skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sucks and I hope the website can be taken down. However I'm not sure reporting it as malicious is the right option here, it depends. This post doesn't indicate whether the site is distributing malware, and the point of the Safe Browsing report is specifically to identify malware, not just sites doing shitty things.

I suspect a trademark based appeal to the hosting provider would go further towards getting the site taken down.

That said, the offending site appears to currently a) return an invalid certificte, and b) return no content even if certificate warnings are bypassed. If these continue I doubt the site will be listed on search engines for much longer.
> Anyway Biometric passports/ids pretty much completely supersede this use-case and can be as equally decentralized.

Those are already in place in France, but some administrations still ask for a paper original (or scan of original) of your birth certificate. However some others have implemented some government-backed scheme where it automatically fetches your birth records from a government source (idk how it works behind the scenes) and it just works.

It was the same with a proof of where you live, it had to a be a bill in your name for electricity or something similar, but now it can just query popular sources such as the main electricity provider and just work.
"I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like von Neumann's does not indicate a species superior to that of man"

- Hans Bethe
So like any other business with losses but good evaluation/stock performance?

Like Amazon for most of its existence?
Possibly relevant:

https://www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2333/ - "Contribution of the nuclear field shift to kinetic uranium isotope fractionation", Geochemical Perspectives Letters v27

"By following the fractionation of 233U, 235U, 236U and 238U during the enzymatic reduction of hexavalent U to tetravalent U by the bacterium Shewanella oneidensis, we provide the first direct evidence of the nuclear field shift effect during biologically controlled kinetic isotope fractionation."
UserChoice Protection Driver
But on the flip side, Breaking Bad would've never happened anywhere in Europe - because "crippling medical debt" just is not a thing =)
Could be worse, the Terror and Erebus are also out there. At least Endurance doesn't have a terrifying name.

https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/nu/epaveswrecks/culture/arch...
Also check for a https://securitytxt.org/ file but it's rare.
Cloudflare typically doesn't do anything unless you get lawyers involved in my experience.
> Worse still, if a german says fuck it and wants to run his business in Estonia, the org still has to pay taxes in germany

Why? Doesn't Germany have treaties with Estonia to avoid double taxation?
Did the site owner remove the malicious ads since this was posted? I wanted my report to count so I didn't use the link in the blog post and instead googled for "notepad++ download" and clicked on the offending website which was ranked third for me. I didn't see any ads on any pages. I don't doubt the complaint but some screenshots and timestamps would be helpful since it's so easy for the site owner to cover their tracks.
Probably opened a browser tab, started asking questions about how to code the thing. :)
Turns out that what happens in practice is corporations get chopped up for parts, and government usually does better.

Medicare for example is much more efficient than private health insurance.

The motivation for government employees is "because they care about doing the right thing". You should try it some time.
I see no signs of being braced.
Reported. Down with parasites.

BTW I've used Notepad++ for years. Great piece of software.
personally i use both. PiHole and uBlock. But PiHole is network wide so smart TVs iPads, etc in the house also get the benefit.
Nitpick: you will not feel acceleration in a freefall.
neural networks will be used on top of polygon based models
Another approach would be to apply tariffs to chips coming from adversary countries, until it becomes more economical to produce them in North America.
> "...Irrefutable proof!"

Cite, on that? I have seen a lot of speculation from people in the know, but not this.
And such forums still exist, they're just not on the top of Google search results.
Reviving a Flip Clock from the 70ies
Reviving a slave flip clock from the 70ies using an ESP32 and a DC driver.
> "I noticed a potential security issue with your site. What is the best way to report it?"

It should come with more back-story because companies (security@ email address) receive quite a few of similar emails and many are borderline spam. I'm talking about security researchers telling us they found something, then when we reply asking for details there's silence. To the point where we sometimes not even answer any more. It's a sad state of security research where some are spamming 100s of companies.
Gpts hallucinate, imagine the uproar if Google did this and gave fake results..
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How did you find the backlinks?
> so they think THIS is the best possible solution.

