skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
May be unrelated, but I have been having a lot of issues lately with ChatGPT letting me select a model (o1) and silently switching to 4o.

This is coming off my TWO DAY cooldown on o1 usage, which is frustrating.
> Pornhub is the entity blocking those states from accessing it, as they choose to not follow the new law.

Pornhub is in compliance: they decided to not participate in the states with those regulations.
Oh yes, "simply" obey a law that would not respect the privacy of people, and given the current religious zealousness in the US, may expose customers to future danger.

Good for Pornhub. They made the right call.
> Seeing a boob never killed anyone

This is a straw-man attack. Porn produces a huge dopamine dump. Do some research on how dopamine works in the brain. Regular dopamine dumps can have a huge impact on quality of life leading to depression and building an addiction cycle.
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I wouldn’t say that, but it certainly was a big one.

The other big thing is that Sega had just burned so many bridges during their surprise gotcha Saturn launch in the US that a lot of retailers didn’t want to deal with them again.

If they had been coming from a stronger position I wonder if they would’ve done better.

But it was a Sony, MS, Sega and Nintendo race. That’s just too many, someone wasn’t going to make it. And as the weakest of the bunch they were the most likely.

As an unknown Microsoft could’ve been, but they got a huge hit with Halo and had the money to push through either way.
> Elon says he wants to replace American workers with H1Bs

Source?

So Tesla laid off 15,000 people. How many of them are US citizens? It applies 2,405 H-1B's for later hirings, sure, but that includes renewals and transfers. Is that number higher than the laid-off part? Nobody knows.
What if the reason people can't own nuclear weapons has nothing to do with them as weapons?

The debate people have about 2A and nukes is usually pretty low resolution: I don't ever see any references to the CFR but there's plenty of stuff (in Title 10, I believe) that restricts nuclear materials for any purpose whatever.
In the case of UT, it was apparently not possible to comply with the law as the gov't didn't offer a means to validate identity.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/07/1174631536/a-new-utah-law-led...
Here's the problem: Sometimes a topic comes up like, e.g., child abuse. And I'm reading the comments, and I think, hey, I want to say something about my specific experience of how I was abused as a child. (I wasn't, for the record - this is a fictional example.) But I don't want the account - no doubt personal, perhaps quite graphic, maybe not fully processed even yet - to be associated with my main account, especially if my main account is in my actual name or has my contact info. Maybe I'm not ready to talk about it publicly in a way that can be traced back to me.

So I need a throwaway account. But if I have to wait 3 days, the conversation is over, and nobody will see my comment.
Yeah, NextJS is very opinionated and IME (doing webdev since 1998), using Vite (and optionally React-router / Remix, for SSR etc) makes MUCH more sense.
The phrasing doesn't necessarily imply that pornhub isn't the entity blocking it, but it does leave it for the reader to interpret according to their biases. Also, one might argue that the legislation in being overly onerous is in fact what is causing the block, and hence implying that the states themselves are blocking pornhub is at least partially correcy.
The main point is that sea level rise is a slow process, and lags the actual warming substantially, so even though the sea level rise hasn't been huge so far, it's going to keep going, even if carbon emissions stop (a lot of the confused messaging is people mixing up projections that are a hundred years out and thinking they were supposed to have already happened).
They're pipe bombs so quite low yield. They're typically based on smokeless powder so they're "low explosives" meaning they don't really detonate, they deflagrate at below the speed of sound.
Are you sure you weren't fishing? I ran 5 sessions and never got the wrong answer. All using gpt 4o-mini, which is the default non logged in experience on chatgpt.com.

1. The 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than the 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots. Despite the difference in material density, the key factor here is the weight itself, with 10.01 pounds being greater than 9.99 pounds, regardless of the substance.

2. The 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than the 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots. The weight of an object is directly determined by its mass, and in this case, the cotton bag weighs 10.01 pounds, while the steel ingot bag weighs 9.99 pounds, making the cotton bag heavier by 0.02 pounds.

3. The 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than the 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots, even though the cotton is much less dense. The comparison is purely based on weight, and 10.01 pounds is greater than 9.99 pounds.

4. The 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than the 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots. While steel is much denser than cotton, the weight is the determining factor here, and 10.01 pounds is slightly more than 9.99 pounds. So, the cotton bag weighs more.

5. The 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier. Despite the cotton being less dense and bulkier, the weight of the cotton is still 10.01 pounds, which is greater than the 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots.
But how does that improve the maze?
SQL Server is a terrific product. And I detest most things Microsoft.
I'd agree, but only if the title puts you at the top of a ladder, or just below it.

