skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still find it surprising that the distortion is so low -- without the "ski" feet you might not even be able to tell it's not a normal snapshot.
>China has made it pretty clear that it is planning to grow into a dominant position and then invade Taiwan and claim the 9 dotted line.

Populist words are cheap. I'll start blaming China for warmongering when they actually put boots on the ground. Meanwhile how many dorne strikes has the US made in the middle east without any consequences?
The problem is that Patreon wouldn't even be able to tell people they can donate to their creators elsewhere due to Apple's assinine anti-steering provisions
Is the setting you're talking about the one under Settings>General>Startup>Window Restoration Policy>Only Restore Hotkey Window, or something else?
My experience - I've bought a two sim phone this year to use two different physical sim cards. :)
Experience of my colleague - he couldn't transfer his esim from old iphone to a new one, due to the unrelated but still unresolved govt. issue. Basically the phone was linked to a certain service, that service has expired/blocked due to inactivity, and without working service esim can't be moved. It's not esim tech fault obviously but if it was a physical sim the issue would be solved in a minute, regardless of the external issues.
Yes, but when I did the migration Kitty wasn't supported in macOS in nixpkgs (i.e.: nobody did the package integration). Now looking at the package it looks like it should work, but I now think WezTerm being superior in at least a few things (e.g.: the Lua configuration file is definitely nice).
Wildfires Near Athens
I don't want to too into the weeds of Steam here, so I'll keep this one really brief:

>but the fee for the promotion

I don't think 'putting product on shelf' is 'promotion'. IF that's your only reason and begging the question leads to "becasuse we have 90% of the userbaase", that's a monopoly. Steam is lauded by their audience for only using their local history to recommend games (i.e. they have a realtively simple tagging system they rely on to serve games), so I wouldn't say this is anymore promotion that Google Search is promting "best game 2024" when I search "best game 2024" (in some utopia where the first 3 results were SEO slop).

>If people are willingly paying this because the promotion is worth it, that's not necessarily a monopoly.

I really hope people day understand the difference between "monopoly" and "monopolization", because this seems to always come up in this topic.

"Monopoly" is a very mechanical, neutral term, legally speaking.

>The term “monopoly” is often used to describe instances where there is a single seller of a good in a market...However, despite the general animosity towards monopolies, not all monopolies are illegal. Examples of permissible monopolies include... Monopolies created purely by one seller having a superior product, business acumen, or having good fortune (ex. online search engines, social media sites)

So yes, you can in fact say Steam is a monopoly (in an objective, legal sense), but also argue it not being illegal because "seller has a superiod prouct/business". Monopoly is not a scary word by itself.

In terms of its 90% marketshare and indusry warping effects, it'd be very hard to argue that Steam isn't a monopoly. It'd be easier to argue Google/Apple in mobile aren't monopolies; At least they have each other to shield from their duopoly. Steam has no contender in the US.

"Monopolization" is a scary word.

>In United States antitrust law, monopolization is illegal monopoly behavior. The main categories of prohibited behavior include exclusive dealing, price discrimination, refusing to supply an essential facility, product tying and predatory pricing.

One leads to the other, so I don't blame people for conflating one or another, but it's an important distinction if we're going to start trying to talk about what is/isn't a monopoly, or monopolizing behavior.

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So, does steam engage in monopolization? Yes, but in much more subtle ways than what Apple/Google are doing. They are very smart about it because they care a lot about consumer feedback, and consumer feedback drives a lot of discussion on social media. But that's a discussion for another inevitable day.
> - oncall-level alerting for your security.txt inbox

Maybe the terminology is different in your company, but my employer has an 'operations' team which has several shifts of workers, who look after things that need 24/7 monitoring. They then triage and escalate as appropriate.

That's who you'd have monitoring the security inbox, if you want round-the-clock monitoring, so nobody's getting woken several times a night by spam.
Animated WebP is based on VP8. However, the alpha channel is stored losslessly, which makes compression even worse than VP8.

VP8 is of course a generation behind VP9, so the results will be significantly worse than the VP9 example in the article, which is significantly worse than AV1.

Also, the demo crashes Safari for me (it plays progressively slower and slower).
Also known as "running away", the first line of self defence.
Why do people think on cloudy days solar is just off?
You can get 10-20% of peak from solar on a cloudy day.
If you are in bumfuck nowhere with current prices you can build 5x-10x peak of your minimum energy needs with a fair amount of battery storage for fairly cheap 99% availability. If you want to go to that 100% you can still get grid energy to store based on weather or have a small generator with whatever you want to burn.

