skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sending out a newspaper is much more expensive than sending out a pageview. If a million bots visit my site everyday I can point at server logs showing very high numbers of pageviews, but you wouldn't want to use that to pay me!

Now, you could say don't do business with people who are trying to defraud you, but one of the more impressive things about the ad ecosystem is that it works without advertisers and publishers trusting each other. I can sell the space on my site and advertisers don't need to figure out how much to trust me in particular.

It's easy to have ad fraud that's plausibly deniable and maybe even not on purpose. Let's say you're a publisher and you want more people to come to your site. You look around and you find someone who says they run a newsletter and would be willing to include links to your stories for a small fee. When you multiply out the cost per visitor this looks like a pretty good deal; you say yes. This traffic turns out to be entirely bots, but you can't tell because we got rid of ad fraud detection.
... which leads to further saturation, which means you need a sizable marketing budget and/or a lot of luck for anyone to discover and pay for your game. If it was up to me, I'd rather pay for art than ad space. But using a Red Dead Redemption quote: "You can't fight change".
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It’s normal but paying considerably over the retail price is less common. Musk effectively gave TWTR shareholders a multibillion dollar bonus, which is why they sued to keep him from backing out of the deal.
Perhaps we should all be required to live for some period of time in the cold, hungry, dark pre-modern world such that we can return to modernity and be appropriately enthused.
I also wonder if these really targeted ads are cost effective. If ads were run as they used to be positioned in Newspapers and Magazines, a simple area of the screen that was set aside for an advertiser, with no targeting, no tracking, and performance measured simply by "impressions" and "clickthroughs" would they work at all? It would be much better for the users. (I'm always amazed at how unusable the websites of my local TV stations are with the adblocker off. Popups and blinking things everywhere, and the page just keeps changing out from under me.)
Yes, only a stone's throw. Why doesn't Spain have the ~6% Muslim population of France or Germany?
Those are all the right questions! If you drop me a mail perhaps we could get a threaded discussion going on each of those points? It seems if you have a Gmail address my replies go to spam btw!

The GUI framework needs a lot of consideration.

I wonder if the GUI designer can be a plugin for an existing IDE?

I think the crucial part is the integration with the GUI. You need to hide all the magic about managing the UI and just let the user write event handlers, and not have them worry about blocking the UI.
I didn't do a whole lot of tiling with it, mostly just added keyboard shortcuts to open or bring to the front specific applications as (at the time) I was on a Mac without an external monitor. I found I could switch between windows quickly enough that I never needed multiple visible on the screen at the same time.

https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.application.html#launchO... was the primary method, though sometimes (such as teams) I had to get more creative.

That said, I believe https://github.com/szymonkaliski/hhtwm is quite popular, might be worth a shot if you want tiling.
> The rapid-onset gender dysphoria controversy centers around the concept of rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD), proposed in a 2018 study to be a subtype of gender dysphoria caused by peer influence and social contagion.[1] It has not been recognized by any major professional association as a valid mental health diagnosis, and use of the term has been discouraged by the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, and other medical organizations due to a lack of reputable scientific evidence, major methodological issues in existing research, and likelihood to cause harm by stigmatizing gender-affirming care.[2][3][4][5]

This isn't science.

> Lisa Littman, at the time an adjunct assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, created the term based on an online survey of parents on three anti-trans websites who believed that their teenage children had suddenly manifested symptoms of gender dysphoria and begun identifying as transgender simultaneously with other children in their peer group.[6][7][8] Littman speculated that rapid onset of gender dysphoria could be a "social coping mechanism" for other disorders.[1]

Spreading this garbage is grotesque and bigoted. Stop it.
The problem is that this only applies to the design and not the implementation. There is no perfect design and certainly no perfect implementations.
>Netflix, Blockbuster, Motorola and Nokia all pursued growth strategies, yet the latter three (at least) ultimately failed to maintain their lead in consumer facing markets. So how does that explain the need for perpetual growth?

You're laying out a cause & effect I didn't claim. I'm not saying "pursue growth guarantees success" -- which is unrealistic. A variation of your scenario is like asking, "Most novelists pursued growth of their audience but most failed so how do those failures explain why novelists want to grow their audiences?"

The # of failures is a different subject from the _motivation_ for growth.

My reply to gp was to dissect the flawed premise that profits are predictable and stable. It's that flawed assumption that makes it seem like growth is unnecessary.

