skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Musicians and people associated with film media also have collective bargaining via unions.

For example the musicians have the AFM which helped force labels and radio stations to pay royalties to artists.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Federation_of_Music...
This seems to make a lot of sense. The artists themselves also have an incentive to be blockchain validators/miners, thereby reducing the need for token payout, and the subsequent speculation that comes with tokenization (I think).
That's one shitty title.
Python lambdas are not great but Ruby not having first-class functions is also not great. Neither are perfect and there is no syntactic reason outside of variations of personal taste to choose one language over the other.

There are a boatload of compelling reasons to choose Python for its libraries and documentation and adoption level, though.
I'm still holding onto my 60" 1080p TV.

I feel that the amount of people who care about the jump to 4K (for watching movies / shows) is pretty small.

The amount that care about the jump from 4K to 8k will be a fraction of that.
Also, willingness (and propensity) to use direct violence, and open aggression.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187704281...

95% of convicted murderers are male, and it’s not the only place with an obvious skew like that.
And Luis Olmedo - 2022 FISM winner! Great act.

Plus many more.
Dulaglutide (Trulicity) is Eli Lilly's first generation GLP-1 drug. Semaglutide is of a similar generation.

Tirzepatide (Mounjaro) is Lilly's next generation therapy, targeting both GLP-1 and GIP
So regressing to a fully oral culture... Odd times
Good. I'm sick and tired of innovation.

Keep in mind that "innovation" is a codeword for "finding someone else's value and taking it for ourselves". The entire business model of platform capitalism today is "Someone Elses Content"; the ad business today is "Someone Elses Data". Nothing here is actually innovative, it's just stolen.

The actual tech service revenue model is not untenable under GDPR. You just can't sign away people's GDPR rights by burying a clause deep within a 100 page EULA, and you can't refuse service to people who don't opt-in to ad tracking. This doesn't mean that they can't be advertised to; far from it. Advertising existed before tracking and will survive it.

In fact, most of the reason why advertising is less lucrative today is because of tracker-driven remarketing. This shifted revenue away from publishers and towards platforms, because platforms could just sell your audience out from under you. Why buy ads on the NY Times when you could just buy "people who visited nytimes.com in the last 14 days" for a fraction of the price?

My gut feeling is that legally limiting tracking is actually going to make advertising a more healthy business by taking out the power of the intermediaries that control this ad data.
If you do that companies will be more reluctant to hire, since they’ll have to factor in the risk of paying a hefty severance.
Too bad class-action lawsuits only (apparently) apply for that class of people in a particular legal jurisdiction. I went through two broken-keyboard leading to topcase-replacements for my 12" MacBook over the years, but I live in Canada, so I'm guessing there's no $395 coming my way.
Why does critical infrastructure need to be among the first to “go green?”
I'm gonna disagree with

"Ruby got popular coz Rails could get barely code-literate graduate to write CRUD app and so it was cheap (famous 15 minutes to blog tutorial) for companies."

That's not what happened, instead Ruby got popular with advanced web developers working in Java who saw that Rails was had better answers than J2EE. If you were barely code-literate graduate you wouldn't recognize that Rails was offering new unique ways doing things.

The 15 minute blog tutorial wasn't really indicative of what Rails was like, just a small sample about how it was different.

It was an advanced tool for advanced users with a long learning curve that eventually paid off in better productivity.
I wonder what the longer-term solution is for this? More trucks? Exchangeable batteries? Faster charging?
The core main task is execute millions of actions/hooks offered without any control to be exploited by plugins. So "not hacking the core of wp" is really "hacking the core of wp"
My impression is that there are exactly 2 groups of management, completely disjoint: those who want to have salesforce, and those who have salesforce.
Previously 're-tooted', but, disappointingly, no more :( https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/16080

(In practice, people still use the 'toot' terminology a fair bit)
I buy that more people prefer SF weather to Detroit, but how is it the best in the US? As you go South along the coast you pass many places I think most people would prefer (ex: Santa Barbara [1]) and even as far South as LA weather is likely something more people would prefer [2].

(Personally I'm very happy with Boston and like having seasons and occasionally getting snow, but I recognize that this is a minority view)

[1] https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/557~1443/Comparison-of-th...

[2] https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/557~1705/Comparison-of-th...
As very experienced in such matters (self run few businesses, startup exp, lot of consulting), must say, "business is profitable" is not enough.

We name this trend - non-system business, when business closely tied to owner/founder, so it will disappear when for some reason owner/founder will not work.

And in many cases I seen, these ties are not naturally defined by market or other natural causes, but are integral part of behavior of owner, mean, he made this business defective.

For example, in ex-USSR countries, MOST businesses intentionally made non-systematic, because our law enforcement is not working good, and owners are fear, if business will not closely tied to owner, some criminals will take it away.

