skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A 'path to profit' is the time tested lifeline of any enterprise. However this is never highlighted as it doesn't bode well with the general social psyche of humans.

For last 20 years, tech enabled startups, chose 'postpone profit' strategy adopting 'free to use' or 'ad supported' approach helped by raising high capital to build moats around the target market.

Now this trend can be either seen as a moment where the moat is complete and 'path to profit' is through captive customers. (Or) a decline/failure of the 'postpone profit' strategy accelerated by the current economic recession.

All social media and any other free to use switching to subscriptions is quite a probability now.
Then why isn’t the West Bank Singapore?
> Jews need a safe country.

Does that justify taking land from others by force, instituting occasional pogroms on those who are displaced? Europe and North America have countries with stable governments that protect people from violence and accept refugees and allow them to purchase land legally without violence.
Amusingly, one of the paper's authors also falls within this category; I guess he's just special.
https://github.com/debuerreotype/debuerreotype/blob/master/s...

They mention this script in the README on docker hub.
I think this is probably something with your DNS or moreso with archive.is's policies https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
How is a 6800 more of a "real processor" feature-wise? They seem pretty similar to me - in fact I seem to recall that the 6501, a sister chip to the 6502 was "pinout" compatible with the 6800. Are you thinking the 6809?

Oh I see you are talking about the 16 bit stack pointer and probably the 16 bit Index register. Fair enough on an 16 bit address bus those are fairly convenient but it's interesting that it just tends to mean if you use SOA or AOS for you data design. I don't think 6502 is really much harder to code than 6800 or 6809.
unsurprisingly, challenging jobs have all the hallmarks of a challenging game, requiring skills for logistics, resource and project/timeline management, meta-analytical skills to break-the-beta, curious mind to dig further.

Oh yes, and rockstar koopa jumping skills too (drats, so thats what my current job is lacking).
I consider you lucky if you think the attitude about 'just fire the people that made mistakes' is hyperbole. It a common attitude, so when ^^ says it, I believe that is what they mean.

Also, there is nothing wrong with a long list.

And I'm not here for hyperbole.
Also wish something like that existed.
I imagine friction of payments could be an issue. I would only use something like that if it was as easy as doing an Apple Pay transaction.
This is not true. Cancel is often destructive, we just have a bar over which it will ask you if you really meant to throw away your current work. Like, I just went to type a new message in iMessage and if I hit "Cancel" it gets rid of what I typed. That's because it's not worth the mental overhead of saving two lines of text that is the typical amount of unsaved content that a typical message contains. On the flip side, Mail will ask you if you want to save a draft if you exit.
In theory, I love the idea of rust. I'd probably like actually using it on real projects... but I don't have any use case.

My only interactions with compiled languages all have legacy constraints, or involve someone else's project.

ESP32 seems to have lots of Rust support work happening, so I can very easily imagine switching in a few years though.

If I had a reason to write a new performance-critical non-embedded app I'd probably use Rust.
So your argument is that we need not worry because Sutskever and Hinton aren’t aware you can destroy data centers with water or static electricity?
I like it a lot but I don't know how much of that is buyer's Stockholm Syndrome given the price tag. The gait feels significantly different. My understanding is the lack of motorization means that you spend an extra around 30% more energy and the slight curve means your feet meet the treadmill at different points.

It is much quieter but you have to keep up with maintenance.
Felt - powerful new admin tools and a streamlined billing experience
I'm guessing it's mostly a psychological thing. You make the decision to purchase a subscription once (and ideally for them, forget about it soon after), but if you know you're paying $.25 per click, you'll make a decision every time - and perhaps not bother.
The key distinction is that it is legal to build and sell a scanner that ignores the Eurion constellation, or a radio capable of transmitting in radar frequencies [1]. You may not be allowed to actually interfere with radar or counterfeit money, but that is a choice that is up to you, and it is up to the state to enforce it. It does not deputize your possessions, turning them into an omnipresent police to enforce the law and tattle on you.

