skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree mostly with the article, but this stuck out to me

>Measure the proportion of graduates who pursue and are accepted into advanced degree programs. (adjusted for field of study so acceptance into medical school > masters in art history)

The only reason, however, that medical school is more competitive than an art history masters (to be fair, most paid masters programs aren't super competitive) is because the medical board has set up the system of accreditation to limit the number of practising doctors in the US in order to artificially inflate the salaries of doctors. The UK, for instance, has the opposite problem, where becoming a doctor is much easier, but for that very reason their pay is relatively low and the job is increasingly undesirable (not to mention cuts to the NHS).

This is all to say that, in just this instance, the author falls prey to precisely the same mystification that he is criticizing, by seeing something as "better" just because its more exclusive.
It's similar. It's just not by word, but by entire string, assuming that strings are immutable, long enough, and the same string values are referenced often enough.

On 64-bit machines though strings shorter than 8 bytes are better off not interned.
No. This is avoiding keeping multiple copies of the same value. There's no compression.
If you can use victim's device, then Tor or any network level protection will not help you. If you can use their network, then just about everything uses https these days... and you still need to know their location to snoop in the first place. GP raised a good point of Tor not helping in those two cases.

Those are situations that people deal with, but suggesting they use Tor is not going to help them. (Apart from some very specific situations)
IBM has products too: the Rational tools. Anyone who's used them knows they're amazing pieces of software engineering. /s
> I wasn't aware of how hurt I was by all my labor being abstracted away from me.

This is so fundamental, but so rarely spoken about in explicit terms. For reasons.
You don’t technically need separate nodes, just separate IP addresses. Although Tor has some marginal protections against circuits sharing relays with similar IP, so you couldn’t just get a /24 and hope they all get the same circuit.
Twitter has been accused of being full of bots long before ChatGPT appeared. For 140 symbols, a template with synonyms would be enough to create mass-generated content.
Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers
> And nobody asked for your pronouns, even if I cared we're on an internet forum.

I know, I wasn't mocking you, I was mocking American universities which is where that idea came from
"as many positions as the kamasutra" sounds like a good motto for Xwitter.
An Adobe Flash alternative that worked with CSS or SVG animations for the web
If your select only USA, the trend disappears.
Hey, this is me, I do this.
That chart shows people searching for the world delve, and isn't (directly) related to the incidence of words in content on the open web.
The main reason I didn't contribute my changes via PR is I wanted a package without "deparse" support, which adds considerably to the install size. I also didn't want pre-compiled binaries for every supported platform to be published to NPM, preferring a postinstall script that only downloads the necessary binary. I don't know how the walk function would be received by the original maintainers, as I didn't ask.

> do you think it's possible to use your libraries to get the return type of an arbitrary postgres query, even if it's dynamic?

Yes it is. I've solved that exact problem in pg-nano. I use the `describePrepared` feature of libpq: https://github.com/pg-nano/pg-nano/blob/4cca3dbe6be609c479e4...
What Mastodon is doing seems suitably ironic in this situation.

For those unaware, Mastodon's APIs are extremely open and it's very easy to scrape, to the point of providing you with a "firehose" of all public posts that an instance sees, both local and federated, with no authentication required. They also have an extreme anti-scraping culture, anybody who admits to running any kind of scraper which is not strictly opt-in, even for benign / scientific purposes, is very quickly shunned and blocked. Most instances also have a "disallow scraping via robots.txt" policy by default.

The results? I posted a canary token[1] link on a medium-sized, well-federated, well-protected instance which disallows scraping, and it got hit by some shady social media crawler in a fraction of a second. It started getting hit by many other strange crawlers later on, and it still keeps getting visits (mostly from Google now).
What do you recommend? Just letting people die of cancer and ignore teenage pregnancies?

