skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I reinstalled Windows 10 on a machine recently and like half the setup process is now ads for other Microsoft services or things related to ads. Do you want Office 365? OneDrive? Xbox Game Pass? Can we use your location for ads? Kind of ridiculous. I don't think there was any the first time I installed Win 10? Maybe just Office 365?

I can't wait for Windows 13 when Microsoft has sold installer ads to the highest bidder and I'm asked if I want a case of Mountain Dew during install.
Maybe I wasn't quite clear. The econ book did derive, teach and use calculus, it just obfuscated it using different terminology and symbols, to hide the fact that it was calculus.
probably only a 50/50 chance it gets closed tbh. Either way it's in a black hole to the reporter so they'll never know.

(I actually liked radar though, as bug trackers go - by far the best internal tool apple has imo)
That's like saying every SV tech company is funded by the CIA.

Oh wait..
Is it really much different from offline advertising in days of old? That was more or less also a black box.
Joyful Python with the REPL
I love your newsletter!

Particularly I love reading the most interesting headlines to the kids at the dinner table. Keep it up!
Not officially. In practice, it might as well have been. Likewise East Germany.
The beauty of all money being electronic is that it will make it practical to have an hyper-inflation. Which given how irresponsible the central banks and governements are is only a matter of time.
This works pretty well in an environment of highly motivated university students. But there are reasons why we expect teachers to be educated on how to teach in general.

I highly respect you, and we seem to talk here a lot. But you have this habit of holding up various edge cases that don't quite directly relate to what we're talking about as "gotchas".

I have 0 teaching credentials, too, and think I'm pretty great. The current systems we have for younger students require teaching credentials, and there's some good reasons to require some education-in-education before letting someone teach kids.
Other than that all of the extra sensors, wiring and software bugs are making new/recent road going (this is off road vehicle in the same sense as SUVs are) motorbikes quite unreliable, often leaving official service providers scratching their heads re why something refuses to work. FI is nice, so is ABS (with a switch to turn it off when offroading, which is rare nowadays). Everything else is just asking for problems.
The solution is 26 steps and that should be the optimal solution.
Yeah. I had this version of SimCity. It came on floppy disk. I had a 14.4k modem at the time (or maybe still the stock 2400?) the only way for MSFT to make this work was to add code like this. Honestly we still do it sometimes. Emulators routinely emulate bugs because those bugs were never fixed in the real systems.
A remarkable kid has died in Newcastle, Utah
yes. I find they help me escape tutorial hell, or at least ease my mind on that concern.
Newspapers, magazines, cable TV, product placement in films, ... even if you're paying you can definitely still be the product.
Did you look at the graphic? Google and Meta no longer have a stranglehold on the market, but the market is also bigger than ever. 70% of the ad market in 2022 is worth more than 90% was in 2012.
> (And if you need an example of dead-simple note-taking, James Clear stores his notes in a multi-hundred Google document)

I was reading the James Clear story this AM, and it was pretty eye-opening, particularly that he didn't actually know the story or points he was trying to make. Rather, he was collecting a bunch of anecdotes and then would work it into a narrative later.

I've done something similar with ~100 pages of notes and it was a train wreck trying to iron it into something useful
Ah, I wondered when you would bring up the tremendously dangerous, and absolutely normal for the time, bunker fire. Guess which bunker was emptied first, ad was common practice on coal fired ships? I assume next in line will the pictures showing the extensive heat damage on the hull caused by that fire. Those damages you only see in one picture of a whole sequence when the Titanic left port and simple shadows.
I think we're in agreement in that --- the algebra-based microecon class I'm teaching is effectively using and re-creating calculus, too.

I've already told students many times we're going to find the area of shapes on this graph, where I'd actually just subtract the curves and take a definite integral.

