skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were wars fought on that region with the intent of exiling the Jews there since at least the 19th century. Neither them nor the Muslims got any saying on the matter.

But all the discussion about who started it only serves to make it less likely that the situation will be resolved. (Or maybe we should punish the Ottoman Empire.)
"malicious compliance". Do exactly what you're told!
They got their cause/group media attention. I learned about them today. They achieved what they wanted. Sounds like a good protest to me.

> helping providing the food to people who need it in public demonstrations and gatherings

That does not get attention and attention is needed to help fuel a cause and affect political change. What food people eat and how affordable food becomes is entirely a political choice driven by lobbying and subsidies.
Waiting for the comments to the effect of "just because this guy imagined the Torment Nexus and is explicitly warning us about the Torment Nexus doesn't mean it's wrong to want to try to build the Torment Nexus, especially if me building the Torment Nexus might make my descendants nauseatingly rich. And if I don't immediately build the Torment Nexus, someone else will, and besides, who's to say they'll actually use the Torment Nexus as a nexus of literal torment?"
i enjoyed the read and was quite surprised that there was a happy ending. i didn't think that would be possible. probably that speaks to my own personal experience more than anything.

not really relevant, but anyone know where mad ned is at these days? haven't seen any new posts of his in a while, and i enjoyed a bunch of them.
Canada’s rebate was per-capita. Most people received more in their rebate than they paid in increased fuel cost.
This seems to close off the ability to solve a great many problems at all, though. Even in mathematics isn't it the case that algorithms often have specific corner cases they don't work for, but they are tremendously useful for the vast majority of scenarios? i.e. not all matrices are invertible.

And sometimes you can easily identify whether your situation is A or B, and deploy the right algorithm accordingly. Maybe that counts as "working for everything" in the Plan 9 model?

It feels hard to navigate this for more complex problems in general. Is it bad to build a PNG decoder that only supports 8 bits per channel? Does a compositor need to support 32 bits-per-channel CMYK backbuffers just because someone might want them? Some people consider rarely-used features to be "Basic functionality" while others consider them obscure corner cases.
Could the expanding Universe be a mirage? (2023)
"Cosmology in Minkowski space" - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/acdb41/...
It matters because she is famous?

If this was just some random person, this would be a blip on nightly news - similar to the revengeporn website stuff.

It must be really interesting though, to be the person in all of Human History who is at the creation of a Humanity's awareness that controlling AI versions of our likeness is going to be an impactful and meaningful area in legal precedent for here to evermore.

Swift, IMO, should feel a certain sense of weird-luckiness? to literally the Human where we begin the discussion of protecting ourselves from AI fakes....

My question is, then, if Swift can be entirely in control of how her likeness is used in any context, then what about any random person's likeness being scanned, documented and analyzed by millions of camera surveillance feeds every day?

Its a weird tangent, but if Swift creates the foundation for (what would this be, case law? Precedent? Dont know what legal terms define this) - what impact could it have for people defending the even capture of their likeness by systems that use that likeness to develop a catalog of your biometric-behavors to track you, recreate you, catalog you, define you, and then have business systems use that data to make decisions upon or against you?

