skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a warm show about people who care about each other where the drama comes from social misunderstandings.

The initial pilot featured a more conniving Penny played by a different actress. The focus group feedback was "Someone keep that mean girl away from those sweet boys".

Think of it as a show for moms / grandmothers / aunts of nerdy men. They want to see them get up so some shenanigans but generally be OK.

It's also a low effort show to watch so you can throw it on in the background while you're doing other things.
I love the fast progress! How many years until we start measuring chip feature sizes in picometers? When can I get a 500pm chip?
It's possible that individual lives were happier for hunter-gatherers than agriculturalists, but that groups of agriculturalists outcompeted groups of hunter-gatherers.
I saw the same thing on Reddit yesterday. This is old news. Check the date of the article.
Canadians have long dealt with this: credit card companies have a fun hack where your postal code has 3 numbers and 3 letters; drop the letters and add 2 zeros. So v4r 2x3 becomes 42300. Since this is used as one component in identity verification, the lossy correspondence is apparently considered good enough.
Credit card networks impose relatively high minimums - so transactions under ~$4 USD don't make it worthwhile. PayPal has their own microtransactions scheme (which is difficult to get approved for), I assume PayPal has enough clout to pull it off.

The other approach: having a PAYG balance, has the problem of requiring users to pay a somewhat larger amount up-front (e.g. $5 or $10) which is off-putting to people who've been burned by "use it or lose it" policies - and the difficulty of getting money back out again.

The Lightning network for Bitcoin was meant to solve the microtransactions problem for Bitcoin, but it isn't the early 2010s anymore when we (on-the-whole) were largely still Bitcoin optimists: Bitcoin as a "brand" for normal consumers is dead at this point.

One would hope that that because the major credit-card networks' processing systems are mature (as in, COBOL-mature) the fixed/marginal costs of processing transactions would only go down over time - so with inflation then we should see microtransactions become an affordable option, but that hasn't happened - I'd like to see some kind of pro-consumer regulatory investigation into Visa and Mastercard's businesses, but I doubt that's a high priority for anyone right now.
My previous TSA agent was thoroughly thrown by my (blade-removed) shavette while travelling with carry-on only. To the point I called out "Oh! Sorry, I already pulled the blade out." while they were examining it.
It's not so clear. Z80 is two years after the 6800 but the 6809 is two years after the Z80.

1974 - 6800 / 8080

1975 - 6502

1976 - Z80

1977 - 8085

1978 - 6809 / 8086

1979 - 68000 / 8088 / Z8000
No, you don't need evidence to prove that this is a possibility. You only need evidence to claim that this is impossible.
5 second delay vs 60 seconds of annoying ads and random interruptions. Guess I'll take the 5 seconds delay.
I'm amazed that you avoided addressing the specific fact that they quite literally cap the number of calories allowed to come into the Gaza Strip.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/world/middleeast/israel-c...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/17/israeli-milita...
I dream of the day that I can pay 0.25 to read just one WSJ or NYT or WP article that I found interesting. I think they don't want to do this though. Not because it is not possible.. but because they prefer that I get the whole darn thing AND consume the ads (or at least that's what they tell their advertisers).

They prefer me to get that $10-30-50 monthly and not use it (as I will only be actually reading 3-4 articles per month).
Yeah, I would characterize it as a genuine all-caps exhortation only under the qualification that I am defining the word "prompt" as a simple prompt, not e.g. a message-composing UI (but the author is talking about modals in general, so I was not being precise enough about my disagreement with the author in my first comment).
The solution, at least for me, is finding things/places, both on and off the computer, where you can avoid having your attention stolen and just focus on something you like. I think the ad-saturated parts of the world are one of those things that you don’t really need, you just get trapped by them if you open yourself up to being swayed by them. Nobody is in my kitchen trying to sell me shit when I’m cooking, nobody is on my bike ride grabbing my attention, and at least for now, my DAW is safe
For me I start to notice when people begin repeating themselves in videos. It makes me realise they’re actually trying to waste my time, keep me on the video longer and not actually get into the topic in depth. Either that or when channels I like (and podcasts) actually become more like news shows, just talking about what happened the past week or so. Not for me really.
It was Nixon
https://www.ams.org/notices/199610/page2.pdf
There have been various attempts to do this but no network effect has been large enough to make it work. And by network, I mainly mean you’d need a network of popular sites to get it started.
The ads would disappear if people rejected the services and sites showing a crazy amount of ads. I haven't seen an ad for more than a decade because I curated my devices around ad blocking. I still don't understand the fight against ads. Do not use social media already and use adblockers for YouTube and Twitter. People do not know how to use the internet and still use the services which means they are okay with the ads. They are not bothered. It is not our problem to solve other's problems if these are not problems to them. Similar to cigarette smoking.
> A decision is required to dismiss them: A decision whether to save state, whether to confirm (by tapping Done) or to destroy (by tapping Cancel) the data you’ve entered on a form.

