skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our goal should be to have a realistic picture of the world, not one that is negatively or positively biased. Due to the incentives of news and social media, coverage is overwhelmingly negative. If your goal is objectivity, it's rational to correct for that bias and avoid negative news. Most of it isn't personally actionable anyway, unless you're a journalist or state-level decision maker.

I'm not advocating for burying one's head in the sand. I think it's better to focus one's information diet on things that happened months or years ago, where there will be higher quality books and articles on the subject. You'll come away more informed and less outraged than the people debating about the latest headline trending on Twitter.
I don't know the answer to this because people need to be paid enough to live, but fast food before this round of price hikes has already become a bad value relative to higher tiers of food.
> Why does everything get worse?

Because profits tend to fall over time [1] so to keep profits the same (let alone increasing) revenue have to go up and/or costs have to go down. More evenue can be higher prices, more subscribers, etc. Lowering costs can mean paying less in licensing, paying people less, employing less people, etc.

This was one of Marx's key observations of the inherent contradictions in capitalism.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit...
I don't understand the premise of your comment. Having a promotional motive is not something that falls under the umbrella of 'enshittification'. So even if your first sentence is right in a strong way, it doesn't support your second sentence.
Since you don't use IRC for anything more than an unreliable and easily spoofable key value store, why bother with implementing an IRC client? You could easily write a client server on UDP 58 client sends the key and server replies the value. Create a list of 13 IP we just trust and run your dnssec on top of that? Ez
No, we use THC for that, CBD is for physical back pains.
Microsoft Office so obviously is not like the only way to install software on a computer that I can't help but think this isn't entirely good faith.
Anecdotally it’s also semi common for restaurant employees to get some sort of small bonus for being mentioned in a positive review.
I’m back to buying physical media for exactly these reasons. It’s unfortunate that a lot of things aren’t getting physical media releases these days, or are still only getting dvd releases, but even for Blu-ray the quality is far superior to streaming in most cases, and 4K is even better. Since we’ve started migrating to physical media we no longer have to worry about streaming ability, losing our license to a show, or even network outages.
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How did that make it "the right thing to do" for healthy people to take the COVID shots? Given their extremely poor effectiveness against transmission, the odds of the groups in those last two points eventually being infected with SARS-CoV-2 were no different with vaccine uptake at 60% or 90% or 99%. What, then, is accomplished by forcing healthy adolescents (for example) to take these shots?
Right. I don’t think Nintendo had a mapper to do it at the time. I doubt third parties did.

But if you wanted to let a DMG address 2 gigs of memory 32k at a time you could do it.

It’s a little hard to imagine a game needing > 1MB if it’s just B&W. But I suppose you could put a ton of text in or do some kind of demo-scene style ‘video’ playback. But no one would have for cost reasons back then.
Thanks for sharing, again - I was just curious. That's a fair statement indeed :)
I assume these design decisions are all driven by teams juicing business metrics, at the expense of usability. Need to increase the “number of streams initiated” KPI? Trick people into resuming videos they already watched 99% of. The alternative, that teams simply don’t care or know how to design good user experiences, is too depressing.

Another example: both Netflix and Amazon make finding your saved watchlist difficult probably because they want you to watch random other content instead of watching your finite watchlist (and then unsubscribing when you finish everything on your watchlist).
It's been a lot of years, but if memory serves, they got sloppy. I think that maybe they were making GitHub commits, or using an unexpected email account.

Although, the more I think about it, I actually remember that their other boss might have figured it out and tipped me off as a professional courtesy, because he was pissed off at the guy.

That's the thing: if you're going to have two jobs (or two families) don't also be delusional about your ability to do even one of those jobs well, much less two.

It's like they forgot that in order to keep the scam going, you have to not also suck at development.
Or wait a few minutes to answer, because frequently someone else will ask an even better question to reply to.
A difference in degree maybe, but not in kind. Trust is a central part of science, without it no advance would be possible.

> being able to, in principle, rederive things from scratch

Basically no scientist nowadays has any hope of being able to rederive everything from scratch. Not even in mathematics, where experiments are cheap, can you avoid relying on theorems from outside of your area of expertise.
It seems that it's going to end up as it ended up with music and books.

Buy a season of a show (an album, a book) digitally to indicate your support and help keep it running. Then pirate and keep a local copy of the same to ensure against future unavailability, and for more convenience.

I bet enough people in the media industry understand this mechanics, and sort of turn a blind eye at it, because it's not affecting their bottom line materially.
Performance of Large Language Models on a Neurology Board–Style Examination
Videos from past Microsoft TechEd conferences, and the 2nd annual SharePoint conference. I had two presentations that did NUMBERS back then, but I should've archived the videos.
Articles like this give the impression that any woman who wanted enter Computer Science during these years would have been not taken seriously and pushed out of the field.

