skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mentions that he might have been in Kiel, Germany recently.

And getting into the non-Schengen area via another flight would require a proper passport and visa as the flight would originate in a non-Schengen country.
>or, say, the United States gives a big chunk of BLM land to anyone who wants to emigrate

For people who don't know, especially non-Americans, "BLM land" refers to unoccupied rural, wild land mainly in the western US states that's owned and managed by the federal government's Bureau of Land Management. It has nothing to do with the Black Lives Matter movement.
> He may "simply" have arrived from a non-Schengen origin

Wouldn't he still need a passport to get on this first flight anyway?
I created adult entertainment apps to organize and have fun with images and videos:

- RuGiVi: https://github.com/pronopython/rugivi - Browse your collection of images on an endless screen. Tested with more than 700.000 images at once!

- Fapel System: https://github.com/pronopython/fapel-system - Organize your adult images and videos by just using hardlinks and directories.

- TopZemen: https://github.com/pronopython/topzemen - Let the images float on your screen or rain down next to your browser window.

- Fplyr: https://github.com/pronopython/fplyr - An audio player to play moaning sounds in the background.

Everything for Ubuntu Linux and in parts also for Windows!
He was convicted for selling drugs in the past, but he had mental health problems since 24.02.2022. The fact that his Russian travel passport was missing probably points to a different explanation: he used it to pass security and he may have had a ticket for another flight, but he lost it after security. Extra stress did not help his mental state, so he eventually managed to board some random flight and landed in USA.

Edit: his conviction was for possession, not for selling drugs.
It is not authoritarian to take aggressive war off the table. In a modern constitutional democracy, the people can only express their will in the bounds of the law. Killing Israeli or Palestinian civilians is obviously illegal under any constitution imaginable (including the current constitutions of Israel and Palestine). So, a fully democratic government who represents the will of its people could nevertheless be bound not to attack it's neighbor.

Also, I'm not seriously advocating for this. It's a fantasy that has no chance whatsoever of happening. But it is probably the only sort of thing that could bring a quick end to this conflict given the current parties in power.
Pretty much most of the app I create is for my own dogfooding.

There is no better way to finish something that write a replacement for something that sucks.

They can be found here https://noben.org
Not directly for myself, but a friend who has a small event business.

I created a web based mobile ticket scanner.

They said the ticket companies would take huge subscription fees for their scanners and they didn't need all the features they offered.

So, I bought a 30€ Bluetooth scanner, wrote a small UI that allowed them to create events and check that each ticket is only scanned once.

Of all my software, this is probably the most regularly used one, lol.
> Epic's use of both paid exclusives and free games is to build you enough of a library that you (and your friends) likely have and want to play at least some Epic Games, and hence, already have both Epic and Steam installed.

The epic store program is trash though, it is extremely slow and clunky and power hungry and lack most of the features I have in steam. They do have multiplayer integration which is nice, I have played games with friends there that were free, but the store being such a bad program is the main reason I still buy games on steam.

Steam isn't some super well made program, if epic store was a better program I would prefer buying games there for that reason. But as is epic store is way worse in almost every way, it takes seconds just to view a page, the epic store is much nicer to browse as a web page than in their dedicated program but I can't play the games from their web page.

If they fixed that then I don't think people would hate buying games on epic store, but until then I am pretty sure the main reason people still prefer steam is that epic store is garbage. Not sure why they don't just fix the app instead of spending so much money on exclusives or free games.
Woof she’s a lot! Also that led me down reading about ARC and it’s wild to think that one of their organizing principles is the pursuit of truth while having Peterson as an organizer.
> It brings some unique features to the table too, like a flexible register file where multiple 32-bit entries can be used to hold 64-bit or 128-bit results.

Is this like the Z80 being able to use B and C (8 bit) as BC (16 bit)?
Epic is owned by the Chinese TenCent - considering one of the things US used against Huawei which made their phones useless outside the domestic market was Google Play services and App Store.

