skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>they always did, to the extent that was allowed by the tech of the time

As someone who spent five years doing advertising market research, and whose parents each spent 30+ years doing the same prior to ubiquitous internet use, I call bullshit on that statement.

While there certainly were efforts (with millions spent collecting data) to identify market segments and emotional triggers to better target market products/services (cf. BSB GlobalScan as an example), the idea that it was the right of ad sellers to monitor everyone's activities as their right in order to "target" advertising was never an option, nor was there ever any push to do so.

Convincing folks to participate in telephone/mall intercept/door-to-door surveys was used to identify consumer preferences and advertising efficacy.

No one ever asked (or did so without asking) to go through a consumer's mail, personal communications or effects as a method to determine how to target ads.

Since all those things are pretty much de rigueur these days, I'd say that's not a just difference of degree, but a completely different mechanism for gathering information about consumers.

And just because it wasn't possible to snoop through (without a potential breaking/entering and/or burglary charge) the private documents and communications of consumers, doesn't mean those folks would have done so if they could.

So yes, there's a big difference between the market research (surveys, focus groups, etc.) done in the past and the blatant spying/snooping on people's private documents and communications we see now.

You're making an assertion which doesn't match the facts.

Feel free to disagree, but I was there, and that business paid for my housing, food, clothes and everything else for more than twenty-five years -- both as the child of marketers and as a marketer myself.

I'd also point out that the Advertising Market Research industry was a very small group of people (perhaps a thousand employed by ad agencies/large corporations and a few thousand more employed by market research supply houses and interviewing/focus group companies.) and, as such, if there was a market for breaking into people's houses and rifling through their papers/mail, wiretapping their phones, etc., I'd know about it.
That depends on your setup, but updates that have been rolled back usually don't get auto-installed for a while exactly for this reason.
> But we've still seen it say some crazy things, like "Your cluster is fine" when it clearly wasn't. :tounge-sticking-out-emoji:

It’s difficult to take you seriously when you write like this about show-stopping bugs.
Agreed. This will probably end up being a net positive for the Terraform 'concept' and its relatives like e.g. Pulumi.
Think of it this way...

You're logging incoming web requests and then gathering statistics in 5 minute intervals.

During one interval, you get no requests.

You check to see...did "all" of the requests get processed without errors? The answer is Yes, because to say No would imply there were errors.

Did "any" of the requests cause an error? The answer is No, because to say Yes would imply at least one error.
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people are already doing this on Character.ai and other popular AI consumer products, whether the companies want them to or not. I think it's better to accept people want something here and make it good & transparent vs trying to avoid it... it's like alcohol, sometimes people want a thing badly enough they don't care if its bad for them
Related: https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/spacex-conducts-a-most...

> the company's radically rebuilt ground systems, with an enhanced water suppression system, appeared to function well in protecting the rocket and the launch pad.
> I’m confused, do you prefer chronological feeds from friends and family or not?

Yes. I would prefer this.

FB no longer gives me a customized feed. I get a generic feed tailored to my demographics - brain achingly dumb posts about Disney and Marvel and memes I don't care for. And I am unable to unsubscribe from any of them because none of them are based on my preferences.

This has been FB's response to the EU sanctions (as well as dropping user engagement) and is the "Non-Personalized feed" that the article is describing.
We've definitely seen a rise of "advertising as content" where the ad itself is just so good that people will watch it for its own right vs having it imposed on them.

The Superbowl is a classic example here - some meaningful fraction of those watching are doing so for the ads vs any interest in football! But YouTube, TikTok, etc have all seen great success in organic/viral campaigns (Old Spice comes to mind).

To answer your question - how might a superapp make advertisement "good" would probably be not only showing you an ad that you're likely to commercially engage (to purchase the good/service) based on your observed interests but also where the ad itself is something you're likely to find interesting/educational/amusing and not annoying, because in the latter case you'll like/comment/reshare to percolate it "for free" and amplify their campaign. And the interestingness can be judged based on your history of interactions.
Do you know how many cattle we do have?

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2204892120

The total mammal biomass:

- livestock (≈630 Mt)

- humans (≈390 Mt)

- wild marine mammals (≈40 Mt)

- terrestrial wild mammals (≈20 Mt)

Do you know how much land animal agriculture occupies (cattle being the most land-demanding)?

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/10/World-Map-by-Land...

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

Do you know that animal species have experienced a 70% decline in just last 50 years, that we're driving nearly one million species to extinction, that we're in the sixth mass extinction which we'll manage in just 100 years probably, and that cattle is the main driver?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01448-4

Humans are driving one million species to extinction - landmark United Nations-backed report finds that agriculture is one of the biggest threats to Earth’s ecosystems.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/brv.12974

More losers than winners: investigating Anthropocene defaunation through the diversity of population trends

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/13/almost-7...

Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26231772/

Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/our-glob...

Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries#Nine_boun...

> we need to get together as an entire global species and determine and maintain some Optimal Bovine Population Threshold

Yes, it's zero.
This article explains it better than TFA: https://www.sciencealert.com/waves-of-entanglement-seen-ripp...
I want one. It feels like having a snapshot to compare against latter just makes hella sense.

And I'm a geek who could actually go load up & visualize the data myself. Which would be cool.
1) Typosquatting DNS adds cost (it's harder to spam the namespace), and it forces the attacker to put down a credit card.

2) Go-style import URLs prevent you from typosquatting a large part of the path. On `example.com/hrd2spll` you can't typosquat the latter part (which would be easier to attack), only the hostname.
You could ask the same “Other than <its value>, what value does <it> have?” question about anything.

(The answer is: none. For that matter, how would you answer questions like: what value does the concept of even-and-odd numbers have? Or, say, Fibonacci numbers: sure the Fibonacci sequence itself might have some applications, but what value does knowing whether or not a certain number is a Fibonacci number have?)
I think you have it completely backwards. Apple aren’t necessarily that concerned with selling the most phones. They want to sell the most expensive phones with the highest margins, and still sell quite a lot.

How do you get people to pay a lot for a phone, and do so fairly often? By making sure they can sell their old phone for a decent prize.

Everything Apple does is in support of this. That implies that they do want you to be able to repair your phone (otherwise you couldn’t sell it), but only if it’s in a way where the buyer of the phone can feel confident that the phone they buy isn’t going to die in a month due to a shoddy repair job. Apple providing OS updates to old phones also supports this (and it also helps them with App Store revenue).

Apple doesn’t care if you sell or continue to use your old phone because in that segment they’re not competing with themselves. They’re competing with cheap android phones.

IMO, Apple does more than anyone to make sure their phones are used as long as possible. Most android brands are far more likely to go in a drawer as it’s not worth the effort to sell it.

It doesn’t mean they couldn’t do better. I think it’ll be a process between Apple, repair shops and regulators to come up with a compromise that benefits consumers even more… including those that buy second hand (possibly repaired) phones.
Users might die off faster in climate change events then switch to a service to generate one last surf of extinctinflation money?
Or just finishing to completely destroy their credibility? That would be the last nail in their coffin.
And then they enshittified them.
I’m sure Louis Rossmann knows what he’s doing and does a good job, but unless I’m going to go to his shop in…looking it up…Austin if I need my phone repaired, I’m gonna stick with authorized shops because I want to avoid the negative experiences reported upthread.
The fact comments from latecomers are usually buried by the highly upvoted ones posted earlier probably contributes to this in my opinion. There's very much a need to be 'early' if you want to do well on Reddit, and that rewards people who have hours to spend every day posting on the same subreddits and hovering over the new posts list.
Basically all non-LTH BDs. The way I've understood it, the big selling point in M-Disc DVDs vs. regular DVDs was the inorganic dye used in it. But if you buy a non-LTH BD, you'll have an inorganic dye anyways.

The company that actually made M-Discs also went bust and there's a lot of conflicting information on the Internet whether or not the current M-Discs are real M-Discs or not.
"Tens of thousands of homes" on 55,000 acres doesn't sound like a city, it sounds like more climate-torching bullshit. The Flannery parcels are nowhere near any kind of transportation facility, so unless they are planning a maglev to Sacramento, and unless the project is in fact 54,900 acres of open space and 100 acres of urbanism, than I remain highly skeptical.
24 lines, for a total of 960 bytes occupying $400 to $7FF. The missing 64 bytes were called "screen holes", peppered throughout that memory range, and were used as scratchpad locations for peripherals. One of those peripherals is the disk drive controller card, and the position of the current track is stored in one of those holes. So if you try to clearing the screen the easy way, by zeroing $400 to $7FF, the disk drive forgets what track it's on and it needs to recalibrate, resulting in an awful noise as the read-write head bangs on a stopper.
The originator of that quote was writing in the 12th century. The quote is cited without a source at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_of_opposition , where the phrase is "Omnis homo qui lapis est" ("every man who is a stone"). I haven't dug any further than that. But the phrase literally is intended to indicate a contradiction.
Perhaps it's legal to scrape in some world states outside the USA?
> "LuaJIT is a cool thing. Helped us a lot. But not everything remains the right thing forever."

Posted only 11 months ago by Cloudflare CTO

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32869567

Cloudflare was already operating a scale and as public company, when they were running LuaJIT.

Chances that you'll operate at Cloudflare scale is like 1:Billion.

Sounds like Cloudflare was quite happy with LuaJIT.
The product offering always has a scope.

