skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am aware that there are some games that you can download and happen to be able to play offline if the steam launcher executable simply happens to be a dumb link to the 'true' executable which checks for a steam connection first, and you could in theory find out where the 'true' executable lies in the game folder, because of the way it's designed. But I would hesitate to call this a "DRM-free" game in that sense; more like "the DRM is trivial and easily bypassed if you know what to run".

Furthermore, there is no guarantee that just because it works "DRM-free" now, it will continue to do so later. Or, just because it "works", it doesn't mean that somewhere half-way into the game there isn't a "check" or "achievement" that won't crash your game.

etc.

And in any case, Steam does not have a commitment towards DRM-free, not even in the sense of at least committing to flag such games as such. It's all 'accidental' at best. And while it's the last games company that you'd expect to go bankrupt 'now', all your games are in theory 'licensed' content, not 'owned' purchases. It's entirely up to them to remove content without notice (because you bought a game in one country and then moved to another, e.g.), or go bankrupt and say well sorry, some games might work if you download them but we don't guarantee anything.

Whereas in theory, GoG will let you make a full local backup of your entire collection, and in the few games that (annoyingly) "subtly" break the DRM-free promise (typically due to the way multiplayer is handled), these are clearly signposted in the store pages.
I mean, CPUs do a bunch of work to make us believe they still operate just as a fast PDP-11, and I would wager that besides compiler experts that work on the backend parts of compilers, not many people have a real feel for modern hardware (obviously besides those that actually work on that given hardware).

So I'm not convinced that even those who think they know how it works know it actually.
Scams in online advertising are ubiquitous, I'm amazed adtech companies don't seem to see any consequences for it. I really think there needs to be an onus on online advertisers to prove that the products and services they promote are not scams before anything gets exposed to the public.

I see adblockers as essential security tools at this point, however you dress it up one of the main functions of adtech in the present seems to be connecting literal conmen with their marks as efficiently as possible.
https://bearblog.dev/ is pretty cool
I am not sure any of those are really the true value. The driver imo is swapping a chat bubble with an audio call. It reduces friction a customer may have picking up their phone and dialing a number and also since the customer can see you are online and ready to chat, they know they will be able to instantly get in touch with someone. Thats the smart and valuable piece.
I just googled Jessica Lal and the Wikipedia article suggests that the rich murderer was convicted and sentenced to life in prison?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jessica_Lal
Isn't that illegal? If it isn't, it may become so in the near future as many legislations are working on it.

Satire is protected in the US and many other countries, but "cloning" a person using AI implies that it makes difficult to distinguish between the real person and the clone. I guess it can pass if it is obvious that it is indeed satire, but that would be risky.

Maybe it could be remediated by having him wear a clown hat or something.
I just tested this, and they've Google Calendar integration. So you can integrate your calendar and set the link status to Auto, then the link will be online according to your availability.
I don’t think so, this is not new.

At least in France there are rules regarding political spending and advertising. The basic idea is that even with an unlimited amount of money, you are not allowed to buy significantly more tv time than your opponents, campaign spending is capped etc. Since 2021 that’s what google does for France : no ads about a debate of general interest three months before an election.

On tv it’s manageable : there are not many channels, and everything is declared, at worse just have a bunch of people watch and report. I understand that google can’t deal with this automatically.

I am not saying it necessarily works well in practice, just that it’s not a new idea.
You disagree with GP, and then to “back up” your disagreement you quote a passage that directly confirms GPs statement. What’s going on?
Plotting where the line falls is an interesting problem. Is anti-vaccine misinformation political? Is it greenwashing oil political? Attacking EV incentives? Is correctly informing people about climate change political?
> the worst website on the face of the planet (except Facebook)

Very much except FB.

I see more hate content on FB (which i have to use because of other people) than I do on Twitter on the rare occasions I look at it.
If you're asking how we can prevent people breaking in to a source code repository, the answer is mostly just the same as anything.

Patch, apply principle of least privilege, make sure everyone uses strong authentication. Monitor the system.

For SCM specific controls we could also require signed commits, apply branch protection and any other system specific controls, and enforce code reviews before commit.
One of the best blogs on the internet right now!
> and we live in a fair open democratic society

I don't reach the same conclusion when I look at all the documented privacy abuse that is happening, though.
That’s now how any of this works. I am begging you to re-read the docs and understand that this does not require anybody to use GitHub, much less GitHub Actions, much less Trusted Publishing, much less attestations.

