skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It only makes sense if you consider that the end all be all to target your customer. Maybe late night television ads are even more effective than google searches, because they are cheaper than prime time slots and are perhaps enriched for people with poor sleep. Maybe right now some subreddit is shilling mattress penny stocks and that is masking the true signal from your internet search data. You have no way of knowing that though, because you’ve reduced all of reality down to a single factor, an internet search, without considering how much of the observed variance could even be explained by this factor nor how the results might be confounded with other factors.
So… you can do more, faster, for longer, then?

Sounds like a good argument for upgrading
HostWell data talks about occupancy of individual units. That tells nothing about total number of bookings. Supply of AirBnb units has been increasing faster than demand. That's why occupancy is decreasing. It doesn't show decrease demand for AirBnb.

As far as AirDNA data I'm not sure whether they are talking about total nights stayed or something else. But I can certainly believe it's 30% below pre-pandemic levels. Chinese tourist flow hasn't recovered. That alone may account for most of the decrease vs 2019.
For OPs use-case which is mainly writing articles, reading and such - an older laptop will work fine. Especially when powered from A/C.

My MacBook Pro 2014 base model can still hold a candle to MacBook Air M1 for general use (even dev work to an extent), and that’s saying something. It’s slower, but doesn’t feel 9-years-old slow - if you know what I mean. It doesn’t drive me nuts to use it and I can be productive on it (my daily driver is a MacBook Pro M1 with 64GB RAM and I own a MacBook Air M1, so I speak from experience).

Also, we already do this for cars (used cars market is huge), so why not laptops. In fact, with cars - there are arguably stronger reasons to go with newer tech (safety, automatic cruise control) than with a newer laptop.
Fluency Trumps Speed
> I think it’s rather unlikely for someone to live till 20 without making more distance.

poverty.
Twitter go boom, bluesky announces namecheap integration, threads launches, etc. Its currently relevant for those interested in the next stable state after all this dust settles.
> The main product AFAICS is virtue signaling.

Friendly reminder that people do care about things you don't care about. Claims of virtue signaling say more about you than them, quite frankly. And really, you should care about the massive amount of e-waste generated every year.
> If courageous Ukrainians make it there, Russian soldiers will send in drones and artillery. All the while Russia’s army—which excels at jamming and GPS spoofing—is working to take out Ukrainian drones.

actually i saw plenty of complaints from russian side that when they start jamming they can't operate their own equipment (drones, radio)

on same topic, recently one of Ukrainians blogs write that they started to make suicide drones with SDR that tries to lock on jamming source and blow it up
If every popular app left iOS then yes I think you’d see a max exodus to android.
Really? It's 25€ a year for me, maybe depends on the location (I'm in Hungary) https://files.catbox.moe/dhq7ne.png
Zooming out the ant colony is almost like a life form with individual ants as cells.

I sometimes wonder about whether humans are a cell-like life-form for our larger civilizations and whether any civilization has consciousness of some sort.
For certain definitions of simple. I don’t think it’s a particular useful word because you can use it to justify almost anything.
The failure rate of CPUs could go up 10x and it would still be a rounding error when quantifying what causes laptops to be decommissioned.
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-is-an-ad-company-now/
> > This will be an opt-in feature by building the interpreter using `--disable-gil`. The PEP is currently targeted at Python 3.13.

> In practice it's likely to end up being either a fork or a mode you have to switch on/off, both of which would be miserable for everyone.

Yep. That's the plan.
This isn't legal/enforceable in California. Your own work on your own time on your own equipment is your own property. It's messier if you're building a direct competitor or using proprietary knowledge.

There's a whole Silicon Valley episode on this.
The heat and constant fan noise was a real problem.

That's the entire reason we upgraded my wife from a 2015 15" MBP i7 to a 2020 MBA M1. The extra hours of battery was a nice bonus, the main gain was the lack of noise.
Contrary to the belief that advertising is less data-driven, the complexity and dependency on feature-rich data sets has increased over time. Redundant targeting sometimes happens due to the ad objective of maximizing expected revenue over cost. However, it's more nuanced in practice.

