skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think half the problem there is everyone offering half a house for free, but every company is offering a different half. No one wants to pay for the paid offerings that have all the features, they install one SEO plugin to get page metadata, another to get structured data / microdata, another to optimize keywords; when all they had to do was buy the premium version of Yoost, for example.

Thankfully there was a recent consolidation in a plugin called Admin & Site Enhancements (ASE). Probably got rid of 10 others with this thing. Includes duplicate post/page, admin menu cleanups & reorganization, hiding dashboard widgets, cleaning up the top bar, changing the login URL, an easy way to setup SMTP delivery, media replacement, hides the annoying admin notices, and a bunch more.
I wish wordpress did fewer things but did them better. There should be something that is a notch better Jekyll but doesn't get gross when you install a dozen plug-ins. Out of the box wordpress produces a very slow and bandwidth heavy site.
> This things happened gradually.

And is happening continuously over time. It is the deleterious effects of this accretion that is so insidious about the digital/social/internet media.

I have experienced/am experiencing this same problem in my own mental functioning in spite being "old" (am in the middle 50s), don't use phones much, don't do social media much and yet with just browsing and consuming all types of content on the Internet; my attention span, focusing ability, time spent on continuous concentrated study all have declined (well beyond what can be attributed to ageing). Add now a sedentary lifestyle entailed by the above activities and you have your physical body deteriorating in all parameters too. This sets up a vicious cycle where the mind degrades the body which in turn degrades the mind and so on.

Thankfully since i have memories of my mental functioning from before the Internet era i can discipline myself when needed (but getting harder) but i shudder to think what it is doing to the developing and growing brains/minds of kids/teens growing up in this environment.

It is really important that Society as a whole wakes up to this insidious problem and involves Neuroscientists/Biologists/Psychologists/Scientists and Political Policy makers to focus on and find a solution to this epidemic.
You're right.

While we're at it, we should make sure no one goes up to the massive speaker system and puts their ear right up to the speaker cone too.
The fixed prepayment is what makes them insane. Fixed interest instruments are common, at least at the institutional level, but no penalty prepayment option is the crazy part, because it exposes the lender to all the downside if rates go up and none of the upside if they go down.
You're correct it was not genocide.
The other side carried out quite a few massacres of its own and tried to displace the Jews (or worse) - so it was pretty much just a war.
This expression is nonzero iff reverse(a) > reverse(b) (where reverse is the bitreversal of an unsigned number).

It (using the address of the nodes as arguments) can serve as a tiebreaker in a Cartesian tree (such as one implementing a first-fit memory allocator) or even to replace the random priority value in a treap (meaning you need neither storage nor computation for the priority node of the treap).
Grokking is a sudden huge jump in test accuracy with increasing training steps, well after training accuracy has fully converged. Double descent is test performance increasing, decreasing, and then finally rising again as model parameters are increased.
Thats what most journalists do these days. I was even told straight to my face that "creative writing" was necessary as the mediaoutlet already knows what their readers like, and therefore facricate paragraphs which they know will be well received. Facts are unwanted, especially if they lead to complicated explanations. JOurnalisms is dead. Its only kept alive by the false claim that it (not in its current state) is necessary to keep democracy alive, which is also a self-surving lie at this point.
I don't think keys need to be distributed per se, rather made available at a URL that can be served by the same service that issues the tokens? You could call that distribution, but that's probably not what you meant. I agree that a lot can go wrong, but isn't that also true for home growing a distributed database tokens solution (I surely have seen some monsters in the wild). So can't the problems with both solutions be mitigated using some good libraries?
Initial setup of wordpress is super easy, but it gets very hard to maintain after a while. Updates require manual intervention, themes must be fixed, plugins deprecate. All of this adds a burden I am not willing to accept, which is why I moved all my sites to Hugo/Jekyll/Mkdocs (etc.) since about 2017.
Just do AoC in CL; start at the first year and do 1 per day. When reaching the following year (first day puzzles are much easier than the last one you did), add visualisations etc. When you reach AoC ‘24, you’ll be flying.
I can't figure out what it is or what to do when I open the home screen. I see a map with some glowing areas, but clicking on it does nothing. Clicking on the quotes in the top left or the logo does nothing. In the "about" page, it says "Beescribe is a democratic notice board on top of the world map that incentivizes you in crypto tokens." It doesn't say what it really is or why I would want to use it. My first reaction is to close the page because "notice board" sounds super boring and I'm not interested in farming worthless tokens.
It’s a wonderful resource but they neglect the pagetitle element which is set to “McMaster-Carr” on every page. Links opened in tabs/windows all get the same title and bookmark titles need to be manually edited to be useful.

