skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It really feels like we can't have nice things anymore.

Economists talk about the middle-income trap, but I feel there’s another trap in developed economies. The economics of low-cost, high-skill labor that made the public and private architecture of the past (my small city of around 70,000 people has a gorgeous post office that was built in the early 1900s in a grand neoclassical style) so comparatively extravagant and beautiful just doesn’t work today.

Blame doesn’t lie with the high-skilled working class for not wanting to work for what would amount to poverty wages, but at the same time shareholders and city council meeting-goers refuse to pay the correct price to build beautiful things anymore. It’s a cycle that nobody wants to (or can) give ground on.
It's good to see STG praised here.

I context switch often, and am so much more productive because of this plugin.
> Determining values from first principles is hard, and there are a lot of easy mistakes along the way.

It's a shame they decided to put a bunch of weird stuff in Happy Meals because I think you're right about this.

Not providing guidance to children is at least as bad as providing overly dogmatic guidance.
I would love to see the first few Burnout games given the modern re-implementation treatment, but EA would probably behave the same way as Take2.
Forgotten just like screensavers. It’s sad and I hate it.
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The GUI was rendered in text mode. It's called a TUI (Text-based User Interface)
youtube has classic silent films
Which "stuff" are you referring to?
Didn't we already pay billions for rural broadband and the ISPs just pocketed the money?
It took less than 30 years for the V2 to evolve into Saturn V and moon landings.

It wasn't crazy to think that in another 30 years, a full moon base could be built, if only some economic or military incentives had existed.
Ask HN: What's your go-to webhost in 2023 for simple websites?
I'm trying to put up a simple site with a few HTML and JS files, and I grabbed one of the first hosts I found, CloudFlare Pages. But even digging up the process to put up a tiny, static site like mine took some work -- there were absolutely no obvious options for it in the UI. The forum post I dug up linked to an official documentation page explaining that the only solution involved using git and pulling the files from a GH repo (link for the curious: https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/framework-guides/deploy-anything/ )

This is obviously a much more complex and less straightforward user experience than the one I had some 20 years ago, when I used an FTP client to upload whatever I wanted by a process that was pretty obvious, took just a couple of steps, and was hard to screw up. That's exactly what I'd like to be able to do again, but I have no idea if there's a hosting service that can offer something like that today. Can anyone recommend one they've had good experiences with?
they only banned the videos that talk about Grayjay
I don't really get it either. I honestly think there's a number of motivations.

First, some people just don't want to see ads at all. I'm sympathetic to this. I use ad blockers. I don't feel bad about that. But it's not really a reason to oppose contextual advertising.

Second, a lot of people don't really understand what targeted advertising is. I think some people think Meta or Google are selling a zip file saying "Bob Smith of 1234 Main Street like Lego, trains and polyamory" when an advertiser doesn't actually care about you, personally. They care about an audience. This is a group of people with some defined set of characteristics like "Men aged 18-35 that live in the Pacific Northwest and like fishing and hiking". And they're not selling that data. They're selling access to people who match a profile.

It's a little trickier with third-party data services and cookie matching but all that really comes down to is the platform creates an ID for you and passes that to the advertiser so when they see you, they can build their own contextual data. That may sound nefarious but the ID is just a random string. It's different for every advertiser so you can't match across advertisers. Users can pretty much reset that ID at any time and all that matching data is effectively orphaned and lost.

Now we can, should and have had conversations about what targeting is allowed. Generally, location can't be too specific (eg typically only down to a city or town). There have been issues too with illegal discrimination (eg [1][2]).

I also think we should generally ban all advertising to anyone under 18, targeted or not.

So personally I see advertiser targeting capabilities not behavioural contextualization of preferences to be the issue to tackel.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/21/faceboo...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/aug/24/google-se...
Because advertising and surveillance capitalism are inherently unethical and should be illegal.
Does WeWork still rent office space from Neumann?
Leetcode problems at the very least teach one a few good things about the language(s) they choose to do them in, IME.
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The reality of the Catholic Church and its history is far and away divorced from the teachings of Jesus. Like the OP, I was also raised in a devout Catholic household, and while, yes, there is plenty of talk of love, there is, and traditionally has been plenty of fear-mongering.

You need to constantly be on the look out for Satan and his temptations. There's a laundry list of things you shouldn't do or think about. If you do, you should feel guilty and repent. God is always watching, so be good.

Every individual church is different, and your mileage will vary, but I found them to be similar to office spaces in the level of bickering and gossip as their best, and deeply dysfunctional institutions at worse.