And the graphs are a really, really nice visual for the subject matter. Being able to point to consumer surplus, producer surplus, tax revenue, and deadweight loss as regions on the graph means you know how all these curves relate. But then we end up doing all this awkward not-quite-calculus stuff.
I grew up the opposite; I never directed my learning in any particular direction, just picked up everything by curiosity and osmosis. I've only discovered in my 40s that you can use tools like Anki to just relentlessly hammer a subject into submission i.e. you can choose to know stuff instead of always having to be spontaneously fascinated by stuff.
I did this with mail from the tax service addressed to the previous tenant. The result? A few days later I received the same mail in my inbox again, plus another one. Returned both of them, a few weeks later I received 4 mails.

When I started receiving more than 20 mails in one day, all from the tax service to that previous tenant, I bought a shredder and shredded the entire stack of mails. Some years later, I was still shredding mails. My magnanimity to correct for government failures only goes so far.
You can also get power strips that toggle power based on how much juice the "control" plug is pulling. I have mine set up with the TV- when the TV is off, all the other plugs are disabled. But when I turn on the TV, it turns on power for the Xbox, Steam Link, etc
A gRPC dependency is a non-starter. The rest looks so kludged and unnecessarily complicated that it's DOA.
I work in online search and recently expanded. In my opinion there are two major threats to Google and Facebook (I.e., ads related threats):

1. Platform power: Apple was a key supplier to Facebook in the sense that they provide platform driving a significant % of their Ads revenue. With Apple tightening privacy they have become an indirect but significant threat to Facebook. Google is relatively safe.

2. Threat of substitutes: as seen in Amazon, Ecom platforms are much closer to the customer. Us timer is about to make a purchase. I think over time Advertisers will eventually shift to platforms like amazon, Etsy etc so that can reach the customer right when they are about to make a purchase. Some what same appeal with snap and TikTok.

Overall online ad industry will continue to flourish but will see big changes in who are the big players.
If the examiners can't enforce enablement, doesn't that mean it isn't a true requirement? And that in fact patents wind up being drafted not for the layperson?
Please don’t click these links or share these videos. As a member of the film/animation industry, hearing about leaks like this absolutely hits me. Please think of the hundreds of artists and programmers who have worked countless hours on this game. They are all heartbroken right now. We can all honor their hard work by not watching this leaked content. Wait til they finish.
It's also tautological. Of course, we should use the note-taking approach that works for us.

Who would agree with using a note-taking approach that does NOT work for you?

One of the ways to figure out which note-taking approach works is to try the note-taking approaches from other people... It could be 18 multi-step note taking approach or it could be dead-simple. Unless you try, you won't know which one works for you.
I think they're saying that the word "monopoly" is used colloquially, by many, to simply mean dominant position and that those people don't mean the literal definition. It seems they're just trying to say that the parent comment is arguing about the definition of monopoly rather than the actual point, which is dominant position abuse.

I agree that it's important to recognize the differences between monopolies, duopolies, and oligopolies in theory and practice, as you say, but I also don't think that using the wrong term nullifies validity of the actual point.
I did exactly that around 4 months ago.

Luckily I subscribed using PayPal, so when Adobe charged me the cancellation fee I immediately contested it. My guess was that Adobe won’t bother to deal with a contested fee of around $100.

They didn’t, so PayPal refunded me the fee.

Edit: I replaced Photoshop with Pixelmator Pro, which is an excellent piece of software. Most other needs are covered by Sketch/Figma. Haven’t found a good Illustrator alternative yet, but didn’t look much.
Yep. It’s just the first version of AppCompat. Now you get to pick a set of bugs and behaviors. It’s actually a pretty great idea to isolate problematic software.
So that’s saying:

- today: Google and FB have 75% of all sales combined and those other rivals have 25%

- 5 years ago: those other rivals had 0%

What does this say about the market share of FB and google 5 years ago? Nothing. That’s exactly what I’m talking about. Maybe it was 90%. Maybe it was 75%! But hey, whatever, let’s publish that clickbait article.
Of course. When I go to places like that, it's because I want to consume. When I go to a store, when I open the store app, it's because I want to see products. That's the whole point. In those cases, it's not advertising, it's information.

