skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We also have to consider that alternative methods of taxation (how to pay for roads) and the eventual reduction in tax incentives are problems that still need to be solved.

Are roads really payed from gas taxes? Everywhere? I perhaps naively assumed all the taxes go into a big bucket which is used to pay for all kinds of things, including roads.

Somehow even relatively poor countries manage to have good roads. We will save elsewhere. Most of the taxes go into the social bucket in most countries (retirement, social security, health, education) anyway.
In this particular case this is not the case and they don't retry. They just really want to download updates REALLY often.
Perhaps I lack perspective because my son is only 3.5 years old and it's hard to imagine him becoming that mature by 5. I'm lucky to be alive based on some of the dumb stuff I did as a kid.

At age 6 I wasn't quite strong enough to saddle our horses by myself so I would just hop on my quarter horse every afternoon after school and ride her bareback. She threw me once because of a snake and I spent ~3 hours hanging upside down with my leg tangled in a barbed wire fence because my ma wasn't at home. The horse was just standing there staring at me the entire time while our 3 dogs took turns licking me in the face as blood dripped from my leg.

I can't imagine my own son coming away from such a scenario unscathed, but maybe there is a good bit of development between 3.5 years and 6 years. I honestly don't know as this is our first child.
Simple but will it will break all sorts of automation down the line? All the other adlists are txt and I don't know how they would handle other file types, even if the content is unchanged.
One of the most informative and interesting things one can do to help evaluate the statements being made today from a site are to test the statements made in months past, and see how it panned out. Here is the archive for The Economist. [1]

Of course past failure or success doesn't really mean the same will continue, but it at least gives a broad indicator that's much better than nothing. The war began on February 24th.

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/https://www.econ...
In the UK, "the Bill" is "the old Bill", the police. "Kill the Bill" is a favoured chant by cross anarchists opposing the "Take-Away-You-Freedom bill (2023)", and/or wishing an early demise to the police.
There are only 4 US shipbuilders still capable of building large ocean-going commercial ships, and they pretty much exclusively subsist off government contracts. The US used to be the world's leading builder of commercial ships by a wide margin, now it barely produces any.

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classics-amer....
Limit this to the specific headers of these Webbrowsers though, please.
thank you- yes I am quite aware of that, maybe I could have added more to clarify that part
This doesn't work unless you pay them to charge at specific times. We tried it at my company, a large gas & electric company. Believe me, everyone is grappling with this issue in the industry and researching ways to identify EV charging and anticipate future EV purchases among customers.
This issue caused CF to irreversibly ban them though, so it's not "just a bandwidth issue" anymore.

> Based on the URL that are being requested at Cloudflare, it violates our ToS as well. All the requests are txt file extension which isn't a web content

> you cannot use Cloudflare to cache or proxy the request to these text files
Yep, Toyota has a pretty amazing manufacturing processes, and as a result their cars are some of the most reliable.

If you don't have process gates, your end result probably sells more due to marketing and hype (looking at you, Ford and GM muscle cars and pickups).
our (employer administered no less) daycare has ~24mo wait list and a costs ~2400usd/mo per kid. It's legitimately insane; expensive-private-school pricing.
The Genealogy of Chinese Cybernetics
https://archive.ph/Og3f3
Jesus this alone is enough to make me want to buy a Tesla.
Why does it look like there's some really bright object shining from the top-right of the pillars, giving the impression that there's actually a shadow on it?

edit: right, not left.

edit 2: well, there's no impression here. There IS something larger shining it, the rest of the structure the pillars are part of.

Picture: (mobile users warning 52mb image) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Eagle_Ne...
Without the PXE server since the swarm or ipfs network provides storage as a commodity
Deny by default and Defense in depth are good security approaches in many organisations.

I may have a critical server that only comes from 1-2 known, static, IPs.

Repeat this for dozens of servers. Now treat each of these servers as third parties not under your control. I don’t want one of these third parties using a key that doesn’t belong to them. As a silly example, let’s say I send one third party the key for my super important server by mistake. I would prefer it simply wasn’t able to connect.
The benefits of both breast milk and breast feeding are nonzero but are often overstated. Many of the studies are not very good.

The book “Lactivism” provides an entertaining account of recent history: https://www.amazon.com/Lactivism-Fundamentalists-Physicians-...
There's some precedent for other unattended things like rental scooters. If it becomes a nuisance for the police, they may choose to ignore self-driving car vandalism.
I had a similar issue, clearing history and website data in Settings > Safari and reinstalling fixed it for me. I may have rebooted the iPhone as well for good measure.
20 years ago I was working on Acrobat at Adobe. I was mostly the "Windows guy" but also worked and tested on the Mac.

When I tried to install Acrobat on my Mac, I got this message:

"Your hard disk is too small"

My what is too small?!

Later, on Windows I got this unexpected popup:

"You are not here"

WTF?

