skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair, though with the CL/Python/Whatever you would have to have a session started before visiting the file. I suppose with the newer eglot and friends, it could reach out using LSP as soon as you enter a project directory? At that point, I'd assume similar attacks exist in those contexts, too? Maybe protected by some sandboxing in the LSP side?
Yep. The games are already being archived. It's kind of silly to strike down an official archival at this point, and only brings risk to consumers that seek out illegally distributed ROMs on malware-infested sites.

And shout out to Red Viper on the 3DS for letting me experience the Virtual Boy without needing to deal with a second hand market that gets more expensive as the years go by.
I did. The title tag in HTML is precisely what I wrote.
Secretlab gaming chair. Horrible to sit in. Sold it after a while but should have sent it back.
The next step will be to bombard indie game developers making modern “retro” style games with patent infringement for the most trivial and basic game concepts, so that no one could ever hope to truly make a game.
Why 'open' AI systems are closed, and why this matters
I don't know about "required" but in ancient times walls were what typically defined the city as a "city" rather than simply an undefined agglomeration of dwellings / farms

They were absolutely necessary as protection for stores of food (food storage being a defining feature of a city)
For what it's worth, you could just power on the camera, take a pic, then turn it back off instead. Provided you can do this fast enough, an indicator LED is rendered worthless. So you'd need to make the indicator LED staggered, to stay lit for a minimum amount of time.

There's also the scenario where the LED or the connections to it simply fail. If the circuit doesn't account for that, then boom, now your camera can function without the light being on.

Can't think of any other pitfalls, but I'm sure they exist. Personally, I'll just continue using the privacy shutter, as annoying as that is. Too bad it doesn't do anything about the mic input.
The idea has been around for quite some time. But it is always dropped.

My guess is that, assuming the most basic and absolute physicial design, the light would flash for silly things like booting, upgrading firmware, checking health or stuff like that.
TrunkVer
20 years is an eternity in terms of innovation. This has an extreme effect compared to the natural state (no IP restrictions). I argue that the effects of patents is actually poorly understood, and most arguments for how they work fail to explain how and why open source works, revealing serious flaws in the foundational theories of IP restrictions.

The sole function of a patent is to restrict innovation. That’s the only direct result of patents. All other claims about encouraging innovation rely on beliefs about secondary and tertiary effects which I believe are incomplete, out of date, and often simply incorrect.

Edit: Even the pure capitalists don’t like it: https://youtu.be/hoSWC_6mDCk
The code: https://github.com/YuhangSong/Prospective-Configuration
After using Reddit for many, many years, at this point I personally am fairly convinced that the majority of posts and submissions on many of the high-value subs is inauthentic content.

Inauthentic content being some combination of bot posts and coordinated shill/sockpuppet posts. Either for political/social manipulation (enforcing a narrative and allowed ideas), as well as some economic manipulation (paid posts shilling for a product/movie/person/etc).

In the past the inauthentic accounts had patterns that you could more easily find. Names that are all generated the same way, or comment history patterns that all match. It was 100% obvious a few years ago that there was a lot of manipulation going on. After being exposed a few times they've improved, and now with LLM capabilities added in it's much harder for a random person to clearly be able to identify them.

I feel like one day there will be a whistleblower who finally reveals to the world exactly how much manipulation has been going on (especially by governments) and it'll be a pretty shocking revelation. Until then we have little proof, as it seems the owners of such sites either willingly or unwillingly or unknowingly cooperate with it.
Were half the presidents Freemasons?
Is Trump a Freemason?
Is the "center" of Freemasonry in London?

Either you understand these things, are you're naive and plugged into the matrix, or you're part of the many Agent Smith tribes.
The actual text of the US constitution maybe?

Article I Section 8 Enumerated Powers Clause 8 Intellectual Property

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

Seems like the idea is to promote innovation by making sure it is for a limited time only seems pretty ingrained in the idea.
I could not read the whole article because It wanted me to create a account, but it seens very Unethical, inoculating people without their knowledge... .
macOS is a proprietary binary blob, remotely controlled by Apple. So, the light in the menu bar is not a reliable indicator of anything. There is no privacy on macOS, nor any other proprietary system. You can never be 100% sure what the system is doing right now, as can be anything it is capable of. Apple is putting a lot of money to "teach people" otherwise, but that is marketing, not truth.
$1/alert/month???
Just curious how old they were. Nothing in the article mentions of these were 2 year old routers or 10 years old
> Those abiding by Walmart’s rules are being asked to make up for a shortfall that is entirely the fault of suit-stealing rule breakers. Honest shoppers who don’t generally like to use invisible suits will be particularly furious — and who can blame them?

If you didn't read the article, the abstract idea of the above quote is the increasing amount of legislation, rules, and regulations levied on society as a whole meant to curtail the actions of a few.

