skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a genuine question.

How can you manipulate someone into spending money on something where they don't perceive any value from its usefulness?

Through blackmail or coercion?

There's no reasonable explanation where someone can be manipulated into spending money that they think is entirely wasteful from the outset.

The sibling comment on marketing, whilst somewhat manipulative, is still a useful purchase -- I want to be a musician so I buy a Macbook Pro to further my dream and use GarageBand. In that case I've been manipulated into buying something expensive for my end goal (however unlikely I'll be to achieve it) but I still perceive some use from it.

Even if you consider spending money on purely charitable causes there's a usefulness in the warm fuzzy feelings the donator will get and the anticipated beneficial use of those funds to the needy.
> (the idea of a meta build system when you target a single platform has always struck me as insane)

who targets a single platform in 2022 ? I have honestly never in my professional life worked on non-embedded C++ projects that only targeted one platform (and honestly, even those had to run on host computers with people developing from any host OS, Mac / Win / Linux) ; on the other hand I had a lot of time people ask me to have support for working on the project from either Xcode, Visual Studio or others IDE. How do you do that without a meta-build system?
Yep, found this googling it. Forgot I had an Evernote account tbh but it was a little concerning.
No disagreement there. I believe walled gardens are the biggest threat to Google.
Thanks for the pointer! My own project is primarily about not just visualizing a plain FFT, because it is so far removed from actual music perception, especially as soon as you have more than a single voice/instrument. So while I've grown quite a distaste for the exact thing Sensory Bridge seems to do, I appreciate people hacking in this space, and maybe someone else finds your comment who does enjoy the product :)
I don’t think it takes very long before new photographers notice the fall-off of light/focus and sense of environment in LF, and even MF. It is a point of envy. You can’t replicate it in post. No megapixel count on a smaller sensor will recreate it, and high quality full-frame CMOS sensors are already pricey as they are. It seems that in this realm, film remains king.
This is full of some real nice photos, graphs, charts....
Nice job!
https://www.science.org/cms/10.1126/sciadv.ade1248/asset/b98...
It's the oldest story in the book (well, one of them).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
Yup. Search on TikTok is astonishingly good, especially relative to the quality of results on YouTube (acknowledgement to the irony there.) TikTok has the ability to surface hyper-recent, relevant content that covers a variety of viewpoints on literally any topic. It’s not a direct replacement for what you’d find on google search, but it’s generally higher quality and more fun to consume in a lot of cases.
This is a really terrible example for your argument considering that the digital camera was invented at Kodak but they refused to market it
https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/1...
>Numpy is small?

Small might not be the right word. I mainly had broadcasting in mind when I wrote that.

>Is there anything missing...?

Not sure I'd call APL esoteric, given it was originally developed at IBM.

My knowledge of both array languages and NumPy is limited, but one thing missing might be partitioning using a mask.

An example of that would be the following snippet of J, from a WIP implementation of MTF encoding:

mask <@(_1&|.)`<;.1 dict

The line noise in the middle partitions dict by mask and uses a cyclic gerund to apply a different function to each partition. The ;.1 is the partition modifier; before it are the two functions separated by a tick. The second function just boxes its argument (due to different sizes). The first function rotates its argument by -1 places and then boxes it
> Is there something akin to what Rust is for programming languages?

Check out the Genode OS framework
If they figure out how to feed it fresh data, it's going to be a killer for shopping searches.

I want to buy a monitor, but there are endless "best monitor $year" websites filled with vague descriptions and half-assed ranking by whatever they thought was relevant. Amazon has garbage data and can't even properly filter by basics like accurate screen resolution.

I want to tell LLM "I don't care about RGB LEDs and curved screens, find me a 32" monitor with 4K and HDR that isn't a gimmick".

edit: I've tried this exact query, and it understood it! It included a couple of HDR600 options, but I told it to pick 700 nits or better, and it did! I'm going shopping!
It can work quite well.

I use Strongbox, a standalone database password manager. My wife and I share a database in iCloud. The database supports concurrent access/syncing and works quite well to share passwords between us.

I trust in crypto to keep me safe. My key is derived from a pass phrase + HMAC-SHA1 digest of a shared secret stored in write only memory (Yubikey, Secure Enclave). My wife’s phone has the same. Our shared mac also has the same.

I could probably host my database on a public AWS bucket and still be safe (120 bits of entropy in the password).
One wonders in the case of Discord and possibly TikTok etc. if Google to pay to index. I imagine they could strike a financial deal that would make it so public channels etc are indexed and viewable via snapshots maybe?
I think you overestimated it. Google's LaMDA is already ready and running, it's just that it's behind the corporate firewall available only to employees. Years? That's way too long for them to scale up the service and flip a switch to open it to the public.
IQ test: https://twitter.com/sergeyi49013776/status/15984304798788567...

