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Ask HN: Facebookexternalhit behaves like a Spider – Block or not to Block?
Block or not to Block?

facebookexternalhit behaves like a Spider indexing all sites, not actually what was submitted to Facebook for Card data

What originally was supposed to be previews of URLs is now being used to crawl all the internet (based on our logs from different sites). It also sometimes makes up non-existant pattern URLs to crawl more that it can find in it's index.

I assume all the data is used for LLAMA which it hides behind the default facebookexternalhit.

Go ahead, check your site logs.
This is my rationale for my specific circumstances:

With my NAS, I pay for the box, install the drives, and it Just Works with basically no maintenance other than me clicking the upgrade button every few months when it emails me that an OS update is ready.

I could build a similar system myself, but the hardware isn't that much cheaper. Cases, PSUs, hot swappable drive mounts, and all that add up quickly. And when I'm done, I have to install the OS, read the docs to see how the recommended configuration has changed since last time I did this, and periodically log in to look at it because it doesn't have nearly as much monitoring set up out-of-the-box.

Given the choice between the small amount of money I'd save vs the amount of time I'd have to invest in it, I'd rather pay the money and outsource the hassle to the NAS maker.

As to why I don't just hang a bunch of drives off the computer I'm already using:

- Backups. If my Mac dies, I can restore it from the Time Machine on my NAS.

- Noise. The NAS has busier fans than my Mac. It's in a different room from where I spend most of my time.

- I run Docker stuff on it. I don't want those things running 24/7 on my desktop.

- Availability. I want to reboot my desktop occasionally without worrying if it'd interrupt my wife watching something on Plex.
My knee jerk question is how many of those are brick-and-mortar joints getting squeezed on the rent. Seems like it’s getting harder and harder for non-giant companies to afford rent on storefronts. Again— just random non-expert musing here.
It created the avalanche. I don’t think scale of free software we have now would be possible without git and GitHub.
I don't think the uptake of LLMs by non-technical people has been that dramatic. Nobody in my familial or social circles (which spans doctors, lawyers, artists, waitresses, etc.) has really mentioned them outside of asking my what I think about them.

As for what I think about them: I've been impressed with some aspects of code generation, but nothing else has really "wowed" me. Prose written with the various GPT models has an insincere quality that's impossible to overlook; AI-generated art tends to look glossy and overproduced in the same way that makes CGI-heavy movies hard to watch. I have not found that my Google Search experience was made better by their AI experiments; it made it harder, not easier, for me to find things.
Woah! Happy to see this on the frontpage.

I have enjoyed exploring the intersection between technology and parenting. It can be difficult to find great applications and tools to use with my kids. But, there are things out there that are awesome and aren't exploitive.

I have found that one of my principles while parenting young children in this digital age is trying to teach my kids that they can use technology but we need to make active choices on how to use it. The defaults aren't necessarily the best. In that vein I also put together a list of mobile apps too: https://abparenting.substack.com/p/mobile-games-for-playing-...

I would love to hear other creative uses and configurations people have for technology with their kids.
> so either none of the current competitors are doping or all of them are

The drafting effect in cycling means that a clean cyclist can finish very closely behind a doped cyclist
> Overall commercial filings registered 2,743 for the first half of 2024, representing a 27 percent increase from the commercial filing total of 2,154 for the first half of 2023

Does anyone know why Chapter 11 would increase so much more than other bankruptcy filings?

From what I understand (in my limited knowledge), Chapter 11 is the “milder” one, compared to Chapter 7, but I have no idea what that actually means for businesses in terms of the economy. Is it a good thing that there are relatively more “mild” bankruptcies? Or does this increase even says anything about the economy at all? ~2500 filings seems pretty low regardless. I feel like there is some context missing, as the article is pretty vague overall.
Linux's DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Sees Patches for QR Code Error Messages
In general, they were not. You're probably thinking of the very niche and unsuccessful Maemo/MeeGo project - eg Nokia N900 - that were indeed Linux-based. But everything else smartphone-ish from Nokia before Lumia (Windows Phone) were Symbian, which predates Linux and has nothing to do with it.
It would come under the broader concept of freedom of expression.

