skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The second Netflix introduces ads I would drop my subscription and never go back.

If Netflix at the same time increased the cost of a "non adverstiment" product that is just adding insult to injury.

I have structured my media consumption such that I rarely see any ads,
and never any tv-ads.

If find them painful to watch in a real sense of the words.

That means I have dropped a lot of services/products/venues/channels
but I have never missed them and certainly not to a degree that
would entice me to return.

When I visit someone who has the telly on and it runs in the background
I have to grind my teeth and try to find some solution to turning it off.

A dentist I no longer see did an "upgrade" of the office and got TVs mounted in the ceiling and headphones. As the doctor was drilling away having fun, I was supposed to relax, watch tv and have fun.

The drilling was less painful and annoying than having to watch ads every 5 minutes. Closing my eyes was a good option but still the headphones.

My new dentist has logic and math puzzles that he or someone he knows has hand drawn artistically on a big sheet of cardboard that he then attatchs to the ceiling.

This is so much better in every way.

It is also a lot cheaper and better for nature.

I have asked him about tvs and thankfully he has no intention of buying any.
He changes them out once a month I think
I’ve nothing relevant to say about this other than I am happy to see one of Marcus’ posts on HN! He has some great content centred around public transport in and around Melbourne, Australia.
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Available for part-time or full-time contract work, preferably on a long-term basis, but I'm also available for smaller projects.

I am very flexible with my working hours (mostly working with clients from USA and EU).

I am a full-stack developer with more than 8 years of professional experience mostly in the C# .NET stack as a freelance developer. I don't shy away from the DevOps and DBA parts of the project either. I also like to create beautiful UI's that users love.

I prefer a long-term contract, but I'm also available for smaller projects.

I also work through Toptal. My CV is available on my toptal profile and my website.

My rate is $50/hour.
I’ve had the experience of accidental power users — when you sit down with a user and they show you functionality which you as the developer didn’t realize existed.

In this case we were using a couple of third party GUI components, and importantly we were using them precisely as we should, and they interacted with other user customization code we had written in an unexpected but totally appropriate way.
> Modern AAA FPS games seem to be the complete opposite. Reinvent significant amounts every release. Much seems to be from scratch.

I think this should be qualified. The audience and creative workers demand new assets for new titles, but gameplay concepts and codebase seem to move at a slower pace, though live services seem to be distinct systems and not expected to live long, of course.

On one extreme, you have EA's sports titles, where new releases have just incremental updates.
OP here.

Thanks for sharing some ideas!

Over time I also reduced my time investment in all this. As years pass, we realize more and more clearly that our time is limited :)

Regarding note taking and your issue with having a single source of truth, you might be interested in the ideas I've shared on Reddit a few days ago [1]

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/PersonalKnowledgeMgmt/comments/tugn...
Aren't computers tool themselves? It's only natural people interested in computers are interested in tool making
I switched to a 32:9 ultra wide instead of 2 monitors and it really works nicely for having multiple computers. Like you, I also use the monitor itself to switch inputs. I use software (barrier) instead of a KVM though.

Depending on my needs I can run one of my computers using the full width, or run 2 at half width each.
we're trying to draw really well defined lines between very fuzzy concepts

interested to see when the pendulum swings back on this
Why? That just wastes everyone time. It clearly doesn't help solve the problem.
I'd guess that this might be related to USB A (2.0) being only rated for 2.5 W (up to 7.5 W for the "Battery Charging" specification), while USB C needs to support at least 15 W (up to 240 W) ?
Not if he literally owns it.. A public company can't have a right to association divorced from it's owners. (and arguably at all)
Qworum is the Service Web that enables distributed Web applications
"1987"? The first ARPANET link was active in 01969, and the ARPANET switched from NCP to TCP/IP on January 1, 01983, though the TCP/IP RFCs start in 01976 or 01977. Do you mean it was still deployed as a research network in 01987, as it was in, for example, 01992?

Perhaps you meant that 01987 was the last year it was US-only? But vidarh pointed out above that the ARPANET was connected to NORSAR, a research center in Norway, in June 01973, and Norway is in Europe, so in fact our current internet has had some international connections for almost 49 years now.
"terraqin" is one letter from "terrain".
"terraqin" has very few citations on the web.
"terraqin" is an easy mispelling of "terrain" on a QWERTY keyboard, you can 'fat finger' "q" and "a" together.

Google is totally correct to assume you meant "terrain" for now. That's the smoother user experience for the majority of users.

When 'TeRraQin' (horrible capitalisation by the way) has more web-based citations Google will automatically start serving better results.