Nobody thinks that. Everybody knows how much bureaucracy sucks, and everyone regularly rages about the insanity and traps. There are whole TV-Shows about the bullshit done there. But people can't change it, so they just accept it, and know it could be worse.
A lookalike site carefully curated to rise in search result ranking over time can trivially start delivering malware at any point. It happens enough that it’s warranted here. No reason not to report it for many things. It’s illegitimate and has no right to protection.
I had a good run doing LD in the 2010s. Half of all entries were unity last time I was in. The others were mostly unreal or something else. I don't think godot was big yet

I remember the big SPA rework of the website that seemed like overkill. Then a couple people bitched me out for preparing base code, so I stopped. How dare I try to get myself halfway to where the unity devs started, I guess.
Podcast clip on Nolan's directing style
> there’s no reason

The reason as always is politics.

For example, the Federal civil service ("general service") pay scale tops out around $160k. This really doesn't make sense and costs the government multiples of market wages for hiring for roles where market pay is higher than this. One route is to hire that person via a contracting firm with a huge (double or triple) markup.

And of course the reason we don't just revamp the pay scales and pay market wages is because it's political suicide to pay people half a million or more at market rates.

The American people, on average, don't like the level of wage inequality in society. For any particular issue where you shove it in their faces (like proposing to pay the project lead "competitive salary"), you will get shouted down.

That's also why we get strange arrangements like Congress members making around $170k a year with legal insider trading. The insider trading money they make looks like "free" and isn't easily quantified.
Would Intel survive if there is a glut? Their foundry unit reported a $7B loss this year.
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This is ageism and it’s bullshit. You seriously need to evaluate your biases.
Anyone can get karma on HN by submitting links. Some people farm karma by posting links to words on Wikipedia. The bar to obtaining karma is very low in my opinion.
> you will probably still not be able to boot windows from btrfs.

See his other repo, he appears to be working on that.
https://github.com/maharmstone/quibble
> You’re (and I) are an idiot for renting because after you’re done renting you have no equity

Not a good argument. This only holds true if your rent equals what your mortgage would be. I personally don’t care about similarly sized units — why would I compare those?

I specifically choose to rent small and inexpensive apartments and put the savings (compared to a mortgage) into other investments. So I do have quite a lot to show for myself after 20 years of renting.

I’ve been paying under $1,200 in rent for 10+ years in a neighborhood where houses are now pushing $800,000.

> Fellow renter here, what avenues do you have if your renters insurance is cancelled

The same as the homeowner does, shop for other options. Fortunately w/ renting it seems like insurance companies (thus far) don’t care that much and use it as an incentive. My partner’s car insurance provider reduced her total bill when she added rental insurance.
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If u really wanna have "worst of all worlds" though, i can only recommend Austria.

Basically it's the German-grade paper bureaucracy described here, but spiced up with a truckload of what i would describe as "negative global southern stereotypes":

- Everything has to be strictly processed by the book, but ...
- "the book" closes Friday at noon, no wait, today it was 10:00, come by next month, we only process such requests on the first friday of the month. Oh wait, Mrs Soandso is on vacation next month, would June suit you?
- the one managing "the book" doesn't like your face/surname/tone/something? You might wanna try another city ...

In short: it's all strict and utterly beaucratic like you'd expect in Germany, but at the same time ripe with small time corruption, incompetence, and petty xenophobia

(Small anecdote: I actually once had to get a lawyer to register a company, since the person responsible for my file at the business court thought my surname was sounding a bit too "foreign" and demanding I present a valid staying permit -- which I do not need (and therefore couldn't even get) in Austria. Straight up refused to process my filing until my lawyer requested a legal statement in writing)
My biggest complaint about German bureaucracy (reflected indirectly in some comments here) is that there is an insistence on following the rules, even while there are SO many rules and laws that officials very often give you wrong, incorrect, misleading answers.