Here are my questions so I can fully understand what you mean:

1A. Does it makes sense to have a button to (destroy/prevent) ("in-flight"/tentative) changes?

1B. if so, what do you think a button doing that should be named?

2A. You also think there should be a button to make the modal go away but keeping all inputed data just as it is?

2B. What should that button be called?

I'm wondering if you might answer: 1A: Yes. 1B: "Discard". 2A. Yes. 2B. "Dismiss".
C.S. Lewis said it best:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims will be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
The people who killed them, whether they are Israeli or Palestinian. How is this something that people disagree about?
DashPass doesn't use in-app purchases, they do their own billing.
Yeah, my phone even said that it couldn't connect "because your iPhone is not connected to the internet", despite being connected just fine. I had to run a globalping to actually convince myself that it was even possible.
Wife and I were there recently and I wanted to play but couldn’t convince her. Sad times, lol
"Save", "Discard" (or "Don't save"), and "Cancel", where "Cancel" does not dismiss the editor.

(This is the three-button close prompt that's been the standard in desktop operating systems since at least the Windows 3.1 era, but I guess we have to rediscover these things when the same problems come up on mobile.)
Nationalization and competition are hardly the same thing.

In one case you still have a monopoly, but operated by the state. This generally goes poorly. A state agency is only weakly accountable to voters and not really accountable to customers at all. This is only marginally better than a private monopoly, if at all.

In the other case you break a private monopoly and move to a competitive market. The competitors are directly accountable to customers, who can choose someone else if anyone tries to charge high fees or the customers otherwise don't like you.
I didn’t say there was a genocide in 637. But they took over the land, just like they took over large parts of the subcontinent. And it’s whiney for them to act like the victims now. It’s like if Mexico somehow took back Texas and California. How much could we really complain?
No need to apologize for the length of your post! It's interesting to read about your experiments.

Looking at your example with the psjs elements, it looks like the psjs-bind elements define what fields get captured and used in the published payload, as well as setting the input elements' values from a subscription event; is that correct? That does seem useful for keeping state synchronized across multiple local components.

It seems like you'd still need some JS if there's any client-side logic that needs to be run, though I'm not sure if there's a way to avoid that. I'm thinking of something like displaying different parts of the page based on multiple input fields. Maybe you could handle a lot of use cases like that with plain HTML and CSS, though.
ZBiotics produces a probiotic that is a genetically modified bacteria that breaks down acetaldehyde. My wife is a biochemist and she says the science isn't totally bullshit. The reviews of it are mixed, but personally I have found it to be quite effective at reducing hangovers.

https://zbiotics.com/
its not absurd at all. if i want to learn what an atom is, why on earth would i open a book when i can just have a hour long conversation with an AI that can explain the concepts to me at any level and answer my questions? as a learning tool, why is a book better?
Learning with Lucy[0], a beginner excel course.

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curated direct links from searching hackernews / search engines on 'excel'

* excel for everything : https://benn.substack.com/p/the-next-billion-programmers

* The World Cup of MS Excel : https://archive.ph/DgDYQ

* user-centered approach to user functions in excel : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

* MS opens up Excel to custom data types with images, arrays and more : https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/2/22759149/microsoft-excel-...

* Lambda: the ultimate excel worksheet function : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/lambda-the-ult...

* lambda-2d: An exploration of drawingas a programming Language, featureing ideas from lambda calculus : https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/2d-an-exploration-of-draw...

* Using Java script functions in excel : https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-ad...

* spreadsheet as software paradigm : https://medium.com/@vlapiner/spreadsheet-is-a-software-devel...

* make excel spreadsheet behave as an integrated development environment (IDE) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY6ri3blTQM

* spreadsheets are graphs : https://neo4j.com/blog/spreadsheets-are-graphs-too/

* excel turning machine : https://www.felienne.com/archives/2974

* from recursive functions to turning machines : https://people.irisa.fr/Francois.Schwarzentruber/recursive_f...

* quick way to create an excel example to learn from -> free ai bot creates any excel formula you need : https://bgr.com/tech/game-changer-for-excel-free-ai-bot-crea...

* unusual excel uses : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9PLmtQZwmY

* excel 'card layout' : https://blog.prototypr.io/secrets-of-excel-break-free-from-t...

* excell infographics : https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/mastering-excel-infographics-7d...

* conways' game of life simulation in excel : http://dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2011/04/06/conways-game...

* explaining a structured excell game of life : https://www.j-paine.org/dobbs/life.html

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[0] : https://www.learnwithlucy.rocks/courses/excel?coupon=earlyde... from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31878462
Google paid potential competitors cash to not compete.
Russia has separate self-employment tax? I assumed that particular idiocy was US-only.
The real problem with downtime is when all systems are down at the same time.

