skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ah yes, the good old binary worldview. Such a delightfully simple algorithm.

def decide_position(position)
case position.party do
when GOOD_PARTY
cheer()
return true
when BAD_PARTY
boo()
return false
else
shutdown()
raise InvalidPartyError.new "Warning: Logically impossible situation detected. There are only two parties, and one is good and the other is bad. System shutdown initiated to avoid potential memory corruption"
end
end
Curious, how many NAND gates are there in total?
> Let's take the upper end of estimates for the tajikistani civil war: 150'000 dead, as a benchmark. That'd still be better than 2'000'000 for the Soviet-Afghan war and another 200'000 for the US-Afghan war?)

2.5% of the Tajik population died during the civil war, and it absolutely would have spread to Afghanistan, as 20% of Afghans are Tajik.

> I sometimes wonder what the world might have been like if the USSR had occupied afghanistan in the early 1980s

Afghanistan would have anyhow fallen into civil war even if Najibullah remained in power because Pakistan, Iran, India, China, Turkiye, Iran, Saudi, UAE, Qatar, and other regional powers all meddle there.

There's a reason most of Najibullah's and Massood's family live in New Delhi and not Moscow or NoVA.
The Ethernet header is 14 bytes (18 if you include a vlan tag), not 36?
Anecdotal but can confirm that my Asian dad smokes a pack a day, with the window open, and it pretty much permeates the apartment, and we've all had issues with lung health. There's no doubt in my mind this is a huge factor.

Sidenote but I haven't missed my father since I left home. Traditional old Asian men are possibly the worst humans ever.
For me personally it's less of an issue of trusting or distrusting software but rather the people operating it and those tuning and controlling algorithms. Once bitten by social media algorithms I would find it challenging to put faith in LLM big data operators not to start warming up the frogs or induce creeping normality once deployment has reached mass adoption in all manor of tools and interfaces. The allure of control and the side effects of greed can create overwhelming temptation for a myriad of organizations to weaponize a formerly benign software platform.
I don't know what a "run of the mill HN-er" is, but I'm ethnically Russian and a Russian citizen who was born in USSR and lived in Russia for >20 years of my life. Those wars (and the associated terrorist activity) were my background as a teenager growing up.

Indeed, "Wahhabi radical Islamic terrorism" was how Russian agitprop described it at the time. It is also rather obviously false when you look at the background of people involved. The original Chechen independence movement (1991-1996) was led by Dzhokhar Dudayev, who, before resigning from the armed forces, was a Major General in the Soviet Air Force, and had personally flown combat sorties in Afghanistan against the mujahideen. The notion that he was a "Wahhabi radical" is laughable; by all accounts, he wasn't even religious.

Now, there were many factions among Chechen rebels, and some of them - associated with people like Shamil Basayev and Ibn al-Khattab - were indeed Salafi (not Wahhabi) extremists. Those were also the guys carrying out terrorist attacks in Russia proper, and invading Dagestan in 1999. However, at no point during the existence of Chechnya as a de facto independent entity those forces had overall control of it. The dominant faction was always the nationalists, who were indeed mostly Muslim, but representing Zikrist Sufi Islam (an offshoot of the Qadiriyya tarikat) that has been the traditional Chechen religion since Kunta-Hajji Kishiev introduced it there in early 19th century. Notably, Aslan Maskhadov, who was the president of Chechnya after Dudayev, was of that faction. Again, the notion that those guys were radical Salafis is laughable because, if anything, Salafis hate Sufi almost as much as they hate Shi'a. As a matter of realpolitik, the Salafi faction did have some positions in the government, including those created specifically for them, such as the Ministry of Sharia Security.

During the second war when Russia re-occupied Chechnya, parts of the nationalist faction have defected to Russia; most notably, the Kadyrov family. In independent Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov was the Grand Mufti (the similarity of his last name to "Qadiriyya" is not a coincidence). After defection, he became the first president of Chechnya as constituent republic of the Russian Federation, and, of course, his son is still the president today. Nationalists who did not defect were either wiped out or left to establish a government-in-exile, leaving Salafi extremists as the predominant force to wage guerilla war under the flag of their self-proclaimed "Caucasus Emirate".