In other words, even if you want to deliberately create a new company with a "no growth" policy, the outside world has its own freewill and doesn't have to cooperate with your goal. New competitors or changing consumer preferences can sabotage your "no growth" idea and erase the steady-state profits.
If you have friends that give you billions of dollars then that's fine, it's their money. If they do it with the intent of manipulating stock prices then it's obviously illegal. This isn't market inefficiency in either case.
Well no, but LaTeX should be backwards compatible with TeX so there's always that option.
Stone Soup: A framework for the development and testing of tracking algorithms
Isn't there quite a lot of research that shows that what makes note taking during lectures effective for helping you learn the material is the thought required to condense the material down to something you can write down while still keeping up with the lecture?
Why whenever there’s an article like this they never say the name of the AI took they used?
The Making of 'Gutter Oil' (2013)
a) 90 perecent of an AI's success is in a large and well-curated training dataset.

b) Training datasets can only be made by humans.

c) A paid tier of Stable Diffusion is obviously coming. It will be differentiated by a better (and more custom) training dataset.

d) No serious developer would be caught dead using the stock free tier Stable Diffusion.

e) Big studios will most certainly hire closely-guarded artists to curate and expand their proprietary training datasets.
My experience in embedded was great except for the: more work, less pay, more irrational management part. I doubled my salary moving to web backend services.
With all due respect, that reads more like projection than serious analysis. Twitter had concerns about its financial prospects going back to before its IPO and major shakeups were predicted for years. When the 2016 elections lead to a big uptick in usage, the coverage was often along the lines that Trump saved the company by giving so many people something to talk about.
FWIW, Cairo (a 2D drawing API in C) has long had a similar issue. Despite coordindates being represented as double precision floating point, their maximum value is approximately that of a 16 bit integer.There is (used to be?) some comment in the code about how important this was to fix, but how incredibly hard it would be.
Otter.ai is great, but it still makes mistakes, and it tends to make them in domain- or project-specific telerminology which typically is the most important to get right. Which means you need to proof read and fix the transcripts. This can later take the same amount of time as the meeting itself. If there's a way to make an accurate transcript on the fly, then it's better than voice to text.
I had the same reaction when I tried midjourney but this looks very believable.

https://www.midjourney.com/app/feed/all/

I don't think generic AIs are the right approach anyway, I think we're better off with precise procedural models with a lot of knobs and some knowledge of rules (eg. metahumans).

Maybe you can put an AI in front of it to generate what you want using the procedural models, but pixel output is just not good enough for games.
Meth is super common in Northern California, I live on the outskirts of silicon valley and the local paper's police blotter is always "meth, drunk, meth, drunk, stolen property from car".
TBF, integrating video playback with 3D rendering isn't such a great deal if you can get decoded video frames somehow for uploading into a texture (trivial but expensive with open source video codecs running on the CPU for instance).

For integrated platforms like the browser, access to decoded video for 3D rendering has been working for a long time with WebGL (you can simply hook up a HTML video element to a WebGL texture, e.g.: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGL_API/T...

...or in WebGPU: https://austin-eng.com/webgpu-samples/samples/videoUploading

I guess the point of the Vulkan video extension is that it connects the Vulkan API to proprietary closed-source video decoders running on the GPU though.
I agree with you. I also think it is useful to understand limits. This is not what I’m arguing against, it is affirming limits without the knowledge to do so. Until we don’t really figure out how our intelligence works we can’t say we can’t reproduce it algorithmically.

We can find plenty of examples where engineering advanced beyond our understanding: bridges, boats, tables, etc. When humanity started building those we didn’t have the full picture of our physics yet we build and used those for more than 1000s years.

Again, I’m not saying we can’t engineer something from knowledge, I’m saying we can’t affirm limits onto something we don’t fully understand yet.

IMHO this paper is speculative and biased towards our human intelligence. From all the advances I have seen so far in the AI landscape, I’m growing more and more skeptic that our intelligence is something so complex that we can’t replicate.
How the Resurgence of Chess Built a $500M Company
Most of the links I click on Hacker News are to content which the authors would make and publish even if their site had 0 ad revenue. A good publication on a website is a consequence of them building the thing or wanting to express an opinion, not putting the cart ahead of the horse and building or writing some crap just to attract random visitors and show them ads.
"Just use Unix time!" Some problems have a surprising amount of inherent complexity. Java has tried a few times to solve date values, and the results are sometimes unusably complicated. I don't know what the answer is... an even more sophisticated type system? A linting step in the tool chain? An academic paper? An industry publication?

