skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> fwiw, I'm not trying to be anonymous. I've updated my profile to make that plain.

Were you thinking that I was arguing that e.g. you shouldn't be able to use a pseudonym to post comments?

Sorry if that's how my comment reads. The thing I was wondering about was if/why we should allow spammers / crackers to retain their anonymity when attacking computers in the way you described. E.g., 100 attacks / second on some port, with no accountability for the persons who originated / propagated those packets.

I'm curious about the pros/cons of law-enforcement agencies having the ability (and mandate) to hunt down the sources of such traffic.

I realize that doing so would open a huge can of works, so I'm 10000% not advocating for it. I'd just like to understand the steel-man arguments for and against.
Clearly people can afford the real estate there since it's selling, yet I agree with your point, confusingly.
Ability to speak in articulate, convincing, friendly manner and with different styles under different situations
https://archive.ph/AszGK
Isn't it garbage-collected? Seems more like Go than C.

Nim and D also I think are not particularly C-like unless you use some custom compiler settings.

And Haskell belongs nowhere near this list. Or is Gambit Scheme also "C-like"?
This is so cool. I always wanted a way to do this
Characterizing and Classifying Developer Forum Posts with Their Intentions
> Because from 2014 to 2021 or 2022, the only sentiment allowed was every employees are roughly equal. There are no high performer. No such thing as 10x programmers etc.

What a strange straw man that I can't connect to reality

What I've seen (on this site, on twitter, and on reddit) over those years was a reckoning that 10x employees aren't often worth the bullshit - their toxicity, that they may make others around them more than 10x UN-productive, and that our industry may have had a habit of treating these 10xers with kid gloves not caring the path of destruction they left of (and especially) female engineers.

Yes, I did see the occasional blog or tweet thread from some claiming that they didn't exist at all, but it was always immediately challenged because the concept is ridiculous. We've all worked with at least one 10xer (and by the way most of them WEREN'T toxic, but actually incredible, helpful, and generous).
https://kashmirlife.net/late-marriages-a-biologically-disast...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358646699_A_study_o...

Some research from my corner of the world.

Read how religious insistence on no sex before marriage and shift towards being "financially stable " means young people have no option but to wait.

To make matters worse, PCOD stats in the region are like 15-26% of female population so thats an additional penalty.
[Victorian time portal detected]
They can’t all be classics.
> shouldn't these programs be making roi for them?

Is there any evidence DEI, as practiced, produced an ROI?
"Over time, though, Amazon’s Americanness has begun to slip" - This is laughable. How much "americanness" can it be really, if the production of these things are since long time go from overseas, particularly China? If there are anything "american" in this process, it is actually Amazon's fast shipping and returning policy that somewhat differentiates. So that "slip" already happened decades ago and has nothing to do with Amazon really.
The best way to stop gun violence is to stop "fearmongering" and shrug it off? Doesn't make any sense.
This! I hate when an app's GUI is following Windows-principles (if at all) and the macOS version is basically the same with a macOS theme slapped on top of it.

About 10 years ago I've experimented with an early version of appcelerator Titanium for mobile app development. It was JavaScript but GUI rendering was transcoded to either Android-Java or Apple-ObjectiveC and the respective code was compiled natively (while running your main code via a JavaScript engine). With a bit of if-then-else you could make one app that compiled for both platforms and looked and felt native on both.
Ooh, don't say that too loud, you're going to embarrass angel investors. ;)
(1) NVIDIA Isaac can simulate reality at 1000x faster than real-time. The incoming data stream scales as compute scales.

What does this mean? Sounds like frantic bullshit
True.

Maybe the adjective is mismatched, but "people" is not necessarily a synonym for "human," right?
It works better than you think, as long as you use GPT 4. See my answer to the other person (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38837646).

A lot of negativity comes from people who goofed around with 3.X for a while, came away unimpressed, muttered something under their breath about stochastic parrots or Markov chains that sounded profound (at least to them), and never bothered to look any further. 4 is different. 4 is starting to get a bit scary.

The real pedagogical value comes when you try to reconcile what it tells you about the equations with the equations themselves. Ask for clarification when something seems wrong, and there is an excellent chance it will catch its own mistakes.
It's hard to call comprehensive. Transformers - one page. A picture would be nice. No "prompt engineering", no "double deep". In fact words "prompt" and "double" aren't used at all. "Recognition" is used only once outside of bibliography just for reference. Looks like theory will not catch up with practice any time soon. With looming singularity it's bit worrying.
I wrote a book: https://pimbook.org

You might find it useful for your situation. The PDF is pay-what-you-want if you don't feel like paying for it.
It's because I'm a furry and it's the only 'porn site' (not all the art is even explicit) I care about. And Inkbunny too I guess.
Do you think anonymous surveys wouldn't work here? (Genuinely asking and not being snarky, I expected to find lots of people doing surveys in this area but didn't readily find it, so I'm open to there being something I'm not understanding.)
I know this advice is like 10 years too late, but if you leave the lid open on a MacBook in a dark room it will be able to use the light sensor that controls the screen/keyboard brightness to also dim the power indicator light.
You don't have to show ID if you look about 40 years old, generally.
Funnily enough, defending the language means trying to delegitimze stuff like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/world/africa/africa-frenc...

