skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lost potential is a key one I have seen. The idea that your youth is in the rear view mirror and that you didn't do all the things you thought you would do.
> If I'm a young person who wants to perform on screen for a living, I know where I'm going: TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube.

An extremely sad state of affairs by any historical measure of a successful society.

Hollywood marks the absolute apex of American art. As this era of unquestionable greatness and human accomplishment draws to a close, we are nothing if not pathetic if we cannot at least acknowledge what it was. We should be nothing less than ashamed for letting it slip through our fingers, but here we are just making little quips about its outdatedness.
Oh wow we live in different words
haha, well in America, insurance has no idea what kind of locks you have, and the vast majority of home locks are "whatever was cheap at home depot".

My front door is a pricey digital lock with a key for backup, and I don't think I could pick it with this method. That's why my first instinct was to try on our cheapest door.
> If I'm a young person who wants to perform on screen for a living, I know where I'm going: TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube. There, I can control my own creative output, make my own brand deals, and own my own face

You also lose control of your distribution and are completely commoditised. Hence why the median full-time content creator makes $20,000/year, and I don’t think that includes production costs [1].

[1] https://www.epidemicsound.com/blog/the-future-of-the-creator...
Primal (basically no dialogue).

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10332508/
Indeed, I assume it's simply that budgets are inflating and it's difficult to fund more and more films (especially as marketing costs grow) such that, unless you have a string of hits like A24, it's nearly impossible to get off the ground.
1. This returns an int.

2. This is inefficient in a similar way that strlcpy is: it does more work than the size of the buffer.
They got it in their minds that inaudible dialogue is more realistic and therefore has more artistic integrity than actors giving proper theatrical performances. A good stage actor can 'whisper' and be clearly heard across the room, but that's not realistic and is out of style. So now they have actors actually whisper and everybody has to watch the show with subtitles on.

Actors should never be whispering or mumbling for real. Even an actor pretending to be drunk should be able to clearly enunciate their words while still making themselves sound drunk. I'm sure modern actors can still do this, but they're being given bad direction.
The 30 days thing is likely from GDPR requirements. You cannot keep user data longer than that after they request deletion.
Yeah the last decade has been suffering a glut, of Marvel, Star Wars, Fast X (how is it at 10!), and not much else.
I'll tell you why: my friend, our lead investor and champion, with connections to a few driver-communities unexpectedly died.
Bingo. Except TikTok, Insta, and YouTube are all the intermediary still. They let you build a following but a creative still needs to find a way to own direct communication with their audience.

Let us not forget that in our current trajectory, Robots and Real Estate are going to be owned by one class of people who extract value from society while everyone else struggles to feed themselves.

Don’t rely on any of the big platforms long term.
The push for employees to become a "Consultant, freelancer or independent contractor" was the hope from companies that they could unload many costs of business to their ex-employees. Things like phone rental, insurance, car running costs, tools, etc.

However, people quickly learnt that unless the remuneration was increased in proportion, then the ex-employee was much worse of.

Plus the Tax Man quickly got involved and ruled that many Contracting arrangements were actually a sham.

There are now a list of standard tests to determine if a supposed contractor is actually an employee.
-edit- I'm not a C programmer, nor do I have any opinion on whether api is garbage or less worse or whatever.

They seemed useful enough to get added to the other BSDs, Solaris, Mac OS X, Irix(!), QNX, and Cygwin as well as used in the Linux kernel.
People typically do not realize that it has a return value that is expensive to compute.
I think it’s when those feelings completely break you that you’re in the crisis stage.
>It's... not. Open Source is not a business model, nor a collective organizing principle, bargaining process, etc. It's just source code a couple of people have commit access to.

It's... not. (just access to source)

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

in fact that's one of the driving characteristic differences between open source and FOSS; one is accompanied with a set of guiding moral and ethical principals regarding fundamental user freedom.
How much noise do these make, on a scale from 1 to leaf blower?
People retire and not only don't have an income, they can take money back from the government. Especially if you live in a place where the government actually has some safety nets set in place for you. If your goal is maximum money earned per person per year you probably want them to die at like 65 or something.
Funnily enough this is a sentiment Ted Kaczynski pushed in his manifesto. That technology has replaced the drive for power in individuals to support themselves, because it has become so easy, so people try to find other means to fill the power principal. This can be social causes or political ones, or in your example, trying to hold onto youth for as long as possible. To be in denial of the reality of themselves.

