skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but the concerning thing is that this behavior you’d expect from Oracle or similar. The App Store, in-app payments etc is not bad – Apple would seem to be able to compete fairly and still win a big slice of the cake – higher prices but premium experience, like they’ve always done. So.. have they stopped believing in themselves? Or did the sweet taste of monopoly turn them greedy and arrogant beyond salvation in just a decade?
Holy fuck. I was on board this exact airplane just two days ago.
Clickbait marketing blog post. Doesn’t belong on FP IMO.
Case in point exactly. The notes you play are the same, but they’re in a different spot on the staff.
Just the sheer determination to build the best browser in the world :)
I have found that any tests that include a negative are highly likely to fail unless you word it in a specific way.

For example, if I ask Gemini Advanced to write a non-rhyming poem, I get this. Lots of rhymes.

Absolutely! Here's a non-rhyming poem:

The old willow weeps by the river,
its slender branches dip and sway.
Each leaf mirrors the weight of time,
a story etched in shades of gray.

<four more verses with rhymes skipped>*

But if I change the prompt to write a poem that doesn't rhyme in any way I get this.

Absolutely! Here's a poem that focuses on feeling and imagery instead of rhyme:

The city rumbles beneath my feet,
a symphony of car horns and hurried steps.
Pigeons scatter, startled wings against gray stone.

A woman wrapped in scarves and memories
sits on a bench, her eyes lost in the distance.
The wind carries the sweet, greasy scent of roasted nuts.

Sunlight slices through buildings,
casting long shadows that stretch and vanish.
Even in this endless rush, a small seed of stillness sprouts.

EDIT: although GPT-4 still fails. I had previously tried a test of write a poem that doesn't include a hat (GPT-4 fails) vs write a poem that doesn't mention a hat in any way (GPT-4 succeeds). Tested just now and Gemini Advanced gives the same results as GPT-4 here for hats.
This is standard practice in all big companies. Everything is tracked and recorded. If you want to say something to a colleague that you don’t want management to know - use your personal phone and talk at a coffee shop or bar in person.
Yeah sinophobia is an easy trap to fall into. Though I would assume there is analogous sentiments on Chinese platforms.
It did really well in comparison to ChatGPT4 in my opinion, at my standard way of testing AI’s which is to quiz it about characters and plot points about the book Cryptonomicon, ha. But it still hallucinates up junk when you reach the edges of what it could learn from internet hosted plot summaries. I want an AI that has read the book, not the Cliff’s Notes!
Okay, but do they actually use any data from that? What does the privacy policy say? Have any effects been observed beyond "uses a facebook domain" (e.g. you see ads on Facebook for a site you had in preview)? Is there functional reason for using that domain?
I’m sure the same was said about Apartheid South Africa. Turned out that US support was the only think preventing South Africa from democratizing. As soon as the US dropped their support (which ironically Joe Biden argued for) the Apartheid regime fell.
Some recent related discussions on this tip:

Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control? (December)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38590080

I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla (November)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38369433
They should all be banned
Did you see the content of that domain? It might be spam/phishing protection, which can be done in a privacy-preserving way (e.g. sending only a truncated hash of the link TLD to a server and downloading a larger set of blocked domains for local filtering).

At least on my Mac, I also only see connections to the URL domain, nothing to a Facebook subdomain.
I'm unsure what quoting that to me achieves? What are your thoughts on their approach to getting donations (monthly subscriptions)?
Apple has always been litigious and petty. We just looked the other way when they were innovating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electron....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Micros....
Multiple government websites, including DHS FEMA and the Secret Service are down
Not necessarily. If the diff is in the body of the function, a lot of review tools won't even show the unchanged comment lines above it. It's easy to overlook some drift between what the comment says a function does, and what it actually does.
If the explanation doesn't mention memory positions then it is a simplification.
> If humanity stood for nothing, we'd all fall for everything.