SAT: https://twitter.com/davidtsong/status/1598767389390573569

LSAT 40th percentile: https://twitter.com/pythonprimes/status/1599875927625764864

Can't find the math one, but I think it was posted here a few days ago.
Issue with Raindrop is that it doesn’t have keyboard support for basic things like search which is really strange
Its like ask jeves if ask jeves actually worked.
There are some drug harm rankings, yes, but I haven't studied it so can't say what's the actual consensus of the field experts. I think I just saw this "alcohol is more harmful from alcohol" a few times in the articles.

Here is one of the cited articles from 2010:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
No, I'm aware and that's my point. They made it but they refused to do it. Google already had conversational models (note: not necessarily language models) running in production. (GC Conversational AI, Translate Conversational Mode, Conversational Search, etc).

It's not like Google tinkered with language models and forgot about it, like Kodak and digital photography.
Adding ray tracing to an iPhone screen as “overly ambitious” is one way of putting it. On that size display, is it even impressive to the user? Are devs going to design to that capability? I just don’t see the point when a lot of desktop users aren’t in possession of nice enough graphics cards to enable ray tracing.
Have you searched on Google? It’s full of erroneous content
Save the shit out of all of it. Only available on Apple Silicon. https://www.rewind.ai/
One is an inchoate crime.

It's a way to let a prosecutor get ahead of an unsuccesful, and basically a freebie in terms of sentence amplification.
Thanks for the pointers! After digging a bit more, I found https://github.com/scottlawsonbc/audio-reactive-led-strip which looks like an excellent end-to-end setup that's also easy to explore further from. Can't wait to sink lots of hours into it :D
Absolutely, but at least as it appears to me from the outside, Google is sufficiently captured by people with a social agenda that they will neuter the product to an even greater degree.
There's no shame in being a freelance or employee. The whole "foster community" thing is extremely demanding and unlike what these "success stories" on youtube imply, it isn't for everyone.

Focus on what you do best or what is less stressful for you to do in the area you work on. Make some new friends, share some stories and have a laugh about the worst parts of the job when you can.

A humble, but peaceful life is better than getting consumed by a vortex of false promises and lies.
isn't there any adapters for other manufacturers?
Because other people exist with needs and priorities that differ from yours.
there absolutely never was a "line of death". one of the major problems with web and OS isolation has always been that they could never make up their mind where to draw the line. i never even knew they have nomenclature for this until now (only closest concept i heard of was secure attention key).

> security indicators in the URL bar are misunderstood.

it really amazes me how for 10 years we had java applets that can just show an obscure message to the user about "something something signing" and if they press okay they can execute arbitrary code as design (because they consented to running unsigned code which implies that the code can run on your computer with full privileges, and the only way youd know this is if you read about java sandboxing internals for a few hours), and security experts cant find out why the user cant figure out how to be secure. the reason is what people keep saying: everything is broken. all these bullshit HTTPS symbols in the URL bar dont help either, nor does "oh noes self signed blah blah".

> New web platform features have introduced new modalities for displaying web content. For example, the Payment Handler API introduced a new type of embedded browser window for completing payment flows.

which were absolutely never legit. you should never trust a website that wants you to log in to your bank which shows a bank page ostensibly being served by your bank in their own window. its unfortunate that web devs (predictably) took the path of least resistance but thats how it is. everything is broken.
My current theory is that they are not fully backed, but they are backed enough for it to not really matter (ex: if they are 95% backed with highly liquid assets, it's very unlikely that they'll ever breach that).

And given the current interest rates, they could just be parking it all in short term US treasuries, and slowly fixing the issue. If they play their cards right, they can migrate to something that is both fully backed, and highly profitable.
> Do you know why copyright exists?

I do understand, which is why right after the part you quoted I wrote about making it tolerable. Since you basically ignored all the other things I wrote and called me a hypocritical pirate, I'm just gonna address that instead of continuing this pointless conversation.

You don't get to call me a "pirate". I've paid for way too much stuff to just allow that. I pay for streaming services of all kinds. I pay for video games, probably over a thousand titles by now. I pay for physical books. I've even paid for art through patreon, albeit anonymously. I paid for fucking Windows Vista.

You're damn right I'm a hypocrite though. Even though I have extreme opinions on copyright, I actually believe in supporting people like you. I unwittingly support the copyright industry despite advocating for its abolishment because right now I can't support creators in any other way. I put my money where my mouth is and actually purchase the works I enjoy. Only to get called a "raging pirate" anyway.

