skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better to test two good pieces of ad copy than 26 mediocre-to-entirely-inappropriate ones. The reason it's A/B testing rather than A/Z testing isn't because creating 26 variations at a time exhausts the potential of human creativity...
There's a reason that slowly removing people one-by-one is a common horror movie trope.
Just because we somehow ended up in a situation where spyware got effectively decriminalised doesn't mean it's a good situation especially in the long-term.

If nobody is willing to pay for your product, maybe it shouldn't exist?
I had to Google it, so just FWIW, that is usually called "castor oil" in English. :-)
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Countries would block access for business advertising or operating with Facebook, and may even decide to block access to their users.
The sad future of the internet is companies picking a country and keeping all their servers and employees local. It's up to other countries to block; nobody is going to extradite over cookie warnings.
Sounds a bit pedantic, but this was the reason I could just not use macOS as a daily driver. IIRC, there was a brief period of time where this anti-feature could be disabled by some obscure command, and the switch was instantly. But this was later gone in an update, which ultimately taught me the lesson that one should not be at the complete mercy of some OS updates.
Helping obese people lose weight is unidimensionally a good thing
No. And you're right!
Potato, potato
> It's also fascinating the opposite direction is also allowed to persist - the guy who is CEO of 4 companies at once.

That amount is, I think, only applicable to Elon Musk and it looks like this is going to crash sooner or later anyway - the big Tesla investors are all furious about how much wealth Elon's shitposting has cost them and I would not be surprised if they threaten him with the choice of continuing to tweet or getting ousted. In any case, even he was a paper-only CEO at SpaceX anyway, Gwynne Shotwell has run the ship for years now.
Wordpress is great for rapid prototyping but as history has shown, relying on third parties for additional functionalities in production environments, comes with great risks.

Most usage of Wordpress today are definably not blogs, but full blown websites with many functionalities not found on a blogging software.
this sounds like an ad for digital ocean
On Analogy-Making in Large Language Models
I mean, I will never give a penny to Amazon again, so I might patronize that establishment.

But yes, few people think like me, and probably every neighborhood business that isn't a service or a chain restaurant will be gone in a fairly short time.

The thought just horrifies me.

What are all these people going to do?

Adults who are making a good living, who have no skill sets other than dealing politely with humans and helping them? They aren't going to retrain for an STEM position. Their jobs are going to be replaced by nothing at all, just like we did with instrumentalists, just like we are doing with artists, just like we will do with drivers as soon as we can, which seems to be a bit slower than anticipated, but is inevitable.
Gaming software engineers, relative to a FAANG engineer for example, are willing to work for less money, work in worse conditions due to a tradeoff for working in a field they are fanatically passionate about. It doesn't matter whether they should or should not be, it just is. That's what those engineers are willing to do. Gaming companies exploit this for profit. If you were a for-profit organization you would do the same - the market is telling you to do it. Whether that is evil or not is up for you to decide.

Same thing happens in fashion, media and entertainment.
The answer is as simple as supply and demand.

If there are 200,000 devs who want to work in game dev and 4,000 roles then wages will be depressed by over-supply. This is observable in all sorts of industries, often bordering on exploitation of people who desperately want to work in a specific area and are willing to work on low/no wages to get experience.

You'll also see companies over-paying when key skills are hard to source as the natural complement.
A better "hack" for linux users: Linux supports a "digital-only" modifier called "Hyper". You can use Xmodmap to set a key as hyper on press, and set Hyper-F[X] to whatever functions you wish to.

Alternatively, use a keyboard with QMK, or install a dedicated application like KMonad.
This always gets me. Executive "responsibility" in cases like this is ballooning wealth as a result of the too-rapid growth, and then a further increase when the stock pops as a result of the layoff announcement. A stock gain of currently $2.71/share means Benioff is almost $71 million richer (in unrealized gains).
Is there any way to change the delay for that? I would think that tucked away somewhere under the hood there’s a setting that controls the animation duration.

Being able to turn that down or off would be a boon to my productivity.
> I don't think [a preference for very brutalist, utilitarian designs] happens quite as much in other fields, like architecture, cooking or construction.

One example in another field is automotive interface design. Specifically, how one selects a gear for the transmission, controls the temperature and entertainment systems, etc. Automakers have tried different things ranging from touchscreen control, to dials and other innovative ways to select a particular transmission gear. But there are people who prefer the classic interface choices like dials and levers to handle these functions because people have muscle memory and don't have to look at the control to determine what they need to do in order to use the controls effectively.
> It is the lack of a predictable regulatory landscape in Europe

I disagree that it is unpredictable. It is predictably a bit more pro-citizen/consumer than the USA. That should not be surprising to anyone at this point.
It looks better. Less clutter and mess. Utilitarian is a good term because a user interface ultimately is a utility. The type of interfaces you mention require no explanation to use, you don't have to think about how you do something, it is just obvious and typically being lightweight means less resource usage whether I am on cheap android-go or a fancy laptop that already has 500 tabs open.

