skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think he had a clue what he was trying to say, but I guess it was about retaining IP addresses, or domains, and not entire URLs. I don't think that Tor even runs over HTTP, so I have no idea if an ISP would log anything.

I think a court warrant is needed before the ISP records can be accessed.

What ASIO can do, however, may be a different story.
Agreed 100%, and it's hard to believe how many corporate software developers actively resist this concept.

Once the code works, many refuse to invest any time into properly restructuring it for presentation (review) and for posterity (git commit log).
In the West the numerals we use are known as "Arabic numerals" because it came from the middle east. But in the middle east the same numerals are known as "Indian numerals" because that's where they got it from.

Similarly, algebra came from the middle east where it was called "al-Jabr" [1], but they in turn got it from India [2].

The invention of calculus is traditionally attributed to Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz. But this book [3] says calculus was brought into being in India in the 14th century by a mathematician named Madhava.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jabr

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/01/hidden...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/books/review/the-secret-l...
It's hard to say whether that would work without knowing the landscape of market in that area, like if there's a need and if there are competitors. It sounds like what you're suggestion could be a full blown app with accounts that link to AWS? Or would it be a tool lib you pay to download?

I'm trying to look for ideas that won't require marketing or anything other than just making the software. It seems something like a donation based business model or a small fee perpetual license, and it would be for end users, but so far it seems those are extremely rare.
As a former Sunday NYT subscriber I would like to see more pay go to hiring and retaining journalists and less to so-called "tech" workers. The web development nonsense has made the NYT worse, not better to this reader. Other readers may disagree.
Interactive tool for visualizing peak oil
I mean... we're seeing a bit of a trend in defederated and alternative platforms to Twitter right now, with Mastodon and Nostr and the like, but as far as I'm aware no one has built a Solid-based platform. At least I don't recall seeing it mentioned on HN, and the last story about Solid is two years old, and got no comments.

There are more current comments about Solid but most seem to be along the lines of "I like the concept but no one seems to be building anything with it."

That's where I sit with it. As a Mastodon and Pixelfed enjoyer, one of the huge flaws I find with the ActivityPub protocol is the way identity is tied to specific instances. Just having a flat metadata file, maybe with a pgp signature, acting as a global identity for all applications using a protocol and having direct control over my data would be great.

So yeah I guess it's dead. Shame.
I think color schemes that make comments nearly invisible are just bad. Visual Studio's default color schemes have it right. Comments are not treated as lesser than anything else.

As long as they aren't being placed every couple of lines they shouldn't really be a nuisance when reading through code.

And to me not updating the comments is the same as not updating the name of a variable when its purpose changes. The compiler doesn't care that you didn't update the name, but people reading the code do.

Also when it comes to "future you", you basically should think of yourself in the future as a different person. Because unless you are constantly working with the same bits of code, you will forget details and possibly even the high-level.
Read carefully and pay attention to attribution.

Are the (your quotes) 'news' writers engaging in hyperbole themselves, or are they using flat language to report upon what the Motion Picture Association (MPA) claimed and asserted via a spokesperson?

In:

"The takedown of Fmovies is a stunning victory for casts, crews, writers, directors, studios, and the creative community across the globe," Motion Picture Association (MPA) CEO Charles Rivkin said today.

The news writers wrote: "Motion Picture Association (MPA) CEO Charles Rivkin said today."

This appears to be accurate and neutral reporting language.

CEO Charles Rivkin said: "The takedown of Fmovies is a stunning victory ..."

This is hyperbole.
> Django Querycount

This seems pretty much like a must have when you think about it: so where’s the equivalents for .NET, Java, Node, Go, Rails and others?

I can’t believe that every web framework that has an ORM or just a connection to the database doesn’t provide summaries like this.

At best, you can look into some tracing options that might reveal where the the execution time went.

I do hope that there are options out there (or might have to try and fail writing something myself) because I can immediately think of a few legacy projects where N+1 is prevalent, maybe even in the new code, depending on who wrote it; some people genuinely believe that using the service pattern and a lot of DB calls for a single API request is okay.
Is there anything like a thin virtualization/sandboxing tool for Android? As the user, I (not the Android OS), should have ultimate say in what information apps have access to. I should be able to feed any app fake GPS, contact, gallery, permissions, rooted state, and sideloaded state information as I choose.
Trying to enforce healthier eating on our daughter lead to her being underweight.

Her nutritionist, pediatrician, endocrinologist, and therapist all advised us it was better to allow her to eat her comfort foods rather than fight her on it.

