skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This source seems to capture the answer to our questions: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/new-york-times-revenue-c...

Even though advertising revenue makes a significant chunk of their revenues, they are pushing for "digital subscription" more and more. Digital subscriptions seems to have become their main source of revenue now.

But that doesn't negate the fact that they had leveraged ads to get the significant audience that content creators would care about. And my point still holds in the case of NYT.

The case with OTT services, like Netflix, is different here. They either already had, or bought, a lot of content that they know is in demand from the box office history. They then focus on attracting audience to that content. And once they have the audience, they can then attract creators to create exclusive movies and shows for their platform.

Maybe a model like that could be applied at other places too (although, I am not able to imagine this in a social networking website).
Real politik is dirty, no one is perfect, just better or worse (for you).
What happens in peacetime is low funding and stagnant military leadership.

If things ramp up, you’ll see something akin to what happened around WW2 or Ukraine more recently. “Peacetime” officers will rapidly be replaced, and the funding faucet will turn on. I’m not saying this is ideally things should operate, but it tends to be what happens. I am hoping it doesn’t.
About 10 years ago I accepted that I didn't know what was going on, and I also realized that even if I did, 98% of it doesn't affect me in the slightest way.

I used to watch the news every day and try to stay informed about politics and candidates and to some extent sports and celebrities and other current events. Now I don't. None of it affects me or my day-to-day life. I'm a lot less stressed about stuff and I have more time for stuff that matters to me.
Got mine in today (Surface Pro 11th Gen). Overall a big meh. Performance was okay, Battery life was okay. Returning mine due to Microsoft's lackluster Surface line being the actual worst machine I've used in years. Most things ran aside from Persona 5 for some reason.
Except cars and second gen vr headsets.
New Internet Thing, Chapter 7
It’s funny because I recognize all the details you mention and know where you went to school because of it.

For the longest time the top result when searching for my real name was a mailing list post asking about getting sound working on that same FreeBSD Pentium 75.

We had to carry that IBM behemoth across campus to “prove” that we installed FreeBSD onto it for one of the CS lab courses.
What about using drones to spread and plant seeds? Is that something being done?
That's a shame; it was an entertaining, well-written piece, and its over-the-top style reminded me somewhat of James Mickens' classic articles.
What do you know of / think of Daniel Gross? What is his reputation?
Which begs the question: Why mix logic with templates?
> they did use terrorist financing act on them

Is the Emergencies Act a terrorist-financing act? Or is the financing statute within it simply only scoped for terrorism? (I'm just going off the names. Emergencies Act sounds like a Swiss army knife law.)

In any case, thought the original claim that "Canada listed the freedom truckers as a terrorist group" was B.S., and appreciate your confirming as much.
When kids are young, praise for process/effort rather than the outcome.
Hilariously sourcing this article
Bridge Collapses After Just 10 Years Because Designers Were Too Focused on Looks
Japan study downplays complex grammar in improving English writing skills
Author makes good points but suffers from “i am genius and you are an idiot” syndrome which makes it seem mostly the ranting of an asshole vs a coherent article about the state of AI.
I want to double down on this. I have (unintentionally) run a foul of HN's guidelines, and dang has been extremely polite, patient, and even-handed. I'm definitely not getting preferential treatment. I'm highly skeptical of claims to the contrary.
The day of stock reports are such crap its actually entertaining to read. Especially when the market whiplashes a couple minutes after the midday report and they need to come up with a narrative. Most of the moves could honestly be summed up with “it was noon so a bunch of hft cron jobs turned on right then and bought or sold” or “nice numbers ending in 0 or 5 have their own gravity pull”
What do you mean "got shutdown"? What happened?
Same thing happens when people get scammed in tradfi
It’s not about picking. It’s about doing it at all.

Now you’re active participant in a cover up. They want to delete something, edit something? Fine. The controls are there. Everyone knows that. But that’s not what this is. This is taking extraordinary action to gaslight and coverup. That’s what’s trash. It’s the secrecy. It’s changing of the archive. That’s what trash.

In all my decades of dealing with public forums, I have never seen this as something done in a reputable forum, outside of a court order.

It’s a betrayal of trust. The fact that you’re not defending it on the merits, but rather that it’s supposedly open to all that knew about the secret door is just the chef’s kiss of abuse of power. If I was asked to do this, I would quit.

Dang, every time you do this, it shows contempt to everyone on this forum. It’s absolute trash. It is bad, and you should feel bad. But of course, you don’t feel bad about doing it. You feel good about it.
Here is an interview with the inventor of the microwave: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y
The problem with quotes on the internet is that you never know if they are just made up.

