skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope this is working out for you; the original article indicates that at least some of these crawlers move to innocuous user agent strings and change IPs if they get blocked or rate-limited.
They don't bring any user-visible benefit over passwords if you use a password manager for your password (so that the password is stored securely on disk behind the password manager's login) *and* the password is unique and large (eg randomly-generated by the password manager) *and* you have the password manager autofill it instead of copy-pasting it manually (because the password manager can reliably check the domain name without falling for lookalikes, homoglyphs, etc).

From a UX perspective, passkeys eliminate user choice about the above matters, so it's easier to railroad users into secure-by-default.

From a technical perspective, a shared secret like a password is generally worse than an asymmetric key like a passkey, especially since stupid websites can save the password directly instead of using a KDF in the usual way and then get breached, but if the secret is unique that matters less.
If you live in a region which it is economically acceptable to ignore the existence of (I do), you sometimes get blocked by website r̶a̶c̶k̶e̶t̶ protection for no reason at all, simply because some "AI" model saw a request coming from an unusual place.
Even if you are using Transparent Operation Mode then it still will not work as bitlocker will not decrypt the drive and lock itself into recovery mode if you make changes to the boot order or any other BIOS / UEFI changes.

It uses secure boot and it’s pretty darn decent at detecting any form of tampering.

TPM 2.0 isn’t particularly resilient against physical key extraction attacks but believe it or Microsoft did threat model this…
> That next "civilian" was an Islamic extremist who took over because the other leaders of the revolution were too weak and foolish and were eliminated by the Islamic extremists.

Are you talking about 1979? I was talking about 1953.

> At that moment a military takeover would have resulted in a smooth transition of power to the next actual civilian government.

If you mean in 1979, that's quite a prediction when nobody knew what would happen, and nobody now can confidently predict paths untaken. it's hard to imagine how the military wouldn't have just furthered a civil war, being closely associated with the Shah. What was the military doing in 1979?

Also, why would the Iranian military make things any more 'smooth' than another power base?

> smooth transition of power to the next actual civilian government.

As of 1979, there hadn't been a democratic civilian government since ~1953; it was a foreign-backed, and IIRC military-backed dictatorship. Why would they install an actual civilian, democratic government if given the chance?
Every person I've talked to in person who has used passkeys has lost all their passkeys at least once, by no fault of their own.

The more techno-masochistic ones tried again immediately out of curiosity (hence "at least"), but the rest have sworn off passkeys permanently.

And I don't blame them. Without cross-platform sync being standard and literally everywhere, it's trusting hardware and OS vendors to do a good job and inter-operate correctly for the long-term future. They've all used computers for long enough to know that's not something you can trust them with, particularly not in low-margin devices like most people use.
There are 25 million ER visits a year for kids where the vast majority of those visits are not life-threatening and don’t require that level of care. An urgent care is 1/10 the cost of an ER and can create a better environment for the kid and family… so better care for 1/10th the cost.
This is a confusing article.

Doing price lookups based on barcode-encoded identifier scanned in at the point of sale doesn’t change radically if the encoded format is a UPC or a QR code. We’re probably getting close to the point where most retailers now have POS equipment that can handle QR codes, and manufacturers can consider leaving UPC codes off of their packaging.

Outside of a point-of-sale context, you’ve always been able to look up other data based on the product identifier. Not sure how QR codes change that.
there's a couple hundred million people in Southeast Asia. There can be more than one.

In fact, there are. If you look at ports by tonnage, Port Klang in Malaysia is bigger than Rotterdam, and Tanjung Priok in Indonesia is bigger than New York.
If I read this correctly, the largest test reported on this page is the "enwik9" dataset, which compresses to 213 MB with xz and only 135 MB with this method, a 78 MB difference... using a model that is 340 MB (and was probably trained on the test data).

No one would be impressed with saving 78 MB on compression using a 340 MB dictionary so I am not sure why this is good?

Please let me know if I misunderstand.
These days, that's true for pretty much everything...including my Android Phone and my iPhone and much software on my laptop. Hell, it's true for a lot of websites too.

Not saying it doesn't suck, only that it is very ordinary and ubiquitous.
I was talking about the lens achieving the difference in image distribution across the sensor, not a sensor with non-uniform pixels.
Maggie De Block is a Belgian government official, not Danish.
> Data will always be messy and debatable.

I agree, but we have no data at all in this discussion. People are just making stuff up like they are self-evident truths.
You're over doing the duplicate submissions of this

(4 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42511909

(5 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42507246

(6 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42501334

(7 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42499135

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
I too was one of the Many who used Qmodem back in the day, and still do now on vintage stuff like bwann mentioned.

I had opportunity to work with John on a small consulting thing when I started and ISP back in the mid 90s, and I recall him being an incredibly bright and affable guy.

