skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't trust you either. Are you a bot? Well it's good to assume you are by default, since it's the majority of internet traffic anyway. And for your privacy, you're not exactly forthcoming with data to now prove otherwise.

So sorry, until you pay with a unique individual bank account to prove identity, you can't post on future social media sites. You are a bot after all.
Brands and models tend to be unanimously identified: iPhone, Huawei, Mercedes, BMW, etc. Do these count as words, or names?
You've captured perfectly in words, what our frustrations were with Ghost (for a long time). All those "markdown cards" and stuff, just distracted from the key thing my team wanted to do: write stuff and improve it with the team :)
I disagree, the embeddings are what are used by the llms themselves to produce relevant output and the output is relevant ergo the embeddings do produce relevant output via similarity search
That's a neat idea! I looked into name constraints many years ago, and at the time, no common browser or TLS library supported it; glad to see that that has changed.

With ubiquitous support, I hope that one day we'll be able to routinely get "subdomain CA certificates" issued by something like Letsencrypt, just like it's already possible to get wildcard certificates.
> not to mention its impossible to know about search traffic and even referring urls.

I think it was the migration to https everywhere that killed that. Not sure why it went down that way, or if Google was responsible.

But yeah, when I ran a blog, I would look through the referrer URLs to see what people were actually searching for and write articles about that because it was obviously an untapped void in the market.
where is that reported? in Table 14 I see PSM performing much better than SPM. I also see a note about the SPM performance which attributes the degradation to the tokenizer edge cases

> As an example, our model would complete the string 'enu' with 'emrate' instead of 'merate' which shows awareness of the logical situation of the code but incomplete understanding of how tokens map to character-level spelling.

that doesn't really feel like a failure of language modeling to me
Key actionable info: to fix this, go to this URL:

chrome://settings/adPrivacy

and turn off the toggles on each of the three subpages.

Alternatively, go to this URL https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/ to fix this permanently.
the miner is making more money not mining than mining with this process, it's rather like being paid to not grow crops.
You can disable iMessage and the Messages app will then just send SMS. Or you can install Signal or WhatsApp or whatever
CoL is also 3-4x in Alaska because almost everything is flown in or shipped.
I'm just saying why try to convince me I'm wrong if you haven't been paying attention to the thing you're trying to convince me about? Like how does that make any sense?
Japanese has mama and papa, but only as relatively recent loanwords. The closest (at least phonetically, though not necessarily in usage) native equivalents are haha and chichi
Firefox has plugins to set your user agent to Chrome.
Growing up in a communist regime I'm all in for democracy and freedom. Having experienced drug addiction while having a graduate degree I also believe regulation of drugs and alcohol is necessary. You think you are in control until that one day when you take it too far. If you don't have a strong support system of relatives and friends and access to good health care, there's no coming back from that hole.
The reason they are one of the first to turn off is _because_ they can turn their servers off easily. This is why crypto mining is perfect for this application.

Some industrial processes take days or weeks to fully shutdown / startup so quick shutdown isn't practical.

If your business was shutdown for the greater good, would you not expect some compensation?
For pepole who like to witness the actual madness, check Taikyoku Shogi:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taikyoku_shogi
What’s the cost of global war to maintain the petrodollar?
It's all gotten too complicated, clearly the direction of Linux is controlled by big companies who are mainly interested in the datacenter. I used OpenBSD because it's still Unix, it's not trying to become something it's not, or change itself to suit whoever pumps in the money.
These are recent loanwords though which the OP considered uninteresting
Alaska is massive, and their commodities driven economy is what allows them to provide UBI to all their residents.
One thing, if they didn’t exist that would be less strain on the grid period.

Granted an industrial use of that same land might use as much power. Now it is a case of well: they are doing something more useful for society.

In addition imagine a spreadsheet for miner profit based on world location. That spreadsheet now might add this new upside in being paid to not run the miners and make more money. This attracts more miners!

If the goal is to protect society and especially local people, having miners AND shitty power supply is not good (choose one or the other)
I know in my small city, the pandemic laid bare just how much paid parking meant to the budget. With almost nothing coming in from the city-owned garages and street meters, there was much handwringing about the shortfall.
Tea in Korean is neither "tea" or "chai" after all. It is "cha". Very bad post.
My experience is that VS Code has a tremendous amount of input lag, to the point that I need to wait for a search prompt to focus before I can start my query. Emacs, on the other hand, is incredibly responsive, and even when running over a slow SSH connection has properly buffered inputs so I don’t need to wait.

Emacs can achieve much more performant editing with the same server, so there’s no excuse for VS Code to be so slow.
Though I can see justifications for giving people a different UI depending on whether they use a touch screen or a mouse.
The issue with your argument is that transaction fees are pretty much the most obvious example of market forces at work. If it were unsustainable for Visa to operate with its low transaction fees, then it wouldn't be in business. If it were possible for a good crypto product to offer lower transaction fees, they would do it.

