skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know there are things that people expect me to pay money for

If the deal is I give the seller money and get the product, that's fine. But if next month the seller says actually now even though you're paying me I'm going to show you ads anyways, or yeah you gave me money but I've decided to take back the product without refunding you[0]... it is easy to become sympathetic to pirates.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/playstation-is-erasi...
No. Piracy always existed and the corporations didn't need DMCA 512 to sue people. In fact, before 512 you could sue platforms directly and get a huge judgement. 512 protects Google, not creators, plaintiffs, defendants, or copyright holders at large.
This is really just a price increase, given the increasing costs of TV and movie productions (creatives must get paid).

Details:

Amazon Prime currently costs $14.99 each month or $139 annually. (Prime Video can be subscribed to individually for $8.99/month.) The new charge for ad-free streaming would bring Prime to just under $18, and would push standalone Prime Video to just under $12.
Yeah Game & Watches predate Game Boy by quite a bit. And they were quite successful.
Haha yes! This is the problem with YouTube premium. It's not ad free at all :(

I'm so glad people have made sponsorblock
Title continues “…future of work experts predict”

I wonder if HN will ever consider the possibility that return to office DOES increase productivity. These companies probably understand the massive trade off they’re making when they force RTO - lose a decent percentage of workforce due to attrition, but get the remaining workforce in person. Maybe they are just betting on the right side of that equation to have more value.
Regenerative farms are a joke that will do zero to slow or stop climate change. They are overwhelmed by factory farming that they have no chance of reversing. Looking out for the "little guy pretending to help" is just silly.
The article looks very accurate to me. Having read all of that, I find myself agreeing with most of it, which I think usually would not be the case for me with an article like this.
Hey it's Vince with Shamwow! (Skip in 1320 seconds)
You may be mis-remembering old TV. A tiny number of companies produced a narrow range of programming and if you missed an episode, tough shit. Maybe you'd get a chance to see it in reruns someday if you were lucky. People would actually go out of their way to be home at certain times on certain days to catch the show they liked and were invested in. And of course all of this came with a 2:1 ratio of show to advertisement. And then there was the religiously-dominated abomination that was standards and practices...
Where I lived the only reason to have cable was to watch premium channels. OTA worked perfectly fine for everything else.

So, probably you're right on your perception, but it doesn't invalidate my point of view and of other people who clearly remember a time where you did have ad-free television in Cable, because we only cared for the premium channels.
We've had accepting on it in Spain for about 2 years now sadly :(

But I mainly have it for the rapid shipping anyway. Their catalog is pretty useless so I hardly watch it.
Apple gives away Pages, Numbers, and Keynote as free MacOS applications. As for LibreOffice being "terrible", that may be true for some users but it hardly implies that Microsoft has a monopoly on productivity software.
I love the Wikipedia animations -- they are usually extremely helpful -- but when I'm trying to read the article, I find them distracting. I usually move another window on top to obscure the animations so I can concentrate on the article. But there must be a better way. Is there a hotkey to stop animations? For Firefox in particular?

EDIT: I don't want to stop animations permanently with about:config; I just want to pause and un-pause.
The problem is: even at a higher price point, the ad-free versions generate less revenue.

"“We’re obviously trying with our pricing strategy to migrate more subs to the advertiser-supported tier,” Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger said in August during a call with investors to discuss the company’s quarterly results."

"Disney, Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery have recently said the ad-supported versions of their streaming platforms generate more money per user than their ad-free counterparts, as the advertising revenue more than offsets the lower subscription cost." -- https://www.wsj.com/business/media/netflix-price-increase-ac...

"Netflix executives have said that the ad tier brings in more average revenue per user than its $15.49 standard plan." -- https://www.wsj.com/articles/netflix-reworks-microsoft-pact-...
simonw got me interested in the idea after I ran into one of his blogposts talking about how ziglang does it, and then studying ruff + maturin helped me reverse engineer how to accomplish this without any python intermediary in a "python package".

I put together a cruft template (https://github.com/justin-yan/templates-cruft/tree/main/pack...) since I had the exact same thought as you once I got it working - why not do this with a bunch of different tools? I did it with a couple of my favorites (just, lazydocker) but haven't gone back to clean things up/make things a bit more systematic. So it's a pretty messy weekend project (caveat emptor) but hopefully it's a helpful starting point if you want to try it!
" If everyone stays every other platform will follow suit"

I bet this will happen.
Why not both? Buy the physical copy, rip it to your hd and then keep the original in storage?
Uh I think those digital dollars only show up if you choose slow shipping while you have prime. Just saying.
Thanks for the "Statistical Rethinking" recommendation. I had watched some of McElreath's lectures so I knew of the book, but next year I think I'm finally going to read it from end to end and follow along the 2024 course schedule: https://github.com/rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2024#calendar-...

