skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money is not fungible in that way when you are talking about 100B EUR of R&D, which is what I was kinda alluding to about expense.
> Thus far, mainstream news networks have not seemed to care or do any introspection at all as to why they are losing so much viewership and credibility.

Fox News still tops the basic cable charts. It saw less viewers in 2023 but so did all of cable together. It's unclear to me at all that they are "losing so much viewership" vs. people just leaving cable and getting their news/entertainment elsewhere.

I'm sure Fox News's marketing department sees what their cable numbers, streaming numbers and online reader numbers all look like together and I really doubt their style of reporting that got them to where they are today suddenly became irrelevant when everyone else in the industry seems to have followed suit, rather than find success with another strategy.

The idea that they've lost viewership and credibility is, imo, wishful thinking on your part.
It's not flirting with it, it's promising it that at some point in the next few years they'll have a wirlwind romance before it leaves it for someone hotter.
2023 is the hottest year on record, global temperatures close to the 1.5°C limit
You’ve piqued my curiosity.

I will have to run more tests.
Is this viable as a file synchronization system?
A 20-page summary of a book is a substantially different creation. They likely don't even have entire paragraphs reproduced, maybe only a few quotes. Those summaries also have deeper introspection on the overall work along with potentially critique about the work. It is a different creation even though related to another.

Exactly reproducing most of an article is vastly different from a short summary. ChatGPT was exactly reproducing large amounts or entire articles. If ChatGPT was only writing short summaries of articles or critiques about them this case would be radically different. But in the end, ChatGPT is exactly reproducing copyrighted works.
There is pretty reliable data that says people read less today. It's not just the "parents complain about their kids" fallacy.
Kinda serious, but self centred.

TLDR journalism is expensive. Accurate journalism even more so, investigative 10 x that. if its only for rich people, then only rich people problems will get exposed.

Longer:

As you know journalism costs, "journalism" is cheaper, and often more popular. What do I mean?

Big paid for news systems have the budget to let people investigate stuff, peer in, check sources and generally have specialists in different areas (transport, health, science, trade, business, environment, law , etc). This means that its harder to sneak bullshit past them, and use that platform as a free advertiser.

What does this mean in practice? Well, lets look at tech coverage. the free sites are basically a thin veneer over tech company's PR. Certain sites will be given exclusive access if they are nice and well behaved. Tech companies are almost never tackled on their bullshit. Thats down to financial news sites or the like.

Theranos was obviously pulling some bullshit, but it wasn't until the WSJ put some effort in before consequences actually happened. but how could that be? because up until the finance news papers got involved, Theranos was operating in a pull model, sending invites to tech journalists who know that if they say bad things, they won't be called back. Apple and Tesla do this as well, along with others. This means that if you want eyeballs, you need to be nice to the tech companies and print bullshit.

So what does that mean?

It means that rich people's news sources are doing the majority of investigative journalism, which means there are scandals that affect the average person, going unpunished.

For the UK that means things like the collapse of the NHS, Adult and social care, the halfing of all local council budgets, along with education for kids with any kind of extra need. Most of that is known, but its never a front of centre by the news sources. Which means the government can ignore it. (see the post office scandal, it was known about, but never front page. it took a fucking drama to shame the state into action.)
Heck, just digest it into a shittiness score and tell me once a year.

Hey Google, how much worse is everything this year?

According to Eventscore.com, national despair increased by 34.2%, a slight uptick compared to last year. School shootings have proceeded as expected, political corruption is within norms, and economic marginalization has followed modeled trends. Climate change and wars continue, planes are falling apart again, the courts made bad decisions, protestors are angry. But a new VR headset is coming out soon and a sportsball team somewhere won a game. Happy new year! Your next update is in 2025.
Act like a mature adult and move on.
Ohh, I need to work on my sarcasm detector.
Teletext was basically nonexistent in the US.
The contrast between this Nielsen-Norman (NN) page and the OP page is marked. The NN page is much easier to absorb the information. More succinct, way better page layout.

Both articles have information/direction worth heeding, but there is irony in the fact that the OP page adopts same-text size and paragraphing conventions of yesteryear that the NN page does away with.

It's also frustrating that Hacker News doesn't pay attention to some of the information. In creating an edit to an existing post, the feedback after clicking on the 'update' button is not as clear as it should be. (It's a screen redraw, I guess).
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Extism, the universal WASM framework, reaches 1.0
>this was the first launch of ULA's new rocket, the first launch BO's new engine, and the first launch of anything for Astrobotic.

It's also important to note that the first two of those went off without a hitch. The issues with the payload seem to be overshadowing ULA and BO's accomplishments, and I hope this result does not make companies shy away from interesting test payloads.
I don't know the condition in worldwide, but in my hometown newspaper companies spend more resources collecting news from everywhere. TV news rely on newspapers, YouTube "news channels" rely on TV. I don't what will happen when everything fail apart.
Note that V8 didn't have a dumb-but-very-fast JIT (Sparkplug) until 2021; the interpreter (Ignition) did that block counting and sent it straight to the optimizing JIT (TurboFan).

