skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's crazy to me how much of large business revenue comes from ads. Just under one third of their revenue is from advertising!

Is this a recent shift, or one that I'm just now noticing? Other large tech companies have had substantial increases in ad revenue as well: notably amazon and uber. Is advertising shifting away from Google, or is this just a normal part of large businesses (like paying for placement in retail stores)?
There are clearly more than two teams in these issues. It is not a game, and it is not football.

It is a public policy issue also outpaces "competition" which is merely a subject change.
But for ALS sadly there is like nothing, absolutely nothing meaningful. My country doesn't even allow assisted suicide so your option is basically to go to Switzerland or degenerate here and die when you cannot breath anymore.

I am by no means expert in this area, but there are some epigenetic aging clocks that are based on some machine learning models, and supposedly they somehow show your "true" biological age and predict death quite accurately. GrimAge, epiage etc. Sometimes I have wanted to take that test but haven't bothered.
I think you misunderstood what I was saying. Cows have a place in the natural grasslands cycle and if climate change makes those grasslands uninhabitable to them then that is bad. Natural forests should remain natural forests and converting them to grasslands to satisfy our unsustainable meat habit is also bad. Both of these can be true.
A set of Python scripts... more like a set of 6502 assembler routines integrated into a disk imaging app with a highly cursed build process!

4am is ridiculously prolific. The sheer number of bizarre disk-copy protection schemes applied on these old computers has always been fascinating to me. A lot of creativity went into both inventing and reversing these things.
TBH IDK about Haskell. I personally love it but it requires me to take a different view on problems than most other languages I've worked with. And I did all the things you've mentioned professionally at one point or another. That said, I'd highly recommend learning Haskell to anyone who's spent most of the career using "boring" languages like Go, C++ or Java. It's eye-opening.
I'm not sure how bad north korea really is. Because, despite what you may think, we do get propaganda. See how every single time a ransomware hits a company it's always russia/iran/north korea sending it? Do you really think there are no criminals in the rest of the world trying to make some quick money?

Or, notice how ukraine went from "nazi shithole" to "beacon of freedom and democracy" once the war started?

To know how things really are behind the propaganda is basically impossible.

> Of course you will not do that, everyone is a hero on the internet

Well most people don't speak korean…
I liked the look of this:

>BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification) is this kind of access in the inbox. It sets you apart from all the others by showcasing your brand and legitimacy to your users in the inbox by displaying your logo and, in some cases, a verified checkmark.

Until I looked at the cost of a Verified Mark Certificate (1-year plan):

>$1,499.00 USD [1]

Yikes.

Small money for big players, but small businesses with valid brands not so much.

[1]https://order.digicert.com/step1/vmc_basic
I knew cows were dangerous to the climate because of their farts, but I had no idea they were deforesting the Amazon—that's wild! someone should put a stop to them doing that—immediately, if not sooner.

it's one thing to fart and fart and fart in the grasslands—killing the climate in the process—but Amazon deforestation? someone should lay down the law on these cows.
Look into formal boolean logic, specifically the "therefore" operator. (T->T)=T,(T->F)=F, but starting with a false premise always results in true. There's good reason for it and it makes other things work out how you'd expect.

A marble is in the bag -> the marble is black = True, even if there are no marbles in the bag. You can consider the "all" method as asking for the truth value of "A marble is in the bag -> the marble is black"
Football is metaphorical in this case.
They would have to do conversion regardless. It might be a little more efficient DC DC, but it's not like you could just have 5v lines everywhere, you might wind up using as much copper in the thicker lines as you do in the power adapters.

Especially now with USB C. I suspect in 20 years a lot of today's PD supplies will be perfectly good. It's less wasteful when they're that reusable.
Show HN: Mine Insights from text using configurable LLM Prompt Chains
I had never considered the possibility that they’d have authors, let alone science fiction authors. I wonder how difficult it would be to obtain North Korean literature.
I don't think we overestimate it, but definitely assume more awareness than there actually is. Harm is also real, but much less visible than you'd think and thus mure easier ignored, especially if the negative effects are asynchronous and take a long time to have an impact.

If people don't know to what degree they are being manipulated, for how long, and what for, they'll probably also not care for the cause of it.
Unlikely as this is industry standard interfaces, and the "knock-off" would be made by genuine display manufacturers - possibly even one Apple uses - as you can't exactly make that in a backroom.
Couldn't that be an effect of algorithmic feeds though? What's the point of posting something if the people you want to see it probably won't because it's buried under a mountain of "content". Or worse, the opposite happens: it goes "viral" and people you don't want seeing it see it and decide to make you the internet's punching bag for the day.
I learned HTML when I was young and hated reading specs.

