skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shorter attention span these days. Viewers want a payoff immediately and don't want to wait a whole season.

Aside from streaming, commercial breaks are getting longer and episode content shorter. Content is only half the runtime now. If they put a rerun between each new episode, viewers stay engaged, but they get a whole bunch more commercial spaces for free.

We can't even have books any more to get content at our own pace. AI is going to produce too much crap to sort through, unless you stick to the known authors, but that just confirms this article's point.
Most of the growth in these spaces has been cultivated by the massive marketing power of these titans. I think viewing this as oligopolies taking over culture is misleading, rather, these massive corporations have invested huge marketing budgets into bringing consumers into the market, and the net result is that they now make up the glut of it. To use an analogy to the internet, it's not that all the intelligent discussion, homespun websites, and intimate message boards have disappeared, rather, they have been dwarfed by the influx of new people who were not participating in these spaces before they were lured in by the forces of the attention economy. This is "eternal September" writ large across the cultural landscape.
It's unfortunate that the word monopoly is losing it's meaning. Formerly, it meant a business that had an overwhelming or total share of the entire market, plus high barriers to entry. Now it just means a big business, or the only option in my neighborhood.

Supermarkets aren't especially profitable these days, and downward pressure on suppliers ultimately serves consumers anyway. The grocery business is very competitive, with incredible price transparency and low margins.
'Hackers leaked intimate photos after my laptop was stolen'
I used to do the same with some online-training videos which would stop when I de-focused the browser window.

I just overwrote `window.hasFocus()` to always return true in the browser console.

This felt (and still feels) like magic.
Seems we have reached 1910 again and need somebody like Teddy Roosevelt for some trust busting.
2021 article from the Guardian:

“ A handful of powerful companies control the majority market share of almost 80% of dozens of grocery items bought regularly by ordinary Americans, new analysis reveals.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/...
I think there's also more subtle improvements using e.g. object recognition.

Last week I was in an art gallery and took some photos of the paintings, when I suddenly noticed that it was drawing a focus around the frame and there was a 'Look up Artwork' option, which work fairly well (not 100%). Just as well, as I couldn't remember the works myself the next day after looking at the photos.

If I hadn't taken those pictures I probably wold never have known the feature existed.

iPhone 15.
I Used ChatGPT-4o to Help Build Graph Game
"I don't know if that makes me one with 'higher risk tolerance'"

Compared to an average human, I would say yes.

And yes, speaking the local language is not a must, I also got by in poor and potential dangerous places by communicating with hand and feat. Eye contact.

The way one treats the people matters. Do they perceive you as a arrogant, bored rich westener who has come to visit the poor people zoo? That might end bad. But showing genuine interest yields different results.
In ten years time, most "prestige" content will be made outside of a big studio setting.

The studios are going to die. You don't need their capital to build your vision.
Static arrays of read-only memory-mapped files are the best vectors.
I have endless admiration for Lisa Su, but lets be honest, the reason AMD and Nvidia are so big today is that Intel has had amazingly bad management since about 2003.

They massively botched the 32-bit to 64-bit transition....I did some work for the first Itanium, and everybody knew even before it came out that it would never show a profit. And they were contractually obligated to HP to not make 64-bit versions of the x86....so we just had to sit there and watch while AMD beat us to 1 Gigahertz, and had the 64-bit x86 market to itself....

When they fired Pat Gelsinger, their doom was sealed. Thank God they hired him back, but now they are in the same position AMD and Nvidia used to be in: Intel just has to wait for Nvidia and AMD to have bad management for two straight decades....
Sounds like they really don't make them like they used to. Most things have moved to stranded wires due to their lower resistance per weight properties, despite their higher likelihood of breaking during bends.
I read the underlying study. It’s pretty shy on experimental details, and while an epigenetic change is the possible mechanism they don’t directly show that. It’s also a huge leap from the guardian article’s claim that memories are inherited.
For those familiar with DIN paper sizes, that going from A2 (60cm x 42cm) to almost A4 (30cm x 21cm).

That's a large reduction. Do they mention weight difference anywhere? (couldn't find it in the article)
There's a variety of reasons:

- Lower-quality components (especially capacitors) being used to meet the lower price point. This is by far the most common failure mode I have experienced, it's never the LEDs dying but the power supply.

- Higher-quality LED light is usually result of driving the LEDs harder, causing them to fail earlier.