I see this over and over and over again.

If you hit a bureaucratic wall in Germany you often can get over it, not by paying money like in some countries, but by paying with time from your own short life, and with your nerves trying to bend the system to your will. Is it worth it? No. Not in my opinion.
Using this,

https://ahrefs.com/backlink-checker/

I use it a lot. It's great to find dev resources, hidden gems, sites that talk about a specific topic, etc. It does have a limit (100 links), but for purposes such as this one - it is an absolute must-have bookmark for me.
GitLab were the first to introduce built-in CI.
GitHub followed their lead once it became a decision point for many.
That would increase costs for US consumers drastically in the interim 20 years it takes to get those fabs online
Fixed net resource allocation but non-uniform distribution.
Cultivating minds: The psychological consequences of rice versus wheat farming
Definitely one of the main things I miss from Windows

That and Paint.Net
Wow - thank you for such a generous response!

Yeah, I'm agreed on most of the AI stuff - becoming a more architect-shaped engineer is now more important than ever.

I've been flicking through a copy of https://www.amazon.co.uk/Structured-Design-Fundamentals-Disc... lately to get my brain into gear on this subject.

Thanks for all the web dev advice and tech callouts. Some real neat examples there which I knew nothing about.

Regarding niches, I think as a data engineer, becoming fluent in an interactive front-end data-viz library might be the slam dunk that I'm probably looking for.

Having looked at D3, I am quite impressed! Do you have any experience or knowledge of this lib?

Again, thank you for sharing :)
Yes puppet!

It’s been a long time.
"Google could do this"

Do what exactly? Offer a llm answer to every prompt that might be correct or not? No worries, soon they will, but I do not see how it will solve the problem.
prs: Stay updated on PRs without leaving the terminal
Thank you for sharing this, beautiful and tragic as it is.
Part of the problem is that the spam website has a less spammy sounding domain than the legitimate website
Recursive NNs are not the same as Recurrent NNs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_neural_network

Well ish. The article above explains that Recursive-NNs are hierarchical whereas RNNs are linear. I guess the distinction is a little on the fine side.

Anyway carry on. Pedantic moment over.
https://github.com/checkly/headless-recorder

- got ~15k GitHub stars.

- AWS copied it.

- We deprecated it as better stuff came on the market with @playwright/test's codegen.

But I did code the initial version in a weekend. Was called Puppeteer Recorder then.
The amount of effort that goes into blocking ads and tracking really says a lot about how messed up the web is these days.
Done. Thank you for wonderful software!!
yes, once our system is used by nearly everyone we will change the payment system so that while the small fish get no money (which shouldn't bother them because they weren't getting much) but obviously this scales to significant amounts of money remaining in our pocket. And if anyone complains we'll just act like the past doesn't exist!
> Something goes wrong and you're the big boss? Add more bureaucracy as your attempt to "fix" the problem and your justification to why your job is valuable to the company.

This literally applies to big orgs as well with red tape, etc
I made TextShot [1] in a weekend. It’s a free utility that allows you to copy text on screen that you otherwise can’t copy (from an image or a video), with a simple key command.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/textshot/id6444068061
We let the rentseeking businesspeople step in and control what used to be driven by passionate engineers in their garage.
It's getting hard to use and recommend Firefox, I'm afraid for the free web
Write the code in another text editor and only use xcode to compile?
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My grandmother's primary method of communication is a cheap Android tablet. It unfortunately includes a preinstalled SMS app that upsells a VoIP SMS service. My grandmother gets extremely frustrated by accidently clicking the message icon and opening an upsell page. There's no way to uninstall the VoIP app.