Unlimited applies to some specific attribute, it doesn't mean you can do anything.
Nebulex has different adapters although I've only use it on a local node which uses ETS and with transient data so I can't comment on them too much.

https://github.com/cabol/nebulex
If this interests you I suggest Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. Fungi are fascinating.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50664430-entangled-life
I wonder if blocking gptbot is a good signal that a website has non LLM generated content on it, and is therefore good training data...
> …in the operation of our business

I don’t know what they mean with that, but they had 100M+ losses and 45M+ negative cashflow in only the last two years. So they used the money but not for “operating”, or got it from somewhere else that is not revenue.
Drugs are drugs, as the prescription opiate circus priming of the pump demonstrated. Purdue Pharma marketing campaigns created hundreds of thousands of addicts who later turned to the illegal heroin / fentanyl market when they lost access to their prescription suppliers.
> It almost seems as if the entire thing is written in handcrafted assembly compared to how other games perform.

As far as I'm aware, it's all C++.
Sadly the Labour Party is just as bad. Their criticism of the Online Harms Bill (now the Online Safety Bill) was that it did not go far enough.

Violating international law is actually a feature for the current Tory government, who has made it a fetish of asserting sovereignty, forgetting other nations are sovereign too and Britain can hardly afford the consequences of retaliation by the US or EU (as the Northern Ireland peace agreement is explicitly conditioned on the UK's continued membership in the ECHR).

The only thing that could cause a reconsideration is that UK politicians are very fond of evading accountability by using encrypted messaging services, in total violation of public records law, like Boris Johnson's use of WhatsApp.
If you like to do challenges like these, a couple of fun ones:

- bike/walk/run every street in your city. Can use for instance https://wandrer.earth/ with Strava to track it. It's quite nice, discover all kinds of things in my own neighborhood I didn't know of. By habit you always take the same routes. This makes me take a new road on my way back home and see new stuff.

- Draw art on the maps using gps. I've done multiple. Takes planning and often a few attempts executing when you realize that road is closed, that path was flooded or whatever. I've even gotten in the news a few times from this. For instance when I ran this pest doctor during lock downs https://imgur.com/a/qRkB5QN

- Bike the longest distance using the smallest area. Basically find a roundabout and see how long you can take it. Or the opposite, the largest area in your city, basically bike its border.
> you'll no longer be able to do business with Red Hat

This is still speculation AFAIK. They reserve the rights to do so but it's yet to be seen if and when that would happen.
PS: the other way to equalize the logistics advantage is to simply build the cost of the repair into the device. Require that all devices be sold with a bumper-to-bumper 10-year warranty with zero deductible.

Drop your phone in the water? Free. Smash the screen? Free. People will bring their stuff in and fix it and keep it out of landfills, and vendors themselves will be incentivized to find ways to support their product lifecycle efficiently, because it's their own bottom line (and their own product sales prices).

This is one of those diffuse problems like littering or jaywalking where we've kind of allowed the industry to redefine their problem as being your problem and invert the fault/blame. If straws are constantly ending up in the water it's fundamentally ineffective to hammer down on one random person, compared to regulating the root source, the business causing the problem. Which is of course why "recycling" (and not reuse or reduce of course) is promoted as a solution instead of regulation. Regulation would be effective, make companies pay for the full lifecycle of their product. If 10% of people litter and that costs $X per year to clean it up, that's McDonald's problem.

And yes that would drive up prices quite a bit. But that's the lifecycle of owning the product, and if you want to incentivize repair over new, the price of new is inherently going to have to go up anyway. At least this way you get something out of it.

Maybe instead of unlimited incidents you only cover the 80th percentile of incident rates per lifecycle.

But again, the ironic thing is how much this looks like applecare and yet people utterly hate it.
I feel like you're looking a bit too much into it and that this rant is a bit unnecessary. You write as though you're being attacked by the creators or something. It's not going to "replace your MacOS" or anything, but rather is a showcase of clean UI and UX. Looking through the "What" and "Why" sections on their Github says how it follows certain UI and UX guidelines; many of which Apple has adopted. I don't think you're the target audience either. If you're interested in FreeBSD and like MacOS, you'd probably love this.
1. Modern digital ads can be very well measured. At least the ones focused on direct conversion and not branding. Advertisers can measure the impact of their spending independently and the results can be seen fairly quickly. (Again, not brand advertising).

2. Advertisement match-making isn't perfect (which is why I wrote "in an ideal world"). There is some time and signal buffer till we get enough signal to show the right ad to the user (if ever). The intentions of the ad platform also have to be taken into consideration (Often not the case for Big Tech but even here).

