skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So are you declaring nobody should be in that business of bot protection then?
The real issue is that there are just fines, which sound like a lot of money but it’s a small cost of doing illegal or shady business for banks.
Yep...just saw this today and now get to rip it out of everything. Thankfully, I've been slogging to try to get my team to adopt NSubstitute. Sounds like I just got some ammo.
bit too much for small claims court as well

Disable/delete their account, make a note to never deal with them again and move on. If it's too small for small claims, it's too small to waste time on.
Urbit - Weird ass hierarchical distributed computing framework with aspects of cultishness. Some sort of combined bytecode vm and networked server process, that is only allowed to participate in the network if your access is blessed by someone further up the hierarchy. It is riddled with jargon, has its own languages nock (the bytecode) and hoon (a higher level) which use their own sorts of conventions and their own terms to talk about them. In a sort of scientology-ish kinda way, the jargon appears to be explicitly designed to separate the in-group from others.

The whole thing was originated by a man (Curtis Yarvin) with some very questionable political views, and even though he isn't directly involved in the project any more, he seems to have baked some of them into his design of the system.

It has been around for about 13 years and is one of those "we're going to change everything!" projects that never really gets off the ground, but has a tranche of true believers.

At this point it's probably something to be filed in the same sort of mental folder as TempleOS, though with less religion and more authoritarianism.

From a quick read, 'Plunder' appears to be an attempt to use similar ideas to make a slightly more functional system. As such I'd regard it as a little like FreeZone scientology - a splinter group who can see the issue with the church, but still believe in the fundamental model for whatever reason.
The Republican Party has been becoming more of a populist party. I wouldn’t be surprised if they start backing such policies or universal income as we deal with several societal and economic changes.
Reddit Unveils Its Blockchain-Based Community Points System
Whether the Russians follow that policy is another question.

Most of the times in my heavy travel days that I thought "do I really want to get on this deathtrap", it was Aeroflot.
Absolutely. WeWork already had massive losses of more than $900M+ pre-IPO (in six months) which that was the biggest red flag that I have seen.

Hence the above, now the news of WeWork doubting their own existence was so unsurprising, I also already predicted this in general and especially with WeWork. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21213365 (4 years ago)
Similarly there’s the feeling of DONE for games of that era. Burn that Gold Master, or mask those cartridge ROMs, and it’s done. Fini.

Whatever shenanigans were done late in the project, if it passed QA, that code base was effectively read only, with little concern for ongoing maintenance.

On to the next one.
Show HN: Scroll stopping GIF to showcase your Statistics in social media
Yes, but starting from a warmer baseline means that an eruption like this pushed things warmer than they would otherwise have been.
... has the best sidewalks. Or bike paths.
In college (2010) I built a honeypot to test this. Simply adding a field that blocks anything that doesn't run JavaScript worked in most cases. And that makes sense: a lot of this junk is garbage like malicious WordPress plugins that crank away to just fire off HTTP requests.

But you don't need proof of work to stop that abuse. The simplest JS with a fallback to a "I'm not a bot" checkbox would do the trick. So you're defending against folks that do run JavaScript, but...not fast?
Neat! I didn't know # was "backwards" *
As someone who hasn't owned a mobile apple device since 2012 or so (my ipod touch still had the old wide port that predates thunderbolt), my expectation of friction for a cable is essentially just that it requires more force to remove than you would normally exert by moving the phone itself.

This sounds snarky but I'm genuinely interested in the different perspective - is it a normal thing to hang your iphone off the cable to move it around?
Testing is a massive burden.

We have massively increased the productivity of programmers with cloud and frameworks, but testing didn’t come with equivalent increases in productivity and even those increases involve programmers, who can usually be used elsewhere.

The other is that humans are malicious, so we must increasingly fortify against malicious people.
He didn't say anything about government coverage. He said to stop tying coverage to employment. Doing the latter doesn't mean we have to switch to government coverage.