TL;DR is that the people who are running Chechnya today for the Russians are largely the same people whom Russia was describing as "radical Islamic terrorists" in 1994-1996 while bombing the hell out of civilian population.
I don't agree, but I also don't think this should be downvoted. It's a valid point of view and can spark a worthwhile discussion to enlighten other people that might have a somewhat limited view of open source vs. cloud-based offerings.
If I host a site that is vulnerable to XSS, is it inadvertant Iaas?
Yesterday's technology, tomorrow!

By the time they get there, they'll hafta get the FCC to take the bandwidth allocation away from Elon's settlers.
People are still talking about Ruby on Rails, we have threads here on HN all the time, and the big companies using it are, as in the past, Basecamp/Hey/Once and Shopify.
My taste in games changed...as a kid my favorites were Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty. Today I play games like Crusader Kings 3 and Kerbal Space Program. There aren't any single-player console games that I find that great, other than Spiderman for Playstation.
This didn't start out with comic books, we started with AI risk and people dismissing it by arbitrarily comparing it to things that turned out to be harmless.
I still have my Visor, VisorPhone, Treo 270, Treo 600, Treo 650 in a drawer somewhere :) I had a Palm Pré too, but the USB connector died after 5 years...
That’s not what a straw man is (it’s two words btw).

This is a known and often repeated trend in tech: make something under the guise of disruption, with no regard for safety or regulations. Complain that those things are a hindrance to progress and then spend billions and destroy lives permanently to eventually fix the problems when the regulators issue an ultimatum that professionals warned you about.
What Was Your Prompt? A Remote Keylogging Attack on AI Assistants [pdf]
FCC restores net neutrality- here's what it means for the internet
> They have no policy. They have no plan for governing; they don't like governing.

> This is an unfair analysis, and is either naive at best or disingenuous at worst.

It's fair given that the party literally produced no platform ahead of the last presidential election.
Aye absolutely - some links here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/744367/tor-by-ben-c...
I have successfully used OpenCLIP models for embedding and similar-image search. The smallest model listed on that UForm page is 79 million parameters, so I presume that you can use other models of similar size. There are a few OpenCLIP models with 80 million or fewer parameters listed here:

https://github.com/mlfoundations/open_clip/blob/main/docs/mo...

When embeddings are quantized to int8 they still work very well for similarity (no differences in top 10 search on my test set). I haven't tried quantizing the models themselves.
Seed oils mainly, a factor of the lower smoke point. The only suitable plant oils in this regard are olive and coconut oil - which are fruit oils.

[edit] seed oils r bad skeptics can just double check - the top 3 highest smoke point oils are all fruit oils, with seed oils at a distance - with the exception of peanut oil, which is closer.

The smoke point is also not the only relevant factor, the fatty acid makeup is also important, high omega-6 oils are more likely to oxidize, coconut oil for instance is high in saturated fat, olive oil is mainly monounsaturated.
It was always going to be a terrible tragedy with Ukraine. Vlad committed something much worse than a crime, he committed a mistake (to paraphrase Talleyrand).

NATO+ countries aren't fighting him, they are using Ukraine as a proxy, while Vlad is fighting with his own army. NATO has been waiting nearly 80 years to attack Russia directly. They very motivated to make sure that Vlad continues making errors. As such, the longer this war takes, the better for NATO. And, unfortunately, the worse for Ukraine.

I think data collection is for sure one aspect, but I think Russian casualties is the largest motivator
>In some cases. In other cases, it hasn't even happened yet.

..? By the point ISP customers receive internet they have either already paid for the service, paid a deposit, or agreed to pay for it the following month like other utilities. In all of these cases by the time the user makes use of their service they have already agreed to pay for the internet service which includes data, hardware, and other infrastructure fees.

