skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Debian 12.1 Release Planned on 2023-07-22
I think paper clip optimizers are already here in the form of advertising and engagement algorithms, and the physical element is us.
The butterfly stroke in swimming was originally a faster variant of the breaststroke, demonstrating another possible response of the establishment: containerized adoption.
My google searches, in the past few weeks, have definitely not solved this routing problem yet. I can’t find answers for many queries.
I think the best option for families is either iCloud or Office 365 Family.

I've got both, because I can buy 12+3 month O365 keys on black friday sales and stack them. I think my next bill is coming in 2027. Until then everyone in my family has a 1TB Onedrive account and full Office suite with email.
What good are ads for cancer drugs? If I have cancer then I'll go to a doctor who should know the relevant drugs. If I don't trust my doctor, I'll get second opinions from other doctors. If I don't trust any doctor, I'll hit the books and start doing searches of the academic literature. At no point is it rational for me to turn on the television and see what cancer drugs are being advertised on it.
Is sneaking to see a live concert stealing? No, I don't think so. But concert organizers have all the rights to enforce that people don't sneak in.
Because "Everybody does it and gets away with it", as seen in this very comment section, so it doesn't actually put much pressure on the public as far as they are concerned.

Also, "it's done for social harmony"; Very few places are as dogmatically hostile towards social good as the US, and are willing to make individual liberty sacrifices so that everyone may be better off. Arguably this is the same rhetoric or philosophy as the "Thin blue line" American cops love.

Also, your average chinese person just doesn't care to see english language media that much. They have diverse (to them) opinions and culture on their homegrown social media systems, and don't feel a need to leave the walled garden of Chinese internet much in the same way most westerners do not feel the need to join Russia's social media apps.

Also, the CCP "brought millions out of poverty" within living memory. Many people there feel that justifies a hell of a lot of vaguely "bad" actions, or makes it way easier to rationalize things.
Speak for yourself then. I liked BotW so much that the first time I beat it (going to Hyrule Castle after only doing 2 Divine Beasts because I wanted to see how good the equipment there was that the side characters were talking about), I immediately replayed the Ganon fight and went back to playing the rest of the game for its own sake. At this point I have over 600 hours in it, and still haven't even done all the side quests since I have so much fun just exploring Hyrule and finding different ways to kills mobs.

TotK jacks up the gameplay creativity to an entirely new level, and has the strong driving story that alot of people complained was missing from BotW. There's also a TON more to explore, which I won't elaborate on to avoid spoilers.

The only 3D Zelda I played before BotW was OoT. I'm enjoying the games on their own terms.
Your memory must be better than mine.

Having a couple notes about the things that stood out to me at the time is a great way to remind myself how I felt about books I’ve long since stopped thinking about.
Special units are called for everything nowadays. I live in Paris and police vans park in my street. Even for peaceful demonstrations, hundreds of armored policemen are brought in the city. That's a significant part of the issue actually with France insisting on using a demonstrably outdated and inappropriate way of policing.

France intentionally kept apart from the work being done on policing by its European neighbours in the last two decades and is now paying the price.
I think you first have to ask yourself why does an institution like Harvard, or Yale, or any other elite institution exist? The formal answer of course is that they exist to give the best and brightest an opportunity to learn from the best and brightest. But this isn't why these types of institutions exist.

They exist to recycle/refresh and to create elites. Any society (and organization for that matter) will have a minority group of elites. A healthy society has a function that can recycle and select for elites. An unhealthy society does not do a good job of this and the elites are inbred and only legacy. This is the purpose of an institution like Harvard and why legacy admissions exist.

Now the "best and brightest" are connected with the "rich and connected" and new elites are born. Existing elites with kids that can't make it in with legacy are recycled into the general pool in time and new elites are made from the best of the general pool.

This is the social function Harvard serves. It's a good thing if the elites are being recycled frequently enough by moving weak elites into the general pool and with deserving candidates from the general pool replacing those weak elites.
> And there is a concept named "RSS".

The concept is called a (web/news) feed:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed

> It's still called an "RSS feed" for the simple reason that that is the name of the concept.

No, it's because "RSS" is acting as an adjective to the noun of "feed". See also "Atom feed": Atom being the adjective, feed being the noun (concept).

> RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication)[2] is a web feed[3] that […]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
Yeah I noticed too. Let’s see how this works out for them.

Interesting move for an ad supported platform.

I’d be interested to see their traffic graph for the day. What do y’all think? 50% drop?
You can buy 600 coins by purchasing 100 coins x6 for $5.94, more than $1 less than the cost of 550 coins.
I think Apple would rather people buy a MacBook and an iPad rather than just an iPad and so they've limited it to make that happen even if it means selling less iPads to begin with. They don't really seem to want to make great standalone products but want everything to be tied together which is why even doing something as simple as adding a single MP3 to your music library on an iPad is effectively impossible.