[1] Though FCC regulations on radio may be a gray line here, but I'm not too familiar with them.
Thank you for helping the humanity in those dark times.
So you normalize car deaths by plane deaths and not by mile (plane wins) or journey (car wins). I appreciate your dedication to dimensionless numbers, but that's kinda weird.

There are orders of magnitude more driving than flying by mile and number of journeys.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety

Scroll down to "transport comparison" and look at the journey normalization.
It's more like putting laxative in your sandwich because Steve from accounting keeps stealing it from the office fridge.

A watermark isn't a booby trap. This is.
You realize that half of Gaza is a permanent refugee camp. Where else in the world has there been 75 years of refugee camps? These were pretty much cities before the war.

Why ask civilians to leave before bombing if they wanted to kill them all? Why ask them to move to a different location?

Do you have any clue how difficult it is when the enemy is not wearing a military uniform? Either they have to use intel (which could be wrong) or wait until they are fired upon before engaging.

Stop acting like they are purposely killing civilians when the enemy is blending right in.
Why do they choose C/C++? Is it just what they and their colleagues already know and nobody wants to be the one to push for change? Easier integration with other C/C++ stuff?
> I would say that Android is a viable substitute for Apple and vice versa when it comes to phones though. So I think there actually is a viable substitute.

We're talking about the market for app stores, not the market for phones.

> But again if you redefine the market to Apps you can install on IOS then certainly that's a monopoly. I just question if that's a reasonable way to define the market.

But why? You haven't provided any reasoning.

Apple's store and Google Play aren't in the same market because they aren't substitutes -- you can only use one or the other depending on which type of device you want to install the app on. That isn't a law of nature -- Apple could offer Android apps in their store and stop preventing Google Play from distributing iOS apps. But they don't, and because of that they're not in the same market.
I resonate hard with this, and I'm glad it's being flagged as a trend. I didn't quite realize how soul-crushing ads were until I got rid of them. Now I'm on YouTube Premium and Twitch Turbo and look forward to getting rid of more ads.
That’s the difference between an app that optimizes for being a good app and an app that optimizes for engagement and selling you things.

It’s similar to how supermarkets periodically shuffle around their shelving. Consistency in navigation, gestures, and behaviors allow the user to get what they want and get back out too efficiently.
Agree, have been thinking about this for a while. Bitcoin on lightning could do it for really cheap if you had say a browser extension wallet or something you could do sub penny payments. https://yalls.org/ (not mine) already made a demo
Apple's new iPhone security setting keeps thieves out of your digital accounts
All business inherently know that the most difficult thing is to get a customer to open their wallet. A subscription commitment is far more valuable than an impulsive/interest driven one time payment
Agreed -- my concern is that subscriptions are really negative in long-term expectation for the consumer, and companies are profiting off that and don't want to lose all the people who are paying $10 for only $4 monthly utility. My coworker hates the subscription era and pines for the days of buying a CD-ROM with software lol
That's probably just the Spaces audio management algorithm. You can't have multiple channels open at once because the noise floor would get too high, so you switch and duck using the volume of other channels as inputs. I'm not listening to such garbage at length.
An ironic thing is that companies that choose to postpone profits will find that when the time comes to charge for profit, they will have burned all good will, and people might finally be coerced to pay, but they'll pay any other company.
I and HN haven't been brainwashing you that the world is sure to end because of AI doom for the last 5 years.

And yeah, they're extreme, but also made them more vulnerable to it and more likely to act out. (And also, thus, more likely to form a plot to murder their landlord)

When some psycho goes to an AI conference with a bomb vest on and their views are directly traceable to EA and LW then it absolutely will be their fault as it is the expected outcome from years of brainwashing that AI will bring about the end of the world and potentially eternal torment. It's the expected outcome from saying that using violence to stop it would be morally justified (which is, incidentally, also inherent to the AI God story: the idea is that it will forcibly prevent the creation of other super intelligences, and not by talking people out of it, it's always been a power and control fantasy).

