skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually the other way around is the case. For example, you text a friend "I'm thinking about buying a bike' and you start getting ads everywhere about bikes and motorcycles and such. WhatsApp messages say they are encrypted but if that kind of thing gets out and is sold to advertisers, one can presume its not very private.

I guess some lawyer at Meta got creative, saw this as defensible in court and now selling phone numbers wholesale is a standard practice from now on. I hope not.
I quit prime over a year ago and I don’t miss it. Walmart shipping is actually faster in my area.

I highly encourage every single person to drop prime. Adding advertising to streaming will undo all of the gains we’ve made by shifting to streaming.

If one platform does it and everyone quits nobody else will. If everyone stays every other platform will follow suit.
Absolutely.

It also has functionally infinite land, weak neighbours, incredible energy resources, isolation from any other world power, a (relatively) egalitarian culture, and the single biggest patch of good, arable land on the planet.

No shit workers get paid lots in such a productive piece of territory.
> That's why in my initial message I said I wonder about expected peak improvement. I won't be surprised if it (together with theorized uop optimizations) barely exceeds single-digit percent perf gains, which would of course be still totally worth it. And even it's more, well, even better :) And in the worst case - which I hope won't happen - the point you mentioned is today, and copy-and-patch would never be worth enabling by itself.

Ah, so you meant that even all of them including specializing interpreter and copy-and-patch JIT may not give a reasonable speedup. But I think you have missed the fact that specializing interpreter has already landed on 3.11 and provided 10--60% speedup. So specialization really works, and copy-and-patch JIT should allow finer-grained uops which can have an enormous impact on performance.

On the other hand, it is possible that copy-and-patch JIT itself turns out to be useless even after all the work. In this case there is no other known viable way to enable JIT without disruption, so JIT shouldn't be added to CPython. I should have stressed this point more, but "incremental" improvements are really important---it was a primary reason that CPython didn't even try to implement JIT compilation for decades after all. CPython can give them up, but then there is one less reason to use (C)Python, so CPython never did so. (GIL is the same story by the way, and the current nogil effort is not possible without other performance improvements that outweigh a potential overhead in the single-threaded setting.)

> As for your example with integer adding, I totally agree with all you said, and that's exactly what I meant by "there’s only so much one can do without touching the data model".

If the data model refers to the publicly visible portion of the interface, I don't think so. Even JS runtimes didn't require any change to the public interface, and CPython itself already caches lots of the data model for the sake of performance. I'm not aware of attempts like shape optimizations, but it might be possible to extend the current `__slots__` implementation to allow the adaptive memory layout.
I'm curious for anyone familiar with all this, why is it that fungal mycelium colonies and Portuguese Man-o-wars aren't considered multicellular organisms but things like slime molds are? Fruiting fungi even have specialized reproductive cells, and Portuguese Man-o-wars have two sexes, each specimen having all cells of the same sex in a single colony. What's the determining factor or set of determining factors that deliniate colonies of single cell organisms from multicellular organisms?
This already works with uBlock Origin and their FreeVee stuff, so I don’t see why not.
From the "Things get really fucked up for consumers, employees and society in general when Private Equity gets involved with something" Department.
Been looking for something like thos for a while! I googled a lot, and this link never popped up. I feel google search is regressing.
Nah. If you lose one or two animals every one or two years while grazing them on public lands for free, you apply to the state, get compensated for the loss, and that's that. You are imagining a storm when the skies are mostly sunny.
You end up paying in three ways: (1) money (subscription fees), (2) data (you're forced to log in and allow tracking), and (3) the decrease in attention/focus caused by advertising.

All three prices can be ratcheted up over time mostly independently of each other. Price increases in (2) and (3) are largely invisible to the user.
See my other comment for details, but in short, this strategy uses a single code base for both interpreter and JIT. So any further performance improvement will benefit both without any additional work. The traditional JIT-only approach is costly to maintain in comparison.
Would it be legal under US law for Apple to make payments to Genshin to keep iOS as the premier mobile platform? Related: Similar question if Sony wanted to guarantee Final Fantasy was always better on their platforms.
Bison are better adapted and require only that we don't kill hunt them to extinction. Seems reasonable to favor them over beef cattle.
I would be interested in a full integrated workflow demo.
Basically, that response just used a different metric for gender equality instead of GGGI and the negative correlation between gender equality and women's representation in STEM was less pronounced using the alternative metric for equality. Also, the response you linked did not account for women's overall higher rate of attending postsecondary education (and they try to argue that this is somehow a good thing). Stoet and Geary normalized for disparate rates of college attendance, which makes it more useful for exploring men's and women's relative interest in STEM.

