skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is indeed. It turns out that the classical ‘supply and demand’ relationship only makes sense in fairly restricted settings. When it comes to consumer products like entertainment, it’s far more about psychology than rational value estimation and calculation.

If your product isn’t selling, (paradoxical though it may sound) raising the price can be a much better idea than lowering it and potentially both tarnishing your brand and making less profit at the same time.

And this is without even considering the notion of Veblen goods, which is an even more extreme example.
This is the country that brought you

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate/Grand_Order
I am not a lawyer but I'm pretty certain you are supposed to refrain from any "work" activity. So yes, you have broken the law.

I can also tell you nobody abides by this interpretation and it's virtually impossible to enforce. But your entry will be denied if you tell the immigration officer that you're going to be doing "work" that is not permissible under the specifics of the visa you're entering with. There are some other situations that are covered by a normal business visa and are work-like.
Go search for something on your phone. There's a bar with "Siri Suggestions" right up top showing apps you should install (exactly the same as this Windows screenshot).

Open any first-party app on the OS (News, Stocks, Maps, Books, Fitness, Wallet and more) and every surface has ads.

Go to the App Store and search for something. The top results are always ads. Go to an app page and you will see more suggested apps at the bottom. Most of the store is sponsored content.

I have yet to go a few weeks without getting an unsolicited push notification asking me to subscribe to Apple Music, Apple One, Apple TV, Apple News, Fitness+, iCloud.

The freaking settings app has ads for Apple services.

The two companies are the same, the only real difference being that Apple users have blinders on.
RE: 4, NPR seems to do OK, same with the BBC.

You're choosing to implement all of these terrible things by continuing your employment, so you "not wanting them" is kind of moot. Find a different job if you genuinely don't agree with what you're building. I'm a firm believer that companies would stop doing this kind of crap if we, collectively as tech workers (even better as a union!), stopped implementing it.
Yeah, that's literally useless. Actually support your claims, or be ignored.
What about their knowledge panels? Site owners would like the links without the information being summarized as the top result.
Even if the new Snapdragon X Elite were a generation ahead of Apple's M3, I still wouldn't buy a Windows laptop because of shenanigans like this. I bought into the hype with the original Surface Book (mine is completely unusable due to hardware defects with the hinge).
Sounds like it’s working by design. Each one pays into social security for 3 years with no chances of ever drawing from it
That does sound like a pain. I don't inherently hate moving comments to the side, the narrowness actually makes some sense for that and it's a cleaner way to read comments along with the video playing, but things like moving video detail dropdowns from being below the video to hidden in the side as well are a bit much.
It might be how I use my phone. I don’t install many apps, don’t use the weird search shit, and generally just use it for communication and navigation.
> Are the modified Pokemon being used in competitions?

Even if they were, the penalty should be limited to being banned from future competitions, not prison.
“Facts are not copyrightable”

Does anyone have any good pages on that which go into how to extract facts without copyright infringement? And for purposes of creating independent, educational works from those facts?
So the uBlock Origin rule to turn it off looks like this:

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.kevlar_watch_grid, false)

I imagine if you change that `false` to `true`, that should work.
Agree, personally though $agency isn’t part of my threat model while my ISP most certainly is. I would even pay a premium if they offered similar privacy controls as a VPN, but they’d be publicly admitting to shenanigans that most of their customers are blissfully ignorant of!
It's hard to tell from the screenshots but is the border radius really any different than the current/previous design already had it? Looks about identical comparing my current view.
> the man apparently is an Apple accountant

Formerly, it seems.
I hadn’t heard of this, but it’s amazing. If nothing else, the computer puns for the track titles gave me a chuckle.
Anything video.

No matter how hard you try to avoid it, some asshole will always post any video you make to YouTube immediately and probably try to monetize it.

Given how much money Google collects for YouTube, they should get fined through the roof when they allow somebody to upload something they don't have the rights to.

The porn companies showed that you solve this technically. However, Google will fight this to the very end.
I'm close to that if I come into the city for a customer visit at the briefing center. I'm salaried so I'm not sure what "on the clock" means in that context. But I don't do it frequently so it's not my favorite thing but it's manageable.
> I'm not really sure what empathy has to do with this?

https://youtu.be/rjA5A86V6SY

> Who did this?

"I can't shake away the feeling that human uniqueness is being eroded and that we risk facing a crisis of meaning"

In the original post.
Please, don't stop being mad. We need people to stay mad about this!
Clearly you have a formula that works. But I was merely commenting that I wish your comment was more helpful, because you clearly have wisdom to share.

Between the two comments of yours that I’ve replied to, you used the first-person “I/me/mine” 39 times. Take that for what you will.

