skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...the pre-cancerous condition with chronic inflammation, is a factor in inducing the smoking of cigarettes,"

The author mocks this possibility, but the causes of chronic inflammation are not entirely understood, and it is linked with depression, cancer, obesity, stress, and a lot of other human conditions. We can't rule out that a stressed out person might want to smoke, be more likely to get addicted, and also have chronic inflammation which opens the door to the development of uncontrolled malignancies.

Still, don't smoke.
Hmm interesting.

But it seems like one industry that has gotten this down is p*rnography? OnlyFans seems to be an enormous processor of micro-transactions for marginal content. Maybe people are just more willing to open wallets for that type of content?

It's interesting to see that even press "rebels" like Substack use a subscription model. You could argue this benefits writers with steady streams of incomes, and that per-purchase would incentivize clickbait and winner-take-all (not 100% sure I agree but could argue it).
The more I think about it, the more concerned I am that subscriptions are a psychological trick where people (myself included lol) overly discount future dollars and over-estimate their ability to remember and cancel subscriptions.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38622439
I would also be concerned about weight.
I’m not sure if that data will be available on iPhone. Still, I understand that on the Vision Pro, none of this data (and similar data) will be available to developers due to privacy concerns.

That said, you might be able to do this already with iDevices equipped with LiDAR (e.g., iPhones Pro and iPads Pro). They’re already used to create 3D objects, but I suppose no one has used them yet to take the next step you are talking about.
The Thai telcos are publicly traded also. I took a look at AIS (probably the biggest here) and despite much lower prices their books are in a much better shape. Namely Profit Margin 15.81% and Operating Margin (ttm) 23.38%, they have proportionally less debt on their books and their business just looks a lot leaner and more efficient so despite charging ~1/10th what US ISPs do they have a better return on invested capital.

So maybe US ISPs are just very poorly run businesses.
The Price of a Passport
Not necessarily.

A while ago, I found the need to stream directly from yt-dlp instead of downloading full videos[1]. You can have yt-dlp write to stdout and pipe that stream into your player of choice.

[1] "Using Unix Pipes to Improve Chromecast Playback": https://alexdelorenzo.dev/linux/2020/03/14/pipes
GM says it's dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto because they're unsafe
Doesn't this end up spiralling, though? As we've seen with Netflix, nothing stops the service from adding ads to a subscription feed.

Sooner or later the pressure to grow revenues is going to force Meta to do ads on their subscription accounts (especially since they can charge a premium on those ads). Then they introduce "premium" subscription accounts with no ads, then those get ads, then there's the "excelsior" subscription account with absolutely no ads, and so on.
Or rerouting.
I can in fact point to the link at the top of this page as one example.

Journalist have regularly covered journalism scandals. Can you point to AI that is capable of the same?

Another example: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelnoer/2014/11/12/read-the...

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-top-journalism-scandals-207375...
> you can throw it on in the background while you're doing other things.

Nobody asked, but my thing to watch like this is everything-Star-Trek (TOS, TNG, V, Ent, etc. including the movies)
Who else cancelled their Netflix?
Related: "Still Entombed After All These Years: The continuing twists and turns of a maze game" is a dive into how the algorithm was developed.

https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue59/3/full-text.html
It's great, it's finally weaned me from mindlessly trawling youtube when I'm bored. I wonder if this is what Google intended, or if statistics will show less engagement on youtube?
This “first step” is publishing a notice that they are going to start gathering information about whether this is even possible.

> "If it's 99.9% accurate, you could have a million false positives," [Acting NHTSA Administrator Ann] Carlson said. "Those false positives could be somebody trying to get to the hospital for an emergency."

Don’t get the pitchforks out yet, the odds are still heavily against this ever happening.
This crashed my graphics card, amazing.
The "free market" is a corruption of the phrase "freely competitive market" coined by Adam Smith. He was quite clear about the need for legal control to keep markets competitive for them to function.
VLC can stream Youtube can't it?
NovelAI uses something like this with their home-rolled models: you can put in some generic 'memory' as well as keyword-based notes and it will automatically get included up to a certain token limit, including some prioritization handling for cases where many different notes are triggered at once.
Why is Mozilla lying to us?