My point, though, is still reinforced by your linked study. There is no wide variance in gender representation in STEM. Nearly all countries fall within a band 20% wide (figure 1, page 3). Women's lower interest in STEM is indeed universal. The "wide variation" is from 1/5th to 1/3rd of STEM graduates. Not nothing, but by no means enough to suggest that the disparities in STEM are driven by culture to any significant degree.
(Edit: Though a snapshot of the file system isn't enough if you need to back up services that are currently running. E.g., a database server might have stuff uncommitted in memory that wouldn't be captured by a file system snapshot. But database backups are their own beast to wrangle.)
mRNA can be used as indirect vaccine, by manipulating cellular factories to produce a foreign object that draws the attention of the immune system.

There is no known pathway of persistence in this mechanism, and there is good reason to believe such a mechanism cannot exist as it would be a highly versatile attack vector and viruses would have evolved to be much more virulent by using it. Retroviruses do complex work to infiltrate the DNA repository of a cell, if all it took is to drop some mRNA it would have been exploited and 'patched' a billion years ago.
Nostr isn't a blockchain...
>but rather with the premise that poor people in 2027 are poor because there was nothing they could do in 2024

That is an argument that no one in this thread has made. Poverty is obviously not inescapable.
I took it as the literal and previously accepted definition was uniformly changed by both government and secular organizations in near unison. As late as January 2021 vaccines were thought of as dead pathogens - https://web.archive.org/web/20210118194713/https://www.merri...
You don’t have to use any of these services! There is plenty of stuff to do for entertainment that is not TV.

Sometimes people act on here as if mass-market TV and movies are, like, a basic human right or something. And presume they’re entitled to do whatever is necessary to get access to it.

Go read a book!
Also note you can speed it up. I usually watch YouTube on 1.5 speed, so this is a 12 minute video for me ;-)
This is sick and eliminates the "but I want my muscle memory to work on bare-metal Vim installed by default on every Linux" complaint against stuffing too much config into Vim. Why bother using the barebones install when you can just scp a single binary over that contains everything, to literally any OS? Amazing.

That being said, the config is definitely highly personal — it would be amazing to have a set of scripts to compile one's own personal .vimrc and related config files (really, the entire .vim directory) into a single APE.
Not to rush to Walmarts aid... Their Walmart+ subscription also comes with Paramount Plus.

I'm planning:

- on cancelling Netflix

- Canceling Amazon Prime, slower shipping frequently gives you digital dollars you can use to buy TV shows and music

- Keep using Walmart Plus

I need my groceries, and I don't want to do the shopping. They will pickup about just about anything in the store. I haven't tested the upper limit for size or weight though.

Paramount Plus isn't that great but I don't really want to spend my life watching TV. I just sometimes need a distraction.
Ut premium is already rotten with ads. Every goddamn popular video is either brought to you by nordvpn, ridge wallet or a goddamn ballsack shaver. It's sickening tbh.

I've gotten really good at tapping the skip-forward-10-seconds button a couple of times whenever the ad comes up.

The only creator where I don't do that is Acerola, because he puts a video of him playing with his cat in a pip view during his ad. I can zone out for the ad and enjoy the cat video instead. Win-win
> Once we have that, the others have a model to copy.

That is a bold expectation. Some schools will have an incentive to just have as much pupils pass the exam by lowering the bar, other will be incentivized to just teach the bare minimum, others won't have enough money if the model of excellence is expensive (and it probably will be).

And the model that applies to, say, a child who grew up with college-educated parents won't necessarily apply to the child from a blue collar family.

That is just to say that this is a hard problem. My intuition is that the only way to achieve the best education (excluding the case of hypergifted people) seems to be by throwing money at it through personalized education and tutoring and solving the child's other life problems, i.e. the wealthy kid model, but obviously that's not realistic when it comes to mass education. But maybe mass education (at the level we seem to expect from it) isn't realistic.

Or maybe we should reduce the number of subjects taught in school to math, language and physical education.
Working your way through college is still a viable option. This usually takes more than 4 years. I literally know people who have done it. It typically requires going to community college first, then transferring to a state university part time. If you're in an expensive area then move.
I think this qualifies for the enshittification of everything.
Interesting: I took the SAT in 1982 and don’t remember this problem. They don’t give you your % right, just percentile and a mysterious score between 200 and 800 for some reason. Does 800 mean 100%?
I use a Kobo Libra 2 and I find it great. It replaced my Paperwhite. It's easy enough to side load apps if you want too (but I find that I don't - I just need it to read books and it does that well)
> It was even hard to explain kids 10 years ago, at a time when kids still watched cable, that there was once a time when cable TV didn't have ads.

One thing that may have made this difficult is that, in fact, there was never a time when cable didn't have ads. It was invented to deliver standard (advertising laden) TV to places geographically out-of-reach of broadcast, and basic cable always was a mix of broadcast stations and additional ad-laden stations.

