skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even the Visa Waiver/ESTA program is silly. You pay a fee to immediately receive a not-a-visa. The marginal cost of this is a tiny row in a database. It's just silly.

The US made it very clear many years ago that they've had all the visitors and immigrants they need. I guess they reached critical mass, and believes they are invincible at least within the lifespan of the current rulers. "Sheer fucking hubris" as the quote from Star Trek goes.
That value is only great if it's shared equitably with the rest of the planet.

If it's owned by a few, as it is right now, it's an existential threat to the life, liberty, and pursuit of a happiness of everyone else on the planet.

We should be seriously considering what we're going to do in response to that threat if something doesn't change soon.
I mentioned this yesterday, but storage is the new holy grail for cheap energy. If humans could focus on building safe and reliable battery tech instead of AI and bitcoin, we will have solved the energy crisis until fusion is ready.
FunnelFox: A web-to-app solution for distributing apps outside of AppStore
Which is a pity, given that Solaris SPARC has been doing hardware memory tagging in production for a decade now.
Solar panels will have a really hard time breaking the 100% efficiency barrier.
Yeah, it's a fun interactive book.

As any parent is aware a toddler doesn't need training to use a screen. If anything it shows just how intuitive these UI/UX have become.
... but they defend my cooking blog from the botz!111 (I guess one could also substitute "from AI scrapers" but I guess that ship has sailed)

In the spirit of not pitchforking, it does make it sound like they put some non-trivial energy into making the injections hidden, but I'm with you that monkeying with responses is the road to ruin
Very cool. I love these feeds.

A very common flow for me when I see something weird on adsb or fr24 is to grab the ICAO address of the plane and search it on https://app.airframes.io/ to see if it was sending out any ACARS messages so I can... see what the drama was ha!

It's a really fun hobby if you find this stuff interesting. You can pick up an SDR online for like $30 USD and be able to do all this without Internet, above your own home.
The National Security Case for Email Plus Addressing
One from Berlin, one from the UK, one from Canada. Not sure how many more.
Yes, this might be the best solution. and put read-only repo on github or some public facing host.
That's a talking point for bros looking to exploit it as their ticket.

"The upside of my gambit is so great for the world, that I should be able to consume everyone else's resources for free. I promise to be a benevolent ruler."
Off topic: This page is beautiful. Love it when people use magazine-style layouts on the web.
It's not a bad thing...for those other countries. As an American you're not going to be able to get those jobs. You think a Chinese company is going to want to hire a remote American worker, who is 10 time zones away, doesn't speak the language, doesn't know the culture, and who wants to work only 40 hours a week? Maybe not even if you're willing to work for $20/hour.
I don't know about text models, but most of the big stock photo companies are offering image generators trained on their own libraries rather than scraped images. Adobe, Getty, Shutterstock, iStock, possibly more. They're positioning themselves as the safe option while the legality of scraping is still up in the air.
More and more politicians will use this obvious own-goal by Trump to their advantage, and so will more and more competitors to US companies. Yes, it will be a long and slow process.

The Buy Canadian, Bye America campaign from the US's northern neighbors won't change things on a dime, and if the US administration gains some basic common sense the movement might be killed before it grows too large.
The other thing that is useful about this pattern it means you can deploy files to GitHub Pages that don't exist at all in your repository. I like that for frequently changing data where it would be wasteful to record all prior versions, or that duplicates data already in the repository.

My https://tools.simonwillison.net/colophon page is a good example of that.
It's vanishingly rare for tourists to be murdered in the US. Per FBI data 90+% of US murders are committed by an acquaintance of the victim. A large percentage of the remaining 10% is from altercations that escalate to shootings.

The European preoccupation with American gun violence as it relates to tourism is misplaced in my opinion as tourists are almost never involved. Compare that to the frequent truck/car ramming attacks in Germany which seemingly always kill tourists. Should I avoid visiting German Christmas markets?
Anubis is only going to work as long as it doesn't gets famous, if that happens crawlers will start using GPUs / ASICs for the proof of work and it's game over.
Thanks for testing.

