skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the USA, but run Linux. I am getting tired of proving I'm not a bot. I'm on a static IP and they still can't figure out that I'm not a bot.
And where is the United States government directing any of this? Nowhere.

Even your own source says

“Despite the censorship documented in this report, Meta allows a significant amount of pro-Palestinian expression and denunciations of Israeli government policies.”

Just because you dislike the way CNN is covering a conflict doesn’t somehow mean the shadowy US government is pulling the strings behind the scenes.

The Intercept is also an American news organization that is clearly not being censored on this topic, so I’m not sure you’re really making your point here.
Not that it hurt her career in any way, looking at her Wikipedia article. Failing upwards is a thing.
>Russia accuses Ukraine of oppression, genocide, and ethno-nationalist supremacy of Ukrainians against Russians in Ukraine happily pointing to the Azov brigade and all kinds of fringe rhetoric.

The most ironic thing about this is that Azov are almost entirely the "ethnically Russian, Russian-speaking-minority" that Russia claims to be acting in the interest of.
You mean like page 20 in the PDF isn't "page 20" in the index? Unless the pages are out of order or extra stuff is inserted, you should be able to simply add an offset. Or worst case, you binary-search the PDF like you would with a book.
Case in point: slavery in the US prior to the Civil War is widely acknowledged to be wrong and gets lots of negative attention. Slavery in the US today is barely acknowledged to even exist and gets little negative attention.

It’s funny how people who want to deflect away from discussing the Atlantic slave trade by bringing up modern slavery always mention countries like Libya, and not the US. I imagine it’s worse in Libya, but “why focus on the US’s past when slavery is alive and well here in the present” would hit a lot closer to home and would probably be a lot easier to fix.
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I'd love to learn how Walgreens caught the Cooler Screens executive checking out the dead displays after the sabotage.

One can dream up stuff like facial recognition and whatever, I bet it was a lot simpler. Where do the execs live and where is their nearest Walgreens, then let's check the tapes after the blackout.
My comment was meant as a joke, given the context. I am familiar with these interjections, even as a non-native anglophone. Sorry for the time you took to write a good reply.
This was the post by Bryan Cantrill of Oxide on the Tofino saga with Intel

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/12/08/why-gelsinger-was-wr...
Because small differences early in the trajectory result in large differences later on. Think of driving a trailer backwards and imagine you weren't allowed to do corrections after a certain point.
I'm sure you can understand the difference of degree between something that is lethal in minutes and a gas (ammonia) and something that takes much higher and longer exposures to be deadly, plus is a liquid (gasoline).
A desperate need for automated experiment verification and auditing is needed.
Something as simple as submitting exif + archiving at time of capture, for crying out loud.

A imgur for scientific photos with hash-based search or something. We have the technology for this.
One thing that email is not the best tool for is back-and-forth dialog. Once an email thread got to be a certain length or spans some number of days, it becomes difficult to follow. The increased roundtrip latency is also unfortunate.

Although the alternative to that is not necessarily voice calls. Text chats would have been great, but which platform do you use? Everyone has got their own instant messaging systems these days.

There is also the perception that voice calls have a reduced likelihood of leaving a record, which is why some people are only reachable by phone.
I'm not sure you understood my comment (despite quoting it). Otherwise, why would you assume any religious person who is home-schooling is automatically an Evangelical young Earth creationist? What about Muslims, Jews, Hindus, or practically any other religious person who home schools?

Your thesis seems to be that religious people are anti-science, which is a very outdated and frankly wrong stereotype to be pushing in 2024.
>> Now, let's say I entertain your idea for 0.001 microseconds, we are going to backtrack on the largest human collaborative platform ever created and severely cripple it, forcing everybody to comply with your demands or else they're out of "the web".

The problem is that the web designers are the ones "forcing everybody to comply" with their FONT choice and downloading all that font data. Keep the self-centered trait applied to the correct party please ;-)
That's definitely worth considering! The core algorithms can work with any data store. That said, we're focused on Postgres right now because of its incredible support and popularity.
I wish the jargon file was still updated, it's such an interesting window into the compsci culture back then
Counterpoint: Recently dealt with a vendor at work and asked their support several highly technical questions together with a bug report for an issue we were having.

They not only answered in 1 day, but also provided a real solution / workaround for our issue, as well as a technical answer to the questions and a technical analysis of why the bug occurs.

Outstanding support, and I would never have guessed it from their website.
Idk, unless I'm using a very unusual aspect ratio, it hasn't been an issue. The only real difference I've noticed with epubs is I can't just open it in Preview or the iPhone PDF viewer like normal. And it may have DRM.
If you're a non native speaker trying to get the tone just right with recipients whom you don't know, it's invaluable.

