skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Variety of factors ...

- Lower obesity rates vs most developed countries.

- Reductions in air and noise pollution.

- Arguably, improved social cohesion, because streets are friendlier for people to linger on and they spend less time sat in expensive metal vanity boxes.
Ok, I’ll give you the lightbulb point :).

But we can hardly define intelligence, let alone “entirely understand” it. A child could give a good , practical definition of fire and manipulate it skillfully thousands of years ago. Not so much us grown adults wrt intelligence today.
You're doing the same thing only from one level higher up. Insert recursion joke here.
Many people attempt to wishcast this goal onto the GDPR, so I can understand your confusion, but the GDPR itself says no such thing. The purpose of the regulation is to ensure that your data is protected and you have control over it; companies are explicitly permitted to use it for whatever purpose they’d like so long as you give free and informed consent to it.
Print can charge for ad placement, not impressions. But that's only possible because the number of subscribers, size and number of print runs, circulation are well known and hard to fake stats.

The web cannot do that without tracking...
Wow it looks like like the vim mode has improved a lot since last time I used
it. It's a joy to use. It was the only reason I was still using zsh.
You mean like how a Swastika is shorthand for "I support the extermination of Jews and black people"... An image of Mohammed is shorthand for "I support stoning women who don't cover their faces"?

I dunno if that is quite right! Context matters.
> $6b in 2022 to $3b in 2023. (This seems dramatic TBH)

Holy shit, that's terrible.

Can you give a source? A quick google search only shows articles about how Musk claims he prevented a 3bn shortfall through layoffs.
> nuke the entire industry of ad-supported content

God, I wish. Imagine a world of content with no ads, supported by willing payment, not data extortion.

It's not even that far off, a lot of the people I follow make their money from subscriptions, donations and sponsorships.
I worked in a plastic factory for ten years so I feel like I would recognize this if I had ever seen it. I haven't. I will take a look though.
"I'm saying it doesn't give one concrete, final, unchangeable set of rules."

Like I said, it is complicated and up for debate. I have heard many conflicting viewpoints about it. Some take the whole bible literal, including the literal laws of the old testament - and they are not just a few, but many, many explicit laws about everything.
More are mainly literal about the 10 commandments. And for some the only law is Jesus saying: "Love other people like yourself".

Since being raised catholic, I know quite a lot about the bible and less about the coran, but as far as I understand "With Christian rules, it's easier to find excuse to augment or re-interpret them." this is possible there as well, as Mohammed also said conflicting things, was softer in the beginning and harsher in the end, so you can also pick what you like. Hijab for example is not an explicite rule. And about Homosexuals, well, you probably won't find anything tolerant in the coran about it, but I think you won't find something in the bible either. What matters to me, is what people are doing.
Your argument here is that rich people expect to continue getting richer on account of... already being rich.

I will sleep like a baby if their expectations of continued "being rich for no work" doesn't pan out for them.

Get a job, slackers.
"In the analog world, many homes are secured with a four-digit passcode. Therefore, a four-digit passcode should be sufficient to secure any Web account." This is the form of your argument.
Sure they have. They believe in social safety nets for all (livable wages to reduce crime, for example). They also tend to be more socially inclusive (I rarely see a racist gay person for example).
Very basic question: Suppose in addition to the usual tracking ad for $X, you also offer "basic ads" with no tracking, no fraud protection etc., just a fixed ad shown for the same amount of time for $Y. How much less is Y? A half? A third? One hundredth?

Follow up: Suppose the option for $X is ruled illegal. What is Y now?
Twitter returned 30% since the IPO, versus ~200% Nasdaq in the same period. What you're saying is simply not accurate.
The point is that the IPO was the payoff in the end that made the investment worth it.

Musk is not infusing capital, he's cut-cut-cutting to the bone. What's the endgame? At what point does Twitter become more valuable than the day he bought it at $44 billion?
To expand a bit on that: it's a brand of musicians earplugs.
Do my manager and I have to stare silently into each other’s eyes for 3 minutes?
> Tbh a "hot or not" question would be the end of the date for me mentally anyway

I think that’s fair because that’s a filter in an of itself. For me personally I’d be happy to chat about whether I find a celebrity hot, it feels like a useful question in establishing things like jealousy levels.

But I do think you’re right in that it’s all about “the vibe”, you should know how that question is going to be received before you ask it.
Even that can be fiddled.

USAToday used to do it via deals with hotels to put one outside your room. Boom, extra copies!
Well, what's the point of... say, Hacker News... if I can only read publications I already subscribe to?
Knitting, 100%.

The hurdle a lot of people (including myself) feel with meditation is that the benefits are hard to describe and harder to measure, so it's difficult to get into, or to keep going if you feel like you aren't definitely getting something from it right away.

