skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems I misremembered about mario or that i'm just bad at searching, the only thing I could find now is that the trigger for the fireworks is ending on specific number, oh well :)

Obviously you know your game better and have a clear idea of what you want to accomplish. For me it was mostly a case of seeing a long list of unlocks and the only way forward was play another game (repeated a lot of times).

One thing I like about Vampire Survivors is that you can try to figure stuff out and for me that is a much more enjoyable way to play "just one more" run (even though I still haven't found even close to everything, which I would have if it was only time that was needed)

Anyway, thanks again for the game and good luck going forward!
A compromised immune system could lead to ... fatality?

Or not. I had measles about 25 years ago. I was very sick but I lived to tell about it and without any obvious long term effects. Most who have polio are not nearly so lucky.
Particularly for product reviews/information, it's the least biased (note: NOT unbiased) source I know of. If you're looking for information on what model of (to pick a recent personal example) toaster isn't complete junk, where do you look?
>Excel is as capable of adapting to new input as any AI, and the input need not come from a human specifically: the act of adapting to input is an automatic consequence of being able to perform linear regression.

I said 'sensory input', as in, "any primary, real world data". Can I just download excel, and without feeding it machine learning algorithms, feed it a bunch of videos or text and have it learn history?

>If "adapting to input" is your test for intelligence, however, it is a test which a thermostat will pass.

Not just adapting to specific input the system is designed for, adapt it to ANY input. A thermostats function will never change on its own without modification, just like excels, or whatever other traditional program.
As another comment said, you can write client side code in F# which gets transpiled to JS, just like Typescript or CoffeeScript. This approach allows you to use JSX components directly from your F# code. It's very cool. Other FP languages have something similar.

https://www.compositional-it.com/news-blog/fsharp-react-seri...
I'd like to say that with my gut but, at the same time, I've not actually seen a solid definition of what process would define reasoning to say "and this could never be it in any way!". If anything, "a iterative noisy search of similar outputs" now feels at least a big part of what the process of reasoning might need to involve.
Does this book dive deep into medieval economics? I would really like to simulate a somewhat advanced approach on the flow of goods and currency between the upper and lower classes…
Whoa awesome. I spent hours playing Generals in the mid 2000s.
What sparked this heated discussion? Zelensky asked JD what if Putin breaks the agreed diplomacy as he had done previously?
Each time I visit a bunker, I'm thinking that I would be so scared to go inside there in case of missile attack or war. What if the gate/access is destroyed by the blast, how do you leave the place? You might just be buried alive inside the bunker even if you could probably survive there for some time.
Another problem with lingering warnings is that it's easy to overlook that one new warning that's actually important amongst floods of older warnings.
Is it because googlers tend to forget things overnight and cannot continue in the morning?

CEOs and directors sometimes demonstrate intelligence levels on par with 7B ERP-finetuned LLMs.
Seems like another open source competitor to Safing'a Portmaster: https://safing.io/download/, very cool
Absolutely agree. Remind has been around for literally decades and so has tons of user discussions that are easily searchable.
>and the bot control mechanisms they offer have too many false positives. Perhaps I should check it out again.

Cloudflare no longer does CAPTCHAs so even if users get flagged as bots, the user experience isn't terrible. You just have to click on a box and you're on your way. It adds maybe 3s of delay, far better than anti-bot solutions that require you to solve an captcha, or imperva's (?) challenge that requires you to hold a button for 5-10s seconds.
The good news is that the Biden administration put most of the frozen Russia assets under European control, anticipating this kind of risk, but of course that doesn't mean Trump can't attempt to pressure Europe here.
the design is a re-skin of Skype for Business. The app is way more bloated now, so there is an additional pane of options for things like team-only chats, task tracking etc
Coopting the web as a low level platform, to be bent into blast utterly non web stuff feels like a gross misdeed to me, that directly violated rfc8890 "the internet is for end users".

