skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why no spacing between paragraphs in a comment? Looks weird.

I guess everyone has a different idea as to "pretty"
New lead in Amelia Earhart's disappearance
Einstein didn't want a Jewish state, he wanted a binational Jewish - Arab state. Basically one state solution without the apartheid.
Dunno man I’m going to go with the idea that telling someone to “die slow” means you want them to die.
Totally agree. The only exception to this is buses with dedicated lanes. Not say they are as good as trains, but at least don’t have the traffic issues.
Cloudflare's WAF managed rulesets changelog might be helpful for this: https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/change-log

For example, they did an emergency update on 1/22 in response to CVE-2023-22527.
I prefer to run the webserver using systemd on the host so publishing the container port to 127.0.0.1 is enough for me.
I thought it was true when compared alignment group with bold/italics, in the Word Ribbon UI they do seem to have less space separating them, but then in Wordpad the paragraph button next to alignment group seems to have the visually very similar space width and the icon is very similar, so there is no way such poorly perceptible convention helps even if it does exist
An Ignorant Take on Vision Pro
I have an Apple Card and never use it. It is handy to have the extra card for the sole purpose of not dinging my credit as much if I decide to carry a balance on the other card I use all the time.
You can get all that data and more for free now on most interchange websites.
The HV lines run over someone's property, which implies there is some sort of contract in place, that presumably spells out what the property owner is allowed or not allowed to do. I'm not sure if this would be any kind of criminal issue instead of a private dispute.
Alternatively one can just use grid paper and some scissors. I bet you learned a lot writing that program as a kid though!
Well said, this is the key part for me:

>It makes knowledge gaps more visible

It's the same principle behind teaching others. It's easy to think you understand something until you are forced to communicate it beyond the surface level.
The thing I am seeing there is rather a dislike of the codebase than a desire to rewrite.

My rule of thumb is this: you need to touch a codebase _more_ to throw it away.

Tell that to whoever wants to rewrite. You will have to maintain the old application anyway (yes, this is a given, you are not getting an exemption for security holes) and you will have to de-risk the project by providing value (== release early, release often, continuously switch parts over - which requires work on the legacy side, too).

If someone wants to do a big bang rewrite then you need to fight for the importance to touch the "legacy" codebase. That is the actual reason why people are so religious about their rewrite.

Other than that: same thing, ~20 years and nothing good comes out of big bang rewrites and releases.
If that is the only constraint, wouldn't the goal be to be as far as possible from the only success state?

the distance between success and failure is 28
You cannot give away some thing that doesn't belong to you.

If I accept stolen property which I know to be ill-gotten, then I am as responsible as the thief.

A Jewish state could've been established peacefully somewhere out in Utah instead (or joined the millions of American Jews prospering safely in their communities), but Palestinians had their land taken instead.

Why? Racism, plain and simple. Like the Native Americans, the Palestinians were treated as mere savages who could be dispossessed without consequence.
Congress already started to act before the Taylor Swift stuff, based on a high school kid in NJ making fakes of a classmate.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/sharing-deepfake...
I think you are minimizing something that is very important.

Understanding deeply and completely any topic is much easier when you understand deeply and completely the fundamental components and concepts--which starts with memorization.
And seemingly the few that are willing are somewhat insane. I know it takes a special type but wowzers.
Sure, but opioids are also a cheap solution to loneliness and to a chronic feeling of alienation and of "not belonging" caused by living in a society optimized for individual freedom and economic efficiency. I have yet to see reasons in this comment section to believe that access to healthcare specifically is the human need whose lack is driving most of the cases addiction in the US.

Most young adults have no pressing need for healthcare except possibly birth-control pills for the young women (since those require a prescription in the US) and if the millions of young adults in the US who have become addicts during this crisis had unmet health-care needs at a significantly higher rate than their counterparts who did not become addicts, addiction researchers would almost certainly have noticed by now, and I probably would've heard about it from journalists who cover the issue.
Are they needed in emergency situations?
While it’s a crude metric, the US is 42 on that scale (usually rendered as 0.42), so significantly worse.
Back in 2007 an oral surgeon gave me an opioid painkiller prescription after a routine tooth extraction. I never filled it but in retrospect it seems crazy how they were handing out those scripts like nothing.
The government in Alberta is heavily supported by private industry.
Is it OK to eat a grape for free in the grocery? Why or why not?
You are advised to chill.
Sometimes a computer is just more accessible than paper.
I have some notes on installing SpatiaLite in the Datasette documentation here: https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/spatialite.html

It's not too bad - you can get it from Homebrew on macOS and apt-get has it on Ubuntu and Debian.
Been using Anki for years for more advanced language learning. I usually keep notes of words or phrases that come up during my day to day living in France that are new to me (or used a way I’m less familiar with). I research their construction/uses and throw them in an ongoing study deck I review every morning.

