skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard a podcast interviewing the site owner[0], hearing his perspective was interesting though I don't know how much of what he says is true either. He raised one very salient point, however, which was that ISPs probably didn't start dropping him out of nowhere. He asserts that there is a highly persistent and technically knowledgeable party threatening ISPs & other providers by going after the provider's other customers to pressure the provider to drop kiwifarms. I don't know what the truth is but it is odd that kiwifarms keeps getting knocked offline as neonazi forums etc. stay online.

I don't know much about kiwifarms, never visited it, but given the claims in this post (that it's "uniquely awful," that the site itself is victimizing people) I think it would be helpful if the authors would link to some context/evidence. Maybe it's all true in this case, but I've been on the internet long enough to know that believing grave accusations without evidence is a very bad rookie mistake.

0: https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-107-how-the-inter...
These are arbitrary distinctions.

Not too long ago, malnutrition, hunger, and losing a few young family members to infections was “definitive” too.
I found this interesting because it’s a rare case where an appellate court ruled that the police’s “qualified immunity” protection does not apply.

> “The post did not direct any person or group to take any unlawful action immediately or in the near future,” the judges wrote. “ … at worst, his post was a joke in poor taste, but it cannot be read as intentionally directed to incitement.”

> Iles violated Bailey’s First Amendment right and had no probable cause to arrest Bailey, the court said in its ruling, meaning he is not entitled to qualified immunity.
Noise canceling headphones can solve so many problems on an airplane. The noise canceling in AirPods Max made the price worth it... even after Apple reduced the effectiveness because they got sued for patent infringement. Far better spend than whatever elevated ticket price they'll be charging.

One click of a button and your crying baby becomes solely _your_ problem. :P
"They should pay the most tax"

...and by 'they', what you really are saying is the end consumer will pay 100% of the tax, which has been passed on to them from the trucking company.
Which is why electric SUVs are actually a step backward on a lot of fronts except CO2 emissions.
True, but it's not as though the 10X expense is for nothing. A SAN enables a lot more than local storage. I didn't mean to suggest that there wasn't a way to achieve lower costs on storage hardware directly, just that in practice, for a variety of reasons, that quoted cost is not representative.
> or are part of a community the police are scared of.

That was my suspicion about things. I wondered why the police bothered to pursue someone like Mark Meechan, the one arrested for teaching a pug to do a nazi salute as a joke, when there must be more serious crimes they could devote resources to.

I think there obviously are more serious crimes but would require a lot more effort and trouble to make any arrests. Going after people for frivolous things is much easier for them achieve. They can kind of give off the appearance of doing something useful this way.
Yeah I guess the problem is that WASM has only i32 i64 f32 f64, so there's no consensus on what a char* argument or return value looks like?

I'm a little surprised that hasn't been worked out by now

Most C structs seem to have obvious encodings in WASM ? Or is that not the right way to think about it?

There are all sorts of problems with linking with C++ exceptions and so forth, and probably varargs, but I would have thought basic C / Zig stuff would be worked out
I'm sure Colin's results can be reproduced, but it will take some effort. Colin has been doing a lot of work so that Firecracker can boot FreeBSD -- see https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2022-10-18-FreeBSD-Firecrac... for an introduction -- and that is not yet all available in Firecracker "out of the box."
It's just not that people distrust Chinese statistics, it's that they have stopped publishing statistics.
> And now I ask myself: am I just too stupid to see it? Or are the people too stupid to not see it?

My hypothesis is that it depends on how you search. For me, Google has become unambiguously poor, and I've stopped using it because I get bad results.

But I think that the reason for that is Google's use of AI (not the LLM stuff, but the stuff they started using a number of years ago). Google is clearly trying to interpret "what I really mean" from my queries instead of just taking them at face value, and it's awful at doing that. For me. It's obviously good at it for other people. It may have to do with me actively doing my best to prevent Google from tracking me.
In order for automatic switching to work though, you'd have to propagate everything between all 3 services, at all times, no?

Isn't that cost prohibitive?
The problem with just odometer readings is that places where lots of cars pass through used to gain tax revenue via the gas to maintain the roads.

If those people are from out of state, the tax revenue would go to their home state instead of the state they created the road wear and tear on.
Having access to food is most definitely a matter of national security. If you get your ports cut off you can't increase local food production before mass starvation.
Would you consider this "a mark of not understanding the subject matter" as you apparently do with clip vs. magazine in the realm of firearms?
Calculator of the Day: The Casio QL-10 Calculighter – Shady Characters
It is also regressive in that personal vehicles, even 3 ton SUVs, account for a small amount of road wear and pollution per vehicle compared with heavy trucks. Public transport in Europe is seldom all diesel busses.
Predicting an End to Your Relationship
> This is very bad for labour mobility. It's a hukou system for retirees.

