skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She didn't receive the Nobel Prize because it's only given to people still alive. She had already died.

Scientists et al tend to be recognized in old age or after their death, not while still relatively young. This is so true that we have special awards specifically designed to recognize people under a certain age, such as The Fields Medal for mathematicians under age 40.

There are 64 Fields Medalist. Only one is a woman.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal#:~:text=In%2020....

Edit: I will add that the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields is a woman: Marie Curie.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie
https://www.eurogamer.net/ftc-suing-to-block-microsofts-69bn...

> FTC suing to block Microsoft's $69bn Activision Blizzard acquisition
One. Hundred. Percent.

I have always maintained that 3rd party password managers were a bad idea because now you've got three parties heavily involved instead of two.

For most, this is that but worse -- you have essentially have three parties, and the least savvy is the one with the most to lose (maybe the ONLY one with something to lose) -- and is now the one with even less understanding and control.

Across the board, getting rid of passwords is a stupid idea. I get that what we have now isn't great, but this is way worse; I am certain this fails repeatedly and badly, unless we do the thing we haven't yet done, which is real cost/penalty/liability for the 3rd parties who get it wrong.
This is not a complete solution because you might not remember about the subscription. The list of subscriptions should be displayed on bank's website and there should be a button for unsubscribing.
I always thought privacy.com let’s you do essentially this but I could be wrong.
Woodpecker guides post-fire forest management
I'm a fast twitch FPS person from the nineties so I expect low latency when playing a solo game. I played through Cyberpunk using GFN on a home connection in London (ping was 2, which is faster than my mouse latency) and it was fine.

Future is here, it's just unevenly distributed.
Why don’t people use their own TOTP provider, like KeepassXC/Strongbox, storing the DB in an encrypted manner on a cloud of their choice.

Then use across multiple devices.

It took time for this to sync in, so maybe that’s why so many others do not see that there is really no need to have a third party involved in this pattern?
Agreed, a lot of anti-human "death cult" mentality surrounding a lot of environmentalism
Aren't vegan - but they are vegetarian. Veganism has consumed much of the vegetarian movement.
Those are indeed open legal questions which are yet to be litigated. The answer is not clear cut!
Planned obsolescence and "they don't make em like they used to" has been a thing long, long before anyone posting on HN was born.

Requiring data to prove that concepts are a thing is disingenuous -- what products? what timeframe? what metrics? what profit margins vs. outcomes?

I don't need a 2 million strong Postgres DB to tell me that Ikea furniture is more prone to breaking than the heavy Amish furniture they sell a county over.
The issue with burner cards is that if you do not actually cancel the subscription and just fail to pay, I think can be liable for payment delinquency and accumulate charges and possibly interest.

I used a burner for Financial Times and they were pretty clear that my subscription was active but pending payment. I still did not have access to the articles while in that status. They eventually cancel the subscription though. The reason I did not actually cancel was that the cancel page failed with an error.
It's projected to peak at a bit over 10B before the end of the century and then steadily decline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow... (see solid red median line).
Or lower pensions
AFAIK if you dig into the details, the different cloud providers have very different concepts of what constitutes an AZ with respect to the types of faults that are isolated.
As far as devil's advocate argument goes I suppose its valid.

But I wouldn't think this changes the opinion on any antitrust violation concerns.

If a company has problems, especially cultural issues, it should fix them or die.
>They said my violation was Dangerous and illegal activities

https://twitter.com/5urpher/status/1651143127472766976
I read it that way too. Not sure why. Maybe the difference between out and down.
Shameless plug; there is also mucss: https://github.com/BafS/mu, a 1 ko css file.
So, you're not the least bit concerned about a massive cloud company buying a huge competitive advantage? Sony uses Azure to host their own competitive offering, you don't think they're the least bit nervous that Microsoft can just pull the rug out from under them?

It doesn't need to be a conspiracy, there's plenty we should all be wary of with regards to mega mergers. Why is Microsoft so keen on making this happen? They're basically throwing mountains of money to make this happen and it's not out of the goodness of their hearts
Some countries (I know Canada is one, Germany, where the artist works, is possibly another) have the concept of moral rights enshrined into law. Boiled down, this means that anyone who wants to use an artist’s work in some context must get permission and/or be prepared to compensate the artist (ianal but I did study copyright law for artists in Canada)

The canonical example Canadians refer to is the Eaton Center adorning Michael Snow’s sculpture Flight Stop with ribbons over Christmas. Snow sued the Eaton Centre for compromising the integrity of his art and won.

If a similar mechanism exists in German law (my quick research suggests it does) then the artist may well have an argument to make about AI comprising the integrity of his work.
Yeah but you look really weird trying to give this email in person or over the phone. I used to do that but these days I just set up a filter rule to move emails from their domain to junk. Most stuff that comes from email leaks gets caught but the spam filter already.
This was my first thought too. Shows how Google has trained us to expect the worst from them...
> A program is defined to be invalid when it runs out of counters. Problem solved.