>The ISP spends $X to build and maintain infrastructure for Y Gbps internet.

EXACTLY. You are proving my point! The customer of the ISP has already paid for that. It doesn't cost the ISP any more money if I make use of my service by sending data to netflix, reddit, or whoever! If I watch netflix 12 hours a day it costs the ISP exactly $0 extra dollars. Asking me to pay more money or be throttled is ridiculous.

Hell, if you have one of the largest ISPs they pay nothing for any amount of data transfer over their networks anyway so your argument is even weaker lol.
That's silly, no Wordpress hosting has H100 GPUs hooked up to it.

If you skim the full context of this proposal and the topics it focuses on (dedicated servers, virtual servers, AI acceleration), and you've been paying attention to current geopolitics in these areas (top chips being sanctioned), it is completely obvious that goal here is to prevent things like evading sanctions by renting hardware instead of buying it.
It was definitely tabs - I'll ask her if she's a space kind of gal. Some things can't be compromised!
>To be fair Congress does some work. They have avoided 2 government shutdowns. They funded the war efforts in Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. They passed the infrastructure bill.

That's just three different ways of saying, "Wrote checks to fill the pockets of monied interests, the bill for which will be paid for by the generations which explicitly oppose such policy."

Talk to me when they pass Medicare For All, the Green New Deal, campaign finance reform, and a border/immigration bill that finally puts that issue to rest. Until then, it's just another round of avoiding addressing the issues that are easiest to run on if they haven't been fixed in a prior term.
I mean, it’s not going to be 0/10 because smoking causes cancer.

Cancer itself isn’t deterministic. This isn’t news. There is virtually nothing that is 100% guaranteed to produce cancer, but there are things that massively increase risk. Tobacco is one of them.

An estimated 72% of lung cancers in Canada are caused by tobacco (https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-conce...) Smokers are 25x more likely to die of lung cancer as nonsmokers. The US CDC estimates that smoking is linked to 80-90% of lung cancer deaths (https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/basic_info/risk_factors.htm).

Saying “tobacco causes lung cancer” isn’t guaranteeing that smoking leads to lung cancer, but it sure as hell is the leading cause.
Godscall Paleologue or Paleologus (12 January 1694 – ?)

Almost certainly dead, though.
I always wonder how the Toyota and Honda of the world will do in the EV switch, when their main claim to fame was transmissions and engines that outlast the overall usefulness of the car.

With evs it seems those concerns are mostly gone, and now battery risk remains, which they currently have no advantage with.
Sometimes I play Rocket League, where I'm intensely focused on the playing field and not paying attention to anything else. I'll have some random song or phrase in my head the whole match, just there in the background. And then there will be a pause in the action, and I'll for (what I thought was) the first time, look at the names of the other players long enough to actually read them, and there it is: one of them has a name that prompted that song or that thought in my head. I had no idea. I thought I was 100% focused on the action in the game, but those names influenced me anyway.
IMO, the old generation of crypto people will go to their grave mad that anything other than ethereum sees success.

There are valid complaints about Solana, but the ones that get trotted out in online discourse are repeated until they become reality for the horse beater. Unfortunately for them, their reality is disconnected from actual reality.
From that link, passengers voluntarily taking the airline offers vastly exceeds those involuntarily denied (by a factor of almost 14:1 overall and many of the majors having exactly zero IDBs in that year).

That means the airline most frequently reaches an acceptable agreement to someone. You might wish that they used some other process, but the process they are using usually gets to an agreement as it is.
Interesting. I can't even create an account with a privacy address (passmail.net forwarding). Wankers.

You are correct. "Account must be funded by credit card or PayPal before making a Bitcoin deposit." No more anonymity on Vultr.
Populist nationalist fascism with a flavor of racism is all the rage again in most of North America and Europe. The masses seek scapegoats and quick fixes to their manufactured discontent and declining fortunes, but somehow they believe narcissistic strongmen promise to fix everything if they just give them total power on day 1.
Yes, but as far as risk factors for lung cancer, second-hand smoking is one of the better known.

