skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, did those startups succeed? If not, I think it means the author was spot on in saying startups can't _afford_ that.
Transcript here: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1237991516
Have you seen unfluence? https://unfluence.app
This concept makes even more sense for trucks than it does for cars. The batteries are larger, destinations are likely to have appropriate infrastructure, routes are more uniform.

https://www.januselectric.com.au/
> Obviously people out there that can handle this lifestyle, but I couldn't

No I don't think anyone could. What you're describing is an insane policy of abusing employees. Most on-call is done on a rotation, not permanently.

All of my previous roles involved on-call and it was 1 week per quarter.
> that are enforced on us !

You don’t have to use them and you could pay for them.

The users of the internet have made their call and they often don’t want to pay, so someone does.

As a whole the users of the internet are not rewarding anyone for NOT showing ads. We want our content and we want if for free generally.
I used to buy their shareware game diskettes (in Germany). They were in smallish colorful paper packaging, hanging in displays a bit like Lego polybags today, and they were everywhere. In every supermarket, in paper shops etc.

Data Becker also had lots of serious software, shareware and full versions. There were shelves full of it in electronics markets.

Also, some of the best PC books for amateurs were from Data Becker. I got one for Christmas that explained everything, from the hardware components to using MS DOS.
Bunch of typos
Awesome, what's the progress? can i use it now?
> The scene generally responded to those prods like a overamped shellfish allergy responds to shrimp -- not well [2]

I've read half of the thread (12 pages, lost interest after that because it kept repeating) and it doesn't seem to be any different from the sort of responses you'll see here, on Reddit, X/Twitter, etc - i.e. about half the people are pro, about half the people are against and some are somewhere in the middle. The pro/against people even use the same arguments you'd read elsewhere (some recontextualized in demoscene but overall not demoscene-specific).
Is that a problem? What segment of Google's Apple TV revenue comes from people behind shitty middleboxes?

YouTube won't work on Chromecast if you're trying to MitM it, so clearly Google doesn't think this situation is worth making an exception for in their logic.
From Rhombus you can call all the Racket libraries. I used Racket in a few projects:

* To edit a Moodle backup file, I used Racket to unzip it, find the xml file, parse and filter some of the parts of the xml file and then zip the new version.

* To autoreply some emails, I used IMAP, then scrap some info from my webpage and then SMTP.

There is also a JSON library, but I never used it.

The only problem is that some libraries have no wrappers still, so instead of the expected snake_case name you must use the spear-case with some delimiter to make the parser happy. (Something like |spear-case| or {spear-case}, I should check the docs.) And if that annoys you too much, it's easy to write a macro with a rename transformer so you can use the nice snake_case name, it adds a negligible compilation time and no penalty at run time.
Personally, i don't like them at all. This grainy feel with a lot of dark/black colors etc. i would not use this while tripping.
And Australian law doesn't quite offer the same protections as GDPR. In fact, being a Five Eyes country, it's effectively the opposite.
It's 11 years old, I'm impressed that it even works.
That reads like the script from a sitcom. Amazing.
I'd prefer it to paste into the current layer. If I want to paste into a new layer, I can create a layer before pasting.

Barring that, I'd also prefer it to surface anything to tell the user what's going on. Pasting subtly switches modes into a context where a lot of the UI isn't working right until you make a decision on what to do with the floating layer. That kind of mode-switch should be signalled loudly to a user. The signal Gimp chose? Two small buttons in the layer panel highlight green.
> Peru has had a lot of bad press but if you use your common sense you’ll be fine.

Peru is ranked 10th in the latest crime index rankings.

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp

The bad reputation is justified. It's not cool to go the victim blaming path to avoid acknowledging problems.
Scavenger's Reign is probably the best show I've seen, in terms of world building and creativity. Just absolutely stunning.

I'm massively disappointed it got cancelled. It really scratched the sci-fi itch that usually only gets scratched via books. Most sci-fi movies and shows are really just lazily dressed up romance.
That would be extremely stupid from their part as it checks with a browser merely restarting with or recalling the latest session.
She got that nickname for her push to mandate provider-level blocking of requests to foreign servers distributing CSAM while working as the German minister for family affairs, which critics argued would create a slippery slope by establishing a practice of forcing ISPs to implement network request blocking (IP bans). This push materialised in the Zugangserschwerungsgesetz, which while being passed in 2010 was never actually applied and eventually repealed. Around the same time the German minister for the interior argued for police powers to use trojans (computer viruses) for investigations, which likewise passed and seemingly has been used with very mixed success - it's worth noting that the use of this practice by US federal law enforcement was already well-documented at the time.

