skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but if you combine the overall time and market-share advantage due to the non-compete, golden handcuffs/earn-out clauses and non-hireaway, the acquirer gets a big first-mover advantage.

I wondered why noone else had since tried to do a book discovery engine at an industrial-scale to compete with Amazon.
Here's one 2019 list of book-discovery sites:
"Broke By Books: 20 Great Book Websites for Finding What to Read Next" [0]

and here's one analysis [1] of the key things Goodreads added value for Amazon: Kindle integration (social, ratings), a storefront that lets them push Kindle as the preferred version for purchases (or else Audible, or Prime and Kindle Unlimited subscription programs), data that can be mined from user reviews and ratings to power ML for better recommendations, understanding users' book- and reading-habits, rich content to increase interaction and hold user attention...

I also wondered why the Goodreads cofounders hadn't gone and founded other companies, in other sectors.

But essentially Amazon dwarfed other online book retailers, then moved on to much bigger and more profitable sectors (Kindle, digital music, streaming, Alexa, AWS itself, and tons more).

[0]: https://brokebybooks.com/20-great-book-websites-for-finding-...

[1]: "Who owns Goodreads?" https://bookriot.com/who-owns-goodreads/
They are very reasonable and they solve a real problem. A big corp won’t use a library from a tiny 1-5 person shop if when they get acquired or go under the library dies and all they ever got was binaries. A source available license solves this because the big corp knows they can maintain the library themselves in that case.
> this article says the humans

the way you referred to us as "the humans" is slightly unsettling.
Plausible is OK but needs work. For example it isn't even multi lingual.
> The two most popular game engines, Unreal and Unity, are decisively non-ECS for almost everything they do.

Unity is promoting Data-Oriented Technology Stack which includes ECS. They even made some tools to help translate between Gameobject based workflows and ECS based workflows.
Such a good comment. Thank you for providing that.
Well, the author mostly complains about lack of funding for maintaining the library, making bug fixes and adding new features. So I think that's OK?
Recently there was an article here on HN declaring that LCDs are on their way out now in favor of OLED. That doesn't seem true at all for the monitor market. The author doesn't even mention that both monitors are LCDs.
I've bought 6 RGB Led lights in 2015 and I have yet to change them. I use them all over my home on the daily with no issues, meanwhile I used to replace 1-2 incandescent bulbs per year at least.
Dreadfully precise match already on the first try. I uploaded a photo of me from 1996. Three decades ago, with a considerably changed facial hair. And the first hit is the photo of my current workplaces contact page, taken some months ago.
Well, they might end up paying fines by the billions pretty soon. And of course, Meta has share holders and those might actually start caring when that becomes a regular thing on their books. I don't know. The EU can always just keep on increasing the fines until it hurts enough.
Yeah, I do get the EEE angle people are worried about but that should really be halted from the Extend phase onwards if and when it comes up, otherwise people are just going to use the popular one - which will be Threads. It will start with an established userbase. It will start with the marketing Meta can throw at it.

Nobody outside of the HN crowd gives half a fluff about distributed social. They'll use the one that lets them interact with people they know. If that means they can talk cross-instance, sweet, they will. If they can't, Mastodon and ActivityPub in general continues to be a pain that the majority wont bother with.

If that's Mastodon's goal, fair enough. I think it's a bad goal.
Underrated comment. In the old days, car magazines had ads for cars, fishing magazines had ads for fishing gear, food magazines had ads for cooking ware and so on. You can actually have ads tailored after the content of the page you are looking at. You don't have to stalk and track users.
I've not seen anyone mention this yet, but: UK twitter is laughing at "Threads" because it's also the title of a notorious made-for-TV horror film about nuclear war https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/

> There's massive pent-up demand for an alternative

I'm not quite convinced by this; I think there's demand for things to go back how they were, but that's unsmashing the glass and is fundamentally impossible. Everyone seems to be resentfully clinging to the sinking platform until they hit a "f you I quit" moment, such as being rate-limited or their favourite account being deleted without warning.
From the paper[1] referenced by TFA:

> In brief, our proposal is that psychedelics disrupt functioning at a level of the system (sensitivity of deep-layer pyramidal neurons, power of low-frequency rhythms, and integrity of large-scale networks) that encodes the precision of priors, beliefs, or assumptions.

As SSC point out, this idea isn't really new with this paper. SSC cite "Mad Science Blog" and the Qualia Research Institute as precursors, but perhaps a better example would be renegade computational neurobiologist Andrew Gallimore.

Gallimore has a 45 part course[2] up on Youtube which, after providing an overview of the neurobiology of the predictive coding[3] model of the brain for context, delves into the detail of psychedelics' action on pyramidal neurons giving a picture so consonant with the Relaxed beliefs paper's (less biologically detailed) proposal that it's somewhat surprising his name doesn't get a mention.

