skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A reminder that the "cookie consent debacle" is intentional. There is no requirement for a popup or any system to ask for your consent to store cookies if you simply do not store unnecessary cookies, and the carve out for "necessary" cookies is huge.

Every time you see a popup to approve cookies, it is explicitly so a company can beg you to allow them to track you for free money.
New for Amazon Comprehend – Toxicity Detection
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Lots of discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38205357
Eh, as outsiders we're all quick to judge.

OpenAI and friends are able to move quickly, but (so far) they're not able to translate their LLM innovations into high-margin revenue with any significant moat.

Give it a couple years to see where all the cards settle and who's actually making money "with" LLMs.
I'm surprised this even legally flies. Seems like the legal equivalent of creating a shell company.
The Fed stopped raising interest rates, so we may be at the peak of mortgage rates.
Since this isn't reddit, instead of accusing you of being a dumb tankie, allow me to explain.

Renting is financially beneficial for the large majority of people. If you don't understand this, you don't understand how APR works, or you think that houses always are going to appreciate (a belief that was proven VERY false in 2007)
> Ultimately, the CJEU agreed with tech companies, deciding that the language of Austria's law was too general and abstract, potentially applying to too many platforms without distinction. The court ruling said that allowing Austria to enforce the law risked restricting "the free movement of information society services" between EU member states and undermining "mutual trust" between member states.
Thanks, this seems to work for me!
I've seen the pop-up twice in roughly two weeks, both times in Firefox on Linux with uMatrix, uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock.
Except there’s no way to have a sensitive conversation on this device that isn’t spoken. With my phone I can. That’s part of my point.
Not for all games. I have several Steam games that won't play on Linux.
Really dude? That’s your take?
In a world where you can pass a whole git repo as part of the context window of a model, wee see potential not only to reduce hallucination but on diffing based on a company's code style
Chrome users are out of lock due to the way extensions work, Firefox users can continue blocking without issue.
> Worse, you'd need an AGI that was relentless, creative, able to lie and deceive, to mimic, to charm and flatter, to subtly threaten or act subservient, to be taciturn and know when to be silent, and generally socially engineer, understand rules and break them.

So, Bing Chat?
I wish they focused on improving the editor and maybe dropped Java in its entirety, rather than on bells and whistles. I used CLion a lot, but I developed some sort of PTSD from having to wait ages for anything to open, stuttering etc. Their tools are certainly not ADHD friendly.

I recently decided it is over and moved entirely to VSCode. It's a massive improvement in terms of productivity even if it is not as rich, simply because it is more responsive.
Or stop using Chrome.
Their cost estimates kept going up, and they hadn't even started construction.
You don't have to reply to this one. You can just kill the process instead.

I actually did not notice this popup on a new install this week, because I never exit OneDrive the clean and fair way. Nor do I uninstall it the clean and fair way...
>failed

How? There was no economic failure. It ended due to a political coup. After all there was the slight external complication of a proxy war considered by many to be a prelude to the defining conflict of the 20th century.

>never expanded

Apart from across an entire country you mean?
There has.

Have you checked how many extra people there are though? It's a little paradoxical, I know, but you never buy things. You only get to bid on them at auction, an auction invisible to most people. And there are twice as many bidders as before.

But this isn't some contradiction of the topic's premise. Many, many of those people weren't born here. Your government sent all those industries overseas, then brought into people from those same places to underbid you on all the crappy service jobs that remained. Told you that you were bigoted and hateful if you objected. Everyone got the progress they voted for, I guess.
"We published what we thought was a valid paper on a fat man in red that lives on the north pole and gives presents to children at the end of December. Unfortunately we didn't realize that the aeronautical data on his flying reindeer was falsified. This was clearly data fraud, and has no impact on us being a trustworthy peer-reviewed journal." lol
Yes, it's crazy. Upon updating ublock, even turning it off and clearing cookies resulted getting blocked.
> No one has the right to YouTube (or free media for that matter).

This is self-evident and we have Terms of Service for exactly this reason. What I think we're debating is what's reasonable reach for Terms of Service to have? Can we violate it by muting ads? Why not? Why is that different in principle than an Adblocker?
going to try this out.. clever font name ;)
For something like YouTube it can probably still be detected by timing. If the browser plays part A of a video, then when it is done immediately requests part B of the video, when there is supposed to be a 2 minute gap to play an ad, that can be detected on the server side. The client could try to get around that by doing things like telling the server it is playing at 2x, and then really playback at 1x, but then the server could send different content (pre-downsampled) depending on the playback rate requested.
Cloudflare.com Is Down
Overwatch *had lootboxes. Now it has a BattlePass you buy, new heros are locked behind buying the BattlePass or grinding the first ~40 levels to get it for free, and also premium cosemtics in a FOMO-style "today's deals" daily rotation store. No lootboxes. I miss OW lootboxes. I'm not a gambler but the surprise/novelty was fun, and once I had most cosemtics I wanted I could also just collect them which was satisfying. I had >500 and double digits of every seasonal loot box at the end of OW1.
You could pay for YouTube Premium until it starts playing ads, then?
Do you complain why your Tesla runs out of gas ?

