skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did that the last time you posted this comment. What I found was even sadder. Some (many?) of the companies are what I would call "hustles" -- keto drinks, home-made cosmetics. Their success I suspect lies on the initial effort put into networking and marketing. (There's nothing wrong in that, of course, it's just not interesting from a tech-startup pov.)
Does it support environment variables that you can dynamically set, e.g. for an access token?
I didn't want to spend time reading that wall of text, so I wanted a summarized version of it. Asked ChatGPT (4) to do it for me and it told me that Omegle is not going to close.
My intuition told me otherwise, so the irony is that I spent more time than needed on this.

https://sharegpt.com/c/yhV8Hjh

Is this a sign of falling GPT quality? I think this was extremely easy to infer.
The Thiel Fellowship has been extremely successful, if judged by the top 10% of its participants. That has almost nothing to do with colleges, whose job it is to produce worthwhile outcomes for the vast majority of their students, at a scale of over 15M students per year. There's a lot you can say to criticize higher ed, but this is an apples to oranges comparison.

I'm reminded of Teach For America, which I did 15 years ago. I became a full time teacher with only 5 weeks of training. Most teachers go to 4 years of ed school. I firmly believe 2 things: TFA has produced some elite teachers, but it is not a scalable model because it is not better for most people. Similar argument for bootcamps vs college for training technologists.

> There are nearly 7,000 Ethereum-based projects, including some of the most innovative and promising ideas today.

Ethereum is a truly incredible and fascinating project, but at this point, I don't think anything that has come out of it qualifies as promising. Nothing from it has had a substantial impact on existing value chains of products and services. It's like the bustling economy of a techno-futurist hermit kingdom, but one which doesn't produce things anyone needs to survive (including its own subjects).
You're not struggling, it's just an unwieldy application; struggling is not being able to hold a wrench, this is just difficulty with picking up an excavator.
Cruise recalls all self-driving cars after grisly accident and California ban
Did you already hit their three strikes soft ban prior to updating the cache?
When my children were much younger, we went quite regularly to the local library, and our schedule coincided with that of another family, to the point where their youngest, when told that they were going to the library stated that he was looking forward to seeing my daughter --- when cautioned that she might not be there he declared, "We will see her, Jessica _lives_ at the library."

I miss going so regularly, and keep meaning to build it into my schedule --- apparently there are some libraries which have apartments:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-the-new-york-pu...

(which is about the one thing which would make me consider being in NYC for an extended period of time)

>Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

--- Anne Herbert
That's a lot of hand-wavy doom and gloom posturing to unpack there...

Your long and somewhat rambling comment includes numerous cliche phrases that oversimplify cause and effect for the problems we have today and falls into exactly the sort of tired obsessions with simplistic political catchphrases as causes for the problems we still have (really, reaganomics is one of your big reasons for the modern world being less than ideal? Let's get over a few absurdly simplified, old progressive/conservative biased talking points by just a bit).

More importantly though, your comment also completely bypasses the enormous material gains in general human well-being that we've achieved even in the last 30 years. Absolute poverty rates have dropped enormously, mortality from numerous causes has as well and a whole list of other things have gotten better for billions of people, including both absolute and relative levels of material wealth.

I could cite the specific sources but as a good starting source, perhaps easier to recommend a book like Factfulness by Hans Rosling, or just go look at the WHO and UN human development stats for yourself across nearly any category for human development between the 1990's and today. This is not to even mention the even more dramatic improvements between the year 1970 and now.

With all that said, I don't entirely disagree that we could have had a better world by now if certain things had been done differently on numerous corporate, regulatory and political fronts.
Torrenting is on the rise again since the golden era of streaming where Netflix gave you access to everything has ended.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/digital-cont...
It is not. People don’t generally go to college with the goal of becoming a billionaire founder.

Diversity of choice and outcome is good. Not awkward.
Yes introversion/extroversion is not binary or really even a 1 axis continuum.

Clearly it is multi faceted / multi dimensional or multi-layered. Like the concept of a persons personality having layers like an onion and few if any know your most interior true self layer.

My wife & I could be perceived as more/less introverted by situation. Work vs family vs friends, talking to known acquaintances vs talk to strangers and making new ones. Who is on social media vs who has 10 text groups of intimate friends they talk to throughout the week. Planning social gatherings vs complaining about plans and wanting to cancel.
Data Debt Is Not Evil: A Pragmatic Perspective
One interesting advantage of very small programs in the age of slow storage was that, if they fit in one disk block, they’d skip one drive seek and read the whole file from the block indicated in the directory entry.
What fraud and abuse? They can prevent fraud and abuse by doing anything, including by doing nothing, because those aren't concepts that apply to their product.
This has been tested by researchers: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/20/734141432/what-dropping-17-00...
Let's say this passes and the Signal Foundation and Matrix refuse to add surveillance features demanded by the UK. What effect would this have on technology as a whole? Personally I can see it going two ways.

