skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> do I really need a fight-or-flight response to trigger in the middle of a meeting? No I do not.

I see some signs that you've never been in a drug deal gone awry...

> Why do we keep promoting tall people???

They have a better (over)view of the situation.

But more seriously, there is also an argument to be made that free will is an illusion, at which point you have to wonder what "freedom" really means, if anything.
Shouldn't be a surprise, there is a tight relationship between Cloudflare and the booter community. I remember every booter site or similar was always behind Cloudflare, I think it was a common practice because it didn't seem like Cloudflare cared about these abusive sites.
Enjoy this pdf of nearly 400 pages: https://www4.cs.fau.de/DE/~wosch/glossar.pdf
No doubt. I also probably have a number of cancer cells in my body. They’re still abnormal cells, though.

So, it may be normal to have some delusional thoughts, but delusional thoughts are not normal thoughts.
Why is this happening so late?
IIRC it’s even explained in the book.

And I think they haven’t used the largest known dromaeosaurid, the Utahraptor, in any Jurassic Park/World movie, have they? A 7 meter long “velociraptor” sounds terryfing, but I guess at that point they rather go with the larger theropods.
Does this comment have nothing to do with the thread, or are we missing something?
Such an American point of view that lies, deception and falsehood have primacy over honest communications and information. People keep discussing theoretical results that truth will win out while ignoring the vast amount of actual data showing precisely the opposite. I am tired of the praises of "free speech" when all we see is conspiracies, propaganda, cons, scams, ads, and billionaires censoring those they don't like and amplifying those they do like.

Sure, I am aware of the real concerns of government censorship, but the modern internet and media has basically became a vast refuse heap. Is this really the desired end goal? Is there a better path forward? The path we're on has abdicated total control of information to corporations and billionaires; those I have no control over. At least with government I have a vote to influence its direction.
Show HN: D2c.sh – Cloudflare 'A' records for dynamic DNS
As an adult can I opt out of this and decide for myself what media to consume?
Ehm... GNU/Linux is "great" compared to other OSes because it run on modern hw, offer NixOS/Guix System declarative approach because in the 2024 installing a system like 1980 it's not a wise choice, and it feature enough software, mostly FLOSS, to do any normally needed tasks.

Unfortunately most of the world have failed to evolve, so it's still rare to have declarative systems, Emacs/EXWM style desktop instead of ridiculous floating windows and icons model and so on.
> SLR photo chip -> Cryptographically Signed Image -> Blockchain or Other Trust System Documents Production of Image and with key system thar matches image to record, all alterations to image are documented on said blockchain/other trust system. Verifiable system for chain of custody.

You can have a fully verified factual photo that is still a lie.

Early pandemic had some great examples of this. Journalist wanted to show how crowded cities like NYC were despite distancing rules. So they took telephoto shots of people standing in line facing the camera. This squeezes the perspective and makes them look bunched up. Same photo taken with orthogonally to the line shows that people stand 6ft apart.

Here’s an article that explains this in more depth: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210126/p2a/00m/0op/00...

You don’t even have to cheat that obviously. A photo can lie just by showing, say, a bunch of soldiers holding guns next to scared children. Oh no look at those scary foreign soldiers terorizing the populace! What you don’t see is the humanitarian aid truck behind them and the workers distributing food to those children. Turns out the soldiers were there to protect the aid process, not to terrorize children.

This is not a technology problem.
The world contains a great many arguments invoking Rice (or equivalently the halting problem) to "prove" non-mathematical statements, and they are almost all specious. a) the mere fact that there is no fully general procedure to do some particular task doesn't imply some human can do that task any better than the best procedure we can find, and b) even if you believe there's something noncomputable about the human mind, it still allows the existence of a procedure that will solve all instances of that task which will actually arise in reality.