> Mozilla’s senior brand manager Damiano DeMonte wrote in an email to The Verge that “there’s no evidence that this is a Firefox-specific issue.”

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/21/23970721/google-youtube-...
It feels silly to me to assess based on number of companies playing.

If the market were three or four companies all behaving exactly like Apple, there still is a clear & present need for government intervention, a clear "consumer harm" by creating technological intermediary overlords with total control over information technology.

Apple defenders love pointing out that there is choice, that folks can go to Android. But what if Android were just as lawful-evil malevolent a force?
Well, the exact definition depends on the jurisdictions, but just about any market has fair trading regulations that at least outline what is considered unfair treatment.
> That's the kind of thesis a 10 year old comes up with for a history paper the night before its due.

Putin has fairly literally said that, including in his speech immediately after the commencement of the 2022 escalation. Oh, sure, he also stated all the other justifications that his propaganda drones rotate between about NATO expansion in its neighborhood (which is really only a problem because it is a barrier to the expansionist fantasy), and Ukraine not being a real country (which is ultimately just a different spin on the imperial dream, when you think about it).

> All indications immediately before the invasion were that Ukraine would get steam rolled and NATO would look impotent.

I assume you mean the 2022 escalation, and not the invasion starting the war in 2014, but in any case Russia steamrolling Ukraine would have been worse for Ukrained, clearly, but it would have even more vividly demonstrated the threat to Russia's near neighbors of not having a strong alliance with deployed forces and strong commitment.
> it's important to me to remind people that the US destroyed Iraq in response to 9/11

That is not true. I remember Bush’s address: https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/infocus/iraq/new...

I would say that US military doctrine has successfully created the most peaceful era in human history as measured by mortality rate due to conflict, and a fundamental part of that is the willingness to confront adversaries with overwhelming force. The alternative is generations of tribal conflicts. Coming from a family with many war deaths over the past several hundred years, I’m thankful the violence ended with my generation.
Also note the AskReverseEngineering subreddit -
https://www.reddit.com/r/askreverseengineering/
The potential miscalculation is thinking deep neural nets will scale to AGI. There are also a lot of misnomers in the area, even the term "AI", is claiming systems are intelligent, but that word implies intelligibility or human level understanding, which it is nowhere near as evidence by the existence of prompt engineering (which would not be needed otherwise). AI is ripe with overloaded terminology that prematurely anthropomorphizes what are basically smart tools, which are smart thanks to the brute-forcing power of modern GPUs.

It is good to get ahead of the curve, but there is also a lot of hype and overloaded terminology that is fueling the fear.
Like Twitter blue then?
I don't want this - it creates very bad incentives around even more engagement bait crap except now I'm directly funding stuff that pulls my attention before I can even tell if it's garbage.

I prefer the substack or direct subscription model, there are risks there with audience capture leading to sometimes obscene results but it generally gives me more power to fund better quality stuff and removes the bad attention incentives of ads. If you find people that curate a diverse ideological audience that wants to give them a lot of intellectual freedom (or a specific niche) you can avoid the downsides. The quality of this type of media is far beyond any previous types imo.

Stuff Made Here, Persuasion with Yascha Mounk, The Free Press with Bari Weiss, Ben Thompson and Stratechery, etc. there are many examples.

The problem with most legacy media is that it just isn't very good, is getting worse, and it's getting outcompeted by better options.
Really awesome to see Romania at the top of this chart, happier than even Finland. After decades of living in misery under the Ceaușescus during the 20th century, Romanians deserve some time in the sun.
Archaeology focuses on the things that were important to past humans.