I didn't know you had a specialized interested in vocal freedom of expressions only!
I remember Fabio Aru saying that he was allowed to eat a pizza once in an year, at the end of the season.
This is one of the reason why several modern cyclist had a mental breakdown like Tom Dumolin
Only going to rise and no one should be surprised. The increasing cost of debt is causing a domino effect of bankrutcies in many industries. The only thing surprising is that it's staring a little earlier than expected. The last of the good financing was in 2020 at peak pandemic, and many took advantage. We should expect a wave of bankruptcies in 2025/2027/2030 as much of the debt rolls over and becomes unmangagable. Same is true for commerial leases.

I'm definitely feeling it. Between Jan 31 and today I've had several companies just stop paying. They can't. Lines of credit have been either cut, or reissued at onworkable rates, or both.

At the local level you also have a lot of smaller businesses that simply piled on debt during COVID and tried to ride it out, but there was never really any hope.
What nonsense? I see lots of Stockholm syndrome from Windows users who like to invent issues with other OS'.
It’s a thought experiment for how mathematicians could have assumed the continuum hypothesis, and how dangerously close they came to making that mistake. It’s not an argument in favor of CH.
"promises ‘no code’ from rivals"

The article is quite good, but the headline seems clickbait and wrong.

I do not recall Kling making such statements, rather:

"we implement web standards ourselves,” ruling out adopting a third-party engine in its entirety."

So not just using webkit, yes. But copying code how to handle a CSS case, or a wasm implementation, is not ruled out as far as I know.
Same here, until now. I built the earlier xcapture v1 (also in the repo) about 5 years ago and it just samples various /proc/PID/task/TID pseudofiles regularly, it also allows you get pretty far with the thread-level activity measurement approach, especially when combined with always-on low frequency on-CPU sampling with perf.
They obviously breathe in exhaust occasionally but the caravan tries to stay far enough that there is no slipstream and the wind would make it a non-issue. Those dunces that light flares during mountain summits are probably much worse.
Do you mind sharing? I’ve been using it at work and it seems to work fine.

Could you open an issue?
I liked this one

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/U0VAswvOaJY
There's (at least) two meanings for AI: (1) Software systems based on extensions of the LLM paradigm; and (2) Software systems capable of all human cognitive tasks, and then some.

It's not yet clear what (1) has to do with (2). Maybe it turns out that LLMs or similar can do (2). And maybe not.

I can understand being skeptical about the economic value of (1). But the economic value of (2) seems obviously enormous, almost certainly far more than all value created by humanity to date.
It would help if big sites like Bytedance's Bytespider actually observed robots.txt
I found that podcast terrible. At the time I knew nothing about road cycling and that podcast left me with the impression that it's a pervasive problem and a grand conspiracy. It wasn't until I spoke about this with some real road cycling enthusiasts that I realised I had been taken in by a bullshit conspiracy theory.
You might find some interesting stuff here

https://ebpf.io/
I am literally sourcing my definition from the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article on symbiosis

I totally get it. People usually mean "mutually beneficial" when they talk about symbiosis. But the deeper we go into this Hacker News thread, the more amusing it gets to me that multiple commenters are really struggling to acknowledge the broader meaning of the term. And what's even funnier is that the broader meaning probably originates from biologists and ecologists; people who are very invested in precise language in this space.
Time to register a different domain. You have been down long enough and wasted too much time.
the gap between participants in this conversation is that some have had it proven itself for themselves and others around them, and others have not seen that same proof.
No one has yet mentioned the surveillance aspect yet, so I will. Yes, they were caught spying on children too.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/google-youtube...
Why would you think I need help?
This. Whenever AI come up, people are quick to think of automations completely making every jobs obsolete. But that is probably not going to happen. What is probably going to happen is that we are going to have 1 artist handling 10x more commissions because they can just use AI to do 90% of the work and just cleanup afterwards.