Knitting is every bit as meditative, plus you end up with a scarf or some other useful object, which reduces the hesitancy. You get a hand-made toque AND clearer thinking probably, so even if that "probably" is a hard sell, everyone appreciates a shawl. Plus you get neat stories, like "I was knitting this when I came up with the '602 patent". Some future museum curator is gonna lust over that artifact.

There's no reason you can't apply modern meditative techniques _while_ knitting, either. If you've read up on meditation but found it hard to get going or stick with it, _add_ some repetitive manual work and try again.

Chopping firewood is better for cardiovascular health, but it's difficult to do year round, and the byproduct is only useful to a diminishing number of households that're set up for wood heat. It's also more hazardous if you're clumsy or didn't grow up doing similar work, so think about how many colleagues you'd trust with a knife, much less an 8-lb splitting maul...
It’s a natural outgrowth of the Republican Party’s tack towards previously extreme positions: they’ve drifted away from the mainstream on so many issues that adherents are either faced with admitting they’re wrong about many things or having to dismiss entire fields as part of some inexplicable poorly-defined “left wing” conspiracy which changes scope whenever necessary to attack opponents or defend allies.
I am extremely skeptical, because this looks so good. To my eyes the images produced look orders of magnitude better than what current software is capable of producing. Let alone from multiple perspectives with absolutely perfect coherence. What tool was used?

Stuff like Dall-e is still far from producing anything like that. Those are absolutely perfect idealized/stylized human proportions with minimal weirdness. The only thing that even hints at neural network generation (at a glance at least) are the eyes in the second model sheet, but even that could be reasonably argued to be style.

I could fully believe this is from a specialized art tool akin to some sort of a 2D version of Metahumans [1] but I'd be floored if this was actually generated from a generic neural network style tool.

[1] - https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/metahuman
Your analogy doesn't make sense, mine does. You're ignoring the two other upsides of a covid vaccine, that being lower likelihood of contracting covid, and, lower likelihood of spreading covid if infected. These are valuable social side effects of getting vaccinated with a highly tested, demonstrably safe vaccine.
Benkler has also been posted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5723395
It’ll only feel interrogation style if you make it that way. There are more casual ways of dealing with these things that are fun and not too serious!
Speaking from experience :)
Advertisers would want to know something akin to circulation numbers before paying for placement though. And they would want to be reasonably confident those numbers aren't pumped by fraud.

Maybe the web needs something like Nielsen ratings, where Verified real users voluntarily submit their browsing to help advertisers determine watch time.
> Browsers could offer sites a way to verify that your users aren't bots without any personal data being sent off the device.

A sufficiently memory-hard and ASIC-resistant proof of work scheme could be used here. But obviously, that implies some non-negligible load on the client.
I don't understand.

HN is simply rendering a link. This is different than many online ads, which make a call to some remote server which returns the ad content (and presumably tracks you without consent).

There is not a third party serving the content for the HN portfolio company hiring link, so no GDPR violation, right?

Help me understand the problem.
> That is unfortunately a feature of modern-day progressivism.

You'll find this is a feature of all isms. Even the free speech absolutists ban the blasphemers when given the chance.
Traits implement interface inheritance, yes. #derive has nothing to do with derived classes in OOP, it's an annotation-like facility that adds auto-generated code to any object.
I don't see how you figure. If I pay to put an ad in the New York Times, the circulation is not a secret. If I pay to put an ad in some Web site (or, worse, thousands of Web sites I don't know about in advance) then I have no insight whatsoever into how many impressions I'm getting if we decide it's illegitimate to try and measure traffic.
Oh absolutely, on a meta level the quiz worked perfectly for me in 4 questions.

As the parent comment only used it once though I imagine fail fast isn't the methodology they were going for
Idk why people think that the ai art is going to discourage people from irl painting and drawing. I used to take pics of my paintings and put different filters on them to help pick the next colors, and now i can do that with ai to see possible places for shading or other changes.
Like count is almost surely just a locally incremented number, your like request will eventually get processed and will be dropped if it was already liked. It only has to be an eventually consistent value.
Yayyy, Belgium on HN! Waffles for everyone!
Hmmm, I used to use macOS with a Wacom "Pen & Touch" tablet.

Pretty sure (~85%) the "touch" functionality used to work fine.
I also picked up a basic steno keyboard earlier in 2022 (the EcoSteno, I think). I'm no good with it yet (I'm still working through layout drills, honestly), but for me, the draw isn't in transcription or text input specifically, but in chord-based control over my computer more generally.

A standard computer keyboard layout has ~100 keys. You can use various modifier keys (Ctrl, Alt, Shift, Meta) and combinations thereof to assign multiple meanings to each key, which morally organizes the keyboard into layers depending on which modifiers are active, but most layers are inconvenient to reach -- anything beyond two modifiers gets annoying and sees limited use. You're almost always on the unmodified layer.

