skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's "more of a feature, than a bug"

When you subscribe to something it doesn't "lock in the price" - prices go up and down month-to-month.

On the amazon side, there seems to be a bit of flex built in, when they'll still tell you the item is in stock, and tell you the price before the re-buy kicks in.

A lot of the items I "get told are unavailable, would I like to go with the alternative?" are still available, just for a higher price.

i.e. I think a lot of the "annoyance" is actually amazon bulk negotiating on your behalf. If say P&G decide to raise their price on their detergent, amazon has the power to decide whether 90% of their customers swallow the increase, or they all find an alternate brand.
My guess is that amazon decides not to provide P&G detergent to a few hundred thousand subscribers in a month, that helps 'focus' the P&G rep in getting the price back down the next month.
> So, they must be doing something right..

Resting on laurels, while trying to figure out how to destroy everything good about macOS by making it more like iOS.
It's not in law, but some supermarkets in New Zealand age restrict energy drinks to 16+.

On the one hand it strikes me as being kind of silly, because those same kids could buy a coffee/iced coffee with just as much sugar and often even more caffeine in it just fine.

On the other hand I do see how the differing marketing/pricing on each product means you can't treat them as equivalent. Probably a good case for voluntary age restrictions by retailers rather than actual laws.
I know that pure five-limit just wasn't ever a prevalent tuning system, but all the temperament systems are based on it, so it seems reasonable to present it as a kind of baseline, the "ground truth" from which the meantone and well temperaments are departing to a greater and lesser degree. As to the dates, I have read a bunch of histories of tuning, and the main conclusion they present is that there was no uniform (or even predominant) tuning standard until 12-TET, so simplification is necessary. I am definitely open to the idea that 1500 isn't close enough to the "real" widespread advent of temperament to use as an approximation and that I should instead be saying 1400 or whenever.
What bullshit, man. Where were you living last 15 years?

You want to go back to your country and not be killed on the spot, you organize a coup there, not whine on Twitter or to it. Whines don't do shit, it's that simple.
There is a presentation by Edward Tufte claiming that PowerPoint caused, in part, the shuttle disaster.

I can imagine him blaming a presentation style, but PowerPoint?

The Challenger exploded in 1986: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disas...

PowerPoint didn't exist until 1987: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint
Some great quotes in this article, for example:

"Like any other frontier group, the programming community also had its purveyors of snake oil."

Backus remembered that “Some early programming concepts and systems enjoyed a kind of fantasy fame that was a result of the energy with which they were publicized more than anything else…”
I left Denver a couple years back because of the pollution, my allergies are now pretty much gone. It's far to dry and arid for my tastes. The city is definitely better about work life balance than other tech hubs, or maybe they play too much and too hard in CO. Driving is insane there, so many reckless drivers that I bought a bigger vehicle just to feel safe on the highways.

I went to DSW most years, i never found it something to write home about. Mostly people looking for funding

What countries have "less terrifying politics"?

The Develop Denver (iirc the name) week is much better.
this is a very good answer, sells hotel ads, car rentals, restaurants, casinos, stage shows, theme parks...
Do you really think it's how ad networks figure out someone's marketable interests? Based on their draft email/chat messages? You obviously haven't tried doing something like this, but getting solid inferences from such tangential data is very hard, and it's not really a priority when the same users leave such a large trail from their browsing and searching anyways, visiting countless websites with promiscuous audience reporting, ad tracking cookies, etc. Why would someone bother to track someone's draft emails to figure out their political affiliation when the media they consume provides all the signal.
Sorry to belabour this, but by "it" you mean the setting in about:config called privacy.resistFingerprinting right?

Some people confuse it with the general enhanced tracking protection in Settings menu.

If so, welp, no idea (aside from the Nightly thing). It consistently breaks for me and others though. Guess you're just lucky.
You're not paying with your data, you're paying with the foundations of functioning society and democracy that are being algorithmically subverted by a totalitarian slave state. The very things that trend on TikTok in the West are banned and filtered in China for a reason.
It's doesn't go "off the rails" at all, it completely and satisfactorily explains everything. It goes fast but it's good. I highly recommend it. You won't want to miss the worldbuilding, it's absolutely incredible.
They are part of a 1940s treaty. But it’s more about what’s not being considered in the drought solution.

The US can back out if it chooses. That’s not the best first option, but if it comes down to it that should be considered. The water rights of the Colorado have been friendly up until now, as there’s always been enough water to go around.

Giving water to Mexico is only one driver, but it is a big one. The primary driver of water use is agricultural.

That treaty needs a refresh, but also maybe so does farming in the southwest. Chastising over-watering suburbanites just isn’t going to solve anything.
This (Stable Diffusion) is relaly a game changer.

