skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not a shift in usage, it’s a term of art. Informally it could mean just crossing the line to enter the business, but unless you live in a turn-of-the-century company town, no one in the union is expecting anything related to that by default.

In labor, “respecting the picket line” is a moral action for union members (or scabs) which by definition couldn’t apply to a spontaneous self-directed consumer boycott.

Not to put to fine a point on it: if you show up to someone else’s labor action claiming solidarity, and then independently decide to pivot the action to a totally different set of economic incentives, you are — almost literally! — a scab.
> becomes the error returned by the entire function

If you find the error returned by f.Close to be significant, are you sure returning again it is the right course of action? Most likely you want to do something more meaningful with that state, like retrying the write with an alternate storage device.

Returning the error is giving up, and giving up just because a file didn't close does not make for a very robust system. Not all programs need to be robust, necessarily, but Go is definitely geared towards building systems that are intended to be robust.
The account recovery process for commercial email providers usually involves you photographing your ID. Presumably the post office, in person, would be far less likely to be fooled.
Just a quick look, here's one that plays into the mainstream narrative that Hamas is hiding out in hospitals and schools and therefore it's understandable to bomb them: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/10/world/middleeast/airstrik...
I don't really understand why first cities allow private vehicles in general. Either you have commercial plates or you are basically a nuisance to residents and your convenience lowers the value of voter's residency.

I don't think main street has an argument any more for why we should risk getting run over for out of town shoppers and office space can largely be rezoned.

I don't particularly like the experience of walking in a city with bikers, but at least they are engaging in as much risk as they put others through and accidents with them are likely to be short term inconvenience instead of permanent injuries and death.
Wouldn't the true exit node be the ISP as you are one clear node behind them? How many ISP execs get raided by SWAT teams?
Two Delta planes collide on an Atlanta taxiway, knocking the tail off one
IANAL, but i imagine it comes down to how many legit purposes tor has vs the illegal ones.

I have no idea where the line is, but like we dont charge art supply stores with facilitating forgery, so some amount of bad usage is clearly acceptable.
What law mandates forced compliance outside subpoenas?
I'm partial to their DNA work: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/dna-storage...
I commented elsewhere on this; Butterick uses small caps for internal links in Practical Typography: https://practicaltypography.com/

I think he got this style from classic reference books like Elements of Style. It does look super sharp.
The Pandora Effect: The Power and Peril of Curiosity
I actually think that Tor should deemphasize exit nodes and trying to provide access to the clearnet, in favor of better hidden services.

Nearly every major site ends up either totally blocking anything that comes from a Tor relay, or applying massive numbers of weird CAPTCHAs and restrictions, so it's getting to be basically unusable anyway.
> As a parent of very young children I have an extensive network of friends and contacts in my neighbourhood who also have children. As we know the subject of paedophilia is not one that can be debated with any rationality at all in the UK. It is surrounded by hysteria. I was terrified that people would find out that my computer had been taken because of that – ‘no smoke without fire’.
The core question here is w whether law enforcement actually believes, incorrectly, that the exit node operators are being intentionally unhelpful, or if they understand that due to Tor’s design the exit node operators have no valuable information but the police continue to raid them anyway as a scare tactic.
Or don't! It's fine to be pro-labor but for your interests not to intersect with every strike. One might have a different opinion about the moral weight of an NYT strike versus that of the Marriott hotel housekeeping staff, for instance. You might personally find yourself morally aligned with every strike, and in that case you should pay attention to what the strikers are asking. Or you might not. Things are complicated!

Either way: it is not in fact a given that customers are obliged by solidarity to boycott businesses dealing with strikes.
It's not like these businesses in the origin countries are hiding or running in the shadows. They pretty blatantly advertise everywhere. Origin countries will bust them on occasion to get an international agreement through, but agents do what agents do and the police / justice system really don't care about resolving it.

Plus these same agents are the ones helping people with their domestic paperwork needs, and greasing the right palms along the way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797616631733

Abstract: Curiosity—the desire for information—underlies many human activities, from reading celebrity gossip to developing nuclear science. Curiosity is well recognized as a human blessing. Is it also a human curse? Tales about such things as Pandora’s box suggest that it is, but scientific evidence is lacking. In four controlled experiments, we demonstrated that curiosity could lead humans to expose themselves to aversive stimuli (even electric shocks) for no apparent benefits. The research suggests that humans possess an inherent desire, independent of consequentialist considerations, to resolve uncertainty; when facing something uncertain and feeling curious, they will act to resolve the uncertainty even if they expect negative consequences. This research reveals the potential perverse side of curiosity, and is particularly relevant to the current epoch, the epoch of information, and to the scientific community, a community with high curiosity.
They're not fully sealed. There are two shafts which connect the King's chamber to the exterior of the pyramid. The lower ritual congregation area is not fully sealed off from the upper chambers either. Which means bats are a constant problem in pyramids.

