skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NSO is just a strawman for the government of Israel. Surveillance technology is a very successful soft power tool, as the dictators crave its capabilities to stay in power. Pegasus is world class technology, so Israel could score a lot of brownie points by allowing these sales. Too bad they got too greedy and sloppy and allowed the phones of some US officials in Africa to be infected. Coincidentally there was a leak of 50000 phone numbers and NSO goes boom. Israeli "security diplomacy" rebuilt NSO and is still going strong, surprised i am not :-(
What?

My point being is people communicate and share ideas in a variety of ways.

And if it works it works!

We tech people like to get the "correct system" in place but for many it's just a means to an end.

If he wants to use Word over PowerPoint or a proper presentation software that's completely fine.

And he has the Nobel to prove it.
Which of these methods is not obtaining the address of a node in a swarm, or hitting a tracker for a list of nodes in a swarm?

> People have used the DHT for non-torrent-related purposes.

This is simply non-responsive. People have used a DHT overlaid on the collection of torrent swarms for non-torrent related purposes.

> And nothing dictates that that has to be obtained via the bittorrent peer protocol.

This is a silly distinction. You also don't need to join a swarm to get on the DHT if I join a swarm to get on the DHT, write down the addresses I get on a piece of paper, then email you those addresses, which you plug into your handwritten specialized client that only knows how to join the DHT.
You-Dont-Need-JavaScript: CSS Only HTML Components
Well those platforms call it a tip, not a fee for service, so they're already being dishonest and nefarious.

And I don't personally know anyone who wouldn't consider it a bribe, except for one or two pedants.
Sadly the broader the topics gets on hacker news the less relevant searching site:news.ycombinator.com becomes.
This isn't a value judgement on the articles a lot of them are very interesting, but more narrow had some value for finding things.
I've run tokei [0] on the Linux git repository on the latest commit [1] and this was the output:

===============================================================================
Language Files Lines Code Comments Blanks
===============================================================================
C 33553 23772322 17694564 2662642 3415116
C Header 24554 9562920 7395591 1436546 730783
Device Tree 5041 1512839 1240129 76384 196326
ReStructuredText 3473 711669 539971 0 171698
JSON 788 443098 443096 0 2
YAML 3905 433860 352107 16626 65127
GNU Style Assembly 1317 372131 271873 55613 44645
Shell 894 172036 120033 21590 30413
Plain Text 1739 151033 0 123992 27041
Makefile 2946 76889 52985 12355 11549
Python 203 68545 54627 4452 9466
SVG 74 49420 48159 1171 90
Perl 59 43992 34124 4074 5794
Happy 10 6069 5359 0 710
Assembly 5 3319 3065 0 254
C++ 5 2138 1860 61 217
BASH 59 1943 1318 335 290
Unreal Script 5 707 445 158 104
ASN.1 16 660 445 87 128
Autoconf 5 429 373 26 30
LD Script 8 376 288 29 59
CSS 3 295 172 69 54
Gherkin (Cucumber) 1 291 199 58 34
TeX 1 236 156 74 6
XSL 10 200 122 52 26
HEX 2 173 173 0 0
Module-Definition 2 128 113 0 15
C++ Header 2 125 59 55 11
RPM Specfile 1 108 93 1 14
Objective-C 1 89 72 0 17
Vim script 1 42 33 6 3
Markdown 1 36 0 27 9
Automake 3 31 23 3 5
Ruby 1 29 25 0 4
INI 2 13 6 5 2
TOML 1 12 2 9 1
Apache Velocity 1 12 12 0 0
CMake 2 8 8 0 0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rust 64 12637 9489 1612 1536
|- Markdown 55 8243 808 5557 1878
(Total) 20880 10297 7169 3414
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HTML 2 28 22 3 3
|- JavaScript 1 7 7 0 0
(Total) 35 29 3 3
===============================================================================
Total 78760 37400888 28271191 4418115 4711582
===============================================================================

So If we would only count code and not comments, it is only 9489 LoC Rust. Which would be about 0.03% and if we take all lines and not only LoC it would be around 0.05%

[0] https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/tokei

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b401b621758e46812da...
Poland isn’t a dictatorship, it’s an EU member state and a member of NATO.

