skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but spammers mostly lost that arms race

I'm not saying this is impossible but that's going to be an uphill sell for me as a concept. According to some quick stats I checked I'm getting roughly 600 emails per day, about 550 of which go directly to spam filtering, and of the remaining 50, I'd say about 6 are actually emails I want to be receiving. That's an impressive amount overall for whoever built this particular filter, but it's also still a ton of chaff to sort wheat from and as a result I don't use email much for anything apart from when I have to.

Like, I guess that's technically usable, I'm much happier filtering 44 emails than 594 emails? But that's like saying I solved the problem of a flat tire by installing a wooden cart wheel.

It's also worth noting there that if I do have an email thats flagged as spam that shouldn't be, I then have to wade through a much deeper pond of shit to go find it as well. So again, better, but IMO not even remotely solved.
I meant the entropy in bits is cut by half.
As much as I don't want to, I have to admit you have merit here on all points.

My question though: how did we manage to run infrastructure using cron for decades and did not feel any of that pain?

My take on the answer is this. Failures: we have /var/log/something for this and typically it's obvious something is not being executed. Many files: yes, there are different configs but don't you remember where you typically put your cronjobs? For example I always use user's crontab, so this is where I would look for the job spec.

Dependency check is one of the main reasons for systemd as PID1 if not the main, so hands down, that's valid and true.
So you refactor bad code? How do you get these gigs?
blind optimism
> Go. Speak. To. User. worked in both.

Yes, but "Go speak to the fucking users so that you build the right thing" is such a tiny slice of Agile shit, and it's a product management rule that predates Agile by ages. This is like one of THE big things that Product and Field people are supposed to do, and has been for roughly forever.

As for the rest of Agile? Maybe the idealized Agile (just like the idealized Marxism) works great, but my personal experience at a place that very, very, very much was NOT Doing Agile Wrong[0], along with the personal experiences of an assload of others who work at Agile (and "Agile" shops) indicates that Agile as she is implemented in the real world is incompatible with long-running continuous [1] projects.

[0] I'm afraid you're just going to have to take my word that I know what I'm talking about here.

[1] "Continuous" as opposed to the "parachute in, mitigate the biggest problems, and then airlift out" engagements that are SOME of what contract shops are hired to do.
> "It’s not at all certain that this can be reduced to math."

It isn't certain that it can be, but can you give any plausible reason why the Universe might allow understanding to (meat + electric patterns) and deny it to (silicon + electric patterns) ?
Hezbollah are not Palestinian. They're Shia Lebanese. And they're engaging in warfare against Israel with no provocation.

Israel responds by targeting Hezbollah weapons, assets and militants.

That doesn't explain why the average Sunni Lebanese in Beirut would feel like they need to "resist" Israel.
It's especially stupid to work extremely hard without gaining equity and profit sharing where they can just fire you for any reason. Employee-owned consultancies would make a lot more sense for the worker.
> Also, it is shocking how authoritarian the “left” has become in my lifetime.

We are going through a general uptick in authoritarian "discussions" online. It's interesting that you are only seeing it on the "left".
These people should put their minds toward instrumenting reform across the EU and modernizing decrepit and corrupt state institutions before they start talking about giving these bodies even more tax money to piss away.
Israel had 4000 hostages before Oct 7, and more than doubled it since to 10 000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_prisoners_in_Israe...
> I don't care about centralisation / decentralisation in my work.

Yeah, that's why it's easy to sell centralisation to lots of people.
"Center of power" = "opportunity". If I'm poor, and there's no hope in, say, rural Appalachia, and I want some kind of a decent life, I'm going to go to some more urban place. There may not be much chance there - I may not be qualified for the good jobs - but there's no chance at all at home. So centers of power attract those with nothing who want to stop being those with nothing.

And where they wind up... say they're living in the Bronx, in poverty, crime, and deteriorating infrastructure. They still may judge themselves to be better off than they were in rural Appalachia, where there was poverty, crime, deteriorating (or no) infrastructure, and no opportunity.