The USA PATRIOT Act on the other existed and had been used extensively (as far as we know) before expiring in 2020. But even without the USA PATRIOT Act, the US is well-documented in using warrantless surveillance: https://proton.me/blog/us-warrantless-surveillance

The existence of nicknames is a weird metric to judge a jurisdiction's attitude to privacy by when you have actual evidence of behavior you can compare directly.

EU governments trying to push for special powers for law enforcement to sabotage encryption and failing (remember: the UK is not in the EU anymore) is very different from what US federal agencies and law enforcement are not only permitted to do but also are doing and have been doing for decades. It's probably not necessary to point out the limits corporations face under EU privacy laws compared to the US.
Every one of the streaming services that I paid extra to go ad free decided to push ads anyway.
I run a small browser game—roughly 150 unique weekly active users.

Our Wiki periodically gets absolutely hammered by LLM scraper bots, rotating IP addresses like mad to avoid mitigations like fail2ban (which I do have in place). And even when they're not hitting it hard enough to crash the game (through the external data feeds many of the wiki pages rely on), they're still scraping pretty steadily.

There is no earthly way that my actual users are able to sustain ~400kbps outbound traffic round the clock.
"High-Risk" dogs present increased legal liability that owners tend to discount or disregard.

"Disregard for legal liability" is a fairly reasonable description of criminal behavior.

This scientific study merely validates the basic logic involved.
There are venues that support this. Its called continuous, or periodic, auctions.

https://www.fca.org.uk/publications/research/periodic-auctio...
Feel free to use your choice of synonym when you are writing something.
Scavenger's Reign was really excellent - but as I was watching it, I had an inkling that I would likely be in a small cohort of people who love it.
Excellent! How did you find that key combo?
HPKP, yes. Certificate pinning in apps is the norm.

The difference between HPKP and certificate pinning is that HPKP can pin certificates on the fly, whereas certificate pinning in apps is done by configuring the HTTPS client in the native application.

Apps like Facebook won't work on TLS MitM setups without using tools like Frida to kill he validation logic.
I bought my first Linux in 1996 from Data Becker. If I remember correctly it was Red Hat Linux on CD-ROM packaged with a according book from Data Becker.
I've never heard of 'Multinyms' but I am right in thinking they're just homophones ?
You should name and shame companies that have this policy. Who the fuck is making people be on-call 365 days a year?
Yeah, the whole point of the original is that the Mystics and Skeksis were both flawed societies (even if the Skeksis were closer to the normal meaning of "evil") and the ending unites them rather than having the Skeksis destroyed.
I happen to be an (associate) editor of an academic journal.

What the people who critique the publication process are missing: 90% of submissions are crap - unfit for publication.

We need some process to gate-keep.

a) The venue of publication is a good signal, whether the time to read a paper is well-spent. b) The PhD students learning the craft need objective feedback. The supervising professior/university often has the incentive to "just submit" -- even if they know that a publication does not meet the quality standard.

Before peer-review, somebody also needed to make a decision on what to publish. This typically fell to a single individual. The editor or some well-known member of the community who could recommend a paper for publication. On old journal issues they even mention the "recommender".

So the question is not whether peer-review is bad, the question is which alternative gate-keeping process would be better. Otherwise we will drown in crap publications (even more) and the PhD students don't get a honest feedback signal upon which they can improve their craft.
My gf’s YouTube account for some reason does not show ads on any device it is logged in, including the Apple TV. It is not premium, nor ever was premium.

Wonder what flag is set internally that disabled ads.
Thames Water data reveals raw sewage discharges in rivers rose 50% in 2024
Love the engineering, but it's kind of sad the hoops we have to jump through to get some semblence of owning our hardware or software.
> This gives you a single endpoint to rate limit

Would you be rate-limiting by IP? Because the attacker is using (nearly) unique IPs for each request, so I don't see how that would help.

