skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Within reason I think you can basically share any link, but there's probably a much higher than normal concentration of people that would prefer a tracking-less amazon.tld link here than elsewhere.
Wordle, Entropy, and... Decision Trees?
You could also temp-ban those IPs for a few hours and save yourself some CPU and bandwidth.

It may not seem like much, but I spent a year or two adminning a >1 million reqs / day cluster, and it does add up. Auto-banning this type of obvious offender (with fail2ban, as it happens) did result in a noticeable improvement for us.
I tried to look at your screenshot and holy hell what happened to imgur? That site used to be great for sharing images. Now it is enshittified to the max. I couldn’t even zoom in to look at the equations without some random animated GIFs popping up over the entire screen. I even use an ad blocker!
Has anyone figured out a way to print the Fleuret book on A4 paper? Every other page ends up upside down when I've tried it, which is problematic with a duplexer.
I appreciated the notation in Goodfellow book as well, it was easy enough for me to follow without having a strong mathematics background. I'll agree however with others that this text is instead focused for a different audience and purpose.
> if they stopped doing that, the water level would not be replenished

How is that relevant? The point is they wasted water. They’re not victims, they’re the source of the problem. People moving into California’s cities are a rounding error to its farms’ wasted water.
I would normally not particularly care enough to mention a lack of license, but permissively licensed open source tools in the DB stress testing space are few and far between.

Are you planning to add a proper license at some point?
Tell HN: How to Turn Off Wi-Fi from iOS Control Center
Pressing the WiFi icon in iOS Control Center will only temporarily disconnect WiFi, leaving the radio enabled and baseband exposed to attack. A trip to Settings is normally required to turn off Wi-Fi.

The following workaround allows WiFi to be disabled with a single click from iOS Control Center:

Settings > Control Center > Low Power Mode -> enable control

Shortcuts -> Create Automation -> Low Power Mode -> Is Turned On -> Run Immediately -> Next

New Blank Automation -> type Wi-Fi into search > Set WiFi -> click "On" for toggle to "Off" -> Done

Open iOS Control Center and press the low-power icon - WiFi will turn off.
Yeah.

As a seperate note, I saw another HNer blog post specifically complain about AI generated furry art as a destroyer of talented furry artists... I get the point, but still have mixed feelings.

If some AI is so incredible at an artistic niche (not just furry), isn't that amazing? If artists are not economically free to pursue new styles and representations the AI doesn't "know," I feel thats a larger problem with society and art platforms, not AI specifically.
That’s interesting. Is there some plan in the agreement to prevent people from ending up with beat up old batteries?
really doubt artists are going to do better than pennies in france vs anywhere else. US is a good place to be an artist.
> an absolutely massive win

For who?
“Innovation” is tech-man speak for “figuring out how to privatize/shift profits to our company” in the press. Sort of like how “the economy” can usually just be translated to mean “rich people’s yacht money”
This is part of the reason why a fully compliant USB-C cable is so expensive and stiff. It should carry thick power lines, and also a number of high-speed serial lines, and some electronics to configure and drive all that on either end.
I’m not sure what specialization of math you studied, but using superscripts for indices is pretty common where you’re dealing with multi-dimensional objects. I used it in a lot of the courses in my degree.
The old URLs aren’t kept around to redirect to the new location?
That's what that is! I noticed this on Nevada plates several years ago and assumed it had something to do with watermarking or other anti-counterfeit tactic, but it didn't seem all that hard to reproduce. I never checked it out from different distances, though.
Is it still doing well? Getting better? Worth paying for?
>What if you had to show Government ID whenever you entered a grocery store, a library, a movie theater? What if you were tracked each time you consumed a video, a still image, an audio clip, or even a text message?

1) entered a grocery store - No, at least not since peak-pandemic. Face recognition?
2) a library - Yes, to borrow books or on demand from security. Needed govt. id to get a library card.
3) movie theatre - Yes, mine no longer takes cash.
4) tracked each time you consumed a video - Yes. Every single streaming service.
5) a still image - Everything on the web. Every book w/ photos I buy. Can hypothetically still look at books we own, was given, found, lent, pirated or stole in privacy.
6) Audio - spotify, youtube etc.
7) a text message - Your phone IS a device you pay for and maintain which is designed and regulated to spy on you. Signal is the only possibility for any privacy at all here.

>This is the sort of dystopia that librarians and others focused on liberty have been fighting for what seems like forever.

How is that fight going, do you think?

A Turnkey totalitarian state exists, who is going to turn that key?
It seems to me like this whole Chinese lithography sanction deal is not really... working.

SMIC is generously 1-2 nodes behind Intel at this point and have only caught up since we've started utilizing sanctions?

Intel meanwhile has not had to compete in any other sense than process technology in decades.

