skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would add the purpose of half of this advice is to make sure to prevent any possibility your domain possession is viewed as being used to monetise the name association with another legitimate company.

If your name is Apple and you somehow obtain new domain named apple.newtld you have a chance to loose the domain if there is any way it can be seen as profiting off of the association with the APL. For example if you put ads on a page that is nominally your personal page it can be seen as getting traffic from people who mistakenly came to this page since there is very little chance they came legitimately.

If it is large company they will be looking at every possible way to get your domain and the only way to fight it is to either spend huge amount of money on lawyers or not give any pretext, however small.

You are also as likely to lose the domain by a targeted attack by people who hope to then sell the domain. If you have a nice domain name you need to invest a bit of thought in protecting it from takover (locking the domain, protecting your information, not using your regular phone number, phone, email, laptop, etc. to have anything to do with the admin access to the domain).
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I really enjoy philosophy and think this is a cool project.

I do think there's two camps of views here. The first being that ideas of past philosophers can be relevant and useful in addressing contemporary issues.

But on the other hand, these ideas were developed at a certain point in time with the respective cultural context.

Stoicism tends to be a good choice and philosophers like Seneca were more practical in their philosophy than socratic. But ask it for straight-forward advice on a modern challenge and it will be more socratic.
Why Beam is GDPR compliant and Google Analytics is not
? Meta: Meta has always run 3 separate products either way. Spinning off the loser (Facebook), and the non-social networking product (WhatsApp) would let Instagram grow wings against TikTok.

Three products which share data. I don't care what the law says, or what they tell a select/congress committee, nothing will convince me otherwise.
This doesn’t compute to me…

On spam: we’ve been receiving physical direct spam mail from the dawn of the modern postal service, and the delivery is paid by the sender. Same way on linkedin for instance, recruiters pay to reach inboxes. Same for many other platforms where spamming and shoving content in users’ feed is monetized by the platform itself.

And that’s the bulk of the alternate business models and revenue streams we’re talking about.

Not everything needs to be free, but raising paywalls at the wrong place can have devastating effects on platforms.
> You find yourself having to do "Right click > inspect" a whole lot less often to figure out what's going on

Instead I find myself going to the Tailwind docs to find out how they renamed this random css property.

But it’s still better than plain CSS.
It’s Time to Build Some Empathy for Developers
I don't like AirPods either, that's why I use Beats Flex. They're super comfortable, they come with multiple silicone cups to fit perfectly inside your ear, and they connect to your phone without any hassle.
Don't you think that like early Symposium-era Plato and then like later Cratylus/Statesmen Plato are so different that this would really confuse the model? How do you handle things like, e.g., the seventh letter?

The Parmenides dialogue alone surely breaks it apart!
Depends on your use case. Signal has the largest user base.

* Matrix (you don't have to selfhost) is ok. Consider not using matrix.org (it's "decentralized" for a reason)

* Quicksy is nice but has no userbase at all.

* Threema, but look at https://breakingthe3ma.app/ first and https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/news-alleged-weaknesses-sta... and https://soatok.blog/2021/11/05/threema-three-strikes-youre-o...

* Wire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_(software)

* Telegram is the worst of the bunch (imho). Just don't use it...
> as long as it’s clear and you’re not trying to confuse the user.

Fair enough, but a lot of them are trying to confuse the customer, as Cory Doctorow found
Cherrypicking violent crime in a discussion about child safety is misleading and fearmongering.

More children die from non-violent crime. The person who drives 10 over the speed limit down a suburban street is a child-endangering criminal, but so many people think the crimes they commit aren't "real" crimes.

If you want to look at data, overall rural child mortality exceeds urban child mortality in the United States; some of these causes are criminal, others are not. Motor vehicle death are the leading cause of child mortality, and for children under 18 exceed deaths from murder 2:1. Within vehicle deaths, for example, seatbelt usage is one of the predominant differentiators between rural and urban outcomes, and guess which areas have the lowest seat belt usage, and a disproportionately high number of deaths as a result? Yep, those "low crime" rural areas. Those parents who don't buckle up their kids are all criminals, too. I'm tired of seeing the label "crime" only applied to people committing certain crimes, in certain areas. It's applied in the most racist possible way in this country.
I wonder how much of this is women CEOs realizing that after a few 10s of millions in the bank, you’re basically set for life. The rest is just “keeping score” and perhaps men are much more interested in this “running up the score” aspect so they either want to stay on as a top executive as long as possible or jump from executive position to executive position.