The main takeaway from the predictive coding model for this purpose is that most of the information flow in the cortex is top-down, from a world-model (analogous to an ANN model) implemented in the neural structure of the cortex, downwards towards lower-level neurons in "deeper" cortical layers. The world we experience flows from the model rather than directly bottom-up from sensory input, as we might naively expect.

Data flowing downwards from the higher-level model to deeper layers appears as a set of predictions to be compared to sensory data arriving at the same layers from the bottom upwards.

Divergences between sensory data and the model's predictions then serve as a corrective signal, fed upwards back to the model, in a constantly running training cycle.

When additional divergences are introduced by the neurobiological impact of psychedelics, Gallimore theorizes, the model reorganizes in an effort to restore predictive efficacy, experienced as the characteristic perceptual and cognitive distortions of the psychedelic experience. The longer term effects of the disruption seem analogous, perhaps, to pushing the an ANN model out of its local minima.

For an in-at-the-deep-end look at Gallimore's neurobiological overview of how psychedelic action on pyramidal cells disrupts the training cycle see[4] though it relies heavily on context established by the previous 35 episodes.

1: https://pharmrev.aspetjournals.org/content/71/3/316

2: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbqdD4EM-aEfmLvbWu8GQ...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding

4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L45A6XlPRM0&list=PLbqdD4EM-a...
HN-GPT? /s
Let me put it in another way: there's no "credit card payment system" for payments over the internet. There's Visa, MasterCard, whatever other "card" system. Those don't just facilitate payments for credit cards, but also for other kinds of "cards", which, in my experience, are no less common. Talking about paying by card over the internet doesn't make sense without considering that hordes of people don't use credit cards for that.
Discussed the other day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36549299
LGPL is compatible even closed source. From https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html (and be sure to check the title of the page)

"using the Lesser GPL permits use of the library in proprietary programs"

so it's going to be OK even in BSD and other permissive licenses.
Even that won't be guaranteed to work. Bash is forever stuck on an ancient version on macOS, because Apple doesn't want to touch GPLv3 code. At some point they switched to zsh for the default shell.
The heading seems very strong considering this is a governmental agency and since they audited a "version of Google Analytics from 14th of August 2020" and presumably not GA4 that works differently.
For B2C and B2b (small b):

.com >> .co >> .app >> .ai >> .io

For B2B:

.com >> .co >> .ai >> .io

For B2D:

.com >> .ai >> .io >> .app >> .co

;)
It can be true for specific websites. And while it won't fool dedicated users, it can be good enough to convince casual users and poorly informed investors.
Saudi Arabia doesn't care about Muslims and Yada Yada. If they did, where's the outcry over Uighurs and what not? Saudi Arabia just cares about one thing and that's securing the interests of the royal Al Saud family.
This case is about the old Analytics that was replaced with Google Analytics 4 in 2020. So they must stop using a version that Google definitely killed July 1 this year.

There are arguments that GA4 would fail the same requirements. Denmark hold that view but it hasn't been tried. Their argument is that a EU-citizen that goes to Asia and visits a site there, will have his information sent to US servers and not EU servers. I find this argument objectively absurd considering how internet works but it possible that's how the law works. We wouldn't know before it has been tried though and I'd be sceptical about anyone claiming to know the result.
Looks neat. How well does it make "smart" selectors like text contents contains"login" instead of a mess like //a/div[1]/span[3]?
It wasn't his, you answered to someone else.

It's funny that under "maybe it was an example of nobody reading shit all" there is a comment where someone didn't read the nickname and thought he's answering to the anectdote's poster comment :D
"can't be fixed without breaking ABI" sounds plausible for C++.

There's generally not all that much stdc++ specific optimisation stuff in clang. There might be parts of regex that are worth implementing as compiler intrinsics, that seems to be the existing pattern for making bits much faster.

The really heavy lifting you want for regex is to partially evaluate and split them. They're a separate language unto themselves and benefit from being optimised as such. There's nowhere ideal in the clang/llvm pipeline to do that though.
The disappointingly ongoing success of WvDial (2009)
Discussed extensively in the last few days (>1000 comments across the threads, though it looks like they got mostly merged to a single megathread):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36517238

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36535417

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36538577

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36530393

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36526224
should have not showed up when asked 1/month.

...and they say the slippery slope is a fallacy
Whatever do you mean? licks eyeball
GDPR is not about cookies or local storage. It's about knowing users' personal data and doing things with it.
Is that just down to frame of reference, i.e. the difference between the solar day and the sidereal day?
For a library like libjpeg-turbo, it's probably best that it stays in maintenance mode.

I mean... it's JPG. It's the traditional lossy image format that everyone's been using since forever, and that hasn't received any changes. It also shouldn't receive any changes, as its big advantage is its compatibility. If you want something better, you'd use other formats like avif.