Seems like the same complaint to me.
The GP's point is that if people start using enough of it, the price will easily explode into several thousands or even millions per gram.

It all depends on a lot of details that haven't yet been quantified here. And the recycling the GP talks about is a huge one.
You can also just set uBlock Origin to disable JavaScript by default.
I've been blocked for a week now.
This deserves the "Windows 95 Tips and Tricks" treatment:

https://windows95tips.com/
Ah makes sense. Guess it also helps me that I never use yt with a user logged in.
Ally and Legion Go run Windows
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Huge fan of SemanticDiff!

We still see this technology being able to handle edge cases (as you mention) such as certain movements of blocks of code to another file.
I don't quite get your point.

A blockchain is just an infrastructure on top of which you run your business logic. In a sense, it's similar to what AWS would be in a centralised world.

So basically, you can add whatever registration, moderation, etc. logic on top of your infrastructure layer, whether it is built upon a blockchain, AWS, self-hosted or whatnot.

What blockchain gives you is something distributed, battle-tested, and some form of economics between infrastructure providers and platform users.

You can still decide to mimic existing business models of, say, Google on top of it. Give users unlimited free tokens on this blockchain if they provide you read access to their messages. Of course it seems outrageous stated like that, but it's pretty much the same business model than Gmail at the end of the day, with the advantage that users not willing to share their data can just buy usage tokens if they prefer.
It is beneficial for Google to drag out any cat and mouse game against ad blockers as long as possible. They are all built and maintained by volunteers, who get yelled at by assholes every time something changes and breaks an ad blocker even for a single night.

Google is trying to make this suck for the maintainers, explicitly so they stop maintaining the ad blocker.
Nobody forces anyone to adopt Wayland. The distro maintainers are choosing Wayland. Most of us have outsourced our concerns to the distro maintainers.

Wayland didn't happen in a vacuum either. There were/are other options, including remaining on X.org.

Wayland isn't even new. It's been around since 2008.

This all means "chasing the shiny" is not what's happening.
> Any professional program instills way more than just knowledge to pass a test.

If you talk to someone for thirty minutes about the same subfield as you do, you can definitely tell whether they know it. Mass testing on paper is harder because of cheating (even if only a small minority does it, it defeats the purpose). It's orders of magnitude cheaper to have a good test, one-on-one if need be, as compared to hiring all the teachers necessary to give everyone a standardized education.

I've learned very little in my master's. Call me the problem for already knowing most concepts and just having to learn-by-heart some protocol byte offsets (yes, that was actually asked on a closed-book test), but a year of memorization of some specific things is and getting a certificate for that is far less valuable/actionable than making sure someone can do the actual job and giving a certificate for that. Yet the former certificate is what most companies base starting pay grade on, or for being considered at all, no matter what they claim before you get to HR.

(Edited the number in first response line from hyperbole to actual estimate. Also loving that people are downvoting reality they, I guess, don't like? Or what's the problem?)
Also water and salt (plus some magnesium chloride if you eat tofu many other industrially-made chemicals without plant-based precursors unless you avoid nearly all processed foods)
Is this for Slack apps? Or Apps in general for example iOS apps, android apps.

If slack app are you talking about workspace approval?
How do you propose to give slightly different data to everyone and see what leaks when you have to have a short conversation with the person in question?
And in Canada not only is there a requirement for schooling (3 years on top of - in nearly all cases - a 4 or 5 year undergraduate degree), and a bar exam, but also a year of articling at a firm as cheap labour. I am thankful to have a law degree but far more thankful to have never practiced.
Sorry you ship code that's hard coded to C:\Crapware.

It's unfortunate you think that's okay even though it violates conventions Microsoft has published for oh I don't know 30 years. Some people never learn.
https://cohost.org/ ?

Edit for a bit of info: There is no discovery mechanism built-in and no "algorithm". The way to find more posts on a topic is to use hashtags. Everything is reverse-chronological. If someone wants their post to have broader engagement, they will post with "#The Cohost Global Feed" or some broad topic. You can go browse if you want to, but the site isn't going to push anything on you (besides following the site admins lol).