3. Advertisements do have negative consequences. We can also target drugs, cults, gambling etc more effectively as well. Often the law has to play catch-up with the more controversial categories. Advertisers can also dupe/defraud buyers with false/misleading advertisements.
>Which is a starving person more likely to take?

This makes sense, the answer is certainly not “the one that’s in front of them at a store that’s likely in the part of town that they live in.” The first thing a starving person does is sit down and do a SWOT analysis of various foodstuffs that factors in location, transportation, and nutrient value. After they finish their individual analyses they compare notes with other members of their criminal cohort and split up territory based off of who is hungry and who is saving up for a Lamborghini Urus.
> Dependency injection and annotation-driven development is “magic happens here” that is hard to analyze when something doesn’t work

I don't quite get the criticism against annotations. Metaprogramming and code as data seem to get a lot of love in the context of lisp, python or ruby, but a lot of hate when it happens to be done in Java. I absolutely love the powers that reflection, annotations etc give me.

The difficulty of analyzing dependency injection and "magic happens here" is overstated. Just run the code in the debugger. And if you are having problems with the auto-configuration stuff, you can always selectively disable it and explicitly define the beans you need.
Longitudinal data is extremely useful absent discovering something in the scan.
ChatGPT with your Google Drive and Notion documents
Where you are, will you actually get access to the Data? Or will they just review and store it for you? Just interested in the output and what you actually get to keep.
Hi everyone!

My name is Pedro Paulino, founder and CEO of Noah. We built Noah so users can seamlessly integrate hundreds of documents from their knowledge base on Google Drive and Notion to LLMs. This way, the LLM always retrieves the best context for your query and can act as a personal or work copilot for any workflow.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on Noah!
This was a bizarre comment in the OP article, with an even more bizarre reasoning: they "all have versioning mechanisms where opting for new language features will force you off of deprecated APIs"

C code from 1999 will, unless written by a literal psychic, not have "opt[ed] for new language features" that arose in the interim.
I did get through LV with a railcar wood farm and coke oven array before I called it in. I had a very diverse food gen and all sorts of farms. It was neat, but I have to say GCP with teleporting and chunk loading really scratches the itch without all the waiting around or microcrafting.
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Dependency hell IS hell.

I broke my dev machine because a bad application of reps + brew, and triying to reinstall all was a messy mess.

Now I doing things with nix, and is almost good, yet I can't escape dependency hell completely...
RavynOS is a much more interesting project. Basically it keeps everything that's open-source in Darwin (save for XNU), and re-implements what that's proprietary with tailor made free software, on top of a FreeBSD kernel.

Since many layers, frameworks and APIs from macOS are reused (even for the GUI which is written in Objective-C and uses the actual Cocoa APIs), the goal is to achieve compatibility with both macOS and FreeBSD apps. And yes, it natively runs Mach-O binaries in the kernel, no emulation layer.

"ravynOS is explicitly trying to be compatible with Mac software at a source and eventually a binary level, without losing support for FreeBSD/X11 software, and to implement a very similar experience on the desktop and at the command line. For example, on ravynOS you can type open -a MyApp image.jpg and have image.jpg open in MyApp. You will find things in (mostly) the same directories as a Mac, like ~/Library or /System/Library/Fonts."

Most other projects are just vanilla FreeBSD or Linux with a macOS theme.
> But I believe if 'any' implies 'at least one' so should 'all' otherwise they use different conventions.

The conventions they use are not an arbitrary choice, and are those of predicate logic. any() is the “for any” (existential quantification) operator, while all() is the “for all” (universal quantification) operator.

They are deeply connected: “all items in xs are true” is “there are not any items in xs that are not true”, or, in code terms, all(xs) == not any(not x for x in xs).

And, vice versa, any(xs) == not all(not x for x in xs)
The context of the discussion was the node event loop, which doesn’t have preemption. The BEAM scheduler is only like an event loop when you’re locked to one physical processor core, otherwise the schedule is spreading work across multiple OS level threads. You could squint and call this an event loop manager with preemption, but I think the phrase “event loop” detracts from the clarity of any correct description.
Seems like having more data can only be a good thing (modulo any degree to which the scan itself has the potential to cause damage), but it's going to make it much more important to be cautious of false positives, as well as to not automatically assume that every potential issue is worth addressing and has no tradeoffs that would motivate choosing to handle it differently.
For whatever it's worth, macOS/OS X has had very high resolution icons well before high DPI displays were commonly available. Even 10.0 which was released in 2001 supported 128x128 icons, which was 4x larger than what other popular desktops were capable of at the time and enabled far greater levels of detail, even if most users wouldn't be seeing that detail most of the time.
THORWalletDEX Discord server got hacked and the they sitll controll the server
after 24 hrs the hackers still control the servers,
what does it take for discord to fix this?

https://discord.com/invite/TArAZHDjCr