skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why doesn't FB offer a "premium" tier for people to buy their way out of ads?

Warning: here goes my armchair theory.

Because as soon as you put a price tag on it, people will instantly see that they can actually get that "premium" tier for free by using an adblocker, which will lead to more people using adblockers.

If something is just free, most people don't really care for it. But if it is something that is free while it is normally not free, people will flock to it. Just think about random just that people wouldn't care to buy normally, but end up buying it because it is on a "90% off sale" (even if the "sale" price is the same as it would've been without a "sale").

Which sort of makes sense with FB, because you get a clear price tag attached and you feel bad for spending those money, when you can get the exact same experience "for free".
As a speaker of fairly standard British English, I would say they are homophones; I tried but couldn't find any natural way in which I could pronounce them differently.
And here's 7

ฆࡄາໃݣඪජݹಏ૫ຊरಗق༨൪صඨʐএЩටลڝ௨෨ଈݚЩචƙɕࢳ৩ฅڥࢲටະࠇ௨ٴໃɛ௨ٴແߛ௨൞ໃק௧ڠງƷஶكɑݹத෮ແࢭ௧ຂຽஈਢචƚܥ௨ۼถݷಏقܧɒԩঘญகϡࡆϿߟƑؾϿॻ౦ʜວॿޠظܪܦ౻ॸࠋ
Does it just give the S shaped piece? I tried playing and that's all I got.
Stop, you're making the barrier to entry too low! /s

This is really really cool. Between this and Hugginfaces Dataset and models hubs, AI/ML is really getting easier to use.
The things you have said make me feel engaging with you is a waste of time, as my opinions don't matter, and it's all futile and hopeless.

You talk of "we" and "us"—"facing the reality" you describe being "all we can do". Maybe just speak for yourself? I don't feel included in your "we", and don't want to be. It sounds like you have such definite opinions that talking with you won't help anything. ...Maybe that is the real unchangeable reality here, your certainty that you're right?

I think one has to have hope.
> 55 nanometers per transistor. Way off from the 2 nanometer feature size.

Cool. Following along here, I consider that transistors require multiple "features", and these days the more complicated transistor structure has enabled the increase in speed while lowering the power requirements. Power is also now a set of characteristics, the power needed to change transistor state, and the leakage current that remains when the transistor is not switching.

Not just a simple NPN junction FET anymore.

Then I think about those great microchip analyses on Ken Sheriff's blog. How very different transistor layouts show up in circuit designs. I can only imagine that modern high performance SOC design is even more complex.

https://righto.com

55 nanometers per transistor sounds like a useful number to me.
Ads are a corrupting influence on the web - the issue with framing this as more open access compared to for-pay services is that it sidesteps how the model corrupts the content of the services itself. There are the data collection and privacy issues as well, but it's the corruption of the content that's a really serious destructive force. In the end you can't even pay for the original non-ad supported content anymore because the content itself is an ad created entirely for the purpose of driving engagement. (There are some exceptions to this e.g. Substack).

It also corrupts what products get built because the incentives between the users of the software and the funders of the software are not aligned (even though ad devs pretend they are by pretending users like relevant ads). To test if users truly find 'relevant ads' as value-add: make two products, one with ads and one without and charge for the one with ads - see how many people buy it.

Why doesn't Hulu charge more many for their streaming service with ads instead of their service without? The behavior of these companies suggests they know on some level this value-add nonsense is a rationalization. Even if you say it's only value-add when compared to un-targeted ads - let users choose to have un-targeted ads without giving up their data privacy. I'd bet money on what choice they'd make.

The truth is targeted ads work and make enormous amounts of money for the ad companies - that's why they do them. The twisted narratives of why this is actually good for people or society are just another example that there is no limit to humanity's ability to rationalize anything when it's in their interest to do so.

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"“In the beginning not everyone tended to their free data farms. Many did not know what to do with them, some only planted one or two tweets and then abandoned them entirely. This disappointed the earls of our kingdom. If they don’t encourage growth, their share of the data harvest is smaller, there’s no one to hear their pronouncements, and all of the land they spent time cultivating is wasted. They realized that not only do they need to make the land easy to cultivate, but they need to make the serfs want to cultivate it. They experimented for a while and learned that new types of controversial, viciously competitive crops are great for encouraging data farming - they call this type of encouragement ‘engagement’.”"

https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/07/14/the-serfs-of-facebook...
Thanks.

What if I get funded by an american business angel/accelerator?
Luck seems to play a big role in the celebrity market
Why the bad iPhone web app experience keeps coming up in Epic vs. Apple
but they don't achieve any of those, either.

All of them rely on a centralised authority, as can be seen with the bitcoin & ethereum forks - if something goes bad, the people in control will step in and make it better. That means there are people in control. This is not trustless, decentralised or permissionless.
> That a privately owned corporation is allowed to read your messages and sell what they find to the highest bidder is vile and honestly makes me wonder how we got here.