As a programmer and author, I really couldn't care less if someone copies something I've published. I have no interest in ever litigating such a case either. I understand that there is no controlling the information once it is out there. That's why the things I don't feel like sharing I keep secret.
> Microsoft has avoided any real flak for the stuff that OpenAI releases

Microsoft clearly learned the lesson. Remember Tay from Microsoft?
Check Matcha, my own open-source daily digest RSS reader: https://github.com/piqoni/matcha

"Hosting" is as easy as executing the binary file. :)

You can read the feeds in any markdown reader (such as Obsidian) or Terminal.
Where is the TAPE???
I actually took care of that and combined (the best) Wikipedia articles with their discussions. Here you can see more:

https://www.mostdiscussed.com/
Does CMake have to generate the file and pass it through the special compiler? Can't it be done separately, before CMake is run?

One thing that I find make CMake configurations completely unreadable is to try to have it do everything, coffee included. Where often a script could be run separately first (e.g. to generate those files), and then CMake could run normally afterwards.
After distro-hopping for a while, I've finally settled on NixOS on ZFS root. The ability to boot into any previously working configuration if you manage to screw something up that doesn't work with your hardware or whatever (which is unfortunately still far more common on Linux than on Windows or macOS, if ever... and this feature is via GRUB and NixOS, this doesn't even touch ZFS snapshots which are yet another layer of security), as well as having all configuration be declarative (and storeable in, say, a github repo, and deterministically reproducible) is frankly "the only safe way to fly" in the Linux ecosystem IMHO.

The only trouble is, it's still definitely for power-user Linux folks. There is at least 1 fork trying to put a dent in this problem, though: https://snowflakeos.org/
But I still need another membership somewhere else with a payment method/subscription in order to actually pay them, right? It seems like it could be streamlined.
Protectionism helps you progress up the economic ladder of manufacturing Goods and services. What I think is a lot less clear is how it benefits you once you have a well-developed economy.
It's licensed merch made by FreePower. Tesla didn't develop this, just how they didn't develop their t-shirts or other merch. I'm not even sure why this is news.
The blanket statement is obviously untrue. For example: people are forced to obey the law.

But if you only want to talk about suicide: we already "force" suicidal people to stay alive via suicide prevention measures (nets under bridges, restrictions on drug purchases etc.) that make it harder or less convenient to kill yourself. These measures reduce suicide rates and I'd say they're moral.

Okay, so what if we're only talking about "assisted" suicide? If someone really wants to die, should we let them? I get where you're coming from, but let's not pretend it's always this simple. Suicidal people aren't famous for thinking rationally, and just because someone says they want to die that doesn't mean we should take it at face value. There are already cases in Canada of people seeking euthanasia not because they're terminally ill but because they're poor, and see suicide as preferable to poverty/homelessness:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-canada-euthanisin...

There's the "slippery slope" we were warned about.

PS I'm not sure what you think "bad faith" means, but my post was not written in bad faith.
This article is about the A16 but the M2 family is based on the A15.
There seems to be a pretty large faction - including me - that strongly disagree that Google's results are superior to other search engines. A lot of us prefer DuckDuckGo for most queries, and Kagi seems better if they can solve the pricing issue.
Reading "standard nomenclature" in the other comment made me think this was going to be about the Immortal HeLa Cell Line, and I thought "Odd, that wasn't 'Death', right?"

Then he mentions mountaineering, and I think Mt Everest, thinking "Thank God they removed some bodies"

And then I see it's webdev. AGREED. "Line of Trust" instead, please
I think you're hitting the nail on the head here. Something about the learning process makes programming much easier to pick up.

What if we had something similar for mathematics?

Rapid feedback, error messages, maybe even linters and highlighting for the "mathematical syntax".

I've though about this before and I think tools like this could unlock math for a lot of people, and also increase the effectiveness of professional mathematicians.

When learning math / seeing other learning math I've noticed that simple errors such as typos often slow down or hinder understanding of the subject.
>Chat-as-search is very promising but I think it will cause big issues because people will not check the veracity of its statements.

What, you think they're checking the veracity of sources they find on Google? Get a grip...
They've even extended that motif with Shortcuts, which is surprisingly robust, I just don't know if it has the same level of integration possibilities that AppleScript does.
> Why oh why can't we have this as a product in North America, aside from making a reasonable imitation of it yourself (you need food grad sodium hydroxide, which used to be hard to find, but these days you can order it online).

As an American living in the US, I'll just say that my user name is a testament to what I do for a living.
Currently re-listening to WoT audiobooks (part way through The Great Hunt).

He is the best voice actor I've ever heard. He manages to give a distinct voice to the ridiculous number of characters, female, male, young, old, human, non-human. It really is quite insane.
> The endgame for any living being is maximize return for as minimal effort.

Sure, OG hackers don't want to waste 30 seconds walking to the printer if their print job isn't ready.