It seems impossible that, given current economic trajectories, there won't be software archaeology in the future.
mpv will play youtube videos given the URL if it can see a youtube-dl executable.
YouTube is probably more addictive than gambling, and it’s pretty clear and accepted some minority of people get addicted to that.
The quick math doesn't capture that not every hour viewed is an actively viewed hour.
Article dated: 21 November 2023

Lots of discussion and posts around then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38345858

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38363114
“Back to Oct 7”

Oct 7 isn’t when history started. Just a few days earlier, Israeli people were storming a mosque in Jerusalem. Seventy five years earlier, they were ethnically cleansing Palestine.

If you’d like to be biased, at least be open about it.
(Yes, that was clear, and sorry if I gave the impression otherwise)
Have you found Whisper to be better than Google's automated subtitles? Might integrate it into my backup scripts myself.
I just made a video where I test it with a proper use case. It helps me find effects to make a bassline more dubby and helps carve out frequencies in the kick drum to make space for the bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyMmurtCkHI
> The baseband processor having privileged access to the main processor may be a "feature" not a bug

yes but iff with the qualifier of "in old systems, where permissions were a tree-like state where root/uid0 could see what unpriviledged users would do - by design"

It's a dated design. More separation is needed, like what was achieved for virtualization or containers (namespaces)

> it's firmware is practically required by regulations to be an opaque blob

That's another problem, but I think it also comes from thinking in a tree-like state system.

Ideally, a device shouldn't be able to take down a well designed network: if you plug a bad appliance in your AC, it will not crash the power grub: it'll just trip a fuse.
Trials underway for Taiwan's wartime satcom program
> I think we already have AGI,

This is the only time I have seen anyone claim this. Can you elaborate?
> Lesson learned: just lock down your platform like Apple. Corrupted freedom is apparently worse than totalitarian control.

Probably not a sound lesson. People are rightly pointing out how little sense this makes -- you can exclude competitors but not disadvantage them?

But it was different cases in different courts. Now the higher courts will have to sort it out. They could very well side with Epic in both cases or neither of them.
I never expected to see this here! I used this in my earlier programming days. A great idea that sadly never caught on enough to allow for tooling integration with popular editors/IDEs. I still love the concept and the source code is super readable. Makes me want to revisit it…
> Bill Clinton lamented Bibi's election

I'm not saying Israel is blameless. But you must recall Bibi was literally elected because Palestinians began a wave of suicide bombings right before the Israeli elections, which swayed their electorate towards a hard-liner. I.e. the violent Palestinian groups could not be controlled by the peaceful-er ones, and their terrorism ended up being counter-productive.

> Who wouldn't? You make it sound like this is unreasonable.

I am making no value judgements about their goals. I am asserting that their method for achieving those goals is not rational insofar as it is counterproductive.

> pretty sure they'd hate an occupying force with all their might

Being really emotional doesn't make your decisions rational. I'm not telling Palestinians to love their enemies. I'm telling them to pick their battles and not take losing fights.
I say the spec is bad, and you say it can't be better because the spec says so?

> And no "two device" either, most chipsets can't handle two large-bandwidth transmissions at once

If so, get a second chip. Is that supposed to be difficult?
I made another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyMmurtCkHI

In the one I posted I was just so amazed how well it worked and didn't really try anything useful. In this video you can see it giving me quite good advice on how to make a bassline dubby and how to carve frequencies out of the kick drum to make space for the bass.

It also looks at spectrograms and gives feedback / takes them into account. I'm pretty amazed.
That's Reddit. It's actually not bad
I really dislike when companies represent their knowledge bases as a list of videos. I have seen it a few times and I look forward to videos becoming searchable more easily over time.
They address this in the document, citing both an effort to eliminate test data from the training set, as well as the usage proprietary, ostensibly private test sets for evaluation.
Show HN: D&DGPT – A custom GTP that acts as a dungeon master
Play solo or with friends keeping track of characters and campaign progress, hand holding as little or as much as necessary. Use some of the free preloaded campaigns, or upload your own.
Sidley said to the researchers of this programmer, "He told me it came upon him when he was drunk and whacked out of his brain."

