skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with the author that NextDNS is “essentially a finished product”.

For me NextDNS is not that usable and is not a finished product because:

a) I need the ability to turn it off temporarily once in a while (even if it’s on a family member’s device)

b) the NextDNS client apps on iOS/iPadOS are abandoned (not updated for years) and the toggle to turn off or on doesn’t reliably work

c) there is hardly any support in the community forums

With the abandoned and flakey client apps, visiting test.nextdns.com would show “unconfigured” or a NextDNS server information randomly. I never know whether it’s really on or not.

Using a VPN profile is recommended through it cannot be easily turned off and on. But even the VPN profile doesn’t work on my Apple TV.

The NextDNS DNS servers around the world seem to work, but the experience on devices is unreliable and poor. If the founders could employ someone to improve the apps and how it works, I’d use it. I had considered a paid subscription a few years ago but didn’t go through because of these experiences.
If you think you're spending too much on the eggs then you're not perfectly happy. I grew up with chickens and my family also grew up with them. I'm just saying, something is really wrong with the way you're doing it if you think it's not worth the money. There are ways to do it economically. What do you suppose the big farms feed the chickens to make it economical to not only grow the chickens but also package and ship the eggs profitably for all involved, cheaper than you can do it without packaging and shipping and paying middle men?
Completely off topic to the actual article - but...

I really get irked a lot by seeing (overly obvious) ai generated images being used for stock photos. One of the reasons my wife and I still subscribe to a couple of newspapers is that the photography helps bring to life the story being told. Why where these photos taken and how do they impact the story. You don't get that same visceral emotional reaction with low quality cartoon images.
> Nearly half of dictatorships start as a military coup

do you see jan 16 as a military coup? Coz i do. Just because the people involved are poorly equipped, and badly organized, doesn't mean it isn't.

We, as a nation, did not punish them hard enough. We as a nation, did not cut the hydra at their head, and allowed it to fester. It is done, perhaps, as a form of peace keeping and appeasement.

But history has taught us that appeasement does not work. So once again, those who failed to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
OK, this seems like a good thread to ask about something that was contemporary to the TI-99/4A ... namely, the idea of "Fairware". As near as I can tell this term was coined to refer to freeware at a time when that term was still trademarked by Andrew Fluegelman / Headlands Press, and seems largely to have been current among TI-99/4A users (probably because after their platform got orphaned freeware/fairware was all they had), but not so much anywhere else (with a few exceptions, and then probably because by the time anyone had heard of it Andrew was dead and his trademark died not long after, so everyone took to calling freeware 'freeware'... or shareware, since that term had also been coined to get around that trademark).

Anyway, the question is: Who actually coined the term "fairware"? I did some preliminary research in old periodicals and books, but I never came to a satisfactory answer. The closest I found it that it might have been one of the sysops of the TI conference on ... I think either Compuserve or GEnie? Either way, I never found any smoking gun, and this is one of those bits of historical trivia where not knowing the answer irritates me greatly. I tried asking around on the Atari Age forums, but I guess the right kind of graybeards don't hang out around there. Maybe someone here will know the answer?
While Stripe seems like it could do many things better here, you can accomplish what you are suggesting by using a key vault.
* Hotels are required by law to have a published "rack rate" and it's common for both leisure and business travelers to book at more than half, or more, off those rates. Airlines don't have that.

* Yes of course there are negotiated discounts for major corporations- but full flexibility is still far more expensive than restricted tickets, just like business is still far more expensive than economy.

* Most airlines offer guaranteed same-day changes, or at least priority standby, to high-status loyalty members (which most consultants are) so buying full-flex tickets to get an hour earlier/later flexibility is redundant - basically, paying for a benefit you already have.
It is winter, come springtime the protests will be huge
But doesn't that mean that ranking the ideas to find the ones most worth testing is a useful problem to solve?
I didn't know the TI-99/4A was 16-bit until many years later when the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga were taking over from the Spectrum, C-64 and Amstrad (in the UK). Aside from the refueling tunnels getting a bit tricky later on in Parsec, I have fond memories of Alpiner and Pirate's Adventure. That latter one being the bundled game with the Adventure cartridge, requiring you to insert the cartridge (containing parser etc., I think) and then load the particular adventure story from tape.
As someone on the other side of the table, I don't care if you used AI to complete a take-home project. I care if you can explain the strengths and weaknesses of the approach it took, or if you chose to steer it in one direction or another. It usually becomes quite clear those who actually understand what the AI actually did for them.
I have dim memories of going to a show in San Francisco’s Brooks Hall(?) called TI-Fest. It was a show all for TI’s home computers and they had the speech synthesizer and some kind of expansion chassis and lots of other stuff. My dad was looking for a home computer that me and my brother could use, so he brought us along. The show was exciting, at least that’s the way I remember it. There was this feeling that something big was happening.