A stenotype board has only ~20 keys, but the unit of input is an entire set of keys rather than a single key. In principle, you can comfortably enter chords of up to 10 keys at once, giving ~184,756 (20 choose 10) inputs. This is modified a bit by ergonomics, but it's still orders of magnitude more possibilities than an idealized keyboard with modifiers (something like 1,600).

That kind of space for addressing commands begs for some kind of principled organization. The Plover community calls assignments of commands to chords "dictionaries", and they generally follow an internally-consistent set of rules called a "theory". If you're working with English input, for example, you'll learn a theory that lets you almost always reason out the chord for a word.

There's nothing that limits stenographic input to transcription, though. You can assemble, say, a dictionary of Emacs commands, and assign related commands chords that share a common subset of keys. (Emacs is kind of like this already IMHO, but I am not a fan of the modifier+key system -- it feels like the addressing space is too small, and I'm afraid to customize the default keymap.)

Moreover, you aren't limited to single-chord input either. Multi-chord input is common; you can easily define entries in the dictionary which are based on a sequence of chords. I believe (but lack the experience to confirm) that English dictionaries tend to be organized around syllables or syllable clusters; the normal English stenotype layout specifically has sections for initial consonent, vowel, and terminal consonant, and theories tend to organize around that structure. Again, there's no reason you can't apply the same tools to non-transcription inputs.

I think this is a really cool input system, and for my interests, complementary to a regular QWERTY keyboard. I still want to learn a proper English theory (to avoid having to switch frequently between multiple keyboards!), but I mostly just want to have the option of chorded input in the first place.
My website https://officesnapshots.com does this.

Our niche is office design content and we sell advertising primarily to office furniture manufacturers. The ads are hosted by us and are sold directly.
Rational Trigonometry
Printing a newspaper at least costs a bit more money and there's a decent chance someone will read the copy of the paper in their hotel room. Fake Web traffic could easily dwarf real traffic.
I am working on a game proof of concept as well (to share a gameplay on YouTube to see if it attracts enough interest) and I have been using IA as well to generate the images and so far it has been a wonderful experience.

I feel really bad for artists because unless you need something very specific or a big studio, you are going to be replaced sadly.
Surely no CEO would actually struggle to choose between legal and poorly-performing vs illegal and better-performing?
This will last less than a day.

What to do in the winter? If the answer is "use the grid", then we just kick the can to someone else, who will probably use fossil fuels to provide the energy. The basic problem remains - solar/wind are intermittent and fluctuating.
Reminds me a bit of https://graphite.rs/
Behavior is a strong signal and I see more Christian harlots and swindlers than people practicing Christ’s philosophy. The left at least don’t pretend to be wholesome and righteous.
I was a cigarette smoker too. I was doing the same thing and it worked wonderfully but I had to stop the nasty smelling habit. However, those vice forced brakes every 1-2 hours or so made me a lot more productive overall. Current office culture is very much desk bound, walking around, is not encouraged at all, and if I squint I could sort of see it in the product itself
Why Is Wall Street So Hot for Biodiversity?
Sure it is! And the video clearly states that Vint Cerf knew of the project. Maybe he read the book! You can too:

http://traite.czam.de/en/latest/otlet_traite_1934_FR.html

Those who attempt first, generate knowledge that we build on. Would the Wright Bros be anywhere without the bravado of earlier failed pioneers?

In fact, Wilbur flew first that day then failed, so then Orville went and that's the flight we remember. And they might not have gotten there at all without inspiration from the childhood helicopter toys of Pénaud, who I'm not sure tried to fly himself but it wasn't long after that a bicycle maker tried.
I spent the past 4 years at a small studio with about 6-8 programmers.

Almost all the programmers that ever joined our team came from a non gaming background.

And every time I onboarded someone new, it went about the same way. They adapted pretty quickly to our C++ codebase, even if they had a different background. But most of them were really not used to work in an environment where performance really matters. They knew how to write code, but they didn't know how to write fast code. Or what actually makes their code fast.

So if you want to prepare, take the slowest machine you can get your hands on, and program something for that hardware using C++ or Rust. It doesn't matter what it is. You'll learn a lot and have something nice to talk about at the job interview.
> I don't see how "getting tenure" is a viable strategy going forward.

It's not, which is why many schools are moving away from tenured faculty and more toward contract instructors. They're paid like regular faculty (not pennies like adjuncts) but aren't on a tenure track. 3-5 year contracts give better job security than a typical job, but not a guaranteed job for life.
TV ads are GDPR-compliant, they still work and they even are targeted (by time and target audience).

Just do the same on the web:

You (or an ad aggregator network) can ask (by e-mail or automatically via an API) a specific website to show a specific ad without leaking any details about any specific visitor.