You could easily get a fire going inside one.
No, it isn't. You can see why people online would want it to be! But boycotts and strikes are different things.
Did anyone else notice that according to the generation info, each recording was created on 12/31/69 at 4:00 PM?
The US and industry lobbyists created truck bloat in the first place by writing the CAFE standards in such a backwards way.
Interesting - listening to the first example (Attention is all you need)[1] - I wonder what illuminate would make of Fielding's REST thesis?

[1] https://illuminate.google.com/home?pli=1&play=SKUdNc_PPLL8
The Map of the Observable Universe
As another said,

It's completely different from the Steele Dossier. Project 2025 was written by dozens of former Trump administration officials and surrogates, by an organization he has previously outsourced policy to, and largely aligns with what he and his top advisors have said they want to do. He even praised the project before it became well known.
But now the name has become toxic so he's trying to distance himself from it, but he hasn't disavowed much of the content.
Sometimes it seems as if convenience and price are the technologies that are at the top of the list of consumers in the US market, and that other considerations come in a distant third. We seem to pay little attention to our collective goodwill these days.

I hope we can start putting our money where our mouth is, though.

(Adding on instead of making a new comment)

These are the kind of personal robots I am more interested in. I'm imagining an autonomous, voice-controlled (this isn't exactly that, but it's very close) little robot buddy, like a Destiny 2 Ghost. This is productized to be something different than that, but maybe this is a closer form factor (with what seems like useful protective nacelles to prevent it from damaging its environment).

It has wifi, and it wouldn’t be a stretch to have a 5G modem in a more expensive model (DJI has a deep bench at this point, all the way up to agriculture and delivery drones that have serious radio communication arrays).

I feel like with all the companies rushing to humanoid robotics, there should be a place for alternate forms like little drone buddies?

There seems like there could be a really sweet price-to-performance ratio that could open up a $1K or 2K personal robot that isn’t about doing tasks, but about remote sensing and processing?
Oracle designing data center powered by nuclear reactors
> people jumping in front of it should not even factor in

What? People will eventually end up in front of a car, either by their own mistake or when a inattentive driver hits them, it will happen. Factoring that in those unfortunate occasions you want the human being to have higher chances to survive is fucking absolutely a factor.

I'm sorry to ask this on HN but: are you a moron or a troll?
Those are all things which can be printed out and stored in alternative forms and possibly even recreated from other data. It's also the case that much of that data will never be permanently at rest and so several archive copies of the data exist.

Recordings of performances are an entirely different category of artefact.
Kind of unfair if you are actually using it then though? I'm not in the US and don't have an SUV, but I sort of sympathise with that. You could have it not apply/be tax deductible for applicable businesses or something though, that would go some way.

Or maybe better to charge a big daily tariff for driving it in metro areas? So if it's only being 'actually used' it will never hit the tariff, whoever you are, business or not, and however rich. But if you take it between school, Wholefoods, and the soccer field, bam. (I don't know if the infrastructure to do that is common in the US though, I'm imagining like London's U/LEZ & congestion charge.)
I can’t think of many consumer products more dangerous and widespread than cars. Going from a suggestion that we make them safer to “What’s next, regulate everything?” is quite the jump.
I use jupyter notebooks at work, not so much for academic stuff, but often to help build and show a narrative to folks, including executives (where I have any even remotely technical leadership). It's great for narrative stuff, especially being able to emit PDFs and what not. I've been in a number of meetings where I've got the code up in Jupyter, sharing the screen, and leadership want us to tweak numbers and see the consequences.

It's great for exploring code and data too, especially situations where I'm really trying to feel my way towards a solution. I get to merrily intermingle rich text narrative and code so I explain how I got to where I got to and can walk people through it (I did that with some experimenting with an SMT solver several months ago, meant that people that had no experience with an SMT solver could understand the model I built).

I'd never use it to share code though. If we get to that stage, it's time to export from jupyter (which it natively supports), and then tidy up the code and productionise it. There's no way jupyter should be the deployed thing.
How "Am I the Asshole?" ate the internet
A scab is someone who works in violation of a strike. It's not a generic term for anybody disfavored by labor activists.
It's not really a solution though because you only notice you need to do it after it triggers a bug.

You need a format that doesn't let you make this mistake in the first place, like [everything except YAML].
It's good to have a third place (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place).
Not having to move off the home row with a trackpoint is great for RSI.
Many people have legitimate needs and uses for pickup trucks and SUVs, and the definition of "dangerously oversized" and unsafe is rather subjective. Should semi trucks be banned because they are "dangerously oversized"? What should people use to move large and heavy items? Should farmers be prevented from having the vehicles they need to do their job?