My deepest condolences to the family.
Probably to do multiplies, as the extra add is basically free. Adds are cheaper.
Yeah, funny how the divisions appear when it comes to folks who have dependents (not just kids, adult dependents count too), and those who are el solo lobo.

I will add to your note a (hopefully) friendly reminder that parenting does not need to be as involved as some folks make it out to be. Some of the best parts of my kids days come when I just leave them alone in their room, ignore their "i'm bored" whinging, and do my own thing. It's not selfish, it teaches them to find their own motivations. My 8 year old fell back asleep on the couch for 20 minutes this morning after breakfast while complaining about being bored and is now building a marble run with a toy we had to dust off together this weekend.
Qmodem still runs on Linux. I’ve had to use it a few times to talk to serial devices.
My questions were rhetorical ;) I've commented on his "patterns" previously, in particular whenever Signal's lack of anonymity is the topic. Apparently it's an offense so one must watch the way they phrase their responses to such statements.
Did they stop thinking of performance gains as a priority after 2017? The improvements have been very weak since then. Just wondering if they ran out of low hanging fruit or if they just didn't think it was important anymore.
Appreciate the pour. Glad you got great care for your daughter.
Here's the submission that won the Hutter Prize in 2021: https://github.com/amargaritov/starlit It uses a LSTM to predict the next token lossily, then uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding to convert that to lossless compression. Lossless compression can definitely leverage a lossy compressor, such as via arithmetic coding. Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-adaptive_binary_arithm... which has a simple "Example" section - imagine if the top prediction made by your neural network was correct, you emit "0", if the 2nd was correct, you emit "10", if the 3rd, "110", if the 4th, "1110". As you can see, this is lossless, but the fundamental prediction is lossy, and the better that prediction is, the better the compression. (In actuality, you wouldn't waste your 1 bits like this, you'd use arithmetic coding instead).
Can't fall to mention that buying drugs overseas is not Bioterrorism.
If you mean user-agent-wise, I think real users vary too much to do that.

That could also be a user login, maybe, with per-user rate limits. I expect that bot runners could find a way to break that, but at least it's extra engineering effort on their part, and they may not bother until enough sites force the issue.
The deregulation, more specifically, was repealing Prohibitionist policies that kept microbreweries from operating. Now we have microbreweries everywhere, offering superior alternatives to Budweiser, some of which have grown to be national level competitors.
Building and growing trust makes the data less worthless to the point of being useful. More people will opt-in when they trust the company / the developer(s). Opt-in without a push, universally trust building in the community, keeps leading to this worthless data.

The only way I see moving forward would be community driven effort to build the trust through said means and or other ideas. This not an easy problem to solve and would take time.

*Even the USA agencies like the CDC and FBI must utilize bias data for the decision making since not all states and organizations self-report.
Yeah that was horrible and a bad day for everyone. I was referring to instances where LE does their job correctly.
Correct, ran into this last night. Dislocker works though: https://github.com/Aorimn/dislocker
My latest favorite fun fact about SQLite is that it is not only my favorite SQL database, but also my favorite NoSql database.

Since 2024, all my new database tables have only one column. Everything just goes into one single JSON column, which I always call "data".

SELECT
cities.data->>'name' city_name,
countries.data->>'name' country_name
FROM cities
JOIN countries
ON countries.data->'id' = cities.data->'country_id'

I looked around a bit if some NoSql database would make this easier. But it turned out no, even now that I only use Json everywhere, SQLite is still the best tool.
Newsgrouper Web Interface to Usenet
This is a web gateway to the Usenet discussion groups. I've been working on it for a while and think it's now in a reasonably functional state. It aims to be useable on desktop or mobile devices. Javascript is not required but if it's disabled the keyboard shortcuts will not work.

It may be useful to people who are interested in following or participating in newsgroup discussions but who find it impractical to set up an NNTP client. Anyone can read as a guest but you need to register to be able to post. Only text groups are supported, no binary content.

I'm open to suggestions for things that should be fixed or improved, though I can't guarantee to implement everything. The source code is online at https://chiselapp.com/user/cmacleod/repository/newsgrouper/h... .
Dillo RFC 003 – Unix sockets in URLs
I just wrote a simple RFC to support UNIX sockets in URLs, initially for Dillo[1] but potentially useful for other software.

It allows protocols other than HTTP to talk to the socket, like Gemini or Gopher.

