skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using HTTP meta-headers is actually something we seem to have forgotten how to do.

The one that annoys me most is the accept-language header which is almost entirely ignored in favour of GeoIP lookups to figure out regionality... which I find super odd; as if people are walking around using a browser in a language they don't speak. (or, an operating system configured for a language they don't speak).

ETAG's though, are a bit fraught- if you're a company, a security scan will fire if an etag is detected because you might be able to figure out the inode on the filesystem based on it... which, idk why that's a security problem eitherway[0], but it's common for there to be false-positives[1]... which makes people not respect the header.

Last-Modified should work though, I love the idea of checking headers and not content.

I think people don't care to imagine the computer doing as little as possible to get the job done, and instead use the near unlimited computing power to just avoid thinking about consequences.

[0]: https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/vulnerabilitie...

[1]: https://github.com/sullo/nikto/issues/469
So you trust without proof. That's nice.
>> pyyaml

I keep being surprised at the popularity of this dependency. It has a great name for discovery but the API does not easily provide ways to override or customise behaviours.

The continued popularity suggests it’s probably me holding the tool wrong.
Email is a communication system with a lot of moving parts. You can't have reliable IM through existing MX servers but you may have it if for example SMTPs are running on your machine and you poll their data more (it's just an example, I know that with an SMTP running on your phone you'd have more problems).
“They” have no constitutional authority to just “get rid of income tax” we live in a republic, NOT a monarchy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_crash_of_1929
> Is it really the case that it's ok to threaten people or to call for violence against a community in the USA?

In cases like that, courts in the US make the determination as to whether the speech is protected based on whether it may cause “imminent lawless action”—hard to say in the Cheshire case without seeing what they were actually posting, but encouraging people to start violent riots would not be protected in the US either. There are plenty of cases of people getting arrested in the US for Facebook posts inciting violence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_game_playing

Is not

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...
Still have to be careful, they have another method where an update is delivered as a print job (that doesn't print anything). So also don't let any windows or mac (or android or ios or chromebook I guess) clients reach the printer by any means, even usb, with drivers you aren't 100% sure about.
> While I don't support Prop 8 personally, I don't think we should judge technical products on political opinions of their author. You may think it's funny to advocate for bans and boycotts, until the other side does it too and we get a world split in 2 (or more).

Eh. It's one to not knowingly support a bad person, e.g. if they kept their opinions to themselves. But once an individual has made their positions crystal clear, it's a lot harder to morally support their innovations. Someone can do great work in tech, but if they are a known total piece of shit, I may/probably will avoid their products. I find a lot of tech-types try hard to decouple the humanity aspect from the innovation aspect - I presume this is a veiled attempt to get an "be an asshole" pass. Reality is people won't want to be around us if we suck as a humans, no matter how much code any of us put down.
Thanks for the details!

What would the economics look like for selling unpapered horses just randomly bred? Is that even possible?

Also what are the economics of selling mules or other animals at the same time?
It might get acquired by Elon. :)
i.e. the "geohot method". Why this guy still pulls so much traction is a mystery.
Pendantic correction: The comic book movies from Marvel are mostly based on 1960s era source material, so more like 60 years old.
Testerday's speech by the Canadian Prime Minister:

"What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy," he explains. "Because that will make it easier to annex us."

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgpdk4257zt?post=asset%3A3b...

"Trump has previously spoken of using "economic force" to make Canada the 51st state of America. But he said he was not considering using military force - an assurance he has not given while stating his ambitions of taking the Panama Canal and Greenland."

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cddy2q2z8dzo
A Go optimization story: https://sourcegraph.com/blog/slow-to-simd
Evolution is a description of what we see happening in animals over time. That's all. This is about the formation of life.
Ask and ye shall receive:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01641...

It's XGBoost rather than DNN powered, but that might make sense from a runtime throughput perspective.
Here is an interesting article on Go optimizations with SIMD:

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/slow-to-simd
How do you know those?
Reddit got big enough that the competition died off. When Digg took a nosedive there were plenty of other places with some community people could move to. Even BB forums were still a thing back then. Now pretty much everything that isn't extremely niche, and even many things that are, have been soaked up by Reddit.
:-) Just to be clear: Referring to Douglas Adams here, who obviously meant that as satire. [1]

Of course the serious core here is this: It's assumed here that it would be a trivial matter to be able to see who is adding value and who isn't. I would question that assumption.

[1] https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_...
> the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) [is] one of the 10 projects packed aboard Blue Ghost. [...]