The problem with computers today is you get advertised to no matter what you do. Can't boot goddamn Windows without it finding an excuse to show you stupid Taboola ads. Can't open a simple website without being literally flooded with ads all around the "content". This "content" is just an incidental abstraction, an arbitrary square on the screen that ads mold themselves around like parasites. It doesn't matter what the "content" is, it could be anything that draws in users, the real product is their attention being captured by the ads.
NOTE: Not sure why my auto-correct changed "the" to "her"
Title page with legal info has been added!
Either spend $1b to create an alternative but lose anyway for the company to be irrelevant sooner or spend $20b to extend its lifespan by killing a competitor.
YouTube and Facebook tune their recommendation algorithms for censorship and ad profit. This left a massive gap in their product, which was filled by tiktok. Capitalism is at work here
> - Asking and answering questions rather than stating things: "Can Cloudflare be bypassed? Thankfully, the answer is yes!"

> I'm not entirely sure what drives these things, but they seem to be very common in this sort of content marketing article. I'm guessing a lot of it is SEO-driven.

I suspect that this is them trying to get into Google's "frequent question"/"people also ask" [0] box, because that seems like a common search term ("can you bypass cloudflare")

[0]: https://www.brightedge.com/glossary/people-also-ask
also been tricked by them. if some services did not lock pdfs to only be opened in adobe reader, there is no way I’d touch anything adobe. Hate these practices and their updater and installer is extremely intrusive! Someone should run a poll for most hated software providers..
Sure, of which only 400M of the 16000M ARR is part of the purchase.
Sorry, but this is a discussion board, and I have no obligation to provide citations for every last sentence I write. Particularly given the low confidence I tagged these items with. Nor do you have any right to demand this standard of others. My comment contains more than enough keywords to retrace my Googling, there are lots of relevant papers, and I am not an expert. Please do your own supplementary research.

As to your points - first, I think it's more than clear from context what I meant by "arthropod"; I could have used the term "chelicerate" instead but this is far less useful. And second, yes, I know such cultures exist. My point was about "prominent economically" and "mostly" moved away. If you sort countries by GDP per capita, how far down is the first country whose dominant eating habits include a lot of insect protein? And don't you find this result surprising considering its known energy efficiency?
Quiet quitting is long overdue, but it should be the least of worries for many of these companies. I’d say some companies have no reason to exist and are a shit stain on humanity.

Many, many years, I came on as an SDE 1 at Amazon.

Consider the unrealistic timelines. What should be a multi year project needs requirements, design, reviews, implementation, delivery, and operational readiness, but it all had to be done in 6-8 months.

In 2 months, we burned out at least a dozen SDEs who voluntarily resigned or moved to another org.

Let me describe morale. While I’d continue working every night and weekend, my manager would be out of the office. My skip level would be on vacation, traveling to Europe. Meanwhile, the product team would be coming up with additional scope and trying to get me to commit on behalf of my manager.

Best case, I get one or two devs added to my team. They’d be brand new to the company, and now I’m being asked to ramp them up, while also doing my own work, while also responding to emails from partner teams, driving integration work, leading design meetings, and providing feedback on my peers’ performance.

It was miserable hell. I never saw my family. I got out of shape and got diagnosed with diabetes. One morning I woke up and my entire left shoulder was numb. I couldn’t make a fist with my left hand.

When we launched, I remember my skip level becoming a director. One engineer I worked with on another team was promoted. The 5 devs on my team got no promotions, in fact, in compensation review time, we got measly 1% pay bumps and no new equity because the stock had appreciated and the company was factoring in previous equity grants and their present value.

I remember that year I put off getting pregnant so I could focus on work. During the next performance reviews, I received positive but backhanded feedback. On one hand, I was a rockstar for doing so many things well. But man, I should have also done a, b, and c.

It was a never ending rat race.