This is unfortunately a political requirement for passage. There are very, very few people 60+ who have lived in the same place for 20+ years who are willing to leave their houses, and most who do are dragged into nursing homes only because they are no longer physically capable of taking care of themselves.

The rent-to-own period can and should be quite long, like 30-40 years, similar to a mortgage. But the quality of "nobody can take my property away from me" is quite strongly felt, and not one that you can really take away from people. Any radical housing reform must respect that.
Following the history here, DARPA also funded work in ~2005 on a project Monarch, that I saw presented at a Google tech talk back then. I believe it refers to the "butterfly" architectures of very scalable interconnects of lightweight processing units

Bill Dally was working on the networking side (maybe equiv to the photonics interconnect here) and almost got it up and running at BBN (search for "monarch") http://franki66.free.fr/Principles%20and%20Practices%20of%20...

Here's some refs for the chip
https://slideplayer.com/slide/7739558/
https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2007/03/monarch-system-on...

6 main RISC processors with 96 ALUs for the lightweight IO/compute processes
I think this is sort of the exception that proves the rule. The people profiting form prisons have direct incentives to increase prison populations , but the people who can actually falsely imprison people have, at best, illegal side channel incentives.
Toyota released the Prius first, but it was exclusive to Japan until 2000. The Insight was available in North America first by few months.
Interesting to be able to see many waterways being extremely tightly wound and others straightforward over long distances. I wonder if it's an issue of data resolution or actual geography.
> Now the whole Southeast Asia is competing with rich countries in industrial goods and protectionism is not protectionism anymore, is "decoupling".

Just like bribery in 3rd world is corruption but here, it's called lobbying ( cost of doing business ).
Heavier vehicles still significantly underpay if road maintenance is funded by gas taxes alone, since wear and tear increases in proportion to the fourth power of weight [0] while gas usage only increases linearly or so.

Of course, higher taxes on the heaviest vehicles would just mean higher prices on consumer goods, so this mostly ends up as a subsidy to consumption.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
Fedora Linux, Firefox, Jetbrains IDE's and terminal is enough for me :)
ISPs get threatened all the time and don't take content down just because some rando is mad. Kiwifarms needs to provide proof that ISPs are being threatened, as opposed to the more likely scenario that the harassment victims are filing normal abuse complaints and alerting the ISP to the TOS violations taking place all over the site.
I wrote, “Scrum is a cancer,” and the Internet had thoughts about it
By destroying an idea, you make progress”: In Conversation With Paul Nurse
You’re hiding huge swaths of unforeseen consequences.

Do you honestly think that when Google is presented with an improvement in search results that would reduce its revenue that they choose the improvement?
I'd question whether it's really Putin’s forever war. Moscow has been expanding its territory by invading the neighbours for five hundred or so years and Putin is just the latest administrator of that. And maybe the last with a bit of luck.
Correct, grandma should use an iPad. Big screen, big fonts, plays Wordle, does Facetime, doesn't even have a terminal.

I love my iPad for video and games like chess. Even some people who draw like theirs for that.
18-wheelers already pay taxes very differently than consumer cars. I don't know how much higher they actually are. Maybe someone with knowledge can weigh in here.
Coulomb counting has issues with accumulated error in any system. LFPs just make things worse. Consider that if the counting is off by only 0.1%, then if you only use coulomb counting to determine state of charge, you will accumulate a 10% error after only 50 charge and discharge cycles. Voltage based readings to "reset" or calibrate the maximum/minimum set points are extremely important. For LFP batteries, they need to be very close to the 100% state of charge to accurately measure. Regular lithium ion can be measured at much lower states or charge (70-90% usually, to my knowledge).
I used something like this: https://www.mcmaster.com/products/lever-switches/subminiatur...
"My supermarket has a savings scheme, in exchange for my personal information. The way it works is that the cashier asks: do you want to join this savings scheme? If the customer says yes, they give you a form to fill in your details. If you say no, they leave you alone, and you miss out on the discount or gifts."

Hahahaha, yes, if you don't join their club, they don't collect personal information.
Did Google interviews change dramatically around 2012?
ELF-SR2 Spatial Reality Display
There are so many of these already: https://cliki.net/html%20generator

And still I can't find one that I like (which is why I also wrote one myself :D).
How does one 'opt out' of whatever nonsense government dreams up next?!

And if I can't opt out, how is this not tyranny?
Brain’s Inflammation Puzzle: Molecule Offers New Hope for Alzheimer’s
>Researchers discovered a promising new drug candidate called “A11” that targets inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease. The drug works by inhibiting a genetic transcription factor, PU.1, known for over-activating inflammatory genes in the brain.
https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/16568127781773475...

I have been convinced for a long time that a test of basic civics and current events is a necessary (and possibly a sufficient) condition to fix most of the failings we see in representative democracy, but the Overton window is nowhere near it, and Ramaswamy is hardly the candidate I'd want proposing it.

