skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right observation, but wrong conclusion.

Cloudflare skews towards a monopolistic monoculture. (Fastly and Akamai also exist, but present more friction.)

The issue is that with one transparent proxy and application firewall for a large fraction of web traffic, it has to cover uncountable edge-cases to not leave out nonzero users from a large number of sites. It's unlikely to be malicious intention here, but more likely accidents, oversights, and lack of alternatives.
> Unfortunately it's an area mostly controlled by gangs without a presence of the police or the government.

Just FYI, godfather wasn't a documentary. It was a film based on a book written by some american writer.
Sounds like BofA has a problem too? Why are you blaming 2017 numpties?
It goes along with trying to repurpose a phone as a server: not much money, use what you've got.
I think this line of thinking is unrealistic and rather unempathetic.

People on both sides of culture war issues really do care about them. I agree that there are a number of more important issues, but the ordering of political priorities is basically subjective and nobody needs share anyone else's.
or forbid it altogether, and fully handle A-GPS itself.
I only know of two operating systems where IP address parsing (and the address resolver in general) is part of the TCP/IP stack: ITS and z/OS. MS-DOS gets an honorable mention due to not having any architectural distinction between parts of the system at all, and z/OS only qualifies because it's not entirely clear where the boundaries of the "TCP/IP stack" are to begin with. (One would be forgiven for thinking that the TCP/IP stack is contained in the address space called "TCPIP". However, significant parts of it are in the LPA, which is part of every address space, and it's not clear to me yet where exactly the resolver is.)
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Had a similar problem in a WeWork office setup once. ESD is annoying.
Real life money for gold is sanctioned by Jagex if done through bonds. Bonds are about 3x more expensive than the black market but bonds can't get you banned because Jagex gets a cut.
Yes, absolutely. There's a lot of people moving in to capitalize on the space between what people imagine they can do with LLM's, and what is currently possible. The difficulty in estimating what the LLM is likely to do with an output, the actual randomness that is involved in getting there, and the variability of the output creates a situation where you might as well put up an "INSERT GRIFT HERE" sign.

Even this post (which I think is making some pretty well informed and intentioned suggestions) exists largely because getting exactly what you want out of an LLM can be pretty difficult. Even fairly static tasks like data extraction can have aggravatingly variable outputs. I don't think that most of these are the _right_ way to get to the goal but are rather, largely clever hacks that can help a user try and nudge the LLM towards the desired latent space when adjusting the instructions fails.
To be fair to OP, I would then go on to label these people as equally ignorant:

> A lot of people coming from the Unix-like world of macOS and Linux don't tend to know [PS]. Many people don't know it even exists at all. When I mention the Windows Terminal to people, they think I'm talking about the Windows Command Prompt, a crappy little program

I know that PS and the new terminal is not the same as cmd.exe, and that it has advantages like passing objects through pipes instead of stringly typing everything the way that sh-like shells work. But that's about the extent of it. (The powershell command names though, oh boy, even Java method names are better than that.)

> PowerShell also runs on Unix-like systems through PowerShell Core

I forgot about that. If anyone's interested in this, you may also enjoy learning that you can now run Windows Defender on Linux! And Internet Edgesplorer! The software we've all been waiting for, according to the Microsoft press release :D. These things amuse me to no end, but more seriously, getting to know PS better and trying out this object passing system does sound interesting.

Similar to how C# is secretly my favorite language, but it's just not well supported on Linux (mono and .netcore with monodevelop or the electron app called "VS Code" are just not the same as the Windows experience, e.g. Windows Forms and the real Visual Studio being huge omissions for me).
generally agree but the anecdotal evidence I heard from a former employee about the internal dysfunction has scared me away. apparently everyone in a leadership position has a rudimentary understanding of the products they build and is chasing off all the talent like Jim Keller who are forced to deliver the bad news that they’ve made a mess they cannot easily clean up without abandoning current initiatives and starting anew with more knowledgeable leadership
Show HN: LLM Shield (Powerful leak protection against LLMs)
Does this assumption still hold if the term limits are somewhat generous? For instance, 18 years (3 senate terms or 9 house terms)?

