skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OG founder of Giant Bomb / Comicvine / Whiskey Media here. I was also at CNET during the acquisition of Metacritic and helped build large portions of Gamespot and TV.com. I'm 10-years removed from these properties so I feel OK talking about them.

The sad reality is the Internet publishing is dead and as a business that business is nearly impossible to operate if you have any moral compass. In its place we have various traffic to ad scams and a creator economy built on the backs of a couple large platforms like Twitch, Reddit and YouTube. While the later option seems freeing for some creators, the reality is that soon those too will become hard to make a living from as those large platforms start slowly squeezing their creator class outside of a couple few who play nice. It's only slightly better than the journalism field because at least some of the personalities can shoot over to Patreon and work directly with their audience (albeit still tied to another large platforms).

I love this space, and it's where I grew up as a kid in the late 90s. I love community websites where I can engage with some experts. With video though, it's extremely hard to run independently. Hosting video for Giant Bomb in 2008-2012 meant home rolling our own streaming service, chat service and edge-based video platform. We had an all-star engineering team. We had one of the largest podcasts in the world and the hosting bills were killing us. Getting an audience with good content was easy. Monetizing it was very difficult. That's only continued over the years as I've seen various companies buy Giant Bomb (CBS, then RV, now Fandom) looking to pick up a premium brand that they could use to mask the giant volume of dead, but trafficked content they had in the background. The shill back then was was to sell Giant Bomb or GameSpot ads, but serve it on GameFaqs or Comic Vine (which had huge traffic at low cost). Various SEO tricks were pulled to hide traffic. For example, Comic Vine moved to a Gamespot subdomain to make this seem more legitimate. I anticipate similar dark patterns every time these sites are resold to cheaper owners. Likely, these brands will be used to promote a mountain of google-driven traffic in other properties.

The question I haven't been able to solve:

How can good content be monetized in a way that allows it to remain independent and not succumb to warping its content to feed that monetization? How can it be audience driven instead? Is such a thing even possible? Right now good monetization strategies beget bad content. There's got to be a better way than cobbling together five platforms under a Patreon account, giving all of them 10-50% along the way.
Detecting Audio DeepFakes Through Vocal Tract Reconstruction
It turns out (from a grep of /dict/words and some time with the etymology) that this was done with three different words: subtle, doubt, and debt.

I happen to agree with the scholars which chose these spellings, which turn up at first in the 14th century btw, not such an eggheaded time.

I might support a hard reform to make English orthography phonemic, but that's radical change. The immense complexity of English spelling reveals the creole substrates of the language, and we have hundreds if not thousands of cases such as debt and debit where understanding the common Latin root is part and parcel.

I don't see the advantage in `dette`, basically. As long as the orthography is highly irregular, we may as well gette something outte of itte.
I wonder what the differences are across the various subdomains. I'm sure it would be wildly different.
TL;DR: Market forces have been proven to be insufficient to force changes on public utilities.

I agree, nothing technological blocks the grids from growing. But there are plenty of political and profit driven blocks which are preventing it.

To continue with my theme of CA power grid bashing - PG&E is still starting forest fires due to poor quality infrastructure (pushing too much power through lines not rated for it, causing sagging). PG&E does constant rolling blackouts over the summer because of their lacking capacity. PG&E imports about 20% of the electricity that CA requires yearly. They do this because it's cheaper than fixing their infrastructure.

And there's no reason they won't just continue in this fashion in the face of their 2035 electric car replacement deadline. They have a government-created monopoly, and have no reason to build out their capacity.

Rinse and repeat for most states and countries.
> I wonder if big companies will eventually rewrite their systems in those new languages. Will I live to see a Rust XNU/Linux/NT kernel?

I would be astonished to see any full rewrites; we're talking about things with millions of lines of code and decades of effort behind them. I could totally see incremental rewrites that start with a little Rust (or whatever) starting in one area and then eventually spreading one subsystem at a time (see: Linux offering the ability to write device drivers in Rust).
The real scenario is the family trip.