But in that case, the title is typically paired with authority. The authority is probably what people care about.
> iOS developer work in Linux

I dream of the day Apple releases official docker images. Building for iOS is the only reason I have to touch a Mac.
See also: Gurdjieff, and the Illuminati Trilogy.
Those laid off workers are not 100% "US workers". Many of them are H-1B holders.
Honestly, I think the conversation needs to be more around identity/AuthN systems that can balance trust and privacy. It's not an easy problem to solve, even in "meat space", but I think problems like access to porn go away if proper identity is solved.
I set up some time for myself and let everybody know not to interrupt me unless necessary.
Definitely! If the integers are (truncated) hashes, ranges are completely meaningless.

But what would a range over strings even represent?

Perhaps if you e.g. use string indices into an array of sorted strings (by length, by prefix or whatever), you could use it for something. Depends on the application I guess :)
Maybe this is a weird question but, knowing only some math and not redis, what is a sorted set and how is it different than a list/tuple?
Yeah, I wish more people understood that it is simply not possible to make precise long-term forecasts of chaotic systems. Whether it is weather, financial markets, etc.

It is not that we don't know yet because our models are inadequate, it's that it is unknowable.
Historically, US pornography has been regulated on the basis of whether or not it is obscene, defined by various Supreme Court tests over the years.

If it is not obscene, it's afforded First Amendment protections and allowed.

If it is obscene, it can be regulated by various entities, should they choose to do so.

Since the mid-70s(?), the Miller test [0] has been used.

Parent is pointing out that the Internet effectively obliterated the technical ability of various government entities to impose restrictions of any sort on obscene material, and consequently there's been essentially no regulation of internationally-based pornographic content since the 90s.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test
In my previous company we hired a startup that did security training, that recommanded everyone use a password manager. And one of their test was that they sent a fake phishing email to people (randomized over a couple of months so not everyone would get it the same day).

I don't remember the exact number but something like 30% of people who didn't use a password manager got caught. Basically no-one using a manager was.

Granted there might be some selection bias (people who had managers were probably already slightly more security conscious), but people were feeling slightly embarrassed to have been caught and it worked great to have everyone do the switch. And everyone remembered after that that if it doesn't autofill, something's amiss.
Walk the place as much as possible/reasonable, to get your bearings, find the smaller non-touristy places, etc.
I find this article spot on and resonates with what I've experienced.

The article mentions Zach Tellman's newsletter "Explaining Software Design" (https://explaining.software/) which I highly recommend reading. I have found his works to provide deep insight into the process of software design.
Porn is speech. And access to speech must be defended near absolutely (for example per US constitutional law) everywhere - at local or state levels, in public and private spaces, offline and online, etc. Today it’s puritanical governments forcing identity verification but tomorrow it could be an overly moralistic corporation controlling one of a few AI models.
Depends on how efficient it is. If it requires more processing power than we have to do all these things competitors will have time to catch up while new hardware is created.
That is a common misconception. DR 283 is a suggestion for an amendment that was filed 3 years after C99 was published:

https://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/dr_283.htm

It is not part of C99. It also is not part of the C standard since no subsequent C standard adopted it according to the GCC developers:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118141#c13

A read of the C11 standard draft, which would have this amendment if it were accepted by the C standards committee, shows that this has not been added:

https://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf

Type punning via union types is therefore undefined behavior unless your compiler implements an extension to define it like GCC and Clang do.
O(1) threshold signature scheme for Ethereum Virtual Machine
How do they enforce the ban? Do universities have non-compete clauses for PhD students?
"One of the risks of 2FA is losing access to your accounts after losing the authenticating device."

A "2FA Mule"[1] solves this problem by staying in one place with constant power.

I receive plain old SMS 2FA codes while flying in an airplane.

I also don't care that much if I lose or destroy my personal mobile. In fact, I don't even know my current SIM number. If I lose my personal mobile I just edit a twiml bin at Twilio and point my number somewhere else ...

[1] https://kozubik.com/items/2famule/
Porn consumption rates are inversely proportional to rapes [1] and likely sex in general (I'm extrapolating, but I think it is reasonable [2]?), which likely then impacts birthrates (again another extrapolation, but again I think reasonable.) So high porn consumption likely reduces birthrates. I wouldn't be surprised if there is literature to back that up.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13591...

[2] https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/sexual-intelligence/...
Downvoted for… too conclusively proving OP wrong?
None of my bank accounts use a login captcha. Presumably they mitigate bruteforcing using lockouts or similar. Even if they use captchas, captcha solving services exist that solve for less than a cent per solve. It's not a huge barrier.
Passkeys aren't susceptible to phishing. 2FA TOTP is. Also -your seed/token can be trivially stolen from a password manager. Getting the passkey private key somewhat more challenging.
Airplane is a PG movie where there are literally tities and the finale involves a blowjob joke.

