skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comments that are marked [dead] without the [flagged] indicator are like that because the user that posted the comment has been banned. For green (new) accounts this can be due to automatic filters that threw up false positives for new accounts. For old accounts this shows that the account (not the individual comment) has been banned by moderators. Users who have been banned can email hn@ycombinator.com pledging to follow the rules in the future and they'll be granted another chance. Even if a user remains banned, you can unhide a good [dead] comment by clicking on its timestamp and clicking "vouch."

Comments are marked [flagged] [dead] when ordinary users have clicked on the timestamp and selected "flag." So user downvotes cannot kill a comment, but flagging by ordinary non-moderator users can kill it.
According to the 2021 Canadian census, Vancouver is now a majority-minority city, 54% non-white. [0]

Also, keep in mind that in both Canada and the US, a plurality of the underclass are of European descent: in 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that 37.2 million Americans were living below the poverty line, of whom 42.7% were non-Hispanic White, 28.0% Hispanic, 22.8% African American, 1.6% Native American, 4.8% Other. [1] (I don't have equivalent figures for Canada at hand, but I expect they will tell a broadly similar story, with European-descended people being the plurality of the Canadian poor.)

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/2021-census-...

[1] https://talkpoverty.org/basics/index.html
It was addressed by dang in an earlier Ask HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950747

"They're already banned—HN has never allowed bots or generated responses. If we have to, we'll add that explicitly to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, but I'd say it already follows from the rules that are in there. We don't want canned responses from humans either!"
If you're looking for some inexpensive land that can be fairly remote you might do worse than Cochise county AZ. The county has an opt out permit program as long as you have at least 4 rural acres. You can build whatever you want, no permits, no inspections. There are some restrictions. No bank will give you a mortgage, can't sell or rent it out within 2 years. You can live in your RV while you build, for 2 years I think, with a 3 year extension possible. Lots of sun for solar. Rooftop water collection for water. There are some septic options, composting, or traditional. All legal. A few dozen people on youtube building all kinds of off grid natural buildings. They get together once in a while, let you tour their build, ask questions. A little snow in the winter, not many days above 100F. 4000+ feet elevation. Fiber laid in some surprisingly rural areas. No paved roads type areas. Weird, but cool.

I did the full time RV bit in a class A. Hated it. Too small to live in, too big to travel in. Hate that black tank. Had to leave great camping spots once a week to dump and get more water, or hook up to some sort of developed campgrounds. Sucked. Regret not going for a small schoolie to travel in, large house on 5 acres to live in. That's the new plan, anyway. Best of luck.
how about assigned seats? or maybe boarding zones?
Yeah. We didn't dedup when we ingested, but probably should have. The hack for this right now would be putting "FreeBSD" in quotes when sorting by points or adjusting the score threshold up in options. We have it set to a very low value by default.
The best combination I know of "weird" and "can build neat things" is Elm. It has some serious problems for industrial use but they don't really apply to side projects.

Elixir is less Ruby-like than the syntax looks. If you build a multi-user document editor or something similarly concurrent that might fit the brain-expansion mandate.
Sail and Muddy: A Retrospective
For one, we don't have to pay for basic amenities like security and alerts. To heck with gouging the customer for basic feature sets. Aws have their faults, but enabling teams to get the whole elastic experience without the weird nickle and diming is a blessing. Good on Amazon and boo elastic.
> The reason there aren't more terrorist attacks isn't because various security agencies around the world protect us from them. It's because there are extremely few terrorists.

There's plenty of terrorists, but destabilisation of Middle East diverted them away from continental US. Wasn't that the whole point of Afghanistan and Iraq wars?
There's zillions of little defense contractors. I've dealt with many, many 2-man shops even (many of which failed).

One of many ways this happens is they supply the prime contractors. Another way is through programs like SBIR, which has ~7500 to 10,000 awards per year to companies max size 500 (but most much smaller). https://ssti.org/blog/useful-stats-2020-sbirsttr-awards-stat...

Any one of these companies may become a supplier. I worked ~20 yrs for a 50ish person company that was a supplier the entire time. As such, and doing SBIR pitches, I competed with many tiny firms, many of which were also suppliers.

So yes, they can go out of business, from the 2-person shop to the 10,000+ person shop, just like any one else.
> Americans don’t vote in foreign elections
> Noncitizens shouldn’t vote in ours

He means American citizens that aren't also citizens of a (democratic-esque) foreign nation don't vote in that foreign nation's elections.

Genuine question: did you not understand that?
> Action was against X, and then Musk shut down X's Brazilian office and left outstanding debts. The supreme court evaluates that X and Starlink have same ownership and therefore Starlink (which still has local representation) is being held responsible for X's delinquent debts.