I smell something here - think Tim was encouraged to go on this crusade.
Baseline 2023
Someone interested by this subject could also enjoy watching the french film "Dimensions... une promenade mathématique" on spatial geometry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cpTEPT5i0A&list=PL3C690048E... (note: this is the first video of a playlist)

https://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_E.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensions_(animation)
There’s this local newspaper. While I’m on a logged in account (EDIT: paid) the ads seem to take up at least 25% screen real estate at all times. The best ones are the ones that graciously show up while scrolling, dynamically—it’s like wathing TV (again)! My favorite place though is the gym. Which costs a lot when you just go there to use frickin’ weights and cardio equipment. LCD screens with ads running (for local businesses—how nice and cozy) so that your peripheral vision gets distracted by irrelevant stimuli (for some reason I automatically have to look when it seems like something is “happening” all of a sudden, an urge I have to repress).

I wonder if this ad/paid dichotomy is some tech startup fairy tale. Like, [we burnt capital on building an effective monopoly]^W [gave away our product for free] but now the [entitled lusers]^W [users]^W don’t want to pay 10$ a month in order to be on a social network that mostly only their one-generation-or-older relatives are daily active on.
Turns out doing it better influences people's preferences. The problem is fundamentally that the carmakers do such a shit job.

If infotainment systems matter at all to consumers, we'd expect to see GM take a hit for this, and get their market share eaten by competitors who don't do so.
EGS never gave us proton, steam deck, steam workshop, early access, steam link or controllers, big picture, etc. steam and valve in general has great VR support and lots of r&d in general.

No hate nor shade towards epic but man valve kills it. Best video game company (studio or platform) by far for several decades now imo.
As an observation point - I drive a company car (a BMW) and will be looking for a new car next year. I would not even considers Volvo until they support wireless CarPlay. GM must very much believe in appeal of their car to piss off android and iOS users simultaneously.
Jail and Admin manual is 383 pages long: https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/jail-adm...

Can you even come up with 383 annoying things you require your guests to comply with... let alone 383 PAGES.
Apple has 58% market share in the USA. It's irrelevant if Android has bigger market in Europe or China. The anti-trust laws being discussed are for the USA
I have something of an obsession with being able to search my digital history. To this end I've created a few projects which I still use almost daily:

- full text tabs forever [1]: chrome extension to provide full text search over web pages I've visited

- browser-gopher [2] (formerly browser parrot): collect browsing history from all browsers

- prompta [3]: a ChatGPT UI with full text search and some other niceties

[1]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/full-text-tabs-fore...

[2]: https://github.com/iansinnott/browser-gopher

[3]: https://github.com/iansinnott/prompta

edit: formatting
Apple also rewrote the rules to allow Amazon Prime users to buy video content in their app as long as the user has Prime and already has a CC on the account

> “Apple has an established program for premium subscription video entertainment providers to offer a variety of customer benefits — including integration with the Apple TV app, AirPlay 2 support, tvOS apps, universal search, Siri support and, where applicable, single or zero sign-on,” Apple said in a statement given to The Verge. “On qualifying premium video entertainment apps such as Prime Video, Atlice One and Canal+, customers have the option to buy or rent movies and TV shows using the payment method tied to their existing video subscription.”
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/1/21203294/amazon-prime-vide...
But here's the key question - were you able to edit your sleep schedule? Do you think other people have been able to edit their sleep schedules?

UI has no 'correct' approach, the only thing that matters is if people can happily use it.
Doesn't work.

If you get the screen time password wrong a few times it will let you put the device passcode in.
>When did it become "greedy"?

This is a rhetorical question I don't know how to answer.

>Is EGS offering the same quality of service as Steam?

In my opinion, no.

>Is EGS making profits?

No. Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23949372/the-epic-games-s...

>Is 12% really sustainable?