Look at Linux desktop interface themes and design vs windows and macos. I want software that empowers meand gets out of my way, so my UX preferences follow suit.
I wonder why prisons would ban books written by 'black prison abolitionists'

How could a book arguing that prisons are nonsense and criminals should be free possibly be considered inflammatory in a prison where criminals are not free but want to be?

I don't doubt that the American justice system is perverse but this is not the reason. Sure mein Kampf could use a ban but that's all.
You read something somewhere but it's clear you're clueless when it comes to the US constitutional law.
The first paragraph seems to be written by GPT-3.
The second paragraph contains one outright false statement and another statement which is very likely to be false.
The third paragraph is non sequitur since the 14 amendment is currently the law of the land.
I think you just have a talent to finding shitty ones.

I used rTorrent for over a decade, only recently migrated to Transmission because I no longer cared for the text UI and client-server model fit what I did with it better
In the "network indicators of an attack" [1] what's the significance of some periods being in square brackets and others not?

1. https://github.com/DoctorWebLtd/malware-iocs/tree/master/Lin...
Unfortunately, the price will go down pushing the supply/demand curve out, and we'll get ever more garbage. Some of it will be dangerous or addictive to susceptible portions of society, mostly just boring and stupid to the rest of us.

Wait for first kid who dies trying an AI generated "challenge" or the first violent mob killing caused by AI generated outrage porn. AI generated video porn may look like triple breasted whores of Eroticon6 today, but with sufficient influencer content (playground videos) and porn (dungeon) footage, I suspect you can generate more than enough novel and relevant (child S&M) porn for everyone.
I have personal experience with other ERPs and Salesforce is the best of the lot in my opinion. With my current company, we have employees in Singapore, Europe, USA, and South Africa etc. who all interact with Salesforce on a daily basis. We use it for CRM, service support (VOIP with call tracking), marketing, financials (questionable decision), and analytics (Tableau). Where it shines in my opinion is that does automate 75% of business processes and if you pay the right fee, it's all seamless. The flow automation low code tool is a step in the right direction. Where it falters, is (a) its own hype machine gets in the way -- your customers are already locked-in, please stop the bullshit, SF is not easy to learn -- its data model requires experience to understand and architect properly (b) Mulesoft sucks, please stop pushing it (c) its web portal (lightning experience communities) needs work -- the security permissions model is hopeless convoluted like the fabled Gordian knot.
How much do you pay for HN?
US Navy approves CH-53K helicopter full-rate production
Ah I missed that! Well now you have the link showing you’re right :)
GDPR allows for much stiffer fines, which would surely be imposed if it was wilfully breached as you suggest.
Also because people are more conscious about their privacy and politics are put in place to protect European citizen from corporation. Its far from perfect but probably better than other places.
Sadly I have no access to such future technology. Like other posters on this board I believe I am trapped on this linear timeline.
Have we actually studied if the weight loss is resulting in better health outcomes for the people in question? Outside of diabetics (there is evidence that significant weight loss can relieve the effects of type 2 diabetes), I would like to know if just weight loss benefits the cardiovascular system, blood pressure, etc. These aren't as intuitive as we'd like, for example, it turns out that low fat diets didn't make people less fat, and cholesterol-lowering medication doesn't reduce heart disease.

I'm hesitant to measure weight loss as a pure good in of itself because it isn't evident to me that just losing weight has a causative effect on reducing specific diseases.
Yes, finally!
Can Meta cover its operational costs without personalized ads? Re: its ability to exist. Or is the issue that it’s unpalatable to wall st and investors and advertisers without ad personalization driven growth
rtorrent works fine too. Too many exceptions and the saying is dumb in the first place anyway...
Then the OP should use a better example if they want to be taken seriously. They say they dont care about incest and then use that as the example of them being attacked. Many people who have had incest did not have it of their own free will. Those people view incest through the lens of rape. Is it unsurprising that they would defend against the idea of incest being normalized?
Why play chess with ornate pieces, over simple wooden ones? Why don't professional chess players use those large sculpted sets?

Because chess isnt the pieces. The interface isnt the game. If you're attending to the interface, you're being distracted.

When you use computers as tools you don't want interfaces to appear as objects in the world, you want them to dissolve into the tool that they are.

The more I am "impressed" by a menu, button layout, interface, etc. the worse it is at being an interface.

The question is, rather, why do others want to be distracted by the interface? Why do they choose the oranate chess set?

