skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not as strong of an argument as you seem to think.

According to NHTSA [0] there are about 2.1 accidents per million miles driven. This includes fatality, injury-only and property-damage-only accidents. That is the equivalent of over 99.999% of miles driven without an accident. Over 5 nines of reliably consistent behavior.

[0] https://cdan.nhtsa.gov/tsftables/National%20Statistics.pdf
Lucky me, I didn't find yet any site to regret if I just give up when I'm presented with the "verify you're human" garbage - which by the way you can get also on Windows Firefox from Google.
That is a truly bonkers system design. I am in awe at the excessive complexity introduced just to reuse some obscure failed Sun hardware.
Better Ruby Retry Mechanism – Faraday Loop
yeah for a public site thats exposed you just go to /003 and it would have a list of all the contacts lol
> They just didn't release them because

Because the police wouldn't want to alert the people being investigated they were recorded committing crimes.

> they obviously implicated Lula and his people

There is no evidence in any recording made available. Quite the contrary - there is ample evidence of misconduct by the district's police that answers to the secretary of public safety, who was visiting Bolsonaro at the time, by the military, and by the members of the institutional security cabinet, mostly carryovers from the Bolsonaro government.
Several homes in my city put up holiday lights that are synced to music and transmitted over FM. The signal only works if you’re parked near the house.
Ah yes, dramatically unrealistic, like functioning public transport, or affordable healthcare, or OWNING A PLACE TO LIVE
These threads are always important to read, if you're an immigrant. Remember what the majority of comments here espouse. If you join a tech union and/or help it succeed in some way, these will be the majority of the people there.

Maybe to start with they'll lure you in with pro-immigrant rhetoric but once critical mass is achieved the group will baseline to what you see here.

Don't forget that the AFL pushed for anti-immigration law originally.
Is it in any Romance language other than French? It's limone in Italian, limon in Spanish, lămâi in Romanian, and those are the four main families of romance languages.

It's indeed curious that English adopted the Romance name for lemon and French adopted the Germanic name.
Ah, the ol' "I know a sewer when I see it" rule.
One thing sustainability, fashion and denim: we could start by not artificially preusing it.

Also: is it me or about 20 years ago a pair of jeans lasted way longer than they currently do? Maybe thinner materials were introduced for softness?
You can email me (jgc@cloudflare.com) the HAR file and I'll get people to look at it.
Manufacturing of some goods still needs to be centralized to some degree because of the up front cost of tooling, e.g. extreme ultraviolet lithography machines and giant multi-megaton presses, among other things.
It may not be me, but someone has to maintain those databases unless the software that uses it stops changing. Where curl has to maintain compatibility with every call to curl, I would wager that sqlite has to maintain compatibility with a larger surface area of APIs.
I also hit the CloudFlare verification merry-go-round several times per day using Ubuntu / Chrome.
> Pumped hydro studies find 10x as many sites as required to fully decarbonize using solar + wind worldwide.

But what percentage are close enough to existing transmission? Perhaps some, but I suspect many suitable locations will be remote enough that new transmission needs to be built. It might make economic sense to do so in some circumstances, but not in others.

In contrast, grid scale chemical storage (flow batteries, metal-air, etc) could be easily placed at existing fossil fuel plants and use the existing grid interconnects.
AI-Assisted Ant Colony Optimization with GPT-4 for Solving TSP
The breadth of this impact has surprised me and it's clearly growing. Whether CloudFlare or other services perform this verification, I think it's important to highlight the lack of community support which is what really bothers me. It's fine for them to add reasonable protections for their customers, but they are not working with the community to reduce false positives.
Foods You Should Be Freezing and How Long They Keep
A lot of places are dropping all lowering their degree requirements as part of a move to increase diversity. McKinsey [1] and Harvard Business Review [2] have both written on the topic.

[1] https://www.mckinsey.com/about-us/new-at-mckinsey-blog/teari...

