skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, an EOR can help you set up compliance with a US Laws, especially when it comes to reporting and tax obligations related to foreign operations. An EOR is particularly useful for compensating individuals who do not reside in the U.S. or do not have a U.S. work visa.

Individuals employed through an EOR can indeed be considered employees of your company in a functional and operational sense. However, legally, they are employees of the EOR. This means the EOR is responsible for their employment rights, payroll, taxes, and adherence to local labor laws. Your company directs their day-to-day activities and integrates them into your team as you would with any employee.

Coincidentally, the reason I know this is because I currently work at a company that recently launched an EOR: https://www.justworks.com/blog/what-is-an-employer-of-record...
As someone who has reverse engineered an online games protocol (Anyland, admittedly much less complex in scope), I can provide a little insight. I started from a known point that would be easy to replicate and observe, and then just built out from there. Once you've got a foothold you can start to build up an understanding of how the various components interact, and with each new discovery you increase gain new insight into other as yet unmapped systems.

This is still incredible work on their part that would require an incredibly deep understanding of the game mechanics in order to reproduce their artifacts by observation
Specifically for a tool for bypassing paywalls. I'd expect this behavior if we were talking about CSAM or a stream of terrorists beheading people.
Out of curiosity, why not release for mac if its made with godot?
I'm probably not the best person to elaborate on why societal anxieties arise every time our place in the universe shrinks. I guess observing reactions to copernican heliocentrism could be a good starting point. We're witnessing something similar, and while we may accept it at the individual level, the objections of the many will stir painful reactions.
The circulation subscriptions were a substantial part of their revenue, however you're right that ads were even larger. I don't think it's fair to say few people ever paid for it though. Subscriptions were important too.
Thanks! Also read this story decades ago as a young man and it left a strong impression. More then once brought it up as a metaphor in a conversation. For some reason my memory attributed it to Kipling and a few times tried to find it and never could, now I know why, it was Orwell!
It's HN, things that are clear cruel nitpicks elsewhere, are signal to be remarked upon, we're highly sensitive, in ways good and bad.

You're right, once is a typo. But the consistent pattern is quite rare in good writing.

Also, you make a good point re: OP's comment was not so much focused on grammar --- they had an interesting observation re: style I'm, and I wanna see I'm familiar with from labour-focused news publications. Which I support!! But, in a sentence, there's a sort of forced first-person, emotional, lengthy narrative that is quite appealing, but you're also not quite sure what actually happened.
> It does get fuzzier if you're also summarizing

Does it? If I summarize a book, do I need to pay a fee? News (much like recipes) is not directly covered by copyright (facts cannot be copyrighted). Only the expression (exact wording) is (which is one reason why recipes are usually accompanied by a personal story).
If Google was doing what news sites did, it would have journalists writing articles, researching data, investigating, etc. Yet they do none of that.

Your statement is absurd.
Actually wood is stronger in tensile: "tensile strength of soft- woods parallel to grain at 12% moisture content generally ranges between 70 to 140MPa. The compression strength is lower and is usually in the range 30 to 60 MPa."

Steel is similar in strength both ways, although it varies a lot depending on how it was annealed. (The harder the metal the better compression is vs tensile.)
There was also this https://hackaday.com/2013/03/18/hack-removes-firmware-crippl... using resistors and a different one before that used a graphene lead pencil to enable functionality.
due to shareholder primacy, one can no longer seek investors. seek customers instead. this is fine.
> Google has thoroughly rigged the space, including manipulating bid stream data to underpay publishers while overcharging the advertiser

That seems an argument for news publishers rolling their own, not against.

What you are allegeding is nasty, but it should also make it easier to build a coompeting service not harder.
> To be fair they were just playing the game Google asked them to play.

This outright BS. Noone asked them to fill their sites with popup videos, popup ads, spam and other garbage.

Noone asked them to spam people with notifications in iOS either and Google didn't force them to do that either.

Stop blaming Google for the deep rot within the news industry, they did it to themselves.
It's dumb:

- OP didn't say they didn't know what it meant

- it doesn't help improve human-to-human comms to have someone:

-- take up 80% of my screen

-- with a copy-and-pasted obvious take

-- unedited

-- from a text generator

-- that has been RLHF'd to chain of thought

I love LLMs and quit my job to work with them, but this ain't it, or an opportunity to extol about bright futures and stuff.
I have discovered over time that I hate screws.
No not really the concept, but there are far too fucking models.

I started collecting screws to put together for my "workshop" were
I repair whatever family, friends, enemies want me to look at.
I am not great at it, not even good, but I am who they bring things to,
and over time I have learned a bit of skills.
(Also I fail, sometimes I break stuff and sometimes I hide in my bag and
take to a pro without telling anyone.)