It's unlikely to be the people at the top that will be pulling the trigger, they're going to be too busy enjoying the traditional fringe benefits of having a cult. It's the people at the bottom that haven't figured out that the purpose of any cult is locking other people into extreme views so that the people at the top of the power structure can control them and profit from them, so they can enjoy relative fame and having their interests catered to... the people who are marginal and at the edge, not too valuable to the cult themselves but electrified by its message.

It'll be that marginal member who's group approved drug use wasn't kept under control, who didn't find success in the cult group sex harem, etc. It'll always be the fault of the person who pulled the trigger, but also the fault of the people who put their finger on it.
Steam also takes 30%, and I’m not convinced they’re doing as much work for it as Apple.

That said, if I could not pay both Steam and Apple for Civ VI DLC, that would make me so happy
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I disagree that this is evidence that it is "often" destructive - however, this is mostly a semantic disagreement. As you have pointed out, "destructive" is subjective. I mention in another comment that I would consider throwing away the contents of "a single one-line input contained in a prompt" to be non-destructive. It's not a large leap to the contents of a single instant message, whether or not I agree that it qualifies. E.g. if iMessage would throw away a large amount of text un-prompted, I would disagree with iMessage's UX.

I'm not sure you really disagree with the core of what I'm saying, which is that "Cancel" is the universal easy way to safely dismiss a modal prompt, and also, regardless of what word you put on the button, if it would throw away a (subjective) threshold of data, you should prompt the user.
Wasn't this the idea behind "Networked Environment for Personal, Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge" (Nepomuk) Semantic Desktop?

Assuming that you can coerce the LLM to fill in the RDF correctly, and that we now have much more memory and faster storage, it might work.
This is ahead of their transition to a subscription-based service for paid plans (besides Free) January 1, 2024
On Mac I wish more apps used the standard toolbar. The customizability is nice and rarely found in bespoke implementations.
That looks great!
I have a pixel 4xl that will not allow enabling VoWifi. (Maybe old sim card, maybe Graphene.) As you mentioned, great for other builds. PinePhone, etc.
Going to try...
Lots of people drank at lunch, or late lunch. There was also a zero tolerance for (illegal) drugs; no testing. I saw people get terminated for porn, drugs (very obvious ), getting a (married) co-worker pregnant.

I saw a VP keep their job after a drunken accident at a corporate function where they broke their leg.
You could argue that unless the $10/mo subscription offers a dumb chronological feed then it’s not really ad-free. On the other hand consider YouTube - you pay to remove the annoyance, not the algorithmic bias, and a lot of people are happy to do that.
> Apple stopped paying Qualcomm the LTE blood money.

"blood money"? Why so many tears for the most valuable business on Earth? When they picked Qualcomm for their 4G modem, the terms were clear. And then they decided to renegotiate the terms afterwards by telling their manufacturer to withhold the payments to Qualcomm.

> _Qualcomm still sued and made money_.

They negotiated a settlement, Qualcomm got less than they were owed and Apple paid less than the royalties due. Why did Apple settle? Because they had to make design decisions about their new phone - like which modem vendor to use. If you decide not to pay your supplier you could imagine they'd want to work that out before agreeing to give you samples of their new design. If Apple felt that they'd win the case on the merits and that the Qualcomm modem design didn't perform well, they would have just picked a competitor like Samsung. But they didn't do that. They even dual-sourced modems for iphone 7 in order to preserve their negotiating position. But that didn't work because the iphones with Intel modem performed worse than iphones with Qualcomm modems.

> If Apple can't secure a win against Qualcomm, how the hell can Google?

Google "did" secure a win, didn't they? They took their ball and went home. They decided to take the Samsung Exynos SoC and modem for their flagship phone.

