skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: iOS games that work on iPads that can not be upgraded past iOS v9
The other night as I sat on the couch, I wanted an iPad to play puzzle games, to help wind down. Then I thought about how expensive they are and how it would likely get used a few times and then sit idle for months... or years. Like the two iPads I purchased over a decade ago. So instead I decided to grab one of the old iPads and see if it'd scratch the itch. Turns out the majority of the apps you attempt to download have minimum iOS version requirement much higher than my iPad that won't upgrade past 9.2. So instead of mindlessly tapping download and canceling out of the "This game is not compatible with your device", I built a scraper that logs games that fit my criteria:

- iOS v9 support

- 4+ rating

- over 20 reviews

- no in app purchases

- no game center

A few thoughts as I wind down:

- The scraper is slow, like 34 hours slow. It needs to be parallelized.

- You can modify the scraper to search other app categories.

- I'm inspecting every game, instead of throwing out games that don't match the min iOS version... I should store the iOS version requirement and add that as a UI filter.

Browse the games: https://cjstewart88.github.io/vintage/

Source Code: https://github.com/cjstewart88/vintage
One counter point is that these fields can easily be turned into crops to feed the citizens of the country in an emergency. Solar panels not so much. Also, there was already infrastructure in place to easily maintain this energy source.

Not saying this is a reason to keep the subsidies, but I'm sure it made sense at the time.
Saddam is a lying autocrat who was making extremely cryptic remarks about WMDs

Ritter was last in Iraq in 1998 when he was denied access to several inspection sites. The question was always what happened between 98 and 03.

Blix gave his report of no WMDs in June 2003… several months after the invasion which he was deployed into to find WMDs. Again, question was what happened between 98 and 03.

So none of this was “obvious” at the time. There were bad decisions, bad information, and straight up liars, but it’s really counterproductive not to assess these decisions honestly in light of the available information of the time.
For anyone curious what the buses look like: https://maps.app.goo.gl/nQd4EupFcdDBcXaw9
There are two fundamental differences.

First, Open AI is the one doing the pirating here. Hacker News is the host, they aren't doing any pirating or posting any archival links to the copyrighted information themselves.

Second, Open AI charges subscription fees and profits off of the copyrighted material they have pirated, whereas Hackers News does not, nor do the people who post the links.
Still is, quite a few features like Swing editors, or the two way editing between rendering templates and Java code, or the quality of profiling tools for such open source product.
So You Want to Be a Party Princess (Or Prince)
Please do Les Halles next. I need that!
Whoa, I don't understand enough to figure out if this is real and scalable or not, but if this is true it's a HUGE step forward. Can't wait to try and run a 70b LLM on my 32GB RAM desktop w/ Windows.
Not quite what parent means, but an interesting angle is: what if you scraped ChatGPT instead.

NYT, or someone's blog? Meh, fair use, and if you say no, you're in the way of progress.

But if you wanted to scrape ChatGPT answers to tweak your network, uh oh, violation of T&C!
I took it as a joke. The tradeoff is the programmer's time and memory, not the computer's
For laughs a while ago, I wrote a program to read /dev/urandom and print integers. It can execute between a range and let it print out 200,000 iterations. This is some highlights from executing it using 1 -- 2873 using `sort | uniq -c`:

2873 unique numbers printed, so I got all of them for xkcd as of Dec 28, 2023.

The lowest occurrence of a number 44 unique entries for 332 and 1829.

The largest occurrence of a number was 99 unique entries for 2007 and 2230.

Average occurrence was 69 entries, 134 unique numbers occurred 69 times.

