skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For Google, just read their publicly-published list of crawler IPs. They’re broken down into 3 JSON files by category. One set of IPs is for GoogleBot (the web crawler), one is for special requests like things from Google Search Console, and one is special crawlers related to things like Google Ads.

You can ingest this IP list periodically and set rules based on those IPs instead. Makes you not prone to the blackhat SEO tactic you mentioned. In fact, you could completely block GoogleBot UA strings that don’t match the IPs, without harming SEO, since those UA strings are being spoofed ;)
This looks really cool. Will have to play with it. Definitively reminds me of Lustre as well. Which if you like Elm you’ll like.

https://github.com/lustre-labs/lustre
I don't see how that is relevant? Surely you'd be comparing against other launch vehicles, which are all expendable.
Spitting Image had a lot of fun during those days with puppets and voice actors.

Puppet Gerry Adams made a comeback on radio years later: https://youtu.be/vutbvLbRiMk?t=64
Qbits and error rates have both improved by a few orders of magnitude. Google's paper from August is the first demonstration of error correction. We're probably ~5 years away from doing toy examples of Shor's algorithm with error correction, and ~20 from being able to factor numbers as big as a classical computer.
“Hyperthreading” is a write pipe hack.

If the core stalls on a write then the other thread gets run.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Post good articles. Go to https://news.ycombinator.com/newest and upvote good articles. Can you share 3 good articles in your opinion?
It would actually be brilliant of the CCP to further entwine itself with Musk via acquisition. I think it goes without saying that the man is an opportunist and a globalist in populist clothing.

(Fwiw I like that he owns Twitter now if for nothing more than the schadenfreude)
Yes and a bit more difficult but enjoyable. I hope someday we get good touch controls for a video game.
The same as an AI trained on YouTube. Extremely valuable.
I wonder what’s the max lexile score for 144 characters
I don't understand why gw is so dominant in this space; is there no room for other tactical ttrpg IP?
Lix 2.92 "Bombe Glacée"
After reading for a while, I did some text searching for legislators, lawmakers, congress, etc., and California legislature seems to be suspiciously absent from this piece, whether as blame-targets or as an entity that could create fixes.
Psychedelic drug DMT to be trialled on UK volunteers to tackle alcohol misuse
Is there evidence showing that such things do boost productivity? Or any research on how they affect the way people work?
It's been a decade at this point since the last big distro (and surrounding drama), Debian and Ubuntu following shortly after, moved to systemd.
> I don't know why, but the JS folks just keep reinventing everything all the time.

It's because they only know the web. They have never seen seen what real programmers actually do. They only live in their stupid web bubble thinking it's all there is.
And yet Twitter is censoring progressive viewpoints and even skewed the algo toward promoting a certain political candidate and yet not a single word from those free speech warriors.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/17/24298669/musk-trump-endo...
The project is expected to be completed by 2027 for around $6 billion total. Which is 1/4 the price and 1/10 the time it will take to build 1 gw nuclear reactor power plant.
I hypermile my gas SUV cuz I feel guilty about the inefficiency, but we just got an EV and Im driving like a maniac breaking it in for fun and cuz no more guilt.
What about the Bitcoin argument? If CRQC is built, given that you only needs ~1000 logic qubits (and probably fewer gates than RSA) for ECDSA, you would expect big financial incentive to just use the compute a little bit to crack a few cold wallets. (After all, leaking classified information to the press is much easier to be caught than cracking wallets). And we will notice this breakthrough almost immediately if not within a few weeks.
beeman
Seems to be the wrong measure for the angry dopamine machine. I should’ve mentioned critical thinking and emotional intelligence as well in my first comment. Citations below.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-71263-z

https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/430608-trending-science-...

