skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you should definitely have a firewall but the security advantages of a VPN are questionable, pushed hard by VPN vendors, who are biased due to what they're selling. They're useful for evading DMCA takedowns but that's not about keeping hackers off your machine.
That’s an interesting perspective, and it makes sense it works. Thankfulness is known to provide a lot of psychological benefits, such as greater appreciation of the thing you are thankful for.

Where it goes wrong though is if we take it too far and start connecting this to some non-existent deity, which in turn makes us construct an incorrect model of the world (such as if we’re not thankful for the food, then next year there will be a drought as a punishment).

I suppose codifying beneficial practices into religion or spiritual beliefs is just part of being human.
GPL doesn’t, but as others have already said, this discussion is not about that. If they want to keep using someone else’s free server capacity, maybe they should be giving something in return.
Cure cancer? Solve this climate change thing?
16% of the global population has a disability, according to the World Health Organization. How can we build diagramming web apps to ensure accessibility for everyone? We dive into this important topic, exploring the current state of accessibility, enabling technologies, and the role of AI in creating more inclusive experiences.
We use it at work and its ok. Missing permalinks and the permission concept does not fit our usecase.
My wife would not be able to do her PhD without LibGen

People don’t understand how hard and expensive it is to legitimately access research articles if you’re from a developing poor country
'Wero'?

how is it pronounced, like 'weirdo'?
Just like every other technology ever?
Everybody's different. For me, an inverse correlation happens: libgen etc. act as a bookshop where I can freely browse and evaluate stuff before I buy. So I want to make sure I'm not cheated.

Sometimes the brand is enough, i.e. I know by experience that if a book is from Manning I can trust it, whereas if it's from Packt it's hit-or-miss-but-probably-miss. Self-published ones? 90% are worthless, 1% are gems with the rest on the verge. You can't really know this from reading a sample chapter or the ToC.
why they took so light even if it is a big task ?
What do you use now? Node.js? Groovy?
All correct, it was also one point raised by the reviewers. They had some suggestions about temporal centrality, but in the end I didn't followup on that because this centrality analysis was just a descriptive part that didn't really support any of the primary nor secondary claims in the paper.
> The EU has demonstrated a naive over-eagerness to legislate in tech matters despite the absence of harm.

You mean the EU is not as deeply corrupt as good old USA and actually cares about anti-competitive behavior. This is the opposite of the USA that will blow a LOT of hot air but never truly target and penalize any big company that is bribing the political establishment with campaign funding ?
I've paid for and been a happy user of https://www.beonex.com/owl/ when I've needed to in the past.
> The most successful people

For some value of "success" that doesn't include whatever Findus and Pettson are doing here: https://littlefinland.de/8487-large_default/pettson-and-find...
The website is forcing me to disable ad blocking, but I am just using Orion browser and am happy with it, so can not see the content.
If this is legal than isn't this the best way to do a startup from now on?
I think the majority of people who are against these changes, like you, don’t want to ban people from gambling. The situation before was that bets between individuals on sports events was totally legal, but no businesses were allowed to profit from it.

It’s not that casual bets between friends should be banned, but this insidious industry that spends 100s of millions on marketing, and uses every tactic available to lure people and then get them addicted. That is such a far cry from not wanting people to gamble at all. Those who want to be a nanny and say boo hoo gambling bad are in a totally different category to the people who reasonably think that there’s a serious issue with this industry.
Most of these are still dumb:

https://www.panelook.com/
It's closer to 50 years since it was first posted, though.
A lot of crazy stuff on there, but Privacy is censorship threw me for a loop.

I haven’t heard that one before
Thank you for the kind words! I'll take a look at your post. And feel free to get in touch in case you'd like to collaborate on this.
Apparently this is the aftermath of Valve v. Zaiger case.
>Teletext.
And damnation on the manufacturers of the red button that never worked.
I'm one of those devs who migrated all of the company sites to Laravel-based CMSes. Waaaay better experience, users are happy, updates are a breeze, and the sites are fast and reliable.

