skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You’re thinking of a time when only “computer geeks” could install and run the software of their choice.

Perhaps not thinking of a "time when", perhaps thinking of an OS that required an IT certificate.

Because even early Macintosh System Software (classic Mac OS before OS X) was bewildering to Windows users, since any user could "drag" a program from a floppy disk onto their hard disk, leave it anywhere, and it worked.

Arguably, OS X introduced the Applications folder in 2001 partly to give people a place to drag things to and feel more comfortable that's where they could find their "Program Files" (but mostly so multi-user system users would get to add and re-use apps in a common clear place they "should" be).

But you still didn't need an IT admin.
Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan: Curing All Human Diseases [video]
You’re allowed to make use of the same energy at different points in time. The 1% used by the fan is the same 1% that’s heating your room.

A computer converts 99.9% of the electricity to heat a room just like a space heater. However, you can play video games on the PC while it’s heating your room.
What makes it the "right thing" and who decided it was right?
The process here is to hype the event on multiple channels (Twitter, FB, IG, LI, etc) and measure which ones pop (eg: I track metrics across like 12 networks). Then lean in to the ones that have the engagement. Measure natural posts and compare to "boosted" as well.
In Uvalde, Students Followed Active Shooter Protocol. The Cops Did Not
> 3M made the best ones

A very common quote. 3M seems to be the best at everything they do, including pollution.
Firefox mobile is its own beast. I experience a whole host of issues on it, but have never had issues with Firefox on desktop. Only reason I use FF for Android is for uBlock, but it's so unreliable I'm dying for a better option...
From what I can tell, it's related to network usage fees from ISPs, i.e basically anti-net neutrality. From a year half ago:

From https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20220421000740

> YouTube threatens to cut down investments in Korea over ‘network usage fee’ bill

>Proposed revisions will require global content providers to pay network fees to local Internet service providers

> The planned revision to the Telecommunications Business Act -- also known as the ‘network usage fee’ bills -- would require global content providers to sign mandatory contracts with local Internet service providers such as KT and SK Broadband to standardize obligations to pay fees for using their networks

And from: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/skorea-broadb...

> South Korean Internet service provider SK Broadband has sued Netflix (NFLX.O) to pay for costs from increased network traffic and maintenance work because of a surge of viewers to the U.S. firm's content, an SK spokesperson said on Friday.

> The move comes after a Seoul court said Netflix should "reasonably" give something in return to the internet service provider for network usage, and multiple South Korean lawmakers have spoken out against content providers who do not pay for network usage despite generating explosive traffic.

Twitch also deleted recorded VOD content of Twitch Korean streamers last year for what they said was a different regulation:

https://twitter.com/zachbussey/status/1590532134011564032
They didn't miss anything. They're just double counting utility. Same thing would happen to get warm next to a computer. You pay for electricity once, and use the computer while getting cozy.
Lol sorry but if you read it, Dijkstra's argument for 0-based indexing is literally that it looks prettier... I really wonder if anyone who has posted that link ever read the actual argument and thought about it critically.
Agreed with most of this but I’m skeptical of the rsc.io/script dsl approach. I’ll try it, though, because Russ is often right.

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They aren't playing the game by the rules in this example, they entirely misunderstand the game which shows their biases. The kid with two wealthy parents in a functional household is going to do well in life wherever they get their k-12. Sending them to private school signals you bought into racial fears over actual logic of what factors actually contribute towards these differential outcomes we see among public and private schools.
Yup I saw your other reply and totally makes sense -- networking related or adjacent, but not quite networking-proper type roles. Thanks for your replies.
That's why all electric heating should be devices that do work or compute. Do not waste the Gibbs free energy of the universe.
Visiting a tea farm in Kagoshima, Japan
Btw SGX has been removed from 11th gen desktop CPUs and onwards https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-intel-chi...
An “instance” here being just a walled-off process running inside its own chroot environment. IIRC Lemmy needs 4: frontend, backend, database and imagestore. It doesn’t need much resources when running, though.
Serverless SQLite free tier data leak/loss, affected users get paid tier forever
I have a VPS I pay $15 a year for, and it hosts my own email server. I've got all the security bells and whistles.

Sure, my provider could ban me if they cared enough, but it's pretty much trivial to set up a new one.

And as you said, some of the email spammers use botnets. Which is yet another order of magnitude removed from the hassle of getting a telco to hook you up on the sort of scale we're talking about.

