skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’ve ever had pancreatitis you can’t take this (me) because it increases overall risk of having an episode. If you’re unlucky like me and have a predisposition for pancreatitis or gallbladder issues, this can push you over the edge into the worst pain of your life and possible life threatening complications. But the percentage of folks at risk is relatively low so this is not a concern for most. Heavy alcohol consumption is a leading cause of pancreatitis so for folks with AUD and diabetes, if this cuts down both diabetes and the causal factor (drinking), maybe it’s a net positive if they’ve never had pancreatitis before. Unfortunately severe pancreatitis increases the risk of Type 2 and 3 diabetes and unfortunately this great treatment won’t be available.
How useful are AI copilots right now?
The past year seen an explosion in the rollout of "AI copilots" across many existing apps with the basic premise being type in what you want and the AI creates/configures something in the app for you.

Some examples that come to mind:
Typeform - use AI to generate forms; Notion - use AI to write content; Miro - use AI to generate and expand out diagrams;
Microsoft Power Automate - use AI to set up an automation;
Google Cloud - AI that assists with writing apps and APIs

So what has everyone's experience of how useful these copilots have actually been within existing apps and tools? Any examples of where AI has been a gamechanger, and any examples of where it felt like more of a gimmick?
This article makes it sound like the entire country is about to be infested by these ticks and they will kill all of the livestock and give everyone tickborn diseases.

However these tics have been around since 2017 so I'm assuming there's some limitation that isn't mentioned in the article that has stopped them from taking over.
Most interesting is the assertion by the german court (see the linked tarnkappe notice, in german though) that Cloudflare is anonymizing the users of their CDN/Proxying Service which makes prosecution harder.

I'm suprised by that because Cloudflare must know the real IPs to forward traffic to for their services to work and I have not read anything that implies that Cloudflare might not have produced that data following a court order of any kind.

I have however seen private trackers and other pirate site use cloudflares services. I am kinda suprised by that since I must assume that pirate site operates would be aware that cloudflare is not actually providing any court proof anonymization or is promising anything like a non-logging/zero knowledge/Anonymization layer like tor or ipfs.

Can anyone enlighten me on that matter?
The "prose" signal exists, it's called the <p> HTML tag.
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All that stuff and worse is on Youtube too, and probably in higher quantity. It doesn't get banned - not reliably. The algorithm is just good at hiding it from you.

Youtube is really good at surfacing videos you want to see. Peertube isn't. That's why you see stuff you hate, not because of censorship or the lack of it.
>According to the ruling, DDL-Music has no other purpose than to share pirated music and Cloudflare plays a central role in making the site available.

And if they switch DNS providers what will they do ? +File a lawsuit for each DNS provider? Makes no sense to "sanction" the DNS provider because of the website content.

Also one other thing that plays a "centrol role" in making pirate websites available are electricity companies which provide power for servers. Shouldn't they sue those too ?

>In addition to stopping its services to DDL-Music as a customer, Universal also wanted Cloudflare to block the site on its public DNS resolver 1.1.1.1.

Bunch of clowns...
Their source code is on Github, though took a min to find.

I'm still going through it, but I suspect so far they are transcoding via HLS and then streaming it out over the p2p connection.

The p2p connetion itself is interesting again, I suspect a regular websocket that is sitting on their express server.. but will dig some more. Was always curious .

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/client/s...
Considering that it's actually targeting a particular competitor using data extracted from their website, is this even legal?
Thanks for the boost, dang.
D. Richard Hipp used TACOP to implement a B-tree for SQLite:

> "Nobody ever taught me about a B-tree. I had heard of it. When I went to write my own B-tree, on the bookshelf behind me, I’ve got Don Knuth’s The Art of Computer Programming, so I just pulled that down, I flipped to the chapter on searching and looked up B-trees and he described the algorithm. That’s what I did. Funny thing, Don gives us details on the algorithm for searching a B-tree and for inserting into a B-tree. He does not provide an algorithm for deleting from the B-tree. That’s an exercise at the end of the chapter, so before I wrote my own B-tree I had to solve the exercise at the end. Thanks, Don. I really appreciate it."

https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/#b-tree...
> YouTube (and other mainstream providers) solves user stories. The user story is "I want to find and watch interesting videos" and they nail it.

