skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes you an expert on what makes a feature a gimmick? You have no idea of how other people use and optimize their productivity workflows around the use of this "gimmick". Your opinion is far from "objective" .
Even when I‘m logged out I expect at least information on my geographical location to seep into the archive via URLs addressing specific CDN endpoints or similar mechanisms.
Not OP, but a few things:

- the authors are unfairly compensated by amazon and the public libraries due to publisher issues with ebooks already. OP is hardly contributing to this disparity.

- I choose to purchase expensive copies of books I love - but the digital copy is the one I read.
I use my own domain so I can return mails as bounced, which mail providers don't like, since it may indicate attempting to send unsolicited mail to loads of addresses.

it's not me, it's you. Screw you if you send me mail I don't want!
I didn’t dismiss the point. My next sentence that you left out of that quote addresses it ;)

I also learn concepts bottom up, but thank God everyone isn’t like me. I’m just glad prebuilt tools like the game engines we have today exist so we can have artists creating awesome games.

Heck, even half life likely wouldn’t exist if Carmack hadn’t written the Quake engine and shared it with the Valve developers![0] Think of all the amazing games that have since been released by Valve that might never have been unless they had the kickstart that they got.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldSrc#:~:text=GoldSrc%20(p....
But COPD, Emphysema and cardio vascular issues also affect smokers, it’s not just lung cancer.
Niche Facebook Groups: Entrepreneurs and Investors.

Targeted Linkedin outreach: A specific class of professionals
What is the Irish bike shed controversy?
"Shares are not fungible, these are not NFTs. "

This sentence is contradictory. Shares are either fungible (they are), or they're not, in which case they are 'non-fungible', like "non-fungible tokens."

In this case they are, because one share is like another. If you and I both have boeing shares, we can trade one for the other, and still feel like we got a fair trade. Additionally Boeing has the ability to mint new shares. And if they do that, they mint shares like yours and mine.
I would wager most people just move onto a different server - leaving you with useless/suppressed data on how many people this may have impacted.
The battery wasn't actually for sale; they just created fake product pages for it so that if anyone looked up the part number, it wouldn't be immediately obvious that it was fake.
Even if you don't enjoy the science/exploration angle, asteroid mining should be incredibly good for human needs.

Any metal you can think of exists in phenomenal abundance there, and should be able to be exploited at minimal cost in the long run. Having huge supplies of cheap platinum, gold, nickel, cobalt etc would be extremely good for humanity. It also means we don't need to have dirty and ugly mines on earth.

There is also the military angle. If the west lets China control orbit, we're in big trouble.
What kind of school has weekend detentions? What if a student has a job. Even without that, weekends are often family time, and certainly unwind time.

I would never allow a school to punish my kid on a non-school day, no matter what they may or may not have done.
This, btw, is why open sourcing proprietary software rarely happens: you actually have to go to a fair amount of careful effort to get it right. If you don’t, you end up with this debacle.
The sun is heating up, and Earth is going to become too hot. I’m not sure on the timeline; might be a few hundred million years. Might be more. It depends on how the atmosphere reacts.

On that timescale we could use a gravitational tractor to fix it, if we insist keeping the planet around.
It's not a great idea, because law and policy are designed to privilege makers rather than takers. It's a subversive degenerate kind of morality to argue that things belong to the people who desire to consume them.
Hey! I am the developer of this game! Thank you for sharing it!
If the chat goes a bit slow, it's because it's suddenly getting more players than expected :P
>We Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters by Exploiting the Client

Fixed
The VGUI browser also allowed servers to steal the steam session cookies. So not a very hardened implementation at all.
I'm not a physicist, but, why should this be fairly easy to disprove? The person proposing this theory seems relatively informed and obviously still published, so it's obviously not trivial.

My (naive) assumption reading the article was that he wasn't proposing that a photon loses velocity over long distances, but that the value C was not constant on a multi-billion year time horizon. I don't see an easy way to prove that it is not changing if the rate of change is functionally unobservable.

But, maybe I am way too uniformed to speculate on this.
Seems like they were private servers. So they really need only hurdle enough to have cheaters go somewhere else. Not totally kill their ability to play. And well most people will move on. Only those who take it most personally start to spend lot of time.
These days there's open earbuds that look a lot like hearing aids
Totally agree! Its frustrating how hard it is to get profiles from LinkedIn. You can send any resume - a regular PDF, or a LinkedIn download
I had the exact opposite experience. My kindle battery went wonky after a few years, but my kobo has gone on for a lot longer with no issues. It's made me a little wary of buying a kindle again. Aside, or on top of, not wanting to support Amazon.
Are there more sophisticated cheat developers though?
You think they should've just left the license-violating repo up for others to possibly also unknowingly violate?
Plate way

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateway
My dad lived in a house that was well-shaded by trees. They kept the house cool but there ARE downsides...