- Probably some other reasons too.
The new one can interpret broken af accent with a baby crying sounds on speaker on full volume just fine. If they cannot understand it just goes to the normal operator. Also the solutions seem to be AIO not adapting existing tech so the microphone quality is very good with noise cancellation built-in I'd assume.
The LEDs themselves are made in a handful of factories around the World and are usually robust. The power supplies are the weakness. Each bulb manufacturer makes their own, and it's a race to the bottom.
Pandoc is the standard for markdown conversion. Check out the comments in this recent thread (or pretty much any thread where markdown is mentioned):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40695628

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=markdown
The rule of thumb I've found with light bulbs is similar to the Boots Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory), which is you need to spend at least $8-$10 on a bulb to get something that will actually last. Feit is good but its hit or miss on life span, especially when I get them close to the same price and incandescent, often times its the little A/C to DC converter that dies (really need DC light circuits or dedicated converter in the light fixture). I feel its worth spending the extra to not replace them.
Somewhat related, there's a MiSTer implementation of the Apple II: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Apple-II_MiSTer
>Of course a memory cannot be _explicitly_ (like .mp4? lol) encoded in genetics.

Indeed so the answer to the question: Can you inherit memories from your ancestors? Is No. Full stop.

You want to talk about how the vibes during your grandparents lives affected some obscure part of your parents health then ok. But these things are completely different.
you really cannot see the connection?
To this I would add: Not everyone who claims not to be an expert ... isn't.

As you practice a craft, you build up positive knowledge - what works. And you build up negative knowledge - what doesn't work. But you also build up humility; the more you learn, the more you realize you don't know.

Knowledge increases sub-linearly, assuming a modicum of curiosity, but humility is like a parabola. The "experts" of this article are those at the bottom of the humility parabola. They have quite a bit of positive knowledge, some negative knowledge, but they don't really know yet what they don't know.

_Many "experts" don't consider themselves experts._ They all too often say "Hmm, interesting question, I don't know, but...". They are defined by humility and curiosity.

Imagine the question "Why is the sky blue?". Somebody who has just finished an undergraduate degree in theoretical physics and happens to have learnt learnt about Rayleigh scattering will sound much more like an expert than somebody who says "Hmm, interesting question, I don't know, but..." and then spends fifteen minutes figuring it out on the spot.

Like the phenomenon of the newish driver: nobody seems more of an expert driver than somebody who passed their test three months ago. They have learnt all the rules, they think they know everything, they often don't have much curiosity, and they have yet to learn humility.

Of course, this often doesn't matter. Many people don't want an actual expert - they want somebody who sounds like an expert _to other people_. Oracle don't advertise to people who buy software. They advertise to the people who second guess the people who buy software.

To quote a wonderful ex-co-worker, "Most people need a generalist. But they want - and are willing to pay for - a specialist."
That's the problem exactly :) Entertainment is now a content factory for consumers.

Note how you don't apply any term that would imply you'd be discerning or have agency, like viewer or god forbid customer.

And you don't call the 'content' art, entertainment or anything like that.
That’s precisely the problem outside of the lack of any direct evidence of the underlying mechanism.
Oh, I did not know about that, good idea!
The problem is how compensation works in streaming. Those long tail artists are now paid less than they would make off of a few hundred CD sales. The Taylor Swifts and Muses of the world still get the bulk of the subscription you pay every month.
I like Ubiquiti personally, but there are some risks, they've had a few security incidents (mainly due to a bad employee though, its looked much better recently), and their cloud-management isn't end-to-end-encrypted so that's not usable if you care about security.

Their hardware is simple to manage and excellent for the low-ish price though! E.g. the UDM-Pro which is a 10 Gbit capable router for €350, and the UCG-Ultra looks great for budget networks.
You're too fixated on the example. It's obviously used in cases where you cannot group like that:

(-b ± sqrt(b² - 4ac)) / 2a = 2c / (-b ∓ sqrt(b² - 4ac))
Indeed, do we shop for groceries in order to provide businesses with revenue, or does a business exist to serve customers? If the latter, and some business don't serve our needs as well (e.g. higher prices, poor selection or bad service), then should we not be able to patronize businesses that do?
This comes at the expense of quality and variety though. A market economy will not flourish if there are only a few big players. We need small businesses to be able to innovate.
Not GP, but keep in mind that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

We would still be cavemen with that attitude.
Nature presents the efficiency vs security dilemma almost everywhere you look. One is always traded off for the other, especially between the short term and long term.

Efficiency lowers costs (especially in the short term), but increases risks in the long term (less resiliency/options when things go wrong). Things going wrong can also mean a business with pricing power deciding to increase profit margins (and/or reduce quality/quantity of services).
We'll never have the same experience as Alias when we no longer have to revolve our schedules around the broadcast time!
If they owned one unit, they'd probably say they owned a condo and were renting out an apartment (or they're renting out their condo).
It's a question of temperature.

Hotter filament gives more efficient and whiter light (the black body radiation has more visible and less infrared), but the hotter filament doesn't last as long (faster evaporation rate).

It's perfectly possible for end users to use a dimmer switch to make incandescent lamps last much, much longer at the expense of less light and a "warmer" colour.

