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Not a US citizen here so I may miss some nuances.

I’d think the “tourist VISA” part makes sense after all.

The “work VISA” part is strange, as you say. If I’m on a 15 days business trip, could make sense. If on a multi-year H1B… well, it sucks.
The US did not ban a foreign app. The US demanded that the app be divested from its ownership by a hostile foreign government.

The free market has always been secondary to natsec interests.
The first "start up" I worked at was Sun Microsystems (I joined the day after they went public :-) so maybe not a startup at that point). But I was (and am) good friends with a number of people who worked there before I did. Pretty consistently a number of people who did well from that got to a point where they had "enough" and didn't need any more so they switched to working on things that spoke to their values rather than places where they could "make a lot of money." I have found that pretty inspiring and a counter balance to what passes for a 'success story' in the press today.
Many such cases

https://x.com/dkaushik96/status/1881383961030807599
It could have caused a small spike but not anywhere near the levels seen. It was momentarily an interesting idea.
https://pwn.college is a great educational resource.
On Android use Termux.

It's a terminal emulator
EFT also uses kernel level anti-cheat “Easy Anti-Cheat” (as invasive as what valorant uses (vanguard)). Don’t know why ETF implementation sucks.

I’ve been on CS since 1.3, and i think their system is pretty good. Sure you get cheaters sometimes, but it’s not that bad, maybe I’ve been pretty lucky.
I learned a lot of this stuff ~15 years ago from reading a book called Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering by Eldad Eilam. The book is old but amazing. It takes you through a whole bunch of techniques and practical exercises. State of the art tooling has changed a bit since then, but the x86 ISA & assembly more generally hasn't changed much at all.

One of my biggest takeaways was learning about "crackmes" - which are small challenge binaries designed to be reverse engineered in order to learn the craft. They're kinda like practice locks in the lockpicking community. The book comes with a bunch on a CD-ROM from memory - but there's plenty more online if you go looking. Actually doing exercises like this is the way to learn.

You don't start trying to reverse engineer COD. You build up to it.
The game I probably have the most hours in is Overwatch. In that time I've encountered not enough cheaters (at least those that are noticable enough) to say that they are even remotely a problem. I don't know what they are doing, but they don't use a kernel-mode anti-cheat (to my knowledge).
My favourite reflection on UK was by Abroad in Japan host - first night he sees someone pissing on an ATM.
> There's no relationship between bureaucracy efficiency efforts and the digital service

Really? I thought much of the value of the USDS came from consolidating technology implementations that were aging and duplicated across different agencies, providing standard platforms and access, etc.

It seems directly related to “bureaucracy efficiency.” In fact I’m sure if you went back to read comments and discussion on previous posts about the USDS, you’d find people clearly referencing this value add.
Free Notion Alternative – Thinkdeli.com
Notion is not free. It does a lot of things well but I don't enjoy writing on notion. That's why I built thinkdeli. It is a free alternative to notion. It is fast and works offline.

p.s. I can't write on notion anymore unless I upgrade - and I was a light user.
>The argument can be made that LLMs could not be created without expropriating the original works of all the authors they were trained on, and that argument would in fact be true and have quite sturdy legs as far as I’m concerned.

That makes as much sense as "American industry was built on the backs of British inventors (back it the day it was the "China" when it came to IP), so Britain should get perpetual (?) royalties from the US economy".
It looks like the northern hemisphere is the outlier and southern, tropics, artic and antarctic are, well not cold (relatively), but not over the long term trend.
Featured on HN is a bit of a stretch.
Preservation.

They seem to care about it, which is why they're doing what they're doing in the first place.
Mozilla: Temporal (Limited Availability)
Bringing norms to a gunfight?
sure but all I did was paste: "After completing a few ML projects and applying core principles in your current job, what are effective strategies to stand out when applying for the next role? How can you make yourself a competitive candidate?" into https://claude.ai/
Haven't read the entire interview yet, but I have to say so far it has been very helpful.
It’s not clear to me that “jurisdiction” is being used in the same context in the 14th amendment as in Schooner Exchange.

