skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if a general solution could be to make the visit more computationally demanding to the visitor than to the host, e.g. some form of proof-of-work. I guess captchas already do that in some sense but they require the humans to do the work.

Now the author above has stated they dislike the crypto route and I agree that the whole web3 idea is bs but what if in the case that spam of some form is detected by the server, it requires the visitor to show some proof-of-work and combine that with the "mining crypto in JS instead of ads" craze. That way the bot would need to put work in which would slow it down and at the same time it would pay for its own visit.

No ofc no spam detection system is perfect and it would also hit human users but in their case it would be just a wait a few more seconds longer for page to load kinda case.
I would expect that new graduates in more or less any numerate subject do some programming these days.

I just looked, we (a major UK university) as well as having a Computer Science department to teach programming to obviously Computer Science and Electronics students as well as related disciplines such as Mathematics, other departments have their own staff teach programming for Physicists, Chemists, Psychologists, Geographers, and a bunch of social scientists who need Statistics. I just asked the API for courses about "programming" and then checked they didn't mean some other type of programming. So if say Law has a course named like "Coding in Javascript" for some reason I wouldn't have seen it.

The most obvious numerate discipline I thought of which doesn't teach programming was Medicine, and I guess they just couldn't find time to add yet another entire discipline's knowledge into the timetable.
In the AWS 80% of the bill is Cloudfront. Why not putting Cloudflare on top of AWS and you have almost the same price. This article is basically comparing paid vs free CDN...
Pro-tip: Now you could also use iOS' camera app to recognize the text, select it and look it up. I'm not sure if it's faster than the note route but the option is there.
igbt is the cheap old way…

They could use SuperJunction Si or better SiC mosfets…

I would not buy an ev made of igbt…
> The OP appears to be someone who just wants to build something cool and share it with other human beings.

Only thing is, you don't know if that statement is true. Or they could really be wanting to build something cool but take advantage of all those "free" services and basically sell you to Google and Facebook.
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What would a modern human do without technology? Judging from the comments here it seems almost nobody can tolerate anything less than perfect thermal confort. Personally I find this ridiculous. Our bodies are perfectly capable of regulating their temperature over a pretty wide range of circumstances, especially with the help of adequate clothing, yet people are complaining about 18c in the winter or 25c in the summer.
That's also around the time where our natural tooth defenses started to become overwhelmed, and cleaning of the mouth, tongue, teeth, and gums became necessary.
For a real copy-pasta issue, Tim Bray blogged about his resignation from Amazon, and because his blog was licensed under Creative Commons, The Guardian republished it on their site (as a comment piece), with his name as the author's...
> but that money is going straight to the guys that deliver my food.

Ha ha, sorry that isn’t the case. Door dash etc are actually killing some restaurants by impersonating them, forcing huge discounts on what they will pay, and of course notoriously stealing from their delivery people.
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> Hypothesis: Ecommerce and ads...Maybe they over hired

Article indicates otherwise:

> Walmart is still hiring in parts of its business that are growing, including supply chain, e-commerce, health and wellness, and advertising sales.
As much as I hate the whole cryptocurrency hype myself, I think I agree that a proof-of-work requirement on spam detection that pays in the hosts favour could help solve spam to some degree.
Pointing to two tier-2/3 products as proof that they began shifting away from open/hackable hardware is misleading - it's far more likely that they are simply exploring, or made a product design misstep.

They have dozens of products at this point, and their SBCs, phones and laptops are the products people are most likely to care about. The amount of people who would object to less-than-open headphones or whatever is low, because the amount of interest is lower in the first place.
Not sure if you're trolling or not but

- Aaron died in January of 2013

- Ellen Pao became CEO in 2014
"Unfortunate"

Sounds like something a film villain would say when asked about collateral damage.
You, not the average graph of all people's choices, are in control of your life major turns.
Making Up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics
Applicants specify their preferred time slots in decending order and the government agency chooses the time. This is how the my country does it.
Well, you didn't understand even my short comment, so there is that :) . Fundamentally all tokens have exact same issues, one of the which I have mentioned. That mythical 1% will also have them. Either it will be truly decentralised and be a surveillance dystopia, or it's authors will lie and it will be centralised.

I don't pretend to understand world economic (unlike tokenbros claim so), but at least I understand enough to be horrified by the ultra centralised unaccountable and nonpunishable corporate dystopia which tokenbros promote. The fact that they claim their tokens help common people or help reduce inequality is even more infuriating.
Are the tree based models being provided with data that's "kind of like" the data they were designed for/at training time for the deep learning model? Or "exactly like"?