I would also disagree that Christianity was the first major religion of purely love when Buddhism had been around for centuries and had the practice of forsaking one's own enlightenment in order to save all being from suffering.
Public schools contributed to my departure from the faith decades afterward. Public schools weren't indoctrinating anything. Rather they taught me to think critically, using proven methods, and avoid fallacies. Faith communities taught me lazy thinking, blind faith, bigotry, etc.

Thank Prussia for a system that -- for all its faults -- provides a way out for kids born into religion.
I also knew that someone was going to comment the the beam reach was not necessarily the fastest.
Right. Yeah, that's definitely it.
Custom fields system is generally a bad idea imo. Just do JSON if you want that
Genuine question: Wouldn't this require a lot of ventilation / HVAC infrastructure?

It seems like in order to get 'really quiet' you need to have solid, noise-insulating walls on all 6 sides, which then makes it harder to ventilate (i.e., each cube gets it's own ductwork)

That said - I also like quiet spaces and if I was looking for a co-working space something that's mostly small, cozy, and quiet cubes would be perfect :)
> Brick usually means unfixable without an EEPROM replacement or data loss.

The definition of "bricked" is not set in stone; a lot of what a normal person would consider "bricked" (doesn't turn on, or turns on to an unresponsive black screen, and no magic sequence of button presses can reset it to working order) could be fixed by a power user with the right equipment, software, and knowledge.

In this case, it requires fairly expensive equipment (another $2.5-10k device), somewhat easy to acquire software, and the appropriate set of instructions, to overwrite the device's broken firmware with a working copy; you don't have to open up the device and plug a JTAG adapter, but using the DFU protocol is very similar to that, since in both cases you're writing directly to the firmware under control of an external device. This is not like "BIOS FlashBack" and similar on non-Apple PCs, in which the device can rewrite its firmware by itself from a common USB stick.

(Also, about data loss: a device with removable storage could get bricked without any data loss, and fixed also without any data loss, simply because the data storage is separated from the firmware and from most of the hardware. It's Apple's insistence on non-removable storage which risks losing data when something else makes the device fail to boot.)
Read this translation back in 8th grade (~2005?) and it blew my teenage mind. Have read a few more - perhaps it's sentimental, but none quite seem to do it for me like this version.
> Steam removed games that people legitimately purchased from their personal libraries?

The sad reality is that you purchased a license under terms that allow them to do whatever they want- it’s not really your personal library. Unless a government were to pass a law and fine them about it nothing will happen- it’s what you agreed to when you use services like Steam.
> unless your a whale they give zero fucks about giving you any flexibility on price.

Even the flexible pricing they offer ends up being a sham. It just seems better on paper but you end up paying nearly the same because they have a really complicated billing model where they give you free stuff with Infra hosts, once you switch away from this model you stop getting those freebies, so your Infra hosts might cost less now but everything else is more expensive now. The house always wins!
Only your coworkers can see what you're up to in a glass meeting room at your company office, though.
Then, it got syndicated, a couple of years ago, and I tried watching it again.

Same here, but not because sets or effects, but plots and jargon. Some of the ideas are interesting. But the whole premise was shocking even for my child self.
They could have just interviewed MMO players
> extra complexity

if this extra complexity is mitigated by hiring a larger, separate team (rather than strain existing engineers), then they might win overall because of the customer segmentation.
Correct, I was indeed using an attached keyboard. And I also wouldn’t expect the soft kb to behave properly either on the iPad or a phone.
I second this. Night and day.
> as the first step in empire building

Highly unlikely because the world of Infrastructure Development Financing (the closest thing to empire building without guns and soldiers) is a highly competitive one.

The American, EU, Australian, and Japanese funds get the best projects, and the remaining ones (mostly in LDCs) go to upstarts in the space like China, Korea, Taiwan, Israel, Türkiye, Saudi, UAE, South Africa, India, Qatar, Thailand, Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt, Russia, Mexico, and Brazil.

Most OBOR projects failed because they were projects most other lenders like the ADB or WB wouldn't touch because of their risk profile.

There's a reason why when SK was in a similar position as China today in the 90s and 2000s, they went all in on investing in China and ASEAN. Hell, the Japanese did the same thing in South Korea in the 70s and 80s.

China doesn't really have a similar option. Most of the stable ASEAN members (Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines) prefer Japanese, Korean, or Singaporean FDI, and the only other China-esque market for China to potentially invest in is India, which has made operating a Chinese owned subsidiary a living hell while rolling a red carpet to Japanese, French, Singaporean, Gulf (excluding Qatar), American, and Israeli investors.
How would you know the specifics of relative effort for their plans, unless you have inside info?
Great article!
The led me into a rabbit hole, exploring collisions in Wi-Fi and the corresponding CSMA/CA Protocol. I hadn’t put that much thought into how this worked in practice.
This is a straw-man. No one thinks it's open.
That's right. A friend of mine sells premium offices and he's been saying WeWork's business plan made no sense at all for as long as I can remember.