Advertisers aim to optimize expected revenue over cost within a 'payback period', which is typically 1-3 years for large advertisers. This is calculated through customer acquisition cost, retention, and incrementality (the probability of an ad causing conversion).

Only advertisers themselves can effectively calculate incrementality due to access to their specific conversion/retention metrics. This incrementality, along with the optimal mix of channels and ad spend, is the ongoing challenge for sophisticated advertisers. It involves multi-objective optimization across millions of ad assets, campaigns, and targeting criteria.

Privacy regulations since 2015 and subsequent laws like GDPR and CCPA have led to more reliance on probabilistic modeling for targeting. The entire pipeline of targeting, engagement, conversion, and retention forecasts are now based on probabilistic models.

While ad networks offer simplified scaling solutions like 'target roas' and 'campaign budget optimization', they're more useful for average advertisers with limited internal resources - eg, they can't justify hiring ML SWEs, quant traders, technical PMs, etc.

Advertising has become even more data-driven and arbitrage gains for sophistication have increased. Profound gains can be made with investments in marketing and forecasting science, similar to the operations of a quant trading firm.

Source: I've managed $10B+ through automated ad spend systems since 2012.
Shame that iVentoy is not open source, but I understand that the author of Ventoy needs a revenue stream for producing such useful software.
From another human is hard, but I've been on a couple of solo hikes. Overall, the feeling of isolation hits for me at frequency of human detection rather than distance, i.e. when I can see no human and nothing built with human hands for a while. Volcanic craters on rainy days are a good place since you can see all around you and it's wilderness so you can get a good idea that no one's in the crater with you and the jungle obscures the rest.

Especially now, with my girlfriend I think in the last year I have not been more than 100 m from the nearest human. Maybe riding my bike back from SF's business district, but those have security guards in them, so realistically 20 m.
I have found a beautiful beginner book "High-Level Languages and Their Compilers" by Des Watson and I want to run all that examples which are given mostly on Pascal.
I know a guy from a small city in Morocco who is paid considerably more than his colleagues simply because he is efficient, delivers and he'll be hard to replace if he would move on. All those points are powerful when negotiating.

So I don't think it has to do anything with class but attitude and knowing your worth.
I disagree with some of their reasons.

Modern: Object Pascal isn't a modern language. It was modern in 1998, maybe, but it hasn't evolved much since then. Latest big change was the addition of generics, behind almost any other language.

Fast: FPC doesn't generate particularly fast code, and the nature of OP objects doesn't help with locality. It's faster than scripting languages, but generally slower than AOT compiled languages, even those with GC.

On the other hand, the ecosystem is great. There are lots of good libraries and tools (the most remarkable one being Lazarus, the Delphi clone). In my experience, people working with FPC or Delphi don't care much about modernizing the language or things like that, the just get things done (TM). I don't see the language being attractive to new coders though, so I don't know what its future will be...
I've rarely ever seen software talk about its tradeoffs. They want you to use the software.

K8s and react are wildly popular, huge tradeoffs, but mention none of them.
It's a really interesting question: the converse of this is its _really_ tricky nailing all this down, much harder than you'd think -- see the GPT4 GA thread earlier this week for people who swear up and down the OpenAI API acts in bizarre ways, you'll note that it almost seems fantastical that it could be that bizarre: it is fantastical. If you're truly used to it, it reads like "hey I have auto retries enabled in my HTTP client framework. p.s. whats 'context size'?"

But Langchain is far, far, _far_ away from being truly helpful with that. It's glorious that we're 5 months into GPT-4 and most people either got bored or are building on rickety rushed structures in Python to rush out a proof of concept web app.
Call in the eggman
> At what point do battery improvements become completely unnecessary?