There is some truth to it but I also feel like it is a far too pessimistic take on the issue.
twitch.tv is another site I'd use.
Good construction relative to what is available. I will take a Macbook with a sharp edge over a dell laptop where the screen frame is falling apart, the hinge is non existent, and the trackpad is useless. If you go out to find faults in Macbooks, you'll find them, just not as many as the alternative.
My guess is that operators of cars like this kill far fewer people per hundred million miles traveled than soccer moms in their SUVs texting with their Frappuccinos but I'm willing to be proven wrong with data.
I am all for a great linux desktop experience but I don't think getting very popular can happen without making a lot of changes that erode the very reason we migrated to a Linux desktop.

I speculate that many of the most controversial changes in GNU/Linux were rooted in chasing after this goal.
I think it's more than fair to ask, if workers produce more why aren't they compensated more?
Like most simple answers, this is wrong. If content isn’t profitable, the networks don’t have to pay for it, which has always been the case. What is different are the mini-rooms and the excuse of streaming to stop paying residuals.

If they can’t make money without paying a living wage, then they shouldn’t make money. Period. Business models like Uber, postdoc/adjunct professorships, and Hollywood are exploitative by their nature, replacing business models that used to pay better wages for the same service.
"This will load 3.5GB and use 8GB of your RAM".

Interesting what browsers have become. The web ate the operating systems.
The Linux kernel has better options, notably strscpy.
I haven't felt the need to write my thoughts as much, but not because I have any concerns about it being used as part of some training data. Mostly it's because I don't know if I'm interacting with real people anymore.
Lol. Lmao. right wing parties in Europe regularly get 40% of the vote. And they would make Republicans seem like bleeding heart, diverse liberals in comparison. Marine lepen's party regularly calls for not just closing border but sending back uppity french citizens if they are Muslims lol. Europeans online just really like to ignore their own problems, it's almost amazing.
Yeah my complaint is that they cant see my driveway and wont deliver to me.

Its logan, so you know, kids on dirtbikes, dogs, road noise, fireworks, loud music etc I barely notice the drones.
> Norman Garrett was the Concept Engineer for the original Miata back in
> his days at Mazda’s Southern California Design Studio.

The author is not your typical automotive enthusiast. He is an expert in the field, and knows very well the perils of this car. Those old Porches are an experience unto themselves, separate from the experience of getting from point A to point B. You would drive one for the same reason that you would climb Mount Everest. Not because it is fun or useful, but rather for the adventure and uncertainty about ever returning home.

This article does a terrific job of conveying that adventure.
I had to watch an ad before I could watch that company's commercial.
So, the US grew but kept its GDP to debt ratio relatively similar to Europe's? That's awesome actually.
Out of self-respect, I'm done with this exchange.
Anyone else seeing ChatGPT scam ads on Twitter? [duplicate]
This isn't meant to diss Twitter. But it's worth knowing about the many ChatGPT + chrome extension scam ads floating around on social these days. I found this one running as a Twitter ad, but similar ones are likely on all ad platforms.

I find it hard to believe someone would fall for this type of scam, but it must be working well enough to keep running ads.

The ad [1] takes the user to a website [2] where they're prompted to join the beta to test a ChatGPT browser extension that helps create Google Ads. The website links to a github repo [3] with instructions on installing the extension in developer mode. On quick glance, the extension appears to log clipboard and keystrokes. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[1] https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com...

[2] https://www.adsgpt.click/

[3] https://github.com/MarketingExtensions/AI-Ads-Manager
When you say "line of sight" do you mean via camera, or that someone literally has to drive out and watch the drone land? The latter seems to not make much sense but that's what I think of when I read the phrase.
Inefficiency probably doesn't need any comment (these functions traverse string twice instead of once). His argument that string length should be always known is correct in theory although not in practice.
Sub-pixel Distance Transform: High quality font rendering for WebGPU
>or buy a Transcendental Meditation (TM) course.

That's a cult, so maybe some other kind.
Migration stats disagree with you.
You can still follow or block subreddits without needing to log in, only those blocks would be local to the app, not synced to your account.
That’s not how that works.
How large is your morgage rate? Imagine that you could shave 3% off its rate, say, turn 7% into 4%. Would it make a difference for you?

Same applies to most companies. Unless they are in an explosive growth phase, or in a catastrophic collapse phase, 3% change in expense / efficiency of the engineering organization is pretty noticeable.
It's like that saying about cameras. The best BASIC is the one you have.
I'll attempt an answer: it's your flight-or-flight response kicking in, without any obvious reason for it to do so. Oxygen intake goes up, muscles tense up, adrenaline production kicks in, but there's nothing for your body to "spend" these physiological changes on (like running for your life), so it just sloshes around causing panic attack symptoms (eg sweating, trembling, shortness of breath, chest pain, nausea, detachment, fear of dying).
This is why I find it funny when certain shows manage to get through the banal filter. Bojack Horseman and The Good Place are great examples. Both basically went in with a goofy premise but then pivoted as soon as they could into some really decent stuff.
> It's historically very abnormal for adults to be so fascinated with dragons and other escapist features.

