skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual problem seems to be that a large number entities now want a full copy of the entire site.

But why not just... provide it? Charge however much for a box of hard drives containing every publicly-available tweet, mailed to the address of buyer's choosing. Then the startups get their stupid tweets and you don't have any load problems on your servers.
Apologies, by "yet another" I meant "just another" of the plethora of Hanford issues that still persist .. you're correct that there a very few new issues coming to light, I recall decades of stories of known issues being updated to reveal they're a bit a worse than earlier stated .. which is a by product of sending teams in to poke about and fix things I guess.
Lemmy with Wefwef (if you can get past the odd name) has gone a long way to smoothing the transition process for me

http://wefwef.app/
> Hasn’t Trump completely abandoned Twitter, and very much prefers his de-federated Mastodon instance?

yeah, he's been pretty steadfast in rejecting Twitter. maybe if truth dies or something, but...
Thank you for taking the time to explain, I didn’t tie bodily autonomy to social libertarianism when I read your initial post. I could’ve been more constructive with my question/post, my bad.
You weren't joking:

> There were significant reductions in C. lectularius population size and fecundity in insects that fed on blood obtained from human study subjects up to 96 hours after they have consumed a single oral dose of ivermectin.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6901371/
I think there is some impact, for finding the correct price of things.
Neo4j rumor: company's new goal is to be acquired not IPO
Wow - this is a big change of direction if it is true. Neo4j has been saying they will IPO for years, but it never happened.

From Glassdoor Review:

Rumor has it that many coworkers believe the company's new goal is to be acquired, rather than going public through an IPO.
If you love iterating on tests in watch mode, Vitest will feel even better: https://maxrozen.com/beginners-guide-to-react-testing/react-...
Some of the points, and others, covered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=36547210
Elon has a good point there. Much of the current AI hotness is predicated on stealing peoples content and exploiting the infrastructure that other people have built. I don’t think it’s acceptable.

The licenses, compensation models, law, technical solutions, attribution, security and privacy all need time to catch up. Regulation has a role to play as its a bit of a free for all right now.

The irony of Elon mentioning “outrageous valuations” though!
Discourse is going to pull the same shenanigans as Reddit and Twitter, you can be sure of that. No one is going to host millions of users for free, forever, they'll all come around to get their investment back one day.
> Why roll the dice when having nuclear weapons protects you from being invaded in the first place?

This how I feel a lot more countries will start feeling if Ukraine doesn't win or Russia successfully uses their nuclear blackmail to win or get concessions in the war.
"Just" needs to be bundled (who will do that?), "just needs to be broadcast", "just"...

At this point it's much easier and cheaper to open a bank account for every homeless person.

Other points: Some of the points, and others, covered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=36547210
Head over to Lenny or Kbin, they both support activity pub.

If your next question is something like “We’ll where can I find programmer humor?”.

Here

https://lemmy.ml/c/programmerhumor
It's amusing that anyone takes anything Elon says seriously. At this point the "free speech absolutist" has about as much credibility as an orange reality TV star.
You think companies massively scraping right now would respect API rate limit?
I feel like DSL is becoming obsolete these days in favor of general programming (e.g. Python). I really like Hurl but every time we use it we revert back to simple Python because something is slightly off or missing (they just added XPath support) or different and just writing up Python script is easier and more powerful. Onboarding people on Python test suite is much easier than teaching them whole DSL that they'll be using few times every month.
HN has an open API look at the footer
> I will say that CPAN somehow avoided this problem. I think that is mostly because Perl programmers are far less liberal with dependencies,

Probably because CPAN existed before SemVer.

Given that patch version bumps of a dependency might break a project, I think giving up on the SemVer paranoia would be the best solution.

If a dependency breaks you just release a new patch release of your software with the version pinned before the breaking version. Add a field to the package manager to hint at the dep solver that it should never downgrade to remove that depedency because it was added due to a breaking change to sort of make it retroactive.

