skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's especially terrible about this is that secret questions only weaken the security of your account, so someone doing the right thing will have provided a random answer unrelated to their life.

Years ago, I went through this process with Blizzard:

1. Blizzard started deactivating my World of Warcraft account on the grounds that I hadn't paid my subscription.

2. I would log in and pay for a subscription, reenabling the account.

3. (Steps 1-2 repeated several times. Blizzard never provided any explanation beyond the fact that, in their opinion, my payment was invalid, which it wasn't.)

4. After several rounds, Blizzard disabled the account completely, requiring me to contact customer support.

5. Customer support, for the first time, informed me that the reason my payment was viewed as invalid was that the preferred payment card on my account was set to a different card. The card I was actually using was also listed on my account, but it wasn't the preferred card, which made it invalid.

6. Since my account was disabled, I didn't have the option of paying with my preferred card. I had to answer my secret question.

7. Since I am not stupid, my secret question didn't have an answer. It was a long string of random characters which I didn't know. But customer service happily accepted my oral answer of "it's gibberish", defeating the purpose of the secret question.

So I guess the lesson here is that the correct way to answer a secret question is that you need to provide an answer which...

(1) Looks like a real answer when customer service looks at it, so that they have a better chance of rejecting someone who doesn't know the answer; but also

(2) Doesn't belong to the class of answers that would be easy for someone to guess, such as a car model when they ask you for the model of your first car.

These requirements are incompatible with each other. I don't know what secret questions are supposed to be doing. And I have to note that my assumption that there was no reason for anyone, including myself, to know the answer to my secret question would have been completely correct if Blizzard hadn't made the decision that using a payment card that was already registered to my Blizzard account was a sign of fraud.
I found it.

VIR (21 KB) added 01/28/1998 (Game)
Version 1.2 by Andreas Garzotto

VIR is a falling block game for the HP 100/200LX that is similar to a virus eliminator game on the Gameboy (tm). Copyrighted freeware.

https://www.ledudu.com/HPLX/super8.html
Alain Delon has died
> The only reason I use mpv instead of VLC is because of the frame step feature.

so from VLC's point of view your problem is solved - you have a good, open source video player that lets you step back a frame and you are happy to use it. they don't need to be all things to all people.
The Search for the Sweet Spot in a Linear Regression with Numeric Features
Thanks for the rec, decided to try it out based on your comment.
I see the timeline:

18 Aug: Space dash released to gentle mockery from HN.
1 Sept: "we prompted a 3d shooter"
2025: "we remade Final Fantasy"
quote with wiki, not the entire history, genius
> too lazy to figure out if it's as secure as ssh/scp

It absolutely isn't. See my rant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24519895
Datadog agent supports StatsD with tags (aka DogStatsD - https://docs.datadoghq.com/developers/dogstatsd/ ). You can push StatsD data to Datadog Agent, which will aggregate the data and push it to some centralized tsdb such as VictoriaMetrics according to the following docs - https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-send-data-from-data...
How is Netflix special then? How’s it different from Disney, HBO, Sky, or dozens of other companies that also do paid video streaming?
I have a 4k SDR display and 4k HDR content on VLC looks washed out.

Mpv does not have that issue and converts 4k HDR to SDR in real-time and shows a colorful image.
> There's a lot to be said about the "old school" way of movie rentals.

Please do say it! I'm old enough to remember VHS and video clubs, but may be not old enough to have a lot of nostalgia about it.

I can't think of what was better then. Sometimes you'd get a kind and knowledgeable video club owner who'd made fantastic recommendations, but more often than not it was an underpayed kid who just wanted to go home.

May be people used to take watching a move more seriously, and therefore enjoy it more, when the process was more involved and you didn't have millions of movies and shows a few clicks away, but does that count as an advantage?

> We're now paying and exponential amount of money for the same level of entertainment.

This was certainly not true where I lived. The ammount of movies and shows that get watched in an average household these days would bankrupt the family in the 90s.
Show HN: Yourls – The de facto standard self-hosted URL shortener
Wait, what? You can browse files on the iPhone just fine.
I guess it mus be something like this, I don't think someone would invest a rather large sum without having something like this in place
Thank you! I never researched that specific word, and I thought it was a merge of 'irregard' and 'regardless' (at the semantic level of construction) which happened as the 'ir-' got used as an intensive prothesis (at the euphonic level), overriding its original negative sense.

It seems like a case in which the prothesis is an effective intensifier, but compromised in the final logical flow of the word.
To limit evidence of culpability in the event of a data leak exactly like the one we’re discussing.
Because they assume you've set name+spam@gmail.com to be filtered directly to spam, and they can easily evade those filters by removing the ±spam part.

