skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is absolutely amazing <3

The narrative based traceroute in green is something I’ve never seen before. How many providers, like CDNs, did you take the time to map into a narrative?

This feels targeted towards folks who kind of already understand computers. It be cool to repackage this in a way that can show non-technical people the stuff they take for granted. The mountains that move on a user’s behalf under every keystroke is humbling.

One of my favorite books on this topic is Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Interconnections by Radia Perlman if you haven’t come across it.
At 20F that's probably the backup heat kicking in. Heat pumps start losing their efficiency advantage around 40.

edit: apparently I was misinformed, but it doesn't seem like something worthy of being downvoted into oblivion.
While it's appealing to believe Pinker, his treatment of statistics and probability of war has been debunked. For a mathematical analysis of the history of war see Cirillo and Taleb's paper "On the statistical properties and tail risk of violent conflict" (https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/violence.pdf).

From the paper: "Accordingly, the public intellectual arena has witnessed active debates, such as the one between Steven Pinker on one side, and John Gray on the other concerning the hypothesis that the long peace was a statistically established phenomenon or a mere statistical sampling error that is characteristic of heavy-tailed processes, 16] and [27]–the latter of which is corroborated by this paper."
Service providers like anywhere, net neutrality be damned, run Deep Packet Inspection boxes that have no other purpose in life but to negotiate down your connections for whatever you do the ISP finds egregious.

For video, they generally reduce the video quality throughput, eventually reducing bitrate, causing buffering, and generally making your experience miserable unless Twitch, Youtube, etc pay the providers NOT to on behalf of their users. Cellcos particularly do this a lot to reduce quality so people aren't trying to watch 4k streams on a phone just because they can, it'll negotiate them down to what they feel is an acceptable like 480p, usually with some clause hidden in the fine print of your contract about acceptable use.

South Korea simply legitimized all their ISP's doing so, as much as Ajit Pai did repealing net neutrality for American ISP's as their puppet under Trump.
> You're kind of leaving out the whole "literally poisons the user or gives them cancer" part.

I thought 'horrible' was a suitable word choice for this part.
GenAI Against Humanity
I think these are all plausible threats -- if not already realized threats. He also doesn't submit himself to the "AI generated malware" fearmongering, which was popular a few months ago, but instead discusses LLMs as intermediaries for attacks.

And for once, a nice graphical abstract!
Part of me wonders if the US support is at least partially secured by whatever information has on US Gov officials via NSO. As close as NSO and Israel are I would suspect whatever NSO digs up via contracts with other state actors is also known to Israel and im sure a lot of that is compromising US officials information.

I remember this story [1] story from a few months ago that goes into more detail about NSOs most recent entanglement with the US gov.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/fbi-investigates-use-of-nso-spyware...
Zuckerberg has undoubtedly paid billions in taxes, far more than practically any of us ever will. If everyone else paid taxes like Zuckerberg, we’d have a lot less money in our pockets.

Moreover, the US government collects more than a trillion in taxes each year — is a few additional billion in tax revenue really what’s stopping the feds from tackling those issues?
(I don't know if it is OS-level.) If you have the GitHub Android app installed, GitHub links open in the app. In the app, swiping right (back) takes you to the app's home screen and not to where you clicked the link (e.g., the HN app). The same isn't true for many other apps.

Also, GitHub team, could you make your app better? It has so many little annoyances.
NYC Workers Get a Raise to $16 an Hour Minimum Wage
Given that these are cryptography-related functions, I feel like symbolic execution could yield the actual algorithm they use.
Also further down this thread, there's a NE talking about how modern plants basically self regulate based on load, so, the reactor itself isn't throttled manually at all, but instead is moderated by cooling water temperature in a natural equilibrium.
Sure, it's a harmless observation, which doesn't explain much about the intent in selecting it. Here's a similar quote from Phillip K. Dick "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." There are lots of others. But this is a paper about intelligence, so choosing Rand seems important, and in fact makes it worthless.
This has been my exact journey, been using Firefox since before it was called Firefox, finally got fed up a couple of years ago and switched to Vivaldi. It's such a breath of fresh air not having to dread update notifications anymore.
A huge time-saver for me when adding table-driven test boilerplate in Go has been using gotests[0] to generate the template.