For some reason dubious psychologists had a thing for King Arthur stuff for quite a while and I'm not really sure there's any dragons in there, there's weird fisher kings and stuff. I think someone is rich enough and has enough free time (probably over a billion now, but similar people existed in the past in lower numbers), they would find some weird thing to work on or think about.
Kiwibots were little wheeled robots that rolled along the sidewalk.
Or just maybe I don’t care that people think I’m too old to enjoy the things I like, and don’t force myself to suffer through some art house cringe fest because some guy on the internet thinks it’s a sign of living in a capitalistic hell scape while posting on a site specifically targeting capitalists.
Based on the HN response, Threads has an amazing future.
Technology is sold in US dollars, and prices are mostly the same globally, so yes, food has kept the same, but technology, which drives growth and innovation, is further away. i.e., the Apple Vision Pro will cost twice as much (in GDP terms for what it is worth) to Europeans, reducing the chances of the next big company building on it to be located in Europe.
> Still, if PPP GDP increases, with all else being equal (eg. stable population) it would imply the standard of living is increasing.

PPP is weird. Many of my costs were higher when living in China since imported things were more expensive, and there were lots of extra taxes to consider. It didn’t feel like I had more PPP except when eating out and consuming services. You definitely can’t use PPP to buy imports.
Ask HN: Anyone else seeing ChatGPT scam ads on Twitter?
This isn't meant to diss Twitter. But it's worth knowing about the many ChatGPT + chrome extension scam ads floating around on social these days. I found this one running as a Twitter ad, but similar ones are likely on all ad platforms.
I find it hard to believe someone would fall for this type of scam, but it must be working well enough to keep running ads.

The ad [1] takes the user to a website [2] where they're prompted to join the beta to test a ChatGPT browser extension that helps create Google Ads. The website links to a github repo [3] with instructions on installing the extension in developer mode. On quick glance, the extension appears to log clipboard and keystrokes. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[EDIT] The Twitter ad [1] has over 7M views since June 27, 2023.

[1] https://twitter.com/realnull42/status/1673900689628471296

[2] https://www.adsgpt.click/

[3] https://github.com/MarketingExtensions/AI-Ads-Manager
'88 TurboCoupe? I put a 351W from a '69 Mustang into one once. I loved that car!

Next oil change, throw in an extra drop and tell the car I said hi!
GDP isn’t a good measure for population’s wealth or quality of life especially for developed economies either.

The GDP wa invented by a russian working for US bureau of statistics during the great depression. It was a helpful measure to compare performance of different US evonomic sectors. It favors deficit spending to saving.

It is a very inadequate measure for people wealth in any developed economy.
Your just projecting your own narrative on this situation.

After all, percentage wise, sports cars kill fewer people than any other category of car, so this reckless decision is a lot less reckless than you think it is.
The funny thing is each time when you find C has some “hacky” way of doing things other programming languages can officially support, then you find that hacky is probably the only thing you actually need.
Suit yourself, if you want to post some vague doomerism comments here and not expect any criticism, that's on you.
Distributing clean needles is useful, yes, but you should still lament why it is necessary.
Yes there was. However this is a different paper, describing a different method, applied to a different dataset, with different results.

As the abstract says, "In particular, MindEye can retrieve the exact original image even among highly similar candidates indicating that its brain embeddings retain fine-grained image-specific information. This allows us to accurately retrieve images even from large-scale databases like LAION-5B. We demonstrate through ablations that MindEye's performance improvements over previous methods result from specialized submodules for retrieval and reconstruction, improved training techniques, and training models with orders of magnitude more parameters."

Note that LAION-5B has five billion images.
In fact python had general coroutines first in yield, which is mostly used for iteration (“generators”) and state machines.

Some frameworks (e.g. twisted) did use them for concurrency, and the core team originally planned something similar, however the ergonomics were not what they wanted (especially when mixing coroutines-for-concurrency and coroutines-for-iteration), so they went for a more specialised design.
It can be as simple as them having found coping mechanisms or support systems that work for them. No need to invoke weird conspiracies about them being mentally ill.
You can't compare the use of a breathalyzer which takes manpower to operate and analyze the results of to something that you can run 24x7 year after year. Such an increase in capability turns the whole principle of policing on its head.

Note that there is no brake on this at all, not even in principle. You could be followed from the cradle to the grave by technology and if it gets it wrong the onus will be on you to prove that. That's what you get when you start with the assumption that everybody is guilty. Your breathalyzer results are the result of a fairly simple bit of chemistry, one that is reliable enough in practice to have a low enough number of false positives that it is deemed acceptable, and in case of a positive test there is a backup test to ensure that a false positive doesn't lead to detrimental effects.