I am also using this to solve problems that are usually delegated to junior developers. I get faster results (that I would have to fix up anyways) for far less effort.
A NAS is not magical. It is just a rather limited computer. Anything a NAS can do so can a normal desktop, and it'll do it better. Sharing files over a network is one of these things. Managing the files is way, way, better since you just use your normal desktop file manager rather than some NAS web stuff that'll break due to CA TLS issues in a few years.
The Original Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Handwritten and Illustrated
only to you, it seems
This is the sort of grifter/influencer style comment that we saw in crypto and now pervasive in AI.

Not just that AI is a great tool that will over time have a significant impact on society. It’s the breathless hype e.g. we have AGI today, society will be instantly smarter because of it and every tool and employee will be impacted. The FOMO i.e. you must jump on board now or be left behind. And the complete lack of any data or evidence.
It's Google asking for an API key to a google service. "Simplicity" here would just be them letting you run the demo. Like yeah, all of the "authentication, rate limiting, cost capping, scaling" is done by Google, it's a Google page running a Google service.
> his nonsense pro-authoritarian theories in support of Texas’ social media law that would have stripped companies of editorial discretion rights and enabled authoritarian politicians to force companies to host messages they had no interest in associating with.

This right here I think is the absolutely fundamental tension. There are no good answers here because two people's abilities to speak are at odds. And while 1A provides an answer that spells out whose rights win out it's not clear whether this outcome is actually good.

We have public accommodation laws that very much violate a business's right to (non-) association because of burdensome effects discrimination has when no one will do business with you. And I think you can make a very strong case that the same laws could be necessary in a world where if a few large businesses refuse to do business with you it's functionally impossible to speak in any way that matters.

A 1A that upholds the speech of individual real humans above the speech of corporate entities when the two are in conflict I don't think would be a bad one.

> Social media is not that. It’s nothing like a common carrier.

The whole argument in the latter half of this article hinges on this and well… it's kind of arbitrary. Social media could be called a common carrier just as strongly as an airline could be said to curate a flying experience. Do I think the comments section of a blog post is a common carrier, no not really. But Facebook or Twitter have more
in common with an ISP than a newspaper.
I've been doing something similar for awhile. Using my old laptop (damaged keyboard just like OP). Set 'lid close' to "do nothing" (it runs 24/7 with the lid always closed). Connected to TV via HDMI.

Only app is browser. Shortcuts for streaming and movie/tv reviews etc. Use the TV regular remote for volume and on/off. Use remote mouse 90+ percent of the time. Keyboard only when my preset links are insufficient and I need to type.

Have the same setup in the BR (running on a used mini-Optiplex I bought for $135). Works great.
I’m not that much of a believer, but what is clear is that “AI” still has a plug incompatible with your regular wall socket, if you get the analogy. It’s too early to draw a circle around adopters count.

We’ll talk counts when my grandma will be able to hey siri / okay google something like local hospital appointment or search for radish prices around her. It already is possible, just not integrated enough.

Coincidentally, I’m working on a tool at my job (unrelated to AI) that enables computer device automation on much higher level than playwright/etc. These two things combined will do miracles, for models good enough to use it.
Guess why only Basso and Ulrich get disqualified after the operacion Puerto and why Spain dominate in almost every sports for more than a decade.
Timeline was one of those maps features that our users loved, despite it not being super discoverable in the app. A lot of users treated it as a diary and would write pages of personal notes in a textbox box next to their daily trips (for a while there was a bug where that text had no char limit). Sometimes I'd have to debug the spanner rows - it wasn't uncommon to see transcriptions of people's diet and exercise logs. One guy had poems about his wife in there.

