skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this actually true? I feel like the majority that software exists is non-business software simply because there's zero cost...
I don't think the goal is to have a campus that looks like a Benetton ad, is it? That seems somewhat disingenuous.

Isn't it more like "have a student body that is somewhat representative of the overall national demographic", on the basis that merit to attend elite institutions is evenly distributed?
The title here is slightly misleading; Adobe refused to renew it's licensing deal with Pantone because the main way Adobes products are being used these days is digital art & design. There's no incentive for Adobe to keep paying licensing fees to Pantone (not to mention that the Adobe version of the plugin hasn't been updated since 2011 and is alledgedly very inaccurate and incomplete), so they're cutting the feature.

Pantone, whose business is selling color matching inks between all sorts of materials (digital, paper, wood, fabrics you get the idea, this is a more expensive craft than one may think it is) is now selling the previous product they licensed out to Adobe as a separate 15$/month plugin. The fees specifically exist to make sure that the colors on screen do actually match the colors of the ink that Pantone provides to printing companies. That's why it costs money - Pantone is constantly adding, changing and tweaking those inks to make sure they're as uniform as possible and digital is just another target they have to provide a matching color for.

The only real problem I see here is that Adobe didn't account for the fact that a lot of people likely used it as a hue selector in Photoshop and that they didn't provide an easy one-time Pantone Spot Color to RGB conversion and instead just blacked out the colors.
Migration and babies increase England and Wales population
The math here makes a flawed presumption: that you play a song only once after buying it from iTunes.

I obviously don't know your listening habits, so for you that may be the case. But people will listen to a single song far more often than once. Or otherwise there'd had to be 77.946.027 new users on spotify[1] last month all playing Ed Sheeran once. Clearly nonsense.

If you play every $1 iTunes song eight times on spotify, the costs (and therefore fees) will be on par: $10/month.

[1] https://open.spotify.com/artist/6eUKZXaKkcviH0Ku9w2n3V
>Most will require two government IDs to be sent in to remove 2FA and 1-2 week process to review & confirm.

I've never heard of this. If I lose my number, can I still regain Google account access by mailing my info in?
> The original definition of fighting words was laid out at a time when honor duels were still common, and that is the environment under which they were defined.

You're right that it's a very narrowly defined carve out that has since been narrowed further, but it's definitely from the 1940s from the cited Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fighting_words
>It is up to you to make sure you don't loose access.

The problem in my case was that Google changed the rules halfway through. I kept my username and password perfectly secure in my password manager. But one day they suddenly decided that I can't log in until I respond to an SMS code they sent to a phone number they somehow got from me 12 years ago that I no longer have access to. It would be fair for them to not suddenly force SMS MFA without the user's consent.
And yet, those decisions were reverted after he left Apple, so are the bean counters really at fault here?
Nowadays they do provide an app (Import-Export) to export all your mail, even for free tier accounts, so it's quite easy to move away.

See: https://proton.me/support/export-emails-import-export-app
the slash symbol is often used to denote multiple entities. For example, "I don't deal with foo / bar" usually means that the commenter doesn't deal with either foo or bar. The commenter is not claiming that foo and bar together constitute a single entity.
I have an S10, literally did. So which anecdote wins?
Speeding up would mean loss of control of the car in a turn, so the driver used the wall to maintain stability while pushing the pedal to the metal.

Drivers aren't supposed to hug walls like that.
They want to make sure you pay at every single point where you might think "PANTONE®". So in addition of having to buy the PANTONE® sample book in order to actually know what the PANTONE® colours are, you now need to pay to reference the PANTONE® colours in a Photoshop document so that the receiving party knows which PANTONE® colours they need to get out of a printer.

If they could make you pay for sending an email containing "I need the background to be in PANTONE® Red 032 C", they would.
I don't disagree that manipulating deep arrays and graph data can be harder in an immutable functional language, at least with default commands.. however many fp languages have powerful and mature libraries that let you work with deep data structures very gracefully and correctly. Clojure has Specter, Haskell has lenses and stuff.

For me, the FP dream ( and we aren't quite there yet) is that your program is an airtight declaration of the desired functionality, and then we get out of the way and let the compilers and profiling runtimes optimize away.

How cool would it be if the runtime stats could let the jit either unroll and inline a function if it's called on small arrays from network buffers, or push it to gpu if it's frequently called on huge in ram buffers? Not there yet, but as the tower of complex tooling needed to work in a compute parallel world keeps growing, we are going to be relying more and more on the compiler/runtime to optimally use that power.
Thomas Kinkade certainly made a living off the visual equivalent of muzak.
He discussed that: intent is implied by the phrases "directed to" and "advocacy of".
Digital Wallets and Payment Pointers
As a follow on the Online card payments still suck[1], Adrian discusses how Fynbos plans to address the future of online payments.