I had previously started the BDA course, which is another famous Bayesian course, see https://avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_Aalto/ but I didn't finish it due to travel.

No more excuses in 2024... time to level-up the Bayesian modelling skill ;)
We paid for it. Greed had yet to reach the levels we see today. Not to mention the disparity between the wealthy and the average person we are currently living with.
If I, a stranger, made an exact copy of your car in your driveway without permission, is it stealing at all?
I still get a handful of semi premium channels without commercials, and I don't even pay extra for the HBO tier.

Cable TV commercials are now the best option we have though, because they can be trivially skipped. A DVR still gives me full control of the video stream. If you time shift you never have to see an unskippable commercial on cable.

Which is just another way of saying that tech companies brought us enshittification faster and more thoroughly than what they supplanted.
> it seems ludicrous to me people would definitely stay somewhere because of stuff that happened 75 years ago

Right, yet Israel was founded because of some (utterly cringe) stuff that (supposedly) happened thousands of years ago.

And what I am "on about" is that driving people out is genocide. You are not talking about whether they might like the climate in Germany or Switzerland more, but whether they might "prefer" to not be bombed and starved.

> I thought the West was pro taking in people who live in war zones

While we're sending arms to the parties committing genocide, which we don't mind, because we're "pro this one thing" with blinders on? That view is so simplicisist you should first ask if anyone even holds it, instead of demanding answers based on it.
> Apparently, dropping Prime with the shopping really does not impact the speed of delivery or cost.

I don't have prime. If you are willing to wait a couple extra days, you can usually get free shipping. BUT also, it usually ships faster than indicated anyways.
Shrug, you have no idea what you are talking about [1]. Also nginx and passenger are webservers and claiming they are not part of your web app is a pretty wild claim when they literally send http responses to browsers (unlike memcached).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_languages_used_i...
Hmm, what do you mean? I thought bf16 is used extensively for LLM training.
The problem with trying to make a good school is that strong students pretty much teach themselves and their performance far exceeds any effects from good teaching methods. If any school starts to show decent results then word gets around and it becomes a magnet school. Magnet schools attract wealthy and high-performing students, which totally swamp the effects of the teaching method you're trying to study.
Santa SSLH at North Pole on Dec 24th 2023, near collision with aircraft
>Let the states have ~50 different curricula,

There are several states in which that would be absolutely disastrous.
> elsewhere, or not eating bananas.

if you could copy bananas without effort you would get rid of the hunger across the World and then get the Nobel Peace Prize
What’s the point of using another tool to manage your shell scripts though? Why not just use shell scripts
Proxies won't help - most of the aforementioned providers now do TCP, TLS and browser fingerprinting and use a heuristic approach. You need to be able to provide a consistent fingerprint to all of those to pass.

Proxies are actually pretty useless, you need to go one layer lower to be able to fake those fingerprints, what you need is a VPN instead (by VPN I mean an IP-level tunnel, not a public VPN provider - those IPs are already blacklisted and often are so for good reason).
Yeah, and I think that's bullshit. If the implementation is so bad, then how is it infringing on the patent?

You can't have it both ways in my opinion. I hope they go to court and lose.
Hell if it was about creatives getting paid I’d be all for it. But I wasn’t born yesterday and I know that it’s just a cynical ploy to boost some exec’s numbers so they can make their bonus for the fiscal year.

We’ve been down this road too many times before.
As you may imagine, the rationale behind offering a new way to do formatted output is not evidenced in a hello world statement.......

You can answer your own question if you google "println cppreference".
Was never about productivity.
These companies think that showing ads for their own products isn't an ad
I had a few. The quality was about what you’d expect for a video on a game boy cartridge.
How about nope?
You’ll be pleased to know how little I know of what goes into being certified a homeopathic practitioner by the Council of Homeopathic Certification too.
Man I'm torn on this. On one hand I don't like the idea of handing over my agency to an AI in a post-smartphone future. The AI pin asks you to do that, though I imagine it will be a lot more like an Echo Dot-to-go.

At the same time it might get more people into podcasts and audiobooks rather than addictive visual media like what the smartphone era is all about. Functionally I also hate visual ads more than merely audio ads and have a soft spot for cheesy radio ads.