I don't think data supports your claim that tobacco use was merely redirected to other forms of nicotine. But even if it did, that's a success since they're less harmful.
> Even then it’s hard to assess how severe the harms are for microplastics yet. Part of the reason is they’re clearly not overtly dangerous.

This is a contradiction.
This seems to imply that machines would ghost humans to save on token fees. I wouldn't rule it out.
as I read it, it's any struct! Not just strings. which is cool.
I feel that drop outs are presented as if they are beyond education, they’re too smart to waste their time in school. While that could be true in theory, I resist taking that for granted. You can always look at it the other way around as well: unable to finish things or looses interest quickly. It’s all a meaningless interpretatin after all but all I can say is for sure that Mr Altman does not have a degree.
And soon, that book will be written by an Amazon-owned AI
Begging the question? It appears to be an opinion, and it is definitely not an argument.
Anyone here know why solder paste isn't made of finer particles?

What are the tradeoffs on particle size?
Social media websites could use AI to simply generate posts. I mean, why not? User engagement is all that counts, it doesn't matter by what means and at what moral costs, right?

I don't mean fake users (although I wouldn't put corporate greed beyond trying to fake users). It could be sold as a helpful feature, like summaries of workplace happenings, news, world events, or discussions on the platform in the feeds. Of course, they would need to be filtered for ethical alignment with the social media company, as well as community safety, naturally... Certain political opinions may be less safe than others, and so on...
I agree they are dumb. Unfortunately, many companies are legally obligated to do it. To comply with sanctions.
US's security umbrella covers more than 5% of the global population. Even those countries that try to play many sides, such as India.
Whataboutism. I never claimed they were better (and you're right, they're much worse). But the US is the one that claims to be the world leader in defending freedom and individual liberty. China never made any such claim that I know of.
This is a qualified example. Yes, if you're not doing audio, audio is not going to interrupt. But that's a moot point...
> If someone breaks into your house and tries to kill you, you might want to kill them too, but it's a little funny to say that there's symmetry

Remind me, between Lebanon or Hezbollah and Israel, which entity is currently occupying significant territories outside its UN-mandated borders?
It is drastically harder to understand than OIDC, in large part due to XML signatures, which are a demented format, mostly for the reasons stated in this blog post (but also for some reasons it shares with JWT, and also for some sui generis reasons having to do with how complicated xmldsig is and how few implementations there are of it). You really couldn't find a worse format to do cryptography with than XML.
Can vouch for this. It’s the first non-Google search alternative I’ve used that has 100% replaced Google. I don’t need Google as a fallback like I did with others.
One thing I don’t trust about this approach is when using coding assistants, the generated code might not be what you need at first and then you keep iterating or use what’s necessary from the output but in ops that approach can make things worse burning more money and trust.
Every country on the planet, every single piece of land, has people on it who displaced others. Yes, this includes the Palestinians too, they've displaced others, you just need go far enough back. Historical displacement is irrelevant, and only the oldest among us even remember a time when there was no modern Israel.

Israel belongs there too, Jews have lived in the region forever, and Jewish run states have existed for thousands of years in the region.

It's this simple. Israel exists, and is going nowhere.

People need to deal with it, drop historical hatred, and make peace.
https://nsq.io/ is also very reliable, stable, lightweight, and easy to use.
I also deleted about 1-2 years ago. I’ve been wondering if I will regret it next time I am looking for work. Have you been in that position yet? I am seeking validation that I didn’t screw my future self over lol. Despite how truly awful the platform is, it’s still ubiquitous…
It's very easy to imagine what they'd do with the battery in an electric car. They would do the same thing they did to the pager: put a bomb in it. You cannot "detonate" a lithium ion battery with remote code execution unless you have tampered with the components surrounding it.

It's not so much about the security on vehicles and more about the practical limits. Thermal runaway is only going to happen if you manage to disable the battery's shutoff safeguard (which is usually replicated in hardware and firmware). Unlike phones, you can't really heat up the CPU and force the battery to take the heat. You would have to manipulate the drivetrain in a way that unnaturally damaged the hardware, something a driver would notice almost immediately.