What does this mean to me ? Nothing, but maybe to a mathematician it will mean something :)
Because I'm not interested in the medium itself, as I would be with a Netflix show; I'm not even interested really in the article or the New York Times as an institution. I'm interested in discussing the supposed real-life phenomenon being covered, and the posted content is the primer for that discussion. I think if you get rid of the archive links on HN you need to ban the paywalled content as well. If you want to discuss paywalled content I'm sure you can do that in the article's comment section.
Yeah, the Germans have such a great reputation when it comes to trusting government. Many aren’t old enough to remember the fun of the Stasi and the West German equivalent, the BND. And let’s not forget the Nazis with their meticulous tracking and record keeping.
I’ve never had much of a problem with how git handles markdown or Tex files.

For those using markdown, I highly suggest newline after every sentence.
If you're interested, both SQLite's and my memdb VFSes implement safe locking.

Depending on your familiarity with Go, mine maybe easier to follow, or not.

https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/blob/f1b00a9944730eaa9...
Same here.

You will find old rants from me complaining about workspaces metadata, but that problem has been sorted for quite sometime now.
I don't think anyone would "want" CPP. It feels like it's multiple layers of "this is how we've always done it" interleaved with some really good ideas (STL).
Yes, you can't treeshake Javascript. You can treeshake a subset of Javascript.

If you are limiting tooling to subsets, you can also compile subsets of Python or Javascript to machine code.
How high do you believe? What do you think the temperature coefficient of expansion is for pyrex bakeware?
This is addressed in the second paragraph of the article. The iPhone 6S had an OS update in October 2023 (iOS 15.8) which included a security fix for a different issue. The Chromium security issue was fixed in June 2023.
For Finland I think some CEE 7/16 have failed, but that has been rare and must have been misuse. Like putting weight on the plug.

Type F or CEE 7/7 are nigh indestructible. And only failure case I remember is my brother cutting the cable with Chinese cleaver.
USPS “privacy?” Lol.

https://epic.org/postal-service-surveillance-program-targete...
> They can do that already just by placing their logo, or whatever, instead of a QR code

What in the world are you on about? Just slapping a logo on top of a QR code suggests to me you’ve lost the plot. The point is to hide your attempt at subverting the “attack”. You’re specifically trying to get the person to go to some other site in the normal process of scanning a QR code. Covering the original QR code with a logo would be obvious some subterfuge is at hand, and totally defeats the purpose. How is that not obvious to you?

> I was giving you a breakdown as to why people don’t do the kind of QR attacks / jokes that you seem to assume are common place rather than just saying “nice theory but that doesn’t happen in the real world”. There’s no need for you to be snarky

No, this is you:
https://xkcd.com/386
That doesn't seem to support "Carlin is discredited by most serious historians in general." Reading that comment, it sounds like I shouldn't treat Carlin as a definitive source on anything. Which seems fine? And the closest thing I can see to a specific criticism there is "oversimplification of the Roman Republic." Which I'm not even sure is a criticism. I generally expect lay history to oversimplify things.

Also... that comment was written 10 years ago.

I also follow and read r/askhistorians. I love it.
The parent comment says this - anything _older_ than XR or XS is no longer supported
I've been installing alternative ROMs on my android phones for almost 15 years. Never did I have any stability issues, on the contrary: the community ROMs often did a much better job than the official ones in terms of battery management, etc.
Even in 2023 you can get vim to be more powerful than VS Code. But it's that much more difficult.

As the author states, IDEs haven't necessarily gotten a lot better, but imo advanced features have become a lot more accessible.
I still love Eclipse, and you can pry it from my cold, dead hands.

The last couple of years, however, it feels like Eclipse is actively getting worse. And I don't mean that it's lacking features. I mean that every new release seems to break something else.

I tried reporting some bugs, but that required signing some kind of soul-selling agreement with the Eclipse Foundation or some other nonsense.

I then tried fixing those bugs, but there is no up to date documentation on how to build the IDE from the myriad of repositories and modules. So I gave up.
New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for STEM workers
>When I try to reply his message in my mail client, it received the following error message:

> Delivery to xxx@outlook.com failed with error:
outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com. said:...

He got error messages? I get mail silently dropped.