[1]: https://dillo-browser.github.io/
They understand quite well that it's not really something you can just neatly place a piece of work into. Something which is 'public domain' but the copyright has not actually expired on is higher risk to use than something with an explicit open source license.
The release of the first ModernBERT-based embedding models
First embedding models trained from modern-bert-embed!
I think the difference is desktop systems are way more transparent about what's going on in the OS compared mobile OS's which behave closer to a blackbox.
Yes that is why I specified it was non-existent. But the idea behind it is in the same vein somehow. Maybe what Sloot envisioned was something similar to LLMs.
In few languages I know, name is about the night, which is pretty astronomical thing. In Scandinavian countries they use pagan name while celebrating Christian holiday, so cultural thing is pretty loose here.
No, it's a test case for whether people understand exponential growth. The very first chapter of the book goes into this.

The inputs don't matter that much when you are growing exponentially. By the time you get pricing signals, you are already cooked.

Its like bacteria in a petri dish, one day you are at 12% full, then, 25%, then 50%, then 100%, then you die off.

We are already seeing the early signs of the system collapse with climate change and we have more and more people pumping more and more carbon into the atmosphere.

The keystone of modern society is agriculture, which was only possible because the climate stabilize 20k years ago. We are destabilizing that climate and are in uncharted territory. We had the opportunity to do a course correction when the book was published but people like you down played the ramifications. In the last 50 years we have done nothing and are now cooked.
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https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/when-transcribing-a-publi...

Here's some discussion on the matter that indicates that a transcription can be, but a lot of what I've seen is much like the rest of copyright, and it's a hot mess and very specific to what the circumstances are.

The "might have a claim" about that topic in my original post is pulling a lot of weight for me.
Richer how, and relative to who and when? Because you could say the same thing for nearly every country on earth purely through technological advancements. Wealth is always measured in relative terms, and relative to the top of society much of the US hasn't gotten any richer. The average American only gained wealth relative to the past through technological means. Home ownership isn't really going up for the average American, education standards have been falling behind many other parts of the world, and while we have recently had a little bit of wage increases, it doesn't really make up for the decades of wage stagnation and only really came with an accompanying large increase in inflation for nearly every other consumer good.
Pipelining is the direct reason behind 1996 Quake running 30 fps on Intel Pentium 133 but requiring 233MHz from Cyrix and 166MHz from AMD K6 to reach same result. 20 fps needed 75MHz Intel Pentium, 133MHz Cyrix and 100MHz AMD K5.
Agent as in AI or agent as in actor framework? Or both?
Usually ones that are written in a slow language, do lots of IO to other webservices or databases in a serial, blocking fashion, maybe don't have proper structure or indices in their DBs, and so on. I have seen some really terribly performing spaghetti web sites, and have experience with them collapsing under scraping load. With a mountain of technical debt in the way it can even be challenging to fix such a thing.
I think that's more or less true. Outside of school (one of which was way back in spray and pray physical letter days), my few jobs have always been through personal connections. Any online applications pretty much resulted in nada.
Xbox is pretty popular while requiring a Microsoft account.
Peer review doesn't do what you think it does.
I think airports are great reflections of culture of a country, because that's the first thing a visitor from another country sees, but I had other experiences in USA, where I felt that some of the reataurants just shouldn't be allowed to exist.

I'm from Hungary, a country with 4x smaller average salary, and you can be sure that nowhere would the thing that they sold me without shame in the airport would be considered food, do it's clearly not a money problem.

I believe RFK Junior understands how seriously USA food culture is behind compare to the available money and hope he does something about it.
Was very hard to navigate COVID where the business was whiplashed in both directions for a couple years. Money went to opening clinics and staff… in hindsight there were smarter ways to grow the business.
All in the world? I suppose I haven't tried it for recipes, but I guess Copilot could help with that too.

As far as sharing files goes though, yes. I mean, it allows you to... share files, and do so in a controlled manner. Even edit them in-app as long as they're of a supported format.
I sort of disagree with the example of the Python code and the BASIC code - if you have a pretty smart kid who knows the English language who decides to think about things when looking at these two bits of code the one looking at the python code might think "I bet I can learn how to do this" the one reading the BASIC code will not think that intuitively from looking at the code and knowing nothing else.
> Since SQLite is used extensively in every smartphone, and there are more than 4.0 billion (4.0e9) smartphones in active use, each holding hundreds of SQLite database files, it is seems likely that there are over one trillion (1e12) SQLite databases in active use.

I find the scientific notation of the counts amusing given the sometimes different meanings of "billion" and "trillion" (especially with English as a second language):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM1FFhaWj9w (bonus: on French numbers)
Why DeepSeek's new AI model thinks it's ChatGPT
Rulecompile – Undocumented Ghidra decompiler rule language
A blog post about how frustration with poor decompilation led me to dive deep into Ghidra's decompiler to discover (and reverse-engineer) - an obscure, undocumented DSL
What have Obelisks ever done to you? Our first reaction shouldn't be to kill everything we don't understand :'(

Good pragmatic question though. It's not clear if any drugs up- or down-regulate Obelisk genome copy, you could re-investigate other drug-treatment studies to see if Obelisks incidentally present are altered and get an "accidental" study.

