skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an investment for a bank which is middle way between regular loan/bond (where you get fixed interest and 100% of the loan at the end, but no appreciation) and stock share (where you get no fixed interest and all the appreciation when you sell it). The hybrid product would be you get some interest and some of the appreciation, but not as much interest as for a loan, and not all the appreciation at the end. How much would obviously be negotiated depending on interest rates, projected appreciation, and other factors. The point here would be to defer paying the interest (to make the asset owner's life easier while they are alive) while leave enough enticement for the bank to agree to the whole scheme (banks usually don't just buy shares in people's 401k's). I do not know which combination specifically works but it doesn't seem implausible for me for such combination to exist.
> Also, for YouTube there is a simple solution: it's called YouTube Premium. You see no ads

I mean, only a Google search will reveal there's people still getting ads despite using YouTube Premium.
Firefox adds automatic picture-in-picture so you can stream and surf more easily
I understand that. But even if you come up with a classifier that gives better false positives and false negatives rates than the existing process, it's still going to be tuned towards minimizing false positives and leaving false negative to grow freely. My point was that only companies that do that became successful enough to attract a whole lot of applicants who fail interviews and complain about them on social media.
How is it puzzling to avoid taxes? This is the rational thing to in terms of maximizing one's utility.
Exactly. It's specifically the objectionable speech that needs protection, not stuff like "cats are cute".
The Telegraph Track is a life goal of mine.
When I started visiting resources on the internet there was an oft-written (and occasionally enforced!) social contract that the internet was not to be used for advertising at all. I personally never agreed for those terms to change so I'll continue to configure my enduser clients as I wish. (I do sometimes consume ads--sometimes they're good content.)
They do get margin called. Usually they don’t do it for all of their assets, but only a portion needed to fund their lifestyles. In huge and persistent downturns there are always a few who get wiped out by this kind of risky behavior, though, if they aren’t well-diversified.
People always say this but what is the practical way this would come into effect? Unless the intention is to simply kill either YouTube or Google, or both, how do you separate out YouTube in a way that is meaningfully "breaking up" with Google but that the separate entity could afford?
Google just hosting the data is exactly what I want. Making them a monolith gives them too much leverage.

All we need is hosted APIs and frontend frameworks to wrap content as the user desires.

Charge API users for their bandwidth.

I don’t want Google also deciding what to boost to help them gobble up more human agency.

Reduce redundancy by making HR its own thing.

At the end of the day Google’s core engineering competency is load balancing date center use. The rest is behavioral economics research influenced gamification of our agency
Nile Red never ceases to amaze with his technical competence. If I tried to do something with beryllium I'd be dead. And the trampoline would fail.
This is easy; anti-aliasing is thougher. I used this algorithm in the '90s to come up with one for drawing ellipses. I've never had to do a disc or filled ellipse with or without outloune, but that would be interesting, too. Line size > 1 would be interesting as well.
Why do you think that minimizing taxes becomes their #1 priority? What actually happens is that they tell the guy handling your finances to save them some money, and that's their problem. And given their fee structure, they'll go as far as they need to, even though the rich person in question doesn't really think about their taxes all that much.

This is the real multiplicative effect of being really rich: It's not knowing that you'll never be short of money, but how many things you don't even have to think about, because they are handled in your stead.

This is where I'd expect AI will change the world for consumers first: The tasks that now require either a lot of energy, or hiring an assistant or eight, becoming so cheap a good chunk of middle class will be able to afford it.
They should expect to be filmed in public more than people not carrying weapons. This already happens.
Is this being tracked somewhere?
The proliferation of dash cams and the (...paltry) threat of having footage of bad behaviour put on the internet, or more importantly, having proof of what happened in an incident/accident to be able to pass onto insurance or police (where there's consequences from determining fault, theoretically) hasn't magically stopped people driving like homicidal maniacs, has it?

There's a million reasons why a dystopic snitch on your neighbours program isn't practical, as others have highlighted. I love the idea that insurance companies would be afraid of backlash lol. There's also easier options like I imagine asking car manufacturers to hand over data collected on driver behaviour would be. Don't US insurers already collect data like that from willing customers? Why not get that data from all customers regardless of consent? We've seen time and time again that most car manufacturers will throw all the data they can at whichever corporation asks for it. Even lower tech than that, speed and red light cameras have existed for a long time and they work on vehicles regardless of how many touchscreen tablets have been glued into it. Stupid(er) comment time: even lower tech again, the potential threat of gun violence in road rage incidents doesn't seem to disincentivise driving like a homicidal maniac, judging by how much worse US dash cam captured accidents seem to be compared to those from Europe or Australia. Maybe that's more to do with how many giant yank tanks there are on US roads and how much more effective they are at obliterating other road users and the sense of safety that comes with driving such huge things?