Instead of your employer paying you $S salary per year + paying $M per year for the premiums for whatever group plan they use they would pay you $S + $M salary and you would buy whatever health insurance you wanted directly.
Just don't grab things by the cable?
"We are launching this new experience to make it more clear which YouTube features rely on watch history to provide video recommendations" - this almost sounds like a veiled threat like: We're doing this to show you that you really DO want to drink the Kool aid because you definitely won't like what we have in store for you otherwise.

At the very least, it seems like they expect most users to dislike the idea and leave history on.
Could you look into possibly switching to Adyen or an NMI gateway?
> Definitely a demand issue.

This is simply not true. There is no demand. That's why the news industry forced google, youtube, facebook, etc to push their product all over their platforms. The news industry literally got government to force tech companies to peddle their noxious product.

> To me, the only plausible shift to more fact-based and balanced coverage happens via subsidies -- the government has to insert itself into the market and put its thumb on the scale.

This has got to be the dumbest or the most naive thing I've read in a while. If you get government involved, then you'd get garbage statist propaganda. Also it would really put a dent on the false myth about journalists 'holding power to account' when they are paid by the government.

> The media did a yeoman-like job of fact-checking Trump every day

The media that created the Trump brand, the media that gave him 24/7 free publicity, the media that got him elected, etc? That's the media you are praising?

> do something that would have this kind of positive societal leverage

The problem in society is news. More news or more government funded news is not the answer.
but then some other services don't degrade like that and still offer you some easy 2-step puzzle "rotate a pic until panda is not upside down" or "find a panda"
I do think everyday behaviors have more single point of failures than they used to. The complexity has just gone up (with the example of needing to use the internet to get a parking spot) so almost by definition there are more ways it can go wrong.

That being said, I think you are just glorifying the past a bit. Watching on-demand television was impossible 15 years ago. People were still using tivo's you had to set ahead of time. I personally call my barber because its easier than the computer - and most places have both options.
Well written article, the conclusion is a bummer to me… suggesting again that analysis leads to the ferromagnetic conclusion…

Perhaps the original authors didn’t realize that and got over excited… then fell victim to confirmation bias elsewhere…

I still have some hope!
That looks cool. Cost more than my induction cooktop did, though, and in any case they don't seem to market in the US. I'd like to see it in action. But I'm not spending $2700 to import one just to find out ;-). I guess it's a direct competitor to the Thermomix TM6, which is available in the US and quite a bit cheaper.
It's called Downfall, and the page about is at https://downfall.page/

"
[Q] How long was this vulberability under embargo?

[A] Almost one year. I reported this vulnerability to Intel August 24, 2022.
"

[Q] How practical are these attacks?

[A] GDS is highly practical. It tooks me 2 weeks to develop an end-to-end attack stealing encryption keys from OpenSSL. It only requires the attacker and victim to share the same physical processor core, which frequently happens on modern-day computers, implementing preemptive multitasking and simultaneous multithreading.
I guess I'm not good at marking good content it seems shrug.
S&P drops ESG scores from debt ratings amid scrutiny
Why, are they also forcing you to throw away your old iPhone?
* multiple successful attempts of levitation/flux pinning.

The hard part is going to be figuring out how to actually isolate the superconducting effect such that it can be tested. We already know the SC effect isn't uniformly spread throughout the ceramic.
I’m a maintainer at Arch Linux and have been in FOSS for long enough to know the landscape and who’s skilled looking for work. Send me an email with your needs and we can talk.

As others have said, what you’re hiring for is more of a specialised sysadmin role. I agree with leaving the software engineering label behind.
Using GPT as an HVAC control system
Aha! Thanks for digging that up!
I would put it a little differently.

You can actually copy all the book but the things is you can't publish it as your own book after you copied. Because obviously it is not your work.
- We used a different index method called HNSW, which is more widely used in vector search area and also faster than ivfflat used by pgvector.