So instead of giving up and buying a new tablet or paying for an unnecessary service, I hacked together a way to open WhatsApp instead.

https://github.com/Kiran-Rao/openwhatsapp
Reminds me of the malicious site for MultiPar, which the (since deprecated) official forums said linked to altered binaries, yet due to the convincing domain name fooled even various regular users linking to it on forums like Reddit.
Backlink Checker
It's extremely silly and inefficient but I love making random disco gifs: https://github.com/egeozcan/gifDisco
It says 10 months here: https://www.nyidanmark.dk/de-DE/You-want-to-apply/Permanent-...

Citizenship is not the same thing as permanent residence.
They won't do that because the path they're taking now has the "air" of a process run amok, that wasn't "intended" to be used for this purpose. If they outright said "we're going to censor content that is critical of Facebook" there would be such a massive outcry that it could potentially mark the end of Facebook.
Wow, this is a great idea and really fun to look at.
> At least in its current state, notepad.plus does redirect to the official website when clicking the download button.

I’m sure you know this, so i will just state the obvious: the concern is that it might change in the future, or alternatively it might serve a different link if and when some finger printing indicates it.
Avoiding murky download websites is the biggest benefit of using a package manager like chocolatey (along the ease of setting up a new machine or updating all packages).
i don't see a problem with that.
I am talking about transfer tax on property which is completely different.

In my opinion, the tax card system effectively just moves the deadline for the tax return to Nov/December so you can ensure it's completely up to date then and not pay anything extra.
Let's be honest: where do we make friends if we work from home? To make friends, we need to be in a sort of co-living environment. It's hard to make friends if all we do is passively set up appointments with someone.
To be clear, this is if the client is a browser. If the "client" is a Linux machine you can just run a Docker container, or a full VM, or a Firecracker VM, no need for special languages or running software in a WASM VM. If it's a desktop/laptop you can just run a regular Postgres binary in an app (like Postgres.app does). If it's a phone you definitely don't want to be running the extra overhead of a persistent database process emulated on WASM, or something as heavyweight as Postgres.

I've heard many people talk about "interesting offline scenarios", but I've yet to see an application do them properly. Some embed SQLite to good effect, but I've not yet seen anything running something like an embedded Postgres, and other than it being a clever trick that might be fun to implement, I'm struggling to think of a use-case.
The definition of free speech in Brazil is more modern and better than that in United States.

Musk is mistaken, because the accounts of disinformation and violence are of people that place bombs in airports. Freedom of speech should not condone violent actions and it appears he wants to enable such behavior by giving Twitter accounts to those individuals.
I've been writing Postgres extensions for a few years now (mostly in C and Python), and I have to say that an important contribution from companies like Tembo and Omnigres is in the area of tooling and boilerplate. From workflows to Dockerfiles [0], that's important for the future of Postgres.

This has been discussed in the past [1], but the Postgres tooling ecosystem has been primarily C-Makefile—mailing list driven, and there used to be a lot of Makefile targets copy-pasting. Whenever major Postgres providers wanted to open source some of their extensions / sub-products. I still feel, however, that a lot of Postgres C-know-how is being slowly forgotten / lost, and I think it will be necessary again soon. Internal things as how Postgres handles varlena, StringInfo, JsonbValue, etc. The core abstractions that make Postgres work.

0: https://github.com/omnigres/omnigres/blob/master/Dockerfile
1: https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2023/10/10/postgres-the-next-g...
Some larger companies have good luck taking control of domains that use their branding or impersonate their services via a brand protection offering. I wonder if this can be done without a service if they contact the registrar or ICANN.
It opened up plenty of loopholes to avoid taxes and quit social systems, starting from healthcare, pensions etc. to all those little extras that allow you a tax avoiding setup which is impossible for regular employees. It also incentivizes ridiculous consumption, like the company car tax you mentioned but also to “just buy anything for 100k just to maximize cost”. It also doesn’t really incentivize RND but to wait for the next “RND tax program” any future government might be setting up. No shit that German companies are so bad with innovation (plus they’re usually lead by MBAs and lawyers who frequently have no clue).