skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know of several other issues like that. I myself made sure the highscore in a video game I was working on would work :-)

The thing that annoys me is that this is best case scenario when it comes to climate change. If we do in fact manage to avoid the apocalypse, all the "climate deniers" are going to feel vindicated.
but how is babby formed?
It is a purposely malicious take! The question was why the GNU project has put itself in a place where it cannot assign resources to the GIMP project, to make GIMP more like what the average person wants it to be.

The GIMP developers say “we want our layers to work like this, take it or leave it”, and they have every right to do so. They write the code, they pay their own bills, they get to call the shots.

The GNU people say “software should be free-as-in-speech”. That is certainly their right, and to some extent I agree with them. However, that ideological stance means that the GNU project does not have any resources it can assign to the GIMP project (or anyone, for that matter).
I was called a "pro Chinese crowd" for urging people to check this account's history, and you are threatening me with ban for personal attacks.

Do what you have to do.
It happened to the state of Maryland, too: their domain registration for starspangled200.org, featured on their license plates, expired and was picked up by a gambling website in the Philippines. Maryland has since reclaimed the domain.

https://jalopnik.com/maryland-license-plate-url-directs-gamb...
... which was named after the Macedonian dude.
You guys get awards?
> Creating and hosting a website has never been easier and cheaper. Yet for some reason the big companies are dominating more and more. It could be my perception because I was just a kid back then, but there seemed to be more independent sites in the 2000s than now, despite then being harder and more expensive to host a site. It doesn’t make sense to me.

The thing that's really, really important to understand is that lowering barriers to entry leads to more consolidation, not less, because any products that are even of slightly better quality/service/price whatever end up taking nearly all the market.

Yes, in the late 90s and early 00s there were tons of independent sites (if you're too young to be familiar with it, look at the Wikipedia page for GeoCities). And while we may have some nostalgia for that now, the fact is that 95% (I'd probably say 99.9%) of the sites were total crap. Probably over half of them were "Under Construction" banners, but even the ones with actual content were usually pretty atrocious even if you ignore the "murder on the eyes" visual design.

With so much content but limited time and attention, most people don't actually want to wade through the 95%+ of crap - they just want to see the best stuff. So they go to the "market leaders", which can attract more eyeballs and, importantly, more funding to ensure people creating these sites are highly paid to attract the best people.
The machines use the charitably named "demographic sensor" which is obviously the embedded camera linked to a "facial recognition" application, BUT, it doesn't appear that it actually recognizes (or records) faces. Meaning, it's not linking your face to any online identity, or recording your face at all. In fact, the company is European and claims that their entire platform is GDPR compliant, which is... probably true?

Rather, it throws out a series of guesses and confidence values of a person's age, gender, and race, and allow the planogram (and OOH advertising) to change dynamically based on that information.

Which is not necessarily great, but also an entire order of magnitude less invasive than every interaction any casual user has on the internet with any ad ever. Or, frankly, with any POS system recording a repeat purchase from your credit card, from which motivated vendors can back into the rest of the demographic data.

I'm not excusing it, but while the error reads "facial recognition", it's more "stereotyping enablement platform," which, while only marginally better, is probably still better.

It's also hilarious to think of the thing displaying the green M&M if you're a "probable" woman, and the red or yellow M&M if you're a "probable" man, and seeing how long it'd take for anyone to correlate the change.
I'm beginning to see the issue. That's 1,5 employees covered by the youtube money, now for the remaining 2998,5...
im pro privacy, but is it really so bad to get anonymous data about where people clicked and how long they stayed where?

it would be almost impossible to measure success without it, whether it's a conversion funnel or tracking usage of a new feature
we went from the internet never forgets to the internet is suffering dementia.
Having a carefree life of no technical debt is not its own reward? Firefighting is stressful :)
>Most computers are 64 bits for decades now.

Desktops and laptops and servers, sure. There's an awful lot of 32bit processors in industrial controllers.
What kind of abuse threats does a static site showing a bunch of ad-ridden articles get that isn't already covered in basic Cloudflare filtering?
Substack exists. There are places where you can match content with payment. Comparing Medium and Substack, I make money with my Autonomous Agents newsletter on Substack, not so much on Medium. I also used to run a Web3 site where people would be paid good money for good content (paying on avg 25 USD per 5 days), but not many takers for this kind of business model.
I thought this was a reference to the old "phase of the moon" bug entry in the Jargon file[0] and it was very confusing to see it marked 2021. Still, good bug!

0: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/phase-of-the-moon.html
> Talking to real customers and helping them solve real problems is really potent.

One of the many issues is you only get tot talk to customers willing to honestly talk to you.

That means you can't hear from potential new customers you wouldn't know were part of your market. You also don't hear from customers who would want to leave you but just haven't put it into words yet.

