skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually an interesting question in itself. Google also has a domineering (though not monopoly) position in ads. If someone were to try to compete with an ad-funded service… how much of a problem would that be?

Also: part of the problem is the quality of the ads. Could you actually get "better quality" ads for a competitor video platform? Do such ads even exist in sufficient number at this point? (I vaguely remember a significant portion of larger companies reducing their internet ad budgets because they simply weren't seeing good returns…)
This is why discussions of free will and living in a simulation seem pointless to me. I’ve never heard of a way to test them.

Provide me a test and I’ll happily reconsider!
The point is that it's easier for a service provider to spend 1-2 hours (or across multiple people) when they don't have to spend 12 years of training with high attrition rates. Both because it's more affordable, and because there's less scarcity.
Dan Abramov, de facto lead for React, said that the React team was driving the vision behind the new features in React. Vercel just said, "how can we help? You guys think server components are great, ok, we'll make them first class as that's where the React ecosystem is headed."

Vercel is doing nothing but trying to improve DX for all the things people complain about React.
Conversely, 'everything is fine mongering' is probably actively harmful.
I agree. I feel like we missed immortality by a few decades to a hundred years at the most. We might be some of the last generations that actually have to die.
I’m pretty sure there was a Rick and Morty close to this.
The psychology being subjective is my point. The physiological condition is not subjective. My statement wasn’t that something was “objectively good” but that experiencing pain and suffering was “not objectively good” or rather (objectively) not a good thing. Pain is real, and the absence of pain is objectively better.
>Approximate battery life (hours) : 140 (AAA-size alkaline batteries), 85 (nickel-metal hydride batteries) Assuming 5 minutes calculation and 55 minutes display per hour

A huge downgrade from classic calculators with non-retro-illuminated screens, such as the venerable m68k-based TI-89.
My understanding of his 'ruliad' idea is that the rules yield stable and predictable laws like QM and relativity.

His idea is basically that there is this high-dimensional graph that represents reality and if you define certain propagation rules between nodes you see the emergence of stable laws like quantum mechanics, relativity, and space itself.
Of course evolution is falsifiable, as are falsifiable the big bang theory and the iron kernel theory.

To falsify a theory does not require to reproduce it in a lab. It means that the theory predicts something that you can actually observe, or not observe and thus disprove it.

For instance, we can falsify the theory like this: let's grow bacteria and subject them to some poisonous chemical. The theory predicts that, after many generations, if the colony survive then it should become resistant to that poison.

Here is an example of a theory that is not falsifiable: after they die, people's souls go to a place that is impossible to observe when you are alive.

Falsifiability is about "impossible to observe", not about repeatability.
ah yes, a predatory loan is a a loan where you pay no interest, have a chance to have it forgiven, and at worst just return the original amount almost 2 years later, gaining the inflation amount.

so any bonus that is not just cash in your pocket is not a bonus? what is the correct word for a really good freebie that a company gives you? you know, a great minimum reward, a possible much bigger reward if you are one of the top performers, so you have an incentive to perform.

Let's say you pay $5 for a lottery ticket, where you're guaranteed to win $5 but can win $100. Is it predatory and unethical to you if you don't win the $100?
API Gateway is a bit of a buzzword. I think part of it's because of Amazon API Gateway. People like to imagine they're recreating big parts of AWS, and a lot of Amazon's other products have names that are trademarked or are clunky to use.
Customer relations under sales? Who does that??
The reverse of that adage holds even truer - absence of evidence is not evidence of existence.
FixedString – C# Zero allocation valuetype based fixed string implementation
Less disturbing than the raw percentage is the context in which some of these suicides have reportedly been carried out. People who are simply lonely, who have addictions, who don't have money, who feel they simply don't have options. In sum, not the kind of people who have a truly terminal illness and will pass away in a few weeks or months, but people who could potentially live well and flourish if resources existed to support them.

IMO, a society that reaches for suicide as a solution is going to be a society that consistently fails its most vulnerable.
Artificial market segmentation, such as TI-83/84 relative to TI-89.
Your point is?

Gasoline fumes don’t typically auto-ignite either. And that is all flash point is about.
> There's no way in hell people can make sense of 19 billion separate concepts. Likely what's going on in the chip is just repeated patterns designed to make a very simple machine operate really really quickly.

You are right about human designed chips. If you use something like simulated evolution or backpropagation or some other techniques from machine learning or mathematical optimization, you can get machines with billions of parts but not necessarily any clear pattern nor repetition.

The human brain might be an example of such a mechanism.
I can agree with them specifically with regards to the odds of surviving heart attacks. If you're alone in your home and you drop to the floor suffering a heart attack, you're almost guaranteed to die. If someone (eg: your spouse) is nearby, you have a slim chance of waking up in a hospital room.

