skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our main business is Static ISP Proxies; here we liaise directly with datacenters and carriers such as ATT, Comcast and others to bring subnets to their network and we'll then purchase IP transit from them.

We do also have residential peer proxies available - you're right to have ethical concerns as there are bad actors out their that effectively build botnets and spread malware to get their nodes but the industry has developed a lot over the last few years and there are numerous companies, including ourselves, which have pretty strict ethical guidelines. Their are three main ways to ethically source real residential nodes:

1. Direct payment to peers for traffic sent through their devices. There are several networks like EarnApp, Honey, Pawns and others where people can sign up and earn money for bandwidth sent through their devices. We liaise with these networks to add nodes to our pool.

2. Quid pro quo with peer through providing free apps in return for the ability to route traffic through their devices. We don't currently engage in this method but we are planning on doing so within the next 12 months through a free VPN - the important thing here is that peers have to understand what they're signing up for in return for the free service - as long as you're upfront, then it is my belief that their is informed consent and it is therefore ethical; there is often a good value proposition to the customer in these cases i.e spend $7 a month on a paid VPN service or get a free one in return for exchanging a small amount of bandwidth which has zero marginal cost.

3. Offer SDK to developers to monetize applications - this is pretty common and while it is similar to 2. - the ability to distribute the SDK to various developers makes it easier to get a large number of peers online. Again though, its important app developers provide notice of this to their users and most reputable SDK providers have strict guidelines and mandatory screens that must be shown to end users prior to registering them as a residential proxy node.

There is also a lot of other things that are involved with making an ethical network - a big thing is to just signal that bad actors and criminals aren't welcome on your network. This is usually done by banning certain domains; for example, we ban all .edu and .gov domains as well as most banking/finance websites + are a member of the Internet Watch Foundation and block their listed domains. This has stops bad actors from using our proxy network for evil + protects peers in the network from bad activity going through their devices.

Happy to answer any other questions if you have them :)
> different countries manage their public services and institutions.

This is the injustice. The decisions made by these institutions are not just. Sometimes they're business decisions (e.g. a university can make more money price gouging international students, when we're getting an identical education).

There can be an overlap with privilege, but at that point you're arguing semantics. For example, I'm privileged if I don't get racially profiled by the police, but it is also unjust for police to racially profile me. To say that it's down to the institutions/countries/individuals making the decisions is the same argument as "well that bakery is a private business, they can decide not to serve you because of your nationality".

Of course there are Germans and Brits that haven't had the same opportunities that I have had, and of course it wasn't handed to me on a silver platter either; I still had to work hard. But my point is that if I were Egyptian _no_ amount of hard work or luck would have gotten me where I am. It would have been quite literally impossible.

I'm not even going to begin to crack open the can of worms that is the colonial history of the same countries (in my case the real and lingering effect that the UK has had on Egypt). The way you compare the institutions "built by the UK" and the ones "provided by Egypt" makes it sound like "well maybe Egypt should just do better m" when the reality is that the prosperity of these very countries is built on centuries of injustice and blood. Call it what you want but it's injustice all the way down.
I should have prefixed my comment by saying I'm not in America. In the country I live in, population growth effectively occurs by immigration of not-poor migrants, and that growth continues to outstrip supply. Sure, if you build more high-end houses than you need, you would see the effect you describe, but it's like emptying a swimming pool with a straw.
Are you saying that basically all co-ops are inept? I’m not saying they’re perfect but many do just fine.
Let’s add automaker to the list as well with all the cameras and microphones spying in auto cabins.
If I wanted to ensure students weren’t using this, I’d require TI-84s and weigh them before the test :P
They’d need a lot less security if they stopped spying on us and saving all of our most critical ID data, period.
Do you think that missile came thousands of kilometers away from Ukraine? Do you think it was a Houthi missile? We've seen misfires of Iron Dome rockets (I've literally been watching Iron Dome rockets firing from my back yard for years) and they look nothing like the explosion seen by this rocket - or the damage. And yes, we did have a civilian killed by a misfired Iron Dome, and immediately said so.

What level of proof are you looking for? Hezbollah even claimed responsibility then retracted it when it was found to have hit a non-military target.
This may be out of context, but I wonder if this will have any effects on cell tower REITs.
My understanding is cooperation between Hizbollah and some christian communities is a lot more than token, but that is mostly talking from friends with family (christian) in Lebanon
there should be some strict requirements, proprietary video drivers can ruin it all, my guess.
Even if it does the problem will still be there
Ask HN: Why are YouTube links unlikely to be upvoted on Hacker News?
Is it because it often takes more time to look at a video than a web page?
"A report yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine details detection of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu virus in wastewater from 10 Texas cities during the same time period the virus was detected in Texas cattle herds."

