skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure you responded to the right comment here? I didn't say any of the stuff you seem to be responding to.

Maybe you're responding to what I said about unaccountable government cash? But you seem to be thinking I'm saying it's the students who lack accountability and whose incentives are screwed up by the government cash?

That's not it at all, it's not the students' incentives that are a mess under the current system and an even worse mess under the perpetual forgiveness system. It is schools whose incentives are messed up. They have no reason to keep from raising tuition and fees indefinitely because they are guaranteed to be paid. It's that problem that setting a precedent for forgiveness makes worse.

It has nothing to do with what people with student debt spend their money on.
Can you install pretty much any app on CalyxOS, without involving Google?
Ah, I hadn't thought of that angle. IBM has become the CA Technologies (formerly Computer Associates International) or MicroFocus of the 21st century.
Likewise, at least 20 years and I didn't even notice this one.
At least you can disable it (I do). But indeed -- how do we know the government isn't already compelling Google to add sites to the list?
For a lot of people, free speech means nobody should be allowed to challenge what they say.
Since 2020 I built https://sequencer.party

Supports third-party plugins in a format called WAM2 (Web Audio Module version 2).

Collaborative, like Google Docs. Sign in and start a session, invite people. Turn a knob, and it turns for everyone.

Supports audio, midi, and video as well.

Supports custom Javascript sequencers (Function Sequencer plugin). You can (collaboratively) write a little javascript program, give it knobs dials and automateable parameters, and have it emit MIDI events.

There's some usability issues to still work on but it's quite fun to jam on. I used to host twitch sessions where people could sequence my TR-909 and minimoog, and then hear the instruments played back over twitch.
Exactly, I never said it was a good thing that housing is an investment, only that that is the current state of affairs, and to alter that would have ramifications that would cause huge problems. Best thing we can do is stabilize what we currently have and figure a way forward that doesn't worsen the problem, but we cannot go back.
Markus Frind, the plentyoffish guy comes to mind. Bootstrapped the biggest dating site in the US with zero employees or VC, and sold out for $500m around ten years ago. He runs a winery now.

https://www.frindwinery.com/Our-Story/Our-Team/Markus-Bio

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-markus-frind-bootstrappe...
This is why I use leaded pewter kitchenware exclusively. /s
Leaked messages show employees roasting Satya Nadella after cheery fiscal post
> Many people have transitioned to homelessness and the rental market has eased up a little bit.

Well that's a sad state of affairs.
But the work is mostly to repackage RHEL patches. To support Debian LTS for longer you have to do all the backports which is obviously much more work.
Seems like a great time for Debian to step up, and offer 'sponsored' 10 year LTS support for their releases..
Uhm... Youtube still puts in ads for those videos, regardless of whether or not the creator wants to.
> The world is also out to get you if you classify digital advertisements as warfare.

The world is out to get everyone. Just in ways we pretend don't count, so we don't have think too hard about it.
Sadly, it's not something that can be taught just by talking, because must be taught at a very young age. Boys need to learn to be strong as young schoolchildren, in order to not suffer the consequences of being weak. Social interaction patterns start early and persist. Fathers know this, so they must start early, so the son is prepared for the cruelty of the schoolyard.

You're right about the lack of talking. It's not literally talking, it's conditioning/training. I was using the expression "the talk" to link it to something else you might understand.
Woah! As someone who hasn't paid much attention since the initial launch, I had no idea. Here's the business model:

> Besides in-game purchases, partnerships with retail chains like Starbucks, McDonald's, Sprint, pay Niantic Labs for "Foot Traffic" on-demand of the retail shops.
First crypto then AI. Are doomers ever not trying to ban and regulate other people and their things?
5 years ago I would have mostly agreed with your statements about android tablets, but since then Samsung has created a family of very acceptable tablets imho.
> You basically spell it out yourself. Making it legal and accepted to use drugs makes more people use.

