skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unwanted? You don’t have to use google products, right? There is a difference. Google isn’t a non profit or a charity.

In case you missed it, this thread is about adtech. Google ads are deployed on more than just Google products, so when you say, "You don’t have to use google products, right?", what you should really be saying is "You don't have to use half the internet, right?"

Which is definitely true, I suppose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcZUPDMXzJ8 Dumbo's dream is from 1941, so it must have been ahead of its time!
You can have them both installed. Migrate your passwords today, then the other stuff as you get around to it.
At least in the US, a government-issued ID

a) is not required to vote in many places (and pushing for that requirement is, in fact, one of the major methods of classist/racist voter suppression), and

b) is required to do various other things, like purchase alcohol, drive, or buy plane tickets.

Due to (b), there is already a thriving black market in fake IDs for various reasons, and of various qualities.

Government-issued ID systems are absolutely attacked, fairly aggressively.
Gender-affirming care and gender transition (as the results on Google will call it if you accidentally search "sex transition"), none of this changes your sex, most mammals (including humans) have the XY sex determination system, taking estrogens or other hormones doesn't make you lose your Y and gain an extra X, nor does it make you start producing ova, the only difference is how you look and sound, which (hopefully) makes you more comfortable with your gender, and that's why it's called "gender-affirming care" and "gender transition".
"Wake me up when it's stage 5."
> Omnivorous and carnivorous animals eat other animals, that’s what’s natural.

Sure, that's why every time some dude gets attacked by a bear or a wolf, that makes headlines... because as a society we are completely OK with it being natural and all. Same goes for natural disasters by the way.

My initial comment was about industrial farming, which has absolutely no common ground with the natural food chain our ancestors had to be part of to survive. You're completely off topic.
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Foot has an opt-in server mode so that if you are used to running multiple terminals at once, you can save a little memory. Great for a low-end device. Of course, if the server is closed/crashes, you lose all the client terminals which can be annoying.
I’ve been building all my projects with Imba for the past few years, I love it.

- TaskTXT - Plain text todos and tasks with timers https://www.tasktxt.com

- ReadyRunner - GPT chat for desktop https://www.readyrunner.ai

- Chonky Menu Re-Creation - Breakdown of a fancy menu UI https://www.nathanmanousos.com/posts/chonky-menu

I’ve made several videos about Imba too:

- Building a counter in 49 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XS5q9xhaMc

- Video timeline UI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbKTEqmCAJM

- All of my Imba videos here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYxkh3w952l5cwxYLcCsd...

I made the (free) official course on Scrimba: https://www.imba.io/learn/imba

Which is also on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DcOgcCy7zs

I understand that Imba is not appropriate for everyone and every project but I encourage you not to dismiss it. One are where it is clearly valuable is in building prototypes and side projects.
it makes you sad that different people do things differently from you?
> So is the use of constant, omniscient surveillance actually new to incentivize moral behavior new?

A salient difference is that you can see when the camera is there and when it isn't. You can test the fences and see what behavior is punished and not with a quick feedback loop.

If the only thing keeping you from being a sociopath is getting caught on camera, what do you do as soon as you're not on camera?
A blockchain doesn't address the people-trust issue at all. Anyone who has the keys to the address can do whatever they want. You can give other people the keys, just like you can give other people access to the certificate issuance and validity tooling.
So, like every other business that's not tech itself? I remember visiting one of the world's biggest advertising companies, prime NYC real estate with a vast marble-and-brass foyer as an additional flex ... then a door leading down to the dim dark rat-infested basement where the IT folks were. The "creatives" were many floors up, with their cafes and lounge areas and foosball tables like engineers at a FAANG. I saw lesser versions of this in finance, retail, and many other industries plus academia. I can well believe casinos are worse than most, but not necessarily in terms of physical accommodation.
It does support the per-subdomain option now. You can edit a password to say whether it applies to the whole domain or a specific host.
And now apparently owned by... Apple!

https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/12/15/apple-has-taken-o...
Slack still responds to every issue raised in detail.
Yeah I waa asking myself the same question, this is such a stereotypical hn answer, but it lacks just enough emphasis to make it satirical
Most new builds in Melbourne are already of low quality. I lived in an apartment built in 2013 with water leaking in from the roof three levels above, and the sound insulation was so bad I could hear my neighbours putting cutlery away. And the elevator broke down daily.

The difference is that these apartments require the vast majority of your income (rent) or a 30 year mortgage.

So PIK doesn’t sound too bad to be honest.
(you are talking with another person, not me)
I'm with her. If you're interviewing someone, you should do your homework. Especially for someone like her with days of YT video out there, plus books to review, there's no excuse for asking dumb questions.