So no, kids aren't like dogs.
agreed, this is a genuine problem - I tend to dismiss this as a skill issue on my part, hence putting them all together
Uh hello, journalists also don't choose the theme they write in. That's also management
Betteridge's law of headlines: if a headline is framed as a question, the answer is usually "no".
Coming from an area of programming where dataframes/tables are the first-class citizen this is mind blowing to me. Is there a reason for doing things this way by default? I guess it puts off having to think about complex queries, but it also means performance is degraded multiplicatively the more tables you're pulling in, right? Is the tradeoff really just "it's easier to set up any old garbage and fix performance later"?
Do you only send PRs with one commit in them every time?

I find in my work that if I were doing a three-commit series like this, I would end up sending in a PR on Thursday, containing all three commits. This is because I can’t be sure the refactor works well until I use the results of it with the new code, for example.

In the scenario I’m talking about, to adapt it to yours, both developers send out their PR or stack on Thursday. Later that day, the refactor commit is approved, but the new API is still under discussion. That discussion takes a full day to get signed off. On Friday, the full PR/stack has been reviewed and all changes are ready to land.

In this scenario, the refactor lands from the stack on Thursday, and the rest lands Friday. In the PR world, both end up landing Friday, because the refactor, as part of the PR, doesn’t land until the whole PR does.
Blender's got a constraint solver for IK, right? How much spaghetti code do we need to add to give it a full CAD kernel? It already does everything else!

I've honestly wished I could use it to make vector graphics sometimes, but that also needs some of the basic elements of CAD (parallel edges, radius constraints etc). It's so close to parametric modeling too, with the mesh modifiers, drivers, and now geo-nodes.

Of course, I believe there are a few CAD plugins, but I've never used them, so I can't speak to their efficacy.
We did start doing that, though now our daughter has moved on from chicken nuggets to a new comfort food.
I once had to deliver multiple DB Catia environments to multiple groups of designers's PCs. We used a chained series of Novell (as was) Zenworks apps (bundles these days). The environments are largely defined through env vars.

So, an app to deliver the various versions of the code, followed by an app to set the env vars for the job in hand, followed by an app to tweak, say drive letters and other things and finally another one to start the interface. All of that lot is defined within a GUI. You could capture the env vars through a "snapshot" - basically a diff. from before and after an application installation on a test machine. Nowadays you'd probably use Ansible and a lot of guesswork and farting around.

I'm a sysadmin but I have been trying to get to grips with FreeCAD for years. Mind you, I once got my parents to buy me a 80287 maths co-pro. so I could run a dodgy copy of AutoCAD 2(?) I gather that the FreeCAD kernel can now deal with a lot of weird stuff and not go mad when you make ill-advised constraints.

As for emacs/vim - not for me mate! I compiled emacs on a Pentium II and decided against it after a while. I tolerate vim because it is ubiquitous, but then so is dandruff.
Inclusion in a phone books was optional. Edit: And required setting up a phone line with the company distributing this information.
anecdotes are not evidence
> A hypergraph is clearly a data structure which demands a lot of cyclic references...

Does it? The easiest data structure is a 2d array with rows corresponding to nodes and columns corresponding to edges. If nodes aren't allowed to touch an edge more than once, it's just a matrix of bools. No references needed!
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Easy, just tip them through an app of their choise or cash. Luckily this is common in Europe
Every web framework I've used has had an equivalent, they're widely available. Specifically I've seen this same pattern for .NET MVC and for Rails. I've never looked for one of these and not found it.
This is a curious case of bait and switch. Ireland attracts Apple through low taxes. The EU rules this is an illegal subsidy for Apple by Ireland, harming other member states. So why should Ireland be entitled to the money, but not those member states?
IMO the biggest thing is the auto-dimension tool. Instead of remembering 10 different keyboard shortcuts or constantly having to click on the toolbar, I just need to remember a single shortcut.
I don't get that. If you're not using an ORM, you're simply looking at writing the queries to satisfy your requirements - nothing is guiding you towards an N+1 path.

