skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it seems like sites that offer content without a subscription keep trying to show ads (which nobody buys untargeted because they’d be a massive waste of money). It implies that the content needs to be paid for - and that’s why they’re not all just taking a polite “no” and giving up on it.

And if you believe that Internet ads could be just as scattershot as the Bud Light, Coke, and Toyota spots on TV, consider how much of the Internet ad market is niche stuff you’d never see on TV ads because they couldn’t afford it. Consider every SaaS product: they don’t advertise on TV because their target customer is too niche. Probably 75% of ad dollars would simply not be there without targeting. People choose over and over again to get content for free, and then complain about it because everyone loves to complain. No one loves opening their wallet.
If that's true, it should read "will be" instead of "was". I'm tempted to think there's some relativity joke I'm not getting given the topic, but it's probably just a mistake.
Let me preemptively disclaim that I do have nitpicks about the talk I linked, but IMO his main argument is sound.

In particular I think his scientific explanations aren't always fully accurate, and he worries about measurement minutia very strenuously. Also at one point he says you could breathe 80% radon/20% oxygen, which while chemically this is true, radiologically it would be suicidal.

Those nitpicks aside, his point about the EPA LNT model having no clothes is spot on. After "the scales fell from my eyes," now I can't not notice how all those same Party Line Claims get parroted in every piece of radon-related content.

Another glimpse down the rabbit hole is this interview with the late Dr Bernie Cohen, who studied the link between residential radon and cancer:

https://youtu.be/xhkBLhw-8pk
If you think that's what's really entailed in photography, you a) don't really seem to know anything about photography as a science, let alone an art, and b) should read US court cases on photography copyrights, which make all of these points against you. Happy to get you same case names if you are interested.
Hey, that's a pretty slick package (and price point). I looked through bettergeiger.com and read the discussion about the difference between GM tubes vs scintillators, but never saw an indication of what material you're using. Would be useful information for those of us thinking of upgrading from an SBM-20.
I'd say the desktop CPU situation is doing pretty alright. My 10400F is feeling very modest compared to pretty much everything in the 13xxx and ryzen 7000 lineup. Frustrating given how deadend the chipset I got was.
If you compute that way, you can find situations in the US where the effective marginal tax rate exceeds 100% due to the phase-out of various benefits: https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/alfresco/publicati...
> I think the future is going to be fake social media websites that tailor make all the content to your preferences. Aka LLM generated content.

What would be the point of that? I thought the purpose of social media was to interact with people.
Will Netflix destroy the Internet? (2010)
>Because you already have the thought formed before you started typing.

Can you prove that GPT-4 doesn't? Clearly there is a sense in which thinks more than one word ahead, since as I mentioned above it would not otherwise be able to use 'a' vs 'an' correctly.

As far as I am aware, exactly to what extent these models have determined what tokens will be generated before they produce anything is an open question in mechanistic interpratability research. I would be very interested if you knew of some work that answers this question empirically.
GDPR isn't "about tracking", it isn't even about computers, it's General data protection regulation. If your local grocer keeps a regular customer's record on paper to give you discounts, that's covered by the GDPR.

See the UK Gov summary site here: https://www.gov.uk/data-protection

Or detailed law here: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/contents/enacte...

And note Part 1 section 3 points 4 and 7: "'Processing', in relation to information, means an operation or set of operations which is performed on information, or on sets of information, such as— (a)collection, recording, organisation, structuring or storage" and "“Filing system” means any structured set of personal data which is accessible according to specific criteria, whether held by automated means or manually".
> VAT is only 7.25% in California

(Sales tax, not VAT)

But you need to also add local sales taxes, so your sales tax in Palo Alto is actually 9.125%
Simple math that you got wrong. Do you understand that 45% is a marginal rate?

And yes, it does have everything to do with govt policies because you are getting value back.

It is like saying taxes are high in Nordic countries, ignoring the fact that most of what you pay is returned to you. Saying that doesn't impact demand or the price level is not accurate, and misunderstands (again) at a fundamental level how govt operates.
It's still very much a research problem, yes.
A leading candidate for the 2024 US presidential election has made a campaign promise to make healthcare that I rely on virtually illegal. Dozens of representatives in congress have cosponsored a bill that would make it illegal to even teach doctors about this form of care. I would not survive without this care. Things may be worse in the rest of the world, but if healthcare I rely on is taken away then there is no way I will stay in this country.
Google will no longer assign CVEs to most Moderate severity issues in Android
The prompt can be copyrighted, but the generated image can not.
Can someone layout how biometric info can be abused?

In Israel, biometroic ID cards are standard, though you can request a non biometric I.D. and not be fingerprinted/eyeprinted/face-scanned [Which of course probably gets you straight on a black-list and shadowed by the Mossad, but whatever..]

