skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To make Stract usable for me (slightly reduced vision), I had to apply the following custom CSS:

```
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font-family: ui-sans-serif, sans-serif !important;
webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
font-weight: 400;
text-rendering: geometricPrecision;
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IMO, people who are running the company has very little or no perspective of software quality and how it will impact in the long run, specially if company is run by sales (CEO) guy. They just want to "release" feature, even if there is know bugs are there. Its a sad reality of lot of software shops.
Gambling isn’t the big margin for the casino and hackers aren’t immune to gambling. Most people who gamble know the odds aren’t in their favor.
The High-Stakes World of Keeping Wordle Streaks Alive
You don't explain why it's cool. You just explain it, then you wait to see if the person you explained it to is cool or uncool.
What’s that imply, what was it like? Why unpleasant? What made you decide to do that?
https://archive.is/JrIGd
Of course, make it quick and painless, but that behavior simply cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Children are incredibly important, and how we treat them as a society is critical. The threats—perceived and real—to children in modern times have reduced the freedoms afforded to them, hampering their ability to develop in the real world from a younger age.
Thats exciting! I might read the Remembrance this year.

Murderbot is exciting! There is very little world building, you are thrown into the world and you slowly figure things out. Each novella is a new adventure, but as a whole(the series) its a lot more; an android seeing and understanding humans in a very different way.

It also explores how a world of robots would have various bots with each having a different personality(they develop) based on their lifelong assigned task.

The Muderbot itself is sulky, tired of incompetent humans and its dry behavior adds humor to the narration. Plus it addicted to watching soap operas so it has a very unique understanding of human creativity and reality.
There was some work on wine in NetBSD earlier, has that panned out? as in is that usable yet?
Yes, most likely. That's why it would make zero sense for Caesars to state anything publicly that would antagonize members of the community. Saying nothing (or even praising DEF CON, and claiming it was a "change in strategy") is the smarter route.
I explicitly remember them tapping out every keg at a bar there by 2pm about 10 years ago.
We evolved in an environment in which competition is non-lethal and beneficial.

Other environments may differ.
Note that Netflix and co. won't stream 4K at all to Linux devices, and they often don't serve 4K if they deem your internet connection to be too slow.

For many folks, pirated 1080p is par with what they'd get streaming, and pirated 2k or 4k is better.
In foggy weather lazers are not working well.
I don't think an automaker or Apple would ever consider that arrangement. Both of them want to be the primary intermediaries between customers and everyone else, because that's where the money is and it's a rare event when either are institutionally capable of ceding or sharing control of that relationship with others.
Given GM's lack of success, I wonder if automakers trying to roll their own UI won't end up being a boon to Apple in the long term.
>And on top of that, you get plans that never had ads before now starting to add them

It's exactly the same thing that happened with cable TV: it started out without ads, selling itself based on that feature, and then when they had lots of subscribers, they added ads.

I predicted this exact thing would happen not that long ago here on HN and other forums and people called me crazy.
There are two watch markets - utilitarian, and jewelry.

The utilitarian market was all people wearing cheap Casios and Seikos just to see the time. These people stopped wearing watches when they started carrying mobile phones (not even smartphones, this happened in the 00's).

The Apple Watch brought these people back for utility - either seeing notifications on their wrist, or health/sports tracking. People still don't really need to see the time on their wrist, phones even have always-on OLED screens now.

Now that you've decided to wear an Apple Watch, of course you're going to choose a band that looks nice, sure that part is jewelry, but not any more than a smartphone case. But nobody goes "oh wow that Apple Watch band is gorgeous, I'm going to buy and start wearing an Apple Watch for it"

I don't think there is much to glean from the industry revenue because there's so much noise going on (the massive growth of the Chinese luxury market from zero)
I had a TSENG ET-4000 ISA on a 486 SX 25Mhz.
I haven't been so lucky with Netflix. Relatives who live in other cities have gotten a message that they can't use mine unless I do the thing to add a new user for $7.99 or however much it is. Occasionally it works for them but most times it does not.
> These systems aren't particularly old or out of support.

CentOS 7 goes EOL June 30th, so you're pretty close to their end of life (CentOS 8 stream has 2.28, so should still work with the new vscode version, which is why I'm guessing you're talking about 7.)

If you don't already have plans for replacement/upgrading, you really need to have plans.
games are culture—shared, social culture—you just need better friends and coworkers.
> However, we also see that for only those combinations starting with a T (that is f(n - 1))...

Why is that f(n - 1)?
So I live in Singapore and wanted to watch Lord of the Rings legally, offline on my Linux machine and I have no idea how to do it. And after dedicating quite a bit of time towards trying to figure it out, I also wasn't really sure why I was so eager to give my money to an industry that is still so backwards when it comes towards sane distribution.