Why do developers of otherwise great websites neglect page titles?
This is something that without some pain inflicted on host and network operators, the needle will not move. The CA/B Forum could start asking that it's a requirement for CA's to issue a certificate that the validation will try AAAA records first, and warn if they can't validate, then try A. Then later require validation through both AAAA and A records. This will prepare most of the hosts to make sure every page is accessible through both networks. Then require AAAA records only, and not bothering to check A records.
This is great, thanks for sharing with that additional context.
They must be reading this thread. The killer bees stung me to death despite my escaping happily and not perishing.
>why insist on forcing text-editor-like behavior on the browser? It feels like a solution in need of a problem.

Because the browser is the operating system.

I might be only half joking.
I'm not a web dev so I might be missing something. Theoretically you could just open .html files directly in the browser without any networking being involved, no?
The author here seems to be arguing that you should effectively never use JWTs. That, in my opinion, is a mistake.

JWTs have absolutely been over-hyped for the last 8-10 years, but they do have a use and you don't have to be at the scale of Google for it to be the right approach.

Software isn't as simple as creating a checklist of a few basic categories and saying there is always a right or wrong answer. The answer should be "it depends" because there are many more factors at play when deciding something as fundamental as authentication and authorization.
Nope that's not me. I think they abandoned their project.
Assume everyone is familiar with this project, dating back to 1996:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWWOFFLE

https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/distfiles/wwwoffle-2.9j.tg...

The way the www is going, it seems like downloading a copy of libgen, i.e., nonfiction books, and scimag, i.e., academic journals, via torrent, would be more valuable than archiving websites, in general. These primary sources are part of the material used to train so-called "AI" anyway. The problem is that this so-called "AI" also includes all the garbage from the www.

Worst case is eventually these books and journals will again become publicly inaccessible but "AI" will be offered as a bogus substitute; a future where few people will do research using primary materials anymore, they will just submit questions to a remote "AI" server. Truth will be decimated.
they are trying to make their case for BGP regulation.
There are elements here which might be more useful to a broader audience in the form of a browser plugin. Is this something you've considered?
How does encouraging ad blocker usage lead to long term growth?
AI SDE is coding a website
Would be interested to hear other people’s favorite paid WordPress plugins.

A couple essential ones for me are Advanced Custom Fields Pro and Admin Columns Pro.
I wonder if laser tattoo removal adds to or decreases the potential risk. On one hand it gets rid of the ink but on the other hand it does so by releasing it into the system for a short period.
So this is how city wide gunshot detection works.. nice!!
ytdl-sub docker container to manage and download subscriptions and send them to Plex or similar.
To people saying it's obscure. It would be the same as a HR person/recruiter not knowing what an IDE is. 100% obscure to non-coders, 100% not obscure to people who know a bit about coding or write code for a living.

Applicant tracking systems are where HR people spend their time, well, tracking the 10s, 100s, or 1000s of applications that come in to their company, their interviewing steps, whether they've called a person back, etc.
It's one of many factors. NZ already becoming unattractive partly due to expensive housing and somewhat low wages - immigration is slowing down. Also new law allows import of foreign-certified building materials so that might help too.

Thing with politicians is (depending on party) something like 90-100% of them are property owners and 30-70% are also property investors [0] so I just can't see how they would be willingly taking a haircut.

(Cherry on top - most of them couldn't even afford to buy their homes now on MP salary)

0: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/12/the-full-lis...
What's the limit over native?
> I would place bets that most people do not keep their gas cars filled to 100%

A sibling comment put it well -ease of resolution. I can drive comfortably with less a 1/4 of a tank either in town or on long trips. I can easily find a gas station, fuel up in 5 min and drive away with a full tank without worrying much about it. I don’t want to think about looking for chargers, or structuring my trips around them. It would just not be fun for me and add extra hassles. That’s just my personal take, of course. One day we’ll have super high capacity batteries, much faster and ubiquitous chargers, and then I will happily buy an EV.
Not exactly. The use-cases suitable for public IaaS are:

0. Temporary prototypes

1. Overflow capacity

2. One-time jobs

It's also often used to evade local IT restrictions. In general, public IaaS is damn expensive and a waste of money for continuous, predictable workloads regardless of compute, storage, and/or networking usage.
thanks for the suggestion. I am still new to the Discord game. TBH, if it continues to be this successful I'll start a hedge fund or something.

I appreciate your encouragement. I'll continue the effort!
OAuth2 has no dependency on JWT, and _most_ authentication cases don't need OIDC, OAuth2 is enough.
For those, like me, who wondered, why not just reclone the original Darling 58?

Here is the answer from TACF:
“ Why not then return to the “real” Darling 58? The first reason is that the Darling 58 also uses the 35S constitutive promoter which appears to result in a variety of metabolic costs to the tree and likely causes the majority of performance problems observed in the Darling line. Secondly, there are only a handful, and perhaps even only one, D58 tree(s) in existence. These trees are at either the T0 or T1 stage (the original event and first-generation offspring). If work is to start over at those early diversification stages, it makes sense to focus on new OxO lines that express the gene only in tissues infected with blight. Confining OxO expression to blight infected tissues should reduce the metabolic cost of expressing this gene, thus these new lines are more likely to have enhanced forest competitiveness.”
> There's no amount of propositions that can prepare it for human ingenuity at the meta level.

