skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's not what it is about. I certainly don't choose permissive licenses based on how RMS behaves (that would be stupid), but I also don't choose them because I think businesses shouldn't give back. I choose permissive licenses because I believe that the GPL is hypocritical in claiming to be about freedom, yet placing limits on the freedom of those who use the code. I believe that freedom must include the freedom to do even those things I disagree with personally.

You probably don't think that's a worthwhile ideal, and fine. I'm not here to convince you of my ideals. But your assertion as to the reason behind the increasing prominence of permissive licenses is overly reductive and not true.
It's possible another power will peacefully take that place, kinda like how the US Dollar usurped the British Pound without a war between those countries.
Its common sense, its does not tell you anything about a companies ethics, it tricks people into supporting shit #1 they do not need. #2 support the most unethical and inhuman practices. #3 Lets companies dominate just on the basis of how much money they have to buy ads, rather then quality of their products or any concern about production chains or how local they are. #4 I think its even legal to lie and to say you are better then the competition is some countries in ads.

Ads appeal to the lowest of the low of human animalistic desires to buy the "cheapest" shit shipped all the way across the world while their neighbors struggle to make a living producing the same kind of product.

I totally agree, advertising is antisocial and unethical by definition.
You think I'm defending him. I'm not. He could take out a loan against his $5+ billion ownership stake to help keep 100+ employees on. He's not. He's prioritizing the future growth and value of the company despite having the choice not to. You however are too busy being distracted by the shiny toy to realize how much he isn't doing.
Buses can only hope to match the reliability and headway of metro services if they have dedicated right of way and signal priority for the complete route. This eliminates several of your supposed benefits.
Arecibo is d-e-a-d.

Passing the baton...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_...
Study: Some teens receive 5K notifications daily, most spend two hours on TikTok
Do you believe all words are equally manipulative? That if we categorize speech by funding and intent, no category would be more manipulative than any other?
> If the CEO of a factory had to sell half their maintenance-hungry machines to balance the budget...

... then they're clearly in dire straits and the company should be looking at any cut they could make including the CEO's compensation. Payment in stock devalues the stock; payment in cash decreases the runway.
my bad - i guess i was just saying he led that team but didnt mean to imply he originated it

you seem to have very precise knowledge of the SLOC at a point in time - just curious is there any tooling you used to do that? that can be pretty nifty to pull out on occasion
Doesn't seem so bold to me.

That said: I don't think of "public information campaigns" as advertising, yet also I mention this specifically because I can see the poorly defined boundary between awareness and manipulation — most advertising feels to me like government propaganda, just from a different master, and propaganda can be information as well as disinformation.
Something related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhawwXcQsUs

Cheers to Walter Lewin :)
The badging data absolutely existed before now - but who had access to it, who was looking at it, and what was the criteria used to determine days in office?

Answers to those questions have changed over the last 6 months.
Take a lawn sign. Paint it white and black. In it, just put your domain and your uri. iamaretardbuyingads.com/test1 <- just put this in your lawn sign. Test a lawn sign vs 2k a month google budget. WELL, I have tried this. The lawn sign wins.
lo and behold: https://karl-voit.at/cloud/
If you look at how Google is approaching competing with companies like Apple on Android, or Firefox and Safari on Chrome. It's obvious that the overarching theme of the company is to copy all their security upgrades immediately and create watered down versions of the privacy technology, so they can appear to care about your privacy and compete, but their solutions simply aren't very good at protecting your privacy and there really isn't any good reason other than the truth that they want to appear to care about your privacy, while controlling and developing their technology in such a way that it doesn't protect your privacy as well as the competition or just gives only them access to the info, but protects it from others.

Firefox and Safari blocked third party cookies ages ago.

It's obvoius that we cannot just trust google to control important technologies the way we used to and need consider the competition if we care about privacy.
It's not just politicians. There are loads of incredibly wealthy people working themselves to death because they are just addicted to it. As much as it was a work of fiction, I think Succession really captured the mentality.
That assumes that advertising has no harmful effect, but would it be the same if one said "living in a heavily air polluted city is better than being homeless" or similar?
https://github.com/aesmail/kaffy
you're moving the goalposts. I didn't say anything about magnitudes, just that communication is inherently manipulative.
> then come back to architecture when you're suffering from success if you get that far.

