skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just some food for thought. The percentage of GDP generated by centrally managed government spending vs. free market participants [1]:

- US: 35%

- China: 33%

- EU avg: 50%

The disparity is again similar for interstate integration (in the US) and inter-province integration (in China) vs. inter-country integration (in the EU) being the outlier.

Europe needs deeper inter-country integration and more decentralization of capital to private market participants (less taxation).

Europe can play Soviet-protectionism and build the digital-equivalent of the Lada all it wants, but the above issues are the root cause of why Europe is lagging behind the other two in terms of growth and innovation.

You can't build a tech industry without venture capital and a big cohesive market to sell into, and you can't build a venture capital industry without deep pools of decentralized, risk-tolerant private capital.

[1] https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP/USA/FRA/JPN/...
I always think of how people treated Musk after he did the Nazi salute, versus before.

Before, there were all these people saying "Elon Musk is a Nazi" and the response was always "you're overreacting" or "show me where he killed 6 million Jews"

Then he did a Nazi salute. And now, in the minds of the average public (excluding his devoted fans), he's undeniably a Nazi. Just with that one simple gesture.

It seems like you can get away with a lot of bad things as long as you don't telegraph them.
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Doesn't this sort of thing happen pretty much constantly?

Not that we shouldn't be talking about atrocities, but what changed?
I hadn't noticed that, but I believe it. Many Americans I know are in "blinders on" mode because the intensity and frequency of American political angst is overwhelming them.
> The point is obviously to terrorize people and create fear.

This is a perfectly ambiguous point. On the one hand is the practice, which may or may not be novel. On the other is the story, which may or may not be clickbait intended as outrage-engagement.
> your neck may not be red because you get to sit inside while they keep your power on for you.

Before I got into IT I was working in construction for our local telco provider, believe me I have seen shit.
I thought the same. Maybe start prefixing each commit message with "LLVM bots are all lying bastards" or something similar :)
Stripe is stealing over $50k from me
I run a coffee cart in SF. I am legally allowed to operate here and am not doing anything sketchy.

Recently Stripe froze my account and won't let me withdraw anything. My balance is over $50,000 - months of work.

What are my options? It seems like this happens a lot but nobody ever follows up.

Will they give my money back?
I'm curious if the PoW component is really necessary, AIUI untargeted crawlers are usually curl wrappers which don't run Javascript, so requiring even a trivial amount of JS would defeat them. Unless AI companies are so flush with cash that they can afford to just use headless Chrome for everything, efficiency be damned.
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Oxygen atoms discovered in most distant known galaxy
Doesn't really work if crawlers are coming from the IP ranges of AWS and Azure etc...
The guy in this video pulled it a bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK_EJ3DyiiA&t=1110s

But still it came off a lot easier than I would have expected.

I kind of hate linking to this channel because in some ways I think it's the worst of YouTube.
It can run on a 4080 if you divide and conquer. I just ran a set on my 3060 (12GB), although I have my own script which does each step separately as each stage uses from 6 - 12GB of VRAM.

-loads the diffusion model to go from text to an image and then generate a varied series of images based upon my text. One of the most powerful features of this tool, in my opinion, is text to mesh, and to do this it uses a variant of Stable Diffusion to create 2D images as a starting point, then returning to the image to mesh pipeline. If you already have an image this part obviously isn't necessary.

-frees the diffusion model from memory.

Then for each image I-

-load the image to mesh model, which takes approximately 12GB of VRAM. Generate a mesh

-free the image to mesh model

-load the mesh + image to textured mesh model. Texture the mesh

-free the mesh + image to textured mesh model

It adds a lot of I/O between each stage, but with super fast SSDs it just isn't a big problem.
Unprecedented Exposure of Federal Databases Pose Critical Risk
You can’t even guarantee the safety of your family where you live 100%. Why the fear of guns specifically? Have you ever fired one? Best way to get over the fear is just get some training. I view guns as just a slingshot 2.0. Take a class and get over your Hollywood and fear mongering news led view of them.

Literally the only guarantee you have is that on a long enough timeline, you will die.

This is what happens when you get your information from entertainment media masquerading as news. Sure, there are shootings. What is the distribution? Shootings are not randomly distributed.

Some quick stats from Pew Research in 2023 there were 46,728 gun deaths. Sounds like a lot, right? Remember though the US is BIG. A full 58% were suicides. That’s 6/10!

A distribution map is available at
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/05/what-the-...

And finer maps are available too.

I have lived here over 40 years and never such as heard a gunshot outside of the range. I have lived in New Jersey, Illinois, and California. I have never been threatened with any kind of weapon.

I spent six months in England though and was threatened with a knife.
> My best guess, tbh, is apathy. That's rather why they're not activists in the first place.