I searched the code for that string and found it in a function named "CantHappen()". This function was called in numerous places where the programmer thought there was no possible way for the code to get to that place. But of course CantHappen() did happen.

As I looked through the code I found many other messages that were bizarre and incomprehensible and sometimes downright offensive.

So I started a project to go through all our messages and make them more clear and informative - and even better, when possible to not have the message at all but just take care of the situation.

The underlying cause of these bad messages was twofold:

1. Programmers never got raises for writing great error messages or finding ways to avoid them in the first place. We were just rated on how much work we got done.

2. We did have a product designer who was supposed to specify all user-facing messages. But the designer mainly considered the "happy path" and didn't think about edge cases. It was left to developers working under time pressure to handle those.
Intro to Applied Category Theory
Daylight saving messes this up a bit.
That is true. It is pointed out prominently in the article that this is a rare instance of a baby boom in an economic downturn.
It would seem like you could prevent hotlinking by adding 1-5 minutes of latency to every request to a list.

Almost no dev would hotlink an asset that took that much longer to display, at least in critical/common paths. It would force consumers (devs/businesses) of the lists to provide a caching/mirroring solution of some kind for their users.

But on the bankend, the request would be designed just for updating the list cache. Handling 1-5 extra minutes per request, on a request that runs less than a few dozen times a day, to update the mirror/cache is trivial.
Why the US fears a Taiwan war in 2027
Sorry, yeah I meant "sharedInbox" vs "PublicInbox". My understanding is that the AP client (assuming you aren't using C2S ActivityPub) sends messages to your AP server which then either sends messages to the sharedInbox of the destination AP instance or directly to the inbox at that other AP instance. I realize the visibility of each message is up to the discretion of each AP implementation but as practiced now, messages are often seen by multiple parties before getting to the final destination.

As far as indexers are concerned, I realize it's entirely possible to use indexers with AP. It's wholly unclear to me how AT Protocol is using indexers or scoping any of their objects so I'm not sure it's worth belaboring the point.
Is there Asciidoctor tree-sitter grammar? I can't find one.
I appreciate the spirit but you are going to destroy your eyes doing that. At least grab a tablet.
I'd love to know the correlation between failure to replicate and public virality of findings. I wouldn't be surprised of the more exciting findings replicate at a different rate from average.
Isn't this just using the sun as a compass? You could easily just look at the position of the sun knowing what time it is, or use your hand and make a sun-dial. I believe the watch is only there to tell us the time and cross reference that with the sun's position.
It would be fascinating to see a visualization of how the accuracy of this method varies given parameters like latitude, time of day, time of year.
Your lack of support of them doesn't change the facts.
What do you call a phone with a big external keyboard and display?

A developer machine like that is already $150, called a Chromebook or a Raspberry Pi.
Sharepoint deployments that don't take into consideration actual user needs might, but isn't that true of anything?
Searching for an old blog post on bootstraping compilation
I'm struggling to find a great post I saw here a few months (years) back on what I think was a very technical dive into the exact details of attaining the ability to compile complex things by writing code that incrementally compiles the previous code. If anyone knows what this was, a link would be appreciated.
I acknowledge that my answer wasn’t constructive. BUT. It sucks even more when a forum becomes a place where voluntarily misleading articles make it to the 1st place. I’m loosing interest in HN, because it’s easy to be mislead and no actions are taken against the spread of misinformation.

You don’t moderate the content, just the tone of the comments. It means I could spread disinformation here as long as I fake an intellectual take and a neutral tone.

I beg you, don’t be a portal for dishonest articles and accounts pretending to be impartial but are just always aligned with the Kremlin interests. It’s not paranoia, we have to acknowledge it exists, and great efforts are being made to push it down our throats, more than ever, while little efforts are being made to fight it.

Let us at least answer and make it clear we’re not that easily fooled, and that we’re not obligated to take the bait of a false debate with bad faith arguments and flat out lies.
A better idea than Right to Repair - charge a "landfill tax" on appliances, based on how fast they end up in the junk. I don't much care if my washing machine has to be replaced in only 5 years because (1) I can't get the manual, or (2) I can't get the parts, or (3) the price of the replacement part is $$$, or (4) the cumulative cost & hassle of its repairs is skyrocketing, or (5) it silently relied on a now-dead manufacturer's web site API to work, or (6) Microsoft ended security updates for the Windows 10 OS that it was running, or (7)....

(Yeah, figuring out how much tax to charge on which appliance would be problematic. But with how many easy-looking ways there are for greedy appliance manufacturers to comply with "right to repair", yet still screw their customers over...)
> Stop projecting.