At least for now.
Because the orphanage refuses to use cloudflare.
There's a reasonable distinction between "term useful to understand historical documentation" and "term useful to use in new documentation/communication". No new system or protocol or piece of documentation should ever use non-8-bit bytes. If you're reading old protocol documentation, you get used to "octet" being used in place of "byte"; that doesn't mean new documentation should cater to systems that haven't existed for a long time.

(Also, this tangent really isn't worth spending time on.)
> Yet nonprofit organizations are frequently the exact opposite of what they appear to be. As a consequence of the benefit of the doubt provided to nonprofits, there is rarely enough oversight to guarantee that they are doing what we pay them to do.

This type of unaccountable grift is common in Seattle. During the height of BLM, the city gave lots of money and even public property to random organizations. Taxpayers hard earned money was not just diverted away from core city needs but not really tracked. The same has been true of unaccountable programs to combat homelessness (the “homeless-industrial complex”), with little in terms of metrics to understand what was happening.

A lot of this happened because most citizens are too busy to keep track of these things, while activists push for spending on their ideological pet projects, and activist city leaders respond by handing out checks without any competitive process (picking sole winners of contracts) or real public input (hearings are swarmed by activists and held at inaccessible times and the general public isn’t even aware they’re happening).

Some example sources to read more:
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/state-aud...

https://sccinsight.com/2021/07/29/the-black-brilliance-resea...

https://roominate.com/blog/2016/anatomy-of-a-swindle/
Just like name-dropping, tossing acronyms in mixed company is not much more than an obvious flex.
Yeah, too many people think supply/demand is all there is to prices, when that is just economics 101. What many people seem to not even know, is that the theory only holds true under competitive free market conditions and falls apart under captive/uncompetitive markets. Many also assume trade volume is necessarily representative of a supply shortage, when that isn't always the case, as "supply" and "supply for sale" are two different things.

But yeah, the root of the problem is because governments are subsidizing housing/costs, and the problem with subsidies, is that the money for them has to come from somewhere, meaning they come with a burden (ie cost) placed elsewhere.

In the US this is primarily done via the government backing mortgage debt. It creates a vicious circle where homeowners raise their prices, the Fed ensures the funds for the mortgages, and the buyer is on the hook for paying it.

This is also why college prices are high. The government offers student loans to help people afford college, but colleges see this and raise their prices to capture that additional funding, and the student ends up on the hook for paying the price. Rinse and repeat...
WordPress is the biggest bowl of spaghetti code in production! 21 years of carbicide!
>70th decade

Online since 1324... You must remember even before geocities.
Neat, I never knew this math trick before! Kind of seems obvious now... 2769=27710-27

And it works for "N1" too, 2771=27710+27

I'm not good enough at mental math to do 277 or 2707 so I don't think this will be too useful to me, but a good trick to know still!
A good start here is that you are capable of working (or you'd never get to where you are, technically, even if you hate it), and you have no moral connection to it/no desire to "change the world" or even get something done (or you'd be happy doing or trying to do that and won't be posting this).

It puts you in a favourable spot because this is how most great money is made: by capable people who don't care about anything but their personal bottom line.

Just make a dash to a passive income as ruthlessly as possible, even if it means ruining things, engaging in corruption, or doing really dirty stuff like outsourcing. Retire in 3 or 5 years.
Not if half of them are 80 >.>
Seriously not every trait is revelations beneficial nor had to be
This is nice, I used Solr for a while and it worked well but I hated the Java underneath it, and some aspects of it seemed needlessly slow. But, I think this is still a 20th century style of search engine and we need more modern approaches. Especially, those of us with small datasets compared to internet search behemoths can probably take an effiency hit to get more useful results.
Right, sorry — to be clear, I brought it up because it's a pretty nice way to make executables easily from an embeddable scripting language and the approach is fairly unique among interpreted languages.
Meanwhile the Black Pink glowsticks, which retails at nearly $100, have Bluetooth and require firmware updates before a new concert.

Taylor Swifts' solution seems a bit more crowd friendly in my oppinion.
The only things that matter are a decent admin UI and the illusion of choice of free plugins - most plugins are useless in 2024 because they have a pro version. When you add up the annual costs of all pro versions, the "free" WordPress (which requires a beefy hosting plan) becomes the most expensive and hardest to keep up publishing system nowadays!
Funny that Go is top notch in the TUI space thanks to Charm while the GUI landscape is absolutely abysmal (Wails is the only thing that’s okay).
Quick judgments and strong opinions have unfortunately become part of the community.