[2] https://hbr.org/2023/03/the-new-collar-workforce
It's not a competitor because it can't scale at all and is a gigantic space heater too (which would be a point of discussion if the advertised functionality worked at least). So the guys governing bittoken network invented a lightning system. Which at close inspection is a highly centralised system, separate from the original bittoken network, and working exactly as current banks. People deposit btc in it, then bank (node) issues you some derivative IOUs which which you trade with others, then transactions are settled between banks (nodes) only.

Basically tokenbros are reinventing banks, only with zero oversight and governed from offshores. Amazing alternative I must say. /s
I'm not a lawyer or even an American but that certainly isn't how the DMCA works. The takedown is issued against the hosting company and, if they comply, they have no further liability. If they don't comply, they are liable in court so, of course, they all comply.
Pretty interesting to have leaked data available in flea markets. In Hong Kong only government agencies would have access to leaked data
If you aren't targeting a field that requires a college education, even a cheap one is still pretty expensive in terms of time and money, and some subjects at some schools can be really weak. I can see why some people would opt for trade school or just learning on the job.

What annoys me a little is when highly paid software engineers around me say college is pointless, when every single one of them went to a good college thanks to their parents.
If you had to pay the actual cost of it instead of the subsidized cost, you'd probably eat a lot less of it.
Would a php script which fires up grep to sift through rsyslogd files be feasible as an alternative?

I'm considering right now to implement this.
https://archive.ph/VRjFV
Hey that’s great to hear. Thank you!
This is a safety feature. It can never be too intelligent this way. Yudkowsky can chill.
Cloudflare DDoS protection and Cloudflare captcha are two different services. As a website owner, you can opt into the first without the latter.
Not every website is the same, folks.

> You are literally complaining about handling 1 request every 2 seconds

I don't know where this came from. The inconsiderate bots tend to flood your server, likely someone doing some sort of naïve parallel crawl. Not every website has a full-stack in-house team behind it to implement custom server-side throttles and what-not either.

However, like I mentioned already, if every single visitor is getting the challenge, then either the site is experiencing an attack right now, or the operator has the security settings set too high. Some commonly-targeted websites seem to keep security settings high even when not actively experiencing an attack. To those operators, remaining online is more important than slightly annoying some small subset of visitors 1 time.
The situations aren't really comparable. We're talking about sending a request from a computer to a publicly available API endpoint that Open AI would rather you didn't, and then using the data that endpoint sends in response.

(Somewhat tangential, the "networks as a 3D space you travel around in with locations you visit" analogy does more harm than good. It's not what's happening and it results in muddled thinking.)
Likening packets on the internet to people in a street is not an accurate analogy.
The reason people use these solutions is that they're inundated with garbage traffic that is often automated. The internet is more like a street with 5 real people and 1,000 malicious humanoid robots.
we're discussing this in https://www.chatgpthackers.dev discord
Must be some of the filters Firefox has in place. Same already happened me with Brave. Solution might be disabling those Firefox filters...
guilty as charged: spoon + jar = happy mouth.
The DMCA is not applicable to trademarks.

https://theholmesfirm.com/takedown-notices-why-trademarks-an...
Ask HN: Seeking life advice. Monotony, boredom, brain fog
First I want to say at the start thank you to anyone that reads this and provides advice.

I am posting on this forum because I am a software developer with 12 years experience, living and working in silicon valley, with the same aspirations and goals that I (imagine) many people here have. My life is comfortable and trust me I appreciate that and recognize how lucky I am.

The issue I am dealing with is over the last ~5-6 years I have steadily become more and more bored, burned out, and simply just disconnected. My brain lacks the "spark" that it used to get when I would think about programming, or anything really. I don't enjoy things like I used to, and it feels like my brain just doesn't fire with all cylinders like it did in my 20s.

I worry that years of the same thing, over and over, has dulled me. How does anyone do this for 20+ years? Am I just "different" and require more variability and stimulation in my life, to feel happy? Or am I doing something wrong?

