skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe not strictly necessary, but a separate PCIe backplane just for P2P bandwidth bypasses topology and bottleneck mess[1][2] of PC platform altogether and might be useful. I suspect this was the original premise for NVLink too.

1: https://assets.hardwarezone.com/img/2023/09/pre-meteror-lake...

2: https://www.gigabyte.com/FileUpload/Global/MicroSite/579/inn...
Ubisoft for me turned from a corp I'd describe as: "don't have any opinion on them, but sometimes their logo shows up in a game I enjoy" to a corp: "actively avoid their products even if I think I might get some joy out of them".

But I guess that is the fate of all business MBAs: To reach the short term gains they need to get those bonuses, you think you have to exhaust some less easily quantifiable resource, be it quality, reputation, nature, workers, health, safety or whatever — until one day that intangible debt stacks high enough for it to collapse in catastrophic fashion. But guess what: Just make sure that you are no longer working there by that point and nobody will hold you accountable, and you got your bonuses for selling the contents of the first aid kit.
French people have the us attitude. Germans are geniuses at rule breaking without breaking the law xD
But the whole point is not to have to do that. What you're asking for is basically just `npm upgrade` or `cargo upgrade` or whatever? The point of Renovate, Dependabot etc. is exactly the automated/scheduled running of those package manager updates.
It is not fucking with video games. It is governments forcing companies to respect customers, it is literally the job of governments. The same way car makers were forced to put seatbelts in all cars.
These years I tried many approaches and I felt in love with htmx for my side projects.

It’s a return to the old easy times.

However, many times I only use a small subset of it.

I recommend to begin with small steps and increasing the complexity a little bit on each one before being crazy applying ALL for a “to-do” app: pure html, htmz (a tricky way, TAKE A LOOK), htmx and react or whatever.

Finally, I also recommend to follow htmx in Twitter, you will laugh a lot.
How about they being obliged to give you money back if it's been less than five years of rent before they bailed out?

Also, being obliged to archive the whole thing properly.
#ShikakuOfTheDay
#EASY240413 02:39.21
#MEDIUM240413 04:40.83
#HARD240413 12:20.11
#EXPERT240413 58:44.96
https://shikakuofthe.day

I imagine master will take a couple of hours to complete, so I didn’t even attempt it.
sshd forks a new clean process for each connection, so this whole machinery happens each time you connect. Each connection is a full fork/exec, and the backdoor has to set itself up from scratch again, including all the parsing and hooking.
Boeing whistleblowers say Boeing retaliates against whistleblowers
Thank you! :) Based on your recommendation I will probably watch this :)
Paywalled. It starts with Notepad++ so you can probably imagine the rest.
If it requires some kind of internet connection to check, then yes.
App launched in Sweden lets users tip off wrongly parked cars to earn money
I prefer to do the taking shit up front because you never know if you can take their shit later.

(I do pay for it but only after I'm sure I can take it)
I'm pretty sure this is already covered by DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/770. You purchase "Digital content" from the company; regardless of how they word it (like saying it is a license) while you are making your purchase this law defines it. You may also purchase digital service with an ongoing subscription fee. They render your content unusable, putting them in violation of Article 5, 7 and possibly 8. The preferred remedy is that they make it usable again or failing that provide a refund.

The only real way around this is for the game to be free to play, or fully subscription based from the beginning. Then it is classified by this directive as a digital service. However, if they sell digital content like skins or other items then it again is covered as a digital good even if only used within the service (unless the purchase is actually declared time limited at the moment of purchase). In any case they would need to tell you the length of time for which you are purchasing service.

If you are in the EU, demand a refund under this directive or that they supply you with the content you purchased. If you don't get a refund, issue a chargeback if your credit card company is willing.
us code 106 gives the copyright holder exclusive rights of derivative works

so yes even at home, making art for a book you dont have permission for, and isnt seen by anyone but you, is still copyright infringement
My question is how they're going to tag these videos? Videos without any text doesn't seem that useful.
Yeah lots of people don't really want to just read the news, they want to discuss it. Most people on reddit have stopped opening news article links entirely since there's always a comment or two that summarize it without having to wade through the sludge of ads and autoplaying videos, or worse, wasting your time reading the first sentence and then getting hit by a paywall. News sites are one of the most user hostile places on the internet.
> I can’t really speak to Fuchsia systems, but a lot (most?) Linux desktop distros use stub or systemd-boot bootloading these days.