Exactly. A few people want interoperability and everyone accepts it because they don't care since it doesn't affect their lives. I'm not a policy expert, but this seems a bit like riding the high horse. The answer to "what's best for others" should not be "that which we want for ourselves" regardless of expertise.

We're not talking about regulation improving human lives in general. We're talking about regulation that will stick it to foreign companies we think are too big, in the name of enabling competition, which will again, due to the real reasons for EU tech decline, come from the USA.
Yep. And it is much more far reaching than that. Look at the primary economic claim offered by AI companies: to end the need for a substantial portion of all jobs on the planet. The entire vision is to remake the entire world into one where the owners of these companies own everything and are completely unconstrained. All intellectual property belongs to them. All labor belongs to them. Why would they need good will when they own everything?

"Why should we care about open source maintainers" is just a microcosm of the much larger "why should we care about literally anybody" mindset.
That's way more steps, making it more annoying to set up, not less.
You could gain consistency of evaluation; being a lot clearer about the #1 thing you're looking for; hiring faster; paying for hiring costs.

There must be some reason a candidate is rejected. Putting the reason down in writing makes you accountable to the role, to the company, to the ideal candidate, and to the candidate currently evaluated.

Posting a job and not hiring until 6 months later doesn't make the hiring manager accountable.

To protect from legal liability, require candidates to sign something that clears the company from legal liability. Companies make candidates and employees sign all sorts of NDA/non-compete/etc documents anyway.
Obama just made a random decision to make a China pivot. We had a large force in the Middle East and instead of just bringing them home, we created this weird apparatus to shift the strategy over to China. This is similar to if your company decided to introduce Agile. That extension of your company will never go away, and will have ideas.

The idea that “someone is stealing our technology” is just an idea, similar to “developers don’t give good estimates or timelines”. An idea that will feel like the right idea to all, and will be copied. Copy cat culture exists in war too (why are you fighting them? Because they are fighting me).

This is a contrived problem, and demagogues like Trump seized on it. Was it all Obama’s fault? Not quite. Bush had already created a war apparatus in the 2000s, and there was no turning it off, just turning it around and pointing it somewhere else.

——

We are the storytellers of this history, we lived it. We are the primary sources, don’t doubt your ability to document this history. AI was never imagined in the halls of Research to create a never ending forever digital war.

I’ll paraphrase Jensen Huang regarding China:

You can’t keep a country behind
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Combine this with the Anubis tech...
The price of having good border security is the odd legal greencard holder is detained for weeks and...

Oh wait I'm an actual human.

This is disgraceful. The fear and punishment is the point though, I guess to prevent all but certain people from even visiting the US temporarily.
I just set up an apt repo of uv packages using GitHub Pages via Actions and wrote up some notes here: https://linsomniac.com/post/2025-03-18-building_and_publishi...

Looks like Simon and I were working on very similar things simultaneously.
Just remember, your Model 3, Y and X could have been significantly better for the same price had Tesla not built this piece of trash due to a ketamine addicted CEO, that streams playing video games for hours at a time.

Also lol @ this post instantly being forced off the front page.
Oh, you can. You just need to provide a valid reason, that's all.

Firing someone because they are stealing from the company, harassing a coworker, consistently underperforming, or because you're shutting down a business unit? Easy!

Firing someone because it's a Tuesday, or because they got pregnant? Sorry, can't do that.
You going to prosecute China?
> Europe's problem in this area seems to be inability to build a mechanism to realize large, unprofitable projects.

I don't disagree with this take completely, especially in regards to IT infrastructure, but I don't think that this explanation captures the main problem.

There are clear counterexamples for large European no-profit infrastructure (CERN, ITER) or even currently ongoing projects (e.g. railway infrastructure like the Brenner base or Fehmarn tunnel).

My take is that there simply was no strong enough incentive to spend a lot of money/effort to duplicate American offerings just to stay independent, but the current US admin is providing sufficient incentives to start spending on this, and while independence is nice in general, I think this is overall just a huge waste.
Block AI Scrapers with Anubis proof-of-work
It's really surreal to see my project in the preview image like this. That's wild! If you want to try it: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis. So far I've noticed that it seems to actually work. I just deployed it to xeiaso.net as a way to see how it fails in prod for my blog.
You're not wrong. I've been called "paranoid" for literal decades now for warning folks to always be vigilant lest exactly what's happening now comes to pass. Nothin' to be done for it now but ride it out I guess...
Probably better to say "expected to" rather than "supposed to". The problem is that income growth is not evenly distributed across the income curve, but instead increases up the curve. So the net effect is that fewer and fewer high income entities own a greater and greater proportion of the housing, and lower income levels are increasingly forced to rent, or---at the extreme lower levels--go without housing. As a matter of public policy, this is not what we want to happen, though I'd agree it is what we should expect given current policies.
> hostile state actor

