skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The concept of endless growth is a key ideological component of capitalism. Despite its devastating environmental and social consequences, growth for the sake of growth remains one of the main drivers of the global economy. Without it, the entire system comes crashing down like a gigantic house of cards.

I hear this a lot, but is it even true? Yes, our current system incentivizes increased consumption as a primary driver of growth. However, with the internet-era advent of 0-marginal cost goods/services, with extremely sublinear real-world resource usage (ie. electricity), aren't productivity increases just as valid a mode of growth as consumption increases? If we appropriately tax the consumptive inputs that feed an enterprise (eg. Carbon) isn't it reasonable to say that the growth of capital is not necessarily permanently hitched to the cart of otherwise limited real-world consumption?

This is a key part of my perspective that degrowth is not the only path forward. Innovation can yield us a carbon-neutral future. In the same vein, can't invention yield us an economy with fewer "devastating environmental and social consequences"?

It's incumbent upon us to price the negative externalities of consumption, not to abolish consumption entirely.

IANAEconomist, so I'd welcome critique on these points.
Apparently recently other CPU architectures including RISC-V SoC and Snapdragon 8 also gain mainstream Linux compatibility:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-kernel-adds-risc-v-j...
> Just realized: advertising is over, and has been for a few years.

> How many people here see any ads?

You're not the target audience. Advertising definitely works, though not on everyone.

Never take HN commenters as a representative sample of the general population.
There are numerous data aggregators and data brokers out there. If your data is online (e.g. LinkedIn), they have it. If you've ever given data to a site that trades data with a brokerage, they have it. My company worked with one of these data aggregators and they offered us half-cost pricing if we shared our user data with them, which we declined to do, but I'm guessing many sites take the deal.

Point being, I can just about guarantee that your data is in these systems. It's probably being used for targeted advertising, recruiting tools, etc. And I wouldn't be surprised if half the data tied to your name is wrong (it was for me when I looked myself up).
You don't rely on the natural light for these photos, you use a very powerful strobe/flash which allows reds etc.. to come through.
Of course they will. They'll sell out the old copies to the people who simply must have the fat Aunt Sponge and can no longer be sure to get it from the library, and then they'll get to sell the revised version to people who do not like the word "fat" but already have the old version. Neither of these groups would have purchased the book otherwise. On top of that, the publisher gets free publicity from living rent free in your head over an insignificant change that harms literally nobody.

You're free to boycott the publisher, and everybody else is free to make fun of you for making a big deal out of a nothing burger. Hence, the culture wars continue.
I think that is poppycock. If you don’t know anything then how can you bring all this “creativity” to bear on a task of knowledge work? This whole line that all of higher education is just regurgitation or something of no value seems fallacious. What is an example of not regurgitation? Why is it that using Wikipedia or whatever is superior learning to what is done in university?
You aren’t wrong but the majority (certainly by dollars spent) of ads you see are not simply letting people know your business is in the shop or wagon associated with them - they are to manufacture desire to drive sales. You can have a directory like the Yellowpages for simply finding the contact information of someone to fulfill a need you already have, but no one looks at a directory to get ideas of things they may want.
The quality of its answers improve significantly when you give it feedback and ask it to revise. It's eerie!
It is very difficult getting containers that aren’t in a pod together to be able to talk to each other, with rootless pods, and without just host-binding everything. None of the normal hostname conveniences are in place, and if it’s possible to do it isn’t default and probably needed much more underlying knowledge than I had when I tried.
As someone who did what you talk about for quite some time, life is not long. There is a reason that carpe diem is a durable enough phrase to have survived millennia.
There's a problem with a national domain: people move. My .me domain is registered in 2009 (well, I know that it's a national domain) and I lived in three different countries since then with a permanent status in the current one and without plans to come back to my homeland.
Oh man, if this could plug into git and be a LFS replacement, that would be awesome. I work in a field where folks run into situations where they think they need LFS, and rarely does it work out well. If someone can figure out an ergonomic and durable LFS-like blob versioning system that can align with git histories, that would be incredible.
Acceleration was my first thought as well. But I turned that off with some command I found online.

I'm not talking about the track pad (although that has quite a lot of latency as well). I'm talking about a mouse.
I'm assuming it's https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/

As noted in my other comment, I looked for it out of curiosity too, and it's incredibly satisfying to see how fast it loads.
Yesterday I got on the subway and sat down. Two stops in I start to think, this is an oddly pleasant subway ride. Why am I in such a good mood?

Then I realize the car I’m in has been stripped of all advertising. No bright colors and sexy women and pithy slogans pulling at my attention.