The white French government is mad that their previous imperial subjects are now really defining what French will be into the future.
Took my first real vacation time in over a year (a block of days between christmas and new years). Wrote a novel from scratch in that time. My first time doing that kind of writing in easily ten years, and it was easy once I actually had enough distance from work.
Sounds like Minority Report
I am going to say something that is not popular to say but has been on my mind for a while.

Why is it bad for our kids to see two humans have sex?

When you say porn is bad for kids, I think you mean that mainstream porn can be misogynistic, addictive (like most pleasurable things), and give people unrealistic body standards and expectations about what sex is like. All of which I agree with.

Okay, so, if I had a website that just showed consensual sexual relationships between a husband and wife in a committed relationship, just doing normal sex like people do, would that be okay for kids to see? Would it be okay for me to show my kid if they were curious about what sex was like? What if that was something I /wanted/ my teenager to jerk off to as opposed to something I wasn't curating? Wouldn't it be better for me to be able to say "Here's what normal human sex looks like, you'll experience this yourself when you're older and ready for it, but I was a young teen and I know young teens get horny too, just don't spend all day masturbating to it" rather than letting them stumble onto whatever they find on PornHub? I mean we educate kids about every other aspect of human existence, but sexuality is some weird taboo...

I'm just confused here, I mean, are we saying that young people are irreparably harmed by visual exposure to the human reproductive system? If so, why would we as a species have evolved that way? And if not, then how can we justify a blanket ban on young people seeing all forms of recorded sexual activity?

If you look at my comment history you'll see I'm not a normal person, and I don't really understand 'normal' views on human sexuality. Maybe it's because I lived so long in a clothing optional community...I don't really understand why it's okay for parents to show their kids extremely violent media but showing two people having sex, even if it's educational, is considered some form of abuse. But then again, as I said, maybe I'm just mentally ill or something...
If I search "Download youtube video" on bing, literally the first result works fine for me (y2meta.net).
Roughly true. Rasterized fonts are typically not copyrightable. The font files, or as you suggest, programs, are.

If you see a font you think is cool, you can pretty much rip off the style without any real consequences. This is often why font licenses for print media are priced very differently than digital media where the font is redistributed.
Oh I think a certain presidential candidate is running under the “let’s stop pretending” thing. So in half a year we’ll know.
Scams Popping Up on GitHub
> don’t think you really need to try to regulate ChatGPT

Courts seek to regulate ChatGPT’s use, not ChatGPT per se. This could be as simple as clarifying that attorneys are responsible for LLMs’ mistakes. It’s probably also helpful to flag the sections generated by an LLM.
Language evolves = you are wrong to use the original meaning of words? Hm
It's a white light sitting below my tv constantly shining a light at my face. What is the point of it? I already know the thing is powered on because I powered it on and it's playing a movie or whatever. Facing it backwards helps but then all the wires are exposed and look ugly.

Anyway, it wasn't really a strong complaint, but parent poster said Apple generally doesn't do it, but I have it on at least two generations of apple tv.
Several years ago I was part of team managing one of the busiest recursive DNS resolvers in the country. Around the time, DNS reflection attacks were becoming all the rage (I think there might have been a vulnerability in PowerDNS to blame, I don't specifically recall the details).

The solution we employed was a "dumb" fail2ban like script to ban any abusive IP address. It worked wonders and practically completely neutralized the attacks. We received zero complaints from any legitimate users of the service.

If I recall correctly, even after the attacks subsided (CVEs was patched etc.), we still kept a toned down version of the script in place.

> at best, fail2ban: does nothing

This is just plain wrong. Even if you're only using key based auth and there's no way an attacker could have your keys, fail2ban will still block the abusive traffic.

I have no issues with blocking abusive traffic instead of letting the attackers beat their fists against my armored doors.

> at worst, fail2ban: causes you massive inconvinience or total lockout

The authors main criticism seem to be that you might lock yourself out of your own server one day. This hardly seems fair because the author is saying "just setup SSH correctly and you won't have any issues" while also saying "if you don't setup fail2ban correctly, you'll have a whole bunch of issues!" OK, so shouldn't we just setup fail2ban correctly as well?

