skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One problem is that with GMail taking over so much of the world the spammers have become highly focused on defeating their filters. Worse, they seem to be slowly but continually increasing their success rate, all while non-spam is ever more frequently choked out by false positives.

The end condition of this race is only spammers will be able to send mail to Google, no legitimate users will have the time or budget to figure out how to get past all of the blocks.
Dell sell some machines with both Ubuntu and nVidia graphics. I have no idea how good they are but they do exist. I don’t know how well they upgrade to newer LTS versions.
The monitor at my office computer turn off whenever I connect a USB device, connect something to something connected through USB or merely connect a anything to an electrical outlet that is close to the PC.
Watch to the end, the presenter responds to one of the audience's very erudite questions with an additional slide and it's just chef's kiss
What are they netbooting from? Presumably there's a root device somewhere?
Is it from GMail servers, or is it from spoofed GMail accounts?
As many as can be absorbed without leaving blue collar workers (further) behind
Hey hey! I also let a sports analytics platform flail until I got tired of paying for the server. projectbaseball.org, frontend still up but the backend is gone.
How often are you going to check the screener folder when it has thousands of spams added to it every day?
In Germany, a sticker saying "no ads or free newspapers" is legally binding, repeated violations are quickly fined. It's opt out, but great otherwise.
This is the best charity working on how research in the arctic and around global warming is done much more efficiently and cleanly:

https://www.oceanresearchproject.org/

Matt is a great guy and a modern explorer, you can hear his story here:

https://explorerspodcast.com/matt-rutherford/

This is the movie about his first solo nonstop circumnavigation of the Americas:

https://reddotontheocean.com/

Or you can listen to his podcast as well here:

https://www.singlehandedpodcast.com/
No that's not it. There's a limited number of servers or worlds, the profitability for certain things doesn't scale when you're competing with other players. Writing bots doesn't work because the cost of electricity soon outscales profits for many things.

You'll often see certain bot farms running doing specific tasks that the game needs to run the economy, in a sense Jagex uses them to save on labor costs.
There is a reason why in America there is an incredible focus on getting into certain schools, and follow-up obsession about what school you went to afterwards. There's a lot of 'brand name' focus and historically these schools have offered networking opportunities that far outweigh the actual academic quality (at the undergrad level). I always found it bizarre coming from a country where there isn't some idea of an ivy league-set of schools.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj2XGrduDb4
Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into opening the platform up and moving around the sign-up workflow. To be honest I don't use medium.com, however the concept is what I'm referencing. Basically a social media platform where "posts" are newsletter emails
If you think ChatGPT has infringed on your copyright, you have legal recourse. Do you have evidence?
I don't think they said it did? There are many more social systems out there than simply US-Style Capitalism and Soviet-style Communism. Something like Anarcho-primitivism is one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-primitivism
I'm worried that the same logic might cut the other way: "the easier it is to get that piece of paper, the worse you look for not getting it."
You said the phrase was meaningless, I disagree completely with that. We also disagree on the study, but that's a much more reasonable disagreement.
I feel like I see charts floating around r/LocalLLaMA/ from time to time. Might be some more info there.
Ah, so being outside in nature...
The answer to this may vary heavily by country, local jurisdiction, and certain demographic characteristics of the person interacting with police.
Right now, i'm using the assembler WLA-DX to inject the SimCity base ROM with code changes, and using the SNES emulator Mesen with it's wonderful debugging tools to figure out what the hell i'm doing. I have a keyboard shortcut in Notepad++ that activates a .bat file, injects the base ROM, checks if it built properly, uses a powershell script (written by ChatGPT!) to convert WLA-DX generated labels (.sym) to Mesen debugger (.mlb) format, and if all is well, it starts the emulator with the built ROM and label file. I'm coding in raw 65c816 ASM.