Regardless, I wouldn’t call an argument supported by clear dicta in one Supreme Court case and a solid dissent in another “frivolous.” But I’d put the odds of the Supreme Court ruling in Trump’s favor substantially below 10%. You lose 100% of the shots you don’t take, though.
Because the Wordpress organization is a nonprofit, the organizations assets can't be used to the exclusive benefit of a for profit- Automatic. And therein lies the issue- Mullenweg attempted to weaponize the nonprofits assets against WP Engine in favor of his own for profit. Whether or not those actions were legal is being decided in court, but it doesn't look good for Mullenweg. And it certainly wasn't in the best interests of the wider Wordpress ecosystem, which is what Wordpress.org the nonprofit was setup to serve.
Oh man, I'm down. I have The Labyrinth of Solitude on my reading list, it's not pre-Columbian, but I think it's a cultural touchstone, and it's a Mexican writer, not some American that knows just enough Spanish.

I read Layered Money, and it talked about the VoC, but I think that's a few decades after the Dutch Revolt. I'll check it out!

If you want a wild story, read about Judah P. Benjamin. He was the descendant of Sephardic Jewish refugees from the Spanish Inquisition, he was the first openly Jewish U.S. senator (representing Louisiana), eventually a Confederate Cabinet member, and finally a barrister in England. To top it all off, he was likely gay. To put things into perspective, he was a partner in sugar plantation, a slave owner, and an prominent advocate for slavery. Usually when you hear anything about the man, it's his international resume, not the fact of his slave ownership.
DeepSeek-R1 on iPhone? (DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-GGUF)
> would it be worth just ignoring everyone's wish regarding privacy one time to suck up this data and have AGI moving forward?

Sure, if we all get a stake of ownership in it.

If some private company is going to be the main beneficiary, no, and hell no.
1.85 is actually the highest in Western Europe and higher than Canada and USA.
> For me, my desire is secession. The country needs to beak up. This is an extreme view but will likely be increasingly held by people with similar political beliefs as mine.

So, you envision an enormous red country plus about forty or so small nation-states, virtually none of whom can support themselves and would be defeated by the red state's military and agricultural output in days?

Secession is unworkable. Whoever secedes from the most militarily powerful nation in history gets wiped off the map in twelve hours.
This article just says what some economist thinks should happen. Not what Xi plans to do.
If the current administration reduces the issuance of family based greencards (which happens mostly through the consulates), those unused greencards will flow through the EB category, allowing EB1 dates to move forward. Something like this happened during Covid.
I’m baffled by the lack of lock file in the year 2025, ESPECIALLY when you’re using a library for service X vendor Q to talk to with service Y from vendor W. Like, you know the library isn’t going to know about AWS competitor APIs.
> Be careful how you apply the context of this era when judging past eras.

But it’s literally their own context, as many of the Founding Fathers wrote negatively about slavery. It’s judging them by their own standard. I’m not sure they’d mind.
4 km seems kind of coarse. Could you combine it with knowledge of satellite imagery or something to increase precision?
Rethinking Builders with Lazy Generics (2024)
This is nice! (100th star I pressed!)
I'd like to try it, but the setup was a pain, it would be nice to have a button to deploy immediately to Vercel and Supabase!
ref: https://vercel.com/docs/deployments/deploy-button
> my guess is you don't actually think they're so terrible, because you're still working your 9-5 for your terrible-person boss

"You continue to labor in order to feed yourself rather than suicide-bombing your neighbors, so therefore you're lying" is a HELL of a take.
Ultimate vocal remover is a common one
What “fascism” are we talking about here? A company pulling tampons from men’s rooms? Companies scaling down DEI departments that advocated (probably illegally) in favor of gender and race-based discrimination?