Back to screws.
I often need one.
but there are entirely too many different sizes and shapes.
I have spent decent time sourcing various standardized sizes from far and near.
Stil I have project where I need two screws and I dont have the right one.
I also keep any screw that I come across. If something is broken I harvest
the once that are easikly available.

That ends up in a cubbord with lots of different tiny shelves.
BUT looking through them so see if one of them is right is again time consuming.

What does this have to do with anything?

Well the design went from 1 type of screws to multiple sizes.
(All of well knownm standarized types thank you)

I think it wise to design projects around as few different ones as possible.
The previous model managed with one. Clearly somehow V2 could have as well.

Is there I pray an app I have not seen, where I can take
a photo of a screw and the app will tell me the exact
specifications of it, its name, and where to order them?
I really like Material Design 3, contrary to version 2 and 1.

But I can't really tell how TFA is Material Design, it does not really look like any of the versions.

See:

https://m1.material.io/

https://m2.material.io/

https://m3.material.io/
The strategy of accusing the prosecutor works because our system is so corrupt that almost every single cop, lawyer, and judge commits multiple felonies every hour.

I used their strategy for years before I learned its downside. You can not take down a true sociopath with it. A true sociopath will murder the people who accuse him, or, if he can not get to them, he will murder their witnesses.

Eventually, everyone who feels guilty when caught has left The System and only the worst of the worst hold power.

This happened where I live in Texas. My correct accusations against mildly corrupt public officials was a major factor i n removing those who had souls from office.

I suggest you accept some minor BS fines rather than transform all federal law enforcement into the ATF.
Analysis of a military electronic boards assembly [video]
Whoever is doing journalism, it's not those sites that now want a governmental tax handout to continue being bad.
Previously (yesterday): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40007670
These researchers are nuts, the balls they have to release this study really shafts my gourd.

I wonder when they'll release the scathing exposé on their findings of lung disease and combustion tobacco products.
That's a huge overstatement, it's a big part of the moat for sure, but there are other significant components (hardware, ecosystem lock-in, heavy academic incentives)
Amazing, I just bought.
How bout a train track
Oh no, not anymore. Congress doesn't want themselves being surveilled in section 702 data. Sorry about the source, I'll link to a counterveilling article, although they come from both sides, I believe they both share similar messages.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/tyranny-house-passe...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/bad-amendments-section...
I love this. I recently had an idea for an app that would allow people to share their favorite things with other people, and i left that exploration thinking how amazing it'd be to build lots of apps on Google Sheets as the backend - you own the data, it has sharing built in..etc.

so not just google sheets as the backend, google sheets as your personal backend for you instance of the app.
My kids are both classical musicians, and IMSLP has been a game changer for music study, as well as spontaneous jam sessions.
Boilers in the UK are usually mounted on the inside of an exterior wall to provide for venting exhaust gases outside. They may provide hot water on-demand without a tank (combi boiler) or fill a hot water cylinder on a schedule (system boiler) depending on type. Heating is typically provided by the boiler pumping hot water through a circuit of wall-mounted radiators regulated by TRVs (Thermostatic Radiator Valves).
> Isn't that basically arguing "Don't talk to me about statistics, I want to talk about this one specific data point"?

For sure, we can each talk about different things. I can talk about ironic things and you can talk about statistics, and we can still be friends!

> That doesn't say much about why that was true, just that it was.

Well, why do you think it sucked?
There's nothing eyebrow-raising about the feature itself. It's off by default, lets you control which kinds of data you share if you choose to share data at all, and is mainly used for basic operations (e.g. tracking CPU load, concurrent sessions, and other relevant metrics over time).
Street Complete is rather good. I filled in a few details in Hong Kong (come on you lot, the population density there is huge!) recently.

Street numbering is generally quite awful on all maps. Google has made a right old hash of much of my town. It manages to put a hairdresser in the middle of the road on the exit from a pretty large roundabout and a taxi company on a small C17th Methodist cemetery.

The entrance to my own company as shown by Google would involve a multi car pile up thanks to the massive "intelligence" that can't manage multiple requests for a change from someone who is listed at Company House, who uses a 20+ year old Google account with the same name and a company email address with the same, quite uncommon surname, in it. I have tried multiple ways to address getting Google to correct their fucking map. I've even tried simulating their own instructions in my correction attempts.

Go on try it yourself - which little UK company am I MD of? Go and find it and put street view on to see why driving through a railing, pavement and a 20' retaining wall is a bad idea. No, it isn't hard for humans to figure out but it is hard for the clever kiddies at Google to get their algorithms let me fix their fucking map to find the actual entrance and the route to it.

In the UK a postcode can cover something up to 100 properties, as required. My business is in a fairly odd stub of land and has its own postcode. The other property adjacent, within the same plot also has its own postcode.

