skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If a site is over https, then the only information I would think the ISP would have is the subscriber downloaded from randompiratesite.xyz what seems to be a single X GiB file

That isn't how torrent sites work. You visit site.xyz and download a .torrent file in the realm of 10s-100s (typically) of kB and that contains some metadata that a dedicated torrent client consumes. The torrent client connects to (1) some tracker via http (or https, but usually http) which may or may not be associated with the site the .torrent came from, to register as part of the swarm, and (2) any number of peer torrent clients. The actual data (X GiB) transfer comes from those peers; not the original site.xyz nor the tracker.

ISPs can observe DNS lookups / connections to site.xyz; tracker "announces" (that's (1) above), especially if they are http. And even the peer-to-peer traffic has a distinct protocol which is recognizable with packet inspection. But the main avenue for finding offenders, I believe, is just downloading the same .torrents for some specific copyrighted content and using the torrents' associated tracker(s) to enumerate swarm peer IP addresses.
I think this symbol is kind of pointless and I doubt anyone is going to use it "like the Prince symbol," so I don't think this is really even an issue. That said, there's nothing wrong with being fringe, or preferring slow growth. After all, Hacker News' entire design ethos and cultural imperative is keeping Eternal September at bay by aggressively gatekeeping against the unwashed hordes of normies and Redditors and moderating against anything "true hackers" shouldn't find interesting.

I don't want the masses to ruin the Fediverse the way they ruined everything else. I don't want influencers, marketers, grifters, shills, stooges, incels, nazis, predators and bots proliferating into every online space like cockroaches. I don't want the Fediverse to be captured and transformed into a Skinner box of endorphine-dripping two minutes hate struggle sessions, misinformation, propaganda, viral marketing and vapid memes. Most people coming to the Fediverse are explicitly doing so to escape all of that.
I know it's not their intention but this seemed like a great ad for Pixels
Deadlock is quite different to Valorant in key ways. Rather than Valorsnt, which is essentially Counterstrike with hero powers. deadlock is Valorant plus Dota2. There are creeps and base management and extensive items.

I certainly think Deadlocks ui is unfinished, but the gameplay is certainly something that hasn't been done super well.

I don't love deadlock yet but haven't played it much. Plus, my opinion means nothing, I thought Artifact was a great game.
The difference is that the region your theory of gravity is a good model in, is not inhabited, whereas the region that Newtonian gravity is a good model in is the one where most of us spend most of our time.
Maybe it’s just me, but if you understand the history of audio libraries, it just sounds like a titular homage to LAME.
Cool! Optimal UX!

What do you think of this compared with running a Jupyter server on Modal? (I think Modal is slightly harder, ie, you run a terminal command, but curious!) https://modal.com/docs/guide/notebooks
UT2k4 deserves to live, but if we're being honest, there weren't a lot of people playing it during the last decade and a half. I wonder if being able to play it in a browser would actually improve that.
Heard about that one. A classic :)
Congrats on shipping. I’m actually quite impressed by the tonality of the “DM” and how it keeps the story on track. I tried to steal wares from the merchant before running away and DM handled it without breaking a stride.

I’m going to go in the tavern now and see if I can start a brawl :)
> Advocate for a reduction in plastic manufacturing, consumption and waste. It's pretty straightforward.

Well, thanks for being explicit about it, I guess.

> We did it with lead.

Yeah, you skipped a step: we know that lead is toxic. It's not an unproven hypothesis.

> The part about this study that I personally find terrifying is the trajectory. A 50% increase in 8 years is astonishing.

I mean...maybe? The methodology is pretty uncalibrated, the demographics of the groups is completely unknown, and the ug/g estimates they're making don't pass a common sense test. Far more likely that you can't read anything into the time-series comparisons.