A week of heavy CPU/GPU use, on full brightness. We should strive for better. I want to go on a trip without carrying my charger.
As an app developer, I do have a very real problem. I don't want Apple to impose their agenda on me and act like they own the relationship between me and my users. In particular, Apple should have no opinion on what kind of UGC my app contains if it's rated 18+. Apple should also stop protecting their own products by rejecting apps that cut into their market. But of course, Apple would do none of these things voluntarily, so that's where regulators need to step in.

If you want your device to be controlled by Apple, keep installing apps exclusively from the app store when the sideloading inevitably comes. Just like you can already choose to do on macOS.
It might be worth it though because somehow python had ended up being the lingua Franca in a many applications where performance matters a great deal (ML, scientific applications, etc). I don’t think the performance benefits for something deployed at such a large scale should be understated.
first word they use to justify using Pascal is that it's "modern".

Gave a glimpse at the code source screenshot. No, that syntax is very much the past.
Using top down regulation by app stores seems like a better way to deal with the issue of apps refusing to work without a permission that don't really need.
Imagine the amount of needless support requests that will be triggered by people accidentally pressing the wrong thing.
Yes it does prevent taking screenshots of high resolution playback. Your options become low resolution capture or nothing.

High quality captures are still possible if you connect an external capture device coupled with something that provides the necessary drm authentication or you need a software based drm defeat.

Neither are “trivial” as you say.
some shows are not in an language i understand, while others have an mumbling original speaker and the speaker for my native language is bad, so i use subtitles. I usually use them when i need them.
They sell their own form of ads IIRC. But if the relationship between Google and apple soured, this would be a good FU apple could implement.

Microsoft could do this too but I guess the data is worth more than the customer gratitude.
C'mon folks! MOD THIS UP

This is the lead author of the majorly potential impacted extension!
I like my framework and the 2 mini pc made from upgrading the internals. The slots are pass through thunderbolt 4 just like laptops with only USB’s ports. Not sure why they offended you. Get 4 usbc inserts and pretend they aren’t changeable if that’ll calm you down.
Battery life does suck though I’ll give you that. It’s good overall at the cost though
that used to be the case, but they discontinued iAd [1] about 7 years ago

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAd
“Just one lock” is kind of misleading if decades of software has accumulated that is predicated on its existence
So actually a matter of lack of unique id (and a properly registered address), then. Huh.
Yes, but the specific terms and conditions are not specified and you have to fall back on general law instead of contract enforcement.
-u flag is short for --user ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42988977/what-is-the-pur... )

how about when you are authoring script under your name, but then want to schedule it for cron to run periodically?

I often find myself working under my user on remote server, but then I want to schedule cron job - and run into all sorts of permissions / bugs and missing packages.

especially when multiple machines need to run this script, and I don't want to involve containers to run 20-lines simple python script.

this is why Golang is so popular - you can just scp a single binary across machines and it will just work.
i also found a selling points blurb on website[https://www.automotivelinux.org/]

'What is Automotive Grade Linux?

Automotive Grade Linux is a collaborative open source project that is bringing together automakers, suppliers and technology companies to accelerate the development and adoption of a fully open software stack for the connected car. With Linux at its core, AGL is developing an open platform from the ground up that can serve as the de facto industry standard to enable rapid development of new features and technologies.'

1]fully open software stack for the connected car

2]Linux at its core

3]open platform from the ground up

4]serve as the de facto industry standard
> But I haven’t seen anyone saying that life was better in the Roman Empire, ever.

There's an entire meme format to this effect ("R E T V R N", imitating Latin engravings.)
The Vision Pro claims it can scan a face/person and use the digitized likeness as an avatar.

