skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly!

I was a subscriber more than 10 years ago but gave up when they started to have pushy, navigation blocking ads. It was like being unable to turn page before some time passed on the ad. How hostile is that?! Very! Analogy: you see an ad in the street and you are not allowed to walk on for some period of time, forced to stay at the ad. I requested ad free subscription for elevated price or promising cancellation, it became a cancellation.

I still buy the paper format occasionally, I love their articles - it is also easy jumping over ads in the physical format -, but I will not subscribe for paper version due to the amount of paper used and my trust in their electronic version is gone. I did not try their app since (and my tablet use sinked too, I might need much more push now to give a second try).
If the current economic system doesn't allow for a web where I can watch cat videos for free without being psychologically terrorized by megacorps, then perhaps the economic system is the problem.
I agree! So, stop using the service then.

Apparently most people don't care though. So, whom are you criticizing? Youtube for providing a service that's populare despite their way of financing which you personally don't like, but others don't have a problem with? Or the other viewers for not joining your boycott?
Maybe it was using technology similar to magic wormhole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G3_Xa1GBTs

https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
GPD Win Max 2 on the 7840u might be a better choice for those willing to trade handheld comfort for productivity, IMHO
As long as it is clearly indicated, is it really that big of a problem?

I think they are focusing on getting rid of deception...
Herbie 2.0 Released
I think this misses the point entirely.

If the police can be used to commit a crime akin to murder, maybe it's not the criminal we should be worried about so much as the police.
Exactly. The ads aren't just passive images or video, they're also actively trying to weasel information out of your personal device.

Fits the definition of spyware.

The larger problem is that this behaviour has been normalised to such a degree that "the world wide web" as a whole could be described as spyware.
I dont think it's designed to kill vpn review websites specifically. it'll sure catch those though.
From the proposed rule text [0]:

> It is an unfair or deceptive act or practice and a violation of this Rule for a business to represent, expressly or by implication, that a website, organization, or entity that it controls, owns, or operates provides independent reviews or opinions about a category of businesses, products, or services including the business or one or more of its products or services.

As I read it, the 5-star review systems on Amazon.com and Walmart.com would be categorized as unfair under this rule, since both companies sell their own products in addition to having a rating system on their website. I'm not sure whether that's intentional or not (and I could be misreading it, IANAL).

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/r311003consumer...
Some good points, but i find the tone a bit off.

I have been eyeing racket for a while now, but could never quite make the jump. Racket (the programming language) has definitely a lot of potential, but i do believe the academic side of it and the focus on the "build your own language" part might be an impediment to racket growth.

If i was to suggest some stuff :

- Clearly split Racket (and typed Racket) the language, evolution of scheme and Racket the PLT framework use to build and construct new languages. Racket / typed Racket should focus on more production/libraries for regular programmer
- More examples/libraries/package not directly related to PL and PL teaching. Create a website solely for Racket/typed racket, with the academic part.
- DrRacket always felt and looked alien to me. I can't really judge the feature set, but having vscode as the defacto IDE i think would be it more welcoming
- This one is will definitively be controversial but introduce a "curly brace"/C style syntax for Racket. Something implemented at the reader level. Same semantic/runtime behavior, and a reader/printer to go between Racket and {C|rust}SyntaxedRacket.

That's a lot of effort, so why do this ? I believe the world is looking for a better python. There is a lot of contender right now (julia, nim , etc... etc...). I think racket should also throw their hat in the ring.
An English literature degree in 1960 cost about a tenth of what it does today, in inflation-adjusted terms. Somehow, those students learned just fine. Nobody would be complaining about liberal arts degrees if universities weren’t profiteering off credentialism. But if your degree costs as much as a small house, it better lead to a damn good paying job.
and LibreTube:

https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36542267
A fork of nitter by PrivacyDevel [0] should still work as it adds the option of using user account tokens to bypass content restricted tweets.

[0] https://github.com/PrivacyDevel/nitter
Can you give specific examples?

I’m not doubting you. I’m interested in what parts of Racket could be confusing to beginners, maybe to make better courses
Like others mentioned in this thread, I don't think this is Apple's final vision for a Apple Silicon Mac Pro. To me, the only way forward is for Apple to, either use PCIe, or another proprietary high bandwidth bus solution, to connect together multiple Apple Silicon boards. This would result in a Mac Pro in which you can slide in multiple Apple Silicon modules, i.e. Mx Ultra modules.