Source?
I wish quantizor much luck in future ventures, but I just never liked css-in-js in the first place and am very happy to see options like tailwind rise to popularity.
No, the sequence is "Powers of 2 with all even digits."
Just a callout that Fastly provides free bot detection, CDN, and other security services for FOSS projects, and has been for 10+ years https://www.fastly.com/fast-forward (disclaimer, I work for Fastly and help with this program)

Without going into too much detail, this tracks with the trends in inquiries we're getting from new programs and existing members. A few years ago, the requests were almost exclusively related to performance, uptime, implementing OWASP rules in a WAF, or more generic volumetric impact. Now, AI scraping is increasingly something that FOSS orgs come to us for help with.
2 days old :D where are people seeing these releases announced? I swear we need an MCP weekly email digest
and then they'll login there too...
10^10 * 36105/39062500 = 9242880, so you're already down to under 10^7 cases to check, which is starting to seem more tractable.
A contagious, fatal illness in deer, elk and moose has taken hold in the US
The simplicity of the example might give the wrong impression here. A Github action that produces some static HTML is of course without value, Github pages can host HTML files without needing any workflow action. The idea of the article seems to be that the Github action file can do something interesting regularly, like downloading a json file from somewhere, then produce a page and publish it. That is kind of neat then, as you can have your static site generator offloaded to Github's architecture - instead of needing to run that somewhere else, like your own PC or a dedicated server.
The article says they don't have enough inspectors. Where are you seeing this eagle eyed focus?
Model Y has a fantastic safety record. I find this hard to believe. Do you have a source for your claim?

NHTSA gives a 1-5 star rating for vehicle safety and both the Model 3 and Model Y score 5 stars in all 3 categories:

Frontal Crash: 5 stars
Side Crash: 5 stars
Rollover: 5 stars

A 2023 Toyota Prius gets:

Frontal Crash: 4 stars
Side Crash: 5 stars
Rollover: 4 stars

Chevy Bolt:

Frontal Crash: 5 stars
Side Crash: 5 stars
Rollover: 4 stars

Mercedes E Class:

Frontal Crash: 5 stars
Side Crash: 5 stars
Rollover: 4 stars
Adaptation - adapt or die. Find a business model that can sustain, without the naivety that people will pay for what they can take without consequence.
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No no, you're misunderstanding. The study did factor locality-specific inputs like the ones you're describing. In fact they included all of them by measuring the actual realized supply production for each locale.

It's that those factors don't appear to matter.
To be clear, I don't mean "fuck you if you don't like it", I mean literally nobody should go to the USA (I'm a citizen) unless it's absolutely necessary.
Yes. This is my point I'm trying to make. Thank you for explaining it.
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A single Cybertruck weighs as much as three Ford Pintos. We should be sure to include Newton's second law in our evaluations of which is the more dangerous vehicle.
The policy could just be for rental taxes on SFH. I don’t see a reason society should encourage rentals in the SFH market.
break my mind that... most people on the street didn't play halo. Or any "hardcore video game". Sure.
To be clear, I do think this regulation is best for everybody and will improve human lives, including for people in the USA. Not including the companies affected, but I don't think they're morally deserving of protection beyond the necessary.
For teens' mental health, strong friendships matter more than social media use
We, the people, might need to come up with a few proverbial tranquilizer guns here soon
Numbers do lie - it would be nice to have a breakdown of this.

Maybe the difference, 16% points, is what affords the European a fair treatment upon illness where half of that is "shareholder value" in the US.

Feel free to link the study you used so we don't just have to trust some internet rando.
First quantum microsatellite demonstrates secure communication
I do research as leisure, any tips on how to keep track of sources, snippets, websites spanning several hdds, machines and decades?
No one is safe from putting fear in their own minds, yes. But you don't have to do that.
Plex no Longer Offers Free Remote Playback for Personal Media
At this rate, it's more than FOSS infrastructure -- although that's a canary in the coalmine I especially sympathize with -- it's anonymous Internet access altogether.

Because you can put your site behind an auth wall, but these new bots can solve the captchas and imitate real users like never before. Particularly if they're hitting you from residential IPs and with fake user agents like the ones in the article -- or even real user agents because they're wired up to something like Playwright.

What's left except for sites to start requiring credit cards, Worldcoin, or some equally depressing equivalent.
The last time I visited the US was in 2017, and I vowed never to go again. All because of the treatment by immigration. Over a number of visits during the years, I have been shouted at multiple times, talked down to, and generally treated like crap. I am travelling on a South African passport (I am white, though, before anyone tries and blames it on racism).

This last incident in 2017, I was standing by the immigration officer, and while he was looking through my documents, I was looking around at the people waiting in the queue. He asked if I was travelling with someone. I said no. He asked why I was looking at the queue. I said I was just looking around. He told me to stop looking around and look in front of me. I said OK. Somewhere during this I put my hands in my pocket, so he told me to take my hands out of my pocket. I was a bit startled at this and trying to figure out what was going on with the guy. I was obviously too slow for him so he shouted loud "take your hands out of your damn pocket". I just zipped my mouth and wanted to get through it.