If you use VSCode with the Go extension it's already available there as a command "Go: Generate Unit Tests for Function/Package".

[0] https://github.com/cweill/gotests
I think you're overthinking this. Use <figcaption> for captions and <small> for the small print:

<figure>
<img src="johnsmith.jpg" alt="John Smith">
<figcaption>
photo by John Smith.
<small>Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike...</small>
</figcaption>
</figure>
Job openings fall in October, lowest since 2021
Many would disagree with your premise. Governments are not for curing all diseases. Governments are for protecting my rights, enforcing the law, and providing basic services and a safety net.
Here in Japan, if you don't use LINE, you won't have any friends. Absolutely no one uses SMS messaging for anything personal.
I want a cottage industry of aluminum smelters in cold climates.

Pick up a pile of aluminum oxide from a depot, electrolyze it into aluminum at home, and drop off the finished aluminum at the depot for a cheque that covers your electricity.

"The theoretical minimum energy requirement for this process is 6.23 kWh/(kg of Al), but the process commonly requires 15.37 kWh."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall%E2%80%93H%C3%A9roult_proc...

That's quite a few kWh of heat per kg of finished product. You're going from Al2O3 to Al, so your returns will weigh less than your pickups.

Comparable to coal or oil heat:

"With a complete combustion or fission , approx. 8 kWh of heat can be generated from 1 kg of coal, approx. 12 kWh from 1 kg of mineral oil"

https://www.euronuclear.org/glossary/fuel-comparison
DNA copying always introduces errors. Organisms have quite a few error correcting mechanisms to mitigate damage from bad copies.

Most DNA errors turn out to be inconsequential to the individual. If a cell suffers catastrophic errors during reproduction, it typically just dies. Same for embryos, they fail to develop and get reabsorbed. Errors during normal RNA transcription tend to encode an impossible or useless protein that usually does nothing. Malformed RNA can also get permanently stuck in the cellular machinery meant to decode it, but this also has no real effect. That transcriptase floats around uselessly until it's broken down and replaced. You've got a nearly infinite number of them.

DNA and all the machinery around it is surprisingly messy and imprecise. But it all keeps working anyway because organisms have billions or trillions of redundant copies of their DNA.

*take with a grain of salt, I last studied this stuff many years ago.
I downvoted because you already had downvotes (add to the pile!)

but I believe it's for the last line, which reads as cold and dismissive. It's easy to throw shade without adding anything of your own to the conversation, and people are alert to anything that edges in that direction.
I was just last month quoted 15-23k for an install in the mountains of Idaho. I got a competitive quote and the price was similar.

If it cut my electricity bill in half it would take 10-20 years to break even.
Sorry, but this is just being overly pedantic without any practical value at all.

Of course you can create a folder without a GUI, because in all cases but a few exceptions, a folder is a directory. "mkdir" creates a folder, regardless of the name of the command. When I load my GUI later, I see the folder.

Until now, I have never knowingly met anybody who thought there was any value in drawing a distinction between the two for the basic purposes of routine file organization. So I think you're fighting a lost cause here.

Good luck with your crusade though! Sorry our usage of the term "folder" bothers you so much.
Because in a certain company i couldnt use anything except a limited old language and there was no straightforward way to sort a list of custom types and internet searching was limited . You cannot just download your favorite open source library or whatever in a lot of environments, you are stuck with the tools you got.
Someone was like: “Bro is this even tape?” And 3M was like “oh shit”
Bubblesort's big advantage is that it's the one sorting algorithm that I understand well enough to write from scratch in pinch.
This could totally be used for phishing, right? Open a link in gmail -> go to nasty site -> press back and see google login page that's actually still the nasty site. Browsers should prevent cross origin sites from seeing where the visitor came from (i.e. clear referrer).

