skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A serious treatment of that requires considering what the Democratic party actually is.

Wintrobe's book [1] has an analysis of a tinpot dictator who wants to steal everything a country has but has to spend some resources on buying people off and some on repression so that he can get away with it. Bill Clinton made a similar maneuver around 'triangulation' that amounts to trying to share as little of the spoils to mass supporters as possible so that he can really give as much as the spoils as he can to donors.

In the case of Bill Clinton he got the full court press from [2] so he could say he was under so much pressure from the right that he didn't have to do anything for the left.

Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, made a clear show of disdain for the activist faction of the party but they were supposed to vote for her because, hey, she's a woman. She also hoped to win by default against Trump.

Harris didn't show the activist fringe much love, but she didn't show disdain for it either. She was also hoping to win by default, which didn't happen. Because she didn't define herself, she was defined by Fox News. She would have had to have broken visibly with the activist fringe, however, which seems like it could have been a risky move although the dirty secret is that the activist fringe may not actually vote and if it does vote it is concentrated in places where their vote doesn't count.

For now, Trumps's salvos in the culture war are 'cheap talk' that pleases certain people but doesn't consume resources that are coveted by donors. I suspect it will be unpopular too, since people are going to blame you for things once you get in power.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Political-Economy-Dictatorship-Wintro...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife
No typo apparently...

>Editor's note: This story was corrected at 12:15 p.m., Jan. 17, to clarify that the shrews weigh 2 to 3 grams, according to the researchers' measurements.
> hope it will be get reined in before

oops. they already have access to data, and there's no unseeing what they've seen.
Discord seems to be way better

You can't be serious. The search alone makes it atrocious for anything other than game servers. It's a problem enough people are trying to use Discord where they should have used proper forums.
I run a honeypot and I can say with reasonable confidence many (most?) bots and scrapers use a Chrome on Linux user-agent. It's a fairly good indication of malicious traffic. In fact I would say it probably outweighs legitimate traffic with that user agent.

It's also a pretty safe assumption that Cloudflare is not run by morons, and they have access to more data than we do, by virtue of being the strip club bouncer for half the Internet.
at this point, im honestly surprised that all non-mainstream browsers dont emulate the same user-agent and ssl fingerprint order of a mainstream browser - or add a flag to change behavior per "tab" (or if cli per some call or other scope) - coupled with a javascript-operating-system which also aligns with those
"This is the sort of DEI effort that gives the rest a bad name."

I'd be interested to read about a DEI effort that gives the rest a good name.
This project was started when Subsonic became closed-source in 2016 (which made me very upset). I wasn't too excited about using that API at the time. Nowadays, OpenSubsonic looks like a protocol worth supporting so I will be looking into it!
Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs
I've long given up on the idea of growing or developing my skills at work[0], and so hobby projects are my only real opportunity to stay current.

[0] I won't go into detail here, but it mostly boils down to me working in a specialisation where what skills employers think they need is usually very different to what they actually utilise. If I get laid off tomorrow, I still need to pass an interview somewhere else.
The Timeless Lessons of "The Lord of the Rings"
I have seen 3 different safe c++ proposals (most are not papers yet, but they are serious efforts to show what safe c++ could look like). However there is a tradeoff here. the full bower checker in C++ approach is incompatible with all current C+++ and so adopting it is about as difficult is rewriting all your code in some other language. The other proposals are not as safe, but have different levels of you can use this with your existing code. All are not ready to get added to C++, but they all provide something better and I'm hopeful that something gets into C++ (though probably not before C++32)
https://neuters.de

Simple, no ads, and with just the headlines it's enough.
Are any of them supposed to be hard? I think only the last 2 were even remotely challenging.
I'm not ignoring it. I'm saying that the axis you're contemplating this problem on isn't correct. It's not about if you can get "any sequence of tokens" or the edit distance between those tokens and the actual tokens of the copyrighted work. The law is not (and should not be) an algorithm with a definite mathematical answer at some fixed point in a continuum.

PI is not copyrighted, because that would be silly, but if you were to find the exact bytes in there to reproduce the next Marvel movie and you started sharing that offset, that would probably be copyright infringement. The fact that neither of those numbers were part of the original work, or copyrightable in isolation, or that "technically everything is present in pi", is immaterial. It's obvious to any non-pedantic human being that you're infringing on the creative work.
Sure, I agree. 40 years ago you would have been playing Feels So Good in those same places, and that's not lofi either.
Stackoverflow's popularity's decreased a lot, many communities have entirely left.
If we stick to large transformer models for long enough and things stabilize, I could see app-specific chips getting traction.
Recently moved to re-imaging many of the PC's that I mangage to Linux and so far has gone way smoother than I would have anticipated. Heavily considering moving two entire PC labs at another building to Linux as well. Not sure what Microsoft is thinking this go around Windows 11 has been a disaster. You essentially have to pay more to get a clean, stripped down version of the OS that is manageable.

