skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very apropos, I'm trying to write a guide for my team called "git beyond pull/push and checkout".

I'm trying to write something that will demystify git for the developers in this team. So I want to show them the files in .git, and connect them to the concepts they know like branches, etc. I'm always on the lookout for new stuff to include.

The more I can read, the better information I can put in this guide.
This is a key point.

If you look at people, each of them have multiple different “personas” throughout the day/week/etc.[0]

Some of them, sometimes, are builders or content creators.

Some of them, sometimes, are conscientious consumers, looking to stretch their understanding or themselves and think hard about something that they are consuming.

But all of them, sometimes, are Marl.

There will always be a way to find more Marls to add to your user pool because Marl is the basest human need for a steady effortless dopamine drip. Just about everyone has some amount of time that they spend as Marl, so there is an almost limitless pool of Marl time to pull new users from.

I’m trying to find some way to say that this isn’t what you actually want, but I’m struggling. If you are making a product for everyone, Marl is the only persona that is in everyone, so you should probably target Marl.

However, if you are trying to build a product for a more constrained persona, you should probably be careful of using metrics that measure Marls. Because there are so many of them (even your users with other personas are sometimes Marls!) if you aren’t really careful, you will enshitify your product as you continue your A/B testing gradient descent into a user base of Marls, without anyone you were trying to get — even if you don’t loose your content creators and conscientious consumers, you have converted them into Marls, and lost what you were trying to achieve.

Enshitification is the conversion of your target user from any other kind of persona, to Marls.

[0] there are other personas, these were that the ones that immediately came to mind.
At some point it did. I'm not saying currently, but when mega labs came on the scene, I guess it did.

Of course, as a non-meth user and non-expert (although I wouldn't trust "experts" on drugs) I'm not sure, but somewhere in the 90s to early 2000s, they really figured out how to flood the market.
They've gotten commodified. It's going to be like being Oracle in a Postgre/MySQL world. You'll have some big legacy customers who just can't switch. But the market as a whole was primed to pack up and leave anyway. Gamedev has high turnover, and what the new kids are going to gravitate towards is what works immediately for them, which Godot superseded Unity on out-of-the-box experiences a long while back, and now has the tutorial content to accompany it.

What Unity has in its favor is mostly in the Asset Store, but that's shifted towards being a commodity as well.
Can't wait to get my hands on more of the RTCA standards documents behind aviation equipment/avionics regulations. Instead of having to beg borrow or steal just to be able to provide free help/advice to organizations like the FAA.

Lots of input there from taxpayer funded organizations like the FAA and Mitre and MIT Lincon Labs and us tax payers end up expected to buy it back again...
I have no idea, but i can copy some data from the package:

One is SV AS +2.5 sphere 0 cyl duravision platinum uv 1.60 index (guess this is what you’re talking about) uvprotect

The other is the same but 1.25 sphere

Hope it helps
I did read the thread. I'm objecting to the idea that stacking lossless corrections onto lossy compression and then measuring the total is a good way to measure what we want to measure here, wrt human knowledge. It may be the best we have, but it's not good.