While I agree that large pickup trucks and SUVs pose an increased risk to pedestrians, particularly in urban areas, and should be discouraged as single person commuter vehicles, particularly in urban areas, there are a lot of other use cases. What should someone who needs to move bulky/heavy/rough things with regularity and can only afford to have one vehicle use?

Discouraging negative externalities through taxation makes sense, but setting taxes to be so punitive that they make it difficult for people to afford the vehicles they need to do what they need to do is also harmful.

As an example, I have a pickup truck and a regular car. Driving around town I use my regular car, but when I need to move large or heavy things I use my truck. It's much more convenient to be able to use my truck when I need it rather than having to rent one every time or hire a company to move things for me.

The pickup truck is large (RAM 1500), and some would argue it's dangerously oversized, but its size is needed when I need to do truck things with it. The truck being affordable means I can afford to have a regular sized vehicle for tasks that don't involve moving big/heavy/dirty things.
I don't think anybody got poisoned.
Well the great thing about U.S.C is that you don't have to imagine, you can read the docs.

Measure of purposes, 'legit or otherwise', is not a law for anything ever.
The disunity of consciousness in everyday experience
The original post mentioned facilitation, which from what i understand is when you assist comitting a crime but have no secific knowledge of the crime.

I imagine for tor, the reason is that there are also good uses for tor. However i dont think "i intentionally know nothing" works as a defence in general.

Ianal
The Onion: Scientists Successfully Teach Gorilla It Will Die Someday

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CJkWS4t4l0k
Frankly, humans also sometimes remember things incorrectly or pay excess attention to the less significant topics while discussing a book.

In this regard, LLMs are imperfect like ourselves, just to a different extent.
It seems like anything you can configure with next.js applies here. And TIL'd there isn't a way to globally disable prefetching[0] with it. You can disable it per individual link, or write & use a custom link component.

[0] https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/24437
That close to 100, I'll just do 83*100 - 83*3
Yes the IP was just a DO vps I setup to be a Tor exit.

That's why they requested my personal account information, billing info, IPs that I logged into DO with, all of that.

If not interrupted by me getting the help of the amazing EFF lawyers, the next step after getting my personal information, could have been to raid my home and seize all my electronics. I work from home and would have been greatly disrupted and not been able to work without my computers and etc. Then I'd have to wait months/years to be found innocent and then get all of my electronics back + spend thousands on lawyers.

During all of this, the EFF lawyers straight up told me to prepare my home as if it were to be raided and encrypt all my devices.

Thankfully it did not come to that.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.

>Cheney with pretty unsavory characters in history, but now he’s lauded by progressives. This shit is getting weird.

We've always been at war with Eurasia.

Ok I'm done with the clichés.
Your mixing up general Tor use vs Tor hidden services. With hidden services there’s not really an exit node because the traffic never exits the Tor network.

Charlie could only see the machine in the final step of requesting the illegal content it Charlie was hosting the hidden service themselves. These requests can come from many different Tor operators not just exit nodes.
Consumer demand is often cited as the reason for this but that ignores the role of advertising in creating consumer preferences.
(2018)

And 102 comments on HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18588697
FortNine explored the data on frontal area and deaths in this excellent video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YpuX-5E7xoU
Ceph: 20 Years of Cutting-Edge Storage at the Edge
Huh, I'm surprised by that take. await is one of the easiest-to-comprehend and readable approaches to concurrency. Slack summarized this better than I can, see the async/await section of their post https://slack.engineering/hacklang-at-slack-a-better-php/

Without async/await, PHP will remain a bad fit for large-scale applications that need to query data from numerous distinct services or data stores for a single page load without incurring major latency. It was an absolutely essential feature of Hack at Facebook. Lack of async/await in PHP was a huge problem at Tumblr when trying to reduce latency.
I am quite skeptical about the possibility of condensing the complexity of “intelligence” down to a single number “g”, but even if this were some kind of approximate metric for actual intelligence, I do not see how this type of “research” is of any use. It only seems to promote unnecessary social abrasion by letting those who belong to the more “intelligent” fields inhale too deeply of their own success and making the others feel less. It is at best misleading and at worst borderline eugenics.
But flipping the script: bomb threats and Qatar conducting international espionage aren't silly things as far as the government is concerned, and if we intentionally interpose ourselves in the comms channel in a way that the attack trace stops at us, we should be expecting follow-up from a human being tasked with enforcing the law, right?
I've bought v1 and I'm quite happy with it as it is. It's just that I've been looking forward to the tweaks that'd been described for the last year and a half, like[0]:

"We threw away almost all of v1.00X, Berkeley Mono v2.000 improves substantially on legibility, fitting, and cohesiveness, especially for bold weights."

