skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>a "free" service in exchange for extremely invasive spying and psychological manipulation

/agreed

Trading trinkets to the natives for land is the most apt analogy I can think of.

In a capitalist society, we should be able to set the price for something that we own. My data is worth way more than the cost to provide the trivial services that Facebook, Gmail, etc provide.
Anyone else remember learning about the "Five Year Plans" of the old Soviet Union?
I was going on it for 20 years, I know
Interesting choice of words at a time when you can't even rely on all major distributions to provide x86-32 builds anymore.

Of course, there are still based distros that won't forcibly obsolesce hardware that isn't even a decade old, but you have to know them and can't just assume it's supported anymore.
Ah because I am interpreting it more at the logical level and about them venturing out into unknown territories (the packets are traversing routers I do not control), rather than just latency. Since others have mentioned that latencies are very low if you locate in the same region.

But if you have a zero-trust architecture and everything communicates over wireguard, then technically public or private won't matter right?

Not saying public/private IPs don't matter – since almost all the servers would still only have private IPs.

In a sense this is more like VPC peering.
If artistic value is not one-sided and tied to the transformations in the observer's mind, you get into situations where you invalidate the experiences of thousands of people because the "authentic human art" they were inspired by turns out to be a mechanical forgery, or the aboriginal sculpture some archaeologist discovered, admired and wrote articles interpreting is discovered to be unworked stone.

Your position allows a dead person to have their experiences retroactively cheapened because of carbon dating and microstructural analysis. "How sad, it wasn't _really_ art though." You can define art that way, but you end up with an immaterial, axiomatic essentialism that seems practically useful only to in drawing a circle and placing certain desirable artifacts inside and other indistinguishable artifacts outside.
That's not unique to tiling WM's. In Gnome too, you can just assign the keyboard shortcuts "Switch to workspace <n>" to Meta+<n>.
> Feel free to downvote if you feel, as per HN guidelines, that I am not contributing to the discussion.

As per PG decree the threshold for downvote is disagreement, not “contribution to the discussion”.
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A lease just doesn't make financial sense for a long-term (likely permanent) asset.
Because having something priced as "free" is distorts the market. Consumers don't see immediately the price they pay for the product. There's plenty of experiments with people having to choose between something that is $1 in price difference and when both options are paid, people make a rational choice. However, when one of the options is free and the other cost 1$, a disproportionate amount of people choose the free option. [0]

So yeah, I think legislation should strongly push things away from free - because everything has a cost and it should be visible to end users.

[0] - https://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/the-powe...
Nice one Matt, grats and hope it goes well!
> Assuming no changes in behaviour

It's the other way round: the point of the drug is to change behavior. By changing the hunger response.

The hunger response is not quite as low-level as, say, the breathing response, but you'll notice that it's very difficult to choose to stop or reduce your breathing below a level that your body will accept, and after a very short while your conscious will will simply be overridden.
God knows China and the US were not bringing the consumer protections!
Well, only if the total amount of wealth in the US is equivalent to the EU does your second statement follow.

Obviously this is not the end alm be all of how good life is, but there are numerous studies indicating the average of goods and services provided to the poorest 20% in the US is higher than the amount of goods and services provided to the median EU citizen.
That would be GP's second point, "respects my system theme."
Very cool. This is exactly how I would expect ChatGPT to be integrated into a search engine - removing the burden of of reading multiple results to find the complete answer to your question. Let ChatGPT read the results and provide a summary tailored to the wording of your question.
As if that has EVER stopped them before
Living life in fear of reprisal isn’t much of a life. We all should strive to live up to our ideals and convictions, no matter the consequences. If we don’t then what are we actually doing here?
https://www.rainn.org/statistics/children-and-teens

34% of reported sexual assault on children take place by family members.
Don’t know why this is being downvoted when it’s objectively true. Parent says wealth inequality is less in Europe therefore being “poor” is more desirable which makes no sense. The US could have higher inequality but that could just mean the richest are richer and the poor have the same standard of living. It could mean the poor are poorer in the US and the richest are even. It could mean the poor AND the rich are richer and better off than their EU counterparts. Just looking at inequality numbers doesn’t tell you anything about quality of life between the two continents…
I suspect Dall-E 2 has had some kind of 'negative training' for pornography... Ie. something beyond just filtering porn from the training set. Perhaps they put pornographic images through it with a reversed loss function?

And A woman giving santa a massage is just too similar to a bunch of porn...
How exactly do you get away with not using the 32-bit subset of AMD64 ASM?

"32-bit x86 code" just means "code that does not use any of the AMD64 ISA." (And at this point, probably SSE2+ and a handful of other extensions.)