WordPress has become so tacky and this drama is exacerbating the problem. I don't see a bright future for WordPress, unfortunately.
I reckon they will change the license terms much like Facebook licenses llama.
This isn’t about outlawing gambling. In the US it was legal to gamble between friends on sports events but businesses weren’t allowed to be involved. That changed in 2018 and business were allowed to be involved and then everything went down the drain.
Hehe yeah, it's even weird each country somewhat gets things 'to their taste' even though a lot of people don't like the taste... in my country certain Soups are soooo salty, my god. But in the neighbor country, it's nice and taste, and you might add salt because its lacking :'D
I would if I could choose which program the money was directed at.
I did lose patience. This site has the most abusive “consent” form available. And they aren't even satisfied with that, they have to use multiple ones.
MSFS 2020 also streams from cloud
The question was, is it uncompetitive because self-imposed requirements/limtiations are stricter or because of lack of competence. You are answering something else
> It very much is. Not 1:1, but it's absolutely correlated. I've made several purchases for things that I tried to pirate and couldn't find.

An ancedote is not the same as data.

(Legal) libraries had an effect of increasing sales, much to the surprise of everyone when they were first introduced. Its entirely possible that piracy could have too. Or maybe it doesn't. Who knows. I think the effects are non-obvious enough that actual studies are needed to know what the actual affect is.
> Can someone explain the design decisions to me?

They are trying to be smart to get rich?
This and the other top comments are right that sharing an artist is only the crudest (and very noisy) way to estimate actual influence. I suppose one way to improve it would be to actually looking at the songs themselves, which might be possible with some deep learning? But that would require to actually have all the songs, which might not be feasible.
How would you suggest splitting up a heavily vertically integrated company, like eg Apple?

Does Google search become a paid subscription product in your vision of separation of search vs ads?
OpenHCL: Microsoft's Linux-Based Paravisor
CHERIoT: A study in CHERI for RISC-V microcontrollers
Jag Guide to IG Investigations
1. It isn't at all the direction the article is going, but there is an argument that the smartest among us do things like swear vows of poverty. Optimising for wealth isn't all that obvious, especially given that the difference between 10 million and 10 billion is mostly about how you influence society than what outcomes are personally experienced.

2. More on the subject of the article, the simulation is probably good but the conclusions being drawn are not as robust as they might appear. For the sake of argument, lets say that this simulation outcomes align perfectly with reality. That doesn't conclusively demonstrate that wealth is random with respect to people's decisions and abilities. The random events in the simulation might be driven by people's preferences, abilities and habits (hereafter, "skills") which are themselves randomly distributed.

For example, lets say that everyone encounters an opportunity to become a billionaire at a perfectly constant rate of 1 opportunity/year [0] and the probability we can capitalise on it with our skills is normally distributed (ditto for ruinous events). That would be indistinguishable in outcomes from random lucky events that are normally distributed, even though in reality our skills are actually playing a huge role. That is to say: reality can be perfectly aligned with the simulation even if the assumptions of the simulation are different from the realities of reality.

In the real world it is probably a mix of both. There is certainly luck involved in becoming absurdly wealthy, but there is a also an element of skill that shines through in some people who seem to have a miraculous ability to make their own luck. I've met a few of the inverse who it would take much more than luck for them to get wealthy, there are people who fumble their chances.

[0] Picking an absurdly high rate for the sake of argument.
mpv has --cache-size (or something) that you can set at a few GB. If you run out of ram it should swap to your ssd.

Edit: demuxer-max-bytes=2147483647
The Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes: On Freedom
The two different pictures of Las Vegas in 1999 and 2024 shows the environmental tragedy unfolding: the city doubled in size, and Lake Mead shrank.
Sounds good all around, the only thing that bothers me is that I will have to give my phone number to recieve a payment ? You can set an alias even in PayPal
> None of that applies to gambling though.

