skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Gemini 'News Waffle' service it's just an HTML decrapifier, you can put almost any web source as the input. Copy and paste the URL from a browser and that's it.
Well, a few thoughts.

1) There's a huge difference between a temporary 'crunch' (as in the examples you gave) and a prevailing company culture; organising a company such that the (unwritten?) expectation is of '007' working just shouldn't be an acceptable model.

2) I think you're conflating two different issues, deliberately or not. Fundamentally, yes, I agree that individuals should have a free choice over how they spend their time and their physical capital in return for money; and further, in this case, given we're taking about educated and sought-after workers, some of the arguments that apply to treatment of lower-paid workers don't apply. However, the issue is to what extent one views it as moral that a company is organised, implicity or explicity, along these lines: as the argument often goes, if you can't run your company profitably or effectively without resorting to such measures, you need to rethink your fundamentals.

3) And here, of course, it's probably not about scraping by in a low-margin sector, given it's R&D and they're apparently offering double the market rate: it's just about an pre-existing toxic company culture. And given what we know about people's output not scaling linearly with extreme hours worked, it doesn't even make rational sense. In theory, they could pay lower (but still attractive) salaries, hire 50% more people, work them less hard, and (all else being equal) probably be even more productive.
This will get more ruthless over the years as the attention economy isn’t growing anymore.

It’s only a matter of time until publishers decide they can’t afford leaving people waste time that could be monetized by new titles on older, no longer monetizable titles

It’s as inevitable in capitalism as is making worse appliances to ensure future sales - Games operate in a weird state where competition isn’t possible - nobody can just offer a better version of the game
Emacs Info Expressions
There are painpoints in working with ”modern web stuff”. But:

> My counter-argument is that the simplest tool has the largest chance of not breaking over long periods of time. I have dynamic websites I built 10 years ago that still run almost untouched because I used the simplest stack possible.

My whole argument was that any reasonable frontend stack can work if your requirements stay constant. But let’s say in a startup you definitely don’t know on day one what you’ll need to implement. So it’s understandable why people pick something that’s popular and capable.
Huawei is in state of existential crisis. If they (China) don't have a breakthrough in chip manufacturing in 2-5 years, Huawei as the company will be finished and along with China's plan to be independent of Western world. So, think of this as their Manhattan project, not sexy or romantic, but necessary.
I want Overwatch 1 back
Not an answer to any of my questions.
I have fond memories of using SYSLINUX + MEMDISK to make DOS bootdisks which loaded themselves into RAM. Mostly to play games in the library.
DragonFire: A British laser directed-energy weapon technology demonstrator
The question is: do you actually want to spend time dealing with that or just nuke anything that gives you a legal headache?

When big corpos tell you to jump you jump.
And, as every communications systems, it was abused (as mentioned briefly in the WP page) by stock brockers between Paris and Bordeaux via a side channel attack.

They used it to covertly transmit swing in trading prices between the Paris stock exchange and Bordeaux. If memory serves, they used unused symbols or abused error correction, I don't remember which, but from a technical standpoint it was pretty advanced and covert.

I seem to remember they only got caught because somebody snitched them when they suddenly got veeeery good a predicting prices in Bordeaux, some 400km away from Paris.

It appears transmission speed for a symbol was on the order of magnitude of 7 meters per second, and full messages travelled 400km in 9 minutes instead of 4 days by horse.
So speed was a ginormous improvement despite low bandwidth and very high capex & opex and limited operating hours.

It operated from 1793 to 1854 in continental France.
We tried, the source code DLC has a full touch interface, but we ran into a Godot issue when doing the testing in the Google Play Console where we'd have to switch back to the GL renderer which, unfortunately, makes the game unplayable. It works on our devices, but we don't want to ship something that is likely to break on a number of devices.
I suppose parent comment don't discuss the quality of the article but the theoretical danger of connecting to a server under Kaspersky control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_bans_and_allegations...
Trying to profit off someone else's IP is the problematic part(as with any fake brand products). They don't go after every ad-supported save file repositories of curious interest.
The point is, GRUB is unnecessary complexity for probably 99.9% of all systems that boot Linux and maybe one other OS.
> What I don’t understand is why you are proposing a model (insurance) that doesn’t work in practice, and is susceptible to high levels of corruption. Why this would work differently in the case of open source.

The legal/regulation problems here are valid concerns, but the model is a bit different.

The primary corruption of insurance has a lot to do with their ability to deny paying for what they ought to cover. That's a problem. The incentives at play pretty much guarantee it will always be a problem, for which strong regulations are necessary. We don't have strong regulations in the USA for e.g., health insurance, so I can understand why the word "insurance" is unattractive.

> Why this would work differently in the case of open source.

Great question.

The very incentive that makes insurance highly corrupt is what I'm proposing be leveraged to benefit open source developers.