See my other comment here, that I probably shouldn't have put in a reply to a reply to a dead comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37506099
I mean that the comparison is incorrect. Irrelevant was the wrong word. There's no similarity between any of the 3
Congrats on your success. I'd love to learn more. Please DM if you would entertain selling or just open to a conversation.
It's kind of true with git-lfs.
Monopolies are desirable (unavoidable?) in some cases. I don't want 35 competing toll roads running past my house. Natural monopolies, goods and services that will never be profitable (or would just never be as profitable as refusing to provide them would), and essential services are ideal for public monopolies. I'm not sure there's ever a situation where a private monopoly is the ideal though.
Turning history off is not a get-out-of-jail-free card. I personally remember a Google Legal executive saying that you just should not say some things electronically at all.
100% agree. This speaking-in-code game is testament to the complete ineffectiveness of antitrust laws. I went through this training as well and it’s explicitly just about avoiding certain words and phrases. Meanwhile we have an industry where the norm is anti-competitive behavior and myopic dominance games. These rent-seeking monopolies aren’t created by accident.
Aren’t any cast addresses a specific subset of ips and thus knowable? Iirc, each autonomous system is allocated anycast ip space?
Do you have a source for this? As far as I know the purpose of corporations is to shield owners from losses and not a whole lot beyond that.
You clearly are more informed than me, but my experience was from randomly reading pages. Maybe I got lucky. Though I recall one page with long lists of ancestry, x begat y - similar to a telephone book as you mention.
Yeah, MaxMind is the best I have used with caveats. You need to update it frequently, and you need to allow for overrides.
Tim Sweeney (Dec 2022): Epic Games will ‘fight on to victory, whatever it costs’ in Apple legal battle
As someone that lives in a country where the national language is not my first language, I hate websites that use IP location to make assumptions about my choice of language and it being forced on me based on a lazy assumption, when my browser is sending language headers quite clearly, and they are ignored.
No, but doing so would be consistent with my beliefs and I think it would be considered admirable to most people.
Apple’s new USB-C iPhone cables and dongles are predictably expensive
Recommend revisiting Huntley's blog post for the insight that he so charitably and concisely conveys. As for derived enlightenment, the onus is entirely on you; I have no interest in bartering an appeal to conditional short-sightedness.
only if you assume there is the same level of instantaneous demand for a supply of 10x as many shares

definitely not the case
> I want to host my own RSS server though and then maybe use a native reader to view it, like an RSS of RSS feeds.

I've been using Tiny Tiny RSS to do this for years. It works very well. https://tt-rss.org/
I meant compared to gasoline.
There's different kinds of those bags. My favorite is a rectangular prism, has a zipper and backpack straps and sells for like $4.99. I think it may have been discontinued in my area, or it is of sporadic availability?
The winners of the 2023 Ig Nobel Prizes
A good time to be working on AI: an interview with Professor Sue Black
I use stringer https://github.com/stringer-rss/stringer

I self host on docker been running reliably for a few years without issue.
6.5 seconds used to be pretty fast, thirty years ago.

Now nearly every mainstream sedan or minivan with a V6 will do that, often better.
One of the first and most notable links on the page is labeled "Learn What Is Whonix?". You should read it.
Hydrogen is a gas, which expands or compresses to fill all available space, so its density varies. People really need to check their understanding of physics here.
How do per-installation fees work in the case of piracy? Will game studios have to pay for pirated installs?

And if a user installs a game twice, do they have to pay the fee twice? Forget review bombing, now people can hate install a game.
I’d definitely read this if you’re able to share it publicly
Webb finds molecule only made by living things in another world
I had this issue growing up, except it was cyrillic. Reading cursive cyrillic is its own beast of an undertaking, but writing it is hell on earth and I wouldn't wish it upon by greatest enemy. They'd even refuse to grade anything handed in in non-cursive, which never made sense to me because doesn't it fucking suck to attempt to grade those papers when it's all just very long squiggles? Seriously the letters šćčti and Dž all look identical in cursive, and many words have a lot of words have these letters one after the other so you just end up with loop after loop, it's ridiculous

Fast forward a decade and I can barely read cursive cyrillic anymore and I definitely can't write in cursive, thank god.
This is fantastic! I had kind of stopped buying Chromebooks because of how short the supported life was, even though they were great for my needs and very affordable. I'll be buying Chromebooks again.

With Pixel phones getting 5 years, and Chromebooks getting 10, I'm feeling good again about recommending them to people, particularly since they are unlockable so you can install alternative ROMs to get more life. I'd really love to see them match Apple by doing at least 7 years for Pixel phones, but I'm feeling really good about the direction we're going!
Willie Smits: How to restore a rainforest ?

https://www.ted.com/talks/willie_smits_how_to_restore_a_rain...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vfuCPFb8wk
The main controversy is that they seem to intend to apply this to any new installs of any Unity game still available on the market as of 1/1/2024, including any that were already developed and released under different Terms of Service—and possibly even ones already sold that way.