> They're back to buying Qualcomm modems again.

... because they're better than the competition - including their acquisition? Is it your contention that Qualcomm somehow forced Apple to pick them over their own?
"It is very hard to visualize such a dimension directly. Off and on for some fifteen years, I have tried to do so. In all this time I’ve enjoyed a grand total of perhaps fifteen minutes’ worth of direct vision into four-dimensional space." - Rudy Rucker, The Fourth Dimension

https://www.rudyrucker.com/thefourthdimension/
It's a common attitude on the internet, where people will also argue for people to be executed or thrown in jail for trivial slights because it makes their annoyance more visceral. Nobody in their right mind will actually end up doing that when push comes to shove. It can be appropriate to tell people to calm their rhetoric when they do this but I don't see "ok actually 1. there might be a reason and 2. maybe they made a mistake and 3. people who make mistakes should be allowed to learn and 4. …" being very useful.
Nice! Cool demo
All of those activities enrich my life and help me grow as an individual. I think someone should always be learning throughout their life, and I have yet to see a video game that accomplishes that.
>I doubt the answer would be to shoot the guy and two babies

not unreasonable if they are pointing the gun at you and your baby. How many children would you kill to save your child? would you just give it up to die?
> if an honest accounting of the facts makes me racist in your eyes, so be it.

Your mischaracterisation is racist. You may or may not be. I can't judge on back of just this one interaction.

> I know there are people out there who think we actually have an obligation to alter historical facts

Bill Clinton lamented Bibi's election, and called him out for specifically sabotaging the peace process after the initial unrest, once the parties were back at the negotiation table: https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/09/22/bill-clinton-netanyahu-...

> Of course not, they want their stuff back.

Who wouldn't? You make it sound like this is unreasonable. Last I checked, '67 borders, reparations, and a right of return for some small percentage of the refugees, and they are good?

> the PA of today had to walk back its criticism of Hamas' Oct 7 attack after public backlash

If one were in Pal shoes, pretty sure they'd hate an occupying force with all their might. This Haaretz article explains their possible psychological state after close to 3 decades of humiliation: https://archive.is/rLq02
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38559128
This report is a contractual requirement due to the union contracts, they're putting in the required effort and not one iota more.
The “legal debt” argument is absurd. They’ve been expanding their charter as much as they’ve been contracting it.

The majority is also openly corrupt, and will throw whatever they want out the window the second they are paid to do so.

Edit: Also, this idea that they should clear legal debt is a massive expansion of their charter. The system works as follows:

- Congress writes laws

- If they are vague, the courts set precedents that are irreversible except in the case of dire errors.

- If congress doesn’t like a precedent they clarify the law.

The current court is violating separation of powers by retroactively going against the actions taken by the last 50-100 years of legislators.

For instance, congress had decades to amend the constitution to say the fourth amendment doesn’t imply a right to privacy or women’s reproductive health care (including abortion) as Roe v. Wade established.

The current court greatly overstepped their authority when they ruled there is no right to privacy or reproductive health care.

This isn’t a minor oversight that congress forgot to consider. This is the justices deciding they have been elected dictators for life.
Good. Give me a 60 second black screen before every YouTube video. I'll take it as a feature and use it to reevaluate how I'm spending my time.
Could be, but I've interviewed with dozens of companies and I've never had that experience elsewhere.
I went into this discussion with the suspicion that despite your ALL CAPS exhortation your opinion was not actually all that disagreeable or controversial.
Although I’m noticing that mine now brings up every watch face with the time set to 10:09 and then takes a moment to animate changing to the correct time. It looks really stupid with the solar face.

And it doesn’t do it just once when a face first loads, it does it every time you switch faces.

Hopefully a bug but I’m wondering if someone said “we made it so you can’t switch watch faces quickly, now we can reclaim that RAM and save it for widgets that you didn’t want.”
How did you get that idea?
I don’t really use my language learning for travel—nearly everyone speaks better English than I do their native language.