I don't think I said that at all. Just because it is made to be a major life decision does not mean that the decision is made with proper due diligence or even with a rational mind.

In fact, these decisions are usually made by very young people. This has the unfortunate side effect of locking a lot of people into a way of life because they decided to try drugs as a teen.

It is possible to try some drugs and walk away like smoking a little weed as a college kid, but a lot of times drugs are used as an escape. At a young age that escape can be tempting and you can develop a habit. Now, if drug use were legalized and normalized, you could seek help and not otherwise impact your life, but as it stands it is more likely that a habit would result in a conviction which will follow them around for life making it harder to find a well paying job, decent housing etc. The cycle reinforces itself over the course of a lifetime.

Now as far as numbers go, the current policies ensure that a drugs retention rate is as high as possible. If policies forced more churn, then the number of simultanious users at any one time could be lower. They could be higher, but we havent had the oportunity to see.
This goes way back at least to the late 80's when the Cray C-90 introduced its "bit matrix multiplication" instructions.
3 drinks a day every day is absolutely alcoholism. 1 drink a day every day is probably a hard-to-stop habit.
Your presumption is correct. Valve was working directly with id Software after licensing the (still closed-source at the time) Quake engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldSrc
> We are 50% of the way between the big bang and heat death of the universe.

Not even close. Star formation is going to continue for at least another trillion years, and red dwarves are going to continue shining for tens of trillions of years after that.
I think the inspiration was that an atom is a foundational building block of matter and a lot of things could be built with a well-specified universal feed format and publishing format.

The time spent debating names, disqualifying names, requalifying names and voting on names was like the battle of the newscasters on Anchorman. Pure carnage.
In your summary, you described:
-A service you pay for (traditional cable) has 30-40 percent of it's time -dedicated to charging you more. (time cost to watch the ads).
-It has gotten worse both traditionally and on streaming media.
-Your child, who is in no way associated with the payment structure, is forced to absorb malicious ads despite being too young to consent to the information being "forced".
-(my observation) Media spot advertising does not work, is largely targeted incorectly.

We're PAYING for our kids to become desensitized to attention-vampiricity and we're unsure if it is ok to be upset? Yes!
Because the point is not to have a billion casual players, but rather tens of thousands of whales to milk extensively.

The ROI of catering to casual people who might see a couple ads and never spend a dime is just silly compared to taking thousands of dollars a month from tens of thousands of addicts.
Tech Companies Sue Arkansas over Parental Consent Law for Social Media Access
I still play almost everyday since 2016 and I know there are other people like me out there
And some people believe the third eye closes if you are exposed to wifi radiation. Shall we shut down all wireless communications because some people are dangerously misinformed?
Ratchet up enforcement and surveillance and sanctions on the whole ecosystem, so that their lives are all less pleasant. Given enough political willpower, the US could stop accepting it as the price of business, and even start finding WMDs in Iraq, so to speak.

E.g. move from sanctioning and charging the leaders to sanctioning and charging everyone in the whole operation, so they and their families can't leave Russia without facing arrest.
#xkcd on slashnet? ;-)
It's nothing to do with paternalism. Anyone who has ever worked as a teacher in the suburbs of Paris or has an actual understanding of what's happening gathered outside of the very right wing news channels could tell you that violence is now carried by younger and younger individuals. You can listen to Martin Aubry explaning what's happening in Lille for exemple.

But sure, as usual, the average French (nowadays 50-ish, dubiously educated, enjoying a remarkable prosperity which decades of chronic mismanagement have made but a dream for their own children) will blame the "foreigners".