Also let’s not compare malware/spyware to nuclear weapons.

Poland can get their hands on any weapon or controlled technology they pretty much want.
you’re right, people are in a talk because they hope to get access to someone in the room, or for data insight, you either have big visuals or you are a big deal : P
Everyone is Wrong about the Apple Vision Pro [video]
Dude, calm down. I’m mostly agreeing with you and partly conceding that maybe 3/4 of the states is too high a bar. 2/3 of the states would be a more reasonable supermajority that would still need to cross the blue/red divide. There’s no way you’re getting 2/3 of the states to do something radical like repeal the Second Amendment (more than half of the states have expanded gun rights since 1990) or decide the abortion issue on the federal level.

And please, Antonin Scalia was not just “one conservative justice”.
> Every system is linear for small perturbations.

every smooth system, sure, but even continuity is no guarantee of locally linearity.
This is an artificial marketing distinction that you’ve bought into. And insofar as any particular apps exist or don’t on switch, it’s purely a result of gatekeeper decisions on the part of Nintendo - Nintendo keeps there from being an email client or an office suite and that’s the reason you perceive it as “just a gaming device”. They’ve gatekept successfully.

This is the problem, there really isn’t a coherent threshold between switch and iPhone or a reason console vendors shouldn’t be equally considered general purpose devices other than marketing. You could plug in some usb peripherals and run office suites on a PlayStation just fine.
EU regulators will fine Apple more than $500M in antitrust probe
The author raises very valid points about DuckDuckGo and I would go further and say k don’t trust their privacy policy, but I think there’s lack of any better alternative.
Good question. I wonder what impact timezone wise the annexation of Crimea had on hypergiants like FAANG. I can imagine some weirdness when rerunning say historical domain events to hydrate a new service.

Wonder if they have libraries to handle such edgecases
It's called a hype cycle. A decade ago it was editors written in Go.
Community Economies: Reframing Wealth Building
For Sublime Text users, there’s a package called Markdown Slideshow that works well.
Why isn't optimizing for factory farming not fun? You might mean the loss of autonomy.
A cool thing about linear models is that they can be used to model non-linear correlations by using transformations. For example, an exponential function can be made linear if you just take the logarithm.
I get that. If (and when) I change email providers it'll be a pain. My gripe with a custom domain is that it'd uniquely identify me. I prefer to hide behind fastmail.
How Ludovic Phalippou became the bête noire of private equity
OTOH that’s kinda the utopian version of open source - a public forum where you can engage with stakeholders on demand, as long as others find your critique/question interesting enough to upvote.

God I love hacker news… their insanely outdated moderation tools are a shame, but I can’t lie, holding a big stick makes for a peaceful forum.
I would say this site user design wise is about the same as reddit, so I don't agree with any of your points. What makes it higher quality is that it has a niche theme (hackery) and it makes it less popular. As in general online, the less popular a resource is, the higher quality communication it has. You can find the same quality of conversation in low population subreddits too, despite the aforementioned design.
Not everyone is trying to improve themselves or learn something.

Nothing about watching a dumb movie to escape the world and relax for two hours is unhealthy; probably improves mental well being. How is that related to unhealthy food?

Again, not everyone wants power. You might want to try being more proactive in your compassion.
I been following the Tesla IR presentations. The slowdown was intentional. The key issues are Tesla doesn't have diversified model lines, price wars and the misstep with 4680 batteries. Currently Tesla Shanghai has more than enough capacity for global Model 3 and Y demand. The rate of growth for these models have also slowed down from 2yrs ago. Hence why Tesla is doing aggressive price cuts, also when your doing aggressive price cuts you don't want to increase production dramatically in order to keep the margins in line. You can also see that since they have done price cuts the margins are down. At the same time in luxury market, both Model S and X sales have fallen dramatically. Which btw is made in US and exported internationally. Going to Europe, from what I understand the battery production productivity isn't anywhere near China and lastly Tesla gets federal govt credit for making batteries in US and then exported to Europe. Last part is 4680 misstep, first of all 4680 isn't anywhere close to what Tesla said at the their battery day. The production is still expensive, hence why they cancelled the sub 39k$ CT. Which btw has been the biggest mistake. Tesla could have easily sold 250k units once fully scaled up, but now they have moved to timelines to maybe in 2026.

