skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a question I always find really interesting. There are still a lot of alternative systems circulating - often in the mid-latency space - which aim to solve design issues of Tor. Someone releases something intended to be a Tor killer every few years, but they rarely last. Tor still remains the only anonymity solution currently operating at global scale without depositing all your trust in e.g. a VPN provider, partly due to network effects (the installed size of the user base is its own protection, so any competitor system is going to perform worse at the outset regardless), the relative lack of tolerance for anything but the lowest possible latency, highest possible usability system for almost all users, and Tor's lasting success in establishing itself culturally as a global brand that can appeal differently to very different user groups. Tor's devs have also been very good at modularising and standardising the tech so it's been great at getting itself incorporated at the ground level of other technologies - and upcoming changes are only going to make that more the case. I do think that there's a good chance for other systems and models to take off that make different design decisions, but they would have a lot of economic, technical, and cultural barriers to circumvent. Not all of them are to do with the theoretical security of the system - for example, DC-net designs were always traditionally quite vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks via collision, and some of the best attacks against anonymity systems can use 'higher security' properties against them. There's a discussion of some of this in Chapters 4, 5, and 6 of the book if it's of interest - also a huge amount written about this by scholars in PETS, WEIS, and other conferences (and blogs, papers, textbooks etc. in cryptospace).
All fun and games until you need a status page for your status pages' status page.
Nice looking project tho.
I made my own loose clone of this game in 2001, using DirectX. Lots of fun implemonting explosions and smoke trails and stuff.
there must be more to it. You're not picky? You're atractive? You've got game? You're on a site for hookups and not one for long term relationships?

I meet less than 2 women a year from dating sites. I've been on them since 93. Just rejecting relgious women easily removes 95% Of the rest, a large percentage write nothing in their profile so that I have no reason to write. And, personal preference means I'm interested in at most 1 of 20. no, I'm not looking for models, just something that suggests we might be a match
> Unfettered or not, immigration is inevitable for the west.

That assumes birthrates elsewhere are high enough to sustain that, but they're declining everywhere. Immigration is basically just exporting the low birthrate problem to someplace less equipped to deal with it (which is par for the course for rich, western countries).

I expect we'll start to see emigration controls in the not too distant future.
Easiest way is to drill through, then cut and sand the dowel flush; leaves a round circle where the grain doesn't match for each dowel.
Or you could just use .NET instead and get both expressiveness and first-class concurrency primitives with none of the Go’s warts.
My dead mother submitted a comment in favor of Comcast and against Net Neutrality. Anyone involved in this is trash and should have to experience someone abusing the memory of their dead loved ones.
I have an impression that no modern technology is tested there but rather supplied with ready to be decommissioned 50 year old antics.
IMO, the biggest mistake in C syntax was using the same character for both the dereferencing operator and the pointer type declarator. I'm convinced it's responsible for the majority of the confusion about pointers.
If you count failed attempts the Falkland war and IRA comes to mind.
Looks nice and clean. Congrats on the launch!
Put all the command-line configuration into a shell script with zero arguments.
just because you can doesn’t mean you should
This is so cool. These magnificent obsessions are always inspiring; at least to me they are. Just super cool, and why not?
It really is more than one thing.

Over the last 100 years: We've eliminated multi-generational families along with the affordable, appropriate sized housing they need.

Humanity's history of extended family support seems to have ended here. Two parents are now expected to have the same wisdom, experience and energy that came from many.

Over the last 50 years: We've wiped out free range area and adult-free time for children.

That ended critical peer-based growth - which somehow has to replicated by two parents (hopefully two). Parenting hours increase from dozens per week, upwards to 168.

Over the last 10 years: We've raised the cost of living so high that ~4 typical incomes are required to pay basic bills.

Modern parents are expected to replace 10 adults + entire child peer groups, perform this task 24/7 - while earning ~70% of their basic bills.

In the face of this, declining birth rates seem inevitable.
Hey, thanks for the question.

This is something I've considered but haven't needed just yet. I think it would be helpful.
U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users
Snake oil salesman, quack, so on
>Obviously sometimes when people argue that they just have an issue with feminist values - sometimes it is definitely disingenuous. But I think there was a wider moment in the Tor community - in which a lot of people were concerned about the transition to a much more professional NGO, more strongly aligned with liberal, 'digital democracy' visions of US geopolitics, and away from a more chaotic and anarchic coalition. While I think there was a clear need for Tor to change and this was as much about its place amid wider changes in the landscape of digital rights, US tech, and hacker politics as anything else, it does give us a way (I think) of understanding the conflicts and choices that might emerge in Tor and other privacy enhancing infrastructures in the future.

