skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are using a word by its most common definition then sure. Addiction has more casual definitions in the dictionary.

Language evolves and the word addiction has evolved. It's used casually all the time like this blog post although there's no formal diagnosis.

Your examples bring up a good point. Many parents have the TV on all day in the background because they were raised with it. Many kids today will likely have streamers on all day as they grow up because they were raised with it.

It doesn't matter if they are good citizens or doing well in life, you can argue the perspective that it could be "harmful" if using the most common definition that many common mediums (radio, TV, internet, live streaming, etc) removes the sense of reality from people and promotes them to engage in consumerism/capitalism. That can be pretty harmful over the course of one's life although it's non-obvious.

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arguments_for_the_Elimina...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone
Always enjoyed this documentary on the topic: "Too fast to race"

https://youtu.be/imXk8u-reUQ
I think it boils down to one question: can you prompt the model to show mostly unchanged pictures from artists? Then it's definitely problematic. If not, then I don't have enough knowledge of the topic to give a strong opinion. (my previous answer was just an use case that fits your argument)
Real question: Why defend Apple charging developers $100 a year for the service of developing for their OS?

Do we think it costs Apple $100 a year to grant this?

The burden should be on Apple to justify this.
“any fractional bits would be in there if you want to look.”

What do you mean by this in the context of generating images via prompt? “Fractional bits” don’t make sense and it’s more misleading if anything. Regardless, a model violating criteria for being within fair use will always be judged by the outputs it generates rather than its composing bytes (which can be independent)
Ok, but how do I get the $200k to begin with? ;)
I've been hanging out on and enjoying HN daily for many years and I STILL have NO IDEA what a Terminal app or command line is — nor will I ever try to find out.
I think the idea is 30 mins watching scratches the itch, 30 mins playing and you are going to play for hours more.

(At least, this is how it is for me, can’t speak for the GP.)
Agreed, except that it should be set to the average salary of the position.
At higher management levels people are trying to "achieve" some goals and of course "agile" means that you are constantly evaluating what to achieve and discarding some of it while perhaps adding new things. There's less agility higher up because I think it takes too long for any of those goals to be proven stupid (or proven smart) so it's waterfall ontop and agile underneath and that's obviously a clash.
I spend way more time random surfing than I probably should. Honestly we probably are both dealing with ADHD, depression, or some sort of anxiety disorder.
It’s a shame dang doesn’t nuke these disinformation agents from orbit.
I don't have the experience you have so I don't know what I can add but I am a laborer. You are blaming your team here but a lot of what you are discussing are strategic errors. How is your team responsible? Their code was just very buggy and you trusted it to work?
Interesting. It’s the same on my end. I’m not interested in any of the stuff I see and I have no idea why an algorithm would think so. Crypto is relentless. Payday loans are around, but not as prevalent. I get a lot of ads for weird novelty toys too. I’m not sure I’ve ever clicked one, let alone looked them up.

I’ve wondered if it’s because I’m into 3d printing and many other people who are into are interested in action figures/minis/what have you. Possible connection?

In any case ads do seem to be getting less relevant and skeezy themes are developing.

The worst one I’ve been seeing a lot of is “single Ukrainian women”. One went as far as showing a quick and easy process of selection and “purchase”. I have no idea how that would be targeted at me, but it see a lot of them.
Is the Mac site broken? https://tapbots.com/ivory/mac/
So far so good on Android: Firefox with ublock origin.
When ChatGPT gives me a wrong answer, and I point out that it is wrong, ChatGPT immediately apologizes, every time. I have not seen it argue that it's actually right.

I've also seen it give different answers when asked the same question in a different way. Usually, one of the answers will be correct.

It has no idea if it's answers are right or wrong. It only knows that it's putting words in a common order.
Think of it this way - if we allow ourselves to infinitely divide space, eventually we are talking about distances much, much smaller than the Planck distance (QM concept in case you are not familiar). At those scales, we can't even pinpoint the position of an electron. How can you talk about the movement of an arrow over than distance? You do really think that the equations of motion are accurately describing the physically reality at that point?
huh, does that explain why the PS5, in 2023, still gets really upset about having power yanked while it’s not turned all the way off? It yells at you (talk to PG&E, Sony) and does a slow fsck when power is restored. Being stuck with old FreeBSD FFS would explain it. You’d think they could invest in a modern filesystem to make this headache go away.
Elizabeth I provoked the Spanish Armada
So what is the end goal of this?