I have heard there is talk now about making the database of everyone's biometric markers publicly available.

What are the risks in that, and why should someone choose to opt out? I mean, it certainly sounds like a terrible idea, but I am having a hard time articulating out the threat.

By way of prior - For many years the public had access to a database of every citizen's address, phone, parents' first and maiden names, and age with D.O.B.

The claim was that this data is available on the black market, and better to be up front about it and not use this info for identifying yourself.

AFAIK that experiment was considered a success, though the DB is no longer available.
There seems to be a bug; the “Description” field seems to have joined lines together without spaces, leading to such things as “It is conformantto” in the description of Bigloo.
I like this 'staircase of denial' image:

https://twitter.com/mathiasced/status/1616348855842250754?la...

However, what it also demonstrates is that you can't reliably predict 'the next five years', what you see is that if you break up the global temperature trend into ten-year intervals, from one interval to the next you see this stepwise increase. The noise-to-signal ratio is such that it takes about ten years for climatic conditions to become noticeably different from the perspective of a human observer.

All we can really say at present is that the trend of extreme floods and droughts and heat waves and so on will be noticeably worse in 2033.

Incidentally, this is what the Earth looks like from space to an alien who evolved in a solar system where the Sun was much much redder - rather like Venus.

https://youtu.be/f7QttjGu628

You can't see the planet's surface in IR, but the black spots are the cloud tops (if you look to the far right, you can see the daily Amazon jungle cloudburst cycle) - and the image is centered over the Pacific Ocean, which is reasonable, as it's hardly Planet Earth, at least not from the climate perspective - it's Planet Ocean. Temperature-wise, this means we won't see the planetary temperature stabilize for at least a century after fossil fuel emissions cease, due to the lag/buffering effect.

Don't get depressed, you get to live in interesting times!
> Over the years they never hesitated to cannibalize their own product lines (iPod)

The iPod was subsumed by the iPhone, not cannibalised. Parents were obligated to buy their kids a device with tracking/communication capabilities, so iPods became irrelevant. Now everyone buys the 2x more expensive device.

Now, if Apple were to merge the iPad and Macbook, I would agree with you readily.
This is made somewhat more complex than might be immediately obvious as there is a huge amount of land which is too cold to be used for agriculture. Plants do not mind higher CO2 levels. It will cause dramatic chaos, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not clear the total amount of arable land will decrease.
Unrecovered money should be converted to extra years in prison at a rate of the average salary in the country. That would be a few hundred years of prison, right? Good enough deterrence for people to do bad things with money.
https://www.w3.org/WAI/fundamentals/accessibility-usability-...
What seemingly has stagnated even more is our ability to write fast and responsive software. We have oceans of compute power, blazingly fast I/O, and yet, it's expected and accepted for mundane tasks to take hundreds of milliseconds to complete.
iOS dictation always knows exactly what I say and I get the immediate feedback of seeing the text written as I am speaking. With Whisper in the ChatGPT app I can't see anything I say, until after I finish speaking. So I'm really not seeing an advantage yet.
If I have photographic memory do I need to license any artwork I see?

Sometimes practical limits on laws are intentional. Tracing your favorite anime character is legally infringement but luckily, multinational corporations aren't allowed to enter our homes to make sure we don't owe them royalties for our kids artwork on the fridge. They can only do that for trading cards.
> Elizabeth Holmes just spent two years delaying her prison date, and she (and her co-conspirator) will only serve a decade for stealing ten times as much.

They didn't steal. They raised money from investors based on lies and squandered it. Of course, some of the cash made it back into their pockets, but it's not like they pocketed the whole $900m they raised based on their falsehoods.
I saw it years ago at the Printing Museum of Tokyo[1]. I think it was an original and part of their permanent collection, but I could be wrong. I know it was a woodblock print and they had a couple of with just a couple colors to show the process of printing with multiple blocks, each with different colors.

I don't see it listed on their website, but I didn't look too hard.

[1] https://www.printing-museum.org/en/
Have you read the opinion at all? It's not what they are doing
> while all the photographer does is point the camera and click

You sound like every "I have an idea guy" that wants programmers to build their app. "It's totally easy, all you have to do is just build it!!!!"
Can someone please compare guidance with lmql? I don’t wanna learn multiple programming languages to handle LLMs as that defeats the whole point.
when your employer pays your wages, they have an incentive to report that to the govt as a cost so they don't pay tax on it. That gives the govt the information they need to come after you for not paying your income tax on it. So, same thing, income tax and VAT there is more enforceability because he structure of payments and information flow can make a difference to ease of enforcement...

but the amount of tax is based on what activity is being taxed. Sales taxes are considered "regressive" because poor people spend a greater %age of their income, so in some sense it can be seen as an "undoing" of progressive income tax. That's not strictly true, however, because the working class complaint about rich people is how much rich people consume while living greedy lavish lives: which shows that rich people would be paying a lot more of the overall %age of sales tax than poor people (not really strictly distinguishing VAT from sales tax here)

So, anyway, I'm not defending sales taxes here (meaning tax on final sale to consume-ers with no taxes backward up the supply chain). VAT taxes do make more sense in terms of economic efficiency: 10% sales tax on a printer selling for $200 is $20, where the printer cost $300 to make (remember, they're going to sell you expensive ink), and with a VAT tax the tax would be $0 (or would it even be a $30 refund?)...

