skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I derived it from the absence of the points this article raises in the Kamloops residential school "conversation". It's a classic example of doublethink - everyone knows how high child mortality was before antibiotics and vaccines.. except when they want to ignore that.
Probably. This is a good illustration of just how hard it may be to conclusively find life on other worlds; we don’t even know what exists here on Earth yet.
Show HN: I built a simple habit tracker
Over the holidays, I built a simple habit tracker that lets you track any event's start and end time.

In the process, I upgraded my personal homepage to Next.js 15, added Payload CMS and NextUI, and experimented with React Server Components and Actions.

Check it out: https://mojica.de/tracker

You can create new event types by entering activities in the top text field. Events are automatically started for new types.
I enjoy that SPONGEBLOB really sort of works.
While you are right and you have to work(and pay) to find good food in the US, I would not use airport food as a signal of nutrition availability anywhere in the world
I don't think you're talking about the same thing as this talk when you discuss "documented."

For example, NimBLE (the Apache BLE implementation for Nordic) interfaces with the radio using a high-level, documented register interface to the PHY. It basically constructs a BLE frame and passes a pointer to it into some registers (which trigger DMA). Then a magic black box modulates and transmits that frame.

This talk goes one level deeper, into the magic black box. These are sometimes traditional fixed-function hardware but usually they are some kind of obscure DSP architecture which is ROM-coded with a patch capability (or just has blob firmware).
No docker is deal breaking these days but podman may be a better option for FreeBSD.
I got annoyed and responded in kind. So what? Backing up assertions with details is step zero of a worthwhile post. Taught in middle-school and not the responsibility of the reader.
The details never came out despite several subthreads.

If your priority is protocol over an attempt at truth you've made it clear. Been a while and I don't remember the original assertion so might as well save yourself the time.
Interesting idea, though I doubt they'd ever offer a reasonable amount for it. But doesn't it also change a sites legal stance if you're now selling your users content/data? I think it would also repel a number of users away from your service
I'd kind of like to see that claim substantiated a little more. Is it all crawlers that switch to a non-bot UA, or how are they determining it's the same bot? What non-bot UA do they claim?
It's both. To be pro-women is to be anti-trans, and vice versa. The two stances are fundamentally incompatible.
It’s a very clever idea.

I could see it becoming very useful if on device LLM becomes a thing. That might allow storing a lot of original sources for not much additional data. We might be able to get an on device chat bot sending you to a copy of Wikipedia/reference material all stored on device and working fully offline.
Complainer's Dilemma
Wrapped.dev (GitHub repo yearly stats)
It’s mostly based on the ideomotor effect. It’s all manual triggering, just mostly unconscious.
(I was going to post "run a bot motel" as a topline, but I get tired of sounding like broken record.)

To generate garbage data I've had good success using Markov Chains in the past. These days I think I'd try an LLM and turning up the "heat".
Music I Heard in 2024
I've recently retired. I get up between 0630 and 0700 and do fifteen minutes of core strength exercises. I create a new handwritten task list for the day, then have a long, slow breakfast (at least an hour, sometimes ninety minutes) while I read articles in my RSS feed.

When I was working, I got up at 0500 and worked for two hours (I usually set aside a challenging coding task for this slot the day before). Then the core strength exercises, task list and breakfast (although not as leisurely).
I can see two cases where it could be legally questionable:

- the result breaks some law (e.g. support of selected few genocidal regimes)

- you pretend users (people, companies) wrote something they didn't
I have always thought compression to be an analog to intelligence. The smarter you are, the better at summarization you are.
Eightyeightthirty.one: A Graph of the Internet
The Qmodem program, brought home on some random 3.5 inch floppy, allowed me to connect to local BBSes and started my journey into networking computers. Now I have a PhD in CS and I spent more than a decade deeply caring about the Internet, networks, and network research. Without the start given by those BBSes, my path could have been very different! I am very sorry for your loss, and I hope the fact that he made a random teen's life better is some comfort.
I don't think the parent comment is saying this is a new sensor; rather that the lens spreads the center over a wider area of the sensor (hence more pixels) and squeezes the edges into a smaller area (hence less pixels).
You can still fine-tune though. I often run User-Agent: *, Disallow: / with User-Agent: Googlebot, Allow: / because I just don't care for Yandex or baidu to crawl me for the 1 user/year they'll send (of course this depends on the region you're offering things to).