Then it will be too late because you will essentially have to rewrite half of your project while your userbase is leaving due to unplayable game. Better to make good architectural decisions from the start, and make small optimizations when needed.
Does the Jamboard cease to be usable without the cloud-based stuff?
Summers in my country are getting hotter and sunnier and they've had an impact on my screen use (I hate glare!).
I mean, there are multiple Snowden films. I guess it depends on if you need it to be Oppenheimer levels of budget to be "blockbuster" or not.
How would you know? The person in Pompeii looking for a place with food might have really wanted some sign on the wall pointing in the right direction.
nonetheless astronomy is doing fine https://english.news.cn/20230928/5929e14fe40b4c939c1f8194e0b...
Oh yeah totally. Either from an RC file or as an argument on the command line. But for something I "wrote", in a language I'm totally unfamiliar with, in 2 hours or so, I'm floored. I'm a seasoned developer (in other languages) and how much I didn't have to dig into rust to get that far is mind blowing.

I can't wait to see your attempt!
> why the meme "have the audacity of a mediocre white man" is so important.

Important? I avoid people who are comfortable speaking like this. If someone said this to me in real life, I'd make a mental note that they're not to be taken seriously, or worse, potentially dangerous.
Is this the reason why GitHub asked me two days ago to enable 2fa Authentication?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77186232/how-to-use-gith...
Sure, I use Aurora on some devices. F-Droid is just a good proxy for libre user-respecting software, and Play Store is a decent indicator that something is full of malware.

So it doesn't really change my original point that "use an app" is not a straightforward universal answer to the complexity. If it were a trustable libre app and you squinted to ignore the table stakes inherent to any mobile computing device, that could be a different story.
We generally believe and accept what we encounter repeatedly. Our truth building faculties are premised on nature. The river always swells after a big rain. Advertising and propaganda exploit this and can cement false "truths" in our culture and consciousness. But I wonder if modern brand advertising is even more powerful.

"Familiarity" and "Familial" share the same root. Our children resemble ourselves and our relatives. When I see my son's smile, I see my father's. When he giggles, I hear my wife's laugh. In history, our villages and regions are more self-similar than any two random people in the world. Inwardly, these similarities and recognitions trigger love and care, and outwardly they play a role in sustaining familial and cultural trust. We should always question and challenge that role, and increase our circle of empathy, it is repugnant to justify racism as some do with this line of reasoning. But the effects are there and it is counterproductive that by selling prominence and placement which even our own families can't match, we allow brands to purchase a kind of kinship.
TGS2023: Bandai Namco, Trying Harder Than Most
Ha, we did this in elementary school. I have never heard anyone else comment on doing this until you. Must be a pretty rare science class thing
Android is open-source, we could fall back to one of the alternate distros. Actually, we'd be better off without the Google services crap! The real reason we'd be fucked is that we'd lose mobile access to our Google-stored info, this is where the lock-in is. You can migrate, but it's _work_ and god are we lazy.
I refuse to believe that a smaller proportion of people know how to navigate a directory and unzip a zip file today compared to any prior year. A lot of people didn't know how to use computers at all a decade ago because they didn't have any kind of computer at home, not even a smart phone
This is basically the entire industry now. Even firms that aren't public operate as if they are.
Elsewhere in the thread is an example of a system setting the top bit when storing ASCII in 8-bit files. But storing it as an 8-bit encoding is also a convention rather than a requirement, and any file with an alternative encoding would not be valid UTF-8.
GPS guided missiles are a unique case, because there is a good chance the enemy gets hold of the electronics. Therefore, you don't want to put your military GPS encryption keys in there, because if the enemy got hold of those keys, they could spoof your satellites.
A sign outside a shop is anti-social? Seriously? I would think that view rather anti-social.
When I was in Google Ads, someone explained to me that Search ads were 10x more profitable than banner ads. The reason is the search tells you something about what the user wants. Our canonical example was "flowers." It's perfectly reasonable to show you ads for 1-800-FLOWERS.

Of course, over time that's been corrupted so you see only ads. Don't bother beating that dead horse.

All the "targeted advertisement" efforts are to figure out what you want when you didn't say anything, and reduce that 10x to 5x or less. I don't see a good reason not to prohibit those, if people object to them. There's no right to make infinite money off the Internet.
I agree fully, but Amazon is still the "cheapest" when you consider the all in price of cost_of_goods+cost_of_delivery|want_goods_in_fewer_than_two_days.

Amazon has the most efficient business, which allows them to survive on lower margins and attract buyers because of the vertically integrated pipeline they've created.

Your example of other companies selling the same product at cheaper prices helps to illuminate the fact that there isn't any real impact from the supposed anti-competitive behavior to the consumer. Cheaper prices still exist! Amazon hasn't become the sole provider.
A scientific curiosity that happened to me
I wish economics and entrepreneurship, the lifeblood of the modern world, were mandatory subjects in school.

It's more important to understand how democracies, governments, and business work than to understand long division.

The reality is we need advertising to enable discoverability. No advertising = no new businesses = back to medieval, pre-growth times.

