skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not entirely, historically newspapers had both ads and a sale price. That price was subsidised by ads.

But you’re right that it’s not so clear. Maybe a more straightforward example is broadcast TV: ABC, NBC and the like. Free at delivery, paid for by ads.
It's shallow because (a) contentless denunciations of "soft science" are cliché; (b) reducing serious mathematical work to "obvious" is the worst sort of dismissal.

Please don't post like this to HN. We're trying for higher-quality discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Modern codecs not only chop the frame into variable size blocks, they also do fractional shifts, in many directions, and predict the shift from past and future and parts of current frame.
Protondb isn't completely reliable, it's all based on user generated reports of how well a game works. I've had games that were rated gold and platinum on ProtonDB fail to launch on my PC. Then you have people reporting that a game works great, but they say that they had to compile a custom version of Proton, not just use what's included with Steam.
Here's where I think we need to be going: You go to a doctor's office, sick. 1) They take a blood sample. 2) They find the malignant bacteria and DNA sequence it. 3) If it's a known strain, they know what antibiotics to use on it. 4) If not, they solve protein folding on the genes. 5) From that, they see which existing antibiotics would kill it. 6) If none will, then given the proteins, they have to derive a new antibiotic.

1) is easy. 2) might not be - there can be a lot of things in a blood sample, and finding only the interesting (bad) things might not be simple. The sequencing part is pretty much solved. 3) would take a bit of work, but I think it's possible now. 4) we're getting there. 5) might have a fair amount in common with 3), but it probably takes some additional work. 6) is... probably non-trivial.

That's just one research agenda. There are others. You may have to move to related work, but I doubt you're going to be out of a job in this lifetime.
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I've always maintained that

Assertive = Aggressive + On my Team

You are assertive if the community around you thinks you are justified in asking for your way, and aggressive if they feel you are unjustified. We perceive our allies as assertive and our opponents as aggressive.

The GP is correct that "assertiveness" training gives someone tools which are equally useful in defending against a bully as they are in bullying. It's really just rudimentary influence training in the vein of Carnegie or Cialdini, and people can be influenced for ill just as they can be influenced for good.
This sounds like it would create a some new challenges for search engines, but the article itself offers a number of ways to address those.

Given that, and the massive amount of money in search, I think the headline falls somewhere between clickbait and a flat-out lie.
Agreed. Not feeling obligated to care is a valuable way to moderate overreaching requests. This is different than apathy, as it is not a nihilistic impulse. Instead it is a refusal agree to the implicit premise of level of 'importance'.

Some people will be offended at this as not taking their request as seriously as they are but it can be expressed in such a way as to say "No, I'd like to be helpful but I have other priorities which require my attention". Or "No, I'd like to be helpful but this is outside the scope of my responsibilities".
It's good that I'm not picking that fight then. I wrote "there's quite a good chance you've seen one of his videos". If you haven't, that's not unexpected and it doesn't change that he's a widely recognisable person in current zeitgeist.
Valve has experience already with making m+kb games playable via a trackpad on the Steam Controller, so I'm confident that the trackpads on the Deck will be good enough for a decent chunk of games (though I'm not about to try Dota 2 on the thing).

Not every game will be a perfect fit, certainly, but I've had a great time with my Steam Controller playing things like XCOM, Prey (2017), and Divinity Original Sin. IIRC Civilization 5 was explicitly a part of the advertising for the controller in the first place, as a way to play mouse-heavy games from the couch.
As far as I see it, tracking is there to make sure you get relevant adds.

I remember the internet in the HoTMaiL era, all of the adds where mainly about casinos, porn and such, and very rarely interested to me.

I personally think that if tracking is done with good intentions, it shouldn't be an issue. At least from my point of view.

I rather see totally relevant ads than have again "casino/poker/porn" ads.
Not everyone lives in California or the US.

Other than that.. yes I agree, but the fact that so many companies set up contracts that can effectively steal the personal work of their employee if they decide to, is kind of a problem.
Short answer is that so few people are willing to pay for that, it's generally not worth the time. (Unless there are other premium features you can add as well, without completely hamstringing your free version.)
I am the sole founder of a startup that is now 10 years old and prior to this I've worked at 3 other startups either as a founder or CTO, so I think I know something about it.