A/B testing helps get more insight into what customers actually do (and not what they tell you) and also get numbers on how big of an impact your changes have. The time to wait for the results is insignificant compared to the impact of ill changes in general.
Depends on your definition of "never". 35 years does sound like "never" for many people.
It can be also that some decision makers feel it is too much hassle. Or they don’t even know it is an option.

For you and me doing this would be probably an afternoon’s work? (Maybe a bit more, maybe a bit less)

For someone less technologically inclined it could be seen as a big project. They need to find someone capable of doing it, they need to ask for a quote, they need to supervise the project otherwise the contractor doing it might just do a half assed job or none at all.

Not to mention they can only think about doing this if they have an inkling that it is possible. They might be operating in a mindspace where “maintaining the servers” is a large monthly expense. For example if years ago they were sold a CMS with all the bells and wistles for some $bigbucks recurring cost. If they are savvy business people they might have done their research to figure out if “this” can be done cheaper or not. But they might not realise that it is possible to change the requirements such to achieve a massive reduction in cost. This is especially true if they treat the cost of servers as a kind of black box.

And very often the people who are providing them with IT services are not incentivised to tell about this option. Will they tell the business owner that oh by the by for half the monthly recurring cost they are paid the business could find someone who puts the page on ice and for the other half runs it for the next decade? Of course not! Doing so would under cut their income stream. That would be crazy. In fact they might spread all kind of FUD and sabotage attempts at scraping the site.
I was an ardent Emacs user till 2020, since 2011. I used to and still love Magit and other modes of Emacs, nothing ever comes close by. But, I made the switch to VSCode in 2020 for the reasons of code navigation and TS support and haven't looked back since, though I miss Magit sometimes though.
> They might as well as give up tbh

They already did, Tumblr loses millions per month, only has a skeleton staff left and it's widely believed to be shut down any minute.
Fun facts: Kazakhstan was the last to leave the Soviet Union and Baikonur is still rented to Russia until 2050. Let's hope renting it doesn't go sour like it did with the naval facilities in Ukraine's Crimea...
it's always bothered me that this dogma exists. Somehow web apps need to be super frugal with code size, while apps distributed on other (native) platforms never have such a problem. Somehow it's the bloated web that blocks the access for children in Affrica, but they can download bloated android apps just fine?

Maybe, just maybe, the problem isn't the size of the javascript, it's how broken the entire web stack (specifically caching & PWA) is, that makes a trivial thing like code size a problem.
We had a bug at a previous employer that would cause many of the main database replicas to crash. We isolated it to a collision in the code that serializes query predicates, which happened about one time out of 2^32ish queries. So yes, relatively rare occurrences do get investigated.
The problem is we will probably still be churning butter for even less money. Automation was supposed to reduce the work week to 10-15 hours and it resulted in both husband and wife having to work 40 hour weeks to get by as we created new bullshit jobs to fill the empty space. The cream and time savings went to the top. We don’t want to see that happen again with AI.
I've been playing a Bingo game for news articles that aren't negative about AI.

I don't have any squares yet.

Please send help.
Hopefully the internet archive can save Vice from itself and archive it for posterity. This sucks. This sucks. I really liked Vice for their journalism. Shame there’s basically no money in it these days. I hope the journalists go somewhere else and are able to do the same awesome work.
AI will be better at writing code, composing music, solving geometry problems, and innovating.
Humans will be better at sweeping floors, clearing sewage pipes, and other manual labor.
Potential dual Ph.D in game theory / management.
Sony is officially bringing its PSVR headset to PC
Because I'm a human and err??? And what value do GIGO statistics have? The next answer doesn't defend you weird take that it must store garbage, that's still on you
Web archiving is a solved problem, you record the website in an interactive environment [1], and everything what happens on-screen will be saved in a single file in an open [2] and standardized [3] file format authored by Internet Archive and endorsed by Library of Congress for preservation [4].

You can store the resulting WARC file wherever, be it on S3 or under your pillow.

As an archivist, I urge everybody here to not reinvent the wheel, please..

[1] https://webrecorder.net/

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WARC_(file_format)

[3] https://www.iso.org/standard/68004.html

[4] https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0002...
These systems are ruining students, delaying their academic journey or straight up causing losses of scholarships, have very high sensitivity because they sell on the promise of detection, and are blindly trusted by design because they go by feeling instead of providing sources for their claims (there are better ones that do, but are often misused as end result providers instead of as a basis to start a research)

Funny how on the other side of the tools you find professor use ai while ostracizing ai, and refuse to define a due process for these tools usage while claiming that student are lacking integrity.
I often think a full rewrite is needed.

I woke up this morning with an odd thought. User interfaces are hard, they are not many but we have people who are really good at designing those, we also know how to user test them. Election programs are non binding, you can say one thing then do the exact opposite after winning. (Referenda are also complicated.) It doesn't seem to make sense in the modern age to be able to change your vote every x years. It's a great formula for [say] the 17th century.