Which ones are you thinking of? Most 'desktop' distros I've used recently still default to Grub (Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint, Ubuntu) though I'd certainly be glad if change is on the horizon.
I miss LILO, life was song much simpler, to this day I barely understand grub beyond basic kernel parameters.
The way I see it, someone is going to meddle with your freedom either way. The only choice you have is if that's going to be the government (which would hopefully lean more towards your side) or private profit-driven companies (which are happy to sacrifice you for every penny).
Is it? I know cancerous companies like EA and Ubisoft do that, but are they actually the majority? I’m not a mainstream gamer, so I really can’t tell. None of the games I play require an internet connection.
Would you like to spell them out? It's not exactly clear if you're thinking of the same ideas as other people, a conspiracy to take over the world, or something in between.
In a way we are moving towards a more honest/ethical way of marketing and selling/leasing games and software in general: SaaS, or subscriptions.

Purchasing a subscription very clearly conveys the ultimately temporary and ephemeral nature of the purchase.

Note: I'm not saying this is necessarily a good or bad thing nor whether we should like or hate it, I'm merely pointing out a shift in market trends.
There are lots of other issues that can occur with scans beyond just the raw resolution: misaligned pages (part of the text accidentally cut off from the scan), accidentally skipped pages, colour illustrations scanned in black and white, etc.

With a sufficiently robust QA process, you may be able to catch most of these issues. However, you can never reduce the probability to zero, and people scanning old computer manuals don't always have the necessary resources to implement the most robust QA process.
There are restrictions, but SVG is an example of an image file type that can run JavaScript (again, there are legitimate use cases for this).
Pokémon Hacker Arrested for Selling Modified Violet Monsters
Congratulations on your launch!

I went to have a look and maybe wishlist it, but at that price it was an easy impulse to just buy with DLC to support you. Good luck with your future games.
I am amazed how people always find a way to make this kind of thing work. kudos!
The reason for the wood in the bottom is to store moisture, not to produce nutrients for the plants.

So you should prefer already weakened/semi decomposed wood (just pick old tree branches off the ground in a forest).

Besides, as the linked article explains, a typical mound has a lifespan of 5-6 years [1].

I don't see how your argument about human lifespan is relevant here?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCgelkultur#Lifespan
People are already using the term to be boeinged , similar to what we saw with Epstein . Doesn’t matter if they did it, people will believe he was killed and thus it will prevent whistleblowers around the world
I miss LOADLIN
Seems like we could have both.
I say, vote with your wallet. Buy more games from Ubisoft, I'm sure they have learned their lesson, and won't do any similar shenanigans again. Just like they did the last time. And the time before that. And...
I would think the JVM requirement makes it a non-starter. But I could have it all wrong -- when it comes to "devops" no amount of unnecessary complexity and dependencies seem too much for some people.

I use Go and bash scripting.
Wouldn't it make sense to release it on Android as well, given it should probably be quite easy with Godot, or is that market just too saturated and attract cloners?

Though you'd need to think about how to do the controls on touch screen.
I get both you and your parent's PoV but you gotta be aware that the people working on the first iPhone and Android were also working basically 24/7 up until the launch, and Apple even moved them into hotels next to the office so they wouldn't have to commute.

Similarly, China is also now in a race of rapid technologization to catch up or surpass the US competitors and you don't get there by working only 40h/week.

US big tech success proved that for the right amount of money clearly enough skilled people would work brutal schedules, so I also see no problem if this work relationship is consensual and agreed by both parties and can be terminated at any time if it's not bearable for the workers, especially since those skilled tech workers have plenty of other options for working lax schedules for less money if they wish so.

But if they voluntarily choose the brutal schedules for the money, it's their call and why should I or other parties have a say in this?
It's a single player game, that requires check-ins to an online server. When Ubisoft shuts down their servers the single player will be unplayable.
I use Kagi many times daily for search and for access to Clause 3 Opus. Can't say I care about t-shirts. Keep up the good work.
With Dependabot this takes me less than 10 min a week across 20 repos. Because we have lots of integration tests, we automerge patch updates automatically.
Security engineer jailed for 3 years for $12M crypto hacks
Adalm-Pluto Overview
Yup I think it’s best to leave credits and debits behind. We can use more than 2 bits these days.

I think a far more intuitive system is use negative numbers with a symmetrical accounting equation:

Assets - Liabilities = Income - Expense

Then you always think in terms of:

- Do I have more or less assets?

- Do I owe more or less liabilities?

- Did I make more of less profits?

- Did I make more or less losses?

You can then use the accounting equation to check your reasoning.
I go more into it here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40021375
Critics are noting that Ubisoft did this to prevent exactly that.
I guess there are a couple of issues with that:

1. Panels are fixed in place and don't have title bars etc. They're the only window type like that so you'd have to go to extra effort to make a UI to "lock" windows and unlock them or whatever.

2. If you delete the launcher then how do users start apps? Some old DEs let you right click the desktop but that's not very discoverable.

Much easier just to have settings somewhere do let you say which side (if any) you want panels on.
I had great luck with Limene! :)
> We need laws that say "if your software can stop functioning if a company goes under, without a technical reason, you can't say 'buy', you can only say 'rent'".