I don't know.
Keyboarders are prolly the ppl with fastest trained finger action on earth, be it on a computer keyboard or a music keyboard. In digital music production there is a magic threshold of 15-20ms latency for input signals - if a signal takes longer to process through your DSPs/computers lineup, any good musician will start to perceive the latency (btw thats more like an on/off phenomenon). Below that range we cannot detect any latency chance anymore, as our neural system is not made for higher time resolution (also the reason why 60 FPS gives us the illusion of a movie).

Typing latency on modern computers is really high compared to electronic or semi-digital typewriters of the 80s - those old machines had very little circuitry between the keypress and some output action, they were like hard-wired realtime machines to some degree.
On today's machines there are tons of buffers, clocks, context switches etc. to pass, with no realtime promises anymore (at least not on typical consumer OS). We really have a "long line" in our machines today.

Electron adds another buffer stack to this madness - the browser engine needs to get the PTY chunks somehow, which is often done with websockets as IPC. Which means put chunks into a http frame, send through network stack to the electron browser engine, decode there - and finally the terminal sees the data as input. A desktop TE does not have to go through that, it can simply write the PTY chunk to its data structures in the same process. Thats the real overhead happening for data IO intensive electron apps regarding input latency.
GBDSO – GameBoy Digital Storage Oscilloscope (2021)
Yes !

Thanks. It was posted here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=980876
My Mondeo is the first car I've ever had that doesn't have numbered radio buttons.

My usual flow of listening to Radio 4 until The Archers comes on then switching to Radio 3 in one press was ruined.
> Valve does not engage in anti-consumer practices

Yet. Imagine how PC gaming would look if tomorrow you woke up and Valve said, hey, our cut is 50% now. The problem with monopoly capture is once a company has it, it can choose to abuse it at any time in the future. And even if you have complete faith in Valve's current leadership, those people get old and die or retire, and the next guys may not run things the same way.

> But it's also fairly standard within gaming.

One of the things uncovered by these lawsuits is largely than everyone settled on the 30% cut because Steam picked it and got away with it. We should definitely blame Steam for this abusive tax on the game industry, even if many others have now copied it.
Hey. Just to clarify the "intersection" mentioned in the description: The product generates insights & offers goal settings basis your gameplay using AI. You won't be playing against AI rather using it to improve your gameplay against other online players
No, no, no, that would mean "legitimizing the occupation", no party in Gaza would be able to declare this policy and stay in power.
I have the same experiance, I wonder if maybe people are using wireless modes(I don't have that option in my car), and don't have "knob controls".
how does on prem Exchange ActiveSync send notifications to iOS?
For our first child in 2011, we were struggling to agree on a name, so I created a baby names app that tried to learn the kinds of names you liked, based on sounds, meanings, origins etc. It was my first real attempt at any sort of machine learning, and while we eventually reverted to the much simpler algorithm of my wife putting her foot down, I decided to package it up and launch it on the Mac app store. It was briefly the number one lifestyle app in the UK, and could more or less pay for its own Google Ads, but I killed it off when sandboxing started to make NSDocument based apps break. Some screenshots survive:

https://lemonwatcher.com/baby-names-1.png

https://lemonwatcher.com/baby-names-2.png

https://lemonwatcher.com/baby-names-3.png

https://lemonwatcher.com/baby-names-4.png

https://lemonwatcher.com/baby-names-5.png
:'(, 61 is no age at all
the other commenter found the right source. but also, remember all DoS wich corrupt memory ARE complete compromise. the original researcher just gave up before they found how.

baffles me that people here fall for this simplistic excuse of "it just corrupt memory"

or things like "the modem is isolated from the phone". sigh. how do you think they configure your phone via a text message? the protocol is safe but the payload is crazy powerful and trivial to abuse.

no phone expects the modem to be an adversary. and every modem firmware is wide open. everyone just pretend it's not and hope the NDAs will work keeping the modem security holes from falling into the wrong hands. heh.
> I can't vote in the United States. Does that make the United States and apartheid regime? Of course not, I'm not a US citizen.