As far as I can tell, their model even seems to include, for example, any installs on a different system that I might do of the Unity-based game Cult of the Lamb I already bought—months ago when it launched and when Unity had a different TOS. And that’s bad news for the devs because Steam’s terms of sale allow me unlimited multiple installs anywhere I have Steam installed, as long as they only run one at a time.

But even if Unity doesn’t try to go that far, it would absolutely apply if I did a second install of a new license I bought after 1/1/2024 on EGS, or if I got put on Game Pass and I did a new install from that somewhere I didn’t want to install Steam.

And since Unity apparently uses click wrap agreements upon opening their dev tools to set licensing terms, using the tools to make a patch afterwards would likely include new terms that subsequent installs of the patched version will now be counted for existing licenses, even if the original deployment wasn’t under those terms.

That led to Massive Monster’s response that they’re going to be delisting Cult of the Lamb entirely.

As far as what you quoted, all this says is that they won’t use their historical telemetry data to retroactively bill you for installs performed before 1/1/2024, and that any given install will only be charged for once. But multiple installs by the same purchaser are still charged multiple times unless Unity agrees they’re all on the same system.
Oracle brings its database infrastructure to Microsoft Azure
Switch over to Unreal. There is no risk over there.

Tim Sweeney (Dec 2022): Epic Games will ‘fight on to victory, whatever it costs’ in Apple legal battle

Psst...that cost will be Unreal.
"Does turmeric really help protect us from cancer?"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/PSTGKKt3HR08tmK69w...
World's greatest detective? Independently wealthy?
YouTrack.

Free for 10 users, cheap for anyone above that.

Has a real nice integration with git forges, custom fields and workflows up the wazoo.
$2 Photo Found at Junk Store Has Billy the Kid in It, Could Be Worth $5M (2015)
which is why it's meaningless to try to equate market cap with an unconditional instantaneous purchase of all outstanding shares
Research suggests Mars has far fewer minerals than Earth
> Most people have a computer...it costs nothing to install Linux and GCC/rustc/Python/etc and start contributing to open source software. For open hardware, you need (at minimum) a decent FPGA for testing/development;

That wasn't even true when open source got started. Typical access was to expensive mainframes and VAXen available only in universities and major corporations. PCs were only starting to become a thing and most people didn't have one.

That model still works if you need something expensive. Get your university to buy one, or your company if it will save them $0.05/unit on the millions of devices they sell. Or you rent one in the cloud.

You also might not need your own. A project gets started by someone who does have access to a decent FPGA, you want to contribute to it, great. They give you remote access to the FPGA.

Meanwhile FPGA prices keep going down.

> but access to fabrication resources to be in anyway competitive.

Which is available to anyone, if you have customer demand. They've made millions of Raspberry Pis.
It's not actually insurance, it's a payment plan. Insurance is meant to cover unexpected events, with this you pay a monthly fee for "insurance" which gives you the right to buy the glasses later for a normal price.

The other companies you mention are actual insurance: They cover rare, and unexpected events. As opposed to covering once every two year glasses, on a schedule.
> Does this effectively remove Xitter from the center of public discourse?

I honestly don't think that Twitter was ever the "center of public discourse". At its peak, it was used by a bit more than 20% of people in the US, far below the likes of Facebook.
I didn't notice that is a Pareto distribution! Well, that is quite nice indeed.
I'm often skeptical of claims like the one I read here...not this time. This is is pretty egregious, and thanks to Professor Levin for providing lots of supporting material, making the offense even more obvious.
Fundamentally, translation is a harder problem than it gets credit for. At the dictionary level, you're mostly alright, as words and concepts tend to have pretty close direct translations (though you'll often need context, as homynyms exist). A step above that, forming full statements, you run into some difficulty, due to the difficulty in translating the subtleties of word choice, as you've got a fair amount of cultural context to take into account. "Forgive me Father for I have sinned" does not carry the connotations as "Sorry, Daddy, I've been naughty". But a step up from there, translating entire texts, you need a pretty complex theory of the mind, as you need to take into account the context of the author's perspective, their interpretation of their intended audience's perspective, and your audience's perspective.