Yes, you need to be a toxic slug or you will be eaten.

I was around for the transition and it was anything but clean. The only reason why tor didn't implode like women who code recently did is that it has a clear core product which the old developers kept chugging along despite the best efforts of the new 'professionals'.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40160755.
Please don't start tedious political flamewars on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How well does "expect to never retire" correlate with "actually never retires"?
>From their marketing materials I understand that devices are networked sensor data is shared.

This hasn't been innovative in a military context since at least Desert Storm.

Actually a shared battlespace run by computers managing contacts and sharing the data with tens of platforms including sending specific intercept data to specific in air interceptors and relaying data those interceptors get back to the rest of the fleet and managing tasking for tens of different surface combatants to intelligently and efficiently task hundreds of incoming threats was rolled out to American fleets in the 1960s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Tactical_Data_System
i understand people who dislike the htmx meme-driven vibe and there are certainly times when i go over the line (i'm a one man shop trying to compete w/ libraries from Facebook/Vercel & Google) but i try to be balanced about when hypermedia is and when it is not a good approach:

https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/
Or just pay them out of the money they already get - that would be good, too.
To offer a counter-point, doesn't less people = less workforce over time, less economic activity, less competition, less able-bodied men for your military, making you more vulnerable compared to other nations with better birth rates?

Doesn't seem like a slam-dunk case but rather one of tradeoffs?

I get that infinite growth isn't sustainable, but shrinking isn't the only alternative, correct? It can be slower rates of growth.
It's far more likely someone typed a random name into the form that happened to have been your mother's versus obtained a list of dead people and wrote their names - isn't it?

There's no identity check for submitting the comment form. It's as simple as lying on the form.

> in favor of Comcast and against Net Neutrality

Also, let's not make up stories about this issue.
By definition, negative side effects that can be cherry-picked are more numerous and pronunced in an Individualist society, as the very point of Collectivism is to steer the crowds away from trouble, while Individualism tolerates a wider range of individual tragedies for the potential upside.

Your examples were not well chosen anyway, as their relation to collectivism seems dubious, and US prosecutors also have high conviction rates without trial through threat of big punishment.
Congrats to Googlers
Induction is really not that intuitive. Saying "just trust the magic" doesn't help a noob get it.
A script file?
What a huge waste of time, effort and resources
Indeed, God forbid I be seen as a leech or freeloader
I just switched from long-range wireless to Starlink basic. It's 50% cheaper and much, much more reliable. Speeds are comparable (when the long-range wifi wasn't down, which it was pretty often). Long-range wifi had a data cap with crazy overage fees, Starlink is unlimited.
More planet for the rest of us. /s
Who's doing this out of charity though?

I'm willing to bet almost everyone who does free and open source software is secretly hoping it will come back to them somehow. Usually as an actual job, maybe as a consultant for the software they created, maybe custom feature work. These days it's often a patreon or github sponsorships which are ethical ways to make money. Maybe it's the prestige of having one's full name attached to some major project that drives them. Maybe it's the enthusiasm for computing freedom and the copyleft ideals: sharing your work and benefiting from the work of others in return, knowing that you're adding to a commons and that your freedom is ensured.

Expectations can be as low as basic respect and acknowledgement. But they do exist.

You're absolutely right that most people don't seem to think through the licenses that they choose. That's my point though. That's why I came here. To tell everyone that it makes no sense to choose anything but AGPLv3 or proprietary. If you agree with me, then upvote the comment so that more people will see it and hopefully avoid falling into the permissive licensing trap.
> It's selfish, but the truth.

In most instances, the choice to have kids or not have kids are both driven out a selfish desire to get out of life what one wants (though of course married couples may have one person's desires more filled than the other's). My friends had kids because they wanted to have the experience, have dependable relationships as they age, have someone to ensure they're cared for in old age, etc. It's not out of some altruistic behavior to ensure social security is stable for another few years.

That the decision benefits our societal structures (though likely harms the environment and natural ecosystems) is a side-effect.
Don't use floats if you're trying to represent an exact value, i.e. someones bank account. But in financial modelling you're generally dealing in probabilistic "expected values", it's common and fine to use floats.

Having said that, half the world seems to run on Excel spreadsheets, which are full of money values, and Excel is basically all floats (with some funky precision logic to make it deterministic - would be curious to know more).

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2815407/can-someone-conf...
> One day, a talented lass or fellow, a special one with face of yellow, will make the Piece of Resistance found from it's hiding refuge underground, and with a noble army at the helm, this Master Builder will thwart the Kragle and save the realm, and be the greatest, most interesting, most important person of all times. All this is true because it rhymes.

