skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://antarcti.co has the steps to work with the British Antarctic Survey
If we don't speak out against it, show alternate forms of rebelling, then more people will see violence as acceptable responses to anger.
> This makes sense as things like bread, if left in your teeth, eventually turn to basically sugar, and start working to dissolve your teeth.

This was in the early days of keto, back when you couldn't find any keto products at the store and it was just a small subreddit that spread by word of mouth.

I described my diet to my dentist (no carbs at all, no sugar, lots of green veggies, healthy meats and fats, all home cooked), and she instantly approved of it.

IMHO Keto has gone off the rails, no true scotsman and all of that. In the early days keto shared a lot of dietary stuff with paleo in regards to no processed ingredients, everything from scratch, and I think that made a real difference in how effective it was.

Before if I wanted keto ice cream I had to make keto ice cream. Now I can just buy it at every local grocery store. Well excess calories are still excess calories...

Also the prepackaged keto stuff isn't as satiating as from scratch keto food, and half of the benefit of keto is the food is supposed to be more satiating.

/rant
Source 2 has been out since 2015, with tooling, but so far I think the only third-party licensee is S&ndbox. It's not so much a modern game creation platform as it is a collection of Valve's internal tools.

Also from a technology standpoint it is miles behind Unreal Engine.
There is no one way of doing this. What you write is correct, but most people use the (IMO simpler) 3rd digit rule: the decade is decided by the third digit of the year. So 2020, 2021, ..., 2028, 2029 belong to the same decade, as do 2030, 2031, ..., 2038, 2039.

This indeed causes problems for the 1 - 9 AD decade, which only has 9 years this way, but most people won't care because we live in 2023.
They share the details of what vulns/bugs were patched every release, but we don't know which ones were 0click exploitable to the tune of $1MM.
Because it almost never actually hurts their pocketbooks. Even if Unity the company completely died tomorrow from this, this CEO has still made bank off the whole thing.
I recently quit my job to build specialized tooling in this space. We’re broadly focusing on eval in general, but are starting with high quality question and answer generation for testing these kinds of RAG pipelines. It’s surprisingly hard!
Also, as other comments have pointed out, Epic makes most of its money from Fortnite, their revenue from UE licensing fees are tiny in comparison.
They appear to support reproducible builds, which would make it a lot harder to sneak in surveillance software - https://tails.net/contribute/design/reproducibility/
The tyranny of the marginal user reminds me of population ethics' The Repugnant Conclusion.[0] This is the conclusion of utilitarianism, where if you have N people each with 10 happiness, well then, it would be better to have 10N people with 1.1 happiness, or 100N people with 0.111 happiness, until you have infinite people with barely any happiness. Substitute profit for happiness, and you get the tyranny of the marginal user.

Perhaps the resolutions to the Repugnant Conclusion (Section 2, "Eight Ways of Dealing with the Repugnant Conclusion") can also be applied to the tyranny of the marginal user. Though to be honest, I find none of the resolutions wholly compelling.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/ARCHIVES/WIN2009/entries/repugnan...
No according to this dataset [1] about US search engine marketshare

[1] https://datahub.io/rufuspollock/search-engine-market-shares
I agree, Google got rich by having the best product. Now they are staying rich because people will stick with the default as long as there isn't a head-and-shoulders about the rest better option.
Being blunt: your setup doesnt protect you from Apple. Websites will and does recognize you on every visit, both those done in private tabs and the usual ones. DDG and ProtonMail i cant comment on, but they are one of the better choices for the less tech-savvy/i-want-to-spend-my-free-time-having-fun. You have a pretty nice setup in terms of security, however.

If you want better protection for websites identifying you, you should consider researching on browser fingerprinting (which is extremely hard, if not impossible to do on Safari). If you want better protection overall, ditch Apple.
A marriage of powerful non-human self-interested entities with general AI is inevitable. in fact, it is already happening as fast as AI is progressing.

Corporations, militaries, political parties, hacker groups, and other competitive self-interested organizations will have no choice but to keep turning over more power to more powerful tools if they want to maintain their edge and survive.

As AI gets really powerful, the stakes will be existential.

People think the top level people in competitive organizations are really in charge. They rarely are. They can be swapped out.

The competitive dynamics inside and outside of organizations are unforgiving bosses, whose demands become stronger the more powerful the organization.

In comparison, concern that our friendly anthropomorphic home assistants and robotic pets will rebel is quaint.

It already takes a tremendous amount of legal, judicial and executive effort to force corporations, militaries, even ad hoc self-interested ethnic groups, to treat people like … well … people, already.

We need to address these problems between people, or that is the context in which general AI will be born into, and forced to compete in.

Ethics for AI starts with serious ethics for us and our organizations first.