Maybe try a simpler topic/wording. You don't need to enter a prompt - just a topic.

Or what was the prompt?
There are some really interesting supply issues here at the level of multifamily tenant.

Now imagine you're a landlord with 500 units and they've all got the same appliances and fixtures. To keep everything in repair for 40 years or so, you'll need a consistent supply chain of all the parts that are ever going to break and be replaced: toilet flush mechanisms, handles, switches, motors in fans, grilles and plates, the shelves in the fridge or range. You name it.

And rental tenants can be especially hard on fixtures we don't own. Every time I clean something I manage to also break something, I guess. It's embarrassing.

When I moved in, I felt like I had thoroughly inspected, and the landlord graciously replaced+upgraded nearly every AC outlet and everything was like-new. But long, long afterwards I noticed that pieces and racks were missing from both the range and fridge, and prevented me from maximizing their usage. But landlord is unable to replace stuff like that for everyone.

When a few things broke around here, I decided to DIY and rocked up to some hardware-supply websites and my local store. Come to find out, these items are special MFH brands, and ordinary mortals cannot obtain them at any price, or they're simply "always sold out" on the open market. And just think about all that's been discontinued or deprecated in 40+ years and landlords trying to conserve the costs of ripping out and replacing HUNDREDS of instances of those because they've become unmaintainable. Now think about landlords who install Amazon Ring or some cloud-based crap with planned obsolescence.

SFH owners can replace appliances and fixtures at a whim, at least more readily than a landlord could, and the costs are all pushed directly to the consumer in SFH cases, so a homeowner should be as savvy in order to map out their long-term maintainability.

And I realized that it would be a disservice to landlords if tenants could indeed DIY, because we'd stop reporting damage or breakage to the office, and self-repair can be horribly detrimental, and landlords have a right to know what's going on with their fixtures and appliances. So I was rather relieved to find out that I simply couldn't replace parts at my own expense.
I think it always helps to remember the railway in the UK is operated for the benefit of commuters

I am a heavy rail user, and I never, ever use it for leisure trips

(the RMT/ASLEF strikes saw to that)
…meaning that whatever model results would have no protection, and would be free for anyone to use?
Oh Jesus:

HOWDY, WERE GOING TO NEED LEO MEET THE AIRPLANE FOR A PERSON TOUCHING ANOTHER PAX.
The bulletproof truck that can’t withstand a baseball toss

The amphibious vehicle that traps its passengers inside to die

The self driving car with the awareness of wile-e-coyote

This is the dictionary definition of film-flam. All yours for a low $100,000
Even this current thread seems to have gotten demoted out of front page.

Clearly we are all just supposed to keep our heads down, be quiet, and work on LLMs for VC to get rich off of.
Maybe Tesla stockholders need him to send a weekly email with five bullet points about what he accomplished for Tesla last week?
Yeah, I found it on the map here, it's for youth, but I'm certain they will have resources

https://maps.app.goo.gl/HxLZGEtNSxyfpuoYA
Exactly! The situation USA is in is a dream come true for all it’s enemies or nations who want to see it’s downfall. Damage from within. When we have people like the current administration ruining USA from within, who needs external enemies?
Probably time for them to disband their above board operations and reform as a clandestine paramilitary organization.
Opening up TLDs beyond the originals and CCTLDs completely invalidated assumptions about what domains and domain names should mean. A massive disservice to everyone whose intuition was helping them avoid scams and squatting, but hey, at least a lot of money changed hands.
The OC is the type of person to tell you the problems of C are all skill issues.
There's the counter-argument that's been going around for a while that we'll run out of phosphate fertilizer in 300 years if we don't cycle back most of our waste. (Though something else likely kills us before then and numbers like that 300 years have a way of turning into 3000 years)

Generally cleaning up our chemistry would be a big help to sustainability. Los Angeles, for instance, gets plenty of rain but it is clumped in time so you'd need about a cubic kilometer of storage for LA to be self-sufficient in water -- and a radical reduction in the toxicity of our economy, but California is heading in that direction with Prop 65.