The whole question and answer bank could even be given out online or in print cosr free - my bar is pretty low.
Can you do the same for politicians?
Assembly lines at Toyota auto plants have been shut down by computer problems
They weren't unfriendly, but they were always brutal oppressive regimes. By trading with them, we became complicit in that.

Also, I take issue with the idea that we "made" them unfriendly. I'm pretty sure China and Russia can take responsibility for their own foreign policy.
Only faster for queries that don’t care about the value of the text, and do a full table scan instead of reading from the index
Ah, forgot that this is talking about assessment fees! :)
RWKV: The Unreasonably Effective RNN Strikes Back
IMO "you can turn that off" is absolutely not an acceptable answer to this stuff. It's my computer and it shouldn't be doing anything that I didn't specifically tell it to do. And that's not even to mention how often these setting are reset, or new "settings" added
For context, Avi Loeb loudly publicly berated a leader of SETI for not being willing to consider the existence of aliens, evidently unaware of who she even was and what sort of work she was involved with: https://youtu.be/aY985qzn7oI?t=1872

Avi Loeb is the malicious crank who uses theatrical grandstanding to make himself seem like a victim, alienating people who should be his natural allies if he were calm and sincere.
This is HN. How many computer programs have been created based on existing professional workflows that vastly reduced the amount of people needed to do that job?

An absolute ton. Now that it’s happening to art instead of accountants everyone should care?
SF store clerk killed after robbery, assault with bat
I don’t see how running a red light could be anything other than a big deal lol
>you're entitled to 3 free months with your new phone"

something similar but i don't remember exactly what it was.

on my android, google tries to push hard for "enable play protect". every often on an app update or app install it tries to convince me to press accept. i refuse but they dont refuse to keep trying.

same for other google apps like phone or messages. they want me to opt in for sharing of data.
Awesome stuff. Robots don't get scared or tired and make bad decisions, this is good for civilian populations. Rather than leveling a whole compound your weapons can get inside and be more precise.
Openring is a tool for generating a webring from RSS feeds
I'll echo this: search, in a purist sense, has definitely improved (just looking back to the mid 90's through to now).

The "search experience" however, has degraded since the mid 2010s, for me at least. I'm in a constant battle to filter through advertising and bad content that is "optimized" for the algorithm to find the information I need. The constant need to monetize the technology more and more has certainly reduced it's usefulness en-masse.

But I don't think chatbots or alternatives (beyond curated indexes) will solve this problem - as you say the web itself has morphed around ways to optimize one search engine's ranking algorithm.
My fear is decoupling just sets the stage for a global war. We’ve decoupled Russia, Iran, North Korea. With China we have a legitimate fully integrated axis capable of producing independently with legitimate and perceived global grievances, and the means and will to exercise force.
Total 2023 Chinese exports are projected to be fairly close to what they were in 2021, which is not that bad given macroeconomic trends across the world.

The risk for companies to build supply chains that completely avoid China is that they will be outcompeted by competitors who won't and who will make use of these loopholes.
> that Search is doing better than ever, but some users just don't like what the web offers in response.

The reason that I don't think it's this is because often there are sites that offer exactly what I'm looking for. Google doesn't surface them in my results, but other engines do.
I think people much prefer thinking they know something with a superficial overview (see things like the popularity of TED talks). Responses from LLMs are great for this: they look like a cohesive summary but they often end up being total bullshit.

Digging through search results to find what you need is work. Having something confident make you believe an alternate truth is not.

People who actually try to use code output from chatbots quickly realize it just only _looks_ like code of the right shape and quality. There have been many blog posts and comments here touting how great the code ChatGPT generated is while the given example response is complete nonsense once you look a little deeper.
I don't have an elevator answer to that, but the bar is certainly higher than "none".
I'm referring to GOG Galaxy, the Good Old Games game launcher. It's an app similar to Steam, which allows you to install and update your GOG games, get achievements, sync saves etc.
They use electricity though, which you usually also pay tax on so it's quite similar in that regard. The more you use the more tax you pay.
Carbon tax will make it more expensive to do anything that consumes energy, which is every human activity.

Land value tax: you move to a cheap place, some time later its value increases and now you have to pay more tax, why?

Tax on personal vehicles: it was EPA mandates that led to the current huge truck situation in the US, so maybe remove those instead of forcing people to pay even more for worse vehicles.
Most criminals offend multiple times. So if it’s better to let n guilty people go free than punish 1 innocent, how many times (x) would criminals need to reoffend for half of them to end up in prison? Been too long since I studied stats so I’m not sure what type of distribution to use, Poisson?
> but unless Nvidia is planning on forking the kernel and fully maintaining their own version of Linux

https://docs.nvidia.com/dgx/dgx-os-6-user-guide/introduction...
>It's actually not very difficult to distinguish who nazis are.