There's nothing inherent about how we access data in a relational world that means we have to adopt such an anti-pattern. It does mean that you have to think ahead a little bit though.
It is still illegal in every US state. States can legalize it at the level of their own laws, and they can choose not to enforce federal laws, but that doesn't actually make it legal while federal laws are in place that conflict. A federal agent could choose to walk into any dispensary in a "legal" state and arrest everyone there, and they could be prosecuted in federal court. Yet at a practical level there has been a decision to defer to the states on what they will enforce, but that is a decision of executive authority rather than the law.
Ugh, the cost of that bike shed hurts. It's more money than my bike enthusiast father has ever had in net total assets (not accounting for pension, but yes accounting for house) + my entire net worth as an adult man in my thirties, and that's just a one for one number comparison without accounting for exchange. Hopefully it'll do it's job well and last forever, but it's just another reminder that whichever number I come up with to charge someone for services, it's not enough until it feels absurd, otherwise it'll get spent on some other totally asinine thing (not that a bike shelter is asinine, but the cost compared to the result does seem to be).
The style becoming identifiable and stale has mostly to do with CFG and almost nothing with the dataset, the heavy use of CFG by most models trades diversity with coherency. You don't need a costant intake of new images and styles, it's like saying that an image created two years ago is stale because it doesn't follow a new style or something.

Also Pixtral is not a text-to-image model.
Perhaps so! I didn’t see it defined anywhere earlier.
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Ah yeah, never figured out how to login after creating an account on that website. The login page I always ended up on doesn't look like the one in screenshot, though? The one I saw looked more like a 90s login page:
https://row5.vfsglobal.com/GlobalAppointment/Account/Registe...

Ended up flying back to the home country to get my IDs renewed. It's fun when you ID expires in less than six months so you can't leave the country until you got your new IDs
Penn and Teller did a show 20 years ago where they served snooty people food from Taco Bell. Might be worth a watch.
What a profoundly dishonest comparison.

There has to be an attached harm and apparent intent.
Your initial claim was that the submitted article was "propaganda" in reaction to the NYT article.

I think that claim doesn't make any sense for a number of reasons:

a) The article wasn't about Waymo, and they would not have seen any need to respond to it.

b) You're implying that this article is somehow scandalous, and that something new is being revealed, and that's why they're doing this "propaganda". That's not the case. This is not new. Waymo has described their remote operator setup for years, and nothing new is being being revealed here about how the companies operate in general, and about Waymo in specific (see point a; the article has no information about Waymo except an unsourced lie and a "no comment statement").

c) The article has nothing to do with the submitted post. For this "propaganda" to be effective at refuting the article, the two would need to be in some way about the same thing. The submission is about accidents, in particular accidents leading to injuries. Remote operators have nothing to do with such accidents. Your NYT article does not suggest any such mechanism. You have not suggested any mechanism by which that happens. You have not even said what you think the problem is. Do you think the remote operators are covering up for accidents? Causing accidents? Avoiding accidents?

As far as I can tell the article is a total nothingburger, and your pushing of it in this context is just a non sequitur.

Again: Why do you think your NYT article has anything to do with the subject of this blog post? What's the part you think is scandalous and demands a response?
> I can charge it when it's not needed.

You can also run one app at a time save on RAM.
Could you give some examples of the sources you have in mind?

There is the obvious caution, especially for HTML sources, that your integration may be unstable if the HTML code is periodically updated.
IMO you are spot on. GitHub's worst sin is that it has mis-educated new generations of developers. My 16yo son uses github every day; I've needed to explain fetch + rebase to him several times. It just doesn't seem to stick; it seems foreign to the entire community he's collaborating with.
If I offer an opt-out option for my doxxing website, it'll be fine?
The state government is government, too.
Im probably still obsessed with having you riff more along the outlines of the footnote here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41481141

insanity-inducing games are very intriguing! for the purposes of formalization
Hot take: The word is "installing." There's no such thing as "sideloading."
> Doxxing means what it always has - posting someone's physical location

That's not really what it always meant. Publishing the real name of someone maintaining anonymity online is also doxing. Wikipedia uses "providing personally identifiable information" for example. There's lots of cases historically of social media users, streamers, creators getting doxed, as in their identity being revealed.
In the US at least, sort of but not really. It was definitely opt-out--for a fee.

There's a huge amount of information that is public as a matter of law. I'm sure that many people here don't like the degree of that information being public but nonetheless it is. See also recent discussion on salary information.
I hope it works. This problem is all over the place.

Close to London lies the Richard Montgomery: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery

One ship with 1400 tonnes of TNT still in it rusting away.

This solution might not be completely automated, but it’s an interesting step in the right direction.
> outlaw doxxing

> require ID to use the internet

Strange times in Australia these days.
Whenever you force push v2, v3, v4 of your branch called "foobar", you can also push branches called "foobar-v2", "foobar-v3", "foobar-v4" (pointing to identical commit hashes, respectively). The "foobar" branch is what refreshes the PR. There are no PRs for the versioned (and effectively read-only) branches, they are there for reviewer reference.
>The singular of anecdote is not data.

