skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the idea of having a token in the address could work!

Unless you’re being specifically targeted, it doesn’t need to be anything particularly long or secure though—just needs to not fit the same pattern as everyone else.

It could be as simple as “the letter before the first letter and the letter after the last letter” or something easy enough to generate in your head when filling out a paper form. (E.g., “hackernews@“ becomes “hackernews.gt@“; “google@“ becomes “google.ff@“)

Or “numbers of vowels mod 10” (“facebook@“ becomes “facebook.4@“; “medium@“ becomes “medium.3@“).

You could always combine this with option 2 as well. Anything that has a valid token goes through the regular filters, everything without goes straight to junk.

… In fact, I think I’m going to do this for my own domain.
The streaming service Shudder has it and it's one of my favorite features on any streaming platform.
With WAF simple IP-based rate limiting is very simple & cheap. More complex types of limits aren't too difficult either, but even just deploying that is a few clicks.
Are you one of those devs that mistakenly assumes that you salary constitutes 90% of your cost to the company, when in fact it’s closer to 40%?

You want me to spend an hour trying to save the company $100? We just spent $250. And that’s not the half of it. If the company is expecting me to result in $5 in revenue for every dollar they spend on me, we really just lost out on more than $1000.

I’ve worked many places where we didn’t think about opportunity costs. I’ve also been laid off many times.
ML researcher here.

I will second this. Even if you think localghost is wrong about AI, it is important to always trust that voice of skepticism (to a limit).

But I will say that we are in a hype cycle and as a researcher I'm specifically worried about this. I get that we have to bootstrap because you can't say "we want to spend money on research" (why?), but if you make a bubble the goal is to fill that bubble before it pops. The more hype you make, the more money you get, but the quicker that bubble pops. My concern here is that too much hype makes it difficult to distinguish charlatans form honest people. Charlatans will jump from cool topic to the next (don't trust someone who was a VR founder, then a crypto founder, and now a ML founder. Trust people who have experience and can stick with a topic for longer than a hype cycle).

The big danger, is if charlatans dominate the space, the hype disappears, and then there is no money for everyone. So if you do believe in the possibility of AGI and that AI/ML can make the world better (I truly do), make sure that we don't over hype. There's already growing discontent for products pushed too early with too big promises. If you really believe (like I do), you have to get rid of the bad apples before they spoil the whole barrel.
I work with the creators of Fluvio at InfinyOn.

Fluvio is an edge to core cloud native streaming engine built from the ground up in rust. Compiles to a single 37 Meg binary and deploys on ARM64 devices.

We just released the first public beta version of Stateful DataFlow. Stateful DataFlow is a framework for building unbounded distributed stream processing based on wasm that runs on Fluvio streams.

We are going for a Lean alternative to Kafka + Flink with a user experience of Ruby on Rails.

BTW, Stateful DataFlow has integrations with Arrow, Polars, and the ability to use SQL for dataframes, and other wasm compatible programming languages to express business logic. And Fluvio has Rust, Python, and JS clients.
They're not "practicing murder". They're not "practicing killing you". Stop with this hyperbolic nonsense. The military practices murder, not you and your mates in your local BJJ class.

Do you say these things to make yourself feel cooler/tougher when you inevitably tell someone you practice BJJ? And I'm sure they didn't ask, you just worked it into the conversation (much like this post) because you can't wait to tell everyone you practice murder.
driving

get bored

remember I have a radio

turn on NPR

in this episode we're going to investigate the relationship between consensual undocumented migrant men and underage boys who want to seem older, on this hour of the Latino story hour

click

repeat every 4-6 months
I see a "discussions" one time where a professor tried to explain why Twitter is actually bad for the wiring of the brain. The other guy was a self proclaimed twitter expert. Every time the professor tried to say something the twitter expert interupted him just around 500 chars. The professor eventually got angry then the twitter man said, but i already knew what you wanted to say.

Enraged the professor stood up then left the room.

I thought it was the best instance of my work here is done
Most tests I encounter in the real world are terrible, fundamentally broken, and a waste of build times. I have almost never had a potential bug caught by a test written by others. I have been a software developer for 25 years across multiple languages and ecosystems.

Everyone jumped on the testing bandwagon but writing code that is testable is a learned skill that nobody bothers to learn. Instead we end up with overly-mocked tests that—in practice—test that “the code is written like it currently is” rather than that it actually behaves correctly.

These kinds of tests actually provide negative value. Besides taking up time during every PR and build, they fire off on any attempt to clean up or refactor. Every time you edit the code you have to edit the tests which entirely defeats the point.