Almost all of the evidence detracting from legislative term limits centers around attempts to allow only 1-2 terms. But there’s very little about medium to longer term restrictions.
Someone here said: “Be permissive for people, least privilege for servers.”
Meanwhile, in this suburb of a modest city, I'm wondering if I'll ever see more than one bar of LTE. Thank goodness for Wi-Fi calling.
How has the experience building on top of FoundationDB?

I've always thought it deserved to be used more widely so intrigued to see it pop up here.
That's the interesting question, isn't it. Does the FDIC hose a bunch of depositors by taking over a zombie bank that could have ambled along for a while, or do they make everyone whole and kill the (dumb) industry of sweeping deposits into <=$250k accounts at many banks?
The quality and productivity of the wine contributors blows my mind.

This is THE team that allows me to use Linux as my exclusive OS, and allows me to continue to play games with my family across the country.

I can't thank them enough.
> Russian disinformation campaign of 2016

Are you referring to the disinformation campaign that promoted the conspiracy theory that Russia somehow influenced the 2016 presidential elections, or the conspiracy theory itself?
Not to mention that water being either "13.8°C, or 14.8°F" at similar times is laughable.

I suspect that they are taking some point in time and comparing it to average temperatures, which is beyond comical. What a farce.
> Put another way, if you look at all the features that I want in a car (robust safety cell, powerful propulsion, quiet, smooth ride, rare) none of them can be upgraded without physical modifications. And in fact, once those things are achieved, there is really very little reason to change anything.

disclaimer: I own a 2019 M3.

IIRC Tesla's acceleration boost (powerful propulsion) upgrade essentially keeps the front engine correctly-aligned at all times to make the most out of the usually-unused torque. AEB and TACC were upgraded multiple times over the years, becoming better and better and solving issues (smooth ride). As for quietness, MS and MX got active noise reduction through software upgrades.
All of this was done using existing hardware, and I didn't even mention the constant data-driven tweaking of battery pre-conditioning to allow faster charges while still extending battery life (powerful propulsion/smooth ride), or the camera features (dashcam recording, blind-spot camera pop-up, ...).
Some are amazing tweaks you didn't even know you wanted, but are a constant time-saver (blinkers auto-off).
I'm pretty sure that also the other high-voltage components handling also got the data-driven treatment (better regulation of currents to extend component's lifetime, for instance).

These kind of software modifications were also seldom done when I brought my old ICE cars to the dealer for the regular checks - "remapping the engine parameters to better handle some cases" - but in reality I recall this happening at most once in the lifetime of the car.

I believe that new features can be developed using existing hardware in new, unforeseen ways. What I agree on is that this needs to be done in a secure and non-intrusive manner. Some UI reworks were definitely controversial at first, but Tesla has a good track record of listening and adapting to user requests at least.
I cannot say the same for any other brand I've had a car from.
Yeah, that looks like it's simulating the rolling lines that could show up in a video of a CRT, which is just an artifact of the camera and display both refreshing in similar fashions/at similar rates but usually not being locked to each other. A similar fixed lined/brightness gradient on a still photo is an artifact of a snapshot vs the persistence of vision effect that makes the screen look uniformly bright.

Some people were more sensitive to CRT flickers than others but it didn't look like that, even at 60hz (a low rate for a PC monitor). It was more a flashing-the-whole-screen-on-and-off-constantly effect; the effect of moving lines in videos move far slower than 60hz.
the society you get by deciding that tired jocks with guns and a 2-4x of baseline rate of domestic violence and an unstoppable union should get to decide what due process is bad. law enforcers should have to follow the law. also I am willing to bet you don’t know much about due process because there is no way you’re an attorney but I’ll eat my shoe if you show me where you’re licensed to practice law.
It's interesting that every large American industrial corporation eventually succumbs to MBA fever.