If you look at the production targets for F150 lightning, the total sales this year will be higher than CT. If you look at the sales/price bell curve of light trucks (note this is inclusive of SUVs, but Trucks make up at least half the dataset), you see a massive amount of area in the $40 -50K range, the over $70K range makes up less than 5%.
https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_artic...

In other words, Cybertruck sales numbers are going to hurt until the price is closer to announcement - A $39K Cyber Truck could (theoretically) sell millions based on category alone. a $100K truck could sell tens of thousands.
You say "corporation," I see an airline employee in one of the poorest countries in the world, being forced to deal with an obnoxious rich asshole. He might as well have said "Fuck it, I'm not paid enough to deal with this," and that would've been literally true.

Was the employee wrong? Yeah, maybe. The asshole Youtuber is free to sue them for damages. In East Timor.
> Never ceases to amaze me how advanced Romans were for their time.

What they did is impressive, but how do we define the norm for their time? Every time has some doing better, some doing worse.

Also I wonder how much we compare the Romans to what came after them in Europe, the long Middle Ages when technology went backward. If technology kept moving forward at the Classical pace (whatever that is), would we be as impressed with the Romans?
Terrain Diffusion (Build Infinite Maps)
I disagree with the whole typeface (font) selection discussion in the article.

You want people to read your slides? Don't use a hard-to-read typeface.

Before building a "deck" for a presentation I suggest reading Tufte's "The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint" (https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/pi/2016_2017/phil/...)
Do you believe that Google would have been a better custodian of Reddit than say Deja News ( https://www.wired.com/2001/02/google-buys-deja-archive/ ) aka Google Groups ( https://www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-an-era-google-groups-to-dr... )?
Theres alot more undervocer product pumping than you would think
Sora is a new text to video tool (up to 1 minute) announced by openai.
Apple Fined $539M in EU over Spotify In-App Tax Complaint
Mastodon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35224356
I am feeling the same. Paying 100EUR/month for a competent AI junior programmer which I could offload simple or repetitive tasks on would be absolute banger. But so far AI is hype and crap code.
> Without having to be mechanically robust against wind and rain,

What about micro meteorids?
For these big tech companies, infrastructure is optimized for high scale & reliability over velocity & flexibility.
> Giving them less competitive pressure will not increase car quality or lower sales price.

Subsidies and protectionism don't work the same way. Protectionism allows them to produce overpriced junk because the domestic market is required to buy it. Subsidies allow them to spend on R&D and build economies of scale which can result in sustainable competitiveness even after the subsidies are gone.

> Increasing density during an already extreme housing crunch? Genius.

How do you imagine housing supply is increased when substantially all of the existing lots already contain existing (mostly low density) housing?

> I would love to see better public transport, but most voters are not ready to pony up the taxes for a public transit network that has enough fidelity to sufficiently replace cars.

Higher density is a prerequisite for functioning public transport. Sending a mostly empty bus to the suburbs is basically useless.

> Hydrogen is not happening, and staying with ICEs means screwing over the planet.

The chances of converting 100% of new car sales to EVs overnight are zero. Meanwhile selling two 50MPG hybrids is about as good as selling one EV and one 25MPG SUV.
My favorite moment in university was in the first class of semester 2, where a prof said "lets look at a really small part of our thing, and assume we apply some force to it. This will make it stretch, lets assume the stretching is linear relative to the applied force". I raised my hand and asked "is this assumption supported empirically?" and he said "no, we know it's not always true, but if we don't make it we can't calculate anything".