If I own all aspects of my biologics, then do I have ay agency over how data captured, and AI-ified, amy be used?
Bing already is very sensitive to using real people in its images though it's easily worked around. Ask it to draw Abraham Lincoln sinking in quicksand, it's likely to refuse. Ask it to draw a "presidential looking tall man with a dark beard but no moustache, dressed in a dark suit with a bow tie and a stovepipe hat" sinking in quicksand and it's going to make someone who looks like Lincoln far more than just that prompt should have lead to it creating. For someone like Taylor Swift, there are probably many attributes of hers that could be included in a prompt that would cause it to zero in on her likeness without it knowing that it is her that it is drawing.
Well, he absolutely should have been using Vim, he instead spent the week learning vi.
Given how easy it is to run LLMs at home, it seems that maybe it's time to also roll back the failed PC experiment and require permits to run computers at home with strict usage type limits.
Photoshop has existed for decades. How is this different enough that we need to spend this much time worrying about it, when we didn't previously?
I would not argue that such a society cannot persist for a long time. I would argue that monogamy(ish) is more stable, hence its success.
Depends where and when. Regardless you're around $7.50 per gallon today. That's more than double the price in the US. Globally, fuel is relatively cheap right now.
I know this story is about company scale RnD. It can also be applied at any level. Research lives on a gray scale. At its core is growing understanding of your area so that you can do things you didn't know how to do before. I've always gravitated to the hardest problems to be solved so that I can learn something and make something that no one else had the vision or perseverance to make. So almost all my jobs have been RnD though only a few formally.

The most fun I'd say I've had was recognizing something ineffective and making (software) tools for it. Now that I think about it one of the first programs I made on my Atari 400 as a kid was Room, which let me move/rotate my to-scale bedroom furniture outlines around to see what layouts were possible and may be good to actually move the furniture.
Show HN: Try dsu gem as featured in RubyWeekly
As featured in RubyWeekly https://rubyweekly.com/issues/687

dsu is a ruby gem that enables anyone practicing Agile methodology to record, keep track of and manage their daily standup (DSU) activities. Give it a download and a GitHub star. Lots of fun to use :)

RubyGems: https://rubygems.org/gems/dsu
GitHub wiki: https://github.com/gangelo/dsu/wiki

- dsu uses no network connections whatsoever. - dsu stores all of its data locally, in .json files. - dsu is a simple (but powerful) command-line tool for users who love to work within the terminal. - dsu versioning follows the semantic versioning standard (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH).
I appreciate addressing this question directly from the perspective of arguments in favor of the practice. It basically answers the question of "why". However:

None of these reasons seem to address the problem, they just offer an apologia of sorts. The practice is still poor communication in my opinion.

The reasons are largely focused on the writer, and not on the reader. It says a lot to me. Even the reason "because people are on platform X" seems still focused on the writer getting attention, and not on the readers per se.

What I've never understood about any of this is if you're going to bother to write a multiple-post thread, why not just put it on a blog, and put a link to it on a shortform platform? Then people get a summary and a link for further reading, and you get to read the content in the best form for it. This is the purpose of URLs.

I can't get over what seems to me to be this weird stockholm syndrome phenomenon when it comes to putting longform writing on shortform platforms. All of the reasons given seem like legitimate reasons to use Twitter or Mastodon for something, but not for posting longform content on there per se.
And the rise of photoshop use had created a shift in how we perceive images as a proof of events. It had also changed people's concerns about the privacy of personal pictures exactly because of this concern. This tech takes it to the next level of ease, spread, and eficacy to the point of video (which were nearly impossible a decade ago). The fact that significant technological shifts happen doesn't mean they aren't any less impactful.
You won't lean backwards like you do when stopping from a run because your body has no momentum.
I can save a bunch of money on mortgage interest by buying a house in cash, too.

But of course that option isn’t realistic for the vast majority of people.

The piece of data I’m missing is how often a huge spike in costs like the one described happens. It’s unpredictable, it could happen any day for any reason.

Like I’ve said a couple of times, I’m doubtful that most people with these variable plans sincerely knew that a spike that high was even possible. If you bought a variable rate mortgage to save money you wouldn’t expect it to ever be adjusted to 200% APR.

And the truth of the matter is that a $2,000+ electric bill isn’t reflecting anything close to the actual cost of generating the electricity, just like paying $50 for a roll of toilet paper during the pandemic wouldn’t reflect the real cost of producing the item plus a reasonable profit margin.

That’s another good analogy because everywhere else in our society, price gouging due to emergencies is illegal.
I'm not sure where I would have learned it in my life, but this is very similar to my experience with pain so far. I'll definitely feel it but I do experience it more like an alarm, and once I recognize what happened the pain signal seems to go away after about 30 seconds.