Please omit swipes like that from your HN posts. They're against the site guidelines and weaken your argument.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The desirable parts of LA are tech heavy, just comes down to who can afford what right now

But its good that people expect something else and that there is more variety in types of people
Makes me think of a story we saw earlier today where somebody had tuned up Stable Diffusion based on images from this site

https://danbooru.donmai.us/

which is super not safe for work. Despite tuning it up to not make NSFW the model still generated copious "Yuri" images

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_(genre)

which are certainly intended to be sexually suggestive to hetreosexual men on Danbooru.
The likely design fault here is the key is the same for every O365/exchange online client (if they are using MS as their outbound transport). It should be unique so every client could have their own reputation.
Determining file type from the file name suffix is a fool's game and always was.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33261988.
A good way to address these issues is to frame all experiments as multilevel models. See [1] for a long discussion from Andrew Gelman et al on why this is advisable.

Surprisingly, many people working in statistics still ignore the James-Stein theorem, which provides a theoretical justification for multilevel models. In layman terms, said theorem shows that if you are simultaneously estimating many random variables you should borrow information across variables [2]. Estimating them one by one is suboptimal and does not minimize the global mean squared error.

Multilevel models "shrink" individual effect sizes by looking at the overall distribution of effect sizes and provide much more realistic estimates.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.2478

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stein%27s_example
I have had it as an interview question before.
> I wouldn't call it a custom hack to open an L2 tunnel over wireguard

There's too many headers that are too big. If you do a simple L2 tunnel, you have three options: jumbo frames, packet fragmentation, or custom hacks. None are great.

> Linux has built in L2 tunneling, sans encryption

IIRC, because the extra header for the encryption layer pushes the MTU over 1500.
I pay "only" 10% more than the exchange rate adjusted amount you're paying. Top 5 US city. Don't take too much stock in the ridiculous numbers you hear. I've lived in podunc land, the suburbs, and major city and I always paid within 10% of what you're paying.

£1200 in my top 5 city would get you a newly built daycare, with all the modern gizmos, a kitchen built "especially for young children", a teacher with 10+ yr experience, and peer children who are the son/daughters of doctors and lawyers. ~£800 gets you an average daycare that is fully up to license / code and generally does a decent job. ~£600 will get you a caring but gray market (usually bilingual or limited english) stay at home mom with a home daycare business.

I would wager the vast vast majority are paying close to ~£800, either through the black/gray market with unlicensed caregivers or in licensed facilities in the vast majority of lower cost of living portions of America.
Thank you! I've passed that to EasyList maintainers.
Amazing work congratulations!
I've generated thousands of images on Stable Diffusion Dall-e 2 and Midjourney by now, and what you say here simply doesn't make any sense.
I think if you are doing child care and work at the same time it is relevant. If somebody was taking their child to the office, however, that would relevant.
I worry that this is the beginning of something more troubling in terms of the climate crisis. We've been lucky so far that most of the carbon budget has been spent by human activities, lucky that is because we can change that

However, this is the start of a worrying global trend. We're currently seeing the West Coast ecosystems shift into something new, maybe grasslands maybe deserts. The Amazon Rainforest is next. Currently it's started emitting more CO2 than it takes in. We've been warned by scientists that if no land use policies change we can expect it flip from being a rain forest to a savannah. What that means in concrete terms are megafires and mass species die off for most of the amazon.

What's next? Cold and rainy England is expected to have the climate of Spain by 2050. Nothing native in England can adapt to that. So much of the world is going through rapid climate shifts that are devastating ecosystems. We're on the verge of flipping to a hot house earth and we're doing less than the bare minimum to stop it
I had a similar experience where email messages that should trivially be detected as spam were getting through to a Gmail inbox, originating from Exchange 365 with proper DKIM authorization. It's incredibly frustrating - I was getting between 10-12 an hour. I had to write a Google Apps script to automatically move these trivially detectable spam messages from my inbox into spam.

I expect any sort of abuse report to Microsoft wouldn't result in any action on their part, just as reporting these messages as spam for about a month did nothing on the Gmail side.
You'd be pointing South no? Or is this for the southern hemisphere?
No, the issue is with a misbehaving client program accessing a specific HTTP URL.
So, to be clear, it is not possible to email a pdf on an iPad?
I use google remote desktop to check on some IDE code and sometimes need to type a bit of code and the default keyboard is useless...

I'd pay just for the joystick keyboard.
Imagine a jogging track and a cycling track that runs all through the city.

I'd never get inside a car!
> Forcing 2 household incomes was/is awful for a healthy society.

This is as backwards as saying that women should not work and care for the house.
If a woman wants to work and build a career let her, and if a couple wants to DINK, let them. Replacement level is a myth and a danger in a world choking up with our waste.

> Raising children should be regarded as one of the most important things a woman can do because they’re the only ones that can do it.