I'm just a run of the mill software engineer (mostly webdev).

I never cared about ML, or Data Science,

Had been playing with dall-e the past few weeks after getting beta access, but it's too limited/meh and ran out of credits soon.

Then DreamStudio (SD SaaS) launched to the public, and I was blown away.

Then I tried to run txt2img on my mac, which I did, but it's too cumbersome/slow

Then found out about replicate, which also exposes an API to interact with and run the models.

I've been since then having fun with it, built some scripts with playwright, and doing generative art with stable diffusion, I'm no artist, but it's so much fun, and results so visually pleasing, I cannot not pursue the urge to explore this.

I will be starting an anon account in twitter and try to sell some of my art as NFT's, we'll see where it gets me.

Just ordered a card to get around NSFW filters (They' are nonsense and flag some random stuff)

If you want to try it the easiest way is dreamstudio/replicate.com

https://replicate.com/stability-ai/stable-diffusion
Kind of a weird place to express this sentiment. Your last sentence could literally be about any major city…

It sounds like you have what others call “preferences” and a small number of anecdotes.
That's a 'statechart'. [0] They are actually different things.

Your classic 'finite state machine' (FSM) is pretty simple. Boxes with arrows coming out of them leading to other boxes.

You can't store additional state in a FSM. Your state is what box you're in. As a result, more complex processes get really complex fast in a FSM.

Hence statecharts. This is what most people these days actually think of as state machines. They have history, you can implement guard conditions, you can store state (hence removing the finitude), and so on.

So, actually, yes! Infinite state machines are very common. They're very, very useful. I love programming using statecharts.

[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0167642387...
I'm honestly surprised airlines don't put more ads on their planes, but perhaps there is some regulation preventing that.

More due to cost than regulation --- painting a plane is not cheap. Hence why their name (which of course doesn't change often if at all) and the mandatory information like registration ID is usually all they have.
>As far as I can tell, TikTok scares like these are 30% standard social media moral panic, 70% jingoism. Everyone knows that they are paying for TikTok with their data and a few hundred million people (myself included) are okay with that calculus and making a rational, informed decision to continue using the product.

This is just silly.

The overwhelming majority of people have no idea of what any of that means thus have not made any such calculus.
4chan has nowhere near the influence over children that TikTok does. Maybe a /pol/ thread gets 500 replies or something, while Cobra Tate (a sex trafficker who went viral by openly hating women) gets 100M+ views by literal children on TikTok who go on to repeat everything he says.
You must not live in California..
We can go further and say that with a von Neumann machine, which is the kind of computer we actually build, all programming is about going from one state to another. Pragmatically speaking all the debates about OO, imperative, functional, and whatever else are all about what abstraction to use to characterize those states.
The whole front range area was pretty incredible pre-marijuana legalization. Definitely changed since then. Your friends are right, Californians have been flooding in for a decade plus in greater and greater numbers, and unsurprisingly they bring the same issues they tried to leave behind. Before, that was mostly contained to the Boulder bubble. (homeless issues, loud yet empty activism, blue-no-matter-who, nimby policies, you know the drill).

Sure, Denver has more of a night life now and fancier restaurants I guess?

So it goes.
One of the insurmountable problems, I think, is the fact that different people (and different cultures) consider different things 'harmful', and to varying degrees of harm, and what is considered harmful changes over time. What is harmful is also often context-dependent.

Complicating matters more is the fact that something being censored can be considered harmful as well. Religious messages would be a good example of this; Religion A thinks that Religion B is harmful, and vice-versa. I doubt any 'neutral network' can resolve that problem without the decision itself being harmful to some subset of people.

While I love the developments in machine learning/neural networks/etc. right now, I think it's a bit early to put that much faith in them (to the point where we think they can solve such a problem like "ban all the harmful things").
Nah, schools should teach children about appeals used in advertising and propaganda to resist marketing, and why and how to avoid junk food.

In addition, the parents, rather than the state, should also have greater responsibility for what junk foods a child can have access to consume.
I'm the guy who wrote the blog post, and I want to offer some clarity. Usually when people say "Pythagorean" tuning they are talking about three-limit just intonation, not five-limit. In three-limit, the major third is indeed tuned to 81/64, which sounds pretty terrible. That might explain why medieval people thought thirds were a dissonant interval. Five-limit just intonation tunes major thirds to 5/4.
So interestingly I think "better spam detection" has a relatively straightforward interface (e.g. connect this app to Gmail's servers via SMTP, move emails between folders), but I assume you need almost Google-scale (or at least more than startup-scale) metadata and spam report collection to be able to do half as well.

One of the rare areas where barrier to innovation isn't market access but actually product quality. That being said I wouldn't pay a lot for this as a standalone service, though I would definitely pay for a standalone email client at this point.
CD-ROM drives were treated by some as cup holders and they became popular in the 90s.