At no point would I ever allow the existence of my company to rely on a single individual. That is simply irresponsible.
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If you're goal is literally just a successful company, then sure that makes sense.
But if you actually have a passion for what you do (and I'm not arguing that Zuckerberg doesn't have a passion for spying on people), and the company is already a huge success, why wouldn't you spend your time doing something that you think is really really cool and hire very skilled people to do the other stuff?
Which was pretty funny framing in any case, since Musk's wife Grimes is about 14 years old mentally (just watch any of her recent viral TikTok clips floating around).
True. But there are still recommendations to email with a coverletter.pdf AND a resume.pdf. Maybe developers in Toronto don't follow those rules ...
cronyism institutionalized?
Once you build V8 into postgres, things get real interesting (thin javascript projections, and a bunch of other stuff)..

https://github.com/plv8/plv8
And yet, Debian based desktop systems are the ones that have always broken after updates for me. It was only when I started using an Arch based system that I was able to go past 6 months without any issues. I’ve been running Manjaro now on three different systems for almost 3 years. No other Linux desktop has ever lasted this long for me and I’m not even a newbie. I’ve been using Linux since Red Hat 4. I’ve actually had less problems with it than I have had with any other desktop of us including Windows and Mac.
> IMHO, I think a flag-waving socially-conservative socialism could be surprisingly successful in America, if someone could get it off the ground.

I think that's basically Trump's base to be honest. Politicians just haven't figured out how to wrangle them into something useful.
I wish RedShift got these functions. :(
Once Proofpoint provided mail hops, that was all that DoJ needed.
Investments are just as good if they are made by the rich or by the poor (say your pension fund).

Savings add an incredible value to our society, no matter who makes them. Remember, one of the pillars that created Silicon Valley and made it hard to copy was availability of funding.
"Can there be an infinitely large integer"

No there can't there's always a larger integer. Anyone who claims otherwise is just making stuff up. It's just mind blowing to me that anyone think otherwise, it's like asking what the final digit of pi is, you'd get laughed out of any college class for insisting there might be one, rightly so.
Yeah I can imagine this being super nice to have even just lying around at home to connect to as a remote development environment or better: Plug it into the TV like a switch and have a powerful PC that fits behind the TV. At least for me it's super convenient since I wanted to play old games on emulator anyways (but not on a underspecces raspberry)
There’s no mention in the article about AIs confusing people with animals. Where did you get that information? I’d be careful with your assumptions
The authors tweets describe the kind of manical pinnacle of short perfection that can only be achieved after 5 x 13 hour days of solid coding to produce an epiphany that it can all be replaced with 1 line or in the case of K, 10 characters:
https://twitter.com/kcodetweets
I love it.
And the quality, apparently. The source article is worth reading, but none of the tweets are.
I assume you mean parents and siblings, as opposed to spouse and children?
It's far below the average Steam hardware survey system.
Performing the same though-exercise, I find myself with a different conclusion; I despise physical advertising. I hate driving down the high-way and seeing a massive billboard for who-even-cares interrupting the fields and forests. I don't want to have products pushed at me while walking around downtown. São Paulo removed all billboards/branding/advertising with their Clean City Law [0] in 2007 and the difference before and after is massive. It immediately looked so much more clean and beautiful (at least for the parts of the city they photographed, probably some selection bias here). Assuming that billboards and advertising are somehow putting money into the government's pockets, I would gladly raise my taxes to eradicate public advertising permanently.
Bringing the analogy back to digital advertising, I'd be happy to pay some sort of monthly fee to "The Internet" to receive access to it and never see an ad or be tracked again, perhaps similar to what Coil [1] is attempting, but somehow at full-internet scale.
Naturally, how this could be implemented is far beyond me, as are the economics behind advertising, so I suppose I'm doing little more than wistful thinking.

If I had to compromise, I would agree that more agency and less intrusive ads and tracking are a start.

[0]: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...

[1]: https://coil.com/
I share your feelings about Arch, but I'm still running Fedora mostly out of laziness.

Still, I think Arch is an interesting choice for a console. I'd think you'd want stability (in the sense of very controlled changes / not requiring updates every day).
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I'm no expert here but surely aimhacking originally implied wallhacking? The alternative requires doing actual image analysis in realtime, which AFAIK has only become feasible in the last decade and is way more processor-intensive than just reading coordinates in memory and doing some trig to adjust your aim height. Maybe this is selection bias talking, but I see plenty of videos of cheaters who are obviously just snapping to heads through walls.
It is a bit confusing, but it isn't wrong, there are just two capacities in question.