[1] https://fynbos.app/blog/card-payments-still-suck
The recent Apple fiasco about introducing ads into iOS shows how true your statement is. It doesn't matter (apparently) that you paid £1500 for a brand new spanking phone, Apple will still want to milk you for money, even though they made about 50% pure profit on that single sale.

A very apt comparison would be blackmail - you'd think that paying the blackmailers their demand would sort things out, simple transaction, I pay you, you get rid of the compromising material (or w/e they're blackmailing you with). Except no, you paying them just stokes the fire, because they see they can make more money off of you, so they'll come around again, demanding payment. You lost out on paying the first demand, and literally nothing changed.

Same goes for paid services. You'd think that switching from a free service structure (where your data is being sold to support the upkeep of the service), to something paid, would mean that they don't sell your data anymore, right? Well, why on Earth would they NOT sell your data when they can make money off of it?

Most companies, especially VC-funded ones, won't care about long term. You can always rope in users with flashy new stuff, discounts, promotions, and users are not likely to leave, even if you push them to the edge of acceptability of abuse (here, I'm considering sale of your private data, especially if you're a paying customer, abuse), simply because it's more comfortable to just accept it rather than try to find another service that fits your needs, move all your stuff over, etc. - plus, there's no guarantee that this new service won't change business practices in the future and start selling your data (or abuse your customership in a different way).

This is why the whole pro-capitalist argument "well just pay for it and they won't sell your data" is bollocks. In a capitalist market, there's absolutely no incentive for a company to stop making as much profit off your back as they can. There's no incentive to "provide a fair service for a fair price", but there's LOTS of incentive to "provide bare minimum services at the highest price a majority of the customers are willing to pay, one way or the other". The only way to fix this is via regulations, but that stifles "innovation" (and by "innovation" I mean the padding of the pockets of the investors).
This is the same kind of sentiment that nobility and clergy had when the printing press was invented. Society as a whole, and democracy, will be fine. The privileged status that several people enjoy in society today will not be fine. In a few places in Europe, the upheaval was bloody because the nobility and the clergy turned to violent means to keep their power.

I am guessing, since we are on HN and you hold this set of views, that you, like me, are part of the modern "clergy" class. Most of HN is, as well as much of silicon valley. The discourse has so far been controlled to your benefit by people who are your peers, and you are looking at the uncertain future of your own status and thinking that the entirety of democracy is falling. The reality is that our position as arbiters of speech is a distortion of the democratic system, and the immune system of democracy, speech, is coming to fix that.

This distortion affects your definition of "signal" and "noise." It is a lot easier for us to see things that benefit the cathedral as signal, and things that don't as noise.

Most people can tell the signal from the noise just fine. The problem is that for tech folks, the signal we want them to receive isn't always the signal that they want to receive. It often isn't noise or disinformation, just signal that is inconvenient for us.

If you look at provably false conspiracy theories (eg flat earth or chemtrails) and cults, there are very few people who believe them despite the noise level they put out and the amount that YouTube promotes them. In comparison, something like 70% people believe one or two conspiracy theories that are hard to disprove (eg things about the JFK assassination, aliens, or the CIA). It turns out that this is mostly harmless - the worst that happens is that it leads to distrust of government, which happens to have earned a lot of distrust.

If you look at other inconvenient things that big tech has suppressed, like the news about Hunter Biden's laptop, you will find that this is important signal that may have swung the election, not misinformation. The problem is that it would have swung the election the wrong way, so the cathedral (in this case, the FBI, Google, Facebook, and Twitter) kept it off the modern airwaves, proclaiming it to be "noise." Unfortunately, this was signal for most people - a later survey said that a decent fraction of Biden voters would have voted differently if they had known about it - and our collective filters caught it because it was inconvenient for us.

People are not bad critical thinkers: they can figure out what is relevant signal for them. After getting out of school, they understand how to think critically well enough to find the information that is relevant and not false. It just isn't leading them to the information that we think should be relevant to them.

Democracy is fine. In fact, it may be healthier when the censorship regime that we have collectively imposed is gone. The control we have over it is going away, and that is a good thing.
Definitely. Unfortunately vaccination is political everywhere and there are also profit interests, so they can't just use the "better" vaccines.

With the mRNA vaccines and the weaker virus variants, we averted a lot of deaths and the "collapse" of the hospitals in many places. But we are still dealing with many dead, millions of work days lost per year, and many cases of long covid...
Very fun to use. Easy to learn the software too.
Is my new Mycroft AI device capturing my thoughts and sending them on to a Borg-like hivemind? I was just thinking of something like this the other day and here it is on HN!