Note well: I have lived neither in rural Appalachia nor in the Bronx. This is speculation not based on first-hand knowledge.
One of the ways I failed to enjoy Max Gladstone's Empress of Forever was that it seemed hellbent on coining a significant new glossary worth of vocabulary along the way. I had to be well rested and attentive to muddle through with some marginal comprehension of any given chapter's plot, I certainly couldn't read it while drowsy or distracted.
> The main crypto-related project listed on the 1208 Productions site is a set of NFTs based around the "Deez Nuts" joke/brand. The webpage for that project also lists Roberts (aka "Papa Nut") as a partner of The Doge Pound NFT project.

Would it kill these guys to have one original idea.
The broader opioid timeline goes something like this.

In the mid 1990s pill mills are overdispensing pain meds. I live in a pill mill area and saw the rise and fall first hand.

In the 2000s the feds are cracking down hard; pill mills are shuttered over the next decade.

Mid 2010s cheap fentanyl is being shipped to the US and opioid deaths are climbing. News orgs notice; politicians notice. Both blame the former pill-mill problem.

Late 2010s politicians pass laws sharply limiting access to pain meds and begin signaling that health care providers can be penalized for whatever the feds interpret as "over prescribing".

Chronic pain patients are suddenly cut off from pain relief that had enabled routine living - for years.

Faced with a loss of productivity or obtaining pain relief illegally, they choose one of those. I still see this first hand.

Patients find that their doctors are strongly resistant to prescribing pain meds when indicated. State laws limiting pain meds to 3 days compound the problem. Post-op and ER patients are increasingly prescribed acetaminophen for significantly painful events.

For the past 5 years: News orgs wind-down pill mill citations; ramp up focus on Fentanyl and need for treatment. Politicians attack Fentanyl but are divided about decreasing addiction through treatment - usually along party lines.

Politicians and news orgs are unitedly oblivious to the plight of pain patients.
Delving into Delve
> I live in Wisconsin, so 30-60 minutes of cycling year-round is a non-starter.

I live in Toronto, Canada, and in the Before Times (pre-COVID) I cycled to work everyday from March to December (rain or shine, as long as the streets were clear).

See perhaps the video "Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU

Also the Oh The Urbanity! channel, a couple who live in Ottawa/Montreal:

* https://www.youtube.com/@OhTheUrbanity/search?query=winter
- Turns on Do Not Disturb on local device
- Changes Slack status to "In Deep Work"
- Blocks out time on calendar
- Turns on Doom Scroll detection so if they start scrolling on social media unproductively it will warn them
My point was to illustrate that our physics models don't agree on the nature of this expansion (Hubble tension) so using it to dismiss the fact that the observable universe is dense enough to form an event horizon seems like a stretch.
You should've asked it to sketch it for you.
I've been doing it for about 13 years now with HTTP/s (80, 443), SSH (22), MOSH (lol idk), and IRC (6697) exposed to the internet. You don't need it, but something like fail2ban or crowdsec is a good idea. You will get spammed with attempts to break in using default passwords for commodity routers (Ubiquiti's `ubnt` is rather popular), but if you're up to date and take a few minor precautions it's not all that hard and/or dangerous. That being said, there are alternatives such as Tailscale that are strictly more secure but far less flexible. I've heard of people using Cloudflare tunnels as well, but I'd rather not rely on big players for stuff like that if I'm going through the effort to self host (and don't have any real risk of DDoS).

I would try to set up automatic updates for critical security patches or update about weekly. I know people that self host and do it monthly and they seem fine too. Most anything super scary vulnerability wise is on the front page here for awhile, so if you read regularly you'll probably see when a quick update is prudent. I personally use NixOS for all of my servers and have auto-updates configured to run daily.