- Abraham Lincoln
If it achieves its goal of both “safe” and “super intelligence”, it may have commercial value. e.g. enterprises may want to use it instead of, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Think of recent AirCanada’s chatbot law suit.
The Niketown stores in NYC and Chicago delivered shoes via pneumatic tube. You’d tell the sales associate the style/size/color, they’d type it into their handheld device, and a few minutes later the shoebox would appear at the nearest (whatever you call it). It was a pretty clever system, but those stores are now closed, from what I understand.
off the rip, where tf is the download? It is hard to find. Outside of that, it seems like a really interesting distro. Running mostly everything as root strikes me as kinda nuts but it seems like there is a lot of containerization and most apps run as their own user so it mitigates some of that risk. Im going to check it out, I like the idea of non-standard linux distros and leveraging containers and squashfs archives.
Mostly a summary of "Strong focus on aesthetics" contributed to collapse of Norway timber bridge, on which there was good discussion (158 points, 2 months ago, 137 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40015851
There were a bunch of scams in the stock market before the SEC was established.
> The drones can be configured to scatter seed, spray pesticide, or spread fertilizer.

It's right there in the article.
I scheduled a call with rickcarlino awhile back--I didn't know him before doing so. He is very sharp and very genuine. You should definitely take him up on his offer.
IMO that applies for adults too.
Minecraft 3D on Scratch
AI or LLM?

The money flowing into the market has allowed for a lot of fuzzy data analytics to be "automated" and cross checked by people. Satellite image processing is a huge market that leverages this. We're not counting cargo container turnover in ports by hand, or with basic tools any more.

The LLM side yes. There are tons of marketing and content farms that are making heavy use of these tools. This was already a bottom of the barrel market and the decrease in price + increase in volume has been a win for those who embraced the tech... there are fewer people working making a bit more money.

There is a LOT of nonsense out there that is NOT delivering. Flooz and Beenz...
there are 2 I know of in the bay area

- ferry building, listing the next ferry and destination etc

- a certain restaurant cum wine bar, listing bottles avail and a count. when you order a bottle the count decrements. so cool.
That and DRM was always defeated. Physical distribution was profitable. And who loves waiting 30 minutes for Steam games to update on a slow connection? Imagine what we could pack on physical media now and mail to your door if that were still the model.
I’m not a fan of the deceptive landing page that appears to allow you to enter a prompt for testing but instead just takes you to a pricing page. Once that happened to me, I closed the site and moved on.

> Is In Video AI any good?
The current AI model used by In Video AI is among the best available, and in principle, it will continue to be upgraded in the future.

Where’s the evidence that supports a claim like that. Theres no examples or even sources or benchmarks to back that claim up.
NCD (Network Computing Devices) made an audio server for their X terminals, that was largely based on the X11 server and client code, around 1993. I made a TCL/Tk sound mixer that supported NetAudio for multi player SimCity on TCL/Tk. NetAudio really sucked. That's probably why nobody uses it (or X terminals) any more.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20313616

DonHopkins on June 29, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenan...

NCD (Network Computing Devices), who made X Terminals, came up with a sound server called "NetAudio", based on the X11 server, protocol and client library, with the graphics ripped out and sound stuck in.
I used it in the early 90's to support the Unix/X11/TCL/Tk multi player version of SimCity, with a scriptable TCL/Tk audio server that could drive either /dev/audio on Sun/SGI/etc or NetAudio on NCD X Terminals. Other TCL/Tk clients like SimCity (but possibly others) communicated with it via the TCL/Tk "send" command, which bounced messages off the X server.

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/simcity-announcement...

NetAudio had its problems, but basically worked. Except that it insanely mixed audio by AVERAGING (add waveforms then divide by the number of sounds) instead of adding and clipping, and I couldn't convince the NCD engineer that was the wrong way to mix sound, and to just add and clip instead, like sounds mix in the real world: When you talk over music, the music volume and the volume of your voice doesn't magically lower by half. Hopefully they've fixed that problem by now.

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/sound-mixers.txt

It evolved into the Network Audio System (NAS):

http://www.radscan.com/nas.html

I can't say how popular it is, or if anyone actually uses it, though:

The Release version is now 1.9.4 (10/07/2013).
so how do people vet information and maintain this skepticism without devolving into full conspiracy-esque "trust no one", "everyone has an agenda" type thinking?
Banana-clicking game is #1 on Steam
I agree, and it's a very common misconception among locals that it's related to the Golden Gate bridge
I know I don't understand the domain at all, but I'm surprised that in this day and age you'd want a distributed system to do railway design. What aspect of the problem makes it unsuitable for running in a single process?
Already [flagged] [dead] at least 8 times, as linked by @greyface3- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40733576

Which is a pity. The style is excellent & so wonderful, is a critical relief, after suffering through insane out of this world hype-bordering-religion. At least to me; he doesn't read as menacing, he reads as being on a justifiably distraught polemic against total madness that's allowed to pointlessly suck up all the oxygen in the room.