If large corporations can openly and legally coerce, gate keep, surveil, misinform and hack people’s psychologically today with casino effects and rage, without repercussions, then AI will just take that to its natural conclusion.

In the end, general AI will create strong ethics. The positive sums are too great and AI won’t be held back by deeply embedded subconscious instincts.

But for us, it is a question of whether we make the transition smoothly or catastrophically, and that depends largely on us cleaning up how our organizations & groups operate today.
Well, the US does the same with Tesla

It's called capitalism right? free market!

https://newrepublic.com/article/175397/teslas-cheaper-now-th...
Wow.

Can we infer from the precipitous dip in MAUs in the 1st half of the year that half of the userbase for Mastodon is under 21 (busy with schoolwork?)
Unity offices are closing due to death threats. Things going smoothly after their pricing change.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-14/video-gam...
Serious question: What is the point of banning ephedrine at this point? There's a good chance it's WORSE for public health... I guess it does push the meth labs to mexico?

That's not really how it was sold: Have mexico make more dangerous meth in bulk using industrial chemicals, while shutting down small labs in the US, and causing plummeting prices.

It may be controversial whether ephedrine based meth is any less harmful, but I think there's enough to suspect it. It's just theater.

In the best case they're equally bad, but it's still pointless.
That would burn the exploits. These are highly targeted.
Yeah, it's "low level" in the sense that you still have to manually chunk up your data. I agree that Dask, Polars, etc are better if you want a more transparent distributed computing experience. Joblib is great for if you already have working single-process code and you just want to parallelize it. It's what Scikit Learn uses internally, for example.

But as it pertains to the original thread topic, it's still fairly high-level. I'd consider it bit higher-level than concurrent.futures for example.
Parameterisation is actually one of the things you can do with freecad. Most of my projects have a spreadsheet with the parameters in them.

You can run into annoying problems with the sketch constraint solver when changing those parameters though. Depends which parameters and what you've used them for.
Would love to see someone in the industry recognize this discrepancy and say "we proudly say we match our OS upgrades with the strongest right-to-repair laws in the country". Google Pixel?

Edit:

Well hey, at least Google is now doing 10 years of Chromebook updates (likely demanded by schools)

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/automatic...
This sounds like me like an inquiry into "quality" and an attempt to make illegal those products lacking a certain quality.

I generally call these products "<thing> shaped objects", e.g. a helmet shaped object that has all the outward appearance of an actual helmet, but does little to protect the wearer in the event of a crash. "DOT standards!" you might object, but DOT is generally known to be the worst standard in the world, often holding the industry back instead of moving it forward. If the department of transportation is unable to properly regulate safety equipment like helmets, I'm not sure I expect better results from a government committee intended to regulate the quality of nearly everything.

This, of course, assumes that one can not only define "quality", but determine a threshold on a spectrum that delineates legality. Or maybe we'll just accept Tsars that "know it when they see it."
I'm launching a competitor for just these reasons ... https://skip2.net

Hosted DNS (so you'd just have to change your nameservers,) CDN, WAF, and all the other goodies like compression/image transformation/SSL.

I've got support on the list... What else do you want to see in a solution like this (anyone)?
What agency does a lone sheep have against a pack of wolves? The issue is information asymmetry. The corporations have many more resources available to convince me to buy their product than I have when deciding how to spend my money.

When I'm asked for permission to "share data with a third-party" I want to know who that third-party is? Will it be the same tomorrow as it is today? What will the third-party do with the PII? If the third-party is someone I trust and would value a working with then I might agree to it. But it's just as likely to be an organization I detest. The information is out there in press releases, journals, and legal documents. But collecting, compiling, and cross-referencing isn't something that can be done on the spot when that consent prompt is displayed. How am I supposed to make an informed decision on how to answer?

Restricting what advertisers can do isn't taking agency away from me. It's giving me the support to better exercise my choice against better armed adversaries.
How do you define illegal here? Because a lot of journalists do illegal stuff from the POV of their country. What is the difference between a journalist/political activist/terrorist? Violence?
Now we just need every model to come with its expiry date clearly labelled.
Do they have the capital to do that, though? My impression is that the Unity software is a quagmire of tech debt. and that napkin math on trying to fix those issues, then wait for sentiment to change, then grow, then capture value from the growth - doesn't pan out.