Very impressive system that had a big budget in the mid 2010s (mostly built by zurich, iirc). They even hired a bunch of tvcs to walk around movie theaters and scan the wifi ssids, so timeline could show you what movie you saw. It had a photos integration as well that would show the pics you took that day. All sorts of plans for more delightful features like that. I think the value prop was that deeply integrating people's memories made maps a stickier product.

The investment and headcount started getting cut post-pandemic, like everything else at Google. Lots of team churn, not just on Timeline but on hulk and the semantic location service which undergirded it. When I was last there SLS was literally 1 guy who either could not or would not leave. Those services became abandonware, along with all the flumes and postwrite processors responsible for cleaning up the data and enforcing heuristics. Exactly 0 people on the web UI - some of the directories were literally un-reviewable (the code owners had left and no one in geo had MPA-approval). That decay led to a noticeable decline in the accuracy of reported trips. Users weren't happy, angry reports started piling up about inaccurate/missing trips. It was embarassing. Timeline was moved to the back burner and the idea of being a cute time capsule for users no longer aligned with the AI maximalists.

By '22 the investment and headcount was slashed. IMO the ODLH death march was as much about throwing in the towel for Timeline as a product as it was about getting location data off of Google's servers.
This isn't that unusual. It's a lagging indicator of the effects of higher rates. Even 2k per year out of millions isn't bad. We certainly have other problems in the economy right now, but these bankruptcies are more of a symptom than the problem.
> You can't know this for certain

Except AI is already being used by people (like myself) every day as part of their usual work flow - and it's a huge boost in productivity.

It's not IF it will make an impact - it IS currently making an impact. We're only just moving past early adopters and we're still in the early stages in terms of tooling.

I'm not saying that AI will become sentient and take over humanity, but to think that AI isn't making an impact is to really have your head in the sand at this point.
Since the original article mentioned was tweeted/Xed by Elon Musk, it gained a lot traction and criticism as well [1].

[1] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1808168603721650364
Reading dies in complexity: Online news consumers prefer simple writing
I won't deal with a company covering those kinds of fees or even a headhunter in the UK for a European job. There's a lot of room there for problems and anyone who is worth paying $27k on top of generous relocation has a lot of choices that are better than the UK in terms of actually delivered compensation.
You can see a brighter part of the Milky Way in the Southern hemisphere than you can in the Northern hemisphere.
What they gain is bargaining power, since the H1B holder's status can be revoked on a whim by the company. Yes, you can technically transfer a H1B status by finding a new job with another H1B sponsor, but it is still a limitation that means your job stability is less solid than that of an american citizen.
Personally I'd like dyes to be prohibited... I don't want any more Red 40 in my foods. I don't care if my cherry-flavored whatever isn't bright red, I want it to be safe.
I wouldn't be surprised if in large companies (say >500 office workers) 10% of all office work becomes redundant. Not in the form of each worker getting 10% more productive, but in form of some roles getting eliminated completely and others losing 80% of their workload.
It's an argument I've heard from anarchists. Not that they are identical in scope (because that's blatantly wrong) but that they are both to be overthrown.

This came up in a conversation where we were talking about various charities we might do something for, and since there was a Ronald McDonald House charity office nearby, I had suggested it.

The mere association with McDonald's corporate made it entirely unacceptable.
>Likely not serious

What do you base that on? I think that would be an excellent idea.
Imagine if they were able to make a model that's your voice but the way that you hear it. That'd be so neat. You could hear how other people hear their own voice and have fun playing with it for an afternoon before moving onto the next shiny new toy.
Makhno's Platformism came to mind, and it was convincing enough for an armed guerrilla to:

- get rid of Germany after Lenin's betrayal

- Beat Russian loyalist, the white Army (I want to say Denikine but it could be a man with a name in -ov like Shalov), inflicting twice as Manu casualties