You can still, and will always be able to use API tokens.
I don't get it. so the GPU is your local GPU? you dump data to GPU memory first and then flush the data to s3?
Can anyone get to the transcript? I get a 403 on the link in the page.
Doesn’t help at all. I’m looking to buy data collected and sold by Meta and Apple.
or a new understanding of mitochondrial categories according to specialization of function
Tesla Cybertruck recalled for the sixth time since January
RedHat can be said to have foisted GNOME and systemd upon us. They don't have control, but their sway has been enough to put us in this pair of holes and we're far from getting out of them.
I dig this. This is what I am thinking.

Much easier to click than dial.

Social cost of a web link versus a phone number may be lower as well (that may be cultural but it may be true)

Adds other modes like calendar or chat or AI directly in flow.

No need to reveal a phone number.

Video

Internationally accessible (no long distance)

And for HN tradition’s sake for these types of comments, no one likes rsync.
I genuinely don't see any. What are you doing to get the algorithm to feed you content like that?

Or if this isn't in your feed - what are you basing your estimate on?

I don't doubt there's a ton of it - but I'm curious how you know there's a ton of it.
If you know someone cheaper let me know.
Vscode also has an ok gdb frontend, very nice when you are debugging embedded microcontrollers
The only difference is the legality. From an integrity point of view it's basically the same
The problem is not so much paid political ads as imbalance in spending and tracking the real person behind the ad ?
( which is what you’re pointing at I think )
It will take a lot to break the network effect of X, probably more so than many other platforms, because it's very detrimental to their reach (and income/revenue share) for people with a lot of followers to move. So the important people will mostly stay, and they will attract back the people who leave, we've seen this a couple of cycles. Contrast that to something like Facebook. It had large network effects too, but all it takes is a few of your best friends switching at the same time, and nobody is losing a lot of reach by leaving. So they keep posting to both, but that takes work to keep up.
One can see this effect also by observing an little flesh injury like a cut while staying awake. Even after 48h of staying awake the little cut will hardly have any healing and likely even more inflammation. One round of sleep and the healing is immediately there.
You are right, it is not specific to software, just wanted to add more context and also, because I don't know the answer and I believe there are multiple factors, but my two cents: a mix of history and culture.

By the time software came around, Japan already had a well stablished manufacturing industry that had a reputation for quality (this wasn't always the case).

Software was something totally new and wasn't considered important, why? perhaps management didn't understand it or didn't know how to handle it and did nothing.

The above made a career in software not very attractive compared to other industries. Since then, companies struggle to get good developers, who can move to more attractive sectors or countries than trying to change things within Japan with its rigid hierarchy.

How things move in Japan is generally by someone breaking the status quo and the rest following if it is a success. That was the case with Toyota in manufacturing for example. For software it hasn't happened.

Another problem IMHO is that code is invisible to users. If the app works, people don't care if the code is beautifully made or not, and without consumer pressure, management doesn't care either. Compare that with the complains they'll get if a physical object had the sightless defect.

Finally, there is a higher entry barrier for physical products than software. Any teenager can build an app in her bedroom, it is a different story to develop a bullet train. Inefficiencies and slow decision processes in manufacturing are less obvious than in tech (though manufacturing industries in Japan are struggling as well because of this), and Japan simply isn't competitive in this area, making it less attractive to invest.

And perhaps, the most important: People got used to it and don't have higher expectations.
My take: In mitochondria, there is a trade-off between making ATP and making the building blocks of proteins. Different mitochondria can specialize in doing one or the other.
Turing was punished (effectively tortured to death) for his sexuality. While awful and indefensible, the difference is that he was not punished for his scientific / engineering work. There are countless examples of soviet scientists exiled or executed because their research agenda or conclusions conflicted with state ideology in a given period. You'd be hard pressed to find similar examples in the West. Although there have been examples in recent decades of scientists being silenced by right wing administrations - particularly around climate change related public communication. Funding can of course be politically directed and denied. But imprisonment or execution for studying the 'wrong' thing? Not one of the many flaws of Western hypercapitalism.
The point was such a question could not be used to tell whether the llm was calling a chess engine
Congrats on launching!

Curious how the dynamic image works in the e-mail signature: AFAIK, Gmail and others heavily cache any images inside e-mail, so even if the image changes, Gmail will be displaying the online/offline cached image, not the most up-to-date one.
In Spain we get nicely labeled "Political Propaganda" in the mail around election time. I think by law each party can send you one letter, and it has to have the "Political Propaganda" text on the outside.

It's pretty nice in that I can throw it all straight into the recycling bin!
I'm also fairly surprised that such crap is still happening. I think I remember details about one time that it happened, it was in the context of a video where some US dude tries all kinds of flammable liquids as fuel in a combustion engine. It was like YouTube decided "Oh, redneck content! That guy is gonna love himself some right-wing cringe shit."

No, YouTube. That guy doesn't like it and that guy doesn't like YouTube serving divisive garbage to others.
> VW got in trouble for running _different_ software in test vs prod.