For lawyers to make money. That is the goal of much litigation.
Anyone that can afford a Lexus can also pay for a heated seat subscription. Does that make it right for them to sell it?
Some CDs are very scratched. Some CDs are CDRs with dye that hasn't aged well. Some CDs just don't read well (poor manufacturing tolerance, perhaps). Some drives silently return bad data on error. Some drives return a lot of errors towards the last tracks even when there is no problem. Drives vary on where they think tracks start and end (generally a uniform offset per drive). Sometimes, reading audio before the claimed start of the CD takes extra trickery. There are many more issues, besides. By ripping multiple times to verify and comparing to a global database of checksums (and in some cases doing error correction), you can be sure of getting exactly the intended audio.
It would be nice to know how you actually lost it, before diving into advice.
Gimlet Variable Regular apparently doesn’t support Norwegian Nynorsk. Literally unusable.
The problem is that the consequences are different for every person. We treat drugs as though messing with them has a guaranteed outcome, but it's not true.

Drugs effect everyone differently. People use them for different reasons. People experience different outcomes from taking them.

You can talk about 'appropriate' but you're assuming that they must talk about the negative aspects. Why? If some people have a positive experience with drugs why do we need to pretend they're lying?
I definitely share the concern over Chrome's dominance, especially given the Manifest v3 crap, but it seems hard to believe they'll manage to take over the iOS ecosystem. Or even the mac ecosystem at that. As shown in this very thread, mac users really value the fact that Apple owns their whole stack and is able to do things like automatically fill in OTP codes from text messages (something that would be a huge invasion of privacy if any other company did it lol). Safari is tightly integrated with Apple's OSes and takes full advantage of that to offer things that would be impossible for other browsers to offer
> We trusted our team blindly.

What happened?
Just in case anyone was wondering, EAC works without a hitch with WINE on Linux.
A pretty sparse list with an emphasis on the late 20th century that doesn't even come close to capturing some of the most influential pillars of science fiction, literary and otherwise. Underwhelming.
It is good advice. Not fully agree with 5 tough. You need both, stability and UX. Cemeteries are full of stable products that were hard to use.
That could be a funny movie.

Special agents from the MPAA sent to assassins an Android who can spew out high quality art.
> Maybe this is a stupid question but is there any value in trying to put solar panels on the roofs of trucks to offset fuel costs?

The value is lower than putting the solar panels in a desert where they don't shake around and get worn out quicker. Perpetual solar powered auto-mobiles weight almost nothing and are more like three wheel bikes where you lay down. So on a truck it would be bugger all.
If I compress a copyrighted work down to two bytes and publish that, I think that judges would declare it legal. If it can't be uncompressed to resemble the copyrighted work in any sense, no judge is going to declare it illegal.
And are they relative to individual values and preferences?
Please. I take the subway everyday twice a day. You must admit at 3:30 AM after a night at a bar, a cab would be preferable to the subway.
Wow, not only do they get this wrong, it’s the core example they use to demonstrate copying.
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My interviews have been just fine.

That being said, I did go through the canonical 15-minute slides presentation once. That should be a red flag to any job seeker.
I remember passing a floppy disk with this on it before we got online.

And I remember people lying about what they made and blew up etc
I find the App Store perfectly fine for getting the applications I want and need. Yes, I think it's easy to use: how can I be wrong about that?

>...they don't know enough to know better.

is rather snarky and condescending IMHO
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Not to dismiss your points, but if you are going to title the post “I lost 200k” it’d be nice to at least explain where the money went. Was it routine operating expenses that ultimately went to fund a failed product, or something more nefarious (#1 hints at that).
I found Swinsian[1] after I ditched iTunes, It works quite good and I’m very happy with it.

While I rip all tracks separately the FAQ states: „Swinsian also supports albums ripped as a single file together with a cue file, and FLAC, Ogg Vorbis and WavPack files with embedded cue information„.

There is a free trial, maybe this works for you.

[1] https://swinsian.com/
Oops lol for some reason I thought the person I was replying to was talking about a die-cast model or something! Of course the 959 is basically completely out of reach for a pleb like me.
I want more details about that, too. That could be a reckless cowboy but I’ve also seen cases where people routinely bypass the official process because it doesn’t handle all of the work they need to do, or is slow/unreliable in ways incompatible with the volume of work, etc.

It does suggest a big lapse in oversight: if this wasn’t the first time they did this, their security monitoring should have picked it up.

My guess is that this is going to be one of those situations where someone broke the rules in a way their immediate management knew about but sanctioned because the official process was dysfunctional. In those cases it’s really common to crucify the operator and ignore the larger problem.
Using GitHub Copilot for unit testing
Negative affect intensifies conflicts between discourse and world knowledge
I was going to say the same thing. Worked at a mid-sized startup, great culture, amazing coworkers that I'm still friends with today. We did great work and got bought out by a large company who had promised not to mess with our culture too much. That didn't last very long haha
Our startup import export business lost about $5MM in one transaction over Covid when the Vietnamese mafia / corrupt factory decided to say YOLO and keep our cash.