- There are some drawbacks with HNSW. It's designed for memory usage but not so suitable as a disk database index. Currently the storage of the HNSW index is managed outside postgres's buffer system, which is not so ideal. We're exploring more indexing method such as DiskANN to see whether we can integrate with postgres more. Fully integration with postgres can make things work like a charm
They did say "read the internet". Tho I'd bring a kindle and read a book on a 30 minute ride or listen to podcasts.
I think this is the difference between products and projects. Projects definitely have an end. Products do not.
I would be surprised!
‘Jewel-Box’ Museums Are the Wealthy’s Latest Tax Dodge Scheme
You're not cynical enough about your cynicism. You should assume it'll only work 88.8888% of the time.

It's definitely nowhere near 99%, you're probably falling for some cognitive biases.
My wife an I are currently expecting baby #5. She had a only mild amount of PPD with 2. We foresee no need of this drug with this one nor any of our future babies.
They have been able to replicate the levitation and then shown that it is not due to SC but ordinary ferromagnetism
I'm torn between "that's cool" and "that's demented". I wonder how long it took to render.
Not in the general case, no. Not in programming. I would much rather review (and maintain) 20 lines of clear, readable code than 3 lines of obscure clever code. More lines isn't better, but in the limit fewer lines is very often worse.
> It's supposed to protect against bots making billions requests a second.

Billions of requests per second is the sort of traffic that Google receives in total. Not the traffic to your blog.

The spam isn't the bottleneck here: at the point where you're caring about the actual load it's putting on your system, you're talking about open connections and the number of occupied workers in your HTTP server. Captcha doesn't help with that. You still need to accept the request in order to reject it.

But even if the goal is to just slow down a botnet that's pounding your server into oblivion, this still ain't it. There's no 16xlarge ec2 instance somewhere beating on your server. It's a bunch of malicious chrome extensions and garbage mobile apps. Why pay for servers when you can have ten thousand people install your software and run it for nearly nothing? The cost of the compute load isn't felt by the bad actor.
Great. That's not currently happening in the J&J case. You spoke as if it had already happened. It has not and is not trending that way.
Ferrari CEO: “we will always sell one car less than the market demand”
AFAIK none of the cloud vendors run multiple customer's VMs at the same time on the same core; even the "shared-core" virtual machines don't share timeslices (AWS goes into detail about this here[1]).

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/security-desi...
What are these important second-order effects? As far as I know it simply only syntax. There is nothing you can't express semantically in one and not the other.
Actual space age tech relies on outdated, large feature process nodes for the improved radiation hardening they offer. Terrestrial embedded is light years beyond what goes into space with any expectation of long term reliability.
I've noticed the same issue for years. The Microsoft acquisition pushed me from Github to GitLab. CloudFlare pushed me back.
“All that glisters is not gold” - William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice."
I too was interested in that watch. The software looks a bit fancier than my PineTime. It turns out that the PineTime is actually amazing based on battery life alone. It currently costs ~US$27. It's slightly less chunky (37.5mm x 40mm x 11mm) and a bit better looking. Has BLE, heartrate, 3-axis tilt sensor and haptics but no speaker. Battery life has been consistently 8 days between recharges for the last year or so.

Software is okay although I occasionally get annoyed by Bluetooth connectivity issues using Gadgetbridge. But part of the reason I bought it is that it's hackable, so the software is totally replaceable.

I think sometimes you get more than what you pay for. And sometimes you're paying for shareholder dividends and outrageous CEO salaries.
In this case that means you have the physics expertise to actually understand what's going on, which I already mentioned in the previous post. Not everything is accessible to layman, in this particular case the bar is very high.