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/press/mit-sloan-study-finds-thinkin...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07779
twitter is fantastic man. it's great. i do miss hearing from (liberal) people who for whatever reason can't stomach people not agreeing with them. i hope they come around. like why does steven king care? i like his books, just talk about the books/his life. i never cared about his politics either way. if you can't separate your life from politics ughhh he's supposed to be smart. sad so many smart liberal people act like all the people i grew up with in church.
Exactly. 64K only seems tiny to people who didn't use home computers in the 1980s.
You don't need to maintain anything if it don't exist, like mods support in bedrock edition
And yet, the overall path of unconcealment of science and technological understanding definitely traces a line that goes from the Wright brothers to Vostok 1. There is no reason to think a person from the time of the Wright brothers would find it to be a simple one easily predicted by the methods of their times, but I doubt that no person who worked on Vostok 1 would say that their efforts were epochally unrelated to the efforts of the Wright brothers.
After 15 years of owning a Prius, I recently traded it in for a hybrid Toyota RAV4. I love the hybrid technology.

For me, the hybrid is fun to drive. I've never experienced any unresponsive inputs or lack of feedback in performance. The fun comes in at trying to keep the gas engine off as much as possible -- without going becoming a hypermiler and irritating other drivers -- both in city and long distance driving.
Decades ago we decided to ignore computer security issues and focus on riding Moore's law into the future instead. If our computers were secure we could still be running our own local forums etc.

Our dependency on walled gardens goes deep and is actually a national security issues.
DIY Hydraulic Powered Game from Cardboard [video]
I don't think this is useful distinction nowadays. If Willow demonstrated RCS within 100-qubit, I don't really think there are physical limitations for them to implement Shor for 50-bit integer numbers. It is just less impressive so they are probably saving that work until 1000-qubit achieved in a few years.
They are interested in a platform other than X (filled with alt right, Q, megalomaniac Elon & his worshippers) or Meta who tracks everything you do ion the internet & sells that data, that nation states use to spread propaganda to influence our elections and general falsehoods, spread by a handful of people that as a result, turned family members into conspiracy fanatics & turned them to MAGA).

Cambridge Analytics partnered with Meta to target elections around the world, bragged of using the data to install into office whoever paid them the most.

Americans, found in TikTok a place where they could learn about history, hobbies, comedy, and information about things NEVER taught in schools & being able to use it as a search engine instead of google to find people talking about what they wanted to find.

The world is already filled with propaganda from the US government, at the behest of corporations.

It is all out in the open.

As for monitoring? We have been monitored heavily and all our data is in the hands of the NSA, GCHQ, the Chinese government, the 5 eyes & every social media platform. There must have been thousands of data breaches with ALL. Of your financial data, your credit history, and more.

All governments use propaganda and have done evil by their citizens in the interests of power,control & wealth.

We are monitored by our devices with our internet traffic collected and sold.

We are tracked by TransUnion, Experian et al.

Our license plates are scanned on the roads, at shopping center, malls.

Google will send police lists of whose phones were in what area based on geofencing.

NSA was copying ALL inter data center traffic between all google data centers.

Our banks file SARS reports on deposits & withdrawals.
Agreed. Bluesky is useless for this reason and the way that blocking works individually as well.

Imagine if HN had a "block" option you could select against a user, that when you click it, it wipes out every comment that this user ever made on a post that you both commented in, past and future - but not just for you, for every other HN user as well. And there's no "showdead" option to see them either, for anyone.

Like if I or anyone who replied to you blocked you now, with this hypothetical Bluesky-like feature on HN, no-one at all would be able to see your comment. Except maybe dang if he went poking around in the database.

That's basically how Bluesky blocks work. It's absurd.
Yek: Serialize your code repo (or part of it) to feed into any LLM
Prompt it to be concise, without filler words. It works well enough.
Yeah I lean on this side - avoid doing pranks and other practical jokes.

When there is any actual malware or security incident, you don't want your colleagues to think of you and go "Maybe this is just Dave pulling one of his clever pranks".
No, because Democrats tend to have principles.
Not the same when the machines in question are not on the same level...
Arathorn, should this message reach you, I want to voice my support of you and your team.

