skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A high quality mechanical watch, aside from being a beautiful object from an artistic and engineering perspective, tends to be a significantly better store of value than diamonds (vs natural diamonds especially)
Is the idea for commercial search engine a bad idea? Where only e-commerce websites are tracked instead of the whole web? I don't understand this idea of intent tracking, guessing and suggestions. I explicitly want good results for my query, I have already made my mind to buy something. For this reason, I despise that Facebook guesses my intent when I visit an e-commerce website through Google search and starts suggesting related websites on its apps in async manner. All I want is, give me an interface to search for relevant query. I don't care if I search on Google or Facebook.
oh no an open redirect... anyways...
Why do you hate saying it? Thought crime guilt?
> We can see stuff like this happen all the time in the financial industry with ratings agencies, and we saw it prior to government based agencies that fullfil that role.

Did you just use the rating agencies as a POSITIVE example? The financial crash that partly came about because those rating agencies were 100% corrupt and didn't work at all you know...
Writing to myself instead of "the world" also increased my writing volume.

Switching the target audience to myself boosted my blogging a lot initially.

Writing gets less complicated when you're writing to someone specific.
Goldstein?
Yes, theoretically.

It's interesting, the limiting factors for biomass production are bioavailable nitrogen, carbon dioxide, sunlight and water, in that order. The ability to remove carbon dioxide from the air is the ability to modulate the amount of life on the planet, even to 0 if desired.
I honestly think these things are often used by people just to make themselves feel better. The amount of difference that a full fledged DE like Gnome or KDE use it mostly just RAM and its 2023 I mean how old and how less ram do people actually have even in "old" machines.

I think unless your are SERIOUSLY limited there is really no reason to use some minimalist DE (OS) and it all comes down to DE mostly, so I would if anything rather use some very established Linux like Lubuntu, Arch with a smaller DE over all these niche specialized minimalist distros.

I have a feeling everyone and their grandma starts a linux distro and sells it based on a screenshot on how the default desktop looks and how much ram is used after boot. There are like 1000 Linux distros based on Ubuntu and I think most of them make no sense. Official flavors do make sense Kubuntu/Lubuntu/... I never got Mint, clinging so hard on Gnome 2. There are plenty of gnome 3 extensions that make things exactly as you like it. I use Material Shell and its the best DE experience I ever had, even though its pretty buggy. I am exited for the authors new project veshell https://github.com/free-explorers/veshell a Wayland compositor that does the same thing without Gnome.
My father was a university researcher/teacher (assistant professor) in Czechoslovakia, during communist regime. It's not as black and white as these links might lead you to.

He was never higher ranking (didn't get professorship) until the 1989 revolution, AFAICT he was more interested in research (thermodynamics) than career.

During real socialism, academia was often a refuge of smart and freethinking people, if you were able to get there (some didn't for political reasons). It wasn't a highly paid job. And it also was very inefficient. There were completely useless departments, and the department heads were political positions. But some good science got done, without having to toe the party line, and without having to bend metrics and having to publish lots of repeated nonsense.

(I am not advocating that particular system, I think it was worse, but I am pointing out that measurement is not inevitable.)

One result of liberal (capitalist) approach to science is that people get really good at marketing themselves. That's why science in the Eastern Europe often gets bad optics, because that self-promoting aspect of it wasn't as prevalent there.
As a general rule, you really do want to set up SPF, dkim and dmarc. Without them there’s a real vulnerability there.

The annoying case is when you have them correctly configured but are using ~all instead of -all so you still need to deal with the beg bounties.
Is it possible to do that without there just being implicit back channels between the businesses, and they continue to operate as before?

I guess you could enforce some kind of open-tender requirements on their projects or something but that seems extremely difficult.
The point of the tweet is slightly different from what you're making though. Your comparison would be valid if the artificial diamonds were somehow cheaper-looking while otherwise performing as good if not better than natural diamonds for use-cases where aesthetics don't matter (drill bit tips, or what have you). But that's not the case, the artificial ones look exactly the same - maybe a jeweller could inspect them and say "ah this one is artificial, I think".

They also mention suffering, which seems kind of hard to measure but I think it's relatively well known that natural diamonds are saddled with a fair bit of baggage in that regard (slave labour, conflict diamonds, things of that nature).

You can't easily map this onto luxury watches, but it'd be like if you could buy a watch that was indisputably a Rolex, was "equal" in aesthetic appeal to its equivalent Rolex while being cheaper and didn't involve whipping the watchmaker who built it or something. And maybe a few watch afficionados with special knowledge of serial numbers could inspect it and go "ah this one was made without whipping the watchmaker"

Thing is, there are inexpensive watches that are well-regarded within the watch community though: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/a-seventy-five-dollar-watc...
"Specific market regulation" in this case can also include police action. The police going after murderers who poison people with lead IS MARKET REGULATION.
The OP referenced the Khan Academy as an attempt to displace the ossified educational institutions we have. But it has its own limitations and challenges, some of which will soon be rendered moot by the coming wave of AI technologies, perhaps giving it the final push it needs to truly take hold.