At the time I was mad at engineers for being non-scientific, but after a few years I understood the deep wisdom in that. Nonlinear materials exist, and materials we use have nonlinear ranges. We just don't build things from those, because the math is too unwieldy. (except in very very specific edge cases where we spend a lot of money building a very limited thing)
Karpathy himself has raised some of these issues with BPE https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1657949234535211009

There is research about getting rid of tokens, some of which is in that thread
I mean, the entire seminar is titled "War." The teacher here has a clear US conservative background, which for whatever leans jingoistic. Other assigned reading includes "Why Men Love War" from Esquire magazine, and Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier."
In-the-Wild Robot Teaching Without In-the-Wild Robots
which is really fascinating in the face of TikTok being Googleable. like, it's still not there, but being able to Google for a TikTok but not an Instagram reel is something.
Accessibility to the internet to everybody in the world destroyed the hacker haven that the Internet once was.

But I don't think it's bad. Hackers/smart people "locked in the basement' or talking only with their friends in their bubble is not ideal. There are a lot of people out there, with their own opinions, ideas and understanding (or lack of) of the world. Internet just converges towards the average human being. If we want a better internet, hope some smart people will put some effort to make the "average person" in the world wiser, rather than blame the SEO and bots...
He specifically said "master & slave." IDE master-slave drives are also "derived from slavery" simply because that's what "slave" means, even though the analogy doesn't make much sense (the master drive doesn't control the slave drive and isn't superior to it).
I see what you mean. Though in my mind, and this is clearly subjective, piece-wise linear is at least less strict than a linear model. (With enough ReLUs, you could get arbitrarily close to a lookup table, which I think would be best described as a nonlinear model.)
DuckDuckGo is just Bing with a few location-based ads inserted into the bottom of your search results.
HTTPS is universally adopted. Meanwhile: the DNSSEC root keys could land on Pastebin tonight and nobody would need to be paged. The distinction is so clear that trying to pick apart the description seems disingenuous.

I don't think you're experiencing me being evasive so much as that I simply don't accept your premises.
No, there are so many dialects (Hokkien, Cantonese, Teochew, Hokchew, Hakka, Hainanese, ...) that are so unevenly distributed that Mandarin is the lingua franca. Eg. Singapore was mostly Hokkien back in the day, but decades of government policy has taught Mandarin to basically all Chinese there and younger folks know dialect poorly if at all.
I'm still paying for Kagi and it's certainly better than DDG for search, privacy, and overall features.
> entirely subjective and exactly why states have the ability to make these calls

That's a good argument for having each person make that call.
> if you don't classify pickup trucks as cars

Pickup trucks aren't cars so that is perfectly reasonable.
> Presumably the reason for choosing CSV in the first place is to make it editable by humans in a basic text editor

That's quite a presumption
It's fun as a hobby. It may be fun to work with your hands. I haven't heard people who do heavy labor their whole lives talk about it as fun. It's brutal to do it every day for decades, causes a lot of pain and injury, and just imagine getting out of bed for it, again, when you're 50.
Just launch it from lutris, it should be fine
Again, do you know Argentina? If Argentina could implement this in one year in 2001 I assume that EU could implement it faster almost a decade after.
Yes, that was a bizarre interpretation of your comment.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

LLMs are only a deathblow, albeit a massive one, to a trend that's been 10 years in the making.

I feel it's time for another small internet for us, with blackjack and dancers. But this time let's agree not to make it friendly and accessible for everyone, alright?
The uninsurable world: what climate change is costing homeowners
>Nonetheless, it seems like an interesting topic: how exactly do Chinese [or more broadly, any] government [make] decisions on what to block, flow through their government system, before getting to the technical level where they actually do the blocking?

Indeed, that is an excellent question, applied to any Nation-State that blocks connections for any reason!

Now, this brings up a highly interesting question, which looks something like this:

How could someone in Nation-State X know exactly what is blocked by a different Nation-State, Nation-State Y -- without physically being there to perform tests on their Internet as if they were a Citizen/National/Resident/Physically Located -- in Nation-State Y?

?

There's no easy answer for that question... at least not without going to Nation-State Y and physically testing their Internet...

But if I were to guess at a hypothetical way to do it -- if someone had a Google-size cache snapshot of all websites and their contents on the global Internet, then if that someone also had a Google-style multi-threaded multi-computer web spider like the Googlebot -- then if one could somehow get VPN connections to outgoing IP addresses in Nation-State Y, then one could attempt running that, the effect being similar to being physically in Nation-State Y...

