skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the New South Wales fire service most recently adopted rule 10/50, which gives homeowners the right to clear trees within 10 meters of a home and non-tree vegetation within 50 meters of a home, without approvals. No friction!

You can look at it as really complicated but quite likely the above rule change could fix/have fixed most of the problems.
> I've been experimenting with creating single-site browsers[1] for all websites I routinely visit, effectively removing navigational queries from search engines

Surely it would make more sense to use bookmarks?
I'm a teacher, and Google Classroom is ubiquitous in American schools. I was not tricked into using Chrome. It is without a doubt the best browser for Google Apps. Mozilla is laggy when editing documents and doesn't have an extension for offline editing.

Give Google credit: they have created a very useful ecosystem that has won people over in the marketplace. I NEVER thought anything would convince companies to move off of Microsoft Office, but Google is actually doing it (on a small scale at least).
From what I’ve heard RedNote is very strict and prompt in removing unapproved content. Not sure that’s what your last question was asking.
> what content was legit

scrolls past 10 temu adds for clearly pirated retro game consoles, same comment 9 times "oh if you bought X last week I feel sorry its not 50% off!!!"
at least for Gigabit speeds, the CPU usage is negligible if the device and the driver are communicating through CDC-NCM protocol, but yeah it's a significant hit if you're using CDC-ECM...,
I tried several after Google Reader closing.
At the end I went to selfhosting a miniflux instance.
I like a lot the minimalistic interface.
As I said, Mastodon/ActivityPub has its issues. If the goal of "Free Our Feeds" was "let's build activity pub into a better mousetrap" or "let's design a protocol that fixes Activity Pub's flaws", I'd be all for it. As it stands, Free Our Feeds is engaged in a pointless exercise: they want to "free" Bluesky/AT-proto from control of Bluesky and build a "fire exit" for Bluesky users if Bluesky "turns evil". They are building something that can only work if Bluesky lets it work. They cannot force Bluesky to interoperate or allow data/social graph migration. They are building something in case Bluesky "turns evil" that will only work if Bluesky doesn't "turn evil." It makes no sense.

https://marcusb.org/posts/2025/01/your-feeds-are-already-fre...
A bits about management and building the winning teams
FTC bans Genshin Impact dev from selling lootboxes to under-16s, fines them $20M
Nginx has an assortment of options to rate limit people/bots. [1] For the 10% not using a user-agent generic rate limits could be applied based on volume limit_rate_after. One would have to get creative with nginx maps. Another option would be to calculate patterns in your access logs and just blackhole or ipset reject IP addresses or networks that are abusive accepting some of them may be abusive humans vs abusive bots.

[1] - https://serverfault.com/questions/639671/nginx-how-to-limit-...
I used Feedly, tried several RSS clients, I was into RSS but content providers started to only give you a portion of the content, subverting the very idea of RSS (at least what I wanted), even some clients had (or have) the feature to download the content and present it to you with a clean RSS style. So I quit it, because it was a new tech arms race. Not sure how is all that now.
That particular algorithm doesn't care whether the instruments are guitar or otherwise. There are other algorithms in vamp that would deal with individual notes. But in terms of separating tracks, vamp doesn't do that. There are some new ML-based solutions for this though. So you could separate them and run vamp on those outputs.

But to get the chords I don't think you need to worry about that.
For me, discovery is independent of consumption. With my RSS feed, I read what I've subscribed to, and then when I say, “I'm bored,” that's when I want to discover. Otherwise don't distract me
Right, but an entity or a number of entities could buy shares in a small cap company to own a majority stake without scrutiny. Seems like a good way to do espionage since corporations are global and have protected status.
> The United States is currently in the middle of a cyber cold-war with China.

The United States Government is. I'm a United States citizen. Importantly, they're not fighting for me or my stability, they're fighting for the stability of oligarchs. They will gladly destabilize me and my life in service of the ruling class.

Appeals to nationalism only work on nationalists. I'd need a good reason to be a nationalist. The very few listed reasons are some vague reference to freedom as if just saying that makes it true.

Get back to me when it's "China is threatening your guaranteed housing!" or "China is going to roll back the statutory work holiday laws in the US!" or "China is attacking the information systems used for our guaranteed child care program!"

It's really simple: if you want people to love and defend the US and what it purportedly stands for, then give them concrete reasons to do so. Improve their quality of life.

Until then, leave me the hell out of the fearmongering about China. I'm much more fearful of the systemic policies of the US making me homeless than some nation state's cyberopium ruining my mind or protecting information systems that were intentionally left insecure in service of profit and the intelligence apparatus.
Do I have to? It’s going to give me nightmares.