If you like earning a living and ensuring your physical safety using your mind rather than physical bulk, you need to understand that this is only possible in an economy that is partially idea-based. How can this work if ideas and information aren't allowed to spread? How can new ideas and new information enter the fray if things like advertising is banned?
I was thinking about behavioral advertising, but I'm pro banning advertising on all public surfaces too, iirc like in Barcelona.

But to your point I guess in the near future with AR.
....and they send legal threats and harassment to 15 year old OSS project maintainers.
Much of what I have personally (anecdotally) seen around proximate cause seem to point to Russian sabotage. I find arguments like this to be pointless though as we will all have our pet theories and research we want to believe as we are not likely to find definitive proof. It is easier to just point out that the side that gains the most from this and bears ultimate responsibility for this is Russia as that is irrefutable
It feels like yet another thing we take to a dark place that doesn't have to be, but for it not to be it requires individuals to care enough about a cultural good over monetary gain.

Like, there's nothing wrong with advertising to let people know "I'm here, I do/sell a thing. Here's why I'm objectively different than where you get that thing now"

The problem in my mind is we start lying, we manipulate, we use each others weakness and vulnerability against each other, and we want infinite growth/results. Surely in business and society there's a sort of happy medium where you serve a need to your community and the community pays a fair price that enables a reasonable living at minimum?

But to me it seems you achieve that not by banning, but in a perfect world by creating a culture that doesn't abuse itself, and in a more realistic world I suppose attempting to legislate rules and guidelines that protect the general public from the money addicted.
In every conflict in the world, one side always says it’s the other’s fault completely. And that the other side didn’t engage in diplomacy in good faith. But many of them are proxy wars between large imperial interests, that topple governments and undermine democracies. For example in Yemen, the Sunnis say that Iran is completely at fault for fomenting a Houthi revolution and and all the blame falls squarely on them. While Iran would say that they simply gave moral support to Houthi rebels and that the Sunni hegemony and Saudi coalition has been committing war crimes for decades and Yemenites are fed up with it.

Depending on if you were Sunni or Shiite, Jewish or Arab, you’d often be so biased that any hint of additional context or nuance would sound preposterous. But as rational people we should avoid one-sided narratives, whether it is in Niger, Armenia, etc. Usually the same patterns repeat and sectarian violence happens in the aftermath of the fall of an empire (Ottoman, British, Russian, etc.) It happens in much the same way, and each side blames the other (eg Pakistani Muslims vs Indian Hindus). We as imperial countries simply take sides and our public is told what to think (“we were always at war eith eastasia”.)

Conflicts always have multiple sides. When you live inside one empire or another (Russia, China, USA), the mainstream media’s rhetoric is always one-sided. But the rest of the world outside the bubble (billions of people) see both sides.

As usual, most of these conflicts could have been avoided, in dozens of ways, if cooler heads prevailed at any point for decades.

I collected all context you are probably missing in one place, so you can better understand the conflict from other sides: https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=397
The page reminded me of Ken Perlins' page:

https://cs.nyu.edu/~perlin/

Yes, the Perlin noise guy among many other things.
I have an Amazon Echo Wall Clock, and I got it for its integration with timers set by Alexa. It works great and lets me see the status of multiple timers. But I believe they discontinued it. I know this will never happen, but I would love an Apple-made clock that made timer display a primary feature. Setting timers using my voice and giving them names solves the interface issue, but being able to glance at the status of everything still needs a wonderful solution.
What does constitute “absolute proof”? Holographic 4d scans of military men waving their respective flags whilst planting charges on the dam?
It was a terrible play, solely because their store suck.

From very early on, gamers were VERY vocal of what they wanted from Epic store, and Epic didn't deliver, instead they shoveled money into the fire basically.

Example of stuff that money could have better been spent on:

1. Discussion/Comments
2. Review system
3. Functioning shopping cart
4. Linux support (instead Epic did the opposite, for example buying Rocket League and removing Linux support)
5. ability to work with other stores (like Gog Galaxy does)

and so on.

Instead they choose to have a shitty, basically unusable store (that by the way, killed an older laptop GPU of mine by sending it to 100% in a screen that was only text, until the thing burned itself down), and "bribe" both creators and gamers, hoping this would replace an actual good product.
So how equally has Digital Services Act been used to tackle Disinformation?
Twitter community notes seem to equally applied left or right. Are Europeans equally suing people who say the vaccine is making kids transgender as equally as they are punishing misinformers who said the State only needed 14 days to slow the spread or that if you get vaccinated with both doses you can no longer catch Covid?
A new spin on the ZeroFont phishing technique
The older you are, the slower cancer progresses. My granddad lived for over 10 years with intestine cancer.
Exactly how would you get rid of it? Socialize all private property? Government owns everything? No capital in private hands?
why does one assume that because i'm playing devil's advocate means that's how i think? your premise is greatly flawed.
Google Maps was really primitive at that time though :P.
And let me guess - you are going to be the judge of which ads are how harmful, and which air is safe to breathe?

