skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm worried that the US is going into something like the years of lead that's just going to make daily life more dangerous for everyone :(

A serious reduction in the government's ability to enforce it's monopoly on violence would go a long way toward reducing wrong in the world (and it would also motivate the .gov to use its monopoly on violence better but that's beside the point). Organizations specifically, but individuals too, think to much in terms of legal and illegal and not enough in terms of right and wrong.

If individuals and entities that wrong people had to pay up for their own enforcement and protection rather than just leeching on the taxpayer funded jackboots in blue to do it all (after a bunch of expensive court and lawyer process) they would quickly find that a lot of the wronging they do doesn't actually make economic sense. Tons of business models that amount to wronging people too little for them to sue you and too vaguely for a class action or swindling people big-time and then paying your way through the lawsuits to make it stick would evaporate overnight if they had to pay for their own enforcement and security.

However, keep in mind that nothing is free. A lot of little people would be on the receiving end of violence too, not just exploitive megacorps.
What's unnerving to me when I go to the US, is that legal limbo you're in between getting off the plane and going through immigration.

At that point you're the most vulnerable.

The plane is US soil, and it's well covered by international law, but once you get out of it, and before you enter the country, not even constitutional rights are completely clear.
Same technique is being used to combat criticism of factory animal farming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag
More important than fire? AI runs on fire.
You don't need to kick anyone off the internet. Just ban them for accessing your resources.
That's part of the "rare earth metals" synecdoche - hydroelectric dams, thorium mines, great lakes heat sinks - they're all things for skynets to kill or barter for as expedient
I know robots.txt doesn’t work, but is there a way to identify and block crawlers?
> Like from their own ASNs you're saying? Or how are you connecting the IPs with the company?

Those are the ones that make it obvious, yes. It's not exclusive, though, but enough to connect the dots.

> Are all of those IPs within the same ranges or scattered?

The IP ranges are all over the place. Alibaba seems to have tons of small ASNs, for instance.
Yes of course, no reply from them yet after several hours.
Luckily I paid 8k extra for Full Self Driving, so my car can just drive itself to the dealership for the fix while I'm at work.

right?
> People are saying Tesla stock is falling due to Musk, but he has been an asshole publically since the Thailand incident where he called the rescue diver a pedophile

Absolutely true, but it's only relatively recently that he's been actively and publicly participating in the effort to destroy the US.
We have preferential voting. It’s got issues, but it’s still better than the electoral college.
> There's already loads of these

Examples?
Yes, but if she HAD a VISA she would have been allowed to return to Mexico. She entered Mexico with a Temporary Tourist Card for entry from Canada to exit through the US with specified dates or less than 72 hours. That card became invalid when she left Mexico. The border agents most certainly tried to get her back into Mexico, but "denied entry into the US" is going to cause a manual administrative review in Mexico and that appears to have been denied. The only thing different under Biden / Obama would have been that she may have been processed faster because their was less backlog.

She gambled on trying to to game the immigration system and lost. It sucks but 12 days in custody isn't world ending. The most amazing part to me is people with no experience with "the system" find themselves incarcerated and think not eating sounds like a good idea.
Those who can do, those who can’t teach.

Ironically often those who can, don’t know how to teach.
don’t immediately assume that openai and anthropoic are being better citizens just because they label some of their bots. the american companies are more likely to be extremely aggressive bc they will feel no consequences for their actions.

in all likelihood all of these assholes are paying some unscrupulous suppliers for the data so the terabytes of traffic aren’t immediately attributable to them.
In an imaginary future...

Elon: "The robotaxis are working great!"

Press: "What about these 10 fatal accidents in the first week?"

Elon: "Cut the cameras, arrest that woman! If any news media reports this they'll be prosecuted, and I'll post your home address and where your kids go to school on X.".

NTSB: "We've been DOGE'ed so we have no information about any Tesla Robotaxi accidents. As far as we can see, 0 fatalities with Tesla cars!"

NTSB whisteblower: "Not mentioned is that they're being blindfolded so they can't see shit!".

Press release: "Austin city government has taken the option [totally not under duress] to use Tesla's robotaxis for transport of all government workers. The mayor said, reading from a scribbled note 'this will improve efficiency and save costs.'. The city will pay Tesla $50 million in the first year, increasing to $150 million in 5 years."

Stock market: "Sell, sell, sell!"

Elon: "These investors shorting TSLA are breaking the law and violating free speech. If they don't invest in TSLA we're going to send the IRS!"
It predicts movement in policies. As neighborhoods get wealthier, they trend toward regulatory capture. Zoning laws get more onerous, building codes get more restrictive (ever wonder why you don't see 25 story condominium complexes for example?) and the cost of entering the neighborhood is artificially inflated as a result.