Yeah, if he’d tried swimming out there’d have been one less survivor.
Interesting, but note that the first bug pointed out by Claude is probably a false positive.

In the original version of the code, if a link is removed and it is the last link, then the condition `remove_idx == worst_idx` must be true, which leads to falling back to the most general update function, which handles the case of an empty list correctly.

(Of course, the suggested fix doesn't hurt, and people may disagree about which version of the code is clearer.)

To paraphrase Rowling, LLMs are rather cleverer than most software, and so their mistakes tend to be correspondingly cleverer. The trick is to ensure that their mistakes don't become correspondingly huger.
Feeder

https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder
Insurance companies are absolutely covered by HIPAA. If it’s true that the insurance company (and not some third party service or app) shared the information directly with HR this is definitely a violation.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/covered-entities...
There are these weight loss companies producing the stuff you should buy it from them cost about $350 a month.

https://ro.co/weight-loss/checker-path/
While he's flawed the stuff Elon Musk bangs on that you can't do anything much in the US due to an every growing accumulation of regulations seems to make some sense in these cases. I wonder if you could set up a ChatGPT like thing with instructions "you are a well meaning entity wanting common sense regulations that improve human wellbeing, please rewrite a summary of these regulations," feed in the current mess, get simplified rules out and then force them through congress etc. Couldn't be much worse than the current mess.
It looks like this is for the actual island Jersey, and not New Jersey. I was pretty confused at first. People here on the East Coast call the state "Jersey" as often as we call it "New Jersey". Which is interesting now that I think of it, nobody EVER calls New York just "York".
Leeches, come get your leeches.
Yes, this is true. But then nefarious tricks by tech companies aren't exactly punished. Eg google itself attempted to kill rss, by massively supporting it then dropping it. This is not an illegal or punishable offence (it is immoral imo), but illustrates the point that these companies attempt to sculpt the reality, to train people into compromise. It can't be a one way street only, where individuals have to fend for themselves, but corporations can try every trick to get their way.
No, I will shower you with good old capitalist critiques. The market is not all powerful. Market failures exists because not every market is capable of self-regulation. Some market players can and do abuse their market power. State intervention so that journalists, policeman, waste managers, water distributors, electricity distributors, internet providers, health care providers, health insurance providers, food producers, etc. can do their job effectively, because they provide needs that are too sensitive to leave to private self-interests. That's why many of those are subsidized _and_ regulated.
I suspect any solution like that will be wholesale thrown away in a year or two. Unless the damn thing is going to make money in the next 2-3 years, we are all mostly going to write throwaway code.

Things are such an opportunity cost now days. It’s like trying to capture value out of a transient amorphous cloud, you can’t hold any of it in your hand but the phenomenon is clearly occurring.
Yeah, and the EFF is in no way biased. at all.
TIL. In 2021 the ccp released a white paper titled “China: democracy that works”

https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/whitepaper/202112/04/cont...

https://news.cgtn.com/news/whitepaper/China+Democracy+That+W...
Missing the best IMHO, the Python versioning https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/versio... which replaced PEP440.
Google blocks KDE from using Gdrive Permission
The Evolution of Computer Science at the University Level
Honest question: wouldn't it be simpler for text-only email readers to have plugins that runs HTML-only emails through a command that converts the HTML to text?
Can you talk about the main non-LLM NLP tools you use? e.g. BERT models?

> One prompt? Fair. 10? Still ok. 100? You're pushing it. 10M - get help.

Assuming you could do 10M+ LLM calls for this task at trivial cost and time, would you do it? i.e. is the only thing keeping you away from LLM the fact they're currently too cumbersome to use?
Has this been put into practical use somewhere in public/commercial domain?
Breathing out isn’t the issue. Sure, you’ll rupture your airways if you don’t, but you’ll still get decompression sickness if you do.

So even in the incredibly unlikely scenario that you reach the surface, you’ll have nitrogen bubbles in your bloodstream that’ll quickly kill you.

Look up a dive chart; fifty meters is much too far down, especially if you’ve been there a while.
People still miss Vine and reshare Vine videos to TikTok. Bringing it back would be a very smart move.
20000 RPS is very little — a web app / database running on an ordinary desktop computer can process up to 10000 RPS on a bare-metal configuration after some basic optimization. If that is half of your total average load, a single co-located server should be enough to eat entire "attack" without flinching. If you have "competitors" and I assume, that this is some kind of commercial product (including running profitable advertising-based business), you should probably have multiple geographically distributed servers and some kind of BGP-based DDoS protection.

Regarding Tor nodes — there is nothing wrong with locking them out, especially if your website isn't geo-blocked by any governments and there are no privacy concerns related to accessing it.

