skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The long-term impact is much more ambiguous to measure.

I paid particular attention in school when a teacher would explain why they were trying to teach us something. I noticed the same patterns of teaching among different teachers in the same school system, and how it all worked together to reinforce the skills we needed. (Note: many of my peers experienced the "extra" work as pointless, because they didn't understand the long-term implications).

Teachers who don't understand educational theory can't work as part of an educational system without additional training. In the meantime, their students miss out on long-term skill building.

This situation makes me think of technical debt. A short-term fix with long-term, ambiguous problems that are difficult to unravel.
Fluff article that doesn't really say why, except by mentioning many popular streaming apps aren't on Vision. Usually their web apps are inferior.

I'm cautiously optimistic about the Vision headset, personally. I'm hoping it will make headset computing easier, but it's such a limited device I'm not sure what would even run on it. Just a higher resolution Quest? We'll see...
“The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found

A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,

Killed. It had been in the long grass.”

No idea how to post poetry in HN. Rest of the Larkin poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48423/the-mower-56d22...
Reddit works absolutely fine for this query so long as you dig a little, in the same way you once had to dig a bit for this kind of query on google search, back when it was good.

You just have to review enough threads on the subject to build up a picture and refine your search.

I did just this for noise cancelling headphones before Christmas and reddit was invaluable.
i would love to see companies overloading the meaning of "buy" and "owning" to be the same as "lease" and "rent" to be sued into oblivion.
Man, so many things wrong here. First of all, many batteries run for longer then 10 years. It depends on many things but most of them will last far longer then 10 years. The most common LFP battery will last far, far longer.

Second, end of life means 80% capacity. But in reality that doesn't mean you have to stop using them. You can continue to use it just fine for much longer then that. And even after that most car batteries find other uses as well.

If there really is no use anymore, it can be recycled. Just as we do with metal and other materials in cars.

Also, car engines didn't start so reliable, your 1988 pickup is 80+ years after cars were invented. We already have batteries that will survived for much longer and in 80 years it will be far, far longer then now.

Yes, old cars are better then new cars. But new electric cars are better then new gas cars. And you are not gone get people to not buy new cars (threw that should be done as well).

Yes. Electric F-150 are dumb. That's because pickup trucks are dumb not because batteries are dumb.
Oh thank you, I'll look into that!
Information control is just one part of how totalitarian regimes maintain that control. Western media is full of stories of the Russian "meat grinder" that would probably incense Russians, so it's probably in Putin's best interests to control how many Russians can actually see that.
> they are a tool of capital to fuck over human artists

So are the copyright and intellectual property laws that artists rely on. From my perspective, you are the capital and I am the one being fucked. So are you ready to abolish all that?
Even without custom domain blocking enabled, Kagi results are still somehow much much better (at least for my use cases). So clearly it’s not required to fix the seo spam problem.
Do Committees Invent? (1968)
Which is probably not a coincidence, since the article was written by the same Robert Nystrom.
If you really want your hedgehogs, put your forests back.

The Scots have plenty of hedgehogs they don't want.
protip: if you use freemium spotify in the browser with an adblock you won't be bugged with ads
> protecting an artist paycheck is just not as important as protecting user freedom

Not in my book but thanks for the perspective.

I feel my freedom to enjoy some music someone made on their own time has zero priority over said artist paying their bills.
Fully agree, it is the most underrated platform.

Ultimately, it comes down to the catalog. Anything even slightly more obscure (older house music, rare b-sides, unreleased tracks) just isn’t found on Spotify. Pretty much everything is on YouTube though.
Get all the verifier nodes to agree to increase the divisibility of BTC into sub-satoshi (e.g. via a BIP request approval). This will not be necessary for many generations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failed_state

https://www.britannica.com/topic/failed-state

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/failed-state

Russia does not appear to qualify as a failed state by the definition published in any of these three sources.
I think this is typical of most work places. Our ability to maintain good knowledge bases has essentially collapsed. Every coding task at work I basically start with reverse-engineering the system because no one really knows how it all works anymore.
Strange. Power and land prices are much higher in the UK than, say, France or Denmark.
But you were given "information about categories", Anything under 3 should be an auto-reject because it does not meet the standard.

"standard" usually implies that it's an outside rule from a regulatory body/certification agency that you need to conform to.

It's such a weird question to ask in the first place.
thats not just teachers - thats about 70% of the population right now - fix the inflation and interest rate problem, and that problem will get better over time.
The same continuing income occurs for journalists and other fields that produce copyrighted output, in fact it's more true there since there isn't a substantial bug fixing load.

So why just software and not all fields that produce durable intellectual property?
There are lots of domains (like Wikia) I want to block 95% of the time, but don't want to totally block, in case I need them as a last resort.