Are you sure about that?

> Not only is there nothing to learn from failing that you couldn’t have learnt before placing a bet

Just look at investing with fake money portfolios vs. making decisions with real money. Or playing poker with play money. It's a whole different game mentally and some lessons you just don't learn unless you got a real stake in it.

> but success could mean addiction and the eventual ruination of your life and the lives of those you love.

In my case my success (in poker) led to a prosperous career playing professionally. No lives ruined. YMMV.

Poker, or sportsbetting, is not gambling any more than investing in the stock market is, or choosing a spouse. Sure, you can gamble and YOLO your life savings on either of them. But you can also learn to make better decisions, the hard way. Or try and fail and lose money in the process. Rather than having a small set of "safe" pre-chosen options laid out for everyone.

Disclaimer: Games where you play against the house (that has an edge) like slots or roulette is gambling. But again, just because there are people playing slots to make a profit doesn't mean that we should ban being an idiot. Life is dangerous and you will eventually die from it. This is more of a personal philosophical opinion than a "what's best for people" one (which I think is wrong).
vector embeddings of the songs plus coop network
No, we should always criticize decisions that lead to more people dying. People who claim "we should have been more cautious" should also be criticized. Both for being spineless, and for leading to more deaths over time.
I am pretty sure they do, this data is just too valuable. At least meta admitted using a dataset called "books3" which contains ~200k pirated ebooks for llama 1 and 2 [1].
Anna's archive provides datasets for LLM training, but who knows who they are working with..

I also wonder if google is using their own dataset from books.google.com .

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/meta-admits-use-of-pirated-book-dat...
I dunno. I assumed that

> The standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple for iOS®, iPadOS®¹

ships on iOS® and iPadOS®.

But maybe it doesn't.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In seriousness, exposing only a very limited interface to a flexible, capable system seems to me very on-brand for Apple.

Maybe they don't iOS and iPadOS to be of the kind of platform where one thinks about drivers, even if exposing CUPS features to users would let users accomplish more without much trouble.

Or maybe they see printer drivers as essentially a legacy feature in the face of a 'driverless' future.

Not my cup of tea, but both seem like things leaders at Apple would do/think.

--

https://www.cups.org/
Lazygit (https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit)

I know there are probably many GUI git tools and editor integrations which make using git fast and easy but I've been mostly using the CLI. Lazygit makes doing things like cherry picking really easy and once you learn the shortcuts it's pretty fast to use.
This analogy came up recently when discussing Elasticsearch. It's flawed.

Free and open source software does not, and has never, required giving up trademark rights. I think the GPLv3 is even explicit about this.

In the Windows case it's fair use of the trademark because you're reselling something you previously bought. That's not applicable here.

WordPress is open source software, but a hosting service has a variety of characteristics unrelated to the nominal software. Besides, WP Engine are disabling key features of the product: of course that's misleading.
Can't disagree, but the huge mistake started at “We generally do not comment on individual cases, but". A CEO recklessly copy pasting information from his platform's internal moderation portal into a public forum should really put into question their ability to stay level headed while running the business and the effectiveness of their company's policies and security practices. I genuinely cannot think of any other case this mind boggling.
> They’ll just replace „Buy” button with „Get Access” or whatever and add some lawyer mumbo-jumbo above it.

Sounds like exactly what is needed? Consumers currently think they're buying something when they click a button that says "Buy", when in reality they're getting temporary access to it.

Forcing companies to use clear language might change consumer behavior, or it might not, but at least it's no longer explicitly misleading.
So instead, you trust for-profit companies to direct the morals of society?

Surely the reason prohibition failed so badly was that it wasn't democratic. You can't mandate against vice unless you have the support of the majority.
Authority can just be identity of anyone though. For example pretending to be a relative asking for money for an emergency. And urgency isn't always present, as in catphishing and other long-con scams.
The paper: [1]

(While it's nice to have a model, "fortune" has been synonymous with "luck" and "wealth" since Roman times [2], so it's not exactly a new concept)

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04237

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fortuna#Latin
`technologyreview.com` is one of the many sources of my HN submissions.