In fact this HN post is already showing in the SERPs.
In the Navy, MOSes are called Rates, so “choose your rate, choose your fate” was a common refrain.
Thanks for a very transparent way of addressing the issue.
Excellent points.

Ephemeral dust or electrons. I love that
Yeah it’s PS1 Gran Turismo feels for sure.
My Last Post on LinuxGizmos
Germany has seized control of Gazprom Germania
What is a norification filter? An Android app? Do you need root?
I'm not sure you understand the difference between "Big Tech company using censorship to prevent their underpaid and overworked employees taking collective action" and "Big Tech company using censorship to avoid legal liability after yet another dumb fuck who hung out on their platform with like minded dumb fucks decides to shoot up a mosque/school/night club/music festival, and live streams it on Big Tech's platform".

Suffice to say, there's a significant difference, and trying to conflate the two implies either innocent ignorance or deliberate dishonesty.

I'm going to assume it's the former, because I've always taken Napoleon's alleged aphorism to heart - the one about "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by ignorance".
doesn't actually work the way it claims to work, see http://projectftm.com/#-b3CluYULJcy0JiPUjjUCg for the 19000KB screenshot firefox took, with missing text after the first 30% or so.

With the European GDPR(?) stuff and general cookie alerts and floating ad boxes, i find that a good 20-30% of all web pages cannot be correctly "captured" as an image. Realistically, since i can literally scroll the actual webpage and see everything, there is no reason that a screenshot wouldn't capture the exact same thing, but it's 2022 and here we are.

Sorry, my pastebin (projectftm.com) is one of the few that allows both arbitrary resolution screenshots as well as pinch/ctrl-scrollwheel zoom to arbitrary sizes. My screenshot bot uploads to a regular nginx webserver, however the screenshot id it generates is a 404. I haven't figured out how to adjust the timeout interval, as i think that's on the bot's home host side, and not the firefox side. the API has a timeout for receiving data from a remote host and if firefox takes longer than that to produce a screenshot it just gives up, even though the script has created a link.
It's a pretty big deal, and there's a big difference between a Markov chain and a deep language model - the Markov chain will quickly converge, while the language model can scale with the data.

But the way these models are talked about is misleading. They don't "answer questions", "translate", "explain jokes", or anything of that sort. They predict missing words. Since the network is so large, and the dataset has so many examples, it can scale up the method of
1) Find a part of the network which encodes training data that is most similar to the prompt
2) Put the words from the prompt in place of the corresponding words in the encoding of the training data

i.e. pattern matching. So if it has seen a similar question to the one given in the prompt (and given that it's trained on most of the internet, it will find thousands of uncannily similar questions), it will produce a convincing answer.

How is that different from a human answering questions? A human uses pattern matching as part of the process, sure. But they also use, well, all the other abilities that together make up intelligence. They connect that meaningless symbols of the sentence to the mental representations that model the world - the ones pertaining to whatever the question is about.

If I ask a librarian "What is the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics?", and they come back with a textbook and proceed to read the answer from page 345, my reaction is not "Wow, you must be a genius physicist!", it's "Wow, you sure know where to find the right book for any question!". In the same way, I'm impressed with GPT for being a nifty search engine, but then again, Google search does a pretty good job of that already.
There is another pretty good solution for this that will allow your front end to stick with JSON and keep your backend as gRPC only which is to stick envoy in front of the gRPC services and use a filter to translate between the two which is what you are already doing except you are doing gRPC-web to gRPC right now since gRPC in the browser isn’t currently possible but that should be changing hopefully before too long with technologies like WebTransport (https://web.dev/webtransport/).

I’m only familiar with Google’s cloud stack but they have basically managed versions of this already in the form of their Cloud Endpoints and API Gateway products that will handle all of this for you out of the box. I can’t speak to AWS or others but like I said at the end of the day it’s really just an Envoy filter doing the heavy lifting.

But in short you can 100% write gRPC only backends but still expose a JSON / REST API and nobody has to know anything to do with gRPC and you can just wait for the browser technologies to catch up in the meantime and make the transition when you’re ready.
Libsodium Sealed Boxes
“Areas” is for material that outlives specific projects and might be useful again later. The idea is that when you finish a project, you go through the project folder and move relevant materials into Areas or Resources for later reference.
OP here.

I'm French speaking as well. It's indeed surprising; I thought this would be understood by everyone ;-)
While the whole idea of gameified communication is ridiculous, I really don't get your point.

If someone feels so strongly about the issue that they want to send someone a kudos using the specifi words "union pay raises for slave labour", that's definitely something I'd want to encourage as much as possible of, because it is a strong indication I'm doing something wrong as a leader.