Later research, however, suggests that although the original programmer and his mathematical collaborator did devise the algorithm at a bar, they may have suggested or encouraged the drunken blackout story merely to avoid having to explain or assign intellectual property rights for the algorithm.
RIP freedom of mobility during the next "crisis"
Hopefully some Youtube alternatives start popping up soon that don't exist entirely on ads.
How did you do that macro expand? By hand?
If you think making a profit is the one and only thing that deserves admiration, sure. I'm certain you're smart enough to see the flaws in that viewpoint.
There are costs and then there are trade-off costs. In the long run, the trade-off costs of slow-moving perfectionism are FAR higher than the cost of the ‘fail fast and early’ culture at SpaceX.
CPython had many other concerns besides from performance, and PyPy is much closer to my quote I believe.
Much better, actually. Try the large-v3 model, it's great. I use it via whisper-ctranslate2 which is a faster implementation.

https://github.com/Softcatala/whisper-ctranslate2
We could be so much wealthier!!
If anyone has played Talos Principle 2 (recommended for HN), the central plot is basically accelerationists vs. doomers... except it takes place after humans have gone extinct and only machines survived since AGI was one of humanity's last inventions. The robot society considers themselves humans and also is faced with the same existential risk when they discover a new technology. The game then ties all of this with religion and mythology. Possibly the best puzzle game of all time.
> kinda like how we have pay-to-read scientific journals, but usually at the $50/article range, not <$1.

Most of the actual payment to read papers are from universities subscriptions funded by taxpayers money. And this particular example is why people will always be skeptical of this model.
Audio-Technica Sound Burger Portable Bluetooth Turntable
I’ve enabled it by default, and I'm glad I did. It adds just a little bit more to the memory that was captured.

My only gripe is of the unrealistic “want my cake and eat it too variety,” where I shoot more in RAW nowadays and use third-party camera apps, so those don’t get the Live Photos treatment.

I’ve “solved” this by purposefully using the stock camera app for quick snaps of moments I want to be memorialized for sentimental reasons and reserving the RAW stuff for more artistic purposes, going even as far as taking another photo with the stock camera app if the situation calls for both.

But honestly, I much more appreciate my Live Photos, if only because they’re rolled into the Moments the iPhone automatically creates, which make for a great memory.
But then fewer people can read it and the author's arguments reach a smaller audience, which does seem like a major disadvantage.
Exactly. Comparing with CPython is too easy and arguably unfair, Smalltalk should be compared with JS instead and I think it has no chance in that setting.
I am aware, but in the US entire states have practically been paved over with suburban sprawl. It is not simply a matter of roads, it's the whole package required when everyone has to drive to go anywhere. You need more parking, more lanes, more space between all buildings which further increases the distance that everyone and everything needs to travel, all infrastructure is more expensive from electric to sewage. In my apartment in Europe I can grab something from the store and be back on my sofa in a few minutes (unless it's Sunday) or stop in on my way home effortlessly, in the US this takes at least 20 minutes to go out, or at a minimum a special stop, finding parking, etc. The extra time it takes to go shopping plus having the car to cary a lot of stuff means people buy more at once, in large stores with parking lots the size of European villages. Many people have a second refrigerator in their garage to store extra food--homes which are larger, more aggressively heated/cooled than their European counterparts and filled with an endless barrage of stuff, Americans are always buying things for their homes until they're full. Even with the larger homes, extra storage space is a big industry in the US. The cars are larger on average in the US, driven more, meaning more fuel burned, more accidents, more wear and tear on vehicles and the roads themselves.

I usually spend only a few weeks a year in the US but every time I visit I'm struck by home much energy and resources are expended on rather mundane everyday activities. I don't think most countries could afford to live this way.
In our dreams. It is not about the software, it is the global adaptation of the product. The amount of videos youtube has is insanely high and there is no way all these YouTubers will switch to something else anytime soon. As long as google stays as the main search engine of the planet, we won't see anything becoming popular anytime soon.
> Had Hamas hit military installations (demonstrating Israeli impotency) and taken hostages, but treated them well (taking the moral high ground as images of Nonna being served tea and falafel are juxtaposed with those of aerial bombardment), our conversation right now would be very different.

