skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting idea is rate limiting the client by requiring him to solve a puzzle for his request to be handled.

If his last request was recent make the puzzle harder. If last request was less recent make puzzle easier.

The puzzle might be like the one in bitcoin mining protocol. Guessing which bit string with specific amount of zeros at the end produces some random hash.
Whis is only reinforcing the argument that a second stair might have never been built anyway, and even if yes the folks would have been just as stuck there so just as dead.
KCL: Constraint-based, functional language for configuration and policies
Another perspective of resources are tackling adversary bots. It's difficult to strike a balance between enough good features to have your platform likeable and useful for users while maintaining security from bad actors who'll find clever ways to exploit vulnerabilities.
Teenagers are rarely hired as professional drivers either, and they often learn how to write code.
similarly it's used to be super common to get checkbooks starting with a higher check number cause some places were cautious of taking check #1 from someone assuming they didn't have any sort of credit history.
1) Fake
2) Forged
3) Forged
4) Lie
5) Fake

As you can probably tell, from my understanding (possibly wrong connection) I think of the word 'to forge' in the context of actually trying to get access to somewhere or something with fake documents. When the intention or the consequence of using such document is more for monetary or material gain, I tend to think of it as fake.

I suppose dictionary definition does allow for both usage, i.e. to forge is to make a fake resemblance of something.. etc. I didn't think not knowing accurate definition of a word warranted downvotes but oh well.
AWS Latency Test
what's fascinating is the portrayal of SF on Fox News vs Threads.
How to Get Started with Nostr
The article seems to mix storage capacity and instantaneous power. Lithium batteries tend to be able to discharge their stored energy in perhaps 1 to 4 hours (for instance the Tesla Megapack is between 2 and 3 hours to discharge).

Yes batteries are great at flattening the evening peak, when prices presumably spike upwards. That appears to be a good use-case, cycled once a day. Eyeballing the second graph there appears to be around 25 GWh of storage participating on that day, which makes is last equal in terms of energy delivered grouped by type (excepting coal which does not appear to have a line on the graph despite being on the key).

Most interesting is the large amount of imports.
Almost everywhere, but it's fairly low priority and impossible to prosecute without Orwellian levels of surveillance.
Most people still use WeChat, even for tech news reading. You have everything inside WeChat, which is like an OS.
Some young people also use Hupu(a basketball app and forum but you can also discuss other topics).
These guys know the city in and out. Only in cases where you already expect them, you could be able to catch them. Also, police always has to prove you did it, and not some other member of the group.

https://youtu.be/Y9Lm0dkkVAw?si=NDHBYtciFPDhp78I
That's not true. I have a German eBay account from May 2001 when we still had the DM. eBay was very popular back then and had a completely different feeling because it was mostly used by private individuals for selling their stuff instead of mostly professional merchants like it is today.
Seems this is one of those things like UUIDs where we rely on it being very unlikely to be wrong, because statistics.

> the accuracy of this technique scales with the size of the memory.

I wonder if that's proportional to the number of distinct items to count, though.

> if the [memory] is so big that it fits all the words, then we can get 100% accuracy

Yes, but then the algorithm isn't being used any more, that's just normal counting.

They counted the distinct words in Hamlet with a memory size of 100 words, about 2.5% of the number to find, and got a result that was off by 2. If you do the same with the whole of Shakespeare, again using 2.5% of the memory needed to hold all the distinct words, is the accuracy better?

Anyway, this is limited to counting, and doesn't help list what the words are, though quickly counting them first is perhaps a way to speed up the task of actually finding them?
I can’t get up to speed with rust using these kinds of material.

Haven’t looked deeply at this one in particular but they tend to teach you patterns and approaches. That works for a lot of languages. Got into zig pretty fast for example. You can start writing go in 2 days and even if you write shit code at first, it will run.

But I can’t get productive in rust and that kills my enthusiasm.
I’m going to comment about requiring ID for voting because to me this just shows those who are against requiring Identification, look at how your need for tolerance and openness gets weaponized.

If you can pretend you’re an American and get a job from a country that wants to harm our country, surely that says a lot about how easy it is to flub a mail in ballot that gets delivered to your door regardless if you want it and doesn’t require any form of proof of person to submit.

I wish upholding national security wasn’t a political issue but here we are.
Only way to truly solve it is to remove racial divide (that is, another Holocaust), and either remove democracy (so what people - majority of who are property owners - want, doesn't matter), or remove market economy (so people won't be property owners). Nothing of it is acceptable. Much better to keep things as they are. Let it be a competition for who gets in to the desirable areas.
To follow up that movie reference with the response in a different movie where that line is misquoted, “Where’d you hear that, a renaissance festival?”