Notwithstanding the naysayers that surface with peculiar predictability any time Matrix is discussed here, know there are people like me that are happy Synapse users (and operators, nearly 5 years now!) that are in your corner, rooting for you [and Matrix]. Keep fighting the good fight.
I think Perplexity just wants to stay in the news cycle and get more than it's fair share of discussion.

This is obviously not going to happen, and it's absurd anyone's really engaging with it as a serious proposition. But, because they have a new cycle behind it a lot more people are talking about Perplexity than Claude etc.
my God what social media does to people to write and believe stuff like this… hopefully one day everything will be banned… amazing to read this - just amazing what seemingly normal human being can be made into believing!
Show HN: Create and host an app instantly by uploading an image
wants to create a nonprofit foundation to govern and protect the AT Protocol, outside of Bluesky the company

Bluesky and Graber recognize the importance of this effort and have signaled their approval. But the point is, it can’t rely on them.

What’s the point of this article? The repo is dual MIT/Apache [0]. Nothing seems to prevent the author from forking and hacking away. Just do it.

0. https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto
Thanks for your thoughtful and kind reply.

> BTW, do you don't take QC seriously because of that?

Not as a threat to real-world cryptography, but I do take it seriously as a scientific endeavor.

> Do you expect QM (as a theory) to fail as a result

Yes, similar to how Newtonian Mechanics fails at high precision or in extreme circumstances.
lol, we all know what will happen

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/21/foxconn-mostly-abandons-10-b...
Not quite on the subject of sports, but in Singapore sometimes it's really hard to pay to stream/download random movies/shows.

Territorial rights just don't make sense anymore and I will die on this hill. The whole point about Netflix was that it proved that customers know what they want if you make it available.

We now have global-first distribution channels why is it still so slow to disrupt those old creeky TV players
Cause they’re moving forward with forcing their AI slop down every Windows users’ throats
Speaking from a generation that got started in computers with SimCity 2000, Wing Commander 1, Doom, etc., my idea of the software subculture was a kind of benign but firm indifference --maybe even a bit of disdain--towards "masculine energy"... that was for the jocks. Then when I got a modem, "on the internet nobody knows you're a dog."

Obviously it's been a long time since those days, and even some communities I really liked were not necessarily welcoming to, er, "feminine energy"... But still, to me the phrase "masculine energy" suggests a bunch of bullying outsiders coming ruin my hobby somehow.
>> The uint8array example from this post was actually a surprise to me, I'd just assumed it would be efficient to access a typed array via WasmGC!

The problem is that the Scheme i8 array is not actually a UInt8Array with WasmGC. It’s a separate heap allocated object that is opaque to the JS runtime.

In the linear memory Wasm model, the Scheme i8 array is allocated in the wasm memory array, and so one can create an UInt8Array view that exactly maps to the same bytes in the linear memory buffer. This isn’t possible (yet?) with the opaque WasmGC object type.
There are a bunch of new native UI toolkit as well, such as Slint [https://slint.dev]
AGI may use the same hardware, or same compute concepts.

But LLMs (like low/high pressure wing flight) will never result in AGI (you won't get to the moon with a wing).

You're making my point.
I can even write cursive. Take that, Zoomers.
Sure the vocab was hard but also characters like Shi Qiang spoke in a very difficult way to pick up for a non native speaker
Why do you sound like a bot.
Further Thoughts on Stealth AirTags
$1.08, sorry. Not $108.
>By that metric, there are lots of connections between space flight and any other aspect of modern society.

Indeed. But there's a reason "aerospace" is a word.

>No plane, relying upon air pressure to fly, can ever use that method to get to the moon

No indeed. But if you want to build a moon rocket, the relevant skillsets are found in people who make airplanes. Who built Apollo? Boeing. Grumman. McDonnell Douglas. Lockheed.
Ha ha, Perplexity is the green bubble of chatbots.
Yes, that's right. I'm hoping there will be a way to do this in a future revision of Wasm GC.
They say nostalgia is always deceptive, but I miss ~java2 era UX.
You just did a Show HN 3 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42752420
Can you recommend a way to classify a small number of objects? Local only and Python preferably.
Nokia: Apple iPhone is a serious high-end contender (2007)
They aren’t really dominant unless you so heavily restrict the space. The more popular “battlefield” simulation between armies are more abstract aka Risk, Chess, etc or video games like StarCraft.