That was about 8 years ago. In hindsight, quiet quitting should be the least of any company’s worries. Companies that put their profit and their management egos (AMAZON) above people have no reason to exist. Times are changing. These will companies change how they behave, or they will die a slow, agonizing death. Amazon in particular is a place that brainwashes and gaslights their employees.
how about a museum historian !! I have a large vocabulary, and after a certain presentation, it seemed obvious to me that anytime one word could be used, three obscure words were its replacement.
Hyperinflation is at least double digits month over month for a considerable stretch of time, arguably even more than that. Turkey comes to mind. The Western world is incredibly far from that and was nowhere close to it in 2008.
Honestly you could probably do it today, but back then it would have been a lot harder. You’d have to find every buggy use after free. Just easier to change the allocator for it. Probably how you’d do it today under emulation.
That's possible that it was discussed back then, but there are only few ressources (like youtube videos comparing the dialogues) nowadays event mentioning that.

I don't think GTA V does that, driving to missions works differently, there is less dialogue on the way and the "check point" is closer to the actual mission and I even tried to provoke different dialogues by failing missions because I wanted to hear alternate dialogue.
Thing isn't a rival until it isn't.
It's like Intel's attitude.
While they certainly were dominated and dictated by USSR, neither belonged culturally. Neither was as stiff with sexuality for instance; they didn't have collectivization in the earnest and understandably there was no cult of war in DDR other than in token solidarity with occupying Soviet troops.
I am dying to know the answer to this. I can’t get over the fact people are paying $8 for downloads of randomized triangles, but then again NFTs are a thing so I shouldn’t be too surprised.
Yea, based on a more detailed viewing of the leak, I feel like they used a lot of RDR2 code. It’s been a while since I played RDR2, but I get a distinct feeling that the NPC behavior is similar to RDR2 somehow that I can’t really put my finger on. It would make sense, because I believe RDR2 was using an upgraded Rage engine from the GTA5 engine.
The US hasn’t ever had hyperinflation.
no and no. I'm getting mighty sick of this attitude 'pls respect artists! they are all crying right now'.

how come game devs / artists are the only ones that should never have their work seen before they deem it to be 'ready', how many devs in other industries have had to push work to the public before they deem it 'ready'. I personally like having the 'curtain pulled back' so to speak, it's interesting to see the amount of work that goes into making a game / movie / whatever.
I doubt that many people are taking notes in any mathy class at least on computers (without stylus input). Even in non-math classes, notes often include diagrams and other drawings that are much harder to do real-time in computers than on paper.
As a dev touching so design things every few weeks, I can only say good things about Affinity Designer.
Never had to ride regularly at 60+ kph, are round mirrors as good as aerodynamic (I assume) rectangular-ish mirrors?
> Most of the expense for features like this is in the design and engineering, not raw parts costs. [...] might actually make the base bike less expensive

Yeah, I'm not sure about that. BMW wants to integrate heated seats in all models and only activate them through a subscription, if I remember correctly.

While that might streamline production and therefore lead to optimizations, I doubt that those will be passed on to the customer. But you now have more servicable parts, weight etc. pp. in ALL models with a chance that they break...

We've played enough of the capitalism game to know that this is not about the customer and a better price for him.
TIL. I had no idea the systemd team implemented something like this already, it's great info, thank you. :)
Only the ones I know I will eventually read from cover to cover (not always sequentially, however). Usually this means the high quality ones.

Sometimes I buy a book that in retrospect is not as interesting as I thought, and I regret it. Space and weight are precious resources.

There is something about reading from a screen, even the e-Ink ones, that does not match the experience of reading from paper, in my view. I can't remember being engaged to an ebook as I am sometimes from a good paper book.
From the end of the article:

But the most surprising realization? All but one of the documented episodes of hyperinflation occurred in the last 100 years.

I feel that with all the QE going on right now, we might soon add major currencies to this list.
I'm not a parent (yet), but I'm the same way. I like to get up early and have a few hours to myself. A good portion of that time is spent on relatively-aimless puttering around — reading, journaling, etc — as well as a solid 45-90 minutes on working out.