An old laptop is exactly how I got started 13 years ago, they're great because they tend to be pretty power efficient and quiet too.
Is GitHub code review process broken at your company?
Some of it's simply a benign failure in pattern recognition -- despite my argument below that AI isn't the same as blockchain, you can certainly see the surface level similarities if you're not familiar with the technologies involved. It's also triggering a lot of people's anti-capitalist sentiments, which I personally relate to in spades. They're just applying metrics that they've been applying for years, and they're backed up in their feelings by legions of peers. Plus, I think we can all agree that unexpectedly-effective AI is fucking terrifying -- Vinge didn't call it a "Singularity" out of admiration, but fearful respect.

It's fascinating though, in a way... a lot of HN's rules are about "flaming", and I think this issue might be the first to really bring that out since the end of the distro/OS wars (I don't think Xbox v. Playstation ever made a splash here?). Perhaps there was a bit with Crypto, but IMO it never really took hold here in earnest, either. But AI brings out the vitriol, my god! "AI slop" is just the start -- just yesterday I saw someone on Substack call a random and obviously good faith data blogger a purveyor of "demonic machine filth". That's a new one!
Invasion of Taiwan and deterrence of it hangs on non-land-war stuff.
Cold-regulated ATP synthase switch supports thermogenesis in brown fat
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Am intermediary can be sued just for damaging products through insufficient, they can certainly be sued for adding defects on purpose. Especially lethal defects.
There's a lot of argument about it, but it seems to me that the idea that our brain is digital is the one winning.
This is brilliant, quite cheaper than my AWS. Can I get the credits please? bp2fe1b2a8c422cf09b2a375a
Sometimes it's worth considering what the long-term implications of something are.

HTTP/3 is likely to become widely adopted over time, if for no other reason than that people install software updates and it becomes the default once popular browsers and web servers add support. People may even like the new features.

Then we get some new security vulnerabilities that get fixed in HTTP/3 but not older versions, and by then only a minority of sites use the older versions, so they get a warning. That spurs most of the holdouts to switch to the new version because they can't have scary browser warnings driving users away from their site. Which in turn allows the older versions to be fully deprecated and ultimately removed. And that's more likely here because the code for handling TCP and UDP are quite different and people aren't going to want to maintain the former if hardly anybody is using it.

It'll be years before that happens, but if a problem is foreseeable then maybe we should demand a solution contemporaneously with the creation of the problem instead of foisting it on the kids.
Ok, they have the trademark, but how does it give them the permission to reuse or copy the original game assets, designs, etc?
Wait does that mean the 16 isn't their "fastest iPhone ever"?
Scammers versus the ederly: help protect your parents by doing a care plan
I maintain an open source care plan, which helps people like us care for people like our parents. I'm seeing a large uptick in the scammers attacking the elderly people.

Some of the attacks are scammers claiming to be from charitable organizations, or security monitoring companies, or healthcare plans. The scammer convinces the elderly person to hand over their credentials, or to set up ongoing money transfers. All of this has been happening for years-- but it turns out what's different now is AI is making the phone calls, and sending the emails.

Please protect your parents. I open source my notes about how to do a care plan:

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/care-plan

If you do just one thing, then start with this financial care plan checklist:

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/care-plan/tree/main/doc/financial-care-plan

Feedback welcome.

I open-source my notes, and
If you look at other letters, the i's kerning is relieved by other letters' tails or kerning. The opening text contains the word institute and it's neither cramped nor hard to read w.r.t. other text.
> only the thousands of Hezbollah pagers blew up, right?

Hopefully! Just out of curiosity I had a look for that brand of pager on eBay, but didn't see any. I'd hate to think that there were a few rogue units out there that had potential to cause harm!
Agree that TSMC is good news.

> US manufacturing is about to be reinvigorated

I’d suggest you post a small/medium quantity machining RFP on MFG.com with a medium to high complexity. I’ve been quite discouraged that US vs China price differences are 5-10x. (My part was a custom M0.8 screw in quantity ~500.)

