skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Targeting can still occur by proximity to content, which is how things used to happen. We shouldn’t have random ad performance but neither should we be optimizing for it at the price of privacy.

A lot of people here use the web with barely any targeted ads due to good ad block. I don’t believe they are missing out as opposed to living better.
$5000 for a license is about right.

$150k for an ultralight plane is the top end, new. The one Zara is using for her (sponsored) world tour is in that category, but you can get a perfectly good UL plane for a quarter of that price. Fuel is standard car unleaded gas at a rate of ~10L/h, and because UL planes are not certified, maintenance is way cheaper, less palm grease too. Other costs you didn't talk about include insurance, parking, and aerodrome fees, let's say ~$2000/year if you don't timeshare.

So, let's say ok for $50000, but that's not a minimum, that's the comfort zone. The main point of UL is to be affordable. I put it on the same level as driving a nice car, like a BMW or a Tesla. I don't live in the US, I don't know the ultralight regulations there, but I wouldn't be surprised if half of the population could afford flying, assuming they can keep a budget.

As for the lost income, you can fly on week-ends. Many middle-class people have hobbies that take them a significant amount of time, flying is one of them. Of course, just learning how to fly is not getting you a "youngest woman solo" world record, but that's not lost income. As I said, Zara is building something here, it is work, she may even make money, and if she doesn't, we can certainly consider it an investment for her future.

Now, about genetics, it is true that genetics is something intrinsic to all living things and wealth is a construct. But the general idea is that some people are more lucky than others, and we shouldn't dismiss people achievements because it involves some luck, it always does. We could have objections if it only involved luck (ex: winning the lottery), or if it is presented as not involving luck at all (ex: too many "success stories"). But what Zara is doing definitely requires her to do her part and she explicitly acknowledges her luck "I was born into a family of aviators and was lucky to have great role models in my parents and grandparents". So, all good.
A lot of comments are already addressing this horrible trend of moving from standalone native software to “SaaS” but this one is also terrible:

> now trying to trick people to use One Drive more

A lot of software are now deliberately blurring the line between local storage and cloud storage, not just Office. When I choose to save a file, I expect to save it locally to my hard disk, in a file that I can find and manipulate, and keep secure. More and more, software is nudging users to save their files in “the cloud.” Non-techie users don’t understand the implication of this: they are uploading their private data to the Internet!

Whenever I read an article about a creeper hacking so-and-so’s cloud storage to download their nude images, I wonder if the victim had any idea they were inadvertently posting their private files to the Internet.

iCloud is one of the worst offenders because it is so seamless and invisible. Apple urges iCloud usage constantly, and once you turn it on, the mechanism to de-iCloud yourself is buried in settings.

Software more and more are hiding the fact that they are either saving your files on the Internet or mirroring copies on the Internet, and this is a terrible trend for user privacy and keeping control of their data.
I just signed up with an SME - at the interview - work from home as much as you want - now after a week, we're thinking one day a week wfh, and so on, I'm evaluating my options, its very annoying.
Native buttons and sliders have click-through enabled by default. Users can also ⌘-click to press buttons in background windows without changing the focus.
As far as I know, there's no Spotify or any other music streaming apps on KaiOS. There are apps for online radio though.
Of course nobody is immune to ads. We were talking about the ad being a net positive to ones life.

Yeah I might also buy a redbull but I don't think they need to or should track me online to increase that likelyhood. And I don't think that would be a netpositive to my life. They can do just fine by traditional advertisements(and they do afaik!).
Sorry, those are not example of targeted ads.

A targeted ad is one that knows more about you than your age range, gender and what you are currently looking at (sports event, cooking site etc.).

A targeted ad knows that you usually buy tickets to a certain sports team, or you prefer baking cookies rather than cakes, and that you prefer the "Mestle" brand of flour etc.
How exactly would competition not inherently help the consumers?
> I mean even Google HR admits the manager acted inappropriately more than once.

Even without any fault and perfect behavior, a manager should expect that HR would make a statement like this. Not lightly, but often they feel they would have to and taking responsibility without a fault is still the job of management.

No idea if that is the case here or not. In my experience racism is extremely rare among engineers, even if you acknowledge that some of them certainly seem to have a personality.
>For humans it's a correlation with positive tests for now.

Is that from another study? This study notes that "In matched groups of human patients from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative, CBD ... had a significant negative association with positive SARS-CoV-2 tests" (from the abstract)
HistoEnder: A 3D printer-based histological slide autostainer
You can’t just throw out the word “human nature” and expect anyone to accept it. “Human nature” just means “this thing we all know about how the world and people work, come on… now don’t be difficult”. It means nothing.
Italy and Germany were both unified much more recently than Spain, and by popular nationalist movements. The selection of their national dialects was basically artificial, since Tuscan Italian and Hochdeutsch were not widely spoken in either country.

