skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or it could be the usual self delusion inherent in corpospeak where he tries to frame the issue as one simply about progress files and not about control or ownership.

Even this framing makes no sense: You don't lose what you've built as long as the game is still available to you. Should you end the subscription or should Ubisoft at any moment decide to discontinue your game then your savegame file will help you exactly nothing.
Is there a reason you run both and don't converge on one or the other?
Sure, I’d agree, but the report is that they asked if they were in a collision. Seems like some better reporting to ask if they were ok (and not assume a collision) would be better.
Why do you host your VPN in "hostile" countries?

Wouldn't it be better to host in Asia (Viet-Nam comes to mind) or Central / South America (Nicaragua etc)? Latency might suck but it would be better than no access.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Google Search Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39040559 - Jan 2024 (23 comments)

Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results are getting worse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39031691 - Jan 2024 (66 comments)

Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39013497 - Jan 2024 (271 comments)
That’s like saying books are edutainment because Dianetics and Freakonomics exist. No medium is universally good or bad, only what specific people make with it.
If you want arbitrarily powerful adhoc query support, you need to wait for data to land in an offline warehouse or lake environment where you have access to e.g. Presto/Trino and Spark. If you want a near-real-time view then you’re going to need to design the data layout around your query pattern - do a streaming join or other enrichment prior to OLAP ingestion.
In other words, it happens, and you are none the wiser. There will be people that exploit the system in any society -- Danes are not special.
Among working human artists your opinion is in the minority. Most professionals are not a fan of this.
The very same Netflix, the discoverer of black Cleopatra? Not shocked
Personally, I tend to create a master note for each project like this I dig into, and dump as much information into it as I can. This helps me keep track of what I’ve looked at and avoid retracing my steps too much, and in the end would be a good basis for a blog post.

I used to be able to write about things like this from memory, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to rely quite a bit more on journaling and using “2nd brain” tools like Obsidian.

One of the most useful habits I ever started is using Obsidian’s daily journal feature to jot things down every day:

- Things I’m working on that day

- How I’m feeling

- Ideas that pop up about projects

- References to useful sites / code snippets / various explorations

It’s one of the few tools I’ve found that lets me dump truly just about everything into it, and by the end of a project, I either have a nice collection of draft paragraphs to clean up in a blog post, or a nice future reference for myself when I want to do something similar in the future. And because of the automatic note-to-note connections that Obsidian builds, the daily journal always links back to the more concrete topic notes I’ve touched that day.

> writing some kind of diary for everything you mess around with must be hard

It was only hard until I had established the habit. Now I can’t imagine not doing it because of the productivity gains that come with it. I get further on things because everything I do leaves behind a tangible bit of progress (in the form of a note) that I can pick back up later.
The problem is not the number of ears we have, but the amount of air moved by the instruments themselves and how they interact with each other.

A symphony orchestra is miced per group normally (2 for violins, 2 for trumpets, etc.), but if you're around 60 people, you can mic every instrument individually.

To reproduce the sound 1 to 1, you need to mic every instrument individually, and playback them with speakers matching the frequency response and air pressure . So you need speakers equal to the number and characteristics of instruments themselves. On top of that you need to record them ideal microphones and store them loslessly in the process.

Otherwise, you can't create the sound by recording 100 people with 20 microphones, and downmixing them to two channels. It's not possible. I played in double bass in an orchestra, listened countless orchestras, listened the recordings of our own concerts. The gap is enormous.
Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable
Making debputy: Writing declarative parsing logic
right, fingerprint the user's browser, or leak the phone mac address, so you can offer low promotional prices to new diners for their first month
I came pretty close to getting Shuttleworth Foundation to pay Flattr to build Flattr into Ubuntu so that FOSS devs could get paid via Flattr.

More than 10 years ago.

Flattr were too busy.

The problem was not the idea.
Most books are garbage and books that entertain you are edutainment, yes.
Related:

VNote, an open source markdown note-taking app with Wiki page - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23547056 - June 2020 (1 comment)

Show HN: Viki, a simple Wiki page in Markdown from notebook of VNote - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18556938 - Nov 2018 (1 comment)

Show HN: VNote 2.0 – PlantUML editing via Preview Tunnel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18049100 - Sept 2018 (9 comments)

Show HN: VNote, a fresh Markdown note-taking app - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16149821 - Jan 2018 (86 comments)
You're comparing one machine with many machines.

You're comparing raw disks with shards and erasure encouraging.