Literally right now we're looking at the proof. The data/experiment is already here. When you hear people talking about how wasteful crypto is, it's because the data are already in and we're on to the analysis.
Well yeah, they have a pre-configured set of choices, e.g. "Chrome on Windows" but you can do something custom too, if you want.
Apple Becomes the Biggest U.S.-China Pawn Yet
It's been infuriating watching Silicon Valley and Wall Street pretend like they were some extraterritorial entities with no allegiance or obligations. Now comes the pain. Investors and tech companies deserve every bit of it.
You can already do that with extension, can't you?
https://world.hey.com/dhh/turbo-8-is-dropping-typescript-701... .
This is exactly the heart of a javascript coder like me. thanks for everything
> Having to pay them off when the grid is overloaded because they can’t turn their damn servers off for a week is what smells like the rest of the crypto bullshit.

There seems to be a misconception here.

The miners are being paid rebates to do precisely that - turning off their servers. They're being given credits to not use electricity at times when demand is high and renewable supply is low.

This is part of what allows the renewable energy to make up a larger share of Texas' energy production in an economical way.

Without the ability to rapidly raise ("Quick, turn the bitcoin miners on!") and lower ("Quick, turn the bitcoin miners off!") energy demand in this manner, there is a lesser need for variable production (solar and wind) and a greater need for "constant" production (oil, gas, nuclear). Note that these types of production can be turned on and off the same way bitcoin miners can, but doing so is much slower and is actually so costly that it's cheaper to decrease the share of energy produced by "constant" production sources, increase the share of energy produced by variable renewables, and simply pay the bitcoin miners to turn their racks and racks of SHA-256 ASICs on and off at precisely the right times and places. It's WAY easier, cheaper, faster, and safer to make adjustments to the "demand" side than it is to make adjustments on the "supply" side.

I know it sounds really counterintuitive and complicated but this really is better for the environment - it leads to less burning of fossil fuels and lower costs for taxpayers than the alternative of not having any bitcoin miners in Texas.

Please give that article I linked a read if you have the time, that goes into much more depth about all of this.
> Fair enough, I certainly find it interesting

I rest my case! :) - it's actually surprisingly common for people to see things that they personally find interesting but which they feel don't 'belong' on HN - but if it's personally genuinely interesting, that's the essence of what belongs on HN! Of course tastes vary dramatically from person to person, but hopefully there's a wide and unpredictable range of something for everybody.

> Third or fourth occult-related posted I've seen this week

That's almost certainly one of those random subsequences that doesn't feel random - they happen all the time. There has always been an occasional trickle of such posts to HN, and that's fine. More than that would not be fine, of course.
It is worse. Maybe it is getting paid to not grow crops because you are upstream and the people can’t take a shower and need to buy evian by the gallons.

And the crop is just canola oil but someone else is paying you to burn it in a fire.
I know; my point is that this situation isn't unique to crypto mining: their argument applies to every industry. If crypto didn't exist, another industry would need to be shutdown.
iMessage is also a huge part of Apple's moat - it's unlikely Apple will ever allow green-bubble alternative text apps that may be more secure.
It's hard to start and stop traditional power generators (ng/coal/nuclear), but it is easy to start and stop the bitcoin mining rigs. grid likes to be at capacity, and its easy for the miners to scale up and down to fit the gap.
Why should it only work one way? Aren't there subsidies across many industries in attempt to align common good?
This linked game is amazing: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1411126
I think that's what they're saying. People think that when they switch to git they have to use prod and other, newer workflows. But you can keep doing the same thing you did in SVN, using trunk primarily in git, with easier merges.
Can't you trigger this by fuzzing? Sure, the JBIG VM won't be, but some random fuzzing should easily trigger out of bounds reads or writes.

Lockdown mode alters the iMessage user flow to such an extent that I don't see Apple enabling it by default. I don't think Lockdown prevents the RCE exploit, but I do think it simply blocks iMessage interactions from unknown numbers, so that the exploit can't even load.
Even if I was a bot, what of it? Your site should serve bots just as well as it serves humans. Only people who care about that are those who want to monetize our eyeballs by selling our attention to the highest bidder.

If it's costing you money, have your HTTP server return 402 Payment Required instead of the free page. That's how it should be.
Seriously? So someone who is poor can't get legal access to some potential life altering drug just because they're not affluent enough? And that'll somehow have an impact on homelessness?