It didn't cause the behavior but helps bound the timeframe for the phenomena.

An article from 2002: https://www.zdnet.com/article/ive-broken-my-coffee-cup-holde...
Is that surprising given that there are approx 2 or 3 orders of magnitude difference between the popularity of these platforms? 4chan is and has always been fringe even within its demographic, whereas TikTok is already one of the dominant networks.
Do those ads at all block/interfere with my ability to ride the bus/train? Do they use up (steal) my (artificially) limited public transit mileage (bandwidth/data-cap)? Do those ads track my bus/train trip and sell that info to other transit businesses? There's a pretty significant difference between those passive ads one sees (or ignores) on a bus or train and the sort of constant abusive behaviors we see from Internet advertisers.
Yes, manned space flight is slow and costly. Every few years I try to explain it but get downvoted on everything.

8 years ago we had a long discussion after the Virgin Galactic crash.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8540279

Virgin Galactic still isn’t live but at the time people thought they would be by now.

Anyway, since then I’ve seen Steven Weinberg’s explain my point much better than I ever could.

Can’t find the entire article but here’s the first part.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2004/04/08/the-wrong-stuff/

Unmanned is much cheaper, and we can iterate much faster.
I can second their anecdotes
I may have been too snarky in my original response but my point is this: treatment before housing implies treatment on the street, which I cannot believe is productive. I don't care what meds you take for your schizophrenia, sleeping on the streets is a form of mental assault in itself. If you're trying to beat a drug addiction, the people surrounding you are going to work to undo everything your support groups and methadone clinics are doing for you.
America is obsessed with homeless people proving themselves "worthy" before getting public assistance and it isn't working. Finland has actually been solving homelessness by providing homes first, treatment second.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle...
It seems to have absolutely reduced urban plastic pollution. I'd call it a win.
Are you more likely to be harmed by the US collecting data or China?

If a woman is seeking an abortion, is she better off using a service that collects data for the US or China?
This is literally the business model. The owner of an IP address is responsible for the content delivered from that IP address. Cloudflare would like to have it both ways -- they get to multiplex sites behind their network infrastructure and accept money for the service, but not be responsible for the content that they deliver, because it originally came from somewhere else.
The thing that's interesting is that according to what I've heard, it seems that YouTubers do actually make more money off of YouTube Premium viewers than they would off of advertisements from free users, on average. Now this could be false or dependent on channel, but that I can't answer.

The fact that this even can be the case, though, I find interesting. It makes me wonder if YouTube is either subsidizing YouTube premium payouts, or simply waiting to squeeze the margins until there's more revenue. But if this is sustainable today, it seems promising.

Two things I've noticed is this:

- YouTubers pick up paid sponsorships in addition to advertisements presumably because today's viewership doesn't provide a good stable revenue, especially due to issues like demonetization. However, many videos that get demonetized are actually still eligible for revenue from YouTube Premium, according to LTT.

- Paid sponsors are much more likely to have no problems with edgier YouTubers and podcasters. I believe this to be a net good, especially since YouTube flourished as an edgy, scrappy alternative to traditional video content (maybe somewhat similar to how Flash games were a sort of edgy, scrappy alternative to conventional video games.)

I don't really want to pay Google more money, but I don't see serious alternatives to YouTube popping up, so I really hope the subscription model can work this way. Even if I have to skip or even sit through sponsor segments here and there, it feels like it's part of what could help save YouTube from just continuing to degrade into another version of TV that somehow is even more crappy and oversaturated. And some YouTubers even make the sponsor segments genuinely entertaining. (I think Internet Historian is a good example here, though as a warning his content is probably more crude than his name is evoking if you've never heard of the channel.)
Amazon activists mourn death of ‘man of the hole’, last of his tribe
> best mobile one

It stagnated enough for android to come really close, while the other issues didn’t improve much (side loading will be on Apple’s dead body, default apps setting still being too few), and there is no end in sight to the constant nagging for more service revenue.

Nowadays both OS are mostly on par, for instance android 13’s per app language setting is one of those QoL things that were iOS’s turf but are now more prominent in android.
Reminder that Facebook paid a firm to create negative buzz around TikTok [0].

> The firm, Targeted Victory, pushed local operatives across the country to boost messages calling TikTok a threat to American children. “Dream would be to get stories with headlines like ‘From dances to danger,’ ” one campaign director said.

> The campaign includes placing op-eds and letters to the editor in major regional news outlets, promoting dubious stories about alleged TikTok trends that actually originated on Facebook, and pushing to draw political reporters and local politicians into helping take down its biggest competitor.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/faceboo...
Since adaptations of some of Neal's earlier work are in development now for the streaming services, I think he's about to become much more popular.