They've been habitually humiliated by any competitor with access to any process no matter how dated for the simple fact that they're trying to compete not maximize monopoly extraction with that process.

They've abandoned numerous innovations simply because they weren't extractive enough compared to inferior alternatives.

I don't think any amount of tipping the scale with sanctions is going to save Intel from being savaged into a mist of blood and insolvency the moment a competitor enters the arena without a process technology disadvantage, and that much seems inevitable now.

It's simply not in their DNA to survive in that environment.

On the other hand, I suppose lobbying for sanctions and subsidies would be textbook Intel strategy.
It’s ideology. I take a marxist view on this: the method and mode of production in a capitalist politico-economic system encourages people to take their job into their identity and to think of themselves and others in terms of the labour value they can provide. For example, look at the fervour stirred up by right-wing types over people on state benefits, dehumanising rhetoric is the norm.

Like Zizek says, the conditions of society dictate what it’s even possible to believe at a subconscious level.
I'm in Virginia and these sites are also being blocked. On Pornhub:

> As you may know, your elected officials in Virginia are requiring us to verify your age before allowing you access to our website. While safety and compliance are at the forefront of our...
> Why would we see a 80/20 distribution when most human abilities are distributed on a bell curve?

Generally you get normal distributions (bell curves) when you add together random variables. For example, if you roll 10 dices and add their numbers, the probability distribution will look somewhat like a bell curve. And if overall employee performance was the sum of their normally distributed human abilities, you would get another bell curve.

But it only works when add numbers. If you multiplied numbers instead of added them, you would get a log-normal distribution instead. Other processes can get you Pareto distributions (80/20).

Employee performance is a not just a sum of their individual abilities, there are some synergies happening, giving a multiplicative effect.

In other words, seeing a 80/20 type distribution shows that people are more than the sum of their parts, literally.
How can we conflate “not working” with “no purpose”?

A life “lived to work” is a meager thing indeed.
It's a number in a database that's assigned an "owner".
Some NFTs can be controlled by a central authority, kind of like your bank account, and some of them are totally decentralized and can only be modified/traded if you, the owner, wills it so.

Someone can associate some data with that unique number, if they want.
The original Star Wars is a perfect Hero's Journey story told on film. In a vacuum, it's an incredibly inventive and scrappy film.

Evangelion has the benefit of not being owned by Disney, and thus not being milked into oblivion*. If all we had of Star Wars was the original trilogy, and maybe the "Rebuild of Star Wars" aka the sequel trilogy (speaking purely in story terms of soft-rebooting things), it could probably stand toe to toe with Evangelion on prestige. It's just been watered down so much in the last two decades, as opposed to Evangelion which has been fiercely protected by its original creator.

Weird, I didn't think I'd be defending Star Wars in 2024. And I do much much prefer Evangelion.

*I am aware of how badly Evangelion has been milked for merch, but I'm talking exclusively about media appearances in this discussion. There was Evangelion manga, but I can remember there being three series or less for about 20 years (and two of those were gag manga). In terms of visual media outside the main series (anime, EoE, Rebuild films), I'm pretty sure there's just been a smattering of Japanese commercials using Evangelion characters.
I use Tortoise TTS. It's slow, a little clunky, and sometimes the output gets downright weird. But it's the best quality-oriented TTS I've found that I can run locally.

It's allegedly the basis of the tech used by Eleven Labs.

https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
They could really improve their sample code/demos. Particularly the default one - for a "data-oriented" language, having the first demo be parsing and executing a nonsensical calculator language is a weird choice.
they pay a lot more than piracy
From a political standpoint its sort of wild the bills principal sponsor --Amy Galey-- mentions absolutely nothing of it in her 2024 campaign site. You'd imagine championing child safety would be at the top of your list of achievements. nope. parenting and nutrition.

https://amygaley.com/#issues

this was clearly meant to be a political stunt leading into the 2024 election year to make the democratic governor Roy Cooper appear as though he didnt care about children. No respectable republican voter would ever dream of submitting to a government database for something like this.

Cooper called the bluff, as did most of the minority Democratic legislature in the house and senate. i doubt this law will survive past the second quarter of 2024.
yeah, options are not pre-determined. you can ask pretty much anything. If things are not clear, it will ask you for more specific details(I have limited it to few question - not to annoy the user). Please give it a try and let me know how it can be improved or changed.
Megacorp strongarming a government.
Time and place sort of thing. There could easily be another timeline where Evangelion and Sailor Moon swap places popularity-wise in the US. The demographic for anime on broadcast television in the late '90s and early 2000s, when Evangelion was getting dubbed, just skewed too young for it to really be profitable in any way. If I remember correctly, it only ever had one complete run on Adult Swim, a late night block which really limited its exposure. I don't think End of Evangelion has ever aired on a major broadcast network. (The Rebuild movies did get play on the revived Toonami about a decade ago, though.)