I’ll never be able to fully appreciate the difficulty any did face during that time, and to the degree I was ignorant due to a position of privilege I regret my lack of greater initiative.

Entering my CS program I recall (and lamented) the lack of representation even in 100-200 level courses. Women were not choosing this field in great numbers, but what part of nature, nurture and societal influence resulted in this? Clearly, the issues start before formal education.

Now, with my own daughter ready to start the same major in less than a year’s time, I’m still contemplating the same issues with more than a passive interest.
Very little about medical development is free market.

But otherwise, I always agree with people taking a default being skeptical approach to any medical news.
often reflecting of the sexist and heteronormative environments in which they were born and continue to be used

Strange line for a cryptography article.
Also pressure from middle management. Many managers have no skillset beyond "walk by people's desk and see if they look like they're working." Once workers were home, they couldn't keep track of whether they were productive or not. Yet they were still productive. In lots of cases they were more productive. While the obvious answer is that it was clear companies need less management positions, if you're one of those managers, it makes sense to convince your superiors to get everyone back in the office so you can walk by their desks again.
While using network communications is a great workaround for platforms that don't natively support user-mode filesystems, you end up with a bottleneck of data being copied a bunch of times, plus the latency overhead of waking up a thread to accept a new network connection.
tbh I always wondered why do they call themselves 'openai' since models are not open. But does that mean people should do things like what OP says..
Sub-prime video.

Well I guess I'll be saving ~70£ a year once it gets rolled out in UK.
Now that subscriber growth has slown down at most streaming services, the end of the "golden age of TV" is at hand.

Welcome to the "bean-counting age of TV," in which streaming services try to milk subscribers for as much as possible without pissing them off too much.

Going forward, I'm expecting cheaper content, greater restrictions, higher prices, a proliferation of tiered subscription plans, and pervasive advertisement.

Completely predictable, and yet also very disappointing.
It is extremely easy to measure how many people are pissed off due to this

It is extremely easy to measure how many people complain about it constantly every quarter

It is extremely easy to measure how many people apply for remote positions and how many for onsite
That’s my thinking as well. Renting a movie or buying it off AppleTV or other store ends up way cheaper than letting a subscription sit no matter if I need it or not

I rarely ever watch anything twice so I’m fully ok with renting and be done with it
You’ll make roughly $50 a month in story earnings for every 1,000 followers on Medium.
Granted, it's been long enough I don't even quite remember the exact issues I had, so take it with a grain of salt. It was definitely primarily weird edge cases, and might've been related to plugin use.

This is one area where NeoVim afaik comes out on top: Vimscript isn't fast, and NeoVim allows Lua plugins via the embedded LuaJit, and those should be significantly faster.
> But make is widespread, ancient and eternal.

Yeah. The GNU Make is literally everywhere, it's too useful and it's got too many good features. GNU Make is worth learning and using just because of this. Having to deal with non-make systems is seriously annoying.

> It does many jobs relatively well.

I wonder if anyone else other than me was insane enough to try and use GNU Make to manage dotfiles? I even blogged about it.

https://www.matheusmoreira.com/articles/managing-dotfiles-wi...

Gotta be really careful with stuff like that. GNU Make is simultaneously a rather lisplike metaprogrammable language and a turing tarpit. I screwed up a personal project once because I got sidetracked essentially reinventing a fraction of autoconf in pure GNU Make code.

Now I try to keep things as simple as possible. I still understand the makefile so I suppose it's simple enough.
Umm, some people like Samsung phones and some people like Pixels and there are lots of other popular handset makers.

A small number of purchasers want to side load and therefore exclude Apple as an option.

I think it’s not right to say the horizontal ecosystem isn’t a reason for Android’s commercial success. In reality it is a driving reason why Android succeeded over (and completely obliterated) Nokia/Microsoft/RIM - the variety of OEMs innovating rapidly meant they just couldn’t keep up. In the early days people frequently upgraded their Android phone with a better one, often from another Android manufacturer.

So, Google knowingly created an open market and now is (or at least appears to be) abusing it.
You make a small mistake, which is really the fault of reporters for not explaining the somewhat complex world of Article I tribunals. The "International Trade Commission" is more properly known as "The United States International Trade Commission", a creation of Congress to adjudicate a number of trade-related disputes. As an Article I Tribunal, all appeals are heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. And of course, that gives you a fast track to the Supreme Court if desired. The President may also unilaterally overturn rulings, as has been done by Presidents Reagan and Obama.
I am excited for app store gachas
Many rich famlies don't believe in supporting their kids, but with a good public education those kids do well. The majority help their kids, but not all.
Maybe now they can use MRI scans to see what people are thinking they could do something similar with animals? https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a27102/read-...
You see, this is why I personally hate make: automake.