We could call them power capacity and energy capacity. This system can deliver 2000MW for four hours, or 1000MW for eight hours, but can't deliver 4000MW for two hours, because that exceeds the power capacity.
Using a migration utility like ActiveRecord, Flyway, or go-pg, SQL definitions can also live in version control, have automatic tests, and deploy automatically. Who has a database in production without these things?
As a Californian who has been watching the CalISO web page since the 90s, what I find most interesting is that the peak usage and total generation now is pretty much the same as it was in the 90s (~50MW).

Based on the energy mix, it looks like lost coal capacity has been replaced with solar and other green energy, and demand has gone down relative to population because of efficiency initiatives and rooftop solar for the largest home consumers (rich people).

I'll bet demand falls even faster as home energy storage gets cheaper and more prevalent.
Take a trip and visit it. Rural is rural and it’ll be similar, I imagine. But Raleigh-Durham has a much younger and more liberal feel to it. I have never seen hipsters like NC hipsters :)

Whether this will be comfortable for you or not I can’t say. But I can tell you that it’s worth checking out.
Historically, large quantity of engines has been considered problematic - it brings to mind the USSR N1 rocket and the difficulties with its 30 engines, which have been attributed as a (the?) reason for failure of the USSR Moon program.
The pilots aren't inventing anything on each flight. If they fly the airplane exactly the same way every time, that's a good thing. Writing new programs is not like that.
Wow. What a dream of a woman. Thx for posting.
Exactly. Then I don't have to give up my friend's contact info without permission.
I don't know about anyone else, but I hated the Steam controller. So I can understand why they didn't continue with that design.
>That is simply irresponsible.

Then we agree, because we both know that people often do things that seem irresponsible in hindsight. It is especially common in business situations that require a lot of diverse expertise, in which case having any redundancy at all could mean doubling the size of your workforce. It is easier when you're talking about pure software, but even then a nontechnical founder could allow two programmers to segregate their responsibilities without realizing it was happening.

The thing about advice is it's easy to say, "don't get in to that situation," but every day managers wake up in that situation. If your startup grows enough, some of your own managers might find themselves waking up in that situation.
In a combat situation, having a thing down now may be worse than an increased likelihood to fail later. You can always order a replacement, but what are you going to do in the mean time?
Manjaro Linux provides a nice, easy installer for Arch. With different editions based on your preferred DE.

https://manjaro.org/download/
It might be helpful to think of assertiveness as a communication style rather than a problem-solving method. I like this definition:

>Assertiveness is a communication style where you can express your thoughts and feelings in an open manner that doesn't violate the rights of others.

You can't control how the other person responds or how the situation will play out, but you have the right to be assertive. People who aren't good with assertiveness tend to have lower self-esteem[^1], so if there is a problem assertiveness solves, it is more related to our relationship to ourselves than with any external problem.

[^1]: https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/~/media/CCI/Consumer-Module...
You’re confusing ads with tracking.

Do we have any proof that regular, old non-tracking ads could not sustain a top website? I’ve heard stories that websites can actually earn more by excluding all the ad tech middlemen from the equation.
But if you assign them randomly, then it should work

1->5.85916

2->8.7599

...

Or even randomize the order for the integers

5->7.52256951

77->848.455

...
> "There are plenty of examples of parody sites being cited as if they practiced journalism."

I frequently see folks post "articles" from "The Onion" to prove their point about some crackpot conspiracy idea they've got stuck in their heads from something they read on Facebook (probably another "The Onion" post re-shared as "fact").
Sounds good! Fixed tiles make sense. Turning the cam on at certain sound levels should be possible. I am working on a video conferencing ui for the Galene sfu(https://github.com/garage44/pyrite). Does anyone know of a good Javascript/canvas sound visualizer? Pyrite already got one, but I prefer circular visualization that can take more space in audio-only streams.
PCIE lanes are still a function of both the CPU and the motherboard chipset. It's cheaper to build a board with fewer PCIE lanes, and cheaper to have fewer components that need said PCIE lanes.
IIRC it felt like a late 70s/early 80s elevator. No manual controls, but the first style of automated elevators. The buildings were completed in the late 60s. I assume that these were probably installed at the beginning.
> This is the biggest risk in the program, along with how many times they can reuse each piece, which is related. Last I looked Musk was projecting using the boosters hundreds of times and the 2nd stage dozens, both obviously very aggressive projections.