But not everything that causes moral outrage is worthy. There are many taboos I support. The taboo against war is one of them. But witch hunts? Superstition? Being morally outraged at attempts to remove slavery? Humans are social creatures that are easily manipulated, for good or bad, by the amoral and conveniently self-serving narratives that run roughshod through our culture. These narratives and our responses to them aren't something to worship at an altar. They're something to side-eye with skepticism. Cherish the ones that are useful, and reject the ones that aren't.
i'm not quite sure what he meant by the fireflies, but i did comment a bit on work (largely led by kay) on, in a significant sense, continuing engelbart's efforts, and on interesting new areas to explore https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618408 and on interesting new things in formal methods in particular: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39622073
Is it not possible (yet) to return them to the surface in a controlled manner via a SpaceX capsule of some kind? (Or just not seen as worth the expense?)
It was a popular game show in the Netherlands. Loved watching it as a kid.
It turns out that SNES DOOM missed out on a big optimization that people figured out later on. If you use the SNES's Mosaic feature combined with scrolling tricks, you can nearly double the fill rate. Rather than outputting two pixels, you let the SNES's mosaic hardware do the pixel doubling.
Why would this be automatically scary? Why is it automatically a digital black hole? I've started spending more time using GPT4, easily to the tune of a few hours/week, and that usage replaces:

- Digging through Google search results

- Scouring Reddit threads

- Going down accidental rabbit holes based on search results that are unrelated to what I'm looking for but nonetheless catch my eye

- Similar rabbit holes on YouTube

- Searching the documentation of various projects/libraries

I've started using these tools more because I can be more focused and productive. I realize that not all use cases resemble mine, but I can think of a lot of non-scary reasons to be spending more time with these tools.

And when compared with the digital black holes that most people are already spending significant time on, or historical TV viewing numbers, this doesn't seem that worrisome at all.
I like the, "if you slice, your sister gets to pick first" energy.
I use Google Keep for online stuff. For real life, I have a bunch of boxes that take up a shelf in my home office. Pretty simple, nothing too fancy.
Who’s using terminal emulators and text editors in their browser?

Actually, don’t answer that. I’m afraid of the answer.
I use Firefox, uBlock Origin and the annoyances filters. The internet feels just as smooth.

I visited the US and it took me a few months to stop receiving spam from businesses I interacted with. There were ads at the petrol pumps and in the bathrooms and basically everywhere else. There was little concept of consent wrt advertising and data collection, something I've come to take for granted.

It wasn't as bad as I make it, but it shows how our priorities might differ.
OP: This is a meaningful rabbit hole to explore.

The rate of journalists murdered in Gaza is much higher than other similar situations.

The Geneva convention requires citizens and journalists to not be targeted. [1]

Human Rights Watch [2] and Amnesty International [3] are reporting journalists are actively being targeted. Today, someone's phone can be tracked to target them.

The LA Times also had a piece outlining the journalists experiences [4]

[1] https://safety.rsf.org/appendix-i-protection-of-journalists-...

[2] https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israeli-strikes-on-journa...

[3] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/12/lebanon-deadl...

[4] https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-12-21/gaza-journa...
I am wondering if DMA forces Signal to also be less hostile to third party clients. It's not like they have been open to it up to now.
Ah, maybe they should downplay the severity to make it more palatable.
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It took me a while to understand that "not being into politics" or "a political" is still a form of politics.

Also, there is very little politics practiced without technology, so it can be harder to make it inextricable.
That the first thing it says on every download page is a push to sign up for a monthly subscription. Then it continues with a push to refer friends to do the same.

From some testing there seems to be a built in delay, and then as some scanned books can easily be 20-100MB a download time of 5-10mins isn't uncommon. (I not complaining about this)

I support their goals of open access, FWIW.

edit: the call for people to run mirrors is interesting to see: https://annas-archive.org/mirrors
Happening during the US State of Union address I can't imagine being a coincidence.
If anything is going to unite two groups of people who are “naturally” on opposite sides of a political spectrum, it’s going to be stopping treasonous activities.