Not quite. They programmed their "prod" software to recognise the circumstances of a laboratory test and behave differently. Namely during laboratory emissions testing they would activate emission control features they would not activate otherwise.

The software was the same they flash on production cars. They were production cars. You could take a random car from a random dealership and it would have done the same trickery in the lab.
This seems to be a great way to hire yes-men.
> You typically only need a few thousand well placed votes to win an election, and even 100k impressions at $10 CPM is pretty inexpensive.

In the context of the EU this isn't true though, no political system in any EU member state relies on a tiny minority of votes from some states/provinces to completely tip an election.
Would it be cool that the customer can get notified when there is someone available
I’m not going to bother, this is misdirection.

My guess is they found a room-temperature superconductor that can store incredible amounts of electrical energy, and the quantum drive from https://ivolimited.us/ actually works.
i thought "acquired" was a good clue
I’ve used and enjoyed laughing gas a few times, and while I can strongly relate to the euphoria, I can’t relate at all to any kind of altered thinking. I wouldn’t be safe to drive a car in the 3-5 minutes the effect holds I’m sure, but also no kind of insight or altered thinking, and the effects wear off very quickly. I am in fact very avoidant of substances other than alcohol that’s alter my thoughts, and laughing gas absolutely doesn’t feel that way for me. Perhaps the copious alcohol that’s always preceded such events has confounded it.
I understand the point of your question and you have very good answers in other comments. However, I'd like to point out that "seniority", in many cases, is very subjective and the quality of seniority across companies varies quite drastically. So don't take seniority as a kind of heaven you need to get to by knowing a certain amount of things.
Cheap is relative, I guess. You can find a used stereo microscope on eBay for well under $100, maybe under $50. Building one out of a pair of binoculars is a classic but relatively advanced DIY project. I’m pretty sure there’s a detailed write up of one in either the old Edmund's optics books or Scientific American’s amateur scientist collections. Something like this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190123040421/http://www.funsci...

If you’re thinking of something like a metallurgical microscope, those are more involved and expensive, but again, eBay.
Those Texas laws would only shield him in Texas courts. He can try to use a choice of forum clause in his terms of service to force lawsuits to take place in Texas but that only works with people who are subject to those terms of service.

Unless Jones manages to limit himself to telling lies about people who use his new company he will be open to lawsuits outside of Texas.
Thank you for leaving a comment, appreciate it! I'm trying to understand what you're saying.

It seems like you are suggesting our database (public service) could be used for our own benefits? By "our own benefits", you are suggesting https://antiphish.ai can take advantage from the screenshots users uploaded, because now we know what scams are running hot in the market, and then we can cross check what works and what does not work.

And because this is a Chrome extension, we can now use the insight we've collected to block other scam attacks and only deliver the scam attacks that AntiPhish.AI makes or AntiPhish.AI's customers make. By customers, you mean other scammers that has a professional relationship with AntiPhish.AI, with the purpose of delivering effective scams using AntiPhish.AI's insight.

I really like your way of thinking, I'm pretty sure you won't fall for scams easily, because you surely do have a sharp mind and good at connecting the dots.

The truth about AntiPhish.AI is, we've been working in the security industry for many years, and always wondered how it feels like to have a company of our own. Especially tech company, and because helping others to spot scams seems like a valuable and profitable business, that's why we chose to pursue this path.

While we can write good softwares, but we're not so good at marketing. This is why we created this tool, this post, after learning the fact that one of the things we can do for marketing a business is creating free tools.

That's how this idea comes alive, no crazy 3d chess agendas, just plain, SEO marketing effort, with a hope to provide some values for people that could fall victims to scams.

I hope this clears up the intention of why we created this tool. Cheers and have a great day!
Nucelo gives you everything you want. As an open source platform, you can share unlimited articles for $4 per month. You also get a place to share your projects and bookmarks. It doesn't end with this, you can take a look.

https://nucelo.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI_Five

https://openai.com/index/gym-retro/
Sure there's no pay, but Elmo's asshole is all-you-can-eat!
Australia to Make Big Tech Liable for Citizens' Online Safety
Just a composer require away.
Why couldn't they add a tool that literally calls stockfish or a chess ai behind the scenes with function calling and buffer the request before sending it back to the endpoint output interface?

As long as you are training it to make a tool call, you can add and remove anything you want behind the inference endpoint accessible to the public, and then you can plug the answer back into the chat ai, pass it through a moderation filter, and you might get good output from it with very little latency added.
Self-hosting Conduit as my homeserver using SQLite as by database and Caddy as reverse proxy.