Basically, in any premium office, you want to maximize the space for as many high value desks as possible. WeWork often spends a huge part of its space for perks and temp desks. In addition, WeWork attracts the startups/small business/solo crowd and those are far less stable customers than your money making enterprises. He routinely tells me very large customers often forgets that they're even paying for the office. That's the customer you want.

He was sure that WeWork had no future. He was right.
why not use Postgres in append only mode?
That’s BS. Very little of the cost of these projects is labor actually doing the work. Most of it is planning, admin, and opaque costs nowhere near labor costs to subcontractors.
It’s black magics new app. It’s free and FANTASTIC.
> Conversely windows, just got a USB stick in the drawer I can boot off.

It goes further than that, on many motherboards even a failed firmware update can be fixed through a random USB stick from the drawer, you just need the right BIOS file to put in it.
I'm genuinely not worried about that. As others have observed, us programmers will be in trouble when regular people learn to produce a product spec that's detailed enough that an LLM can create the working software that they need.

That sounds a lot like programming to me!

I expect our work will change: we'll be able to spend more time thinking about what we are building and less time typing code on our keyboards. But if anything, we're going to become more valuable - because we'll be able to get a whole lot more done.
Yeah. These days our operating systems don't actually operate the system anymore. Hardware manufacturers usurped our control of the machine. They think of Linux as the "user OS", to be virtualized and sandboxed away from the real computer.

https://youtu.be/36myc8wQhLo
In the same period, 10-12 years ago, both androids and iPhones bricked themselves if there was no storage left on the device.
Both needed somes bytes on boot and if they couldn't write on disk, they failed to boot.
Datadog allows you to export all of this but I don't see how that's any useful. You can't really port Datadog dashboard to let's say Grafana easily. The query languages they use do not have 1:1 mapping, the way dashboards are organized and the different visualization tools you get are not same either
https://www.phind.com/search?cache=z5odlx0o9lspzpfm4sfpp131

Way way better, I'm stunned. Congratulations on this
Advertising is pretty much psychological manipulation by its very definition. Targeted advertising is manipulation targeted directly at my psyche.
> The countries subscribing to said international law voted 116 to 6.

Unless the 116 countries voting to uphold it are actually willing to do something about it, it's near completely meaningless.

Can we stop pretending that the UN has power over anything?
My apologies to you, but last time I logged into Facebook through a VPN (my network has all the IP ranges of Meta blocked), which was about 1.5 months ago, I got served ads that were exactly the kind of thing I hate about when scum gets to publish advertising on a global platform without the platform checking it. These where among the first 5 ads shown.

I made screenshots just to be able to show them to people like you.

For context:

Image 1 and 2 are successful and popular persons in Germany.

"He didn't know his mic was on. Is his career over now?"

"The scandal which is shocking the entire world, Stefan Raab didn't know that the camera was filming"

Image 3: Attractive women with 6 fingers because they were made with Stable Diffusion

https://imgur.com/a/tm3wQs2 (excludes 3rd image)

https://imgur.com/a/9Q9YI4b (requires accepting 18+, but it is sfw)
"According to Atari design engineer, Al Alcorn, when Atari was on tour promoting the device, a Sears representative asked what the developers were smoking when they invented it. With that, a technician stepped forward holding up a lit joint."
Or GOFAI?
I think it will come eventually. Bandwidth is getting cheaper (at least I think it is) and video compression is getting better all the time (saving on storage and bandwidth), both lowering the cost of operating such a service.

This is why I feel YouTube’s crusade against ad blockers is short sighted. Sure they can get away with it now but it might cost them in the future against potential competition. Even viewers who don’t watch ads might add value to your platform’s content in the form of comments and votes.

Energy would be better used trying to find out why viewers hate their ads so much and if there is a way to remedy it and get some kind of compensation.
Trolls don't like fighting in courts, because most of their patents are utter junk. They rely on protection racket intimidation when courts are avoided and they are paid for that.

So while fighting them in court is costly since it requires research of prior art and doing all the necessary work to invalidate those junk patents, it's still often a proper tactic to destroy them.
Unless the PR department was educating students.

They could probably do institutional PR off student projects since MIT already gets top talent
True story: PLA, VIC-II survived, 6510 and SID died.