Getting rid of mobile screens would definitely be a societal paradigm shift if successful.
My point is that even if the overall age distribution is constant, you'd need EVs to work their way through the same lifespan before it came out the same. What we need to know is not the overall distribution, but the age distribution per ICEs and EVs. (Otherwise you end up in a situation where the overall age curve is constant, but EVs are the majority of the young part of the graph, which makes them look good because they're all young and the ICEs look worse because they average even older.)
I dunno. I knew someone who was chronically homeless until an infected tooth got pulled. Suddenly he wasn't in pain all the time with an infection near his brain and he got into housing and went to school
I was also pleasantly surprised by the quality of this article, especially the nuance around the value of a growth mindset. It's consistent with my experience of having had to work pretty hard to learn programming.
He's quoting the text I mentioned.
Not strange at all for a history article, though.
There were plenty of protein subunit vaccines and a few viral vector vaccines in use in humans prior to the COVID vaccines. Neither of these are dead pathogens.
I'm generally optimistic about the next five years in the United States.

Change has already started, but 2024 will make it more clear. Several societal pendulums are slowing, will reach apex, and reverse course.

* Optimism will regain footing

* Belief in positive
application of technologies which shape earth and society, will increase

* Conversation and information flows will recenter on individual responsibilities in service to community

This has already started in tech, business, and culture. It's partly a response to the deflation of the 2022 growth bubble and to political instability. See American Dynamism and e/acc for narrow domain examples.

The elections will act as a forcing function, and muddy the waters a bit. However, the political world will then be a lagging indicator. People will refactor their world models regardless of who wins.

We are a caterpillar. It's going to be intense as we build the cocoon and transform over the next year or few. But then...
So this is like smoking.

At least in Canada, and it surely must be the same elsewhere, they keep raising the taxation on tobacco because of this and that health impact reason, but the moment the sales start to slump, the price comes down drastically again. Lobbyists spend a lot of money to make sure they keep everyone that smokes hooked.

This happens once or twice a decade, ad nauseum. The only thing prolonging it this time around is the vape.

As the people shopping start to lose faith in satisfactory deliveries, they'll lower the prices, etc. They already do free shipping now, so that's an example of it in action already.
Apparently the reasoning behind a bunch of Make’s warts is that by the time Stuart Feldman realized the problem, it already had half a dozen users, and, well, he wasn’t gonna go and break it for them!
Torrent system is alive and well. Mega shout out to seedhost.eu for their one-button panel for everything.

VLC will even open media over http, so one doesn't even have to mirror it locally from the Netherlands (although I do for the kids content, just to provide them a curated selection).
Ask HN: Who wants to build a "unique" dating website? (part #2)
This is a follow-up to this original thread [1]. I have been doing some thinking on how to build a better dating site and I have some unique ideas that I don't think anyone has tried yet.

My goals:

- I want to keep the spam out

- I want to keep non-serious users out

- I don't want users to have the dating app installed forever

- I want the privacy of the user to be respected

- I want to have the same ratio of men and women

My ideas:

- Invite-only system: sign-up is closed unless being invited by email and an existing user can send one invite a day

- Max use time: an email has 3 to 6 months after sign-up to find a match on the platform if they want an extension they can pay

- Fake detection: women review men's profiles and men review women's profiles to detect if they a fake or not. You have to review 2 to 3 profiles a day if you want to find new matches

- Spam detection: we use AI to detect if the same person is in all the photos and validate the phone number via text

- Balance ratio of men and women: new sign-ups of men or women will be blocked if the ratio of men or women is very unbalanced and because a user has a time limit to use the website then the system should self-balance the number of men and women

- Profit/financial: I think dating websites should not be "for profit". It should make enough money to have the website feature-rich and pay for engineers but not gamify it to the point of making millions of dollars

I am a full-time software engineer, and I have a PhD in computer science but to pull this off it needs a lot of work and I can't do everything. So who is in?

My info: LinkedIn [2] and Github [3]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33172394

[2]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hesamian

[3]: https://github.com/amir734jj
Prime example how Germans and Americans think differently.
So does the $139 yearly package deal INCLUDE ads for Prime content (movies/shows) or will that be ad-free?
A compact primer on Digital Signal Processing (2015)
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20427987
7 of the 10 most popular websites https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_languages_used_i...
> you could imagine a system which supports sticking arbitrary bitfields in arbitrary places

If there is such an architecture, yeah the system may have to support them, or more accurately: relocations would be defined for them which have to be implemented by the system. But that's still a tiny portion of the actual instruction coding. I believe most people including authors would imagine something like an assembler or disassembler as a comparison, so pedantry aside, the claim is almost true.
I found great peace when I turned off auto-capitalization and auto-correction in the keyboard menu.

also smart punctuation, especially in macos.
Thanks for those links. This indicates that (1) users consistently undervalue their ad data, or (2) the ad data market is misfunctioning (since so many of these companies go on to spend billions on advertising their own unprofitable services). Or both!