Here's the letter to the Editor https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2405937
Minio isn’t difficult to set up on kube - if your s3 consumer or producer are in-cluster you can have blazing fast access.
I don't understand whats special about this particular attack!>:( When I read the title I thought some automated GitHub emails were forged to sneakily point to a fake GitHub site or something. An obvious (for tech-savvy users) link pointing to an obvious malware (please copy and execute this code to solve the captcha.) If the people you are targeting fall for this why not send an old fashioned spam email with fake headers or via some hacked Wordpress installation? I guess using GitHub notifications is creative but in the end not much different than like sending a facebook message with a fake link, and the user getting an email notification with the message? The analysis of the malware once downloaded was certainly interesting, though!:)
They do not mention which cities due to requests from officials. So they masked them like “West Texas City A” and list the exact population count. I’m assuming would be pretty trivial to tie back to the actual city.

Another interesting point is that it was 10 out of 10 cities they’ve tested. So the amount of Texas cities is likely way higher.
If zoning was fixed as GP was saying, then more housing people want would get built rather than what pencils out best for developers.

Zoning issues like low height limits, and high parking requirements etc. contribute to the shortage by making it infeasible build a lot of 3BR/1500sqft units because returns are better by building 2 smaller units in the same footprint, and because there's a shortage of housing, they'll be able to sell less than optimal units to people that need them.
I think this effort is positive, but a bit misdirected. Think data breach liability. Facebook and YouTube are willing and capable defenders of sensitive customer data. Watch the AshleyMadison documentary. Arrogant disregard for customer privacy and almost no culpability. These smaller, irresponsible players are where consumers are most vulnerable.
This is the part I'm missing too. Major versions are the time to ship braking changes, did none of these companies bother to test their software that mucks deep in the plumbing of the OS?
Email from a different domain is unfortunately quite common. Citi and PayPal both do it for some emails. Pisses me off every time.
I don’t consider Hezbollah as “civilians”and I highly doubt your “injured thousands of citizens” and more like “injured thousands of Hezbollah terrorists and a few dozen civilians”
FTC exposes surveillance of kids, teens by social media giants
the video is ON youtube, of course it's going to follow trends and style just like we do on this community.
I predict a Jeff Geerling video about this.

He has one where he talks about the lack of radio in cars and mentions the possibility of a bill but i can't remember if he said anything specific.
You can ask for the oldest version of any page that is on the Wayback Machine. That may or may not be the first posting, depending on the date. The further back in time you go, the more spotty the archive becomes. Late 1990s and early 2000s is quite patchy. Just enter the URL into Wayback Machine and you'll see two dates (first and last) and a timeline (all the archives versions).
Very cool! How is this "turned on"? Compile-time/boot-time option? Or just a matter of having processes running in the system that have requested timeslice/latency guarantees?
it's almost as if "terrorism" has a specific definition. a group trying to change a legitimate government's policy through violent means that inspire fear in the general population.

if heznobollas had done it, yes, it would have been terrorism. they are a non-state actor that's been constantly firing rockets into a legitimate state for a year, and are using violence against a general population to attempt to change the policy of their legitimately elected government.

it's precisely because it was done by a legitimate state defending its population, and in this case inflicting the damage on the very terrorists that sought the communication technology with minimal collateral damage that it's a legitimate weapon of war.

words matter.
I’ve had chronic fatigue for long stretches my entire life, sometimes for years at a stretch. I think I would qualify for a CFS diagnosis, but no doctors treat it, so no one ever thought to diagnose me. They’d just say my tests are fine and shrug.

The fact of the matter is that the medical industry has no clue what to do about chronic health conditions like ME/CFS or Long COVID. They have no game plan at all. Everything I ever did to improve my symptoms and get my energy back was stuff I either did myself or just dumb luck that my body recovered.

> Instead of funding novel medicines like Ampligen, the NIH has directed most of its RECOVER resources to observational studies designed to learn more about the condition, not treat it.

So, this seems like a good decision. Observational studies aren’t giving up. They are the basis of the whole “evidence based medicine” pyramid of evidence.
Good stats on this are hard to come by. I am happy to see better figures and happy to wind down from 50T. But the order of magnitude is on the money - if it’s 10T or 30 does it really matter? It’s an unprecedented increase in such a short time - inflation figures have barely caught up - we will be seeing inflation go through the roof for decades to come and central banks trying to use their only lever (interest rates) on something that is a fiscal problem.