Still haven’t recovered anything.
I've enjoyed it working well. It was much better than being project managed. A great deal of the time it let us toss out stupid requirements - they just sat at the bottom of the infinite backlog because they weren't needed yet.
I have NO IDEA what iTerm is nor do I know what a shell or CLI command are.
See also: "How your mood affects the way you process language",

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-01-mood-affects-language...
Farm animals are also exempted from most animal cruelty laws via the magic words "standard agricultural practice".
Almost all the funds went into operations.
I doubt Microsoft sees fragments of Windows source code as a particular crown jewel these days. That said, some of it is decades old code that was intended for the public to see (unlike, presumably, anything in a public GitHub repository). And some of it is presumably third-party code licensed to Microsoft that was likewise never intended for public viewing. So, while it would be a good gesture on the part of Microsoft to scan their own code--if they haven't done so--I could see why it might be problematic. (Just as training on private GitHub repos would be.)

tl;dr I think there's a distinction between training on copyrighted but public content and private content.
I'm interested in "build an audience before building a product" - classically you would determine a target market/niche, build an MVP, and then attempt to market it, refine it with early customers. What kind of audience and conversations can you have without _any_ product? I've seen more than one startup fail by investing into marketing without having anything to market ready. But I'm curious in other experiences.
Fascinating as a paradigm. I wonder whether there's are ways to scale this to the level of agent-based simulations, ie models with populations of agents that let you study macroeconomic effects as emergent phenomena. You'd need to be able to scale those LLMs computations to many agent and find principled ways of encoding their interactions and decisions.
Almost all the funds went into operations, mostly developers.
Any candidate is free to apply at a smaller software company with likely less bullshit. Anyone is volunteering to go through the interview process.
> For your setup-- if I do original CD -> accrual's rip -> burned CD, does burned CD == original CD for all values of original CD?

I was curious about this as well, and the answer was "no". I meticulously followed EAC setup guides for three drives in EAC, I used the recommended gap settings, the results were completely verified by AccurateRip, I was storing the results as a CUE sheet and single WAVE file, all drives would produce the same file, I was using EAC to burn the CUE sheet and WAVE file back to new Verbatim CD-Rs, re-ripping was done with the same setup in EAC, and the files still didn't match. I've been meaning to dig deeper and compare the files in binary, but haven't gotten around to it.
> "it's tricky to prove that a weather result would or would not have happened if the cloud seeding effort didn't take place."

It's notable that weather modification programs of the 1950s were iniated before the discovery of sensitive dependence on initial conditions (popularly known as 'chaos') in weather systems, by Edward Lorenz. His 1995 book, "The Essence of Chaos" is still the best overview of the subject:

https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295975146/the-essence-of-ch...

The 2010 book by JR Fleming, "Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control" is a good review of failed weather modification schemes in the past:

https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1028

The problem is kind of like that of tossing pebbles down a mountainside - regardless of whether there's an avalanche, you can't tell if the avalanche would have happened anyway, or if the 100th pebble launched triggered the avalanche. Putting enough energy into the system to guarantee a result of some kind (a stick of dynamite for the avalanche analogy) is prohibitive since weather systems tend to contain a gigantic amount of energy.
Everything here could be wrong or right depending on your individual situation.

No two companies are the same. Take advice (or insight) with a grain of salt.
> Ironically, I've had far more problems with Linux systems using extfs losing data or requiring very lengthy fsck'ing after hard resets than Windows 9x or even DOS on FAT,

This thread is wild. Are you saying you're still running Windows 98 and DOS machines (and for that matter Linux running a non-journaled ext3/4 device, something which no one has tried in decades)?!

Or is this literally a comment pulled from 1994? People really want to have an argument over the quality of a system in 2023 based on screaming we all did literally 30 years ago. Unbelievable.
When they tell you to try to keep your seatbelts on at all times they are not kidding. I am sure some of the injuries were people like the quoted woman, people that had to take off their seatbelts to move around the cabin, but probably some of them were people that just unbuckled their seatbelts to feel more comfortable.
>The core use case for containers is deploying apps to server

Which includes servers that build applications with Xcode.
I haven't needed to solve this problem since somewhere around 2003 but my tool used to be CDex https://cdex.mu/screenshots
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I don't know what the average user of your target audience is, but I've interacted with more people that thought their internet was broken because their homepage got a new lick of paint than I've interacted with people who could open up a terminal and copy/paste a command.

Making people follow a step-by-step guide is already a challenge on its own. Manuals are discarded because people consider themselves too good to need to read them, even if they have no idea what they're doing.

If you distribute your code in a way that's harder than clicking on a file and maybe dragging it into a folder, you're going to leave users stranded.