As you say, a small elegant makefile is lovey.

That is not the sort of makefile you get from the autoconf/automake family, and (ha!), good luck if something goes wrong.

The reality is that a small simple makefile is not sufficient to build real software.

The problem is fundamentally that make doesn’t compose well.

Most real build systems such as cmake, scons, cargo, etc. provide primitives for dealing with complex messy situations like “oh today I’m using visual
studio not clang” or “does this platform have stdbool.h?” or “is the flag for disabling a warning different on this compiler?”

…and a way of composing that tasks into smaller ones (eg. add_subdirectory() and find_package()).

Make does not.

Make is a simple tool for simple tasks.

The reason people don’t like it, in my experience, is they have had to work with a make based project that has grown beyond the trivial size and it’s become a nightmare.

It makes easy things easier, and hard things much harder.

If worked on SPAs where they used make instead of webpack; but it’s a stupid solution. It doesn’t do live reloading, or any of the other pipeline stuff… but by gosh they tried!

You know what I like about clojure? It’s a simple tool that scales well for both simple and complex tasks.

Make simply doesnt.

…and that is reflected in the reality, which is that increasingly build tools are moving away from it and towards others, even for the low level tasks that people used to “generate makefiles” for eg. to ninja

I really am not a cmake fan; but there absolutely no denying it works very well in many real world situations, where trivial “-lsqlite” flags in a naive makefile don’t and cant work.
I mean the general problem is that the word vaccine has been merged with two meanings of "creating something so your immune system gets prepped to prevent disease".

Moderna here create something so your immune system gets prepper but it doesn't prevent it's used to fight.

I mean this word came from cow, you are right, it's time to redefine some of these terms.
The best example is soldiers vs. mercenaries. Soldiers are highly regarded by society because society tells them they did an honorable thing because society didn't have to compensate them very well, and especially didn't have to compensate them enough to not go fight for some other society that treats them better.

Mercenaries on the other hand are not highly regarded because they are well compensated, and don't really care about the honor of fighting for some society that wants to pay them dirt.

Status is far cheaper to confer than money, so we make sure those willing to work for status are well compensated.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
> Have you considering learning a new trade that pays better

I tried starting a lemonade stand and cutting back on Starbucks, but found, if I really wanted a roof over my head, that the thing to do was to SPAC a plausible-sounding company into the indexes.

> moving to a more prosperous area of the world

Those are precisely the ones with the inflated home prices.

> as an alternative to razing the entire social order to the ground and installing genocidal despots in place of our leaders? ... It just sounds like it might be simpler.

I dunno. It'll take 30 years to pay off a mortgage, but the Cultural Revolution was over in about a decade. I might still have some good years left after it ends.
That's not the definition of a vaccine. A vaccine is something that registers our active immune system against an antigen, so that our body detects and eradicates it upon detection. The timing doesn't really matter and there are a lot of therapeutic vaccines [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9729511/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks
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> Mining waste problems need to be dealt with but they are localized and can be cleaned up afterwards.

Right .. like recycling in the USofA - greenwashing.

Just be self aware about advocating to continuing to kick a can down the road and admit to yourself at least that you have no intention of being bothered by mining waste.

I'm glad to see the back of coal, but were it not for the associated C02 emmissions I would much prefer to live within 20 km of (say) the Muja coal | power site than (say) Lynas Malaysia, Kuantan.

Nickel | Copper mining in Sudbury and nearby generates more than 650 million tonnes of tailings every year from 200 operations along with about 10,000 abandoned mines that are "managed" by the Canadian government. "Managed" is essentially a euphermism for "not actively dealt with". Mine remediation has a long way to go in countries such as Canda and Australia and the majority of sites with problems are elsewhere and out of sight out of mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muja_Power_Station

https://aidwatch.org.au/stop-lynas/

"Can be cleaned up afterwards" is very different from "Will be cleaned up".

> Also from IAE https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpLhuguXsA8YE8V

Seriously? Not sure what point you're attempting to make with an graphic that lacks context and in any case supports my point that solar related waste will be rising seemingly "expontentially" along with solar.

If you're serious about understanding global energy and mineral resources I advise you to look at presentations that put total usage and transitions in the same picture - coal has a long way to fall to zero and solar has a long way to go to replace.

I'd also reiterate that I care about the issues here that come along with energy transitions - I'm not advocating for any one over another.
> Why does everything get worse?