If Jira is down fifteen minutes a day that rarely affects me. I have other tasks in my work queue that I can substitute. Worst case with multiple outages there’s always documentation I promised someone. But when the entire Atlassian suite goes tits up at the same time, it gets harder for me to keep a buffer of work going. Getting every app in your enterprise using the same storage array is a good way to go from 5% productivity loss to 95%.
Right. I've been a subscriber to Adobe's Creative Cloud for almost 10 years now - which means I've paid them upwards of $6,000 by now - even though I only use 3 programs (Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator) and even then I only really use base-level functionality that's been present in those titles long before they became subscription-only: if it weren't for (normal and understandable) platform-obsolescence (high-DPI support, support for new formats/codecs, etc) then I'd still be happy with a boxed edition of Creative Suite I could have bought for $1200[1] back in 2013

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20130808023019/http://www.amazon...
> Is the world segregating such that there are fewer shared activities in a community to talk about?

Yes very much so. I'll notice it mostly on google news. For many things I search for, Google News starts to show me articles on that topic. If I look up an event, restaurant or movie the topic then becomes a regular topic in my Google News page. It makes the topic feel bigger than it is, and of course, crowds out other topics so that I'm not hearing about them.
I'm pretty sure it was "grok" in SiaSL. Is there some other origin?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety

It has a chart normalizing by trip. Someone posted this on HM a few days ago.

Also, the statistical difficulties of this, and therefore large error, are significant. I see at least two:

1. 5 fatalities in ten years in the US neglects the 346 fatalities of passengers who died in two 737 Max flights before being recalled - flight deaths that, being 100% Boeing's fault, aren't on the US' tally by stat fluke (lookin at you Southwest).

2. actually its not luck that the hundreds of 737 dead didn't end up in the US' tally. Airline deaths are rare enough that there are not enough flights to sample the death rate properly.
Consider my 86 yo mother: extremely intelligent and competent, a physician. She struggled conceptually with her iPhone because she was used to reading the manual for a device and learning all its behavior and affordances. Even though she has a laptop she runs the same set of programs on it. But the phone is protean and she struggles with its shapeshifting.

It’s intuitive and simple to you and me. But languages change, slang changes, metaphors change and equipment changes. Business models exist today that were unthinkable 40 years ago because the ubiquity of computation did not exist.

She’s suffering, in Toffler’s words, a “future shock”.

Now imagine that another 40 years worth of innovation happens in a decade. And then again in the subsequent five. And faster. You’ll have a hard time keeping up. And not just you: kids will too. Things become incomprehensible without machines doing most of the work — including explanation. Eventually you, or your kids, won’t even understand what’s going on 90% of the time…then less and less.

I sometimes like to muse on what a Victorian person would make of today if transported through time. Or someone from 16th century Europe. Or Archimedes. They’d mostly understand a lot, I think. But lately I’ve started to think of someone from the 1950s. They might even find today harder to understand than the others would.

That crossover point is when the world becomes incomprehensible in a flash. That’s a mathematical singularity (metaphorically speaking).
Unfortunately, a lot of American banking infrastructure is hard-coded on ancient systems, so it’s entirely possible that initiating a single transaction really has reached it’s price-bottom. That’s also why it takes 2 days to send money to people, in an era of instant communication.

Many companies (like Stripe and Venmo) mask these deficiencies. But when you have to do something like a wire transfer, you find that it’s all an “abstraction” over some really ugly systems.

I suspect that’s why there’s no institutional movement to build something better. It requires a ton of hard-coded systems to change, in lockstep…just so banks can charge you less? It would be like trying to change the entire US electric grid from 110V to 220V to reduce the cost of transmission.

FedNow was SUPPOSED to be the answer, but I haven’t heard a word about it since it was supposedly launched over the summer. Rumor is that no bank wants to touch the system even though it’s better…

Edit: After learning that FedNow IS getting taken up slowly, I guess the analogy is more like: FedNow is like a huge 220V line running through the center of the country, and all the banks/power stations have to run a line to it now. And maintain the existing lines at the same time.

For the pedants: Yes, overhead lines don’t run at either 110V or 220V, but I felt that made more sense than talking about changing from 60Hz to 50Hz
I wonder if it would be profitable to make a bot that lends out money on here.
E-books are becoming tools of corporate surveillance
> It does not stand up to the slightest scrutiny.

It's the practical reality. Putin has said Ukraine is not a real country and Ukrainians are not a real people. Ukraine has spent nearly two years now explaining to him that he is wrong.