Many people in the open-air drug encampments are there because they aren't getting real help. Your proposed plan would do nothing to help those that might just be assisted by the new perspective psychedelic therapy can give. It would only let the rich keep living the untouchable life they already live.
I believe it should have actually been a semicolon.
That would be the single largest tax break in U.S. history, and all of the benefits would go to the wealthy, who don't need it.
Although the source article here is clearly opinionated in one direction, I’m not impressed with your claims about actual problems in it. (For reference, I agree with the direction it takes and would make only minor adjustments to it if I were writing it—the only of any substance would be not calling the Privacy Sandbox an “ad platform” just because in a way it’s a little more like a shop that sells picks to ad platforms.)

> 1. Privacy Sandbox is a project, consisting of many proposals. To pitch it as some cohesive product is misleading.

Look, that’s how Google are branding it. It’s an initiative which has turned into a cohesive brand. Just look at how https://privacysandbox.com/news/privacy-sandbox-for-the-web-... speaks of it all. That’s pretty much how it’s being presented in the browser, too.

> 2. Related: FLoC and Topics are completely separate things, aside from existing under the same project.

They’re about as completely separate as Chrome 17 and Chrome 117, or StarOffice and OpenOffice.org. OK, these are both very imperfect comparisons, but although FLoC and Topics work in somewhat different ways, Topics is for all practical purposes just a fork that continues FLoC. They even treated it that way in the browser (at the time at least, no idea if it’s still so). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_Learning_of_Cohorts#... seems overall a fair enough portrayal. They simply rebranded the basic concept.

> 3. Topics is reducible to (implementable using) third-party cookies. While the proposal has issues and doesn’t resist tracking as well as Google claims (see below article), Ars’ implication that this is somehow making Chrome less privacy-preserving is patently false.

The first and last claims here are obvious nonsense. Third-party cookies only let you track stuff where your code runs, whereas the Topics API uses the entire browser history, so it’s not reducible to third-party cookies unless you mean something very different from me by that word. Ars’ implication is by no means patently false; as far as the current status is concerned, where they’ve added this and not removed third-party cookies, it’s patently true. In the longer term, it’s less clear, better in some ways and worse in others, but “patently false” is still an unreasonable characterisation.
We came pretty close to using this at one point. Thankfully I was able to propose a similar sounding but very different approach called "GitHub flow" (aka normal development). Quite a bullet dodge imo.
> I'm skeptical that crypto is even worse even if it incorporates wasting energy by design

The legacy transaction industry, if it does consume more energy, can move to begin to conserve energy because consuming energy is not in its design.
At the U.S. Open, that voice yelling 'Out' comes from a computer (2021)
>We live in unbelievable times.

What's also remarkable is the amount of people who refuse to believe.

What's different this time around is that this technology represents competition to people who's intellectual abilities are tied to their career.

Clearly it can't match a human yet. But in the last decade, if you follow the trendline, AI is slowly approaching that point of human replacement. A couple of years ago if you told me that I could step into a car without a driver and it could drive me around the city in SF I would've laughed in your face and told you the technology was a pipe dream.

It won't be a matter of AI assisting all of us, it will be AI assisting a few of us and replacing most of us.
You're getting confused by accounting here. Charging someone regular rates but then making payments for them to shut off during high demand is equivalent to the customer being charged lower rates for excess power.

The utility prefers the former model because it avoids normalizing low rates, avoids running into issues with most-favored-nation terms in contracts, gets them paid upfront while they pay out the correction only when it was actually needed, doesn't run into problems with "what if they don't actually turn off during the high demand but you still charged low rates the last N months", etc.

But what's happening is equivalent to "utility sells spare capacity to bitcoin miners at discounted rates" which is hardly remarkable.
What's the value added to society of bitcoin mining?
You were literally bullying this person and being very condescending and then turn around and accuse him of bullying you. Why is it ao hard for you to accept that some people might different opnions?
For Firefox (Not official):

https://github.com/ArakawaHenri/iCloudPasswords_for_Firefox
I don’t like how you can’t reason about commands. It’s all like do-magic-spell-etc without an intuition.
Upvoted for the retraction.

Personal opinions on best practices:

- If you have multiple components to an application, whether frontend/backend or microservices, put them all in the same repository by default. It is so easy to split them apart again after your team grows to the point where it matters, but before that point you will need to carefully coordinate merging PRs to multiple repos, and sometimes rolling them back, and it is so easy with a small application monorepo. You can just store git’s “tree hashes” in s3 and check if they changed when deciding whether to build and deploy, it's not hard.

- If you're versioning, a version.txt file at the root of the versioned content is your friend. Have a {subproject_name}-v1.6 branch, you tag commits on that branch v1.6.3-rc1, rc2, ... automatically with CI/CD, until you tag one RC as a release when you release it.

- Everyone merges into main, you cherrypick from main out to those other branches. This keeps the graph clean. When you cut v1.6 you decide whether your next project on main is v2.0 or v1.7.

- Feature toggles are your friend, see Rod Hilton’s Three-Flow[1]. Just clean them up when you release!