So follow my more restrained calculations: statia below gives us a 3TN increase for covid period, UK gov figures have 800BN Sterling which is 1T USD give or take. Then look at 27 European countries - at 500M people spending at the rate of USA gives us 5T, before we even look at Japan and Asia. We have got over 10TN. That’s a boatload in anyone’s momey

US fed balance sheet increases by 3 TN 2020-24
https://www.statista.com/topics/6441/quantitative-easing-in-...
On one hand I'm admittedly slightly terrified about what happens when our population escapes the treadmill of Taylorism, which school is a primary promoter of. Do the assigned work, keep things steaming along according to the rubric: it's anodyne as hell but also regardable as basic discipline to, and even the rebels need some of that tempering.

And it's scary to see such a fall. We seem less competent.

Reciprocally there's some - not vast but some - challenge that I deeply welcome. The blood of tyrant flows these days; those who kept us tied to the machines, who have been the expressed way things are, aren't getting such tight controls. Some regression in scores is acceptable if youth are finding authentic their own ways to engage, are more deeply pursuing their own value systems, rather than that which is imposed.

It's entirely unclear what degrees of constructivist building our own values is at play here. Far too soon to tell. But education has maintained the course for a long long time now, has kept their captive audience enthralled to a certain achievement based system. These are the first signs of wavering, the very first. In many many many decades of belief in education. I have no desire to see education (as we've seen it) thrown away, but I hope it can adapt & respond & better serve it's people, as they are less cohesive & less managed a people.

It will also be deeply interesting to see how things go as time marches on, if this is blip is isolated or if it ripples recur.
Farmers having to worry about mines in their fields is also something that I would consider to be a bad thing.
Are you concerned with this activity being prohibited by the AUP of your users' ISP? Do you allow eyeball ASes to opt out of having their network resold in this way?
That's not how repricing works.

If a landlord is unable to rent a unit at a desired price, because the rental market has moved lower, then they have two options.

They can decrease the price.

Or they can not offer the unit for rent (or continue listing it at the higher price).

The second option's cost to landlords is largely defined by accounting/tax rules, in regards to how painful the vacancy will be to them.

Thus, vacancy can be made more or less painful by changing accounting/tax rules.
I have a really hard time believing these allegations because that would mean that they're actively trying to push away paying customers, which neither helps Realpage nor the alledged cartel. Everything I've read about this has been suspiciously vague. What it sounds like they're doing is punishing property managers from deviating from the pricing algorithm rather than the property companies themselves.
What you referring to are war crimes. Sadly this is part of most/all wars. Not justifying or trying to reduce the evilness of the actions, but this is something very different from October 7th or any other pogrom.

One are relatively small scale horrible events within an active full scale war, the other are sadistic attacks aimed at civilians, by crowd that is made of at least half civilians, outside of active war. One is a massacre, the other is a prolonged violence torture and mass raping.

I don't think Israelis are saints, and Israel could and should have acted better in many cases, both for moral reasons and for its own good. I believe a two states solution is the only just and sustainable option, and Israel's share in avoiding it is a terrible mistake. But October 7th wasn't action of people who see the two states solution as a desired state or a viable compromise.
What purpose have you enjoyed it for beyond bypassing firewalls and exposing local services across a network?
Here’s another cheat I executed. The ti84 has the same encasing as the ti89. Take the circuit board and buttons out of the ti89 put it in the ti84. Voila you have an integrator. Most teachers in calc allow a ti84 and not a ti89 because the ti89 can do symbolic integration.

I did this cheat way back. It helps but you’re still required to show work on tests so this just verified all my answers. Be sure to clear screen if teacher walks by.
IPv6 assigns link-local addresses automatically. They are for talking to other computers on same the network. It works when you don't have router. It won't interfere with anything else.

IPv6 supports multiple addresses on each machine for different scopes: global, internal, local. IPv6 uses address hierarchy to figure out which one to use to reach destination.
>> The complaints showed that it’s more than just information sharing; RealPage has “pricing advisors” that monitor landlords and encourage them to accept suggested pricing, it works to get employees at landlord companies fired who try to move rents lower, and it even threatens to drop clients who don’t accept its high price recommendations.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/antitrust-enforcers-the-r...
Their top pick for an air conditioner is a Midea: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-conditio...
Scrape AI Overviews (AIO)
Huh?

> We work with carriers like Spectrum, Comcast & AT&T directly to get IP addresses on their networks so they look like residential connections but host them in datacenters - this way you get 99.99%+ availability, 1G+ throughput, stable IP addresses and have unlimited bandwidth.
Open source LLM app template for building AI chatbots that interact with PDFs
One problem is licensing.

I like to post links to music videos in comments and even got some upvotes for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDFx8hJY5x8

But I hear from many people outside the U.S. that that video does not play for them (tell us if you can play it here!)

Also I think I can size up a text article to know if I want to read it in just a few seconds compared to a video that I may have to watch a few minutes of. Also I can read text articles in more situations (do what you want but I do not wear headphones for safety’s sake when I am out in the city or on the trail) but I can browse HN and most web sites rapid-fire on my tablet on the bus.
It really is hidden away isn't it. What a waste of time
> cooperation between Hizbollah and some christian communities is a lot more than token

Yep. I made a broad strokes statement because it gets complex very fast.