Some of what they did with the iPad was a response to the success of the Microsoft Surface and I don't think it's something they actually wanted to do.
It seems a lot easier to put a touch screen on a laptop. Mine has one, and it's a totally normal laptop.
I laughed, but it's about finding new stuff not stuff you already know exists, and it works sometimes. Of course they made ads too intrusive so we block them now, but even then I did buy something I found very useful after seeing some of the few ads that slipped.
I think early 2000 adsense ads were the best. Just simple text or images and contextual to the content of the page you were on.
There are designated floodplains such as the Yolo bypass that water is able to be diverted to all along the rivers.
Let's be specific here on what we are talking about.

We've already seen cases where county clerks have decided not to issue wedding certificates because of their religion. We've seen pharmacists refuse to issue drugs because of their religion. The slope is here and the SC is signaling "it's ok not to do your job if you're a bigot".

So what's next? Doctors that refuse to treat "gay" diseases like HIV? Where's the line? Can a school teacher refuse to teach a child how to read because it's against their religion to let women read? Should we allow biology teachers to refuse to teach evolution because that's against their religion?

This isn't just about gay rights, never was. This is about how much power saying "it's my religion" can grant you and protect you from being a bigot moron.
Doesn't work for me in the Netherlands. Down since this morning. Though I used Tor and could access it via an IP in Ghana. I have new emails so I am pretty sure they keep arriving.

I share the positive sentiment about Fastmail here. Using it close to 10 years without issues. The times I needed there support for some more complex configuration question and they replied thoroughly and quickly. I normally dislike web interfaces but their UI is really well done.
It makes a billion a year in rev so I’d say its still going pretty well.
Haha I’m with you! It’s especially frustrating when I’ve observed a few new species, then “enroll” in a challenge and they don’t count.

I use the app exclusively for identification, but it feels like there’s so much untapped potential, which you summarized very well.
> Rocky is doing something no different than what RH is doing

Count the contributors to Rocky and RHEL. Then tell me how they can be "doing the same thing".
> They explicitly say they have no position on artwork

Right, the FSF has always had the view that software developers are the only creative professionals who must be shamed for not releasing their hard work for absolutely free. Authors are allowed to hold copyrights on their books, artists on their paintings, musicians on their music; but programmers? Fuck them if they even THINK about trying to maintain control of their creative outputs -- they're clearly evil. J.K. Rowling is allowed to make money on Harry Potter, but you're not allowed to copyright your code.

And can it with "but these 47 people in history have all managed to make a livable income from consulting based on their open-source work!". That's just more of you telling me how I'm supposed to live. I don't want to make money helping incompetent companies install the software I wrote. I want to make money in proportion to the value I add to the world.
USA will issue “anyone” 2-3 valid passports at the same time. This is designed for two reasons:

1) you travel a lot and sometimes may need to mail your passport off to get a pre-travel visa from some consulate, while you are still outside the USA. This way you can send off one passport to get the visa for your next country, while keeping a valid passport with you while you’re abroad.

2) You need to travel between Israel and countries which have laws against visiting Israel (Historically, GCC countries). This way you can always present whichever passport doesn’t have Israel’s entry and exit stamps on it.

I’ve had two valid US passports at the same time, and I’m just a random nobody American.
This is a modern reimplementation of original version, which was a Flash app made by André Michelle (http://lab.andre-michelle.com), in the 2000's
How long do you figure until the first public execution for using starlink?

And yet we can never cut them off because it would be economic suicide.
Are we talking ad pricing? Or some other pricing? How is it predatory?
> 99.9% of content is garbage and / or not relevant to

Then don't use it ? That's like saying you only like one show on netflix so they should give it to you for free
Is SUSE Linux not an option for Enterprise?
I don't think those in-content sponsorships are what this is about?
Mods should just quit. It's not a strike if you don't actually walk away.
Covid pandemic linked to surge in child and teen diabetes
> You are inherently freeloading off of everyone that does pay for Premium or watches ads.

You seem to be assuming that watching ads would reduce the number of them, or reduce the price of Premium. All evidence is to the contrary (e.g. the presence of ads on pay-for TV, like cable)
I listen to some podcasts to sleep and it is infuriating to get even 12-45 (!) min long ads! I wouldn't be that upset with 5-10s ads every 10 minutes (as long as the volume level doesn't kill me) but half a freaking hour? What the hell is this?

If there was a company with clear community intentions and sound morals, yeah I would consider paying for it and support the creators. But YT that treats me like trash with their dark patterns and algorithms showing me stuff to hijack my brain instead of stuff I am looking for? No way in hell.
Hackers claim to take down Russian satellite communications provider
Ok, call me back when it does.
I watch all my youtube through yt-dlp piped into a media player, so there are just no ads to even happen that way.
I’ve come around on shorts. Many of my favorite creators take weeks or even months to create a single video, vsauce comes to mind. Shorts allow them to create shorter form content that’s still interesting more frequently, without affecting their algorithmic ranking for main videos.