Dad ended up buying an Atari 800 instead of a 99/4A. It was a good decision.
Takes one to know one.

These days a criminal record is no bar for any computer-related thing...or at least it shouldn't be. However, it'd be prudent to monitor what they're keeping. Anyone who's any good will be keeping little nuggets of stuff for the future.
So it's a buy opportunity, eh?
Same experience, I had the exact same thought. Was new to react and had to make a website… big mistake, wasted so many hours untangling the regex and hacks keeping together Gatsby over the next few years until that website was retired.
A court ruling isn't a matter of law - you can say the ruling was issued wrongly, and you may even be right, but you still have to follow it.
Ultimately, I expect this to be taken to the Supreme Court and reigned in.
It is kind of funny to me that the lede is about Palontir instead of the absolutely stunning call by a Republican for the DoD to reduce budget by 8%.
There is simplicity of interface and then of implementation. If you try uv you will find it is both convenient and easier to understand than competing solutions, because everything _just works_ and you find the proof of how it works waiting in your `git status`. You can be assisted in knowing that it just works because its install takes no time and no system setup. It is slick.
It happened again after rolling it, so a dev’s machine is compromised, the prod infra is, or they’re straight serving the key somewhere.
Google has responded to this "controversy" already:

https://x.com/JeffDean/status/1858540085794451906

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10053
Hitler was popular before he became famous as "hitler".
Well she was smarter than those families who paid for the cartridge edition of "Hunt the Wumpus", like mine.
Spoiler alert: it was empty (but not by grave robbers)
Interesting. We're using a SAAS solution for document extraction right now. I don't know if it's in our interest to build out more but I do like the idea of keeping extraction local.
Have you looked for a remote software developer job during the past 2-3 years? Every application gets thousands of applications and it’s almost impossible to stand out from the crowd. Those were my “Plan B” jobs when I was looking both last year and the year before. I was able to find remote jobs quickly both times for my Plan A jobs[1]. But I have specialized experience for the type of jobs I was looking for.

It has never taken me more than a month from looking for a job to finding one and that’s been across 10 jobs since 1996 and 8 of those were post 2008.

The second problem is that a lot of companies, especially BigTech companies, are forcing either a hybrid or full in office schedule.

The third problem is that most companies aren’t set up to hire people from just anywhere

[1] Plan A jobs were strategic cloud consulting jobs where I work with sales to get clients and then lead the projects. These days, even AWS Professional Services (former employer)and GCPs departments are requiring their “field by design” roles to be in the office when they are not at a customer’s site.
Ok, totally not the point ... but a big chunk of what is now the US was Mexico, and the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo (and to a lesser extent the Gadsden Purchase) officially handed it over -- so I think Mexico may actually have formally agreed that we're not North Mexico.
This isn't about what to sort by, but how to place the books on the bookshelf so that they are in color order while minimizing the work of moving the books around to maintain that order as you add more and more books.

More directly, I organize them by wherever I find space.
I have my standards and will pass. Beyond that, PLTR has already run up since $20 a share until last May, and their valuation not compatible with high future returns. But remember this post.
El Salvador Dispatch: Searching for Bitcoin City, the Modern El Dorado
This is why FDA requires experiments before company sells any drugs.
"Aquaman: King of Atlantis" hit some of those notes for me. I didn't particularly care about the story, but the animation was captivating.
It's pretty clear getting rid of the penny will cost money,
because people will need more nickels,
and the difference between the face value of a nickel and the cost to make one is much greater than that of the penny.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43016895
Hi! I keep a maintenance log too. The next owner probably won't benefit from it though, since I plan to run my vehicles until they're ready for the scrap heap.
I bet I could rewrite that in 5000 lines.
This is exactly what MAGA says too.
Not always insisting upon measuring is not the same thing as an inability to measure when it would actually help.
Difficulty:

This isn't the corporate world and the worst-case scenario here isn't being sued or taking a trip to bankruptcy court, it's the potential downfall of a nuclear-armed superpower.

Which is why business leaders, at least ones like Trump, need to be kept far, far away from government. The goal isn't to maximize value, it's to administer a society in a sustainable way.
Exactly. If I had to bet I would guess their server is just straight up serving the file. I've seen that way too many times.
There's already a reasonable approach to this, which DOGE is opting out of. Those who are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_hat are carefully given positions that require their specific skills, and aren't given run of the mill security sensitive IT roles.
> Under this EO, the agency wouldn't comply, since the agency would assume Trump's read of the law is correct - superceding even the Court's. If they tried to enforce a contempt order, the US Marshals would not comply either.