Restrict things enough to basically describe 40k and sure they’re dominant, because you’re excluding most games.
You can delay the first request from an IP by a lot more than that without causing problems.
You are defending

> What are First Amendment Association rights?

As a substantive comment that adds meaningfully to the conversation? You think people believe you were asking the parent for clarification on their personal definition or usage of a word by broadly asking “what is x?”

Or are you suggesting due to you having other substantive comments elsewhere you are due the right to make unsubstantial comments that do not increase the level of the discussion?

I think you are being overly argumentative throughout the thread, the example I singled out being exceptionally bad.
Permutation City with a nod to Egan?
If it takes you a whole book to explain Kalman filtering you're doing it wrong.
Sorry, I spoke imprecisely.

The terminology is used outside of legal contexts in ways that transcend borders. To the best of my knowledge, the terms "CSAM" and "CSEM" were coined outside of legal contexts, for the purposes I described above.

That they are used in legal contexts in particular jurisdictions with particular definitions that do not exactly match what I have described does not change what I have described for general usage.

By the very nature of the English language, which has no formal administering body, there is no such thing as an "official definition" of a word in common usage; even dictionaries are descriptive, not normative. It is possible that my experience is not universal; however, I have had enough exposure to the term in a variety of contexts that I am comfortable stating that, at least for a large number of Anglophone people, my description of the situation would read as accurate.

YMMV, void where prohibited, no warranty is expressed or implied, etc.
That's neat. Venn Diagrams are one of these things you always take for granted but never stop to think how or why they work. They seem so "obvious" to us that it's easy to forget that someone must have invented them.
I tend to skip language, tooling, or library specific book unless I'm working on a project or are curious about the subject (hoping to discover some valuable nuggets). So the book I tend to read cover to cover are more about methodologies, concept, philosophies, and best practices. I like DDIA especially as I was always more focused on the computing logic side of software, not much about infrastructure. It has good explanations about things that I have heard about, but never had the chance to explore more.
People only use Word or PowerPoint to do a small part in a larger job.

Many people live in Excel and spend much of their day-to-day in it. When Microsoft introduced the ribbon, it was the Excel crowd that was, by far, the loudest and most vocal. Excel has the Microsoft Excel World Championship, a legitimate Esport.
Absolutely! Really well done. I now think you're the best person to do the same for ffmpeg lol
I can't tell why the writers feel that Bluesky's AT protocol is somehow the technologically best, or most politically strategic foundation, for a viable open mechanism for this kind of communication.

This article does seem to have the effect of being an endorsement of Bluesky, though.

(What I mean by endorsement: "Why would this progressive political operator be saying that we need to focus on freedom safeguards for this Bluesky platform, if it wasn't obviously the place for progressives to be. And no mention of anything else, like W3C standard ActivityPub, so that's right out. Clearly we must once again get behind a platform that someone owns. And then work from a position of weakness, like activists. Since that went so well for the co-author's former MoveOn.org, as evidenced by the incoming administration. And we can keep telling people they are under attack, and keep raising donations from them, to continue the fight.")
If the ball is at 3 squares from the hole and the dices get's a 4, I'd allow to end the game. It's more fun to navigate the obstacles than to try to get the exact number to finish.
> meta name="keywords" content="Downtown Café, coffee, Fitzroy, tea"

wot?
That’s whataboutism — Apple slowly has been precluding all of those from getting the latest updates officially (I think the iMac Pro is the last supported Mac without a T2 chip), and they’re ostensibly supposed to go into the landfill too, and that’s also bad!
TikTok Is Down in the US
I tried to buy a Ferrari F550 but the salesman kicked me out when I offered him $300.