Not to say there isn’t any sexism involved at all, but to me it seems like bowing completely out of the rat race after a few years and $200 million dollars is the logical move, and there’s just a lot more illogical men.
They should relocate to the US. Energy is way cheaper there!
and Microsoft.
We have "problems" only because we (humans) have decide to classify them as such. Do you think dogs (or trees or stars) have problems? Is losing my job a problem? If so, how is that different than a meteorit hitting the earth? Is the latter a problem or just a "natural thing"? Why is not the former a "natural thing" as well? Human beings are as natural things as meteorits.
Slide 13 is super interesting to me. They have been paying dividends to shareholders that have been smoothly increasing from 3.5% in 2013 up to 7.3% in 2022.

This is one of their stated targets. To increase shareholder dividends and to grow the company. Is this not just having your cake and eating it too?
>Are you sure that they will dramatically increase infrastructure costs? [...] Their infrastructure costs might actually decrease because the clouds will have to compete for their business.

Maybe theoretically possible but I have doubts.

As Youtube's founding was February 2005, they now have 18 years (i.e. exabytes) of videos stored on Google's datacenters. Exporting all that to a competitor like AWS (even with mass Snowmobile transfer service) probably wouldn't make financial sense.

I worked on a corporate spin-out from a petroleum company and there was months of back & forth negotiation for "IT infrastructure services pricing" from the ex-parent company. The new spin out company was definitely not getting a deal from the ex-parent company and switching to other datacenter competitors wasn't realistic because the ex-parent already had all the data and the existing IT staff expertise to run-&-maintain the spin-off's proprietary systems. (E.g. think Lotus Notes custom programming workflows).

Google could realistically raise their infrastructure prices to an independent Youtube spinoff but that higher cost is still less than switching to Azure or AWS.
Paper discussed:

>Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit [Open Access]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05434-1
These types of layouts always appealed to some fundamental part of my brain. The accessibility, repeatability, speed, etc. These experiences are the antithesis of a battle royale or other modern arena shooter. You can literally play for 3 minutes and complete 5-10 logical games. Its almost like a time machine for fun.

I've been working on my own game based upon this style of simple map. I intend to feature this "4-box" layout as my primary competitive arena.

I did come up with something even simpler - a single box in the middle with spawns on opposite corners. Sometimes iceworld is a bit too big... The only logical simplification beyond this would be an empty room with spawns on opposite sides. I am absolutely going to look into what this might play like as well.

Hoping to have something to show HN later this year.
> I would feel disgusted/horrified/angry.

This is the appropriate response to the thought of your species being slaughtered for food. Happily, there's no reason to assume that any other species is capable of contemplating such a thing!

They are capable of feeling pain, of course, which is a good argument against eating veal or foie gras. But it's hardly a reason to not eat any meat. If you're eating free range chickens or pasture-raised beef, it's likely that the animal you're eating lived a pretty good life and had one bad day.
Not only do they have a subscription model, but if you get their biggest single user package, which is ~$54/mo, they charge you ~$300 early cancellation fee. This is insane to me and is the main reason why I personally dumped them for my professional use.
Yes, it uses embeddings (but not from OpenAI) as those are too expensive.
Has the market for cassette tapes dropped off finally?
I wish people would just give simple explanations for this stuff and not make it more complicated than it needs to be.

Something like a visual explanation showing how a conditional distribution is like a single row or column from a 2D table would be so much easier for people to understand.
Yep, no layoffs happening in the US! /s
Computing e to 116,000 Places with a Personal Computer (1981)
I looked at your webpage and was underwhelmed, uploading the files for transcription is probably not acceptable for most people.

Then I looked at the macwhisper page and, wow… It does all the stuff.

Guessing they are using whisperX for the timecodes.
I think it’s interesting that just because you don’t like Tailwind, suddenly vanilla-extract and Typescript are trash.

I wonder if there’s a correlation between people that like Tailwind and hate Typescript?
I think the only cashiers I see standing in Germany are at IKEA and hardware stores (because they have to stand to scan half the huge parts), and even then I think they have a chair inside their little spot next to the scanner and the conveyor belt. Only the "info booth" people are usually standing.
Unless Google pays more for the reduced market share, your argument doesn't stand.

So my argument stands.

Mozilla's current deal with Google is good through 2023 and is worth around $400-$450 million per year.

Every deal Mozilla has made with Google has payments increased --- even as Firefox's browser share has decreased.

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2020/08/mozilla-firefox-goo...
> The services may not work a la carte

They don't need to. Prime could still offer Prime Video / Music as a membership perk. But if the media services are independent, maybe it'd turn out offering one or more of the others, or letting customer pick and choose, would end up making more financial sense (FireTV can already be used to subscribe to competing services in addition)

I'm not saying it's necessarily a good idea - I don't have an opinion on that - but the bundling of services does not depend on them being part of the same company.
Generative AI is a legal minefield
It's indexable, so just fine: https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector#indexing
Not disagreeing necessarily but why do you think this? Codes have got better, qbits have got massively better over the last few decades, why wouldn't the two lines eventually cross?