Why? The Marshals enforce blatantly wrong court judgements all the time. Court judgements are court judgements, contempt orders are contempt orders, both can say almost anything. There's no interpreting the law part of enforcing a judgement or order - the court judgement is just as valid whether it's legally correct or not.
Yeah great point. Given the MacBook is metal, and expansion slot would need to also be placed with cellular in mind to work
> It's really an "adopt a subset of C++" argument, but even that has its flaws. For instance, no one wants exceptions in the Linux kernel and for good reason

Plenty of C++ codebases don't use exceptions at all, especially in the video game industry. Build with GCC's -fno-exceptions option.

> and exceptions are, for better or worse, what C++ provides for error handling.

You can use error codes instead; many libraries, especially from Google, do just that. And there are more modern approaches, like std::optional and std::expected:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/optional

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/expected
> Cohen added that "High taxes, Liberalism, Socialism, Progressivism, Wokeness and DEI included at no additional cost if you buy today!"

What is with these people? Are they that terrified that they rant about these things while trying to conduct business?
It’s 8% cut per year over 5 years which is quite a bit.
Don't be surprised if the administration says something to the effect of "the court has made its ruling; let us see them enforce it."

That, or they're hoping that someone will sue so that SCOTUS makes this sort of EO precedent.
Does anyone have any clue what the point of "scentless wax melts" even is? Like isn't the scent the whole point of the product?
If you can break bitcoin, you can also break all the encryption we use for banking and other transactions, so might as well stock up on SPAM and ammo.
I still have my 13 mini, but it is feeling somewhat slower with each major iOS release. Still I can probably get a few more years out of it.
The CFPB does not exist anymore: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/10/nx-s1-5292123/the-trump-admin...
Fair enough but is he really gray hat? We don't know. Or is he just whiter than white but walked in the shadow lands to gather sacred mushrooms?
20 years ago, I broke my ankle in a friendly soccer game on the Cambridge Commons field. I was shocked when the doctor who performed surgery to put it back together ordered me to walk on crutches the next day after surgery and to continue placing more load on the ankle thereafter. 20 years later I can't complain :)
This is a very black and white thinking. Autocracy and democracy lies on a spectrum. Just because China doesn’t lie on the extreme end of Autocracy doesn’t mean it’s a democracy.
> > Ask yourself this: why would anyone in the world be subjected to these whimsical nationalistic banana republic renaming stunts?

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Google_LLC_(2...

Wikipedia says that's "an ongoing federal antitrust case brought by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) against Google LLC on January 24, 2023 [that] accuses Google of illegally monopolizing the advertising technology (adtech) market in violation of sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890." How does this answer your parent's question?
It can be disheartening. I don't know that there's much strong evidence yet that air polluted with synthetic particles leads to bad health effects, but I do know that are lungs have been subjected to things in the last 100 years that they hadn't encountered in the previous 300 million.
Democracy not good enough fer ya? I'll explain: Because Elon was appointed by Trump who was appointed by the will of the American taxpayer? It should be commutative.
we've pretty much stopped with the amendments anyway. Last few are basically politicians affecting themselves.
The difference is definitely Assembly. You could dip into heavier memory management, and control every aspect from that low level.

I got on to my local public library (in the US) with an 800 baud modem on the Atari 8-bit. There was barely any security, which was all bypassed by "password". I could check out books for individuals, alter the amount they owed in late-fees, or erase that someone had a book and then erase that the book ever existed. I have always been more of a white/grey hacker, as far as I don't always report an exploit, but I don't abuse it either. Now that I'm older, I am happy to report exploits confidentially.

I quickly found the BBS in my area were not as usable at 800 baud, and moved to a 286 with a modem slightly higher baud. Until my family got a 386, it was a bit slow, but I was still sitting there like an addict consuming my digital fix! Even in the mid-90's I was amazed at the speed of modems coming out. I believe in 1997/early 1998 I had saved enough money to buy myself my own PC, and had a faster modem. I'm not sure what the speed was back then, but it was good enough to play Quake 1. I started to lose touch with the low-level of computers around that time, but also saw the value in higher-level programming. I think having understood lower-level computers in my early years helped me to understand things like memory management in current days, where a lot of my co-workers have no concept of running into memory problems until they hit a wall.
Extending Li battery life with External Li supply
> I have a lot of hope for SeL4, but progress there seems to be slow mostly because the security model has poor ergonomics.

seL4 has its place, but that place is not as a Linux replacement.

Modern general purpose computers (both their hardware, and their userspace ecosystems) have too much unverifiable complexity for a formally verified microkernel to be really worthwhile.
> which are increasingly out of step with those of the average citizen, especially on social issues

They've always been out of touch in the same way they are now. They just used to align more closely with your own political beliefs.
Didn't take long for this comment to age poorly :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43102528
Errr, I think the market has priced in an awful lot of corruption. PLTR closed at $41.41 on November 4th (day before election), and after its 10% drop today, it closed at $112.06. The market might be saying that even with the corruption, if the total pie shrinks by enough, it hurts the company.