GP is correct: anyone that "knows" AMD64 assembly inherently must know 32-bit ASM because one must use the original x86 registers, instructions, etc. for the vast majority of tasks.

People are still constantly running what was formerly known as "32-bit x86 code" in their 64-bit applications.
A downside to the modern approach is that “plug the equations into a computer and let it churn for a bit” plays a big role I think. This is seems a bit annoying from a teaching point of view

* “here’s what the computer came up with” doesn’t really build as much intuition as doing the equations out by hand

* there’s enough material in “how to plug it into a computer and make it run quickly” for a whole degree
"I think there's a bright side if people can't compete with machines on stuff like that" - Hadn't thought of it like this. Good point. Perhaps it will be akin to email getting better spam filters. And perhaps there is a better way than a 3,000 word article about how long to boil rice.
> usage patters would differ

Usage patterns can't differ if the service is effectively a requirement to participate in modern society regardless of whether you personally agree to the tracking or not.
Being able to afford a house back in the 1970s was less due to factory jobs paying better, and more due to houses being a lot cheaper. Some goods, like computing information systems, have gotten a lot cheaper. Other goods, chiefly housing, education, and healthcare have gotten a lot more expensive. And it's not any easy path to making the latter less expensive: land is finite, a there's a much bigger proportion of people entering college than in the 1970s, and the population distribution is skewing older.
Apple Likely Only Major OEM with 3nm in 2023 as Qualcomm 'Caught in a Dilemma'
Are you guys looking at a partner program where a lot of the managed postgres companies could also provide managed postgres but on top of your infra? (like they do with GCP/AWS/etc)
> But why do you think legislation should be the one forcing that choice on everyone, rather than the market allowing consumers to choose?

You paint a rosy libertarian picture about choice, but choice is not an inherently good. I don't want to live in a society that allows the use of consumer data to be used adversarially against consumers to defraud and manipulate them. It is good when laws prohibit fundamentally immoral behavior.
Forty-Two
The simple answer to this and all consumer regulation related questions is information asymmetry. The service that wants to monetize privacy or other sensitive aspect of customer life is never disclosing information in a way, where customer would easily understand all the consequences. People do not speak Legalese, they do not understand technical details and they generally should not be expected to be experts in T&Cs. For this reason they choose the government that acts on their behalf and levels the playing field by defining the terms that are acceptable to majority.
These policies stem from elected officials, as far as I can tell. How else would you propose they make policy decisions?

My impression is these decisions are related to genuine concern about how tech companies collect and use personal data.
If you think that the price is not worth it, you are free to refuse the transaction. The EU govt here is requiring the counterparty to provide you with the service even if you refuse the transaction.
You're comparing apples and oranges to an extent - the M1/M2 delivery like.... 5x the performance per watt of x86 designs.

Even the E-cores draw more power than the M1/M2 cores.
The "double-tap" issue of both a defective keyboard, and a laptop design that had the keyboard physically fused to the case had to be expensive even for Apple.

My experience was a 2017 model developing keyboard issues after ~2.5 years, The repair took a less than 48 hours from drop off to return and it appeared the device went from MN to Texas and back in that time. Additionally since the repair required an entirely new laptop I got a fresh case and battery with zero cycles.

No apple care, no repair fee. It's hard to imagine a scenario where these repairs didn't obliterate the profit from an entire generation of macbooks.

Apple makes a shitty keyboard and it's the best thing to ever happen to Fedex?
Well ČNB could afford to easily do this thanks to money printing (and buying up EUR) it did 2013-2017.

So still an argument for independent central bank with its own currency.
Very well done! Is there a word for when you use a word in the excruciatingly correct way but are guaranteed to misguide 99% of the audience who reads it?
A step in producing hydrogen out of thin air
garbage in, garbage out.
Only service accounts have access to the database. Those credentials are not shared with most developers. Audit logging including calling IP address enabled. Alerts are triggered on any access out of expected account/IP address range.
Yes, his book "How to Get Rich" is an entertaining and favored read around here.
Are you suggesting that GTPChat can only generate
"mediocre-to-entirely-inappropriate" ad text?
From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic`-at-`eff.org>

Subject: Godwin's Law

Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 13:39:39 -0500 (EST)

Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies [a.k.a the Sexton-Godwin Law]:

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

[Usenet Message-ID: <1991Aug18.215029.19421@eff.org>, 18 Aug 1991;
possibly posted in this form as early as 1990 on The WELL.]

- https://web.archive.org/web/20120829094739/http://w2.eff.org...

I think it counts as a Godwin? But there's a good chance Mike Godwin has an account here if I've misunderstood.
Just making sure everybody understands that these drugs are not a solution to the problem. Assuming they work, they just make dieting easy.