A hypothetical insurance company would want to minimize their downside (paying money out), in order to maximize profits, because that's the economical system we live in today. The model I'm proposing is that investing in "the supply chain" would provide resources to offset risk.

On the other side, companies will want to minimize their spend on insurance. An insurance provider may offer reduced rates for companies that demonstrate some measurable commitment to security and responsible data handling practices (a.k.a. not collecting data they don't need in the first place, in case a breach does occur).

This insurance provides a currently absent mechanism for security assessors to affect positive change that protects the rest of us even if the company doesn't want to actually put in the effort.

That's why I proposed it as a contender.
You may have a look attt elilo which is lilo with efi support. Slackware still ship it.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/elilo/
Now I feel happy there is such a place where that is this way and people live without worrying about where to live. Thank you for sharing this knowledge.
Launch sales seem to be pretty standard on Steam, you can only set it up before the release and you can't change it afterwards AFAIK.
Nice joke LOL :-) I hope just hope nobody feels offended.
I don't know if the rest of the world went for the idea of the "atomic family" like we did, and subsequent disconnection from extended family, but it can't help.
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In my country, it looks like companies encourage poor people to go self-employed because it'd be easier to take advantage of them.

Rich people also don't self-employ. They just hijack companies through cronyism and such.
This article, while interesting, includes some language that could mislead readers into thinking psychedelics may have helped some people in their escapes.

I think an analysis of the recovered hostages who were at the festival would be useful for comparison here (for example, if 40% of survivors were on psychedelics or MDMA [which I also consider a psychedelic] but 60% of recovered hostages from the festival were on psychedelics, it would paint the opposite picture).
I believe even with the visa it’s still up to the immigration agent. I came close to trouble once when asked for my H1B visa petition document (not the visa in the passport). I had a photocopy and was told that wasn’t enough and although they’d let me in this time they expected to see the original in future. I also travelled with a letter from my employer explaining where I worked, job title etc as extra documentation just in case to derisk further.
Curated List of References Relevant to Physicians and the Intellectually Curious
Pilots did not invent checklists in 1935. When did they appear?
The entire visible Internet unanimously declares that the checklists appeared after the crash of the “Model 299” military aircraft. This article shows that this is completely wrong, and the history of checklists is much more interesting.
You should check again. Numbers like 1099551473989 have been factored successfully by now. The arxiv link in the sibling post is a good start.
"The enemy of art is the absence of limitation." --orson welles
I pointed out this weakness the other day on the internet. I got attacked by open source software armies.
> It was two years of effort from at least one guy and more likely a team.

You think these guys have standups?
> https://steamcommunity.com/app/241560/discussions/0/38039015...

> Update

> I can now confirm that local save data functionality is indeed built into all our copies and is not absent from the game, we have even obtained a sample save data file. This + the fact that we literally see offline mode in action in the prologue means that there 100% is an offline mode, if anyone was doubting at this point.

Which results in:

> https://steamcommunity.com/app/241560/discussions/0/43060751...

> Save Game Dumper now available

> However, you only have a limited time, after 31 march the servers will go down and your save file will be forever lost.
I've been saying for years that copyright should have a mandatory escrow, just like patents. If you want to apply for long-term copyright, an original copy should be stored somewhere like a national library. That copy is not allowed to be encrypted or otherwise protected either (at least not with a key that's not available to the escrow party).
My browser, OS and a few apps at work are all trying to opt me into letting them show me news (and breaking news, news alerts etc.) at times of their choice. It feels like every other time I open edge I'm asked to opt in to news feeds on my new tab page. (Edge is required for company intranet/SSO unless you want to piss people off by "tampering with security measures".)

I'd be in favour of charging google, MS etc. enough for news that they stop doing this. If I want to read the news, I can open a tab myself.
So does David Brin:

J.R.R. Tolkien -- enemy of progress (2002):

https://www.salon.com/2002/12/17/tolkien_brin/
It’s far less efficient crossing the Atlantic than modern jets. The advantage of something like this is it doesn’t need to gain altitude to become efficient so it’s decent for very shorter distances.
Okay, thank you for providing the perspective. I could never imagine it can be this way. Personally I don't have children because of one simple reason - I don't have nearly enough free time and money to have them raised reasonably well while maintaining my comfortable life level and my wife says exactly the same.
Not writing javascript is a good enough reason for me tbh. Makes the world a better place.
I had a 720 and loved it more than any other device I've ever had. It really changed my workflow and I used it daily for about ten years. I finally had to move away from it because connectivity and compatibility became too much of an issue.

These days, a 13" slim notebook with a good suspend mode is nearly as convenient as that 720, so I doubt I would be interested even if an updated version was available.