You have to admit people won't use those words for fun in a professional environment. Those messages would be one of the most important signals uncovered by such a program.

I just don't get why you'd want to bury it.

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Though reading my own comment, it's clearly selection bias: leaders who encourage workers' open discussion of slave-like conditions would never institute slave-like conditions, and vice versa, I suppose.
Anyone else get 1984 vibes, when the Amazon rep says this about a censorious app for their workers?

> Our teams are always thinking about new ways to help employees engage with each other

Yes. "Help".
I don't know what to tell you. They specifically showed PaLM novel jokes. You're effectively saying that the paper is either mistaken or fraudulent.

In my experience with language models, what they do cannot be reduced to madlibs. But that's obviously not an argument I can prove to you.

Can we agree that if the model can explain structurally novel jokes, then it must have some measure of true understanding?
Pretty interesting timing! I was on a plane ride to Barcelona around the same time you sent this, and I had also quit my job last week as well.

I’m planning on trying out the mini-retirement route. Not much more to add here, but I hope your travels go well!
Quarantines have existed for a long time. Countries locked down for longer.

The most important thing holding the world together was the people out there risking infection to deliver things to people staying at home. The biggest difference between the 90s and 2020s is that people are doing it by pressing a button on their phone instead of pressing a button on their computer or making a call on their phone, and loads more people are working in the package delivery industry for low wages.
Reader Mode cleaned it up for me.
Great talk! Thank you.
> The author seems oblivious to the fact that Netflix's main competition are not other streaming or entertainment companies, but filesharing and unauthorized streaming.

This isn't really true. Netflix's biggest worry is Disney+, I'd have thought -- the streaming company which simultaneously has exclusivity over very nearly a controlling share of US-centric cinema/TV content and is the last to market with the most growth potential.

Netflix's second biggest worry is Amazon Video, which is gobbling up studios and franchises all over the place but is at least at this point just a component part of the nearest thing to a universal service provider that the world has seen since the fall of Soviet communism.
It's also interesting to look at the other products from Devolver Digital, for instance Weird West [1]. It has 2D look in 3D world.

Since Return to Monkey Island will be point and click, I too suspect that camera angle won't change much. I think interacting with the scenes is basically 2D.

With 3D scenes the user would be forced to turn the camera, and I think that is too much for point and click.

[1]: https://www.devolverdigital.com/games/weird-west
Interesting take. I did not think about the burden I'd leave behind.

TBH this is easily solved by documenting what matters/is valuable and what isn't.
But yeah, good point. Truth be told, most of the stuff I've collected really only matters to me. Most bits and bytes can be destroyed as soon as I'll be gone :p
Lol literally our whole world revolves around things that don’t matter think about it our whole
World revolves around things that won’t benefit us in the next life , just a bunch of people wasting their energy and time doing something another human came up with, and of course knowing how long the devil been around he’s pretty good at his job and if you look at the scripture you would know how he tried to trick the humans before us and a lot of information that most people won’t know because their so busy beeping tricked by the devil for example Solomon temple back in his time they also had technology but not as advanced if you knew what technology really was somethings will start to make sense and if you run the thought of how pretty much everything things we do in our lives was designed in a complex system by the devil and his helpers but wait you don’t want know the real truth it’s madder then anything you watched or
Your small
Little human brain could possibly imagine and oh covid omg wtf why so desperately did they want at least 70% of the world vaccinated and how did everyone go along that blows my mind more then anything I just told you lol I’ll predict the future so easy everything revolves around ISREAL lol too much
Yes, it may be genuinely true that a .COM engenders more trust. Just like it may also be genuinely true that a BMW engenders more trust than a VW.

There's a lot of things you can do to try to game your way into trust: Your BMW could be leased. Your .COM might be a totally stupid name that no one wants. You may have a mailing address on Wall Street or in SOMA from a "virtual office" provider. You may have a telephone system that directs callers through 10 levels of operators before putting a call through to you and a hundred role e-mail addresses that all land in your inbox. You can buy an "aged entity" and highlight to people the fact that your company was incorporated 10 years ago, when you really haven't been in business for even just one year. You can put up an "our team" page on your website, and show a dozen faces of people who you're each paying for 5hrs/month on Upwork.

People eventually see through all the crap and will ultimately distrust you for having tried to fool them. The sum total of trust destroyed by trying to game people's perceptions of you will probably outweigh the trust you've successfully managed to game your way into. And in addition to destroying trust, it also destroys money.