Once I got past him, I needed to get a connecting flight to Mexico. I walked down a passage following the directions and saw that I was going to end up in the main check-in area. Since I was just connecting, I was confused and I asked two immigration officers whether I am going in the right direction. The lady just told me "keep moving sir". I tried to explain that I was connecting and thought I was going in the wrong direction. She then shouted at me "keep moving!". I told her again "please, just listen to me", and she shouted at me again. Thankfully, the guy with her told her to calm down and took a minute to listen to me and explained that I was going the right way.

Honestly, this trip was the last straw for me and I vowed never to go back. The contrast between the immigration in the US and other countries - especially compared to Asia - was night and day. I decided I would visit countries that are happy to have me visit and treat me with dignity instead.

Another time in the US, I was walking past a construction site. I was walking outside the safety barriers, but on the same side of the street. I guy rushed out at me and started shouting at me to get on the opposite side of the road. Huge guy. Looked like he wanted to attack me and was red in the face of fury and spittle sprayed all over me while he was shouting at me.

Quite honestly, there are too many angry people over there. I have visited many countries and never experienced anything like the angry people in the US.
I wonder if the future is for honest crawlers to do something like DKIM to provide a cheap cryptographically verifiable identity, where reputation can be staked on good behavior, and to treat the rest of the traffic like it's a full fledged chrome instance that had better be capable of solving hashcash challenges when traffic gets too hot.

It's a shitty solution, but as it stands the status quo is quite untenable and will eventually have cloudflare as a spooky MITM for all the web's traffic.
Maybe I'm confused about what you mean by primary and secondary sources, but I think you have to be a little more nuanced; otherwise, it sounds like you're advocating for reinventing the wheel ad vitam aeternam. As opposed to "standing on the shoulders of giants" and all that.

For instance, I would consider a literature review a secondary source. It can come to some conclusions as to the credibility of a hypothesis given all this presented evidence (primary sources). This can be very precious work, as it would save a person interested in higher-level topics a great deal of time, and most likely (if the review is any good) be done with more competence than the interested person has (amateur or not).

An amateur (or indeed a professional) is more likely to find pertinent information in existing "secondary sources" (which can also be plural) than by trying to comb through a comparatively enormous volume of primary work they are not equipped to interpret and synthesize (or even find). Not just in my lazy opinion, it's indeed the consensus in science that the most recent review/synthesis work is a good starting point to any background information collection.

And why not, as a starting point, have a tertiary source point you towards adequate synthetic work. When you type "my topic of interest review" on google scholar and pick the most cited moderately recent review of the topic, are you not in effect relying on a tertiary source?
To be clear, I'm not saying that LLM's exclusively make non-human errors. I'm more saying that most errors are happening for different "reasons" than humans.

Think about the strawberry example. I've seen a lot of articles lately where not all misspellings of the word "strawberry" reliably give letter counting errors. The general sentiment there is human, but the specific pattern of misspelling is really more unique to LLM's (i.e. different spelling errors would impact humans versus LLM's).

The part that makes it challenging is that we don't know these "triggers." You could have a prompt that has 95% accuracy, but that inexplicably drops to 50% if the word "green" is in the question (or something like that).
I don't think people realize how much of the world runs off of excel, especially the financial world. Excel still "supports" buggy issues from versions in the 1990s as to not break financial models.

IBM mainframes do the same thing with COBOL because modernizing core code means having to notify and test all the downstream users that have their own code to deal with the legacy issues in the current stack. I was once explained by a retired COBOL programmer (who spends his summers contracting for maintenance) how this tangled mess of thousands of banks feeds in all the way to the US central bank to determine interest rates - in some extreme cases, IBM still has to emulate hardware bugs as to not change expected behaviour. This is not something you just migrate away from or fuck around with. There's a reason IBM still sells mainframes that runs code from the 1960s.
Proofs of non-existence aren't usually straightforward.
I see my error here -- you can in fact eliminate half even for 2^k mod 10, because both 6 and 8 force a carry; so ending in a 2 or a 6 means that the next higher digit must be odd.
The thing about GitHub Pages is that it doesn't handle redirects and index pages the way I like, besides being quite a bit slow when you have thousands of static items (I ended up building my own custom uploader to Azure storage, which only rebuilds the pages I update and figures out all the asset dependencies, so it also only uploads the bits that need updating).
In theory you could use 3 extra bits for a bit pointer. Although the fact that a void* could hold it (or you need to make void* larger) would likely be an issue.

The funny thing is that there are much more than 3 wasted bits on 64 bit pointers anyways. So we could just use bit pointers. Of course this has costs in the hardware.
why comment about your misunderstanding of the title?