...point is, VAT tax works out to a high sales-tax-on-high-profit-margin-goods and a low sales-tax-on-low-profit-margin-goods, which is helpful because govt doesn't want to distort the market for low margin goods with high taxes.

However, back to my original point, it simply means that income taxes make more economic sense than consumption taxes, and VAT is an income tax, not a consumption tax.
Expand Contract for Databases and Services
You'd hope so, but...

https://www.science.org/content/article/near-disaster-federa...
Right, that’s monkey patching. You run into the real problems when you have multiple people wanting to add them.

Ruby isn’t alone in supporting this functionality (you can fiddle with JavaScript prototypes, for instance), but I think it is unique how much it is encouraged (at least in Rails world). I think extension methods are a much better model to achieve something similar.
>But copyright as it exists now does not protect or benefit the "little guy" or indie artists.

Yes it does and I'm a plaintiff's attorney that works in copyright and patent for small-time artists and inventors. You could not be more wrong.

I have obtained settlements for my clients from some of the biggest media corporations in the US. You have NO IDEA what you are talking about.
it's probably so nobody ports it to windows.
The sales agree with you, but none of the art or design choices get worse by having hardware that won't drop frames to that degree. I realize they do this every console generation, but since they're no longer passing along the savings to the consumer, I'm not going to keep apologizing for them.
I believe you're right. This product seems to be aimed at education. I.e., people/companies who want to play around with something resembling a quantum computer in order to learn how they might one day be useful to them. Maybe buying one also helps build an image of innovation and scientific prowess.
I actually just ran into this the other weekend. After a certain amount of time (30 days?), Windows will prompt you to activate, and if you don't, it kicks you to the login screen.
First off, this is very cool! So don't let my comments dissuade you...

But IME serialization tends to fall into two boats:

1. I want something akin to a config that's human readable but very simple and I don't want to think about strong typing
2. I'm serializing data and I want schemas, efficiency, etc.

I feel like (1) is pretty well handled by TOML and JSON and (2) is pretty well handled by flat/proto buffers, thrift/avro, capn' proto, etc.

I guess I'm wondering where you see this being used.
Grab a copy of Susan Sontag’s On Photography.
I have no idea what "a cost of living crisis" is or what the quantitative definition for one is.

Demand is not falling so, by definition, there cannot be a "cost of living crisis". Because prices have increased does not mean they are at a high level.

You are acting as if some govt agency has declared a "cost of living crisis" and that is somehow meaningful to reality. I gave you specific examples of the prices of food: you call that "contrarian", I don't see any specific examples in your post however...perhaps you are being needlessly contrarian?
There is no chance that we will remain below 1.5C. Because there is (rightly) moral value attached to staying below 1.5, that fact is (also) hard to accept.

The formalized narrative makes sense through a values-based lens, as does the conversation moving through stages of grief as geophysics makes itself felt.
China’s Xi hails ‘new era’ of ties with Central Asia
Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage
At least!
I've started training myself on Emacspeak, so if my vision ever goes away or is severely compromised, I am still able to operate (and write programs for) a computer. I found it pretty amazing that I could write and test a short program with my eyes closed. Emacspeak is an outlier in the open source ecosystem when it comes to accessibility, however, and that's to everyone's detriment. It comes from an old-school Unix mentality of "let's write programs in such a way that loosely coupled bits and bobs can be attached and integrated to suit custom needs" rather than the GNOMEish "we've already thought of the common case and developed a comprehensive solution, you will use it and like it, fuck your obscure little corner cases".
“You Need to Hear All the Notes”: Remembering Sam Durrance (1943-2023)
> If you're capable of earning $172,000 in salary in the US, you can trivially get an employer that covers essentially all the cost of your health insurance

Employers rarely cover all the health care premiums for you entire family.

Most non-startups will cover 100% for the employee, but if you're not single you'll end up paying quite a bit to cover your spouse & kids.
The Future of Programming – Interview with Richard Eisenberg
OK but that tells me nothing about serving? Do you expect a plate of pasta to be served in boiling water?