Sometimes I would spend 15 minutes writing a 3 or 4-line email of this kind. Not anymore.
As a practical suggestion, there are browser extensions that can handle many of these banners. Meanwhile, blocking cookies does not prevent many other forms of tracking to which the GDPR's consent requirements apply just as much as they do to cookies.

I hate the cookie banners too, but I blame the bad actors more than the legislators that at least gave me more information and rights than I would otherwise have had.
One might imagine, the design of the games are an intricate part of the companies core competencies. The impressive part is a next generation carrying through with the art.
Set clear boundaries for screen time, monitor content, encourage open communication, and promote offline activities to balance social media's influence on your children.
All of them can't shut up and just let us watch the launch without listening to their bs like "...aand lift off for Orion space mission off Cape Canaveral which is a huge leap for humanity"
Designing the Sublime Boullée and Ledoux's Architectural Revolution
On a similar note, has anyone found themselves absolutely not trusting non-code LLM output?

The code is at least testable and verifiable. For everything else I am left wondering if it's the truth or a hallucination. It incurs more mental burden that I was trying to avoid using LLM in the first place.
> Who decides what is a fact? The company?

Government-selected "trusted flaggers":

Nonetheless, under the DSA, the status of trusted flagger is awarded by the "Digital Services Coordinator," which is a national authority responsible for supervising the services of online platforms. The DSA allows law enforcement agencies or profit-seeking industry organizations to apply for the status of a trusted flagger, the notices of which must be treated with priority. - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/enforcement-overreach-...

Oh, and executive-branch agencies can order take-downs, without a court signing off:

Article 8 empowers national judicial or administrative authorities to issue mandatory takedown orders directly to “intermediary services" such as social media networks. In its recent vote, the Parliament rejected EFF’s suggestion and the proposal by the Civil Liberties Committee to limit these powers to independent courts. Instead, the Parliament followed the Commission’s proposal and allowed a broad category of non-independent authorities to exercise this power.
Hold up, what's the "revolution" between the PS1 and PS2? More processing power?

You could argue that no consoles in the Xbox or Playstation line are revolutionary, as they're the same format as the original SNES just with more buttons and processing power.

I would say the major shifts in controller type is simply a much rarer change than simple spec upgrades.
Is it conceivable that the control was run once because the key result came from the same run? I can see a reviewer asking for it in all three figures, whereas they may drafted it only in one
I love management speeches. /s
And the problem is, people buy this. The markets are completely broken. And the worst of it - it's unlikely this will be addressed, most likely it'll only get worse.
I can accept some level of anonymity. Heavens know I would not want to have my current employer read some of the thoughts I post here, but one would think that when one poses as some sort of an expert or at least someone, who can offer a perspective, you would be able to get at least some sense that they might know what they are talking about.

Too often at this point, I saw/heard/read things explained very confidently and yet missing the mark quite a bit.
The opportunity here is to automate detection of fake data used in papers.

I could be hard to do without access to data and costly integration. And like shorting, the difficulty is how to monetize. It could also be easy to game. Still...

The nice thing about the business is that market (publishing) is flourishing. Not sure about state of the art or availability of such services.

For sales: run it on recent publications, and quietly ping the editors with findings and a reasonable price.

Unclear though whether to brand in a user-visible way (i.e., where the journal would report to readers that you validate their stuff). It could drive uptake, but a glaring false negative would be a risk.

Structurally, perhaps should be a non-profit (which of course can accumulate profits at will). Does YC do deals without ownership, e.g., with profit-sharing agreements?
Perplexity is exceptionally bad because they say they respect the robots.txt but clearly don't. When pressed on it they basically shrug and say too bad not put stuff in public if you don't want it crawled. They got a UA block in cloudflare and seems like that did the trick.
> So sick of Hanlon's Razor. It's just a gift to the actually-malicious. If the outcome is the same then intentions don't matter.

I think that's only true for a single incident. If someone does injury to me, I'm just as injured whether they were malicious or incompetent, but mitigation strategies for future interactions are different.
Have you ever done enterprise contracts? A lot of huge companies won’t touch smaller products because they can’t guarantee what they want. These are complex negotiations with a lot of a la cart options.

What kind of products are you buying where you don’t know what they do?
It's easy to forget how popular flash was in that decade. A lot of us found it annoying on desktops too. Not to mention Linux, where we'd deal with binary blobs that were pretty unstable, not because we liked it but because you needed it to interact with the world.