And the failure of many projects to go 1.0 because of paranoia about breaking changes and therefore the failure of SemVer should really be more widely discussed.
I got taken in more than once by his Marcia Swampfelder articles.
e.g.

https://tinaja.com/glib/marcia.pdf

--> Majestic "Mighty Monarch of the Air" AM radio
In this war, there are no winners.
No means no ! :)
Okay, now replace “police” with “doctor” or “lawyer”. In a job that is mostly theory, having theoretical study is important. Because otherwise lives are ruined. It also helps to filter deadbeats who just want to abuse the system, which is unfortunately a non-zero percentage of police.

I’m not saying we need 10+ years of study, but at least a bachelors focused on civics and humane treatment + a psych evaluation would do wonders to clearing out abusers.
Pubic SSH? :-D
Sieb: A procmail/maildrop alternative written in Nim for speed
Sieb is a mail filter/delivery system intended to work with Qmail using the Maildir format for delivery.

It's new but with 25 years of use case exposure of procmail and maildrop for filtering/processing/delivering mail.

It's not a swiss-army solution for everything but should be worthwhile for whole sites or individual users (user rules override)

This isn't my project but I thought it was useful and new in a fairly quiet part of the Internet.
Already did the moment he wrote, thanks!
Oops, you're right, I misspoke - I was thinking about the modification step as a given, but that's not what I said. Apologies for the confusion.
Sorry I should clarify.

Until the 19th century, prostitution was legal basically everywhere.

Since then Europeans have gone back and forth between kind of legal to kind of illegal.

It really does vary a lot. But the historical acceptance and modern ambivalence is pretty common.
You aren’t kidding. Add r/Psychology to that list. It’s all bad social science studies now.

“Study Proves Republicans are Dumb”
That’s a good point. If I was creating something out of whole cloth, I wouldn’t want to do it. However if it was required by law in order for wedding designers not to discriminate for racial or sexual orientation, I’d do it.

And the case in this situation was different where it was more like a service:
“It only insists that once Smith has designed a wedding website, she must allow same-sex couples to purchase that product. In essence, Colorado says she must sell her website template to all customers, regardless of their identity. She need not create a new template or “speak” in support of any marriage.”

What’s scary is the precedence the decision sets:

“A bakery whose owner opposed mixed-race relationships could refuse to bake wedding cakes for interracial couples; a real estate agency whose owner opposed racial integration could refuse to represent Black couples seeking to purchase a home in a predominantly white neighborhood; or a portrait studio whose proprietor opposes interracial adoption could refuse to take pictures of white parents with their Black adopted children.”
HN volume is absolutely tiny (the ids are sequential so you can easily check how many items there are in a given day) and there’s an API. It’s no comparison.
Samsung foundries cannot compete with TSMC on capacity. Regardless, they do have Nvidia and Qualcomm as customers.
The original comment was about banking the unbanked.

With all the piles of would-bes, and justs, and perhaps in this thread (an inevitability in any crypto discussion) these pretend benefactors could just open bank accounts for the homeless, and it would be actually cheaper, and more beneficial.

See also other points: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=36547210
Literally just made his point. Every single person keeps repeating it’s like email, as if email is a fantastic place to go get your news and interact with others.
My impression is that part of the problem is that Emacs Lisp is a large language (lots of data types and functions implemented in C) and one without any formal specification, which makes duplicating it correctly in another system very difficult. By contrast, Scheme is a smaller language and has a reasonably clear spec.

Which makes me wonder – instead of trying to port GNU Emacs to run on top of Scheme, might it be easier to produce a Scheme implementation that ran on top of Emacs Lisp? Possibly Emacs Lisp is missing some of the primitives required to implement Scheme efficiently, but the amount of code required to add those primitives will likely turn out to be less than that required to reimplement the whole of GNU Emacs in Scheme – and adding those new primitives may make Emacs Lisp a better language, thus benefitting even those users who aren't interested in Scheme in itself.
WA owns its electricity generation and supply companies, so no it’s not just a tax, it’s nationalised infrastructure and it works great for us.