> someone recently built a simple proof of work CAPTCHA for their personal git server

As much as everyone hates CAPTCHAs nowadays, I think this could be helpful if it was IP-oblivious, random and the frequency was very low. E.g., once per 100 requests would be enough to hurt abusers making 10000 requests, but would cause minimal inconvenience to regular users.
>A lot of people in a lot of countries are cancelling Disney Plus, Netflix, Amazon Plus, Apple TV, etc. just because they're American

Think you might be over-estimating the size of your algorithm bubble there. Normal people don't even make that connection.
I also would have said "Sikh" and "seek" are homonyms until recently when I found out that Sikhs' preferred pronunciation is generally to sound closer to "sick" (aspirate the H if you like)
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As a Canadian small business owner,(metal work), I can tell you that I am getting inquiries from companys looking to replace US sourced producs.
They are douing this pre-emtivly, as the existing "supply chain" issues, wildly expensive shipping, and now tarrifs, is making it just not worth it.
Canadians are used to paying more, for everything
, but , we expect a certain level of reliability
when paying those premiums.
Also, a great many American manufacturers are already working at capacity, and state quite clearly, that they only ship to the lower 48.
So all companys in Canada are used to hustling to
meet demand, through whatever avenue is availible, and unlike many developing countrys, Canada has an industrial base, large and diverse enough to branch out, if things persist.
Though truth to be told, our biggest challenges are internal, with an ageing population and technological upheavals.
There's a pragmatic issue involved: A PhD student faces a high risk of getting knocked off of their track and leaving without a degree due to circumstances entirely outside of their control. Delays are super costly, both financially and by adding to the risk. This is a hugely asymmetric burden, and overshadows all other considerations. For this reason, the top three priorities of the PhD student are:

1. Finish

2. Finish

3. Finish
Yeah - I think this is a huge problem for people wanting to self-host email as well. It's a pretty feasible thing to do technically speaking, but you'll likely end up being filtered into a whole lot of spam folders.
AI creating jobs now?
I would add yaw/yore/your/you’re
"Legal" requires judges that will view the case in a certain way and often needs the force of a government agency to back it. This administration has gutted both those things. Expect it to get worse, not better.
> This was the whole message behind the release of GPT-4.5: capacities are growing linearly while compute costs are on a geometric curve

I don't see where that is coming from. Capacities aren't really measureable in that way. Computers either can do something like PdD level mathematics research more or less under their own power or they cannot with a small period of ambiguity as subhuman becomes superhuman. This process seems to me to have been mostly binary with relatively clear tipping points that separate models that can't do something from models that can. That isn't easily mapped back to any sort of growth curve.

Regardless, we're in the stage of the boom where people are patenting clicking a button to purchase goods and services thinking that might be a tricky idea. It isn't clear yet what parts of the product are easy and standard and what parts are difficult and differentiators. People who talk in vague terms will turn out to be correct and specific predictions will be right or wrong at random. It is hard to stress how young all these practical models are. Stable diffusion was released in 2022, and ChatGPT is younger than that - almost yesterday years old; this stuff is early days magic.

Models could easily turn out to be a commodity.
A simple static RAG would be great though. Just chuck a csv or excel sheet into it. Give it an endpoint to query or "ask questions".

Most people won't go past 1000 rows or so. Charge $5/month past that stage. I think speed etc doesn't matter too much. Go for convenience, sort of like a Stripe/Netlify for RAG.
Their update timer always start from 29 minutes remaining and goes from there, IIRC, and I find that it's way more accurate than Windows' one on 99% of the time.

Funnily, Linux (KDE) got very good at their estimations for some time now. Better behaving storage also has a role, I presume.
Interesting. If you can DM me the username and email associated with the account, I can look into this and get it fixed for her.
> the thousands and thousands of SaaS services we rely on can easily be build from the ground up by devs from all over the world

Define easily.
If it was that easy to clone Microsoft Excel (up to the most miniscule detail) I'm sure someone would have done it by now and offered it for free or for half the price. It's not that easy. You can get most of the functionality done sure but not all of it - and not having all of it wrecks the flows of all of your finance/accountant teams who won't be able to migrate or will be forced to work in different ways. Getting everything to work would take years. When Google "cloned" Excel to its own product and didn't even bother trying to make it 100% compatible with Excel because it's too much work.
That's just Excel, how the heck are you going to migrate everything else?

I think with enough budget and determination it can happen in around a decade I guess, but I don't see where the motivation or determination will come from - in a few years Trump will be gone and things will be more normal again.

Europe should have thought about this like 20 years ago , it seems a bit late to me.

The truth is the dependence isn't one directional , America needs Europe as well for ASML, for pharma and for all kinds of other things. I don't think there will be a complete decoupling.
Long ago a Google music subscription would disable ads on YouTube. When they discontinued it / I cancelled, it took a good 6+ months before YouTube ads started up for me.

But of a “oh I see what people are complaining about” moment for me ;)
Could.

A HTTP post request along the wire is unencrypted.

I'm talking about a submit button not HTTPS as that just encrypts the connection session and not the data sent from say a form.

If you're using or utilising CF for something where the data is being posted to an API unless you have client side encryption anything receiving that data will be received in plain text.