$500M is nothing to sneeze at, but that is like 3 orders of magnitude less than TikTok’s value.
Forced avoidance of shared mutable state helps prevent all sorts of logical bugs. Memory safety just happens to be the one that leads to trivial UB in C/C++. (I say this as a full time Julia dev who is unlikely to use Rust or use this package, but respect Rust's choices a lot).
What is the minimum distance to your doppelganger in an infinite universe
You are a unique combination of atoms arranged in some way
In a truly infinite universe, there is a non zero probability that there exists the exact combination more than once (ideally infinite times)
This means that any point in time, there exists a minimum distance between you and your 100% clone (atom by atom in every way) in some direction along x,y and z axes in this Universe
What is this minimum distance called?
yes bvan, but i think we should fork it and use alf

https://www.spriters-resource.com/fullview/83012/
> I never heard of anyone wanting to use a domain name as identity in Nostr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Survivorship-bias.svg

The one thing that completely turned me off nostr is the idea that my identity is tied to my private key and that it can not be recovered. I'd guess that the reason you don't hear from people like me is that we simply don't bother to work with such a boneheaded design.
There are over 170 million users on TikTok.

Go look for the audio recording from the head of AIPAC COMPLAINING about public opinion against their war.

They want it silenced, as does Zuckerberg, Musk & Bezos for the latter Temu & TikTok have to have impacted sales).

According to Congress it is a national security threat. The Supreme Court unanimously agreed. And yet Trump may restart TikTok as is after he is inaugurated.
I've been using OVHCloud for 8 years for running a dedicated server for personal use, for about $30/mo. Had zero issues, it just works for me, can highly recommend.
As much as I like and enjoy HN most of the time, it's very much an echo chamber. Even if we ignore politics and politics-adjacent threads and focus on tech stuff, there are some popular perceptions/opinions that have not earned their popularity, and god help you should you suggest you're not on that bandwagon. The blanket ban on outright politics here may blunt the echo chamber effect a bit, but it exists because echo chamber susceptibility is part of the human condition. We cannot get away from it.
I get it, woke lost the culture war and stereotyping is cool now. But it really doesn't add anything to the comment.
serious ffmpeg users know it's "man ffmpeg-all"
Bill Gates paints a grim picture for the future of work
Perhaps You Would Be a Little Touchy Too
Neocities removes pages about IPFS
More importantly, these directions don't work anymore: https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2017/08/07/ipfs-dns-support
It's so obvious, from the title I thought the article would be about trusting B2B customers.
Agreed but if you think about it if Russia managed to influence the US election with just some facebook ads the US has far more bigger problems. Then again, the app is in mandarin and clearly for Chinese users. I would be more worried about data brokers who can sell you data at any time.
Mosquito bites are not painful at all to me.

I've been stung by a bee only once, and it wasn't particularly painful (but not nothing, of course).

As I mentioned above, I've been stung by swarms of wasps twice and it was very painful.

I hear yellowjacket stings are extremely painful, but even though I've been near them I've never been stung... fortunately.
That reminds me of the surprising and perverse effects witnessed during the Roman Empire's downward spiral.

One of the reforms was going from citizen soldiers who must provide their own gear to government provided weaponry and armor. Despite on its face being more egalitarian this resulted instead in consolidation of personal power and lead to more stratification. Quartermasters became kingmakers, just like how coups were lead by quartermasters in the Napoleonic era as they controlled food and provided payment.

There must always be an owner and don't trust "the people" to be anything more than a populist's device to assign legitimacy to their supporters and other dissenters.
Related:

Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10187555 - Sept 2015 (235 comments)
Fighting LA's Fires from the Sky
> "It's not a big disadvantage to survival" can't be the explanation for a trait

Why not? Honest question.

Intuitively, I'd say that there are plenty of traits that propagate as long as they aren't expensive in terms of genetic survival. It's the nature of random genetic mutation, random traits will develop and some of them won't really affect survival and may propagate.
I would love to see a revival of this tbh. Everyone could benefit from not hearing or reading <insert rich guy that shall not be named> ever again.