And sure, we have all sorts of institutional protections and blacklists to prevent spam, and yet we all still get flooded with spam. The only effective way out so far has been server-side spam filtering, which cannot be implemented in the phone network as long as caller ID spoofing is still allowed.

Call and text spam come through the same channels as any legitimate business. These people have the same kinds of commercial contracts as any business, and as far as the telco is concerned, their traffic is completely normal and legitimate.

That's the problem we're discussing: the telcos are not enforcing the anti-spam laws. They seem perfectly content to let these bad actors operate on their network. There is no subterfuge, no hacking, no foul play of any kind to get their traffic onto the network. The telcos simply let it happen.

The telcos also explicitly allow anyone to spoof caller ID so that the receiving customer can never know the true number they're being called from. The customer can never block the spammer because they just generate a new number each time.

Email spam and phone spam are not the same problem at all. Not even close. Email spam is simply people abusing the technology in spite of everyone's best-effort attempts to stop it.

Phone spam is institutionalized. The telcos have made a deliberate decision to allow this, and not offer any way for customers to protect themselves. Again, despite laws existing which should force them to stop the abusive traffic.
I believe the phrase is "Cleveland Rocks!"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Rocks
Please don't turn it up to eleven.
Huge respect for these admirable couples for taking on such a noble mission.
I think we started using WhatsApp for our family communication because my wife (the only Android user) _hates_ group messages. She hates them because the SMS experience has been so crappy in a mixed environment, but iOS users (my mom, our exchange students, our nanny) default to it in messages because it’s so easy otherwise .
This is really common with any games that need to license a ton of things in order to exist. The contract for using a wrestler's wrestler's likeness usually has a time limit. As well as the songs they use for their intro/outro.

Racing games have this issue too if they use real car brands. You can't buy the previous Forza games or some old Codemasters racing games anymore because of expired licensing.

At least on Steam they're still available for download if you previously purchased them. No clue what the experience is in console or other PC stores.
Companies should be forced to provide a refund in this situation - either Sony or Discovery.
Answering my own question based on Oppenheim's lecture[1]: In his theory, the stochastic interaction between quantum and classical states necessarily causes the wave function to collapse, so it is not compatible with many-worlds. Being able to measure the gravity of other quantum worlds is something predicted by semiclassical gravity, which Oppenheim calls "complete nonsense".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sde7k3jJp5E
> Official MTG tournaments "allow" proxies

This is categorically false - any WPN/DCI sanctioned tournament forbids proxies except in extremely limited circumstances:

Section 3.4 - Proxy Cards
A proxy card is used during competition to represent an otherwise legal Magic card or substitute card that can no longer be included in a deck without the deck being marked. For a proxy to be issued, the card it is replacing must
meet at least one of the following criteria:
• The card has been accidentally damaged or excessively worn in the current tournament, including damaged or misprinted Limited product. Proxies are not allowed as substitutes for cards that their owner has damaged intentionally or through negligence.
• The card is a foil card for which no non-foil printing exists.

Players may not create their own proxies; they may only be created by the Head Judge who has sole discretion as to whether the creation of a proxy is appropriate. When a judge creates a proxy, it is included in the player’s deck
and must be denoted as a proxy in a clear and conspicuous manner. The original card is kept nearby during the match and replaces the proxy while in a public zone as long as it is recognizable. A proxy is valid only for the duration of the tournament in which it was originally issued
Tweet from founder saying affected users are upgraded to the paid plan in perpetuity: https://x.com/glcst/status/1732084865497976908

Personally, I am quite impressed by the new serverless database offerings (PlanetScale, Neon.tech, Turso etc.), but incidents like this give me pause and make me wonder if I am better off sticking to e.g AWS Aurora and paying fix fees.
It would be great if this could generate a desktop app rather than another webapp that I need to host somewhere. We need to focus on desktop apps again.
I guess you mean k log k, not n log n.
Ask HN: 150+ signups, 0 paid ones – should I move on or keep building?
Hey there,

I recently launched Conntent (https://conntent.xyz) on Product Hunt. It's a simple tool that lets you generate content for various social media platforms from any online article using just its link.

Over 150 users signed up, but nobody ended up paying. I got some good feedback though. Now, I am in this dilemma whether I should iterate upon the feedback and improve the product or move on to the next one.

