skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon's Push to Crack Trader Joe's–and Dominate Everything
We used GDScript, more than 5000 lines of it.
This is a conclusory argument since it doesn't explain why this particular alleged act of selling video game saves is illegal.

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/85973/how-to-address...

I'd like to know whether this Japanese law explicitly says "selling video game save data is illegal" (seems less likely) or if there is an interpretation of the Unfair Competition Act that the alleged facts constitute counterfeiting or something.

https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2803/e...

I'm not a lawyer so I'm not an expert on the Japanese legal system but merely asserting that the law bans a specific act isn't helpful because it doesn't explain how.
Had a good laugh. Now that you mention it, we can't quite decide ourselves.
You just need a lot of money and some lawyers, everyone just folds as soon as lawyers and legal threats get involved.
Toothpaste is a fantastic and cheap abrasive that makes short work of cleaning up hard metals. I don’t want that stuff anywhere near my teeth.
I am pretty much os agnostics, i sure do enjoy linux because of being so customizable and i am quite good at it but i don't mind using OSX or others if there was..

but when it come to windows, i can't for my life of it using it.. it's very slugggish for me (compared to the arch distro i have on that same laptop) and it's unbearably intrusive (so many shortcuts are owned by the OS that i can't disable)
It occurs to me that a decent strategy on the large boards is to look for larger primes, since they are likely to only work one way
It is quite an exciting era to be alive in - both because of the escalating conflicts between nuclear powers but also because we're welcoming another billion+ humans into living in an advanced industrial society. Hard to believe that 1970s China has come this far. Hopefully India follows close behind.
I am pretty sure that AMD only has debugging tools for graphics API and never offered anything beyond printf debugging for OpenCL.

And VS integration means intellisense and syntax highlighting as well, not just calling their compiler.
I've worked with both, Laravel and Django, for many many years.

Laravel is miles ahead of Django, in every single aspect. The template system is incredible while the django one is stuck in the 90s. The integrated job queues, scheduling, asset bundling, etc, etc. And yes, you also have Admin interfaces for Laravel, both paid and free, and they're as good or even better depending how you look at them. Community is also a lot bigger which means more packages and better maintained.
Doesn't the power generated count as part of your carbon footprint?
The first content that worked for me was "le Site du Zéro", an old French popular e-learning website with a good community, made by a teenager for teenagers. The point was to teach noobies programming in a fun and colloquial way with many emojis.
This is why I data hoard

I have friends who are Serbian living elsewhere and are about to start a family

They have no Serbian children’s media afaik (and it’s not exactly easy to find)

I found ~200GB of Serbian dubbed children’s media someone painstakingly digitised on /t/

I’m keeping it for when they eventually have those kids

Unless shown otherwise, assume nothing is archived correctly, completely or at all
I think the biggest hump to get over for software engineers is that the physical world doesn't have the same kind of abstractions because of the inconvenient realities of real materials. Software engineers have the luxury of playing around in purely constructed environments where a lot of the complexity is accidental complexity (like CSS frameworks or how email delivery is a mess due to long legacy) but there's some pure abstraction lurking around in the background crowded by our imperfections as a species. A lot of software engineers pride themselves on the ability to glean out that hidden, pure abstraction.

You get smacked in the face over and over again moving into physical that the real world just doesn't work that way. You can take something as simple as a flat sheet of metal and there's a half dozen different processes to make it (hot roll, cold roll, cast, milled etc.) that each have different properties but there's nothing abstract underlying it.

Here's what I suggest you go: Buy two big totes and then go to a second hand store and buy an arrangement of the most random items ever (eg: a clock radio, a fork, a teapot, a book, a tv, a sweater etc). Break each item down into constituent components and put them all in Tote A.

Pick something random from Tote A that you're curious about and the hard bit is actually finding the noun of what the manufacturing process is (ie: injection moulding, Surface Mount Pick & Place etc.) to have made that thing.

The thing I really like after that is to go to youtube and find companies trying to sell machines/services using youtube as sales collateral (random example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uet6TNtUXI). They're talking about their process in the terms the customer cares about and it helps you get into the mindset of the customer about what's important in this manufacturing process.

Eventually, as stuff moves from Tote A to Tote B, get a 3rd Tote and move stuff to Tote C when you understand the upstream process as well. If you do this often enough, eventually you start seeing a "grammar" of the physical world. You can look at a thing and understand how it was probably built and why certain choices were made to accomodate the realities that not every single manufacturing process is as easy to pull off (vs in software, you delete one library and replace it with another and you don't really think about it) and you just need to know these things to make anything.