Flutter or somethint similar maybe possibly perhaps might some day conceivably eventually rebuild enough platform that the major gaps and faults and chasms of it might be less terribly ruinous, but users will never have anywhere near as much agency. User scripting will always be at the extent the developer's enable it. Its terrible to think of the web denigrated to being as closed foreign and black box as regular apps are, would set back human conputing's one little tenous bridge of progress back immeasurably.

None the less, theres folks who believe the developer experience trumps all other concerns, and are still full steam ahead on canvas based systems. One of those people is Ian Hixie, former editor of the HTML specification, who authored what is sort of the manifesto of the canvas-based effort, Towards a Modern Stack,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612696
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1peUSMsvFGvqD5yKh3GprskLC...

Plz plz no.
I had interacted with Pritt Kasesalu (PrittK) when I was very young. In the late 90/early 00s I played an MMO developed by Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) named Subspace, released in the mid 90s. It was a top down astroids-like space game with maps of up to 100 or more players, even back then.

The game shut down officially but the server leaked and became community ran. The original client was not very secure so hacking and cheating became common.

Out of nowhere comes Continuum, a ground up reimplementation of the Subspace client by none other than PrittK, completely eliminating any cheats but changing nothing of gameplay or UI.

He went on to co-own the largest server, Trench Wars, with another player named Dock. There he did custom game bots and other chat-tools. There were rumors that he was involved with Kazaa back then and later on I find out he goes on to be involved with Skype and Joost.

Continuum continued to grow and thrive. The backend server was eventually reimplemented into A Small Subspace Server (ASSS) so now this game was a complete user recreation of the original.

Well, minus the graphics which was in limbo from some sale to a third party company but they never had complaints. Then a few years ago we grt the game green lit on steam.

Little trek down memory lane.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubSpace_(video_game)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2530450/Continuum/
Many decades ago, there was a "solution selling" sales trends, where you focused on resolving "pains". Despite its age, and despite its focus on services vs. canned products, it is still the best analogy I've found for non-sales folks to understand how to price software to sell:

Your product needs to not just be cool and likeable, it needs to fix a pain. If it doesn't, there is no reason to buy because any level of cost hurts more than a non-existent pain. But when you do fix pain, pricing becomes an exercise of ensuring the pain at seeing your bills/invoices hurts less than the original pain.

If it does, people will buy.
US cannot unfreeze anything, because all the frozen funds are in the EU.
An.. eye-tooth, if you will.
Signal is centralized, i.e. has a CEO and a bank account. Secondly, it is US based.
Telepathy Tapes
Yeah, that is something. Reminds me a bit of the eye worn by Charles Dance's character in Last Action Hero.
>I was trying to find a way to set a virtual background or change camera settings, and it looks like it's only available right before you join a meeting.

Huh. I used Teams in 2020-2023 and back then you'd just hover over the enable/disable camera button and the settings would show up.
Thanks for this I've not received the email yet. This bit is irritating

>To port your Skype Number, please contact your new provider directly. Learn more

Anyone got any recommendations on who to port to?
(I would note that EJB is something from the past. Like .net has also really grown.)

> that's why I am confining it to certain kinds of projects only (and personal
tinkering).

You have a fair view of Go, I think. I could see that it makes sense to use it as a replacement for bash scripts, especially if you know the language well.
Personally I am wanting to dive into using F# for my shell scripting needs. The language leans well into those kind of applications with the pipe operator.