Of course for the huge majority of people 90% availability is more than enough and is very cheap tendency going down.
> (what is best to capture logic?) -

Either formal logic notation or a state machine?

(Depending on what you intend by 'logic' and 'capture' ...)

PS. A Karnaugh map might be of help. As an added bonus, you get to simplify things.-
I agree, but still 1-2 paragraph about why this was made, what is for laymans, and what it is in terms of OSM ecosystem. Possibly my extrovert self makes it natural to write similar intros to repos I make public. (I even used to blog!)
The cargo culting demonization of arbitrary components, devices, and supplies by people who believe hacking is unlimitedly-powerful magic is laughable.
The thing is, there's a whole world outside software development and as unpleasant as it might sound, they don't care that much what words we use among us.
The number of babies being born is decreasing each year globally. 2012 was the peek.
> They feel and work nicer mostly than web based.

The "apps" i'm talking about are just the web site packed into a crap and resource hungry web view...
It's a strange disconnect between the quality of the incident response and the extremely basic nature of many of the bugs reported. I mean SECRET_KEY='secret'?! Seriously straightforward stuff.
I think I've ranted about this in HN before, but UEFI is so pointlessly complex. Modern OSes don't rely on the BIOS for basically anything. When choosing the successor to the old PC BIOS we could have made something extremely minimal.

Instead UEFI goes hard in the opposite direction. It's basically a full blown operating system with all the attendant complexity and, unsurprisingly, vulnerability surface.
I still remember when they refused to support forms constraints (there was the JS API, but not the UI designed to show users what they got wrong with their form, so you had to polyfill that specifically for Safari).

Forms are pretty darn important to 99.9% of web apps, this felt like active sabotage.
I don’t know if that link supports your point?
I've always felt most such rewards program portals and apps were more hack-jobs than serious applications and thus, would be riddled with issues like these. I'm from India and I see many of these sites come and go all the time but not a single one has inspired confidence in me about keeping my data safe. For example, even the topmost cards here (HDFC Diners/Infinia) have a shoddy website, mostly a reskinned version of their generic rewards platform/partner.

And I'm not just hand-waving here cause there are many forums that discuss taking advantage of their bad implementations to maximize returns. Even when one eventually gets patched, another springs up.
Fwiw you can do that with just awk, no pipe and paste required
According to the extension homepage:

"DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. No more arrows, ridiculous faces, and no more clickbait.

...

There are currently 64,634 users who have submitted 230,432 titles and 107,027 thumbnails."
Any recommended resources for learning GDS?
First human spaceflight to earth's polar regions
> It doesn’t need to sell ongoing location tracking information associated with my device identifier and IP addresses to marketing companies.

fortunately, GDPR covers that already. Or CPPA if you reside in California.

But that's not quite what by Malicious. Malice implies intent for bad desires. A company selling your weather tracking data with dubious consent is simply greedy. It very likely wouldn't be in your top 10 list of perpetrators if your phone was hacked, wiped, or stolen.
yeah, their boss is the one I am mad at
… because Novo Nordisk really wants it to?
I like using paste to sum over numbers where each number is in a distinct line. E.g.:

printf "1\n2\n3" | paste -sd+ | bc
6

I suppose you could do that more cleanly with awk, but this has worked whenever I needed it. I find it easier to type.
PNG is a lossless format, so you file sizes will be huge. Although it can build upon previous frames, it can only do so in a really simple GIF-like way (drawing over the top). For example, the bouncing ball example on Wikipedia is 62 kB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG#/media/File:Animated_PNG_..., whereas the equivalent VP9 is 7 kB https://static-misc-3.glitch.me/alpha-video/.

Animated WebP is based on VP8. However, the alpha channel is stored losslessly, which makes compression even worse than VP8.

VP8 is of course a generation behind VP9, so the results will be significantly worse than the VP9 example in the article, which is significantly worse than AV1.

There are also playback issues in Safari.
> Starliner is fixed cost.

It sounds like you agree that Boeing is failing to adopt to fixed cost?

Just from pop culture, isn't starliner that thing that leaves people stranded for a year after making them shed "excess" baggage for a supposedly weeklong(?) trip?

Also from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Starliner

> Boeing has lost more than $1.5 billion in budget overruns on the Starliner project which has been marred by delays, management issues and engineering challenges. The price paid per flight has also drawn criticism from NASA's inspector general and from observers who point to significantly lower costs on the competing Crew Dragon.
Ohhhh! I totally missed this. Thanks for the heads up! I wonder if it was triggered by this article, or a weird coincidence.
You can just divide the speed-up by the number of cores, and that gives you the parallelization efficiency.