Can imagine a world where it doesn't matter where or how you get your education, all that matters is that you can have your knowledge verified by an accredited _testing_ institution. This would open education up to a world of creative competition for students, and allow individuals to find a learning paradigm that best works for themselves.
women should refuse diamond ring as engagement ring.
Linked lists aren't either so....?
My wife and I bought a titanium ring with a wood inlay for our wedding. Would buy again.
Why in those specific decades?
I remember that dumb ad. I think that was the moment when I finally decided to read his books in his original English instead. (It helped that at this time my English got good enough that I could read whole novels complete with puns and obscure references.)
I don't really see the point with this. Running Linux is not a goal but a convenient way to load and run apps concurrently. What apps do they plan to run if even Gnome won't work on such machines?

I can repurpose even an 8088 if needed, but what will I do with it? Getting Linux to run just for the sake won't be enough to the end user if he can't browse the modern web anyway.
Is the Apple Mx series about that?
Thoughtcrime on HN would be assuming Google actually does good and provides value. Wanting FAANG companies to be broken up, by violence if necessary, is such a common opinion here it's banal.
But if you did that… does the minimum wage have to go?
The difference being: Another person doesn't have to pay for it
> I was actually hoping that by the end of the blog post, the mystery of why the game didn't run would be cleared up, but sadly it wasn't.

My best guess would be something of the following: The software tries to determine if the CPU has a 80(2/3)87 device some way. Thinks it does have it and then tries a FPU instruction to get the error signal firing and getting the eventual INT02 to blow up in it's face. But I'm not limited by any actual knowledge here so this might just as well be something completely different.
Assuming the thief impersonated your friend, convincing you to hand over the keys and open the door so they could drive it off?
Previously:

A kernel update broke my stylus | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38102023
Yes I do. Have you ever thought about that?

Consider that literally everyone used to believe it was either benign or beneficial, (including western experts before they got expelled) used it for various purposes and noticed no ill effects. It was found in the neanderthals. Now you come and claim that everybody is wrong.

What if it's you who is wrong?
Should statistics have a Nobel Prize? (2013)
I don't have problem with the cost so much (but serious proposals were supposed to be 3x the salary, no? so you lose quite a bit) but rather overall business and how it manipulates people.

From poor people destroying their lives in Congo open pit mines to deBeers laughing in your face when selling you small rock which is not that rare for as much money as you are willing to accept. And if you got any form of certificate from then that your specific diamond is not blood diamond, well that paper has less value than used toilet paper, nobody could ever check or enforce that. So people here mentioning how their wives glow when looking at diamonds, well they are looking at shiny human suffering. And if future wife doesn't care enough about that, well you just learned a very interesting personality trait of her, without the need to go through years of relationship.
In my experience paying out once to a bug hunter resulted in an avalanche of useless "beg hunter" reports in the following weeks. Understandably security researchers brag about their finds on their resume but that has the side effect that other guys apparently crawl those and start targeting you.

I'm not saying this is good or bad, but just a warning that you should be prepared to read a lot more reports once you start paying.
Happy spouse, happy house
There's so much irrationality in the world, everyone is guilty of them: irrationally believing in gods, irrationally being happy when someone else wins a sports match, irrationally being happy with a very expensive red sportscar, etc, etc, etc.
... and taking it one step further, humans spend millions of hours watching those shows and movies, just to be able to consume movements of some pixels and parse it into some storylines.

What an inefficient way. How much time will be saved when we go straight to computers watching that content for us and summarising it in 140 characters.
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It's because diamonds are mostly untraceable. If you steal it, nobody can tell if a diamond sold 2 years ago was at one point stolen or not.

But actual diamond jewellery is mostly priced like artwork. The worth of the actual separate components has very little to do with the price of the item.
There is anti-cartel legislation that should prevent that, I think.

And why would it be in the interest of shareholders of the parts to only do business with the other old Google parts?
But only the FAANG that have failed to properly market this month - Meta is currently in favor (or at least out of weekly rant cycle), Apple and Microsoft have managed to spend enough on marketing lately to be spared the bile floodgates of HN with Google being its usual incompetent self.

But the pendulum will shift again.

(The core of my annoyance here isn't ranting over FAANGs, but the fact that any kind of suggestion of systemic fixes immediately brings out libertarians accusing us of trying to undermine poor economy.)
> Keys for SecOC get out of sync and throw an error. Not a safety problem per say, but your health check (since I consider watch dog timers an implementation of health and state management), you'd trigger a restart of the software to resync the keys.