We can certainly discuss 1980s vs 2020s and how the Overton window has shifted. Boobs weren't as big of a deal in our past.

80s were also quite violent in our movies/media as well. It seems like everything has been clamped down.

I was surprised to see the dick of the David Statue get messed up in the children's movie 'The Goonies' for example. Apparently dicks weren't a big deal either even into the 90s.
> how much and what we want available as a society

We as a democratic society should want that everything legal is available.

It is up to parents to take care of what is available to their offspring. Much like any other potential risk behaviours.

And it is up to other democracies to curb the US's continued attempt at pushing their protestant obsession with sexuality onto everyone else.
I agree, people don't realize the value of not depending on a single company to do their work. We can see this problem even more with LLM code generators.
You are really underestimating how many people bought ps2s as a dvd player+ both “gamers” and everyone else.
Very cool.

Suggestions:

- Make the player immortal by default. Also all weapons by default.

- Add strafing, if possible.

- Make the player go to the level exit to finish the captcha (maybe a custom short map?)

- A simpler version for mobile could be the original 3x3 captcha square with enemies attacking you. Tapping on enemy squares would kill them.
Can't come soon enough for me. I hope it can get its program accomplished before the LEO satellite megaconstellations pollute the sky beyond repair.
What makes you say that? How do you think militia worked?

It was a system based fundamentally on privately owned arms and ammunition; the point of the 2nd Amendment was to protect the militia by protecting the armed citizenry.
I don't think you know what anti-semitic means. That passage is talking about a very specific group of people and what happened to them. It has nothing to do with Jews in general as a race/people. Just because a sentence has the word "Jew" in it and isn't wildly positive doesn't automatically make it anti-semitic.

There are other parts where it talks about Arabs who transgressed and were cursed - is the Qur'an now anti-Arab?

Unfortunately this is the Islamophobic disinformation that's spread, primarily from 2 countries (Israel and India), and people like you happily parrot. I suspect this is because unlike Judaism, criticizing Islam/Muslims is socially acceptable.

And again, nothing you said remotely compares to the Torah which calls for child rape, infanticide and genocide. Which was the point of my original comment.

Agnostic West African with a partial doctorate in scriptural studies btw.
If any data "escapes" the full disk overwrite on an SSD, is it still somehow readable from software? Or would it require disassembly of the drive and specialized tools?
It doesn't sound like that. That's your bias.
> It only turns into a Waco when you accumulate a following of sorts.

You don't need a Waco for many people to die a violent death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing
How would you feel about similar excuses made for Nazi atrocities? The Nazi regime was also very immature, barely five years old by the time of Austrian anschluss, and invented many policies on the go, and was at war for most of its existence. Neo-Nazis even use exactly the same phrasing of "swift decisions" and "priorities" to reduce human suffering into abstract concepts and handwave it away.
>you can see it in the data with 63% of young men being single

Ah yes - a very well made statement of causation, complete with evidence.
Show HN: I created a SEO machine for Next.js
SEO is the longer-term marketing strategy.

O.G indiehackers like Danny Postmaa have proved this.

We all hate doing marketing though, if you're an indie hacker like me.

You have to optimize all pages in your app but that is soooo little if you don't have a blog.

You need a blog.

I had a little laziness in putting up a blog that I liked. I didn't want any of that markdown rubbish because it was too hard to edit on the go.
I also didn't want stuff like strapi where you had to pay a monthly fee

If you use Nextjs, you never have to build a blog if you don't want to. I built a solution so you just:
- Download a couple of files
- Follow setup instructions
- Publish a post and you have your blog live
Sorted sets are abstract data structures were you insert elements into a set, but every element is associated with a floating point score. Elements are taken ordered inside the sorted sets, so you can ask for ranges, or a specific element rank (position), and so forth. It sounds like the (many) cases where Redis is the best idea to get started and deliver (see for instance the Instagram case, that used Redis for years while becoming bigger and bigger). Then as you understand you are at scale and need just XYZ, you may choose to implement XYZ inside your system in other ways and that's it.
> They're simply asking for more than an "I promise I'm 18" button.

Interesting. I decided to read one of the bills and picked the one it was easiest to find. Here's the section of the text I think is germane:

> A "reasonable age-verification method" under this bill means the following means of establishing the age of the person attempting to view content harmful to minors, implemented in a manner not easily bypassed: (1) The matching of a photograph of the active user taken between the attempt to view and the viewing of content harmful to minors, using the device by which the attempt to view content harmful to minors is being made, to the photograph on a valid form of identification issued by a state of the United States; or (2) A commercially reasonable method relying on public or private transactional data to verify that the age of the person attempting to access the information is at least 18 or older.