A fairly large dose of irony is that I do occasionally do reviews for Google and am apparently a guide or some such nonsense and my reviews have 1000's of views. My reviews are treated as gold (and might help or hinder a business) but my attempts to fix a real issue with my own company address is ignored.

Just fixing up street numbering will make a huge difference to navigation but Street Complete covers much, much more. I've also done my best with the paths in my local [edit: sp] park, to describe accessibility and "cyclability" etc.
Oh, um, just a flexible riser.

I thought we were using "fabric" to mean "switching matrix".
Dmca in 3... 2...
This is what private equity and hostile takeovers are about, no? Identifying companies where management has sacrificed efficiency for "calm" and either rigging them for better returns or returning their capital to the pool.
After posting a blog entry specifically targeting and naming someone, their business, posting it on the internet and starting a Mastodon thread.

I'm all for generally leaving people alone, and being civil, but context please.

You don't get to open a salvo against someone, while pretending you're above interaction with them, then play the victim when they respond and universally and unilaterally dictate terms while always trying to get the last word in.
You mean the WebP vulnerability in code that literally everyone shared? That one?
Except for Google search+product combo, in every other example you cited there is a contractual relation between the product and the SM.

If I have a product page on Facebook, I have a contract with Facebook. Facebook could choose to end that contract with me and close my account. But Google News blocking/downranking a news site does not involve any contract ending between Google News and the news site. If I don't have a product page on Facebook, Facebook could still choose to block/downrank posts where users on their own free will mention my product. But I don't think this really happens at any significant scale yet.

Same applies your Amazon/Ebay/Youtube/Twitch examples.
Congratulations for completing and shipping your game! It looks good. Also an interesting idea to provide the source as DLC. I hope that the sales go well and now best of luck for your next game. :)
Why would you pay someone for a tweet? They posted it for free. Collecting tweets isn't journalism. Asking the user for more than 140 chars about what they are witnessing along with multiple others would then be closer to journalism. Tweets are just people self identifying who journalists could be interviewing. The interview allows for follow up to the tweet.
Yeah, that's exactly it, and I'm tired of them! Of course I'm tired of the other side too lol, that's why I became an LP member hah.
Not a west coast thing ... lived all over the west coast for almost 50 years.
You're right, at least we know how well the author performs whereas with Beethoven we have no recordings :)
Is Brave or Firefox doing away with news? How about Hacker News? If not, I'm not worried about Google cutting off anything. Google is only illustrating why depending on them for "truth" is a thing of the past. Same for Meta.
I watched the video on the Steam site and I dont understand
the game at all.

At one point it sort of looks like a modern version of snake.
But that it is not.

It sort looks like they are running over a circuit board.
What are those green v shapes mean?

Then perhaps Pacman
Seems a bit Pacman.
Gobble energy pellets?
Open Source Materials for EVM Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation (IEEE 1765)
The code is related to the IEEE 1765™ Recommended Practice for Estimating the Uncertainty in Error Vector Magnitude of Measured Digitally Modulated Signals for Wireless Communications. For further details see:

https://standards.ieee.org/develop/project/1765.html
Loads of services have that issue, not just GitLab. Some are even blocking Twilio numbers.
NFT people: Now's your chance to prove your concepts.
I don't believe that was the question.
Building free tools is a not a viable long-term SEO strategy
When I started https://ray.run/tools/, I started with a simple premise: I will build free tools relevant to my target audience, without ads or anything else that would negatively weigh on user experience, with one goal – building long-term SEO ranking.

I thought that if I build a collection of the most polished tools that are pleasant to use, over time Google will start recommending them to more and more people. My goal was to invest upfront into developing domain reputation, so that when I launch my SaaS in the future, I am not starting from 0.

At first, it looked like this strategy is working. The first month I got roughly 1k unique visitors. Then it quickly grew to 4k uniques, and maxed out at 5k uniques after 5 months. But then (2023 November) some Google update launched and it was a downhill ride since. It wasn't all at once, but it slowly dwindled to about 800 uniques per month and seems to be stable at around that number. What's worse is that most users are direct users, i.e. coming from bookmarks. Increasingly, Google started to deprioritize results even for things that Rayrun was ranking #1.

I don't know what this means for long-term SEO strategy, but it was pretty devastating learning for me. I am not focused on building the product and don't invest much back into SEO play, but wanted to share this as a cautionary learning with others.
> So plaintext AWS credentials checked into source control.

Could also have been keys set as variables for their CI pipelines to support IaC/etc deployment.
I don't think the law (from what I read of it) actually does target that though. Might as well cite it rather than refer to it in the abstract:

> The total number of the covered platform’s internet web
pages displayed or presented to California residents during the
month that link to, display, or present the eligible digital journalism
provider’s news articles, works of journalism, or other content, or
portions thereof.