I also think it works as a marketing tool. At this point, YT knows what I want and shorts act as a sort of teaser for new channels. 60 seconds of their most interesting content to see if I want to subscribe or not. It’s less commitment than watching a full (often 20 min +) video.
Last two phones have been Moto G Powers. Multiday battery life, stock Android, SIM and MicroSD cards, and a headphone jack.

Camera's definitely terrible, but I don't really use my phone camera all that much. Biggest advantage, IMO, is the <$150 price tag. It means when I trip and toss my phone into traffic, or forget to take my phone out of my pocket when going snorkeling, or drop my phone off the balcony of my apartment, I can just order a new one on Amazon, swap the SIM, and carry on with my life.
I no next to nothing about mobile games so I'm now curious. Is there a counter example you can provide where top tier IP was unsuccessful because the app/game/experience was so bad? I see a lot of this on reddit usually around "regular" video games where everyone says the won't prebuy or purchase a game because of past studio bugs or generally bad user/community experience but ultimately these games and studios still crush it. So I would definitely agree with your appraisal just kind of curious if there is a floor you can hit that is so bad that a game still fails still being an amazing IP.
I would personally be surprised if tech leaders are anywhere near as likely to be neurodivergent as tech workers in general. Too many MBA types and money chasers in tech over the last couple of decades and they're all going after these leadership positions - these people are nothing like typical IT folks.
It could double as a Ferrari and still wouldn't replace a primary function I want in a phone/personal computer: trusted privacy and confidentiality with auditable configuration by the owner, me.
Was that the concept? That sounds like a painful grind to me; there's not _that_ many basketball hoops all next to each other walking distance and then you have to carry a ball around too!
I recently moved back to a city where I rarely have to drive, which is nice, but I was driving a lot last year, and "do the pumps have those godawful TV ads or not" became my #1 criterion when deciding where to buy gas. What an unbearable racket!
This is such a shallow unsatisfying article. It’s entire content is basically “math seems to be real… BUT IS IT??” With absolutely no evidence to present.

Look I can do it too.

HN is a community of users posting content that is interesting to its members, and influencing the popularity of that content by up/downvoting… OR IS IT??

It’s like an episode of vsauce that ends abruptly after the intro scene.

This is a comment that I have written… OR IS IT??
Men hunt and women gather? Large analysis says the long-held idea is wrong
Theodore Roosevelt Historical Marker
For however unpleasant those things may be, I wouldn't call them a Doomsday scenario. They're certainly nothing like the things you'll hear of on LessWrong.
Is it technically possible to write an open source firmware for the existing wireless chips?
Yes. AVX-512 support is also implemented by SIMD-JSON. JSON string parsing, definitely not a thing anybody does. /s

Also super great for emulation, and anyone else who does a lot of bulk bit-twiddling.

The whole discourse has become super weird (up to and including Linux himself ;) because of Intel 10nm delays. With the only AVX-512 products being 14nm-based intel server chips for 5 years, and then only coming to laptop for another couple years, and then only a single terrible generation of desktop parts that nobody bought, and with AMD launching super competitive (usually leading) products in those segments, obviously there wasn't a whole lot of real consistent adoption in software. And what adoption there was, was complicated by the fact that the largest adopter (server market) had to drop clocks massively and even pause processing to allow voltage to swing up enough, because they were 14nm products on a feature that was really aimed at 10nm and beyond. And then Intel yanked it out of all the desktop and laptop chips and seems poised to just ignore it for another 5 years.

Everyone just decided that because it wasn't getting adopted that it was inherently useless, up to and including Linus himself. But it wasn't getting adopted because it was a complete mess on the Intel side and AMD didn't even support it, so why bother?

The AVX-512 story is inextricably bound up in the 10nm delays and the organizational problems that have plagued Intel ever since. It's such a great thing that AMD didn't buy into the naysaying.
Newsflash: If you are a game company this is a feature not a bug.

Also, if you want to get into a mobile game dark pattern try this:

- 100 coins 0.99, 550 coins $6.99

After you buy 100 coins pricing switches to:

- 100 coins 1.49, 550 coins $6.99

Usually you have mechanics like that with pseudo currency, not actual $ because it is too obvious. But understand their are no accidents in pricing at that level of development.
And chat history. Chat history is huge. And so is integrated search.

Yeah, you can run a bouncer... but then it depends on that bouncer working, and wtf is a bouncer, why is it necessary, and how do you explain that to normal people? And splits?

IRC is a ridiculous experience comparatively. Its big benefit is that it's super cheap to run.
Apologies for the delay, life has been busy the past couple of days.