No need for an “Avatar 3” — it is fast and relatively cheap compared to the hardware that movie / video game productions already use.
Those employers should be careful. It would be a shame if they bit off more than they could chew and nobody reapplied until certain demands were met.
I'm old enough now to have both been:

- the person rushing to comment about Apple because there's no way Apple would ever do that

- the person complaining about clearly rushed and motivated comments denying something obvious about Apple

Read up here: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-advertisin...
> However, this commitment from Meta,

One core dev for 3 years. Hardly earth-shattering, if compared to the billions poured into JavaScript.
That doesn't make a good story.
Can we get a rule that bans copying and pasting the rules into comments? It’s just noise that lowers the quality of discussion.

And most of the time, the person isn’t even breaking any rules. In this case, I’m pretty sure they were making a joke and didn’t actually think that a longtime HN user was astroturfing
I’d be very surprised if they botched it that hard. It’s in the back of the minds of everybody any time a significant change to Python comes up
Is LinkedIn Premium worth it?

I used it for a while. I don't know that it increased my exposure but it did let me see who was viewing my profile. I eventually cancelled it after deciding to retire but I could see it being useful to people that want to reach out to more companies.
I've released open-source projects under an Apache license because I want others to benefit from my work. I knowingly didn't choose GPL-flavored licenses because they limit people's ability to do this.
This is what happens to slack channels to me. The big reason is lack of actual control over how often my devices ping me and user abuse. I'm curious if others face this because people in my lab do too.

== Slack Bugs ==

Constantly I will get pings despite having had my settings to be "Direct messages, mentions & keywords". Including pings for threads that I never even participated in or were tagged in. Slack will also notify me for channels that are muted and grayed out! So my only real choice is to just kill notifications all together and it fixes most of these problems. But then I don't see any messages unless I see the icon in my dock.

== False Positives/User Abuse ==

Lots of users abuse the @channel (almost never using the @here). My advisor sends tons of irrelevant papers in the main group channel, so I have to ignore or be spammed, but then miss "important" messages. There's something I don't get, it is that people don't seem to understand that you can't send spam and junk from the same location as you send critical information. Spam and junk is more common and you're just teaching users to ignore everything. My Uni does this too and it is infuriating. I know they might think that this gets people to see more of the spam, but it just makes people not see important things.

Slack people: can you fix notifications. Admin/manager people: can you please for the love of god stop spamming channels and chastise anyone who abuses tags everyone unnecessarily? I just want to do my work without getting distracted every 5 minutes. It's akin to someone knocking on my door: I don't know if they just want to chat or need something. This kills productivity.
What makes syntax "modern"?

Power matters more than style.
That would be pretty anti-competitive of them given they would have to unblock their own ads to make money
Linguistic identity as a modulator of gaze cueing of attention
There are problems with robots.txt if you actually try to implement it for a crawler. Consider this scenario:

Allow: /foo
Disallow: /bar

Consider the situation where /foo HTTP 301s to /bar, or 200s but with a canonical location header that is /bar. Do you follow the redirect? Do you index /foo?

In practice it's also often a directory of the paths the website owners don't want eyes to look at. Pretty common to find a list of uncomfortable content, especially on larger websites... like that time the dean of the college praised the philanthropy of Boko Haram. Real OSINT footgun.
That is a poor comparison because its not a comparison with a single variable changed. Kraft and Heinz went from two independent companies to a single one controlled by new ownership engaged in organization-wide cost cutting. The world also did not stand still over that time, it probably also changed in many ways.

Its probably impossibly to conclude with any confidence that the results were simply due to cuts to the ad budget, cuts to the budget and cuts to operations, or simply cuts to operations. Ads are also not commodities. An ads effectiveness is also not the result of pure spend, cheap ads can be very effective and expensive ones can also not be effective and vice versa.
The framework laptops definitely run hot, I gave up on mine because it would overheat several times a day throttling down to 200Mhz. It sits in a box unused now and I consider it ewaste, I don't have the time or patience to bother with it anymore. I reached out to support maybe 6+ months ago but I haven't finished following their instructions because the laptop was just so bad and I wasted so much time dealing with it that I don't care anymore.
> On the other hand, the ecosystem is great.