In the 20th century, we saw the rise and fall of General Electric, Westinghouse, GM, RCA. Huge American corporations with products almost everyone interacted with almost every day. In the 1960's these were the corporations to beat. In the late 1960's, bean counter infiltration began. Of these companies, only GM isn't a hollow brand licensing shell, and it had to survive a government-maneuvered corporate bankruptcy to make it to 2009.
> Jobs are better than no jobs, across the board.

What about slavery? What if there is a spectrum between chattel slavery and owning the means of production? How would you determine where "job" exists on that spectrum?

Slaves still get fed and housed. If the only thing that a job offers is food and housing, how different is that from slavery? How free is a person who can only afford to house and feed themselves?
Could they keep the files in WSL and run their IDEs in Windows?
I suspect PS/2 is only used to get 5V, so not really used by the driver
Sendgrid is not an independent email server.
https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality...

The key to writing good content is just writing lots of content. Some, maybe most, will be crap. That's fine, just don't promote the bad ones.

I recently read the entire Joel on Software archive and realized that the vast majority of posts are fairly uninteresting, but from over 1,000 posts he has a handful of classics and promotes those through the reading lists.
There are entire websites that simply will not work for me on Linux+Firefox because of Cloudflare. Never before have I wished for a company to go out of business, until now.
Not when they actually commit crimes, no.
You're talking about specific cases, but I think the problem is cultural, has metastatized into a place where radical change in wide ways looms, has to blow away a corrupt fallen shitty & malignant way of thinking that has taken over & which poisons society at large. Consumerism lowers us.

Finding higher paths is not going to be trivial, but there are promising signs we approach the local shitty maxima that consumeristic communicative-Capitalism has bound us inside of.
I suppose that the only real problem is sending, not receiving, nor setting up software.

If I were to set up my own mail server, that would send outbound email through Sendgrid, AWS SES, or maybe some other established and trusted sender.

Building trusts with behemoths like GMail or outlook.com is too involved an affair to be worth it in the general case, and not even through some malice on the side of the latter; it's just the reality of a medium not protected from spam.
An app that let anybody convert an otherwise-useless phone into a gps tracker might do well. Those trackers can be expensive.
When I lived in Philly, I first used the subway to get to work. But the commute became an oppressive reminder of daily inhumanity in the City of Brotherly Love. I had to make a change. So I tried biking to work, for two weeks. The next week I ordered an electric scooter. The scooter is smaller than a bike, more nimble, more portable. I would often overtake bikes on the flats, and it and moves up hills with ease. I carry it into the office and charge it at my desk. The ride to work and home is serene. Sometimes I stop along the water just to sit for a minute and enjoy some nature.

Now I'm a remote worker. I have a mild nostalgia for the ride home... no nostalgia for the subway. But if my office was somewhere with seasons, and I could paddle to work, I'd work weekends.
> The first days after such a detonation would be very heated and hard facts would be very welcome to avoid escalation.

There are very few plausible scenarios involving a nuclear blast in Ukraine where the function of hard facts would be to avoid rather than direct escalation.
Information Overload: on the superabundance of research-based art
No. Perhaps the ability to follow orders and open to killing enemies if necessary.

Not people that talk about, or implying, massacre of civilans and their own countrymen.

Anyway this guy is an airman in IT, not a soldier. Not really someone that would necessarily need an aggressive tendencies anyway.
https://replicate.com/pharmapsychotic/clip-interrogator

using:

cfg.apply_low_vram_defaults()

interrogate_fast()

I tried lighter models like vit32/laion400 and others etc all are very very slow to load or use (model list: https://github.com/mlfoundations/open_clip)

I'm desperately looking for something more modest and light.
There's currently one option for IM: Matrix.

IRC and XMPP are nice but do not do ee2e by default.