It’s really helped me gain a deeper understanding of the language and feel more confident in conversations.
We can see an analogy to the legality of deepfake content itself. For now anyways, it appears that deepfake content itself is not illegal. Only the impact of distribution of it can have legal remedies (and criminal implications).

Similarly in the arena of public attention, only the impact of an "event" has value. The combination of Swift as the target, and internet punching bag Twitter/X is a surefire way to ignite a firestorm.

That said, I think prior iterations of deepfaking and fake celeb porn lacked the degree of exposure to really force a proper discussion of what role platforms should actually play. Like, when it was just a bunch of people on 4chan photoshopping faces around, and you had to go to like 3rd page of search results to find it, the impact was clearly low, and no one cared to really think through what should happen.

Now we have a situation which is acting like a forcing function. What are the differences (if any) do deepfake porn have with photoshops (or just drawings...). What is the quality of them that substantiates a different response (if any?). If there aren't, then maybe we got our initial response to photoshopped porn wrong (and got away with it because the scale didn't matter), and we need to revisit.
The section you are talking about is marked as [citation needed]. So, I googled it and this[1] was one of the first results and it seems to disagree with that analysis. FactCheck.org[2] also looks like it agrees with the USA Today article.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/01/08/fal...
[2] https://www.factcheck.org/2024/01/posts-distort-history-in-c...
Then login and just sub to those channels? This isn't life/death situation. It's not complicated.
The number of valence quarks is 3. Or, put in a more rigorous way, the baryon number of a proton is 1.
We know because it’s measurable.

You. Literally YOU. Can trivially measure the impact of different gases on temperature.

Telling the difference between natural and human produced is probably not doable by you personally, however, human burned pollution tends to have different atomic markers from naturally occurring. We have mandatory pollution reporting. We can do basic maths to find reasonably close numbers to how much of the pollution is natural and how much is from us.

With regard to “the prediction models are always wrong” fake news propaganda bullshit:

They are always wrong in a way that’s worse for us by underestimating the bad impacts. Every time we improve the models, the outcomes are worse even faster than the models predict, and we have to find why.
I still have a Ti 83-Plus. Attempting to connect it using a serial cable to my computer, I found out that Windows 10 obviously doesn't support the tools, WSL doesn't support serial (I use the serial port on my computer), and Wine on Windows didn't support 16-bit apps. Too bad :-(
It is interesting to contrast this reaction with widespread blocking and calling for laws with the reaction to Kanye West’s Famous video which featured a wax model of a naked Taylor Swift in bed with him.

https://www.robertreeveslaw.com/blog/famous-video-kanye/

There is almost an elitism that things are ok as long as someone famous does them but if the common people do things, then there is outrage and a desire to involve the law against them.
I’m fairly confident people have always taken issue to their likeness being manipulated into compromising and inappropriate images.

Since before computers and photographs.
I am on firefox 122 , binary from Mozilla, not from my distro's repos (debian) and I don't see any connection to pocket - at least some domain that has the name 'pocket' on it.
We had to go further. The attacks were from arbitrary IPs, and were working through a huge list of leaked username/password combinations.

The attacker even went to the trouble of spoofing some custom headers in our API client.

Our eventual solution was to a) attack our own auth credentials first, identify any users with leaked creds (from other services) and force a password reset for them. b) disallow users from setting common leaked passwords. c) make the auth checking request as low-cost as possible, and scalable separately from the main application. d) when an attack request is detected, bypass the relatively-expensive real cred check but return the same failure response (including timing) as a real failure. e) build a secondary requirement in the auth flow that can be transparently enabled when under high volume attack.

This works, so far. It sheds the volume to the application, and has low-to-zero impact on legit users. This took a couple weeks away from feature development though!
> Mind you the Jewish helped the British to get to Palestine in the first place.

So did the Arabs. Before revolting against the League of Nations mandate for British administration they were revolting against the Ottoman Empire - and fighting alongside the British (/French/Italian) Egyptian Expeditionary Force.
This is blinkered given the hockey-stick growth of higher ed management over the past ~30 years. If anything, there was a much reduced need to write grants back when there were few managers in the university. Bureaucrats create bureaucracy, they don't protect people from it.
Assumed there is an "absolute reality." I disagree, there is only the resolution limit of our senses.

They talk about heliocentrism vs geocentrism... Reality is heliocentric; yes... but then the Earth and other planets actually do shove the Sun around a little, bit too. We're pretty sure.