[I work at Google too, not on ads though] Could you clarify what you mean by this.

A natural reading of these two things ("reading your messages" and "selling to the highest bidder") aren't true. There are lots of things you could mean (reading messages could mean reading emails, reading comments on Youtube, reading hangouts messages, and harvesting that data to sell ads) So I'm curious what things Google does that you mean by that.

> you don't see any adverts, but they're still harvesting and selling you

This is concretely untrue, even by the stretchy definitions. Google (and generally most ad companies) don't sell your data. Sometimes people mean sell your eyeballs, in that they gather data and then use it to sell your attention, and some people find that just as bad.

But if you aren't seeing ads, they're not even doing that. There's no one they're selling anything of yours to. Not your data, not your attention, nothing.
A little searching and I found this: https://tetris.fandom.com/wiki/Hatetris#High_score which includes a replay for a high score of 31, which I've added below.

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There's no "integration" code-once your token is on the blockchain if can be traded on uni once there's enough liquidity.

Using the network is not "skimming" transactions.
Stock pictures never cease to amaze. What a mind-bending collage: https://brave.com/static-assets/images/optimized/playlist-pl...
> I can often tell what my girlfriend has been browsing for from the ads I'm hit with, for instance, which is somewhat creepy.

I've had ads for medication that I'm prescribed, or could be prescribed, play on other people's devices when they use my network. It's likely targeted because I don't get ads for other types of prescriptions at all at home.

I'm also pretty sure of some of the medical conditions my friends and family have based on the ads I consistently see in their homes.
How is that fallacious? It's a direct response to the argument put forth in the comment he's replying to:

> Ability to succeed doesn't really factor into what was attempted. That is in the mind & intentions of those who were involved & instigated it.
I love that this comment and its sibling contradict each other, confounding the question even more. It makes me hesitant to ask you for a link to the story.
That’s the worst argument I’ve ever heard against Medicare for All.

Rephrased in another way, you’re saying “the plebs are going to get medical treatment and overwhelm the system by doing so if we let them!”

I don’t think there is infinite demand for healthcare as people are not infinitely sick.
An on-skin device to measure sweat–rate, loss and temperature–in real-time
Black hole jets bent by magnetic fields
small improvement to your solution, 9: సقໂɜ௨ഗƊݺɷටЖݹযמຽঅ௧ปໃঅਓsຯɜ௧ࡆଈŧԥටȤ൫௧ڈໃܘ௨කІԾ௨ඝІԘ௨ಳଈݰ௨൲ຣݹஜɦܗɚ௧ปลഴஐٯүݚ௩ظݕܥ౫ಀۻࡨஶԛɒঅਏڏІŧۑڐසђߥѲಊݷѻइࢳݪޜപࡊ०ணගɛܡ౦ಬҾɚ౫ఢʂډױ3
Yeah that period was really something! I was among the first few hundred positive cases here, and ended up quarantined in my flat for six weeks due to some testing anomalies. The "masks everywhere" stuff started while I was indoors, and when I finally emerged it was totally surreal to walk around in streets which were empty other than a handful people in masks all with their own colours and patterns.
Then they can get that EB-5, not you.
I feel that too. It doesn't just work in the short run it works in the long run many times too. Was it always like this or did a switch happen at some point? or are we just remembering the past with rise colored glasses
Security probe of Qualcomm MSM data services (CVE-2020-11292)
>> Encryption is super important because it secures your data in case your machine is stolen.

> If your machine is stolen and off*

It's possible to configure macOS to wipe FileVault keys from memory when transitioning to a hibernation state. Assuming this works as designed, it might help in a snatch-and-grab situation if the thief closed the lid of the laptop. I would assume competent LEAs would take measures to keep their target's machine awake however.
from their description

> Yes, you will get a lot of S pieces. But it doesn't give you solely S pieces - if that were the case, then it would be possible to make lines forever, which is much too easy.
Tens of millions per year if managed correctly. It's a development fund; spending it to grow the ecosystem is arguably a good thing for BAT holders.
Not sure this is true: "Companies are far too risk averse when hiring".

The cost of hiring the wrong person is pretty high, doubly so in countries where it's hard to let them go later.
Youtube only existed without ads for around a year. It's not clear that a youtube post, say 2008, could exist without ads or a subscription fee.

[0]: You can see what those looked like here https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/youtube-website. Youtube added its first advertisements in mid 2007.
I will (even though I have no idea what Elixir in Action is). Thanks!
This whole post assumes the only options which can conceivably exist for monetising content are: (1) ads, or (2) paying for single pageviews (and (3) doing it for free). Obviously this is a fallacy: there are numerous alternative ways to do things.
One way to get more hires: Hiring portals could stop serially auto-discriminating against entire classes of applicants (eg: 1st time, age).
One of the more interesting and fun things you can do these days is get a ULX3S[1], use the community RISC-V project to turn it into a fully functional RISC-V system, and then design your own vector instructions to play around with different ways of doing things. All for < $200 US which is always amazing to me.