I have not so pleasant memories of having a few different versions of their plugin and I'd try to figure out which one worked for a given website, symlink the right one and restart the browser. And that was the way to watch videos online...
It may be a fantasy for some, but for those who are derided as conspiracy theorists, it is a nightmare scenario.
I kinda think that way when buying. The Nintendo console is the Nintendo console. If you want what they do, you're buying it. The other two are where the competition is and where there's a decision of which one, not buy this single product or don't. They're much closer to being interchangeable than the Switch is with either of them.
The vast majority that I see give you an easy button on the first screen to grant consent, but then hide the option to refuse consent on a second screen behind something like "manage preferences". That dark pattern is not compliant with GDPR.
The ethernet ones were big for awhile, I can remember when you wanted to go out of your way to get something that worked with the e1000 driver if you wanted reliable, usable gigabit.
Resurrecting woolly mammoths just in time for their natural habits to become decimated by climate change feels like a cosmic satire on the duality of human technological progress
Looking at the images in the article, I think c), d) and e) in the first group, and the close-up image a couple of paragraphs later, are all the same item.

So. e) looks like d) with a top covering taken off. And, from the curved "handles" visible in c), e) and the close-up, they could all be the same glass vessel. We can see in c) that the vessel does have a lid. In e) and the close-up, there appears to be a residue where the lid rested against the container.

So it's possible that liquid from the jar got to the join, evaporated, and left behind a substance that sealed the container against further evaporation?

You'd probably have to read the full report for an actual explanation, but that's my guess from what's reported in the linked article itself.
Why pay for the Steam Deck, though? Buy it online and claim it never arrived to get a refund.

I’m yet to hear a moral argument for emulating current games you don’t own unless you’re poor and need to choose between buying Zelda and starving.
It's interesting that on the current total-war all around Israel, those are 3 countries that they aren't attacking or threatening to attack.
Awesome post and thanks for writing this out - probably the most insightful piece I’ve read on plausible origin of life through pre-RNA autocatalytic peptides. Would you be willing to share a contact email / online profile? (could edit afterward to delete if you are worried about spam from crawlers)
Will Switch 2 games still use NAND memory that means your games will start failing after as little as 10-20 years of sitting on a shelf? https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/nintendo-switch/switch_a...
The New 3DS consoles did have double the RAM and an improved CPU and GPU, so there were quite a few games like Minecraft and the SNES Virtual Console that could only run on the New models.
I'm the opposite. I live for calls. I don't like text messages. I'm not great at face-to-face. But over the phone, I'm at my best.
Meta et al have an infinite feed. You can scroll forever.

My news reader had 6 articles in it yesterday and that's it. I can reload as many times as I want and that won't change.
I wanted one, but then Elop killed it.
I took quite a long time for Android to become as good.
Show HN: Solved SEO for Carrd Sites
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Carrd’s single-page structure with hash-based navigation (#sections) makes it almost impossible for search engines to properly index your content. No real URLs, no sitemaps, and limited meta tags meant my sites just weren’t showing up in search results.

That's why I created a small tool to solve SEO for Carrd sites:

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It would be great to get your feedback on this solution, how it works for you, and what you think can be improved.
Hai, really cool project! This is something I can actually use.
But how do you organize and recall the transient discussion that happened on a call? Hint: an email summary, or some kind of summary document. And the latter also works with long email chains.
Nope, this is one of the counterintuitive things about people paying RH for order flow. Market makers can offer tighter spreads when they know it’s a pool of dumb money.
Highly recommend Kagi Search as an alternative. The results are generally better than Google's anyways, and don't require JavaScript. It is a paid service, but at this point having reliable/privacy-respecting search is worth it.

Not affiliated with Kagi btw.
Agree a piece of informative media - in theory - should be taken on it's own merits alone. But to live in that world we would need to forgo the ability to make informed assumptions about how well thought out the media itself is. That's why research papers are intended to be read as though you don't know the author - it's purely data based & logical, any calls to background knowledge requires an explicit reference.

That's just not practical in the real world.
Moreover, sometimes the most efficient outcome for owners is milk what you can from the business then close up shop. The idea of a public market with fractional ownership is you dont have to keep all your eggs in one basket.

Kodak does not need to become a cellphone company. You can take your dividends from Kodak and invest in Apple. When Kodak profits go to zero, you sell the the assets and move on.
David Lynch has died
New Switch user, believe it or not. I just purchased my second 8BitDo controller with Hall effect joysticks this week. Hoping I can avoid the drift problem by avoiding Joy-Cons! (We usually play on the TV.)
Using those buzzwords really doesn't invite much of a conversation, even less when it's basically strawmanning from your part. Still I will bite a bit...