MS drops mail from my reputable mail servers - and from rep svs that send mail to MS accts I manage.
I remember this, and I also remember reading anecdotes online about people listening on shuffle, hearing two songs from the same artist or album in a row, and getting superstitious about it like it was trying to "warn them" something bad was about to happen.

So Apple had to take their generally true random algorithm and make it intentionally less random so it worked like people implicitly expected it to. Makes me wonder how many things we really are "holding wrong" because dev expectations didn't line up with how people actually use something.
How would you implement your solution technically though? There isn't a reference set of images in the model, it's just weights.
How poor are people that a low cost email service is too expensive? $5 a month for Europeans or Americans would be nothing. Think how much poor people spend on stamps.
That's the default Vercel error page
For a new washer and dryer, get a Speed Queen. USA made. Commercial style motors. No flashy smart features. They just work and they last.
The original idea was to replicate the Smalltalk image approach, but backed by a virtual filesystem instead.

Eclipse is Visual Age for Smalltalk reborn, after all.

It was common to have plugins corrupt its metada, but somehow it finally became quite stable.
It's the default Vercel error page
AirLLM
I was looking for this comment. I'm very happy with the combo of IntelliJ features and vim movement commands.

The only inertia vim adds to my workflow is escaping into command mode. I have a 'jk' shortcut combo rather than escape, but if I'm hammering away I often mistime it and need to backspace out my jjkk or whatever.
Two points:

1) this means MIT, Apache and many other licenses are dead in EU.

2) Laws override licenses, so the government can just make a law to ignore the 'no government use' clause.
Which is not only not the case with VS Code, but that is explicitly explained in at the top of the thread.
> At this time, the main force behind Ardour is delivered by two people, with less constant contributions from 2 others, and occasional contributions from on the order of a dozen others. Consider that we do support, web site maintenance, documentation, feature enhancements, debugging, as well as development.

> There’s more people (perhaps another dozen) pitching in with translation, release engineering (preparing Ardour for users), Mantis triaging (“Mantis” is the bug database used to keep track of known problems, “triaging” the process of prioritizing/verifying bugs) and other necessary tasks.

http://ardour.org/support_expectations.html

I have a hard time believing that $240k/year is enough to pay an honest market rate to all these people for their time.
> it's clearly not helping their market value if people are checking on ChatGPT instead of reading a NYT article.

People are not using ChatGPT as a replacement for current news, and because of hallucinations, no one should be using it for past news either. I wouldn't remotely call ChatGPT a competitor of NYT traffic, like I would Reuters or other news outlets.
I meant specifically for the AV space. That would include turning over all the data regarding an incident, similar to what Uber had to due after the fatal accident in Tempe as well as training data.
Counterpoint: some types of software aren’t meant to last long. Even if it still builds and can be worked on later, the usecase itself may have changed or disappeared, or someone has probably come up with a new better version, so that it’s no longer worth it to continue.

This probably doesn’t apply to many types of software over 6 months, but in a couple years or a couple decades. Some online services like CI or package managers will almost certainly provide backwards-compatible service until then.

Another possibility is that developer efficiency improves so much that the code written 10 years ago is easier to completely rewrite today, than it is to maintain and extend.

This is why I’m hesitant to think about software lasting decades, because tech changes so fast it’s hard to know what the next decade will look like. My hope is that in a few years, LLMs and/or better developer tools will make code more flexible, so that it’s very easy to upgrade legacy code and fix imperfect code.
I strongly agree, and the fact that the poster made no suggestions suggested he had none to make, it just being a nebulous wish for 'better things' . Nothing terrible about that but hardly actionable. Then again, if I was wrong I might've learned something useful from him. Very occasionally you do strike gold.
Protocall buffers are effectively code generation and are central to Google's tech stack. Does that count?
Won't work as the CRA overrides any license (this is explicitly written).
A book, TV show, movie, video game, album, or comic book is not available on the internet served by the copyright holder’s own servers with no authentication or authorization checks. But the NYT is available in that way.
No more fun :)
That type of information landscape isn't a threat when it is lies to various degrees, in total.