It seems that without a vibrant base of small businesses, it will be very challenging to truly reinvigorate US manufacturing. And that would require reforming the finance sector/allocation of capital that currently is skewing really heavily towards “scale”.
I didn't have any point other than pointing out that your claims were incorrect.

Separately, I do think it's funny when people try to justify Israel's actions by reference to international laws or norms, as if Israel cares. They would still have done this even if they were the only country in the world that considered Hezbollah a terrorist organization.

Just like they're (practically) the only country in the world that considers the Golan Heights or East Jerusalem to be legitimately part of their territory, their occupation of the West Bank to be legal, their permanent air and sea blockade of the Gaza Strip to be legal, and so on. They don't appear to care about international norms at all.
see related: "By the 2000s, increases in worker efficiency will mean that most people only need to work two or three days a week!"
Your perspective reveals much of our age of "scientific confidence", etc.

All those decades the FDA had it all wrong, about artificial sweetener, about sugar, about ultra processed foods, even about which foods are good for our hearts.

Now you want those lab coats to decide what is good for your brain.

Firstly, our minds, bodies, and metabolisms work along widely varying dimensions. For instance over a quarter of with world's population seems to like ginsing, and it gives me a headache.

As for that other stuff, even metrics are "subjective" (I hate what that means to laypersons, some kind of arbitrary thought and emotional free for all.) from my perspective, I have had good results taking 100mg 5-HTP and 3000mg Acetyl L-Carnitine on an empty stomach (I know, hard for you) at night before going to bed (it might give you a mild stomach twinge when all those capsules dissolve, drink plenty of water.)

This will be so helpful,your language skills will improve (writing and speaking.)

You'll have to take a break every few weeks (when it seems like you have to pee all the time.)

Just think of all that, and tell me what scientific reporting would advise this (low end) cognitive enhancement?

There are dozens of similar solutions, individuals have to know their own bodies and try things for themselves (fine tuning and all.)

Modern science worship is little more than a social cult when relied upon for such certainties.

Keep a journal, do your own research.

Good luck!
The American numbers are still incredibly high. The EU (with a much higher population), has around 6-7,000 drug related deaths per year:
https://www.euda.europa.eu/publications/european-drug-report...

Drug use is usually seen as a poverty problem, and on this platform we are constantly reminded that the US has GDP figures that dwarf the European.
What if they live in a country in which genetic evidence of a disease can deny or significantly increase the cost of health coverage? Even if you're clear of those for now, a new marker may be discovered tomorrow. Apparently (according another commenter) Life Insurance /can/ legally look at this even in the US. What about employers? What if it puts them on the DNA-evidence hook for a "crime" in their jurisdiction which you and they don't think is an ethical law (evidence of homosexual activity in a country that imprisons for it, or worse).
I feel like I've read a few articles on Bloomberg and/or NYT (drawing a blank on the exact source) that a very large portion of the workforce was taken directly from Taiwan and the American workers were having a hard time adopting to the Taiwanese way of doing things (long hours, on call all the time, constantly stepping outside your predefined roll, etc.). Is this currently now, or will it in the future, affect the overall success of the factory? (It also might simply be untrue for all I know.)
If you are sleeping with a prostitute isn’t there like an implied contract that you aren’t responsible for any resulting child? That is practically the entire purpose of prostitution.
A type of people that uses pagers all day is Physicians. Hospital staff.
I agree with this sentiment, actually; it's not binary, there's no "both sides", we have to take each atrocity in the context in which it's presented and dispassionately dole out justice. Ideally based on an even field of understanding about what the rules are and without taking personal preferences into account.

But I think we disagree on a core tenet: that magnitude is a precursor to understanding who belligerents are.

If that was the case then during all history, the winning side would always have to be the bad guy, no matter who initiated hostilities or how warfare was conducted.
Indeed, it's probably not due to marijuana legalisation, unless the resulting decline had a four year lag period for some reason, which I won't attempt to argue.
Elon Musk's Starlink satellites 'blocking' view of the universe
Leeches.
Of course, Apple does not want their app to call `getaddrinfo()` directly, because it would interfere with their internal XDR/NDS/IPS mechanism.