The solution ends up being, unsurprisingly, lessons learned from the functional world: don’t access or manipulate external state, operate only on direct inputs and only manipulate your outputs. As a result code ends up being dumb, short, and obvious. But nobody learns to write code this way, so two hundred line spaghetti functions are the norm.
64GB of ram is 550b bits of ram. That doesn't give you a lot of options on how many bits you want to keep per model parameter.
>And also, during interviews, called out obvious bullshittery to their face.

The problem here is that politicians simply won't do interviews with these journalists. I think we saw exactly this during the Trump administration. This idea would probably only work if all the journalists adopted this policy (prisoner's dilemma).
IANAL, however...

Google's behavior was ruled illegal because it was a violation of antitrust law, which limits things which a company with a large market share (meaning Google, in search) may do itself, to shut out competition.

Apple Inc is not the US Dept. of Justice, nor a Federal Judge, nor privy to Google's internal data and dealings, nor in the search engine business itself, to either make or enforce any official or expert determinations about what Google may legally do. Nor to conduct any investigations into such matters, nor to ...

(And the Feds had never ordered Apple to act on their behalf in such matters.)

In other news, Uber & Lyft will happily take your money to take you places...without looking into whether that might create a violation of any restraining order currently in effect for you. Or involve women who aren't your wife. Or cause you to miss mandated court appearances. Or whatever. And they won't get in any trouble for that, even if you're sent to jail for it.
In case anyone missed the blog post about the Raspberry Pi Pico 2, here it is:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-2-our-new...

It has quite a list of products already created by their partners.
Not sure why you are being downvoted so severely, as what you say is plainly and verifiably true. JFK and Truman's old jalopies being in museums do not count. They were lightly modified production cars that were not much different than their mass produced counterparts. The Beast is a custom made tank with a Cadillac badge on it and weighs over 20,000 lbs. JFK got shot in some old convertible, which probably did not even have seatbelts. The security technology of those antiques is to The Beast, as the power of a TRS-80 is to a spanky new AMD Ryzen.

BTW, they are not just destroyed. They are destroyed in a series of tests of the vehicle's countermeasures and protective devices against an array of potential weapon systems, boom boom kaboom. I got to see some components installed on the gun shock test rig at NTS in Fullerton CA, while I was there doing some unrelated vibration and shock testing on an aircraft system. Unfortunately I did not get to see the kaboom.
Because every news place I've signed up for make it a giant pain in the A$$ to unsubscribe, so they just lost all of my trust. The only one that didn't suck was when I got the FT (paper) version for a year for like 800 airline miles. Oddly the digital subscription was MORE. That was great and 10 years later I'm still using pink paper to light my fires.
Which is also a shame, because I believe that consumers should have the right to choose a locked-down ecosystem if that's what they want.

It's not perfect, but we've had a pretty good thing going in the mobile phone space from a consumer perspective:

There's an option that's extremely intuitive, tightly integrated, and secure, at the necessary expense of being locked down. A walled garden in the best sense—a curated environment that's designed to provide a specific experience and keep out things that aren't welcome.

Then there's the option that works okay-but-not-perfectly out of the box but really shines for power users. That system provides all the flexibility you could want (especially when you get into custom ROMs) at the necessary expense of placing a higher maintenance burden on the user.

These efforts to dismantle this balance don't seem at all designed to help consumers—they're exclusively focused on the needs of other, typically large companies, and I strongly suspect that the fallout is going to hurt consumers quite a lot.
Please provide a theory about (explaining) a phenomena, which does not presuppose the existence of the things (not the theory and not the phenomena) used to explain it. I think it's going to be a boring tautology of an unfalsifiable theory.

The photo electric effect is a theory of energy emission of light interacting with a metal. Quantized photons and energy levels are things used in the theory to describe experimental results. If you accept the theory, you accept it's elements, it's things. If you want to build a new Photo Electric theory, it will probably also involve some things you propose existing.

Explain Beta decay using the standard model without presupposing neutrinos exist. Note that beta decay was observed and the theory about it (a different thing) were developed long before neutrinos were directly measured (but those things must exist for the theory to be true). In fact predicting the existence and properties of particles before their measurement based on theory is the basis of most particle physics.

You seem confused, because humans who propose theories give purpose to their elements, because by definition those theories (their explanation) cannot be true without the existence of those elements. You seem to want inanimate objects to have desire, which is dumb.
Sure, and I'd agree with you if the much bigger guy could, I don't know... breathe. :)

Weight classes exist because they matter amongst opponents of roughly the same skill and training level. If one person is trained and the other is not, they matter a lot less.

You're not the first person to be surprised by this and challenge me on it. You also wouldn't be the first person to come to the gym, try to prove your point, and fail. :)
> Found by Kunlun Lab's XiaoWei and tracked as CVE-2024-38063, this security bug is caused by an Integer Underflow weakness, which attackers could exploit to trigger buffer overflows that can be used to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server systems.