The status of languages like Castillan is much more controversial, because they are only the national dialect by conquest. (French is in a similar position, though it cleverly shares the name with the country it is the national language of.) It doesn't help that the French and Spanish governments have historically suppressed "dialects" in favour of the national language in an immoral and shameful way.

>The case of English is different as the language was mainly used una part of the country

English is the most used language throughout the UK. There are almost no non-English-speaking communities left in Wales or Scotland, and language (much like everything else to do with the English) is a contentious political issue in Northern Ireland.

However, it would be grossly inappropriate to start calling this language "British", even when just referring to how it is spoken in the UK - because of many of the same historical features as Castillan and French.
Thanks for that link. It is an overlong but has some interesting comments about Lisp culture, Hyrum's law, and backwards compatibility. "Don't break stuff" is valuable.
Yeah, I remember that. I think I still have a framed, very old cover of Wprost with Roman Kluska (the owner of Optimus) after we won a pyrrhic victory against the state for that, years after the fact. Of course, none of the bureaucrats responsible for burning Optimus to the ground got even as much as a citation. In fact, I vaguely recall reading about them getting bonuses for slapping a big fine on Optimus.

The framed cover used to be a reminder that, in general, the state and the Polish equivalent of the IRS is not, and never will be, your friend. Sure, I've had some friendly and helpful chats with multiple people working for our IRS but I've never forgotten Optimus.
Definitely. OTOH, the Japanese braille question was more of a pattern recognition puzzle.
That is an expert's view which is not valued today which makes it untrue. I personally agree, I totally do, I mean my setup has triple display and plenty RAM, but sorry!
I used to do this and in fact getting really high was the way I could marathon code. Sativa dabs would keep me up as long as I wanted and I could just keep going and going until about seven years into this habit, I sort of hit this wall where getting high no longer motivated me to keep going, instead I just wanted to play video games. Then I was prescribed medication for ADHD and it basically removed the desire to get high and helps me better than getting high used to because it doesn't impair my memory and gives me the ability to choose what I am motivated to do.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/video/2022/jan/21/meat-loa...
5 ? Same story as for AMD X3 ? (disabling defective cores or market segmentation)
I think it is fair to complain about user-hostile and scammy companies.

However, I strongly believe selling software with a one-time fee was the problem in the first place. An ongoing service requires ongoing efforts to keep it stable, secure and modern. Just like you pay for housing on a monthly, recurring basis. It's the same with software.

btw: the oldest subscription models are insurances. No one is complaining about them.
> Being legal adds a whole lot of marketing push and general acceptance in the population, especially young ones.

Maybe where you live...
Ask HN: Are architecture design decisions covered by project license?
Sometimes doing a thing one way is just common sense, but most of the time there is some innovation involved, e.g. GrapheneOS malloc. The code is covered by license, but are design decisions? Especially given the fact, that they were openly discussed before the code was written?
It's an excellent talk, but IIRC the point was that hypothetical Metal language was still a subset of JavaScript. From the technology point of view WebAssembly has basically nothing to do with JavaScript, except that both are part of the web platform and commonly implemented by JavaScript engines. It's just a low-level VM which happens to be included in web browsers.
Because the whole point of the article is that a task force dedicated to finding policies that disproportionately affected one gender was the one that discovered the problem. It otherwise may have never been found.

The point being that such task forces are beneficial and policy changes addressing such imbalances often end up benefiting everyone.
They key is to combine more than one anonymized dataset, this vastly increases your chances at de-anonymization.

This paper is a very good starting point:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1450006
I'm not familiar with his music, but I loved his character in Fight Club.

His name is Robert Paulson.
This sounds like the generic comparison websites that compare just about anything. Kubernetes is for _managing_ containers.

Btw. Betteridge's law of headlines holds.
Unbelievable energy. I saw a gig in 1988, when I was working as a sound
and lighting engineer at a big UK venue. I don't like Meatloaf's music
much. But of the many shows I worked, that one sticks in my mind. It
was billed as 1 hour 20 mins. At the "end" he said a big goodnight!
Then the crowd chanted for the encore. He did another two songs and
exited stage. Then the crowd chanted some more. He came back. Two
encores. Three. Four! It was past two hours. The venue staff and
stage crew were getting nervous and tired. The manager said stay with
it, I'm authorised to pay you double overtime. Meatloaf came back on,
and that's when the show really started. Like he'd been holding back
on half energy so far. Maybe it went to three hours. No wonder the
poor guys back gave up, sounds like he died from giving it everything.
I've never seen such a generous performer.
Ask HN: What are some great essay writers other than Paul Graham?
Today I was looking through Paul Grahams essays again. I find this format of writing very appealing. One topic per short text.