Still not terrified.
If you want to work on xorg, you can. If you want to work on Wayland, you can do that as well. Almost all people choose the latter.
How can there be a trust issue without trust? That ship has sailed
As a non-LLM, I got so confused with Svelte 5's runes, that I just avoided it altogether by not touching it haha
Gaussian Process Regression (a form of Bayesian Optimisation to try and get to the right "answer"/parameter space sooner) - explained in some context here...

https://brendanhasz.github.io/2019/03/28/hyperparameter-opti...

In saying that random param search still works well enough in many cases.
TOML has maybe zero active maintainers
See, you called it “asynchronous serial protocol” there. But one can certainly think of asynchronous serial protocols that are outside those bounds.

The Wikipedia article [0] calls this category “asynchronous start-stop signaling” but has no source.

I guess the best term is “UART protocol”, despite the limited size of the “universe”, since it’s really just a de facto convention established by decades of chips called “UARTs”.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_serial_communicat...
Not really, the decision to choose a particular thought first comes into your mind the way above comment says.
A relevant excerpt from the complaint:

> RealPage-defined submarkets identified in Appendix A are relevant markets in which the agreements between RealPage and AIRM and YieldStar users to
align pricing has harmed, or is likely to harm, competition and thus renters. In each of these markets, the penetration rate for at least (i) AIRM and YieldStar, or (ii) AIRM, YieldStar, and OneSite ranges from at or around 29% to more than 60%.10
For what it's worth, I recently visited a thrift store and I was somewhat surprised to see a sizable DVD/bluray section. I imagine there won't be any new releases there, though.
I mean what can you do? The market is forcing you to raise rent. Your hands are tied.
If AI is building better software why stop it? If it's not, what's the threat? What's to defend? Our right to build worse software? Prevent people from using tools as they see fit? What's course of action would you take?
No, as except for an elite artistic few, the defenders of unproductive ways or even those who refuse to aggressively upskill, end up poor with few prospects.

This is especially true in an industry where anyone can jump in (unless we want to lock computers behind licences).

I want the high salary to continue, so I will move where the tools take me. AI let’s me generate a ton more features in the same amount of time.
I did something really similar by converting handwritten math to LaTeX.

This use case (and yours as well) can be really useful and works well just by using ChatGPT. In many cases people are just building wrappers of gpt-4o, but I can see some room for improvement by building on top of OpenAI’s APIs.
>You trust a photo from a photojournalist. You don't trust a photo from some rando in your social feed.

The problem is, this isn't highly true.

Sometimes we don't trust photos from some journalists, not necessarily because we think it is dramatically edited, but we know even professionals have been caught mildly editing, either in-camera or with tools afterward.

Conversely - sure, we don't trust when we see a photo from a rando slandering a politician, unless we want to believe it. At the same time, we mostly believe a rando photo of a fireman rescuing a cat. The latter is less likely to be fake, and if it is, the consequences of believing it are less severe.

Trust heuristics are complex and highly psychological.
this is one of my all time favorite projects... it blows away a lot of the other charting/ data viz libraries. shocked more people haven't picked it up
We're living under a flawed Constitution. Let's start over. Rewrite it
Resolve your ambiguity by replacing the word "This" with "Included under the Total Payments moniker are the payments and benefits under Section 3(a) in addition to any others not here specified."

Pronouns, particularly those with ambiguous antecedents, are the devil's tools; and the portal through which demons are goven entrance to the world.
Let me rephrase, it's about as broadly understood as the term "fediverse" itself, when used in-context.
I think we are quite a bit away from that future, but I can understand the concern and moral hazard, the future is hard to predict. In the near term, if we can fix this specific reward and metabolic pathway with gene therapy, the therapy is safe, and can be made broadly available, I think it should be done.
STP does not cover filling in MAC forwarding tables, it only tells the switches which ports to shut down so that no loops would be created. RSTP and later evolutions just made it faster as well as capable of creating multiple spanning trees, but the core logic is still based on the "oh fuck" realisation of a corporation that sold nonrouteable ethernet protocol and thus had to figure how to deal with larger L2 domains than designed (while keeping logic simple to not make switches too expensive).