That other thing is only a more extreme form of the same thing for those who don't behave. And when there's a clear value proposition in letting OpenAI ingest your content you can just allow them to.
That only works until The benchmark questions and answers are public. Which they necessarily would be in this case.
FDA Approves First Generic of GLP-1 Injection for Those with Type 2 Diabetes
Team America to the rescue! But it does seem like without FDR it would have been won for the allies anyway.
Hey Friel Family, I just wanted to reach out and say how sorry I am to hear about John’s passing. I didn’t know him or his work, but it’s clear he made a significant impact on many lives. Losing someone who has touched so many people is never easy. Even though I’m a stranger, I hope you find some comfort in the memories you shared and the love that surrounds you during this tough time. Sending you all my best wishes and support.
It's not misleading or ambiguous. As a bystander to this discussion I'm shaking my head wondering whether you are doing this on purpose.

The vast majority of employed people have a single reasonable choice: to take their employers insurance. Anything else would be much more expensive because of lack of deduction. When they change jobs, they are again at the mercy of their (new) employer. Sure there are self-employed folks, and it's different for them, but this thread is not about them. And of course most people with their own insurance choice are self employed precisely because everybody else doesn't really have a choice, which is the whole point.

So, can we please stop with this smoke screen? My popcorn reserves are running low.
Enforcement is not. What does the US care for what an EU court says about the legality of the OpenAI scraper.
My reading is that the GP moreso takes issue with how social sciences are discussed, and is using an arbitrary replication-less finding in the 'hard sciences' (this one) as a podium to speak from--regardless of why replication doesn't exist for it, or whether that reason makes sense.
69% of Stanford applicants with perfect SAT scores didn't get in (2013)
> Users must take responsibility for knowing how software works and the motivations of its creators.

This doesn't seem reasonable. Let's try to apply the logic elsewhere:

> Patients must take responsibility for knowing how medicine works and motivations of its creators/prescribers.

Requiring everyone to have deep technical knowledge about anything they use would prevent everyone from using more than the things they are experts in. So, there needs to be either a technological regression, or something to help defend users from unethical practices. The only entity really in a position to do that is a government, for better or worse.
The best way to solve a big problem is to break it up into lots of tiny problems.

It seems like, IMO, the best way to get the general public to adopt passkeys, and to refine (cough debug cough) the UI, is to use them in low-stakes situations, in a gradual rollout.

Instead of focusing on high-stakes use cases, like banking, perhaps:

1: Focus on low-stakes situations, like blogs and news sites

2: Services need easy ways to "add a device," such as opening a link in an email or SMS on the device they want to use.

3: Don't bother syncing passkeys across "devices." Instead, focus on syncing within the browser, where passkeys sync however bookmarks sync.

4: Work on APIs for a user to elect to use a 3rd party passkey manager

At that point, services like iCloud, OneDrive, Google Drive, ect, could also provide passkey synchronization. It's up to elect to use such services; because otherwise, re-signing-in on each device the user uses might be "good enough."
Cloudflare (which seems to be fronting half the web these days based off the number of cf-ray cookies that I see being sent back) does this with bot protection on, and Akamai has something similar I think.
Everything on this can be programmatically simulated by a bot with bad intentions. It will be a cat and mouse game of finding behaviors that differentiate between bot and not and patching them.

To truly say “I trust real browsers” requires a signal of integrity of the user and browser such as cryptographic device attestation of the browser. .. which has to be centrally verified. Which is also not great.
When he ran for prez he had lots & lots of great ideas. But IIRC the congressional seniority system was still in place, and when Carter got in, the Democratic-controlled Congress stonewalled him on basically everything. You know. "Politics as usual."

I remember a discussion in grad school in the mid-80s. Reaganite fever was the order of the day. I stated my belief that history would be kind to Jimmy Carter. Some people in the class openly laughed at this.

But we know now that Carter had some bad luck and that Reagan set the country on course for its current worship of ignorance, cruelty, corrupted "Christianity", and authoritarianism. Plus plenty of people lining their pockets.

Of course nowadays nobody mentions Reagan any more because the Cult of Reagan has been replaced by Führerprinzip.
Division, gather are muti-cycle instructions
which have typically had little or no pipelining on x86.
AFAIK, he doesn't do videos or interviews. His web presence is pretty sparse. I remember trying to dig something up last year and coming up blank. Totally respect that, but a bummer for folks hoping to get a peek inside his mind.

If nothing else, I hope he finds time to write his thoughts into a book at some point.
Meta: looking at these schedules, it is very obvious who has and who doesn't have children.