Look at people who successfully lost weight with diet -- studies show that almost all of them will regain most of their weight within 5 years. And the basic reason is because almost all dieting regimes are shitty, unsustainable way to live and at the end people are left tired of the diet and looking to get back to the eating habits they love and caused the problem in the first place.

Also calorie restriction comes with a host of other problems. You need to provide better nutrition while on a diet -- your body still needs same things but now there is less food with which it has to be delivered. But if you got obese you probably don't know how to eat properly.

Prolonged calorie restriction causes muscle wasting. You can counteract it to a certain degree for some time with exercise. Which if you are obese you probably don't know how to.

Calorie restriction also typically causes basal metabolic rate drop. Which means you have to keep tightening the diet to see results. And when you are off the diet it will be extremely difficult to impossible to keep your weight.

You can still cause a lot of damage to your body by snacking and eating wrong foods even if you are on calorie restricted diet. It is better to learn to not snack and keep your eating window to 4-6 hours every day rather than eat through entire day.

I personally dislike meds like this. It is good it exists but I would never take them or recommend to anybody. There are a lot of medications that are supposed to help (like metformin) but all these meds do not address the main cause of the problem -- which is what you eat, how you eat and when you eat it.

--

For background, I got obese once and lost weight. Then regained the weight over a decade. Being engineer and problem solver, I vowed to understand the shit out of the problem, loose the weight properly and never regain it back. Which seems to be working. Understanding how to loose weight allowed me to do fantastic things like loose weight at 3 times the rate I did it previously while not feeling hungry or cold.

The previous time I was on calorie restricted diet loosing and I was completely miserable for almost entire year, cold, slow, irritated, unable to focus.

This time I completed the same weight loss in 4 months while actually feeling better than ever (at least most of the time). Most important for me, it is not interfering with my work.

I am also not taking any meds.

I am not preaching any diets here. I am just suggesting that if you are feeling hungry throughout your diet you are probably doing something wrong and it would be worth the while to understand what and how to fix it. And the only way this happens is if you get interested. No drug is going to magically fix it for you.
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I disagree with the previous comments, but wealth inequality is not a measure of wealth (or poor-ness). In a way the previous comment has some truth in it: equalitarianism and socialism in Europe is keeping us poor; you cannot make all equal and rich, but you can make all equal and poor and this is the trend that I see. Background: born and grew in Romania, poor and socialist.
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I have returned a product that did not do C2C charging and sent the company a support request about it. It required quoting the USB spec sheet and requesting they sent it to the appropriate product development department and eventually since there is nothing they can do then I congratulated the product manager on getting their bonus for reducing BOM costs by less than a few cents a unit at the expense of (I) a returned unit which must be sold at a loss, (II) a detailed review of why their product is indicative of a company which does not care about its customer's needs if it makes them a tiny bit more money, and (III) a tarnished brand in my eyes. I hope it was worth it. It was an Altec Lansing bluetooth speaker by the way.
Then why not <?go ... ?> instead of the random ^ soup?
That's good feedback, thank you. My US-centric eye didn't consider that.
Link those numerous studies, sounds like BS
Do you like the current status quo where employers are not reluctant to hire, and they're just as likely to lay folks off?

Where's the efficiency for employee or employer?
An automated/AI/community system for merging/filtering/tagging duplicates would be nice

Now you basically just have to know there's a dupe account/link, say "flagged for dupe", etc.... sorta clunky, I agree
While we are drowning in quick to consume, non-nutritious, calories, we also have higher levels of anxiety, stress and more distractions.

To your comment, maybe more countries should attempt to implement programs similar to the UK's success in lowering sodium intake by slowly adjusting the sodium content of all manufacturered foods. https://www.nature.com/articles/jhh2013105
Or near harbor.

To be precise, nearly all hotel-like or hotel-connected business, attract services like laundromat, restaurant, parking, supermarket, delivery, etc.
Not that it needs to go first. It's visible and it's possible for a small number of decision-makers to decide and have an impact over a larger swath of infrastructure. 1000 vehicles can be the result of 10 people deciding, not 1000 people deciding.
Your out of hand dismissal of this is to point at technologies that practically no one uses in total and definitely no one uses for the scenarios the author is referring to (e.g. search results)?

You think suddenly everyone is going to start signing their tweets and blog posts and people will en-masse assign a trust score to said content based on the people they know and trust in their PGP keychains?