I don't immediately see Asian American women being exposed to additional regional air pollution, asbestos, coal soot, or radon more than others.

There could be a race-linked genetic factor, but I'm not aware of Asian women that are non-American having a higher rate. So I don't see why it would be something like... aspirated cooking oils fumes or natural gas fumes while cooking. Do Asian American households have a significantly higher likelihood of natural gas stoves? Do they have cultural histories of certain kinds of make-up or body treatments like talc?
Not sure about the validity of the source but it does suggest that second hand smoke could be related.

"What’s behind this rise in lung cancer in women who have never smoked compared with men, and particularly in Asian American women? One possibility: While Chinese American women may never smoke themselves, they frequently live with partners or family members who do. (About 28% of Chinese American men smoke heavily, Dr. Li said.) “We think secondhand smoke might be one of the key risk factors, because they’re living with people who smoke,” Dr. Li said." [1]

[1] https://www.chestnet.org/newsroom/blog/2024/03/secondhand-sm...

I could see a possible scenario where a first generation (i.e. immigrant, English as a second language) Asian father/husband smoking at home in the 1990-2010 timeframe and not getting the second hand smoking messages/ads (that were primarily in English as quickly) as the rest of Americans and it's is just now that the statistics are showing up.
Exactly.

What Fritzing has going for it is that it is very simple.

Think of it like firing up Notepad when you just need to print a few words on to a sheet of paper, while everyone else is using Word.

I wouldn't recommend it for anything beyond maybe one maybe two DIPs and some surrounding passives and a few headers/connectors.
It's entirely possible to retain soul and widen reference.

Offering up bland imitations of authentic artists is hardly simply a drop in precision.
> For the x86 architecture, both AMD and Intel processors provide hardware features (named AMD SEV SNP and Intel TDX respectively) to support running virtual machines with memory encryption and integrity protection. They ensure that the data contained within the virtual machine is inaccessible to the hypervisor and hence the infrastructure operator. Support for using these features as a guest virtual machine was introduced in the upstream Linux kernel version 5.19.

This feature looks interesting.
How would that help? All the spammers spoof the numbers - hell a lot of them even make their spoofed ID just one or two digits off of mine, presumably to make me curious enough to answer.
That is information you probably should have included in your original comment.
Canvas draws raster images, anything resembling an object in your drawing logic is already tracked separately by necessity. So regardless, you’d presumably check against whatever data model you’re using to determine what to draw.
AI / LLM bot blocker web server configs
Love the article.

If you love Stripe (and as a designer and tech entrepreneur I do – Stripe's simplicity and front-end skill is incredible) you might look at them and copy their ability to simplify and deliver polished experiences.

But the real mastery of Stripe is that they know their customers — and the simplicity they crave.

By this article is sounds like Increase does as well and has forged a similar laser-focus on what their customers need to build terrific design guidelines for making products. Inspiring to see.
A graph in the article is captioned:

> A study of nearly 4,000 non-smoking women found that the share of Asian American women who developed lung cancer was more than twice that of white women.

And then proceeds to list "53.4%" for Asian.

Are we to believe that in a sample of "nearly 4,000 non-smoking women", over half of the Asian American women developed lung cancer?

Elsewhere in the article it is said that

> Among Asian American women who have lung cancer, more than 50% have never smoked"

Those seem like completely different things to me...
I don't think introducing function coloring to a language that managed to avoid it, is a net gain.

Go brilliantly borrowed ideas from Limbo, Oberon-2 and Newsqueak. Throwing that away by polluting with async/await would be reason for riot imo.
The ISP’s customers pay for their costs. The problem started when those ISPs decided they weren’t satisfied with 15-20% profit margins and started finding other ways to generate revenue like selling their customers’ activity data to advertisers, injecting ads, or by trying to get popular services to double-pay their operating costs.