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/radiona/ulx3s (85T version recommended)
About Studies in the Classic American Literature?
I completely agree with that. My argument rests on the fact that I agree that lawyers should do that, consequences be damned.

Sorry for the low signal answer, but you're the second to raise this objection and I wanted to clarify I don't actually think that.
I follow Blow's work and opinions quite closely. I am quite confident he was NOT criticizing Mighty specifically. Instead he was deploring the state of software engineering in general and web programming in particular. He is saying something like "I can't believe web engineering sucks so bad that a tool like Mighty actually makes sense". See his talk about preventing the end of civilization (!!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk
I've had unlimited PTO at 4 companies and 3/4 were truly unlimited. I've taken an international trip for 14 days every year + 5-6 days off for 3 days weekends + any fat hoidays like taking off Christmas eve. I'm sure there are shit companies but it seems like most companies respect it.

I feel like the onus is on the employee to ask off. Most people are just too afraid or too much of a workaholic to take off.
I think your problem is treating the success of the Kardashians as deterministic
The most important idea like this in the world right now is expounded in the book The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton which everyone should read. MMT fits this article exactly except for the fact that PG says it doesn’t extend beyond “hard sciences”. It also extends to the dismal science
For those who thought this was n interesting link about starting to work on cryptology related project: it's not

This has nothing to do with crypto it is yet another thread about scam energy-wasting fake money.
The CFM rating of a fridge is nowhere close to the CFM requirement of industrial processes.
More interesting than for EV3 (which LEGO doesn't sell anymore) is that the same authors just published a version for its replacement, set 51515 Robot Inventor.

http://mindcuber.com/mindcuberri/mindcuberri.html
Much of what you're attributing to Big Sur existed in Catalina.
I dunno... usual Tetris feels like that already :-(
HASS has the ability to send you alerts when a device/sensor is considered to be offline (so you could definite it as it’s offline if it hasn’t sent you an update in 28 hours or some such). You can also set it up to send you regular notifications too. Or you could just have this data in the dashboard and check it once in a while. Nothing really prevents you from doing all this but also utilizing a tool like that to WUPHF.com you soon as there is an issue.
Give an example then of the specific rule that blocks standard QOS techniques then. I can't be expected to prove a negative.

Additionally, I'm not just talking about peering discrimination. The residential ISPs want the ability to restrict arbitrary sources and destinations at the last mile even if capacity exists on the rest of their network and their IX.
The art of unshipping features and products
"It is estimated that more than 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation in the countries where the practice is concentrated. Furthermore, there are an estimated 3 million girls at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation every year." - https://www.who.int/teams/sexual-and-reproductive-health-and...

"In 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated 30% of adult males worldwide (aged 15+) are circumcised, with about two-thirds of those being Muslims" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_circumcision

While female genital mutilation is far more horrific, male genital mutilation is far more common. Both should be ended and the movements should be combined.

I actually make this my single largest political issue and the fact that most people laugh at this idea is evidence for the shockingly bad ethical systems that most individuals have.
Just adding this here for reference:

https://www.producerspot.com/equalize-normalization-compress...
I don't really buy this. A lot of complaints are about the privacy of the whole ordeal. That's kind of moot considering Google has access to all of my banking emails, Dropbox has access to all of my invoices, Apple has access to all of my photos, and Equifax already leaked my SSN years ago.

Most of my life already doesn't happen on my personal locked-down device.
yes exactly, you said it better than me. Brave has more freedom since they don't need to concern themselves with biting the hand that feeds.
Liquid Mode. Adobe Acrobat Reader.
>The propaganda framed it like sites like Netflix would be really fast because they could afford to pay for it and startup competitors would be very slow.

The irony is that this is how Netflix already operates. They sign direct interconnect agreements with ISPs to host their servers directly at local ISP network distribution hubs. They have a competitive advantage that is literally built in to the internet infrastructure.

https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
Maybe you could list ones you think could work...? I've heard several proposed, none of them make a lot of sense to me. Patreon? Government grants? Or what?
The writing that breaks down the busy writing samples here is quite busy. For good writing tips I always refer to the Elements of Style (1918). A succinct handbook on writing succinctly. Still relevant 100 years later.
Is there a minimal guaranteed optimal play for the game of tetris (not just hatetris as linked here). Or phrased another way, if you play against the smartest, most devious AI, what's a score that you cannot get past.

The high score of hatetris seems to be 31 lines, but it seems that it may be taking advantage of the algorithm being myopically giving you the worst piece 1 step ahead, and being deterministic. I wonder if the algorithm has some randomness (among multiple horrible pieces) and multi-step look ahead, how would that affect the high score.