- kept Lenin's army (lead by Trotsky? I think, but I might have it mixed up with Kronstad) in check for years as bullets and men got rarer, until defeat.
My experience actually agrees with you. It's just that the set of use cases that either:

- Are hard (or boring) to do, but easy to evaluate - for me, e.g. writing code, OCR, ideation; or

- Don't require a perfectly correct answer, but more of a starting point or map of the problem space; or

- Are very subjective, or creative, with there being no single correct answer,

is surprisingly large. It covers pretty much everything, but not everything for everyone at the same time.
(Also a Chat GPT4o,x etc user)

Try asking it something actually technologically hard or novel and see what answers you get.

In my experience, it repeatedly bails out with "this is hard and requires a lot of careful planning" regardless of how much I try to "convince" the model to live the life of a distributed systems engineering expert. Sure, it spits out some sample/toy code... that often doesn't/compile or has obvious flaws in it.
There is a huge spectrum between "here to stay" and "changing everything". On another note, I think if the people arguing here would work out quantitative predictions, they would find that a not insignificant part of the "disagreement" about how big we should expect this to really be is in the framing.
> If you're not seeing the large economic advantage of these systems you're not using them like I am

I just read the manual.
I recently started getting something related in my youtube recommendations and that is the recordings of PWM motor signals from japanese and american trains[0]. There's also people building their own boards and motors to generate these same waveforms[1].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgxlM_kiDL0
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0B2bvd9rFQ
> I've just had GPT-4o write me a full-featured 2048 clone in ~6 hours of casual chat

May we see it?
Huh, it has been many years since any artificial color has been listed as an ingredient in anything I might otherwise consider eating. (US resident here.)
they're human and were taken in by con artists. it's a reminder that none of us are infallible.
Or just put drives in all your computers and back-up between instead of buying a limited (potentially proprietary) NAS computer just for the purpose and having it being one central point of failure.

I just don't understand the reluctance of people to put storage in their actual computer(s).
I use Usenet.

But I don't feel an extra server would add anything that current ones don't have. On the other hand, an extra server is a backup in case one of the current servers falls off the Net.

Today we have http and ftp to obtain binaries, and quite large ones at that. The need for binary Usenet newsgroups is pretty much obsolete.

What Usenet could do with is more 'advertising'. Not 'advertising ON Usenet' but 'advertising ABOUT Usenet'. Many people just do not know that Usenet exists.

I have often said that Reddit is 'The New Usenet' because its layout and threading is very similar. Having said that, my preference is that Reddit can FOAD.
Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit, Marx's Capital, Foucault's work, von Neumann and Morgenstern' Game Theory, and the Perl 6 Apocalypses and Exegeses from the early 2000's.
I knew a guy who built this back in 2008, except he called it “Personas” and used it for scaling his network of spambots across social media sites. We’ve come a long way!

It does look like a cool product though, and I support the philosophy behind it (“client side first,” or “block me if you can”). Companies don’t get to dictate which user agent I use to access their sites. So it follows that they can’t dictate how I call my user agent, like if I choose to delegate its operation to an LLM.
Google can afford to run this model (a bigger one, actually) in their search results when I don't need or want it. Why shouldn't they run this tiny demo backed by their least expensive model? The total cost of running the project for it's entire lifespan is probably less than the value of two weeks of a single engineer's time.
I've always been confused by this First Amendment argument with regards to TikTok: they're an organization that has been tied directly with an adversarial foreign state. How is this a rational take? Using this logic, Russia should be allowed to foment unrest through fake hate groups on Facebook (which they've done).

People should familiarize themselves with Gresham's Law: bad actors will always beat good actors if bad actors suffer no penalty. If bad actors leverage the rights and freedoms of a democracy to perform attacks without repercussion, we're toast.
I don't know. The commercial real estate markets have been terrible for the past few years. I would think the rents would be pretty reasonable in many areas.
kant's critique of pure reason