Having said all that, my recommendation for people who are going to use an indiscriminate fail2ban setup on SSH access would be to have some out-of-band access in case you do happen to ban yourself, even if it's less convenient to use than SSH.
I'm not sure where you heard this, but triage does not use the prefix tri- meaning three. Triage is a concept that is instantiated differently per locale and is not a universal 3 bucket system.
It seems that fears of music homogenization are overblown, if you check charts on streaming services for different countries (non-english speaking) they would mostly have local music, even for the countries where there are no laws protecting local music. Many of them would have no US/UK artists in top-20 (most Latin American, East European, African countries)
lol those states aren’t subsidizing, the federal government is. The distinction is important because they literally print the money and distribute it.

That said, often those funds are allocated based on defense contracts, military bases present, assistance for the poor, education grants, etc. for instance, the federal government grants funds for roads based on drinking age (among other things).

Even if that was your argument, California is granted more than it pays in.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/federal-aid...

Texas actually has more of its budget come from federal funds than from Tennessee (and New York only has 1-2% less than TN).

The Tennessee model works because they don’t spend as much money, so they tax less.
When I visited Paris, the expectation to (at least try to) speak French and the national pride felt like looking at a certain version of the US from the outside.
More like a mix of vlang and JAI.
I have no idea. Broadly speaking, I don't trust self-reporting on anything taboo even when it's anonymous; people both lie to themselves and have justified paranoia about precisely how anonymous any collected data is.

... But it's real hard to fake the actual server requests and human sourced usage patterns to the service provider at scale.
I know it's hugely unpopular with some of the HN crowd, but V (vlang) is definitely a worthy competitor in this space. I tried Nim, Zig, etc. but liked Odin (in spite of some oddities in syntax and usage). Now I've moved over to V in this space (although Zig has a lot of traction, so I keep following it).
No, but watching from outside the US, can't each party choose better candidates?
Also intimidates people into signing NDAs for things like sexual assault.
Puritans/Evangelicals
There is already one - it’s called RTA (‘Restricted to Adults’) and is a meta tag that should filter out sites if you have parental controls enabled. I expect it’s one of the things Google etc. look at for SafeSearch to remove those results too (among other checks).

Of course, the irony is that only those that would label their sites as RTA already (so are already easily filtered) would comply with any ID requirement, so these kinds of laws achieve very little!
> I would expect for a response list to not include C++ and it’s competitors.

While it is a common trope on the internet that C and C++ are totally different and nobody that prefers C over C++ would like the more "complex" languages that are "C++ replacements, not C replacements," in the real world, it's not that clear-cut. I happen to work with a bunch of people who used to be C folks, never really liked C++, but now happily write Rust instead of C.

What any "x replacement" needs to be accurate is to define what "x" actually means to you. C means different things to different people! And that's okay.

(That said I agree with you that Haskell, at least, is quite the stretch.)
And jakt, the language made by SerenityOS team.

It has a very pragmatic design.
Ask HN: What are your favorite end of year reviews?
For example:

https://hamy.xyz/blog/2023-review

[last year's] https://www.taniarascia.com/2022-into-2023/

https://old.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/18vyyuj/part_6_2023_annual_spreadsheet_day_review/
China's Xi Is Resurrecting Mao's 'Continuous Revolution' with a Twist
Something like this for example?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baigong_pipes
I can't imagine a world where you're literally forbidden to perform any work. That someone could even ask that question just boggles my mind.

If you had free room and board and healthcare, you would not need to work. But of course you would be free to. Whether it be for someone else, or for yourself, or just to find some non-work activity that gives you meaning and pleasure. That's the point - the freedom to choose, not just a lack of freedom but in the opposite direction.
Ouch. Burnout and painting oneself into a permanent corner. Seems a bit drastic. Apart from burnout, one of the worst things is wasted talent.
I made this list a while ago:
C++
Go
Rust
Odin
D
Carbon
Zig
Beef
C2/C3/C4
Ring
Jiyu
Hare
V
OCaml
Crystal
Nim
Maybe Haskell?
Terra
Red
Nelua
Same for V (vlang), even more inspired by Go, they actually intentionally stick to Go syntax as much as they can to help people transition.
So much of XKCD's "humor" relies on the reader's self-congratulatory reaction to being aware of the scientific notion used as the premise for the comic.
Pattern Matching in Rust
There's a compelling listen: https://librivox.org/the-first-fifty-digits-of-pi/
Visual AI Innovation Report 2023 – CO/AI
Information graphic visualizing 2023 AI innovation month by month
> JangaFX are the creators of the 3D animation software EmberGen written fully in Odin.

Whoah. That's quite the demo reel.
Interesting that the log 7 case is called out as tricky in that linked PDF..
Ya, someone single making $150k/year is paying an effective state income tax rate of 7% (and an effective federal income tax rate of 17.82%). But I get the very conservative simplifications parent was making to make their point.
My custom AZ plate from April 2023 has the same. I have the standard design, without cactus because it is a custom one.