My best answer is I don't know. If you are knowledge enough, go ahead
It would probably be easier with projectors in a pyramid at the center, but you would struggle with seams.
I am no luddite but i even buy my airline tickets through a travel agent. It's so much better than buying online, plus you can do many things that are just impossible online (say breaking a journey to spend 1-2 days in a layover location instead of a few hours - no web system will let you do that).
Is this fab dependent on ASML's lithography tech? Given the backlog for their machines, perhaps going back a few generations an not being bleeding edge might make the fab much more feasible to get running sooner?
Oh it's word games with "implement". OK then, let's agree then developing a modern filesystem into a robust software for practical daily use is hard.
Yes, that is a trade-off.
This is a uniquely American problem and an American solution. American healthcare and society fails new mothers. Others have done a great job of pointing out the physical and emotional distress a new mother goes through. However, I'd like to point out the social aspect. New mothers in America are not supported by paid family leave. Vast majority of women are required to go back to work in about 2 weeks after birth. Fathers have no time off, leaving a Post Partum woman at home with a new born with zero support. This is incredibly hard. Other places in the world either have governmental assistance with paid maternity (and paternity) benefits and support of cheap / free healthcare behind it. In absence of governmental assistance, other places have societal support in the form of extended family, neighbors, friends, etc. Unfortunately America fails on both fronts.
FUD!! and you know it if you actually took time to read the post.

> I could find the passwords for 17.956 of the addresses.
* Only 2 addresses of the hacked brainwallets are currently not empty, and the total money that I could actually steal is 0.00115215 BTC.

> Somebody seems to have systematically flooded the blockchain with transaction to brainwallets. E.g. this transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/ba421da33e5f85669d9312b804e22fa4c...
It seems that each target address is actually a brainwallet and alphabetically ordered. The passwords for the first 3 addresses are Hollister, hollowing,

Nobody’s real brain wallets are being hacked! It’s just left over traces from someone running aome testing in early days of bitcoin.

This one says 17K wallets … oppsie all empty and obviously programmatically generated! i.e not used for real.

The other paper found 800!! supposedly… all empty.

A well designed brainwallet is perfectly fine and safe, just don’t use a sequential phrase from known sources and modify the words you do. Obviously.
As far as I've seen, The Free Press' major crime is not necessarily what they cover but that they are egregiously tactless and their bias doesn't convey "good faith". With that being said, this article actually isn't that bad (if bad at all).

The "diversity" training described here sounds bizarre. I've yet to find any rational defense for it aside for the fact that the the people most vocally against it are supposed to be the cause of it on paper. Oddly, I'm steadily coming across instances where this training seems to target people who likely didn't hold problematic beliefs toward other races prior to this sort of DEI training. The whole practice reeks of sabotage from a more powerful establishment and lacks the polish possessed by Black Civil Rights activists of the past.
I think it’s a venn diagram where the overlap is between ungodly complex solutions and an inability to effectively QA software, maybe with a little tech debt added in for seasoning.
If your takeaway from Wall-E was that the human characters were aspirational I don't even know what to say. Suffice to say most people don't see it that way.
There are plenty of smartwatches with transflective displays today (e.g. most Garmins). Unlike normal LCD or LED displays they're perfectly readable in direct sunlight (with a reduced color gamut), they have great refresh rates, and basically become normal LCD displays when they have to. They do consume power more aggressively than e-paper/e-ink though: Garmin watches last a few days, while my Fossil hybrid smartwatch lasts a couple weeks.

I just wish they made laptops with them. I'd buy a laptop I can use at the beach with sunglasses in a heartbeat.
in this case yes; however.... usb-c connections become unreliable over time. cables need jiggling and such. the protocol might be better, but the physical connector sucks. not as bad as d-sub connectors, but bad.
This post really indicates how deep the mainstream misinformation networks have penetrated the minds of the American.

The "real" Republican party, consisting of younger voters, is by-and-large populist. Majority of them are pro-gay (though, anti-trans), pro legalization of weed, pro gun, and pro free healthcare.