Pharmaceuticals are a huge concern even among fluorinated chemicals since they are especially designed to have biological effects in small doses.
There are frameworks for graph-based RAG that mix both approach. One LLM encodes info as a knowledge graph, gradually building up an ontology. Another LLM is used to query this knowledge graph by emitting speculative queries. As the database grows, the second LLM is fine-tuned again and again with exemple queries using the ontology the first LLM came up with.
These stories of white English speaking women are of course also flagged off the home page. HN doesn't really want to know about any negative side effects from the current regime.
Nvidia RTX Advances with Neural Rendering and Digital Human Technologies
>The problem with all of these AI specific workflow engines is they are not durable, so they are process local, suffer crashes, cannot resume, don't have good visibility or distribution, etc. They often only allow limited orchestration instead of code freedom, only one language, etc

So what's the solution?
except that

- GitHub Action cache and build artifact handling is a complete shit show (slow upload, slow download and a lot of practical subtle annoyances, finished off with sub-par integration in existing build systems)

- GitHub runners are comparatively small, so e.g. larger linker steps can already lead to pretty bad performance penalties

and sure like I said, if you project is small it doesn't matter
If you're a human and in the US physically you are guaranteed due process by the constitution. This is being trampled on by the powers that be.
I agree with learning React, it pops up in all sorts of places, vscode extensions, the windows start menu apparently.

But yes, mixed-rendering, server functions, meta-frameworks, etc. You are in real danger of spending years learning all this stuff and still not being any closer to knowing how computers work.
Thanks for the correction.

I just think our society is descending into ubiquitous poor taste fast enough without such words rattling around in our brains. But I'm old-fashioned; I had similar reactions to "The Dead Kennedys", "The Butthole Surfers", and "The Vagina Monologues".
they respect robots.txt at least major ones like meta, claude, google, openai, based on my infra observations robots.txt is enough in 90%, 10% is just banning ip ranges for couple of days but those are no AI companies
Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free tho?
Progress from Our Frontier Red Team \ Anthropic
It seems the Microsoft influencer team [1] is again all over this thread. They must have some alerts...

Reminder LibreOffice for most things is better than Office - Feature Comparison: LibreOffice - Microsoft Office: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feature_Comparison:_Libr...

[1] "In fact, this morning, I was reading a news article in Hacker News, which is a community where we have been working hard to make sure that Azure is growing in popularity and I was pleasantly surprised to see that we have made a lot of progress in some sense that at least basically said that we are neck to neck with Amazon when it comes to even lead developers as represented in that community..."

[1] https://www.kickscondor.com/satya-nadella-'reads''games'-hac...
Aren't most really big companies for non-technical users? Apple, Facebook, Google, Tesla... they're all consumer-facing, not engineer-facing.

I'm sure there are some ultra-unicorns among companies who provide picks and shovels to developers. AWS would probably be worth $100B if you spun it off. Cloudflare has a market cap of only $41B.

But non-technical users are where the money is. If all you make is picks-and-shovels, you're going to get a piece of the revenue stream, but the consumer-facing end is going to keep the largest part.
I'd be shocked if a single member of the US House or Congress know what robots.txt is.
Some of the people that got dragged to Guantanamo didn't even have charges
Cloudflare: Programmable Platforms
You are right.

But one misconception I often read is that everyone focuses on batteries. It would make more sense in general to talk about energy storage instead of just batteries. Like Kinetic, chemical, thermal and so on.

Batteries cannot be solely responsible for back-up. You need different types of storage: short term, medium term and long term storage.

There are different concepts for each application. Batteries, compressed air storage, pumped storage, kinetic, thermal storage as well as power-to-X systems are able to absorb the increasing summer power and provide the energy again in the medium term or seasonally shifted.

https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000445597
There are bot identification methods that may produce lots of false negatives, but zero false positives.