Most of my machines are 12th gen Intel and they meet all the requirements for Windows 11. However frequently Win 11 updates have caused annoying boot loops, reset preferences, problems with apps already installed and more.

These are Dell Precision workstations so you would think they would have pretty good compatibility with Microsoft... but alas disappointed is the best word I can use.
I'm here to talk about technology and it's usage. I'm not here to socialize, I don't know your name, don't care, and haven't even looked at your username. You're just a sentence to me. It's more impersonal than the old newsgroups. How is it social?
I would say yes, insofar as the text and SCOTUS interpretations of the constitution count as law, so anything that violates, for example, the separation of powers would be illegal.
In what ways is a president restricted from acting like a king when the other two bodies of government meant to act as a check and balance have capitulated any of those checks and essentially give carte blanche to the president?
> While lawyers are busy trying to stop big things, many small but important items will slip through the cracks and will take decades to undo.

So the government is designed in such a way that someone can do illegal things without those currently running the systems simply saying "no?"

They have the power to do the things, and then we have to wait for it to be litigated. Watching the cases against Trump drop like flies after he got elected, knowing the Supreme Court is packed full of members of one party. This doesn't seem like a reliable solution.
PDF does support incorporating information about the logical document structure, aka Tagged PDF. It’s optional, but recommended for accessibility (e.g. PDF/UA). See chapters 14.7–14.8 in [1]. Processing PDF files as rendered images, as suggested elsewhere in this thread, can actually dramatically lose information present in the PDF.

Alternatively, XML document formats and the like do exist. Indeed, HTML was supposed to be a document format. That’s not the problem. The problem is having people and systems actually author documents in that way in an unambiguous fashion, and having a uniform visual presentation for it that would be durable in the long term (decades at least).

PDF as a format persists because it supports virtually every feature under the sun (if authors care to use them), while largely guaranteeing a precisely defined visual presentation, and being one of the most stable formats.

[1] https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/pdfstandard...
I think it goes beyond that. An algebra has operators that take objects of some type as input and yield objects of the same type as output. E.g. arithmetic (numbers in, numbers out), and relational algebra (tables in, tables out).
DARPA has a rich history of doing fundamental research but today its largely composed of engineering tasks which for whatever reason arent built by the warfare centers. The days of doing fundamental research are mostly gone in the organization. Name something in the AI/ML space that came out of DARPA in the last 15 years. CNNs- no, deep learning - no, attention - no, LLMs - no, test time training - no.

Its a good engineering org these days building cool things but there's nothing special about having darpa build it other than they provide funds. The research focused has significantly waned over the last 20 years which is a shame as there are LOTS of fundamental AI/ML problems which no one is studying in industry.
Read Judge Amit Mehta's ruling on their behavior gaming ad auctions to hit Revenue targets. Then think about non reaction of the Advertising Industry.

Achieving Monopoly and Domination requires kabuki performances.

There is no other route. These are mentally bankrupt one dimensional people. Other than survival and accumulation of status and wealth there is nothing much going on in their head.
The "so much worse" starts around minute 9:30. The terms-of-service say the TV has to be the main TV of the house, has to always be connected to the internet and any attempt to get around the limits (adblocker, modification) allows the company to take the (free) TV back or charge $1000 USD to the credit card. You wouldn't just get a TV but be subject to a strict contract with a company that might send lawyers your way and risk a high fine. His recommendation, obviously: don't get one, you never own it.
This is something I have been suppressing since I don't want to become chicken little. Anyone who isn't terrified by the last 3 months probably doesn't really understand what is happening.

I went from accepting I wouldn't see a true AI in my lifetime, to thinking it is possible before I die, to thinking it is possible in in the next decade, to thinking it is probably in the next 3 years to wondering if we might see it this year.

Just 6 months ago people were wondering if pre-training was stalling out and if we hit a wall. Then deepseek drops with RL'd inference time compute, China jumps from being 2 years behind in the AI race to being neck-and-neck and we're all wondering what will happen when we apply those techniques to the current full-sized behemoth models.