Let me know your thoughts, please!
Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them
Lead is still allowed in applications where there's no suitable replacement. For example lead-acid batteries are still being sold for UPS and alarm systems. I don't think leaded glass in CRTs would be problem because it exists to protect the user from radiation.
Are you using Firefox ESR? It usually has worse support then the regular releases.
> Stallman is right once again that electric content/IP such as ebooks, movies, etc. are a bad idea

He also melodromatically states on his personal page that Netflix is a threat to freedom (https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html).

Ironically, the documentary, Revolution OS, that he stars in, is not free https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/revolution-os
>To be honest, I’m not sure how you got there from here…

"I've done all this work, get put of my way and submit" is the attitude in both cases.

Congratulations, you wrote some code. It's not done until it meets team/project standards, and getting offended any time anyone has feedback makes you someone I'd never want to work with.

The default answer to code review feedback is always "sure" unless you have a strong argument otherwise. It takes way less time to implement feedback than to pretend you're Socrates and question everything.
That link seems to insist on defining bubble sort without a termination condition, which is not how I think of bubble sort and I suspect is not how anyone is defining it in the cases it argues against. Also the use case in this article isn't listed.
>Maybe Microsoft can install a cryptominer to run on your PC when it is idle and send the money back to Microsoft.

I think thats what “antimalware service executable” is
Codecrafters has a project where you build a simple versin of Redis if you want a more streamlined experience: https://app.codecrafters.io/catalog
> Someone needed to know you well enough to make the referral.

Not true, many companies give incentives to employees if they hire their referral. Why would I need that employee need to know them.
Yeah, that surprised me too, given that https://github.com/magefree/mage is open source and pretty actively developed.
But watching the rest of the video it looks like his implementation only needed to support <20 different cards that he picked, so the limited rule set he needed might have been easy enough to write.
Apparently in 2014 the entire company only had 1354 employees.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/245135/spotifys-revenue-...
*malware like the Facebook app
There's no chance those words are intended to convey meaning. Is there?
I thought pellet stoves got hot enough to be pretty clean. Co2, yes, but not much else?
Firefox went from focusing on browser technology and privacy to strange political theatrics on divisive social issues. Think the company needs new leadership and streamlined and simplified focus on building the best browser.

Way too much wasted resources on strange side projects … that never resonated and seemed to come out of nowhere.
Get a good grammar textbook (several available to buy) or buy the Chicago Manual of Style. These will help you learn grammar, spelling, and puncuation instead of relying on software.
I'm curious what part of ICANN's mandate is a failure. My understanding is that introducing new TLDs was part of it.

> 7. The Creation of New gTLDs. The Green Paper suggested that during the period of transition to the new corporation, the U.S. Government, in cooperation with IANA, would undertake a process to add up to five new gTLDs to the authoritative root.

https://www.ntia.gov/federal-register-notice/statement-polic...

Maybe there are too many new TLDs?
The pivot of the century? Starting with a failed mining venture in 1902 and making it as part of the data storage revolution. With this AI wave, we might be seeing similar stories in real time.
Manufacturing's shift out of China is shaking up shipping
I recently paid >$1000 for the privilege of access to iMessage when switching from Android to iPhone. I'd have been _much_ happier staying on my preferred operating system and paying $24/yr.

(iMessage has, for me, actually been worth it - but still, I frequently find myself wishing that something like Beeper Mini existed so I could go back to android).
What's the pitch for this service? Why would I use it?
What would they demand they cease doing? Publishing software?

If the use of this software is against their rights in some way, the end users running it would be the ones in violation. Publishing original software is protected expression.
> The Welsh Aspirin Group in Cardiff University has published a systematic review…

Does this Aspirin group have any connections to producers? Is this an ad?

Im currently in Cardiff University. I wonder if I can just go and ask them about it
Honest feedback: that url (not the website content, the domain name) looks like a scam and not something I’d trust with my payment data. Buy a real domain.
> the only conclusion is that the system is flawed. There's a need for a fundamental change in approach

There are attempts of creating more "professional" electronic encyclopedia like Citizendium [1] and Scholarpedia [2] but it seems that such tasks are rather hard since Wikipedia solidified its position already, despite flaws

[1] - https://en.citizendium.org/

[2] - http://www.scholarpedia.org/
Back in the late 70s/early 80s there was a nuclear reactor simulator for the Atari 400/800 personal computers called SCRAM. I played it on my 400 when I was in high school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram_(video_game)
This is excellent, I looked for something like this a few years back to explore what a minimalistic connected computing stack could be, and the only options were dead kickstarters or hacking something from blackberries or nokia c3s with hit or miss results.