Having spent the last 2-3 months working excessively on WordPress development, I would like to say a word about the excellent isolation of code with blocks ("Gutenberg"). As standalone plugins or in combination with Advanced Custom Fields, these allow for perfect, modular websites and development flows (design system), where even the HTML is 100% in your own hands. I can recommend everyone to understand and learn WordPress properly.

– no relation or connection to WordPress.
How Modern America Is Optimized for Loneliness, Misery and Poor Health
I feel like this is a drop in the bucket. Compared to the number of clients, the amount of HTTP servers on the internet (probably no more than a couple million if I had to guess) feels like it takes up a small fraction of the IPv4 address space.
This article feels more like a piece of heavy journalism than a political op-ed.

The facts it shares are fascinating and damning.

I never thought I’d care so much about “Chilean Sea Bass.”
I hear people say it a lot and I know what they mean but I just can't agree... to me an OS runs on hardware. (or virtualized hardware) Browsers run on an OS. If you have "boot to browser" the OS is still the kernel. Browsers are userspace.

It's like that saying "The difference between a boat and a ship is that a ship can carry a boat, but a boat can't carry a ship." And I know there is jslinux but at that point we're in a Turing tarpit where you can say that the Lua VM or wasm is "an OS" and the term is just a five-dollar word for "abstraction layer". Is a function call an OS? Come on.
Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embeddings
Or one plugin no working with another and having to try all permutations to see which breaks which - that's simple and intuitive!
They serve quite different use cases.

quickwit was built to handle extremely large data volumes, you can ingest and search TB and PB of logs.

meilisearches indexing doesn't scale as it will become slower the more data you have, e.g. I failed to ingest 7GB of data.
If true I think this should lead to charges and jail time, sounds lime fraud and embezzlement on a massive scale.
Ask HN: Can anyone recommend a Windows Systems programming book?
There's a hundred of these and I want something well-written. I'm primarily using Nim but a C/C++ book wouldn't hurt. Ideally it would have lots of exercises.
The US federal government has come close to formally designating Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations several times in recent years. This would provide the legal justification for direct military intervention, most likely in the form of drone strikes. So far they have held off on the terrorist designation because it would poison relations with Mexico. It would essentially be saying the quiet part out loud and acknowledging that Mexico is a failed state which no longer controls their own territory.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexican-drug-cartels-terrorist-...
My wife and I bought our first house in 2018 and it feels like we jumped on the train a minute before departure, right before it took off like a rocket.

Most of our friends are still running along the platform, desperately trying to grab on but the train just keeps accelerating.

Our first home price increased by 50% in 4 years when we sold and moved into a bigger home in 2022, and we hardly did anything to it. Just the way the market is. The only reason we were able to afford the new house is because of the rapid gains on our first house and the fact that we had a ~2% interest rate for two years that allowed us to quickly build up a savings nest egg, with a mortgage payment that was far below what our friends paid in rent.

I just feel bad for all my fellow millennials that couldn't catch the train before the market went fucking insane in 2020. Because it really does feel like catching up is impossible if you aren't already in the game.
Every cheat sheet like this highlights the surprisingly high learning curve of the git cli. It's an interface that really ships it's underlying data model rather than optimizing for common workflows. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I often feel like the target audience of git is the power user, leaving me uncertain anytime I need to perform an intermediate level action.

Lately I've been enjoying Graphite as a tool to interface with git. Commands are based around atomic actions I want to perform, despite often triggering multiple git commands under the hood. This has reduced my overall mental overhead, and removed many footguns.
With the cost of PV now, city-scale RO makes a lot of sense. San Diego did it when was still far more expensive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%22Bud%22_Lewis_Carlsba...
Cheaper, but also more of it because cheaper. So we will have to manage that somehow as it is quite inevitable (as in; it’s already happening).
This happens in Australia too.
The nursing home industry here seems a little like what the article outlined for the United States.

Like anything, there are good and bad examples. Seems inevitable that there is some corruption in the spirit of it.

Don't know how you'd police that.... TLDR on the article. I'll markov summarise it and see if it thought of some ways around the bad players.
That seemed rhetorical. I'm hoping it was intended ironically.
I've always been interested in how fractal geometry can be used to survey and analyze networks of all kinds. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_dimension_on_networks)

Interestingly enough, I'm now working on building intentional network interventions for tech in NYC–and it's called fractaltech.xyz
It's been 100-110 F / 38-43 C in northern and central eastern Mexico for weeks now. Howler monkeys are even dying: https://youtu.be/uzSaHrzkgDo
which, to be clear, is the exact point the parent comment is making.

Randomness only favors something over noise if there is a non random process determining the structure
The quote was mid-1880s to the end of the 20th century, so you have accidentally added a generation.
Very cool. Thanks for linking this.