AI based mass surveillance starts out from the premise that if you make everybody a suspect and then filter out the 'good people' all you are left with is the bad apples. But that is not how law enforcement is supposed to work. It's possible that you would like to change the whole presumption of innocence concept. But until that is the case any kind of surveillance should be specific and limited in scope as much as possible so that ordinary citizens can live their lives unobserved by the authorities.

I recognize the power of utilitarian arguments, but they are a very bad idea when you start basing your law enforcement rules of engagement on them.

There are people that can make these arguments far more eloquently and from a more informed perspective, so I'd like to close with a link to an article about this that may help shed some more light on this.

https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-126/the-dangers-of-su...

There are many more like it but this is a pretty good starting point.
And why would you want to 'break into' them if they are so exclusionary?
If something requires CLI to work in a reasonable way it is a failure.
My old Landrover had a tap to swap between the two tanks. Leaving it in the center position saved the day a number of times.
Found the sucker.
But what is the cost of happiness to the corporation? If you buy the $90 mower for which Walmart takes a cut of, and are unhappy about it, vs being happy about buying a $180 mower, if Walmart is making more money on the $90 mower, your happiness is irrelevant to the corporation. We see corporations where that's what makes their whole business model work. Spirit Airlines, Comcast, AT&T.

There, I said it. If Spirit Airlines didn't take advantage of people putting up with being miserable, they would not be viable as a business.
I had the sense last year that the limitless desire for a different life is a destructive force.

Mid-life crisis examples of how this desire shows up as regret: "What if I had stayed with that previous girlfriend instead of marrying my wife?", "What if I had moved to this other city instead of my home?", etc.

My personal conclusion is that this limitless desire is a dark pit of despair with no bottom. This may be part of the reasoning behind the tenth commandment seems to be applicable - "You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."

That desire can be toxic to the point of destruction is mostly treated as a foreign concept to our contemporary world.

So, I made the conscious choice to go in the other direction toward the light, and to see what adventure awaits over there.

Not sure fully what that means yet, but a part of it at least is accepting and embracing my own life as it is today, including all of the constraints.

It seems to me like the path out of the mid-life crisis is about signing up for the next adventure, letting go of the past, and looking forward to what's still to come. And most definitely not letting "desire for else" ruin my gratitude for the fact that I am highly fortunate, and still quite able to live, experience, do, and be so much.
Colossal losses of Disney due to "rethinking" of classical plots in a "new ideology" way. People just don't want to watch it. But for some reason it's not possible for Disney to avoid it and continue making movies in a way that was mainstream maybe 20-30 years ago.
>the US is a wildly corrupt country with very little in the way of actual representative democracy, which is the primary reason why this (locally) correct

While your assertion about a lack of actual representative democracy may have truth to it, in my view, most Americans hate public transit and really like cars, despite all the clear negatives that come with them (and which those people deny). There are great cities in the world that are walkable and have excellent public transit: I live in one of them myself. But in my observation, most Americans simply don't want this kind of lifestyle, and in fact don't believe it exists. So as far as car-centric planning goes, I think that Americans really are getting what they vote for.
I don't understand the entitlement. People choose a profession. The dynamics of earning a living with that profession have changed. The fact that others are making money from that profession (or companies) doesn't matter and shouldn't change that. The fact that other venues or ways to make money that formerly didn't exist shouldn't change that. It's capitalism not socialism at work.

If actors/writers can't earn a living from the profession quite frankly 'too bad'. Am I the only one who was raised and was told that you can't earn a living doing acting or entertaining unless you are 'a star'? The problem was going down that road and becoming dependent on it and not thinking things might change.

By the way what is going to happen to all of the people that have jobs in and around the industry that makes gasoline powered cars. Nobody seems to concerned about that. I don't mean just people who build gas powered cars but the entire industry supplying parts that will not be needed by EV (or parts for gas pumps etc you get the point).
It's just a tickle at the back of the article, but for anyone who wants a first sportscar that is fairly affordable and rewarding to drive an older Miata is a wonderful starter vehicle.
I have a super old one (8470p) which I got refurbished, and I love that thing so much. Being from 2012 it's obviously not up for real work these days, but the build quality, how you can just pop open the case and expand and swap all sorts of things, that instantly spoiled me and my next laptop will be something comparable or better.
Minimum Parking Laws [video]
Not sure about the "bad pointing devices" thing.

I have a very nice Logitech mouse and keyboard setup, but still prefer to use the Macbook touchpad while connected to an external display. They're just perfect in every sense.
The thing with langchain is that it's documentation is terrible.

If I want to do something I have to rely on other sources to use it. That's just an overkill.