V8 pre-2021 (i.e., only Ignition+TurboFan) was significantly faster than current CPython is, and the full current four-tier bundle (Ignition+Sparkplug+Maglev+TurboFan) only scores roughly twice as good on Speedometer as pure Ignition does. (Ignition+Sparkplug is about 40% faster than Ignition alone; compare that “dumbness” with CPython's 2–9%.) The relevant lesson should be that things like very carefully designed value representation and IR is a much more important piece of the puzzle than having as many tiers of compilation as possible.
"The quality of discussion on this website is abysmal."

Since the advent of general language AIs, it is quite &*$%#@ to discuss anything on widely popular web sites.

Some internet usages are going to shift.
That’s an unreasonably narrow definition of “elite” for any purpose which you’d want to talk about the elite. The top 0.01% depend on armies of top 5% people. The incomes of people at the 95th percentile have continued to grow at consistent rates throughout the 20th century, while the median income stagnated: https://www.cbpp.org/income-gains-widely-shared-in-early-pos....

For example, I’m not in the 0.01%, but as a corporate attorney I make multiples of what I would make in Europe. Is that because American lawyers are smarter? No. It’s because the sheer profitability of American companies means they have a ton of money to fight legal battles with each other. The same is true for everyone from accountants to software engineers. Why are Silicon Valley salaries so high? Because Google and Facebook have profit margins comparable to Standard Oil back in the day.

And whether they think about it or not, all of these people have a strong incentive to maintain the system that enables them to capture an outsized share of the economy. Thus, properly defined, the elites include the ordinary wealthy whose livelihoods are intertwined with those of the super wealthy. In Scandinavian countries, the top tax bracket starts around 1.5x the median income. I think that’s a pretty fair definition of “elite”—these are people who would be worse off under a more equitable system.

The term also properly includes the educational elites who staff various bureaucracies and organizations that have high degrees of social influence. If you look at the folks who exercise decision making authority over the lives of ordinary people (everyone from judges to regulators), they overwhelmingly come from a handful of elite schools. DOJ attorneys might not be rich, but they went to school with and are friends with the CEOs and hedge fund guys. The same is true for journalists at national-level outfits like the New York Times.
The article doesn't mention Bitcoin, but I was able to find another reference to that here:

> More controversially, the lander contains non-scientific payloads, including a physical coin “loaded with one bitcoin” and a Japanese “lunar dream capsule” that contains 185,872 messages from children from around the world.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/08/nasa-peregri...

Happy to hear that more Bitcoin is lost.
When I was a kid I had a tv where the quality of the picture noticeably improved when you touched the antenna... and I had recently heard that humans were mostly water... So I grabbed a glass of water and set it on top of the tv near the antenna and the picture cleared right up. Unfortunately this event made me the IT support guy for the family from then on...
* Overview: https://extism.org/docs/overview/

* Github repo: https://github.com/extism/extism

* 1.0.0 release: https://github.com/extism/extism/releases/tag/v1.0.0
Which department or teams in technology companies are profit/cost center?
The question revolves around how different departments or teams within technology companies are perceived in terms of their financial contributions to the company.

Profit centers are departments or teams that directly contribute to generating revenue.

A cost center refers to teams or organizations which do not directly generate revenue, but are still needed for the company to operate smoothly.

Can anyone share any detailed report or articles or research papers on this topic

Thank you !!!
> But that's a massive step back.

Seen purely from a security point of view, I agree.

But so many people have only exactly one debit card and currently can't use it for online payments abroad at all. Adding that feature to a bank's standard card seems like a good idea from that point of view, especially given that it doesn't add any additional liability. I also think it should be possible to be deactivated, but "on" seems like a reasonable default to me.

> We should be introducing protocols for secure online payment through your own bank.

This exists for credit and debit cards: 3DS! It's even mandatory for many intra-EU payments. If it's not used, chargebacks are mostly trivial to win for banks.

> What we need is an international version of iDeal, not turning everything into the insecure system that credit cards use.

Realistically, that's not going to happen anytime soon. Visa and Mastercard have had many decades to grow their international footprint.

Domestic alternatives have started showing up (e.g. UPI in India, WeChat and Alipay in China) with significant success, though, and I could see some of these eventually expanding to a competing global system. I don't see that happening for an individual EU country's scheme, though; it would have to be something pan-European like the proposed "digital Euro".
KYC = "Know Your Customer"

I think a rule for all submissions, that use acronyms and initialisms, should include the definition of those in the extra submission text.
If you're interested in learning more about the challenges and tradeoffs, both Jython (https://www.jython.org/) and IronPython (https://ironpython.net/) have been around for a long time and there's a lot of reading material on that subject.
we can do this easily in photoshop now as well right ? Its just FUD IMHO
Agreed. Even the "news" listed on this site is usually of dubious value. I enjoy it, but I couldn't claim that a large percentage of it is "important."