Then I realized that PG is the only one who's essays I read.

There must be so many more!

Can HN suggest some?

I wrote "essay writers" rather than "bloggers" because somehow I fear that bloggers have a different approach to writing. Something like "Hey fans, I have not written something for 3 days now. Sorry for that! Let me tell you about the great lasagna I cooked today ...".

What I am looking for is pieces of text someone has worked hard on because they had the feeling they have something meaningful to say.
and the second too
atomic.AddInt32 feels a lot like locking to me. You end up with a write barrier and all the associated consequences, so you can kill throughput (in a way that is more difficult to notice in the profiler, though you'll probably notice it when it's a problem if you ask pprof for a line-by-line profile).

sync.Mutex.Lock is implemented like this:

func (m *Mutex) Lock() {
// Fast path: grab unlocked mutex.
if atomic.CompareAndSwapInt32(&m.state, 0, mutexLocked) {
if race.Enabled {
race.Acquire(unsafe.Pointer(m))
}
return
}
// Slow path (outlined so that the fast path can be inlined)
m.lockSlow()
}

lockSlow is, of course, a bit more complicated.
Very good point. Thank you for the commentary!
Truly appreciate the community here in HN.
I wholeheartedly agree with you!

Unfortunately, most don't see it that way.
All those partisan attitudes make me sad.
The Zig-Zag Coast Guard Search Pattern (2022) [video]
I don't think this is fundamentally about subscriptions. They're a different business model, but there are positives too: for example they align what users pay far more closely with the value they get from a product.

If you use a tool for one month, you pay a small amount, if you use it every month for years you pay more. In the old world, if you wanted to use purchase-once software just once, then you had to pay far more upfront.

It aligns incentives too: developers are strongly incentivized to keep existing users happy, rather than ignoring them and constantly chasing the next new sale.

I do think there's a financial/UX problem with subscriptions though, and a lot of shady players trying to abuse that. Really, imo banks need to provide subscription management services as a standard feature. They already know what continual billing is currently linked to your card - they should let you block renewing charges by vendor from your account directly. That'd give you complete control and visibility into all your subscriptions in one place, whether the vendor likes it or not.
In death a member of project mayhem has a name.
> Since when could you buy COTS and expect to get the code too?

Since the 1950s and 1960s. IBM, for example, provided source code for their products until 1983.[1] The full Apple II source code was included in the Apple II Reference Manual;[2] similarly for the Atari 400/800 Technical Reference Notes.[3]

1. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hSBrPSYgjI4C&redir_esc=y (page 59)

2. https://archive.org/details/applerefjan78/page/n78/mode/2up

3. https://archive.org/details/CO16555AtariHomeComputerTechnica...
Or...updates nobody asked for. Quite a few casual users might be perfectly happy with Office 2003, or Adobe PS6, as anything after that they don't need. And not just that, they may not want the UI to be revamped every 2 months. The option to just have stable, working software is increasingly taken away.

Not to mention the anti competitive nature of these two parties. They can just bundle an additional app in their subscription at not additional cost, and this way drive a competitor out of business.
That example at the end is just so cringeworthy. The editor deserves to be dragged through the mud for basically re-writing the entire work.
Only in Serbia, in Croatia it was "Croato-Serbian".
The part I miss the most from high school were these kinds of competitions.

Having to study random fun things and being rewarded for it was peak happiness for teenage me.
My browser threw a hissy fit, if you just want to download the PDF with the sample problems, this is the link:

https://hosteagle.club/booklets/samples.en.pdf?__cpo=aHR0cHM...
> The state part is something I quite got already from popular culture, but is there something similar also inside a state? I mean, counties can do the same “fuck you” with the state and towns can do the same with the county?

Generally no, because the state is the sovereign. Counties/towns/any other local communities aren't.
SAAS, concerned billing, is a desktop application with the optional support fee that became mandatory ( in many cases).

At least, that's how I perceive it.
> It's not like they could have assigned a spy to every citizen in the country.

The East German Stasi came pretty close.
There is ample research that cannabis functions as an anti-depressant. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=cannabis+as+antidepress...

There are many caveats that go into posting a Google Scholar link - the quality of the research is unknown, there is the reproducibility crisis to worry about, etc. etc; However, the presence of this ample research means that "Cannabis isn't actually an anti-depressant" is far from settled, and you shouldn't be stating that with such confidence.