- with about a day's involvement in CI/CD, the `main` branch can have a `k8s/` folder with subfolders for each of your deployment environments. You want to deploy something to prod, just update a version number in `k8s/prod` and merge to `main`. This is even a little simpler than Three-Flow and you can very precisely answer when something was shipped.

- folders `rfc/` and `docs/` and `issues/` at the root level would be amazing but I can't get any company to actually do them. One stop shopping! Why not? Once `main` is authoritatively central, it becomes a great place for these things, just the same as you use it for `k8s/prod` and `k8s/dev`.

- The underlying point of all of this is to make sure that everybody merges their code every day. If that would break something, put the breakage behind a feature toggle. If it's a config file that doesn't have feature toggles, run the C preprocessor on it or invest in Dhall or some other hack. Do whatever you can so that there is one big conversation happening, and everybody is collaborating. The worst is when you have these huge merge conflicts, the second worst is when you have been doing a lot of work and someone else sweeps it all away before you merge, "oh I didn't see you working on that so I solved it in this inferior hacky way."

1. https://www.rodhilton.com/2017/04/09/a-different-branching-s...
Firefox is mostly paid for by Google, so I wouldn't suspect it's a threat to their goals. I think a 'dumb' protocol or partition of the web might be the best we can do.
Indeed. Think of it like this. If there is a water shortage they ban hosepipes not tap water. They may ask people to limit showers.

The equivalent here would be picking what industries to forcibly shut down. In that sense with such a system crypto mining might be OK (at least for this argument).

But this compensation is a subsidy to ask more people to come in and use up a scarce resource.
They play shogi, go, and riichi mahjong
I remember having some difficulty with characters for HTML URLs on the clipboard (for images) that happened only on the Mac version of a certain office app, but not the windows version
Yes, I believe the Texas gov actually did the right thing here.

If they believed crypto mining is inherently bad, it should not be allowed in the first place.

If they believed crypto mining is at least neutral, it should get compensated for being forced to shut down (even temporarily), and it did.
Weird if true. Weird that Texas invested in the power infrastructure for Bitcoin mining rather than for the people that relied on that for their homes.
> If you think this is about race, you are confused.

My comment is indeed about ethnicity/race/skin-color. In this context, I've noticed intense homophily.
In addition to lockdown mode, pair with a vpn and security researcher Jeff Johnsons "stop the madness", and "stop the script". Both are paid safari plugins for ios. Stop the script is the best way to stop inline javascript on ios. Disabling JS on iphone can't do that.
If you ever read windows internals, you’ll see that overall windows is surprisingly simple, the hidden-proprietary things like encryption/authentication/ads etc run on top of everything else.

Linux and osx are as well still not complex at all, what have changed the most over the years are firmware/hardware and drivers and security related items like addition of sensors, IcS for encryption and etc that is indeed very opaque by nature.
Pointless. Firefox should just pretend to be Chrome by default without the user having to install plugins or even do literally anything. As should all the other browsers. Anything that leaks out the fact it's not Chrome should be considered a bug and fixed.
That's not how markets work. Removing demand tends to reduce investment in supply. Or the opposite: maybe they moved to Texas because there is often excess cheap energy due to renewables.

They are causing the same amount of 'strain' (demand) as any other industry. Their demand will attract investment in supply the same as any other industry. The advantage is that their demand can be shed quickly, which is useful for the grid operators, and helps 'protect society.'
If you are interested in on demand summaries, you can use https://dstill.ai/hackernews to summarize any story -- it summarizes not only the link, but also the post & comments. Previously posted about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36760714 -- this has more details, including technical details, etc.
Now if only they could use something like ... an aluminum recycling plant instead of Bitcoin miners.
Given that bitcoin mining takes more energy than some mid sized countries now, and serves comparatively few people doing comparatively little, I think we can happily draw the conclusion that it's massively wasteful already.

It's designed to be wasteful. PoW is a race to burn as much energy as possible to get an edge on the other guy.
hobbies

try something out and do it for fun

I made a leather jacket in the last 7 months. I really like it. Welding, etc. Community college is fun when you're employed.
> The change needed to be made on both sides of Wireguard.

Congestion control works from the sender of data to the receiver. You don't need to switch both sides if you are just interested in improving performance in one direction.

Besides that, I agree to what others said BBRv1. The cubic implementation in the Linux kernel works really nice for most applications.
A degree doesn't mean you're somehow less susceptible to addiction. The risk of addiction shouldn't prevent anyone else from choosing what they put in their own body.
"Do no evil". What a joke.
Do we have to wait to look back to curse it?
This is such a weird take. The existence of bitcoin mining increases electric demand. There's no inherent reason that without it demand would spike above what it already is without, outside of the price of energy, which it sounds like wasn't really a factor here. (Because the market is clearly being inefficient when a supplier is paying someone not to buy their product.)