Or are you speaking more broadly about the U.S.? Is it fascist to revert to a sane border policy that’s aligned with what most U.S. citizens and legal immigrants want? Or an executive branch that’s actually run by a democratically-elected individual, instead a non-elected shadow government that governed on behalf of a dementia-afflicted president whose condition was hidden from the American public for years? The same government that censored the media? Or the tech companies that willingly obliged with the government censorship? The same tech companies that fired employees for expressing opinions that differed from those held by the liberal establishment?

Sorry, I’m getting very confused if we’re turning into the fascism or finally turning away from it.
The 14th Amendment was a direct rebuttal of a court case: Dred Scott v. Sandford. Dred Scott ruled that Black people could not be citizens, because they were property not people, including a "free negro" because they descended from property. The Citizenship Clause intentionally rebuts the ruling. There is no other way to interpret the Clause.
Yeah, and that comic is about standards anyways, not tools, so it's doubly annoying when it's linked out of context
Withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization
There's an openvino plugin for audacity that can do music separation but it only supports 4 tracks at the moment (drums, bass, vocals, other).

https://github.com/intel/openvino-plugins-ai-audacity/blob/m...
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42775602
I have the SanDisk and it is pretty good. very good for the price.
Sony make an expensive MP3 player.
Yes, immediately. Think of the stories all those lives could tell. It’s awe inspiring and humbling.
US EV subsidies allowed Tesla to survive, which allowed it to become the dominant EV player in the world.
TikTok has not been accused of aiding in the genocide of Uyghurs. Repressing their voice, maybe. Genocide, no.
> 3D VCache is enabled by TSMC's 3DFabric packaging

> Chiplets are also enabled by TSMC technology, CoWoS.

Interesting, my mistake. Thank you for pointing that out!
I wish more tools would be like this.

Besides this one, I am only aware of CrystalDiskMark/CrystalDiskInfo.
Is that the plaid version?
Nowadays you can just use WhatsApp to make phone calls. It's free.
No luck catching them electrons, then? It’s just the one electron, actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
Must be hard to have to deal with that, I'm so sorry you have to use a different word when referring to someone.

It's obviously much harder for you to use a different pronoun than for them to have their entire gender identity invalidated. Would you like for people to misgender you constantly and purposefully?

Your life must be so hard. I feel bad for you to have to use a different word to refer to someone. Maybe have some basic decency and respect for others?
Are mystics kooks or valuable disrupters?
Doesn't work in Android Chrome. Clicking does nothing.

Edit: figured out what was wrong, I had bedtime mode turned on which desaturated the screen, making the light yellow impossible to see. Suggestion: make the highlight more visible/accessible
https://archive.ph/Kg92a
What about neopronouns? Can someone just make up a new set of words like zi / zim / zis and expect you to remember them whenever talking to or about that person?
I'm running the Open WebUI Python web server app and accessing it on my phone via Mobile Safari.
If compilation uses jmp2ret mitigation, a trailing ret instruction will be replaced by a jmp to a return thunk. It is up to the return thunk to do as it pleases with program state.
Honestly, I should have thought about using it for more than just code reviews. I’ve got access to 3.5 Sonnet through Cursor anyway, so I might as well leverage it for other tasks too, like trying to stand out.
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Every time there's this kind of news, there's always other comments with similar news: https://x.com/alexrozanski/status/1881043544204599330 (or https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/1cwc0r9/caution_...)

And then some people here attacked content blocker users with:

> Why would I, as a developer whose income stream is based on advertising, intentionally cater to users who are costing me money?

> you're destroying the open web

If even the FBI calls out your industry[1], sorry, your AdTech industry, your source of income is beyond broken now.

[1]: https://www.ic3.gov/PSA/2022/PSA221221
I’ve seen many teams get stuck when they rely too heavily on GitHub Actions’ magic. The key issue is how tightly your build logic and config become tied to one CI tool. If the declarative YAML gets too big and tries to handle complex branching or monorepos, it devolves into a maintenance headache—especially when you can’t test it locally and must push blind changes just to see what happens.