You miss another user story: IT department wants to self host a video distribution platform on their intranet and users need to embed video in intranet CMS (blogs, wikis, kb, etc.) and they will watch those videos at home, at the office and in between places.

Thinking audience and monetization, is basically thinking "youtube clone", and that narrows outlooks on what peertube brings to the table.

> The user story for this, judging by their homepage (https://joinpeertube.org), seems to be "I want a boring lecture on how bad Big Tech is"?

Just pick a different paragraph then:

What is PeerTube?
PeerTube allows you to create your own video platform, in complete independence.
I bought a couple of 64x64 LED Matrix displays and used an ESP32 to control the display of images on it.

It now makes a cool feature in my room

https://github.com/bradleeharr/Image-Display-LED-Matrix

https://github.com/bradleeharr/Perlin-Noise-LED-Matrix
I wonder how a court in Germany can force a DNS provider that does NOT operate in Germany, but operates in e.g. China, Australia, Seychelles, Spain, USA, etc. to comply to the "block DDL-Music" (or any other website).

Perhaps Google via 8.8.8.8 and Clouflare via 1.1.1.1 are used by many, but definitely not ALL internet users.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/dns_server

Cloudflare = 14.6
Google = 2.1
16.7% of the planet is a big number, but it is stupid-easy to bypass this and it wouldn't get them anywhere.
This seems like a bad offering.

If you have the need to store 200 MB in Redis, you're charged $0.125 / GB-hour for that data, and the minimum metered data storage is 1 GB. So that's $3 per day or about $90 for any amount of data stored between 0 GB and 1 GB. And then you need to pay for compute on top of that. Alternative, you could get a whole cache.t4g.micro instance with 0.5 GB of memory for less than $12 per month.

Same for larger amounts of data. 10 GB of data storage (without any compute) would be $900 vs. a whole cache.m7g.2xlarge with 26.04 GB of memory is around $450 per month. Even accounting for replica instance, the only benefit you seem to be getting from the price premium is the scaling. And those 2xlarge instances probably still have plenty of headroom.

And for a "serverless" product, you can't really use it for infrequent usage either because of that crazy minimum storage metering. Imagine if your Lambda functions charged you $90 per month for just existing. "Pay-for-use billing model" where "you only pay for the data you store", and then some if you don't store enough.
> Just like people / businesses decide what they are willing to pay for a good, they can decide what price they are willing to pay to lend / borrow money

You mean like... now?

Banks, non bank financial institutions and individuals are free to choose what interest rates they set, to set interest rates for a sector they thinks is at risk well above market levels or to cease lending activity altogether. The fact they choose to lend at low rates is because market participants are pretty bad at predicting the future and market dynamics encourage cutting credit prices, not because the government forces them to lower rates (it doesn't)

And the reality of banking timescales is that a shortage of capital available at a price isn't a nice little hint to change lending activity, it's a signal that since they can't borrow any more to meet obligations they'd best stop honouring depositors' withdrawals. Which is why we have central banks stepping in to make capital available, and before they did that we didn't have stability, we had a lot more ordinary people losing their savings to bank failures and more volatile business cycles.
> As time passed, the collection of rags and bones fell to the side due to the knowledge that these items contributed to the spread of disease

Is that a genuine concern? Collecting your bones and rags don’t seem any worse than simply having a compost heap.

Sounds a lot to me like a made up excuse to get inelegant people out of your neighborhood.
It is explained in the first screenshot of the article.