I can’t blame them but I personally would still have my apps use them, even knowingly that it would be made off-limit to iOS/iPadOS apps … soon.
You’re idealizing. Students also hallucinate / bullshit their way through things.
Yes. Enough whataboutism, criticizing Israel for war crimes doesn't mean we think the opposition is not terrorist.
I have a nice print copy of the Shenzhen IO manual. I love those games so much, and agree that they're actually not a half bad way to get started with assembly!
> Israel is clearly being held to a standard that their combatants aren't.

This statement doesn't make a lot of sense. Israel is an ally we supply with munitions and the other side is acknowledged to be a terrorist militia and therefore we support their destruction. Of course we expect Israel to adhere to a much higher standard than Hezbollah, right?

I think (hope) you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who believes Hezbollah members shouldn't be held accountable for violations of the law of armed conflict. It's just that nobody believes the problem of Hezbollah is going to be solved in a court or with diplomacy at this stage.

> the Islamic side

If you feel the need to worry about the religious angle you really ought to differentiate between Sunni and Shia when talking about Lebanon in particular, given the unique characteristics of their demography and politics. Although I don't know where you're going with that.

> I'm becoming more radicalised

Fantastic.
There’s an assumption here that Gen AI makes everyone more productive.

I find it’s quite the opposite for me. The time saved on generating a response is spent making sure there are no mistakes, misrepresentations, or plain BS. In code, it’s making sure it didn’t generate subtle security errors and the like. I find it’s better at wasting my time than anything.

And then having to read my GenAI-using colleagues’ “work.” What they could have explained themselves in a few minutes becomes a wall of text they didn’t bother to review, let alone write. Waste of time.

We ought to consider that this isn’t the revolutionary tool that’s going to replace workers. That’s capitalism talking and it has a problem on its hands: shareholders want profits for all the money they’ve dumped into these ventures and API tokens aren’t covering their costs right now. Of course they want us to believe it makes everyone instantly more productive since that would sell more API tokens.

… they’ll just deal with how to actually make money with this and hide or justify the environmental damage later.
If a car bomb went off next to an IDF post killing a bunch of IDF soldiers and one 10-year-old kid, it would be declared a terrorist attack immediately.

If this involved China and Taiwan, North and South Korea, or Russia planting bombs on Ukrainian soldiers, nobody would be debating whether it was a terrorist attack.
Also, doesn't chip manufacturing require a lot of water? Water is not the first thing that comes to mind when I hear Arizona. I think I'm about to learn a lot with this.
I'm a big fan of self hosting. I have learned a lot on a small hobby project.

for those who are curious about my setup, I bought a used Dell R630 on ebay for cheap. 1tb raid 1 on ssds, 32gb ram, 32 cores, and i am enjoying running a few small hobby apps with docker, virsh, and minikube (yes i learned all 3). I have a 1gbps fiber connection. I use a 1m cronjob to detect if my IP changes, and i use the linode api to change my DNS A records.
Besides lithography there are also several US suppliers for semiconductor manufacturing, Applied Materials, Lam Research, KLA.
The good alternative is China not wanting to take over a sovereign country, and for the world to gradually normalise Taiwan as a legitimate country.

China has no urgent or pressing self defence need to attack Taiwan. It also does not have a strong legal case to justify taking it over. In any rational sense the strongest case is for China to leave it alone.

Allowing the status quo to continue is better for the people of China, for the people of Taiwan, and for the rest of us around the world.

It's pure imperialist nonsense and we shouldn't seek to legitimise it just because China is powerful.
My guess it's answering "how do I do X", where X is on the documentation.

Still I don't understand the people that claim the shared LLMs can do that with internal documentation. That's bullshit and easily disproved, you can force it to work for toy problems, but only for toy problems.