It’s not just cheaper, it takes the privatised profits off the table and instead feeds them back.

It’s not magic, it’s pretty good sense though, and it serves the people of the state well.
This has the advantage of curbing 'enthusiasm' of buyers too. It's easier to complain about rape when you're a sex worker if what you're doing is legal and what you're client's doing isn't.
> people shouldn't be able to consent to some things if they're assumed to be unreasonable or socially harmful.

I think this is the nub of it. When you strip away the BS, views on the legality of prostitution boil down to whether (safe) sex between strangers is (a) a harmful thing, or (b) a fun thing like a massage.

Discussions centered on trafficking or abusive buyers are a red herring. These are relatively rare scenarios. We don't close down eBay or Craigslist because of the occasional bad actor; we police the bad actors.
The thing with social media platforms is that this data is user-generated, so you've got the company "owning" user content.

This data is often of great public value. I track conversations around a social issue as part of my work for a non-profit.

I'd counter it's unethical to prevent people from accessing this data.
I wonder that ~600 users even as spam bots had something to do with name you've pick for instance
It's pretty common to have the op's misconception. Thinking that the natural progression is forward rather than a delicate balance of a large number of choices where any one or small number of total wrong choices ends you up in centuries of no progress or backsliding is so common it's even the basis of popular religions like Marxism and Marxism's progeny. I wouldn't be too hard on the guy, he's a symptom of our partially stagnant and/or backsliding time.
That's an easy problem to solve - you can have 3 accounts

The other alternative where you don't care if functional programming and Rust programming forums are on the same id is the issue without the option of a single account
I might be misunderstanding your post, but CockroachDB is an OSS solution for global SpiceDB storage that we recommend for cross-cloud or global deployments outside of GCP.

The team at GitHub actually contributed MySQL support as they use Vitess. No reason why it doesn't work with Vitess today, but we haven't put those codepaths under a microscope yet to squeeze out the best performance.

I'd love to see what we could do with TiKV and I agree it looks like a good fit. I think it's just less in demand because fewer folks know how to operationalize it.
If you're referring to Beehaw defederating Lemmy.world it's because beehaw has a pretty strict content policy (you even have to write a little essay about why you want to join and what value you'll bring to beehaw). Lemmy.world had open sign-ups without much in the way for preparing its users for what was expected of them on beehaw communities so there was some culture clashes and beehaw decided to temporarily defederate until Lemmy has better moderation tools in place.
Or simply because some algorithm thought you were a bot. Good luck complaining to Google.
What do you even charge for that? We might never make a repository of human made content with no Ai postings in it ever again. Seems like selling the golden goose to me
You're missing the effing point

They wouldn't unless it was legally required...

And that ITS STILL A SEPARATE LINE ITEM NOT INCLUDED IN THE DISPLAY PRICE
I'm very impressed that you were able to find this.
Very odd to me how so many comments here seem to be blaming the police for swatting and forgetting that there is some random evil asshole attempting to orchestrate violence against another person.
Elon says he used it as a way to stop AI data scraping because the servers were suddenly hit by a large load.... (As a weird form of DDOS shielding in other words)

HN could be hit with such a large load too, since we have pretty good and lengthy discussion here, good for AI data training.

Would you believe it a valid tool to keep the community happy?

Since I doubt we would be happy if we can't access the site because some AI decided this was the time to scrape, either.
> I suppose you could fix this by making the phone system fully authenticated. DNS predates SS7 and somehow DNSSEC works just fine. So, probably, there is a technical answer that solves both swatting and spam calls and industry will eventually do it. Is anyone working on anything like that now?