I've seen systems that can achieve 99% efficiency on thousands on nodes for real useful applications that involve non-trivial synchronization. Now that is an impressive feat.

Sure, there is probably some extra latency to get everything running, but for a sufficiently long program run, that is all irrelevant.
Good on them for breaking the 1st floor!

For (purported) tragedy instead of (admitted) comedy, see some of Sam Raimi's finest work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV_dgZ7yD-M

(Thanks for the clarification as to Yarvin; if he's no fan of Ellis Island, why not be the change he wishes to see, returning thither from wherever his ancestors came, and leaving at least his part of the City to —if any remain— the Ohlone?)
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Rule of Tincture
I know, I’ve seen them both :-)
As you correctly mentioned, the top100 rarely changes and thus has limited practical usage. I’d like to see something more dynamic and relevant for us plebeians, i.e. being able to sort all users by karma, comments, submissions, creation date.
Presumably one would shut them down by making their cost externalizations illegal, not by specifically dismantling the single company.
You are right that unicode is much better in 3, but in my experience this is a pain point mapping programs 2 -> 3, because often programs seem to work fine until there is some exciting unicode, or malformed characters, in the input, then they crash when they used to just rumble on.
Timelinize: Store your data from your accounts and devices on your own computer
Ok. Now do billboards.
yeah, I too find it weird to imagine that tissue can just disappear from the inside of a joint. where would it even go? does it melt into the bloodstream or something? lmao
It is baffling how some random people will come to Apple's defense from the most unimaginable angles. "Safari is lacking but should be enough for 95% of the apps". Why do we even have the App Store then? For the rest 5%?
Its all fun and games until your computer is bricked because you missed an update
So you can't give an example then?
That's what immediately came to mind when reading OP's comment. He's basically describing the action of perturbing a system just enough with a weak force that it 'innoculates', for lack of a better word, itself against similar but stronger forces.
This is only tangentially related but it always blows my mind how insecure airline booking portals are. For many (most?) airlines all you need is the booking reference (PNR number) and surname to log in and see flight itinerary, contact details and, in some cases, change or cancel the booking. No password or MFA needed.

The kicker is that your PNR number and surname are encoded in the barcode on your boarding pass, easily scannable with a phone app. If you ever post a boarding pass online you're unintentionally doxxing yourself and potentially letting people screw with your flights.

I've seen celebrities do this, and during the Cloudstrike outage one tech CEO posted his handwritten boarding pass on Twitter with the PNR in full view.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/08/why-its-still-a-bad-idea...
The fallacy employed is even dumber than that: Ban or destroy all nerd magic wands and hacking happening anywhere and everywhere else in the world will stop.
I didn't want to express that marketeers are stupid or so. In the opposite, it's an art to sell features. But having a product, like the mentioned washing machine in some thread here, and putting AI into the name is a sign of desperation for me. "We need a feature every other also might have.. let's put AI in the name and sell it twice the price"

Anyway, when you start asking what AI is doing there, you'll realize it's just a simple sensor reading and thresholding (which AI is all about)

I can't imagine a product with true AI - what is true AI? :)
Does anyone know what sort of market share points.com has in this space? It's always interesting to spot correlations between market fragility and a lack of competition (as in the case of the recent Crowdstrike and CDK Global outages).
Because being fat is incredibly bad for you.
In the UK, Google and AWS have been advertising AI-based tools or AI-supporting services on TV recently.
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All mainstream web browsers are bloated and use a lot of resources. I am looking for a tiny lightweight web browser with good HTML5 support but without bloat for older computers. Servo, Ladybird and Ultralight (https://ultralig.ht) are promising. I even started developing Qt Ultralight Browser (https://github.com/niutech/qt-ultralight-browser).
What about 0xDEADBEEF?
Apps in certain categories (ebooks, music, video, news) can choose to not support purchasing at all in apps, or to use in-app purchases.

Outside these categories (eg a email account as a service, group classes) you are expected to always have in app purchasing.

There have been interesting ways people have explored getting around this, but obviously Apple thinks they should be paid what they are contractually obligated.