Terry Gross manages to do it right. So does Joe Rogan (sorry, you haters).
I feel like there is a bit of a cultural divide here. Microwaving is here (central europe) not part of food preperation and if it is used stuff is filled into glass containers instead of plastic packaging?
https://makezine.com/projects/lawnbot400/

My buddy was featured on the cover of make Magazine for building a remote controlled mower he put a wheelbarrow on and turned into a remote controlled lawnmower plus dump cart
$ or in this case MRR, is the easiest comparable thing. The question “How big is your agency/business?” Is often very nuanced and tedious to explain.

It would probably take me 30+ seconds of boring conversation to get to the point. Humans optimize and now you have $xx / month. It’s easy to understand exactly where I am in my journey, how much “stuff” goes on in the day to day and the types of problems I have.

I like talking to people that are doing six figures a month, it gives me insight into the problems that I hope to one day have. Like a child looking up to their bigger brother. But also, they’re often very direct and insightful with the problems that I’m dealing with.

Not like they have the cake recipe I’m trying to make, but they can adapt their advice to my experience and tell me what temperature I should set my oven.
>it seems nearly optimal for extracting profit and kills the ticket scalping business model.

Also seems nearly optimal for alienating all but your richest fans. The extra profit you might extract from the concert might not actually put you ahead in the long term when fans stop caring about you because of your profit maximizing business practices.
I agree. I enjoy anything she produces that is physics-related but the social commentary and science topics outside her area of expertise are hit-or-miss. I also think she opens herself up to audience capture, especially now that she's being funded directly by viewers, and that concerns me.
There is a lot of talk here but no real answers. What exploit is this using to infect Windows computers and Android phones?

Does this have to do with the 0-day exploit in WebP that is causing a huge mess for the entire ecosystem?

Everyone seems to be fixated on "ads shouldn't be able to run JavaScript" and the like.

What exactly is that JavaScript in the ad taking advantage of? Why would it matter that it's an ad and not just a website?

If ads can do it, web pages can do it.
I’d take a step further and say maybe origin only JavaScript should be a thing.

If I go to example.com I don’t want JavaScript from other hosts loading and running. This could probably be a simple browser extension honestly - might give it a try. It’ll break a good chunk of sites but I don’t think it’d break them too much?

Although it does completely break CDNs so probably an allow list would be necessary.
While generally I agree, and I do run an adblocker for safety reasons, I'll also contend that you get what you deserve if you block ads and don't pony up in some other way.

It's easy to forget this when every article has a web archive link bypassing a paywall, or you watch YouTube with Sponsorblock, but ultimately someone has to pay the bill at the end of the day. An individual writing an investigative piece over months incurs a lot of expenses, the 10 minute YouTube video you watched probably took many hours or days to produce, the storage and bandwidth cost of the 4K video you watched is not nil.

An ideal world would have properly regulated ads on platforms like YouTube and Adwords held to the same standards as some European ad agencies. But since we don't live in an ideal world, pay for a subscription to a newspaper you read a lot. Give someone you enjoy like $5 on Patreon, maybe more if they're not the type to double dip with sponsorship spots AND have a Patreon (personal pet peeve) and immediately unsubscribe, that's worth several thousand ad-supported views depending on their CPM. Like having LTS versions? Donate to the devs or don't be surprised when they burn out[0].

Currently, almost everything you enjoy on the internet is made by other humans. Support them in doing so.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/linux-gives-up-on-6-...
I chose a daycare because they have cameras in every room and offer streaming video.

I am not confident that there exists enough funding for enough staffing to properly monitor teachers, nor do they get paid especially well to attract the best candidates. I see cameras as an inevitability, and if I were a teacher, I would want them for my own liability.
Scarcity - exactly. Say that an artist is holding a concert and 20 thousand seats are available. But she has 50 million fans all over the world. How do you allocate these 20 thousand seats - who will get them? You can either satisfy the highest bidders, the first in line, or a random lottery. But you cannot choose to disappoint no one. Economics is all about making hard choices, and you can't simply wish them away.
Very interesting and inspiring Story
Especially when you get to do hyper targeted attacks through the ad provider.

It’s one of the reasons I do not turn on personalized ads anywhere.
> the major multimedia news agency in the Spanish language

That's probably why.
I think it's a point about persistence. It's easy to obfuscate an existing piece of malware to not be found for a day or two, harder to keep it undetected forever. If you instead task schedule code.exe to expose some internal network port, you can keep it for as long as the machine lives.

