skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4chan has been calling things "slop" for literally so long I can't remember when it started. If you go to /g/ literally right now, ctrl F slop, 4 hits just on the front page previews.

If anything, it originally started as calling things "goyslop", which you might be able to deduce is a portmanteau of "goyim" and "slop", the implication (given it's 4chan) of course being that it's low-quality stuff made by Jews that is foisted upon the "goyim" (non-Jews). To the point that I usually see people calling it "AIslop"... specifically to differentiate it from "goyslop", so pervasive is the use of the term.

I'm honestly surprised "slop" (in this specific context) is hitting the mainstream (apparently) given it's so closely married to anti-Semitic undertones. I assume it's kind of like Pepe? People see the cute frog or the edgy designation of things as "slop" not knowing that's kind of a minced version of how it's actually used on 4chan.
Feels like this is going to become one of those things we look back on in retrospect and regret. We should be full steam ahead on identifying what effects microplastics & phthalates more broadly are having on our health & adjust accordingly. Early indications seem... not great.
That's a lot of projection going on. It's deeply unethical to squander economic resources on your vanity. The elephant in the room is that your employees are not starving Africans who deserve charity far more. Your actions cause the death of starving children who would have otherwise been fed if you had not overpaid your rich employees so you can feel good about yourself. You're a bad person.

And no I'm not in crypto. I've been saying it has no lawful utility so voluminously that mods have asked me to stop trolling crypto people. So we can establish your assumptions and fundamental intuition and instincts are very inaccurate. You have a broken compass and it has caused you to become disconnected from first principles of microeconomics.

What is your company name and who are the unlucky shareholders you're victimizing?

Last, I hope you can learn the difference between kindness and niceness. The former is legitimate while the latter is what you do - a manipulative social strategy, often employed by predators with subclinical psychopathology, to ingratiate yourself to others in leu of merit.
It's more of a regulatory problem, under a certain light.
I've been using Bitwarden for a few years. It seems to do everything I need, and is cross-platform.

I have a soft spot in my heart for `pass` (http://www.passwordstore.org/), but it's a pain to access it from my phone.
I've had a bug where unpausing a particular app requires doing so 2+ times before I can access the app. The bug has persisted on multiple devices for multiple years and it makes for a pretty clunky user experience. That's one example that comes to mind for me.
So in the scientists' case it's a "career", but in Elsevier's case it's money and greed? Are those scientists being paid? If so, I would submit that it's just as much about money and greed for them too.

BTW many of the scientists are better paid than the editors and proofreaders in academic publishing. But, hey, this thread is all about hating on Elsevier so what am I saying?
My wife (Cynthia F. Kurtz) wrote a non-mathematical book on complexity a couple years ago: "Confluence: Tools for Thinking about How Organized Plans and Self-organized Patterns Flow Together"
https://www.cfkurtz.com/confluence/

The blurb: "A path winds its way through a forest. Why does it go the way it goes? Did someone design it? Or was the path made smooth by feet that chose the smoothest path? Maybe some of both? Confluence examines the many ways in which organized, intentional plans (like paths we design) and self-organized, unintentional patterns (like paths that emerge where we walk) intermingle (happen at the same time and place) and interact (influence each other). The book lays out seven “thinking spaces” (like this one) that explore various aspects of the structures and relationships that flow together in our lives."
Ah yes, the well known phenomenon that reality comfortingly aligns with our exact political opinions and not that of those pesky idiots on the other side of the aisle. Totally rational and bound to be true.
The problem is that sometimes slop looks like content from a far enough distance. And to the untrained eye, it is indistinguishable from real content. For example, a Kafka tutorial could start with pages about other irrelevant technology before getting to the real material. But you wouldn't know which content is useless at first.
I can't see why it wouldn't be worth the effort to assemble a suite of companies with millions in ARR. It might not be funding-AirBnB-level profitable, but there's plenty of money in it, and your hit rate would be far higher.