Jokes aside, road safety is a complex problem and insurance companies have other ways to protect their interests with significantly less effort.
If you have precheck, TSA is pretty much not an issue now (unless you fly out of one of badly run airports where they are massively under-provisioned) - just ID check and quick metal detector pass usually does it.
I'm having trouble understanding the tone of your comment.

If it's not satire, driving as a right can be restricted (or even denied if you fail the driver's test) far more easily than walking. Because it's far more dangerous.
> Point-and-shoot cameras, finger painting, or crayons have a lower skill floor than even basic text-to-image generation, I'd claim.

To be fair to the people with the opposite view; a basic t2i system will generate some result with an empty prompt. (In many cases, because of their biases, this will tend to be a portrait.)
The best way to watch YouTube is via the official YouTube site or app, because everything else is a potential DMCA violation and, if it blocks or skips ads, is tantamount to theft of service.
Take it with a massive grain of salt for it is biased and poorly informed.
System 6 isn’t substantially different from System 1 when it comes to type though, unless you install the Adobe Type Manager or TrueType extensions of course.
100% agree

Very coincidentally I actually found myself needing a Go TUI library for a small program I wrote just last week with pretty simple needs (some basic dynamic list views including a file picker view) and I spent about half an hour messing with bubbletea before tossing it away and switching to tview

I don't doubt that bubbletea is a far more elegant and powerful library than tview for writing Go-based TUIs but for my relatively simple application I didn't need that power and yet bubbletea still expected me to pay for it in terms of understanding its architecture at a pretty deep level just to make it do anything at all.

It very much does not adhere to the idea of "keep the simple things simple" (which IMO makes it kind of a strange fit for Go, as that's the primary thing I love about Go).

And this is coming from someone who spent a lot of time in the past doing C-based Win32 programming which actually has a lot of similarities to bubbletea's message-based architecture and despite that I still couldn't be assed to deal with learning bubbletea's complexity when my needs didn't feel like they called for it.
Good for you, maybe not for everyone. We have (mostly) successfully decoupled development platform from deployment target, do what makes you happy.
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Oh this is right up my alley. Love it! Some really good design decisions.

My user test: https://www.loom.com/share/9287cfe4e7024330bfe752ef8b9ad9bd
> not something gov'ts and regulations have thought thoroughly about

Not trying to be combative but I find this mode of thinking is likely to backfire, governments don't have to think they can just act - has bsky thought seriously about what their response will be to the same laws that X is suffering from?
> making it impossible for X to challenge what they viewed as unconstitutional orders to censor speech

Unconstitutional in which country? And if you disagree with that in Brazil you can make your case to the Supreme Court.

Musk was playing chicken with a Brazilian Supreme Court judge who called his bluff. He obviously lost, because the latter has immediate legal power and X doesn't.
Your examples make my point. Some bad things happened but not on a catastrophic level that warranted the level of investment that was put into Y2K projects.
"secret censorship campaign" [citation needed]
Authoritarianism would be if the government was pre-screening everything that was posted, having agents routinely shaking down social media companies or acting without any support of the law. What happened here is that bad actors have been taking advantages of the lack of accountability that social media had for the last 20 years. When laws were finally issued a few years ago, those "bad actions" could finally be labelled as crimes. Twitter was given ample time and opportunities to comply with such law, but after failing many times a court order was issued to block it.

What would be much more productive to discuss is if such law that gives accountability to social media is valid and weather the implementation is of good enough quality to catch abuses without impacting freedom of speech. I suspect it is, since we have similar laws mandating accountability to traditional media for 100s of years by now. Afaik any democratic country has such laws, in fact, the usa used to have strong laws around traditional media accountability until a few decades ago when they were weakened.
What cruelty is this you speak of?
No bug in Big Sur spotlight:

"(-20)^21" = -2.097152e27
"(-22)^21" = -1.551944897e28
I find Firefox picture-in-picture mode really useful for Google Meet calls too.
> uncanny valley

Yes, but he's very close to the obvious solution that will spark web 4.0.

Closest I've seen yet.
It's a bit between the two, really. There are typically still JavaScript helpers in the middle, but not for the reason most people think. The remaining reason is that Wasm cannot perform JavaScript method calls (with a receiver object). It can only perform function calls (without receiver). So you need JavaScript helpers in the middle to translate between a calling convention that doesn't use `this`, only regular parameters, to another convention where one of those parameters becomes the receiver of a method call.

Then that main reason has a number of declinations, like no JavaScript `new`, no field selection, etc. But you can work around all these things with similar "calling convention conversions".
What do you think of something like nebula?
It's interesting to point out that if your message was a tweet, it could have been classified as misinformation by the judge and have been the target of a secret court order to shadowban your account, request any and all your PII that Twitter might have, and prohibit Twitter from even letting you know.