4-5 people in a vehicle loaded with luggage or other gear. People driving to beaches during the summer. People going to Disney. People travelling to ports to go on a cruise.
Kim Kardashian to Pay $1.3M to SEC for Crypto Touting
asp net core

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authe...
One has value and utility besides its market price, the other does not. But to the retail investor who does not use either, and knows little or nothing about blockchains and decentralized protocols, they are equivalent.
Nodes don't vote on anything. You can spin up as many nodes as you want, they aren't an authority on how to order the transactions, only the miners do that.
Isn't the proper term whatever people choose to use to describe themselves?
Minidoc on Project Zero from Google
there's two ad clients: small business who want cheap ads to sell, and large incumbent who want expensive ads as a barrier for new competitors.

the players (dsp, ssp, etc) all want expensive ads, more profit.

the second group will gladly pay the inflated cost because that's what they want anyway. and they have weight to force even google to submit to known bogus accreditation that let all bots through.

the first group have to pay because they have no leverage and can't force Google to have a valid accreditation.

ads sales pay huge 20-30pct commission because everyone knows some of that goes back to the large client buyer.

sucks to be a small business.
It is actually starting to be developed now. Pretty crazy. I wonder how many of the folks moving into the new subdivisions are aware of the history.
I don't really follow any of this comment. Are you saying perfect solutions are possible on non-adversarial situations?
I looked at the games mentioned on the landing page and it's mostly online games whose servers are getting shut down. While that sucks and we should totally have the right to host our own servers without some asshole corporation C&Ding them, this isn't what I was talking about.

I have hundreds of video games. On steam I think it's over 200 titles. I can't tell if something I purchased ever disappeared from there. What I do know is I have lots of titles on my account that aren't sold on Steam anymore. Some GTA games with the original soundtrack, several EA titles that used to be sold on Steam once upon a time.

Is there a way to use this site to check my gaming accounts to see if I lost any games?
That doesn't make sense. If you can control the other person's moves directly like that, then you're clearly a monopoly already. Nobody actually has a choice.
To me it feels like companies have these ad budgets, and just feel the need to spend, spend, spend without measuring any sort of ROI.

Example, almost every GM commercial these days are for EV cars\truck that you cannot even buy, some you cannot even put down a deposit or the "pre-order" is meaningless (like refundable $100 for the Lyriq, but no specs, colors or pricing has event been announced). It is like GM needs to spend its marketing budget no matter what.
Why do you need to justify your place in the world in the first place? You aren't responsible for the world. You came to life because of some whim and happenstance from your parents. The things you experience might have been done before, but it's you who is experiencing them right now. All of the greats before you would have traded their entire legacy to have a few more conscious moments. Sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench has happened millions of times yet it's still going to be extraordinary each and every time, to paraphrase Einstein.

These emotions are normal when faced with the internet, but some perspective is important. Or rather, it helps to focus on the basic facts of life and its finiteness.
I'm not fond of these takes. Because it assumes we'd never get counter-intuitive results.

I think we also kind of backfit our expectations to the results. I think if you write this headline either way, you'd have people who would say "yeah, that makes sense". Because if you told us that autistic children with imaginary friends have worse social skills, you'd have people saying "Yeah, that makes sense, imaginary friends don't respond like real people, they're just reinforcing bad habits."

But we should be testing our assumptions far more than we do. Otherwise, we're just cutting off the ends of the roast.
Why would they write anything else in English? We don't write Deutschland or România either, do we?

The only strange thing is that CNBC decided to use the Turkish name of the country, probably from some misunderstanding of the recent official UN name change.
> Of the top of my head (not my primary space), a gadget is a piece of code at a known or guessable location that provides specific functionality.

> Consequently, modern exploits tend to look like: (1) figure out how memory is laid out, or close enough, (2) calculate where a useful function is, that you can call with arbitrary parameters (aka a gadget), (3) abuse that function to do your bidding by controlling its parameters and the instruction pointer.

This is all correct, but generally a gadget is what a snippet of assembly / machine code that you call to get the CPU into a state to call a function. So its less a function and more a set of instructions (anywhere) that are useful.

So for example, you might have a gadget to set specific registers with values off the stack so you can call malloc with the correct size, etc.
As parent said, you can see that one sale was made from ../product_google_landing_page and 59 sales were made from ../product_landing_page
Best cure for existential angst I know is puppies. If you listen to them they will explain (better than words can) the essential errors of nihilistic views.

Life should be seized with the utmost joy and chewed 'til unrecognizable. Sometimes this means you break teeth, but that can be fun too.
I only want eye tracking on my Index for VRChat integration so my avatar's eyes move with mine. I just cannot imagine using my eyes as some kind of input device, that sounds immensely awkward for someone that has more traditional options (i.e. no physical disabilities). I'm not using VR for productivity in any case, anyway.
I guess the natural follow-up question is, are you surprised at efforts to avoid making the mainstream internet into "a Wild West were only the smart survive and you can buy drugs and guns if you know how"? Let's not forget we're talking about the most popular and easiest to access parts of the internet. There is still a wild west in the deeper, darker corners of the web.

I don't think Zuckerberg enjoys having to police speech and behaviour and having to carefully design around that. It costs him time and money. More likely he does it for fear of losing money when the media reports on Facebook groups that spread hate, stir up racism, or share revenge porn.
The president had that impression: https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-07-21/ap-...