The entire situation is ridiculous. We’ve somehow managed to build an even more exploitative user-service relationship than Cable TV.
Public Facing Dog
Yearly I give about $8000 to my sister, straight cash,. sometimes lump sums, other times, weekly amounts.

Money doesn't mean anything if you don't know how to use it, neither does a computer for that matter, evidently.

If you're so sure that just giving them money would help, go give your money to someone who needs it.
You want to keep your industrial zones away from nice residential ones. It's fine for the paupers to be breathing in zinc.
Think of the bright side, people will slowly wake from frog-boiling and will start consuming less. It's also possible the great attention deficit will come to an end as more and more people will simply drop off these platforms realizing it's not worth their money. Then they'll rediscover what they had previously lost
I tell people not to use make if there's no need for a dependency graph.

Just don't.

And do just :-)
Established technology being constantly moulded to be slightly worse so billionaires can be slightly richer when they already have more than they could ever usefully spend ... ah, the crowning glory of capitalism!

Imagine a world in which many of the most intelligent minds were not being exploited to brainwash us into wanting things we don't need to try and ensure we can only find satisfaction by overusing resources that the planet cannot afford.
This claim would come as a great surprise to the FDA, as they approved it soley for prevention of COVID.
Zoning in other countries is easy to visualize, even though it's completely alien to the Sim City ways: I recall being disappointed in the first game, and SC2000, because there was no way to make my home city. Residential zoning? My hometown doesn't have such designation at all, apartment buildings have commercial underneath in almost all cases, and office buildings and apartments end up sharing walls.

Not that Sim City ever took traffic or parking even remotely seriously: Even in modern city builders, nobody attempts to represent the amount of space dedicated to surface lots in the US, because it'd look awful. It's always a fun exercise to, go to Google Maps, take a picture of the downtown of, say, St Louis, and then coloring every surface parking, or multi-level building solely dedicated to housing cars for commuters and sports events attendees: It's well over 30% of the surface area. Then people wonder why the city is dead after 5 pm
Perhaps. But I think the most intuitive is noting that a coin’s perimeter should touch the other coin exactly one full time during a rotation.
The same question was posted a couple hours before this one. It's here:

Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2024?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38777115
Ask HN: Best offline LLM in case OpenAI goes rogue?
I have unique requirements: I'm moderating a subreddit with positive potential. I've moderated forums before, reaching thousands, so I have experience.

I want to set the stage with a few bots ("bot" would be in their name and flair) having positive conversations matching the tone I want to set in the community. I also want to have my bots give feedback to people who have good observations but need to adjust the tone a bit to match the subreddit.

However, I am studying a lot and only have limited amount of time to start the community. I am concerned about the failure case of OpenAI going rogue and starting to disobey its instructions to be positive and solution-oriented. This could have lasting effects on the tone in my community. (For example, positive, solution-oriented people will unsubscribe and stop visiting, people might engage in flame wars and then end up blocking each other, and after that the community would fall apart.)

Since I have seen some pretty spectacular failure cases, I would like to be one step ahead of the game and set up a known-good, airgapped LLM in case OpenAI goes rogue.

Does such an LLM exist, able to hold a basic positive conversation and run on commodity GPU? Which one is the best one? I don't think it needs to engage in higher level reasoning, the ability to string together simple coherent sentences with positive sentiments would be enough as a fall-back, and I can also use it as a filter to make sure OpenAI does not begin to use negative words.

What's the best offline LLM I can run on commodity hardware?
> Should we not have to pay for that either?

We should. Also The Software should be Free to copy, modify, sell the changes, use it however we like and give the same rights to others!
> The guy who figured this out (who Veritasium interviewed) is crazy smart.

Eh. I knew about it before I took the SAT. It was in various brain teasers books.
I'm glad I never bought Prime.

Almost everything on Amazon has free shipping. You have to fight through dark patterns four times to get to it, but it's there. Free shipping doesn't take much longer than regular shipping, anyway.

I've been using Amazon less since they sent me counterfeit vitamins. I'll usually order stuff from wherever the drop-shipper gets it from.
> Maybe you'd get a chance to see it in reruns someday if you were lucky.

We're starting to come back to this from the long way around, though: I've had several shows and movies I wanted to watch, that I knew I used to be able to watch, which are no longer available on the service that I watched them.
Digital piracy took off in part because copyright restrictions were so unreasonable and onerous to begin with. Copyright was last extended to its current absurd length in 1998, and its provisions were retroactive, which is arguably unconstitutional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
The (eink) kindle is a fabulous device and in absolutely no way requires you to buy ebooks from Amazon. you can just plug it in and put Mobi files on it.
It is wild how many things I have discovered through piracy but eventually spent a boatload of money on. Music piracy in particular has been like free advertising ime.