It's very difficult because calling someone "Nazi" means you get to attack the "Nazi". So people who want to attack others just call them Nazis to justify it.

It's happened a lot in US politics, but for an example everyone here can agree on, "Ukraine is infested by Nazis" was one of the excuses for Russia invading Ukraine.
It felt way more insidious than that, they were really either trying to be her or roped her into something. I've seen the latter happen pretty frequently, probably because I don't tend to live in what you might call prime target countries for these types of scams to hit as an endgame (NA/Europe/wherever else the money is greener)
1. This is impressive debugging work by the author. No individual step is rocket science - especially when the story is the success path and not the forking paths of possible failures - but they kept their eyes on the prize and figured it out.

2. This reminds me why I no longer use linux on the desktop
Youth unemployment stopped being published after it skyrocketed to 20+% this year. They also no longer have the means.
This is shocking for me to hear because it is the exact opposite of my experience/memory. I recall Microsoft briefly being the cool place for geniuses to work before it quickly became the big bad evil monopolist. Maybe this perception was exacerbated by my hanging out in more open-source-friendly corners of the internet.

I know they’ve changed their tune on open source but it’s really hard for me to break from my 20+-year perception that they are the evil company that makes awful software.
Export data has a counterparty though, so I don't see how it's anything more than a thought terminating cliché.
Direct, operating CO2 only. In terms of embodied CO2 from manufacturing, and indirect impacts from increased demand for parking, demand for larger parking spaces, demand for charging infrastructure, and induced travel leading to sprawling urban forms, electric SUVs are a regression.
That's what the trucking industry says. But that just has the effect of keeping freight logistics inefficient. Pricing-in externalities, especially for commercial activity, increases efficiency.

Just about any argument that goes "Let me keep benefitting from the commons without paying full price because poor people" is sus.
It's not a restriction on use.

The GPL does not prevent users from running the Linux kernel in any manner they choose.

What it does disallow is for users to write code which is "based on" Linux code, and then distribute that code to other users on terms which are incompatible with the GPL.

You can run whatever mix of GPLd and non-GPLd code you want. You can even edit your Linux sources in a way that removes the GPL license checks for modules and build your own kernel, and run it, and no-one can legally stop you - not even Linus himself.

But you're not allowed to distribute work-based-on-GPLd-code-that-isn't-licensed-under-the-GPL to anyone else. And neither is Nvidia.

Unfortunately, suing Nvidia over this would cost millions, if not tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of dollars. So creating a technological barrier to fuck with them and their bullshit business model instead is a much more achievable goal.
Realistically, this would put all the tax burden on heavy trucks and two axle buses. But not all trucks are fully loaded all the time, since some goods aren't dense enough or there might just not be enough demand. There needs to be a way to account for the actual weight of the vehicle, instead of the nominal max load, otherwise this just incentivizes reducing the nominal weight while opportunistically overloading the vehicles. It may also incentivize alternate designs such as increasing the number of axles.
I'm not sure I understand what you're imagining here.

It sounds like you're talking about having in-memory per-user state that persists between requests on the server side. Each time a request comes in, it's handled in the context of the state from previous requests?

That's a lot like Cloudflare's Durable Objects.

But it's also not much different from storing state for a user in the database and/or cache and fetching it on demand.

I seems like you're thinking of having like the ability to yield a response from code and then have a request come back in and resume at that point again. I'm not sure that makes much sense over just looking up some state from somewhere on a request.
If china declared Puerto Rico to be it's ally and started building military bases there without US permission, the US would do more than threaten to invade Puerto Rico, it'd do it immediately
Clarified in another reply, I was referring to GOG Galaxy, the launcher that you would use to keep those games up to date, sync saves across systems etc.
I think I was in a middle school computer lab (could have been high school) when one of the other students said, "hey, you should try this new search engine out, it has millions of sites and works really well". And it did - this comment brings me back.
I never know how to interpret statements like this:

> More recently, there’s been a shift to entertainment-based video feeds like TikTok — which is now being used as a primary search engine by a new generation of internet users.

What does it mean to use an entertainment-based video site as a "primary search engine"?
> We need to encourage people to only use a vehicle of a size they actually need.

Social engineering is generally bad. We don't need to do this, because people should decide for themselves what they need.
Probably intended nobody wrote an article about it. Time to pause until this too blows over.
Tropical forests may be warming to a point where plant photosynthesis fails
Authorship can be weird.

A physicist on a big LHC project will be the author on over 1000 papers after a decade or so (they average around 100 papers a year). In all likelihood they haven't read the vast majority of them, and have contributed directly to around 1% of them.

High energy physicists got sick of bickering over who was on the list and added everyone who had contributed to the experiment infrastructure. There are pros and cons: it's nice to be on all the papers but it's confusing to figure out who did what.