If I hadn't heard of v2 I wouldn't be missing it. But I have heard of it, goshdarnit, and now I want to see the new shininess!

[0]https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1629588764560625664
> Feels like every Tom, Dick, and Harry around where I live is driving a 3-ton or greater truck that's never seen anything more strenuous than getting a load of fertilizer for mom's garden, and like, that's fine.

Yup. An Audi mid-size SUV has a towing capacity of nearly 8,000lb. Moving your horse from the top paddock to the bottom and back, every six months does not mean you need a dual-wheeled F350 as your daily driver.
Pretty much. You see hobbyists getting data off of 30+ year old hard drives for the novelty of it, but I can’t imagine relying on that as a preservation copy. Optical media rots, magnetic media rots and loses magnetic charge, bearings seize, flash storage loses charge, etc. Entropy wins, sometimes much faster than you’d expect.
The comparison is little incompatible: 7,522 of those 40k are vehicle vs pedestrian (per OP).

Almost 14k of the 40k are drunk driving: if you want to move the needle that's another big chunk to look at. https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving
That lines up with 1/1/70 0:00 UTC, but that's also hilarious.
They can't say they're breaking the law but as long as they don't admit to wrongdoing they can accomplish the goal of picking up pretty much anyone for something..

It's best to assume the government is a hostile, rabid actor who will seize any reachable assets and your freedom at any point they wish and proceed accordingly.
Former car designer here - big3. The root cause is tax policies. Any vehicle classified as a “truck” is protected from overseas competition by a 25 pc tariff (jfk era), and since Clinton/Bush there is a tax write off available to business owners if the weight was more than 5600# it’s now 6500#.

I.E., there is a tax incentive to make trucks and buy them.

The occupant safety regulations means we make the worlds safest vehicles (for occupants) - roll over regulations have made the an and bill pillars thicker.

If we manage to remove the tariff protection and remove the tax incentives to buy trucks - we will save lives.
Off-topic, but your bio sent me down a fun rabbit hole with ChatGPT.
Communications act of 1934, among others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Act_of_1934#Wir...
Yeah! Under the hood, DBOS wraps each function (step) to log its output in the database. This ensures that workflows can be safely re-executed if they're interrupted, guaranteeing durability.

More info here: https://docs.dbos.dev/explanations/how-workflows-work
How is a single pixel of difference in potentially hundreds of pages of text a meaningful change? It isn't changing the characters or story itself in the slightest.

Please, defend that point as an actual argument that it's then somehow fair use to change one pixel of an ebook and have it be a meaningfully different work.
Man there’s everything to love about this. A novel free dataset, complete example code, clear description of how to get it up and running—the ideal blog post IMHO. Delighted to learn about it.
Kinoroll – a curated list of programming and CS posts
I would guess a good chunk of them are comment moderators.
Would it be correct to say the these client libraries provide the functionality (eg ease of transactions, once only, recovery) whereas your cloud offering solves the scaling / performance issues you’d hit trying to do this with a regular pg compatible DB?

I do a lot of consulting on Kafka-related architectures and really like the concept of DBOS.

Customers tend to hit a wall of complexity when they want to actually use their streaming data (as distinct from simply piping it into a DWH).. being able to delegate a lot of that complexity to the lower layers is very appealing.

Would DBOS align with / complement these types of Kafka streaming pipelines or are you addressing a different need?
Hidden service connections don't go through exit nodes. In theory it's two back-to-back Tor connection that meet somewhere in the network, but you can also think of it (possibly more correctly) as a six-hop Tor connection to an exit node that is only used to directly connect to the backend server. If set up right this prevents government sniffing at all points.
It is not clear to me whether going on a strike is a good idea for the New York Times tech workers:

Since media is not a sector that has high margins, when a company gets under pressure to have to increase the salaries (e.g. by strikes), the management better starts to analyze how you can reduce the number of, in this case, tech workers because with thin margins, budging in these negotiations is much more dangerous for the mere existence of the business than if the margins are high.

Instead of going on strike, it would in my opinion be a better idea for the tech workers to look for a better paid job in an industry with higher margins.
perhaps an unpopular view as Tor has been a great legal canary and a useful privacy service, but it has also been a substitute for organizing.

if you use Tor you already know what's going on. onion routing didn't save anyone from anything in 20 years. the evils Tor enabled often seem to trace back to the very states and establishments who manage and tolerate them. drug cartels run several of the governments Tor ostensibly protects users from, and human trafficking is within a degree of most western establishments in every direction, from "NGOs" to intelligence operations to the sex trade.

if you want privacy, tech is an inferior solution. make nations that protect it.