Structure it as something akin to an accelerator, pitch it as the way to run a company with less risk and less of the wild existential uncertainty of being a traditional founder, take a big chunk of equity to compensate for the idea being prefab and maybe give a payout to the pivoting company as a pseudo-fire-sale acquisition (which also funds their pivot), take on some employees who liked the pre-pivot thing and set them up with your Very Talented Founders(TM), and go to town.

This should exist. The more I think about it the more I think it's an excellent idea.

> Aside: good luck with Otherbranch. TripleByte was a critical part of my own career journey in 2018/2019, so I’m keen to see how it goes this time around. My complaints about TB were basically that it was too focused on SF Bay Area (I get it…)

Thanks! Hopefully the Bay Area thing might be less of an issue for us, because (a) we're recruiting specifically for individual roles (so we're not burning a bunch of cash if we get a good candidate where we can't place them yet) and (b) tech has definitely dispersed from the Bay over the last few years, even if not completely. I'd love to work with some of the Sun Belt startup scene.
I think they merged, or cinemax was acquired more likely. The brand change was likely related and could be considered failed on the basis that people still haven't realized it.
Vision Pro isn't really designed to be a VR device first and foremost. The primary usecase is the passthrough mode whereas VR usually describes the software putting you in a different place.
Having actually spent a while pulling down & compiling dependencies & gamescope, on an AMD rx580, no, I could not boot to gamescope. Very unclear to me why it wouldn't start, wasn't leaving much for logs, but it wasn't starting in embedded/direct launch mode. (I really wanted to try Cyberpunk 2078 in HDR mode, which conventional Wayland desktops cannot do yet.)

That said there are some much more polished attempts that should just work if you're willing to boot a purpose built os. I intend at some point to start cribbing pieces from chiemraOS, which seems to be what many are built off of, including the very very excellent Bazzite. Their gamescope-session work in particular seems crucial, https://github.com/ChimeraOS/gamescope-session/blob/main/usr...
Yeah that's pretty much how I feel as well.
You must not have tried the "Gammelost": https://norwayathome.com/?p=319

The sweet brown "Brunost" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunost) might not be your favorite, but I doubt it haunts you in nightmares. The Gammelost though will stay pungent in your mind for years. It's been years, and I still wonder whether I was the victim of a particularly cruel practical joke.
This is the ideal. I think a happy medium -- which some companies are already working on -- is adding batteries to appliances. This allows them to charge when electricity is cheaper or provided locally (i.e. solar) and act as a buffer for outages.
This affords the brand more respect than it actually deserves.
Just to note: with the RP2040 you don't need additional hardware (debug probe) for quick iterative development, you can use picotool[1] (using -f allows you to flash and reboot without needing to get it to bootsel mode).

[1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/picotool
What interests me is the intelligence and innovation of this. You would think these bad actors would fair well doing societal good using their skills and not resort to crime.
The snoring thing has definitely happened to me, though I wouldn't say I have insomnia (I can find it difficult to get to sleep but that's probably just too much coffee and screen time). It's so weird because I can't hear the snoring at all.
BGA you need hot air and reflow but a QFN I think you can just position and solder by the side with a simple solder iron with a knife like tip.
>> Just countries do not punish mere speech with imprisonment, let alone life imprisonment.

They do. They all do. People are constantly put in prison for illegal speech. Spies have been executed for speaking classified information. People are regularly arrested and imprisoned for communicating illegal material online. Others are jailed for speaking to certain other people, especially where planning future illegal activity is itself a separate crime. And a significant number of people, even in the US, are subject to no-contact or anti-harassment orders forbidding them from certain speech. At least one former US president has been (is?) subject to a court orders how/what they can say. Freedom of speech is a right, but nobody should believe it not subject to innumerable limitations.
It was specifically the LLM stuff. Their neural engines were never designed for running LLMs. The question is if the new neural engine in the A17 Pro and M4 actually have the required features to run LLMs or not. That’s at least what I suspect.
> On the first point - I’m not sure there’s a difference to internet users between 1 billion junk articles on a topic and 1 trillion junk articles.