The Lego Movie.
HN is a bubble where people listen to what you say even if you argue against them, I haven't found any such place anywhere else before. I've found some people who listen even to people they disagree with on some niche forums, but never a community as big as this with density this high.

Other than listening and arguing in relatively good faith I don't think HN is a bubble, although such people probably have pretty different opinions than the typical person simply because they listen and change themselves more so it gets more refined.
That's configurable in X and I've never had this issue.
> Love this. Then our leaders' true views of us as cattle will be out wide in the open.

Wow, you misunderstood that pretty badly.

Unless you can make a money-golem, a pile of cash can't take care of you in your old age, labor will. If you haven't had kids, it means you haven't paid into the future labor pool, and it would therefore be unfair for you to withdraw from it once labor becomes too constrained. To do otherwise would be like paying out full pensions to people who never paid a dime into the system.
Show HN: Layla – AI Baby Sleep Coach for Tired Parents
After lots of sleepless nights, we finally sleep trained our baby and we're all better off for it. I didn't want to hire a sleep trainer because they all say the same things and aren't really available when you actually need them (at night!).

So I created a bot where you just tell her about your situation and she provides personalized advice in text and voice to get your baby sleeping through the night.

Please let me know what you think! Feedback is more than welcome. Thanks!
Interesting MS-DOS history to be uncovered with the source code of MS-DOS 4.

I wonder if we will see MS-DOS 5 or 6 soon?

FreeDOS, an open source DOS clone, has been around for a while:

https://freedos.org/

https://github.com/FDOS
Good example of people believing nonsense because it rhymes.
No need to make it optional. If the state can't convict on all counts, you should get full compensation for all expenses, including your legal bills, any time spent in prison, lost income, etc. In a case like this it would be millions of dollars, maybe tens of millions. Of course, this case probably wouldn't have happened in the first place if that was the way prosecutions worked...

Most criminal cases are open-and-shut deals where the defendant is clearly guilty, so this wouldn't change much on average. But it would ensure that 1) prosecutors only prosecute what they can actually prove, 2) innocent peoples' lives aren't destroyed.
> The first [trial], in 2021, was declared a mistrial after prosecutors and their witnesses couldn't stop talking about sex trafficking despite none of the defendants facing sex trafficking charges

Thats always been my take on the backpage case, but I didnt feel comfortable talking about it because people are too emotionally invested in curbing sex trafficking

We’d be better off just treating it as labor trafficking, and not bothering with the non-trafficked people just like the rest of the job market.
I don't have a formal background in CS -- most of my schooling and professional background has been centered squarely on mechanical engineering. Attending college in 2004-2009, the school I went to spent just a couple class sessions teaching MATLAB and LabView. Neither language really appealed to me and after some initial struggles I realized that our TAs weren't really checking our scripts... so I faked a bunch of non-functional homework scripts just to move forward in the class. The experience soured me on programming for years.

Years later, the pandemic hit and I found myself with excess free time and nothing to do in the evenings. So I decided to take a series of Coursera classes to learn data science programming in Python and VBA. VBA became rather useful as I was able to program sophisticated macros for automating tasks in SolidWorks CAD. But my programming knowledge has still been rather limited compared to most professional programmers.

When ChatGPT came out and people started tinkering with it for programming, I was delighted to find that it was able to produce what appeared to be SolidWorks VBA scripts. But on further examination the scripts produced were often buggy and in need of rework. So I was rather skeptical for a while about ChatGPT's usefulness.

A few years later, I'm now in a job that requires a LOT of programming and scripting in a multitude of different languages (Python, Bash, and a few others) and the focus has shifted away from CAD. I'll humbly admit that ChatGPT has saved me multiple times in figuring out how to approach different problems. The code often works right on the first try. It's an essential tool for me now.
in plain htmx, you can target an area that doesn't disrupt a playing video (e.g. the comments box appending to the comments) or you can use a morphing algorithm that disrupts the DOM less.

i have my own morphing algorithm (and a corresponding htmx plugin that allows you to use it) called idiomorph:

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/idiomorph/

i've also been working with the chrome team to get a feature added they are calling "atomic moves":

https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/1255

this would allow us to move elements around in the DOM without losing things like play state or focus or whatever

very excited for this last idea, I think it will be a huge boon for the web in general, not just for htmx
Couldn't running an exit node be a cover for other activity? One that provides a reasonable doubt as to whether it was the operator or some other actor who did something unsavory from an IP address?
The music industry shouldn't have sold out their musicians... That would have been a start.
> They may also believe that if you can't fix something, taking advantage of it is justified