What if we designed a really neat configuration page for the government and allow people to change whatever settings exposed to them. You check a candidate you like and with each option their choice is the default. If you don't agree with something you simply change it.

Then, one by one we take the topics away from the politicians so that they can focus on the rest of the work.

For choosing the party you get 3 up and 3 down votes that you may spend however you like.

A separate election is held to chose the team to populate and work on the interface so that gradually more and more topics get exposed. Their job would also be to research and estimate how familiar the population is with a topic along with a budget to educate the voter.

It would be enlightening for the candidates as well.

Eventually we can shut down the legacy system and have one or more nudgeable robot overlords.

Don't worry, I'm sure the dream will fade in a few hours.
Okay? And life expectancy *around the world* most likely was a lot lower than the modern world's life expectancy. People grew up faster. There is nothing deep about that. 14 then does not mean 14 today.
>Our models were designed and trained to learn concepts in order to help them solve new problems

Isn’t that claim complete and utter nonsense? It is a large language model after all, not a large concept model.
[dupe]

More discussion on the official FTC blog about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39470189
Pretty fascinating paper. I think it highlights how meaningless it is to talk about average outcomes. 18% regained all of their weight or more. 19% doubled their weight loss or more.

I would love to see the actual distributions, but It looks like a pretty standard bell curve, which isnt surprising. What is surprising is the size of the distribution! Lots of people were changing their bodies after treatment in all kinds of ways!

I would prefer diet control to Ozempic due to the potential risk of cancer, but understand that others may choose to make different tradeoffs.
In our household it is where I put stuff that the wife doesn't want in the house and I'm loathe to throw away.
I usually just set the working directory to ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}¹ for tests that only read files, and use configure_file()² for files that could be modified or contain variables expanded by CMake. Note that you don't need to add a dependency, as configure_file() runs during configuration, and if you change the input, will copy the file again. CMake also has the notion of text fixtures for more complicated things as well, like setting up a db or other kind of service that your tests may need to run. See property FIXTURES_SETUP³ for that.

1. https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/prop_test/WORKING_DIRECT...

2. https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/configure_file.h...

3. https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/prop_test/FIXTURES_SETUP...
What this tells me is that the price of running inefficient cpus seemingly isn't nearly as high as I thought it would or should be (in terms of usd/kWh)
Successful Garage People

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11496136/
Coffezilla went on a very amusing rant the other day, it would take me quite a while to find but he was reminiscing about his Lex Friendman podcast and I guess Lex kept asking him "what do you think about X" questions that were kind of related to what he knew, but he's not at all an expert in, and he had to keep reminding himself not to answer them. That reminds me of this AI article. Certainly, Michio Kaku is brilliant. At theoretical physics.
clang 17 with CMake 3.28 is also quite alright.
Wonder if it was generated by LLM or similar?
So become a management consultant? ; )
Rarefaction curves and advanced mothematics [video]
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but Bing's image search has been better for a long time. Google also removed functionality for no apparent reason.
> Does a customer care if you shave off 2% of the final cost or do they care about having world-class customer support?

Times and times again, they'll tell you the latter and actually choose the former.

The same bargain as paying more to have no ads: people vocally push for no ads, some will ponny up the money, and the vast majority will make do with the ad supported model, while ad blocking or giving up on the service when they're fed up with it.

> Does a customer care more about how long payment processing takes or do they care that it takes their local mobile payment app?

I'm curious how you find the people to ask that ? If your current service doesn't provide support for the payment app, who would you ask if it was a deal breaker for them and refused to become your customer, not giving you anybof their information ?
From the company's homepage: "deliver marketing emails at scale"

Maybe this company doesn't need to exist, and shouldn't.
The Myth of Panic (2021)
Youtube is pushing Tik Tok style "shorts" pretty hard. If you ever accidently click on one, the UI makes it very hard to find your way back, and easy just to sit and watch a bunch of 15-second clips.

Even the long-form content is a minefield. The line between educational, informative long-form content (Clickspring, Tech Ingredients, Ox Tools, Matthias Wendel, Alan Millyard, etc) and "lifestyle entertainment" (Matt Armstrong, Cleetus McFarland, Matt's Offroad Recovery, etc) is surprisingly fine (AvE, Tavarish, Rainman Ray, etc), and you might not notice you've crossed it until too late.