Do you think there is some physical principle that will prevent getting a quantum speedup, or do you just think that the practical engineering challenges are simply too difficult?
Almost made me register a throwaway to give you an extra upvote...

Thank you.
Kombucha tastes like a circuit board so making them into circuit boards is a good idea.
I like when commercial conservatives like to blame the government for always being too big, inefficient and useless, and then go around and sign off all of their rights to privacy of communication thinking that government is going to do a better job with their private messages (or otherwise using their private communications only for the specific reasons they state, such as child abuse) compared to everything else they do.
phobos is not a moon !!!

phobos is the god and personification of fear and panic in Greek mythology.

this is crucial in understanding ransomware ;)
Subjectivity in probability theory goes back quite a long time.
> The services may not work a la carte

If the service cannot compete on it's own merits, and is being propped up by an unrelated business, how competetive is it actually?
"Executive Summary" is an inoffensive way to say "Look, I know you cannot understand this and/or will not read this, so here's a small amount of text written simply that you can use to make a decision."
Not defending BASF, but inflation needs to be accounted for too.
Yeah perhaps just like this article.

This guy I knew was convinced that there were AI dopplegangers sent to replace the real versions of everyone. He thought somehow that I was a government agent after him even though we hadn’t spoken in years. Turns out though his supposed doppelgänger was a real dude who worked for the AI company that makes the AI personas. It gets better: when this person confronted his supposed doppelgänger, he responded by acting as if he were an actual AI, to troll the guy.

I won’t get into the cult stuff as I didn’t even try to keep up with it (maybe in my younger life) but he had a bunch of that as part of the conspiracy theory. Poor guy.
Rising energy costs are only half the truth. "BASF to Cut 2,600 Jobs after losing 2 billions in Russian investments " could be the other headline. All their investments in Russia have been confiscated. This is a bit ironic, as BASF was on of the major forces that pushed Germany into its energy dependence from Russia.

And what did they learn from it? => Hey, look, China! Let's invest another 10 billion there.

They even fired Saori Dubourg just a few days ago - She was the only board member that disagreed with this China strategy.
Oh nice! I'm curious to know how you did the finetuning. I've been thinking about it as well.

You're correct about the approach. Sometimes it mixes the sources for whatever reason, but gotta investigate it more.

For the sourcing, I used a small variation of perplexity.ai's prompt: https://twitter.com/jmilldotdev/status/1600624362394091523/p...
I remember when Dreamweaver was Allaire Homesite, and was then purchased by Macromedia for their suite. Macromedia didn't do such a great job with it either in my opinion.
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Artemis vulnerability scanner is now open source
The Artemis vulnerability scanner is now open source! Artemis is a tool developed by the CERT Polska team and initiated by the KN Cyber science club of Warsaw University of Technology. The tool is built to find website misconfiguration's and vulnerabilities on a large scale. Thanks to its modular architecture, it can combine the results of various other tools in a single place.
The Cost of Retirement Around the World, Mapped
Well, you are not so far from the truth, according to the BASF press release[1]:

>Closure of the TDI plant and the precursor plants for DNT and TDA: Demand for TDI has developed only very weakly especially in Europe, Middle East and Africa and has been significantly below expectations. The TDI complex in Ludwigshafen has been underutilized and has not met expectations in terms of economic performance. This situation has further worsened with sharply increased energy and utility costs. BASF’s European customers will continue to be reliably supplied with TDI from BASF’s global production network with plants in Geismar, Louisiana; Yeosu, South Korea; and Shanghai, China.

>Geismar, Louisiana

[1] https://www.basf.com/global/en/media/news-releases/2023/02/p...
Can the laid off JS developers do chemicals?

Joking aside, the US is actually energy rich and it can make sense to do that.
I asked Why would I need AI in my life ?

Response:
AI can be an invaluable tool in our lives, as it can help us make decisions and manage tasks more efficiently. As I wrote to Lucilius, “My soul is a living thing, and so am I; but we are not two separate persons” (1). We can use AI to help us get closer to our goals, rather than relying on our own personal strengths and weaknesses, allowing us to devote more time to enjoying life.

By using AI, we can gain greater control over our lives and our emotions. As I wrote to Lucilius, “Your mind can rise superior to the accidents of life, if it can raise itself above fears and not greedily covet boundless wealth, but has learned to seek for riches within itself” (2). AI can help us to be more productive and efficient, while also providing us with an increased sense of security and peace of mind.

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> the service cannot compete on it's own merits

This is only true if external actors redefine "the service" to be something other than what millions of customers voluntarily purchase (Prime). For example, I subscribe to Prime because I get free/better shipping on goods as well as video. I don't know what % of my subscription fee I would allot to either, but fortunately I don't have to do that.
So Google should have to charge money for Chrome?
I’ve noticed this more and more - I half filled out a contact us form on a company site and got an email as if I had submitted a few minutes later.