You can still target safely by the website (target audience) and specific page, time, IP geolocation, for registered (at the website you advertise at) users also by the details they voluntarily provide (without leaking personalized details to you/aggregator).
Twitter actually used to have downtime during certain updates IIRC. The state department asked them to skip one such maintenance in service of some Iranian protests in 2009. I highly doubt that the era of US ops in twitter has ended, so downtime is probably a nonstarter.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/06/16/state-department-interv...
US system is difficult by design. Automation would make filing less painful, and one party dislikes taxes so prefers people feel the pain.
> Stuff like Dall-e is still far from producing anything like that

It is not, you just have to try many times and post-process a lot.
UI in a car that makes drivers potentially more distracted.

I don't care about how comfortable or uncomfortable this makes people with touch screens driving, there's large evidence for them being more dangerous.
my problem with learning sdl2 is every article I’ve encountered already assumes I know sdl2. but I could hardly find documentation to grok it.

if I have to read the source code for it. what prereq knowledge do I need if I’m from a web dev background trying to build graphical desktop apps with sdl2
Seattle schools sue tech giants over social media harm
Fastmail shows lists of messages using a progressively-loaded list, where each item is of a consistent height (88px for me, but it can be a few other values too, depending on your configuration—I think 51px is the default). This means that the scrollbar is real and accurate, and you can seek to any point in your mailbox easily (provided your platform allows interacting with the scrollbar, which largely means “on desktop platforms”). But this does cause problems for very large mailboxes, because browsers only support finite lengths.

A few years back, while I worked at Fastmail, we had a ticket come in from an IE user that they could suddenly only access the first few messages in their mailbox. Trouble was they’d gone over IE’s limit, and IE just ignored the entire height declaration in that case, and so you ended up with only the initially-rendered list items available.

The limits I found:

• Firefox: ignores declarations that resolve to a value higher than 17,895,697 pixels (which is a bit more than 2²⁴).

• IE: ignores declarations that resolve to a value equal to or higher than 10,737,418.23 pixels (2³⁰ − 1 hundredth pixels).

• WebKit: clamps values somewhere around 2²⁵ (~33,554,432) pixels; clamping means you don’t need to worry about it so much, since that was the best workaround in other browsers anyway.

And so we ended up with the workaround code at https://github.com/fastmail/overture/blob/41cdf36f3e7c8f0dd1... (the Firefox check was of much older vintage, I just added the IE case). (Nowadays, the IE part is gone again because IE is gone, hooray!)

So yeah, it actually only took about 200,000 messages in the list to hit this limit and fall over, or subsequently just make the bottom of the mailbox inaccessible. 200,000 messages in one mailbox is uncommon, but not at all unrealistic, especially in an “All mail” sort of mailbox.

For those in this thread saying “why would you ever want to do that?”: this is why. Real scrolling is extremely useful in small cases, and still absolutely useful on occasion as things grow even extraordinarily large. This is not a degenerate case: this is very sane. And pagination of any form would be horrible. Like pagination basically just makes old emails inaccessible except by precise search in Gmail. Fastmail’s approach is very, very strongly desirable here. Pagination is the clumsy hack, not progressive loading of a list (though I will admit that you need list items to be of consistent heights to do a good job of this style of progressive loading).
Google and Meta wouldn't want to go back to contextual ads, because that invites competition. Their moat is their huge userbases and tracking pixels make advertisers feel like gods driving minions to sales. Everyone can make contextual advertising, but stalking users requires dominant-player status.

OTOH we have places like youtube where content makers seem to make more money with sponsorships (which are like contextual ads) than with google's adsense. So it seems like it s time to call out the advertisers: Why haven't they ever taken a stand vis-a-vis stalker advertising? It also seems weird to me that advertisers are not being fined for targetting users even though they are the original perpetrators.

I would like to be able to monetize my websites, but google and EU are both my enemy
Most, sure. Twitter? No way on Earth.
Can managers continue to add value to organizations?
"democracy" is "democracy" in name only in many countries. Eg, in the US, Republicans and Democrats are fairly similar middle of the road people. In India, what democracy lol? Same in egypt.

"democracy" also depends on others wnating the same change as you. You alone can't do jackshit.

I alone can choose not to shop at amazon and choose walmart intead.
Still used in winter in cold places.
Here is a child-like, practical definition of intelligence: "ability to solve problems".
Show HN: I created a Udemy course about How to extend Keycloak(programmatically)
I summarized everything I learned while working on Keycloak during the past years
My argument is that a very large proportion of people benefit from borrowing from the future (obviously some more than others). Enough that it is politically unpopular to vote against the government ensuring these returns.

For example, taxes are lower today because of off the books borrowing from the future via these expected future asset valuations, as well as people liking their own 401k/IRA account numbers going up.
I was just there over the summer and only got as far as Dun Laoghaire (Covid got me) and even just walking around Dun Laoghaire for a day was enjoyable. I was surprised that such a small place had so much to offer.