Also, why doesn't the back button disable any automatic (non-user initiated) redirects on pages loaded that way? Seems like an obvious fix to the history loops we keep seeing.
They came first for the non-paid viewers, and I didn't speak up because I pay for Premium...

(Point being people paying for premium are also mad at these tactics)
Hey, that's cool.
Right? I felt like it was some kind of trick to at least get your email before showing you the app actually is a subscription only app.
While passenger trains nor city buses are not likely to be used for troops transports, passenger trains and city buses would most definitely be used in the transportation of civilians to places of safety – both modes of transport could be considered critical national infrastructure in a time of crisis.
Who hurt you and why was it a horse
It doesn't matter what my browser is, it could be Lynx for all you know and it should still be readable.
Current Safari. Why is it a question?
> Why not charge the end user?

The entire country is a single market, with 3 major cellular carriers and a handful of broadband carriers all competing for the same population. The competition is so cutthroat, they even publish monthly reports of which ISP stole how many customers from whom.

Obviously, no ISP wants to be the first to charge the end user more, or become known as the one that throttles YouTube, and risk losing hundreds of thousands of customers in an instant. Much easier to make the whole thing look like a business disagreement.

Note that it is always SK Broadband that whines the loudest about foreign video streaming platforms. Other ISPs like KT are sitting on bigger undersea cables, so they can afford to absorb much more bandwidth without resorting to reputation-destroying surcharges.
If it's any consolation, Spotify has kept the old system.
Both India and China have protectionism. China is the most obvious case where most typical US tech companies are banned
this was the only sane argument for blockchain mining but it was never competitive with heat pumps
The streamers and viewers that will be affected by this are Twitch users, not Amazon users, so of course it makes sense that this is Twitch announcing it to their userbase and not Amazon.
It's funny, I had that exact feeling when I opened the page but I couldn't put into words. Thank you for that.
Auth is a big limitation. It's not a built-in component, they have an example [1] using the FastAPI layer for auth, but I haven't had the time to try implementing it. It's definitely not something you get out of the box with NiceGUI.

For scaling, I am viewing it mostly as an internal tool builder. I wouldn't recommend it for external applications. So as far as scaling an internal app I think it works fine. Their website [2] is built with NiceGUI, and it works fine, but you can feel the lag occasionally on some of their larger demo pages.

1. https://github.com/zauberzeug/nicegui/blob/main/examples/aut...

2. https://nicegui.io
I don't see the problem here. They're adding value to their OS this way, value that will result in greater profits and therefore shareholder value. My MS stock is doing great thanks to moves like this!

If you don't like it, you don't have to use MS products.
None of this is true with overly optimistic estimates :p
With an "act of God" exclusion. They insure you for specific events. The probability of those can be calculated.
Surely it should be this one?

https://xkcd.com/1988/

Or maybe this one:

https://xkcd.com/1579/

Or possibly the last panel of this one:

https://xkcd.com/1718/

Or this one…

https://xkcd.com/1764/

…Or this one:

https://xkcd.com/2021/
For anyone looking to try this out on consumer grade hardware here's a q4 version [0]. From initial testing it's subjectively a bit behind deepseek-coder-instruct [1] at the same size and quantization. Deepseeks model is near magic when it behaves (1-2 tries), spitting out nicely formatted code fence blocks in markdown that I can naively render in real time to get a local chatgpt like experience. Magicoder can do this too, but it usually takes 3-4 tries and it tends to "opt out" and ask for more info pretty frequently. Of course if you have a ton of vram, use the 33b-instruct variant instead.

After more testing, I think it's a toss up on most coding tasks but Magicoder tends to give subjectively better responses to "bad prompts". That is, prompts where you don't put effort into writing clear instructions. For example, one of my "bad prompt" tests is

> how to enable shared gpu memory in wsl2 docker container

A good response to this would discuss the nvidia container toolkit, maybe something about port forwarding, etc. But this isn't a prompt most models can give good responses to. Both of these models can handle it, even at 7b, but Magicoder gives more information.