My setup looks something like this:

https://nesblast.com/img/snes_hacking_setup.png

If you have basic ASM experience, the SNESdev wiki will tell you everything you need:

https://snes.nesdev.org/wiki/Main_Page

If you don't have basic ASM experience, i would start here:

https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/
I have the same issue on Chrome on my corporate laptop.
They do say you should scratch your own itch
Ask HN: Interesting Tech Ideas
I'm currently looking for ideas for few side projects and I'd love to hear your suggestions. Do you have any interesting ideas that you think would be worth exploring? I'm a backend engineer but open to do anything, tech stack is not a limitation. I'm particularly interested in projects that can be developed within a few weeks or have a quick turnaround time. Any input or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!
Here you go
https://pypi.org/project/pylivecoding/
I've seen it too, the "member only" stuff where you have to pay for access. I don't plan on having anything like that on the site. I was thinking free for all users, pay for advertisement. Everyones happy!
I spent some time in Basel, Switzerland recently where locals would travel via a lazy float down the Rhine. They'd tow along a floating "fish bag" which holds their clothes and equipment dry for the commute. Seems like a ridiculously pleasant way to start or end your day! I figure many cities in Europe do this, but I'm not sure I've seen it elsewhere.
Check out Rule 34 by Charlie Stross, which is based on exactly that idea.

Spoilers, but the basic gist is that an advanced anti-spam AI decides to tackle the problem at the source, so to speak. Recommended reading.
Some are, but many are lazy short cuts But can you honestly say you've never heard ANY justification.
For the tinkerers: here are some huggingface available models that are really open source (Apache or BSD license as far as I evaluated it):

- RWKV (raven 14B)

- GPT-NeoX-Chat-Base (20B)

- Flan-T5-xxl

- Fairseq Dense (13B)

- Pythia Chat Base (7B)

- Codegen (16B)

- Bloomz (7B)

Some are general, some are more specific. But I could get something out of all of them.
That's sufficiently unclear from the article that the discussion didn't focus on it - in fact it was no different from the earlier thread as far as I can tell - so as far as I can tell, the merge was the correct call.
It's a common trick to evade spam detection, because the writer of the spam detection software probably didn't think about those weird IP address formats and would fail to extract the URL.
Thanks, Saturday Market sounds awesome and so distinctive.
Not a tech project, but made my first batch of wine this year. Was immense fun, and just about drinkable.
Very nice project, thank you! As a european transplanted to the U.S I feel this challenge with score spoilers as well. Streaming services that do not offer hiding scores, or who even insist on leading with scores in their UI are now brands I actively avoid. Such a small simple UX detail leading to absolute shunning of a whole media company.
Spam's been a huge industry for twenty years. Those are some long death throes.
Unless this is cover for something else. Unless this is just greenwashing. Unless this project pulls money in that would otherwise have gone to more effective projects. Commercial EV charge points are great but the low hanging fruit remains the vast numbers of private vehicles not currently served by charging schemes. Those people are basically everyone who doesn't own a house with a garage where they can install the bespoke charger for their particular EV.
I just played '20 questions' with chatgpt 3.5.

Even though i had to help, and 20 answers were not enough, I was impressed about:

- it understood that it could continue after 20 questions when i suggested that as part of the answer.

- it 'felt' that a could begin to become impatient and asked politely for a hint.

- it understands ambiguity enough to give me examples of where there was no clear yes or no reply possible.

When asking which were such examples for my thought 'daylight', it answered :

"Is the thing you're thinking of a type of force or energy that is said to exist but cannot be directly observed or measured?" - While daylight is a type of energy, it can be directly observed and measured through instruments that can detect its intensity and color.