Polls indicate that most Americans don't see the Press as free (trustworthy). They now view it more akin to how people do in authoritarian states. There are reasons for that outside of observer error.

What's more insidious? An openly captured press that is expected to lie or a captured press that claims the banner of freedom?

Last, objective observation of lock-step action of institutions over the past seven years or so, for example, seems to hint at a lack of independence.

As would any indication of a concrete lie that the press seems to be cooperating in hiding.
Why would you expect anything different from something that’s role playing a trader at a financial institution?
If my eyeballs are being resold to advertisers then it better be worth my time
You heard wrong.
I've used it on my Roborock S5 for at least 4 years now and love it. It used to be a little unstable (something like it uninstalling itself if the battery dies for too long) but hasn't had any issues in years. I, like you, will never buy an unsupported vacuum again :)
I like this option just because then it makes it easy for anyone to update the data when future changes arise.
Antivax movement?

Are you assuming everyone who was not interested in the COVID vaccine just plain doesn’t believe in vaccines?
Nope, it doesn't work that way. The fact that the LLM can regurgitate original articles doesn't remove the possibility that training can be considered transformative work, or more in general that using copyrighted material for training can be considered fair use.

Rather, verbatim reproduction is the proof that copyrighted materials was used. Then the court has to evaluate whether it was fair use. Without verbatim reproduction, the court might just say that there is not enough proof that the Times's work was important for the training, and dismiss the lawsuit right away.

Instead, the jury or court now will almost certainly have to evaluate OpenAI's operation against the four factors.

In fact, I agree with the parent that ingesting text and creating a representation that can critique historical facts using material that came from the Times is transformative. An LLM is not just a set of compressed texts, people have shown for example that some neurons fire when you are talking of specific historical periods or locations on Earth.

However, I don't think that the trasformative character is enough to override the other factors, and therefore in the end it won't/shouldn't be considered fair use IMHO.
He probably means google chromecast with TV.
But some are? I believe The Atlantic and The Economist are hard paywalled.
I love how people here actually check the source code of a website. So HN
We are also happy to use open source, yet what open source alternatives are there for news that don't get shot down by the media or besmirched?
Universal parts is one solution. If 80% of the parts work in 80% of the cars, you solved a huge portion of the problem.
Online practice on Stratascratch is good for SQL (SQLbolt and SQLzoo for the basics) ... Pavlo, Widom, Date for CS of database systems.
The author of this one is an artist. Whoever consumes this work without considering this is also demonstrating how often the information is processed under already fixed expectations, also affecting the results.

Adam Curtis also stated that his own work is intentionally "different", so I believe the similarities aren't accidental.
> The two 70g packets consumed by Oguntoye in one sitting would equate to about 2,352mg of sodium – 118% of the World Health Organization’s recommended daily intake.

These numbers include use of the seasoning packet. Without the seasoning, the sodium in the noodles is ~220mg in your average serving, which is WAY more in line with acceptable ranges.

If you're eating them as a base for something else (like adding an egg or fish) and/or you have made your own broth or just use them sautéed, the sodium just isn't anywhere near the concern that the article states.
two I haven't seen mentioned are

https://www.youtube.com/@AirSafetyInstitute

and

https://www.youtube.com/@74gear

The former is more into the science of air safety, they do case studies of crashes as well as go over technique, pitfalls, and pilot psychology. The latter is an active airline pilot, similar to mentourPilot just with a less refined and more relatable (to me at least) style. He does "reaction videos" - but in a good way - where he analyzes aircraft incidents from a perspective of a commercial pilot. And he regularly debunks ticktock misinformation.
Same. When I was 12ish trying to write a Pac-Man game in basic, I dreaded writing the logic for the 4 ghosts. I'd need separate code for the ghosts at (x1,y1)....(x4,y4) and said to my dad it would be cool if I could use xn and yn inside a for loop, but those are just 2 more variables. I wanted n to indicate which one. This seemed kind of weird, but it's what I really really wanted. He grabbed the little basic book and showed me that x(n) was actually a thing!