Later then I just had no reason to read specs, HTML I wrote usually worked. And when not, there was google.
Love NetBSD. It’s how I learned UNIX and Linux. Owe a lot to the OS.

Got NetBSD running on old SPARCs and old Mac PPC systems. Used them as servers. Lots of knowledge gained.

Unfortunately, when I would want to try out cool new software or utilities, they were only for Linux. It forced me to embrace Linux and have used CentOS ever since.

My knowledge and experience of iptables has also made me commit to Linux.
> It's true that fully meshed distribution won't fly for Google or Amazon scale.

I'm not sure I agree at product level: WhatsApp seems to be scaling rather well. I can't say if their use of Erlang is "fully meshed distribution" or not, but it seems to be flying just fine as the world's number 1 messaging platform.
One (admittedly speculative) reason to believe that all natural spoken languages have a common ancestor derives from the fact that modern humans seem to rapidly develop new languages in the absence of an existing language, as was seen in the case of Nicaraguan Sign Language. There is no particularly compelling reason to believe that earlier homo sapiens ­– who were otherwise anatomically modern – would be any different before they began migrating out of africa. This is especially true given that all human populations do ultimately have both an apparently-innate capacity for language, and their own languages.

If this is the case, then the first language would have probably rapidly spread between the early populations in africa – if, indeed, there were multiple distinct populations at the time – and new (homo sapiens–originated) languages would have only arisen if the chain of speakers were somehow broken and children raised without access to an existing language.

With that being said, there are some cases where something similar has happened. Most obviously are sign languages, which are believed to have had multiple origins, since it is possible for deaf people to be born among non-signing populations. Something similar in the case of spoken languages is the phenomenon of pidgins evolving into creoles mentions elsewhere in the comments, although they still retain at least some aspect of one of their parent languages. The extent to which the latter count as proto-languages is questionable.
edit: totally misunderstood parent, my bad. disregard the following.

> - Take a bag for which “all marbles in this bag are black” is false

> - Add a black marble to that bag

> - After that, “all marbles in the bag are black” becomes true

This reasoning is not correct. If the bag contains exactly a red marble at the start, "all marbles in this bag are black" is false as you required, but it breaks the claim at the end that "all marbles in the bag are black".

There is in fact no bag that fulfills your reasoning, even the empty bag wouldn't (when starting to write my reply I had erroneously assumed so)
Only commenting on how we should expect corporations to act, or more accurately why we should not be surprised at their behavior.
Or bring back skins[0]! Have software read textures from areas in a big image, then let the user replace the image. Forest theme for Microsoft Teams! SciFi file explorer!

I tried using MidJourney to generate exaggerated UI themes (not skins, just general themes for inspiration), but the results were disappointing. They were always gorgeous[1], but my prompt engineering skills couldn't coax it to use space efficiently.

[0]: https://skins.webamp.org/

[1] https://i.imgur.com/5KC2u7J.png
> It absolutely did, but it was not "popular" by any stretch of the imagination. Average voters simply don't care about privacy, no matter which country you're in.

Go tell Germans that with their very recent memories of Stasi. You can even tell Swedes that with their very explicit laws against mixing and accessing various government databases.

> Nobody should be surprised if their most flagship legislation to date is motivated by the same intent.

Instead of parroting whatever the latest internet conspiracy is, you could actually go and read the legislation, and have an opinion of your own.
Our current level of beef consumption is unsustainable and science has confirmed that cow methane emissions are a significant problem for climate change. This is not the same thing as "it would be good for the climate if cows went extinct because the entire environment is unsuitable to them".
Someone is shrieking about it in the thread above.

>salawat

>PoW is nothing but wasted, needless computation. Computing is not free. Every watt spent doing anything PoW is just that much more intensification of our current climate crisis.

>As someone with temps of 109 with heat index of 120 coming in the next few days, with all due respect, fuck anyone who proposes PoW is a good idea for anything.

>It isn't interesting. It's the most egregious example of conspicuous consumption on the planet.
Hypocrisy doesn't require one to believe what they say and utter it in good faith but fall short of those ideals in practice. Equivocating about football teams doesn't change that one is trying to impose standards on another without holding oneself equally to them. It is still hypocrisy, even if they do it amorally in bad faith. Especially then. What matters is what policy you espouse; you don't get a pass for not really believing what you say. The implication is that hypocrites are acting in bad faith.
It doesn't look growing to me, order volume has been flat for the last 6 quarters. I'm not sure how much more they can grow per order profit.
Well, Netlify went south by forcing businesses (including ours) to migrate from Pro to Entreprise plan (which is very pricy) by having a hard limit on the members of the Pro plan. We were forced to migrate, then we migrated away to pure AWS a few month later.