This defeats the purpose of corporations.
> If you're interested in the latter technique (hitting the HW directly from userspace), take a look at dpdk.org

I hope, by "you", you mean the rest of us journeymen and not this tptacek [0]

[0] https://fly.io/blog/bpf-xdp-packet-filters-and-udp/ / https://archive.md/TVIyy
WebGPU has a (mostly) standardized C API: https://github.com/webgpu-native/webgpu-headers
This would make a great talk at Defcon. Wholesome hacking at it's best.
>The option to just directly publish to the world wide web without social media is always available,

Not exactly. You still have to procure web hosting somewhere, and that hosting provider might choose to refuse your money and kick you off.

You might also have to procure the services of Cloudflare if you face significant traffic, and Cloudflare might choose to refuse your money and kick you off.

>that option is largely not chosen...

That's because most people do not have neither the time nor the will to learn and speak computer.

Social media and immediate predecessors like Wordpress were and are successful because they brought down the lowest common denominator to "Smack keys and tap Submit". HTML? CSS? Nobody has time for our pig latin.
Yes, certifiers are not responsible in legal sense, but nothing stops us from posting crap about them on internets.
Except it’s not government related action.

This is what a current official did prior to him becoming the minister while an executive of a rail company.

So the analysis and the discussion below all stem from a faulty premise
Maybe Prolog or J?
If that's the purpose of corporations, I'm happy to declare victory.
I've used it and it's straightforward (inputs are system prompt, user messages, and other params), aside from potential caching/recalculation issues, e.g. you can't tell it "don't regenerate responses unless a source cell is changed", it appears to cache the responses for a certain amount of time.
this form doesnt work in firefox on my device
This statement from Wyden's press release seems to be in contrast to Chris Cox's reasoning in his journal article [1] (linked in the amicus).

It is now firmly established in the case law that Section 230 cannot act as a shield whenever a website is in any way complicit in the creation or development of illegal content.

...

In FTC v. Accusearch,[69] the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a website’s mere posting of content that it had no role whatsoever in creating — telephone records of private individuals — constituted “development” of that information, and so deprived it of Section 230 immunity. Even though the content was wholly created by others, the website knowingly transformed what had previously been private information into a publicly available commodity. Such complicity in illegality is what defines “development” of content, as distinguished from its creation.

He goes on to list multiple similar cases and how they fit the original intent of the law. Then further clarifies that it's not just about illegal content, but all legal obligations:

In writing Section 230, Rep. Wyden and I, and ultimately the entire Congress, decided that these legal rules should continue to apply on the internet just as in the offline world. Every business, whether operating through its online facility or through a brick-and-mortar facility, would continue to be responsible for all of its own legal obligations.

Though, ultimately the original reasoning matters little in this case, as the courts are the ones to interpret the law. In fact Section 230 is one part of the larger Communications Decency Act that was mostly struck down by the Supreme Court.

EDIT: Added quote about additional legal obligations.

[1]: https://jolt.richmond.edu/2020/08/27/the-origins-and-origina...
I've seen this stated before, but I haven't been able to find reliable data on when regulators required Microsoft to provide the access that they provided, or whether there's been time to provide a more secure approach. Do you know?
I'm curious, what would you call it instead?

Safari and Firefox call it "Private Browsing". I wonder if that's any better.
New text: "This won't change how data is collected by websites you visit and the services they use, including Google."

Old text: "Going incognito doesn’t hide your browsing from your employer, your internet service provider, or the websites you visit."

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:com...

The claim of the lawyers here seems to be that because users told Google Chrome that they don't want to be tracked, they should be allowed to expect that Google knew that this user explicitly didn't want to be tracked, and that this was a Google-wide, not a local-only browser setting...
As a renter in the US, I really want something like this. I don’t really care about the electricity billed saved but want some small backup during black outs (which this product isn’t intended for). I rather they force us to shut the breaker on the line we’re powering so everyone is safe, the house, the people living there and the utility company.
I do similar to you. I was commenting in another thread of similar:

From the visual codeViz thread
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41393458

...

I've been wanting to have a GPT directly inside Blender to Talk Geometry Nodes - because I want to tie geometry nodes to external data to external data which runs as python inside blender that draws the object geometry that suitabley shows/diagrams out the nodes of my game I am slowly piecing together 'The Oligarchs' which is an updated Illuminati style game - but with updates using AI to creat nodes directly from Oligarch IRL files, such as their SEC Filings, Panama Papers, and all the tools on HN are suited to creating.
I went to school for Softimage & Alias|WAVEFRONT (which became MAYA) Animation in 1995 :-)

So I like your DNA.

I want to unpack the relationships of the Oligarch, programmatically, with hexagonal nodes, similar to this[0]- but driven by Node-based-python-blocks-GraphQL-hierachy. And I am slowly learning how to get GPTBots to spit out the appropriate Elements for me to get there.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSr6yUBs8tY

(ive posted a bunch of disjointed information on this on HN - more specifically about how to compartmentalize GPT responses and code and how to drive them to write code using Style-Guide, and gather data using structures rules for how the outputs need to be presented..)