“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”
Michael,

For you I would hire a professional copy writer to go over your description and improve the flow and readability (writing copy is HARD but for you since you have a compelling product its one of those things that could make the difference between a sale)
Whistleblower awards can range from 10 to 30 percent of the money collected when the monetary sanctions exceed $1 million
I’d argue that if you wear it, especially in a highly visible location like over your eyes, then it is a fashion accessory. Like a hat or glasses it may serve a purpose but that doesn’t negate the need for it to look good.

Fashion will be vastly more important for mixed reality than it is for smart phones. A smart phone is more akin to a watch, fashion wise. You usually only see it when it’s being used. Mixed reality devices will be visible all the time and they will also mediate our social interactions with others.
Is the point you are trying to make that neither of those apply to cryotocurrencies? Because that is not true as the history of hard fork and failed exchanges demonstrates.
People spend up to 227 minutes per day on mobile apps. These are not necessarily games but also food delivery, e-learning, etc. However, an app should follow current and future trends to become popular. Discover the upcoming tendencies for 2023:
Most established companies are always on the lookout for senior devs. Makes sense to just keep an ad up regardless of actual positions open
Corporations are authoritarian, but markets aren't. The Market is the better analogy to democracy here.
Amusingly, bytedance does military contracts in my country.
Then emulate it via software. There are open source PS3 emulators being developed right now. Why can't Sony use its billions of dollars to do it?
I became George after comedian Aziz Ansari had bit on one of his Netflix specials where he does math on how many times you can expect to see your parents.
Just a couple more years...
If (and you did) you had your choice at the start of the pandemic (pre or post crash, take your choice), between the dollar, BTC, euro, or the lira, which was the best choice?

Probably the one that's up 2x pre-crash and 4x just after, rather than the ones which are visibly eroding.

The dollar is of course the tentpole. Such a great basket to put all the eggs, innit.
Another factor I'd argue is important but often not explicitly called out is the ability of a group of people to change their mind. Democracy provides this via elections -- and when elections become too disconnected from decision making, eg regulatory capture or excessive veto points or other mechanisms or emergent practices that insulate decisions from electoral consequences, democracies stop working as well.

Organizations, be they states or businesses or any other institution, that have a greater ability to change their collective minds aren't guaranteed to always make better decisions at any given moment, but over time they're able to course correct in a way that less flexible approaches simply can't.
I call BS on his George story.

There are million internet reels about this

https://youtube.com/shorts/kgPTJKwh6vc
> failing) at getting Filipinos interested in software engineering and programming, especially women

Don't get people interested, find people that are interested and lack the resources and opportunity - then help those people. There may also be a lack of interest due to cultural relevance, tech that looks cool and interesting to the west might not in SE Asia, finding local help could improve this.

You mentioned women - If you are concerned about countering artificial biases in tech, ensure fair opportunity, but you cannot expect to force people to be interested. There may be inherent statistical differences in the interest and values of technology as a career between cultures and between genders just as there are with other subject that bias in either direction. The goal should be to counter unfair, artificial biases that result from prejudice, including your own... this is an unpopular opinion, but reality is more complex than SJWs like to think, there are multiple causes for the proportions of minorities in a particular area, and this needs to be understood in order to help people effectively do what they want - in short fighting bias with bias can be harmful.
> So Linux would be perpetually on the same major version,

Yes:)

> which means there is little reason to use Semver in this case.

Okay, that's fair. If semver is there to signal breaking changes and there will never be breaking changes maybe it's not super useful.

> Also, the first number gets updated whenever Linus feels like the second number gets too large, not sure how "2.1028.0" would solve that :)

That's not "also"; I'm specifically saying that Torvald's versioning system is bad. Honestly I'd be happier with losing the leading number completely and doing an increment per feature release; right now the "major" version field just doesn't mean anything.
Makefiles for basic projects are typically just two to five lines long. It's really different than a large project system, or the absolutely crazy things that autoconf generates.

all:
cc myprogram.c

clean:
rm -f myprogram.o myprogram

They're extremely simple in simple scenarios. It's just a simple format for writing down the commands you run while working.
I agree, but it's not as simple as that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey#Official_name_change
And most understand that Dogecoin and Ethereum are different coins, and probably even that Ethereum and Ethereum Max are different coins. But they often do not know the difference between these protocols or projects.

It would be like putting stock tickers on all the hundreds of competing JavaScript frameworks on GitHub and asking the average non-dev what to invest in.
Ask HN: A Simple Phone
I have realized that my information addiction can only be cured by completely removing the ability to consume it on my phone. I would like a device that has three (and only three) applications on it:

1) A phone
2) Text messages
3) Google Maps

I don't care about form factor, so I'm thinking a basic Android phone with everything but these three things stripped out.