I'm all for paying open source maintainers, and this guy should receive money so he can continue to fix bugs and do other minor maintenance work. But I don't see why there should be new features in the default jpg library.
A lot of LGBT twitter tribe are not going to move to a site where they have to post under their government name, for their own safety.

(A very important axis for social networks is the "IRL or not" one; Facebook and Linkedin are "IRL", Twitter and Mastodon are very definitely not. Which way is Threads going to go?)
Reddit has a lot of value, just not people who can utilize it. Anonymous nature of Reddit doesn't matter when you have Meta's cookies while accessing it. Content is also nicely categorized so they can easily push, for example, insurance and credit card ads on r/PersonalFinance. It is pretty wild that Mark Zuckerberg is the only person to figure out how to make money off of social media after more than 20 years of social media existing.
Should have called it coroutines
They're not complaining, they're asking a question.
Maybe save the indignation for when someone actually advocates for what you're describing? GP didn't say anything in that regard. Can you not handle any small criticism of our current system?
Anti-Intellectualism in the Restaurant Industry
But conversely, if you are designing a website where I will likely need to consult information or enter information whilst also using another site, it'd be great if your site could be accessed in a 'tall-and-thin' format.

One of the most effective ways I have found to work is having windows open on the same monitor next to each other in a vertical tiling - almost as if they were two physical documents.
It is simply measured in Kelvin.

Kelvin is the standard unit for temperature, 0 Kelvin is the absolute zero point. Each step is the same size as a degree Celsius, but there are no "degrees".

Edit: remove assertion that the scale does not go into negative, because physics.
Recently

Why there may never be a libjpeg-turbo 3.1 -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36583406 - 2 hours ago (50 comments)

libjpeg-turbo 3.0 has been released, and why there may never be a 3.1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36579517 - 11 hours ago (27 comments)
> I do not understand the complaints about pixel density. The display is 223 ppi, which is the same or slightly higher than Apple displays. I am using them in a dual display configuration

I don't even understand all this ppi hype, nor even dual displays anymore. I always used dual-triple displays in the past but nowaways I just bought a single table-size (49-inch or something like that) 4k display and put it right in front of my desk just to use it in a plain old 100% mode (no "hi-dpi" scaling, just tweaked some font sizes in editors' configs). This way it effectively replaces 4 displays with a single seamless space - no additional frames, no constraints, almost no head turning, beautiful tiling (when on Windows - PowerToys' FancyZones are great).
Hey thanks! So happy to hear that ^_^
Somehow, I needed that blast from the past!
Proton (https://proton.me/) | Switzerland/EU | Remote/Hybrid | Full-time | Python Engineer (VPN Linux client)

Proton VPN is composed of a distributed global infrastructure of VPN servers, and a set of clients for each major platform. You would be joining the Linux Proton VPN Client Team, to take part in the development of the Proton VPN Linux Desktop client for all the major Linux distributions. As a Software Engineer, with your technical expertise, your main responsibility will be to contribute to the development of new features, setting up the CI/CD or even building new testing pipelines. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Within the Linux Team, you will collaborate with fellow Linux developers, QA engineers, Product Manager and Customer Support to develop the Linux client.

The Linux development team is distributed, around central European time-zone.

https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/proton/jobs/4140067101
TI C62xx and C64xx DSPs don't understand 8 bit bytes at all and everything was at least 16 bit. There was no uint8_t there, char is 16 bits etc.
This surprises me. In Australia, the way I was taught to park an auto was:

* Apply the brake (the pedal)

* Place the transmission into park

* While the brake pedal is still pressed, apply the handbrake

* Release the brake pedal.

This means the car is held in place by the handbrake with the transmission park as a backup, rather than the transmission park being the only thing holding the car.

Bonus: if you park on a slope, turn the wheels towards the pavement so that if the car starts moving, it will hit the pavement edge instead of running straight down the road.
WIN32_EXTRA_LEAN != WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
Someone needs to create a browser that parses and displays every website in a format that I request.

My preferred format would probably be:

- answer to the title / synopsis

- the article, without ads, using the site’s style
Of course, but aside from standardisation defined details, it also depends on your compiler's standard library implementation, and those are not all made equal, especially if you've got to build something both for Windows and Linux.
You're disgusted by the result of your own imagination about what I didn't actually write.
Prude may be an unfair complaint. Being okay with the existence of pornography doesn't mean you want to see it all the time.
A philosophical challenge to utilitarianism.
from what I can tell, everyone thinks people are just wheelbarrowing bundles of cash in corrupt foreign countries while their own country has a convoluted legal process that is therefore different and okay.

while in reality a lot of other countries have some form of codified legal process that makes "money to one guy for a favorable regulatory environment" possible too.
> Their argument is that a EU-citizen that goes to Asia and visits a site there, will have his information sent to US servers and not EU servers.