EDIT:

I throw commands at lit like this, where I tell it to "give me a ps1 that sets a fastAPI directory structure, creates the venv, touches the correct files give me a readme and follow the best practice for fastAPI from [this github repo from netflix]

And it gave me that script...

Then, here is the following when I want to document it. Then, Ill take that script and tell it to give me a webUI to run it and invoke it and add logging and dashboards.

I do this to practice making tooling logic doo-dads on the fly, and then iterate through them.

https://i.imgur.com/7YOjJf8.png

https://i.imgur.com/KecrvfZ.png

https://i.imgur.com/tKYsmb9.png

https://i.imgur.com/nCGOfSU.png

https://i.imgur.com/ayDrXZA.png

Etc -- I always make it diagram. Now I can throw a bunch of blocks in a directory and tell it to grab the components from the directory and build [THIS INTENT].app for my.
The program had waiting lists on some classes larger than the class itself.

If the problem was they needed new blood it seems they could have hired it in right over the top.

The one year term limits the ability of these other instructors to build teaching chops and reputations. It does seem self-protective/retaliatory by the senior professors.
Hey thanks for your thoughtful response.

In terms of what we may/not be missing out on, I say that because it seems few of the possibilities remaining after a century of investigation (many worlds, relational/information based approaches, etc) contain any new physics or scientific insight.

Eg if we could somehow tell that MW or pilot wave theory is "correct", we would still have nothing to do but shut up and calculate the same things, no?

If unitary evolution continues in some sense, we would still need to throw factors away in order for the theory to remain predictive to us.

Particles are only observed to be in a single place at a single time. My understanding is that it may be that we lose the perspective necessary to see them elsewhere, since we are embedded in the same eigenstate (or something close to it). But the task of science is confined to observables. I question, what are the scientific questions that collapse postulate holds back from being solved?
That's a shame, really. You are risking that none of your stuff will show up on search engines, not even Marginalia. You are risking that none of your stuff will be saved in the Wayback Machine. Maybe you want that, in which case you should block all the clouds and data centers, just to be sure. You might even be blocking your site from some small ISPs based on where they run their CGNAT gateway (I doubt this, but it's possible).

As far as I noticed, ping with a spoofed source address is the only actual abuse mentioned in the article. It should go without saying that you can't tell if a spoofed ping packet came from AWS, because the source address is the address the spoofer wants you to send a reply to, not the spoofer's address. And a much less invasive mitigation would be rate-limiting pings to, say, 10 per second.

While the Internet is becoming balkanized this is mostly because of social media siloing itself to generate advertising and data revenue and to extract profit from AI training data (e.g. the Reddit/Google exclusivity deal) rather than because of providers blocking IP ranges.

I certainly don't understand the rational mindset behind blocking certain providers over some pings and then complaining about IP connectivity becoming balkanized. The balkanization is caused by the ones doing the blocking.
It's not exactly fine print! It's clearly stated everytime you open an Incognito window.

Your activity might still be visible to:

Websites that you visit

Your employer or school

Your Internet service provider

There's a "Learn more" link and if it was hidden there you'd have a point, but it's hard to imagine how to make this more clear.
Bletchley Park is excellent - I went in the early 2000s when it was just some huts and a country house. I return in 2024 and they now have full exhibitions, including one that goes through the full history and workings of the Bombe. I thought I was a bit of an Enigma nerd but it turns out I hadn't heard of Lorenz/Tunny at all and so it really added another layer to my knowledge of the work at Bletchley.

Also visiting Bletchley and then watching the Imitation Game makes it seem like the rushed medical drama from Mitchell and Webb [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_AmdvxbPT8
Jai?
I get where you're coming from - Copilot is very cheap and useful! We want the free version of CodeViz to be as useful as possible for you. Some features, like the second architecture layer, are just expensive for us.

Personally, I spend a small fraction of my time actually typing code and much more time gathering context & building a mental map. CodeViz speeds up the mental map part, so we hope to deliver much more value than $19/mo

Let me know if there's anything missing from CodeViz that would change your mind!
Increasing Mortality Rates in the US, but Not from Covid-19
if you have recently been in rural parts of the us of america, you would already know that shopping elsewhere is at times, even in current year, at best a convenience, at worst the only option there. some even carry produce and fresh meat. when money is tight, or time, you may be able to walk to a dollar general, but not to the nearest grocery store.

this is not praise for dollar general, there are plenty of issues. but you have missed or omitted important details, as to why dollar general may know something you do not.
Again. The 33% smaller die and cost savings ( or at least room for Broadcom to charge them a little less ) is minuscule compared to the cost of DRAM.