Lastly, you're comparing only network bandwidth and not storage capacity.
> This writer worked for one publishing company that used Notes extensively, and I found it to be incredibly useful in its day. It provided not just your email, but an internal telephone directory, contact database, booking system for time off, company handbook, and more, all accessible via a single application and a single set of credentials, long before single sign-on became a thing

Sounds like Workday but less complicated (because Workday also does payroll, and payroll sucks)
Keeping a logbook is a part of experimental physics. In grad school, I learned "If you don't write it down, it didn't happen."

And a diary is easy and fun - just a sentence or two every day (even on a wall calendar) reminds you of experiences, travels, travails, and the daily whatnot of life.

Useful? Sure! My lab notebook and home diary were prime ingredients in writing m'book, The Cuckoo's Egg.
Where do they do this? In the US, the death penalty is just for murder, or sometimes rape.
As another posted out, modern models like BLIP or GPT4V aren't affected by this either.
That's moving the goalposts. That may be true for a small fraction of games, e.g. MMOs, but for the vast majority of games, they could easily be frozen.
Side Topic (Menus With Photos): There seems perception in the US that menus with pictures of the food are less sophisticated or cater to a less discerning clientele. In Asia, photos of the food in the menu is more of the norm than the exception (even for more upscale places). I discover more items I like when the photos are present. I would take QR codes with foods photos over a physical menu without (even for a $$$$ restaurant.
YTMusic is still a pale imitation of what Google Play Music used to be... but it's also still my main streaming service simply because most of my library transferred from GPM.
It's even more clear with copyright what the amortization period should be.
Top Cybersecurity watchdog issues emergency Ivanti directive to federal agencies
Is the existence of the AI tool not itself a product of authentic creativity? Does eliminating barriers to image generation not facilitate authentic creativity?
Related. Others?

Section 174 removed in new Senate tax agreement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39013863 - Jan 2024 (3 comments)

Ask HN: IRS section 174 – cause of layoffs? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38957651 - Jan 2024 (21 comments)

Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38931860 - Jan 2024 (38 comments)

Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38870429 - Jan 2024 (19 comments)

IRS tax code change in Section 174: R&D is an expense - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38642461 - Dec 2023 (23 comments)

Guidance on Amortization of Research or Exp. Expenditures Under Section 174 [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38637540 - Dec 2023 (2 comments)

Tell HN: People laid off in my company due to IRS Section 174 changes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38633668 - Dec 2023 (6 comments)

Tell HN: Submit comments to IRS re tax treatment of software dev expenses - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38120388 - Nov 2023 (227 comments)

Tell HN: New IRS guidance on software development for Section 174 amortization - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37494601 - Sept 2023 (3 comments)

Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35614313 - April 2023 (985 comments)

Ask HN: How are you handling Section 174 changes for bootstrapped companies? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34627712 - Feb 2023 (187 comments)
asof join:

https://code.kx.com/q/ref/asof/

https://code.kx.com/q/learn/brief-introduction/#time-joins

https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/statements/sele...

https://duckdb.org/docs/guides/sql_features/asof_join.html

> Do you have time series data that you want to join, but the timestamps don’t quite match? Or do you want to look up a value that changes over time using the times in another table?

DuckDB blog post on temporal joins:

https://duckdb.org/2023/09/15/asof-joins-fuzzy-temporal-look...

note: this idea is very useful for timestamps but can also be used for other types of values
>The downside, other than the obvious maintenance/reliability concerns of an aging vehicle is safety.

New cars appear safer because the scores include stuff that is not directly related with crash safety, so if a car does not have a back camera, or some "active safety" stuff they will get a very low score. but that does not mean that the car is made of paper and you will be less safe in a crash.
How is empowering others to create not a moral good?
With a startup you're running a search function. The code you hired the developer to write often does stop working because you've been forced to pivot as you search for product-market fit.
> why are you seeking to provide an “antidote”

I think it's worthwhile for such discussion to happen in the open. If the tool can be defeated through simple means, it's better for everybody to know that, right?
Both cars and pedestrians can be videotaped in public, without asking for their explicit permission. That video can be manipulated by a computer to produce an artwork that is then put on public display. No compensation need be offered to anyone.
Ah, that is an interesting tactic. I think I'd be worried there's some 0.0001% chance Amazon would find out and ask for all the money back.
Reminder to everyone commenting here: you are not an average student. The hard part of teaching is not coming up with dynamite lessons for kids who are smart and want to learn and are capable of doing so and aren’t hungry. Anyone can do that. Well, almost anyone.

Way back in the olden times, 5 to 10% of people went to school, and it worked really well for them. Now everyone goes to school, and it works really well for about 5% of us.
> With the power supplies of this era, this pair of devices probably pumps 16w idle. Running 24/24 7/7, they probably consume as much as a small fridge as a whole. The LCA of the solution must be consterning as well, especially compared with few one dollard microcontrollers.