If you were to go back in time to a younger version of yourself, what advice might you have offered about life?
Lovely! I rely on StartAllBack to make my Windows 11 work machine actually useful. At least renaming the executable works for now. Microsoft seems hellbent on making their products worse and worse. I guess this is more incentive for me to get a new job not working in a Windows shop.
It's literally anything that doesn't fit the narrow description in the business visa. A random example is if you own a house in the US, and you do any maintenance work on your own house, that is work.

From the US web site

participating in business activities of a commercial or professional nature in the United States, including, but not limited to:

Consulting with business associates
Traveling for a scientific, educational, professional or business convention, or a conference on specific dates
Settling an estate
Negotiating a contract
Participating in short-term training
Transiting through the United States: certain persons may transit the United States with a B-1 visa
Deadheading: certain air crewmen may enter the United States as deadhead crew with a B-1 visa
I mean it isn't a coincidence. But this framing is pretty negative.

These apps broke and started crashing because they were updating the start menu. Probably related to the addition of ads.

Then they blocked these versions because they were crashing.

It doesn't seem like they are making any effort to block versions that don't cause crashes. (Other than maybe making it a bit harder to keep updating to new internal APIs)

It really doesn't seem like they are purposely breaking these tools so that more people see the ads. It is probably such a tiny market that they don't care at this point. They'll definitely ship the ads to 99.9% of users first before they worry about this unaddressed market.
I don't use the start menu on my Windows box either.
Good related article on the dangers of TikTok: https://www.gurwinder.blog/p/tiktok-may-be-a-chinese-bio-wea...
How is Wayback Machine not a wonder? Crowdsourced archive that's also behind Open Library and Archive-It.

Also comes to mind: Waze, 123movies, and now that I think about it - why not Google or Hugging Face (Ollama, etc.)?
The enterprise versions usually aren't affected by things like these.
He says, as design engineers across the world feel a shiver run down their collective spine.
There have been ads in the start menu for nearly a decade…
It's unbelievable that whoever runs Windows seems to be diametrically opposed to the rest of the company. It's a decent operating system apparently ran by bean counters.
> If anything, I'd say getting a formal education beyond high school is probably the most worthless thing I've ever done in my life to advance my career.

Thus, it begs the question - why did you pursue 5 master’s degrees? Was anything you learned worthwhile to your life? If not, why did you pursue them?
Good luck on their testing.

I just swapped to a MacBook for $job and my last Windows 10 VM will be gone as soon as I finish migrating from Lightroom to DigiKam, maybe in a week or two. Everything else has been moved to Fedora Kinoite, including the kids gaming computer and the wife's workstation.
This is a nice illustration of the effects of different choices for storage layout and use of compute. ClickHouse blows away single-threaded queries on row-based data for analytic questions. On the other hand PostgreSQL can offer far higher throughput and concurrency when updating a shopping cart.
Congrats. The game is pretty!
All the more reason to wipe the os and install linux
EVs are lowering Bay Area's carbon footprint
What is meant by "twink server"?

I looked up the definition of twink..

*> (among gay men) a gay or bisexual young man with a slim build and youthful appearance.

It's not clear to me how this translates to wow speak..
Disagree. Some things are just easier to get right than inheritance.
Honestly, no it doesn’t. Google pays creators a pittance and their practices around copyright and monetization are beyond exploitative.

Most creators make their money from sponsorships and stealth marketing, product placements etc, or regular marketing because they might have an actual paid service to offer.
Courtesy of Jobs and Ive, I actually think Apple has pretty bad taste. When Microsoft does hardware, it's usually quite nice and unique.
From the linked article:

>In the News and Stocks apps, the display ads are no different than what you might get on an ad-supported website (see above). [...]

>On the App Store, display ads are currently shown in the search tab in the Suggested panel. Apple will also soon expand ads to the main Today tab and within third-party app download pages. Search ads in the App Store are a bit different: Developers can pay to have their app featured in results when a user searches terms like “car racing” or “basketball,” for instance.
What is the best opinionated, minimal, happy-path-only, official-feeling landing page for Linux? A quick search right now didn't bring up anything I could endorse to a normie.
I cannot help but be reminded of the fact that DuckDuckGo also conspicuously does not mention that their founder has previously created a personal information gathering service and sold it, along with all of the personal information.

Twice is a coincidence; anyone have a third example?
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Play chess against a GPT AI model.

- Get live feedback on the moves you make.

- Get justification for the moves the AI makes.

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Free users can make 5 moves every 24 hours.

Paid subscribers can make unlimited moves, undo moves, and get access to a more advanced GPT AI model with faster response times.
Making an open source tool for easy hacking would be a good middle finger to the nintendo police.
My co-workers now do remote standup, travel to the office to get in around 10:30, and leave at 3 to make it home for 4 and log out at 5. So much more efficient than just... staying home and working the entire day.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40019358

The search menu, all first party apps, app store, push notifications, even the settings pages all have ads, and the ad surface has been increasing with every update. The exact ad in this screenshot has been on iOS for many years. People who fail to acknowledge it or move the goal posts are heavily drinking the kool aid.
Same here, also got a TN because the questioning becomes very uncomfortable as both sides of the conversation usually are not stupid. Some friends in a similar situation were turned around at the border which can also lead to getting barred from ever entering the US again.
This can be made much more efficient if you just take all of the applications and throw half of them away.