Yes. Slowly, though, like everything telecommunications. You're starting to see the introduction of Stir/Shaken everywhere. For the last six months, various VoIP providers have announced support because calls will get blocked/cut off without it. The deadline was yesterday, actually. https://www.fcc.gov/call-authentication

Now, this doesn't exactly prevent spoofing from carriers not local to the US or from a number mistakenly added to more than one account, or a hacked voip account (surprisingly common), but it does provide an indicator of what might be valid vs invalid for caller ID phone numbers for destinations within the USA.

Now, whether this actually applies to 911 routing is still maybe a bit up in the air given that E911 was already supposed to exist and provide a location. And technically spoofing a SWAT call would only require a prepaid "burner" phone, and often you get caught anyway. The point maybe is to cause mayhem regardless of whether you get caught or not, so it's not clear if spoofing is required to "swat" in every circumstance. But sure, this makes it harder.
That’s because you’ve misunderstood. Twitter is worth $20B. We don’t know what they spend nor how much they make as a profit because they’re a private company.

What I’m saying is for Elon to even break even on the deal, using the information we have access to, he needs its evaluations to reach at least $40B. Once it reaches that, it actually proves itself as having been at minimum a neutral purchase. Albeit the real numbers it has to reach and how much profit it needs are both currently unknown.
Every time someone says this they forget the internet itself is a federated platform.
a) It looks to be permitted according to Twitter's robots.txt

b) Given Twitter is public, user generated content which they don't own but simply have a license I wouldn't call it unethical in the slightest.
> while Guile isn't very popular you still find little snippets of it everywhere from back when it was GNU's official extension language

Your use of past tense here seems to imply it is no longer GNU's official extension language. GNU's own website still says [0] "Guile is the GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions, and the official extension language of the GNU project."

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
A bit too late isn't it?
I've gone from spending 5-10 hours a week on twitter to less than 30 minutes a week. Keep working your magic Elon.
Not at all. It used to back when transistors were planar and their distance could be measured in nm, but now transistor gates are 3D and we're just lowering the number to what the equivalent performance might be if a theoretical transistor gate were that small.
Government sys admins refuse to host blogs?
> I don't believe that the change was "Virginia Law -> do all these things" but rather "these things are in motion... Virginia Law -> several of these things in motion must be done by July 1."

I do agree with you here - Virginia's mature content law probably had something to do with NSFW content in the API. The API pricing was just poor decision making occurring at the same time. (Apologies if my previous comment was a little unkind).
BBC is not state funded.
There are so many small details that make Apollo such a well designed app. I definitely started to feel the UI could use an update / polish recently, but man, the UX was unreal.

Assorted highlights:

- Share post / comment as image. When sharing comment as image, you could specify how many parent comments to include in the image as well. Super useful.
- The theme change shortcut (more common now, but I think apollo was one of the first apps I noticed it in)
- you could change subreddit with one tap. Narwhal doesn’t have this and it’s so annoying.
- unreal in-app media playback (including YouTube) - customizable swipe gestures
- great comment editor
- content filters
- ability to hide subreddits in just a couple of taps
- saved item categories

I’m done with Reddit on mobile devices. I’m actually quite happy to have a good reason to stop using Reddit, but I’m sad that such a well-designed app has just disappeared.
Yeah the replies were always the best part to me. That's destroyed now along with most of my interest in twitter.
It was originally Atlas Farted
I'm looking at the brighter side: no fucking twitter threads any more, the drip-feed of infinite wisdom.
Call of Duty’s anti-cheat update makes cheaters hallucinate imaginary opponents
And just to drive home the point:

You are aware how challenging writing a date system is, right?

Well taxes are even worse And have to be updated frequently (often more than once a year).