Premium cable channels didn't tend to have advertising except for their own (or shared corporate parent) programming, but those were charged additionally on top of basic cable.

As someone who had cable since the mid-1980s, its been really weird to see this recent invention of a lost past where cable existed but was ad-free.
Even for legal things outside of law firms.

Around Y2K someone was stealing content from my site. I sent a takedown notice and they told me I had no proof. So I used WayBack Machine, which was newish at the time, to show when it appeared on my site, and when it appeared on theirs. I was able to pinpoint within a week when they had stolen the text, because at the time it was being updated quite regularly. I asked, but didn't receive an answer, why they stole it and then took two weeks to publish it without even trying to hide their tracks.

Then I told them I'm writing a publicly accessible article about their theft, complete with the proof I just showed them, and links to the examples on their site, because hey, why not be an awesome example of plagiarism and outright theft in the wild, and how to prove it!

They took it down immediately thereafter, and never spoke to me again. I guess they didn't want the opportunity to be my example.
This seems like short-run thinking winning. I don’t want to have to think about if companies I interact with are going to slowly diminish the product. This sort of thing undermines that - it’s a rare good thing for companies to be trustable, and a bummer when it doesn’t hold.
I don't like this practice at all. Patent examiners see applicants claiming things that they likely believe isn't allowable all the time. When done in bad faith it's called "inequitable conduct" [1]. Keep in mind that as an examiner, I couldn't reject them for that, so I just found prior art to reject them with.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequitable_conduct
One of those headlines I thought I'd never read, and wish I hadn't ...
I believe the hidden feature is to email dang at hn@ycombinator.com and promise you'll never ever shit post again.
They aren't trying to squat on the name. They wanted to remove copies of their own photographs and picked the cheapest lawyer they could find, who proceeded to blast out bullshit notices in their clients' names. Likely because anyone more competent would be entirely outside their budget.

If there is anything to learn here, it's that...

- DMCA 512 is wholly inadequate for creators because there are zero protections for false claims (tell me what I don't already know), and,

- DMCA 512 is wholly inadequate for creators because the cost to actually find, takedown, and potentially prosecute infringements of your work is astronomical.

It is a law that makes everyone miserable, except Google, who gets to push papers around and wash their hands of everything.
The New York Times says:

The choice was given among these answers: (a) 3 over 2. (b) 3. (c) 6. (d) 9 over 2. (e) 9. ''The answer to this question should have been 4, not 3. Daniel B. Taylor, the College Board's executive vice president for operations, said as a result of the flawed question, he anticipated score adjustments of 10 points, up or down.

I'm wondering how they corrected the scores since the correct answer was not in the list of choices. I'm assuming that they simply excluded the question -- so if there were 154 questions in total, they recalculated as if there were only 153 questions. I'd like to imagine that the three students who reported the error got an extra boost to their scores, but probably not.
How did paid channels like HBO and Showtime make their ad-free model work in the regular TV era?
Can you name a non disinterested journalism site?
I agree, I like being forced to make a decision on an activity sequentially. Prevents optimization, which is a common way to spin around doing nothing.
The problem is that in terms of revenue (2) and (3) are tiny compared to (1) because by tipping your hand that you value your time above a pittance, you reveal yourself to be much less cost sensitive, so they charge you a massive premium.
Took me another read, but I think the assertion is that a strong characteristic of twitter alternatives is that they talk about twitter a great deal. And so that's a common thread between twitter alternatives and HN.
WebAssembly ecosystem progress, updates on support for C# [video]
I guess it depends on where you live. In Seattle I usually get deliveries the same day when I order in the morning, and there are enough grocery stores in walking distance that I wouldn't pay for delivery.
Commoditization is profits tending to fall. Which is why all the secompanies have to fight to maintain their profits. In this case by raising prices.

As for the streaming space, it honestly isn't that competitive. There aren't that many players. If anything, what we're seeing here is price leadership (which is price fixing and collusion but, you know, legal) Netflix raises their prices $2/month and weirdly Hulu, Disney and Max all follow suit. Strange how that works.

We saw the exact same thing with cable: bundling channels to maintain profits, channels charging more, increasing prices to counter losing customers, etc. And why were the channel prices going up to the cable TV providers? The exact same set of reasons relating to falling profits.
You compare Gaza, half of the population being children, with Nazi Germany and talk about learning from history? While the IDF is blowing up courts and universities and people talk on Israeli TV about making Gaza "unlivable"?

The Nazis talked about the people they murdered exactly the same way. Himmler and his stuff about the great sacrifice the SS made for the benefit of humanity, all that... they excused murdering children with "international bankers", the same way people excuse genocide in Gaza with Hamas. "No side is innocent, it's all so very complex". Nothing changed.
Physical media requires space and prone to damage (not much but still)
I prefer having my own digital copy
Perfect is the enemy of good, and 9p is great.
Yep. This bit didn't ring true to me:

> Imagine the advantage these traits would confer to hunter-gatherers: an alertness to the subtlest signs of danger, a focus that zeroes in on moving prey. In essence, ADHD could have been Mother Nature's wild card, a survival strategy for our roving ancestors.