I think back to this in discussions about teaching. Abstract concepts are best understood when the student has a legitimate need for them. You can explain something all day and have their eyes glaze over wondering why something is important, but if it solves a problem they have it will click in seconds or minutes.
Not only Smalltalk, all Xerox PARC Workstations

Interlisp-D, Mesa (XDE) and Mesa/Cedar, all shared same ideas with Smalltalk, regarding developer tooling.

Same on Genera with Lisp Machines.
Dalio: It will cost 'between $5 and $10T a year' to limit climate change
The difference in body rust in winter climates with road salt is incredible, IME. Many cars from the 90s and early 2000s just absolutely fell apart.
This is a self-limiting belief. The middle category exists, if you go looking for it. It's still a second job to find it though. You need to learn about the materials, construction techniques, and even manufacturing and white label trends of the industry in question.

It's exhausting. But after spending a month or two studying, you will be able to find pieces constructed to last a lifetime.

For sofas try the Insider's Guide to Furniture. Plenty of brands in the middle range using hardwood construction, made in the USA, with high density foam.
There actually is a bias - you will never get comic 404 from the random button (see https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/404:_Not_Found )
A lot of people really want mass surveillance? Not even kidding. Cultures vary.

Trust in government is more common than not throughout the world, because the government is us. Americans in particular struggle with this concept.
That sounds an awful lot like industry standards and codes, which are often eschewed as the very bureaucracy the OP was railing against.
Xkcd: Designers Adjusting US State Borders
> Which is not only not the case with VS Code [...]

Which is also immediately mentioned after the claimed that using a remote editor is silly.
That's probably the only good reason to allow exorbitant prices for this specific kind of medicine. To keep it in reserve while keeping pharma companies incentivised.
Can it communicate with outside email? Some countries have a similar service that cannot communicate with outside email.
Yes, because The NY Times is copyrighting the body of work. They are not copyrighting the "facts" themselves but the distillation of these facts into a body of work. Anyone is free to take the facts and produce their own works but not to lift the body of work verbatim that the NY Times created (plagiarize).
If we ignore technology for the sake of technology and look at daily life, things we need like food, shelter, healthcare, transportation, socialization, etc. then I'd say technology has definitely improved some of these aspects.

Food distribution has improved as have most logistics in general. These efficiencies have somewhat been shared with the general public but in a lot of cases, those gains were captured by private enterprise.

Healthcare has improved a little bit, iterative progress can be made more quickly, shared, and moved into translational medicine as practice. Drug discovery has improved quite a bit, as have logistics around getting said drugs in the hands of people who need them and doing so affordably. This improved lives and longevity.

Socially we can communicate far easier. It remains to be seen to me if thise is always an improvement. Humans seem to be designed for much smaller social circles and don't seem to be capable of taking much advantage in their daily lives of increases frequency, scale, and reach of socialization.

The list goes on. It's not exactly linearly correlated with technology growth because ultimately it boils down to actionable information. Just because we have more information or more processing capability around information doesn't mean we get direct returns from that or that we don't reach limits where we simply don't have use for the additional gains. Information has to be actionable in some way, otherwise it's just intermediate data products that may or may not benefit us. I know can ready daily news from some small town in Southern Japan if I wanted to. That doesn't improve my life mostly, but it's there.

We have piles and piles of scientific literature we could share and iterate on towards new discoveries for humanity. That doesn't mean in my daily need for survival and balance with recreation I have time to contribute to things I find interesting or necessary, after all I am to some degree a slave of my needs within the economic system I'm entrenched in. I have bills, I have to earn money, and I have to work.

Even if that wasn't the case maybe or maybe not would I be able to contribute more back to society than I do now at my paid profession. Currently I'd say I do pretty well in this department in terms of reach. Without that I might struggle.