Also many of the worst offenders seem to be spam sites with unique URLs. Too many for me to individually make a dent.
These are certainly useful, but there's the major caveat that the "easy" stops when you have anything but the simplest precedence rules. For example, if unary `NOT` has a weaker precedence than other unary operators, or if `a < b < c` is to be treated differently than `(a < b) < c`, or if you want to forbid bitwise operators mixing with relationals to avoid confusion from fact that they have a different precedence in C (for historical reasons) than in many other languages.

Note also that Bison with precedence tags is more efficient than writing out the same grammar without precedence. And `bison --xml` lets you run the (trivial) machine yourself so you can do it in any language.
> VSCode couldn't support multiple windows until just recently, entirely because of a limitation from the early days of Electron.

That sounds like Microsoft deflecting blame. You've been able to do multiple windows for a very long time in Electron, I remember being able to do so in 2019 at the very least, and the book "Electron in Action" (https://www.manning.com/books/electron-in-action) even have a chapter dedicated to it, a book which was released in 2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicate_characters_in_Unicod...
EmpLemon has a video about this. He argued Blair Witch had the highest multiple (~1200x)

https://youtu.be/PYmi559SpWI?si=_oTiHXTili5K6W5s
'Lab-grown meat “does not constitute a sustainable alternative to primary farm-based production”, and raises ethical, economic, social and public health questions that “are essential for the future society”, the note to the Council of Ministers, that will be discussed at the next meeting of EU agriculture ministers on Tuesday (23 January), argues.'

What about the ethical question of slaughtering an animal, especially when there are alternatives such as lab-grown meat? I eat meat and oppose regulations to make it more expensive to combat climate change, but I also don't think there should be needless obstruction of lab-grown meat. Consumers who don't trust it won't eat it.
Also, they've used CEF since before Electron was even a thing (before Atom even).
My hot take on that is it's more profitable not to.

There was a time that "I'm feeling lucky" worked well because Google would often answer your query with the first result. But now, you often have to click through a few results, tweak your query, etc to answer your question. This almost always means more ad impressions delivered per query.

Delivering better search would mean delivering less ads, and that's the metric they value more.

I very much doubt it's a performance thing, because they already do personalized search based on account, location, etc, so it's not like it'd add any meaningful overhead.
He says as he plays his music over Bluetooth… :)
Unfortunately YT Music pays the least to artists.
Then call it what it is: A lease or rent.
Forget Apple Vision Pro – rabbit r1 is 2024's most exciting launch yet
Basically if a machine recommended it to you, its probably trash.

Goes for search results, AI, product recommendations, etc.
IP is certainly private property under the laws of pretty much every developed nation. But infringement of IP rights is not “stealing” under any laws I’m aware of.
> Firefox does not benefit from being suppressed on iOS…

You have to understand that from the POV of 99.99% of users, Firefox is not "suppressed".¹²

Yes, Firefox on iOS has to use WKWebKit. But "if Firefox could use their own browser engine on iOS then Firefox would be popular on iOS" is magical thinking. Other than a handful of technical gurus, users absolutely do not care.

¹ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/mobile/ios/ ² https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/firefox-private-safe-browser...
The difference here is that Game makers they want the video model - entirely DRM encumbered on DVD or BluRay (trivially broken, but still...) or streamed with an ongoing cost, as opposed to the audio model where you have the option of downloading DRM-free content from multiple sources (Bandcamp, Bleep, Qobuz, etc.) or buying it without DRM on CD.

There are some DRM-free gaming - GoG for example, and while Valve still has DRM, Steam hasn't been caught up in forcing people to go to perpetual streaming models.

From a preservationist standpoint, I really want media available in ways that will last through corporate shenanigans, and platform DRM limited or streaming-only isn't it.
These changes came about as part of the Trump administration & Republican efforts to reduce taxation. Because you can't trivially just cut taxes (as was done in 2017) without showing how you will either make up the missing revenue or reduce spending, they threw in a time-deferred measure - the new Section 174 that "demonstrated" how the tax cuts in 2017 would be paid for in the future. It was all sleight of hand, but what's new?

Republicans have been talking about shrinking the size of the federal government for decades. They routinely fail to come up with substantive cuts in spending that would not set off a disaster for them at the polls, or for the country economically, or both.

There is this perception that the federal is full of wasteful spending, but this perception is false (there is waste, it's not a large percentage of the huge overall federal budget). This means that to actually cut the revenue needed will require truly substantive cuts to the services provided and performed by the federal government.

Maybe you could be more successful at proposing what those cuts would be than any Republican has for 50 years, but it seems unlikely.
I couldn't open artist details, songs stop playing after a while, couldn't uninstall it properly.

Just a few after using it for 30 min.
Owning a Bitcoin ATM
Russian here, living in Russia.