The cost is absurd.
Since you don't like that word, what should we call trying to use fraud or violence to steal an election? A traitor? A candidate for a firing squad? A guy trying his hand at a bit of high treason?
What is so different in USA so the local police feel compelled to knock down people’s doors when other countries’ police don’t?
I’m a technical user and the hoops and quirks in eco system put me off. The solution I’ve been left with is just to quit entirely. I’ve also ditched other social media while I’m at it. My life is better.
>A fallacy is saying that something is wrong because of fallacious reasons.

A fallacy is a basic flaw of logic reasoning supporting or ditching a claim, view, statement or position. The post above does it, implicitly, as yourself acknowledged - "I'm not buying it" is still a view - it's ditching a claim because of things unrelated to said claim, like "who said it".

>often deploy the rhetoric (not really a fallacy) that AI is about to doom us all because everything is supposedly so simple (like intelligence) and therefore it’s conceptually simple for a sufficiently advanced (but not that advanced) AI to keep improving itself.

It's both the rhetoric (on a discursive level) and a fallacy (on the logic level): oversimplification. (Although "appeal to my ignorance" sounds funnier.)

>Now how do you respond to someone that just says that things are not complex when in reality things are indeed complex?

Provided that you're talking with a somewhat reasonable person, you say something like "Shit is far more complex than you're pretending that it is.", then highlight a few instances of on-topic complexity that affect the outcome.

Now, if you're talking with braindead trash, things are different. Those things aren't convinced by reason, so you use emotive appeal, even if it's itself a fallacy (you claim something because it makes someone feels good/bad, not due to its truth value). Something like "oh poor thing, complexity hurts your two neurons and your precious, OOOHH SO PRECIOUS! feelings? Too bad! Things won't become MaGiCaLlY simpler if you screech hard enough. Reality does not revolve around your belly."
Looking at Airwallex but haven't deployed any changes yet. Really good rates and they seem organised
A government is not making ad revenue.
I appreciate that attitude and value it myself, but I like to point out that it is not without risk.

If the world around HN (including its community) changes, stasis can damage or kill it as well.

Specifically regarding the issue of the original posting:

- HN is already an important data source for large language model training. [1]

- To the best of my knowledge there is no freely downloadable and current data dump of HN. [2]

- The HN-API does not offer all the data that scraping can get. For example, if a post had ever hit the front page or the highest front page position reached, is an interesting data point that is missing.

- The Algolia-HN-API has the same limitations.

In my opinion this will lead to increased usage of the API and increased scraping which all costs money. HN might be forced to find a solution for this.

[1] For example, the RefinedWeb paper lists HN as one of only 12 websites that were excluded. From what I understand, it was excluded because it went into the final dataset unvetted. RefinedWeb was used for the Falcon model.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.01116.pdf

[2] The closest thing is probably the Google BigQuery "bigquery-public-data.hacker_news" dataset.
It claims to be updated daily, but really is from late September 2022. Also I could not find the download link which other data sets offered on BigQuery have. Does anyone know if I can download the complete thing anyhow?

https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?p=bigquery-public-...
Reaction: Neither the FBI nor national attention should be needed to deal with swatting. A century before SWAT teams existed, any experienced and street-savvy cop - even if he hadn't graduated high school - was quite aware of nasty people who regularly tried to use the police as pawns. Officers with poor people skills and/or easily-pushed "I'm an Action Hero!" buttons need to be eased out of police work.
Why repeat propaganda like this? Elon is a compulsive liar.
Comsta.net, a Reddit alternative that's easy to use
There are over 10,000 police departments in the USA. It's those dumbass cops from underfunded communities that fall for this.

They get cheap military equipment because USA overbuilt MRAPs for Iraq and Afghanistan, and other guns are relatively cheap.

Expensive, college educated cops are outside the budgets of many of these tiny police departments, so they're staffed with High School educated staff who have itchy trigger fingers and excess military stockpiles. What do you think would happen?
I'd assume because there's things warranting investigation there?

I'm not sure how the two vehicles interact but would assume it does some reconnaissance and pathfinding for Percy.
When 600 of them show up overnight for no apparent reason