Bliss.
I agree 1000000%.
Watching all the ART AI's change so radically fast, Watching ChatGPT being adopted by so many people at my company. Watching people say art will shift to prompt engineering, then watching prompt engineering being automated away already! Watching the rise of stable diffusion tooling like invokeai, controlnet, and more. Watching youtube videos of people integrating openai and stable diffusion together. Hearing my old university has created an emergency council to deal with AI and its implications on education and students. Seeing artists on twitter say their commissions have dropped dramatically. Hearing stories that 4channers have been trying to steal Anime creation AI's. Reading articles that chatgpt passed Wharton MBA tests, and various Lawyer tests. An article on hackernews TODAY talks about running this giant models on a home pc!

The speed of AI adoption with its immediate practical usefulness and watching the the speed of innovation around only increase faster than ever makes me nervous extremely nervous about the future, extremely nervous.

This is a global paradigm shift.
Yes, that elephant story is well known, and sad, but there is a difference.

Elephants won't stay in one place long enough to overgraze, they tend to migrate and eat something here and there, spread seads from one place to another and make place for new growth in forests by making new paths through the forests, etc. They are helping the ecosystems.

We can't say the same of herds of cows, who will happily stay in one place until they eat every little green blade of grass, pull out every last root and trample in the rest, so nothing more than mud remains.

In this days it can't be overgrazing that's the problem. Now the animal ag hides the animals, as there are not even enough pastures for all the cows we have. How many farm animals have you seen in the last month, considering that in US alone 19000 land animals is killed every minute (IIRC)? Almost all farm animals are hidden in windowless buildings, out of sight, out of mind. So not freely grazing animals - more likely the problem is runoff from farms (via rivers) now, I presume.
ML for Robots, Specialization vs. Overfitting
Microsoft is doing the same thing with their Surface tablets (https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface) and no one bats an eye.
Advertising and marketing absolutely work on most HN commenters. And HN commenters are 100% the target audience for ads. They are (generally) rich and they spend money. Who wouldn’t want to target them?
I can't agree with you. It's the same as saying that slaves were responsible for deforestation by working the cotton fields.

It's shifting the blame away from real culprits.
It's hard to watch something that doesn't have a quiet (or loud) product placement. If you really haven't been seeing ads I guess you must live in the woods and wrote this post by mailing a letter to dang, and also didn't have him mail you the front page of the day or comments for these posts because that would also contain ads. Realize they are everywhere in culture. If you see something, chances are others see it too, and therefore there's opportunity to monetize that thing.
People seem so convinced of this and I just don't get it. I'm seeing this comment through my eyeballs, generating some pertinent text in my brain, and outputting it back out. But so many people seem convinced convinced this process is something radically, fundamentally, irreducibly different than what ChatGPT is doing internally, and I don't get why.

Is it because I have a consciousness with an internal narrative and ChatGPT does not? Because that seems like more of a result of how we've wired up ChatGPT to operate than a fundamental structural difference; nothing stopping us from making ChatGPT talk to itself in its brain to generate synthesis.
This is actually very accurate.
Cloudflare blocks denial of service attacks, too, which is probably important for tools in the security space, and blocking denial of service attacks means making sure that attackers don't know how to bypass Cloudflare and hit your origin directly.

If you let things go direct to the origin, then you're giving away information about where the origin is, even if the things are only Stripe.
The number of HN commenters who insist they never see ads and aren’t impacted by the ones they do see is laughably high as well.
Yes, there are many! I was shocked to learn this as an adult. Various sources seem to number them in the hundreds of thousands of variants.

This one remarks there are a half-million variants of the New Testament. It does not seem to be in doubt that there are at least tens of thousands.

https://equip.sbts.edu/article/can-really-trust-bible-manusc...

There seems to be an academic field that studies them, how they evolve and split like an evolutionary tree. The way things are going, by the end of my life that field will have to expand to all literature.
I am now wondering if you are Chinese and don't like what I am saying because it exposes a fundamental issue.

Why should the US allow, say, a million people, to emigrate from China to the US when China might not allow a million from the US to emigrate to China?

This isn't about banning. This is about equal treatment. You could call it equity at an international level.

The question you are not answering (or don't want to approach) is:

Why is it OK for one side of a relationship to be restrictive?

China is an easy example of the dichotomy. I am sure we can find others.

You have also conveniently avoided the issues presented in that legal brief about owning property in China.

Why is it OK for China to not allow foreigners to really own property?

Why is it OK for China to not allow foreigners to own land? Farm land?

Why is it OK for them to expect (and even demand) to be able to make those purchases anywhere else in the world?

Can you clearly state your thinking on these last three questions or are you simply going to continue to attack me because you know there is no argument in defense of one-sided protectionist restrictive policies.

We have to treat each other equally. We demand that at a personal level. Why not at the international level?
Most of those coops are professionally managed, if they're of any size.