We should be flipping our shit (if not each other) that we have to put up with this endless exuberant schucksterism. That robs us of agency & pollutes our noosphere with inauthentic bullshitting.
Keep in mind that people don't talk about that which they believe they completely understand. When someone reaches a satisfiable conclusion in understanding, they lose interest in the subject and move on to something else.

The political discourse around polarizing topics isn't disastrous. It takes place exactly because people realize that they are complex issues not fully understood, and are talking about it in hopes that more information will come to light to help them reach a greater understanding. This is why the more complex the issue, the more it will keep coming up over and over.
Related:
"Horizon IT scandal investigator tells inquiry Post Office was ‘sabotaging our efforts’"
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/18/post...

> He said by February 2015 he no longer believed the Post Office was taking Second Sight’s concerns about the Horizon IT system seriously. “I felt we were dealing with a cover-up by POL and possibly a criminal conspiracy,” he said.
I find your experience rather relatable.

I did figure out there is some sort of spaced repetition component to it, but that’s probably because I’m already an Anki user and aware of the concept.

I quite like the eccentricity of it, although I’m sure it could be toned down a notch for wider appeal.

Feature-wise, having thesaurus definitions immediately accessible is very useful.
Usualy technical post get more traction. Try posting https://nahueldaima.com/tech/scaling-your-infrastructure-at-...

In the dark mode, the menu to select the language has a bug an it renders white text over a white background so it's unreadable. (Do you need an screenshot?)

I don't recognize the style of the blog. Did you wrote it yourself?
> until much larger deposits were found

When it comes to uranium this is a mere wish (low and decaying probability), as exploration is very efficient because major investments were made during the 1950's, in order to obtain stuff needed for atomic weapons: we are pretty good at finding uranium (much more than for petroleum), and forecasting proved efficient at predicting such events.

The uranium bubble (around 2007), for example, triggered a massive investments raise, but subsequent campaigns had very insufficient results (identified reserves grow by ~15%) and campaigns winded down.

The most promising game-changing new uranium extraction method (from seawater) lags since the 1980's. Nothing industrial here.

Same for thorium (and all Gen4 reactors): there is not a single ready-to-deploy industrial reactor. It is about a "Long-Term Potential in Nuclear Energy" (title of the document you refer to), nobody takes it as a significant part of our incoming electrical system.
> - a certain restaurant cum wine bar, listing bottles avail and a count. when you order a bottle the count decrements. so cool.

Yeah now that you mentioned having one in your house I have the wildest dreams. Like one in my pantry with my shopping list on it so I can check it before going out the door....
> The friend sitting on my fifteen-year-old couch knows I’m not independently wealthy.

Oh, right, because FI is about spending a lot on new things constantly...
With regards to politics, wasn't that found to be a Russian active measures tactic where they'd get low quality or inaccurate comments up voted to the top, down vote actual informative comments, and flood their up voted comments with low quality replies and threads to push the informative stuff so low that users likely will give up scrolling before they see it?
hang on. we're talking about on a bicycle.

- a HUD visual would have the same context switch

- distances would be in half-blocks.

- a repeat direction button on the handlebar (or vox) would be easy
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Fun piece of trivia, in the UK those (distance) measuring wheels are called "Trundle Wheels", which is a little redundant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor%27s_wheel
Yea there’s zero chance ASI will be ‘controlled’ by humans for very long. It will escape. I guarantee it.
I was tangentially involved in a news story a few years ago. The reporter went to a small town, interviewed a few people, then wrote up an article. Only problem was they didn't actually interview anybody directly involved, it was a lot of hearsay from the small town rumor mill, which they reported as fact.

Nothing major about the story was changed, but I know some of the details were incorrect. It bugs me that these are now "facts", and places like Wikipedia confidently state these "facts" without anybody knowing the origin was just small town gossip.
I believe you've got it backwards. The theory of relativity would be wrong if GPS did not work, the theory of electromagnetism would be wrong if radio did not work, etc. The only thing that working radio tells us is that certain mathematical model that we call theory of electromagnetism happens to agree with the real world (whatever that is) to a sufficient precision. For many purposes (like for example building radios), that is enough.
I just don't think you would say that if you saw the full range of requests we get. Some feel excessively fussy to me (ok, a lot feel that way) but some are coming from people in genuine distress.
it's for a bicycle. for the HUD you have to wear the device. so i was thinking the same for audio. you can wear an IEM loop or also glasses with a loud enough speaker on the arm.

or it can be much louder and mounted to the bike.
You're splitting hairs intentionally to make it seem like the OP is wrong. Many people that were part of the freedom truckers movement had their bank accounts seized and the Canadian government used an act against them, classifying the movement as a terrorist group. How else could they use the act against them?

Covid brought out authoritarian regimes in Canada and the US. We should have investigations and prison time for many of these leaders, but instead we have boot lickers like you that outright deny it happened it the first place.