It's a purely empirical question about the extent to which Church-Turing holds of the real world.
I mean, the free market is working pretty well.

http://libgen.rs/

The government-granted monopoly, not so much.
This is particularly helpful if at one point somebody replaced a nice succinct requirements.txt with the output of ‘pip freeze’
Agreed. This is a social problem and no amount of technical solutioneering will solve it. A significant chunk of the US believes Obama is a Muslim and/or Kenyan on the weight of approximately no evidence. Large numbers of people treat images of people with glossy skin and mangled hands on Facebook and Instagram as photographic fact. VFX videos that would be lambasted as amateurish and unconvincing in a film are treated as undeniable evidence by many commenters on YouTube and TikTok. These are not highly sophisticated lies, and yet many people accept them uncritically because they haven’t learned any better.
Antidepressants certainly affect my dreams.

Prozac: Bad,annoying dreams but mildly so.
Citalopram: Good dreams, sometimes epic dreams.
Venlafaxine: Not sure I dream. Makes it harder to sleep too.
> no academics are part of the upper (ruling) class

Every one that achieves cultural relevance or an administrative post absolutely is. Some of those are born into it. Most are not.
Wow, how did I miss this!
The US is 12th in per capita electricity generation from wind based on this data. Where are you getting those numbers from?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/wind-electricity-per-capi...
Do people not just use linux by default nowadays? I had to install Windows for AI stuff recently and it was such pain, literally took me the whole day for the "just works" drivers to actually work. That would have never happened on linux. Who puts up with that still, if its not your only alternative to run some specific program? Also Nautiuls (default file manager) sucks so bad, even the windows one is better, other than that Ubuntu is fine. Mint is better "just works distro" thought.
> That surprises me, given the time and effort they spend mitigating fraud and abuse

What time? What mitigations?

Cloudflare will proxy anything and then tell you "we're just a proxy, so we wont do anything lol" when you report anything other than cf pages. Doesn't matter if it's terror groups, animal torture, piracy, doxing, far right groups, etc.

I have personally submitted abuse reports and seen that absolutely nothing happens.

Oh and also the amount of abuse I see from people using Cloudflare Warp is also very high.
Hi hackers,
I made a simple bash tool to update 'A' records in Cloudflare for users with dynamic IPs.

I wanted to have a tool to keep a couple of DNS updated with my homelab dynamic IP so I wrote this very simple bash script.

There are tools that already solve this dynamic IP issue, but I find the simplicity of a bash script way more convenient than any tool that needs installation, complex configuration, a Python runtime or whatnot. This will basically run in any system with bash.

It is very simple and only updates A records, but it does its job and it solves my needs. It could be improved with more record types I guess, at least AAAA.
The issue I am aware of is with the Thai language that has zero-length unicode codepoints that get superimposed on the preceding non-zero-length unicode codepoint preceding it (or if none is present, an 'empty' non-zero-length placeholder). A non-zero-length unicode codepoint can have multiple zero-length unicode codepoints following it. (In Thai, no more than 2 for morphemically correct words.) For sorting, a normalization needs to happen in the order of these zero-length codepoints in order for unicode codepoint sorting to be correct. The standard practice in Thai is to have vowel signs before tone markers.

In recent years, application support for this has greatly improved.
Fusion and Fused Relationships
> I like Postgres stance that if query planner doesn't do a good job, then dba should first update table/column statistics, and if things are truly bad, submit but to Postgres so the query optimizer can be updated itself.

That’s a very unhelpful stance when I’m having an incident in production because PG decided to use a stupid query plan. Waiting months - years for a bugfix (which might not even be backported to my PG version) is not a solution.

I agree that hints are a very dangerous thing, but they’re invaluable as an emergency measure
Feds to offer new support to open-source developers
I would disagree, I remember as a kid in the late 90s being able to host a website on one of the free hosting providers and then pairing it with a free domain name just made the whole thing that much more special. $10 or so a year for a paid domain name isn't a ton of money, but it can be for a kid with no credit cards and parents that aren't convinced as to why you "need" a domain name.
Hashicorp tools have been industry standard for many many years.

They just used to be free and open source.
> Heavy lift helicopters are designed with impressive abilities to carry over 50 tons (1)

Seems like we’re pretty close.