I airquote naturally because it’s
obvious that foreign interference is at play, based on the laissez-faire attitude towards this sort of thing by some groups.
After takeoff it’s just useless extra weight - why not jettison it?

Just like disabling debug messages in production releases. ;)
The only such capsules available are already being used to return astronauts. There isn't enough spare capacity for returning much else -- and certainly not 2.6 metric tons of batteries.
Not in a free society, they shouldn't. And the US has, at least for the moment, a semblance of a free society.
I've had the same experience. Crows work with scrub jays to get rid of hawks and housecats for the benefit of other animals.
>[...]this is a deliberate act of aggression by Apple [...]

>There’s no other way than to interpret this, and the preceding actions by Apple, as a temper tantrum of malicious compliance [...]

While it's pretty clear that most people here would have liked it if Apple rolled out third party app stores to everyone and were hoping that EU regulations would extend to non-EU users (like with USB-C charging port standard), the reality of the situation is that EU jurisdiction ends at EU borders. Apple is complying with the laws exactly, and characterizing it as "aggression" or "temper tantrum" is closer to name calling than any sort of cogent argument. Chinese regulations require Apple to store iCloud data in Chinese data centers. Apple complies with this for only Chinese users. Should this also be characterized as "aggression" or "temper tantrum"? What's the difference between these two cases beyond "I like third party app stores" and "I hate my data stored in the hands of an authoritarian regime"?
Sorry I should have mentioned that in the post. I’m in the UK, so National Health Service.
But then you need to click

Also you can get the extension loaded locally, and it will never update
What does any of that have to do with making sure input fields are pasteable?
The best transfer station I’ve seen was when visiting Taipei.

They used large diameter boring machines for some of the lines, which allowed for putting opposite directions on top of each other, rather than the standard next to each other configuration.

So at a junction, you would have four tracks inside of one tube, and the other line be right across when the train stops. Now they sync the two different lines to always arrive simultaneously. Thus a transfer is you go out of one train, and right there, across is your connecting train.

I’m not sure how much the whole thing cost to implement and maintain, but I do think it was all worth it. It allowed them to have really accurate and fast travel times across all the lines connected this way.
Related - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Quake_-_family_tree.svg
This would be illegal, even at a low power.
Anything else of value with exclusivity like an additional catalog or early-access would go against their stated goal.

So, I guess this is similar to buying official physical merchandise like t-shirt or mug at a higher than market price which they cannot ship (legally) due to the nature of their service. Both parties know that the benefit they get doesn't match the costs and it is about showing support.
> Running a site for others to download movies doesn't bother me.

> being a snake to go defraud a company to steal the hard work of others so your own illicit company can turn a profit off said labor by others irks me.

I'm sorry, I really don't understand this. What part of the second statement doesn't apply to the first?
I read your reply a while ago, but still can't wrap my head around "t feels like I am somehow less than myself if I don't remember them.". I forgot many things, and it's quite ok with me, so I'm trying to understand your view.

Are you trying to remember everything all of the time? Including all of the new memories?

Suppose you are able to record calls and face-to-face interactions. Are you going to spend hours of your life re-watching or fast-forwarding through mundane everyday things?
I thought most of the reasons - not being welcomed to modifying git - were known already for someone who went looking, but seeing the quotes from ex facebookers is interesting.