[0] https://huggingface.co/LoneStriker/Magicoder-S-DS-6.7B-4.0bp...

[1] https://huggingface.co/bartowski/deepseek-coder-6.7b-instruc...
The theory has been at some point they'll remove the separate ID and have a single ID that encompasses both. Due to things such as Apple's automatic tracking link removal (but also many others):
https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/08/ios-17-link-tracking-protecti...
I think calling it gross negligence and making it criminal is fine.

The implication of running a company is that you're charge. Obviously you can't control every employee so one offs are fine, but at a certain level of widespreadness it becomes a matter of, well, gross negligence.
They don't want to use the term rent because you would then see it for the temporary period it will turn out to be and not be willing to pay what they want you to pay for it.
Plus, "getting shot" doesn't happen in a vacuum. It's the fatal tip of a discrimination iceberg.
Then the guidance on the site really needs to be updated, as that's not what the help in the profile section says, and starting to type the auto-completing options didn't really give reason to suspect that either.
> Has anyone else not really been affected by the new youtube adblock policy at all?

not really. firefox + privacy badger + ubo. once a week or so i do get blocked but then i clear cookies, restart firefox and relogin and then it works.
Like other legacy companies with technology business at that time, the main motivation was probably making some quick cash by selling those business in order to finance stock buybacks and propel C-suite bonuses.
If you're system is hooked up to "floor heating", hydraulic stuff that runs under your floor it's still a one man job but can be a little bit harder to do.
Depends how cold it is outside, but yes, heat pumps usually win.
Thanks! Sorry if I missed it!

re: cold-contacting... any pointers on actually finding those businesses? I'm assuming Michigan and Ohio are roughly similar in this case, but man... so many people have left the state it's feeling kinda sparse some days not gonna lie. We used to have a JavaScript meetup in Ann Arbor that could consistently get 80-100 people (or more!), but many many many of those people have simply left. And so have the employers along with them. Not trying to be a downer, haha, but that really does seem to be the situation. We're trying our best to help things go in a more positive direction, but it feels like a chicken-and-egg sometimes. If it weren't for the YouTube channel's successes (which we're very grateful for), it would be a lot more painful.
Cloudflare Applauds Court for Rejecting DNS Piracy Blocking Order
Long list, I've been meaning to write a blog post.
No, because the installer set it up right at 20. We do have a gas furnace that kicks in below that.

It'd be amazing if someone put together some kind of dynamic calculator that could take electricity and natural gas prices and examine inside temperatures based on a smart thermostat system and rejig the cutoff temperature based on all of it.
> LED bulbs have been associated with migraine symptoms, and are all around terrible for reading.

Yeah, but fluorescents are worse, sometimes much worse, and have mercury; compact fluorescent was never good, but was highly pushed. Incadescents have very poor efficiency, but nice light, and not much in the way of hazardous materials. High quality LED bulbs can be made with good light outputs, I'm not sure that's true of fluorescent.
Run the stats again, this time on 2 cars. And 25% in US have 3 or more. Montana has 2.4 vehicles per licensed driver.
Now, do the inverse and implement postscript in BF
The metabolism myth – and why exercise won't make you thinner
Yes, this is an active area of research.

Neural networks are a very good application for analog computing (imo). You have a ton of floating point operations that all need to happen more or less simultaneously. And what are floating point numbers if not digital approximations of analog values? :)

This can be implemented as a network of transistors on a chip, but driven in the linear region instead of trying to switch them on as hard as possible as fast as possible. Which is, I believe, what researchers are trying to do.

There are also some interesting ideas about photonic computing, but I'm not sure if that's going anywhere.