But there is a difference whether the ratio of good to bad articles is 1:10 or 1:10,000 one is tedious but managable, the other is hopeless.
I tried FreeBSD once, thought it was kind of fun and interesting and went back to Debian and then Ubuntu, which works well for me.

I recall the good old flame wars, but feel kind of past that myself.
You can write it in an afternoon, but it may take years to release it under Microsoft's name. Large organisations are designed for preservation of shareholder value and will take a long time to approve new software or a new feature.
SpaceX, ModelX, xAI, seems like a pattern.
(googler, opinions are my own. I work in this space).

There are 2 apps here, and their functionality varies by country. Google Wallet is more closely tied into the OS to handle tap-and-pay functionality. In the US (and most of the world), management of your cards happens within the Wallet app (this includes Mobile Drivers License, which works at TSA in airports).

Google Pay has been through a rollcoaster in the US. We had 2 versions sort of going at once for a while. The "newer" version included management of cards for tap&pay for a while, but that all got pulled into Wallet stand along.

For P2P style functionality, Google Pay in India and Singapore are much more functional/popular. But I think those are the only countries where Google Pay P2P is active.

The GPay name is also used for paying online. (using your card-on-file with Google to pay that integrates with a merchants payment processor).
I think that people often avoid this for two reasons: they don't want to give competitors free advertising, and they don't want to risk people thinking "if this new thing is like this old thing, I'll just stick with the tried-and-true old thing".

IANAL, but in the US, I am not aware of a legal downside as long as you're careful about trademarks. You can use other people's trademarks in ad copy, for instance, as long as you don't do so in a way that could cause consumer confusion (people thinking that the company whose trademark you used is in some way connected with your product.)
I have like two derelict hbo apps on my xbox at this point. Why? What was wrong with hbo go? Did market research really say max was a better word with, I’m guessing, a cohort of probably a dozen people from Burbank?
Indeed. I am hearing the Norwegian people yearn for freedom.
For anyone that is interested in the background of that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenROV#Hall_City_Cave
Keep in mind that tokens are LLM units of thought; the only moment the model does any computation is when generating tokens. Therefore, asking it to be succinct means effectively dumbing it down.
Look up any popular game, although a lot of the bigger ones are good about reporting their clones and getting them removed. An immediate example I can think of is 2048, the original by Gabriele Cirulli, is published by Solebon LLC on the Play store, when you look for 2048 using the search, it's not even the first result that comes up. Although to be fair to them, it's not the first that comes up on the apple store either.
I experienced this chronically. It was so pervasive that I would convince myself the next day that I was exhausted with only six hours of sleep. I started tracking my sleep with an Apple Watch and soon realized that, I may wake up, it’s usually for minutes and not nearly as often as I thought!
I used to have the same beliefs but the flexibility of being able to use just about any pin for any purpose really sold me on the RP2040. When I decide to add a new feature to my boards I don't have to spend an hour examining the minutiae of the data sheet to see if I can use a given pin for SPI (oops: no, I can't because I enabled alternate function 3...). It saves a TON of track routing time and simplifies boards considerably.

Once I decided to start using the RP2040 I realized the "strange" flash situation turned into a feature, not a drawback! With STM32 you pick your part and then you can order an expensive version (if it's available!) with the max RAM of say, 512Kb or you can save a few bucks and go with say, 64Kb. Either way you're paying like $2.50-4 for a single chip.

Now compare that with the super fast, dual-core RP2040 which costs $1 (yeah it's technically $0.70 in bulk) paired with a 16 FUCKING MEGABYTE SPI flash chip (W25Q128JVSIQ, basic part at JLCPCB :thumbsup:) that costs $0.60. You get a vastly more capable MCU with so much goddamned flash space you could fit a truck in there!