A healthier workflow is to keep all the logic (build, test, deploy) in portable scripts and let the CI only orchestrate each script as a single step. It’s easier to troubleshoot, possible to run everything on a dev machine, and simpler if you ever migrate away from GitHub.

For monorepos, required checks are maddening. This should be a first-class feature where CI can dynamically mark which checks apply on a PR, then require only those. Otherwise, you do hacky “no-op” jobs or you force your entire pipeline to run every time.

In short, GitHub Actions can be powerful for smaller codebases or straightforward pipelines, but if your repo is big and you want advanced control, it starts to feel like you’re fighting the tool. If there’s no sign that GitHub wants to address these issues, it’s totally reasonable to look elsewhere or build your own thin orchestration on top of more flexible CI runners.
I read a short historical fantasy novella named The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson. It was very good, and it has interested me in Venice ever since. It's from 1987 but it's very gender-bendery and fun.

These sound like great places to continue reading. I really enjoyed The Ottomans by Marc David Baer. I love that history is so much weirder (and relevant) than fiction. It's easier to connect with people, and understand where they might be coming from, when you understand some history. You can't say that for a lot of sci-fi/fantasy outside of the Snow Crash and The Lord of the Rings.
I was there, 1986-2006 and by and far what he said internally at company meetings was completely apolitical. He didn’t moralize, he pushed groups to create better products for customers and that’s what we as engineers were exposed to.

The one time I remember something different was around 2003 when he was asked at an all hands meeting, a question that came down to “how do we work with all this chaos, war, blaming ethnic and religious minorities”, etc. The person that asked it was almost in tears. Jobs response was to look seriously non-plussed and he answered “if you can’t do anything else, vote for the democrats” and then moved on to the next question. He may have had deeper opinions- but they were not part of his public discourse when he was ceo.
If you are serious about CS and reach 10-15k elo, you could give Faceit/ESEA a chance - invasive, but essentially 100% cheat-free.
I recently learned that tree-sitter does not have a goal of accurately representing the whole source input, and thus as it currently stands could not be used for that purpose

Now, whether a tree-sitter-esque ecosystem that is designed for source modeling could catch on like t-s did is a more interesting question
Cheating is such a bummer in CS, even in casual matches. Luckily it’s usually pretty obvious and you can either kick the cheater or find a better lobby. Having friends on there has made finding good lobbies in general much easier
With my optimistic hat on maybe it realized "wavelet tree or similar structure that can efficiently represent and query for subset membership" doesn't actually describe wavelet tree and this was its way of backtracking. I.e. it might have learned to respond like this to a prior inconsistent series of tokens.

But ya, I'm aware of the issue with them saying they don't know things they do know.
Nice. The Date API is really difficult to work with. I hope they work in the cookie API next.
I hacked together a quick demo using that library on this image: https://andromeda.bsprague.com/
That’s my policy too. I see way too many Jenkins/Actions scripts with big logic blocks jammed into YAML. If the entire build and test process is just a single script call, we can run it locally, in a GitHub workflow, or anywhere else. Makes it less painful to switch CI systems, and devs can debug easily without pushing blind commits. It’s surprising how many teams don’t realize local testing alone saves huge amounts of time.
Don't Be the Asshat: A Maintainer's Perspective on Code Change Reviews
This was one of his campaign pledges that he ran on and he fulfilled it ASAP. The WHO ignored reports of Covid spread in Wuhan, denied that virus originated there and ignored all warnings given by Taiwan.

Remember these famous WHO quotes ?

"Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission."

"There is no clear evidence of sustained transmission between people."

Until people were falling dead on TV, the WHO doubled down on this crap. There was no apology given for their utterly corrupt incompetence.
There was already a lawsuit filed off the bat challenging the structure of DOGE, so repurposing DS might have been to preempt that: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/20/doge-lawsuits-musk-...