> Commands/jfr

> Commands Starts and stops profiling with Java FlightRecorder (…)
Those are still standard and used. It's not possible to do certain things without them.
+1 on the logbook. We took my daughter London - New York when she was ~8 weeks old, and got some great photos from the cockpit, including her wearing the captain's hat.
Please don’t crapify my Fastmail search. I don’t want it to be like Google, giving me what it thinks I want rather than what I asked for.
Did they use AI to make that Jensen Huang face out of chips and PCBs?
Transclusion can totally be done with CSS now. That’s a donut selector.

The other things are just plain old JavaScript and have nothing to do with Shadow DOM. Yes, they can be done with customElement, but they can also just be done without it.
>(the Tundra is a joke and a move for market monopolization)

Could you elaborate on this? From a distance it's hard to understand what the goal of the Tundra is, or who it is aimed at. I thought it may have been an initial offering while they optimise their engineering for low-keV scopes focused on biology.
What if I put something inbetween, like a cloth. So only the cold temperature radiates through?
As one should, when dealing with anything that interferes with your ability to use your own purchased devices.
looking literally for nothing in particular

That's not what I said. My last question covers this exactly: are there metrics other than 'conditions like we know them' which can be used? Maybe the answer is just 'none that we know of', again: no idea, and yes then one cannot look for it. But here on earth we can distinguish between a rock and a cell based on various metrics. They way they reflect light is perhaps different enough to tell that one is a relatively simple solid consisting of chemical bonds which are all alike, whereas the other one isn't. Or processes in the cell make the atmosphere slightly different. Now suppose some other lifeform also consists of cells but instead of water-based they use something else which happens to be liquid at 200 degrees Celcius. A rock can still look like a rock at that temperature and maybe won't alter atmosphere. Maybe something living would?

Also I don’t non-carbon/water lifeforms are at all compatible with our understanding of biology and chemistry?

It's not because we cannot understand it that we cannot observe it. In fact that's usually how it goes: first observ, then understand. Isn't that basically what we're doing already with a lot of telescopes/wide band radiometry/... ? Looking for things without understanding how they can exist or where they came from (the OMG particle etc)
Hi!

Concerning WebTorrent, this techno was not used as a default since a long time. It's bound to how it was hard to implement Live Streaming with it (available since v3).
I live in the EU. I don't think you can get a SIM card or a home-internet-connection without of ID or Passport (if you are a foreigner). Unless you got a cafe/hotel/restaurant/neighbor and you steal their wifi you are correct - I don't think you can have an internet connection what cannot be traced back to you.
Two best:

CHESS IS A FUN SPORT, WHEN PLAYED WITH SHOT GUNS

COWS FLY LIKE CLOUDS BUT THEY ARE NEVER COMPLETELY SUCCESSFUL.

These are from MegaHal that entered 1998 Loebner Prize Contest. MegaHal was able to produce mind-blowing insightful sayings but most were just bs.

It seems that creativity is easy for computers. Just push randomness through some generative algorithm. Curating and selecting the best output makes all the difference. The ability to select, critique, and understand what is generated and what the meaning is is much harder.
This seems like a rant. I've never thought that Fastmail's search is terrible. In fact I've found it really fast and accurate when I use it.

It's true that, now that you mention those potential improvements, it would be great to have them but it just means that Google's search is better than Fastmail's rather than Fastmail's being terrible.
You are empowering them by continuing to use the service/application after they have quite clearly told you that they are going to try to work around the law against your interests.
Has anyone ever done this?
I don't think it does. Plenty of code formatters are not completely, and work just fine.
Part of the Daily American Diet, 34 Gigabytes of Data (2009)
Thanks, I've only done a bit of TypeScript so it's interesting to hear that experience. Is the issue interop with JavaScript or a problem even with pure TS codebases?
Never, ever disable buttons – Requirements for an accessible solution
But these chickens (such as broilers) are "in the house" rather than "in the garden." It may be worth having free range chickens for pest control and other purposes.
It quickly runs into __builtin functions though, which is not very different from intrinsics with a better and portable name. Rust `Simd` type is much more consistent with corresponding scalar types compared to that.
Its probably a GDPR thing. They know the IP in transit but are not allowed to store them without user approval because IPs are PII.
Their longterm plan is to establish DNS liability and force the market leaders to implement blocking. Then, argue in court that DNS providers that do not conform to their blocking requests are illegal and must therefore be IP Blocked. First in Germany, then in the whole EU.