That is authoritarian. Let people decide for themselves. I promise they are capable of making the right choices.
So AR will be forced on everyone? Btw., even Barcelona still has names of shops etc. outside.
would be helpful to post the actual link from the EFF.
I enjoy some guides out there about game jam survivalism. But I found a brief post for those interested in the key points for game jamming https://medium.com/@nikpantis/game-jams-a-survival-guide-wri...
Recently huge drone swarms have been launched recently to increase the chance of mission success.
> Replace Monoid by Appendable, Monad by Composable, Functor by Runnable, etc. and most programming languages are "category theory".

I'm not sure an "Appendable" Int or IO type, or a "Runnable" / "Composable" List type is any less confusing to Joe Programmer. These descriptions do not articulate the same things implied by the Monoid, Functor, and Monad laws. Some of these aren't even correct (i.e. not all Functors are "Runnable", Monadic types do not necessarily compose directly, just via Kleisli composition).

> This says little about whether knowing the field of category theory will be useful to programming. Indeed, I think there's a good argument to say Haskell programming is much harmed by it.

> If its authors hadnt used their knowledge of category theory, but rather named the abstractions in more ordinary terms, the language would be more useful to more people.

I think this is really the least of Haskell's problems. Mystifying/poorly written monad tutorials and conflation with IO (or confusion about how IO works in the haskell runtime) is more responsible for confusing new programmers than the concept itself. I have no background in mathematics above undergrad calc 2 and I was able to understand them just fine.
Fatuous, weasel headline. Kakhova Dam 'disaster': as if it wasn't the consequence of Russia's invasion.
In theory a browser or search engine could have an opt-in/toggle ad experience. Some people have mentioned they don't mind seeing them which is astounding to me.

On a more whimsical level brick-n-mortars could have signage on the non-visible light spectrum and opting in could be using some wearable to enable visibility.

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After having ChatGPT write this, I wouldn't say I understand rust, because I can't explain some of the hairier bits of how to access strings, but now that I have the code to look at, I can certainly try and understand it (or have ChatGPT explain it to me).
> Kovalchuk considered flooding the river. The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakhovka dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the Dnieper’s water could be raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages.

> The test was a success, Kovalchuk said, but the step remained a last resort. He held off.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/29/ukraine-offe...

Who controlled the dam at the time of the explosion?
Man tied to shooter in Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing arrested in Las Vegas
Agreed. Also need mandatory caps on tuition for public universities that make sense and ideally start funding those universities again.
> I'd say you lose anything you're not paying for explicitly, which is most of the internet.

The internet existed before ads and would continue to exist after ads. Trillion dollar companies built on ads served to the internet would not exist, but the internet would.
IMO the problem with low code is, that the hard part about solving most problems isn't usually the way you write or execute it.

The hard part is avoding weird edge case logic errors, race conditions, all these things good programmers will avoid by having an intuition of complex systems with state spread around. This is what you pay software people for, and not for the ability to crank out text in languages that look cryptic to commoners.

Now I do think that such low code environments can provide benefits in specific situations (e.g. when you use it as a highly flexible "config file" within the framework of another system that catches all those forbidden states).
That this conversation went:

"Let's ban advertising" "How?" "Laws" "It's depressing people can't think of this" "Enlightened dictatorship isn't going to help"

…suggests thinking in a false dichotomy. We don't need a dictatorship, enlightened or otherwise, to have laws.
In what sense is a Koenigsegg a production car?
What has that to do with advertising? That's the opposite likely, like a real recommendation or at least objective evaluation from an unbiased trusted person?
> Boomers tanked the economy

No. Reckless spending by the Federal Government tanked the economy: https://www.aier.org/wp-content/webpc-passthru.php?src=https...

Started under Bush after 9/11. Trump took it to a new level under Covid. Biden got behind the wheel and floored it.
It had a powerful transmitter for radar work, and there are advantages to having a single, giant aperture when it comes to maintaining low sidelobes, power amplifier coherency, etc.
When you visit a site on Cloudflare today, both Cloudflare and your ISP see the domain name. With ECH, only Cloudflare will.
>But maybe then do not wonder when the rest of the world does not care about software freedom and also don't donate or support it in any way.

30+% of my country can't even be damned to vote for their next president. Getting the layman to care is really hard, which is why advertising is a trillion dollar business.

Perfect enemy of good and all that. Lawyers for 99% of their cases don't rely on public sentiment to get their argument through. At least not active public sentiment.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/how-turn-googles-priva...
Not the same, because with an interface, the methods defined for the struct must match the interface.

With type classes you can bridge that gap because the implementation of the struct for a specific type class can be defined anywhere.