Consider consumer drones: the recent FAA rulemaking utterly handicapped the utility of consumer drones. In my opinion, this is a drastic loss of rights which should have been reserved by the people, not the FAA.

The FAA derives it's authority from congressional mandate to "manage the navigable airspace" and to that end, the FAA will fight court battles to ensure that every square inch of air space is considered navigable. This is representative of government power being handed to an organization and then expanded well beyond "reasonable scope."

A reasonable scope would be to say "well, we cannot legislate that birds and hawks should be ticketed for flying in the navigable airspace, so maybe it's reasonable to condone that part of the airspace (where birds fly). Let's focus on where passenger aircraft fly."

Instead, with no documented catastrophic accidents, your ability to fly a drone has been saddled with ridiculous legislation.
I watched ina friend house, but its possible is this one.
I'm totally okay with Mickey Mouse being copyrighted again if we could find a system that allowed for abandoned works to be out of copyright. It would be a huge boon to human culture.
For Love of God, Make Your Own Website
Congrats on the launch!

TIL that BigPanda and Moogsoft solve the same problems which you are trying to solve :)

Would have loved to see SigNoz also in the list of supported integrations
> Twitter/X is actually a balanced discourse site now.

That might have a chance at being true if the owner didn't flood the network with deliberate misinformation and block dissenting opinions.
At one company we were uploading videos to S3 and finding a lot of errors or stalls in the process. That led to evaluating GCP and Azure. I found that Azure had the most consistent (least variance) in upload durations and better pricing. We ended up using GCP for other reasons like resumable uploads (IIRC). AWS now supports appending to S3 objects which might have worked to avoid upload stalls. CloudFront for us at the time was overpriced.
Tenochtitlan didn't have walls because it already had natural defenses (water); so that's a particular case.
trademark is also supposed to protect against misleading copies of reputable goods.

it's hard to say how enforcing against counterfeiting would work without something that looked like trademark law.
A minimum light duration seems pretty trivial to physically engineer.

For one the energy to take a picture is probably enough to power a light for a noticeable amount of time.

And if it isn't, a capacitor that absorbs energy and only allows energy through once it's full would allow the light to remain on for a couple of seconds after power subsides.
Where are the 400 million left leaning party members from to make up for the US?
I can't find it now, but recently I read how one company's design team added this feature to their laptops. A subsequent review by the team responsible for manufacturing found that they could change the circuit to cut down on the part count to save money. The light was still there, but it was no longer hardwired. The company continued to advertise the camera light as being hardwired even though it wasn't.
This appears to be pretty old (it has a reference to Google Plus) but seems like good generic advice.
Is this meant to be a rewording of the parent comment as a critique, or is it meant to be an expression of your views? I’d probably contest assumptions 3 and 4, but I’m not sure if you yourself even support them.
Wasn't the nordstream incident mostly elucidated ?

I believe they are only wondering about details now and trying to hear the guys.

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/nord-stream-pipeline-explos...

https://www.intelligenceonline.com/government-intelligence/2...

https://www.france24.com/fr/europe/20240814-sabotage-de-nord...
How could we have gotten great works like Canterbury Tales or Beowulf without rent-seeking copyright protectionism?
It isn't clear to me that webcam firmware ever powers down a typical camera module. See below for data about how the Sony IMX708 sensor is an I2C device with start and stop streaming commands.

https://github.com/Hermann-SW/imx708_regs_annotated?tab=read...
Yeah, I'm struggling to understand what the use case of this is. These videos aren't tricking anybody who's used a cameraphone. Just shooting video with phone costs nearly nothing. People don't particularly seem to want to generate films of places they aren't.
Flashing is easily fixed with a capacitor and also not a bad thing if it turns off when it loses power immediately. The only explanation that makes sense to me is it being separately controlled is a feature not a bug.
Yep. It needs to be restored or even shortened beyond the original window.
The microphone is usually not part of the camera assembly in modern laptops.

And there is usually more than one. For example, recent Macbooks have three, as far as I know.
Why do you need 64GB RAM?
That and a gaming pc costs like $2000 now and burns 500W.
I suppose that begs the question, what part of "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" do you and the US Copyright Office not understand?
> Not to say that Microsoft products respect privacy

"Your privacy is very important for us" when you need to install an extension to have a blank start page (without ads) in Edge.
A photo may be merely embarrassing. You could get a lot of immediately useful information hearing my phone calls though.
Daughter of Jerry Pournelle, btw. Google identifies her in the knowledge bar as "Jerry Pournelle's son", which is not the case, and furthermore, never was.

My sole interest was in confirming the family connection, which I vaguely recalled, but the blurb was strange enough that I felt I needed to share it anyway. Brilliant AI-powered future we have here.
> Egypt and the Nile don't seem particularly different as an environment. Dry desert with regular river floodings etc.