To this day I'm still surprised by it, and appreciative for whatever it is that allows my body to apparently recognize and then silence the pain signals.
Been a long-time lurker of your blog. Some of the best FreeBSD content out there, imo, thank you for putting it out there.

Despite never being able to fully commit to a BSD over Linux/MacOS (due to hardware compatibility, lack of Linux containerization support, and now being fully invested in Nix) I appreciate the core values of the FreeBSD project.

At one point, I got Docker up and running on FreeBSD with Lima[0]. At this point, I’d be really curious how well Nix does on [Free,Open]BSD — I think I’d switch if I knew Nix was rock solid.

Regardless, thanks for your blog — it’s invaluable to anyone getting into FreeBSD. :)

[0] https://heywoodlh.io/freebsd-docker-2022
It's notable that Microsoft has already come out and said the tech industry needs to write laws for Congress to pass on this matter. They were waiting for this moment to happen and are ready to take advantage.
It's more likely to kill the parent organization than enact change. This may not be a problem for the individuals in an organization if they have reasoned that

1. Personal Growth is limited, or further upward movement is undesirable.

2. They intend to be with the organization a finite remaining time, or would welcome an early exit

A proper strike can be differentiated from a lazy workforce, self-sabotaging work cannot be.
I couldn't repro this... "back" worked normally
Explanation would be beneficial. Without you just make it more likely that someone does.
- The British offered land that didn't belong to them because of colonialism

- They offered land to Zionists to further their imperialist goals

- The British enabled Jewish immigration to Palestine when it was clear that Zionists intended to take over the entire territory of Palestine

- The local Arab population wasn't stupid and they understood that Zionism was an organized political program driven in large part by Jewish religious extremists to take away their home

That only some Zionists resorted to terrorist bombing campaigns against the British is hardly "patiently waiting".

They were only there because of the British and still waged war against them, mirroring Israel's refusal to heed US admonitions against illegal land grabs in the West Bank despite absolute dependence on American protection.

It's a client state that feels it can write the rules, steal what it wants and bites the hand that feeds it.
The thing with Anki is that you cant control how much workload you have per day. Anki algorithm decides that. Say, you start by doing it little bit every day and you are fine for first three weeks. But then, Anki starts assigning you more and more repetition and that is it.

If you do less one day, Anki gives you those cards the next day on top of the normal workload of that day. There is no way out.

Worst, the less you retain, the more mistakes you make, the more your workload goes up. Anki algorithm never do the "lower workload because this person does not retain" decision. Instead, it will just give you more and more work in such case.
Won't a solenoid lock with microcontroller circuitry have a higher risk of failure due to water damage, power surges, and other factors(software bugs, hackers, cosmic rays!), in addition to wear and tear of a mechanical lock?
I wouldn't be particularly thrilled to have it switched to Amex, because a number of merchants won't accept Amex, but I am tired of not being able to use my Apple Card at Costco. Amex would be better, there.

I don't remember the details, but the reason they picked MasterCard, was because of some technical infrastructure that MC provides.
It is funny how unusual this point of view is nowadays. I guess a fundamental purpose of money is to decouple things from social obligation. You pay for something and you don't have to do anything more than that. But if that breaks down you are back to obligation and reciprocation.
True, but I suspect that's due to learning being tedious.

Memorization isn't the same as learning. Using a preexisting deck is memorizing someone else's learning.
> turning down getting teleported into the inside of a black hole.

I'm good, thanks.
It mattered before it was easy to do. This has been brought up before, but leadership barreled ahead anyway.
In my personal experience just anecdotally one generation is usually fine provided it is on the latest firmware for that device. A notable bonus is the cost is usually much less than the latest generation. The WiFi 6 that I bought about mid-life of 6 was about $150 and is now $75 on Amazon where as WiFi 7 is significantly more. Some may have a need for the extra speed but my WiFi 6 is still plenty fast enough to keep up with my 500mb/s fiber.
"Sounds very much like some Christian agenda bring pushed here."

