skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Paywalled content should not be indexed by search engines. The implicit contract I have with the search engine is that it is showing me things that I can see. The publishers and search engines pulled a bait and switch here by whitelisting googlebot. So it's fair game to view the publisher's website with googlebot. That's what the engineers spent their time working on. It would be unfair to let that go to waste.
This assumes the their presence has no affect on me. It takes time to click a page and let it load, and more time to dig through all of the results when all of them are unreadable. Maybe if there were a tag like [ungodlyamountofads] on each, it would help. But even then I'd still have to scroll through them.
It just seems like a "money grab" for them to claim a chunk of success for my game/product each year when I probably don't need any more support for the tool than when I was < $500k/year in revenue.
The guy fails to mention at the beginning what 1/3, 3/4 means.
Did they count houses owned by 19 year olds rather than 19 year olds who own houses? Is this some kind of tax dodge where you “gift” a home to a child?

When I was in college I had several friends who “owned” their homes because their parents bought it for them. All the children in the family used those homes in school, then they were sold at a profit.
It once was Google's requirement that you'd serve the same content to the Google crawler as to any other user. No surprise that Google is full of shit these days.
Containers are a great deployment target, but they're not really a great development environment for a few reasons (e.g., they're Linux-specific, so they require extra virtualization on non-Linux operating systems, the kind of isolation they provide is more of a hindrance than a help when it comes to working on your local filesystem, and for them to be useful you have to set up infrastructure to push and pull your private containers to and from).

Nix is a better fit for this, and when you're using Nix you can also have Nix generated containers for deployment. I think you can also use a container with Nix in to provide the devcontainers interface to devs who don't have Nix installed locally, and have it in turn use Nix against your project's flake to set up its environment.
Yep, I had one too. I loved it and did many of the projects in the included instruction book (some more successfully than others). Unfortunately, at the time I was probably slightly too young and also had no one in my extended family or friend circle who had any familiarity with electronics. So, I didn't really take away much (if any) tangible learning from the experience other than a basic familiarity with the idea that wires carry voltages to parts which change, combine or stop the voltages in ways that can be both useful and surprising.

My technical progress went dormant until 10-ish years later when college-aged me got a shiny new 8-bit computer with 4K of RAM and I started down the path of teaching myself software (BASIC -> Assembler). That led to a long and fruitful career in computers, software and hardware, despite being entirely self-taught (or... in at least some ways, maybe because of being self-taught).

Although I picked up more basic electronics knowledge over the years repairing and upgrading various 8 and 16-bit computers, I never really gained an intuitive understanding of electronics to the point I could actually design anything new from scratch. However, I can assemble things from other people's designs and do basic repair work on vintage computers, arcade cabs and pinballs (which is invaluable to me these days).

However, having fond memories of that, "Wow! Anything's possible if you just know how to connect the wires properly" feeling did give me a lifelong willingness to open things up and tinker, along with a sense I can probably understand most electronic things with enough patience and effort. It also compelled me to ensure my own kid had every Elenco Snap Circuits kit she ever wanted, along with a willing 'lab partner'. I may have had more fun than she did! Later, when she was in middle school I got her a Raspberry Pi along with one of those companion electronics kits for beginners (like this one: https://www.amazon.com/Adeept-Ultimate-Raspberry-Electronic-...). I definitely had more fun than she did with that but it did result in a successful 8th grade school project. Also, I remember being impressed by the quality of the online PDF doc full of projects, so be sure to download that if you follow a similar path.
What city has racquet ball courts in new-build apartment complexes? I've only ever seen them in ~1980s builds.
All this research to create an apparently awesome recommendation system only for the sales department forces the recommendation of what they want to promote.
It doesn't take away the torrents, no?
Like most games? Mario Bro's. was addicting.
There are several chip lines that used this method over the years for various reasons:

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

Best regards =3
It would be nice if this can be ported to a low cost BLE device such as the ESP32-C3. Using a flipper as an airtag is a bit expensive.
yes that's correct! we project an evaluator LLM's internal activations onto meaningful linear directions, derived from contrasting examples. the strongest connection is to LLM interpretability (existence of meaningful linear directions) and steering research (computation from contrast pairs). This has been done with base model activations to understand base model behavior, but we show you can boost evaluation accuracy this way too, with a small number of human feedback
Shaving cream is mostly soap, isn't it? Also I wonder that it's whiteness (reflects all colours equally) isn't at least partly due to it's physical structure (lots of bubbles).