Getting the conditions right for a software-based exploit is a circus act compared to installing a plastic explosive and remote detonator outside the battery stowage.
spoiler alert, the article isn't about self-hosting, it's about shared-hosting
Unsure if you are a parent, but as a parent myself, answering the same question with the same answer gets exhausting.

That said, my understanding is the constant inane question isn't about getting an answer, it's about the child trying to connect with the parent.
Sadly the EU doesn't really communicate this very well, and doesn't care to call out outright propaganda from ad tech and surveillance businesses, but the regulation is not actually hard to be compliant with.

It literally just asks that you don't spy on people. That's it. Not spying on users? Great, you don't even have to do anything.

I would be extremely surprised to see any attempt at enforcement against a website that didn't collect PII on some technicality such as not having the right footer or a contact person.
The burden of not tracking people is quite small.
Ah, you mean the web version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkers_(horse_tack) . I don't think that helps when you're stopped in your tracks by an upsell. Dominos won't let you order a pizza online until you've declined garlic bread, cinnamon rolls and a liter of pepsi three times. And you can't just click "pepperoni pizza near me", you have to build your pepperoni pizza, after putting in your zip code, selecting the store, carry out, then click build again, sure you don't want buffalo wings too?, ....
Boeing Furloughs Salaried Staff to Preserve Cash Amid Strike
A lot of local American newspapers do this.

Europeans usually have no reason to read these, the only reason I know is that I googled a few of my American friends at one point and kept hitting these.
Or perhaps they _are_ sharing notes about tor users with each other, as part of a global club of intelligence agencies (a sort of new world order) who would rather not be overthrown. How are we to know?
My recollection is that he loved that kind of thing... all of his books showed the clear signs that they were half or more about whatever thing he'd been reading up on and talking to people about lately. I'm sure I read several that had discussions at the back about the real-world aspects, bibliographies, acknowledgements, etc.

I haven't read it, but I know for sure that State of Fear, his book that revolves around eco-terrorists creating fake natural disasters to gin up fear about global warming, (in)famously has extensive notes and discussion about his views on the subject.
What's the point of meetings once everyone has a neutralink implant? Instead of discussing and debating things, we would just stream our thoughts to each other and those would be compiled and analyzed within milliseconds with our embedded LLMs and everyone would agree with the best way forward.
Ocean fishing requires boats which require engines, navigation equipment etc etc.

Also, of course the extra effort that go to constrained sectors can't be expended for food production.

And a lot of the world follows US sanctions.

Calling "commies bad" is oversimplifying the situation. Ps China is a centrally planned economy that is the biggest in the world now.

But really the US should stop these sanctions. It's crazy that they still exist.
That's not exactly true; it would depend on how you attacked the combatants, and how much collateral damage you caused. Civilian casualties must be proportionate to the military value of the target.

Reporting is still coming in on these attacks so virtually every comment on these huge long threads could end up falsified one way or the other, but from what I can tell, it looks like these attacks will not only clear that bar, but that they'll do so in a way unprecedented in the history of modern warfare. But we'll see!
> You sound like a lazy parent.

That comment was uncalled for.

Kids do all kinds of annoying things, like ask the same question over and over again. It's how they learn.
You are likely overreacting. If you don't slap random trackers on the website, it doesn't ask you to do much at all.
Hamas: European Union,[158][200] Argentina,[201][202] Australia,[17] Canada,[8] Israel,[203] Japan,[81][18] New Zealand,[162] Paraguay,[84] United Kingdom,[204] United States,[16] Organization of American States[205]

Yep, all western countries/entities, as expected.
> these people always made other mistakes that led authorities to them.

Says who? The intelligent community entity that busted them? If they're using a tool to discover X or Y they're not to let anyone know that.