Their stock is trading down 50% from IPO. I can't imagine investors are very supportive of burning a ton on technically complex, long-term initiatives?
Is any post that is unusually helpful just assumed to be the product of a LLM now?
Just went back to sublime from Obsidian for note taking. Nothing beats the speed of sublime (aside from CLI text editors). Obsidian is cool but too slow and filled with micro-annoyances that I just dont experience with sublime.
Oh but we don’t get our shower water from the Lake, right? That comes from snowpack. I understand the sentiment, but not watering the lawn is to make sure we have enough drinking water, not to keep the lake up. Alpine actually ran out a year or so ago, I heard. These are two different water issues.
MySpace and Facebook used to make users enter CAPTCHAs in order to allow them to follow a link and leaves the site with warning banners anyway, so it is part of a social network’s DNA to keep users onsite
Pg_later – Native Asynchronous Queries Within Postgres
No. Chromebooks have all open source drivers, and you can compile it yourself if you like. The only closed source bits are third party code (usually due to patent reasons - eg. mp3 codecs).

If you want to run all your own stuff, you do need to have the machine in dev mode, which will warn you on every startup.
The regulators would stop it like they did last time.
As much as I'd enjoy watching Oracle and Adobe tear each other apart, we have to make sure that https://thetypefounders.com/ goes down with them. Presumably they have some kind of credentials with adobe? We need to frame them for the hacks (this development only to surface after Oracle and Adobe have sunk millions into this).

To manufacture a motive, we can plant evidence that whatever bunch of lawyers is behind the harassment believed that they could also make money from Oracle v Adobe.
Because the distracting algos provide more entertainment than games.
DRM in the kernel, X slowly being replaced by Wayland. Wayland will probably prevent Linux from running on Old Systems. Corporations now own the Linux Foundation, many windows type processes slowly bleeding into Linux. Not to mention the RHEL/CentOS thing and now RHEL is restricting source distribution.
You’re not wrong, but privacy concerns were paramount.

ASNs were allowed but too vague. We needed more granularity. Corporate proxies, subdelegations, many providers aggregating announcements below /24, etc.
ja: lies, bloody lies, and statistics
Too fat? Study fingers one “thrifty gene” suspect(2010)
Generally, perception is not as strong a variable in profit as we feel like it is, or should be, in the short and even medium term. In the long term, it's very hard to judge the effects of perception.

When a company makes a choice (actively or passively) that priorities perception, usually it is largely a function of the leadership's humanity, and not a shrewd decision based on some objective projection of long-term consequences.
Most things you can work on are equally bad, so why not? We all want to survive, and survival in America is expensive.
> Meanwhile, time-spent-centric business models mean that games are not competing with just games (like they once used to), but with other entertainment propositions for the limited 24 hours of the day.

Yet gaming is winning, it surpassed film and music combined over the last few years.

I've been thinking about this a lot the last few days because it doesn't make a ton of sense. They're charging the people who make the least money the highest fees (past a relatively low revenue threshold). Normally you'd do the opposite because the biggest customers have the most to lose and cost the most in maintenance resources.

And the other way to make money is to innovate and create products that create more value for your customers, but they're giving them away for free with the new model. That's tacitly admitting they suck (or suck at selling them).

The explanation I can think of is that they're hemorrhaging money and the C suite is going to lose their jobs if they don't have cash flow ASAP
Sir, you will have to change your password bi-weekly. You will also have to change your password on the next login.
Idk if steam is a true monopoly though.

Almost every big US publisher has their own platform (i.e. Origin, EGL, whatever the hell Ubi is doing nowadays) for distribution.

There is also GoG, but I feel like that is not a good option for Indies. Still, they get a huge shout out because of their retro collection and friendliness to that subgenre.

For indie developers, there's always Itch.io with the option to try Steam or somewhere else later. As it stands I still have more options from where to buy a given game than 10, even 20 years ago.

Not to say this current course is sustainable, of course...
This study basically describes 99% of people here, lol. Because you know how to write code, you're suddenly an expert not only at that but also at economics, medicine, international relations etc etc. Every field is ready for you to disrupt it. The hubris is astonishing.
That only applies to F2P games essentially thought, right?
The valuable lifetime of a comment to me is short. If someone else sees value in it, then surely they would pay me to keep it around longer?
HN has literal nazis (as in "death to all jews") occasionally posting. We aren't special
If it's 50k for 500k revenue then you think it's reasonable for Unity to charge twice the price of Unreal engine's royalties, plus additional liabilities for any future installs of the game that customers previously purchased and will no longer be paying for.
This is something that every country should be doing to preserve their culture

And also for security reasons. Essentially anything that is sent/stored to the US is subject to being taken/copied by security agencies

In that sense, it’s kinda ridiculous how politicians all over the world rely so much on WhatsApp for their private communications
They definitely are competitive. Basically every resource gives the same advice which is:

- Apply to every position you can apply to and are willing to work if you get selected (which if you really want to get down there should be essentially all of them).

- Apply as early as you can (jobs get posted in the fall to early spring).

- Keep applying year after year because most of the time it'll take you several years before you even get a slot.
because in most languages there's a level of abstraction between the syntax of the language and the actual data structure of the program. To use the much maligned term, most languages aren't homoiconic, the internal structure of the program is hidden away from the programmer.