Lifespan is very, very sensitive to the temperature.
That doesn’t mean that the overwhelming majority of well-trained dogs belonging to non-aggressive breeds are not almost entirely trustworthy under most circumstances.

Of course unnecessarily risking the life of your child is still a horrible idea (especially considering that a dog might still hurt it entirely unintentionally).
A parody of what? I don't get the joke.
State actor have many banana.
I would argue even with movies it holds true. 30 years ago, it was very difficult and expensive to buy, say, 1950s film noir. Now it takes 5 minutes to torrent.

Perhaps this is what's going on. It's hard for new obscure stuff to make money and so there's less of it, but old obscure stuff (which doesn't need to make money) is more popular than ever.
Wait, Firefox. Didn't they push DNS over HTTPS? Doesn't that allow you to track all the requests a user makes on the server side?

I mean the server operators could sell that data, subtract their operating costs, divide by two and then push huge donations to Firefox.

Firefox wouldn't track you or sell your data. Right?
TikTag: Breaking ARM's Memory Tagging Extension with Speculative Execution
Even if there is content, statistically there is no pressure to change the whole picture.

Spotify pays less and less for niches.
Algorithms recommend more and more superstars.

People are not prepared to pay for the niche individuals more than they need to.
These individuals have harder time to make a living from that. They cannot focus on that. Over time, there is less and less individuals.
Karma shouldn't exist. Accounts shouldn't exist. Just posts. 4chan is the way.
They're not claiming that, though.
> Confirmation that if you're going to use an inexpensive router

Expensive is no panacea, remember eg?:

https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2023/10/17/etr-cve-2023-201...
Some dogs might, others are not necessarily much more likely to behave that way than some humans.
In general yes. I meant when a wolf attacks, he will not toy around and show himself before the attack, like the dingos did.
At least you have a fighting chance of fixing your LED bulb, unlike an incandescent.

Usually they’re over-driven and you can jump a burned out LED and scrape off a bit of a resistor to reduce the amount of current going through to (over-)account for the reduced current need.

https://youtu.be/JBKF7rKB3zc
> NSW (and I think all the other states) has a tribunal especially for consumer claims, what used to be the "small claims court" is now the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal, NCAT. It's specifically designed to be low cost and straightforward. You shouldn't need a lawyer and can turn up with your documents.

I’ve never actually used small claims court in the US. Curious if those who have can answer if it’s a similar experience?
It's certainly a point, but I don't think "the US presidents are white guys" is going to win any awards for research or journalism. Even Obama, famously the first black president, has a family history of white guys.
Elections can replace a government.

They can't control each of the individual organizations within it.

If the Pest Control Section of the Department of Agriculture has a badly run subsection, the single vote of each voter can't independently influence it and the thousands of other organizations within the state.
It's absolutely significant in at least some of the situations where you'd use this. A friend and I are planning on taking a small sailboat across the atlantic next year and were looking at communication options.

We had decided the normal starlink is just not feasible on a small solar-only boat so this caught my attention. It's still too high though. It would take slightly more power than all the other systems combined if it were DC. With an inverter it pushes it over and there just isn't that much prime panel space on a sailboat.
You make an important point. Not all capitalism is equal. When big businesses like Monsanto lobby politicians to have it their way, it’s not capitalism but rather corruption and coercion. This undermines the free market principles we value. In contrast, capitalism at the small business level is often more innovative and agile, quickly adapting to market changes and consumer needs. Supporting small businesses and ensuring a fair playing field can help prevent capitalism from going off the rails and foster a more dynamic and equitable economy.
>Can you inherit memories from your ancestors? Is No. Full stop.

With our current knowledge, we cannot either prove or disprove this.
Then again that sentence did say “to buy as many as nine additional apartments”.
Isn't pop[ular] culture necessarily an oligopoly, in that in any sort of popularity-driven competition, popular things will always win out over less popular things?

> oligopoly: a state of limited competition, in which a market is shared by a small number of producers or sellers.

(That's an honest question, not a concrete stance.)
Erm…memories — by any biologically reasonable definition— are separate from epigenetic changes. No serious researcher would conflate the two, other than perhaps hippy-dippy ‘biologists’ who struggled through ‘Physics for Poets’, as undergrads. Source: Biophysicist for 30 years now.
The EG4 is just a battery, the Powerwall includes an inverter etc. Not that adding a $1000 inverter to the EG4 battery will change your point much.
Reliance to Convert Existing 5k ICE Trucks to Use Hydrogen Fuel by Mid-2024
> On an individual level, the way to solve it is to stop watching the popular stuff and go with indie-made things. On a cultural level, the key is to promote local productions.

You’re not wrong, but these are mostly untenable solutions at present.

The reason this situation has come to be is because of the newsfeed algorithms (pick your app) that sanitize or destroy local and niche influence/barriers and create a deep downhill rut towards amalgamated culture.