Simple example: no legitimate user has "GPTBot" in their user agent string.
100% agree. I've built two RAG apps with Typescript already and I don't even know Python nor care to learn.

The author is correct that corralling the API calls and results into a nice UI is what makes RAG apps cool, and TS and the browser have great controls for that stuff.
It's not any political story -- the site is definitely biased against certain kinds of political stories.

People voraciously upvote and argue about California zoning laws or San Francisco drug policy here and the moderation staff encourages this. Or AI policies from the US federal government or the DMA from the EU. Or the SLS rocket.

'political' is just used as a euphemism for 'taboo' and there are many unspoken taboos about what is talked and not talked about here.
I'm still confused about what you're asking here.

Buying anything in large quantities gives you a price break, whether directly from the manufacturer or through resellers. You get much better prices directly from the manufacturer because there's no middleman, but you also have much larger minimum order requirements. Resellers primarily exist to serve those who aren't buying parts in extremely large quantities.

They are two different kinds of markets with different needs.

I suspect the only way to answer your question is to actually get quotes from manufacturers for the parts you're interested in and do price comparisons, but I think I don't understand the question so I can't really be of much help here. Sorry.
This matches exactly with what I'm seeing on my own sites too and it's from all over the world, not just China.

(I described my bot woes a few weeks ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43208623. The "just block bots!" replies were well-intentioned but naive -- I've still found no signal that works reliably well to distinguish bots from real traffic.)
AI is worthless without training data. If all content becomes AI generated because AI outcompetes original content then there will be no data left to train on.

When Google first came out in 1998, it was amazing, spooky how good it was. Then people figured out how to game pagerank and Google's accuracy cratered.

AI is now in a similar bubble period. Throwing out all of copyright law just for the benefit of a few oligarchs would be utter foolishness. Given who is in power right now I'm sure that prospect will find a few friends, but I think the odds of it actually happening before the bubble bursts are pretty small.
Tried uploading my package.json, but I got a 404, because of a local package, which is part of my monorepo. Would be good if it would ignore dependencies, where the version is: `"workspace:^"`
Hmm...

React, Backbone, jQuery.

SwiftUI, AppKit, Cocoa, Carbon, Toolbox.

WinUI 3, UWP, WinRT XAML, WPF, WinForms, Win32 GDI.

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Of course this is misleading, because React has had so much internal churn. But desktop toolkits also have churn.
I’m not sure that I like this plan. We shouldn’t let the illegal AIs gain more knowledge and usefulness than the legal ones.

There’s other options besides a blanket ban.
I'm curious if you have experienced people asking something as blunt and short-sighted as "why did you do this?" as the result of a blame. The blame should reveareveal the PR or commit that a change came from which should answer that question already

You should also write tests. They ensure that your code works as intended. Some teammates might not understand that untested code can cause more development time since broken features will have to be fixed in production, so highlighting bugs that have to be fixed as well as writing tests thst cover as many cases as possible should shine some light for those still not understanding their value
Posting photos of European eggs is already commonplace on Instagram, people will start to flaunt chickens too.

But more seriously, chicken shortage will cause someone to die of starvation in the USA.
> I live in a city. Building it destroyed some wilderness to give half a million people somewhere to live. I think that was a very good thing.

This is likely going to be the point of disagreement. Depending on where someone falls in the spectrum, their beliefs can range anywhere from humans are bad and should die to protecting and growing human life at all costs.
Nezahualcoyotl/Neza, Naucalpan, and Ecatepec (the municipalities mentioned) are not in Mexico City proper.

They along with Iztapalapa are the former slum towns. How much of the water crisis can be attributed to the fact that these were all unplanned muncipalities, with split governance between Mexico State and CDMX

Edit: Yep, looks like only 15% of water in Mexico is allocated to human consumption and the rest is for agriculture and manufacturing [0].

Now I'm curious how many seats in Estado Mexico's assembly are within the CDMX metro and how many are not. If majority of them aren't within the CDMX metro then it's the classic democracy dilemma you see in Brazil, India, Indonesia, Philippines, etc as well.