Cohost doesn't have full-text search built-in, but Google actually has it covered. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=is%20piss%20a%20vegeta...
I think audio translation when it's quite close to real time will feel more natural without the phone in the hand than with it especially with a well functioning gesture interface, but yeah, there's nothing that stops a phone from doing it.

Also agree this is more a smartwatch competitor than a phone competitor. The fact that smartwatches sell at all is proof there are (much smaller) markets for wearable devices that do stuff that can be done at least as well on a phone if you get it out your pocket, the argument for separating the powerful internet connected functionality from the watch and having it on some other wearable on your chest is that actually I like the wrist-mounted device that tracks my activity and sleep to not need charging every day...
you need to clear cookies and local storage on youtube.com and also google.com, update ublock, and make sure you're on the default filter settings, then you'll get unblocked
For those users, there is uBlock Origin. Actually, I think it's the recommended suggestion by their developer for all users, isn't uMatrix no longer supported with uBlock Origin including many of it's features?
Isn't the primary and possibly only objection to GitHub PRs just that they don't allow individual commit commenting?
> Competitive games are not based on chance

You would be wrong. Even chess has variance, the better player does not always win.

Then there are games that actually integrate chance as a mechanic and are still competitive.
Kind of, they did the Steam Link which was local streaming only. They also had the Steam Machines which were made by third parties. From what I recall the Steam Machines were overpriced for what they were and SteamOS + proton weren't nearly as good as they are now.
The internet some of us grew up with has been gone a long time. Even back in the early days of AOL/Yahoo chat rooms, people were inappropriate with children though.
The XBox One and PS4 are very PC-like as well. (Continuing with the PS5 and XBox Series).

But yes, Valve does seem to get what gamers want (other than games made by them)
The money is entirely worth it, to me. And I pay for it out of pocket rather than billing my employer for it, even. And I'll still be able to use the latest version I had at the time the sub ended.
I am not advocating for a lifestyle. The fact a single income is insufficient regardless of lifestyle is my point. There can be stay at home dads or 2 income families that can afford child care for example. The pay for 2 young people during their prime is not enough to get it done in urban areas. It is more doable in rural areas with less people. The wealth has shifted to older people that do not reproduce.
Doubt an ARM chip would work well with Valve's approach of using Proton (Wine) to run the x86 binaries. And also not sure if the iGPU really measures up to RDNA (since Apple doesn't build their chips for gaming.)
You're missing the point. I'm saying people are getting super exercised about the "we might sell alternative licenses", but the code's AGPLv3, which everyone should be fine with.
Children don’t play Counter Strike?
Windows. They have a sub-par user experience because of that compared to the Steam Deck. Windows just doesn't work that well on small screens like these, and the custom UIs they have are the usual bloatware you find in "gaming" products.
No one wants to talk to a computer in the public. How could they missed that after all these dump voice assistants like siri and alexa. No one want to capture photos without directly checking them afterwards. This is so out of place.
Not sure if the ditch the exam here is related to that, since there’s a lot of pre-existing discourse around exam practices anyways, but

> I'm never clear whether the hypothesis is … or …

It’s possibly both. I’ve seen a lot of arguments (poorly cited usually) to the affect of

* diverse organizations tend to perform better. The general claim is that providing psychological safety enables people to work better. And diverse groups of people have more different experiences, and can contribute increasingly different ideas and perspectives.

* DEI initiatives are beneficial people and society at large. This claim is obvious.

So it can be true that the benefits of these initiatives are important AND they lead to better performing organizations.
HN relies on URL for duplicate detection; this is not a Dup by that definition. The story is all over the web.
he was the first shitposter
How do they grade work that is subject to privilege?
They do ask first as far as I know
I don't understand authors who criticized the acquirer post acquisition.

There is only one reason why you would sell: lots of money. You understand this going into the transaction. Once the company is acquired, it's no longer yours.

And you understand very well why you sold to Google: Because they are so big that they can give you a lot of money. Unfortunately, a large company always has a lot of bureaucracy. Surely the author knows this.

That's it. No need to criticize, you got the money, you got to the finished line.
Green card holder via marriage, decided after 10 years it's time to naturalize. Nothing exotic in the situation - still happily married, started a family, no legal issues, citizen of Western country etc. Is it worth retaining an immigration attorney for this? Most of my friends who have done this did it themselves and say it's a paper-filing exercise, simple test and an interview - so they think I'm being overly cautious to consider retaining counsel. What would be the considerations here, please? Thanks!
Ok, but I bet you'd want the best prosecutor you can get to go after the guy that commits a crime against you or your family.
If it ever get to the state that modern linux is, then I will change my mind. Its very much like the linux of 2010s, where you had to configure a whole bunch of things to get linux to work despite people swearing that it works.
I find all this handwringing about cosmetics gambling ridiculous when sports betting is becoming more and more accepted and legal.
It's more than that. Yes, if you only have one genius per million people, you want more millions so you can get more geniuses.

