skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
France is not a big market for Google.

The entire ad revenue market (desktop + mobile + social + ....) in France, in 2023, was 5.8 billion dollars (The spread in public sources data seems to be 5.0billion-6.2 billion, so i just took the high side)

1. Google made over $240 billion in ad revenue in 2023, so even if it had 100% of all ads revenue in France, France would only account for 2.5% of Google's revenue.

2. However, Google's share in France is nowhere close to 100%. Search + Display overall is currently sitting at 20-25% of the french ad revenue above (same sources). Let's assume Google has 100% market share in France in those areas.

Then France would account for about 1.25 billion dollars of revenue for google, or about 0.5 percent of Google's revenue. Which is not a lot.

But it's still something.
Or it would be, except:

3. France has fined Google 224 million so far in 2024.

Google's margins are around 25%. So that 1.25 billion of revenue produces around 312.5 million of profit. Maybe less

Of which they've been fined 224 million :)

If Google gets fined in France again this year, it would probably be operating at a loss.
For me, the decline of malls was when they drifted away from a wide diversity of stores for different interests-- the Radio Shacks, the toy stores, the fancy hi-fi retailer, even the chain bookstore and the department stores that still had broad ranges like Sears-- into 80% clothing, and the obligatory Hallmark and Spencer Gifts. It was no longer "we can take care of several different errands today, let's bring the family and make an outing of it."

Maybe that was just the effect rather than the cause: clothing survived because it's one of the hardest things to move online, likely because people are concerned about fit and annoyed about having to return goods. Judging by the catalogues my family gets, plenty of mail-order clothing houses seem to be stuck in the 1980s-- expensive shipping, pay return shipping-- like they don't feel like they're competing with Amazon or Shein. Even with vendors that handle it better, it's a customer friction thing, they may not want to buy 10 pairs of shoes or shirts in marginally different sizes and return eight and worry about the charge sitting on their account until the return is processed.

To me, the killer feature would be vendors that offered truly consistent sizing. I don't have to doublecheck every M3x12 screw I buy to make sure it's not 14mm, why do I have to try on every pair of pants to make sure a "42" is a "42"? Measure myself once (or every time I gain or lose 5kg) and anything on the site fits the same way. Return rates and purchasing risk drops dramatically. Then I never need to step into a clothing store again.
Functionally, barely.
> At this point, it is much easier to just block the service's IP addresses than deep-inspect DNS traffic and match the query identifier and stuff to inject a false response. Why spend that engineering time when people will just fix the DNS server and can access the site directly?

Because IP addresses can change frequently, and also because if a site is behind a CDN, that would cause a lot of collateral damage.

> The first IP address is a block page (accessible from outside the network, if anyone wants to take a look), the second one of the real IP addresses

Okay, so your ISP's particular blocking mechanism doesn't hijack recursive queries. But others do.
From Fire Hazards to Family Trees: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
> All that sounds like a great opportunity for a movement to get usurped by a dictator.

The US is close to that already without having to change from its rut.

> To be honest most of what we need is better candidates and people more interested in subtlety and honest disagreements.

Agreed.

However it's baked into the antiquated US system to devolve into two party system that doesn't represent the people at large and are essentially two sides of the same coin (or at least until recently when the circuit breaker has been a lurch toward despotism).

Ironic given the founders mostly didn't even like party politics, but that's the inevitable grind of iterated discrete dynamic systems for you.

Older isn't better just by virtue of age, the US got some good ideas from the French and the native american people and then stagnated, meanwhile the UK continued to evolve, countries like Australia adopted "Washminster" system that built on the strengths of two prior systems, etc.

There are systemic reasons why the US has such a limited choice for President, it's a problem that who leads as #1 is even a big deal, it's just a little king for four years which was the problem with George back in the day.
Ollama also exposes an RPC interface on Linux at least. That can be used with open-webui. Maybe llama.cpp has this, idk, but I use Ollama mostly through its RPC interface. It’s excellent for that.
I do consider them separate, but the duck curve peaking is in the 6-8pm range typically before falling off to overnight baseload. 6-8pm is frequently after sunset. That’s what excess panels does not help, and is still separate from what is typically meant by “overnight” in my experience.
I think you should submit your project page [1] as another show HN, I found it to be interesting

Some thoughts:

- Agreed with not using I2C, I2C has been identified as a root cause in several cubesat mission failures: https://pure.tudelft.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/10531886/art_3... and https://webapps.unsworks.library.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream... (yes clock stretching is evil). I2C should be banned for multi board communication

- Classic CAN have very small 8 byte MTU with frame preemption, which is actually useful for its intended purpose of time critical automotive data transfer. If that 4 byte brake packet is blocked by a 1500 byte packet then your car will crash and explode. But the tradeoff is that this makes it very slow for bulk data transfer
The Fast Fourier Transform.
Why don't you go ahead and break down what you think teachers' unions control vs what admins and school boards control? I'd love to hear your perspective.
Also: We don't repeat the same thing enough times in the open to be able to compare. The things we do repeat stay private.