For both IP, OSI, and routed ethernet, you run a complete routing protocol (IS-IS actually will handle both OSI, IP, and routed ethernet) where routers tend to send "hello" packets to announce themselves on the links to establish communication. This is how IP routing works since some of the oldest routing setups. On IP-bound protocols like OSPFv2/V3 or BGP you have to configure connections between the routers then tell them to peer with router at given IP, with IS-IS it has its own independent low level mechanism so you connect to a link and tell it which router ids to trust/peer with.
An amazing (if a bit flowery) read that highlights more arcane stuff you can do with the TS type system: https://www.richard-towers.com/2023/03/11/typescripting-the-...
Tim Sweeney is not quite as much of a bro of the people as John Carmack is. Sadly, as I like the guy otherwise.
Just Let Me Do My Job
> Should we as developers put more effort into defending our craft?

Fight against AI tools? You are not likely to win that battle.

Horse carriage manufacturers would not have stopped car makers, regardless of how hard they tried or unionized. You have to adapt.
WireGuard is honestly very easy to set up. All of the commands feel very straightforward: https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2020/11/wireguard-point-t...

You can definitely run an HTTP server behind WireGuard. WireGuard just adds a network interface that your server can listen on (e.g. your server would listen on a private address like 10.0.0.1).
I would love so much for the eventual state of this project to allow us to modernize the original DX. I don't need a remake, just modern quality of life. I know there's extensive mods.
I did something similar about a decade ago. the main active costs for logging (assuming writing into a fixed sized lockless ring buffer) is for doing the string formatting and timestamp fetching. I actually did my own ts interpolation with rdtsc and periodic fetches to get this to minimal. for string formatting you could completely avoid by preregistering messages and store away arguments.

I have also seen people make the logger into dso so they can dump strings from main app binary and record addresses to avoid the hassel of preregistering. but with preregistering I was able to get the perf all the way down to ~40ns per message w/o the separate log dumper thread. at that point you actually start running into disk IO limitations.

one additional thing I did was to create the ring buffer in a shared memory segment and log to that from all services in the system. so this way you dont even have to think about crashing services. anyway the point is this hardly seems groundbreaking. what I'd like to see is this evolve into a fast syslog type service when one just freely logs trace messages throughout w/o worry about the cost and we can use them for postmortem analysis or filter at dump.
chuckle lIt's actually not as frivolous as it looks, especially if you think about it in reverse, in the light of Kolmogorov Complexity. The fact that there are way, way fewer small integers has many pleasant implications.

E.g. for anything that can be put into a 1-to-1 correspondence with integers--things like computer programs, scientific hypothesis, etc, you can prove that "smaller" instances (in the sense of being mapped to smaller integers) have better chance of being bug-free, or more predictive of future observations, etc etc.

Bigger programs are composed of smaller programs, so the smaller a program is, the more likely it is to be included in, say, a standard library for that language, and the more likely it is to occur in programs written in that language.
Correct me if I'm wrong but open source offers no promises or obligations of any kind to anyone.

Under these conditions, how do you even define "growth" and better yet, why should it really matter to others?

You're essentially asking others to help finance your hobby in exchange for nothing they don't already get for free anyway. Good luck with that.
Valve's largest game, CS2, is still full of bugs and almost unplayable on valve servers due to lack of a working anti-cheat. They even removed existing anti-cheat features such as the overwatch system that allowed players to review games for potential cheating. They also removed a lot of the game modes and maps. Coasting on being a marketplace (where they also had first mover advantage) shouldn't score valve any points for the topic at hand, which is about their ability to get things done. CS2 is "successful" in that they run a gambling site and marketplace within the game that brings them a lot of money.[0] But they are also slowly killing their game and have ignored it for over a year. The best thing Valve has done in recent years is the steam deck. Their games are not getting better and my guess is Deadlock will end up closer to Artifact in reception than CS or Dota.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/charts/topselling/global - in top 100 games by revenue for 12 years
This section was pretty horrifying:

The CEO leaned an elbow on the podium. “I’ll tell you a story,” he said.

