> I’m skeptical that the problem they are trying to solve is truly unreasonable bandwidth demands. Not necessarily bandwidth demands so much as processing demands. Scrapers have a tendency to hammer on parts of web…
> Unfortunately whatever HN is using routinely blocks my login with "Sorry." I believe that's the HN application itself, not a WAF in front of it.
Unless you're an astronomer, you probably don't care about condition 2. Many countries still shift wall time around by an hour twice a year for DST - if people are okay with that, solar time being offset by a few…
Someone who's having a medical emergency is certainly in no position to go comparison shopping for ambulance services.
And a bit of "if Farage really wants the seat, he can fight for it". There's something unsporting about letting him win unopposed.
It's sort of a programming language. But not a particularly general-purpose one.
> I couldn't get my head around why this is the case, lol. Because TIOBE's methodology is terrible, and always has been. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_defin... It's literally based on the…
They were also using NiMH batteries - a completely different chemistry from modern lithium batteries.
> I simply will not buy a car that won't easily accept a double DIN head unit. Are those even a thing anymore? The vast majority of new cars have some sort of custom all-in-one dashboard display.
You're correct on both points. Some early wireless cards used SDIO to communicate with the host computer. These are long gone. There were also some later SD cards which contained an embedded controller running Linux,…
> under normal conditions BSD is a wonderful license for game devs since you’re free to use the code and only have to add an acknowledgement somewhere. And it's not as though libopus is an outlier in using a BSD…
Because one of the requirements the law sets out is that the content be removed "expeditiously" upon receipt of a takedown notice.
"First of its kind since the 1940s" still seems a little questionable given the Cecil Kelley incident (Los Alamos, 1958). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Kelley_criticality_accid... Interestingly, both the Tokaimura…
> Chernobyl is the only accident in commercial nuclear history that has exposed people to large enough doses of radiation to poison and kill them. The Tokaimura incident (Japan, 1999) comes to mind as a counterexample.…
Air travel has also become ~100x safer on a per-passenger basis: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/aviation-fatalities-per-m...
> 'Run by one individual in Denmark.' is an interesting statement of bus factor I find it more interesting as a statement about organizational oversight. If there are multiple people involved in operations, they can…
> Quake III Arena had no single player. It... sort of did, but it was extremely shallow. It was a preset sequence of matches against increasingly difficult bots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrmJgXT8WSY
> It was a wristwatch back then, right? Only if the application explicitly set the cursor. There was no default indication that an application had stopped processing events - your only clue was that everything stopped…
pngcrush is pretty old. A newer, more effective option is oxipng: https://github.com/oxipng/oxipng
> They've wanted Larry Gone for years Larry was essentially inactive* on Wikipedia from 2002 until he started stirring things up last year. Nobody "wanted him gone" - he simply wasn't relevant to the project. *: Aside…
The dark patterns aren't just in online gambling. Nowdays, a lot of brick-and-mortar casinos encourage, or even require, clients to create an account (often framed as a "members club" or "rewards card"), which is used…
Oh, I'm sure there's all sorts of illicit use as well. But scraping is what the network is being actively marketed for, and it probably amounts to most of their traffic by volume.
Yes. For instance, Bright Data describes itself, on its home page, as the "all in one platform for proxies and web scraping".
Apple's devices use an IR depth scanner, not the camera, and do not expose the data to software.
More to the point - if they expose their model's "thinking" inference, competitors can train on that to replicate the results. If they postprocess that content, e.g. by summarizing it, it's no longer as useful to…
> I’m skeptical that the problem they are trying to solve is truly unreasonable bandwidth demands. Not necessarily bandwidth demands so much as processing demands. Scrapers have a tendency to hammer on parts of web…
> Unfortunately whatever HN is using routinely blocks my login with "Sorry." I believe that's the HN application itself, not a WAF in front of it.
Unless you're an astronomer, you probably don't care about condition 2. Many countries still shift wall time around by an hour twice a year for DST - if people are okay with that, solar time being offset by a few…
Someone who's having a medical emergency is certainly in no position to go comparison shopping for ambulance services.
And a bit of "if Farage really wants the seat, he can fight for it". There's something unsporting about letting him win unopposed.
It's sort of a programming language. But not a particularly general-purpose one.
> I couldn't get my head around why this is the case, lol. Because TIOBE's methodology is terrible, and always has been. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_defin... It's literally based on the…
They were also using NiMH batteries - a completely different chemistry from modern lithium batteries.
> I simply will not buy a car that won't easily accept a double DIN head unit. Are those even a thing anymore? The vast majority of new cars have some sort of custom all-in-one dashboard display.
You're correct on both points. Some early wireless cards used SDIO to communicate with the host computer. These are long gone. There were also some later SD cards which contained an embedded controller running Linux,…
> under normal conditions BSD is a wonderful license for game devs since you’re free to use the code and only have to add an acknowledgement somewhere. And it's not as though libopus is an outlier in using a BSD…
Because one of the requirements the law sets out is that the content be removed "expeditiously" upon receipt of a takedown notice.
"First of its kind since the 1940s" still seems a little questionable given the Cecil Kelley incident (Los Alamos, 1958). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Kelley_criticality_accid... Interestingly, both the Tokaimura…
> Chernobyl is the only accident in commercial nuclear history that has exposed people to large enough doses of radiation to poison and kill them. The Tokaimura incident (Japan, 1999) comes to mind as a counterexample.…
Air travel has also become ~100x safer on a per-passenger basis: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/aviation-fatalities-per-m...
> 'Run by one individual in Denmark.' is an interesting statement of bus factor I find it more interesting as a statement about organizational oversight. If there are multiple people involved in operations, they can…
> Quake III Arena had no single player. It... sort of did, but it was extremely shallow. It was a preset sequence of matches against increasingly difficult bots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrmJgXT8WSY
> It was a wristwatch back then, right? Only if the application explicitly set the cursor. There was no default indication that an application had stopped processing events - your only clue was that everything stopped…
pngcrush is pretty old. A newer, more effective option is oxipng: https://github.com/oxipng/oxipng
> They've wanted Larry Gone for years Larry was essentially inactive* on Wikipedia from 2002 until he started stirring things up last year. Nobody "wanted him gone" - he simply wasn't relevant to the project. *: Aside…
The dark patterns aren't just in online gambling. Nowdays, a lot of brick-and-mortar casinos encourage, or even require, clients to create an account (often framed as a "members club" or "rewards card"), which is used…
Oh, I'm sure there's all sorts of illicit use as well. But scraping is what the network is being actively marketed for, and it probably amounts to most of their traffic by volume.
Yes. For instance, Bright Data describes itself, on its home page, as the "all in one platform for proxies and web scraping".
Apple's devices use an IR depth scanner, not the camera, and do not expose the data to software.
More to the point - if they expose their model's "thinking" inference, competitors can train on that to replicate the results. If they postprocess that content, e.g. by summarizing it, it's no longer as useful to…