We don't know what happened there. Did they have money issues?
I’m curious why straws are demanded at the frequency they are given their single use nature

In most cases it does not seem to be related to a known disability that would require a straw

Are frequent straw users using them primarily for a prophylactic capacity? Is the amount primarily because of use in disposable cups/lids?

I just never find myself in need of a straw and it seems to be in almost all cases purely preference - in which case ending their use altogether, has no negative externalities that cannot be remedied easily.
To be fair, competition from us (Spacelift) and our other competitor friends had an extremely positive impact on TFC/TFE over the last two year or so.
No. Its all designed against the predators that modern companies have become.
> Preppers are similar, they don't want to solve societal problems

It seems more likely to me that they have a realistic awareness of their level of influence over society, which is to say effectively none.
Looking at the list of requirements:
0. Only 1-2 years of dev effort to implement.
1. Predictable, explainable performance.
2. A small, embedabble runtime.
3. Support for repl / incremental programming (ie adding one function shouldn't require stopping the process and re-compiling the entire project).
4. Support for debugging and profiling.

Lisp satisfies 1, 3 and 4 I’m pretty sure, and maybe 2 depending on your definition of small. Idk about 1 though.
They just want the simple convenient narrative that all those people are "criminals" instead of the more accurate view that the city (and country) has neglected its responsibility to care for the citizens for so long that the resulting human suffering has become too large to convincingly hide by sweeping it under the rug. Give those people affordable housing, quality mental health care services, and well-paying jobs and there basically wouldn't be a problem anymore.

People (outsiders or not) should be complaining about the conditions in the city, but those complaints should be directed at the failure of the government to provide basic things like healthcare and housing, not at the addicts and homeless people who are sick and vulnerable doing whatever they can to get by.
>Let’s look at what Microsoft is doing right now, as an example. In the last couple of weeks, Microsoft updated its general terms of use to prohibit scraping, harvesting, or similar extraction methods of its AI services. Also in the couple of weeks, Microsoft affiliate OpenAI released a product called GPTbot, which is designed to scrape the entire internet. And while they don’t admit this publicly, OpenAI has almost certainly already scraped the entire non-authwalled-Internet and used it is training data for GPT-3, ChatGPT, and GPT-4. Nonetheless, without any obvious hints of irony, OpenAI’s own terms of use prohibits scraping.

I don't understand why this demonstrates hypocrisy. There is a big difference between crawling the publicly accessible web (which legitimate search engines do all the time) and scraping an authenticated web application or API.
The IRS isn’t going to get involved if your physics don’t match reality. Defining and creating your own data means you get to skip most of the headaches in business software development.
So I'm pretty new to Terraform, and in my team we were planning to set it up for our infrastructure next month. Does that change something for us? If it stays backward compatible I assume not much would have to be done for switching? I'd definitely prefer an open license.
It's the 7B model, which is understood to be a toy model for fun experimentation across the industry and even hobbyists.

I'm sure OP is not going to go out and treat patients with this. 7B barely produces sensical sentences most of the time.
I agree, but it would be better to spell out the many many ways than to leave it dangling.
Release engineer here. No, this tool merely complements our core offerings and also has some use as a standalone tool. We can currently use any of the AI API offerings that are compatible; OpenAI is the one that is most common though. If they shut it down, a lot of people would have to migrate to a different provider but our tool could still work.
Pretty sure that what he's saying is that if we need a 4C increase to trigger mass die-off of tropical forests it's mostly irrelevant since at +4C we enter a lot of other catastrophic scenarios.

It's like if you discovered that when your house is on fire the windows will break. It's interesting on the scientific merits but if your house is on fire the whole building is at stake so it was already understood that the windows will break.
It's very good for its time, but also very harsh. It was polished to perfection in Wipeout 2/XL.
Most linux desktop environments (notable exception of Gnome3 though it applies for Gnome2) seem to favour old school UX design which, incidentally, I happen to find nicer than “pretty”.

I personally really like the Adwaita icon sets much more than windows and at least on-par with MacOS, though MacOS has the advantage of being rendered only on extremely high DPI screens. So most people only have that experienfe
So one issue that this article glosses over is how contextual advertising interacts with attribution.

Essentially, as an advertiser, in order to do effective contextual advertisement, you need to have some idea of how ads perform in a particular context - on a particular web page or app. So what you would really like to say is that "people who saw our ad on X were Y% more likely to visit or website, or buy our product". However, in order to actually measure that, when a user comes to your website you need to know which of your ads they've seen. Traditionally, you'd just serve the ad from your domain and set a cookie, but now you can't do that.

This is more relevant to brand advertising than "click here and buy product X" (direct response), but I think that the people saying "oh, just use contextual advertising" are underestimating the extent to which GDPR makes contextual advertising difficult.
Thank you for correcting me!