(1) https://aerocorner.com/blog/heavy-lift-helicopters/
Well, my desktop OS still treats my GPU as a second class citizen. In fact I'm not even sure if my OS has the concept of a GPU built in.

So OS is probably not as important as you think.
My short list from a recent Ubuntu install:

- KDE crashing so many times in a few hours that I had to switch to GNOME

- Steam randomly crashing and refusing to launch games

- Kernel seems to want to update every 10 days and somehow the default /boot partition isn’t big enough so every time it tries to install something apt breaks and reports that it’s out of space

- USB audio has random cracks and pops, this is certainly related to drivers because it gets worse whenever a graphics-intensive application like a game is being run. I spent a few hours googling error messages from dmesg and then gave up and bought an adapter for the 3.5mm jack

- Wanted to change a theme but first I had to install GNOME Tweak Tool for no reason

- still haven’t figured out how to have a system tray which many apps like Discord, Steam, Spotify, caffeinate need to run

- caffeinate doesn’t work, computer still sleeps, no idea why as the same program has worked fine on every computer I’ve used for 10 years

- Brave browser doesn’t seem to understand the default KDE theme as the window buttons are broken. Switching to GNOME fixed the problem

- Firefox doesn’t respect the system theme so every other app is in Dark Mode and Firefox is bright white

- I ran an installer script for a program and it somehow made two menu entries and one doesn’t work so when I search for it in the menu I have to guess which one to click

- went to install program A but there’s only a Flatpak available and I don’t want yet another package manager on my computer
Just to explain, the root thing is also a reference to Shuttleworth, see https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/44512/what-does....

I won't discuss more here as it gets OT. Your comment's conclusion paragraph is a good conclusion, with which I just completely disagree :)
Can you provide some examples then?
Well, at least he can do things that are more advanced than using a internet browser. Which is impossible on Windows.
Precisely zero photos you see in media are unedited/uncropped "straight out of the camera" (as we say). Professionals don't even shoot in formats that web browsers can display. I'm certainly not posting my 160MB raw files to the web.

What you propose is thoroughly a non-solution (to a non-problem).
Only if you provide an alternative way for the newly unemployed to earn a living. Otherwise you just get crime, hunger and eventually war.
Through Safari, or forthcoming VR video player apps (Apple doesn't censor generic utilities).
Was it still possible for Russian companies to pay for those services anyway?

I guess this could be worked around with some shell company outside of Russia paying for the service and then VPN for everything, but that kludge would be only a last resort.
DevRel: What to avoid, when to hire, and how to succeed
I briefly skimmed through the text, and it seems to cover only the anti-AI arguments and how some people agree and disagree. At the same time there seems to be no pro-AI arguments, like improving the efficiency of work, medical advancements and other useful things. Maybe that's what was meant with such a title but I would like the author to cover the whole picture next time
> I am tired of the praises of "free speech" when all we see is conspiracies, propaganda, cons, scams, ads, and billionaires censoring those they don't like and amplifying those they do like

So you'd prefer something like the Chinese internet, where everything is rigourously fact-checked by the government and anything that reflects negatively on the government is censored? Because empirically that's what happens 100% of the time when you give the government the ability to censor media: it censors media that reflects negatively on it.
Empowering software engineering teams through co-discovery and co-creation
This is exactly where I first learned about this style; I looked it up and loved it.
Imagine we had this technology 20 years ago and we switched to fully automated web design.
I bet all web design would still be deeply nested tables.

I doubt that something like React, Vue, Svelte would exist.
Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts
Its actually an argument for less regulation. Its the regulation causing the market failure. Cut copyright to a less stupid number like what it was originally 14 years. Make maintaining a copyright for those years contingent on having X % of sales available for free in libraries. We are asking the fundamentally wrong question with copyright, we should not be maximizing monopoly for copyright owners, we should be minimizing market disruption to get a chosen amount of extra creative production
Why Dune II Fails
Stumbling Can Be Lovely
Google to use open source RISC-V for its custom AI silicon, TPU
Not sure I agree. When I first saw the 1st gen iPhone I was so impressed with it, I went out and got one a few days later. This is before the App Store. Yes compared to today it might “suck” compared to the latest version, but the first iPhone was super compelling by itself at the time and started selling very well
Weird, I have a Pixel 8 and that's not been my experience at all. GPS locking still often takes a long time.
Time Poor
Now that you mention it, I wasn't even thinking this through in my original comment.