It seems the models that are going to come out around summer time may be jumps in capability beyond our expectations. And the updated costs means that there may be several open source alternatives available. The intelligence that will be available to the average technically literate individual will be frightening.
Last week I realized that this is bringing up the same feelings of anxiety as early 2020 where I'm living through something that I have little ability to change and don't know how bad it actually is going to get.
Someone please convince me to use Kagi. What makes it superior to Google for you?
Not just you, archive today has a beef with cloudflare. I wasn’t even using cloudflare intentionally but iirc Firefox has a dns privacy setting that I had to disable.

Since May 2018[35][36] Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS service would not resolve archive.today's web addresses, making it inaccessible to users of the Cloudflare DNS service. Both organizations claimed the other was responsible for the issue. Cloudflare staff stated that the problem was on archive.today's DNS infrastructure, as its authoritative nameservers return invalid records when Cloudflare's network systems made requests to archive.today. archive.today countered that the issue was due to Cloudflare requests not being compliant with DNS standards, as Cloudflare does not send EDNS Client Subnet information in its DNS requests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today
This echoes the user agent checking that was prevalent in past times. Websites would limit features and sometimes refuse to render for the "wrong" browser, even if that browser had the ability to display the website just fine. So browsers started pretending to be other browsers in their user agents. Case in point - my Chrome browser, running on an M3 mac, has the following user agent:

"'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'"

That means my browser is pretending to be Firefox AND Safari on an Intel chip.

I don't know what features Cloudflare uses to determine what browser you're on, or if perhaps it's sophisticated enough to get past the user agent spoofing, but it's all rather funny and reminiscent just the same.
There is the needle in the haystack measure which is, as you probably guessed, hiding a small fact in a massive set of tokens and asking it to recall it.

Recent Gemini models actually do extraordinarily well.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/t...
Samsung's new 75" display has near-zero power consumption
That is because none of your colleagues who think so would ever tell you. The problem with this is that the ideology has led to a point where I and many like me will simply never tell someone like yourself what they think of.

Even now that it's "better" I would only write something like this anonymously in fear of a future person seeing and judging my beliefs. I have personally watched in corporate and academia the effects. I am small fish but have personally wanted to hire someone who I thought was the most qualified for the position and was rather non obviously told to not because the team already had to many white men. We instead had to go with my 3rd choice a female who while great did not have the technical skills I valued in the first.

The main problem is people who say things like you do is that you don't realize you have a very incomplete picture. Those who disagree with the ideas will literally never say them. In many career paths saying your beliefs that don't align is basically career suicide.
I'm surprised he has not tit-for-tatted with pre-emptive pardons for all of his minions.
Could be a DRM thing. You might not have a trusted display/decoding device, so it gives you the low res.
is spoofing not a simple solution to this?
Your point seems to be arguing in favor of how a company whose core business product is tracking... makes you more comfortable you're not being tracked than an alternative with a subscription model?
I'm guessing that the "last 5% = 90% of the work" rule applies to browser engines as well ?
Yes, but is China actually communist? That's the point that needs to be contended with, and you seem rather intent on avoiding it instead.

Everyone does in fact have a different opinion on what communism is or should be. That means that we should not pretend that China has exhaustively implemented the entire subject!

Yes, we can point to China as an example of what can happen when a specific group of people implements their specific idea of what communism means. No more, no less. That is literally the point you brought up.
Completely agree. Sounds like we're similarly on the older end of Gen Z, and getting off social media in my first year of college was excellent. I get messages in my group chats from friends being pissed off (often rightfully) by things that our out of their control, but they're force-fed it on social media.

It doesn't help to stare at rage/anxiety inducing things - it doesn't mean you're actually informed all the time.

Plus I'd argue that most things you'll see end up being hogwash and the important stuff will rise to the top and you're generally hear about it anyway.
Deploy to K8 Without a Repo
Hi HackerNews-ers! I want your thoughts on a concept for an internal custom-built AI platform (I work in a fintech in London).

We use Kubernetes as our container orchestration platform. We deploy machine-learning models using a CRD+Operator which wraps a (mainly) python model artefact into a webserver to serve inferences over the network.

Our ambition is to allow non-engineers to deploy models on the platform from a model registry. They would probably want to use a CLI/UI to select a model, a target environment and deploy the model there. Ideally, we wouldn't need a repository to do this and we were thinking of providing a lightweight abstraction over K8s API.

What patterns/tools would you recommend looking at? We looked at https://cdk8s.io/ as well as ways to create think wrappers around kubectl. Any thoughts?
It's not that these diversity policies were effective at addressing the underlying issue, they looked ridiculous to someone from the outside. What is hilarious and scary at the same time, is how these global corporations, the supposed progressive forces, are reversing them in quick succession one after another one 2 weeks into Trump's presidency.
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibili...
> Is that not correct?