There are many examples of places around the world who managed to intersperse SFH with medium-density housing (3-4 stories apartment buildings) so it's not an either-or situation. For example: many suburbs of Stockholm have developed this way, it allows options based on people's budgets and needs, while also creating enough density to attract local businesses so people are not entirely car-dependent for basic necessities, creates third places for meetings, etc.

I'm preaching to the choir though, I do understand you will probably never understand or see it that way given the vitriol you started with. It's quite sad because there are other ways for a community to live that can cater to different needs where mixed-housing exists while also making these neighbourhoods more interesting and livable in themselves.
This guy made some videos about it

https://m.youtube.com/@PeteJudo1/videos
what happens to people who do this? are they shunned forever from scientific endeavors? isn't this the ultimate betrayal of what a scientist is supposed to do?
The article claims that using this will "cause your site to disappear from all search results", but the generated pages don't have the traditional "meta" tags that state the intention to block robots.

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">

Are any search engines respecting that classic meta tag?
> and this other 2D game with a platformer vibe whose name I forget that has procedurally generated maps.

Terraria?
But this is to do with food I eat. I don't feed it to other people.

Here's a better question, then: what health and safety decisions do I get to make on your behalf. What can I dictate to you that you can't do, or have to do? Can I mandate that you have to run 5 miles every day? It will be good for you to do, and it will impact others by increasing your productivity and lowering the cost of your healthcare on society. Is it reasonable that I should be able to use the threat of violence to induce you to exercise? Because that's all that regulation is: it's an outline of behaviors for which the threat of violence is a legitimate response.
This is the missing criteria in the technical decision making, IMO. How reliant is the team on the recruiting/retention of the current size and structure of the talent, both on the team and in the wider community?

Small teams trying to keep burn ultra low vs. giant companies might have similar technical goals but opposite staff capabilities. This is a crucial factor.

A second-order effect is how much time/energy/money you have to throw at maintenance. Can you afford to spend X% of your time on maintenance? Which technologies offer comparative advantages on maintenance cost? These are surprisingly often easy to answer, and nearly never explicitly considered!
Few months after, it will be 200$ a month :)
I don't have a skewed idea of usefulness, you are just trying to justify your loyalty to a system that will fuck any logical priorties over for profit in order to cope with our current reality. I'm coping by having a job that is not very useful but makes profit, but I am not fooling myself to believe this system is virtuous.

And yes I would say an artist or comedian is far, far more useful than a middle manager at a company managing devs fixing minor bugs on a website for a superfluous business. Back to my original point, I would probably give more to society as an artist than a dev. Some people would bring more to society as a dev than an artist, mind. In a world where we got paid just to be actually useful, there would be less devs and they'd all be better at their jobs.
I think you need to familiarize yourself with the precautionary principle, since i believe it applies here

PP Paper :

https://fooledbyrandomness.com/pp2.pdf
Also less space than a Nomad.

The killer feature of the iPod was the iTunes music store. Everybody was sick of the hoops the companies made you jump through to buy songs. Singles were basically out of fashion thanks to the domination of the CD, but most bands only released one or two good songs on a CD meaning each song cost like $5 and you had to rip it yourself and transfer it to whatever device you had, which was a lot of work. Apple realized people would buy a ton of music if you cut out the bullshit and price it reasonably, a strategy that had been previously untried in the market and no doubt caused a lot of CEO heartburn.
There is this old chestnut about “null garbage collectors”:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98...

> This sparked an interesting memory for me. I was once working with a customer who was producing on-board software for a missile. In my analysis of the code, I pointed out that they had a number of problems with storage
leaks. Imagine my surprise when the customers chief software engineer said "Of course it leaks". He went on to point out that they had calculated the amount of memory the application would leak in the total possible flight time for the missile and then doubled that number. They added this much
additional memory to the hardware to "support" the leaks. Since the missile will explode when it hits its target or at the end of its flight, the ultimate in garbage collection is performed without programmer intervention.
This is a bunch of nonsense. Of course reduction in C02 can limit growth. You even make that very point by mentioning the use of CO2 generators in commercial greenhouse operations.
The argument NASA makes is basically the same that CO2 increases have resulted in expected increases of plant growth, as is observable by satellite.

I do not subscribe to the insane CO2 Bad religion that you appear to subscribe to because it is yet another dumb religion to harness the naive and gullible peasants, but you go right ahead. How about you stop being horrible to other people about it though and stop traveling and using technology that all produces CO2.
At least this paper has only 43 citations over last 10 years, which is really nothing for Nature, which means it's basically irrelevant.
(Obviously it is still a good idea to identify cheaters)
Yeah I think a lot of people care about that stuff.