From a molecular perspective, the most likely compounds and methods would be those which work against viroid replication (i.e. RNA polymerase inhibitors, translational inhibitors, CRISPR,...). You just have to maintain a preferential toxicity to Obelisks over host cells.
> textual writing eventually is displaced by something called kinograms

> I think this sentiment was common in previous generations as well

you're the man now, dog
Run a mediawiki, as described in the post. It's very heavy.
Specifically for history I'm guessing it has to re-parse the entire page and do all link and template lookups because previous versions of the page won't be in any cache
My initial though. At least create an IAM user per file :-). Maybe that defeats the convenience.

Cloning and installing is also an option.
For what it's worth(not much), but if we are doing a survey...

(US/western, not coastal)

I pronounce it ess que lite.

and always letter out SQL.

postgresql is the tricky one, naively there is no good way to pronounce it. so when formal I say "postgres Q L" but mostly just call it postgres

and because of the previous cases I have started slurring mysql, easily the most pronounceable one into "mys Q L"

Microsofts SQL server (which I have never actually used, and almost never talk about) is simply "S Q L server"
This is basically the core plot device (and foregrounded assertion, for its ramifications) of a recent scifi book, which for spoiler reasons I rot13:

Xvz Fgnayrl Ebovafba'f Nheben
> Is the problem essentially that too much of the load on the grid is AC->DC converters that are drawing power only at the peak of each cycle?

No, large power supplies used for AC/DC conversion don’t do this. They even already do power factor correction to correct the AC power factor.

The issue is that power factor can only be corrected so well (0.95 is typical best case), so if you keep adding more and more loads of the same type it will lead to excessive capacitive loading on a grid.

In comparison, industrial stuff (things that use lots of motors) have an inductive loading on the grid. Basically, if you have equally paired inductive and capacitive loads you can cancel out the “imbalance”. Industrial plants already do this with large capacitor banks.

Essentially all this means is that the power companies probably need to start forcing power factor requirements on data center customers. They’re already billed for it, but if it’s causing grid issues they can require it (or, implicitly dictate it through pricing structures).
> massive fiscal transfers from states on the coasts to states in the interior

That's because of how US politics work. Less populous states have disproportionately higher political power. It's not a monetary policy thing. It's a core difference between US and European politics.

> The US also allows whole areas to deindustrialize

That's because Americans are free to live and work where they choose.

There's a lot more nuance here, if you look at Obama's memoir, he writes quite frankly about the dilemma of propping up the US auto industry with government dollars. When they (US automakers) asked for bailouts, he found them quite mismanaged, but if they went under a large portion of the US economy would find itself unemployed.
How exactly would doctors fund their own residency programs? They already graduate from medical school $500k in debt. There's no more room to squeeze them further. And teaching hospitals have no real incentive to fund more residency program slots. Their customers aren't willing to pay more for it. In game theory terms this is essentially a free rider problem: many entities in the healthcare system would benefit from a larger supply of physicians but they all want someone else to pay for education.

There have been some attempts to introduce market dynamics such as high-deductible health plans (HDHP) with HSAs. Those can work fairly well for a minority of engaged and intelligent consumers but overall aren't an effective solution to systemic problems.

Classical supply and demand economics don't function very well in healthcare. Demand is effectively infinite: sick people want all the healthcare they can get (even if it doesn't really help them much or causes iatrogenic harm) and they think someone else should pay for it. Thus the only way to constrain total system costs is by artificially limiting supply and imposing some sort of rationing. So the real argument ends up being about how we do the rationing.
If you are going to zip the resulting file, it may be useful to have a lot of 0s.

If you are going to send the result as is,
Huffman coding (with some escape for unusal words(?)) will be better. I think even better than the other method that forgets the probabilities and then tries to compresd it.
I still don’t understand how people are getting value out of AI coders. I’ve tried really hard and the commits produced are just a step up from garbage. Writing code from scratch is generally decent. But after a few rounds of edits the assistant just starts piling in conditionals into existing functions until it’s a rats nest 4 layers deep and 100+ lines long. The other day it got into a loop trying to resolve a type error, where it would make a change, then revert it, then make it again

ETA: Sorry forgot about the relevancy in my rant! The one area where I’ve found the AIs helpful is enumerating and then creating test cases
It is not just down to Commission interpretation.

It has been a while since I last looked at this, but from memory a pre-condition for Euro adoption is spending a certain amount of time within some formal "convergence mechanism", however there is no obligation to join that convergence mechanism.

This could well be ERM-II which I have in mind.