The right will complain that the country is too laxist while ignoring the real issue of police violence and more broadly police management. The left will blame the government while ignoring that policies they themselves put in place are a large part of the social problems creating the current situation and remain in denial of, well, modernity. Peace will more or less be back in a fortnight and things will resume their usual course towards utter irrelevance and failure. Gosh, I hate this country.
That case (Board of Education v. Brown) was unanimously rejected for lack of standing. It was the other one (Biden v. Nebraska) that was decided.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-535_i3kn.pdf
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-506_nmip.pdf
Looks slick for how quickly it was built. I was surprised by the download size and RAM footprint, but... if it was easy to do cross-platform, I'm thinking this is still ahead of electron on footprint? Or at least competitive. Interesting!
Yeah, I've read the same book multiple times before, years apart, without realizing it. Only when I went back to Goodreads later to mark it as read did I realize that... well, I had already read it.

On the flip side, I can enjoy a book more than once. This is a definite plus.
It’s really easy to forget that their target market isn’t us the adults who love Pokémon. In reality, they have hooked a generation of children that spend >$1B on the game each year so I think they’re doing just fine
ok, that's why I said AFAIK. I've only used it a couple times, but no issues.
Just make dustcovers for them. Print the names on the spines. Would take a minute to do, but totally doable.

(Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/993/)
3 drinks a day everyday is not healthy. If you’re on 3 a day you’re on the train to 7 a day and alcoholism.
I’m spooked by this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34434995
Yes it’s huge. I play in my community and many people pay in the hundreds per month to play. The community is still huge and it’s international.
Are they real though?
The mobile games are the weirdest to me, because most of them that I see are ads for games that are also primarily ad supported. It’s ads all the way down. I suspect that a lot of it is riding on VC funding that will eventually dry up, breaking everyone’s business models.
You go out and do your own research, you ask the people you trust for their own personal experiences.
It's cause some people are so fucking stupid
If you’re interested in Vyvanse then check out this interview of its creator Dr. Robert Oberlander: https://youtu.be/x9WmEVRxebE
I enjoyed the Harry Potter games I've played and have played pretty much every "monster" game that exists (Pokemon, Digimon, DQ: Monsters, Monster Rancher, etc). As a fan, I'm sorry to say I don't see myself being interested in a Fantastic Beasts game. I would love to be proven wrong... maybe it's because I didn't enjoy the movies but I don't hear anyone mention fantastic beasts for any reason, good or otherwise.
Anecdotally, I have only heard of Europeans using SUSE.
I don't block ads, I block technology, for largely political reasons. I have the technical skills to do so, which almost certainly puts me in a minority. But all the whining from ad-supported corps is just whining, and if that doesn't work an attempt at extortion.

If the copy said "Looks like you're blocking trackers and content from properties we don't own" instead of "Looks like you may be using an ad blocker" it would be more truthful. Maybe somebody should go after them for deceptive advertising.
Musk needs cash from ads. I'm guessing that he's doing it for better pageviews.

Anyway public persons and companies need to be see .. so this can kick twitter pretty hard. Especially when they can have own instances.
I’m not too convinced of the persuasive powers of “domain experts” either. I’m thinking about the professional persuaders like politicians. You may dislike some of them or what they stand for, but they are plenty persuasive.

It’s just that there’s a lot of them coupled with a distinct lack of unity. America has its issues like all nations I guess.

Also, intelligence does not lead directly to skill in all things. Being clever is a requirement for becoming a chess grandmaster, but it’s not sufficient on its own (by a long shot).
I tried uninstalling Adobe software from my PC a few weeks ago.

Clicking on ‘uninstall’ booted up their cloud launcher app, and then I had to log in with an account, and then it had to install four or five different updates in sequence, and then it tried auto-updating the software I had installed, and after about thirty minutes of making sure Adobe obtained all of their analytics I was finally able to uninstall everything.

It is one of the worst user experiences I’ve ever encountered in recent times and it is a sign of what will happen to Figma under Adobe’s leadership. Figma is too much of a threat to them, so they can just squash it in an acquisition.

The revamped Serif suite is much nicer.
Is it only me, or are these photos not bad at all?
They are real and honest, and... just not actually bad photos!
I get it. You love to share the knowledge, help along the way and learn new things. I've never thought about SO on that way.
I've been using Boost for a while now and decided that I'd give the actual client a shot. I mean I've been using Reddit since 2006 and old habits die hard.