If you ever have the appetite, you should take a look at it as it can be run in interpreted/REPL mode too, which is a nice bonus for quick one-of scripts.

https://blog.lucca.io/2022/05/19/fsharp-script
Something they need.
Wipr 2 is great! And so is the dev, with who I've talked to before. The difference between WebShield & Wipr 2 is WebShield allows you to specifically toggle on/off which lists you'd like, as well as add your own custom lists. Kaylee (Wipr dev) also has to maintain the lists herself (she sources a lot from other lists), so there is a bit of manual maintenance for her, because Wipr is meant to be an "install & forget" app for the most part. There are tradeoffs that come with this design, for example, all scriptlets (called injectables in Wipr), to my knowledge, are injected as as a content script, whereas WebShield is similar but we inject each scriptlet on demand, cache it (not sure if Wipr does caches too), ensure it doesn't re-inject on the same page (more testing needs to be done with this, and I'm not sure if Wipr 2 already checks for this). That's just off the top of my head.

With that said, Wipr 2 is great and very reliable. If you enjoy using it and it fits all your needs, you tried WebShield and didn't feel the need to switch, continue using Wipr! I'm not trying to conquer the world.
Note that there's a really good HTML Wayland composer already. Existing Wayland apps run via a proxy process injecting apps into the browser.

And there is a web+wasm stack using Wayland constructs for apps that run purely in the browser+compositor.

Incredibly cool work. Greenfield:
https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield
Electrolytes are what plants crave.
"The problem with FOSS isn't a lack of politics (they have plenty of that)"

The point of politics is to shape society through, well, policies. Considering your point on "tunnel vision focus" I think we agree, it is just that I use the term "politics" in broader, and older, sense.
I just reached Nostalgia Level OVER 9000.
Whenever a PR department of an authoritative side is speaking of "confusion", I call it BS.

The onus is on them to use clear phrases.
A dialogue would be alright (We meant... You interpret... Let's rephrase...).
But single-handedly blaming the other side?
Considering that amount of backslash?
That's nothing but lame.
thanks! actually the "why" video is going to talk at some length about my woodworking business, so you might enjoy that part! best of luck to you!
I also use Syncthing. It's still not as clean as self-contained apps like Google Docs—sometimes there is a bit of a delay with the syncing that creates a conflict and I have to resolve it manually. But it works well enough.
Good point, but those guys were complete psychos. They had zero actual grounds for suspicion compared to the behavior Trump has exhibited, over and over, in plain sight.
Didn't Microsoft Teams soundly defeat Zoom, Slack, and all the others? I was under the impression that Teams has at least an order of magnitude more active users than any competitor.
This is the sort of long-form comment that I'd write and love to read, signed in just to upvote it, well-put!

Nit: chromosomes mostly don't look like little X-shapes except during cell division, which was historically a useful time to image them (I think because the dye couldn't get through the cell-nucleus wall but during cell division it has dissolved?). But then you are seeing _two_ chromosomes that happen to be bound at a centromere before that centromere gets torn into two by the cytoskeleton dividing the cell in half.
Zen Browser, it's still beta software imo but tab grouping and vertical tabs have become must-have features for me (another thing Mozilla should be working on).
Sheesh, good thing G-d decided to take a chill pill somewhere between the Old and New Testaments.
As opposed to the US, where every large company has its own AI infra stack, often extending down to the silicon and up to large open source projects?

What's going on here, why are people forgetting what's around them? Does familiarity breed contempt? Are attention spans so shot that failure to participate in this week's news cycle is enough for "out of sight, out of mind"? Or is HN full of Chinese bots now?
> if all you need is a 1-1 call without NAT traversal.

That part of your sentence is doing a lot of work. It has to be as easy as clicking on a contact for oldsters.
From the circles I was in, everyone jumped from Skype / Mumble / Teamspeak because of D/DoS attacks after having their ip exposed.

It happened all the time because booters were so popular and widely available, costing about $5/mo via paypal.

People were willing to put up with more delay (over p2p) to prevent having to trust each person that joins the TS.

Skype transitioned away from p2p because mobile phones were not very powerful and they needed a lot of supernodes.