> However, LuGRE’s achievements didn’t only begin after touchdown on the moon. On January 21, the instrument broke NASA’s record for highest altitude GNSS signal acquisition at 209,900 miles from Earth while traveling to the moon. That record continued to rise during Blue Ghost’s journey over the ensuing days, peaking at 243,000 miles from Earth after reaching lunar orbit on February 20.
> Newborns (and certainly toddlers) seem to understand the underlying concepts for these things when it comes to visual/hepatic object identification and "folk physics"

Yes, they enjoy millions of years of pretraining thanks to evolution, ie. their pretrained base model has some natural propensity for visual, auditory, and tactile sensory modalities, and some natural propensity for spatial and causal reasoning.
The Power of Daughters: How Physicians' Family Influences Female Patients Health [pdf]
A few comments also mention experience being out-of-date. I expect that's true in webdev, but an embedded C developer could take a 10 year break and still be using the same compiler version.

It varies a lot with context. Manager isn't even a well-defined term.
Maybe, but the Gulf of Finland alone (where the incidents with the Eagle 2 occurred) is 30.000 square kilometers; the amount of ships (or planes etc) and coverage you need and the associated cost is huge.

I mean putting an officer / escort on board of each ship to make sure they're not doing anything weird would be an option, but I'm fairly sure that's against international law or anything. The issue is also that these are international waters - the Eagle went right through a narrow corridor of international waters - where it's a bit of the wild west.
Markdown files edited in Obsidian and compiled with Jekyll.

https://stephango.com/vault#publishing-to-the-web
ifconfig.me is not behind Cloudflare, at least currently.
“Printing of funny money”? Are you referring to the Fed purchasing mortgaged backed securities after the financial crisis of 2008?

What do you mean when you refer to “real” money? A gold backed currency? Currency is an abstraction of value. “Real” money doesn’t make that much sense. Who is going to decide what is real?

Great Britain after WW2 is not analogous to the US now. The US has 300+ million people, a vast military, a huge land mass with enormous natural resources, the world reserve currency, and a leader who has followers who don’t understand the US rules based world order.

GB didn’t collapse all on its own. The US with its strength after WW2 coerced them and the French into following its lead. Eisenhower sided with the Soviets regarding the Suez for example. The Breton Woods agreement strengthened the US currency at the expense of everyone other signatory.

Reinventing the world into a multipolar mercantilist patchwork of competing powers is not going to be some brilliant strategic maneuver. It’s creating a power vacuum.

I really want to be wrong but this is more like the Asimov Foundation series. The empire didn’t forget how their technology worked, it forgot how their system worked. Otho is not going to save the US or make it great. He’s destroying the current system and replacing it with an older inferior one. Strength through contraction requires intelligence and sophistication. Not blundering oafish incompetence.
The articles are about a handful of cases. You ignored all the others which were non violent and picked the irrelevant detail to share deceitfully as representative of the rest.
>It is amazing that even really a vast majority of, even technical people, not once stopped and looked at whatsapp, and said "Wait, e-mail can do this, we just need a pretty UI".

WhatsApp lets people find each other with phone numbers instead email addresses. This has a profound difference in real-world usability because it decreases friction.

Before WhatsApp, people texted each other using cell companies' SMS service.

Why did Person A (who already had an email address) send a SMS text to Person B (who also already had an email address) to chat?!? Because both people already had each others' phone number in their smartphone's address books. Recording each other's email address is less likely so it won't be used as "ids" to chat -- especially between friends & family.

To wit, my mother has already memorized my brand new phone number that I've only had for a few years but she doesn't know my email address at all even though I've sent it and re-sent it to her multiple times. To normal people, the phone numbers are more sacred than email addresses. WhatsApp was a continuation of the conveniences of SMS -- without paying 10 cents per message to the mobile phone carriers.

Friction from cognitive overhead is a big deal in technology adoption.
SSG and github actions/github pages is the way to go in my opinion, I can edit posts from my phone using the github website. However, I’m not tied to github by this approach, I can build it on my desktop and can host the generated files anywhere. I use a julia based ssg, franklin, largely for the memes. I’m sure there are more polished/effective options out there.
I'm not following, what's "by definition" here? You can verify the integrity of an AI report in the same way you would do with any other report someone prepared for you - when you encounter something that feels wrong, check the referenced source yourself.
The North Korean Defector Who's Been Called a 'Hero of Ukraine'
I've recently become aware of a distinction between PHEV and EREV. The PHEV doesn't have enough power alone in the electric motors to go pure EV all the time. There a mechanical transfer case where both ICE and electric motor combine their torque. The EREV is a serial combination, more like the Diesel electric trains in current use. Some examples of EREV's are the Volt, BMW i3, and the Ram charger coming out this year.
Did Slashdot really kill itself or was it just never ambitious enough to seek a broader base or try to foster communities?