I did not expect it to be so awful. Scrolling is actually sluggish for some reason, even when just reading comments, not to mention I keep getting garbage like posts from recommended subreddits and constant prompts to enable notifications. There's also NFTs?!?!

I'm done, it has reached peak shittification.
Yes, and Voevodsky is no longer alive.
I'm not exactly at the highest levels of industry. I generally agree with you- I much prefer hardware or a laptop.

However, as a musician, I wouldn't perform with one, but I use forescore literally every day.

As an sound tech, I've mixed a while lot of shows on glass both as a monitor engineer and FOH for smaller stuff. My iPad is a great tool for that work. They are pretty ubiquitous amound sound techs, at least at the levels I work at.
> And dealing with bugs in LLVM is basically a no-go, I've seen this happen in the Julia ecosystem as well.

As one of the folks dealing with LLVM bugs in the Julia ecosystem.

Yes it requires a distinct skillet different from working on the higher-level Julia compiler and yes it can sometimes take ages to merge bugfixes upstream, but we actually have a rather good and productive relationship with upstream and the project would get a lot less done if we decided to get rid of LLVM.

In particular GPU support and HPC support (hello PPC) depends on it.

But this is also why we maintain the stance that people need to build Julia against our patchset/fork and will not invest time in bugs filled against Julia builds that didn't use those patches. This happens in particular with distro builds.
The lawsuit seems to define the "private" data that was stolen as all the data that is publicly availably on the internet.
it’s far more likely it was just a reskin of Pokémon go but you’re trying to collect players instead, and to recruit them you’d have to shoot virtual baskets or something by flicking a basketball instead of a pokeball
Content is also advertisement. They benefit just as well from platform-specific content that, statistically, puts ads in front of a lot of people, and more relevantly, creates a market for people to pay YouTube to place their content in front of people.

I'm far from convinced this isn't relevant to YouTube history with controversial content. I think somebody is paying to do that, covertly or overtly. Sort of payola? I think there are ways to pay off YouTube to promote your content.
I have a N7 with Ubuntu on it. It's my distraction-free writing box. Runs vim great.
Oh yeah I completely missed the pun cheers.
> This could backfire against them.

Nah, don't be under this delusion. This is a "heads I win tales you lose" situation. You can pretty much predict that if someone is a minority religion all the sudden religious rights have natural bounds we need to follow. But, if they are christians, then all the sudden there are no bounds to what can be argued.

That's where we are at. Welcome to Gilead.
If these people are tech execs, then presumably they are extremely productive members of the economy. What does it matter what they do in private? If you’re an avid unicyclist it should have no bearing on your appearance of respectability unless you’re skipping work to unicycle or unable to work because of unicycle injuries.
“Hey kids! Let’s play a fun game called what is your moms credit card number?”
Ignoring the AI question. I wish people could have put this much thought and energy in considering our doom before the AI question brought this all up. As it stands now, the future without AI seems pretty doomed too.
Profound. Thanks for sharing this. That really frames what I’ve been struggling to describe. Advertising isn’t some necessary lifeblood of many industries. It can often be something like the endless trench warfare between Pepsi and Coke, vying for slivers of mindshare.

I also think that advertising is often a crutch for incompetence. Build a good product and it can take off all on its own. People advertise for you. Or build crap and hire an industry to manipulate people into wanting your crap. Advertising is manipulation. Watch any ad and ask, “what emotion are they trying to con me into feeling?”
> What bothers me is that those earlier things ever made it to court in the first place and it didn't just end with "well ok I will find someone else".

What things are you willing to find someone else for? A different doctor? A different lawyer? A different water fountain?

Why didn't Rosa Parks simply start a more inclusive (business savvy) bus service and put the bigots out of business?
Tell HN: AWS Is Down
You don't know what a McMansion is. This place is an actual mansion.
Agreed; it's very serendipitous that you can basically light up a room with the gravitational energy that the sun/earth pair radiate out into space.