All that without the possibility of your defense because he has been acting as the judge and the jury.

So much for free speech.
Up to the extent it doesn't infringe on other people's rights, according to the Brazilian constitution, including the right not to be discriminated against.
It is profoundly weird to describe filling statewide offices based on the a democratic vote as "ruling from afar". The alternative filling offices based on whomever wins the majority of the majority of counties would allow a tiny minority of the electorate to decide the fate of all their fellows. It allows the minority to rule from afar instead of the majority.

As described the majority of the the majority is literally four single digit four percent of the electorate. The obvious intent is that at present the majorities views align with the minority and it should change the rules such as to prevent usurpation even should they lose the popular mandate.

It presages a future Texas where the majority of Texans want to move forward and the way is barred for a generation.

It is exactly by proportion as if we should decide that the only people who are allowed to hold nationwide office is someone who wins Minnesota no matter how the vote goes elsewhere. It's a world in which Walter Mondale wins Minnesota and we declare him president despite losing every other state to Reagan.

Then someone pops up and defends Minnisotism somehow as preventing the subjugation of Minnesota.
> what they viewed as unconstitutional orders to censor speech.

As in Brazil constitution? They don't have free speech, but freedom of expression. Read article 5 of the Brazilian constitution.
I was surprised by this line which came out of nowhere until I went back and re-read which site it was on.
It's always funny to read this sort of thing because it's like you're so close to connecting the dots but don't quite get it.

Is it not entirely logical that a cohort that actually pays attention to where 20%, 30%, 40% of their money is going ends up wealthier than one that doesn't?
I use the Pocket functionality pretty frequently, it's nice for tossing articles and other things I'd like to read over to the Kobo from whatever I happen to be using at the moment.
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I've been trying Hurl as a replacement of restclient.el and verb.el for a while, so maybe I could recommend to my team.

It seems to have potential, but it still not as convenient as the other modes since I did not integrate it into my editor yet, even though hurl-mode.el exists, it's not compatible with the Emacs version I use.

I wish a plain text format like this was a standard for HTTP requests, and the tools would be developed around it, maybe this will be the one.
Doubtful it beats YouTube premium on my TV...
Not really. Lightning was better than micro USB-B connector, which was Lightning’s contemporary.
Ultimately these decisions are made by Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X.

And who is her boss, again?
The ISA can massively impact performance on relevant real-world workloads, but the divide isn't along the mythical RISC vs. CISC divide. Take H.264 encoding as a contrived example and try it with different x86 ISA levels (e.g. no SIMD vs. SSE2 vs. SSE4.2 vs. AVX256 vs. AVX-512 on the same Zen 5 desktop CPU. You can't just build a 32-wide OoO core and have it run at a useful clock speed.
It's not about the size of each individual patches but about the large amount of changes in total *during the freeze•.
>Said opponents' accounts were asked to be shut down, not because they are opponents, but because they were being used to commit crimes against the electoral justice.

What are the "crimes" they're being accused of? Getting the opposition locked for "crimes" is basically authoritarianism 101. See: Venezuela[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_presidential_e...
> Wright Waste Management, located in nearby Harris County

Houston is in Harris county…
HyperCard in the World, May 2016 [video]
Lol yeah, IC starts a company on the side.
I don’t think flagging a post for that is a good use of that system, because the submission isn’t breaking the rules. But a comment in this thread as a reminder seems reasonable.
Yet. They might still pass it on to some company in East Asia which would just dump it into the river there. It used to be the model for a lot of "recycling" in the West...
If the judge's orders clearly contradict the constitution, it's pretty logical to suggest that these would lead him to a jail.

There are various ways to resolve a conflict; to comply to your opponent's demands just because he happens to hold a high enough office is but one of these ways. Complying to unlawful orders so as to preserve profits is often seen as corruption. Sometimes the best way to resolve a conflict correctly is to take a stand.
What you are seeing now is the death knell of the klan and their sympathizers. There basically isn't any "fix" for it other than to keep rejecting their ideology and keep moving our country on one funeral and one election at a time.
Plastic in the US does not end up rivers, you are thinking of places like India.

There's nothing wrong with plastic in a landfill.
Nearly $300 seems a bit too rich for my blood - will definitely buy one second hand once I can get one for about $100.
I don't think that you violated any guidelines. I think that the downvotes for your parent comment are only an expression of disagreement with what you propose. If I can suggest, don't take it personally.

Turning `'` into `lifetime` would make Rust code that needs explicit lifetimes extremely verbose. That would make code harder to keep on the same line, for no added benefit in expressiveness.