It also seems clear to me that one should take into account that someone is having the drink in the car and not at the table if you’re operating a drive-through restaurant.
Can the G7 take a united stance on China?
A quick search tells 5 guys burger prices are about same in US dollar vs UK pound ..e.g $9 here 9 GBP there. So yes, high price, but if anyone last few years still thinks that fast food is cheap and kind of daily thing is a victim of marketing myth.

It doesn't help that how its sneakily promoted by TV shows where beat cops, blue collar workers eating burgers and shake all the time where IT engineer like me would balk at such high prices
Ask HN: Entropy' Inapplicable to Personal Lives?
A friend of mine recently took his own life. I've been processing the experience as I can.

One of the things he spoke about was the belief that entropy meant that our personal lives were destined to go to shit.

I recognized that same belief from my own life. I had discarded it, believing it was applicable to physics but not human beings.

I found this Wired article [1] and sent it to him. (He was the kind of person who responded to feed-your-brain kind of stuff like that, so it was not as tone-deaf a move as you might think.) We also did a great deal of talking, and, yes, I tried to do whatever I could to also get him to professionals' care.

Given that HN has a lot of learned people about it, I am curious about how people have dealt with this concept - smart people applying the concept of 'entropy' in physics to justify deep pessimism for personal lives' outcome.

This situation seems popular enough that others here would've encountered this before, too.

[1] - http://archive.today/PLvun
>I'd have to think about it, but I might defend the NES, SNES, and Gamecube as the best consoles of their generations

NES yes, it's competitor was atari and atari had games that weren't that great. The NES launched games as mainstream, there was no competition at the time... it was the best.

SNES was also the best but it was only a slight edge over sega. The genesis was comparable.

Gamecube was not the winner. PS2 ruled this era. Starting with the gamecube and maybe you could say the N64... nintendo became more and more reliant on it's IP rather then a platform all developers wanted to work on.

>I'd put the N64 at a tie with the Playstation. The N64 looked better and had four-player support out of the box, which made a big difference in how many games supported four players.

No playstation wins this one hands down. N64 graphics had blurry textures and lack of digital media. Squaresoft switched their entire nintendo led RPG line (Final Fantasy 7) to the playstation because nintendo hardware couldn't handle it. Nintendo came out with some heavy hitters but overall in terms of game selection Sony won.

>It's only really with the Wii that they stopped credibly trying to keep up (and IMO the Wii's various gimmicks don't make up for its deficiencies, among which I count some of those same gimmicks)

I wouldn't say they stopped trying to keep up. Nintendo took a risk, and in the end for games that are less casual they sort of lost the market. But in the end it was the right choice in terms of sales.
Before we get too excited about the idea these galaxies are too big to have formed so early, it looks like there’s evidence some very large galaxies can form a lot faster than previously thought.

https://youtu.be/CrGhpqKfRv4
Normally Windows XP would lock you out completely after a while if you don't activate. But there are a lot of exceptions, like volume license keys, certain OEM install discs, certain VM images released by MS, and ahem unofficial ISOs with things like AntiWPA slipstreamed into the install.
My guess is OpenAI now has a case to ask Apple to remove these apps for trademark infringement and brand confusion. Obviously they can just rename themselves but keep the same functionality, but marketing themselves as ChatGPT is no longer going to fly.
This means that the current versions of two of the Big Three browser engines support native CSS nesting, so now it’s up to Mozilla to bring this compatibility to Gecko, too. Here[0] is the bug report to watch.

[0]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1648037
High-income wage earners on the US typically get health insurance from their job, which is a tax-exempt benefit that isn’t included in income statistics. After retirement age, Medicare will pay for most medical expenses, although it’s still smart to save some extra money for whatever Medicare doesn’t cover. Amortized over a career, reasonable savings for post-retirement health care might amount to 1% or so for someone in that income range.
Love the pun. I remember the 3rd Rock meetings of the "Fat Losers Club".
I vaguely remember trying to install Gentoo back in the early 2000s. It took more than 24 hours and eventually failed with an inscrutable C compilation failure in some random package. That was quite the eye opening experience. Certainly gave me an appreciation for the relative polish of Red Hat and other packaged distros, despite their warts.
No, it doesn't. 45% is the top marginal rate, no-one in the UK includes "retirement contributions" as part of taxation...it makes no sense.
We shall call it by way of need: GoogleFix.

;-p
Auncel: Fast Approximate Vector Queries on Large Unstructured Datasets
Which is why I suggested multiplayer being a reason to bring the game back. A 4-on-4 or 5-on-5 Starfox multiplayer would be absolutely incredible on modern consoles.

The other reason Starfox is hard to do is because the game itself is quite short - IIRC Starfox64 could be completed in less than an hour - it was only 7 stages at most, 6 at least. Crazy short. Make the whole campaign 20+ missions with longer stages, totally possible with today's tech.