For example, I live in the NYC area. A couple of times per year there's a drug bust on the New Jersey Turnpike of a car headed to NYC. The story is always a "random" police stop ends up in a drug bust.

Random? My arse. Of the thousands of cars on the NJTP the cops just happened to pick the one loaded with drugs? A couple times a year? I don't buy it. But what are they going to say? They have someone on the inside that tipped them off? That's not going to happen.

The intelligence community doesn't deal in truth and facts. It deals in misinformation and that the ends justify the means. What they're doing and what they say they're doing are unlikely the same.
> You're a lawyer

No, actually. A patent agent.

> the status quo for patenting in software, and staff attorneys generally, is really unpopular, among highly educated people.

"highly educated" doesn't mean what you'd like it to. But yes, there should be major changes, starting with making software ineligible for the one-size-fits-all patent system.
JSON isn't streamable. Neither is CBOR for that matter, though it's not quite as bad.
You have no idea, it probably came from tumblr. I'm familiar with those "fashions" to which you refer and not a single professor I know ever teaches about pronouns or anything else which you're probably alluding to.
I've worked on large FAANG systems that used ML models to identify all sort of things from hair in pictures to fraud and account takeovers. Tasks are then queue up for human review. AI wasn't a buzzword at the time so we didn't call it that, but I'm guessing this would be similar.
I just assumed that if many people, especially not proficient language users encounter this word in the text generated by ChatGPT they would look it up.
Structures like bridges are a complicated case because you can't describe its load capacity as a mass or a weight (force).

I'll assume that a bridge fails when the downward force on its deck exceeds a certain constant number. But that force is inclusive of the dead weight of the bridge.

Let's say a bridge has a mass of 1000 kg and it can hold up an additional 1000 kg of vehicles on Earth. That means it can hold up about 20 000 N of weight (assuming that g = 10 m/s^2).

The Moon's surface gravity is 1/6th of the Earth's. 20 000 N of weight would be 12 000 kg of mass on the moon. Subtract the bridge's mass of 1000 kg, and you can put 11 000 of vehicles on the bridge - which is substantially more than 6× the mass of vehicles allowed on Earth.
how the hell is anyone going to be able to fly anymore?
The groups that primarily fund The Tor Project, i.e. the US State and Defense Departments.
Also our collective unwillingness to pay for subscriptions for publications
USS Liberty says hi.
It is war, but I think there's a qualitative difference you're overlooking, which will inure to Israel's detriment. That difference is the use of asymmetric tactics traditionally employed by the weaker party, deployed by a logistically and technologically superior foe at scale.

Consider the incident a month or two back they assassinated a Hamas negotiator in Iran. That was also asymmetric (in that Iran is a super-hostile environment for any Israeli operations). But while people questioned the probity of assassinating a quasi-diplomat with whom you are ostensibly negotiating, and the Iranians were surely mightily pissed off, nobody serious was suggesting it was a war crime.

Here you're not only using something that feels like a 1950s idea of a remote controlled death ray, however selective, but also subjecting the civilian population who witnessed these thousands of parallel attacks to extreme psychological anxiety. The size of the HN threads on this indicate that a lot of people find it distressing because we live surrounded by such embedded electronics (I have 9 or 10 devices on my desk). Imagine how much worse it is for people who are out grocery shopping or whatever and see someone killed or horribly injured by an explosion right next to them.
Right, tariffs are another word for taxes that penalize importers.
Right, you're replying to my hypothetical which does not describe reality. You contradict the post I first replied to, so it supports my point.
If it’s that expensive to run Tor nodes, who is actually paying for them? I’ve heard individuals getting doors kicked in for participating in the network, so it’s not individuals. Corporates too wouldn’t want this type of burden… so is it really just spy-vs-spy
Is it? Why should a random third world country be allowed to trade with Russia, Iran, North Korea or China? If anything, it would make sense if there were more sanctions, not less, with how things are going.
China probably measures it. In the US it's probably driven by a Fox News opinion poll of rural PA voters.
Interesting project..