No funnier response to a post directly proving you wrong. L
This is how software freedom dies. If bs like this and that "web environment integrity" crap Google tried to push into Chrome last year isn't an obvious sign that Google is a monopoly and needs to be broken up then I don't know what is. It's a disgrace what Google has done to Android as a formerly open and developer friendly platform.
https://qwen2.org/vl/

>Qwen2-VL is the latest addition to the vision-language models in the Qwen series, building upon the capabilities of Qwen-VL. Compared to its predecessor, Qwen2-VL offers:

>State-of-the-Art Image Understanding

>Extended Video Comprehension

Besides, it'd have been pretty silly for them to mention it on their slides if it wasn't.
I also dabble in woodworking. There are some very fancy woodworking tools out there. They do the job better than their cheaper counterparts, but at the end of the day 3/4 of them are still largely a lifestyle thing, fueled by low tolerance mechanical engineering, industrial design, and recycling old designs that existed before quantity trumped quality. Much of that is physics, but some is story, and the word spreading part of the job of selling is all story.

If you've ever used a good chisel without a mallet you know the difference between good and cheap. But the margin for some other tools is less pronounced. I was going to use files as an example but there are some pretty crazy rasps out there today that can hog almost as well as a power tool.
Wild, isn't it? Just recently they criminalized calling 911 and lying to them about being in distress at somebody else's house. Free speech!
Have you considered, perhaps, trying the FreeCAD 1.0 release candidate? It should be very quick to make this. Part Design -> sketch -> draw your pen shape -> revolution to make it round; then sketch -> pocket to make the slot.
Quite funny that the headline omits which federal government it is referring to. As a non-Australian reader (we actually exist on the Internet!), it wasn't the federal government of my country.
Your question is a bit under-specified. Like for a web app, no official API might mean it has an "internal" API between frontend and backend.

So yeah, what kind of platforms? And what exactly do you mean by no official API?

For example, we've scraped an interactive web site, where we had to use Selenium to simulate a user in order to fill out search boxes to extract all the data.

Is that the kind of stuff you had in mind?
It didn't take 15 years to cause a problem. There was a problem long before the problem became unbearable and she needed treatment. Likely also significant nutritional and metabolic damage along the way.
No.

Phone companies only included actual customers, and it was clear when signing up what would happen. Your doxxing website has no relationship with a random celebrity or such implied consent.
I can't imagine having to deal with sweating explosives on a boat that was rolling on the sea. The nausea and headaches must've been epic.

Years ago I worked on land seismic crews drilling shot-holes for geophysical exploration. We drilled patterns of shallow shot-holes and loaded each hole with 1/4-1/2 pound (0.11-0.23 kg) of dynamite. We carried paper-wrapped sticks and a brass knife to cut the one pound (0.45 kg) sticks to size. There was a lot of bare-handed handling of those sticks and it was July in the desert southwest of the 4 Corners region. They sweated a lot. They had to be packed in to each shot-hole so some poor slob always had to be the guy with the backpack loaded with 35-40 pounds (15.9-18.1 kg) of sweating dynamite sticks and blasting caps. I had that duty more times than I can remember.

Backpacks were nowhere near as padded or utilitarian as those you can get today. This thing had an aluminum (aluminium, LOL) frame with a poly bag and after a few minutes carrying that pack the bearer had absorbed enough nitroglycerine to have a booming headache that was so horrible that you would spend the day trying not to lean your head off of vertical so that you wouldn't get more blood rushing to your skull. It was frigging awful. Worst headaches I have ever had.

On a funny note, those sticks of powder (dynamite) came wrapped in a very smooth, very absorbent brown paper a lot like cardboard without the corrugations. It was super-soft and a lot of guys would raid the powder boxes looking for the paper to use as toilet paper out in the field. They would try to find pieces that weren't soaked in nitro because if you wiped your ass with a nitro-soaked piece you would quickly be reminded of the close connection between your head and your asshole when the headache hit. We called it dyna-wipe.

Fun times.
Astronomers Watch a Giant Star Blow Bubbles
>The days of free web scraping especially for the richer sources of material are almost gone

I would say the opposite, it has never been easier to collect a huge amount of data, in particular if you have a target, also you don't even need to write a line of code if you are good at explaining Claude 3.5 Sonnet what you want to achieve and the details.
Names, images, professions, social media accounts at least. Not sure about phone numbers. But it was enough for some to be identified and threatened enough to make them hide away from their home.