Also: It's a zero sum game. If entrepreneurs collectively refused to play it, they would be better off as a group. For example, the trust advantage enjoyed by .COMs would evaporate over time if trustworthy people refuse to pay for that trust-advantage. (They would just use other TLDs that would then become just as trustworthy). The same is true for prestigious locations for business real estate, etc.
I believe there are two routes you can go with philosophy: you can simply explore ideas within the fields you're interested in, or you can use it to guide your actions. Different fields are more or less practically applicable; ethics is somewhat useful, where something like Descartian radical doubt is a purely theoretical exercise. I do enjoy playing around with some ideas, but my primary interest is getting use-value (you could say utility, even!) out of them. Mill used utility to guide his actions and was, for his era, a very progressive and humanist individual. My interests skew towards practical ideas in ethics, epistemology and ontology, philosophy of science, sociology & political theory etc. Just wanting to play with and consider ideas is valid, but it's not the only use of philosophy.
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That's not absurd - if you define "upper quartile" to be so broad, you get the conclusion you want - that they're "overrepresented".
We are abstracting the coworkers away.
Scientists give artificial neural networks a new look for neuromorphic computing
English Units? How many barleycorn wide does it print? And how many wapentake (that's 20 knights fees) did you pay?
Adelaide looks like it's actually operated by a private company too.
Amazon "support" is just giving you back some of the money you gave them, and maybe even taking it from someone else. Google does that too, trivially, because you aren't giving them money.

They don't do anything to stop spamming fraudulent counterfeit products.
> be an adult and understand what I want and communicate it ...

This is as much a test of whether you are surrounded by adults.

In many situations, asserting yourself can lead to disaster socially. In these cases avoidance is in fact the adult thing.
As long as the nerds know the truth ;)
No, I don't have time for conspiracist crap: there's way too much of it and mental health is finite resource. The event were contemporary to me and I still have a sound memory.

Do you really think KGB had 15 operatives? You seriously have no idea what you're talking about. Cheka has never lost the continuity, that's the major problem of Russia right now.
Stripe updates pricing on cross-border fees between UK and EU
I just got an email from Stripe:

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Hello,

We’re writing to let you know that we’re making some changes to cross-border fees in Europe and the UK starting 1st July 2022.

Based on your Stripe transaction history, this change won’t impact [Company], and all other pricing will remain the same. You can review the most up to date fees for international transactions on our pricing page.

You can contact us, and find more details about this pricing update, managing or closing your account, or any other next steps, on our dedicated support page.

- The Stripe team

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Of course they don't actually mention what the changes are, but looking at the pricing page [0], it seems like there is now an additional 1.1% (making it 2.5% in total) for EU companies taking UK payments and for UK companies taking EU payments.

I imagine this is related to Visa and Mastercard price increases post-Brexit? [1]

[0] https://stripe.com/gb/pricing

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/4820b619-4d35-4c6a-8523-fc685c047...
> Thai educational domain name

Aka a (hacked?) paying customer who it is more trustworthy than you, a mere innocent user.
In the short-term avoiding overwhelming feelings can sometimes be necessary to deal with something else that is more urgent, or to simply not go insane. In the long run you can't avoid them without some bad consequences.

And while our feelings may be vast and bottomless, they are usually finite in type. Almost any unpleasant feeling can be traced back to our fear for survival.
> we dont have any meaningful roadmap for cost reduction on storage

Then maybe we could:

- stop encouraging users to post shit just so we can track them

- stop tracking them which requires many data points and a lot of processing power (for 0 benefit for the user or society at large)

- stop the copyright non-sense and actually use hyperlinks instead of reuploading the same content 500 times across platforms? maybe even do content-addressed storage (Bittorrent/IPFS) who knows?
The Wiretappers Who Invented a High-Tech Crime
I’ve been very loosely using PARA for a while, and the two (small) factors that have had the biggest benefit for me are:

- Every “project”, no matter how small, gets its own folder. This means I’m no longer hunting for files (“Did I save that to my desktop? Is it in my email?”)

- Replicate and manually “sync” the folder structure between programs (in my case, OneNote for notes, OneDrive for files, and Microsoft Tasks for…tasks). This gives the freedom to use the best tool for the job, rather than trying to find one tool that does everything, but means you still have a consistent organization structure.

These both seem somewhat obvious in retrospect, but they’ve been very helpful for me.
fyi, your links on that page to hybrid generational memory seem incorrect (i.e. 7 in the sidebar, but I think there was another).

I'd not heard of vale, but after reading around a little looks very interesting. Nice job!

[0] https://verdagon.dev/blog/hybrid-generational-memory
But we, consumers, keep buying at Amazon.
Buying is complying.
And those customers have the right to send porn spam.