"Does the thing you're thinking of have any connection to time or the concept of time?" - While daylight is not directly related to the concept of time, it is affected by the time of day and the position of the Sun in the sky.
I remember seeing your photographs on Wikimedia Commons and wondering how you did them - now I know! I always assumed that you just used a very quick shutter with an f-stop of zero :)
1. Just bare like that, it's not. Unless, of course, the object requires a key to allow a processor to execute it. See for example Capability-Based Access Control

2. In TupleWorld, there's no concept of "the" intended recipient. The tuple's properties determine what kind of processor would match. If those properties happen to only match a single processor, you'd get that 1:1 mapping you want, but that's missing the point of tuple spaces.
I see the word “abolition” in the first sentence of that article.
Having an old Gmail account and a current fastmail one, i disagree.
Your eyes just switch to power-saving quickly.
yeah as usual these model can barely sustain a conversation and fall apart the moment actual instructions are given. typical prompt they fail to udnerstand:

"what is pistacchio? explain the question, not the answer."

all these toy llm: "pistacchio is..."

gpt is the only one that consistently understand these instructions: "The question "what is pistachio?" is asking for an explanation or description of the food item..."

this makes these llm basically useless for obtaining anything but hallucinated data.
I think you mean browser (more specifically HTML standard), not JavaScript
Ask HN: Historical server size of Discord servers?
Discord API only offers the current member count of a server. Re your experience, is there any alternate API or way of getting the historical member count of a Discord server?
> And then a bunch of users threatened to kill him with hammers until he announced he was taking a break from the app.

So I'm quite happy not being on platforms like this.
The Runescape 2 economy is quite a fascinating semi-simulation/semi-reality case study. It was originally a free market economy - players traded freely and advertised wares in public places, such as the incredibly busy server World 2 in Varrock. There was a backing of bots doing repetitive work, which was seemingly unofficially permitted (e.g. any player can disable their public chat, making a non-communicative player plausible) but not officially allowed. Virtual gold was also traded online for real cash. Then Jagex decided to go socialist, and brought in the grand exchange, which centralized and controlled prices.
I gave a class on TCP/IP to other consultants in my company 20 years ago. The day went well right up until the end when I covered bitmasks, at which point eyes universally glazed over.

Lesson learned: always save that topic for last, so the rest of the day isn’t a disaster.
I find it hard to make an abstract recommendation, because unless you have a strict reason you need one or the other, it really is a matter of personal taste and priorities.
SF monitors them, the problem is the board of supervisors is in on the take
Amusing that people are fleeing to BofA, JPM, Wells Fargo as if they are safe

How many DOA car loans is BofA sitting on? How many 2.7% mortgages did WF underwrite? How much dead commercial RE is backed by JPM?

And they ALL bought US Treasuries yielding nothing

Go look at top banks by % of uninsured deposits...I believe First Republic is #10, way down the list

SVB was only guilty of being small

When landlords really start bailing on commercial RE, you will see a major bank implode, only a matter of time. Or, the car loan bubble pops first.
Did you finish the sentence and get to "abandonment of large-scale organization"? The state isn't the one abolishing things in that system.
This is a typical Ai-ist stance, us warm blooded norm-coders are absolutely sick of this rhetoric!
Quite interesting. It's basically like a centralized digital currency which is legal. most of the time folks think Fiat vs Crypto because it's de-centralized and it kinda promise the promise land but I wonder if we will be moving to just a world with centralized central bank currency and no banks.
Chicken chicken chicken chicken, chickens:

https://anagram.com/jcrap/Volume_8/leakage.pdf

Chickens, chick, chickens chicken
My biggest problem with acme is that it's so mouse-oriented.

As a big fan of keyboard-only use of vim and emacs, this made acme a complete non-starter for me.
This problem was researched over a decade ago. It's not really complicated, human interactions are different from bots you can't really create human like responses and for botters there is no incentive to really do so. Jagex just doesn't really ban them because there isn't really a point, people bot for a variety of reasons.