However it is true that randomly mixing lots of different coloured components together does mostly end up with something brown (cf playdo and shit).
The Tipping Points of Climate Change
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I am European, lived in a few cities across a few countries. I have to say that it's very convenient to blame car-centric design for everything bad, but in reality, there is some deeper decay spreading through all developed societies. In my opinion there are two reasons for this. First, we form friendships of need: there are people to whom we're nice because we know we'll need their help one day. For a farmer it's better not to have an argument with the only guy in the village who owns a combine harvester, and especially not during the harvesting season. But nowadays literally the easiest way to live is to be a shut-in and just eat microwave food. We don't need friendships anymore, as in "having friends doesn't raise material standard of life". Second, we form friendships of pleasure: we talk to people that are essentially useless, but spending time with them just feels good for one reason or another. Recently we turned up individualism to the maximum which means that it's pretty much impossible to meet a person who has similar lifestyle, hobbies, and experiences, therefore could be a pleasant conversation partner. As a result, we just don't talk one to another because we don't enjoy it anymore.

I really don't know what could be done here. I'm starting to think that this is simply a new form of environmental pressure that homo sapiens needs to adapt to. Don't fight the change, find ways to thrive in it.
Also in the north GA mountains in the 1970s.
GoPro to cut 15% of workforce in restructuring push
These systems are so vastly complicated, old, and rarely if ever launched. These aren't like data center generators which have testing schedules etc, and STILL there are failure points.

I really wonder what the failure rate would be if they were all actually launched today. And I mean failure, from not lifting off, to failure in flight, to misguided warheads etc.
The pandemic finally provided an acceptable excuse for not wanting to go out and do stuff. I could just stay home 24/7 and nobody would question it--it was glorious. Prior to COVID, I'd cave in and agree to go out, wallflower there for some time to be polite, and leave as soon as I knew it wouldn't offend people.

Now, post-pandemic, I simply stopped caring about what other people "question." That's their problem. Thanks to WFH, I can (and do) stay at home for weeks. I've got everything I need here at home and finally feel no external pressure to go out and do social.

It's also great for costs: I put 3,000 miles on my car in the last 12 months, compared to averaging 10,000 per year prior to the pandemic.
"Free," provided you can spend a month trying to get it to work.

Linux is only free if you don't value your time.
How?

I also think the antitrust suit (and many more) need to happen for more obvious things like buying out competitors. However, how does publishing a list of valid IPs for their web crawlers constitute anticompetitive behavior? Anyone can publish a similar list, and any company can choose to reference those lists.
> You see other breathing humans

...who will cheerfully explain to you that you're unhappy, your hobbies are empty, your choices as wrong, and how much happier you'd be if you'd just value what they value and like what they like and stop being you and start being them.
Buy uk<sitename>.com or <sitename>uk.com and redirect.

(and probably buy the .co.uk as well for the full set)
You don't want the footer or navigation in the output. Ideally you want the main content of the page, if it exists. How do you assign header level if they're only differentiated by CSS left-margin in a variety of units? How do you interpret documents that render properly but are hardly correct HTML?
This weapon is an ICBM. The payloads are delivered to orbit then launched at the target from there. You're already facing severe shock, thermal, radiation and EM transients just to get to orbit. Once there, you're ultimately dropping MIRVs, the design of which is considerably simpler.

The delivery vehicle and the reentry/payload vehicle have entirely different life cycles and deployment concerns.
Ah, I see. So the clients themselves house the OSS "core" code, implemented in each respective language? Then Wafris the company provides Wafris Hub, which sets rules that those clients enforce? e.g. this is the Ruby "core"? https://github.com/Wafris/wafris-rb/blob/main/lib/wafris.rb#...

Is my understanding correct?
> Get one as an NFT on OpenSea!

Whoever made this really doesn't understand their audience.
Not really, I don't experience a feeling I would call loneliness in any situation.
So free and open source costs $249 a month?
ViewControl: Intergrating View Conditions for LLM Generated Image Synthesis
Surely in 2024 we can't be classifying Stripe as just "a payment service"
I continue my search for a pay wall remover that will work with The Information. I'm honestly impressed that I've never been able to read an Information article in full.
The ability to return, alive.
I'm experimenting on and off with PXE network booting.

In my experience, TFTP is really slow (ancient UDP based protocol) and I'd like to do away with it. Unfortunately TFTP is still required to load something like iPXE to load the actual OS Kernel over HTTP, assuming iPXE isn't part of the NIC firmware or can't be configured to do so.

Turns out that downloading over HTTP is just as slow (few MB/s) when using iPXE so I'm not sure what I'm gaining.

Ideally HTTP boot is possible through the UEFI bios but it seems that this is common on servers, but not on clients? My HP 1L PCs don't have an option to boot over HTTP directly.
> artists, poets, and musicians, have lived similarly in decades past

I don't think artists/poets/musicians/what have you were sitting around playing videogames

I think it's an important distinction that this isn't a sort of "we're living this way pursuing a dream" lifestyle that I'm trying to describe

It's more "we're living this way because we have no dreams"

I think it's different
I consider all of these "complexities" to be failures on our part. Our primary job as a software developer or technology specialist should be to reduce complexity, not add to it.