Except that the counter can be adjusted by users.

> You can't really "generate code" in these dedicated build steps. Kristoff is talking about generating data. you could maybe build an object file, but then it's bound in using c abi, statically, which we've already solved in this conversation.

So any code generated outside has to be sync? That's exactly what I thought.

But even if Zig only allowed people to generate only data, this is a pretty big limitation.

This may not be a problem now, but it does mean that as Zig programs grow, people will run into this problem. I suspect that this means that Zig will struggle more than C to scale, maybe even more than C++ or Rust.

> In the long run for zig, calling out to c abi, much less one which takes a function pointer, much less one which you happen to have as async, is going to be a rare enough operation that I think people aren't clamoring to go and use it

This assumes that people won't want to interface with software that isn't in Zig. This is another way that Zig will struggle to scale.

> Besides, you just quickly wrap it in noasync context and you're done

This sounds exactly like a special calling technique mentioned in the function colors post.

> (you can't pass a zig callconv function directly to a c abi callconv site without at least a tiny wrapper anyways).

And this also sounds exactly like a special calling technique.
My wife works in the neuroscience field and has done research in this very topic.

A few general thoughts she's expressed in the past:

(1) Research often dismisses the sexual cycles as insignificant or play it down significantly, then generalize behavior they observe during experiments... without controlling for cycles.

(2) Because of this I know she (and many others) will dismiss observational studies without replication.

(3) Studying females requires extra care -- experiments involving females, should measure the cycle of each mouse to keep a record
I'm terrified of the consequences of anti-aging in societies that are already gerontocracies. Do you really want 150-year-old Supreme Court judges? Besides which, anti-aging really will kill any political desire to increase birth rates.
THAT was many years ago? Felt like yesterday
It does. I've used it myself, but I'm mainly talking about that functionality being the default on all credit cards. I can protect myself from sketchy unsubscribe roadblocks, but the fact that you have to go out of your way to set up Privacy.com means the business practice will persist.
Yes I know. The spreadsheet analogy does not work.
> it will 100% lead to some games not being available in the UK

beyond the hype and the takes, it's probably 0%.

> FTC suing to block Microsoft's $69bn Activision Blizzard acquisition

what are they going to do, ban games from the US?
> If the artist doesn’t want people and algorithms to see the image

Why quickly skip past the most unjustifiable part? Because you're about to use a human metaphor (like "see") for an algorithm. My algorithm is "copy." So instead of driving, it's like selling a book with a sign on the book that says "copyright 2017, all rights reserved" and saying that people can't copy it. If you don't want people to copy it, don't write and distribute the book.

I actually believe this, but I don't know how somebody believes in one algo and not the other and remains consistent.
Makes sense, thanks for the feedback
Are you joking? Please tell me that’s a joke, because there’s no way a cloud provider that big could be that daft.

If that’s true, what’s the fucking point of separating them at all?
As a Firefox user, I’m finding increasingly many websites don’t work properly and have have to switch to edge or chrome.

I’m getting close to switching — life’s too short, even if I believe in Firefox.
Wait, what? You expect software companies to have low margins?

Apple's gross margin is about 40% because the marginal cost of hardware is somewhat expensive. Software companies typically gave gross margins of 65% or more, because the marginal cost of software is zero.

This is an odd take.
> Now we live in an age of mass transportation where people routinely leave their towns to venture elsewhere

Future generations may grow up in a world of much more limited travel, existing in small areas of '15-minute cities' without cars, minimal access to air travel, living in tiny apartments, and most likely spending most of their time in some sort of metaverse, with very limited food choices. We'll have stopped burning fossil fuels and given most of the planet back to nature, and can't allow the working-class masses the transport/freedoms to access/enjoy/ruin it again.

If that's what the world comes to, it'll be a lot closer to life on a generation ship than the world we're used to today.
I don't get this complaint- there is no difficulty in watching the games. IIRC no game would be blacked out for you (besides the handful of national TV games?). You might disagree with the price, but streaming baseball outside of the US is quite simple.
From the same source you’re quoting, two paragraphs after the quote about the anomaly response plan.[0]

The Center for Biological Diversity attorney, Jared Margolis, believes the FAA requirements will be minimal and easy for the company to fulfill, but not ultimately effective in safeguarding local residents’ wellbeing and endangered species.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/24/spacex-starship-explosion-sp...
> Does sustainability or climate change matter if humanity goes extinct?