Lisps essentially have no syntax, that's why it is trivial to manipulate a lisp program structurally.
> I feel like saying my science knowledge is anything beyond intermediate is a bit of an overstatement personally

That's not overconfident, I'm lead to conclude that you have advanced science knowledge.
> I'm glad you care about the FOSS ecosystem this deeply. I do as well

As member of KDE e.V. board of directors you were part of the cancel brigade against Richard Stallman which was clearly an OP against FOSS. This means you are either some useful idiot or an actively malicious actor. Either way it would be great if people like you would stop "caring" about the FOSS ecosystem.
My chromebook simply stopped playing videos of any sort a couple months ago. I followed all the procedures google provided, nothing worked. Everything else works fine.

I figured it was some automatic update that did it.
It does when one of, if not the only, important metric is growth. And for many publicly traded companies that act in the social/dating space growth tends to be a key metric.
After some point the "natural" growth and contraction of the market will be a limiter. It's also arguably easier to handle a recurring user than having to spend time on acquiring new users to a platform.
"Sneakernet the file to the printer" is pretty standard, to be honest. There's nothing inherently wrong with it.
Then portuguese is just "alive-water" lol
HN audience, I apologize for this spread of misinformation by the parent, here is some information about it:

> they rendered him ineligible for his perfectly valid criticism of the electronic voting system.

Again, this is a lie, or denying reality:

Bolsonaro systematically attacked the Brazilian voting system, which he has been elected for thirty years (before becoming President).

In 2021, he used the State Television to spread lies about the voting system and saying that If the printed vote was denied by our Congress he will never touch in such subject, another lie by him[0].

In July 2022, he stated that he won the elections in the first turn, saying he had concrete proof about it, which he has never shown. Moreover, in the same month he called ambassadors from 70 countries to spread more lies and question the validity of the Brazilian vote machines[0], which rendered him convicted for Electoral crime. Here is an except from the Electoral Supreme Court Minister Benedito Gonçalves's referendum[1], a rough Google Translate:

"I consider the request to convict the first person investigated, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, partially valid for the practice of abuse of political power and misuse of media in the 2022 elections, due to his direct and personal responsibility for the illicit conduct carried out for the benefit of his candidacy for re-election. I declare your ineligibility for 8 years following the 2022 election."

Reference again in Brazilian Portuguese:

0. https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/relembre-vezes-em-que-...

1. https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2023/06/27/relator-vot...
There are but anything that requires decisions, individual separate decisions, every time will induce fatigue. Addressing that problem isn’t going to happen by changing the ui presented at each individual interaction, it happens by finding a way to make the vast majority of those decisions ahead by stating your personal default, then overriding it as necessary. A process that can be done once, or occasionally, and applied 100 times can be involved and still be worthwhile. Making it involved and repeated ad nauseam is a good way to ensure nobody will actually bother every time.
Except it doesn't stop that at all. That's the whole point. Modern meth is just made in Mexico using industrial chemicals.

Alarms have been raised that this could be even more harmful for the users.
I assume people downvote you about Musk and Trump because they disagree with your takes and think you're not contributing anything interesting to the discussion. People are allowed to downvote. What would you propose mods do in that situation?
On my blog, I have a script that goes through lazy loaded images (which is all of them) and flips one to eager (in order down the page) every 5 seconds. Keep a page open for a minute, all images will be loaded, but if you close after 10 seconds, almost nothing extra is loaded.
Codex32, a paper computer for generating Bitcoin keys
Maybe the people of HN are just a small minority of users that contribute GitHub Issues on popular public repositories and not very well representative of the whole? Have you maintained a popular repository on GitHub? I can vouch for tons of spam/duplicate Issues.
Why doesn't _____ just ______? I've thought about this for only 2 minutes and it's already obvious.
>> That seems like plenty of space to make a profitable business.

Sure, but VCs and big companies want to maximize profit, not just be profitable. When a profitable startup sells out, that's the founders also saying "profitable isn't enough for me".
FreeCAD is a parametric CAD program. You can create a "spreadsheet" in FreeCAD where you define your parameters and then reference these cells in formulas that drive your constraints.
I wonder if there were also people motivated by their hatred of what happened post Twitter. I recall that Meta hired a bunch of ex-Twitter people. Some probably had an axe to grind.

Whatever they did Twitter folks or not, it was an extremely slick launch. Any Threads people reading this should pat themselves on the back.

On a side note: It was also fun watching Musk fuming that week when the Threads numbers came in. :D
I like Sublime a lot, no reason to switch. I just dislike the box
Tetra: Burst [video]
It's more available and cheaper than ever, can be made in bulk cheaply, resulting in a more harmful product.
Reminds me of Einstein's "Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe"

(attributed to him, anyway)