It’s also possible DS had a critical mass of SV people that wasn’t beholden to existing bureaucracies. The structure of the DOGE teams embedded in each agency makes me think that someone thought through this quite carefully: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-inauguration-presiden...
You simply don't notice since overwatch cheats tend to be very advanced. They also have a really strict system around reports and players actually use it.
As long as you can read and write to memory, you will never stop online cheating in FPS games.
Discovery (basic research) is usually costlier than applied research (bundling, development, delivery) in labor costs.
fwiw, cheating in CS(GO) taught me x86 RE and low-level programming way younger than is usual. sophomore year of high school.

I still recommend writing an HvH cheat to anyone that wants to get into proggin' -- you get a taste of both static and dynamic RE, memory-level programming, UI development, bare dxsdk (usually), a skid-saturated environment, sysadmin (if you try to set yourself up an uber1337 cheat page), and a bunch of other little things, all in an environment where you're quite directly competing with others in the same situation.
As long as you can read and write to memory, you'll never stop cheating in multiplayer games.
In the macOS version of Calendar, “Time Zone Support” is the name of a feature in the Settings window. When you check that checkbox, twi things happen:
- the event inspector adds a timezone selector the the Start and End date/time pickers
- the window titlebar gains a timezone picker.

The timezone picker in the window titlebar defaults to your system’s current timezone. When you create an event, the start and end times for that event default to the window’s current timezone.

You can use the newly-revealed picker in the inspector to change the timezone of an event. There is a single picker that alters both the start and end time. If you set this to something other than the timezone chosen in the window’s titlebar, the event will move to reflect when it will occur in the window’s timezone.

I am personally convinced this is what people want 99% of the time, and I think it’s silly that you have to check a checkbox in Calendar Settings to get it. It’s fairly common to receive details for an event in another timezone, such as a conference call or vacation. I live with Time Zone Support enabled on all my Macs, and while I rarely touch the timezone picker in the titlebar I make frequent use of the timezone picker when setting the event details window.

There’s one special option in the event details timezone picker: “Floating”. This tells Calendar to always reckon the start and end times in the timezone selected in the window’s titlebar. So if you create an event that starts at 7am and set its timezone to “Floating”, the event will always be shown to begin at 7am even if you change your system’s timezone or the timezone in the titlebar. I don’t use this feature much, but it’s useful for plotting out your daily routine. If you go for at 6am every day, regardless of where you are on the planet, you can create a floating “Daily Run” event that starts at 6am and doesn’t shift as you travel.

The iPhone version of calendar is designed differently. There is no “Time Zone Support” checkbox on iPhone. The event details view always shows time zone pickers for both the start and end times. This lets you create an event with the start and end times specified in local times in different timezones. I use this feature for every single flight I take, and I always have to enter them on my phone because the Mac doesn’t let you set the start and end timezones independently.

But the iPhone doesn’t let you choose Floating in the time zone picker, so you can’t use it to create daily-routine events. Thankfully, all versions of Calendar preserve the data and behavior of events created on any platform, so you can create your Floating events in a Mac and your timezone-spanning flights on an iPhone and they will render as expected on the other device, including the Event Details window.
I've been using a couple of these. The business model absolutely makes sense - low risk, let someone else maintain the hardware. You can just tear it down if and when your incredible "let's do it with an LLM or something" plan fails.

Additionally, if the provider knows what they're doing, they can put together very sensible specs and set non-stupid pricing.

On the other hand, the monthly expenses can quickly add up, to the extent that it becomes silly to not buy superior hardware for a fraction of say, the yearly cost of using such a service. Of course, that's probably a bad idea unless you have something valuable going on in development or in production.

"GPU-as-a-Service" absolutely does make sense as a business model. For instance, I have a pretty powerful GPU in my flat which I do all sorts of experiments on, but I'm not happy having a ~300W eGPU running in my residence 24/7.