They correlate, but it itself is not the cause in the sense that income levels directly cause housing prices to go up. What they do enable though, is as folks become wealthier they tend to also spend more time lobbying for these types of city regulations to preserve their home values. They spend more time on this as the income bracket goes up. Couple this with the fact that wealthier home owners tend to be older, they often have more time relative to others in many respects to lobby consistently for the status quo.

The issue I have with the report is it takes none of that into account, and instead takes the correlation (that income rising === higher home prices) without looking more closely at what happens as the income trend goes up.
Are you saying that Gnome shouldn't offer access to their VCS for free, and all Gnome developers should pay a small sum to be able to access it?

FOSS is generally built on the idea that anyone can use the code for anything, if you start to add a price for that, not only do you effectively gate your project from "poor people", but it also kind of erodes some of the core principles behind FOSS.
I'll check that out - thanks for the pointer.
If you look at his actions through the lens of "If I was Russia, how could I cause damage to the US", then it seems to make sense.
If you have complex multi-step actions I recommend tools like nx (for frontend projects) or Bazel. It massively simplifies caching parts of your CI workflows and works locally too.

We have a very complicated build process in my current project, but our CI pipelines are actually just a couple of hundred of lines of GHA yaml. Most of which are boilerplate or doing stuff like posting PR comments. The actual logic is in NX configuration.
Whenever there’s a refugee caravan, journalists find the handful of females in the 98% male crowd to take pictures of for their articles.
In some ways, these contracts are already 'home' in that the datacenters used are in Europe; they meet all the data protection and locality laws, get certified for it, etc.

But, if the US parent company or its government decides to pull weird shit - like Alexa changing its data collection policy one-sided - it'll be too late to withdraw the data and reliance.

A major current day concern is the US siding with Russia and putting sanctions on the EU by for example pulling the plug on US tech companies' services in the EU unless they also withdraw any military aid from Ukraine. It's a huge escalation but given how unstable and rash the US leadership is at the moment, that's the kind of scenarios we have to consider.
There's no way to really make a progress bar make sense, it's a luck-based mechanic.
Remember this: it is illegal. People can claim it's not, people can claim "truth doesn't matter any more" or "they make the rules and control the media"

But you have your own eyes and brain and you know it is illegal. It is plainly illegal, which is why nobody had done it before this. They are doing illegal things because they are crooks.

They are trying to get you to give up and lose hope. Hacker News is far more of an echo chamber in that regards than other environments.
I've been running into bot detection on at least five different websites in the past two months (not even including captcha walls)

Not sure what to tell you but I surely feel quite human

Three of the pages told me to contact customer support and the other two were a hard and useless block wall. Only from Codeberg did I get a useful response, the other two customer supports were the typical "have you tried clearing your cookies" and restart the router advice — which is counterproductive because cookie tracking is often what lets one pass. Support is not prepared to deal with this, which means I can't shop at the stores that have blocking algorithms erroneously going off. I also don't think any normal person would ever contact support, I only do it to help them realise there's a problem and they're blocking legitimate people from using the internet normally

Beware if you employ this...
I'd be fine with pure HTML Websites, just give me a way to make auth extremely secure.

Been ditching js based things outside of work and I'm really enjoying BEAM. It is puzzling to me why companies prefer having 200 microservices orchestrated with Kubernetes if they could have it so much easier by ditching js...
Post-quantum cryptography apocalypse will be televised in 10 years: UK's NCSC
Desecrating graves seems pretty objectively provable and serious, if proven true.

I think lots of defamation cases come down to subjectivity, thus the court systems and judges and whatnot. I don’t think society would benefit from “it’s just he said/she said” and throwing up our hands. Courts are made for these cases.
I couldn’t get remote playback working anyway, I guess due to my isp plex had to use their proxy and this caused clients to receive 480p video
Exactly. I am hoping that the EU tightens the screws until all of Big Tech cannot operate in EU anymore.

I believe we can do fine without massive US ad-surveillance companies and a manufacturer of luxury tech toys.
Unless you're dealing with packed data (i.e., long arrays), there is no point in having scalars be less than 32 bits wide on modern architectures. This is due to architectures being optimized for 32 or 64 bit wide registers and even wider data buses. Writing a single byte to memory is in fact more expensive than writing 64 bytes.
>killing 90 to 100 percent of chickens in three or four days

OK this does seem a little high. If you had 10,000 chickens 3 days ago and now have a few hundred, that would be so devastating that farmers would be on national news.

Scenes of the devastation would go TikTok viral.
A combination of staging and effects might be a candidate. Any other candidate will probably be staging + X.

https://se.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/publications/schuster19zero.p...
Oh nothing. That's why every school kid across 192 countries has heard of them.

Autonomous driving, battery tech, charging connectors, OTA software updates for vehicles, "gigacasting" large vehicle components, wireless charging.
No, but the suggestion from the parent comment was to have the holder of the offending IP ranges kicked off the internet.