Hard disagree. I worked with Pascal for about 10 years, and the lack of modern libraries was a source of frequent frustration, meaning we often had to develop the solutions ourselves, or abandon an idea entirely.
Apple makes money off ads. An organization this large simply cannot say no to a revenue stream that large
And some of those contract terms can be more or less favorable to one party than what a could would decide in the absence of an explicit contract stating otherwise.
Tell HN: Submissions from some domains don't allow comments
I submitted this piece on Bluesky doing a funding round earlier this morning. Later I returned to HN to see if anyone had commented on it, and was surprised to notice that the 'discuss' link was wholly absent. Clicking on the timestamp takes you a discussion page in the normal way, but no reply box is available.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36647549
I don’t understand how things like this are legal
>Bah. It's spoken from a place of valuing yourself.

You can value yourself all you want, if the market doesn't value your skills, your domain within your job sector, or your job sector in general, it's meaningless.
Huh, I have a Thinkpad t450s from 2015 which I’m sure has less power than a 2017 MBP, and I use it for email and streaming YouTube just fine. It runs Linux and I use an adblocker, so maybe that’s a difference? Or maybe I don’t mind the decreased performance as much.

I don’t do my programming on it, so I can’t speak to that.
All of those are being solved though.

Carbon capture technology has moved out of R&D and into the productionization phase. There are multiple ongoing efforts to remove plastic from the ocean and other waterways which are currently actually removing plastic, not just working on R&D. There's also tons of work on how to breakdown plastic, so we aren't stuck with it forever. Mental health is honestly a harder problem because there's less that can be directly qualified, but I'd point to the recent successes with drugs like MDMA, Ketamine, and mushrooms as a very promising avenue. Currently they seem most well suited for those who are worst off, but that is likely just the start.

The knowing you're drowning part is super important. We haven't been visibly drowning in atmospheric pollution until say the past decade or so, even though the levels were absolutely astonishingly high. Similar with mental health, in the US we are now really drowning in mass shootings, which wasn't the case even 10 years ago.

Search results similarly have been like kind of shitty for a long time, the past 5 years at least, but they were and are still navigable. The drowning hasn't started in search yet either.
Kevin Systrom (Instagram founder) worked at Twitter in the early days and he said that Jack was super smart and hard working which I doubt with all respect to the Twitter. He grandiosely failed at managing Vine which was supposed to be TikTok before TikTok. Vine could've been bigger money making machine that Twitter is or was. Also If I was Twitter CEO, I would've acquired popular blog platform Medium which was founded by Twitter co-founder and then I would build massive ad-network (Twitter, Vine and Medium) which could stand up against Facebook's and Google's ad business at least in the eyes of advertisers if not investors.

Also Zuckerberg wanted to acquire Twitter in the 2008 for $500m because in his paranoid head, he was scared that perhaps Twitter could overtake Facebook. Let me be clear, Zuckerberg is cutthroat competitor that doesn't care about anything except success. And looking at the Zuckerberg's track-record he won't let go this massive opportunity which is basically to kill off Twitter with Threads without much effort because Twitter is and was imploding for a very long time.

One side-note about Kevin Systrom; he said that back in the day when he co-founded Instagram, he didn't hear and know about AWS. So I must come to the conclusion in this ad-hoc way that not all successful founders know what they are doing and yea there is a lot of luck involved. And btw he is a Stanford graduate?! What is Stanford teaching these "kids"?
There seems to have been a popular hatred of the SF area spreading around online for the last few months or so. At least that's when I noticed it. I went out there as a tourist early last month. I never managed to happen across the roving bands of homeless and wasteland of closed businesses I keep hearing about online. The wharf wasn't even overrun as I had seen claimed.

I can't speak to the economics of the area, and it is certainly expensive, but most of the jabber I've seen online seems overblown. I never felt any more at risk there than I do in any other large city.