But in the same way that learning Haskell or Lisp can change the way you write and think about code, learning a language like Japanese can fundamentally change the way you think about everything. There’s intrinsic value to being multilingual.

Of greater pragmatic benefit is that if you learn a language, like Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, or French, you gain exposure to a whole different media landscape, including information on news and world events that is drastically different from what you encounter in the anglosphere.
Sorry maybe I miss something, could somebody link the list of shows with hours watched?
My current philosophy supports the idea of individuals having the right to say what is good for themselves.

But it’s increasingly clear that the wealthy classes don’t think people should have this level of self-determination as they don’t appear to be able to govern themselves responsibly enough to consciously avoid catastrophic global consequences. Or perhaps the threat of various catastrophes are the mechanisms being used to implement policies even if they are simply being leveraged as an excuse to implement control.

In the words of Slovenian philosopher Slavoy Žižek:

> ‘To grasp the whole scope of this control and manipulation one should move beyond the link between private corporations and political parties…, to the interpenetration of data-processing companies like Google or Facebook and state security agencies. … The overall image emerging … provides an adequate and terrifying vision of new forms of social control that make the good old twentieth-century “totalitarianism” a rather primitive and clumsy machine of control’.
Read the top 10 list, and I haven’t heard of any of these shows.

Is the world segregating such that there are fewer shared activities in a community to talk about?

Growing up 30 years ago, everybody knew the top 5 TV shows even if you didn’t watch them: they were the topic of conversations or at least listed in thr “TV guides”
> You could argue that unless the $10/mo subscription offers a dumb chronological feed

That's around what I pay to the maintainer of the Mastodon server I'm on. And I get that nice dumb chronological feed.

Oh, and it's ad-free. For everyone. It's amazing seeing Ublock Origin with "nothing blocking".

The true ad-free internet exists. But it doesn't exist within the FAANG space.
> There are now tools specifically to help you do this

Out of curiosity, not disagreeableness, which tools are those?
Still, when you find yourself trying to develop God in order to take over the world (or even sometimes universe), you should really be saying "Wait. Are we the baddies?" and not respond that that with "oh no, we'll give other people's ideas of 'value' consideration too, especially if they're not intellectually disabled by our judgement".

> But, still, “aligned with some people “ still sounds a fair bit better than “not aligned with anyone”.

I'm not sure about that. Part of the capability to do great harm is from the near miss. Fighting off Mindless grey good is better than some techbro trying to "optimize" you against your will.

Of course this line of thinking requires accepting their inane premises, but it's worrysome that even if they were right the astonishing hubris would make them the existential threat more than anyone else.

I think the greater relevance is the underlying unhealthy mental states underlying the doom cult. A person living a life in service of a very fringe idea we'll all likely suffer ultimate doom beyond measure unless their social group gets its way is going to exhibit all manner of compromised judgement.
It does match what's in the recorded Space on the Twitter site. The YouTube video cuts off a bunch of it, seems like the first hour or so.
> the Linux kernel for example doesn't use any floating point or vector instructions

it doesn't use them by default, but code that needs the FPU can call kernel_fpu_begin() to save those registers if needed. https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/kernel_fp.html One big user is the AMD graphics driver: https://lore.kernel.org/amd-gfx/ee26b06b-f1a0-5a8f-388c-13c1...
Ad free internet costs ~$40 one time fee. Raspberry Pi + pihole dns.
This does not surprise me. Updating software takes time, effort, and is risky. It's also not fun. The result is a lot of people ignore it even though it means their software can be easily hacked. Note I think people should keep their dependences update to date. Unfortunately, I also know human nature and that means I know many won't.

You see a similar problem with obsolete computers, operating systems, phones, routers, etc. People keep them connected to the Internet even though they have known vulnerabilities. People who do this will even claim they have not been hacked.
19,000 is nothing! I thought the risk would be significantly higher.