Technically I'm all for kicking AWS off the internet for a day or to, for failing to police their customers, but it would just break a lot.
It might be finite, but it also has a "fast growing sequence" kind of smell too.
Loving it, great work as always.

Also

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422781

Integrate a way to calculate micro-amounts of the shitcoin of your choice and we might have the another actually legitimately useful application of cryptocurrencies on our hands..!
Trump ends internet program for millions in China, worrying some in Congress
Can I ask why my post was removed from the front page?

What rule does this violate???

Impossible to do anything
Great article. Unfortunately his California duck curve graph only shows 2023. A graph including 2024 shows how batteries are dramatically flattening the duck curve:

https://cdn-ilcjnih.nitrocdn.com/BVTDJPZTUnfCKRkDQJDEvQcUwtA...

https://reneweconomy.com.au/battery-storage-is-dramatically-...
Sure let's concentrate all kinds of filth in our food chain. They claim they extract all heavy metals, but there are also PFAs, prions, antibiotics, microplastics, whatnot.
Here's the ethics statement of Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce.[1] He's from Cantor Fitzgerald, where he was Chairman, and had to resign from quite a few boards to work for the Government. He has ownership in many businesses, but Tesla is not listed.

[1] https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/43644031...
"fentanyl"; this weird conspiracy theory that Canada and Mexico are somehow major drug producers / importers and that they don't do enough to stop it or "illegal immigrants". Even though only 1% of fentanyl enters the US from Canada.
Calling anything unphishable (as opposed to "significantly less phishable") really seems like tempting fate. Fraud, uh, finds a way.
So what. Why do you think that determinism should play any role here?
great quote. swiss german designer perhaps?
Not a lot of local radiation can make it to a sensor inside a camera inside a fridge, though.
Agreed. As I said, the overall gun homicide numbers do not tell the whole story with regard to tourist safety -- assuming OP is visiting tourist-y places then the risk of death will be significantly lower than the overall numbers indicate, though possibly still higher than their home country.

But people worry about all sorts of irrational things with zero basis in fact. I'm merely pointing out that there is, in fact, a factual basis for this concern.

Personally I consider the benefits of traveling even to other countries (even those with higher homicide rates than the US) to vastly outweigh the risks. But if someone feels otherwise and avoids traveling to places with higher levels of risk then I think this would technically provide a "realistic reduction in risk".
Maybe one of those (slightly misleading) progressbars that have a dynamic speed that gets slower and slower the closer to the finish it gets? Just to indicate that it's working towards something
'Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.'
It's worth mentioning that Americans (or the industrial revolution) made a ton of formerly high status goods available to everyone. Specifically meat. Those high status goods have absolutely insanely high environmental footprints.

Most people didn't regularly consume red meat before industrialization. However, once we made it "cheap", the everyman could eat steak for dinner every night! Same goes for all kinds of goods, especially plastic.

It's wild how many things changed around the turn of that century, for the worse, but we accept all these things as just the way things are and should be. Like, seriously, widespread use of toilet paper is just over a century old. That's not that long for something most people probably assume has just always been that way.

Sorry if this is a bit off topic. It's just something that boggles my mind; how close we are yet so far away from our past.
For the first time in nearly 20 years, I chose not to go to SXSW this year - not out of fear of violence or border detentions, but I just don't want to give my tourist dollars to the current administration.
I'm mostly suggesting a mirror to some centralized location. GitHub is probably a good place to mirror to for code, but it could be elsewhere.

I was actually thinking of a more general thing than just code, eg similar to CommonCrawl, but maybe a code specific thing is what is needed.
I don’t mean this exactly, but it almost feels like they want another pandemic? Maybe to show the kind of control they can assert? Or to prove that it won’t be that bad and you don’t need the overreaches of COVID? Or maybe they just haven’t thought about it that much?
Because we generally acknowledge a need to discriminate how we relate and interact with others. I treat a child differently than an adult, a dog differently than a human, and a plant differently from an animal. Humans as classification machines; I’m not sure we could interact in this world without it.
Their quickest publicly listed SLA is 6 hours. I realise $50k is a lot of money, but give it some time. Though frustrating, and wrong on their part, no money was stolen. You'll get it eventually.
There’s a lot more money in fossil fuels. And it’s more distributed with way more active sites than nuclear.