But it's also true that there is a networking effect going on. Having two geniuses is more than twice as good as having only one. They work together, they're smarter together.

If we could travel the universe Star Trek style, what we would almost certainly discover is that for any given level of technology, it's correlated to a particular population level. The science fiction stuff we all love to watch and read about and dream of, that stuff's available if you hit 20 billion, 30 billion. We should want that many humans to exist.

The trick is figuring out where to put them (populate the solar system).

The inverse of this problem is that as population levels off and starts to fall, technological advance will stagnate and stall out completely. But there will probably be even worse catastrophes such that it will go unnoticed.
SWE pays well.

I would rather improve my skills, grow in my career and switch jobs to bump my salary than juggle a side income
Oregon is on a roll ..

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/01/737798440/oregon-legislature-...

https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2023/10/oregon-again-sa...
Is it a fact that the United States is the most free country? Your index isn’t called “index of phones by number of parts replaceable”, just like mine isn’t called “index of countries by gun ownership”. Like I said, you attached a number to your opinion and want to present it as a fact.
I think they missed the opportunity to make this a smartphone. Humans are obsessed with their screens, and taking away the visual appeal of a smartphone is questionable. Although the target audience may be people who are actively trying to use fewer screens so, owning this alongside an iPad could work for some people.
> In my part of the US west coast, if you need to have two dental crowns done, it's cheaper to fly to Taiwan and have it done there than to have it done locally.

This is exactly what I do.

I would take the kids back to my home country, pay out of pocket for any treatment, and have a nice holiday in the process.

Last time we went back, I was chatting with the dentist and casually told her about the treatment costs in the US - she was flabbergasted. Markup prices in the US seem to be 500%+ of those in many European countries.
Is there a 4?
For all the reasons that this might not take off, what a thrill that people are trying something new--and it looks really nicely designed too.

I think this is easy to dismiss at first glance, but I genuinely believe they're trying to think about a new mode of interaction. The idea that "the computer will disappear" is probably accurate in the long term. Except for content delivery (reading, photos, movies), most tasks we achieve via computers and phones do not strictly require a screen. It's probably a good thing if computers did a better job of getting out of the way, and stop so loudly disrupting human interactions.

Whether this will be the solution is unclear; the privacy/creepiness angle is still real with an outwards-facing camera. Latency and battery life limitations might be too significant. The cost will be a non-starter for many (it is for me).

But I'm still impressed because there was a vision here. The conversational interface has never worked before for many reasons, but that does not mean it cannot work in principle, or that the ideal implementation would not be spellbinding. I'm glad they're trying. Also, the laser display is neat!
On medieval cats
is Google really that desperate for revenue that they need to do this shit? Comes off as desperate
Disappointing it wouldn't be available on the 14 pro or 15 pro, both of which have hardware that far exceeds their normal use cases. I'd be happy if it could still go to the network for some of the processing.
One of the most annoying things about Windows RN

That in itself is a huge accomplishment.
Just to toss this out: I really wish huge companies like Google were completely prohibited from any sort of M&A activity. Buy up startups that might, someday, be competition. Absorb them and destroy their product.

Sure, it's great for the people who sell their startup, but it's bad for the rest of the world, which might have benefited from the product that was assimilated into the Borg.
How to Not Get Screwed as a Software Engineer (YC YouTube) [video]
Asimov's laws require AGI, so are irrelevant at this point. Our robots can't reliably detect humans, let alone understand what could cause them harm.
I’d be interested to see the data that shows cookie notifications have had a useful impact.
Philip Ball: How Life Really Works
they will eventually do that
Illinois is the most nuclear state in the union, as well as the home of the first manmade nuclear reactor. I grew up very near the forests where they buried that reactor, and never got any powers from it. A high school friend was named after the Byron, Illinois nuclear plant, which his father had worked on.
I limit Elden Ring to 35FPS to avoid stuttering and it basically feels as smooth as 60FPS on the XBox Series S.
As long as you get at least ~30FPS the framerate doesn't matter as much as framerate stability.
Hi Peter, I have a master's degree what is the best way to get a Visum in the US? How easy is it to use this higher degree to get a green card? Any experience or advice you give is, very much appreciated
This seems like satanic panic style paranoia. Dropping a hot take like that, especially with “literally” thrown in, needs a bit more content to mean anything. To start, I don’t know how any site “makes people addicted to porn.” Why? Because it has porn? So what?