Big companies do this. I have signed up for things using a +filter email address, only to receive the emails from that company that is signed up to get at my plane address, without the +filter part.
If so, how comes you can do the workaround one suggested of entering a time one second ago then going forward a frame at a time?
Those are some great ideas for Prometheus alert rules. If they aren't already added here: https://samber.github.io/awesome-prometheus-alerts/
Everything is a “simple thing” unless you’re the one implementing it. Things that seem simple on the surface rarely are, especially long-term.
If only tickets were sold through a wonderful (and popular) company like Ticketmaster or Stubhub that conveniently offers an add-on of affordable ticket insurance with every order...

More seriously, I think it may be possible to purchase ticket insurance through a travel insurance company. Travel insurance is probably a good idea anyway given the possibility of covid etc.
We had a similar issue with ATM in Austria where they are all set to max give you 400 EUR. Which was a sensible idea in 2001 but pays for much less in 2024. Somehow the banks have never heard of inflation or really don’t want you to use cash
You are improving the +part of email?

I.e. i use my email like this:

orlie+HN@myhost.com
Then I add a filter on my webmail client to send all emails that have TO: field set to orlie+HN@myhost.com to a specific folder
During the dot com boom / crash, I worked at a profitable, VC funded startup. I don't know the legal / financial mechanism by which they did it, but our VCs shut us down six months after the crash. They wanted to put all of their attention into the other company in the portfolio that survived the crash, Yahoo, because their revenue was already far higher than ours could ever be.

We were profitable (100s of K per year on revenue of a few million a year - small potatoes). Those numbers were growing steadily, even after the crash, but they weren't going to explode. We were given 30 minutes to collect our things and leave the building, but I suspect our founders knew a day or two earlier. They made a lunch reservation for all the employees that same day so we could say goodbye to each other, but we had to pay for it ourselves. It was a very strange experience.
Given that Wistia, MailChimp, Patagonia, and GitHub, among others did the seed/series A, profitability thing you suggest, there are other mechanics at play here. Specifically, as the article raises, profitability as in net revenue isn't everything.

edit: swapped Basecamp for Wistia, because Basecamp did not take VC money.
> developers who only want to work on features they personally find interesting or worthwhile.

you say that like it's a bad or even a surprising thing. for a lot of people that's the entire point of open source development - in their day jobs they do what they are required to do for the company that pays them, and then in their own open source projects they can do what genuinely interests them.
I have no data to back it up, but my instinct is that “today’s artists” are increasingly supported by rich parents or spouses when compared with those of 50 years ago.

This is a consequence of wealth concentration and the destruction of the middle class.
Out of curiosity, what culture are you referring to? I've known a few individuals trying to do such changes, but no wider culture.
Doesn’t it lose potency over time!
A tool that instantly converts resumes into professional portfolios. Just upload your resume, and SnapCV instantly turns it into a clean, professional portfolio that’s ready to share across DMs and social media. Perfect for students, job seekers, and professionals.
Microsoft admin isn’t my day job, but I dealt with this exact thing the other day—the toggles for Microsoft Defender MFA are spread across Entra ID policies, Registration Campaigns, per-user settings, and more Microsoft subdomains I’d never heard of. After two hours the best I could do was add a Skip button to the MFA prompt when our users sign in.
Aegis [1] seems to be a great alternative, at least on Android. Besides a search bar, it allows you to backup or export all your entries in an ecrypted vault. You can also include them in the Android cloud backups.

[1] https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis
It depends on the product. The longer you have to push for the profit the hogher the reward sonce everything easy is already done. Things that are left to do have higher and hogher barrier of entry and depending on the business it will take a lot more time and up front capital to have a chance at profitability.
I've built some DIY air quality monitors. Radon sensors are hard to find.

In general from easiest to hardest:

- Temperature, humidity, pressure: many cheap, small and accurate sensors available.

- Particulate matter: many options as well though if you want good accuracy and silent fans you need to pay more.

- CO2: most sensors are actually just measuring other stuff (TVOC) and guessing CO2 concentration from that. You can get good true CO2 sensors from eg. Sensirion for $30+.

- VOC, CO, NO, O3 and other gasses: hard to measure reliably. Most sensors are comparatively large (few small SMD MEMS types exist), are power hungry (basically a heater element) and give you a crude estimate as they react to bunch of different gasses and the output is a mix of their concentrations.

- Radon: basically impossible for hobbyist. If you know of any sensor module I can buy below $100 in unit quantities please share.