A few months back, someone on YouTube attempted to design a mechanical neural network as a single 3D printed mechanism. It ended up not working, but the concept was pretty solid.
For anyone organizing meetups: listen to asciimov on this one! It's so stressful to park in a city (especially if it's not something you do every day and you don't know the right places/garages/open back-streets/etc.)
WTF

Zuckerberg famously paid a fortune in taxes because he didn't do an 83b election.
Mercury switches were reliable, but were they accurate? What's the tolerance of a bimetallic spring? How about repeatability?
It is not, but they do share some code.
Why are you telling him what you think the idea is when he is the one who wrote it?
This was great. I hope Vox does more of these.

I started watching thinking there is no way I'm watching a 24 minute video on some remote crater. I'm glad I stuck with it though.
I love the idea of a meetup moving around. Some meetups near me are on the other side of the metro which is a traffic nightmare to get to at rush hour, especially with a young kid whose schedule I also have to account for. If every other meeting was on my side of the county, I could at least attend some of them.
You can't punish them for something they haven't done, by pirating before they do it. There will be no correlation, so no feedback mechanism, in that scenario. What do you see as the signal they should pick up on? How will they differentiate it from "they pirate no matter what we do"? These are genuine questions.
Reddit has started to as well. Their app generates /s/ links which annoyingly require you to be logged in to resolve.
The OpenAI Dota2 experiment produced many interesting behaviours, even the pros are impressed.
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer probably can't be classified as humans.
Excellent! The Old Country does progress after all, if in fits and starts...
I just switched to ff two months ago and it’s fine.
We are in a recession but I can solve this recession and all future ones for $80B.
I still use FF, but I do miss how customizable its UI used to be. I even made it look like Chrome back then!
Indeed according to the big private businesses at the time the internet was stupid and a money losing idea.

It's a common thing in American history where the US government invests in ideas/concepts that are seen as losers by the for profit industry only for those industries to swoop in and profit off the results...

Stuff like that and the American national standards institute is why the USA was in the front of the technological evolution for so long. We spent money on "useless" crap that ended up paying massive dividends later and allowed for the USA to set the standards.
I've done this. In a production application.

Why? It was the easiest sort I had memorized, I didn't have my college Data Structure 201 book handy. It did exactly what I wanted. And for my datasets, it was not impacting performance. Measurably? Probably. Noticeably from the user level? No. If it was slow, I would have changed it. I did it in BASIC.

But it was never my bottle neck. We're talking 10 or less items here most of the time, my bottleneck was sucking rows from the ISAM database on our 10 user, 16Mhz 68020.

I was doing best fit scheduling across a selection of resources.

It was a very cool system.
Weird to hold off on adding a language because the UI isn't translated. Why would there be an assumption that the language people want to record is linked to preferred UI language?

I don't want Norwegian UI - I just want to be able to record Norwegian sentences. If the UI switches to Norwegian I'd be very annoyed, as I haven't indicated I want that and my browser settings specify English.

(I avoid Norwegian for UIs, because the translations are generally wildly inconsistent in how they translate key terms that I'm used to seeing in English, so it's a massive nuisance - when people assume UI and content language should be the same, that is a major failing to me)

Re: tags someone else pointed out the accent field is being used for this, even though the UI describes that as specifically for accents.
Bring expanding spray foam with you and fill in the speaker grille and muffle or mute the sound. Other people will greatly appreciate it and the employees most likely won't care until it comes time for inspection from corporate or state agencies. I've seen it more than once at Speedway stations.
https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-cloud-and-product-roadmap
I could look this up if I were inclined. I imagine, though, that a public charity is eligible to receive government grants or contracts.
"AI is getting open-sourced making it easier and cheaper to build on and expand without the headaches of the costs associated with it. In summary, we need more APIs for AI to get it to the masses."

I think you misunderstand "democratization" and open source, i.e. these are not about APIs from some giant corporations that spoon-feed their outputs to your inputs. Instead, we need true open source models and open datasets that each and everyone can develop, run, and modify on their own.
As I understand it, Google’s latest raised middle finger is that they will delay updates to extensions.

This will allow advertisers to always stay one step ahead, making adblocking much less effective.