At the average cost of electric in the USA this amounts to under $2/month. Seems negligible to me?

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=16+watts+*+24+hours+*+3...
Lamination solves the problem of them getting dirty and damaged.

The QR code thing happens more often than not at chain restaurants, which are just reheating frozen slop, rather than bistros that are changing their menu daily.
In the UK there is no swipe. Everyone has mobile card readers. Even tiny food trucks in the middle of nowhere have mobile card readers.
> how did altavista add sites? Did you ask them to add yours? Were they scraping something?

Yes and yes — they had a web crawler*, and you could also submit sites.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista#:~:text=At%20launch%....
It would be interesting if they offered a $99 option that gave you access to the source code with no active license but did let you run it locally so you can see how it works in private.

For someone who is more interested in the code than the app itself I'd do it at $99 but probably not $299.
If you mean sources for getting the mangas, I recommend HakuNeko.
It’s technically correct but misleading: the products are not inherently flawed but their lack of MFA means the product wasn’t used in a secure configuration. I hope that this is held against them by regulators or in court because they’ve known and even advocated for FIDO-2/WebAuthn for years and there’s no excuse for not requiring them by policy.
An “off-phone” whose features will likely be integrated into Google Assistant by end of year at which point they’ll likely shut down the whole thing?
The Hydration Revolution
uh maybe this is something for your therapist and not HN..
"STEM" is a very nebulous group of fields. Plenty of people study math and become math teachers, financiers, or work in think tanks. Those jobs aren't "STEM careers" but mathematics knowledge is definitely applicable.
Slightly off topic, but since we're complaining about restaurant menus I think most of them are a complete mess in the first place.

They either try to cram too much on one page, or require too many pages. It's not even necessarily that there are too many items, but that the design is shitty. Extra turd points if the page wastes the margins with noisy decoration or stock photos of drunk people smiling wielding margaritas or whatever and half of it is redundant ads for their specials. Don't get me started about glossy paper that's impossible to read under the glare of the accent lighting festooning the tables.
This site is a good example of a simple, ethical affilate marketing site.

Of course, as other posters have alluded to, setting up a site like this does not just involve creating the web page itself -- it also necessarily would involve SEO and backlinks, etc., etc.

Again, as other posters have alluded to.

But that being said -- this web page still ranks pretty high in my book for simplicity (and elegance from that simplicity), in a money-making website.

It could be argued, successfully, that any website these days, any website at all -- would need visitors -- and if those visitors aren't coming from social media and/or Google ads -- then getting visitors there would necessarily have to involve SEO and backlinks.

Unless of course, you have some other creative and/or good way to get visitors to your website...

So, an excellent example of what a simple website can do -- if, if and only if you can solve the problem of getting visitors to your website, by one or more ways...
You can use wstunnel to bypass firewall. I had many feedbacks from chinese/turkish/iranian people using it with success.
Easy to setup also with static binaries.

https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel/
One additional clarification is useful to make, which is WHY the algorithm is robust to non-atomic reads and writes.

Basically, if one process is reading a value while it is being written to by another process, then it’s possible that the reading process will not just get an old value, but it might get a complete garbage value caused by a partially written or garbled memory value. But even then it still works, and doesn’t even require any kind of “retry” logic, for this reason:

Recall that when a process wants to enter the critical section, it first looks at the numbers (or tickets) assigned to other processes to determine its own number. The process chooses a number that is one higher than the highest number it observes.

Now, if a process reads a garbage value due to a concurrent write, it typically just ignores this value. This is because the garbage value is unlikely to be higher than the maximum valid number it can read from other processes. As a result, this garbage value does not impact the process’s decision about what number to take for itself.

The key is that the process bases its decision on the valid numbers it can read. The algorithm does not depend on every read being perfect. If a process cannot determine a clear maximum due to a garbage value, it bases its decision on the highest valid number it can discern.

The process then enters a waiting phase where it checks if it’s its turn to enter the critical section, based on its number and others’. Again, the presence of a garbage value in one of the reads does not impede this process, as the algorithm only requires a relative ordering based on numbers.

Despite the possibility of reading invalid values, the bakery algorithm maintains safety (no two processes are in the critical section simultaneously) and liveness (every process eventually gets its turn). This is because its core logic - ordering based on numbers and waiting for its turn - remains intact.
It’s step 2.

If you don’t follow basic research and knowledge that largely undermines your hypothesis, you are likely to create an experiment that fails to account for the understood confounding factor that your hypothesis ignores.
Do not fight the AI, it's a lost cause, embrace it.
Parsing matters for tooling, and that's about it. The recent Go retrospective on this goes into this somewhat, but if you have a reusable parser then you or others can easily create linters, formatters, and static analysis tools for your language, which really fleshes out the ecosystem.
This is a really useful article. I’ve long observed this subconsciously but never seen it framed this way. It’s quite cultural though. Different cultures have different tolerances for the amount of asking/guessing.