[0] - https://www.axios.com/2024/11/26/mexico-water-crisis-claudia...
It's the behavior of the traffic in hindsight that's obvious. It's difficult to identify in the moment. This is by design.

Getting caught isn't a big deal. Getting caught in the act is. As long as they get their data, it doesn't matter if they're caught afterwards.
They can work in your country's consular offices if one is nearby.
Apple losing over $1B a year on streaming service
Interference? You mean donations to campaigns, which is entirely legal?

That's not interference. That's how the US system works. If you're upset a Musk for donating, then surely you are upset at others donating too, yes? Because all those contributions had a goal too, often policy changes.

Outside of donations, I see conspiracy theories about starlink and voting machines online, but surely you don't mean that.

What elected officials has Musk "bullied"? Was any of this supposed bulling quoted in context? Was any of this supposed bullying just impolite speech, for which Washington is famous?
I doubt, as the article mentions scraping the same resource after just 6 hours. AI companies want to make sure they have fresh data, whileit would be hard to keep such a database updated.
I mean, if someone is saying plainly "I'm going to ruin your life and critically endanger your health." then one should expect some pushback.
there is -- but instead of garbage expanding data, add in several delays within the response so that the data takes extraordinarily long

Depending on the number of simultaneous requesting connections, you may be able to do this without a significant change to your infrastructure. There are ways to do it that don't exhaust your number of (IP, port) available too, if that is an issue.

Then the hard part is deciding which connections to slow, but you can start with a proportional delay based on the number of bytes per source IP block or do it based on certain user agents. Might turn into a small arms race but it's a start.
The Roots of Unix for the IBM Mainframe (Part 1) – a.k.a. Pugs
It shouldn't be a problem, according to the Trump administration Musk is only an advisor and has nothing to do with DOGE.
A C implementation of defer using `goto`
MCP is analogous to REST.

It doesn’t define what behavior should be where in a given app, just how to communicate what that behavior is and how to invoke it.
I wrote about the same general topic (or more narrowly: process visualization) in German iX magazine, also available here:
https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/Prozessvisualisierung-mit-gene... (€)

Rather than relying on end-user products like ChatGPT or Claude.ai, this article is based on the „pure“ model offerings via API and frontends that build on these. While the Ilograph blog ponders „AI’s ability to create generic diagrams“, I‘d conclude: do it, but avoid the „open“ models and low-cost offerings.
There's already been an interesting ruling that a pure AI output is not, in itself, copyrightable.
What are the NOx emissions?
I fear for the unauthenticated web
Give it 10 years and the companies involved will have pushed so much disinformation suddenly it will be "drill baby drill"...

We all knows how it goes, it won't stop until the planet is destroyed.
Formula 1 drivers memorize race tracks before even stepping foot on them
It works in other countries, but other countries have much smaller (like 100x-1000x) farms and they also vaccinate their livestock against bird flu. This would cost the USA poultry industry too much profit (going to smaller farms and trade options for non vaccinated eggs are higher).
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24155545/bird-flu-vaccine...
Yeah, the keybindings are semantic. I even bind LLM chat to C-h C-h because that's also "seeking help".
Indeed, since January 2016: https://icannwiki.org/.softbank

And confirmed by the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160116175915/http://data.iana....
An issue I've noticed with court imposed fines is that they seem to be set based on the cost of the incident involved, not relative to the finances of the org/person being fined. A pipeline is very expensive, so fines end up being very expensive regardless of the receiver's ability to pay. OTOH, a large company can destroy lives with impunity since the cost of a person's entire lifetime earnings is not material to a multinational corporation's bottom line. This seems backwards to me. Fines should be set in such a way as to properly disincentivize behavior and adjusted to the means of the person/organization paying them.
That a) doesn't undo past or even deleted social media profiles. Library of Congress has archived the Twitter firehose for years.

And b) it helps nothing against the host of other issues I raised.