I think that's perhaps the difference?
The answer is extremely straightforward: less computation.

That’s less computation when traversing nodes in a set which can result in either an exponential or logarithmic difference depending upon the data and means of traversal. This holds true almost universally.
I get freelance payments in crypto and I try to cash it out as soon as possible to prevent losing any money. It baffles me that there are people out there who put their life savings in centralized platforms. Some people have to learn lessons in very painful ways because they refuse to take heed the first time.
Why yes. The point is AWS is charging people through the nose for bandwidth.

Switch the bandwidth past Cloudfront, and you still pay bandwidth costs that no one else charges.

It's no wonder Cloudflare and a bunch of other providers have latched onto this in their positioning to AWS.
> Judging from the comments here it seems almost nobody can tolerate anything less than perfect thermal confort.

You could use the same argument against any modern technology.

A car? Our bodies are designed to walk for hours. A hot shower? Our bodies can withstand cold water, and don't need to be washed every day anyway. And so on and so forth.
UK Considers Divisive Home Loan Revolution to Rival Thatcher
I'm in NZ and it's very much here as well.
The hardest part is that you first have to understand what freedom means. I guarantee most people don't really get it. It's just a nice word to throw around, it has a nice sound to it. "Freedom". "We live in a free country". Yeah, then you proceed to spend half of your life in a work environment where you have no decisional power at all and you're subject to stupid rules imposed by the owners. "Freedom".
Sounds like you're only thinking of luxury item shops that can afford all that...
We live longest with slight starvation... Doesn't seem to be hugely popular though.
> element of catharsis for people on the receiving end of "metric is superior"

Yes, I get that, but that's what it will always remain — just a cope, but not much else.

The reason: Customary isn't criticized, as far as I can tell, based on how the individual units are defined. That wouldn't be really valid, because all base units are arbitrary, including those of SI.

No, the unit system is criticized as a whole. The way conversions are defined between each other, that's what makes them so much less practical. The fact that a foot isn't 10 inches, a mile isn't 1000 nor 10000 feet (hell, even 5000 would've been better). That 1 gallon of water doesn't weigh 1 pound.

In "daily life", both Celsius and Fahrenheit are mostly isolated scales – you don't relate them to other units very often, and you almost never have to convert them to anything else. So it doesn't really matter how they are defined — definitely not on the same level as length, mass or volume.
There really needs to be a verifiable ”chain of custody” for news articles, perhaps even from primary sources, through editors, to publications and other news outlets picking up the story.

It would also make it much more difficult to create fake news.
I think you Americans should stick to calling this group as liberals or move to progressives where appropriate (identity politics, woke "ideology" etc.), and leave "left" to those who can still perceive it as a somewhat coherent concept in their politics (although perhaps every day less so). What I mean is just that if you toned down their woke/progressive evangelism and posing, the Democrats would be a firmly center-right party in large parts of western and central continental Europe, for example.
As Ariadne was talking yesterday about mid-long term removing busybox, there was a big hype around it and maybe we/some others made more from this MR than it was.

https://twitter.com/ariadneconill/status/1554846536521207808
https://mcaptcha.org/docs/prologue/introduction is a 404. (It's the link behind the "Get Started" button.)

A one-sentence describing exactly what it does and how it works would help ;-)
Are there studies that link announcement of not being X, with actually being X? I always thought that line of reasoning is ridiculous. It also uses X as being a 'gotcha', which seems similar to using X as an insult. I mean you don't 'get people' with things they are fine with admitting. Maybe not an insult exactly but it definitely feels like an attack.

I'm sure there are people who, being ashamed of being something, do go out of their way to say that they aren't. However I don't think seeing someone saying it once mean they "probably" are that thing. You can be annoyed/embarrassed at the thought of being seen as something you aren't.

I don't know the type of people who follow NSFW furry artists on twitter, but I imagine a lot of them are furries themselves. If the OP doesn't want to be associated with them then I think it's reasonable to state he isn't one.
If the author didn't retire, they're probably doing crypto scams these days.

(Can't judge if the story is made up or not - the boat is a flag, since sitting on a boat and doing "business" on the Internet seems unlikely in 2009; however, connectivity at port towns might have been usable)
367 comments here, and not a single one left at the original article's own blog! What a missed opportunity.
Could it be: https://xkcd.com/1643 ?

I adore Randall.
If you don't want to require users to run javascript you should be able to make the server generate the timestamp.
If you look at polling, the people are usually better than the politicians at long term planning.