Don't even get me started on the videos that contain a vital piece of information that could be written in one paragraph, but spread it over 10 minutes. A lot like the online recipe site disasters.
Sorry, I should have written 'practical way to arbitrarily change...'. One of the sibling comments to yours touches on the topic of increasing the frequency, which is what I was getting at with the practicality and energy consumption.
Yeah a bit weird they would double up with a blog 'version' when there's the usual press release:

FTC Order Will Ban Avast from Selling Browsing Data for Advertising Purposes, Require It to Pay $16.5 Million Over Charges the Firm Sold Browsing Data After Claiming Its Products Would Block Online Tracking

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/02/...
> that the following is not acceptable

I read it. What specifically did you hear was unacceptable - there’s no moderator comment attached to your writing so I cannot tell what they told you is unacceptable.
> Can’t remember a single time they’d screw up basic ui/ux, content delivery or common sense.

There are many, many cases of porn websites breaking the law.
Why do Farcaster proponents never mention that it's not free in their pitches?

>To sign up, users must pay a $5 sign-up fee, meant to prevent the creation of spam accounts. Further, users can only post a limited number of “casts” on Farcaster apps, which are tied to packages called storage units. Storage units, which go for $5 a piece, grant a user 5,000 casts, 2,500 reactions, and 2,500 links or photo posts within a one-year period.
It is quite nice, but since there is no way to configure URLs, it‘s best used for greenfield projects, not moving from some other CMS with a differing URL structure.
These types of projects always remind me of MS Access. Access is forms on a database, and really easy to use. It obviously has its drawbacks but nothing has come close to it. I've never understood why MS didn't capitalise on it by extending and improving it.
For me, Emacs was a natural progression from VS Code, which was a natural progression from Gedit. Similarly, at roughly the same time, I "progressed" from Ubuntu to Gentoo.

I want full control over my computing experience. Little things annoy me, and when things annoy me I get distracted. For me, taking the time to configure Emacs exactly the way I want it is a small up-front cost compared to the large ongoing cost of dealing with annoyances. Now, some time later, I've built up a computing environment that blows everything else out of the water, because it's mine (and mine isn't even as good as other people's Emacs configs, I'm a noob).

I would never go back to VS Code. Not because I don't like it, but it just doesn't do what Emacs does. Emacs is... what's the word?.. Unified? Hyper-integrated? You can't use your VS Code extensions in other programs, but with EXWM you can use Emacs functionality in all of them (okay, there are exceptions). To use anything but Emacs would mean un-unifying my computing environment, and that's the opposite of what I want.
How about a country named after the ruler of another country:

Philippines - King Philip II of Castille

A country named after a city in another country:

Venezuela - Little Venice

A capital city named after the leader of another country:

Monrovia, Liberia - after US President Monroe

A country named after it's discoverer from another country:

USA - Italian Amerigo Vespucci

A country named after its liberator from another country:

Bolivia - Venezuelan Simon Bolivar

A country named after another country:

Indonesia - *Indian Islands*

An American state named after a fictional muslim ruler:

California - from an old Spanish romance novel
about a fictional *Queen Calafia,*
derived from *Khalif(a)*

The fortunate and unexpected discovery that serendipity is named after a country:

Serendip - old Arabic/Persian name for Ceylon, Sri Lanka
As someone who also tried and really liked Retool but also found it too expensive I can add my reasoning.

I help companies with digital transformation, what it usually entails is deploying solutions to small teams and then growing them as we get buy in from the business. The initial users are high frequency users of the tools, and later users might be infrequent users.

The problem I found with Retool was that as I scaled to the infrequent users the cost per user remained static, so I would be punished for my tool becoming more popular.
> but there is no guarantee long term stock price is above what you paid for it

That’s because there’s no guarantee the company will thrive in the long term, nor that you didn’t overpay to begin with. That does not change the fact that share price is a function of the business’ financial success.
If I were terminally ill or just so old and frail to warrant the use of assisted suicide for whatever reason I would hope — though super unlikely - that instead of dying peacefully in a bed that instead I could be yeeted into a supermassive black hole. I just am so curious what it’s like. Of course I’d never be able to share what’s on the inside. But the experience would be worth it. Then I’d make my way to the central singularity and of course die but I’d know things no scientist would.
Can't find a name
See ya later Travel Agents. I can a better itinerary now without you.
The key is learning to identify the situations where a transactional mentality is the rational thing to do to protect yourself.
Tour of C++ 3rd Edition [0] would be a good start.

[0] - https://www.stroustrup.com/tour3.html
I guess the lesson is, never give up a domain.
Oh, the screencast had dupe lvim at 10s and then there are issues like this https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/issues/409.

The runs/code can be stored as list to get the distribution, though for typo I don't want any distribution, I just want them gone, and for identical commands with different comments I'd want a single run stat

These are the cleaning type of things that would be closer to magical
Crazy prices. I'm always wondering for what kind of companies things like Retool are. Internally, when we want to whip up a crud app, we use Nextjs with T3 stack and you are up and running in two-three hours.
FTC Order Will Ban Avast from Selling Browsing Data, Require $16.5M
In your opinion/experience, does (or: would) a docs-as-code approach help ?