> The most prominent feature of Zine is that every file format it uses has been created from scratch in order to handcraft the content authoring experience.

Sadly, this part is more of a detractor for me. Using generic templating languages, markup languages, etc. means that I'm not locking my content in to the only SSG that supports SuperHTML, SuperMD, Ziggy etc.

I appreciate the enthusiasm and open sourcing this for others to learn from, good luck with the project!
An autocratic regime of a large nation locks up its critics and other undesirables in camps.

100,000 activists who haven't been caught yet switch to Tor for anonymity.

For $60,000, the regime monitors Tor for a year, identifies 6,500 activists, and marches them off to the camps.

And by discrediting Tor the regime pushes the other 93,500 activists even farther underground, constraining their ability to recruit, limiting their ability to coordinate with each other, and reducing what they can publish about what's happening to their country.
Is that why the US sent tens of billions of dollars just in the past year to them?
I think we can find and should seek out easy wins. That is we should identify the major sources of microplastics and eliminate them. From my personal observation it seems the major issue could be textiles made from plastic. Clothes and carpets made from polyester, nylon, I would guess these are subject to a lot of wear and tear and rubbing which produces plastic dust that may be breathed.
Falsehoods programmers believe about law: the fact that an identification method isn't 100% accurate means that it has no value
USS Liberty ring a bell?
Using a hotplate is like driving with one eye closed. Sure you’ll get there, but your accuracy will suffer!

Though I’ve had many a SOICs magically realign on the hot plate — they were pretty forgiving — it’s not worth it to run without proper temperature profiling, even if it’s from a hacked toaster oven :)
6 Mg is technically correct and it has the advantage that 1 tonne (or metric ton) = 1 Mg exactly, so it's just a simple substitution of words without changing numbers.

At that point in the article, I wanted to ease the reader into the metric system and not introduce too many new concepts all at once.
"Well, tell me why you think that is?" Is a good way to respond to questions.
yeah, they'll send an audio!
> The human body does not contain enzymes that digest cellulose. So how is this degradation to occur?

Mostly outside the body, before ingestion occurs.

> Being accustomed to something doesn't mean the thing doesn't hurt us.

I disagree. Evolution had the last ~360 million years (that's about how old cellulose is I believe) to evolve mechanisms to protect our body from cellulose particles.
I’ve been noticing more and more US state and local government websites blocking traffic from outside the US. (And I’m not talking about traffic from North Korea, I’m talking about traffic from ANZUS/AUKUS/FVEY ally Australia.)

It seems stupid because just because someone is overseas doesn’t mean they can’t have valid business with a US state or local government. Maybe they are an American who is travelling and has to attend to some official business back home while they are away. Foreigners are allowed to purchase US real estate and incorporate companies in the US, which gives them heaps of legitimate reasons for interacting with local and state governments. In part due to these kinds of issues, many use some local agent in the US to handle government interactions for them, but a person can have valid reasons to engage directly.
Does anyone else remember when the OpenBSD people were releasing research slides and other material in MS comic sans? The LibreSSL logo still has it on their site and if you scroll far enough here [1] they go off about 'weaponizing' it, something about the license actually being free enough to piss off linux nerds while being what it is enough to piss off design nerds

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/mgp00001.ht...
Someone who is using Python the wrong way.
It's an ecosystem of people that seem insistent on the idea that you can put stuff online behind no authentication wall and expect to stay exclusively on servers you believe it should be on.

And I don't know what to tell them, because that's not how the internet has ever worked.
Who says "kill the infidels"?
> run great

How many tokens/second is that approx?

For reference, Qwen 2.5 32B on CPU (5950X) with GPU offloading (to RTX 3090ti) gets about 8.5 token/s, while 14B (fully on GPU) gets about ~64 tokens/s.
Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc
Ah. So I can log IP addresses that connect to my service and store them forever?