But OG hackers solve that problem by spending three hundred million seconds writing an entire OS from scratch.

And in the end, I'm not even sure if that solved the original problem.

Of course you wouldn't be wrong by seven orders of magnitude in the more common cases. But I strongly doubt that Haiku, the Quine that works in dozens of languages at once, or Gnome 2 started their work to fatten up for the coming winter months.
Disagreed. If you've ever watched how non-technical people use google, you'll find that chatGPT already does a much better job. You're not seeing as much SEO blogspam as non-technical people do because you unconsciously avoid using words that are commonly found in spam.
There are plenty of people who treated FTX as a high savings yield account and just kept it there.

Most don't want to talk about it now since it's embarrassing but look at the trading firms with writes down of 50% or more.

For small timers, they are just under reported like with Luna, there are probably a fair amount of suicides, but govts don't reveal details to avoid emotional group contagion
Your death affects other people.
I get updates every week or two from LineageOS. I'm sure you'll say that doesn't count, but I specifically pick devices with LineageOS support.
All indications is that Apple went from conception of the iPhone to introduction in two years.

It took Apple 3 months to go from “we are going to introduce an App Store” to “there’s an all for that”
Ask HN: Is software becoming less efficient?
I had a discussion with a friend where they stated that in-efficient software is bad because it ultimately yields to human labor-exploitation in order to fulfill our demand of ever faster compute power.

I think I agree with the issue, but also I believe things like vendors are able to get away with only few years of software support, proprietary OEM drivers that eventually become EOL and give hardware an expiration date - things that aren't exactly because of less efficiency.

So this kinda brings me to my question, is software actually becoming less efficient?

We have better image/video/audio codes, better multi-core programming languages, better efficiency in various high-level programming languages, (sometimes) better optimized libraries, better tooling that allow development of more efficient software and also pre-trained ML technology that uses much less storage/compute than some custom crafted software would have allowed.
If you don't understand the proof of any theorem, you haven't really "learned" it in any real sense. Wrt. doing computational exercises in vector calculus, that requires knowing the "rules of the game" which is also something that you can test precisely in a proof assistant.
> Also, Google has already been using their LLM in their search, "in the market"

And yet I still have to filter through a bunch of results to find something actually useful, vs simply asking chatGPT and getting relevant information immediately (with obv limitations of chatgpt). Why does it feel like Google search has gotten progressively worse every year?
If my CEO behaved as erratically as Musk, I’d leave. Unfortunately, some companies make stock options a large part of their compensation and, thanks to Elon, employees who stayed lost about 75% of that. Many who were fired lost all of it.

In fact, if my CEO behaved like him, he’d be considered a national security risk.
My perception of Tesla’s supercharging network is that it was a huge edge 5 years ago, or even 2, but not so much anymore.

Yeah, it may still be the densest, but generic chargers are popping up everywhere. If I’m deciding on which brand to go with today, the charging network doesn’t even make the list of considerations. In 2017 it may have been near the top of that list.

Couple that with Tesla’s stale designs and continuous decontenting and I don’t see a Model 3 as all that compelling.
Just to show how serious it is, I have worked at Google for many years and have seen code yellows a few times, but code red was always just a theoretical thing.

I think it's great that the management woke up and understands that they need to disrupt themselves.
And rumors are that YouTube still isn’t profitable and if it is - just barely
Simplest way to explain it in americanese: Brexit happened because British MAGA’s voted for it. An older generation and less-informed younger folks believed in British exceptionalism/history of empire without taking into consideration the fact that the empire was long gone and founded on the brutal exploitation of indigenous peoples across the world.

They blamed european (polish) and African immigrants, and regulators in Brussels for their problems. They were sold a false bill of goods by charismatic politicians who couldn’t back it up. Now they’re paying the price and they will for a generation or more.
another way to frame it is that it is smarter than 1 in 7 adults, and the median high school student. Not bad for a robot. How long until they can cook or do household tasks as well as a twelve year-old unattended?
Large corporations are great at failing to exploit their own strengths because they are afraid of anything rocking how they make money.

I would be far more surprised if google reinvents itself using a transformer-based AI than I would some unknown company.
It’s really just a series of experiments so far, no code to share.
I'm glad someone else shared this.

I used to be very much in favour of legalised euthanasia but I'm a lot less certain after reading about what it's actually looking like in practice in Canada - where the results seem horrifying.
Of course Boston is also a town in England (near Nottingham), and the US city is actually named after it, so a legitimate answer would be the distance between these two places, although none of the systems seem to interpret it that way.
Try to find the RFC, then realize there are actually a million defining all the different protocols used by WebRTC. It is not simple :-).
The price going from 100 to 80 is more information which can help inform your understanding of the value.