For distributed Machine Learning workloads it also make sense to combine a CPU and a GPU per pluggable module. In such workloads, data that needs to be processed by a specific GPU (i.e. for training), is usually preprocessed by a CPU. In Intel machines with multiple Nvidia cards, this implies that you need a single beefy CPU with high core count. Having a CPU and GPU in each module makes sense from this perspective.
To hurl means to throw forcefully, and is commonly used as a synonym for vomiting, c.f. "throw up"
calling MDMA an amphetamine is technically (i.e. structurally) correct but also misleading. it's structurally an amphetamine, but so are DOB, Sudafed and Wellbutrin. it's stimulating, but in a different way from regular amphetamines, because it doesn't release dopamine.

the psychedelic effects are lesser than e.g. DOB, but if you look at its cousin MDA you can see it's on the spectrum of psychedelia. a better category for MDMA is "empathogen/entactogen."
> Is this true? Based on my reading of the proposed rules, it would be the product owner who would be responsible, not the platform.

From my reading, Amazon is only responsible for whatever they knowingly participate in. If sellers and manufacturers participate in it without Amazon's knowledge, Amazon has no required enforcement.
He’s referring to the fact that the HFT “provides liquidity” as in getting a share off your hands and flipping it to someone else that is not you a moment later. This way you didn’t have to wait 3 seconds or 1 minute or whatever to sell your shares because someone knew they could flip them (alpha) on a short notice so they participated in a transaction with you. He’s assuming that without the HFT, the transactions wouldn’t be as frequent and you’d have to either a) wait for the fill on your trade , or b) lower your ask price if selling under time deadline. Analogously for buy orders.

The only parties with semi-global visibility are prime brokers by definition; they see every position of everyone who custodies with them.

The parties with global visibility of the US market are TRF (trade reporting facility) and those are the only parties who can sort of evaluate the HFT claims without bias or vested interest. Most of the studies in the field have some sort of an angle or vested interest so it’s hard to evaluate the veracity of the claims one way or another.

A counterpoint to HFT is that stock markets existed before the the advent of computers and they had runs, panics and blow ups just like regular markets do now.
Anual revenue is in the ballpark of about $1bn-$5bn.
The expression "move forward" is just an idiom. It's like "circling back" except about the future and with a more forward-thinking can-do and proactive attitude.
You might want to read up on the complex design that went into Athenian democracy - to some extent to ensure that it wasn't just a popularity complex.
I want to love Pocket, but I just can’t. Every time I open it, all I see is a lot of work that past me wanted future me to do. I’ve stopped using it because I’m trying to be kinder to future me.
In Eastern Europe, those metaphors sound like "the final solution to the Jewish problem" sounds to western audiences.

I mean, just look at it:

>> Russia is restoring its unity - the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe of our history, its unnatural dislocation, have been overcome.

Adjusted for the sensitivities of western audiences:

>> Germany is restoring its unity - the tragedy of 1918, this terrible catastrophe of our history, its unnatural dislocation, have been overcome.

The subtext is abundantly clear.
Astrobin is an amazing resource. Like Flickr for astronomers

https://www.astrobin.com/search/?d=i

It's amazing what some people are able to do with relatively modest (and not-so-modest) equipment.
I was talking with a Bahraini acquaintance who was an admirer of Iran, debating various electoral systems.

Him: "Iran is a democracy."

Me: "Not fully, because the Guardian Council reserves the right to decide who can run."

Him: "Well, you can't have some sheepherder become president."

I thought about that for a long time. And still am.

--

At its core, I think there can only be two unforgivable sins barring anyone from electability.

1 - There must always be as unbiased of an election process as possible, so that candidates can most clearly be judged on their merits and platforms.

2 - There cannot be any intent to change or remove the election process.

Other than that, let sheepherders compete fairly! But there are many world leaders of "democratic" countries that fail that test, precisely because they have mettled with one of those two principles: Xi, Putin, Orban, Erdogan.

Transgressions can be of greater or lesser severity, but at the end of the day any level of transgression should be unacceptable.

An authoritarian who submits to regular democratic elections is much less of a threat than one who removes that check.
Hallucinating, lying. What difference does it make when it's giving you an inaccurate, possibly made up explanation of an API?
I think you've just proven my point.
AI companies is a stupid argument. If the AI company operates legitimately, then TOS prohibiting using the content for LLM training purposes would be enough. If the AI company doesn’t want to play ball then restricting public access won’t stop them, they’ll just register accounts en-masse and scrape that way.
> Coding is a tool to get stuff done.

Sure, that’s one of its roles. Racket helps me think. Maybe I’m lucky, and work on genuinely novel problems where a malleable language beats libraries.