No, we really don't, because the only thing this will accomplish is make them change the "buy" button to a "rent" or "subscribe" button. People will pay for it anyway, because most of them don't care. Things like Game Pass have already gone a long way in normalizing the renting of digital games, and digital media in general is slowly moving towards a subscription-only future. Almost nobody buys music and movies anymore, for example.

If the problem is to actually be solved, we need to stop this shift towards an online-only subscription-based future entirely. Unfortunately, I don't think that's ever going to happen.
Actually, with refind being a thing, I'm not sure why grub is still a thing.

Also why MS' bootmgr stuff is still a flaming pile of junk.

Edit: And why MS has never given us a way to dictate where it installs its junk and/or to not install its junk!!!!!!
> PRs that wouldn’t build would be opened

Isn't that exactly what you want from the dependency update system? If some dependency bump breaks the build, why wouldn't you want to know about it? And if not, how would this system know that the PR will fail before opening it? I'm not sure I get what behaviour you expect.
Some companies do, but most don't as they have trouble managing remote workers. Forcing companies to become good at it eliminates what few barriers keep them from follow suit.

Timezones are a barrier, but 650 million people live within three timezones of the SF Bay Area.
I'm one of those folks that did it with a pencil. Haha. Maybe I was lucky? That was my first overclock and it ran pretty well.
Digital "ownership" isn't really ownership even when the companies aren't being assholes because you can't resell the thing. Hardly anyone noticed this ability being taken away, but back in the day, the secondary market for games on physical media, especially console games, was huge. It was much more affordable to buy a pre-owned game than a new one, with no downsides.
Sorry, but that’s nonsense. There were millions of humans living side by side with these bison before both were genocided.

Equating “civilization” with “humanity” or “human nature” is a false equivalence.
But it would be ok maybe to use sheets just for storage. I wonder what size limitation do they have.
This.

It's what any minimally civilized adult does in any context, to respect someone else's efforts or valuables regardless if a thing is valuable to yourself. At least enough to try to give it back. At least enough to warn "hey, I'm just going throw this away".

It sounds like what happened here is individual turnover, where the entity that accepted the material is not the same entity that discarded the material.

It's still a vcf failure though, not a blameless accident.

As an organization they accepted a task and then did not do it. An individual leaving should not cause that. We invented writing and institutional knowledge thousands of years ago. And the organization certainly retains the benefits of the ongoing organizational continuity.

If anyone would say that turnover excuses anything, then I say that can only be valid if the organizations name and other assets also all evaporate at the same time as their obligations and agreements evaporate. You don't get to shed one and keep the other!

So it's fair to just judge the organization for committing this act the same as you would a person. Never trust them again with anything you care about. And as in Jason's case where he particularly cares about specifically preserving documents, and so is particularly burned by someone dropping that specific ball they agreed to take from him specifically, in his case it's totally fair for him to not want to even associate at all with them ever again, even if we all don't have to go that far.

They burned him especially badly, retroactively made him fail at a job he has set himself, by giving him a thumbs up we got this but then pissing on the work.

That makes Jason into a bad steward since he trusted them. He's not really a bad steward of course but it doesn't change the fact that what he set out to accomplish, and a responsibility he himself accepted from yet others before him, has failed. Not everyone has to care so much about some old magazines, but he does, and VCF knew he does, and we all benefit from the fact that there are people like him out there. So I say it's totally reasonable that he writes them off as dead to him. That is a correct and rational and even constructive reaction for him.

As he says in the article, he now has much more robust conversations on this. That's constructive.

I think it is constructive to tell everyone too.

Nothing wrong with VCF having to work hard and earn back a good name. And nothing wrong with everyone watching and being aware if they fail to.
It's not usable on an iPad, so likely not on mobile either.

I was able to do edits in RapID (the Facebook fork), although you need to reload between each edit.
And what about SVG's with JavaScript? I once saw a security company reporting to disable user uploaded SVG's.
A MITM TLS firewall product by Palo Alto Networks who hire employees for Unit 42 based in Israel who are definitely overseen by IDF, Mossad, NSA. There is a backdoor in every one of their products. And sending "telemetry" data to PAN is just a "security" ruse to further digitally fingerprint the end users. With so much i/o data and overwhelmed dev teams, these CEOs/CSOs trust &
surrender the keys to their company to intelligence agencies by proxy. Then when these intelligence agencies want to sink the stock of these companies they flip the switch with a ransomware or other zero day, which they'll blame on china, to keep the cyber attack fear alive, prospering whatever other companies they have in mind. Plus gathering immense amounts of data on all operational aspects of that company, which then can be sent to investment group BlackRock's super computer "Aladdin" for further manipulation and control. Think about it, a MITM TLS appliance, own by a 3rd party, sitting in the middle of a conglomerate company's network. Real stupid.
I'm the same, so I just:

brush -> rinse -> brush again (with new toothpaste)

This way I get to rinse and naturally brush longer.
Scalar and binary quantization for pgvector vector search and storage
Ask HN: Is programming a drug?
I am pondering why I find it so hard to stop working on a project while I am not getting paid.