Edit: I know airgradient are not hobbyists and they probably could get some radon sensors but it is still harder than for large companies. Their product definitely has the DIY vibe (but high quality) and I really like that it is easy to recreate and source all parts for it yourself, except the custom injection mold case.
Try Bitcoin Cash. It's Bitcoin as it was intended. Transactions are practically free, and zero-conf hasn't been crippled by RBF!
I agree. The limited expressiveness in Go also worked as an advantage because of its simplicity. Additionally, as the article mentions, the lack of lambdas made the syntax less convenient. For me, it struck a good balance before generics and other features were added.
being hungry means people are driven to make decisions, just not necessarily good ones. they're after the drive, and hopefully acumen, but drive is more important than acumen, they hope.
Microsoft cares about creating end-to-end secure media delivery from the Hollywood to your monitor.

They always did, ever since the introduction of Protected Media Path (PMP) in Windows 2000, followed by tightening of the kernel access and now requiring the TPM. The end goal is to take away full control of the machines from their owners.

It's been a very long game for them, but they are almost there.

And then they will have fun.
> What other institutions (or democratic tools) should have acted to halt the extremist anti-democratic movement lead by Bolsonaro?

To start, the fallacy here, is to assume there was indeed an "extremist anti-democratic movement led by Bolsonaro".
They have, by using one of the million other note taking apps.

I understand that on hn it's good karma to be a privacy-absolutist, but I think in the space of note taking apps, surely, there is enough product to let makers who are slightly more flexible cook?
It's a computer podcast run by Rust programmers. They also LARP as a computer company.
I am sure the sensor is fine and the weird USB port can be fixed (though it looked like they do not make it easy to disassemble the body). However, the device is just so janky and unpleasant to use I am not sure I want to go through the trouble. I started looking at Airthings, though I was recommended AirGradient as well.

> until this year I always just used their website to view the data or the app

Never used their app to check my own unit. My apartment is small. I am here in this room, the device is right here in this room, would I want to go fetch my phone to know the readings?

> Also, for the indoor ones, you can set DND mode (I forget the exact name they use) and it'll turn off the display during the night

Of course, but it means it should be within reach to turn on and it will blast blue light in my face should I want to check it at night. An e-ink screen would work best, considering low refresh rate is not an issue in this scenario.
Amazing, thanks for this. Mind sharing more details? Would be very interested in info on prompts, how you iterated, etc.

Thank you!
> Redshifts of distant objects are directly observed

How do you know the object is distant? (notion being challenged “more redshift -> more distance”)

Please answer. Thanks for the patience.
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Maybe, IANAD
That's only spiritually correct. You can guarantee full e2e encryption with webapps, the issue is with the potential to leak the key to the middleman, giving them the ability to decrypt it as well - but itd still be e2e encrypted.
I may be as old and cynical as House MD but if there is anything decades in the business taught me it's that customers and documentation (esp. code comments) always lie.
Frames shouldn't be skipped but if the monitor is at 60Hz and the video is at 24 then many frames will have to come early or late. That's what causes the stutter that is most apparent on slow planning scenes. It's like the reel in the projector is being fed through in a jerky manner so each from lines up with one of the monitor frames rather than going through at constant speed like it's supposed to. There's no way around this. However with 120Hz monitors you just display one frame every 5 frames and no jerky motion is required (except the fact that US releases are at 23.976fps, not 24, so a frame will have to be doubled every now and then I guess, or maybe the soundtrack is just pitched up to 24? Don't know).
That's how they play

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft
Lawsuit? Were these folks defrauded out of money due to the extra costs incurred?
300 minutes is 5 hours per week of vigorous exercise. That's... A lot, no matter what
A big part of Spring is dependency injection and I wonder what people's opinion on it are nowadays - in general and in Rust specifically.
Have owned a Tesla for a year or so. Longest single trip has been 1400 miles.

I've never seen a broken supercharger. I've always been able to find a charger, even if it's a non-Tesla one. That 1400mi used superchargers the whole way and none required interacting with touch screens or apps.

Third party chargers are spottier. The Tesla can navigate to them but many require signing up, apps, etc. Some handle PAYG with a card like a normal fuel pump but they're still rare IME.

But if you're considering buying one, you're probably not driving it in the same way as a rental. We do 40-50mi a day and it just charges at home overnight at a cheap rate. Even catches some solar in summer. It's more convenient than having to do a fuel shop every couple of weeks and about a fifth the price (UK). It's also the most powerful car we've ever owned. You've driven one, you know. Even the single motor Teslas accelerate like supercars.
article fails to load text partway through. why are websites so bad at doing this?
As a candidate, I was asked once "tell me something about yourself that I can't read on your cv". I could not help but tell what was on my mind outside work.

I have used this question for candidates as well. I received responses about hobbies, families, quirky preferences... It's a great way to get to know someone personally.
I imagine it works well for getting to know future team members and bosses too.
Yeah - that doesn't get rid of or replace cars. It reduces how much time they're on the road.
You speak as if VLC is the pinnacle of video player technology. I know it is an open source darling, but it's been a buggy, overengineered mess since forever, which is why many use alternatives as mpv, IINA when I used macOS, SMplayer, etc.