My custom CA plate from 2017 does not have it. It is the 1960s legacy plate.
No Paywall: https://archive.is/mHGY4
Control in Hybrid Chatbots [pdf]
To those opposing this, do you think porn is harmful to children? Porn is a digital drug, how else do you propose solving this problem? I'm a bit confused as to why someone would want children to have access to porn...
If you're on this board you must be in tech and you should be well aware of the sea of BS jobs out there.
The major problem — one of the major problems, for there are several — one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

-- Douglas Adams
This just isn’t really a good book. One sign; it’s an arXiv book.
> Unless the difference actually contains significantly different meaning and can lead to misunderstanding, I don't see why that'd an issue

The following are some of the reasons why it's very desirable that audio and subtitles should match:

(1) It's great when you're trying to learn a language or to watch in a language in which you're not fluent. It's extremely frustrating when the audio and subtitles don't match. This point is made by many people in the comments to the video[1].

(2) Even if you're fluent in the language, if you're watching with both audio and subtitles enabled, it's jarring when they don't match.

(3) If you didn't understand something in the audio (because of poor pronunciation, poor sound quality, or whatever), and you turn on subtitles to see what was said, you expect to see exactly what was said, not something "similar in meaning".

(4) A reason quoted directly from the YouTube comments[1] (which I think is a more common a problem that people realize): As someone with sensory processing issues but technically normal hearing - sometimes understanding what i'm hearing comes with a short delay, and accurate subtitles help bridge that gap so I can still keep pace with what i'm watching! If the subtitles don't match, however, it can COMPLETELY throw me off because of the conflict in information and I end up more confused than if i'd only read the subtitles or only listened to the audio. Accurate subtitles are an accessibility feature!

> phrases that are commonly use in speech but strange to see written down

I'm curious to know if you can give an example of that?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU9sHwNKc2c
Link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-to-see-in-the...
My extended family is from Jammu and Himachal, and marriages are later as well there, but that can largely be attributed to people concentrating more so on careers.

I wouldn't be surprised if a similar trend is happening in Kashmir Valley as well, given that living standards there have tended to be higher than most of India.

> insistence on no sex before marriage and shift towards being "financially stable " means young people have no option but to wait

Or move to Chandigarh/Delhi like everyone in HP, JK, and PB

Such is the middle income trap
I would imagine because if they just said "eye mask", someone might imagine negative aspects that don't apply to a more luxurious/premium material like mulberry silk.
This is way cooler than what I am using, in fact a couple of weeks ago I asked X/twitter about a solution to this same issue and someone suggested this: "Highlight or Hide" on the Chrome extensions store - which is actually really simple but more manual work...
Zig cookbook: collection of simple Zig programs that demonstrate good practices
Valid for an average of all nudges. We need to do the same publication bias test for individual nudges.
Does it have an exception for search sites? What percentage of the content Google indexes is porn? Probably pretty high.
If only one could find purpose outside of work.
I’d bet that is not true. I grew up with Napster, Kazaa, Soulseek, Limewire and friends and they allowed me to find so many fantastic musicians and helped start to shape my tastes in music. When I was older and had a job, I supported many of these musicians by buying their albums (and much less frequently, going to one of their concerts).

The thing about art, IMO, is that it does a great service for humanity in giving us hope, purpose, and something to live for. When you treat artists as a cost to just minimize, you make it harder for any of them to succeed at making a living doing their work. I believe that the effects of the very low streaming royalty payments will have a chilling effect on professional musicians making a real go of it.
"Insane amounts of progress on robust hardware: Tesla Optimus ..."
Indeed, and since we don’t do pull requests (we pair, mob, and/or do live code reviews), the after-the-fact git blame or the git log to see what has changed recently is what tends to matter.

I agree that when I did PRs I didn’t tend to care about the commit messages when I was reviewing them, but even when I did do PRs I cared about them later any time I was trying to understand how, why, or who forensically.
Even for delivery vehicles the petrol engine was way better. One anecdote from some documentary that stuck with me is:

Delivery vehicles (post/milkman) had to do the uphill people first as the batteries did not have enough power to get the car up the hill at the end of a day.
"Procrastination is a good thing. Don't put it off until tomorrow"
(Ellen DeGeneres)
What I want is a phosphorus tape that stoke shifts the blue LED light into a dimmer, longer wavelength green or red light. When we replaced our older oven that had a pleasant, dim, yellowish indicator light, we ended up with a new oven that has murderously bright blue LED that casts a ghoulish glow across the kitchen for those 3AM refrigerator raids. The new coffee maker is just as bad. Sometimes ‘progress’ moves backwards.