The only companies that really have enough data are the consulting giants. And they have enough perverse incentives that I would be extremely sceptical of their data.
Heterogeneous integration of spin–photon interfaces with a CMOS platform
Most major chipsets have their design specs in PDF format online with all the info there for interfacing on a hardware level. Many drivers these days are open source. Kicad is free to use for designing PCBs.

And finally https://www.youtube.com/@PhilsLab has some good tutorials.

Finally, goo into things with an attention to detail to polish a board. A hobby board takes far less time than a product board, but all it is is time and thinking about each attribute more. You don't need third level education to have that work ethic.

Best of luck!
VLSI and processor design are, like most things in computing, things that you can learn if you have basic logical thinking skills and spend the requisite time.

Mead and Conway's textbook unlocked VLSI design for generations of students. Now you can find videos on youtube, and you can even join tiny tapeout to get your chip design fabricated. And for processor design, you can design something in Verilog or VHDL and run it on an FPGA board.

I also recently discovered Digital, a gate/component-level design tool and simulator for digital circuits (which can also export to Verilog for synthesis), that is similar to the older Logisim.
Typo: “commerically”
I like inactivity based time capsules, good idea!!!!
You can only cook what's in the fridge
When the contract was awarded in 2021 Blue Origin had to something like 20 sub orbital New Sheppard launches (thru 2021) and the BE-4 engine had not flown yet. SpaceX had over 100 launches. Including missions to the space station and crewed launches. Also, Musk was not completely bonkers yet.

I have some confidence in Blue Origin and I have my doubts about catching rockets and all but at the time it looked like as safe a bet as any other.
Seriously though, has anyone encountered a file with a new line in its name? I have never encountered this "problem" in the wild.
Fast Ethernet +/- pins go through a special 1-turn transformer for electrical isolation installed between the PHY and RJ45 connectors, commonly referred to as "the magnetics" in Ethernet world. It's physical ferrite and copper object molded like a chip, therefore it can't be trivially integrated into a silicon or in MCM. Hence most Ethernet chip require one external to the chip, and in this case it is indeed external to the chip, and integrated into the board at the same time.

(yes a cap in-line works too if you know what you're doing)
Do people not have dogs? They have more emotional intelligence than most humans and love, fear, play, plan, think, reason and communicate well. This is true for many animals. I'd say that most animals are just like human in terms of consciousness but less advanced in thinking and communicating (without debating about whales, dolphins, octopuses etc.)
I really like Duolingo, but I ignore the streak thing because it upsets me all the time that I don’t get a streak even when they try really hard to give me quite generous “streak freezes” because it’s like the app knows I can’t actually keep a streak going. As an ADHD person, I find the concept of a streak overwhelming, partly because I’m unlikely to maintain a streak ever because I just get too distracted and forgetful to go back to something in any kind of habitual way, to the point that if I’m aiming for a streak and then miss a day, I give up completely - and that’s with anything (running, going to the gym etc… so I know myself well enough now not to aim for streaks). Even if the notifications come in at the right time, if I just don’t feel like learning right then and there, I won’t bother and no amount of loss aversion for losing a streak will persuade me to learn if I just don’t feel like it at the time. I find it difficult to force my brain to do things it doesn’t want to do.

For me to stay dedicated to learning something it needs to be either a case of me making a commitment to it, and then acting consistently with my commitment (which is the case for my with academic studies - I make financial commitments to it, so then feel obliged to act accordingly so as not to waste literally thousands of dollars to fail), or it needs to be gamified, such as the case for Duolingo.

Duolingo has gamified learning a language in a way I love to play so that’s why I go back (not regularly enough to maintain a streak, but regularly enough to have learned a fair bit of German).

I did once pay for a year subscription to Duolingo thinking that paying for it would mean I would be more committed, but I wasn’t… and I ended up doing less learning, whereas, when I think I’m going to run out of hearts, I feel extra motivated to not lose my hearts and therefore pay more attention to my learning so I don’t make mistakes.

And now after writing this lengthy comment about Duolingo, I’m going to go play some more learning language right now!
Yes! And you can do a lot more about those local issues. The small-scale but impactful to _you_ actions are a more satisfying way to exercise democracy and a good way to build that muscle.
idunno, I remember when everything cool I found on the internet was on a .edu domain, because that's almost all there was. But yeah, capitalist tech has always been part of the establishment. A lot of the good stuff comes from non-profit-related motivations, fortunately.
I think mandatory code formatting was popularized by Go? Plenty of code formatting tools had been around for quite a while by the time Go came out, but they were the sort of thing you ran on a codebase once to clean up a mess, not something you checked on each commit. A common sentiment was that it was a good idea but was only viable because Go had it from the beginning, which fortunately turned out to be wrong.
"Fox emoji: zip all Firefox profiles"

I knew that attacking browser profiles is highly valuable, but it's interesting to actually see it in the wild.
You seem to imply that someone working for an intelligence agency is of poor character.

