skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This could cost less than $5000 for a month

I ran a bunch of nodes for a couple years and that's optimistic by perhaps an order of magnitude. No $5 a month VPS provides enough bandwidth to sustain the monthly traffic of a Tor node, and nodes need to be continuously online and serving traffic for about 2-3 months[1] before they will be promoted to guard relays. Throttling traffic to stay in your bandwidth allocation will just get you marked as a slow node and limit the number of connections you get. Sustaining just 1 Mbps will blow your monthly transfer allocation on the cheap tiers of both Digital Ocean or Linode.

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay/
> I recommend opting out now

Little point. It'll be like facebook's opt-out and only cover things you post/update going forward. Everything you've already posted has already been slurped into the training set and won't be taken out and the model(s) retrained.

The only way to show disapproval in this sort of behaviour that they'll feel is to stop using services that use auto-opt-in for anything, and not enough people are likely to do that for it to be effective.
Yeah, that seems fair.
This blog post started good~ish, but around 1/3 of it, I got bored, the style got repetitive, the style wasn't enough to keep me there, and the content was sparse, very sparse.

An advice: dense content is cool. If it could fit on my screen, that would be the best. Put a ToC (where C should stand for the content) at the top of the blog post maybe. Or a cheat sheet poster pdf, or cuttable flashcards, with Amazon Affiliate links to new monitors. (Sorry, no original jokes today.)
> If you're big enough you will have unique requirements that nobody else has.

the problem is when EVERY process is that way.

yes, each business has unique aspect to their processes, but when every process is heavily customized by people who have no business designing processes & applications, organizations start to hamstring their flexibility and scalability.

Its like hand-making a Ferrari with completely custom parts when what you need is a Toyota Camry. If you aren't gonna race with it, its a waste of money.

I have been working in the ERP space for over a decade. and almost ALL customers have no criteria for when to customize or keep a customization. They don't do any cost benefit analysis or any strategic planning beyond building a customized tool for the thing immediately in front of their nose.
Of course math is not a science either. Ultimately, math is a reasoning tool and in the economic context, it is not a complete tool.

There is policy, and that has a major league effect on what will make good economic sense.

The current policy could change, and that would impact what is worth what and why and the math can tell us what it always has.

Here is one:

For a long time we have ignored anti monopoly laws.

When competition is present, margins are less, people tend to get higher value for the dollar. When it is not present, margins are higher and people get much less value for the dollar.

Right now, big grocery is wanting to do one more merger to basically put Krogers in charge of grocery stores, with its competition being Walmart and maybe Amazon.

So far, each merger has reduced the number of products available to people and higher prices. But someone somewhere is banking more and paying less.

I like competition. I like higher value for the dollar and choice in business. I bring this up because I personally dislike Kroger and it is all about the much lower value per dollar.

How this all goes is political. Policy may be to preserve competition to prevent price gouging and all that comes with a monopoly.

The math may say more dollars are made by having one company, but that same math says it comes at the expense of the people too.

Does not, and I would argue, should not go that way.
"According to a 2024 analysis by The Washington Post, 60% of low-income countries were under some form of U.S. financial sanction. The analysis also concluded that the U.S. imposes three times as many sanctions as any other country or international body." - from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions

Really quite ridiculous that there are sanctions on something like 1/3 of the world.
Yeah, just because it can do that doesn't mean that it is good design.
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> No one is questioning why the Brazilian judiciary should have that power.

Actually, millions of people are, and senators are seeking this judge's impeachment.
The debt is still a massive problem

The fed rate is also the rate that the national debt interest is paid on

Will this encourage further and increased debt spending ?

When will spending get cut to stop the bleeding?

America has a spending problem.
JavaScript Library to Bypass CORS for LLM APIs Without a Back End
> don't like the ways twitter is changing. I'm leaving

Has there been work to quantify relative network effects in Twitter vs Mastodon, either generally or in specific communities? e.g. if person A was following N people on Twitter (e.g. in a list), what subset or superset of N could be followed on Mastdon?

If a user requested all their data from Twitter, including people being followed, is there tooling to map user identity/handles from Twitter to member names on decentralized alternatives?

> someone is going to tell them to "self-host a Mastodon instance.. from masto.host

Wouldn't that be masto-hosted rather than self-hosted?

In that scenario, Masto.host would be a trusted custodian of a social media identity, somewhat like a bank.
I appears to me that software developers reject unions beyond what can be explained by economics alone.

I'm not sure how that turned into "economics aren't a factor." Maybe you can explain how that happened?
How much their charta still is relevant today is in question, but they have direct calls to kill Jews in there.