> "Considering its harm, I will not disclose more details in the short term," the security researcher tweeted, adding that blocking IPv6 on the local Windows firewall won't block exploits because the vulnerability is triggered prior to it being processed by the firewall.

> As Microsoft explained in its Tuesday advisory, unauthenticated attackers can exploit the flaw remotely in low-complexity attacks by repeatedly sending IPv6 packets that include specially crafted packets.

This is pretty nasty.
MakeShift: Security Analysis of Shimano Di2 Wireless Gear Shifting in Bicycles [pdf]
Police were reluctant to investigate celebrity grooming gangs, Rolf Harris, Jimmy Saville, Gary Glitter, Huw Edwards, Russell Brand, etc.

Police were reluctant to investigate political grooming gangs, those in the House of Lords, nobility, etc.

Police were reluctant to investigate religuous grooming gangs, Christian Brothers ets.

I can't see how immigrant pedos are infinity worse rather than just more of the same.

The reluctance to investigate seems to be the issue, now it's compounded by scapegoating.
I think if we’re having an honest argument this has nothing to do with copyright protection being 70 years.

I’d be willing to bet a massive amount of money that most pirated media is less than a few years old.

I don’t believe that we as a society are ever going to decide that copyright protection should be less than that.
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Aleister Crowley's conception of magic is much more modern than the forms of occultism discussed in this article though. He was a modern man living in a modern world, influenced by modern philosophy. If you had asked someone in the 1500s that question, they would have said yes and thought you were an idiot for asking about it.
You’ll see that it’s true once you decouple the idea that one person == one more car on the road.

Aside from lawn equipment, the noise pollution I suffer from in my streetcar suburb in a major metro is almost completely from cars and other fossil fuel motorized vehicles.

I was out in a fairly high earning suburb recently and the backyard was constantly inundated by the roar of a not so nearby highway.

Like, what exactly do you think people do to make noise?
Separately the website won't load images if you're using an ad block. Sigh...
Fair point, but it's because when you've seen it firsthand it almost looks fake, except that you know exactly why it happens.

It's a lesson that many of us learn and then take into other aspects of life, because it's really humbling.
I agree. He did not misspeak. He said exactly what he believes, and he's now being called out for it.
Exactly.

I'd made this point a bit over a year ago with regards to Hacker News, based on my own work scraping a full history of Front Page views from the "past" archive.

Note that there are only 30 stories which make the front page per day, total submissions run somewhat higher, typically a bit over 100, and about 400,000 per year per research by Whaly.[1]

As of 21 June 2023, there were 52,642 distinct sites submitted to the front page.

Counting those with 100 or more appearances, that falls to 149.

Doing a manual classification of news sites, there are 146.

Even at a modest annual subscription rate of $50/year ($1/week per source), that's a $7,300 subscriptions budget just to be able to discuss what's appearing on Hacker News from mainstream news sources.

Oh, and if you want per-article access at, say, $0.50 per article, that's $5,475 to read a year's worth of HN front-page submissions (10,950 articles/year), and that is just based on what is captured on the archive. In practice far more articles will appear, if only briefly, on the front page each day.

Which is among the reasons I find the "just subscribe" argument untenable. Some sort of bundling payment arrangement is required.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36832354>

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Notes:

1. "A Year on Hacker News" (2022) <https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective>
Not historically -- not in Faust nor in the history of the concept [1].

You're certainly free to call borrowing money a "deal with the devil" or a "Faustian bargain", if it's something you can describe as metaphorically "selling your soul" -- e.g. losing control of your company or giving up your vision for it -- but the concept did not arise out of anything related to lenders.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_with_the_Devil
NIST to Test New Approach for Detecting Cannabis in Breath
On your second point, Aperture Science was originally founded to manufacture shower curtains for the military and we all know how that worked out.
The BSL is not an OSI-approved license, so it’s certainly not “open source” by the commonly used definition.

I agree it’s a reasonable license. But it’s not an open source license.
Or just build another school on the other side of town? Who says the catchment areas don’t shrink once population increases past a certain point?
What's the state these days of Apple blocking PWAs? As of January they effectively disabled them; has anything changed or is there no online medium for apps generally available? https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/745414

Seems like there's some restrictions especially around storage size (50mb) and push. But it's technically possible again.
https://www.mobiloud.com/blog/progressive-web-apps-ios
The "fat cow" is the one coordinating, assuming risk and making the content. If the content flops.. the workers just don't get paid while the "fat cow" looses money.
Exactly, that's the thing people keep missing in these discussions. That $0.25 for your newsstand paper didn't pay for the costs of paying reporters and journalists; it really only paid for distribution and maybe printing costs (e.g., a lot of that quarter went to the local newsstand, not the newspaper). These days, distribution costs are pretty close to zero since they don't need printing presses, trucks to drive papers around, newsstands, and all the people to staff this machinery. They do need IT personnel and some servers, but the per-viewer cost there is much less. Newspapers got the bulk of their funding from advertising back then, so readers' expectations haven't really changed that much, the newspapers have simply gotten much worse at funding themselves with ads.
You could but it would induce corruption in programs. Programs expect I/O to fail much more often than they expect memory accesses to fail.
No, not even a little bit; perhaps you might consider lightening up a little.