Some might believe this is an "I promise I'm 18" button, but I think it might not meet the standard unless either the button then takes a photo and matches it against photo ID or links the user to credit card information or so on.

I'd say the discrepancy is so large between the idea of a promise button and this that the comment I'm replying to could reasonably be called misinformation.

Read it yourself here: https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillN...
The difference is that someone in real life can see your ID without recording it.

The internet's history of anonymous-by-default and the taboo that people can still feel viewing pornography are both factors that make ID verification laws very touchy (also reasons free sites like PornHub are popular in the first place). Compound that with the perpetual security breaches that we've all been victims of in recent years, and you can see why these laws have strong opposition.
a. the vast majority of people are neither addicted to porn nor lacking in ability to form relationships. if that has happened to some people they are a minority

b. pornhub has no monopoly over the internet porn industry. insofar as those men did get so addicted, that would have happened regardless of pornhub existing.
It is worth mentioning my prior report on Bugtraq from 1999 [1], which predates that Bugtraq 2003 report. I recall there were earlier reports elsewhere, though I'm uncertain if I made my exploit publicly available. What stood out about this type of exploit was that it could be triggered simply by a banner in FTP/Telnet/SSH.

[1] "Kvt bug": <https://seclists.org/bugtraq/1999/Sep/432>
> it does nothing to protect you in the event of a password manager compromise. This is not a hypothetical; LastPass has suffered multiple breaches, and the more popular a solution, the more likely there are to be attacks against that solution.

You can mitigate this risk by not depending on your password manager app to do cross-device sync..keep a file on Dropbox/OneDrive/iCloud Drive/SFTP/etc and use an app like KeePass/Strongbox/etc that just deals in managing credentials.

My KeePass file storage provider doesn't know what the hell I store there because it's encrypted (I hope there are no known issues with KeePass's crypto)

As a bonus, you can keep offline backups to mitigate other risks like house fire, lightning strike induced EMP frying things (happened to me), storage vendor goes out of business, and more.

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I think in the end, there is no universal solution - you really have to try to be reasonable about estimating your own personal threats and risks (such as asking "am I more likely to suffer a password manager compromise or more likely to break a device?") to decide whether to keep 2FA next to passwords or not.
I've handed off a few services I built with minimal oversight or documentation. The receiving teams have been able to make changes without my involvement and everyone is happy.

I believe the only reason I've been successful in this is because I agonize over simplicity. There are times during the development of any project where one might be tempted to hack around an issue, or commit the ugly code that seems to work. These are the rough edges that inheritors of a codebase use as evidence that a blank slate would be preferable. They're also the bits where the underlying business logic becomes murky. My goal is for the code to be so clear that documentation would feel redundant.

This approach of course takes more time and requires that your management trusts you and is willing to compromise on timelines. It's extremely rewarding if you can sell it and deliver.
> but let's not forget that just being an employed SWE in the US easily places you in the top 1% globally.

And not being able to afford $30 as a developer for a decent amount of RAM puts you in the bottom 1% of developers globally. Yes, I made that up just as you are making up your own numbers. But as I explained, you don't need 128GB of RAM, you don't need 64GB of RAM, you don't even need 8GB of RAM, you can still develop with VSCode with 2GB of RAM. Nobody is handing out free RAM, so if you need more, save your rupees, or pennies, or euros, or whatever. The daily cost of it spread over time is miniscule for anyone on the planet, and you will get back the investment in saved time.
> It is up to parents to take care of what is available to their offspring. Much like any other potential risk behaviours.

Truly addictive things, e.g. dopamine hijacks, are hard to make widely available. Gambling, dopamine drugs (cocaine, meth, etc.), porn, etc.
The human brain still has orders of magnitude more processing power than LLMs. Even if we develop superintelligence the current hardware cant run it which gives competitors time to catch up.
I don't agree with puritanical laws like this, but I do believe that the quantity and quality of porn consumed in the US constitutes a non-trivial public mental health crisis, and I hope that this will drive into people the serious risks of taking your dopamine receptors for constant, convenient, quick rides that scratch an itch without providing the experience of genuinely connecting with another living, breathing human being that cares.

Real, vulnerable connection can provide meaning in a way that manufactured fast porn can never give, and I believe that connection can be an important aspect of self actualization towards a meaningful existence.

I'm not claiming that rare, conscious consumption of pornography can't be integrated into a healthy, fulfilled life, but that the way it's mindlessly consumed by so many is keeping us from that fulfilled life.