This will ensure that all the remaining applicants are luckier than the average applicant.
You know, Apple isn’t a company that I love, and I have reasons to actively hate them, but it would be immensely surprising if they trying to pull this shit.

I haven’t used Windows in any serious capacity in about 15 years, swapping between macOS and Linux every couple years, and I am glad to not have any of my workflow based around Windows now, because I don’t want ads to be blasted in my face.

Once my current Mac breaks, I am probably going to go back to Nixos, but never Windows.

Edit:

Appears I was wrong. I have never noticed the ads but people are pointing out they are plastered around a lot, at least in some capacity. I don’t like that either. Maybe I should move over to Linux sooner than I thought, at least on my laptop.
LOL

"Yes we love the ads" said no user ever.

If they had any intention of listening to user feedback they never would have started this project because the feedback is obviously going to be negative.

At the very "best" they will cherry-pick a few metrics that show that it is a "popular addition".
that's in content, not in a system or app menu. totally different.
And/or introduce non-Windows platforms into the place for any reason you can get away with. :)
As a byproduct of other efforts, not on purpose.
Any windows user that doesn't need Photoshop or Word and has a load of regular spare time to troubleshoot rabdom problems.
Did they find a way around the stupendously slow build times for Golang GUIs? Last time I tried is was maddeningly slow.. like minutes to see any incremental change.
I don't know... at $10, I almost certainly would have just passed. At $3 I decided to buy it, and then when I saw the source for a couple of bucks more I bought that too.
> It doesn't seem like they are making any effort to block versions that don't cause crashes.

See the Tweet I linked, Windows does have a mechanism to only block a specific range of version numbers that are known to cause issues, and they have used that on StartIsBack/StartAllBack before, but the most recent Windows build simply blocks StartAllBack*.exe without any bounds on the version.

The developer can get around the block by changing the filenames of course but that's not really the point, if Microsoft is being actively hostile towards this kind of customisation now then they're just going to keep breaking it on purpose.
2 trillion dollar company doesn’t need your $9.99 a month
Something I’ve noticed is that web developers generally have no idea about the performance of different operations even to the nearest three orders of magnitude. Errors of six to ten orders of magnitude are common.

Similarly, obtaining useful metrics is absurdly difficult. Artificial load tests for example tend to be too repetitive and hence are too easily cached compared to real user workloads.

I just watched a developer tuning a query over a 100 GB database but he had the query tool open in an IDE on his laptop… which meant he was benchmarking his home internet and the corporate VPN more than the query!
FYI: Meta is de-facto insisting on RTO and not offering a remote option for new employees.

This trend has nothing to do with productivity and is all about the egos of control-freak managers "maintaining control" over employees in a way that wastes employees' time and money and harms the company's reputation.
https://www.google.com/chromebook/chrome-os/
It’s jargon in World of Warcraft for characters that level up to a certain point below the max level, and then acquire all the best gear available at that level.
Typically twinks are a lot more powerful than other characters at the same level.
Okay, but why should not a panel be just an ordinary window without the "decorations" (close/minimize buttons etc) of a separate ordinary app? You know, the first time the idea of the panel disturbed me in a negative way was in Windows 98 where the panel (the taskbar) would often remain visible in some quirky way during (some rare times even after) the moment the display switches to a full-screen graphics mode when I launch the game.
I agree but the Japanese legal system is very weird. It seems like pokemon is very a lucrative business and a tough sentencing is probably only as an example to deter future violations.
The article calls them ads but in the linked blog post Microsoft only calls them "recommended apps". Pretty big difference between the two. Every OS does app recommendations. Go to the search bar on your iPhone and you'll see recommendations there as well.
I just did an arbitrary search on youtube for 'xcom' and I can see exactly four items, four on my full height window. If this is 'good design' I want no part of it.
> they never would have started this project

Most likely human who started the project:

Parakhin is leaving his current position and “has decided to explore new roles” according to a Microsoft internal memo obtained by The Verge. He will report to Kevin Scott, the previous face of Microsoft’s AI efforts, during a transition phase. But it sounds like Parakhin will be leaving Microsoft soon.
Do you have a local electronics shop nearby, or maybe a makerspace with some electronics enthusiast members?