Two sources (mariadb and fossa.com) claim that by BSL any production use requires a different (commercial) licence, while HashiCorp's explanation [0] indeed tells that there is no change except for those providing competitive offerings (I'll take their word for it). Which seems... more than fair? Not sure what the uproar is about either, if anything, I understand (and support) HashiCorp. Too bad about the split though.

[0] https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq
> How do you define value?

The buyer defines it as he sees fit, so does the seller. No sale happens unless they both agree on the value.
That's a very interesting comparison (thanks!), but I'm not sure if it's the correct framing. Making scraping technically difficult would be equivalent to trying to score a goal (so still not great, for the rest of the world, but probably not hypocritical).

Trying to prevent certain classes of behaviours via legal means is more like trying to prevent certain types of play, by appealing to the referee, while still doing them yourself. Clearly, this often does happen in sports, but _is_ generally seen as hypocritical.
I don't know. I don't think anyone is directly programming GPT-4 to behave in any way, they're just training it to give the responses they want, and it learns. Something inside it seems to be figuring out some way of representing confidence in its own answers, and reacting in the appropriate way, or perhaps it is checking its own reasoning. I don't think anyone really knows at this point.
I think build systems are a very big reason for the mess javascript is in nowadays.

- Typescript is very light from the code transformation point of view. If anyone remembers the output of babel especially for async/await + the way module imports are implemented generates a really hard to read code and the "best practices" about hiding the state make things a lot harder. Just think about the fact that back in the days (tm) it was common to inspect the state of the app and change it full lisp style and now the js console can mostly be used for quick code tests and looking around when execution is stopped at breakpoint and you can't see that much anyway because of how the code is generated.
- The whole babel thing still feels like a madness to me. Yeah, you're getting some new language features but for the price of non obvious code transformation that makes you need source maps (and you need to make them work and maintain that) and all the rest
- Build step + npm results in on controlled bloat of the js bundle. `npm install <random-component>` may inflate you bundle by 500kb easily
- And with all that there is still a quite big trouble with requiring necessary modules for the use on frontend. Just think that there is still no simple way to require all css provided by a library from npm

Another big problem on my opinion is the propagation of "write once/use everywhere" approach. It works sometimes yeah, but you need to sell your soul for that: you'll have to use something like next.js and that implies that you're bound to use node.js and then you either do all your development in node or have another service doing stuff in the language of your choice and then have a node service as a templating layer and then you need containers and orchestration and so on which makes it a technically challenging project for something that almost for sure can be done in some trivial set of technologies if this requirement had been dropped.

One could argue that we need a different approach with libraries that acknowledges that frontend is distinct world and aims to provide ready made components specifically for the web with an easy setup and no/minimal dependencies. Maybe even with a vendor folder like approach, since the won't be too much code anyway. That should be enough for 99.999% of projects and the rest can use the full scale approach and embrace complexity if they really need it.
Today I learned: Vim can edit Zip files in-place
There is one scam that is "Donate for a chance to have dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, all expenses paid!" that a family member falls for. As far as I know they've donated tens of thousands of dollars, their phone rings off the hook, must be a big fish for this type of scam.
More conversation over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37256484
and they don’t now for good reason. Lua and LuaJIT are terrible to work with.
It’s spam if what you are publishing is spam. It’s simple as that.
For those playing with this - If you attach unique identifiers in a consistent way to your documents - you can prompt to cite sources when generating the answer.
Boulder is a remote place? Maybe the headline (and article) could be rewritten “moving away from your support network can leave you without… wait for it, a support network.”
What's with the `?ref=blog.phylum.io` parameters on all the links?

That they are using this tracking mechanism on all links is surprising enough (I doubt most of the open-source projects linked in the blog are tracking those), they are not even using standard parameters e.g. `utm_source`.
I don't know why WorldCoin specifically wanted specifically iris scans, but I know that companies frequently toe the line when it comes to the law, and step over it if the fines are small enough, and that they're data-hungry. Facebook + Cambridge Analytica + election eruption. Github + Copilot. Stable Diffusion + "AI art". LLM + Reddit and other websites making moves towards a closed internet to avoid scraping. Just because the data collection wasn't valuable at the time it was collected, doesn't mean it didn't become so after a critical threshold. These trends monetarily benefit a few people, and the rest of us get enshittification.

Just because iris data may not be valuable today, doesn't mean it won't be insanely valuable in the future, but it does practically guarantee that benefits won't be shared equitably. Remember Henrietta Lacks? Her family only just reached a settlement with Thermo Fisher this month. How much money does TFS make, how much are HeLa cells worth, and how much did the Lacks estate end up getting?

If iris scans are so irrelevant, then why did WorldCoin flat out ignore Kenya's order to stop collecting that information for months? Shouldn't a bunch of geniuses work there - they could make their code compliant if they wanted to. So why did they keep collecting?