WhatsApp is facebook's chat feature, not an open standard, never mind privacy.
Show HN: A more natural camera control scheme for RTS games in the modern era
The paper is used in the water closet.
Thankfully none of these efforts ever really go places, because they'd create a massive amount of churn for minimal net gain. Spam is primarily a social problem not a technical one
More free than a person who can not afford to house themselves, and less free than a person who cannot feed themselves (because they are dead).
> Sounds like BofA has a problem too?

They do! But it won’t tank the bank. Because they’ve been working on them for years. Because they’re still under Dodd-Frank’s liquidity coverage rules.

> Why are you blaming 2017 numpties?

They rolled back the regulations that would have, if not prevented this mess, caught it much sooner. BofA has similar issues, but it’s subjected to stress tests. As a result, the risk has been managed in a way it wasn’t at these banks.
> That is pants on head ... entertaining

I love these quirky working too hard for an iota of questionable gains. It warms my heart and soothes my soul. IMHO this kind of behaviour is going to be our saving grace when the aliens come and see if we're fit to join the galactic community. :P
It's why Obama didn't put anyone in jail for this mess. He should have. We'd be in much better shape.
This is just the beginning...
Yea more or less. Things that benefit the standard of living for the population but cut into corporate profits are basically DOA.
Mobile Garage Band is actually pretty good from what I can tell, for an example.
Scale of impact, scope of impact, and duration of impact are orthogonal. Conflating them makes productive discussion impossible, IMO.

But back to the point, philosophically I agree, but practically I don't. IMO having SLA's and enforceable guarantees that give customers the information they need is much harder than exposing the implementation details.

"Zones within a region may be located in the same building" is much more concise than SLA's using contractual language, and probably conveys more (though potentially less accurate) information once I apply my context.

Also, if we look GCP's SLA's, this outage blew the SLA breach threshold out of the water for many services. Some are pushing 2 9's of downtime from this incident alone.

Finally (in hindsight maybe I should have led with this, but I'm too lazy to restructure this comment), SLA's are a joke. Outages can destroy your business, but all you get from your cloud provider is that they comp you for usually a small fraction of what they charge you. They have no teeth, so if you can't just write off a major outage you have to have a plan to avoid it, which means you need to know the implementation details
After 3 decades working on Windows, I recently got into Linux and stared learning bash through "The Linux Command Line, 5th ed." book and watching youtube videos.
Powershell is so much nicer and a lot more productive to work with compared to bash. Unlike the bash commands that returns strings, Powershell commands return objects. Working in any OOP language and Powershell feels very natural.
there are countless services that do what CloudFlare is doing

but not a single one has the false positive rate that cloudflare has

cloudflare only accepts the very standart users, and locks a lot of others out. and then they offer no convenient way to prove you're a legitimate user, to access the website.

and they have to fix it, because they sell their protection to admins who don't want to set it up themselves. They have the knowledge and are tasked to do that
IIRC, they were cloning in WSL, but AIUI at the time, WSL is still subject to the requirements Windows imposes on filenames.

(I'm not a WSL expert, so I could be wrong here.)
These very annoying behaviors with Firefox/Linux are the reason why I'm trying to avoid having my customers using cloudflare at all.
Levine needs to stop taking vacations. His vacations seem to have caused Crytpocoins to crash, Twitter buyout problems, SIVB failure and now First Republic Bank.
JanOS: Turn your phone into an IoT board (2015)
I once gave my wife soy-based nailpolish remover, because it smelled merely horrible rather than like instant brain damage. I wonder whether, while they're at it, it wouldn't be worth it for the manufacturers of soy-based wire to coat it with something like that.
Few, if any slaves felt purpose, belonging, responsibility, and personal discipline - all generally positive feelings that are associated with working on something for a reason.
Maybe it is geolocked?
What country are you in? (You don't have to say if you're not comfortable)
The middle of both parties are getting older and older. Newly elected politicians tend to be populistic culture warriors. Consequently, we’re not able to elect anyone that gets anything done. Gone are the days of electing the most serious and responsible public servants. We’re not able to replace aging incumbent politicians with grownups. Or so it seems.
I’ve recently purchased a NetMD-capable player but admittedly have not yet dug around to see what software is out there. Would you mind providing a link to the one you’ve been happy with?
> Does criminally charging your leading opposition candidate count?