You can tell it’s not a real barrier to the business in two ways: one is that it only affects MBA-infested companies - small ISPs and municipal broadband never seems to have a problem providing better service for less money – and the other is that they’re not asking their customers to pay more. If their cost of providing service had actually gone up, they’d have been open about that and own the claim that a few Mbps costs more than it used to despite all evidence to the contrary. Keeping as a back room deal lets them try to hide all of the details behind NDAs.
Ah, maybe IBM was duped into thinking HashiCorp was an AI play?
"What we advocate is not “open source,” and what we oppose is not “closed source.”

I have zero idea what this means and I've been on Debian since Woody
I've been using ChatGPT to get a crash-course in Next.Js. I'm coming from a backend and data eng. background so ChatGPT is helpful for getting advice for modifying Next.JS components for the project I'm working on. Similarly, it's been helpful for styling SwiftUI views for iOS app dev.
The vulnerability of aging states: Survival analysis across premodern societies
most of it's just general programming niceness. If you have to spend a few hours to wrestle with make/bazel/etc every time you need to reach for a dependency, you don't depend on things and have to rewrite them yourself. If your programming language doesn't have good ways of writing generic code, you either have to write the code once per precision (and do all your bugfixes/perf improvements in triplicate) or do very hacky metaprogramming where you use Python to generate your low level code (yes the Fortran people actually do this https://github.com/aradi/fypp), or use the C preprocesser which is even worse.
Is it full-tilt or is it just enough of measures to get through election season and then it's business as usual?

I don't see any FAANGs being broken up by antitrust, even though that point has been well overdue for nearly a decade. It honestly should have been done ever since those CEO emails about poaching talent came out.

Meanwhile they're grifting on collecting information from the entire population of North America, amassing untold wealth and influence.
What sacrifices and trade offs does it make that an L2 with equivalent performance doesn’t also make?
Most seed oils have a higher smoking point, as compared to olive oil.
Richard Stallman, of all people, is not as intransigent as you.

> I've considered selling exceptions acceptable since the 1990s, and on occasion I've suggested it to companies. Sometimes this approach has made it possible for important programs to become free software.

> [..] [S]elling exceptions permits limited embedding of the code in proprietary software, but the [non-copyleft] X11 license goes even further, permitting unlimited use of the code (and modified versions of it) in proprietary software. If this doesn't make the X11 license unacceptable, it doesn't make selling exceptions unacceptable.

> I consider selling exceptions an acceptable thing for a company to do, and I will suggest it where appropriate as a way to get programs freed.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling-exceptions.html
Thanks, this was useful clarification.
I agree that there's complexity there, but it's worth noting that it is a point of moderate contention whether those immigrants share the Black identity or just the black identity. More knowledgeable theorists than myself (and notably those actually party to these identities) have discussed this at more depth, and I recommend digging into it if you're interested.
There could also be switching gear, signage, etc internal to the tunnel they had to deal with - if the claim is even valid in terms of this being the spurce of restriction on booster size.
Nice one :D reminds me of my little project back in 2020 with a raspberry pi and a similar type of display... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25566132
> lying about the goal is what I suppose they meant, and I tend to agree

You think a city official needed to scrounge up some funding and came up with this, a highly visible and obstructive method, instead of raising it indirectly?
The fight for net neutrality may not have been as public anymore, but it kept going over the last 5 years. Plenty of court cases challenging the FCC's ruling have been ongoing and California even passed their own net neutrality law. Congress attempted to pass a bill that would enshrine net neutrality as well, though of course the Republic majority never allowed it to get to a vote.

All this is to say despite net neutrality technically not being federally required between 2018 - 2024, it wasn't feasibly for ISP's to roll out metered plans that would go unchallenged. I suspect most were stuck in a "wait and see" stage, and likely expected this eventual rollback anyway given the landscape is still so rapidly changing.

So the protests and constant pushing back against NN did have a positive impact on our eventual outcome, even if it's not obvious or a direct line from reddit blackouts. Like most things, the truth is complex.
Chilean instant payments API startup Fintoc raises $7M
Damn so sesame oil or soybean oil? Those are essential is asian cuisine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Review_Act