I don't think Evangelion would ever have been a breakout hit, per se, like DBZ, but depending on the circumstances it definitely could have had moderate success.
Not so much about artist comp going up as it is about driving down comp and valuations for these "tech" companies who attempt to use leverage to get their way.

It's about power. Always was, always is (once you're passed a certain fiat amount; only so much "line goes up" before it no longer matters). As Theodore Roosevelt said about highest tax bracket taxpayers who might leave the country, "we wish them well!" Call the bluff of these people, they're the ones with something to lose. If they push too hard, make them lose.

The rules are flexible, all of this (economic systems) is a shared delusion. Be mindful of this when negotiating and operating within the system.
"It's pretty insane that we have no check for an unlimited amount of free porn with all kinds of extremes."

And... we still don't. Porn is available through a lot of channels to anybody who knows how to look, all the NC law (and others) is doing is applying pressure to a handful of businesses and encouraging bad practices in the form of having to handle IDs.

I'm the first to acknowledge it's sometimes worth doing something imperfect if it'll improve things, even if it's not 100% effective. But this isn't likely to be 10% effective, much less 90% or 100% effective. Anybody who wants to can dredge up tons of porn on any number of other sites, torrents, etc.

As others have said, it's one thing to have to flash an ID at a convenience store or to enter a business where there's nudity, etc., but here you're requiring people to pass their info online. That's bad policy, and I doubt it's even in good faith that the legislators really think it'll do anything to curb access by those under 18.

It's designed to target sites like PornHub and to give government a cudgel against all kinds of content that most wouldn't consider "porn" to begin with. And they want to go after LGBTQ+ content on the basis that it's LGBTQ+ -- not that it's necessarily adult in nature. [1]

There's little chance that you're going to come anywhere close to preventing motivated people from seeing porn on the Internet laws and policy like this. If you have kids that you don't want accessing porn, then you need to take steps to monitor their access and have the hard conversations with them.

(I am less alarmist about the "dangers" of kids accessing porn, but I will agree that unfettered access at a young age especially if parents aren't teaching their kids adequately about sexuality and that porn isn't a good representation is not great.)

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/17/masculine-policy-the-gop...
> if we all lived the lifestyle of monastic monks

Is asking Americans to have less than one car per adult family member really that much? Or to start buying smaller/more efficient cars instead of the monstrosities that pass for "Utility Vehicles"?

> children, winter, not being in their 20s and etc. etc.

Two kids, way past my 40s and biked year-round in Germany. Do I still use public transport and taxis? Yes. Have I spent less in a year on public transport and taxis that I would have spent on parking and car insurance alone if I wanted to have my own car? Also yes.
I'm pretty sensitive to petty annoyances, but for some reason this doesn't bother me. Having a couple of random LEDs around the house helps with walking around very late at night. And in bed I wear an eyemask, so...
Ask HN: Skills that give you the edge?
Hey HN,

I'm trying to think of some skills that give you the edge over others, either in a professional setting, or everyday life. In my eyes, those would be multilingualism, FACS, and having a thorough understanding of cognitive biases and logical fallacies.
Title is wrong. "disinvesting" not "divesting"
If that is your worry, use net.ipv4.ip_local_reserved_ports
>A Turnkey totalitarian state exists, who is going to turn that key?

A totalitarian that will be recognized as such.

The plausible deniability of the status quo is worth quite a bit.
I like what Hare sets out to do, and I like how it is going so far. But in terms of a C alternative it doesn’t really fit the bill. Hare is explicitly not supported on anything but open source platforms and that is a big divergence from C in 2023. I do not doubt there will be a Windows compiler at some point, but the language’s goals are never going to mesh with a large chunk of C usecases.
> Also, there are rules for ignoring letters.

This is a pretty far cry from "each consonant and vowel in each word has its own meaning". Going by the handbook, the example word of diction is 57% meaningful symbols and 43% meaningless ones. The word called for by the encoding system, diti, is in fact nonexistent, but you're free to supply whatever other letters you feel like until you've formed an English word.

The example I asked about, the dew-point indicator left, is much worse, with -- as far as I can tell -- 25% letters with independent meaning and 75% letters without a meaning of their own. The handbook notes that dew-point indicators are not part of the system, and instead a lookup table is supplied which must be memorized. The linked document does not appear to include that table, though, so it's hard to characterize the dew-point indicators.

I did appreciate the note that temperatures are to be reported modulo 100 degrees, but "the intelligence of the translators will prevent any error arising".
Yes. And I used myshell.ai out of interest. It’s also absolutely terrible.
Nine months ago HN user genmon posted the results of his experiments to classify the BBC In Our Time podcast using ChatGPT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35073603

It's the same principle. Give the podcast text to ChatGPT in chunks, ask it to classify using Dewey decimal system, pull out guests and mentioned books, and summarise the episode.