When it comes to the Content Mafia: Assume the worst, then go from there.
Their huggingface demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/whitead/paper-qa

At the moment it returns runtime error.

Edit: It's because of missing open-api key, https://huggingface.co/spaces/whitead/paper-qa/blob/main/app...
Last time I heard, prepaid data SIM cards were a thing, so I guess you could just get a second-hand one?
Why did this study take so long? So much spent on war in the meantime
Engineering implies working within constraints. Most people in this realm only have to deal with the spouse acceptance factor as a limiter.

Went from openhab -> homeassistant -> Node-RED. Then sprinkle in MySensors, Frigate, and Double-Take, but not on just the entrance, go for the perimeter then defense in depth.

https://www.mysensors.org/

https://frigate.video/

https://github.com/jakowenko/double-take
I think Cloudflare didn't help their case when they started blocking websites based on their content (I think it started with a neo-Nazi journal).

Many people predicted (rightfully it seems) that it will haunt them back when copyright holders will hold Cloudflare responsible for piracy. Banning such sites mean they are no more content neutral. If Cloudflare cares that their users follow whatever rules are against neo-Nazi content, they should also care that they follow copyright law, at least from the point of view of copyright holders.
> Es liegt nahe, diesen Pflichtenkatalog – entsprechend der Argumentation des BGH bei den Hostprovidern (Onlineplattformen You-Tube und uploaded) auf die täterschaftliche Haftung der Zugangsprovider zu übertragen.

> It makes sense to transfer this catalog of obligations - in accordance with the BGH's argumentation - to the host providers (online platforms You-Tube and uploaded) to the criminal liability of the access providers.

I'll admit to not being very competent in German law, but before just jumping to the conclusion that they can re-use existing national liability law, they mention that they were not bound by national but by EU law and that this particular liability "access provider liability" is not established or outlined at the EU level. Obviously that is grounds for appeal.

A CDN more easily plays the analogue of the postal service distribution centers for the classic copyright infringement of burned CDs being resold illegally. They are practically equivalent to ISPs in this regard. Hardly a central role for the infringement. Contrast with YouTube, which would look more like a third party facility burning the CDs for the criminal enterprise: certainly central, it makes sense they ought to assess whether the customer owns the copyright. Not all of CloudFlare's customers will have any need of such an assessment, so it isn't central to their business.

Obviously laws can distinguish analogues, so the analogy is mostly meaningless. But I think CloudFlare is solidly in the carrier class and shouldn't have liability. I do hope they appeal and win.
True, in one sense.

My main objection is to the tone. Especially in this story - which alludes to the new ticks draining entire cows of their blood. Yet fails to mention "DEET can be pretty effective" or "check your skin after spending time outdoors" basics. It's hardly specific to this article, or to this topic - but there's a "you are helpless" tone to a great deal of modern journalism. It's almost as if they wanted everyone cowering in fear inside their houses, and spending all of their time clicking on yet more articles on the web...
For some reason I seem to struggle with reading more and more with age. As someone says people seem more keen to make video or interactive content for learning, which is a factor. Re-reading books like Dune more recently has made me wonder why it was so much easier when I was younger. Less distractions I guess would be a major reason.

However reading to my children (currently Fellowship of the Ring) has been a real pleasure, so I do still enjoy it in the right circumstances!
Health insurer profit margins are 2% to 6% (objectively not huge). Their medical loss ratios are 85% to 90% (the proportion of their revenue that gets paid to healthcare providers).

Let’s suppose they are eliminated completely. You save 15% at most from not paying insurers, and let’s say doctors’ offices spend 10% on all the paperwork dealing with insurance.