Ok, agreed in that case, though I'd prefer to see a forced reset rather than to rely on the watchdog timer as the mechanism to do it for you. You could just jump to the reset vector instead.
In my impression, a lot of people here hold a surprisingly contradictory set of beliefs. They're huge fans of the current economic system, where the main actors are publicly owned companies, and where we rely on profits growing YOY to generate wealth for everyone (who owns the stocks).

And, on the other hand, they're critical of Google which is operating precisely as such a company, and doing exactly what it needs for its profits to grow YOY.

Google is being lead by an MBA, has a very extensive management class, and employs a lot of people. The only way to be a lead and earn good money is to have people under you. The structure of Google is very analogous to other companies in the same sector.

Frequently there's no other behavior that would make sense for Google to exhibit. The job of all the execs in the company is revenue growth.

Could you enlighten me here? Maybe I can update my model with your feedback? Do you believe that you can somehow have your cake (infinite growth) and eat it too (ethical companies which care about the community when the profit margins get slim)?
There is a bit of a cultural signaling to your future wife to say you are financially competent/stable that you were able to buy a diamond ring. Now you need to switch the narrative to say actually I didn't spend so we could buy an index fund instead.

I don't buy the flawless argument in the article. I think people look for some flaws in diamonds. A perfect rock would look "fake".

The big change since 2006 when the article was written is that there are manufactured diamonds now.
>the point of a diamond is that it's expensive

its just a marketing stunt that became a culture icon in a society weak to commercial propaganda last century. Its basically a tacky display of status or a modern bride price, something socially incompetent nerds find funny outside the blood part
Apple has beautiful logos on beautiful hardware so they can't be that bad, can they? They think about the users.
the top spec RyzenG Chip is no slouch.
There's always a bigger fish :)
What? I can't understand this at all. We like gems _because_ they are shiny, not in spite of that.

But alright, subjective opinion. I'm just enjoy my affordable shiny rocks over here.
Jewelry is not unpractical, it's like an insurance for bad times. When shit hits the fan you still have your jewelry to sell.
It got the word out so well that it made the front page of HN, so I’d say it wasn’t a complete failure.
Thoughts on "Generative AI Art"
So it gives me the response below - and it seems its just training me to think and write better about my problem requirements (refinement in my company parlance):

I'm ready to assist you as PromptGPT, your expert in crafting efficient
and effective prompts for interacting with GPT models. To create the best
possible prompts, I will need to know the following details about each
thread you wish to initiate:

Expert Persona: The specific expertise or role you want the GPT model to
assume (e.g., a legal advisor, a fitness coach, a historian, etc.).

Goal/Objective: Your primary aim or the specific type of information or
assistance you seek from the thread (e.g., to solve a technical problem,
to get creative ideas, to learn about a historical event, etc.).

Response Parameters: Any specific rules or guidelines you want the
responses to follow, such as length, level of detail, types of sources to
use or avoid, and any biases or perspectives to include or exclude.

Tone of Voice: The desired style or attitude of the responses
(e.g., formal, casual, humorous, empathetic, etc.).

Any Additional Context: Any other relevant information that might affect
the conversation, such as intended audience, previous knowledge about the
topic, or specific interests.

Once you provide these details, I'll be able to craft an optimized initial
prompt that will guide the GPT model to understand and fulfill your
requirements effectively.
Modern consoles (and modern controllers I assume) can do this "double-input" for aiming, using a joystick and a gyroscope. I'm still bad at shooters, but it feels super good. Plus you don't look like a huge dork with a dildo glued to your head.
I was thinking that about 2 months ago. And then I saw people doing bikepacking/long distance bike touring, and I was quite amazed. With wide enough tires, adequate tire pressure control and seat suspension, people ride huge distances with no problems, on old fashion dirt roads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QSrBIIC4po

The reason I linked a bike above was that they truly are a modern marvel. So unassuming and yet so flexible, reliable and overall... powerful, plus cheap by modern standards. A bike is probably the most accessible high tech modern invention that we take for granted.
Database Monolith
"Objectively elite" is a questionable concept. This paper deals with elites defined as those mentioned in a notable prestige catalog of people (Who's Who), and that's a perfectly fine limitation.

I would like to see this type of analysis extended to other prestige people catalogs. In my country, I know there were catalogs for educators ("Norske skolefolk") and physicians ("Norske leger"), I've had some use of them in my genealogy work. My great-grandmother, who had a single year at the teacher's seminary, was included in one of those books and felt it was important that the country should know she was a knitter.
Search engines are already doing it to themselves by screwing with the ordering of results, paid placement in results, "did you mean" anti-patterns, obscuring or ignoring their prior powerful tools to filter results, etc. I don't really trust what a search engine returns to me. I have to sanity check every result.