The biggest one is dealing with all the leaves in the fall. If your yard is big enough, you can easily lose a whole weekend to cleaning up the dropped leaves so that they don't kill your grass over the winter and spring. You also have to clean them out of the gutters multiple times a year, around the foundation, etc.

That house also had an absurd amount of spiders in it, which I attribute to both being close to the woods and shaded by trees. Not to mention vermin such as mice, chipmunks, squirrels can extremely destructive to the house, vehicles, and machinery when their own homes and food sources are right nearby.
If you're not serious about nuclear, you're not serious about climate change.
Not every cookie requires consent.

https://commission.europa.eu/resources-partners/europa-web-g...

In this case, this one might fit:

> User centric security cookies, used to detect authentication abuses and linked to the functionality explicitly requested by the user, for a limited persistent duration
I regret asking, I'm even more confused now after having read all these responses.
Wind and especially solar are also serious. But their applications are different; they can offset the load when the sun shines, or the wind blows, but can't provide a stable source.

If you need baseload, and need it carbon-free, your only option currently is nuclear. It's terribly encumbered, but apparently it's still less of an impasse that large-scale electricity storage currently is.
Infinite Backrooms
> I haven't seen any actual data on who died as a result of this attack, but is it confirmed that it was essentially only members of Hezbollah's militant wing? I've heard reports that that wasn't the case.

4 of the 12 killed in early reports were either children and healthcare workers, so early estimates were 33% civilian causalities. I am not sure of final tallies, but the source is here: https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/18/lebanon-exploding-pagers...
But how? - surely they don't store the passwords in plain text locally? Does the OS have a function to log in a user while bypassing their credentials? I would have assumed that it is impossible for the OS to preloadapps() when it doesn't have access to the user's apps in the first place.

But apparently it does! shrug

So why tell the user that they need to log in first? If they are the only user account on the system and the OS can access the user's files and apps without logging in, why have the user event set a password in the first place? It seems like a fake login, a false sense of security. And a massive security issue. If the user can just open the lid and that means that code is now running under their own account but they have not authorized a log in, that's just dangerous.
I can confirm that the new versions have to be placed in a child mode in order to hide the ads. It seems they have closed this admittedly nice loophole
Genuine question - if I have a model which I only release weights with restrictions on commercial usage and then someone deploys that model and operates it commercially - what are the way to identify that it is my model that's doing the online per token slavery over HTTP endpoint?
> That's just not true, surely?

It is true.

> Lest everyone using any flavour of Linux is liable to the same problem?

The Linux kernel has an explicit "system calls are not linking" exception to avoid any possible confusion on this matter.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/LICENSES/excep...

Merely using the kernel's facilities from user space does not make your program a derivative work of the kernel.
> "but what about a gorillion turbines and solar panels"

It's a good thing to have a diverse portfolio of energy solutions to help avoid single points of failure in the network. Especially as something like solar continues to become more and more efficient.
Targeted Google ads (for the type of product we were building) pointing to a landing page where we collected email addresses.
Agreed. The "purists" are dickwads.
For UT2004, you can ban by player GUID (a hash of the CD key) or IP. With the game abandoned by Epic, a number of key generators have cropped up, which makes GUID bans useless. IP bans only go so far with VPNs costing $2 these days.

The main solutions we have today are IP ban + VPN blocking using a database of known VPN subnets and adding them all to the firewall, and a similar fingerprinting technique which scans their folder structure of certain system folders.
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New for me to see fun platform like Facebook to target business people.
This isn't about stopping cheaters (cheat detection). This is about stopping repeat cheaters trying to ban evade. Detecting cheats, especially nowadays with hardware cheats (DMA, etc), is an entirely different ballgame.

IMHO, one of the most effective way to stop ban evaders is to actually charge money for the game.
Borrowing against the current value of your stocks should automatically cause any gains to become realized for tax purposes.
Looks like the base Kindle also hasn't been updated at all. Same dimensions, screen, weight and battery life. They also nixed the base Kindle Kids which was the best deal considering it was the same price as base and they'd fix it if it broke.

2022: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SWV3BYH

2024: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNV9F72P

Kindle Kids Warranty (2 years vs 1 year): https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
It looks like it’s being maintained by a single remaining developer. No new features are being added, just some basic maintenance. The product as a whole still works well, so unless you find something better, I do recommend it. I run it in k3s and the image is probably the easiest way of maintaining it.
This story is analogous to a landowner and a group of neighborhood kids. The landowner allows the kids to play baseball in his field, but then the kids complain the grass is not cut, they are playing late into the evening, a few kids vandalize damage his flower bed, and his lawyers tell him he will be sued if he doesn't make all these safety changes, and so the landowner says screw it and puts up a fence.
Django/DRF are fine for API's particularly with DRF Spectacular to generate the Open API specs. DRF couples tightly to the ORM and plays nicely with the Django DB models.