Hardware improves every month, but some parts of software worked better thirty years ago.
Midjourney will do that easily if you get good at doing the prompts. Getting good takes reading the manual and spending a few hours working on 2-3 designs.
Retro Strange TV: A repeating playlist curated around a theme
I wonder what the total size is? I remember back in college a project to run Linux on a floppy disk (3.5) and I was using it as a NAT box
Wireless Text Messages Without Cables or Modems: Rattlegram (OFDM)
I believe that an AI can generate this sort of thing, it's just odd that a brief prompt to a general-purpose art AI can consistently generate an extremely specific model sheet like this.
First if all, thanks for that argument, haven’t considered the math in this perspective before. Will need to let this simmer a bit.

One immediate flaw though, you starting premise is that the current revenue is needed to break even on such a service. Is there an argument to support this claim as well?
To learn more about Belgian efficiency, watch the video "Belgium for beginners"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlwHotpl9DA
This approach definitely works, and I agree you can do it without any tracking. All that's needed is that the furniture manufacturers can tell how much of their purchases are coming via your site.

But this is also not a model that can support a very large fraction of the existing web. Most sites aren't built from the ground up to have this kind of highly commercial tie-in.
Isn't io_uring that general mechanism?

One could probably implement a Linux-compatible kernel that only implements io_uring (and only whatever sync calls are required to set it up). May not run many precompiled executables at the moment but maybe an interesting research direction.
If I was a government body responsible for setting tax rules after reading the article I still haven't learned anything.

First of all, tax systems are typically result of huge forces within the country and represent history of negotiating between parties or other groups of people that each tries to get something for themselves while the government needs to deal with finite budget and groups of people dissatisfied that somebody else got something but not them.

Second, Faroe Island is a tiny, tiny country. With any kind of organisation, as the organisation grows things get more and more complicated.

And third, they point out Faroe Island has a huge GDP that comes from a fortunate resource. Countries that are in this position tend to have simpler tax systems because they do not need to rely on their citizens. Citizens rightly assume that if the country has a national resource they are entitled to have the resource pay for the infrastructure and government and not them. There is no need to fight to figure out where the money will come for this or that project -- the answer is always pretty much the same and it is not to put a levy on citizens but rather on the resource the country has.
Does anyone have any resources that discuss managing in holistic and productive ways?

I have The Fractal Organization: Creating sustainable organizations with the Viable System Model by Patrick Hoverstadt, Administrative Behavior by Herbert Simon, and Designing Freedom and Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer on my docket. Another one is Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone. But I am curious if people have other suggestions, including atypical ones, that approach management almost from a first principles ideal.
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> Cringy? That is an interesting take.

Yeah I'm not sure if I'm just weird or what, but from the start with voice assistants I've been utterly confused that people want to talk to machines using a shitty interface and broadcasting to others what they are doing (not even talking about the NSA, just people in my vicinity). Imagine being in my room, saying out loud each URL I wanted to visit. It feels as cringy as if instead of turning a page silently in a book while I'm sitting in my room reading, I would instead disrupt that silence and focus by telling the book "TURN PAGE". That's how it feels to me when I hear someone say "OKAY GOOGLE", I almost physically recoil.

It's like you have a nice silent interface that will be perfectly interpreted, and decide instead to be loud and imprecise and have to guess if the machine is going to understand you. I think maybe rather than cringy another word would be that it feels in bad taste. It's half about the "style" and half about the lack of "function" of the medium. It's effectively worse in terms of reliability and you look like someone that doesn't know how to use a computer all at the same time.
Ok, so one more! Good to know and thank you, but my point still remains. :)
I wonder how the results compare with ZBiotics. Extracting anti-oxidants from grapes seems like a more down-to-earth process than genetically engineering probiotics, but with the probiotic approach you don't need to get bartenders & liquor companies on board in order to benefit.
Why are antennas popping up all over the foothills?
Great question! Is there a specific domain/example that you have in mind? I don't think people intentionally use archaic language if their goal is to educate and enlighten, but in papers it is quite common for unnecessary jargon to be peppered in, which while probably obvious to the author, makes it hard for people new to the field to break in.
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Author of this article has responded in this reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/105ozmw/ex...
The worst manager I've ever had let her ego and control issues spiral to the point that she demanded that every member of the team invite her to every call, forward every meeting and (I kid you not) add her to every direct message we had in ms teams. She would join two calls simultaneously instead of rescheduling or delegating and thought telling the other participants as much made her look important instead of someone with poor time management skills.

She would quietly work with other teams on projects right up until the point that real implementation work needed to be done–committing to designs, tasks and technologies without consulting anyone on the team. This would inevitably lead to mistakes due to outdated information or lack of knowledge and we'd essentially need to redo discovery and planning with the added bonus of getting it done fast enough that it wouldn't interfere with her committed deadline that no longer matched the original scope she based it on. If we somehow got invited to any of these early meetings she would ask for us to be removed.