Well, because they're consumers of computers, not users. They barely use them as tools, and so their default relationship to them is one of ornament.

An interface is, almost literally, ornamental to most people. Like a chess set on a mantlepiece.
https://imgur.com/a/hiCb9BE

I think probably not.
Because "fancy" often gets in my way. It's like putting feathers on a rifle, and every time I pull the trigger the feathers mechanically flap in my face before the rifle fires.

When I'm using software I want to USE it, not look at it. Sure some basic aesthetics are fine, I have animated wallpaper on my desktop that I think looks nice and I have white/orange themed LEDs and custom-sleeved cables in my PC case. The difference is past initial setup those stay out of the way. My interfaces are stark, bare, and I can do more with 5 hotkeys than most regular users could do with a solid minute of mouse clicks.
I dont believe that by painting over the bright FFT spots you are necessarily removing the high frequencies. Instead, you are removing the strong frequencies from the image. The strong frequencies cause peaks in the FFT image.
Its the repetitive nature of the moire effect that cause peaks in the FFT image.
Sadly PA isn’t listed so I’ll never know if I had more or less rights in my old alternative school I blasted on Boing Boing than the literal prison that they kept threatening to throw me into.

It is indeed sad. There are folks in this system who perpetuate abuse for profit and/or sadism who should not be tolerated in a civilized society.
> One problem set that seems like a good fit is for actual real estate title/deed information. Having to pay for a "title search" or "title insurance" is bonkers every time a real estate transaction occurs on the same piece of land.

This is a good example of why blockchains aren’t a solution for most problems.

For real estate records, the only thing which matters is what the local government will enforce - digital signatures can be interesting but the anonymity/trustless stuff is an expensive distraction. One big factor here is that you can’t rely on access to keys: someone needs to be able to override records when not uncommon things happen such as an owner dying, a messy divorce, etc.

For title insurance, what you’re paying for is, well, insurance, not a database query. The risk here is that the records don’t match reality - for example, surveying errors happen, a previous seller might not have had clear rights, etc.
In a free market environment, neither would have them.
I am semantically searching within 1 video only.
> Because I don't think this happens quite as much in other fields, like architecture, cooking or construction.

Each of these is much more constrained than software - software you can draw anything on the screen. You can't turn up and say in a UX-calm voice, "we should try an A/B test on cars that are tall instead of long".

A website like HN isn't brutalist - you can't see the database or the wires or the inside of the computers working. You're just seeing the tiny, microns-thick veneer on the hidden host of complexity that goes into looking at a website. It has a decent font and decent but simple colours. I agree it doesn't have any pictures or video, but I that doesn't make it brutalist.
I'd be more than happy to pay for HN, but I think it's a very bad example as it's not funded by any kind of ads/tracking (not directly at the very least).
I'm a glass-half-empty sort of person: in my experience, even perfectly good answers for a different version can be problematic, and sometimes harmful.
Square wheels is another fun example of how AI art is still super bad.
Because I add my own design. None of websites I see have original design, I use my own colors, fonts, hide some elements etc... Use Firefox in reader mode to get an idea.

Modern web design usually has horrible usability. Try to read modern web in brail terminal to get an idea. Or on GPRS connection (2G phone, 10kbps internet speed).

And I ensure you such trend is also in architecture, cooking etc.. Modern architecture often does not have basics like windows or daylight. Architect wants smooth facade, so people inside suffer... Modern cooking is preprocessed garbage, so even basic potato diet is better and so on...
Child labor laws and minimum wage also made some revenue models untenable, and the world is better off for it. I want to live in a world where businesses can profit without having to spy on people. This is a good step in that direction.
Very little in health is unidimensional. Suppose, for example, the presence of an effective weight loss treatment caused an increase in suicide rate in those who fail to benefit from the drug or can't access it for some reason?
I think it's some sort of anti-ad blocker technique, disabling uBlock Origin allowed the page to load for me

Actually, leaving uBlock on and just waiting ~5 seconds allowed the page to load also.
You're reaching into "cosmic justice" territory, which is a really bad place to be. It's not up to you or anyone else to fix the fact that the universe is inherently "unfair" (re: people with different passions, dispositions, and life situations), and certainly giving any entity sufficient power to attempt to solve for cosmic injustice is simply paving a road to tyranny with golden intentions.
Spyware? This is about logging activity of users on the same app that you built, not tracking them across the internet.

Writing down what someone does while interacting with your own business was never "criminalized" to begin with.

Businesses do pay for this product.

Unilaterally making tech products illegal after backlash in the media is precisely why capital is deallocated from Europe to other places with less reactive regulatory environments and leaves the people in those countries poorer than they would have been, less able to afford vacations with their family, higher quality housing, air conditioning, appropriate medical care. These effects all spill over to every day life in Europe.
> How much of it was actually the lifestyle changes? It would be more interesting if there were no lifestyle changes...