Google can remove all the summaries and the law will apply just as much. In fact, from my reading of it, in other parts they are actually referring to "impressions" as the driver; that is it's explicitly the click through that they are asserting provides the value to Google, not the prevention of click through.

I get that emotionally, it's the prevention of click through that feels injurious, but it doesn't read as the spirit of this to me. I think possibly they know that if they didn't fully scope in links here Google would immediately just reduce it to raw links and this would reduce click through and it would hurt the intended beneficiaries of this more than it helps them.
This makes sense to me. If you think about the training data, texts working through problems using formal predicate logic are likely to be correct, and much more likely to be precise about what information is (or isn’t) contained in the propositions. So if you formulate the problem in this language, you’re prompting the model to sample from patterns that are more likely to give you the result you want. Whereas if you use regular English, it could be sampling from cooking blogs or who knows what.
its just a very strange thought to me, that some early humans followed intelligent mammals like a pack of dogs, to feed on their meat. The mammoths were victims, to their complete demise.

In another thread, post-civil war, US Calvary hunted all bison (a million animals? whole herds including calves?) to eliminate them and therefore cut the food supply of the native people; really brutal and ugly realities.
It truly is a “small sliver of demand” in the wider national market, but in high demand areas (tourism, urban) it is having a real impact on pricing, availability, quality of life, community etc. I have two minds about companies like Airbnb, Uber and others, in that it’s great that they disrupted markets that were captured by legacy regulation that wasn’t working anymore in the best interest of the public, but this opened up a “wound” that was aggressively attacked by capital, created new problems that we aren’t equipped to deal with, and now they’re entrenched in these markets just like the {hotels, taxis, delivery companies} were.
I was given [1,2] in the second run. Even easier to see it's impossible.
I can't help but think there's going to be a push to nationalize the product and award it's ownership or at least control to someone who's going to be equal but different when it comes to being exploitative. Why ban the single most influential propaganda Trojan horse when you can have it for yourself.
One less predatory service to worry about.
So... you literally look at events like the Crusades, anti-semitism, slavery, the treatement of native Americans or any number of horrors done by Christians in the name of Christ and with the authority and sanction of the Christian church .... and admit absolutely no relationship between any of that and Christianity? No, Christianity isn't just the teachings of Christ, any more than any religion, or American law is just the Constitution. Christianity is also what Christians do, it's politics and government and militarism, culture and pop culture. Dogma and folklore.

What I'd like to be talking about is the relationship between the Christian religion and Western imperialism and the consequences of Christian conquest on the narratives of history (specifically the narratives of groups oppressed by that religion.) What you're engaging in is pedantry and a gross application of what I'll call the True Christian fallacy. Fair enough. We can't have a conversation about this. Good night.
Does Gemini have any news about being vegan?
> Isn't that basically arguing "Don't talk to me about statistics, I want to talk about this one specific data point"?

And why not? In this particular case, the statistics did not justify the expectation that this bridge would be at least as robust as the one it replaced.

There's a general point to be made about engineering progress, but here we have a case which bucks the trend. Speaking in generalities when the topic is a specific incident is a way of missing the point.
Hey there :)

Sure, once the project is a bit more mature I'd be happy to do performance comparisons.

Ripl does share quite a few similarities with other rendering libraries like Konva and Two.JS. I suppose the main difference between Ripl and the aforementioned libraries is that Ripl is more focused towards data visualization as opposed to generalised shape rendering. Hence why there are features like scales and data joins.

That being said I wouldn't expect anyone to pick Ripl over other more mature libraries. In fact I would strongly caution against it. To be honest I wrote it because I moved from being in a engineering-focused role to a people management role at work and I wanted to keep my skillset sharp :) The primary reason I posted it publicly is to gauge whether others would find it useful so that I can determine how much time/effort I should dedicate towards it.

As for a use-case for rendering to both SVG and Canvas - here's one that I have had to overcome in my current work role: suppose you have a product that can view reports both in the browser and also render on the server (in PDF or similar). In the browser, you would ideally want canvas as it produces less DOM elements and remains performant for lots of elements. On the server you may want SVGs to produce higher fidelity images to embed for print.

Another use-case would be to interchangeably render charts to different contexts based on the size of the dataset as canvas is more suited to larger datasets but is lower fidelity.
McMaster Carr is a good place to order from but you do need to know what you need by size, thread, etc
One person's business is another's residence. The bank owns more of my home then I do. It's my residence and their business.
Naming things in such a way Siri won’t confuse them is an important skill to make things reliable.

Shouldn’t need to be, but is.
Why so you can change the timeline and seize the crown from Thrall when he invited you to join him in Durotar and you declined? Because you have my axe if you do - the Horde should have stuck to its wild roots!