The point I was trying to make is that when you're on the mats against an actively resisting opponent who is, yes, attempting to break your joints (which is what happens if you don't tap) or choke you out (which is what happens if you don't tap), you don't have a choice but to focus on only the thing in front of you. Your brain and body simply won't let you focus on anything else.

"Practicing murder" or "practicing killing you" is simply a cute way (and obviously exaggerated for effect, since nobody's literal goal there is killing anyone) of describing that last paragraph without having to use all of the words in that last paragraph. I never said I was Deadpool; relax. It's a self-defense focused martial art which, in real life, you would use to prevent someone from causing you harm.

So no, I really don't think your comment or this one were necessary. It's pretty cynical to go from 'exaggerating for effect,' which is the obviously charitable reading, to 'mak[ing] yourself feel cooler/tougher,' which is the cynical reading.

I haven't been on the mats in over four years, because I had surgery and haven't gone back yet; I miss it. I definitely don't work it into "every conversation," because I am not the one-dimensional NPC your brain decided I was when it read my comment. :)
His choice was to build a lucrative service off U.S. consumers, knowing the service's popularity was in pirating content, mostly created in the U.S.
> It’s only a tool of oppression if you have a government prone to abuse and without constraints.

Untrue for three reasons.

One, it's a spectrum, and where you are can change. While the current US government is pretty bad, they're not rounding up citizens based on their race and throwing them into internment camps right now. But they have in the past, so let's not leave them anything that helps them if they decide to Be Evil again eh?

Two, there are different governments. Suppose the federal government is bad but not heinously bad and the Colorado government is pretty good but the Mississippi government is corrupt and racist and oppressive. Create the system federally and you're handing it to Mississippi officials to abuse, whereas they couldn't create their own because free travel between the states is constitutionally protected.

Three, it's not just governments. Create something like this and corporations will use it. Then all you need is for the government to fail to stop them, which is the status quo.

> In 2024, however, all not having one means is that they use software to link them – the context for this story is the huge industry doing that for all kinds of data, and they don’t mind having to link a couple of different identifiers.

The single identifier is what enables them to be linked -- it's why the surveillance apparatus keeps pushing it on us. Without it you have to speculate and will commonly get it wrong. If someone is signed into Google and then signs into their bank, does that mean they're the same person, or just two people who use the same computer?

If you pull an old PC off a skid destined for the recycler and use it exclusively for buying things on Amazon (which inherently has your shipping address), and use a different machine for social media which you never use for Amazon, a single identifier would still force you to associate the two no matter what measures you use to separate them.

It is important to preserve the ability to keep them separate.

Also notice the form of your argument: Things are currently bad so it's fine to make them worse in a way that's sticky and hard to undo. Maybe instead we should make things better?
An interesting side benefit of switching to electric vehicles is that cities and streets will become quieter.
If someone happily says "they stole my heart" do you go:

a. Go and correct them about using language wrongly
b. Find the heart and return it to its owner
c. Understand the meaning correctly
Right so we are in agreement - I will experience more noise and more traffic in higher density, and I have every right to complain about it. My complaints may fall on deaf ears, but that is neither here nor there.
NPR does an excellent job of manufacturing a facade of being fair and disinterested, but in recent years, they've become more brazen about being a PR campaign for wealthy elites, their enterprises, and their politics, a la the Pareto principle. If you're against that, then NPR has been pretty intolerable for the past decade.

NPR member stations are on the whole decent, but the way NPR came out in force against Sanders showed both how out of touch and unabashedly unreasonable they could be when called to toe their betters' line. I'd been a regular supporter through the early Car Talk and Science Friday days, ending with their disgusting behavior during the primaries.

Pulling off making everyone look biased but you is quite a feat, and I'm impressed how many still consent rather than admit their emperor's indecency.
> should have the right to choose a locked-down ecosystem if that's what they want

You will continue to have that right.

Simply don't install other app stores.

What you won't be able to do is force other people to do what you want them to do, with their iPhones.

It has nothing to do with you choosing what you want to do with your own phone.

Instead, you want to force restrictions onto other people's phones.

> this balance don't seem at all designed to help consumers

It's designed to give those who want it, the ability to control all phones that they own.

Few people would have a problem with you being given the option to lock down your phone if that's what you want.