So the problem is that the one button is buried under stacks and frameworks multiple layers deep. Is it a failure of management to consider a single button change an easy task when it should, in fact, be an easy task?

And the guy that they fired (possibly for good cause). Did we take the time to train and/or learn the items that were handled by this person? Granted, maybe we didn't have management that prioritized passing that person's work off to the next candidate.

I think software developers are as just as much to blame as management for these types of problems. I am one of them, so I'm pointing at myself here too. There are problems to be addressed going in both directions, from my take.
as someone who's worked on a project involving weather data for agriculture over developing regions, I can't explain how bad (sparse and inconsistent) the data is. Can I ask how you handled the regulatory aspect of launching from urban areas in SF? I can imagine the FAA would have given you some trouble?
> I can't stand that almost all of the games seem to have a pay to win aspect, or are heavily advertising every chance they get.

That started at a certain moment in history, when paying online became trivial, so everyone who didn't produce pay-to-win was leaving a lot of money on the table. You need to find games that are older than that.

Some of the good old games are free, for example Starcraft or Wesnoth. There are many cheap games on Steam, but you need to review them first, or maybe find a review on YouTube. If the game is sufficiently cheap, for example up to $5, you could simply buy 5 copies and tell your kid to give donate 4 of them to his best friends.
"In that one a lawful search turned up unexpected items, and those items were permitted."

Yes, that's the plain view exception I mentioned earlier.

"Even an error in a warrant might not save you."

Yeah, depends on the error and the good faith excpetion.

"Searches of cars are special as well and do not require a warrant,"

Yes, I mentioned that in other comments. But that probable cause is supposed to follow the same standards. It's just expedited by cutting out the judge.

That example would be hard to find because anything they find could be potentially covered under the independent source avenue. But that has to come from a separate warrant. Since murders don't have a statute of limitations, that's open ended and would almost always result in a secondary search even if the first search evidence was thrown out.
What? Does the idea of employment seem kinda novel in this take?

You can gain significant impact multipliers by focusing human attention on a single goal. And not many things do that better than throwing money at a problem.

However with individual's reach extended, the complexity and frequency of collaboration only increases so naive approaches get overstretched and, eventually, break.
Thanks for sharing. We never had them in the UK (not that I can remember). Remind me of the no-win no-fee legal advice ads, something icky about them!
this is cool - thanks for creating it.
can there be a way to decide which decisions don't matter / are less valuable and just let the ai make a random decision for me to reduce fatigue?
Shouldn't that be dns.squarespace now?
> There's John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, which says that if you give normal people anonymity and an audience then they become (let's call them) assholes.

I don't agree. HN is one of the best examples. We're as anonymous as we can be here and still this is one of the most friendly online environments I know. Clearly community culture plays a big role too. And it keeps offering refreshing content, I learn new stuff here daily, unlike in the commercial bubbles.

Same on Libera chat. Didn't turn into a cesspool. In fact the former freenode suddenly did but the community immediately turned their back on it en masse. It was beautiful to see.

Also, the early internet.
Also turns out they destroy the ozone layer. Great. That problem again.
It may just be my perception, but I seem to have noticed this steering becoming a lot more heavy handed on Spotify.

If I try to play any music from a historical genre, it's only about 3 or 4 autoplays before it's queued exclusively contemporary artists, usually performing a cheap pastiche of the original style. It's honestly made the algorithm unusable, to the point that I built a CLI tool that lets me get recommendations from Claude conversationally, and adds them to my queue via api. It's limited by Claude's relatively shallow ability to retrieve from the vast library on these streaming services, but it's still better than the alternative.

Hoping someone makes a model specifically for conversational music DJing, it's really pretty magical when it's working well.
Indeed, I thought reddit self-hosting images would be its death for this reason: it's just a moneysink. But it seems to be going well.

Perhaps the rest of the site's traffic is subsidizing what they spend on the image hosting? Or maybe bandwidth and storage costs are finally lower than how much each image costs, given that our eyes haven't gotten any better and so a certain size jpeg is simply good enough?
Thanks for confirming (and thanks for the excellent article btw). I wish I knew for sure. Anything of that nature deserves to be carefully preserved.
>Why are people OK with this?

Because like it or not, this space has basically become a "third place" for many kids. In that regard it has to compete with console games about as much as a lonely arcade machine in some old bar does. They aren't coming for the games alone.

>The paradigm could be replaced with literally anything, yet the prevailing mode of "play" in these spaces is convert meatspace credits to in-game "virtual property"; costumes, weaponry, etc.