You must be kidding. You are accusing the CDC of using a scientific fact (that is pretty obvious) of "Pushing a Christian agenda"?

First of all, you are using HSV1 stats, which aren't the ones we are talking about, we are talking about Genital Herpes, which among adults affects only about 13%.

https://khealth.com/learn/herpes/statistics/#:~:text=is%20le....

And "syphilis Gets cured with antibiotics" isnt that accurate either. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9785152/

If you have the money for antibiotics, which many don't and you catch it early enough, which some don't, then yes it can be cured. However, as that link shows there are emergent antibiotic resistant strains that can absolutely destroy your life.

As far as HPV goes there are huge sections of the population who don't have the HPV vaccine, some can't afford it even.

People can do what they want, but objectively being promiscuous is dangerous to your health. It's less a question of it, but rather when.
None of the attacks listed in the post would be an issue for any kind of modern web application. Why should I add a WAF for this?
> I enjoyed this part

Very nice indeed. Such a simple mitigation and it makes evil people sad, which makes me happy.
I am wondering if there was any reports (on large scale systems) on what hackers were looking for on servers?
Can science ever discover the absolute truth about reality?
I mean, if medical care were expensive and difficult to access, you’d certainly expect more use of opioids, because they’re a cheap solution to chronic pain relative to more measured approaches. And it certainly does seem that the US opioid crisis was worst in extremely poor areas with limited medical care available.
I’ve been liking using HACK (iOS)

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/hack-for-hacker-news-reader/id...
Nietzsche's Quarrel with History: Are there lessons left for history to teach?
I made a netcat like tool for QUIC
The one in Dalkey (south Co. Dublin) is supplemented by another tower on top of nearby Dalkey hill that could see ships from further away and signal down to the Martello tower.
I doubt the orange site is representative.
I'm not sure what legendary customer-friendliness means in the context of a credit card. If I want to dispute a charge, I've never really had an issue with calling up the bank and getting it resolved or, presumably, getting a new card issued. And the days where having a physical office in a foreign capital where I could cash a check or whatever is pretty much way in the past.
Thank you! I've been self-hosting for about a year running a 400-line http/s server of my own design, and it's remarkable all the attacker traffic my 3 open ports (22, 80, 443) get, although I've never taken the time to analyze what the attackers are actually trying to do! This post fills in a LOT of blanks.

Would be cool to do the same thing for the weird stuff I see in /var/log/auth.log!

It's crazy that attackers would bother with me since the code is entirely open source and there is no server-side state. The best outcome for an attacker would be root access on a $5/mo VPS, and perhaps some (temporary) defacement of the domain. A domain no-one visits!
AI: both a game changing revolutionary technology and "nothing."
Accordong to https://transsyst.ru/transsyst/article/view/10739

> The Japanese Shinkansen N 700 records the maximum value for Wheel-Rail systems at speeds up to 300 km/h. At a constant speed of 300 km/h, it has a specific energy consumption of 28 Wh/Pl/km (Watt hours per seat and per kilometre)

A train can carry 1,300 passengers depending on the number of cars.
Ask HN: US Income Because of Stripe
Hi everyone, I have a quick question.
I have an LLC as a non-US resident/citizen, and I get the "special" tax benefits of not having my operations in the US.

I have worldwide customers, but I realized that when I use Stripe for invoices and ACH, I later get it into my account from a US bank.

(Same with credit cards)

And while I can show that it's a non-US payment, I can get audited for that.

I would be happy to know if anybody else encountered something like that and what the solution is.
That's the thing, Apple ended up with Goldman because all the usual credit card companies refused to work on Apple's terms. Apple went above and beyond a normal CC partnership by demanding terms on card issuance and card billing that typically is important in credit card servicing and risks.