And other must say, there are also many cases, where it is too expensive, to fix such business. Just, it's owner gather all cream in past, and have not bother about make healthy systematic business, and now cry.

And finally must say, I know many cases, when LOCAL community depend on such non-system business. What to do? Unfortunately, it is problem of this local community and this community most probably, will be subject, deeply interested to solve problem (nobody else). In such case, local community must be ready, and take over business if owner give away, or do alternative quickly, to fill market gap, if owner will decide to just close business.
> The core WordPress is one of the most secure software in the world: there are thousands of people trying all the time to find exploits and the codebase is public. Go take a look at what CMS whitehouse.gov (one of the highest-profile hacking targets out there) is using.

While I believe the core is reasonably secure, lots of plugins and webhosts aren't. Simply making the website code read-only would take care of a lot of issues, but then your auto-update won't work.
I generally agree, but there are valid cases where play buttons aren’t needed for an animation in every case as you’re saying.

We literally have seconds if that to communicate enough for the user to decide their needs are represented in the screen, to stick around and read and click some more.

Let’s look at gifs and videos as something much simpler - an animation of frames that either auto plays or not.

Having a short, looping, auto playing animation showing a showing a feature or overview with a progress bar can be a positive implementation of negative doom scrolling patterns. Have seen this implemented very well in documentation in addition to text and videos.

The user can pay attention to a looping animation quite well because they’re used to it, including waiting for the loop to restart like they’re already used to. This in turn can accidentally feed some reinforcement learning mechanisms, especially where the primacy effect is involved. Watch the short loop a few times before diving into the full video.

Another use that work well is automated and timed flash cards where clicking, no JavaScript or being offline can be a consideration. Good for hands free, or limited hand use availability. Yes it can be scripted too.

Animations can also be useful within a carousel on a hero component where the resistance to press play on a video might be occurring.

Gifs and their ability to animate frames is just a capability, how we’ve seen them used should not define the limits of what they’re good for.
Thats literally what it is. The "I" in "UI" is "Interface". What is the User Interfacing with if not the DB (with perhaps a brief layer of business logic smeared on top)?
> did you benchmark Jruby or TruffleRuby? Did you compile c-ruby with jemalloc?

Jruby a little faster than CRuby (it used to be more significantly faster, but CRuby has seen more recent performance increase); TruffleRuby is, OTOH, not slow like other implementations.

> Normally the "ruby is slow" argument, is based on not being involved with ruby and solving real problems with it.

Ruby is abstractly my preferred language, and I’ve done a fair amount in it, though I don't get to use it as much in anger because of issues other than its speed (ending up using another slow language as my main day to day.)

> Some people will just LOL this argument even harder if you add development time and code maintenance costs on that equation.

That’s just equivocation; time and cost to market is an orthogonal concern to execution speed, not a component of it; yes, Ruby has a decent code-writing experience, especially for small systems.
“Form follows function”
In my opinion, most articles, lessons, etc. that purport to teach assembly miss the forest for the trees. This is a good article for someone wanting to learn "what assembly _is_" - but I have yet to see an article targeted to programmers that would teach "how do I practically use this."

One can learn the vague syntax complexities, etc. - maybe even write a Hello World..but without having real-world exposure of what compilers actually do to source code, people cannot actually derive meaningful signal or intuition. A very experienced programmer without exposure to assembly might be able to optimize a tight loop or spot a performance issue, but that's probably the extent of it.

Complexity increases as you introduce platform-specific calling conventions, APIs, etc.

I don't know a better way to acquire assembly intuition than by implementing a RISC-V CPU or staring at a lot of decompiled output.
Buffet/Munger seems to be the biggest exception to the trend.
Is now the time to consider video for support?
Is it not a safe assumption that 1 and 2 are numpy and pandas? I would have thought your question should be phrased “I wonder what the third”.

(Just in case this comes across as snarky, it’s a legitimate question.)
World party planning:

China: I'll bring the hardware!

US: I'll bring the software!

EU: I'll bring the lawyers!
> most people don't consider targeting advertising to be "spying and psychological manipulation"

A bit of a catch-22; if they did consider it that, then the manipulation wasn't very good, was it?

The revealed preferences of companies to pay for advertising indicates that it is successful at manipulation, enough to justify its cost.
There's a reasonable argument "if funding for 19 year olds' federal student aid is a limited resource, that it might be rationally prioritized, and in doing so, for priority to be given to people without a criminal record".

Each of those three elements: not unlimited, needing priority, and prioritized thusly could be viewed by people as being sensible.