So, sure, the Racket ecosystem leaves much to be desired, but getting stuff done is only one of programming’s roles.
Nicely done! Any idea what the field of view is?
I’m not active on social media for the most part, and have to remind people not to send me links to sites that require a login (Pinterest for example). I don’t have a Twitter account, but there were accounts I liked to browse occasionally. In the months before the Musk takeover, Twitter kept coming up with new things that you couldn’t do without logging in. Finally, it was completely unusable. One of the earlier easy wins Musk made was undoing all of that. Now, on top of everything else he’s managed to spectacularly torpedo, we’re back to this.
Digital staging always looks a little off though. Also, open houses. If planning on an open house, which can be very beneficial, paying for staging may be worth it. Was for me at least.
> I think this misses the point entirely.

No it doesn't miss any point entirey.

I said

> But yeah, we need to rethink certain police protocols as well...
I interpret that more as banning all of the shadier situations like the mattress companies that own “independent” mattress review sites.
Excellent point! If 100% of Americans (and the EC as well of course) voted to make King Charles President, he still wouldn't be, since he's ineligible by law. That also would defy the will of the people but I think most of us are okay with that.
I’m not sure how it would all work out. But let’s start where we are now with search engines.

Remove the ads and make people pay to use them beyond some number of queries a month. This alone gets rid of the problem of the platform intentionally shoving ads down your throat.

Find a shitty website that SEO’d it’s way to the top and got through the cat and mouse game? Then allow people to blacklist websites so they stop appearing in results. Then as the provider investigate and downrank sites that people downrank and block often.

Maybe also preferentially treat companies that don’t load their own sites with other people’s ads and tracking scripts. Oh and tell the user how many of those trackers exist on the site.

This obviously don’t solve the problem of companies pushing ads onto you. But it:

1. Sets up your information provider to not be the biggest and worse ad pusher of them all.

2. It gives people the tools to start penalizing bad content and ads and to outright block them from their results.

This alone, I strongly believe, would be a great improvement.
Couldn’t Amazon just remove all reviews from their site entirely? I’m sure sales would take a hit, but they could just point to the FTC rule and say “our hands are tied! No more reviews!”

I think a lot of people would continue buying lots of stuff from Amazon. They’d just have to do their product research elsewhere.
I've definitely seen critical info communicated either only on Twitter, or first on Twitter and only much later elsewhere. Not sure if it was alerts ("chemical plant on fire, close windows") or crisis communication ("emergency water supplies being distributed at Foo street"), but it was a case of "use Twitter or suffer serious consequences".

Stuff like "public transit line 17 out of service" being announced only on Twitter is completely par for the course.
> But from a working-with-other people perspective, imagine opening some code and finding random invented constructs you have to reverse engineer and step through

This feels just like working with another API to me. Macros can be arbitrarily complicated I suppose, but is the typical usage any more complex than learning an API? I don't really know, I guess, but my experience hasn't shown this to be that challenging.

I can appreciate that programming languages are ultimately codifying a particular way to think about computation, and macros express more idiosyncratic ways of thinkingabout comouting that may not be readily understandable.

I do think Racket has issues, but this isn't the first one I would cite.
I need an "I Survived the Syndication Format Wars" t-shirt.
Can your boss ask about your personal life?
GPT4GEO: How a Language Model Sees the World's Geography
We'll probably see a comeback once the LLM craze has blown over. So, 5-10 years
In a democracy, the only way forward from a democracy, legally speaking, is through laws. Specifically a new constitution.
And the constitution (at least in Brazil) is very clear on what happens of you try to depose the democracy by force.
While I was laid off and looking for work, I connected with a cryptocurrency market making firm that had access to a private broker feed which is not attached to any matching, so would occasionally go crossed and offer a pure arb opportunity for the same pairs. I had done some algo trading with Java in Kospi 200 options in 2011-2012 so I decided to put together a simple bot for them to try and grab the crossed markets when they occur. Even an incredibly simple trade like this requires quite a lot of work to get the risk management in place. I also took it as a chance to catch up on new Java features since I had been out of that ecosystem for awhile.

It did successfully grab the arbs but there wasn't enough juice to justify more work on it and I got a job in the meantime, so I open sourced the whole thing: https://github.com/abissell/cempaka
> Also, doing a rewrite into an Ml style language is really strange when they should probably be trying to become more competitive with other languages by building more batteries for it or fixing fundamental problems that were outlined here.

From what I know, Rhombus and Racket are parallel, mutually-beneficial projects. The development of Rhombus has contributed smaller features into Racket, while showcasing Racket's capability for language development. Rhombus is, in a sense, filling in gaps that Racket may be missing.
"The Wall Street Journal reports that the bearer wishes to remain anonymous, but multiple resellers are already offering millions to buy it."

Uh huh. Why am I reminded of the WATA Games and Heritage Auctions pump and dump scams for video games when a sealed copy of Mario 64 allegedly sold for a million dollars?
I’m a radiographer, but haven’t done CT in a long time.