I don’t recall any user hostile practices, though I was just a passive user back in the day. I remember a few redesigns that people weren’t entirely pleased with, but nothing on the scale of the “new” Digg.
https://archive.is/wcN2E
It also seems to be 46.84MB on my phone, not 2GB.
Of course the same can be said for BTC: finite supply, needs to be mined.
It's not just money - the ability to educate the rest of the world's elites is a form of soft power.
could the legrange points work? dealing with the 3 body orbits would be a pain, but they would give you nice separation
I dunno if he’s far-right MAGA but these red flags are all far right talking points.

No one who understands modern economics wants to bring back the gold standard.

Seems like geohot should stick to jail breaking iPhones and mocking programmers and CTF challenges… and maybe read a few more books and attend some lectures if he wants to continue deepening his understanding of economics and political science.
The fact that she did no editing makes her photos more impressive in a lot of ways.

At the same time there were other photographers with that approach, who left processing to others and/or opted for no editing; e.g.:

> He believed in composing his photographs in the viewfinder, not in the darkroom. He showcased this belief by having nearly all his photographs printed only at full-frame and completely free of any cropping or other darkroom manipulation. He insisted that his prints be left uncropped so as to include a few millimeters of the unexposed negative around the image area, resulting in a black frame around the developed picture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresson
This is a difficult comparison to make, given that Europe experienced a >5% total population loss in that period due to two world wars, and half of Europe remained behind the iron curtain for another ~30 years. For a significant portion of emigrants, there wasn't a whole lot to return to.
I don't mind trying a "better reddit", but seeing it's a team up with the reddit co-founder, what will set it apart?

There is something about modern reddit that irks me, at the same time I'm not sure if it really was better in the past if you strip stay the nostalgia.

So why digg? Less bots? Less algorithm? Better algorithm? More or less "AI"? Etc.
There Were Always Enshittifiers (04 Mar 2025): Daily Links from Cory Doctorow
we need a small web curated list, i often use indivious instances to avoid youtube cpu load, we can trim the fat
*quietly checks the status of phpBB
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One of my co-workers joked at the time that "sure AlphaGO beat Lee Sedol at GO, but Lee has a much better self-driving algorithm."

I thought this was funny at the time, but I think as more time passes it does highlight the stark gulf that exists between the capability of the most advanced AI systems and what we expect as "normal competency" from the most average person.
YEAH! GOAAAALL FOR GERMANY! Compared to February 2014, new Tesla registrations have fallen by a whopping 76%. Only 1,400 Teslas were registered in total.

To put that into perspective: 1,400 units is the production capacity of their Factory in Germany PER DAY.
DOGE's Misplaced War on Software Licenses
It's a printer.

The only way it could have security issues is if it's connected directly to the internet (not behind NAT) or a device on my LAN is actively attacking it. The former case is difficult to accomplish without enough expertise to know better; the latter is plausible, but mitigated by a printer too simple to easily harbor a persistent threat.
I used to genuinely admire Alexis Ohanian, but when I followed him on Twitter there was a period of time where he would just keep spamming NFT grifter trash and it really soured my view of him. You have effectively unlimited money and contacts to try and pursue any project that could help make the world a better place, and instead you focus your time and energy on being a grifter. And now that the NFT scene has died down, they pivot to AI because it's the next big thing.

We've already seen how big locked-down social media companies can be co-opted by bad faith actors, and instead of trying to solve that they just want to rebuild Digg with a sprinkling of AI? Immensely disappointing. I wonder if these people have anyone in their real life circle that calls them out or ever challenges them on their ideas, or if the people who are critical all end up replaced by ass-kissers and blowhards.
> So are you expert in grids?

Interested amateur. I skim read the actual government and industrial reports, and know enough to be able to roughly estimate the effort required to construct precise answers.

> is it cheap to make it possible to get the electricity from homes, and resue or add new transformers to raise the voltage to medium then high voltage and use the same high voltage lines and whatever they use to get the energy from homes in Italy to homes in Romania ?

"Cheap" is already the wrong question: on this scale, energy is measured in percentage points of the economy, opportunity loss from what else can be done with the same resources, geopolitical exposure, not pure €, and that means questions like "is it cheap?" can only be considered against everything else the governments can do with the same resources — not even just other energy projects, absolutely everything, and how everything interacts with everything else, has to be taken into consideration.