These days almost everyone may have a computer or tablet, but the average computer literacy hasn't gone up since the 90s. Especially on platforms like Apple's, which tries its hardest to hide away difficult concepts like "files" and "directories", you're going to need to babyproof your software for the average audience.

Now, if your target audience has a higher than average technical skill (programmers etc.) then you can get away with curl|bash no problem. Even still, I've had to help full-time developers on Windows open a command prompt several times because it's just not what they'll use in their normal day job, so even curl|bash may be too much to ask for some people in a strictly technical target audience!
ddrescue works with blocks and bytes. Audio cds are different. They contain a single physical bit stream interpreted as several interleaved logical bit streams representing e.g. audio, position, metadata, error correction. They are not a sequence of bytes. Cdroms and dvds put a block and byte abstraction on top of this so ddrescue can do something with them.
Who says the HS student is buying the hardware themselves? It could have been a gift, a hand-me-down, a school computer, etc. As a HS student I was poor as shit, no allowance and lived in a rural area where getting a part-time job would require a car and all the expense with that.
Yeah it's all down to the individual. I used to play all the time when younger but now I play in pretty short bursts and it works fine. I just avoid any games as a service type games.

The PS5 is really nice at this because you don't even have to exit the game. Just send it into rest mode and when you come back your game is still running ready to pick up where you left off.

For me it's a lot more satisfying than watching a YouTube video, but YMMV.
All great advice, but maybe a bit overindexing and fighting the last war?
There's not enough detail on what happened, the product, market, etc. to get anything out of this. I fell for the clickbait title but was just confused
UI and UX shouldn't be the priority when building an MVP. People often focus on this instead of focusing on making the product stable and suffer. The moment one stands building the next iteration of the product, that's exactly the right time to focus on UI/UX alongside considering all the feedback from the users.
I analyzed shuffling in a million games of MtG Arena (2020)
Why MP3? It's simply not a great codec to target. If you have a music server, then why not flac? If space is an issue, then why not Opus (which almost everything supports now) or HE-AAC which has nearly as much support as MP3. You can target the same MP3 bitrate and end up with a more transparent encoding. You can decrease the bitrate and have the same quality as your mp3 encode with a smaller bitrate.

I honestly don't understand why mp3 is such a sticky codec. It's long been surpassed by others.
It uses dynamic tiling rather than static tiling meaning more versatility how specific desktops get arranged such as bsp, tree, or even custom arrangements
How can I balance academics and my programming career
Okay , so I'm an undergrad studying computer science in a non-us college ,so forgive my English. I was wondering how possible is it to balance academics and a serious programming career while in college without one affecting the other like I want to be that straight A student with great programming skills without falling apart because I have been told that it's very difficult.
You need to be aware of that before making decisions in life though. You also need to be aware of them to know how others around you can legally act.

Also, there's the problem that you don't know what is written in the laws that you don't know. Maybe it does pertain to you, but without knowing the law you can't know that.
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Even that approach seems highly vulnerable to fair use. If the model does not recreate a copyrighted work with enough fidelity to be recognized as such, then how can it be said to be in violation of copyright?
For context, this one was about an email marketing tool.
Unfortunately, the author's definition of consciousness is flawed. By their definition, sociopaths do not have consciousness, which is absurd. Sociopaths lack empathy, not consciousness.
You might already know about it, but JuliaMono (of Julia language fame), has pretty good math symbol support: https://juliamono.netlify.app/
> if you don't like the "walled garden" approach you shouldn't be using Apple

But I use none of Apple's online services. Not even the app store. App store for me is the place to update Apple apps, and that's really it.

> and if your complaint is paying to have your code signed properly as a dev, that's the same across macOS and Windows,

Windows? I know you can sign Windows executables, but why would anyone want to? I have Windows 11 on a VM. It runs unsigned executables just fine and, unlike macOS, doesn't treat them like they're radioactive. You just get a differently-colored confirmation window if you run them as administrator.

> in a similar vein to SSL certs for websites

And before Let's Encrypt and other similar free automatic CAs came along, SSL/TLS was very niche.

See, it's about choice. If you want to throw your money away for some reason, sure you can still pay for an SSL certificate. Or you can use Let's Encrypt for free, set it up once and forget. Your users would see a lock icon either way. No such luck with macOS app signing — Apple is your only option.

I like Android's security model better. You sign your apk with a self-signed certificate. No signing identity is enforced upon initial installation, but if you release an update, the new apk has to be signed with the same certificate. You can install an apk with the same package id but a different signature only after you uninstall the previous one (and delete all its private data). This helps with security and data integrity. I see no reason why Apple couldn't adopt a similar scheme on their platforms, except that they want all control they could get away with.