My schedule is trying to squeeze about 30 hrs of parenting, work and sleep requirements into a 24h day.
Adventures in Self-Hosting
Unprotected VW Data Exposed Locations of 800k EVs
The expression "unreasonable effectiveness" is a trendy one, but one which should be avoided. What is invariably meant is "surprising effectiveness", which means that the effectiveness is at variance with human intuition, not with reason itself. If it were truly unreasonable, it wouldn't be effective.
Fair, I’m not partial to any particular solution, just something that’ll destroy the ship or its anchor and chain before it damages or destroys the underwater cables.

I like the tunnel idea, but tunnels are expensive as you mention; certainly a solution to colocate if the digging will happen regardless.
My condolences on your loss. I used QModem in the early 90s downloading shareware and the like. I just looked through my floppy disk holder and found a 3 1/2 inch floppy from 1992 with QModem on it :)
Your dad’s contribution to the BBS scene was huge and it was an important part of my own journey into computing.
Recent and related:

Bench accounting services shutting down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42523061 - Dec 2024 (304 comments)
I had so much fun playing with this visualization for the past half an hour.. I found myself (https://eightyeightthirty.one/#varun.ch) and found mutuals and some unexpected connections.
This is all just semantics. Arguably, the arbiter of what is "medically necessary" is practicing medicine. They have chosen to intercede in your care, and they should be liable for the decisions that they make leading to your health outcomes.

The legal system could just as easily have seen that the determination of which procedures are "medically necessary" is indeed part of medicine itself. It's a miracle of delusion and corruption that it went the other way.
That's kind of the problem with it was it was mechanically implementing something that was more setting/background cosmetics specific in the first place. Not all settings think dwarves should have a harder time becoming a wizard. Forgotten Realms, the modern "default" for D&D thinks anyone can do anything if they want, classes are just "jobs" available to anyone. Those settings that do care, including throwback settings, generally make it a story telling device about why things are the way they are ("dwarves are closer to the earth and have a hard time learning illusions") and the hardships exceptions face ("it took a lot more work and they lost access to some of their home community") and making it a mechanical disadvantage doesn't do anything more interesting than the storytelling tools already inherent in the setting.
Funny thing is half these websites are probably served over cloud so Google, Amazon, and MSFT DDoS themselves and charge the clients for traffic.
The Chaos Computer Club did it again.

And BTW, why the auto maker needs to know the location of the customer's car?
In fairness there's got to be something off about anyone with a perfect SAT score.
It's not merely a default, but a desire to punish outliers to conform.
Just added support for Ollama and LM Studio servers! I'm getting 66 tokens/sec and 0.17s time to first token for Llama 3.1, it's pretty mind-blowing.

https://x.com/charliebholtz/status/1873798821526069258
Hm, perhaps they do have a longer timeline, I've had my domain and one of the IPs for over 10 years
> Is it all crawlers that switch to a non-bot UA

I've observed only one of them do this with high confidence.

> how are they determining it's the same bot?

it's fairly easy to determine that it's the same bot, because as soon as I blocked the "official" one, a bunch of AWS IPs started crawling the same URL patterns - in this case, mediawiki's diff view (`/wiki/index.php?title=[page]&diff=[new-id]&oldid=[old-id]`), that absolutely no bot ever crawled before.

> What non-bot UA do they claim?

Latest Chrome on Windows.
This is so confusing. What stops people from copying music verbatim (with little effort) and obtaining copyright? And once someone has done so, if I try to do it too how can I claim I was transcribing the original and not the copy, since it’s identical? And if two identical transcriptions can exist, how to adjudicate which one to credit?
A Tricycle of the Mind
I would expect AI APIs and AI scraping bots to run on separate infrastructures, so the latter wouldn’t necessarily be affected by outages of the former.
Not a fan of this new trend where any response is called 'ad-hominem' and then quit like you are claiming a high ground.

How do I know where you are from? If it sounds like a 'right' talking point, then that is what it sounds like isn't it? I'm guessing the same views can be in multiple countries. There are people on the 'right' in other countries, maybe I'm German?

Also, not a fan of how you edited your post after my response, to clean it up and appear more generous than it was originally.

But, to continue the argument. Are you saying that when the US staged a Coup to put the Shah in power, that was ok. But then later when it fell apart under Carter, it was more his responsibility for not further backing the Shah? Like it was the US pulling support for the Shah that caused the Revolution.?

