skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First: do you mean digital media or the Internet? I would argue that most Internet revenue does not run on advertisements when you think about products like e-commerce of physical products or business software that dominate total internet-driven revenue.

Second: regarding digital media, consumers have had the greatest break in advertising since the advent of cable. Well under half of streaming subscribers choose ad-supported plans. Back in the cable days it was impossible to opt out of advertisements.

https://www.emarketer.com/content/peacock-hulu-subscribers-o...

> Do ads actually work? Personally I rarely buy/subscribe to stuff I see on an ad.

Yes, they work. And they even work on people like you who make this statement. Remember that half the battle of a marketing campaign is to make you aware that a product exists at all. For well-established brands like Coca-Cola, their ads are designed to keep their mindshare widespread. It doesn't matter that you hated the ad, that you actively ignored the product, you still saw that ad and if you ever do change your mind on whether you want a soda today you'll have an idea of what to get.
Conduct between nations is sovereign, and outside of any enforceable jurisdiction or legal system. So there will always be the need for a a strong dominant nation to set and establish the rules of conduct and enFORCE them as has been the role of the US since WW2.

Its a dirty job keeping this world order in some semblance of functional, and the Dominant enforcer of that order will always take a cut for their imperfect pursuit of the same. All-volunteer police forces are less common than the compensated type.
Perhaps CRINK (China, Russia, Iran and NoKo) will deal you and your peoples a better hand than the US has?
What is the average gamer's tongue stamina or tongue dexterity like? How long do you have to practice to improve for this to actually be useful?

I feel like it's probably pretty hard to get good with this.
If the owner were not allowed to make backup copies, would it have been better to release that album as a set of vinyl records instead of 2 CDs? I am just wondering if an analog medium would be more likely to remain useful after ~80 years of physical degradation compared to digital discs.
Perhaps they should consider the FSL (Functional Source License)[1]. There is an introductory blog post about it here[2].

[1] https://fsl.software/

[2] https://blog.sentry.io/introducing-the-functional-source-lic...
The upstart ad company that spent years and tens of billions of dollars to develop a privacy focused AI in the cloud platform? The same upstart that offers encrypted cloud storage that even it can’t decrypt? Congrats on the false equivalency argument.

Guys like you do yourself a disservice. No one takes your hyperbolic statements seriously. Keep posting this nonsense if it makes you feel better.
And yet most edible mushrooms do have these associations. Even saprophytic species will take a number of years to devour a nurse log, so that fallen oak or doug-fir will feed you many times.

And then there are truffles...
> They're dumping 10s to 100s of billions of dollars into Ukraine's defence. They've claimed to have been a part of killing something like 300,000 Russian soldiers.

This has come only after years of war against Ukraine and refusal by Russia to take any offered exit ramp.

When Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, Obama refused to provide lethal aid to Ukraine. After Russia launched the full-scale invasion in 2022, the US infamously offered Zelensky a ride and not ammo. Countries like Germany were openly mocked for providing only 5000 helmets. It took approximately half a year before any considerable aid began to appear in Ukraine. They got their first American tanks (only 31 provided so far) full year and a half into the war.

NATO countries and other allies have consistently dragged their feet and done too little too late. This allowed Russia to recover from the initial shock, and their armed forces are larger than at the start of the war. This year, they are forming two new armies that are larger than the ground forces of UK, France, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, and a number of other countries COMBINED.

Instead of a conspiratorial ruse, European governments have finally recognized that Russia is a rapidly growing threat to entire Europe, and that's why they started to pour a lot of resources into Ukraine starting around fall 2023, and into rebuilding their own militaries. Russians are wiping one Ukrainian town after another from the earth with no indication of stopping anytime soon. At worst, we can expect a second front launched from Belarus against Poland and Lithuania.

> unless you believe that the NATO military planners are so incompetent they didn't have contingency plans for Russia invading Ukraine

It is very obvious that there were no serious plans for such turn of events. Many NATO countries, including mine, were caught by surprise and have had to provided military aid to Ukraine at the expense of own security from readiness stocks that cannot be replenished for many years to come, but might be needed to fulfill NATO obligations, should Russia broaden the war.

Not only were NATO countries unprepared, but several key countries didn't even believe such development could be possible at all. The chief of French military intelligence was infamously fired over inadequate assessments related to Russian invasion of Ukraine.

> The hopes of Ukraine were never dashed.

Yes they were. Even today, nobody is willing to give any firm commitments. At the last NATO summit, Biden refused to support NATO invitation for Ukraine and instead lobbied for a vague "Ukraine will become a member of NATO" statement without any specified date, to great frustration of Ukrainians.

The story you are trying to spin is the polar opposite of observable reality.
You sort of need an incredibly specific use case like this to justify dropping $3500 on it...