FastAPI will have more boilerplate, but I'm not sure that's an issue anymore in the age of AI coding assistants.

HTMX is also wonderful for both. It's a nice tech for lightweight SPAs. If you're going to go deeper into the JS side you can look at some of the more mature frameworks. I've been kinda partial to Vue.js.

And if you really want to go crazy there's pyscript from anaconda.
We bailed on the effort before we would have gone there. We never even got to test whether the theme would be enough because we could not even get that much of an export in place. We also were an immature organization - large, with lots of funding and devs, but comprised of a collection of acquisitions the VCs had merged together into one company and brand. Which meant we all came to the table with years of history and custom code, and were just trying to find an easy way to apply a common look and feel before delving into whether we could evolve to share a full-blown design system. We did all use MUI so it seemed like a good idea at the time. But it ended being a fairly short effort, with a conclusion of: "No."
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in 1845, Robert Stephenson made the following statement: “If I had been called upon to do so, it would be difficult to give a good reason for the adoption of an odd measure — 4 feet 8 and a half inches.”
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Well, the half inch is accounted for , but not the original 5' plateway.
Reminds me of text messages from the DNC. I gave my phone number to Obama in ‘08 and have been endlessly pestered ever since.
I agree with that completely. If school systems have ways to contact people either individually or blast emails and texts, governments can too
Reasons for "...the narrative in Australia is extremely pro coal and anti renewable...." Its said that the cause of this, is the big increases in electricity prices due to lots expensive renewable projects
> No battery farm can protect a solar/wind grid from an arbitrarily extended period of bad weather. If you have battery backup sufficient for time T and the weather doesn't cooperate for time T+1, you're in trouble.

It's the grid which protects it and if the grid is broken nuclear is even worse since you're suddenly faced with far too much power on a small portion of the whole grid. Meanwhile with renewables, even if the grid is broken on several points, you are much better off due to the distribution of power generation.
That's usually the evidence of VCs getting involved. Somber corporate tone proud on accomplishments user will find useful we continue to improve looking to the future and such.
> I wouldn't call the quality and readability of the written text "tangential"

The topic in this comment section is the "transition year" in Irish secondary schools. The format of the website which introduces that topic is tangential to that topic. I don't know where one would get the idea that a tangent that's not about CSS styling is not a tangent.
> Is it really the case that browsers have default-enabled all sorts of extensions that are not yet widely supported by the rest of the ecosystem?

I don't know the answer, but it would be hard to blame them for following normal browser development practices on the standard they created for the purpose of being in browsers.
What ethnic cleansing of the Arab world's entire Jewish population are you talking about, specifically? Just like in Europe, there have been many waves of better and worse relationships, from relative acceptance to Nazi-like persecution, in various places and at various times, even looking just at the last hundred years.

Still, to a great extent, the biggest contributing factor to the current extremely low Jewish populations in the Middle East outside Israel has been migration or flight to Israel. For example, in Iran, even before the Islamic Revolution and the wave of antisemitic persecution that followed it, which could be described at least as ethnic cleansing if not outright genocide, there had been significant migration of Iranian Jews to Israel.
> Is there any AOT WebAssembly compiler that can compile Wasm used by websites?

This doesn't really make sense, given that the wasm used by websites is going to import a bunch of JS functions as dependencies. You're not going to have those available in any native environment.

> Is it really the case that browsers have default-enabled all sorts of extensions that are not yet widely supported by the rest of the ecosystem?

Yes

Photoshop in particular is a good example of a bleeding edge wasm app - browsers had to relax restrictions on things like function pointer table size in order for it to work. So I wouldn't expect it to build and run anywhere outside of v8 or spidermonkey.
Also a fully remote company worker since pre-COVID, and I vastly prefer calls with the video on. It's the norm at our company. Facial expressions convey enormous amounts of information. Also our team silently claps for people which is admittedly quite silly but hey, we like it.

I'm rarely on calls without video, but when I am I find it jarring when voices just appear out of the ether with only a little flashing icon to indicate who it is I'm listening to.

To each their own!
Where is EU when you need it? Subscriptions are a mess and it's one place in which EU could've forced something, but it won't.