As for the other stuff though: Screw that noise.
> Another place our pi will come up is in the exponential function. It's periodic with period 2πi.

Isn't it the opposite? As I understand, we (European civilization humans) historically _define_ our complex exponential function to have a period of 2πi to match the period of our previously defined sin and cos functions.

We could have defined it to have another period — for example, if we define "360° angle" to be equal to 1 instead of 2*Pi, and define sin0=0, sin0.25=1, sin0.5=0, sin0.75=-1, sin1=0, we'd also define periodicity of e^ix to be 1.

UPD: Same idea as for why we use base-ten numbers. The only reason is that we have ten fingers on two hands, and historically we've been using base-ten numbers for the past few hundred years. But there's no reason to expect that "aliens" would be having ten digits also.
What's missing with American CEOs?
All of my apple devices have lasted multiple (4+) years. The only time an apple device hasn’t is because I broke it.
If you’re not mining your lithium and cobalt with your own handmade pickaxe you’re doing it wrong
>But when they looked at actual couples it was far more random with "9"s paired with "5"s and so on.

are these general couples or couples that met online? There is definitely a whole different dynamic to meeting someone physically and how that body language and actual time to converse changes their perception (not swipe and try to woo them with a text message).

You're not even getting 5 seconds on a dating app if you don't have the right looks or right pitch. I always had an idea for one of those trashy Blind Date reality shows with a premise of "would you swipe right on your SO/Spouse?". because we're never getting organic data for that.
Aldente is one such app
The "Russian Dashcam" videos are horrific these days, basically snuff films and yes that includes children. I'm the kind of person who likes realistic war movies and the like but this is on a different level. I won't post links but they are easy to find, a simple search will surface them with no issues.
Tech success is less about envisioning the future but more about forgetting the past.
Solitary confinement is a torture, and should never be used, even for the most reprehensible of people. You may mean that they be physically sequestered from other people if they're dangerous, which death row inmates often are, but no human deserves to be isolated from others for anything more than a short period.
nah, they're arbitrary function approximators that caught a lucky break. CNNs rose to prominence because natural scene statistics are translation invariant and convolutions can be efficiently computed on GPUs. and now that we have whole warehouses of GPUs, the current mood in DL is to stop building the symmetries of your dataset into the model (which is insane btw) and use brute force.

the tenuous connection DL once had to neuroscience (perceptrons) is a distant memory
I don't find the first point surprising. (Our) pi is the one tied to the only metric where the unit circle is perfectly continuous, differentiable, etc.

The 2-norm is very special for many reasons I won't enumerate... and it seems apropos that its corresponding constant (pi)... for relating a distance from a point (wlog 0,0) to the result of integrating a constant around the path those points occupy/form/consist in... would itself tend to be found more than others.

Perhaps this is simply because without that continuity and differentiability everywhere of the corresponding path generated by the metric's unit circle, many other pieces would fall like dominoes.

There is something uniquely central about a concise relation between a point, a distance, and a path.
Comedy is awareness of what’s funny. That’s it. It might tangentially be related to what’s true, but that’s at best a happy accident.

I take it you weren’t around in the 90s when Chris Rock made this exact joke (it was on Bigger and Blacker), and it killed. People have thought that doctors were after repeat business for as long as there have been doctors.

This is a commonly held belief because treating symptoms always* come first. It always comes first not because the pharmacryptoluminati are ghouls after money, but because it’s easier. But that’s not a good punchline.
Kinopio's Design Principles
More like comparing wallgardens with few open tech standards.

I was going to rant. But it is pointless. These companies find ways to hold customers because of their tailored experiences and it has less to do with technology and more with targeting.
If you're not able to block Twitch ads, you can at least bypass them with Firefox.

I wrote a "tutorial" of sorts: https://lemmy.world/post/5452725
It's a one liner in Virtuoso (hard IPs aside). I doubt anyone memorized the exact number but it's definitely not some unknown or hard to figure out quantity.
I question why inevitable death or substantial decline even have to be criteria, if someone sincerely wishes to die that should be their right.

We are all brought into this world unilaterally without any regard to what we might desire, the least we could do after that fact is let everyone end their existence on their terms.
Yes, the interest-free loan with possibility of it becoming a grant is a bonus. At a job, a bonus is an extra benefit outside of base compensationn.

But that's not what you're arguing here, is it. Since there is no actual argument you can make here, you're making up added details that make you right, then attacking those made up details.

"but somewhere deep in the fine print" - there is Zero chance the bonus recipient had no idea that this loan is only forgiven is he keeps his employment. Zero. Companies give bonuses - more commonly as stock options - that can only be cashed in if you keep your employment for a certain length. Literally every C-corp does this. In fact, the bonus described here is more common than the "here's some cash, even if you're no longer working here tomorrow."