Has anyone done research on tetris's worst case bounds?
Thanks -- Yes, full time! It's been the only browser installed on my computer the last few months. We have a bunch of friends using it exclusively but are still polishing a things for a broader release.
Ah, I thought you mean star-developer/employees. Yes they had some big names, although I heard Joe Rogan went on it once and said he wouldn't go back on it.
The problem with education is that u r always taught to look for the right answer someone else discovered long time ago. Coming up with crazy ideas means u were either a bad student, or u have a post-doctoral education. It is hard for anyone in the middle to come with crazy ideas (unless u worked with someone crazy
coming up with crazy ideas requires a certain training or exposure, it is very difficult to learn on ur own
Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment
Boy, did that touch a nerve!

Hate to break it to you, buddy, but you can't do these things with defi tokens either.

> Let me ask you, if you want to be a market maker for the NASDAQ, can you do so with $1K in capital? Can you do it 24/7 from any country in the world?

If you're implying that NASDAQ won't let me be a market maker with $1k capital, then why should I believe that they'll do it if I offer $1k-equivalent of defi tokens instead?

Also, I can do this today. I'd start a market maker company with my funds and with funds from other like-minded people.

> Can you loan money to someone in Thailand in 15 seconds?

Show me a defi protocol that lends money, and I'll show you a protocol that only permits over-collaterialized loans, backed by other defi tokens that are just as limited.

Also, yes -- I can lend money to people in Thailand in 15 seconds. I simply invest my money in a local bank that will do it for me.

> Can you borrow money from a pool of lenders from 84 different countries?

Absolutely. Do you understand how banking works?

> Can you build an app that plugs into your bank, NASDAQ, and a video game API without paying anyone any service or API fees?

I don't know if you've ever tried to actually write software before, but I can say with 100% confidence that defi isn't going to open up my bank's APIs, NASDAQ's APIs, and video games' APIs to me. That's because these entities make money by charging for API access, and the existence of defi isn't going to change this.

Even if each of these entities were realized as defi contracts, the underlying blockchain miners still charge me a fee to mutate state within them.

> Buddy, I'm not worried about taxes on profits vs. losses. It's no different than stock trading.

Then you clearly do not understand how tax law or finance works. I humbly suggest you get familiar with it, and quickly, lest you end up with completely-avoidable penalty fees (or in a jail cell).
> The costs are more abstract than when paying in actual dollars

Keep in mind people are still paying in actual dollars. Companies spend money on advertisement because they want something in return, and that comes from the people being targeted from the ads. I wouldn't be surprised if the poor end up paying much more than the rich in the end. It might even be more regressive than a subscription model.

Also worth noting that their are other negative externalities as well. Health for example - the poor tend to have a much worse diet that leads to bad health conditions, and there's likely a large connection between this and the advertisements for unhealthy products.
I remember flying down from Waterloo for the annual display ads multiple day conference thingy to attend sessions and finding that we were split into multiple rooms and VCing into sessions anyways. So in many cases I could have just stayed in Canada and tuned into the conferences from there.
What if someone goes down one of these BS rabbitholes and gets hoodwinked by the nonsense and actually needs help straightening themselves out?

Maybe there's some process here. I honestly don't know.

I do know that in the interwar period, these noise machines were referred to as plagues and epidemics, contagious sicknesses people needed to be pulled out of .

I feel like we're just isolating and quarantining the people that have gone down this route. It's not a good strategy.
I, personally, think Handshake is an interesting value add. Decentralized ICANN on a blockchain, mainly because I can't think of a better method to decentralize TLD management.

The negative is a lot of the TLDs sold on Handshake were sold to early interested parties, many of which were speculators. Unfortunately, other than an ICANN run solution, I can't think of a way to solve this since you need critical mass to make it fair, but can't get critical mass without having everything running.

Maybe they should have restricted the character length of the TLDs that were available to be auctioned at any given time based on the number of mined coins so more valuable TLDs wouldn't come available until, ideally, more people were onboarded to the service. Not sure there's a great solution there.
That's awesome (and props to the creator for including such a convenient replay system) :)
It's only a matter of time before the real owner of the iOS device you paid for (Apple), bans this app from their malware [1] store, preventing you from using it on their phone.

Of course, Apple users would have no alternative/competitive way of installing this.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

1. https://www.techradar.com/news/apple-app-store-is-apparently...
Gapminder: A non-proﬁt ﬁghting global misconceptions
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Correct in the mere fact that nuclear waste is being released into the ocean. Still incorrect in the sense that this is a significant issue worth worrying about. The waste mixes with the ocean water and dilutes to safe levels.

The Soviet Union and the United Kingdom both dumped nuclear waste into the ocean for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_disposal_of_radioactive_....