The 200LX had two big draws, the specialized keyboard and the ability to run desktop software, but the bigger keyboard on the 690/720 allowed touch typing, which was the biggest thing for me.
These are more of an analyst tool for detection than blocking.
Editorialised title. Google "threatens" while California "proposes".
If you can do this one-way data dump, it sounds like a good idea. The issue starts when you have seven different sheets that is supposed to authoritatively control some other processes. The people writing in the spreadsheet can basically do any kind of mutation to the spreadsheet, so it will break extremely easily.
So what? The nature of the project matters. Seriously F all of the people who worked on it however many or few it was.

It's one thing to attack a target, it's quite another to try to give yourself a master key to every rpm or deb linux box in the world.
France Telecom bought Orange (then a UK company) and decided several years laters to rebrand the french "Itineris" mobile brand "Orange" and progressively did the same across most of its business lines, both domestic and abroad.

Everything from landlines to datacenters to service centers is operated under a unified brand, Orange, originally stemming from this UK mobile operator.
(I think there's a few things here and there such as live tv broadcast that have not been rebranded but I'm not entirely which and why).

The "France Telecom" brand has, I think, completely disappeared.

Funnily enough, through hoops of corporate history and divestment, there are now completely separated business entities in completely different sectors than telcos that operate under the "Orange" brand, such as Orange Bank in several countries, mostly sub-saharan Africa, that do not have anything todo with Orange/France Telecom anymore.
> One insurance company pays, they all benefit. Companies would simply wait for someone else to pay. There would need to be some kind of government agency forcing all of them to pay in.

Sure, with some caveats: You can scope it down to only very large companies very easily.

> They would pass the costs to customers. In essence, your suggestion leads to a Cyber tax collected by the IRS.

That's a bit oversimplified, I think. To the companies affected by the regulation, sure. Not every company would need to buy in. (At least, I hope not. Mom and pop shops aren't exactly flush with cash!)

> Next they have to divvy up the funding to pay OSS developers. Now you have the same problem you started with.

It's the spirit of the same problem, but the distribution is different.

Before, it's "make the US government funnel taxpayer dollars into OSS directly". Now it's "the US government forces megacorps to buy insurance, and the insurance companies figure out how to minimize risk by investing in the supply chain" one layer removed.

One reason why this might be better than the original version of the problem is that you can simply (but not easily; nothing in politics is ever easy) reproduce the same regulations and insurance business models in other countries, and the load is now balanced across the globe. Then the whims of individual countries' leadership is no longer a single point of failure.

In the abstract, you are correct. But the details matter.

Of course, I could be wrong. I'm not an expert on policy, economics, or law.
When you run a vintage computing festival, and accept historical material from one of the most prominent conservationists of computer artifacts alive, there is absolutely no excuse for throwing "old magazines" away.

These guys were not goodwill accepting random trinkets from random people. Jason Scott is basically saying "I discovered they are hacks, and I will not support hacks"
I've filed a bug in my backlog to add a doodle of a cool bear somewhere in the post.
Genuine question, anyone knows the "bootup" time when you load a page? I imagine htmx "engine" needs to find all the elements on the page with hx- prefix. Is this fast?
early spring is always the worst time for me because i'm in the thick of a hard semester (in spring i teach compilers), i'm helping getting youth baseball rolling, i have to get taxes worked out, etc.

once june rolls around i can dedicate a lot more time to htmx

good news is that most issues are fairly obscure: the htmx codebase isn't too complicated

i posted a walk through of the important parts of the code here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=javGxN-h9VQ

2.0 (coming soon) works pretty much the same way
There are people in this thread equating consumer protections to "authoritarian governments". This is patently ridiculous. Consumer rights and protections (along with environmental protections) are probably the single greatest thing our governments provide citizenry. This is also being championed by the EU the most. Frankly I want my government to mandate I can't be screwed by the handful of hundred billion dollar companies more than I already am. "Market forces" are completely irrelevant when the entire industry is a one giant racketeering exercise.

Fortunately I can choose to only buy DRM free ebooks, and DRM free games, but this is < 1% of media available and certainly never the most popular titles.

This needs to change. There needs to be laws in place to protect consumers from this shitty behaviour - with or without DRM. Steam for all it's faults have said since day 1 than there is a mechanism in Steam to unlock all of your games should Valve go bankrupt: I'm not sure if this is true now they sell mainly over peoples' games. Steam also never remove the ability for you to download and play a game you have bought - even when the publishers have delisted and removed it from Steam.
News AI Coding Is Going from Copilot to Autopilot
I think the sign up page is because the repo is blocked. It probably redirects to that for non-logged-in users.
It’s actually fuzzy in favor of fair use though.

This is more akin to buying multiple books on a topic and then writing a new book on the topic using the aggregate learnings from the original books.
"runaway fascism"

Another garbage comment that builds/propagates narratives, has zero nuance, and won't lead to any HN-worthy discussion beyond feeding the confirmation bias of local folks.
Why does it feel like a disproportionate amount of gaming companies are slimy and sketchy?