"If the company touted "free food" - and again with the making stuff up. There was no free food. In your example, the company offered you $500 in cash to use as you please, said you'll have to pay it back if you get fired within two years, and you said thanks and took the money. Then you got fired.

Douchebaggery is making stuff up about a scenario because you have no actual argument in the scenario presented. Watch a lot of newsmax by chance?
ZString is a similar project:

https://github.com/Cysharp/ZString
Putting humans on the moon in the first place was mostly just grandstanding. Manned space exploration in general is mostly just entertainment. I'm glad humanity hasn't continued wasting resources on that particular endeavor.

Unmanned probes do good work for science. (Though even there I am not sure about the bang-for-the-buck compared to other alternatives.)

Have a look at '20 Breakthroughs from 20 Years of Science aboard the International Space Station' https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/20-breakthroughs-from-...

That's the list of the 20 best things they could come up with. And it scarcely has anything that couldn't have been done cheaper with unmanned craft. And it includes gems like counting spending money as a benefit, instead of a cost.
The Good Room
Carry over is still not as efficient as directly spending on what you want.
> The brain is supremely efficient at what the brain has evolved to do. It is almost tautological! Because if it wasn't, it wouldn't have evolved to that.

Not really, evolution doesn't guarantee the brain will be supremely efficient. It just guarantees that it will be efficient ENOUGH.
While true, I read the comment as an example of another way in which children do not participate in the regular education system (for better or worse). And it’s likely a way that does not show up in these statistics.
If they are good project managers, they plan for non-routine delays and account for them in the project schedule. Before people are allowed to commit to schedule, the project managers make sure that these people have properly scoped and estimated their part of the work, by asking pointed questions, using their domain expertise and general experience to figure out if they're being bullshitted or not.

If things start to slip, they find out where and why and apply what pressure they can to get them on track. If they cannot get them on track, they then liaise with everyone downstream to make them aware of the slippage, adjust the entire schedule, and get everyone reorganised.

It's not just putting things in the calendar and forgetting about them - it's a constant, ongoing herding of cats to get them all going the same way.

It sounds like you just might not have been lucky enough to work with really great project managers!
José González
We could have spent money directly on the technologies we are interested in. That would have likely been more efficient.
A rare early cube farm science fiction story by the author of the Horatio Hornblower series, Sink The Bismarck, The African Queen (1935), The Good Shepherd / Greyhound, and The Ship (1943)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Hornblower -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sink_the_Bismarck! -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound_(film) -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ship_(novel)
Is this a quiz? Below the article is another that says the quartet was reinstated and the board resigned, replaced with others.

https://www.thestrad.com/news/daponte-quartet-members-rehire...

P.S. it was the music that was considered not diverse enough.
Will low poly with good lighting look better than high poly with bad lighting?
> This principle applies at the end of a war as well. Because it would have entailed the awful human costs of an invasion, Truman’s demand for Japan’s unconditional surrender to end the war was indefensible.

When 75 million people have died across the world and nations destroyed, I don't think it's unfair to demand the unconditional surrender of the belligerents. Even by today's morality.
If early-21st-century ethos teaches us anything, it's the opposite.

When life has no value, we can finally iterate effectively to achieve enlightenment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DRJ-Wwj6_A

NB: This guy beats all four bosses a second time! And why? Just to find out if there's a special ending for beating them all during the same run.
> Also, do we really have better propulsion technology to make space travel more efficient?

It’s not really the propulsion technology that’s the key, it’s not throwing away a whole bunch of rocket engines every time, just to launch something once. So it’s really a design methodology as much as the technology.

Having said that I think a key contributor to reusability is computation. As far as I’m aware all the experiments with propulsive landing in the 60s and 70s were manual. You could compute optimal thrust profiles given enough time and ideal conditions, but the conditions for an actual landing are never ideal. Particularly issues like atmospheric conditions such as air pressure by altitude, the effect of humidity, wind conditions and allows for the variability of turbulence around the vehicle. Modern automation of such must be vastly more efficient than manual control, but I don’t know when this became viable.
The human brain IS an example of such a mechanism.

We've done it artificially as well with machine learning and genetic algorithms.

The amount of concepts in the neural network of an LLM is too large for us to fully understand.

At best we can only hope to understand these things as a sort of curve fitting optimization problem.
He was breaking TOS, Vercel contacted him, got no response, blocked his account.
> The notion that detecting our adblocker and actually charging for content are equivalent.

Well then maybe you meant to respond to somebody else, because that's not something I said at any point.

> Because if they send us ads we'll delete them and there is pretty much nothing they can do about it.

This entire HN thread and the linked article are about how they are literally doing something about it, and it's working.
Very neat! Though I got prominent clicks and artifacts in both chrome and firefox.