First desktop apps were the supernodes, then it turned into centralized servers entirely.
That's the whole point of this thread that end to end encryption like Signal faces threat from government. End to end encryption means nothing if you downloaded binary from app store and some entity controls the binary. They could potentially turn off end to end for specific user without the user noticing that.
I think this is the most damning point: their terms extend to cover the text in URLs, and so by definition all text including titles and URLs — as well as any pages visited, due to tab syncing — would need to be in compliance with policy. If it’s as clearcut as presented here, anyways. Do the other browser profile syncing services have similar language? Is such overreach unique to Mozilla Corporation?

Though, considering how few people are likely to care about the legal exposure risk of continuing to use Firefox Sync, I don’t imagine this will end up being particularly enforceable in practice.
Housefly
Web scraping is an essential skill for developers, but learning it can be tricky. That’s why I created Housefly, a hands-on project designed to teach web scraping through interactive exercises. Inspired by Google Gruyere, Housefly provides a series of small tutorials with dedicated companion websites built to be scraped. The goal? To give you a safe, structured environment to practice and refine your scraping skills.
Does the stink of association every truly wear off though?
I can't think of anything much more corrupt than someone in government directing a government contract to a vendor they own with no process for considering other vendors. If that seems fine to you, then I don't think we'll ever agree on what corruption looks like.

If Starlink is actually "very likely to be better for taxpayers" it should have no problem going through the normal bidding process competing with other vendors.
How hard would it be to "wrap" the browser in a ublock like shell, so that all network requests are filtered through a firewall before they even reach the chrome application layer.

It might be easier to maintain than an actual extension interface with hooks thought the code.
I feel like I’m one of the few people still using Skype. I’m using the feature where you can rent an international local phone number and people can call you on that number and it forwards to your phone (my family live abroad).

I’ve been looking and I’m struggling to find services with this feature that aren’t 3x+ the price. Skype seems to be unique in that it’s aimed at consumers and most of those other services seem to be aimed at businesses (that could be a factor in why it failed).

Can anyone make any recommendations?
They did launch a from scratch electron crap at least once. That version didn't migrate settings/account. Had to help at least 3 different people who suddenly lost access to their contacts.
The most frustrating thing is they all get away with endless daily lies and just move onto the next subject, NIH might never recover, certainly not this decade.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/26/elon-musk...

> Hours after Musk asserted that USAID had restored its Ebola prevention efforts, the agency informed several organizations working with the U.S. government to prevent the spread of the virus overseas that their contracts had been terminated

> organizations — which included UNICEF, which had been working with USAID on Ebola prevention in Uganda and other countries — were among thousands of organizations affected by the Trump administration’s move to cancel foreign-assistance contracts
It's really hard to take someone seriously when they say things like this:

> For years I’ve been warning about this inevitable outcome, and for just as many years people told me I was overreacting, that it wouldn’t happen, that I was crazy.

The removal of that language is important but this person is trying to make it about themselves.
> I’m sure they report serious crimes and at least retain records for questionable activity.

Why are you sure? I really doubt it.
Also see Yahoo Answers, who got the gamification completely wrong (Stack Overflow later got it right). Users would answer "I don't know" to every question they saw, just to get a point for answering.
Vulnerability Report at ToDesktop
This is the first I'd heard of this, and I did some poking around, and came to the conclusion that this surgery is ~mostly obsolete --- which is an answer (for me) to the question of "don't they have a better substance to use as a lens substrate than tooth?"
Comments > x, de-weight upvotes, kick to page 12 of sort by votes and only see if sort by new.

x = number, algorithm, and/or moderator manual usage. Annoying for when you want to see discussion about a topic.
> What is the purpose of @dataclass on Task class?

No purpose. I think I added in the initial implementation and ended up not being required, but I forgot to remove
Wondering at what point the whole DOGE thing implodes on itself.

Or will Elon "declare victory" (like Bush did in Iraq) and goes back to interplanet colonization now that he's "fixed government"?