Yeah, you think of them as walking uteruses.
Sorry, it's not even hard. Coordination isn't even necessary. You just locally randomly choose a timeslot and there will be a uniform distribution.
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When I worked at Kaluza our smart charging solution allowed you to set a minimum % that your EV would always charge to, prior to any smart charging taking place. So as soon as you plugged in it would charge to the minimum value you set.
Cloudflare can decide whom they want to do business with. But a plain text file is in my opinion sort of HTML. At least it is not "non-html" content. A .pdf file would be non-HTML content.

What else is important to note that the client is being abused and not the client abusing the service. That should be taken into consideration, when deciding if someone is breaking the ToS.
I think they'll make more money from relatively affluent people than from people that can't really afford access to a proper screen/keyboard with superior ergonomics.
I imagine that might help with automated tos rate limiting, but eventually someone at Cloudflare will probably cut them off. It's plain text, but it's basically serving a distributed database. And a hint at their scale is "100TB of “Access Denied” served up monthly.

Cloudflare just seems to be trying to limit the free tier to "caching website html for the purpose of showing it to humans". They have pricing and plans for things other than that.
Show HN: Stable Diffusion Image-to-Prompt Tool
Given an image, we can search the latent space to produce likely keywords that you can add to your prompt to recreate the target image
Why serve any HTTP replies to those at all? If you are doing it at the IP level, why not just drop all inbound packets from the L3 address?
pool.ntp.org hands out specific subdomains for large-scale pool users. This way, it is possible to retire service for a subset of users that use devices that aren't updated anymore and are misbehaving.

The traffic issue is not just punted to DNS service. It's possible to return a cachable 127.0.0.1 response, and it's somewhat rare for DNS caches to be constantly powered up and down and reach out directly to authoritative DNS servers.
No disagreement about any of those things. I would just add:

It should be easy for women who wish to be with their babies and breast-feed them to do so.

It should also be easy for dads!

BTW, I'm about two weeks out from becoming a father. I only get 2 months paternity leave, but if I were the mother, I'd get 4! This seems unfair to me, but it's certainly better than if the policy were reversed.

It seems like there's just some built-in conflict between an intensely competitive capitalist society and the human needs of a family. I might do something like mandatory 4 years leave (in 1 year chunks) for all people, spread out from 20 to 40. You can spend that being with your kid, doing some sort of civic-project, or serving in the military.

Just spitballing'. Always fun to try to design a utopia. :-)
This isn't a monitor though, it's another standalone computer that you're streaming an image to. The wired connection option isn't using DisplayPort or HDMI signaling over USB-C, it's establishing a network connection over the USB link and then streaming video over that in the same way as it would over WiFi.

VR headsets that don't contain their own processing on the other hand do in fact work like a normal monitor. Usually they'll go in to a "direct mode" that does not appear as a monitor when their drivers are installed for both performance and convenience reasons, but they can be configured to just appear as yet another monitor.
The gateways would similarly not be thrilled about it.

I would add a redirect to the makers of the browsers in question (so that the leechers got to deal with the traffic themselves; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking)
Most of my spam messages are attributed to gmail per Spamcop. However, for the past year, I get 1 or 2 a day that Spamcop says are from Microsoft.

Most of the ones from Microsoft servers are old Mailchimp messages (headers and body, hours to 10 years old) with 2 image links and 2 shortened links added.

Yahoo/AOL/Verizon does not detect them as spam.

I report to all involved and receive auto-responses and canned text. AWS is helpful, but Microsoft, Cloudflare and Zendesk are less than helpful.

The spam messages are useless without the images, so I concentrate on the image links. There seems to be an endless supply of free image hosting services.
I worked on an ad-blocker a few months ago. I made the decision to have the filter-list files hosted on our own domain and CDN (similar to what Adguard does with their filters.adtidy.org).

This was done for 2 reasons:

1- Avoid scenarios like this where you ship code (extension in this case) that is hard to update. Then make that code depend on external resources outside of your control.

2- Leak our users' IP addresses to each random hosting provider.

So the solution was simple: Run a CRON once a day then host the files ourselves. Pretty happy with that decision now.
They already have that part figured out. From the article:

> When we encountered a similar problem last year, we found a simple solution: block the undesired traffic from these apps. Even so, we continue to serve about 100TB of “Access Denied” pages monthly!
The logic here is that it's better to block 1 country and keep it working for everyone else than to leave it as it is and break it for everyone.

It's not ideal, but until the problem is fixed/better solutions are found, I think it's a good "first response".
No I just don’t have time to write an entire epistemological defense of “reproduction and parenting is a key milestone for humans”. It should be self evident. If you don’t think so, consider what happens if untrue (hint: no more humans).
> As a result, Estonia has eliminated virtually all physical paper documents from government processes. Today, the only reasons a citizen needs to show up in person are to get married, divorced or exchange property. Everything else can be done online.

This seems a bit difficult to believe.

For example, getting a passport, naturalizing as a citizen, or renouncing citizenship, etc., doesn't require anyone to show up?