Consider this: https://eepublicdownloads.blob.core.windows.net/public-cdn-c...

If you limit yourself to just €, the scenarios on page 7 say that improving the grid would:

• 2030: reduce wasted power by 2 GW while saving €5 billion per year in wasted energy

• 2040: reduce wasted power by 4.8 GW while saving €9 billion per year in wasted energy

While another pair of options on page 22 shows:

• €5.6 billion per year invested, returns of €9.4 billion per year

• €3.6 billion per year invested, returns of €8.6 billion per year

But! The report is also has a section header titled "Does the study consider the EU’s goal to
reduce dependency on gas imports?" with several specific mentions of Russia throughout.

> About costs, if the solar panels will cost me 20 years of paying my bills but they will maybe break in 10 years then it is a waste of my money, I can buy the energy directly and lose less money.

When did you buy?

I think you're over-estimating the current price of PV by a factor of about 15-25 — here's one of my local supermarkets, this price pays for itself in about *one* year: https://www.kaufland.de/product/456527791/?search_value=phot...

I believe Italian electricity (you are in Italy, right?) is slightly cheaper than German electricity, but that's more than compensated for by having more sun.
"Historically, ideas on the origins of life have been mingled with evolutionary explanations. Darwin avoided discussing the origin of the very first species in public although he acknowledged the possibility that life originated by natural causes. Some of his followers adopted this materialistic position and advocated some sort of spontaneous generation in the distant past. Nevertheless, Pasteur’s experiments were a major obstacle for scientific acceptance of the sudden emergence of life. The scientific study of the origin of life, established in the 1920s, required abandoning the idea of a unique chance event and considering a view of life emerging as the result of a long evolutionary process."

https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.100...
February 2024, not 2014 :)
Destroying NS seemed significant at the time but not anymore - we've drastically reduced dependency on Russian gas so it makes no sense to build/open new infra for that. And even if the war ends, Europeans will be ware of sending their money to a country that may use it against them.
The question was whether Microsoft reused their NT 3.5 era PowerPC kernel (& presumably some modification of the HAL).

If you can find evidence that’s the case, I’m intrigued.
How a key ingredient in Coca-Cola, M&M's is smuggled from war-torn Sudan
I am not saying it would negate evolution. I am saying origins of life could be extraterrestial and then life goes on a evolutionary process.
>as if people are walking around using a browser in a language they don't speak. (or, an operating system configured for a language they don't speak

Well, yes, they are! Computers translated in my native language sound dumb. That's how a whole generation of my world learned better English than native speakers, ffs!

Half of the time it's just translated wrong. You think anyone has any incentive to translate any technology to a language with a couple million speakers, all of whom are obligate pirates?

And it seems like you might be surprised to hear that people speak more than one language. Then where's my global setting to tell the browser what languages I speak, so it'd know what header to send? Same place that lets me configure what ads I'm actually interested in. Nowhere.

>I think people don't care to imagine the computer doing as little as possible to get the job done, and instead use the near unlimited computing power to just avoid thinking about consequences.

This, friend, is what computers are for in the XXI century. "Bicycle for the mind", ha...
When I was in high school my neighbor's daughter had an older BMW 2002 coupe. None of us had heard of BMW and just thought it was an odd-looking foreign car. It wasn't long before everyone was aware of BMW.
besides altitude: you'd just need to know the time which the GPS signals give you. From there it's just calculating rotations.
My point is precisely that humans aren’t exceptional and that we should have already left that thinking behind us. How does your point disagree with that? I’m not even remotely suggestion we label anything as “human-like”, I’m advocating for the polar opposite.
I watched a friend's kid play a game on his offline iPhone. So. many. freaking. ad interruptions! Fucking tragic, I'm glad my childhood gaming wasn't like that...

Said childhood gaming, with what feels like a lot of latency: https://www.futrega.org/digger/
Many ships intentionally turn off AIS, partially because there is barely any enforcement.
To make a 64 bit block size be helpful for signals intelligence in the '70s the following things would have to be true:

1. Someone would have an encrypted session or file that ran into the 10s of GB.

2. The signals intelligence entity would have to somehow have gotten access that much data. Did they tap a telephone line and intercept a 300 bps modem connection for 30 years straight? Did they get access to half a billion encrypted punch cards?

3. The signals intelligence entity would have enough processing power and memory to actually find the collisions.

4. The signals intelligence entity would be able to extract some useful information out of 1 or 2 colliding 8 byte blocks randomly chosen out of billions in the same file/session. The extreme unlikeliness of that is why such collisions are still of little practical use today.