skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That never ceases to amaze me: I mean, as software developers we usually get paid more in a month (or maybe two) than the company hardware we are using costs, so you would think it would be obvious to anyone that money spent on hardware which enables us to be more productive is money well spent?! But no, "do you really have to have the laptop with 32 GB RAM, isn't 16 GB enough?"...
I don't think the issue is half-baked software. It's the idea that you buy a phone six months out from the last major release, open it up, and boom, it's charged and even has the latest update already installed. No irksome red dot on the Settings app icon. It's a little more "magic" to wow the customer.
I mean, we’re heading there.
You wouldn't copy groceries
Probably not because I still get ads with YouTube Premium.
> 1.5C is gone - no point clinging to it.

And soon 2.0C will be gone - no point clinging to it, right?

> However, there is a lot if effort going into decarbonization.

I don't see a lot of effort going into decarbonization. We still have about 7% of global GDP going into subsidies for fossil fuels. That's a lot of effort against decarbonization [0].

There is little actual progress being made[1]. Whatever reduction we had can be directly attributed to the economic upheaval created by the Covid pandemic.

> having past models being invalidated doesn't mean certain future overshoot

Given that our actions in the last 20 years pretty much track the "business as usual" scenario and given that we can eliminate all models that predict a warming of 1.5°C to arise any later than 2024, we're pretty much only left with models that give us a warming of 5°C until 2100[2]. Please note that even that is in the lower bound; the IPC 8.5 has a lower bound of 1.4°C in the 2040 - we've blown past that already. It's only getting worse.

> Also, the ecosystem discussion is somewhat orthogonal as we don't now what all is critical to human survival.

I'm not sure if you are joking or what. Our dependency on an intact ecosystem is absolute - we cannot exist without it. The "services" that the biosystems around us provide is invaluable and we utterly depend on them. Trying to quantify how much of it you can destroy for the sake of industry and profit is akin to asking how much of your liver you can sell away for cocaine.

[0] https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidie...

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_Concentration_P...
If they'd see the skill discrepancy between Linux desktop users and Windows desktop users, businesses would never hire anyone with a Windows background again. I work in a heavy Microsoft environment these days and the skill level is just sad. If there's no button to click people are at a loss. If there's no GUI to consume the logs people don't know what to do. Whenever I interview, if you write C#/.NET but your daily driver is Linux, you're practically hired.
My experience of running Red Alert 2 on modern Windows is pretty horrific, and it looks like it’s shared by a lot of people: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Red_A...

More generally, I usually have more success running older games under Wine than on Windows 10 or 11 - DXVK helps a lot with early directx9 games in particular, in my experience.
Being able to remotely turn it on and push updates is a new problem, and requires strong measures to lock it down.
> In 1999, a CRT with a 20" viewable area cost $999 [1] with reviewers saying "The price point on this monitor is fantastic"

Not all monitors were that expensive back then.

I got a 21" 1600x1200 NEC for $150 around that time (1999-2001) that could do 120hz at the resolution I played Quake 3 at. That was shipped too even though it weighed almost more than me.

The funny thing is that $70 22" monitor you linked is 1080p which has been around for almost 20 years. I hope it's dirt cheap by now. A 1080p LCD used to be really expensive when they came out too, and most LCDs were bad back then where "good" could be categorized as having a high refresh rate, good color range and fast response times / low input latency.
> You could argue that they aren't somehow fundamentally entitled to make money, but you are also not fundamentally entitled to consume their content

i don't know. take radio for example. The advertiser has paid real money to the voice actors, scripts, etc, and the radio company for hosting their content and for propagation, this is real cost.
so what happens if you turn off your radio and don't hear the radio commercial? are you obligated to listen to adverts on a radio? what happens if you make a manual hardware sponsorblock?

can the advertiser sue a manufacturer of this manual hardware sponsorblock machine that is an addon to radio? the original selling point of the hardware machine would be to block explicit songs and adblocking would be an added benefit.

could radio companies sue radio makers or this hardware machine maker for selling this addon? knowing full well that this maker is earning money.

>but you are also not fundamentally entitled to consume their content

here is an alternative answer argument. when you publish on a public website, you give away this "right to prevent consumption". youtube is a public website meaning anyone without login can access content so youtube and content creator and advertisers are forfeiting their right to demand remuneration.
the alternative? well look at netflix. It is a paywalled service where only paid users access the content. There isn't much of adblocking on netflix or tracking protection and other stuff.