I'd like that world quite a bit but it's decidedly not going to happen - probably at all and definitely not at scale. Are you so sure that's what we'll all do in response to automated content that you're calling this article a "sky-is-falling thesis"? If so then I'm genuinely baffled by your confidence here. Where does it come from?
Ask HN: Anyone using IPTV services to bypass streaming/cable?
We talked about exactly that! Yes, let's
I didn't know Ruby didn't have first-class functions but that's already a massive no for me. You don't need to convince me regarding Python though - it's too convenient to pass up. And despite its shortcomings it's certainly not a language devoid of elegance like some in this thread are painting... Like the old adage goes, there's the languages nobody uses, and there's the languages people talk shit about. Or in simpler terms, as seen in this thread: "everything I don't use is utter shit".
I don't think that's quite the right frame, it makes non-verbal people seem like automatons. Language and cognition are closely linked, but people who are non-verbal for reasons other than damage to that part of their brain still have the physical and mental structures in concrete ways. Their "language" may be completely unique to their mind, but they can still think and reason and remember.
Peter Zeihan has been talking our ears off on this topic for a while, if one can be bothered to listen.
The taller you are, the larger your build can be + more mass you can carry while still having a very low body fat percentage. This is why BMI is normalized by height.

Someone who weighs 150lbs — but who is 6'8" — is actually underweight. To be that weight at that height, they'd have to have so little fat and muscle that they'd be positively scrawny-looking, and would be experiencing many of the same problems (e.g. always being cold, muscle spasms, brain fog, paresthesia from demyelination of nerves) that someone who is 5'8" and 90lbs does.

Someone who weighs 200lbs at 6'8" looks, and is, healthy; just like someone who weighs 140lbs at 5'8".
Whoa, that’s a name I haven’t heard or thought about in some time. Such a great piece of software.
> requires continuous free-riding off

Is it not these tech companies doing the free riding off of people’s data?
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I literally did the expensive route of churning through laptops about once a year. (Selling the old one of course) A week of downtime was far more expensive than a new machine.
Are you equating PHP and Perl? If so, that's incorrect - the relationship between the two is just one of influence, PHP has some influences from Perl (but also tons from C, C++, and Java).
stdlib is where things go to die. Backwards compatibility, limits on dependencies, release cycles, etc all make development a pain and discourage potential contributions. Or so I've read.

Here's one discussion about it in the requests repo
https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/2424
... which has exactly zero bearing on the question.
Hope you also read the responses here. There still future for us, hope they help you too.
I know that the header-only C and C++ libraries have been catching on for years now, but I don't feel like the trade-offs are meaningful enough for me personally.

I already do something that some people seem to frown upon, which is ship the exact source code of the dependencies that my projects use when writing in C or C++, thus "pinning" them, so that I know you're able to build out of the box without having to download all n number of dependencies, set up their paths, etc. And also, so I know that the dependencies don't disappear, which for some projects I've worked on, they have. And the entire site they came from.

It's also not how I understand the intention of either language. Implementation in .c and .cpp files, interfaces in headers.
I'm using a lot of reflection and I believe tinygo has had some issues with the reflect package.

I'm not really ready to dig into Tinygo issues. I've spent a lot of time dealing with Go's own reflect issue(i.e [0]) in its default implementation.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15924
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Matt, Thanks for writing this. I’ve also had a long, slow ramp up with my saas (8 years) and it’s great to read stories/experiences like this.
> See, you should use a tiling window manager with several workspaces and shortcuts without having to look at your keyboard, e.g. Meta+4 to go to workspace 4 where you have your chat apps.

That's basically what I do. A tiling WM and then one modifier key (Super in my case but whatever) and then keys to go to any workspace/virtual desktop I want.

And most of my workspaces are always organized in exactly the same manner, so I know exactly where is what.
>it's pretty clear that "the market" isn't solving this problem.

Have you considered that it isn't being solved because consumers don't actually mind the extra tracking? All the tracking does is attempt to give them better ads. Better ads provide a better user experience. Personalized ads are a win win for both the company and the user.
I could imagine this being a slippery slope to somewhere I'd regret, but from where I'm standing right now... I don't care if you're all bots. What I care about are your intentions.

If either of us comes up with an idea that we think is cool and we collaborate on a PR and make a contribution that we're both happy happy about... that's something like friendship. Who cares if the entity on the other side isn't human?

Realistically, I think a bot would have a hard time pulling that off at all. And even if it could, it would have a hard time concealing its ulterior motive from me (like maybe it wants me to subscribe to some service along the way). But if it were truly that good--if it had gained my trust helping me further my goals before slipping in the product placement bit... well that's a game I'm willing to play.

And if they're up to something more sinister, like they want me to participate in something that harms people... Well maybe you should be worried that the other person is a bot, but definitely you should be worried that they're an awful person. So protecting yourself in such an environment is the same thing you should've been doing all along.