The Matrix.org Foundation operates in the UK would either be shut down, continue in another form elsewhere, or splintered with multiple custodians. I'm not entirely sure about the Signal Foundation, as, on one hand, they are an American org, but on the other hand the US is pushing comparable laws. Regardless I think that "techies" will continue to use and operate Matrix, XMPP, Mastodon, Secure Scuttlebutt and/or other decentralised (P2P/federated) infrastructure outside of the realm of regulation. The form which that takes really depends on whether further repression takes place. Techies are essentially banned from getting compensation or building a business out of providing such platforms and so it may steer towards true P2P and so-called darknets.

Mainstream platforms may find a way around this, like, say, secretly MITM'ing a security number of an encrypted chat. Most of the mainstream platforms are not open source which helps in this regard - the app could even lie about the security verification code to the user. Or perhaps they will be more transparent and simply have all conversations that involve someone that is likely in the UK encrypted for two recipients, one being UK intel. We can only speculate what this might look like, if we would ever even know.

I think this would be a sad outcome for the community and lead to more centralisation towards large, regulated platforms like Facebook, Apple, Google and Microsoft. It would also have a chilling and repressive effect on speech as if that wasn't an issue already. One can only dream of a P2P future but I have some doubts that this would take off without the resources that the big players have.
A successful ROP attack requires the exact addresses of the various gadgets used (refer to a definition of ROP if this is unclear, as I’m currently on mobile). ASLR thwarts this, as does the libc layout randomisation that OpenBSD does on every boot. However, it’s not perfect, and if you can read program memory you could scan for gadgets at run-time. This last point is prevented by execute-only.
What was the misconception?
The piano of the 3d world
This is not the first time I read this accusation here.

Jerome, is that you?
I'm not getting the economics here.

With so many big names using it, and it is so popular.

Why was it a financial drain? Why can't it keep going?

Surely if was making enough money.
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What host language are you using?
Ask HN: What videos sites have potential to be the "YouTube of the early 2010s"?
His Omegle 100[0] video is one of the best one yet, Harry is a legend. [0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVGIcVRIbk
That's surprising.

36 megapixels RAW is like 50 megabytes.
By providing a better service. Not by combatting the pirates in a technological arms race. Incidentally, movie/TV piracy is on the rise again as streaming has become more fragmented and more expensive.

https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/25/streaming-video-piracy/#:~:te...
Netflix had the chance to become the Steam of Movies, effectively killing piracy in the field, however between every company creating their own streaming service and hiking prices, my (admittedly anecdotal) impression is that some people are going back to pirating at least some of the time.
Bard is weird. It started embedding these weird AI generated images inline alongside text responses, making it very hard to read because of fragmentation. Does anyone know how to turn it off?
Prior to the 18th century reforms, British army commissions (officer jobs) were explicitly bought and sold.

> It doesn't need to be worth a lot, it just needs to be something.

Market pricing, though. I can see the rate for being considered for lucrative tech jobs climbing into tens of thousands of dollars (or one or two paycheques).
> On Android one can easily mount the storage as a USB drive and transfer data at high speeds.

One can? I thought one actually can't, because a) the internal storage is using a file system Windows PCs and Macs don't understand and b) you can't simultaneously mount the internal storage on both your phone and your computer because that would only lead to data corruption. And unmounting the internal storage while the phone is running isn't possible either, because that's were all your apps and settings and whatnot are stored.

Hence for a very long time now you can only access your phone via MTP, which can be annoyingly fickle and less stable.

Conversely, an external SD card that only gets used as additional storage space for documents, music, pictures, etc., actually can be unmounted and at least in principle be switched into true mass storage mode (although in practice this might require root, and I don't know how well this still works on current phone models that still feature SD card slots).
I just realized you're likely the same person who made a more recent and compact binary encoding, for algorithmic information theory/Chaitin's constant purposes!!

I'm humbled, and have been a fan of the field for a long time. :D

I'm no mathematician, just most of my family and friends ;-) ~23 years ago I (and some other math major and grad student friends at college -- "my people") would get into great enjoyable late night chats about AIT. Mostly with me arguing "there's something cool/legit math here!" and them being healthily skeptical. I've always had a penchant for the computational and experimental discovery, of course my brother is the polar opposite.