Asking because there might be reasonable options for getting it functional again without too much hassle. :)
That avoids duplication at the cost of an extra network request. The browser has to make a full network round trip to download the html page, find your link element, and then make another network round trip to fetch the linked css file.
Also in the Apple Tv app. It suggests movies/shows to view next that require a purchase.
I'd eat my shoe if the dude wasn't just using exactly that https://github.com/kwsch/PKHeX
>Objectively, vacation days have declined

Source?

>We're doing the same work and getting less for it.

If you're talking about absolute amounts, this is directly contradicted by the BLS data.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
That adds an additional network request.
Steve Jobs would have started Next2 by now
Some hybrid workplaces specify which days you need to attend
uh what? the average news site is hacked together by a motley crew of non-programmer marketing interns who apply every possible bloated inefficient awful ad/tracking/targeting/react/javascript spawn of satan into their site as possible, all written by the worst programmers in the world

none of this is to "appease google". it's malicious incompetence, malaise, and cynical stupidity.
Sounds like a "difference" that needs testing in court. :)
Old saying

If you pay for it you are the customer. If free, you are the product being sold.

New saying
Pay up and don't complain about the ads.
Yeah, it feels like conspiracy thinking to me.
This is interesting. Would love to see some examples of this.
> was meant as replacement for one that Google had no control over

That sounds like pure speculation. From what I've actually heard, it was meant to enable targeted advertising without exposing PII, because Google has a vested interest in both protecting user privacy and selling ads (because they suffer from eroding user trust).
To me this seems a particularly beautiful concept. I feel sad it is abandoned (I am one of the people who always used, if not ab-used, X over SSH).
>"The problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste."

Says nanny. Sorry Steve. I need computer / OS combo to serve my needs. Not to admire. In my opinion with all their flaws Windows fares better and is more versatile for what I do. And Linux runs my business.
We're doing this again???

This post should have more replies, most of which would be cynical because we've had it with virus scares. They've been doing it for all of our lives until they finally got what they wanted in 2020. Fool me once...
Really ? I didn't use Go much but it had by far the shortest compile time of any language I ever used.
Yes, and everything is super context dependent. The optimizations one would apply to say, a search engine, versus a web mail interface, are quite distinct.
Some other posters are claiming Vlad is combative. He’s not, he’s just direct. I’ve given feedback on Kagi/orion and Vlad just asks for clarity pretty directly.

American culture and customer support likes to blow smoke up your ass while saying no. Other cultures and Vlad don’t do that.
The same as everything else. Green cards and visas are largely independent and one does not depend on the other.
The user is reported to be blocked on GitLab.
And whose Twitter page seems to exhibit unusual loading issue: HTTP 404 of certain sub-requests.
If things are improved for the user with a redesign, then it won’t get pushback.

If things are redesigned in an attempt to influence user behavior, then they aren’t primarily UI redesigns at all, they are engagement redesigns, and will generally be received poorly.

Opinion about UX changes will depend on who benefits from the changes. It is rarely the user who benefits anymore. That’s all that changed. UX people are not there to improve the experience for users; they are there to design ways to trick users into giving a website the secondary commodity all large companies want after money: attention. Companies are attention farms, now. Attention farms with stockholders.
Maybe the Kubuntu site?

It seems targetted towards users in the right kind of way: https://kubuntu.org/feature-tour/
If taxes and CoL end up being more than 20% less, then it can be profitable to move.
I don't measure my justification of subscriptions from the company's value; I measure it in value to me. We've really stretched the envelope of this virtue, to the point where 3 ads before a video and ad-priority UIs are becoming more and more prevalent AND justified - because people using free services for 6 hours a day can't understand that they should probably pay for the obvious value it's bringing them on a day-to-day basis.
I'm not entirely comfortable with a security device streaming telemetry to a third party. The kind of metrics that you're thinking of have historically been made available on management interfaces via SNMP OIDs assigned to the manufacturer.

Personally I'd much prefer to poll the device myself and keep those metrics in-house. This may seem like an antiquated way of managing network devices, but SNMP is a well understood, interoperable, standards-based protocol without vendor lock-in.

Futhermore, as we've seen, features like these expose a larger attack surface on the device. My primary worry would have been around it being used somehow in a data exfiltration scheme, but a root-level compromise of the device is the worst possible outcome.
State encryption won't solve this problem, it will simply move the key management problem further down the stack. I.e. to the users who are least equipped to deal with it.

The problem is storing anything sensitive at all in terraform. Terraform is terrible for secrets.
Yeah, it's the best ..until you try to build a native executable GUI, then it's slower than cold tar. Blasphemous.. because how TF did Win95 + Delphi work so gosh darn well on 0.01% as many resources, and then we got to here? :D

Literally.. the machine has 40 fast cores and 384GB of very fast memory. Wow, just.. kind of nauseating. It could be a case study, I'm sure, because this exceeds even the compiler bloat of Electron.
Replace “owned product” with “movie” and you see the problem that would require a total copyright restructuring.