M-F is always the same. Wake up, head to work. Meetings, write software. Go home. Workout, eat dinner, take care of my dog, play some video games for an hour or so. Bed.

Weekends are generally spent doing chores, taking care of the house, and occasionally traveling with my wife.

I feel like I need a break, but not a stupid little 1 week vacation, but like a year, or two of just doing nothing whatsoever. Or, I need to find a way to add enough genuine variability to my life that my interest in software and other hobbies returns.
Bear with me here, but only malice or incompetence could explain this choice by the US.

If Russia bombs Ukraine, they will claim it is a false flag op by the US. (They'll have an almost fair point too after Nord Stream, but that's neither here nor there.) These sensors controlled by the US and inevitably reported on by the US administration and the same "independent media" which submits their questions to the White House in advance will be of exactly zero value in disproving this allegation.

Why the flying fuck would they not at least proxy this setup through a nominally independent NGO?! Market it as combined NATO op? Something, anything.
Earth Angel, will you be mine…

How about a speech synthesis DJ, “that was Foo McBar from 19XX”?
Front matter calls out “fly.io” - should be “fly.dev”
I see that I need to explain this differently. You use an abstraction that is well known here to say something; someone says that this abstraction is not the concrete thing (a computer is not a Turing machine). You ask why not and someone tells you A reason. Then you still claim something else? I understand your reasoning but you asked the question and it was answered correctly.
Acme is an interesting text editor for development. I've used it for React.js development before. Because of how you can script it, I could run Prettier on save and a few other things you'd normally expect in the JS world.
Well, the problem with modern society is that we can't allow anyone to use anything just because there might be a need to. We don't allow people to burn their trash even though trash haulers can go on strike, and we don't allow people to hunt for their food even though the roads can close and grocery stores close. One event that led to a major problem means that we should fix the infrastructure that broke and weather it so that it doesn't break as easily.

I don't know about the specific green fuel bans you are talking about, but I do know that this issue is often used by politicians and companies to throw the blame on something else when it is their fault.
Well you are completely right, but now we moved from 'people have little income to survive or have a normal life' to typical spoiled 1st world kids problems 'I want latest Tesla just like that tiktoker and I am too poor for that'. Its damn hard to have much sympathies there, and 0 reasons to even try.

Basically there is no end in how much you can expect others will ease your life if you keep paying them to do stuff for you. And sorry but paying half of your net income just to rent some space is pretty big financial mistake, in Switzerland they wouldn't even consider you to rent such a place (normal limit is cca 1/3rd but if you wan to save a lot its better to keep it in 15-20% category and no it doesn't come with 1+ hour of commute).

Back in the real world, so something around 99% of mankind, real financial problems look very different.
Sure. The radios are inexpensive ESP32 LoRa dev boards (with good antennae and 3D printed enclosures), and the software is a modified version of Meshtastic. This is the article that inspired me -- I think that will lead you to more detail about what I did than I can give here.

https://hackaday.com/2020/02/26/lora-mesh-network-with-off-t...

These perform better than the Baofeng radios we used before, but the terrain is still a limiting factor.
> However, there is substantial uncertainty in these figures

No kidding. They could start by using a single (and known) definition for "factory farmed".

Unless you are in the business of refining that data, this study is useless.
It's not specifically just for me but for my team at the World Largest Trivia Contest [0]. It's a 54 hour long contest, questions are broadcast over the radio, you have the length of 2 songs to call in the answers, and you can use any source to find the answer. Sounds easy, right? Just Google it? Nope. "In a big screen flick, XYZ is talking to ABC about something. In the background, a train passes. What does it say on the train?"