You can specialize down at any point in this process and inevitably will but I think the fascinating thing about starting general is that you eventually just start doing a mental teardown of any engineered product you encounter in the world and builds into a lifelong practice. You instantly spot the others who share the practice via all their little tells in the world and you find a secret club of people where membership is via geeking out about physical design.
OK that is just nonsense
> Being aggressively wrong is no way to go through life. Vlad should be more humble, and open to being wrong, rather than being unnecessarily belligerent.

I think that if he had different type of personality then he wouldn't start this company - a regular, humble, humiliated, developer would just tremble, sweat and shiver at the thought of starting business straight competing with core Google, MS products. He needs to be believer and confident to pull this.
Also almost all leaders of great and (now) big companies seem to be type of people that regular Joe not necessarily would enjoy to be friends with.
That's the fun part. It's just HTML attributes, so you can test them without a full browser and JS engine. Just parse the HTML. Tests are super fast and never flaky.
Is this a maximum security architecture school?
As I wrote this I am on holiday, having bought an old Singer Sewing table, complete with foot-power mechanism. It's a lovely bit of furniture.

That said, where to put it (or more accurately, what it will replace) was very much part of the buying decision. (Fortunately it comes apart, so can fit in the car. )

But the author is right. Old furniture in homes is rare. Partly because there are a LOT more homes now (so less old furniture to go round) and partly because it takes time, and money, to furnish in a consistent "old furniture style".

It can also be -really- expensive. So becomes something of a "later in life" activity when funds allow.

Typically a bunch arrives on the market at once, so typically it goes to a dealer, and between transport, storage, sales etc, the estate won't get much.
I’ll bite. This slippery slope is what led people in the US rooting for pro guns laws
This could be a unique company idea and business practice that sells source code as DLC under a restrictive license.

Imagine Rockstar selling GTA-5 source code as DLC priced at 99.99.
More like if it was ever easy everyone already did it until it either became impossible to do easily or not worth enough money anymore to bother with.
Agree, you also need chlorine in the water to treat the distribution system of pipes to your home. So you need to filter chlorine at point of use anyways.
The last time I checked they even cheated to factor fifteen
Urbanized communities have let birthrates and so do highly educated ones. The (perceived?) opportunity cost of having a kid is much higher for educated professionals. This is the real reason why we are seeing population decline in the most developed countries.
> NYTs site is stellar. It’s fast and gorgeous and the articles are well-written and not full of clickbait and SEO spam

You may be operating on a model of the New York Times from ten or more years ago. I know I often find myself resorting to this model, at least until I remind myself that it no longer reflects reality.

Here are some of the headlines on the New York Times front page right now:

The Troubling Trend in Teenage Sex

Ocasio-Cortez Never Steered Money to a Key Arm of Her Party. Until Now.

New Zealanders Are Crazy for This Fruit. It’s Not the Kiwi.

Salt Is Hiding Everywhere. Can You Spot It?

What’s the Best Way to Get Rid of a Hangnail?

Where to Buy Plants Online
Wow this is really cool, thanks for linking!
Yeah I have seen some. NUI in particular was fairly present when I was living in Vietnam even 6-ish years ago.

I have lived in Thailand since though and yet to see more than a handful of electric scooters here.

In this market it would need to be Honda or Yamaha to take the first step.
Godot was fine, for the most part, it's a good engine for small games. The main issue was around working together and resolving conflicts with git (Godot isn't really working and constantly kept changing IDs in resource files), and it kept losing data in scenes when the code changed so we had to rebuild things several times. On previous test games we also ran into huge performance issues in the editor when we wanted to do too much work in scenes, so we had to switch to doing most of the work in code.

The worst part was when I had to rip out a bunch of testing code that used @tool for release as it seemed to cause issues when doing a release build. The engine is generally not great when you want to follow clean software engineering (e.g. dependency injection is not possible, I opened a proposal to that end here[1]).

[1]: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/8850
As an armchair specialist, I don't support the “owning each ssh server on the planet” reactions.

Public networks have too many eyes potentially (not just the admins responsible for specific systems). Traffic to ssh server that corresponds to suspicious activity but is also absent from logs would raise the alarms quite soon.

Hooking the build process also means that the main targets are places that are important enough to have their own siloed software repositories. Getting into two LTS systems was a bonus. I suppose that simpler exploits are available for popular systems (if they run regular complex applications instead of being a minimal empty box that securely does nothing).

The number of modification/decryption layers is probably not arbitrary. Most likely, each was added to evade detection by one or another protection system you and I don't know about, but with which attacker is familiar.
It's not going anywhere, it just needs to find a more reliable home.
Before pages the project was hosted on the server of the original maintainer.
No, this theory of harm is a direct consequence of the weird "moral rights" thing that is a part of Japanese copyright law.
Innocent until proven guilty. Why block future versions where the developer has fixed issues. Not a user has to wait for the developer to fix the issue and for Microsoft to update their blocklist. It’s hostile behavior that doesn’t make sense unless you want to push users away from these apps. They probably consider any start menu that doesn’t carry their ads as “broken”.
Actually, for some things, in some communities, I've found the opposite.