Whether it should be unlimited is a different question from "given it's not unlimited, how should we prioritize it?"
Unlimited monitors in a small, light package. Potentially much better ergonomics (unproven), float your monitors above your hammock or comfortable chair or whatever. Potentially much better collaboration, since you can be “in the room” with your team, see their facial expressions, etc.
I don't like C++ but even C++ would be a better choice than the GObject system IMO. GObject is abusing C for what C is not designed for. The result is an inefficient and complex system that makes C++98 look simpler.
> Who organizes things around application anyway, instead of windows?

My guess is Apple users, as window switching in macOS is terribly fiddly when compared to application switching.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/prayer-3
Most people have no idea how any of this works, so I wouldn't take observed behavior to be a "revealed preference."
>Why shouldn't a consumer be allowed to agree to what you call "extremely invasive spying" in exchange for a free product, if they want to? As long as you're not signing away rights (e.g. you can't agree to sell yourself into slavery) or engaging in physical harm (e.g. food and safety regulations), then what's the moral basis for taking away choice?

Not everybody believes that individual, consumer-level choice is such a sacred cow. Why is a "moral basis" needed to prohibit choices that the broader society deems bad to offer? For example, I would be quite happy to see pyramid schemes regulated out of existence despite the fact that all participants are making reasonably informed choices to join up (certainly, much more well-informed than people who click agree on the Facebook ToS). Hopefully I don't need to offer a "moral basis" on why I think that's a good idea.
Spotify did an episode of their Development podcast that touched on this recently. I thought it was quite interesting.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0erUH7oqqbW5HDUjcnK6cb?si=q...
> He was in many ways a 'good' thing for America, by exposing the worst of America.

I remember reading that the Democrats were really pleased the Republicans chose him, because s/the worst of America/The Republican Party/g, and were shocked that he was popular.
> people who aren't obese, but who are "large" ("Big and Tall", in the clothing phrasing)

What's the difference, just the degree of being overweight? And the height of course, but drugs won't make anyone shorter.
Salesforce spends tons of money on sales people. If they'd want to make a pile if cash, they could fire them all and could still live off the existing contracts for years. As the market penetration will increase, they should technically require fewer sales people.
Under this view, presumably historical nations that made most of their money from trade, and didn't rely much on local production (the Netherlands, say; or Portugal; or Hong Kong under British rule), would see little-to-no local economic benefit from a marginal slave laborer — and so just wouldn't bother to establish any prisons / penal colonies. And also, likely would find it hard to sell these criminals on to other countries, given their known criminality / disobedient attitude.

Is this accurate? If so, then what did such countries generally do with their criminals? Exile them?
“How do we know the world is round” is an interesting example to use. Eratosthenes got an estimate for the radius of the Earth that was pretty close using, I dunno, sticks and his eyeball or whatever ancient Greeks had.

The history is useful there, I think. First off, it is motivating — that’s a pretty big question, really shows what math can accomplish without much hardware. Second, it provides some sort of useful constraints if you are trying to work out the computation yourself. In a textbook the problems are always a bit artificial, some info will be given, some hidden. “Anything an Ancient Greek would have” is a bit more real-world, you can see where the constraints come from.
I'm not sure which law it counts as exactly. Apple's own docs and were enough for me to explain to them using the correct terms: https://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/uk/
That's the whole point
The original article cited the SPLC, not the ADL, so this has literally nothing to do with the topic at hand except that the GP commenter's mind for some reason jumped to the ADL while trying to defend books about murdering Jews and other minorities.
> I don't know what the dynamics are for WordPress plugin developers to write this much vulnerable code, but WordPress itself has had very few vulnerabilities over the years.

I think it’s a microcosm of the larger PHP problem: it’s a language and environment which is really easy to get started with, but requires significant skill and experience to use safely. The core developers of both have made some improvements but the community culture still has room to go and there’s a huge discoverability / training gap for all of the people who are just getting started — WordPress is incredibly popular so there’s a constant stream of people who just want to change their site and haven’t thought about all of the different angles for attack.
Amazon have them [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWS_Graviton
Caveat: it's generally not possible to "lose weight with no lifestyle changes." Even taking anti-obesity drugs results in lifestyle changes along with the weight loss.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12457296/

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/74/5/579/4737391

https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(16)...

https://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j4849

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
Awesome thanks for the write up. Yea, what I'm seeing now is that this style of development is becoming more and more commoditized. There is very little vendor lock-in. Moving between these platforms or even hosting on multiple of them even at the same time, is going to become more and more common over time.
It's all talk until union negotiations actually start. Talk is cheap, increased wages and benefits are not. When Microsoft is met with demands that will actually cost them, we'll see for real whether Microsoft's actions will comport with their words.