Many would argue that this is EXACTLY what Hamas has done, no more, no less.

The fog of war is well named. There hasn't really been any VERIFIED evidence presented to independent media showing that Hamas deliberately killed civilians.

On the other hand, lots of evidence, from Israeli sources themselves, of zero babies murdered, zero rapes, Israeli tanks shelling Israeli civilians and Israeli helicopters shooting at Israeli civilians with hellfire missiles.

https://youtu.be/RmhrRknUwtU?si=Bo851vbgprjsOdlo

https://youtu.be/WEyVdHL09vY?si=QaRCkr5-TVKiinny

https://www.youtube.com/live/CPMf3CIa_BA?si=jzNZfD76KlK_7Oel
Thanks for sharing. Very interesting. Added the formula to my fibonacci number algos collection at https://github.com/alidasdan/fibonacci-number-algorithms . Though simple, the new formula runs much slower than even the linear-time algo.
"Brain" is probably terrifying to a brainless IT department, yes
I'm not a book purist, but I have seen only season 1.
I have no problem believing that Googlers would have closed controversial deals over chat then deleted evidence thereof. Google seems to be full of internet thugs who consider themselves to exist on a greater plane. Ever since they used street view cars to harvest WiFi MAC addresses I have had this sense about them. The "fuck you, compile it yourself if you want checksums" approach to Chromium only further cements the idea that this is a company culture thing. I understand that it must feel exhilarating and powerful to work at El Goog, and I do envy them quite a bit and don't blame them much for their megalomania, but they should remember that envisioning themselves as God's chosen might be an incompatible mindset if the goal is to be sly.
Except then you get those characters rendered as little squares for Unknown Char on a wide variety of platforms.

There’s good reason to stick to the basic multilingual plane.
It’s a protocol and isn’t tied to any one implementation. There are a lot frontends for it and anyone can make another.
Both apps show a ‘cancel’ button on the ‘add event’ popup, as per this post.

They both then show a ‘discard/keep editing’ prompt, but only fantastical has the extra option of a draft.

But in addition to that — fantastical’s popup isn’t even modal. You can push the sheet down to see and interact with the main calendar.

Unfortunately, fantastical doesn’t show the ‘drag handle’ that Mail and other apps use to show this functionality, so it’s not particularly discoverable.
This PL/pgSQL function might help others looking to keep uuidv7 generation responsibility within the database until it's natively supported:

-- IETF Draft Spec: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-peabody-dispatch-new-uuid-format-01.html

CREATE SEQUENCE uuidv7_seq MAXVALUE 4095; -- A 12-bit sequence

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION generate_uuidv7()
RETURNS uuid AS $$
DECLARE
unixts bigint;
msec bigint;
seq bigint;
rand bigint;
uuid_hex varchar;
BEGIN
-- Get current UNIX epoch in milliseconds
unixts := (EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM clock_timestamp()) * 1000)::bigint;

-- Extract milliseconds
msec := unixts % 1000; -- Milliseconds

-- Get next value from the sequence for the "motonic clock sequence counter" value
seq := NEXTVAL('uuidv7_seq');

-- Generate a random 62-bit number
rand := (RANDOM() * 4611686018427387903)::bigint; -- 62-bit random number

-- Construct the UUID
uuid_hex := LPAD(TO_HEX(((unixts << 28) + (msec << 16) + (7 << 12) + seq)), 16, '0') ||
LPAD(TO_HEX((2 << 62) + rand), 16, '0');

-- Return the UUID
RETURN uuid_hex::uuid;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql VOLATILE;

SELECT generate_uuidv7();
The App Stores work-around that by invoicing customers once-per-month for all the accrued IAP microtransactions the user makes.

> Seems like a simple opportunity for any payment processor middleman to just batch up transactions and run them through the CC processor at the end of the day/week/month

That only works if there's enough independent publishers who agree to band-together and commit to using a single payment processor. I doubt this will happen.
Bootstraping a company like Facebook without any external funding?
i have a question, can a company like facebook if its started today from scratch can be bootstrapped without any external funding ever?