If it's free, people assume it's not worth much (perhaps defective, etc).

If you ask a token amount, more people respond.
I got some interesting results by feeding Claude 3 a very sparse primer for a conlang I wrote when I was 18.

There is zero chance this is anywhere in the models dataset, and we were able to perform basic translation to and from English.
Well the UA spoofing I perform is done to bypass sites not wanting to serve me content.
Oh wow, that's not good. We'll get in touch with Steam support and see if we can do anything about that. Would you mind dropping us an e-mail to make@something.pink so we can contact you when we sort this out?
How to use Git reflog to find lost commits
My dentist told me this in my last visit. It makes sense, but it's such a hard habit to break after decades of rinsing!
But how are you checking that e.g. on submit the HTMX replaced the correct selector inside another form and that on submitting that form HTMX uses a HX-Redirect header to send you to the right page? If you're not testing that, don't you get cases of tests passing when the UI is actually broken in the browser?
If it was buildable from source, I would buy a source code DLC for a great many games. However, I imagine that would not be possible for a lot of games because their engine is proprietary and their legal department would have something to say about that, too.
As close to end-to-end as practical. Playwright seems a lot heavier than standard Django tests.
I'm not a user, but you must have found a great market because your users are anxious about the company failing. The fact that they spinned the fact that you were able to create a company and a whole t -shirt operation on a marketing budget as a bad thing is telling. You're doing great. The t-shirt op is a great investment an will return a great value.
The CF-31 is discontinued, it seems? But other models are available.

https://na.panasonic.com/us/computers-tablets/computers/lapt...
I mean sure but that means nothing to the average user. You have to appeal to your audience, unfortunately, and the audience of mass users has shown time and again that ux is extremely important over anything else.
This game made me so ill. I'm glad someone else had the same experience. I really wanted to enjoy it but just got sick whenever I played.
DV lottery is for the GreenCard, not for citizenship. You can return your Green card at any time and stop paying taxes.
Because instead of needing separate partials for your inline edit template and all the other actions, you just stuff them into the page as hidden divs.

This means you have a single template per page and only need to split out partials for things that are actually shared, rather than for every action on a single page.
Surely you're speaking about your own country of residence here?

In Estonia for example (which tangentially has one of the highest press freedom rankings in the world), ERR ("Estonian Public Broadcasting") is widely considered to be one of the most trustworthy news platforms in the country. The reason for this is simple: there is no incentive to pump out journalistic sludge for clicks, or to prey on the public's collective anxieties for larger quarterly profits.

I suppose you could argue that it indirectly supports the "war machine" in Ukraine, but I don't really consider it unethical to fund wars of self-defense, especially given the national security implications at home.
I agree, I had never heard of using a trie as a means of hiding strings.

I'm not familiar with any programming language that provides tries in a standardized way. They're not so hard to code, so I wonder if this will become a trend in future malware.
Best practice is to resolve them early now: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/hardening-elf-binaries-using-...
This is the attitude that has ruined the entire web. The real question should be: why is JavaScript necessary and what does it add? (In the majority of applications, absolutely nothing.)
Once the game makes enough money, we might reinvest into a Mac to ship it for that platform, too.
No it's a point because the number of endpoints and partials explodes to support every action in the page that uses the "get HTML and replace it" pattern.
Thanks for the feedback, we were debating this a lot.
Because in Japan, you get arrested for modifying save files, so no-one wants to live there
HowToMakeAlmostAnything may have some helpful starting points.
https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.20/
You only need partials for shared templates instead of multiple per action on a single page.
Sat-based entanglement distribution and teleportation with continuous variables
Yes, I have 5+ hours in it on the Deck. The only thing worth mentioning is that the in-game key bindings menu works slightly better than the Steam overlay because we didn't integrate Steam Input.
Rich people have employees and live better. News at 11.
Same here. If the idea was to make it so non-technical people can use the google sheets + API app, just put a script in the sheet that calls the API? It will appear in a menu inside google sheets itself
The politicians aren't going to be persuaded by this, they're corrupt snakes who are very open with their lack of regard for actually useful programs.

Chandra et al are dying because Congress wants to pour more money into SLS (and thus into Boeing), but is unhappy that NASA isn't playing along (choosing SpaceX and a similar lander from Blue Origin, buying high risk, lower cost robotic landers from space startups). So they give NASA more money than they ask for when it comes to SLS, dont allocate enough to other Artemis goals and cut the overall budget.
I’m a macOS/Linux person, but I feel this is a bit of a hot take.

I see Linux users copy and paste commands into their terminals all the time, sometimes without understanding what they’re doing. How is that different from clicking “next, next, next” in a GUI?