> Killing an enemy combatant in war is justified--after all, he or she is coming to kill you. That isn't a flimsy excuse at all.

Certainly, but I don't think those actions are the troubling part. The troubling parts come before and after. The decision to only conscript men (that part'll be below), and the decisions to conduct massacres after combat had ceased. It wasn't uncommon to massacre the male civilian population once a city had been seized or an army subdued. The strongest counter argument there to me is that women weren't killed, but rape may have been prevalent. I don't know what the occurrence would have been in those situations, and I don't want to hazard an uneducated guess.

> And the fact that men were conscripted into armies as opposed to women is no accident. It is attributable to human sexual dimorphism.

To some degree. The minimum age for Roman conscription was 16, and I think that gap is a lot closer when you're comparing fully grown women against boys. In other words, if conscription was gated by some kind of "minimum strength requirement" where the lower bound was set by 16 year old boys, I think the sexual dimorphism claim loses some weight.

Even then, some of these events happened after the invention of the firearm where raw strength became almost entirely removed from the "who wins a fight" question.

> But when many men die during war, that doesn't seem to me to be a targeted killing of men, since wouldn't women be killed as well if they were soldiers?

Sure, but they weren't. To turn it around a little bit, would it not seem problematic to forcibly place solely a particular group of people into an incredibly dangerous job? If only Native Americans were eligible for conscription, I don't think "but other races would be killed too, they just aren't soldiers" would be an acceptable excuse.

> And I don't quite get the analogy to mass killings, which seem to me to have an entirely different moral valence altogether.

The likeness, to me, is that they have the same end result, but with different mechanisms. A mass killing is hunting down people with the intent to kill them. Conscription is hunting down people with the intent of repeatedly exposing them to events with a high probability of killing them.

I do think the moral valences are divergent. Genocides seem to be an act of outright hate to me, where conscription largely strikes me as the result of indifference. They both end with a lot of deaths of a somewhat homogenous group of people, though.
It beats the alternative.
weShacked, now Nintendo needs to get involved.
I've been doing development work using Surface Pros since version 4. They are not perfect, but they do the job (for me at least) better than anything else.
Amazing how they don't even know if it is an intentional change or not.

It seems like a poor attempt at juicing some metrics in the short term. But what good is converting users with no account who read and don't post, into users who still read and don't post? Net ad views is the same. Better tracking?
>I think your mistake is believing everyone who uses ad-block also believes ad-free YouTube is worth paying for. I do not.

No, they are saying that they will not "lose your business" because there was no business in the first place, which is true.
Are the bigger packs selling? Could very well be working as intended.
YouTube has gotten progressively worse with its ads over time, though. They're slowly turning up the heat to eventually boil the frog. Without opposition, YouTube ads will eventually be as bad as TV ads have become.

On that note, I haven't watched network TV in over a decade because to the ads. None of the content on offer on cable and satellite TV is worth the asking price of both a subscription fees and ads, especially when most of it can be found in other legitimate sources, usually in higher quality.
I'd never thought of it quite like that, in terms of rich beggars versus poor beggars. Thanks for sharing.
Considering his last (brilliant) project featured here, the semaphore keyboard madness, I'm not sure how serious this is but it seems there is potential for providing a useful API for AR/VR apps/games/experiences; I'm not sure the body is extensively served by Quest etc beyond hand and head tracking.
Many people have mortgages on their home, being underwater on a mortgage (i.e. the LTV spikes because you are now borrowing more than the home is worth) would set off a bank/debt crisis, that is what I meant by catastrophic.
They are comparable, the number of PPP loans taken out and not used for the intended purpose is quite high, and there is massive fraud, yet those are forgiven. Everyone is arguing in circles on this or speaking past each other. The HEROES Act allowed for modifying loan terms. Regardless, PPP loans should not have been forgiven as they where without following the law Congress passed. So, now, let's do PPP loans.
>The earlier 99 percent of human history was pretty garbage.

I don't think ads are what changed this.
More than half of my non-techie friends have cancelled their Netflix subscriptions in the last few months because of the changes. They were already on the edge of having it anyway, so when Netflix said to pay twice as much they just left.
RIP Don Lancaster
Goodbye to a giant.
It sure is easy to disregard critique when one can pick from such a bottomless barrel of ad hominem.

Do I work for a think tank and didn't know it?
> not to be a jerk

Who, the mods or the advertisers?
Mobile games like Pokemon Go don't really want billions of players, but instead thousands of whales, which I assure you they are milking quite a bit.
Stimulants and people in power go together, but that doesn't mean they are neurodivergent. They could just like drugs.
This was a rather bizarre decision for the way Justices sidestepped the crucial issue of "Standing". There were 6 states that brought the case, and none of them would have suffered any harm from the loan forgiveness.