I’d be more interested in why facebook ditched mercurial for their own. Once they left more and more notable projects left, though for more than that as reason. The mercurial project is still under development but it feels like a ghost town. It’s a shame as I much prefer mercurial to git but it’s difficult to choose as an option when the integrations and tooling is lacking, and new tool development is less likely to integrate with mercurial when it has so little resources behind it.
Some of these are up for me: secret service, dhs
iOS isn't even the #1 mobile operating system in the EU. Even in countries where it's the majority, it caps out at around 60%. Characterizing that as a "monopoly" is absurd.
Yes there is indeed a reason to fine-tune. The linked lora will make the model even less likely to refuse than otherwise. Mistral might be willing to do erotica sometimes, but it's often still trying to be "ethical" and not do "immoral" things.
https://fireballs.imo.net/members/imo_view/browse_reports/

There are two reports from Thailand at around that date
I stand corrected, as stated my claim about charity OOM was wrong. Still, I don’t think I need to update much.

Because:

> So, offer a return on investment

This is precisely what they did; Microsoft’s investment is an extremely funky capped profit structure. They did it this way to minimize their cost of capital.

I’m not really clear what your concrete proposal is for raising $10b as a non-profit, perhaps you could flesh that out?

If you’re talking about financing a potentially decade- long project on tens of billions of dollars of pure debt, again that is… not a feasible structure.
I am a heavy technology user, and I don’t care about alternative app stores. Your everyday user cares even less.
At a more general level you can use a keyboard remapping app like Keyboard Maestro on a Mac and Autohotkey on Windows to insert text by simulated typing, though it has the downside of requiring a different shortcut
The thing is too: Gitlab and GitHub CI are still kind of crap unless you put a bunch of work into them (gitlab in particular really don't what they're doing; they're not dumb but they aren't good enough).

Sell a workflow, not a prison.
> Do we get to look at your personal journals, browser history and hidden photo gallery once you kick the bucket?

It's not up to me as I'll be dead.

We should keep in mind that our wishes may or may not be respected and plan accordingly. Get rid of journals that can't be read by anyone else, set your browser to forget its history, encrypt the hidden photo gallery.
Yes! I was waiting for someone to mention this :-)
Weird that such a 'techy' mag was created by a dentist...
I don't personally have this desire, so I haven't thought much about it.

I guess for online stuff make sure all means of access are behind passwords that will be lost when you die.

For physical property, seems like a hard problem unless you booby trap your stuff, which is illegal and inconsiderate -- not to mention that it will likely accelerate your own demise.
Thanks for sharing!

How does Manta compare to the free and open source https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litescope?
Sometimes it's more profitable to refuse to give people something that they'd pay for. I'd put money on things like Oculus being used to paste ads all over comforting landscapes instead of eliminating ads. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually using Oculus devices to modify or remove ads ends up being explicitly against the ToS, and being caught risks bricking your device and getting you banned from all Meta owned platforms
As someone who has worked at companies, it sure as fuck is not. Unless you are a very valuable company or you make money with data/software, ain't nobody got time for that.
Didn't know about this. Very interesting. Thanks.
Just like the better-known sequels to Jak and Daxter!
A great read except you elevated a tablet keyboard miskey/typo into intentionality. Having worked in a marine biology lab with reagents long ago, I know the difference between Analar products in a jar and their name as chemical substances.

Maybe a little charity?

I do not, and never have thought cyanide is a brand name.
My first thought was that if they are smart enough to trade for food, they're also smart enough not to.
That always ended well for all organizations that went head to head against governments…
When reading a book, I don't do anything special, but I frequently stop and think about what I've just read. It's not something I do by a command, either: it's just that a good book engages my attention, and then I kind of "chew" on it.

Unlike others here, I never take notes, and rarely do suggested exercises. But I read and think through examples; and as to exercises, I do think of "how I would approach it" and "what is that the author wants me to learn from this exercise".
Stealing focus should be a misdemeanor! unfortunately it's a pervasive UI flaw
Byte was pretty good..but oddly seemed much less 'techy' then DDJ...