Interacting with a computer using ZSH instead of a GUI isn’t inherently better. It’s just different. Knowing how to run basic shell commands doesn’t tell you anything about a person’s understanding of how computers work.

Plenty of non-technical people can run basic shell commands. It doesn’t mean they understand how virtual memory works, or what DNS is, or how computers store files on disk.
Whilst the ip addresses and email headers etc should be examined meticulously, in the distant hope that they lead somewhere, the chances are that they won't. Very basic opsec.
"Satellite-based entanglement distribution and quantum teleportation with continuous variables" (2024)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-024-01612-x :

> [...] The results show the feasibility of free-space entanglement distribution and quantum teleportation in downlink paths up to the LEO region, but also in uplink paths with the help of the intermediate station. Finally, we complete the study with microwave-optical comparison in bad weather situations, and with the study of horizontal paths in ground-to-ground and inter-satellite quantum communication.
That's nice but no where near the "coolness" of the Recovery Kit, at first glance it just looks like any other laptop.
FWIW Chrome on Android didn't offer me any reader view on this page, and I couldn't find a way to trigger it manually.
Devin AI-first AI software engineer is a big lie?
Governments are made up of people. There is likely at least 1 real person (if not more) for whom this attack has been the entirety of their professional life for years.
I summarized the video in details. https://gosummarize.com/youtube/@internetofbugs/debunking-de...
they don't need to because users are wearing them and they can vocalize the brand name. t-shirts just need to be beautiful
My analysis as an outsider is that Charles Hannum joined the NetBSD dev team a month after it was founded and his contributions were almost exclusively code cleanup changes. By 1995 he was writing bug fixes and features like SA_RESETHAND and SA_NODEFER. Then in 1996, Chris Demetriou (the NetBSD founder) gave Charles control of the netbsd.org domain name. He then disappeared from the change log, but committers continued to give him credit for various changes for another seven years. The last time his name was mentioned in the commit log was in 2002. Charles formally parted ways with NetBSD in 2006 and wrote the rant above. But even then, he continued to maintain control of the netbsd.org domain name, under his personal name, until 2015 when a UDRP complaint allowed WIPO to take control of it and give it back to the NetBSD project. Charles took jobs at a few companies like VMWare, but he never stayed employed longer than 1 year, and eventually became a consultant.
In which country do you live? In Germany, it is 100% the other way around.
You could do the needle recall test, detailed in the following article, and used in the Gemini technical report:

https://vladbogo.substack.com/p/gemini-15-unlocking-multimod...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05530

In the needle test, we generate "needle" queries at each point in the context. We then graph the model's recall for each needle.

In this case we might

1. Generate needles: Iterate through your conversations one by one, and generate multiple choice questions for each conversation. You might need to break down conversations into chunks.

2. Test the haystack. Given the full context, run random batches of needle queries. Run multiple batches, to give good coverage of the context.

3. Visualize recall. Graph the conversation # vs the needle recall score for that conversation

Let's assume Gemini is truncating your context, but has perfect recall for no truncated context. Then your needle graph will be ~100% for all conversation in context, and then fall off like a cliff at the exact point of truncation.

My main concern with this approach is the cost, as you have to load the entire context for each batch of needles. It's likely that testing all needles at the same time would skew the results or exceed the allowed context.

I don't know how the authors deal with this issue, and I don't know if they have published code for needle testing. But if you're interested in working on this, I'd like to collaborate. We can look at the existing solutions, and if necessary we can build a needle testing fixture for working with GPT exports. I'd also be interested in supporting more broad needle testing use cases, like books, API docs, academic papers, etc.
I attended the SoCal Vintage Computer festival, went to a talk and when they asked for questions, seeing no one else asking questions, I asked if anyone wrote malware for these systems now that they’re internet connected. The inventor of the device (Thomas Cherryhomes) immediately belittled the question and asked why anyone would want to do that (the irony seemed to escape him, given that he built a network interface card for a device obsolete around the time I was born, but I digress). Fortunately Jon Decuir, a former Atari engineer also on stage giving the talk gave a decent thoughtful answer quickly thereafter, but that was enough.

VCF SoCal was my first and last vintage computer festival.
At the beginning: spend more time/money finding a market-product fit that affords you a high 3 low 4 figure or so manufacturing budget for "aerospace grade" CNC construction. Local vendors, established quality control practices, etc.

Of course eventually your product will get knocked off, which is it's own kind of issue.
I live in Victor Makras' Apartment, the one that got him in trouble for the port thing.

It's hard to live in SF for long without inadvertently touching corruption, even if you actively try to avoid it.
If you only have numbers up to 9 an exhaustive search shouldn't be too bad (should be ~9! states if you memoize), you could implement a solver in Javascript and see whether a solution can be found before you give it to the user.