Agreed, this is absolutely ridiculous. And I say this as an EU resident! I’d rather NOT have websites start checking residency/citizenship to decide my data ownership.
> According to the data protection regulation, GDPR, personal data may be transferred to third countries, i.e. countries outside the EU/EEA, if the European Commission has decided that the country in question has an adequate level of protection for personal data that corresponds to that within the EU/EEA. However, the CJEU ruled through the Schrems II ruling that the United States could not be considered to have such an adequate level of protection at the time of the ruling.

- European Court of Justice (CJEU)

I always thought that by asking for permission in the privacy statement, and in the cookie banner analytics cookies are also explicit usually, it would be OK.

But indeed, even if you refuse the analytics cookies (I do that automatically, who doesn't?), that still does not stop the website from transferring PII to google analytics. I am assuming that here, not a user of analytics, but i suppose it will still work without cookies, maybe just a little less accurate.
This is true not just for analytics but pretty much all features.

Imagine you are a great speaker and instructor and have an audience. Right now you GIFT it to YouTube, Twitter, etc. and they monetize it for you, give you a tiny percentage, and even constantly direct your audience to competitors and other distractions. In fact YouTube even sells an option to advertise your videos on your competitor’s videos!

I say — opt out. Run your own everything! Your own community software (instead of Discord). Your own videoconferencing, livestreaming, chats, presentations, gated content, accept payments with crypto in addition to PaymentRequest. It’s hard to build an open-source alternative that is good enough (no, Mastodon and Bluesky aren’t — yet).

Which is why (shameless plug warning) I spent 12 years and $1 million dollars with my team to build it. https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

Use it — as 1 of hundreds of features, you can have your own analytics on your own database on your own community site. The other features are here: https://qbix.com/features.pdf

PS: Don’t get me wrong. Keep using YouTube to host your content, etc. But relegate it to hosting short form teasers and highlights and testimonials all of which link to your site. People can discover you on the big sites but if they are serious about your long-form content and community they should buy a membership on YOUR site and have a direct relationship — then deplatforming or coersion will be the last of your worries.
Also
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36551320

And a couple days before that... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36523774
> Should be GDPR compliant since they don't use cookies or local storage.

That’s not how it works. If there’s personal data being transferred to the US, you are in violation according to the Schrems II ruling. If you only collect non-PII, you should be fine.
Make sure though that your definition of PII matches the regulator‘s definition.
Indeed. For evidence as to how ‘well’ that would work, look at the music industry.

I don’t think software is different enough from music to make a difference.
He is actually hoping for 10% and would agree for may be 9.5%. He knew if he asks 10% you'll down him to 8-5.
I might be wrong though. Actually I'm most probably wrong ... You need to talk and trade with the guy. Ask him why is he asking for 12%? How does he feels about the product and his possible income if it is 12%? Is this number somewhat "i feel like it" or there a reasonable explanation for this particular number.
Rereading it now seems like "companies" in the heading only refers to the three fined companies and that the decision may be applicable to other companies.
I had Google One and domain services on payment. Didn't want to risk disruption by cancelling credit card and didn't know if changing credit # card whether youtube would automatically use new payment method. Basically have too much of life tied up in the ecosystem to risk even more damage over ~20 dollars a month. Let alone potentially get on some litigation shit list if I took them to court.

Also can't remove credit card because you need some sort of valid default payment. Ended up setting up a gift card as backup payment for other services, then changed credit card number. Thankfully youtube didn't use other services backup payment method, and basically they cancelled account after no pay.

It's bizarre (infuriating) a paid account can't get in person service. It's bizarre paying for Google One for in person service doesn't extend to youtube. But yeah rough lesson to learn. Still stuck in Google ecosystem due to reasons, but have more frequent / redundant backups. Meanwhile, shameless use of adblock & sponsorblock for youtube.
Option 1 is definitely true, but I don't think paywalls are the issue. Bing has a "work search" option, to index and search sharepoint sites. My bet is there's a leak between public and private search.
There isn't a real alternative that does what Amazon does here.
>The dead internet theory is a creepypasta-tier belief

Sure, but how long until it becomes objectively true?
The greenwashing here is burning my eyes

> A huge phosphate rock deposit discovered in Norway contains enough minerals to meet the global demand for batteries and solar panels for the next 100 years, according to the mining company that controls it.

90% of mined phosphates are used for fertilizer and pollution of waterways with it is a growing problem, but the mining company PR firm is telling us about electric cars and solar panels.

This is similar to discovering a massive new oil field, and telling the world that it'll help with electric cars because they all have plastic components.
Thank you! Very interesting, indeed.
I think the IG graph is more similar to the Twitter graph than the FB graph. Also, IG has much more of a “cool factor” which they’re hoping Threads will inherit.

I follow my grandparents on FB, and I don’t necessarily want that on my Threads.
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