Thank you for the link, bookmarked! Might explore this again some time soon.
Pure speculation, but I wonder how much of this is done in an attempt to push out Western companies in favor of Korean companies. All of the large telecoms in Korea sponsor eSports teams, they probably want to develop local services and stimulate their own economy. Beyond that, it's much easier to control or assert political pressure on a local company, while Twitch is known for being notoriously unreceptive.

I watch competitive StarCraft 2 and Brood War, both of which only provide the highest quality stream through AfreecaTV. This isn't something I've looked much into, but I swear that AfreecaTV also has a way better bitrate and encoding than what you get with unpaid YouTube.

This post leaves me wondering about YouTube's relationship with Korea. Someone mentioned Worlds 2023, which was dual streamed on Twitch and YouTube Live.
Path C: Sell installable software with documentation (and training courses if you are big enough). You'll still get yearly revenue via license fees.

I don't know why this went out of fashion but it works just fine. Your customers clearly don't want you to manage the infrastructure, based on your comment. Sell them what they want.

If the issue is that your system is so complex that a reasonably trained admin cannot manage it, you should probably fix that.
While QEMU uses C, which is not great, it has on its side 15+ years of hardening by the KVM developers. The problem with QEMU is not so much insecurity, it's that it contains the kitchen sink.

However, most of the exploits you'll find in QEMU are against configurations that are never used in real world virtualization scenarios where guests are untrusted. You can recognize them because hardware not commonly used with untrusted guests does not get a CVE.

For a while, slirp was the remaining major issue because it was used way beyond the original intention. But now it's been tamed and there's also passt, a much higher performance and much more secure implementation of user-mode networking.
Public markets are equity markets that any member of the public can participate in. They cannot exist without regulation due to the owner/agent problem. It’s not just a theoretical problem; daos that have tried to have public markets only regulated by code have run into the same issues. Private markets can exist without regulation since private assets are held by individuals or small groups that are able to coordinate effectively.

It is reasonable to be upset at the use of force by the state to protect big tech companies that are using this protection to violate human rights. We might like the idea that the system functions differently, and perhaps some powerful individuals could institute temporary reforms, but as long as a monopoly of force exists it will be abused due to incentives.

There’s a huge difference between a 25 person “democracy” and a 25m person democracy. Firstly in common modern parlance democracy means a set of institutions with a distributed power base. That’s why Germany is democratic and China is not, even though both appeal to the “will of the people” and both have elections. Obviously a 25 person group will not have these institutions and cannot be democratic. Second the small group is based on fundamental human social relationships, while the second one is necessarily parasocial. You can personally know everyone in a 25 person group; you cannot for a 25m one.
No. They did try with OTT services with some success, but no comparable live streaming services exist AFAIK. Rather conveniently though, Naver, the biggest portal service in Korea, announced a game streaming service set to be released in 2024. I guess Naver did know something about a windup of Twitch in Korea months ago?
Only if New York was a poor state in a poor country and the gal selling stickers was one of the biggest company in the world.
Nice! For debugging I've been having a lot of fun supplementing stderr (for especially important messages that I don't want to miss) with the free TTS voices available on Windows (by running a Powershell command) and from Chrome (via WebSocket). It's nice to have even more voices to choose from.
I bounced hard off of Age of Em. It is a bit dry.
Shouldn't be surprising at this point. It's deluxe entertainment and and most people clearly don't value ownership. Of course they won't care if some $10 they spent years ago disappears.

And to be frank, Playstation was never known for their movies/TV library. Most people who own a Playstation won't be affected by this. Won't even be aware this happened. You gotta piss off a lot or the exact wrong people for a corporation to suffer consequences, and at the very least the former isn't met.
Government warns banks buy-now pay-later lending could come back to bite them
AI WiFi hacking device, that's also a virtual pet
yep, thanks. "n log n" is how one always says it, it becomes a local variable in its phrase. Oops.
haha, the team has been very busy with advent of code! Right now, you can register by clicking on "log in". We're going to remove the "join the waitlist" button!
South Korean ISPs may have market failures, but it seems like in this case they wouldn't be able to do this without the regulation. This is all guessing based on context, but it seems like they don't want to play the risky game of blocking traffic, so companies could just ignore any bill they get sent. By having this regulation they can send a bill and have the courts enforce it if the company wants to do business in South Korea.
BlueBubbles is the new hotness I believe.
Worth noting, the competing products from Neon and Cockroach Labs support FKs.