I get paid by the hour during business hours to code. Why is there such a pull to code out of hours and how do others manage this?
interesting points in there about the next pgvector release:

> The upcoming pgvector 0.7.0 release is planning to include functionality that allows for you to use both scalar and binary quantization as part of your indexing strategy. Specifically, pgvector 0.7.0 adds support for indexing 2-byte floats (halfvec) and bit/binary vectors (using the PostgreSQL bit data type). The 0.7.0 will also add support for sparse vectors via sparsevec, but that will be for a future blog post.

> ASIDE: These quantization techniques also let you index vectors that are larger than 2,000 dimensions, which has been a major request for pgvector. halfvec can store up to 4,000 dimensions, bit can store up to 64,000 dimensions, and sparsevec can store up to 1,000 nonzero elements (which means it can store vectors with very high dimensionality).
> taking away ownership of a product we paid for

If you should ever bother too look into your end user license agreements (EULA), you'd know you never owned anything to begin with. Nothing was ever sold to you. You acquired a license to use the product under the specified terms set forth in the EULA. If the terms of this license agreement don't sit right with you, I suggest you don't take the deal.
Too expensive and they're probably scared about how uncontrollable and unreliable LLMs are. Can't say I blame them really. Every time a company deploys an LLM you get a news story like "hurr durr I tricked it into saying poopy pants" or whatever.
Client-side JavaScript and React criticism: What comes next?
The VPN is just part of the picture (sock puppet accounts complaining about speed of dev, no meaningful history of other contributions from the dev, no trusted "personal network" for the dev, etc) that in hindsight should have raised red flags.
Yeah, I could just use that flag on Linux and let the kernel do more work but I'm afraid I might have to add more logic for looping for a failed mmap only for linux, and more ifdefs usually mean I'm doing something wrong. I'd rather roll with my current strategy (finding a safe pivot and keep bumping without checking anything)
Why Michael Moorcock Despises Tolkien and C. S. Lewis
China does not have a choice, does it? The funny thing is that, whatever the west tried to prevent China from acquiring, in the end China managed to crack it and eventually made a better version.
Why govt is not doing anything about it? bureaucracy is well known problem in Germany.
"digital ownership" LOL

People need to realize that most of the things they buy are actually rented.

Same goes for Facebook pages, Spotify/Apple songs, Amazon books, Google/Apple developer accounts. If you don't really own it and can control it, it's not yours ;-)
> Isn't that just insecure???

You seem to be singularly focused on the software quality of the VPN. It’s important, but is far from the only aspect of security.

The company is worried both about keeping the bad guys out of their network and keeping their IP + secrets inside. The motivation for the TLS MITM blinks boxes is for the latter.

It’s easy as an employee to simply discount the value of decrypting your internet traffic, but the truth is that the company has a responsibility to protect against malicious insiders, malware/ransomware exfiltration, etc.
Even let's go all the way down and say the backdoor was directly written by Kaspersky themselves, does it change the value of the content (which is purely technical analysis) anyhow?
Sorry, but this can't be right. Companies fly in people on B2 visas all the time to do onboarding, work on specific projects for a short period, and participate in offsites.

I've done this 10+ times in my career, for big and small companies, and it was never an issue even when explicitly saying these things with border patrol/immigration.

What gets you in trouble at the border is the risk of permanently staying, and the risk of drugs&money.
Conversely, do you have evidence against any of it?
>autoencoding during training

Could you elaborate on this?
You can. Did you? If so, it doesn’t seem like it has had any effect whatsoever. Time for new tactics.

This is of course setting aside the absolutely asinine comment that France and Australia are “authoritarian governments.”
See https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/defying-cavity-lantern-biow... for a good discussion about it.
ADHD brains tend to lack dopamine in the frontal lobe (afaik).
People with ADHD therefore seek out activities to boost dopamine. Some can be destructive and harmful (drug, thrill seeking, destructive relationships) or some people find hits from problem solving - mathematical problems perhaps, relationship problems, or coding problems. You are creating / building / solving. It probably gives you a hit - and your subconscious is sensible enough to realise some of the other options are really bad for you, so rewards the less destructive way of getting a hit.
EULAs are nearly worthless where I live though, so actually if it says "buy" the product is bought not rented, no matter what the EULA says.
Oxide and Friends interviewed Andres Freund for their show on Wednesday where he discussed the discovery, including the slowness from all the symbol translations

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0C04JlCpMFe07C1XCswbZ9?si=B...
Digital game downloads are as scam. You never owned it in the first place.