AMEX is probably not in any rush to take losses themselves like Goldman ended up doing. Not to mention Goldman has a big customer service issue because Apple's insistence that everyone is billed at the 1st of the month means customer service is flooded the first week and sitting idle the next 3 weeks.
You say that as though politicians appear out of thin air. The root problem is that the average person isn't motivated to do anything, including voting in politicians who will do something.

That and misinformation isn't helping.
This I definitely agree with. A bus is the worst mode. Most of the downsides of a car with very few if any of rail especially in places with significant traffic. If you replaced that bus experience with light rail, almost certainly you’d be at your destination several times faster
"Taking a single grape at the supermarket is illegal but no one would arrest you for it."

Petty crime can have serious consequences regardless. In Germany we had a famous case, where a supermarket cashier redeemed a deposit receipt worth 1.30 EUR a customer had forgotten.

She was let go without notice for that and only got her job back after fighting through three instances. Only the highest court found the termination disproportionate and only because she had been working this job for 31 years.There was never a debate if this was stealing or not, just if the termination proportionate .
"One person steals so other people stealing is ok" seems like a difficult moral position to defend.
Does Costco even take Amex anymore?

Maybe they still do in Canada?
how much does installing an AC cost there?
Greece and Turkey while both in NATO have their own rivalry. And enlistment is down in most western counties, so this is a good opportunity to effect a reversal. Many doctrines require a minimum amount of manpower. As for Ukraine and Russia, the War began in 2014. They have been stockpiling artillery for this express tactic for decades now. Anyone who simply compares spending across two arbitrary countries does deserve hubris. But that’s not what’s happening.

Why there’s not more Western defense of Ukraine I can’t explain except for present greed over future problem
solving, but nothing is that surprising.
Hello, I suspect your first comment is flagged because of this second one. I do not agree with the flagging decision, you are definitely entitled to your opinion.

My opinion is that the world is not nearly as messed up as the news and the social media outrage cycle will lead you to believe. Humans have always inflicted suffering on others knowingly or unknowingly and the world has always been messed up to some degree.

Addiction replaces this existential pain with other problems, be it addiction to chemical substances, gambling or even internet addiction (which is likely the opiate of choice for a lot of us here including me).

IAC I hope you do take a break from news and social media at least and feel better. Best wishes.
The Impact of AI-Generated Code on Web Development: A Comparative Study
> Hacker news is so funny, they complain about the amount of power we've allowed Google, Amazon, and Microsoft to have, and then go right around and recommend putting everything behind Cloudflare.

It’s almost as if those saying contradictory things are actually different people despite being on the same website. But it can’t be that, surely? Truly a perplexing phenomenon that I hope someone can one day explain.
They are free not to develop for the platform; which is the very same argument as "you're free not to install an alternative App Store."
I'm a little confused by your question. The discussion is about which button should be ok, and which should be cancel. The browser will not lay that out for you, you have to pick a layout.

There are some things where the browser will apply platform conventions, but nothing resembling the consistency you'd expect from (well-designed) native apps.
Hollywood is already struggling with how to handle these types of issues, with actors wanting to maintain control of their likeness and studios wanting to be able to own those at the very least as a "work for hire" property in the context of a movie character. Not that this is completely new. Crispen Glover sued over the producers of 'Back to the Future II' using another actor to give the impression of him playing the George McFly character instead of recasting the character or writing around the absence of the character. IIRC, Glover ended up winning.
One of the top search results was this page, <https://libreselfhosted.com/project/libreddit/>, which links to <https://libredd.it> as homepage. Domain sounds plausible so I just assumed that's the official one. The project github page has as "website" one of their tickets listed... can't say if that website field once contained something different
Maybe, Apple and Goldman Sachs negotiated a better deal with Mastercard esp interchange fees. For instance, Costco pays Visa 0.4% interchange fees for accepting Visa cards exclusively at Costco.