Edit: Also, I happen to agree with you that cannabis withdrawal and rebound are real, and I agree with you that it is possible to get addicted to THC, and, sure the effects described above are consistent with cannabis withdrawal. None of that contradicts what I wrote.

However, those effects are also consistent with anti-depressant self-medication, and, as I mentioned, I've known people who went on prescribed anti-depressants, stopped having those effects and have had a marked improvement in their quality of life. (Some continued using cannabis, some stopped; it didn't seem to matter afterwards). I thought it was important to share that anecdata. I was very careful in my message to not say "you don't have cannabis withdrawal"; I was trying to communicate that I knew people that sounded like basq and it turned out they were diagnosed with clinical depression. Basq could have either outcome.

So, yea, sorry - hard disagree with your level of confidence.
I'm surprised that no one in this thread has used the word "hangover" yet, because that's exactly what these researchers have quantified. They certainly haven't "discovered" it, because anyone who is familiar with cannabis can attest that, just as with alcohol, if you get super high, you're going to feel it the next day.

To put it simply, if you get really wrecked on weed, the next day you're going to be stupid.

With that said, unlike with alcohol where hangovers are quite unpleasant, I suspect that a lot of cannabis users enjoy the next-day feeling. If you are like many people in technology whose minds are continually churning, problem-solving, absorbing and processing information, checking your phone, reading HN, obsessing over whatever idea and in general running on the mental hamster wheel that so many smart people struggle to take a break from, the feeling of being stupid and slow can be quite nice.
Additionally, couldn't MSR results simply be produced by mirror neurons firing? I.e., touching a marked part of the body does not mean "Animal in the mirror is me", it can simply mean "Marked part of that animal is 'itching' me"?

Are there MSR tests that used windows to other animals instead mirrors as a control?
I also run 3 small clusters of consul and I went ahead and read the raft paper[1] so I can debug consul election problems if it occurs.

Consul is awesome when it works, but when it breaks it can be hell to get it working again.
thankfully it usually works fine. I only had 1 outage and it fixed itself after restarting the service.

[1] https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf
If that's your IntelliJ usage model, why don't you just go for the perpetual licence and then update after 5 years (or whenever)?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BreadEggsMilkSqu...
> One significant advantage of SaaS over traditional download-and-run-and-pay-for-updates apps is the fact that everyone is always on the same version.

This is undeniably an advantage to the developer, but much less so for users. When a developer releases a terrible update that removes features or does an unnecessary re-design, in the world of non-SaaS, I could simply choose to stay on the older version. Now that choice is gone and the company is in charge of what version I am using. This is a huge step backwards.

I expect when I obtain software, it will continue to work forever, behave the same way forever, until/unless I choose to update it. That fundamental promise is going away quickly.
You can get Photoshop for half the price with the Photography bundle. Just includes less cloud space, which you probably don't use.
Not sure I follow. What's the relation between monitor size and UI?
ISO C became unusable for operating systems development
It's basically a digital gold standard and the gold standard hasn't lead to an enlightened society either.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

For me there are really only two alternatives. Negative interest on cash or competition among currencies (free banking). All those people shouting that Bitcoin should become the global reserve currency don't actually understand that a global reserve currency is a terrible idea and are only in it for the money.
You started with this

>It has all fallen apart in the last 2-3 years.

as if the scientific community has demonstrated it - it has not, and your articles do not support that claim. Your articles from 2-3 years ago are about one report, and even your articles call into question that report. So no, it has most definitely not "all fallen apart."

Interestingly, days after your NYT article, they published this one
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/well/eat/scientist-who-di...

Go figure, right? He also has papers claiming the opposite of well established sugar research, which, you guessed it, was paid for by a industry trade group that tries to undermine health guidelines to make people believe doctors less and eat bad stuff....

When there are decades of papers and different groups with a similar claim, and one group publishes one counter claim, it makes news. It does not mean the counterclaim will stand further scrutiny. In this case, as looking over google scholar at research following the 2019 claim, it has not withstood more scrutiny.

Here is the paper you posted [1]. Here [2] is but one followup paper claiming your paper is basically crap. I can find none supporting the conclusions in [1].

All papers since then I can find still claim meat increases the risk of intestinal and other cancers.

Please don't believe or spread outlier results from news stories.

[1] https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M19-1621

[2] https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/43/2/265/36125/Red...
But the insurances accumulate the money in the event it has to pay for an event that triggers it.

If nothing bad happens or if whatever happens is not covered, the insurance company gets to keep the money. It's a risk management business. It's quite different from a SaaS, imho.
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