Yup, but as we know from growing up and seeing the rise of social media: the best, sleekest solution isn't always thr Victor. It's all about network effects.
This is the official implementation of the paper "Intergrating View Conditions for Image Synthesis", which is accepted by IJCAI 2024 at https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2024/0840
Anova will start charging a subscription fee for its sous vide companion app
Usually a good indication of something that doesn’t fit HN all that well. Something that is and isn’t being considered is hard to discuss specifically.
Kudos on this launch. Much awaited!!
> When I read about nix, reproducibility is a goal, but [...] isolation is a non-goal.

Generally, yes.

But you can use or put together something like this to run Nix inside a devcontainer instead of locally: https://github.com/xtruder/nix-devcontainer

So you can use them in conjunction (or alternation, if for some projects you're okay running without a container) without having to specify your development environments twice.

> I feel better doing my "npm install"s in such an environment (of course it's still not a VM – but that's another topic).

There are basically two kinds of integration you can do for a project with Nix, which I'll call deep and shallow. In shallow integration, you just have Nix provide the toolchain and then you build the project (manually, with a script, with a Makefile, whatever). This is pretty common and pretty easy, and gives you no protection from malicious NPM build scripts.

For deep integration, you can actually have Nix build your whole project. This has some downsides, like that it can't really handle incremental builds. It also imposes restrictions, like no network access by anything but Nix at build time, all packages are built by special build users with no homedirs and no perms to access anything, etc. When you do that kind of build/install, you do get some protection from crypto miners lurking in the NPM registry or PyPI or whatever.
Got the dmca takedown, got freaked out,
I don't even remember I had clicked on fork this repo.
It allows Google to access data that is denied to competitors. It’s a clear example of Google using its market power to suppress competition.
This data is sketchy to say the least.

The chart showing home ownership rate is broken down by "generation" but each cohort becomes skewed towards older members of that group as we move towards the present. If you look at boomers and millennials at age 25 that's a fair comparison. But if you compare boomers and millennials at age 40, you're now comparing all people born 1946 to 1964 (18 year range) against just the millennials born 1981 to 1984 (3 year range). This group of older millennials were in their late 20s when house prices tanked after the financial crisis and in their mid 30s by the time home prices started rising dramatically in 2020. This selection bias means if there is an overall downward trend in home ownership, the boomer line will stay fixed but the millennial line for ages 28 to 43 will move down next time the data is analyzed. This is almost certain to happen.

The second bit of fudging that's going on is that this chart is looking at home ownership. But a home is not a house. Millennials and Gen Z are more likely to buy an apartment than previous generations. It's not fair to say that a boomer buying a free standing house is equivalent to a millennial buying a two-bedroom apartment. The quality of life and the opportunity for capital gains are much lower.
Full-color daytime radiative cooling with cholesteric liquid crystals
Yup. I imagine those millions are the ones I see on LinkedIn offering 50-60k for a "Roblox game developer". Even in a UGC platform, the biggest money makers are the ones doing it as a legitimate job.
I don’t think some asking for some money for the time and effort they put in to build an app is such a bad thing.
> But you'll still need physical access to the supply chain to compromise it, and that's not possible for some hacker in a basement.

I forgot to respond to this sentence in the sibling response.

Supply chain attacks can be executed by intermediaries of the supply chain, or by manufacturers themselves: develop the capability to deny a foreign nation its energy infrastructure. The manufacturer is not a hacker in a basement. Manufacturers can be pressured by their local gorvernments, militaries, 3 letter agencies, ...

A precautionary principle would induce potential target nations to surreptitiously catalogue the inverter boards, sort them by most-GW serving type, and consider which control traces to cut to control the internal energy transfers in its inductors, capacitors, ... from a trusted parasite board. Just develop and test a few parasite boards for the most common inverters, and preferably have critical stock ready.

The main value in inverters is the power switches, inductors, capacitors, ... it would be cheaper to reroute the control to a trusted controller in the event of a calamity. We would survive fine, but it will be a painful few days.
>Presumably part of the nuclear doctrine is to take out your enemies nuclear launch sites before they launch

It is not. The UK, like most nuclear armed states, has a "No first use" doctrine, meaning its nukes exist only to retaliate, to turn cities to ash.

Whoever is nuking you, to the point that you use those retaliatory nukes, might be targeting your weapons, but they are on submarines in friendly waters, so not likely to be destroyed before they can launch.
The Renaissance Mathematicus writes regularly about Kepler (read the Post 3 for each year)

https://thonyc.wordpress.com/the-trilogies-of-christmas-past...
Fair point. I did my mech eng degree in Australia where university is heavily subsidised for citizens. Total cost for the 4 year degree here was $32,000 (roughly $21,560USD at today’s exchange rate)
App: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.ensoft.imgurviewer/

Not a perfect experience but easily preferable over the original webpage and works for more than just imgur
Mom doesn't have a monopoly on violence.
Don't mess with hp
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