While LPDDR are slowly approaching DDR5's level, we still need to find way to lower cost. It doesn't seems there are any breakthrough or idea to push production cost of DRAM down to $1/GB.
> There’s a master list that they have to submit their site to and go through an approval process.

Wtf, seriously? I skimmed the post and honestly didn’t think RWS was so bad, assuming that obviously it would be decentralized. A centralized list that Google (or some shell consortium) controls is the biggest no-no. Decades of erosion of web principles have clearly made us complacent.
Show HN: Amine – Prevents you from switching 100s of Browser Tabs
I made this out of necessity. I just cant stop switching tabs while I must be doing something else!
And I have found a lot many people who have faced this. What about you?

I had tried blockers like Cold Turkey, Freedom and RescueTime but they lack a lot many features I wanted. They leave you dependent upon your will power, but Will Power is not just enough!

I tried to address the things which none other tool seems to eliminate. Key combinations, Mouse movements to switch tabs, leaving the full screen when temptation hits, etc.

I learnt a lot about Threading and UI design on the process, and finally forced myself to learn Figma.

Hope this helps, at least one person :)
Writing as a Means of Slowing Down
These states salivate at every opportunity to cut themselves off at the knees with tax cuts. They tend to receive a disproportionate amount of federal funding but that isn't enough to maintain high quality services and you get these sort of death panels meant to restrict spending so that the top earners can pretend they're going to trickle down their wealth. Tennessee is a tax haven state. They are the worst offenders at this.
Harry Potter has been published more than 20 years ago

Children stories may have a long life. For example, the brothers Grimm stories are still with us.
For something completely different, try the old Viva/Azido stuff. It looks like there's a stray MSI file online: https://github.com/abdullin/viva-tools/tree/main/files . Be sure to get the subfolders near it. It will run on Wine. You could learn Verilog alongside it, just so it you appreciate what Viva tried to do. Also, you should learn LISP or Scheme.
> Apple had to create a 32-bit version of the OSX operating system for Intel’s x86 architecture before quickly phasing it out because Intel was late releasing its 64-bit Core 2 architecture designs.

I've read before that internally, OSX always had a working x86 port, to ensure the OS is actually portable should the need for a switch arise. Like it did in the past with older macos versions. So in that case they even got lucky because it was the very architecture they switched to.
The link at YT should be

https://dynamicland.org/

for the video-challenged.
> I'm looking for the Swahili and the Japanese of programming. Something completely different, that will expand the ways I'm thinking about programming.

Smalltalk and Haskell.

I would have said Lisp/Scheme, but if you've already tried Clojure then you likely wouldn't gain anything from it.
Yes, send the elite Brazilians to fly black helicopters and get the job done Rambo style.
also where the word "statistics" comes from:

> The term statistics is ultimately derived from the Neo-Latin statisticum collegium ("council of state") and the Italian word statista ("statesman" or "politician"). The German Statistik, first introduced by Gottfried Achenwall (1749), originally designated the analysis of data about the state, signifying the "science of state" (then called political arithmetic in English).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_statistics#Etymolog...
I blame it on cybersecurity experts lol. They probably went all alarmist and decided that having that was a giant security risk.
I promise that I wasn't attacking you. More just commiserating over the sad state of the situation we find ourselves in as of right now.

I don't know what the solution to this problem will look like, but (like so many other solutions) I'm also pretty sure that it won't involve a blockchain.
> YAGNI - For lots of small data tasks, pandas is perfectly fine.

There’s a real possibility the growth of single node RAM capacity will perpetually outpace the growth of a business’s data. AWS has machines with 32 TB RAM now.

It’s a real question as to whether big data systems become more accessible before single node machines become massive enough to consume almost every data set.

(Also love your work, thank you)
In that vein, take a look at Datalog and Egglog.
It was Warsaw who first suggested implementing `import this` back in 2001! https://www.wefearchange.org/2010/06/import-this-and-zen-of-...
I don't think it's that amazing for an engineer. Google is much better if you're looking for things related to Intel compilers, for example. Try searching for «intel ipo fuse-ld=lld icx» on both engines.

Note: I am a paying Kagi customer
I think you should look at the Bootlegs and Baptists aspect of this, because I think you're missing what I'm saying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists

I work in the legal space and have worked around the Hill, this absolutely happens. State laws, etc have also become more stringent on certain things, which adds a new layer.
Notably the base tutorials use Claude Haiku, which is much, much harder to wrangle with prompt engineering than Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

The tool tutorials do use Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which makes more sense: Haiku has a very bad habit of flat-out ignoring the tool schema.
Full text?
Take it over how when it's very possible that only Durov has access to some of the more important keys?
> The holy anointing oil given to Moses in exodus may have contained cannabis!

Human history makes a lot more coherent sense if the people in power were high or tripping balls all the time.