I have a Planck keyboard, which is amazing. I'm toying with the idea of a custom enclosure that adds a full-width low-height screen at a comfortable angle and runs a TUI, no mouse needed. I would use this over a laptop for taking notes and possibly some coding on the go. Could be made for $200, and would also be a great intro to real computing for kids.
A legend in his own bathtime.
You didn't pay close enough attention in class. The US FCPA [0] explicitly allows "grease payments" (which is what we are talking about here) so long as they're not illegal in the country in question.

Grease payments are paid for the purpose of expediting a task that a low-level official is required to do anyway as part of their job, e.g. release a package from customs hell.

The FCPA prohibits bribes which are payments intended to influence high-level decision-makers to make a decision in your favor when they are not otherwise required to do so.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Ac...
It is super hard to match the 'big' players. But straight programming a proper index listing is hard.
Yes, glibc needs a leftpad incident
> immensely customizable -- We aim to give you the ability to customize everything about the search. You can block sites, boost sites, prioritize links from specific sites and much, much more.

Great! Can I use more than one optic? The drop-down list seems to allow only 1.

> Oh, and if we ever become evil (maybe by changing our motto) please take our code and start a competitor.

The most important part is the index data, what would be the deal with that?
"expediting production" indeed
What is the big margin? Rooms?
Still true. Someday I’ll modernize it, but right now there’s too many other cool things to do.
In my experience, programmers like poker, but not games of chance. This also describes me. Poker is a data-heavy game of skill and memory, Craps is about the opposite.
It was famously at Alexis Park for years, which might as well be the moon if you're at Caesar's.
> I'm not sure that really makes sense for TV/movies, since it would also mean a fixed royalty price for everything.

Any reason why you think it would be a problem to have a fixed price?

I think the studios would have to swallow it if it was compulsory, no?
ACLs see some use in concert lighting as well. They're not just for aircraft! (and rally cars)
What's the big margin for the casino if not gambling?
Philosophy is defined by the human experience, it is asking questions that do not have readily proveable answers, of answers that are heavily contextual to the individual. The probability of the answers weighed in the individuals head. These probabilities and likeliness to believe more of one philosophy over the other is often primarily from the details.

Details are important because they are little parts that support the likelihood of the larger point being true. If the details don't work it's likely because the theory is innacurate.
I use my smartphone mostly like a computer for work; research or look up stuff I want to implement. I don’t have dead-scroll social media apps installed and I don’t call; people can send text via different chat apps because that’s async so no chance of distracting me. It’s always on dnd or sleep. Done this for almost a decade now; works well.
I can think of plenty of in-hotel bars packed with DEF CON attendees 24 hours a day during the conference.
Now you just front it with a CDN.
Easy.
Reminds me of a classic riddle French website called "Ouverture Facile"
It is a priori a good thing, but long delays may obviously cause also reputational damage… They just have to walk on eggshells for a while.
Eh, I’m a programmer and I go to vegas with other programmers fairly regularly. We know enough math to know the expected cost per entertainment•hour is comparable to many other pass-times.

But even so we’re actually all net-positive on the city, thanks to a couple “lucky” craps runs.
Frontline had a pretty decent series on Pegasus malware.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/global-spywar...
But isn’t that exactly the direction they are going with next gen CarPlay?

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/22/next-generation-carplay...
Why would you expect them to be that kind of resilient? It's just a conference brochure site.
There's also the side bonus that making filing taxes as painful as possible ratchets up the public's irritation at paying them, thus making tax cuts an even more popular policy goal.
". . . to create a weapon of mass destruction that would soon kill and maim more than 200,000 people, ushering in the atomic age."

The use of the bomb ended the war in the Pacific early and saved untold lives, both military and civilian.

See https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
I disagreed with the premise of the headline but agree with the conclusion:

> Success is not about finding an 'easier' path but mastering the distinct games and deciding which is best for you, your market skills, and the product you’ve built.
Other side of the equation is - Production of Content has become cheap.

Distribution has become free with global reach.

So we have Infinite amount of content floating about. Not even
bringing generative AI into the picture.

So infinite growing Supply. Finite demand.
Lemonade!
How did it work to get a nice, long demo? You wait on a line, place your name on a queue, or something else?
I mean, maybe you're just better at it, but I was a competitive mountain biker 10+ years ago and the last time I tried to ride a bike a couple years ago, if I'd taken my hands off the handlebars I probably would have crashed in seconds.

We're all just asserting anecdotes here about how easy/hard things are. I tend to agree that the act of driving a car isn't so hard that people forgot how to physically drive over the pandemic. What I think is the much more likely thing that changed is the habits of awareness of other drivers. The instincts of which corners have low visibility or your general sense of how fast people drive on various roads. Driving is ultimately a social activity in some way. Most people who get in accidents aren't just failing to "hit the right button" on their car, they're trying to drive well and avoid something unexpected.