It takes like, what, 15 years to bring a reactor online? A well can be dug and producing in 1-2 years and there are tens of thousands of them.
Whatever happened to terms of use and EULAs? These big companies use them against individuals all the times, why can't small sites state in their Terms of Use or put up a EULA that states no crawling/copying is allowed. Shouldn't that open up avenues to sue?
until some drone working for the parasites (google/facebook/openai) sees this post and writes 5 lines of code to defeat it

and now you have an experience where the bots have it easier time accessing your content than legitimate visitors
It'll be somewhat involved, but based on the difficulty vs the clients hashing speed you could say something probabilistic like "90% of the time, this window will be gone in xyz seconds from now"?
If so could this be in our future ? It is from 45 years ago, still a good story

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1189676.The_Nitrogen_Fix

Seems these days, we are heading straight into a disaster with no one in power trying to stop it. What is one more path to extinction :)
From the article:

“…they do so using random User-Agents that overlap with end-users and come from tens of thousands of IP addresses - mostly residential, in unrelated subnets, each one making no more than one HTTP request over any time period we tried to measure - actively and maliciously adapting and blending in with end-user traffic and avoiding attempts to characterize their behavior or block their traffic.”

So it looks like much of the traffic, particularly from China, is indeed using consumer ips to disguise itself. That’s why they blocked based on browser type (MS Edge, in this case).
Good thing too. Once Colin finds out, we'll be features that he has to document so that everyone else involved will know to use us or to bypass us.
I'd say it's way too long for multiplayer also, although I might just have stressful friends I suppose. Something like 5 seconds would probably be more than enough for us.
>I suggested Mistral, but that's French (joke!)

You joke but there is a lot of truth behind this. Europe is a very divided place and often prefers to do business with a foreign company than help their literal neighbour due to historical baggage.
I think it’s because, on a fundamental level, we have been trying to wedge an app platform into a document reader.

Zoom out and think about how mad this is. Like if we tried to build “Web 2.0” inside Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Apple has prescribed front-end frameworks like AppKit and UiKit and now SwiftUI, Linux had Gnome and GTK and whatever (I’m not an expert and my knowledge here is out of date)… there’s never been a Correct Way to build a web app because the browser doesn’t have an Apple Microsoft or Linux Foundation, so we’ve been winging it all along.

I’m similarly tired of framework churn, NextJS server components might be the breaking point for me. But there’s no way I’m going back from component driven architecture, and I’m not sure what a vanilla js answer to a static site builder like Next (back when it was good) or Gatsby would be like.
obviously China is going full forward and better at it, with no "Capitalism" involved
and never stopped happening if you only look at the outlines

but the scale at which it happens, the wide use of dehumanizing language (e.g. calling foreigners "aliens") and the violence applied are novel for recent history (not new if you go back far enough in history, I mean the US has a lot of dark spots in history they mostly pretend never happened)
This is not his first rodeo trashing a wildly successful brand.

When will the board wake up? I guess they never will as his own relatives are board members.

He should never be allowed to head a company again after his performance with Twitter and tesla
strtok was removed from C, too? Damn. I guess I am sticking to C99 regardless.
It sounds like you're just frustrated at being in an (understandably frustrating) situation. Your post wasn't removed, it probably was just outvoted. Breathe.
That already existed a few years ago, Coinhive, and everybody hated it.
I've thought along similar lines for art, what ecological niches are there where AI can't participate, are harder to pull training data from or not economical, where humans can flourish.
You’re proving exactly my point is that you hold disdain for Biden being old but Trump who can’t talk either is given a free pass. Yes that discounts your nonvoting opinion to valueless because it is nonsensical. Regardless if Biden is early stage dementia or not.

You can “see” all the dementia signs you want. It doesn’t make it true and you should really seek out more material than the few times you’ve probably watched him speak. He really was a good leader that got thrown under the bus for a few bad performances. Right now you’re just carrying on how you’re not qualified to diagnose dementia but it doesn’t matter because you know what the media circus told you and that lines up with your baseless theory.
Both offer a free plan but Package Phobia is sponsored meaning its on the paid plan but getting it for free.

Kinda like a skateboarder might be sponsored and get a skateboard for free even though others pay for the same item.

Package Phobia started out on the free plan but it turns out its quite popular, serving over 5 million requests per month. A cache miss (which is frequent given the cardinality of packages + versions), it can take 30 seconds to install a package and measure its size.

There's also a public API which tools like Socket use to check the size of every npm package.

https://x.com/styfle/status/1826296197566644497
> I find LLMs WANT TO ANSWER TOO MUCH.

That's easy to fix. You need to add something like "give a succinct answer in one phrase" to your prompts.
"power of two" with "power" singular perhaps but "powers of two" with the word "powers" plural is really not common as a synonym of squared (excluding people who don't know what they mean at all in the first place)
>I was already questioned around 10 years ago at the Atlanta airport about what I had been doing in Ecuador. None of your business, dipshit.

Oh, it's my favorite, not when coming to US as a noncitizen, but being asked this by my country's border agents. "What have you been doing in $country?" -- I know they have no way to deny me entry and will be to lazy to do paperwork to delay me for more than 5 minutes, so I smile and give a non-answer, like "chilling" or "eating kebabs". Not their business indeed.