But Chaos Manor/Jerry Pournelle was always fun.
That's really interesting. Even if you specifically tell it to "write non-rhyming, free verse, iambic pentameter prose", it absolutely cannot generate appropriate output.
More like the fact that EU's reach isn't global, contrary to what many people here would like to be the case.
The European Commission’s own website uses cookie consent banners. It seems disingenuous to call every single cookie banner malicious compliance when even the EU’s own committees are so confused by the law that they feel they need to use one too. The law is poorly written.

https://commission.europa.eu/index_en
Yup, I remember watching a video about how the RAM bus is the bottleneck when running Super Mario 64 on the N64. The original implementation used trig lookup tables, but the person optimized it by instead using Taylor series (I think) and some negation / shifting.
It's an interesting point, and it comes down to 2 questions: (A) what is considered "product placement," and (B) who regulates it (at least in the US, where I am)?.

tl;dr - If the placement you're imagining is anything beyond "merely showing products or brands in third-party entertainment content,"[1] the FTC would not consider that to be "product placement," and it would be subject to their normal online advertising policies.

---

Let's start with question B: who regulates it? In the US, the 2 relevant regulatory agencies are the FCC and the FTC. The FCC regulates disclosure of sponsorships[0] in traditional broadcast (TV and radio). That's why TV broadcasters need to include "promotional consideration provided by"-type messages in the credits - the FCC's rule is basically "the viewer should be told who is paying for this."

The FTC, which regulates online advertisements, does not require disclosure for product placement. However, they have a very narrow definition of the term, which it describes as "merely showing products or brands in third-party entertainment content" [1] (there's our definition for question A).

[0] https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/sponsorship-identificat...

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/ftcs-endorse...
How would you solve for this?
If you write an example in Rust for example, the Rust test subsystem will assume (unless you explicitly say otherwise) that your example should work, so, it gets the same treatment as any other tests. After all, an example which doesn't work is trash.

But yes, generally the text you write in a comment isn't contemplated by the compiler.
same here, only FEMA's is down
Why divert to LAX instead of going back to SFO? Is it just a scheduling thing, e.g., it would take longer to get a replacement plane to continue the flight from SFO than it would to fly to LAX and get a replacement there?
https://pagefind.app/ static site search
You talk of Palestinians as if they have no agency.

Let me ask you this. Were Catholics in Northern Ireland brainwashed to hate the English? Or is it simply more plausible that living under occupation where the rulers of your state seem to not recognize your existence naturally develop hatred towards their occupiers.

And then, who do you consider your occupier is also a subjective matter. Surely many militant Sinn Féin members felt all English were guilty for the occupation, and wanted all Protestants of their lands. Similarly I have no doubt many Hamas members feel the same. But I’m equally sure much more Irish Catholics had much more complex feelings. Most probably made distinctions between involvements of the military, parliament, civilians, etc. and wanted some mix of control over their own affairs, equal rights, police reform, the British military off their lands, etc.

I actually don’t believe your simple narrative. The feelings Palestinians have of Israelis are equally complex as the feeling Irish Catholics had over the English. Nobody has been brainwashed (and frankly it is a bit racist to claim that) but rather have developed their own feelings with full agency.
fair enough, perhaps my interpretation was biased by its close juxtaposition with other common chemistry misconceptions
Exactly. They’re following the DMA to a T and because people don’t like that fact, all kinds of loaded language is used to describe the mere act of complying with a law.

They might as well call Apple petty for not throwing in an iPhone with the purchase of a MacBook.
I’ve tried all of the above and Minecraft keeps coming up.

I think the engagement numbers are tracked per user, and that’s what they recommend off of. Data outside the scope of the listed user history.

It’s insanity. And infuriating.

I want a diverse set of recommendations, not another 1,000 Minecraft videos.
You have to be able to land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d6DsjIBzJ4
This is also why you can't change the volume or start a screensaver while a drop down is open.
Yea. Some are about smart enough to show the name of the method even if it’s out of view, I wish they could expand to include header comments.
You buy a car but now you move your TV in it. The car manufacturer prohibits you because you didn't buy their truck and sues you for it. This cannot be allowed to become the norm.