It seems entirely reasonable to me that some number of people kept driving daily during the pandemic on mostly empty roads with mostly absent rules enforcement and picked up some bad habits. Maybe that's speeding, or running red lights, or being on their phone while driving because there's less risk of running into another car. Then as people who didn't do that started driving again, their memories from 6-18 months before didn't match the current driving culture any more. Different people adapted in different ways, but the bounds of what's "normal" has changed somewhat.

I don't think I'm worse at physically driving now, but I have definitely been surprised by drivers running red lights or being overly deferential to cross traffic a fair bit in the last couple years. I've adapted, but I'm definitely driving with a different mindset now than I used to.
People can go to therapy and rehab for being addicted to their smartphones, but all of those things are voluntary activities. You have to choose that you want to get better.

Externalizing the locus of your problems is itself a pathology: "I receive too many notifications from social media apps" in a normal person leads to "so I just silenced them all" or "that's why I don't install social media apps, who needs that?".

The first thing anyone does in this topic though is externalize the problem: it's not a problem with them, it's a problem with the broadest possible generalization of a thing. They're not incapable of having a smartphone, everyone is.

People fail therapy and rehab all the time because of that expectation mismatch: you don't go in and "they fix you", you go in and put in the work to fix yourself, with some assistance.
1. Politics. Funding the IRS sufficiently is, sadly, controversial. Additionally, tax filing is a multi-billion dollar industry, and they lobby politicians very heavily to make it hard to file taxes.

2. The IRS doesn't have everything, it has about 90% of what the average person needs to file taxes. Most people could answer about 5-10 simple questions and the IRS would have everything they need (this is basically how tax filing firms/software get it done after you give them all of the information that the IRS already has). A minority have more complex tax situations, but these people likely already have a personal accountant, or are running a business.
You can view their financial statements [1]. I am sure the 'casino' category includes things besides gambling, but it looks like the largest share of their revenue.

[1] https://investor.caesars.com/news-releases/news-release-deta...
Do they know how much you'll spend on sales tax for a given tax year? How much you'll pay out of pocket for health expenses? Do you?

These are not "interesting", but nearly everyone has 'em, and the IRS cannot know, without bending space time, how much you'll owe because of those deductions (assuming an itemized deduction, though they're still in play either way because they can help tip the balance between taking a standard or itemized deductions).
> If I am vegan for January and then in February eat meat, am I retroactively not a vegan for January?

Like many labels I think it comes down to intent more than timeframe.

If you go vegan and then a day/month/year/decade later you change your mind and decide it's not working then you were vegan during that time and are no longer vegan.

But if you take a hiatus from consuming animal products with intent to go back to eating meat in a few hours/weeks/months then I wouldn't say you were a vegan during that time. If I happen to go a few days between consuming animal products that doesn't make me a vegan during those days.
True. But it only solves half the problem. Or to put it another way, their particular implementation just leads to a different frustration. So Prime aggregates content, which is great. So I can browse a great meta-catalog of content from various services. The problem is I'm not subscribed to all these services. So I scroll through the catalog and find something interesting, but... you need to sign up for a monthly plan to watch whatever show on whatever service. It might be a little more palatable if you could pay (a reasonable amount) per show, or series or movie, or whatever. But as is, it's just an exercise in frustration. I'm not committing to a subscription to watch one show that happened to seem somewhat interesting.
was expecting mostly pre 19th century, but good list: Bill Evans, Gymnopedie, JSB Cello suite. Recently i've been doing Bartok, SHosta, Ives, minimalists, Ligeti, Messiaen, Varèse, Hindemith, you know the kind of stuff not often described as relaxing
> Unless you're arguing that Covid had ramifications for everyone's brain

"Covid" can refer to either the worldwide pandemic, or the specific disease. "Covid", the event which was a world wide pandemic, did affect everyone's brain. You know how? Because that's where memories are stored. Memories are stored in the brain, and memories influence belief systems which affect behavior. What people remember, and what they have now learned, is that they can get away with a lot more illegal shit while driving than they are used to, and what they have learned through experience (which are formed through memory) is that people are super aggressive when driving after the worldwide pandemic, which causes them to change their behavior too.

> no reason to think that's anything but superstition.

Pretty ballsy to say that hard data of drivers getting more reckless (which is furnished in the article you're replying to) is superstition.
That “just” is doing some heavy lifting. It was a minor hassle running back and forth from the Forum to Flamingo to pick stuff up and drop it off. Commuting from strip hotels to LVCC is going to be a pain in the ass.
> They have no idea how many dependents you have, houses you sold, charity you donated, foreign income you made, etc etc etc.