Allowing both `'` and `lifetime` in the syntax would make the language more confusing to anyone who is learning it, and it opens up unproductive debates about syntax in code bases if two authors have conflicting preferences.
Metal rather than plastic is not a good thing, metal uses far more resources.
It's always the first request in the waterfall that take the longest. All other requests are well under 100ms, except a few JS scripts that can go to 1s of loading.

I don't have any addon, I run a vanilla chrome+adblock.

Is suspected the DNS as well, but `nslookup` is instantaneous most of the time.
Hard to find reliable numbers, but it looks like the number of x86 chips sold per year is less than the number of iPhones sold per year, based on my totally not serious research.

Do you have data that says otherwise?
The article has a typo:

"Most will be melted and turned into fuel that is burned, adding to carbon emissions."

That should say "reducing carbon emissions", not adding. Burning plastic for energy is a net reduction in CO2 emission.
Implementing multiplies as a bunch of adds has got to suck for performance though.
The important question is did this Deason person reduce their consumption after finding out? Because the fact that plastic recycling is a political measure to let consumers feel good about consuming has been known for quite a few years now.
Firewire cables are obsolete now too. Their right to repair and cloud locking of devices is a way more egregious waste issue.
It’s very near by
I'm in Australia and have driven on many gravel roads. It always means those small grey/gray stones that are spread on the road after grading, but not sealed. The article really does seem to be calling dirt roads gravel for some reason. I'm confused as a gravel road has a very specific meaning to me.
As a youtube premium subscriber... since I'm already paying let me set my home screen only to my subscriptions.

Also let me opt-out of the algoritm.
hi pfraze, can u tell us a bit more about the golang event stream? does it also trigger the computation of the views periodically?

more precisely wanted to understand how do you generate the event stream from sqlite
I wonder what their plan is once the site fills up? Have a warm-recycling bonfire? Embezzle as much as possible and declare bankruptcy?
Why compare x86-64 to ARM32? ARM64 has no thumb and all instructions are 32 bit in length.
...and 24 years later, after the paperwork has been filed away, someone will still write that the problem never existed. Y2K minimization and anti-vaxx sentimental are 2 symptoms of problems solved so successfully, the magnitude of the problem disappears from the collective consciousness.
We’ll have agree to disagree. Aluminum uses a lot of energy to refine and cast, yes but is more durable and recyclable.
30 years is typically the lifetime estimated for a utility scale solar facility (with leases for land following the same duration), at which point it can either be repowered or everything torn out and the land returned to original state.

It’s possible this land is permanently tainted for agricultural use, but too early to assume, as PFAS remediation technology might advance quickly.

> but they can require growing something on the land to slowly take up the PFAS, and this is not compatible with using the land as a solar farm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrivoltaics is a potential implementation if bioremediation proves both feasible and scalable. Perhaps the land is ready to go back into ag use if remediation can be performed in parallel with the thirty year lifespan I mentioned. If not, it carries on as solar production.
Either you believe in emergent behavior or it’s only very good at recognizing patterns. Which is it?
I made a test called LLMLOLinator (stupid name) and I can tell they cannot stray from the probability distributions they learned during training. So, I am not confident in so-called emergent behaviors.
What is OpenAI? Some sort of Claude competitor?
Even if you ignore specialized vector operations, the additional registers are a huge boost in the updated x86 architectures. Not to mention memory pipelining in the cache. But none of this is RISC vs CISC, really.
Is this an intuitive personal observation of yours ("shift the brain [...] frequency")? You're on to something there.

You should look up Kaufman et. al.'s "High-Low Split" research:

> Two initial randomized experiments revealed that individuals who completed the same information processing task on a digital mobile device (a tablet or laptop computer) versus a non-digital platform (a physical print-out) exhibited a lower level of construal, one prioritizing immediate, concrete details over abstract, decontextualized interpretations. This pattern emerged both in digital platform participants' greater preference for concrete versus abstract descriptions of behaviors as well as superior performance on detail-focused items (and inferior performance on inference-focused items) on a reading comprehension assessment.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2858036.2858550

tl;dr: using a screen for cognitive tasks appears to "bring down" your thought process to a lower, concrete level, rendering you unable to perform with a "Big Picture" understanding of the task.
How is it possible for OpenAI to use their users to train their model?

I will sometimes as ChatGPT a couple of questions, and sometimes it gives me useful responses and I’m done, and other times it gives me useless responses and I’m done. Presumably OpenAI would need a way of discerning the useful output from the useless output in order to do this, but I’m not providing any feedback about which is which when I use the product.
I was just talking about this the other day at work. I grew up in rural North Dakota and a guy was asking me if we still had these when I was a kid. No, we didn't. I'm 36.