If it is on the same standards (or a higher bar) than that under which someone who was a political ally or uninvolved would be charged, no.

If it is on a basis on which someone differently politically situated with the same degree of evidence of the same kind of crime would otherwise not be charged, than yes.
The same tech works in both directions. Spammer creates 1000 email variants using a LLM, spam filter collapses those 1000 variants back into easily classifiable embeddings
And what most do not realize is that RISC-V not only has the best size, but is also competitive in number of instructions, especially so within loops, where it matters the most.
I wish it was just a matter of the `-<version>` thing... Debian metadata (control, rules...) and its build system (sbuild, rebuild) is arcane and feels old. Having to maintain a Debian feed is a major PITA.
The their problem is not a lack of try_, it's a lack of custom allocators.
> First Republic Bank was collapsing for more than a month. If anyone still kept uninsured money there, it's mostly on them.

The big banks deposited 30-billion dollars uninsured to try to rescue FRC. Are you saying that you don't want big-banks trying to rescue smaller banks anymore?

Moral hazards, all the way down. We like the deposit they made, but they did so because FDIC seemed to offer assurances to cover even uninsured deposits. We're back to SIVB questions and just delayed by a month.
Cool info, thanks!
> this happens while the bank still has enough liquidity to cover 50% of deposits

American banking receivership is actually an effective system. The point is to reorganise when things look, but aren’t, fucked.
PowerShell 7 can be installed on Linux and MacOS! Native too, not like cygwin bash.

Around the same time that came out, so did WSL so I never really learned PowerShell because now it's so easy to run real bash on Windows.
There's quite a difference between saying something, and doing something, no?
How about you get that done first, prove that its at least as reliable, and then start banning things?
I think one big difference is that a job is something you have a choice in. A person who can only afford to house and feed themselves isn't free to have no job, but they are free to choose which job they do. In such cases, the parent's point of "more jobs are better" definitely applies, as it gives workers a lot more choice (even disregarding the bargaining power).
The problem is when it kicks in for everyone in the neighborhood at the same time on an especially cold night and causes a brown out. (Happened to me this winter.)
The problem usually is not a framework / tool / whatever technical thing used.

The problem is overloading a site with stuff that aggressively consumes user's resources and tries to hijack user's attention, in an attempt to make a few cents on ads.

If HTMX were all the rage, I'm certain that many terribly heavy sites would be created with it, given the same incentive structure.
From everything I've heard about Windows turning into user-hostile bloatware over the last few years, nothing in this post seems like a good enough reason to use it. Perhaps it's Stockholm syndrom, but I honestly like my Unix-y tools (bash, jq, awk) at this point

Also, regarding this example

{
$Env:MYSQL_HOST = "MyHost.com";
$Env:MYSQL_USER = "MyUser";
java -jar myprogram.jar;
}

You can do the same thing in Bash with perhaps slightly more verbosity

(
export MYSQL_HOST="MyHost.com";
export MYSQL_USER="MyUser";
sh -c 'echo "using $MYSQL_USER@$MYSQL_HOST"'
)
sh -c 'echo "using $MYSQL_USER@$MYSQL_HOST"'

outputs:

using MyUser@MyHost.com
using @
That's a long term issue, but the contraction of credit is my shorter term concern. When deposits flow out of regional banks into big banks, it limits the capacity of those regional banks to fund themselves and forces them to cut lending (not the least to not consume their liquidity).

On the other hand the big banks might receive more deposits but they can't lend it either because they are constrained by capital requirements, not funding.

So logically you should have a contraction of credit, which combined with higher rates, is going to be ugly. Clearly the markets aren't pricing that right now.