If our feeds only showed us what our followers post, the way it used to be, as opposed to showing us not-so-random content from all across the country/world, we wouldn’t have this problem so severely
chuckle they fact that they can solve their problems with TCL and verilog should be all the proof it takes to conclude that their jobs are easier.

But the guys who really have it hard are guys writing the EDA software. You have to be expert in both chip design and software development. You are writing software to design tomorrow's computers, and it has to run on today's computers. Virtually every problem is NP-complete, and the problem size is growing with Moore's law.

And all your customers just LOOOOVE TCL :-) so you end up writing a lot of that too :-)
Consider how much people spent on food back then vs now.

Consider the percentage people in smaller countries without large efficient firms spend on food.

Consider the far high prices of Canadian milk, cheese, eggs, and chicken as the law caps production and provides no way to eliminate smaller inefficient producers by outcompeting them.

Nowhere in the world spends a lower percentage of income on food than the USA.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/food-expenditure-share-gd...

The system works for consumers. Tremendously well.
Did you not have air conditioning?
> AI is going to produce too much crap to sort through

There will be money to be made in manual curation again soon.

As in magazine style, not influencer style. Where it's not the producer paying for an ad, but the readers paying for the editor doing their job.

If it has been done for writing for a couple hundred years, it can be done for video entertainment as well. It's already done for video games to a point, although some review sites look like payola now.
It’s still extremely unlikely under normal circumstances. Serious attacks by non feral/mistreated dogs are still a freak incident. You’re about as likely to be killed by a lightning.
Prolog is a logic programming language though, I wouldn't expect it to have a lot of overlap with functional programming?
I'm not sure if it's a WASM requirement or specific to some WASM runtimes or compilers. At least in Emscripten you have an INITIAL_MEMORY linker option which describes the initial size of the WASM heap. The program, its static data and the stack need to fit into this initial size. From that point on, any dynamically allocated data is fine because that will grow the WASM heap as needed (up to 4 GB for wasm32).
Your post reminded me of some thoughts I've had about a similar topic over the last few years.

I'm a scientist, and I've often thought about how the work I and others would do would be different in different funding environments. That's the same idea of people's "potential [being] misdirected" that you are talking about. People often chase the newest shiny things and follow the money for both hiring and funding, but that isn't always good for both the people themselves and for innovation as a whole. We need to make it possible for people to develop their talents and skills, whatever they are and even if they don't match the current needs or desires of the environment, so they we have experts and experienced folks when the time comes for those innovations and technologies. It's the same idea as diversification in investing, with more agility and resilience gained from a diversity of skills and experience. I hope more funding managers and hiring managers realize the value of fostering people's potentials rather than focusing myopically on supposed current needs.
The Last Pilot
Sure it does! I’m rural and our phones/ISP went out last week.

I activated our Starlink roam (you can access the captive portal while service is disabled) & all the remote working neighbors came over and shared the connection. It worked great!
Yeah that’s not a bad idea. And often swamp coolers have electric sockets inside so it wouldn’t be too hard to wire it out. If I wasn’t renting the place I’d probably give it a shot
The buyers in the market almost always choose the lowest prices. Hence the success of Walmart/Kroger/Albertsons/Costco/Target/Aldi/Dollar General/etc.

There might be room for one sort of upscale grocer on the richer side of town, but I doubt there is space for more.
You can buy speciality meat or cheese or produce at niche speciality shops.

Local butchers haven’t been displayed by Walmart unless they thought their business was pork chops over Wagyu and goat.

But in general, customers don’t want variety and quality over price.
With the APs you can set them up in standalone mode without the need for a controller at all, but you get more out of them with a controller so if you have the means to run a controller you absolutely should. With the controller you're heavily incentivised to sign in, but you don't have to.

With their "Cloud Gateways" (e.g. UDM Pro, UDR, UX, UCG-Ultra) it used to be difficult if not impossible to get them into a usable state without signing into a UI account, but that is no longer the case since a few years ago.

There are some exceptions, if you wanna use their cameras you lose out on some features if you don't sign into the cloud to activate those, specifically facial recognition stuff.
SSSD is an abstraction on top of NSS and PAM.
Parental olfactory experience influences behavior and neural structure
A business directory or trade magazines are legitimate ways for people to find out about businesses, services, and products they're interested in. i.e. a pull model. A push model inevitably is used not just to inform, but to manipulate people's desires to increase consumptive behavior, turning them into worse humans. Many businesses prey upon and amplify people's insecurities to do this, making people deeply unhappy.

The spying is evil. The actual messages delivered are evil. The entire industry is rotten to the core.
> systemd uses nss like everything else.

systemd has an nss alternative: https://systemd.io/USER_GROUP_API/