Yes, but you're ignoring my central point. They aren't merely taking advantage of something, they are pushing to expand and enlarge it.
If you have a social circle where 100% of your contacts turn to an LLM first, not only have you buried yourself deep in a niche filter bubble, but you have also surrounded yourself with some of the planet's most misinformed people. If I were you, I'd be worried.
I thought stablecoins were a scam?
I understand you’re not necessarily taking a stand one way or another on “anti-humanist environmentalism”, but surely it’s possible to be both in favour of declining population numbers for the environmental and other benefits, _and_ not be anti-humanist at the same time?
> Yes, but what are the chances the one you choose comes with malware?

These aren't 10 download, unknown group uploads. These launchers are used by thousands of people, and if you just go to the one with hundreds of upvotes on reddit it's the same risk as downloading any other kind of non-billion-dollar-company software.

Cracked minecraft clients have been around for over a decade at this point, and third-party minecraft launchers are not a niche thing at all. Compromises have happened, but that's not unique to Minecraft.

> Think of it this way: if I want to spread malware, what better way than a cracked Minecraft launcher?

Fake leaked songs, videos, new video games, Roblox/Fortnite in-game currency generators, video streaming sites with malware ads...
Yes. I used to be a heavy gamer. I got tired of single player games first. I started to think why bother with what is essentially just an interactive movie? Challenge or accomplishment for defeating a tough boss? No one is going give me a prize or applaud me for it. To see the story? I’d rather just watch a movie.

Multiplayer games lasted a while longer. Eventually I stopped playing those too as friends grew older and none of us had hours to dedicate.

Ten years ago I would have thought I’d be a lifelong gamer. Today, it’s been almost five years that I last played a game.
I'm on the basic plan and usually see about 75mbps. It can drop to 20 or so during peak netflix hours. But that's still plenty fast enough for multiple HD video streams. What we had before was much slower and much, much less reliable.

If you can get a fast wired connection, do it. Starlink is for people who can't, and it's far and away the best option for them.
That's a recipe for a generation of kids warped and broken by being raised by parents who only see them as a cash cow. It's a terrible idea.
This is controversial and might get downvoted. Raising kids is a lot of work without any monetary reward. In past 50% of the human population was tasked with taking care of family. Now that part of the population goes to office and actively take part in economy and enjoys all the benefit it provides. Unless government starts to pay a attractive salary to at home parents things are not going to improve.
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> There's a reason there's all this pressure to raise retirement ages.

From this end, the pressure to work later in life feels more like our only chance to avoid homeless retirement.

I only say that because that is the pure reality for many of us.
People keep pointing to how "expensive" it is to have kids, however I see rich, well off people having fewer and fewer kids.

I really think deep down the reasons are social and societal. The decline of the family system, religion, and traditional values have all led to this.

Look around. People just don't want kids (no matter the money). They don't like to admit this but they find it burdensome. They want "freedom". At least this is my observation.

I find this to be more common in America than in other western countries.

As one American friend put it: "Americans love their granite counter tops more than they love their children".
Of all the people in this thread swearing they don't use Google, I wonder how many are writing their comments using Chrome (or Chromium, or Edge, or Brave, or Opera, or any other browser that uses the guts of the Chromium project)
That would be a good bit of info to know but also the retirement situation is changing quite rapidly by the decade so the correlation may not be as instructive as it could be if things were static
> what would the common thing be that is holding them back

They aren't interesting enough to buy hardware to use/play

They are novelties but not true game changers
Many, but I am talking about humans, not computers.
Italy has been really though on immigration only in words, it is kafkaesque but detention camps in Northern Africa were made under a center left government by Marco Minniti in 2017. Now that we have a center right to right government (or maybe far right, I don't know how to classify people who refuse to repude fascism and who are in parties that are the direct descendants of the far right parties in the 80/90s) their ideas of a sea blockade fell through (well, who would have expected that). At the same time, government is - and the right parties were, when they weren't in charge - pushing against the ngos such as open arms, while ngos rescue only ~5-10% of the immigrants, while the rest is saved by the Italian coast guard. The idea of a pull factor isn't true as well [1]

It's a shit show, at the end we're still in "need" of slave labour to work in tomato fields and to do unskilled jobs because almost no Italian would do them

[1] https://pagellapolitica.it/articoli/meloni-piantedosi-pull-f...
Hi Vasek, happy to chat sometime soon. Send us an email or DM on Discord?

We'll check out the e2b code interpreter sdk. Looks interesting!