Some have played their entire life and bot because they want to get ahead. Others bot because they don't have the freetime. It's complicated. As long as you don't really abuse it, Jagex has never really banned for this stuff. The idea here is that you don't get banned because it means losing a potential life long customer, sometimes they subscribe for a few months on and off but they eventually usually come back. There's a lot to it, in reality it's really obvious. Most of the more advanced ones just send packets, though that's another story and it's very obvious. Jagex just doesn't immediately ban them because well, there's not really a point.
I was in same boat, switched years ago. One thing to be aware of is that on newer M series chips (M1, M2) these are ARM, so if you really really need prod to match then that might be an issue.

On the other hand, we are generally deploying to AWS Graviton anyway which is ARM as well, so perhaps it will be more similar!
Holy shit!

LPT isn't a problem (besides the real memory access and something tells me it does) but PS/2... vood luck?

you wouldn't believe it but it's actually Shooting Stars playing RN
A similar device does not suppress the chair/monitor effect for me. Although that monitor is particularly bad (an Asus Rog, no less!).
I run a site for a large corporate client. People can sign up to get a quote from a regional dealer for a specific type of complex product. To get a quote, they have to fill out several forms, and select detailed specification, etc, and choose email as the way to deliver the quote.

We regularly have users flag the email they receive from this process as spam.

I have personally called to follow up in some cases to understand if our service was being abused or what the issue was. It was eye-opening. One user said "oh, yeah, I wanted that when I filled out the form but not when I got the email." Several marked the proposal as spam because they didn't like the final quote that was put together from their requirements.

Several said things like "I get too much email" and when pressed as to why they checked the box that said they wanted their quote delivered as an email replied that they didn't know, or they changed their minds, or they didn't want HTML email, or they didn't want a plain-text email, or their name was not in the subject line of the email, or that their company name was not in the subject line of the email.

This is a very low volume, very expensive, highly technical product. We're talking maybe a dozen requests per day nationwide. So those people flagging the emails as spam have a significant impact on the overall deliverability to services like GMail.
At a basic level murder fantasies and sexual fantasies do seem quite different though. Most people never murder at all, it isn’t just about who they murder, so if it is a case of crossed wires it seems like a much bigger lift for murder. Murder is a much more contextualized instinct than sex as well, in nature it only happens in specific scenarios (raiding neighboring tribe, neighboring tribe is raiding us, tribe member is dangerously insane, etc). Finally, it seems that some people could be genetically predisposed to be more susceptible to such wire crossing, and so the induced behavior could be seen as something akin to a medicine side effect which only affects a small percent of the population. At some percent the medicine does not get approved.
Thanks for sharing, those photographs are very clear and sharp (especially this one: https://pics.dllu.net/file/dllu-pics/boston-pcc.jpg) it seems to tickle my brain.
Really appreciate this exchange and the willingness to share your thoughts. Thank you.
Thanks, and we're very excited!
1. Thats not their job.

2. Curious, did you call for lower taxes on the rich (which usually ends up being the middle class) when inflation was low?
Thanks. Yet another thing I hate about my work machine: window edge spellcheck. It autocorrects without asking me. So I don't notice that I have misspelled something. It just gets corrected to some other word.
- why fine tune vicuna and not your own model that was released last week?

- WizardLM was released a few days ago and showed promising performance for 7b, are you going to fine tune it next?

A startup with $100M in funding shouldn't focus on these optimizations.
Instead of better educating our population, the low-tax / anti-intellectual / authoritarian-reactionaries have convinced the population that they don't need education.

With education, they might aim for socio-economic advancement (remember the American Dream?), think for themselves, challenge the established order (edit: i.e., they might decide to become the powerful and the leaders themselves). Now they know their places - don't get an education, and take a job where you won't ever need one. Sad to see the American Dream abandoned and people just giving up. Of course, the wealthy kids still get the education - they are in a different class in our new class-based system.

Also, education costs money, and that is the hardline priority over everything, including fundamental human welfare such as health care and education.
How about 134744072, that hits my favorite am-I-connected site. I never knew you could put an int representing the 4 bytes together until today, this is really fun.