Talk about dark patterns! Now I never put my email/phone until I am to hit submit (or maybe I should continue as normal to know the scammy companies).
Justice is blind, but it shouldn't be blind and mute. Until AI systems can "explain themselves" and be scrutinized as easily as rubrics, I don't them with life-changing decisions
Code Duello is a pretty ancient concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_duello

While duels have been outlawed, I don't think we have really replaced the necessary role they play in managing disputes and incentivising a self organizing social correction in a way that rewards virtue and has consequences for dishonesty.

Ironically, the main thing that maintained social order in small groups up until recently was humor. It wasn't mere cutting remarks either, it's a subtle understanding of power dynamics in a group that lets humor equalize and revert to shared values. The unspoken rules of humor were pretty close to those of Code Duello, particularly regarding punching down, and accepting when you had been beaten - then moving on once order was re-established.

Duels provided a similar reversion to a shared understanding of order and values. These rules are still around in an implied way, where boys involved in sports or group activities tend to learn a variation of them, and someone who fights without an understanding or respect for them is considered just a criminal and not trustworthy, tough, or masculine.
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Yup, I think the best one https://imgur.com/a/5zPQ09F
If we keep going down the capitalism route,

We are going to end up with 10 'scammer' ad in the top 10 result, each and everyone fighting each other with more ad budget and lower profit margins.

In the end, the website owner won't even need a website.
This is precisely like the situations which are present in every large company, where people fight to protect stupid, manual processes and digital paperwork in the name of justifying their existence at the company.

After cities fund these departments, people work very hard at justifying their employment, and trying to increase their metrics, to make it look like they're having an impact.

"We" recently ran afoul of the police because my son was caught having been handed an illegal substance in the high school bathroom. The investigator threatened us with prosecution for possession, then admitted it probably didn't rise to this action, and then ran down a litany of programs and counselors she could get our son involved with. I could tell she was salivating at the thought of getting our son put into these programs, just to be able to say something like, "We 'helped' 17% more kids this year; we need more funding!"

The investigator seemed to be on the hunt for names; we declined to have our son give a statement at all.

My wife is a counselor herself; we're dealing with that side of it.
I didn't do Starcraft, but remember "Footies" maps in WC3 which sounds exactly the same as "Commandos". It was insanely popular, but never lived on like DOTA did. It is sort of funny to think of it as a sort of evolutionary dead end, or maybe it lives on somewhere else?
Downvoted for blasphemy
Also the most obvious split would be AWS and then everything else. What does AWS have to do with Prime?
and substance suite. I think people on hacker news mostly interact with adobe via photoshop and illustrator and don't realize how many hooks they have under their belt.
Op is suggesting this breakup might increase shareholder value. Ie. It would be worth doing even without a government regulator forcing it.

If true, then their internal engineering limitations directly impact how viable the idea is.
Replying to myself so that you can pay me back
Since lot of sme are impacted, could they join and sue ? I am not an American so could be wrong here - could class action suites be of help here ?
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Fixed, thanks ;-)
It'd be 2 characters no? `head x` vs `x!!0`.
For some people, that formal structure has deficiencies, like throwing you in prison if your complaint is "he stole the meth I was going to sell."
"Art is not what I think when I'm painting. It's what you feel when you're looking." :)
Facebook is practically a utility company at this point. The number of businesses whose only online presence is Facebook/Instagram is significant.
One of my pet peeves is when I zoom in to a 3D model and the rotation is somewhere far off screen, most of the time the model center. It makes it very difficult to orient yourself when rotation also moves what I was looking at off screen.

I think Google Earth (desktop) does it well, it rotates around the point where the mouse cursor is pushed. So you push the center button, it shows a marker where the pointer was, and then you rotate by moving the mouse.

At the very least I think the rotation center should be on the surface and on screen.
> Is this not just having your cake and eating it too?

I assume it just means they could have paid shareholders a larger dividend but chose to reinvest some of it for growth instead.
Yeah I think this is generally true, although YouTube is a weird case because there's literally no equivalent customer with even a fraction of the compute volume.
The glee over this is amusing. No, Europeans are not ready to give up to Russia for a price reduction just like democrat Americans are not ready to transfer the control of their bodies or love affairs to the republicans in exchange for cheaper gas.
The new Apple i. With this epoch changing new product you can replace your whole personage with a simulacrum designed by apple.
If I was an antitrust regulator worried about Disney's dominance, I would just make them sell star wars and/or avatar so they don't own three sci-fi mega franchises. I'd also consider Pixar and Hulu. Why do things to Amazon in service of sapping Disney's power?
Dunno, at my college course we were taught that probability is about knowing the probabilistic properties of an experiment and predicting its outcomes, whereas statistic is about knowing the outcomes and predicting the probabilistic properties of the experiment