If anyone's interested, some years ago I made a wrapper library for things like this, to wallpaper over the famously hairy WebAudio synthesis API. Basically you pass in a static object describing the audio graph and parameters you want, and the lib creates the WebAudio nodes and then cleans them up after the sound releases (hopefully without clicks, unless you specifically want them).

https://github.com/fenomas/wasgen
I discovered fly because I made an heroku account, connected the wrong card (I’m a broke college student), and heroku told me I couldn’t change the card for the next 30 days. This was all within 5 mins of making my account. I couldn’t find a support avenues.

I tried many clever workarounds but their alt-account defector is top notch (props to that team).

Asked around in dev circles and they recommended me fly io.

Idk who hurt heroku for them to put such measures in place but I’ve never encountered such strict policies before, and I’ll forever avoid places like that.
The death of a public intellectual
I mean the Hertz/Tesla deal only started end of 2021 [1] and less than half of the ordered fleet was available by end of 2022 [2].

It’s kind of disappointing if they are getting noticeably beat up after a year.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-travel-car-ren...
[2] https://electrek.co/2023/02/08/hertz-half-massive-tesla-orde...
iPad Mini would be just 1.3 inch bigger
>So you want a complete summary of the article in the title

that's literally the point of an articles' title, the idea that you think it's somehow strange makes it seem as if clickbait strategies have become so ingrained as to appear invisible.

Titles aren't meant to be gamified and reduced into the shortest possible quip that will produce hits, they're supposed to aid in summary of the content. They're supposed to be shallow and formulaic; they're a tool for indexing and summarization, not a tool for generative publicity.

"Septicemia - possibly exacerbated by climate change - kills dozens of elephants." vs. "Scientists discover elephants TRUE KILLER, CLICK HERE NOW!"

'Shallow, boring, formulaic' is a good thing and it keeps with thousands of years of academic tradition and good sense.
I love this idea.

You might enjoy Stephen Wolfram's writing- it's exactly what you're talking about
> people who are simply lonely, who have addictions, who don't have money...not the kind of people who have a truly terminal illness

Source? According to my understanding of the Canadian law, loneliness and poverty are not eligible conditions.
The article also mentions the same in reverse:

> It is hypothesized that "unintentional seeding" may also be responsible for the phenomenon in which it often becomes easier to crystallize synthetic compounds over time.

(Well, to be fair, the only thing that's reversed is the human value judgement. The proposed mechanism is the same.)
I personally think leaving romanization after the first week of learning Hangul is best, unless you are focusing only on getting better at speaking.
The article says this is of particular concern to Pharmaceuticals and Computer Hardware industries, but all of the case studies are from pharmaceuticals and food products.

I can imagine how this could present an issue for hardware manufacturing, but are there examples of this occurring in that industry?
Do aluminum factories shut down daily due to fluctuating prices or are they located in areas with cheap and plentiful reliable electricity supply?
> route by query string, configure weighted load balancing, work with TLS, deal with methods, etc - let alone other protocols than HTTP

Except for weighted load balancing*, these are all things NGINX does, which Kong is built on via OpenResty, right? What makes Kong different? (Trying to be open to explore even though I was disappointed when Insomnia users got locked out of their data unless they signed up for an account when they updated what was marketed as an open source project)

* Which I think NGINX Plus, a competitor, probably has, and they have an Ingress controller for Kubernetes that would likely get updated to use the Gateway API soon.
Boo hoo? A predictable situation and an entitled/cocky developer. Sounds like he’ll get his other stuff back in due time
I also independently landed on the notion that damages liability should be capped to a median car with similar damage. Beyond that the costs are on you / your insurer.

Though generally in tort you take your victim like you find them... and there are good reasons for that.

A counter would i can go intentionally smash up some other rich guys fancy car and only be on the hook for the cost to fix up a median car. If I've a vindictive rich guy myself, then perhaps that's a good deal. A balancing fix would be median liability unless you can show the damage was intentional and malicious, but then that's inviting everyone to endlessly litigate about intent.

There are lots of other compromises possible, e.g. only liable for x% of the amount past the median, which I think would still be strictly better than the current situation.
VVVVVV holds up perfectly. Good level design, good physics, good gimmick at the core of its game play. The graphics were designed to be evocative of the Commodore 64 era. It's hard for that to really age when that was the intent in the first place.

Ocarina of Time bored me in 1998. It still does. It hasn't "aged poorly" in my view; it was never good in the first place. (Yes, it's my opinion. :P)
I mean, the title says Gateway API, because it's literally about an API named Gateway. Idk how you avoid it.
Right but ideally we would be able to prevent that so it never happens unexpectedly and we all only ever go out on our own choice when we're done/ready/whatever