What i am trying to say is, only netflix by their nature of a paywalled gateway can expect this "no payment, no content" rule because they have put technical roadblocks. if tomorrow netflix goes open, they will be treated like youtube.
That is assuming that the moral fashion is actually doing that. Unfortunately, the moral fashion is more about starting with a predefined set of conclusions, then working backwards to justify those conclusions. I don't think we need to sell out our integrity to achieve a better society, or make false equivalence between liberal social justice and critical social justice, of which the latter is the current moral fashion.
But they're not abandoning on-premise, though one could get that impression from the tone of the article.

They are only dropping the small-business targeted Server tier, they are keeping the enterprise targeted Datacenter tier. It's pretty much a drop-in replacement, with extra capabilities. And annual payment instead of initial+upgrades payment.
> instinctively

Humans don't have instincts. That's what separates us from the other, lower animals.

P.S. Urges, drives and desires aren't instincts.

P.P.S. Technically not true, the human being has a couple instincts related to breastfeeding, but they are supposed to disappear after a couple months in a healthy human baby.
> afaik that's their next step- introduction of usernames

In the time that usernames not phone numbers have been their "next step" they have introduced; gifs, encrypted audio and video calls, a built in scam crypto payment scheme, snapchat stories clone and a cryptographic upgrade to defeat quantum computing.

Changing from phone number to username is apparently hard.
I wanted something more advanced than Pocket, which integrated with my Obsidian vault and had better highlighting features and voice, so it was a choice between Matter and Readwise Reader.

I went with Readwise because they were a bootstrapped company vs VC-funded Matter, but now I'm starting to wish I went with Matter because they've been shipping meaningful updates more reliably.

Also, I interviewer with Dan from Readwise and he totally ghosted me, so I may be a little bitter about that, ha.
Any updated version of this revised spec? Because the official APPNOTE.TXT [1] has been updated in Nov 2022, while your first link has been updated in April 2004.

1: https://pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT
Yes because Apple is skimping on RAM in 1K$ phones. It's unreal that you can get much cheaper Android phones that have more memory than their entry level laptop.
For a while there was marketing/excitement about the ability of iOS to compress RAM ; expect it cannot replace actually having the RAM to be used at any moment.

Apple has been incredibly greedy and their user experience suffer tremendously. There really is no justification for shipping phones so expensive with so little RAM for so long besides ultra-greed. It makes the phones obsolete much earlier than they should be because while you can wait the work of a slower CPU if you can't fit your workload into RAM you are basically out of luck.

If you had spent as much money on a flagship Android back then you would have gotten 4GB minimum with a Galaxy S9 but more likely 6-8GB with a S9+ or Note 9 that were the real price competitors of an iPhone X (still cheaper).

So yeah iOS is aggressive in saving memory because it doesn't have much choice. Your iPhone 14 Pro has 6GB of RAM. This is 2GB less than a Galaxy S23 that cost almost half as much ; the Ultra version with 12GB of RAM still cost about as much. Even going with a 14 Pro Max would still only get you 6GB which is even worse of a joke considering the price.

It's infuriating because considering how cheap RAM chips have become they only save a very small amount per phone but their faithfull users who paid the high price to get "the best" are thanked with these kind of real-world use case annoyances...

To be honest I think it's kinda masochist to keep buying Apple products at the moment. I'm a first time iPhone user and I like iOS overall but the value proposition of even their cheapest product doesn't make sense anymore...
One thing that happened since 1999 is the rise of price discrimination at fast food restaurants (well price discrimination in general, but fast food is easiest to see). If you have the App, you can get that $5.59 big Mac with a free fry and drink. Without the app, the meal is probably close to $10. (Just a made up example, but in general app coupons seem to often save 30-50% over not using coupons).
The views being lower is partially due to StackOverflow implementing a legal cookie confirmation dialog, that is as easy to reject cookies as to accept them

You need cookies to count the views.
An other fun trick is that zip being back-read means it can be smushed together with a file that’s forwards-read, and you get a dual-format file. That was a common way to smuggle archives on image boards.

pico-8 does that by design, the “cartridges” are image files, except it uses steganography to encode the program in the image instead of just smuggling.
> Paying for stuff you like does though

great!

make it, put it on your website (using owncast for example) and I'll pay.

I won't pay YouTube though, sorry not sorry.
> If you don't like ads, buy a YT subscription.

Why?

They can block non premium users if they don't want non paying visitors to view the content. And I am free to switch virtual desktop, browser tab, mute it or turn my head away and put earplugs when they want to show an AD. This is just the same, but made with software.
I sometimes teach those new to software development. ChatGPT seems to have supplanted Stack Overflow.