If, like Google, you lock out EVERYONE, even your logged in users, whose identities and payment details you have already confirmed, then... yes you are "enshittifying" or have ulterior motives.

> they were using real Gmail accounts to sign up

Using Gmail should be a red flag on its own. Google accounts can be purchased by millions, and immediately get resold after being blocked by target website. Same for phones. Only your own accounts / captchas / site rep can be treated as basis of trust. Confirmation e-mail is a mere formality to have some way of contacting your human users. By the time Reddit was created it was already useless as security measure.
I’ve had a number of videos get over a million views on TikTok, and earned $0 from it. That amount of views on YouTube would earn me a few thousand dollars, minimum, purely from Adsense.
No, but the absolute riveted fascination with the fact that historical things actually exist (as clearly exhibited by the featured article) is, in my experience, uniquely American. Most of the people in the rest of the world are surrounded in their daily lives by ancient things; if not buildings, then monuments, castle ruins, petroglyphs, etc. But it is not unusual to hear Americans say things like “someone once died in this house!”.
How do you keep something at -200C when it’s lining the reaction chamber of a nuclear fusion reactor, tho?
We're Dropping Stripe
I was pretty sympathetic to the idea that this must be AOL taking care of customers continuously for decades until that quick mention that you start by downloading a .exe over plain http.
I have a theory about this. Its the 'Del Boca Vista' theory of manufactured discontent. The idea is that when people achieve a lifestyle where all the basic needs are met as well as some luxuries coupled with ample free time, that they run out of legitimate things to complain about. So they start making them up. They create new rules for every conceivable slight (see most homeowners associations) and enforce them with religious fervor. They get angry over the most minor things because everything else is kinda great. But they need to have something to rail against, to be mad about, to fight against. It's human nature. In poorer communities people devote that energy to trying to survive. In wealthy communities it gets redirected at the rules about the wrong color door or calling CPS on kids out by themselves on public transport.

The craziness and restrictiveness of their expectations of others is directly proportional to their overall high standard of living. If they are complaining about kids on subways, its because everything else in their lives is already awesome.
… and is an extension of the largest surveillance apparatus ever built by mankind.
One thing thata tired or rushed scientist trip up and writes the wrong sentence, but surely[1] a reviewer should catch such a grave mistake?

I mean it's a very short paper, and the main findings are repeated, so not like it's buried.

[1]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7944958/
With well-made Ethernet cables, even when they are shielded, it is easy to not touch any conductor (the good shielded RJ-45 connectors have plastic sleeves covering the metal).

On the other hand, I would have to be careful if I would want to disconnect and reconnect the coaxial TV cable that comes from the ISP, where the threaded coaxial connectors have a metal part. This is how I have learned that the potential difference between the coaxial cable ground and my ground is big enough to cause a shock :-)
UK police seize Cybertruck because it's illegal there
The owners of Tiktok banned it in the US by not selling off or offering protection for American data. Anyone that thinks giving a hostile nation access to more than 100 million sensor arrays in their country is not thinking well.
It's fun, but I think this kind of thing is important because it underscores the xenophobia in the original post. A flash chip on a circuit board? Hoo boy, must be Chinese spyware!

That isn't to say Chinese spyware isn't a problem. But, if you don't have the baseline technical competence to detect it, it's bad to go running around yelling "CHINA CHINA CHINA!" That's how our politicians pick up a bogus news story and use it as an excuse to enact stupid policies. It's bad for society.
Pss, dude, nobody is small government anything. They are just want the regulation to apply in a manner that they are content with.
Our society isn’t low-trust. It may not be as high trust as Scandinavia, but until you’ve lived in a real low-trust society you don’t know how bad it can get.
Pretty much. Though looks like it actually works: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8994130/
> "Why didn't they do it earlier?" is a fallacious argument.

I never said that, but admittedly I could have worded my argument
better: "In my opinion, shadow banning non-JS clients from result
computation would be similarly (if not more) effective at preventing SEO
bots from poisoning results, and I would be surprised if they hadn't
already done that."

Naturally, this doesn't fix the problem of having to spend resources
on serving unsuccessful SEO bots that the existing blocking mechanisms
(which I think are based on IP-address rate limiting and the UA's HTTPS
fingerprint) failed to filter out.

> Yes, that kind of thing is very easy to just assert. But just think
about it for like two seconds. How much more revenue are you going to
make per user? None. Users without JS are still shown ads. JS is not
necessary for ad targeting either.

Is JS necessary for ads? No. Does JS make it easier to control what
the user is seeing? Sure it does.