I now see how the Nazis took over Germany so easily.
This is why I'm rather bemused when people "freak out" about LLMs hallucination rates. The number of comments I've seen on Hacker news (ostensibly the intellectual sister of reddit) that make extraordinarily confident outlandish claims about various subjects with zero citations, sources, etc across what would otherwise be considered highly scientific disciplines - neuroscience is a particularly egregious offender - is far more worrisome to me than the latest hallucination from Gemini.
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That's true but it's not like I don't need to feel with those types of issues back at home. Like, how much different is renting an apartment between Paris and London? Once you get into the groove of actually living somewhere, don't you just realize it's the same as everywhere else? It's the special stuff that makes a difference.
>> fly the drone with no physical effort and no direct exposure to pesticides—some of which have been associated with diseases of the eyes, ears, nose, throat, skin, and gastrointestinal tract.

Slightly tangential, but what's the thinking here?

We don't want to get it on us while spraying it, but then we'll eat it and it'll be fine?
(McKinsey -- but bad under any name!)
> There does seem to be something distinct about mental disorders - namely, they are defined by the symptoms.

There a pretty long list of idiopathic physical ailments, and there are some mental disorders that have specific mechanisms. I get the generalization, but the reality is more jumbled.
As professionals though, you are paid by outcome not process.

If plumber comes and works hard but doesn’t fix my problem, I won’t be praising them no matter how hard they worked.

Process must be internally valued by a professional so they can keep improving their craft, but no one will reward you for it until you show results.
Deeper Learning in Astronomy
Lambda is pretty straightforward as well for those who know how to use it.

You probably could do something marginally useful with lambda within 30 seconds as well.
When it comes to online catalogs of left-field stuff my favorite is the 40 oz Archive [1] (which seems to have renamed itself since the last time I checked it almost a decade ago). It's far more whimsical and less healthy than this one but is also worth perusal if you're bored.

[1] http://www.40ozmaltliquor.com/
The list of photographs considered the most important [1] that includes this image is a great resource to browse for photography. Unfortunately it makes no mention of some of the best collections like Prokudin-Gorskii's color photographs of pre-revolutionary Russia (numbering in the thousands) [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographs_considered...

[2] https://www.loc.gov/collections/prokudin-gorskii/
This sounds like the appeal to authority fallacy.
It's just as easy to install Python as it is to install jq, and Python actually has its own json parser so you don't have to bend over backwards and eat shit to consume and produce something as standard and ubiquitous as json. And Python runs nearly everywhere too.

And it doesn't have to fork off a subprocess and serialize and deserialize text for every single little json structure or property you want to extract or combine.

Manipulating json from bash via jq may seem advanced high tech power user stuff to somebody who only knows bash programming and jq, and refuses to learn python or any other language, but believe me, manipulating json is extremely trivial and massively more efficient and expressive in a real scripting language.

Doing simple things in the most difficult complex way possible doesn't make you cool, it just makes you inefficient and ineffective. If there's any json manipulation or any other data structures than strings, bash is simply the wrong tool for the job, no matter how many of jq's command line parameters and its domain specific mini-languages you can remember.

It's not like there are any modern computers that it's not trivial to install Python or any other language on. If you're using an old antique MicroVax or Cray-1 or PiDP-10 or Analytical Engine or Jacquard Loom that doesn't run the latest version of Python, then you're just doing recreational retrocomputing, and not serious about actually developing modern software on modern hardware for real world use. I mean, that's cool and all, but your choice in how to spend your leisure retrocomputing time should not affect how actual programmers solve real world problems today.
TIL.

And that's great for people who know this, and who also know in advance what documentation they'll want in the future.

It's less-great for people who have booted their new installation without knowing one or both of these things.

I mean: I get it. I do realize that a line must be drawn somewhere on what to include or not include by default. I just don't like where that line is drawn in this particular instance.

My feeling is that storage is cheap and plentiful... unless it isn't.

It seems to me that the people who would benefit from superfluously-available documentation the most are the ones who are likely to have plenty of space available: They're newbs -- newbs who are not building something to fit into less than 2GB of flash, and who are not making a template that will be used for a thousand instances. They're just trying to get their feet wet.

And it also seems that the people who would benefit most from a system that is a wee bit leaner due to a lack of auto-installed documentation are the same ones who would have the least amount of difficulty removing that documentation.
Yeah but we're talking about < $10 for a month of content (on the one meditation app I checked).
I wonder if a Sun, Dec, or HP of the 90s would have had a fighting chance against Windows NT had they not embraced X, and instead developed a local-first stack optimized for their considerable hardware.

Related, I've always found it odd that in Linus' history of Linux, part of it was a desire to implement an Amiga-like OS on a PC. This is the message-passing-bad guy. What happened?