Recently, after I upgraded to macOS Sequoia 15.0, I realized that my current AdBlocker was not working in Safari. This was due to a conflict between AdGuard and Apple iCloud Private Relay.

In that short window of a few hours, I realized that the Internet is an unforgiving place to browse without an AdBlocker. As I was on my usual chore of collecting and sharing interesting, weird, and strange finds for Hacker News, I was stunned to see how unusable the browsing experience had become.

Of course, I don’t hate ads. It is a legitimate business model. I’m just not too keen with the over-done ads that is everywhere, and in everything.

So, I Block Ads. And recently, I wrote an article to remind myself of how life on the Internet is today.

https://brajeshwar.com/2024/i-block-ads/
Unfortunely many business units from the organization seem to never have changed that much from the old ways.
Read this as "Vanilla OS2" for a moment.

Has anyone put OS2 in Docker yet?
I think the article has it correct, its their way of forcing all users to have their emails stored and scraped by Microsoft, no matter the provider.
Improve muscle memory. Body will do the recall.
In principle, any piece of software can have zero-days in it. PDF readers included.

Scripting languages can help with certain exploits, but arent vulnerabilities in and of themselves.

Anyhow, theoretically possible but also kind of unlikely. Such attacks usually have a shortish shelf life so are used in more targeted fashion to prolong the exploits life and get the most value from it.
If you still use Outlook for ANYTHING then it's self-inflicted and well deserved.
check out clickhouse. you might like it.
10ms is 100Hz not 10Hz.

A conservative assumption would be that they use all spare cpu time for spyware? Maybe 1-10W extra if small arm processors?
I disagree, a lot of the interviews are quite humanizing and entertaining to watch (entertainment has value) and plenty of them being up early musical influences and encounters which might not be covered as much elsewhere (sometimes even forgotten by the artist themselves)
Poker involves skill, I was not talking about poker. Unless you’re unskilled, in which case it’s gambling. Poker done right is a process in which safe failure can lead to skill growth.

Yes, investing on the stock market can be gambling, unless you have inside information or are extremely knowledgeable, you’re not going to beat a monkey. Investing in a diverse portfolio where you’re basically betting on the entire market growing is different.
Alphonso inc. develops the tech https://lgads.tv/site-privacy-policy/. Looked into the LinkedIn of some of the employees and it looks like a huge operation.
Must One Risk Madness to Achieve Genius?
Like IMAP, except Microsoft downloads and stores all your folders on their servers, even if your email provider is not Microsoft.
> Similar in a way to non-dischargable student loans. When lenders are not exposed to the real risk of their loans, someone always ends up holding the bag.

Students (people) are more likely to suffer from climate change and will have to fight it during their lifetime than those new low-quality insurers will have ever to, regardless of who hold the bags.

Let the fuckers hold the bag and give a fighting chance to the people rather than building our economy on the back of debt ridden slaves.
The worst thing about this, to me, is that Windows Mail client, the one they're discontinuing, is a fantastic piece of software. It's simple, lean, capable, and elegantly designed. It's perfect for a novice computer user to check their email on.

The new cloud thing is worse in every way. It confusingly copies your email over from your email provider's servers onto Microsoft's servers, and then shows an ad that looks exactly like an email in the middle of all the emails. In other words, it injects spam, but the spam is special because you can't delete it. Also, it needs to run in a browser for no apparent reason. For anybody currently using Windows Mail, it's a pure downgrade.

I understand that a company running a cloud service needs to finance this service, eg with ads, but this doesn't need to be a cloud service at all. It's so extremely backward that I simply can't comprehend how it made it through all the management layers at Microsoft. If all builtin software that comes with Windows turns into a bad, ad-ridden cloud apps then that's just one more reason for people to switch to Chromebooks, right? What's next, ads in Solitaire?¹

I miss the time when Microsoft wanted to make useful software.