Even hex works, but doesn't hit a site that responds: (ping 0xcafebeef).
Exactly. Perfect is the enemy of the good, but sometimes terrible is also the enemy of the good. It's not that perfectionists are holding back the ecosystem, it's that the community is satisfied with terrible.

Cryptocurrency communities are aggressively hostile to improvement. Every chance to make the ecosystem better is met with pushback. It's funny you bring up PoS, because how much energy was spent (pun absolutely intended) by the Ethereum community fighting that change?

It doesn't make sense to celebrate the good and fix the bad in cryptocurrency because a nontrivial portion of its userbase actively wants it to keep its terrible qualities and will fight anyone tooth-and-nail that tries to fix its problems. It's exhausting to even have conversations about what parts of the ecosystem need improvement.

I mean, this project is still using Bitcoin, right? So clearly we're not going to fix the bad parts of cryptocurrency, because if y'all in the cryto-community were willing to fix any of the bad parts, Bitcoin of all the implementations wouldn't still somehow inexplicably be your most popular coin. Cryptocurrency is a system with a lot flaws, but its biggest problem that gets in the way of it turning into something useful is that its community that has internalized those flaws as strengths.

And honestly, that's the charitable interpretation. The less charitable interpretation is that there are a lot of bad actors in cryptocurrency communities that aren't even interested in building something useful in the first place, they're purely interested in furthering whatever scam they're working on at the moment. How much of the PoS fight was about genuine academic disagreement about centralization, and how much of that "disagreement" was just a cloak over "I think I have pretty good thing going on with this GPU farm and how dare you mess with that"?
Waiting for the GPT-chicken model that's trained on only this.
Let's view this from a different angle. The money will always be coming in. Since the movie is beloved for non-racist reasons, let's assume the racist and non-racist portions are in competition. Removing scenes that don't affect the beloved aspects of the movie is easy and cheap.

Meaning, it is entirely possible to easily produce a version of the movie that is less racist and still popular. If the only reason you don't is to appeal to the integrity of the work, I argue that the all-or-nothing approach is more about moral posturing than market demands.
> Who are these "Small government people" in San Francisco?

That would be your run-of-the-mill weed-smoking, I-have-dozens-of-lgbt-immigrant-friends yuppie, who immediately goes to 'Get the government hand out of my pocket' when you ask them to actually fund social services.

In short, socially liberal, fiscally conservative 'progressives'. Very open to nice-sounding things, as long as they don't cost anything.

Lots of them post here, and all of them feel completely justified in their views.
The case for easter eggs (and other clever user treats)
Now, THIS is the first compelling reason to own a yacht and not charter it. Never thought of it this way.
There's already lots of bailouts and subsidies, globally in the trillions per year. https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidie...
This is cool to see. I used to run past that island all the time whilst doing long runs on the C&O canal trail. I noticed the little ferry and always assumed there was something of interest on the island itself. I also never realized I was far enough north from the city to be directly across the river from the CIA.

On the CIA side of the river there's another trail (Potomac Heritage trail). I was always surprised that you could freely run in the woods there so close to the CIA but also that you could see no sign of their "campus" from the trail.
Its probably too late to comment for anyone to see/respond, but I've been working for a long time on a personal workstation automation/configruation project:

- https://github.com/joelmccracken/workstation

At this point, its basically ready to go. Its a weird feeling. I've been working on it for so long, and now it... works.

Being able to use github actions with macos runners makes this project so, so, so much easier.

Another project I've been working on is a custom authoring format - think markdown, but customized to my needs (specifically, the format is extensible). Think markdown/xmlish hybrid. There is a lot of churn though so I'm not quite ready to demo it, but once I get something interesting I'll share it more with folks.
It (and most other scripting languages) are likely just calling inet_aton under the hood.
Sigh, alright. Copping out of this one I guess.
I’ve always thought a “pay me to accept random emails” service would be really popular.