Just like a democracy dies once the voters figure out they can vote themselves money from the public till, a coop dies when the workers realize they can decide they don't have to work.
Ask HN: What email services are y'all using?
Just wondering what email services are y'all using?
I see:

- Gmail -- maybe not good with privacy
- Yahoo - (?)
- Microsoft/Outlook - (?)
- Hey.com - very opinionated but it seems good
- Proton -- seems good and privacy first
- Fastmail - privacy first

Is there any other good service ?
The queue/DLQ in this case is on Stripe's end. Once the WAF problem was fixed, Stripe ran the webhooks correctly.
When you get older, other memories crowd out specific bugs.

Memory is associative. The father you are from the bug, the harder it is to remember.

More importantly, you don't need to remember your own bugs, you can get a story from the Internet or ChatGPT.
In this example we're talking about 11 more or less equal shareholders, one of whom is a manager.
How to start your blog in 2023: start writing. Upload wherever you want on whatever platform you want. You can always change it later.

Content should come first, before worrying about optimizing your static build or tweaking your CSS or moving to Substack or whatever else. That can all be done later when you've found your writing rhythm.
I think the problem with what you’re saying is that you are not mindlessly agreeing with some straw man, overly reductionist view of what higher education is that seems to be majority view.
> "Only in the last century, and especially in the decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, has the advertising industry grown into this massive all-encompassing behemoth."

The irony that a person writes this sentence, and then illustrates his writing solely with advertisements from the early 20th and late 19th centuries.

My god we're talking only 32 years ago. Sure it's not his living memory, but come on. Talk about not even looking at the pictures in a history book, let alone reading a history book.
How are you avoiding paid product placement, submarine advertising, sponsorships, Etc?
Most people do not know about, much less use ad blockers. An old colleague of mine started a local pizza restaurant. The first week after she set up Facebook and Google ads her average daily customers jumped 40%. After dialing it in and perfecting the ad campaign it's up to 90%.

Ads unfortunately do work.
It seems more likely that you are in a bubble. Most people aren't like Hacker News commenters.

A data point: Google gets most of its revenue from selling ads and they're doing ok. Presumably, if advertising stopped working then their revenue would be going down a lot? There's an entire industry that would notice.
> as long as there is no prolonged disruption in treatment

Which happens all the time. Treatment is significantly more burdensome and expensive than women taking birth control, for example, and we all know how accidents still happen.

Notice how you’re shifting the blame to the victim, who was knowingly put at risk. “It’s really your fault because you’re not on Prep.”

It’s just bizarre how worked up people get about not wanting to be honest with their sex partners. It’s basic human decency.
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No you can't. The libraries can keep whatever edition they already have.
Fedora 38 Sway Spin ISO bootable and working
It's early, but with the announcement of a Sway spin on Fedora 38 coming, it's worth noting that the current ISO build of rawhide boots and runs successfully on my Acer Swift 3 Ryzen box.

I didn't have to do anything special other than configure wifi from nmcli at the command line. Hard-wired ethernet detects and works fine out of the box.

The sway spin team deserve credit for making an early boot work with most of the sway goodness in place.

With this, we now have bootable ISO versions of sway distributions based on arch, fedora, and ubuntu.
I know Hacker News won't reflect well on a Jordan Peterson quote but in one of his class lectures he says something along the lines of

> The purpose of life should be to find out how much responsibility you can bear, and then bear it

And I quite like it
Something that I don't quite understand is why the tendency of ChatGPT to be inaccurate sometimes is a fundamental flaw rather than something that can be improved on iteratively if its just a matter of improving the statistical likelihood of accuracy. The question of whether its AGI or not is, to paraphrase the famous quote, a bit like the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Joined! Hope the community ends up taking off a bit, it would be fun to have new/smaller community to become a part of. Joining large existing boards often feels pointless due to the insular groups of regulars with a history going back a decade or longer, not that I blame them.
In my last round of interviews, by far my favorite session was "here is a real project with a real bug, debug it, then if you have time, describe how to fix it, then if you have time, write the fix". (At Stripe FWIW.)

It was super representative of what my work is actually like, and what I'm good at, and ChatGPT would not have figured it out.

yet
My organization values technical correctness.
In this case however the official site provides the same guidance. Still, don’t pipe scripts to shells. At least read the script first.
I don't think "happily" has the right implications for an action they have taken three times ever.
Patio11 (Patrick McKenzie) has left Stripe
“ The short version is pretty simple: I worked very hard for six years, accomplished a lot, and company has matured to point where it needs ~different type of work... I am writing bitsaboutmoney.com biweekly at the moment and doing a few projects for next few months to clear my head, explore some AI, and pay the bills, and then will likely figure out next big adventure.“
This is only a partial joke. It could really happen in a real airplane someday.
An Overview of Modern Capitalism
Technology tends to grow with a sigmoid curve. Extremely fast growth at the start, and then it slows down and eventually plateaus and new technology repeats the cycle. The only question is where on the curve are we for LLMs and AI in general?
But that was also true 20 years ago and yet, ads are still around. I'm not sure much has changed since then. Ad blockers have become more widespread but so did mobile web browsing.
Please don't put blockquotes in code blocks.
I write all my responses backwards and then reverse them thank you very much.
Until the 1920s, something close to 80% of all houses in Chicago were covered by enforceable restrictive covenants preventing Black families from moving in:

https://www.chicagocovenants.com/

(I volunteered for this project, will do so again soon, and recommend it; it's super fascinating, and if you go shoot me an email).