My paid VPN provider stopped working months ago. Then my self-hosted Outline server stopped working. Then my self-hosted OpenVPN stopped working too. Both were hosten on Digital Ocean (Frankfurt).

What currently works for me is self-hosted Outline running on an US server, but I suspect that won't last long.

Looks like I have no choice but to learn how to self-host XRay. A smart friend told me that it still works and is hard to block, but unfortunately he has no personal experience with it -- and no need for it anymore, since he emigrated to another country.

Does anyone here have any experience with XRay / XTLS-Reality?
What "MITM attacks" are you talking about?
It's worth mentioning that the Russian government has a plan to completely detach the country from the wider Internet. This system has already been tested and is available at the flick of a switch.

Unfortunately, it's probably a matter of time until this system is activated for real and the Iron Curtain drops to the floor. Then Putin will find some way to blame the West and rally against us.
> This can only be fixed with government oversight

It's a system contracted out from UKGOV being administered on behalf of UKGOV. If government oversight worked, it would have worked already, surely?
It's very much not a side issue, it's powerful players completely warping the discussion by abusing their power in order to emotionally load their argument.

If consumers framed subscription services as literally rape that wouldn't be a side issue either.
Unfortunately I imagine those operate from regions without controls. I remember the story of the fire at the troll factory from a few years ago when internet discourse magically improved for a few days.
This submission is also from April 2023, it's just a reheated ragepost dupe.
I imagine https://exaequos.com in the Vision Pro for running web applications
the link you provided also clearly shows android global market share over 70% by 2022 estimates.... here is another research report that claims Android at 81% market share [0]

[0] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/global-smartph...
https://archive.ph/82jC4
There is also a difference between games and movies/tv shows… if a streaming service removes a movie I like, I can either buy it or get it from a different streamer and I have lost nothing.

If a gaming service removes a game, will I be able to keep my save history when I buy it from somewhere else?
The IRS document

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-23-63.pdf

is extremely clear on this. New features, improvements? All costs must be amortized. You can only expense bug fixes and GUI changes that don't add features.
I think, in a legal term it has to be physical property. That is what the commenter is referring to.
Hey do you mind if I can contact you with some questions about NextJS? I was working on setting up something and wasn't sure what direction to go in.
YouTube is also better if you're looking for original mixes and not the remaster, as well as for anything out of print.
My boomer mom will love photos in this once it’s ready for consumers
Thank you for this article. It reminded me how I was profitable in DOS memory optimization. To run game like Mortal Kombat, Doom, Dune, Dune 2 or others I got very good in optimizing. I remember now how I wrote my own config.sys and autoexec.bat files or run MemMaker. This is a piece of history for part of us
The Serendipity Machine (Notes on Using Twitter)
Google Search could be the world's source of truthful information, actively de-prioritizing the dead wood of the internet as they were in the 2000's. Google could still operate a vital layer in the AI future, where humans and bots go to find accurate answers.

LLMs are useful for many creative tasks, but mingling search with dubious LLM proclamations doesn't get me there quicker. For me at least it just introduces a layer of doubt, and more time spent verifying the results.
not sure if its a problem in reality, radios are the second most power consuming subsystem of my laptop at idle. (first being screen due to the backlight).
Can you elaborate what poe is?
Oh my! I thought this weird behavior was just something _I_ experienced on Spotify. I'm always asking myself, "didn't I just hear this song?"
That's literally the opposite reading? The teachers who got better education didn't perform that much better, so the education needed does not need to improve. Based on that article the argument would be "if you want to raise the bar for teacher education you need to improve the level of what and how it is being taught".
> You put a message in, get a message out, and have your code run.

In my experience it's more like put a message in, get an `AuthenticationException`, copy/paste some IAM stanzas into CloudFormation and redeploy, put a message in, get a configuration error, add dependency-injected config loaders to constructors, add env vars to CloudFormation and rededeploy, put a message in, get a deadlock from the threaded HTTP client due to class loading being single-threaded, refactor config loading to happen after construction but populate a cache, redeploy, put a message in, get a timeout due to a stampede on the cache, get a hefty bill from AWS for spinning up a load of long-lived serverless processes, ...
The AI "well" had been so thouroughly poisoned over the last 10 years, that the average person hears AI now and equates it to the usefulness of Siri or Alexa (i.e. functionally zero). It's going to take time for society to ingest the step function change that has occured in the last year. We can actually talk to our computers now, and obviously that's going to change everything. But it may be a more subtle shift, one where the new generation just takes that for granted from here on out and we move forward with a new normal, the same as the web was for us.
Yes, I use it to store my life savings/pension. It's the best asset for storing large amounts of value that mankind has ever seen - a perfectly scarce, digitally native, bearer asset, and the price fluctuations as it grows from 0 to infinity are just the market slowly figuring this out.