The hallmark of "reality" is the fractal "its more complicated than that." We can generalize and have useful statistical rules for all the normal cases but there's always the Stygian depths of much more complicated interactions under the surface.
Was looking into Certificate Transparency logs recently. Are there any convenient tools/methods for querying CT logs? i.e. search for domains within a timeframe

Cloudflare’s Merkle Town[0] is useful for getting overviews, but I haven’t found an easy way to query CT logs. ct-woodpecker[1] seems promising, too

[0] https://ct.cloudflare.com/

[1] https://github.com/letsencrypt/ct-woodpecker
Fair, although I know quite a few people that hold both of these opinions simultaneously because I've met them in person. It's only after I point out their hypocrisy do they even realize what a danger Cloudflare poses to the free and open internet.

I suspect it's because hating on Google is in vogue, and so is recommending Cloudflare.
Maybe they don’t. I haven’t had an Amex card in over 20 years.
These are all automated bots. No one is “bothering”. You open the 3 most well known ports you’re going to get connections. They don’t know what you’re running nor do they care.
I haven’t really played with Bing, but using some other site I was simply able to say a “a person who looks like _______” and it would get really close, while saying to use them directly wouldn’t work.
Shameless plug: I'm working on www.flashka.ai , a platform that solves a bunch of painpoints I and many others have had with flashcards.

I've used Anki and found it amazing, but it got to the point where making flashcards was too time consuming and couldn't keep up with them.

Mid-last year I found my brother having the same problem and realised after playing with GPT how effective it was at generating flashcards. Not perfect, but good enough to save many hours of writing them.

Now with Flashka we have started re-thinking the medium a bit more and try to make a great study-tool out of it
The short form, information in chunks, is good also because it forces the author to make a point per post. In a long blog post or book, authors might get lazy and ramble on and not come to a defined point. But if it is multiple short tweets, they do have to think about the subject enough to get to a point. A good author should be doing this for each paragraph in a long peace, but it is easier to meander, or loose the thread. (edit: I mean 'good' only as a 'practiced' writer, as post points out, some 'good' writers just work better in different formats, it doesn't mean they are 'bad').

Also. Very glad this was included. I had read it a long time ago and was pretty amazed, but couldn't remember enough to search for it.

So -> Thank You Foone. This was a good post.

You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? (2018) (twitter.com/foone)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32303786
Fair enough! I’m just on board with the electric ground transportation thing.

I’m very happy for there to be really nice and safe fission reactors everywhere for grid scale generation. Including efuel generators for air and space transportation.
I wrote a tutorial on SpatiaLite here: https://datasette.io/tutorials/spatialite - "Building a location to time zone API with SpatiaLite"

It shows how to use SpatiaLite + Datasette to build an API that can tell you what timezone a latitude/longitude point is in, using data derived from OpenStreetMap via https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder

Here's a demo: https://timezones.datasette.io/timezones/by_point?longitude=... - add ".json" to the URL for the JSON output.
So when exactly is "my part of the earth" going to start melting away? I need a time frame in order to care about it.
This is interesting because in some kinds of software, if you just keep adding features then the software becomes hard to understand and reason about because of the multiplied interactions between features. The software become so heavy that very few people understand it.

I think you see this in programming languages themselves. I am not criticising C++ or Rust (they do good work, which I admire) but from my perspective the languages have many features that all interact in tricky ways. An example would be coroutines, threads, async, memory management.

There's also social interactions that multiply complexity: see the Python 2 to 3 migration pain that splintered the language for a while. Or Red Hat and its source.

I really enjoy this blog post about writing accidentally writing a compiler and handling the permutations of AST Nodes.

https://rachit.pl/post/you-have-built-a-compiler/

A billing or invoice system, that should be simple? But it isn't because everything interacts: failed jobs, holidays, daylight saving time, timezones, time, business processes, procedures, edge cases.

This is actually a subject that I am investigating as a hobby which is how do you handle interactions between arbitrary behaviours: such as you want a system that is Windows, Linux and Mac and platforms have different semantics that make writing your software tricky.

I think type systems get some of the way there but TLA+ and other formal verification tools help us get another part of the way there. But I am still learning.
I think it depends on what type of rail you’re referring to here. If you’re in a city like LA where more or less no matter what your car drive will take hours… I think a dedicated rail would actually save people time. Obviously there would need to be huge investment in new infrastructure for that to happen.

When I lived in NYC same dynamics… it would have actually taken significantly longer in most cases to drive than take the subway.

So I think it depends on how a city is laid out and planned. If public transportation was not a priority and kinda shimmed in then totally, but in cities where they prioritize public transportation generally it’s a better experience than driving.
> I would say that the same low voter turnout that made sad puppies possible was being abused to prop up obscure books based on the identity of the author rather the quality of the story

Which undeserving stories/authors exemplify this?
Around half as much code is generated for bubble sort compared to std::sort, e.g.:

https://godbolt.org/z/KbaTeno3j
The US is a massive, new, mostly empty frontier nation. It's ridiculous to expect the same level of social support as one has in relatively small, old, well-developed European nations.