If you've been following the developments on YouTube concerning
ad-blockers, you should understand my suspicion that Search is going in
a similar direction. Of course, it's all speculation; maybe they really
just want to make sure we all get to experience the JS-based
enhancements they have been working on :)
“ch” like in Scottish English “loch” is closer to the “h” in “Ahmad” than the normal English “h"
The way that it is distributed is centralized and controlled by a single party. You can generate content all day, but unless the algorithm pick you up and make you popular, your content may as well not exists.
What it won't help with is mosquitos. They LOVE banana-flavored people.

Learned it from first hand experience.
There was no hard block, just everyone getting the brief JS-captcha-thing.

The reason I'm fairly confident that it wasn't bots that were blocked is that we run quite a bit of bot-filtering in our analysis (and only track via delayed JS, which already gets rid of of 80-90% of bots; we don't care about bots viewing our pages, but we don't want them to mess up our stats) and all other metrics (conversion-rate, device + browser-distribution, country-mix) still lined up, they were just significantly lower than what expectations + search analytics said they should be.
Front page of Hacker News
It saves me more than that most months. This month, a single superior query result saved me four hours of driving and $100.
Hope Toyota get their mojo back for EVs.
Last sliding window century?
It's not like people condemning the choice of the name are unable to find the humor. We do find it. We are briefly entertained. Then we pause and ponder. Is it a good idea to use a negative stereotype in a joke? Don't we run the risk of confirming the stereotype even more?

We then find out that our answer to that question is "no". And we bring up the issue with other people.

There is no "inability to find humor" at play here.
For my use case, definitely.

I have worked on AWS Connect (online call center) and Amazon Lex (the backing NLP engine) projects.

Before LLMs, it was a tedious process of trying to figure out all of the different “utterances” that people could say and the various languages you had to support. With LLMs, it’s just prompting

https://chatgpt.com/share/678bab08-f3a0-8010-82e0-32cff9c0b4...

I used something like this using Amazon Bedrock and a Lambda hook for Amazon Lex. Of course it wasn’t booking a flight. It was another system

The above is a simplified version. In the real world , I gave it a list of intents (book flights, reserve a room, rent a car) and properties - “slots” - I needed for each intent.
Also: https://kill-the-newsletter.com for use case 3. Free service with no signup that works reliably.
Prompts a couple questions.

Are blood banks testing for levels of PFASs?

How does one test blood for PFASs?
I didn't work for Mazda, but I did work for a large auto manufacturer, and I can tell you we did incentivize dealers to complete sign up for connected services for the reasons most of you would probably expect.

We wanted to collect your data to sell it, utilize it for maintenance, or for general product improvement. I.e. wanted it so we could make or save money. No surprise there I hope.

The dealer incentive was literally a payment when a customer signs up because the money we'd make with customer data outweighs the dealer kickback.
> [...] my conclusion is that you're here to spill russian propaganda. [...]

The case described by the parent is that of someone who was wrongly imprisoned for 10 months on the basis of bogus application of faulty technology, even though they had a solid alibi. Therefore, the comment does not reflect well on Russia, the Russian state or the Russian government, like.. at all.

If there is a propaganda dimension to this (which I doubt), it is certainly not an attempt to say something nice about the Russian justice system.
Dilution is the solution!
Not at all. If it's trained with images of children, and images of pornography, it should be pretty easy for it to combine the two.
> The bar is knowing what a directory or file is.

How do you learn than on an iPhone?
How hot would it need to be do fission a stable isotope of Potassium?
The TT creator, John Aravosis, said recently on his show that it took TT 3 days to figure out he is gay and he said he never interacted with it in any way that would convey that. On the other hand, it kept giving me animal snuff that utterly revulsed me, despite my reporting it, thumbs downing.

I deleted my account about a year ago. Although I loved a lot of content and was awed by the work of many creators, I got this weird anxiety when I had been scrolling for, say, an hour. It was like my brain was giving me a warning sign, though my consciousness did not perceive it. I came to a personal decision, unscientifically, and without any jingoism or conspiracies, that short-form scrolling is bad for my health.

A couple of weeks ago I signed up for Loops (the fediverse version of TT) and I scrolled a few videos. I had such a strong negative feeling that I closed it and uninstalled. I am so happy YouTube Shorts is so shit, because I watch one or two that catch my eye, then go back to the longer videos.
People... employees... friends... lovers... "hallucinate" too.

What rational agent is infallible?
I was happy to see Bluesky supporting RSS on all profiles, but less excited to see that there's nothing in the content and title fields:

https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/3384

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3nfshkzomgboapasu6amkhui/rs...

Obviously I can see why they don't want to subsidize the entire internet with high-res videos and images, but a blank RSS feed for media isn't the way to go.