I'd be honored to collaborate on, well, anything, should you ever need the skills (pro bono, of course) of an professional, experienced, HPC/C++ scientific programmer who knows a bit of math as well. ;-)
What if meeting the wife was the glitch?
I believe there is a renewed interest in Hitler's speeches due to alleged support of Palestine/Arabs and the encroachment of US/UK interests in the middle east/north Africa pre-ww2, for example, take this speech from the Reichstag in 1939: https://archive.is/BsJ1T
Given how many times I've seen people on the C++ standards committee make a concurrency mistake, I don't believe you. Thread safety is extraordinarily difficult to reason about by looking at code once you've moved beyond very basic designs.

Tsan is also not static analysis.
Bias for looks might not be useful. Bias toward people who were extremely serious magic the gathering players is more useful.

Find the right vector to bias on.
Is there anything like this for Vue?
That's why you don't do it, but the die-hards do.
As context, from the link:

>> "In response to a request for documents pertaining to the decision-making behind the proposed CSAM regulation, the European Commission failed to disclose a list of companies who were consulted about the technical feasibility of detecting CSAM without undermining encryption."

>> "... a list of experts who helped the Commission draft the text related to potential solutions to detect child sexual abuse material in end-to-end encrypted communications."

This doesn't sound like a list of those who supported it. Only who were consulted.

Maybe some more consideration before we start burning witches?
Set-of-Mark Prompting Unleashes Extraordinary Visual Grounding in GPT-4Vision
I don’t want to since I don’t think it should be a thing. If you want a catch-all error code, use 500 and accept the shame that comes with it.
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I once watched a 15 min Youtube ad about immigrants running an ice scream sandwich shop. Just wanted to see how long it was
“Used as filter for employment” is a terrible burden to bear, but some institution has to do it. I don’t think college gets enough credit for bearing that burden while surviving and fulfilling its original purpose at all. Saying “college is a disaster, we should gate employment by (eg, written tests or billionaire hand picks or high school grades)” sounds to me like “Frodo is an emo mess while Sam is practical and thoughtful. Things would go better if we gave the ring to Sam”
All 32bit/64bit x86 machines.

I believe you can still buy new 8086 class and 286 class 16bit x86 cores in random SoCs.

And I know you can buy SoCs with 386 class x86 cores. It might be more accurate to describe them as 486 class cores that don't implement the full 486 instruction set.
Brave browser works for me on both desktop and iPhone
That's just a bank problem. Certainly this isn't how payroll works for large companies. Banks usually let you upload XML files that define a set of SWIFT payments, this is how I do payroll even for a small company. The accountants supply the XML file too, presumably they have an app that generates it.
On the flipside, is it the golden age of computing gaming or golden age of addiction? Paying $5 to be engrossed in a game for 100+ hours?
>Okay, so before the mid-20th century Wikipedia would have categorized the concept of plate tectonics as pseudoscience.

I am almost certain they would of. The "fringe" and "pseudoscience" labels are used much more broadly on Wikipedia then one might expect.

I have seen a Palestinian scholar, whose research went against the prevailing Euro-centric Western view, labelled as "fringe" on Wikipedia even though it was being published by UNESCO and Cambridge University Press and he was by every metric a mainstream academic. The main editor's critique of his work was mainly ad-hominem and that it hadn't been acknowledged or "approved" by Western scholars. He didn't seem interested in verifying the texts that he cited and quoted; texts that the previous scholars were ignorant of. This was simply a case of a likely correct but minority view that was also difficult for an English speaking Westerner to verify, as the cited works were obscure and written in the 9th/10th century in Arabic. One of the few known manuscripts was located in a religious building in Turkey and not known to be available online in either scanned or transcribed form.
I wonder why there is only a single recording of him in a more natural setting, over 12 years as chancellor I would have expected something more!
In the UK, it's not possible for Ordnance Survey to remove bridleways (horse tracks) from maps for legal reasons. Unfortunately, this means that some are no dangerous for passage despite being explicitly marked on the map. One example: mountain rescue involved in recovery of horses neck-deep in bog/marsh on Dartmoor.
They also get all of your information/habits/etc..
It's pretty sweet being an all powerful tech company.
Torrents are back big-time because Netflix became too annoying and video streaming too fragmented.

https://torrentfreak.com/online-piracy-continues-to-rise-wit...

https://torrentfreak.com/sharp-rise-in-piracy-rates-across-s...
Albemarle warns of losing lithium market share to China as prices fall
If we consider popular channels I wonder if single premium subscription is enough to cover the costs.

Maybe Youtube could become actual hosting platform and allow creators and companies to pay some fee per minute of streaming at each resolution.
How to Manage Remote Teams
I just don’t understand why people don’t use Invidious instead of paying money to these greedy bastards
someone could make an AI image generator for CSAM. Then the whole point will be moot, the market for it will collapse and the social taboo will be rendered irrelevant.
If that's the case, then they cannot know that all items taken were returned.

They can only know that the items checked out were.
I don't have much to add except that this was very thoughtfully written, and I appreciate the sentiment very much.