For example, my "Forgive/Sorry" joke earlier relies on the context of both you and I being somewhat aware of A) the Catholic church's process of confessional and B) the relatively modern use of "Daddy" and "naughty" with sexual connotations, which, forget language specific, is culturally specific, where the joke would break if you tried telling it to, say, a place that still used "Daddy" as perfectly normal way to address one's father, or lacked the cultural norm of sexualizing authority.

If someone was trying to translate this comment to another language, they might have to completely alter that joke in order for it to make any sense, at which point that entire last paragraph would have to change, etc. Modern AI tools have largely reached a point where the homonym problem isn't crippling them anymore, but haven't really reached much beyond that.
It’s a good thing that we keep learning. Keep walking, Johnnie walker!
I daresay this would've been significantly more serious than that Chinese incident, given the pre-existing situation with Russia, that it would've probably killed everyone on board, and it would've been on purpose.
> There's just no way this change is actually gonna happen.

You under-estimate the degree to which companies can be driven by an exec determined to have their way.
To be honest... yeah, maybe even more.
What the sugar and electricity have in common that the pH and temperature don't is the possibility of setting up an ecosystem that crowds out the original one for nutrients but doesn't process the waste, due to having another more effective energy source.
> if you go RISC-V, you are free to switch CPU providers.

That's not even true within the ARM ecosystem itself. The chips from Infineon are not source-code compatible with STM, STM is not compatible with Microchip, Microchip is not compatible with TI...

The problem is that the ARM core is just a portion of the architecture. Everything on top of that - GPIO, memory interfaces, timing, etc - is vendor specific, and will stay that way for RISC-V. RISC-V is just an instruction set architecture (with some appendages), not a blueprint for a complete CPU / MCU / SoC.

Not to mention, the chips also won't be electrically-compatible. Your hardware architecture can be as daunting to redesign as the code, if not more so. There's a reason why we try to do as much as possible in software, after all...
This is depressing to read.

This is so close to being the amazing story we all want to hear about.

A veteran, suffering from PTSD, falls on hard times and ends up homeless. Despite his hard situation, he strives to help those who are even worse off. He learns how to program and uses these skills to build something to improve the lives of those are severely disadvantaged. He spends years working on this project and ends up building something really cool and useful.

So useful in fact that his dedication pays off and one of the biggest software companies in the world is inspired and brings him on to scale up this technology to help improve the lives of millions.

Except of course that doesn't end up happening. Instead, we're left reminded that life can be cruel.
Your scenario leaves a lot to be desired.

Yeah two people only.

Well Your scenario can easily be countered with the imaginary scenario
that you have a town with 1 billion residents, far too little housing,
no green space left due to trying to provide housing and the city
only has natural resources for perhaps 300.000.000.

Now 100.000.000 immigrants arrive.
There is not enough food, water, hygiene.
Hopefully, opening delis will solve the issue.

Yes, it is absurd. But no more so than a world of 2.

History though does prove your theory right.
When proud and brave Europeans immigrated to what would become the United States.

"When they arrive there are no stores to buy goodies from because who would create such a store for just 2 people? Perhaps an immigrant, could open a deli!""

Thankfully for the native people's immigrants came in to create a consumer capitalist culture.

Can you imagine the utter horror if they native peoples were allowed to
keep their versions of society going and develop it the way they wanted.
They sure were blessed by the immigrants.
A lot the natives' peoples also became xenophobes and
we sure now what bastards' xenophobes are.
But if your laundromat is better in some way (service, cost, marketing), why wouldn't you want to grow? And if the market is a fixed size, (which just about every market is) doesn't that inevitably result in Paul adapting to keep up or closing down? When did it become immoral to realize this and strive for it? In this scenario everyone besides Paul benefits. And so it will be when you become the incumbent and face a competitor with a similar edge.