But that's already assuming you get compromised anyway, and that your compromised workstations have things worth reaching on their internal network/VPN. All things that are true on real corporate networks, but "fixing" this vulnerability is still pretty low impact in the grand scheme of things one could do to to improve the situation. But in my experience, most CISOs aren't that great at setting priorities and threat modeling anyway: One just recently told me they doesn't want XSS vulnerabilities reported, because the scanner would find them anyway - but sends out daily all-caps emails about specific emails being phishing.
> Then use a binary repository [...] You can still version them in git- just don’t store them in there

So git works, as long as you include things that aren't git to handle what it can't.

Stockholm syndrome really blinds people
It seems that main focus of Imba is code compression. I wonder, at which point they decided that they need a new language for that. I’ve seen things similar to ‘d:hflex ja:center’ many times, and it was achieved by writing a component that translates short props into CSS. I wonder, if there is a popular React library of such components (the ones I’ve seen were internal).
The problem is there is no way to say "show me all items with attachments", so it's extremely tedious to find those
Yeah that sounds like a huge pain in the ass, and even for us technical users, why would I want to join someone's self-hosted chat server as opposed to just joining their Discord server?

I don't see any harm in using Discord or Slack, but I can think of benefits.

Now, why use a chat server at all over a forum where information can be persisted and more easily searchable, and where people put more thought into their messages--that's the real question. Too many things are on Discord and other chat platforms that shouldn't be. The information loss/question repetition problem is huge, and various bots that mitigate the problem are arguably just band-aids for a problem that needn't exist.
I agree that it is a market failure, but it is for sure a marketing success. I cannot help but feel that there must be dozen competitors to his simple products that gather more "honest" profit margins (aka are cheaper or more feature rich) but have a hard time with marketing.

This is obviously something Tony put a lot of time and effort in, and it paid off. Good on him!
I believe FBI and NSA do too.
What else would you even measure? How much other people love what you made? The fact that lots of people pay you for it measures that. How much what you made helps other people? The fact that lots of people pay you for it measures that. How much you're able to contribute to good causes? How much money you make influences that. Money is a tool, it's created and traded with others as a means of exchange. If you make something valuable, you are given money for it, which you can use to make claims on the output of other people's work. There's no grand evil conspiracy here.
Rio looks decent. Far fewer features than wezterm though. Although unlike foot, it does have tabs. wez also supports x11.
I'd take it a step further, virtual aids are largely useless.

Taking notes via pen and paper aids in retention.
If everyone thinks like this then no, it won't get better. But I stand by my statement, no matter how many downvotes I get. If you don't like a product, stop paying for it, and either find alternatives or build your own. Its quite rare that you're going to influence their roadmap by getting a ticket filed.
Motion blur can help compensate for low framerates if it's (approximately) physically accurate, i.e. temporally oversampled. This is how 24fps movies can look tolerable despite the ultra-low framerate: each frame provides more information about how the contents are moving than just a single unfiltered sample, because you can follow the motion blur trails.

This is complicated by computer graphics being gamma corrected. If you average multiple temporal samples together in sRGB colorspace, brightness will vary unrealistically with motion speed. You need to calculate the motion blur in linear colorspace then convert to gamma colorspace before displaying it. And for best results, the image to be blurred should be HDR, with the blurred version mapped to the lower dynamic range of the screen. This best replicates in-camera motion blur, giving you clear trails behind bright points.

However, any deliberately introduced motion blur is inferior to just increasing framerate. Your eyes already provide motion blur. Anything added by simulation or camera is unrealistic additional motion blur on top of this.
There are more people desperate for jobs than there are people willing to risk their jobs over a point. Management can and will fire an entire team and rebuild using other labor if they feel it's necessary
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That's awfully judgemental, calling people who care about money "greedy," no?

I think your ingrained views around money and greed are preventing you from presenting a fair perspective. The author has something like 4 successful products, so the problem around reproducibility is... irrelevant.

And the idea of great entrepreneurs not being motivated by money... I mean, ok, maybe give some evidence. I think you'll find many people have 2 reasons for doing something, the nice "non-greedy" one they tell everyone and some seem to take a face value, and the underlying one.
Because it works, its easy to appoint anyone to help with moderation without risking much, and a large part of the tech community has an account
I think unique identity is worth something. This is what the government (federal, state, local, doesn't matter) ought to have a role in protecting. If we had laws that said, for example, you must have proof of identity in the country or state or region where the arena is located, would that not solve this? We used to do it in the 90s by using phone area codes, and this worked pretty effectively: the early 90s was a golden age of low concert ticket prices.
It has to have a mechanism to not attack the fetus while its in the womb. One can imagine how balancing it towards the way of leaving cells behind in the womb leads to higher fecundity than the other way of having the body sometimes attack the fetus.
From my understanding, an agent is a collection of tools that can be navigated by an LLM. It follows an approach called reason-action (react) or thought-action-observation.
Spit balling here, thought means getting a prompt and having a response to it (i.e., run particular action). An action executes (e.g., executing code in python repl, using a search a api, pulling info from wikipedia). The LLM receives some feedback (observation) and the process starts over.
> Finally, the sheer obsession with money saddens me. The great entrepreneurs of our world are hardly motivated by money – to them, money is a tool that they factor in as they work to realize a vision, not an end goal.