I'll leave a quote spoken by Keanu Reeves in To the Bone:

"This idea you have, that there's a way to be safe, it's childish and cowardly. It stops you from experiencing anything, including anything good."
macOS has been doing memory compression for years. Basically, apps and background processes that are idle have their memory compressed, and then upon exiting idle (due to user interaction, a timer firing, etc.), the memory is decompressed. The compressed memory doesn’t touch swap.

It’s possible that Apple Silicon has some hardware acceleration for doing this in-place memory compression, but otherwise it’s pretty old news, which makes this marketing shtick even more frustrating. 8GB was borderline not enough even back when memory compression was added to macOS (maybe ~10 years ago?).
And to dismiss him as just a salesman is unfair.
Yes of course it does, they have every incentive to misdirect / conceal , and move the conversation to where it's convenient for their parent company.
> you should never eat them.

> You should do this for your entire life.

Out of all the advice in these comments, this contradicts the scientific evidence on fitness and nutrition the most. Everyone should do the thing that makes it the easiest for them to attain their health and fitness goals. Living an an acetic life because an internet comment and Michael Pollan said so will work sustainably for very few people.

Adherence/consistency is the single most important factor to consider when building a fitness plan. Evidence shows users of systematic plans like weight watchers points are less likely to lapse in the long term. A very gradual improvement that works for a long time is much better than a deep “improvement” you practice for 1.5 months before giving up.

I’d much rather count calories and eat ice cream every day than treat ice cream as arsenic. For me a little bit of a treat every day makes self control around my diet easier overall - I never buy snacks or overeat at meals because I think “hrrng if I spend this calorie now, I cant spend it on ice cream tonight”. Might not work for everyone - there’s a lot of commenters here who prefer TRE because it’s easier for them; if works well that’s what they should do.

If living an acetic life without treats works the best for you, then do that - but don’t tell other people they should do it too.

There’s no reason to fear treats if you can manage them; if time restricted eating or calorie counting enables someone to eat the food they like, and so life is more enjoyable and it’s easier to adhere to a good diet, they should do that.
My guess: Recording equipment tended to be large and media expensive.

There was magnetic wire recording technology, which was relatively compact, but the amps still needed tubes and the machine hardly concealable.
Why not Vimeo?
Netflix with account sharing has perhaps killed Torrents, which to me doesn't seem that different. People I know went from free torrents to free Netflix (or a "ok I'll pay your beer for letting me use your Netflix"). Now account sharing is out, Torrents will increase again.
FYI this was recorded in secret, which is why you'd find nuances commonly uncharacteristic to Hitler. He was "out of character."

Edit: there's a wiki about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_and_Mannerheim_recordin...
Depending on the way the site and its ads are presented, and which ad-blocked is in use, that argument often falls flat because the blocked adverts still get counted as delivered as they leave the relevant server and are blocked from rendering client-side.

Obviously this is not universally true (for example DNS based blocking stops the request for the ad content going through at all so if the counting is done at that point a blocked ad won't be counted) but a lot of in-browser blocks might see the blocked impression still counted.
Torrenting isn't dead and Spotify came years after the various lawsuits that killed Napster.
The page is completely blank without javascript running.
Microservices – State of Developer Ecosystem 2022 (JetBrains)
If I had the capital I would explore it. At least for targeting the replacement market...not sure if you could convince homebuilders to use your product, but maybe it would be not impossible.

I know there are a lot more steps to it but my mind was telling me that the motor mechanism is a solved problem. Could perhaps even buy the barebones parts to assemble locally. The magic or at least what is the most interesting for me is providing the integration module that allows it to 1) connect to the internet or 2) connect to other local devices that can control it. Would possibly require a subscription from the internet route but not even close to the silly $45 a year Chamberlain charges.
With sites like Redfin and Zillow making searching easy. Don’t need realtors as much.

Most of my realtors said me to look at some sites and get back to them when I liked something.
Possibly. I didn't know this was a thing!
That's bollocks. There are no databases of (not-)vaccinated people in the Western world.
Thank you! I use DOSBox to run QuickBASIC 4.5 on my Mac to check my implementation :)

Unfortunately, Magic Dosbox for Android doesn't seem to work very well with QB45.exe...

Aside from linking with assembler, what QuickBASIC 4.5 funcs give you the ability to interface with the hardware directly in the fashion you're describing?
Lord of the rings AI generated fan fiction
This short film was generated using Runway.
Tangent:

Is there a "dating site" for people looking to be on podcasts and podcasts looking for guests?

Seems like that should exist.
I simply stopped watching YouTube.
Homo Imaginatus (2021)
How long before gpt4 can interact with a program, run tests, and rewrite the program in any framework.