The first re-flight of a booster was in 2017. The practical science of rocket reuse is only four years old. During that time they've flown ~40 missions with reused cores with zero failures. One Falcon 9 has been reused 10 times. My point is that there is no reason to assume that we've reached the limits of reuse in such a short period of time, so it doesn't seem that aggressive to assume that there is room to improve by ~10x
>to go along with their lean/agile development process.

This is an accurate take, but in reality I think they convinced the government to outsource a lean/agile development process.

20+ years ago, NASA went through their "better, faster, cheaper" phase to try their own hand at a more agile environment. Unfortunately, it reduced quality and whenever something bad happened more requirements were levied. Now some are beneficial but there's also some that were bureaucratic and process bloat just because of political risk and the fact nobody wanted to be on record saying the risk was acceptable.

I think one unspoken risk is whether the government, as the largest SpaceX customer, will try to enforce the same quality and safety standards as the company matures, particularly with human-rated spaceflight. Or if they are comfortable with a hands-off approach.
Yes, my experience in cofounding a Kiva field partner NGO in 2006 was an inspiration for Zidisha. The intent was to reduce the high charges to the entrepreneur inherent in the Kiva model by eliminating field partner organizations and connecting lenders and borrowers directly. This had not been feasible at the time Kiva was founded, due to low internet penetration in developing countries then. (See https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-story-of-zidisha-dram_b_9... for more background.)
Thanks for that feedback. Yeah, that's one of the major aspects we are focusing on (we are not 100% there). Especially since we work with early-age startups and founders directly in most cases we theoretically can do that. It might take sometime to build that trust though
“I am X” vs “I am feeling X” are very different statements.

The first leans more toward describing to attribute as permanent, while the second is more explicit that it is a temporary state.
Is MAID implemented in hardware or software? Is there an easy way to give an app a distinct MAID every time it restarts? It seems like maybe you'd have to root your phone to do that?
Is it actually a PC? Could I just put windows on it?
Also as per installing any other linux stuff, Can u plug a keyboard into it so u can type in terminal? Otherwise how would u install stuff?
Indeed, it's supposed to be social security for all, not just those aged 67+.
I felt almost the exact opposite, in that I think the concept was great but the execution fell a little bit short, mostly in build quality/button-feel.

The biggest single win for me is replacing the right stick for camera control, as the trackball emulation with haptics on the touchpad is so much faster and more responsive than a traditional thumbstick. There are some games that I'd still prefer the standard twin sticks or dpad (twin-stick shooters maybe, some platformers, or hyper-specific designed games like Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons), but overall I've much preferred the touchpad over thumbsticks for almost every first- or third-person game I've played.
I am doing this at work, I have an application with all the business logic in the database. It is a huge hassle though... I am versioning a bunch of scripts with git but it really isn't convenient.

The thing is that a database already stores data but all the schematics and ddl stuff would be much more conveniently kept in descriptive plaintext.
> Production of something not in demand is a nonsensical way to try to grow an economy.

And yet, oddly, both the Soviets tried it [0], and the Chinese are trying it [1].

[0] - https://www.jstor.org/stable/3131928

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under-occupied_developments_in...
In practice it's much easier to use assignment or copy construction, thus avoiding the dangerous memcpy. Same goes for those memsets and bzero's beloved of C-programmers: just make the class do it for you; it always works, cannot be forgotten, cannot be done wrong, and is just much easier to begin with.

Or, if you have a C-struct you need to interface with, just declare it as 'foo myfoo = {0};'. That also zero's out the whole thing, and the compiler won't get the size wrong.
I completely agree, I'd easily pay $200 for help with this
Hi Bunnie!

Curious if you also have a power usage comparison, which I'm guessing is also relevant in the mobile context.
Probably going to have hardware root of trust, which I expect will heavily split the community.
> Historically, this is AWFUL for gaming on Linux, since NVidia is a terrible company which takes forever to get their drivers working on/with new features

Historically, sure, but with the leaps and bounds Intel and AMD graphics drivers have made (in no small part thanks to Valve!), we can leave Nvidia in the dust. With said FOSS drivers, "I want to be up to date" is a perfectly reasonable desire and does indeed get the best results as far as gaming goes.

That said, I agree that Arch wouldn't be my first choice for something I'd expect non-technical users to maintain. If Valve really wants a rolling release and close-to-cutting-edge kernel/driver versions, distros like openSUSE Tumbleweed could readily do that (with, at worst, an extra repo for bleeding-edge kernels, though I've yet to find that necessary on my openSUSE-running gaming laptop) without anything even vaguely resembling Arch's maintainability nightmare.