To help, what Incident are you referring to? I looked at the links you supplied and couldn't find anything directly attributed to Carter.
Presumably they switch UA to Mozilla/something but tell on themselves by still using the same IP range or ASN. Unfortunately this has become common practice for feed readers as well.
When judging a system using the ROC curve, you need to evaluate both the precision AND the recall. You are pointing out that the precision is low, and must be improved; the article is pointing out that recall ought to be improved. Both are true, and we cannot use just one of the two metrics to evaluate system performance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteris...
Study reveals rising application of AI across communications by the PR industry
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549343, which is currently on the front page.
Odd choice of name, to my ear at least, given that Android devices rarely have mice...
That's true - their revenue from VR/MR hardware is less than 2.5% of revenue though. Meanwhile, ads make up the other 97.5% of their revenue. 97.5% of everything Meta does is to hoover the data and sell it. It's effectively their entire business, while VR/MR stuff is a little side project.
At what speed is the brain processing when a pair of Chinese ping pong masters are playing? All of this requires seeing the ball coming from the opponent, subconsciously calculating its speed, angle, and rotation to decide how to move your body, legs, arms, hands, and even fingers to hit the ball at the desired location, with the desired angle, and at the desired speed. A standard ping pong table is 2.74 meters long, and in high-speed professional games, the ball can traverse this distance in as little as 90–140 milliseconds. This means players have less than a tenth of a second to react. It's not just the immense image-processing speed required but also the mental speed to transform that visual data into precise positioning and movement of hundreds of muscles in less than a second. Ten bits per second? No way.
Every additional factor just weakens the chain. None of these solutions addresses the social attacks due to decreased usability. Users are more confused and have less control now. They will spam every factor to get to their resources.
History would say otherwise.
(We changed the URL from https://www.bench.co/ to an article that gives more background.)
I used QModem in the late 80s, accessing files on local BBSs on my 8086.
It didn't really. What actually solved it was contacting Nintendo directly. A spoofed email in and of itself is meaningless.
Oh yeah actually because they can't parse it automatically as easily as a word document or whatever, the form of a pdf is too ambiguous to easily parse from what I understand, so you don't even pass the robot. Hiring management is like a secretarial job mostly. Especially in the americas I find this is the case, that you might not even have someone with your skillset looking at your resume before it gets passed on to someone who does. I've seen the worst people hired through procedures like that hahaha

It's awful that this is the case but you really just want to make it a word document because of administration staff and software who are tasked with filtering things based on really the most arbitrary of reasons, but that's how much of the business world works because Microsoft went and built everything so hard around office collaboration at the expense of stuff like security or open standards

There may also for security reasons be policies against opening or even receiving PDF attachments in email.
I've been using SQLite for quick prototyping and as a log dump for later aggregation, but one thing I've found is that it's easy to accidentally want multi-writer in today's multi-service world. That's repeatedly been my biggest stumbling block, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's the foremost reason for others to "outgrow" sqlite.
I'm curious what the compressed text looks like. Anyone have an example?
A key comment from Magnus:

"They were saying that jeans were generally not allowed. If it's generally not allowed, that must mean that there must be exceptions. And if I, with a decent attempt at an outfit apart from that, didn't meet that exception, I don't see what would, frankly."
I didn't realize this was just an overreaction to someone failing to agree with you on the internet. This thread makes a lot more sense to me now. It doesn't change the facts, which I have presented and which I stand by.
Going to guess that they get some sort of enjoyment or value out of them, their definition of “worth contributing to” is different from yours, or they do not share your standard of what “educated people” should do with themselves on the internet
Impressive!

I wonder if this is at all similar to what Apple uses for their satellite iMessage/SMS service, as that's a domain where it's probably worth spending significant compute on both sides to shave off even a single byte to transmit.
Thanks for that second link! I've used it for the frontpage thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549343).
> I cannot bring myself to agree to any "switch to passkey" prompt from any device because I have no idea (and too tired to figure out) how and where that key will be stored, how do I deal with different devices, etc.

There is a draft standard in the works for export/import:

* https://fidoalliance.org/specifications-credential-exchange-...
I would be interested in people's thoughts here on my solution: https://www.tela.app.

The answer to bot spam: payments, per message.

I will soon be releasing a public forum system based on this model. You have to pay to submit posts.
Not the goal of the regulations. The goal of the companies.
> I absolutely refuse to go to Twitter links anymore; why bother, they don't usually work unless you're logged in.

Replace "x.com" by "xcancel.com" (or some other still working Nitter instance) and you're set. https://xcancel.com/ianwcrosby/status/1872724231999381790
> Pipelined execution and parallel execution are dual methods for accelerating an iterative process that transforms a stream of data. In the former the process is divided into subprocesses through which the stream of data passes in series, while in the latter the stream of data is divided into substreams that go in parallel through multiple instances of the process.

With parallel do you mean superscalar execution i.e. having two ALUs or do you mean having multiple cores?