All jokes aside, from reading the threads, I see there are other alternatives, most interestingly atuin and fzf. I used fzf for a while, but didn't use the history features. Atuin looks amazing, and installs using nix-shell. My litmus test for whether something is safe to use is nix-shell these days; I'm not excited about running a curl script into python as my starting point!

Does anyone have references on whether atuin and fzf can be used together, or should you only use one or the other? I liked fzf but the encrypted remote sync feature of atuin looks really fascinating.
If Google's tracking data became available to the right people, you can imagine why that would be bad for you if the married FAA official in charge of approving the 737 MAX was tracked to his mistress' apartment.
Deliberately corrupting (or pretending to corrupt) the user's files is a whole new level of Adobeness.

Are they trying to shame Pantone, as some optimistic comments suggest, or happy to get a valued partner's help in their mission to evolve subscriptions to be more like ransomware?
Thanks for clarifying, this is an insightful interpretation.
(warning: unpopular opinion)

I would like to point out that, affirmative action does create harm, as it tarnishes the image of people legitimately got selected and got in to the college/program, as there will always be the question in the air: "Did they got in because they are qualified or because of color of their skin?". Also, people who weren't selected because they are not in the affirmative action group will always have the doubt that they weren't selected because of their race/skin color and this always will fuel racist thoughts.

Fixing discrimination with discrimination is not a good idea: two wrongs should not add up to a right. We should fix the systemic issues that cause people in to be in the situation where they are discriminated against, even although it is going to be slow.
I think you're underestimating the effort needed for parallelization here. Deno is written in a language that was built for "fearless concurrency" (Rust), whereas Bun is written in a language that barely has a concurrency story (Zig)
research doc https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/87635/
thats not the argument we are discussing - the question is should these protections exist at all. We are talking about denying the artists all protection, only fair to confront developers with the same dialemma.

Whether they are 3 years or 300 is a finer point, and is only worth discussing after nessesity and legitimacy of sich protections is established
Not individual values, it is the value of society as a whole.
No. Google will lock you out forever.
This is one reason why I have a Google Voice number. If my underlying. number is "lost" I can just reconfigure GV. But there is some (increasingly rare) 2FA that does not work with numbers other than telco numbers. When you sign up an SMS vendor for 2FA, make sure it works with VoIP services.
Psychedelics: A Personal Take (2021)
> anything new

It is nothing new. It is called (at least) "the problem of transparency".

The chess context is probably not the best, because many systems allow a lengthy complex explanation of the response (I cannot remember now the exact workings of Deep Blue - it has been a while last time I met the full info).

It is a real problem in general, because we may not just want responses but we may want "to learn something", and specifically, because ANNs applied to e.g. Decision Making, or ANN based Decision Support Systems, pretty much require that natural intelligences assess the "oracular" proposals.

And of course, "understanding" the engine is required to advance it.

It is a key problem.
My guess is the UI reflects cache policy, the cache policy is biased toward LRU and that LRU tends to correlate with age.

To the degree my guess correlates to reality, older videos will tend to be in cooler storage and therefore more resource intensive to retrieve and load and play.

And the UI change reflects engineering considerations as is the cultural practice at Google.
The IETF has given up on XMPP for its own chat service.
The history of scientific development is one of finding patterns in data (think Kepler's studies of Tycho Brahe's accurate astronomical observations) - yes, AI excels at that - but then expressing those patterns in terms of simple mathematical equations: orbits are elliptical to a first approximation (not counting other graviational bodies than the sun and a planet), and the sun->planet vector sweeps out equal areas in equal times, etc.

https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/circles/Lesson-4/Kepl...

AI doesn't seem to excel at producing such foundational relationships that can then be used as building blocks in more complex theories. That is, you could train an AI on Tycho Brahe's observations and get it to predict the future positions of the planets with high accuracy, but would it spit out Kepler's laws?
> I've seen animation created with diffusion models, that would have taken a traditional animator a year to animate by hand, now doable by a single person, within a week.

Do you have a link? That's pretty hard to believe.
That would have put you as the enemy of a lot of people who made great progress. Do you think a of the rights we have today were won by people playing nicely and politely? Suffragettes, abolitionists, labor activists
> People used to think the network effect for MySpace and Friendster were insurmountable.

That was also long time ago and it was much easier to compete back then. I think now only way for that to happen is if big network fucks up, not if the better competition comes up
They should just introduce a more reasonable pricing policy offering personal licenses notably cheaper than corporate licenses, non-commercial and educational licenses even cheaper, major version upgrades at a fraction of a new purchase price. This would be a reasonable, practical, humane model, wouldn't it?
If we really need to we can just actually use arrays tho:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/primitive-0.7.4.0/docs/D...