That said, every time I read the Baroque Cycle, I feel like he wrote it just for me. It will be a bit - but I suspect that just like Snow Crash seems to be taking over from Neuromancer in terms of the great metaverse work of fiction, I think his later work will also eventually come into vogue. I also adore the ending of the Baroque Cycle. Unlike virtually every other conclusion to a Stephenson novel, it feels like the ending is the satisfying moment where the whole story comes together - the total synthesis of the thesis of his works.
your analogy is wrong. the correct analogy would have the point be that a particular brand of tobacco is particularly bad for children.
It's actually renewable-heavy, I don't know the details (which might be important here) but Japan is very rich in wind and water resources, so solar, eolic and hydro could be major players. If only there weren't usual typhoons and floods and earthquakes that could make those nonviable (that's why details might be important).
Valaciclovir is magic. I use the 1G tablet whenever I feel the tingles.

Between that, routine vitamins, and habitual chapstick use I haven’t had a bad outbreak for almost a decade. Before that I’d get one like every other month it seemed.
In this thread there is a person whose domain got added to EasyList and they saw a 50% drop in ad traffic. Make of that what you will.
SpaceX is closest, but no. Not until Starship flies.

If history is any guide and they haven't missed any big blockers though, then they'll get there - but I think a 10 year horizon is probably a reasonable expectation.
You mean where a technology was stolen then reproduced, impacting the inventing businesses? I ran a quick brave search and came up with a few articles about knock offs[0][1][2].

There are myriad of other examples, or different scenarios where an NDA or non-compete failed, and another company just puts out a product faster and cheaper. Happens with software, hardware, and of course business processes.

[0] https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/amusing-knockoffs-popular-tech...

[1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/alannaokun/30-knockoff-products-tha...

[2] https://www.liveabout.com/hilarious-knock-off-brands-4767601
There are laws against 'dumping', which is selling goods at a loss to drive out competitors, but those are fairly narrow in scope. It would be hard to enforce a more general restriction on not being profitable.
The current state of text-based Web is unusable. It's mostly SEO text walls with fill up content for SEO. Most of the content is in Youtube videos, which also have it's own filler blabber but at least you find answers.

It's terrible how the "strategic decisions" of one company (Google/Youtube) have marked the flow/form of information in the web. Even "for pay" content providers (mostly news sites) now shove video when you enter into their websites.

Long lost and forgotten are information dense text sites like HowTOs, Benchmarks, Shoot outs and similar web pages from the 90s and early 2000s.
I would think that if you find yourself engaged with a major power, expending your supply of ICBMs, replacing them is probably one of the few things you no longer need to worry about.
Yandex is great for politically sensitive content too. Yandex tends to give less manipulated results when compared to Western search-engines which are often censored and politically biased.
That's because China has strict censorship laws while the US protects free speech. TikTok (like Meta) follows local regulations when it comes to their content.
A whole number of things wrong here.

First of all, that 800m number is mostly a very optimistic estimate that might come true sometime around 2030 or later.

And even then its only true if you completely ignore amortization of development cost, something SpaceX can't really do.

Some of the items that are getting ordered now are for rockets in the late 2020s and if you look at those unit prices its not close to 800m yet.

1b will also need a new upper stage, the price of that is as of yet pure speculation and anybody that has watched the SLS program knows that will happen before its done. And the unit price will also not be there.

SLS will almost certainty be canceled before they reach anywhere close to 800m a launch.

> None of the Falcon rockets can really meet the program goals of SLS.

That is simply not true, or rather, its only true as so far as the whole Artemis program was designed to use SLS. When the NASA administrator suggest that Falcon Heavies could be used some in congress threatened him and seriously suggested he should resign. He shut up quite fast after that.

Many at NASA in the early 2010s didn't want SLS, simple because such a rocket is not required. And even today with a few changes and tweaks it wouldn't be required. But of course if you spend 45 billion into a specific solution it will be better then the solution you spend 0$ on.

But even so, its still not to late, even now canceling SLS and redesigning Artemis would be worth it. Artemis assumes that Starship will exist anyway, and human transport to LEO is fixed already. Starship is the lander already. So really, only thing you need is somehow to get humans from LEO to the moon. And guess what, Starship already has to fly that anyway.
I'm sure it's 50% for tech people, but not for normal consumers and non-tech-people like civil servants.
It may be an annoyance but it's also covered in the guidelines under "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I occasionally run into issues with the Android TV app where I have to kill and restart it for the premium subscription to kick back in. As far as I know, YouTube Premium really does get rid of all video ads, although they do offer a confusing "Free With Ads" benefit for movies. (Why anyone would want to watch movies on YouTube when there's so much great video native to the platform is beyond me, and it's a giant misstep by Google imo.)