The quarterly earnings must always be increasing.
Disney announced they were going to stop selling physical media in Australia. Media companies are salivating at the thought of forever controlling distribution.
Chemical Common in House and Cosmetic Products Can Alter Cellular Epigenetics
Nvidia’s workstation cards are available with more RAM than the consumer cards, at a lower price than the datacenter cards. RTX 6000 Ada has 48 GB VRAM and retails for $6800, and RTX 5000 Ada has 32 GB VRAM and retails for $4000[1].

Very large models have to be distributed across multiple GPUs though, even if you’re using datacenter chips like H100s.

[1] https://store.nvidia.com/en-us/nvidia-rtx/store/
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Yes. Kids moving countries hit that wall at full speed, and have to learn the exam system and quirks on top of the actual content.

The interesting aspect to me was how they need to take a step back and look at it as a set of made up conventions, when they might have just absorbed it as universal truth otherwise.
The media industry is pretty notoriously not chill about piracy.
Please check here to get late tickets: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/board

Also, tickets this year weren’t that hard to get compared to previous years at CCH. You could buy tickets until Dec 9 this year (without vouchers) because lots of people clicked the order button but never paid and those tickets went back into the pool. Highly recommended to check the ticket page every day because this happens quite often.

Good luck next year!
I meant a definition of "common good" from, again, a cold utilitarian POV - providing goods and services (but including decidedly social ones like child bearing, taking care of the elderly and such)
Chinese chess champion stripped of title after defecating in hotel bathtub
Obligatory link to MC++ song "Alice and Bob" from the 2005 album Algorhythms:

https://youtu.be/NHrugBhQfvA?si=fSwl_dupZe5VPzhf&t=407
Pizza Hut is what it is, but I have pizza places I prefer in orange county and santa clara county. Where are you and someone will make pizza recomendations. Good pizza costs money, but if you're looking at Pizza Hut, maybe you're looking for cheap and palettable rather than good?

Also, maybe where were you that had pizza more to your liking? Or what kind of pizza are you looking for if you can be specific.
From Manual of Patent Examination Procedure (MPEP, Sections 2103 - 2106.07(c).)

"It is essential that the broadest reasonable interpretation (BRI) of the claim be established prior to examining a claim for eligibility."

“It is well-settled that mere recitation of concrete, tangible components is insufficient to confer patent eligibility to an otherwise abstract idea”

Flowchart on Pg 19. Section 2016 for the general examination process: https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/mpep-2100.pdf
RE "...a browser could take a snapshot of the page I read. ....."

I've used a extension to do this for last few years. The extension is available for both Chrome and Firefox
The solution is for the government to pay compensation to ranchers who lose livestock to predators. In practice the number of lost animals will be very low and the cost insignificant.

For example, Montana ranchers filed claims for 287 animals and received a total of $241 000 in compensation in 2022. https://liv.mt.gov/Attached-Agency-Boards/Livestock-Loss-Boa...

This for a population of approximately 1100 wolves and 2000 grizzly bears versus 2.2 million cattle and 190 000 sheep.
> It slows down terribly and it's just plain uncomfortable.

When was the last time you use it, and what's in your workspace? Notion did receive some improvements on performance over the years, but it still depends strong on which data you dump into your workspace.

> Why does "everyone" love Notion?

Because it's an awesome concept with a well-rounded implementation on the user side. It just sucks hard on the technical side. I mean, it's a good tool, but it has an upper ceiling of what one should do with it. But this is a general problem with all those young fancy tools. Obsidian or Logseq are not different in that regard. They all are scaling poor. They are simply not meant for this.

> Programs that do simple things should be simple and run fast.

It's not simple, it's very far from being simple.
> Hadn't heard about Just — the scrips aren't type safe though?

Just runs code written in other languages. It's `sh` by default, but you can define anything (e.g. `python3 -c` to run Python scripts).
This does not happen on Apple TV.
So, I gotta ask: What does winning a tournament have to do how the guy behaves in his hotel? I mean, is the tournament owned by the hotel?? Very weird.
Yea, I think the difference between “how many rotations” and “how far is the center of the small disk traveling” is pretty big. I was completely lost as to how you “add one” until I watched what the video called a “rotation”. It would have never occurred to me to call the coin being upright a rotation… the Art of Problem solving question in another comment thread was more clearly worded for that scenario
> This approach could even be useful on Linux where fuse isn’t viable (e.g inside containers)

By viable do you mean secure? You can definitely use FUSE within containers, but you do have to cap-add SYS_ADMIN.
Relevant update to TETRA: they released (or will release?) the crypto algorithms to the public: https://www.etsi.org/newsroom/press-releases/2293-etsi-relea...
Climate Change Is Making Your Coffee More Bitter and Expensive
More reading: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/tweak/btree.htm...