My parents came from two different ask and guess cultures — whole countries mainly of one or the other. I was overwhelmed by the sheer amount of “askers” in the US — at first it was oppressive then (I know realize) exhilarating.

Note also that in the cultures I grew up in there’s a cultural (learned) gender difference in who is allowed to ask and who is not. That can change (daughters must guess, while grandmothers and mothers in law are almost ask only). IMHO in a less hierarchical society like the USA ironically these rules are enforced more strictly and don’t change as much as roles change because the roles themselves are more fluid.
enshittification intensifies

American Dialect Society nailed it.
> Nearly half of parents say they would prefer not to send their children to a four-year college after high school, even if there were no obstacles, financial or otherwise...

A poll published in 2022 asked parents if they would rather their child attended a four-year college or a three-year apprenticeship that would train them for a job and pay them while they learned. Nearly half of parents whose child had graduated from college chose the apprenticeship.

So this means that roughly 1/4 (1/2 of 1/2) of students would go to college, perhaps?
Not wanting to argue, just want to say my point of view: Excepting for rare medical conditions, we all as humans have the same needs and "cost" of existing and living our lives. And therefore I don't think it can be very dependant on circumstances or subjective as to what is "making ends meet".

I can't really emphasise with people who are wealthy or high income (which 70k is), who say they are struggling with monetary matters. They've made some choices and prioritizations. People who own multiple properties say that they "can't afford" some basic consumer good, or indignant that they have to work a lot of overtime to make ends meet. Yes, you chose a high cost life style.

I try to set aside a disproportionately large part of my income for high risk investments. Everybody I know says they can not afford to make any investments, and especially not risky investments. How can they not afford it when they are wealthier than me and have larger incomes than me? Because they prioritised something else. And that's cool, but why can't people cut the bullshit. And I don't ask others about their finances or bring up the topic.

So I'm going to double down and say that there are exactly 0 cases – outside of rare medical disorders – where somebody has to struggle to live on 70K.
Or… the Tesla ones are being amplified. I spent two hours in my car in 0C last week taking a call with my AC, heated seat and heated steering wheel on and the battery %age didn’t budge a single point.

My conservative friends in Scotland are all eager to share “horror stories” of Teslas in Chicago with me. When a Tesla has a problem it literally makes world news. That should tell you how often these things happen.
DuckDB: Fuzzy Temporal Lookups
I code for both money and hobby. If my job stopped paying me, I’d stop coding for them.
> you could say the same thing about the watch

AirPods are far more broadly adopted than the Apple Watch. I’d also argue against the latter having the sense of design finality the AirPods came out of the door with. Similar to the iPhone.

> AirPods got people to stop complaining that Apple took away the headphone jack. I suspect that might have even been the main reason Apple made them

Doubtful given development timeline and sourcing. It’s more that they arise from a shared vision.
You think police are to blame for the situation(s) down south?

One of the reasons for such anarchy in mexico is because there is such a profitable black market for drugs in the US. Our drug policy at home and abroad is one of the biggest reasons that narcostates even exist. What do you think would fund them to such an incredible extent if they didn't have such an incredible cash cow? Definitely not avocados or human trafficking
> What it really boils down to is the ever-downward trend to destroy ownership by converting as much as possible to a service or hidden rental.

The phrase I use for that is "erecting toll-booths".
WHO releases AI ethics and governance guidance for large multi-modal models
Well-played, sir/madam.
Same goes for FileMaker every small town agency, newspaper and other media clients ran on it. Made good money as a 15 year old.
Treating something as entertainment does not prevent you from learning from it, or taking what it says as fact. I learned a lot about the structure of the US government from reading Tom Clancy.

No one is mistaking that as a documentary but he is still able to insert a lot of his biases into it.
When discussing Lotus Notes it’s useful to have a good understanding of two perspectives. Some view it as an ugly version of Outlook/Exchange, but those functions were not really the point of it (so comparisons to Outlook/Exchange aren’t really correct). It was really a development platform, and email, calendar, tasks, etc. would be better understood as “sample apps” that could be built on it.

As mentioned in the article, this was a time when apps were built native to the OS, and deployment and updates were a full time job for the IT department. Notes encapsulated all these apps in a single app launcher in a standard way they could be deployed and managed.

The best comparison today is not Outlook/Exchange, but the whole Web itself which addressed the same problem of apps in a more universal way. However Notes enabled this at least a decade before the Web was advanced enough to handle this.