The article answers this further down:

> Those receiving weekly injections of semaglutide lost, on average, 14.9% of their body weight after 16 months of treatment; those who received a placebo lost 2.4% on average.

Per the article still a lot of work to do in this area, but on the face of it this could be an alternative to bariatric surgery for 1/3 of people.
> With ChatGPT replacing Google search

Do you have statistical evidence of this happening, or is this just conjecture?
Donations can be very expensive to a large company.

The labor cost is often huge. If you don't prevent fraud at the $500 level you'll have two problems: Lots of repeated fraud at the $500 level, and people trying to get away with fraud at the $5000, $50000, all the way up to FTX levels of fraud. So you need multiple people in different depts to agree to fund something while other people watch over to make sure the people being funded are not the spouses or shell companies of the approvers. Meanwhile there's paperwork costs to make sure the donation paperwork gets to accounting so accounting gets their tax deduction.

At a "really big company" the labor cost of paying an invoice might be $2000. Now does the average programmer get more than $2K of annual value out of urllib3, given the alternatives (which could involve up to architecting around needing it?)

Before you laugh and say "no way" to the $2K figure, imagine spending half of an hour long team meeting of ten software devs getting paid $100/hr but overhead etc costs the company $150/hr for them to attend that meeting, that's $750 of labor costs just to have the dev team possibly agree to support urllib3. Then its got to go up the chain to someone with signing approval, someone has to chase the paperwork to make sure it happens, frankly $2K is on the very low side of the cost of getting an invoice paid.

Commercial non-free software is "put up with" where its not that some rando piece of required software costs $50 thus the cost of the company including labor and overhead is $2050 and they're happy to pay it, its more similar to if you don't dot all the Is and cross all the Ts that software will cost $10M in some crazy lawsuit, and $2050 is cheaper than $10M, so they pay up or they'll get a huge lawsuit or more likely someone will get fired after the audit, and I'd rather pay $2050 for something worth $50 if it prevents me from getting fired and better yet its not my $2050. But nobody never got fired for not paying for urllib3, so nobody's paying urllib3.

Companies will pay for support and I could see a large company paying $10K/yr for a written guarantee if a dev at that company runs into a use problem or bug with urllib3 then an actual dev from the project will help them up to twenty hours per year or similar, even if no one asks for help. In contrast feel good donations are very expensive so they don't happen often, so trying to run a business off feel good donations doesn't work too well..
This is tremendous advice. Especially if you have young children. Let them sleep in while you have peace and clarity of mind.

I get up at 4am! It's magical.
It may be dull, but it’s also anti-Semitic.

“Ironically, the hordes requesting banning Mein Kampf are espousing many of its authors convictions.”

This strikes me as being complete nonsense. Anyway, citation needed.
Here is a list of (American?) companies that make the most profit per employee. You can also see the list in terms of revenue per employee: https://tipalti.com/profit-per-employee/

At the top of the list is Air Lease, generating more than $4m profit per employee.

I didn’t double check for correctness.
> If nobody is willing to pay for your product, maybe it shouldn't exist?

Hm, so you think it's better for the world for poor people to not have access to information via tools like Google?

I think the fact that you need to use emotionally loaded language like spyware to make your argument really detracts from it.
Also, Web Accessibility suffers across the board. It's extremely difficult to meet these requirements/standards with a design-first mentality.

https://webaim.org/standards/wcag/WCAG2Checklist.pdf
Elon Musk's cost-cutting campaign at Twitter extended to not paying rent
Good riddance. If technological innovation is defined by abusive power, privacy invading, data hoarding/sharing/analysis, then I'm just fine living in the stone ages where this is not possible. If technological innovation is creating software that makes things more efficient without tracking the habits of its users, then I'm all for it. You can have the latter without the former. It is possible. We just need people with morals and scruples and not money hungry assholes that will do whatever they can to turn a buck regardless of the end results.
Selective sweeps in SARS-CoV-2 variant competition
I think you're at D-K peak about D-K
It's not illegal, they just need to ask their users if it's ok. If there's nothing wrong with this practice, why would the users say no?
Spy on people? If you like a post on Instagram it is core to their service that they log that information. If they didn't, the app wouldn't work very well.
HN gives you the power to decide your own preferred width for reading, instead of imposing a given value upon you. By not mandating a predefined width, you have full power to view it in any width you choose, simply by either adjusting the width of the browser window within which you read HN, or by setting up a local custom user stylesheet for HN to configure HN to your personal preference.
Not only that, but you could replace a lot of fixed logic in that FPGA with s very small programmable thing. "Fast" only matters if it is on the critical path.