It's the same behaviour of course, blindly copy/pasting errors into ChatGPT, unquestioningly copying output back, and as far as I can tell the results don't seem to be that much better, just quicker.
I use the DODI patched variant of Red Alert 2 which works out of the box on Windows 11 as it ships with all the necessary patched DLLs to work on modern Windows.
First I would check the number that I gave you and make sure it is correct. Then you put it into perspective; e.g. how many millennia would it take for a couple of hundred nuclear reactors to produce that much of energy.

Play with the numbers and see what you can learn about them.

Not sure you need to consider that much of a volume; we're talking about surface temperature, so you can just take an approximation of heat capacity of the surface of Earth.
No wonder. If I ask ChatGPT a question, it answers it.

If I asked Stack Overflow a question, they made sure I wished I hadn't.
Probably a third of my colleagues is using Linux at work, me included.

And it is getting even more widespread as most of the "office" work moves to Office365 and such which are all cloud/web based, so which OS you are running literally doesn't matter anymore.
What next, they'll ban transporting 3D printers across state borders and have the cops go around knocking down doors hunting for unlicensed 3D printers? Otherwise people would just buy them interstate.
Do you mean sponsored ads in videos?
Heinlein's law:
Arguing that a given scifi author's view of future society makes sense will always essentially reduce to arguing that the author's politics are correct.
For now - but with changes like WEI (attestation) you may find that you have little choice to be part of "the rest of the web" unless you use an Approved Browser to do only Approved Things.
NewPipe on Android is actually really solid, and similar in premise.
Since I have been running my company 2.5 years now, a quick reminder: employees expect yearly salary increases, tech employees have very high salary growth expectations. You can explain to me how to make employees happy without "infinite growth", as you are there, please also help me understand how a company is to secure their sustainability without growth with expected positive inflation.
How would this be different from not allowing Ai?
Selling shovels makes you the most money in a gold rush.
Apple and Lenovo are dropping the ball for visually impaired users
Good point, because without CNC, with 3d printers solely you couldn't do a firearm that do more of 1 shot. CNC are more "dangerous" for firearm production. This bill is a show of ignorance of the legislators.
That is not a crime AFAIK.
(1) seems like a no-brainer to remember your preferred sort order in various places, such as issues in epics and yes it annoys everyone. https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-79973
Yes, adding insult to injury.
> in the technological age

Every age is a technological age. The technology (per se) of a paleolithic human is no less complex and involved that the technology of today.

Technology is about process and supply chain complexity, not knowledge. The paleolithic human was short on knowledge, but their supply chains were as global, complex and fragile as the ones we have today.
It's not about the price. The whole UX is bad with their pushing of irrelevant clickbait content.
Yes, I do think it pretty reasonable. I don't watch "normal" TV, only YT, and I like it.

Obviously there are the increasing number of ads actually within youtube videos, but at least you can skip over them.
It's priced well, but does not deliver on its promises. You still get tons of ads even with premium. In-video sponsor blocks are still ads, should be clearly marked so, and optionally skipped. As such I don't see why I would pay for premium when I still have to install an extension on top of that.

(I can see it being worth for music, but I don't use youtube for that.)
No it is not.

The issue is that current AI answers invent 'facts' or produce wrong code.
AI might help improve how people questions and possibly help them find an answer e.g. improve searching but to answer you must be correct and give correct references - not false ones as have been found in legal cases and others.

How to use AI is an open question.
The only way to make it inaccessible to competitors is to make it impractical to access for the user themselves. GDPR demands this portability and in theory, it's awesome. Though I haven't seen a lot of examples yet it should make it easy to do things like port your favourites and listening history from spotify to another platform. It's your data, after all.
It's not Apple you have to worry about. It's supply chain attackers whose lives just got easier.
You don't need anything on a user's machine to look at your server logs and see how many requests you've had.
It loads fine because you enabled it.
Threading in C# (2011)
While Jira does many many things right, it is also horrible in so many ways.

What options are you evaluating?
The fun thing with quality is that statistics agencies are in fact trying to include quality change in their inflation calculation (it's called hedonic adjustment) but AFAIK they only do it for “objective quality” increases (like when CPU clock frequency increases or Disk Size increase), not when actual quality decreases.
> but this was an official MS message in notifications so I figured it was worth a look

What infuriates me the most is that this is aimed at nudging those who don’t know better. With older family members, a savvy relative or workshop can help them set up a functional environment, to pay bills, check Facebook etc.

Previously, I’ve advised to ignore messaging from web sites, but official OS notifications are important - like updates. Now, they can update the OS, click next/accept/ok and they end up with a different browser/bookmarks/ui and that be enough to take away their ability to do their errands.