Someone only needs to compromise the service worker and syphon the data.
The problem is that advertisement business infects everything.

For instance, I could pay for Youtube Premium to ostensibly not be shown ads, but it doesn't change the fact that all the content[^1] in the ecosystem is still produced for maximizing watch time and/or being advertisement friendly.

I could pay for news, but that doesn't change the fact that the news is written to receive clicks from the non-paying users.

Paying for things does not help escaping the second order effects of advertisement.

[^1]: To a close approximation.
Rust caused it.

More charitably, unnecessary churn caused it.
Ironically enough Android TV (at least version 7.X) does not let you do that, which I found out the hard way when trying to work around untrusted Let's Encrypt certificates.
If you have not seen "Princess Mononoke", I highly recommend it. I rewatched it recently and the people and creatures on both sides of the conflict are neither really good nor evil. Just two opposing forces with different goals.

It offers a level of subtlety I have not seen often in film, particularly since Star Wars.
There's what you imagine and what you can see with your own eyes in reality.

Amazon, with its billions and hoards of smart people, still ended up in a situation where they find themselves in excess of 14,000 employees.

It means that there's no simple formula and perhaps once in a while, orgs just need to clear the slate and see where the pain points are and build up once again.
Maybe she is in a holdback experiment. To understand how a feature affects the metrics (such as running ads), they often have some people in a holdback. I worked there and we did have such experiments for our features.
Global population datasets underrepresent rural population
Bert Hubert has previously written about how the entire European telecoms industry with the exception of Britain has outsourced not only equipment but also network operations to Huawei:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/5g-elephant-in-the-room/

European national infrastructure providers don't care.
You can turn off auto update. I update my Mac when I can, not when it decides.
Two SCART was pretty common, for e.g. a VHS player and a sky box. We definitely had switcher boxes we needed to use to connect game consoles, (or dvd players when they became a thing) up though.

I think some VHS players also had some form of pass through/switching capability of their own? It's been a while.
And they got their subscriber still I guess….

As users of these services as a whole we reward this kinda thing and then are upset when it happens again.

I don’t like any of this situation but I also think the user’s choices incentivize it.
I don't believe it's physically possible for anyone to be available at 10 minutes notice for 168 hours straight. And if it's possible, it would be deeply unhealthy. But if they did achieve this, then yes they should be paid some very large amount of money. But that doesn't just happen -- pay isn't fair, it's about power. So a union can help to negotiate this, or ideally, better working conditions.

> Also most tech companies don't have unions...

In Europe, there are plenty of unions that cover tech people. I'm a member of Prospect (https://prospect.org.uk/).
You're right IAM is the major missing piece that is often forgotten.

The closest I've seen is (ironically) this opensouce project from AWS https://www.cedarpolicy.com/
"dark" in the context of a fantasy movie isn't the same meaning as "dark" in the concept of a gross out or comedy movie.
Fixing vibe coding by a vibecoded landing page is definitely a "Vibable" solution !!
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Throw in regional accents and you’ll get many more! Aaron earned an iron urn: https://youtu.be/Esl_wOQDUeE?si=J34OmyDod7GHUrl1
The downside will be permanent higher interest rates, as well as intolerance for the rest of the world to continued trade imbalance with the US. Real wages in the US will go down to compensate, making the US more competitive, but the dollar will not be so immune to fiscal shenanigans as it has been. The US will be unable to maintain the same level of real spending on government programs.
I know someone and their Wall Street career is based on carrying out trades between two parties that wish to stay anonymous for the trade.

They do all the communication through a Bloomberg terminal and as far as I now they do no research with the terminal it is just their communication tool.
I guess for computationally expensive things the only real option is to put it behind a login. I’m sure this is something SourceHut doesn’t want to do but maybe it’s their only decent option.
Sure I'd like to swap out a critical part of my car that is also like 60% of it's value to some random part I get in exchange at a highway station!
Was just reading about this one the other day.
Well-defined behavior and it actually solves a problem.
Conceptually, I can't say it is worse than variadic functions or setjmp.
People’s basic needs are food and water, followed by safety, belonging, esteem, and finally self-actualization. In addition, convenience over non-convenience.

With LLMs come a promise of safety in that they will solve our problems, potentially curing disease and solving world hunger. They can sound like people that care and make us feel respected and useful, making us feel like we belong and boosting our esteem. They do things we can’t do and help us actualize our dreams, in written code and other things. We don’t have to work hard to use them anymore, and they’re readily available.

So, people are going to focus on that.