The Nile flood was extremely benign compared to Mesopotamia. You can set your calendar by it (and the Egyptians did), you can measure the height of the flood for a few years and be very confident that the flood of the next year will be similar to the ones of the past few years. And most crucially, the Nile flows in a deep river valley, with fairly steep sides, meaning that you can build your houses and granaries within comfortable walking distance of the flood plain and still be confident that you will be safe from the floods.

In contrast, the floods of Tigris and Euphrates were extremely unpredictable in both timing and strength, and the flood plain was so large that the entire civilizations working it had to live in it.

This resulted in very different outlooks, most visible in how they viewed their river gods. The Egyptian ones were friendly, the Sumerian ones were capricious and cruel.
Check out Hardware Haven on Youtube, he tests a bunch of different small form factor NAS computers and similar.
I find the whole "raspi ecosystem" a bit overrated, for the most part it's Linux you're working with regardless of hardware.
I get it, free software take, nothing new.

But this is a pretty extremist take. Just because a company doesn't push source code and you can't deterministically have 100% certainty, doesn't mean you can't make any assertions about the software.

To refuse to make any claims about software without source is as principled as it is lazy.

Imagine an engineer brought to a worksite, and they don't have blueprints, can he do no work at all? Ok, good for you, but there's engineers that can.
The context of the quote pretty significantly changes the meaning though. It's an argument for why the rules shouldn't be loosened for the preservation foundation.

> Still, the US copyright office has said no. "The Register concludes that proponents did not show that removing the single-user limitation for preserved computer programs or permitting off-premises access to video games are likely to be noninfringing," according to the final ruling. "She also notes the greater risk of market harm with removing the video game exemption’s premises limitation, given the market for legacy video games."

That quote (from the GamesRadar article) to me, makes it clear that the "[...] preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes" quote is being used as a gotcha. It's not that they don't want you to play old games, it's that they don't want copyright restrictions to be loosened. It's a very similar situation to the recent Internet Archive book. Current copyright law doesn't let you loan out format-shifted works. Copyright length is too long, but within the copyright framework, the restrictions seem sensible to me.
Let’s not use thousand year old traditions based on poorly understood nutritional science to guide today’s practices.

If you get the majority of calories from bread then you are, at best, eating far from the optimal amount of protein and lacking some useful nutrition. At worst, you’re eating a poorly balanced diet that will lead to overeating or malnourishment (or both).
Tolling on cryptocurrencies is absurdly high.
Python has always been strongly typed, since the very beginning.

The article and the feature has nothing to do with strong types.
They would seem less implausible if you spent some time in Baltimore. Fond memories of a guy dressed as a hedgehog threatening to blow up a TV station until the police shot him with a beanbag and the bomb robot discovered his explosives were foil-wrapped chocolate. For a while there was an anti-gang gang. Omar Little and Avon Barksdale were based on real people. There is very little bullshit in the show.
Probably not, but are all 10k still available for sale? and if not, why not? And why should people be denied the ability to archive them?
Their terms specifically address video/images:

> Cloudflare’s content delivery network (the “CDN”) Service can be used to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless you are an Enterprise customer, Cloudflare offers specific Paid Services (e.g., the Developer Platform, Images, and Stream) that you must use in order to serve video and other large files via the CDN. Cloudflare reserves the right to disable or limit your access to or use of the CDN, or to limit your End Users’ access to certain of your resources through the CDN, if you use or are suspected of using the CDN without such Paid Services to serve video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other large files. We will use reasonable efforts to provide you with notice of such action.

https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-applicatio...
I don’t have to support 8chan or KiwiFarms to say that Cloudflare has absolutely no role in policing the internet. The job of policing the internet is for the police. If it’s illegal, let them investigate.
This website and its spend-128-hours-disabling-1024-separate-cookies-and-vendors is pure cancer, I wish HN would just ban all these disgusting data hoovering leeches.

By now I get that no one else cares and I should just stop coming here.
Lead pollution in Greenland ice indicates plagues, wars and imperial expansion
lol image if strava had a fedramp offering
That depends completely on the interesting-ness test that's provided. If you're looking for a compiler bug (like I do often for my language), then the interesting-ness test checks the compile logs for information like the "Segmentation Fault" text, no need to run the actual executable. You could also hoist everything into docker if you really want to, or ship it off to another device to run.
They are hardwired on Macbooks. From Daring Fireball, quoting an email from an Apple engineer.