I experimented with skipping all this during the pandemic (and working out in the afternoon instead), but I noticed my days felt much more unsatisfying without those morning hours.

A friend of mine mentioned he rolls out of bed at 8, and he's in the office and working by 9. I have no idea how he does it.
It didn't. When I downloaded it the other week to see what all the hubbub was about (spoiler alert: I killed it with fire lol), audio was on by default and I had to change that setting. I'd wager that OP forgot that they set it themselves.
Ask HN: AP News International Tab shows old news
Does anyone else see these old articles with a 2021 date and reference to the Trump administration from April 2021?
No, not even close. Those were sovereign countries under communist single party rule and allied with the USSR. Ukraine, for exampke, was a sovereign Soviet Republic as part of the USSR, just as Russia was.

Totally different things.
Do Canadians or Germans have constitutionally dictated freedom of speech like Americans do?
It worked for me. I never spent much of any time with a slide rule, but played with it enough to see that yes, adding logarithms to multiply worked like magic. (This was in high school.)

My first semester at Caltech had slide rules in the bookstore for $125 (mebbe close to a grand today). By the end of the semester, they were $5, and disappeared by the 2nd. I've never seen a tech revolution hit so hard and so fast.

The trouble with calculators is they impart no feel whatsoever for the math behind it. You get a string of 10 digits that is "The Answer". People get led astray by that all the time, including professionals. It's amazing how these people defend obviously wrong results because the calculator gives "The Answer".
That's hilarious. It just keeps getting worse. It's like they have no self-awareness or limits.
AFAIK nobody decodes still images using video hardware acceleration. HW supports only one stream at a time and has a setup latency. Browsers decode images in parallel and want them ASAP.

AVIF does very well in almost-lossless encoding of the kinds of images you'd use lossless formats for. You can beat any lossless format with imperceptibly small amount of loss.

True lossless is needed for authoring, but not for typical Web distribution. People think lossy can't be used for icon-like images, because they associate lossy with JPEG-like distortions, but it's possible to do lossy compression using other methods that preserve razor-sharp edges.
Consider the following two function definitions:

int add(int a, int b) {
return a + b;
}

int add(int a, int b) {
if ((a > 0 && b > 0) && (INT_MAX - a < b)) {
return INT_MIN + (b - (INT_MAX - a + 1));
} else if ((a < 0 && b < 0) && (INT_MIN - a > b)) {
return INT_MAX + (b - (INT_MIN - a - 1));
} else {
return a + b;
}
}

Which one expresses the intent more simply and understandably?

Which one is more robust?

Which one would you bet the future of your company on?

I offer that, sometimes, simplicity of expression is at odds with protection against edge cases.
Only as long as the central banks don’t run into integer overflow (or poorly implemented bigint algorithms bringing trading to a near standstill)
> The entire advertising industry should burn down, as far as I'm concerned.

but they perform important economy function: connect buyers and sellers..
Some libraries have meters you can check out.
There’s a little of that, but mostly the console does fine with complex AI and a fairly large number of NPCs, it’s the games with tons of simulation state like Cities Skylines or a large base build with a lot of parts and physics in FO4 that have issues.
Honestly, I'd be totally cool if it pays some bills because it fixes somebodies problem. I just wonder if projects this small can really be monetized.
> All of retail is in a way a matchmaker.

Disagree.

A retailer does add tangible value beyond matchmaking.

For example, to name a few:

- transport
- quality control
- inventory management
- fine-grained understanding of local demand and providing the corresponding supply.

Advertising is pure matchmaking.
This website is just a community effort to modernize parts of the online resources, because many parts like the current Ada Reference Manual look like they're from the 90s.
Still worked for me yesterday. Temporarily "switched" to a yearly (paid monthly) InCopy subscription, and was able to cancel that about 5min later.

If you don't get the "do you want to switch instead of cancelling?" retainer dialog, you may have already declined it. Clearing cookies and local storage did the trick for me in that case.