On fact, with all due respect, I never understood why VLC was so widely praised. It is the only player to stutter for me on Windows, to get lost in its settings page, to have a terrible playlist implementation that's forced upon you, doesn't handle corrupted media as well as others, etc. mpv on the other hand does one thing and does it very well.

I'll skip ranting about VLC for Android TV this time
I’m not convinced that the flights are any longer - just in a sparser environment.

If the flights are longer, fixed wing drones are used to deliver cold chain medicine across hundreds of km in Africa, very cost effectively, and are returned by road by the recipient, which isn’t an impossible model either.
I believe one rewrite of Python's dict was the first mainstream use of this sort of hash map as a default implementation.

I wish they provided a sort method to re-sort and re-index the vector to change the iteration order without the space overhead of creating a and sorting a separate vector/list of keys (or key-value pairs, depending on use case. You might want to change iteration order based on the currently held value).
This video might help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2ZziEA3zPg

There are a few follow up videos as well.

Basically, they sell big racks of servers.
I was in high school and this was for a science fair. It kind of worked, you could more or less reliably move one axis of the arm at a time. I directly used the relax/focus metrics and relied on a training phase where the participant would try to find thoughts/states of mind that would move the needle the most. Very basic stuff (but I didn’t know better at the time).
How to identify a mistuned vm.swappiness?
It comes from enshittification: https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/
VLC is only praised in "normie" places. It is hated in places like anime forums, 4chan, etc.
I don't think it strange at all.

Notes are personal. I don't want my notes online at all, let alone being feed into a language model likely managed by a third party that feeds them into it.
I use consumables like toothpaste as top-up items to get past the minimum threshold to qualify for free shipping at Amazon and Walmart. This implicitly triggers a mental check to see if I'm running low on anything.
Don't forget "business objectives" i.e. making it work, but be incompatible with other authenticators and claim that other authenticators are inferior. Classic Microsoft FUD combined with low quality of product.
VCs with board seats vs you are trying to run your company with all its intricacies while VCs are often managing you as yet-another-in-some-tranche.
They don't use models (although you certainly could.) They usually use plain old closed-form solutions.
Various Types of Locale Braindeath
I think you may be confusing it for something else, magnesium chloride is literally a salt so there's nothing to degrade, and it's not going to react with air (if it did, it'd release chlorine gas).

Like sodium chloride, the most it will do is grab moisture out of the air and try to recrystallize into bigger clumps.

Edit
It occurs to me you may have mean "It doesn’t lose potency over time!", in which case, true!
TypeScript has a very different set of axiomatic operations than conventional type theory.

It incorporates concepts from set theory, you have unions T|U, intersections T&U, comprehensions { [T in U]: e(T) }, conditionals (T extends U ? A : B ), pattern matching (infer T), and the typeof operator is like a poor man’s dependent typing.

While you could certainly express all of these concepts in a language with dependent types, you can’t emulate the inference rules (the subject of TFA), so it can be said that TypeScript’s type theory is unique.
Map of the World's Emotional Temperature
All I can think of is Vala Mal Doran :D
That makes no sense to me. They could give the company to the employees instead right? Unless they wanted the code or something.
Or a backend cache miss
A friend is a neurosurgeon and they use some special saw that stops as soon as there's no hard tissue providing resistance. So you press it hard into the skull, and when it's done chewing through the bone, it immediately stops.

Apparently the scariest bit for the junior doctors to learn to use, somehow.
Google authenticator is absolutely horrible. Until recently there was just no way to back it up, at all. If you were getting rid of your phone, well, tough shit.
TFA identifies the error which seems to have led to a situation of irritated reviewers as well as "influencers" (freelance marketers):

> Team Pixel should have never been treated as a reviews program in the first place. It’s always been a marketing play for Google.
Don’t use VNC. It is horrendously slow compared to RDP.
Note the difference between a "diffuser" and a "diffusion model" here.
Maybe you haven’t noticed recently how there already western weapon systems actively striking targets within Russia. Those same systems can deliver nuclear payloads.

So what your are saying is a falsehood based on the current realities on the ground.
I also recommend this video as a resource on low cost EEG from someone who tried living with it: https://youtu.be/c-LyXBCNsrA?si=7xoM1OGTNRbMsO_P (skim through)

That goes over several nicer multichannel options. The NeuroSky stuff will only get you so far :)
But it was possible to circumvent it without any problem, which it won’t be in the future. That’s literally what the Article is about. So what changed?
> has a trove of a million hidden features

No software person would find this praiseworthy. A million features = two million bugs, and indeed it shows.
You can only do it for certain formats
I don't see why an ecosystem full of macro magic and traits, should have anything against it.
> Additional information was sent to you via email

Got the same prompt when I logged in - no email despite their insistence they sent it.