I mean, in the sense that the "market" says anything at all.
I am using it perfectly fine.
This does NOT mean Python will get Tail Call Optimization, as Guido cannot be shown The Light, and has decided.
My grandmother had a very similar game to this, except it was multi-player. The game was shaped like a cross, with different "stations" on each end, so four people could play at once. Each station was different, focusing on a different mechanism, some of which are nearly identical to this game. Instead of a single ball, each player had a handful of balls and you would compete to successfully navigate the most balls through your station to the center of the board, where there was a small basin.

From what I remember, one was station was just like the "lilypad" section, where you had to "hop" the ball from one launcher to another. Another was like the wave see-saw portion at the start of this game. A different one I don't see here was sort of like a slanted pinball field, where you had to shoot the ball through a sequence of launchers until the final one shot it into the hole to the center. I can't recall the fourth one right now.

One additional hitch is that the was a lid for the center receptacle that had sliding doors that opened and closed on a wind-up timer (sort of like how a mini-golf windmill periodically blocks its tunnel). So if you timed it wrong, your ball would hit the door and bounce back, possibly to the very start.

I don't remember the name, and I'm not seeing it mentioned in any articles about this game. Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?

EDIT: Madcap Marathon is the name of the game, I was able to find on BoardGameGeek [0]. Here's a vintage TV ad from 1981. [1]

0: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/23061/madcap-marathon

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYoErTKntrU
They didn't explicitly saying it, but the implication is that some new system came into play when they Europeans arrived, otherwise why bring them up at all? I was pointing out that it was always winner take all.
Oligarchs are technically American taxpayers
If it's going to take another 10 years to turn this into a usable product...
Better spew out some marketing BS to move the needle on MSFT stock price...
> Give me one (1) good reason to assume Elon's appointees are acting in the interests of American taxpayers.

Because they are American taxpayers.
It doesn't matter if every part of it is factually true or not - it doesn't add anything to the discussion.
Or, from another perspective: the "disenfranchised rural white[0] working class" was so abandoned by the Democratic Party, which previously represented that class, that a reality TV start from NYC with all of his flaws came to champion their needs instead[1].

[0]: Trump got a higher share of nonwhite votes of every stripe in 2024 than he did in 2016, so it's clearly more about class than race.

[1]: https://x.com/patrickjfl/status/1854645395856482568
Based on the video this looks great in the 200x200px previews typical for a paper but has substantial visual artifacts that become obvious at higher resolution.

Maybe there are straightforward ways to improve the results by spending more compute time. But as presented it's more "turn one picture into a convincing character in your Sims game", not "turn one picture into an animated character in your next TikTok video"
Art was already democratic. Now the megacorps are inserting themselves in the process and using “democratization” to sell the idea back to people.

That doesn’t mean good art is impossible with, say, an iPhone’s digital camera and its AI-powered capabilities. Nor will it mean LLM-powered tools can’t be helpful to writers or other workers. But all creative pursuits — programming included — are already democratic without Apple or Google or whatever corporation butting in looking for more rent.
Sort of related question: If you are a dual citizen between US/EU, and have made the move to the EU from the US, how was your experience?
They get a % of the amount they save.
I use both 1st and 2nd at the same time. 1st as phone, 2nd as a PDA.
> Trump famously used the same institutions to detain and torture minors indefinitely

Are you talking about the "cages" that were built under Obama and continued under every president thereafter, including Biden? Or what?
Who does it appear to?

If that's an issue, then pass a law in Mexico saying the name needs to be presented a certain way.
Most them pay less than the average dentist.
Ya, that a good idea, thanks!
Yes unfortunately this is much more specific than "cyber researchers interacting with cybercriminals"

> Coristine was fired from a company after leaking internal firm secrets to a competitor

...and now has physical access to building facilities at CISA
I think you’re looking for LiteFS

https://fly.io/blog/introducing-litefs/
One good reason? Look at the financial state of the country. We’ve been running trillion-dollar deficits, ballooning debt, and unsustainable spending for years. If Musk’s appointees are doing the opposite of what got us here—cutting waste, streamlining bureaucracy, and questioning sacred cows—that’s at least some indication they might be acting in taxpayers’ interests. The real question isn’t why assume they are—it’s why assume the status quo was working in the first place.
In Shenzhen if your product doesn't perform up to spec, you just lose customers and go bankrupt. Not sure why the court has to be involved here. Isn't a free market capitalism economy supposed to work like that?
Great, thank you to share.

I don't use linux, but I'm happy to know that.
He wasn't interacting with them as a researcher does. He was working for them as an employee. And then they fired him and accused him of leaking, and publicly humiliated him.

No one even knows what this kid is doing inside CISA's network!!
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061173