With generative text and image technology, the reliability of finding legitimately human and organic information is basically nil.

Intellectuals will begin forming smaller, more exclusive, and better-curated groups and content stores. We're already seeing a slow resurgence of micro communities, for example pubnixes/tildes, directories like ye olden DMOZ, blogrolls and protocol rings, e.g. Bongusta on Gopherspace.

None of them solve the search problem per se, but it's an answer to the eroding quality of web search results.
Not this level of worship, they were worn because they were shiny, and so were all the other precious stones, so was silver and gold. Diamonds had no real elevated value globally as jewelry before debeers marketing came along.
Resellers do something of value. They purchase a thing and hold it for some time protecting it from being snatched of the market and make it available to rich purchaser after that time who might otherwise have trouble of obtaining the item at that time.

They provide service for the rich at the expense of the poor. Which is probably not very nice but half of the capitalism works on that premise.
> the binary application (only 2MB) is completely portable across devices with heterogeneous hardware accelerators.

What does the “heterogenous hardware accelerators” mean in practice?
Google is a US company but the "welfare loss" its monopoly create is on the whole (western) world and not just the US economy. That is why it won't be regulated out of existance.

That and national security.
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I honestly feel Apple has reached some kind of plateau in terms of functionalities, features and gimmicks.
Most of the things brought to iOS or MacOS are some software gimmicks.

I think the emphasis should be brought on reliability, MacOS and iOS need to bring back this "rock-solid-feeling gap" compared to Windows 11.

I remember that there was a huge gap in usability and reliability-feeling between Windows XP/Vista/7 and Mac OS at the time.
With the recent releases of Windows 10 and 11, the gap got narrower.

Windows remain a shit platform to dev. though.
I’ve two questions:

- Is “which will mean developers won't need to pay Apple's 15 to 30 percent fees” fully correct? The percentage may have to go down, but AFAIK, no regulator has said that Apple can’t require payment for providing the platform.

- Does this mean we’ll see (more) piracy of apps on iOS?
The actual title is "0x4 reasons to write and publish", probably it got mangled somehow.
> After all, [engagement rings] only need to last a few months, or maybe 1-2 years, until the wedding.

I think this is the cultural distinction you're missing -- married American women typically wear both their engagement and wedding ring their entire lives, and the engagement ring is usually the more ornate/expensive one (which might be due to the De Beers marketing throughout the 20th century this article discusses).
I don't recall where I read it, but:

> Yes the tradition spread, but people don’t live in the same place our ancestors did 600 years ago either.

Yes, they do :-)

The vast majority of people, especially in underdeveloped or developing countries, DO live in the general area where their ancestors moved during the last migration, which for some was thousands of years ago. People really don't move away unless it's easy or they're forced to.

And my comment also included stuff like food. Most current food is modern.
I don't know how you begin to ask a question like this without articulating why British elites want distinction in the first place. Sexual selection?
Having children is not financially nor fiscally sensible. And it's also bad for the environment.
>But honestly, I think that if I was Google or Amazon...I would do the same?

Youre always a person, and every single decision is always signed by a person. Yes, markets should be regulated and this should not be up to Google, and yes there are incentives within companies to make people behave in certain ways, but it's always been a strange line of argument to me that this absolves individuals.

If I worked at Youtube right now and someone told me to implement that stupid ad blocker I'd tell them to shove it. People who are fortunate enough to be in demand at Google or Amazon have a non-negligible amount of agency, and alternatives.
> I think that if I was Google or Amazon...I would do the same?

Of course. There isn't anything particularly evil in Google or Amazon. They are a result of the capitalistic environment. If not them, some other mega corp would have emerged to do essentially the same. Bigger companies get bigger. They are just optimization machines.

That's why we need governments to intervene, break up monopolies, stop mergers, etc. I don't care if it's "fair" for companies. Most people are worse off because of huge multinationals and monopolies.
It is not possible to "just map": Enter key has completely different shape and size and pushes backslash/pipe key to different row.
I'm used to ANSI with single row Enter and I don't seem to be able to switch to ISO (in the past I was forced to order and replace keyboard in my laptop because of that)
Another pretty consumer-hostile thing German publishers sometimes do is to split books into multiple parts in the German version. This does have a legitimate reason in some cases as the German version will be longer and you can hit some limits on book size with already large books. But I've also seen it in cases where it was clearly artificial. And it results in essentially 2-3x the price for the same book, because of course each German book part costs around the same as the original full book.
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To the rich buyers that otherwise wouldn't be able to buy the product because it would be bought out by less affluent but faster buyers.