There are good people in intelligence agencies. And there are also good whistleblowers.
Fecal transplant pill replaces antibiotics for serious infections
Huh? The Subaru EyeSight system uses only cameras. There is no radar.

https://www.subaru.com/eyesight.html

IME it works pretty well but cuts out in heavy precipitation because the cameras don't get a clear image.
Serious answer: they are lighter, quieter, go slower, handle differently, and have access to different infrastructure.

The lighter and slower bit may sound glib, but it makes a huge difference to what it feels like to ride them and to have them ridden around you.
According to whatever “TRUST” is, the seem pretty keen on their own rules.

What if they don’t want anything else enforced by an existing license?
The gain is in power efficiency.

Arm64 provides `dc zva` for this.
92 Billion animals are killed each year for food.[1] That doesn't include the 110 million that are killed each year for science. [2]

These animals must not be conscious, or we would never do such a thing, right?

Oh, and we keep over a billion pets in our homes and call them our friends. But they can't be conscious.

The science must be flawed. /s

[1] https://www.humanesociety.org/blog/more-animals-ever-922-bil...

[2] https://spsp.org/news-center/character-context-blog/killing-...

[3]
Thanks, I only knew about execution plans after doing a DB course, so understood!
Looking at the system for sale [1] now, the lack of security seems to be one of their selling points:

>Multiple keyboards call the same pager. The pager system long range supports multiple keyboard call the same restaurant pagers.

As an aside, all the church nursery references stand out to me. Are pager systems common for that and am I just out of touch?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Retekess-Restaurant-Adjustable-Remind...
Including batteries. It's a peaking plant in a can. As far as I can tell the all-in non-land costs are cheaper, full stop.

I also did the analysis for new nuclear under a relaxed regulatory regime (i.e. substantially cheaper and faster than now) and there's no way it wins. For the price of a gigawatt of nuclear, you can get 5 gigawatts of solar that's online next year, plus half a gigawatt of battery.

I could be wrong, I'm just an armchair economist on this stuff, but I just don't see how it makes any economic sense to build anything but solar unless you're located somewhere remote and arctic (i.e. Åland or something)
What You Get After Running an SSH Honeypot for 30 Days
My experience has been the opposite. I had to turn down a return offer from an internship and then I had to resign from my job, both for the same reason: I had a chronic illness and they wanted strict attendance at specific times in the morning, no flexibility. My last job had daily standups and 1-2hr planning sessions every other day.

Every job I've found with flexible work schedules has been at startups looking for rockstar devs with 10 years of experience.
Thank you it truly means a lot to the team!!
MFA – The Multi-Factor Authentication
I would imagine the optimal settings would be open freeways with multiple lanes. (does fsd do that or is that freeway autopilot)
Thank you so much! Super excited for college. I think it should fit right into an UAV. I see a lot of use from Ardupilot forums (which we use). It’s the reason we have the LDO as well. We wanted to keep the application possibility open.
This is the issue I would be examining very closely if I ran a company based on subsidized AI models. It's not necessary for companies like OpenAI to go out of business to cause problems: the costs just need to go up to levels necessary to make AI vendors profitable, like what happened with Uber.
Whether it matters if attackers control filenames depends on the threat model. I can think of a few where it doesn't matter. One example: you provide managed web application hosting and have some scripts that check something about the files so they get handled properly.

If you have a good reason to create a file, and the value you want to identify it by contains a newline, then that is a good reason to create a filename containing new lines. Filenames are arbitrary bytes excluding null. Regardless at scale, eventually such a file will end up being created. Encoding bugs, libraries, user creation, messed up copy/paste, etc. File names may not even be utf8.

`ls | cmd` is also just an sh code smell. Bash is big on discipline and suffering and not so much on correctness (like C and forth) so code smells matter more. When I worked with/maintained large bash/sh scripts, one `ls | cmd` and I would reread everything the person wrote because it was very likely it was horribly broken. Another one is 'set -euo pipefail`, which people love to set but often don't understand.

A lot of sh/bash, maybe most of it, is written by people that don't take it seriously as a language, and it shows. Also basically everything on stack overflow about it is wrong, and probably everything chatgpt says. I remember it being uniquely bad in that regard. To the point that whenever someone says a neat bash fact, it is better to assume they are part of an elaborate conspiracy to get you to write catastrophic bugs until verified independently. Anything short of that level of paranoia and you eventually do the steam thing and delete everyone's files.