This has led to a ton of fun little coding projects to help us answer questions better. A lot of very hard to Google questions involve album covers, so I ran every album cover I could get through Google Vision and built a little search engine. Another part of the contest is short (1-2s) clips of songs being broadcast and you have a few hours to come up with what they are. We built a massive fingerprint library ahead of time and used it to answer some of those (Google finally got better at this too, before we built this, it'd never work because the clip was so short). We also use AWS to live transcribe the broadcast because one of the hardest parts was remembering "were they asking for the actor? their character? the movie?" and having to wait until they ask the question again between songs.

Next up is a parallel auto-dialer. There's only a handful of people answering phones, so actually calling in the answer can be a struggle.

[0] http://90fmtrivia.org
More educated : Yes.

Have a second-rate college degree to fulfill arbitrary qualification requirement: No.
Thank you very much! Email sent at 11:38 CT although it's 1.5MB so check your spam.
regarding social sec & medicare, it is straight up robbery of legal worker. I understand as a nation you have the right to limit immigration as you see fit but if you really are as morally sound as you claim all this money should be refunded to an immigrant if their application is rejected or dropped because the wait was longer than a reasonable human carrier (40years). This is straight up immoral and punishes people who actually played by the rules.
I make many accounts because I don't like people snooping through my history. The Redditism of "I've looked back 10 years in your history, and will dismiss your comment because of something you said in 2015" is not a discussion I'm interested in.
"coconut.jpg" in TF2's Game Files Breaks the Game If Deleted (2021)
I'm glad to hear Wikimedia making press announcements against this terrible bill.

However, why have Wikimedia said nothing about the other big news this week? The EU has decided that Wikipedia must conform to its Digital Services Act. This isn't a proposed bill, it's something that affects Wikipedia immediately.[0]

The DSA imposes a wealth of restrictions and requirements on Wikipedia. Wikimedia really did not like the proposed DSA when it was announced.[1] Is it now all OK, Wikimedia approves unconditionally? Too busy sticking fingers up at the UK gov?

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/google-runs-5-of...

[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2021/11/16/the-digital-...
Stability AI releases DeepFloyd IF, a powerful text-to-image model
With 300+ cables in my setup for audio, that's not what I want to read.
My bank's website is publicly available. That doesn't mean anyone is free to access my bank account. Just 'cause something is accessible on the internet doesn't mean you have the right to access it. Case law and statute goes back at least to the 1980s on this point.
You might not be able to do a mylar-thick solar cell, but you can certainly make a mylar-thick reflector for a concentrator. Out of mylar.
Skilled labor isn’t new, and it’s not what’s driven the increase in productivity. I can implement useful computer programs today far faster than Dennis Ritchie could in the 70s, even though he’s far more skilled than I am. That difference in productivity is entirely due to advancements in technology.
Highly technical jobs in chemistry, physics, engineering, molecular biology require a certain kind of college education that involves a lot of hands-on experience in research labs. The traditional college coursework is not nearly as important as what amounts to vocational training working side-by-side with technicians, grad students, postdocs etc. There's no real way to acquire the needed experience without getting into a four-year research-centric university.

A private company just isn't going to invest the time and energy needed to train an apprentice in these fields from scratch, and two-year community colleges rarely have access to the latest modern technology.

Other than that, your comment seems pretty accurate.
> Functioning ecosystems do provide pest control, otherwise there would not be ecosystems at all, because some pest would just destroy the entire thing.

Yeah, but a natural ecosystem isn't agriculture, and the concept of a "pest" doesn't even make sense in one. Agriculture is engineering an unnatural surplus for human consumption, and keeping everything else from eating that surplus. "Pests" are non-human organisms that want to take advantage that unnatural surplus for themselves.

> There are very well established agricultural systems that use that principle and employ it to enable commercial farming without pesticides and herbicides while retaining high productivity. Search for syntropic agriculture and New Forest Farm (Mark Shepard).