Putin is a slow learner.
In this scenario (locked down like Apple), 3rd party devices aren't running Android.
1. Farm tags exist, but only in some counties. Destinations can be church, groceries, or farm purposes.
2. False. On your own land (or land owned by family), you just need to follow season and report harvest. Check TWRA site.
3. 2k sqft and 5 acres. I'm in the mid-sticks, but yes, our property taxes are excellent.
Just goes to show how much people make things up and couldn’t be further from the truth (see other comments for why this information was released, this one is flat out wrong).
It was probably a lot easier to hunt successfully when everyone was a hunter-gatherer and all the land wasn't devoted to agriculture.
The same Hinton who was certain that radiology was solved?

The same Sutskever who led OpenAI when they released a neutered GPT-2 because the full model was too dangerous?

The problem with the AI safety argument is that it can be boiled down to:

1) Assume that we build an all powerful god machine

2) The all powerful god machine has the ability to exterminate humanity

All of their work revolves around different ways that 2) might occur. But what I, and many other people, take issue with is whether 1) is even possible, and if it is, if we’re even remotely close to building it.

No one ever explains how 1) will be achieved beyond vague handwaving, because no one knows how to build a god machine.
One interesting difference is that in the TV show Luffy has a friendly smile on most of the time. In the anime Luffy runs around with a wide eyed unblinking psychopathic stare.
The 346 people who died in Boeing 737 Max aren't in the US' tally because of sampling error, not because those accidents could not have happened in the US.

Safety calculations are hard.
In the case of a e.g. "New Widget" modal popup, I'm quite comfortable with a "cancel" button that means e.g. "this will discard whatever you typed / stopping the creation of a new widget". That kind of cancel button certainly results in lost information, and in some sense it is "destructive". But isn't "destructive" of data that we expect to persist. I typically use the word in the latter sense.

Hopefully people have a decent shared understanding of the term "destructive" or this is going to be very confusing for all involved. Is there a clear shared understanding? I don't run UX testing.
Was it the snark in the first sentence?
They probably have some success with the subscription model, because there are probably people who want to read the Economist to get a competitive edge in their business (owners, investors, etc.) They probably haven't even considered that most people who bounce off of their paywall are not just cheapskate version of these owner/investor types, but are an entirely new class of user that they could monetize if they could provide the right payment structure.
Oh, nice. Effective August 2023.
No, it's just that one discusses these media in different venues than the public square. For example, if I watch something, I will inevitably find people talking about it on various fora, such as its subreddit. In that way, one is still able to latch onto the common canon. And this is even before saying anything about cultural phenomena like Game of Thrones.
People access a webpage for content, not noise.

Ads are noise. Smarter noise will still sound like noise. Perhaps, making it even more obvious, the kind that irritates people.

Gradually, the noise took more and more center stage. And then, users were forced to silence the noise.

Blurring the lines of content and noise is completely backwards. Be transparent, place ads aside the content (not within it), and everyone will be happy.

Paywalls might work for some, but the key here is being ethical. Respecting the user.

The user will reward you if you respect it. It may even respect the brands that respect its attention.

As with everything, the problem here is greed. I wish more ads were respectful. I would take them more seriously if they were.
I just yt-dlp things now.
Or https://downfor.io for the short link

Though, for pure power, I prefer https://jsdelivr.com/globalping to do an HTTP ping, easily check from like 100 different locations worldwide live. It also does a great job at helping you know if it's just slow in your area or worldwide or whatever.
All I was doing in my comment was describing how an overdose of eschatology as a child can warp how one views the future. I never said I didn't care.
This is a space that my company operates in and we will hopefully provide this service in the future. First, publishers want more than what consumers are willing to pay per article, the credit card companies charge too much (even with special micro pricing we've negotiated) and no one has a market big enough to reasonably get $xx per month into a wallet from a massive audience. Google had tried something similar with Google Contributor but has shut it down. There was also Scroll that recently got bought by Twitter that did a wallet-type of deal though it was more complicated than a flat rate per article.
The theory is that you start the contract with the terms specifying that changes put forward by the company (but not the user) are automatically accepted with 30 days' notice. That's where the meeting of the minds occurs: in theory, from that point on, you've agreed that the terms can change.

However, I'm not sure if that's ever been tested in court as a valid theory, and regardless it certainly shouldn't be legal (any more than noncompetes).
Sparc (Soonest/Smallest Possible ARC (Fusion Reactor)) (Tokamak)
Because all customers know that the moment you open your wallet, you're marked as a sucker and there will be no end to the appeals to repeat the mistake.
Singapore doesn’t just lock people up…
A computer scientist pushes the boundaries of geometry
As long as there is still a favorable environment for microbes they will repopulate that environment quickly.
Related:

https://www.psfc.mit.edu/sparc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_fusion_reactor
Yes, but you appear not to understand my response.
What's really annoying is when you turn on the CC subtitles and someone speaks a foreign language. The on screen subtitle gets covered with an unhelpful "[speaking Japanese]"
Then you completely failed to communicate why any of what you said was connected.

I assume you can’t bring yourself to agree or disagree with the definitions I gave and decided to talk around it instead.