The article could have been titled "why you shouldn't use sh".
Chud Stack: a web app pattern for hopeless IT workers (and their families)
Almost no courts in the US have recognized "citizen" journalist, simply claiming you are press or a journalist doesn't mean you are. Claiming to be a member of the press is a bit of an odd thing, because they requirements for what is acceptable vary so greatly from one instance to the next. Some online agencies will send you a "press pass" for as little as writing a few articles on your own site, or publishing a pod cast. (these are about as valid as the service dog passes you get online)

Meanwhile more traditional agencies will require you be employed by as a full time journalist and require the agency you are reporting for to submit on your behalf.

In general the only people who are afforded reporter's privilege are media companies large enough to have lawyers versed in its nuance and able to defend it.

And the only people consider press are those acting on behalf of a recognized and respected new agency.
I've always thought (wished?) this was a killer app for crypto currency. I would love to have a pool of news "coins", that get auto spent on articles I choose to read. As the OP stated, I'd prefer to pay for content, but I dont have an infinite pool of $9.99-a-months..
Ohms law calculator:

400 ohms at 110 volts = 275 ma. More than lethal. 30 watts.

400 ohms at 220 volts is double that - a bit over half an amp. Lethal (obviously). 60 watts.

400 ohms at 1500 volts is 3.75 amps - 5.6kw. Enough to physically cook someone pretty quickly.
> Coca-Cola dismissed the allegations as "ridiculous," on the grounds that "no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking Vitaminwater was a healthy beverage"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Brands#Legal_disputes
DJB was right.
What would you do if you wanted to pick up jobs in close to real time? Listen/notify? An extension that adds long polling? Consuming the WAL? Giving up and using a different technology?

I'm working on something similar, and these are the options I've been mulling over. They each come with pretty significant drawbacks. My current plan is to use listen/notify because it's low hanging fruit and to see how that pans out, but was wondering if anyone has been down this path before and has wisdom they're willing to share.
transmission of electricity has losses.

And 2 solar panels only make 2x as much energy if exposure is the same.
So go where the sun is already done if the sun is above your head.
Depends on the other person, but "gets hit by a bus or abducted by aliens" or some other (movie) trope doesn't sound too bad if it's an informal discussion.
I think the idea is that if there are two popular candidates A and B, one of whom is almost certain to win, a voter feels forced to approve of whichever of A or B they prefer even if they don't really want either one, just to hedge against the other winning, exactly as in FPTP. Or they can approve of only the candidates they really want, but they will likely lose.

Approval only seems to be able to break this gridlock if there is a "hidden" commonground between the two parties which can be revealed by the extra approval votes.
Every paragraph that you've included up there just reinforces my point.

The recursive behavior isn't incidental, it's literally part of the definition of a crawler. You can't just skip past that and pretend that the people who specifically included the word recursive (or the phrase "many pages") didn't really mean it.

The first paragraph of the two about access controls is the context for what "should not be accessed" means. It refers to "very deep virtual trees, duplicated information, temporary information, or cgi-scripts with side-effects (such as voting)", which are pages that should not be indexed by search engines but for the most part shouldn't be a problem for something like perplexity. As I said in my comment, it's about search engine crawlers and indexers.

I'm glad that you at least cherry-picked a paragraph from that second page, because I was starting to worry that you weren't even reading your sources to check if they support your argument. That said, that paragraph means very little in support of your argument (it just gives one example of what isn't a robot, which doesn't imply that everything else is) and you're deliberately ignoring that that page is also very specific about the recursive nature of the robots that are being protected against.

Again, this is the definition that you just cited, which can't possibly include a single request from Perplexity's server (emphasis added):

> WWW Robots (also called wanderers or spiders) are programs that traverse many pages in the World Wide Web by recursively retrieving linked pages.

The only way you can possibly apply that definition to the behavior in TFA is if you delete most of it and just end up with "programs ... that traverse ... the WWW", at which point you've also included normal web browsers in your new definition.

It honestly just feels like you really have a lot of beef with LLM tech, which is fair, but there are much better arguments to be made against LLMs than "Perplexity's ad hoc requests are made by a crawler and should respect robots.txt". Your sources do not back up what you claim—on the contrary, they support my claim in every respect—so you should either find better sources or try a different argument.
> We will be putting a small run of these boards for sale somewhere

Somewhere like http://tindie.com?
We already have dogs.
To my knowledge, organizations like the WHO and countries like Brazil reported weaker effectiveness of the Chinese jabs compared to the likes of Pfizer. I’m not familiar with even China claiming otherwise these past few years. Are you saying the CCP fell for the anti-CCP propaganda?
> What benefit does the bike get you that a motorcycle doesn't?

Exercise and silence.
Maybe! If you’d like one, please email me at byran@mrx.ee!
A forest is not just trees. Lots of carbon storage happens between them, not to mention how important they are for biodiversity.