I haven’t seen that movie a lot, but that scene (and really the entire movie) has been seared into my consciousness for 30 years. It was just the exact thing I wanted at that point in my life.
Ahh yeah, the typical reason people hate forums nowadays. Registration-wall/paywall. Amazing
New Hetzner storage servers: 88 TB for 104 €
Some aircraft designers have proposed doing this, because a screen can be lighter than a pressure resistant window.
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News agency-style journalism is an easy target, as its primary role is to aggregate and convey information from multiple sources to the reader in a nominally unbiased, dispassionate fashion. Learned language models are ideal for this; it's a style manual wrought large.

As for developers–we've had automated code generation for decades. And machine learning has been a part of investment data analysis for a long time.

Why the fear, uncertainty, and doubt? Are you creeping closer to death?
To my understanding, what happened with Tumblr was moreso a compounding situation; the Apple app store reviewer managed to just find NSFW content in general, forcing Tumblr to change the app to remove it.

Before, under Yahoo, they'd just put some new hoop in the app to prevent users from accessing adult content, but by the time this particular Apple review rolled around, the sale of Tumblr to Verizon had already been finalized. Which created a situation where an outgoing management pretty much ordered to not bother fixing it and just banning it all, hoping that Verizon's "family friendly" policies meant that it wouldn't jeopardize the sale (which it turns out, the sale wasn't jeopardized).

You can still kinda see it in how broken the actual removal was; they just excised the NSFW from the frontend by marking the posts as sensitive on the API and then preventing the frontend from viewing anything sensitive. For years (and maybe even today) you could just scrape the API to find NSFW posts, although that's on the decline since most NSFW Tumblr accounts have been deleted entirely by the actual people behind them.
To me, the opinion about nuclear power kind of feels like the subject of homeopathy in Germany.
It feels like in the general population there is a whole that can only be filled by non-science and quackery.
The most reasonable people that usually believe in science just get emotional and ignore facts in favor of a vague feeling of defending their beliefs no matter what.
What happens if you connect Windows XP to the Internet in 2024? [video]
Yes. But for the one off need described (or similar) it’s way faster to write an address than to get things set up with a typewriter.

Of course for certain forms, better legibility in many cases may make it worth it.
https://core.telegram.org/reproducible-builds
I found the paper took about as long to read as the blog post and is more informative:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.10191

It is about estimating the cardinality of a set of elements derived from a stream. The algorithm is so simple, you can code it and play with it whilst you read the paper.

The authors are explicit about the target audience and purpose for the algorithm: undergraduates and textbooks.
Foundational Papers in Complexity Science
Contact us to opt out – Slack's privacy principles
In our present marvelous age of information, instructions for painless suicide abound. In societies which grant primacy to the rights of individuals to live and die as they see fit - that is, in which there is a degree of free speech - these resources are easily accessible.
I am very interested in this, do you have any examples for vue3 and typescript + d3 auxiliary functions? Thanks!
There were some buildings in downtown Chicago that had DC service even to the wall sockets. My grandfather had an office in such a building in the 1950s and had to make sure that any equipment (desk fans, radios, etc.) could run on DC.
I work a lot with F500 companies which have been around for decades, and that hurts because it's so true.

I hate XLSX with a passion. The main issue is that as a file format it's too heavy, slow, clunky, and does weird data type conversions, but that's not the only problem.

The main problem of excel is "mission creep". It just does too many things in a half-assed way. So when you get a bunch of excel files to process for your data analysis task, you can't be sure someone didn't put a bunch of charts, merged cells, used formulas, used strange currency or unit formatting gimmicks, structured the data in a weird way to make it visually appealing to management, and so on. It's all so tiresome.
This is a good feature that I didn't know about as a Firefox user, can't they get a little bit aggressive, just like MSFT when you want to use Edge to download Chrome, and put a big arrow near the edit button the first time you open a PDF in Firefox? or something similar so people would know about it.
"Your code has to be good enough that you don't get a large flow of bugs." The article also says it took them a year to get to this point.
and how does that even work? Slack is a chat app. Does everyone involved in the chat need to opt out for it to be meaningful? What about bots?
No other railway has to deal with with so much traffic on infrastructure that is so old and out of step with the demands placed on it.

People tend to obsess over DB and it's management, but they only control maintenance. All decisions about renovations are made by the government.

So what do you want?

- Wait years for large renovation projects on all major routes, including lengthy closures for work(the current strategy)

- Cancel 25-50%% of all trains permanently, if then people can't travel because it's impossible to get through the door, tough

The latter one is the French solution - just run very few trains, regardless of demand. The last time I wanted to travel by train in France, I simply couldn't because all trains on the route for the entire day were 100% sold out.