> All cameras after [2008] were different: The hardware team tied the LED to a hardware signal from the sensor: If the (I believe) vertical sync was active, the LED would light up. There is NO firmware control to disable/enable the LED. The actual firmware is indeed flashable, but the part is not a generic part and there are mechanisms in place to verify the image being flashed. […]

> So, no, I don’t believe that malware could be installed to enable the camera without lighting the LED. My concern would be a situation where a frame is captured so the LED is lit only for a very brief period of time.

https://daringfireball.net/2019/02/on_covering_webcams
I’m from Oregon suburbs right by Intel’s largest campus. I went to all public schools and I was really fortunate that for the most part I was able to intellectually explore and take advanced classes. I took full courseloads in high school instead of having empty periods like most of my peers. I entered college as a a junior credit wise. What I read about California often horrifies me
Yep. That’s the primary reason they don’t still sell their old games.
> Apps like these are sorely needed

Why exactly?
You know you can turn the fans down right?
> Made up of charged particles, a CME could weigh up to a trillion kilograms and can attain a speed of up to 3,000km [1,864 miles] per second while travelling.

That's an impressive 1% of c.
Yes, but if it's your third location of 3-2-1 then it can also make sense to weigh it against data recovery costs on damaged hardware.

I backup to Glacier as well. For me to need to pull from it (and pay that $90/TB or so) means I've lost more than two drives in a historically very reliable RAIDZ2 pool, or lost my NAS entirely.

I'll pay $90/TB over unknown $$$$ for a data recovery from burned/flooded/fried/failed disks.
Hackerrank was broken – but now it's harmful
* Curriculum padding?

* Acces to "conections"???
Printing money is a tax on cash (and other uninvested funds.)
Ask HN: How to design a PCB for 50-100 years?
Let’s say you want to do 50-100 years of constant operation indoors.

I’m trying to design a PCB to last, and there’s very little information publicly available. There’s the obvious - no electrolytic caps, no pure tin, sure - but beyond that, what would you do?
I am not a die-hard supporter of IP protection laws, but your examples are classic survivorship bias, as well as falling victim to the broken windows fallacy.
Ah yes, the doctrine of the Sleepytime Tea cult.

It's racist, eugenicist mystical woo-woo nonsense, and not worth discussing in a thread about actual history.
Change doesn’t happen all at once, right? Bluesky may still not have the mindshare — but two weeks ago they were 3-4 coin flips away from unseating Twitter, and now they only need one more. That they could become the leader in their category was unthinkable, and now it’s not.

Besides, 25 million users is plenty already.
Agreed. I find so much peace of mind in the microphone / webcam hardware switches of my Framework laptop.

Seeing the webcam actually vanish from the list of devices is very nice. :D
I consider forums being hard to find a feature, not a bug. They aren't all exactly like they were in they heyday of forums and not immune to bots and shilling but being j-u-s-t that bit more effort keeps out a lot of the trash.
While I don’t expect DLink to support every router indefinitely, there has to be a reasonable number of years, maybe the feds should set one and have the machine let the user know “you are outside of security time length and you are now easily attacked by hackers” for papaw and memaw. Also it’s profoundly unfair do say that is “bandwagoning d-link haters” and unfair to expect everyone to be a security power user.
A human-reviewed and curated list that's comprehensive, searchable (everything on the list is indexed, nothing off the list is indexed,) and ad-free. Businesses who aren't on the directory, but would like to be, pay an application fee. The huge secondary industry that sprung up around DMOZ indicates that this business model would work.

There'd be more to it than that, but that's the basic idea.

I'd love to find enough people who would like to work on such a thing.
> To me "liberal" has nothing to do with "left"

Then we do agree on something. Your previous message vaguely lumping all of the "left" together suggested otherwise.

Mastodon has always been mostly liberals in an echo chamber who fled from Twitter. Lemmy to a lesser extent via reddit's api fiasco, but that's a good example of the liberals and leftists siloing themselves on the same platform through ideological instances, resulting in echo chambers. The tech issues of those two still isn't ironed out, either.

Between needing an account to merely view posts and Musk's willingness for knee-jerk censorship, X is simply a non-starter in 2024.
Well it doesn’t need to be visible to work in contrast to camera. Seriously though, no technological and almost no economic barrier preventing embedding a mic into every wireless communication chip.
This! I recently wanted to get back to writing a web app entirely rendered on the server side without the need for a JavaScript framework and I was really struck by how embarrassingly clumsy templating engines are compared to JSX.
Why do we want disney to keep mickey though? Just make it a flat 10-15 years and never extend it.
Yeah the US is about 33 Switzerland's in population and probably double that in size.
I switched to Bluesky yesterday due to the bots/zero engagement on X.

It's basically become yelling into the void. Started out in 2007 and it was great for finding people and getting interest in your projects, but now, I just get a bunch of spam bot follows and on an account with 3,600+ followers, only 30-40 views at most per post (w/ no engagement).
Does that mean if the LED dies the camera is dead?