Every sector has its dodgy folks but the % here seems way off. Most of the big names seem to be steeped in scandal
I had simple online tool with nice simple design getting 5-7k visitors a day. It was ranked top3-top5 in most regions.
But few months ago google just shadowbanned it and now showing alternatives with bazillion ads.

Imo google at least send email why.
Kickin' the most ass
Gonna be one hell of a retro...
How do you make that assumption? I dodn't expect one of a comic collection or classic transformers to disappear in a few years, other than theft. Which is what this more closely resembles in practical terms.
Every time i re-read 'The Lord of the Rings' I'm amazed at how 'racist' it is in the literal sense of the word. Everything is built around races: the good characters are from the north/west, while the bad ones come from the south/east, etc.
Can confirm, I did some automation on a Ritto TwinBus doorbell using ESPHome, and it is rock stable:

https://keilerkonzept.com/blog/ritto/
You can sideload in Firefox Android beta branch.

Settings> about Firefox> tap on the fox logo a few times> debug menu enabled> now you see "install ad on from file" under advanced in the settings menu.
Every time this comes up someone in the comments pops up to smugly remind us that the EULA says we, as consumers, don't have rights. Why are you like this? Everyone knows we don't have rights. That's why we're complaining.
yagni: you add a library to help with that more complicated feature when you need it

nothing wrong with using htmx for the relatively dumber parts of your app then using something like preact or alpine when you need more reactive behavior
Thanks for the twitter link, the author has now posted a wetransfer link and is thinking about another home.
wow i just got banned by panasonic - rate limited
>30 seconds of serious thought would tell you that your observation is wrong.

Or, maybe I just have a different opinion.

>news organization can just change their robots.txt to block google from indexing their site

You don't seem to have thought beyond this superficial robots.txt "solution". Yes, we all know that option is available. But, as I've self-righteously offered for consideration, Google is one of a few sites that essentially monopolizes traffic generation, so they've positioned themselves to make it untenable for sites to block Google's crawling (and free monetization) of their content.

Cory Doctorow has (another) recent Twitter thread on how tech monopolies have grown virtually unchecked and now abuse the ecosystems in which they operate, increasingly clawing back more value for themselves at the expense of others. IMO this fits the pattern. Look it up. You might find it interesting. Or not.

>They don't do that because that would instantly kill all their search traffic...and most likely kill their business.

And there you've just stated exactly the problem I'm referencing, with apparently zero awareness of how someone could find it problematic. I mean, you just said "they could solve the problem by blocking Google via robots.txt, but that would kill their business".

So, not exactly a solution then, right?

It's baffling that you can say this but still angrily scream that "It's robots.txt! Case closed!"

>It's been explained to you several times. Instead you're more interested in acting self-righteous (it's honestly pretty cringeworthy).

You clearly don't hear yourself. Calm down.

EDIT: out of curiosity, I just took a quick look at your recent comments to others. One of the first to pop up was this:

>What are you even talking about? That's not how SEO works in the slightest....?

Lol am I still reading HN or is this Reddit?

Yeah, no self-righteous cringe there.
A hundred years from now, people will still be reading Tolkien and Lewis, and almost nobody will remember who Moorcock was.
That clarity is the point, though not the ultimate goal. If you understand from the start the ways in which you can be screwed, then you’ll think harder before giving them money and may refrain from doing so. Which in turn hurts their profit, which in turns makes them reconsider the business model.

In theory.
I might go a step further in that N years without general availability, is abandonment and the work becomes public domain.
Could you drop a link? Would be interested in testing this as I’ve never had a safari crash on my iPhone 14 PM
Air resistance. Commercial aircraft fly as high as they reasonably can in order to reduce the amount of atmosphere they have to push through. The ground effect craft operates at sea level.
Yeah this is not a DMCA thing, there is nothing copyrighted in the code.

The core problem is the newspapers wanting their cake and eat it. They want those sweet google hits but they don't want to give their articles to readers without payment. So there's always a way around it if you can manage to fake a google spider.

For me the current model is so broken. I end up on lots of different newspaper sites. But no, I'm not going to sign up for a subscription to the washington post or whatever to view 1 or 2 articles per month. That's just ridiculous, I don't even live in America. I subscribe to the local paper because it has content I read every day.

If I'd subscribe for every article I get referred to by google or here on HN I would spend hundreds in monthly subscriptions :P It's just not a reasonable ask.
Most startups can’t hang on to their explosive revenue/user growth without also growing headcount. There are plenty of bad VCs out there but there are also plenty of founders who postpone recruitment because it’s a drag.
Definitely not. Nothing noteworthy happens locally, and if it does it will be on the national news.
Well, yeah, they’re books for children, of course they sound like fairy tales. Maybe Moorcock doesn’t understand his genre.