¹) At the risk of ruining the joke by explaining it: Microsoft already did this. They removed Solitaire from Windows and replaced it with a terrible Windows Store app which indeed is loaded to the rim with screamy animated banner ads. I assume that the PM responsible for that got promoted to the email team or something.
I totally understand the article title, I have a ZFS NAS that makes the same kind of noise as described there. Roughly every five seconds the drives make sound that is different from the background hum of a running computer. In a calm environment this is very distracting. I even had a guest sleeping in an adjacent room complain about it once.
AOLServer (now Naviserver again) is still the base for the largest open-source project management system: ]project-open[ (https://www.project-open.com/)
Someone needs to put a network sniffer on a bunch of different TVs and see exactly what traffic they're generating and how much. Sending 120 4k images per minute (or worse, 6000 for the LG) on a residential WiFi connection should be pretty obvious, and it should be fairly easy to block too.
This is actually one of the strengths in X-Plane; there's a scenery gateway where users can submit custom airports or tweak existing ones. They started that many years ago and at this point there are many thousands of user contributed airports with carefully modeled 3D scenery. With every patch release they bundle what's on the scenery gateway and things get better.

Most airports that people care about are modeled to a pretty high standard at this point. Even the tiny, remote ones. It's not just about making them look pretty but also about ensuring signage, taxi ways, etc. is where it's supposed to be. It's all licensed under the Creative Commons license too (CC BY 3.0); so MS could make use of this. It's one of the things I always liked about X-plane, the third party add on ecosystem is great.

And of course there are commercial scenery plugins as well. Orbx makes scenery for both X-plane and MS Flight Simulator. Which despite the awesome scenery that they have out of the box still requires stuff like that if you really want the best looking scenery. The default scenery is amazing of course; but it has its limitations.

I've not used that personally but it looks awesome. For X-plane, simheaven.com (very detailed open streetmap based scenery) combined with free satellite scenery generated using Ortho4XP gets things close enough. Not quite to the level of MS Flight Simulator but it's not that bad. And free.

With Orbx it actually looks comparable. That's actually a good way to compare the two simulators if you care about the visuals because the only difference would be the rendering engine; the content is essentially the same with orbx and much better than what comes out of the box with either simulation. There are some videos on youtube comparing the two side by side. They both look great. But also very different.

IMHO MS has an edge with things like clouds and weather. But it can also look a bit over saturated and slightly too pretty. X-plane is shooting more for realism. And part of that is that visibility usually just isn't really that great from a plane. And they have gradually upgraded a lot of things. E.g. the clouds and weather just got a major upgrade in a patch release and the physics based rendering in v12 is a big step forward and they are still doing major updates to things like HDR and cockpit rendering (which is a hard problem because of the way human eyes compensate for the huge dynamic range difference inside and outside).
American Truck Simulator has 300 cities and it takes 3 hours to drive across the map in real time. It's probably the biggest world in a driving game.
Gets even more wild when you consider Automattic invested in WP Engine's Series A in 2011, despite all this insidious trademark abuse commencing in 2010.

No chance this is personal.
Similar to how WinDev keeps pushing WinUI as the successor, while it is still quite lacking versus UWP, which was already quite lacking versus WPF.

It is no accident that WPF has been reborn at BUILD 2024, as the 2nd official way to do Windows apps.

And in the end it hardly matters, as the business apps unit is now full of people that only understand Web, probably started using Windows when they joined Microsoft, and keep shipping stuff stuck into Web widgets.
Thanks. I should have used crunching.

You will have to get used to all the non natives tho. Like The Register and practically everyone else when @evilsocket tweeted "redhat confirmed severity 9.9" they automatically credited the extraordinary severity rating to evilsocket. Which was not the case and caused unnecessary noise around the issue.