Biggest problem with the product is just the price.
I really don't get why people think git is uber-complicated for normal users.

I know: clone, pull, push, branch, checkout -b, merge, rebase -i. Those are my mainstays. The stash/stash pop stuff for a convenient power tool. And very occasionally, export to make a tarball.

It's so exceptionally rare for me to need anything else that I can't even think of anything else I've used offhand.

The first six are basic SCM, and IMO simpler to deal with than svn ever was. The rest... are conveniences that most don't need. Except rebase, debatably.

Rebase takes a short time to learn, but is well worth the trouble.

I've used a number of source control platforms over the years; git has been by far the easiest and most natural to work with for me. I've used it exclusively since around 2010ish, and have no regrets.
I would much rather they shut down.
> Obviously, renting needs to be an option

Ok, so if you acknowledge that being able to rent is a useful option, it means someone must own a place that gets rented out.

> Buying a house for the sole purpose of extracting profit makes you a financial vampire

You just said renting needs to be an option. But now you say nobody should buy a house to rent out for some profit.

So what's left? Should people buy houses to rent out at a loss, as a personal sacrificial service so renters can have a place to rent? Who do you expect to do that?

What's your actual solution proposal?
eBay is a poor example, they sell prominent placement in search results, just like Amazon. Since they both act as search engines for products, this means that you as the seller can buy influence on those results. They aren't banner ads, that idea for e-commerce marketplace sites is outdated.

Selling prominent placement makes suppliers fight each other for eyeballs and increases the revenue cut that goes to eBay/Amazon.
I have a post hook that renders a Automator app to Applications to call the next one for me. Seems to work well for the few apps I use like that.
Personally, I switched to NixOS to be able to turn any computer into "my computer" via a reproducible and declarative config, and I keep the config in a Git repository, sync files via Nextcloud, amidst a smattering of other Docker containers on my server.

Chezmoi is good for imperative dotfiles too—I keep those in a Git repository too.
Brain science startup Neuroelectrics uses electricity to reduce seizures
Right. It’s basically a version of Metcalfe's law isn’t it?

“[it] states that the financial value or influence of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system.” (Wikipedia)
With West's continued support there's just no way that Ukraine will run out of equipment before Russia will.

With Russia's death rate and invasion speed (or lack thereof) they will also run out of soldiers before Ukraine.

But it will take time...
Unleashing the Power of Artificial Intelligence in New Product Development
CSS/HTML Only Functional Calendar with Easter and Lunar Phase Calculations
So this is a little project that I've been tinkering with over the last two or so years. It's just CSS and HTML only, but it allows the calendar to render the display for that month for any month for any year between 1800 and 2999 inclusive.

I've also recently added the calculation for Easter which not only displays at the bottom of the calendar display, but will also display over the respective date as a small Easter egg.

The last thing which I've added as of an hour ago, is the calculation of lunar phases... Bear in mind, this may be slightly out due to the code only basing it on a specific Julian date and not the exact Julian date and time, but it's as close as I can get with CSS...

This takes advantage of :has() which was crucial for the use of the <SELECT> tags; mod(), min() and max() for mathematical and Boolean calculations; and a neat little trick I've found to eliminate the calc() barrier found in most browsers.

NB: Please note, this may not necessarily work for all browsers... You may have better luck using Firefox or Chrome... Edge and Safari may work, but it has been somewhat selective due to some browsers not accommodating of all the new features.

If you want further information about this project, check: https://github.com/eliseo-dannunzio/css-calendar-with-easter...
I love nix on macOS. But one word of caution: nix uses a very outdated, EOL’d, macOS SDK (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/101229).
regardless of the veracity, i wonder about the space debris implications of making rocketry accessible going forward.

we got regulations, but can they be enforced well enough?
Is it possible you send me an email?
Instead of Spotlight I use Raycast. It has been working great for me.
I don't really know how this algorithm works because it doesn't seem to consume the input at all, but some techniques are here: http://0x80.pl/articles/simd-byte-lookup.html
Well, that’s what a company like Microsoft will always choose, so no wrong-doing here—business as usual
+1. I’ve had to fire guys like the OP. Smart guys often, but nearly impossible to work with productively.
The only way, besides trusting the cloud provider, is encryption. Homomorphic encryption allows you to run calculations on encrypted data without decrypting it. However, besides the performance penalty, it leaks information.
That's a big old "citation needed". As far as I'm aware that's a crackpot conspiracy theory - just because some fringe lunatic alleges something is enough to honestly decribe that something as "alleged".
I think that was a business choice to prevent adblockers and web-extension-malware.
Self-healing glass from a simple peptide – just add water
That's exactly why child care workers who look after packs of 15 to 20 kids at a time should be highly valued and paid a decent wage.