The Christian community appears to be split between anti-Hezbollah and anti-Palestinian groups like Kaateb (that were also historically pro-Israel during the civil war and intervention), and historically Syrian supported parties who supported Syria during their intervention in Lebanon such as Tashnag, Marada, etc.

FPM was historically opposed to Syria but Michel Aoun made a strategic deal with Hezbollah in order to become M8's face in Lebanon, and because Hezbollah was never going to get Sunni support.

Hezbollah will only accept Shia and are Shia-first, but allied with Syrian-then-Iranian backed parties because they all fought together on behalf of Assad in the Syrian Civil War, along with the alliance of convenience with FPM.

The Pro-Syrian/Iranian coalition is the March 8th Coaliton (of which Hezbollah is the lynchpin), and the anti-Hezbollah/Saudi-funded coalition was the March 10th coalition before it splintered due to political infighting, corruption, and the Syrian Civil War.

Furthermore, now that the Syrian Civil War is largely over, a LOT of battle hardened nuts from all sides in Lebanon have started returning, plus the economic collapse exacerbated an already tense political environment.
I Don't Mind Not Being Popular [video]
you'd have to solve the halting problem?
> It's not unheard of having Russian tourists insulting and threatening locals. In Europe or in any corner of the world.

I live in one of the most touristic cities in the world (Rio de Janeiro) and after meeting hundreds of Russians, that's the first time I hear about it.
As someone who used to love hosting things on a Mac mini, have you tried installing Linux on it to use as a dedicated server? If you do, it should handle this just like any other platform you could install it on.
Interesting. I think you're on to something here. I fully agree that a combination of spreadsheets and SQL are the ideal tools for data analysis -- not a SaaS GUI.

> Niching down, if you work in operations at a <50 person startup or SMB and your company relies on a Postgres or MySQL database, Sourcetable is an affordable reporting tool with turnkey data infrastructure that doesn’t require code or engineers to set up.

With the rise of AI, companies like Tembo that help you set up all in one databases, and tools like this, I'm increasingly of the mind that many companies should start bringing things like analytics and observability in-house. I don't see the need to pay Mixpanel or Datadog thousands of dollars per month when a self-serve solution that relies on tried and true tech is more or less at your fingertips.
Conservative talk shows could be part of it. I think electric vehicle cheerleading is another factor, especially since Tesla is one of the more visible manufacturers to not support AM. There are always folks willing to defend to the death anything that company does. There can also be a fair amount of indifference towards non-techies on HN and other tech communities, even if we're talking about something regularly used by millions of people.
By now you should assume that they are collecting as much personal information as possible, so you will never get an honest answer to this
China's Venture Capital Collapse
> As much as I like static types, I feel like R is maybe the language where I need or want them the _least_.

I really disagree with this.

I think one of the whole reason there is a whole Tidyverse ecosystem that the behavior of (some) R code is unintuitive in a way that adding typing would absolutely improve.

It seems like you're deeply familiar with the R ecosystem, but as a user what I want is a safe subset of R that I can use.

> How often do you really run into a situation where you pass a character vector to a function that requires a numeric vector and it crashes your program?

In R the more likely situation is that you pass in the wrong typed thing and it silently continues with very unexpected values being passed, causing trouble or errors much later in the program. Which is very much a problem that typing helps with.
Plenty of devices use the Keeloq protocol for rolling codes which is pretty straightforward to break in modern hardware.
Just for the record I don't condemn victimless crimes. I'm fine with willing sex workers and I'm fine with drugs. As far as I'm concerned, alcohol is worse than most illegal drugs, and most of the harm from most illegal drugs comes from their illegal status not the drugs themselves. If it was up to me I'd legalize everything. You want to buy heroin just take a mandatory safety class explaining safe use, then go buy it at the pharmacy. People can get it either way, might as well get clean and taxed stuff. I realize that's probably not entirely realistic but that's my opinion anyway. Especially for lighter stuff, heroin and meth might be the exceptions but again, anyone can buy it whenever so honestly I don't see why they shouldn't be able to do it at a pharmacy.

And in northern Europe, pretty much nobody uses cash. In the rest of Europe, at least the places I've been, pretty much every store accepts card and often other digital payment methods.

I don't doubt your statistics, just stating my experience. I just think it's strange that people prefer cash for legitimate purchases. I definitely want cash to stay around, but these days we can use crypto for illegal stuff anyway do it's not really a big deal.
That's not a crime as evidenced by the dumb tarrif loophole. The tragedy is the lawmakers who don't care that their laws are responsible for this.