I think people are under the odd impression that news used to be akin to national intelligence. But that was always far more detailed than news agencies were able to report. And, hopefully, more actionable. But most of the "actionable" comes from the greater agency of the government. Not from knowing the data.
Seeking another Earth? Look for low carbon dioxide
What you are describing is basically a coordination problem, not a chase for GDP points.

Renting stuff as a business only makes sense if you can ask for reasonably high rent to cover your costs. Very expensive stuff (professional cameras, cars, bridal dresses) meets this criterion. A drill that costs 200 USD doesn't. How much can you ask for a day of rent of such a drill? 10 USD? That covers the cost of keeping the shop open for a few minutes at most.

Borrowing/lending stuff between friends makes a lot more sense, but you are limited to a fairly small set of people and you must be socially not-inept not to irk them with unreasonable requests; also, it happens that many people need the same type of object at nearly the same time (a day off with nice weather is great for gardening, so everyone is gardening; whoops, snow has fallen, everyone needs their shovels in the morning).
New material found by AI could reduce lithium use in batteries
Not sure I understand the 'cry for help's comment.
This has absolutely nothing to do with currency here.
Associating decentralization with currency is idiotic and completely misses the point.

Well, actually on second thought it does: If ipfs or torrent can be used as a data version control backend, people no longer have to pay $600 to get the very popular and basic dataset of arxiv.org from AWS - under torrent or IPFS it's free.
So basically decentralization here means running away from money hungry scams like AWS.
Downtown Portland experimented with its own tiny home community.
The homes were cute, I wouldn’t have minded one myself.
However reportedly due to drug use and violence it became too dangerous for the community service workers to enter the area. The situation quickly turned into a tiny home slum.
The city not long after demolished the little time home community and moved the residents “elsewhere”.
I sincerely hope Austin has a better plan and studies the failed attempt in Portland.

https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/portland-oregon-...
While on the surface I'd agree with you, in reality I think operations people are going to be around longer than developers at this rate.

It's fairly "easy" and relatively safe to let an AI loose on your Java code base and use it to add new features or find bugs. Very few people would let a similar AI roam around production servers and databases.

If you collect enough logs, exceptions/crash dumps, network traffic and so on, you could feed that to the AI and have it tell you why a service crashed. The majority of my job as an operations person is to figure out why something crashed with only a subset of that information and being able to read the code and reason about why current circumstances resulted in the crash or data corruption. Sometimes the job is even to implement the stuff the developers didn't, while not actually touching the code and relying on what the operating system, database, web server or network tells you.

If developers where better, or had more time, more resource then yes, an AI could do the job faster and better. In current environment, operations is pretty safe.
they shouldn't of ever made it into a "product". it wasn't ready. this is still a new technology and a new tool in a unfinished early stage in its development. it is still in testing phase. companies shouldn't be trying to make money off of it yet.
I disagree a little with their point on avoiding error codes, just messages; codes can be used for an easy reference with a customer support department, and easy reference for tech support as well.

But yes, show the friendly, descriptive error message in large, bold letters, and let the user know which code to rephrase if they need to call support.
Another airline finds loose bolts in Boeing 737-9
Do they still require a quarter deposit on shopping carts?

One opened in the US city where I lived ~15-20 years ago, and they required a coin deposit to use a shopping cart. I don't cary change (not even back then), and requiring a deposit on a cart is the mark of a bad neighborhood. So I just left, and have never returned to an Aldi.
News that was less entertaining and did less to appeal to its audience would reduce the number of stupid people who vote in elections which would increase the quality of our elected politicians.

Cable news outlets like Fox News and MSNBC as well as their online competitors serve as propaganda wings of the political parties in general and typically the most corrupt wing of that political party in particular. They misinform their audience on purpose to create hyper-partisan voters who hate the other party and reliably vote for the donkey or the elephant no matter how unqualified, corrupt or unhinged the candidate may be.

We would likely be much better off if the people who base their identity on hating the other political party or who worship specific politicians would find a different hobby because the news was "boring" to them. If having tons of poorly informed or outright misinformed "vote {party} no matter who" voters participating in the political process wasn't to the benefit of large corporate interests, there wouldn't be an enormous corporate media industry intent on making sure they vote and telling them who to vote for.
UMG Recordings, Inc. v. MP3.com, Inc. was decided April 28, 2000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_v._MP3.com

Users could insert an audio CD into their drive, upload the ID of it to my.MP3.com and listen to them on demand.