That's what I meant: You can mostly use tree-like log(n) data structures rather nicely but you'll have to isolate your mutating code into stuff like PrimMonad, see:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/primitive-0.7.4.0/docs/D...

I like Haskell because it lets me write clean interfaces at a high level but fall back to byte-level stuff when needed.
“Language is so powerful,” says Ive, who often begins a new project with conversation or writing, not sketches. “If [I say] I’m going to design a chair, think how dangerous that is. Because you’ve just said ‘chair,’ you’ve said no to a thousand ideas.”

The older I get the more I believe this to be the most difficult aspect of making decisions. Saying 'no' to thousands of potentialities seems scary because it's a memento mori of the finiteness of individual lives.
Technically true, but population that uses it is very small.

Come to think of it. You raised a very interesting point. I will need to think of it a little bit more. I want open standards to reign, but is it ok to enforce destruction of walled gardens.
Linus tech tips did a video on this recently: https://youtu.be/JF8UziDHqZo

The one they got was more like $10k.
I think this is very much a matter of personal preference. To me, the "Magic Mouse" is the best pointing device I have ever used on a computer, and was actually my original reason for switching to Macs. I do understand that many people see it different, of course.
"Advocacy of" and "intent" aren't the same standard either!

Again: if Twitter was held to the 1A standard, there is a great deal of content likely to cause imminent lawless action that they would be unable to block.
great for reading trees, but not for cases where nodes need to be added or removed. There's a "zipper tree" structure but it's kind of a pain to implement:

https://github.com/xdavidliu/fun-problems/blob/main/zipper-t...
People aren't looking for Reddit or Discord. They already have these. The people using Twitter to promote their business-of-choice are already on Reddit and Discord if they want to be. They don't want Twitter because it's a good way to host their communities, they want Twitter for cross-promoting their community to other communities.
I don't think it's about one model being inherently better than the other. It's just different and you may want different things for different products.

I don't care if I'm seeing an ad when reading your recipe on your blogpost. Put ads in my operative system and I'll flip out and jump to your competitors.

Blanket statements that say advertising is bad in the name of privacy is plain ridiculous and this kind of thinking is responsible for regulations which made ads way less effective and drove the revenue from advertising down.

This in turn results in less freedom.

If EU regulations make ads unprofitable, I don't have the freedom to pick ad-supported software anymore over paid solution.

Not to mention the usability issues with all those damn popups.
I was hovering over the button to start moving from megacorp to Proton. Bleh. Which megacorp will you pick? Are there really no better options? Thx.
And people think this is alarming? I know responsible folks who can't explain how their critical enterprise APIs work.
I've decided to not care about that (I've never had a Twitter account anyway). The idea that "everyone else is on it" is the problem, not the solution. The only real question is, is there a community you want to be part of? The rest of it is for their benefit, not yours.
Apple started acquiring companies with chip design expertise while Jobs was the CTO. The first processor that had some custom design by Apple was the A4 which was used in the 2010 first generation iPad and iPhone 4.

I can’t believe that Apple wasn’t working on the first 64 bit in house ARM chip by the time SJ resigned in 2011 that was introduced with the 5s in 2013.
I know someone who uses pinterest in a similar way (saving places to see while travelling).
Not sure how big the demand for this is in general, but they would also be interested in a location data and a map view for saved items.
He was trying everything he could to get out of a horrendous deal. If you can’t see that, I don’t know what to tell you.
We are coming to Firefox soon!!
> They were using CentOS for no cost previously and have switched to another no cost RHEL rebuild (Rocky).

Since they involved CIQ, I'm pretty sure they are now paying support for Rocky, which, if you read the article, was clear they didn't mind paying for. It was the per-cpu subscription that was not realistic in their business model.
Previous technology has observed things that people can't by essentially increasing the power of one of our senses, e.g. a microscope increases visual resolution, or a radio telescope increases visual range. This is very easy for the brain to understand. But if you can build a machine to improve on the human brain itself in ability to recognize patterns, is it even possible to get the brain to understand it?
Don't forget SUSE.
If your art style can be ripped off by an AI looking at 32 images, your art style is too pop to be considered "yours" imo.

To take that criticism further, the original artist took Disney art subjects and applied a nickelodeon animation style to it.

Hopefully the artist can appreciate the irony of claiming that it is _her_ style being ripped off when everything in the examples shown is clearly pop art, categorically defined by predominant social influences, and not something which came from her artistic perspective.
> The obvious conclusion of this position is that we should just all kill ourselves if strong AI ever starts to exists.

Indeed that is the logical conclusion. I expect some people advocating this line of logic to follow through
> 0% of all Twitter users are primarily known for their tweets.

This is false.