Not the 2008 charter. The most anyone can point to is the passage that supposedly calls for the "annihilation" of Israel, but that's very clearly a mistranslation. (The actual phrasing predicts Israel will be "invalidated" by Islam, a lot more like Khrushchev's "We will leave you in the dust").
When computer vision works more like a brain, it sees more like people do
Agreed, I was just joking. I understand heterogenous lists are possible with Python, but with the use of static type checking I feel like its pretty rare for me to have heterogenous lists unless its duck typing.
I find the Radon font to make the l and i characters look too much like an oblique z character.
I think we can start using the term "terrorism" safely now.
It's like a series of onions!
R.I.P. Sheldon Brown T_T

(The Agner Fog of cycling?)
direct link to pdf, file:///C:/Users/kludg/Downloads/s41598-024-59416-6.pdf
if you claim

> high-performance Python implementation

then no this aren't trade-offs but breaking the standard without it truly being necessary

most important this will break code in a subtle and potentially very surprising way

they could just claim they are python like and then no one would hold them for not keeping to the standard

but if you are misleading about your product people will find offense even if it isn't intentionally
Spending more in order to force taxes up later isn’t good policy.

We need to cut spending to match taxes, then start deciding what’s important and what people want to pay for with increased taxes

Giving people everything for “free” to win the next election is very bad policy for the country
Might that also be the answer to why it says "2"? There are probably sources of people saying there are two R's in "berry", but no one bothers to say there is 1 R in "raw"?
“Only half” is hilarious. Thanks for that.

And if you trust the NSA can’t overcome correlation in the presence of “padding defenses”, then sure: TOR is secure.
You've edited or deleted your comment at least 3 times since I typed my reply. Regardless, I'm just going to highlight the relevant parts of the comment I responded to:

> It's a thought, but ceteris paribus, software engineers seem to have a particular scorn for unions beyond the calculus of economics. In other words, there is a personality/sub-cultural disdain for unions.
Thanks. Damn. I'm glad you managed to resolve this.
Aluminum cans are lined in plastic.
> As with prior layoffs, or "resource actions" to use IBM's euphemism, we're told those affected are substantially in the 50-55 age bracket with 20-24 years of seniority.

> Despite numerous past and ongoing age discrimination lawsuits, IBM maintains it does not systematically discriminate on the basis of age.

Lawsuits of this sort are a little ridiculous. If you work at a company that pays people more just for being older, then you shouldn't be surprised when the "more experienced" people are the first to get laid off.
As humans, we seem to really like warm blankets. See: high school football and CTE
You didn't think someone would notice if the Tor network has 1000 new nodes setup similarly? Or, I suppose, if you find enough heterogenous people and pay them to log their nodes, you're not going to get noticed?
https://geolocatemuch.com/ is the way.
I’ll link to my comment here from approx. 52 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41090142

This is chess pieces being moved around the board at the moment.
Sounds like misinformation. Particularly in politically-aligned flamewar sites like X, you'll hear both sides inflate their actual capabilities beyond what is logically possible. All you need is a video of a blurry explosion to get 90% of your viewers to believe you.

To the point - you just can't get a lithium ion battery to discharge in an explosion, otherwise they wouldn't be allowed on airplanes at all. The most dangerous state a battery can reach is called thermal runaway, where one or more cells begins a self-heating cycle until it is fully discharged. This is a laptop battery, likely between 50-100wHr in capacity and therefore tens or even hundreds of times larger than what goes in a pager or radio: https://youtu.be/oieH2wwDGzo

Inducing such a state remotely would require you to physically damage the device. You cannot do it by overheating because there are hardware-enforced and firmware-enforced thermal fail states that will shut off the CPU or battery before causing damage (aka junction temp). If you did manage to, somehow, override these limits and intended to overheat the device into such a state of runaway, the owners would feel the device become physically hot and even watch it inflate before it becomes dangerous as a fragmentation weapon. This attack could only feasibly be executed by using an implanted explosive. There is no possibility that this is a generic exploit, even with the most charitable interpretation of Mossad capabilities.
Alaska Airlines completes $1.9B acquisition of Hawaiian
Dude, it was a direct response to a suggestion to try different brands of clothes. I simply responded by pointing out a different, unseen variable - that clothing requirements in professional spaces differ by sex and unfortunately there's not really an opt out for uncomfortable clothes in my case.

I'm a woman. I have breasts. They impact my life in some ways. Sometimes that impact is relevant to a discussion - in my case, it's a factor in why WFH is more comfortable. I have sensory issues that are probably familiar to the numerous people on HN and, since HN is generally full of curious people who have a cultural disdain for doing things 'just because' or following uncomfortable social norms for no reason, I shared a variable that may not have been considered because a lot of people here actually like being introduced to data they hadn't incorporated to their worldviews yet.