The GDP difference seems more than enough to counter it, maybe, but socially, geographically, and historically, the US is a relatively libertarian project where "high taxes and free healthcare" are anathema.
In the case of batteries, it obviously matters what you do with them. Put them in an EV and offset a new ICE on the road? Then yes, significant lifecycle CO2 reduction.

You are implying that it’s easy to find lots of scientifically rigorous publications that show solar, wind, and/or batteries (to be used in better integrating wind or solar to the grid) have an objectively worse CO2 impact than gas or coal [0]. I don’t think that’s true.

[0] I think nuclear doesn’t count, because it is too expensive in the US. Maybe (hopefully) one day it will be economically viable.
which itself was influenced by some sort of assembly language and even machine code
It's not sustainable because the more people they are, the worse their living conditions will be. Look at how densely populated Asia is. Does everyone want to live like this? Overcrowding is also not good for our mental health.
I know they dont in the States - I dont know about elsewhere.
This is almost entirely just plain false.
Yes, I secretly quit Twitter in 2018 because I psychically learned that Elon would take it over in 2021 and hate him.

(Really though the actual delete account moment was their post-GDPR ultimatum to consent to tracking or delete your account)

1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 are pre-Elon problems.
SSH is constantly hammered by bots as well:

% ssh example.com
Last failed login: Sun Jan 28 16:59:35 UTC 2024 from 180.101.88.233 on ssh:notty
There were 5385 failed login attempts since the last successful login.
Last login: Sat Jan 27 13:33:30 2024 from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

5.3k failed attempts in ~30 hours. I know, I should be setting up fail2ban.
Because it’s an implicit admission by the protestors that people don’t care about their message/cause. So the destruction is now the message because will people will focus on that instead of the original cause.

This is not a value judgment on reason why they are protesting. I can understand their frustration at yelling at the top of their lungs and no one cares. It would feel like you’re taking crazy pills.
If you dont like him doing the math why do you bring up the thermodynamic efficiency instead of the max range? It sounds like you just like math tidbits that make EVs sound better than they are. And dislike math that shows gasoline is superior from a purely practical standpoint (its far worse environmently)
Nice, but https://hckrnews.com/ is still the best one, by far.
> If this was just some random person, this would be a blip on nightly news - similar to the revengeporn website stuff.

Still a crime regardless of the victims notoriety
I just looked at the votes - and Babel would not have won in any case. It was ranked #7 when it was disqualified.

Netflix's Sandman was also disqualified. On Bluesky Neil Gaiman said he was never told why it was disqualified. He also said he was one of four disqualified authors.

The lesson learned is do not have a world-wide vote in a country with censorship.
Agree. There are so many ways WAF rules can unintentionally block legitimate traffic. From very long URLs (is that a DoS attempt?), to special characters in a POST with a file upload (is that = part of a SQL injection attempt or is that just part of a base64 encoded file?) and so on.
The man lived at the same time my great grandfather did, a ww1 Jewish German veteran.

Everyone’s views on their integration into German / Gentiles society were completely upended throughout those years. Einstein wasn’t always an ardent Zionist, he wasn’t always a pacifist, his lived experiences caused changes. Your question compresses 30 years of life, say 1925-1955, into a simple binary to try and drive some nasty conclusion.
I was curious and found the one mention of pg, in the discussion of the Morris Worm:

So Bob Morris's son froze two thousand computers. Why? To impress his dad? As a Halloween prank? To show off to a couple thousand computer programmers?

Whatever his purposes were, I don't believe he was in cahoots with his father. Rumours have it that he worked with a friend or two at Harvard's computing department (Harvard student Paul Graham sent him mail asking for "Any news on the brilliant project"), but I doubt his father would encourage anyone to create a virus. As Bob Morris Sr, said, "This isn't exactly a good mark for a career at NSA."
In electrical industry, red used to mean powered or hot or dangerous, green unpowered or harmless.

All earth-leakage breakers in my area are like this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schneider_Electric_A9D3...
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/sHYAAOSwu2ZkBk5~/s-l960.webp

Electronics industry have diverged.
Exploring ColBERT with RAGatouille
Joys of hacker news
What if earthquakes could not only be predicted, but manually triggered? Imagine the warfare implications.
sometimes you gotta make the universe

https://imgur.com/a/dtY960z

https://github.com/vnglst/pong-wars/pull/8
Alliances are not the same as peace. Egypt's tepid alliance with Israel has also served to anger the rest of the islamic world, and Gaza in particular is much more isolated as a result. This is one of those apples to oranges comparisons that you assured me weren't relevant.
It’s definitely not just seniors. If you watch young kids use apps, they tap all over the screen to figure out which elements are actually interactive.
Well - everything is useful for something but nothing is useful for everything.
LPDDR4 and above are supposed to have a feature to detect too many accesses to the same few rows and initiate a refresh cycle. Implementation quality may vary.