The problem is that the real Republican party consists of 80 year old neoliberal sacks of garbage. These are the people making the laws. The Democrats are not different. It may seem to be a cliche that "both parties are the same" but when you observe effected policy vs proposed policy both parties fall along the neoliberal line almost perfectly. What we have a neoliberal gerontocracy. Not a democracy.

This is why internally there's a struggle for the R's to keep young voters. The same problem D's are having. While the D's are blowing their own foot off going too far off to the left socially, the R's are blowing their own foot off sticking to their dogmatic 1960s neoliberal policies.

It's far more complicated than left/right dynamics. Its absurd to me how much misinformation CNN/Fox/MSNBC/NPR put out about this. If anyone on the left actually wandered to their nearest blue collar bar and asked people what they thought on "the issues" you'd probably find they are more "liberal" than you were let on by your favorite misinformation artist.
[ES: Educational and professional experience. All this comes with caveats because many parts of working with algae are unsolved, you probably won't get all of these properties at once.]

Algae are much more efficient for various reasons. Or rather, the efficiency ceiling is higher, whether it is realized is a separate question.

They make better use of space (your culture may vary).

They can have a higher proportion of their mass as oil or protein (relevant if you're harvesting them for food).

They are highly adaptable, they can acclimate themselves to new environments readily.

They are simpler and lack the "overhead" of vascular plants.

Relatedly, on paper at least it's a very nice system to engineer. You've got a logistic growth curve (a sigmoid) for biomass in suspension, and you're harvesting when you get to the flat part of the curve to "rewind" to the exponential part of the curve, so you're staying in the part which is very productive. Biomass is difficult to measure, but there are good proxies for it (such as pH, optical density, or conductivity).

You can get many harvests in a year, you may be able to harvest them every day or every week depending on conditions (I've worked in an algae farm that harvested every day during the summer and occasionally in the off season [though technically it was cyanobacteria, which some don't count as algae, it's kind of a Pluto situation]). Vascular plants I think are usually harvested 1 to 3 times a year (though I won't discount someone clever being able to get more harvests by harvesting sap or something like that).
Ew why would someone even if they love micro services go from go to node? Just seems dumb.

Write the micro services in Go lol.

But yeah I agree to some point. We medicate far too fast and easily these days. Half these drugs have insane side effects, and yet people shit on shrooms. At least I won’t die from blood clots or some random shit.
Where are you located? I haven’t had any trouble with making such bookings online from Canada.
… but only for folks who “deserve it” (aka white)
If you used common phrases from books you definitely aren’t clever and deserve to have your funds swept.
Some quotes from the announcement:

"It is time for communities to break free of walled gardens and take ownership of their existence online."

"Today's online communities are ... trapped inside apps and platforms, where they do not have independence or control anything of value."
Deconstructing Urbit: The Politics of Software as Infrastructure [pdf]
Wells Fargo gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2023 was $80.279B. Billion, with a B. A $0.5B fine is both a lot and nowhere near enough.

I imagine a smaller fine would be a more effective deterrent if it was directed at the C-suite instead of the whole corporation. Maybe a little jail time too, as a treat.
I like your pov and I pretty much think the same. Copy for learning is different from copy and publish as your own.
> extremely heavy node_modules folder

what about global folder with most of the packages zipped with yarn?
I don’t disagree with anything there.

I however choose to be optimistic that there’s a way out, or if not “out” then at least something more humane than what we’re doing now.
> A GOP downvote pile-on is now pretty good evidence of having said something truthful, especially when it's accompanied by an equally strong (or stronger) updraft of upvotes from other tendencies.

You aren't american. Why do you even care? So many foreigners like you have an unhealthy obsession with american politics, culture, etc. Honestly, don't you have anything going on in your own country to occupy your time? It never occurs to me to waste my time discussing other countries' politics in other countries' forum. The propagandists say that it's the russians or the chinese that are meddling in american politics, but that hasn't been my experience online. It's foreigners like you. I just don't get it.