That is: 2 binaries (conduit + caddy) + 5 lines of toml config for Conduit and 2 line of config for Caddy + 1 database file. That's all you need for a basic homeserver.
I am always surprised the maternity hotel of china has not become more popular. Seems like a really great use of money to help both mother and child.
Helicopter might be the #1 (accidental) killer of rich people globally
Microsoft May Have Created an Illegal Monopoly
Building Observability with ClickHouse
in USA its qualified small business so tax is 0
No, it's your claim, onus is on you.
This is not normal, your company culture is unhealthy. You should not have to put yourself up with this.
I'm feeling lately like I'm about to run out of bubble gum.
https://archive.ph/wNxxg
It doesn't take much. We recently had large floods where I live and I decided that for next time I was going to have some supplies ready, just in case. A few seemingly benign searches for "preparedness" later and my feed is full of conspiracy theorists, guns and Jeeps. I guess the "prepper" crowd correlates strongly with some other categories.
Selling hacks is ethical
Would be nice if it had a way to use Jetbrains keymaps (in addition to VSCode). Currently my fav editor is Zed, partly because I can set it up to use Jetbrains keyboard shortcuts.
The same incident, because the root causes are even more messed up than just shoddy QA.

Yes, the thing wasn't caught because of missing QA. What I find even worse is that the build process for their "channel files" involved:

* building a release in CI, for which tests were run
* modifying the built artifact as a post-process step, and
* uploading this modified end result into their CDN infrastructure

In effect, what they actually built from their sources in the CI pipeline was not what was delivered to end users. You are correct in that attestations wouldn't help against such flagrant lies. And it wasn't a malicious act (although maliciously incompetent might qualify).

That post-build modification step would fly in the face of the attestation concept. It wouldn't help against having an empty set of tests, but an attestation-friendly build process at least would discourage messing around with the artifacts prior to release.
Some phds are also impressionable; some of them are even religious, so then I think we should just not vote at all and decide randomly. Will it make much difference?

/s -- why is this a thing now?
You have to imagine how much it'd cost, and how many lawsuits there would be when someone dies.
Acknowledging the deliberate rampant misinformation campaigns doesn't make you an elitist.
Larry was a worldly guy with wide-ranging interests. Were you thinking that if he knew about The Garden of Earthly Delights he wouldn't have chosen a woodcut of a pub for the PUB manual? Bosch has been thought of as a heretic [1] and that could have been part of the appeal for Larry, who pushed against orthodoxies throughout his career.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch#Interpretatio...
I believe we were only the 3rd most intelligent on Earth, or something like that? Both dolphins and mouse being more intelligent.
> or you have to repeatedly justify what you've got against security.

The only reason I started using PyPI was because I had a package on my website that someone else uploaded to PyPI, and I started getting support questions about it. The person did transfer control over to me - he was just trying to be helpful.

I stopped caring about PyPI with the 2FA requirement since I only have one device - my laptop - while they seem to expect that everyone is willing to buy a hardware device or has a smartphone, and I frankly don't care enough to figure it out since I didn't want to be there in the first place and no one paid me enough to care.

Which means there is a security issue whenever I make a new package available only on my website should someone decide to upload it to PyPI, perhaps along with a certain something extra, since people seem to think PyPI is authoritative and doesn't need checking.
I thought the same, I wasn't going to feed the troll so remained silent.
Ask HN: Books, movies and TV shows related to software development
I read The phoenix project by Gene Kim and watched Silicon valley, The IT crowd. I would love to consume more content about software development, but it's hard to find.

I would love to get some recommendation from the HN community. Thanks.
> You can't "get closer" to bridging a qualitative difference. Likewise, qualitative difference cannot be "less different." Those terms only apply to quantitative differences.

All of this is your opinion.
That is up for a judge, and legal agreements between countries, to decide upon.
> You must have forgotten to mention that.

Insinuating dishonesty is rude, especially when it’s baseless: the post linked in this one is explicit about experimenting with verification. There’s no point in signing without verification.

pip may or may not verify attestations; I don’t control what they do. But even if they do, they will never be able to mandate them for every project: as I have repeatedly said, there is no plan (much less desire) to mandate attestation generation.
You can overcome this using headers, which instructs Gmail not to cache. Snippet:

response.headers["Cache-Control"] = "no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate"

response.headers["Pragma"] = "no-cache"

response.headers["Expires"] = "Fri, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT"
Given human events, he was not wrong in that conclusion. (If we even consider ourselves super intelligent)
We're not discussing the case generally. We're asking if the assertion that he THREATENED anyone, holds water. So far, nobody has been able to provide any evidence, that he has.

Whatever you think about the case, it should be decided with factual statements, not emotional manipulative accusations that bend the truth.
Could have a click to dail link just with a phone number.
What are the advantages?
Really like it!
Taking to conversation to whatsapp would also be cool for small businesses.
Emailing both parties an transcript of the conversation could be a nice +1