Having control of distribution means it is easy on Apple’s side to solve disagreements. You only see it brought to lawsuit by the other side (e.g. Epic’s lost case in the US)
PostgreSQL 17 no longer supports AIX
I work at a company like this where management self interest has taken over and the staff have zero power to say no. It makes everything impossible if I’m honest, the 200 layers of management might as well be using a magic 8 ball to run the company.
Does the same apply to 'platforms'? For example, is it better to learn C# + F# + Powershell instead of C# + Scala + Bash?
No issues for me other than sometimes being slow to provision.
I know. But I have no other explanation as to the latency increase that is seen as the number of threads increases. Do you have a better theory?
Relevant discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CY5PR11MB63928CC0...
Probably one of my favorite parts so far:

> "Are you all right?" Sohu finally asked.

> "I WAS TRYING TO WIGGLE MY EARS."

> Sohu wiggled her ears again.

> "YOU ARE VERY INTERESTING."

> "So will you teach me the kabbalah?"

> "NO."

it's so cute!! I love this
It's called "repression". It's a rather studied thing in psychological circles. Can cause all sorts of messes.

Solution is usually liberal application of therapy, hard work, persistence, and a little luck.
Python 2 -> 3 transition is probably considerable part of why it's becoming less ubiquitous.

What do you mean? I've been using python since 1.5 and it is more ubiquitous today than it has ever been at any other time in the past.
There is an excellent Goth festival in Germany, I'm visiting every year since about 2012. https://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english/
Maybe it was after boarding the flight? I still find it convenient . It's not that hard to keep the PNR number and surname. The reason it's so open is that there's an Identity check at the next stage where you can't use them if you're faking.
What's so bad about Celery?
1.5 degrees is not only written into international agreements, it gets saturation media coverage. The UN claims that above 1.5 degrees there are multiple tipping points that get triggered. It's universally presented as being of critical import, whether you agree with that or not.

> The fact is warming is obviously a continuous effect and the higher you go the more impact it has.

Are you sure that's a fact, or is it a communication device someone used on you? Look at the graphs Mann presents in the Hossenfelder video and you'll note that temperature increase isn't continuous, it's more like a step function with long plateaus, with the steps aligning with factors like El Niño.

The problem with making up scientific-sounding thresholds for communication is that it's a form of the noble lie and it always ends badly. As Hossenfelder points out, the fighting over whether this threshold was crossed or not is a "science communication disaster". It's like the manager who pretends the company will go bankrupt on December 10th if everyone doesn't ship the product by that date, when in reality no such bankruptcy will occur and he just likes seeing everyone run around in a frenzy, increasing profits. The people doing it believe it's justified but that doesn't change the core dishonesty of the approach and inevitably, when it's revealed that the claims are lies, they will assume all such claims from you are lies. Why fret about any deadline ever again once you discover one of them was fake?
The term "open source" as referring to sofware was suggested in 1997 but I could find references to OSINT from at least 1991-1995[0], so I'd say "Open Source Intelligence" should get precedence.

[0] https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADB194025.pdf
> and then invade Taiwan and claim the 9 dotted line.

FWiW :

The Republic of China (ROC), or simply China, was a sovereign state based in mainland China from 1912 until its government's retreat in 1949 to Taiwan, where it is now based.

The nine-dash line, also referred to as the eleven-dash line by Taiwan, is a set of line segments on various maps that accompanied the claims of the People's Republic of China (PRC, "mainland China") and the Republic of China (ROC, "Taiwan") in the South China Sea.

A 1946 map showing a U-shaped eleven-dash line was first published by the Republic of China government on 1 December 1947.

The area has always been claimed, whether by the ROC, the PRC, or indeed under Puyi, who had reigned as the Xuantong Emperor of the Qing dynasty.

The issue is that "Western" sea faring nations self selected themselves as arbitrators of global borders, including those of regions with governance dating back 4,000 years.

On 12 July 2016, an arbitral tribunal organized under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) concluded that China had not exercised exclusive and continuous control over the [ dashed zones ]

Over 20 governments have called for the ruling to be respected.
It was rejected by eight governments, including China (PRC) and Taiwan (ROC).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dash_line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China_(1912%E2%80%...

China and Taiwan have always claimed the regions within the nine dashed line.
Who manufactured this camera ? this artical is puff brand marketing nonsense ? Anyone got any details on camera manufacturer or similar, actual information?
Yep. If I were Patreon, I would ditch the iOS app. Apple doesn't deserve a 30% gotcha capitalism mafia extortion fee.
There are also: CEF, WebKitGTK (http://www.webkitgtk.org) or Ultralight (https://ultralig.ht).