You can even partition that flash chip's space so that your RP2040 firmware is reserved to the say, the first 2MB (or wherever you wish!) and the rest can be used for storing stuff like settings. It eliminates the need for an EEPROM! Not to mention there's enough storage space in there to store all your settings in something absurdly inefficient like JSON and the chip is fast enough to parse it too!

Working with the RP2040 in reality is just SO NICE. Seriously, try it! You won't be disappointed.
I think people underestimate where the games market, especially the casual end, is and where it is going. I spent many years in games and oversaw various big transitions (games as live services, premium to f2p etc) and it still shocks me.

Essentially today players have their pre existing habits formed. The only cost effective way to get attention is within those habits. There are not new distribution mechanisms appearing which make this viable. I did a fairly decent Reversi web clone: https://luduxia.com/reversi/ as an experiment for all this and the results are not good.

Microsoft absolutely should not have ads etc in Minesweeper or Solitaire. For Microsoft it is just milking that preexisting audience for every last cent, something many seem to believe US public companies are obliged to do. That audience are not going to look anywhere else for alternatives, and that is the difficult part.
Ugo Bardi: Are Plastics killing us?

https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/are-plastics-killing-us
Why? Sounds odd for a country with so much sea to not have a fish culture.

Looking around the internet indeed there's very little fish in most popular Norwegian dishes, except for fish meatballs.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644585
Though it's a continuing puzzle to me why ESPs have worse ADCs than the rp2040, given their relative maturity. (Neither is particularly good, mind you, but I'm generally ok with the rp for my toy applications.)
Don’t try to prove she’s snoring by showing her evidence of the snoring. Let me make that mistake for you.
Ask HN: How do you prepare onboarding material for new joiners?
I’m a senior engineer and I often have to show new joiners how to use our various internal tools. I’m struggling to figure out what’s the best way to create this material, and organize it.

I mostly create Confluence pages, but it takes time to write them out. And the horrible search functionality, combined with the tons of other content we have there, makes it next to impossible for the joiners to find them.

I occasionally screen record videos using Slack, but I don’t know where to store them - README inside the related repo, or Confluence. And the joiners can’t search for them.

Any other people out there who’ve faced this problem? How have you gone about solving it?
Indeed, it’s commonly said that the structure of any given software reflects the organizational structure which built it.
Obviously people who believe people can magically turn water into wine, or that virgins give birth, or that they can walk on water etc. have better "mental health" than those who are skeptical of all of this.
We're quite fortunate the internet wasn't a thing when polio was still around.
It seems like Espressif are in the same situation as Pi w/r/t PlatformIO[1]. As an outsider, it sounds like PlatformIO was trying to extract a very large annual payment from RPi and Espressif, and that was after the initial support was added in, and some of the community started adopting it.

It's a weird situation, but I think PlatformIO built up a dominant position by supporting all these platforms and accepting community contributions to do so, then tried extracting value from the manufacturers directly after the fact, blocking further community PRs that would add new board revisions or fix bugs. See related: [2]

[1] https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif32/issues/12...

[2] https://github.com/platformio/platform-raspberrypi/pull/36
> You wouldn't see banner ads in Google Authenticator, or a Pro subscription in Apple Notes that lets you have unlimited notes.

Not yet. If Microsoft doesn’t experience any backlash for ad-laden freeware, I’m sure the Execs at Apple will think Notes+Ads is a fine strategy. I think Apple has been itching to do something with their Ad Server for a while.
Roblox and Tik Tok.
The invasion of Afghanistan was as much self defence as the invasion of Ukraine. Probably less, actually.

The idea that it was any kind of self defence is kind of pathetic, and mirrors Putinesque propaganda. It was occupation pure and simple.