This seems to be generally true in history too. That's a big reason why propaganda is a thing. Having to convince lots of people to do something not in their interests is hard work.

Democracy is messy, and imperfect but it gets attacked from both sides, the people who think the rich and powerful have too much control of it and the ones that want the rich and powerful to have more control.

It's easy to be cynical but generally every small step towards greater democracy has paid off.

With regards to old people voting, the answer is more young people voting, not taking votes away from older people.

Even many counter-examples you might think of, like early USSR and modern China, were often reactions against even more anti-democratic rule and can be considered steps towards greater democracy.

And this is not a new thing, many of the things we study in classics are the reactions against greater democracy:

> As Robert Dahl writes, "Although the practices of modern democracy bear only a weak resemblance to the political institutions of classical Greece...Greek democratic ideas have been more influential...[and] what we know of their ideas comes less from the writings and speeches of democratic advocates, of which only fragments survive, than from their critics."[9]

> Aristotle was a mild critic "who disliked the power that he thought the expansion of democracy necessarily gave to the poor."[9] Plato was an opponent of democracy who advocated for "government by the best qualified."
He's triggering it manually. And I'm pretty sure he knows what backscattering is.
Sure, they join in with healthy food (much to my surprise) and are
interested in shopping, making choices. Sometimes they get stuck in a
groove though - "I like what I like" which can make variety
challenging when cooking for everyone.
> If you can, require HTTP/2.0. Bots break.

Non-bots break as well. I have Firefox configured to use HTTP/1.1 only.

No reason to chase Google's standard-of-the-day, HTTP/1.1 has worked for ages and it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
The recent episode _What we do in the Shadows_ : “Go Flip Yourself” has the gang watching a version of property brothers while their house is falling apart around them.
I thought it was part of the subtext, at least… unproductive watching others do what you need to do.

I’ve experienced this firsthand when asking my partner if maybe we can think about picking up… so yeah, the TV remote was picked up so Marie Condo [sp?] videos could light up the TV… and instead of just picking up, it’s a watch party of someone else picking up :(

I hate productivity-tube for this!

/end rant
Whether $Source is good enough to be cited is context-dependent. Top three things to consider:

- How much does this really matter?

- How quickly could I find a better source?

- When $Source [published the article | made the statement], how authoritative was $Source on the specific facts in question? (The Iowa State Univ. student newspaper is fairly authoritative if the subject is a major building fire on the ISU campus. But on some scientific breakthrough? Maybe, if it's only a biographical fact about an ISU professor who was involved in the research...)

I like reading The Guardian, but I'd generally call them "too fluffy" to cite as a source.
I wonder how other people think about this kind of living.
Oh my word. I am honoured.

JOOI: who are you thinking of? I rate Orlowski, even though I disagree with Andrew about a lot of stuff IRL.
Great minds think alike ;). I, too, have been playing around with the free OpenAI tokens trying to get it to write the book for me.
What's happening with Taiwan/TSMC right now is...

china is adamant about taiwan, like putin about the donbass. So it is not unreasonable to think that what is happening for the donbass, will happen for taiwan sooner or later.

maybe it is time for top-notch foundries to move out (and the ppl who would require more freedom that the china regime tolerate, like in hong-kong).
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I'll qualify mine by pointing out that it doesn't have a database and is just a web client, a veneer, over a very secure API that really does all of the work. The Django I use is nothing but a template rendering thing.
>>> Automation is not reserved for those providing "services". It also should be available to those using them.

Yes !

I call this software literacy. And yes - no matter how cool the JS on a major site, the fact that the sites goals are to keep me there and clicking and my goals are to get what I want with minimal action are in conflict.

I would suggest that bots are actually not a problem. For most things I would like a bot acting for me. Telling me as and when that I need to visit the dentist, who has slots free next weds and friday. Friday is best because I am also WFH that day.

The bot apocalypse is only one because we are trying to make a "web for humans" when actually a "web for bots, and a bot for a human" is a much better idea :/)
Language ruined everything, as it allowed us humans to update and maintain our social network (not the digital ones, the in-brain one) without seeing or (like apes do) touching each others for days. Our groups/tribes jumped from 30 members maximum (chimpanzees) to 100-200 (Dunbar’s number, calculated from a meta-study). That’s nearly 7 times more close relationships, and no need to see more than one or two daily to keep track!

From there, it’s all downhill, with writing allowing even bigger groups, distant communication, the printing press, telephone, allowing our small brains to manage huge social networks across the world and over the years.