Redlining, the practice of refusing to underwrite mortgages in predominantly Black neighborhoods, continued up through around 1970.

The entire city of Chicago is defined by these apartheid-styled racial boundaries. I live in Oak Park, across Austin Blvd. from an almost totally Black neighborhood; Oak Park exists precisely because it was not redlined, and so wealthy white families could feel comfortable buying homes there. I grew up in Beverly, where a similar border exists at around 90th and Ashland:

https://interactive.wttw.com/firsthand/segregation/mapping-c...

You can look at where all the crime is in Chicago and see a map of C and D-graded tracts today. When Uber first launched here, their service map resembled these maps as well!
So you’ll grade them on how good their teleprompting skills are.
the other thing you get is information density, I can see posts back till midway last year.... on my large monitor on many sites, you can be luck to see the last 3. Scrolling, I can quickly see 10 years of posts. Fantastic
I think one of the big benefits of French Guiana is that it is closer to the equator which means that it takes less fuel (aka money) to reach space.
> Plus it's a language that breaks backwards compatibility way too often

Do you have examples of such compatibility breakages?

I noticed Nextcloud and WordPress both seem to lag behind the last version of PHP a bit. But on the other hand I also see such thing in the Java World where people are stuck on Java 8 or 11, when backward compatibility is one of the strength of the language.

I also have PHP scripts I wrote for PHP 5.1 and still work unchanged on PHP 8.2, 12 years later. Well, I had to fix some warnings for completely dumb things I did like putting mandatory arguments after optional arguments and I'm not sure why it was working, but the upgrades have been painless for me.

Plus, I find the latest PHP version quite pleasant, with the type annotation and other new features of the language, and the execution model where your app doesn't run all the time, its php files are just called by the web server (though php-fpm). No Tomcat or uWSI or unicorn and virtualenvs to manage.

But I guess I'm a person who is "already invested/emerged in the language" :-)

(I'm also invested in Python, Java and Node.js though)
https://www.globaldata.com/data-insights/internet-services-t...
I'd argue that we're already being targeted by very carefully placed comments positively supporting products/services, and responses on negative articles by "leaders" at aggrieved companies when users come to social media for last ditch customer support.

Just because it's not flashy banners or near-naked women doesn't mean it's not advertising.

fixed: wrong word
Americans applying for 'golden passports' more than any other nationality
> Can something be pleasurable to read/view/listen to/etc., knowing the author of the work doesn't, for lack of a better term, have a soul? I don't know.

I find pleasure in looking at gorgeous natural landscapes: mountain ranges, forests, waterfalls, creeks, glaciers, the sky at night. I also enjoy eating fresh blackberries.

I enjoy them even though they don't have a soul or a human creator.
lucky you

on my computer trains they're adding OLED video ad screens

at eyelevel, with constant movement
He can think of a couple of examples where marketing is manipulative, therefore all marketing is manipulative and causes people to make irrational decisions.

I sell tours to interesting places. I sell them using advertising. How is that a problem?

Let’s say someone decides to open a hair salon. How does that person promote their business if not through advertising? Or is the author wanting to ban people from opening businesses?

This is a classic case of placing a binary solution on a problem of degrees.

Some advertising has harmful practises, some advertising is too much in some places. This is uncontroversial.

Where the author has erred is in his simple black and white diagnosis.
Americans are not cynical people, but they are cynical about their government.

Remeber 'Rambo'? The simple Vietnam Vet who comes home and is harrassed by the Police for no reason?

Or the 'Most American Film Ever' aka the Godfaather, which is criminal family's rise to power - and the Patriarch wanting the son to be 'something legit' aka a 'Senator'? That's JFK.

The American military, DARPA etc. are all amazing things, and frankly so is the Constitution and major institutions aka Congress even as people are cynical they are 'believers' in the end.

Anyhow - 'crude nationalism' isn't that common in intellectual circles where as defensive pro-EU (as an institution) commentary is all over the place and people who don't go for it are 'alt-something' etc. This is unique.
Did you just invent a new field of memetic reproduction? Distribution of idea-genes by production of particularly appealing outrage-fruits for consumption by media-grazing humans.
I still remember my gray socialist upbringing. When i started to glue my playtoy with chewing gum paper from wrigleys, because it had this green, flashy, metallic finish and it looked awesome. I like the blinking distraction.