These look cleaned up, as the metal artifact from dense things is minimal.

I’ve scanned things then converted the Dicom file into a format suitable for printing (I’d broken a part of a coffee grinder). These images look like the item when moves to a 3D print in format.

Side story: finding out what’s inside things is what CT is for. We used to scan the chip packets before loading them into the vending machine. We sort out the ones with prizes inside.
I was thinking this but how the same 2-3 vpn providers own all the vpn review websites
Pre Covid standard payments were made so this is bringing things back to a pre Covid level.

Post Covid there was a significant rise in inflation ( ppp loans / money supply / student loan debt)

I’d assume this starting will reduce inflation by pulling money out of consumer spending.

I don’t believe student loan debt is the cause of inflation, and the ppp forgiveness is likely a larger forgiveness than student load debt.
I’m actually interested in this story if you wouldn’t mind expounding
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Rust is a terrible first language for someone trying to learn programming
And adblocking will just counter them back.

By your standards, Google is acting even more juvenile. It will not defeat or reduce adblocking and will likely alienante paying customers. It's less than pointless.
I suppose they would be required to work with an independent 3rd party that would manage the reviews. A little bit similar to the Credit Rating companies.

IMHO it could be a good, kind of, separation of responsibility.
Back when you needed to swipe that magnetic stripe the Amex one was different and required a special reader that almost no one in europe had. Except maybe tourist traps.

Not sure how it works now if Amex has discovered chips and contactless. The payment processors probably still need a separate path for Amex and I haven't seen that logo in a lot of places that do display visa and mc. So maybe it's still only available in tourist traps.
I don't think you're wrong, this change was widely advertised in 2020:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube...

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2475463?hl=en-GB

That said, I checked the parent's video, watching it all the way though... and I also didn't see any ad (and I even watched it on my Chromecast, which usually triggers a lot more ads on Youtube, which is a reason why I never use it for Youtube, but only for Netflix, Disney+, etc.)

I assume that ads might be shown, but only rarely. Probably Youtube wants to run them, to have the flexibility to recoup on some of the infra costs for videos which wouldn't otherwise earn revenue (i.e. they aim net zero for non monetized videos... but this is my speculation)
Just wait til the psychopathic gamers often behind SWATTING learn to automate the process with AI chat-bots running on carded VPSes and VOIP services
I've never needed to add "reddit" to my searches to find the things I'm seeking. Maybe the difference is in the sorts of things we search for? Or maybe the difference is that I don't use Google?
The current situation is literally the BOTTOM of a slippery slope.
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Apple documentation said photos stored in iCloud. Synced photos are stored in iCloud. And they told people to turn off iCloud Photos to avoid it. Not not share.
I have an argument:

They made people to expect stuff for free. It was their market strategy to offer basically free service to get people locked in. It is their fault they should pay for it.

It is called bait and switch which is a blatant fraud. Only that they stretched it into long years.

Now they switch by introducing pains option and making free one unusable by shoving ads every minute.
Nice. Now this is quality content. GJ
Is it even fair to call them packages? It’s a slightly more convenient method of repo sub modules, but there isn’t any object reuse or sharing outside of a workspace.
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies [pdf]
Interesting that this seminal book is to be found on the CIA website, of all places.
Is it really a mistake to take your government at their word? Probably, yes. In this case, the actors likely knew they did not have the authority to unilaterally pursue this policy in a durable manner. It was misleading from the get.
I wrote nearly all of macros in Bun over a year ago, when Bun was in private beta. We just never documented it or talked about it much

Our focus is very much on Node.js compatibility
My professor for "Programming Language Concepts" was a contributor to Racket and it was center stage of the class. He did his lectures in DrRacket. He did a great job building up from principles to explain things, but was also very opinionated and had very high standards for homework. It was a tough class for me.
When reading your replies I choose to think that “gits” is hacker news slang for using git to check out the source code, patch the offending behaviour, and compile it yourself.
A) for a long time most of them did not provide an option to pay to remove ads.

B) Many of these companies have such large content hosting fees because of the very nature they chose to set up under. For example: YouTube chose to centralize and host all of the videos itself, and it chose to continue pursuing that route rather than experiment with technologies that could distribute that load and make their server costs significantly decrease. Why? Because it gives them a choke point with which they can extract money and leverage over everyone else.

Further, just like I don’t have a right to tell Facebook how their computers should run, they don’t have a right to tell me what my computer has to display.
Where does one start working as a paid reviewer anyways?
I know, it's not a huge deal, but buying a separate dock, or dealing with yet another thing to charge all the time is annoying. So personally I prefer longer battery life over a bunch of fancy features that are likely only going to be used in Playstation exclusives.