Is this out there? If not - how hard would it be to make?
As is, title might also be read as 70% of researchers make no attempt to reproduce others work. Likely be clearer is it said, “Survey: 70% of Research Results Not Independently Reproducible (2016)”
...two dozen crypto bros and boxing promoters... For some reason this sentence had me howling with laughter.
Interestingly the following article suggests that while there are US nuclear weapons stored in Turkey the Turkish air force hasn't had any capabilities to deliver these weapons for two decades and the US doesn't have any nuclear capable aircraft based there either (although obviously easy to fly them in):

https://theconversation.com/why-the-us-has-nuclear-weapons-i...
> If you ask me, we should simply delete the entire advertisement sector—influencers included—and start from scratch. The amount of wasted resources (i.e. attention, money, electricity, bandwidth, time, smart people) is just insane!

I agree there is lots of wasted time out there. But the advertising paid for Google, Facebook etc. It pays for Chrome, Android, React, PyTorch etc.
> "interest is the cause, inflation is the result"

He is right about this but wrong about the sign of the relationship!
I could take that complaining seriously if English had single unified spelling system, but as you do each world different anyway, I don't think it is too much to ask to throw some umlauts there and adopt the official spelling.
No, they don't. Felony theft requires in excess of hundreds of dollars of theft.

Now go rob a supermarket with a firearm and that's a different story.
Credit Suisse reassures investors over its financial strength
Can it happen that there is no competent court to rule?
When Luxembourg CSSF or court claims they are not competent, that means the case should revert to your location.
https://archive.ph/WZ0NO
45° wouldn't work well with any overhangs which are not facing south - not when the goals is to put solar panels on them.

And I, every winter, see snow clinging to 45° roofs quite often. Slightly wet snow (also the heaviest snow) can even stick to vertical surfaces.

45° would also make an overhang more susceptible to wind forces, acting like a sail.
"I really don't understand how these crackpots keep ending up at hyperinflation as a solution to their problems."

Two major factors, I think. One, hyperinflation feels better today at the cost of feeling worse in a couple of months. This is true even when the hyperinflation starts hitting hundreds of percent per day... it's still easier to let it go for another day than to do the now Herculean-levels of work necessary to do the right thing. This is very difficult for politicians to pass up. Some others in this conversation have marveled at how bad world leaders can be with the economy, and part of that is even if they did know exactly what the right thing to do is (itself actually a questionable claim, but let's take it at face value for a moment), they're still constrained by politics. A politician who says "Hey, everyone, let's take some pain for the next six months so our next 10 years will be better!" will be right out on their ear in nothing flat. There isn't a single power center they have willing to do that, not "the people", not their generals, not their rich benefactors, not their civil servants, nobody.

Secondly, hyperinflation gives a lot of power to the people in power. Inflation creates a temporal gradient that people usually ignore because it's not that large, but in high inflation environments, the closer you are to the printing press, the richer you are. The printing press prints you fresh new "today" currency. You use it to go out and buy. But a lot of what you're buying is really priced in "yesterday" currency. The act of buying pushes up those prices again, but you got yours. It's everybody else who is dealing in newly-high prices but trying to chase them with yesterday's currency (or worse, last week's currency) who has the problem. (Currency units are not literally labeled like that, of course; they're nominally fungible. But when you have today's print, you've got more to go chase things with.) This works right up until there's nothing left, but then you end up with effectively 100% of that "nothing". I think there's a lot of people in power who find this a very appealing proposition.

(In fact I would consider this one of the major unsolved problems in practical economics, if not the major unsolved problem: How do you deal with the existence of the power to create money/currency? Historically speaking, those who have it are completely incapable of resisting the temptation to use it to benefit themselves. There is no known solution. Physical standards like gold/silver get creatively adulterated over time, fiat simply has this capability built in, barter is so fantastically unstable that it can't even progress to the point that you can ask this question. A solution may not even exist, at least with humans as we know them now.)
I am unable to reproduce work in CS most of the time. In part, because technology moves so fast. You can’t earn a PhD or tenure by maintaining open source software, so after a few years most implementations are rotten. Research software rots faster than other software because it’s built by people who aren’t professional engineers. Code quality doesn’t earn PhDs or tenure, either. We also use expensive new technologies with changing interfaces. So research software almost always rots.

Also in part because papers are “dressed up.” That’s a polite way of saying that the description of what they’ve built has been stretched. Authors need to make reviewers excited. They do this with ideas, not code. The purpose of their code is to show that the ideas could be practical, not that they are. So research software is almost always incomplete.
It's also editorializing the title IMO, unless CNBC has updated their title since this was posted.