America really wanted to set up military bases there. It was a black spot in the world which it lacked imperial force projection and it was right between 3 major rivals (Russia, China and Iran).
What part of that contradicts my comment?

To be clear, GP is the one saying the ESP32 is more than just the chip itself, complete with battery controller and camera connector.
Of course it's a matter of taste, but statistically humans prefer warmer climates.
They make half a killing, actually. Enterprises skip at least one version. They are just too large to switch all computers over to the next version of Windows so they always skip one.
ESP32 is available as a tiny module that is soldered to the board as if it was a chip.

Ignoring the module results in a flawed comparison. The module is chip and frequently used.

If they encased the module in plastic and called it a chip, it would be the same. You can think of it as a chip.
I think it's just called "posting" now. Which is accurate but boring.
The Wager That Betting Can Change the World: On Prediction Markets (2023)
I don't think any one disagrees with this. I do think the poster meant your pithy quote about violence against the government is not any where appropriate in Canada at the moment, or at any point in the past or any foreseeable point in the future.
How do telecom companies unravel public key encryption in transit?
Sleep paralysis is a frightening experience, and the one suffering from it is both aware, and correct in their awareness, that they're awake. Article is describing something very different.
> it was written near a millennia ago now, yet so many things in it feel so incredibly familiar

It's sometimes forgotten that 13th century humans were the same as us.
> The Online Harms Act states that any person who advocates for or promotes genocide is “liable to imprisonment for life.” It defines lesser “hate crimes” as including online speech that is “likely to foment detestation or vilification” on the basis of race, religion, gender, or other protected categories. And if someone “fears” they may become a victim of a hate crime, they can go before a judge, who may summon the preemptively accused for a sort of precrime trial. If the judge finds “reasonable grounds” for the fear, the defendant must enter into “a recognizance.”

I don't want to defend the bill as it currently stands, it's probably horribly drafted, but I do want to question why we're saying that imprisoning people who advocate for genocide is a bad thing. In my mind, the purpose of all the liberal human rights stuff is specifically to keep governments from doing genocide. So protecting the people who are advocating for genocide is an own goal.

To be clear, there's a lot of potential for a cure worse than the disease. But I don't think "censor the censors" is categorically invalid in a liberal society. The question is one of proportionality, not scope. Human rights as an institution and a concept are under attack worldwide. Illiberal right-wingers are very loudly calling for censorship because the Overton window has stopped working in liberalism's favor. It is important that we defend our rights in a way that does not damage them.

> But amendments would not go far enough. No one who favors allowing the state to imprison people for mere speech, or severely constraining a person’s liberty in anticipation of alleged hate speech they have yet to utter, is fit for leadership in a liberal democracy. Every elected official who has supported the unamended bill should be ousted at the next opportunity by voters who grasp the fraught, authoritarian folly of this extremist proposal.

Ironically, the person who penned this article seems to understand what I'm getting at.
Ask the stock holders.
This. Marketing is a cancer on modern society, and it's metastasizing to new communication media increasingly quickly.
> experiencing a placebo effect

And if that effect were satisfactory, as it sounds, why would that matter?

Would you even know if it was a psychogenic remedy to what was probably a psychogenic malady in the first place, rather than a peculiar, individual sensitivity that just hasn't been identified in the sparse research on CBD? (You would not)
> Google or Apple publishing an in-house-made cash-milking P2W game

Google’s Stadia failed.

Apple’s Arcade is arguably a failure.

While we could debate the merit of granular choices like ads in minesweeper, taking a step back it is clear Microsoft is more savvy that those other two at gaming.
I wouldn't do it. The dust gets in the air, and also absorbs via the skin while walking. Not only would you be putting your own health at risk, but that of any family members and/or pets too.
"telephone data" != "contents of every phone call"
Did the petitioners try not to eat the packaging?
You would kind of expect that from a company that makes professional video equipment.
Keep driving the decline of society! Go society go! Disappear! We don't need you.