She had to have involvement in nearly every decision and if she had an opinion/interest/idea she would make the call no matter how low level or inconsequential it was. She clearly wanted us to function as programmable robotic automatons that followed her exact specifications instead of engineers to trust with building solutions or achieving goals. She would even tell us how many points to assign to our stories.

But I think the most egregious thing was her need to control us even in company hackathons and other empowerment initiatives where we were supposed to be given complete autonomy. If we wanted to participate in a hackathon we had to join under her team and work on her idea. Keep in mind that this person was our manager and had the power to have us work her ideas every other day of the year. The idea of us building what we wanted or working outside of her control for even a few days was intolerable.

She was intensely concerned with the perception of others but failed to realize that joining or taking control of every little thing reflected poorly on her ability to delegate and manage her team. Her enormous ego stopped her from trusting her team's decision making and she had such an overinflated sense of self-importance she didn't pick up on the fact that the bottleneck she made of herself had earned her a reputation for never delivering.
What a remarkable story.
I just sold my car. After 12 years or so I'm back to bikes and public transport. It was an interesting mental battle that took me about 8 months to win. And I'm a greenhearted leftist that votes for the Animal Party here in NL! The decision to move to carless is just really really hard. Even in a country that is so bike friendly.

In the end, it's not about the bike, or the car. But the ideas that it represents: the illusions of freedom, choice, safety.
There's plenty of room to do improve on standard QWERTY keyboard in a technically interesting way.

Although not related to chorded-input like Plover uses, I'd suggest something like https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku
> but pixel output is just not good enough for games.

I've been using https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN to increase AI renders resolution, it works very very well on some styles, you can easily x4 or x8 the resolution if you know what you're doing and have some photoshop knowledge for the cleanup
> most of it

Maybe most of yours, not of mine. I'll miss YouTube, but not badly.

(of the ~dozen other stories I've commented on today, only one would likely disappear: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34296560 )
I entirely agree. I'm saying that it's perfectly possible to reproduce this distortion perfectly digitally, and play it through audiophile headphones.

This of it as constructive/destructive interference. The 192kHz master has imperfections, and the DAC and headphones have different (and possibly major) imperfections, creating something that sounds subjectively better.

Obviously it would be better to have a perfectly mastered 44.1kHz source and audiophile headphones, but at least in theory you can get this distortion interference add up to something better.

Just like how maybe you like the classic sound of a worn vinyl. It was not recorded with that distortion, but you like it. In theory the artist intended that sound. But digital obviously they could have just mixed it in manually.
I can confirm that indeed Strongswan is written in OOP C.

This is relatively common in software with a modular architecture that is intended to run on embedded systems and whose design dates back from a time when C++ standard library was not really well supported on such systems.
This is also useful when performance is highly important and you can't afford the C++ vtable overhead.
Why not React + React Native and then you can share large parts of the codebase? That’s what I usually end up doing. I build the web app first and use a lot of the code to build a React Native app
An art treasure long cherished by Muslims is deemed offensive. But to whom?
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Exactly. The ordinary earned income portion of our income is 80% or more of our income and 1-2% of the tax filing burden/complexity.
For print circulation, there are two choices: the publisher can report their actual numbers or they can participate in fraud (by lying about it). The latter has real legal consequences attached to it. They might bet on never being found out; I am guessing that most do not.

For online "circulation", there are three choices: the two given above, plus the possibility that the "actual numbers" (e.g. generated from server logs) do not reflect what they appear to (ie. bot visits). This is "problem" that tracking seeks to fix, by avoiding a "circulation data source" (page visits) that isn't (and cannot be) reliable.
Competition is still a somewhat negative term. Everybody pays lip service to it but psychologically nobody actually wants it.

"Pro-innovation" maybe?
I wouldn't use the word cringy myself, but I think I get where they're coming from. Reading the output of speech recognition a few seconds behind is jarring. Constant game of anticipation. Will it get that name or term right? Nope. Now I have to pause dictation, go back, and fix it. It's more involved than tapping backspace a couple times, the feedback is less instant, and that means more things I have to keep in my working memory, which is non-existent.
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> it's just odd that a brief prompt to a general-purpose art AI can consistently generate an extremely specific model sheet like this.

Well it's trained on thousands of character sheets so it's not so surprising after all, it still generates a lot of garbage too
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>>OpenMandriva Lx is a unique and independent linux distribution, a direct descendant of Mandriva Linux and the first Linux distribution utilise the LLVM compiler