The attempts to characterize Palestinians as foreigners to deny apartheid are appalling. By that logic, South Africa could have solved apartheid by declaring itself a whites-only country, changing constitution, so every black person could be labeled "foreigner", even if belonging to families born and living in the land for generations.

The only acceptable way to solve apartheid is by ending it, not fixing the dictionary to change the meaning of words like foreigner.
Yes, I agree those are war crimes and October 7th is called a Tuesday in the West Bank. You're welcome to read about the torture programs by the IDF from reputable organizations like humans right watch, amnesty international or even former IDF soldiers (your own people) explaining their tactics to terrorize the Palestinian population.

I have more trust in those organizations as well as former IDF soldiers (who overcame the brainwashing, grew a conscience and spoke up) than the repeated lies in the zionist controlled media (40 babies? who lies about stuff like that?).

You can read more about resistance under international law and how it's defined by the U.N charter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_resist#:~:text=Based%....

Again, I will take that definition over the definition of a resistance movement by a military occupation.
I personally would be curious to find out why that entire industry is on the cutting edge of technology in many respects, such as 4K, 3D, and VR but has completely avoided HDR?

Meanwhile Hollywood and streaming companies like Netflix have embraced HDR, but ignored VR, dropped 3D, and still often doing special effects in 2K!
Good will? The reason they want Apple and Google out of the way isn’t just because of the 30% fee but also because it prevents Epic from collecting information and utilizing dark patterns to gouge children.

https://gizmodo.com/epic-fortnite-gaming-ftc-dark-patterns-1...
Thanks for the reply. I know nothing specifically about LLM's, but I've a slight problem with LLM's being called AI. I made a meme about that yesterday, which can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38621219 and here https://www.heyhomepage.com/?module=timeline&post=74
For the anecdote : I've used GPT4 to try to find it. Couldn't.
I don’t feel like I can name an example of a good foreign film that got poorly remade such that the local one is bad

Bad American remakes seem kind of rare too, with the exception of terrible live action adaptions
That shouldn't stop them from encrypting the contents and making it intentionally difficult to draw conclusions from?
Nice work. But, I think there is a bug. After eating a few pixels, the pixel completely vanished (maybe rendered out of the view bound or something)
as a Romanian working in IT, living here is not that bad (if we ignore medicine quality, education and infrastructure, big cities included), but working in other domain with a much smaller pay and these downsides is ... hard. Idk how this report was made, maybe it's true, maybe not, maybe ppl are happy despite having small salary & poor infra/other things compared to the west, or maybe it's coping, but for me - I just hope to emigrate soon in a country with better infra & about same pay (Switzerland, NL, Austria, maybe Denmark(worse weather), or maybe something entirely different&chill like north Italy/south France or Barcelona(these are nicer for chillness but harder to get a good pay)
Tbf, I don't know why people get hung up on this, I see this on Volvo forums all the time as well - you can literally get a £50 adapter, leave it plugged in inside your armrest and voila, you have wireless carplay. It literally "just works".

Should the car already come with it installed? Yes. Is it a big deal to rectify? No.
I built https://persumi.com to uplift my own blogs, and to turn text into audio (you can subscribe in your podcast app).

Then, once I realised there's no good tools to promote it, I built https://rizz.farm so I can promote Persumi.
I disagree with such contracts, I think they shouldn't be allowed, at least when you are as big as steam.

I can see it being reasonable to ban selling steam keys for less than they are sold at steam. But selling a steam-less license for less than what it costs at steam seems reasonable.
A very simple Android app that submits a page to hacker news, or looks up a link on archive.today.
We got married in Denmark, as a lot of foreigners living in Germany do, because of this laxity. Germany requires a metric tonne of paperwork to prove everything was legit (and all of that had to be officially translated from source language into German). Denmark not so much (and they were fine with dealing with German and English documents). You gotta love the Viking attitude to paperwork ;)
I'm surprised that I wasn't the one who wrote this review!
Average subscription length for most apps varies but the average is 3 months. Most people cancel within the first month no matter what the product is
I got an idea for game mechanic I wanted to test and ended up learning bit of Godot to try it out.

https://flopblock.com/
Thats actually a very valid point. The mistreatment of Mizrahi's by the Israeli government is well-documented, they deserve justice as well: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-mizrahi-jewish-refugee-pro...
I've built a tool for musicians using modular gear.