That's kind of off topic, but I'm skeptical those have compatible productivity to typical commercial farming techniques. Either the "high productivity" is quite a bit less that the productivity for traditional farming, or it requires far more labor input than is practical for modern society.
Just something to consider: are you sure it's entirely you? And that you actually want to small-talk? I'm socially fluent and, at least when in the mood, can chat and bullshit about most things at length. But I don't like to most of the time. I'm socially awkward, avoidant. And if you started chatting with me at work after about 30 seconds of pleasantries, unless I really like you, I'm trying to figure out the escape hatch to the conversation.

Anyway. Let the other person pick the conversation direction. Ask follow up questions, clarifications. Even try a quick guess what happened (even when you know it's wrong) ahead of time so your misconceptions can be deconstructed by them. That often starts a further conversation. Let their mind wander, not yours, when you're looking for something to talk about. (You have lots of things you'd like to talk about but presumably you have no idea if they find it interesting. By letting them take the lead, you at least know if they wanted to bring it up!)

Maybe try loosening up if you tend to hold back. E.g. a little more off the beaten track, maybe something strange or weird (but hopefully not disturbing or alarming) happen to you recently? Tell a story about it.
> Like what's the common denominator with those countries that makes them so desirable to immigrate to?

GDP? Imperialism which raided the rest of the globe's wealth?
OK, fair enough. Not in about six months to a year. Because publicly available ML can now solve pretty much any CAPTCHA a human can solve, there's now an incentive to start deploying and improving the already existing JavaScript-capable bot frameworks.
Also a package that was declared deprecated 3 years ago, so this shouldn't be terribly surprising.
my favorite FOSS goto for searching contents in Windows is AstroGrep - https://astrogrep.sourceforge.net
Well, until you have an algo that can mind read, "I'm not a spammer guys, gosh!" isn't good enough, I'm afraid.

And yes, it's annoying that we live in that world. In 1999 you could probably assume a request was human with a User-Agent regex.

In 2024, your smart toaster could be saturating your AT&T Fiber uplink without you even knowing while you're rage-posting in Cloudflare's forums about HAR files and how you're not a bot.
Here's a mirror in case it gets taken down: https://web.archive.org/web/20230428163410/https://litter.ca...

To clone from this:

wget https://web.archive.org/web/20230428163410embed_/https://litter.catbox.moe/gc4o73.bundle
git clone gc4o73.bundle gpt4free
Still, there's nothing illegal about GitHub deleting your repo for any reason they choose as long as they're a private entity not owned by the government.
It's really that they no longer accept any fixes, as the library is officially deprecated.

>As of Feb 11th 2020, request is fully deprecated. No new changes are expected to land. In fact, none have landed for some time.

But 18,302,678 weekly downloads[0] haven't noticed...

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/request
Physically easy to implement is not the same as easy to convince republican voters to allow it to happen. Republican pushback to ranked choice voting is extreme. They cry crocodile tears of "it's too complicated" while literal children in elementary school use it just fine for class and mock elections, or they scream nonsense about "one person one vote" as if reassigning your vote to your second choice was somehow a second vote?
I made a mirror just in case: http://ni.4a.si/anonymous/gpt4free/
Care to give the Quickwit pitch? Especially on why it is better than Loki.
Kritarchy
Imgur links haven't worked on my VPN for a long time.

Even if they did, I'd still avoid imgur since they censor even worse than reddit.
> Keeping in mind that "not complying with a corporation's policies" is not the same as breaking the law.

Actually, the law says that the Terms of Service is a legally-binding contract unless you can prove any provision is legally considered unconscionable. However, if that happens, all provisions except that provision still bind. It is illegal to break a legally-binding contract, and you can be sued or taken to arbitration at a minimum in a civil court for "breach of contract." And that's before any Computer Fraud and Abuse Act or Digital Millennium Copyright Act violations.

Yes, corporations don't sue users for "breach of contract" almost... ever. It's expensive, risky, has low compensation for doing so, and is just bad PR. But they legally always can.
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What does DMCA stand for?

Hint, that C letter is important!