In Google's case, I suspect "search" will die to AI like Blackberries died to iPhones. Google is already proving that its size and bureaucratic unwieldiness are major obstacles to its competing in the AI space. Would we really hold back the vast social benefits of this progress because we object to some people becoming obscenely wealthy?
> So, personal anecdotal experience.

And this is what again?

> I throw my bike/skis on the truck and drive out for fun times on a whim at least twice a week

You think the average driver is more likely to be a general commuter/local city kind of driver or one throwing their skis in the back of their car twice a week? Which one is basing their view of reality more on personal anecdotes?

> Last stats I read had something like 75% of owners had access to one, compared to only 39% of renters.

The majority of Americans live in single family homes. By a large measure. The next largest category are single-family attached. That's 70% of the total housing stock. These kinds of structures can (generally) easily add some form of charging, even if only outside. Then you figure, chances are households who have zero cars are probably the ones in dense housing units, so car ownership is even more weighted towards those in these kinds of units, so for car owning households (and especially multi-car owning households) you're probably even higher than just 70%.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1042111/single-family-vs...

I'm speaking to those living in suburban/urban settings in single family homes (detached or attached) who mostly use their cars around the city and commuting. They're talking about people driving on >100mi ski trips twice a week. Which one is probably more like the average driver? Who is basing their view mostly off anecdotes and who is basing it off actual statistics?

I'm not saying EVs work for every use case -- clearly they don't! But for the majority of drivers in the US, range anxiety is irrational at this point and they'll spend more time and money pumping gas than plugging in.
Ages ago, I tried out Puppy Linux, that ran from a burned CD. If I made updates, it wrote another filesystem extent to the disc, and I think the loading process just used those to over-write files as needed until the boot completed.

I was thinking of it for a home firewall at the time, but in any case, it made for a very ephemeral system.
They don't need to monetize every sub. Most subscribers to dragonsfuckingcars probably sub to several other subs that can be monetized. Keeping all the weird niche stuff around keeps users scrolling longer. Just keep them off /r/all.
>"Don’t act unethically in business and you’ll be ok too."

Easy to say, but the real world is full of grey areas, judgement calls, and interpretations. We don't have a law that says "don't act unethically" because it is way too broad. Regardless, you would still need a judge or a jury in order to make a verdict that unethical actions were taken.
OCaml 5.1 Released – 50% Smaller Installation Size
Notepad++ doesn't support RTF nor DOCX.
I think there are three things worth distinguishing.

1. "Don't do these bad things."

2. "Don't talk about it when you do these bad things."

3. "For chrissake don't talk like you're doing these things when you're not even doing them."

1 and 3 are appropriate, 2 isn't. I agree that the lines are not always obvious.
But how does that warm rivers in the US and central Europe?
The thief left DNA evidence at the scene and eventually pleaded guilty. The person in TFA didn't "find" the artwork, someone came to him with it in order to arrange a handover without getting into legal trouble themselves.
I'm in Munich. Cloudflare tells a position that is 730km to the north in a random forest.
Because there is an endless amount of human time spent like this, but we all have limited attention for other things.

If you try to appeal to someone’s better parts, then there is a limit to the amount of attention that they can apply to your product.

If you try to appeal to someone’s base need for dopamine, then the limit of attention is much higher.
Did the website only give you all the option to agree to their privacy policy, and not decline? If so that seems very disingenuous.
Kind of odd that this doesn't really go into metrics directly nor does it mention one of the more interesting cases which is infinite dimensionality.
I tend to agree, but also realize most phones run on razor thin if not negative margins. Stocks are all about looking long term, and as an investor I'd have concerns about the rise of RISCV or other 'free' ISAs on that horizon.