It's how villages worked in the past, most adults did non child related work much of the time, some adults and some older children kept an eye on what the pooled group of kids were up to .. watching, sometimes educating, sometimes leading them in "work" building things, cooking, hunting, clearing fields etc. in small ways.

It's a better use of labour than splitting every pair of adults into one for this type of work, the other always does child care.
Greatest factors contributing to deep and overall sleep increase tested on myself, sorted from more to less prominent and repeatable:

1. Don't eat or drink _anything_ except water at least 2-3h before bed

2. No alcohol or caffeine after noon.

3. Starting a sleep earlier, rather than later at night

4. Physical activity not too late (to leave >2h before bed), so that you feel tired

5. Low stress and relaxed mood as early as possible before bed

6. Dark room

7. Quiet room

8. No screens at least 1h before bed
I dont understand why doesn't excel have local Python. This feels wrong on so many levels.
Yes, but I also consistently seeing people refer to anything resulting from a court case (criminal or civil) as a "fine".
> I think Rust is the only language which does that.

Python 3 strings are enforced valid Unicode (but not technically UTF-8, as they can contain unpaired surrogates).

> Packages are OK I guess, but I think other classes of tools are lacking. For example, I can’t imagine working on any performance critical low-level code without a good sampling profiler.

I've been using sampling profilers with Rust since before the language was publicly announced!

> Yes. Even very simple data structures like std::vec::Vec require unsafe code, they call unsafe APIs like alloc::alloc for memory management. This can, and did, cause security bugs:

This is yet another example of "Rust's liberal use of 'security bug' gives people the wrong impression". Although I wish they didn't, Rust users often use "security bug" to mean any memory safety problem in safe code. By this measure every C++ program in existence is a security bug. The question is whether any applications were exploitable because of this, and I don't know of any.

> By comparison, modern C# is memory safe all the way down, possible to implement even very complicated data structures without a single line of unsafe code.

Only because the runtime has hundreds of thousands of lines of unsafe code written in C++, including the garbage collector that makes it possible to write those collections.
visual basic has been included in excel for decades, its just called VBA not VB. if you thanos snapped VBA out of existence the world would probably stop functioning for several weeks.
they've had a proven history of open-sourcing systems they engineered to power their services. cassandradb and (py)torch comes to mind.
Yeah there probably are a few hundred great/exceptional CTOs who would find value being in a group.

There likely aren’t thousands. There certainly aren’t tens of thousands.
Is there any additional processing overhead to doing that? I think you can have the console play CD tracks, or subsets of tracks basically for free, which is why most games did that.
Then you can run tmux locally for the multiple windows and then in each window use this if you need to connect remotely to resumable sessions there.

On the other hand if your use case is just windowing on a single host (local only or remote only) then probably stick with tmux.
The best doesn’t always win. Sometimes good enough plus an early lead is all it takes.

Git did what it needed and through large exposure to open source developers via the kernel community it took off and nothing else ever caught it.

I like it myself. Others prefer HG or even SVN.

But unlike choosing a text editor, network effects are very important for source control. It doesn’t surprise me too much that the majority of people would centralize on the same tool.
I find that to be irrelevant when employers start looking at your GitHub stats during the hiring process...

I intensely dislike the exposed contribution metrics, personally. Partly because I'm a natural introvert and find it intrusive, but mostly because I feel that it tends to thoroughly emphasize quantity over quality.

[edit: It's GitHub, not GutHub!]
Android blocks most of Linux syscalls with seccomp. They make heavy usage of SELinux.

Binder is not just a simple IPC system. It requires userspace parts which aren't even the parties who are talking through IPC. Like you said it has lots of performance optimizations, and that requires it hooking up to a number of kernel subsystems. At the beginning it was met with a lot of resistance from kernel maintarners when tried to be merged.

Why did Google came up with it? When talking about the 'Android sandbox' people usually talk about how Android gives each app an different uid/gid. But that's just the beginning of the story. It wasn't enough for sandboxing needs since the beginning. Thats why they took the binder idea from BeOS and used on Android.

Since then Google has blocked everything. Native code is needed on any practical system, but today's native code has access mostly to nothing, just the common needs to run (like libc which is used due backward compatibility). The proper way to get something is through Binder (and even that is fine-grained controlled on a per process basis).

Linux and Unixes in general don't implement true capabilities. Android does through Binder, but since Binder lives “inside Linux” everything else has to be blocked to make these capabilities useful.

> Some hardware access is marshalled through userspace daemons

Most of stuff are, at least initially, orchestrated through userspace software - daemons like you said, but mostly HALs (which are also daemons).

The main takeaway is that binder is _the core_ of Android userspace. It's tightly integrated with SELinux and everything passes through it at some point. Permissions are enforced through it. In the end, the whole “binder subsystem” is architectured like a Microkernel system.
HN has an 80 character title max length. The full original title is 157 characters, nearly double that.