The real takeaway: Do not ever use CBM's C64 PSU. Get a modern one; they're all safe.
That's fair and I hope that is the case. That might even be fun, and I mean I actually have a lot of fun with gpt-4 now. My bigger complaint there then is that you need more money to be competitive in this industry now? Until LLMs become smaller more efficient? Like back in university the best student was a Russian immigrant who learned back in Moscow on pen and paper, no compiler to mostly handhold.
It also resets inside a single conversation if you go beyond a certain number of tokens, and as far as I know there is no warning whatsoever to the user when it happens.
https://archive.ph/XKYmM
Oh, you actually think it's just about the ads, cute.
> Linux being linux, I bet it rather deforms the fabric of time before stretching the other dimensions. Can’t wait for quantum computers with a 5th dimension.

Depends on what driver you have. That only happens if the spacetime driver is loaded, you can change which one it loads at startup by altering your xorg.conf file
I'm floored by what you accomplished in a year. Here in Canada, case law is under an iron grip by Canlii, LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters (Westlaw). As far as I'm aware, there is no truly open digital dataset that the public can use. This situation suits all the players involved and it isn't changing - it's refreshing to hear that one person can make a difference in a very similar setting (Australia)
I'm floored by what you accomplished in a year. Here in Canada, case law is under an iron grip by Canlii, LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters (Westlaw). As far as I'm aware, there is no truly open digital dataset that the public can use. This situation suits all the players involved and it isn't changing - it's refreshing to hear that one person can make a difference in a very similar environment (Australia)
There are plenty of researchers using machine learning for NP-complete problems. Are you saying that this work is fruitless or just that the current state of the art is still in “1980s AI” territory?
Definitely.

I fixed our two C64s that had been stored broken for 30+ years. Black screen to full working condition.

Last time I had seen them working I was about 5 years old. Very satisfying and nostalgic.
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Mom got in fights with son's teachers, pulled him out for home schooling. Mom not a teacher, couldn't teach anything. No high school diploma. No college. Failed GED. No job. Not socialized. Depressed. Envious of his peers.

That's when the trouble started.
Yes, although he was also reported to have translated from Russian to Portuguese. But now I'm more confused because apparently these words do differ in Russian, by a single vowel <а>: граната granata for the weapon and гранат granat for the fruit.

The Portuguese newspaper reported that the word he used was "rpahata" (a kind of clumsy visual transliteration from Cyrillic) and it says that "the spelling is the same in Russian" (which is apparently not quite true!). Maybe the reporters were guessing about this (just based on the news that the confusion involved a translation app) and it really was Hebrew-to-Portuguese?

It's also interesting that Hebrew (I guess in imitation of French) took the unmodified existing word for pomegranate and used it for grenade.
Also offline:

Facebook is combining the information they have with information from data collection companies like Datalogix, Acxiom, Epsilon, and BlueKai

...

way more than you'd think, including race, gender, economic status, buying habits, and more

https://lifehacker.com/how-facebook-uses-your-data-to-target... (2013)
There not much harm as long they're making sure users are aware of the telemetry and can disable it if they choose to. Opt-in is best, but collecting data with consent isn't a problem
I see. Thanks!

So Phind's main mission is to overtake Google right? ;)
If you believe that’s the case why aren’t you founding a disruptor to the construction industry with high-skilled, highly-paid labor? Should be easy to eliminate those “opaque costs” and undercut all of your competition, right? Easy money.
AES70/OCA [1] is an AES standard for remote control of professional audio devices. I wrote an open source Swift implementation here [2] which I'm using for a similar digital audio mixer project. (The actual MCU running the mixer will talk to the AES70 control plane using a simpler SPI or I2C protocol.)

[1] https://ocaalliance.com

[2] https://github.com/PADL/SwiftOCA
Having to pay union dies and abiding by the union contract seems to me that you're forced to be in the union. Maybe your quibbling that although you have to pay the dues and abide by the union rules, you don't have to go to the union meetings?
I mean... I'm kinda ok with that? It's Google's servers, maybe they get to decide how people access them, and are perfectly reasonable in including such language in their ToS? Banning a content creator for advocating ToS violations is maybe a little too far (unless the ToS also forbids uploading videos that talk about ways to violate the ToS), but... eh. Not a hill I'd care to die on, really.

There are plenty of very clear cut examples of Google banning people for spurious reasons; I'd rather get up in arms about those.
I really really like partitioned data formats like Parquet/Delta etc that allow this for this reason. Often do stuff like this in our data warehouse but hadn't thought of 'psuedo partitioning' the data like this on an operational DB
NetForums Data Breach
Aside from the images I suspect the code is inspired by something in the training data since it's quite a common project
Google's 2019 'Code Yellow' Blurred Line Between Search, Ads