It's like one of those captivating TV shows where you can't wait to find out what happens in the next episode. Would be amusing and entertaining, except for the part that America is getting actually f*ed.
Selling peoples personal data has been around for longer than people realise

The Hank Show
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250209277/
It hasn't been limited to probationary employees. Here's one example: https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ban-renewing-sen...
Agencies have also been directed to make plans for "significant reductions". For example, EPA plans to cut 65%. Fish and Wildlife and the Bureau of Indian Affairs are preparing for up to 40%. These latter cuts haven't happened yet, but they're very likely.
I love having the system-of-record being something powerful on a laptop, alongside having some paper artifact with just a small constrained view, which you update with a pencil and then reconcile with the SoR later.

This is what I do for todos and reminders, with a few index cards binder-clipped together with a tiny pen. I use [0]; its size is right but it’s just a ballpoint refill that isn’t particularly great. Using it makes me miss my typical fine-tip gel pens. Anybody else use this kind of system and have a tiny pen to recommend?

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0776LK634
While I believe there are farmers among the groups, this seems to primarily be pushed by NYC-based climate politics law firms, which I didn't know was a thing until I read this article. There aren't a bunch of farmers in Iowa who are upset about this, at least as far as the article mentions
When the co-president is the CEO of a company that launches satellites, this sounds like a winning solution
I believe inoreader has this feature as well, they call it magic sort
I mean, I initially installed it on mobile to get rid of the ads, and then eventually deleted it, after it started showing me ads on the main page. I also think that their whole original "ad replacement" scheme (https://archive.is/W0k4j) is complete BS and pretty telling.

But sure, let us do 5 minutes of research!
So, this referral code injection was a mistake (that their CEO had to apologize for https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...)

Then there was the "donations for content creators" debacle, where they started gathering donations for various YouTubers, without.. actually talking to those YouTubers. But using their names and faces to promote the whole thing: https://web.archive.org/web/20181224011529/https://twitter.c...

Apparently, the original idea was that you could "contribute to any website you visit. The idea was that once a site reached a threshold, the potential owner would be notified. They could then authenticate (prove ownership, etc) and claim the donations." (https://old.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/1e9i5ls/how_...), which is mind boggling to me that somebody actually thought it's a good idea.

Anyway, they had to apologize for it, after hearing "important feedback": https://brave.com/blog/rewards-update/

They have also installed VPNs onto users machines without asking: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/10/18/brave-is-installing-vpn-se...
I don't think they apologized for that one... But they did revert the decision.

Then there's Brave News, Brave Wallet, Brave Rewards, which is just completely unnecessary bloat IMO. You _can_ turn some of it off, still leaves a bad taste in my mouth though.
That’s a very technical description. The Safari extensions I use already do block YouTube ads. So it’s unclear what WebShield brings to the table in practical terms over existing extensions.
I'll second this. Start small. If you think it's small, start smaller. I think a lot of people fail in their quest to learn game development because the scope of their initial ideas are huge.

Edit, I also recommend Designing Games, by Tynan Sylvester (RimWorld creator)
Adding to that, I struggle to think of many things more terrifying than relying on contemporary AI for oxygen delivery.
This was absolutely disgraceful. Another step on the road to becoming a pariah state.
That's because it moves from being a project to being a process. I've tried to express this at my current job.

They want to take time out to write a lot of unit tests, but they're not willing to change the process to allow/expect devs to add unit tests along with each feature they write.

I'll be surprised if all the tests are still passing two months after this project, since nobody runs them.
Trump and Vance Loudly Berate Zelensky in Oval Office
I thought the refugees were because of the US’s forever wars. That’s fine. We can get out and the Europeans can clean up their own business.
Yeah, my father had lovely printed penmanship. I've planned on practicing to develop that as I return to reading more (in retirement), both to take notes as I read and learn, and because otherwise my notes will be illegible. My current hand printing or writing is atrocious.
Yeah, I was wondering at what point Putin decides to roll the dice and put that to the test by rolling into Estonia, Lithuania or Latvia. He must be feeling his chances are pretty good right now.