A woman wrote to VERA about her elderly dog, who was having diarrhea.

“Your dog is at the end of his life,” said VERA. “I recommend euthanasia.”

The woman was beside herself. She told VERA she wasn’t ready to say goodbye. Her dog was her only companion.

VERA knew the woman’s location. She sent a list of nearby clinics that could get the job done. Still, the woman was unconvinced. Euthanasia was so expensive. She’d never be able to afford it. VERA sent another list, this time of nearby shelters. “If you relinquish your dog to a shelter, they will euthanize him at no cost,” she said.

The woman did not respond. But some days later she sent VERA a long and effusive message. She had taken VERA’s advice and euthanized her dog. She wanted to thank VERA for the support during the most difficult moment of her life.

The CEO regarded us with satisfaction for his chatbot’s work: that, through a series of escalating tactics, it had convinced a woman to end her dog’s life, though she hadn’t wanted to at all. “The point of this story is that the woman forgot she was talking to a bot,” he said. “The experience was so human.”
Electroactive polymer hydrogels exhibit emergent memory when in game environment
BBC reported this global bleaching event is also hitting the great barrier reef and things look bleak: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-68508423

The record cover was reported in 2022: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-62402891

But i agree that it got less publicity.
Unlike most other middlemen that take revenue though, people legitimately are willing to choose to pay Valve on both sides of the transaction, despite a relatively level playing field. I choose Steam when I don't have to, even if it costs more, because the service is simply the best. I like what I get from Steam. Pending the lawsuit about anti-competitive behavior, which I think would definitely harm the argument that people simply prefer Steam a great deal, I honestly do generally just believe Steam actually does bring enough value to justify the relatively high price tag.

I actually also believe that Google Play and Apple App Store as marketplaces also provide "enough value" to potentially justify a fairly high price tag, but in their case it's not actually fair because the problem is that nobody else is even allowed to try to provide similar value at any cost. For example, both Google and Apple provide "free" push notification infrastructure, which is sort of necessary: if everyone was running push notification infrastructure, it would be pretty bad for battery life. However, the net effect is that you're being forced to price all of the value that they provide as platforms, into their marketplace, whether or not your app needs or wants their "value", and that's the problem. This doesn't quite compare to the situation with Steam, and I think that warrants more recognition.

Frankly, Steam sucked ass when it first came around. It was relentlessly mocked, and the only reason people tolerated it was because you needed it to play Half Life 2. But... they never stopped improving it. And frankly, even if this makes Valve a "worse" company from a position of investors and onlookers, it has made Valve a better company for consumers to be able to trust. It's pretty obvious that not every product or service Valve puts out is fantastic, but in the same token that things which are easy at "normal" companies are impossible at Valve, things that are impossible at normal companies appear to be possible at Valve.

I hate to romanticize it too much, but I'm not even a huge gamer, and I still feel like Valve has done very well by most of their consumers and developers. If anything, the biggest trouble they seem to have is deciding how exactly to moderate/censor the Steam store, given all of the different external pressures. Now that is a tough problem and they've had a tough time figuring it out.
Why clojure (and by proxy Java?). I don't have a problem with either, but it puzzles me quite a bit.

Why not the standard node.js with shared module? Assuming performance is not the primary goal.

Why not generated rust structures from model file and a rust server? Assuming performance is the primary goal.

Why not a jvm with a lightweight runtime? (Assuming instancing is used for scale here, a lot of wasted ram usage here)
I know that it's an extra expense, but shouldn't you get a lawyer involved first thing?
People should do what makes them happy
I was a Comcast customer for 10+ years prior to 2017 and at the time they did not block foreign DNS servers.
Quake Champions is the best I've found.
> industry

The fact that providing people with housing is even seen as an "industry" is a big sign of what is wrong with the world right now.