Is often a post rationalization.

Not everyone has to be, or has to seek to be a great entrepreneur. A lot of people, myself included, want to just go by and have a happy life. A new business doesn't have to ambition being a game changer, and I actually quite like the approach of building several small marginally successful products. True, this is not a recipe, and there's always a luck factor, but at least the author is sharing his story, whatever their own design behind this was.
Yeah, I was talking about C++ specifically. I am extremely skeptical you can get that much better for C++ without sacrificing performance, correctness, etc.

Rust is different. It has a completely different design for translation units and modules that C++ can't adopt without hard breaking changes, due to e.g. the way its macro system works.

There are teams at all of Google, Microsoft, et al that spend time on C++ build performance. At this point, it's not even necessarily just about faster build times. Their builds could be measured in environmental impact at that scale.
There's an adage in producing video or being on TV that you need to act 2x "more" than your usual self to appear mildly engaging due to the limits of the medium. Some people go a bit further than that, but the idea of being far more intense and full-on than you would ever be in real life is pretty standard in modern video production. Makeup, lighting, and other factors will often be dialled up too.

I've seen plenty of shy, geeky folks who've become YouTube famous talk about the necessity to do this as they progressed. You can see it for yourself, too, if you find a successful channel and go back to the oldest videos. The energy and style of talking will ramp up over time. Quite few folks will talk, act, and look entirely as they might naturally.
I would think that a good AI could actually point out missing and ambiguous information and allow an iterative process where a programmer could more easily fill in the blanks before resubmitting it for another round.
It's also great for reheating frozen rice. I make 14 servings in my rice cooker (I'm using a serving size where 1 serving is about 200 calories) and then freeze them in individual freezer bags.

They will keep fine that way for months. Food Network says 6 months but I've never taken more than 2 months to use 14 bags so don't know how accurate that is.

To use I take one or two of the frozen bags, empty them into a large microwave-safe bowl, add a little bit of water, and cover. Microwave for 3 minutes on high in my 1200 watt microwave, or 4 minutes if I used two bags.
If I am reading the article correctly, it sounds to me like a lack of immune response in the mother is a core element of their findings.
That's a meaningless distribution as far as most OS uses are concerned.
It's not a question of possibilities. It's a question of trade-offs. It just does not sell (or at least hasn't.) Integrating everything often equates to less cost, less weight, less materials, less power use, less thickness, more reliability, more water resistance, more performance etc. for the vast majority of the users who have voted with their wallets. And to a nontrivial degree there are physical constraints that dictate this not just marketing and R&D spending (do you want to have replaceable SODIMMs in your iPhone?) I bet the average user likes the idea of modularity and user serviceability but wouldn't want to pay $100 extra for modularity in their $1k iPhone. They are likely more willing to purchase peace of mind through insurance, ala AppleCare+, than to purchase serviceability.

But sure we can keep pretending modularity is free and therefore of obviously a nonnegative option value to the user.
Crash course:

LLM: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...

Agent: https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-06-23-agent/
The homeless problem in the US is almost entirely the result of real estate speculation. Housing can’t be both something everyone needs to be able to afford and something that guarantees obscene returns in locations where the vast majority of jobs are located. The two are diametrically opposed. Wealthy liberals don’t want to see their selfishness as the cause of so much the poverty and suffering they see around them, so they invent all kinds of mystifications and exaggerate other factors to claim this isn’t true. But it is.
> Random thought: Since there are N editors and M languages, that's N x M plugins. Surely there's a better way to reduce the effort involved.

Yeah, it’s called LSP. The core of most plugins is just an lsp that’s shared between vim, neovim, emacs, vscode, sublime, etc. all the editor needs is to support generic lsp, or have a generic lsp plugin like vim/emacs.

For example if you look at neovim, you just load the actual lsp and wire it up to the editor in lua. That’s more or less the majority of the “extension code” for something like sublime or vscode (plus some other niceties)
there’s plenty online, but basically an LLM is a model trained on an expansive corpus of data (unstructured, text) and basically trained to mimic human language. It can answers questions using probabilistic logic.

People have been thinking of a way to make LLMs perform actions in the real world, by giving these LLMs “tools”.

An LLM with tools that can perform tasks would be an AI Agent
ssh.exe seems to be on enough Windows machines these days. How's that different?
Silicone absorbs odors from foods and detergents. I guess plastics do too, but not as badly usually.
Can't we be more like "How China is doing awesome with their solar panels!"