Even if you found a perfect balance, I can imagine little Bobby coming home from school to see his parents invested in their favorite TV news program and saying: "Mr. Forrester told us that's a type of misinformation, mom."

I would not want to be Mr. Forrester in that scenario. Just imagine the school board meetings.
Oh man, this brings back memories from high school!

.tk was a blessing for us.
You are absolutely right about the searchability aspect. I want a PDF copy of every book I read now (I still prefer to read actually the deadtree copies) so I can find something again later.

But until we can demonstrate that digital libraries can preserve works themselves and access to them for hundreds/thousands of years, I would hesitate to suggest that libraries should be left to die on the vine.
And.. another OAuth vulnerability – now it's ChatGPT
TLDR:

The state variable that ChatGPT uses in the integration with plugins, was not random.
Attackers could install a malicious plugin on a victim by sending a link that mimic the last step of the OAuth flow.

The takeaway:
If your company has an OAuth, make sure the state parameter is random. That's a common mistake.

https://salt.security/blog/security-flaws-within-chatgpt-extensions-allowed-access-to-accounts-on-third-party-websites-and-sensitive-data
No opinion is.
We live in a simulation. Dark energy corresponds to a memory leak. A reboot is specified when this proportion reaches 2/3 (66.6%). This is all written in The Runbook.
We still have https://nic.eu.org/ and https://freedns.afraid.org/ .
> They are the same bytes in the same memory

The difference is whether you rely on some form of introspection to get read access to all of the executing code, or whether you use embedded data like regular string literals.
Sounds like you’re biased and not listening because you read a book
Macs have their own set of wireless issues. If you add a Logitech radio receiver or high i/o usb device like a cardreader or docking station, bluetooth and WiFi connections can become unstable.
Two 19th-Century Books Paved the Way for Modernism
I was snoring, and in my case my wife told me there would be moments of kind of disturbing moments where I would stop breathing and then gasp multiple times a night.

In my case, I was able to take a sleep test from a doctor which was basically just a pulse oximeter I wore while sleeping.
Your sentiments definitely resonate, but what about an alternative path forward:

We collectively agree to abolish all notions of intellectual property in recognition of the fact that everyone is standing on the shoulders of giants.

As it stands, IP law is only used against the average person in favor of the wealthy exploiters in charge.

Obviously this move would lead to cascading fundamental changes to society, but I for one welcome a deviation from this late stage capitalist hellscape which only seems to be getting worse.
Do we have non-Russian confirmation? Will it include DNS level or just backends?
I hope some fair deal is worked out. I am wealthy and splurging on all the audio books (yeah for Libro.fm) and eBooks (yeah for Kobo) that I want, but I still experiment consuming the fine content my local library network has. Great books are available to easily consume with Libby and interesting movies and video content are available with Kanopy.

Libraries can also be a nexus for social events and on site education. Very well worth the tax money. In a world of dehumanizing digital tech, libraries are a human experience.
I wonder if anyone has done a study yet on how the Glymphatic nervous system is impacted by rTMS (repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation) instead of drugs (pharmacological solutions).

Anyone deep into this field around?
Baseless hate with no evidence. Linux DE's are perfectly working and great Gnome 3 has tons of extensions to tune it to your needs if you do not like the Ubuntu default. KDE can be a bit buggy if you run cutting edge (what a surprise), better not run a rolling release like SUSE Tumbleweed with it.

I run Linux DEs for about 10 years now, always came back to Ubuntu. KDE offers a lot of stuff that I personally do not need.