This is a tool for synth people. What is cool about my tool is that I show the signal flow with a graph. Drag and drop planner.

https://patcher.xyz/
No, it's way more than that.

It forces an hour delay for people using the device passcode to reset the Apple ID password EXCEPT if its in a known location like home (also blocks changing the device passcode and turning off FindMy), and forces FaceID for these, even if the phone has been forced to forget the FaceID keys and require the device passcode.

And it requires FaceID without a passcode ID fallback for certain categories of authentication.
Steam is also the reason Linux desktop is becoming more and more viable for everyday use (yes, including gaming) through Valve's involvement with Wine, Mesa, and other parts of the stack. As a consumer, I'm glad this is where the store's cut is going to, instead of perpetuating the Windows monopoly and lootbox gaming. Not to mention that Steam has tons of quality of life features that EGS still lacks: written reviews, discussions, gifts, I could go on and on... There are many reasons people prefer Steam besides its popularity. Epic had so much time and resources to improve their storefront and expand platform support, but they just don't seem to care.
I like the WarHammer 40K take on technology - mankind has fallen due to wars and is now reborn but they don't understand how technology works - there is a ban on any form of AI (due to said downfall).

So a cult has evolved to maintain or control all technology so they perform religious rites like priests and chant to get things working.

To the effect off "oh great Omnisiah - turn the reactor yield to 30 but not greater than 30 and wait for 10 time intervals until the holy light of the reactor is green.

Amen ....."
Steam is undeniably the best platform for PC gamers, but I can't help but feel bad for game devs who get squeezed and don't have good alternatives.
Maybe he knows someone working at an airport
There usually aren't any controlls between non-Schengen flights, arribing and departing at the same terminal, in FRA and MUC. Pretty much depends on airport layout, whether or not there are seperate terminals. If not, you have at least a passport control.
propertizer.com to find the best properties to invest. I had enough to visit property portals check stats, collect info from Airbnb, and sum it. I wanted a place where I get everything.
What's particularly frustrating, and I think relevant here, is when new things are better in some respects, but glaringly worse in others. So you can only have the good parts of the new thing if you accept the shit along with it.
A cloakroom that inspects every coat for explosives and claims so could be sued for negligence, but a cloakroom that doesn’t is less likely.
In the 80s Ian Sommerville wrote about the "long tail" of maintenance
accounting for >75% of the lifecycle costs of a program. I remember
being surprised at this, but my SE prof saying "all successful
projects tend toward 100% maintenance."

If developers want to put a time limit on how long they're willing to
maintain a project that's all fine and useful. Coders have lives to
get back to and new interests to look forward to.

But the very idea of software having a pre-defined lifespan is not
sensible. Do we put expiry dates on mathematical theorems?

Indeed it's a good argument for why all software should be FOSS,
because it's ultimately the users of a program, not the developers
that decide whether code has continuing utility.

As soon as money comes into development people start noticing the long
tail is a precipice of diminishing returns, We act like landlords who
can't be bothered to decorate crumbling buildings we rent out. Easier
to knock it down and build anew, regardless the disruption for the
tenants.

When software is built and maintained by the community that use it,
they're more like homeowners, for whom maintenance is adding value to
an asset.
The lovely series of mathematical videos "Dimensions" is relevant:

https://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_E.htm
Very interesting. I'm wondering, as an ex-psychotherapist, if you considered a 'minus' bonus button for really bad things? I think you're right not to (a la hackernews) but wondered if it was tried or considered?