Then there's Spain. The last time I wanted to travel there, I didn't because the first(!) train of the day left at lunchtime and arrived mid-afternoon.
The author is not wrong. The Soviet Army stole all equipment it could find on its way West only to "gift" some of it back. German industry was officially treated as spoils of war, watch factories, optics, photography, chemistry, the lot.
This article appears to be AI-created and also, it doesn't answer its own title question.

Update: Checked out the host site. There's zero human fingerprints on any content made there. It all looks AI generated and completely anonymous.
>It's not a fiction that a large scale solar or wind farm will occupy more land

This argument still baffles me - when we are talking about the US, things requiring a bit more space is laughable. There's SO MUCH UNUSED SPACE that no one cares about, there's offshore space and dual use space no one gives a damn about how is this even an argument.
If it'd be orders of magnitude yea that'd be a problem but a few percent? Please.
Do keep in mind that Mastodon is build on a tech stack that's mainly known for not being very efficient since it solved the scaling question with the answer "throw more computer at it". (In other words, it's a Rails app.) It's not very suitable for a free social media network since it's designed in a way to encourage large silos since that's the only way Rails scales from a financial perspective; you need more from a smaller core of users as opposed to having every user pay a tiny amount.

There's other AP implementations that aren't a constant server hog like Mastodon is and can run on much weaker hardware (some of it can run on a raspberry pi). You don't need a full rails stack if your user count never exceeds 100 (which y'know, is the ideal state of AP - small communities who can remotely interact with each other).
That's my experience with the site a decade ago. I remember seeing really tasteful and well done sexy photography, but the amount of very terrible cartoon porn was overwhelming, weird fetishes aside. They all have the characteristic look of drawing by beginners with no taste whatsoever, like overuse of gradients, uncanny faces, colored hair or facial piercings. I don't know how to explain, but if you have spent 5 minutes on that site, you have certainly seen what terrible cartoon porn drawn by horny teenagers looks like.
Thanks, I was expecting something along those lines. I assume misaligned partitions are kinda hard to produce these days if you are using the default partitioning from your GUI Linux distro installer? Last time I heard this being really relevant was over ten years ago iirc.
I have owned two (new) Vostoks so far, and they've proven easier to adjust and tinker with than a Seiko 5 my friend has. They really nailed down mass production of that soviet "Good enough, watch is fine" engineering concept. When properly adjusted (which they don't bother to do at the factory), they also keep time perfectly (+- 1s/day), provided you don't let the spring unwind completely. Some of them are ugly as sin though.
I found this here:

https://drupal.community/@pcambra/112452993401659331

That thread makes it clear that people are assuming that unless you explicitly opt out, Slack will feed all your DMs, messages, posts, files, etc., into their LLM.

For example:

"Oh yeah, I'm sure that the people who use the tool specifically made for internal business and work comms are all thrilled to find that all of their comms are being logged by an external service, amazing stuff!"

-- https://drupal.community/@VileLasagna@mastodon.gamedev.place...

Do you use Slack?

Are you concerned?
Maybe it's a way to funnel government money into an obscure international entity?
100% agree.

I find that being able to put yourself in another person's shoes (whether you're understanding their motivations when designing solutions) etc, is absolutely key in performing all those.

But it's also important to adapt a solution to an environment where there are bad actors that do act in their self interest or incentives that are different in different places/professions/cultures.

For example, I am very curious about any AI-based solutions in the legal world where all the incentive structures are skewed heavily towards hourly billing. How are you going to get law firms to adopt technologies that might cut their billable hours in half?
Please think about the poor shareholders..
Of course you can find stuff that's high quality, but that is rare. Rather than looking at outliers, it might be more sensible to look at the average and the reality is that the average graffiti does not have any artistic value.
No code / low code tools are widely used in industry for ETL, data wrangling and data analysis. It's a multi billion dollar industry. Of course, they aren't the best tool for every job.
> It's crucial to note the difference between a bug and a feature. Our 24-hour pledge applies to bugs, not features.

It looks likes all of their bugs are labeled with "Cirtical" priority. It sounds really weird.
I grant Banksy that he has some technical competency and is able to do something somewhat visually interesting (his use of color works quite well and makes his pieces stand out within the medium), but I really hate him as an artist.

There is basically no one who makes greater kitsch than him. Everything he makes is steeped in the middle class, liberal, mediocrity of someone who points out that things, which everyone agrees are bad, actually are bad. It seriously is something of the worst "art" I have ever seen and actually makes me quite sympathetic to the post modernists whose movement is a reaction to people like him.

The middle schooler, scribbling on canvas, is at least not trying desperately to impress the most bourgeois group of people the world has ever seen. That alone puts everything he does a serious step above Banksy.
Does anyone have a suggestion for PDF redacting? It's the only thing I need Acrobat for. And when I need it, it's very important.
No one would ever believe me but last night I had a dream about exactly this.