As it happens, my daughter and myself are the "hyper aware" members of our family. Both of us seem to be subconsciously constantly scanning our environment all the time. In concrete terms, we are more likely to notice a friend walking on the other side of a street, or that a shop has a broken window on a dark night. Another thing we both have in common is the ability to focus for long periods on a single task, longer than the rest of the family - so we are both not ADHD. Quite the reverse.

But then none of the family has ADHD. The difference seems to be my daughter and I are the introverts. So while the others are busy interacting with each other, we are using our spare mental capacity to scan the world around us.
Ah my bad. I am using mixed precision training in the my previous comment.

You might find this paper interesting:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.06192.pdf
I wonder how this would work with more and more sites behind Cloudflare and stuff. Websites really don't want this since in today's economy, wasting a human's time is paramount (they call it "engagement"). A computer, even working on behalf of a human is not enough.
Unfortunately search engines have learned to, well, basically ignore user input.

Amazon is the worst.

I used "" and + and - for terms to get what I want, and its search engine still gives you the sponsored results and an endless list of matches based on what you might buy instead of what you searched for.

ugh.
The policies were largely put in place before online shopping had really penetrated into general day-to-day living. People take for granted that if you order something online, you're dealing with a legitimate business and will actually receive what you purchase in a timely manner; that was significantly less true a couple decades ago.

They're betting that people aren't going to stop doing something they're used to just because they end a policy they only put in place to help people get over their unease with a new'ish way of buying shit. And they're probably right.
I think the point is not that people have to use these services (this is obvious, I think), but instead that these services have no essential economic incentive to not walk back benefits that subscribers were previously paying for.

(This is true in all kind of market segments, but it’s especially perverse in online services: bandwidth and storage get cheaper each year, so why are we walking the hedonic treadmill on paying not to be advertised to?)
Personally, I cancelled all my subscriptions (Netflix, Prime, Apple TV+, Hulu, HIDIVE, AMC+) this christmas and reverted to piracy.

Modern piracy (the so called *ARR stack) provide UX that is pretty close to what you get from streaming services. In some cases even better - now I will use just one app on my TV to watch everything, will not be affected by Netflix/Prime/Apple/Hulu or internet provider outages when I am watching a movie or TV show, and will not have to go through 4 or 5 apps when I am searching for something specific to watch.

The UX is slightly worse when I find a movie or TV show via Plex Discovery and want to watch it immediately, since I will have to wait for *ARR to pick it up and download it, but for now I have quite a few TV shows to finish watching before it will become an inconvenience for me, especially given the fact that this stack can subscribe to upcoming shows - I can tell it that I am interested in Fallout for example, and it will monitor releases and download the show once it will become available.
off topic, but how is living in Estes Park?
Yeah but what about a smart TV or android stick?
>Human ancestors almost went extinct 900,000 years ago. “A new technique analysing modern genetic data suggests that pre-humans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals

This is very similar to what's claimed by Abrahamic religions based on the story of Noah's ark where only those who boarded the ark survived and has descendents.

For reference Titanic carried about 2240 passengers and crews
I don't believe you.

I prefer alternative theories. Plasma physics. Electric universe models.

There's Gareth Samuel on YouTube, See The Pattern. He just explores various theories. Treats them as merely theories (instead of facts) and I like that approach. It's very historic and really fleshes out ideas. Then you got the Lerner himself, author of The Big Bang Never Happened, which I think has been overwhelmingly falsified so you mean you can take Sean and his amazing fantastic firework singularity that blew up from a dimensionless point and yeah blah blah blah blah blah inflation blah blah blah acceleration blah blah blah and it makes no fucking sense whatsoever.

I'm really good at math. At least compared to most people. I'm 38 and really only started questioning the big bang maybe in the last decade, and then I found Eric Lerner and well, now I can firmly say the big bang never happened.
> A potentially useful SELECT function would be one which took an array of channels and directions

That would actually be even a better idea than my present SELECT function, but I don't have a good solution yet for the (receive) variables. The best I can think of is just an array for the values, but that needs a lot of extra copies. I would rather prefer a built-in function than a separate module as in Go.

> OBERON SA seems to have evolved in a direction converging upon C

Not sure what you mean.

EDIT: concerning close synchronization see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38777973
I get it at half price ($5.99/mo, no yearly sub), and between my spending at Amazon dropping by 90%, rarely ever watching prime video, and the price increases, I can't even justify it at that rate. I'm sure most will stay subscribed, but MY price is going up by a couple bucks a month in February, so I'm cancelling.