The alternatives generally suggested are to shorten the original title, omitting needless descriptives or words (e.g., counts, emotives, etc.) if possible, or barring that, to substitute alternative text, preferably from a subtitle or passage from the article (both to avoid editorialising):

dang comment: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9908533>

Guidelines: <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html> ("In Submissions", title guidance.)

Something's got to give, though, and the submitted title is accurate so far as it goes.

If HN's readers can't be trusted to read even the title of an article, well, the whole premise of a an article-based discussion site seems somewhat imperiled. This may well be the case, of course ...
> If you want to see the extents to which this drives people, just check out this video (warning, language):

What video?
I still don't quite follow you here, how does a tax make it something that no one had to worry about? We tax fuel, for example, but people are still worried about emissions and environmental impacts.

I call it a sin tax in this case because it would be a government taxing something they don't want people doing, or want us doing less of. Where income tax isn't meant to make people want to reduce their income, taxes on alcohol, cigarettes, or in this case oil extraction or burning are specifically implemented to move the market.
"Ten times less" is a common English usage with a clear meaning.
TinyEMU RISC-V Emulator for Apache NuttX RTOS [video]
No drama.

Odd aside, these days "low tech" (minimal effort, low cost) cars are going to have screens and control by wire interfaces for many things - it's 2024 and touch screens are a throw away disposable item compared to physical controls, tension cables, routing looms for every physical switch and interface light bulb, etc.

In a sense the ideal notion of a "low tech car" is now a hand crafted artisan object.
Yeah, I think that one suffered from not really having a clear vision of how AI would work, so it lacked the backbone that most Chiang stories start with and couldn't figure out what to do with itself and so went on too long. I'd like to see Chiang revisit that topic soon with DL scaling in mind to sharpen the vision and boil it down to its essence. (Hopefully he's no longer dismissing LLMs as 'blurry JPGs of the Internet'...)
They deleted my account years ago for no reason (other than me not using it anymore) and I haven’t used Ebay in more than 10 years.

Good to know dumb banner ads are gone on Ebay.

Selling placement in search unfortunately seems to work well, I agree.
I could, but I would prefer not to. Public communication would be preferable, such as by using NNTP. (I may set up a NNTP for this; I have a NNTP server set up already and can easily add a newsgroup.)
The Hidden Life of Joshua Wright, Google's Secret Weapon
It's just dress-up for really specious legal theories, such as we should disregard this statute because they believed in the "law of god" at the time, but of course, not any other law he would prefer not be overturned from that time.
side question: is there a taiwanese version to check if someone you're dating is related to you?

see for context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5561505
I took am genuinely worried that our society is losing its respect of rule of law due to disinformation and stupidity on the social web.
Front display is very dim, and yes, it mostly turns on for interactions.
I must say I'm so proud of the HN community for all the passion and curiosity for a problem like this!
I strongly agree that the predictive and planning ability is very important - things like agriculture rely on it and must be selective at that point.

But the point has previously been made else humans developed large brains long (1.5M years?) before agriculture, and for a long time the only benefit seemed to be fire and flint tools.

It's not widely understood the causal link here - there are other species that have large brains but haven't developed these skills. So it's not clear exactly what facets of intelligence are selected for.
I actually wrote a script which creates a trampoline launcher for this. It has its flaws but it solves the spotlight issue, and supports pinning to Dock across updates.

Available as a plug-and-play module for nix-darwin and home-manager: https://github.com/hraban/mac-app-util
Do they get to keep the data?
Does it? Which one? Most modern VTs probably need gl/sdl/dx interface to render, but not GPU specifically.

This is a pretty loaded question, could use unpacking a little.
>If the company goes public or is acquired, those who had submitted a claim form would get a cut of the proceeds. Alternatively, the class could sell its stake. Or the class could opt, after two years, to collect 17 percent of Clearview’s revenue, which it would be required to set aside.

"If" and "could" are doing some heavy lifting there.

This is all dependent upon the value of Clearview, a company who fucked up so hard that they got themselves into this legal mess almost immediately after they started business, and whose leaders have creepily tracked and harassed users of their own product[1]. The decision makers are still allowed to have their majority say, and now you're incentivizing the victims to support Clearview pushing the boundaries of privacy because it's now in their best financial interest to do so.

This is absolute garbage.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_AI#Usage
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-hidden-life-of...

Text-only:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/BB1nM8xa

Associated podcast:

https://traffic.megaphone.fm/WSJ3508566902.mp3

Parts 2 and 3

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/joshua-wright-student-...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/for-years-an-esteemed-law-...

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/joshua-wright-affair-revenge...

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