So my mom, for instance, can no longer be self-sufficient. I have to tell her “oh that one is important” or “no this is just Microsoft trying to sell you stuff you don’t need/will be worse”. They’ve tricked her into the Edge default several times, because every update is an opportunity for MS to prey on her with full screen Microsoft-branded marketing posing as security/performance improvements.
A way to deal with the problem is to make a reference implementation instead of a specification document. A document can also be written for convenience, but if code and documentation disagree, short of an obvious bug, the code is right and the docs need to change to reflect that.

And it is actually a common practice.

This way, nothing is vague or missing. If you wonder what is going to happen if a certain field has a certain value, run the code and see what happen, it may not be great, but you know exactly what to expect. With code, you also have access to all the developer tools: compilers, linters, test frameworks, debuggers, coverage analyzers, fuzzers,... and even provers. Ideally the reference implementation should be open source with a permissive license, be written with readability in mind, and come with a good test suite.

The problem with zip as described in the article is that the specs are half-assed and the real test for a correct zip file is that it should work with pkzip. But we can't really use pkzip as a reference either because it is proprietary.
I would have no moral qualms with doing that if I could make an identical copy of the products and leave with the copy.

That's the comparison that is most apt in this case.
Freetube has been around for years and has been working pretty much perfectly since day one.
It's equally bad. I never implied otgerwise. It's expected too, not comical.
If you bother to secure something, that is a high correlation with that which is impactful.

Some communications that fail, or leak, have less impact than others. In one case, we misunderstand each other about what's for dinner tonight. In another case, I lose my house.

Next, they said 'the most', so, I'm willing to bet that if you could tally up all communications and categorize those that are impactful (worth securing for more than just default principle reasons), and all that are economic, the overlap would be larger than not. Just an impression, could be wrong, but I'm pretty comfortable it's not a wildly mistaken one and reasonable to operate on that assumption.
Poll: AI-Generated Images in Blogposts?
How do you react if you notice an AI-generated image in a blogpost?

I'm curious because I'd love to add some DALL•E 3 images to my essays, but I don't have the time to draw them out myself right now. I figured others writers are probably facing the same dilemma.
I refuse to engage with any media that has AI-generated content.
I don't mind AI-generated content as long as the author/publisher provide the original prompt or other clear AI indicators.
AI-generated images make me think less of the author/publisher, but I won't necessarily avoid their works.
I don't care whatsoever. It's a taste problem, not an ethics problem.
AI-generated images look pretty cool sometimes, and I would like authors/publishers to go as crazy possible.
True. What we need is a hardware manufacturer that pushes it the way Apple uses their hardware to push Mac OS. Like System76, but bigger.
HTTP/1.1 on TLS works perfectly fine.
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News headlines about "3D-printed guns".
I Witnessed America's Postwar Iraq Plans – Israel's Gaza Strategy
No comparison against GPT-4V? How embarrassing! Where are they going to submit this? A conference where no one knows about GPT-4V? Ridiculous.

It's getting really awkward seeing these papers from Google. "We're here too! We're totally not woefully behind everyone else in the field!". No model, no reasonable comparisons, just generic bragging.

I'm astounded as an ML researcher how Google can be doing so incredibly badly. They have access to unlimited compute, good people, and great infrastructure. Yet something about their internal culture means they are unable to compete with OpenAI, Facebook, and even the open source community. They constantly brag about how good their models are (even in private) and then every time they deploy anything its performance is pathetic (like Bard and Bard with vision).

You can tell why Google recently totally overhauled the leadership of Google Research/Deep Mind and shut down Google Brain.
There is value in "porcelain"[0]

I have watched startups fold for not pushing product development further into UI/UX with off the shelf backends. At one company I worked at I showed how our backend (completely custom container orchestrator) could be replaced in a weekend with AWS Lambda and ECS. But our UI/UX and workflow tools would take much, much longer. Yet we continued to waste money and time on "building a new raft based cluster". In the mean time I was handed "add batch processing" and we already used Go so I just used Nomad under the hood and moved on.

I like working on teams that ship features not JUST tech for tech's sake.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Plumbing-and-Po...
The story of SO is pretty interesting. Looks like they only had raised $153M with the last round prior to the acquisition at $1.8billion. I was not even aware that Prosus has purchased them, must have missed it during Covid. Given that news by, I don't find this entirely surprising. Time to squeeze out as much performance as possible from the purchase.
Yeah, but the fast food example has a large price discrimination component. Only those not using the app pay the high prices. Last Big Mac I bought was $2.50 (earlier this year).

Civic is more interesting, since the 2023 base-model Civic has far more technology, far better safety features, automatic transmission, and is quite a big larger than the 2000 model. Wouldn’t be surprised if the 2000 base model Civic didn’t even have power windows. That being said, if all you want is basic transportation, then your choices are much more limited than they were in 2000.