It's funny that user nl posits that 'We are months away from being able to do this with images too' - we were indeed months away! End of September, to be precise https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-can-now-see-hear-and-speak
I don't think it's as simple as just exploring new styles. AI has gone from generating unrecognizable crap to stunning digital art within a year. And it's not clear how much further it will go. If you are a digital artist who makes their entire income on what was once a very secure job of drawing furry art. You'd be terrified right now. The artists are still quite a way ahead of the AI stuff, but for how long?

I think the most likely outcome is that people stop drawing manually and either switch to making physical products like clothing and fursuits. Or they make use of the generative tools to create much more elaborate art. Perhaps one person pumping out a full comic in the time that would have taken 10 people.

It's still a very scary and uncertain time when peoples incomes are on the line and decades of hard earned skill is at risk of becoming worthless.
Now I'm imagining a Rube Goldberg device with all sorts of rubber bands, weights and hatches hanging piecemeal over a mixing desk and a desperate audio engineer lacking the gyral fortitude to find the crossover sweet spot on the EQ.
A key difference between pattern matching and decision tables is the intrinsic flexibility of the latter at the expense of simplicity the former provides. Whereas pattern matching most often encodes branching statically by what is explicitly encoded, decision tables allow for runtime branching based on workflow context.

Both have their strengths and weaknesses and, IMHO, the choice as to which to use is situational.

Another related technique which employs a bit of both of these approaches is the Visitor pattern[0].

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visitor_pattern
I didn't understand your prior comment. I don't feel the need to backup my impression of HN by doing personal research.

I wrote,

> Reading HN, one might get the impression that it's much higher [than eight out of every 10,000 are retracted]

You wrote,

> I certainly don't get that impression at all, and it doesn't seem like anyone else in this thread does either

People in the thread seem to disagree with the data, not my impression. They think the fraud rate is much higher than the data implies, which supports my impression.
Possibly. There are race conditions with `wait` for `$somepid` because shells kinda have to reap processes as soon as possible, but that means that your `$somepid` can be stale and even refer to some other process. If you have a pipe from the process' stdout and/or stderr then when you can try to read from that pipe to know if the process exited -- you might still lose the exit status, unless you run the program like `(the_program ...; stat=$?; printf '%s\n' $stat 1>&2; exit $stat) &` and then read the exit status from the stderr pipe.
I have to do more than imagine since there is always an outward pressure on my cohort to get off the payroll, maybe to come back as a lower-paid contractors. There is still the matter of being able to take out from the systems into which I've been paying for over forty years. That is a few years off unless it gets pushed even farther off which is a distinct possibility.

For most of us, financial resources are finite and the cost of existing in America - let alone living, let alone thriving - is out of reach for most. My job (technical field) was considered high paying and high skilled at one time in the not-so-distant past. My salary would now be considered entry level for tech people as defined by the HN community. This will not improve with time and the Ferengification of the society in which I was raised and educated. Every other place in the world is sliding down at an equal or faster rate so there is no outlet. Hobbies, passion projects, and service are all well and good in the abstract but many do miss the mental exercise from a job with infrastructure, equipment, and people.

Tithonus, without his knowledge, was granted eternal life without eternal youth. The modern horror, at least in the US, is outliving your savings.
Accents: Use 2021 iMac accent colors on any Mac
Yup, 40% of radio content and 55% of TV content must be 'Canadian origin' (except the CBC which is 60%).
A happy Kagi customer reporting in.
Completely agree, and that's one reason I'm against these laws. But that's a very different argument from the one I was responding to.
Only mildly related but just as annoying; old cars would have a dimmer button to reduce the backlight in the dashboard.

With all the screens in midern cars, even the minimum brightness is too bright for me driving in the night.it wont let your eyes adapt to the dark.

My last Hyundai had a moon button to turn off screen but that was an exception ithink.

I have driven hours with a cloth over the screen of my skoda octavia in the night.

Please let me turn off the screen for dark night driving, thank you.
Innovation is also CRISPR, LLMs, reusable rockets and lithium-ion batteries. Potently, many were discovered in Europe but developed in America.
The MPG Illusion
Make the robot overlords work for you. ChatGPT 4's data analysis plugin takes a pretty impressive stab at explaining it:

https://i.imgur.com/DCAnoCu.png

It will also make an attempt at turning the expressions into Python. It bombed out at first but caught itself and retried without any additional prompting:

https://i.imgur.com/nzywKkb.png

Not being familiar with SymPy, though, and not having time to think it through myself, this might be a bunch of hallucinated gobbledygook. Caveat lector.