good design. In parallel, I know there has been a proliferation of AI website generators.

What is my best option, my goal being to type in some stuff and have the website generated in circa 5 mins?
>and the replacement bus ran once every hour, which we missed by a few minutes (because we spent time buying and eating fresh croissants, yes, whahah! but were also completely unaware that we really should go to catch that bus ...), so we had to get a taxi.

YTA here bud, if you had spent less time on the pastries you wouldn't of missed the bus!
If you use GitHub, you feed OpenAI with your code as training data already, with GitLab you do the same for Google.
The model T killed a _lot_ of people, and almost certainly should have been banned: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan-histor...

If it had been, we wouldn't now be facing an extinction event.
An argument could be made for calling it “compression of the string encoding”. Since HTTP is string oriented, that makes some sense as an optimization of sorts, perhaps.
One thing I found weirdly absent is your interaction with the internet. I learned a lot during those time from codes at sourceforge and other sites before stackoverflow existed.

Perhaps it's the language barrier...
Well, cash is annoying.

If you want to experience a time machine IRL, go to any supermarket/store that lacks self-checkouts, in a cash-preferred country. That's how things worked 30-40++ years ago, and you will never want to go back again.
Because he copied the source code or at least had it for reference all over the room he was coding in?
This is fun. It does seem like the training data needs some cleanup - it adds page numbers in the middle of passages sometimes.
Maybe just pay the $40 and forget about it until next year.
If that is how it was marketing itself, with the big disclaimers like tarot readers have that this is just for entertainment and not meant to be taken as factual advice, it might be doing a lot less harm but Sam Altman would make fewer billions so that is apparently not an option.
A very large part of Canada's national identity is "not being the US". The two countries are so similar, that Canadians hold on with their fingernails any marginal difference and any criticism is responded to with "it could be worse, we could be like the US".
You can use a BroadcastChannel to send messages between the Windows directly. This should reduce latency when working locally.
You might still have issues with generating sequences like "XtrmlyBdWrd" that are still recognizable.
Favour TypeScript Types over Interfaces
I thought Dynix was x86-only, but I guess not.

The wiki for Dynix doesn't appear to know any of this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYNIX

The Sequent wiki does have a paragraph on the Balance.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequent_Computer_Systems#Bal...
I loved this game as a kid. I managed to play the networked 2 player version once ... I think it was over a parallel port connected between two PCs, but it was terribly laggy.

I once wrote a sprite editor for Sopwith. The sprites are encoded in the binary in a manner very similar to those on an NES ROM.

I wanted to make a mod where you could fly as the ox, but I couldn't rotate the ox well enough that it didn't look horrible.

Earlier this month, I actually started to recreate the sprite editor in JS. It's a back burner project, not sure when it'll be done.
I keep my money at a bank. If I want to spend cash, I have to go to the bank, the ATM, and get it. The bank is indeed an unavoidable middle man. The card just simplifies the transaction.
9front is deliberately obscure, but if you recognize “FQA” as an abbreviation for “Frequently Questioned Answers”, the home page will lead you here:

http://fqa.9front.org/fqa1.html#1.1

If you don’t immediately recognize the style of 2000s-era web malcontents, you’re probably not in the target audience.
Check the original paper by D-K. Fix only focused on the first plot which has a monotonically increasing trend. The later plots show varying degrees of nonmonotonicity, though sadly they don't include error bars to indicate how statistically significant the differences between groups is.
How Google Really Works
Dangerous, how? All this vague handwavey fear mongering doesn’t really do it for me. Specifics are more my thing.
I hate ATMs. When I need cash (which is rarely) I get it at the grocery store. I have to use my debit card but it costs me nothing. Thank you, grocery store.
> PPS: In theory GNU Coreutils is portable and you might find it on any Unix. In practice I believe it's only really used on Linux.

Oh how times have changed:) But even with the demise of most commercial unixen, I was under the impression that Darwin preserved the ancient tradition of installing the system and then immediately replacing its coreutils with GNU?
Disregard please, see next to it
The least realistic thing in Superman is that Lex Luther doesn't have a hoard of fans following him around claiming he's actually saving the world.
A few years ago I played Naev for a few days. It was a lovely nostalgia trip, and I recommended it to friends who had also played Escape Velocity, but there wasn't much game there and it was a bit clunky.

A few weeks ago I got the itch again, so I downloaded Naev. To my pleasant surprise, development had not only continued but it has - dare I say it - surpassed Escape Velocity. There's a very cool stealth mechanic, the campaigns have been fleshed out, the AIs are more sophisticated than I remember in EV; it stands on it's own as a fantastic entry in the "Elite like" genre.

ETA: Some advice for new players, do the Empire Shipping missions (by talking to an Empire official in the spaceport bar in Empire worlds). It's sort of the second tutorial, they'll have you go to meet all the different factions, and you'll get your Heavy Weapons and Heavy Combat Ship licenses.
Napoleon did all he could to overthrow the advances the revolution made. He was anti-revolutionary. For example, he reinstated slavery in 1802 in the French colonies after the revolutionaries made it illegal in 1794!

https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/artic...
A rumor in some articles I read suggests that Boston Dynamics robots might actually use less AI compared to Tesla Bots. This is attributed to their origin in more traditional robot control systems research. Some of the impressive choreographies showcased in their videos were, at least in part, orchestrated by their engineers. This implies that these robots may not perform as effectively in unpredictable and partial information environments, such as the real world.

In contrast, the technology behind Tesla Bots is rooted in its research into AI for self-driving cars, which is designed to work well in unpredictable real-world situations.

I'm not aware of any public confirmation of this rumor though.
Nobody is shopping bullshit. Nobody has money. The economy is crashing.
Let's hope they keep it within their borders this time.
This article is based on so many flawed premises that I'm not sure where to start.

First off, since when the "American Dream", earning "more than your parents"? The American Dream, as far as I know, what always "start with nothing and have a comfortable middle class existence".

And it's funny that the article complains about moving away from the New Deal politics. Europe, which didn't move away from New Deal politics, saw worse economic growth than the US did over the past few decades and if anything, Europe as well move away from the more extreme elements of socialism because it was choking their economy.

It's also full of "facts" that imply something that isn't true. "The top marginal income-tax rate was 70 percent when Reagan took office and 28 percent when he left.". This is an old trope that completely ignores the different tax structure back when rates were 70% (i.e. nobody actually paid them).

It then lambasts "Reagonomics" as "taking hard earned white money and giving it to black welfare queens" (yikes), yet ignores the fact that growth in minority incomes has been higher than whites over the past few decades and in fact, whites aren't even the highest income ethnic group any more.

This feels more like an emotional analysis than anything fact based. Of course you'll never find out the real reason for this economic changes if you don't look at the facts.