I'm not optimistic. As other commenters pointed out, this union is limited to QA testers who don't have all that much leverage in the company. The people who do already have better paying positions, and aren't all that interested in unionization.
I've got some nice tricks in my userContent.css file, I couldn't imaging using a browser that does not support it.
All of the above. Must Run trucks should probably be gas turbine hybrids, that can burn anything for fuel (diesel, biodiesel, Jet A, etc), versus full electric.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2016/06/07/mack-t...
Show HN: Midjourney-powered daily rhyming word game
> Given that what is shown on the feed is also personalized, the "contextual ads" still allowed bit makes no sense to me.

This is where the line between contextual and behavioural is blurry. In theory, behavioural == who I am, and contextual == where I am/what I am reading.

Shortly after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, we started getting companies selling "ethical" contextual targeting SDKs. The issue was that the "context" was a result of a ML model running on your device and using your location, accelerometer, magnetometer readings (etc...) to define a real-time profile of the user, e.g. "exercising at the <gym name>", "they're having coffee at <restaurant name>".
Yeah. Agreed. They do have home theater speakers, but the question is if they'll be creating more of a headache than a solution. Seems like they would rub their licensees the wrong way by competing with them. And they'll need to figure out new distribution channels (who already have limited space due to ongoing relationships with TCL, Samsung, Sony, etc).
> Would be interesting for someone to attempt to write a non-historical physics textbook.

I recall some prominent physicist saying they've never read Einstein's original papers on relativity; and they don't have any real desire to, since we understand it much better now, and have better examples, notations, etc.
Thats not true. Ads are a race to the bottom (bottom being complete loss of privacy for optimizing sales). There is no one losing (not literally, but thats a s separate discussion) if the adds are "less" personalized. The industry will just settle to a less "optimized" outcome. Prime example: Newspapers were perfectly able to fund themselves with manually selling their inventory according to their reader groups before "the internet".
Yea just better tech. It’s not a big deal. And it’s all in progress. News just likes to make headlines about anything new so you get scared about it.
These programmers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. That abomination of a markup cum programming langauge is so ugly.

Seriously tho, cool project but ugly syntax.
> But why do you think legislation should be the one forcing that choice on everyone, rather than the market allowing consumers to choose?

Meta is still allowed to do this, so consumers still get a choice. Meta is just now forced to ask consumers for their explicit consent.
Legislation is used in cases where individuals either can't make that choice or if individuals' choices would cause negative externalities for some people.

That's how we get food safety laws, employment laws, waste disposal laws, etc. With regards to food safety for example, the vast majority of people don't have the equipment nor knowledge to be able to test whether the food they just bought isn't contaminated, so it's better for everyone if the law just uses the threat of significant penalties to force companies to produce safe food and that people can buy and eat food and be 99% confident there is nothing nasty in there.

The same can apply for data protection - very few people have the skills and resources to reverse-engineer every single binary they run and inspect network traffic, so it's better if significant penalties just force all companies to not misuse personal data by default.
I get where you're coming from, but since the dawn of SaaS we've had rules of thumb about LTV-to-CAC, CAC payback period, etc.

Most SaaS founders know that a 3:1 ratio between LTV and CAC is ideal - and while arguments might hold water that a worse ratio is OK for a brief period, I don't think anyone involved doesn't realize that it's difficult to sustain that.

The mental magic trick to justify it probably goes like this - "Yes, we're underwater on the LTV-CAC ratio for now, but once we're in position XYZ we'll be able to launch new products ABC and increase LTV from there". Which isn't wrong. And the new CAC to upsell product ABC to existing clients is going to be very low. So in a sense, you CAN justify (at least in a 'superficially prudent way') a worse ratio with that argument.

And ironically, Salesforce is a GREAT example of this WORKING (up until now?). They have ruthlessly increased ACV and LTV for decades, through increases to pricing, growing features, launching new products, creating the app ecosystem, etc.
>It is the lack of a predictable regulatory landscape in Europe

What is the roll out process by which GDPR and this enforcement action could take place and would be seen as "predictable?"

Surely we wouldn't expect every business model that ought to be subject to regulation be divined and curtailed prior to anyone entering the market.
I believe the main one in the UK is the Consumer Rights Act 2015:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/contents/enacte...
A "My 'I am not a robot' T-shirt has led to many questions answered by the T-shirt" vibe?
Where I work I don’t have a copy of the connection info for the production database at most times. I don’t want it. Maybe once a year I need to do something with it, then I get credentials from IT and I have them revoked as soon as I don’t need them anymore.
Yeah my browser sits at about 55% of my screen width in my tiling WM, and it makes HN perfectly readable.
Why wouldn't they touch anything supermicro makes?
I don't think this is true, many news sites either offer the option to accept cookies and show ads or offer a subscription without ads and tracking cookies.

This has been ruled as being valid by courts.