Generally speaking, the government does in fact know exactly what houses you sold and dependents you have. Those are both matters of public record and registered with the state. How do you think cities assess property taxes? And if you think that charitable donations and foreign income make any kind of dent for 99% of all taxpayers, you're living in a very weird bubble. 87% of all filings take the standard deduction in any given year for a reason.
This kind of situation should really be gaining more attention from Netflix leadership and management. They're burning so much good-will and being assholes in the process.

The most frustrating part is that there's no accountability by company leadership towards paying customers. To which I'm sure someone would reply "they only have to be accountable to shareholders", which is utterly insane.
Maximizing the Utility of Large Language Models Through Prompting
Ha! similar experience, I explained that my grandmother had a farm and I learned at a young age to kill and skin a rabbit and to pluck a duck. It's not as if in nature, predators are any friendlier to preys.

I am a relatively considerate meat eater though, I make sure as much as possible to stay way from cattle raised in factory farms (partly due to taste, partly due to ethical concerns).
Craps is not the opposite. Quite the opposite, actually.

The magnitude of entropy casinos require you inject into the system each round is quite low in practice.

Profiting off of that is all skill.
Yup. It's a service problem, not a price problem.

I pirate again too. The fragmentation is just crazy now.
There's also the fact that enterprise purchasing decisions are often made on the golf course. My coworkers were lamenting that they had to deal with Oracle on a previous job and I explained it to them thus: why is Donald Trump orange? Donald Trump is orange because his buddy owns a company which makes a line of fake tan products. The products don't have to be any good; Trump uses them because his buddy makes them. His buddy gets promoted or at least attracts attention, and Trump gets someone powerful he can call in a favor from if needed. And that's how purchasing decisions for big-ticket enterprise software like Oracle get made: the head of sales of Oracle becomes buddies with our CTO on the golf course and convinces him to use the database his buddy represents. Not for any technical reasons... to help your buddy and your buddy will help you.
Yes let's make taxes as automatic and as hidden as possible so that we can keep the enormous government slush funds running as seamlessly as possible without people complaining and questioning things.
Shit, it’s true. Another example of how terrible Siri is. Hopefully soon Apple will replace it with an LLM and it’ll finally have a brain.
Yes, oh wizard of gauntlets, I pretty much have an open door policy (well the lock doesn’t work very well). Visitors stop by and I’m delighted to learn about everything from homotopy theory (thanks Aaron) to lizards need for ultraviolet light (thanx Arlene).

It’s an honor to be a member of this tribe.
Meh not everyone has a 4K 120Hz TV :)

I still have an old 1080p 32" LG from 10 years ago and it looks fine. In fact I find the motion upscaling weird, it gives this creepy uncanny effect.

I still download H264 too because not all of my devices support H265 yet.

I was thinking about something new but they're just too expensive.
This is enshittification pure and simple. The CEO or other shot callers need to make their bonus so they can hand it off to the next person to make it worse.
Related slides are at https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZzaW9eI4wmMRGOnJ1uo-....
The IP of the site reports as being a Comcast IP address. Surely this isn't hosted on some guy's home server? Even their business class service wouldn't seem like a good fit, especially for an org like Defcon.
Django roadmap session – January 2024
Is Cloudflare Ethereum's largest centralization point?
I've recently started learning about blockchain. While I understand how "anyone" can spin up a node on chains like Ethereum, that kind of decentralization feels somewhat meaningless if all (or 99.99%) network calls get relayed through several mainnet endpoints. Because of that, who owns (has the username and password) the mainnet domains, like cloudflare-eth.com and can manage their DNS records? Is this not the largest point of centralization, as well as an (or several) account owner who could take down most Dapps and network activity with a single DNS update?
What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)?
Not a Republican, but I think it’s a great idea for taxes to have enough friction that voters consider what they’re getting in return for what they pay.

With income taxes being withheld from employees’ paychecks, taxes are already pretty invisible to a lot of people. When you become self-employed and have to hold back xx% of your earnings yourself, it’s an eye-opener!
In which case there actual issue would be worker's rights, and once again a bunch of people have run off to fight the wrong battle because they're scared or can't even conceive of the real one.

Meanwhile in France: https://www.upworthy.com/under-french-law-businesses-cant-em...
Yeah. I don’t see this going very far. I think there’s always going to be a slight “lag” in your virtual office that will have you longing for the real thing…. Of course you can’t really even use it as a virtual office yet.

They should focus on Apple Watch battery life. Something I never have to charge because it’s taking energy from my sweat or something…
There are deep complexities to the war with Japan. The willingness of Japanese pilots to use kamikaze tactics provides evidence that they'd fight until the end costing, as you said, untold lives in the conflict.

But we also cannot escape the fact that the majority of the people affected by Little Boy and Fat Man were civilians.

I believe that we could have chosen targets which properly demonstrated the futility of continued military resistance, without the need for the civilian deaths which we incurred by bombing cities.