However, government employees have to do some of the same jobs as the insurance company employees, such as identifying overcharges/fraudulent charges, etc. Add 10% back for that work (5% on government side, 5% on provider side since it should be less paperwork since it’s only 1 entity they are dealing with).

So all in, that is 15% savings, in an ideal case. With 90% medical loss ratios, it is 10% savings (more likely).
Does it plan to use yggdrasil[0] on ipv6 side of things, or is that not even relevant?

0: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/
That does not work for the pirate site operator though. In order for Cloudflare to cache and proxy any request the endpoint must be known beforehand and must be at least constant enough for any new request to be forwarded to that endpoint in some capacity. It might be true for users that they chose not to log that information but it cannot be true for any site they provide CDN/Proxy services to.
I believe you are correct, however I am struggling to see how.

If you have the time to help me with my understanding then I would appreciate it.

I'm looking at wikipedia's formal definition, which says that for x to be computable, you need to provide a function from naturals to integers such that if you pick a denominator of a fraction (n), this function can give the numerator such that (f(n)-1)/n and (f(n)+1)/n end up straddling the value which is computable.

So, for an integer N, you make f(x) = xN then (f(n)-1)/n = N-(1/n) and (f(n)+1)/n = N+(1/n).

Therefore, for any integer N, it is computable.

Now, what is stopping me from doing something similar with a real?

If I say: f(x) = floor(xN)

Now (f(n)-1)/n = floor(n*N)-(1/n)

It is at this point where I realise I need to go to bed and sleep. If you see this and have the time to explain to me where it falls apart with reals, then I will be most happy. To be clear - I'm quite sure I am wrong, and this isn't me being passive aggressive about it.
> All the browsers are same.

Which really is a shame. Even worse, browsers (including Firefox) keep erasing whatever differences they do have in a vain attempt at attracting Chrome users while ignoring that their existing userbase chose them for not being Chrome.
The idea that the constitution is a written document that means what it says, or what it was intended to say, is neither propaganda nor was it invented in 1980. In fact, it’s obviously correct and it’s wild that we ever pretended otherwise.

We aren’t talking about some ancillary provision here, or some detail where we could expect judges to fill gaps in the written text. The very first thing in the Constitution after the preamble is Article I, Section 1, which says: “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” And Article I sets for a detailed process for two houses of Congress working to make law, with the signature of the President. It’s unambiguous that the Constitution only allows Congress to make laws.

It’s so clear that nobody pretends otherwise. Even proponents of the administrative state rely on the legal fiction that administrative rulemaking is an exercise in enforcing the law, not making the law. So in these cases we are simply arguing about the permissible scope of this legal fiction.

Your consequentialist arguments are irrelevant. Whether Congress has the bandwidth or expertise to take up particular issues doesn’t change the governmental structure the Constitution created. The framers went to a huge amount of trouble to provide for two houses of Congress to make a law, and then have the President sign each one. The document obviously doesn’t allow that power to be exercised by unelected bureaucrats in an executive branch agency.
There are two defendants: postnord and the state agency.

Postnord should not refuse to let Tesla collect the plates that Postnord has. That would be theft
You can use something called cloudflared to establish one or more tunnels into Cloudflare; Cloudflare will access the origin servers via these tunnels.

I've never used cloudflared and don't know whether you could 0wn a few DSL users and run cloudflared on their hardware, avoid having an origin server on your own IP address.
I’d agree if Facebook wasn’t such a monopoly. Most digital social interactions are walled behind Meta products.

You want to organize a protest? Create a Facebook event. You want to keep up with news in your town or neighborhood? Join the local Facebook group. You want to chat with someone? Add them on Facebook Messenger.
I feel the same. Kids of 4.5 and 2. I can't say it gets easier yet. Two childrens are so much harder than one. And people told me the opposite, that the biggest change was having one kid and the next wasn't such a big step. That turned out to be completely false.

When we (the parents) take one child each for a day, it feels so much easier than even having both of us together dealing with two.