All other monies leak value fundamentally (through increasing supply or maintenance costs or risk or lack of liquidity etc.) whereas bitcoin's supply is hard limited by mathematics/logic, there's no maintenance costs, there's almost no risk (once you understand it) and I can exchange it directly with anyone, 24hrs, 365 days/year for hardly any cost (remember that the base layer network is optimised for large amounts of value)

It's money boiled down to it's purest, most ideal form, but to appreciate that takes 1000hrs of hours of learning both what money is, and how bitcoin works. Few people know either one, and far fewer both.
The only thing Spotify has over YouTube are the playlists and recommendation engine imo. The ai dj feature is also neat
That is certainly a convenience that is gained by renting something, but (1) the significance of that convenience is minimal compared to the threat of the company taking away what you've bought, intentionally or not, and (2) paid backup services exist.

It is far from obvious that people renting things instead of owning them makes our collective data a lot more safe. It seems to me that the data would be a lot more vulnerable to companies deciding to make (more) money.
This isnt my native language, might i ask you for your interpretation of that post? I didnt think i was being confrontational here, so i cant figure out how to interpret your post.

Pls be direct, any little bit helps.
IIRC, WD has experimented with placing Ethernet and some compute directly onto hard drives some time back.

sigh I used to do some small-scale Ceph back in 2017 or so...
Google no longer cares about search. It is open for disruption.
How to Incorporate User Feedback
Thank you, it looks really good
They do the same thing with substack and medium. Content like this doesn't really show unless you specifically search for it. While I understand where this policy is coming from, i.e., to distinguish proper outlets from blogspam. But it feels that in 2024, a lot of serious longform content has moved from traditional media to sites like the ones aforementioned.
This response is a strawman and unhelpful to the conversation here.
If that occurs, perhaps they can name it “Yo Dawg.”
In fact, Von Neumann proved mathematically that it's possible to build a reliable system out of unreliable components. But, modern digital logic uses a simpler mechanism: the thing you are missing is that noise does not propagate or accumulate in discretize (digital) systems, as long as it remains below a threshold, and circuits are designed so that it is far below the threshold.
Previously, On Arrested Development – NPR's guide to running gags from the show
The implied length of the service, and rights that ownership confers after it's terminated, could be a lot less murky.

"How long do you expect to run the necessary online components for me to be able to use this?"

"What will you do when you turn off the online components required for me to be able to use this?"

Are important questions that most services haven't provided clear answers to.

Getting a global right-to-jailbreak after service is terminated by the owner would go a long way towards making me comfortable.
The artist signed a contract with a label. I was not party to that contract, I'm not bound by it. I can send them money if I wish.

If only they'd give me an address (of a smart contact which would distribute the funds appropriately. I want to pay the parties whose names I don't know also, provided they're involved in actually creating the art.)
AI cannot create new knowledge, nor can it make value judgments. It can only regurgitate existing knowledge. And, of course, garbage in garbage out.
The problem is accessibility. We have everything else.

If loras could be easily trained in Vulkan/DirectX, if vram pools were big enough for the smart models, basically if stuff just worked, you'd already see much more widespread local llm use in apps.

The constraint technology is largely there, take a look at Outlines. So is the ability to efficiently "switch" personalities with Lorax. So are long context base models (Yi/InternLM/Mixtral). Even the super-fast Vulkan inference runtime is there (MLC-LLM). And yes, these are all early, finicky unintegrated implementations which is part of the problem.
As a curiosity, how do you pay for an EU VPS given the sanctions?
Its like this in every field, people get presented with the same information and one group says

“ah this is flawed! I’m assuming fundamentally! I’m going to ignore it for that reason and keep the same opinion for the next 10 years!”

another group says “ah this is flawed! I’m going to help improve it incrementally!”
No, it’s worse at the top levels in Africa. Show me where American and European legally steal public funds and siphon it to their offshore accounts..

I really get tired of moral equivalence.
I actually like YouTube itself for casual listening, it has everything. My only problem with it is that on autoplay will put 2 hour long albums as a single video instead of picking the most relevant next song.
Alternatively, you could ask your relative to respectfully turn off their wifi router while you're visiting.

Then when they ask why you want them to unplug their router, you can have a friendly chat about the risks of using cloud IoT devices.

Although that might not disable a camera-enabled alarm system which sometimes have a cellular backupy.
Given the sheer volume of video, that was my first thought. There has to be some classification system that is flagging these videos for human review.

How else would you find the naked riders in the haystack?
I have definitely noticed that the search results are often old now. I constantly have to set "past year". Something that was otherwise rare not even a year or two ago.

I would like to pay for Kagi. But with this economy I'm belt tightening and adding another subscription seems crazy. Even if the experience is 100x better than Google's.