Really, language is the source of all these fake, distant relationships!

Good articles to read, even more if you are building or studying internet social networks, communication tools, etc.

"Gossip in Evolutionary Perspective"
https://attach.matita.net/ziorufus/Dunbar%20gossip.pdf

"co-evolution of neocortex size, group size and language in humans"
https://pdodds.w3.uvm.edu/files/papers/others/1993/dunbar199...

They are part of the material I use in my ´History of Tech Design´ class! ( https://workflowy.com/s/strate-history-of-te/a4ID6kKtznLwQC7... )
Syndication is fine, but I'd appreciate citations/links. I understand that this would have been very difficult in the days of print newspapers but for online news, I really don't see why they don't do it.

It would really help the fight against fake news.
It's also directly affected by muscle mass, for a similar reason. Also body mass to body surface area does play a part from what I've read.
it's at least unclear what falls under that very wide umbrella term, so any prudent business would stay clear off the github pages for their business website.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/ is sometimes a useful source of quirky idea's.
Buy vs. Build is a lie, stop repeating it
Buy vs Build is a lie, stop repeating it, in most cases what teams are deciding is Rent vs Build
JavaScript AST manipulation with Babel: extracting hardcoded data
Kia Boyz, trivial to hotwire

>“Stealing the SUVs is easy as 1-2-3,” according to step-by-step directions on YouTube and TikTok.

>Thieves tear out the steering column and use a simple USB cable to start the ignition. This affects Kia models from 2011 to 2021 and Hyundai models from 2015 to 2021. Both companies say 2022 vehicles have been modified to prevent this.
So we’re just reposting old boring possibly fake reddit stuff now? Cool cool cool
> DoorDash doesn't want to invest in preventing what is basically fraud on their platform or they've discovered that they actually make more money if they enable it

The latter. Of course, it drives users to uninstall. But it juices today’s returns. (Uber Eats does the same. Sometimes I report it to zero effect.)

Caviar used to be a high-quality service in New York; I uninstalled it after DoorDash bought them. There is an open niche for a real-restaurants-only delivery service. Also, support for legislation requiring restaurants use the name on their food license on apps. (Using fake names makes tracking down food poisoning difficult. I assume someone lying about their brand is more likely to be sloppy elsewhere.)
I think you have a somewhat distorted understanding of what FIRE means, or at least one that is different to my own understanding of the term.

I think of FIRE as essentially trying to optimise lifestyle and work in order to quickly reach a point where you don't need to work by paying attention to your income and expenses. This doesn't necessarily imply extreme frugality, and I think the mindset should actually make you more likely to go into big tech or the like because increasing income has a bigger impact than decreasing expenditure on for most people.

For sure there are people in the space who are trying to sell people on the idea that drinking coffee or not is the factor in when they will retire - but these people are fundamentally hucksters I think.
I would suggest that bots are actually not the underlying problem. For most things I would like a bot acting for me. Telling me as and when that I need to visit the dentist, who has slots free next weds and friday. Friday is best because I am also WFH that day.
The bot apocalypse is only one because we are trying to make a "web for humans" when actually a "web for bots, and a bot for a human" is a much better idea :/)

We need to redesign a web based on APIs, certificates, rate limits etc. And stop having "engagement" as a goal, and have "getting things done" as a goal

Edit: mucked up formatting
Shame not available in UK to try out
I always wondered. Those people who get hit by a car and their shoes fly off their mangled body while they're being thrown up in the air like a Roman in an Asterix comic... - what kind of a sloppy job are they doing tying their shoe laces? Turns out, they're looking for 1000x returns in shoe lace tying.
In theory I agree.

In practice, all the above professions have similar marketing/businessplan/user-vs-customer problems; just not the trivial ones you listed.
It’s not censorship; it isn’t muzzling you. Microsoft is choosing not to emit speech on this topic.

It is a deliberate and voluntary omission, not censorship.
New Kafka Tier, No Kafka Tears
Isn't this the case with every DNS provider? If you're not using them as a registra but want to switch DNS providers you'll want to be able to load in all your DNS settings before hand. As long as your NS records aren't pointing to them it's perfectly fine. DigitalOcean, Route53, they all work the same in my experience.

I don't really get what Cloudflare did wrong here. Someone tried to transfer your domain name and your registra blocked it because you hadn't authorised it, what exactly was the problem?

Not a shill for them or anything, but I don't really understand what you're expecting them to do differently to everyone else.