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Don’t ask Hacker News for legal advice. If you really want to know the answer, ask a lawyer.

The issue is that scrapers are rotating their IP and essentially performing a DDoS attack. Anubis is part of a defense-in-depth solution. If scrapers reuse a cookie, traditional anti-abuse mechanisms will work.

Yep, that would make sense.

That’s a pretty reasonable hypothesis. The article says that they’re careful with what they post, but I haven’t actually looked up their content. It’s also possible that Meta just doesn’t want strip clubs on their platform at all, regardless of what they post.

The facts are quite clear:

1. A Canadian business posted an image of a sign criticizing the US administration

2. Soon after, their Instagram account was suspended.

3. This has happened before with their Twitter account, which they were able to get restored after a week.

But you already knew that, and instead are making passive-aggressive insinuations. If you want to make an actual argument, make it.

As for me, that along with the other facts I know about the Trump administration are more than enough to form an opinion: this isn’t evidence of a politically-motivated takedown, but it certainly fits the administration’s character, and I’m not going to give them the benefit of the doubt.

To be clear, the administration is making racist arcade games (e.g., a Tetris knock-off about the Mexican border that portrays Mexicans as literal aliens and zombies), not causing other people to make their arcade games racist.

I loved Forever War, but I don’t think it would make a great film. It needs space to breathe. A 8-hour limited series, on the other hand…

Given the number of people claiming to be CEO of HTMX, I have to ask: what’s the joke I’m missing?

I’m not seeing the problem you’re describing. It has a name: the marginal utility of money. $1,000 is worth a lot to someone who has nothing, less to someone who has a million, practically nothing to someone who has a billion.

So, yes, it applies equally at lower levels, until it doesn’t.

I don’t have the link right now, but I recall a study of some sort that examined brain activity and decision making. The “emotion” part lit up first, then the “reasoning” part.

Essentially, we make decisions based on emotion, then come up with an explanation for the decision that was already made. We form a memory that says the explanation was why we made the decision, but it was actually the emotion. In other words, by default, we’re rationalizing, not rational.

Are you a lawyer? I’m not, but the Legal Eagle video linked elsewhere in this thread says that the reasons for the search are the crux of the “lawful” part, not the location.

(The location was at the port of entry—the border—which is pretty much the definition of the CBP’s jurisdiction.)

The alleged crime is knowingly interfering with a lawful search (by providing a duress password that deleted the phone). Location has nothing to do with it.

The “hidden until found” feature surprised me. What’s the use case for something like that?

This quote stood out to me:

“Everyone else, I would say, was more of a ChatGPT person, and again, using it for small secretarial tasks or consumer fun use cases. But I didn’t meet a lot of people who suggested to me that AI was essential or important to their work.”

Okay, you told us what it said. Now what do you think? Do you have any expertise in this field? Do you have reason to believe that an LLM has the ability to predict the future with any accuracy (and if so, why)?

If we want to hear from an LLM, we can ask it ourselves. What are you bringing to the conversation?

> Way more people die of being exposed to the cold than exposed to the heat.

I was skeptical of this claim, so I looked it up. You’re right. Globally, about 9x as many people die due to cold-related causes than heat-related causes. It’s not freezing, though, but longer-term effects like kidney failure in elderly people. [1]

I’m still dubious about the argument that weather events could save lives, though, partially because climate change makes weather more extreme, not simply “more pleasant for people in colder climates.”

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/part-one-how-many-people-die-from...

Portland to Seattle is about 140 miles and has constant flights. Even if a small part of the flight uses fuel, that’s major cost savings.

It’s always charged. You plug it in when you get home and it’s ready to go when you leave.

It’s because the category is saturated, not because of the content.

It’s Trump, not the USA, and he seems to be ruled by passions rather than logic. Mostly, his goals seem to be to seek wealth and adoration by any means necessary. Now that he’s in it, there’s no way out, and particularly no way out that doesn’t make him look like an even bigger fool. So he’ll stay in it until things get so bad he has no other choice. But that won’t stop him from lying about progress and enriching himself through the resultant stock market swings.

This is mostly recapitulating the article “AI Mania is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making” that was posted here a week or two ago.

https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global...

It doesn’t matter. You’re saving nanoseconds when a db access costs milliseconds. Better to focus on making the code easy to understand and change and focus your effort on optimizing the database.

I’ve had people tell me, with a completely straight face, that they expected 10-100x productivity improvements. This is at the executive and VC level. The mania is extreme.

There was an article a while back that talked about their simulated world model. It has the ability to do things like floods, elephants on the road, etc.

Screens are mandated by law in the US, I believe, for the backup camera.

> The AI Visibility Evidence Model is a reference model that orders the publisher-side factors behind AI visibility by strength of evidence.

What the F is this thing going on about? I got several screens in before closing it as slop, still none the wiser as to what it actually is.

Edit: The submitter is a new account plumping their own website, as far as I can tell. Which makes me rather suspicious of the upvotes that pushed this slop onto the second page of results.

Edit 2: Oh, it’s an SEO thing. Yes, a true bastion of honorable behavior. I’m sure those upvotes are legit.

Maybe I’m pissy because I just read about the BMW in-car advertising thing. I swear, the normalization of lying and cheating—excuse me, “advertising” and “growth hacking” is a modern plague.

It’s an easy mistake to make, given the name of the website, but Fowler frequently hosts guest authors. This article was written by Giles Edwards-Alexander, ThoughtWorks CTO for EMEA.

2x is 100% increase.

I don’t think you can judge a programming language based on its “Hello World.” AppleSoft BASIC has this:

10 PRINT “Hello World”

Beautifully simple and readable. But it’s not a good language by modern standards.

In your example, I see a lot of complexity being surfaced: output streams, locals instead of globals, error handling. I don’t know Zig but all of those are things that are important to address, and I like that the example doesn’t sweep them under the rug in pursuit of a false readability.

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