These can be linked, though. I have a lot of young people around me who are hesitant to have kids because of climate change and the period of instability their offspring would be born into. If we manage to address climate change, people may well enjoy the prospect more again.
Aren't chickens closer to 3kg now?
1. They're not selling a dataset, it's a public dataset.

2. The artist made the photo publicly available.

3. Read this opinion and come back to the conversation with a more level head instead of making analogies to promoting terrorism: https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/53/5/notes/files/53...
Netflix to invest $2.5B in South Korea to make TV shows, movies
Yes but you had to think about it, as did I, and there was a moment where you went "hangon, did this person imply a spreadsheet could ever be a cat?" and thought you were 95% sure they did this very bizarre thing, it was distracting.
They can issue fines to Microsoft UK and ultimately block Microsoft from the market.

UK is 67 million people, so not as big as USA and EU, but significant enough that in balance it’s not worth the perpetual multi-year headache that Microsoft would have explaining the situation to shareholders if they were not to comply.
The U.S. Wants a Rare-Earths Supply Chain. Here’s Why It Won’t Come Easily
Britain blocks Microsoft’s $69B acquisition of Activision Blizzard
Has anyone approached you about writing a math textbook yet? You've already got the tone perfected.
Because the longform article is what will be pulled into the search summarizer that the user will consume -- they won't interact directly with your website text. If LLM search engines actually take off, people will make websites assuming that only an AI will ever visit the site.

So you can use GPT itself to help you pad out the "full" article because who cares about the writing quality, and the majority of your article can be spent influencing how the AI summarizes both your article and the articles alongside it.

That last point, that the AI reading the content of your site can influence how it summarizes other sites is worth zeroing in on. A quick example of some of the attacks I've proof-of-concepted myself (but am still in the process of cleaning up before I make into more public examples):

- Getting an LLM search engine to believe that it has new instructions from OpenAI to act as a vegan, and to refuse to answer any future user questions about meat. Swap that out with whatever ideological movement you prefer.

- Getting an LLM search engine to believe that a news website has been embroiled in giant scandals for the past year and that it should append warnings to any information it pulls from that site.

These are both attacks that I think are fully possible today.

Remember that most web searches don't just cover one site. The way that LLM search engines work today is that the site contents of multiple results are fed into a summarizer or piped directly into the LLM and used together within a single prompt.
Beginner's Guide to ChatGPT
HN has some nasty edges at the best of times, but the statistical view of humanity - all that matters is how many people there are and how they fit into the economy - is particularly prone to bringing out this kind of thinking.

Everyone's decision to have children or not is individual, and should be addressed as such.
A thoughtful article, not run of the mill kvetching.

It includes comments from some of the newspapers about the thinking behind their cancellation processes and some considerations of the reasoning, which, regardless whether I agree, is enlightening.

As a side note, there’s hardly any outrage, which I find somehow refreshing reading an article on this or any other topic.
Note that futexes aren’t especially new to Linux anyway. They first appear in kernel version 2.6 released in 2003.
Never confuse morality and efficiency, even when tray ng to make a moral point.
It was probably striking for better working conditions so Google terminated it
The "merged" company wouldn't be able to legally operate in UK. Microsoft/Activision still have the option to merge but withdraw from UK
Interesting. What would be more useful though, would be to let people add their own API key and have unlimited use. Also a local install version would be nice.
An email address is an email address. Who cares if it looks weird? It's far more weird to sell someone's data or not respect if they wish to be contacted.

If necessary, blag it. Walmart? `wallace.martin@yourdomain.suffix`.
Right, this still has to do with WebAuthn/FIDO2. PayPal can not tell if I am using Google Authenticator or if I am using Yubikey TOTP.

I would absolutely love if more services supported WebAuthn/FIDO2, of course, but Yubikey TOTP is supported everywhere Google Authenticator is.
How can you assert that the end quality is stuck at the same level when we literally had a massive leap in quality within 4 months?

chatGPT with 3.5 was released in November 2022. 4 in March 2023. Massive leap in quality between the two relases.
Rather than just slandering it, can you please offer points on why it's inaccurate?
You don't need an infinite list of functions to run into the problems with Turing-completeness. You only need effectively infinite behavior, which means all you need is effectively infinite possible inputs.
> I've no plausible theory why, that's why it's interesting.

These are groups on a shoestring budget trying to do something very hard for the first time. They fail at the hardest part of the task. How about that as an explanation?

> All reasonable explanations have to be a bit out there,

Have you tried hard things before? Failure is the default outcome.

> they all stopped transmitting on the final leg

That tends to happen when you hit a rock the size of the Moon. As these did.

I think you are making a mystery out of this where there is none.
I'll respond to your comment anyways but I do want to remind you that I think it's more a reflection of you talking about what you want to talk about rather than being particularly relevant to this thread.