It is essential to living a decent life.

It should not be a driver of lining the pockets of people who are already rich.
Lots of people want to blame rising prices on price fixing, when there really is growing demand without commensurate increases of supply. They want a silver bullet to bring down prices, without tackling the underlying problems.

> That being said, I price my rental properties against what similar square footage gets at nearby apartments... Sooo if they are going up my rent is going up as well, and I bet most landlords do this.

This is essentially what RealPage does. It just automates calculating "what similar square footage gets at nearby apartments". It probably does other stuff like puts a premium on corner units or those with south facing windows.
The future of AI-assisted coding is probably agents that can automatically test the code candidates they generate.

That should help mitigate the problem. If it tries to use the old API it just won't compile.
Reminds me of the narcissism of small differences: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differen...

Few people will care because only a few are capable of caring and the world keeps on turning.
I'm not an expert on DNS, but I don't think DNSSec can actually help here, and by help I mean "unblock".

Sure, their NXDOMAIN (or whatever) response will appear bogus, but your client won't be able to rebuild the missing response.
Diversifying in many cases won't help you.

If a bank suspects fraud, they can tell other banks about their suspicion, which will cause all banks to freeze your accounts and none will be able to tell you why.
You cut the rest of that line. The full quote was:

> Caltrain’s new trains also just have the advantage of being new: The trains that are being phased out are nearly 40 years old. They were loud not just because of the diesel engines but because the doors rattled and brakes squealed. The new trains have WiFi, power outlets, better climate control, energy-efficient lighting, and more storage under the seats. (My only complaint, when I tried the train out the other day, was that the seats are now a little less comfortable—though the upholstery is easier to clean.)

They are quieter, have more amenities(in-trip wifi, plugs), have more storage space (which means more leg room), and better climate control (AC/heating/ventilation). IMHO those are all way more important to my comfort than the chairs being a bit stiff when the ride is longer than 30 minutes.
I like the concept. Have you seen any interesting patterns of users preferring a certain persona or even a group of personas? I wonder if writers like using this to communicate with a virtual character from their world. Or perhaps they prefer editors.
Would you lend your neighbor $12,000 for a random investment scheme they just told you about?
I agree with your goal of getting more high quality publications but it's not at all clear to me that bonding would effectively lead to that.

I think it's more likely that it would reward incremental studies that don't question the "scientific consensus" and so don't risk getting sued.
Not to mention that it would be a major publishing expense, which are already infamously high and just ends up being financed by grant giving organizations which was instead meant to go towards research.
I agree with what you are saying, but I find it interesting that physics can also predict properties of planets, stars, and galaxies interacting over cosmic distances. At that scale, you can zoom out and reduce the complexity again back to a handful of rules.
The most important lesson learned here is not to ever deal with retail banking at the branch. Not only do they not care they aren’t given the authority or autonomy to help you.

By trying to do this at multiple branches across the country OP likely made the problem worse as those actions raise suspicions even more.

With that much money after the first day of inaction by support he should have CC’d every department from legal@ to the C-suite.
Business or Personal, do not ever rely on a single bank. Ever. Have a backup, ideally far enough from your "main" bank that any issue doesn't bleed over.
Ugh, I need to enable port knocking on my mikrotik one day.
> But then the problem is how it was implemented not the dns blocking or redirecting functionalities on themselves..

redirection and managing your horizons aside, my objection lies with the use for content blocking, because it is the wrong tool for the job.

cheers
For 99.8% of internet users, DNS based blocking is a hard stop (for them).

For the remaining 0.2% who know how things work, they are a brief bump in the road to getting to the site they want to pull up.
Valorant just felt like CS to me. Hated it for all the same reasons I dislike CS.

Deadlock is more like a moba shooter.
Orders of magnitude are differences of kind.

It is now at least three orders (give or take) easier to make a realistic alteration. History is doomed :)