Running Gnome 3 with Dash To Panel, taskbar on top and Tiling Assistant that give a Win 10 like helper to split windows.

Previously used Material Shell, awesome but buggy. The creator works on a new thing in Rust, it will be awesome!
https://www.pgmustard.com/ is a great tool. There are some free alternatives for the actual tool, but their documentation is pretty great. For example, https://www.pgmustard.com/docs/explain/heap-fetches provides clarity that isn't obvious from the official pg docs.

Beyond those resources, here are a few useful things I've learned:
1. `explain (analyze, buffers)` is useful. It will tell you about hot vs cold data. One caveat: it doesn't deduplicate the buffer hits, so 1M buffer hits could be only a few thousand unique pages. But I still find it useful especially when comparing query plans.
2. pg_buffercache. Knowing what's in the buffer allows you to optimize the long tail of queries that perform buffer reads. Sometimes rebuilding an index on an unrelated table can create space in the buffer for the data the query needs.
3. Try using dedicated covering partial indexes for high traffic queries. An index-only scan is super cheap and with the right include and where condition you can make it small and efficient.

The tips above are especially useful in Aurora, where the shared buffers are huge (there's no page cache so it's the only caching layer).
What makes you think they haven’t been leaning into it for years? lol they don’t even have reporters any more for most news outlets, they just buy content.

You can catch media using photos from other events all the time for news articles.
Not sure if this applies to your situation, but I believe you can avoid a full rebuild by modularizing the flake.nix derivations into stages (calling a separate *.nix for each stage in my case). That is how it appears to be working for me on a project (I am building a cc toolchain without pkgscross).

I pass the output of each stage of a toolchain as a dependency to the next stage. By chaining the stages, changes made to a single stage only require a rebuild of each succeeding stage. The final stage is the default of the flake, so you can easy get the complete package.

In addition, I can debug along the toolchain by entering a single stage env with nix develop <stage>

Not sure if this is the most optimal way, but it appears to work in modularizing the rebuild.(using 23.11)
All the negative experiences here on Linux ignore all the negative experiences other users have on Mac and Windows. "Every OS sucks" is still relevant.
Why the measles outbreak keeps me up at night
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/behind-the-breakup-of-elo...
The link is not clickable:
https://salt.security/blog/security-flaws-within-chatgpt-ext...
If there is one thing Ada does better than Rust, is that it encodes the invariants in the type system.

While Rust doesn't goes as far as I would have want it's miles better than what Zig and C are doing - the programming equivalent of "Trust me bro!".
You should be able nowadays with PG16

INSERT INTO tbl1 VALUES ($1, $2) \bind 'first value' 'second value' \g

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-psql.html#APP-PS...

For older versions, you can do:

\set v_x 'first value'
\set v_y 'second value'
INSERT INTO tbl1 VALUES (:'v_x', :'v_y');
\set v_x 'next value'
INSERT INTO tbl1 VALUES (:'v_x', :'v_y');
what if it is more useful than dangerous?
My one claim to fame gets this done years ago.[1]

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US6757828B1/en
I think it's more that it's just really, really hard to spend tens of billions of dollars in a lifetime as an individual. After you've bought a couple mansions in your favorite cities, a beach house or three, ski lodge, hunting lodge, and a ranch you get bored of buying houses. Same thing with cars, yachts, charitable foundations. I think that's where all the interest in doomsday bunkers and space exploration is coming from with the mega billionaire class. They are the hobbies driven by the boredom of simply having everything and still not feeling whole and satisfied.
Geekbench scores of systems I've used over past 20 years
> "Transparent matter" would be better

Dark implies the unknown. The Dark Ages weren’t literally dark, we just don’t have a lot of written sources from the era.

Transparent matter implies a known property about something we don’t know. To the extent dark matter is a problematic term, it’s in the matter but.
> It's by far the largest amount.

Without Google funding, Mozilla wouldn't be able to maintain its operations. That is more than enough to treat the "Mozilla is funded by Google" statement as objectively true.