From that, one could compare ALL of the results of those connection requests and corresponding web pages -- to see what connections and web pages worked and which ones didn't...

For the connections and pages which didn't work, those might have been caused by a website being updated, being taken offline, random Internet failure, etc., etc., that is, one couldn't immediately ascribe responsibility to Nation-State Y intentionally blocking the site or connection without additional debugging/fact-finding/triangulation of the root cause...

So, that wouldn't solve the problem... but it might be a good starting point...

Something like that, if it would exist, if it could exist (Google + a VPN provider in Nation-State Y would have all of the necessary infrastructure, incidentally!) -- would be a good first step in that direction...

In fact, a smaller, one-site-at-a-time version of it could be implemented by remote P2P nodes...

In fact, here's an even weirder idea(!), now that I think about it -- use Javascript running on remote P2P nodes (with permission of the node owners!) in other countries to test Internet connectivity to Web Sites (or more broadly, any kind of Internet connectivity, since the Internet is not only the web!):

In other words, use something like the following (in conjunction with custom JavaScript code which would test websites/Internet connectivity):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39373960

https://pears.com/news/holepunch-unveils-groundbreaking-open...

Anyway, some excellent questions! Thank you for them! You made me think!
Are there even rich people in Europe? It seems like Europeans are mostly poor with a small super wealthy elite.

Unlike the US where most people are middle class, a sizable number are rich (millionaire plus), and most of the wealthy come from either already well off families or self made.

Everyone craps on US (I mean we are the best at everything lol good and bad) but that’s what happens when you’re the best and at the top of the hierarchy. People say shit about you. It’s not like I care much about that because my life as an immigrant to the USA is phenomenal to say the least.

But I always wonder why Europeans just seem so… stagnant? Like they’ve basically plateaued. Idk.

I’m from a former “colony” so it’s not any concern to me. But I always see these kinds of posts and wonder.
This question suggests to me that you haven't fallen victim to (what I hear) Russian propaganda on its war effort. Perhaps it is because you are in software and better connected to the world via the internet.
What is the feeling of the rest of the Russian population to the war?
I think my current motherboard does not have pins for a floppy drive, but every motherboard I've owned before that does. I just kept moving the floppy drive from chassis to chassis every time I upgraded just in case I needed it. IIRC the last time I used a floppy was either to archive old data to CD-ROM or boot the computer when I couldn't find a USB thumb drive.

I do still own my first computer, an IBM PS/2 Model 50Z, which still has its original floppy drive. Other parts I upgraded -- the 286 was replaced with a 386 SX/Now!, the 30MB ESDI was upgraded to 100MB, and it now has a full 2MB of RAM. I keep the floppy drive because it reads disks that no other floppy drive has been able to read.
HN requires no javascript and is accessible through Tor without
issues. It feels right for those of us who are usually marginalised by
a wish for better security.

Feels well moderated too, by people who care about the place, and
that's the core of a sustainable community. Care really matters.
Perhaps "rhyme" isn't the right word. There's a certain flow to the way some of the words are laid out. Part of that is the metre shaping the words possible but part of it also seems very deliberate.

It certainly doesn't have much of the last syllable rhyme you would expect today.
My guess is that the root causes are

- organic web results are dwindling because the OS and browser try to answer the question first

- users spend more time in mobile apps compared to browsers

- the best content moved behind paywalls

That is, the same things that plague the whole industry

It’s sad because I still like the organic search model, but it’s clearly not working for everyone involved
> w=(╱ ╲);while :;do echo -n ${w[RANDOM%2]};done

Here is my orthogonal version:

`w=(├┤┴┬─\|);while :;do echo -n ${w:$RANDOM%6:1};done`

It is based on the 1-liner discussed at <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPtjcSsS2MI>, and uses the PETSCII characters within Unicode.

Screenshot: <https://imgur.com/a/YrvpAqZ> (from `cool-retro-term`'s Apple II profile resized to 80x25, to sort of replicate a Commodore PET's look)
That's pretty much exactly it.

Oye Beltalowda!