If you can't grok hyperbole, I'd recommend looking up some middle school Language Arts lessons.

Also, sexuality =/= gender, and mentioning that I have breasts and that they're a statistically unusual size isn't 'exerting' anything any more than Yao Ming complaining about clothes/shoe shopping would be. If you can't hear someone talk about their body without sexualizing them, that's a you problem.
Often the connection between the load balancer and app backend also uses TLS. I've operated a large / complex service on AWS and all internal communications at each level were encrypted.

Of course, in principle, a cloud provider could tap in anywhere you're using their services – ELB (load balancer), S3, etc. I presume they could even provide backdoors into EC2 instances if they were willing to take the reputational risk. But even if you assume the NSA or whoever is able to tap into internal network links within a data center, that alone wouldn't necessarily accomplish much (depending on the target).
I'll call out

7. Don't have multiple people editing the same piece of code.
You never understand other people's code as well as your own. No matter
how thoroughly you've read it, you've only read it, not written it. So
if a piece of code is written by multiple authors, none of them understand
it as well as a single author would.

On some level it's true but it is also true that most of the world's code is in some sort of maintenance mode and the original developer is not always available. When I work on code that I think would be difficult to maintain I write a lot of comments to explain invariants that should be followed or anything strange. (Hmm, there are three different kinds of "row" talked about in this source file)

If you have a front end-back end system and you want to do something simple like add a field to a form there's a strong case for a single developer or maybe paired developers to make all the changes to make that change happens as opposed to assign two developers (not paired) to communicate with each other about doing the task, or worse yet, assign two teams. You might have had two people build out the front-end and back-end systems but for sustainable maintenance one person should be able to ship a feature.
Would you say you can get 60fps on non-minimal settings on the current call of duty then?
Search by name has worked well on LinkedIn since forever. If the person I'm looking for has an account then they're almost always in the first page of search results.
TFA means "the featured article", so in this case the "Why wordfreq will not be updated" link we're talking about.
A major portion Federal Government debt is interest charges; the government pays for borrowing money.

Interest rates affect the amount of interest owed. After decades of low interest, the past five years of interest rate hikes have dramatically increased government debt.

Lower rates won't lower the amount already owed, but would help slow the rate of increase of the debt burden moving forward.
Displaying RTSP stream on a jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite
I've been using this for about four years as my daily font. No regrets.
I can explain it.

I'd like my critical supply chains to be in North America. Ideally, I'd have a free trade zone with Mexico and Canada. Tariffs, two-sided, reduce trade, and bring me closer to that reality. I'm okay paying slightly more for that security.

I'd like the same thing in the EU too, and in other major world blocks.

There's a slight efficiency gain from specialization, where each country brings a skillset, but it's totally not worth it to me versus the brittleness which comes with it.

Remember how the Covid supply chain disruptions cascaded? That's a tiny fraction of a really bad natural disaster.
Competition is always good! best of luck!
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> The fact that we can't pin down a strong effect on human health outcomes after decades of exposure should be a relief.

I can't say this means much to me when exposure to plastic has been accelerating that entire time.

Still, I do sincerely appreciate skepticism as a useful part of any dialogue about hypothesized health impacts.

Personally, I don't see an issue with avoiding consumer-grade plastic except when necessary.
Technically this attack is not overly sophisticated. The hard part is knowing right people, long chains of right people, motivation, timing, that kind of thing.

No agency in their right mind will even hint on whether they are capable of doing such things or not. Any whiff of information may put their people in mortal danger. They neither confirm nor deny. The fewer people know the better. The rest of the world learns about such operations by suddenly facing their results.
LinkedIn content? My god... poor AI.
Good point against the EEE case above, but the models are not open source per the OSI definition that everyone understands. That part is part of their marketing playbook. Licenses are almost always non-commercial use, which makes them not-open. You could say it's "open model", but that's a useless term since the arch is not a secret, but rather the training data that went into it, which is not open.
The MLIR Transform Dialect. Your compiler is more powerful than you think
return [key, value]
UNIX is/whas a commercial product from AT&T. macOS is UNIX-certified. Not the same thing.
Lichess: Post-Mortem of Our Longest Downtime
Yes. I tried it. And, eh... it's documentation + code (you can publish code + documentation as a textbook, poem, blog post, Website just as well). No need to exaggerate. It's also very inconvenient to write, for zero benefits. It's kind of like writing prose in one language, and then translating individual pieces of it into another language, while hoping that somehow the sum will still come out OK.