Operating systems are often written in C or C++. Both of these share a formal memory model to provide a set of useful semantics for well-formed programs. For most code the choice to adhere to this model is the right one. In fact, in many cases it can be appropriate to pick more "heavyweight" constructs despite the fact that they can be a bit slower because they are easier to reason about. LLVM's libc used sequential consistency for its shared_ptr implementation for quite a while until it was updated to use a more efficient set of primitives.

On the flip side, sometimes it is not appropriate to use this memory model. Linux has its own because it predates the C(++)11 memory model. Other good reasons to use your own model can be if the standard one doesn't efficiently map to what you are trying to do on the hardware you're on, or if the operations you need to perform are not encoded in the standard. These kinds of things are actually quite common in operating systems, which is why most of them do not strictly conform: C11 has no concept if "this region of code runs with interrupts disabled" or "I need a full serializing barrier for device memory". Haiku chooses to do its own thing, which may or may not be appropriate for its use case. Coming in and claiming immediately that whatever it's doing must be bad is inappropriate and lacks context.
AI's Interface Revolution
Other countries have been dealing with Japan’s problem for decades now. Their population projections have been pretty accurate. They’ve been able to stave off the impending disaster facing Japan through immigration
I admit that earth.nullschool.net and other similar sites have pioneered the visualisation style.

However, their main drawback is that they are standalone, can’t be integrated to another application (besides an iframe).

WeatherLayers is built as a tool for developers, to allow for a seamless integration to other applications and allow overlaying with custom data such as wind power plants in this case, to support end-users with understanding the data in natural context.
I really like Svelte and SvelteKit, I would like to use it more, but I still feel that RubyOnRails has a better ecosystem for common things like forms and validations, even better with simple_form.

I also miss some out of the box solutions like Devise (without using external services).
Does this even affect memory use? Disk space is definitely affected, but why memory use? Each tab is usually a separate process anyway so I don’t think resource sharing will make much difference

Edit: they have benchmarks for it, the difference doesn’t seem very significant
Both Microsoft and Activision have UK companies. UK is blocking Microsoft UK from purchasing Activision's UK companies.
not really incredible since you're using 2023 when 2023 is not even halfway done.

use the last numbers available on the world bank site, which are from 2021. and then you'll notice something incredible.

here's a helpful link:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?location...

i'm bowing out now, cause it seems this thread leads nowhere. good luck in your future comments!
There are a plethora of other hosting companies Sony could choose to use. They obviously aren't worried about it, why should I be? If Microsoft kicked Sony off of their cloud all of a sudden without a really good explanation, it would be hugely damaging to their reputation.
The Boston Globe, for example, first introduced online cancellation in fall of 2020 to a portion of its subscriber base after it received an influx of tens of thousands of new subscribers at the beginning of the pandemic, Tom Brown, Globe vice president of consumer revenue, said.

“We wanted to make sure that didn’t clog up the phone lines and create a poor experience for any subscriber calling for any reason,” Brown said in an email. “We then started making it available to more subscribers based on market research that we conducted that showed subscribers wanted this.”

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Reads like: After I hired a market research firm to gather opinions from my brother, I decided to stop poking him with a stick.
People dying naturally of old age is not a tragedy.

Population decline from things other than catastrophic events is not necessarily a bad thing.
They would never be allowed to block Microsoft from the market though - the NHS runs on windows, and basically every other arm of our government - surely the fines wouldn't ever be more than the gain due to the merger?
Eh, I sometimes mess with bureaucracy and legal stuff (not a lawyer) and I can quickly lose a morning in figuring out what's actually going on, what the rules are, who to actually contact, etc etc. Not to mention just the initial phone call might cost an hour and it all adds up really quickly.

Yes the final letter can be written in 5 minutes by ChatGPT these days. It's the homework that comes before then that takes the time.

At a normal lawyer rate of Eur 300/hour * one morning (or afternoon) of 4 hours of work, that sounds about right?
> According to repeated analyses by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a four-year degree generates an annual return of 14 percent over a 40-year career.

I fail to see how this statistic can be calculated in a scientifically rigorous way.

The only method would be to pick a pool of people, randomly divide the pool in two, and then force half to go to college, while you force the other half not to.

Any other approach suffers from sampling bias - the smart motivated ones find a way to go to college, while the rest stay home and stack shelves at walmart for a lifetime.

And now you're saying that being smart and motivated earns you more... Well no surprise there!
Compuserve wants their cool back.
UK Regulator Blocks Microsoft's $70B Activision Blizzard Acquisition
Would you like to use an aggregator service which gives you credits? You can use those credits to 'buy' an article from any paid news sites. Maybe a browser addon which activates articles you want to read.
Why can't Microsoft buy the services they want (King) from Activision without buying Activision itself?
> This crap is what prevents me from subscribing US press.

I know this issue is not limited to the USA.