Light up 1 room with an incandescent bulb, or your entire flat with LED bulbs nowadays. I would be very interested in seeing some napkin math, based on power efficiency progress and "rate of technological innovation", that attempted to project when we could feasibly run the equivalent of our present-day human civilization purely off of gravitational waves/radiation.
> The data accessed included "private information and private conversations, medical data, information about children — essentially every piece of data exchanged on the internet it could take — without notice to the owners or users of such data, much less with anyone's permission," per the lawsuit.

Why aren't they suing the hosts that allowed the data to be stolen? Where's the notice of security breach?
Dark Brandon is running circles around an opposition that paints him as senile.
This. That's funny that this was the first thing I thought of too. It wasn't really a huge part but Arkin made it work.

The performance had a humor to it that revolved equal parts nervousness and exasperation.
Confessions of a Book Reviewer (1946)
Sure, but GoG is a relatively new player and an exception in the market. Not to mention the vast majority of those games have had DRM removed by GoG, they originally shipped with it - including Cyberpunk 2077 and the Witcher games where this was done to prevent pre-release leaks.

Games much, much older than GoG used to have various ways of doing DRM, though to be fair some were laughably easy to bypass (codes printed in the manual and such).
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status says everything is fine though /s
It's honestly crazy to me that people would downvote you for expressing this. I think it's an extremely common hang-up among lots of programmers and it's an important thing to talk about. I don't understand how it improves the discourse, when someone says "I'm embarrassed", to say "well FUCK YOU for being embarrassed! Get the fuck off Hacker News!" Downvoters, you're making the problem worse. I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish.
This annoyed me particularly because I pay for YouTube premium... but I can't sign into my Google account on my work computer. So if they block ad blockers, paying for YouTube isn't even enough to get rid of the ads for me.
> You seriously think the US can't get a few mercenaries inside Russia if they wanted to?

This would be unbelievably risky... The mercenary might get caught afterwards, before, or just be a Russian double agent from the start. And if any of that happens, you'd give Putin a massive refueling on his bonfire of anti-western propaganda.
Not really because people who are using RHEL in the first place are $BigCorp which run enterprise software (for example Oracle) for which you can only get support if you run on a supported enterprise OS.

So we'd just run RHEL for the clients who needed these support contracts and used CentOS for everyone else to still have a homogeneous environment.

With Debian I can't get this kind of support. So the options are reduced to Oracle Linux and SLES/openSUSE.
> ...he apparently felt ashamed enough about voicing these suggestions that he de-listed...

Perhaps. Admitting that I don't know the backstory...I'd say that "he didn't want to spend even more of his life fighting the Internet Hate Machine(tm)" would be ample reason for pg to de-list the article.
Not in my father's lifetime either. And his father is a WWII vet who literally spent most of his "youth" stopping Nazis from killing Jews. Maybe my great grandfather lived in a time where he may have indirectly benefitted from the active segregation of blacks (ignoring that he didn't live in a problematic area), but he died before I was born.

You can't just propagate forward and say well you are guilty because your dad was guilty because his dad was guilty because his grandpa was white in a time where segregation still existed in the south. It literally doesn't make any sense. Harboring that type of animosity towards one group of people based on their skin color is the definition of racism. Reducing individuals rich lived experiences to that of their skin color is the definition of racism.
I find that ads are usually a very poor source of information when trying to figure out what product to buy. Ads are designed to deceive. They're supposed to make the product larger than life, more perfect than possible, and absolutely essential to your continued existence.

What I find more helpful is authentic experience from other consumers of that product. The authentic part is getting harder and harder to validate, of course.
No trust is required. You can simply just stop using the service then. Or now. There's no real stickiness since it's not essential to have Youtube.
Yeah, it really is an evergreen brand, like Barbie or Hot Wheels