I was shocked to wake up and read about this in the news.
Sure but if you're using a separate WiFi chip you can use any microcontroller. And it still consumes too much power in sleep mode.
You are missing the point here, while you might see a similar concept “divine right of kings” the lived experience was a lot different from modern times vs anything BCE.

That there similar social mechanics might be more appropriate.
Yes, they buy a piece of paper for memories and they have it. Real or fake is irrelevant as this whole thing with collection and art is irrational. It must just look real enough to you and your guests to serve its purpose.
Especially since once it has been trained, it is in the model, and I am not aware of any way anyone has discovered to later remove from the model single or selected training data points, except for re-training/re-learning the model. So basically the crime might already be done.

But I also know that so many businesses are too sluggish to make a switch and employees incapable of understanding the risk. So unfortunately not all of Europe will switch away. But I hope a significant number gives them the middle finger.
True, but it is surprisingly difficult to ascribe malice to the actions of the individuals in those organisations.

The issue lies is considering the scientific operations of the organisation in isolation. It is naive to presume their scientists have free rein to consider all possible avenues. Likewise the scientists themselves are subject to the dynamics of everyday life. It takes time and clear thinking to eliminate external influences from research. Both are in short supply in an environment of panic and fear.

Consensus was always a social construct, and never a special state of ultimate scientific wisdom. During the panic of covid, many thought that a forced consensus got us ‘close enough’ to the truth. Most people are only now waking up to how wrong and damaging it was.
> Opt-out must be the default.

Don't you mean opt-in must be the default?

Or am I misunderstanding the concept of opt-ins :P
Unreal is a bloated way to develop WebGPU projects for the web. PlayCanvas is a sensible solution if your target is web.
> They want to maintain the social prestige they have from living somewhere fancy and they want to keep the poors away from their home.

.. which they will literally state in terms of property value.
Exactly! Allowing access to your data should only be opt-in
The counting/estimstion technique is rather like a floating point number. An integer exponent k and a mantissa of a population.
It is being used ;)

It's a great place to sleep in for EDM festivals like Parookaville. And the nuclear reactor aesthetic certainly goes well with steampunk stage decoration.
Estimating the amount of unique elements in a set and counting the amount of unique elements in a set are very different things. Cool method, bad headline.
Opt-in is "I agree to have my data included"

Opt-out is "I don't agree to have my data included"
Except for Mark Zuckerberg.
This might change (soon) since the Arch Linux Ports RFC [1] has been accepted

[1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests...
You are right, this year 32c seems to be the most common. I remember 2023 was still 28c, and there were tests done that I remember seeing where 28c was slightly more efficient than 30c, but at a higher pressure.
Hmm, Kalkar, the only nuclear power plant I ever protested - in the late 70s when I was still in school and construction had just begun. It was finished in 85 but never even fueled due to safety concerns (liquid natrium is nasty, state government did not authorize operation), protests and significant doubts about its purpose (breeders are most suitable to produce bomb material and nuclear fuel).

Chernobyl happened 1986 and probably put the last nail in the coffin, when its radioactive material spilled over Germany and people were recommended to stop eating mushrooms, game animals and homegrown salad. I was doing my nuclear physics practical at the Uni at the time and our lab offered food measurements as a public service, so people brought their homegrown vegetables, fruits and milk. Highest measurements were always the grass in front of the institute though. Much higher than in the "neutron lab" I was working in at the time.

1991 Kalkar was finally officially abandoned and later sold to a private investor.
Grenfell Tower had just 1 stairwell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire

70 people died in the fire.
If you are using an LLM to write code, because you aren't skilled enough to do it yourself, how are you going to know if what it is producing is correct?
> Assuming everyone is going the same place at the same time.

Commuting.
Sorry but a difference of opinion does not mean it’s toxic. The government is representing its voters - you’re essentially calling the majority of Texans toxic.
What do you do when even your rate limiting layer gets fully saturated with requests? Does one have any options other than involving CF?

I thankfully never was in the postion to experience this but I always wondered how far let's say nftable rules go in thwarting a DoS attack against a conventional webapp on a tiny VPS.
Yes, agreed.

Though even amongst the recent-headline-grabbing stuff there are some areas that you can improve at by the equivalent of AlphaGo's self-play. Basically, when you have a slow and expensive option to use a weaker version of your system to produce better decisions / smarter data, and then use those to train the system.
Why do some people hate Make so much to use an abomination like CMake? It has terrible syntax, terrible semantics, and you need to run Make anyway. I do not get it.

If it was noticeably better, I'd understand. Probably because it looks nice in the tutorial with apparently simple syntax, but then on real projects it devolves into a hundred lines of abstraction nonsense over environment variables and spawning programs.
Close in syntax maybe, but you need quite a different mental model to build complex programs.