Some people like challenge in their lives... and I don't blame them. For sport, I would also rewrite some silly programs in languages I never intend to use, or do some code-golfing etc. Literate programming belongs in this general area of making extra effort to accomplish something that would've been trivial to do in a much simpler way.
There is a decent body of evidence suggesting in-person work is more efficient than remote work: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/06/28/t...

At the scale of Amazon, it's hard to pass up even a single-digit increase in productivity. Furthermore, they're in a position where they have the clout and prestige to attract the workforce they need.

Remote work is still probably a good decision for smaller companies, where they might struggle to hire if they don't offer remote work. A less productive worker is still better than not hiring a worker at all.
After going through 6 very high end gaming laptops the last few years, I agree. 4/6 of them failed for insanely stupid issues, 2 were my fault.
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> Strings: Codon currently uses ASCII strings unlike Python's unicode strings.

wtf this is a supper big issue making this basically unusable for anything handling text (and potentially even just fixed indents, if you aren't limited to EU+US having non us-ascii idents in code or text is common, i.e. while EU companies most times code in english this is much less likely in Asia, especially China and Japan.

it isn't even really a performance benefit compared to utf-8 as utf-8 only using us-ascii letters _is_ us-ascii and you don't have to use unicode aware string operations
If you've ever worked in an org that has to be SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act) compliant, then you are familiar with a bunch of what's happening in this video. So much of your data, infra, and internal tools have to be gated by authorization and access logging tools -- so employees are constantly requesting access to the tools they need to get their work done.

These requests can be granted manually or automatically but they need to be logged and stored. Sometimes requests are required for every single access of a tool and sometimes it's time period based (24 hour access to Redshift or whatever) -- usually this depends on your role in an org. There isn't a coherent out-of-the-box way to provide the authorization and access gateways across all the different tools a business relies on -- so there is a big business opportunity for companies to basically provide turnkey identity and access management tools for companies.

Or, occasionally, an engineer loses their mind with the inefficiencies of these systems and processes and goes off on a jag to create the perfect internal tool to solve all these problems. That rarely (if ever) works, hence the video.
Fair point, but I still wouldn’t give my idiot 10yr old self that stuff.

He never did really understand me.
That still looks like a more targeted approach than "precise strikes" on schools and humanitarian zones like in https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyx9znxl4eo
> The busy supermarket saw people standing directly beside the target perplexed and completely unharmed. This was extremely localized.

I saw that video too and I'm happy the bystanders in that case were unharmed but that was 1/2000 (or 5,000?) explosions. I wouldn't necessarily extrapolate the supermarket video to the other several thousand explosions.
Being an alien he could be extradited if the judge deems so
Ask HN: Who is behind Problembo AI startup?
They provide an address that is located in a city in Georgia (the country) but not much more. Who are these people?
Sure, I have no doubt that there are a lot of reasonable people that wish to settle the conflict and that have proposed ideas to reach that goal. But if I sit down and write a peace agreement, that is worth nothing, and if does not get implemented, that is not an rejection.

Israel could act unilaterally, they could decide to withdraw from the Westbank and then just do it, no need to make an offer or agreement and have it accepted by the Palestinians. The obvious drawback of that is that you have no idea how it will be received by the other side, will they be satisfied and the conflict ends or will they keep fighting because they are not satisfied?

So you probably want an agreement between both parties that codifies what both parties will and will not do if accepted. With that it is no longer about accepting an offer but reaching an agreement. If your offer is good enough, it might become an agreement without further negotiation, but as you want to offer as little as possible while getting as much as possible, this seems unlikely to happen. There will be a back and forth of offers and counteroffers and they will all be rejected until you reach an agreement that is acceptable by both parties or until you get stuck because of irreconcilable differences.

But even if you reach an agreement at the negotiation table, that does not mean you have succeeded. The agreement must also be accepted by the affected people on both sides and you have to be able to implement it. Agreeing to stop attacks is worth nothing if the people performing the attacks do not support the agreement and keep fighting and you do not have sufficient power to prevent this.

Long story short, what I want to say is that making an offer and complaining about getting it rejected does not make much sense. If you can act unilaterally, just skip the offer and do it, if both parties have to be involved, you have to reach an agreement and getting offers rejected during the negotiations is an expected part of the process. And unless one side has completely unreasonable demands, a failure to reach an agreement can not easily be blamed on one side alone, both parties have the ability to move their position towards the other side.
Who will sue them?
I disagree, it is not the victim's fault they were discriminated against
Falsehoods lawyers believe about the Internet: You can identify a person (and their jurisdiction) from “their” IP address.
They also won’t reimburse said employee for the lawyer they needed to hire or the lost revenue from being in court and not at work.

Even if vindicated, the process can be costly.
Yes.

https://www.engadget.com/2014-05-16-nsa-bugged-cisco-routers...