I also think they're mentally aligned with the idea of having to go through 20 forms to achieve something, as that's their daily job.
And if China let's west control the orbit, China is in big trouble.
I wear prescription glasses. Does Xreal Air help folks like me or forces me to use Contacts?

update: nvmd. I found this - https://vroptician.com/prescription-lens-inserts/nreal-air
Your docs are great!
All true, but most of that was true 100 years ago as well. Once A/C makes a lot of people decide it's not worth the bother, then it becomes less of a standard thing, and then it's not as easily available and etc. etc. But they always required maintenance, and yet were done, and then they weren't any more (mostly).
Original article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41848290
My holy grail would be Winamp on iPhone: one screen just for the classic player, another for the equalizer, one for the list of tracks, and one for the visualizer.
The game's the game.
We never had the code actually. That code is of no use to me without a proper license.
https://arewefastyet.com/ has various comparisons between Firefox and Chrome, the script oriented ones are basically Spidermonkey vs V8
Is SPARC still seeing serious hardware development like s390x? I know it's still around but I can't recall the last time I heard of any new hardware.
No, not specifically. That section is still written under the misconception that IPs are bound to households, or static networks like university networks. Instead they can swap at the very least country wide (or rather, however the provider manages the IP addresses it controls). Their mental model is just not how the internet works.

By using IP as the ban id they created a system that constantly and regularly banned completely innocent steam IDs, thinking they are somehow linked when a new steam id uses a banned IP, which is nonsense. They just did not notice because the banned gamers did not complain.
No, it also makes the probability of supply not meeting demand lower. Overcapacity tends to feature in most analysis of a fully renewable grid because of that and because it's currently cheaper than storage for all but very short timescales.
Left wing, due to the use of large and intrusive government, collectivism, government-run make-work projects, government-run infrastructure projects, central economic planning, conscription, a disregard for individualism, and other policies that are inherently incompatible with right-wing ideology.
Huh? He mentions Lisp all over the place. Check the index.
Technically a "rapid covid test" only detects the presence of certain viral genetic material. This usually means the patient is or recently was infected with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus) but it doesn't indicate anything about whether the patient has COVID-19 (the disease). Many infections are asymptomatic and thus not medically classified as a disease state.

This distinction might seem pedantic but it's important to be precise when discussing medical issues.
Gyms are so damn scummy with this. When I cancelled my last gym membership due to moving I had to show them that there would be no nearby gyms of that brand where I was moving in order to let me cancel.
Yep! Good extracurriculars are expensive.

I remember taking part in Debate, MUN, XC, DECA, Wrestling, Quiz Bowl, Volunteering (NHS/CSF), and a bunch of Olympiads in HS and there was always a cost associated with participating (either a fee or the need to travel to the place hosting the EC).

Unsurprisingly, this meant ECs would skew upper middle class and upper class. Sadly, these same ECs are also blockers for college admissions.

I might get hate for this on HN, but this is why I support unweighted GPA, relative class ranking, and SAT/ACT for college admissions - sort of like what the UCs do. It's the least bad option out of the other options. Alternatively, going open entry with university admissions and then ramping up the difficulty with weedout classes is a good option as well.
These squirrels just showed up in the last 50 years or so?
I think a better question here is: why is game code so exploitable?

A: laziness and cost. It just doesn’t matter the same way that baking code matters, I guess.

So they toss on some cheap anti cheat instead of architecting it safely (expensively.)
Solar and wind emit a lot of CO2 upfront relative to the energy they produce down the line.
Check out Privacy.com for card generation. You can set monthly/yearly/all-limits, pause and cancel cards, create single-use cards, etc. And their virtual cards accept any billing information. As a result I don’t bother unsubscribing directly anymore and instead just pause the card. Less hassle. More control.

I’m also using Qube and looking to get away but I really like having the sub-accounts. What have you found? Envelope seems to have really nice features but lacks the sub-accounts.
Cheat development these days is incredibly sophisticated. There are swathes of tutorials, old and recent examples to research, advanced inspection tools, etc.

It's so much easier to make cheats today than it was, say, 10 years ago.

It's also easier because more and more games are sharing common infrastructure like game engines, as compared to the past. What works in one Unreal game may save you a lot of time developing a cheat for another Unreal game.

These days, many online games encounter serious cheats within the first couple of days of release - if not the day OF release.
I am away from my keyboard, is this an acceptable excuse for you? It would have taken fewer keystrokes not to compose such a hostile response, while I was just offering a suggestion to OP.
How do you plan on your child building out their social skills? Surely a couple of playdates a week with a few other kids isn’t going to cut it.
Israel saying "we're going to kill and starve civilians until you give us what we want" does not make Hamas responsible for the civilian deaths any more than Hamas saying "we did October 7th and we'll do another unless you stop occupying us" makes Israel responsible for the murders perpetrated on that night.
I really wish they were made in not-stark-white. And, is it just me, or have these steadily been going up in price?
Or are they? Somehow I doubt powerful unelected government bureaucrats are immune to bribery or zealotry
That's what dinosaurs thought and then the asteroid hit the Earth.

And, personally, I want a space telescope a thousand times bigger than James Webb. That's my biggest need after food, shelter, health and human connection.