It was ruled in favor of the record labels against MP3.com and the service on the copyright law provision of "making mechanical copies for commercial use without permission from the copyright owner." Before damage was awarded, MP3.com settled with the plaintiff, UMG Recordings, for $53.4 million, in exchange for the latter's permission to use its entire music collection.
That's interesting. I wonder which of the built-in apps Apple regards as being monetised via the sale of phones and which not.

(Just to be clear: I have no problems believing that it is like that. I've worked at a company that spent a lot of effort on a service that earned nothing, I asked about it, the CEO looked at me blankly and just said that that service wasn't monetised. People make choices I don't understand. Why shouldn't Apple do that?)
> How humanity deals with the facts of DNA is the question of the next millenium. Personally my bet is on a new dark age as we depopulate.

Whatever the actual facts of DNA turn out to be, that we can now edit it directly instead of having to rely on "bloodlines", means I suspect that both the benefits and the horrifying mistakes will both be amplified immensely.

"Millenium" is much too long a timescale to predict; look at the last one, and tell me if you seriously think anyone in the year 1024 would've foreseen the rise to global dominance of one third of King Canute[0]'s North Sea Empire and how that small, wet, sheep-filled rock managed to conquer more of the world than they knew existed at the time… before then collapsing in a series of pyrrhic victories.

Especially as, at the same time the British Isles were busy with communal living in single-room sticks-and-cow-dung buildings, the middle east and north Africa were experiencing the Islamic Golden Age.

[0] yes, that one
AI fuelling dating and social media fraud, EU police agency says
99% of the time you use <0.1% of the bangs, so setting those up isn't a significant investment. Then there are also the downsides mentioned above (less convenient, no preview, not portable across search engines), so no, it's not a strict win, but an inferior alternative which is superior only in those cases where you can't setup something better
OtterBox seeks to best Apple's sustainable leather with cactus-based phone cases
Yes, deciding not to test in Firefox is a decision to break Firefox. Sites with a tiny fraction of Google's resources manage to test Firefox. There's no way they just forgot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqljaKjKjd4

^ this guy literally does nothing more than lay a long wire out on the grass, and touching it instantly smokes and burns his skin
So ASML has more or less a monopoly in the "chipmaking tools" (to quote the article) market. Good for them! But I fail to see how one successful European company (which has been successful for decades BTW) is an "answer to Silicon Valley"?!
We are discussing Apple's submission to the EU regulators.
> Update: Read more about this in this article

I read the article (TL;DR it describes a bond car that lets Bond select a weapon only to then give him an error message saying 'ammunition not loaded', and then considers how this should be handled from a UI perspective).

Thinking about the overall UI guidelines topic, the bond article misses an obvious point - that cars already have familiar mechanisms for displaying the status of consumables such as fuel, oil and battery: gauges on the dashboard. Applying the consistency guideline, Q could have installed an ammo gauge, and the 'backfire' button would then be permanently available. After all, Bond might still wish to deploy the gun for effect, e.g. to intimidate someone, even if he knows that there isn't in fact any ammo.
Smartphones are textbook consumer overshoot. More people seem to want degraded phone experiences (e.g. dumb phones) than foldable or more contrived phones. The next step is for the average sale price of "Phones people actually buy" to fall.
Another cool thing that I believe git does in these situations is that it hard-links the blobs in the .git folder if you do a local clone. It makes sense: the blobs are immutable and content-addressed, no need to store two copies! Just have two links to the same file system object, save a bunch of disk space.
For anyone looking to do this, there are much better 120mm fans available nowadays, like Alphacool Stealth Metal.
Development of the first Nebula engine started around 1999 (as 'Nebula Device', later shortened to Nebula2 and Nebula3). I doubt that Slack was around at the time ;) (IIRC the only name collision we were aware of was some American rock band)
That’s unfortunate
so? in both cases you are using Apple's precious servers
No. They are not unique at all.

In my opinion they still are pretty unique because their efficiency is higher than 100%. Which was what I thought the sentence would continue with when I started reading it. Cannot be stressed enough. It's like magic :] Sure your LED is more efficient than your incandescent light bulb, but it still produces heat which is not intended nor really wanted. In my book there's no comparing that to a heat pump. That being said, not really a fan of such sentences either.
i think AI boyfriends have a brighter future, consider who prefers to consume text-based content
Everybody really use WhatsApp to send messages to friends here, especially in group chats. I'm using Telegram with some friends and for some groups but WhatsApp is bigger. Anything else is a rounding error.

It's not even easy to know who's got an iPhone now: it's just a big phone with lots of cameras as any other one. However it's likely that two close friends, families, etc all using iPhones could decide to use iMessage for their own messages. Same as for... (had to google it) FaceTime.
Two wrongs may not make a right, but three lefts do.
The TSMC profit margin is impressive. Looks like 45%.