It's not run by the Archive. It's a collaboration. They didn't even do all the crawling, and the Library of Congress keeps a copy.

https://eotarchive.org/about/

As for Archive Team, their site declares "Archive Team is a loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths."

Dedication is great. And radicalization in response to copyright and preservation certainly deserves some leeway. But a little professionalism wouldn't hurt and the 2600-era roleplay isn't fooling anyone.
Well I for one an quite relieved by this. Trump has done none of this in secret. He told us what he was going to do.

The surprise is finding about the foreign spending that cannot possibly advance USA strategic interests.
What I find endlessly fascinating is how often I see anti-capitalist sentiment, which your comment is, in the context of how often and how much people will defend capitalism and attack socialism. For the record, I don't know if the second part applies to you, specifically. This is a general observation.

Local food production is quintessential socialism: it is quite literally the workers (the farmers) owning the means of production (the farm).

When people hear that, they so often reject it with some variant of "no, that's a business; that's capitalism". Businesses (and markets) existed millenia before capitalism and exist in every economic system.

The defining characteristic of capitalism is exploitation by capital owners. In the eggs case, it's Cal-Maine Foods (or any other large company) owning the land and in all likelihood employing undocumented workers because they can pay them sub-minimum wage. At least that's how the likes of Tyson produces chicken.

It's also worth adding that something like avian flu is used to justify price hikes well beyond what the supply change would otherwise warrant.
California tech founder admits to stealing millions to live luxury lifestyle
Given what I've seen of Greene, I feel I am better off not knowing who Doug Collins is, and only vaguely recognising Jim Jordan and that Nunes has something to do with cows.

The USA may be happy to cast psychic damage on itself, I wish to only learn what I must to defend myself from the nonsense that spills outside your borders. :)
> They're building those anyway, which suggests they have some sort of plan to use them after the antiship missile threat has been eliminated in the region. The most plausible way to accomplish that is to paralyze the American response by having Taiwan capitulate very fast, before the invasion actually takes place.

There are a lot of very dumb assumptions baked into this. First, building something vulnerable to antiship missiles does not mean the plan is to use them under circumstances where anti-ship missiles aren't a threat. War necessarily involves casualties, and it is a perfectly rational strategy to endure some level of attrition. Next, wiping out american bases in close proximity does not eliminate the antimissile threat. Taiwan would be the ones firing anti-ship missiles, and after American forces are attacked they would have a nigh unlimited supply. Third, shocking Taiwan into a rapid capitulation is not a realistic strategy. Taiwan is a nearly unassailable fortress - with sufficient time and resources it could concievably be overwhelmed but the optimal strategy for Taiwan is to draw out the conflict as long as possible. Finally, if America is attacked, Taiwan's capitulation doesn't end the war. We have in the past fought to liberate allies who were capitulated by our enemies even when we ourselves were not attacked (see Kuwait in 1991), attack the US and the war goal changes to preventing an attack from every happening again.

Again, the reason you know they are building the invasion fleet is because we can see it from space. This isn't even something limited to the worlds' most elite intelligence agencies, anyone with a few hundred bucks can buy sattelite images of chinese shipyards. Before China is in a position to launch an invasion the US attack subs will already be in the strait of taiwan, there will be three carrier groups on permanent assignment to the pacific, and Taiwan will be sitting on top of an arsenal that could sink thousands of transport ships. America doesn't have to wait for war to break out to put these defenses in place. A chinese missile barage is not some new threat, every base in the region has been preparing for this scenario for decades now, and they still have several more years to make further preparations. Would America take losses if China launched a strike? Of course. Would we be caught with our pants down and have our military capability completely wiped out, unable to recover before the war was over? Not a chance.
> there is a important difference between google triangulating data, trading data with others and attaching a name to an ip adress by their own efforts without me voluntarily giving them that information for free.

You’ve specified the difference. One company is actively trading your data as its core business, for profit. One isn’t.
I find your position baffling.
DOGE gets its authority through the president. The president definitely has the authority to audit and/or stop illegal, fraudulent or just wasteful transactions.

The exact shape or form of USAID is also up to the president. It was created through an executive order, and can of course also be transformed through one.
In the USA the general scope for federal & state has expanded, with Federal having the most growth since about 16th Amendment. US code & regulations has expanded 1000x , cost per capita is 15000x

I only make the point that there is a broad spectrum of functional scopes for the government, and rather than looking at shifting the scope around, another possibility would be to revert the scope to sustainable levels
> the spring in his step is much reduced now

Musk hasn't suddenly changed in the past few months. His deranged/racist behaviour has been going on for years. What has prompted your neighbour to regret his purchase?